Scientist 'D'

TIFAC, Vishwakarma Bhavan
'A' wing, Shaheed Jeet Sing marg, New Delhi.-16
Phone : 011- 26592712, 42525712
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Dr. Saxena has been with TIFAC since April 2000. As a part of the team implementing Technology Vision 2020 mission mode projects, he has been co-ordinating the activities of Mission REACH (Relevance & Excellence in Achieving new heights in educational institutions), a major initiative to re-orient the higher science and technical education and make it 'customer-centric' or 'made-to-order'. This is being done by emulating the present IIT's at a much smaller level and creating entities, aptly named as 'Centres Of Relevance & Excellence' (COREs). These COREs are being established in existing academic institutions with focussed objective of realizing academic excellence in one particular area that interests the user industries or organizations.

Dr. Saxena has been instrumental in establishment of 13 TIFAC-COREs with decks cleared for 5 more of their ilk, ever since this Mission got formally underway on October 4, 2000. These COREs are in targeting excellence in diverse disciplines and are nestled in various academic institutions spread across the country. He runs through all the REACH Monitoring Committees instituted by TIFAC for each of the CORE, to oversee the implementation of Mission REACH. About 80-100 such COREs are to be created under this Mission, all of them to be networked emotionally, physically and electronically to function as a monolithic entity.

Prior to his association with TIFAC, Dr. Saxena was a CSIR research fellow and post-doctoral fellow in the National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi. He specialized in the area of "Acoustic Remote Sensing & its application to Air Pollution". Agra University awarded him the Ph.D. Degree for his work on the topic "Sodar (acoustic radar) studies of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer in relation to Air Pollution at different topographical locations in India". He was involved in establishing country's first indigenous Doppler Sodar capable of remotely profiling wind and turbulence in the lower atmosphere. He has co-authored about 25 research papers in his area of specialization. Besides, he has been regularly contributing popular articles and compilations in the Employment News/Rozgar Samachar.