Shankar Subbanarasayya Mantha, commonly known as S. S. Mantha, is an Indian academician and administrator based in

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, currently serving as the CEO of MahaPreit StartUp Knowledge Centre (MSKC), Mumbai and

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of National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. He is also the former Chairman of

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(AICTE), a statutory body and a national level council for technical education under the Department of Higher Education established in 1945, and has served as president of the

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and deputy vice-chancellor of the SNDT Women's University, Mumbai. He also served as the

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. He heads the National Technical Committee, National Cyber Safety, and Security Standards (NSSSC). He has been awarded the

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, Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by

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in 2012 and by

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in 2014.

Early life

Mantha was born and grew up in

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. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from

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and earned a master's degree in mechanical engineering from

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, Mumbai. He also holds a

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in combustion modeling from the

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Career

Mantha, who was the vice chairman at

, was given the additional charge of chairman in 2009, when the then chairman RA Yadav was suspended by the Union HRD ministry due to corruption charges. Mantha was later appointed as the chairman of

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in 2012, where he spent six years conceiving and implementing e-governance reforms to allow for a transparent administration and created the regulations for the Blended Learning Paradigm and the regulations for Twinning Programs in Engineering and Technology. Mantha was Professor of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at

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. On his retirement, he continued to serve

as professor emeritus. He has advised the National e-governance division (NeGD) and the

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on IT initiatives including the Citizen Facilitation Centre of

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and contributed to Indian accreditation system to be a part of the

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. He was instrumental in creating the National Vocational Education Qualification Framework which was later re-christened the National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF). He has more than 280 publications in national and international journals and conference proceedings and has contributed over 250 articles on education and administration to publications, including

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, and

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, among others

Awards and recognition

2021 * Awarded the Lal Bahadur Shastri Exemplar for integrity by ReThink India Foundation 2020 *

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Robotics and Automation Society, Senior Member 2014 * Received SKOCH Award for e-Governance initiatives at

, 2014. 2013-2014 * Received Lifetime Achievement Award in the field of Education from SOE Global Education Awards, 2013–2014. 2011 * Received the 5th National Telecom Awards for Excellence in Education through e-governance from CMAI and Star News in 2011 2002 * Awarded the Best Teacher Award of

from the

in 2002

Publications

Books

* ''Object Oriented Programming in C++'' (22 August 2009), * ''Aerodynamics of Cars: An Experimental Investigation - A Synergy of Wind Tunnel & CFD'' (30 December 2011), * ''Design and Development of Decelerometer'' (9 August 2012),

Technical Articles

* ''Design, modeling and simulation of a reconfigurable wheelchair with stand-sit-sleep facilities'', 5th International Conference on Mechanics and Mechatronics Research (ICMMR 2018), * ''India Envelope Insulation for Energy Efficient Smart Buildings,'' The International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (September 2019) * ''Stability Analysis of Various Lengths Conical Hydrodynamic Bearing for Variable Load Conditions'', International Conference on Advances in Thermal Systems, Materials and Design Engineering (ATSMDE2017), * ''Orifice Compensated Performance Characteristics of Hybrid Hole-entry Conical Journal Bearing'', Journal of Engineering Tribology, SAGE Journals * ''Optimized Design of Feeding System for Complex Steel (CF8) Investment Casting to Improve Quality and Productivity'', International Conference on Advances in Thermal Systems, Materials and Design Engineering (ATSMDE2017), * ''Effect of Aspect Ratio and Semi Cone Angle on the Stability Behaviour of a Conical Hydrodynamic Journal Bearing'', International Conference on Advances in Thermal Systems, Materials and Design Engineering, * ''Effect of aspect ratio and semi cone angle on the stability behavior of a conical hydrodynamic Journal bearing'', International Conference on Advances in Thermal Systems, Materials & Design Engineering (ATSMDE2017), * ''Promoting quality of life of disabled people through comprehensive needs assessment study and QFD deployment targeted at evidence based wheelchair design'', Springer Journals, Iranian Rehabilitation Journal * * * *

References

External links

Dr. S S Mantha

Official website

Dr S S Mantha Speaks
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