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INDIAN SOCIETY FOR ADVANCEMENT OF MATERIALS AND PROCESS ENGINEERING
Aeronautical Society of India Building, Suranjan Das Road Junction New Thippasandra, Bangalore 560 075
Website: isampe.org
MINUTES OF THE 34th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF ISAMPE
17th October 2020
The 34th Annual General Meeting of ISAMPE was held virtually (Through online)
on 17th October 2020 (Saturday) from 16.00 to 18.00 hrs. Due to the current
pandemic situation (Covid -19) and as per the prevailing Government of India
SOP (guide lines on restriction on mass gathering), AGM for the business
session was held virtually (Through online). The detail program schedule is
enclosed in Annexure-1.
Members Present:
List of members who attended the AGM is given in Annexure-2.
Report on AGM Function:
Business session of the AGM was held in the evening of 17th October 2020 and
the agenda for the meeting as given in the programme (Annexure-1) was
followed.
Following is the Record of Discussions during the Business Session of the
Annual General Body Meeting.
Record of discussions:
1. Welcome& Address by the President
Dr. D Saji, President-ISAMPE welcomed all the members for the Business
Session.
2. Confirmation of Minutes of 33rd AGM
The highlights of the 33rd AGM was discussed and Minutes for the same was
accepted by the General Body. The resolution to accept the same was
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Proposed by Dr. Rajagopal and seconded by Mr. Kandala Ravi Sekhar. The
33rd AGM report was accepted unanimously.
3. Secretary’s Report
Mr. Srinivas. M Secretary-ISAMPE presented the Secretary’s Report
(Enclosed in Annexure-4). The resolution to accept the report was proposed
by Mr. T.M Naidu and seconded by Mr. P. Jayasimha & Shri V. Sadagopan.
Secretary’s report was accepted unanimously.
4. Statement of Accounts &Treasurer’s Report
Dr. Hema Singh, Treasurer-ISAMPE, presented the Treasurer’s Report
(Enclosed in Annexure-5).
Discussions / Deliberation on the Treasurers Report is as follows:
Dr Ramesh Sundaram enquired about the financial condition of the
ISAMPE and as well as in the NECTAR fund. Treasurer, informed
members that ISAMPE has around Rs 80 Lakhs in its account and out
of which Rs. 50 Lakhs belongs to the NECTAR Corpus fund. Interest
earned from the FD is around Rs.12 Lakhs can be used for the next
NECTAR workshop.
Mr. Ananda Murthy wanted to know why close to Rs. 6 lakhs is lying in
the savings account, which can be converted to the fixed deposit.
President explained that this fund was raised during the NECTAR
workshop held just before the financial year, which will be converted to
the FD by end of November 2020.
President also expressed as per the Society rules the fund cannot be
invested in to the mutual funds or any other investments where in the
market risks involved. The funds to be invested in to the Fixed deposits
only as per the society rules and too in nationalized banks only.
Shri V Sadagopan raised the query on the Corporate membership of
M/s Kemrock Industries, Vadodara and also expressed that as
currently M/s Kemrock Industries is no more exists and still how
ISAMPE can continue the corporate membership at ISAMPE.
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President appraised that M/s Kemrock Industries was taken the
corporate membership for 30 years by paying R.s 1.5 Lakhs, and there
is no communication received from them stating that the Industry is no
more exists. Dr Ramesh Sundaram requested President and Secretary
to check / discuss the matter with the Auditor for further necessary
action on the same. However the amount paid by M/s Kemrock
Industries, will be shown as receipts in the ISAMPE account.
After the deliberation on the treasurer's report, to accept the report from the
Auditor was proposed by Shri. V Sadagopan and seconded by Dr Shylaja
Srihari Treasurer’s report was accepted unanimously.
5. Report of the Chapters
(i) Bangalore Chapter: Mr. T.C Subba Reddy, Chairman, Bangalore
Chapter presented the annual report and briefed the General Body about
the latest and forthcoming activities of the Chapter.
(ii) Pune Chapter: Dr. Amit Gupta, Secretary, Pune Chapter presented the
annual report of the Chapter and briefed the General Body about the
latest activities of the Chapter.
(iii) Thiruvananthapuram Chapter: Shri John Paul, VSSC, Secretary,
Thiruvananthapuram Chapter presented the annual report of the Chapter
and briefed the General Body about the latest activities of the Chapter.
Highlight of their activity for the year was conduct of INCCOM-16.
It is appraised to Thiruvananthapuram Chapter to conduct the AGM of
the chapter and submit the report to the main body at the earliest. Due to
spread of Covid-19, Secretary informed that ISAMPE-Trivandrum
chapter AGM will be conducted as online latest by 31-10-2020.
(iv) Hyderabad Chapter: Dr. K Srinivas, Secretary Hyderabad chapter was
presented the plans to revival of the Hyderabad chapter, also expressed
that the Hyderabad chapter Executive council need to be reelected and
the same was planned by End of Nov 2020. (v) Coimbatore Chapter: On Behalf of Prof. Jayanarayanan, Dr. Duraisamy
Kumaresan was presented the Annual report of the Coimbatore chapter
Dr. Duraisamy Kumaresan presented the annual report of the chapter
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and briefed the general body about the latest and the planned activities.
It is appraised to Coimbatore Chapter to conduct the AGM of the chapter
and submit the report to the main body at the earliest. (vi) Kanpur Chapter: There was no representation from the Chapter in the
meeting.
(vii) Dhanbad Chapter: There was no representation from the Chapter in the
meeting.
It is also proposed during the AGM that, the Kanpur and Dhanbad
chapter are not active since from last three years, hence it is proposed, all the
members from the both chapter are required to be attached to the Bangalore
chapter in association with the ISAMPE main body. It is also appraised that
Mr. T.M Naidu will interact with the both chapter representatives for revival of
the chapter for which members are agreed. The time frame was fixed by
March 2021, if not both the chapter will be closed and the members will be
attached to the Bangalore chapter. President appraised to the members that
the entire three chapter (Hyderabad, Dhanbad & Kanpur) are not submitting
the audit reports.
