The Mind of an Engineer: Volume 2

Purnendu GhoshEditor

The Mind of an Engineer:Volume 2

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EditorPurnendu GhoshThe Executive DirectorBirla Institute of Scientific ResearchJaipur, Rajasthan, India

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Preface

The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) advocates, encourages andpractises excellence in all its endeavours concerning engineering, technology andrelated sciences to meet the challenges of national importance and of global con-cern. Its activities include the formulation of technology policies, promotion ofquality engineering education and prioritizing R&D activities. The INAE representsIndia at the International Council of Academies of Engineering and TechnologicalSciences (CAETS).

The book, The Mind of an Engineer, an initiative of the INAE, published in theyear 2016 attempted to share the personal experiences of some of the Fellows of theINAE while they pursued their careers in science, technology and engineering. Thebook dealt with the reminiscences, eureka moments, inspirations, challenges andopportunities in the journey of the professionals towards their achievements andintrospection.

The positive response we received on the book encouraged us to bring out asequel to the book. The Mind of an Engineer: Volume 2 covers diverse subjects thatdepict the beauty and the diversity of the mind of an engineer. This volume includesarticles dealing with some important areas such as the academia’s approach toprofessional challenges, the concept of Make in India, the experiences of workingin public sector industries, innovative leadership and governance challenges invarious engineering sectors without losing sight of personal involvements andapproaches.

We believe that the mind of a creative engineer is a special entity. It is designedfor fluid and methodical thinking. It has the ability to make meaningful associationsand to discern the relatedness of various engineering components. It can see thingsin new perspectives. It has the ability to control the flight of ideas and has the abilityto discriminate, differentiate and evolve a sense of cohesion. It may, however attimes, suffer from swings of mood, but know how to navigate in the tides of theseswings. The meaningful and constructive mind of an engineer works in the contextof the human needs, orientations, experiences, emotions and consciousness. Theworld of engineering has changed and is changing fast. A new mind is evolving to

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deal with this world. Thus, a creative, responsive and ethical engineer becomeseven more important in the twenty-first century.

This book would not have been possible without the substantial initiative andconstant encouragement of (Late) Dr. Baldev Raj, the past President of INAE. Theuntimely and sudden passing away of Brig. Rajan Minocha, Executive Directorof the INAE, is deeply condoled. It is most unfortunate that none of them could seethe second volume in print.

We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of Dr. Sanak Mishra, Presidentof the INAE, and Dr. B. N. Suresh, immediate past President of the INAE, forbringing out the volume. We are grateful to the Editorial Board of the INAE and theFellow colleagues of the INAE, who have made unique and valuable contributions,and offered useful suggestions towards the publication of compendium. We thankthem most sincerely. The expertise, views and perspectives of the contributors, wehope, will be meaningful to, and inspiring for the engineers, particularly the youngprofessionals.

We gratefully acknowledge the editorial support of Dr. Subimal Sinha-Roy ofBirla Institute of Scientific Research (BISR), Dr. Geetanjali Sawhney of INAE andMs. Swati Meherishi of Springer Nature. We acknowledge the editorial assistanceof Mr. Radhakishan Meghwanshi and Mr. P. K. Manoharan of BISR in bringing outthis volume.

We look forward to receiving your considered views and perspectives regardingthe usefulness and topicality of this book series. Your response and suggestions willbe our guiding force to motivate and encourage us to bring out the future volumesof The Mind of an Engineer.

Jaipur, India Purnendu Ghosh

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Contents

Harnessing Science and Technology for Development: A GovernanceChallenge in Indian Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Anil Kakodkar

My Tryst with Destiny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9R. K. Bhandari

An Academic’s Approach to Professional Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Subhash Chander

Why Can’t We Do It Here? How Early Can Innovationand Entrepreneurship Be Taught? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27V. S. Ramamurthy

Engineering Education and Sustainable Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31R. Natarajan

Innovative Engineering and Leadership for AchievingNational Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Pradeep Chaturvedi

A Journey from a Remote Village to Capital of India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45S. Sreenivasa Murthy

Exciting Moments of Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Jayanta Mukhopadhyay

The ‘Making’ of the Mind of an Engineer—Some Thoughtson Engineering Education in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65A. K. Suresh

