The Mind of an Engineer

Purnendu Ghosh • Baldev RajEditors

The Mind of an Engineer

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EditorsPurnendu GhoshBirla Institute of Scientific ResearchJaipur, RajasthanIndia

Baldev RajNational Institute of Advanced StudiesBangalore, KarnatakaIndia

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Preface

The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) advocates, encourages andpractices excellence in all endeavours in engineering, technology and related sci-ences to meet the challenges and find solution to the problems of national impor-tance. INAE provides an active and interactive eminent forum to augment andexpedite developmental activities in India, especially those related to engineeringand technology. Its activities include formulation of technology policies, promotionof quality engineering education and R&D. The INAE represents India at theInternational Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences(CAETS), and currently the INAE leads the Council.

The initiative, the first of its kind, taken by the INAE to publish this book—TheMind of an Engineer—is an attempt to reflect the personal experiences of some ofits Fellows in the fields of science, technology and engineering. The book dealswith the reminiscences, eureka moments, inspirations, challenges and opportunitiesin the journey of the professionals towards achievements and self-realisation. Thebook contains 58 chapters on diverse subjects that depict the beauty and diversityof the mind. It truly reflects the way the mind of an engineer works. Engineers havemeaningful and constructive minds. The meaning of the mind is understood in thecontext of the basic needs, orientations, experiences, emotions and consciousness ofan individual. Meaning is interactive, selective and value-driven. It is said thatmeaning is like a large map or Web, gradually filled in by the cooperative work ofcountless generations. The world is changing, and to keep pace with the new world,new creative minds are evolving. Some new realities are arising. Some old issuesshall remain and some old ones will be forgotten. Truly as the Millennium Projectof the UN says “Some future issues are further in the future than others”. One of thefuture issues of engineering relates to how technology would influence a growingmind, and what would be the consequential ethical obligations of engineers to thesociety.

We thank Dr. B.N. Suresh, President of the INAE, the Editorial Board of theINAE, and our Fellow colleagues of the INAE for their valuable contributions inpublishing this compendium. Their expertise, views and perspectives, we hope, will

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be meaningful for the engineers, particularly the young professionals. This bookwould not have been possible without the generous support of the officials of INAE,ably led by the Executive Director Brig. Rajan Minocha and the former ExecutiveDirector, Brig. S.C. Marwaha. We thank all of them most sincerely. We gratefullyacknowledge the editorial help and support of Dr. Subimal Sinha Roy, Mr. AnindaBose, Ms. Kamiya Khatter, and Mr. P.K. Manoharan. Seeing the response of ourcolleagues, we hope to develop a sequel of the book. We keenly look forward toreceiving your impressions and response to enrich the future volumes of The Mindof an Engineer.

Purnendu GhoshBaldev Raj

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Contents

The Mind of an Engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Purnendu Ghosh

Directed and Systematic Approaches Towards Sustainabilityin the Twenty-first Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Baldev Raj

Treating Challenges as Opportunities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19B.N. Suresh

Mind to Chemical Markets: Engineering and Managingthe Complex Journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29K.V. Raghavan

The Search for Meaningful Purpose: Reminiscencesof an Indian Engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Sanak Mishra

An Engineer or a Scientist—A Perpetual Dilemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Indranil Manna

Is an Engineer’s Mind Different? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53P.S. Goel

Technology and the Global Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57N.R. Narayana Murthy

The Anatomy of Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Tarun K. Ghose

India’s Tryst with Destiny Establishment of the Highest Levelof Engineering and Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Mahesh C. Chaturvedi

Glimpses from a Lifetime in Teaching and Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79S.C. Dutta Roy

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My Four Decades in BARC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95A.K. Anand

Think to Do Something . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Anil Kumar Sinha

The Milestones of My Professional Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107Arun Kumar De

Reminiscing My Days at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre(VSSC), Trivandrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111Dhruba Basu

Chasing a Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Dipak Mazumdar

My Eureka Moment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129N.S. Mohan Ram

My Reminiscences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Ahindra Ghosh

From ‘Nowhere to Somewhere’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143D.N. Singh

My Life in an Encouraging Educational and ProfessionalEnvironment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Ganti Prasada Rao

The Journey from a Village as a Farmer’s Son to Fashion Worldas a Scientist in Leather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161J. Raghava Rao

Forty Years of Academics and Administration: Experiencesand Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167K.G. Ranga Raju

Creativity—A Personal Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171M.L. Munjal

Life—A Journey of Learning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175N. Raghavan

Some Views and Experience on the Mind of an Engineer . . . . . . . . . . . 185C.G. Krishnadas Nair

A Tribute to Some of My “Teachers” Who Mattered the Most . . . . . . . 195Nikhil R. Pal

A Journey of Self-realization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Rajaram Bojji

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A Sketch of My Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211Rabindranath Ghosh

A Humble Journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Soumitro Banerjee

My Experiences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231S. Kalyanaraman

My Experiences in Creating Indigenous Technology Enterprisein India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237P.S. Deodhar

My Journey as a Materials Engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Samir V. Kamat

My Experiences at IIT Kanpur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251Sanjay Mittal

Journey I Enjoyed Amidst Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257S.C. Chetal

Reminisces from the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261Sushmita Mitra

Engineering Challenges—A Personal Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267Vasant Manohar

From Academia, with Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273Ashutosh Sharma

The House of Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279M.S. Ananth

Need of Promotion of Innovation in Indian Engineering Institutes. . . . . 287V.G. Gaikar

