Activities At MBM : Scholarship Distribution Function

Scholarship Distribution Function:

Wednesday, 15-April-2015.

MBM Alumni Association organised the scholarship distribution program for the academic year 2014-15. A total of 121 students received scholarships in different categories (merit, need-cum merit, need, ward of deceased and excellence in sports) amounting nearly.Rs. 7.5 lakhs  This event served as an opportunity to bring all scholarship recipients, alumni and the donors together.  The dais was adorned by Prof. Kailash Sodhani, (Vice-Chancellor, JNV University), Mrs. Suryakanta Vyas (MLA, Sursagar), Prof. S.N. Goyal, Prof. Kamlesh Purohit (Dean, MBM), Er. S.C. Chowdhary (President, Alumni Association), Er. P.C. Purohit  (Secretary, Alumni Association)   and Er. Anil Garg (Chairman of the Scholarship Committee). 

In his address, Prof. Sodhani greeted all the donors saying that investment in knowledge always pays the best interest and himself announced a sum of Rs. 51,000 for the cause of Scholarship. He further assured students and college administration that the process of faculty recruitment for MBM College will start soon. Mrs. Suryakanta Vyas  also donated the third installment of Rs.1 lakh towards her pledged amount of yearly contribution to students as scholarship. She motivated the girls particularly towards aiming for higher pursuits. Prof. S.N. Goyal invited the students to benefit from his experience and never hesitate in seeking his guidance at any hour. Along with this, the gracious presence of many senior alumni, Prof. Damodar Sharma, Prof. S. S. Tak, Er. K. M. L. Mathur, Gr. Capt. J. R. Swarnkar showered  their blessings to encourage students to keep moving on and continue working diligently to reach the greater heights of serving people. 

In the end, two scholarship recipients, Abhilasha Maheshwari and Kapil Bothra from final year expressed their profound gratitude to all the donors, stating the programme as an inspiration to continue giving back to the people and places that support us in our pursuits.

Galaxy of IAS

Heading International Organisations : Er K. K. Kapila

Er K. K. Kapila

Chairman & Managing Director, ICT (P) Ltd.Chairman, International Road Federation Co-Chair, FICCI’s National Committee on Transport InfrastructureMember, FIDIC Executive Committee

Er. K. K. Kapila, a Civil Engineering graduate from the MBM Engineering College Jodhpur 1968 batch, is the Chairman and Managing Director of ICT Group Companies, headquartered in New Delhi. Intercontinental Consultants and Technocrats (ICT) Group is an ISO 9001:2008 certified, multi-disciplinary 

firm of international consultants, providing comprehensive professional consultancy services, for all facets of infrastructure projects. Mr. Kapila has strived to advance Civil Engineering and serve the ‘public good’and enhance the stature of Civil Engineers and influence public policy in leadership roles as Chairman, International Road Federation, Co-Chair, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) – an apex national chamber of commerce in India and Member, FIDIC Executive Committee.

As a Chartered Civil Engineer, he is an eminent personality who holds several cognomens to his credit, a few of them are - Fellow and Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Engineers (India), Fellow, International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering. 

Mr. Kapila has authored a large number of Papers published in various journals and is the recipient of a number of national and international awards. Some notable ones include - “Who is Who of the World in 1999-2000” (USA Publication); New Century Award as Member of “The GLOBAL 500” based upon his 

unique accomplishments and contribution to the Society by Barons Who’s Who (USA. He is also recipient 

of the Global Road Achievement Award for Road Safety instituted by Indian Road Federation (IRF) in the 

year 2007. 

Mr.Kapila received the “STAR CEO OF THE YEAR” (medium enterprises) Award on 28th October 2010, instituted by “Business Today” and “Yes Bank”. He was awarded “Pride of India” Award on the occasion of “Pravasi Divas” by Indo-American Friendship Group on 9th January  2011 and “Meri Dilli Award 2010” on 5th February 2011 for the best Professional Services. On 10th March, 2012, he was awarded CIDC Vishwakarma Award 2012 for the category Industry Doyen by Construction Industry Development Council  (CIDC). On 5th October 2012  he was awarded the prestigious “Niryat Shree” Award (for the 2nd time after 2003) for outstanding achievement in export of consultancy services for the year 2009-10 from the President of India. 

