THE OUTSTANDING ALUMNUS AWARD FOR 2023

The MIT Chromepet campus of Anna University, founded in 1949 by Sri C Rajam, is a unique Institution that carved a niche for itself in unconventional engineering courses. During the centenary birth year of the Founder Sri C. Rajam in 1982, MITAA instituted the scheme of presenting the annual endowment lecture and an award for the Outstanding Alumnus in his memory. MITAA has the pleasure of honouring Mr. D. Ravichandran, an alumnus from the 26th batch of Instrumentation Technology, with the Outstanding Alumnus Award of the year 2023.

Mr. D. Ravichandran did his B.Sc in Physics from St. Josephs College in 1974 and got his DMIT (Instrumentation) from MIT in 1977. He hails from Trichy.

He started his career with BHEL Hyderabad and was there for 16 years handling Power Plant Projects in the Project Engineering Dept. as Head of Instrumentation & Control. He executed Gas Turbine Power Plant Control & Automation. For the next 15 years, he was with Invensys Control (Foxboro), Singapore, as a Senior Project Manager, handling Asia Pacific Power Plant Projects.

Next 3 years he worked with Fichtner India as G.M- Projects handling Power and Infrastructure Projects. He was the M.D of IMEC Engineering Pvt. Ltd Chennai till 2014, executed 2nos of 5 MW Solar Power Plants in Telangana.

From 2014, he is into Specialist Consultancy for Power Plant clients in automation area. During his career, he has managed many automation projects across the globe for clients in USA, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hongkong, Japan, Australia, Middle East, UK, and India.

He is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from Project Management Institute, USA. He is also a MBTI Accreditor (for conducting personality analysis in Leadership Development Programs).

He is one of the founding Patrons of Singapore MIT Alumni Chapter (SMITAA) and he was the president of SMITAA from 1999 – 2002. Under his leadership, the activities of SMITAA have grown into a full-fledged chapter having various activities like scholarship program for MIT students, family get togethers, hosting elite personalities from MIT, periodic publishing of SMITAAZINE magazine etc.

He is a serious practitioner of Simplified Kundalini Yoga (SKY). He and his wife are teachers of SKY meditations of Vedathri Maharishi Guru (Vaazhga Valamudan). His only daughter is in USA with her family.

MITAA takes great pleasure in honouring Mr. D. Ravichandran with the Outstanding Alumnus award for the year 2023 and wishes him good health and a very peaceful life ahead.