Program
Program
8.00am - 8.45 am
Registration
8.45 am - 9.45am
Inauguration
9.45am - 10.30am
First Keynote Talk: Prof. S.G. Dhande (Former Director, IIT Kanpur)
10.30 am - 11.00 am
High Tea
11.00am - 11.45am
Second Keynote Talk: Mr. M.S. Unnikrishnan (Managing Director and CEO - Thermax)
11.45am - 1.15pm
First Panel Discussion: Educating Mechanical Engineers: Are we doing the right things?
Panelists: Prof. Asim Tewari (IIT Bombay), Mr. Manmohan Soman (Head, Infrastructure Business, TCE), Prof. Sudipto Mukherjee (IIT Delhi), Prof. B. Ravi (IIT Bombay), Mr. Nikhil Kelkar (VP & GM, India R&D Operations, Siemens Industry Software Pvt. Ltd.). Moderator: Prof. Amol Gokhale (IIT Bombay, ex-Director DMRL)
1.15pm - 2.15pm
Lunch
2.15pm - 3.45pm
Invited Talks
(i) Prof. Jaywant Arakeri (IISc Bangalore)
(ii) Mr. Manmohan Soman (Head, Infrastructure Business, TCE)
3.45pm - 4.00pm
Tea break
4.00pm - 5.30pm
Second Panel Discussion: Are the industrial expectations fulfilled by today's Engineers?
Panelists: Dr. Anurag Kasyap (Technology Manager - Corporate Research, Eaton), Mr. Kamlesh Pande (Founder MAITRI), Mr. A. Ramchandani (Executive Vice President, L&T Defence), Prof. Shashikanth Suryanarayanan (IIT Bombay), Dr. Aniruddha Pant (Founder & CEO, AlgoAnalytics). Moderator: Prof. M.D. Atrey (IIT Bombay)
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Tea along with Posters from PhD students
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Dinner @ Gulmohar lawns
9.00 am - 9.45am
Third Keynote Talk: Prof. Sarit Das (Director - IIT Ropar)
9.45am - 10.30am
Fourth Keynote Talk: Mr. Rajendra Petkar (CTO, Tata Motors)
10.30am - 11.00am
Tea break
11.00am - 12.00pm
Invited Talks
(i) Prof. K. Murlidhar (IIT Kanpur)
(ii) Prof. Sudipto Mukherjee (IIT Delhi)
12.00pm - 1.15pm
Third Panel Discussion: PhDs in Industry, Academics, Laboratories.
Panelists: Prof. Manish Joglekar (IIT Roorkee). Dr. Amit Dixit (SEDEMAC), Dr. Mukesh Goyal (BARC). Moderator: Prof. B.P. Puranik (Head, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay)
1.15 pm onwards
Lunch along with Posters from PhD students
2.15pm - 3.00pm
Valedictory function followed by laboratory visits