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O P Jindal Chair for Stainless Steel Product Innovation & Development, at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India The National Institute of Design (NID), India, invites applications/ nominations for its prestigious O P Jindal Chair for Stainless Steel Product Innovation and Development to be seated at its Heritage campus Paldi, Ahamedabad. The chair is expected to develop new areas and applications utilizing the stainless steel material and technology in order to contribute and benefiting industry in particular and society in general. The Chair will also direct and facilitate a range of projects and activities, particularly dealing with applications of stainless steel material and technology. The chair will have adequate project facilities, resources, and network for its functioning and would have good interaction with faculty and students at the campus at Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Gandhinagar and be part of the NID family. Prof Gajanan Upadhyaya was the first incumbent of the O P Jindal Chair for Steel Product Innovation and Development. During the 3 year term (2004-07), Prof Upadhyaya has designed several products using stainless steel as material, including hospital furniture items. Out of these copy rights 10 designs have been selected by JSL for mass production and marketing by Jindal Architecture. At present NID is in the look out for a new incumbent to take up the research further to new domains. For further information, please visit our website www.nid.edu . Further enquiry, if any, or application/nomination along with bio data of the candidate may kindly be emailed to [log in to unmask] . Shashank Mehta Activity Chairperson, Research & Publications National Institute of Design Ahmedabad 380 007 INDIA