News of 2014

Two Days Training Progrram on " Engineering for Non Engineers/ Plant Personnel" was Conducted at Excel Crop Care Limited, Bhavnagar

A two days Training Programme on "Engineering for Non Engineers/ Plant Personnel" was Conducted at Excel Crop Care Limited, Bhavnagar during 22nd and 23rd Decdember 2014. The faculty member who were involved in deliering the lecturs during training programme were, Dr S S Patel, Dr J P Ruparelia, Dr R K Mewada, Dr M H Joshipura and Dr P D Shah. The programme was attended by more than 30 plant personnel.

 

 

Two days Faculty Development Program on "Embedded Systems"

A two days faculty development program was organized under the aegis of Centre for Continuing Education, Nirma University on December 15-16, 2014 and conducted by Prof. Sachin Gajjar, Assistant Professor and Dr. D. K. Kothari, Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering Programme, Electrical Engineering Department, Institute of Technology, Nirma University. The program was intended for faculty of Technical Institutes teaching or doing research in the areas of Embedded Systems and Engineers from industry who want to explore boards for maker community like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, MSP430 controllers, Intel Galileo etc. It was also open for research scholars at PhD and PG level interested in hardware and software design of embedded systems.

Julie M Pardiwala was awarded with “Young Scientist Oral Award for Oral presentation

Julie M Pardiwala was awarded with “Young Scientist Oral Award for Oral presentation” at 4th International Science Congress (ISC-2014, 8th   and 9th December, 2014), Organized by International Science Congress Association, Pacific University, Udaipur, Rajasthan for the research paper “Comparison of two different photocatalyst: Spinel and Pervoskite prepared by sol-gel and coprecipitation methods for degradation of RB5 dye” co-authored by Dr Sanjay Patel and Dr F J Patel. More than 1000 participants presented their work in the conference.

"ISTE - CVM Award for the Best Engineering College Teacher in Gujarat State" received by Prof. Dr. P. N. Tekwani

Prof. Dr. P. N. Tekwani, Professor and HoD – Electrical Engineering, IT, NU, received the “ISTE-CVM Award for the Best Engineering College Teacher in Gujarat State”. The award was presented to him during the Inaugural Function of the 44th Annual National Convention of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), New Delhi on 27th November 2014. The convention was organized and hosted by College of Engineering Trivandrum (CET), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala during 27-29 November, 2014.

ISTE-IPCL National Award for Best M.Tech. Thesis in Chemical Engineering 2014

M.Tech. Thesis entitled "Design and Simulation of Cryogenic Columns in  Air Separations Unit" of Ms. Priya Balasubramaniam,  guided by Dr. M H Joshipura received the ISTE-IPCL National Award for Best M.Tech. Thesis in Chemical Engineering-2014 (First Prize). The award for the guide include a certificate and a medalian and for the student it carried a certificate, medalian and Rs. 10000 Cash.

ISRO-RESPOND Project sanctioned to Civil Engineering Department

Dr. Sharad Purohit (PI) and Dr. Paresh Patel (Co-PI) from the Department of Civil Engineering, IT-NU have earned an ISRO-RESPOND project titled "Development of Passive Damping Surface Coating for Advanced Materials based Structural System using PZT (Peizo) Powder" for the funding of Rs. 8.09 Lacs. The Duration of the project is 1.5 years.  

The focal persons from ISRO are Dr. B. S. Munjal & Shri Ankur Achanani (SAC-ISRO, Ahmedabad).

Julie M Pardiwala was awarded with best oral paper presentation

Julie M Pardiwala was awarded with best oral paper presentation at International Conference on Chemical Industry organised by Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University & Gujarat Chemical Association, 22nd -23rd August, 2014 for the paper “Degradation of Reactive Black (RB5)” co-authored by Dr Sanjay Patel and Dr F J Patel.

Funded Research Projects sponsored by DST, GUJCOST, ISRO Respond

Many Faculty members are involved in Research projects. Research projects have been sanctioned by various funding agencies like DST, GUJCOST, ISRO etc. at IT-NU.

32nd position in Top Engineering Institute, India. June 30 2014, Times Engineering

Institute of Technology has been ranked at 32nd position among the Top Engineering Institutes, as per the Ranking informarmation released by Times Engineering on June 30 2014.
 

IEEE Senior Membership Approval for Prof. Dr. P. N. Tekwani

IEEE membership grade of Prof. Dr. P. N. Tekwani has been elevated from Member to Senior Member Grade.

His application was considered in the Admission and Advancement (A&A) Review Panel Meeting held at Minneapolis, MN, USA (R4) on 12th July, 2014.

