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Dr. Mahipal Jain
Hon'ble Vice Chancellor, Siksha O Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar is an eminent personality in the field of education and technology. A high standing technocrat, he has contributed immensely to India 's technical resurgence.
Dr. Mahipal Jain started his career as a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Roorkee in 1969 and became the Reader in 1973. He was in Iraq for two years where he was Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Mosul . Dr. Jain was Vice Chancellor, Mody Institute of Technology & Science ( Deemed University ), Lakshmangarh, Sikar (Rajasthan) January 3, 2005 to August 4, 2007.He has been Pro Vice Chancellor, KIIT University , Bhubaneswar from August 2007 to February 2008. He has joined as Vice Chancellor, Shiksha ‘O' Anusandhan University on 1 st March 2008.
Having been in the teaching profession for 38 years, Dr. Jain has also held managerial and administrative posts for over twenty years at various senior levels. His administrative acumen was brought to light when he was appointed as the Director of Alternate Hydro-Energy Centre in 1988, which post he held for three years. At the helm of this challenging assignment, he led a strong team of sixty multidisciplinary engineers and scientists, involved in hydro projects across the country.

 
 

As Founder-Director of the Science & Technology Park , he was responsible for promoting new entrepreneurs and also instrumental in diversification of existing industries. He also discharged the duties as the Founder- General Secretary of the Indian STEP Association.
He has served on the Executive Committee of Indian Standards on Small Hydro Power House, Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi . His interaction with industrialists has enabled him to meaningfully contribute towards Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research activities of both the erstwhile Roorkee University and STEP.
He is a fellow of The Institution of Engineers ( India ). As an outstanding engineering personality, he has earned the distinction as a co-opted member of the Executive Committee of the Rajasthan State Centre.
For nearly two and a half decades, (which is a record by itself), he has been the Professor-in-charge of Placement, Training and Industrial Liaison. As Professor in-charge of Placement at IIT Roorkee, he is credited to have held this honorable position with regard to the placement activities much ahead of all other IITs.
He has successfully developed and executed many innovative programmes in entrepreneurship development, renewable energy sources and other disciplines of engineering and science. He has designed and organized Mass Employment Generation Programme through Science & Technology (MEGSAT) and training of multi-purpose mechanics of rural population.
His organizational skills have found him at the helm of affairs at several national workshops/seminars and conferences. He has been the National Co-coordinator of a sub-committee of the National Programme of HRD in IT, on Promoting Institute-Industry-Interface. His interest in disseminating information and knowledge has made him the Editor of several news magazines, bulletins, newsletters and reports.
As a Vice Chancellor, MITS, Lakshmangarh, he was academic and administrative head of the Institute which is a deemed University under section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956. Under his leadership MITS made all-round progress specially in terms of placement of its students in reputed companies and improved academic standards.
He was also Director, Mody Institute of Education & Research and is remembered to have initiated considerable expansion of infrastructural facilities in order to strengthen the learning resources.
As a person, Dr. Jain is versatile, unassuming and friendly. Happily married to Saroj, a very affectionate home-maker, the two of them can rightfully be proud of their sons, a doctor, and a Consultant with Accenture Business Consulting, and a daughter who is a software engineer.

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SIKSHA O ANUSANDHAN UNIVERSITY (SOA) UNIVERSITY declared a Deemed University under section 3 of UGC Act, 1956 is a premier institution imparting quality education in the fields of Engineering including Computer Applications, Management including Hotel Management & Hospital Administration, Pharmacy including Biotechnology, Nursing, Medical and Dental Sciences. The institute has excellent infrastructure and can boast of having better infrastructure than required by the concerned regulatory authorities.

The Institute has a state of the art library and subscribes to more than 2200 journals in the field of management through EBSCO and subscribes to Springer Link index of journals. The University also subscribes to IEEE transactions, ASME, ASCE journals and is a member of DEL-NET. The university obtains all prominent journals in various fields of studies and has a large number of columns of books related to various field of studies.

The University has the state of the art laboratories and has round the clock inter connectivity with 12 MBPS bandwidth which is available in all the facilities and its hostels. The University further plans to strengthen its internet connectivity in near future.

The syllabi, curricula and academic regulations are regularly revised and are benchmarked with best Institutions in the country. The continuous evaluation system in a totally transparent manner has been adopted to the extent that the end term examination answer books are made available to the students for discussion with the teachers.

The institutions have highly talented and dedicated faculties in sufficiently large numbers to impart training and education in a smooth and systematic manner. Rigorous tutorial system is followed to improve the understanding of the subject by the students.

The University has a proven track record in the placement of its students in most reputed companies and has obtained 100% placement for its students of Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER). The placement in other institutions is also exceedingly encouraging. The above mentioned features of the University make the institution as the most preferred choice for many students from Orissa and other parts of country.

The following pages in the prospectus provide information to the prospective students and their parents to help them in taking appropriate decision regarding admission of their wards in an institution of their choice. The University welcomes suggestions for improvement in the contents of the prospectus and better working of the University.

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