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 collaborative research. Because of our batch of BENCO is during the same contribute to the Centres that 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 C e n t re f o r D e p e n d a b i l i t y 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. We do on safety, security, reliability, Department of Physics, Electrical have another centenary project that is availability, and usability, so that we can Engineering, Electronics Engineering, known as Corpus Fund. Like institutions prevent the various types of losses that and Mechanical engineering to work on such as Stanford, Oxford etc where occur during the operation of any system this idea. This may also involve clubs like billions of dollars are available in corpus like the material loss, property loss, or Astronomy club which are already fund, our institution will have a Shatabdi loss of lives etcetera. We will have exploring this vast domain in the college. Kosh. An institute of higher learning is brainstorming workshop on 10th and This centenary celebration is supposed to create knowledge, process 11th of February 2018 involving the focussing on relishing the past knowledge and disseminate knowledge. professional and industrial organisations and taking the baton of R&D, A plethora of newer dimensions can be social outreach as well as discussing this centre. added (analogous to the Oxford h u m a n i s t i c s t u d i e s . Dictionary and Oxford Press in the Centre for Research in Planning, Collaboration with industries is Oxford University). This corpus fund Architecture and Disaster also being given a serious Management – It was proposed by thought, but are there any should not be less than 20 million one of the members of Board of notable changes directed towards dollars. We are going to ask the alumni Governors, Mr Nitin Malhotra who is a faculty? association to engage this type of corpus graduate of Ceramic engineering There is no denying the fact that all IITs fund. We are thinking in terms of a department of IIT BHU. All the cities in the are starving for faculty. The greatness of technology park where various country are becoming disaster prone. It an institute can be adjudged by the companies would come and establish is not possible to move. Pollution is very greatness of its faculty. Clearly, for us to R&D so that students, faculties and high, because of which people are be a top-notch institute, we need a scientists could work together on the unable to go to their schools and offices. faculty of high calibre. During the last 2-3 chosen areas of grand challenges and All these difficulties are there. The idea is years, we have added some 100 new national needs. IBGAA has promised in to plan Urban and rural settlements and faculties. We should have 550 faculties one of the alumni meets that it would be design architectural blueprints for urban but we are running short with some 250 generating 1 million dollars. The settlements keeping in mind the disaster faculties. I realize that the numbers aren't government of India said that if we could management. So Planning and good but I see a silver lining to it. I see it generate a million dollars, they would Architecture, driven by the requirements as an opportunity to enrich our faculty. assist us in the additional funding of Disaster Management. In disaster When you have the names of professors required for establishing such management, there are many types of who have graduated from Berkeley, information technology park. In this way, initiatives that are possible. Worst Stanford, Oxford etc on your faculty list, we can attract sharp minds from other affected thing is the communication as your department not only appears to countries as well for research works. the towers fall in a hurricane or typhoon. look good but also gets enriched Positively, we can get the very cream of There are newer technologies available because, then, you get diverse SAARC countries for PhD and Masters. in which the total base station for technological perspectives and new 5 Another giant leap : Harnessing the power of solar energy
A year and a half ago, honourable Director Prof. Rajeev Sangal, during an interview with the team of Institute Newsletter, had announced the initiative of installing Solar Panels having a capacity of 1.5 MW on the roofs of various buildings in the Institute. Since then, this task has been carried forward by completing the installation on almost all the hostels and many of the departments in the institute. Having had said that, in this edition, we would like to carry out a more detailed analysis of this project.
The institute consumes a total of 3 MW of An aerial view of the IIT BHU Solar Energy Project (Photo Credits: Jaseel Muhameed Keloth) electricity each month. Prior to the installation of solar panels, i.e. when this which eventually is transferred to the amount of energy can be generated total energy was being taken from the area of interest. providing the opportunity to produce
surplus energy attaining complete main grid, each unit was being charged As part of this project, the company energy self-sufficiency. We hope that day at Rs.12 by the government. After the involved trains people in the local areas installation of the Solar Panels, the is not far away. in the field of maintenance and later institute has increased its self-sufficiency recruits them. Thus, this initiative has We thank Prof. Rajesh Kumar, in terms of energy. been serving as a source of employment Chairperson IWD, for providing us the
The solar panels have been installed in too. necessary information. the institute with the help of Clean Max We can firmly say that this has been a Solar, a Mumbai based private firm. giant leap towards developing a system Total Energy consumed by IIT BHU : Clean Max Solar is a private of the clean energy system in 3 MW organisation promoting the usage of a c c o rd a n c e wi t h t h e U N D P Electricity being acquired through Solar energy as an alternative source of Sustainable Development Goals. Solar Energy: 1.5 MW energy in Asia. The company has not Ke e pi n g i n view t h e fu r t h e r Electricity generated in the month of levied any fee on the Institute for this developments possible at a later period January '18 through this project: purpose. The firm has also not been of time, such as the use of affordable 1.25 MW charging any remuneration for the solar energy storage cells and utilisation maintenance of these solar panels. The of the complete roof space, ample solar panels, as previously pointed out, have a total capacity of 1.5 MW. The firm levies an amount of Rs.5.9 for each unit of electricity generated from these solar panels. This has helped the Institute reduce the expenditure on procurement of electricity and also paved way for sustainable development. This project had cost the contracted firm an amount of Rs.2 crores, which is being reimbursed t h r o u g h t h e a f o r e m e n t i o n e d arrangement.
Coming to the functioning of this system, the energy generated through the solar panels is integrated into a grid system, Solar panel installation on rooftop of Institute Main Library building 6 The Transfiguration of MAIN LIBRARY, IIT (BHU) “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Jorge Luis Borges
One of the most fundamental institutions of any educational establishment is the library. The temple of thoughts and the birthplace of ideas, a good and well- organized library is a necessity for the growth of an educational facility. The Main Library of IIT (BHU) Varanasi is on its way to a monumental change, Main Library IIT BHU and we tried to understand the essence of this metamorphosis from the very people who have spent their blood, when books aren't enough, and we of those resources have been uploaded sweat, and tears in service to the require our favourite kind of teachers - to the new network and are easily betterment of the Library and the college our friends to study with, the Library has accessible. A few subscriptions were lost at large. We thank Mr. Navin come up with an innovative solution as due to the recent shift from the BHU Upadhyay, the Deputy Librarian, who ideas for spaces of “collaborative network to the new independent IIT earmarked his valuable time to provide learning” is being discussed, with desks network, which will be recovered and us with a deep insight into the designed in a way to promote group renewed at the earliest. The entire E- undergoing transformation. studies and discussions.The chances are library is being redesigned with lots of that we will also be gifted with an Amul new material, aiming to support a better After much ambition and planning, the store right in the library premises, to keep quality of research and teaching. first-floor reading hall has been us hydrated and energized during those completely setup and will be fully Unlike the many issues in the long battles with the textbooks. functional from March of this year. It will be open and running up until late night hours, and 24x7 during the exam days. With a seating capacity of over 300 and new and efficient furnishing, it looks royal. Each desk has a plug point and ample and comfortable workspace. All personal belongings are allowed in the reading room, provided it doesn't disturb the silence of the room and the peace of other people (Obviously!). We were much excited to learn that the entire The Reading Space in the Library ground floor: all those nooks, and
crannies, we are all familiar with (or not) will undergo a complete renovation, and The scene in the Computer Lab/Digital previous network when the Library didn't have any static and is expected to revamp our imaginations Library section couldn't get any better. A of what a library can be. The now global IP of their own, the new new and improved lab is strolling in the network has opened up many assigned spaces for the reading rooms horizon, with 48 desktops more than doors and possibilities for the and computer room will most likely be sufficiently equipped to handle our unit. Resource gathering, access, turned in to more shelves which can only craving for knowledge, if and when we and management have become mean that more and newer books are on have them. All the library housekeeping way more simple and efficient. there way. Centralized air conditioning, jobs will be fully computerized, all made Keeping track of books and new electrical wiring, and much more is possible by the new IIT network. All E- journals have become quite elegant and informative, and it in offing. Our hopes are only so high resources will be accessible through the can only get better. With a after that meeting. And for the moments new network. As of now, more than 80% centralized management system 7
for the entire network directly of them being helpful for the subscriptions to web-based governed by our institute, it has students. Even though all these services such as Grammarly and also become quite easier to check facilities are still not being fully utilized Turnitin with high hopes of them and keep records of the by us, Mr. Upadhyay remains hopeful of being helpful for the students. utilization of every resource on the fact that one day every student of this Even though all these facilities are still not the network which, in turn, has institute will use them and be benefitted being fully utilized by us, Mr. Upadhyay made it very simple to add or remains hopeful of the fact that one day drop resources depending on its by the vast ocean of resources and every student of this institute will use and usage. In short, governance throughout subscriptions that have been provided to be benefitted by the vast ocean of the entire network has become quite us. resources and subscriptions that have pleasant. Plans are underway to In short, governance throughout the been provided to us. redesign the Library website as entire network has become quite well, in an efficient and user- pleasant. Plans are underway to So many big plans, that too in such a friendly manner, with the redesign the Library website as short span of time, may seem like a far implementation of a web-scale well in an efficient and user- shot from reality. But with the level of discovery tool, which will friendly manner with the dedication, everyone has been working hopefully make navigating implementation of a web-scale with, all these plans are quite through the website and discovery tool, which will achievable. With skilled and devoted searching material a breeze. The hopefully make navigating personnel teaming up to improve and library is also providing premium through the website and renovate the looks and functioning of the subscriptions to web-based searching material a breeze. The library, we have high hopes of a better services such as the Grammarly library is also providing premium and the Turnitin with high hopes and reimagined study experience. Getting to know the new Deans
The Deans for various administrative member on the advisory board of Carve posts of IIT BHU have been appointed Niche Technologies Pvt Limited. He has after the assent of the Board of worked as Associate DoAA, IIT BHU Governors for a period of three years. along with former DoAA Professor G.V.S Here is a glimpse into each of their Sastry and is known for introducing profiles: various academic reforms in the
Dean of Academic Affairs (DoAA): curriculum of the institute. Professor Professor A.S.K. Sinha Sinha has previously worked as the Vice Professor A.S.K Sinha is from the Chairman of the Training and Placement Department of Chemical Engineering Cell, IT BHU, as a member of the R and and Technology IIT BHU and has D Committee, IIT BHU and as the specialized in Heterogeneous Catalysis, Coordinator of IT Hostels providing him Chemical Reaction Engineering, and with vast administrative experience. His Hydrogen Engineering. He serves as a main areas of research include 8
Photocatalysis for Water Splitting and Computing, Software Engineering. Po l l ut io n Co nt ro l, Co nve rs io n Professor Tripathi is actively involved in ofMethanol,to Hydrocarbons, Hydrogen building an alumni network of IIT BHU Fuel Cell, Heterogeneous Process for and has been the backbone of Student Biodiesel Production, Catalytic Cracking Alumni Interaction Cell (SAIC) since its of Methane, Production, Storage and inception. He is currently supervising the Uses of Hydrogen, Nanomaterials, Centennial celebrations of the institute.