STTP conducted on "Trends and Innovations in Electrical Power Engineering"

Department of Electrical Engineering in Institute of Technology of Nirma Iniversity, successfully conducted two week STTP on "Trends and Innovations in Electrical Power Engineering" from 30th June, 2014 to 11th July, 2014.

Civil Engineering Department bags DST-SERB Research Project

Dr. Paresh V. Patel & Prof. Digesh Joshi have been sanctioned the Research Project titled- "Study the behaviour of precast beam-column junction under Progressive Collapse Scenario – an Experimental and Analytical Investigation" from the DST-SERB.

GUJCOST Project awarded to Civil Engineering Department

Dr. Sharadkumar P. Purohit and Dr. Paresh V. Patel have been sanctioned a Research Project titled- "Dynamic Characterization of Shock Table" by GUJCOST.

Chemical Engineering Department bags two Minor Research Projects from GUJCOST

Two Projects were awarded by GUJCOST to Dr. R K Mewada and Dr. M H Joshipura worth Rs. 4,00,000 and 3,30,000 respectively.
 

Farewell of M Tech and MCA students

Farewell function was organised on 22nd May 2014 for the out going students of M tech (CSE, NT, NT) and MCA

35 projects of Chemical Engineering Department published in the book of GCPC

35 projects of Chemical Engineering Department have been selected for final list of 52 projects in the booklet published by GCPC on “Integration of Research to Industrial Application”.

Civil Engineering Department, IT-NU signs MoU with Eco-Carbon

Dr. Kalidas and Dr. Bhanumatidas from Eco-Carbon signed MoU with Civil Engineering Department, IT-NU in the area of "No Aggegate Concrete". 

MoU signed between Civil Engineering Department, IT-NU and Dr. Fixit ISPR

Civil Engineering Department, IT-NU signed an MoU with Dr. Fixit Institute for Structural Protection & Rehabilitation in the area of "Protection of Structures against Corrosion".

ROBOCON 2014

It is a matter of accolade for us that the ROBOCON Team of the Institute of Technology, Nirma University has won the Championship Trophy in the National level ROBOCON-2014 Competition held in Pune, organized by Doordarshan - MIT AOE.
 
There were a total of 89 teams in the ROBOCON 2014 competition.  Our team has bagged this trophy leaving all the teams behind.  In the finals, our team won against Veermata Jijabhai Technological Institute, Mumbai. The Institute of Technology has won this Championship Award for the 6th time so far.

ROBOCON is an international competition organized by Asia pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) , a collection of over 50 countries of Asia Pacific region.

The broadcasters of each participant country are responsible for conducting their national contests to select the team which will represent their country in the international contest. Teams from Engineering and Technological colleges are eligible for participation. Participating teams are expected to design and fabricate their own robots and organize their teams including an Instructor, Team Leader, Manual Robot Operator and an Automatic Robot Operator.

National award in SAE BAJA

A team of students from the Departments of Mechanical, Electrical and Chemical Engineering participated in the all-terrain vehicle (ATV) SAE Baja competition at Pithampur, Indore during 19-22 February 2014. More than 100 teams across the country including IITs, NITs and all other reputed Universities participated in the competition. The BAJA SAE tasked the students to design, fabricate and validate a single seater four–wheeled off-road vehicle to take part in series of events that test the vehicle for the Sound Engineering practices that have gone into it, the agility of the vehicle in terms of gradability, speed, acceleration and maneuverability characteristics and finally its ability to endure that back breaking durability test. The Go Green theme was also the part of competition in-order to judge the innovation and effective ways to inhibit the pollutant emission from the vehicles.  
Our team STALLIONS has been participating for last three years and won following prizesin this event this year.

GO GREEN Award :1st prize worth INR 2,00,000.

Raftar Award for Acceleration and Hill Climb: INR 1,00,000.

Best Mentor Award  Prof N K Shah , Mechanical Engineering Department

DAAD India

Jay Baxi (10BEC105) participated in science slam competition organized by DAAD India, at Bangalore on February 25, 2014 and won the first prize of fully funded research trip to Germany.

MoU with Mitsubishi Electrical India Pvt. Ltd.

MoU with Mitsubishi Electrical India Pvt. Ltd. was signed on 19/02/2014. The training programs for the academicians and/or personnel working in the industries will be planned under the same.

MCA Ranking

As per the ranking of SiliconIndia.com for the year 2013, the Institute of Technology has been ranked as one of the top 5  MCA Colleges in the Western Zone of India ( 5th ranked)  and one of the best Top 20  MCA colleges of INDIA.(ranked 17th)

 

Interaction with Former Director, CSIO-CSIR, Chandigarh

Dr. Pawan Kumar, Former Director, CSIO-CSIR, Chandigarh, visited Department of Electrical Engineering to interact with the faculty members about the Proposal making for research funding on January 03, 2014.