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Uttarakhand Finclave 22

Knowledge sharing through Multi 25 city Events

Tech Talk 27

Workshop on Financial Engineering—Series VI 28 on a Pragmatic Approach to Enterprise Risk Management

Research Capacity Building—Research 28 Design and Methodology

Learning beyond classes 29

Research Seminars 30

3rd International Conference on NGT 31 Generation Computing Technologies (NGT—2017)

National Conference on Agricultural 32 Sustainability by Cultivation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

Invited Lectures 34

R&D in News 35

Doctoral Student Corner 36

In this Issue

Sanctioned Grant Jan’18 to Jun’18 1

Indo-French Thematic School & Workshop on 3 Water Treatment and Management

Publications 6

Book Chapters 12

Workshop on Nano Materials for Bio- Sensor 14

Distinct Achievements 15

Learning with leaders 17

Seminar on Research Trends in Nano Bio-Material 18

Workshop on Big data Analytics and Visualization 18

Launch of Student Chapter of FSAI in Uttarakhand 19

Workshop on Implementation of Neural Models for 20 Pattern Recognition

Navarachanaa 2018 21

Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights 21

Energy Thrill 22

UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND ENERGY STUDIES, DEHRADUN - 248007, UTTARAKHAND

Ms.K.Manjusha Mr.Mukesh C. Kestwal

Ms.Meenakshi Pundir

Mr.Surajit Mondal

Mr.V.Sri Ragunath Mr.Anurag Barmola

Mr.P.Swami Sairam

Mr.Ravi.K. Patel

Editorial Team

Vol 4 Issue 4 July 2018 Page 1

Sanctioned Grant: Jan’18 to Jun’18

1. Project Title: All Ceramic Magneto-electric Multiferroic Based Energy Harvesters

Project Investigator(s): Dr. Satya Pal Singh

Funding Body: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)-Early Career Research Award (ECRA)

2. Project Title: Ventilation Augmented Supercavitating Turbine (VAST) Technology for Next-Generation

Hydropower

Project Investigator(s): Dr. Ashish Karn

Funding Body: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST

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3. Project Title: Investigation of fusion-fission reaction dynamics in heavy ion interactions

Project Investigator(s): Dr. Devendra Pal Singh

Funding Body: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST

4. Project Title: Design Principles of Mini & Micro Hydro Power Projects for Implementing Agencies of

Uttarakhand

Project Investigator(s): Dr. Prasoom Dwivedi, Dr.Alka Dwivedi

Funding Body: Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR)

5. Project Title: Analysing the Effectiveness of Immersing Students in Interactive, Realistic Worlds in

Virtual Reality using Kokoda VR as Case Study

Project Investigator(s): Dr. Syed Mohammad Tauseef

Funding Body: Laureate (Wilson Award)

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6. Project Title: Improving Teaching Effectiveness in E- Learning Environments

Project Investigator(s): Dr. Alka Dwivedi, Dr. Anita Senghar, Dr. Sunil Barthwal, Ms. Manisha Solanki

Funding Body: Laureate (Wilson Award)

Indo-French Thematic School & Workshop on Water Treatment and

Management, 28-29 March 2018

The workshop was organized under Indo-French Water Network Program to develop water based research

network and to address the diversified water challenges ranging from various fundamental research based issues

to treatment and management.

Two days’ program covered poster presentation and invited lectures by experienced researchers from universities,

research organization and industries. Brain storming session on the theme - ‘Water treatment technology and

delivery to the society: challenges and opportunities’, was held to quantify integrated approach with the synergy

of technology, management, policy and social awareness. The thematic school and workshop was customized for

students, educators, researchers, scientists, engineers and industrialists, engaged in a wide range of water related

research & applications.

The event was inaugurated by Dr. Rajendra Dobhal (Director General - Uttarakhand State Council for Science &

Technology (UCOST)), Dr. Savita (Director-Forest Research Institute (FRI) and Vice Chancellor - FRI

University), Dr. Suresh Kumar (Director - CoES, UPES), Shri. N. Ravi Shanker (Former Chief Secretary,

Uttarakhand), Dr. Julie Mendret, (Associate Professor, Institute Européen des Membranes (IEM), UMR

Université Montpellier).

Dr. Suresh Kumar in his welcome note mentioned about the Importance and Significance of Water Conservation. He

encouraged students to conserve the water and motivated students and scholars to think into the direction of preservation of

water. Quote MK Gandhi’s words ‘Be the Change you want to see in the world’ Dr. Suresh with the gathering of Scientist

and Scholars pledged to save and conserve the water.

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Dr. Julie Mendret, Key Note Speaker from France shared brief detail about the initiative of Indo-French Government and

major objective of the Indo-French collaboration with the audience

Dr. Dobhal addressed the gathering with his remarks on the challenges to make water clean in the State of Uttarakhand and

UP. Also, he shared the major initiative like River Bank Filtration taken by UCOST in the past.

Dr. Savita, with the brief remark on the need and significance of water quality treatment and its monitoring, shared details

about the ‘Forestry Intervention for Ganga’. Dr. Savita shared brief report on Ganga related issues as well as the potential

& the significance Ganga river hold for India. Also she informed about the collaborative initiative of FRI and SFD’s for

National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG)

Shri. N. Ravi Shanker (Former Chief Secretary Uttarakhand), focused his speech on the significance and importance

of Water Treatment and Monitoring. He urged researcher and scientist to think in the direction of using low cost and

sustainable technologies to treat and monitor the quality of water.

Speakers from Universities and Research organization:

Sri Anurag Khanna (Regional Director (CC), Central Ground Water Board, Uttarakhand)

Dr. Devesh Kumar Awasthi (Director, Amity Institute of Nanotechnology, Amity University, Noida

Dr. K. S Misra (Former ADG, Geological Survey of India)

Dr. M.L Kansal (Professor, IIT Roorkee)

Prof. S.K. Majumder (IIT Guwahati)

Dr. Prakash Nautiyal (Professor, HNBG Central University)

Dr. Sukesh Bartarya (Scientist-F Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology -WIHG)

Dr. Pooja D. Sharma (Scientist, CSIR-CISO, Chandigarh)

Dr, Prashant Singh (Associate Professor, DAV (PG College, Dehradun)

Dr. R L Goswamee (CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology)

Dr. Ratan Das (Tripura University)

Dr.(Mrs). Sadhana Rayalu (NEERI) Nagpur

Dr. Shanthana Lakshmi (Researcher – University of Nagev, ISRAEL)

Speakers from Industry:

Mr. Rohan B Kakde, Senior Manager (Marketing) Domestic Projects Groups, Voltas Industries, Mumbai

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Ms. Bhawna Pandit, Manager, Voltas Industries, Mumbai

Mr Rajendra Chamoli, Mentor Water Experts, Dehradun

Er. Surinder Singla, M.D., Venza Water Management Solutions, New Delhi

Around 100+ students, scholars and industry people and scientist from various organizations including Indian Institute of

Technology Roorkee, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology, Forest

Research Institute, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), CSIR Chandigarh, Tripura University,

Amity University, VIT, Voltas Limited, Mentor Water Experts, Venza Water Solutions etc attended this Indo-French

Workshop.

Vol 4 Issue 4 July 2018 Page 6

Publications:

S.No Authors Title Details

1. Kumar, A., Singh, N., & Ahuja, N.

J.

Learning styles based adaptive intelligent

tutoring systems: Document analysis of articles

published between 2001. and 2016

International Journal of

Cognitive Research in

Science, Engineering

and Education

2. Kumar, A., Ahuja, N. J., & Singh,

N.

Learner characteristics based learning style

models classification and its implications on

teaching.

International Journal of

Pure and Applied

Mathematics

3. Elloh V. W., Yaya A. , Abhishek

K. Mishra

Density Functional Theory (DFT) Study of

Structural and Electronic Properties of

Crystalline 2,3-benzanthracene

International Journal of

Engineering, Science

and Mathematics

4.

Mobin Fatma, Imran Khan, Zillur

Rahman

CSR and consumer behavioral responses: the

role of customer-company identification

Asia Pacific Journal of

Marketing and Logistics

5. Amit Awasthi, Navjot Hothi,

Prabhjot Kaur, Nirankar Singh,

Monojit Chakraborty, Sangeeta

Bansal

Elucidative analysis and sequencing of two

respiratory health monitoring methods to study

the impact of varying atmospheric composition

on human health

Atmospheric

Environment

6. Amit Kumar, RP Badoni, Shailey

Singhal, Shilpi Agarwal, Amitabh

Raj Tripathi

Synthesis and characterization of zirconia based

catalyst for the isomerization of n-hexane

Chemical Engineering

Communications

7. Shailey Singhal, Shilpi Agarwal,

Shefali Arora, Naveen Singhal,

Amit Kumar

Solid acids: potential catalysts for alkene-

isoalkane alkylation

Catalysis Science &

Technology

8. Navjot Hothi , Shuch Bisht Validation of the Hadron Mass Quantization

from Experimental Hadronic Regge Trajectories

Electronic Journal of

Theoretical Physics

9. Rishi Dewan, Atul Verma Chitag

Tatar, Ankit Aakash

"Enhancing Oleo-Phobic Properties of

Polytetrafluoroethylene

(PTFE/Teflon) Film by Chemical Graft Co-

Polymerization Method for

Potential Oil Contamination Control"

IAETSD-JARAS

10. Rishi Dewan, Hemchand Pandey,

Kailash Pandey

"Calculation of (n, f) Cross Section of Actinides

Produced in the ThU

Fuel Cycle in Energy Range En = 1 to 6 MeV"

(IAETSD-JARAS)

11. S.P. Gairola,Anu Pande,Preeti

Gairola, Sudesh Sharma,L.P.

