SOT Mirror Issue 04 ,2015

PDPU SOT MIRROR - ISSUE 4

SOT MIRROR - ISSUE 4

EDITORIAL TEAM 1

Dr. H. B. Raghavendra,

Director, SOT, PDPU

It gives me immense pleasure to welcome you all to a new

academic year 2015-2016 at school of Technology,

PDPU. The school was established in year 2010 with the

aim of extending the quality education and research in the

field of basic engineering along with the already

established school of petroleum engineering. Since then,

it has been our constant endeavor to improve the quality

of education for holistic personality development of

students.

At present, SOT has eight academic departments

supported by various services like information

technology, amenities and library. The school offers five

undergraduate courses and six postgraduate courses with

more than two thousand students. Our laboratories are

spacious and well maintained. The most valuable assets

of our school is the group of highly qualified, trained and

dedicated teaching staff, who guide the students to take

the challenges of outside world with morality. They

nurture the talent of each student with utmost care so that

they can achieve the best in their life with their improved

abilities. Apart from academics, the co-curriculum

activities, sports, cultural and social services are an

integral part of student's campus life and well supported

by in-house clubs in school.

In the end, I wish all the new students a memorable,

meaningful tenure with lot of success.


EDITORIAL TEAM 2

EDITORIAL TEAM:

Department Student Pages

Mechanical

Civil

Chemical

Ashish Dave

Subhaleena Das

Dharmil Joshi

Prerna Kaura

Ritika Kohli

3-9

10-11

12-13

Electrical

Navin Kumar

Vyom Bhatt

14-15

Industrial Parth Prajapati

16-19

Achievements

20

Chief Editors:

Dipal Patel (Student Editor, Mechanical)

Dr. Manoj Kumar (Faculty Advisor, Science)

Dr. Vimal Savsani (Faculty Advisor, Industrial)

“Coming together is beginning,

Keeping together is progress,

Working together is success”...

-Henry Ford

Students and the faculties of SOT, PDPU

have put in their efforts to accomplish the

activities undertaken in terms of poster

presentation, Industrial Orientations,

International Exposure Program, Poster

presentation, Guest Lectures of SOT, PDPU

in recent times along with achievements of

students.

To reflect these achievements, we have

brought the fourth edition of the School of

Technology’s newsletter, “SOT MIRROR”

to you. Wherein we have tried to capsulate,

everything that’s taking place in the

university campus around us.

The editorial team wishes good luck the

students for their Mid-Semester Exams.

Hoping that you enjoy reading it....

Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University

Raisan Village, District-Gandhinagar Pincode-382 007. Gujarat, INDIA Phone: +91 79 23275060 Fax: +91 79 23275030 Email: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


EDITORIAL TEAM 3

Date: 19th June, 2015 to19th July, 2015.

This International Exposure Program of Year

2015 is actually showcased as “Summer

Immersion Program-2015”. Nineteen students

from various batches of Mechanical Department

along with the students from Civil Department

were hosted in University of Saskatchewan,

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The

Motive was to familiarize the students about the

scope of studies in U of S, Canada and to visit

various industries. With the help of this

Internationalization, PDPU also wanted students

to gain experience and knowledge of Canadian

educational, cultural, and social practices, and to

develop inter-cultural skills. Students from

Mechanical Branch were accompanied by Mr.

Nagababu Garlapati, Faculty of Mechanical

Department. Students learnt about undergraduate

programs as well as opportunities for graduate

level study at the University of

Saskatchewan. Students had an opportunity to

interact with Canadian students, visited research

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INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE PROGRAM


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labs and engineering sites in the University and

industries. Some Important Persons at U of S,

o George Kipourous, Dean of the College of

Engineering.

o David Parkinson, Director of Language Centre

and International Relationships.

o Gina DiPaulo, Office of International

Relationships.

Places the students Visited:

o Gardiner Dam (Dam on Saskatchewan River)

o Canadian Light Source (The only Canadian

Light Source and mainly used for the

Research)

o Allan Potash Mine (The Biggest Potash Mine

in Canada)

The most interesting visit was of Potash Mine.

Fortunately, the students got to observe the

mine and processing plant.

Students, in two groups went to visit the

processing site and mine.

