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mean self-centeredness."MAHATMA GANDHI

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From the Director's Desk

The quarter dawned with the celebration of the 156thbirth anniversary of the great educationist and visionary,Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya. The journey of knowledgeand achievements of 1100 plus degree receiving studentsculminated into the proud moment of the 1 1 th convocationbeing held on 21st January,2017. The occasion was gracedby the presence of Ms. Chitra Ramkrishna, Chairperson,BOG, MNIT Jaipur and Prof. Ashutosh Sharma,Secretary DST, GOI as honorable guests.

There has been a long list of academic and researchactivities, training programmes, workshops, conferences,seminars, academy programs, invited talks and guestlectures at various departments/ centers, on a wide rangeof diverse topics as soft materials, future energy storagetechnologies, applications of internet of things, syntheticalgorithms for digital circuits and systems, basicmetallurgy, communication channels for informationtransfer, air pollution, cooling systems, demonetizationand its contents etc. GIAN courses on advancedbiometrics authentication and de -identification for privacyand protection. The teaching and student communitybrought laurels to the institute by their achievements in theshape of awards and honours being conferred on them.

This quarter was marked with the peaking of theextracurricular hubbub of Global Alumni Meet, RepublicDay Celebrations, Malaviya Sports Festival, technocultural fest Blitzchlag' 1 7 which added flavours ofreminiscence, patriotism, physical fitness, technicalcompetitions spiced with cultural, music, dance, fashionand rocking events. Blitzschlag, the annual techno-culturalfest of MNIT Jaipur is one of the biggest fests in thecountry. It provides a platform to students to showcasetheir talents in cultural, technical, and managerial events.Such events challenges not just the talent in question, butalso teaches invaluable life skills of teamwork, leadership,compassion and appreciation to the organizing studentsand participants - things which no theoretical lessons canteach, the sort of knowledge that proves invaluable in thelong run.

To sum up the present edition of the Quarterly showsthat the MNITJ family is well equipped to meet thechallenges of the changing times and give their best in theservice of the society as a whole.

Jai Hind

Prof. Udaykumar R Yaragatti

Vision

To create a center for impart-

ing technical education of inter-national, standards and con-ducting research, at the cuttingedge of technology to meet the

current and future challenges oftechnological development.

ission

To create technical manpower

for meeting the current and fu-ture demands of industry; Toreorganize education and re-search in close interaction withindustry with emphasis on thedevelopment of leadership quali-

ties in the young men andwomen entering the portals ofthe Institute with, sensitivity to

social development and eye for

opportunities for growth in theinternational perspective.

The Eleventh Convocation of MNIT Jaipur was held on Saturday, January 21, 2017.More than 1100 (55 B.Arch., 615 B.Tech., 288 M.Tech., 14 M.Planning, 43 M.Sc.,31 MBA, 57 Ph.D. scholars) degrees were awarded to the pleasure filled degreerecipients. The occasion was graced by the blessings of Ms. Chitra Ramakrishna,Chairperson BOG and Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, GOI, DST.

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Bangalore on February 4, 2017.

Workshops / Conferences /Short -Term Courses / TrainingProgrammes Conducted

An academy training programme Communication

Channels for Information Transfer under the aegisof Electronics & ICT Academy was conducted by theDepartment of Electronics and CommunicationEngineering during 29 November - 3 December,2016. The programme was coordinated by Dr. M.Ravi Kumar.

The 2nd International Conference on Soft

Materials (ICSM 2016) was organized by theDepartment of Physics MNIT and SMRS Jaipurduring 12-16 December, 2016. A total of 196persons attended the conference. More than 30

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multi -disciplinary groups of scientists from all overthe world to promote and enhance recentachievements in the field of soft materials wereinvited. The conference was divided in 14 sessions.Awards were given for: Best Poster Awards 12; BestOral Awards 4. One best poster award wassponsored by Soft Matter (RSC) UK. Coordinators ofthe conference were: Dr. Kamlendra Awasthi andDr. Manoj Kumar from Dept. of Physics.

A GIAN course Biometric Based Authenticationand De -identification for Privacy Protection wasorganised by the Department of Computer Scienceand Engineering during 19 - 25 December, 2016.Prof. Slobodan Ribaric from the University of Zagrebwas the resource person. Forty participants from allover India benefitted from the Global Initiatives forAcademic Networking.

Another GIAN course Multimodal and AdvancedBiometrics Authentication was organised by theDepartment of Computer Science and Engineeringduring 2 - 11 January, 2017 with 42 participantsfrom all over India. Dr. Ajay Kumar, Hong KongPolyU, Hong Kong was the resource person.

Dr.Mausam, IIT Delhi and Dr. Mayank Vatsa, IIITDelhi were the other resource persons.

