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IITAV
Newsletter
April 2016
Issue No. 14 |
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Message
from the IITAV President |
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Dear IITAV colleagues
and friends,
This
edition of our newsletter has reports of our professional and
social events and activities during the past six months. Our special
feature event with John McIntosh, National President of Engineers
Australia, a site visit to IITAV member Rajesh Kataria's impressive
GlassCo Australia, a networking event and two social events, Diwali and
Holi, were held. It is pleasing to report that participation at IITAV
events has shown a remarkable increase and we broke yet another record
of attendance at our recent Holi event.
Our revised membership policy implemented in 2015 is seeing more of our
members including Foundation members renewing their membership for
multiple years. This bodes well for the sustainability and growth of
IITAV. I specially request our members to actively encourage IIT alumni
to become members of IITAV. Thank you!
On a personal note, I was privileged to be invited as a panel member
at the inaugural Pravasi Bhartiya Divas 2016 hosted by the Consul
General of India in Melbourne on 21st February. The invitation was also
acknowledgement of the good work and activities of IITAV.
I take this opportunity to thank current and past Committee members and
their families for your remarkable efforts during the year. The work
done by the Committee members is critical to the activities of the
association. In the past three years we have been averaging seven to
eight events and other activities every year which have required a lot
of voluntary effort and commitment.
It is AGM time again! IITAV’s 2016 AGM will be held on Saturday, 7th
May 2016, 3-5.30 pm at Swinburne University’s Hawthorn campus. IITAV
members and IIT alumni are sincerely invited to attend and participate
in the discussions which will be of great help to the work of the
2016-17 Management Committee.
IITAV Management Committee 2015-16:
Front row left to right: Rachana
Kaudinya, Raj Rajakumar, Nikhil Kumar, Ravi Singh, Rakesh Saraf
Back Row: Dilip
Desai, Abaran Deep, Sridhar Karuppasami, Vipin Gaindhar.
Best
wishes,
Raj Rajakumar
Dr. Raj Rajakumar
Mob: 0432 474 385
raj.rajakumar43@gmail.com
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Annual General Meeting 2016
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The
2016 Annual General Meeting for IITAV will be held on Saturday, 7th May
2016, from 3:00 to 5:30 pm at ATC-Room
205, Swinburne University, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia 3122.
All IIT Alumni are invited to attend. Please note that in the event of
an election, voting rights are available only to active financial
members of IITAV.
Please RSVP your intention to attend by sending a mail to
mail@iitav.org.au. Light refreshments will be provided. The
agenda for the AGM is as follows:
1. Welcome, Apologies and
Proxies.
2. Approve minutes of 2015 AGM.
3. President’s Annual Report
2015-16.
4. Treasurer’s Annual Report
2015–16.
5. Nominations and Elections
for 2016–17 Management Committee.
6. Welcome and hand-over to the
2016-17 Management Committee.
7. Open discussion on way
forward.
More details about the AGM can be found here.
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Special
Feature Event:
“ Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Effective Change
Management” by John McIntosh, National President 2016 Engineers
Australia
5th October 2015
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IITAV’s
special event in collaboration with Engineers
Australia featured John
McIntosh, National President 2016, Engineers Australia, who
took the audience on an engaging and
interactive journey highlighting how moods and emotions play a key
role in encouraging entrepreneurship, innovation and change management.
The session was attended by over 65 IITAV members and guests, with a
significant attendance of our friends from Engineers Australia,
Swinburne
University of Technology and the University of Melbourne.
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Visit
to
GlassCo Australia
12th December 2015
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IITAV
members and guests were privileged to visit
GlassCo Australia
on Saturday, 12th December 2015. GlassCo
Australia is owned by IIT Delhi graduate, Rajesh Kataria since 2003.
The business model principally is B2B supplying glass products and
services to window manufacturers, glaziers, builders, furniture and
cabinet makers in addition to glass used in surface transport vehicles
such as cars, buses, trams and trains. It predominantly sources float
and laminated glass from offshore markets and subsequently processes,
finishes and delivers this glass to the wholesale glass and glazing
market sectors within Victoria. ( More)
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@Elephant
and WheelBarrow, 9th March 2016
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This
event was held at the popular Elephant
and Wheel Barrow
in the city. The attendees enjoyed the get together. The possibility of
holding some of these informal networking events at suburban locations
to facilitate attendance by improving ease of access was discussed.
Thank you to Nikhil Kumar for organising the venue.
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IITAV
@ Inaugural Pravasi Bhartiya Divas,
Indian Consulate, Melbourne
21st February 2016
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The
Inaugural Pravasi Bhartiya Divas was held at the Consulate General of
India. Ms Manika Jain, Consul General for India in Melbourne
moderated
the two hour session.
Ms Jain briefly mentioned that the Government of India (GOI)’s flagship
project initiatives are (i) Smart Cities (ii) Renewable Energy (iii)
Make in India (iv) Digital India (v) Skill India (vi) Diaspora
contribution to India’s social and developmental efforts (vii)
Transferring Knowledge and Encouraging Innovation (viii) Startup India
(ix) Making India the preferred Destination for Holistic Healthcare (x)
Accelerating Tourism in India (xi) Indian Diaspora Associations
contribution to GOI flagship Initiatives.
