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News and Events #IP 875, 29 June - 5 July 2009 Lecture on Intellectual Property Rights Mrs. Uma Parameswaran, CEO of SciTech Patent Art, Hyderabad spoke on “Patent information as a tool for research and business” at KTMD seminar Hall on June 23, 2009. Mr. VASANT PILARE welcomed the audience by highlighting the essence of IPR protection and purpose of patent landscape. Dr. M. N Sathyanarayana introduced the speaker to audience in his lucid style. During the lecture, speaker pointed out the importance of patent documents and patent information for orienting our research and development projects to keep the pace with the developments happening in the technology. Speaker urged the audience to refer the patent documents as it contains more than 80 % of latest information in form of patent publications. Lecture was very useful as speaker had addressed the following topic during the presentation:
Lecture was well attended by NAL staff particularly Research and Development Scientist, Technical officers of NAL. Lecture was blessed with gracious presence of Dr.Ranjan Moodithaya, Head KTMD and Dr. D.V. Venkatasubramanyam. Mr. Vasant Pilare proposed the vote of thanks. Vasant Pilare Congratulations to our Director Our director Dr A R Upadhya has been granted extension for a period of two years beyond August 2009. TEAM NAL congratulates you Sir. New heads for ICAST and ESD Dr Poornima Narayan is nominated as Head and Mr U M Siddhalingaiah as Deputy Head of Information Centre for Aerospace and Technology (ICAST) . Mr S Ravishankar of C-CADD Division is the new Head of Engineering Services Division. Mr Ravishankar will also continue with his current responsibilities as Scientist and Assistant Project Director at C-CADD. Mr K V Narayanan is the Deputy Head of Engineering Services Division M.S.Chidananda to continue as Programme Director, Civil Aviation Programmes at NAL Mr M.S.Chidananda, will continue as Head, C-CADD, NAL and Director, Civil Aviation Programmes for a further period of two years beyond the age of 62 years on 30.06.2009. #IP 874, 21 - 28 June 2009 Twenty Third Annual General Meeting of Indian Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering (ISAMPE) Indian Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering (ISAMPE), dedicated to the promotion of Materials and Process Technology in this country was founded in September 1985, with the aim of bringing together Scientists, Engineers, Academicians, Industrialists and private entrepreneurs of the Materials and Processing community to a common platform to promote the materials and process technology in this Country. The twenty third AGM of ISAMPE was held on 12th June 2009 at NAL. It is also to be noted that 2009-10 will be the silver jubilee year of ISAMPE and NAL being the home for ISAMPE continues to support ISAMPE in its endeavors. The Chief Guest, Shri P.S.Subramanyam, Director ADA Bangalore, delivered the keynote address, “On role of Composites in the Light Combat Aircraft (Tejas) Programme of ADA”. He expressed happiness over the composites development or the TEJAS programme and felt that the country needs to continue to forge ahead with newer innovations. The Vijay Zaveri Memorial Lecture was delivered by Shri Pramod Rastogi, Chief Manager, CMD, HAL Bangalore on “Trends in Composite Manufacturing”. He gave a bird’s eye view on the low cost manufacturing techniques. Dr A R Upadhya Director NAL Bangalore presided over the function and addressed the gathering. He complemented ISAMPE for successfully carrying forward the vision of its founder President, late Prof AK Rao. He felt that composites was on firm grounds and ISAMPE should try and foster other newer areas like nano technology, smart composites and the like. Dr S Sridhara Murthy chaired the technical session with the theme on Advances in processing technologies. Three eminent personalities delivered the talks. Dr Satish V Kailas, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Science, on “Friction Stir Welding”, Mr. A Udayakumar, Scientist, Materials Science Division, National Aerospace Laboratories on “Monolithic and Composite based Ceramic Products for Aerospace Applications” and Mr M S Velpari, Chief Manager (Development), F&F Division, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bangalore on “An Overview of Advanced Manufacturing Processes in Forging, Casting and Powder Metallurgy Components”. All the talks were exhilarating and had the audience in rapt attention which was followed by long deliberations. Ramesh Sundaram NAL Staff Club Won Team Event Champions Trophy
NAL Staff Club participated in the Indian Express Challenge Corporate Carrom Tournament organized by Victory Events. The following staff ( Srinivasa, Ramachandra, Dr PSR Murthy, Ravindra, Sadashiva and Sarvanan) represented and won the team event champions trophy. Mr V Srinivasa won the second prize and Mr Ramachandra placed third in the Singles event, the tournament was organized on 20th June 2009 at Malleswaram Association. NAL congratulates all the participants. Srinivasa #IP 873, 14 - 20 June 2009 Mar 8 International Women's Day has assumed a new dimension for women. It’s the time to reflect on progress made and celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history. At NAL we invited Ms Flavia Agnes a Legal scholar, Feminist Activist, Women’s Rights Lawyer and Writer to deliver the the Women’s Day lecture on 15 June 2009. Ms Flavia Agnes has been actively involved in the women’s movement for the last two decades. She has written extensively on issues of domestic violence, feminist jurisprudence and minority rights. Currently she co-ordinates the legal centre of MAJLIS. Ms Flavia Agnes spoke on Women and