All registered members of IT-BHU Global Alumni Association shall be able to take part in the election. It includes all alumni, students, faculty and permanent staff of our institute. If you are not registered so far, please visit www.itbhuglobal.org/register to register.

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Prof. Supten Sarbadhikari is already working with Citizendium as online election officer and he is a well respected professor in the field of bioinformatics. He has been elected as Chief Election Officer.

Jairaj Hegde is involved in initiating alumni funded projects for the1982 batch, and has been elected as Deputy Chief Election Officer.

The selection was based on our announcement made on yahoo groups for election officer post; and all those who have shown interest have been accepted.

The election officers will be a part of our election team. The election team will formulate election rules, oversee elections and resolve any election dispute.

The election officers are appointed for a 3 year term, beginning immediately and ending on September 30, 2011.

You can contact election team at: electionteam@itbhuglobal.org.

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We have received the following information through Dr. Satinder Mullick (Mechanical 1958), who is also coordinating efforts among fellow batch-mates. For more details, please contact him at: smullick@stny.rr.com.

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Program                                                                                                                        In-charge                    

Venue: Mahamana Malaviya Mission Hall                                                           B. S. Mathur

Time: 5.30.pm onwards

Master of Ceremony                                  …                ….                                         Gautam Dar

1. Invocation by Vedic chanting (to be arranged by BHU artists)                     B. S. Mathur

2. Group singing of Kulgeet (BHU & BENCO)                                                        Gautam Dar / B. S. Mathur

3. Welcome address                                      …                                                          A. K. Mathur

4. Bhajan (to be arranged by BHU artists)                                                           A. K. Mathur                                                                                                

5. Remembering the batch-mates who have left us                                         Gautam Dar / R. K. Khattar

    for their heavenly abode

6. College days reminiscences by the Participants :                                         Gautam Dar/Lakshmichand/ Savkur/ AK Mathur/

                                                                                                                                          S. S. Vaid, Mohsin, Joglekar, P.D. Chadda, Bhasker Rao, Mahen C. Das etc

7. Music (to be arranged)                                                                                             B S Mathur / K. K. Varshney                                                                                                           

8. Dinner (Vegetarian) (Start at 8 pm)                                                                    A. K. Mathur

9. Video recording of the entire function                                                                  Dr. S. S. Vaid

(Copy of DVD to be made available to all the participants on request & on payment)

Details are to be worked out                                                                                       K. K.Varshney/B.S.Mathur                                                                                             

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The Class of 1983 is meeting at IT campus in Varanasi on 27^th, 28^th and 29^th December 2008 to celebrate their Silver Jubilee Year of graduation. Among the various programs and events being planned as part of this rendezvous include; a visit to Sarnath, a meeting with the Director Dr. S.N. Upadhyay and a possible meeting with the Vice Chancellor of the University. For the meetings with the Director and the VC, we are hoping to get their calendar commitments and are hopeful of clinching these.

 

Other events being planned are:

 

1.      A round tour of the Institute (all departments) – could be reminiscent of the round tour we all were taken on during our first days at the Institute!!

2.      Interactive meetings with the current students (in groups)

3.      An open-for-all dinner that is meant to be an occasion for the current students to mix and mingle and eventually network with the 1983 batch

4.      A thanks-giving and felicitations event in which we hope to present mementos to some (or all) Faculties from our times (if they happen to be around). The specifics of this event are being worked out by a group led by Pratap Mohan, Supreet Jain et al.

5.      We hope to announce, during or around this event, a project or undertaking that the 1983 batch will own / sponsor for our Alma Mater. The exact project that would be taken up is being discussed among the larger group of the 1983 batch.

6.      A banquet / dinner at a Five-star hotel to which the Director and faculty will be invited.

 

Not to forget about having chai at Bechus / Mochus / DG Corner etc., (if these joints are still around !!), a visit to the Birla Mandir, Godowlia / Hanuman Ghat / Vishwanathjee Mandir / Sankat Mochan, as the case may be. Lankating could also be on the cards!! A visit to Pehalwaan shop and to taste the ever mouth-watering “loungalathaa” should certainly be counted upon.

 

All in all, we would try to re-live the grand campus life we enjoyed for five long years in a matter of three days and to show pieces of this to our family too!! A prime time for nostalgia, all said and done.

 

Many of us have planned to land up on 26^th afternoon itself and would be leaving around the noon of 30^th Dec., so for some of us, it will practically be a five day event.

