{"id":6876,"date":"2021-02-18T17:26:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T11:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inae.in\/?page_id=6876"},"modified":"2022-01-20T17:18:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T11:48:01","slug":"annual-convention-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.inae.in\/annual-convention-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"INAE Annual Convention 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The INAE Annual Convention 2020 was held Online during December 21-22, 2020 due to the unprecedented circumstances all over the world on account of COVID pandemic and the restrictions thereof which limited conduct of a physical Annual Convention. This is the first time that the Annual Convention of INAE was held online. However, the programme was fairly similar to that of the normal Annual Convention held each year. The Annual Convention was preceded by the INAE Governing Council Meeting held online on December 19, 2020. There were a large number of registrations from INAE Fellows\/ Foreign Fellows, Young Associates, awardees and delegates for the online INAE Annual Convention 2020.<\/p>\n
The Inaugural session was held on December 21, 2020 at 10:30 AM which featured the lighting of the lamp by the dignitaries on the dais viz Dr Sanak Mishra, President, INAE; Prof Indranil Manna, Vice-President and President-Elect, INAE; Dr Purnendu Ghosh, Vice-President, INAE; Dr Pradip, Vice-President, INAE and Prof K Bhanu Sankara Rao, Chief Editor of Publications, INAE. This was followed by the delivery of the Presidential Address by Dr Sanak Mishra, President, INAE.<\/p>\n
Dr Sanak Mishra then gave a brief introduction of the Chief Guest, Mr. TV Narendran, FNAE, CEO and Managing Director, Tata Steel Ltd and invited him to deliver the Inaugural Address. Mr TV Narendran delivered an enlightening address on the topic \u201cEngineering Innovations in Industry\u201d. The Inaugural Session concluded with the Vote of Thanks proposed by Dr Pradip, Vice-President, INAE and Chairman, Annual Convention Organizing Committee.<\/p>\n
After the Inaugural Session, a small Quiz was held for the delegates in which interesting questions on INAE were read out by the compere and answers were revealed after giving time for the delegates to submit their answers. The names of the delegates who answered the questions correctly were displayed at the end of the day after the Grand Award Function. The Grand Award function commenced at 2PM during which the various awards instituted by the Academy were conferred. In the first part of the Grand Award Function, the Life Time Contribution Award in Engineering; Prof. Jai Krishna and Prof. SN Mitra Memorial Awards; Outstanding Teachers Award and Woman Engineer of the Year Award 2020 were conferred. The citations for the first part of the Grand Award Function were read out followed by acceptance speech by the awardees. The Life Time Contribution Awards in Engineering 2020 were conferred on Prof KA Padmanabhan and Dr TSR Prasada Rao.<\/p>\n