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Awards, Honours and Scholarships 

To keep up with the MUICT tradition, this year too, MUICT have been bestowed with many awards and honours. Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry awarded MUICT with the prestigious FICCI Award in recognition of Institutional Initiative in Research in Science and Technology. This year, Padmavibhushan Prof.M.M.Sharma former Director MUICT received the Life Time Achievement award by the Indian National Academy of Engineering. 

Last year, the Indian National Academy of Engineering has introduced in the year 2000, the Best Ph.D. and Masters thesis National awards for the innovative projects encompassing all the branches of engineering and Technology.  UDCT had received both the awards in the year of inception itself.  And, this year too MUICT has done it again.  The best innovative Ph.D. project award has been received by Dr. (Mrs.) Nisharani Adhage and the innovative Masters Project award has been received by Shri Amol Kulkarni. 

The lush green gardens of MUICT are a matter of pride to every MUICTian especially to the MUICT gardeners. It is an unbelievable scene in the highly populated city of Mumbai. MUICT have bagged several prizes at the city level. To keep up the tradition this year too MUICT have bagged several prizes. This year MUICT has bagged six prizes at the 43rd Annual Vegetable, Fruit, and Flower Show-2002 organized by National Society of the “Friends of Trees”. The prizes are as follows: 

 

 
 Gardens: Educational Institutions, Colleges, Research Institutions  1st Prize 
 Landscape development along footpaths and road dividers of public roads  2nd Prize
 Medicinal Plants  3rd Prize
 Flowering Shrub rare in bloom  1st Rank
 Bulbous/ Rhizomatic plant in bloom  2nd Rank
 Collection of Foliage plants  2nd Rank
 

 

In addition to this MUICT got two prizes in the 7th Exhibition on Plants, Flowers Fruits and Vegetable, organized by Tree Authority and BMC from Jan 24-27, 2002, they are:

 

 
 Medicinal plants: Maximum Variety  3rd Prize
 Maximum number of Trees planted and maintained  3rd Prize 
 

 

Chemical Engineering Department

·         PadmaVibhushan Prof. M.M. Sharma

Life Time Achievement Award by The Indian National Academy of Engineering

 Faculty

Dr. A. B. Pandit

·      Prof. R.A. Rajadhyaksha Best Teacher Award, UDCT(2001-2002)

Dr.V.V.Mahajani

·         The best paper: First Prize Chemical Weekly Award  -  Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers  

·         Shrimati Saroma Sanyal Memorial Medal. The Institution of Engineers (India) Ltd

Prof. G.D. Yadav

·         M.H. Shukla Prize for Best Technical Paper presented in Chemcon 2000

Students

Dr. H.M. Anasthas, Chem.Engg.Division, 2001-2002

·         Ambuja Cement Best Ph.D. (Tech.) Thesis Award

Dr. Maya Bhat, Chemical Engineering Division 2001-2002

·         Ambuja Cement Best Ph.D.(Sci.) Thesis Award

Miss Rupali K. Morankar, Chem.Engg.Division, 2001-2002

·         Prof. O.P. Narula Prize Best M.Chem.Engg. Thesis

Shri Amol Kulkarni, Chem. Engg. Division,Ph.D. (Tech), 2001-2002

·         Prof. S.B. Chandalia Chemical Engineering Research Student Award

Shri A. Badriprasad, B.Chem.Engg.

·         Best UDCT Student Award

Shri Hemantkumar Sahu and Miss Navneet Sharma, T.Y.B.Chem.Engg.

UICT Alumni Association Prize for best student from Penultimate year (UAA Prize)

Miss Aditi Deshpande,T.Y.B.Chem.Engg.

·         Prof. R.A. Rajadhyaksha Innovative Project Award For First & Second Year Chem.Engg. Student

Shri  Nair Hari

·         Late Dr. (Mrs.) Mahalaxmi Bhagwat Prize for F.Y.B.Chem.(Engg.) Student  

      Highest Marks in subject of Engineering Applications of Digital Computer

Shri Khan Saif Abdul K.

·         Prof. R.A. Rajadhyaksha Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering to B.Chem.(Engg.) student.

Khandekar Anish  and Ladha Ashish

·         Prof. S.B. Pandya (Ex-Dean M.S. Univ. Baroda) Highest Marks in the Home Paper B.Chem.(Engg.) student.

·         Ambuja Cement Best Home Paper Award for B.Chem.(Engg.) student.

 

 

 Samant Asawari

 Sem I

 Jain Ankita S.

 Sem II

 Sem II

 Sem III

 Pendse Ninad D.

 Sem IV

 Seth Jyoti R.

 Sem IV

 Deshmukh Smeet P.

 Sem V

 Deshmukh Smeet P.

 Sem VI

 Khan Saif Abdul K.

