Chairperson’s message… New Faculty Members Dr. Sumit Sinha Ray holds a Ph.D. from University of Greetings!! It gives me immense pleasure to Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include Filtration th present the 4 issue of “TIDINGS”. This and heavy metal removal, Thermal management of newsletter is one of the ways in which we microelectronics, Nonwoven methodologies and their disseminate information relating to the School of applications, Optical and thermal characterization, Drug Tidings Engineering of IIT Mandi. The last semester was delivery and Energy storage. A biannual newsletter full of various academic, extracurricular and Dr. Kasiviswanathan K S holds a Ph.D. from IIT Madras. aa R&D activities by the students and faculty His research interests include Reservoir operation; Flood published members. As you read this newsletter, you will by the School of forecasting, Hydrologic Modeling, Multi objective realize that the School had a particularly optimization, Uncertainty and risk analysis and Geo spatial Engineering, successful semester. Some of the achievements I nd statistical data analysis. Indian Institute of would like to share. Mr. Nitesh Kumar 2 year Dr. Subhamoy Sen holds a Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur. His Technology Mandi B. Tech (ME) student has won the Gold Medal research interests include Stochastic System Identification, September 2017 (MS SL3) for , at FZ Forza Irish Para- Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Inverse problems, Kalman Badminton International 2017. School of filtering, Bayesian updating, Structural Health Monitoring. Chief Patron Engineering did set-up many advanced research Dr. Mousumi Mukherjee holds a Ph.D. in Civil laboratories. Significant amount of external Engineering (Geotechnical) from IIT Kanpur. Her Prof. T.A. Gonsalves research funding was received. I would like to research interests include Geomechanics, Constitutive (Director, IIT Mandi) thank all my colleagues for their tireless efforts modeling of frictional material, material, Soil instability, to help the school grow at a very steady pace. Numerical Modeling and Non-destructive testing of soil. Rajeev Kumar, Chair, School of Engineering Editorial Team

Serenity Dr. A. DharScience Faculty Achievements & Outreach Student Achievements Dr. A. Gupta& Fun Dr. Dhiraj V Patil received IIT-DAAD Fellowship for exchange visit IIT Mandi B.Tech (ME) Dr. D. V. Patil Karlsruhe Institute of Technol ogy (KIT) Germany, 2017. Student Mr. Nitesh Kumar @ IIT has won the Gold Medal Dr. K. Sarkar (MS SL3) for India at FZ Mandi Dr. Himanshu Pathak received Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Dr. V. Balakrishnan Forza Irish Para-Badminton International Achievement Award 2017. Mr. Akash Kumar 2017 on 25th June, 2017. The tournament was held in National stadium at Dublin, Dr. Rajaneesh Sharma conducted a 1 day workshop on Concept Design on Ireland from 22 to 25th June 2017. It was the Ropeway System in association with DST and a local NGO. Contact 3rd episode of the tournament. Mr. Nitesh Kumar participated as a contingent member Chairperson S. K. Saha, S. Bong and R. P. Dhakal, “Contribution of Structural Wall and of Indian Para-Badminton Association. It is a School of Frame Damage in Seismic Loss of RC Buildings”, 12th International very proud moment for our Country as well Engineering, Conference on Structural Safety & Reliability (ICOSSAR 2017), Vienna, as for the whole IIT Mandi family. IIT Mandi, Kamand Austria, 6-10 August, 2017.

H.P. – 175005, India Ms. Manju Bisht presented her research Dr. th S. Khakurel, R. P. Dhakal, S. K. Saha and T. Z. Yeow, "Identification of work at 26 International Conference on Phone: Building TypologyRajeev and Kumar Contributing Components to the Expected Seismic Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics 01905 -267138 Loss" New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering (NZSEE) Annual (DSFD-2017) at Erlangen, Germany Technical Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, April 27-29, 20. Fax: Design Practicum Open House held on 21st

01905 -267138 May, 2017 Web: On 21st May 2017, IIT Mandi witnessed an se.iitmandi.ac.in exemplary demonstration of low cost E-mail: technology prototypes for solving problems [email protected] of society. These prototypes were developed by students as part of their Design Practicum course IC201P. Student Strength Visitors

