CII Design Excellence Recognition 2011 || Jury

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Jury

The jury will be an independent jury comprising of people working in the field (design professionals, teachers of design, R&D managers) from India and Overseas.

Jury CII Design Excellence Awards 2011

Dr Y S Rajan

CII Design Excellence Award 2011 - Jury Chairman

Dr Viram Sarabhai Distinguished Professor

ISRO

Y.S. Rajan has a proven track record of excellence as a Scientist, Technologist, Administrator, Organization Builder and Leader, Diplomat, Academic, Writer and Poet. He combines a unique ability for original and innovative thinking with strong implementation skills. He has capability to network with multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural groups. He has wide international experience and was responsible for a large number of cooperative projects between India and other countries. He has led Indian delegations to United Nations (UN) and has visited about 40 countries in all continents as a part of cooperative efforts in science, technology and business. As Vice-Chancellor, Punjab Technical University (PTU) (2002-2004), he introduced key initiatives to improve the internal processes and the external interfaces of the university. He continues to be visiting faculty, board member and advisor to various renowned Indian academic institutions. He is also a prolific writer and has written on a variety of subjects, including on science, technology, business, and youth, and leadership, social and ethical issues. He has authored and co-authored a number of books and has contributed to several others. He has also written a large number of articles in journals in India and International papers/ magazines, etc. He is an excellent communicator in written and spoken form for different segments of people ranging from school children to accomplished elders. He writes regularly in a Tamil monthly Vadakku Vaasal. He has written seven books of poetry in a regional language, Tamil which has been critically acclaimed by eminent Indian poets. He has also written three books of English poems which have received very good reviews. Till recently he was Principal Adviser, CII. He holds several other positions in institutions and academies. Currently, he is The Dr Vikram Sarabhai Distinguished Professor, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

Richard Eisermann

CII Design Excellence Award 2011 - Jury Co-Chairman

Industrial Designer

Richard is a designer and strategist with almost three decades of professional experience. Trained as an industrial designer, he has led multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural design teams at IDEO, Whirlpool Corporation, and the Design Council. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars, and is currently working with the Big Potatoes design subgroup to develop the London Manifesto for Innovation.

He founded Prospect in 2005 with Anja Kluver in order to focus on creating great customer experiences. Over the years, Prospect has delivered significant bottom line value to clients such as BMI Airlines, Nokia Siemens Networks, Tesco, and Nokia, among others. A key element of Prospect's current work is the development of design innovation programs for small and medium sized enterprises, in conjunction with regional and national bodies across Europe. These programs have yielded a return in turnover of up to 25 times the initial design investment.

Prof. Pradyumna Vyas

Director

National Institute of Design (NID)

Acquired Masters in Industrial Design from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (IITB).

Prof. Vyas has over 27 years of professional and teaching experience in different spheres of design. Since last 22 years he is associated with NID as a Faculty Member in Industrial Design Discipline. Since April 2009 he has been appointed as Director of National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

Prior to joining NID, Prof. Vyas has 2 years experience in Product Design in Bombay and 3 years overseas experience at Kilkenny Design Centre, Kilkenny, and Republic of Ireland.

Mr Vyas has coordinated major Design Promotion events in India and represented NID in various international and national events including the ICSID (International Council of Societies of Industrial Design) congress in Taiwan, Korea, Germany, Denmark, USA and Singapore. He also represented NID in the Asia Design Network, Japan. He has been elected as an ICSID Executive Board Member for 2009-11.

In pursuance of the National Design Policy approved by the Cabinet in February 2007, an India Design Council was recently constituted in March 2009 and Mr Vyas has been nominated as its Member Secretary by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India.

In June 2010, he was conferred with an honorary Master of Arts degree from the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, United Kingdom in recognition of his many contributions to design education and promotion.

In July 2011, Mr.Vyas was given the award for outstanding contribution to Design Education at the 2nd Asia's Best B School Award at Singapore.