Functionalisation of Carbon Nanotubes. Dean of Research and Develop- Dean of Student Affairs (DoSA): ment (DoRD): Professor Rajiv Professor B.N. Rai Prakash A prominent professor of the Chemical Professor Rajiv Prakash, a gold medalist Engineering Department, Dr B.N. Rai in M.Tech (Material Science) has has more than 25 years of experience in pursued both his Masters and PhD teaching, research and educational (Chemistry) from BHU. Before joining the administration and he has held quite a School of Material Science and number of educational administrative Institution, Dr. Shukla was with HAL Technology, Professor Prakash worked posts including the President of IT where he was part of the Joint Working as a scientist at IITR-CSIR Lucknow for Gymkhana 2008-09, Co-Coordinator of Group with UK engineers and actively over seven years. His research domain participated in many projects of national covers the streams of Materials importance, including the LCA program. He also established the Malaviya Center for Information Technology Localization in the Institute with extra mural funding from MeitY. Professor Shukla's interests comprise of Information Security, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics, and Data Mining.
Dean of Resource and Alumni (DoRA): Professor Anil Kumar Tripathi Professor Anil Kumar Tripathi from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering is a renowned personality in the Institute with rich experience as the Students Cultural Activity Centre, Dean of Resource and Alumni. He got an BHU,2004, Manager of the BHU team extension of his tenure in the latest Chemistry and Nanotechnology, in National Youth Festival amongst appointments. Professor Tripathi's areas Conducting Polymer and Composites, others. He took over as the Dean of of research involve Parallel/Distributing Organic Devices, and Sensors and Students' Affairs on 1st December 2017. Biosensors. A recipient of Young Scientist His research interests include Industrial Award (UPCST), Young Engineers Pollution and Control, Bioremediation of Award (INAE), and Materials Research Waste, and Transfer Processes. Besides, Society's India Medal Award, Professor he has co-authored two books in hindi: Prakash has over 2817 citations with an (1) Javiya Padarth: Ushma Rasainic h-index of 30 and i-10 index of 80. Guna Dharma which was awarded Professor Prakash is a member of the second prize by ministry of non- Advisory Committee of TIFAC (DST) for conventional energy and (2) Taralan (on India Technology Vision Plan 2035 and fluidization). has 16 patents to his credit. Professor Rajiv Prakash has been the incharge of Dean of Faculty Affairs (DoFA): Professor K. K. Shukla the Central Instrument Facility IIT BHU Professor K K Shukla, is from the and has played a vital role in its Department of Computer Science and performance to cater for the research Engineering IIT BHU, Before joining the needs. 9 In Talks: Vivifying your career Professor Incharge, Training and Placement Cell, IIT BHU
An interview with Professor Anil Kumar formed consisting of students, because of ditched the Agarwal, the Professor Incharge of which the concept of core team came c o m p a n y Training and Placement Cell, IIT BHU into the picture which later became without any about the current Placement Session. official. Penalty structure was also strict prior notice.
What are the changes in the this year, and measures were taken I t d o e s n ' t p l a c e m e n t s c e n a r i o a f t e r against students who tried to adopt affect that conversion into IIT. unfair means. student but
the relationship between the college and Earlier, we had to call the companies How would you compare the the company would be fractured which from July, but after the conversion of IT placements of the previous and this year? eventually leads to the degradation in BHU into IIT-BHU, we have been the number of core companies visiting associated with the AIPC (All IIT This year's placement has been better the campus. Beside this, there are a Placement Committee): So, now the than previous year's. The credit goes to fewer number of students interested in placement session starts in December. the whole TPO team. The penalty the core jobs. The earlier jobs were categorized into structure has been strict this year dream jobs, super dream jobs and the ensuring that no unfair means can be Do you think that being an old ordinary job but now we have a strict practised during the exam. Any student institute, the placement has been affected in any way? policy of one student-one job which adopting unfair means was debarred enables us to start with the super dream which made them prepare seriously for It does matter but at the same time, it is jobs. The previous batches had to go for the placements, thus an increase in the just like a double-edged sword. Being an the low paid jobs offering Rs.4-5 lakhs number of students placed. old and reputed institute brings a lot of per annum. The system has now become How would you comment on the expectations and if the performance is more efficient and the number of jobs less number of core companies not upto the mark then it creates a and the respective packages has coming to our college? problem. But it is obvious that the certainly increased and we are hoping to expectations are always from a When you join a company you are increase this number in the coming performer and IIT (BHU) is improving and involved in a lot of things, you may lead sessions as well. performing very well as seen in the a group of people or become a part of placement statistics of every year. What were the measures taken by the team. What you need is to TPO for smooth conduction of understand the larger project and all the How has been your experience as the placement session? the TPO head? managerial aspects of an industry. Even The functioning of the online portal of the if you join a core company, most of the When I took over, I saw a lot of students TPO has facilitated the students by time your job is to manage and the going for very low-paid jobs and were reducing the hassle and enabling them technicality remains in the picture upto a satisfied as well. Getting the students to concentrate more on their skills rather certain time. So, whatever subject you involved in the TPO was a huge step than coming to my office and asking learn, it basically helps you to develop which turned out very well. I have been about the company visit. Also, we allow an understanding to find out what best fortunate enough to receive tremendous the students to upload upto 10 resumes solution can be there for a given cooperation from the students to change which allow them to go for various problem. It is true that the number of core the scenario. It's been a great journey profiles in different companies. I have companies is less as compared to the and I am positive that IIT-BHU will tried to facilitate the students by passing non-core. There have been a lot of cases encounter a huge number of offers in the on the information, and a team was where the students after getting a job coming years as well.
Message for the students I would suggest that the students maintain a balance between the academics and co-curricular activities. Do well in academics and do try to make a good use of the opportunities available beyond the class. Attend your classes, complete your assignments and take your projects very seriously. Join the language classes, become part of a society or student gymkhana. It is not necessary for you to be part of a formal organization made for students. You can volunteer for a good cause as well. These societies and groups, where you get yourself attached to the people, take you to a very different platform which gives you a lot of maturity and understanding which you can't get just by reading your textbooks. 10 Innovating for change : Modification in the design of Jetty
“The improvisational ability to bodies turn out to be the most forces) for the actuation. This lead adaptively relies on environmentally friendly and economical ensures the safety and reliability responding to the present mode of transportation. However, the of structure even under adverse situation rather than importing climatic conditions. existing infrastructure isn't capable of the past into the present and utilizing the water-based transportation A small-scale model of SAFTJ has been laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.” efficiently and is often hindered by successfully designed, developed and – Ronald A Heifetz seasonal/tidal fluctuations of the water tested in the Ganga laboratory, level.The present infrastructure doesn't Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Often, the innovations made in the small even handle the cruise-tourism sector (BHU) Varanasi under static water flow things that we encounter in our daily life with convenience due to the lack of conditions. The project was financially are the ones that end up revolutionising solutions of port and also due to the supported by Project Varanasi, Design the world. Be it be the diesel engine or incapability of the jetty infrastructure to and Innovation Hub (DIH), IIT (BHU) the mobile phones over the conventional accommodate both the cargo Varanasi. The concept has been filed for landlines, or the usage of e-services for transportation and cruise tourism. a patent which has recently been governance, simple changes that aim at published and currently the team is the rudimentary elements of human life Observing the inconvenient and working to transfer the technology to have a global impact. Many times we inefficient infrastructure, the students maritime industry and to develop an realize the gravity of these innovations have started exploring the areas which industry focused solution based on this after they revolutionise the world around demand immediate innovations to concept. The concept was exhibited at us. Wouldn't it be a great opportunity to accommodate both the sectors. This Maritime Nation India 2017 exhibition learn about such promising ideas while pointed them towards one aspect of this which was held recently in Mumbai and they are in their infancy and follow them sector which is the port and jetty was appreciated by the maritime in their process of development? Well, infrastructure. The team emerged with a industry professionals. concept of Self-Adjusting Fixed Type Jetty certainly it would be and that is what we have thought of presenting you readers (SAFTJ) which can adapt itself according this time: The tale of how the students of to the changing horizontal and vertical IIT BHU have successfully contributed in water profile due to the seasonal/tidal bringing an innovative change in the fluctuation of the water level. The design of jetties used for transportation concept ensures safe and fixed free- on water. board for the convenience of passengers using the jetty for boarding/deboarding The team in the limelight consists of from the ship's deck. students from the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT BHU Varanasi working This also helps to reduce the cargo towards the modernization of Inland handling duration, thus ramping up the Patent number: waterways and maritime infrastructure. port handling capacity. Unlike the 201711031587 They are working under the mentorship existing infrastructure, a jetty based on Team members : of Dr Rajesh Kumar and Dr K.K. Pandey the concept of SAFTJ can accommodate 1. Ankit Patel of the same department. Considering the b o t h c a r g o a n d p a s s e n g e r 2. Achin Agrawal stats of emissions per tonne per km and transportation, thus making it even more 3. Keshav Pathak cost of transportation per km, the water economically viable. The SAFTJ system responds to a certain 4. Aman Kr. Maurya threshold rise/fall of water Team Mentors : level and the locking and 1. Dr Rajesh Kumar- Professor, unlocking of the structures Department of Civil Engineering. are controlled by a state of the 2. Dr K.K. Pandey- Associate art in-house developed Professor, Department of Civil locking mechanism which Engineering uses only natural forces (gravitational and buoyant 11 A vision turned into reality : Academia to the Field