Department of Management Studies conducted a

training session on Question Pro AcademicSponsorship Programme on January 6, 2017. Thirtythree faculty members and management studentsattended the program. The program was

coordinated by Dr. Divesh Kumar.

Department of Metallurgical and Materials

Engineering organized a self financed trainingprogram Basic Metallurgy from 7-8 January, 2017.Twenty participants from industries and academicinstitutions attended the workshop. The resourcepersons were from MNIT Jaipur. The trainingprogram was coordinated by Prof. A. K. Bhargavaand Dr. Rajendra Kumar Duchaniya.

Training program on Basic Metallurgy

Department of Management Studies conducted

the Winter Research School - 2017 during 9-14January, 2017 as a part of the second edition of its

2 -part annual Research School series. A total of 43

research scholars and faculty members frommanagement and engineering institutes from allover India attended the program. The WinterResearch School -2017 was divided into 3 -modules

each coordinated by Dr. Satish Kumar, Dr. Deepak

Verma and Dr. Divesh Kumar. The program

introduced the participants to methods for

conducting meaningful inquiry and research. Thefocus of program was to develop each participant's

abilities to identify and develop research questions

and develop them as a research study while

following best research practices, and finally

converting such research studies into high quality

publishable research work.

The Center for Energy and Environment organized

a workshop Future Energy Storage Technologies on13 January, 2017. The workshop was addressedby Professor Emeritus Dr.-Ing. Habil. Manfred Grollof University Stuttgart Germany, Professor SS

Murthy, Indian Institute of Science -Bangalore,and Dr. P.R. Chakraborty, IIT Jodhpur as eminentspeakers. The discussions covered topics as Power -to Gas: Thermochemical Energy Storage for Solarand Wind Energy dominated Electrical PowerGeneration, Hydrogen based Energy StorageTechnologies, Flexibility options for renewableenergy integrations: Energy Storage, Latent heat

Two refresher training programs of the eleventhand thirteenth batch of newly recruited PHEDengineers was organized by the Department CivilEngineering from 5-6 February, and 12-13 February,2017 at MNIT Jaipur. These were fully residentialtraining programs comprising of fourteen lectures ineach program, visits to environmental engineeringlab of Civil Engineering Department; solar andrenewable energy lab of Mechanical EngineeringDepartment; and Mass transfer laboratory ofchemical engineering department, and visit to STPs.The lectures related to organizational structures of PHED, its functioning, issues and challenges, quality testingand traditional practices of water supply, pipeline and water distribution system design, water treatment,operation and maintenance of WTPs, NRW & tariff issues, advance water treatment, checking design of water

structures and in -situ

uctural health checking,rainwater harvesting, RO

plants, their operations andmaintenance, electrical/mechanical works at WTPs,energy audit, use of IT,

digitization, SCADA systems,testing of pipes, urban vsrural issues and communitybased systems. The tworefresher courses wereattended by 23 and 24 newlyrecruited PHED engineers.The coordinators of thecourses were Prof. A. B.

Gupta, Prof. Rohit Goyal andDr. Urmila Brighu.

based storage systems for medium and hightemperature applications, and AmbientTemperature Hydrogen storage options. Dr. KapilPareek and Dr. Rohit Bhakar coordinated the event.

One week long Academy Faculty DevelopmentProgram Applications of Internet of Things inElectrical & Electronics Engineering was conductedduring 28 Jan.- 1 Feb., 2017. Industry experts fromR&D Team of Pantech solutions delivered the talks.The programme was inaugurated by Prof.

Udaykumar R Y, Director MNIT Jaipur and ChairmanAdvisory Board EICT Academy. Total of 26 facultyparticipants attended the programme.

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One week academy training program Synthesis

Algorithms for Digital Circuits and Systems wasorganized under the purview of Electronics & ICTAcademy (sponsored by Department of Electronics& Information Technology (DeitY) from 11 - 15February, 2017 at MNIT, Jaipur. The Training

programme was coordinated by Dr. Amit M Joshiand Dr. Lava Bhargava. The expert lectures weredelivered by invited speaker Prof. Preeti RanjanPanda (Professor, CSE, IIT Delhi) and internalexperts Prof. Vineet Sahula, Dr. Lava Bhargava andDr. Amit M. Joshi. Forty participants of differentengineering colleges of Rajasthan and Gujaratattended the training program.

4 Distinguished Visitors / ExpertLectures in the Departments /Institute

An interactive Student Lecture Series was

organized in the Department of ECE under thebanner of SPIE Student Chapter on 5-6 Dec., 2016.

The speakers at the lecture series were Prof. SergiiUbizskii, Vice Director and Dean of Full High

Education and Dr. Buryy Oleh Anatolievych,Associate Professor at Institute ofTelecommunications, Radio electronics and

Electronic Engineering (ITRE), Lviv PolytechnicNational University, UKRAINE, who visited MNITJaipur under Indo-Ukraine joint project.

