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LOCAL CENTRE NEWS REVIEW
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Editor & Honorary Secretary
Padmashri Prof. R.M. Vasagam, FIE
Dr. Wooday P. Krishna, FIE, FIET (UK)
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Panel Discussion on
“IIT for Karnataka - How to make it Worldclass”
28 APRIL 2015
Highlights
Panel Discussion on
“IIT for Karnataka - How to
make it Worldclass”
Panel Discussion on
“IIT for Karnataka - How to make it Worldclass”
7 April 2015
National Design & Research Forum
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AIS on “Advanced
Manufacturing &
Applications of PolymerMetal-Ceramic Matrix
Composites”
All India Seminar on
“Business and Product
Excellence through DFM”
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International Women’s Day
World Water Day
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The Institution of Engineers (India), Karnataka State Centre associated with National Design &
Research Forum, IEEE and IET in organising a Panel discussion on “IIT for Karnataka – How to
make it Worldclass” on Tuesday, 7 April 2015. Eminent intellectuals, engineers and former IIT
professors from the State discussed the subject at great length for arriving at a plan of action to
make Namma IIT the numero uno institute among the country’s 23 branches.
Prof. S.S. Murthy, Academic Advisor, PES University & former Professor, IIT Delhi ; Dr. Ing B.V.A.
Rao, Chairman, NDRF & former Professor, IIT, Madras ; Padma Shri Prof. R.M. Vasagam,
Chairman, KSC & former Director, ISRO, Dr. S. Parthan, former Professor, IIT, Kharagpur ; Dr. K.
Ramachandra, Director, NDRF & former Director, GTRE and Dr. Wooday P. Krishna, Honorary
Secretary, IEI, KSC were the Panelists.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Murthy, said, the IIT should be established at a location that offers
a cosmopolitan ambience to attract students from different parts of the country and one that is
within a two-hour drive from an international airport. With a huge demand from across districts
wanting to house the prestigious Institution, he suggested that the Government should establish
one main IIT in one city and two sub-centres at other places. This concept is followed in US
Universities.
Dr. Ing B.V.A. Rao moderated the discussion. In his address, he said, ever since their establishment
in 1950, none of the IITs has managed to attract foreign students. The first five IITs took help from
foreign nations and Namma IIT should be set up without foreign help. `If we bring foreign faculty
again, it will be like allowing foreign varsities to function from our soil’, Dr. Rao said.
Talk on “Landfill
Engineering”
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Talk on “Bad Roads in
Bangalore”
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LOCAL CENTRE NEWS REVIEW
Padmashri Prof. R.M. Vasagam, FIE
Chairman
Dr. K. Gopalakrishnan, FIE
Past Chairman & Council Member - IEI
Dr. P. Vijayakumar, FIE
Immediate Past Honorary Secreatry
Editor : Dr. Wooday P. Krishna, FIE
IEI
28 April 2015
AIS on “Advanced Manufacturing & Applications of
Polymer-Metal-Ceramic Matrix Composites”
A Two-day All India Seminar on the theme “Advanced
Manufacturing & Applications of Polymer-Metal-Ceramic Matrix
Composites” was organized by The Institution of Engineers (India),
Karnataka State Centre in association with NDRF & Sri
Venkateshwara College of Engineering, Bangalore on 18-19 March
2015 under the aegis of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Division Board, IEI at SVCE, Bangalore.
Prof. E.S. Dwarakadasa, Chairman & Managing Director, Karnataka
Hybrid Micro Devices Ltd was the Chief Guest and Dr. K.
Ramachandra, Director, NDRF and Padma Shri Prof. R.M. Vasagam
were the Guests of Honour.
Prof. E.S Dwarakadasa, in his address, emphasized about the
importance of manufacturing in ancient techniques and motivated
the students towards research and called upon to contribute in this
area. He complimented the Department of Mechanical Engineering
of SVCE for organizing a Seminar of national importance and further
assured the continued relationship between IEI-KHMDL– SVCE and
CART.
Dr. K Ramachandra, spoke about significance of the Seminar theme
and also briefed about the activities of NDRF, IEI to the students and
impressed upon them the need of the hour while describing how
NDRF - Institution of Engineers (India) will help for the betterment of
the society in the field of education and technological need.
Speaking on the occasion, Padama Shri Prof. R. M. Vasagam,
suggested to make use of knowledge on the Composite Materials in
Design and Manufacturing sector. He emphasized on the
importance of Composite Materials in all sectors for overall growth
of the nation and also suggested the utilization of funds for
Internship Programs, Projects and Research activity to conduct at
the grass root level itself.
