MITAA (The MIT Alumni Association)
Proudly Presents
THE OUTSTANDING ALUMNUS AWARD FOR 2014
TO
Mr. K. Balasubramanian
MIT, Chromepet campus of Anna University, founded in 1949 by Sri C Rajam, is a unique Institution and carved a niche for itself with pioneering ventures in unconventional engineering courses like Aeronautical engineering, Automobile engineering, Electronics engineering, Instrumentation Technology and subsequently adding Production Technology, Rubber and Plastic Technology, Information Technology and Computer Science and Engineering.
During the centenary birth year of Sri C. Rajam in 1982, MITAA instituted the scheme of presenting annual endowment lecture and award of Outstanding Alumnus in his memory. This year we choose an alumnus from the 14th batch Instrument Technology.
MITAA has the pleasure of honouring Mr K. Balasubramanian (fondly called K.Bala) of Instrumentation faculty as the Outstanding Alumnus for the year 2014.
Bala graduated from MIT in 1965. He went to the University of Rhode Island in 1967 and graduated with an MSEE in 1969. He joined Texas Instruments (TI) in Houston in 1969 as and MOS Design Engineer. During his 37 year career at TI, he held various positions in Design, Design Management, Business Management, Worldwide (WW) Manufacturing, WW Quality, WW Procurement, WW Process Development, WW Facilities and President and Chairman of TI, Japan. He was elected as Vice President of TI in 1983, Senior Vice President in 1993. From 2001 till 2006, he was a resident of Japan from where he retired in 2006.
Bala was elected as a Board Member of Metro Bank in 2007 where he headed up the compensation committee. He was also a member of the corporate audit, directors’ loan committee and Directors’ credit committee. K. Bala was recognized as one of the top 100 business leaders in Japan. Rice University in Houston, Texas has named a Visiting Professorship for Digital Signal Processing after him. Texas Instruments has set up a scholarship for High School students in Bangalore in his honor. Business India has named him as one of the top business leaders. University of Rhode Island has recognized him as one of the outstanding Alumni. He was elected as a Board member of Free scale Semiconductors (a spin-off from Motorola) in 2013
He is now settled in Houston with his wife Rama. They have two children and two grandchildren. His daughter is a chemical engineer turned Intellectual Property Lawyer. His son is an Electrical engineer and an MBA.
MITAA takes great pleasure in awarding him the Outstanding Alumnus award for the year 2014 and wish him great success in all his future endeavors.