They also gave some samples of Potassium.

o Case New Holland (CNH), Agricultural

Equipment Manufacturer Company

o Methane Gas Power plant

o Water Treatment Plant

Interactive Sessions:

o Graduate Seminars

o Professional Communication Workshop

o SolidWorks Workshop

o Intercultural Development Session

o Design Project (Design of Hydraulic Arm)

Guest Lectures:

o Deformation and Failure of Engineering

Materials by Prof. Akindele Odeshi

o Hip-Implant Design by Prof. James Johnston

o Bio-Fabrication of Scaffolds by Prof. Daniel

Chen

o Different Resources of Energy by Dr. Cameron

S, Mc Naughton

And other Graduate Students’ Seminars on various topics.


EDITORIAL TEAM 5

In order to familiarize the students about the Industrial

Basics, technology and management, PDPU organized the

Industrial Orientation program. The program also includes

Expert Lectures from various companies in which experts

inform the students about respective motives and the

description about technology and management briefly

where the students from Mechanical Engineering got the

chance to visit various Industries e.g., COCACOLA

INDIA, BRAY CONTROL AND FERROMATIK

MILACRON.

1. COCACOLA INDIA

Location – Kheda, Gujarat.

Date – 2nd July, 2015

Duration – 2 hours

Starting from the safety instructions, the officials

provided the information about the entire

process that how the Popular Drink

COCACOLA is actually made.

The noticeable thing is that they add every

component very precisely according their

formula. Uniformity and quality of the

product is the way of success for any

company.

The major steps of the process are:

o Bottle making by pressure injection.

o Cleaning of the bottles with special

chemicals.

o Filling of the drink

o Capping.

We came to know how they keep records of sales

and quality.

2. BRAY CONTROLS

Location – Vadodra

Date – 4th July, 2015

Timing – 2 hours

With over twenty five years of continued success and

outstanding growth, Bray International has become one of

the premier quarter-turn butterfly valve, ball valve, and

pneumatic and electric actuator manufacturers in the

world.

Bray's extensively trained staff is knowledgeable in all

aspects of flow control technology and provides personal

attention to every customer.

Students visited the manufacturing, assembly,

paint shop and testing house.

The students were informed about:

o Different types of valves, uses in different

fields.

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GUEST LECTURES


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o The difference between them.

o The process of manufacturing.

o Raw materials to shipping complete process.

3. FERROMATIK MILACRON

Location – Vatva GIDC, Ahmedabad

Date – 16th July, 2015.

Time – 30 min

The students visited manufacturing facility,

Nitriding facility and paint shop. The interesting

part students found was Injection Moulding.

Students observed these machines in the shop

floor:

o High Speed Machining Centers - Mazak & Mori

Seiki

o Boring Machines, Vertical Milling Machines

o Cylindrical Grinders, Surface Grinders

o Radial Drilling, Vertical Honing Machines

o Turning Centers


EDITORIAL TEAM 7

1. ALSTOM INDIA Sir Senthil Velan, an employee of Alstom India

working in their hydro power projects. He

explained the importance of renewable energy

for our present and future. He also told us the

steps that Alstom is taking for this energy. The

session was very interactive. He asked students

their approach to clean energy. He told us about

their origin and spread of Alstom starting from

France and then making it a worldwide company.

2. BOSCH-REXROTH

Lean manufacturing was the topic of that day.

Mr. Ketan Dhruv told us about Bosch-Rexroth

origin and spreading its empire. Lean

manufacturing “the process of quality

manufacturing while reducing waste”. He

interacted with the students about the ways to

perform lean manufacturing. He explained us the

way Bosch-Rexroth is implementing lean

manufacturing.

Date: 2nd August, 2015

Venue: Hynes Convention Center, Boston, USA.

The ASME Innovative Additive Manufacturing 3D

(IAM3D) Challenge is designed to give mechanical and

multi-disciplinary undergraduate students around the

world an opportunity to re-engineer existing products or

create new designs that minimize energy consumption

and/or improve energy efficiency. Students showcase their

creativity by demonstrating the value added through their

ingenuity, application of sound engineering design

principles, and leveraging Additive Manufacturing

technology to address a broad spectrum of industrial,

manufacturing, and humanitarian challenges.

