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FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

AWARDS
Dr. C. D Naiju was selected as the
Chairman and nominated as
awards committee member of SAE Dr. S. Soloman Bobby has been
India of Oragadom Division of SAE honored as "Esteemed Guest of
India Southern Section, SAE India. Honor" and also received the "BEST
Dr. K. Gokul Kumar & Prof. M. AMSI Chapter award" in the Tenth
Senthil Kumar were nominated as International Conference on Additive
Management committee member Manufacturing Technologies - AM
of Oragadom Division of SAE India 2021 in Bengaluru.
Southern Section, SAE India.
Dr. B. Ashok has been awarded with "Distinguished International Associate" by Royal Academy of Engineering,
UK. Dr. C. Kannan and Dr. T. Vijayakumar from SMEC, VIT and Dr. Byron Mason, Loughborough University, UK.,
are other the collaborators of this proposal.
Dr. Dsilva Winfred Rufuss and his team research work published in the Renewable Energy Journal has been
appeared in "Current Science Reports" in the February Edition. The article entitled “the application of
composite thermal energy storage and permanent magnets to enhance the productivity in solar desalination”
was an outcome of the CAPSTONE project work of our undergraduate students and joint collaborations.
Dr. M. Nageswara Rao has been selected as a member of THERMEC- 2023 Executive Scientific Committee-
12th International Conference on Processing and Manufacture of Advanced Materials – Processing, Fabrication,
Properties and Applications being organized by Technische Universitaet, Wien, Austria.

Dr. R. Subashini has been awarded with the
National 'Dynamic Teacher Dr. Renold Elson bagged the First
Award' by Government of India certified- place at Altair Optimization
Avishkar Achievers Award, India (Category- Contest (AOC) India, 2022 in the
Event Management - Faculty Convener category "Industrial Design
Riviera 2020).
(Mech/Civil/Aero/Auto).

Dr. K. Padmanabhan received a
“Dedicated, Innovative Scientific
Research & Excellent Global
Professional Achievement
Award” in Mechanical
Engineering specialization by
the Global Convention on
Dissemination of Innovative Dr. Ramesh Kumar from the Automotive
Scientific Research Strategies Research Centre (ARC), was awarded the
(ISRS 2022) “Alliance International Catalyst Grant” of
$25,000.00 by the Natural Sciences and
Dr. Padmanabhan K received Engineering Research Council of Canada
an award of “Fellow of Chennai over a year period. Dr. Ramesh Kumar
Academy of Sciences” from would be acting as a co-grantee and working
Madras University, Chennai, with Prof. Mohammed Ahamed, Mechanical,
The award event held at Automotive and Materials Engineering,
Madras University Building, University of Windsor, Canada.
Guindy.
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