VEL
TECH Dr.RR & Dr.SR TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Avadi, Chennai is
organizing the second edition of International Conference on Innovative Design,
Analysis and Development Practices in Aerospace & Automotive Engineering (IDAD
2016) during 22 - 24 FEB 2016. IDAD was inaugurated by the Chief Guest - Mr.
Olivier LUCAS, Director of Future Systems, MBDA Missile Systems and delivered
inaugural address. He elaborated the various Activities of MBDA and various
Technologies developed / adopted at MBDA. Emphasized the Importance of Art of
Innovation and Collaboration
Dr.Philippe ARHETS,
Counsellor for Science and Technology, French Embassy in India was an Invited
Guest and received the first copy of the souvenir on behalf of the French
Embassy in India. During his address he emphasized the collaborative activities
between India and France. He also highlighted and appreciated the achievement
of Vel Tech towards French Collaboration.
During the Inauguration, Cooperation
Agreement between MBDA Missiles Systems, France and Vel Tech Dr.RR & Dr.SR
Technical University was also signed. Both these organizations were closely working
for the past five years and every year more than 15 students are undertaking
project with the Guidance of MBDA. This agreement was signed for the following
areas of cooperation.
- Contribution from MBDA employees to
academic education of Vel Tech students.
- Commonly monitored graduation
projects, both at UG & PG levels.
- Commonly monitored PhD thesis.
- Contribution from MBDA employees to
Conferences at Vel Tech.
Prof.Beela Satyanarayana, Vice Chancellor welcomed the gathering.
Dr.U.Chandrasekha, Pro Vice Chancellor gave an overview of I-DAD 2016. Mrs.R
Mahalakshmi Kishore, Chairperson and Managing Trustee delivered Special
Address. Col.Prof.Dr.Rangarajan, Founder Chancellor & President presided
over the functions. Mrs.Sakunthala Rangarajan ,Vice Chairman was also present.
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| I DAD-2016 |
I-DAD is scheduled with 3
Plenary Sessions, 13 Key Note Talk and 2 Invited Talks with 54 Contributed
papers. World class scientists and researchers such as Dr V. Balasubramanian
(Simpson &Co, India), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Scholz (Hamburg University of
Applied Sciences, Germany), Dr.-Ing. Eckhardt Schneider (Fraunhofer IZFP,
Germany), Dr. N. Eswara Prasad (DMSRDE,DRDO, India), Mr. François Falempin
(MBDA, France), Prof. Jean Marie CASTELAIN (INSA Centre Val de Loire, France),
Dr. D. K. Kharat (Director, ARDE, Pune), Dr.P.A. Lakshmi Narayanan (Simpson
&Co, India), Prof.Lanzhu Zhang (East China University of Science and
Technology, China), Prof. Lung-Jieh Yang (Tamkang University,Taiwan), Dr.R.
Mahadevan (India Pistons Ltd, India), Prof. Philippe Devinant (POLYTECH ORLEANS
– University of Orléans, France), Prof.Dr. Shan-Tung Tu (East China University
of Science and Technology, China), Dr. Shankar Venugopal (Cummins India Ltd,
India), Dr. Sutthiphong "Spot" Srigrarom (University of Glasgow,
Singapore) will be addressing in different sessions.
In addition to the above
talks, Papers from various renowned orgaisations such as INSA-France, Hamburg
University of Applied Sciences-Germany, National Ilan University-Taiwan and
research organization from India like DRDO-CVRDE, DRDO-VRDE, ISRO, CSIR-NAL,
IITM, IITB, IITkgp, IIT Mandi, MIT Manipal etc., will also be presented.
The conference aims to
address the issues of collaboration involving academia – industry - R&D
labs.
Proceedings of the
conference will be published by the Springer as Lecture Notes of Mechanical
Engineering.
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| VISAI 2016 |
VISAI 2016, the 6th
International Project Competition and Exhibition is being Organised in
parallel. More than 120 projects representing various Institutions across the
Country are taking part. Prof. Jean Marie CASTELAIN (INSA Centre Val de Loire,
France) Inaugurated the Event and Released the souvenir. More than INR 1,00,000
worth of cash prize to be awarded. Team of Experts representing Research
Organisations and Industry are evaluating the Projects.