From Physics to Engineering Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297K.L. Chopra

Physicist or Metallurgist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309R. Krishnan

Commercialization of Indigenously Developed Technologies . . . . . . . . . 317M.O. Garg

Hydrodynamic Cavitation Technology: Industrial Applications . . . . . . . 329A.B. Pandit

R&D—Another Oxymoron? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341Raja Manuri Venkata Gopala Krishna Rao

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Ten Levers of Smart Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355Aloknath De

Life with Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359K. Muralidhar

Playing with Fuzziness and Ambiguity in Patterns—Challengesand Achievements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363Sankar Kumar Pal

A View of India Through Kolam Patterns and Their GrammaticalRepresentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375Kamala Krithivasan

A Logical Perspective of Formal Verification: A Narrativeon the Genesis and Evolution of the Formal VerificationGroup at IIT Kharagpur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385Pallab Dasgupta

Engineering and Innovation in Manufacturing and Productionof Akash Missile System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391Prahlada

The First Steps Toward Self-reliance in Solid Propellant Rockets . . . . . 401Rajaram Nagappa

Challenges in Developing Indigenous Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409R.D. Kale

The Challenge of Developing a High-Speed RotorAssembly—How It Was Met . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415Ram Kanwar Garg

My Tryst with Indigenous Armour Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423T. Balakrishna Bhat

Inertial Sensors and Navigation Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427Suresh Chandra Gupta

Perspectives on Technology Trends in BiopharmaceuticalsManufacture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433K.V. Subramaniam

The Hydropower Development in India—Challenges and WayForward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441M.M. Madan

Integrated Coastal Zone Management of Chilika Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455R. Sundaravadivelu

Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

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Editors and Contributors

About the Editors

Purnendu Ghosh is the Executive Director, BirlaInstitute of Scientific Research, Jaipur. Prior to this hewas a Professor at Indian Institute of Technology,Delhi. He worked at the Swiss Federal Institute ofTechnology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland; University ofMelbourne, Australia; and National Research Centrefor Biotechnology (GBF), Braunschweig, Germany. Hehas taken a lead role in augmenting bioprocess engi-neering and biotechnology activities in the country as amember of several Task Forces of the Department of

Biotechnology, Government of India. He is currently the Chief Editor ofPublications of Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is a columnist of aleading newspaper group. Besides technical publications, he has written books ofdifferent genre.

Baldev Raj is the Director of National Institute ofAdvanced Studies, Bangalore. His pursuits in basicscience and its interdisciplinary application have foundexpressions of merit and distinction in materials sci-ence and technologies, cultural heritage and medicaltechnologies providing solutions to challenges in var-ied fields of energy, water, health care and manufac-turing. He is known for his leadership and experienceto overcome the barriers between academic researchand industry. His work on non-destructive evaluation

and different aspects of materials is well recognised. He is the Fellow of 4Academies of Sciences and Engineering in India, German Academy of Science,The World Academy of Sciences, International Medical Sciences and Member ofIndian Institute of Metals.

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A.B. Pandit is a Professor at Institute of ChemicalTechnology, Mumbai. He initiated a major researchprogramme on cavitationally induced transformationsand developed the novel technique of hydrodynamiccavitation. He has designed many industrial systems inaddition to over 300 research publications. Hisresearch group is internationally recognised, and hasmany industry and academic collaborations. Currently,he is involved in the development of cavitating waterdisinfecting hand pump and the prototypes are under-going field trials.

A.K. Anand was the Director, Technical Coordinationand International Relations Group, Bhabha AtomicResearch Centre; the Director, Reactor Projects Group,leading the programme for nuclear propulsion for theIndian nuclear submarine programme; and also theExecutive Director, Kudankulam Project, in NuclearPower Corporation. At present, he is the DirectorTechnical, Microtrol Sterilisation Services Private Ltd.,Mumbai.

Ahindra Ghosh was with the Department of Materialsand Metallurgical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. He wasalso associated with Tata Research Development andDesign Centre, Pune, and Tata Steel, Jamshedpur. Hehas to his credit 5 books and about 90 research publi-cations. For the last three decades, his principal interesthas been the theory of metallurgical processes in ironand steelmaking with specific emphasis on sponge iron,steelmaking, solidification, ingot and continuous cast-ing. He had significant interactions with industry,including several R&D collaborations with steel plants.

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Aloknath De is the Chief Technology Officer ofSamsung R&D Institute India in Bangalore and also theCorporate VP for Digital Media and Communicationactivities pertaining to mobile and consumer appliances.He has more than twenty-five years of industrial andresearch experiences including the most recent one inST-Ericsson, where he was the Director and CountryManager. He is a recipient of “Alexander Graham BellPrize” in Canada and received IETE Memorial Awardin India. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at IITDelhi and an AICTE-INAE Distinguished VisitingProfessor at IIT Roorkee. He is a senior member ofIEEE, and a Fellow of IE, IETE and INAE.

Anil Kumar Sinha is the Head, Centre for Design &Development Section, BARC, Trombay. He haspublished/presented nearly 100 technical papers andhas received BARCOA Award for the design of aspecial cutting m/c to remove the coolant channel fromone of the power reactors, special Group AchievementAward for cutting and removing coolant channel fromReactor, HomiBhabha Science & Technology Awardfor design and development of various types ofhigh-precision instruments.