6. Constitution of the Executive Council for the Year 2020-21:
Election was due this year to fill up the vacancies for posts of Treasurer, Joint Secretary -2 and Director – 2 in the Executive Council of the Society
for the official years 2020-21. According to the Election Procedure, vide Sec
5.3 of the Rules and Regulations, the Executive Board had made nominations
for the vacant posts (Refer Election Notice Ref: ISAMPE/Society/AGM-02/20,
dated 17.08.2020). President, ISAMPE informed to the members that other
than those nominated by the EB, no other nominations for the posts have
been received. Hence, he declared the following persons elected
unanimously.
Post Board Nominee
Treasurer
Mr. K Ravisekhar, Scientist-D, Composite Technology Center (CTC) Aeronautical Development Establishment, ADE Suranjan Das Road, New Thippasandra PO,
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Bengaluru, Karnataka 560075
Jt. Secretary-2
Mr. D Karuppannan, Scientist, Advanced Composites Division (ACD) CSIR - National Aerospace Laboratories. HAL-Airport Road, Kodihalli Bangalore -560017
Director-2
Mr. D Poomani, Group Director - Structures Group, U R Rao Satellite Centre, HAL-Airport Road ,Murugeshpalaya Bangalore -560017
Based on above, President announced the following Executive Council for
the year 2020-21, which formally took over from the outgoing board:
President Dr. D Saji, Sr Principal Scientist, CSIR-NAL
Vice President Dr. S. Rajagopal, Sc –G, ADE
Secretary Mr. M Srinivas, Chief Manager HAL
Treasurer Mr. K Ravisekhar, Sc –D ADE
Director-1 Mr. A Gnanasekar, HOD (Material) –ARDC, HAL
Director-2 Mr. D Poomani, Group Director - Structures, URSC
Joint. Secretary-1 Mr. MNM Patnaik, Sc/Engr SF,URSC
Joint Secretary-2 Mr. D Karuppannan, Sc ,CSIR- NAL
7. Plan of Activities for 2020-21
President - ISAMPE addressed the General Body and discussed about the
plan of action for the year 2020-21, mainly with respect to the following:
Prof AK Rao Memorial Lecture By Prof AK Guptha, Rtd Professor from IIT
Delhi.
Shri Vijay Zaveri Memorial Lecture By Mr Khandwe, Bohr Chemicals &
Plastics Pvt Ltd Mumbai
Technical lectures by Eminent speakers from academia, industry & R and
D labs (minimum 3 lectures)
Above events are planned through virtual (Online) mode
NECTAR Workshop is also planned in this FY.
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A Committee formed under Chairmanship of Dr Ramesh
Sundaram and other members are Dr PS Nair, Dr S Rajagopal & Mr TC
Subbareddy. Committee will identify topic for the workshop by End of Dec.
Accordingly the workshop will be planned during the year 2020-21.
Release a Book on History of ISAMPE
This is a dream project of many veterans and past active EB
members of ISAMPE. Mrs Rakzha Zaveri mooted this and suggested to
bring out this history in this year. A committee under Chairmanship of Dr
RV Krishnan formed to develop this. Other members of the committee
are Dr S Sankaran, Dr PS Nair, Dr Shylaja Srihari, Dr Hema Singh & Mrs
Raksha Zaveri. It is also proposed to hire Dr Shalini Joshi , a Freelance
Development Professional and Content writer, who has done similar job
for various NGOs, Industries, Academic Institutions and take her
consultancy in this job execution.
Membership Photo ID Cards to ISAMPE Life members: The process for
the issue of Photo ID Cards to ISAMPE Life members is initiated and as of
now already close to 500 ID cards are printed and handed over to the
respective individuals. This process will be continued till the completion for
all the members. It is also initiated for a fresh members, the ID card will be
issued along with the Life membership certificate.
ISAMPE understands the importance of imparting education and
exposures to the engineering student community. In this regard, ISAMPE
has instituted a Student Chapter in Bangalore, which is spread across
several engineering colleges in the city. The students are given necessary
exposure to composite technologies by through workshops, lectures and
visits to relevant facilities. Similar student chapter is also being planned to
be set up in Pune.
Email Update: Members expressed that the they are not receiving the
Email communication from the ISAMPE. AGM authorized the executive
board to do the needful.
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ISAMPE would like to improve the industrial participation in the ISAMPE
activities. Increase the corporate membership, through which the
industries can be directly involved in the corporate activities.
Enhance the ISAMPE activities through the website.
Involvement of the student members in the ISAMPE activities though
organizing the workshops and visits to the industries.
It is also planned arrange online lectures for the benefit of students
through ISAMPE-BC and ISAMPE Student Chapter at BMS College of
Engineering.
Bangalore chapter is planning a student completion on design of a foldable
aircraft ladder. As number of proposals received this year is limited we are
extending it for some more time. Mr T C Subbareddy, Chairman ISAMPE –
BC is coordinating this event.
8. Any other matter (with the permission of the Chair)
a. Appointment of Auditor for the Year 2019-20
As proposed by Dr. Hema Singh and Mr. Srinivas, the General
Body approved the appointment of M/s Suri & Co. as the Auditor for
ISAMPE accounts for the Year 2020-21 at the marginal increment
in audit fees, which has been paid presently.
b. Mr. N.C Sharma thanked to the society, and appraised that there is
a lot of scope for opening another chapter at Ahmedabad as a lot of
industries are coming up in that areas. Members are welcomed his
proposal and requested him to explore the possibilities to establish
the chapter at Ahmedabad. It is also requested Mr. N C Sharma to
get the corporate membership for the ISAMPE, as he is having
more interaction with the Industries.
c. Mr. Vinu Viswanath, Ex Secretary ISAMPE(TVM) chapter
appraised that the virtual meeting are very fruitful and requested to
continue for more additional technical lecture for the benefit of the
ISAMPE members.
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d. Mr. T M Naidu, felt that in addition to virtual meetings, need for
formal meeting of members at least once in a year
e. Dr. Upadhya, requested President ISAMPE regarding the
interaction with the other likeminded societies like FRP Institute,
RV-TIFAC etc., President appraised to the members that ISAMPE
is closely associated with these institutions / Societies for the
participating various events organizing by them. ISAMPE President
is an ex-Officio member of governing council of RV-TIFAC
Composite Design Center and attending their meetings regularly.
