Department of Chemical Engineering

Student Awards

▌ Student Awards

2020-2021
Sl. No. Name Of The Student/Scholar Roll No. Name of Prizes Name of Donor
1. Gangal Chinmay Shripad CH16B009 Reliance Heat Transfer Pvt. Ltd.  Prize

with the best academic record to the B.Tech student  in Chemical Engineering

 Reliance
2. Sajay V CH16B061 Subramaniam Rajalakshmi Indira Endowment Prize

to the B.Tech student with the best interdisciplinary project

 Smt.Subramaniam Rajalakshmi Indira
3. Aswin Chandrasekar CH15B016 B Ravichandran Memorial Prize

with the best academic record to the Dual Degree [B.Tech & M.Tech] student in Chemical Engg.

 Sri. B Ravichandran
4. Jishnusankar Ks CH18M012 Dr K Subba Raju Memorial Prize

to the M.Tech student with the best academic record in Chemical Engineering

 Dr K Subba Raju
5. Abhishek Sharma CA18M004 Sri S V Balakrishnan Prize to the M.Tech student with the best academic record in Catalysis Technology in Chemical Engineering Sri S V Balakrishnan Prize
6. Maddineni Srinivasaraq CH18M028 Prof M Ramanujam Memorial Award

to the student of Dual Degree/M.Tech student who have done project in the area of Particle Technology and secured the highest CGPA at the end of pre-final semester

 Prof M Ramanujam

 
7. Danam Mahesh CH17S006 Smt D L Saraswati Memorial Prize to the M.Tech/Dual Degree student or M.S. Scholar with best project in the area of Environmental Engineering.  If no suitable candidate is found in the area of Environmental Engineering, then it may awarded to the best thesis in the area of Reaction Engineering. Smt D L Saraswati
8. Ramya K A CH14D408 Institute Research Award In recognition of the exemplary research work done by the Scholar during the period of her Research IITM
9. Anoop Pushkar CH18D200 Dr. V Mahadeva Iyer Prize For academic performance in the first two semesters of M. Tech as part of the Institute Day Prizes.

 

 Dr. V Mahadeva Iyer
10. Leo Lukose CH15D404 Keshav Ranganath Award  2019_20 (Jan-May) IITM
11. Aswathy K Raghu CH15D400 Institute Research Award In recognition of the exemplary research work done by the Scholar during the period of her Research (Jul-Nov 2019-20) IITM
2019-2020
Sl.No. Name of the Student/Scholar Roll No. Name of Prize Prize awarded by
1. Ms. Shumaila Shahid CH14D409 Soft Matter Best Poster Prize Royal Society of Chemistry
2. Mr. Ranajit Mondal CH15D017 Soft Matter Best Poster Prize Royal Society of Chemistry
3. Dr. A. Seenivasan Former doctoral scholar Best paper published in the Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (IJPS) in the field of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology /Microbiology & Tissue Culture ‘Prof. M. L. Khorana Memorial Prize 2018’
4. Mr. Akash Choudhary CH15D206 Best Poster Award CompFlu 2019 held at IISER Bhopal from Dec 5-7, 2019
5. Ms. B. Rashmi

co-authored with former Ph.D Scholar

 CH18D400 Best Poster Award at Yokohama Environment and Information Sciences (YEIS) International Forum 2019 Yokohama National University, Japan on 16.12.2019
6. Ms. B. Rashmi

co-authored with former Ph.D Scholar

 CH18D400 Best Poster Award VIT Chennai Campus, Chennai during January 30-31, 2020
7. Mr. Rajesh Pachimatla CH15D004 Best Oral Presentation Award National Conference on Advanced Lithium Batteries: Science and Technology, (NALiBST-2019)”, held from Dec 27 – 28, 2019 in IISC Bengaluru
8. Mr. G. Vamsi Vikram CH16D201 Best Poster Award 4th Indo-German workshop on Advances in Materials, Reaction & Separation Processes, held during Feb 23-26,2020
9.  Ms. Harija Harikumar Ch16d302 Best presentation and Best paper 6th International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems ACODS 2020, Chennai, India, 16-19 February 2020.
10. Mr. Poonam Sikarwar CH17D412 Best Oral Presentation Award Chemplus 2020 – IIT Madras heldduring 28.02.2020 to 01.03.2020
11. Mr. Sarin John

