Prof. Ranjit Singh, Executive Secretary ISTE

Dr. Ranjit Singh
Executive Secretary & Programme Director, ISTE
 
Dr. Ranjit Singh former Director, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi. Dr. Singh was born on April 24, 1955 in a small village in Rewari Dist., Haryana. He obtained his B.Sc. Engineering (Mechanical) from Kurukshetra University in 1978, M.Tech. from IIT Delhi in 1980 and Ph.D. from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur in 1986.
 
Dr. Ranjit Singh has wide experience in teaching and administration of Engineering Colleges. He is known as a Institution builder. He raised two Government Engineering Colleges from Scratches. At MREC Jaipur where he joined in April, 1981, he set up Design Centre under the UK REC Project. At MNIT, Jaipur he had been Warden, Chief Proctor and Chairman of various internal management committees. He left MNIT Jaipur in November 2001 to join as Principal Engineering College, Bikaner. His efforts created opportunities of resources generation and thus making the college financial self sustained. He joined as Director-Principal, C.R. State College of Engineering, Murthal, Haryana in April 2003. He started new B.E. Courses in Bio-Technology, Bio-informatics, MBA and two M.Tech. courses in Product Design and Development in the College. While at C.R. State College of Engineering, Murthal, Dr. Singh also held additional charge the another Government College, CDM Engineering College, Sirsa as founder Principal. He joined as Director, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi on January 2, 2004. He has very ambitious plan for making this premier Institute a world class knowledge enterprises which not only produce world class job seekers, but also world class job providers. To begin with, he intends to start an entrepreneurship centre which will focus on sensitizing UG students towards entrepreneurship. To increase the intake in existing branches and start a MBA programme are the other current projects he is involved in at NSIT. He wishes to convert it into a knowledge enterprise which would play an important role in the development of Delhi region.
 
Dr. Singh has published about 20 research papers, completed 6 sponsored research projects and guided 6 Ph.D students (2 already awarded and remaining 4 in the process of submission). He has attended a number of national and international conferences and visited many countries including UK, Signgapore, China, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Kenya. He is a member/Chairman of expert committees of AICTE, Delhi; DST, University of Rajasthan, Dean, Faculty of Engineering, MDU Rohtak and member Board of Governors of a number of Institutions. He is also member of various professional bodies like ISTE, Institution of Engineers (India) and Indian Society of Mechanical Engineers, New Delhi. He believes that proper development of Engineering talents will make India a developed Nation in the 21st Century.