Dr. Anoop Singh from Industrial and Management

Studies, IIT Kanpur, delivered an invited talkRenewable Energy Certificates on 6 January, 2017organized by the Center for Energy andEnvironment. He outlined the genesis of marketmechanisms for supporting renewable energy andits attribute in the form of certificates.

The Student Chapter of Indian Institute of Chemical

Engineers (IIChE) was inaugurated at MNIT Jaipuron 12 January, 2017. The inauguration was followedby an invited talk Contribution of ChemicalEngineers to the Economic Development of India:Opportunities and Challenges by Mr. Shyam Bang,former president of IIChE and Director & CEO ofJubiliant Organosys Ltd.

The Department of Management Studies

organized an invited talk CompensationManagement by Rakesh K Ranjan -HRHead, Vodafone Rajasthan on 25 Jan., 2017. Theprogramme was coordinated by Dr. Monica Sharmaand Dr Reeta Singh.

DepartmentMathematicstwo sessions

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of invitedtalks on January 27,

2017. This event was

coordinated by Dr.

Rashmi Jain and Dr. RituAgarwal. The lectureswere delivered by therenowned mathematicians Professor Ravi SripadKulkarni, currently working as DistinguishedProfessor, Bhaskaracharya Institute ofMathematics, Pune and Professor emeritus in

Queens college and graduate center, New York andProfessor Mahmood Ali Pathan, Ex -chairman andProfessor, Department of Mathematics, Aligarh

Muslim University, Aligarh. Prof. M.A. Pathandelivered the talk on Number theory to Lie algebraand Professor Ravi Sripad Kulkarni talked aboutOrdinary differential equations, a dynamicalviewpoint. The students and faculty members had a

great learning experience from the lecturesdelivered by the experts. They got to know aboutanother form of geometry of importance, unsolvedproblems and research opportunities available inthis field.

The SPIE student chapter team organised an

invited talk Solar cells, Materials and Modellingdelivered by Dr. Smagul Zh. Karazhanov, Senior

Researcher, Department for Solar Energy, Institutefor Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway on February,10, 2017. Dr. Smagul Zh. Karazhanov has wideexperience in the area of electrical, structural, andoptical properties of materials, photovoltaictechnology and smart windows, photo catalyticprocesses, theoretical and device modeling for solarcells etc.

Dr. S.K. Tripathi delivered lectures Crop WaterRequirement & its Assessment and IrrigationSystem - An overview & Remote SensingApplications to Crop Water Management on 11and 13 Feb. 2017 conducted by the Department ofCivil Engineering.

The Department for Management Studies invitedAbhilasha Singh Rathore (DMS Alumni 2014 Batch),Manager at Vaibhav Global Limited Jaipur tointeract and deliver expert talk for the managementstudents on 16 February, 2017.

Two invited lecture sessions

Demonetisation and itscontents by Prof. Vijay VirSingh, Director, NITI AayogChair, University ofRajasthan Jaipur and Budget2017: Remonetising India byProf. C.S. Barla, Retd. Professor and

Head, Department of Economics, University ofRajasthan Jaipur were held on February 20, 2017The lecture sessions were attended by faculty andstudents in large numbers and were coordinatedby Dr. Dipti Sharma, Department of Humanitiesand Social Sciences.

Department of Civil Engineering welcomed Dr.

Prof. A.B. Gupta, introducing the experts to audience

Diganta Das (an alumnus of MNIT Jaipur) fromChemical Engineering Department, LoughboroughUniversity, UK who leads the Process EngineeringResearch Group (of -30 academics) within the

Loughborough University. Taking advantage of hisavailability, two lectures of Dr. Diganta Das,

Permeable Reactive Barrier and Single andmultiphase flow in porous media: characterisation,monitoring, modelling and experiments wereorganized for the CET 669 Contaminant Transport

course of M.Tech. (WRE) and Ph.D. students by thecourse coordinator Prof. Rohit Goyal. Lectures wereattended by the faculty, Ph.D. and M.Tech. studentswho benefitted from the expertise and vastexperience of the speaker.

The Center for Energy and Environment was

visited by Dr. Sunita Narain, Director General,Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhiwho delivered expert talk Air pollution: Death bybreath. Another expert talk Radiant cooling systemwas delivered by Dr. Peter Simmonds, ASHRAEFellow, Managing Director/Principal Building andSystems Analytics LLC, USA at the Center.

Visit/Expert Lectures deliveredby Institute Faculty

Dr Vijay Janyani (Department of ECE) was invited

to deliver a talk Photonic Devices and Systems:Recent Developments and Future Prospects at theNational Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwanduring December, 2016 under SPIE VLP program.