“To learn and not to do is really Brick Fields around Ganga have practical and intuitive idea about the not to learn. To know and not to been a major source of pollution heat transfer processes involved in the do is really not to know.” by contaminating the air. melting of Aluminium for quite some Stephen R Covey Besides, the heat released by time. Despite being a regular worker, the them not only increases the All of us discuss in the classrooms that the background of him not having the t e m p e r a t u r e o f t h e environment is degrading day by day, environment but also warms the slightest theoretical knowledge about the and if we do not resort to remedial s o i l r e s u l t i n g i n t h e disciplines of Heat Transfer had not been actions on a warfoot basis, the moment vaporisation of water present in able to hinder him from developing an can pass away and it would be too late it. This, in turn, makes the soil i m p rovi s e d p ro c e s s o f b r i c k to do anything then. In such a formidable unfit for vegetation which is manufacturing wherein cheaper and situation, isn't the collaboration of clearly a grave situation. Adding effective materials like fire bricks and academia with the people who are to the vows are the statistics ceramic wool play the role of insulating that Uttar Pradesh is one of the actually working in the field out there the materials. This would decrease the worst affected areas due to need of the hour? The following is a these upshots. Uttar Pradesh is conductivity of the walls and hence thought-provoking inspirational story of home to a staggering number of reduce the heat loss from the walls. Isn't a Farmer and a Professor who have about 18,000 brick kilns with this a simple yet elegant idea? taken giant leaps towards realising this the adjoining areas of Varanasi In the beginning of the summer of 2017, vision. The protagonists of this journey and Mirzapur accounting to the Head of the Department of Chemical are Dr. Jyoti Prasad Chakraborty, a 1000 of them. While the Engineering and Technology IIT BHU, Professor of Reaction Engineering in the deterioration of air quality in Professor P. K. Mishra had received a Department of Chemical Engineering Urban areas catches our attention quite often, the letter expounding about an idea of a and Technology, IIT BHU and Mr Subash situation in rural areas goes farmer to reduce the heat losses in the Chandra Singh, a Farmer from the rural u n r e m a r k e d . T h i s v e r y brickfields and his intention to seek help area of Mirzapur who are working condition had made Mr Subash from IIT BHU in this regard. Professor P.K. together to optimise the methodology Chandra Singh brood over the Mishra suggested Dr. Chakraborty take adopted in Brickfields through an solutions to curtail this up that project. After going through the innovative technology. Dr. Chakraborty pandemic. documents presented by Mr Singh, Dr. is helping Mr Subash Chandra Singh in Mr Subhash Chandra Singh had worked Chakraborty had come to an opinion getting a patent for his idea in the field of for Hindalco, Renukoot for a period of that it would be wise to file a patent so as 'Reducing heat loss in Brickfields.' over 15 years. He has had some to prohibit anyone from wrongly 12 claiming the idea. For this purpose, Dr. radio programmes of IFFCO which ameliorating the atmosphere. The Chakraborty enquired about the helped them to further develop their reduced burning of coal will also reduce patenting process in IIT BHU and bonds with IFFCO. Dr. Chakraborty and the heat being emitted into the soil, voila formally initiated the process of Mr Singh went to Headquarters of good for vegetation. Besides being eco- patenting. Some experimental results IFFCO situated in New Delhi and friendly, the process also produces and figures are needed to validate the delivered a presentation there. firebricks that are durable for almost 25 effectiveness of the process. Accordingly, Dr. Chakraborty and Professor P. K. years and with the chances of Dr. Chakraborty has been performing Mishra have submitted the proposal to degradation being almost nullified due the experiments concerning the subject Project Varanasi which has been going to the manufacturing at high at hand. Once the experiments are on at a large scale in IIT BHU and has temperatures. With the patent, Mr Singh completed, they can submit the results successfully received the approval of the would also be able to reap the benefits of and subsequently the results would be his idea financially. funding of this project. The next step in filed in the Indian Patenting Office within the project is to construct a miniature The results of the experiment would be a period of 15 days. After this process, brick field in a small 20 square feet area out in a month. After this, Dr. Mr Singh's patent will be declared with half of it in the underground and the Chakraborty is planning to use different officially. other half above the surface maintaining insulating materials to determine the Mr Singh's idea was hailed by the the surface to volume ratio of the ideal one for the use. This means that IFFCO (Indian Farmers Fertilizer brickfields in practice, with the model they are going to seek some additional Cooperative) and was awarded prize simulating the practical environment of extensions under the Project Varanasi. money of Rs.1,00,000 under the IFFCO the brickfields. Through this model, they Also, the team of Mr Singh and Dr. Rural Innovation Scholarship (IRIS) 2017. will be manufacturing about 1000 bricks Chakraborty are willing to approach Mr Singh's innovation had emerged as while burning coal without the insulating IFFCO to seek their financial help in the winner from among 4000 entries. Dr. materials. The process is repeated again setting up a brickfield for Mr Subash Chakraborty accompanied him to by using the insulating material this time Chandra Singh which would act as a IFFCO Lucknow in order to help him in which would help them in estimating the source of livelihood to him. explaining the technicalities of the percentage reduction in the use of coal. We hope that the fraternity of IIT BHU project during the presentation. This was The reduction in the usage of the coal would come up with many more also praised by the national dailies then. i mp l ies t h e re d uct ion i n t h e initiatives like this leading the path of Also, a company situated in Lucknow Carbondioxide emissions into the air. If Sustainable D evelopment and that connects to the farmers had been adopted successfully in the industry, this Connecting Academia with the Industry helpful in spreading the news through the would be of tremendous help in and People. Revisiting a visionary : Professor TR Anantharaman Professor Tanjore Ramachandra teachers and Karmacharis, had augured obtain his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Anantharaman (fondly referred to as a vibrant academic atmosphere on the Chemistry from Madras University in Prof. TRA by his students), a guiding campus in general. This had tremendous 1947 and eventually his doctorate spirit for all modern metallurgists in influence on the growth of Metallurgy in Degree for his researches in Physical India, was a man of transformation and Independent India. As quoted in a Metallurgy at Oxford University, brought in key changes in whichever citation,”The primary credit for the England, the D.Phil. (Oxon) degree in path of activity he undertook. Thus, it is outstanding profile of present day Indian 1954 besides two other Degrees in apt to say that Professor TRA, through his Metallurgical research rightly belongs to between. As he secured the First Rank in distinguished contributions to him”. He was born in Tamil Nadu, India, all University examinations, he was the metallurgical education and research, on November 25, 1927. He was a only Indian to be awarded Rhodes by nurturing several centres for brilliant student right from his school scholarship of 1951. Later he was Advanced Studies in Physical and days, be it in oriental or occidental awarded the D.Sc. (Oxon) degree in Mechanical Metallurgy, Materials studies, some part of which he 1990 in recognition of his outstanding Characterisation, Yoga Sadhana, completed in Rajahmundry where his research output in many areas of Acharya Kul and the like at Varanasi and father was a Samskrit teacher in Oriental Metallurgy and Materials Science. by inspiring generations of students, College, which paved way for him to 13
