Awards & Honours

Members of the faculty and students of the Department have won numerous accolades, both national and international, over the years, in acknowledgement of their research and development work. The following gives a list of recent awards and honours earned by them.

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR FACULTY

AWARD/FELLOWSHIP

RECIPIENTS

Indian National Science Academy Fellowship (FNA)

R. Narasimhan

Pradip Dutta

Indian Academy of Sciences Fellowship (FASc)

R. Narasimhan

Pradip Dutta

Jaywant Arakeri

National Academy of Sciences (India) Fellowship (FNASc) Pradip Dutta
Indian Academy of Engineering Fellowship (FNAE)

R. Narasimhan

Pradip Dutta

Ashitava Ghosal

Jaywant Arakeri

G.K. Ananthasuresh

Saptarshi Basu

ASME Fellowship

Pradip Dutta

Saptarshi Basu

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize

R. Narasimhan

G.K. Ananthasuresh

JC Bose National Fellowship

R. Narasimhan

Pradip Dutta

Abdul Kalam National Fellowship G.K. Ananthasuresh
DST Swarna Jayanti Fellowship

G.K. Ananthasuresh

Saptarshi Basu

VASVIK Industrial Research Award Pradip Dutta
OTHER RECOGNITION FOR FACULTY

FACULTY

AWARD/FELLOWSHIP

R. Narasimhan

Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Madras

Pradip Dutta

Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Kharagpur

Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Madras

INAE Outstanding Teacher Award

Namrata Gundiah

Ramanujan Fellowship
Constance Tipper silver medal, International Conference on Fracture – World Academy of Structural Integrity, 2013

Satish V. Kailas

INAE Young Engineer Award

R. V. Ravikrishna

INAE Young Engineer Award

Gaurav Tomar

INAE Young Engineer Award

Saptarshi Basu

K.N. Seetharamu Medal and Prize, ISHMT
Associate Fellowship, AIAA
Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology

Pramod Kumar

Most Multidisciplinary Approach award in DARPA/ONR
Field-Reversible Thermal Connector (RevCon) Challenge, 2015

RECENT RECOGNITION FOR STUDENTS

STUDENT

FACULTY

AWARDS/HONOURS

Diptimayee Samantaray

Pradip Dutta

Young Metallurgist of the Year 2014, conferred by the Indian Institute of Metals

Ajay Kumar Prajapati

Satish V. Kailas

Best Paper award at the 2nd National Tribology Conference, Bangalore, India, 2014

Safvan Palathingal
Darshan Sarojini
Anirudh Katti

G.K. Ananthasuresh

Best Application Paper award at the 2nd International and 17th National Conference
on Machines and Mechanisms, Kanpur,
India, 2015

Darshan Sarojin
T.J. Lassche
J.L. Herder

G.K. Ananthasuresh

Best Application Paper award at the 14th World Congress in Mechanism and Machine Science, Taipei, Taiwan, 2015

Anish Roychowdhury
Kunal D. Patil
Arup Nandy

C.S. Jog
G.K Ananthasuresh

Best Paper award at the International Conference on Computational Mechanics (ICCM 2015), Auckland, New Zealand, 2015

Anirudh Katti
Shanthanu Chakravarthy

G.K. Ananthasuresh

Finalist for Best Paper award at the TrC-IFToMM Symposium, Izmir, Turkey, 2015

Shamnath Hampali
Anoosha Pai

G.K. Ananthasuresh

Best Mechanism Design at iNaCoMM Mechanism Design, BARC, Mumbai, 2017

R. Harisankar
Chaitanya Karwa

G.K. Ananthasuresh

Second Prize, ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Design Contest, Charlotte, North Carolina 2016

Darshan Sarojini
Akshay Varik
Anirudh Katti

G.K. Ananthasuresh

Best Impact Simulation for Product Design, Innovative Design Simulation Challenge, ASME, Buffalo, New York, 2014

Santosh D.B. Bhargav

G.K. Ananthasuresh

Third prize in Mechanism Design Contest (graduate category)  at the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2013.

Santosh D.B. Bhargav

G.K. Ananthasuresh

Best Paper Award at the National Conference on Mechanisms and Machines (NaCoMM-13), Roorkee, India, 2013

Safvan Palathingal
Varun Maithra

G.K. Ananthasuresh

Best Paper Award at 5th Asian Mechanism and Machine Science Conference, Bengaluru, 2018

Prosenjit Das

Pradip Dutta

CSIR Young Scientist Award 2017 in Engineering Sciences

P.S. Suvin

Satish V. Kailas

Best Poster Presentation award at International Conference on Industrial Tribology, Kolkata, 2017

Anbukkarasi Rajendran

Satish V. Kailas

Best Paper award at International Congress -2017 of the Interantional Institute of Welding (IIW-IC), Chennai, 2017

Omkar Hegde

Saptarshi Basu

Best Paper award at the 12th International Conference on Complex Fluids and Soft Matter, IIT Roorkee, 2018

Sourav Mitra

Pradip Dutta
Pramod Kumar

Winner in Academics Category of National Instruments Graphical System Design (NIGSD) Achievement Awards, 2013

Sagar Khivsara

Pradip Dutta

Professor Roland W. Lewis award for Best Post-Graduate Student Presentation at
5th International Conference on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems, Bangalore, India, 2018

Sagar Khivsara

Pradip Dutta

Malaviya Award for Best Paper published on ‘ceramic science and technology’ in Transactions of the Indian Ceramic Society during 2016-2017