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Dr. Harlal Singh Mali (Department of MechanicalEngineering) was invited to chair a session in the6th International & 27th All India ManufacturingTechnology, Design and Research Conference(AIMTDR 2016) held duringl6-18 December, 2016at College of Engineering, Pune. A total of sixresearch paper were selected from AdvancedManufacturing & Mechatronics Lab, MNIT Jaipur forpresentation in this prestigious conference.

Dr. Kamlendra Awasthi (Dept. of Physics) delivered

an invited talk in the National Seminar onInstrumentation and Characterization Techniques(NSICT-2016) at Banasthali University Banasthali,during 22-23 December, 2016.

Dr. Arun KumarVerma (ElectricalEngineeringDepartment)delivered an

expert talk ElectricVehicle (EV)

integration to Gridon 20 Jan., 2017 at Shri Govindram SeksariaInstitute of Technology and Science, Indore.

Prof. A. B. Gupta (Department of Civil Engineering)

delivered an invited address (Co-author: KavitaVerma) on Disinfection of sewage for its reuse inirrigation for achieving sustainability of waterresources- the environmental issues at NationalSymposium on Global Environmental Challenges:Present Scenario held on January 21, 2017 atUniversity of Rajasthan, Jaipur.

Dr. Jyoti Joshi

(Department ofChemistry) deliveredan invited lectureAntibacterial activitiesof compounds

Electro organicsynthesis andBiotransformationmethod against four different strains of bacteria inthe 2nd National Conference on New Frontiers inChemistry -from Fundamentals to Applications -II(NFCFA2017), organized by the BITS Pilani K K BirlaGoa Campus, Goa during January 28-29, 2017.

Dr. Sudhir

Kashyap

(Department ofChemistry)delivered an

invited lectureStereoselectiveSynthesis ofMannose fromGlycals: Scope and Application of RutheniumCatalysis in 2nd National Conference on NewFrontiers in Chemistry -from Fundamentals toApplications -II (NFCFA2017), organized at BITS

Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa during January 28-29, 2017.

Prof. S. P. Chaurasia (Department of ChemicalEngineering) was invited for expert lecture onVacuum Membrane Distillation: A promisingTechnology for Water Purification in theInternational Conference on Environmentalawareness, Protection and new Challenges,organized by St. Wilfred P.G. College Jaipur, on Feb.4, 2017.

Dr. Dipaloy Datta, Dr. Arun Kumar and Dr. V.

Subbaramaiah (Department of ChemicalEngineering) along with research scholar Ms. SakshiBatra and Ms. Shivali Arora attended a workshopAnalytical Instruments for Chemical andEnvironmental Engineers (WAICEE-2017) organizedby Chemical Engineering Department, Birla Instituteof Technology & Science, Pilani, during February 10- 11, 2017.

Dr. Mahesh Kumar Jat (Department of Civil

Engineering) delivered a keynote address in theNational seminar Water Management in

Himalayan Region (WMHR- 2017) heldat Department of Civil Engineering, Graphic EraUniversity, Dehradun, India, on February 11, 2017.

Dr. Kamlendra Awasthi, (Dept. of Physics) was

invited to present his work on polymer membranesas an invited talk in the 8th InternationalConference on Advancements in PolymericMaterials APM-2017 at 11Sc Bengaluru during 11-13February, 2017.

Prof. A. K. Vyas (Department of Civil Engineering)

delivered an invited lecture for PG students at NITSurathkal on Feb 14, 2017 on Utilization of ISF Slagin Construction Sector.

Dr. Sudhir Kashyap (Department of Chemistry)delivered an invited lecture Ruthenium CatalyzedStereo/Chemo/Regioselective Preparation ofMannopyranosides From Glycals at Indo-Germanworkshop on Recent Applications of Carbohydratesin Chemistry and Biology (RACCB-2017), organizedby IIT BHU, Varanasi and Max Planck Institute ofColloids and Interfaces, Beriln, Germany duringFebruary 14-16, 2017.

Dr. Kamlendra Awasthi (Department of Physics)delivered an expert lecture Polymer nanofilters forenergy and biological applications at the National

Workshop on Theoretical and ExperimentalResearch Methodology in Basic and EnvironmentSciences at Faculty Development Centre, BanasthaliVidyapeeth, Banasthali on 17 Feb. 2017.

Dr. Harlal Singh Mali (Department of MechanicalEngineering) chaired a session at the InternationalAcademic Multi Disciplinary Conference (IAMDC2017) held during 17-18 February, 2017 atMauritius organized by World Academic -IndustryResearch Collaboration Organization. A researchpaper was selected from Advanced Manufacturing& Mechatronics Lab, MNIT J for presentation in thisprestigious conference.

Dr. Mahesh Kumar Jat (Department of Civil

Engineering) delivered the Key Note speech in theCivil Track at the International Conference Researchand Innovations in Science, Engineering &Technology (ICRISET-2017) organized by BVMEngineering College, Vallabh Vidvanagar, AnandGujrat during 17 -19 February, 2017.

