The Institute of Technology, Nirma University has marked its presence in the country owing to the collective effort of its students, faculty members, staff members, and alumni. The alumni of the Institute are placed globally at reputed positions. Students and faculty members enthusiastically participate in various events on and off the campus, leading to holistic growth and development of everyone. The management of the Institute promotes participation in events, both at national and international level. It also provides a platform to students and faculty members to strengthen the research aptitude through various events, conducted from time to time.
Team Dyaus-SAE Collegiate Club achieved 9th Rank in the International Model Satellite Competition at Teknofest 2024 held in Turkey.
TEKNOFEST is Türkiye’s biggest award-winning Technology Festival of Aerospace and Technology. This notable event, organized by Turksat, saw participation from over 80 teams worldwide, making this accomplishment a true testament to our team’s dedication and engineering skills.
The competition challenged the teams to design and build a CanSat (can-sized satellite) that could perform various technical tasks under tough conditions. Over seven competitive rounds, Team Dyaus showcased remarkable perseverance and innovation, successfully advancing through each stage to achieve 9th place.
Team Members:
QUIZO-2024, a technical quiz competition, was organized by ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) Western India Chapter on 20/04/2024. The event is designed to help engineering students to gain knowledge of the HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning) & R (Refrigeration) field. The Team ASHRAE from Nirma University secured the 1st Runner-up position and won a cash prize of Rs. 15000 in the QUIZO-2024, under the mentorship of Dr. Balkrushna A. Shah, SBA, Nirma University ASHRAE Student Branch.
Team Members
Nachiket Gaudana, Jitendra Ganeri and Aryan Gandhi
SAE – Arrow secured 5th position in INternational Competition @ USA
Team arrow a part SAE Nirma Collegiate club secured overall 5th position amongst 71 international teams participated at AUVSI SUAS 2023 competition held at Maryland, USA during 18-22/06/2023. Team won a cash prize of 500 USD and a plaque.
Team competed alongside the prestigious institutions such as Cornell University, University College London, North Carolina University, Verginia Tech, Purdue University and 7 other University of US, University of Calgary, Norwegian University, Istanbul Tech University, King Fahd University, University of Warsaw, Royal Thai Airforce Academy, Military school of Egypt etc.
The team members are:
SAE SUPRA competition is a popular event organised by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). In this competition, college students design and build formula – style race cars, which are then put through various dynamic events such as acceleration, autocross, endurance, and fuel efficiency challenges. SAE Supra provides students with practical experience in vehicle engineering, manufacturing, and team collaboration, preparing them for careers in the automotive industry.
Team SAE participated in SAE Supra 2023 during 10-13 July 2023 at Noida and received Overall Rank 11th and Cost Report Award
SAE E-BAJA 2023 competition held in Chitkara University, Chandigarh scheduled from 5th April to 10th April 2023.
E-BAJA is a competition organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) for college students. Participants are tasked with designing and building an electric off-road vehicle to compete in various dynamic and static events. It’s a great opportunity for students to showcase their engineering skills and creative in the in the field of electric vehicles.
The students of Team Stallions took part in E-BAJA 2023 (10-13 July 2023) and got the following achievements –
Acceleration Award – 1st rank
Overall rank – 15
Team Arrow ” under the SAE Nirma Collegiate Club representing Institute of Technology, Nirma University, participated in SAEISS DDC 2023 competition in Micro and Regular categories held at Chennai 21-23/07/2023. The team competed with more than 80 teams from various prestigious Universities/Institutes from all over the country, including IITs and NITs and our team came out with flying colours by winning the following laurels for the Nirma University:
The team won the following awards.
Team Micro (DDC20230175) :
–> 2nd overall rank (Cash Prize 45000/-)
–> 1st rank for Best Design Report (Cash Prize – 10000/-)
Team Micro ( DDC20230174) :
–> 1st rank for Best CFD Analysis ( Cash prize 10000/-)
–> 2nd rank for best design report
The Team Arrow has always been reminiscent with excellence and has proved their mettle yet again at a National stage. These achievements have been a result of tireless efforts of the students.
Team Stallions, SAE NIRMA Collegiate Club has an immense track record of glorifying Nirma University in various events Nationally.
To continue this legacy, the team had participated in Formula Bharat 2023 Combustion category competition held in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu held from January 19-24, 2023.
The team had manufactured and designed a Formula Combustion Vehicle: FBCV 32 from scratch for this competition.
We are happy and proud to share with all that the team has secured Overall 2nd Position (1st Runner-up ) amongst 44 teams who had participated from across the Nation including IITs and NITs. The team has secured following awards in the competition:
All the judges (National and International) as well as peer teams have appreciated the team’s efforts as they secured these accolades in their 2nd time participation in the event.
We really appreciate the motivation, support, and guidance by Nirma University Management, Faculty members of the Institute of Technology.
We also take this opportunity to congratulate the entire team members and faculty mentors of SAE NIRMA Collegiate Club.
Robocon (short for Robotic Contest) is organised by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), a collection of over 20 countries of Asia Pacific Region. Founded in 2002 by Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, the competition sees robots compete to complete a task within a set period of time. Being a member of the ABU, Doordarshan organises a national level contest in India and the winner of the national event gets an opportunity to represent India at the international event.
