DR B R AMBEDKAR NATIONAL INSITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY JALANDHAR ... DR B R AMBEDKAR NATIONAL INSITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

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DR B R AMBEDKAR

NATIONAL INSITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

JALANDHAR-144011, India

Issue 1, March 2015

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Vision- To build a rich intellectual potential embedded with interdisciplinary knowledge, human values and professional ethics among the youth, aspirant of becoming engineers and technologists so that they contribute to society and create a niche for a successful career.

Mission- To become a leading and unique institution of higher learning, offering state-of- the-art education, research and training in engineering and technology to students who are able and eager to become change agents for the industrial and economic progress of the nation. To nurture and sustain an academic ambience conducive to the development and growth of committed professionals for sustainable development of the nation and to accomplish its integration into the global economy.

Compiled by Dr Vishal S Sharma, Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, sharmavs@nitj.ac.in

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Chairperson’s Profile

Rajiv Mehrotra

(Chairperson Board Of Governors, NIT Jalandhar)

Founder & Chairman, Shyam Telecommunications Group,

& Vihaan Networks Limited,

Gurgaon (Haryana)

Shri Rajiv Mehrotra has taken over as Chairperson Board Of Governors, Dr B R Ambedkar NIT,

Jalandhar, on December 2014.Rajiv Mehrotra, a veteran of the telecom industry, is the Founder

and Chairman of the Shyam Group of companies. In 1974, as a young electronics engineer, Rajiv

pioneered the manufacture of low cost satellite TV equipment that brought cable TV to millions

of village homes in India. Inspired by this revolution, he took telecom to the masses by installing

wireless telephones in over 100,000 Indian villages. He went on to launch Shyam Telecom, the

flagship of the Shyam Group and now a leading name worldwide for mobile coverage solutions.

Hexacom (now Bharti Hexacom) was launched by Rajiv in the 1990’s to provide GSM services

in Rajasthan, the largest state in India. Mr. Mehrotra is also the founder of Shyam Telelink

Limited (now Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd.), one of the first operators in the world to deploy

CDMA technology for fixed wireless services. His efforts established Essel Shyam as the leading

name in VSAT services in India. Rajiv founded VNL (Vihaan Networks Ltd.) in 2004. VNL is

based on his vision to take telecom to the next frontier – connecting the billions of unconnected

across the world. He sees VNL as a catalyst in the transformation of rural communities through

telecom. His vision and wealth of experience, combined with his far-reaching contacts in the

telecom industry, makes him the ideal leader for the company.

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Director’s Profile

Prof I K Bhat

Director, NIT Jalandhar

Prof Inder Krishen Bhat born in Srinagar received his BE(Hons) degree in Mechanical

Engineering in 1975 from Kashmir University, and MTech and PhD from IIT, Kanpur in 1982

and 1986 respectively. He specializes in Materials Characterization. His current interests are

Material Science, and Academic Administration. He served in the Public Works Department of

J&K State two years before joining REC, Srinagar in 1978. He served in the capacity of Lecturer

and Reader at Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow during 1986 to 1994. He

joined Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College, Allahabad (MNNIT - Allahabad) as

Professor in 1994. He has held many positions of responsibility at different levels in academic

nstitutions. He has guided many PhD dissertations and several MTech thesis. He has published

over 100 articles in Journals, Conferences and Seminars. Dr Bhat has delivered over more than

150 invited lectures in different institutions and organizations. He is considered as an authority

on Quality of Technical Education and Teaching Pedagogy in the country. Dr Bhat served All

India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi as Advisor-1 during June, 1999 to June, 2002.

