North America BITS Alumni Association meeting was held on Sunday, Sept 6th2009, at Clarion Hotel - Princeton, NJ. Our gathering of about 50 alumni were from batches starting from as early as 1957 to as recent as 2007. The meeting started with President’s (Mr. P. Chadda) welcome message followed by Secretary’s (Mr. Raj) report. They both covered all efforts and happenings related to campus & association in greater details.
(Please click over the image above for photo gallery)...
Coverage at The Telegraph, thanks for Prof. D. K. Singh (HoD ECE)
Secretary Report
News about Purnendu (Beni) Dasgupta Met library - Purnendu was a 1960 Metallurgical engg. (top of the class) graduate. He worked with Inland Steel and retd. as Asst President. He held several high positions including group VP and VP research. His wife Sandra has contributed $15,000 for this library. (library photographs are posted on display board).
Dr. Yogendra Singh Chadda was nominated as a “Fulbright Professor” for NEPAL to help the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Institute of Engineering, TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY, KATHMANDU, NEPAL in developing their new curriculum for undergraduate and Graduate Program which was first written in the year 1990. Since then it was not revised. Dr. Chadda stayed there from August, 2008 to Jan 2009. Dr. Chadda also donated 50 Engineering books to The Tribhuvan University and 20 books to Katmandu University.
Dr. Chadda is further planning to donate all his books to BIT Sindri; around 200 of them related to Machine Design, Mechanics of Materials, Material Science, Thermodynamics, Reliability, Control Systems etc.
Dr. N K Sinha & Dr. Uday Sinha were invited by KIIT where they performed academic duties in their respective expertise areas.
BIT Alumni Association (mother chapter) is now a registered body in India.
During this year’s alumni meet at BIT Sindri (Feb 09), Dr. Uday Sinha was awarded the "life time achievement award" for his outstanding work in alma-matters.
Officer’s Election (New Nomination)
President – Dr. Yogendra Chadda (1957 MECH)
Advisory Board – Ranjit Sinha, Uday Sinha, Prof. D. K. Singh, Student Body and more
Vice President – Keerti Prasad (1990 ECE)
Secretary – Mukesh Kumar (1997 EL)
Jt. Secretary – Swadhin Saurabh (2004 CH)
Treasurer – Sudhaker Raj (cont). (1997 ECE)
Editor in Chief – Samir Chaudhary (2001 EL)
Round Table Discussions
Scholarship – how to fit our scholarship program into new semester system, possibly top 3/5 students, application process
Website – proposal of unified alumni website, robust database, how to reach senior alumni?
Next year’s alumni meet – no more long-weekend, new date will be 3rd saturday of august (08/21/2010, 08/20/2011, etc), possibly online registration & payment.
Membership drives – update the old database, enroll new members, networking?
New Initiatives
Mentorship Program (one to one) – Career Guidance, Networking
Campus Collaboration (one to many) – Awareness, Partnership, Webinars, Internship, Campus Placement, Visiting Professor
Alumni House – Revamping; more amenities, second floor, extended stay setup.
Special Thanks to Rajeev (ECE 2006-10) and Prof. D. K. Singh for sending the recent photographs. They were put on display and liked very much by our alumni members.
Regards,
- Webmaster