The concluding of the metallurgical seminar (BTTD-2013) started with Industrial visit to Tata Steel, Usha Martin and Adhunik Group of Industries to provide industrial and R&D exposure to the metallurgical engineering students’ participants, as informed by Kl Sahoo, Principal Scientist & Convenor of BTTD-2013. The students were highly thrilled and excited by looking at things which they read in the books and through their teachers’ classroom lessons.
The students had an opportunity to visit various R&D departments and facilities of CSIR-NMl and interacted with the working scientists. In addition they also visited NMl Museum, Archive and Knowledge Resource Centre. They could access to several research journals and global databases in NMl library.
A quiz contest on metallurgy was also organised among the participant students by a group of NMl Senior Scientists. There were seven rounds. The Winner team comprises of Ashish Soni, Ravi Kr. Sinha from NIT Jamshedpur and Ashok K from AcSIR-NMl. The first Runners-up comprises of M.H Nazir, Gourav Raj from NIT Jamshedpur and J R Danda from IIT (BHU), Varanasi. The second Runners-up were Ankit and Rahul Gupta from IIT (BHU), Varanasi jointly with Minal Shah from NIT Jamshedpur.
The Chief Guest of the function, Prof. Sankara Raman Sankaranarayanan, HOD from NIT Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu highly appreciated the programme. He added this will encourage the students and develop themselves to the expectation of industries in the years to come. The prizes for the best technical papers and quiz were given by Dr. S. Srikanth, Director, CSIR-NMl during the valedictory function. Dr. Srikanth mentioned in his brief address the student should have the hungriness for knowledge and constant drive to update and meet the requirement. This will go long way for career as well to find position in the society.