Purohit,S.K. Dhawan,

Synthesis and electromagnetic shielding

behaviour of poly(o‐toluidine)/red mud

composite

Polymer advanced

Technology

12. MS Goyat, PK Ghosh Impact of ultrasonic assisted triangular lattice

like arranged dispersion of nanoparticles on

physical and mechanical properties of epoxy-

TiO2 nanocomposites

Ultrasonics

Sonochemistry

13. RG Mishra, R Mishra, P Kuchhal,

N Kumari

Performance Enhancement of Rectangular

Microstrip Antenna by Inserting Notches and

Slits

Advances in Health and

Environment Safety

14. R Mishra, P Kuchhal, A Kumar Antenna Path Loss Propagation in the Dehradun

Region at 1800 MHz in L-Band

Proceedings of the

International Conference

on Microelectronics

15. Appil Ora, Rishi Dewan, Dharni

Kumar K

Recent development in machine safeguarding

fror protecting human from complicated

machines

Advances in Fire and

Process Safety

Vol 4 Issue 4 July 2018 Page 7

16. Sharad Walia1 , Rajeev Gupta ,

Ram Kunwer , Neeraj

Challenges and opportunities in fabrication of

photolaytic, superhydrophilic and self cleaning

coating: An Overview

International Journal of

Advance Research in

Science and Eng

17. Devarrishi Dixit , Yashpal

Prajapati, Siddharth Verma ,

Saiyed Mohammad Iqbal , Rajeev

Gupta

Synthesis of TiO2 based Self Cleaning

Superhydrophilic Thin Film Coating

International Journal for

Research in Applied

Science & Engineering

Technology

18. Sonal Singhal, Amit K Chawla,

Hari Om Gupta and Ramesh

Chandra

Effect of Annealing Temperature and CdCl2

treatment on the Photo thin film solar cells

Bulletin of Materials

Science

19. A. Dhyani, P. Dua, A.K. Chawla

and B.S. Tewari

Effect of Coulomb Blockade on Josephson

Super Current Across Superconductor/Quantum

Dot/Superconductor Nano Junction

Journal of Pure and

Applied Science &

Technology

20. Ranjan Mishra, Raj Gaurav

Mishra, Piyush Kuchhal, Piyush

Dua

Choice of Right Dimension and Position of

Microstrip Feedline for the Bandwidth

Improvement of Microstrip Antenna

Intelligent

Communication, Control

and Devices, Advances

in Intelligent Systems

and Computing

21. Prabhjot Kaur, Anchit Bijalwan,

R. C. Joshi, Amit Awasthi

Network Forensic Process Model and

Framework: An Alternative Scenario

Intelligent

Communication, Control

and Devices

22. Khan NS, Halder S, Das S, Goyat

MS

Parametric influence towards size reduction of

poly (methylmethacrylate) shelled microcapsule

with epoxy core

Materials today

Proceedings

23. Goyat MS, Rana S, S Halder, PK

Ghosh

Facile fabrication of epoxy-TiO2

nanocomposites: A critical analysis of TiO2

impact on mechanical properties and toughening

mechanisms

ultrasonic

Sonochemistry

24. Prasad, T., Halder , S., Goyat MS Morphological dissimilarities of ZnO

nanoparticles and its effect on thermo‐physical

behavior of epoxy composites

Polymer Composites

25. Vyomesh R Buch, Sushant K

Rawal and Amit k Chawla

Structural, Optical and Electrochromic

Properties o... Argon-Helium Atmosphere

European Journal of

Scientific Research

26. S Jindal, A Vasishth, S Devi, G

Anand

A review on tungsten bronze ferroelectric

ceramics as electrically tunable devices

Integrated Ferroelectrics

27. MS Goyat , V Jaglan, V Tomar, "Superior thermomechanical and wetting

properties of ultrasonic dual mode mixing

assisted epoxy-CNT nanocomposites"

High Performance

Polymers

28. Pramod Rajput, Yogesh Kumar

Singh,G N Tiwari, O S Sastry,

Santosh Dubey, Kailash pandey

Life cycle assessment of the 3.2 kW cadmium

telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic system in

composite climate of India

Solar Energy

29. P. Mandal Large Circular Dichroism in MDM Plasmonic

Metasurface with Subwavelength Crescent

Aperture

Plasmonics

30. S. Sharma, Deepak Kumar, Sanjay

Kumar, M.S. Goyat, P. Mandal

Structural and optical properties of Cu

incorporated ZnFe2O4 ferrite nanoparticles

prepared by wet chemical route.

Materials chemistry and

Physics

31. Gagandeep Hothi, Navjot Hothi The Physics behind Music International journal of

basic and applied

research

32. Amit Awasthi, Navjot Hothi,

Prabhjot Kaur, Nirankar Singh,

Elucidative analysis and sequencing of two

respiratory health monitoring methods to study

Atmospheric

Environment

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Monojit Chakraborty, Sangeeta

Bansal

the impact of varying atmospheric composition

on human health

33. Gagan Anand, Satya Krishna

Nippani, Piyush Kuchhal, Ajay

Vasishth & P. Sarah

Dielectric, ferroelectric and piezoelectric

properties of Ca0.5Sr0.5Bi4Ti4O15 prepared by

solid state technique

Ferroelectrics

34. Abhishek Yadav, Pushpendra P.

Singh, Mohd. Shuaib, Vijay R.

Sharma, Indu Bala, Unnati, Sunita

Gupta,Devendra P. Singh, M. K.

Sharma, R. Kumar, S. Murlithar,

R. P. Singh, B. P. Singh, and R.

Prasad

Systematic study of low energy incomplete

fusion; role of entrance channel parameters

Physical review C96

35. Rupendra Pachauri, A. S. Yadav,

Y. K. Chauhan, A. Sharma

Shade dispersion-based photovoltaic array

configurations for performance enhancement

under partial shading conditions

International

Transactions on

Electrical Energy

Systems

36. N. Mishra, A. Singh, Rupendra

Pachauri, Y. K. Chauhan, Vinod

K. Yadav

Performance Enhancement of PV System Using

Proposed Array Topologies Under Various

Shadow Patterns

Solar Energy

37. A. Hussain, Ankit Batra,

Rupendra Pachauri

An experimental study on effect of dust on

power loss in solar photovoltaic module

Renewable: Wind, water

and Solar

38. Rupendra Pachauri, Rajesh Singh

and Rohit Samkaria

Experimental analysis to extract maximum

power from PV array reconfiguration under

partial shading conditions

Engineering Science and

Technology

39. Rupendra Pachauri, Yogesh K.

Chauhan

Analysis of power efficient compressor with

fuzzy logic MPPT-based PV/FC system

Int. J. Power and Energy

Conversion

40. Vivek Kaundal, Paawan Sharma,

Manish Prateek, Vinay Chowdary

Design, development and deployment of a RSSI

based wireless network for post disaster

management

International Journal of

Engineering &

Technology

41. Karn, Ashish, and Saurabh

Chawdhary

On the synergistic interrelation between

supercavity formation through vaporous and

ventilated routes

International Journal of

Multiphase Flow

42. Raj Gaurav Mishra, Ranjan

Mishra, Piyush Kuchhal

Design and analysis of a wide band rectangular

slot loaded planer microstrip antenna

International Journal of

Engineering and

Technology

43. Raj Gaurav Mishra, Ranjan

Mishra, Piyush Kuchhal and N.

Prasanthi Kumari

Optimization and analysis of high gain

wideband microstrip patch antenna using

genetic algorithm

International Journal of

Engineering and

Technology

44. Raj Gaurav Mishra, Ranjan

Mishra, Piyush Kuchhal and N.

Prasanthi Kumari

Analysis of the Microstrip Patch Antenna

designed using Genetic Algorithm based

optimization for wide-band applications, Special

Issue on Engineering and Applied Mathematics

International Journal of

Pure and Applied

Mathematics

45. Ranjan Mishra, Piyush Kuchhal

and Adesh Kumar

Antenna path loss propagation in the Dehradun

region at 1800 MHz in L-Band

Lecture Notes in

Electrical Engineering

453, 2018, International

conference on

Microelectronics,

Computing &

Communication Systems

46. Kumar, Amit; Singh, ninni; Ahuja,

Neelu Jyothi

Learning styles based adaptive intelligent

tutoring systems: document analysis of articles

published between 2001. and 2016

International Journal of

Cognitive Research in

Science, Engineering

and Education

Vol 4 Issue 4 July 2018 Page 9

47. Ritesh Saini, Neelu J. Ahuja,

Kanchan Deoli Bahukhandi

Futuristic Projection of Solid Waste Generation

in Dehradun city of Uttarakhand using

Supervised Artificial Neural Network-Non-

Linear Autoregressive Neural Network

(NARnet)

International Journal of

ChemTech Research

48. Amit Kumar,Neelu Jyothi Ahuja,

Ninni Singh

Learner characteristics based learning style

models classification and its implications on

teaching

International Journal of

Pure and Applied

Mathematics

49. KM Reddy Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Dyes

Using Ag-TiO2 Nanomaterials

Journal of Chemical and

Pharmaceutical

Research

50. Adesh Kumar, Gaurav Verma,

Mukul Kumar Gupta, B. Khaleelu

Rehman, Mohammad Salauddin,

Deepak Kumar

3D Multilayer Mesh NoC Communication and

FPGA Synthesis

Wireless Personal

Communications

51. Adesh Kumar, Paawan Sharma,

Mukul Kumar Gupta, and

Roushan Kumar

Machine Learning based Resource Utilization

and Pre-estimation for Network on Chip (NoC)

