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V P Sethi

V P Sethi

Professor
Punjab Agricultural University
India

Biography

Born on 13 th October, 1968 in Ludhiana, Dr V P Sethi joined B Tech in Agricultural Engineering at College of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, PAU in the year 1985. He graduated in 1989 and gained industrial experience for two years before joining M Tech in the year 1991 in Mechanical Engineering department (Thermal Environmental Engg.,) at PAU. He received Jindal Irrigation scholarship during B Tech and PAU merit Scholarship during M Tech programme. He joined as Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering in July 1993 and taught many subjects of Mechanical Engineering for about 11 years before joining Ph D (in Solar Thermal Engineering) at Energy Research Centre, Panjab University Chandigarh in 2004. His PhD thesis was nominated amongst the top 10 best thesis at the National level by Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) for innovative students project award-2007. He was promoted as Associate Professor in May 2007 and as Professor from July 2010. Apart from teaching UG and PG courses, he has handled four research projects as PI funded by (i) Punjab Govt. (on Solar Energy Utilization), (ii) ICAR (AICRP, Solar Energy component) and (iii) RKVY (Indigenous Hydroponics, Aeroponics and NFT Technology) & one Project as Associated Scientist (AICRP Wind Energy component) iv) Apart from this, one extramural research project sponsored by ICAR on Paddy straw management is in progress.He has been 4 nominated by Punjab Agricultural University for the most prestigious Shri Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award-2013 in Engineering by CSIR, New Delhi. He was invited as guest faculty by University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada to deliver seminar on “New Hydroponics Technologies and Future Research Collaboration" from 16 to 23 Aug 2015. In recognition of his contributions at international level, he was awarded with Albert Nelson Marquis Life time achievement award 2017 by the Marquis Publishing Board, USA. The institution of engineers India(IEI), Chandigarh chapter has awarded him outstanding Professional Achievement Award in August 2017.

Research Interest

Solar Energy & Greenhouse Effect.