He served the National Board of Accreditation in his capacity as Member- Secretary (NBA). Dr

Bhat headed the Quality Assurance Bureau and has been actively involved in Quality Assurance

movement of Technical Institutions in the country. He has been chosen as a Resource-person on

Accreditation by Colombo Plan Countries. He has been the initiator of Asian Accreditation

Accord. Dr Bhat served as Director of NIT Hamirpur from 2005 to 2010, and initiated several

reforms. Prof. Bhat has been on the Board of Governors of four Regional Engineering Colleges,

BITS Pilani, IIIT Allahabad, KNIT Sultanpur, and many self-financing institutions in the

country. He is on the Advisory Board of several other institutions in the country. He is a Fellow

member of Institution of Engineers (India), founder member of Indo-US Collaborative

Engineering Education and a Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education. Dr Bhat is

Director of MNIT Jaipur, Rajasthan from 2011 to till date. Where many of the initiatives were

towards building a better infrastructure, better academic environment & ambiance, and providing

quality extension activities at MNIT Jaipur. He served as Director of NIT Delhi from March

2013 to Sept 2013. Dr Bhat was Founder Director of IIIT Kota 2013 to till date. Dr Bhat served

as Chairman of CCMT for three years. He served the Chairman position of CSAB in 2014 and

CSAB NEUT in 2014. Currently Dr Bhat is Director of NIT Jalandhar since Jan, 2015.

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Workshops/

Conferences/ Short-

term courses/

Training programs

conducted

 One-Week Industrial-Institute Interaction training program on

“Emerging Trends of Research in

Electronics and Communication” was

organized by Department of Electronics

and Communication Engineering from

1 st Dec to 5

th Dec 2014. The experts were

from different industries like SCL Mohali,

Cadre Design Systems, Delhi, Advance

Tech India Pvt.ltd, COREL Technologies,

BIOPAC India, Techlabs Delhi, etc. are

invited for sharing new avenues of

research in the emerging fields of

electronics and holding hand-on sessions

during training program. The chief

coordinators were Dr BS Saini, Dr

Balwinder Raj and Coordinators Dr Indu

Saini, Dr Neetu Sood. The training

program was funded by TEQIP-II.

 A self-financed Two-day’s workshop on “Introduction to Matlab”

was organized by Department of

Electronics and Communication

Engineering for UG and PG students of

various departments from 23-24 Aug.,

2014. The total participants were 84 from

different departments of NIT Jalandhar.

The Coordinators were Dr. B. S. Saini and

Dr. Balwinder Raj.

 TEQIP-II Sponsored Short Term Course on “Recent Trends in

Instrumentation and Control Engineering

(RTICE-2014)” held on December 08-12,

2014 organized by Department of

Instrumentation and Control

Engineering, Dr B R Ambedkar National

Institute of Technology, Jalandhar.

(Coordinators: Dr A K Jain and Dr

Kuldeep Singh Nangla).

 Short Term Course on Simulation

Short Term Course on CAD/CAM

Software’s Swansoft CNC Simulator by

Department of Industrial and

Production Engineering.  Short Term Course on CAM and Solid Work from Aug 18-09-2014 to 22-

09-2014 by Department of Industrial

and Production Engineering.  Short Term Course on CAD/CAM and Pro/E Software from September 22

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2014 to September 27th 2014 by

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Department of Industrial and

Production Engineering.

 Department of Chemistry organized short term course in “Frontiers

in Chemical Science and Technology”

from December 08-14, 2014.

 Technology Transfer Event & One Day Workshop on the Filter Media

Characterization by Department of

Textile Engineering. It was organized at

NIT Jalandhar on December 15, 2014. NIT

Jalandhar has transferred the right of

manufacturing of test rigs (for

characterizing filter media used for

pollution control in industries) to Kanwal

Enterprises, Gurgaon, Hr.). These test rigs,

viz. a viz. pulse-jet filtration test rig and

industrial filtration rigs have been

developed through a project supported by

Instrumentation Development Programme

(IDP) under Department of Science &

Technology (DST), Government of India.

Pulse-jet filtration test rig

The cost involved of this research project

was Rs 52.28 lacs. The development will

help textile and environmental

technologists, researchers, practicing

engineers and technologists, industry

personnel, and filter unit manufacturers

and consultan