Faculty
Thought Leadership Series #1: Dr. Souvik Bhattacharyya:
Dean (Students' Affairs) 2009-2012,
IIT Kharagpur
Dr. Bhattacharyya has been an awesome personality among the students and administration. He has been very influential and encouraging throughout his stay at IIT Kharagpur.
The Institute Website
Team, now called
Public Relations Cell, met
Prof. Bhattacharyya in July,
2012, before he left to commence his tenure as
Vice Chancellor of
Jadavpur University, to share his thoughts about 'His
Leadership Style'. We hope his views will inspire the student and faculty communities, because there is lot to learn from our Souvik Sir.
Interviewers:
Sarika Sivareena and Subhadeep Mondal.
Biography:
Souvik Bhattacharyya graduated from Jadavpur University,
Kolkata, India with a
Bachelor's degree (
1981), MS (
1985) from
University of Cincinnati,
USA and PhD from
Texas A&M; University (
1991), USA in
Mechanical Engineering specializing in thermal sciences. After a post-doctoral research stint at Teaxs
A&M;, he joined the faculty of
Indian Institute of Technology (
IIT) Kharagpur,
India in 1991 where he was the Dean (Students' Affairs) during 2009-2012 and has been a
Professor of Mechanical Engineering since
2003. He also held faculty position at
University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand during 1998-2000.
Currently he is the Vice-Chancellor of Jadavpur University,
Kolkata.
Dr Bhattacharyya serves on the Editorial
Boards of
Energy Conversion and
Management,
International Journal of
Power and
Energy Systems and
Journal of
Nano Energy and Power Research. He is an
Associate Editor of the international journal
Alternative Energy. His research interests include heat transfer enhancement, thermodynamic optimization, energy engineering, natural refrigerant based transcritical heating cooling systems, and natural circulation loops. A recipient of the
ASHRAE Best Paper Award, Dr Bhattacharyya has published 90 refereed and reputed international journal papers and over 90 papers in international conference proceedings, besides contributing several articles in edited books published internationally. He is now a co-author of the celebrated heat transfer text by JP Holman. He has been an invited keynote speaker and panelist in several international conferences and workshops. He is a fellow of the
Indian National Academy of Engineering and has been principal investigator for a large number of sponsored research projects. He has been an expert member of the
DST Fast Track Young Engineer Research
Project Committee during 2007-2012.
Credits:
1)
Institute Website Team now turned into Public Relations Cell, IIT Kharagpur. Interviewers: Sarika Sivareena and Subhadeep Mondal.
Video Editing: Rachit Aggarwal,
Social Media Manager (YouTube), PR Cell.
2) Video
Shooting and Editing: Ankit Jhille and Rachit Aggarwal,
Technology Film Making and
Photography Society (www.facebook.com/TechnologyFilmMakingPhotographySociety)
3) Photography by
Vidhu S Pillai (www.facebook.com/vidhus1)
4) Video Editing: Rachit Aggarwal, Social Media Manager (YouTube), PR Cell
- published: 16 Mar 2013
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