The Annual Convention of the Indian National Academy of Engineering was held on Dec 10-11, 2015, at Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune. The Inaugural Address was delivered by the Chief Guest Mr. Sajjan Jindal, Chairman, JSW Steel. Dr Surendra Pal, Vice- Chancellor, DIAT, Pune delivered the Welcome Remarks. Dr BN Suresh, President, INAE also delivered his Address during the Inaugural Session. The e-version of book titled “Mind of an Engineer” being published by M/s Springer which contains articles written by INAE Fellows on their personal experiences and career paths leading to their success as eminent engineers of the country; was released by the Chief Guest, Mr Sajjan Jindal. The website of the INAE Research Journal being brought out shortly titled “INAE Letters” developed by M/s Springer was also launched during the Inaugural Session of the Annual Convention. The Inaugural session also featured Award Lectures by Dr LK Singhal and Prof Sankar K Pal, Professor Jai Krishna Memorial and Professor SN Mitra Memorial Awardees 2015 respectively. Brig Rajan Minocha, Executive Director, INAE proposed the Vote of Thanks.

The major scientific and engineering highlights of the Convention were the presentations by newly elected Fellows and Young Engineer Awardees. The presentations were held in two Parallel Sessions on Dec 10-11, 2015. The list of the technical presentations by Fellows and Young Engineers are given below.

Presentations by Newly Elected Fellows on Dec 10-11, 2015

Presentations by INAE Young Engineer Awardees on Dec 10-11, 2015

The Grand Award Ceremony was held on the evening of December 10, 2015. Five theses at Doctoral level, Five Theses at Master’s Level and 8 Projects at Bachelor’s Level were conferred the Innovative Student Projects Award. Ten candidates were conferred the INAE Young Engineer Award 2015.

The 27^th Annual General Meeting of Fellows was held on Dec 11, 2015. During the Induction Ceremony, the following were formally admitted into the Academy by the President, INAE and signed the Admission Register.

Mr. VN Heggade, Prof. Mukesh Sharma, Prof. Krishna Moorthy Sivalingam, Dr. Manish Gupta, Dr. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Dr. Amit Konar, Dr. Ravi Kothari, Prof. Avinash K Agarwal, Dr. P Sivakumar, Mr. Arun Ramchandani, Prof. Amit Agrawal, Prof. Anindya Deb, Prof. Naresh Tandon, Prof. VK Jain, Mr. Rajeev M Pandia, Dr. CV Rode, Prof. SN Singh, Prof. SA Soman, Dr. BK Panigrahi, Dr. Lalit Kumar, Mr. Narasimhan Venkatesh, Prof. Amrutur Bharadwaj, Prof. HB Hablani, Dr. V Narayanan, Dr. SK Biswal, Dr. Rajendra N. Basu, Prof. Bikramjit Basu, Prof. Indradev Samajdar, Prof. Santanu Bandyopadhyay, Mr. SK Chande, Prof. Debabrata Das, Dr. Kalyanasundaram Subramanian, Dr. DR Prasada Raju, Dr. Rajiv Tayal and Dr. S. Venkata Mohan.

During the Brainstorming session, Dr BN Suresh, President, INAE requested the Fellows to give their suggestions.  A number of valuable suggestions were received on ways to enhance the visibility of the Academy in the industry and policy domains.

A meeting of selected INAE Fellows chaired by Dr Anil Kakodkar, was held on Dec 10, 2015 on sidelines of the INAE Annual Convention to discuss and suggest recommendations on the ways to enhance the Academy and Industry Interactions and also to increase the outreach of INAE with policy makers and stakeholders. During the deliberations, a number of valuable suggestions have been received which will be progressed actively.

A Plenary Session was held on Dec 11, 2015  during which the Plenary Lecture on “India’s Nuclear Strategy: Meeting Challenges from the Neighbourhood” was delivered by Dr Manpreet Sethi, Senior Fellow, Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi. The Award lectures by Prof Dipak Mazumdar and Prof Kripa Shanker, the Outstanding Teacher Awardees 2015 were also held during the Plenary session.