1 st Oct 2014

Vol .2 , Issue 1 , 10Pgs.

R&D NEWS

On the completion of the fruitful and exciting on year of the R&D newsletter, I am glad to foreword its 1st issue of the 2nd volume. . R&D newsletter has been serving as platform to share your research centric achievements with colleagues where feedback can be helpful to enhance your R&D spectrum.

In last few years, R&D in UPES is actively convoluted with variety of research domains ranging from basic science to applied and industry oriented research. The development and advancement of the performance, capability and functionality of material, devices, fuels and architectures well beyond what can be achieved with conventional research has been one the motives for R&D @UPES. R&D has recorded exceptional growth in terms of publications and funding from several national and international bodies.

It is highly and essentially important to maintain the quality of research in order to match with global standard and develop UPES as truly nation building university. More weight must be put on reproducible unique research ideas for rapid technical progress and reputation. We must put our best foot forward for assessing the originality and accurate referencing of related published work with the support from R&D@ UPES. It is my firm belief that UPES has potential and caliber to deliver to become an exemplary research and innovation led university.

R&D award ceremony and retreat of this year has provided an excellent path to connect, create and collaborate. The efforts of editorial board of newsletter are highly appreciated to work tirelessly to assemble all the relevant information as R&D news. I wish all the success to our research community to glow their R&D landscape during the next quarter.

Dr. S J Chopra, Chancellor, UPES (Patron-R&D Newsletter) •23 Research

Publications •7 Submitted

Proposals •3 Major

Events •3 New Funded

Projects •Key Open

Research Calls

Inside this issue:

C3 Research Awards 2

Agro Conference 2

Civil Dept. Activities 3

Elec. Dept. Activities 3

COES & COMES Pubs. 4

COLS Publications 5

Annual R&D Retreat 5

LEADHER-First Visit 6

DST Funded Projects 6

RM & PF Workshop 6

NE Workshop 7

Distinguished Lecture 7

Journal Club - CEER 8

Journal Club - NSNT 8

Journal Club - CRI 8

Alumni Achievement 9

New R&D Seed Project 9

Submitted Proposals 9

Open Research Pos. 10

New Research Calls 10

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EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor in Chief Dr. Sanket Goel

Associate Editor Dr. Jitendra K. Pandey

Production Editor Mr. Venkateswaran PS

R&D Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 1 October 2014 Edition

Foreword from the Chancellor

As food inflation and hoarding of essential agricultural items continue to haunt government and common people, academicians, researchers, entrepreneurs, consultants and administrators chose to deliberate on this and many other burning issues on a common platform titled ‘Agro Supply Chain Conference’ (ASCC -2014) held at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) on the 22

nd of August 2014. Eminent speakers

and industry experts like Dr. BS Negi, Mission Director, National Horticulture Mission, Uttarakhand, Mr. Vijay Sardana, Co-chairman, Agri Business Committee, PHDCCI and Mr. Varun , AGM SIDBI shared the dais along with practitioners and planners. The Chief Guest of the conference Mr. Shavin Bansal deliberated on Issues and Challenges on Agro Supply Chain emphasizing the growing need for deliberating Financial, Technical, Marketing and Logistics & Supply Chain Issues. Conference Chairs, Dr. Sumeet Gupta and Dr. Neeraj Anand thanked the sponsors of the conference namely NABARD and National Horticulture Mission who provided interdisciplinary forum to policy planner, regulators, professionals, academicians, researchers, entrepreneurs, consultants & administrators for dissemination of vital information. Various speakers and delegates from organizations like Anand Agricultural University, HPU Shimla, Ministry of Communication, National Institute of Agricultural Marketing, Jaipur, Rajasthan, Uttrakhand Technical University-Dehradun, DLF, UTM , Shillong, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India, Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited, etc. attended the conference and presented their research papers to the wider audience.

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Agro Supply Chain Conference (ASCC-2014) – 22nd August 2014

C3 Annual Research Awards 2014 – 5th September 2014

To salute and recognize such work, the R&D team @UPES initiated an Annual Award Event C3 2014 on the 5th of September (Friday) 2014- Teacher’s Day. These awards were aimed at stimulating the spirit of research culture among the scientific, management and technical community in order to recognize the resourceful talent which could be harnessed to benefit the research growth of the organization.

