"Prof. Samir Kumar Saha is an icon of the teaching of subjects in thermal engineering. At Jadavpur University Prof. Saha was a keen teacher always interested in associating with the progress of the students both technically and philosophically. At a time when the subject of thermodynamics was changing from its classical theoretical approach to a modern application-oriented approach, Prof. Saha was instrumental in introducing this new approach. He was also instrumental in evolving Heat Transfer as an independent course at the Univeristy. This had a tremendous impact on students like us, many of whom later on took up thermal sciences as their main plank of the professional career for whom Prof.Saha's teaching was the inspiration. Prof. Saha also worked on very unique areas of research interfacing fields such as thermodynamics & Heat Transfer, Heat Transfer & manufacturing and philosophy of teaching technology and pedagogy. Exploring the evolutions of teaching pedagogy in engineering curriculum is one of his passions which he has been culturing for long. He firmly believed that the prime task of a teacher is not just teaching a course but bringing out the potential of the student. In his career, he has helped a large number of students in achieving great heights in their careers. I am sure he will continue to inspire the new generation of students in future."
Dr. Sarit K. Das,
Director and Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India
“Professor Saha is highly regarded by his colleagues and students as responsible and engaged academic leader. He is recognized as a scholar whose research is timely, topical and useful. He is an effective mentor whose interests in students travel outside the classroom and also focus on how they gain transferrable skills to achieve success in their professional careers.”
Dr. Ishwar Puri
Dean of Engineering
McMaster University, Canada
"Prof. Samir Kumar Saha is an icon of the teaching of subjects in thermal engineering. At Jadavpur University Prof. Saha was a keen teacher always interested in associating with the progress of the students both technically and philosophically. At a time when the subject of thermodynamics was changing from its classical theoretical approach to a modern application-oriented approach, Prof. Saha was instrumental in introducing this new approach. He was also instrumental in evolving Heat Transfer as an independent course at the Univeristy. This had a tremendous impact on students like us, many of whom later on took up thermal sciences as their main plank of the professional career for whom Prof.Saha's teaching was the inspiration. Prof. Saha also worked on very unique areas of research interfacing fields such as thermodynamics & Heat Transfer, Heat Transfer & manufacturing and philosophy of teaching technology and pedagogy. Exploring the evolutions of teaching pedagogy in engineering curriculum is one of his passions which he has been culturing for long. He firmly believed that the prime task of a teacher is not just teaching a course but bringing out the potential of the student. In his career, he has helped a large number of students in achieving great heights in their careers. I am sure he will continue to inspire the new generation of students in future."
Director and Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India
“Professor Saha is highly regarded by his colleagues and students as responsible and engaged academic leader. He is recognized as a scholar whose research is timely, topical and useful. He is an effective mentor whose interests in students travel outside the classroom and also focus on how they gain transferrable skills to achieve success in their professional careers.”
Dr. Ishwar Puri
Dean of Engineering
McMaster University, Canada
"It has been more than 10 years since my introduction to Prof. Saha, and throughout these years, I have had the good fortune of learning/communicating/discuss
It has been 7 years since then, and we have always talked about academics, non-academic life. I always have had invaluable information and advice from Samirbabu, and have also discussed football, movies and whatnot!It's a great initiative to have a website for sir, and it looks fantastic. I am certain that I will keep discussing things, science or otherwise with prof. Saha in the coming 10 years with the same intensity as in the last 10!"
Dr. Bijoy Bera
University of Amsterdam
I got acquainted to Prof. Saha in my first year of BTech in Metallurgical and Material Engineering Jadavpur University, when he taught us Engineering Thermodynamics. Since then He has been a constant guide and support. He keeps on encouraging me widen my horizon and involve myself in intellectual thinking and conversation. He guided me in all phases of life and presently I am doing my PhD in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Not only is he a good teacher and a great academician but also a good human who understand students and their interaction with teachers. He is always supportive and mentors students from his heart.
I am always much indebted to him and wish him good health and luck.
