Berhampur People: Dr Prakash Patnaik
Dr Prakash Patnaik an Indo-Canadian scientist based in Ottawa, Canada, who hails from Berhampur in Orissa has been appointed to the Research & Technology Organisation (RTO) of NATO, the Applied Vehicle Technology (AVT) Panel. He is the first Indian origin person to bag such a job.
Biography of Dr Prakash Patnaik
Dr. Prakash Patnaik of Ottawa, Canada, has been appointed to the Research & Technology Organisation (RTO) of NATO, the Applied Vehicle Technology (AVT) Panel. Dr. Patnaik is also the Chair of the Technical Committee on Mechanical Systems and Materials for the Applied Vehicle Technology panel. He will be responsible and contribute to the decision making process of all the AVT projects for the NATO-RTO. The Research and Technology Organisation is the primary NATO organisation for defence science and technology. It promotes and conducts co-operative research and information exchange, develops and maintains a long-term NATO research and technology strategy, and provides advice to all elements of NATO on research and technology issues.Dr. Patnaik is a Director at the Institute of Aerospace Research (IAR) at the National Research Council Canada is also the Chief Defence Scientist of IAR-NRC. Recently, in July 2009 he also received a Fellow award by the Canadian Academy of Engineering in a special ceremony in Calgary, Canada. Dr,. Prakash Patnaik is the highest ranking Oriya scientist in the Canadian federal government. Dr. Patnaik is first Indo-Canadian to be appointmented to the NATO-RTO.
His current responsibilities as Director of the Structures & Materials Performance Laboratory (SMPL) one of the five Laboratories of NRC Aerospace include the management of the research and development and testing evaluation of aerospace Structures, Materials/coatings for aircraft engines, spacecraft applications and Aeroaquostics & Structural Dynamics, NDE and airworthiness certification related various collaborative projects with Canadian industries and other Canadian Government Departments.
Dr. Patnaik received his bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering from NIT Rourkela, India, and Masters in Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from McMaster University in Canada in 1984. After spending 2 years at NRC-NAE as NSERC Visiting Fellow, he continued with industry serving Orenda//Magellan Aerospace Corporation for 16 years. He then joined the Institute for Aerospace Research (IAR), National Research Council Canada in 2002 as Chief of Aerospace Materials. He is a fellow of the American Society for Materials International (1998), a distinguished Canada Council Lecturer in 2001 and a winner of the MacDonald Young Award in 2003 and Morris Cohen Award winner from CIM, Canada in 2005. He is very active in the professional field of Aerospace Materials representing many organizations such as ASM, TMS, NACE and ASME-IGTI. He was also the CASI Lecturer for 2008-09.
Currently he is a Canadian Panel member in Metals & Ceramics Panel (TP-1) in the TTCP Defence collaboration program in between Canada, USA, U.K, Australia and New Zealand.He has published in excess of 138 technical papers in journals & conference proceedings and 70 technical reports, edited books and conference proceedings and organized several conference sessions and symposia. He Co-Chaired the International Conference on Fracture (ICF-12) held in July 2009 in Ottawa, Canada. He holds adjunct professorships in the department of Aeronautical & Mechanical Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa and the department of Metals & Materials Engineering in the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
His contributions to Pratt Whitney Canada an aircraft engine manufacturer have been through research and management of aerospace materials/component test developments for high temperature superalloys, titanium alloys and hot section protective coatings. Last year he received the Research Fellow 2008 award given by Pratt Whitney Canada. Recently in July 2009, he received the highest engineering academy honour in Canada by receiving the Fellow award from the Canadian Academy of Engineering in Calgary, Alberta in a Special ceremony.
Dr. Patnaik is a native of Berhampur, Ganjam in Orissa, India and lives in Ottawa, Canada with his wife Pushpa (Ellie) and three daughters Priyanka, Pallavi and Purvasha.He is the son-in-law of Sri Jitendra Nath Patnaik and Smt. Saleela Patnaik of Cuttack, Orissa. He is a very active member of the Indian community in Canada.
Source: Times of India
His current responsibilities as Director of the Structures & Materials Performance Laboratory (SMPL) one of the five Laboratories of NRC Aerospace include the management of the research and development and testing evaluation of aerospace Structures, Materials/coatings for aircraft engines, spacecraft applications and Aeroaquostics & Structural Dynamics, NDE and airworthiness certification related various collaborative projects with Canadian industries and other Canadian Government Departments.
Dr. Patnaik received his bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering from NIT Rourkela, India, and Masters in Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from McMaster University in Canada in 1984. After spending 2 years at NRC-NAE as NSERC Visiting Fellow, he continued with industry serving Orenda//Magellan Aerospace Corporation for 16 years. He then joined the Institute for Aerospace Research (IAR), National Research Council Canada in 2002 as Chief of Aerospace Materials. He is a fellow of the American Society for Materials International (1998), a distinguished Canada Council Lecturer in 2001 and a winner of the MacDonald Young Award in 2003 and Morris Cohen Award winner from CIM, Canada in 2005. He is very active in the professional field of Aerospace Materials representing many organizations such as ASM, TMS, NACE and ASME-IGTI. He was also the CASI Lecturer for 2008-09.
Currently he is a Canadian Panel member in Metals & Ceramics Panel (TP-1) in the TTCP Defence collaboration program in between Canada, USA, U.K, Australia and New Zealand.He has published in excess of 138 technical papers in journals & conference proceedings and 70 technical reports, edited books and conference proceedings and organized several conference sessions and symposia. He Co-Chaired the International Conference on Fracture (ICF-12) held in July 2009 in Ottawa, Canada. He holds adjunct professorships in the department of Aeronautical & Mechanical Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa and the department of Metals & Materials Engineering in the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
His contributions to Pratt Whitney Canada an aircraft engine manufacturer have been through research and management of aerospace materials/component test developments for high temperature superalloys, titanium alloys and hot section protective coatings. Last year he received the Research Fellow 2008 award given by Pratt Whitney Canada. Recently in July 2009, he received the highest engineering academy honour in Canada by receiving the Fellow award from the Canadian Academy of Engineering in Calgary, Alberta in a Special ceremony.
Dr. Patnaik is a native of Berhampur, Ganjam in Orissa, India and lives in Ottawa, Canada with his wife Pushpa (Ellie) and three daughters Priyanka, Pallavi and Purvasha.He is the son-in-law of Sri Jitendra Nath Patnaik and Smt. Saleela Patnaik of Cuttack, Orissa. He is a very active member of the Indian community in Canada.
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