Mangalore, October 31: Prof Sandeep Sancheti, Director, National Institute of Technology Karnataka has been appointed by the government to head new National Institute of Technology, New Delhi, which is set up by the Union government.
Prof Sanchethi will be completing his present term on November 17.
He holds a Ph.D from the Queens University of Belfast, U.K. He obtained his B.Tech (ECE) from Regional Engineering College, Warangal (NIT Warangal) and M.Sc.(Engg) from Delhi College of Engineering (Delhi Technological University) in 1982 and 1985, respectively.
He began his career at M.B.M. Engineering College, Jodhpur as Assistant Professor in Dept. of ECE. Subsequently, he was an Associate Professor, Professor and Head of Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at Malaviya Regional Engineering College, Jaipur and Dean (Academic) at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur. He was also the Principal Coordinator of QIP (Poly) programme of AICTE, Government of India and Chairman of NIMCET, an all India MCA entrance test. He has more than 25 years of teaching, research and administrative experience
His major area of research interest is High Frequency Electronics, R.F. Circuits and Systems, Microwave Antennas and Semi-conductor Device Modeling. He has to his credit more than 75 research papers in national, international journals and conferences.
He is recipient of Commonwealth Scholarship & Fellowship under Colombo Plan from 1992-1995. He has also been awarded SERC Fellowship from D.S.T., Government of India in 1998 and UKISTRF award from British Council in 1999-2000. He has undertaken several sponsored research activities, projects and consultancy from many reputed organizations from time to time.
He is a Life fellow of Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (FIETE), Life member of ISTE (LMISTE), Life Fellow of Broadcast Engineering Society (LFBES) and Member of Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (MIEEE), USA. He has served in the capacities of Honorary Secretary and Chairman, IETE, Rajasthan Centre and is currently serving as Vice-President IEEE MTT India Chapter.
He is a founder member of Indo-US Collaboration on Engineering Education (IUCEE), Member of Academic Advisory Board of Microsoft (India), Member of GOI Committee on up gradation of Govt. Engineering Colleges and a Member of team to conceptualize the Technical Education Quality Improvement Program-II (TEQIP II) – a World Bank Assistance program. He was a member of Govt. of India Science and Technology delegations to USA and Republic of Ireland. He is a member of South-Western Regional Council, AICTE Bangalore. He is on the Editorial Board of Journal of “Services Research”. He is also on the panel of number of Academic Bodies, Governing Boards, Selection and Advisory committees at National level.
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