The 32nd national convention cum seminar on “Advances in Engineering Materials for Sustainable Development (AEMSD 2019)” organised by The Institution of Engineers (India), Jamshedpur Local Centre in association with Tata Steel and CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory kicked off on Friday at CSIR-NML Auditorium.
T.V. Narendran, CEO & managing director, Tata Steel, Indranil Chattoraj, director, CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur, K K Mehrotra, Chairman, MMDB of IEI, Avneesh Gupta, vice-president, shared services, Tata Steel and P.N. Chaudhary, former Chief Scientist & organising Secretary, AEMSD, inaugurated the event.
Narendran in his address stressed on the need of ‘system efficiency’ in view of the sustainable development. He said materials due play very important role.
There has been a debate regarding the material consumption as developed countries uses the largest chunk (80%) than the developing countries (20%), thereby, the quality/ enriched materials getting gradually depleted.
But over last 15-20 years the trend are getting reversed and consumption by the developing countries are in the rising order. As a result the demand for materials are increasing and realising the inter-dependency of materials, the sustainability is becoming the thread and the main focus of engineers. This is true for almost every sector, namely – Auto industry, Civil construction, Manufacturing industry, Steel, Environmental and likewise.
While welcoming the gathering, Avneesh Gupta said, "Use of materials and metals dates to stone and iron age and there has been a constant drive to bring in breakthroughs". Sustainability oriented society is forcing the transformation of manufacturing and engineering sectors which is where digitization and use of advance analytics has also started taking a leading role. In this context the AEMSD 2019 seminar has become relevant for exchange of knowledge amongst the learned gathering.
Indranil Chattoraj spoke on the occasion and said, "The imperatives for developing newer and better materials are many; but such development have to be sustainable to avoid the environmental pitfalls of the past. He added the convention and the seminar venue has been appropriately selected at our laboratory keeping space with the times as well as metallurgical and materials engineering communities as large".
K.K. Mehrotra said, Society faces great challenges to sustain continued development in the 21st Century for which technical innovations are the key tools for engineering solutions, by implementing sustainable practices in the use of materials, the materials science and engineering community will be well-positioned to take active role in shaping public policy in support of sustainable development.