Silva Basu
Doctoral Candidate (IAM-WBM, Karlruher Institut für Technologie)
M.Tech (Materials Science, IIT Kharagpur)
B.Tech (Metallurgy, Jadavpur University)
It was a summer in late 90s when I was introduced to Prof. Saha, a leading expert in the field of thermal engineering of Heat Power (HP) lab, Jadavpur University Kolkata. I remain greatful to my Professor friend Dr. Achintya Mukhopadhyay of the same university for introducing me to an expert like him. It was an occasion in 2000 where we discussed on some challenging experimental investigation on thermal hydraulics related to leak before break concept. Prof. Saha as departmental head came forward to take up the technical challenge flanked with Dr. Sandip Das, resluted into a big high pressure and high temperatures facility coined as Leak Test Facility and later renamed as Integral Test Facility for Safety Studies in HP laboratory of Mechanical engineering department of Jadavpur University. The facility aimed to study the leak before break concept of high energy pipings. As I was involved closely with him in building up this facility, which is a very rare facility in eastern region of the country, I truly admire his stewardship towards building and operating the facility for a series of successful experiments. To mention here the paper published by him and his PhD scholar Dr. Sandip Ghosh in Journal of Pressure Vessel and Piping on the experimentation findings drew attention of several scholars (large number of citation), thus proving the importance of the investigation and the quality of generated data. It was possible only for a towering figure like Professor Saha's statesmanship and professionalism which with a shoestring budget made it possible. My acknowledgement for his contribution towards reactor safety fall short by words. During this struggle of building the facility, he took another major challenge to host National/International Heat and Mass Transfer Conference along with his colleagues from his department. With an efficient managerial skill he managed to host the august gathering in Science City of Kolkata in the chilling winter. Again he proved his challenge filled spirit.The Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer was overwhelmed with him for publishing a perfect volumnious conference proceedings and meticulous arrangement of the conference. Prof. Sukhatme was president of the society at that period of time.At a later stage his efforts and leadership further helped to establish the School of Nuclear Studies and Application at the Salt Lake campus of the university with facilitation from Dr. Srikumar Banerjee of Atomic Energy. I remember we jointly drafted some of the part of the syllabus of the school. After his retirement from his regular position, I find him working on books, projects and academics which gives me immense enthusiasm to work hard even while aging. I pray to almighty that our soil should produce several courageous person like him with great technical acumen.
Dr Deb MukhopadhyayProfessor, Homi Bhabha National, Mumbai
It was a summer in late 90s when I was introduced to Prof. Saha, a leading expert in the field of thermal engineering of Heat Power (HP) lab, Jadavpur University Kolkata. I remain greatful to my Professor friend Dr. Achintya Mukhopadhyay of the same university for introducing me to an expert like him. It was an occasion in 2000 where we discussed on some challenging experimental investigation on thermal hydraulics related to leak before break concept. Prof. Saha as departmental head came forward to take up the technical challenge flanked with Dr. Sandip Das, resluted into a big high pressure and high temperatures facility coined as Leak Test Facility and later renamed as Integral Test Facility for Safety Studies in HP laboratory of Mechanical engineering department of Jadavpur University. The facility aimed to study the leak before break concept of high energy pipings. As I was involved closely with him in building up this facility, which is a very rare facility in eastern region of the country, I truly admire his stewardship towards building and operating the facility for a series of successful experiments. To mention here the paper published by him and his PhD scholar Dr. Sandip Ghosh in Journal of Pressure Vessel and Piping on the experimentation findings drew attention of several scholars (large number of citation), thus proving the importance of the investigation and the quality of generated data. It was possible only for a towering figure like Professor Saha's statesmanship and professionalism which with a shoestring budget made it possible. My acknowledgement for his contribution towards reactor safety fall short by words. During this struggle of building the facility, he took another major challenge to host National/International Heat and Mass Transfer Conference along with his colleagues from his department. With an efficient managerial skill he managed to host the august gathering in Science City of Kolkata in the chilling winter. Again he proved his challenge filled spirit.The Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer was overwhelmed with him for publishing a perfect volumnious conference proceedings and meticulous arrangement of the conference. Prof. Sukhatme was president of the society at that period of time.At a later stage his efforts and leadership further helped to establish the School of Nuclear Studies and Application at the Salt Lake campus of the university with facilitation from Dr. Srikumar Banerjee of Atomic Energy. I remember we jointly drafted some of the part of the syllabus of the school. After his retirement from his regular position, I find him working on books, projects and academics which gives me immense enthusiasm to work hard even while aging. I pray to almighty that our soil should produce several courageous person like him with great technical acumen.
Dr Deb MukhopadhyayProfessor, Homi Bhabha National, Mumbai
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