Mr. Siddharth Singh

 CH17B069

CH17B070

 TEAM ANVESHAK

A competition team from the Centre for Innovation (CFI),

on its rover ‘CAESAR’ being placed in the 12th position overall

in the University Rover Challenge-2019 conducted by The Mars Society held at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS), Utah

during May 30-June 1, 2019.
12. Mr. Sai Kumar

Mr. Shashank M Patil

Mr.Devansh Jain

Mr. Sajay V

 CH17B101

CH18B022

CH17B050

CH16B061

 TEAM ABHIYAAN

Participated on winning the  ‘Lescoe’ trophy for securing the

2nd place for its bot, ‘VIRAT‘  in the  27th Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) held at Oakland University, Michigan, USA

between June 7-10, 2019  organized by the Oakland University
13. Mr. Adil Manzoor Shaikh CH16B063 TEAM RAFTAR

Participated in the ‘Formula Student Germany 2019‘ held at the renowned Formula one Circuit Hockenheimring from August 5-11, 2019
14. Ms. Sphurti Agarwal

 

 CH16B066) 35TH INTER IIT AQUATICS MEET

WOMEN (Individual)

a) Gold

i) 50m Back Stroke

b) Silver

i) 50m Freestyle

ii) 100m freestyle
15. Ms. Sahithi CH16B118 54th Inter –IIT Sports Meet

WOMEN (Badminton) ; Gold
16. Mr. Siddartha Gowtham

Mr. Vamshi P

 CH15B076 CH17B013 54th Inter –IIT Sports Meet

MEN (Badminton) – Silver
17. Mr. Aditya Nanda CH15B003 Participated in the IIT M team – ‘Third Position’ at the Wharton People Analytics Case Competition-2019 held at Philadelphia, USA
Conovation
1. Devashish Pratap Gokhale CH15B021 Highest CGPA in B.Tech Chemical Engineering Reliance Heat Transfer Pvt. Ltd.
2. Ragini  Sreenath CH15B058 Best inter–disciplinary B.Tech project Subramanyam Rajalakshmi Indira Prize
3. Zach Zajo CH14B072 Highest CGPA in Dual Degree  Chemical Engineering B Ravichandran Memorial Prize
4. Somnath Patra CH17M019

 

 Highest  CGPA in M.Tech  Chemical Engineering Dr K Subba Raju Memorial Prize
5. Somnath Patra CH17M019

 

 Best project in Environmental Polution Control & Energy conservation in M.Tech  Chemical Engineering Micro Bosch Prize
6. Menta V Poorna Sai Abhishek CA17M007 Highest  CGPA in M.Tech Catalysis Technology in Chemical Engineering Sri S V Balakrishnan Prize
Institute Day / Alumni Nite
7. Mr. Busigari Rajasekhar Reddy CH14D400 Institute Research Award 2018-19

(July – Nov)

 Institute Day
8. Mr. Dinesh Bhagavatula CH12D025 Institute Research Award 2018-19

(July – Nov)

 Institute Day
9. Mr. Avinash Sahu CH11D039 Institute Research Award 2018-19

(Jan-May)

 Institute Day
10. Ms. R. Sundari CH13D010 Institute Research Award 2018-19

(Jan-May)

 Institute Day
11. Mr. Ribhu Gautam CH14D209 Keshav Ranganath Award 2018-19 (July – Nov) Alumni Nite – 29.09.2019
12. Mr. Busigari Rajasekhar Reddy CH14D400 Keshav-Rangnath Excellence in Research Award Alumni Nite – 29.09.2019
13. Mr.  Akhil Gopinath CH17S001 Smt D L Saraswati Memorial Prize Alumni Nite – 29.09.2019
14. Mr. Suseendiran S R CH15D201 Shri J C Bose Patent Award (2019) Alumni Nite – 29.09.2019
2018-2019
Sl. No. Name of the Student/Scholar Roll No. Name of Prize Prize awarded by
1. Sarin John

