Mr. Manjunath Bhandary, Chairman-Bhandary Foundation visited the National Institute of Technology, Goa and had an interaction with Dr. Gopal Mugeraya, Director of National Institute of Technology, Goa on 4th Oct’19.
Dr. Gopal Mugeraya has served at NITK, Agartala and NITK, Surathkal in various eminent positions before joining NIT, Goa. He has obtained Ph.D frm IISc, Bengaluru. He has coordinated more than 35 industry-oriented projects at PG level and has guided 9 Ph.D’s in the area of Industrial Pollution Control and Solid Waste Management.
His Achievements are:
• Received “Hindustan Door-Oliver National Award-2000” by Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Received “World Environment Day-Parisara award 2001” by Govt. of Karnataka.
• Awarded “Biotechnology Overseas Associate ship Award 2004” by DBT, Govt. of India and undergone advance training at Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, USA in the area of Biosensors and Bioremediation.
• Deputed to “Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (AIT)” by Govt. of India in year 2003 as Visiting Professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering (SERD).
• Life member ISTE, IIChE, IAEM, ECSI and Biosensors and Bioremediation Society of India.
He was also involved with NBA of AICTE as an accreditation expert member for more than fifty Institutions all over India for the last ten years. He is the Chairman of Technical Advisory Committee of Karnataka State Pollution Control Board and a well wisher of Sahyadri since those days while he was serving at National Institute of Technology, Surathkal.
During interaction, Dr. Gopal appreciated the approaches taken by Sahyadri towards Industry-Academia interface and assured of his association with Sahyadri through Dr. Manjappa S, Director-Research towards overall development of the institution.