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News and Events #IP 918 26 Apr - 2 May 2010 TOT(Transfer of Technology) Document on Jaguar Nose Radome Fabrication handed over to HAL NAL indigenously designed, developed and fabricated a composite nose radome for the Fire Control Radar of Jaguar Maritime Aircraft for HAL, Bangalore, end user being IAF. In continuation to the development of 11 no. nose radomes, a request was made by HAL – Overhaul Division for transfer of technology of the Jaguar Nose Radome fabrication. The TOT document was officially handed over to HAL by Director, NAL on 16th April 2010 at a small function held at Director’s Conference Hall. NAL had undertaken this project with FRP Division as a nodal point and coordinating the overall activities with interdivisional participation by CEM Lab., ALD, Structural Technologies Division, CTFD and Engineering Services Division. HAL supported the fabrication and supply of all metallic parts, inserts and structural static tests. CABS supported in lightning protection tests. LRDE, CATF-ISRO and IAI – Elta, Isreal for EM tests. The vibration test was carried out at STTD, NAL. The radome had gone through a systematic development right from structural design, fabrication, full qualification tests, including flight tests and ATP tests on all production radomes. It is a variable thickness, nose thick and base thin design radome. An inhouse developed closed mould resin injection technology has been used in fabrication of the radome. The composite radome is protected with anti-static / anti rain erosion paint subjected to qualification tests, viz., EM, lightning protection, static loading, vibration and rain erosion tests in presence of CRI. From the HAL side, Wg. Cdr. MP Benjamin , DGM, Overhaul Division received the TOT documents and mentioned that it was an auspicious day for both HAL and NAL. He stated that HAL is accepting technology transfer for the first time and expressed it as a honour to take the TOT document to HAL on behalf of their GM Mr. KG Subramony. In the light of IAF planning to deploy around 50 Jaguar aircrafts to its fleet with fire control radars, it is apt that this technology transfer of indigenously developed nose radome from NAL to HAL is befitting. Wg. Cdr. Benjamin stated that tentatively the first radome of the 50 nos. should be ready by June 2011. He also assured that once the mirage aircrafts get inducted and serve the IAF, HAL may come back to NAL for indigenising its radome. Director, NAL congratulated the team for the successful execution of a national project leading to a technology transfer by CSIR-NAL to a Public Sector and in turn to the nations defence sector – the IAF. Shri DV Venkatasubramanyam, Head, FRPD also spelt a word of appreciation to all those involved in this project and some of them who had superannuated to name a few Shri SK Veluswamy, Shri Ranganath Rao, Shri Sathyanarayan of HAL, Dr. S Christopher of LRDE, Dr. RMVGK Rao, Dr. S Viswanath, Shri C Chandrashekar and Shri Dwarakanath of NAL, Shri Majeed and Shri VL Raja of CRI-CEMILAC whose contributions need to be mentioned on this occasion. The event was graced by Dr. Ranjan Moothithaya, Head, KTMD and team, Head, CTFD & team, Head, CEM Lab., ALD, Head, Engineering Services Division and the FRP team. It was a moment of pride to NAL as it also marked yet another milestone on the map of CSIR-NAL’s achievements. The Jaguar Nose Radome Project team thanked the Director, NAL, on this occasion. Shylaja Srihari
Dr Girija Gopalratnam, Deputy Head, FMCD was nominated for Women of distinctive vocation award by Rotary club, Bangalore Downtown. She received the award on 23 April 2010 from Ms Jija Madhavan Harisingh, IPS, DGP & Commandant General Home Guards and Director, Civil Defence and Fire & Emergency Services, Karnataka.
