Who are some notable alumni of UCE Burla (now VSSUT Burla)? What are the exceptional things they have accomplished for themselves/for the institute/for both?

VSSUT is an alma mater to a number of successful personalities. Here is a list of a few, along with their achievements-

• Sanjay Burman- Director, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) Bengaluru.

• Arup Nanda- The President of Proligence. Honored with ‘DBA of the Year’ Award at OracleWorld in September 2003. 

• Pinakiranjan Mishra- Partner and Country Head, Ernst & Young India. 

• Prof. Rabi Mahapatra- Director and Professor, Embedded System Co-Design Laboratory, Texas A&M University USA.

• Dr. Krishna D. Kumar - Professor and Canada Research Chair in Space Systems; Director of Space Systems Dynamics and Control Laboratory in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Ryerson University Canada.

• Prof. Braja Mohan Das- Dean Emeritus, College of Engineering and Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento, California, USA.

• Er. Sudhakar Patri- Ex Chief Engineer, Water Resources Dept, Govt. of Odisha.

• Er. Nalini Ranjan Pradhan- EIC cum Works Secretary, Govt of Odisha.

• Prof. Pradeep Behera- Professor and Chair, Department of Civil Engineering, University of the District of Columbia, USA.

• Prof. Ganapati Panda - Ex Dy. Director, IIT Bhubaneswar.

• Prof. Sagar Naik- Professor, Dept .of Electrical and Comp. Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada.

• Dr. Binay Kumar Das- Director, ITR, Balasore, DRDO.

• Er. S.B. Nayak- Ex President(Tech.), Vedanta ; Ex Director, NALCO.

• Er. Prasant K. Pradhan- CEO, WESCO, Odisha.

• Er. Sanjay Mishra- Author and Principal PM Manager at Microsoft, Redmond, USA.

• Er. Jagadish Mahapatra- Managing Director for India and SAARC at McAfee, Mumbai, India.

• Late Ajit Mahaptra - Ex CMD, Kalinga Engineers Ltd.

• Late Prof. Aswini K. Mohanty- Ex Dy. Director, IIT Kharagpur.

• Er. Banbir Das- Ex Addl. D.G, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India.

• Mihir K. Mohanty- Ex Vice President, ACC, Mumbai.

• R.P. Panigrahi- General Manager, OCL, Rajgangpur.

• S.S. Mohanty- Director(Technical), SAIL, New Delhi.

These are just a few of the many great people who received valuable education at VSSUT.