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INAE Annual Convention 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

The Annual Convention of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) was held on Dec 15-17, 2017 TCS, SIPCOT IT Park, Siruseri, Chennai. The Convention commenced with the Inaugural Session on Dec 15, 2017 during which Mr. K Ananth Krishnan, Executive Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer, TCS, Chennai delivered the Welcome Address. This was followed by the Presidential Address by Dr BN Suresh, President, INAE. The highlight of the event was the Address by the Chief Guest, Mr. N Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons, Mumbai who with his enlightening and inspiring words enthralled the august audience comprising of Fellows of INAE, awardees, special invitees and delegates from TCS, Chennai. The Key-note Address was delivered by Mr. Rajesh Gopinathan, CEO, TCS which was followed by the Special Induction Ceremony of INAE Fellows from Industry by Dr. BN Suresh, President, INAE for those Fellows who could not be present at the Annual General Body meeting due to their pressing engagements. The citations were read out by Prof. Indranil Manna, Vice-President, INAE. A new interactive and user friendly INAE website was launched by Mr. N Chandrasekaran and Dr. BN Suresh at the end of the Inaugural Session. The Vote of Thanks was proposed by Brig Rajan Minocha, Executive Director, INAE.<\/p>\n

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 15-16, 2017. The list of the technical presentations by Fellows and Young Engineers are given below.<\/p>\n

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<\/div>[vc_column_text]Presentations by Newly Elected Fellows on Dec 15-16, 2017<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Dr. Jayanta Chattopadhyay<\/td>\nFull scale component to miniature specimen tests and analysis \u2013 Some research findings on material and fracture mechanics issues<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prof. Ashok M Raichur<\/td>\nTowards development of better therapeutic delivery systems using engineered nanostructured materials<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mr. P Kunhikrishnan<\/td>\nLaunch Complex System \u2013 The Way Forward<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prof. CS Desai<\/td>\nMechanics, Physics and Philosophy of Materials: Constitutive Modeling with the Disturbed State Concept (DSC)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prof.\u00a0 R Rengasamy<\/td>\nProcess Systems Engineering – A key to Many Locks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. SC Sharma<\/td>\nIndigenous Capacity Building for High Temperature Materials for Space<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. J Nayak<\/td>\nIndigenous Development and Commercialization of Fiber Optic Gyroscopes for Control and Navigation Applications- A Success Story<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prof. AR Mohanty<\/td>\nAcoustical Materials for Noise Control<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mr SK Soonee<\/td>\nChallenges of Evolving Indian Power Grid<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prof. Rangan Banerjee<\/td>\nModelling of Energy Systems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mr VVR Sastry<\/td>\nABCD Technologies for career growth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prof. Anil D Sahasrabudhe<\/td>\nTransformation of engineering education in India<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prof. Mahesh Kumar<\/td>\nRole of Microgrids in Current Energy Scenario of India and the World<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prof. Ravi Shankar<\/td>\nEngineering a supply chains for growth of our nation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prof. GA Kottantharayil<\/td>\nPerformance Losses in Photovoltaic Modules Operating in the Field<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mr. S Pandian<\/td>\nIndigenous design and development of state of the art industrial Hypersonic Wind Tunnel and Shock Tunnel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mr. JD Patil<\/td>\nContribution to development of Indigenous Defence Industry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prof. PK Tewari<\/td>\nLow Carbon Desalination and Water Purification<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prof. P P Mujumdar<\/td>\nUrban Floods : An Evolving Engineering Challenge<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prof. Ligy Philip<\/td>\nRemediation of Contaminated Water, Soil and Aquifers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Indranil Chattoraj<\/td>\nHydrogen effects in material degradation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Sriram K. Rajamani<\/td>\nDesigning Robust Software: From Theory To Practice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prof. Sunil Nath<\/td>\nAn Engineering Approach to Biology at the Molecular Level<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prof. Laxmidhar Behera<\/td>\nThe Robotic Intelligence – Challenges and Opportunities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Archana Sharma<\/td>\nIndigenous Development of Multi-Gigawatt Pulsed Power System and Applications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Akhilesh Gupta<\/td>\nClimate Change and Extreme Weather Events in India<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Manav Bhatnagar<\/td>\nFeedback-Based Free-Space Optical Communication<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prof. Hema A Murthy<\/td>\nThe importance of group delay functions in speech synthesis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/div>[vc_column_text]Presentations by INAE Young Engineer Awardees\/ INAE Innovator Entrepreneur Awardee on Dec 15-16, 2017<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Dr. Praveen Kumar<\/td>\nEffect of Electric Field on Time-Dependent and Time-Independent Mechanical Properties of CNT Forests<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mr. Naimesh R Patel<\/td>\nDesign and Development of Refocusing System For Indian High Resolution Imaging Satellites<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Supreet Saini<\/td>\nPredicting evolution of antibiotic resistance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mr. Tanuj Jhunjhunwala (INAE Innovator Entrep. Awardee)<\/strong><\/td>\nIndia\u2019s first Commercial and Indigenous Underwater Robotic inspection and Survey Solutions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Sandeep Anand<\/td>\nNon-invasive Techniques for Health Monitoring of Capacitor in Single Phase Solar Inverter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Aritra Hazra<\/td>\nLeveraging Formal Methods For Design Certification of Integrated Circuits: Beyond Functional Correctness<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Sushmee Badhulika<\/td>\nNanomaterials based low cost flexible and wearable electronics for healthcare<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Arpita Patra<\/td>\nMulti-party Computation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Poonam Kumari<\/td>\nThree-Dimensional Solutions for Hybrid laminates Subjected to Arbitrary Boundary Conditions using Extended Kantorovich Method<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Samaresh Das<\/td>\nSilicon Based Efficient Scalable Photodetectors and Gas Sensors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Award Function on Dec 15, 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

