Dr Sudhanshu Shukla, Senior Researcher at Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Belgium will be delivering a talk on "Addressing the Material Challenges for Photoelectrochemical Solar Fuels Generation: Lessons from Photovoltaics"
19th Dec 2024 (Thursday), 04:00-05:00 PM, Seminar Room, 306, DJAC. Poster Link

Two Days Schmidt Sciences conference on "Energy Technologies for India's Decarbonization" on 05-06 November 2024, Outreach Auditorium, IIT Kanpur.
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Join us for the Hybrid Dialogue on Advancing Sustainable Urban Future (IEDASUF), organized by APSWDP!
Panel II: "Empowering Youth for a Sustainable Urban Future" Oct 9, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. Do join us

Prof Husain Kanchwala, Assistant Professor in the Center of Automotive Engineering and Tribology at IIT Delhi delivered a talk on "Research paradigms in Automotive Engineering" 31st Aug 2024 (Saturday), 10:00-11:00 AM, LH-12. Poster Link

One-day workshop on "NetZero Dialogue 4th Edition" on 31 August 2024 at ATREE Auditorium Bangalore.
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Mr. Ajay Phatak, Trustee, The Ecological Society, Pune, India, delivered a talk on "Energy Transition, challenges and opportunities" on 29th Aug 2024 (Wednesday), 05:15-06:30 PM, LH-11. Poster Link

The Departmental second Research Scholar Day was held on August 24, 2024. Picture Link

Mr. Manish Chourasia, Managing Director of Tata Cleantech Capital, delivered a talk on "Navigating Climate Finance: Empowering Future Leaders for Sustainable Change" on 14th Aug 2024 (Wednesday), 05:00-06:00 PM, IME Classroom C2. Poster Link

The Departmental Orientation for Y24 students was held on July 20, 2024. Picture Link

We are delighted to announce the 57th Convocation Ceremony, scheduled for 29th June 2024. This significant event will honor the remarkable achievements of our graduating students, celebrating their perseverance and dedication over the years. Picture Link

Date: 29th June 2024
Session II Time: 02:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Venue: LH-12

Join us in celebrating the achievements of our graduates!

Mr. Chandrashekhar Chincholkar, Director - Corporate Advisory at CES India Pvt Ltd, Pune, delivered a talk on "Board Strategy for ESG and Corporate Sustainability - Understanding the BRSR" 28th June 2024 (Friday), 05:00-06:00 PM, LH-08. Poster Link

Two Days Workshop on "Sustainable GeoCommunities Workshop" on 24-25 June 2024, Outreach Center, IIT Kanpur, Noida.
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Mr. Chaitanya Gade, Head of Sustainability Monitoring and Evaluation at Govardhan Eco Village, delivered a talk on "Exploring Sustainable Solutions: The Symbiotic Recycling Model of Govardhan Eco Village" 16th April 2024 (Tuesday), 05:30-06:30 PM, LH-14. Poster Link | Picture Link

Mr. Pawan Joshi, Senior Manager, Tata Motors, Pune, India, delivered a talk on "My experiences with the Automobile Industry" 09th April 2024 (Tuesday), 05:30-06:30 PM, Online. Poster Link

Dr. Rodion Stepanov, Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics, Perm, Russia, delivered a talk on "WRF simulations of mid-latitude atmospheric waves" 04th April 2024 (Thursday), 05:15-06:15 PM, LH-14. Poster Link | Picture Link

Dr. Rohan Shetty, Postdoctoral Scientist Lat Faculty of Science UJEP, delivered a talk on "Vegetation response to Climate Change in the sub-arctic, alpine and tropical environments: Current projects and future ideas for research and development of sustainable landscapes" 19th March 2024 (Tuesday), 05:30 PM, LH-13. Poster Link | Picture Link

Mr. Sanjay Khare, Executive Advisor-Sustainability ,Skoda-Volkswagen India, delivered a talk on "Sustainability-Beyond Greening to Conscious Capitalism , a 30 Trillion $ opportunity" 14th March 2024 (Thursday), 05:30 PM, LH-08. Poster Link | Picture Link

Dr. Satyam Sahay, INAE & John Deere Fellow, will be delivering a talk on "Technology Led Sustainability Solutions for Precision Agriculture"on 12th March 2024 (Tuesday), 05:30 PM, LH-13. Poster Link | Picture Link

