Honours & Awards

  1. Chancellor’s Gold Medal, University of Roorkee, 1969, for securing First Position in M.E. (Electrical).
  1. The Central Board of Irrigation & Power Gold Medal, 1973 for the research paper “Improved Protection for 25 KV Traction Overhead Equipment”.
  1. The Institution of Engineers (India) Prize, 1974–75, for the research paper “A Telemetry Unit for Hospitals”.
  1. The Union Ministry of Irrigation and Power Prize, 1977–78, for the research paper “Novel Circuits Applying Operational Amplifiers for Sampling Distance & Directional Relays”.
  1. The Institution of Engineers (India) Certificate of Merit, 1980–81, for the research paper “An Infrared Temperature Scanner”.
  1. The Institution of Engineers (India) Certificate of Merit, 1985–86, for the research paper “Microprocessor Based Load Shedding and Restoration Equipment”.
  1. The Systems Society of India Best Paper Award, 1986, for the research paper “Practical Oriented Design of Over–fluxing Relay for Grid Transformer”.
  1. The Systems Society of India Best Paper Award, 1987, for the research paper “An Integrated Relaying Scheme for Grid Transformer Protection”.
  1. The Institution of Engineers (India) Certificate of Merit, 1989–90, for the research paper “Ultrasonic Multi–flaw Location Indicator”
  1. The Institution of Engineers (India) Certificate of Merit, 1990–91, for the research paper “Discrete Cosine Transform Application to Transformer Differential Relaying”.
  1. The Institution of Engineers (India) Certificate of Merit, 1990–91, for the research paper “Digital Differential Relaying for Generator Differential Protection”.
  1. The Systems Society of India Best paper Award, 1990, for the research paper “Digital Generator Differential Relay: Performance Evaluation”.
  1. The Institution of Engineers (India) Certificate of Merit, 1992–93, for the research paper “High Accuracy Measurement of Low Frequencies Using on 8–Bit Microprocessor”.
  1. The Institution of Engineers (India) Certificate of Merit, 1995–96, for the research paper “Adaptive Digital Differential Protection of Transformer: Improvement Over the Fixed–Bias Scheme”.
  1. Khosla Prize, University of Roorkee, 2001, for the research paper “ANN–Based QRS–Complex Analysis of ECG”.
  1. Outstanding Teacher Award–2004, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
  1. Outstanding Teacher Award–2009, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
  1. Jal-Vigyan Paraskar (Award) of the Indian Society for Hydraulics, 2015-16, for the research paper “Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Flow Velocity Profile for Rectangular Open Channels”.
  2. Best Paper Award at IEEE-Sponsored International Conference on Quality, Productivity, Reliability, Optimization and Modeling (ICQPROM-2017), for the research paper “Recording Temporal and Spatial Variations in Greenhouse using WSN”.