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Vision-To build a rich intellectual potential embedded with interdisciplinary knowledge, human values and professional ethics among the youth, aspirant of becoming engineers and technologists so that they contribute to society and create a niche for a successful career. Mission- To become a leading and unique institution of higher learning, offering state-of-the-art education, research and training in engineering and technology to students who are able and eager to become change agents for the industrial and economic progress of the nation. To nurture and sustain an academic ambience conducive to the development and growth of committed professionals for sustainable development of the nation and to accomplish its integration into the global economy.

Compiled & Edited by Dr Vishal S Sharma, Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, sharmavs@nitj.ac.in

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The Tenth Convocation of Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar was held on 04/04/2015 for the award of BTech/MTech/MSc and PhD degrees to 2013 and 2014 pass out students. Professor Sanjay Govind Dhande, Former Director, IIT Kanpur was the Chief Guest on the occasion and delivered the Convocation Address. Shri Rajiv Mehrotra, Chairperson, Board of Governors, NIT Jalandhar presided over the function. Dr I K Bhat, Director personally supervised all the arrangements. Shri Rajiv Mehrotra, Chairman, BOGs was also present at the venue. During 10

th Convocation, the Chief Guest,

Professor Sanjay Govind Dhande distributed 1650 degrees. Out of this, 1185 (B.Tech), 352 (M.Tech), 74 (M.Sc) and 39 (Ph.D) degrees were awarded to the degree recipients. Institute Gold Medals for Highest overall CGPA for 2009-13 and 2010-14 batches were awarded to B. Tech students Mr Raghav Aggarwal and Ms. Ritika Khanna respectively both from ECE Discipline.

Second harmonic generation by relativistic self-

focusing of q-Gaussian laser beam in preformed

parabolic plasma channel. Arvinder Singh and

Naveen Gupta. Physics of Plasmas/ American

Institute of Physics(AIP) 2015.

Second Harmonic Generation of Self Focused

Cosh-Gaussian Laser Beam in Collisionless

Plasma.,(Accepted), Arvinder Singh and

Naveen Gupta. Contributions to Plasma Physics /

Wiley-VCH Verlag 2015.

Beat Wave Excitation of Electron Plasma Wave

by Relativistic Cross-focusing of Cosh Gaussian

Laser Beams in Underdense Plasma., Arvinder

Singh and Naveen Gupta. Voume 22, 062115

(2015) Physics of Plasmas / American Institute of

Physics(AIP) 2015.

Beat Wave Excitation of Electron Plasma Wave

by Cross-focusing of Cosh Gaussian Laser

Beams in Collisional Plasma.,(Accepted),

Arvinder Singh and Naveen Gupta Laser and

Particle Beams /Cambridge University Press.

USA. 2015.

Second Harmonic Generation by Relativistic Self- Focusing of Cosh- Gaussian Laser Beam in Underdense Plasma.(Accepted) Arvinder Singh and Naveen Gupta. Laser and Particle Beams /Cambridge University Press. USA 2015.

Novel discrimination parameters for neutron-gamma discrimination with liquid scintillation detectors using wavelet transform, Harleen Singh and Sarabjit Singh, (JINST) 10 P06014. Journal of Instrumentation, IOP Science 2015.

Polymer concentration dependent morphological

and electro-optic properties in polymer dispersed

ferroelectric liquid crystal composites. Divya

Jayoti and Praveen Malik Macromolecular

Symposia /Wiley VCH Verlag 2015.

Phase transitions and Electro-optic study studies

in polymer stabilized blue phase liquid crystals.

Arshdeep Singh and Praveen Malik

Macromolecular Symposia /Wiley VCH Verlag

2015.

“Systematic study of the subshell effect at Z=64

and the neutron discontinuity at N=88-90” H.M.

Mittal and Parveen Kumari, Vol.9 , No.1 (2015) p

35-41 International Journal of Nuclear Energy

Science & Technology 2015.

“Systematic dependence of Grodzins product rule

on NpNn” Parveen Kumari and H M Mittal,

Vol.24, No.5 (2015) 1550033 (9 pages)

International Journal of Modern Physics E/ World

Scientific Publication 2015.

