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KGP Chronicle (April 26, 2019) By: Shreyoshi Ghosh
Alumnus Prof. Tapan Bagchi to set up Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya Chair Professorship Award
Alumnus and eminent academician Prof. Tapan Bagchi (DSc/2012), is setting up a Chair Professorship in the memory of illustrious alumnus Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya who recently passed away. An MoU to this effect was signed last week with Prof. Bagchi to this effect.
The objective of the 'Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya Chair Professorship Award' will be to carry out state-of-the-art teaching, research development and industrial collaboration at the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Lord Bhattacharyya was a renowned academic, manufacturing expert and leading consultant for industry and governments. He served as a Professor at the University of Warwick. The entrepreneur in him led him to found the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), UK's leading research and innovation centre. He did his B.Tech in 1960 in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. (Read More)