Team Nirma Robocon has been consistently participating in the event since its inception. The team has won the National Championship 10 times so far and represented India at international events hosted by Japan (2002), Thailand (2003, 2011), Malaysia (2006), India (2008, 2014), Indonesia (2015), Vietnam (2018) and China (2021).
The Team Nirma Robocon won the following prestigious awards at national and international level so far.
Robofest 3.0 is a robotics contents organized by GUJCOST. The event was organized in three stages
Total 16 teams from Institute of Technology Nirma University participated in the said competition in the following categories:
Total 12 teams from Insitute of Technology, Nirma Univeisty cleared the first round and won the prize of Rs. 50,000/- each for the building of the prototype for the next stage. For the list of winning team from the University in the stage 1: Click Here
The second stage was organized at Science City, Ahmedabad during October 2023. All the teams listed above participated in the prototype submission stage and showcased their prototype models to the committee. Total of 11 teams cleared the second stage and won the prizes for the preparations of the working models. For the list of winning team from the University in the stage 2: Click Here
The grand finale was organized during December 28 to 31, 2024 at Science City, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The teams have outperformed in the said completion and has won the national championship as per the list: Click Here
Robofest 3.0 served as a platform for students to not only demonstrate their technical skills but also gain exposure to real-world applications of robotics. The achievements of Nirma University teams highlight the institution’s commitment to fostering a culture of innovation and excellence in technology.
The BAJA SAE Series® is an event for the undergraduate engineering students, organised globally by the Society of Automotive Engineers, USA.
The BAJA SAE tasks the students to design, fabricate and validate a single seater four – wheeled all-terrain vehicle and tests the innovative engineering practices that have gone into it.
The Team Stallions of the Institute of Technology has been participating in the ‘All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) BAJA SAE’, India Competition for quite some years now.
The 12th edition of SAE BAJA INDIA was organised during January 24-27, 2019. The competition was in the categories of m-BAJA (petrol engine driven cars) and e-BAJA (battery driven electric cars).
The m-BAJA team won the Best Skill BAJA award for exhibiting exemplary manufacturing skills, which included cutting, welding and bending of roll cage members or parts. The Team e-BAJA won five awards, including 1st in Sales; 1st in CAE, 1st in acceleration, and 1st in durability, respectively.
The Team Stallions and their e-BAJA ATV was conferred with Overall Champions Award for their brilliant performance.
Mitsubishi Electric, India conducts the national level competition for Factory Automation every year for students in India to honour the most innovative approach. It tests the creativity, design skills, and technical knowledge of the participants.
The Team “CON-SL-E 3.0” of IC Department from the Institute of Technology, Nirma University was the proud winner of the ME Silver Cup every year from 2017 to 2019, with a cash prize of Rs 75k.
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The Best Paper Award at ODICON-2024
09 Nov 2024
TEDxwomen 2024 Speaker
08 Sep 2024
Scientific Co-Chair: 2024 Construction Safety Conference, University of Kansas, USA
27 Jun 2024
Winner-UG SRC Research Symposium (Track 5-MECH)
29 Apr 2024
Received a TOP-CITED paper award from Security and Privacy Journal, Wiley (SCI, WoS, SCOPUS)
23 Apr 2024
Received 4th rank towards abstract- submission of Dissertation/Thesis for the year 2023-2024, organized by GCPC
06 Mar 2024
Best Presentation Award
02 Mar 2024
Patent Granted: “An Improved Anti-mine Vehicle with Vertical Blast Ventilation” – Investigators: Dr. Mihir Chauhan, Dr. Kunal Ghosh, Mr. Bhaumik Patel, Mr. Abhijitsingh Thakor.
29 Feb 2024
Research Excellence Award
26 Jan 2024
Dr. Sudeep Tanwar visited Jan Wyzykowski University and Karkonsosze University in Poland as a Visiting Professor
22 Jan 2024
Received Senior Laureate Award for mentorship category of the WAAH Science Laureate Awards 2023
06 Jan 2024
Dr M H Joshipura is selected as a Moderator for the web page Introduction to Chemical Engineering | CACHE.
01 Jan 2024
Mentor of Winner Team of Robofest 3.0
31 Dec 2023
Patent Filed on “A Road Maintenance Bot”
29 Dec 2023
2023 Sir Arthur Cotton memorial Prize for publishing paper with Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A by The Institution of Engineers (India)
27 Dec 2023
Scientific Jury member and Evaluator in the 31st National Children's Science Congress (State Level)
02 Dec 2023
Governing council member in Gujarat Industrial Research and Development Agency (GIRDA)
01 Nov 2023
Best Paper Award at National Convention of Chemistry Teachers NCCT 2023
29 Oct 2023
Best Paper Presentation Award in International Conference
22 Oct 2023
Best Paper Presentation Award in RIACT 2023, A conference on Robotics and Automation
21 Oct 2023
International Travel Support from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST
10 Oct 2023
Abbe International Travel Grant
23 Sep 2023
ICSSR Research Grant Awarded
01 Sep 2023
Completion of PhD from Nirma University
07 Aug 2023
Robofest 3.0 GUJCOST Mentor
26 Jul 2023
International Travel Grant worth ₹2,22,461 under young scientist category from SERB- ITS
20 Jul 2023
Patent titled "Synchronized Crack Monitoring System" granted by Indian Patent Office
19 Jun 2023
Dr Ankit Thakkar was invited as an expert for the peer review of a research proposal submitted to the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
17 Jun 2023
Two South African Patents Granted in 2023
31 May 2023
Best paper award conferred in IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances in Electrical, Electronics and Digital Healthcare 2023.
