3-day global meet inaugurated in NIT-Warangal

Warangal: A three-day International Conference on Advances in Minerals, Metals, Materials, Manufacturing and Modelling (ICAM5), 2019 organised by the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (MMED), National Institute of Technology, Warangal, (NITW) was inaugurated here on Wednesday.

More than 100 delegates from various research and academic institutions, research scholars, students and faculty members from MMED participated in the first session that was inaugurated by Prof Jean-Loup Strudel, Emeritus Professor, MINES ParisTech, Centre des Materiaux, France, along with Prof P Anand Raj, Director incharge, NIT Warangal, and Prof L Krishnanand, Coordinator, TEQIP III, NIT Warangal, Dr C Vanitha, Chairman and Head of the Department, MMED, NIT Warangal.

TEQIP coordinator Prof Krishnanand explained about the importance of having such international conferences among the technical community to address the modern-day challenges. He also highlighted various technical programmes sponsored under TEQUIP and encouraged the faculty members to conduct more such esteemed programmes.

Prof P Anand Raj briefed about the history of the institute, role of NITW in Indian education and the on-going activities at the institute. He also highlighted that ICAM5 2019 is being hosted at the institute as part of its diamond jubilee celebrations. He also emphasised that this conference provides platform to exchange ideas and discuss the challenges in the field of metallurgy and materials for researchers from academia, research, industry and government organisations.

Prof Jean-Loup Strudel in his inaugural address emphasised that the conference proceedings represent scholarly work of advanced and innovative thinkers and educators from around the world. He also felt that it is only through the exchange of information that one can hope to keep up with the rapidly changing world around us. Prof Strudel strongly emphasised that the present generation scientists and technologist to take up the new challenges and find solutions to the modern-day problems.