Communication

Wireless Personal

Communications

52. Lipi Chhaya, Paawan Sharma,

Adesh Kumar, and Govind

Bhagwatikar

Cross layer optimization and simulation of

Smart grid home area network

Modeling and

Simulation in

Engineering

53. Niraj Kumar, V, M Mishra, Adesh

Kumar

Smart Grid Security with AES Hardware Chip International Journal of

Information Technology

54. Ompal Vishnu Mohan Mishra

Adesh Kumar

Computer Networks and IEEE Wireless LAN

Standards

Journal of Engineering

and Applied Sciences

55. Niraj Kumar Vishnu Mohan

Mishra Adesh Kumar

Smart Grid and Commutation Technologies Journal of Engineering

and Applied Sciences

56. Adesh Kumar, Gaurav Verma,

Vijay Nath and Sushabhan

Choudhury

IC Packaging: 3D IC Technology3 and Methods Lecture Notes in

Electrical Engineering

57. Adesh Kumar, Saurabh Sharma

and Anurag Kumar Paliwal

Blueprint of a CMOS Charge Pump for Phase-

Locked Loop Synthesizers with High Efficiency

Lecture Notes in

Electrical Engineering

58. Amiya Sagar Das, Prashant

Kumar Dwivedi, Amit Kumar

Mondal, Roushan Kumar, R.

Manohar Reddy and Adesh

Kumar

Storage Optimization of Automated Storage and

Retrieval Systems Using Breadth-First Search

Algorithm

Lecture Notes in

Electrical Engineering

59. Deepak Chandra Goel Impact Assessment of Digital Intermediate

Technology on Indian Visual Effects Industry

International Journal of

Engineering, Science

and Mathematics

60. Siddesh Pai, Harjot Kaur, Ankur

Mittal, Neeraj Anand

Identification of risks causing time and cost

overrun in roads and highway projects in India

International Journal of

Civil Engineering and

Technology

61. S. M. Tauseef, R. Suganya,

Tasneem Abbasi, S. A. Abbasi

Chemical Accident Simulation Tool (CAST): A

System for

Assessing Consequences of Accidents in

Chemical Process

Industry

J Fail. Anal. and Preven.

62. Mukhim E. D., Abbasi T., Tauseef

S.M., Abbasi S.A.

A method for the estimation of overpressure

generated by open air hydrogen explosions

Journal of Loss

Prevention in the Process

Industries

63. A. Basheer, S. M. Tauseef,

Tasneem Abbasi, S. A. Abbasi

A New Method for Siting Hazardous Units in

Chemical Process

J Fail. Anal. and Preven.

Vol 4 Issue 4 July 2018 Page 10

Facilities Which Minimizes Risk at Least Cost:

RIDIMPUS

64. Bose, Debajyoti, and Amarnath

Bose

Electrical Power Generation with Himalayan

Mud Soil Using Microbial Fuel Cell

Nature Environment and

Pollution Technology

65. Kapoor, Leena, Debajyoti Bose,

and Aditya Mekala

Biomass pyrolysis in a twin-screw reactor to

produce green fuels

Biofuels

66. Bose, Debajyoti, and Amarnath

Bose

Graphene-based Microbial Fuel Cell Studies

with Starch in sub-Himalayan Soils

Indonesian Journal of

Electrical Engineering

and Informatics

67. T. Kumar and N. Kalyansundaram A novel DNG medium formed by ferromagnetic

microwire grid

Progress In

Electromagnetics

Research B

68. Bose, Debajyoti, Amarnath Bose,

Shikha Mitra, Himanshu Jain, and

Pragy Parashar

Analysis of Sediment-Microbial Fuel Cell

Power Production in Series and Parallel

Configurations

Nature Environment and

Pollution Technology

69. Abbasi, S. A and Tauseef S. M. Use of the terrestrial weed Alternanthera

ficoidea in treating greywater in soil-less

SHEFROL® bioreactors

Water Science and

Technology

70. Abbasi S. A., Ponni G. and

Tauseef S. M.

Marsilea quadrifolia: a new bioagent for treating

wastewater

Water, Air, & Soil

Pollution

71. Raja S., Tauseef S. M., Tasneem

Abbasi and Abbasi S. A.

Risk of fuel spills and the transient models of

spill area forecasting

Journal of Failure

Analysis and Prevention

72. Nair G. P. and Tauseef S. M. Predicting effectiveness of Management

Systems: Measuring Successes against Failures

International Journal of

Engineering Technology

Science and Research

73. Vipin, Tasneem Abbasi, Tauseef

S. M., and S. A. Abbasi

Spread rate of flammable liquids over flat and

inclined porous surfaces

Journal of Chemical

Health and Safety

74. Tauseef, S. M., Ramyapriya, R., &

Abbasi, T.

Models for assessing the spread of flammable

liquid spills and their burning

International Journal of

Engineering, Science

and Mathematics

75. Abbasi, T., Ramyapriya, R.,

Tauseef, S. M., & Abbasi, S. A.

Accidents occurring during transportation of

hazardous substances and modeling of their

consequences

International Journal of

Engineering, Science

and Mathematics

76. Tauseef, S. M., Abbasi, T.,

Suganya, R., & Abbasi, S. A.

A critical assessment of available software for

forecasting the impact of accidents in chemical

process industry

International Journal of

Engineering, Science

and Mathematics

77. Tasneem Abbasi, V. Pompapathi,

Tauseef S. M., and S. A. Abbasi

An assessment of the prevailing codes/standards

and models for determining safe spacing

between two or more hazardous storage tanks

International Journal of

Engineering, Science

and Mathematics

78. Tasneem Abbasi, Tauseef S. M.,

R. Suganya, and S. A. Abbasi

Types of accidents occurring in chemical

process industries and approaches to their

modelling

International Journal of

Engineering, Science

and Mathematics

79. Tauseef S. M., Tasneem Abbasi,

D. Thiruselvi, and S. A. Abbasi

The risk of domino effect associated with the

storage of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and the

safety codes for accident prevention

International Journal of

Engineering, Science

and Mathematics

80. Kumar, S., and Tauseef, S. M. Effectiveness of Conventional LOTO v/s IOT

based LOTO in Industrial Safety

International Journal of

Advanced Research in

Science and Engineering

81. Vasanth S., Tauseef S. M., Abbasi

T., Abbasi S.A.

Simulation of multiple pool fires involving two

different fuels

Journal of Loss

Prevention in the Process

Industries

Vol 4 Issue 4 July 2018 Page 11

82. Mukhim E. D., Abbasi T., Tauseef

S.M., Abbasi S.A.

Domino effect in chemical process industries

triggered by overpressure - formulation of

equipment-specific probits

Process Safety and

Environmental

Protection

83. Rabindra K. Padhan; A.A. Gupta;

Chandra Sekhar Mohanta; R.P.

Badoni; A.K. Bhatnagar.

Performance improvement of a crumb rubber

modified bitumen using polyoctenamer and

cross linking agent

Road Materials and

Pavement Design

84. Chandra Sekhar Mohanta; Veena

Yadav; N S Raman; R.P. Badoni

Improved Storage Stability of Crumb Rubber

Modified Bitumen using Long Chain Amines

International Journal of

Engineering Research &

Technology

85. Chandra Sekhar Mohanta; Veena

Yadav; N S Raman; R.P. Badoni

Synergic Effect of DETA (Diethylenetriamine)

and Stearic Acid on Improved Storage Stability

of Crumb Rubber Modified Bitumen

International Journal of

Engineering Research &

Technology

86. Chandra Sekhar Mohanta; R K

Padhan; Veena Yadav; N S

Raman; R.P. Badoni

Improvement of Storage Stability and

Rheological Properties of Crumb Rubber

Modified Bitumen using Waste PET Derivative

with Dioic Acid

Submitted in Road

Materials and Pavement

Design

87. Sudhir Kumar Chaturvedi, P.

Vershney, S.Bishnoi, D.Patel,

D.Tejaswini, Tejaswini

Design and Calculation of Power Aperture

Parameters with Variable SNR

Advances in Intelligent

System and Computing

88. Sudhir Kumar Chaturvedi,

G.Sood,

A.Chaudhary,H.Arora,S.Bishnoi,

A.Katyal

MATLAB-Based Graphical User Interface

Development of RADAR with the

Implementation of Noise Under Various Bands

Proceedings of the

International Conference

on Modern Research in

Aerospace Engineering

89. Sudhir Kumar Chaturvedi,

P.Singh, P Mehta, S.Kapri,

R.Saklani

Estimation of PDF Alarm Alert for Swerling

Targets

Advances in Intelligent

System and Computing

90. R. Gaur, S. Semwal, T. Raj, B.

Y. Lamba, E. Ramu, R.P. Gupta,

R. Kumar, S.K. Puri

Intensification of steam explosion and structural

intricacies impacting sugar recovery

Bioresource Technology

91. Tirath Raj , Ruchi Gaur, Bhawna

Yadav Lamba , Nitu Singh, Ravi

P. Gupta, Ravindra Kumar, Suresh

K. Puri, S.S.V. Ramakumar

Characterization of ionic liquid pretreated plant

cell wall for improved enzymatic digestibility

Bioresource Technology

92. Sanjeev Kumar, Sapna Jain,

Bhawna Yadav Lamba, Pankaj

Kumar

Epigrammatic status and perspective of

sequestration of carbon dioxide: Role of TiO2 as

photocatalyst

Solar Energy

93. Devendra S. Rawat, Girdhar Joshi,

Jitendra K. Pandey, Bhawna Y.

