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Mrs. Hema Gopal

MIT, Chromepet campus of Anna University, founded in 1949 by Sri C Rajam, is a unique Institution and carved a niche for itself with pioneering ventures in unconventional engineering courses like Aeronautical engineering, Automobile engineering, Electronics engineering, Instrumentation Technology and subsequently adding Production Technology, Rubber and Plastic Technology, Information Technology and Computer Science and Engineering.

MITAA has the pleasure of honouring Mrs. Hema Gopal of electronics faculty, an alumna from the 30^th batch as the distinguished alumna for the year 2014.

Mrs. Hema Gopal did her B.Sc. Mathematics at Madras University, later studied at MIT, Chromepet to get her B.Tech degree in electronics engineering and passed out in 1981. She started her career with TCS in 1985 after passing out M.S. Computer Science Post graduation at IIT, Madras. From one prestigious institute she moved on to most respectful business houses of India, the Tata Group. She joined their budding software house Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and over the last 29 years she has hinged her career to the growth of TCS considered as the jewel in the crown of Tata house. In TCS she has donned various roles in relationship management, delivery management, pre-sales, learning and development, technology excellence and other corporate responsibilities.  She currently is the Vice President having responsibility as the Global head for IBM technologies. She has been in the media very often in recent times. She had been an active sports woman in her college days and has represented University in multiple sports.

She has many credits to her account. The Top women in IT by DATAQUEST for two consecutive years, Rajiv Gandhi National Quality award, Role model technical women by Anita Borg institute, California, USA. Role Model Leader in TCS in DAWN, Banker’s technology award, highly commended status from Financial Times, LONDON, UK, Share conferences, IOD (  Information on Demand) and many.

Mrs. Hema Gopal lives in Chennai. Her husband is a marine engineer. She has two lovely daughters and parents and in laws. She has family’s encouragement, which has been the corner stone for her achieving such dizzy heights in her profession. She likes cooking and spends quality time with her children. She also entertains her friends and colleagues during all religious festivals and enjoys being with others. She has been able to give her best to her profession ensuring good balance at the home front.

MITAA takes great pleasure in awarding her the Distinguished Alumna award for the year 2014 and wish her great success in all her future endeavors.

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Dr. K. Sivan

MIT, Chromepet campus of Anna University, founded in 1949 by Sri C Rajam, is a unique Institution and carved a niche for itself with pioneering ventures in unconventional engineering courses like Aeronautical engineering, Automobile engineering, Electronics engineering, Instrumentation Technology and subsequently adding Production Technology, Rubber and Plastic Technology, Information Technology and Computer Science and Engineering.

MITAA has the pleasure of honouring Dr. K. Sivan of aeronautical faculty, an alumnus from the 29^th batch as the distinguished alumnus for the year 2013.

Dr. K. Sivan did his B.Sc. at Madurai University with Mathematics as major subject, later studied at MIT, Chromepet to get his B.Tech degree in aeronautical engineering and passed out in 1980. He started his career with VSSC in 1982 after his Post graduation at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Later he pursued Phd at Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai and got his doctorate in the year 2006.   He worked in PSLV Project up to 1994. His work included end-to-end mission planning, design, integration and analysis and he significantly contributed for building PSLV. Also he developed 6D simulation software, SITARA for simulation on all ISRO launch vehicles.  From 1994 onwards he had been working in Mission Synthesis and Simulation Group (MSSG) and has built a world class state-of-the-art simulation facility in ISRO.

His area of specialization includes launch vehicle configuration and mission design, control and guidance design of launch vehicles, simulation and validation of NGC system and mission integration. Joined as engineer at ISRO, he soared to a position of Project Director GSLV and his current designation is Outstanding Scientist (OS). His awards include, “Shri Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr.Vikram Sarabhai Research Award” for the year 1999”, “ISRO Merit Award for the year 2007” and “Dr Biren Roy Space Science and/or Design Award” for the year 2010”

He has membership of National and International Professional Bodies as Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of Systems Society of India, Member, Aeronautical Society of India and Member,  Astronautical Society of India. He has to his credit 40 Publications at National and International Level. His recent publication on ”A Low-Cost Orbiter Mission to Mars” was selected for publication in the International Journal, Acta Astronautica.

Dr. K. Sivan hails from Madurai and happily married to Srimathi Malathi post graduate in Tamil literature and they are blessed with two sons Master S. Sidarth studying in 12^th standard and Master S. Sushanth studying in 9^th Standard.

