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IMU VOYAGE An In- House Newsletter Year : V Vol : 2 Nov 1- Dec 31 2012 14th January 2013 Wishing you all a prosperous New Year

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IMU VOYAGE An In- House Newsletter

Year : V Vol : 2Nov 1- Dec 31 2012

14th January 2

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Wishing y

ou all a prospe

rous New Year

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NEW LOGO... NEW LOOK...

IMU has put behind another eventful year; one which was full of challenges and exciting opportunities. While IMU can look back with pride upon the progressive strides made since its inception in 2008, it is also of extreme significance to embrace the shift happening by the winds of change sweeping over the Shipping and related sectors.

Focus has now shifted to the direction and purpose of the courses being offered at each campus with a powerful thrust to encompass more relevant areas of the Maritime sector. New areas being explored would include Supply Chain Management, Coastal Zone Management, Marine Tourism, Maritime History, Environmental Sustainability and Piracy & Border management. Related research areas would include Offshore engineering, Seabed minerals, Aquaculture & Fisheries and Hydrography.

This issue of IMU Voyager has chronicled the events of past two months and we appreciate the inputs and communication flow from each campus. Efforts to streamline IMU as a single

dynamic brand continues while each campus continues to march ahead on its strengths. Fresh blood has been infused into IMUwith recruitment of faculty and key personnel for various Schools and Departments. Over the past few months IMU has witnessed inflow of a plethora of proposals and exchange of new ideas to strengthen policy decisions.

The coming academic session will witness concerted efforts to bring about a comprehensive 'Industry- Academia' interface which will ideally lead to opening up ample employment opportunities for the Student community.

Wishing members of the Management, Faculty, Officers, Staff and Students of each Campus a very Prosperous and Successful New Year!

Warmly yours

Editorial Team

From the Editorial Desk . . . .

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DrMSekarSmtLekhaRaviShriGVenkataramananShriKafeelMeeran

CampusRepresentatives:

SmtDarshanaPashte(Mumbai)SmtSPadmashree(Visakhapatnam)ShriSKMukherjee(Kolkata)

SmtLekhaRavi(Cochin)ShriGVenkataramanan(Chennai)CaptBaveja(Kandla)

EditorialTeam

SignificanceoftheNewLogo:

TheIMUlogowasredesignedandlaunchedonthe4thUniversityDay,14thNov2012.Thenewlogowasso

designedwhereinthedeepbluecolourusedsignifiedthedepthandmightoftheocean.Thebilingualnamealong

withthesloganisenhancedintheouterring.Thesloganwhentranslatedreads'KnowledgeoftheOcean'isan

'OceanofKnowledge'whichbringsouttheexpansivenessanduniversalityofMaritimeresearchandeducation.

Thecoreoftheearlierlogoisretainedwiththeanchorinthecenter,signifyingsteadfastcommitmentofthe

Universitytoexcellence.

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ShriSVasudevanjoinedIMUasFinanceOfficeron17thDecember2012.

IMUVoyageextendsawarmwelcometohim.

SVasudevanstartedhiscareerin1983asSectionOfficer(Commercial–direct

recruit)basedontheresultsofopencompetitiveexaminationandjoinedthe

office of the Accountant General (Commercial Audit), Maharashtra

(SubordinateofficeoftheIndianAuditandAccountsDepartment).

HeclearedtheonetimelimitedcompetitiveexaminationconductedbyUPSC

forinductionintoIndianAudit&AccountsService(IA&AS)in1995.Hehas

over 30 years of experience and served in various capacities both in

Governmentandprivatesectorinfinanceandaccounts,audit,investigation

(forensicaudit),managementandadministrationoflargeentities.

Hehasauthoredarticlesonauditofpowerpurchaseagreement,fuelsupply

agreement,andforensicauditbesidesabookonTransferPricingin2002.His

areasofinterestsincludeCorporateGovernanceandForensicAudit

AwarmwelcomeisaccordedtotheFacultyMemberswhohaveboardedtheIMU

onitsvoyagewithadestinationofExcellenceinMaritimeeducation.

ShriSVasudevan,exIA&AS,FinanceOfficer

NewFacultyintothefoldofIMU

DrGGurudasGupta,

Professor,SMM

DrAMourougane,

AssociateProfessor,SMM

DrYLokeswaraChoudary,

AssistantProfessor,SMM

DrRamanandYadhav,

AssistantProfessor,SMM

SmtLekhaKCRavi,

AssistantProfessor,SMM

DrNasarThuvanismail,

AssistantProfessor,SNA

ShriAvinashGodey,

AssistantProfessor,SNA

DrYogamala,

AssistantProfessor,SML

SmtSPreetha,

AssistantProfessor,SML

DrSelviGanesh,

AssistantProfessor,SML

DrEmilMathew,

AssistantProfessor,SMM

BCom,FCMA,ACSandCFE

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IMUMumbai

Mumbai Campus celebrated IMUDay in the LBSCAMSAR

auditorium. Celebrations started with students of MERI

presentinganimpressiveGuardofhonourtotheChiefGuest

CaptMMSaggi,NauticalAdvisortotheGovernmentofIndia,

DGShipping.

