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unusual facts about IIT Kharagpur



Ruma Acharya

She, along with her husband, Asoke Deysarkar pledged to donate the USD 1 million for setting up a Center for Petroleum Engineering at IIT Kharagpur during IIT 2013 Global Conference in Houston.

Shekhar Chaudhuri

During August 1989 and August 1991, he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Management at the College of Business and Administration, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Visiting Professor in the Strategy, Organization and Human Resources Group at ESCP Europe in its Paris campus during October – December, 1998; and Dean of the Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur during the period of May 2000 to December 2001.

Chaudhuri graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 1972 with a B.Tech. (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering.


see also

Bitwise

Bitwise IIT Kharagpur, an algorithm-intensive programming contest by CSE IIT Kharagpur

M. A. Ramlu

Madisetti Anant Ramlu (born 1927) served as the founder and first Head of the Department of Mining Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur, India, from 1958 until in 1987, when he retired as the Deputy Director & Acting Director of IIT Kharagpur.