Further ISAMPE planned to have INCCOM-17 during the next
ICERP of FRP Institute Chennai.
f. Mr. Madhav Murthy, Professor from BMS College requested to
ISAMPE members to share their expertise with students and
suggest industry projects for them.
g. Shri. V Sadagopan appreciated the virtual AGM, and congratulated
the EC for their successful completion of the society renewal
process and conducting the AGM through online without any
technical snags.
h. Mr Arunachalam suggested that all the technical lectures organized
by ISAMPE through online /webinar such information need to be
passed on to all the ISAMPE members. President welcomed the
proposal and confirmed that the information will be shared to all the
members.
i. Mr. Ananda Murthy, suggested that the ISAMPE meeting like EB &
EC meeting can be organized through online as well as off line, so
that the participation will increase. President welcomed the proposal
and informed the modalities will be work out accordingly and will be
communicated to the members.
j. President appreciated efforts taken by Mr Srinivas and Mr MN
Patnaik to conduct this virtual AGM without any technical hitches.
Glad to note that more than 200 members registered for the online
AGM and attended it in full swing from different parts of the world.
Most of the past Presidents attended the AGM and suggestions
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given by Dr PS Nair, Dr S Ramachandra, Dr Ramesh Sundaram ,Dr
S Sankaran and Mr V Sadagopan during various stages of
organising this online AGM is laudable. The Trial online AGM
conducted with EB members on 16-10-20 made today's actual
AGM memorable.
k. President also would like to appreciate Mr Sandeep Panigrahy,
outgoing Jt Secretary and Dr Hema Singh, outgoing Treasurer for
their continuous support to ISAMPE for the past 4 years. Services
given by Mr Sandeep Panigrahy in organising AGM catering is
enormous and that by Dr Hema Singh in keeping finances of
ISAMPE safe and maintaining records of all financial transactions
intact is laudable. He would like to place on record their immense
contributions to ISAMPE and honour them suitably in the next AGM.
9. Vote of Thanks
Mr. Sandeep Panigrahy, Jt. Secretary - ISAMPE proposed a formal vote of
thanks and the Business Session of the AGM concluded with thanks to the
Chair. Special thanks to Mr. Prashant, who organized the AGM virtually.
Minutes issued with the approval of President ISAMPE.
(Srinivas. M) Secretary – ISAMPE Enclosures:
Annexure-1 AGM Programme
Annexure-2 List of Members Present
Annexure-3 Report on 34th AGM Function
Annexure-4 Secretary’s Report
Annexure-5 Treasurer’s Report
Annexure-6 Chapters’ Reports
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ANNEXURE-1 INDIAN SOCIETY FOR ADVANCEMENT OF
MATERIALS AND PROCESS ENGINEERING Aeronautical Society of India Building, Suranjan Das Road
New Thippasandra, Bangalore 560 075 Website: www.isampe.org
THIRTY FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (34th AGM)
BUSINESS SESSION
Venue: Virtual meeting (Through Online)
Date: 17th Oct 2020 (Saturday) DETAIL PROGRAM
Time (hrs) Agenda
15:00 - 16:00 REGISTRATION Online / login for the meeting Members need to register prior to the meeting
16:00 -18:00 Business Session Welcome and Address by President ISAMPE Confirmation of minutes of 33rd AGM Secretary’s Report Statement of Accounts and Treasurer’s Report Report of the Bangalore Chapter Report of the Coimbatore Chapter Report of the Dhanbad Chapter Report of the Hyderabad Chapter Report of the Kanpur Chapter Report of the Pune Chapter Report of the Thiruvananthapuram Chapter Executive Board Constitution Announcements Plan of activities for 2020-2021 Any other matter (with the permission of the Chair) Vote of Thanks
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Sl.No. Email ID Name Organization name Mobile Number Chapter Name Member
ship number
1 [email protected] Prakash D Mangalgiri IIT-KANPUR, EX ADA. 9972589114 Bangalore
2 [email protected] Dr Shylaja Srihari NAL, Bangalore 9845291629 Bangalore L 337
3 [email protected] Dr. Hema Singh CSIR-NAL, Bangalore 9741341404 Bangalore 920
4 [email protected] Sandeep kumar Panigrahy HAL 09590335150 Bangalore 1119
5 [email protected] Madhav Murthy BMSCE 9482852100 Bangalore
6 [email protected] Ponnambalam Jayakumar Ex.ISAC/ISRO +919900959435 Bangalore L1591
7 [email protected] Ananda Murthy BR ISRO (Retired) 9449060342 Bangalore L-370
8 [email protected] M.N.M.Patnaik ISRO 9880048669 Bangalore L708
9 [email protected] Srinivas M HAL 9448863061 Bangalore
10 [email protected] Jayasimha P URSC - ISRO 9740362525 Bangalore
11 [email protected] Dr Saji Devadathan NAL 9448011020 Bangalore L 335
12 [email protected] D B CHALWADE Ex HAL 9902611877 Bangalore
13 [email protected] A R UPADHYA Jain University 09845042092 Bangalore
14 [email protected] Sadagopan V Ex HAL 9902096401 Other L-1426
15 [email protected] Gnanasekar HAL 9535492671 Bangalore
16 [email protected] T M Naidu Ex ADA 9880717270 Bangalore L 160
17 [email protected] T C Subba Reddy Aeronautical Development Agency 9449821650 Bangalore L 346
18 [email protected] Ramachandra S GTRE 9449832138 Bangalore L330
19 [email protected] S Sankaran Ex ADE 8884408048 Bangalore
20 [email protected] Amit Kumar Gupta R&DE(E), Pune 9423542939 Pune
21 [email protected] Sadagopan V Ex HAL 9902096401 Other L-1426
22 [email protected] Vijay Petley GTRE 09448855995 Bangalore L609
23 [email protected] Nandish Jingade Avdel (India) Pvt. Ltd. 9886083302 Bangalore 9.886E+09
24 [email protected] Jai Krishna Mishra DRDO 9440370745 Hyderabad
25 [email protected] R ARUNACHALAM EX ISRO (URSC) +919739569865 Bangalore L 1045
26 [email protected] Dr. Siddharth Joshi National Institute of Engineering, Mysore +918123799218 Bangalore
