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“THE BEST WAY TO SERVE GODIS TO SERVE MANKIND”

National Service Scheme (NSS), an integral part of IITRoorkee, with a volunteer strength of about seven hundredstudents has been consistently and sincerely workingtowards the upliftment of the weaker sections of thesociety and helping out the needy and those in distress bycarrying out blood donation camps, cloth collection drivesand different surveys throughout the year to examine theliving conditions of the people residing in the villages ofnearby areas around the campus. The volunteers from all

summary of the treatment received by the patients in asfollows:

Hemraj 2 Crutches + Lower kneeprosthesis for left lag

Vikas Ghawari 1 Caliper +shoesNazia 1 Caliper +shoesSushma 1 Caliper +shoesAakash Patel 1 Caliper +shoes

It was an unforgettable experience to see the happinesson their face for getting those assistances with the help ofwhich they can cross the hurdles of their physical disability.

Agroup photo with patients at the end of the activity:-

TEAM MEMBERS:1. Dr. Smita Jha, Assistant Professor, Department of

HSS, IIT, Roorkee.2. Mr.Abhishek Choudhary, B.Tech, 3 Year EED3. Ms. Suribhi Jain, B.Tech, 3 Year, CSE4. Ms. Neha Singh, 3 Year, Chem. Engg.5. Mr. Pavan, 3 Year, Integ. GLT6. Mr. Prashant Verma,3 Year, ECE7. Mr. Mukesh Meena,3 Year, MSc(MATHS)8. Mr. Raghvendra, 3 Year EED9. Mr. Rahul Meena, 2 Year, Civil Engg.

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around the campus have been actively working with theselfless feeling; “NOT FOR ME BUT FOR THE NATION”pouring from their hearts. This year it was for the first timeNSS volunteers took up a different step and assisted thehandicapped poor people in getting proper treatment andthus giving them the perfect opportunity to start living theirlives again with fresh enthusiasm.

Although for the last one year there has been no reportof new polio cases in India, yet the last few decades alarge number of people have suffered from this disease.Most of them, unfortunately, are not aware of the medicalfacilities available in India. NSS volunteers, while visitingthe nearby villages of Roorkee, noticed the suffering andhelplessness of such handicapped, realized the immensepotential in them and took an initiative to spreadawareness about these facilities. The RT EDUSLUM cellof NSS IIT Roorkee conducted a medical survey inBhangedi and Khanjarpur villages to ascertain thenumber of physically challenged people and the type oftheir disability. The aim was to provide them with relevantmedical facilities required for overcoming their disability.

The survey at Bhangedi village revealed that nearly70 people were physically challenged. Out of them 9 weresuffering from Polio, five from deformed leg bones andankle bones, 8 persons from foot problems, and around18 people suffered from other limb problems, includinglimb damage, fracture, bent hand, polio in their arms andhand shrinkage. Also, among the population of physicallychallenged people in Bhangedi are those, who aresuffering from paralysis and acute back problems. Thepeople suffering from the aforementioned problems are inurgent need of wheelchairs, crutches, artificial limbs andother such contraptions. Moving over to Khanjarpurvillage, 44 physically challenged people were found. Fourof them were disabled by polio, 4 others were paralyzed,and quite a few had foot and limb related problemsincluding unbalanced legs and crippled legs.

As an initial venture, the cases of amputees and ofpeople suffering from polio were taken. Organizationsworking to provide medical facilities to these people werefound out. Finally, Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang SahayataSamiti (BMVSS) agreed upon providing the necessaryhelp. BMVSS works for the physical and socio-economicrehabilitation of the physically disabled, specially theresource-less, so that they may lead a life of dignity andbecome productive members of the community. The Headof the BMVSS, New Delhi, Mr. Sanjeev Kumar wasconsulted and requested to treat the patients of nearbyvillages of Roorkee. After receiving a positive responseand great words of appreciation from him, five patientswere taken on March 5, 2012 along with one attendantwith them to Delhi by the volunteers. NSS Program officerDr. Smita Jha and IIT Roorkee administration gave itsworthy support in organizing the trip comfortably. A brief

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Prof. M. P. Singh, Lecture on Dec. 19, 2011

Prof. Mahendra Pal Singh, Preston Wade Professor,Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, U.S.A. delivered a lectureon "Civil Infrastructure Health Monitoring: Challengesand Research Trends", at the Department ofEarthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee onDecember 19, 2011. The lecture was attended by alarge audience comprising of faculty members andstudents from Departments of Earthquake Engineeringand Civil Engineering, participants of a short-termcourse in Civil Engineering and scientists from theCentral Building Research Institute, Roorkee. Prof.Pradipta Banerji, Director, IIT Roorkee presided overthe lecture presentation.

