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Special lecture was organized on “Climate change - the option of redressal through the inclusion of each household" - 21st November, 2022
A special lecture was organized on “Climate change - the option of redressal through the inclusion of each household” at CUJ Auditorium, Brambe Campus. The chief guest for the special talk was Dr.Shishpal S Rawat, President of SCI. He did his B.Tech in EE from IIT Kanpur, followed by MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University USA. His expertise is in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA). He served as a director in Strategic Enablement in VLSI Design Automation at INTEL, as chairman of EDA standards body (Accellera), and later as President of the IEEE Council on EDA.
He has been volunteering on the board of Solar Cooker International(SCI), serving as president for the last 3 years. He has also been trained as a Climate Change Leader (trained by Al Gore, Climate Reality Founder & Chairman; former Vice President of the USA). The program ran quite successfully under the clubbing of Department of Energy Engineering and Center of Excellence in Green and Efficient Energy Technology (CoE-GEET).
To felicitate the distinguished guest, three persons present were - Prof. S. K. Samdarshi, Coordinator, Center of Excellence in Green and Efficient Energy Technology (CoE-GEET); Dr. D. B. Lata, Head, Department of Energy Engineering; and Prof. H.P. Singh, Dean, School of Engineering and Technology. During the program,Dr. Rawat put stressed on the actions to be taken in the light of 17 SDGs by relating it to the climate change-driven disasters like floods inside and outside India.
After the program, he also visited GEET where there was a specialdiscussion on the successful implementation of SCI-basedprograms. SCI works mostly in Africa with refugee camps - the technicalities address solar drying, solar sanitization, solar crematorium, solar cookers, and solar PV for Refrigeration and air-conditioning.SCI received Keeling Curve prize 2021 for implementation of programs based on clean-energy access through decarbonisation.
Apart from these, the solar cooker has alternative application ofpasteurisation of water (69 deg. C) for consumption by rural people, using wax as a measure of Water PasturizationIndicator (WAPI). Special mention of works carried out by related people in Europe was also discussed.