For Mr. Kapila, growth of Consultancy Services in India is a matter of deep commitment. His vision is to put in place a mechanism to ensure that safety is an integral and inbuilt part of any infrastructure. The profession looks forward to Mr. Kapila’s leadership for the growth of Consultancy Sector and providing innovative solutions in the field of infrastructure Consultancy, bestowing benefits to the society at large.

Mr. Kapila cherishes a vision of nurturing exceptional talents in the field of Engineering and undertakes these through his active role in the MBM Alumni Association called JECOSA. Apart from nurturing talents, he is also working relentlessly for creating a place for the Engineering Profession in India through ‘’Enactment of the Engineers’ Bill’’.

Mr. Kapila, in his capacity as the Chairman, IRF, has launched a ‘National Mission’ along with the Union
Ministry of Road Transport & Highways to reduce road fatalities in India, in line with the UN Decade of
Action which envisages a reduction in road fatalities by 50% by 2020. He is relentlessly working for the
cause of Road Safety not only in India, but in many parts of Africa as well as in other parts of the world. 

Campus Recruitments

M.B.M. Engineering College has witnessed an astonishing increase in campus recruitments. Over 200 students from the college have been placed in reputed companies including the likes of Yamaha, NBC, Larsen and Tuorbo, Apperfect, Wipro, Haffele, Honda and other big names in the market. The official site of the training and placement cell (TPO Cell) ensures easy interaction between the students and recruiting companies. The database is simple, and requires companies, and students both to create mutually accessible profiles on the site. Companies must first fill out a Job Application Form (JAF) to visit the campus for placements. Via these profiles, companies gain easy access to student information and can set criteria for eligibility; while the students can gain full information about the job and the company itself. This highly efficient platform with a simplistic interface is the result of a student initiative, and is growing rapidly. In the current situation, the rate of recruitments is growing massively with 70-80% results, which is higher than most institutions. The new placement season starts January 18th 2015; with invitations open for any new companies that might want to venture into the JNV University, Faculty of engineering campus for employing fresh faces. All information on tpo.mbm.ac.in

Activities At MBM : ICC, PRATIBIMB and ALANKAAR

                ICC- The Innovation and Creativity Club 

This is a friendly amateur club of MBM Engineering College, and provides a platform to conduct and organise a variety of co- curricular activities. 

This club is presently run under the aegis of MBM Engineering College Alumni Association and aims to enhance the overall personality of a technical students. 

Motivated by the then Dean, Prof. Sushil Bhandari, this club was started in the college in 1998 and quickly rose upto the level of organising National Techno - Cultural Festivals, but inevitably became dormant after a few years. The club is thankful to its various students coordinators who shaped its activities ...Rahul Mohnot, Abhishek Kumbhat, Sachin Khatri, Neeraj Nenawati,  Arun Kukkar, Mayank Gupta and so many others...(I'll keep adding the names....)

With encouragement from Er. Ravi Agarwal, President and Er. N K Kansara, Secretary, MBM Engineering College Alumni Association, the club was revived by the herculean efforts of a team lead by two students of M.B.M Engineering College - Akash Gautam and Yodhesh Chouhan in 2009-2010. They handed it over into the able hands of Parth Choudhary and Snigdha Athaiya, followed by Vivek Pareek and Vipul Ajmera. The present team includes Ashutosh Mishra, Ashima Gupta, Priya Gautam, Arvind Yadav, Bhavesh Mistry and Anuj Purohit. The club is nurturing the talent of our students and providing it a platform at various students festivals all over the country. 

Initially conceptualised as technical club, it gained popularity and spread out to cover entrepreneurship and performing arts. Pratibimb is the theatre wing of the ICC.

PRATIBIMB : The Theatre Wing

A Dramatics section, named as “PRATIBIMB”. was added during the revival phase. Combined efforts of able mentors and experts like Sh. Pramod Vaishnav and dedicated team of students lead by Vivek Pareek and Abid Ali  have made Pratibimb cover several milestones.

This club aims to enhance and  stimulate the creative, emotional, political and social senses of the students by inculcating good acting, directing and writing skills.This is achieved through regular meets that constitute various sessions of exercises, games and time-to-time projects that include street plays, mimes, stage plays and workshops held by professionals. These projects give the participants a real-time experience on organising and managing events, coordinating with a team and stage and audience handling.

It is presently being run by a team of students belonging to different technical branches who undertake the task of writing directing, improvising as well as organising and managing all club activities like finance and memberships. One of the most important objectives of this club is to increase the visibility of issues of pivotal social and educational importance, in the campus.