Lamba, Pankaj Kumar

Algal biodiesel stabilization with lower

concentration of 1:3 ratios of binary

antioxidants – Key factors to achieve the best

synergy for maximum stabilization

Fuel

94. Arya, A. & Honwad, S. Optimal Operation of a Multi-Source Multi

Delivery Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline

Network

Chemical Product and

Process Modeling

95. Arya, A.K. & Honwad Multiobjective optimization of a gas pipeline

network: an ant colony approach

Journal of Petroleum

Exploration and

Production Technology

96. Arya, A.K Genetic Algorithm Approach for optimizing

looped gas pipeline networks

International Journal of

ChemTech Research

97. Gopalakrishnan Govindasamy,

Rohit Sharma & Sunu

Subramanian

Studies on the effect of heterogeneous catalysts

on the hydrothermal liquefaction of sugarcane

bagasse to low-oxygen-containing bio-oil

Biofuels

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98. Shefali Arora, Ajay Pratap,

Shailey Singhal, Kanchan Deoli

Bahukhandi, Shilpi Agarwal,

Deepak Kumar

Antimicrobial Activity of Some

Diaminobenzophenone Derivatives

Int. J. Pharm. Sci. Rev.

Res

99. Meenakshi Sharma Factors affecting service quality perception in

internet-banking services: An Evidence from

Uttarakhand

International Journal of

Services Sciences

100. Meenakshi Sharma An Empirical Study on Impact of Workplace

Violence on Employee Absentism

Pranjana The Journal of

Management Awareness

SoB

S.No Authors Title Book Details

1. Jagadish Prasad Sahu,

Sitakanta Panda

Political regime persistence and economic growth in

Odisha: An empirical assessment of the Naveen

Patnaik rule

Economics Bulletin

2. Kumar, R., & Kansara, S. Supply chain process of olive oil industry International Journal of

Management Practice

3. Kumar, R., & Kansara, S. Information Technology Barriers in Indian Sugar

Supply Chain: An AHP and Fuzzy AHP Approach

Benchmarking: An

International Journal

4. Saurav Negi, Neeraj

Anand

Factors Leading to Supply Chain Inefficiency in

Agribusiness: Evidence from Asia's Largest

Wholesale Market

International Journal of

Value Chain Management.

5. Sushil Kumar Rai , Rajesh

Sharma

The economic determinants of foreign direct

investment in Indian economy: An analytical study

Indian Journal of

Economics and

Development

6. Reddy,N Pramodh Kumar

and Singh,Binod Kumar

An Outlook and Framework for Wind Energy in

India, Oil, Gas and Energy Quarterly

7. Dr. Sumeet Gupta The rise of Donald Trump & Far Right Parties in

Europe, Identity

Journal of Global Economy

8. Dr. Sumeet Gupta Renewable Energy Certificates Framework of India,

USA, Australia

European Case Clearing

House- ECCH

9. Dr. T Joji Rao Conceptual framework for introducing incentive-

based demand response programs for retail electricity

markets

Energy Strategy Reviews

10. Dr. T Joji Rao Petro Exchange in India:A Viability Check OMICS International

11. Dr. Ankur Mittal Investment Alternate Tools for Valuing

Infrastructure Projects

IJCIET

12. Dr. Sumeet Gupta Durkheim's Theory of Anomie and the 2016

American Election

Journal of Global Economy

13. Dr. Vinay Kandpal Penetration & Investment pattern of Mutual funds in

selected regions in India

Book Chapters:

S.No Authors Title Book Details

1. Ankur Dumka QoS in SDN and NFV Innovation in SDN and NFV, IGI

Publisher

2. Ankur Dumka Security in SDN and NFV Innovation in SDN and NFV, IGI

Publisher

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3. Anushree Sah, Ankur

Dumka

Web technology systems integration using

SOA and web services

Handbook of Research on

Contemporary Perspectives on Web-

Based Systems, IGI global

publisher 4. Anushree Sah, Ankur

Dumka

A Software Engineering Perspective for

Development of Enterprise Applications

Handbook of Research on

Contemporary Perspectives on Web-

Based Systems, IGI publisher

5. Karn, A., Narula, V.,

Arndt, R. E., & Hong, J.

Insights into Ventilation Demand

Estimation for High-Speed Supercavitating

Underwater Vehicles

Applications of Fluid Dynamics,

Springer, Singapore

6. Lipi Chhaya, Paawan

Sharma, Govind

Bhagwatikar and Adesh

Kumar

Development of Wireless Data Acquisition

and Control System for Smart Microgrid

Advances in Smart Grid and

Renewable Energy

7. B. Khaleelu Rehman,

Adesh kumar, Paawan

Sharma

Modeling and Simulation of ECG Signal for

Heart Beat Application

Advances in Intelligent Systems and

Computing

8. Adesh Kumar, Roushan

Kumar, Akansh Jain,

Anand Pandey,

Shubhankar Thapliyal,

Akshay Sharma

Automatic Street Lighting System Advances in Intelligent Systems and

Computing

9. Lipi Chhaya, Paawan

Sharma, Adesh Kumar,

Govind Bhagwatikar

Integration of Cognitive Radio with

Heterogeneous Smart Grid Communication

Architecture

Advances in Intelligent Systems and

Computing

10. Shweta Gupta, Adesh

Kumar

Bionic Functionality of Prosthetic Hand Advances in Intelligent Systems and

Computing

11. Abhay Kumar Gupta,

Revanta Tikku, Sumit

Kumar, Gaurav Verma,

Adesh Kumar

Bluetooth Controlled Robot using Windows

Phone Application

Advances in Intelligent Systems and

Computing

12. Shruti Chaudhary, Adesh

Kumar, Vivek Kaundal

GSM Based Prepaid Meter Advances in Intelligent Systems and

Computing

13. Shubham Kumar, Adesh

Kumar, Vivek Kaundal,

Mukul Kumar Gupta

Inductive Power as Wireless Energy in

Electrical Applications

Advances in Intelligent Systems and

Computing

14. Akarsha Mishra, Adesh

Kumar, Rakshita Parihar

VGA Application in Text display using

FPGA

Advances in Intelligent Systems and

Computing

15. Bose, Debajyoti,

Vaibhaw Kandpal,

Himanshi Dhawan, P.

Vijay, and M. Gopinath

Energy Recovery with Microbial Fuel Cells:

Bioremediation and Bioelectricity

In Waste Bioremediation, Springer,

Singapore

16. Sukanchan Palit Global water crisis, groundwater

remediation and futuristic vision of

environmental engineering techniques- a

far-reaching review

Applied Chemistry and Chemical

Engineering, Volume-5, Apple

Academic Press, USA.

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SoB:

S.No Authors Title Book Details

1. Kumar,R. Supply Chain Management of Sugar Industry

in India: A Case of Uttar Pradesh and

Uttarakhand

Supply Chain Strategies in

Dynamic Environment, Excel India

Publishers. ISBN: 9-789386-

724489

2. Pradeep Kautish and

Sushil Kumar Rai

Fashion Portals and Generation Y

Consumers in India: An Exploratory Study”

as a chapter in Book

Marketing Magic for Millennials

Rise of Gen Yo! Bloomsbury, India.

ISBN: 978-93-86826-86-2

3. Dr. Sumeet Gupta and Dr

Vinay Kandpal

Digitization : A Game Changer for Indian

Economy

Workshop on “NANOMATERIALS FOR BIOSENSOR”, 11th December 2017

One day Indo – Slovenia workshop on “Nanomaterials for Biosensors” was organized on 11th December 2017 by R&D

Office. The objective of workshop was to discuss about the nanomaterials used in biosensing and their application. It also

covered the recent developments in nanomaterials for the fabrication of biosensor devices for healthcare diagnostics, food

freshness and bioprocessing. The various processes used for synthesis and characterization of nanostructured materials, their

applications and commercialization were conferred.

Guest and Speaker of the workshop was Dr. Maja Leitgeb, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from

University of Maribor, Slovenia. Dr. Maja explained the importance of biosensor as an analytical device, used for the

detection of an analyte (DNAs of bacteria or viruses, or proteins) that combines a biological component with a

physicochemical detector. The main requirements for biosensor based studies such as: valid research approach and

economic feasibility in identification of a target molecule, availability of a suitable biological recognition element, and the

potential for disposable portable detection systems were also discussed.

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Distinct Achievements

Congratulations to the team: Dr. Pankaj Sharma, Ms. Geetanjali Raghav and Dr. Kamal Bansal for the acceptance of

their abstract titled “Analysis and Optimization of Ownership Models for Poverty Eradication and

Sustainable Development” for presentation in three-day workshop titled Eradicating Poverty through Energy

Innovation: Harnessing Sustainable Energy Transitions from Human Thriving from Feb 12-14, 2018 in Arizona State

University.

Dr. Gurunadh Velidi from Department of Aerospace Engineering has been selected for Best Mentor award from

Singapore Space and Technology Association (SSTA). SSTA is Singapore’s lead business association focused on

developing Singapore’s space technology industry. It serves as a neutral platform to facilitate information and

communication for government, industry and academia. The award recognizes best mentors among the participating teams

across the globe as part of Singapore Space Challenge 2017-18.

Dr. Gagan Anand from Department of Physics has been the International Technical Committee Member during

International Conference on Engineering Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering (ICEPOE 2018) organized between 21st

April 2017 and 23rd April 2017 at Thailand, Bangkok.

