Just days away from entering Moon orbit, here’s what lies ahead of Chandrayaan-2

The Chandrayaan-2 is presently in the Lunar Transfer Trajectory and in this Tuesday, the liquid engine of the spacecraft will be powered so as to get it inside the orbit of the Moon.

To read the full article, please visit:

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/just-days-from-entering-moon-orbit-heres-what-isro-chandrayaan-2-has-done-so-far-5912997/ (Accessed on August 20, 2019)

Scientists made a stable cyclocarbon ring of 18 carbon atoms: Here’s why it matters

A team of scientists from Oxford University and IBM Research has managed to make and image a ring of 18 carbon atoms for the first time, which is a carbon allotrope-- cyclocarbon (C18).

To read the full article, please visit:

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/scientists-made-a-stable-cyclocarbon-ring-of-18-carbon-atoms-for-the-first-time-5915193/ (Accessed on August 20, 2019)

Library Orientation for ME Students 19th August 2019

Library Orientation for ME Students 19th August 2019

Direct PhD entry for grads in Engg, Architecture & Law

Engineering, Architecture and Law graduates can soon straight away enrol for doctorate programmes skipping the Masters, provided they clear the entrance examination and interview.

Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/national/direct-phd-entry-for-grads-in-engg-architecture-law-754838.html

New Arrivals: August 1-16, 2019

BRANCH: MECHANICAL

27213-27216 DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (AS PER NEW SYLLABUS OF MUMBAI UNIVERSITY)  
By GUPTA, G.K.
CHENNAI/McGRAW-HILL/2018
005.74 GUP

27217-27218 KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS OF MACHINERY  
By NORTON, ROBERT L.
CHENNAI/McGRAW-HILL EDUCATION/2009
621.8 NOR

27219 INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS AND CONTROL  
By BHATTACHARYA, S.K/CHATTERJEE, S.
CHENNAI/McGRAW-HILL INDIA/1995
621.3815287 BHA/CHA

27227 ENGINEERING FLUID MECHANICS  
By KUMAR, K.L.
NEW DELHI/EURASIA/2016
620.106 KUM

27228 MECHANICS OF FLUIDS-3rd. ed.  
By SHAMES, IRVING H.
NEW DELHI/MCGRAW HILL/2014
620.106 SHA

27229-27230 THEORY OF MACHINES AND MECHANISMS-25th. ed.  
By BALLANEY, P.L.
NEW DELHI/KHANNA/2018
621.8 BAL

27238-27239 MECHANICS OF MATERIALS-2nd. ed.  
By GERE, JAMES M./TIMOSHENKO, STEPHEN P.
NEW DELHI/CBS/2004
620.1123 GER/TIM

27240 ELEMENTS OF STRENGTH OF MATERIALS-5th. ed.  
By TIMOSHENKO, S.P./YOUNG, D.H.
NEW DELHI/AFFILIATED EAST-WEST PRESS/2019
620.112 TIM/YOU

2724127245 ELEMENTS OF WORKSHOP TECHNOLOGY: MACHINE TOOLS-15th. ed.Vol.No.2  
By CHOUDHURY, S.K. HAJRA/BOSE, S.K./CHOUDHURY, A.K.HAJRA/ROY, NIRJHAR
MUMBAI/MEDIA/1964
621.9 CHO/BOS

2724627247 MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY: FOUNDRY, FORMING AND WELDING-5th. ed.Vol.No.1  
By RAO, P.N.
CHENNAI/McGRAW-HILL EDUCATION/2019
670 RAO

BRANCH: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

27220 MICROWAVES-2nd. ed.  
By GUPTA, K.C.
NEW DELHI/NEW AGE/2012
621.3813 GUP

27221 MICROWAVE ENGINEERING-3rd. ed.  
By DAS, ANNAPURNA/DAS, SISIR K.
NEW DELHI/McGRAW-HILL EDUCATION/2015
621.3813 DAS/DAS


BRANCH: ELECTRICAL

27222-27226 FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL CIRCUITS-4th. ed.  
By ANANDKUMAR, A.
DELHI/PHI LEARNING/2018 [Issued]
621.395 ANA

27231-27232 NETWORK ANALYSIS  
By VALKENBURG, M.E.
UTTAR PRADESH/PEARSON INDIA/2019
621.3192 VAL


BRANCH: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY


27233-27237 COGNITIVE COMPUTING AND BIG DATA ANALYSIS  
By HURWITZ, JUDITH S./KAUFMAN, MARCIA/BOWLES, ADRIAN
INDIANAPOLIS/JOHN WILEY/2015
006.3 HUR/KAU

BRANCH: COMPUTERS

27248-27267 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING-2nd. ed.  
By ANAND KUMAR, A.
DELHI/PHI LEARNING/2016
621.3822 ANA

Laboratories in engineering colleges, technical institutions in rural areas to get makeover: AICTE

New Delhi, Aug 11 Laboratories in engineering colleges and other technical institutions operational in rural areas are all set to get a makeover, with the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) deciding to providing grants to institutions for procuring modern equipment.

The technical education regulator under the HRD Ministry will be providing grants under the Modernisation and Removal of Obsolescence (MODROBS) scheme.

