Awarded FIRST PLACE of the IEOM Lean Six Sigma Competition Awards for a paper titled “Ranking the Important Failure Factors of Lean Six Sigma deployment through Pareto Analysis”, co-authored by Dr. Kaushik M. Patel, presented at the 2nd IEOM India International Conference on “Industrial Engineering and Operations Management” organized by IEOM Society International, USA, and hosted by National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India from 16/08/2022 to 18/08/2022.