Ms. Ambika Aggarwal and Mr. Amitava Choudhury from Dept. of Virtualization & Dept. of Cybernetics, SCS delivered

guest lecture on “Modern Data Processing and Visualization” on 28th March 2018 at Shivalik College of Engineering,

Dehradun. The major aim of the talk was to familiarize the students with the latest trends and technologies through

Introduction of Modern data Technology; Hadoop as Modern data processing tool; Data Visualization using Qlik Sense.

Under the mentorship of Ms. Ambika Aggarwal and Mr. Amitava Choudhury from Dept. of Virtualization & Dept. of

Cybernetics from UPES, a workshop on “Bigdata Analytics and Visualization” was conducted at College of Engineering

Roorkee(COER) on 7th April 2018. During their talk, the mentors focused on elucidating the students with Big Data and its

Application; Hadoop Architecture(HDFS+MapReduce) and Data Visualization using Qlik Sense.

Dr. Ankur Dumka – SoCSE, has delivered key note talks during: International Conference on Futuristic Trends in

Computing and Networking” (ICFTCN-2018) held on 2-3 April 2018 conducted by Chandigarh University; IEEE WIE

SYMPOSIUM 2018 organized between 21-22 February and conducted by M.J.P Rohilkhand University, Bareilly on the

topic: “Universalization of Access Through I.T in Smart Cities (Women Empowerment)”; 6th international Conference on

System Modeling & Advancement in Research Trends held on 29-30 December 2017 conducted by TMU, Moradabad.

Dr. Ankur Dumka – SoCSE, published book on “Innovation in Network Function Virtualization and Network Function

Virtualization” with IGI global publisher.

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Ms. Geentanjali Raghav and Dr. Pankaj Kumar sharma have submitted a proposal in collaboration with Arizona State

University - U.S for “Long-Term Assistance and Services for Research (LASER) ” program offered by the United States

Agency for International Development (USAID).

Funding Amount- 70 million Dollars

Dr. Ashish Karn – Dept. of Mech. Eng., delivered guest lecture at Jaipur Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jaipur,

on 13th April’2018 on the topic “Multiphase flows in Fluid Machinery”. The talk was on different kinds of multiphase flows

in turbomachinery beginning from bubbly flows and cavitation & supercavitation highlighting the role of multiphase flows

in turbomachinery, its relevance to the Indian hydropower scenario and the current research trends worldwide. Indeed, the

brief seminar awakened the audience to the world of bubbles, cavitation and much more!

Dr. Sushil Kumar Rai -Dept. of Economics (SOB) was invited as a resource person for a National seminar on “Problems

and Prospects of Indian Agriculture” organized by Padamshri Vikhe Patil College of Arts, Science & Commerce,

Parvaranagar, Maharashtra.

Dr. Binod Kumar Singh - Department of Decision Sciences (SOB), Received Outstanding

reviewer award in Dec 2017 from ELSEVIER for the journal, “Computers and Electrical

Engineering”.

Dr. Binod Kumar Singh - Department of Decision Sciences (SOB), was invited by the ACSE to serve as Program

Committee (PC) of ACSTM 2019, the 3rd Asian Conference on Science, Technology & Medicine, held during February

12-14, 2019 in Dubai, UAE.

CSERD has nominated Dr. Binod Kumar Singh - Department of Decision Sciences (SOB),as member of advisory

committee and chairperson of 2nd International Conference on Research and Innovations Trends (ICRIT-2018), held on 6th-

7th Jan, 2018 at Dehradun, organized by Combine Society for Educational Research and Development (CSERD).

Piyush Kuchhal, Ranjan Mishra and Raj Gaurav Mishra are currently serving as chief guest editor and guest editors

respectively for Special Issue on Advances in Information Technology, Communications and Computing (AITCC), Vol 7,

No 2.6 (2018): Special Issue 6 in International Journal of Engineering and Technology.

As part of DST’s 6-member expert committee (1. Prof. Hoysall Chanakya, IISc, Bagalore; 2. Dr. Neelu Gera, DDG, ICFRE,

Dehradun; 3. Prof. Ruchi Badola, Scientist G, WII, Dehradun; 4. Dr. B.K. Bhatt, Advisor, MNRE, Delhi; 5. Dr. R.K.

Maikhuri, Scienitst In Charge, GBPIHED, Kosi; 6. Dr. Neelu Jyoti Ahuja, UPES, Dehradun), for the inspection and on-the-

spot assessment of ongoing projects under DST’s TARA scheme, Dr. Neelu J. Ahuja from UPES inspected various sites

at Uttarakhand between 1st and 3rd Feb, 2018. On the spot evaluation will involve verification and assessment of consolidated

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progress vis-à-vis identified core activities and deliverable (taking into account the recommendations of earlier visiting

team/EC for activities as well as budget expenditure) as well as future program/activities of next phase.

Dr. Adesh Kumar chaired the session - Modern Trends in Electronic System, Control Applications

and presented the research paper “Smart Grid - Security and Hardware Cryptography Using TACIT

Algorithm” in 3rd International Conference on Recent Trends in Computer Science and Electronics

at Radisson Bangkok, Thailand, during 02-03 January 2018, organized by Gyancity Research lab,

India and Aalborg University, Denmark.

Dr. Gopalakrishnan has been the Guest Speaker and Session Chair for the International

Conference on Energy, Environment and Industrial Safety (ICEEIS), organized by Department of

Applied Science and Technology, A.C.Tech, Anna University, Chennai on 22-23, February 2018.

Dr. Krishnan in his talk on, “Hydrothermal Liquefaction-Mimic of Natural Formation of

Petroleum”, highlighted the current national and global scenario of consumption of petroleum &

their respective reserves and necessity of developing alternate routes for producing substitute, for petroleum derived

gasoline and diesel was emphasized.

Learning With Leaders …

The faculty members and students of Department of Petroleum Engineering & Earth Sciences and Civil engineering got the

opportunity to learn from Padama Shree Dr. V.C. Thankur through Learning with Leaders program organized between

28th and 29th May 2018.

Dr. Thakur in his two day talk shared valuable knowledge on the following topics-

1. Geological evolution of Himalaya

2. Seismicity in Himalaya

3. Earthquake Hazards in Himalaya

4. Concept of Plate Tectonics with respect to Himalaya orogeny

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Seminar on “Research Trends in Nano Bio-Materials”

The seminar on “Research Trends in Nano Bio-Materials” was successfully organized by R&D Office-UPES on 5th

February 2018. Expert speaker of the event: Dr. Elena A. Rozhkova, is currently working as Scientist in Nanoscience and

Technology Division, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, USA. In her talk titled “Nano-Bio

Materials for Healthcare Applications”, Dr. Elena discussed about external stimuli-

responsive nano-bio architectures and their interfacing with biological system applicable for

biomedical applications.

The talk initially gave a glimpse of how Nanotechnology offers efficient solutions virtually

for all areas of science and technology spanning from energy to healthcare technologies.

Dr.Elena highlighted that only a low-frequency field of a few tens of hertz applied for only ten minutes was sufficient to

achieve ~90% cancer-cell destruction in vitro. Later part of her talk focused on high performance nano bio-photocatalyst

for targeted brain cancer therapy.

Workshop on “Bigdata Analytics and Visualization”

A workshop was conducted on “Bigdata Analytics and Visualization” under the mentorship of Ms. Ambika Aggarwal &

Mr. T. Dharani Kumar from Department of Virtualization and Mr. Amitava Choudhury from Department of Cybernetics

– SoCSE, UPES on 31st January 2018. The objective is to create awareness among students with the recent trends in IT

industry and tools used by them to make our students future ready. The major topics covered in the workshop were:

Introduction to Big Data and its Application; Hadoop Architecture (HDFS+MapReduce); Data Visualization using Qlik

Sense.

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FSAI 2018-19

Dept. of Health Safety and Environmental Engineering (HSE) launched 1st student chapter of FSAI in Uttarakhand on April

24th 2018. Fire & Security Association of India (FSAI) is a non-profit organization established in 2002 representing the Fire

Protection, Life Safety, Security, Building Automation, Loss Prevention and Risk Management domains.

The program was inaugurated by Mr. Vikas Saxena - President of FSAI Delhi Chapter, Mr. Sandip K Rana - Chief Fire

Officer, Dehradun, Mr. Rajnish Aggarwal - FSAI Chair Events, Ms.Veena Gupta - Chair Women, Women Safety and

Security, Dr. N. A. Siddiqui - Head, HSE Dept. and Dr. B. P. Yadav - Faculty Coordinator,FSAI Chapter UPES along

with faculty members of HSE department and students member of FSAI.

Mr. Saxena in his inaugural talk explained and encouraged the students about the role and importance of student chapters

while Mr. Rana highlighted on the importance of creating awareness about Fire protection utility and Risk control in the

society. Benefits of FSAI which include: networking with the fire safety and security systems globally, taking up trade

issues with state and central government agencies, reference and guidance on contemporary legislation and regulatory

issues, were discussed during the inauguration.

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Workshop on “Implementation of Neural Models for Pattern Recognition” 23rd Nov, 2017

Centre for Computation Research, in association with SoCSE

and R&D Office, successfully organized One-day workshop on

‘Implementation of Neural Models for Pattern Recognition’ on

23rd Nov, 2017. The expert speaker was Dr. Manu Pratap

Singh, from Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

Institute of Engineering and Technology, Dr. B.R.Ambedkar

University, Agra. There were a total of 40+ participants that

included faculty members and research scholars from SoCSE

and SoE.

