KIIT School of Electrical Engineering (SOEE) organized a webinar on ‘Sustainable Mining’ recently. The webinar was inaugurated by Prof. Dr. B. K. Nayak, Dean, SOEE. Mr. Soumya Prakash Patra, General Manager & HOD, Electrical Department, NALCO, Angul delivered the webinar talk on the current technology of the mining process and smart mining system. The session encouraged the 4th semester electrical students and faculty members to a new area of research. The talk was followed by a stimulating question and answer session. Dr. Pampa Sinha, Assistant Professor, SOEE coordinated the webinar, while the vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. Sarita Samal, Assistant Professor.
About KIIT University
KIIT University (earlier Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology) is a co-educational, autonomous university located at Bhubaneswar in the Indian state of Orissa. It was one of the youngest institutions to be awarded the deemed university status in India and then the university status in 2004 and is recognised by Limca Book of Records.The University offers under-graduate and post-graduate courses in Engineering, Bio-technology, Medicine, Management, Law, Computer application, Rural management, Fashion, Film Studies, Journalism and Sculpturing. It has been ranked as 16 th in India, 5 th among private universities, and 4 th in the eastern region in the year 2009 by Times of India. It has also been ranked 18 th among private engineering institutes and 7 th in placement in 2008 by Outlook India.KIIT School of Management has been nominated as the mentor institution by AICTE for conducting faculty development programme in eastern India.