Sukaran Singh, a B.Tech student of our department, will always be remembered for his excellence in both academic and cultural endeavors. He was the only one selected from his entire 2010 batch for the student exchange position in University of British Columbia, Canada. Being a vibrant tabla player, he performed in several inter and intramural events throughout his IITD stay. He secured the Directors Merit Award in 7 out of 8 semesters for being among the top 7% students in the institute. He was accorded the Summer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA) by the Industrial Research & Development Unit(IRD) for his research on electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (2012). Sukaran served as the General Secretary of the Chemical Engineering Society (ChES) (2013) and introduced the first-ever student body of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) in the department. He was also the Overall Coordinator of the student body of Alumni Affairs and International Program (AAIP) (2013), leading all the alumni reunions and student interaction platforms. He designed a new experiment for the measurement of liquid-liquid molecular diffusivity coefficients as part of a design course and subsequently authored a manual, which has been included in the UG lab curriculum of our department as a mass transfer experiment. He delivered a talk on Modeling of Micro-Scale Fluid Flows, representing the department in the 12th Indo-European Winter Academy held at IIT Guwahati (2013). He also bagged the Best Academic Performer award from the graduating batch of Zanskar hostel (2014). Sukaran is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of Minnesota, USA.
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