The Grand Award Ceremony was held on the evening of December 15, 2017. Five theses at Doctoral level, Five Theses at Master\u2019s Level and 10 Projects at Bachelor\u2019s Level were conferred the Innovative Student Projects Award. Ten nomineeswere conferred the INAE Young Engineer Award 2017. Dr. Mandava Mohana Rao and joint awardees Mr Tanuj Jhunjunwala and Dr Vinay Kumar were conferred the INAE Innovator Entrepreneur Awards 2017<\/p>\n

Prof Ganapati Panda and Prof S Narayanan were conferred the INAE Outstanding Teachers Award 2017<\/p>\n

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Prof Ganapati Panda being conferred the INAE Outstanding Teachers Award 2017 by Dr BN Suresh, President, INAE<\/p><\/div>\n

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Prof S Narayanan being conferred the INAE Outstanding Teachers Award 2017 by Dr BN Suresh, President, INAE<\/p><\/div>\n

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Prof K Chattopadhyay and Prof SC Dutta Roy were conferred the Prof Jai Krishna Memorial Award and Prof SN Mitra Memorial Award 2017 respectively<\/p>\n

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Prof K Chattopadhyay being conferred the Prof Jai Krishna Memorial Award 2017 by Dr BN Suresh, President, INAE<\/p><\/div>\n

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Prof SC Dutta Roy being conferred the Prof SN Mitra Memorial Award 2017 by Dr BN Suresh, President, INAE<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mr Azim Hasham Premji and Prof TK Ghose were conferred the Life Time Contribution Award in Engineering 2017. However, both awardees could not attend the Award function for receiving the Award<\/p>\n

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Life Time Contribution Award in Engineering Awardees 2017<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sideline Meetings held on Dec 15-16, 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

A Round Table Discussion meeting of selected Fellows was held on Dec 15, 2017 at TCS chaired by Dr. PS Goel, Past-President, INAE during which a Concept Paper on \u201cOutcome of Engineer\u2019s Conclave\u201d and \u201c Make in India: How to make it happen\u201d were discussed and deliberated.<\/p>\n

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Plenary Talks<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Two enlightening Plenary talks were delivered during the INAE Annual Convention 2017. The First Plenary Talk was delivered by Padma Vibhushan Sangita Kalanidhi Dr Umayalpuram K Sivaraman on \u201cVoyage of Mrudangam\u201d who also gave a brief demonstration on the Mrudangam. The Second Plenary Talk was delivered by Shri S Somanath, Director, LPSC, Trivandrum on \u201cEngineering Challenges in Development of High Thrust Cryogenic Engine\u201d<\/p>\n

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Special Talk<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

A Special Talk was delivered by Mr. K Ananth Krishnan, Executive Vice-President & CTO, TCS on \u201cTCS Research and Innovation Highlights\u201d on Dec 15, 2017 wherein he gave a brief overview of the research and innovation activities undertaken by TCS, Chennai.<\/p>\n

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Cultural Programme<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

There was an entertaining musical cultural programme on Dec 15, 2017 during which engineers of TCS sang entertaining songs and played instrumental music which was appreciated by all.<\/p>\n

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Industry Session<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

An Industry Session was held on Dec 16, 2017 which featured Lectures by winners of INAE Innovator Entrepreneur Award as under<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Dr. Vinay Kumar<\/td>\nNext Generation Bio-sensing for Diabetes, Chronic Kidney Disease, Anaemia & Malnutrition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Mandava Mohana Rao<\/td>\nDesign and Development of 420 kV Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Sideline Meetings of INAE Forums<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

The meetings of the INAE Forum on Energy Chaired by Dr Ajay Mathur and Forum on Engineering education, chaired by Prof Prem Vrat were held on Dec 16, 2017 on the sidelines of the INAE Annual Convention. The meetings were attended by the Members of the Forums and the special invitees.<\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Annual Convention of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) was held on Dec 15-17, 2017 TCS, SIPCOT IT Park, Siruseri, Chennai. The Convention commenced with the Inaugural Session on Dec 15, 2017 during which Mr. K Ananth Krishnan, Executive Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer, TCS, Chennai delivered the Welcome Address. This was followed by the Presidential Address<\/p>\n

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