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 Lifetime achievement Award
For the year 2002, the Lifetime Achievement Award
of IIT Bombay has been conferred on Professor Krishnan
Pozhath Madhavan of the Department of Chemical Engineering.
The award comes to him in recognition of his outstanding contributions
as a teacher, scientist, technologist and administrator...more
Prof. K. P. Madhavan
Editorial
Welcome to the Spring 2002 issue of Update, the newsletter
of Industrial Research and Consultancy Centre (IRCC), IIT Bombay...more
At a Glance
This section gives you the information on sponsored, consultancy
projects, MOUs signed, technology transfers, awards ...more
Sounding Board
It is known that in the knowledge business of Information
Technology and Bioinformatics, India has a great potential.
Another opportunity of equal potential, if not a greater one,
whi ch does not seem to be adequately appreciated,
is the business of providing engineering education at the Bachelor's
level...more
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In
every issue, we focus on a research area at
IIT Bombay. In this issue, the focus is on
Microelectronics
and Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) deal with the
design and fabrication of integrated circuits like microprocessors,
memories and communication circuits. The growth of microelectronics
the world over during the last 3 decades has been characterised
by the now famous Moore's Law, an empirical observation
and prediction which states that the complexity of semiconductor
integrated circuit doubles every 18 months.
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The Agriclinic
The agrarian sector has undoubtedly benefited much
from large-scale farming practices ushered in by
the Green Revolution. Nevertheless, that fraction
of the country's agricultural community, which has
relatively low per capita land holding has not had
adequate access to farming technologies that can
boost productivity..more
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Spring
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