 

Accommodations are being arranged at the IT-BHU guest house and also at some of the five-star / three-star hotels at Varanasi. Reuniting alumni will pay directly for the rooms. Transportation from and to these hotels will also be organized. Naturally, all these expenses will be met by the reuniting alumni themselves, by contributing generously for the reunion event. Any money that is left over after meeting all the reunion expenses will be donated to the itbhuglobal.org corpus.

We hope to and INTEND to have a great time during the reunion and wish to issue a call to all graduates of the Class of 1983 to join the bandwagon and make it a grand success.

 

For queries and clarifications, please write to reunion83@itbhuglobal.org

 

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Email: itbhu-sydney@googlegroups.com

The 1st Sydney Chapter IT-BHU Alumni meet was held at Bicentennial Park on the August 24th, 2008.

This meet was organized informally and the format was similar to that of a picnic in the iconic and centrally located Bicentennial Park in the Sydney Olympic Park suburb. After the initial spate of emails preceding the planned event, around 15 people confirmed their attendance. People started gathering from around 2-2:30 PM. Many of us did not know each other and so started introducing themselves. There were 3 alumni from the 21st century batch (2000 onwards), 1 from the 1990s batch, many from 1980s, a few from 70s and even 60s’. After about an hour or so, when the numbers increased to about 20 or so (around 35 including family members), Harpreet Marwah (Electronic 2003) and Alak Jhaji (Electrical 1967) (fondly called Bhishm Pitamah in the Sydney circle) requested everyone to form a large circle and do the introduction round.

This introduction round was mainly for everyone to introduce themselves and recall some fond memories of their days in IT-BHU. The introduction round started from the youngest members to the oldest. Harpreet and Pramod introduced as 2003 batch and gave all of us updates of the popular IT Girls Hostel. How the Girls hostel started as being rooms in a proper house and ended as a hostel behind Vishwesharaya Hostel. Jhaji from 1967 batch recalled his days from the BENCO where the hostel was not even located in the campus and how they moved into the campus after their first year outside the campus. Shashi Baranwal (Civil 1983) recalled how they had a major flood in Banaras during their college days.

Many of the guys had brought along their wives too, and some had even brought their children. The wives had been thoughtful enough to bring along some food to go around too!

 

After all the talking, it had gotten fairly late in the afternoon, and everyone realized that they had actually been starving for a while. Some very welcome meat curry and rice brought by Meena – Somir’s wife – as also some upma that Devaki – Partha’s wife – had brought, began to get circulated at that point.

By this time weather had also started to turn fairly chilly and when foam cups with hot tea brought in a flask by someone began to get handed around, they were greeted with almost the same intensity of joy as that with which a few hours back the alumni had greeted their “long lost BHU-IT” friends! This also brought back fond memories to many, of the 10 paisa chais from Bechu’s little stall outside De hostel. Someone then broke the sad news that Bechu’s tea-stall had disappeared a while ago…..Sad but true.

After the tea, with the cold really beginning to set in, it was time to trudge back to the various parts of that huge park, locate our cars, and return back to our day-to-day, mundane routines, amidst promises of the organization of a similar event in a couple of months’ time…..

The event concluded with the some photos and contact swapping sessions.

Here are some photos of the event – You can find more photos uploaded at http://picasaweb.google.com/hellopkt/AlumniMeet#

 

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Sanjiv Kumar, a PhD Student working with Professor Venkatesh Merwade in the Hydraulics and Hydrology area of the School of Civil Engineering recently won the first prize in Graduate Student Research Competition at TeraGrid ‘08 Conference, held in Las Vegas from June 9 – 13, 2008. His poster titled “Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Data and Modeling” demonstrated the most efficient and justifiable use of the greatest computational power (TeraGrid) for scientific investigation in hydrology. Other co-authors on the poster include Dr. Carol Song and Lan Zhao from Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advance Computing.

TeraGrid is a public domain computational infrastructure that integrates computing resources from eleven partner institutions (including Purdue) in the United States to provide 750 teraflops of computing capability and more than 30 petabytes of online and archival data storage, with rapid access and retrieval over high-performance networks (see http://www.teragrid.org). Sanjiv’s research using TeraGrid involved modeling of 26 hydrologic scenarios in St. Joseph River Watershed in northern Indiana to investigate modeling uncertainty in understanding of watershed hydrology. This study which would have taken more than a year on a regular desktop computer was accomplished in less than two weeks using TeraGrid resources. Sanjiv’s research is a part of a larger ongoing collaborative project at Purdue titled “Cyberinfrastructure for End-to-End Environmental Explorations (C4E4)” funded by the National Science Foundation. For more information on the C4E4 project, send e-mail to c4e4@purdue.edu.