Dr. Pramod Pandey, Distinguished Professor, and Specialist in environmental modeling and sensing, RenewableEnergy, and GHG emission control at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UNCAR) delivered a talk on "Implementation of Innovative Sustainable Technologies for Methane Emission Reductions and Mitigating Unintended Environmental Impacts in California" 28th February 2024 (Wednesday), 02:00 PM, Conference Room, 102, Ground Floor, National Aerosol Facility. Poster Link | Picture Link

India-UK Symposium on "India-UK Symposium on Decarbonization and Sustainability: Engaging Academia and Industries for Net- Zero [Sustain-NZ]" on 26-27 February 2024, CCE Seminar Room, Outreach, IIT Kanpur.
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Mr. Rajendra Bhattarai, President of Clean Water Strategies, Austin, Texas delivered a talk on "Strass: The First Net Energy Positive Wastewater Treatment Plant in the world" 15th February 2024 (Thursday), 05:00 PM, Lecture Hall-8. Poster Link | Picture Link

Dr. V. Balaji Distinguished Fellow, Schmidt Futuresdeliver a talk on "Climate Models: Whence they came, where they're going and why you should trust them" 30 Oct 2023 (Monday), 4:00 PM, L-17. Poster Link |  Picture Link

Shri Sanjay Dubey, IAS, Principal Secretary, Department of Energy and Renewable and New Energy, Government of Madhya Pradesh delivered a talk on "India's EnergyTransition: Challenges and Way Forward" 04 September 2023 (Monday), 6:15 PM, L-17. Poster Link

One-day workshop on "Policy Pulse, Climate Finance and Sustainable Transitions " on 2 September 2023 at Academic Block 4/112, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.
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Dr. Ajay A. Deshpande, Adjunct Professor, AD-CPS, IIT-Bombay delivered a talk on "Environmental Governance: Opportunity of Synergy of Science and Law in Emerging areas of Remediation and Restoration" 22nd August 2023 (Tuesday), 5:15 PM, L-13. Poster Link

To celebrate a day for the planet we really care about, the Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering in collaboration with SIIC, CESE, Chandrakanta Kesavan Center and the Office of R&D is organizing the program on 5th June 2023 i.e. World Environment Day.
Let us make it a memorable World Environment Day for our planet by coming together to make our planet a cleaner and greener home for everyone.
You are cordially invited to a program organized for World Environment Day! at L-13, Lecture Hall Complex, IIT Kanpur.

India-UK Symposium on "Sustainability: Addressing Water-Energy-Food nexus [Sustain-WEF]" on 17-19 April 2023, Outreach, IIT Kanpur.
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Dr. Ram Ramaswamy, Director of NOAA Oceanic and Atmospheric Research's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) delivered a talk on " Climate Change: Lessons from the Past for the Future Temperature and Hydrologic Impacts " 17th March 2023 (Friday), 12:00 PM, DJ-306 (Diamond Jubilee). Poster Link

The Chandrakanta Kesavan Center for Energy Policy and Climate Solutions, IIT Kanpur is organizing a One-day symposium on "Demystifying UNFCCC Conference of Parties (CoP) - International Negotiations vs Local Climate Action" on 02 March 2023 at L-13, Lecture Hall Complex, IIT Kanpur.
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Mr. Rajendra Bhattarai, President of Clean Water Strategies, Austin, Texas delivered a talk on " Austin's 100-Year Water Plan: Resilient, Reliable, and Sustainable to Address the Effects of Climate Change "on 10th February 2023 (Friday), 05:00 PM, DJ-306 (Diamond Jubilee). Poster Link

Dr. Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt , Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University delivered a talk on " In search of justice in coal transition in India "on 10th February 2023 (Friday), 01:00 PM, Online. Poster Link

Dr. Usha Iyer-Raniga , Professor, Sustainable Built Environment, RMIT University delivered a talk on" Using circular practices to achieve the UN SDG Goal 12 "on 19th January 2023 (Thursday), 11:00 AM, SEE Seminar Room. Poster Link

Join us for an insightful webinar with Dr. Kanwar Nalwa unpacking the theme of "Revealing Entrepreneurship path in Clean Energy Industry". The webinar will focus on the identification of innovative solutions for the problem statements in the areas of the Cleanenergy domain that can fulfil the gaps in the existing domain.
Date: 1st Dec 22 | Time: 5:30 PM IST
Register now | Poster Link | Visit to know more about the Hackathon.

