Mr. S. Pasupathy receives the Siemens Prize from Sir C. V. Raman

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Institute Events , Convocations , Students

Seen in the image from the left: Mr. S. Pasupathy (Siemens Prize winner) and Sir C. V. Raman (Indian physicist, Nobel laureate).

One of the recipients of the Siemens Prize was Mr. S. Pasupathy (M. Tech. in Electrical Engineering). He also received an Institute Merit Prize during the convocation ceremony. He received M. Phil. and Ph. D. degrees in Engineering & Applied Science from Yale University in 1970 and 1972, respectively. The next year, 1973, he joined the ECE Department at the university of Toronto and taught UG and PG courses for more than 35 years. He served as Chairman of the Communication Group and Associate Chairman of ECE. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Engineering Institute of Canada and Canadian Academy of Engineering. His passion for teaching was born when he was a research student and a part time lecturer at IITM. He was the first Canadian professor in the area of communication to be listed in the prestigious ‘highly cited researchers’ list of ISI Web of Knowledge.

An identical photograph can be found in the Gourishankar Collection in Album 0241 under the ID: 001/0241/IMG_92

Collection:

Central Photographic Section Collection

Album Name:

Third Convocation, 1966

Photograph ID:

001/0024/IMG_0751_1

Album ID:

0024

Date:

1966-07-30

Place:

Open Air Theatre

Photographer:

C. Gourishankar (1936-2002). A geologist by qualification, Gourishankar started his career as a photographer after working for many years with the Geological Survey of India. In everything that he did, Gourishankar strove to achieve flawlessness and impeccable quality. Thus his photography too was characterised by this drive for perfection. Every photograph that Gourishankar took was meticulously planned and shot and printed with diligence and patience. Gourishankar carried out most of the official photography at IIT Madras in the 1960s.

Event:

Convocation