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THE DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARD FOR 2015
MIT, Chromepet campus of Anna University, founded in 1949 by Sri C Rajam, is a unique Institution and carved a niche for itself with pioneering ventures in unconventional engineering courses like Aeronautical engineering, Automobile engineering, Electronics engineering, Instrumentation Technology and subsequently adding Production Technology, Rubber and Plastic Technology, Information Technology and Computer Science and Engineering.
MITAA has the pleasure of honouring Dr. B. Sundar Rajan of electronics faculty, an alumnus from the 31st batch as the Distinguished Alumnus for the year 2015.
Dr. B. Sundar Rajan did his B.Sc. Mathematics at Madras University, later studied at MIT, Chromepet to get his B.Tech (Honors) degree in electronics engineering and passed out in 1982. He started his career as Lecturer with IIT Delhi in 1990 after his M.Tech and Ph.D. from IIT, Kanpur in the year 1984 and 1989, respectively. From one prestigious institute IIT, he moved on to most respectful education institute, IISc, Bangalore in the year 1997 as Associate Professor. From the year 2003, he is serving as Professor at IISc Bangalore. He took leave from May 2004 to July 2005 to take up a specific role as Distinguished Member of Research Staff at Beceem Communications Pvt Ltd, Bangalore for IEEE 802.16’s Task Group e, and co-authored many IEEE documents and patents.
During his service he has received innumerable recognitions and awards from IEEE (Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), IASc (Indian Academy of Science), INSA (Indian National Science Academy), IIT Roorkee, IISc Bangalore, NASI (National Academy of Sciences India, INAE (Indian National Academy of Engineering), IETE (Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering) and so on. He has membership with Professional societies like IEEE, IASc, INSA, NASI, INAE, AMS (American Mathematical Society). He also has been in Editorial board of several IEEE journals, He has been Technical Program Co-Chair (TPC) and speaker for many workshops and International conferences organized by IEEE. He has many patents granted (US). He has much more than what we listed here to his credit, which run into pages.
Dr. B. Sundar Rajan lives in Bangalore. His wife is Shree Devi Sundar Rajan and blessed with two daughters Malini and Roshni.
THE DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARD FOR 2014
MIT, Chromepet campus of Anna University, founded in 1949 by Sri C Rajam, is a unique Institution and carved a niche for itself with pioneering ventures in unconventional engineering courses like Aeronautical engineering, Automobile engineering, Electronics engineering, Instrumentation Technology and subsequently adding Production Technology, Rubber and Plastic Technology, Information Technology and Computer Science and Engineering.
MITAA has the pleasure of honouring Mrs. Hema Gopal of electronics faculty, an alumna from the 30th batch as the Distinguished Alumnus for the year 2014.
Mrs. Hema Gopal did her B.Sc. Mathematics at Madras University, later studied at MIT, Chromepet to get her B.Tech degree in electronics engineering and passed out in 1981. She started her career with TCS in 1985 after passing out M.S. Computer Science Post graduation at IIT, Madras. From one prestigious institute she moved on to most respectful business houses of India, the Tata Group. She joined their budding software house Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and over the last 29 years she has hinged her career to the growth of TCS considered as the jewel in the crown of Tata house. In TCS she has donned various roles in relationship management, delivery management, pre-sales, learning and development, technology excellence and other corporate responsibilities. She currently is the Vice President having responsibility as the Global head for IBM technologies. She has been in the media very often in recent times. She had been an active sports woman in her college days and has represented University in multiple sports.
She has many credits to her account. The Top women in IT by DATAQUEST for two consecutive years, Rajiv Gandhi National Quality award, Role model technical women by Anita Borg institute, California, USA. Role Model Leader in TCS in DAWN, Banker’s technology award, highly commended status from Financial Times, LONDON, UK, Share conferences, IOD ( Information on Demand) and many.
Mrs. Hema Gopal lives in Chennai. Her husband is a marine engineer. She has two lovely daughters and parents and in laws. She has family’s encouragement, which has been the corner stone for her achieving such dizzy heights in her profession. She likes cooking and spends quality time with her children. She also entertains her friends and colleagues during all religious festivals and enjoys being with others. She has been able to give her best to her profession ensuring good balance at the home front.
MITAA takes great pleasure in awarding her the Distinguished Alumna award for the year 2014 and wish her great success in all her future endeavors.
THE DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARD FOR 2013
MIT, Chromepet campus of Anna University, founded in 1949 by Sri C Rajam, is a unique Institution and carved a niche for itself with pioneering ventures in unconventional engineering courses like Aeronautical engineering, Automobile engineering, Electronics engineering, Instrumentation Technology and subsequently adding Production Technology, Rubber and Plastic Technology, Information Technology and Computer Science and Engineering.
MITAA has the pleasure of honouring Dr. K. Sivan of aeronautical faculty, an alumnus from the 29th batch as the Distinguished Alumnus for the year 2013.
Dr. K. Sivan did his B.Sc. at Madurai University with Mathematics as major subject, later studied at MIT, Chromepet to get his B.Tech degree in aeronautical engineering and passed out in 1980. He started his career with VSSC in 1982 after his Post graduation at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Later he pursued Phd at Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai and got his doctorate in the year 2006. He worked in PSLV Project up to 1994. His work included end-to-end mission planning, design, integration and analysis and he significantly contributed for building PSLV. Also he developed 6D simulation software, SITARA for simulation on all ISRO launch vehicles. From 1994 onwards he had been working in Mission Synthesis and Simulation Group (MSSG) and has built a world class state-of-the-art simulation facility in ISRO.
His area of specialization includes launch vehicle configuration and mission design, control and guidance design of launch vehicles, simulation and validation of NGC system and mission integration. Joined as engineer at ISRO, he soared to a position of Project Director GSLV and his current designation is Outstanding Scientist (OS). His awards include, “Shri Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr.Vikram Sarabhai Research Award” for the year 1999”, “ISRO Merit Award for the year 2007” and “Dr Biren Roy Space Science and/or Design Award” for the year 2010”
He has membership of National and International Professional Bodies as Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of Systems Society of India, Member, Aeronautical Society of India and Member, Astronautical Society of India. He has to his credit 40 Publications at National and International Level. His recent publication on ”A Low-Cost Orbiter Mission to Mars” was selected for publication in the International Journal, Acta Astronautica.
Dr. K. Sivan hails from Madurai and happily married to Srimathi Malathi post graduate in Tamil literature and they are blessed with two sons Master S. Sidarth studying in 12th standard and Master S. Sushanth studying in 9th Standard.
MITAA takes great pleasure in awarding him the Distinguished Alumnus award for the year 2013 and wish him great success in all his future endeavors.