Prof. Anand Kulkarni (Michigan Technological University, USA), Prof S.P. Mahulikar (IIT Bombay) and Short Term course on Modeling and Simulation using Finite Element Prof. Raja Banerjee (IIT Hyderabad)

rd Method for Engineering Applications from 19th June to 23 June, visited IIT Mandi and offered 1 credit 2017. courses. One week short Term Course on Modeling Simulation using Finite Prof. S.L. Dhingra (IIT Bombay) Element Method for Engineering Applications (MSFEMEA) was delivered a lecture on “Planning for organised from June 19-23, 2017 at IIT Mandi. The short term course was Smart and Beautiful Cities with inaugurated by Prof. Timothy. A. Gonsolves, Director, IIT Mandi. In Sustainable Infrastructure. inaugural speech, he highlighted the importance of modeling & simulation Mr. R. Sankara Kumar (AMD, ARM in engineering. Several experts delivered lecture on FEM connecting Contracting, Bahrain) delivered an fundamentals to engineering applications. expert talk on Civil Engineering Faculty Strength Contracts to students. Speakers: Dr. I. V. Singh, IIT Roorkee and several faculties from IIT Regular faculty: 30 Mandi. Faculties from School of Engineering are namely, Dr. Rajeev Visiting professors: 1 Publications Kumar, Dr. Vishal Singh Chauhan, Dr. P. Anil Kishan, Dr. Rajesh Ghosh, Adjunct professors: 2 Dr. Kaustav Sarkar, Dr. Himanshu Pathak, Dr. Sunny Zafar, Dr. Gaurav Till Date: 659 Mentor professors: 2 Bhutani and Dr. Subhamoy Sen. Feb-July (2017): 30

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing (Henry Petroski)

Research Labs/Facilities at School of Engineering, IIT Mandi

Nanoscale Materials & Material Science Lab Smart Materials Lab IC Engine Lab Devices

Biomedical Mechanics Energy Materials Thermo Fluid lab Vibration Lab

Nanoidentiation Mechanical Workshop Solar Energy lab Acoustics Lab

Vetting of structural design for the extension of renovation of Recently Commenced Projects existing shed of Mela Ground IARI Pusa New Delhi to Dr. Rajneesh Sharma by CD-4 CPWD, IARI Pusa New Delhi. INR Parametric study on pullout resistance of model micro-piles, by 2, 64,500 (2 months) DRDO to Dr. Kala Venkata Uday (PI), Dr. Kaustav Sarkar (Co-PI) INR 9,95,900 2 years 13.03.17 to 12.03.19 Traffic chakker at Sukhodi Khad Hospital Chowk Mandi to Dr. Rajneesh Sharma (PI), Dr. Kaustav Sarkar (Co-PI) by Search of new semiconducting heusler alloys for high temprature Executive Engineer, Mandi division II, HPPWD Mandi budget thermoelectric applications by SERB to Dr. Sudhir Kumar Pandey, INR 1,49,500 for (6 months) INR 19,08,940 (3 years) Sustainable waste water treatment through bio-photoelectro Modelling of hydraulic diffusivity and its application in the FE catalysis and bio production to Dr. Atul Dhar (PI),Dr. Rahul simulation of moisture transport in concrete for assessing corrosion Vaish,Dr. Shyam Kumar Masakapalli,Dr. Aditi Halder,Dr. risk by SERB to Dr. Kaustav Sarkar, 45,89,260 (3 years) Tulika P Srivastava,Dr. Rik Rani Koner (Co PI's) by MHRD- IMPRINT INR 3,84,34,000 (3 years) SInvestigation of fluid and granular jet impact with erosion effects by SERB to Dr. Dhiraj V Patil INR 27,59,400 (3 years) Suitability of higher modeling approach for reactive solute transport through hetrogeneous porous medium: experimental Development of nanostructured wear resistant microwave clads to and numerical study to Dr. Deepak Swami by SERB INR minimise slurry erosion in hydro turbines by SERB to Dr. Sunny 42,74,600 (3 years) Zafar INR 53,30,750 (3 years) New metal-organic networks as promising electro-active species Snow mapping & it's parameter estimation from geospatial for energy storage application: from materials developments to (AVIRIS-NG) and field data by SAC-ISRO to Dr. Dericks P. Shukla prototype fabrication to Dr. Rik Rani Koner by SERB INR 30, INR 1, 00,000 (1 year) 51, 000 (3 years)

Design and development of efficient solar assisted corrugated box Development of aligned CNT-polymer nanocomposite for light dryer by State council for Science, Technology & weight and high strength body armor application by Azista Environment (SCSTE) to Dr. Satvasheel Powar INR 8, 17, 000 Industries, Hyderabad to Dr.Viswanath Balakrishnan, INR 32, (2 years) 78,600 (2 years)

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