Dr.Singh accompanied with his two associates/scholars, Dr. Somesh Kumar, Professor & Director, MCA, Noida Institute

of Engg & Technology and Mr. Ganesh Dixit, Assistant Professor, BSA College, Mathura, conducted the sessions spread

across the day. The sessions were sufficiently detailed, with the speaker providing an initial background, getting all

participants at same level and taking on to practical demonstration thereafter. The detailed technical coverage included,

introduction to Soft Computing techniques, neural network modeling, architectures, learning laws, supervised, unsupervised

learning, perceptron learning rule for pattern classification, feed forward neural networks, pattern mapping, pattern mapping

network, backpropagation, Pattern recognition concepts such as pattern classification, generalization, approximation and

prediction, Image recognition. Many of these theoretical concepts were implemented in MATLAB and demonstrated. The

participants did hands-on on MATLAB, through remote login using mstsc at \\10.2.1.120

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Navarachanaa 2018

Navarachanaa 2018, a National Project Competition held at SVVV, Indore, M.P in which more than 120 teams participated

from all over India and presented their projects. Our B.Tech Power system Engineering (VI Semester) students, Ms.

Tanishka Agarwal & Mr. Ayush Goyal have achieved “EKLAVYA AWARD” for their Project Titled “Waste to Energy”

and a cash award of Rs. 51,000/-. Along, Dr. Praveen Ghodke - Mentor has been awarded with Best Mentor

“DRONACHARYA AWARD.

Short note on project “Waste to Energy” Plastic waste disposal and excessive use of fossil fuels has caused

great environment concerns in the world. Both plastic and petroleum

derived fuels are hydrocarbons that contain the elements of carbon

and hydrogen. The difference between them is that the plastic

molecules have longer carbon chains than those in LPG, petrol, and

diesel fuels. Therefore, it is possible to convert plastic waste into fuels. This work is all about a reactor which is developed

in order to produce fuel from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). The overall calorific value of the products is around 43.3

MJ/kg. Therefore, the energy profit is high for this process.

Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights, 10th November 2017

Dr. Neelu Jyoti Ahuja (SoCSE) & Dr. Sravendra Rana (SoE) has shouldered upon organizing a workshop on Intellectual

property rights to create awareness about IPR among students and faculty members. Guest speaker of the event was

Mr. Tarun Khurana, who is Partner and Patent Attorney, IIPRD, Khurana & Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys. Mr.

Khurana elaborately discussed the two major areas including Intellectual property rights and patent process. He had

highlighted the issues and challenges for the execution of IP management in the universities and associate institutions. He

deeply explained: Role of TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights); Patent and Patent Rights –

Covering making, using, selling, offering to sell, importing,

etc. of any product of the human intellect, such as an idea,

invention, expression, unique name, business method,

industrial process, or chemical formula, which the court is

willing to protect against unauthorized use by others;

Intellectual Properties including patents, copyrights,

trademarks and designs; Highlights of Indian Patent Act -

Provisional vs. Complete Specification (strategic decision)

and Relevance of IP’s to Start-ups and their importance.

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Energy Thrill, 5th April 2018

FIPI, SoB Student chapter has successfully hosted an event Energy Thrill on 5th April, 2018, headed by Ms Shreya Sumeet

– President FIPI , Student Chapter and Mr. Tanay Chauhan(Vice –President FIPI Student Chapter) along with the joint

efforts of all the FIPI members. The event included a Panel discussion by industry people and a debate competition. Among

the prominent dignitaries Dr Ashish Kumar Srivastava (IAS, Vice Chairman, MDDA, Dehradun), Dr Shashi Kumar

(Director of Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy), Mr Akhil Mehrotra (Director on the Board of Mahanagar Gas

Limited) and Mr Sunil Jain (IFS,Ex-Ambassador,Indian High Commission, Kuwait) marked their glorious presence and

our very own Dr. Shailendra Kumar Pokhriyal (Associate Dean, UPES) had been great as a moderator all throughout the

event. The event was also graced by Mr. A.C Kher (I.A.S.(Retd); Advocate on Record(Supreme Court of India), faculty

members from Oil and gas (SoB) and students.

The main attraction of the event was the Panel discussion which laid emphasis on the topic “Energy sector requirements of

smart cities” followed by a great debate on “Will smart cities lead to energy crisis?” Eight numbers of groups with two

members in each were competing against each other head on. Each group had one member speaking for the topic and one

against the topic, bringing out great energy and enthusiasm on the stage. All the participants and the spectators present could

assimilate an understanding of energy sector impact on the smart cities in different sector like economic implication,

transportation, pricing, governmental norms, technical and fundamentals aspects.

UTTARAKHAND FINCLAVE 2018

Department of Accounting & Finance, School of Business, UPES has added new feather in the cap by organizing

Uttarakhand FINCLAVE 2018 on 12th April 2018 @ Hotel Sarovar Portico, Dehradun. It was organised in collaboration

with MFIN (Micro Finance Institutions Network). The Agenda of the FINCVLAVE is Progress and Prospectus of Financial

Inclusion in Uttarakhand, an imperative for inclusive development.

Chief Guest, Mr. Jatin Handoo, AVP (State Initiatives), Northern Region, MFIN India along with Master of Ceremony

Mr. Siddharth appreciated the efforts of Department of Accounting and Finance, School of Business and MFIN for setting

a platform for constructive discussion and deliberations.

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Ms. Achla Savyasaachi, National Head State Initiatives, MFIN introduced the agenda of conference. She briefed about the

status of Financial Inclusion in Uttarakhand. Financial Inclusion in Uttarakhand is limited to 4 Districts i.e. Udham Singh

Nagar, Nainital, Haridwar and Dehradun. Further elaborating the day schedule, Shri Rakesh Dubey, President MFIN India

discussed about the role of Micro Financial Institutions in Financial Inclusion. He further added to change cash rich to

cashless operations, developing an appropriate financial ecosystem for affordable housing, sanitation and education to have

an impact on society.

Inaugural Address was delivered by Dr. Deepankar Chakrabarti, Associate Dean- PG, School of Business. He pointeded

that despite efforts from the Indian government to provide assistance in food, education, and pension plans, many

communities, and women, are left without it. He appreciated the role-played by women towards financial inclusion through

SHGs and further highlighted the importance of empowering women in society so that it has socio economic events.

Shri Govind Singh, CEO of Utkarsh SFB, mentioned that financial inclusion does not only include financial aspects but

also includes social aspects. His talk also focused on four factors i.e. savings account, credit facilities, insurance and

remittance facilities, without which financial inclusion remains incomplete. He further discussed about usage of e- KYC,

mobile wallets and plastic cards. He also stressed on the importance of an academy or institution focusing on skill

development.

Special address by Shri Amit Singh Negi, Secretary Finance Uttarakhand, focussed on the measures to correct imbalance

i.e. thrust for service sector which can be fulfilled by increasing international tourism and horticulture activities and also he

talked about the grow centres which are going to be established for providing enhanced subsidies. Shri Dev Verma, COO

SCN Ltd. presented memento to the experts as token of respect.

No. Agenda Panel Members

Panel 1 Status of Financial

Inclusion in Uttarakhand

State and approaches in

Fostering Financial

Inclusion in hilly states

Shri Subrata Das, Regional Director-RBI, Dehradun – Discussed about role

of Microfinance companies in providing financial srvices in remote areas

Shri Devesh Sachdev, Vice President MFIN India - discussed about NPA and

viability levels highlighting the issues like Adoption cost of technology,

affordability of product and environmental feasibility

Shri D.N. Magar, NABARD Uttarakhand – Discussed initiatives by

NABARD: Capacity building programme for RRB, role in Financial Inclusion

by extending formal banking services to the unreached rural poor etc.

Shri Subir Kumar, DGM SBI, Uttarakhand – discussed about the financial

literacy and the model proposed for combing transaction & lending and about

the requirements for making a model which now a days includes e-KYC, fraud

and risk and credit analytics.

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Shri Abhishant Pant, Fintech Specialist - discussed about the role of Fintech

and the retail business scenario in hilly areas.

Panel 2 Financial Inclusion

Through Microfinance -

nuances, challenges and

opportunities Micro

financing through Shishu

loans

Sh. Navin Kumar Maini Board Member, NSCCL , MFIN , Lok Capital and

Former Deputy Managing Director, SIDBI - discussed about the role of MFIs

and SHGs towards Financial Inclusion in Uttarakhand.

Sh. Dinesh Saili, CEO BSFL (Business Correspondent operational in

Uttarakhand) - highlighted that commercially viable option should be available

to the people to stay in hilly areas of Uttarakhand.

Shri Dev Verma, COO SCNL –

Shri Ritesh Chatterjee, Chief Process and Quality Officer, Bharat Financial

Inclusion Ltd., - stated that there is a need for Institutional building for

Financial inclusion. Training programmes for youths can be arranged for start-

ups and awareness about digital payment system is necessory to sustain

business opportunitites year along in hilly areas.

Shri Karunesh Nigam, Zonal head Janalakshmi SFB – highlighted the scope

of MFIs and small scale banks in hilly areas of Uttarakhand as huge population

are unbanked.

Panel 3 Role of Fintech in

catalyzing Financial

Inclusion in Uttarakhand -

the Way Forward

Dr. Alok Misra, Professor, MDI Gurugram discussed how financial inclusion

space in India has become varied, and opinioned that right ecosystem has been

developed to harness various channels specializing in their domain to achieve

financial inclusion.

Shri Rakesh Dubey, President, MFIN India stressed on the remittances

through increased usage and penetration of digital mode of payments in hilly

areas of Uttarakhand.

