Ms Pramila Rita DSouza

Assistant Professor

About

Academician with 16 years of teaching experience and couple of years of industrial experience. As a teacher I strive to facilitate the acquisition of lifelong learning skill in my students.


Education Qualifications

Sl.No Qualification Level University Area of Specialization Year of Compeltion Awards
1 M Sc Mangalore University Applied Chemistry 2001
2 B Sc St Agnes Chemistry, Microbiology, Zoology 1999

Responsibilities At SJEC

Member of Board of Examiners - Chemistry

Member of Board of Examiners - Scientific Foundation of Health

Member of Board of Examiners - Biology for Engineers

Member of Placement & Training Group 2024

Department NAAC coordinator

ChemAtom coordinator 2023

NCC Navy CTO 2020 - 2023

AICUF SJEC UNIT Coordinator 2018 - 2020

ChemAtom coordinator 2016 - 2017

Abhiyana - College magazine Editor 2016

 


Work Experience

Current

Assistant Professor - Chemistry, St Joseph Engineering College

August 2007 to till date

Previous

Quality Control Officer - Strides Arcolab Ltd

June 2001 to October 2002 

 

 


Research Areas

Electrochemical & Computational Chemistry

 


Journal Publications

[1]  Pramila Rita DSouza, Jyothi Kudva, A. Sunil Kumar, and A. Nityananda. Shetty, “Experimental and Computational Studies benzene-1-sulfonamide as an Effectual Corrosion Inhibitor for Mild Steel in Hydrochloric Acid,” Russ. J. Appl. Chem., vol. 94, no. 8, pp. 1122–1133, 2021, doi: 10.1134/S1070427221080140.

[2]  Pramila Rita DSouza, Jyothi Kudva, A. Sunil Kumar, Prathima. Shekara, D. Naral, and A. N. Shetty, “Experimental and Theoretical Approach for the Corrosion Deceleration of Mild Steel in Hydrochloric Acid Medium by Two Sulfonamide Derivatives,” ChemistrySelect, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 1–18, 2024, doi: 10.1002/slct.202304886.

[3]  Prathima Shekara, Jyothi Kudva, Rajitha Sadashiva, Damodara Naral, Pramila Rita DSouza and A. N. Shetty, “Pyrazoline Derivative as Corrosion Inhibitor for Mild Steel in Hydrochloric Acid Medium : Experimental and Theoretical Approach,” ChemistrySelect, vol. 8, no. 21, pp. 1–12, 2023, doi: 10.1002/slct.202300448.


Conference Proceedings

ØPresented a paper on “Corrosion mitigation of mild steel by N-substituted sulfonamide derivative: Experimental and theoretical evaluation” in Fourth International Conference of Advancement in Research & Development (ICARD 2024) organized by Department of Commerce, Indira Priyadarshini Govt. Degree College for Women, Autonomous, Nampally, Hyderabad, Telagan, India & RSP Conference Hub, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India on 30th and 31st January 2024.
ØPresented a paper on “Quinazoline Scaffold: Synthesis, Characterization, and Biological Evaluation through the integration of Computational Approaches” in Fourth International Conference of Advancement in Research & Development (ICARD 2024) organized by Department of Commerce, Indira Priyadarshini Govt. Degree College for Women, Autonomous, Nampally, Hyderabad, Telagan, India & RSP Conference Hub, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India on 30th and 31st January 2024 (Best Paper Award).
ØPresented a paper on “Structural Hybrids of Sulfonamide and Thiazole Moieties: Synthesis, Characterization, Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activity and Theoretical Studies” in Fourth International Conference of Advancement in Research & Development (ICARD 2024) organized by Department of Commerce, Indira Priyadarshini Govt. Degree College for Women, Autonomous, Nampally, Hyderabad, Telagan, India & RSP Conference Hub, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India on 30th and 31st January 2024.
ØPresented a paper on “Investigation of corrosion inhibition of mild steel in hydrochloric acid by pyrazoline derivative using experimental and computational approaches” in Fourth International Conference of Advancement in Research & Development (ICARD 2024) organized by Department of Commerce, Indira Priyadarshini Govt. Degree College for Women, Autonomous, Nampally, Hyderabad, Telagan, India & RSP Conference Hub, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India on 30th and 31st January 2024.
ØPresented a poster on “Experimental and theoretical studies of N-(4,6-dimethylpyrimidin-2-yl)-4-[(quinazoline-4-yl)amino]benzene-1-sulfonamide as corrosion inhibitor for mild steel” at a three day international conference on “Advances in Chemical and Materials Sciences (ICCM -2019)” organized by the Department of Studies in Chemistry, Mangalore University, Mangalagangothri from 17th to 19th October 2019.
ØPresented a paper on “Effectual inhibition of mild steel by N-substituted sulfonamide derivative: Experimental and computational techniques” at a two day international conference on “International conference in recent trends in applied sciences (ICRTAS -2022)” organized by the Srinivas Institute of Technology, Valachil, Mangaluru from 3rd to 4th August 2022.
ØPresented a poster on “Corrosion inhibition study on sulfonamide derivatives” at a two day Research Conclave 2022 organized by the Research facility group, St Joseph Engineering College, Mangaluru on 9th and 10 September 2022.
ØPresented a paper on “Corrosion mitigation of mild steel by N-substituted sulfonamide derivative: Experimental and computational approach” in the International Conference  on "Advanced Materials and Fluid Mechanics" (JCAMFM-2023) organized by the Departments of  Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics, BNMIT, Bengaluru during 23rd & 24th November 2023.


