Alumni Academic News:
SMC Alumni and graduating students' academic progress
- Mohit Parikh completed M.Sc. (Food Science
and Technology) from Victoria
University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. His contact
email is parikhma1234@yahoo.com
- The following Dairy Technologists from various unions of Gujarat
visited Denmark and Sweden as a part of Amul Team from 16-23 March,
2005. They have also attended regional seminar at Cohpanhaegon,
Denmark and TetraPak in
Sweden: Mukesh Patel & D.B.Suthar (Dudhsagar),
Janak Desai & Rohit Upadhyay (Baroda), Rajesh
Vaghasia (Sumul), Samir Saxena (Mother),
Dewang Vaghela (Vidya)
- Evy Rana B.Tech (DT) 2003 joined GB
Pant University, Pantnagar for M. Tech (Food Engineering)
- Amit Patel and Aparna Gupta,
both B.Tech (DT) 2001 after their completion of Masters degree
from NDRI, continued for Ph.
D. at NDRI, Karnal
- Hiral Modha, B.Tech (DT) 2002 joined M.Tech
(DT) at Karnal whereas Jitin Garg, B.Tech (DT)
2003 and Chetan Dharaiya, B.Tech (DT) 1997 joined
M.Tech (DT) at NDRI, Banglore
- Varun Singhal, B.Tech (DT) 2003 and Rajendra
Mahavaidya, B.Tech (DT) 2002 joined MSc (DC) at NDRI,
Karnal
- Pritesh Patel B.Tech (DT) 2003 and Mitul
Patel B.Tech (DT) 2003 have been admitted for MS (Food
Science and Technology) at Victoria
University, Australia and will join the course in February
2005
- Gurmeet Singh, B.Tech. (DT) 1999, Panna
Agarwal, and Nirupama Nigam all B.Tech
(DT) 2002, joined South Dakota
State University, Brookings for their MS (Dairy Science)
- Kaushal Kothari, B.Tech (DT) 1999, after completion
of his Masters degree worked for short period in UK and presently
is pursuing his PhD at Dairy
Product Research Centre, Ireland
- Ashish Acharya, B.Tech (DT) 2000, is pursuing
his Masters degree at Lund
University, Sweden
- Darshan Trivedi, B.Tech (DT) 2000, joined
Massey University, New
Zealand for M.Tech in Food Technology. At the same university,
two more of our alumni, Rajesh Nair, B. Tech.
(DT) 2002, is doing Graduate Diploma in Food Technology while
Hasmukh Patel B.Sc (DT) 1993, is pursuing PhD and working on the
research project at Fonterra
Research Centre, Fonterra, a largest research avenue in New
Zealand. Darshan's email is dst_darshan@yahoo.com
- Sudeep Jain, B. Tech (DT) 2000, joined University
of Georgia, Dept. of Food
Science & Technology for higher
study. Sudeep's email is jainsudeep2@yahoo.co.in
- Anurag Bist, Amit Patel and
Kumar Gaurav of B.Tech (DT) 2001 batch completed
their Master’s programme from NDRI, Bangalore. Amit
Patel has joined PhD in Dairy Technology at Karnal
- Aparna Gupta, B.Tech (DT) 2001, completed her
MSc (Dairy Chemistry) from NDRI, Karnal. She has now joined PhD
in Dairy Chemistry
- Dhruba Jyoti Mukharji, B.Tech (DT) 2002, has
been selected in IIM, Lucknow for Post Graduation in Business
Management
- Puneet Bhatnagar, B Tech (DT) 2002, joined
TAPMI Manipal for MBA
- Sachin Trivedi, Varun Singhal,
Rajendra Mahavadia and Hiral Modha all
from B.Tech (DT) 2003 batch joined their Master’s programme
at NDRI, Karnal, while Jitin Garg and Chetan
Dharaiya joined Bangalore campus of NDRI
- Harshad Joshi, BSc (DT) 2002, has been deputed
by Mother Dairy, Gandhinagar for one year OYP at IRMA,
Anand
- Bahadur Gabra, B.Tech (DT) 2000, resigned from
Vidya Dairy and joined MBA programme at NIRMA
Institute of Management in the month of April 2004
- Arpan Bhagat, B.Tech (DT) 2001 has joined
the University of Georgia for
M.S. in Food Science with assistantship. His research area would
be on Listeria species and its control in food products
- Atul G Pandya, B.Tech (DT) 1996 resigned from
Amul Dairy and has left for higher studies leading to MBA in London
- Supriyo Ghosh, BTech(DT) 2000, completed his
MS (Food Science) from Utah State
University in December 2002 in the area of metabolic engineering
of Lactococci with full funding from Kraft Inc., USA. He has started
his dual PhD now at North Carolina
State University in Chemical Engineering and Food Science.