Shri Abhishant Pant, Fintech Specialist considered remittances as key issue

in hilly areas of Uttarakhand. He further added that Hackathon is needed in

rural areas. There is a need for physical and digital mode of remittances.

Shri Sanjay Agarwal, Chairman, Uttarakhand Gramin Bank stated that UGB

is committed to provide customer centric banking services in all 13 districts of

Uttarakhand through its network of 286 branches. Earning constant profits

while making significant contribution to socio economic development of the

state through providing banking services in the remotest hilly rural areas has

been one of the most significant achievements of UGB.

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“FINWORLD” - a quarterly magazine published by Department of Accounting and Finance, School of Business was also

released by Distinguished guests of the event.

Knowlwdge sharing through Multi city Events

Enrollments and School of Business, UPES has initiated a Multi city event during March 2018 with an aim to share

knowledge and educate students spaning India by conducting Seminars.

1. Seminar on “Opportunities and Career Prospects in EIT” @Acropolis University, Indore, 27th Mar 2018

The Seminar is conducted by Dr Sumeet Gupta, HOD – Accounting and Finance Dept., who has shared his views on

emerging trends in various upcoming fields in Indian economy. The seminar was attended by BBA and B.Com (Hons)

students.

Speaking in the Session, Dr Gupta, shared his views on Supply chain management, Aviation, Energy sector. He has also

discussed on opportunities in Data Analytics sector, Renewable Energy, Smart cities and Energy Audit as well . Dr. Gupta’s

talk covers issues: 1. Increasing demand for skilled managers in Oil and Gas sector; 2. Role of Activity Based Costing in

Supply Chain; 3. Opportunities in Aviation Sector; 4. Energy Trading and Energy Audit; 5. E- Vehicle and Smart City; 6.

Banking and SWIFT (Nirav Modi Case).

He has also discussed about achievements of UPES and international collaborations of UPES.

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2.Seminar on “Energy Economics and Business Model” @ Hindu College, University of Delhi 19th Jan 2018

Speaking in the session, Dr. Prasoom Dwivedi, Assistant Dean Projects -UPES shared his views on Energy and Clean Coal

Technology. He has also discussed disruptive theory, impact electric vehicle on oil and gas and concepts of PPP in projects

and Principal Agent Problem.

Dr. Dwivedi also shared his views on Diagnosing the Failure of Kingfisher Airline and Business Model. Followed by it, Mr

Ravindra Singh and Mr Vaibhav Sharma discussed about various programs of UPES. They have discussed about

achievements of UPES and way forward for students. They have deliberated on the international collaborations of UPES.

3.Seminar “Energy Scenario In India” @ Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, New Delhi on 18th Jan 2018

The Seminar is conducted to 2 plenary sessions. Speaking in the 1st session, Dr. Prasoom Dwivedi, discussed disruptive

theory and impact of electric vehicles on oil and gas industry. He has also discussed on the concepts of PPP in projects and

Principal Agent Problem.

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Speaking in the 2nd session, Dr Sumeet Gupta, Head of Department – Accounting and Finance shared his views on

Upstream, Midstream, Downstream verticals of Oil and Gas. He has also discussed on Thermal Power, Renewable Energy.

He has deliberated on: New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) and Coal Bed Methane (CBM) policy; Foreign Direct

Investment (FDI) in upstream and private sector refining projects; FDI limit for public sector refining projects.

Mr Manav Aggarwal, Associate Director, (Enrollments) discussed about various programs offered by UPES, achievements

of UPES and way forward for students. He also deliberated on the international collaborations of UPES.

Tech Talk

Tech talk on “Myths and facts of Stock Market” was organized by School of Business dated 29th Jan 2018 under the

mentorship of Dr. Sumeet Gupta, HOD Department of Accounting and Finance, SOB-UPES and Dr Vipul Sharma

(Program Head- BBA FAS). The motive to organize this Tech talk was providing the students with in-depth understanding

of financial markets and mutual funds and this talk gave them an idea of the career opportunities available for them in the

BFSI sector.

Distinguished guests during the event were: Mr. Ajit Singh, Branch Head, Geojit Securities, Mr. Zubin, AGM( SEBI) and

Mr. Gaurang Shah – Head Investment Strategies, Geojit Securities. The Tech Talk began with the introduction to the share

market and its latest developments by Mr Zubin Mehta. Also, Mr. Shah explained about criteria for selection of investment,

difference between primary and secondary market and various assets classes (Equity, Debt, Gold and Real Estate).

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Workshop on “Financial Engineering - Series VI on A Pragmatic Approach to

Enterprise Risk Management

The Department of Accounting and Finance, School of Business has successfully oganized a workshop on “A Pragmatic

Approach to Enterprise Risk Management Learning” dated 16th Jan 2018 under the mentorship of Dr. Sumeet Gupta,

HOD Dept. of Accounting and Finance and Dr. Ankur Mittal. Chief guest of the evnt was Dr. Ruchi Agarwal from ISB

Hyderabad. The motive to organize this workshop was providing the students with in-depth understanding of Enterprise

Risk Management and COSO framework.

Dr. Ruchi in her talk explained about data management and risk evaluation techniques necessary for business. She explained

how data minig techniques and appropriate use of data is vital in developing a complete view of the needs of the company.

Further Dr. Ruchi discussed on role of COSO Framework in Enterprise Risk Management.

Research Capacity Building - ‘Research Design and Methodology’, 23 - 27

April 2018

Department of Strategic Management (SoB) and Department of Accounts & Finance (SoB) organized a five day ‘Faculty

Development Program’ on ‘Research Design and Methodology’. The FDP was inaugurated by Dr. S J Chopra,

Honorable Chancellor-UPES. The five day program had expert sessions of various key academicians of prestigious institutes

namely, Dr. Seema Sharma, IIT Delhi (Session: Understanding of research); Dr. N K Sharma, IIT Kanpur (Session:

Identification of research problem); Dr. OP Wali, IIFT (Session: How to do a literature review/gap identification); Dr.

Alok Saklani, Himalayan University (Session: Research Objectives and Research Design); Dr. Vinay Sharma, IIT

Roorkee (Session: Qualitative Research); Dr. K. K. Pandey, OP Jindal University (Session: Qualitative Research); Dr.

Krishna Balodi, IIM Lucknow (Session: Quantitative Measurement and scaling); Dr. Tripti Singh, MNNIT Allahabad

(Session: Research Writing & Paper Publishing) and Dr. Tarun Dhingra, SoB UPES (Proposal Writing).

The FPD benefitted 80 participants from the institutes like HPCL, DLF, Gurukul Kangri, IMS, Himgri Zee Univ, and SoB

UPES by focusing on enabling budding researchers in the areas of identification of business problem, developing research

problem with the help of literature review and research gaps, appreciation of various research paradigms and research

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approaches leading to research design, introduction to research methodology and various research methods. The FDP

attempted to provide insights on what is good research and how one can do interesting and meaningful good quality research

within the given constraints. A hands on approach was adopted for the FDP with a number of workshops.

Learning beyond classes!!!

The Department of Accounting and Finance, School of Business came up with a Certificate Program in Finance. The motive

of this training program is providing the students with in-depth understanding of current scenario of financial issues in India

and resolve them through case studies.

Chief guest, Mr. Sanjiv Dandona, Trainer – NSE, BSE and FCA- Pentacle- Infrastructure Consulting, in his motivating

and eye-opening talk elucidated the participants on variouschoosen talks. During session-I on “Financial Crimes with focus

on Money Laundering” dated 8th March 2018, Mr. Sanjiv discussed about money laundering and why the cases of money

laundering are increasing day by day. Further he talked about the Prevention of Money Laundering Act and solved various

scam based case studies.

Mr. Sanjiv also discussed the SAHARA SEBI case study and PNB Fraud followed by which he has deliberated on financial

terms such as Financial Intelligence Unit, Market Intermediaries Circular Trading and collective Investment Scheme.

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While the session-II was on “Legal and Financial Aspects of Infrastructure with Focus on Public Private Participation

Projects”, dated 9th March 2018. Dusring the session, he highlighted on Basics of Infrastructure, Public services which

include both infrastructure and services generally provided by government and types of infrastructure projects.

At the end of the each training program, Exam was being conducted for 30 Minutes on the issues being discussed in the

training program.

Research Seminars

1. “Role of IPO Grades in Improving Investor Confidence- Evidence from India”,

22nd March 2018

Prof (Dr.) Smita Kashiramka, DMS IIT Delhi was the distinguished speaker, who described how mandatory Initial Public

Offering (IPO) failed to meet its objectives and how subsequently it was scrapped by SEBI. IPO grades have a significant

influence on retail demand; also, high graded issues attract demand from across all investor categories. Further, high graded

IPO seem to be priced efficiently as compared to others. Overall, the speaker suggested that this provision should have been

retained, especially in the interest of retail investors.

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2. “Modelling antecedents of skepticism towards green advertising: evidence from India”,

12th April 2018

The seminar was delivered by Prof (Dr.)

Vibhava Srivastava, MDI Gurugram at

Kandoli campus. The speaker explained

about how the study carried out by him

models the antecedents of scepticism toward

green advertising. The speaker also put forth

his view on why is relevant in the present

context, especially in a country like India. The session ended with interactive discussion between the distinguished speaker

and the participants.