03 May 2023
International Travel Support from SERB, DST
28 Apr 2023
Dr Ankit Rajeshkumar Thakkar has been awarded ISTE state-level award.
27 Apr 2023
Best Research Paper Award
07 Apr 2023
Best Woman Professional (Early Career) – Runner Up
14 Mar 2023
Elected as the convener of the Foundational standards working group (WG1) of the sub committee JTC1/SC43 of ISO/IEC that is formed at the international level to write the Brain Computer Interface standards. The WG1 has 80+ members of 12+ countries and their are two projects under development in the WG1
01 Mar 2023
Top cited article 2021-22 by Wiley
22 Feb 2023
Indian Patent on “A novel process for preparing perovskite catalysts by reactive grinding”
21 Feb 2023
Open Automation Challenge -2023(ABB and B&R Automation) – Faculty Mentor , IT, NU
17 Feb 2023
ISTE – L&T National Award for Best M.Tech. Thesis in Electrical/ Electronic Engineering – 2022
06 Feb 2023
Best Ph.D. Thesis guided
01 Feb 2023
Scientific Jury member and Evaluator in the 30th National Children's Science Congress (National Level)
31 Jan 2023
Prof Shebaz A Memon and his team won 1st Runners up in WAAH Science Laureate Awards
11 Jan 2023
Dr Ankit Thakkar has been invited as an expert for DSIR PRSIM scheme of Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission [GSBTM], Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of Gujarat.
06 Jan 2023
Award of Best Research paper in FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTING, COMMUNICATIONS AND CYBER SECURITY (IC4S-2022)
17 Dec 2022
Best Paper Presentation Award
01 Dec 2022
Best Paper Award at International Conference "Energy Summit 2022"
24 Nov 2022
Prof Shebaz A Memon secured All India Rank 1 (First) in Energy Manager Exam by BEE (Bureau of Energy Efficiency), Government of India
11 Nov 2022
Qualified UGC Net For Assistant Professor in the Subject Computer Science and Applications in the Year 2022.
05 Nov 2022
RESEARCH CONSULTANCY AWARD UNDER THE SCHEME OF FACULTY AWARDS & INCENTIVES FOR 2020-2021
03 Oct 2022
Best Paper Presentation Award in International Conference
25 Sep 2022
Best Paper Award
15 Sep 2022
Selected as a Member of the LITD 37 committee of Bureau of Indian Standards for preparing the standards of Brain Computer Interface
06 Sep 2022
Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Paper - 2022
31 Aug 2022
ISTE-GSFC National Award for guiding Best MTech Thesis in Mechanical Engineering 2021
27 Aug 2022
Fellowship Chair, 36th International Conference on VLSI Design and 22nd International Conference on Embedded System
21 Aug 2022
IEOM Lean Six Sigma Competition Award
18 Aug 2022
ISTE Charutar Vidya Mandal, Vallabh Vidyanagar Gujarat Award for Best Engineering College Teacher in Gujarat , 2021
27 Jul 2022
Second Prize at Oxford University for a Digital Humanities Research Project
11 Jul 2022
Top Downloaded Article in the ETT Journal
07 Jul 2022
Workshop leader - University College London, London, UK
29 Jun 2022
Invited for International Teaching Mobility Program under ERASMUS+ grant
13 Jun 2022
Indian Patent on "An improved Planetary Ball Mill"
17 May 2022
Received research fellowship under SERB International Research Experience scheme
12 May 2022
National Award for Best M.Tech Thesis
10 May 2022
ISTE-GSFC National Award for guiding Best MTech Thesis in Mechanical Engineering 2020
28 Apr 2022
Secured 2nd rank in Poster Presentation
06 Mar 2022
Awarded a Cash Award of Rs. 5,000/- for Publication of Research Paper in Reputed Journal with High Impact Factor of 5.7 during the Period of 2019-20
01 Mar 2022
Mentor of Team CON-SOL-E 5.0 in Flipkart Grid 3.0 Robotics Challenge
27 Feb 2022
First Prize for oral presentation International Conference
26 Feb 2022
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
23 Feb 2022
ISTE Gujarat- M. C. Bhavsar Award for an innovative work in the areas of renewable energy
20 Feb 2022
Reviewer in ISPDA-2022 and ISPDP-2022 Conference at SVNIT
31 Jan 2022
Prof (Dr) Sudeep Tanwar (as a first author) has won the Dr. KW Wong Annual Best Paper Prize for 2021 from Elsevier (publishers of JISA) and also a prize of US $750
27 Jan 2022
Reserach paper of Dr Sudeep Tanwar has been chosen for the "BEST PAPER AWARD" from the 2021 IEEE 6th ICCCA-2021 held on December 17-19, 2021.