Vineel Kondiboyina and Gurtej Khanooja of Semester

7 (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering) were one of the top

20 finalist teams from around the world to be invited to

present their designs, business case and prototype to a

panel of judges at the finals which was held at the 2015

ASME International Design and Engineering Technical

Conferences & Computers and Information in

GUEST LECTURES AS A PART INDUSTRIAL

ORIENTATION

INNOVATIVE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

3D CHALLENGE


EDITORIAL TEAM 8

Engineering and Additive Manufacturing 3D Printing

Conference (IDETC/CIE/AM3D), Boston, MA, USA.

Batch of Mechanical 4th year has successfully

organized a Guest Lecture on “Low Iron Solar Glass” on

19th August 2015. The Guest speaker was Mr. Sorabh

Singhal, Head of Production Department, Gujarat Borosil

Ltd, Bharuch. He was accompanied by Mr. Yatendra

Sachdev, Head of Maintenance Department, Gujarat

Borosil Ltd, Bharuch.

Session was started at 10:30 am with brief introduction of

Guests and Gujarat Borosil Ltd, given by Guest Lecture

Co-ordinator Mr.Nimesh Suthar of Mechanical 4th year.

With lots of enthusiasm shown by students as well as

faculty members, Mr.Sorabh Singhal started his lecture.

He briefed us on Gujarat Borosil Ltd, by showing their

corporate video. He told us each and everything about

glass starting with its application, Manufacturing

processes, Various composition, challenges in

manufacturing etc. He also told about various properties

of glass, such as Transmittance, Refractive Index,

viscosity etc. He briefed us on manufacturing process of

glass starting with raw material, preprocessing, melting,

forming, annealing, cutting, post processing, and

tempering.

Session was successful fulfilling the objective,

“Understanding Engineering practices by connecting

theoretical knowledge with practical one”. Interaction of

faculties as well as students, with the speaker was

wonderful. He threw some light on need of Low Iron Solar

Glass, its application in manufacturing photovoltaic cells,

manufacturing processes, challenges in its production, and

its market scenario. Session was ended at 12:00 noon with

vote of thanks and presenting memento to guests. After

completing the session, guest were taken to have

Interaction Session with Dr. S.S.Kachhwaha(HOD

Mechanical), and other mechanical department faculties.

It was followed by executive lunch.

At the end, visit of various solar research labs was

conducted as guests were having special interest in solar

energy. They were amazed by looking very good facilities

available at PDPU for research work in Solar Energy.

They also shown interest in visiting Siemens lab of center

of Excellence. With very good interaction of guests with

guest lecture committee and Mr.Sanjay Rao (Advisor,

Corporate Relations, T&P cell), this program was

completed successfully.

Date: 19th August, 2015.

Batch of Mechanical 4th year has successfully organized

a Guest Lecture on “Low Iron Solar Glass”. The Guest

speaker was Mr. Sorabh Singhal, Head of Production

Department, Gujarat Borosil Ltd, Bharuch. He was

accompanied by Mr. Yatendra Sachdev, Head of

Maintenance Department, Gujarat Borosil Ltd, Bharuch.

Session was started at 10:30 am with brief introduction of

Guests and Gujarat Borosil Ltd, given by Guest Lecture

coordinator Mr.Nimesh Suthar of Mechanical 4th year.

With lots of enthusiasm shown by students as well as

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GLASS


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faculty members, Mr.Sorabh Singhal started his lecture.

He briefed us on Gujarat Borosil Ltd, by showing their

corporate video. He told us each and everything about

glass starting with its application, Manufacturing

processes, various composition, challenges in

manufacturing etc. He also told about various properties

of glass, such as Transmittance, Refractive Index,

viscosity etc. He briefed us on manufacturing process of

glass starting with raw material, preprocessing, melting,

forming, annealing, cutting, post processing, and

tempering.

Session was successful fulfilling the objective,

“Understanding Engineering practices by connecting

theoretical knowledge with practical one”. Interaction of

faculties as well as students, with the speaker was

wonderful. He threw some light on need of Low Iron Solar

Glass, its application in manufacturing photovoltaic cells,

manufacturing processes, challenges in its production, and

its market scenario. Session was ended at 12:00 noon with

vote of thanks and presenting memento to guests. After

completing the session, guest were taken to have

Interaction Session with Dr. S.S.Kachhwaha (HOD

Mechanical), and other mechanical department faculties.