The lecture focused on vibration based systemidentification for the purpose of structural healthmonitoring. New approaches for damage detection inlarge structural systems based on the application ofhigh pass filtering and adaptive Kalman filtering wasdiscussed followed by some illustrative examples. Theimportant issue of modeling environmental effects inthe prognosis of damage was highlighted and a methodbased on time series analysis to model seasonalvariations in natural frequencies of structural systemswas presented. The lecture was followed by a livelydiscussion.

A Road to RhodesThe Deaprtment of Chemistry

feels proud to be the alma mater ofone of the eighty-three Rhodesscholars elected from all aroundthe world. Mr. Amit Kumar, a finalyear student of 5 year IntegratedM.Sc.(chemistry) program hasbeen awarded the Rhodesscholarship to carry out his Doctoral research in theOxford University.

Established in 1903 under the will of Cecil Rhodes,this scholarship was the first large-scale programme ofinternational , and is widely considered asthe world's most prestigious scholarship by manypublic sources such as , ,

, and the . Frombeginning the Rhodes scholars have made theirsignificant contributions to this world playing importantroles being Heads of state and national government,Nobel Laureates, Judges of nation's highest courts andOlympians. Bill Clinton from USA, Montek SinghAhluwalia and Girish Karnad from India are just fewfrom the long remarkable list of Rhodes scholars. Manycongratulations to Mr. Kumar for winning thisprestigious award and best wishes for his futureendeavors.

scholarships

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Retirement1. Dr. Y.K. Gupta, Professor, Dept. of Mathematics2. Dr. S. Ray, Professor, Dept. of Metaullurgical & Material3. Dr. D.K. Srivastava, Professor, Dept. of Hydrology4. Sri Sukhpal Singh, Junior Superintendent, Chemical Engineering5. Sri C.N. Tyagi, Senior Technical Supdt., Estate & Works6. Sri V.K. Verma, JuniorAssistant, WRD & M7. Sri Krishan Kumar, Junior Superintendent, Institute Computer Center8. Sri Vijay Singh, SeniorAttendant, Chemical Engineering9. Sri Dharam Pal Singh, SeniorAttendant, Met. & Materials Engg.

Consultancy Projectsw.e.f. 26.2.2012 to 25.3.2012

w.e.f. 26.3.2012 to 25.4.2012

Department Total Number Total Outlayof Project (Rs. in Lacs.)

Total 70 400.90

Department Total Number Total Outlayof Project (Rs. in Lacs.)

Total 48 237.56

AHEC 10 65.40Civil Engg. 41 197.90Deptt. of Paper Technology 1 4.00Electrical Engg. 1 0.30Earthquake Engg. 9 102.00Earth Sciences 2 12.25Mech. & Ind. Engg. 3 9.25WRD&M 3 9.80

AHEC 5 111.00Civil Engg. 29 57.60Electrical Engg. 1 3.31Earthquake Engg. 4 19.20Hydrology 3 5.75Mathematics 1 14.22Mech. & Ind. Engg. 4 7.98WRD&M 1 18.50

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Dr. B.R. Gurjar, Associate Professor, Civil Engg. Dept.:chaired a session on "Long-term variation and futureprojections in Asian emissions" during ThirdInternational Workshop on Emission Inventory in Asiaheld from Feb. 24-25, 2012 in Yokohama, Japan.delivered an Invited Talk on "Environmental Issues ofTransport Sector with a Special Emphasis on VehicularEmissions and Ambient Air Quality" during NationalWorkshop on "Transportation Challenges -- 2022 andR & D Needs" held on March 02, 2012 at CRRI, NewDelhi.delivered an Invited Talk on "Emissions,Air Quality andHealth Risks in South Asian Megacities" during MPG-DST Workshop on Atmospheric Chemistry in SouthAsia held on March 5-6, 2012 at IISER Mohali, Punjab.

