Chief Minister Shri Oommen Chandy inaugurating the National Colloquium on Engineering Science, RIT, Pampady

March 7-9, 2013, RIT campus, Pampady, Kottayam
The aim of the program was to create awareness among engineering students on the emerging areas in engineering research and the role of basic sciences in solving problems in engineering research.

Prof R. Natarjan, Former Chainman AICTE and former Director IIT Madras interacting with the participants

List of Speakers


1. Prof. R. Natarjan, Former Chairman AICTE and former Director IIT Madras

The Nature and Scope of R& D


2. Mr G Vijayaraghavan, Founder CEO Technopark, Member Planning Board, Thiruvananthapuram.

Engineering Research, Incubation and Technology Transfer - TheTechnopark Story


3. Prof  A  Jayakrishnan,  Indian  Institute  of  Technology, Chennai


4. Prof V Radhakrishnan, Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram Innovative Research in Engineering


5. Prof Sanjay Mittal, IIT Kanpur

Using High Performance Computing for understanding fluid flows


6. Prof N Ravishankar, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore Mechanistic Understanding of nanocrystal nucleation and growth


7. Prof Sabu Thomas,  School  of  Pure  and  Applied  Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam

Engineering of Functional Materials from natural resources


8. Prof Shirshendu De, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur

Functional Polymeric Membranes and their Applications and cost effective technology for Arsenic Mitigation


9. Prof  Achutsankar S Nair,  Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram

A)    Is there an “Engineering Research Methodology”
B)    Research paper Critiquing


10. Prof  Binumol  Tom,   Rajiv   Gandhi   Institute   of Technology, Kottayam

Emerging Trends in Research, Management and Mentoring Construction Technology – towards a greener future


11. Prof G Vincent, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology,Kottayam

Unleashing the power of Power electronics