A Felicitation with a token of appreciation on the occasion of the UPES 10th Anniversary was given to Dr. Rajendra Dobhal, Director General, Uttarakhand Council for Science & Technology and Director, Uttarakhand Council for Science and Technology (UCOST); Sh. Pradeep Rana, Inspector, Uttarakhand Police Department & Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, IAS. Following this felicitation, Dr. Dobhal gave an intriguing talk on the various facets of Research and Development. His talk covered numerous real-life events and case studies. He also gave an insight about various books written by notable authors.

Dr. Sanket Goel, VP of R&D@UPES gave a short presentation on the R&D Achievements of the University during the Academic Year 2013-2014. Soon after this, Dr. Dobhal, Dr. S J Chopra and Dr. Shrihari gave away the awards for the Research Achievements. The awards were spread across three categories namely ‘Research publication Award’; ‘Sponsored Research Project Award’ & ‘Patent Application Award’.Certificates and Gift vouchers were awarded to the following members of the UPES fraternity for their contribution to the Research portfolio of the University.

Felicitation

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Award Winners

The Association of Civil Engineers Students from the Department of Civil Engineering had organized a Technical Event on the occasion of ‘Engineers Day’ – the 15th of September 2014. The event was jointly inaugurated by Prof. S.C. Gupta, Associate Dean (COES) and Dr. Vikas Garg (HOD of Civil Engineering Department). The Events were coordinated by Mr. Ravindra Shrivastava and other faculty members of Civil Engineering Department. Bob the builder, Mix Design Competition, Feel the Field, Machine Decoded & Logo Design were the names of the events. The event was aimed as an orientation to the students of Civil Engineering Department on the Construction Industry. The aim was to comprehend them on the prospects and challenges in the Civil Engineering domain.

Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering Department –

Current Happenings

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A Two-week Survey Camp was organized by the Civil Engineering Department to acquaint the students of their department on how an engineering plan is created. Dr. Vikas Garg (H.O.D of the Civil Engineering Department) and his team of faculty members took the students to Dalhousie for this purpose. During the 2 week period, students were given various tasks like producing plan details of a particular area and using this information for design and planning purposes. The training started intensively with students gathering data during the day followed by processing and plotting the data at night. The work plan for the day was given in the night and all the errors and deficiencies identified were corrected the following day. The Civil Engineering Department will conduct more such camps in the future. Those interested are encouraged to contact the Department Head.

Recent Activities in the Civil Engineering Department

A One-day workshop under the title ‘Electronic Design and Future Trends’ was organized by Mr. Sushabhan Choudhury (Head), Mr. Rajesh Singh, Mr. Vivek Koundal and Ms. Anita from the Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering Department on the 23rd of August 2014. The keynote speaker of the workshop was Prof. D.V.Gadre from the Electronics and Communication Engineering Division of the Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi. Faculty members and students from the EE, ADE, CSE and Robotics batches of Engineering attended the workshop. The workshop was inaugurated by Prof. Gadre using an electronic lamp. He spoke on the various projects that were demonstrated by the student clan and gave valuable insights on contemporary Microcontrollers and Embedded systems. He also gave an intriguing talk on the designing and fabrication of electronic projects in the college laboratory and the tools and processes required for the same.

The faculty members of the Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering Department organized an invited lecture from Mr. Yogesh Kalia of the Medhavi Centre for Automotive Research on the 20th of August 2014. Mr. Yogesh has worked in various organizations like BOSCH R&D-Bangalore, Siemens R&D in Toulouse-France, etc. and has a cumulative experience of 11 years. He delivered a distinguished lecture on ‘Introduction to Cutting Edge Automotive Electronics Technology’. He spoke on ‘Electronic Diesel Control – A Revolutionary Technology for Diesel Engines’. Faculty members and students from the EE, ADE, CSE and Robotics batches of Engineering attended the lecture.

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AUTHORS TITLE SOURCE TITLE

Karan Kapoor, Krishan K. Pandey, A.K. Jain, Ashish

Nandan Evolution of solar energy in India: A review

Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Reviews

Mukesh Kumar Awasthi Viscous correction for the viscous potential flow analysis of

Kelvin–Helmholtz instability of cylindrical flow with heat and mass transfer

International Journal of Heat and Mass

Transfer

Prabha K. Dasila, I.R. Choudhury, D.N. Saraf, V. Kagdiyal, S. Rajagopal, S.J.

