Vol 4, Issue 2, July 2019 R & D Activities During January - June 2019
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Vol 4, Issue 2, July 2019 www.chitkarauniversity.edu.in R & D Activities during January - June 2019 CONTENTS EDITORIAL v Top Stories 2 Research Culture at our university and focus on Sustainable v Faculty Achievements & Contributions 3 Development Academic research plays a signicant role in the economic development of a v Events Organized 4 country as new innovations and technologies assist in the development of the v Events Attended 10 society by enhancing the depth and breadth of knowledge and is indispensable for v Industry Visits Organized For Students 12 sustainable growth. I am happy to see exponentially growing culture of research v Patents 13 at Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh. During these last six months, our faculty members have received funding of close to INR 75 lakhs from DST and v Publications 14 HIMCOSTE for three different projects. This is in addition to several other ongoing funded projects in the university. There are three more projects that have been submitted to DST and SERB and are under consideration. The best part of these sanctioned and submitted research projects is that all these have a direct application to the society. DST sponsored IPR Cell of our university as well as Entrepreneurship Cell is doing an excellent job in their respective departments. Chitkara University H.P. has attained a milestone of 50 patents with 6 patents being led during January – June 2019, and till June 2019 four patents have been granted to us by the Indian Patent Ofce. In addition to other events, Entrepreneurship Cell or CEED conducted a huge event - SURGE 0.1 to bring together start-up eco-system, FUTURE EVENTS entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists of the region as well as academic community on a single platform. v DST Expert Committee Meeting on Landslide All the departments in the university have been organizing pertinent, signicant Hazard Mitigation (September 2019) and state of the art technical events by inviting experts from outside. Our faculty v Startup Weekend (September 2019) members have been participating in many external events and our university has v International Conference on Chemical, always encouraged such participation. You will nd details of all the events Physical and Biological Sciences (October conducted and attended during January – June 2019 in this issue of the 2019) newsletter. In addition to this, you will nd a big section on the achievements of our v Global Week (October 2019) faculty members during this timeframe. Chitkara University is committed to focus on sustainable development. We have EDITORIAL BOARD recently received Environment Leadership Award 2019 from honourable Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh – Shri Jai Ram Thakur ji. The Department of Civil v Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar, Vice Chancellor Engineering of our university organized a 21-day DST sponsored summer school (Chairman) on Mountain Disaster Management and Landslide Management that was attended by selected scholars and academicians from all over India. v Mr. Sagar Juneja, ECE (Member Secretary) Lastly, I wish to mention that our RnD News has taken nascent steps in v Mr. Shankar Aggarwal, CSE showcasing all our research and development activities at a glance. We started v Dr. C. Prakasam, CE this effort four years back and this is the 8th issue. I hope you will like reading it and v Dr. Sita Ram Sharma, Applied Sciences nd it useful. If you have any comments or feedback please do write to us! v Dr. Sartajvir Singh, ECE “The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person.” - Steve Jobs Online issue is available on Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar www.chitkarauniversity.edu.in Vice Chancellor Chitkara University, H.P. Chitkara University, H.P. Engineering Programs Rated AAA+ by Careers360 1 www.chitkarauniversity.edu.in www.chitkarauniversity.edu.in Vol 4, Issue 2, July 2019 Vol 4, Issue 2, July 2019 TOP STORIES FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & CONTRIBUTIONS Felicitation by Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Dr. Nitin Saluja – Associate Director (CURIN) is Co-PI of the CSIR fellowship for PhD scholar Following faculty members of Chitkara University, H.P. were Sh. Jai Ram Thakur - Chief Minister, Himachal Pradesh felicitated project that has received a grant of Rs 37,90,000. Mr. Aravinth R. - Ph.D. research scholar in department of Civil awarded in the function - Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar - Vice Chancellor, Chitkara University, v Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar, Dr. Ajay Sharma – Professor, Applied Engineering (CE) has received Council of Scientic and Industrial Ÿ Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar – Professor, Department of Civil Himachal Pradesh with Environment Leadership Award 