Faculty Development Program (Online) on “Green Manufacturing” held at SMVDU

One-week online Faculty Development Program (Online) on “Green Manufacturing” coordinated by Dr. Raghvendra Kumar Mishra, began at school of Mechanical Engineering, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi university, Katra. The course shall be mainly focused on the various sustainable manufacturing methods to make products greener and sustainable. At the outset the program was inaugurated by Prof. Kumud Ranjan Jha (Dean faculty of Engineering) and Prof. Eswarmoorthy Muthuswamy (Head School of Mechanical Engineering) who emphasized the purpose of organizing this course and usefulness for the participants. He lauded the efforts of the School of Mechanical Engineering for coordinating this event. The course is mainly focused on reusing the materials for engineering products, sustainable manufacturing methods to make products greener and sustainable, said the coordinator, Dr. Raghvendra Kumar Mishra. 148 teachers of various engineering colleges around the country registered this course. In this course various experts from NITs, BITS Pilani, BIT Mesra Ranchi & other renowned institutes delivered the lecture on importance and aspects of green manufacturing. This was a 5 days faculty development program. There were three sessions every day and each session was 60 minutes. Dr. Ankush Anand (SMVDU) was the speaker for the first session.  He highlighted the understanding of sustainability and green manufacturing. In the second session Dr. Rajeev Agrawal, (Associate Professor, MNIT Jaipur) discussed the life cycle assessment in sustainable manufacturing. This faculty development was conducted successfully, participants requested to conduct this Programme in offline mode.