Prof. W. Scheer in conversation with His Excellency Baron Dietrich von Mirbach, 1967
Administrators , Faculty , Visiting VIPs
Baron von Mirbach visited IIT Madras a few months after the Second Indo-German agreement was signed in New Delhi. The signing of the agreement kicked off the establishment of 5 laboratories. It also made provisions to complete the 20 laboratories which were in progress. The agreement was an effort to further the development of IIT Madras through a collaboration between India and Germany.
Dr. Wolfgang Scheer was born in 1923, and joined IIT Madras at the age of 36 in 1959. He was responsible for much of the progress in Turbo Machine research and the planning and development of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras from 1959 to 1969.
In the photograph, from left, Prof. S. Sampath (Deputy Director), Mr. C. V. Sethunathan (Registrar), Mr. Baron von Mirbach (Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, fourth from left), Prof. W. Scheer (Mechanical Engineering Department, sixth from left) and Prof. B. Sengupto (Director of IIT Madras, extreme right).
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