Arun Kumar De embraces the characteristics andqualities of a professional engineer, a researcher, aneducationist and an administrator. After he had workedas a design and development engineer in a sewingmachine factory in Kolkata, he switched over toteaching and joined IIT Bombay. He then went toCSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Institute,Durgapur, as Director and then returned to IIT Bombayas Director. He was the first Chairman of AtomicEnergy Regulatory Board. He is a Fellow of INAE andInstitution of Engineers. He has been accorded with the

Lifetime Achievement Award by the Institution of Engineers (India) and by IITBombay. He has published over thirty research and other technical papers. He haspenned a book entitled “Meandering Streams”.

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Ashutosh Sharma is the Secretary, Department ofScience and Technology (DST), Government of India.He is the founding PI and Coordinator of NanosciencesCentre and Advanced Imaging Centre at IIT Kanpur.He has served on the Governing Boards/Councils ofover 15 prominent scientific institutions in India andhas had a broad international experience as a researchfaculty at SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine, visitingfaculty at University of Texas at Austin, University ofWestern Ontario, University of Erlangen-Nurembergand the World Class University Program of SouthKorea and as a Member of the European ResearchCommission. He has published around 290 papers,

filed over 10 patents and mentored a nanotechnology start-up. He is a recipient ofnumerous honours and awards including the inaugural Infosys Prize in Engineeringand Computer Science, TWAS Science Prize of the World Academy of Sciences,Bessel Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation, J.C. Bose Fellowship,Bhatnagar Prize, Homi J. Bhabha Award of UGC, The Syed Husain Zaheer Medalof INSA, Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT Kanpur and the LifetimeAchievement Award of the Indian Science Congress. His other interests are inancient history and philosophy, poetry and art.

B.N. Suresh is presently the President of IndianNational Academy of Engineering. He is VikramSarabhai Distinguished Professor at ISRO HQ,Bangalore. He is a member of Board of Governors, IITMadras, and the Chairman, Research Board forAeronautical Development Establishment, DRDO. Hewas the Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre,Trivandrum, and Founder Director of Indian Institute ofSpace Science and Technology, Trivandrum. He wasthe Member of Space Commission and also theDistinguished Professor at IIT Bombay, and MIT

Manipal. He has won several awards and honours including Lifetime ContributionAward in Engineering by INAE, Karnataka State Rajyotsava Award. In recognitionof his meritorious contributions for Science and Technology, Government of Indiaconferred on him Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan.

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C.G. Krishnadas Nair held many positions in HALand contributed significantly to the indigenous devel-opment of aerospace materials and process technolo-gies and led the design and development of AdvancedLight Helicopter, new Jet trainer and Light ArmedHelicopter. He founded Society of Indian AerospaceTechnologies and Industries. He served as ViceChancellor of Mahaveer Academy of Technology andScience, Raipur. He is currently a Professor and aChairperson of the Governing Council of IIAEM andalso the Chancellor of the Jain deemed University. He

has authored 24 books and about 200 research and technical papers. He is therecipient of Lifetime Achievement Award from INAE and has received severalnational and international awards, including Padma Shri, Scope Award for BestChief Executive, Birla Gold Medal Award, National Aeronautical Prize, VasvikResearch Award, Omprakash Bhasin Award, National Metallurgist Award, IIMPlatinum Award, Swadeshi Science Puraskara and Gold Cross Award fromComiteD’honneurdu Meriteet Devouement Francais, France.

D.N. Singh is an Institute Chair Professor at theDepartment of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay. Hismain research area is Environmental Geotechnology.He is the Editor-in-Chief of EnvironmentalGeotechnics, UK. He is the recipient of YoungTeachers’ Award, Shamsher Prakash FoundationAward, John R. Booker Excellence Award and RichardFeynman Prize. He is a fellow of American Society ofCivil Engineers.

Dhruba Basu has spent the major part of his career inISRO designing and developing important electronicsystems for the country’s satellite launch vehicle pro-grams and was responsible for the total R&D activitiesin Electronics in VSSC. He led a team of engineers inthe development of on-board computer systems forIndia’s satellite launchers. He is the recipient of severalawards, including Calcutta University Silver medal andbest article award of the Space Engineers’ Association.He is the Fellow of INAE.

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Dipak Mazumdar currently holds the Ministry ofSteel Chair Professorship at IIT Kanpur. He has beenteaching and conducting research in steelmaking forover three decades.

Ganti Prasada Rao worked at PSG College ofTechnology, Coimbatore, and IIT Kharagpur. He wasalso at UMIST, Manchester, England and LehrstuhlfürElektrische Steuerung und Regelung, Ruhr-UniversitätBochum, Germany, University Henri Poincare, Nancy,France, and at Brunel University, UK. He was theScientific Advisor to the Directorate of Power andDesalination Plants, Water and Electricity Department,Government of Abu Dhabi and the InternationalFoundation for Water Science and Technology. He ispresently a member of the UNESCO-EOLSS Joint

Committee. He has authored 4 books and 150 research papers. He is the coeditor ofIdentification of Continuous Systems—Methodology and ComputerImplementation. He received the IIT Kharagpur Silver Jubilee Research Award,The Systems Society of India Award and Honorary Professorship of the East ChinaUniversity of Science and Technology, Shanghai. He is the Fellow of the IEEE. TheInternational Foundation for Water Science and Technology has established, in hishonour, Systems and Information Laboratory at IIT Kharagpur.

