Honors and Awards

HONORS

1. Advanced Training: Visited Philips Almelo, The Netherlands from 27th June to 3rd July 1993 for Training on PC-APD Software of X-Ray Diffraction.

2. DAAD Fellow: Visited Germany elaborate under CSIR- DAAD Exchange of Scientists Programme from May 1, 1995 to June 30, 1995.

3. Member of Bilateral Exchange Program: Visited Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan from October 21 - November 7, 1997 under Bilateral Project on Precision Forging and Technology to Manufacture Near Net Shape Parts.

4. Member Bilateral Exchange Program: Visited Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan from October 23 - November 7, 1999 under Bilateral Project on Precision Forging and Technology to Manufacture Near Net Shape Parts.

5. Visiting Faculty: Visited Materials Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA as a Visiting Faculty in March - July, 2001.

6. Visited AOTS, Osaka, Japan during 1-14 June 2005 to attend a training programme on New Product Design For India – Design Management.

7. Visited MP inter consulting, Le Locle, Switzerland during 29 June-06 July 2009 to attend an advanced training and program on Ultrasonically Assisted aluminium Processing.

8. Visited Germany (IFAM, Dresden, HZ Berlin and GKSS Geesthacht, Hamburg), during 4-10, July, 2010 for interaction Meeting on Lightweight Metallic Materials.

9. Visiting Faculty in MSME Department, MANIT, Bhopal, 2009-2010

10 Busan Korea: Attended 7th International conf. on Porous Metals and Metallic Foams held at BEXCO, Busan, Korea during 18-21 September, 2011 and presented an Invited talk on Compressive deformation on behavior of Al foam

11. Chairperson Indian Institute of Metals, Bhopal Chapter (2011-16).

AWARDS

1. Awarded in the Metallographic contest held during the 43rd Annual Technical Meeting of The Indian Institute of Metals at Calcutta in November 14-17, 1989.

2. Awarded in the Metallographic contest held during the 45th Annual Technical Meeting of The Indian Institute of Metals at Ranchi in November 14-17, 1991

3. Awarded during National Conference of Industrial Tribology’ 1995 for Best Paper Presentation in applied science category being held at New Delhi from 22nd to 25th January, 1995.

4. Best single publication award for the paper titled “Correlation of Abrasive Wear with Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Pressure Die Cast Aluminium Hard Particle Composite”, S. Das, D.P. Mondal and G. Dixit,Metallurgical and Materials Transaction, Vol. 32A, No. 3 (2001) pp. 633-642,initiated by the laboratory for the year 2002. The award was presented by H.E.The Governor of M.P., Dr. Bhai Mahavir during CSIR Diamond Jubilee and Foundation Day Celebration.

5. Best single publication award for the paper titled “Correlation of Abrasive Wear with Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Pressure Die Cast Aluminium Hard Particle Composite”, S. Das, D.P. Mondal and G. Dixit, Metallurgical and Materials Transaction, Vol. 32A, No. 3 (2001) pp. 633-642, initiated by the laboratory for the year 2002. The award was presented by H.E. The Governor of M.P., Dr. Bhai Mahavir during CSIR Diamond Jubilee and Foundation Day Celebration.

6. Best single publication award for the paper titled “High Stress Abrasive Wear Mechanism of LM13- SiC Composite under Varying Experimental Conditions”, S. Das, D.P. Mondal, S. Sawla and S. Dixit, Metallurgical & Materials Transactions A, Vol. 33A (2002), pp. 3031-3044, initiated by the laboratory for the year 2002. The award was presented by Professor P. Ramachandra Rao, Vice Chancellor, BHU, Varanasi during CSIR Foundation Day Celebration on September 26, 2003 at RRL, Bhopal.

7. Received ‘Metallurgist of the Year – 2003’ award, constituted by the Ministry of Steel,during National Metallurgists’ Day celebration held at Science City, Kolkata on November 14, 2003 for his outstanding contribution in the areas of Metallurgy and Material Science with a special emphasis to the ‘Development of Metal Matrix Composites’. The award was given by Shri B.K. Tripathy, Honorable Minister of State for Steel (Independent Charge), Govt. of India

8. Best Initiative Project Award for the project Simulation Assisted Development of Aluminium Metal Foam through Liquid Metallurgy Route for Engineering Applications initiated by the laboratory for the year 2003. The award was presented by Dr. G. Singh, Director CIAE, and Bhopal during CSIR Foundation Day Celebration on September 26, 2004 at RRL, Bhopal.

9. Best Cell Performance Award for the cell activity Publication and Publicity initiated b9y the laboratory for the year 2003. The award was presented by Dr. G. Singh, Director CIAE, and Bhopal during CSIR Foundation Day Celebration on September 26, 2004 at RRL, Bhopal.

10. Award for the best completed project on 26 September, 2006-07, project title “Simulation Assisted Development of Al-Metal Foam through Liquid Metallurgy Route for Engineering Applications”.

11. Received ‘Award for the Best Paper 2007-08’ for “On the moduli of closed cell aluminum foam” during CSIR Foundation Day Celebration on September 26, 2008.

12. Received ‘Award for the Best Initiated Project 2007-08’ for “Demonstration of competence to develop Automobile components using EMF process” during CSIR Foundation Day Celebration on September 26, 2008

13. Received Binani Gold Medal for adjudging best paper titled “Microstructure and mechanical properties of Al alloy and Al alloy-SiCp composite foam. S.Sawla, S. Das, D.P. Mondal, N. Ramakrishnan, Transactions of IIM, Vol. 60, No.5, October 2007, pp.495-504” under Non ferrous group by Indian Institute of Metal. The medal was presented during NMD/ATM-2008 held in India Expo Centre, Greater Noida.