Workshop organised at BIT Mesra
One week workshop on emerging techniques in mechanical engineering and its applications, conducted by the Department of Mechanical Engineering continued for the second day as well. The day began with a lecture by Dr. Dibakar Rakshit from Centre for Energy Studies, IIT Delhi. Dr. Dibakar Rakshit spoke on the topic of Passive Solar Technologies for minimising heating/cooling loads in buildings. His lecture pivoted around the basic theme of building energy conservation through various passive solar technologies. The second lecture of the day was by Dr. L.N Pattanaik from the department of production engineering of BIT Mesra. He delivered his lecture on Soft computing tools in optimization.
BAU to host conference on Small Millet
Around 110 agricultural scientists from across the country total of 22 Research Project Centre on small millet will gather at Birsa Agriculture Univercity (BAU) on Thursday to discuss in a two day conference organized by Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) and Indian Integrated Small Millet Research Project (IISMRP). The programme will be chaired by BAU Vice Chancellor, Parvindar Koushal and ICAR Additional Director General, RK Singh.