 

Sanjiv Kumar can be contacted at: sanjivconscious@gmail.com

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NEW DELHI: State-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) on Tuesday said Mr C P Singh, Director on the board of company, has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of the joint venture company 'NTPC-BHEL Power Projects Private Ltd'.

 

“BHEL's Director (Engg, R&D) Mr C P Singh has been appointed CMD of the newly formed JV company NTPC-BHEL Power Projects Private Ltd (NBPPL),” a company release said.

 

A graduate in Mechanical Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Mr Singh joined BHEL in 1970 and became Director on the board in September 2006.

 

With more than 38 years of professional experience he has been instrumental in setting new benchmarks in executing Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) power projects as well as gas turbine-based projects.

 

The objective of setting up this JV company as per the Articles of Association of the company is to go for EPC Power Plant business and manufacturing power plant equipment for turbine generators, boilers, etc.

 

NBPPL will have a capacity of 5,000 MW per annum by 2014-15 at an investment of Rs 6,000 crore. NBPPL is planning to dilute its shares up to 50 per cent with a view to invite private partners to improve overall effectiveness and efficiency. - PTI

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2008-08-25 16:28:12 - The McGraw Hill book Materials Science and Engineering by William F Smith Professor Emeritus of Engineering University of Central Florida and Javad Hashemi Professor of Mechanical Engineering Texas Tech University has been a popular book for teaching Structure and Properties of Materials in various universities world over. However the adaptation of the book in India was a problem as it was in FPS Units instead of the desired SI Units.

Professor Ravi Prakash presently Dean Research and Consultancy as well as Coordinator for Centre for Materials Science and Technology at BITS Pilani has made the dream come true by coauthoring the fourth edition of this popular book in SI Units. Currently Professor Ravi Prakash also is the coordinator for Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems and Center for Desert Development Technology at BITS Pilani.

Prior to joining BITS in 1995, he has two decades of Teaching and Research experience at Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University in various capacities which includes his stint as Science Counsellor at Embassy of India, Washington D.C., USA.

He obtained his B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering) Hons from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 1971; M.Sc. (Engineering Design) from University of Salford, Lancs, U.K., 1973; and Ph.D. (Materials) from Cranfield University, U.K. 1975. He has over 100 research papers and has guided eight PhDs in addition to various dissertations at Masters level.

This book provides an eminently readable and comprehensive overview of engineering materials for undergraduate students. Through concise explanations, numerous worked-out examples, a wealth of illustrations and photographs apart from online resource, the new edition provides the most student-friendly introduction to the subject.

There are 14 chapters in the book covering Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering, Atomic Structure and Bonding, Crystal and Amorphous Structures in Materials, Solidification and Crystalline Imperfections, Thermally Activated Processes and Diffusion in Solids, Mechanical Properties of Metals I and II, Phase Diagrams, Engineering Alloys, Polymeric Materials, Ceramics, Composite Materials, Corrosion and Electrical Properties of Materials.

The salient features of the book apart from SI Units include focused coverage on modern topics including nanotechnology, biomedical engineering and semi conductors; materials selection and design problems in each chapter relating concepts to engineering practice; chapter openers giving the reader a sense of how engineers use concepts in the real world. The Excellent pedagogy of the book include 1284 exercise problems, 143 solved problems, 184 materials selection and design problems and 104 objective type questions.

The book ISBN is 9780070667174 and has 968 pages and is priced at an affordable Rs 450/-. This Special Indian Edition is for sale in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan only.

Dr Ravi Prakash can be contacted at Email: rprakash@bits-pilani.ac.in or raviprakash.ravi@gmail.com

About BITS Pilani: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani Rajasthan which has the reputation of pioneering the online examinations for admissions through the path breaking BITSAT and setting a bench mark in industry university collaborations is one among the top ranking universities towering above the rest in various best college surveys in India today. BITS offers degrees in various disciplines presently at Pilani, Dubai, Goa and Hyderabad campuses apart from an array of work integrated learning programmes for HRD of a vast spectrum of Indian corporates. The alumni of the Institute who are who is who in various professions and Proud to be BITSians peaking with Passion Quotient for Alma mater are spread across the globe from Australia to America.