Indranil Manna currently the Director of IIT Kanpuris an educationist and materials engineer withwide-ranging research interests covering structure–property correlation and modelling in nanometric met-als and ceramics, laser/plasma-assisted surface engi-neering, nanofluid and bainitic steel. Before moving toIIT Kanpur, he headed CSIR-CGCRI in Kolkata.Earlier, he was the Professor at IIT Kharagpur. Whileserving at IIT Kharagpur, he worked as a guest scientistin different renowned Institutions/Universities abroadsuch as Max Planck Institute at Stuttgart, Technical

University of Clausthal, Liverpool University, Nanyang Technological Universityand University of Ulm. He has over 250 journal publications and received several

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awards. He is a Fellow of all the national academies of science (INSA, IASc, NASI)and engineering (INAE) in India. He is a J.C. Bose Fellow of DST and a recipientof TWAS prize for engineering sciences. He is currently the Vice-President of theIndian Institute of Metals and the INAE.

J. Raghava Rao is presently working as the ChiefScientist in the Chemical Division of the CentralLeather Research Institute, Chennai. His contributionsinclude biomediated tanning, cleaner and greenermethods of leather processing, waterless tanning andeffective utilisation of tannery solid waste for valueaddition. He has received several national awards andinternational recognitions. He has more than 230 pub-lications in reputed journals. Several of his technologiesdeveloped have been successfully commercialised.

K.L. Chopra after working in senior R&D positions inCanada, Germany and USA joined IIT Delhi as aSenior Professor and also served as Head and Dean. Heserved as the Director of IIT Kharagpur. After retire-ment, he served IITD as IREDA Chair Prof of SolarEnergy and is presently a Distinguished HonoraryProfessor of several institutes. He hasauthored/coauthored/edited 10 books, published over430 research papers, held 4 US patents and transferred10 know-hows to industry in the areas related to thinfilms and nanomatter. His book “Thin FilmPhenomena” is considered as the Bible of the field.Recipient of numerous awards which include S.S.

Bhatnagar Prize, Citation Laureate Award of ISI and Lifetime Achievement Awardsof Solar Energy Society, Indian Vacuum Society and Indian National Academy ofEngineering. Fellow of all Science and Engineering Academies of India, he hasbeen conferred Padma Shri by the Government of India for his contributions toscience and engineering.

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K. Muralidhar is presently faculty of MechanicalEngineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.He has published over 100 international journal pub-lications, seven books and monographs, and severalbook chapters. He has developed optical measurementtechniques and numerical algorithms in the area of fluidand thermal sciences. His work has led to betterunderstanding of transport phenomena in porousmedia, wake dynamics, flow control, crystal growthand biomedical flows. His research finds applications inenhanced oil recovery, gas hydrates, regenerators,nuclear waste disposal and the growth of optical crys-

tals. Presently, he is coordinating a National initiative on Solar HydrogenGeneration, a multi-institutional project on CFD code development on unstructuredgrids and an Institute-level initiative on futuristic mechanics. He is the immediatepast-President of National Society of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (India).

K.V. Raghavan is a Fellow of the INAE, IndianInstitute of Chemical Engineers, A P Academy ofSciences and a Distinguished Fellow of University ofGrants Commission. He was the Director of CentralLeather Research Institute, Chennai, and IndianInstitute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad,Chairman of Recruitment and Assessment Centre ofDRDO, and Distinguished Professor of INAE. He iscurrently the Vice-President (InternationalCooperation) of the INAE. His areas of specialisation

are chemical process development and design, reaction engineering, simulation andmodelling and chemical hazard analysis. He published more than 120 papers, filed45 patents and edited 3 books. His applied research efforts contributed to thesuccessful development of more than 25 chemical processes with high industrialimpact in bulk organics, specialities, oilfield chemicals and fluoroorganics.

K.G. Ranga Raju taught at the IIT Roorkee. During hisstay at Roorkee, he held several administrative positionsincluding those of Pro-Vice Chancellor and DeputyDirector. His research interests include fluvial hydraulics,hydraulic structures, disturbed boundary layers andhydrometry. He is the recipient of several prestigiousawards such as the Ippen Award and the Honorary fel-lowship of the International Association of HydraulicEngineering and Research. During the last ten years, hehas been involved in the resolution of water disputes bothat the national and at the international levels.

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Kamala Krithivasan was a professor working in thearea of theoretical computer science, especially FormalLanguage Theory and its applications andUnconventional Models of Computing at the ComputerScience and Engineering Department, IIT Madras. Shehas been associated in the area of array grammars,graph grammars, L-systems, application to Kolam pat-terns, DNA and membrane computing. She has alsobeen involved in computational geometry havingworked on optimisation and path planning problems.She has delivered a series of lectures on DiscreteMathematical Structures, Formal Languages, Automata

and Computation under the National Programme on Technology EnhancedLearning. She has more than 80 publications in international journals and more than100 publications in conferences. She visited the University of Maryland, ConcordiaUniversity, and MPI, Saarbrucken, Germany. She is a Fellow of the INAE and wasawarded the Fulbright Fellowship.

K.V. Subramaniam is the President of Reliance LifeSciences, Dhirubhai Ambani Life Sciences Centre,Mumbai.