The club has a web presence at https://www.facebook.com/groups/562714807107444/

Achievements of Pratibimb:

·         First prize  in the Nukkad competition in Annual Socio-Techno-Cultural Festival,IGNUS’15,IIT Jodhpur.

·         Second prize in the Nukkad competition in Kashiyatra 2015,IIT BHU.

·         Performed its first full length play “IMTIHAAN” in Soochnakendra Mini Auditorium of Jodhpur on 1^st May,2014.

·         First prize in the Nukkad competition in Vivacity 2013,LNMIIT Jaipur.

·         Participated in National Youth Festival for a number of times.

·         Presented a mime performance on need to protect our mother earth from pollution  during silver and golden jubliee celebration  of 1988 batch of MBM Engineering college,Jodhpur.          

·         Performed Nukkad on spreading awareness about T.B in Khokar village Parbatsar Tehsil  Nagaur District.under the British Broadcasting Corporation(BBC) and National Rural Health Ministry (NRHM).

·         Worked for the Election Commision of India: A team of 30 students from Jodhpur performed around 125 Nukkad Nataks in different gram panchayats of Jodhpur district to motivate rural population to cast their vote.

·          Designed and performed many street plays which reflects our responsibilities towards our society and one of them was “Swatchh MBM”, in support of SWATCH BHARAT ABHIYAAN.

CURTAIN CALL ....."IMTIHAAN" — at Suchna Kendra , Jodhpur

ALANKAAR : The Literature Wing

मत कहो आकाश में कोहरा घना है,यह किसी की व्यक्तिगत आलोचना है।दोस्तों अब मंच पर सुविधा नहीं है,आजकल नेपथ्य में सम्भावना है. - दुष्यंत कुमार

With all due love and divine efforts,the literature club of I.C.C(Innovation & Creativity Club) of M.B.M Engineering College,Alankaar"अलंकार" breathed life into penned feelings of many students in its first  काव्य गोष्ठी "अनकहे नगमे"   which was held on 08-04-2015 (wednesday) successfully.

The chief guest of the programme was Mr Rahul Gupta ,fine artist and eloquent writer of serving JDA and alumni of M.B.M Engineering College. This programme was held under the able guidance of the ex-convenors  of the club,Vivek Pareek and Atul  Jain, who showed the path and with their presence enlightened the upcoming poets.

Students  filled the environs with their beautifully written poems  and divulged their ever hidden, unspoken writings. The  inspiring poems of  veteran convenors of the club,Vivek Pareek and Atul Jain added glory to programme and everyone cheered jubiliantly! 

Every subject was touched from love to grief of terrorist attack,to effect of modern technology and  advancement to feelings of mother’s affection etc. in a poetic way.

This was a laudable attempt by the current coordinator of  Alankaar"अलंकार",literature club of ICC Shahbuddin Ansari  who  worked  with great verse and enthusiasm to make it a success.

The words of advise and appreciation by the chief guest marked the culmination of the programme.

The club activities can be seen at https://www.facebook.com/alankaarmbm?fref=ts

Pride of MBM : Entrpreneur Pulkit Gaur

                                                

                                                   Pulkit Gaur

An industrial engineer from 2004 batch  - a robot lover by heart - preferred to work in industry despite having admissions to various prestigious institutes for further PG studies.

He started his career with a US based MNC as a programmer and very soon got promoted to the post of Technical Manger - He served there for about two years where he was managing a team of around 150 people team - He then decided to start his own venture in robotics despite having offers from Google - ARM and Adobe outside India.

His company Gridbots Technologies - which manufactures robot for space - nuclear and defense agencies currently serves ISRO, Bhabha Atomic, NTPC, ONGC, Indian Navy,Gujarat Police and various other organisations and research agencies like Plasma Reserach Lab - IIT's etc.

Pulkit being passionate about technology since childhood made his first radio transmitter at the age of 12 - intelligent robots at the age of 15 and coded his own 32 bit operating system during first year of his engineering.He also won more than 50 national and international competitions during his engineering in various IIT's,NIT's.

He is a TED fellow - MIT TR35 Innovator of the Year - Prestigious Rajeev Motwani circle fellow and adjudged - India's hottest entrepreneur by Business World magazine - His company was also awarded by NASSCOM as most promising startup for innovation in the field of robotics and Lockheed Martin adjudged Gridbots - Machine Vision Technology as one of the top 30 technologies jointly just by Department of Science and Technology. 