Dr. Anna Agarwal , Visiting Fellow, CPR's Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment delivered a talk on" Changing cooling energy demand patterns in urban households in India "on 3rd November 2022 (Monday), 3:30 PM, L-13. Poster Link

The Chandrakanta Kesavan Center for Energy Policy and Climate Solutions, IIT Kanpur is organizing a One-day symposium on "India's Sustainable Future: Challenges and Opportunities vis-à-vis Global Perspectives" on 12 October 2022 at Outreach Auditorium IIT Kanpur.
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The Chandrakanta Kesavan Center for Energy Policy and Climate Solutions, IIT Kanpur is organizing a One-day workshop on "Developing an actionable approach to Carbon Neutrality " on 11 October 2022 at IME Seminar room, IIT Kanpur.
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We are pleased to announce the third talk in the FORTECH: Industry-Academia Talk Series. The speaker is Prof. Kanwar Nalwa, Associate Professor, Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering, IIT Kanpur. He was earlier associated with Portland Technology Development of Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA. Prof. Nalwa believes that industry must participate at the nascent stage of the development itself so that industry and academia can work together in solving stability and scaling-related issues as they arise during the project period. This talk will highlight the strategies that his group is adopting to reach out to the industry and solve practical problems that the industry is seeking solutions for. The exemplary cases will be discussed that highlight the real-world problems in the area of #energystorage and #solarcells and how the his research group is actively engaging with the industry to overcome these challenges. (Register for the webinar using the QR code.) Gopal Kamath Ashesha Sinha Reema Mittal.

Dr. Amitabh Verma, working as an advisor to Aditya Birla Solar Limited delivered a talk on "Solar PV through the lens of Industry" on 12th September 2022 (Monday), starting at 5:00 PM. The details of the lecture and a brief biography of the speaker can be found at Click here

Dr. Shibani Ghosh, a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), a New Delhi-based think tank, and an Advocate-on-Record, Supreme Court of India delivered a talk on "Regulating air quality in India: Challenges and the way forward" on 26th August 2022 (Friday), starting at 3:00 PM. The details of the lecture and a brief biography of the speaker can be found at Click here

Atul Gopal, co-founder and trustee of three schools, work under the Peepal Tree umbrella, delivered a talk on "Ending the ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) age"Mon, 6 June 2022, L13, 02:30 PM IST. Know more...

Kick-Off Meeting of DST Materials MAP was held at IIT Kanpur on 27 - 28 May 2022 and was attended by the DST officials and professors from 13 elite institutions of India.
DST has launched Integrated Clean Energy Material Acceleration Platforms with IIT Kanpur as the lead institute for the Materials platform. Prof. Kanwar Singh Nalwa of Sustainable Energy Engineering is the Head of the DST-IIT Kanpur center on Materials. The objective of this platform is to design materials for energy harvesting by employing quantum mechanics-enabled atomistic simulations, AI & ML algorithms and, automation.

Prof. Rakesh Agrawal, Distinguished Professor at Purdue University, who is also a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Kanpur, delivered a talk on "Engineering Solutions for a Solar Economy"on Wed, 27 Apr 2022, 04:00 PM IST.
The details of the lecture and a biography of the speaker can be found on Click here

An IITGN-IITK joint symposium on Energy Technologies was held at IITGN on 15-16 April 2022.
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Dr. Soumyabrata Roy, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering at Rice University, delivered a talk on Developing Sustainable Pathways to Fuels and Chemicals from GHGs and H₂O Tue, 12 Apr 2022, 04:00 PM IST.

Dr. Sudarshan Narayanan, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Materials at University of Oxford, delivered a talk on Characterisation, design and engineering of interfaces in energy materials Fri, 8 Apr 2022, 04:00 PM IST.

Dr. Ankit Singhal, Research Engineer, Energy and Environment Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), USA, delivered a talk on Decentralized Approaches for Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) Integration into the Electric Grid Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 05:00 PM IST.

Dr. Barun Kumar Barman, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Photonics Nano-Engineering Group, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, delivered a talk on Carbon Based Nanostructures: Green Synthesis to Energy Generation and Storage Thu, 24 Mar 2022 04:00 PM IST.

Dr. Ahamed Irshad M, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, delivered a talk on Electrochemistry for a Sustainable Future Tue, 22 Mar 2022 04:00 PM IST.

Dr. Siddavatam Ravi Prakash Reddy, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Houston, delivered a talk on High-performance Control of Induction Motor Drives for Electric Vehicle Applications Mon, 14 Mar 2022 04:00 PM IST.