12 Jan 2022
Dr Sudeep Tanwar has been nominated as an Associate Editor for Cyber Security and Applications Journal of Elsevier
01 Jan 2022
Reserach paper of Dr Rajesh Gupta has been selected for the “BEST PAPER AWARD” in IEEE ICCCA 2021
29 Dec 2021
AWS Academy Educator
28 Dec 2021
Patent Publication on "A Medication Inspection and Packaging Device"
22 Dec 2021
Reviewer in ISPDA-2021 Conference at SVNIT
15 Dec 2021
Research Excellence Award
02 Dec 2021
Appointed as Nirma Limited Chair Professor in Chemical Technology
01 Dec 2021
An Indian Patent Granted on A Novel Production Process of Biodiesel to Institute of Technology
02 Nov 2021
Best Paper Award in International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Nanomaterials 2021
17 Oct 2021
Best Engineering College Teacher in Gujarat State
05 Oct 2021
Indian Patent Granted
09 Sep 2021
Best Paper Presentation Award in PRIME2021 held at NIT Patna
07 Aug 2021
Dr Ankit Thakkar elevation to the grade of IEEE Senior member
03 Jul 2021
Reserach paper of Dr Rajesh Gupta has been selected for the “BEST PAPER AWARD” in IEEE IWCMC 2021
02 Jul 2021
Faculty advisor for ISA student’s chapter Nirma University
01 Jul 2021
Dr Sudeep Tanwar joined the Executive Committee of the Computer Society Chapter of IEEE Gujarat Section.
30 Jun 2021
IEEE Senior Member
21 Jun 2021
International Student Travel Grant from IEEE ComSoc
14 Jun 2021
Best paper award
11 Jun 2021
Certificate for Merit for Second Place in ACTSE 2021 held at Amity University, Lucknow Campus, Uttar Pradesh
27 May 2021
Dr Ankit Thakkar recognised as honorary Rosalind Member of London Journals Press for his co-authored paper, "A Comprehensive Survey on Deep Neural Networks for Stock Market The Need Challenges and Future Directions" published in Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier (SCIE, WoS, SCOPUS)
26 Apr 2021
Dr Sudeep Tanwar received a TOP-CITED paper award from IJCS, Wiley (SCI, WoS, SCOPUS)
15 Apr 2021
Dr Sudeep Tanwar sole edited book published with Springer Nature
10 Apr 2021
Patent Certificate of Design Registration - APR 2021
08 Apr 2021
Received Certificate for Best Paper Presentation in ATFE March–2021 held at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar
26 Mar 2021
Robofest 2.0 Mentor
22 Mar 2021
Dr. Ankit Thakkar is Awarded a Cash Award of Rs. 20,000/- for Publication of Research Papers in Reputed Journals with Highest Impact Factor of 13.669 during the Period of January 2019 to December 2020.
16 Mar 2021
Dr Sudeep Tanwar secured 38th rank in the list of “Top Scientists (Computer Science & Electronics)" within India, as per the Research.com
01 Mar 2021
Dr Sudeep Tanwar-IEEE Senior Member Grade Elevation
25 Feb 2021
Dr Sudeep Tanwar has been appointed as an Associate Editor in the Board of Blockchain Technologies (section of Frontiers in Blockchain)
22 Feb 2021
Dr. Tanwar's text-book published in 2019 with Springer Nature is having 3.7 million e-copy downloads
15 Feb 2021
Dr. Sudeep Tanwar appointed as "Technical Editor" in Computer Communications, Elsevier (COMCOM, SCI, IF: 2.816, Q1)
11 Feb 2021
Dr. Sudeep Tanwar appointed as an Associate Editor in Physical Communication (PHYCOM, Impact Factor 1.594, SCI indexed)
08 Feb 2021
SICI-Lectureship Grant award
01 Feb 2021
Second Best Paper (Faculty Members) at 6th Inter National Youth Symposium, B. K. School of Professional and Management Studies, Gujarat University organised during 29-30 January 2021.
30 Jan 2021
The "Best Research Scientist" awarded by Nirma University for the year of 2019-20
21 Jan 2021
03 research papers co-authored by Dr. Sudeep Tanwar have been recommended by the Word Health Organisation (WHO) in their "COVID-19 Global literature on coronavirus disease database".
14 Jan 2021
Best Paper in the Civil Engineering Division from The Institution of Engineers (India)
24 Dec 2020
Dr Ankit Thakkar recognized as an honorary Rosalind Member of London Journals Press for his article "A Survey on Video Based Human Action Recognition: Recent Updates, Datasets, Challenges, and Applications"
23 Dec 2020
Best Paper Presentation Award in ICFMET2020 held at Yashwantrao Patil Science College, Solankur
28 Nov 2020
Winner of IEEEXplore Challenge for Researchers in India
16 Oct 2020
Best Paper presentation Award in FLAME 2020 held at Amity University, Noida
26 Aug 2020
Resource person for Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Boston to teach Critical Thinking
14 Jul 2020
Received Summer Faculty Research Fellowship at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-Delhi)
02 Jun 2020
Dr Ankit Thakkar recognised as “Rosalind Member of London Journals Press” for his paper "CREST: Cross-Reference to Exchange-based Stock Trend Prediction using Long Short-Term Memory"
19 May 2020
ISTE BEST STUDENT CHAPTER AWARD
01 Apr 2020
Mitsubishi Electric Cup 2020 Faculty mentor IT NU
15 Feb 2020
Dr M H Joshipura received Best Paper Award at International Conference ADCHE-2020 Dehradun February 2020
07 Feb 2020
Topper in Ethical Hacking course by NPTEL
01 Dec 2019
Best Engineering-College-Teacher Award (Gujarat State) by ISTE
29 Nov 2019
Dr Ankit Thakkar recognised with “Quarterly Franklin Membership" by the Editorial Board of London Journals Press, UK
15 Nov 2019
1st Rank on Survival Task, Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge 2019
17 Oct 2019
Best Paper Award at ICIMSAT-2019, SIT Siliguri
22 Sep 2019
IEI Young Engineers Award 2019-20 in Civil Engineering Division by The Institution of Engineers (India)
01 Sep 2019
Travel grant award
26 Aug 2019
Faculty Fellowship at SUNY Binghamton
01 Jun 2019
Won the Best Paper Award in IEEE ICC 2019, Shanghai, China, May 20-24, 2019.