Dr. Mahesh Kumar Jat at ICRISET-2017, heldat Anand, Gujrat

Prof. A B Gupta (Department of Civil Engineering)

was the Guest of honour for the inaugural function

of the one -Day National conference Sustainablesolid waste management, smart cities and Swatch

Bharat initiative (SBSCSWMCON-17) organized by

Kautilya Institute of Technology & Engineering,Jaipur; on February 25, 2017.

Expert lecture Applications of Chemical Softwarewas delivered by Dr. Rajeev Kumar Dohare(Department of Chemical Engineering)at HindustanCollege of Engineering and Technology, Farah,

Mathura.

Dr Vivekanand (Center

Environment) was inviteddeliver an expert lecture

sustainable organic wasteICES -2017 at BHU Varanasi.

for Energy and

by BHU-Varanasi to

Bioenergy: Towardsmanagement during

Faculty Achievements

Prof. A. B. Gupta (Department of Civil Engineering)

was nominated as a member of the InstitutionalEthics committee of the Governmental DentalCollege and Hospital, RUHS, Jaipur for the clearanceof research projects in 2016.

Prof. S. P. Chaurasia (Department of ChemicalEngineering) has been awarded as Fellow Memberof Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers onDecember 27, 2016 during CHEMCON- 2016 held atChennai.

Dr. Sushant Upadhyaya (Department of ChemicalEngineering) has received a best paper awardunder the area of Water Treatment and Adsorptionin CHEMCON 2016, 69th annual session of IndianInstitute of Chemical Engineers conference heldfrom December 27-30, 2016.

Prof. A. B. Gupta (Department of Civil Engineering)

was invited as an external member of the Stateaudit advisory board for Rajasthan for a two yearperiod from January, 2017 by the PAG, Rajasthan.

Prof. A. B. Gupta (Department of Civil Engineering)

was nominated as a member of the expert panel ofthe DST, GOI for evaluation of BRICS R&Dproposals, 2017.

Prof. S.P. Chaurasia (Department of ChemicalEngineering) has been nominated as Convener ofInternational Relations for Indian Institute ofChemical Engineers for the year 2017.

Prof. P.R. Soni (Department of Metallurgical &Materials Engineering) was invited to act as guestreviewer by Materials Letters (Elsevier) and

international journal Powder Technology (Elsevier).

Dr. N.C. Upadhyay, (Department of Metallurgical& Materials Engineering) received Bronze Medaland Certificate in 100 meter Running Race in Above60 years category during Annual Athletic Meet heldon January 14-15, 2017.

Dr. Satyasai Jagannath Nanda (Dept. of Electronics

and Communication Engineering) is awardedVisvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Fellowshipby Ministry of Electronics and InformationTechnology, Govt. of India.

44 Research....related activities

Dr. Sandeep Chaudhary, along with his Ph.D

student Mr. Mohit K. Tiwari (Department ofChemistry) visited Laboratory of Organic andBioorganic Chemistry, Department of Physical andOrganic Chemistry (K-3), Jozef Stefan Institute,Ljubljana, Slovenia as part of DST-ARRS Indo-Slovenian joint research project during December,2016 and January, 2017. Several joint meetings withProf. Dr. Jernej Iskra (PI of the project) and Prof.Stojan Stavber (Co -PI of the project), regarding theprogress of the joint research project were carriedout. Besides a meeting with Prof. Kristof Kranjc andProf. Franc Perdih of Department of Chemistry,University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia had alsobeen carried out to discuss future collaborationand exchange of research students.

Dr. Sandeep Chaudhary, Prof. Dr. Jernejlskra, Prof. Stojan Stavber, Dr. Katarina R. Stark! at"Jozef Stefan" Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Ms. Shuchi Mala, research scholar in the

Department of Civil Engineering received an awardof Rs.15000/- for securing second position in

Category "A" (Tech-Bloggers) in Geo-SpatialKnowledge Contest 2016 on her research idea AModelling Framework for Hospital Accessibility at

Emergence: A GIS Aided Spatial Tool. The contestwas conducted all over India.

Dr. Abbas Raja Naziruddin (Department ofChemistry), has co-authored a research articleDirect C-metalation of N -substituted triazolespromoted by mercury acetate in the February issueof RSC Adv. The research paper describes a cost-effective and high yield approach to the preparationof variety of N -heterocyclic carbene complexes forvarious applications including molecular catalysis.

Dr. Dipaloy Datta, Ms. Sanjana Sah, Ms. NikitaRawat, and Mr. Rajat Kumar (B.Tech. students ofChemical Engineering) published a research paperApplication of Magnetically Activated Carbon forthe Separation of Nicotinic Acid from AqueousSolution in the Journal of Chemical & EngineeringData (IF: 1.835), 2017, 62 (2), pp. 712-719.