Prof. TRA's professional career spanning (CSIR) for Engineering over nearly six decades starting as S c i e n c e s i n 1 967, Research Associate, Max Planck Institute Federation of Indian for Metallurgical Research, Stuttgart, Chambers of Commerce Germany (1954-56), took him to the and Industry (FlCCI) highest Office of Rector and Acting Vice- Award for Individual Chancellor, Banaras Hindu University Initiative in Science and which included a six-year period as Technology in 1972, Faculty at IISc, Bangalore and Director, Bhatnagar Medal of the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu Indian National Science University. After his retirement from Academy (INSA) in 1982, active services at Varanasi, He also Outstanding Teacher of an served as Director, Thapar Institute of Engineering Institution - Learned Society in 1981. He was Engineering & Technology (Deemed National Award conferred by Indian Founder-President of the Academy University), Patiala (1989-92) and also Society of Technical Education (ISTE) and during 1981-83. as CSIR Emeritus Scientist (1987-89, Uttar Pradesh Government in 1991, IIM 1993- 95) and INSA Senior Scientist Platinum Medal, the highest conferment Apart from over 50 articles on (1995-2000), spending the 1993-2000 of the Indian Institute of Metals, in 1996, Philosophy, Religion and Ethics, Prof. period at the National Physical First-Ever Lifetime Achievement Award in TRA also authored several books on Laboratory, New Delhi. Metallurgy, instituted by Union Ministry Bhagavad Gita and meditation in of Steel and Mines in 2004. German and English and a couple of Prof.TRA's research accomplishments them are mentioned here; Ekenntis durch Prof. TRA was elected Fellow of the encompass a broad spectrum of Meditation (Knowledge through Indian Academy of Sciences (1964), the topics in Physical Metallurgy and Meditation) published in 1977 by the Indian National Science Academy Material Science. However, his most Deutsch-Indische Gesellschaft, Stuttgart (1972), the Institution of Metallurgists, creative efforts were pioneering and a monograph entitled Ancient Yoga London (1968), Indian National contributions on Rapidly Solidified and Modern Science was brought out in Academy of Engineering (1987 - its Alloys and Metallic Glasses. 1997 by PHISPC, the National Project on Foundation Year) and the ASM Professor Anantharaman published History of Indian Science, Philosophy International (1990). In 1989, he over 250 scientific articles and he co- and Culture. In recognition of his Sanskrit became the first Afro-Asian to be authored along with his colleagues a scholarship, the Kashi Pandita Sabha conferred the highly coveted Sorby book on Rapidly Solidified Metals: A (Scholars Guild of Varanasi) conferred A w a r d o f t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l Technological Overview in 1987. on him in 1980 the title Vidya- Metallographic Society for his life-long Outside his field of S&T activity, Vachaspati, this conferment being contributions to Metallography. He was Professor TRA had been actively equivalent to a Doctorate degree in elected as President of the Indian Institute engaged in studies related to India's Philosophy and Religion. In 2001, he of Metals (IIM) in 1979 and The Electron Scientific and Technological was conferred the Dr. B.C. Roy National Heritage, which culminated in a Microscope Society of India in 1980. Award for 'Eminence in Philosophy', the monograph entitled The Rustless Having established a world-renowned third person and the first scientist to Wonder: A Study of the Iron Pillar at school of metallurgists, Professor TRA receive it during the last four decades. Delhi, published by Vigyan Prasar, directed his attention to Spirituality, After retirement from his active academic Government of India, in 1996. This Philosophy and Religion, in particular work Prof. TRA functioned as Kula monograph has been translated into the Vedic and Yogic traditions of India. Acharya (Chancellor) of Ashram Hindi and Tamil, its CD-Rom has During the sixties and seventies, inspired Atmadeep, a Research Institute for the proved popular and it has stimulated by Acharya Vinoba Bhave, he Seculo-Spiritual Heritage of India (RISHI) further researches and publications participated in several programmes of which he so passionately created. He on India's Metallurgical Heritage. the Gandhian Sarvodaya Movement. In envisioned it as Headquarters of a
1974, he took steps to establish the Yoga Unique Movement for the Third Several National Academies, Trusts and Sadhana Kendra (Centre for Yoga) as an Millennium to rejuvenate the Human Institutions awarded Professor interdisciplinary academic unit of BHU Family through Secular Spirituality and Anantharaman Medals and Prizes such and directed its activities for four years. Scientific Yoga. The Ashram is located as Kamani Gold Medal of the Indian This Centre is still active and popular in just south of Delhi, in DLF City, Gurgaon. Institute of Metals (IIM) in 1960, Shanti the BHU Campus. He also took steps to The Spiritual light left for its heavenly Swarup Bhatnagar Prize of the Council launch the Indian Academy of Yoga as a abode on 18th June, 2009. of Scientific and Industrial Research 14 Faculty Achievements
Professor Pradeep Kumar Jain of Ranchi from 16-19 February 2019. He Interdisciplinary Research,' NIPiCON- Electronics Engineering has been also worked as the observer for the South 2018 held between 23-25 January appointed as the Director, NIT Patna. Zone Youth Festival held at Hindustan 2018 in the Nirma Institute of Pharmacy,
P r o f e s s o r B M i s h r a o f College of Technology and Science Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Ahmedabad, between 18-22 December 2017. These Gujarat. Pharmaceutical Engineering and Technology has been conferred with the Youth Festivals are the initiatives of Dr. Manoj Kumar Meshram of P h a rm a Ra t n a 2 0 1 7 Li fet i m e Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, and Electronics Engineering has been Achievement Award. the Association of Indian Universities, awarded the INSA-DFG Fellowship New Delhi. 2018. He has also visited the Stuttgart Professor Shri Ram of Mathematical Sciences has been elected as the Fellow Dr. Nawal Kishore and Professor University during 1 July 2017-28 August Sanjay Kumar Sharma of Mining 2017. of the Royal Astronomical Society. Engineering have co-authored a book Dr Santanu Das of Ceramic Dr Marshal Dhayal of Biomedical under the title, '26 Practice Sets for Engineering has been elevated to the Engineering has received the Young Competitive Mining Exams' published level of Senior Member of IEEE. Senior Scientist Award from the Society for by Denett and Co, Nagpur. Biomaterials and Artificial Organs Member is the highest professional grade in IEEE to which a member may Professor Shailendra Kumar (India) during the jointly organized XXVII apply. Shukla of Mechanical Engineering will National Conference of SBAOI, Asia be acting as a Board Member in the Pacific Society for Artificial Organs Dr Shyam Kamal of Electrical Scientific and Technical Committee of Meeting (APSAO 2017) and the 6th Engineering has been elected as a Guest ICEER-2018 to be held in Prague from 23 Asian Biomaterials Congress (ABMC6) Editor of the Journal of Complexity July 2018-27 July 2018. with a theme 'Innovative Biomaterials: (Impact Factor 4.621) for the Special Professor Yogesh Chandra Technologies for Life and Society' Issue on 'Bio-inspired Learning and between 25-27 October 2017 at Adaptation for Optimisation and Control Sharma of Chemistry was elected as the Fellow, Bio-Tech Research Society of Thiruvananthapuram, India. of Complex Systems.' India (BRSI). Professor Yogesh was Dr Somak Bhattacharyya of Dr Abhishek Kumar Srivastava of conferred the Lifetime Achievement Electronics Engineering has been offered Physics is an Indian member of ISSI-BJ Award, 2017 in Chemical Sciences by Individual Membership from the International Team on "Pulsation in VIRA International, Chennai. International Union of Radio Sciences Solar Flares: Matching Observations (URSI). and Models", and participated in its Dr M S Muttu of Pharmaceutical Engineering and Technology has Professor S N Ojha of Metallurgical first meeting during October 2017 at Engineering has been conferred the NSSC, Beijing, China. supervised the project that has won the first prize in Poster Presentation under 'Eminent Emerging Engineer Award' of Professor S K Shar ma of Nanotechnology domain at the the Institution of Engineers during the Mechanical Engineering has been International Conference on 'Innovation 31st convention held at Kolkata on 19 appointed as the Observer for the in Pharmaceutical Research by January 2018. National Youth Festival to be held in Invited Talks J e y a k u m a r K a n d a s a m y of Physics delivered a guest lecture at the Chandana Rath of Material Science Chemistry delivered a lecture at the AOGS 2017 held between 6-11 August and Technology delivered a lecture at the conference 'Contemporary Facets in 2017 in Singapore. Dr Abhishek Kumar Department of Physics, University of Organic Synthesis' (CFOS 2017), IIT has also presided on the topic 'High- Girona, Spain. She has also presided at Roorkee during 22-24 December F requenc y Torsional Alfven as an Energy the Chemical Engineering Department, 2017 at the conference titled, so urce in the Solar Corona' in the University of Girona, Spain. Dr 'Emerging Chemistry and Biology of international conference, 'Our Chandana Rath has also delivered a Carbohydrates' (ECBC-2017) (CARBO- mysterious Sun: Magnetic coupling lecture at the Nanoparticles National XXXII) organized at IIT Kharagpur between solar interior and atmosphere' Conference on Condensed Matter Days between 18-20 December 2017. held in Tbilisi, Georgia between 25-29 conducted in the Department of Physics,
September 2017. Tezpur University, Tezpur between Abhishek Kumar Srivastava of 28-31 August 2017. 15
M. K. Verma of Mechanical the second International Conference on lecture at the 4th Annual Global Engineering has delivered expert Power & Energy Engineering held at Congress of Knowledge Economy-2017, Munich, Germany on 17-18 July 2017. Qingdao, China, during 19-21, lectures on various topics of power systems at YCCE, Nagpur under the Sanjay Kumar of Mathematical September 2017. Dr Sarawadekar has Visiting Professor scheme between Sc ie nces deli vered a lecture in Invertis also presided at the BIT's 11th World 18-21 December 2017. Inspire, at Invertis University, Bareilly, UP, Congress of Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell, Singapore, during 14-16 Yogesh Chandra Sharma of India during 5-7October 2017. He also November 2017. He has also delivered Chemistry delivered a lecture at Vaal delivered a lecture at the second a lecture at the International Conference University of Technology, Johannesburg International Conference on Modern on Cognitive Informatics and Soft on 18 Oct 2017. Professor Yogesh Mathematical Methods and High- Performance Computing in Science and Computing held in VBIT Hyderabad. Chandra has also delivered a lecture at NFEA 2017, Teaching Learning Cell Technology at Inderprastha Engineering S. N. Ojha of Metallurgical Engineering College, India during 4-6 January 2019. delivered a lecture during a national (TLC), IIT BHU Varanasi. conference on the strategy of steels Kamalesh Singh of Metallurgical Manoj Kumar Meshram of production of 300 MT by 2030, Engineering delivered a lecture on the Electronics Engineering delivered a organised by The Institution of Engineers topic, 'How to get during the Science lecture at Samrat Ashok Technological on 19-20 January 2018 in Kolkata. Institute, Madhya Pradesh. a n d Te ch nol o gy Sen s i t iza t ion Programme for the Women leading Marshal Dhayal of Biomedical Hiralal Pramanik of Chemical towards Entrepreneurship on 6 Oct engineering delivered an invited talk at Engineering and Technology has 2017, at National Metallurgical Deccan College of Medical Sciences, delivered a presentation at the Laboratory, Jamshedpur, which was Hyderabad. He has also delivered an International Conference on Advanced organized jointly by National Academy invited talk at S S Jain Subodh PG Energy Material (AEM-2017) held from of Science, India and NML Jamshedpur. (Autonomous) College, Jaipur. 11-13th September 2017 at University of Surrey, England. Bhupendra Singh of Ceramic Kishor Prabhakar Sarawadekar of Engineering delivered a guest lecture at Electronics Engineering delivered a Publications IIT BHU is committed to being a leading research institution. Since January 2017, over 800 papers have been published in reputed international and national publications.
