PARTICIPANTS

Philippe BISCH, Director Technology R & D (www.iosis.fr)
Sharad TRIPATHI: President Fluidyn /Transoft group (www.fluidyn.com)
Nicolas LAMORTE: Project Engineer development, Fluidyn, Bangalore.
Dr. Baldev Raj, Director, IGCAR
Dr. Satyanarayana, Professor and Alumni Office Director, IIT Chennai
Faculty and students at IIT Chennai
IIT-EU Alumni Association members

IIT Management and Faculty

IIT faculty and management involved in student orientation programs and ongoing R&D are invited to discuss student exchange & graduate dual degree programs, and current R&D projects during the first session.

Indian Students

IIT students (3rd year plus) who would like to know about career options with European Academic institutions and R&D industry are invited.

NIT students likely to join IIT Master and PhD programs will be invited by the IITs to attend the meeting.

Students interested in volunteering to help with the July conference are invited to attend the planning meeting in the afternoon session.

AGENDA

Workshop: About 4 hours

Presentation by Sharad Tripathi and Philippe Bisch summarizing discussions at the previous workshops at other IITs

• Dual degree programs for IITs and EU schools
• Possible options for industrial mentoring
• Presentation by European schools of R&D projects underway
• European R&D projects and career options for students with European industry
• Discussion with industry of possible financing of Master / PhD programs

Presentation by IIT Chennai  faculty

• Student Academic programs
• Faculty/Student exchanges with other countries
• R&D projects underway with EU universities and other organizations

Presentation by ECP Student Nicolas Lamorte

• Life in EU school
• Practical training at Industry

Presentation by European Industry

• IOSIS,  Infrastructure
• Fluidyn, Environment

General Discussion

• Discussion of European R&D projects and career options for students with European industry
• IIT Chennai  Faculty and student feedback

IIT Chennai Faculty and Management Feedback

IIT Chennai  Students feedback

Conclusions

• Summary of potential actions going forward

Planning for Event 2 – July Conference: About 3 hours

Agenda to be determined

Infrastructure    IOSIS

Philippe BISCH, Philippe Bisch is a Civil engineer, graduate of the "Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées" in 1971. From 1976 onwards, he has been working with SECHAUD & METZ, Consulting Engineers, as Technical Director, and has been involved in large projects (bridges, motorways, industrial civil engineering, mainly in the nuclear industry, hydro-electric installations, etc.). Since the merge of OTH and SECHAUD & METZ under the name IOSIS, he is Scientific Director of the IOSIS group. Specialist of structural analysis, he has a large experience in teaching in several engineering schools. He is presently Professor in charge of "Structural mechanics", "Structural Dynamics and stability" and "Plates and Shells" courses at the "Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées", a major engineering school in France. He has been President of the “European Association for Earthquake Engineering”. He has been Vice-President of the CEN/TC250/SC8 (EUROCODE 8) and French Technical Contact. He was also involved in CEN/TC340 for the writing of a standard related to antiseismic devices. He is a member of the French Aseismic Construction Standards Committee (CN-PS) and of the governmental group (GEPP) related to seismic safety. At the occasion of his professional and educational activities, he has developed theories and calculation methods mainly in the field of structural dynamics and has therefore written many articles and books either in French and English languages.

Environment            FLUIDYN

Nicolas LAMORTE: Project Engineer Fluidyn Bangalore Nicolas did his B.Tech and masters  in Aerospace Engineering  from Ecole Centrale Paris, the best-known engineering school in France. He did finish at the top of his batch in Jan 2008  and then did something unusual. Nicolas decided to break ground and start his career in Fluidyn Bangalore. Nicolas is highly regarded for his dedication and technical excellence by his colleagues in France and in India. His pioneering effort will certainly motivate Indian industry & European students to come together in engineering R&D. As a result of this experience, Fluidyn has already decided to hire more European engineers for its Indian center besides Indian engineers for its European development center.

Sharad TRIPATHI: President of Fluidyn/ Transoft group After B.Tech(Aero) from IITK in 1969, Sharad did two masters in statistics and mechanics from Paris university. He also started working in 1970 as project engineer in National Space Centre of France and later since 1973 in Atomic Energy Commissariat ( CEA) of France till 1986. In 1987, Sharad started Transoft/Fluidyn group first in France then in India in 1989. Initially focusing on consultancy assignments, the group went on to develop several dedicated application software, especially in energy and environment. In 2005, Sharad and other IITians started Alumni association in Europe.

  

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Organizers / Contacts
IIT EU Alumni Association: www.iit-eu.org  
Event Managers  Europe : Sharad.Tripathi@iit-eu.org  / India : dilip.williams@iit-eu.org