It was followed by executive lunch.

At the end, visit of various solar research labs was

conducted as guests were having special interest in solar

energy. They were amazed by looking very good facilities

available at PDPU for research work in Solar Energy.

They also shown interest in visiting Siemens lab of center

of Excellence. With very good interaction of guests with

guest lecture committee and Mr.Sanjay Rao (Advisor,

Corporate Relations, T&P cell), this program was

completed successfully.


EDITORIAL TEAM 10

R_CAD solution is an engineering innovative design unit,

delivering training and services in Architectural and Civil

engineering discipline through CAD and BIM design

software. This session was conducted to create awareness

in students for industry demand and help them to

understand recent in CAB & BIM relationships.

Objectives of lectures:

University curriculum in lieu of industry demand.

Use of CAD in the construction industry.

Why construction industry switching over to

BIM.

Software uses in BIM.

What is Revit and why it is preferred among

others.

Association of CAD and Revit.

Who can learn?

Future scope for BIM and Revit.

R_CAD solutions brings a fresh and innovative approach

for engineering design services, acting as liaison between

engineering design companies and engineering industry.

The Industrial Orientation Program of Civil Engineering

had visits at different places and different guest lectures.

Visits:

1. Mundra LNG Terminal

2. Adani Shantigram

3. Sardar Sarovar Dam, Narmada

4. Sabarmati Riverfront

5. AMC Water Treatment Plant, Kotarpur

Guest Lectures:

1. Mr. M.B. Joshi, SSNNL

CIVIL ENGINEERING

R_CAD SOLUTION

INDUSTRIAL ORIENTATION


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2. Mr. Bipin B Shah, Kalpataru Power

3. Mr. S. H. Vora, Larsen and Toubro

Dr. Jagmohan is Senior Vice President, TBT Engineering

Limited, Thunder Bay, Canada.

President, Jag Mohan & Associates Ltd. (est.1990),

Consulting Engineers, Brampton/Toronto, Canada.

Adjunct Professor in Civil Engineering, Lakehead

University, Thunder Bay, Canada.

The lecture was based on recent advancement in the field

of civil and industrial engineering and the scope of

studying in civil engineering in Canada. Dr. Jagmohan

explained with great examples the level o studies in

Canada and it’s prospective. Students from industrial and

civil engineering attended the lecture and received the

knowledge about advancement in technology and study in

Canada.

On the occasion of the World Meteorological Day

2015 – Climate Knowledge for Climate Action,

the Department of Civil Engineering in association with

the Indian Meteorological Society – Ahmedabad Chapter

conducted a half day event for the students, staff, faculty

of PDPU and IMSA members which included a Lecture

and Elocution Competition.

The lecture was delivered by Dr. Sathiyamoorthy

(Scientist, Atmospheric and Oceanic science group, Space

application Centre-ISRO Ahmedabad). His speech

covered mainly the climate change and its consequences

that we will face in the upcoming years. It was for 1 hour

and there were 15 min session for question and answer

session.

After the end of riveting lecture there was an elocution

competition for students.

The topics were:

Oh My GOD! Climate is changing.

Climate change! I don’t care

Climate Change – Can we mitigate it?

The participants were judged on content, eloquence and

confidence. Winners were rewarded with gift vouchers.

WORLD METROLOGICAL DAY

CELEBRATION

IEP – GUEST LECTURE BY Dr. JAGMOHAN

IN CANADA


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Under the mandatory industrial Training for 3rd year

students, the students of the chemical engineering batch

got an opportunity to intern with prestigious names in the

chemical industry. While some got assistance from the

University’s Training and Placement cell, others scored

the internship opportunity due to personal efforts.

The students underwent a 6-8 week training under a wide

array of chemical engineering companies. Some of them

are as follows:

Indian Oil Corporation ltd Godrej Industries ltd, Solvay,

IFFCO, BARC, ONGC, etc.

The industrial internship gave the students a golden

opportunity to bridge the gap between the theoretical and

practical knowledge.