Dr. C. Prabhakar Reddy, Principal, SVCE & Dr. M. Shashidhar, CED,
SVCE were also present and addressed the students.
All India Seminar on “Business and Product Excellence through DFM”
the Seminar. He also briefed about the activities of the Institution of
Engineers (India). Guest of Honour, Dr. K. Gopalakrishnan, Council
Member, IEI, Karnataka State Center suggested that Design for
Manufacturing is to be implemented in the course of the studies
either in UG or PG. DFM is to be implemented in practice rather than
theoretically in the manufacturing sector.
Dr. T. V. Govindaraju, Principal said KSIT was happy to conduct
activities in association with IEI-KSC and urged the students to make
use of opportunities offered by IEI to bring out the talent in them.
Karnataka State Centre in association with Kammavari Sangham
Institute of Technology organized a two-day All India Seminar on
“Business and Product Excellence through Design for
Manufacturability” on 19-20 March 2015 under the aegis of
Production Engineering Division Board, IEI at KSIT, Bangalore.
The Seminar was Inaugurated by Padama Shri Prof. R. M. Vasagam,
Chairman, IEI, KSC. In his address, he stressed about the need and
importance of the manufacturing of the products in house only
(Make in India).
Guest of Honour, Dr. Woody P. Krishna, Honorary Secretary, IEI,KSC.
and Organising Secretary addressed the delegates on the theme of
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Sri Y. Ramachandra Naidu, President and Sri D. Rukmangada,
Treasurer of Kammavari Sangham also graced the occassion and
addressed the students.
Dr. E. Ranga Reddy, Chairman & Managing Director, Legend
Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd and Joint Honorary Secretary, IEI, KSC
gave the Key-note speech on “Make in India”. He said, the basic
difference between "Made in India" is a label that accompanies all
goods that have been manufactured in India but "Make in India" is a
campaign launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister Sri Narendra
Modi to encourage industrialists to set up their manufacturing units
in India. He also shared his experience on how to become an
accomplished entrepreneur and also briefed about the benefits
under the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises.
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International Women’s Day
Make It Happen is the theme for this year’s International Women’s
Day to encourage effective action for advancing and recognising
women.
Karnataka State Centre celebrated IWD on 27 March 2015.
Smt T.K. Anuradha, Project Director - Geosat, ISRO Satellite Centre,
Bengaluru was the Chief Guest and Dr. Kalpana Gopalan, IAS,
Chairman, Karnataka Appellate Tribunal graced the occasion as
Guest of Honour.
Each year International Women's Day is celebrated on March 8. The
first International Women's Day was held in 1911. Thousands of
events occur to mark the economic, political and social
achievements of women. Organisations, governments, charities,
educational institutions, women's groups, corporations and the
media celebrate the day. All around the world, International
Women's Day represents an opportunity to celebrate the
achievements of women while calling for greater equality.
Er. Usha S, Chairperson, Women Engineers’ Committee and Joint
Honorary Secretary, IEI, KSC welcomed the guests and invitees and
Padma Shri Prof. R.M. Vasagam, Chairman, IEI, KSC spoke on the
Significance of IWD. Er. Chinmayee Madhavan and Er. S. Sakamma,
Members, Women Engineers’ Committee introduced the Chief
Guest and Guest of Honour respectively.
Both Smt T.K. Anuradha and Dr. Kalpana Gopalan, IAS spoke on their
experiences and their achievements. Dr. Kalpana Gopalan, IAS was
also felicitated on the occasion.
At the end, Dr. Enti Ranga Reddy, Joint Hon. Secretary, IEI, KSC
proposed vote of thanks.
World Water Day
Agricultural Sciences, School of Ecology & Conservation, Dept. of
Forestry & Environmental Sciences, delivered a Key-note Address on
the theme.
Er. Jasmail Singh, Joint Honorary Secretary and Convener welcomed
the Guest and the invitees and Er. B.N. Thyagaraja, Council Member,
IEI introduced the theme and presided over the meeting.
Our State Centre celebrated World Water Day on 28 March 2015 on
the theme “Water and Sustainable Development”. Dr. K.N.