Siddharth Singh

 CH17B069

CH17B070

 Et Al.’Team Anveshak’ comprising of the IIT students on winning the First Place at the Indian Rover Challenge 2019 held at Manipal, January 9-12, 2019.
2. Preetika Rastogi CH16S004 Best Presentation Award for presenting her paper entitled “A comparative study of thermodynamic stability of emulsions using diesel surrogate and diesel as fuels’ ICSM-2018 – Dec 9-14, 2018
3. Preetika Rastogi CH16S004 Royal Society of Chemistry for her poster entitled  ‘‘A comparative study of thermodynamic stability of emulsions using diesel surrogate and diesel as​ fuels”. ICSM-2018 – Dec 9-14, 2018
4. Ranajit Mondal CH15D017 Best Presentation Award for presenting his paper entitled ‘Patterns of Dried Drops Dictated by Curvature Driven Interfacial Particle Transport’. ICSM-2018 – Dec 9-14, 2018
5. Raviteja Kurapati CH15D403 Best Presentation Award’ for his presentation entitled ‘Structure of Poly(acrylic acid) in Adsorbed Films at Oil-Water Interface: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study’ ICEP-2019 Feb 3-8, 2019
6. Mohammed Ayub Shareef CH18D414 Cleared UPSC exams – 3rd Rank –Scientific Officer 24.01.2019
7. Akash Choudhary CH15D206 Best Presentation Award – Paper Title: lateral migration of an electrophoretic particle: Newtonian vs viscoelastic flows Chemplus 2019 , IIT Madras (15.03.2019 – 17.03.2019)
8. Neelam Venkata Phani Chandra CH17D003 1st  Prize for Best Poster  – Poster Presentation : Synthesis and  characterization of Rhenium Disulfide for Photo voltaic application” Chemplus 2019 , IIT Madras (15.03.2019 – 17.03.2019)
9. Bincy George Abraham CH13D021 2nd Prize for Best Poster –  “Electrodeposited Bimetallic Catalysts on Titanium Support for Methanol Oxidation in Direct Methanol Fuel Cell” Chemplus 2019 , IIT Madras (15.03.2019 – 17.03.2019)
10. Akhil Gopinath CH17S001 1st prize  in ‘ explain your research in 3 minutes in layman terms’ Chemplus 2019 , IIT Madras (15.03.2019 – 17.03.2019)
11. Akhil Gopinath CH17S001 ·         3rd Prize in Paper presentation

EHO- Elephant Herd Optimisation Algorithm for Estimating Adsorption Kinetics Model Parameters.

·       1st Prize in  Chemical Dumbsharads

·       1st prize in  Mock Interview

·       1st prize in  Minutes to Disaster

·       2nd prize in How Stuff Works (general tech quiz)

·       3rd prize in  ChemRapids (chemistry quiz)

 Chemfluene 2019, ACT, Anna University

March 25th – 27th
12. Neethu Thomas CH12D020 Institute Research Award 2018 Institute Day – 26.04.2018
13. Sanjay Kumar CH14D006 Institute Research Award 2018 Institute Day – 26.04.2018
14. Pradeep Natarajan CH13B086

 

 Highest CGPA in Dual Degree

– Convocation Day – 2018

 Sri V Srinivasan Memorial Prize
15. Pradeep Natarajan CH13B086 Highest CGPA in Dual Degree Chemical Engineering Convocation Day – 2018 B Ravichandran Memorial Prize
16. Praneeth Srivanth Ramesh CH14B049 Highest CGPA in B.Tech Chemical Engineering – Convocation Day – 2018 Reliance Heat Transfer Pvt. Ltd. Prize
17. Rinu Chacko CH16M013 Highest  CGPA in M.Tech  Chemical Engineering – Convocation Day 201 Dr K Subba Raju Memorial Prize
18.  Vishnu Prasad CH14S021 Best M.Tech/Dual Degree student/M.S scholar who has done project in the area of Environmental Engineering/Reaction Engineering. Smt D L Saraswati Memorial Prize – Convocation Day  – 20.07.2018
19. M.S. Amrutha CH13D018 Keshav Ranganath (KR) Award and Institute Research (IR) Award (Even Sem) on recognition of the Quality and Quantity of Research Work Alumni Nite – 19.07.2018
2017-2018
Sl. No. Name of the Student/Scholar Roll No. Name of Prize Prize awarded by
Ph.D
1. Saranya Sriram CE14D030 – ID Scholar Best Oral Presentation Award for paper titled “Electrochemical Remediation of Chromium Contaminated Soil on Titania Nanotubes” in the electrocatalysis session, was won by PhD scholar Society for Advancement of Electrochemical Science & Technology
2. Abhishek Kumar Gupta CH13D016 Won the II prize for presenting his poster entitled “Counter Ion Specific collapse of fully ionized PAA in Water-Ethanol mixture in presence of Li+ and Cs+ Alkali Metal Cat ions-A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study. 6th International Conference on Functional Electroceramics and Polymers (ICEP 2017)

 
3. Raviteja Kurapati CH15D403 Won the III Prize for presenting his poster entitled “Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Effect of Ionization on Conformational and Orientation properties of Poly(arylic acid) and Poly (methacryclic acid) Adsorbed at CCL4-H2O Interface”. 6th International Conference on Functional Electroceramics and Polymers (ICEP 2017
4. Sharanya Sriram & Bincy George Abraham CE14D030 – ID Scholar &

CH13D021

 

 Technical Excellence Award to the Team W6 – Electrochem – for the project titled

“Sustainable Zero-Energy Prototype for Desalination Coupled Wastewater Treatment”

 

 Carbon Zero Challenge 2017-18 Grand Finale

 
5. Bincy George Abraham CH13D021

 

