The Institution of Engineers (India)

In service of the Nation since 1920

31st

Indian Engineering Congress

December 15-18, 2016, Kolkata
Hosted by: West Bengal State Centre
Venue :
Hotel J W Marriott
4A, J B S Haldane Avenue, Kolkata 700105, India

Theme

SMART Technologies for Natural Resource

Conservation and Sustainable Development

CALL FOR PAPERS

About The Institution of Engineers (India)

The Institution of Engineers (India) or IEI is the largest
multidisciplinary professional body that encompasses 15
engineering disciplines and gives engineers a global platform
for sharing professional interest. IEI has membership strength of
above 0.8 million. Established in 1920, with its headquarter at 8
Gokhale Road, Kolkata-700020, IEI has served the engineering
fraternity close to a century. During this period of time, IEI
has been inextricably linked with the history of modern-day
engineering.
In 1935, IEI was incorporated by Royal Charter and remains
the only professional body in India which has been accorded
this honour. Today, its quest for professional excellence
has given it a place of pride in almost every prestigious and
relevant organization across the globe. It provides a vast
array of technical, professional and supporting services to
the Government, Industries, Academia and the Engineering
fraternity, operating through its 114 Centres located across the
country and 5 overseas chapters. Besides, IEI has international
links and professional bilateral agreements with about 31
international organisations and 8 international committees of
the developed nations across the globe.
Being recognized as a Scientific and Research Organisation
(SIRO) by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research,
Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, IEI
promotes the cause of research and development by providing
Grant-in-Aid support to undergraduate, post graduate students
and PhD Research Scholars of Engineering Institutions and
Universities.
IEI conducts Section A & B Examinations in different
engineering disciplines (popularly known as AMIE
examination), the successful completion of which is recognized
as equivalent to Degree in appropriate field of Engineering of
recognized Universities of India by the Ministry of Human
Resources Development, Government of India. Every year as
many as 90000 candidates appear for these exams.
IEI in collaboration with Springer regularly publishes peerreviewed international journal in five series, namely, Series
A, Series B, Series C, Series D and Series E covering fifteen
engineering disciplines.
For further details, please visit: www.ieindia.org.

Indian Engineering Congress

The aim of the Indian Engineering Congress is to bring to fore
the developments in various fields of engineering and prepare
our engineers to face the future challenges for sustainable
development of the country.
The objectives of the Indian Engineering Congress are:
To debate and discuss the theme of the Congress to create
awareness, promote ideas, innovations in their respective
engineering disciplines.
To provide Engineers with a forum for exchange of
knowledge, updating information and developing a sense of
responsibility in their professional functioning.

To promote and inculcate social responsibilities of engineers

towards fulfilling the basic needs of common citizen of our
country.

To promote the Engineering practice that meets the

challenges of sustainable resource management.

To promote Emergent Engineering Challenges.

Theme of the 31st Indian Engineering Congress

SMART Technologies for Natural Resource Conservation
and Sustainable Development
Natural Resource Management focuses on the need of
sustainable management of the Earths depleting natural
resources such as clean water, energy, minerals and biological
resources, in relation to the growth of the human population.
Managing the interaction between people and nature is a crucial
task in todays environment. Land-use Planning, Conservation
of Biodiversity, Water and Waste Management, Sustainability of
industries, Forestry, Tourism, Fishery etc. all are be to integrated
in a holistic manner so as to improve the livelihood, health and
productivity of the masses.
India has emerged as an economic and industrial power. As
a member of the Group of Twenty (G20), and BRICS, it has
now a rapidly growing economy facing challenges in social and
environmental issues. The accelerated growth in all sectors and
urban development in particular has thrown a challenge towards
its natural resources.
Modern protocols and treaties on environmental protection and
natural resource management are highly technology dependent.
Adoption and application of Sustainable, Manageable,
Appropriate, Rational and Transferable (SMART) Technologies
in all sectors of development will be the most befitting action
for effective Natural Resource Management in a sustainable
manner.

Sub-themes
Sustainable Technologies: Sustainable technologies
have come a long way in the past few decades, driven by
environmental awareness and the rising costs of fossil fuels
for applications in clean energy, greenhouse gas management,
green manufacturing and sustainable living.
Manageable Technologies: To make technological
innovations practical, it is important to show them that
innovation is manageable for the country, linked to strategy,
process, resources, organization and culture.
Appropriate Technologies: Small-scale technologies which
are simple enough for people to manage it directly and on a
local level. Appropriate technology makes use of skills and
technology that are available in a local community to supply
basic human needs.
Rational Technologies: Rational Technologies can provide
quality and leading solutions for businesses, which are
planning to leverage the innovativeness of the technologies
to achieve their desired business goals and commercialization
of their product.
Transferable Technologies: The technologies which are
easily adaptable through process of skill and knowledge
sharing for managing the natural resources in the best possible
way are need of the hour for sustainable development.

