Varanasi: Professor Sudhir K Jain, an internationally famous engineering and academic engineering scholar, assumed the office as representative of the 28th Chancellor of the University of Banaras Hindu (BHU) on Friday.
Stay of the founder of PT Madan Mohan Malviya about inclusiveness, nobles and excellence from more than a century before, Prof.
Jain, in a message to the campus community, promised to foster a culture of consultation, inclusivity, transparency, collegiality and mutual respect in joint ambitions to lift outside institutions This usual into the ranks of the university.
Diding reporters, he said, “The students are in the heart of the educational company, and enhance their education experience and the life of the community with new curricular and co-curricular initiatives will be the highest priority of my faculty and administration.” He urged the faculty and staff of the Bhu to step individually, in the formal and collaborative to the time to realize the potential and promise of the university.
Profof Jain has served as the Founding Director of the Indian-Gandhinagar Institute of Technology for 12 years.
He ventured Padma Shri, one of the highest civilian awards in India, for leading services in the fields of science and engineering, by the Indian government in 2020.
He has made seminal contributions with earthquake engineering practices and education in India.
He played an important role in developing several important seismic codes in India, and have trained thousands of professional engineers and college teachers in earthquake engineering through his sustainable education program.
He founded the National Information Center for the Earthquake Engineering (Nicee) in Iit-Kanpur and developed a national program on earthquake engineering education (NPEEE), supported by the Indian government.
He has served as a consultant for several major projects, such as petrochemical bridges and pipes, and has published more than 150 scientific papers.
The interest of research includes the study of earthquake damage, reinforced concrete buildings, bridges, and seismic codes.
Profof Jain was chosen as an international member of the US National Engineering Academy in 2021 (the only 18 chosen from India to date) and received a famous alumnus award from the Indian Rookee Technology Institute for Academic or Research Excellence in 2019.
He is a person The second India has served as President of the International Association for the Earthquake Engineering from 2014-18 and was chosen as an honorary member of the Association in 2021.
He was elected as the Indian National Engineering Academic colleague in 2003, and the membership of life provided by the New Zealand community for earthquake engineering (Nzsee) In 2013.Prof Jain was in the IIT-Kanpur faculty for 35 years from 1984-2019.
He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Rookee University (1979), and Masters (1980) and Doctorate (1983) degrees from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.