PEWS celebrates Engineers’ Day

Tribune News Service

Mohali, September 15

The Punjabi Engineers Welfare Society (PEWS) celebrated 54th Engineers’ Day in a hybrid event at the PCA Stadium here today. The engineers working in various departments, boards and corporations attended the event.

Eminent Indian scientist Rajagopalan Vasudevan, who currently teaches at Thiagarajar College of Engineering in Madurai, was the guest speaker.

Vasudevan has developed an innovative method to reuse plastic waste to construct better, more durable cost-effective roads.

Dr Padmakumar Nair, Director and Dean of LM Thapar School of Management, was the keynote speaker. Nair stressed on the need for empathy and trust in engineering.

“To lay 1 km of road, you need one tonne of plastic,” explained Vasudevan. “This translates to 10 lakh plastic carry bags.”

“Today, India has 41 lakh km of roads, and we do not have enough plastic to convert all of them into plastic roads. So we should not have any problem in disposing of plastic in future using this technology,” he said.