3rd International Conference on Next Generation Computing Technologies

(NGCT-2017)

NGCT-2017 has been successfully organized under the aegis of ‘School of Computer Science’ in UPES and has been

technically sponsored by Springer, Computer Society of India and IUPRAI and co-sponsored by SERB-DST, DRDO, IBM

and Springer during 30th and 31st Oct 2017. The theme of the conference is “Smart and Innovative Trends in Next Generation

Computing”. Prof. S. J. Chopra, Chancellor-UPES and Prof. Deependra Kumar Jha, Vice Chancellor-UPES in the

presence of Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Director, IIT Patna, Prof. Rajkumar Buyya, Director Cloud Labs, University

of Melbourne, Prof. R. K. Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay and Prof. Valentena E Balas, University “Aurel Vlaicu” Arad

(Romania) has inaugurated the conference on 30th Oct. In his opening speech, Prof. Jha has highlighted the importance of

research in smart computation for better human life.

In his keynote address Prof. Bhattacharyya, has thrown deep insight into the area Natural Language Processing in the context

of Deep Learning. Prof. Buyya has delivered talk on New Frontiers in Big data, Cloud and IOT. Prof. R. K. Shyamasundar

has given his keynote on the topic of Security and Privacy and he has given a deep insight into Facebook Security and

Privacy aspects. Prof. Valentina has presented her keynote on Smart and Brain Computing.

In total 135 quality research papers were presented, which were selected out of 948 submissions from various reputed

international and national institutes. The presentations were made on indulging themes like Smart and Innovative Trends

in Data Science and Machine Learning, Computer Networks and Communication Protocols, Image Processing and Machine

Vision, Security and Privacy and Natural Language Processing, eminent people like Prof. Venkatesan, Memorial

University at Newfoundland, Canada, Prof. KK. Biswas, IIT Delhi, Prof. Arindam Biswas, IIEST, Shibpur, Prof. C.L.

Reddy, Dravidian University, Prof. D.S. Roy, NIT Meghalaya, Prof. Praveen Kaushik and Prof. Manish Pandey,

MANIT and Prof. Durga Toshniwal, IITR were invited as Technical Session Chairs for the evaluation of technical

Presentations.

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National Conference on Agricultural Sustainability by Cultivation of

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (ASCMAP 2017), 18th December 2018

ASCMAP 2017 was organized by Department of Health Safety and Environmental Engineering on 18th December 2018 at

UPES and funded and supported by Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi. The conference provided an

interdisciplinary forum to researchers, consultants, industries, academicians, entrepreneurs, professionals and farmers for

dissemination of information, innovations and improvisations in the broad area of environment based on agricultural

diversification, conservation and sustainable development through cultivation of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants. The

inauguration of conference had started with the lightening of lamp and release of conference souvenir by the esteemed chief

guest Dr. Rakesh Shah -Chairman, Uttarakhand Biodiversity Board in the presence of Dr. S. J. Chopra - Hon’ble

Chancellor, UPES, Mr. S.S. Rasaily - Member Secretory, Uttarakhand Biodiversity Board, Prof. N. A. Siddiqui -

Conference Chair, Professor & Head-Dept. of HSE, UPES, Dr. J. K. Pandey - Head R&D, UPES, Dr. Kanchan

Bahukhandi, Dr. S. M. Tauseef and participants from various institutes and farmers.

The welcome address was delivered by Dr. N.A. Siddiqui followed by introduction to chief guest by Dr. Jitendra Kumar

Pandey. Hon’ble Chancellor sir Dr. S. J. Chopra, shared a memory of selling plant extracts during early stages of his

professional career. The chief guest for the conference, Dr. Rakesh Shah, stressed upon the need to take pride in our rich

cultural heritage and revive the traditional knowledge. Mr. Rasaily expressed his concern regarding unchecked growth

leading to grave environmental problems.

The main keynote speakers were: Dr. Nirmala Koranga (Asst. Professor DBS (PG) college), Ms. Pragyeeka Bhist,

(Social worker Highfeed) and Mr. Padam Singh (Agricultural entrepreneur) and they had engaged the audience with

diverse topics such as agricultural sustainability, women empowerment, cultivation practices of medicinal and aromatic

plant. Dr. Veena Krishnan conducted an interactive session, with women farmers based on empowering women through

positive change and enhancing leadership quality.

The technical session of the conference has conducted in four technical parallel sessions (along with skype) including

workshop cum training session for rural farmers i.e Plant Biodiversity and Conservation, Agroforestry / Conservation,

Medicinal and Aromatic Cultivation and Conservation, Environmental Pollution and HSE, Waste water Management and

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Green Chemistry, Forestry and Sustainable Development. The technical Co-coordinator and session coordinator were Ms.

Madhuben Sharma, Dr Sehefali Arora, Dr. Maheshwar Pathak, Mr. V. Krishnkanth, Mr. Arun Kumar and Mr. Akshi Singh

along with judges and panel expert Dr. Rachna Nautiyal (Assistant Director RUSA Doon University), Dr. Nitin Kamboj,

Dr. Archana Joshi, Dr. Shailey Singhal, Dr. Rakesh Bacehti, Dr. Anita Rawat and Dr. Mandira Aggarawal.

On this occasion training certificate to around 40 women farmers had also been distributed who were directly involved in

cultivation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant (Tulsi, Chamomile, Stevia and Lemon Grass). Cheque were also distributed

among the farmers which has been generated from selling of medicinal and aromatic plant product and organic product at

UPES. The conference received an overwhelming response, as more than 120 participants graced the event. On the

valedictory session we have distributed. Participation certificate, paper presentation certificate and best paper award

certificate to all participants (farmers, beneficiaries and participants).

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Invited Lectures

Mr C K Pandey, UJVNL, Dehradun. 30th Jan 2018@SoB

Overview of power sector supply chain especially focusing distribution network, government policies and SWOT

analysis. Prof. Debashish Chowdhury - Head, Dept. of Physics, IIT Kanpur. April 27, 2018 @ Dept. of Physics

Deliver a lecture on “Molecular machine: bear on a mountainous landscape or frog in a lily pond"analysis.

Mr. P. Raghavendran, President - RIL and Mr. Kishore Sundaresan, MD - Kongsberg. 26-27 Oct 2017

Delivered a guest lecture on the topic, "Renewables, wind and Solar energy"

Shri Manvendra Singh, Scientist-F, IRDE, DRDO, Dehradun. 6th April 2018 @ Aerospace Dept.

Talk: Image Intelligence for Defence Applications

Dr. Shefali Agrawal, Group Head, IIRS, ISRO, Dehradun.6th April 2018 @ Aerospace Dept.

Talk: Space Technologies for Earth Observations

Shri Abhai Mishra, Scientist-F, DEAL, DRDO, Dehradun. 7th April 2018 @ Aerospace Dept.

Talk: SAR Applications for Defence Technologies

Prof. Debashish Chowdhury - Head, Dept. of Physics, IIT Kanpur. April 27, 2018 @ Dept. of Physics

Deliver a lecture on “Molecular machine: bear on a mountainous landscape or frog in a lily pond"

Dr Amit K Aggarwal, Sr. Vice President, Planet Herbs Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd, Selaqui. 9th April 2018

Overview of pharma sector supply chain especially for making caspsule formation, import-exportprocedures, logistics services, policies and packaging.

Mr Sanjay Kumar, Sr. SC Expert and Executive Trainer, Divine Honda, Dehradun. 24th April 2018

Overview of automotive sector supply chain: manufacturing, logistics services, regulatory frameworkand quality.

Mr Uday Ghadi, SC Manager, Tupperware, Selaqui. 14th March 018 @ SoB

Overview of FMCG sector supply chain especially focusing distribution network, and problems facedduring logistics, policies and quality of product.

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R & D in News...

Mr. Mukul Jain - Ex-Director, Rail Vikas Nigam LTD. 5th February 2018 @ SOB

Talk: Understanding Multimodal Transportation

Mr. Shyamal Chatterjee - Country Head – Supply Chain Operations and Member Board of Directors, Tupperware.

15th February 2018 @SOB

Talk On: Time tested multinational manufacturing consumer company

Mr. Arun Sharma - Supply Chain Head - MARKEM IMAJE. 10th March 2018 @SOB

Talk On: Retail Management

Mr. Amit Chand - Hub Head, OYO. 15th February 2018 @SOB

Talk On: New age consumer service company

Mr. G.H.V. Rao - State Head- HPCL Dehradun. 22 - 23 March 2018 @ SOB

Talk On: Retail Supply Chain in oil & gas (HPCL)

Mr. Alok Srivastava - Promoter - Sabziwala New Delhi. 22 - 23 March 2018 @ SOB

Talk on: Retail Supply Chain in Agrifood (Sabziwala)

Mr. Anugunj Agarwal - Suvidha Retail Stores. 22 - 23 March 2018 @ SOB

Talk On: Private labels and procurment in retail

Mr. Ajeet Sharma - Mahindra & Mahindra. 22 - 23 March 2018 @ SOB

Talk On: Supply Chain and Logistics process in Mahindra & Mahindra

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Doctoral Student Corner

Prestigious CIO & Leader Business Impact Award 2014-15’, awarded by CIO & Leader, 9.9 Media

House was conferred to our Part Time PhD Scholar Golok K Simli.

Project Titled "Developing a Novel Sequencing Batch Reactor for In-situ Containerised Wastewater

Treatment " being developed by the Part Time PhD Scholar - Kiran Kumar Kurrilla as Co-Project

Investigator in association with the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad has been selected recently

by The ministry of Human Resource Development ; Govt.Of India under the Uchchatar Avishkar Yojana

; a Pradhan Mantri Yojana for funding by the Department of Science & Technology and the participating

ministry is Ministry of Environment & Forests ; Govt. of India.