Department of Chemical Engineering

Faculty Awards

Faculty Awards


Sl.No. Name of faculty Name of Award Awarded by Awarded for Date of award

 

ii.  Awards:
1. Dr. Rajnish Kumar Dr. Y B G Varma Award for teaching Excellence in Chemical Engineering for the year 2020 IIT Madras Teaching  
2. Dr. R. Vinu Young Scientist Award, Dr. M. Anandakrishnan Prize The Academy of Sciences, Chennai Engineering and Technology 24.03.2021
3. Dr. Aravind Kumar Chandiran Technology Translation Award DST-SERB Development of white light emitters 30.03.2021
4. J. Nallasivam, Francis Prashanth, S. Harisankar, R. Vinu, S.R. Chakravarthy 3rd prize -Title of the idea : Biocrude production from the hydrothermal Liquefaction of unsegregated municipal solid Waste

 

 

HPCL-New Generation Ideation Contest    
Sl.No. Name of faculty Name of Award Awarded by Awarded for Date of award

 

i.  Honours:
1. Prof. Y.B.G. Varma
Retired Faculty
Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras
Honoured with
Dr. B P Godrej Lifetime Achievement Award 2019
Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE)  at its annual session held at IIT Delhi Significant contributions to Chemical Engineering 16.12.2019
ii.  Awards:
1. Dr. S. Ramanathan S.K. Seshadri Memorial Mascot National Award 2019 Electrochemical Society of India Outstanding contribution
in the area of corrosion and electrochemistry
19.07.2019
2. Dr. R. Vinu “IEI Young Engineers Award 2019” in Chemical Engineering 35th National Convention of Chemical Engineers Young Engineers Award 2019” in Chemical Engineering 06.09.2019 to 07.09.2019
3. Dr. R. Vinu
and
Mr. Ribhu Gautam (CH14D209)
Keshav Ranganath Award 2018-19 (July – Nov IITM Alumni Nite – 29.09.2019
4. Dr. Niket S Kaisare Prof. YBG Varma Award IIT Madras Teaching excellence
for the academic year 2018-2019.
Alumni Nite – 29.09.2019
5. Prof. Raghunathan Rengaswamy, CH Co-inventor

 

Shri J C BOSE PATENT AWARD (2019) IIT Madras Alumni Nite – 29.09.2019
6. Dr. R. Vinu ICT Alkyl Amines Young Scientist Award Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai Young Scientist Award 10.10.2019
Sl. No. Name of faculty Name of Award Awarded by Awarded for Date of award

 

i.  Honours:
1 Dr. R. Nagarajan Institute Chair Professor IIT M Excelled in teaching and service to the Institute/nation/profession May 2018
2 Dr. Raghunathan Rengasamy Institute Chair Professor IIT M Excelled in teaching and service to the Institute/nation/profession April 2019
ii.  Awards:
1 Dr. R. Vinu Early Career Research & Development Award  (2017-18) IIT Madras Early Career Research & Development April 2018
3 Prof. Raghunathan Rengasamy

 

PROF. DR. Y. B. G. VARMA AWARD Alumni Nite

IIT Madras

For Teaching Excellence
for the academic year 2017-2018
19.07.2018
4 Dr. R. Nagarajan Distinguished Service to Alumni IITMAA Sangam-Confluence for Impact Distinguished Service to Alumni 29.09.2018
6 Dr. R. Nagarajan

 

Eminent Engineer Award

 

Institution of Engineers (India) Tamilnadu State Center Eminent Engineer Award

 

27.10.2018
7 Dr. Rajnish Kumar 2018 Highly Cited Researcher Web of Science Group Exceptional research performance demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers, those that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year, in Engineering 27.11.2018
8 Dr. S. Pushpavanam

 

Hikal Chemcon Distinguished

Speaker Award 2018

Chemcon 2019, Jalandhar Hikal Chemcon Distinguished

Speaker

29.12.2018
9 Dr. R. Vinu NASI Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award-2018 88th Annual Session of NASI & Symposium on ‘Science,
Technology and Ecosystem for Sustainable Rural Development’
held at Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramoday Vishwavidyalaya
Chitrakoot, Satna, M.P
NASI Young Scientist 06.12.2018 to 08.12.2018
10 Dr. R. Vinu INSA Young Scientist Medal
in the category of Engineering Sciences
Anniversary General Meeting of the
Indian National Academy (INSA-AGM), 2018
held at Physical Research Laboratory (PRL)
Ahmedabad
INSA Young Scientist Medal
in the category of Engineering Sciences
26-28 Dec. 2018
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Name of faculty Name of Award Awarded by Awarded for Date of award

 

i.  Honours:
1. Dr. S. Pushpavanam Selected as Institute Chair Professor IIT Madras Excelled in teaching and service to the Institute/nation/profession. 01st June, 2017
ii.  Awards:
1. Dr. Niket Kaisare

 

Early Career Research & Development Award

for the year 2016-17.

Institute Day, IIT Madras Early Career Research & Development Award 18th  April, 2017
2. Dr.  S. Pushpavanam

 

Prof. Dr. Y. B. G. Varma Award For Teaching Excellence
for the academic year 2016-2017
Alum Nite, IIT Madras TEACHING EXCELLENCE
for the academic year 2016-2017
22nd July, 2017
3. Dr. Raghuram Chetty

 

Bhagyalakshmi & Krishna Ayengar Award Institute Day, IIT Madras For having guided best M.Tech, project titled

“Palladium Dendrites as Catalyst for Portable Air Breathing Formic Acid Fuel Cells”

18th April, 2017
4. Dr. R. Vinu

 

Amar Dye Chem Award for Excellence in Research and Development (Under the age of 35 Years Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) Excellence in Research and Development (Under the age of 35 Years 27th Dec, 2017
5. Dr.  M. Chidambaram  (Retired)

has won three awards :

for the

 

1.     Chemical Weekly Award

2.     IIChE NRC Award

3.     Kuloor Memorial Award

 

Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) Best Technical Paper published in the “Indian Chemical Engineer” for the year 2016 CHEMCON 2017