No Job Is Small or Big; It Is the Way in Which You Do MakesIt Small or Big . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75B. S. K. Naidu

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When I Look Back My Career at BARC… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83Manjit Singh

Engineers—Pre-eminent in Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85S. S. Chakraborty

Evolving Ideas of Teaching and Research in Engineering InstitutionsDuring My Journey in Academics Over Five Decades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91Bayya Yegnanarayana

An Engineer’s Prayer to the Blue Fairy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Srinivasan Ramani

Grassroot Innovation, Laboratory Experiments and Modeling:Case Study of Appropriate Technology Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109A. W. Date

Journey of an Engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119A. L. Chandraker

Challenges in My Journey Towards Achievements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127J. Krishnan

Nurturing Professionalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Anant V. Patki

Journey of a Teacher-Engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Ashok Jhunjhunwala

My Professional Life Experience: A Continuously RisingLearning Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Yogendra Pal Anand

Engineers’ Moral Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Paritosh C. Tyagi

Higher Technical Education in India: Need for New Initiatives . . . . . . . 157M. A. Pai

A Dream Comes True . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161T. K. Bera

Engineering the Human Mind and the External World . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167V. V. S. Sarma

An Academic’s Journey of Life Long Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185K. P. Madhavan

There Is Knowledge in Failure—If Followed by Root CauseAnalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193K. K. Vaze

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The Tale of an Engineer Teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Ranjit Kumar Ray

Academic Life at the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore, India)and Thenceforward Some Reminiscences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219Y. V. Venkatesh

An Engineer—Academic Looks Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239Prem Krishna

Industrial Research—Academia—R&D Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247E. C. Subbarao

R&D in Indian PSUs: My Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257P. V. Ananda Mohan

Nurturing Engineering Talent in the Aerospace and Defence Sector . . . 263K. Venkataramanan

Underground Metro Construction, Development in India . . . . . . . . . . . 273Mangu Singh

To Fight Power-Cuts, Do Not Agitate. Install Rooftop Solar Panels . . . . 279Surjit Singh

Development of HVDC Transmission Technology in India . . . . . . . . . . 287K. R. Padiyar

Structural Integrity: A Technological Term Synonymouswith Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295B. Dattaguru

Necessity is the Mother of Innovation—An Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303A. Sanatkumar

Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

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Editor and Contributors

About the Editor

Purnendu Ghosh is the Executive Director of BirlaInstitute of Scientific Research, Jaipur. Prior to this hewas Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.He has held visiting positions at the Swiss FederalInstitute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland; Universityof Melbourne, Australia; and National Research Centrefor Biotechnology, Braunschweig, Germany. He hastaken a lead role in augmenting bioprocess engineeringand biotechnology activities in the country as a memberof several Task Forces of the Department of Biotech-nology, Government of India. He is the FounderPresident of Biological Engineering Society, and iscurrently the Vice President of Indian NationalAcademy of Engineering. He is the Founder Editor-in-chief of INAE Letters, a Springer-Nature publication.Besides technical publications, he has written severalbooks of different genre.

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Yogendra Pal Anand being selected for ‘IndianRailway Service of Engineers’, joined in May 1957as Assistant Engineer and worked in numerous posi-tions in ‘open line’, construction projects, R&D, asDivisional/Zonal Manager, and retired as Chairman,Railway Board. After retirement, he did short assign-ments with UNDP and AITD. He was first Chairman ofInternational Institute of Waste Management set-up atBhopal. He has been a member of INAE’s Study Groupon ‘Indian Engineering Heritage (Railways)’ (1996–2015), and of ‘Forum on Technology Foresight andManagement for Addressing National Challenges’(since 2012).

P. V. Ananda Mohan is Technology Advisor, CDAC,Bangalore and formerly General Manager andExecutive Director, ECIL, Bangalore. He has publishedfour books in the area of Residue Number Systems,Current-mode VLSI analogy Filters, VLSI analogueFilters, Switched-capacitor filters. He is a well-knownexpert in Cryptographic algorithm and System designfor the Indian Armed Forces. At present, he advisesCDAC on Cryptanalysis, Cloud Security, CryptosystemValidation, etc. He was elected Fellow of IEEE. He is arecipient of the Ram Lal Wadhwa Gold Medal awardby IETE and Indira Priyadarshini Award.