Chopra

Estimation of FCC feed composition from routinely measured lab properties through ANN model

Fuel Processing Technology

Mukesh Kumar Awasthi Kelvin-Helmholtz instability with mass transfer through porous

media: Effect of irrotational viscous pressure Journal of

Hydrodynamics

Mohammed Yaqoot, Parag Diwan, Tara C. Kandpal

Solar lighting for street vendors in the city of Dehradun (India): A feasibility assessment with inputs from a survey

Energy for Sustainable

Development

Mukesh Kumar Awasthi Nonlinear Rayleigh–Taylor instability of cylindrical flow with

mass transfer through porous media

International Communications in

Heat and Mass Transfer

Kuldeep K. Agrawal, Suresh Jain, Arvind K. Jain, Sunil

Dahiya

A life cycle environmental impact assessment of natural gas combined cycle thermal power plant in Andhra Pradesh, India

Environmental Development

Pravin D. Kunte, Nitesh Jauhari, Utkarsh Mehrotra,

Mahender Kotha, Andrew S. Hursthouse, Alexandre S.

Gagnon

Multi-hazards coastal vulnerability assessment of Goa, India,

using geospatial techniques

Ocean & Coastal Management,

Gagan Anand, Piyush Kuchhal & P. Sarah

AC and DC Conductivity Studies on Lead Free Ceramics: Sr1−xCaxBi4Ti4O15 (X = 0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8)

Particulate Science and Technology

Vivek Rathore, Sudha Tyagi , Bharat Newalkar, and R. P.

Badoni

Glycerin free synthesis of Jatropha & pongamia Biodiesel in super critical Di methyl and Di ethyl carbonate

Industrial and Engineering

Chemistry Research

Vickram Sahai, Arvind Kumar Jain and P C Bahuguna

Bridging the gap – interpersonal communication orientation to improving customer service

Industrial and Commercial Training

Vickram Sahai and Arvind Kumar Jain

‘Respons’ible service quality Strategic HR Review

Sanket, Goel., Venkateswaran, P.S., Rahul,

Prajesh., Ajay, Agarwal

Rapid and Automated Measurement of Biofuel Blending using a Microfluidic Viscometer

Fuel

Stalin Kondaveeti, Sanjay Kumar, Meenakshi S. Ganesan and Arup K.

Siddhanta

Galactans of Gracilaria pudumadamensis (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta) of Indian Waters [In Press]

Natural Product Communications

Venkateswaran, P. S., Diwakar, Kashyap., Ajay, Agarwal. & Sanket, Goel

Computational Analysis of a Microfluidic Viscometer and its application in the Rapid and Automated Measurement of Biodiesel Blending under Pressure Driven Flow [In Press]

Journal of Computational and

Theoretical Nanoscience

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Research Publications (From COES and CMES - July 2014 Onwards)* *Only Scopus-Indexed publications are considered here. Abstract and Full Article (subscription bases) can be downloaded from hyperlinks.

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AUTHORS TITLE SOURCE DETAIL

Sreejith, S.G. Epistemology of Legal Leftism: An Ontological Critique Journal of Indian

Law

Rajkumar N

Guest Editorial UPES Law Review

Rajkumar Governance of Shale Gas in India: Issues and Challenges International Energy Law

Review

Nayak, Anuradha Himadri and the Global Politics of Melting Ice: India’s Arctic

Presence and the March towards Global Governance Y.B. Polar Law

Kumar, Sampath K.P. Regulatory Measures for Achieving Zero Flaring and

Venting in the Oil & Gas Industry UPES SPE

Kumar, Sampath K.P. Health, Safety and Environment in the Oil & Gas Industry: A

Techno-Legal Perspective

UPES Management

Review

Bohra, Saroj Women Empowerment: An Exposition of Panchayati Raj

and Laws Reservation for Women RGNLU Law

Review

Bali, Sujata The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace

(Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill, 2012: Some Critical Observations

Himalayan Journal of Contemporary

Research

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Research Publications (From COLS - July 2014 Onwards)

R&D Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 1 October 2014 Edition

The R&D department, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies (UPES) organized the Annual R&D Retreat 2014 encompassing all the R&D activities of the University. A total of more than 70 participants from the various in-house Research Centers, Research Institutes and Departments of COES, COMES and COLS had attended the retreat. The various Research Heads, Investigators of the Sponsored Projects, Department Heads and College heads attended the retreat. The retreat was organized at the ‘Four Points by Sheraton’, Dehradun. Four prominent and outstanding researchers namely Dr. R K Malhotra (Immediate Ex-Chairman-IOCL), Prof. Prakash Sarangi (Professor of Political Science at University of Hyderabad), Dr. R. P Badhoni (Distinguished Professor, Chemical Engineering, COES @ UPES) and Dr. Pokriyal (Head of the Department of Oil and Gas, COMES @ UPES) presented their keynote talks during this day covering various facets of R&D. Four team-building activities namely ‘Ice Breaking Baseball’, ‘Caterpillar Race’, ‘Coordinated Race’ and ‘The Bridge’ were organized by Ms. Tanushree Sharma (Assistant Professor in HR and OB, COMES @ UPES) and her student team. Cadbury awards were given to the winning teams of the team-building activities. The Retreat saw its closing after a trifling session of Light Music and Dinner.

