University Of Texas: Part 3

The academic foundation at NIT Trichy provided me with a leverage to involve myself in research at the premier educational Institutions like Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur through competitive selection process for summer research project. The opportunity to work in one of the top research institutes was indeed a great boost for my ambition to pursue a career in research. I was among the 3 students selected from NIT Trichy, for a summer research project at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur towards the end of my second year. The project guide Professor Dr Jayanta Kumar Dutt said, it would be a real test of my mettle, as no one in his workgroup had worked on “Temperature Control of an Electric Heat Furnaces Considering Heat Losses” earlier and it would require a lot of time, although he believed that the solution was possible if dedicated efforts were put in. This however did not faze me; it became my reason for choosing this topic, as I enjoyed pursuing challenging tasks. Working on this project, a novel approach was devised to accurately follow a time-temperature profile for a heat-treatment process.