T. K. Bera joined as a Scientific Officer ‘C’ inchemical Technology division at Trombay, BARCworking on a development project for heavy isotopeseparation in the year 1977. After obtaining encourag-ing results on bench and pilot plant scale trials, he wasdeputed to a Greenfield project for setting up of atechnology demonstration-scale plant in 1986 andwas designated as a project manager during 2001.Subsequently, he was promoted as Project Director ofRMP and Associate Director of Chemical TechnologyGroup, BARC. After successful execution of the pro-ject and its phase-wise expansion, he was furtherpromoted as Director of Chemical Technology Group,BARC.

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R. K. Bhandari is a distinguished alumnus of IndianInstitute of Technology, Bombay, best known interna-tionally for his outstanding professional contributionsin the areas of landslide studies, disaster mitigation anddisaster education. He was the first to unravel thefundamental mechanism of low angled landslides,jointly with Legendary Prof. J. N. Hutchinson, FRSE.He is also the only Indian so far to have received thecoveted Varnes Medal, the highest International awardfor 2012 given at the UNESCO Headquarters in Parisfor excellence in landslide studies. The other awardsbestowed upon him include the Lifetime AchievementAward of the Quantum Campus, Omprakash BhasinAward, Kuekalmann Award of IGS and DisasterMitigation Award of the IIT, Roorkee. Currently, heis the Chairman of the Forum on Disaster Mitigationof the Indian National Academy of Engineering; aMember of the Advisory Committee of the NationalDisaster Management Authority and the Chairmanof the Indian Roads Congress Committee on DisasterMitigation.

S. S. Chakraborty Chairman, Second VivekanandaBridge Tollway Company Private Limited, ChairmanEmeritus, Consulting Engineering Services (India)Private Limited, is a preeminent engineering profes-sional, recognized in India and abroad, not the least asHonorary Member, International Association for Bridgeand Structural Engineering, Zurich. He has beenawarded the Institute Gold Medal—considered theEngineering Nobel—in 2007 by the Institute of CivilEngineers (UK), Life Time Achievement Award byINAE. The Second Hooghly Bridge and the NiveditaSetu attest to his innovative mind.

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Subhash Chander was formerly Professor, Depart-ment of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi. He madesignificant contributions in the areas of Modellingand Simulation of Hydrological Cycle and FloodForecasting. His research contributions led to theintroduction of Models in Real-Time Water ResourcesManagement. He developed time series of sub-basinsof the Krishna Basin to help the Krishna WaterDisputes Tribunal to allocate water between the states.

A. L. Chandraker joined Corporate Research andDevelopment Division of BHEL at Hyderabad asSenior Engineer in 1978 and rose to various posts suchas General Manager and Executive Director and UnitHead prior to retirement in 2009. During his career atBHEL, he developed a number of FEM and CFD basedsoftware for flow path analysis and blade design andfiled five patents in USA. He led teams for a successfuldesign of 8 MW high-speed impulse steam turbine andthe creation of Centre of Excellence for CFD.

Pradeep Chaturvedi Vice President, World Environ-ment Foundation, has been involved in sustainableenergy planning and energy project implementation inIndia and Asia Pacific region for four decades. He alsocoordinated the project establishing the first renewableenergy village in India. He was Member of IntegratedEnergy Planning Committee and has been on variousStudies Committees of the World Energy Council. Heis Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineeringand conferred a number of national and internationalawards. He has authored eight books and chaired anumber of International Studies on Energy.

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A. W. Date is Rahul Bajaj Chair Professor andEmeritus Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engi-neering, IIT Bombay. He has over 43 years ofTeaching/Research at IIT Bombay with short visitingassignments at Cornell University and UIUC, USA,University of Karlsruhe, Germany, City University,Hong Kong, Swiss Federal Institute, Zurich,Switzerland, and Academy of Development Science,Kashele, Raigad District, Maharashtra. His researchcontributions are in the areas of Convective Heat/MassTransfer Enhancement, Computational Fluid Dynamicsand Analytic Combustion.

