About Dr. S S Mantha, Chancellor
Dr. S S Mantha, an eminent academician and an able administrator, was the
Chairman, of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), starting 05th
January 2012 till 4th January 2015.
Having joined AICTE in March 2009
as its Vice Chairman, was quickly elevated as Acting Chairman in May 2009. He
has been at the forefront of making some radical changes for transparency and
accountability in the administration. On completion of the tenure at AICTE he
worked as Professor of Robotics, CAD/CAM and AI in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at VJTI, Mumbai and superannuated on 31st May 2016.
Currently he is an Emeritus Professor at VJTI, Mumbai and Adjunct Prof.,
in the National Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore and advisor to
Government of Andhra Pradesh. He is also Member of the Karnataka Skills
Development Authority.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the M S
University, Baroda and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai.
From small beginnings, he progressed to be the Professor and Head, Department of
Mechanical Engineering a position he held for 6 years at VJTI, subsequent to
which he was appointed the Pro Vice Chancellor, SNDT Women’s University by the
Government of Maharashtra which he served for two years with distinction.
He specializes in Robotics which he taught for more than 15 years out of a
rich teaching experience of more than 25 years, along with courses in Control
Theory and Artificial Intelligence. He was instrumental in setting up a state of
art Robotics / CAD / CAM laboratory at VJTI, providing consultancy in the area
of Industrial Automation to the Industries in Mumbai and Pune. His Research
interest in the area also has seen him provide expertise to DRDO and BARC
projects.
A PhD in Combustion modeling from University of Mumbai, he also had several
administrative assignments that he did for the University of Mumbai, as also
being the Dean, Faculty of Technology. As recognition, Government of Maharashtra
conferred the best teacher award of the State in 2002.
Dr. S S Mantha has developed the National Vocational Education
Qualification frame work (NVEQF), now called National skills qualification
framework (NSQF), which helps in promoting skill based competency modules to be
integrated into seven certification levels where a student can undergo skill
based learning that enhances employability and employment opportunities and also
allowing him/her the flexibility to pursue formal education or take up an
appropriate job at the end of any level of certification. A complete Credit
framework for NSQF has also been developed by him and adopted by MHRD, GOI. He
has also developed course curriculum for more than 15 sectors and 80
specializations. The skill program developed for Cyber Security is one of its
kind. Further, this has immense potential to create new job opportunities and
aid the “Make in India Program of GOI”.
He implemented the first e - governance project, automating the workflows,
for the department of Higher and Technical Education, Government of Maharashtra
in 1995. Further he provided the IT expertise for IT initiatives of several
departments of Government of Maharashtra. The Citizen Facilitation Centre,
Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation, an e–governance initiative that won many
National and International awards were also completed with his expertise amongst
others. He currently is the IT Expert for the Department of IT, Government of
Maharashtra and helping in implementing a very prestigious Smart City Project in
Nagpur.
He is also the recipient of INFOCOM CMAI National Telecom award for 2010 and
the HR Nexus – the HR & Network, Leadership award in the
field of Education, 2010. The.e-governance project implemented in AICTE
has also won the Silver Edge Award instituted by United
Business Media and Information Week and the Good Governance National Technology
Award, 2010.
He is also a recipient of the 5th National telecom Award in 2011
for “Excellence in Education through e-governance instituted by CMAI and Star
News
He has more than 260 publications in National and International Journals and
Conferences to his credit as also 30 Ph D students who have completed their PhD
under him. He has three books published titled “Objet Oriented Programming in
C++” Published by Wiley India, “Aerodynamics of Cars, an experimental
Investigation – A synergy of Wind Tunnel and CFD”, and "Design & Development of
Decelerometer" both published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Company,
Germany besides contributing chapters for many books.
The e- Governance development at AICTE is a complete web enabled application,
where the entire process of receiving the applications to processing the same
until an approval is given is on-line. This has greatly improved the
transparency and accountability. The Portal also provides complete information
along with video of more than 11500 institutions in the public domain. The
Business intelligence reports generated provides for comprehensive statistics on
technical education in the country. The development using Oracle-Siebel CRM is
extremely robust and scalable providing for several features that aid the
student and the teacher community. The effort was given SKOCH order of merit for
2014.
Dr. Mantha has also contributed to India’s entry to Washington Accord having
participated and proposed several Accreditation initiatives of National Board of
Accreditation having been its executive President for three years and as
Chairman of the Board for three years.
He is the Chairman, National Technical Committee, NCSSS, National Cyber
safety and Security Standards. He also is a member of, IET India, a part
of Engineering Council, London, for whom he is also an expert accreditor. He is
advisor to the International Organization for Educational Development and
Member, Education Council, IOED, a diplomatic mission headquartered in India. Further
he is a member of association for Machines and Mechanisms,
the Computer Society of India, The Consortium for information and Communications
Technology and the Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering and the
International Function Point Users Group.
Dr. S S Mantha has been awarded D. Sc (h.c) by VTU, Karnataka in March 2012
and by DY Patil University, Maharashtra in 2014. He is a fellow of IIIE.