Research paper entitled Wastewater treatment ofhandmade paper industry using fly ash as low costadsorbent authored by Saakshy Agarwal, KailashSingh, A.B. Gupta & A. K. Sharma, received youngscientist award for Saakshy, who presented thepaper at the India International Science festival2016, CSIR-NPL, Delhi, December 7-11, 2016.

Prof. K. R. Niazi, Sh. Praveen K Agrawal, Dr. Rajive

Tiwari and Dr. Anil Swarnkar (Department ofElectrical Engineering) presented their researchpapers in the 5th International Conference onPower Science and Engineering (ICPSE 2016) during

December 14-17, 2016 at Venice, Italy. Sh. PraveenKumar Agrawal received best paper award for hisresearch paper Prospectives of Day -Ahead

Network Reconfiguration for Smart DistributionSystems Considering Load Diversity. All the fiveresearch papers were selected for publication in theInternational Journal of Electrical Energy.

Dodla Sivanageswara Rao and Sudhir Kashyap(Department of Chemistry) made a PosterPresentation entitled Stereoselective and divergentfunctionalization of unactivated olefins withsulfonium iodate(I) reagents in the 2nd NationalConference on New Frontiers in Chemistry -fromFundamentals to Applications -II (NFCFA2017) atBITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa duringJanuary 28-29, 2017.

Research paperSulfoniumBis(Acetoxy) Iodate (I)Complex Promotedlododglycosylation ofGlycal:StereoselectiveSynthesis of 2-DeoxySugars presented byDodla Sivanageswara Rao, Thurpu RaghavenderReddy, and Sudhir Kashyap (Department ofChemistry) was awarded Best Poster Presentation inthe Indo-German workshop on Recent Applicationsof Carbohydrates in Chemistry and Biology (RACCB-2017), organized by IIT (BHU) Varanasi and MaxPlanck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Beriln,Germany during February 14-16, 2017.

Paper entitled Bandgap Engineering in

Nanocrystalline Silicon Powder by MechanicalAlloying authored by Ankit Goyal and Prof. P R Soniwas presented at Plenary session of InternationalConference on Powder Metallurgy and ParticulateMaterials at New Delhi during February 20-22,2017. The paper was awarded the Prof. G STendolkar award for the best paper for innovativebasic research work.

Dr Preeti

Bhatt(Departmentof Humanitiesand Social

Sciences)presented a

researchpaperTeachingPostmodern Re -visionaryInternational Conference on Psychology, Languageand Teaching (ICPLT) held from 20- 21 February,2017 in Dubai, UAE.

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Dr. Dipaloy Datta and Dr. V.Subbaramaiah (Department ofChemical Engineering)attended and presented a

research paper in the 5th

InternationalConferenceon Water, Energy andEnvironment (ICWEE 2017) atthe American University ofSharjah, Sharjah, UAE duringFebruary 28 - March 2, 2017.

Projects

Research project Investigations on Various

Unidirectional/Bi-directional Electric Vehicle (EV)Charging/Discharging Configurations for GreenElectric Transportation sponsored by DST -SERBNew Delhi has been awarded to Dr. ArunKumar Verma (Department of ElectricalEngineering) under Early Career Research (ECR)award for Young Scientist in Electrical Engineering.

Dr. Kamlendra Awasthi (Department of Physics)received Early Career Research award from SERB,DST -Govt. of India, New Delhi in terms of researchproject for three years.

Dr. Dipaloy Datta (Department of Chemical

Engineering) received a research grant of Rs. 41.06lakh (proposed) from Science and EngineeringResearch Board (SERB), Department of Science &Technology, Government of India for the projecttitled Synthesis and Characterization of SolventImpregnated Resins for the Treatment ofSimulated Textile Dye using Ultrasonic Technology.

Dr. Rosalin Sahoo (Civil Engineering Department)

have received the DST -SERB Early Career ResearchAward for pursuing the project entitled ActiveVibration Control of Smart Composite andSandwich Structures in Hydro -thermalEnvironment.

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MNIT Jaipur celebrated 156th birth anniversary of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya onDecember 25, 2016. Prof. Uday Kumar R Yaragatti, Director, MNIT Jaipur, inaugurated the

ceremony by lighting of the lamp and garlanding the statue of Mahamama Madan Mohan

Malaviya. Sh. B. K. Sharma, Alumni IIT BHU and Prof. M.K Bhargava, Retd. Prof. MNIT &

Alumni, IIT-BHU graced the occasion by their presence. Deans, faculty, staff and students

attended the celebrations and acknowledged the contributions of Malaviya ji in the field of

education.