24 May 2019
NPTEL Elite+Gold Certification for Python
15 Apr 2019
ISTE Best Engineering College Teacher Award for the Gujarat State -2018
20 Mar 2019
Won the Best Paper Award in Springer 2nd International Conference on Recent Innovations in Computing (ICRIC-2019) held on 8th-9th March, 2019 at Central University of Jammu, J & K, India.
09 Mar 2019
Award of Best Research paper In IEEE International Conference in 2019
22 Feb 2019
Mitsubishi Electric Cup -2019 – Faculty Mentor , IT, NU
16 Feb 2019
Member of Expert Appraisal Committee constituted by MoEFCC, Government of India
01 Feb 2019
ISTE-GSFC National Award for guiding Best MTech Thesis in Mechanical Engineering 2018
30 Jan 2019
ISTE National Award for Best M Tech Thesis in Civil Engineering for having guided Best M Tech Thesis (I Prize)
29 Jan 2019
Indian Patent Published on Performance Enhanced Pump as Turbine
25 Jan 2019
Virtual Lab Silver Developer
13 Jan 2019
Received "ASHRAE Student Branch Advisor of the Year" Award
12 Jan 2019
Invited ( Only Indian) Workshop Leader for Critical Thinking during ICTIEE 2019 in Chitkara University.
11 Jan 2019
Secretary, IEEE Gujarat Section
01 Jan 2019
Received Certificate for Best Paper Presentation in ISEES Dec-2018 held at IIT Roorkee
21 Dec 2018
Won the Best Paper Award in IEEE GLOBECOM 2018, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec 9-13, 2018
13 Dec 2018
Got Foreign Partial Financial Assistance from CSIR, Govt of India, New Delhi to present research paper in IEEE-GLOBECOM-2018 organized by IEEE Communication Society at Abu Dhabi,UAE
01 Dec 2018
Completed a course on "Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures" offered by NTPEL with Gold Medal
22 Nov 2018
Completed NPTEL Course on "Geosynthetics Testing Laboratory" with Gold Medal (90% Marks)
20 Nov 2018
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF AUTOMATION (ISA) AWARD - "STUDENT SECTION LEADER OF THE YEAR - 2018"
14 Oct 2018
Received International Travel Grant from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi
19 Sep 2018
Invited Research Paper Contributor in WOSA, 2018.
07 Sep 2018
Best Paper Award for a Paper titled “Improving the Soil Subgrade with Plastic Waste Reinforcement-An Experimental Study ” authored by Alka Shah and Hiral Modha in International Conference on “Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2018) held during 23-24 August 2018 at Amity University, Noida.
24 Aug 2018
Indian Patent 1
01 Jul 2018
Best Paper Award
11 Jun 2018
ISTE-GSFC National Award for guiding Best MTech Thesis in Mechanical Engineering 2018
05 Jun 2018
Indian Patent 2
01 Jun 2018
Cisco certified Network Associate Routing and Switching
15 May 2018
Gold Medal in NPTEL Online Course "Digital Elevation Models and Applications" during Feb-Mar 2018
01 May 2018
Co-inventor for a Patent published by The Patent Office Journal for an invention "A Novel Composition for Alkali Activated Paver Blocks and A Process Thereof"
20 Apr 2018
Qualified GATE
15 Mar 2018
Mitsubishi Electric Cup 2018 Faculty mentor IT NU
17 Feb 2018
Received ASHRAE UG Lab Equipment Grant
16 Feb 2018
Mitsubishi Electric Cup-2018 - Faculty Mentor , IT, NU
15 Feb 2018
Best thesis award in the year 2017 on Mathematical models on Social Issues from 'Gujarat Science Academy'
05 Feb 2018
BAJA SAE India 2018 "Dronacharya Award"
28 Jan 2018
Recipient of ISTE Best Engineering College Teacher Award for the year 2017
13 Jan 2018
ISTE-IPCL National Award for guiding Best M Tech Thesis in Chemical Engineering 2017
08 Jan 2018
Best Research Scientist for Overall Contribution in Research Activities for the year 2017
06 Jan 2018
Invited Speaker in Fifth International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education (ICTIEE'18), Januaray 2018 in Bennett University, Delhi.
04 Jan 2018
Qualified National Eligibility Test(NET)-2017
01 Jan 2018
ZED Master Trainer
27 Dec 2017
Research Paper Authored by Dr. Tekwani was Awarded First Prize (across all the tracks) of “Prof. Muhammad H. Rashid Best Paper Award” in IEEE International Conference on Technological Advancements in Power & Energy (TAP Energy 2017). The Conference was Held at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Amritapuri, Kollam, Kerala, India in December 2017
23 Dec 2017
E. P. Nicolaides Prize for the paper published in Series ‘A’ Journal of Institution of Engineers (India) (SPRINGER) Vol. 97, Issue 3
21 Dec 2017
Qualified National Eligibility Test(NET)-2017
20 Nov 2017
Distinguished Facilitator Award by Infosys, September 2017.