ShriJKDhar,DirectorIMUMumbaiCampuswelcomedthe

ChiefGuestanddignitaries.Heexplainedtheimportanceof

IMUtoseafarersandexpressedhisdesirethatallseafarers

takefulladvantageofvariousfacilitiesprovidedbyIMU.On

thisspecialdayCaptSaggiinauguratedIMUMumbaicampus

website with online booking facility for various post-sea

programsofferedbyMumbaicampusatLBSCAMSARandTS

Chanakya. The Chief Guest also released the brochure

designedforTSChanakyaandMERIMumbai.

Laterthecelebrationswitnessedaquizprogrammeforpost

seastudentsorganizedbyLBSCAMSAR.CadetsfromMERI

MumbaiandTSChanakyapresentedvariousculturalevents

showcasingtheirtalent,creativityandenergylevels.Prizes

weregiventothebestperformers.Cashawardsweregivento

alltheparticipantstoencouragetheirtalent.

IMUVizag

VizagcampuscelebratedtheIMUDaybyreleasingthebook,

'TheSagaofNSDRC'. TheChiefGuestofthefunctionwas

CaptPVKMohan,Chairman,NationalShippingBoardand

GuestsofHonourwereRAdmNKMisra,NM, IN(Retd.),

Chairman and Managing Director, Hindustan Shipyard

Limited and Prof A Prasanna Kumar, Former Regional

Director,NationalMaritimeFoundationandProfSCMisra,

Director, Indian Maritime University, Visakhapatnam

Campus

The Chief Guest also released Shreshtha 2013, TechFest

websiteandalsoabrochuredesignedbythestudents.

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IMUChennai/HQ

IMU Day was celebrated at Chennai and Hon'ble Union

MinisterofShippingThiruGKVasangracedtheoccasionas

theChiefGuest.Theeventwasheld in thepresenceof the

Chancellor IMU,DrVKrishnamurthy,ViceChancellor IMU,

ProfGRaghuram,andFirstViceChancellorIMUandCampus

Director,Chennai,DrPVijayan. DrPVijayanwelcomedthe

gatheringandProfRaghuramdeliveredthekeynoteaddress.

After due felicitations to thedignitaries, thenew logo and

redesigned IMU website were launched by the Hon'ble

Minister.IMUVoyageandPlacementBrochures-2012(MBA&

SBR)werereleasedbytheChancellor.

Many dignitaries including Thiru Atulya Misra, Chairman,

Chennai Port; Thiru Velumani, Former Chairman, Ennore

PortTrustandDrVijayakumar,ViceChancellor,Ambedkar

LawUniversitywerepresent.ThiruMAnand,Registrar,IMU

deliveredtheformalvoteofthanks.

IMUCochin

Cochin Campus commemorated this day with a host of

activities.TheformalcelebrationwasinauguratedbyShriKV

Thomas,UnionMinisterofStateforConsumerAffairs,Food

andPublicDistributionatMerchantNavyClub,Willingdon

Island. DrCBSudheer,Director,CochinCampusdelivered

the welcome speech. The Minister, while addressing the

esteemed gathering, reiterated the need for a full fledged

Maritime University at Cochin and offered to render all

supportfortheaccomplishment.

DrJosePaul,FormerChairmanofMormugaoPortTrustwho

addressed the gathering also distributed awards to the

winnersofsportsandgames.Hereleasedthefirstcopyofthe

Annualstudent'scampusnewsletter,'TheRipples'.

After the formalmeeting students of various departments

entertained the audience with cultural programmes and

thereafterallguestsjoinedtheIMUfamilyfordinner.

Fourth IMU Day Celebrations - 14th November 2012

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Academic News:

Semester Examinations were conducted across all IMU

campusesandaffiliatedInstitutionsoncommondatesfor

the programmes of IMU. For the first time, online

registration for examinations was implemented andwell

receivedbyallquarters.

CETforsponsoredcandidatesforDNSprogrammewillbe

heldon10thFebruary2013.

CETsforadmissiontootherprogrammesforAcademicyear

2013willbeheldbyIMUinApril/May2013,thenotification

forwhichwillappearinFeb/Mar2013inallleadingdailies.

