1 15 4 http://www.iitrpr.ac.in/omeka/files/original/330af5078b0a61acff30d3b9c7740038.jpeg 40d7fb7db40f0e4cd9290eb702ab02b5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Directors of Indian Institute of Technology Ropar Description An account of the resource IIT Ropar, as one of the newer IITs (established in 2008), has had leadership that blends strong research credentials with institutional-building vision. The transition from Prof Das to Prof Ahuja demonstrates continuity: both bring high academic profile and the drive to steer IIT Ropar into higher research and academic impact. For students, faculty and stakeholders, the leadership’s focus on interdisciplinarity, global research linkages, sustainability, and innovation is meaningful: it signals that the institute is moving beyond traditional engineering education toward broader impact. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1st Director of IIT Ropar, Professor M. K. Surappa Tenure: (Year: 2009-2015) Description An account of the resource Professor M. K. Surappa, the first and former director of IIT Ropar (served 2009-2015). Prof. Surappa nurtured IIT Ropar as an Institution of Excellence in Research and Governance. In the 2016 National Ranking of Institutions, IIT Ropar stands number 9 amongst top 100 Engineering Institutions. It is very heartening to note that IIT Ropar ranked number one in two parameters used in ranking exercise, namely (a) Teaching, learning and Resources (TLR) and (b) Graduation Outcome (GO) amongst 16 IITs. This is testimony to the inspiring, dynamic and visionary leadership of Prof. Surappa. Prof. M. K. Surappa, born on 5th Dec. 1951 in an agricultural family in Mirle, in Mysore District. He completed his school education on in Mirle in Kannada medium Government. schools. He obtained BSc degree (1970) from Yuvaraja's College of Mysore University. He joined the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1970 and received BE degree in Metallurgy in 1973, M.S and Ph. D degrees from the faculty of Engineering in 1976 and 1980 respectively. Prof. Surappa joined then newly established Regional Laboratory, Trivandrum in 1979 as senior scientist and worked there for two years. During 1981-87, he was Research Associate/Engineer at Drexel University (USA), Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland). He returned to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, as an Assistant Professor in 1987 and rose to the position of Professor in 1998. He was Honorary Secretary of Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology during 2004-09. He was Visi ng Professor to Sir M. Visveswaraya Chair, University of Mysore (2003-04). He has served as Founder Director of Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar for a period of six years (2009-15). He served as Dean, Faculty of Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science during the year 2016-2017. He assumed the post of Vice Chancellor of Anna University on 12th April 2018. He is also Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Science. Prof. Surappa has made outstanding R&D contributions to the Science and Technology of Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs). For over three decades, he has pursued many innovative investigations on synthesis, processing-microstructure-property correlation and application development of MMCs based on light alloy matrices. These include: (a) Development of "Stir Cast Process" for the fabrication of aluminium matrix composites. Process developed by Prof. Surappa at the Indian Institute of Science is often hailed as an Indian Innova on by MMC producers across the world. (b) Development of innovative technique for synthesis of metal ceramic nano composites by in-situ pyrolysis of polymer pre-cursors in the liquid melt. He has carried out all his research work entirely in India. Prof. Surappa has published 100 research papers in international journals and presented nearly 150 papers in national and international conferences and has authored a book. He has secured one US and 3 Indian patents. Professor was bestowed with Sir. M. Visvesvaraya award for his Life me contributions in Science and Technology from the Government of Karnataka for the year 2015. Prof. Surappa is a Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (INSA) and Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). In the year 2015, Karnataka State Open University honored him by awarding him Honorary degree of Doctor of Literature (D.Lit.). He received Suvarna Karnataka Rajyotsava Award by the Government of Karnataka in 2006 and Prof. Rustum Choksi Award for Excellence in Research and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in 2007. He received AMULYA Award for Innova on in 2012 by the Government of Karnataka. He has been bestowed with Metallurgist of the Year award for the year 1998 by the Government of India. He is the recipient of MRSI Medal for the year 1997 from the Materials Research Society of India. http://www.iitrpr.ac.in/omeka/files/original/ebe6e629a56337124d95ec547235bba4.jpg 11974e43a1ae0fe8c8d8fc8ab84f6c44 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Directors of Indian Institute of Technology Ropar Description An account of the resource IIT Ropar, as one of the newer IITs (established in 2008), has had leadership that blends strong research credentials with institutional-building vision. The transition from Prof Das to Prof Ahuja demonstrates continuity: both bring high academic profile and the drive to steer IIT Ropar into higher research and academic impact. For students, faculty and stakeholders, the leadership’s focus on interdisciplinarity, global research linkages, sustainability, and innovation is meaningful: it signals that the institute is moving beyond traditional engineering education toward broader impact. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 2nd Director of IIT Ropar, Professor Sarit Kumar Das Tenure: (Year: 2015-2021) Description An account of the resource Prof. Sarit Kumar Das, Director and Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (served 2015-2021). He worked in Indian Institute of Technology Madras where he was a Professor with the Mechanical Engineering Department and served as Dean (Academic Research) in the past. After obtaining B.E (Mechanical) in 1984 and M.E (Heat Power) in 1987 from Jadavpur University, he completed his Ph.D. degree in the area of Heat Transfer from Sambalpur University in 1994 and joined University of BW Hamburg, Germany where he did his Post-Doctoral Research in the area of Plate and Liquid Metal Heat Exchangers. He has published four books and more than 300 research papers. He is a recipient of the DAAD and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship of Germany. He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, India. He has been bestowed with several Awards such as “India Citation Award 2012” by Thomson Reuters and “Prof. K. N. Seetharamu Award & Medal for Excellence in Research” by Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer in the year 2006. He has also been awarded the Peabody Visiting Professorship at the Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, in 2011. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Micro/Nanoscale Transport and an Associate Editor of the journal Heat Transfer Engineering. His current research interests include heat transfer in nanofluids, microfluidics, biological heat transfer, nanoparticle mediated drug delivery in cancer cells, heat exchangers, boiling in mini/microchannels, fuel cells, jet instabilities, heat transfer in porous media, and computational fluid dynamics. http://www.iitrpr.ac.in/omeka/files/original/b8806b373d6cb3da2e368e62483147d1.jpg ce8dcd494cb330c289024131852e0cc3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Directors of Indian Institute of Technology Ropar Description An account of the resource IIT Ropar, as one of the newer IITs (established in 2008), has had leadership that blends strong research credentials with institutional-building vision. The transition from Prof Das to Prof Ahuja demonstrates continuity: both bring high academic profile and the drive to steer IIT Ropar into higher research and academic impact. For students, faculty and stakeholders, the leadership’s focus on interdisciplinarity, global research linkages, sustainability, and innovation is meaningful: it signals that the institute is moving beyond traditional engineering education toward broader impact. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Officiating Director, IIT Ropar, Professor P.K. Raina Description An account of the resource Prof. P. K. Raina served as the officiating director before Prof. Ahuja's appointment until April 2021. Prof. Raina is also a professor in the Department of Physics at IIT Ropar, who has previously served as the Dean (Academics) and Dean-in-charge of the Transit Campus at the institute. His work was associated with physics, materials science, and computational physics, and he holds a Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur. http://www.iitrpr.ac.in/omeka/files/original/8f44aaa146c0ea752f9ea42872ecf175.jpg 819c6e084fc7e579c7dcf53636d0fd79 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Directors of Indian Institute of Technology Ropar Description An account of the resource IIT Ropar, as one of the newer IITs (established in 2008), has had leadership that blends strong research credentials with institutional-building vision. The transition from Prof Das to Prof Ahuja demonstrates continuity: both bring high academic profile and the drive to steer IIT Ropar into higher research and academic impact. For students, faculty and stakeholders, the leadership’s focus on interdisciplinarity, global research linkages, sustainability, and innovation is meaningful: it signals that the institute is moving beyond traditional engineering education toward broader impact. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Current Director of IIT Ropar, Professor Rajeev Ahuja (Tenure- Year: 2021- Till Present) Description An account of the resource Professor Rajeev Ahuja is a Professor of computational Materials science at Uppsala University, Sweden. Currently, he is the Director of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, India serving from April 2021. He was also holding the additional charge of Director of IIT Guwahati, India from Nov. 2023 to May 2024. He is one of the most highly cited researchers as well as top 5 materials Scientist in Sweden & India. He has done his Ph.D. from I.I.T. Roorkee in India in 1992. Same year he has joined Uppsala University, Sweden as post-doctoral fellow. He became Professor in 2007 at Uppsala University, Sweden. His main area of interest is material science with focus on energy such Batteries, Hydrogen Storage & production, sensors as well high-pressure physics. He has published more than 1200 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals H-Index of 106, i-10 index 817 & no. of citations more than 52147. Dr. Ahuja has supervised 30 PhD students and more than 35 postdocs. He has been elected FRSC UK, APS-Fellow by American Physical Society (APS), USA and appointed in the Advisory Board of Journal of Materials Chemistry A & Materials Advances from Royal Society of Chemistry (England). He is Associate Editor of Nano Energy. He was also awarded Beller Lectureship for the APS March Meeting 2017. He been awarded the Wallmark prize for 2011 from KVA (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences), and has previously received the Eder Lilly & Sven Thureus prize and the Benzelius prize from KVS. Dr. Ahuja is an elected member of the Swedish Royal Society of Sciences (KVS). He has been awarded Best Alumnus award from IIT Roorkee, India for excellence in research for 2021. Contributions & Vision at IIT Ropar • Under his leadership, IIT Ropar has sharpened its research focus, deep-tech orientation and industry collaboration. (For example: positions in advanced materials, quantum/AI applications) • He emphasises a model of “global research–India innovation”, seeking to leverage both his international network and the Indian ecosystem. • Prof. Ahuja is known for the student-friendly, accessible leadership style: in media reports his rapport with students (e.g., the viral sunglasses moment at convocation) has been highlighted. Indulgexpress • He underscores the teacher-student relationship as founded on mutual trust and friendship, indicating his commitment to mentoring and institutional culture.