MITAA takes great pleasure in awarding him the Distinguished Alumnus award for the year 2013 and wish him great success in all his future endeavors.

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Mr. K. V. Bhima Rao

The MIT, Chromepet campus of Anna University, founded in 1949 by Sri C Rajam, is a unique Institution and carved a niche for itself in unconventional engineering courses like Aeronautical, Automobile, Electronics, Instrumentation, Production Tech, Rubber and Plastic Tech, Information Tech and Computer Science and Engineering.

During the centenary birth year of Sri C. Rajam in 1982, MITAA instituted the scheme of presenting annual endowment lecture and an award for the Outstanding Alumnus in his memory. MITAA has the pleasure of honouring Mr. K. V. Bhima Rao, 3^rd Batch of Electronics Faculty as the Outstanding Alumnus for the year 2018.

After his Bachelor’s degree Mr. Bhima Rao joined MIT for DMIT course in Electronics and graduated in 1954. He was first Lab. Engineer in Electronics Faculty in MIT till mid Sept. 1955 and moved to AIR in Broadcasting House, New Delhi and retired as Chief Engineer (SZ), AIR & DD, Madras in June 1991. He served in AIR Stations and HP Transmitters looking after their maintenance and in Planning & Development Unit before being posted in Staff Training Institute (Techincal), to train the techincal staff of both AIR and DD, on a long tenure with breaks for posting at North Zone Regional Office and Srinagar Station. He served both in Eastern Border and in Western Border states of Nagaland and Jammu & Kashmir.

He was awarded a European Broadcasting Union Fellowship and travelled to servel European countries and studied the training programmes for their Radio and Television Engg. and Tech. staff. He had represented AIR in Study Group 5 of the CCIR at ITU, in Geneva. This group addressed Propagation through non-ionized medium.

Post retirement, Mr. Bhima Rao is active in Broadcasting Engineering Society (I), Bangalore Center for which he was a founder member and secretary during its formative years. Mr. Bhima Rao was the President of Bangalore Chapter of MITAA for three terms and is presently its Patron keeping MITAA BC very active and vibrant. He associated himself during the formation of Parent Chapter of MITAA in 1966 and later he was active in Delhi Chapter. He and the first batch auto alumnus Mr. V. Gopalan, started the USA Chapter on 10.10.10., with its base in New Jersey. Mr. K. V. Bhima Rao now lives in Bangalore.

MITAA takes great pleasure in awarding Mr. K. V. Bhima Rao, the Outstanding Alumnus Award for the year 2018 and wish him good health and great success in all his future endeavors.

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Mr. S. Madhavan

The MIT Chromepet campus of Anna University, founded in 1949 by Sri C Rajam, is a unique Institution and carved a niche for itself in unconventional engineering courses like Aeronautical, Automobile, Electronics, Instrumentation, Production Tech, Rubber and Plastic Tech, Information Tech and Computer Science and Engineering.

During the centenary birth year of Sri C. Rajam in 1982, MITAA instituted the scheme of presenting annual endowment lecture and an award for the Outstanding Alumnus in his memory. MITAA has the pleasure of honouring Mr. S. Madhavan of Electronics Faculty of the 30^th Batch, as the Outstanding Alumnus for the year 2017.

After his Bachelor’s degree in 1978, Mr. Madhavan joined MIT for B.Tech course in Electronics and graduated in 1981. Later he completed his Master in Management Systems from BITS, Pilani, Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing & Finance and Management Accounting qualification from CIMA, UK.

Mr. Madhavan had a professional career of 14 years with DCMDP, TVS Electronics, DEIL and Digital India. With an urge to venture on his own and the support from his wife he embarked on his journey as a entrepreneur in 1995. His entrepreneurial trajectory has many success stories. Starting with Net Labs, later he co-founded Servion Global Solutions Ltd. Now, he is the Founder and Director-Green Quotient System (P) Ltd, a Chennai based company since 2012.

His Passion is to catalyze, co-create and nurture on eco-system of start-ups with business and technical mentoring, through entrepreneurial pursuits. He is spiritually inclined and thanks God for having blessed him with a lovely family, proper grooming and circle of friends.

Mr. Madhavan lives in Chennai. His wife Mrs. Latha, an E & I engineer, is the pillar of strength for his success. His son is pursuing B.Tech at NIT Trichy. He is an avid reader and active sportsman. He pens his thought in the from of Tamil poems.

MITAA takes great pleasure in awarding Mr. S. Madhavan,  the Outstanding Alumnus for the year 2017 and wish him good health and great success in all his future endeavors.