Awards and Recognitions

Commendation award at NCC Navy ATC camp 2022

Silver medal for NPTEL course "Stress Management",  July - August 2019

Silver medal for NPTEL course "Effective Engineering Teaching in Practice", January - February 2019

Best Cadet of the year - 1996 by Mangalore NCC group

Participated in Republic Day Camp, Delhi in the year 1996

Part of NCC Girls Marching Contingent on Rajpath, Delhi for Republic Day Parade - 26 January 1996


Membership in professional Bodies

Lifetime Member of Indian Society for Technical Education (MISTE)

Lifetime Member of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI)

Lifetime Member of NCC Alumni association

 


Workshop/FDPs Attended

ØAttended a workshop organized by Gaussian, Inc., USA in collaboration with SCUBE Scientific Software Solutions “Introduction to Gaussian: Theory and Practice” held in Kolkata, India at the Hotel Hindustan International, Kolkata from January 14th to 18th January 2019.
Ø Attended two day faculty development program on INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (IPR) at SJEC, Vamanjoor from 21st & 22nd February 2019.
Ø Attended three day workshop on “Research Methodologies & Latex” organized by VTU e-learning Center, Mysuru from 5th to 7th September 2019 at Shree Devi Institute of Technology, Mangaluru.
Ø Participated in a Workshop on “Scopus & Mendeley: Tools for Empowering Research” held on 21st September 2019 at St Joseph Engineering College, Vamanjoor, Mangaluru.
 
ØParticipated in a Webinar session on “Research Methodology and Data Analysis" organized by Karnataka Science and Technology Academy [KSTA], Department of Science and technology Govt. of Karnataka, from 17th June to 20th June 2020.
ØParticipated in one-week online FDP "Insights on Writing Research proposals and Funding Opportunities" held from 20th to 24th July 2020, organized by Research and Facilities group, St Joseph Engineering College, Mangaluru.
ØUndertook a 5 month program on ‘The Foundation course in Research Methods’ offered by Indo Universal Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) from October 2020 to March 2021.
ØParticipated in 5 day FDP (online)  on 'Academic writing' from 4 April 2022 to 8 April 2022 at St Joseph Engineering College, Mangaluru
ØParticpated in an webinar  'User awareness programme on IRNS' conducted on 26 April 2022 organised by IQAC, LLG & RFG of SJEC in association with INFLIBNET Centre, Gujrat.


Conferences attended

  • UGC sponsored Two day national conference in “World’s Emerging Advancement in Chemical Technology (We Act 2014)” organised by the department of chemistry, Govinda Dasa First grade College Surathkal on January 10th and 11th, 2014.

  • National Conference on “Current Trends in Scientific Research for Engineering Applications (NCSEA-2014) organised by Department of Science, SJEC, Vamanjoor on July 17th and 18th July 2014.

  • National Conference on “Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences - NCRTCS 2016” held at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal during January 11th and 12th, 2016.

  • National Conference on “CHEMISTRY FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE (NCCSF – 2017)” organized by PG Department of Chemistry, SDM from 27th January 2017 to 28th January 2017.

 
 


Contact Information


Ms Pramila Rita DSouza

Assistant Professor

B.Sc, M.Sc

pramilad@sjec.ac.in

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