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NBA Accreditations 2020

Thapar Institute’s Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering programmes receive NBA Accreditation upto June 30, 2023.

ThapSat

Under the mentorship of Dr. A.S.Pillai (DRDO Chair, IIT-Chennai) and Dr. Prakash Gopalan (Director, TIET) a group of 30 under-graduate students (first year and second year B.E) and four faculty members started the ThapSat project. The project is fully funded by TIET with an approved budget of 3.5 Cr. ThapSat intends to pursue Pollution Monitoring in Punjab region to combat the smog using Micro/Nano-satellite with a dedicated payload using detector based Infra-Red camera.

3^rd Batch of TTFs (Thapar Trinity Fellows) gets trained at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

The third batch of faculty comprising of Dr. Tejinder Paul Singh, Professor MED, Dr Manmohan Chhibber, Professor SCBC & Dr Amanpreet Kaur, Assistant Professor, ECED visited Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Dublin, Ireland from January 13 to February 21, 2020, for attending Train-the-Trainer programme under contemporization initiative of the institute. The programme included three advanced modules on ‘Curriculum Development’, ‘Reflections’, and ‘Assessment Literacy’ which involved extensive classroom teaching & discussions, presentations and assignments. They also worked on designing a complete system of carrying out of Capstone projects including ‘Journey towards Capstone’ (pre-prepation), curriculum development, assessment components & rubrics and detailed procedure with control points.

MEET THE TTFs

Prof. Tejinder Paul Singh is presently working as Professor & Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Deemed to be University (TIET), Patiala. Professor Singh has 31 years of teaching and research experience and ten years of industrial experience. He joined Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology in 1988 and continued till August 2008. During this period, he occupied the positions of Professor & Head, Mechanical Engineering Department, Head Central Workshop, Dean Academic Affairs, Dean Resource Planning and Generation and the Acting Director of the Institute. Dr Singh got into the leadership role in March 2010 as the Director of Symbiosis Institute of Technology and Dean Faculty of Engineering, Symbiosis International University Pune and continued in these positions for close to eight years. He returned to TIET in January 2018. Dr Singh works in the area of manufacturing with special interest in Lean Systems, Total Quality Management, Non-traditional Manufacturing and Additive Manufacturing. He has guided 19 PhD students and has a large number of publications in refreed journals of repute. He has also carried out sponsored research projects, infrastructure projects and many industrial consultancy assignments. He has also been a Visiting Faculty at Purdue School of Engineering & Technology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), USA.

Prof. Manmohan Chhibber, a PhD from Department of Chemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh (2003) was post-doctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore before joining Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET) in 2007. He worked as assistant professor, associate professor in School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at TIET, Patiala before being promoted to Professor in 2019. Prof. Chhibber has been associated with both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching at TIET since his joining, besides guiding PhD students. He has an alluring teaching style that includes flipped class room, role plays, think pair-share and discussions. He is among first batch of TIET faculty members who completed “New Directions Program” in collaboration with Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. A great motivator for students, Prof. Chhibber has been a student consultant, personal councillor, faculty co-ordinator for job placements and for the PhD programme. At present, he is course co-ordinator for applied chemistry for 1st year B.Tech students that involves more than thousand students. Prof. Chhibber’s research group has two major research themes. Synthesis of fluoroquinolone based antibacterial compounds and diphenyl ether based organic sensors for biologically active molecules. He has active collaborations across TIET and with many prestigious institutes across the country.

Dr. Amanpreet Kaur a PhD in “Microstrip Antennas for Wireless communications” joined TIET in 2006. Apart from her research on RF and microwave detection and treatment of Cancer cells, she has a passion and zeal for teaching since last 14 years of her teaching career at TIET. She has contributed to various administrative activities at TIET, from being the warden of girl’s hostel, NSS coordinator of ECED to the CAPSTONE PROJECT coordinator of ECED. She is also the PI of two government funded research projects worth 25 lakh rupees. Her favourite leisure time activities are gardening, cooking and enjoying light music.

Thapar Post-doctoral programme for faculty

Started in 2017, the post-doctoral programme for Thapar Institute faculty is a great success. 26 faculty members availed the facility in 2020 with 4 at Trinity College (Dublin), 1 at Tel Aviv University (Israel) and 1 at Virginia Tech (USA).

Eureka 3.0

Thapar Amateur Astronomers Society (TAAS) conducts Eureka 3.0 - a symposium based on Astronomy and Astrophysics. IISER Mohali and TIET professors deliver lectures on science and related research fields.

Thapar Mathematical Society (TMS) workshops for students

Thapar Mathematical Society and School of Mathematics has organised a one day workshop on “Matlab and differential equations” on February 15, 2020. A total of 48 students participated including undergraduate students at TIET and Graduate students from TIET and other institutions. The workshop was much enjoyed with fine mathematics responsible for solving complex differential equations. As an application, students related the workshop to modeling problems. Apart from lectures, there were lab sessions where students practiced the ODE solver in MATLAB.

A “Two-day workshop on Mathematical Modeling and Computational Techniques” was organized by Thapar Mathematical Society, TIET Patiala on February 24-25, 2020. The event was a huge success with around 60 participants collectively from TIET and other universities. The focus of the workshop was on the fundamentals of Mathematical modelling and the computational techniques.

Expert talk organised by Department of Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering organises an expert talk on “Uses of PTC software products for Industry 4.0” by Mr. Ashwani Muraal, Academic Program Manager-India & SRIM, PTC Academic Program and his team.

Workshop on “Design and Characterization of Microwave Components and Antennas (DCMCA-2020)

A hand-on training workshop "Design and Characterization of Microwave Components and Antennas” was conducted during February 22-24, 2020 at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, TIET, Patiala. The workshop was technically co-sponsored by IEEE APS Delhi Chapter and Jyoti Electronics, Ahmedabad. The objective of the workshop was to train participants about the basics of designing microwave components and antennas using commercial electromagnetic simulator CST microwave studio.

CAPSL showcase event 2020

75 Thapar Institute faculty members complete New Directions Program during 2019-20. 18 posters presented at CAPSL showcase event in February.
In frame: Participants presenting posters to Jury members.

Team Qudio

Team Qudio consisting of Shresth Arora (COE), Kuvam Devgan (ENC), Divyansh Rai (COE) and Siddharth Mishra (ECE), secures 2nd runners-up position at the NASA Space Apps Challenge- North Region (at Chandigarh University). Congratulations on developing an application to display live temperature, weather conditions, other satellite data on a virtual globe.

TIET mechanical students outshine at Advitiya 2020

Double victory for TI mechanical students! Champions at Advitiya 2020 (IIT Ropar’s Inter-University Technical Fest). Kudos for securing the first position in CADathon and SpeeDAC, for 3D and 2D creation/assembling respectively.

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