IIM ATM and NMA 2021 awardees’ felicitated
Jamshedpur, July 29: The Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), Jamshedpur Chapter organised a function on July 28, 2022 to felicitate all the awardees who are associated with this chapter of IIM and have received prestigious awards at the IIM ATM and NMA function. The function was conducted in an online platform.
Dr A N Bhagat, Head Surface Engineering Research Group, Tata Steel and Chairperson, IIM Jamshedpur Chapter delivered the welcome address.
This was followed by virtual felicitation of the awardees. The professionals who received awards in different categories are: Sudhansu Pathak, ex Tata Steel recipient of IIM Fellowship, Dr Debashish Bhattacharjee, VP (T&NMB), Tata Steel recipient of IIM TATA GOLD MEDAL, Ravindra Sangwai, Chief LD#3 and TSCR, Tata Steel recipient of IIM MECON AWARD, Dr Pratik Swarup Dash, Tata Steel recipient of Certificate of Excellence (R&D in Iron & Steel Sector), Dr Chiradeep Ghosh, Tata Steel recipient of IIM Certificate of Honour, Ashutosh Ghosh, Baldwin School, Jamshedpur recipient of BPMME2021 elocution contest, Aditya Sarda, Tata Steel recipient of P K DAS GUPTA AWARD for best oral presentation in ATM in ‘Ferrous Process Metallurgy’ category, Dr Sanjay Agarwal, CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur recipient of P K DAS GUPTA AWARD for best oral presentation in ATM in ‘Non-Ferrous’ category, Shaik Mahaboob Basha, Tata Steel recipient of ATM oral presentation award, Boina Sagar, Tata Steel recipient of ATM oral presentation award, Dr Sanjay Agarwal, CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur recipient of ATM oral presentation award, Ved Prakash, Tata Steel recipient of ATM oral presentation award, Uma Sankar Sahoo, Tata Steel recipient of ATM Poster Presentation Award, Ujjwal Chandrakant Chaudhari, Tata Steel recipient of ATM Poster Presentation Award, Ved Vineet, Tata Steel recipient of ATM Poster Presentation Award, Vandana Kumari, Tata Steel recipient of ATM Poster Presentation Award, Prabhash Gokarn, Tata Steel recipient of ATM Poster Presentation Award, Pratyush Ranjan Samantaray, Tata Steel recipient of ATM Poster Presentation Award, E Zachariah Chacko, Tata Steel recipient of ATM Poster Presentation Award, Binesh Shaw, Tata Steel recipient of ATM Poster Presentation Award, Santanu Pahari, CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur recipient of ATM Metallography Contest Award, Priyanka Pandey, Tata Steel recipient of ATM Metallography Contest Award, Dhirendra Prasad, Tata Steel recipient of M S Khan Memorial Award.
Dr Sandip Ghosh Chowdhury, Chief Scientist CSIR-NML and Vice Chairman of IIM, Jamshedpur Chapter introduced Professor Indranil Manna, Vice Chancellor, BIT Mesra and the speaker of M S Khan Memorial Lecture. Every year this memorial lecture is arranged on the same day of the felicitation function.
Professor Manna delivered a lecture on ‘Laser Assisted Additive Manufacturing’. In his lecture he talked about the advantages and the limitations of the process. This particular technology is already established with many success stories. This has a good future potential as well. The overall scope, novelty and precision in additive manufacturing are emerging with time. However, new manufacturing base with time sharing job shops; material with desired composition, size and morphology are needed. He concluded his talk by saying ‘Opportunities galore, imagination is the limit’.
At the end of the talk, a brief question and answer session saw good response from the audience. The emcee Anushri Nag thanked Professor Manna for his talk and handed over a memento to him.
Dr A N Bhagat, Chairperson of this chapter introduced the Guest of Honour of the evening Dr. Indranil Chattoraj, director CSIR-NML. He delivered a short speech, and a memento was presented to him as a mark of gratitude for honouring the occasion with his presence.
More than 100 people attended the lecture. The program was concluded with vote of thanks by Dr Chiradeep Ghosh, Secretary of IIM, Jamshedpur Chapter.