Legal Rights. Ms Agnes kept the audience rapt in attention with a passionate lecture that came straight from her heart. Ms. Agnes started her speech narrating the landmark Mathura case that sparked the Indian Women’s movement. She elaborated on the origins of the modern women’s movement in India. Then she went on to another issue of concern the violence against women and dowry deaths. She said although dowry was legally prohibited in 1961, it remains a strong institution. When the dowry amount is considered insufficient or is not forthcoming, the bride is often harassed, abused and made miserable. This abuse can escalate to the point where the husband or his family burns the bride. She narrated another true life story of Rakhmabai a victim of child marriage who personified the credibility of resistance refusing to go to her husband. Ms Agnes candidly confessed about her own difficult beginning. She was a victim of domestic violence herself, and her path breaking story demonstrates her immense strength and belief in herself. Her autobiography-‘‘My Story, Our Story ...of Rebuilding Broken Lives”, is a pioneering work on domestic violence that provides crucial insights into the dilemmas faced by victims of domestic violence. Her dedication, passion and courage have made her the success story that she is today. Ms Flavia Agnes distributed prizes to two girl children of NAL employees for excelling in the field of academics. Giri Raj and Shailaja Menon
K Suryanarain Rau Memorial Award ISAMPE “K Suryanarain Rau Memorial Award for Smart Technology Development-2009” was presented to Shri Nitesh Gupta and Dr Ramesh Sundaram, Advanced Composite Division,National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore for “Development of Fiber Optic Flow Sensor Technology for Manufacture of Composite Structures using the Vacuum Enhanced Resin Infusion Technology (VERITy) Process.”
#IP 871, 1- 7 June 2009 A trinity of events at SNIST Aerofest 2009, NAL’s outreach programme, reached out beyond the boundaries of Karnataka to hold exhibition and knowledge exchange workshop at Srinidhi Institute of Science and Technology (SNIST), Hyderabad. It turned out, in reality, that this culiminated in a trinity of events. SNIST runs two sets of courses. One set offers traditional engineering courses while another set of courses are organized as a joint effort between SNIST and Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, New York, offering courses in Airport Management, Airline Management and Avionics. The degree is offered by Vaughn College. On morning of 18 May 2009, the events were kick started with an intense inauguration. It was intense because young Prof. Sastry aged only 75 was fully charged up and called more than ten dignitories to the dias, each one introduced in a unique way. The intensity was felt all through the event. The students never seemed to stop clapping. NAL’s exhibition was formally inaugurated by Dr Vijay Saraswat, CC(R &D) and opened to the student community. The rest of the day a series of seminars were held by SNIST and Vaughn College on India Aviation - Opportunities and Challenges. On 19th, NAL organized one day seminar whose format closely resembled those conducted at NITK Surathkal in 2008 and PARK College, Coimbatore in 2009. Dr. Ranjan Moodithaya spoke in place of Director and gave an overview of NAL’s capabilities and its golden journey through last 50 years. Dr. Subir Bhaumik captured the imagination of the students by his lecture on failure analysis in the context of aerospace activities. I spoke on flight aerodynamics while Dr. Manjunath recounted the structural integrity activities. Mr. Sampath Rao, NTAF spoke on wind tunnel testing and Mr. Pashilkar deliberated on flight mechanics aspects. Ms. Anjana Jain spoke on materials aspects. Towards the end of the day, Dr. J. S. Mathur, CTFD, spoke on the Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) initiatives of NAL. Incidentally, NAL’s MAV team demonstrated the MAV flights at regular intervals throughout the day. On behalf of Dr. B. R. Pai, I spoke on Aerosports which seemed to interest young audience quite a bit. Dr. M. R. Nayak did a splendid job by chairing the entire event. Not to be left behind, Dr. Sathyanarayana proposed vote of thanks with very innovative choice of words. The NAL exhibition team outdid themselves this time. Several exhibits including the full scale fatigue test model were brought by Giriraj and his team. The exhibits looked even more impressive in the grand ambience of SNIST. Carefully prepared full length posters standing more than 6 feet tall and totalling 50 in number made an excellent impression. The exhibition also included continuous video displays on plasma screens. The exhibition was visited by students of SNIST, Vaughn and other engineering colleges and schools. The exhibition and MAV flight demonstrations continued on 20 May 2009 as well. Around 750 students took part in the programme. Prizes were distributed to the winners of the aeroquiz. Of course, the event had been planned well ahead by C. V. Giriraj. His team responded extremely well. The support from SNIST was more than we asked for. Dr. Narasimha Murthy, Principal, SNIST, was full of energy and provided every possible assistance and ensured smooth functioning of three events that took place over three days. Though NAL golden jubilee celebrations are drawing to a close, the Aerofest reach out programme will only end by September with two more events to be conducted in northern part of Karnataka. I am certain that NAL has made an excellent impression on young minds through this programme. Vidyadhar Y Mudkavi Recent issues of NAL Information Pasteboard Prev To
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