Systematics of band moment of inertia of yrast

and excited SD bands of even-even nuclei in

A~150 mass region, Neha Sharma and H M

Miital (Accepted) International Journal of Modern

Physics E/ World Scientific Publication 2015.

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“Study of multiphonon γγ –band in neutron rich

112Ru nucleus and molybdenum isotopes”-

Parveen Kumari and H.M Mittal, Physica Scripta

(Accepted) The Royal Swedish Academy of

Sciences/IOP Publication 2015.

Variation of naturally occurring radionuclides,

dose rate and mineral characteristics with particle

size and altitude in

bottom sediments of a river originating from

Anamalai hills in the Western Ghats of India.

N. Krishnamoorthy, S. Mullainathan, R. Mehra,

Marcos A. E. Chaparro and Mauro A. E.

Chaparro. 2015, 1-17 Environmental Earth

Sciences /Springer publication 2015.

Estimation of Attached and Unattached progeny

of 222

Rn and 220

Rn concentration using Deposition

based progeny sensors. Rohit Mehra, Pargin

Bangotra , Kirandeep Kaur, Sandeep Kanse,

Rosaline Mishra, Radiation Protection Dosimetry

/Oxford Journal 2015.

Estimation of annual effective dose due toradon level in indoor air and groundwater in Bathinda district of Punjab.. Rohit Mehra, kirandeep Kaur, ParginBangotra. Indoor and Built Environment / Sage Publications 2015.

Assessment of Rionuclides in the soil samples of from Marwar regio of Rajsthan, India.Asha Rani, Sudhir Mittal, Rohit Mehra, RC Ramola. Volume 101, July 2015, Pages 122–126. Applied Radiation and Isotopes./ Elsevier Publishers 2015.

Assessment of radon concentration and heavy metal contamination in groundwater samples from some areas of Fazilka district ,Punjab, India. Ajay Kumar, Saurabh Narang, Rohit Mehra, SurinderSingh. Indoor and Built Environment / Sage publication 2015.

Estimation of EEC, Unattached Fraction and

Equilibrium factor for the assessment of

Radiological dose using Pinhole cup dosimeters

and deposition based progeny sensors. Pargin

Bangotra, Rohit Mehra, Kirandeep Kaur,

Sandeep Kanse, BK Sahoo. Journal of

Environmental Radioactivity /Elsevier Publishers

2015.

Generalized Parton Distributions of proton for

nonzero skewness in transverse and longitudinal

position spaces. Narinder Kumar and Harleen

Dahiya, International Journal of Modern Physics

A/ World Scientific 2015.

Single transverse spin asymmetries in semi-

inclusive deep inelastic scattering in a spin-1

diquark model. Narinder Kumar and Harleen

Dahiya, European Physical Journal A/ Springer

2015.

Transverse distortion of a relativistic composite

system in impact parameter space. Narinder

Kumar and Harleen Dahiya, European Physical

Journal A/ Springer 2015.

Chiral odd Generalized Parton Distributions and

spin densities in impact parameter space.

Narinder Kumar and Harleen Dahiya, Physical

Review D/ American Physical Society 2015.

Quark Flavor Distribution functions for the octet

baryons in the chiral quark constituent model.

Harleen Dahiya, Physical Review D/ American

Physical Society 2015.

Effect of Silicon Finish on the behaviour of Regenerated Surface Filters at Different Dust Concentration, A Mukhopadhyay and S R Swain, Filtration Journal, American filtration society,15 (1), 2015, pp. 40-47. Effect of high temperature on the performance of filter fabric, A Mukhopadhyay, and V Pandit and K Dhawan, Journal of Industrial Textiles, Published online (January 14, 2015. Response of Slub Characteristics on Tensile Properties of Injected Slub Yarn, N C Ray, A Mukhopahdyay and V K Midha, Journal of Institution of Engineers (India): Series E, Published online Midha V K and Gupta V, Effect of process parameters on tensile properties of threads during high speed lockstitch sewing, International Journal of Mining, Metallurgy & Mechanical Engineering, Vol 3 (3), 2015, 79-82. Midha V K and Suresh K S (2015) “Effect of seam angle on seam puckering in lightweight woven fabrics”, The Journal of the Textile Institute, Vol 106(4), 395-401. Effect of Fabric Type and Dust Concentration on Filtration Performance, Arunangshu Mukhopadhyay and SoumyaRanjan Swain, Filtech -2015, Cologne, Germany. Study and characterization of the emitted particles in pulse jet filtration, A K Choudhary and A Mukhopadhyay, Filtech -2015, Cologne, Germany.