#IP 917 19 - 25 Apr 2010 Dr B R Ambedkar Birthday celebrations at NAL - 2010 “It is the education which is the right weapon to cut the social slavery and it is the education which will enlighten the downtrodden masses to come up and gain social status, economic betterment and political freedom.” - Bharath Ratna Dr B R Ambedkar As we all entered the SR Valluri auditorium, each one of us were greeted with beautiful and colourful flowers. The day’s function commenced with a warm welcome by Ms. Gomathy Sankaran, followed by the invocation by Ms Navaneetha, Dr. Sandhya Rao and Ms Revathi. Dr. R Rajendran, President SC/ST Employees Welfare Association, NAL formally invited our Director, Dr. A R Upadhya, honorable chief guest Prof. B Hanumaiah, Vice Chancellor, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, and introduced the chief guest to the audience. Knowledge removes ignorance just as light removes darkness. Also knowledge is a lasting inner wealth through which all outer achievements can be accomplished. Hence, we light the lamp to bow down to knowledge as the greatest forms of of all wealth. All the dignitaries on the dais lit the ceremonial lamp and Prof. B Hanumaiah delivered the 17th Dr. B R Ambedkar Birthday Lecture on “Dr. Ambedkar’s Vision of Women Empowerment”. He started speaking in kannada, greeting everyone and thanking Dr. AR Upadhya, Director for his invitation and recalled the success of the ‘National Conference on Scientific Achievements of SC/ST Scientists and Technologists’ (NCSCST-09), which was held last year as part of NAL’s Golden Jubilee Celebration at NAL (14 – 16 April, 2009). Prof. B Hanumaiah in his lecture highlighted that Dr. B R Ambedkar was not only the father of Indian Constitution, he was a freedom fighter, political leader, philosopher, thinker, writer, economist, editor, and a revivalist for Buddhism in India. Dr. Ambedkar was a “Pioneer of Women rights”, he argued for extensive economic and social rights for women. He mentioned that women should be given all round development importantly social education, their well being and socio-cultural right. He emphasised that each and every section of Indian women be given their due share and it is a must to maintain and protect dignity and modest of women. He also said that it is the need of the hour to give due share to each and every section of Indian women and believed that without removing social-stigma, no progress or development can be achieved. Prof. B Hanumaiah concluded saying that everyone should understand the principles and ideologies of Dr. Ambedkar and try to follow them. Ms. Rama Mahadev said that every women should make her position by her own efforts, behaviour and demand what she rightly considers her dues. She even highlighted the point that if you educate a woman, it is like educating the whole family. Dr. A R Upadhya, in his presidential remarks emphasized that the reservation policy should reach the people who really deserve it, and who have been struggling from centuries. He also mentioned that those who have gained the benefits of reservation should work for such development and which in turn should reach the society. Prof. B Hanumaiah distributed awards to meritorious SC/ST students and congratulated them. The function concluded with a vote of thanks proposed by Mr R Veerapathiran, Liaison Officer, SC/ST, NAL. All the meritorious students visited various lab’s of NAL on 20 – 21st April 2010 and were shown the scientific and research activities going on at NAL. List of meritorious students Master H S Harshith S/o Shri D M Sriramappa -----100/100 Kum R Veena D/o Shri R Ramachandar ----- 99/100 Master M G Vivek S/o Shri K Gururaj ----- 99/100 Master H M Anket S/o Shri H S Marathe ----- 99/100 Master Nikhil R Chavan S/o Shri Roopsingh Chavan ----- 99/100 Master M Ujwal S/o Shri Manjunath Shetty ----- 99/100 Kum B VidyalakshmiD/o Shri Kunhanna B Naik -----98/100 Master K S Akash S/o Shri A K Selvaraj ----- 98/100 Kum M Pooja D/o Shri Mariswamy ----- 97/100 Master L Kiran S/o Shri M Lokanath, TO, NTAF, NWTC, Belur ----- 95/100 Master Y Revanth S/o Shri Y Lakshmikanthaiah, TO, NTAF ----- 78/100 Navaneetha and R Rajendran
Visit of Prof. A. Pistek, Director, and Prof J. Juracka, Dy Director, IAE, BUT, Brno, Czech Republic to CSIR - NAL Prof. A. Pistek and Prof. J. Juracka visited CSIR-NAL during 10th to 13th April 2010. The visit on the invitation of CSIR was to explore the possible cooperation with CSIR-NAL in various disciplines in Aeronautical Engineering. Director made a brief presentation of the activities at CSIR-NAL to the visitors. He further stated the cooperation can be either collaborative type in areas of mutual instant or involving the use of specialized technology from either side. Prof. Pistek appreciated the multifarious activities of CSIR-NAL and expressed their interest in cooperation in particular in areas like: aero elasticity, certification issues, fatigue studies, damage tolerance, structural optimization, finite element analysis etc. Prof. Pistek and Prof. Juracka also had discussions with senior scientists of the lab during their visit to the various divisions and facilities. The talks paved way for some good interaction with scientists. The meeting ended with Prof.Pistek indicating his satisfaction of his visit to CSIR-NAL and hoped to establish a fruitful cooperation. Dr A R Upadhya was the Guest of Honour at his alma mater Dr A R Upadhya, Director, NAL was invited as a guest of honour for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations and Alumini Day celebrations at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College, Udupi (his alma mater). He inaugurated the Science Museum at the college on 14 March 2010, and interacted with the staff and students. He wished all success to the college. NAL Exhibition Team participated in the Science exhibition held at the MGM College, Udupi on 12-14 March 2010. NAL technologies and aircraft models were displayed during the event. #IP 916 12 -18 Apr 2010 Dr. Biren Roy Trust Award for the year 2009 The Aeronautical Society of India confers awards annually to professionals in various aeronautical fields. Dr. Biren Roy Trust award is one such award instituted by Dr. Biren Roy Trust, Kolkata in the year 1983. It is to recognize outstanding contribution in the field of design, development, maintenance, operation, training, manufacturing and allied areas of aviation and space. The award for the year 2009, has been given to the team of NAL scientists consisting of Dr.G.N. Dayananda, Mr.G.M. Kamalakannan and Mr. J. Ramaswamy Setty in recognition of their contribution to the design, development and indigenization of the state-of- the art autoclave process control equipments, required for manufacturing advanced composites for the countries major national aircraft programmes such as the light Combat Aircraft (LCA) and SARAS. The awards were given at 61st AGM on 10th April, 2010 in Bangalore. .
