Professor N. R. Kuloor was an alumnus of the Department of Chemical Technology of the University of Bombay and the Imperial College, London. Of Prof. Kuloor’s brilliant professional career spanning over three decades, his unstinted efforts in shaping two fledgling institutions to a state of pre-eminence in the country bear testimony to his outstanding organizational ability and perception. The first was the Shri Ram Institute of Industrial Research, New Delhi, and the other the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. During his stewardship as the Head of the Department in about just a decade, this Department has emerged as a Centre of Chemical Engineering Research of repute.
As a tribute to the contribution made by Prof. Kuloor towards its growth and to perpetuate his memory, the Department of Chemical Engineering has instituted the Kuloor Memorial Lectureship in 1979, which became operative from the academic year 1980-81.
