IITians at Chandigarh Group of Colleges, Landran


This issue onwards, Milestone introduces you to faculty who are qualified from country’s pioneer institutes including IITs, BITS, IIMs and IHMs. Here goes the first part of the series to assure that your career is secure under qualified alumni of prestigious institutes.


Dr G D Bansal
Director - General
PHD, IIT, ROORKEE

Dr G D Bansal is a Ph.D from the University of Roorkee, (IIT) and ME from Punjab Engineering College (PEC), Chandigarh. With a 36 years’ research and teaching experience to his credit, Dr Bansal holds the top academic position at
CGC as Director General. He has attended Engineering World Congress held in Japan and presented a research document. He is a member of the Indian Society for Technical Education, member of Board of Studies in Mechanical Engineering, Research Degree Committee of Panjab University and a member of the Institution of Engineers (India).


Dr Rajwinder Singh
Professor-Head, CSE.
PHD, IIT, ROORKEE

Dr Rajwinder Singh hold the responsibility of teaching Computer Science department. Another IITian (Ph.D from IIT, Roorkee) holding meritorious track of academics including M.Tech from Kurukshetra University with Gold Medal, prepares future professionals with dedications. Having the twelve-year teaching experience, he works hard to provide IIT-level teaching to the students. Dr Rajwinder has been upgrading his knowledge and he is a member of Indian Society of Technical Education, IEEE Computer Society and Computer Society of India


Dr. L.C. Singal
Professor, ME, Dept.
PHD, IIT, ROORKEE

Dr L C Singal, Ph.D from IIT Roorkee and ME in Mechanical Engineering from PEC, Chandigarh, is a Professor, at CGC. Dr Singal has served as a guest faculty in the USA at University of Delaware, Newark. Dr Singal has vast teaching experience. He has various publications in journals brought out in the USA, France and the UK. Dr L C Singal is also a member of Indian Society of Technical Education, Indian Society of Non Destructive Testing, Environmental Society of Chandigarh.


Dr. Navdeep Kaur
Professor-Head, IT
PHD, IIT, ROORKEE

Dr Navdeep Kaur, is another senior faculty member with a Ph.D degree from IIT, Roorkee. She has done her M.Tech from Kurukshetra University and has the teaching experience of over twelve years. A committed professor, Dr Kaur has been meticulously working hard to ensure that the students get the world class education and lead the engineers’ fraternity. She is also a member of Indian Society of Technical Education, IEEE computer Society and the Computer Society of India



Dr. Pritpal Mundra
Professor, Elect & Comm

Dr Pritpal Singh Mundra, a Ph.D in Communication and Electronics Engineer from IIT, has vast experienceof teaching and serving the industry. He has done ME from PEC in Electronics with first division and is a gold medalist in BE. He has worked as head, Research and Development, Punjab Wireless Systemsand was responsible for design, development and production of multiaccess radio telephone systems for IndianArmy. He also headed team designing fibre optic data communication systems.


Prof H S Sarin
Professor, Mechanical
M TECH, IIT, KHARAGPUR

Prof H S Sarin is another IITian holding the command of teaching at CGC. He is M Tech in Industrial Engineering and Management from IIT, Kharagpur. He has sixteen years’ experience of teaching graduate and postgraduate students at EME institute, Baroda, Military Technical College, Baghdad, Iraq and Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Secunderabad. He has also served the Army as a commissioned officer in the Indian Army (Corps of Electronics Mechanical Engineering) for 34 years and was a Colonel.