Professor Amarendra Kumar Das

Professor and Head, Department of Design

IIT Guwahati

1963    Born in Guwahati, 1st March, 63.
1979    1st Division in HSLC from Sonaram High School, Guwahati.
1982    1st Division in PUC (Sc) from Cotton College, Guwahati.
1986    1st class in B Tech (Textile) from Anna University, Chennai. Worked in Textile industry in Kota and in Guwahati.
1988    Joined as Lecturer, in Assam Textile Institute and started work in Appropriate & Rural Technology.
1990    Consultant to Rastriya Gramin Vikash Nidhi and CAPART Designed and introduced Semi-automatic Handloom for women.
1992    1st class in Master of Business Administration from Gauhati University Works in Rural Development continued Designed Combined Bobbin & Pirn winding Machine sponsored by Assam Science Technology and Environment Council
1994    Consultancy provided to Central Silk Board for Eri Product Development and associated technology and machinery.
1997    1st class in Master of Design from IIT Bombay, Mumbai Worked with Prof. S Nadkarni for setting up Department of Design in IIT Guwahati
1998    Designed and introduced -1. Low cost Dental Physiological chair -2. Cottage Drier with Diesel fired burner.
1999    Joined as Assistant Professor, Design, IIT Guwahati Enrolled for Doctoral research in Design.
2003    Trike , a tricycle for lower limb disable persons designed
2004    Promoted as Associate Professor and Head of Centre for Mass Media Communication Dipbhan a tricycle rickshaw for passenger designed and launched in the market through Centre for Rural Development, Guwahati under Rickshaw Bank concept.
2005    Dipbhan+ advanced version of Dipbahan with Jute composite components and reduction gear was launched in West Bengal in 2006. Dipbahan Pariskar, a tricycle based garbage disposal vanDipbahan Ankur, a school van based on Dipbahan+ for school children designed and launched in the market through Timsteel Innovatives, Guwahati.
2006    Sidecar for bicycle designed and demonstrated for Rural application.
2007    FRP based Iron Removal plant for Defence Research and Development Organisation was designed and implemented. An electric Trike based on solar power designed and implemented for lower limb disable person.
2008    Promoted as Professor Rubus, a low cost rural transportation vehicle designed and in the implementation stage. Currently serving as Professor of Department of Design, IIT Guwahati Received the National Award of Excellence for Designing Dipbahan tricycle rickshaw. Award instituted by Institute of Urban Transport, Delhi and Ministry of Urban Development, Govt. of India Consultant for KVIC
2009 - till date    Entrusted as Head of Department of Design, and CMMC
Number of Projects and Consultancies for private, public and defense organizations. Numbers of Published papers in National and International forum in diverse areas. Member of Expert Committee for DST, CSIR, Central Silk Board etc. Nos. of Projects and Consultancies for private, public and defense organizations. Numbers of Published papers in National and International forum in diverse areas. Consultant to KVIC for policy decision and infrastructure development for the north eastern region. Prepared DPR for Khadihaat for Guwahati, Evaluated and prepared financial viability of Dimapur Khadihaat and preparation of Khadihaat for all other northeastern states including Sikkim.

Working for Defense forces for various strategic projects in India.
Also working with Indo-UK university consortium for infrastructure development and power. Consultant for non-conventional and renewable sources of power for selected African countries

Present Activities:

Transportation Design

Rapid Prototyping and Tooling

Support to Micro small and medium industries including grass root innovators through Gian-NE, NIF

Modular Partitioning System for Work place

Research in Space Design relevant to Product form generation

Campus Signage

Erik Jan Hultink

Professor of New Product Marketing and Head of the Department of Product Innovation Management at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering

Delft University of Technology

Erik Jan Hultink (1968) is a Professor of New Product Marketing and Head of the Department of Product Innovation Management at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands. His research focuses on launch and branding strategies for new products. He has published on these topics in such journals as the Journal of the Academy in Marketing Science, and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. He was ranked number six in the list of the World's Top Innovation Management Scholars, and selected as the most productive European researcher publishing in the Journal of Product Innovation Management. He was the Founder and Director of the Master in Strategic Product Design at the Delft University of Technology, a program that was recently ranked by Business Week as one of the World's Top Design Schools. He is co-founder and board member of the Dutch chapter of the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA). He regularly consults companies on the topic of new product marketing.

Prof. G. G. Ray

Head, IDC, IIT Bombay

Prof. Gaur Gopal Ray joined the Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in the year 1979 and currently working as a Professor in the said department. He is also attached as honorary Professor to the School of Biomedical Engineering of the same institute and looking after the ergonomics program for both the schools.

