Faculty members and students from nine FIPI Chapters, viz Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham; IIT Guwahati; IIT (ISM) Dhanbad; JNTU Kakinada; MIT Pune; Osmania University; PDPU Gandhi Nagar; RGIPT Rai-Bareilly, UPES Dehradun participated in the Convention. Ms. Malvika Bajpai & Amey Avanish, Student Members, FIPI-UPES Chapter welcomed the gathering.

Prof. Suresh Kumar, Dean, School of Engineering, UPES addressed the participants and also welcomed the senior faculty members and students from various universities/institutes. Prof. Kumar spoke about digitalization and automation happening in every industry and how the conventional technologies will need to be supported by IT and Automation in near future.

On the basis of activities performed by various chapters during the previous year, Mr. T.K. Sengupta, Director (E&P) evaluated the performance of each chapter and declared ISM Dhanbad as the best chapter for various activities carried out during the previous year.

All the chapters made 10 minute presentations on the theme “Future of Oil for Transportation”. After evaluating the presentations, the best presentation award was given to UPES Dehradun and the Presentation Runner-up award to MIT Pune. Mementos to the faculty coordinators were also presented by Mr. T.K. Sengupta.

While addressing the gathering, Mr. T.K. Sengupta, Director (E&P), FIPI congratulated all the chapters for making wonderful presentations and presenting various ideas for Future of Oil for Transportation. Mr. Sengupta emphasized on the need to bring in uniformity in the parameters for evaluation of the activities performed by various chapters.

Dr. Mandira Agarwal, Professor, Deptt. of Petroleum Engineering and Earth Sciences, UPES proposed the vote of thanks. Dr. Agarwal congratulated all the chapters and complimented FIPI and all members of the UPES chapter for their sincere efforts to make the Convention a grand success. After conclusion of the convention, participation certificates were distributed to each participant.