M.L. Munjal has been on the Faculty of the IndianInstitute of Science, Bangalore. Currently, he is theHonorary Professor and INSA Senior Scientist at IISc.He has published over 190 papers and has authored amonograph Acoustics of Ducts and Mufflers, a text-book on Noise and Vibration Control and contributedchapters in a couple of international handbooks. He hasover 100 industrial consultancy projects in differentaspects of noise control and quieter designs, with par-ticular application to automobiles. He is the Convenerof the Facility for Research in Technical Acoustics,Distinguished Member of the Institute of Noise Control

Engineering, USA, and an Honorary Fellow of the International Institute ofAcoustics and Vibration. He was the Chairman of the National Committee for

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Noise Pollution Control and President of the Acoustical Society of India. He is aMember of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Acoustics andVibration. He is a Fellow of the INAE and Indian National Science Academy andMember of the European Academy of Sciences.

M.M. Madan has more than 40 years of experience inthe field of hydropower. He is the President and CEO(Hydro Business) at Jindal Power Ltd. He is theDirector on Board in many hydropower companies. Hewas the Chief Executive Officer of Malana PowerCompany Ltd. and AllainDuhangan Hydro Power Ltd.at LNJ Bhilwara Group. He was the Executive Directorat NHPC. He is the recipient of CBI&P-I.N.SinhaAward for his contribution in Water ResourcesEngineering. He has published over 210 technicalarticles/papers and has also published a Book onTunnelling. He is a Member of International Society of

Rock Mechanics, Tunnelling Association of India, Indian National HydropowerAssociation, Indian Society of Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling Technology,Chartered Engineer and Fellow, Institution of Engineers (India), Fellow, Institutionof Valuers and Fellow of the INAE.

M.O. Garg is an acknowledged expert in petroleumrefining and petrochemicals and has been instrumentalin developing and commercialising large number oftechnologies in Indian refineries. He served EngineersIndia Limited and then Technip KTI before joiningIIP. He has been the Director of the Indian Institute ofPetroleum and also officiated as the Director General ofCSIR. He has won several prestigious awards includingOceanTex Excellence Award and CSIR TechnologyAwards and has published more than 255 papers inrefereed journals and 39 national and internationalpatents. He is a Fellow of the INAE.

M.S. Ananth is currently Distinguished VisitingProfessor in IIT Bombay. He was the Director of IITMadras. During this time, he created the largestopen-courseware programme in technical education inthe world, the National Programme on TechnologyEnhanced Learning and established the firstuniversity-based Research Park in India to promoteinnovation and entrepreneurship. He has been consis-tently rated a good teacher. He is a Fellow of the IIChEand the INAE. I&EC Research published the

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Ananth-Festschrift Issue in his honour as a “leading researcher, gifted teacher andvisionary leader of higher education in India”. He was the Member of both theScientific Advisory Committee to Cabinet and the National ManufacturingCompetitiveness Council. He was a Visiting Professor in IIT Kanpur and IIScBangalore, Princeton University and University of Colorado and RWTH, Aachen(Germany), and a Visiting Scientist in Aspen Tech and in the National Institute ofStandards and Technology (USA).

Mahesh C. Chaturvedi was the Professor of CivilEngineering, IIT Delhi. He was also a VisitingProfessor in Harvard University.

N.R. Narayana Murthy is the founder of Infosys. Hearticulated, designed and implemented the GlobalDelivery Model, which has become the foundation forthe huge success in IT services outsourcing from India.He has led key corporate governance initiatives inIndia. He is an IT advisor to several Asian countries.He serves on the boards of Ford Foundation, UnitedNations Foundation, Rhodes Trust and the Institute forAdvanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He hasserved as a member of the HSBC board and theUnilever board. He has served on the boards of Cornell

University, Wharton School and the Graduate School of Business at StanfordUniversity. He has also served as the Chairman of the Indian Institute ofManagement, Ahmadabad. He is a foreign member of the US National Academy ofEngineering and a Fellow of the INAE. He is the recipient of the Hoover Medal,James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award, Ernst Weber Medal from theInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA. He is the first Indian winnerof Ernst and Young’s World Entrepreneur of the Year award. He is also a Trusteeof the Infosys Science Foundation. He has been awarded the Legion d’honneur bythe Government of France, the CBE by the British government and the PadmaVibhushan by the Government of India.

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N. Raghavan currently is an Adjunct Professor, IITMadras. He was the Head, Hydel & Nuclear ProjectsSector, Larsen & Toubro Limited, ECC ConstructionDivision, Founder-Chief Executive/Director—L&T-Ramboll Consulting Engineers Limited, PrincipalConsultant—STUP Consultants Limited; TheCementation Co. Ltd.; PWD Tamil Nadu. His interestsinclude construction management and methods andprecast concrete. He received S.B. Joshi MemorialAward for Excellence in Bridge and StructuralEngineering, has presented over 180 technical and otherpapers and talks and has been associated with variousIndian and international forums.

Nikhil R. Pal is a Professor at the Electronics andCommunication Sciences Unit, Indian StatisticalInstitute, Calcutta. He was a Visiting Professor at theUniversity of West Florida, USA, RIKEN BrainScience Institute, Japan, and the National Chiao TungUniversity, Taiwan. His current research interestincludes bioinformatics, brain science, fuzzy logic, datamining, machine learning, neural networks and evolu-tionary computation. He was the Editor-in-Chief of theIEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and has servedthe Editorial Board of several journals. He is a Fellow

of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, West BengalAcademy of Science and Technology, National Academy of Sciences, India, INAE,Indian National Science Academy, International Fuzzy Systems Association and aFellow of IETE, USA.