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List of Sponsored Projects
Sponsored Projects sanctioned between August 2017 to January 2018
S. Name of Date of Value of Title of Project Duration Agency No. PI/Co-PI Sanction the Project
1 Development of Portable electrochemical Prof. P.C. 01.08.17 3 Yrs. BRNS, Rs. 34,92,750 sensor for hydrogen peroxide Pandey DAE
2 Development and structural Dr. Joysurya 03.08.17 1 Yr (initially) UGC-DAE Rs. 2,46,600 characterization of coolant and sensors Basu (Proposed:3Yrs.) (1st installment) (Proposed: Rs. 18,18,000)
3 Design and Development of Combined Prof. Shailendra 9.11.17 2 Yrs. CST, UP Rs. 9,60,000 Cooling and Power Generation System Kumar Shukla
4 Incorporating Intelligence in Email System Dr. Ruchir Gupta 29.11.17 2 Yrs. BRNS, DAE Rs. 13,68,000 17 List of patents filed between August 2017 to January 2018
S. No. Name of Inventor Title of the Invention Department
1 Dr. P.K. Roy, S.K. Saddam Hossain A method to prepare low temperature co-fired Ceramic ceramic matrix composite of ferrite and Engineering ferroelectric for EMI filter applications.
2 Prof. Pralay Maity & Arpan Biswas Hybrid shape memory polymer for self-expandable SMST stent application.
3 Dr. K.K. Pandey, Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Self-adjusting fixed type jetty Civil Engineering Ankit Patel, Achin Agrawal
4 Dr. S. Krishnamurthy, Mr. Pankaj Paliwal, Novel Oral Formulation of medicated bioactive Pharmaceutics & Mr. S.K. Arepalli glass and its use in treating gastroduodenal ulcers. Ceramic Engineering
5 Dr. S. Krishnamurthy, Mr. Pankaj Paliwal Novel therapeutic strategy using medicated Pharmaceutics biomaterial for treatment of cerebral ischemia.
6 Dr. Sanjay Kumar Singh, Debanjan System and method for cattle management using Computer Science & Sadhya, Anshul Sharma, Ravi Shankar smart devices and unique biometric identifiers Engineering Singh, Kundan Kumar, Rishav Singh
7 Dr. Bhupendra Singh, Aman Bhardwaj Novel Solution Phase Route for the Synthesis of Ceramic Engineering Titanium (IV) Pyrophosphate Compounds
8 Dr. P.K. Roy, S.K. Saddam Hossain High-temperature applicable binder from Egg Ceramic Engineering Shell and a method of synthesis thereof
9 Dr. S. Krishnamurthy, Mr. Pankaj Paliwal, Novel biomaterial scaffold in the treatment of Pharmaceutics & Shreyasi Majumdar, Mr. S.K. Arepalli peripheral nerve injury and neuropathic pain Ceramic Engineering
10 Prof. Rajiv Prakash & Narsingh Raw A sensor for early and accurate diagnosis of SMST Nirala; Monika Srivastava prostatic cancer based on Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) using PSA Aptamer and PSA - antibody modified electrodes and process thereof. 11 Dr. Santanu Das, Shaikh Mohammad Green and fast reduction of graphene oxide using Ceramic Engineering Zaeem organic acid solution/organic solvent and make the supercapacitor devices with high charge-discharge
12 Dr. P.K. Roy, S.K. Saddam Hossain, Manufacture of Ceramics from a river silt and a Ceramic Engineering Ram Pyare method of synthesis thereof
13 Dr. S.K. Singh, Dr. G. P. Modi, Mr. D. Novel sulfonamide derivatives as selective Matrix Pharmaceutics Kumar, Ms. R. Swetha, Mr. C. Gayen, Metallo Proteinase (MMP) and acetylcholine Mr. A. Ganeshpurkar esterase (AChE) inhibitors as potential therapeutic agents for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. 14 Dr. P.K. Roy, Deepshikha Shekhawat High energy product hard magnet having improved Ceramic Engineering magnetic properties and method of making same
15 Dr. Santanu Das, Shaikh Mohammad Development of a novel method for the reduction Ceramic Engineering Zaeem, Nitish Agrawal of graphene oxide to produce high surface area reduced graphene oxide for high-efficiency electro-catalytic applications. 16 Dr. Nand Kishore Prasad, Prof. AC magnetic field dependent magnetic Metallurgical R.K. Mandal, Manas Srivastav hyperthermia for controlled heating near Engineering therapeutic temperature (~315 K)
17 Dr. P.K. Roy, S.K. Saddam Hossain Synthetic wollastonite derived from waste materials Ceramic Engineering and a method of synthesis thereof 18
List of MOUs signed by IIT (BHU) between August 2017 to January 2018 National MOUs : 1. TATA Motors Limited, Mumbai on 31.08.2017 2. Indian Refractory Makers Association (IRMA),Kolkata on 17.10.2017 3. HP India Sales Pvt. Ltd., No. 24, Salarpuria Arena, Hosur Main Road, Adugodi, Bangalore, Nalanda Foundation, D-35 Defence Enclave, New Delhi, Drstikona Consultancy and Program Management Services Pvt. Ltd., F-124, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi on 12.01.2018 4. Council of Science & Technology, UP (CST, UP), Lucknow on 17.01.2018
International MOUs : 1. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Centre - New Orleans, USA (LSUHSC-NO) on 06.05.2017 2. 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The training programmes in the Committee Room of the 2017 to 8 December 2017 in GTAC of were held in GTAC, IIT (BHU) and Department of Mechanical Engineering the Institute. A total number of 17 Junior Committee Room, Ground Floor of the of the Institute. A total of 78 participants S up e ri nte n d e nt s a t te n d e d t h e Department of Mechanical Engineering, attended the programme. programme. Shri K.S. Kumar discussed IIT (BHU). the matters related to receipt letter, Second Workshop Programme First Workshop Programme " Wo r k s h o p o n N o t i n g & pr ocedur es on receipt letters, filing, "Two day training Programme of Drafting, Office Procedures, docketing, file numbering, referencing, E - P r o c u r e m e n t " ( 9 - 1 0 Communication Skill and letter and office note, Office Procedures, September, 2017). Conduct Rules" (7-8 December Conduct Rules, and different types of 2017). This workshop was conducted in one communication techniques etc. The batch by Shri M. Rama Amirtham, This workshop was conducted in one participants became aware of the rules Technical Director, e-Procurement batch by Shri K.S. Kumar, Ex-Faculty, and procedures of Noting and Drafting, 22 List of faculty members, who joined during 01.08.2017 to 31.01.2018 S. No. Name of Employee Designation Department/School Date of Joining 1 Dr. Asha Gupta Assistant Professor Chemistry 07.12.2017 (FN) 2 Dr. Murali Krishna Vemuri Professor Mathematical Science 04.10.2017 (FN) 3 Dr. Rajeev Singh Assistant Professor Physics 20.10.2017 (AN) 4 Dr. Pradip Paik Associate Professor Bio-Medical 15.11.2017 (FN) 5 Dr. Somnath Nag Assistant Professor Physics 27.12.2017 (F/N) List of faculty members, who retired/resigned during 01.08.2017 to 31.01.2018 S. No. Name of Employee Designation Department Date of Retirement Remarks 1 Dr. A. K. Kapoor Professor Electrical Engineering 31.09.2017 2 Dr. AshishMathur Assistant Professor Electronics Engineering Resigned on 23.12.2017 (A/N) 3 Dr. R. B. Mishra Professor Computer Science 31.01.2018 and Engineering Science and Technology Council Science and Technology Council Envisage'17 was organized by competing against each other with their (SNTC), one of the most sought-after Technical and Rural Outreach Club and self-made bots in a football match councils of the college under IIT BHU Green Club to give the students a depicting an alternate reality controlled Gymkhana that lets the curious minds run platform to present their innovative ideas by two programs Clue and Tron. azure into the technology space, is a to solve the problem of Sanitation by Automotive Quiz by Society of council that makes the students of IIT BHU innovating ways to make alternative use Automotive Engineers IIT BHU was acquainted with different frequently-used of it. organized to test the knowledge of the technologies and disseminates basics of Automobiles and the top 10 knowledge of the various scientific and winners were given a fortuitous technological concepts. It is responsible opportunity to visit Diesel Locomotive for fostering the technical prowess of the Works, Varanasi. entire fraternity of the institute. And time and again, through a series of events, including competitions and workshops, SNTC has manifested that it is one of the Envisage'17 most vibrant councils of the college. Sci-League – This is the semester-long Robotron'17 organized by Robotics celebration of science and technology, Club IIT BHU involved participants involving the successful completion of some intriguing and fascinating events. The students are encouraged to come up with novel approaches to the existing Automotive Quiz 2017 problems, provoke creative thinking and gain knowledge of the elemental gizmos Telescon'17, conducted by Astronomy frequently used. Club IIT BHU, tested the participants' Robotron 2017 skills in designing and handling of the 23 Telescopes, the delightful objects that able to give innovative ideas to solve the gave a platform to all budding help people savvy the intricacies of the daily life problems. The club also innovators of IIT-BHU to unleash their Universe. organized a visit to Assi Ghat where the creativity and combine it with technology students identified the problems faced by to unravel extraordinary ideas. The first common man and tried to come up edition of the camp proved to be a great Telescon 2017 Hult Prize BHU, organized by the Technical and Rural Outreach Club, IIT BHU and Club of Economics and Finance, IIT (BHU), acted as the regional ro u n d o f t h e re n own e d a n d internationally acclaimed social entrepreneurship program, The Hult Prize. technical solutions. success with 5 projects (Water Levitation, A couple of Guest Talks were held by Human-Computer Interaction, Voice the Club of Economics and Finance IIT controlled quad copter, Smart BHU for the students to gain an idea of Dashboard and Musical Tesla Coil) the career opportunities and application being certified. of technology in this domain. The first talk The most monumental initiative of the was given by Mr Raghav Mittal on SNTC was to overcome the hurdle of "Career and Internships in Finance" and time, resources and place and coming Hult Prize 2017 the second talk by professionals from up with the Technical Activity Centre Prodigy Finance pertained to "Fin-tech (TAC) of the institute. Located in the COPS Week conducted by the Club of and International Mobility". midst of the academic area, TAC is a Programmers had exciting competitions Apart from these events, a variety of new home to all the tinkerers where based on Competitive Programming, workshops were organized by the clubs they can collaborate and use all the Machine Learning, and Cryptography. which encompassed topics like Mobile & resources, be it any tool or a machine. Recycle Mania organized by Green Web Development, Suspension & The facility which is open 24*7/365, Club promulgated awareness about the Transmission, Arduino, RC Plane Design, now allows the students to dedicate recyclability of waste materials and Stars & Galaxies, Multi-Rotors, long hours to work and continue to motivated students to take initiatives in Computer Vision etc. Observatory build on their ideas incessantly. It sessions were also organized for the sky- publishes its bi-annual magazine, gazers. SNTC Snapshot to brief the students about the technological developments A couple of workshops were organized in the IIT (BHU). even beyond the college premises. The Aero-Modeling Club organized a With an emboldened vision, fervor and