Congratulations to the team.
Prof P M Majumdar, IIT Bombay has won the Aerospace Education Award.
NALFOQA gets appreciation from DGCA Hqrs NAL's Flight Quality Assurance (NALFOQA) can monitor the flight performance of aircraft and has been used by Air India, Alliance Air and DGCA for over a decade. This software monitors the flight performance of aircraft and alert airlines about the quality of their flight operations.
This is to bring to book the appreciation from this office for detailed and dedicated work carried out by your team. I wish a great success for NAL to further enhance the system related to flight recorders. Congratulations to the NALFOQA team. #IP 915 5 - 11 Apr 2010 NAL Scientist's invited talk at Mistral solutions on Women’s day – 8th March 2010 I was invited to Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, on airport road, to give a talk on the occasion of the celebration of the International Women’ day (IWD) on 8th March 2010. IWD is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women. Mistral is a CMMi Level 3 appraised, premier product realization company which provides end-to-end services for product design and development in the embedded space. Since I happen to work in the embedded field, I felt it was a very appropriate place to be. I was given some choice for the topics & I chose to speak on ‘Tips on work life balance”. It was a very nice experience and for the first time I was giving a talk on a general topic. I gave a brief introduction about NAL & then went on with the topic. It was well received & there were about 50 women employees from various streams (Engineering, HR, MBA, admin, testing, Marketing etc.). I observed that the Notice Board was replete with the photos & small write up of achievements of all great women achievers of India. Also the history of How/why Women's day celebration started was posted there. I gathered that the management had sent a rose & a chocolate box to each women employee on the morning of 8th March. A celebration in style. The memento was a book by Subroto Bagchi titled "The Professional". I felt very happy & honoured to. It was & will be a memorable day for me. A brief write up of the gist of presentation made is give below; Work life balance may be defined as meaningful daily Achievement and Enjoyment in each of the four quadrants of one’s life i.e. Work, Family, Friends and Self. For this an individual needs to examine the four stages of the work/life balance process & they are, Self-Assessment, Exploration, Implementation & Evaluation. One need to reflect on personal skills, values, interests and priorities. One has to list out goals that match the information gained in the first stage. Personal definition of success should be clear. One should have goals in areas of life like faith, family, friends, finances, fitness, fun, future career development, and finally further learning. Clear strategic action plans helps in achieving goals on a weekly, monthly and annual basis. The goals must be specific, measurable, action-oriented, realistic and time-sensitive. During the Evaluation stage one must determine what went right/wrong and why. For many working mothers, the work life balance is one of life’s greatest challenges. So how does a woman balance work with family?. There’s no easy answer to this question that impacts countless women, but here are some suggestions
Hence the keyword is “BALANCE” and for achieving it one should a) Find the right balance that works b)Celebrate successes & not dwell on failures. c) Live simply, expect less & give more. D) not be a perfectionist. E) Work to live & not live to work In summary, Life is a process, and so is striving for balance in one’s life. Ms. Shashikala prakash
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This has the reference of this office having procured the subject system of software
for your office to assist flight safety activities in DGCA, HQ. After this supply and installation, on the demand from this office a detailed validation exercise has been carried out by NAL to match the decoded engineering data from flight recorders of various airlines with referred reference values. This exercise involves a large scope of work with at time manually calculating the values with standard techniques.