27 [email protected] Siva
Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education 9994439363 Coimbatore
28 [email protected] Sheshachala T.N Ex HAL 9844097724 Bangalore
29 [email protected] Sandhya Rao NAL 9880145152 Bangalore L-906
30 [email protected] Brindaban Mahto URSC ISRO 9343835083 Bangalore
31 [email protected] Shaik Bari Babu ASL 9666124242 Hyderabad
32 [email protected] Srinivas M HAL 9448863061 Bangalore
33 [email protected] Venu K S NAL 9480510421 Bangalore
34 [email protected] baskar rao mattapally CSIR-NAL +918123071112 Bangalore L1079
35 [email protected] Sandip Roy Hindustan Aeronautics Limited 8861817485 Bangalore
36 [email protected] Dr Ramesh Kumar M NAL 9945453436 Bangalore 311
37 [email protected] Sathish Babu National Aerospace Lab 0988 084 7420 Bangalore
38 [email protected] Prakher singhal ISRO 9036094809 Bangalore
39 [email protected] Akhila S Koushik NAL 9900492200 Bangalore
40 [email protected] vaibhav mittal ISRO 09591382270 Bangalore L-1466
41 [email protected] Sairajan K K URSC-ISRO 9482135172 Bangalore 1221
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Sl.No. Email ID Name Organization name Mobile Number Chapter Name Member
ship number
42 [email protected] K PANBARASU CSIR-NAL 09611018018 Bangalore 1067
43 [email protected] Arun Kumar A CSIR-NAL 09611425713 Bangalore L-1506
44 [email protected] SENTHILNATHAN NAL 9449970777 Bangalore
45 [email protected] Naresh Chandra Sharma
Ex HAL, Ex TAML, Ex Bharat Forge 7760972004 Bangalore
46 [email protected] Sreedhara Harlanayaka CSIR-NAL 9739159633 Bangalore L-925
47 [email protected] Sreenivasan V R HAL 9036789936 Bangalore L-1837
48 [email protected] KARUPPANNAN DHANAPAL
CSIR NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORIES 9448686581 Bangalore L 1159
49 [email protected] Nagaraja T Shiggavankar CSIR-NAL 9844965576 Bangalore L-1708
50 [email protected] R JYOTHI NAL 9880491016 Bangalore L-1925
51 [email protected] Dr M R Ajith VSSC 9495632002 Other
52 [email protected] Harish ISRO 9880702628 Bangalore
53 [email protected] Sharanjit Singh DAV University Jalandhar 9463907010 Other L-1288
54 [email protected] Nagarajappa N NAL 9449532874 Bangalore 1164
55 [email protected] Vinayakan R.
NSS Hindu College Changanacherry Kerala 9447774220 Other
56 [email protected] KTRamaprasad d ISRO 9900648281 Bangalore
57 [email protected] Radha Ramani
CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories 9980845644 Bangalore L-1919
58 [email protected] Prof.(Dr.) Sudhir Kumar Kashyap
CSIR- Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Barwa Road, Dhanbad -826015 ( Jharkhand) 9431120003 Other ( L-1281)
59 [email protected] GONTI PRAVEEN ADA 08464895457 Bangalore
60 [email protected] AGAM SHARAN ADA 9019982683 Bangalore L-1605
61 [email protected] D L Shirolikar Ex URSC(ISAC) 9845000508 Bangalore -
62 [email protected] Suryanarayana Singh Ex ADE 9845276765 Bangalore
63 [email protected] A.Revathi CSIR-NAL 9343770394 Bangalore L-903
64 [email protected] Anil Singh Ex National Aerospace Laboratories +919482640069 Bangalore
65 [email protected] Arun kumar dwivedi National aero space laboratories 9449526696 Bangalore
66 [email protected] Dr.H.N.Gayathri The Oxford College of Engineering,Bangalore 9845685778 Bangalore L-1137
67 [email protected] DEBARSHI PAUL NAL 9972972175 Bangalore
68 [email protected] JITHURAJ V NAL 9020797667 Bangalore 1827
69 [email protected] Avinash M URSC ISRO 9964783430 Bangalore
70 [email protected] Augustin M J NAL 9740384749 Bangalore
71 [email protected] Zahoor Ahmed Ex HAL 9483543619 Bangalore L186
72 [email protected] A B S VIJAI NAL 9845009414 Bangalore L-1926
73 [email protected] Abhilash gupta Isro 9669791462 Bangalore
74 [email protected] amit kumar jha HAL 9342619330 Bangalore L-1699
75 [email protected] Krishna S CSIR-NAL 9663411117 Bangalore
76 [email protected] Vishwesha Pandith National Aerospace Laboratories +919449721457 Bangalore L-1908
77 [email protected] Gp Capt VVK Bhalla (Retd) Ex IAF & Ex HAL 9342020291 Bangalore L 512
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Sl.No. Email ID Name Organization name Mobile Number Chapter Name Member
ship number
78 [email protected] LOKESH SRIVASTAVA DRDO 9441528239 Hyderabad
79 [email protected] Prashanth k r HAl 9980977226 Bangalore
80 [email protected] SREENIVASAMURTHY L ARDC, HAL 9740033550 Bangalore L 1305
81 [email protected] Hanumanthu Murthy HAL 9900793211 Bangalore
82 [email protected] Lawrence X HAL 9886407329 Bangalore
83 [email protected] MALLIKARJUN S PATIL HAL 8892724101 Bangalore L-1786
84 [email protected] Devendra Naik HAL 9448841254 Bangalore L-1703
85 [email protected] Prashant Bhatwalkar HAL 09980231501 Bangalore
86 [email protected] Aravind Joni HAL 9538238135 Bangalore
87 [email protected] ANANTHA PADMANABHA HAL 9448029086 Bangalore
88 [email protected] Santosh kumar HAL 9916661281 Bangalore
89 [email protected] SUNDARARAJAN M HAL 9035007325 Bangalore L-1673
90 [email protected] Dr P S Nair Ex URSC/ISRO 9880595282 Bangalore
91 [email protected] Vinod kumar HAL 9916193270 Bangalore L-1789
92 [email protected] Anjana Jain NAL 09448682877 Bangalore L 515
93 [email protected] Dr. A Anil Kumar CSIR-NAL 9880646735 Bangalore
94 [email protected] Venkatesh S National Aerospace Laboratories 9448305683 Bangalore L-1197
95 [email protected] Govindankutty M Ex NAL 9449016470 Bangalore
96 [email protected] Saravana Kumar N
CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories 9448506424 Bangalore
97 [email protected] Radhakrishnan T HAL (ACD) 9036703470 Bangalore L 1669
98 [email protected] Thulasi Durai NAL 9731427483 Bangalore
99 [email protected] Nitesh Gupta NAL 9480740008 Bangalore
100 [email protected] Dr. Basant Kumar ASL-DRDO 9949415047 Hyderabad
101 [email protected] Amit Kumar Gupta