2019 on 5 Sciences (AS) and Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav – Assistant Professor Research (CSIR), Govt. of India Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) Engineering (CE) and Dr C. Prakasam - Associate Professor June 2019, recognizing the efforts of our university in solving (AS) received a funding of INR 10,00,000 for project entitled XRF for a period of two years to continue his research work under Dr C. (CE) received External Funding Award 2019. Ÿ problem of sludge disposal faced by industries situated in Baddi, Evaluation of Soil, Water and Plants Polluted with Garbage and Prakasam – Associate Professor (CE). Dr. Sartajvir Singh – Associate Professor (ECE) received Barotiwala, Nalagarh Development Authority (BBNDA). Himachal Industrial Sludge: Remedial Measures from H.P. Council for Teachers Excellence award in all three categories Most Pradesh Government has also released a Coffee Table Book with a Science Technology and Environment (HIMCOSTE), Shimla. Collaborative, Most Committed and Emerging Leader special mention of the initiatives taken up by Chitkara University and v DST has approved a project funding of INR 30,00,000 for the Ÿ Dr. Ajay Sharma – Professor (AS) was awarded Research best practices in the area of environment conservation and project titled Capacity Building and Technology Demonstration Excellence award for his research publications. sustainability in educational institutions of Himachal Pradesh. for the Socio - Economic Upliftment of SC/ST Population in Ÿ Mr. Sagar Juneja – Associate Professor (ECE) received Research nearby Villages of Himachal Pradesh. Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar is Excellence award for ling 6 patents in last one year. In addition PI, Dr. Hitakshi Dutta – Associate Professor, Dr. C. Prakasam - two patents are granted to him this year. He also received Teacher Associate Professor (CE) and Dr. Ashok Kumar - Associate Excellence award in Most Enterprising category. Professor (AS) are Co-PIs of the project. Ÿ Dr. Neeraj Kumar – Assistant Professor (ECE) received Teacher Excellence award in Most Enterprising category. Book publication by CE professor PhD degrees awarded to two faculty members of ECE Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar – Professor, Department of Civil Engineering Mr. Neeraj Kumar – Assistant Professor (ECE) completed his PhD Recognition for CE department (CE), Chitkara University, H.P. in collaboration with Prof. K.V.S Thakur from Chitkara University, Punjab in May 2019. The title of his thesis IIRS-ISRO gave an appreciation certicate to ISRO Outreach and Prof. Narinder Sharma - Chief Engineers (Retd.), BBMB was Ofine Handwritten Gurmukhi Word Recognition and Mapping Centre of Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh for regularly published a book entitled Modern Temples of Resurgent India with Devnagri Script. Mr. Shivendu Prashar – Assistant Professor organizing different outreach courses. The centre is coordinated by Engineers' Pilgrimage to Bhakra, Beas and Ranjit Sagar Dams. The (ECE) also completed his Phd in May 2019 and title of his PhD Dr. C. Prakasam – Associate Professor (CE). Silver Award at 12th QCI –DL Shah Quality Awards book was published by Lambert Academic Publishing. thesis was Modelling Performance Parameters of Fiber Grating for Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh received Silver Award at the an Optical Sensor. PhD thesis award and Best paper award Dr. Sartajvir Singh – Associate Professor (ECE) received 12th Quality Council of India (QCI) – DL Shah Quality Awards 2018 Another faculty member from ECE, Mr. Amit Monga – Assistant Outstanding PhD Thesis Award in the eld of Signal and Image for the case study entitled Zero Discharge Environmental Friendly Professor qualied GATE 2019 with 93 percentile. Educational Campus. The award recognizes successful project Processing at the International Conference on Signal Processing, VLSI and Communication Engineering (ICSPVCE-2019) held at organization of our university that is resulting in continuous Certication courses completed by faculty members Delhi Technological University (DTU), New Delhi, 2019 during improvement of processes and services through cost-effective (CSE and ECE) March 28-30, 2019. In another conference - Chitkara University operations and with increased level of satisfaction for all Faculty members from department of Computer Science and Doctoral Consortium 2019 held during May 17-18 at Chitkara stakeholders. Chitkara University is the rst university in the country Engineering (CSE) and department of Computer Applications (CA) University, Punjab Ms. Minaxi Dassi – Assistant Professor (ECE) to receive this honour among 1000 participants from different have completed following certication courses - received Best Paper Award for paper entitled Investigation of sectors like industries, service sector and MNCs. The award Ÿ Ms. Aashima Malhotra & Ms. Nirmaljeet Kaur (CSE) successfully Semiconducting