Annual R&D Retreat 2014 - 6th September 2014

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First Learning Visit from Ghana - LEADHER Project – July 2014

DST Sponsored Research Projects

R&D Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 1 October 2014 Edition

As a part of the first learning visit within the LEADHER program; the team from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana visited UPES, Dehradun between 13th July to 20th July 2014. The two visitors were Prof Ahmad Addo, Director, The Energy Center, KNUST and Dr. Emmanuel Wendsongre RAMDE, Chairman, KNUST. The research team visited the 3 Kw water mill nearby the campus (a project assisted by UREDA and owned by a local individual). Later on, the delegation was taken to the UREDA Energy Park to showcase a wide range of renewable energy technology applications for village and urban households. The visitors were also taken to a 3 MW Galogi Hydro-plant near Mussoorie. The energy experts from KNUST and UPES visited various research projects on SPV, CSP applications and Biomass-Solar hybrid system at the National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE), Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Gurgaon. UPES had also arranged a visit to TERI’s Gwalpahari campus to introduce the delegation with the Biomass Gasification technologies and efforts made by TERI in the field of gasification. Finally, the group of both collaborating institutions flew to Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India to visit the SPV installations of Abellon Group of companies. This helped both sides of the party to understand the possible collaborative opportunities in the areas of Nanomaterials for PV, Solar-Hydrogen using electrolysis, Biofuels and Energy Efficiency.

The Department of Science and Technology under the Cognitive Science Research Initiative (CSRI) grants a research project titled “Development of Knowledge-based Tutoring system for seismic data interpretation using visual and analytical tools integrated intelligent tutoring” for the period of 3 years to Dr. Neelu Jyothi Ahuja (Head-Computing Research Institute).

The Department of Science and Technology (DST) grants a research project titled “Micro-fluidic Lab-on-a-chip Sensor to Detect and Monitor Viscosities for a Variety of Biochemical Applications’ to Dr. Sanket Goel (Vice President -R&D at UPES, Dehradun) and Dr. Ajay Agarwal (Principle Scientist at CSIR-CEERI, Pilani) worth 70 Lakhs INR for a period of 2 years.

Workshop on RM & Plagiarism Free Research – 9th to 11th Sept. 2014

The workshop on Research Methodology and Plagiarism free Research was organized by the Department of Aerospace Engineering for all the M.Tech students of the First and Second year and a few B.Tech Final year students of COES. This workshop was held at the Vivekananda Auditorium of UPES. The event was aimed to educate students on Research Methodology, Research Paper Writing, Conference and Journal Publications, Thesis Writing at Masters Levels. Prof. S K Gupta (Chemical Engineering), Dr. Sanket Goel (VP R & D), Dr. Shrihari (Campus Director), Dr.Ugur Guven (Professor-Aerospace Engineering), Dr. Om Prakash (HOD-Aerospace Engineering) and Dr. Gurunadh Velidi (Faculty-Aerospace Engineering) were the keynoter speakers.

R&D Department and Computing Research Institute (CRI) - research centre, organized the visit of Dr. B.K. Gairola, Mission Director (e-Governance), Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY)) and Member Secretary, National Innovation Council on 28th July, 2014. Dr. Gairola delivered a distinguished lecture on ‘ICT for masses, ICT indigenization and Research Opportunities available with e-Governance’ to the faculty members and students from the Computer Science Department of UPES.

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Distinguished Lecture by Dr. B K Gairola – 28th July 2014

Workshop on ‘Challenges and Opportunities in North East

Region’ – 12th September 2014

The North East Excellence Group (UNEEG) at UPES is a multidisciplinary group of researchers of University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun working in the area of development energy, infrastructure and transportation of the North Eastern Region. On Sat, 12

th September 2014, NEEG

organized a Workshop on ‘Challenge and Opportunities in North East Region (NER)’ at Bidholi Campus, UPES, Dehradun. The workshop was inaugurated by our Chief Guest Mr. A.M. Singh. Dr. S.J. Chopra presented the welcome address for the Chief Guest of the event. Mr. Arvind Mohan Singh gave an interactive talk on Infrastructure Development in NER. He threw light on the various schemes which the central government has introduced long time back for the up-liftment of the North East Region. He shared his concern about the slow and tardy implementation of the projects due to which the region suffered a lot.

