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‘Rathakrishnan Limit has cost just Rs.70,000’

‘It is possible to create high technologies with nominal amount’

Three-day workshop on ‘Instrumentation, measurements’ concludes
Some 100 teachers and students from different institutions attend the workshop

Ethirajan Rathakrishnan, professor of aerospace engineering at IIT Kanpur, addresses a workshop at Lakireddy Balireddy College of Engineering, Mylavaram in Krishna district.

MYLAVARAM (Krishna district): Ethirajan Rathakrishnan, an eminent professor of aerospace engineering at IIT Kanpur, has advised students to shed the notion that research in high technologies would always be cost-intensive.

“It is definitely possible to achieve good results and create high technologies with nominal investment, as I could successfully accomplish in my own career,” Prof. Rathakrishnan said, addressing the valedictory of the three-day workshop on “Instrumentation, measurements and experiments in fluids” at Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering here on Monday.

As many as 100 teachers and students from different institutions participated in the workshop and were given certificates of participation.

Prof. Rathakrishnan astonished the participants of the workshop when he disclosed that he spent just about Rs.70,000 to invent what has come to be internationally known as “Rathakrishnan Limit”, which explains the maximum limit to which noise in jets could be reduced.

“This invention has helped the Indian Space Research Organisation save crores of rupees,” he said, and suggested to the students not to be guided by monetary considerations while choosing a field of research but keep the nation’s interests above all.

Felicitating Prof. Rathakrishnan, LBRCE Director L.S.S. Reddy described him as a scientist who could one day bring Nobel Prize to the nation.

Workshop convenor and professor of mechanical engineering at LBRCE P. Lovaraju proposed a vote of thanks.

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