Contents • • • • • • Biography [ ] Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme was born to Indumati Sukhatme and, renowned statistician and a award winner, on 5 November 1938 at in the Western Indian state of. He graduated in Engineering in 1958 from the and pursued his higher studies at the.

Period of Directorship. He is also the author of two widely known text books in Heat Transfer and Solar Energy. Sukhatme is the recipient of many honours and awards. He received the Prince of Wales Gold Medal for standing first class first in Banaras Hindu University. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar. P Subjects Solar energy - Mathematical models.; Solar energy.; Energy storage - Mathematical models. The energy scenario; The solar energy option: an overview of thermal applications; Solar radiation; Liquid flat-plate collectors; Solar air heaters; Concentrating collectors; Thermal energy storage; Solar pond.

He secured a master's degree (SM) in 1960, a higher degree in Engineering (MechE) in 1961, and a doctoral degree (ScD) in 1964. Prostoj spi flash programmator. During his stay at MIT, he worked as a research assistant during 1959–64.

He moved to Dynatech Corporation where he worked for a year as a staff engineer. In 1965, he returned to India to join the as an assistant professor at the department of mechanical engineering. After a series of promotions, as the professor in 1970, as the head of the department in 1973, and as the deputy director in 1975, he became the director of the institution in 1995, a post he held till he retired in 2000 with the title of the Professor Emeritus of the institution. During this period, he also had a brief stint at the as a visiting professor in the academic year, 1982–83. Post retirement from IIT Bombay, he worked as the Chairman of the of the from 2000 till 2005. Suhas Sukhatme holds the life memberships of the Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer (ISHMT) and the Solar Energy Society of India and is a former member of the council.

He serves as a member of the Promotions and Assessment Committee of the, Nuclear Sciences Research Board of the, and the advisory councils of the and the. He also sits in the Governing Board of two national institutions, the, Mumbai and the (NITIE), Mumbai. Sukhatme is an author of over 70 scientific papers and three books viz. A Textbook on Heat Transfer, Solar Energy - Principles of Thermal Collection and Storage and The Real Brain Drain. His contributions are known behind the establishment of an inter-disciplinary postgraduate and research programme in Energy Systems Engineering at IIT Bombay.

The program has grown over the years to become an independent department, the Department of Energy Science and Engineering. He has also assisted in the formation of Mumbai-based institutions, the and the. Suhas Sukhatme is married to Shobha, a medical doctor and has two children, Gaurav, a member of faculty at the and Jai, teaching at.

The couple lives in, Mumbai. Awards and recognitions [ ] Sukhatme was awarded the Prince of Wales Gold Medal in 1958 by the for topping the University examinations. In 1983, he received the from the (CSIR). In 2001, he received the from Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the, the first recipient of the award.

A recipient of the degree of the Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) from the Banares Hindu University, Sukhatme was awarded the civilian honour of by the in 2001. Sukhatme delivered the Daulat Singh Kothari Memorial Award Lecture in 2005 at the (INSA) where he is an elected Fellow. He is also an elected Fellow of,, and the. Vag round kirillica shrift. He is an elected member of the Society of Sigma Xe and a Fellow of the.