Department of Metallurgical Engineering, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, India January, 2015 Volume 4 Issue 1 BHUMET News Head’s Desk Dear friends, This is the first newsletter that our students are bringing out, after I have taken over as Head of Department. I am deeply conscious of the fact that my illustrious predecessors have given leadership to the department in a manner that is worthy of emulation. I feel, I am sitting on the shoulder of giants. The department will progress further with the help of many of our well - wishers and alumni. We are looking look forward to their active involvement in the progress of our place. I take this opportunity to apprise that the department has undergone peer review process – a mandatory requirement for IIT system. The comments are helpful in improving research and teaching. There are many suggestions for improving overall infrastructure as well as for the growth of academic atmosphere. I have started taking corrective measures on some of the critical appraisal of the peer review team. There are issues that need substantial funding, induction of faculty at various levels and selections of quality students at M.Tech and Ph.D levels. We need your considered opinion on some of these to spell out roadmap for our growth. I am happy to state that departmental visit of graduates of 1989 and 1990 batches was appropriate for reflecting on some of the issues involving growth of the department in conformity with the status of other institutions. We are in touch with many of our illustrious alumni for getting feedback on the points raised by peer review team to revisit the vision statement. Please do keep in touch and wishing you all the best for a happy and prosperous new year 2015. Sincerely Yours, R.K.Mandal Orientation programme for the students admitted to IIT (BHU) in the academic year 2014- 2015 was held on Friday, 25 th July 2014 at Swatantrata Bhawan, BHU. The programme began with lightening of the lamp and garlanding of the sacred bus of Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Orientation Programme
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Department of Metallurgical Engineering, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, India
January, 2015 Volume 4 Issue 1
BHUMET News Head’s Desk
Dear friends,
This is the first newsletter that our students are bringing out, after I
have taken over as Head of Department. I am deeply conscious of the fact
that my illustrious predecessors have given leadership to the department in a
manner that is worthy of emulation. I feel, I am sitting on the shoulder of
giants. The department will progress further with the help of many of our
well - wishers and alumni. We are looking look forward to their active
involvement in the progress of our place.
I take this opportunity to apprise that the department has undergone peer review process
– a mandatory requirement for IIT system. The comments are helpful in improving research and
teaching. There are many suggestions for improving overall infrastructure as well as for the
growth of academic atmosphere. I have started taking corrective measures on some of the critical
appraisal of the peer review team. There are issues that need substantial funding, induction of
faculty at various levels and selections of quality students at M.Tech and Ph.D levels. We need
your considered opinion on some of these to spell out roadmap for our growth.
I am happy to state that departmental visit of graduates of 1989 and 1990 batches was
appropriate for reflecting on some of the issues involving growth of the department in conformity
with the status of other institutions. We are in touch with many of our illustrious alumni for getting
feedback on the points raised by peer review team to revisit the vision statement. Please do keep
in touch and wishing you all the best for a happy and prosperous new year 2015.
Sincerely Yours,
R.K.Mandal
Orientation programme for the students admitted to IIT (BHU) in the academic year 2014-
2015 was held on Friday, 25th July 2014 at Swatantrata Bhawan, BHU. The programme began
with lightening of the lamp and garlanding of the sacred bus of Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan
Orientation Programme
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IIM Metals & Materials Quiz
On Saturday, August 9th ‟14, Metals and Material quiz was
organised by the Department of Metallurgical Engineering, IIT
(BHU) on behalf of Indian Institute of Metals, Student Affiliated
Chapter of IIM Varanasi. A total of 44 teams from Class XI and XII
representing 22 schools of Varanasi and nearby schools
participated in the quiz. The quiz was organised in two stages:
preliminary written round followed by an oral round. Top 16 teams
were selected on the basis of preliminary round. The quiz master
for oral round was Prof. R. K. Mandal, Head of the Department. The
quiz ended with a tie for the first prize between two teams of
Sunbeam English School, Bhagwanpur, Varanasi. The runner up
team was from Central Hindu Boys School, Varanasi.
School students engaged in the Quiz.
He also honored the special guest of the event, Dr. V. V. Kutumba Rao with the Distinguished
Alumni Award. Dr. V.V. Kutumba Rao shared his valuable experiences and gave his precious words of
wisdom to the newly admitted students. At the end, there was a tour to acquaint the freshers with the
laboratory equipments and facilities in the department.
Malaviya, followed by melodious Kulgeet. The new entrants were
then enlightened with the precious words of wisdom by Dr. Rajiv
Sangal, director, IIT (BHU), followed by an explanation of academic
rules by the Dean, Academic affairs. The students and their parents
were also briefed about the activities of IIT GYMKHANA. First year
incharge, Dr. D Tiwary as well as Dean, Students Affairs, Prof. Ashim
Mukherjee, shared valuable information with the young minds of IIT
(BHU). On the following day, the departmental orientation
programme was held for the students, where the honorable Head of
the department, Prof. R.K. Mandal briefed the students with the
heritage and glories of the department followed by the introduction
of “The Mentor-Mentee Network”.
