With great shock and sadness, we have learnt about the untimely passing away of Dr. Narendra Patel, Chairman of IEI, and Maharashtra State Centre. He was a great human being and an extraordinarily dynamic and competent engineer. He was active till the last moment, always bubbling with new ideas and achieved many goals during his lifetime. The IEI, MSC have had close interactions with him in different capacities as he was Chairman of IEI, Maharashtra State Centre for the sessions 1990-1992 and Vice President of The Institution of Engineers (India) during 2000-2001. His passing away is a personal loss to us as much as it is a great loss to his family and to the engineering fraternity