"A special drive is being undertaken by AICTE under MODROB scheme for modernising laboratories in technical institutions operating in rural areas and approved by AICTE by providing grants for procuring modern equipments. The institutions can apply under the scheme till August 28," a senior AICTE official said.

The MODROB scheme aims to modernise and remove obsolescence in laboratories, workshops, computing facilities excluding libraries, so as to enhance the functional efficiency of technical institutions for teaching, training and research purpose.

"It also supports new innovations in class room and laboratory, teaching technology, development of lab instructional material and appropriate technology to ensure that practical work and project work to be carried out by students is contemporary and suited to the needs of the industry.

"The equipment financed under the scheme could be ideally used for up-gradation of equipment in existing laboratories, enhancement of performance parameter specification of existing equipment, incorporation of latest development in the field and replacement of old depreciated equipment by modern equipment," the official said.

The equipment installed through MODROBS can also be used for indirect benefit to faculty or students through continuing education programmes, training programmes for local industry and consultancy work.

Only institutions that have been in existence for at least 10 years can apply for the scheme and get funding up to Rs 20 lakh. Duration of the project will be two years from the date of receipt of funds in the institute''s account.

"100 per cent grant of sanctioned amount will be released to government and government aided institutes. To private institutions, grants will be sanctioned in the form of per cent of the sanctioned amount as advance followed by 20 per cent as reimbursement on submission of the utilisation certificate and other supporting documents as specified in terms and conditions of MODROB," the official said. GJS GJS DV DV

Source: https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/laboratories-in-engineering-colleges-technical-institutions-in-rural-areas-to-get-makeover-aicte/1594754 (Accessed on August 16, 2019)

VIKRAM SARABHAI'S 100TH: WORDS FROM THE AWARD-WINNING LEADER'S 1971 SPEECH REMAIN IMPORTANT FOR INDIA TODAY

Editor's Note: On 10 April 1971, at the Silver Jubilee Celebration of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, the father of India's Space program Dr Vikram Sarabhai was invited to take the stage and share a few words as the Guest of honor. He spoke of the role Tata Institute of Fundamental Research plays in the country's biggest atomic energy program  (the Atomic Energy Commission, of which Sarabhai was the President 1966–1971) and the importance of institutes of national import to freely-interact in clusters with others important institutions to address the needs of a developing nation like India. 

Your Excellency, Mr Tata, Prof Menon and friends,

I speak here on behalf of the Atomic Energy Commission of India with admiration, gratitude, pride, and expectation as Panditji said, "This Institution has been the cradle of Atomic Energy in India", and it is through the agency of one single person: Homi Bhabha, that we saw during the early part of the fifties and right to the middle of the sixties a creation and the development of 3 major institutions — not only the Atomic Energy Commission itself but the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and the Atomic Energy Establishment, of all three of which Bhabha was the guiding spirit.

But when in 1966 Bhabha met his tragic death, it was considered appropriate to separate the directing responsibility of each one of these three units, and we have in Professor Menon a most distinguished successor to Bhabha in the role of the Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. It is necessary for creative work to be able to see squirrels and birds. It is not a physicist's remark and I feel that Professor Menon has not only maintained the excellence of this Institute but has kept up the core 0f the culture which was created so admirably by Bhabha for the type of creative work which was to be done here.

Vikram Sarabhai (left), Chairman of ISRO, and NASA administrator Thomas Paine sign an agreement in September 1969. Image: NASA

But one of the most important aspects which I would like to deal with you here is this aspect of the relationship of the culture of fundamental research, the culture of research and development and the culture of industry; for the main task of Atomic Energy Commission in this county is to provide the benefits of Atomic Energy for the development of the nation. And I think it is necessary to understand that the main task is related to the completion of this entire innovative change from fundamental research to the industry, if we are to succeed.

I would suggest that the primary task of fundamental research is to discover; of research and development is to optimise, and of the industry to produce. One of the main problems that are faced in the organisation of innovative institutions or establishments is to make the link between these three cultures and to provide for a basis by which transfer of knowledge, of men, of technology can proceed from one step to another interacting freely and also benefitting one from the other. Margarate Mead has talked of the interacting clusters which are necessary if development and change are to take place. The clusters which are in each one of these three cultures require their transfer men who shared each other's trust above all and who share a common commitment to a profession, to science, to excellence, to certain common ideals. In electrical engineering, it is well known that energy from one loop to another can only be transferred if there are matched impedances.

Dr Vikram Sarabhai with Dr Homi Bhabha. Image courtesy: Darpana Archives

It is these common matching transformers at which the point of transfer takes place and it is through the men who are occupying positions of trust in these different clusters that it is possible to make the most important transfers which are involved in the innovative change. I would like to suggest that one of Bhabha's greatest accomplishments was that when he died suddenly, he left the state of affairs in the hands of people who shared a common trust and a common culture and could manage to develop these institutions further as a joint group or a family.

Dr Menon has already remarked about the role that the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research is playing in transferring electronics technology to the Electronics Corporation of India, of the big role that today they will be playing in the development of the computer industry in this country, and in the development of radars for the Space Research or the Variable Energy Cyclotron. There are a number of projects which TIFR continues to share with the other members of the family of Atomic Energy. In the years to come, we have a very challenging task before us. The 10-year profile of Atomic Energy and Space Research requires the best from our bright and talented scholars.