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Effect of Process Parameters on Tensile Properties of Threads during High Speed Lockstitch Sewing, Vinay Midha and Vaibhav Gupta, 3

rd International Conference on

Manufacturing and Textile Engineering, May 20-21, 2015, Dubai. New test rigs for characterizing filter media, A Mukhopadhyay and A K Choudhary Filtech -2015, Cologne, Germany. Effect of Silicon Finish on the behaviour of

Regenerated Surface Filters at Different Dust

Concentration, A Mukhopadhyay and S R

Swain, Filtration Journal, American filtration

society,15 (1), 2015, pp. 40-47.

Effect of high temperature on the performance of

filter fabric, A Mukhopadhyay, and V Pandit and

K Dhawan, Journal of Industrial Textiles,

Published online (January 14, 2015)

“The structural and stretch properties of high stretch bandages”, M. Sikka, International conference on technical textiles and nonwovens, IIT Delhi, Nov. 6-8

th (2014)

“Modified biodegradeble rolled erosion control products (Recp) for rainsplash erosion control”, V.K. Midha, S. Kumar and A. Sharma, International conference on technical textiles and nonwovens, IIT Delhi, Nov. 6-8

th (2014)

“Systematic study of the subshell effect at Z=64 and the neutron discontinuity at N=88-90” H.M. Mittal and Parveen Kumari, International Journal of Nuclear Energy Science & Technology Vol.9 , No.1 (2015) p 35-41 “Systematic dependence of Grodzins product rule on NpNn” Parveen Kumari and H M Mittal, International Journal of Modern Physics E Vol.24, No.5 (2015) 1550033 (9 pages)

Akash Saxena Memorial Lecture on Information Security: Auditing and Standard (Computer Science and Engineering) Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics (Computer Science and Engineering) Need for IPRs for engineers and researchers and new career opportunities in IPR (Electronics and Communication Engineering)

Short Term Course on “Electronics and Communication Systems Design Aspects” (Electronics and Communication Engineering) Short Term Course on “Advance Materials and Characterization Techniques” (Chemistry and Bio-Technology)

Short Term Course on “Recent Trends in Software Engineering and Knowledge Mining (RTSEKM-2015)” (Computer Science and Engineering)

Short Term Course on “High Performance Concrete: Past, Present and Future” (Civil Engineering)

Dr Nitai Basak delivered "Invited Talk" on 'Photo fermentative biohydrogen production: As effective technology in renewable Bioenergy' in 1st International conference on Recent Advances in Bioenergy Research 2015, held at Sardar Swaran Singh-National Institute of Renewable Energy, Kapurthala, March 14-17, 2015. Dr Rajeev Kukreja, Dr AnishSachdeva and Dr Pramod Kumar attended STC on research perspectives in Solar PV systems from 22

nd – 26

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March, 2015 at PSG institute of Technology, Coimbatore. Dr Rajeev Kukreja and Dr Subhash Chander attended STC on topic, Advances in Computational Heat Transfer from 21-23rd May, 2015 at IIT, Delhi Dr Rajeev Kukreja attended STC on topic, Two Phase: Boiling and Condensation in conventional an miniature systems from 1st- 5th June, 2015 at IIT, Roorkee.

Dr. Monica Sikka delivered an invited lecture on "Surface ornamentation using different weaves during fabric formation" as a resource person in the UGC sponsored two day National Workshop on Surface Ornamentation of Garments organized by Department of Fashion Designing at S.D. College for Women, Jalandhar on 27-28 February, 2015 Dr. Vinay Midha delivered an invited lecture on "Surface ornamentation using fancy yarns" as a resource person in the UGC sponsored two day National Workshop on Surface Ornamentation of Garments organized by Department of Fashion Designing at S.D.