CSIR - National Aerospace Laboratories 9243216943 Bangalore
102 [email protected] Radhakrishnan G NAL 9845353027 Bangalore 1007
103 [email protected] Muthuraju N VSSC 9037821668 Other
104 [email protected] Hemalatha. K NAL 9900732558 Bangalore L 590
105 [email protected] Paranthaman N National Aerospace Laboratory 9448308026 Bangalore L-1155
106 [email protected] Sivamurugan t Vikram Sarabhai space centre isro 9746188635 Other
107 [email protected] Logeswaran m HAL 9019594481 Bangalore
108 [email protected] R .ARUNAGIRI Ex HAL 9972521022 Bangalore
109 [email protected] Rajesh P N URSC / ISRO 9448501799 Bangalore
110 [email protected] Dr.R.Sasikumar Selvam College of Technology 8903609939 Bangalore
111 [email protected] DURGESH BURDE NAL 09632724419 Bangalore
112 [email protected] Kumara V ISRO/URSC 9686526080 Bangalore
113 [email protected] Nondappa B Naik NAL 9448265983 Bangalore
114 [email protected] MOHAN KUMAR L VSSC ISRO +919446177376 Other LM485
115 [email protected] R V KRISHNA KAKULAVARAPU HAL 9243088386 Bangalore
116 [email protected] Raju B M Ex NAL 09741766577 Bangalore
117 [email protected] Ch V RAMANA RAO HAL 9972857255 Bangalore
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Sl.No. Email ID Name Organization name Mobile Number Chapter Name Member
ship number
118 [email protected] R V Krishnan Ex NAL 988 630 6377 Bangalore
119 [email protected] Amitabh Datta NAL 8197128379 Bangalore
120 [email protected] Kotresh M Gaddikeri NAL 9449020637 Bangalore L318
121 [email protected] H V Ramachandra NAL 9480037440 Bangalore
122 [email protected] SHEEJA SUNIL CSIR NAL 9845733524 Bangalore
123 [email protected] Polagangu James NAL 9900826927 Bangalore
124 [email protected] Dr Mamunuri Sailender ARDC, HAL 8884912646 Bangalore
125 [email protected] Jhon Paul Vssc 9633889898 Other
126 [email protected] Vinu Viswanath V VSSC / ISRO 9446440149 Other
127 [email protected] H N Murthy Avdel (India) Pvt Ltd 9886161956 Bangalore
128 [email protected] Thomas Prakash Moparthy HAL 9902803012 Bangalore
129 [email protected] Sreedeep TASL 09448937763 Bangalore
130 [email protected] RATAN LAL SAHA HAL 9900764527 Bangalore
131 [email protected] JEYAPRAKASH.A NAL 9448833405 Bangalore
132 [email protected] Pitchai P NAL 9738472017 Bangalore 0000
133 [email protected] V. Naveen NAL 9449551137 Bangalore
134 [email protected] S Rajakumar National Aerospace Laboratories 9480012637 Bangalore
135 [email protected] Saravana K NAL 9448865485 Bangalore
136 [email protected] Murthyraman R NAL 9900933509 Bangalore
137 [email protected] KUMAR NAL 9880453349 Bangalore
138 [email protected] Jeyaprakash A NAL 9448833405 Bangalore
139 [email protected] Sunil B G ADA 9844641695 Bangalore
140 [email protected] VPS Naidu NAL 6362172273 Bangalore L960
141 [email protected] Ramesh Sundaram NAL 9448134029 Bangalore
142 [email protected] VENKATARAMANAN K
CSIR-NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORIES 8088394549 Bangalore
143 [email protected] Mahendra Murali L G VSSC ISRO 9496020078 Other
144 [email protected] Padmavathi D NAL 9019791053 Bangalore
145 [email protected] M. Rajendra Prakash NAL 9845456209 Bangalore
146 [email protected] sanjay kailasrao shete nal 9886166265 Bangalore L1082
147 [email protected] Vivek Prabhakar ISRO 9844326532 Bangalore
148 [email protected] K Charan Thej Reddy ADA 7382767625 Bangalore
149 [email protected] Sendil Murugan M NAL 9482640033 Bangalore L-1014
150 [email protected] Udayanan P HAL 9449838966 Bangalore L-506
151 [email protected] K.Ramesha NAL 9945695813 Bangalore
152 [email protected] Karibasappa Basappa karibasappa +919480339929 Bangalore L-1713
153 [email protected] C T Sambandam ADA DRDO 09448584648 Bangalore
154 [email protected] Manoj ADA 8197124505 Bangalore
155 [email protected] Sunil Prasad NAL 9591882268 Bangalore L-1949
156 [email protected] RAMESH BABU.G HAL ACD DIVISION 9489802965 Bangalore
157 [email protected] Kundan Kumar Verma NAL 9448313178 Bangalore L-1075
158 [email protected] Rajagopal S ADE 9900387114 Bangalore
159 [email protected] Poomani D URSC, ISRO 9449974245 Bangalore
160 [email protected] Dr. Murli Saletore Ex HAL 9844128932 Bangalore
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Sl.No. Email ID Name Organization name Mobile Number Chapter Name Member
ship number
161 [email protected] Varghese C S ISRO 9035810106 Bangalore
162 [email protected] madhu Vinay k Hal +918861557637 Bangalore L-1695
163 [email protected] Rakesh Kumar HAL +919916443035 Bangalore
164 [email protected] Gautham Kosuri HAL +919611619077 Bangalore L-1854
165 [email protected] K Ravi Sekhar ADE 9448828687 Bangalore L-394
166 [email protected] Dr. B.Vishwanath Ex ADE 9449828258 Bangalore
167 [email protected] Dr. Duraisamy Kumaresan
Amrita School of Engineering Coimbatore 9443979100 Coimbatore
168 [email protected] Dr Murali Rangarajan Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham 08667568683 Coimbatore
169 [email protected] Naval Kishore Roy HAL 7406112144 Bangalore
170 [email protected] Meera Balachandran Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham 9443656597 Coimbatore
171 [email protected] Satheesh KumarN
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram 9446418623 Thiruvananthapuram
172 [email protected] RAVIKIRAN N K URSC 9036884995 Bangalore
173 [email protected] Sunil soni HAL 9663070557 Bangalore
174 [email protected] Rajender Singh Rawat Ex. NAL 9945632253 Bangalore L 299
175 [email protected] K. M. MRUTHUNJAYA SWAMY Ex NAL 9449063161 Bangalore L - 1015
176 [email protected] Dr. Madeva Nagaral HAL ARDC 9845452018 Bangalore L-1791
177 [email protected] Varun kumar HAL 9480083001 Bangalore
178 [email protected] AHAMED RABEEK HAL 09886954173 Bangalore 1787
179 [email protected] SIDDAPPAJI B ADE 9980514387 Bangalore 927