workshop on Glider on November 4, an unyielding tenacity, the SNTC 2017, in GCRG Lucknow. The Robotics continues to inspire and ignite in bright Recycle Mania 2017 Club organized a workshop on Basics of young minds of the institute a passion for Arduino on November 9, 2017, in UCER science and technology by providing an Allahabad. environment more conducive to this direction. ingenious thinking and development Vichaar successfully initiated by the Sci-Camp The council organized a winter school, through the means of a plethora of Technical & Rural Outreach Club, was an Sci-Camp for the sophomores. Sci-Camp activities, workshops, and competitions online event through which students were all throughout the year. 24 Changes that I see at IIT (BHU) The institute organised an essay writing competition on the topic, “Changes that I see after IT-BHU became IIT BHU.” Students actively took part in this competition penning down their narratives recollecting their experiences. The winners of this event were: Name of the Awardee Course Branch Prize MD Taslim Raja IMD Physics First Prize Suraj Panigrahi B.Tech Mechanical Engineering Second Prize Prasanjan Mitra B.Tech Electrical Engineering Consolation Prize Rajat Verma B.Tech Chemical Engineering and Technology Consolation Prize All these students were honoured on the example here. In 2014, while selecting which is really a big endeavour to make occasion of the Institute Day held an IIT befitting to my rank, I was learning stress-free. A mentoring network between 16-18 February 2018. Given browsing about the curriculum structure comprising the senior students helped below is the article by Mr Suraj of Mechanical Engineering in IIT (BHU). the new students to sink into the college Panigrahi, B.Tech. 3rd year Other established IITs had a well-defined atmosphere. It also promoted a sense of Mechanical Engineering on the course readily available for reference on bonding with the faculties and senior above topic written in April 2017. the web. I browsed the web, but it was students. This highlights the shift in vision Changes that I see after IT-BHU futile. However, I guess no student after towards a holistic education, a vision became IIT BHU. 2015 would have faced this problem. which no one had before. A motivating line which I came across This is just the tip of the iceberg of Discussing further on academics, the once is “The journey is the ultimate changes in the college after the transition floating of Open Elective courses has destination.” I am writing about the to IIT. opened the doors for inter-disciplinary journey of the oldest yet one of the Talking about Academics, IIT (BHU) has research. Further, the choices offered to youngest premier institutes of the a well-defined and well-documented the students are quite large and there is country, that is a part of the Banaras course structure for every department, much flexibility in opting for these Hindu University. Conceived from the which IT never had. The absolute method courses, which has led to the success of ideas of a few legends, realized by the of grading has been done away and a open electives. I will cite an example to sacrifice of the common masses, the relative method of grading is in practice. reassure my stance. For example, a institute spans an unbeatable legacy, The course curriculum didn't have the student of mechanical engineering with being the torch-bearer of the Indian humanities subject. I read in a survey that a strong interest in materials science has education system for over 98 years. an ideal engineering curriculum should the choice to opt for subjects not only Founded in 1919, blossoming from a have 12.5% of the humanity courses. from materials science, but also other small institute BENCO to getting Humanity courses are supposed to instill similar subjects like composite materials integrated to form Institute of Technology ethics and morality in engineers and from Metallurgical Engineering, and then finally gaining the status of an give further insight into the society for biom a teria l s from B iom e d ic a l IIT in 2012 and then carrying its own which we have to contribute. Now, Engineering and ceramic technologies legacy, this certainly is not an easy humanities form a part around 10% of from Ceramic Engineering. The provision journey. the credits, which was non-existing for B.Tech with Honours has already The transition from IT to IIT is not merely earlier. The Induction Programme for the given an impetus to the student research about autonomy or allocation of more first year batch of 2016 was a novel in the institute and will surely give a surge funds, but more about developments in experiment which received huge to the number of academic publications terms of infrastructure, facilities, quality applause. There have been discussions and collaborations in the coming days. of education, research and more in the intellectual circuit to emulate this Creative Practices which include governance. I became a part of IIT (BHU) programme in other IITs and central performing arts, visual arts and fine arts in 2014. I have witnessed a lot of government institutions. The programme have become a regular part of the changes in the college in the last two and aimed at making the new entrants curriculum. However, these are only a half years. I would like to cite an comfortable to the college environment, introductory courses enabling the 25 students to explore their interests. Several System, with a plan to install Raman the 3 year period, like Dictaphones, QIPs (Quality Improvement Programs) for Spectrometry soon. DSLRs, graphics tablets etc. The student faculties are now being conducted Establishment of Design and Innovation gym has got a new look. IIT (BHU) is one around the year. In collaboration with Hub (DIH) is a testimony to the of the few campuses in India with MHRD, GIAN courses for the students of endeavour being taken by the institute to floodlight facilities. This has given a new the native as well as students from other promote innovation. DIH offers the experience to the students and especially institutes have come into effect. 10+ flexibility to students to come up with allowing practising for a longer GIAN courses have been reported to be their own ideas and it definitely provides duration. College magazine was foreign conducted in IIT (BHU) in the last one the means to shape the ideas. It boasts of to IT (BHU). The student magazine 'The year. It is quite evident that the over 200 completed projects in less than Quest' has come into picture since 2014 academics in terms of curriculum as well 3 years of its inception. It has also updating us with the buzzing college as its flexibility have undergone a sea sponsored students for events like SAE activities. The inception of 'FMC TV' is a change with the addition of an 'I' to 'IT' India BAJA, Shell Eco-Marathon etc. The creative dissemination of the buzzing in a matter of 4 years. Even the student- Shell Eco-Marathon Team brought campus life of the students and teacher ratio has improved over the laurels for the institute finishing first in the multifarious events organized in the years, but it is still not on par with the country and seventh in the world. Apart college. FMC Weekend was initiated in national standards and it is a major from this, Advanced Research Centre for the year 2014. Over the three editions, challenge for the coming years. FMC Weekend has garnered a national Iron and Steel (ARCIS) has been The 'IIT' status has burgeoned the established in the Department of reputation and has established its research and development of the Metallurgy by the Ministry of Steel, foothold in the hearts of the students. institute. There is no better way to Government of India. This centre will Club of Economics and Finance came validate a hypothesis than statistics, facts cater to the education and research of into effect in 2016. Student-driven social and figures. A recent paper in Current iron and steel in the institute. Malviya initiatives like Blood Donation camps, Science (Vol. 112, No. 5) by researchers Chair for Railway Technology has been cloth collection drives were in fullswing from South Asian University (Delhi), BHU established by Ministry of Railways, even before. However, the establishment and the National Institute of Science, Government of India to have of a Social Service Council under the Technology and Developmental Studies collaborations with IIT (BHU) in Materials Gymkhana is likely to further promote (Delhi), analysed the research Science and Engineering. A Design and connecting with the society for greater performances of IITs. Among the new Innovation Centre (DIC) has also come good. IIT (BHU), being a part of BHU, IITs, IIT (BHU) lies ahead of its into effect in 2015 as a joint project of IIT became a torchbearer of a legacy of contemporaries. The number of (BHU) and BHU. IIT (BHU) will attending the convocation in kurta academic papers published between specifically take care of the engineering pyjama and in sarees. This model has 1999-2008 was less than 900 and that and technical aspects of the design and got national acclaim and has been recently emulated in IIT Bombay. between 2010-2014 is 1443. The total innovation projects. Establishment of citations of various papers between infrastructure and allocation of funds for The placements have got a major boost 2010-2014 are 2110 while it is below various projects are the stepping stones after IT was converted to IIT. This can be 1800 over the period of 1998-2008. towards shaping a quality idea or justified with IIT (BHU) emerging as the The rationale behind these figures can realizing a project. The establishments of top-ranked institute in terms of be attributed to not only in the increase in these dedicated centres surely raise the placements in MHRD rankings for the the intake of PhDs in the last 4 years, but hopes of illustrious projects in future. year 2016. Even entrepreneurship has also the availability of better and The number of awards in various got a major boost. Till 2014-15, advanced instruments and dedicated national events, particularly Inter-IIT Technology Business Incubator (TBI) at research centres. The establishment of Sports and cultural has gone up. The MCIIE was supported by DST CERD (Centre for Renewable Energy techno-management fest Technex, the ( D e p a r t m e n t o f S ci e n c e a n d Development), Central Instrumentation cultural fest KashiYatra and the Sports Technology). However, after 2015,it is facility, a new Computation unit and Fest Spardha have seen new heights funded by IIT (BHU) and that has led to some other labs imply an emerging witnessing a surge in the budget, greater autonomy and promotes the future of research in IIT (BHU). The sponsorship, participation. I was the entrepreneur aspirations among the Central Instrumentation Facility has some joint secretary of the Creative Design students. Currently, it is supporting over modern equipment like Nano-indenter, Club, a club under FMC. I have 15 start-ups. Some of them have been Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), appreciated at the national level. witnessed an increase in inventories over Magnetic Property Measurement 26 Student Parliament has led to the direct We lag behind many IITs in various from IT to IIT. Steve Jobs