| Prof. P. S. V. Nataraj received "Award for Excellence in Teaching" on Teachers Day, 2009 in recognition of his significant contribution to the teaching activities of the institute |
| Prof. B.Bandyopadhyay has been selected as a "Distinguished Visiting Fellow" by 'The Royal Academy of Engineering, London' in 2009 for his significant contribution on Variable Structure Systems with Multirate Output Feedback. He is the lone Indian awarded this prestigious fellowship this year. |
| Mrs. Shailaja Kurode was awarded "Rashtriya Gaurav Award" by India International Friendship Society for meritorious services,outstanding performance and remarkable role. The award was presented by Dr.Bhishma Narain Singh, former governor of Tamil Nadu & Assam on 20th May,2009. |
| SysCon garden won third prize in the competition held by National Society of the Friends of the Trees at VJTI Matunga during 7th – 8th Feb 2009. SysCon felicitated Mr. Ratan Bhawar and members of Horticulture, IIT Bombay for their dedicated effort to develop and maintain the garden. |
| Mr. Hrushikesh Barve, M.Tech and Mr. Harsha Simha, PhD, conducted a MatLab workshop in Atharva College of Enginnering, Mumbai on March 7, 2009. |
| Mr. Deepak Fulwani, Research Scholar of SysCon, attended IEEE ICIT, 2009 held at Australia during 10-13 February 2009. He presented his research paper titled "A Robust Tracking Controller for Uncertain MIMO plant using Non-linear Sliding Surface". The work has been carried out under the guidance of Prof. Bijnan Bandyopadhyay. Mr. Fulwani also recieved IEEE Student Scholarship. |
| Prof. R. Sepulchre (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Liege, Belgium) visited SysCon for two weeks beginning January 26, 2009. During his stay, he delivered 5 lectures on the topic - Optimization Algorithms on Matrix Manifolds. |
| Prof. Arunkumar D. Mahindrakar (Electrical Engg., IIT Madras, India) visited SysCon group in January 2009 and delivered a talk. |
| Prof. S.P. Bhattacharyya (Texas A&M University, USA) visited Systems and Control Engineering on January 13, 2009. He delivered a lecture on "Model free, Data driven Synthesis of Controller". |
| Prof. Bijnan Bandyopadhyay and Mr. Datatreya Reddy participated and presented their research articles in IEEE IECON 2008 held at Florida, USA during 10-13 November 2008. Mr. Datatreya Reddy was awarded IEEE Student Scholarship. |