180 [email protected] Raghunatha ISRO 9449612223 Bangalore
181 [email protected] RAVI K S Bharat Electronics 7676221518 Bangalore
182 [email protected] [email protected] 9398864972 9398864972 Bangalore
183 [email protected] SATHISH KUMAR ISRO 9972653988 Bangalore
184 [email protected] V GOPAL REDDY HAL 9620591526 Bangalore
185 [email protected] JagdishKumar M N Ex ADE 9886095786 Bangalore L316
186 [email protected] BALAJI C HAL +919243012269 Bangalore
187 [email protected] M.SEKAR Ex ISRO 9480253810 Bangalore
188 [email protected] Ramadas Chennamsetti R&DE 09422316175 Pune
189 [email protected] M VENKATESWARA RAO Ex URSAC 9618105889 Bangalore 374+
190 [email protected] Dr K Srinivas ASL 9346962597 Hyderabad
191 [email protected] Mohan Kumar K NAL 9480705784 Bangalore
192 [email protected] Hema K S ADE, DRDO 09448387798 Bangalore L 929
193 [email protected] Tade Raju NAL 9448832359 Bangalore
194 [email protected] Raveendranath NAL 9448735693 Bangalore
195 [email protected] M Gurubasavaraj Ex ADE 9341974657 Bangalore L336
196 [email protected] Siva Pavan Kumar Ambati HAL 09663303153 Bangalore
197 [email protected] K.BALRAJ. ExADE 9342362101 Bangalore
198 [email protected] Dwarakanathan D NAL 9480035545 Bangalore
199 [email protected] A PUGAZHENDHI HAL 7411961115 Bangalore
200 [email protected] Dr. Ankur Kumar Gupta URSC, ISRO 8792697858 Bangalore
201 [email protected] Sameer Deshpande URSC 7022683350 Bangalore
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Report on the Thirty Fourth AGM Function
The 34th AGM of Indian Society for Advancement of Materials and Process
Engineering (ISAMPE) was held on 17th Oct 2020 virtually (Through online). The
Business Session started in the afternoon and deliberated on the matters
pertaining to Society’s functioning. The AGM programme (Annexure-I) consisted
of the following sessions:
Welcome Address by Dr. S. Saji, President, ISAMPE
Secretary presented the highlights of the 33rd AGM minutes to the
members of ISAMPE and the same was rectified by the members.
Secretary presented the Secretary report for the year 2019-20 to the
members of ISAMPE and the same was rectified during the AGM. .
Treasurer presented the Audit report for the year 2019-20 to the
members of ISAMPE and the same was rectified during the AGM.
Report of the Bangalore Chapter was presented by Chairman of the
Bangalore chapter Mr. T. C Subba Reddy
Report of the Coimbatore Chapter was presented by Dr. Duraisamy
Kumaresan, EC Member
Report of the Pune Chapter was presented by Dr. Amit Kumar gupta,
Secretary Pune chapter.
Report of the Thiruvananthapuram Chapter was presented by Mr. John
Paul, Secretary, Thiruvananthapuram Chapter.
Report of the Hyderabad Chapter was presented by Dr. K.Srinivas,
Secretary Hyderbad chapter.
Report of the Dhanbad Chapter – No representative
Report of the Kanpur Chapter – No representative.
Executive Board Constitution Announcements - Secretary announced
the newly elected members of the Executive council.
Director – Mr. D Poomani,
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Treasurer – Mr. K RaviSekhar
Jt. Secretary-2 - Mr. D Karuppannan, Newly elected members were welcomed to the Executive council.
Newly elected members are shared their experience with the ISAMPE
and they assured that they will support ISAMPE activities.
Same time out going members expressed their associatation with the
ISAMPE, by
Director -N C Sharma
Treasurer – Dr. Hema Singh
Jt. Secretary – Mr. Sandeep Panigrahy
Outgoing members thanked to the society for provide them the
opportunity to serve the society.
Vote of Thanks by Mr. Sandeep Panigrahy, Jt. Secretary, ISAMPE.
The reports of the Secretary and Treasurer as well as reports on activities
of the Chapters were deliberated. President highlighted some of his
thoughts and future plans for the activities of ISAMPE. The newly elected
Executive Council of the Society took over from the outgoing one. After a
formal vote of thanks, the Meeting concluded with thanks to the Chair. A
separate Record of Discussion of the Business Session is given in the
main body of the Minutes.
Report issued with concurrence of President-ISAMPE by
(Srinivas .M)
Secretary-ISAMPE
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ANNEXURE-4
INDIAN SOCIETY FOR ADVANCEMENT OF MATERIALS AND PROCESS ENGINEERING
Aeronautical Society of India Building, Suranjan Das Road Junction New Thippasandra, Bangalore 560 075
Website: www.isampe.org
Thirty fourth Annual General Meeting (34th AGM) 17th October 2020 Virtual meeting (Through online)
SECRETARY’S REPORT
Dear ISAMPE Members,
It gives me great pleasure to present to you the annual report of the Indian
Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering (ISAMPE) for the
year 2019-2020. Even though, due to the current pandemic situation (Covid -19)
and as per the prevailing Government of India SOP (guide lines on restriction on
mass gathering), this year ISAMPE could do its best efforts to conduct few
technical sessions virtually (through online) However, once the situation comes
to normal and the ease of government regulation for the mass gathering we
would like to have the few more technical sessions including Shri Vijay Zaveri
Memorial lecture, Prof AK Rao Memorial lecture etc as in the past occasions.
Election of Executive Board (EB)
In pursuance of the Election Procedure (vide-Sec. 5.3 of the Rules and
Regulations) elections were required to be held this year to the offices of Vice
president, Secretary, Joint Secretary-2 and Director - 2 in the Executive Council
of the Society for the official years 2019-2021. As no other nominations were
received, the following ISAMPE EB nominees were elected unopposed and this
was approved in last the AGM, held on 27th September 2019.
