Prof Bharati Basantani and students of 2023 passout batch, Jeet Lukhi, Rajan Pumbhadiya, Ashish Tiwari and Dhwani Khatri published a Design Patent on “Sterilization Chamber” on 20-3-2025, (Design No-350941-001)
L. D. College of Engineering in Association with Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (Japan) has organized an Online Technical Presentation (Expert Lecture) on 13/03/2025 1:30 p.m. on topic of Sumitomo Ultra High Damping Technology: Seismic Devices - Building Dampers & Ground Isolators. The speaker Dr. Andri Setiawan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) having expertise in Building Dampers & Ground Isolators and is Global Chief Technical Advisor (Based in Spain) for Sumitomo.
Applied Mechanics department of L.D.College of Engineering in association with Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management (GIDM, Gandhinagar) organized a 3-day workshop on “Disaster Management” under the aegis of MoU with GIDM. This well-curated workshop had a mix of Expert sessions as well as hands-on session on important topics pertaining to Disaster management. The expert sessions covered a myriad of topics such as Basics of DM, Recent advancement in mapping and mitigation of disasters, Career prospects in Disaster Management, Application of GIS and GPS in Disaster mapping. The hands-on session gave a lucid demonstration of fire extinguishing methods, fire-classifications and hands-on practice on operating of different types of fire extinguishers and methods to douse particular types of fire. The hands-on session also gave students wonderful insights into the preparation of Disaster mitigation Plan of LDCE. The workshop was organized on 5th-6th-7th March’2025. The well-curated workshop was coordinated by Prof.Dr.Poonam I. Modi, Prof.Bansal R. Patel and Prof.Shalini R. Singh with Major Dr.C.S.Sanghvi as the convener.
Plastic Technology students of 4th & 6th semester along with Prof. Kintu Jain, Prof. Hetal Shah and Prof. Stuti Shah visited Ankit Plastics, Kuha, Kathwada on 7th March 2025. The industry is one of the leading manufacturers of Plastic agricultural products
Prof. B.G.Basantani, Prof. Stuti Shah & Prof. Hetal Shah attended a session arranged by WDC cell LDCE . Session was on “Unlocking the secrets of Ayurveda” by Dr. Shital Belani (BAMS) for the celebration of International Women’s Day. Prof. Stuti Shah anchored the event.
Plastic Technology student of 2nd semester Ananya Pandey was awarded the best “SANSKRUTIK SPEAKER” of LDCE 2025 during the Elocution competition arranged by NSS and Science & Humanities Department LDCE on 1-3-2025
Prof. Stuti Shah & Prof. Hetal Shah participated in the Badminton tournament organized by WDC cell LDCE on 1-3-2025
An expert talk entitled "Importance of detailing in various RCC elements" was organized by Applied Mechanics department under the aegis of the ICI and IEI, student chapter at AMD, LDCE. The talk was delivered by KUNAL TALSANIYA (Sr. Associate, Structure, Ducon Consultants Pvt. Ltd.) on 28.2.25 at Aryabhatt hall in LDCE. The lecture was well attended by students of B.E and M.E Civil and faculty members. The department of Applied Mechanics would like to extend a heartfelt gratitude to Mr.Kunal Talsaniya for sparing his precious time and helping the students to get conversant with the nuances of Ductile detailing of RCC elements in accordance with IS 13920:2016. Each clause was explained elaborately yet lucidly thereby giving the students insights into the underlying theory of clause and relevant requirements. Mr.Kunal also highlighted some of the wrong practices in RCC detailing which eventually manifests as faults in structure that can later on result into catastrophic failure thereby highlighting importance of correct detailing in structures. Mr.Kunal engaged the entire audience by conducting an interactive and healthy talk. The session was concluded by a short Quiz based on the Lecture. The first 3 winners were felicitated by Mr.Kunal.
