Third Golden Jubilee Memorial Lecture

Date: 8th December 2005, 10 AM to 12 PM

Place: AVC, UCE, Burla

Speaker: Dr Sanjeev Kumar Panda, Prof Computer Sc, National Institute of Singapore
 

Fourth Golden Jubilee Memorial Lecture
Date : 21st December 2005

Place: AVC, UCE, Burla

Speaker : Dr Priyadarsan Patra, Intel Labs, USA

Topic : Trends, issues and challenges in modern processor design

Brief profile of speaker: Dr. Patra has B.Engg. in Electronics and Telecomm. Engg. from the Indian Inst.of Science at Bangalore, an M.S. in Computer and Info. Science from the Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the Univ. of Texas at Austin.
Priyadarsan's main research interests include the areas of low-power design (power-aware systems), high-performance circuit synthesis and optimization, integrated logic and physical synthesis of structured logic integrated with verification, and architectural power/performance estimation. He is currently driving research in the area of modeling and perf/power/reliability estimation of large-scale chip-multiprocessor interconnection fabric, and also in processor core level Global Routing.
His past research include domino-logic design, event-based and reversible computation involving Delay-insensitive, and Adiabatic circuits, and the Rapid-single-flux-quantum (RSFQ) circuits. He is a member of the Senior Research Staff at the Intel Labs, the premier research wing of Intel Corporation. He is an elected Senior Member of the IEEE. He is a recipient of Intel Trail Blazer Award and several other recognitions. He has also received Distinguished Young Oriya Award from the Orissa Society of the Americas, and the Best Student Organization award from the Univ. of Texas at Austin. He is an author of numerous papers and four patents.
About the Topic: His lecture shall highlight some of the most important
problems in the design of some of the world's most advanced processors. It will have a brief review of modern IC manufacturing techniques, and trends and issues in modern VLSI design, and focus on two nanoscale era problems - power and variation. It will present the important circuit techniques to address them and move on to architectural techniques and trends to combat the unprecedented problem of power dissipation, design complexity, and reliability. It will also describe the importance of design automation, and mathematical techniques, such as probabilistic and statistical modeling and design, in order to combat the near quantum-mechanical limits being reached by semiconductor technology today.
 

Fifth Golden Jubilee Memorial Lecture
Date : 5th January 2006,

Place: AVC, UCE, Burla

Speaker : Dr Abdul Hamid Khan (1966 alumnus of UCE), Associate Professor of Management, at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Our Lady of the Lake University.
Topic : Effective teaching, Teaching effectiveness, Balanced scorecard.
Brief profile of speaker: Dr Khan teaches courses in the MBA curriculum - Strategic Human Resources Management; Personnel Administration; Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Performance Measurement and Improvement Strategies; and Effective Management Development. In the BBA program he teaches Business Ethics Models; Paradigms and Principles of Management; Human Resources Management; Organizational Behavior; and Training and Development. His research interest is in the field of Ethical Applications of Managerial Decisions, and Management Development of Executives. He has been reviewer of journal articles and contributed refereed papers to Journal of Engineering Technology, Journal of Computers in Education, and Journal of Modern Engineering, Business Research Yearbook, and Competitiveness Forum.
He has contributed scholarly papers to such academies as -- International Academy of Business Disciplines; American Society for Engineering Education; American Society for Competitiveness; and Frontiers in Education. Hamid has chaired various technical sessions in national and international forums. Dr Hamid has BS in Mechanical Engineering (UCE) ; MS in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering; MBA in Strategic Management; and Doctorate in Education. Dr Hamid has worked in Mitsubishi - Japan as a design engineer, Allis-Chalmers Corp. as Industrial Engineer, and Brooke Bond India as a Training Manager. Dr. Khan is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas since 1985, and has consulted with various companies and offered his professional services to program accreditation as an academic program evaluator in engineering, engineering technology and management.
About the topic: According to Chester Barnard, "The fine art of executive decision making consists in not deciding those things that are not now pertinent, not deciding prematurely, not deciding those things that cannot be made effective and not deciding those thing that others should make."
This fine art of executive decision making can be applied to the fine art of teaching and teaching effectiveness as, "The fine art of effective teaching consists in not teaching those things that are not now pertinent, not teaching prematurely, not teaching those things that cannot be made effective, and not teaching those things that others should teach." In examining these qualitative criteria Myers Briggs Type Indicators (MBTI) along with Kolb's and Felder's Learning Style Indices (LSI) for teachers and students will be overlapped. In analyzing such teaching effectiveness criteria, the nature of teaching responsibility and accountability will be examined to determine the sources of sustained teaching effectiveness and successes. On evaluating such tasks an ethnographic study (in line of Spradley's method) of some successful teachers will be undertaken to define a "balanced scorecard in effective teaching," developed in the pattern of the Harvard Business Review's Balanced Scorecard.
 

Sixth Golden Jubilee Memorial Lecture

Date : 9th January 2006

Place: AVC, UCE, Burla

Speaker: Dr Brajendra Das (1961 alumnus of UCE), Dean of Engineering at California State University

Brief profile of speaker: Dr Das is second batch alumnus of UCE, Burla and is the Dean of Engineering at California State University for last 12 years. He is one of the few successful alumni to attain such an academic position in US. His detailed profile shall be published later.