once said, “You involvement of students in the fields. The research and development can't connect the dots looking forward, governance of the institute. The and the security facilities in this college you can only connect them backwards.” I involvement of students and the response are still at an embryonic stage. The can relate to these words when I write of the institute to the immediate demands recent slip in the MHRD rankings just about the changes I have seen in this of the students in the situations of crisis emboldens the challenge that lies ahead college. The journey ahead is full of are quite commendable and this justifies of us all. With steps being taken to insecurities. But I loved being a part of that the institute has evolved a mentality establish its own LAN infrastructure, the journey so far, often contributing to adopt changes. The student Student Activity Centre and the insignificantly for its development. The parliamentary elections have given a expansion of the library, the future of IIT institute has to strive for excellence which choice to elect the right people to (BHU) looks promising. I have often is the ultimate destination and excellence represent the students. This has led to the come across grumbles regarding the is a never-ending process. As I conveyed development of various infrastructures institute. But looking down the line of 4 in the beginning, the journey will be the and enactment of several laws regarding years, it is unequivocal that IIT (BHU) has ultimate destination. the security of students, particularly girls. come a long way since its conversion STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS Dr Bharat Kumar Allam of Chemistry has been awarded the prestigious Department of Science and Technology (DST)- Science and Engineering Research Board's Overseas Postdoctoral Fellowship. Prakhar Doorwar of Chemical Engg. has published and presented his research work at the International Conference of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, AIChEAnnual Meeting 2017 in Minneapolis, US. Priya Singh of Biochemical Engineering has been awarded the renowned 'DAAD IIT Master Sandwich Program' scholarship. The team of Dhavala V S Aditya, Priyanshi Porwal, Shaswat Trivedi, and Adarsh Kumar has reached the Semi-Finals of the Ericsson Innovation Awards 2018 placing them among the 15 teams from a total of 1500 teams across the globe. Varun Kansal of Chemical Engineering and Technology has secured a percentile of 99.96 in the prestigious CAT examination. Parth Sharma of Civil Engineering has secured a position in the top 20 Campus Ambassadors for the renowned Social Entrepreneurship programme Hult Prize from across the globe and has been the only person from India to have achieved it. The team of Pratyush Choudhury, Swapnil Kulkarni, Jaseel Muhammad, Vaishnav Menon has entered the Global Quarter Finals of the Ericsson Innovation Awards 2018. Md Ershad of Ceramic Engineering has won the IIM-Springer Award (Second Prize) for best Oral and Poster presentation in the field of Material Science and Engineering at the International Conference of the NMD-ATM 2017 held at BITS Pilani Goa campus. Shailendra Singh of Electrical Engineering has been selected for the esteemed Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy (BASE) Programme supported by the Department of Science and Technology and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (USSTF) under which an internship for a period of six months would be provided at the National Renewable Energy Limited (NREL), Department of Energy, Colorado, US. Thacker Parth Paresh of Mechanical Engineering has been awarded the OPJEMS Scholarship. AbhishekYadav has presented a paper titled, 'Framework for Road Safety Audit of higher educational Institute: A case study of IIT BHU Campus'at the International Conference on Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries (TPMDC), IIT Bombay. Shubham Aggarwal of Electrical Engineering has a research paper titled 'Line of sight stabilisation of two-dimensional gimbal platform' to his credit which was accepted for oral presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Power, Control, Signals and Instrumentation Engineering and also has been approved for publication in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. 27 Spardha'17 We all know that sports, besides the took place on 27th of October in the Spardha'17 included almost all the display of strength are a manifestation of Gymkhana Ground. The chief guest for popular games played worldwide along the all-round development of the the Ceremony was Mrs Anjum Chopra, with informal events and adventure individual as well as the team. The 34th former Indian Women's Cricket team activities. A total of more than 1500 edition of the biggest sports Event of the Captain. She shared her delightful participants from all across India Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras experience in Varanasi, felicitating the participated in Spardha'17, along with Hindu University, IIT( BHU) 'Spardha-17' opening of the annual Sports fest of IIT a footfall of more than 2000 Spectators. was held at IT Gymkhana grounds (BHU). Noted female Indian Cricketer Salient among the initiatives that had during 27-29 October 2017. This sports Ms Shikha Pandey graced the occasion been introduced in the Spardha this year meet has blossomed into one of the as the Guest of Honor. The Special Guest was the UDBHAV, an inter-school quiz largest inter-collegiate sporting events of for the evening was Mr Dilip Tirkey, competition, where enthusiastic and India taking the spirit of the game to the former Indian Hockey player and ex- zealous students from various schools of next level each year by bringing together captain of India Hockey Team, a Varanasi had taken part and cherished participants from several renowned recipient of the prestigious Arjuna their dreams of competing in a healthy institutions such as the IITs. NITs, and Award, and also an esteemed member and knowledgeable environment. many other Universities. The three-day of the Rajya Sabha best known for his Each year, thousands of participants juggernaut of the sporting fest filled the penalty corner hit. Their thoughts helped who take part in Spardha put in arduous participants, as well as the spectators to realize the motto of the event, 'Glory efforts relentlessly to prove their mettle in with energy and zest. Awaits.' a vast array of sports. If this doesn't catch Transgressing the boundaries of a sports event, for the second time, Spardha IIT (BHU) organized a Mashaal Handover Ceremony which was held on the 5th of October 2017, three weeks prior to Spardha'17. The Chief Guest for the ceremony was Ms Tania Sachdev, the Indian chess star who is an International Master, a woman grandmaster and an Arjuna Awardee. The Ceremonial Mashaal which was passed onto her at the end of her inspiring speech marked the beginning of Spardha'17. The Opening ceremony of Spardha'17 Inagural Ceremony your attention, the bustle of the crowd on the campus streets surely will. It's them who make Spardha the festival it is- a celebration of three long days. The participants showed unparalleled zeal and enthusiasm in sporting events on the field of Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Boxing, Carrom, Cricket, Football, Handball, Hockey, Kho-Kho, Kabaddi, Powerlifting, Weightlifting, Squash, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, and Tennis& Volleyball nonetheless. Mashaal Handover Ceremony The famed Limbdi corner and the street 28 that runs along the Rajputana Hostel had Games. The Chief been lit up with lamps that shone off a Guest addressed the beautiful handmade paper basket. The audience about the decorations had just been a glimpse of i m p o r t a n c e o f the festive weather that Spardha'17 Sportsmanship and offered. perseverance. One of the many firsts of Spardha was a Guest talk. Ms Tanvie Hans, a budding In the end, it's all Indian female footballer who has played a b o u t m a k i n g for the clubs Tottenham Hotspurs and memories and living Fulham Ladies FC shared her story filled them. Every time you with struggles and grit to overcome them win a race or lose asshe still fights for herself to play for the your voice cheering Indian female football team. The Guest for your team, it adds of Honor for the closing ceremony held up to your moments. on 29 October 2017 at the Gymkhana –Convenor, Grounds was Mr Sajjan Singh Cheema, Spardha. a former Basketball Player from India who represented India in the 1982 Asian Spardha Results Sports Winners (Boys) Winners (Girls) Athletics IIT BHU IIT BHU Badminton IIT Kharagpur NIT ROURKELA Basketball IIT BHU ALUMNI IIT BHU Boxing IIT BHU IIT BHU Carrom BBD LUCKNOW REC Chess IIT BHU NIT KKR Cricket IIT BHU * Football IIT BHU * Handball IIT BHU * Hockey IIT BHU * Kabbadi CIMAGE NIT KKR KHO-Kho IIT BHU IIT BHU Lawn Tennis IIT BHU IIIT DELHI Powerlifting IIT BHU * Table Tennis MAHARAJA IIT ROPAR Tae-kwon-do IIT BHU * Squash IIT BHU * Volleyball IIT BHU IIT BHU Weightlifting IIT BHU * 29 Spearheading the all-round development of students : Gymkhana's Activities Fim and Media Council academic facilities of IIT BHU and its The Handball Team prevailed with a Achievements working so that students would get more Gold at Udgosh, IIT Kanpur. At the Inter IIT Cultural Meet, held at IIT acquainted with the various elements and Kanpur, Cine Club, IIT BHU secured or gans of the institute. The Media Club the second position in the 48-hour short releases a monthly magazine, known as f i l m m a k i n g c o m p e t i t i o n a n d The Quest, which encompasses all the Photography Club bagged the second information about the various activities prize in the Online Photo Story going on in the college (academic/non- competition. Mohammed Zeeshan and academic) as well as surveys on several Ravindra Kumawat bagged the first and topics of interest to the college fraternity. second position respectively in the It is distributed in every room of the Online Photography competition of hostels and also to all the faculty of the Antaragni 2017, the cultural festival of IIT institute. The Photography and Cine Kharagpur. Mohammed Zeeshan has Clubs comprehend all the photo and also won the second prize in Online video related activities in the college Photography competition of Rendezvous, including all the festivals like Kashiyatra, cultural festival of IIT Delhi. Khayati Mittal Spardha, Technex, FMC Weekend etc. stood second in the Online Digital The annual photography exhibition of the Painting event held in Mood Indigo, the Photography Club, Vista was organized Cultural Festival of IIT Bombay. Vetri on 9 February 2018. Selvan succeeded in winning the second Games and Sports Council place in the event Assistante Literaria (A Achievements Besides, IIT BHU reached new heights by competition comprising of the Literary IIT BHU stood second in the Inter IT March beating all other institutions at Spardha quiz, spell-bee, and creative writing) at Past. Kartik Gajjala stood fourth in the 2017 and emerged as the Overall Anwesha 2018, the cultural festival of IIT 200m backstroke at the Inter IIT Sports Champion. The teams have stolen the Patna while Satyam Saxena and Vyom Meet held in IIT Madras. The women's show in almost all the competitions