A section of packed audience during the orientation
programme
The quiz concluded with the prize distribution by the Head
of the Department followed by vote of thanks by Dr. R. Manna,
honorary secretary, IIM Varanasi Chapter. The winning teams shall
be representing the IIM - Varanasi Chapter at IGCAR, Kalpakkam
during the National Prof. Brahm Prakash Memorial Materials Quiz.
At the end of quiz, lunch was arranged for all the participants,
faculty members and quiz organizers. Prize distribution by Head of the department.
Inaugural function of METSOC at LT-1.
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The celebrations commenced with the cutting of cake brought by the students for the honourable
lecturers. The students from Part II exhibited their versatility in the fields of theatre and music by giving
marvelous performances, which was then followed by a quiz for the lecturers. Mellifluous songs were sung
by Mr. Ashish Jain (Part-IV) and Ms. Rashi (Part-I) followed by an inspiring speech by emeritus professor
Dr. A.K. Ghose.
Word games were hosted by Mr. Kishan Agrawal and Mr. Kaushik Kumar Mahato (Part-III) and all
the lecturers were presented with mementos. All the students and faculty members enjoyed to the fullest
under the cheerful hosting of Mr. Lovish Tyagi (Part-III).
METSOC Inauguration
The inauguration of activities of Metallurgy Society
(MET-SOC) for the session 2014-2015 was held on Saturday, 23rd
August in N.P. Gandhi Memorial Hall. The function was glorified
with the presence of Dr. K. Muraleedharan, Director (Materials),
DRDO, as the chief guest and was presided over by Prof. G. V. S.
Sastry (Dean of Academic Affairs, IIT-BHU). The function started
with the Kulgeet followed by a welcome address by the honorable
Head Of the Department, Prof. R. K. Mandal. A brief introduction to
METSOC was then provided by Dr. K. K. Singh. Dr. Muraleedharan
shared his valuable experiences at the department and Banaras
Hindu University, with all the students, followed by Prof. G. V. S.
Sastry giving the Presidential remarks. The final vote of thanks was
proposed by Mr. Rohit Agrawal, General Secretary Met-Soc.
Later in the afternoon, Dr. Muraleedharan addressed all the
final year students (Ph.D, M.Tech 1st and 2nd year, IDD final year
& B.tech final year) for the job prospects in DRDO.
Teachers’ Day Celebrations
An entrepreneurial bug bites Meta-Part IV students
"No talk, All Action - Launch a startup in 54 hours.”
Students of Metallurgy Part IV hosted Startup Weekend for the first time in Uttar Pradesh. Startup
Weekend is an international entrepreneurial program initiated by Google. It is a 54 hours continuously
going event where developer, designer, marketer and most importantly any startup enthusiasts come
together to share ideas, form teams, build products and launch startup. Startup Weekend begins with
open-mic 60-second pitches that result in the formation of small teams around the best, most viable
concepts. Teams spend Saturday and Sunday focus on customer development, validating their ideas and
building prototypes with the help of experienced mentors. On Sunday, teams demo their products through
Faculty Achievements
Prof. T. R. Mankhand lately contributed an invited chapter on "Refining of Low-Grade Molybdenite
Concentrate" in the book "Molybdenum and its Compounds" edited by Viswanathan S. Saji and Sergy I.
Loptain, Published by Nova Science Publisher, New York ; Chapter-21 (2014) pp:417-429. He was also
felicitated by Banaras Hindu University on Teachers‟ day and also received prestigious "Distinguished
Engineer Award" by Institution of Engineers, Varanasi Local Centre on Engineers' Day held on 15th
September 2014.
Prof. Vakil Singh delivered Prof. N.P. Gandhi Memorial lecture in NMD-ATM 2014 held at Pune.
Dr. G. S. Mahobia and Dr. O. P. Sinha attended NMD-ATM 2014 at Pune. Also, Rs. 20 lakhs have been
sanctioned under sprouting grant scheme for the study of hot deformation behaviour of nitrogen
stainless steel. Thereafter, plasma furnace for preparation of nitrogen stainless steel have been once
again started after a span of nearly 25 years.
Recent Achievements
presentation round and receive valuable feedback from a panel of experts. In three years of time
Startup Weekend has spread its legs in 720+ cities of 130 countries with more than 120,000
attendees.
Startup Weekend Varanasi which was held from 12th-14th
September was a great success. This event witnessed 93
participants with the highest number of pitches all across India.
The expert panel of this event had names like Vanita Vishwanath,