B. Dattaguru worked as a teaching faculty at theDepartment Aerospace Engineering at the IndianInstitute of Science Bangalore between 1964–2004.He worked in the capacities of Chairman of AerospaceEngineering Department, Joint Advanced TechnologyProgramme and Scientific and Industrial Consultancy.Currently, he is a professor in the Jain Universitylocated in the suburbs of Bangalore. On sabbatical, heworked at NASA Langley, PENN State University,USA, and University of Geelong, Australia. He grad-uated 25 Ph.D. scholars and has been the author of200 scientific publications. He received several nationaland international awards including Padmashri (2005),Academic excellence award of DRDO (2002), RustomChoksi Award (2001) for excellence in EngineeringResearch from IISc, Lifetime awards from ICCES2014 (International Conference on Computational andExperimental Science) award in Changwon, SouthKorea, APCOM (Asian Pacific Congress on Computa-tional Mechanics) award in Sydney (2010) and from theSociety for Aerospace Technologies and Industries(2012), Bangalore.

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Ashok Jhunjhunwala is presently Principal Advisor,Minister of Power and New and Renewable Energy,Government of India, and Professor, IIT Madras(on sabbatical). He has made significant contributionsin the areas of Telecommunications, ComputerNetworks and Fibre Optics, Solar PV systems,Solar DC and UDC technologies, ICT based Educationand Health Care, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups andTechnology Incubation. His UDC project aims to enablea technique to provide 24X7 power supply to Indianhomes. He has been significantly contributing toEducation Reforms, Quality Enhancement, TechnologyIncubation, Industry-academia collaboration andTechnology Development. He has been Member ofKakodkar Committee for IITs, NIT and AICTE ReviewCommittee.

Anil Kakodkar served as Director BARC during1996–2000 and as Chairman Atomic Energy Commis-sion and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy,Government of India, during the years 2000–2009. Heplayed a key role in development and construction of100 MW research reactor Dhruva, development ofvarious systems for PHWRs, nuclear tests in Pokhran in1974 and 1998, rehabilitation of the two units atMadras Atomic Power Plant and conceptualisation of300 MWe Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR)besides significantly impacting every other aspect ofatomic energy programmes. He was President on INAEduring the years 1999 and 2000.

Prem Krishna after obtaining his Doctorate from theImperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine,London in 1964, joined the faculty of Civil Engineeringat the University of Roorkee in 1965 and retiredtherefrom in 1998. He also had teaching assignments atthe University of Illinois, Urbana, USA, and theImperial College London, UK, between 1968 and1970. He worked assiduously to develop the field ofWind Engineering in India from 1978 onwards,providing leadership in building capacity in terms ofhuman resources, facilities for testing, developing

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design support material, and, thus also placing thecountry squarely on the World Map of Wind Engi-neering. He served as the founder President of theIndian Society of Wind Engineering for seven yearsand also, President, International Association for WindEngineering (1991–95). He is well recognized as anexpert in the area of Structural analysis and design andspecialized in large-span steel and cable-supported roofand bridge structures. He served as Vice-President,INAE, from 2008 to 2013. IIT Roorkee honoured himwith the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2012.

J. Krishnan worked in BARC on various researchprojects; focused on metal joining and developedseveral welding techniques, dissimilar metal joints,special welding processes, viz. electron beam welding,diffusion bonding. After retirement, he worked as ChairProfessor at MS University Baroda and as a consultantin high-end welding.

K. P. Madhavan pioneered teaching and research inthe areas of Process Control and Process SystemsEngineering. At IIT Bombay, he had held positionsof the Heads of the Chemical Engineering Departmentand CAD Centre and Dean, R&D. He had also playedlead roles in setting up at IITB, the School ofManagement and School of Biosciences and Bio-Engineering. He had assisted a wide spectrum ofindustries in their R&D and technology developmentprogrammes.

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Jayanta Mukhopadhyay is a professor at theDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering,Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. His researchinterests are in image processing, digital geometry,computer graphics, robotics, bioinformatics and med-ical informatics. He received the Young ScientistAward from the Indian National Science Academy in1992. He was a Humboldt Research Fellow at theTechnical University Of Munich, Germany in 2002.

