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Baldev Raj, BE (Ravishankar), Ph.D. (IISc.). Specialization: Materials characterization using nondestructive evaluation methodologies. Fellow - Indian National Academy of Engineering, Tamil Nadu Academy of Sciences, International Institute of Quality Assurance, Institute of Engineers (India), Indian Institute of Metals, Acoustic Society of India. Hon. Fellow - British Institute of NDT, Indian Society of NDT. Hon. Member - International Committee of NDT, Hellenic Society of NDT Greece, Chairman, Policy & General Purpose Committee of ICNDT, Past-President, 14th World Conference on NDT & International Committee on NDT. Founder Member, Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials. President, Ultrasonic Society of India. President-elect - Indian Society for Nondestructive Testing. Director - Metallurgy & Materials Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research Kalpakkam 603 102, Tamil Nadu. He has won major awards such as NDT Man of the Year 1985 and National Metallurgist 1986. He has also won Materials Research Society of India Medal 1992, Sir C. V. Raman Award, 1992, Keith Hartley Memorial Award 1992 and AEWG Gold Medal, 1994, G. D. Birla Gold Medal, 1996. He has five books, more than 300 publications, 100 plenary, keynote and invited talks, five Indian Standards to his credit and has filed eight patents in the area of NDT. In addition, he is Editor and on the Editorial Boards of many international and national journals. He has been invited to be a Subject Editor in the area of Materials Testing: Mechanical and Nondestructive -- Encyclopedia of Materials Science and Technology to be published by Elsevier Science Publications, Oxford, UK. He is Chairman, Research & Education Committee of All Indian Council on Technical Education; Member - Sectional Committee on Metallurgy, Mining and Materials Science, INAE; Programme Advisory Committee on Mining, Minerals and Materials, DST, Scientific Advisory Committee, Departments or Culture and Science & Technology, Technology Advisory Board on Materials, CSIR, Board of Research Council of National Metallurgical Laboratory, Board of Component Integrity Evaluation of CSIR; Advisory Committee of School of Quality Management, Bharathiar University, Tiruchirapalli. He is the founding member of the World Federation of NDE Centres, USA. |