#IP 1078 20-26 May 2013

Appointment of New Advisers

Dr Girija Gopalaratnam, Chief Scientist and Head, FMCD has been nominated  as the Adviser-Management and Administration.

Dr Rakesh Mohan Jha, Chief Scientist and Head, CEM has been nominated as Adviser-Works and Services.

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Best Poster Award

A poster titled ‘Preparation and electrochemical characterization of Mn-Mo oxyanion pore-filled oxide layers on aerospace aluminium alloy’ by G Yoganandan  and  J N Balaraju from SED, NAL has been adjudged as the best poster in the International Conference and Exhibition on Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering 2013 (HT&SE 2013) during 16-18 May 2013 at Chennai Trade Centre.

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#IP 1077 13 - 19 May 2013

Congratulations to our colleagues on their promotion to Chief Scientist

Dr C Anandan, SED
Dr G N Dayananda, CSMST
Dr. Harish Barshilia, SED
Dr. M Manjuprasad, STTD
Dr Prasanta Kumar Panda, MT
Dr. Vidyadhar Y Mudkavi, CTFD
Shri M S Kamaleshaiah, C-CADD
Shri S Ravishankar, C-CADD

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CSIR received the  National Intellectual Property Awards 2013

CSIR has been selected for  the prestigious National Intellectual Property Awards 2013 in the category of Top R&D institution in Patents.  Prof. S.K. Brahmachari, DG, CSIR along with Dr. Sudeep Kumar, Head, PPD & Director, (CO) received this Award on behalf of CSIR researchers and students on April 26, 2013 at CII organized event in New Delhi.

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#IP 1076 6 - 12 May 2013

Mr C M Ananda, Ph.D

Mr C M Ananda, Deputy Head, ALD has received Ph.D in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from VTU, Belgaum for the thesis titled “A novel metric based reconfiguration algorithm for improved availability of avionics application. ''

Congratulations!! Sir.

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Mr  R. Venkatesh  selected as an Assessor  IPMA, Switzerland

Mr Venkatesh,  Principal Scientist, KTMD has been selected   as an Assessor by the International Project Management Association (IPMA), Switzerland.  IPMA is the World’s first project management association founded in Switzerland, Europe in 1965. This is the only global federal PM organisation comprising over 55 Member Associations (MAs) across five continents – Europe, Africa, Asia, America and Australia. IPMA is the leading authority on competent project, programme and portfolio management (PPPM). Through its efforts, PM best practice is widely known and appropriately applied at all levels of public and private sector organizations. As an Assessor  IPMA , during 2013-14 Mr. Venkatesh along with foreign experts will be assessing the mega engineering project  for the Project Management Excellence.

 Congratulations !!  Venkatesh

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Mr V P S Naidu’s distinction

Mr V P S Naidu, Principal Scientist, FMCD has been elected as a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Kolkata.
Congratulations!! Mr Naidu.

 

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Adieu

TEAM NAL wishes our colleagues a very happy, healthy and productive life after superannuation on 30 April 2013.

Shri Varadarajan M.N, PR 
Shri Chandrashekarappa E. Bhavi, CAD
Smt Manimekalai B, NTF
Shri Rajappa C, PR