B. S. K. Naidu is the Founder Chairman and ChairmanEmeritus of Great Lakes Institute of Management,Gurugram. He is the former Director General ofNPTI and CPRI, Ministry of Power, Government ofIndia. He was Senior Advisor to Advanced Engi-neering Associates International (AEAI) Cambridge,Massachusetts. He was the first scholar from BHEL tohave been selected by the ‘Confederation of BritishIndustry’ to work with several industries in Europe forspecializing in Pumped Storage Power Plants. He haspublished 150 technical papers, 7 books and filed 10copyrights. He was the key person for the NationalTraining Policy for Power Sector, National PerspectivePlan for R&D in Indian Power Sector and NationalMaster-Plan for renovation and modernization ofentire country’s hydro-plants. He has received 20professional awards and honours in Engineering andManagement.

R. Natarajan has worked as a National ResearchCouncil Fellow in Canada and as a Humboldt ResearchFellow in Germany. He served as the Director of theIndian Institute of Technology, Madras, from 1995 to2001, and as the Chairman of the All India Council forTechnical Education, from 2001 to 2004. He was theVice President of the Indian National Academy ofEngineering during 2002–2006 and the Chairman of theResearch Council of the Central Fuel Research Institute,Dhanbad, during 1995–2005. He is Fellow of: IndianNational Academy of Engineering, Indian Society for

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Technical Education, National Academy of SocialSciences, Institution of Engineers (India), IndianInstitution of Plant Engineers, National Foundation ofIndian Engineers, Indian Institution of MaterialsManagement and Madras Science Foundation.

K. R. Padiyar has been Professor/Honorary Professorat Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, from 1987 to2013. Previously, he was with Indian Institute ofTechnology, Kanpur, from 1976 to 1987. He was avisiting professor in Indian Institute of Technology,Gandhinagar, in 2014. He has published over 200papers and 8 books in the areas of Power SystemDynamics and Control, HVDC Power Transmission andFACTS Controllers. He has guided 30 Ph.D. students.He was a member of the Project Review Committeeof the National HVDC Project in India. He is Fellow ofIndian National Academy of Engineering (INAE),Institution of Electronics and TelecommunicationEngineers (IETE) and Life Fellow of IEEE. He wasawarded the Department of Power Prize twice byInstitution of Engineers (India). He is the recipient of1999 Prof. Rustom Choksi Award for Excellence inResearch. He received ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’from Indian Institute of Science in 2014.

M. A. Pai is Emeritus Professor in Electrical andComputer Engineering at the University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign. He was with the Indian Institute ofTechnology, Kanpur, from 1963 to 1981 and at theUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1981 to2003. His research interests are in Dynamics andStability of Power Systems, Smart Grid, RenewableResources and Power System Computation. He is theauthor of several textbooks and research monographs inthese areas. He is Fellow of IEEE, I.E (India), IndianAcademy of Sciences, and the Indian National ScienceAcademy.

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Anant V. Patki was part of ISRO from 1967 to 2003.He had worked on India’s first satellite Aryabhata andthe Launch Vehicle SLV. Later, he developed a strongteam of engineers, dealing with mechanical systems ofspace crafts, leading to INSAT and IRS series ofsatellites. He also worked as Visiting Professor atDepartment of Aerospace Engineering of IIT Bombayand Department of Aerospace Engineering of IISc,Bangalore. Post-retirement, he worked with an ITcorporate and built a group doing IT enabled engineer-ing services for many overseas giants.

V. S. Ramamurthy is a well-known Indian nuclearscientist with a broad range of contributions from basicresearch to science administration. He started his career inBhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, in the year1963 and made important research contributions in theareas of nuclear fission, medium-energy heavy-ion reac-tions, statistical and thermodynamic properties of nucleiand low-energy accelerator applications. During theperiod 1995–2006, he was Secretary to the Governmentof India, Department of Science and Technology (DST),New Delhi. He was also the Chairman of the Interna-tional Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Standing AdvisoryGroup on Nuclear Applications for nearly a decade. Afterretirement fromservice, he has also been actively involvedin human resource development in all its aspects. He iscurrently Emeritus Professor, National Institute ofAdvanced Studies in Bangalore. In recognition of hisservices to the growth of Science and Technology in thecountry, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by theGovernment of India in 2005.

Srinivasan Ramani has served as the founding direc-tor of the National Centre for Software Technology. Heplayed a key role in creating India’s academic network,ERNET, which brought the Internet to India. He wasinducted by the Internet Society into their Hall of Famein 2014. He has also served as the first director ofHewlett Packard Research Labs, India, Member of theExpert Panel of Advisors of the United Nation’s TaskForce on ICT for Development, President, ComputerSociety of India and President, International Councilfor Computer Communication.