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College for Women, Jalandhar on 27-28 February, 2015

Dr. Rizwan A Khan acted as Co-coordinator, One Week Short-Term Course on “High Performance Concrete: Past, Present and Future” organized by Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Jalandhar, June 15-19, 2015. Expert talk on “Development of HPC using SCMs and Copper Slag” delivered by Dr Rizwan A Khan in One Week Short-Term Course on “ “High Performance Concrete: Past, Present and Future” organized by Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Jalandhar, June 15-19, 2015.

Expert Laboratory Session on “Durability Testing” conducted by Dr Rizwan A Khan and Dr S P Singh in TEQIP-II sponsored in One Week Short-Term Course on “ “High Performance Concrete: Past, Present and Future” organized by Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Jalandhar, June 15-19, 2015. Expert talk on “Recent Trends in Secure Computing Environment” delivered by Dr Harsh Verma in One Week Workshop on Recent Trends in Computational Techniques organized by DAV College, Jalandhar from April 20-26, 2015.

Expert talk on “Machine Learning Techniques” delivered by Dr Renu Dhir in One Week Workshop on Recent Trends in Computational Techniques organized by DAV College, Jalandhar from April 20-26, 2015.

Expert talk on “Why Mine Data?” delivered by Dr Geeta Sikka in One Week Workshop on Recent Trends in Computational Techniques organized by DAV College, Jalandhar from April 20-26, 2015.

Dr Geeta Sikka chaired a session at International Multi Track Conference on Science, Engineering and Technical Innovations held at CT Institute of Engineering, Management and Technology, Jalandhar from May 22-23, 2015.

Expert Talk on “Why Mine Data?” delivered by Dr Geeta Sikka in International Multi Track Conference on Science, Engineering and Technical Innovations held at CT Institute of Engineering, Management and Technology, Jalandhar from May 22-23, 2015.

Expert talk on “Role of IT Services” delivered by Dr Geeta Sikka in Faculty Development Programme under Make in India Campaign held at CT College, Jalandhar from Jun 08-13, 2015.

Expert Laboratory Session on “Statistica – Data Mining Tool” conducted by Dr Geeta Sikka in TEQIP-II sponsored One Week Short Term Course on “Recent Trends in Software Engineering and Knowledge Mining” organized by Department of CSE, NIT Jalandhar from Jun 01-05, 2015.

Dr R K Sarin chaired a technical session in department of Electronics & Communication Engineering of National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training & Research, Chandigarh during International Conference on Electronic Design Innovations & Technology on 27th – 28th April 2015

Dr Balwinder Raj invited as Resource Person to deliver an expert talk (8

th July 2015) in Faculty

Development Program on “Emerging Trends in Engineering Technology (ETET-2015)” at Panjab University SSG Regional Centre, Hoshiarpur from 6

th to 10

th July 2015. He is also invited for Expert

talk on “Novel Devices for Low Power VLSI Design” in Department of ECE, Thapar University Patiala, held on 7

th May 2015.

Dr Arvinder Singh delivered an expert talk on “Fundamentals of Electrodynamics” on Feb. 13

th

2015 at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) Ludhiana

Dr Harleen Dahiya delivered an expert talk on “Recent Advances in High Energy Physics” on Feb 26-28, 2015 at University of Hyderabad

Dr Harleen Dahiya delivered an expert talk on “Big Bang, God's Particle and the Large Hadron Collider” on Mar 25, 2015 at DAVIET Jalandhar

Ms. Jyoti Bharj delivered an expert talk on “The Wondrous World of Nanotechnology: A Route to Carbon Nanotubes” on March 17

th, 2015 at Rayat

Bahra Institute Hoshiarpur

Dr Praveen Malik delivered an expert talk on “Liquid Crystal Displays: Recent Advances” on March 17

th, 2015 at Amritsar College of

Engineering & Technology, Amritsar

Dr Abhinav Pratap Singh delivered an expert talk in Development Programme on "Nano Science and Technology” on April 13-17, 2015 at Beant College of Engineering, Gurdaspur

