Hearty congratulations to Prof. K.T.Jacob for receiving this year’s Hume Rothery Prize 2018 from The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, UK.
26 Dec 2018@3pm: M.Sc. (Engg) Thesis Defense by Mr. Dinesh Singh
Name of student : Mr. Dinesh Singh
Thesis Title : "Application of Bending Tests for Evaluating
Creep Behaviour of a 12% Ferritic Steel used in
Steam Turbine Blades"
Faculty advisor : Prof. Praveen Kumar
Date : Wednesday 26th, December 2018
Time : 3.00 P.M
Venue : Materials Engineering Lecture Theatre
17 Dec 2018@3.30pm: Seminar by Dr. Sujit Das, UCB, USA
Speaker : Dr. Sujit Das
Affiliation : Postdoctoral Researcher
Dept of Materials Sci, and Engg.
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Title : “Emergence of complex topology in oxide heterostructure”
Date & Time : Monday 17th, December 2018, 3:30 PM
Venue : Lecture Theatre, Materials Engineering
12 Dec 2018@3pm: Seminar by Dr. Pavan Nukala
Speaker & Affiliation : Dr. Pavan Nukala
Zernike Institute of Advanced Materials,
University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen,
The Netherlands
Title : “Defect engineering for ultra-low power
utilization of phase-change memory devices”
Date & Time : Wednesday 12th,December 2018, 3:00 PM
Venue : Lecture Theatre, Materials Engineering
29 Nov 2018@11am: PhD Defence by Mr. Biswaranjan Dash
Name of student : Mr. Biswaranjan Dash Thesis Title : "Strain Hardening in Extruded Pure Magnesium" Faculty advisor : Prof. S. Karthikeyan Date : Thursday 29th, November 2018 Time : 11.00 A.M Venue : Materials Engineering Lecture Theatre
Prof. Rajeev Ranjan and Prof. Abhik Choudhury win NMD Awards
Hearty congratulations to Prof. Rajeev Ranjan for winning this year’s Metallurgist of the Year award, and to Prof. Abhik N. Choudhury for the Young Metallurgist of the Year award (both in Metal Sciences). They received these awards during this year’s National Metallurgists’ Day celebrations on 14 November 2018 during the annual meeting of the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) in Kolkata.
We are delighted that this year’s NMD award winners list featured two of our alumni as well: Dr. Sanak Mishra (BE, 1968) received the Lifetime Achievment award, and Dr. Divakar Ramachandran (PhD, 2001) received the Metallurgist of the Year award in Metal Sciences. Further, this year’s list of IIM honours and awards features Dr. P. Ramesh Narayanan (PhD, 2011), who has been selected this year as a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Metals.
The full list of NMD award winners is here (local copy). And the list of IIM awards and honours is here (local copy).
20 Nov 2018@3.30pm: PhD Colloquium by Ms. Rekha M.Y.
Name of student : Ms. Rekha M.Y.
Thesis title : “Microstructure and Corrosion Properties of
Electrodeposited Metallic Coatings Containing
Graphene Oxide and Graphene.”
Faculty advisor : Prof. Chandan Srivastava
Date : Tuesday 20th November 2018
Time : 3.30 P.M
Venue : Materials Engineering Lecture Theatre
8 Nov 2018@3pm: PhD Defence by Mr. Chandra Shekhar P
Name of student : Mr. Chandra Shekhar P
Thesis Title : "Development of Wrought Mg-Li based alloys with
improved strength and ductility"
Faculty advisor : Prof. Subodh Kumar & Prof. Satyam Suwas
Date : Thursday 8th November 2018
Time : 03.00 P.M
Venue : Materials Engineering Lecture Theatre
5 Nov 2018@3pm: PhD Colloquium by Ms. Prajakta Prathamkumar Katti
Name of student : Ms. Prajakta Prathamkumar Katti
Thesis title : “Structure-property correlation in epoxy
composites containing carbonaceous nanoparticles”
Faculty advisors: Prof. Suryasarathi Bose & Prof. Subodh Kumar
Date : Monday 5th November 2018
Time : 3.00 P.M
Venue : Materials Engineering Lecture Theatre
30 Oct 2018@2.30pm: PhD defence by Ms. Vinila N.V
Name of student : Ms. Vinila N.V.
Thesis Title : “Architecting of conjugated molecules for band-gap
engineering”
Faculty advisor : Prof. Praveen C Ramamurthy
Date : Tuesday 30th, October 2018
Time : 02.30 P.M
Venue : Materials Engineering Lecture Theatre