N.S. Mohan Ram was the President, TVS MotorCompany, Vice-President, Mukand Limited, the Head,Design Department of Mazagon Docks Ltd., and theCaptain at the IndianNavy. He is currently the consultantof TVSMotor Company. His current interest is recyclingautomobiles at end of life. Among his honours andrecognition are included Vishist Seva Medal, Das Guptaand VKRV Rao medals from FMS, FIE FoundationMedal for engineering management, DistinguishedAlumnus of IIT Kharagpur, Vaswik Award for engi-neering excellence. He is a Fellow of the INAE.

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P.S. Goel is Hony. Distinguished Professor at ISRO.Formerly, he was the Secretary, Ministry of EarthSciences and Chairman Earth Commission,Director ISRO Satellite Centre, Chairman, Recruitmentand Assessment Board, DRDO. He is a Fellow of theINAE.

Pallab Dasgupta is a Professor at the Department ofComputer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur.He works in the area of formal methods for electronicdesign automation and cyber-physical systems. Hehas published over 160 research papers, 3 books, 2US patents and collaborated with leading companiesincluding Intel, General Motors, Synopsys, IBM,Google, National Semiconductors and SemiconductorResearch Corporation. He received the young scientistmedals of INSA and INAE, the IBM Faculty Awardand the IESA Technomentor Award.

Prahlada has served DRDO for 43 years in variouscapacities and positions. He has worked in ADE,DRDL and finally at the corporate Hqrs in Delhi asDistinguished Scientist and CCR&D. His main con-tribution is designing, developing, testing, production-ing and delivering The Akash Surface to Air WeaponSystem which has been inducted by the Indian Armyand the Indian Air Force. He also held the position ofVice Chancellor, Defence Institute of AdvancedTechnology, Pune.

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P.S. Deodhar is the Chairman, Aplab Limited, Thane.Formerly, he was the Chairman, ElectronicsCommission, GOI and Advisor (Electronics) to thePM.

R.D. Kale during his initial years worked for thedesign of the Fast breeder test reactor set-up atKalpakkam nuclear centre, IGCAR. He sets up theEngineering Development Laboratory. He performedpioneering work in developing liquid sodium technol-ogy in the country. He has played a pivotal role indeveloping large sodium mechanical pumps for thePFBR. He has over 70 research publications.Currently, he is serving as a member of design safetycommittees of AERB.

R. Krishnan was the Scientific Officer and HeadMetallurgy Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,Mumbai; Director, Naval Chemical and MetallurgicalLaboratory, DRDO, Mumbai; Chief Controller R&D,DRDO, New Delhi; and Director, Gas TurbineResearch Establishment, DRDO, Bengaluru.

R. Sundaravadivelu has 30 years of teaching,research and consultancy experience at IIT Madras inthe field of Offshore, Coastal, Ship and Ports &Harbour Structures. He has published 60 journals and160 conference papers and written two books. Hiscurrent research interests are International projects onnon-ship-shaped FPSO and mobile offshore base andInnovative projects on classic SPAR for offshore windenergy and JACKET SPAR for integrated

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OTEC-Offshore desalination system. He is a Fellow of the INAE, Member of theBureau of Indian Standards on Port & Harbour structures.

Rabindranath Ghosh is a metallurgical engineer. Heworked in National Metallurgical Laboratory,Jamshedpur, in various capacities. He is currently aChair Professor at Metallurgical and MaterialsEngineering Department, IIT Kharagpur. He is knownfor his work on Remaining Life Assessment of criticalengineering components for power plants, refineriesand petro-chemical units; Development of physicallybased constitutive models for integrity assessment ofengineering materials and components; Developmentof non-destructive tools and techniques for integrityassessment and failure analysis.

Rajaram Bojji is the Director of Rajaram Bojji Inc.He has served Indian Railways for over 35 years. Hispublications deal with Rail–wheel Interaction. Hereceived Government of India award for efficient run-ning of Konkan Railway, National Award for out-standing contribution to knowledge-based industries bythe Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce &Industries, National Council for Occupational Healthand Safety Award.

Rajaram Nagappa worked in Space Science andTechnology Centre, Thiruvananthapuram. He retired asthe Associate Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.His major contributions include initiation ofmicrosatellite—Anusat—development and establish-ment of a high temperature material characterisationlaboratory. He is currently with the National Instituteof Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, where he anchors theInternational Strategic and Security StudiesProgramme. In addition to the fellowship of the INAE,he is a Fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India,

Fellow of the High Energy Material Society of India. He is the recipient of awardsand honours from the Madras Institute of Technology, the Astronautical Society ofIndia, DRDO and the International Astronautical Federation.

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Ram Kanwar Garg was one of the team membersengaged in the setting up of the Uranium Metal Plantand producing the first uranium metal ingot used forfabricating fuel for the CIRUS reactor. He then wasresponsible for process development, design and set-ting up of the plant for production of nuclear gradeZirconium Oxide at NFC Hyderabad. He led a team todevelop the process for Lithium isotope separation andmetal production. He developed centrifuge processand sets up the Rare Materials Plant at Mysore for

Uranium enrichment. He represented India in the International Nuclear Fuel CycleEvaluation Study. He served as the Chairman and Managing Director of IndianRare Earths. Presently, he is the Chairman of a number of committees of theMinistry of Environment, Government of India, Central Pollution Control Board,Maharashtra Pollution Control Board and AERB.

