Kandhal Lecture 2 – Grading of Bitumen and Polymer Modified Bitumen This is a one-hour tutorial by Prof. Prithvi Singh Kandhal on Grading of Bitumen and Polymer Modified Bitumen. It covers penetration grading; viscosity grading; and Superpave performance grading. It also describes different types of polymer modified bitumen (PMB) and their uses. Crumb Rubber Modified …

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Add to Learning What Every Entrepreneur Should Learn from these Famous Logos Coming up with the best possible logo is very important. Many companies have struggled to find a logo that communicates the essence of their brand. If you are looking for inspiration, you need to look at some of the companies that did it …

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Add to Learning How to Set Up an AI Center of Excellence By Thomas H. Davenport and Shivaji Dasgupta Artificial intelligence is one of the most powerful technologies for reshaping business in decades. It has the ability to optimize many processes throughout organizations and is already the engine behind some of the world’s most valuable …

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Add to Learning The Two Most Important Words a Manager can say. There’s a lot of truth behind the saying, “People don’t leave bad jobs. They leave bad bosses.” More often than not, it’s not because they are underpaid, rather it’s because they feel undervalued and unappreciated. But what can a boss do to make …

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Let’s Know What’s There In The Book BUSINESS COMMUNICATION, Second Edition By Asha Kaul, PhD, is Professor, Communication Area, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She has presented/published many articles and papers in national and international journals. She is also a founding Chairperson of Gender Resource Centre, IIMA. Dr. Asha Kaul has authored two other books …

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Business Communication Series Types of Letter | Classification of letter in Business Human beings require exchanging information with each other by means of writing different letters as their demands are increasing with rapid growth of civilization. This means letters may be of various types depending on diversified human requirements. The following diagram shows the main …

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Kandhal Lecture 1 on Bitumen: Refining, Types and Conventional Properties This is a one-hour tutorial by Prof. Prithvi Singh Kandhal on Paving Bitumen which describes its refining, types and conventional properties. Bitumen types include neat bitumen, cutback bitumen, and emulsified bitumen. Conventional properties include viscosity, penetration, softening point, ductility, etc. You can download and print …

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Let’s Know What’s There In The Book CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN INDIA—AN EVALUATION, Fourth Edition By SUBHASH CHANDRA DAS This comprehensive and thoroughly revised text, now in its fourth edition, continues to give a clear analysis of the principles and practices of corporate governance prevalent in India as well as in other industrialized countries of the …

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News You May Use! IITs, JNU to collaborate with German University for Bio Big Data Science project IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Madras, the University of Allahabad, the University of Delhi, and Jawaharlal Nehru University are all set to partner with Heidelberg University, Germany. Six leading universities in India, including IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT …

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News You May Use! Physicist Marcelo Gleiser wins 2019 Templeton Prize The physicist and popularizer of science is the first laureate from Latin America. Marcelo Gleiser, a theoretical physicist at Dartmouth College, is the 2019 recipient of the Templeton Prize, which annually honors a living person “who has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life’s …

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