Ganeshaiah, Dean of Post-graduate Studies, University of
Dr. Ganeshaiah explained how the civilization in the olden days
prospered and improved around the cities on account of abundant
availability of natural resources such as water, forest nearby. He
gave the examples of Mohenjo-daro and Harappaan civilizations
which developed around Saraswathi River. Further with the passage
of time, the Saraswathi River changed its course and got dried up.
Subsequently, the entire civilization was deep routed from the place
and at present only monuments are available which are of world
fame. He also talked of water sources in Talakad which used to be
one of the biggest shippers’ centres in the olden days.
Talk on “Landfill Engineering”
A talk on “Landfill Engineering _ Prospects and Perspectives” was
delivered by Prof. G.L. Sivakumar Babu, Professor, Dept. of Civil
Engineering, IISc on 10 April 2015. Prof. M.R Pranesh, Convener
welcomed the speaker and introduced him to participants.
causing lot of hardships to people nearby. The emanating gases,
obnoxious smell of leachate and leachate flow is causing
environmental hazards and ecological services of ground water use
by residents nearby are in peril.
Landfills have become mere dumping sites of waste getting piled up
and allowing the pile to their natural fate. The physical, chemical and
biological processes are not engineered whatsoever and this is
Prof. Sivakumar Babu revealed that a course on Municipal Solid
Waste Engineering at post-graduate level is offered since several
years and five to six PhDs have come out so far under his guidance as
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well as other faculty of Civil Engineering
Department of IISc. The engineering aspects
of consolidation of fills, making way for new
volumes for fill in the existing space,
measuring/ characterising landfills for their
permeability, stress strain characteristics,
movement of leachate in porous media,
ground water fluctuations in the subsurface
of watersheds, forensics of landfill collapse
elsewhere in the world, providing
geosynthetic layers apart from just liners etc., were emphasised in
the lecture to make `smart landfills for a smart city’.
Even the cost benefit aspects, though preliminary way, are covered
in IISc studies for a dumping landfill, engineered landfill and
bioreactor type landfills. The use of sensors for measuring landfill
characteristics and making the best use of energy that can come out
of it, and adopting engineering measures to close a particular landfill
without causing hazards anymore are some of the points discussed
by the speaker.
At the end. Er. C J Jagadeesha, Scientist, ISRO and corporate member
gave vote of thanks .
Talk on “Bad Roads in Bangalore”
A lecture program was organized by the Architectural Engineering
Division of the State Centre on 24 March 2015 on ‘Bad Roads in
Bangalore’. The speaker was Capt. S. Raja Rao, Retd. Secretary to the
Government of Karnataka. He was the Chairman of the Committee
constituted by The High Court of Karnataka to examine PIL on ‘Bad
Quality of Roads in Karnataka’.
about 100 recommendations on the quality of roads maintained in
100 wards of the City Corporation. The Committee observed that in
addition to the bad quality, the defective system of tertiary drains
affected the flow of rain water to the net work of drains and pot
holes are formed. The Committee suggested that the tertiary
drainage system requires improvement, more powers to the
engineers to take early decisions, audit of accounts by the
Accountant General instead of the State Accounts Department, etc.
There were considerable suggestions by the members present.
Dr. A.S. Kodanda Pani, Urban Planner & Civic Analyst, in his
introduction of the subject mentioned that Bangalore which was
earlier popular as a beautiful city has now lost its fame due to bad
urban governance with bad roads full of pot holes, flooding of low
lying areas during the rainy season, non- enforcement of zoning
regulations of the master plan, and building bye-laws of the City
Corporation, improper road net work not conforming to natural
terrain, defective drainage system, neglect to fill up pot holes, poor
quality of road work, etc.
Padma Shri Prof. R.M. Vasagam, Chairman, appreciated the
conclusions and suggestions made by Capt. Raja Rao’s Committee.
He mentioned how in Paris roads are well maintained, building
heights controlled to avoid traffic congestion, etc. He suggested that
such good procedures are to be adopted by the civic agencies for
good living conditions in the future.
Capt. Raja Rao in his lecture mentioned that the Committee was
constituted by the High Court after inspection and study made
The program concluded with vote of thanks by Er. Jasmail Singh,
Joint Hon. Secretary of the State Centre.
Membership Development
Karnataka State Centre Committee of IE(I) has received several
requests from Corporate Members residing in Tumakuru, Kodagu,
KGF and Udupi Districts to establish IEI Local Centres to cater to
the needs of engineers residing in an around these districts.
Co-operation of members is requested to enroll as many new
members in the said districts as possible, so that formalization of
establishing the proposed new Local Centres could be achieved at
an early date.
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