Professor recognized by Indian engineering academy

The new executive director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology has been elected as a foreign fellow of a prestigious engineering body in India.

Sushanta Mitra, a mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor at Waterloo, formally begins his fellowship in the Indian National Academy of Engineering in November.

B.N. Suresh, the president of the academy, wrote in a letter extending an offer of membership to Mitra that it “confers fellowship on Indian and foreign nationals who have demonstrated their eminence in their own chosen area and achieved outstanding accomplishments in engineering and technology.”