Witty
International School, Pawan Baug has successfully launched its most
distinguished segment – “WIS Lecture Series”, to bridge the gap between the
industry, academia and students by giving an opportunity to all to interact
with the most eminent personalities
of varied fields.
After
a successful launch last month where students were made aware of cyber safety
by the Head of Cyber Cell, Crime Branch, Mumbai Police; this week the Lecture
series of WIS Pawan Baug was graced by some of the brightest minds in IIT
Bombay. The session was lead by Prof. Rajkumar Pant, the Head of Aerospace
Engineering in IIT Bombay.
Prof.
Pant’s areas of specialization include Aircraft Conceptual Design, Air
Transportation, and Optimization. He has published and presented more than 100
scientific papers in international journals and conferences, and visited
several top ranking institutes and universities all over India and the world.
He has been a researcher at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil, Texas A&M
University, Cambridge University, and Imperial
College London and has been selected as a Special Visiting Researcher
under the “Science Without Borders” program of the Brazilian Government.
The
Lecture and Demonstration held in WIS Pawan Baug was on “Principles of Flights
through Aeromodels” and was highly interactive in nature. Dr. Rajkumar Pant addressed
the curiosity of students about the purpose of various components of different
types of aircraft's.
Apart
from learning about the working principle of the helicopter, students were also
shown a specially designed glider made of HDPE and a many more Aeromodels . The
several misconceptions in the minds of students and teachers about how and why
an airplane flies, were cleared and the exact mechanism of generation of Lift
force using Bernoulli’s principle was explained to the students.
Overall
the demonstration was enriching for the young Wittians as they could apply
their minds on how far they could spread their wings.
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