held. Agarwal stole the limelight by bagging Basketball team of IIT BHU won Bronze at Activities the third prize in the Autoquiz. At the Udgosh, IIT Kanpur. The Football team of Various internal tournaments such as same venue, in the NTPC East India IIT BHU bagged Gold Medal at the Inter Girls Weekend, Intra-freshers, Inter-hostel Regional Business Quiz, Satyam Saxena IIT Sports Meet, IIT Madras while it was Sports Meet, Athletics Meet, Inter Year and Vyom Agarwal stood third in the victorious with Silver Medals at DLW Five Sports Meet, Adel Memorial, and prelims and was the only external team A Side tournament and the Varanasi B- Invitational Hockey League have been (among 76 other teams) to have been Division Football League. The Hockey hosted to allay the hunger of the sporting qualified for the final round. Team had earned a Bronze at Inter IIT souls. A self-defence camp was Activities Sports Meet, IIT Madras. At the District organised for girls for about five days in The Fim and Media Council maintains a Weightlifting competitions Parash which about 120 students had taken Facebook and YouTube channel under Sonowal, Akash Aggrawal, and Pawan part. Two courts each for Lawn Tennis, the name FMC TV, which summarizes the Kumar won Gold while Piyush Agarwal Volleyball, and Basketball have been weekly activities such as various events, and Deep Chauhan brought home the constructed along with the provision of sports competitions, festivals, etc. going Bronze Medals. Parash Sonowal also sanitary facilities in Adel Grounds. stood fourth in the State Weightlifting on in the college. It also covers various The proposals for a Multipurpose Indoor Competition. In weightlifting, at Inter IIT fun facts about the campus. Currently, Stadium in Rajputana Ground and the Sports Meet held at IIT Madras, Parash they are working on making a campus Swimming Pool are being given serious Sonowal and Pawan Kumar bagged video of IIT BHU portraying the life in the consideration along with efforts being Silver and Bronze respectively while institute. They have recently launched a made to launch a Games and Sports Akash Aggrawal and Piyush Agarwal broadcasting channel under the name IIT Council website. BHU Broadcast, which will act as an stood in fourth and fifth position Cultural Council interface between the students (both the respectively. The Women's Volleyball Achievements ones currently studying as well as the new team triumphed with Silver at the Inter IIT At the Inter IIT Cultural Meet, IIT BHU entrants) and the administration. Its Sports Meet, IIT Madras while it was the opened the curtains for the dawn of a regular episodes will showcase the turn of Men's Kho-Kho team to bring new era by standing fifth on the overall interviews of the administration and the home the Silver from Udgosh, IIT Kanpur. score tally. 30 Tarang Srivastava and Balram Gupta secured the third position in the Case study event of Khanan, the Mining Engineering festival of IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. Team Acquivo won the E- Summit held at IIT Kanpur in 2017.At Kshitij 18, the technical fest of IIT Kharagpur, the team of Parth Shyara, Ekansh Gupta, Tanmay Agarwal, Sriman Upadhyaya bagged 1st position in FORTRESS - an image processing Inter IIT Cultural Meet robotics event. In the same event, team of Mukesh Deogune and Ankur Sonawane Inter IIT Cultural Meet, IIT b a g g e d s e c o n d p o s i t i o n i n Kanpur of the solo singing event- Jukebox EMBETRONIX - a maze solving robotics (western) while Indrajeet Pala event. The team of Mayank Bansal, Position Event complemented his victory by standing Pratyush Sahoo, Deepak Maurya Winner Hindi Story second in the solo singing event-Jukebox bagged second position in STAX- an (Indian). Yash Shukla secured the third Second runner-up Online Book review autonomous robotics event. The team of position in the Solo Instrumental event at Amrtanshu Raj, Ananya Gupta, Sourav First runner-up Hindi Poetry slam Waves, BITS Pilani Goa. During the same Jaiswal and Omkar Shrimali bagged 3rd Second runner-up Literary and Quizzing event extravaganza, the Indian Musical Club- position in STAX- an autonomous robotics the musical team of IIT BHU turned out to event. The Udnkhatola startup has Winner Dramatics Overall be victorious with a second prize in the received a pre-incubation support from iB Winner Street Play Classical Choir while the DFZ-the Dance Hubs. Arpit Chaudhary, Prayas Jain and team won Natyanjali. At Alcheringa, the Second runner-up Dance Overall Vikhyat Chadha bagged a second prize cultural festival of IIT Guwahati, IIT BHU's in Brain Waves 2k17-18 organised by Second runner-up Street Dance Battle students have won first and third positions Society Generale Global Solution First runner-up General Quiz in Rangoli Making, and a second Centre while Abhijeet Singh was also position in Costume Designing. selected for the onsite finals of the same First runner-up Sports Quiz Interestingly, two students have secured event. In the renowned Techfest, Third runner-up Sci-tech Quiz the third position in the Lip Art. At Technical Festival of IIT Bombay, 5 teams First runner-up Do It (Dance) Anwesha, the cultural festival of IIT Patna, from IIT BHU have won prizes in the Indian Musical Club of IIT BHU rocked the Boeing National Aeromodelling Second runner-up 48 hrs Short Film Making stage with the first position in Band Competition and 2 teams went on to competition, while DFZ-the Dance Club become the quarter finalists in the RC car Western Music Club of IIT BHU secured stood as the runner-up in Group Dance. event - Full Throttle. The participants gave the first position in Unplugged-the In the same arena, MASQUERADES-The a mesmerizing performance in the event acoustic event at Effervescence, IIIT Dramatics Society of IIT BHU Varanasi MESHMERIZE (Robotics Event) claiming Allahabad. Quiz team of Rishi Raj and secured the first position in the Street Play an overall 6th position. Kaustubh Singh secured the first position Competition, Maidan-e-Jung, while Team Inter IIT Tech Meet in Cognoscenti (general Quiz) at the Mirage-the fashion show team of IIT BHU same event. At Antaragni, the cultural has brought home a second prize from Achievements Events festival of IIT Kanpur, Vaibhav Dixit won the fashion event, Verve. Hammad 5th and 8th position Engineer's Conclave the English Poetry Slam while Shubham Nezami as selected as Mr Anwesha. Shriram Yadav bagged the third position With a hub for scintillating talent, IIT BHU Projects in Hindi Debate and Siddartha Shukla has once again glittered when Vikrant 4th Position Overall ranking in triumphed with the second prize in Hindi Satvik and Rohan Bhardwaj won the IITK Engineer Conclave Extempore. In the same cultural meet, the MUN'17's Best Commendation Award trio of Yathart Dahiya, Richi Mishra, and and the IIMUN's Best Delegate Award 4th Position Warehouse Inventory Check Ved Vineet secured the third position in respectively. Bronze Fiducial Localisation in the TV Quiz while the triplet of Yathart Science and Technology Council Dahiya, Ved Vineet, and Aditya Dhavala Medical Imaging Achievements stood third in the Movie Quiz. At Waves, In the Codechef December 2017, Dhiraj the cultural festival of BITS Pilani Goa Activities Singh stood first in India and among the Yudhishtar Charan reached the top three Google Startup Weekend was organised top 8 in the world. The trio of Manish, to promote entreprenurial activities 31 Kashiyatra 2018 Kashiyatra, the annual cultural festival of performance of the western band Sartek road trip for the multi-city elimination IIT(BHU), Varanasi is a three-day fiesta, (EDM Night) on the eve of 19th of round to ensure high-quality of aimed towards mesmerizing everyone January which was followed by the participation from all over the nation with enchanting literary, musical and Indian band Underground Authority on which lead to a tight battle at the event. artistic events. Its grandeur has earned it the next day. Some ideas implemented in Kashiyatra the fame of being North India's largest cultural festival. Celebrating the spirit of Kashi, the annual cultural fest of IIT-BHU, Kashiyatra, had A Stygian Dawn as the theme this year; this three-day extravaganza had had multifarious events. This edition of Kashiyatra was held in institute from the 19-21 January 2018. In the presence of Dr Chetan Singh, Deputy Director of Centre for cultural resources and training (CCRT), KY 18 marked its beginning. Kashiyatra 2018 broke last year record of participation with a rise in participation by a margin of 300 this year and a total number of participants crossing the mark Nukkad: The dramatics event of 1700. Students from more than 100 colleges from Bhubaneshwar, Kolkata, And on the ultimate day i.e on 21 2018 include workshops for Dance(Hip- Lucknow, Delhi, Hyderabad, Allahabad, February, 2018, the most-awaited, hop),fine arts, and literature.The number Kanpur, and Patna had participated in celebrity night performed by the famous of events was increased this year by the Kashiyatra this time. singer, Music composer, and lyricist Amit introduction of Xtasy, a Video making A pre-event of KY, called Bliss was Trivedi and his amazing team left the competition, Sargam , a group singing organized which was an inter-school audience with a feeling of awe and competition, Mr KY which was a Fashion competition in various fields comprising wanderlust. This Pronite marked the Event, Nritya, Fog dance, What's The of music, dance, art and quiz in which footfall of more than ten thousand people Word, a word game, Ink It, a Tatoo students from various schools of Varanasi and is one of the most successful events making competition ,MELA, a Music, had participated. of KY'18. Mirage, the fashion design Entertainment, Literature and art related event based on the theme of Colors of This year KY launched its own app which Quiz, The Legend of SIR SPEAKS-A-LOT India was like an illusion that bound provides the details regarding the events (Samvaad), livesketching, and Insurance every viewer with ethereal beauty. of Kashiyatra. International presence Quiz. The main sponsors were Lava, was also marked in the event as Spanish This year crosswinds, one of the musical Integrity, Camiline, Colors of Youth. artist Murray Molloy (Sword Swallower) events of Kashiyatra, had organized the showed his outstanding talent with swords that had mesmerized the audience. Eminent Hindi poets of different zones like Popular Meerutia, Vishnu Saxena, Sarvesh Asthana, Bhuwan Mohini, Abhay Nirbhik enthralled the audience in Kavya Manzari held on the pre-eve of the KY'18. The most enthusiastic three day Pronite series started with the Bandish, The Musical Competition: A breathtaking performance on the drums 32 “This years's Kashiyatra was awesome and added another feather to the cap of the institute. Rather than comparing to the previous editions as the situations are always dynamic, I would like to say that we are overwhelmed due to the response and reviews coming from the students of the college and the external participants who had been a part of this cultural celebration. I am optimistic that Kashiyatra would reach greater heights in the future.” – Convenor, Kashiyatra. Imagination at its best : Masterpiece created during the Fine Arts Competition. Pronite