 Sem VII

 Khan Saif Abdul K.

 Sem VIII

 

 

Ambuja Cement Award for First Rank in each semester in the four years of B.Chem.Engg.

Shri Prashant Mandare  M.Chem. Engg. M.V. Joshi Platinum Jubilee Endowment

Shri Mandare Prashant , 1st Rank M.Chem. Engg. Mangalam Group of Companies endowment

Kum Jain Ankita. The Chettanram G. Abhichandani Prizefor Chem Engg.

 

 
 Kum Jain Ankita  F.Y.
 Shri. Sahoo Hemant Kumar   S.Y.
 Kum Deshmukh Smeet P.  T.Y.
 

·         Chimanlal Chokasi Memorial Prize, Highest marks in each year of B.Chem.Engg.

Khan Saif Abdul K.,B.Chem.Engg.

·         G.P. Kane Prize & Medal, 1st Rank, B.Chem.Engg. and J.G. Kane Memorial Trust and L.V. Pitre Prize and Prof. G.M. Nabar Cash Prize

Khandekar Anish                              Highest        

Shri Laddha Ashish                          Highest

Momin Omar Abdul Rahman          2nd Highest

·         G.A. Kulkarni Prize Home Paper

Shri Pangarkar Chinmay H.           2nd Rank at B.Chem.Engg.

·         Mr. V.V. Mariwala Memorial Prize

 

Kum Jain Ankita.                              F.Y.Chem.Engg., 1st Rank

Shri Sahoo HemantKumar              S.Y. Chem.Engg., 1st Rank

Kum Deshmukh Smeet                   T.Y. Chem.Eng., 1st Rank

·         The Sohrab & Coomi Mistry Foundation Prize

Shewale Satish D.   

·         B.E. joining M.Chem., Kapilram Vakil Award

 

Department of Technology of Intermediates and Dyes

Faculty

Dr. N. Sekar was appointed as Advisory Editor for the Colourage journal.

 

 Student

Mr. Rajesh Walavalker won the young scientist award at the 20th conference of Indian Council of Chemists held at Mysore.

 

Scholarships

 

DMAI award for the toppers in Dyes Division

  1. First Year B.Tech.                        Mr. Satish Prakash Patil

  2. Second Year B.Tech.                    Mr. Naresh  Anil Mistry

  3. B.Sc.(Tech.)                               Mr. Sunit. S. Kaluskar

  4. M.Sc.(Tech.)                              Pariti Siva Rama Kumar

 

Department of Technology of Fibres and Textile Processing

Food and Fermentation Technology Department

Faculty

Prof. M.D. Teli          

Appointed as a Chairman, National Jury for awarding best Energy Conservation Award, for the Textile Mills by ICMF, New Delhi

Students

 
Mr. Makarand Saptnekar M.Sc. (Tech.) Securing highest marks in M.Sc. (Tech.)
Mr. Devang Khariwala     S.Y.B.Tech. Securing highest marks in F.Y.B.Tech.)
Ms Asfiya Contractor     T.Y.B.Tech.  Securing highest marks in S.Y.B.Tech.
Ms. Nandini Chari          B.Tech . Securing highest marks in T.Y.B.Tech.
Mr. Asimananda Khandual The Best M.Sc.(Tech.) Student of Textiles
Mr. Koteswar Rao Maddi The Best Final Year B. Tech. Student of Textiles
 

Paper Presentation:

Chemcon-2001, Chemie-International Conference at Chennai National Level Technical Symposium at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Tamilnadu

1st Prize Miss K. Nityashree and Miss Shilpa Rashinkar (B.Tech.)“CAD/CAM in Garment Designing”

1st Prize Mr. Yatin Rane (B.Tech.) and Mr. Chetan Hire (T.Y.B.Tech.) Eco-labelling and co-parameters

2nd Prize Mr. Vishal Warke and Mr. Pradip Chandratre (T.Y.B.Tech.) Recycling of Nondegradable Polymers”

1 st Prize Santosh s. Dhande and  Lalit Jajpura ( M.Sc. Tech.) Application of Nano Technology

Poster Presentation:

1st Prize Mr. M. Koteshwar Rao (B.Tech.) “Application of Bio-technology in Textile Processing”

 

Food and Fermentation Technology Department

Faculty Members:

·         Prof. S. S. Lele awarded honorary appointment on the Research Board of Advisors, American Bibliographical Inc., U.S.A.

·         Dr.B.N.Ganguli has been nominated to the Governing Body of an “Interactive School of Health Affairs” (IRSHA) as Distinguished Professor of Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed University), Pune.

·         Dr. B.N.Ganguli nominated as Western Region Team Leader of the National Microbial Resources Project of the Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India.