Prof Pashupati Jha, Department of Humanities & SocialScience :

delivered the key-note address on "Need and Scopefor Humanities and Social Sciences in TechnicalEducation" at an International Seminar organized bySRM University, NCR Campus, Modinagar on March16, 2012.gave an invited plenary talk on "Catharsis in LiteraryConfessions" and Chaired an academic session at anational seminar on Catharsis at Lingaya's University,Faridabad on Feb.4, 2012.delivered an invited plenary lecture on "Creativity,Translation, and Trans-creation" at a UGC and ICSSRsponsored seminar at Dehradun on March 18, 2012.

Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Prof.; Santosh R. Desai, Researchscholar; K. P. Guruswamy, Research scholar EED andGovardhan, Research scholar, EQD jointly presented apaper entitled, “System Order Reduction Using Big BangBig Crunch Optimization”, at the International Conferenceon Information, Knowledge & Research in EngineeringTechnology & Sciences-2012(ICIKR-ETS-2012) held at G.K. Bharad Institute of Engineering, Rajkot, Gujarat (India)during 24-25 March 2012.Dr. Binod Mishra,Assistant Professor, Department of HSS- invited as Guest Speaker in International Conference on

Role and Responsibilities of Humanities and SocialSciences in Technical Education, 16-17 March,2012,SRM University, Modinagar,U.P. He delivered a lectureon “Using Language for Functional Purposes in aTechnical World.”

- invited as Resource Person in Two-Day NAACsponsored Seminar on Promotion and Sharing of BestPractices in Quality Assurance organized by the InternalAssurance, TBAK College for Women, Kilakarai,Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu Cell on 30 & 31 March2012. He delivered a lecture entitled “QualitySustenance in Teaching Learning Process”.

- invited as a Panelist in National Conference onContemporary Issues in Post-Independence IndianEnglish Fiction, Marudhar Engineering College, Bikaner,Rajasthan, on 20- 21April, 2012.

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Dr. Ravi Sankar Jakka, Asst. Professor, EarthquakeEngineering Department has presented a paper on"Earthquake-Induced Landslide Risk Assessment" in the,"National Conference and Field Study on LandslideManagement" organized by National Institute of DisasterManagement (NIDM), during March 22-24, 2012 at Nainital.Dr Pushparaj Mani Pathak,Asstt. Professor, MIED- presented a paper entitled Bond Graph Modelling of In

vivo Robot for Biopsy at 7th Vienna Conference onMathematical Modelling, during February 14-17, 2012 atVienna University of Technology, Vienna (Austria)

- delivered an invited lecture on Bond Graph Modeling andControl of Rigid and Flexible Legged Walking Robots atDRDO, R&DE(Engrs), Pune Golden Jubilee Celebrationsfrom 20th-21st January, 2012.

Dr Durga Toshniwal, Assistant Professor, Dept of Electronics& Computer Engg. attended the 4th International JointConference on Information and Communication Technology(IJcICT 2012) held during Jan. 8-9, 2012 at Bhubaneswarand presented the research paper entitled, " Parallelizationof Hierarchical Text Clustering on Multi-core CUDAArchitecture," and also received the best paper award for it.Dr. Rajat Rastogi, Assistant Professor in Department of CivilEngineering- delivered an invited lecture in National Symposium on

‘Designing Roads for Disabled pedestrians in India’organized by The Society for Disability and RehabilitationStudies (SDRS), New Delhi on March 1-4, 2012. The topicwas 'Parametric studies on Pedestrian Speeds atmidblock crossings'.

- delivered an invited lecture in half-day workshop on‘Planning for Pedestrian Mobility and Safety’ held inDepartment of Civil Engineering at IISc Bangalore onMarch 24, 2012. The topic was 'Pedestrian Mobility andSafety - Issues and Design Improvements'.