The students of 2nd year are scheduled to go through core

engineering orientation envisaged with a view to make

students familiar with the industry operations in

engineering. As a part of this industrial orientation

students of chemical engineering got an opportunity to

visit 6 industries around Gujarat. These industries were

chosen carefully so as to facilitate the students in broad

understanding of the chemical industry.

Industries visited by them are:

IFFCO

Bayer Crop Science

Green Environment Cooperative Society

Godrej Industries

Meghmani Organics Limited

Finaar

A number of chemical engineering students, class of 2015

showed promising results by securing admissions in

foreign universities of international repute.

The following students shall be moving abroad for further

studies:

Nikhil Tanna, M. S. (Advertising), Boston University,

USA

Apurv Shah, M. S. (Engineering Management)

Jaivishk Shah , M.S. , University of Oklahoma

We wish these students all the luck in their future

endeavors.

On 7th, August 2015, a series of guest lectures took place

for the Department of Chemical Engineering.

The distinguished guests, Dr. Arvind P. Kuchadker, Prof.

K.S. Gandhi and Dr. S.S. Bandhopadhyay addressed the

students over a span of two days.

The first lecture for the day was delivered by Professor K.

S.Gandhi.

Professor K S Gandhi is working with the Department of

Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, and

Bangalore.

Sir is on the editorial board of Journal of Chemical

Engineering Research and Design, Indian Journal of

Chemical Technology, Current Science & Sadhana.

The topic for Prof. Gandhi's lecture was Reaction Injection

Moulding.

He enlightened the students about the various applications

of poly urethanes.

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING


MASTERS

GUEST LECTURES

tel:2015


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Dr. Kuchadker is a professor Emeritus, IIT Bombay.

He has served as an advisor to various organisations

ranging from Reliance Industries Ltd. to Indian

Merchants' Chamber.

Much to the students' delight, Dr. Kuchadker played a key

role in establishing PDPU and was our founding director

general.

Sir conducted an interactive session on the need of

sustainable energy and the need to preserve mother earth.

This session was followed by a lecture by Dr. S.S.

Bandyopadhyay.

Dr. Bandyopadhyay is a professor emeritus, IIT

Kharagpur.

He was a member of several advisory committees and

boards including ISRO, UPSC, etc.

Sir is a renowned name in the field of CO2 sequestration

Research.

Dr. Bandyopadhyay delivered a detailed lecture on various

clean coal technologies.

Clean coal technology (CCT) encompasses a number of

process/technology options to ensure use of coal with

reduced or no environmentally harmful emissions from

large stationary sources that are primarily responsible for

global warming.

The day culminated with a dinner wherein student

volunteers got a chance to interact with the guests for the

day.

On 21 August 2015, the Department of Chemical

Engineering organized an expert lecture which was

delivered Mr. Jayanta K. Bagchi on Design Engineering

and Project Management of Oil and Gas Project. He is

presently working with M/s Jacobs Engineering Baroda,

leading the project teams in several international projects

in US, Singapore and Canada. He has an experience of 36

years in industries relating to oil and gas, chemicals and

refineries in India and abroad. His talk was focused on

project planning. Students were guided on the various

stages involved in project execution. The lecture was

followed by a short campus visit.

On 4th September 2015, under the distinguished lecture

series, Mr. Nilesh Mangukia, Head- HSD/ENS, Linde

Engineering, Vadodara addressed the third and fourth year

students of Chemical Engineering.

Sir shared his expertise on ‘Air Separation Unit’ with the

students. ASU is considered as one of the imperatives

units of most of the chemical engineering plants. Mr.

Mangukia delivered the lecture for an hour and very

comfortably explained the process to the students with the

help of process flow diagrams.

Sir, along with his colleague, is currently working on the

designing and installing world’s biggest ASU for Reliance

Industries Ltd, Jamnagar. They acquainted us with

processing of the same.

The enlightening lecture was followed by an interaction

session where students posed questions and got their

queries resolved. Overall this was a delightful session for

the students as well as our guests.

An expert lecture and interaction session with the Mr. K R

Shekar, MD, Bayer Vapi Pvt. Ltd. was organized on

7th September, 2015 on the topic shaping our Behavior for

Effective Leadership. Mr. Shekar is a recognized

management professional having vast experience in the

field of procurement & Supply chain Management for

almost three decades. He has worked in leading

multinationals like Goodyear Tires, Whirlpool and Bayer.

