The department celebrated the 53rd Engineer’s Day on 15th Sep 2020. The celebration also marked the Online “Inauguration of the prestigious “The Institution of Engineers (India) Students’ Chapter, Department of Civil Engineering. The official opening of the Students’ Chapter was done at the hands of the most illustrious Alumni of our college “Padma Shri Shri.S.S.Rathore MD, Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation Ex-MD SSNL,Former President IEI). The official opening was followed by a webinar on “Sustainable Development” delivered by yet another remarkable luminary of our Institute “Shri Sameer Sinha”- Founder & Managing Director, SAVVY group, Ahmedabad.
Chemical Engineering Department, LDCE had arranged a virtual industrial visit at Sagar Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad for their under graduate students on 14th September 2020 coordinated by Prof. (Dr.) S. R. Shah and Prof. P. B. Patel. About 150 students of department took benefit of the same. Mr. Saurabh Bhatiya, Head of Environment Department at Sagar Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ldt. explained about the company, their safety and environment policies and the products they manufacture i.e. Vinyl Sulphonic acid, Nitrobenzene, Thionylchloride, Sulphuric Acid, Ethylene, etc. He had also briefed about the process and the difficulties with process when it is concern to the environment. Then we were brought to scrubber system where acid gases namely chlorine and sulphur dioxide are removed from gas stream in such a way that these gases are discarded in ambient below the permissible limits. Later the spray dryer was described by him where he took closed look on the hot gas generator and the sprayer. We were also able to visit their product packaging unit and the raw material storage. At the end Prof. (Dr.) Paresh Rana, Head of Chemical Engineering Department, LDCE appreciated students for participating and thanked the company management for allowing this virtual industrial visit.
It was a very proud moment for the Department as “The Institution of Engineers ( India) issued the Certificate of Establishment of the Students’ Chapter at the Department of Civil Engineering, at L.D.College of Engineering on 10th Sep 2020. This was made possible by the relentless efforts put forward by Prof. Dr. R.B.Khasiya ( HoD- Civil); Prof. Dr.C.S.Sanghvi ( HoD-Applied Mechanics) and Prof. C.D.Patel (Asst.Prof, Applied Mechancis) under the able guidance of Principal Madam Dr.R.K.Gajjar
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Chemical Engineering Department, L. D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad - Gujarat has organized a webinar on "My Story - Entrepreneur's Life & Crossroad" under stewardship of Institute Innovation Council (IIC) Cell, LDCE, supported by SSIP cell, LDCE Ahmedabad LDCE on 28/08/2020 at 12 noon. This webinar was the part of the Three days webinar series on “Outreach program on innovation and Entrepreneurship”. The eminent Speaker was Ms. Pallavi Bishnoi, Director & Co-founder, Real Time Renewable Pvt .Ltd. She is detailed and result-oriented consultant offering extensive background in water/wastewater management, sustainable solutions and renewable energy. She has hands-on engineer with 9 years of global experience in the environment sector- UK, USA, Norway and India. The seminar was co-ordinated by Dr. Anjali Bishnoi, Prof. Pratik Patel, Prof. Vandana Gojiya. Students, Professionals, and Academicians, Industry partners have attended the webinar. The webinar was organized through the digital platform Google Meet. The convener Prof. (Dr.) Manish Thakkar gave brief introduction about this three days of webinar series. He also gave brief introduction of SSIP cell, IPR cell and about the PoC projects funded under SSIP and about the students sensitized through the SSIP awareness Program to the speaker and to the participants. Around 200 students participated in this webinar. Ms. Pallavi Bishnoi started the lecture with the quote of Steve jobs “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” She shared the story of her how she changed her mind about to move India from US and starting up something for waste water management and solar energy. She explained the components of business which are market, finance, team, incubator, mentor and network. She also talked about the failure that you have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertains it as an end.She talked about the challenges, failure and success in the path of the entrepreneurship. After her inspiring talk, she answered the queries about the E-waste generated from solar panels. She explained how to get fund for start-up. She provoked students not to quench their dreams and always remain hungry for more dreams. Vote of thanks was offered by Dr Anjali Bishnoi.
Activities during lockdown by L D College of Engineering, Ahmedabad
The department in its consistent efforts to promote Industry-Academia Collaboration had planned and organized an Online Meet with Professionals and Stalwarts of Structural & Geotechnical Engineering. The aim of the Online Professional Meet was to deliberate on all the ongoing the concerns of the Industry and to provide an array of Dissertation topics to the Students pursuing their Masters in Structural & Geo-technical Engineering. The webinar was rightly entitled as “Meet the Professionals” – Industry Academia Collaborative Talk and organized on 14th August 2020. The expert Panel of speakers from the domain of Structural Engineering comprised of Shri Vijay Shah ( Bhoomi Consultants), Shri Umesh Soni ( Ambuja Cements Ltd), Shri Bhavik Patel ( Blue Skyz Engineers), Shri Jignesh Gandhi ( CASAD Consultants), Shril Shailesh Desai & Shri Rakesh Mehta ( Saunrachana Strucon Pvt. Ltd), Shri Rakesh Shah ( S3M, Consultants), Shri Bhavin Shah ( SQVe Engineers). The panel of experts from Geotechnical Engineering comprised of Shri Arun Dave ( Geotech Soil Testing Lab), Shri Mahendra Bhavsar ( SAI SYSTRA India Consultants), Shri Mihir Vora ( KBM Engineering Research Laboratory), Shri Parag Dave ( M.K.Soil Testing Laboratory), Shri Nitin Desmukh ( Louis Berger India – Metro Rail). The webinar was meticulously planned and organized by Prof. D.R.Tarachandani,Prof. P.J.Mehta, Prof.Dr.M.V.Shah, Prof. C.D.Patel & Prof. Shalini R. Singh under the able guidance of Prof. Dr. C.S.Sanghvi.
Mr Ankit Mishra, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany, has delivered an online lecture on “Polymeric Material” on 14th August 2020. 3rd sem students have taken the benefit of the same. Overall coordination was done by Dr Anjali Bishnoi. During his talk, he briefed about the polymer, their structure, unique properties of polymer and their various applications. He enlightened the applications of polymeric material in day to day routine life and also explained the role of the same in space applications. Overall it was a very interesting, informative and knowledge gaining session.