 Best Oral Presentation in the session ‘Electrodeposition and Nano-technology’ at CORSYM 2018 for the presentation titled “Effect of Electrodeposition Techniques on the Performance of Platinum Electrocatalyst towards Methanol Oxidation International Corrosion Prevention Symposium for Research Scholars

CORSYM 2018
6. Saranya Sriram CE14D030 – ID Scholar Best Oral Presentation in the session ‘Electrochemical Testing Techniques’ at CORSYM 2018 for the presentation titled “A  Low Energy Electrochemical Approach for Dual Waste Management” International Corrosion Prevention Symposium for Research Scholars

CORSYM 2018
M.S
7. Akshaya S CH14S008 Won ISER (International Society for Engineers and Researchers) Excellent Paper Award for the paper entitled “Study of the effect of Packings in an Energy Optimized Binary Tray Distillation column”,  for the category of Best Presentation/Best Content at the ISER International Conference held in Tokyo, Japan, 06-07 July 2017 International Society for Engineers and Researchers
B.Tech
8. Ragini Sreenath CH15B058 Won the first edition of `Women of Mettle’  scholarship Instituted by Tata Steel, This scholarship programme is open to second year female engineering students of select national institutes, entails an amount of 2 lakh along with an internship opportunity in 3 year and also a pre-placement offer from Tata Steel Tata Steel
9. Abhinav Parakh &

Anish Patil

 CH13B002

CH13B005

 Won the I Prize in “Design is in my DNA! “, an Innovation contest conducted by Asian Paints Ltd., for their write-up and final presentation titled `Applications of Graphene as a Coating’ Asian Paints
INSTITUTE DAY PRIZE – B. Tech
10. Praneeth Srivanth R CH14B049 B.Tech Won the Best Academic Record  prize in the III and IV semesters. He was given the Dr Anita Mehta-Damini Prize with a silver medal and cash award of Rs.5000/- Dr Anita Mehta-Damini Prize
11. Marri Krishna Chaitanya CH14B042 Awarded Prof M Ramanujam Memorial Prize, for the student with highest marks in Mechanical Operation Course (Department level)

 

 Prof M Ramanujam Memorial Prize
INSTITUTE DAY – M. Tech
12. Anbuchelvan Anamica CH15M005 M.Tech Awarded  M/S Chevron Products Company Prize  for the Best Academic Record in I and II semesters of the M.Tech programme with a silver medal and cash award of Rs.5000 M/S Chevron Products Company Prize
INSTITUTE DAY– Dual Degree
13. N Pradeep

 

 CH13B086 Dual Degree Won the Best Academic Record prize in the V and VI semesters. He has been awarded  by Dr R K Viswanath Memorial Prize with a silver medal and cash award of Rs.5000/- Dr R K Viswanath Memorial Prize
14. Srijith R CH12B091 Dual Degree Awarded Dr Anita Mehta Damani Prize for the student with the Best Academic Record in the VII and VIII semesters in Dual Degree programme Dr Anita Mehta Damani Prize
15. N Pradeep CH13B086 Awarded K Srinivasan and Indira Srinivasan Prize For highest CGPA in courses offered under HS category in 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th semesters in B.Tech/DD programme K Srinivasan and Indira Srinivasan Prize
CONVOCATION DAY  – B.Tech/Dual Degree
16. Meghana Venkata Palukuri

 

 CH12B083 For the best overall performance in curricular & co-curricular activities C A Sastry Endowment Prize

 
17. Abhinav Parakh

 

 CH13B002 Best inter–disciplinary B.Tech project Reliance Heat Transfer Pvt. Ltd. Prize

For the highest CGPA in B.Tech Chemical Engineering

And  S.R.I Prize
18. Srijith Rajagopalan

 

 CH12B091 For the highest CGPA in Dual Degree Chemical Engg. B Ravichandran Memorial Prize

 
19. Nama Praveen Kumar CH13B044 For the B.Tech Chemical Engineering student who has done project in the area of Particle Technology and secured the highest CGPA  at the end of the pre-final semester Prof M Ramanujam Memorial Award

 
20. Anish R Patel

 

 CH13B005 For the best student in GN6001 Integral Karma Yoga Duvvuru Sarada Award

 
21. Minal Patil

 

 CH12B084 For the Dual Degree student with the best project in the area of Biotechnology 48th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress Prize

 
22. Daniel Viju V

 

 CH12B080 For the best Dual Degree project in area of Environmental Engineering Smt D L Saraswati Memorial Prize

 
23. Anbuchelvan Anamicca CH15M005 For the highest CGPA in M.Tech Chemical Engineering Dr K Subba Raju Memorial Prize

 
24. Shree Sumanas Badrinath CA15M007 For the highest CGPA in M.Tech Catalysis Stream in Chemical Engineering Sri S V Balakrishnan Merit Prize