Professor Bhagavatula Dattaguru (born in 1942) is an Indian specialist and scholastic. He has gotten a few honors, including the Padma Shri Award, India's fourth most astounding regular citizen respect in 2005 in the field of science and building.

Education

Dattaguru had his school instruction at various board schools in the region where his dad, Raghavendra Sastry, acted as an educator and a director. He has a long relationship with Andhra Loyola College (ALC), where he did his Intermediate (old plan) and B.Sc degree (Physics fundamental) amid 1955-57 and 1957-59 separately. In his degree, he stood first and secured gold decoration from Andhra University, to which Loyola College was then associated.

An awesome admirer of science, Dattaguru moved to Bangalore for higher examinations and joined the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). He went ahead to finish BE in electrical engineering amid 1959-62 and ME in aviation technology amid 1962-64.

Career as Professor

Dr. Dattaguru proceeded with his relationship with the IISc by joining its faculty in the aeronautic design division in 1964. He worked there an assistant professor, associate professor and a professor, before resigning as Chairman of the aeronautic design division in June, 2004. He took a PhD in 1973 and he is respected with Emeritus individual during his long spell at the IISc.

Dr. Dattaguru worked with the space innovation illuminators, including the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Kota Harinarayana, Kasturi Rangan and R. Chidambaram. As a personnel, Dr. Dattaguru guided various research researchers. He went by the US, Australia, Hong Kong and a few different nations as going to educator. An untiring researcher, Dr. Dattaguru turned into an emeritus teacher of the IISc after his retirement and now he is a meeting educator at jain college, Bangalore.

Positions held
• Chairman (1999-2003), Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc
• Senior Resident Research Associate of National Research Council, (USA) at Fatigue and Fracture Branch of NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA (1980-1982)
• Chairman (1996-2000), Council for Scientific & Industrial Consultancy, IISc
• Coordinator (1987–91), Joint Advanced Technology program, IISc
• Coordinator (1993-2000) Member of ARDB Structures Panel
• President (2001-2003) Institute of Smart Materials, Structures and Systems
• President (2003–04), Advanced Computing and Communications Society
• Member of the Governing Board, RV-TIFAC Composite Design Center
• Vice President, Institute of Smart materials, Structures and Systems (ISSS).
• Member(1985–93), Co-ordinator (1993-2000), Aeronautics R&D Board, Structures Panel.
• Indian Representative, Executive Council of International Congress of Fracture (ICF) (1984–89).
• Associate Editor, Journal of the Aeronautical Society of India, 1988
• Guest Editor for three Special Issues of the Journal on Fracture Mechanics, published in honour of Prof. G.R. Irwin.
• Member, Working Group for Development of Fracture Control Plan on PSLV Programs, VSSC, Trivandrum.
• Member, Task team for Fracture Criterion in Design of Pressure Vessels/Rocket Motor Casings formed between VSSC, Trivandrum; NAL, Bangalore; and IISc, Bangalore.
• Member, Mission Advisory Committee, Advanced composites Mission, DST, New Delhi.
• Senior Associate, National Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore.
• Visiting Scientist, Analytical Services Materials Inc., Hampton, Virginia, USA (1987)

Awards and Honours
• Sri Tamma Sambayya medal - Andhra University, Waltair, 1959
• Senior Resident Research Associateship of National Research Council (USA)
• Aerospace Gold Medal for best paper - Institution of Engineers, 1988
• Biren Roy Trust Award of the Aeronautical Society of India, 1993
• ARDB Silver Jubilee award for best sponsored research project, 1996.
• IISc Alumni Award: Prof. Rustom Choksi award for Excellence in Engineering Research
• DRDO Academic Excellence Award 2002
• Padma Shri Award for Science & Engineering for the year, Government of India, 2005
• Aero Society Awards: Excellence in Aerospace Education Biren Roy Trust Award
• Institution of Engineers: Gold Medal for best paper
• Distinguished Engineer, Recognised on 37th Engineers Day by the Institution of Engineers, 2004
• Lifetime Achievement Medal will be awarded by International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering & Sciences (ICCES), Changwon, Korea, 2014 for seminal contributions to damage tolerance methodologies and to education of generations of students in India
• Lifetime Service Award by Society of Indian Aerospace Technologies & Industries (SIATI), 2012 for the outstanding contributions in the field of Education and Research in Aerospace
• Award of Senior Scientist by the World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM) and Asia Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM), Australia, 2010–11