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Ranjit Kumar Ray taught at Bengal EngineeringCollege, Shibpur (now IIEST Shibpur) for little over11 years, followed by teaching at IIT Kanpur for 28years. This was followed by a stint of more than 10years in the R&D Division of Tata Steel Jamshedpur asa visiting scientist. For the last three years, he hasbeen a visiting professor in IIEST Shibpur. He is arecipient of the Best Metallurgist award, the NationalMetallurgist award, the GD Birla gold medal andHonorary Membership of the Indian Institute of Metals,among others. He has been a visiting professor/scientistin a number of prestigious universities, researchlaboratories and industrial organizations.

A. Sanatkumar joined DAE in 1963 and retired asSenior Executive Director from NPCIL after 38 yearsof meritorious service. His career has been dedicated toestablishment of all round, self-reliant indigenouscapabilities to engineer vital on-power refuellingsystems for PHWRs. His crowning achievement is thesuccessful design and implementation of the FuellingMachine Heads and Fuel Handling Systems, incorpo-rating several of his original, unique, world-classconcepts for the PHWRs at Tarapur 3 and 4. He is arecipient of Homi Bhabha Lifetime AchievementAward (2007), besides Indian Institution of Engineers’National Design Award (2000).

V. V. S. Sarma was formerly Professor, HonoraryProfessor and INAE Distinguished Professor,Department of Computer science and Automation,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has madesignificant research contributions in the areas ofArtificial Intelligence and Reliable Computing. Hisstudies in fault-tolerant computers have providedoptimal multiprocessor architectures for hard real-timesystems such as aircraft computers and methods forreliability assessment of such systems. His research onSpeech Pattern Recognition systems using fuzzyapproximation scheme is well known. He developedknowledge-based design environments for rapid designof automatic speech and pattern recognition productssuch as voice-operated telephone diallers.

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S. Sreenivasa Murthy is Adjunct Professor, NIAS,Bangalore, and IIT Ropar and formerly: Professor,Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, ViceChancellor, Central University of Karnataka, Director,NIT Surathkal and Director, Electrical Research andDevelopment Association, Baroda. He has to his creditover 300 papers, 7 books/manuals/conference proceed-ings and 18 patents. His research has led to technologytransfer to Industry on Renewable Energy, EnergyEfficiency and Drives.

Mangu Singh joined Indian Railway Service ofEngineers in March, 1983 and held various positionsin operating, managing of Railway system and alsoplanning, procurement and implementation of projectsof Indian Railways. He joined DMRC at the inceptionstage and has been playing a key role in developing theMetro system in Delhi. He is also instrumental inassisting other state governments in developing Metrosystems in various cities. Currently, he is working asManaging Director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.He is recipient of National Award (Railway WeekAward 1996). He has also been awarded EminentEngineer-2015 Award by Institution of Engineeringand Technology, UK. He has recently been awardedprestigious ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ by IITRoorkee. He is Fellow of Indian National Academy ofEngineering, Fellow Institution of Engineers, India, andPresident, Tunnelling Association of India.

Manjit Singh joined Reactor Control Division ofBARC as Scientific Officer in 1973. Retired asDistinguished Scientist in 2014. Worked as Head,Division of Remote Handling and Robotics andDirector, Design Manufacturing and AutomationGroup, and Director, Engineering Services Group atBARC. He is the President, Robotics Society of Indiasince its inception.

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Maj. Gen. Surjit Singh AVSM, VSM, FNAE is asoldier by profession, an engineer by training and astory-teller by instinct. After retiring from the army in1997, he served with Ashok Leyland as Director MDCfor five years. For design and development of militaryequipment, he has received several awards and wasadmitted into the INAE in 1996. He has published sixbooks.

E. C. Subbarao worked at Parry & Co, Ranipet, T.N.,1949–51, Westinghouse Research Laboratories,Pittsburgh, PA 1956–63, Indian Institute of Tech-nology, Kanpur, 1963–81, and as Founder-Director ofTata Research Development and Design Centre, Pune(Tata Consultancy Services), 1981–1999 and later asChief Consulting Advisor at TRDDC.