Exploratory workshop on "Balancing the Carbon Neutrality and Sustainability" on 11 March 2022 at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
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Dr. Mahamad Nabab Alam, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal, delivered a talk on Protection of Networked Microgrids Tue, 8 Mar 2022, 04:00 PM IST.

Dr. SuryaPrakash Singh, Principal Scientist, Department of Polymers and Functional Materials, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, delivered a talk on New Light-Harvesters: Molecular Engineering and their Applications Fri, 04 Mar 2022 04:00 PM IST.

Dr. Kaushik Pal, Postdoctoral Research Associate Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, delivered a talk on Autonomous Computational Discovery of Sustainable Energy Materials Thu, 03 Mar 2022 04:00 PM IST.

EIL team visited SEE department on 28 Feb 2022 to explore collaboration possibilities in various fields of mutual interest. Team visited ACMSlaboratory and showed their keen interest in our lab facilities. A useful discussion a productive session of discussion with SEE faculty members was also conducted which included topics like working on materials testing for transportation, Hydrogen storage, generation and utilization. A broad consensus to carry out short term and long term activities in-line with our Centre's mandate on carbon capture, has also been developed.

Dr. Tushar Sikroria, Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Melbourne, delivered a talk on Examination of flow dynamics using optical diagnostics Wed, 25 Feb 2022 04:00 PM IST.

Dr. Amarendra Edpuganti, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, delivered a talk on New Multiport Converter for the Solar PV Panels of CubeSat Wed, 23 Feb 2022 04:00 PM IST.

Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering (Dr. K. S. Nalwa) organizer and Chandrakanta Kesavan Center for Energy Policy and Climate Solutions are co-organizing the UK-India SUNRISE symposium on Transition to NetZero on 10-11 February 2022, to be held on virtual platform.

The symposium will showcase technology development sessions on food, water, energy and Net Zero. Food, water and energy together makes the foundation for socio-economic development and well-being, but also significantly contributetowards global warming and climate change, which raises the concern of environmental and ecological sustainability. Food-Water-Energy-Climate Nexus with transition towards Net Zero will be an effective way to deal with these complicated issues, which would require an interplay of technological interventions, and dedicated efforts of multiple stakeholders including academicians, researchers, industries and decision makers in this direction. SUNRISE symposium will explore the linkages between water and hygiene, energy harvesting, energy systems, food production and food security in the context of decarbonisation and Net zero through global collaboration of leading research teams and industries. For more information click here

Dr. Rajeev Jindal, Sr. VP and Business Head (Lighting) at C & S Electric Ltd, delivered a talk on c-Silicon Photovoltaic Trends and Opportunities on 26 October 2021, 04:30 PM IST.

Dr. Prabodh Bajpai, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kharagpur, delivered a talk on Resiliency Framework for Electrical Power Networks on 20 October 2021, 03:30 PM IST.

Panalytical in collaboration with IITK is hosting a 2-day free webinar titled "Optimizing battery materials and their performance using XRD and various characterization tools" on 05 - 06 October 2021, coordinated by Dr. Kanwar Singh Nalwa. Free Registration | Webinar Flyer

Dr. Amitava Banerjee, Directors Postdoctoral Fellow in Materials Science & Technology Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, delivered a talk on Materials Modelling for Energy Conversion-Storage and oxide defect thermokinetics on 29 September 2021, 10:00 - 11.00 AM IST.

First Department Advisory Committee Meeting held on 27 September 2021 (on zoom)

Dr. Deepika Swami, Climate Change-Fellow with the Department of Forest, Ecology, and Environment, Government of Karnataka, delivered a talk on Climate policy assessment at ground level and Energy resource planning on 24 September 2021, 10:30 AM IST.

Dr. M. Ulaganathan, Ramanujam Fellow from CSIR -CECRI, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, delivered a talk on Modifications of Porous Separator for Hindering the Ion-crossover in Zn-Br2 Redox Flow Battery on 21 September 2021, 11:00 AM IST.

Dr. Poonam Pandey, Assistant professor in the area of Public Policy at FLAME University, Pune, delivered a talk on Biofuel Policies, Straw Burning and Agri-Energy Futures in India on 17 September 2021, 11:00 AM IST.

Sonam Wangchuk, Ladakh based Innovator, Educator and Ramon Magsaysay award winner, delivered a special lecture in SUNRISE symposium.

EPSRC (UK) Sponsored Indian-UK SUNRISE Virtual Symposium to be held on 22^nd February 2021 to 25^th February 2021, Chaired by Prof. Raju Kumar Gupta

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