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Contributions during Covid-19 Disruptions

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected ways of life around the globe like never before. The instinct of man to tide over disruptions and motivated to evolve ways to tackle this tragedy. The digital means proved to be one of the single most effective enabler in this regard. As a mentor, teacher and researcher one can adopt in a number of ways available at one's disposal and can lead the change. The constant instinct to overcome difficulties create alternate pathways so that the contribution to the society don't get stopped. Some contributions during pandemic disruptions are showcased below:

Mentoring and Guiding UG/PG Students and PhD Scholars

  1. Mentored several students, two of them foreign nationals (a) Hashmath Ullah Ibrahimi (an Afghan National) and (b) Mohammad Nasir (a Nepalese student). Both of them UG students did project under me. These students were guided, counselled and mentored. The exchange of information through email and real-time connect via online media platforms and groups were used to constantly advised them. Hashmath catch up fast and he could contribute to even research papers which published in high ranking journals. Nasir Later persued Masters from Tshingua and Now doing funded PhD from University of Cambridge.

  2. The PG Students were engaged to hone skills and knowledge on various aspects of materials technology including understanding and analyses involving SEM/EDS and XRD. They were trained for social distancing compliant schedule and work on literature/databased and do carefully monitored experiments with proper social distancing and physically sensitized environment. The focused guidance resulted in an innovative piece of research work some out during pandemic. The New route to produce non-equilibrium alloys phases were developed and recently communicated to Materials Letters Journal.

  3. Better working methods during pandemic is a new experience for the students and researcher which enable them realize how to remain engaged fruitfully under restrictions and disruptions rather than remaining idle. One of the scholars has carefully crafted her schedule and complete her robust experiments on developing low-cost light-weight composite as a substitute for steels and other cost intensive alloys. The developed composite possesses improved corrosion and mechanical properties in an otherwise common commercial grade alloys.

  4. One of the students was jointly registered at one of the NIT's with work plan on a promising and strategic joining of Superalloy with steels by using solid state process such as linear friction welding, FSW etc.

  5. A working linear friction welding set-up has been designed and developed in a joint collaborative effort during pandemic times which works just well and experiments are being devised.

  6. Distantly guided, advised and supervised UG students from NIT Srinagar, SRM Chennai. On several occasions simultaneous joint work on Google Doc and Google spreadsheet was utilized for this purpose.

  7. Contributed to Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) published online by T&F.

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