Ongoing R&D projects at Vizag Campus:

R&Dandstudyprojectssanctionedin2012byMoS

R&DSchemesinShipbuilding:EnergyEfficiencyofMarine

PowerPlant

- Energy (emission) improvement technologies/their

suitabilitytoMaritimeapplications

-EstablishmentofanEnergyLab

-LiteraturesurveyhasbeendoneandResearchPaperson

relevantareapresentedatInternationalConferenceheldat

campus

Standard Design of Tug for 40, 50 and 60 T BP with

AlternativePropulsionSystems

-Developmentofalternativestandarddesigns

-Modeltestsforvalidation

– Preparation of drawings (including structural

classification)uptocontractdesignstage

- Study of emission reductions. Project well startedwith

detailed Literature survey underway and recruitment of

projectpersonnel

Plan Schemes for Conducting Studies on Productivity in

IndianShipbuildingIndustry

-Tomeasureproductivity-todefineCGT(Compensated

GrossTonnage)forallshiptypes

-Inventorytheinfrastructureandshipbuildingcapacityof

allshipyardsinthecountry

- Establish a bench marking system to establish

InternationalstandardsforIndianShipbuilding.

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Indian Maritime University- Mumbai Campus

TheFinaldayofMERIMumbai’sAnnualSportsMeetwas

heldon29thNovember2012atthesportsground.CaptTW

Pinto, Managing Director, Seven Island Shipping Company,

gracedtheoccasionastheChiefGuest.Theeventstartedwith

attendees pledging sports oath followed by an impressive

marchpastdonebythefourhousesoftheinstituteBhabha,

Raman,BoseandKhurana.VarioussportseventsfromChess

toCaromandfromFootballtoBasketballwereorganisedas

partoftheSportsDaywherecadetsparticipatedwithgreat

zealandenergy. Thecadetsalsoparticipatedanddisplayed

true sportsmanship in track and field events. The main

attraction of the sports daywas theWalking Race for staff

members.Thechiefguestgaveawaytheprizestothewinning

cadets and the best sportsman followed by a thought

provokinginspiringspeech.

IMU Mumbai Campus held the passing out and prize

distribution ceremony of 26th Post Graduate Marine

Engineeringbatch2012ofMERIon7thDecember2012.The

day started with an impressive guard presented by MERI

cadetsinhonouroftheChiefGuestShriSabyasachi Hajara,

CMD,SCILtd.ShriRajeevaPrakash,DeputyDirectorpresented

the annual report and highlighted the achievements of the

cadets during this academic year. He congratulated and

advised the cadets to strive tobe thebestmarineofficer&

declared the winners of the following coveted prizes:

Director’sTrophytoCadetShreyasSanjeevaNaik,Runnerup

to Cadet Manish Chaudhari, Deputy Director’s Trophy to

CadetNikhilBelnarkar,RunneruptoCadetBadriPranamKale

andMostPopularCadetPrizetoCadetAbinJoy.

SmtPranitaHajara,spouseofShriSHajaraalsogracedthe

occasion.ShriSHajarawhileaddressingthecadetsrecalled

thehighstandardsofeducation&trainingimpartedbyMERI

for the last 60 years. On this auspicious occasion M/s

GermanischerLloydandEx-DMETMERICadetsAssociation

announced trophyandcashprizes toencourage thecadets.

ShriJKDharpresentedamementotoShriSabyasachiHajara

on behalf of IMU with special greetings from the Vice

Chancellor.CadetShreyasNaikpresentedthevoteofthanks.

Theeventwasfollowedbyasumptuouslunch.

C1/DVisapresentation for thebenefit of the cadets and

seafaring communitywasmadeby theViceConsul,TheUS

Consulate,Mumbai through their ‘OutreachProgramme’ on

14thDecember2012.

A Management Development Programme on ‘General Management in rd

Shipping’ will be conducted by IMU and IMTC Mumbai from 3 March th2013 to 9 March 2013. The programme fee of INR 55,000/ USD 1200.

The seats are limited and are booked on first come first serve basis (Last dt 18th Feb 2013). Please contact Shri Venkataramanan at (044) 24530341 or e-mail [email protected] or fax (044) 24530342 for nominations and more details, visit www.imu.tn.nic.in

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Indian Maritime University-Cochin Campus

· On26thNovember2012,ProfGRaghuramwas

invited by the KeralaManagement Association

for a special address on 'Infrastructure

DevelopmentinPPPmodel'.Theeventwasheld

attheKMAHallinPanampallyNagar,Cochin.The

event was attended by the members of KMA,

invitedguests,studentsandstaffofIMU.ProfG

Raghuram enlightened the crowd on various

practical and legal aspects of implementing

projectsinPPPmodelandreiteratedthatPPPis

the need of the days to come. Shri S R Nair,

PresidentofKMAwelcomedtheViceChancellor.

