IEOM Kolkata Professional Chapter
Committee
Professor Emeritus Devinder Kumar Banwet
VC (Founding) UEM Kolkata, Ex HOD DMS IIT Delhi
Fellow IEOM, Global Council Member IEOM
Prof. Dr Devinder Kumar Banwet is Vice Chancellor Founding Retd. of University of Engineering & Management, Kolkata India. Prof Banwet is a Distinguished Honorary Professor (SCM & Operations Management) of IIM Jammu. He is an Emeritus Professor of DMS IIT Delhi in the area of Operations & Supply Chain Management, Industrial Systems Engineering, Infrastructure Project Systems Management, TQM, DSS, Operations Research Applications, Prof Banwet is a graduate Mechanical Engineer, with Master of Industrial Engineering and a PhD (Industrial Engg. / Production Management from IIT Delhi.
Previously he served as a first engineering faculty member of University Business School of Panjab University at Chandigarh for a decade, next to CSMS IIT Delhi was Professor HAG) in DMS IIT Delhi and Chairman of 2 Interdisciplinary Programmes ASRP Applied Systems Research Program and Entrepreneurship Program at IIT Delhi, after being Professor Emeritus for 4 + years, became Founding Vice Chancellor of the University of Engineering and Management at Kolkata. He has made significant contributions in publications related to Operations Management. His areas of research interest include Operations Management, Supply Chain and Logistics, Services Management, Project Management, IT-enabled DSS, Industrial Systems Engineering, Total Quality Management, Manufacturing Strategy, Technology Management, Materials Inventory Management, Facilities Planning, Operations Research Systems Modelling, Telecom Systems and Entrepreneurship Management.
Prof Banwet has more than 40 years of academic teaching, research and administrative experience Prof Banwet has guided 35 + PhD projects: 200+ PG Projects, has many research publications in reputed journals in India and abroad, Has had prestigious assignments at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, University of Sorbonne at Paris, Asian Institute of Technology Bangkok;
Awarded Lillian Gilbreth Award of IIIE, Best Engineer Award IE, India, PMI Distinguished Researcher Award, Dewang Mehta Award, Pioneer Award of SCM, IEOM Award, Life Time Achievement Award of POMS & SOM India, ISTD India, President of professional Societies Decision Science Institute of USA India Chapter, National President Past ISTD, Chairman IIIE Delhi Chapter, Chairman BOS IIMM Prof Banwet is on the Governing Board of many Professional Institutes of Technology, and Management, and usually Chairman of many NBA Nat Board of Accreditation team expert visits.