Dr Rohit Mehra delivered an expert talk on “Use of DTPS/DRPS for the measurement of Radiation Levels in Malwa Region of Punjab” on June 17

th,

2015 at HNB Gharwal University

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Dr Rohit Mehra delivered an expert talk on “Nanotechnology: Small is going to be Big” on June 25

th, 2015 at ACET, Amritsar

Dr B S Kaith delivered an Expert Lecture in orientation program for INSPIRE Fellow students on “Indian Farming System and Green Revolution” at Solini University Solan, HP on 12

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July 2015.

Dr B S Kaith Chaired a Session during National Seminar on Green Chemistry, 25-26th March 2015, G.H.G. Khalsa College, GurusarSadhar, Ludhiana.

Dr B S Kaith acted as Chief Co-ordinator, One Week Short-Term Course on “Advanced Materials and Characterization Techniques” organized by Department of Chemistry, NIT Jalandhar, June 01-07, 2015.

Dr N C Kothiyal acted as Chief Co-ordinator, One Week Short-Term Course on “Advanced Materials and Characterization Techniques” organized by Department of Chemistry, NIT Jalandhar, June 01-07, 2015 Dr Rajeev Jindal acted as Chief Co-ordinator, One Week Short-Term Course on “Advanced Materials and Characterization Techniques” organized by Department of Chemistry, NIT Jalandhar, June 01-07, 2015.

Dr Harsh K Manchanda acted as Co-coordinator, One Week Short-Term Course on “Advanced Materials and Characterization Techniques” organized by Department of Chemistry, NIT Jalandhar, June 01-07, 2015.

Dr Jaspreet K Rajput acted as Co-coordinator, One Week Short-Term Course on “Advanced Materials and Characterization Techniques” organized by Department of Chemistry, NIT Jalandhar, June 01-07, 2015.

Dr Virender Singh acted as Co-coordinator, One Week Short-Term Course on “Advanced Materials and Characterization Techniques” organized by Department of Chemistry, NIT Jalandhar, June 01-07, 2015.

Dr Virender Singh delivered an Invited Talk on Organic Reactions in Water or on Water in National Seminar on Green Chemistry, 25-26th March 2015, G.H.G. Khalsa College, Gurusar Sadhar, Ludhiana.

Dr Uma Shanker acted as Co-coordinator, One Week Short-Term Course on “Advanced Materials and Characterization Techniques”

organized by Department of Chemistry, NIT Jalandhar, June 01-07, 2015.

Dr S K Pahuja delivered an expert talk on “Medical Imaging (Electrical Impedance tomography) in Faculty Development Programme on 09/07/2015 Dr Vinay Midha chaired a Session in 3

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International Conference on Manufacturing and Textile Engineering, May 20-21, 2015, Dubai.

Dr R R Sinha delivered an expert talk in plenary session on “Estimation of Population Parameters under Large Sample Approximation” in the Multi-track Conference on Sciences, Engineering and Technical Innovations: IMCT–2015, held at CT Institute of Engineering, Management and Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India on May 22-23, 2015.

Dr R R Sinha chaired a session in the Multi-track Conference on Sciences, Engineering and Technical Innovations: IMCT–2015, held at CT Institute of Engineering, management and Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India on May 22-23, 2015.

Dr Balwinder Raj attended International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, held in Pattaya, Thailand during July 11-12, 2015. He received Best Paper Award for research paper “Design and Simulation of Low Power Stacked SRAM Cell” during conference valedictory function on 12 July 2015 held in Pattaya, Thailand.

Dr S S Bhadauria attended and presented paper entitled, “Mathematical Modeling for CTOD based M- Criterion for the Determination for the Triaxility under Mixed Mode (I/II) Fracture” in International Conference of IJAS for Academic Disciplines at Florence, Italy during June 16-19, 2015.

RajanJakhoo, Ph.D. scholar of the department of Physics attended and presented his paper in Third International Conference on Radiation and Applications in Various Fields of Research (RAD 2015) held from 8–12 Jun 2015 at Budva, Montenegro, Serbia

Dr Jaspal Singh visited Abdul Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, ITALY from June 23, 2015 to July 14, 2015.

