My teachers during the B.Tech. Programme : 1968
to 1973, at IIT Bombay
The following teachers are no longer at IIT
Bombay. Those marked with an asterisk (*) are no longer with us.
They rest in peace.
Achuthan M [ME]
- Thermodynamics.
"Goofing up is
nobody's unique birthright."
Batra RL * [MA]
- Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.
Bhargava HD [CH]
- Inorganic Chemistry.
Bhattacharyya SP * [MA]
- Mathematics.
Bose MSC [ME]
- Experimental Stress Analysis
Chakraborti DK [CH]
- Inorganic Chemistry.
Chandrasekharan VS [CE]
- Applied Mechanics (Engineering
Mechanics as it was known then).
The subject was considered a
terror, not the teacher. One of the best teachers of engineering
science that I had.
Chatterjee A [HSS]
- English.
Chindarkar UN [ME] (aka Powle US)
- Fluid Mechanics, Fluid
Machinery.
Dange YK [ME]
- Theory of Machines, Machine Design.
Desai PD [EE]
- Instrumentation.
Deshpande AS * [ME]
- Production Engineering (Rolling).
Dhariwal HC * [ME]
- Prime Movers.
Divekar MV [MA]
- Mathematics.
Ghosh Deb K [PH]
- Physics (Mechanics). Part of Volume I of
Resnick and Halliday.
Gopalan MN [MA]
- Mathematics.
Iyer PR * [CH]
- Organic Chemistry. English and Cassidy was
the text.
Jagadish BS * [ME]
- Gas Turbines.
Founder of the Heat
Transfer Laboratory.
Jaganmohan A * [ME]
- Steam Turbines.
Founder of the
Steam Power Laboratory.
Jagannnath Rao M * [PH]
- Physics (Electricity and
Magnestism). He completely uncovered the volume II of Resnick and
Halliday (or was it Halliday and Resnick?).
Jain PC [MA]
- Mathematics.
Jaiswal K [ME]
- Workshop Technology. I later realised that
he was a TTT - Technical Teacher Trainee.
Jog DV * [HSS]
- English.
Kamalapurkar DB [ME]
- Mechanical Engineering Drawing.
Kamath MS * [EE]
- Electric Machines.
Mine was perhaps
the only non-EE batch which faced MSK for three semesters!
Khemchandani MV * [ME]
- Machine Design.
Krishnamurthy S [MA]
- Mathematics.
Kulkarni MD [ME]
- Steam Power.
Vanished in 1973.
Apparently, went to the USofA. Could not be traced.
Kumar RD [EE/CSE]
- Electric Circuits.
Provided an
excellent exposition, using Heyt and Kemmerly. Also, taught us the
programming language ACE for MINSK-2 (remember the CNA tapes?, and
the HSP output ribbon?).
Magal BS [ME]
- Nuclear Engineering.
Set up the lab in
Room 112.
Mahajan AS [PH]
- Physics.
Malvadkar CB * [ME]
- Machine Design.
Mokashi-Punekar MK [HSS]
- English.
Nagachandran A [ME]
- Casting.
Narayankhedkar KG [ME]
- Airconditioning.
Padalia BD [PH]
- Physics (Optics).
Palekar MG [MA]
- Mathematics.
Parikh PP [ME]
- Combustion, IC Engines.
Parulekar BB * [ME]
- Refrigeration.
Where is Khandu
Patil?
Patil SH [PH]
- Modern Physics.
Prabhu PH [HSS]
- Industrial Phychology.
Rajan R [PH]
- Modern Physics.
Raju VC [ME]
- Instrumentation.
Ramaswamy N [ME]
- He was my seminar guide.
Ranga Rao MP [MA]
- Mathematics.
Reddy CT [ME]
- Production Engineering.
Reddy GP [ME]
- Strength of Materials.
Sanyal BS * [HSS]
- Logic.
Sethuraman TV * [HSS]
- Economics.
Shankar K * [EE]
- Electronics.
Soni RY * [CE]
- Strength of Materials.
Srivastava HN [CH]
- Physical Chemistry.
Sukhatme SP [ME]
- Heat Transfer.
His textbook was first
used by us.
He was also the guide for my Home Paper (as the
BTP was known then).
Sundararajan A [PH]
- Physics (Thermodynamics and Waves).
Part of Volume I of Resnick and Halliday.
Swaminathan N [HSS]
- Ethics.
Tembe RG [CE]
- Geometric Drawing, Civil Engineering Drawing.
Vartak MN * [MA]
- Industrial Statistics and SQC, Operational
Research.
What a teacher!
Vasudevan P [ME]
- Machine Design, Theory of Elasticity.
Venkataraman G [MT]
- Physical Metallurgy.
Viladkar BG * [PH]
- Thermodynamics.
Vyas BD * [ME]
- Fluid Mechanics.