Presently Professor Ray is heading the Industrial Design Centre, IITB.

Academic background: M.Sc. degree in Physiology (1973), with specialization in Ergonomics and Work Physiology, from the University of Calcutta and Ph.D. in Physiology in the area of Ergonomics, (1981) from the same University. UNDP Fellowship: In 1981 Prof. Ray received the UNDP Fellowship for working at different institutions abroad, for a period of 10 months.

Appointment Abroad: 1) Prof. Ray was appointed as a faculty of the Tufts University, USA. in 1991 for conducting Ergo-Design classes for one semester. 2) He was further invited as a visiting faculty at the Department of Human Sciences, University of Lulea, Sweden, on October, 1999, for conducting an Elective course on manual material handling. Prof. Ray is visiting Faculty to several universities in India.

Award / Honor received: 1) He has received 'Prof. J.N.Maitra' Memorial Gold Medal award Sponsored by The Physiological Society of India, 1998, for his contribution in Ergonomics. 2) Member of the IDC committee of the International Ergonomics Association. 3) He has received the "Best Application Paper Award", 7th International Conference on "Working with Computer Systems", Held at Kula Lumpur, June 29 to July 2, 2004, 4) Best paper presentation entitled "Impact of office automation on personal health of the office goers in India:", In the International Conference SEAES., IPS 2005, Bali, 2005.

Member of the editorial board: 1) Saudi Journal of Disability and Rehabilitation, Saudi Arabia, 2) Indian Journal of Physiology and Allied Sciences, India, 3) Journal published by Institution of Engineers, Calcutta. 4) Referee- Journal Applied Ergonomics and 5) Journal of Ergonomics, U.K.

Prof. James Woudhuysen

Professor of Forecasting and InnovationDe Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Conference speaker. Physics graduate, journalist, occasional broadcaster. Board member, The Housing Forum; editorial board, Journal of Consumer Behaviour; professor of forecasting and innovation, De Montfort University, Leicester.

A St Pauls School scholar, James went to Sussex University, where he studied under Chris Freeman and Keith Pavitt at the Science Policy Research Unit. His first job was technology editor, then editor of Design magazine, a glossy colour monthly.

A few years later, James became head of research at the international designers Fitch, before leading consultancy in IT at the Henley Centre, part of the WPP Group. At Henley he also advised major UK cities 'London, Birmingham, Glasgow and Manchester' on international competitiveness. He then went on to manage worldwide market intelligence for Philips consumer electronics in the Netherlands, and to work as a director of the product designers Seymour Powell. He went independent in 2001.

James helps clients to master new trends of all sorts, the better to develop and see through major innovations.

Article on chemical weapons for The Economist, 1978; editor Einstein: the first hundred years (Pergamon, 1980), co-author, Robots (Boilerhouse Project, 1984). The future of cities, report for Glasgow Development Agency, and Teleshopping, a multi-client study on e-commerce, both for Fitch, 1988. Proposed internet TV, 1993; Atticus Award, WPP, 1994. Books: Why is construction so backward? (John Wiley, 2004); Energise! A future for energy innovation (Beautiful Books, 2009); Big Potatoes: the London Manifesto for Innovation (Cadmium Five, 2010).

Prasad Boradkar

Associate professor and coordinator of the Industrial Design program

Arizona State University

Prasad Boradkar holds degrees in industrial design and mechanical engineering, and has worked at Bajaj Auto in India, the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands as well as ITT Technical Institute in California. He is the Director of InnovationSpace, a transdisciplinary laboratory at Arizona State University where students and faculty partner with corporations to design and develop human-centered product concepts that improve society and the environment.

Prasad is interested in the research space that lies at the intersection of design studies, material culture studies and cultural studies. In his writing, he relies on cultural theory to understand the social significance of the designed environment. He is also interested in music and recently served as the guest curator for an exhibition called Rewind Remix Replay: Design, Music and Everyday Experience at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona. He is the author of several articles and a book called Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects (Berg 2010).