Institution is acknowledged by its Alumni. They are

the brand ambassadors of any institute. MNITfraternity celebrated its Alumni Reunion on

December 25, 2016. The Alumni Day commenced

with the inaugural of Global Alumni Meet 2016,

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followed by the Golden Jubilee felicitation of 1966

entry batch and felicitation of Silver Jubilee Batch(1991 pass out batch) in the Central Lawn of theInstitute. The event aimed at bringing together the

alumni and students on the same platform, thereby

uniting the past with the present. The celebrations

started with the welcome of the Alumni with tilak,

safa and garlands. The Inaugural function wasaddressed by honorable Director Prof. Uday Kumar

Y. R. and Dean Student Welfare & Alumni AffairsProf. Dilip Sharma.

On the occasion of Makar Sakranti, a workshop

Save Birds and Bird Safety Awareness wasorganized on January 12, 2017 in association with

Raksha NGO to sensitize the public about theinjuries to birds during kite flying. The studentswere also given hands on experience in providing

first aid to the injured birds. The event wascoordinated by Dr. Reetu Singh.

A peace rally was also organized in the morning of

January 13, 2017 for creating awareness for birdsafety. Posters and pamphlets with helpline

numbers and kite flying guidelines were distributed

to people in and around the park at Jawahar circle.

Volunteers including students, faculty members and

staff participated enthusiastically .Two camps fortreatment of injured birds were set up in the MNITcampus.

The 68th Republic Day celebrations witnessed on 26th January, 2017 at Prabha Bhawan inculcated a feeling ofpatriotism and dedication in the hearts of the students, staff and faculty members who had gathered there. Theguard of honour and the hoisting of the National Flag by the Director, Prof. Udaykumar R Yaragatti werecaptured as the moments of national pride by one and all. In his speech, Prof. Yaragatti gave an insight on thevarious accomplishments of MNITJ and motivated for taking the institution to new heights and creating a greatnation.

MSF hosted by MNIT Jaipur stands as one of

the best sports festival of Rajasthan and its10th edition was scheduled from 17-19

February, 2017. It was a three day sportsextravaganza. The grand opening ceremonywas graced by the presence of Ms. Vandana

Rao Carval (Chief Guest), a former athlete and

Olympian who is an epitome of human values

and ethics. The Guest of Honor was Mr.Virender Poonia, a discus thrower, and thepresiding guest our Director, Prof Uday Kumar

Yaragatti, was a constant source of

encouragement during the entire event. The MSF

included a musical performance of singer Simranjeet Singh

Flash mob, Stage Play, EDM by astounding International DJ - DJ Disto, hilarious performance by comedian

Angad Singh Ranyal, informal events Mini Militia, Beach Volleyball & Kabaddi. The tournament concluded on the

third day with prize distribution ceremony, the guest of honor was Ms. Shiba Maggon, a National BasketballPlayer.

and the staging of a series of events like Nukkad,

The SPIE Student Chapter of MNITJ participated in the science fareorganized by MNIT Jaipur under the Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan on February

18, 2017. The team explained and demonstrated various real life simpleexperiments based on light based technologies with hands-on experienceto the young students of schools of various villages.

The Creative Arts and Cultural Society presented a

vibrant glimpse of Rajasthan's grandest and mosttalked about annual techno- cultural festival ofMNITJ Blitzschlag' 17. A three day extravaganzaduring 24-26 February, took place under theguidance of Prof. Dilip Sharma, Dean, Ms. NannyTripathi, Associate Dean, and Ar. Kalpana Pandit,Coordinator (CACS) with the able assistance andefforts of the core team of CACS student council,faculty advisors and the staff. With a thunderousline-up of cultural events and brain -wrackingtechnical competitions topped with engaging

workshops, Blitzschlag'17 was crowd pleasing toevery circle of students.

Technical events included innovative events likeaqua missile, make for India, quizon (MechanicalDeptt.), meta relay, treasure hunt, quizzica,maker's hunt (Metallurgical Deptt.), chem quiz,poster presentation depicting ways to save theenvironment, Viscometer (Chemical Deptt.). A totalof ten workshops, each of different cadre i.e.

explosives, ethical hacking, industrial automation,pottery workshop and 3-D printing etc.

The Escapade

Zone ofBlitzschlag, withits Karaoke

Arena was a

major crowdpuller with its

fun events likeMechanical Knockout,Hockey and ATV Bikes.

Air Rifle, Paintball, Air

The Entrepreneurship Development Cell organizedStartup Nivesh where 100 teams invested in 8

startups. ED Cell also organized Aspire: TheBusiness Quiz. A mannequin challenge video wasalso shot as part of a fun activity. The LiterarySociety organized LitWit (Literary Quiz), Just- aMinute and a Parliamentary Debate. The DramaticsSociety organized Tamasha (nukkad natak),Rangbhoomi (stage play) and Advitya (mono act)competitions.