During his talk sir described the importance of leadership

in life. He emphasized on the fact that hard work is the

only route to success by quoting examples of great

personalities. The session was followed by felicitating sir

by Dr. Pravin Kodgire.

EXPERT LECTURE ON AIR SEPERATION UNIT

EXPERT LECTURE ON DESIGN

ENGINEERING AND PROJECT

MANAGEMENT OF OIL AND GAS PROJECT


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The introductory sessions of the orientation included

speeches like introduction to IO, future scope in USA,

inventions. We were also given lectures by employees

working in reputed companies, hence arousing our interest

in working of industries by sharing their practical

experiences with us and how they do their work in their

respective companies and how I can apply what I have

studied in practical manner. Industrial orientation gave us

a thorough insight of power generations process, the

different components used and also the distribution of

power , quality check process of any electrical equipment

happen , different testing of transformers , testing of

materials and transformers . The experience was a reality

check, throwing light on practical application of the

theories and concepts learnt in the first two years of our

B.Tech.in Electrical course. We visited 4 major renowned

privates & public sector companies, namely:

Gandhinagar Thermal Power Plant

Electrical Research and Development Association

Transformers and Rectifiers (India) Pvt. Ltd

Kadana Hydro Power Plant

Shell Eco-marathon is a unique competition organized by

SHELL that challenges students around the world to

design, build and drive the most energy-efficient car. With

three annual events in Asia, Americas and Europe, student

Teams take to the track to see who goes further on the least

amount of fuel.

Shell Eco-marathon 2016 will take place around the

world in:

Asia: Manila, the Philippines.

America: Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Europe: Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Attended by Mr. Vipin Shukla

Siemens one week faculty training

Short Term Training Program on Programmable Logic

Controllers and Process Instrumentation” from 6th July to

10th July at PDPU Siemens COE

Coordinator Dr. Pratik Shah

Presented a paper and poster at Industrial Application

Society, IEEE Annual meet.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING


SHELL ECO-MARATHON


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IEEE IAS AWARD


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1. HINDUSTAN COCA-COLA BEVERAGES

PVT. LTD.

Date: 28th April, 2015.

Names of the Faculties: Dr.Abhishek Kumar, Mr. Sagar

Patil

On the 28th April of 2015, the students got a chance to visit

the very efficient and diversified manufacturing plant of

the Coca-Cola beverages. The company personnel

introduced the students with various processes for

manufacturing the beverage, starting from purification of

water to packaging and palletizing of the finished product.

The different requirements of temperatures and

Proportions for different beverages was also emphasized

by him. Ultimately, the students got a detailed exposure of

the blow molding and packaging processes present over

there.

Student Feedback:

Students were happy to know about how their daily

companions, "the beverages” are processed and packed.

Their idea about a continuous production line cleared after

this visit. They also didn't forget about the free cokes given

to them!

2. KHS MACHINERY

Date: 2nd July, 2015

Name of the Faculty: Dr. Abhishek Kumar

The visit to the KHS Machinery plant, located at Hirapur,

Vatva was organized with a motive of increasing the

understanding of the students about the packaging

industry, since KHS is a global leader in the same. At

KHS, the students were briefed about the company's

background and achievements. They were also introduced

to the training program they offer at their academy inside

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their plant. Then the students visited the actual assembly

site where the machines were being assembled. They were

introduced to various parameters that regulate the

packaging speeds and volumes of the material being

packed. Also the students got an idea of a few Industrial

Engineering techniques like Kanban which were

prevailing there.

Student Feedback:

After the Coca-Cola visit, the visit to KHS plant turned out

to be very fruitful since the machines used by Coca-Cola

were mainly supplied by KHS only. So, the students were

able to find relevance between these two visits.

3. MOTHER DAIRY (AMUL)

Date: 4th July, 2015

Names of the Faculties: Mr. Arvind Makwana, Mr. Balaji

Rao

The visit to the Mother Dairy, Ahmedabad, enhanced the

students' understanding about the bulk material processing

and distribution. The plant that was visited has a maximum

capacity of processing 30 Lakh liters of milk per day. The

process initiates with collection of excess raw milk from

various other dairies and its pasteurization after which it is

diverted to various processing lines to make products like

milk, flavored milk, yogurt, ghee, butter, etc. and finally

the packaging of these products takes place.