Raja Manuri Venkata Gopala Krishna Rao for overfour decades had been intensely involved in the R&Dstudies pertaining to indigenization and application ofpolymer composite products for aerospace,non-aerospace and defense sectors. At NAL, he playedvital roles in realisation of innumerable compositeproducts based on home-grown technologies, to com-mercially viable and technology transfer levels. Aninternationally acknowledged Scientist of repute inPolymer Composite Materials, his motto is, “CostEffective Appropriate Technologies for CompositeMaterials”.

S. Kalyanaraman is with the Department ofElectronics and Communication, Dayananda SagarCollege of Engineering, Bangalore. Formerly, he wasthe Programme Director, ISRO Satellite Centre,Bangalore.

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S.C. Dutta Roy’s teaching and research experienceincludes teaching at an Indian University, two USUniversities, one UK University and a long spell offour decades at IIT Delhi. His research has beenrecognised by several national awards, including theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, and throughFellowship of the IEEE, and of all the national aca-demies of science and engineering and DistinguishedFellowship of the IETE. What he values most, how-ever, is the love, affection and appreciation of a verylarge number of students whom he interacted withpersonally, and an equally large number of his virtualstudents, spread throughout the world, through the five

video courses he authored, which are available on YouTube. He enjoys listening toclassical music and researching on its history and the history makers, no less thanthe enjoyment he derives out of his professional work.

S.C. Chetal has contributed to Indian sodium cooledfast reactor programme at Indira Gandhi Centre forAtomic Research, Kalpakkam from where he super-annuated as Director. He has been the principal designengineer of indigenous designed 500 MWe PrototypeFast Breeder Reactor which is presently under com-missioning. He has also contributed to design of zir-conium and titanium sponge plant high-temperatureretorts. Presently, he is associated with R&D pro-gramme of advanced ultra-supercritical power planttechnology.

Samir V. Kamat has been working in DefenceMetallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad. Hehas made significant contributions in the area ofmicrostructure–mechanical property correlations inadvanced materials such as particulate-reinforcedmetal matrix composites, ceramic matrix composites,aluminium–lithium alloys, high-strength aluminiumalloys and titanium alloys which has led to theirdevelopment for various defence applications. He hasalso been instrumental in setting up the state-of-the-artexperimental facilities and expertise for characterisa-tion of mechanical behaviour of materials in smallvolumes, especially for materials used in MEMS. In

recent times, he has made significant contributions to the development of RareEarth Permanent Magnet Technology in DMRL.

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Sanak Mishra is presently the Secretary Generalof the Indian Steel Association and Vice-President(Finance) of INAE. Prior to that he was theVice-President of Arcelor Mittal. As founder memberof the Corporate R&D Centre of the Steel Authority ofIndia Limited (SAIL), he rose to become a full-timeDirector on the Board of SAIL. He served as theManaging Director of its Rourkela Steel Plant. He iscurrently the Chairperson of the InternationalOrganisation of Minerals, Metals and MaterialsSocieties. He received numerous awards, and among

them are JRD Tata Award for Excellence in Corporate leadership in MetallurgicalIndustries, the National Metallurgist Award from the Ministry of Steel, theCentenary Year Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Scienceand the Distinguished Merit Alumni Award from the Department of MaterialsScience & Engineering at the University of Illinois. He is the Fellow of the NationalAcademy of Sciences, INAE, Indian Institute of Metals, Institution of Engineers,Computer Society of India, Institute of Directors and the All India ManagementAssociation.

Sanjay Mittal is a Professor in the Department ofAerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur. He is also theHead of the National Wind Tunnel Facility. Hisresearch interests include unsteady aerodynamics,computational fluid dynamics, experimental fluidmechanics, aerodynamic shape optimisation, fluidstructure interactions, bluff body flows, linear stabilityanalysis, flows in air intakes, aerodynamics of sportsballs and train aerodynamics. He received the ShantiSwarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences and isa Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy,INAE, Indian Academy of Science and NationalAcademy of Sciences India.

Sankar Kumar Pal is a Distinguished Scientistof the Indian Statistical Institute and its formerDirector. He is widely recognised for his pioneeringcontributions in Machine Intelligence, Fuzzy Logic,Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition. He workedat the University of California, Berkeley, University ofMaryland, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston,Texas, and US Naval Research Laboratory,Washington DC. He is the Distinguished Visitor of theInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE) Computer Society, USA, for the Asia-Pacific

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Region, and held several visiting positions in Italy, Poland, Hong Kong andAustralian universities. He is a coauthor of seventeen books and more than fourhundred research publications. He has founded the Machine Intelligence Unit andthe nation’s first Centre for Soft Computing Research at ISI. He is a Fellow of theIEEE, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), InternationalAssociation for Pattern Recognition, International Association of Fuzzy Systemsand all the four National Academies for Science and Engineering in India. He hasreceived the S.S. Bhatnagar Prize, Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, JawaharlalNehru Fellowship, NASA Tech Brief Award (USA), IETE-Wadhwa Gold Medal,Om Bhasin Award, G.D. Birla Award, Khwarizmi International Award, FICCIAward, INSA-ZaheerMedal, P.C. Mahalanobis Birth Centenary Gold Medal ofIndian Science Congress for Lifetime Achievement, J.C. Bose Fellowship of theGovernment of India and INAE Chair Professorship.