13 Sep 2017
Graduate Student Thesis and Dissertation Scholarship award from Florida Atlantic University
30 Jul 2017
Senior Research Fellow
03 Jul 2017
Student Travel Scholarship to attend 50 years of ACM Turing awards celebrations awarded by SIGMM
22 Jun 2017
NVIDIA International Fellowship Grant of USD1800
22 May 2017
Engineering Second Place at 8th Annual Graduate Research Day of Florida Atlantic University, USA
05 May 2017
Received International Travel Support award in Young Scientist category from Science and Engineering Research Board, DST-India
02 May 2017
Best Paper Award in Joint International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computations in Engineering Systems and Power, Circuit and Information Technologies 2017
29 Apr 2017
Published a Patent on 'Smart MODBUS Protocol Device'. Patent No. : 3303/MUM/2015 A
28 Apr 2017
TEDx talks 2017 Speaker on Make Friends: Change Your World- Shake Hands
22 Apr 2017
Patent Publication on "SYNCHRONIZED CRACK MONITORING SYSTEM"
14 Apr 2017
Patent Publication on “SYNCHRONIZED CRACK MONITORING SYSTEM”
04 Apr 2017
Mitsubishi Electric Cup 2017 Faculty mentor IT NU
18 Feb 2017
Mitsubishi Electric Cup-2017 - Faculty Mentor , IT, NU
15 Feb 2017
Rajarambapu Patil National Award – 2016 for the Most Promising Engineering Teacher (Below 50 Years of Age) for Creative Work done in Technical Education. Received from ISTE (Indian Society for Technical Education), New Delhi. The award was presented during 46th ISTE National Annual Convention & National Conference held at Gulzar Group of Institutes, Khanna, Ludhiana (Punjab) during 10-12 February, 2017
10 Feb 2017
Third Place, at Three Minutes Research Competition, @ CEECS department, Florida Atlantic University
04 Feb 2017
Received Gold Medal in MTech (Computer Engineering) from SVNIT Surat
22 Jan 2017
Associate Editor - IET Journal “Computers and Digital Techniques
01 Jan 2017
Best Research Paper Award in IEEE International Conference -2016
19 Dec 2016
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF AUTOMATION (ISA -D'14) AWARD - DISTINGUISHED SOCIETY SERVICES AWARD - 2016
15 Oct 2016
Best Professor of the Institute for Overall Performance for the year 2016
03 Oct 2016
Guest Editor: Special Issue of IET Journal "Computers and Digital Techniques"
10 Sep 2016
Awarded the travel grant Centre for International Co-operation in Science (CICS) and Indian National Science Academy for attending the 9 th International Concrete Conference 2016 on “Environment, Efficiency and Economic Challenges” held at University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
06 Jul 2016
Early Career Academic Grant worth 1250 GBP for International Travel awarded by Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), London
25 May 2016
Nilesh Khalse and Narasimha Reddy Ravuru won first prize (Certificate of merit and 2000.00Rs Cash) for poster presentation at VNIT, Nagpur
03 Apr 2016
won first prize (Certificate of merit and 2000.00Rs Cash) for paper presentation at VNIT, Nagpur
02 Apr 2016
Best SPoC Award under Campus Connect MoU with Infosys
28 Mar 2016
Published patent on “An Improved Test Data De-Compressor on Chip”
25 Mar 2016
Best Paper Award for the paper presented on "Recent Advances in the Fabrication of Polymer based organic Solar cell" in International Conference on Energy and Infrastructure Management (ICEIM), on 18-19 February 2016 organised by School of Petroleum Management, Pandit Deendayal Petroluem University, Gujarat.
19 Feb 2016
A paper titled with “Cluster Head Election for Energy and Delay Constraint Application of Wireless Sensor Network” co-authored by Ankit Thakkar is being one of the 25 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers in November 2015.
03 Feb 2016
Best Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Department for teaching methodology for the year 2015 awarded by Nirma University
01 Jan 2016
Received Best Paper award at the International Conference on Vibration Problems (ICOVP) 2015 organised by IIT Guwahati
28 Dec 2015
Best Research Paper Award at WIECON-ECE 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh
21 Dec 2015
Best Research Paper Award: WICONE 2019, Bangaladesh Dhaka
19 Dec 2015
Mentor of Best BTech Project in Civil Engineering by ISTE titled "Effect of Alkaline Activator on Mechanical Strength of Geopolymer Mortar" awarded to Achint Sharma and Abhinav Karmilla
23 Nov 2015
International Conference Chair of NUiCONE 2015
19 Nov 2015
Mentored "High Strength Geopolymer Concrete" which was awarded as Best Idea Lab Project by Nirma University in 2015 to Hardik Bhatia and Vatsal Ghael
03 Oct 2015
Best Paper Award from Indian Building Congress (IBC), New Delhi for paper presented during 19th Annual Convention & National Seminar of IBC held at New Delhi
02 Sep 2015
A paper titled with "Cluster Head Election for Energy and Delay Constraint Application of Wireless Sensor Network" co-authored by Ankit Thakkar is being one of the 50 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers in April 2015.