Student Feedback:

Got broad idea about Bulk food processing industry.

4. BRAY CONTROLS PVT. LTD.


Names of the Faculties: Mr. Arvind Makwana, Mr. Balaji

Rao

The students visited Bray Controls Pvt. Ltd. located at

Baroda and got an idea about industrial applications of

different types of control valves like butterfly valves, ball

valves, sphere valves, etc. and actuators. They were also

shown the procedure to manufacture ball valves. They

were explained how the materials that are outsourced for

making the valves, are inspected before accepting them.

The sizes and type of valve change due to various

parameters like type of material too be handled, size of the

pipe, temperature of the fluid, etc.

Student Feedback:

Students were glad to get a chance to visit such an efficient

plant.

5. KIRLOSKAR PUMPS


Name of the Faculty: Ms. Mallika Taneja

The students visited the Kirloskar unit at Sanand which

manufactures submersible pumps. The process observed

by the students started from the washing and degreasing

of the casting which were further taken for anodized

coating for longer operational life. The pump was


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assembled in stages where after each assembly station on

the assembly line, a new bowl was added to increase the

pressure that it can deliver as output.

Student Feedback:

This plant was very well organized with a proper material

and work flow. Learnt a lot from the guides present there,

representing Kirloskar.

Mr. Ketan Dhruv, from Bosch-Rexroth group was invited

to deliver a lecture at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum

University on 3rd of July. He explained the concept of Lean

Manufacturing to the students of Industrial and

Mechanical engineering branches. Initially he explained

about the organizational structures. The various

departments and their functions. He also gave a glimpse of

the structure that is established at the Bosch-Rexroth

facility located at Sanand. Talking about the Lean

manufacturing, the speaker believed that it plays the role

of an alchemist in the industry. The organization that

adopts this method progresses, not immediately but

definitely,

As he explained, the structure of Lean can vary according

to the type of industry. It is also dependent on the

requirement of the time. The soul of Lean Manufacturing

lies in reduction of the non-value adding activities in the

operations for producing a good or providing a service.

Further, the speaker explained different Lean tools for the

betterment of an organization. 5S, Jidoka, Kanban,

Pokayoke, etc. are a few of them. A lecture from such a

towering personality was a boon for the students. At the

end, a question-answer session was kept to clear the

remaining doubts among the students.

As a part of the Industrial Orientation Program for third

year B.Tech. Students, a guest lecture, last of its series,

was organized to enlighten the students of Industrial

Engineering. The lecture was delivered by Mr. Naresh

Behl from Xylem Water Solutions and who is also an ex.

Navy personnel. The lecture was organized to increase the

understanding of students about ‘Lean Manufacturing’.

The speaker initially focused on explaining the effects of

different factors on the manufacturing of goods. He also

explained about the concept of 5S, which is the

prerequisite of a total transformation of a normal

manufacturing unit into one following Lean

Manufacturing. He also emphasized that for an industry or

organization to function for very long time, customer’s

demands, needs and satisfaction are the primary things.

The session was further carried by the speaker by

explaining the importance of various tools of Lean

Manufacturing like Kaizen, Gemba, TQM, TPM, etc. The

session was kept lively by the speaker by involving

students in interaction with him. Also, the curiosity of the

students made it a perfect session. The session lasted for

two hours and was very fruitful for students as the topics

were very relevant to their course. When asked, the

students were found willing in inviting Mr. Naresh again

to PDPU for another productive lecture.

The first lecture for Industrial engineering students as a

part of the Industrial Orientation program was conducted

by Mr. Nital Zaveri of Concept Business Excellence about

Lean Manufacturing on the 30th of June. The speaker first

introduced the role of an industrial engineer in a

manufacturing unit. He advised the students to develop an

attitude of working for proactive crisis. While explaining

about the Lean manufacturing, he primarily focused on

management of value adding and non-value adding

activities. According to his observation and studies, more

than 95% activities involved in manufacturing are non-

value adding, for which the customer isn’t willing to pay.

