STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
SUBPLAN:
Research Assistantship
A strong desire to find something new
and to contribute to science and technology has always gripped me. This strong
urge, coupled with my understanding from undergraduate education, only an
introduction to the vast amount of knowledge, has motivated me to pursue career
in research. After having the best possible undergraduate education in the
country at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, I want to study
further and do research in various fields of Textile with more emphasis on Fabric
Technology and developing Software Applications for Textiles.
ACADEMIC
BACKGROUND:
“ ‘Success’ comes before ‘Work’ but only in
Dictionary so always Work hard to get Success in Life”
This is the Fatherly adage, which
precisely sums up philosophy of my life. Born in a Middle class business family,
I was brought up with the drive to strive for excellence in all.
Thus,
with excellent Academics in Junior High School, I knew with certainty that engineering
would be my career path. Following a grueling high school career and an arduous
admission process (about 1% success results), I was accepted to the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi, India for my bachelor’s degree in Department of Textile Technology (the only one among all the 6 IIT’s). This quest taught me tenacity and discipline, also I learnt that
with hard work, focus and self-confidence I could accomplish the goals I had
set for myself.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Since
my High School, I have been greatly interested in trying out experiments over
anything like calculator, audio-tapes etc. that goes out of order or even
working. To understand their functioning, working and to correct their
dis-orderliness used to be my hobbies. I have always come up with hand-made
working games & models for my school annual functions and Physics practical
classes.
Admission to IIT
have given me an ocean of such opportunities and further intensified my inquisitiveness
about learning and understanding phenomena. It has also given me opportunities
not only to learn but also to contribute something new and innovative to the
existing system thus, I have extracted buckets of information along with
pouring few glasses back into this vast ocean of knowledge.
RESEARCH
& WORK EXPERIENCE:
My
undergraduate education in the Department of Textile Technology has provided me
with a strong technical base in Textiles. I have tried to utilize this base of
IIT to give the best possible yield.
While
all my batch mates were enjoying their holidays during summer of 2000, I took
up a project for the “Designing and fabrication of a viscometer for the
online monitoring of starch liquor viscosity” as my summer project
which, later got converted into Mini-Project (under guidance of Prof. P.K.
Hari). This project has given me enough learning about fluid flow behavior
and practical approaches to materialize theoretical phenomena. While designing
it I came across many practical considerations that has to be accounted for to
put an idea into entity and the project was successful, though with some
limitations.
I
did my summer internship after 3rd year (in 2001) at Sri
Ram Rayons, Kota. There I learned about the Rayon Filament Production process.
I also worked on the characterization of the fabric defects, with its
cause evaluation and remedial measures from the packing stage to filament
production.
Moving
with the IT boom I have developed a program for “Developing Motifs with
the help of Fractal Geometry” as my ‘Independent Study’. Though
this program produced unlimited fabric designs but had a limitation of having
no control over designs made. One used to make design and than accept or reject
it according to his liking. Thus, I developed new ‘software’ to develop motifs
and patterns by mathematical transformation of geometrical figures, which had
no such limitations.
My
final year B.Tech. project involved developing software for “Optimization of
fabric properties for a given range of Fabric Parameters” (under guidance
of Prof. B.K. Behera) which was a very good blend of Textile
Fundamentals with Programming Skills. During the course of implementation I
interacted with the Textile Industry to make it useful for versatile products.
Also,
till the end of this project I have decided to first work in the industry so as
to first understand its requirements and than pursue for higher studies. Thus,
with the keen interest in Fabric Technology I have joined Auro Weaving
Mills, Baddi (Weaving subsidiary of Vardhman Spinning and General Mills,
Ludhiana). Here I got the chance to work on the-state-of-the-art, latest
technology machines from Bennninger, Sucker Muller for warping and sizing, and
Picanol (Delta, Omni and Omni Plus) and Tsudakoma (209i, Zax and Zax-E) Air Jet
Looms.
Here in
Company I have done several successful studies with in a short span of about 5
months. Some of the Key achievements are as follows:
v Optimization
of Size-Recipe and Air Pressure requirement on looms
for various Fabric and Yarn Parameters for some of the running articles.
v Time
& Motion Study of warping, drawing-in and roll
doffing process which resulted in increased Warping Eficiency by ~6-7%,
increased yarn drawing-in speed by 50% and proposed decrease in
manual labor strength by 5 persons.
v Establishing
Laboratory set-up and experimental procedures for various Testing (according to an ISO-9000-2000 requirements)
v Presently
proposing a project for ‘Effect on Fabric Properties for Yarns from
different Yarn Spinning Technologies ‘(like, Ring, Rotor, COM-4, Elite
etc.)
Working
in the industry have given me enough reasons that I should opt for research and
further studies not only to satiate my inner instincts and the quest to learn,
but also to give my best to the industry. So now, I have a hopeful vision of myself working
in a challenging research-oriented environment.
With this Goal I have opted for
Research and found one such opportunity at your end, with some of your field of
interest and expertise to be exactly what I was looking for.
I believe that such credentials,
experience and keen interest will give me an opportunity to work with you in a
free and open mind.
CONCLUSION:
I
am aware that such research projects expect very high standards from its students.
On my part, I can assure you of sincerity and hard work. I am confident that my
enthusiasm will enable me to meet your expectations.
Eagerly looking forward to join the quest
of knowledge.