Dr Raj Rajakumar, IITAV President, was invited as a panel member along
with five other panelists including IIT alumnus, Dr.
Ravi Bhatia.
Each panel member was given two minutes to speak followed by a brief
discussion. Ravi Bhatia reviewed the scope of the important Make in
India flagship project. ( Read More)
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Two
great Universities join forces in training smart Indian students in
Australia, December 2015
Professor
Saman Halgamuge,
The
University of Melbourne
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IIT
Kanpur signed a Joint PhD agreement with University of Melbourne
expanding the existing collaboration. The Director of IIT Kanpur Prof
Indranil Manna signed the agreement with the Deputy Provost and Deputy
Vice Chancellor Prof Susan Elliott. Pro Vice-chancellor Graduate and
International Research Prof Dick Strugnell witnessed the agreement and
Dean of Engineering Prof Iven Mareels, Dean of Science Prof Karen Day
and many Professors of the University and IIT alumni including Dr Raj
Rajakumar, President of IIT Alumni Victoria joined the historical
occasion. ( Read More)
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Indian
Institute of Science Director, Prof Anurag Kumar visited the University
of Melbourne - January 2016
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Director
of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Prof
Anurag Kumar (an Alumnus of
IIT Kanpur), Chairperson of International relations of IISc Professor
Usha Vijayraghavan and Chairperson of Centre for Nano Science
and
Engineering Prof
Rudra Prathap visited University of Melbourne to
explore the collaboration opportunity between the two Universities. The
Vice Chancellor of University of Melbourne Prof Glyn
Davis hosted a
lunch at the University for the delegation. The delegation also visited
Walter
Eliza Hall Institute and various Departments and gave
research
talks at the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical
Engineering.
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Congratulations to DD Saxena on winning two awards:
IITAV congratulates
our member,
DD Saxena, Managing Director of ROBE, for being honoured with the
prestigious Indian Australian Ambassador of the Year award in October
2015 ( Watch
here ) and NRI
of the Year 2016 award in the Entrepreneur category.
Click here for more IIT related news.
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We
welcome Atul Johari (BHU) and Abhay Sinha (IIT Delhi) to our family of
IITAV members and take this
opportunity to thank all members for their continued participation in
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Swinburne University of Technology is an Australian public university
based in Melbourne, Victoria. Swinburne operates five campuses in two
countries and has an enrolment of students across vocational,
undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Swinburne houses advanced labs such as Design for Ageing, Smart
Structure and Factory of Future labs. “ Being a corporate
member of IITAV, we benefit from collaborations and industry experts to
create a new forum for engineering students,” Professor
Ajay Kapoor, said.( More)
Established
in 2002 in Melbourne, Envision
IT
develops software products for global markets. This includes
Standalone, Cloud based SaaS, Enterprise, Line of Business and mobile
applications.
Envision IT products are known for their ease of use, high
productivity, efficiency and reliability. Typically, our products offer
an ROI under 3 months. ( More)
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We
take this opportunity to thank everyone for their contributions.
Special thanks to: Professor Saman Halgamuge for reports from the
University of Melbourne; Nikhil Kumar for his report on the IITAV event
held with Engineers Australia; Vipin Gaindhar for providing the bulk of
the photographs; Dr Raj Rajakumar for writing, sourcing and editing
content; and Sridhar Karuppasami for production.
To help us improve the newsletter, please send your feedback and
contributions (news, views and memories) for the next issue to
mail@iitav.org.au
Previous
editions of the newsletter are available here.
Members are also requested to update their profiles at our website.
Thank you.
IITAV Management Committee
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Our
Diwali celebration held on 1st November at the Spirit of India
Receptions in Preston was remarkable in that we had nearly 110
attendees. It was a fun evening with plenty of lively entertainment and
sumptuous food. Thank you to our resident star performers including
Radheshyam Gupta, Raman Singh and our youngsters who entertained us
with their songs and dances. Guest performers, Abhishek Sharma and
Mudit Kamal entertained us with their jokes and songs.
Raffle
prizes were given and the singing and dancing continued well into the
night. We were privileged to have our Corporate members, Swinburne
University and EnvisionIT attend with their VIP guests. Thank you to
Rakesh and Pallavi Saraf, Ravi and Sangeeta Singh and the team for
putting together this fabulous event. ( More Photos)
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IITAV
families and guests celebrated Holi on 20th March this year with over
80 attendees, a new record for our annual Holi event. In a
departure from our past Holi celebrations, the event was held at the
Waverley Bowling Club. The guests were welcomed with colour, snacks and
thandai. We had plenty of entertainment and nice South Indian
delicacies at the specially set up dosa counter.
The youngsters, Aditi, Ramona, Kokil, Pratyusha, Janani and Chaitanya
entertained everyone with their singing and dancing. Other highlights
included songs by Raman Singh and a special qawali performance by the
team led by Radheyshyam Gupta and Rakesh Saraf. A spot of dancing to
the dhol, preceded by an introductory workshop on Bollywood dancing
expertly guided by Marshie Rajakumar added to the enjoyment. ( Read More/Photos)
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Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) are the premier institutes of
engineering education in India.
IITAV is the Alumni Association for IIT alumni in Victoria. |
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