Achievements | Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Dr. A. O. Surendranathan

Institution of Engineers (India) Gold Medal in 1980 for becoming all India first in A.M.I.E. (Metallurgical Engineering) Examination.
Prof. J. Balachandra Best Paper Award in the area of corrosion science for the year 1996.
Second Prize for oral presentation in Environment Sciences Group at the 58^th Annual Technical Meeting of the Indian Institute of Metals held at Thiruvananthapuram in November 2004.
'The Best Paper Award’ at the Golden Jubilee Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (AIM ENGG 2011).

Dr. Anandhan Srinivasan

Gold medallist in both B.Sc. and M.Sc.
2 Indian patents.
3 Overseas research fellowships.
Won project grant under DST fast track scheme.
Editorial board member by invitation: International Journal of Energy Engineering, Hong Kong.

Dr. Jagannatha Nayak

National Merit Scholarship for meritorious performance in Class X in the year 1980.
SMIORE gold medal for securing 1 rank in B.E. (Metallurgical Engineering) in the year 1987.
Excellent paper award for the paper, “2 The Effect of Protective Coatings on the Oxidation Behavior of 6061Al/SiC Composite at High Temperatures” authored by S.Rajasekaran, in the Session No-12 of International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Technology-ICMST 2011, Singapore.
Best paper Award for the paper “Corrosion In hibition of 6061Al-15 V% SiC(p) Composite in Hydrochloric acid (Using Pyridinium salts of 1,3-Thiadiazole-2,5-dithioland1,2,4- Triazole-3,5-dithiol)”,at 13th National Congress on Corrosion Control (NCCI) NMD,Mangalore,12-14October 2006.

Dr. K. Narayan Prabhu

National Metallurgists Day Young Metallurgists’ Award by the Ministry of Steel, Government of India, 1993.
BOYSCAST Visiting Fellow and Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Birmingham (1996-1997) and UMIST, Manchester (1998-2000).
Sir C.V. Raman Young Scientist Award in Engineering Science 2001 by the Government of Karnataka, India, February 2003.
DST-The Royal Society Visiting Scientist Award at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) in Materials Processing, University of Birmingham, UK, 2005.
Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Cast Metals Research, Maney Publishers, UK.

Dr. M. R. Rahman

Dr. Ravishankar K.S.

Best technical paper award for the paper “Austempered ductile iron for high strength and high fracture toughness”, “International Foundry Research” during Feb-2010.

Dr. Shashi Bhushan Arya

Direct-Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) from Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) New Delhi , 2003-2008.
Best poster Award from International Symposium on ‘Advanced Stainless Steels’ 2007, Chennai
Travel grants (500 $) award from The Electrochemical Society, New Jersey USA.
Best poster Award from NMD-ATM 2009, Indian Institute Metal (IIM) Kolkota.
Best poster Award from CORCON 2013, New Delhi.
Best oral presentation Award from NMD-ATM 2013, Varanasi

Dr. Sreeram Krishnamoorthy Kalpathy

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota 2011
S. Anantharamakrishnan Memorial Award for academic excellence in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (Dual Degree), IIT Madras 2007.

Introduced Super-Solidus Processing of Single crystal Superalloys.
S.R. Hegde, N. Chalasani, Submerged combustion burner and melter, and method of use,International patent applied for Johns Manville Corporation -2013.
S. R. Hegde, “Submerged Combustion Burners” – International patent applied for Johns Manville Corporation-2013.

Mekala Ramu (12MT22)

Manthan- As a team coordinator Contributed towards solving a critical National challenge is highly appreciated by Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi
MAPATHON- TOP contributor of Google Mapathon2013 contest made maps for India even better and mapped almost all places in NITK.Awarded by Google vice President Jen Pitzpatrick.
Google Trusted Photographer.
Founder of 'Myphototalks' which is a photo story telling platform has followers of more than million from all over the world.
Contributor to NatGeo

Rahul Singh (12MT39)

Youngest speaker/presenter (18 yrs. old) at “Construkt Festival”, a start-up festival held in Bangalore from March 20-23^rd, 2014.
Co-Founded an E-Commerce start up www.booksonhire.in with a presence in 15 Mangalore colleges.
Finalist at Ventura’14, an international business plan competition with more than 1000 participating teams.
My team was amongst the top three business pitches at Campus Spark (2013).
Recipient of overall rolling trophy at iCUBE, a science fair held at Deeksha Learning Center in 2010.
Recipient of the “Scientific Inclination” award at my 10^th grade graduation in 2010.
Many of my articles are frequently published on various online and offline platforms. You can find a few of my articles here. http://singhrahulthakur.webs.com/
My ad received the "Most voted Ad-Film” award at IAFA (Iceplex Ad Film Awards), an all India ad film making competition. Went on a fully paid trip to Sri Lanka to direct an ad film for Sri Lanka Tourism.

Sl No.	Name	Year	Higher Degree	University/Institution
1	Deepak Nayak	2004	MBA	SP Jain Centre of Management
2	Kripal Pais	2006	MBA	Indian School of Business Hyderabad
3	Deepak	2006	M.A, M.Phil.	University of Hyderabad.
4	Ashutosh Srivastava	2008	M.S.	Stanford University
5	Saranya Canchi	2008	Doctoral Prog.	University of Florida.
6	Anoop Kini	2009	MS	IISc Bangalore
7	Anurag Nandwana	2009	M. Tech.	IIT Kanpur
8	Sudhir Pawaskar	2009	M. Tech.	IIT Madrass
9	Suhani Ramamurthy	2009	M.S.	University of Florida, Gainesville
10	Anmol Sharma	2010	Double MS	University of Sweden, University of Stuttgart
11	Badari Narayana A R	2010	PhD	IISc
12	Amoghavarsha M	2010	D. Phill.	University of Oxford, UK
13	Sourabh Khan	2010	PGDBM	XLRI Jamshedpur
14	Bonny Dongre	2011	MS	Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany
15	Ayush Kumar	2011	PGDM	IMT Ghaziabad
16	Vinay Kumar Thakur	2013	M. Tech.	IIT Kanpur
17	Devdas Bhat P	2013	M. Tech.	IIT Madras