Inside this Issue DoRA's Interview on Centenary Celebrations Another giant leap : BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY Harnessing the power of solar energy The Transfiguration of MAIN LIBRARY, IIT (BHU) Getting to know the new Deans In Talks : Vivifying your career Innovating for change : Modification in the design of Jetty A vision turned into reality : Academia to the Field Revisiting a visionary : Professor TR Anantharaman Faculty Achievements Invited Talks Publications List of Sponsored Projects List of MOUs Hindi Pakhwara Training Programmes Science and Technology Council Essay Writing Competition Volume 3, Issue 1 Student Achievements The Institute Newsletter Spardha'17 February 2018 Gymkhana's Activities Kashiyatra 2018 2 Editor's Desk We are glad to present to you the from brickfields in the state. In organised to understand student fourth edition of the Institute another article, we commend the perspectives on how the ensuing Newsletter. 2018 is an exceptional efforts of the members of the team changes have affected the Institute, year for IIT (BHU), as it marks the from the Civil Engineering and one of the winning entries has beginning of the centennial department, who are working been published here. celebrations of the Institute. While the towards modernising jetties used in We would like to express our details of the programme are still water transportation. Another gratitude towards the entire faculty being worked out and will be significant step towards sustainable and student fraternity, and to all the covered in subsequent editions of this development is the installation of Deans and their respective offices, for publication, we take some time in this solar panels across various buildings t h e i r va l u a b l e i n p u t s a n d issue to explore some of the reasons encompassing the Institute. The cooperation has helped in shaping how this Institute has withstood the details of the path-breaking this edition in a better way. We hope test of time and continues to be a installation, which has a capacity of you enjoy reading this edition of the leader in education, research and 1.5 MW, provides an inspiring read. n e w s l e t t e r. Fe e d b a c k a n d social involvement. The century-old Institution has suggestions are most welcome, and A feature story follows the efforts of a undergone several changes over the team can be reached at team which is actively involved in time. The most recent was the [email protected] and bringing academic insights to help welcome conversion to an IIT in [email protected] curb air and soil pollution arising 2012. An essay contest was Editorial Team : Editor : Dr I. Sinha, Department of Chemistry Student Editor : Dhanushmanth Yenugu Team : Prasanjan Mitra, Anandita Gill, Garvit Mohata, Snehanshu Harsh, Abhishek Mishra, Pranjal Jain, Piyush, Kumar Prithvijeet, Abhishek Tripathi, Manish Gandharv, Saubhagya Gaurav, Abhishek Kumar, Sandeep, Ravi, Ankit Kumar Pandey Office : Mukesh Mondal 3 DoRA's Interview on Centenary Celebrations In Talks : DoRA, The dawn of Centenary Celebrations With the BHU having been established celebrations in their presence. in 1919, the current year marks the How will the departments beginning of its hundredth year. On this contribute to these celebrations? auspicious and proud occasion, it is the Achievements of Alumni are also the time that we reminisce our past, learning achievements of the department, and valuable lessons from it, and surge consequently of the Institute. Similarly, ahead leading today's world with the faculty colleagues who have worked in traits we have imbibed through our the departments also have contributed to heritage. In this context, we had an the development of the nation or world celebrations? opportunity to discuss with the Dean of and are also an achievement of the Resource and Alumni, Professor A K department. So the departments have Rather than just academically thinking Tripathi about how the institute is been asked to prepare a list of eminent about these things and proposing planning to celebrate this occasion and alumni who have made a mark in their centres, we are approaching various sow the seeds for further advancement. respective profession, in R&D, in industries. People from Railways, Mine Here are the excerpts of the interaction : academia, or also in society. Safety Organisation, DLW, Nuclear What is the timeline of the Traditionally departments have been Power Corporation of India, Atomic centenary celebrations in our working in their own chosen areas of Energy Commission, BARC, ISRO, institute? specialisation. DRDO will come and we will be holding The institute consists of primarily three event brainstorming workshops on 10th Now the time is of inter-disciplinary units that are identified as erstwhile and 11th of February in which those initiatives in research, that is, research colleges of BHU of which Benaras people would come and participate. We on the interface of two disciplines. The Engineering College (BENCO), which is will put four questions to them: The first departments have been asked to the oldest constituent of our institute, was question is, "If we award a Master's identify the types of initiatives that can established in 1919. The other two units Degree in Dependability Engineering, be taken in the new century of the are MINMET (Mining and Metallurgy), will those graduates be employable?" institute. College of Technology (Chemical, This Master's degree course can be 2- Silicate (now known as Ceramic) The departments will be planning year course after B tech programme in Technology). Also, we were the first National and international academic any engineering discipline. The second institution in Asia to award the meets in the true sense in which right question that we are going to ask those Pharmaceutical degree. The courses in professionals and academicians from representatives of the industry is whether the BENCO started in July, but the important research institutes abroad and they would be interested in sponsoring departments came into existence a little industrial organisations would come and their people for Masters and PhD earlier, sometime in January. Since the participate. These meets will be program here in that area of technology. foundation day of BHU is Vasant organised as part of the centenary The third question that we will be putting Panchami, therefore, to have it coincide celebrations this year and next year also. up to them is whether they would be with the mother Institution, we are going The idea is to bring the providing industry problems on which to celebrate the main centenary function contemporary problems from the research can be carried out in on Vasant Panchami next year that is on industrial and professional collaboration with their organisation. organisations for our research 10 February 2019. These celebrations Collaborative research projects are those and undergraduate students to will conclude on Vasant Panchami, where the scientists and engineers work on, and we also want a great working in the organisation and the 2020. The beginning of these deal of involvement of alumni in students and faculty working in the celebrations is on 22nd February 2018. this respect also. department can engage in some The golden jubilee reunion of the 1968 How will various organisations batch of BENCO is during the same contribute to the Centres that collaborative research. Because of our period, and we will launch the centenary you plan to form on centenary B.Tech and M.Tech programs themselves 4 being research and innovation oriented, communication can be put on a balloon ideas from across the globe. We are we can associate even 2nd-year students and floated into the air when the disaster reaching out to our alumni associations in these projects. The fourth question that occurs so that till the time reconstruction through our institute's newsletter with an we will be putting to those organisations o f t o w e r s t a k e s p l a c e , t h e effort to attract such minds. For this, is that whether they can provide some communication can be intact. infrastructure is also important better launching endowments. We will involve Centre for Interdisciplinary faculty houses, state of the art library, them at the beginning itself so that the Research in Automation Control both of which are being covered in the centres can flourish with the participation and Instrumentation – In this centre, centenary initiative. of industry rather than thinking on our we can pull the strengths of the Clearly, an institution prospers own about what is suitable for the department that brings in the synergetic by the size of the fund. Do you national needs. We will be proposing involvement of multiple disciplines for have a fund raising policy for the centres of R&D around the themes of the addressing the issues of Industry 4.0. It institute? national requirements so that various deals with embedded systems, electronic There is an alumni registration portal government and industrial organisations automation and networking. which is being recast into centenary can support us. Centre for Interdisciplinary celebration website. We are also asking Will there be any infrastructural Research in Planetary and Space the Banaras Alumni Association to host developments in the institute Sciences – A distinguished alumnus of mega alumni meet in Varanasi wherein with these celebrations? our institute Dr Anil Bhardwaj, who is a alumni across the world would be We are proposing a few centres :– director at ISRO, proposed that we participating. Because these are Centre for Dependability should come up with this centre. We can centenary times, we can expect the Engineering – It will include courses have synergetic involvement of number to notch up to thousands.