Dr K S Misra shared his expertise on how a model for integrated remote sensing for planning road network in Uttarakhand, can be replicated in the NER of India. Mr. M V Kishore presented on Road Alignment and Road Construction in North Eastern Region based on his recent visit to Nagaland. Dr. Hiranmoy Roy spoke about Education in North Eastern Region. His main focus was ‘Potential of Higher Education’ in NER. Dr Alka Dwivedi presented a talk on Public Community Participation: A Model for NER, through a case study on Sagar islands wherein through community participation electricity for all was ensured via standalone generation methods using renewable energy.

The workshop was concluded with an idea to develop proposals for the development of NER in the most desired sector i.e. EIT sector. Dr. Sanket Goel delivered the Vote of Thanks and reiterated NEEG’s commitment to contribute in the economic development of NER especially in the EIT sector through conducting research studies, by organizing capacity building, training program and skill enhancement programs for various stakeholders such as students, local residents etc. Total 18 faculty members and 25 North East students participated in the workshop.

Dr. Jitendra K. Pandey-AVP-R&D@UPES delivered an exciting talk on “Natural Nanoparticles: Opportunities and Challenges" on the 20th of Sept, 2014. The seminar was organized by Dr. Amit K. Chawla (Head-NSNT) and supported by R&D under its research club activities. The audience comprised of faculty members and students from various branches of COES, UPES. Dr. Pandey helped the audience to understand the role of Nature in everyday Science and encompassed the usage of nature’s intellects into producing materials and systems which can not only replicate the same process but with more efficiency and better output.

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Journal Club Seminar’s from the Institute of Nanoscience and

Nanotechnology

Dr. Kingshuk Srivastava, Dept of CIT, gave a scintillating delivered a talk on "Big Data & Analytics" on 16th Sept, 2014. The seminar was organized by CRI (Computing Research Institute) and supported by R&D under its research club activities. Organizing team comprised of Dr. Neelu J. Ahuja, Dr. P.S.V.S.Sridhar and Dr. Hanumat Sastry. The lecture initiated with the introduction to ‘Big Data’ elaborating its extent expanding in current times, emphasizing its importance and the reasons to analyze it. Tools to manage it and the related approaches were introduced. The significant role of Analytics in order to mine essential data components creating value for businesses was emphasized. Further the contemporary importance of social media analytics associated with voice and text analytics were overviewed.

Journal Club Seminar on ‘Big Data Analysis’- Computational

Research Institute

Dr. Satyapal Singh Rathore-Department of Physics offered an electrifying talk on “Magneto-electric effect in Langasite" on the 16th of August, 2014. The one-hour lecture saw many faculty members and students from the COES fraternity showing their interests and intention to work in this field.

Journal Club Seminar’s from the Centre for Energy Economics

Research

Center for Infrastructure and Project Finance Research (CIPF) and Centre of Energy Economic Research (CEER) had recently launched a Journal Club under ‘Knowledge Sharing Platform (KSP)’ for the faculty members & researchers who can discuss and deliberate on new/upcoming research areas or issues in the news or recently “published article”. The objective of this activity was to create an interdisciplinary research environment in College of Management and Economic Studies (CoMES), UPES. The first lecture was presented by Dr. Saurabh Tiwari on ‘Sustainable Supply Chain’ on the 30th of August, 2014. Topics such as ‘Profit vs Sustainability’, Cost involved in implementation of Sustainable Supply Chain in Large as well as SME and ‘Exploring opportunities to reduce the cost of s supply chain for SMEs’ were discussed. The second lecture in the series was delivered by Dr. Hiranmoy Roy on ‘Energy consumption and Human Development: Global and Indian Perspective’ on the 20th of September, 2014. This session was attended by 30 faculty members from CoMES. The group discussed on the various areas such as Energy Consumption Measurement, Endogeneity, Autocorrelation, and change in the Ranks of countries before and after etc.