Dr. R. Balasubramanian, Assistant Professor, Department ofMathematics, Presented a paper entitled “RecognizingHuman Gestures Using a Novel SVM Tree”, in IS&T/SPIEsymposium on Electronics Imaging, Conference On ImageProcessing: Machine Vision Application V – 2012, held atSan Francisco, California, USA during January 22-26, 2012.He has also visited Stanford University, California to have atechnical discussion with Dr. Daniel L. Rubin, MD, MS,Assistant Professor of Radiology and Medicine (BiomedicalInformatics) on "Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) forDecision Support".Dr Anindya Jayanta Mishra of Humanities and SocialSciences was invited to deliver two talks at the First WorldCongress of Healthy Ageing, jointly organised by MalaysianHealthy Ageing Society and World Health Organisation heldat Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia from 19th to 22nd March 2012.- First Invited talk at the Lunch Symposium on 19th March

2012: Theme of the talk: Health, Social Policy and Ageingin Indian Context

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Placement ActivitiesA total of 144 companies including 37 new have visited the

campus for recruitment. These include Facebook, PayPal, eBayIndia Pvt. Ltd., Airbus Engineering Centre India, Flipkart OnlineServices Pvt .Ltd., Snapdeal.com, Oceaneering InternationalServices Limited, Ericsson India Global Service Pvt. Ltd., MishraDhatu Nigam Limited (MIDHANI), Star Agri-warehousing &Collateral Management, Agnity India Technologies Pvt. Ltd.,Tribal Fusion R&D Pvt. Ltd., Chambal Fertilisers and ChemicalsLtd., Xilinx India Technology Services Pvt Ltd., ValyooTechnologies (P) Ltd., Choice Solutions Limited, MECON Ltd.,Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited (MIDHANI), Bank of India etc. Inaddition, on the request of students, a few academic institutionshave also visited our campus for their faculty recruitmentprogramme.

A summary of the placement statistics of the Institute for theperiod December 1 , 2011 to March 15 , 2012 is provided in thefollowing table:

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Sponsored Research Projectsw.e.f. 26.2.2012 to 25.3.2012

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Department Total Number Total Outlayof Project (Rs. in Lacs)

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Department Total Number Total Outlayof Project (Rs. in Lacs)

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Biotechnology 1 1.90Civil Engg. 3 85.31Chemical Engg. 1 26.58

1 39.10Earth Sciences 1 24.33Mathematics 1 9.81

Chemistry 1 24.72Chemical Engg. 1 8.51

1 2.46E & C Engg. 1 42.40Earthquake Engg. 1 120.46Hydrology 1 94.00

Disaster Mitigation & Management

Disaster Mitigation & Management

Jai Krishna birth centenary celebrations

The birth centenary of Late Dr. Jai Krishna, a greatvisionary, academic administrator and an eminentearthquake engineer was celebrated on Feb 14, 2012.Prof. Jai Krishna was born on Feb 14, 1912. Thecelebrations included tribute paid by Prof. H. R. Wasonfollowed by reminiscence by many of the facultymembers including retired faculty members.A technicalquiz was held on earthquake engineering by thestudents of the department. The panel discussions onvarious aspects of earthquake engineering were held inwhich the past and future of earthquake engineeringwas deliberated. The web site of Indian Society ofEarthquake Technology was launched by Prof. PremKrishna during the centenary celebrations.

- 2nd Invited talk at the Plenary Session on 22nd March2012 : Theme of the talk: Investment in Health as GoodEconomic Policy for 21st century active ageing

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Dr. G.P. Chaudhari of Metallurgical and MaterialsEngineering Department presented two research paperstitled “Ultrasonically processed AS41 magnesium alloymatrix composites “ and “Synergy of cavitation and slurryerosion in the slurry pot tester “ at TMS2012, 141 AnnualMeeting and Exhibition at Orlando, Florida, USA heldbetween 11-15 March 2012. His PhD student Dr. AdityaKumar Padap also presented a research paper titled“Microstructural evolution and mechanical behavior ofwarm multi-axially forged HSLA steel” based on his PhDwork at the same conference.Sh. Yogendra Singh, Librarian- participated as UGC Nominee in the Review

Committee Meeting of UGC-SAP (2011-16) of thedepartment of Library and Information Science(University of Kashmir) on 13th March, 2012.

