Board of Advisors                                                                           

The Board of Advisors to the operations of eMacmillan comprises of a panel of highly accomplished and experienced members who provide valuable contribution regarding the content and features of the website www.develop.emacmillan.com/mdi. Prof  K L Chopra, Former Director IIT Kharagpur, currently Chairman Emeritus, IIIT, Calcutta, is the Principal Advisor.

Prof K L Chopra
BSc (Hons), MSc, Delhi University
Ph D, University of British Columbia
Former Director IIT Kharagpur

Prof  K L Chopra completed his Ph D from the University of British Columbia. He has been actively involved in several research areas such as Surface Science, High Temperature Superconductors and Amorphous Material, to name a few. He has also written books on Physics. Some of the well-known titles are 'Optical Behaviour of Materials' and 'Thin Film Phenomena'.

Prof  K L Chopra has held the prestigious position of the Emeritus Fellow and IREDA Chair Professor (Renewable Energy). He has also been the Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and the Visiting Professor, Cornell University, USA. He acted as the Consultant to ARCO, Westinghouse and IBM Research Centers. He has been the Staff Scientist at Ledgemont Lab, Kennecott Copper Corporation, USA and concurrently Adjunct Professor, North East University, Boston, MA, USA. He has been the Research Specialist (Group Leader) at Philco-Ford Scientific Laboratory, Blue Bell, USA. and the Max-Planck Fellow-Guest Scientist, Fritz-Haber Institute, Berlin, West Germany. He also has been a Research Fellow in the Defence Research Board of Canada.

Prof  K L Chopra has several awards to his credit. These include:

  • Biren Roy Memorial Lecture Award, 1997
  • P C Mahalanobis Award, 1996
  • Bhabha Award (Applied Physics) UGC/Hari Om Trust, 1989
  • S S Bhatnagar Award (Solar Energy), 1985
  • S S Bhatnagar Award (Physics), 1975
  • Four Kennecott Copper Corporation Patent Awards, 1966-70
  • Apart from the distinguished members of our Board of Advisors, we have a panel of highly accomplished faculty who would provide personalised responses to all your academic queries.

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