Shri K Krishna Kumar, Deputy Chairman, CPT

introducedProfGRaghuramtotheaudience.

· On 27th November 2012, the activities of the

Nature Club formed by the students of the

Department of Maritime Management were

flagged off by the Vice Chancellor. M Anand,

Registrar,DrCBSudheer,CampusDirectorand

SmtMiniElizabeth,CourseCoordinatorofMBA

werealsopresent.

GuestLectures:

· Shri Girish Thomas, Assistant Traffic manager

CPTvisitedthedepartmenton16thNovember

2012 and conducted a workshop on 'MIS in

Ports'.HealsosharedhisexperiencewiththeIT

implementationProjectatCPTwiththeIIyear

MBAstudents.

ShriPrakashIyer,BranchHeadNYKLine India

and Vice President- Cochin Steamer Agents

Association, delivered a lecture on 22nd

November2012tothestudentsofIyearMBAon

the'FundamentalsofContainerisation'.

Indian Maritime University-Vizag Campus

TechSamudra’12, the first International

ConferencecumExhibitionwashostedbyIMU,

VizagCampusinassociationwithTheInstitution

ofNaval Architects (India) between 6th to 8th

December at Manasi Auditorium, NTSL, Vizag.

Shri Ganta Srinivasa Rao, Hon’ble Minister for

Infrastructure & Investments, Ports, Airports,

Natural Gas, Government of Andhra Pradesh

inauguratedtheevent.TheGuestofHonourwas

PadmashriProfKRamaKrishnaRao,Chancellor,

GitamUniversity.Thefunctionwaspresidedover

byProfGRaghuram,ViceChancellor,IMU.Onthis

occasion, the conference souvenir and

conferenceproceedingswere released.Around

110 delegates registered for the event from

foreigncountrieslikeEngland,Japan,Koreaand

Sweden.

The exhibition was inaugurated at the IMU

CampusbyShriGVLSathyaKumar,IRTS,Deputy

Chairman, Visakhapatnam Port Trust on 7th

December2012.Therewereeightstallsbythe

following organisations - Institution of Naval

Architects,MinistryofEarthSciences;Dredging

Corporation of India Ltd, Vik Sandvik Designs

IndiaPvtLtd,AlphaMarineResponseServices

PvtLtd,FaroBusinessTechnologies(I)PvtLtd,

Software Technology Parks of India, Cussons

TechnologyLtd, andone stall byNASS–Naval

ArchitectureStudentsSociety.

As many as 39 papers were presented under

various topics like - Resistance and Powering,

Structures,StabilityandSafety,Environmentand

Oceanography. In the session for student

presentations, the undergraduate students

presented papers on various aspects of ship.

Eminent speakers likeProfRPGokran,ProfK

HasegawaofOsakaUniversity, JapanandDrM

SudhakarofMOESgavekeynoteaddresses.Prof

ChengiKuo’skeynoteaddresswaspresentedin

videomode.ThetechnicalsessionswereChaired

byRearAdmiralNKMishra,NM(IN)RetdCMD

HSL,ProfCPVendhan,ShriPKPanigrahi,CmdeG

V Ratnam, Prof V A Subramanian, Dr M A

Atmanand,CmdeNBanerjee,ProfBSRReddy,

Prof O P Sha and Mr J K Dhar, Director, IMU

Mumbai Campus. The three day conference

culminated with a Valedictory Function and

PanelDiscussion.

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Indian Maritime University-Chennai Campus

st On1 December, IMUhostedameetatChennaiwhereShri

SabyasachiHajara, Chairman&ManagingDirectorof Shipping

CorporationofIndia,addressedagatheringofmaritimestudents,

facultyandotherinvitees.Theeventwaswebcastedlivethrough

IMUwebsite.IMUtookthisopportunitytofelicitateShriHajaraasstheretiredfromserviceon31 Decemberafternearlyfourdecades

withSCI, andover sevenyearsas itsCMD.ShriPMAbraham,

Former Secretary, MoS and Dr Jose Paul, Former Chairman,

MormugaoPortgracedtheoccasionandwerefelicitatedbythe

ViceChancellorandChennaicampusDirectorDrPVijayan.This

wasfollowedbyaninteractivesessionwiththeaudience.TheVice

Chancellorsummedupthekeytakeaways, followedbyaShort

Film created by theManagement students.Dr B Swaminathan,

AsstProf,SMMdeliveredthevoteofthanksfollowedbyaHightea.

