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
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.
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.
A Certificate of Merit was awarded to Rahul A. Dhanwani ( Student of M.E. Structural Engineering)for securing 1st Position in the Online Quiz competition “ Technical Quiz on IS 456:2000” conducted by IAStructE-CEPT University Student Chapter on 8th August 2020.
Information Technology Department of L.D.College of Engineering organized a national research conference on “Research Trends in Information & Communication Technology – NCRTICT-2020” on 7th August,2020 on an online platform. The conference, in form of research paper presentation, included many domains of research such as security, cloud computing, grid computing, IOT, digital image processing, data ware-housing, data mining, big data, software engineering, mobile computing, neural network, and machine learning. Two experts Dr.Ashish Shukla, Scientist -G, from SAC,ISRO , Dr.Sushan Karmakar , IIT Guwahati along with nearly a hundred of students , faculty members and the authors of the papers participated in the conference. Out of all presented papers, author Palak Chatwani’s “Volume rendering for weather data using Ray-casting algorithm on web” , author Nisha Sarvaiya’s “Design and Implementation of wheelchair for physically challenged people based on Eye movement detection using Image Processing” and author Rachana Bharat Parikh’s “Gujarati Speech Recognition - A Review” were chosen as the best papers from the conference.
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A one-day webinar on “Schrödinger Equation” was organized by Chemical Engineering Department, L. D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad at 08th July 2020. A total of 101 participants including faculties from chemical engineering department and 1st and 2 nd year students. The inauguration was held on 08/07/2020 at 11:30 AM. The Keynote speaker was Prof. (Dr.) Asha Bhardwaj Assistant professor, IISC Bangalore. During the online session expert shared her knowledge and experiences with the participants. The faculty and First year students benefitted immensely from the lectures and experiences shared by the expert. All the participants gave a positive feedback about the workshop and welcomed the initiative.
LDCE Lockdown period activities