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Post Board Nominee
Vice President
Dr. S. Rajagopal, Sc –G, Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) Suranjan Das Road, New Tippasandra PO, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560075
Secretary
Mr. M. Srinivas, Aerospace Composites Division, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Bangalore -560037
Jt. Secretary-2
Mr. Sandeep Kumar Panigrahi Aircraft Research & Design Center, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Bangalore -560037
Director-2
Mr. A Gnanasekar HOD (Material) –ARDC Aircraft Research & Design Center, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Bangalore -560037
ISAMPE Main Body Activities (2019-20): Following is a summary of activities completed / initiated / planned by ISAMPE in
the last one year.
Activities Completed
o 33nd AGM of ISAMPE was held on 27th Sep 2019 at HAL Convention
Center, Marathahalli, Bangalore. The AGM was well attended by ISAMPE
members. The Chief Guest for the Inaugural Function was Shri. Arup Chatterjee, Director (Engineering and R&D), Hindustan Aeronautics
Limited, Bangalore.
o Vijay Zaveri Memorial Lecture: The 28th Vijay Zaveri Memorial Lecture
was delivered by Shri C.R.Sathya, Ex TAML, Bangalore on the topic
“FUTURE MAN”
o 14th Prof. AK Rao Memorial Lecture: The 14th Prof. AK Rao Memorial
Lecture was delivered by Prof. N. Balakrishnan, IISc, Bangalore on the
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Topic: “Four Decades of Computational Electromagnetics Research and Advances in High Performance Computing".
o We had on more technical session by Dr. Shankar Venugopal, Vice
president, M/s Mahindra & Mahindra, Chennai was delivered a technical
session on the topic "DESI Leaders – Leading Exponential Innovation"
o ISAMPE understands the importance of imparting education and
exposures to the engineering student community. In this context, ISAMPE
organized one technical session exclusively for the benefit of students on
“Testing and Characterization of Composite Materials for Aircraft Structural Application”. The session was delivered by Shri A Gnanasekar, HOD, Materials and process Engineering, ARDC, HAL
through online session.
o ISAMPE also instituted a student contest on “Design of Foldable Ladder for Military Aircraft” for which there is a good response from the student
communities through participating for this contest.
o Life Membership: ISAMPE has crossed 2002 in terms of life membership
count. The drive will continue further
o ISAMPE Website Update: Freshly designed ISAMPE website with various
new value added features is being launched, Website ID:
www.isampe.org. It also provides a platform for Industries to advertise
their products and capabilities and provide a forum for interaction between
ISAMPE members, industries and institutions. Freshly designed ISAMPE
website with various new value added features has been launched.
o E-mail ID Updating: Serious efforts have been initiated for E-mail ID
updating of members and many communication gaps have been already
bridged. The drive will continue further till almost all members are brought
within the e-mail communication loop. However, in website there is a
provision to update the member email ID through the enquiry link. All the
members are requested to use the same for updating their Email ID’s.
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Activities in Progress
o Issue of Photo ID Cards to ISAMPE Life members: The process for the
issue of Photo ID Cards to ISAMPE Life members is initiated and as of
now already close to 500 ID cards are printed and handed over to the
respective individuals. This process will be continued till the completion for
all the members. It is also initiated for a fresh members, the ID card will be
issued along with the Life member ship certificate. And also requested all
the members who have not given their ID card applications are requested
to give the same to the Society, enable the society to take care of their ID
cards also.
o ISAMPE understands the importance of imparting education and
exposures to the engineering student community. In this regard, ISAMPE
has instituted a Student Chapter in Bangalore, which is spread across
several engineering colleges in the city. The students are given necessary
exposure to composite technologies by through workshops, lectures and
visits to relevant facilities. Similar student chapter is also being planned to
be set up in Pune.
Future Activities
o ISAMPE would like to improve the industrial participation in the ISAMPE
activities. Increase the corporate membership, through which the
industries can be directly involved in the corporate activities.
o Enhance the ISAMPE activities through the website.
o Involvement of the student members in the ISAMPE activities though
organizing the workshops and visits to the industries.
Highlights of Various ISAMPE Chapter Activities (2019-20) ISAMPE Bangalore Chapter:
The main activities of the Chapter are listed below.
The AGM of the chapter was held on 10th Oct 2020 (Virtually), which
was well attended.
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The AGM was preceded by 7th Dr. BR Somashekar Memorial Lecture
on “Advanced Composites for Emerging Aerospace programs” by Dr. I Srikanth, Sc-F, HTCC, ASL, DRDO, Hyderabad.
Bangalore chapter organized one technical session exclusively for the
benefit of students on “Testing and Characterization of Composite Materials for Aircraft Structural Application”. The session was
delivered by Shri A Gnanasekar, HOD, Materials and process
Engineering, ARDC, HAL through online session.
Bangalore chapter organized one seminar on “Latest developments in
Ultrasonic testing of critical aerospace metallic & composite parts” by
Dr. Christopher John Leslie from M/s Olympus Singapore on 14th
Feb 2020 at KTMD Seminar Hall, CSIR, NAL, Bangalore and was well
attended by members from CSIR-NAL and other organizations.
Bangalore chapter organized webinar and an interactive session on
“SOLVAY COMPOSITE TOOLING MATERIALS & SERVICES” on 11th
Sep 2020, by Mr. PATRICK STIMPSON (Project Manager, Tooling,
Solvay Composite Materials)
Office bearers for 2019 - 20 are as mentioned below:
Chairman Shri T C Subba Reddy, ADA
Co- Chairman Dr. Vijay Petley, GTRE
Secretary Shri S Sanjeev Kumar ,CSIR-NAL
Jt. Secretary Mr. Madhav Murthy,BMSCE
Treasurer Ms A Revathi, CSIR-NAL
ISAMPE Pune Chapter:
The activities undertaken by the Chapter in the last year are listed below.
The AGM of the chapter was held on 25th Sep 2020, which was well
attended.
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One Technical lecture was organized. Talk was delivered by Dr. Anoop Anand from R&DE(E) on “Manufacturing of Axi-symmetric composite products using RFI Process”. The talk was focused on
different aspects of RFI manufacturing processes and its advantages
in realization of axi-symmetric composite structures as compared to
other manufacturing processes.