Students:

·         Ms. Tejashree A. Tari received the Gujrat Ambuja Cement best M.Sc (Tech) Best Thesis Award for the year 2001 – 2002. She worked under the guidance of Dr. Rekha S. Singhal.

·         Enhanced Production of Penicilline Acylase from Bacillus megaterium, Sameer Akolkar and J.S.Pai awarded Third Prize during 4th Biohorizon Conference 2002 held at New Delhi during 1-2 March, 2002.

·         AFST (I) Educational & Publication Trust Award for 2001-2002 was awarded to Mr. Kartik Raman, T.Y.Tech.

·         Kapoor Charitable Endowment Scholarship Awarded Rs.12,000/- to Mr. Rajendra L. Bhanushali, B.Tech. for the year 2001-2002.

·         Ratan Tata Scholarship awarded to Rahul M. Shinde, Madhura Joshi, Keyuri Shah, Aditi Shetty & Rajendra Bhanushali , B.Tech. for the year 2001-2002.

·         Druman M. Trivedi Merit-cum-Means Scholarship Awarded Rs. 3,600/-  to Mr. Arvind Baburao Katakdond, S.Y.Tech. for the year 2001-2002.

·         Ambuja Cement Merit-cum-Means Scholarship Awarded Rs.10,000/- each to Mr. Sunil J. Kasat, T.Y.Tech. & Mr. Rahul M. Shinde, F.Y.Tech. for the year 2001-2002.

·         Mr. Rajendra Bhanushali & Ms. Keyuri Shah , awarded Second Prize in an Inter Collegiate Quiz Competition organized by P.V.Polytechnc, S.N.D.T. held on 25th January’ 2002.

·         Best All-Rounder Hostellite Awarded to Rahul M. Shinde by the Aswin J. Desia Foundation for the year 2001-2002.

·         Best Cricketer Awarded to Chandrashekhar S. Mudila for the year 2001-2002.

 

Oils, Surfactants and Oleochemicals Department

Students

UDCT Departmental Scholarship for standing First, Second and Third at the S. Y. B. (Tech.) examinations were awarded to following students

 

                 Names

Class
Rank

  Namratha R.

T.Y (Tech.)

1st

Vishal Jain

S. Y (Tech.)

1st

Pharmaceutical Science and Technology Department

Faculty

Prof. V.M. Kulkarni

·         Eminent Pharmacist Award,  Indian Pharmaceutical Association, Mumbai,  2001

·         Indian Pharmaceutical Association Fellowship for his Excellency in Pharmaceutical Education and Contribution to Pharmaceutical Activities of IPA during the 53rd IPC at New Delhi, December 20-23, 2001.

·         The Best Research Paper award  from the Indian Drug Manufacturer Association (IDMA) for paper entitled "Computer-Aided Design and Synthesis of Candida albicans N-Myristoyltransferase Inhibitors as Antifungal Agets" Prof. V.M. Kulkarni & Rajeshri Kirki  during its Annual Function held on December 15, 2001 in Mumbai.

Prof. Padma V. Devarajan

·         The Best Research Paper Award for the poster "Invivo Pharmacokinetic Study of Oral Mucosal Drug Delivery System (OMDDS) of Tramadol Hydrochloride” A.S.Gandhi, A.K. Solankar and  Padma V. Devarajan, at the  4th International Symposium on Advances in Technology and Business Potential of New Drug Delivery Systems, held in Mumbai, organized by Controlled Release Society Indian Chapter from Feb 22-23, 2002.

 

Dr. A.R. Juvekar

·         Best Research Paper Awards received at 53rd Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, New-Delhi, Dec., 2001

·         Pharmacology, *Dr. A.R. Juvekar and A.D. Naik.

·         Best Research Paper Awards received at 34th Annual Conference of Indian Pharmacology Society, Jan., 2002

·         Pharmacology *Dr. A.R. Juvekar, and A.D. Naik.

 

Students

Undergraduate Students

·         Consolation prize for paper entitled "Microemulsion based herbal anti-acne formulations" at prodigy - National level conference organized by I.I.Ch.E  students chapter to Abhijit Date, Rushikesh Kulkarni under guidance of Dr. V.B. Patravale

·         Best day-scholar of MUICT to Navneet Sharma, T.Y. B.Pharm.

·         Second Prize for Best Student from Penultimate year to Navneet Sharma, T.Y.B.Pharm.

 

Paints and Polymer Technology Department

Students

The FIRST PRIZE of Charles Goodyear Memorial National Quiz Competition in Polymer Science and Technology organized by the Rubber Technology Centre, I.I.T Kharagpur in September 2001 was won by . Shri Siddhartha Mujumdar and Shri S. Madhusudan of Third Year B. Tech (Polymer Engineering & Technology).

 

 
 
 
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