Soumitro Banerjee was in the faculty of the IndianInstitute of Technology, Kharagpur, and then movedto the Indian Institute of Science Education &Research, Kolkata. His areas of interest are in thenonlinear dynamics of power electronic circuits andsystems, and bifurcation theory for non-smooth sys-tems. He has published three books, served as anAssociate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits& Systems II, and as an Associate Editor of the IEEETransaction on Circuits & Systems I. He is a recipientof the S.S. Bhatnagar Prize. He is a Fellow of theIndian Academy of Sciences, the INAE, the IndianNational Science Academy, The World Academy ofSciences and the IEEE.

Suresh Chandra Gupta assisted the legendry Dr.Vikram Sarabhai in building a rocket research anddevelopment team. He was instrumental in promotingtechnical autonomy for the ab initio development ofvarious subsystems of a rocket. He has held severalimportant positions, before taking over as Director,VSSC. He was a Member of the Space Commission ofIndia and received Dr. Brahm Prakash DistinguishedProfessorship of ISRO. He continues to contributeactively to the Space Program. He has authored more

than 100 technical papers, and a book entitled “Growing Rocket Systems and theTeam”. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Astronautical Society of India, andFellow of the INAE, National Academy of Sciences. He was the President ofSystems Society of India. He is a Member of the International Academy ofAstronautics, Paris and Member, International Programme Committee onAutomatic Control in Aerospace under the International Federation on Automatic

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Control. He has received National Systems Award, Shri Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr.Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, VASVIK Research Award for Electrical Science& Technology, Aryabhata Award of the Astronautical Society of India, for lifetimecontributions. He was presented by the Government of India, Department of Space“Outstanding Achievement Award”.

Sushmita Mitra is a Professor at the MachineIntelligence Unit (MIU), Indian Statistical Institute,Kolkata. She was in the RWTH, Aachen, Germany, asa DAAD Fellow, Visiting Professor in the ComputerScience Departments of the University of Alberta,Edmonton, Canada, Meiji University, Japan andAalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark. She receivedthe IEEE TNN Outstanding Paper Award for herpioneering work in neuro-fuzzy computing and theCIMPA-INRIA-UNESCO Fellowship. She is theauthor of three books, beside a host of other edited

books. She is an Associate Editor of IEEE/ACM Trans. on Computational Biologyand Bioinformatics, Information Sciences, Neurocomputing, and is a FoundingAssociate Editor of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and KnowledgeDiscovery (WIRE DMKD). She has more than 100 research publications. She is aFellow of the IEEE, the INAE, and The National Academy of Sciences, India. Sheis an IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer.

T. Balakrishna Bhat worked at DMRL for more thanthree decades almost entirely in the area of armourmaterials for a wide range of applications. He alsoworked on the theoretical aspects of hot isostaticpressing of powders and on creep and oxidation of twophase materials. As a visiting scientist at JPL,Pasadena, he worked on high-strength honeycomb andcellular solids. He has authored books on explosivecompaction, composite armour materials and modulesand dynamics of unification.

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Tarun K. Ghose initiated the department of foodtechnology and biochemical engineering at JadavpurUniversity, H B Technological Institute, Kanpur, andBiochemical Engineering Research Centre at IITDelhi. He was the Senior Fellow at US Army NatickLaboratory, visiting professor at Monash University,ETH Zurich and Laussane, Melbourne University,Rutgers University, Delaware University, NationalUniversity of Singapore, and Technical University ofDenmark. He established international series advancesin biochemical engineering. He has served on anumber of panel/committees of UN agencies. He

received IIChE Ambrose-Congreve Gold Medal as Chemical Engineer of the year.He is a Fellow of INAE, Foreign member of the Academied’Agriculture de France,World Academy of Art and Science.

V.G. Gaikar is Bharat Petroleum DistinguishedProfessor of Chemical Engineering at the Institute ofChemical Technology, Mumbai. He has over 140publications, 2 US patents, 1 PCT and 8 IndianPatents. Among major honours and awards are fel-lowship of INAE and Maharashtra Academy ofSciences, Young Scientist Medal of INSA, YoungAssociateship of IASc, Best Teacher Award ofUniversity of Mumbai, and Herdillia Award of IndianInstitute of Chemical Engineers for Excellence in

Basic Research in Chemical Engineering. His research interests include ReactiveSeparations, Engineering Separations through Molecular Simulations, ThermalConversion of Biomass to Fuels, Clean Process Technology Development andProcess Intensification using Microwave. He is also the Director of Aarti Drugs Ltd.and Bharat Oman Refineries Ltd. Currently, he is coordinating the TechnicalEducation Quality Improvement Program for Institute of Chemical Technology, theInnovation Networking of TEQIP Institutes in Maharashtra and the DAE-ICTCentre for Chemical Engineering Education and Research.

Vasant Manohar after working at English ElectricCo. Ltd. in England for 2 years joined the Tata PowerCompany and later the Tata Consulting Engineers,where he rose to the position of the Director-in-Chargeand CEO. His work has been mainly in the area ofplanning, design and management of major engineer-ing projects in India and Malaysia, Nepal, Laos andIran. His areas of interest include energy matters,technology development and the management of hightechnology projects and organizations. He was

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awarded the prestigious Fellowship of the City & Guilds of London Institute, andnamed an Outstanding Engineer by IEEE Delhi chapter. He is a Fellow of theInstitution of Engineers (India), a Life Senior member of IEEE of USA,Past-President of the Society of Power Engineers (India), Past Vice-President andTrustee of the Indian Nuclear Society. He is a Trustee of the Volkart Foundation.He is a Fellow of the INAE.

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