- chaired a session in the National Seminar on"Emerging Frontiers in Digital Libraries" EFDL-I during13-14 March, 2012 held at University of Kashmir,Srinagar.

- delivered a talk on "E-journals: Characteristics,Economics and Politics" in the National TrainingCourse on "Innovative E-resources Management" atINMAS during 26-30 March, 2012.

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Report on Blood Donation Camp

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A voluntary blood donation camp was conducted byNSS, IIT,Roorkee, on 18 March, 2012, at the institutehospital. It started at 8:30 am, with Deputy Director, Dr.D.K. Paul cutting the ribbon in the presence of DeanStudents' Welfare Prof. S N Sinha. Program coordinatorProf. Anjan Sil, Program officers, Dr. Smita Jha, Dr.Jayganthan and Dr. D.N.Pandey were presentthroughout the event. The blood banks of IMA, Dehradun(Uttrakhand) and Himalayan Institute, Dehradun,participated in the event and made the event successful.

Extensive publicity of the event was done by theenthusiastic volunteers of NSS. Getting motivated by thevolunteers a large number of students and manyprofessors came forward to donate their blood. Theprocess for donation was quite scientific and taken underthe guidance of experienced doctors. There were fourmain stages through which a donor had to go through.First, they had to fill up a registration form. Next had toundergo the primary & secondary screening procedure.The purpose of these tests was to ensure that the donor'sweight should be above 45 kgs and the level ofhemoglobin should be more than12.5 mg. Donationstook place in a well- organized manner wherein a warmand pleasant environment was maintained for thedonors. After donating blood, donors were provided withrefreshments, gifts and a Certificate of appreciation,acknowledging their precious contribution to the society.Donating blood proved to be an elevating experience forthe donors – an experience that felt like bestowing life!

By noon the blood count soared to 250 units, whichwas fortified by Dr.Smita Jha visiting every hostel messduring lunch hours and inspiring students to contribute tothis noble cause. The event ended at 5:30 pm bringing asmile of satisfaction of saving lives on everyone's face. Ajaw dropping number of 582 units were collected by theend of the day. As compassion floated around everyniche of the place, needless to say, the event turned outto be a great success.And yet another event ascertainedthe NSS motto

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Dr Durga Toshniwal, Assistant Professor, Dept ofElectronics & Computer Engg., was invited by IBMUniversity Relations to deliver a webinar (on-lineeducational session) entitled “Time Series Data Mining– Techniques & Challenges,” as part of the prestigiousIBM Special Experts Webinar Series of 2012 on March26th, 2012.Ms. Shweta Bansal, M. Tech Geomatics, Departmentof Civil Engineering bagged the "Best PaperAward" forthe research paper entitled "RX Algorithm for AnomolyDetection for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Images"(also coauthored by Prof. Manoj Arora, Department ofCivil Engg. and Dr. R. Balasubramanian Department ofMathematics) in anAll India Seminar onApplications ofImaging, Visualization and Optimization Technologies,held in Institute of Engineers, Dehradun, INDIA duringMarch 2-3, 2012.Dr. M.L. Deval, Associate Professor, EED receivedCertificate of Award for the Best Paper entitled“Segmentation of Mitral Regurgitant Jet UsingThe Combination of Wavelet and WatershedTransformation” at the IEEE 8th InternationalColloquium on Signal Processign & Its Application(CSPA 2012) organized by IEEE CSS MalaysiaChapter & IEEE Malaysia Section, March 23-25, 2012.

Prof Pashupati Jha

Prof S.S. Jain,

of HSS Dept. has beenunanimously nominated as the President of 57th AllIndia English Teachers Conference, 2012 by theAssociation for English Studies of India.

has been nominated by Council ofIndian Roads Congress- Member of the “Flexible Pavement Committee (H-

2)” for next Three Years i.e. January 1, 2012 toDecember 31, 2014.

- Member of the “Core Group of Highway ResearchBoard” for next Three Years i.e. January 1, 2012 toDecember 31, 2014.

Sh. Yogendra Singh, Librarian was invited as Guestof Honour at the time of inauguration of RashtriyaPustak Mela organized by National Book Trust,Govt. of India at Roorkee.