Prabhu Kandachar, PhD

Professor- Industrial Design Engineering

Chairman, Design Engineering Department

Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology

Prabhu Kandachar is extensively involved in projects involving students and businesses to identify opportunities as well as to design & prototype products and services for the Base-of-the-Pyramid (BoP). Issues covered include water, healthcare, energy, housing, etc., in countries like India, Indonesia, China, Brazil, Ghana, Tanzania, Honduras, Philippines, Pakistan, Madagascar, etc. He has also directed research work on some healthcare issues of the poor in developing countries. He has given several keynote lectures on this topic, including for policymakers. For instance on Base of the Pyramid Strategy - Innovations & Poverty Reduction, at Copenhagen, during the opening of the BoP Facility (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark) on 4th Dec. 2008. www.pppprogramme.com . These efforts have resulted in: (1) A special issue of "Greener Management International (GMI)", edited by Prabhu Kandachar, released in June 2007, coinciding with: (2) A BoP Session during Greening of the Industry Network Conference 2007, which served as a platform for: (3) The book Sustainability Challenges and Solutions at the Base of the Pyramid: Business, Technology and the Poor, edited by Prabhu Kandachar and Minna Halme, with a foreword by Stuart Hart (August 2008), www.greenleaf-publishing.com coinciding with: (4) International Conference on Sustainable Innovations at the Base of the Pyramid, September 26-27, 2008, and (5) a Workshop on Wellbeing in Low-Income Communities on Dec. 15, 2008 with Professor Martha Nussbaum as keynote speaker, both at Helsinki School of Economics, Finland. http://www.hse.fi/bop Prabhu talked about Dilemmas during Design Interventions in this event. A conference on BoP co-organised by him with focus on impact is held at Delft (Nov. 2009).

His latest appearances include a talk show in Amsterdam (8 June 2011) and a keynote on BoP at Tilburg, (Netherlands) at Asset International Conference 2011. http://www.asset-tilburg.nl/international-conference (29 Sept. 2011), and on Inclusive Innovations (7 Oct 2011). He is also Chairman of the Advisory Board of Aalto University BoP Network, Helsinki, Finland, with projects in Mozambique, Kenya, Sri Lanka, India, Vietnam, Philippines, Afghanistan, Nepal, Peru, etc. He is born and educated in India, with Master and PhD degree in Engineering, at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Later at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, he worked for a period of 5 years from 1975, on environmentally friendly technologies. During this period, he was also involved in a social innovation project in Venezuela. Between 1980 and 1995, he worked at Fokker Aerospace, at Amsterdam in various technical & management positions involving aerospace design. Since 1995, he is with the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) at Delft University of Technology.

Hrridaysh Deshpande, Design Award Facilitator

Director

DYP-DC Center for Automotive Research and Studies

A Computer Engineer by qualification Hrridaysh has been in the field of education for over 17 years. Presently, Hrridaysh is the director of DYP-DC Center for Automotive Research and Studies, an institution setup by DY Patil Group and Dilip Chhabria.

DYPDC Center for Automotive Research and Studies is a premier college focused solely on Automobile domain. Based in Pune, India, the college offers full-time Undergraduate Program in Automobile Design, and Post Graduate Program in Automobile Design. The college envisions to be a leading resource for the automotive industry in India. More details about the college are available at www.dypdc.com.

In addition to responsibilities at DYPDC, Hrridaysh is the founder of Innoastra where he coordinates the development and application of intellectual content and experience in business innovation strategy, user driven Innovation, innovation diagnostics, and other innovation areas. He specializes in integrating innovative business models with technological feasibility and desirability of people into an organization's strategy and operations to create profitable new business opportunities for his clients. Hrridaysh focuses on structured innovation practices for organizational innovation via appropriate tools, methods and processes. Hrridaysh has worked on several committees on innovation and has been a speaker at many prestigious forums. Through his work, Hrridaysh has assisted leading companies across a range of industries.

Earlier, he founded Creative-i College, in 2004 one of India's first private initiatives in the field of Design Education. He was the director of Multiversity School of Professional Engineering. Here he designed and executed a unique Masters Program in Engineering Design for graduate engineers. Hrridaysh is an experienced, enthusiastic, and energetic educator and innovation facilitator. He is passionately committed to education and capable of expanding the limits of traditional pedagogy through the development and realization of a unique integrative and interdisciplinary curriculum.