Recently Economic Times has adjudged Gridbots as the best Technology Startup of Gujarat and Department of Science and technology has made a special feature report on Gridbots - as one of the top innovation startup company in India.

He advises various agencies on robotics - machine vision and artificial intelligence related technologies and delivers talks at various business conclaves on entrepreneurship and TEDx events.

Profiled by almost all the national dailies - magazine and TV channels - Gridbots is one of the most innovative Indian robotics company to watch for.

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Founder 

Gridbots Technologies Pvt. Limited

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Hall of fame - Eminent Teacher Prof. M. L Kothari

 Prof M.L.Kothari 

IIT,Delhi

Prof M.L.Kothari  was born  on 13^th Dec 1941 in District Udaipur Rajasthan. He obtained B.E. (Electrical) from  the M.B.M. Engineering College, University of Jodhpur in 1964, M.E (Power Systems) in 1970 from University of Rajasthan Jaipur ( on part-time basis while serving as Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at M.R. Engineering College Jaipur, now MNIT Jaipur) and Ph D in 1981 from I.I.T. Delhi( On Study leave from G.B.Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar).

Prof  Kothari served M.B.M. Engineering College Jodhpur as Lecturer in Electrical Engineering (1964-65), M.R.Engg College Jaipur (1965-72) as  Lecturer in Electrical Engineering and G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology  Pantnagar (1972-86)as Associate Professor before joining I.I.T. Delhi on 6^th June 1986.. Dr Kothari served as POWERGRID Chair Professor of Power Systems from 8^th Oct 1999 to 7^th October 2004 (Five Years) at I.I.T. Delhi . Prof  Kothari has served I.I.T Delhi  as Emeritus Fellow since 8^th October 04 to 12^th Dec 2011 after superannuating from the same Institute. At present Prof Kothari is serving I.I.T. Delhi as Visiting Faculty and ITM University Gurgaon as Faculty Mentor.

Prof Kothari was commissioned in NCC in 1966 and served as Part-time NCC officer at M.R.Engg College Jaipur and G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology  Pantnagar up to 1977. The last Rank held was Acptain.

Prof  Kothari’s  research activities are in the areas of Power system stability and control , Power System Protection , Flexible AC Transmission Systems, Power system analysis, operation and optimization , and  application of Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Systems to Power systems. Prof  Kothari has supervised 7 Ph D Thesis, 105 M.Tech Projects and several B.Tech Projects. He has published 140 research papers in Journals and Proceedings of International and National Conferences of Repute. He has also successfully completed several Research and Consultancy Projects. He has been serving as consultant to several Private and Public sector Industries. He   has also served on various committees of AICTE and National Board of Accreditation. He has developed UG and PG curriculums and  several Laboratories.

Prof Kothari received awards from Institution of Engineers India and System Society of India for his research contribution.

Prof Kothari coordinated  the prestigious Eighth National Power Systems Conference in Dec 1994 at I.I.T.Delhi.  He has organized and coordinated several CEP courses and C.D. cell Workshops.

He has visited USA, Japan, Hong Kong , Finland, Switzerland, Singapore, Sweden and  UAE for presenting Research papers and for Academic interactions. He has also served as Visiting Professor at Helsinki University of Technology , Finland  from 15^th August 2006 to 14^th October 2006.

Professor Kothari has developed Video Courses on  “Power System Dynamics” and “Power System Protection” of 40 hours duration each. These courses have been telecasted on EKLAVYA Technology Channel on regular basis. The Video Courses on  “Power System Dynamics” is available on You Tube and has been used by several students, Researchers and Faculty across the World.

Prof Kothari has been member of the Technical Review Committee of the following Course books:

1.      A course book on Smart Grid by Tata Power- DDL prepared under USAID  Funded Program( 2014)

2.      Course Content for Smart Grid by CESC Kolkata under USAID  Funded Program( 2014)

3.      A course book on Distribution Equipment – Metering by Tata Power- DDL prepared under USAID  Funded Program( 2014)

4.      A course book on Distribution Equipment – Distribution Transformer by Tata Power- DDL prepared under USAID  Funded Program( 2014)

 

Prof Kothari is Life Member of ISTE and Systems Society of India. He is Senior Member IEEE and Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering.