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IEICentenaryPublication SirRajendraNathMookerjee MemorialLecture ACompilationofMemorialLectures presentedin AnnualConventions&IndianEngineeringCongresses 35thIndianEngineeringCongress December18-20,2020 TheInstitutionofEngineers(India) 8GokhaleRoadKolkata700020 Backgroundof SirRajendraNathMookerjee MemorialLecture The Council of The Institution of Engineers (India) decided to institution an Annual Lecture in the name of Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee who was the first Indian President of the Institution to commemorate his contributions to the nation as an engineer and is delivered at the Annual Convention of the Institution, redesignated as Indian Engineering Congress. The first lecture was delivered at the Diamond Jubilee of the Institution in 1980. Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee had the vision of an engineer and the comprehension of an intellectual. Born on June 23, 1854, he rose on the Indian scene in the 19th century and continued to serve the engineering profession and the country until the thirties of the 20th century. He died on May 15, 1936. The life story of Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee is the story of a great businessman, equally great of heart as of head, generous of instinct and charitable of soul, who brought glory to everything he touched. Born in a typical middle-class family, Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee lost his father when he was six. Having matriculated from the London Missionary Society's Institution of Calcutta, he joined the engineering department of Presidency College, Calcutta. The satisfactory execution of the construction of Palta Water Works for the city of Calcutta gave him the confidence and experience that enable this self-made man in later life, to build an industrial colossus and a trading conglomerate. Sir Ranjendra Nath Mookerjee was the President of Science Congress in 1921 and in 1931. The Calcutta University conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Science. He was the first President of The Institution of Engineers (India) during the session 1920-1921. He was knighted after his successful construction of the Victoria Memorial Building at Calcutta. An abiding and deep interest of Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee in all kinds of social welfare work brought into being and sustained many a charitable institutions. Essentially a man of science, Sir Rajendra Nath practiced technology for the development of his country. Science, TechnologyandDevelopment 1 ShriSKDatta TheFirstSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheSixtieth Annual Convention(DiamondJubilee),Calcutta,February19,1980 IndianDevelopment¾ Challengesand TasksoftheEighties 7 Shri A L Mudaliar TheThirdSirRajendraNathMookherjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheSixty-second AnnualConvention,Bombay,January29-February02,1982 QualityandProductivity¾ SomeConcepts 15 DrGKDevarajulu TheFourthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheSixty-third AnnualConvention,Madras,January8,1983 TheProfessionalEngineerinIndia 22 Shri V Krishnamurthy TheSixthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheSixty-fifth AnnualConvention,Jaipur,February16,1985 Towards21stCenturyRoleofEngineers 28 ColSP Wahi TheSeventhSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheSixty-sixth emorial Lectures AnnualConvention, Ahmedabad,January11,1986 ApproachtoEnvironmentalProtectionandRoleofEngineers 33 DrNilayChaudhuri TheEighthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheFirstIndian EngineeringCongress,Calcutta,January10,1987 NewHorizonsof WaterResourcesEngineering 38 ShriM A Chitale TheNinthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeLecturewasdeliveredduringtheSecondIndian EngineeringCongress,Hyderabad,January18,1988 SpaceLaunchersfortheIndianSpaceProgramme 49 DrSCGupta TheTenthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheThirdIndian EngineeringCongress,Madras,January24,1989 A Hundred YearsofRadioScience¾ SomeMilestones 58 DrA P Mitra TheEleventhSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheFourth IndianEngineeringCongress,Bhubaneswar,January02,1990 TheEngineeringProfessioninaChangingContext:Challengesand Opportunities 62 DrK Venkataraman TheTwelfthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheFifthIndian EngineeringCongress,Kanpur,December18,1990 TotalQualityManagement¾ theIndianExperience 71 DrJamshedJijiIrani deliveredduring AnnualConventions&IndianEngineeringCongresses TheThirteenthSirRajendranathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheSixth IndianEngineeringCongress,Pune,December22,1991 Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee M BuildinganEffectiveOrganization 74 DrRNSharma TheFourteenthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheSeventh IndianEngineeringCongress,Bangalore,February13,1993 Engineers¾ The AgentsofChange 87 ShriP SDeodhar TheFifteenthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheEighthIndianEngineering Congress,NewDelhi,January03,1994 SmallIndustryand Technology 91 ShriSMDatta TheSixteenthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheNinthIndianEngineering Congress,Calcutta,December15-20,1994 Self-RegulationandProfessionalOrganizations 98 Shri V Ramachandran TheSeventeenthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheTenthIndianEngineering Congress,Jaipur,December21,1995 IntelligentRoboticSystemsintheIndianContext 101 DrM Vidyasagar TheEighteenthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheEleventhIndianEngineering Congress,Bangalore,December20-24,1996 IndianSteelIndustryintheContextofGlobalisation 105 Mr ArvindPande TheNineteenthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheTwelfthIndianEngineering Congress,Nagpur,January9-13,1998 EngineeringforSustainability¾ PreparingfortheNextMillennium 116 LtGenJS Ahluwalia TheTwentiethSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheThirteenthIndianEngineering Congress,Chandigarh, April25-26,1999 Ocean¾ A SourceofEnergy 128 Dr A EMuthunayagam TheTwenty-firstSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheFourteenthIndian EngineeringCongress,NewDelhi,January29-31,2000 Scienceand TechnologyinEastand West 133 ProfRNarasimha TheTwenty-secondSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheFifteenthIndian EngineeringCongress,Hyderabad,December18-22,2000 DestinationDisasterFreeIndia 143 ShriRKBhandari TheTwenty-thirdSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheSixteenthIndian EngineeringCongress,KharagpurDecember01-04,2001 ConceptualDesignofMajorStructuresintheDevelopingCountriesof Asia, Africaandthe PacificandIndianOceans 166 ShriCR Alimchandani TheTwenty-fourthSirRajehdraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheSeventeenthIndian EngineeringCongress,Patna,December19-22,2002 NuclearPowerforEnergy&EnvironmentSecurity 178 Dr AnilKakodkar TheTwenty-sixthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheNineteenthIndian EngineeringCongress,Mumbai,December16-19,2004 IndiaintheExcitingFrontierofSpace 184 ProfURRao TheTwenty-eighthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheTwenty-firstIndian EngineeringCongress,Guwahati,December21-24,2006 Space Technologyand ApplicationsinIndia 189 DrGMadhavanNair TheTwenty-ninthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheTwenty-secondIndian EngineeringCongress,Udaipur,December13-16,2007 ICT andInnovation¾ EnablersforEconomic Transformation 195 ShriSRamadorai TheThirtiethSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheTwenty-thirdIndian EngineeringCongress,Warrangal,December11-14,2008 Engineers¾ theHarbingersofChange 200 LtGenIJSingh TheThirty-secondRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheTwenty-fifthIndian EngineeringCongress,Kochi,December16-19,2010 The33rdSirRNMookerjeeMemorialLecture 206 HEShriShekharDutt TheThirty-thirdSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheTwenty-sixthIndian EngineeringCongress,Bangalore,December15-18,2011 TechnologySecurityandInclusiveGrowth 208 LtGenNBSingh TheThirty-fourthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheTwenty-seventhIndian EngineeringCongress,NewDelhi,December13-16,2012 LeveragingEngineering AdvancementsandInnovationforNationBuilding: TheIndiaExperience 211 MrK Venkataraman TheThirty-fifthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheTwenty-eighthIndian EngineeringCongress,Chennai,December20-22,2013 MakeinIndia¾ ChallengesanNRL'sJourneyfortheLast17 Years 222 DrKrishnaChivukula TheThirty-seventhSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheThirtiethIndian EngineeringCongress,Guwahati,December17-20,2015 EvolutionofMachines:FromSteamEnginestoMechatronics 225 Prof AsokKumarMallik TheThirty-eighthSirRajendraNathMookerjeeMemorialLecturewasdeliveredduringtheThirty-firstIndian EngineeringCongress,Kolkata,December16-18,2016 The First Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee Memorial Lecture was delivered during the Sixtieth Annual Convention (Diamond Jubilee), Calcutta, February 19, 1980 Science, Technology and Development Shri S K Datta, FIE INTRODUCTION Having undertaken, at the behest of the IE(I), the task of delivering the first Sir Rajendranath Mookerjee Nemorial Lecture, I take, this occasion of your presence, to express my deep gratitude for the confidence which has been placed in me and to admit, in all sincerity, that indeed I have my own doubts whether I can be equal to the task. However, as a professional engineer myself, I was at the same time attracted by this opportunity of paying my respectful tributes toa person no less than Sir Rajendranath whose eminence and distinction in the profession of