He was appointed, in 2011, as vice chancellor of the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology,[5][7] a deemed university based in Pune and run by the Ministry of Defence[6] and served there until his superannuation in February 2015.[8] He holds the post of an adjunct professor at the Indian Institute of Science at its Department of Aerospace and the Department of Management Studies.[1][3]
Positions
Prahlada is a former president of Hyderabad Management Association during 2003–2004 and is reported to have organized a year-long Lecture series titled India - My Dream where eminent personalities were invited to deliver key lectures.[1] He held the presidency of the World Congress on Disaster Management[9] on two occasions, in 2008 and 2010.[1] He is a former chairman of the Hyderabad chapters of the Indian Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering (ISAMPE),[10] the Indian Society for Nondestructive Testing (ISNT)[11] and the Indian Academy of Engineering (INAE) and is a former president of the Society for Aerospace Quality and Reliability[12] (SAQR).[1][2] He is a donor member of the Alumni Association of the Indian Institute of Science and a managing trustee of the Trust for Advancement of Aerodynamics of India.[1][2] He is also a member of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), the National Committee on Higher Education, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Task Force on Institution Mechanism and Sector Innovation Council, and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) National Committee on Science and Technology[1][2]. He sits on the editorial board of the Indian journal Indian Strategic.[5]
Legacy
Prahlada was Program Director of the BrahMos missile projectAkash missile
Integrated Guided Missile Development Program, during Prahlada's tenure as its chairman, is reported to have developed several key technologies for the Indian space programme related to rocket propulsion, onboard avionics, missile systems, radar systems, and hypersonic flight vehicles.[1][2][3] He is also known to have contributed to the establishment of Compact Antenna Test Range, Structural Dynamic Test Centre, Supersonic Ramjet Engine Test facility, Subsonic Ramjet Engine Test facility, 6 Component Rocket Motor Test facility, Computer Integrated Tomography, Computational Fluid Dynamics Centre, Shock Tube facility, High Temperature Material Characterization Facility, High Temperature Structural Testing and Missile System Simulation Centre for Indian Space Research Organization.[1][3] He has served as the project head for Akash, a surface to air missile system[6] and as the chief designer of many other Indian missile systems viz. Prithvi, Agni and Nag.[1][2][3]
It was during Prahlada's tenure as the director, Defence Research and Development Laboratory initiated projects such as Astra air to air missile system and Long Range Surface to air missile system for Naval application.[1][2] He was involved with the project formulation, management and trials of BrahMos Supersonic cruise missile system and submarine launched long range ballistic missile system as programme director.[1][3][6] His contributions are also reported in the formulation of Defence Procurement Procedures 2006 and 2008.[1] His tenure at DRDO also witnessed commercialization of DRDO technologies by the organization with assistance from FICCI.[1][2][3] As the vice chancellor of Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), he was involved in introducing courses in subjects such as Technology Management, Biosciences and Defence Electronics Systems under the newly formed Department of Bioscience and Technology.[1][2][6][7] DIAT was upgraded as a Category A University during his term there.[1]
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^"ISNT". ISNT. 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