26 Aug 2015
Poster on "Site suitability Analysis of Water Harvesting Structures in Hilly Terrains of Valsad Region using Remote Sensing and GIS" won first prize at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar. (Cash Prize: 10,000 INR)
25 Jul 2015
Conference Chair - 19th International Conference on VLSI Design and Test VDAT2015
26 Jun 2015
Got Foreign Partial Financial Assistance from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), HRD Group, New Delhi April 20, 2015 to attend and present research paper in IEEE International Conference on Communication (IEEE-ICC-2015) organized by IEEE Communication Society held at London, UK from June 08th to 12th, 2015
12 Jun 2015
Content Guru- Faculty Recognition Award by Infosys, June 2015
08 Jun 2015
A paper titled with "Cluster Head Election for Energy and Delay Constraint Application of Wireless Sensor Network" co-authored by Ankit Thakkar is being one of the 50 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers in January, February and March 2015.
05 May 2015
Best Paper
25 Mar 2015
A paper titled with "Cluster Head Election for Energy and Delay Constraint Application of Wireless Sensor Network" co-authored by Ankit Thakkar is being one of the 50 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers in October 2014.
09 Feb 2015
Chair and Founder Member, IEEE Gujarat Section Women-In-Engineering(WIE) Affinity Group
01 Jan 2015
Best Research Paper Presentation Award
15 Dec 2014
ISTE Calcutta Convention National Award for the Best Paper Presented by Teachers at the Annual Convention of ISTE (Polytechnic)
27 Nov 2014
ISTE-IPCL award for Guiding M.Tech Thesis entitled "Design and Simulation of Cryogenic Columns in Air Separation Unit" in year 2014
01 Nov 2014
A paper titled with “Cluster Head Election for Energy and Delay Constraint Application of Wireless Sensor Network” co-authored by Ankit Thakkar is being one of the 25 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers in July, August, and September 2014.
30 Oct 2014
Gold Medal
18 Oct 2014
Worked as a Deputy Director at Centre for Quality Assurance and Academic Development, Nirma University
11 Sep 2014
Rotaract Ratna Award
08 Jul 2014
Gold Medal in B.E Civil awarded by Silver Oak College of Engineering & Technology in 2014
01 Jun 2014
NIT Kozhikode National Award for Guiding the Best B.Tech Project
31 May 2014
Editorial Board Member in Journals
20 Mar 2014
Best Paper Presentation Award in International Conference ETEICE 2014 held at Bhilai Institute of Technology, Raipur
14 Mar 2014
Gujarat Technological University Awarded Gold Medal For Standing First in ME (Geotechnical Engineering)
16 Jan 2014
Prize for Student Project in Engineer Infinite 2014
12 Jan 2014
Authored technical article on “Polymer solar cell as energy option” received First position in competition organised by Nandini Chemical Journal organised at National Level in December 2013
31 Dec 2013
Invited for Session chair in International Expert Talk on “Microwave Remote Sensing”
17 Dec 2013
Best Paper Award in International Conference on Advances in Engineering and Technology 2013
17 May 2013
US Patent - Desalination unit for the production of potable water from sub-soil brine (Granted)
16 May 2013
Qualified GATE
10 Mar 2013
Dronacharya Award
01 Feb 2013
Institute Silver Medal for holding First position in M.Tech in Electrical Engineering (Control and Automation), NIT Rourkela
19 Jan 2013
ISTE Charutar Vidya Mandal, Vallabh Vidya Nagar, Gujarat Award for the Best Polytechnic Teacher (Year 2012)
20 Dec 2012
Conference Chair- 3rd Nirma University International Conference on Engineering NUiCONE-2012
06 Dec 2012
Best Engineering-College-Teacher Award (Gujarat State) by ISTE
10 Nov 2012
Silver Award for Case Study Presentation during 1st Annual Convention on ‘Business Excellence through Lean Six Sigma’
27 Oct 2012
JRF-NET(CSIR-UGC)-Chemical Sciences
01 Oct 2012
ECMA's Learning Initiative Project Award for guiding PhD Student
15 Sep 2012
Oracle Certified Java Professional (OCJP) SE 6 Instructor
31 May 2012
Certificate of participation for Earthian initiative (Earthian-2012) by Wipro
16 May 2012
Best Research Paper published by UG Student in High Impact Factor International Journal by IIChE
24 Dec 2011
ISTE-L&T National Award for Best M.Tech. Thesis in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (as Guide). It was awarded by Indian Society for Technical Education, New Delhi. The presentation of ISTE Award was made during the Inaugural Function of the 41st Annual Convention of ISTE on 16th December, 2011 at Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab
16 Dec 2011
ISTE-GSFC National Award for guiding Best MTech Thesis in Mechanical Engineering 2011
01 Dec 2011
Guided Project titled “Estimation of Geoidal undulation of Ahmedabad city using GPS”, which is awarded as Best B.tech project by Indian Society for Technical Education in "Fourteenth ISTE student Convention in 2011" at Jayam College of Engineering and Technology, Dharmapuri, Tamilnadu
30 Sep 2011
GPSC 2011
01 Jun 2011
Received Appreciation for Guiding the B. Tech. Project in Civil Engineering (II Prize) on “Bacterial Concrete” by Institute of Technology, Nirma University.