His email is supriyoghosh@yahoo.com
- Dhyanesh Bhatt, BTech (DT) 2000, joined MBA
programme at the world renowned Indian
Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- Chirag Pandya, B.Tech. (DT) 2000, finished
his MS in Food Science from University
of Leeds, UK and has joined PhD programme at Glasgow
Caledonian University. His research will be on “Encapsulation
of Lactobacilli in starch matrices”, which is fully funded
by the Industry
- Dr C D Khedkar, M. Sc. (DM) 1989 and M
R Patil, M. Sc. (DC) 1997, both working at College of
Dairy Technology, Pusad, Maharashtra, bagged first prize for their
poster entitled “Standardization of method for preparation
of probiotic acidophilus milk suitable for feeding to tribal kids
below five years and studies on implantation abilities of the
culture in their GI tracts”. The award was given by Indian
Dairy Association at 32nd Dairy Industry Conference organized
at Chandigarh. UK and US based two leading publishers, namely
Academic & Elsevier Publishers have published a Major Reference
Work “Encyclopaedia of Food Science & Nutrition”.
It is matter of pride for all us that Dr CD Khedkar contributed
five scientific papers in the said encyclopaedia. The articles
include those on dahi, buffalo milk, fermented milks, dietary
importance, WTO and buffalo meat. M R Patil is a co-contributor
to these papers. In another publication of the said publishers,
“Encyclopaedia of Dairy Sciences”, Dr P N Thakar and
Nitin Joshi contributed a paper on “Concentrated Dairy Products-Khoa”
- Following alumni completed their masters degree from NDRI, Karnal
and have been employed by the organizations as shown below:
Ashish Acharya, M.Tech. (DT) GCMMF Ltd., Anand
Vikas Mittal, M.Tech. (DT) GCMMF Ltd., Anand
Gurmeet Singh, MSc (DC) GCMMF Ltd., Anand
Mahesh Vankar, MSc (DM) GCMMF Ltd., Anand
Haridas, MSc(DC) Nestle India Ltd., Moga, Baramati
Suja Senan, MSc (DM) Dynamix Dairies Ltd
- Ashwini Kumar Rathore, B Sc (DT) 1988, and
M Sc (DT) 1992, working as Dy. General Manger, Mahaan
Proteins Ltd., Mathura (U.P.) has submitted his Ph.D. Thesis
on “Application of membrane technology for the standardization
of whey protein concentrate and its storage stability” to
Agra University
- Sudeep Jain, B Tech (DT) 2000, left Vidya Dairy
and joined MS at Utah State University,
USA
- Aparna Gupta, B Tech (DT) 2001, and Tusar
Joshi, B Tech (DT) 2001, joined M.Sc. (Dairying) at NDRI,
Karnal, while Hemang Dholakia, B Tech (DT) 2001,
joined M.Sc. at CFTRI, Mysore
- Prem Ranjan Thakur, B Tech (DT) 1999, has joined
Texas A&M University, Kingsville,
USA for MS in Dairy Chemistry
- Nishant Joshi, B Tech (DT) 2000, joined Texas
A&M University for Masters and is planning to join Doctoral
Studies also with University of Texas
- Amol Gandhi, B Tech (DT) 1999, has joined University
of Westminster, London for his Masters
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