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PROPOSAL TITLE AGENCY/

GRANT CALL INVESTIGATORS

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in India: Assessing Student Receptivity and Readiness

Indian Council of Social Science Research

Dr. Alka Dwivedi and Dr. Neelu Ahuja

Multi-Dimensional Impact of Globalization on the Life of a Doonite (A study from the perspective of an

inhabitant of Dehradun)

Indian Council of Social Science Research

Dr. Venugopal B.S., Dr. Vinita Singh,

Mr. Sam Babu K.C., Ms. Priya Misra,

Ms. Pooja Gautam

Design and Development of a Robot for Jatropha Harvesting

Uttarakhand Council for Science and

Technology

Mr. Rajesh Singh , Dr. P.K.Sahoo, Mr.Sushabhan Choudhury and

Ms. Anita

Design an Optimal Framework to Multiple Fruit Harvesting Intelligent Robot using Image Processing

and Microcontroller Control Methodology

Department of Information

Technology-GOI

Mr. Rajesh Singh , Dr. P.K.Sahoo, Mr.Sushabhan Choudhury and

Ms. Anita

Material, Methods and Technology in Oil Exploration and Exploitation

India-Japan Cooperative Science

Program (JCPS)

Dr. Sanket Goel, Dr. Shigemi Naganawa, Dr. Asuthosh Pandey, Dr.

Santosh Dubey and Dr.Jitendra K.Pandey

Study of Combustion and Emissions of Homogeneous Charged Compression Ignition (HCCI-

DI) Engine fuelled with Diesel and Ethanol

UK India Education and Research Initiatives

(UKERI)

Mr. Shyam Pandey, Dr. Mamdud Hossain, Dr. Jitendra K.Pandey and

Dr. S.S.Thipse

Development of Highly Efficient solid state perovskite-quantum-dots (PQD) sensitized solar cell

DST-Korea Science and Technology Co-operation Call

Dr. Jitendra K.Pandey, Dr. Sung Hoon Ahn,

Dr. Amit Chawla, Dr. Kamalpreet Kaur and Dr. Santosh Dubey

Freshly Submitted Research Proposals

TITLE DURATION INVESTIGATORs

Direct prototyping of Rapid and Automated Microfluidic Systems using a Commercial 3D Printer for a Variety of

Applications

July 2014 – June 2015

Dr. Jitendra K. Pandey and Mr. Venkateswaran PS

Newly Sanctioned R&D Seed Projects

Smiti Maini (Scientist Engineer in the Control Dynamics and Simulation Group at ISRO Satellite Centre) who is an Alumni of UPES from the first Aerospace Engineering batch of 2006-2010 was instrumental in the control system design, analysis and simulation of the Liquid Engine Burn in the Indian’s Mission on Mars-Mangalyan. She was also designed the Thruster Failure Detection, Isolation and Reconfiguration (Thruster FDIR) module for the autonomous functioning of the spacecraft without ground intervention. She was a proud part of the mission control team from the launch of the Mars Orbiter Mission on 5th November 2013 to the exciting Mars Orbit Insertion on 24th September 2014.

Alumni Achievement-Smiti Maini (Aerospace Department-UPES)

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Open Research Heads’ Positions

Grant Call Research Area Deadline

Indo- Ukraine Joint Research Programme

Biotechnology & Biomedical Sciences, Information & Communication Technologies, Nanotechnologies & New Materials, Energy & Energy Resources, High

Energy Physics & Astrophysics.

31st Oct 2014

Obama Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative

Energy, Climate Change & Environmental Studies; Education & Educational Reform; Public Health;

Sustainable Development & Community Development; International Relations & Strategic

Studies

3rd Nov 2014

Indo-Russian Joint Research Call

Mathematics, Mechanics and Informatics; Physics and Astronomy; Chemistry; Biology and Medical

Sciences; Earth Sciences; Telecommunications and Computer Sciences; Fundamental of Engineering

Sciences.

15th Nov 2014

DST and RCN Call for Proposals

Renewable energy (hydropower, solar energy, wind energy, bioenergy,); Environmental concerns of renewable energy production; Energy systems

(including smart grids)

26th Nov 2014

India-Israel Initiative for Industrial R&D Programme

(i4RD)

Affordable Healthcare , Energy Sector, Agro Sector, Water Sector, Information & Communication

Technology (ICT) and Telecom

19th Dec 2014

R&D Support in Earth and Atmospheric Science

Atmospheric Science, Earth System Science Technology, Geoscience, Hydrology & Cryosphere

and Ocean Science & Resources

Open Ended Call

DRDO Grant-in-aid Scheme Aerodynamics, Aerospace, Materials and

Manufacturing, Propulsion, Structures and Systems Engineering

Open Ended Call

Start-Up Research Grant (Young Scientists)

Any area in Engineering/Sciences Open Ended

Call For more information kindly click on the hyperlinks .

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