It is also decided by the chapter to increase the involvement of
composites industries and academia of Pune region with ISAMPE by
conducting workshops/ seminars with active industrial participation.
It has been decided to organize workshops on Certification of
composite structures and SHM in the year 2020-21.
Apart from this, it is planned to add more members in ISAMPE for
which membership drive is being undertaken for both individuals and
organizations to increase interaction between people of composites
fraternity in the region.
Office bearers for 2019 - 20 are as mentioned below:
Chairman Shri VV Parlikar, OS and Director R &DE(E)
Co- Chairman Dr. Makarand Joshi, Scientist, R & DE (E)
Secretary Dr. Amit Kumar Gupta, Scientist, R & DE (E)
Joint Secretary Ms. Jayalakshmi CG,
Scientist, R & DF (E)
Treasurer Shri Rajendra Kumar Gupta, Scientist, R & DE (E)
ISAMPE Coimbatore Chapter:
The activities undertaken by the Chapter in the last year are listed below.
The Chapter gave financial support to the second edition of SCICON,
International Conference on Advanced Materials, was held at Amrita
Vishwa Vidyapeetham, from December 15-17, 2019.
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The three-day conference saw eminent researchers from countries like
Canada, USA, Thailand, France, Italy, UAE, Bangladesh, South Korea,
Hungary, Singapore, and several parts of India congregate to share
their expertise in areas such as biomaterials, electronic and magnetic
materials, as well as high energy materials.
With 12 plenary lectures and 34 invited talks that included parallel
sessions on Basic Sciences, Materials for Energy Applications,
Computational Materials, Electronic and Magnetic Materials,
Biomaterials and Nanomaterials, the conference was a hub for an
intensely diverse approach to science and technology. The
publications co authored by ISAMPE members of Coimbatore Chapter
were presented in the conference.
ISAMPE Coimbatore Chapter supported the 10th National-level
Techfest, Anokha 2020, from February 13-15, 2020 organized by the
School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore
campus. The Chapter members were judges for many events
conducted as part of the Techfest.
The Chapter gave financial support to the student contests organized
by the Federation of Indian Petroleum Industry – Coimbatore Chapter
conducted during November 2019.
Office bearers for 2019 - 20 are as mentioned below:
Chairman Prof. K.Jayanarayanan
Co-Chairman Prof. Sriram Devanathan
Hony.Secretary Prof.R.Subba Rao
Joint.Secretary Mr. Mahadevan Lakshmanan
Treasurer Dr.Meera Balachandran
ISAMPE Thiruvananthapuram Chapter:
The main activities of the Chapter are listed below.
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The National Conference (INNCOM-16) with theme “Advanced
Composites – Opportunities & challenges from Earth to Space” was
conducted on 20-21 Sep 2019. The INNCOM -16 was well attended.
One more Workshop for technicians with theme “Composites
Technology –Best Practices, Procedures and Precautions for Total
Quality” was conducted ob 22 Sep 2019.
Chapter planned technical sessions through the webinar
Office bearers for 2019 - 20 are as mentioned below:
Chairman Shri E N Ananthapadmanabhan
Vice-Chairman Shri. L. Mohan Kumar
Hony. Secretary Shri. John Paul
Joint Secretary Shri. Manoj M.R
Treasurer Shri. N. Muthuraju
Secretary’s report was not received from the other Chapters (Hyderabad,
Dhanbad & Kanpur) and hence could not be reflected in this report.
I thank all the ISAMPE Chapters for conducting many programs for the benefit of
ISAMPE members as well as for the student members during the difficult
situation (Covid -19).
ISAMPE Annual Awards (2019)
The following ISAMPE Annual Awards-2019 were announced and
distributed during the Inaugural Function of the 33rd AGM.
ISAMPE award for Outstanding Design and /or Process
Development -2019 awarded to a team lead by Dr Makarant
Joshi Sc-G of R&DE€ Pune and the other members of the team
,Dr C Ramdas, Mr Rajendra Gupta, Mr Mayaur Godbole,
Dr.Rahul Harshe, Mr Irfan Khan, Mr Anil Kajari& Mr Felix Barla of R & DE (E), Pune for their Contribution towards
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"Design and development of indigenous Composite Sonar Dome for P15A class Ships".
ISAMPE award for smart materials and system technology
development (General)-2019 awarded to team from CSIR-NAL
Bangalore comprising of Dr. S Raja, Dr. ST Aruna, Mr. G
Jerald Maria Antony & Dr. Chetan S Jarali for their
contribution to “Development of an improved thermoset Shape Memory Polymer (SMP) and the preparation thereof ".
Shri. Vijay Zaveri Award for Excellence in Technical Support -
2019 awarded to Mr K Ramesha of CSMST, CSIR-NAL,
Bangalore for his contribution in the “Development of 10kW
&7.5 kW Wind Turbine Blades".
ISAMPE Student Award for Smart Materials and Systems
Technology Development – 2019, awarded to Ms. M G Pooja of
School of Electronics & Communication, Reva University for her
contribution in the work titled -"CNN based methodology for inclusion detection in prepreg based manufacturing process of aerospace composite structures".
On behalf of ISAMPE, I would like to thank Dr RV Krishnan. Chairman and
Dr. D Saji, Convener and other members of ISAMPE Awards Committee
for their continued support towards the ISAMPE Awards.
Honorary Member Ship For year (2019) : Felicitation of the Honorary Member ship to Dr. RMV Gopala Krishna Rao Founder Head, FRPD,CSIR-NAL, by President ISAMPE.
ISAMPE EB Meetings (2019-20)
The ISAMPE EB arranged 4 meetings and 4 EC meetings during the year
to chalk out many programs. We used to meet about once a quarter and
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the EB Meetings were also attended by members from various chapters to
discuss their issues.
With this, I wish you all a professionally satisfying association with
the society during the coming year as well. I would also like to thank
members of ISAMPE EB, especially Dr. S Saji, President-ISAMPE, for
supporting me to conduct ISAMPE activities in befitting manner for the
past one year. I also thank all of you for the cooperation and constructive
suggestions extended to the new EB for improving ISAMPE in all possible
ways. I once again thank all ISAMPE members for giving me the
opportunity. It was a great pleasure and honor to serve you all.
Thanking you,
Bangalore (Srinivas M) 15th Oct 2020 Secretary, ISAMPE