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Dr H M Mittal attended and presented a research paper entitled “Test of Rigid Triaxiality in 126-132Ce nuclei” in European Radioactive Ion Beam Conference-2015 (EURORIB-15) at Hohenroda, Germany from 07-06 2015 to 12.06.2015.

Two test rigs, viz. a viz. pulse-jet filtration test rig

and industrial filtration rig (Project PI: A

Mukhopadhyay, Co-Investigator: A K

Choudhary).have been developed through a

project supported by Instrumentation

Development Programme (IDP) under

Department of Science & Technology (DST),

Government of India. Pulse-jet Filtration

Instrument can be used for the assessment of

filtration performance of filter media (in flat form)

challenged with aerosol; whereas Standardized

Industrial test rig can be used for the assessment

of filtration performance of filter media in tubular

form similar to industrial set up maintaining clean

air requirement. The cost involved of this

research project was Rs 52.28 lacs and

completed successfully on March 2015.

A R&D project on Design of Instrument for

Positive Thread Feeding in Sewing Machines

was approved by Department of Science &

Technology (DST), Government of India on

16/02/2015. An amount of Rs 22.11 lakhs has

been sanctioned for the aforementioned project.

Project PI and co-PI are Dr V K Midha and Dr A

Mukhopadhyay.

Chairing two sessions by Dr A Mukhopadhyay and Dr A K Choudhary in FILTECH 2015 conference

Newly developed filtration test rigs at NITJ were highlighted in poster session in the conference

among the researchers, industrial practitioners and buyers. Both these test rigs are unique in the world for characterizing fabric filter media used for particulate emission control in industries. These test rigs, have been developed through a project supported by Instrumentation Development Programme (IDP) under Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India. Recently NIT Jalandhar (Project PI: A Mukhopadhyay, Co-Investigator: A K Choudhary) has transferred the right of manufacturing of test rigs to Kanwal Enterprises, Gurgaon, (Hr.) on December 15, 2014.

Dr Harleen Dahiya, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics has been nominated as Distinguished Young Scientist (among young researchers) recognised for her contribution in “Flagship program of Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) in Science and Technology”. She is invited to participate in “Indo-American Frontiers of Science Symposium” at Arnold and Mabel Beckman Centre in Irvine, California, USA from 9-12 August, 2015.

Following research paper authored by Dr Gurbir Kaur, Dr S P Singh and Professor S K Kaushik has been awarded the Thomas Howard Medal for Best Research Paper by the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK “Flexural Performance of Fibrous Concrete with Cement Additions”, Construction Materials, Institution of Civil Engineers, UK, Vol. 167, Issue 1, November 2014.

Dr S P Singh, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering is allowed to visit the U.K from 8.10.2015 to 12.10.2015 to attend the ICE Awards Ceremony 2015” being held in London to receive the Thomas Howard Medal.

Nisha Devi and Virender Singh. Synthesis of Pyrazole fused- azepinone and imidazopyridine Derivatives as Anti-infective Agents. 11-12th April 2015, Him Science Congress Association, Science Emerging Scenario and Future Challenges III, Vallabh Government College, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. (Best Oral Presentation Award)

Neha Gupta and Virender Singh. Design and Synthesis of β- Carboline Substituted Isoxazole, Pyrazole and Quinoline derivatives via Pictet -Spengler Reaction. National Symposium on Managing Innovations in Science & Technology.30-31th March 2015, CT Institute of Engg. Management & Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab. (Best Poster Award-1

st Prize).

Vipin Kumar, D. Singh, N. Devi and Virender Singh. Indium Catalyzed Synthesis of

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Biologically Active Quinoline Substituted Butyrolactones. National Seminar on Green Chemistry, 25-26th March 2015, G.H.G. Khalsa College, GurusarSadhar, Ludhiana. (Best Poster Award- 2

nd Prize)

Dharmender Singh, N. Devi, and Virender Singh. Indium Catalysed Synthesis of

Biologically Active -Carboline Substituted Imidazopyridines and Butyrolactones. National Seminar on Green Chemistry, 25-26th March 2015, G.H.G. Khalsa College, GurusarSadhar, Ludhiana. (Best Poster Award- 2

nd Prize).

Rahul Thakur and Virender Singh. Indium-triflate Catalysed Synthesis of Biologically Active Isoxazole Substituted Imidazopyridines National Seminar on Green Chemistry, 25-26th March 2015, G.H.G. Khalsa College, Gurusar Sadhar, Ludhiana. (Best Poster Award- 3r

d Prize).

Nisha Devi, D. Singh and Virender Singh. Morita-Baylis-Hillman Reaction Assisted Synthesis of Pyrazole-fused Azepinone Derivatives as Anti-infective Agents. National Seminar on Green Chemistry, 25-26th March 2015, G.H.G. Khalsa College, GurusarSadhar, Ludhiana. (Best Poster Award- 1st Prize)

Core companies: 69 companies visited where 268 students got placed with a maximum package of 14 lacs.

IT companies: 19 companies visited where 350 students got placed with a maximum package of 16 lacs.

Business analysis companies: 7 companies visited where 99 students got placed with a maximum package of 8 lacs.

Educations: 6 companies visited where 46 students got placed with a maximum package of 5.8 lacs

Dr Vinay Midha has been appointed as a

member of Board of Studies (Textile Technology)

by Punjab Technical University.

Dr Ajay Bansal have been appointed as Member Board of Studies of Applied Sciences (Chemistry), Amritsar College of Engineering & Technology; Department of Chemical Engineering, Panjab University; Department of

Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Chandigarh University. Dr MK Jha has been appointed as Member Board of Studies of Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, Chandigarh University. Dr Jatinder K Ratan has been appointed as Member of Editorial Board of journals “Recent Trends in Chemical Engineering” and “Recent Trends of Fluid Mechanics”.

Mr Sujit Patil, B.Tech passed out student 2015 secured 2nd rank in GATE 2015 and presently is admitted in M.Tech Biotechnology in IIT Kharagpur. Ms Ishu Saini, B.Tech topper in 2015 secured 350 rank in GATE 2015 and is presently admitted in M.Tech Biotechnology in IIT Kharagpur.

Three of the BTech students of the Department of Mechanical Engineering got admission in prestigious universities in US (Mr. Gurjap Singh - Iowa state University (with full scholarship), Ms. Rajni Chahal -University of Texas and Mr. Rishab Gaba (State University Buffalo). Mr. Anuj Gupta (BTech 2015 Batch Student) Department of Mechanical Engineering got a cash award of Rs. 10,000.00 from TCS for acquiring highest CGPA in his batch 2015 from the entire Institute. Team Avishkar secured Rank 16

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International off road racing Event BAJA SAEINDIA organized by Mahindra and Mahindra at National Automotive Testing Track. Team Avishkar cleared virtual Design Round for BAJA 2016 and going to participate at BAJA, Auburn USA in March 2016. Umesh Kumar, Kamal Kumar, Tarun Rawat and Vishwajeet, MTech students Department of ICE participated in the Short Term Training programme on “Small Hydropower Development” during May 25-29, 2015 sponsored by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, GOI, organized by Alternate Hydro Energy Centre, IIT- Roorkee. Ms Helen Mary M C, Research Scholar, Department of ICE participated in the Short Term Training programme on “Small Hydropower Development” during July 20-25, 2015 sponsored by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, GOI, organized by Alternate Hydro Energy Centre, IIT- Roorkee.

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Hindustani Classical Vocal recital by Pandit Sarathi Chatterjee on 05-02-2015

Celebrated International Women Day on 09-03-2015 by organizing a debate on: ROLE OF WOMEN IN MODERN SOCIETY

Annual CULTURAL festival Utkansh HELD FROM 20-03-2015 TO 22-03-2015

Trekking trip to Mcleod Gang of 27 students (boys) from 20-03-2015 to 22-03-2015

ALUMNI MEET held on 11-04-2015

CELEBRATED YOGA ON 21.06.2015