Call for Papers

Engineering professionals from Industries, Academic Institutions,
Research & Development Organisations, Government
Departments and Entrepreneurs are invited to contribute papers

pertaining to the theme and sub-themes of the Congress under

each of the following 15 engineering disciplines of IEI. The papers
should focus on sharing the experience, concepts, innovative ideas,
research findings etc. and should cover the below-mentioned areas
convergent with the subthemes:

Aerospace Engineering

Agricultural Engineering

Precision Farming and Hitech Agriculture,

Watershed Management
Water Footprint & Virtual Water Approach
Food Security and Post Harvest Technologies
Reclamation Measures for Degraded Land

Development of Micro & Nano Satellites

Aero Acoustics
Infrastructure Management in Aviation
Hypersonic Aerodynamics and Propulsion
Unmanned Air Vehicles

Architectural Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Development of Smart City

Failure analysis and Retrofitting of Buildings
Architectural Engineering for Rapid Transit Related
Structures
Evaluation and Maintenance of Faade Systems
Township Planning and Green Architecture

High Temperature Plastics

Bioremediation and Biodegradation
Building Safety Attitude
Safety in Chemical Industry
Biofuel : Clean and Green Technology
Nanotechnology - Chemical Industrys Future

Computer Engineering

Civil Engineering

Internet of Things and ICT

Mobile computing for Smart Cities
Cloud computing and big data analysis
e-Learning on web and mobile platform
Parallel and distributed computing
Medical Imaging
Data Security
Forensic Engineering

Composite Structures
Fibre-reinforced Concrete
Intelligent Transport systems
Health monitoring, residual life assessment and retrofitting
of structures
Advanced Technologies to Upgrade Dams

Electrical Engineering

Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

Smart Grids Technologies & Applications

Renewable Power Generation
Power System Engineering & its applications
Retrofitting of electrical machines
Distributed generation in Micro Grid
Smart & Efficient Industrial Drives

Geographic information system and remote sensing,

Intelligent transportation and communication systems,
Embedded Electronic Architecture
Communication Networks and Security
Signal Processing and Information Coding

Environmental Engineering

Marine Engineering

Water Supply and Sewage Treatment for Smart Cities

Municipal Solid Waste Management
Impact & Control of Air Pollution due to urbanization
Green Building Technology
Biomedical, Hazardous and e-Waste Management

Super Conducting Materials related to Marine Applications

Innovative Design for Under Water Vehicles
Innovations in Ship Building Technology
Sea Plane/Hydro Plane/Hovercraft
Inland Water Transport

Mechanical Engineering

Metallurgical & Materials Engineering

Thermal Engineering; Heat Transfer; Cryogenics; Energy

Efficient Boilers, Super/Ultra Super-critical Boilers; Fluid
Mechanics and Machinery.
Sustainability of Non conventional energy resources and
Green Power Generation
Tribology; Machine Health Monitoring; Reliability,
Availability and Maintainability Engineering.
Engineering Design; Use of FE and Multibody Dynamics
Tools (and software).
Vibration and Noise; Robotics and Mechatronics.

Development, engineering and application of new coating

technologies for metallic/non-metallic/composite surfaces.
Corrosion Science & Engineering Failure Analysis
Composites with Matrix of Intermetallics & Metal Matrix
Composites
Microstructural Characterization
Energy Materials

Mining Engineering

Production Engineering

Mining Machinery
IT, Automation & Remote Sensing in Mining
Mine Environment, Ventilation and Safety
Rock Mechanics & Ground Control
Excavation, Reclamation and Stowing Technologies

Green manufacturing
Smart materials and Composites
Cloud Manufacturing
Lean and Agile manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing

Textile Engineering

The above areas are indicative. Authors may also submit papers on
other areas based on the main theme of the 31st Indian Engineering
Congress

Production and Use of Modern Synthetic Fibre

Indian Silk: Processing, Trading and Investment Opportunity
Applications of Technical Textiles
Smart Fabrics and Smart Textiles: The Way Forward
Production Techniques for Non-woven Fabrics

Submission of Synopsis / Full Text

The authors are requested to submit the synopsis and
full text (post-acceptance of synopsis) through e-mail to
iectech@ieindia.org

Nodal Dates
Submission of Synopsis
Intimation of acceptance of synopsis
Submission of full-text
Intimation to authors regarding session
details

September 15, 2016

September 30, 2016
October 31, 2016
November 15, 2016

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Technical Committee

Guidelines for Authors

Authors intending to submit a paper for 31st Indian Engineering
Congress are advised to adhere to the guidelines as mentioned
below. The papers not conforming to these guidelines may not
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papers will be published by a reputed publisher in the Technical
Volume of the 31st Indian Engineering Congress (with ISBN
No.).
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same, full text of the Paper has to be submitted. The author
should mention the Engineering Discipline of the paper.
Synopsis will be reviewed by domain experts and the decision
will be communicated to those authors whose synopsis is
accepted.

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for the

31st Indian Engineering Congress

Chairman
Prof. (Dr.) N R Bandyopadhyay, FIE
Members
Prof. (Dr.) Arup Kr. Mishra, FIE
Prof. Jitendra Singh, FIE
Dr. G S Yadava, FIE
Prof. (Dr.) D J Doke, FIE
Prof. (Dr.) T Ananthapadmanabha, FIE
Prof. (Dr.) Samir Kr. Bandyopadhyay, FIE
Prof. (Dr.) Sudip Kr. Roy
Prof. (Dr.) Partha Bhattacharya
Prof. (Dr.) Swapan Kr. Ghosh
Prof. (Dr.) Swapan Kr. Goswami
Prof. (Dr.) Pradip Kr. Das
Prof. (Dr.) Siddartha Ray
Prof. (Dr) Pinaki Bhattacharya
Ex-officio
Mr. Sisir Kr. Banerjee, FIE

Chairman, Organising Committee

31st Indian Engineering Congress

Maj Gen (Retd) S Bhattacharya, VSM, FIE

Organising Secretary
31st Indian Engineering Congress
&
Secretary & Director General
The Institution of Engineers (India)

Contact
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Convener, Technical Committee
31st Indian Engineering Congress
&
Director (Technical)
The Institution of Engineers (India)
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Email: iectech@ieindia.org

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