NIST e-NEWS(Vol 19, Dec 15, 2003)

Special NewsNRC at Beach FestivalNIST Robotics Club(NRC) participated inthe GopalpurBeach Festival,which washeld from6/12/2003 to10/12/2003 atGopalpur. Onthe inauguralday Shri.Surya NarayanPatra, Hon’ble Minister for Energy and ShriDamodar Rout, Hon’ble Minister forPanchayat Raj were received by Prof. ArunPatnaik and both the Honorable Ministersshowed a lot of interest while visiting ourstall. There werea number ofinteresting itemson display suchas: Robotic Arm(configured byusing six servomotors toprepare tea), aWall Climber (designed with two servomotors and one touch sensor to climb agrid), a PC based Robot BullDozer, a imagemixing using digital camera & web camerain real time environment, a touch screencomputer monitor, etc. Our stall was thecenter of attraction in the entire festival asthis had the most advanced and futuristictechnology. More than one lakh visitorstrooped through our stall.NIST Welcomes You…We welcome Mr. Pallab Kumar Kar whojoined us this month in thedept of Mathematics. Mr.Kar is an M.Sc(Mathematics) and M.PhilN I S T e – N E W Sequation. He has worked as a Lecturer ofMathematics in the Dept of Mathematics atJagannath Institute of Tech & Management,Parlekhemundi, for the last 6 years.Get-together organized by NISTAlumni Chapter, BangaloreA get together of NIST Alumni memberswas organized in Bangalore during therecent visit of our Dean Dr Ajit K Panda.The second NIST Alumni chapter wasinaugurated officially at Bangalore. Around45 students were present in the meeting. Mr.Debabrata Parida of 1996-2000 batch willbe officiating as President, Mr Bapi Dash of1997-2000 batch as Secretary and Ms.Reshma Rout of the same batch as theTreasurer. We wish all success to the NISTAlumni, Bangalore chapter.Blood Donation Camp at NISTNational Service Scheme (NSS), NISTorganised a Blood Donation Camp at NISTon November15, 2003 inassociation withRed Cross Soc.from BerhampurUniversity. The title of hisM.Phil dissertation isQualitative study of First order FunctionalDifferential equations. His research interestis in the area of Functional differentialNational Institute of Science & Technology, Berhampur, 761008 3 of 15andMKCGMedicalCollege. A totalof 259 NISTians donated blood on that daywhich was the highest collection from acollege in entire Orissa as per the MedicalTeam of Blood Bank. We thank the NSSCoordinator, all blood donors and NSSvolunteers for this heartwarming gesture.NIST Faculty attend HRD ProgramIndian Heritage Academy, Bangalore,conducted a Human Resource DevelopmentProgramme at Bhubaneswar on November22-26, 2003. This programme wasorganised by Biju Patnaik University ofTechnology, Rourkela and sponsored byAICTE, New Delhi. Prof. N. S.Ramaswamy, Chairperson of IndianHeritage Academy and Prof M. S. Pillaiconducted the five-day workshop. Prof.Ramaswamy is the Founder Director ofIndian Institute of Management (IIM) atBangalore and ex- Director of NITIE,