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Dr. S. K. Shrivastava can be contacted at: sushant@bhu.ac.in or sushant_bhu@rediffmail.com

His info can be viewed on http://www.itbhu.ac.in/phe/faculty.shtml

Website of Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering: http://www.itbhu.ac.in/phe/default.shtml

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Amritsar, 5th Sept. 2008(Gumtala): Well known freedom fighter and social worker Er.Partap Singh Hanspal, who passed away at his residence today, was cremated at Shivpuri, Durgiana Mandir, where Mr.Paramjit Singh, ADC, Amritsar , and Mr.Sandeep Rishi, SDM, Amritsar , placed floral wreaths on his body on behalf of the District administration.  Dr.Jasdeep Singh, President IMA, Dr. M.L.Gambhir, Gen. Sect. IMA, Dr Daljit Singh, well known Eye Surgeon also offered floral tributes to the departed soul.

Er. Partap Singh Hanspal, son of revolutionary poet and nationalist Sodagar Singh Bhikhari of Kavi Kutia fame was born on 8th Feb, 1922 at Calcutta. During his Engineering education at Banaras Hindu University, he was arrested for his leading role in the Quit India movement in 1942 and was jailed in the  Mirzapur central jail UP along with his other class mates including the now retd. UNESCO Goodwill ambassador Mr. Madanjeet Singh. After Independence he worked in the construction of Bhakra and Nangal Dam project and also the Pong Dam at Talwara before retiring as SE from Tubewell corporation Punjab.

After his retirement, he formed and led numerous social organizations and NGOs like Democratic rights association, Naree Chetna Manch, Amritsar Vichar Manch etc.  He was the consultant advisor of Amritsar Vikas Manch, Aalmi Punjabi Virasat, Punjab Taraksheel Society and many others.

He led a very simple and auste life and was against the useless rites and rituals in our society. He worked for a corruption free Punjab and wanted a clean and Green Amrisar. He leaves behind three sons Dr.Navjot, Er. Navroop, Dr.Navpreet  and two daughters Dr Navkiran and Dr Sarabjot.

Funeral was also attended by Dr Har Mohinder Nagpal , Dr Inderbeir Nijjar, Dr Ravindarpal , Dr.Parmindar Singh (Taraksheel Society], Dr Charanjit Singh Gumtala, Patron,Amritsar Vikas Munch, Dr Iqbal Kaur Sond,  Prof Mohan Singh ,Er.Jasbir Singh Hanspal from Canada ,Yashpal Chabal , leaders of different political parties and social organizations.

Photo:  Mr. Paramjit Singh, ADC, Amritsar, and Mr.Sandeep Rishi, SDM, Amritsar, placing floral wreaths on the body of Er. Partap Singh Hanspal on behalf of the District administration.

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The Run for India is organized by AID (Association for India’s Development) organization. The organization carries out social service work for the uplifting of India’s rural poor, providing them with education, employment and training facilities, providing relief during natural disaster, etc.

 

As part of collecting money, it organizes marathon training program for Marine Corps Marathon (8^th Largest Marathon in the World). A person participating in the marathon (length 26.2 miles) through AID is expected to raise at least $1250. Marathon is 26.2 mile run, a donor is requested to donate 1 dollar per mile (approx $25), 2 dollar per mile (approx $50), or 8 dollar per mile (approx $200), etc or whatever is convenient to help the participants to meet their fund raising goal. The running event also creates awareness about the organization and its activities.

 

The money collected here will be utilized in many development projects including Bihar flood, education, fighting corruption, awareness, and poverty in India.

 

33^rd Marine Corps Marathon is schedule for October 26, 2008 in Washington DC. Two of IT-BHU Alumni are actively involved in the marathon training and fund raising for AID. You are welcome to support them in their fund raising efforts. Information regarding their fund raising and training program is as follows:

 

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Training for:
Marine Corps Marathon 2008
On: Oct 26, 2008
Fundraising Goal: $1250
Amount Raised: $264

Donation Page: http://www.runforindia.org/runners/lakhwinder/blog

Lakhwinder Singh can be contacted at: lakhwinder.singh@gmail.com

 

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Donation Page: http://www.runforindia.org/runners/ritu

Ritu Bajpai can be contacted at: ritu.bajpai@gmail.com

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http://www.aidindia.org/main/ 

 

 

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Recent flood in the state of Bihar has created a misery on a large scale to the people for the state. Many relief work organization and individuals have come forward to help the flood victims and displaced persons. Among them is our alumnus Rajesh Ranjan (Mechanical 2003), who started organizing help with the help of his friends and relief organizations. His appeal for help and list of NGO’s is posted on our website,

 

 

 

Here is what Rajesh has to say about the relief work by him and others:

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Thanks for your appreciation. It is really nice to have support of our alumni in the effort to provide relief to the victims of Bihar deluge. The flood is not the annual localized one. It happened due to the breach by Kosi river at Kusaha, Nepal and things have become worse as it could have been in the districts of Supaul, Saharsa, Araria, Madhepura, Purnea, Katihar and some adjoining areas.

 

The govt. is working and relief is also pouring in, though people at far areas are not much responsive as they are not aware of the magnitude of the devastation and are in the impression that every year there will be floods in those areas.

 

We are working and many other local NGOs are also with us. One organization (Jawaab) working for RTI is also contributing to this effort.

 

Siddharth Arora (Mech 2003) and Ranjeev (Chem 2004) are also supporting in their own way. A team of doctors (from Institute of Medical Sciences-BHU) has also gone to the flood-affected region. Many IT-BHU students are putting efforts as well.

 

As I am located in Hyderabad right now, I had discussions with my colleagues at BHEL and other friends working in different organizations. We also had interactions with the students of University of Hyderabad and they have started collection of cash and kind in their campus.

 

We are also in touch with NGOs like Goonj (for clothes), Prayaas, Alternative Realities, Lakshya to provide necessary support to their relief works.

 

We have received contributions from abroad also. Some PhD students of Biotechnology in Germany and Switzerland have donated cash for our support. My idea is not to go for a collection drive for either money or items. The main objective is to make people aware that a huge population (>3 million) is badly affected due to Kosi waters. We need to empathise with them and be of some help to their struggle to survive.

 

It will take time for things to get back to normal and the people need us through their journey to a decent life. Hope to be with them…

 

Please mail me if you need any specific information.

 

Regards,

 

Design Engineer

BHEL, Hyderabad

Cell#9490105160

Email: rajesh_itbhu@yahoo.com

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Workosaur.com is a free job board for senior positions i.e. jobs that pay more than Rs. 10+ lacs per annum. Unlike the other job sites, workosaur.com truly focus on aggregating the most lucrative jobs in India and overseas - Corporate-level, vice president, director and manager positions. Workosaur.com explicitly asks employers to use the job board only for positions for which they can afford to pay more than Rs. 10 lacs per annum. Hence, the site would be of great use to the professionals who are seeking to move up the career ladder. The site name is derived from “dinosaur at workplace”

 

Although the site has been launched recently, it is loaded with many useful features. The site posts senior level jobs in different categories, such as, Finance, Consulting, Marketing, HR, etc. The job can also be searched by key word search for the company. About 800 jobs are currently posted on the website.

 

The site has a career Advice blog, which gives advice on topics ranging from “how to tie a tie” to “how to answer Guesswork type questions during interview”. It has also a career Advice forum, in which readers can post and freely discuss topics related to jobs or of everyday life.

 

 

The site (workosaur.com) is going to be free for job-seekers and employers for the first 1-year. The entire focus till then is to make it the most preferred online destination for middle-level and senior-level management. Those interested in advertising could send me an email at: nimish@workosaur.com.

 

Going ahead, I'd like to diversify vertically in the online recruitment space by kick starting jobsites in niche domains. Also, plans are afoot for a whole set of interesting dot com ideas and these can be followed at inboxofideas.com.  

 

“The different modules on workosaur.com are built on open source platforms. Since a large pool of developers is collaborating on the open source platforms, workosaur.com stands to leverage the latest Web 2.0 technologies and evolve into a truly useful site for its users. Also having seen the power of such collaborations, I wish to advise every student in the software domain to be an active part of an open source community. More than anything else, it is an enriching experience and would foster the spirit of entrepreneurship amongst the students.”

 

 

Nimish graduated in B. Tech. (Chemical) in 2001 from our institute. His career includes working for Consim Info Pvt. Ltd., Logix Microsystems and Rezonant Design. He is currently based in Mumbai.

 

B. Tech. (Chemical Engineering) from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (2001)

MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (2003)

 

Nimish V Adani can be contacted by:

Email: nimish@workosaur.com or nimish.adani@gmail.com

Phone: +91.9769209870

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