. "Joint campus by Satyam, one of the top market leader and a strong & significant brand, at CEC Landran . " Joint campus by Honeywell, one of the top market leader and a strong & significant brand, at CEC Landran . " Joint campus by Godrej, the top market leader and a strong & significant brand for the recruitment event for 2009 passing out on 11th August, 2008 at CEC Landran.The students of ECE 6th Semester bid adieu to the final year students at hotel Parkview on 29th April, 2008. Placement Day" celebrated on 11th April, 2008 at CEC. S Prakash Singh Badal, Honorable Chief Minister of Punjab was the chief guest of the occasion. Joint Campus Placement by Iflex Sloutions for 2009 Batch held successfully on 23rd March. A National Seminar on E-Governance held successfully in CBS. Sh. Ramesh Inder Singh, IAS, chief secretary to Govt. Punjab was the chief guest for the event. Annual day celebrated successfully on 17th March, S. Sukhbir Singh Badal-President Shromani Akali Dal was the chief guest. Fast Track Selection Drive of Indian Air Force Concluded Successfully. Sonalika International Tractors Limited & HDFC Bank conducted interviews at CEC, Landran. Indian Air Force held Campus Placement Drive at CEC; Satyam selects 550 students during campus recruitment in CEC; Tech. Mahindra held drive in Campus; Accenture visited CEC Campus on 4th August, 2007, PGDM launched in Chandigarh Business School of CGC , CEC students bagged top university positions in final exams, CEC students selected by Gujarat Ambuja Cements, Number of students selected by Sonalika tractors, Number of students selected by Wipro, Number of students selected by Iflex,CEC students bagged overall trophy in Intercollege PTU Weightlifting Championship "Joint campus by IBM, the world IT Leader, for the recruitment event for 2007 passing out, held sucessfully on 12th may, 2008 at CEC Landran.The students of ECE 6th Semester bid adieu to the final year students at hotel Parkview on 29th April, 2008. Placement Day"  celebrated on 11th April, 2008 at CEC. S Prakash Singh Badal, Honorable Chief Minister of Punjab was the chief guest of the occasion. Joint Campus Placement by Iflex Sloutions for 2009 Batch held successfully on 23rd March A National level seminar on E-Governance held at CGC; National Science day was celebrated with Inter College competitions organized by CC Ed on 28-02-08; Annual Sports Day" was organized by Chandigarh College of Education on 19-02-08; Talent Hunt was organized by Chandigarh College of Education on 21-09-07; CEC won overall trophy in PTUs Inter College Weight Lifting, Power Lifting & Best Physique Championship and Table Tennis (Men) Tournament for the second time consecutively.; CBS organized a paper writing contest on "Globalization and its impact on Indian Economy" on 13-02-08; National Conference on "Trends in Mechanical Engg." organized by Mech. Engg. dept.. of CEC on Feb. 8-9, 2008 in collaboration with Institution of Engineers (Pb. and Chd. state Center). Dr. Pawan Kapoor, Director CSIO was the chief guest; National Tourism Day celebrated by CCH on 25-01-08 with Mr. Rohit Badhwar, President, Airpak International as Chief Guest; CCP held the event ' Catholicon ' on 24-01-08 and 25-01-08 in association with Red Cross Society, Chandigarh and Sohana Hospital during which Blood donation, Free Eye Check Up and free other general Check ups were done; Lohri Celebrated by CGC on 14-01-08; 10 Day NSS camp organized by Chandigarh College of Education from 21-12-07 to 30-12-07. Dr. Sadhu Singh Randhawa, Dir. SCERT Punjab inaugurated and SDM mohali, Ms. Raghbir Kaur Khaira was the Chief guest. Theme of the camp was "Creating awareness among the Masses against various social evils; Chandigarh College of Education held Workshop on Creative art on 14-12-07 with the noted artist Prof. Ravinder Sharma as the Chief Guest. He also gave tips to participants for making posters, charts, Models & Collage Making; Chandigarh College of Education Celebrated Human Rights Day, Clubbning it with Martyrdom Day of "Guru Teg Bahadur Ji" on 12-12-07; "AIDS Awareness Day" organized by Chandigarh College of Education on 4-12-07; PTU's Inter College Table Tennis Tournament organized at CEC Landran (24-11-07); Chandigarh College of Hospitality put a huge stall during Chandigarh Carnival organized by Chandigarh Administration at Leisure Valley on 24-11-07; The III National Level Techno Cultural Symposium was organized by Phoenix Club of Researchers and Developers (Deptt. Of CSE/IT) of CEC on 15-11-2007 and 16-11-2007; III Inter College Technohunt-2007 organized by Cybex Club of CEC on 20-10-07-a Club of Cyberspace Explorers of the Deptt. of Computer Application, CEC (Paper reading, Quiz, Programmer of the Year, Debate etc. held). Dr. N.P. Singh, Dean Exams, PTU presided over the function ; World Chef Day Celebrated by Chandigarh College of Hospitality on 17-10-07; Camp Organized by Chandigarh College of Pharmacy on 16-08-07 for giving Awareness about the latest developments in Pharmaceutical Industry; Teacher's Day Celebrated on 5th Sept., 07 (An aptitude test conducted under the aegis of IETE chapter of the college and all eligible faculty members were promoted to APs and Sr. Lect. on this occasion); Fresher's Party PRISTINE-2007 held on 07-09-07 to welcome the new students of CGC.