Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) is an engineering institute located in Chromepet,Chennai,India. It is one of the four autonomous constituent colleges of Anna University. It was established in 1949 by Chinnaswami Rajam as the first self-financing engineering institute in the country and later merged with Anna University. The institute was among the first educational institutions in India to offer new areas of specialization,such as aeronautical engineering,automobile engineering,electronics engineering and instrumentation technology. Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) was the first self-financing institute opened in India.
PSG College of Technology is an autonomous,government aided,private engineering college in Coimbatore,India. It is affiliated with Anna University. It is an initiative of the PSG and Sons Charities Trust.
Henry Tzu-Yow Yang is a Chinese American mechanical engineer,university administrator,and the fifth and current chancellor of the University of California,Santa Barbara,a post he has held since 1994.
Roddam Narasimha FRS was an Indian aerospace scientist and fluid dynamicist. He was a professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (1962–1999),director of the National Aerospace Laboratories (1984–1993) and the chairman of the Engineering Mechanics Unit at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. He was the DST Year-of-Science Chair Professor at JNCASR and concurrently held the Pratt &Whitney Chair in Science and Engineering at the University of Hyderabad. Narasimha was awarded the Padma Vibhushan,India's second-highest civilian award,in 2013. for his contributions to advance India's aerospace technology.
The Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology is a public research university in Tehran,Iran. It is named after medieval Persian scholar Khajeh Nasir Toosi. The university is considered one of the most prestigious institutions of higher education in Iran. Acceptance to the university is highly competitive,entrance to undergraduate and graduate programs typically requires scoring among the top 1% of students in the Iranian University Entrance Exam.
Shiv Nadar is an Indian billionaire industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman emeritus of HCL Technologies and the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Nadar founded HCL in the mid-1970s and transformed the IT hardware company into an IT enterprise over the next three decades. In 2008,Nadar was awarded Padma Bhushan for his efforts in the IT industry. Nadar,nicknamed by friends as Magus,since the mid-1990s he has focused his efforts on developing the educational system of India through the Shiv Nadar Foundation. According to Forbes,he is the 3rd richest person in India and the 50th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of US$30 billion as of June 2023.
Miroslav Krstić is a Serbian-born American control theorist and Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California,San Diego (UCSD). Krstićis also the director of the Center for Control Systems and Dynamics at UCSD and a Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research.
Missouri University of Science and Technology is a public research university in Rolla,Missouri. It is a member institution of the University of Missouri System. Most of its 7,083 students (2022) study engineering,business,sciences,and mathematics. Known primarily for its engineering school,Missouri S&T offers degree programs in business and management systems,information science and technology,sciences,social sciences,humanities,and arts. It is classified as a "STEM-dominant",R2 doctoral university with "high research activity".
Hari Balakrishnan is the Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT,and the Co-founder and CTO at Cambridge Mobile Telematics.
Birla Institute of Technology &Science,Pilani is a deemed university in Pilani,Rajasthan,India. It focuses primarily on higher education and research in engineering and sciences. BITS Pilani is one of the first six institutes in India to be awarded the Institute of Eminence status. According to 2012 data,BITS Pilani has an acceptance rate of 1.47%,making it one of the most exclusive and prestigious technical universities in the world.
John F. Carney III was chancellor of Missouri University of Science and Technology from 2005 to 2011.
Shiv Nadar University (SNU) is a private research university located on NH-91,near Dadri in Uttar Pradesh,India. SNU is regarded as Institution of Eminence by the University Grants Commission. It was founded in 2011 as part of a series of initiatives launched by the Shiv Nadar Foundation,a private philanthropic foundation founded by Shiv Nadar,the founder and chairman of HCL.
Thirumanilaiyur Sitapati Ramana Subramanian was an Indian bureaucrat who served as the cabinet secretary of India from August 1996 to March 1998. He was a 1961 batch Indian Administrative Service officer from Uttar Pradesh Cadre.
Stephen P. Boyd is an American professor and control theorist. He is the Samsung Professor of Engineering,Professor in Electrical Engineering,and professor by courtesy in Computer Science and Management Science &Engineering at Stanford University. He is also affiliated with Stanford's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME).
Chandrathil Gouri Krishnadas Nair is an Indian technocrat,teacher and metallurgical scientist known for his contributions in the field of aeronautical metallurgy. Dr Nair was given the Padma Shri Award by the Government of India for his contributions to science and technology in 2001.
Rupamanjari Ghosh was the second Vice-Chancellor of Shiv Nadar University,Uttar Pradesh,India. She is also the former founding Director of School of Natural Sciences and founding Dean of Research &Graduate Studies at Shiv Nadar University,and a former Professor of physics and Dean at the School of Physical Sciences,Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi. Her research areas include Experimental and Theoretical Quantum Optics,Laser Physics,Nonlinear Optics,Quantum Information,Quantum Measurement and Magneto-Optics.
Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan is an Indian aerospace and computer scientist. He is a Professor of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Supercomputer Education Research Centre of Indian Institute of Science and a visiting professor of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. Balakrishnan was honored by the Government of India,in 2002,with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri
Mushi Santappa was an Indian polymer chemist,leather technologist and a vice chancellor of Sri Venkateswara University and the University of Madras. He was one of the founder directors of Avanti Leathers Limited and was known for his researches on the synthesis of graft copolymers,the properties of macromolecules,and osmotic techniques. He was an elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences,National Academy of Sciences,India,Royal Institute of Chemistry and New York Academy of Sciences and a founder fellow of the Academy of Sciences,Chennai. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research,awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,one of the highest Indian science awards,in 1967,for his contributions to chemical sciences.
Steven R. Little is an American chemical engineer and pharmaceutical scientist. He currently holds the title of department chair,distinguished professor,and the William Kepler Whiteford Endowed Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering. He also holds secondary appointments in bioengineering,pharmaceutical sciences,immunology,ophthalmology and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.
Stephen Malkin was an American engineer. He taught at the University of Texas at Austin,the University at Buffalo,the University of Massachusetts Amherst,and Technion –Israel Institute of Technology.