MsLouiseLarsenandMrJensKlitThomsenofMaerskSupply

Services, Denmark along with their local representative CaptthSatyamitraBaggavisitedIMUChennaiCampuson26 November

2012.IMUChennaiCampusDirectorDrPVijayanwelcomedthe

delegation.AfteranintroductorymeetinginDirector'sChamber

with the faculty members and staff of Chennai campus, they

perused the infrastructure of Chennai Campus and interacted

withthepreseacadets.TheyopinedthatIMUChennaicampusis

thebestamongstthetraininginstitutestheyhadvisitedinIndia.

Theywishedtousethecampustotraintheircadetsandthatthe

same will be formally intimated in near future. Dr P Vijayan

mentioned that Chennai campus always had cordial relations

withMaerskTeamandhealsoconveyedthattheMaerskTeam,

SingaporehadselectedpreseacadetsfromChennaicampusand

Kolkata campus for on board training. The director also

expressedhispleasuretooffermaritimetrainingtotheMaersk

cadetsatChennaicampus.TheteamdepartedafterhavingHigh

Tea.

ThePassingoutceremonyofthe6thbatchofDNSwasheldat

IMU Chennai campus on 4th January 2013. Shri S Velumani,

FormerCMD,EnnorePortTrustwastheChiefGuest.DrPVijayan,

Director, Chennai Campus congratulated the winners and

awardedthetrophiesalongwiththeChiefGuest.CaptMukund

Kumar,ProgrammeCoordinator,DNSreminiscedonhowthePre-

sea Training of Deck Cadets first commenced at theNIPM (as

IMUCCwasearlierknownas)on16thJuly1990andstatedthat

sincethenmorethan1800DeckCadetshavebeensuccessfully

trained.

Theawardwinningcadetswere: CadetUVinodasBestCadetin

CargoHandlingandSeamanship;CadetAlokKumarSinghasBest

CadetinChartWork,BestCadetinBridgeWatchkeeping,Bestin

OfficerLikeQualitiesandThirdinAcademics;CadetSammyAlam

as Best in Seamanship Practical; Cadet Mrityunjay Kumar

PurushottamandCadetNagoreMohammedZibran for securing

FirstplaceandSecondplacesinAcademicsrespectively.

Indian Maritime University-Kolkata CampusThe58thPassingoutparadeandprizedistributionceremonyof

IMUKolkatatookplaceon8thDecember.ShriSHajara,CMD,SCI

graced the occasion as the Chief Guest and distributed the

President’sGoldMedalandotherprizestothepassingoutcadets.

ProfSouvikBhattacharyya,ViceChancellor,JadavpurUniversity

wastheGuestofHonourandProfGRaghuram,ViceChancellor,

IMUpresidedoverthefunction.

CoincidingwithIMUDaycelebrations,IMUKolkataCampuskick-

starteditsfivedayannualcollegefest-Tempest’12atMERI.The

event was inaugurated by Shri A Banerjee, Chief Surveyor,

Government of India and Additional Director General,

EngineeringalongwithShriMKGhosh,CampusDirector,Kolkata.

Thefestwitnessedatwodayworkshoponroboticsandethical

hacking.ShriSharadSinha,WartsilaspokeaboutRT-FlexDiesel

Enginesinaseminar.DrDineshShrivastava,Directoralongwith

Dr Tappan Mukopadhya of VECC Department, Bhabha Atomic

Research Centre conducted a lecture on the final day of

celebrations.

The celebrations included, ‘Propulsion’ which served as a

platform to showcase the talents of the cadets in marine

modelling, paper presentation, etc. Another category,

‘Cacophony’ had events like quiz, street play, debate, fashion

show, etc. Sports events were categorised as ‘Chakravyuh’.

Studentsfromalloverthecityparticipatedinhugenumbersin

eventslike‘Kolkata’sGotTalent’and‘Stampede’bringingupthe

excitementinthestudentsthemselves.

On 30thNovember, a U S delegation visited the IMUKolkata

Campus. Ms Julia R Stanley, Minister Counselor for Consular

Affairs, U S Embassy,NewDelhi;MsWendyKennedy, Consular

SectionChief,USConsulate,Kolkata;MrAkashRSuri,ViceConsul,

USConsulate,Kolkata;MsLaurenBArmenise,ViceConsul,US

Consulate,Kolkatawerepartofthevisitingteam.Themembers

discussedwithfacultymembersofMERIandinteractedwiththe

finalyearstudentsofMarineEngineering.

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Moments from

Tempest’12

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