MITAA (The MIT Alumni Association)
Proudly Presents
THE OUTSTANDING ALUMNUS AWARD FOR 2014
TO
Mr. K. V. Bhima Rao
The MIT, Chromepet campus of Anna University, founded in 1949 by Sri C Rajam, is a unique Institution and carved a niche for itself in unconventional engineering courses like Aeronautical, Automobile, Electronics, Instrumentation, Production Tech, Rubber and Plastic Tech, Information Tech 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 an award for the Outstanding Alumnus in his memory. MITAA has the pleasure of honouring Mr. K. V. Bhima Rao, 3rd Batch of Electronics Faculty as the Outstanding Alumnus for the year 2018.
After his Bachelor’s degree Mr. Bhima Rao joined MIT for DMIT course in Electronics and graduated in 1954. He was first Lab. Engineer in Electronics Faculty in MIT till mid Sept. 1955 and moved to AIR in Broadcasting House, New Delhi and retired as Chief Engineer (SZ), AIR & DD, Madras in June 1991. He served in AIR Stations and HP Transmitters looking after their maintenance and in Planning & Development Unit before being posted in Staff Training Institute (Techincal), to train the techincal staff of both AIR and DD, on a long tenure with breaks for posting at North Zone Regional Office and Srinagar Station. He served both in Eastern Border and in Western Border states of Nagaland and Jammu & Kashmir.
He was awarded a European Broadcasting Union Fellowship and travelled to servel European countries and studied the training programmes for their Radio and Television Engg. and Tech. staff. He had represented AIR in Study Group 5 of the CCIR at ITU, in Geneva. This group addressed Propagation through non-ionized medium.
Post retirement, Mr. Bhima Rao is active in Broadcasting Engineering Society (I), Bangalore Center for which he was a founder member and secretary during its formative years. Mr. Bhima Rao was the President of Bangalore Chapter of MITAA for three terms and is presently its Patron keeping MITAA BC very active and vibrant. He associated himself during the formation of Parent Chapter of MITAA in 1966 and later he was active in Delhi Chapter. He and the first batch auto alumnus Mr. V. Gopalan, started the USA Chapter on 10.10.10., with its base in New Jersey. Mr. K. V. Bhima Rao now lives in Bangalore.
MITAA takes great pleasure in awarding Mr. K. V. Bhima Rao, the Outstanding Alumnus Award for the year 2018 and wish him good health and great success in all his future endeavors.
