Digvijai Singh was an Indian mechanical engineer and a former vice chancellor of the University of Roorkee before its reconstitution as the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
16 Facts About Digvijai Singh
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Digvijai Singh was a former vice chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education and a former director of Central Road Research Institute.
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Digvijai Singh is known for his studies on dynamics of single track vehicles and Fluid film lubrication and was an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz.
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Digvijai Singh oversaw the transition of the university to an Indian Institute of Technology in 2001 and became the director of the IIT.
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Digvijai Singh headed a research group engaged in the studies of Pavement management systems.
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Digvijai Singh's researches have been documented in 160 peer-reviewed articles; the online article repository of Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 49 of them.
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Digvijai Singh has mentored 19 doctoral and several master's scholars in their studies.
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Digvijai Singh sat in the board of directors of the International Road Federation from 1991 to 1994 and, as a founder member of the World Interchange Network, he served as a director of the organization from 1993 to 1996.
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Digvijai Singh has been associated with several global and national bodies as a member; governing body of the Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council, committees of World Road Association, Central Board of Railway Research, National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration laboratories, Committee on Auto-Fuel Policy and Apex Committee on Road Construction and Transportation Equipment are some of them.
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Digvijai Singh was a member of the board of governors of the Engineering Council of India and presided the Tribology Society of India from 1998 to 2000.
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Digvijai Singh was the chairman of programme advisory committee on the National Science and Technology Management System and served as the national coordinator of the engineering sciences section of the Indo-Russian Integrated long term programme of cooperation in Science and Technology.
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Digvijai Singh was closely associated with the Indian National Academy of Engineering; he has chaired the Engineering Education Forum of the academy and is a member of its Forum on Engineering Interventions for Disaster Mitigation.
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Digvijai Singh received two honors from the Institution of Engineers ; the Mechanical Engineering Design Award in 1997 and the Eminent Engineering Personality Award in 2003.
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Digvijai Singh is a recipient of the Silver Jubilee Award of IMDA.
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Digvijai Singh was an elected fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
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Digvijai Singh has held the National Professorship of the University Grants Commission of India and the award orations delivered by him include Dr Guru Prasad Chatterjee Memorial Lecture of the Indian National Science Academy.