30 Apr 2011
Best Technical Paper Award at International Conference ICISET – 2011
08 Apr 2011
GATE-2010 (Chemical Sciences)
14 Jan 2011
Best Paper in Journal of Indian Chemical Engineer (Tailor and Francis) in year 2010 for the paper titled "Development of Compound Specific Cohesion Function Relationship for SRK Equation of State"
29 Dec 2010
Best Technical Paper Award at International Conference NUiCONE – 2010
18 Dec 2010
ISTE’s Kerala Government Best Design Project National Award 2010
10 Dec 2010
INAE’s Innovative Student Project National Awards 2009 and 2010
26 Nov 2010
“IEI Young Engineer National Award 2010-2011” in the Electrical Engineering Discipline. The award was presented by The Institution of Engineers (India), Kolkata, and was announced during inaugural function of the 26th National Convention of Electrical Engineers held at IEI, Jabalpur on 13th November 2010.
13 Nov 2010
Biographical-Note with photograph published in Asian Admirable Achievers, (2010) Vol. IV, page no. 351, published by Rifacimento International (Publisher of Reference Books in the Genre of Who's Who and Business Directories)
24 Aug 2010
Awarded a travel grant by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for presenting paper at Third International Congress, PCI and fib at Washington DC, USA.
02 Jun 2010
ISTE Charutar Vidya Mandal, Vallabh Vidyanagar Gujarat Award for Best Engineering College Teacher in Gujarat , 2010
01 May 2010
Gate 2010
01 Feb 2010
Best Polytechnic Teacher for Gujarat State for year 2009
30 Dec 2009
IIChE’s Achary P C Ray Best Design Project Natioanl Award
19 Dec 2009
Dr A V Rama Rao Best Ph.D. Thesis and Research National Award by IIChE
18 Dec 2009
Ankit Thakkar received Gold Medal for Academic Performance in MTech
12 Oct 2009
Certified with "Oracle 9i Database Administrator Certified Professional (OCP)" by Oracle University
31 May 2009
Best Technical Paper Award in International Conference ICEESPEE-2009 at SRM University
17 Apr 2009
Consultancy Research Fellowship for the year 2009-2010 by Consultancy Development Center of Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India to the B.Tech. Project
09 Apr 2009
“ISTE Charutar Vidya Mandal Vallabh Vidyanagar Gujarat Award for the Best Engineering College Teacher in Gujarat State 2008”
19 Dec 2008
Young Engineer National Award. Awarded by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), New Delhi. Awarded during Annual Convention of INAE, held at National Institute of Oceanography (NIT), Dona Paula, Goa, India during 5-6 December 2008.
06 Dec 2008
Roli Srivatsava Memorial Award for Excellence in English
29 Nov 2008
Appreciation Certificate from ADOBE MAX Conference
01 Oct 2008
Certified with "Oracle 9i Database Administrator Certified Associate (OCA)" by Oracle University
31 May 2008
All India 27th Rank with 99.69% (Percentile) in GATE 2008 Examination
15 May 2008
Best Paper Award for the paper presented on “Biofuel (Ethanol & Biodiesel):Applications as sustainable fuel for Internal Combustion Engine” in National Conference on 8 February 2008, organised by Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology (SKIT), Jaipur.
10 Feb 2008
GATE 2008
01 Feb 2008
Tag Corporation Medal for Best Ph.D. Thesis of the year 2006-2007. Awarded by Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in 2007.
03 Dec 2007
Received award for ‘Highly Commendable Paper’ at 1st Conference on “Recent Advances in Concrete Technology”, by C. I. Premier, at Washington D.C., U.S.A.
21 Sep 2007
Awarded travel grant of $ 500 by International Association of Geodesyin for presenting poster "Monitoring Land Subsidence using GPS and INSAR" in International Conference IUGG-2007, Perugia, Italy
11 Jul 2007
Gold Medal for Academic Performance in M. Tech
29 Jun 2007
Best Performance Award
07 Jun 2007
Second best poster presentation at National Seminar on Emerging Trends in Supramolecular Research, Department of Chemistry, Gujarat University; 30-31 March 2007
31 Mar 2007
Young Techno-Entrepreneur 2007
08 Mar 2007
ISTE Charutar Vidya Mandal, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat Award for Best Engineering College Teacher in Gujarat, 2006
28 Dec 2006
Gold Medalist
16 Oct 2006
Awarded a travel grant from All India Council of Technical Education for presenting papers at 10th East Asia-Pacific Conference, Asian Institute of Technology, Bagkok, Thailand.
05 Aug 2006
Certified with "Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)" by Cisco Networking Academy
31 May 2006
Best Engineering College Teachers Award for Gujarat State from ISTE, New Delhi
10 Dec 2005
Awarded a Gold Medal for First Rank in MTech- CAD/CAM Batch 2003-05 by Nirma University
12 May 2005
Tag Corporation Medal for Best ME student in High Voltage Engineering, IISc, Bangalore
01 Aug 2004
US Patent Citation
01 Apr 2001
US Patent Citation
01 Jun 2000
“Modern Construction Co. Ltd.” medal for standing first in Third Year of B. E. (Civil) at Gujarat University
15 Jun 1990
Invited Speaker by University of Hildesheim, Germany