The Music and Dance Society held the annual GroupDance competition Ramba Samba. e = mc2 of MNITJaipur was adjudged the winner while BhangraFreaks from SKIT Jaipur bagged the secondposition. Break Free and Dhun were other thescintillating events of the society. The Photographyclub organized Moments, the annual photographyexhibition, Shift the click & Let's selfie (twocompetitions). The Film society organized the FifthAnnual MNIT Film Festival 2017 which fetched anincredible response from all over India as well asfrom abroad.

The Spiritual Club organized a unique spiritualscience exhibition Adhokshaja to rekindle thespiritual spark within by embowering over the shipof revealed scriptures using the modern way ofrational inference and lateral thinking. The

exhibition was inaugurated by esteemed DirectorProf. Uday K Yaragatti in the gracious presence ofHis Grace Ananta Shesha Dasa, Vice president ofThe Akshaya Patra Foundation, Rajasthan andfaculty coordinator Dr. Jyoti Joshi. The exhibitionwas successful in providing students a broadunderstanding of higher paradigms of the world,with the help of 43 models, a beautiful art galleryand quiz competitions accompanied by excitingprizes. From the words of Director- No other IIT orNIT has this kind of exhibition only you have. This isa great attempt and hard work on the part ofstudents of MNIT.

Concevoir - the Archi-fest started off with a guestlecture by landscape architect Mahesh Paliwal andfor three days showcased the artistic and craftingskills of the students.

The evenings of Blitzschlag'17 staged Panache - The

fashion show; mesmerizing Bharatnatyam

performance by Padma Shri awardee Vidushi Geeta

Chandran

organized by

Spic Macay

Club. In her

performance

she enacted

various

themes like

the portrayal

of Lord Shiva

as Natrajan, and

performed the "Tandav" dance of Lord Shiva.

The multitude of the Blitzschlag'17 extravaganzatouched the highest notes with the young

heartthrob, Armaan Mallik gracing the fest with his

melodies. He seemed to go into a blissful trance as

he swept all present off their feet with his largerthan life stage presence.

The crowd went into absolute frenzy as he started off with a latest Hindi track and performed such ultimateBollywood songs like Gulabi Aankhe, 0 Re Piya, Kabira.

On the concluding day there was a great show of Santoor Recital by PadmaShri awardee Pt. Bhajan Sopori, a the legendary artist. In an hour-longcaptivating performance of Pt. Sopori ji accompanied by his tabla artistUstad Akram Khan ji and pakhawaj artist Shri Rishi Upadhyay. Soon, thewind in MNIT changed its course and it seemed as if tranquility in theenvironment was defining the music of Santoor.

Blitzschlag'17 ended with MNIT dancing

to beats of The King of Remixes, theaudio Visual DJ show by DJ NYK.

Placement & Training /Packages

Training and Placement Statistics till 27-2-2017

Total number of Companies visited 109

Number of PPOs offered 12

Number of Placements on Campus 370

Total Number of Students Placed(Inc. PPO)

382

Total number of Internships offered 54

Branch wise -Placement

CSE 71

ECE 63

EE 42

MECH 52

CHEMICAL 36

CIVIL 29

METALLURGY 40

PG Courses 49

Package offered (>10 Lpa) 44

Package offered (<10 Lpa) 338

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Upcoming Events

Greenovation 2017 a Technical Contest will be

organized by Energy Club, CEE M NIT.

Intensive 3 -days workshops on Technical Reportwriting and Authoring of Research Manuscripts withLatex to be coordinated by Dr. A. M. Joshi, Dr. R. K.Maddila during 14th to 16th April 2017.

Power Electronics for Smart Grid and RenewableEnergy Control to be coordinated by Dr. Arun KumarVerma & Dr. Vijay Kumar K. during 15th -19th May2017.

Fundamentals of Analog and Digital CommunicationSystem, to be coordinated by Dr. Satyasai J. Nanda,ECE during 13th - 22nd May 2017.

Fundamentals of Computer Networks and Security tobe coordinated by Dr. E. S. Pilli, CSE during 24th May -02nd Jun 2017.

VLSI Digital Circuit design to be coordinated by Dr. C.Periasamy, ECE during 03rd -12th Jun 2017.

Introduction to Web Development to be coordinatedby Dr. Santosh K. Vipparthi during13th - 22"1 Jun2017.

Fundamentals of databases to be coordinated by Dr.Dinesh Gopalani, CSE during 23rd Jun - 02"1 Jul 2017.

Introduction to data structures & programming in Cto be coordinated by Dr. E. S. Pilli, CSE during Oft10th Jul 2017

International Conference on Advances in Internet ofThings and Connected Technologies (ICloTCT 2017),May 26-27, 2017.

Coordinator:Dr. (Mrs.) Dipti Sharma

Co- Coordinator:Dr. Deepah Verma

Technical Coordinator:Mr. Minu Khemnani

Student Coordinator & Member:Mr. Suresh AhodiaMr. Sanidhya Raj Sharma

Note: The information published has been received from the respective departments/ sections/ faculty.