Only few are able to achieve 91%-93% of total operations

to be non-value adding.

So, according to him, the primary concern of an Industrial

Engineer should be the reduction of non-value adding

activities. He named various other tools of Lean

manufacturing and also explained which type of industry

will prefer which tool. The session was perfectly placed as

it gave an introduction to students about the core Industrial

Engineering. Students found the lecture very interesting

and thought provoking.

LECTURE BY Mr. KETAN DHRUV

LECTURE BY Mr. NITAL ZAVERI

LECTURE BY Mr. NARESH BEHL


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On the 30th June, post lunch, a lecture on the topic of

Toyota’s model of production, commonly known as TPS

was organized. The lecture was organized to introduce the

students with the history of Industrial Engineering. It all

started with the transformations in the production system

of Ford Motor Company, Detroit, USA. The famous car of

ford, Model T was the first product of Ford’s new

production system. With the help of this system, Ford

transformed itself for mass production of Model T. Tiaichi

Ohno, a Japanese engineer came to the Ford Company

with a few companions to observe the Ford’s production

system and took back the crude model of present day

Toyota production system. He redesigned the system by

reducing the non-value adding operations in the Ford’s

model.

The speaker also explained about the culture prevailing at

KHS Machinery. The KHS academy provides training

about many mechanical parts and their assemblies. The

lecture about the KHS academy was very fruitful because

the students later visited the same facility and were

introduced to many automation systems and mechanical

parts. The age gap between the speaker and students was

not so big. So, they enjoyed the lecture more than they

expected.

The third lecture of the Industrial Orientation program was

held on 1st of July. The dignitary that was invited to deliver

the lecture was Mr. Senthil Velan from Alstom India

Limited. As we all know, our college is a promoter of

usage of renewable sources of energy. So, following the

same ideology, Mr. Senthil gave a lecture about usage of

renewable energy sources or the green energy in the

industry these days. He explained that Alstom India is

playing an important role in developing the renewable

resource strategy for the developing countries in Africa

and South-East Asia. The students were introduced to the

Indian scenario of usage of renewable resources too.

Alstom India basically works in the hydropower

generation industry. It helps the governments in setting up

hydroelectric power plants. The capacities of these plants

vary according to the requirements of the customer. He

later explained the organizational structure of any major

organization. He gave a glimpse of the working

environment of an industrial unit. The divisions and

departments in an organization and their respective

functions. The interlink between these departments and

their mode of communication with each other was also

explained by him.

LECTURE BY Mr. SENTHIL VELAN

LECTURE BY Mr. RAVI SINGH


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ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE STUDENTS

NAME YEAR ACHIEVEMENTS

Parth Bhatt Ph.D.

Honoured with prestigious “IAAM Young scientist award of the year 2015” for his research presentation entitled “ Investigating the degradation rate of pervoskite material under humid conditions for solar photovoltaic applications” in the Advanced materials World congress 2015 held at Stockholm, Sweden.

Raj Rangani 3(B.Tech.) Bronze Medal in International Diathon Organized by AIESEC in PDPU.

Vineel Kondiboyina 4(B.Tech)

Winner in Poster Presentation and Technical Quiz during Engineer's day.

National Conference on Wind Tunnel Testing held at DRDL (19-20 March, 2015)- presented a paper titled “Development of Integrated Nozzle for a Mach 12 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel

ASME IAM3D Design Challenge: Represented University at Boston, USA as one of the top 20 finalists from around the world.

Jeetesh Hasijani, Shrishail Raut

4(B.Tech.) A paper on "A Sustainable approach on high temperature heat extraction from exothermic thermo chemical reaction of slacked lime", International conference on renewable energy & sustainable environment

Alay Shah, Mohit Rayjada, Shantam Gupta

4(B.Tech.) A paper on "Investigating mechanical properties of SAW and SMAW welded joints and the effect of SMAW repair of SAW welded specimen", International conference on electrical, electronic, computer science, mechanical engineering and management

Alay Shah 4(B.Tech.) HPAIR - Harvard Project for Asian and Industrial Relations - It is an academic program and a forum of exchange to facilitate discussion on vital issues of Asia, 20th August 2015 to 24th August 2015, to: Manila, Philippines


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SOT Mirror Issue 04 ,2015