A. K. Suresh is a professor with the Department ofChemical Engineering at IIT Bombay. His broadresearch interests are in the area of transport andreaction engineering, with current research on mem-brane forming processes, solid-state reactions, liquid-phase organic oxidations and some fundamental issueson heterogeneous transport-reaction processes. Hiswork has also been recognized through many awardsand honours, among which may be mentioned theVisiting Fellowship of the Indian National ScienceAcademy and the Herdillia award for excellence inbasic research by the Indian Institute of ChemicalEngineers. He was awarded a 3-year membership of theAmerican Chemical Society in July 2015 in recognitionof engagement with the Society’s mission. He has heldvisiting positions at National Chemical Laboratory,India, Monash University, Australia, AustralianDefence Force Academy, Australia, and WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, USA.

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Paritosh C. Tyagi is presently Consultant inEnvironmental Management and formerly Chairman,Central Pollution Control Board, New Delhi. He hasmade significant contributions in the areas of environ-mental management and water supply and sanitation.He designed and constructed water supply, drainageand sewerage works in Uttar Pradesh as ChiefEngineer. He assisted in the planning and evaluationof National Water Supply and Sanitation Programmeas Joint Director in the Planning Commission,Government of India. He planned and implementedprojects and programmes for control of air and waterpollution as Chairman of Uttar Pradesh PollutionControl Board and Chairman of Central Board forPrevention and Control of Water Pollution.

K. K. Vaze joined IGCAR, Kalpakkam in 1974 andworked on Structural Analysis and Design of FastReactor Components. He joined the Reactor SafetyDivision of BARC in 1989 and contributed to Design,Structural and Safety Analysis of Heavy WaterReactors. He retired in September 2014 as Director,Reactor Design and Development Group. His fields ofinterest are: Nuclear Safety, Earthquake Engineering,Structural Analysis and Design, Structural IntegrityAssessment and Failure Analysis. As a recipient of RajaRamanna Fellowship, he is currently involved in thereview of Safety of Nuclear Reactors and in develop-ment of Safety Codes and Guides.

K. Venkataramanan is an independent Non-Executive Director with Vedanta Limited and formerlyManaging Director, Larsen & Toubro, Mumbai. Duringhis tenure at L&T, he had spearheaded L&T’s foray inthe world of E&C and strengthened every aspect ofEPC value chain and transformed L&T to one of therespected names in the global EPC fraternity. L&THydrocarbon has also established its identity in selectoverseas geographies like West Asia, South East Asiaand Africa. He has played a key leadership role inL&T’s power business initiative through EPC jobs ingas and coal-based power plants in India and abroad.

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Y. V. Venkatesh was an Alexander von HumboldtFellow at the Universities of Karlsruhe, Freiburg andErlangen, Germany; a National Research CouncilFellow (USA) at the Goddard Space Flight Center,Greenbelt, MD; and a Visiting Professor at theInstitut fuel Mathematik, Technische Universitat Graz,Austria, Institut fur Signalverarbeitung, Kaiserslautern,Germany, National University of Singapore, Singapore,and others. Apart from stability theory, his researchinterests include 3D computer and robotic vision; signalprocessing; pattern recognition; biometrics; hyperspec-tral image analysis; and neural networks. As a professorat IISc, he was also the Dean of Engineering Facultyand, earlier, the Chairman of the Electrical SciencesDivision. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy ofSciences, the Indian National Science Academy, and theIndian Academy of Engineering. He was on the editorialboard of the International Journal of Information Fusion.

Bayya Yegnanarayana is currently INSA SeniorScientist at IIIT-Hyderabad. He worked as a professorat BITS-Pilani Hyderabad (2016), IIIT-H (2006–2016),IITM (1980–2006), CMU Pittsburgh (1977–1980) andIISc (1966–1978). He published the book ArtificialNeural Networks, and over 400 papers in speech, imageprocessing and neural networks. He is a Fellow ofINAE, INSA, IASc, IEEE, USA, and ISCA, Europe.He received the INAE’s Prof. S. N. Mitra MemorialAward (2006), the 2013 IISc Distinguished AlumnusAward and the INSA’s The Sayed Husain ZaheerMedal (2014).

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