SAIF-SPIHER has organized a National Workshop on Analytical Instrumentation Technique – 2015 (NWAIT’15), a grand scientific event was organized to create awareness and hands on training to the researchers about the advanced reflectance spectroscopic techniques to characterize the new materials. Dr. V. Ravichandran, Vice Chancellor, SPIHER delivered the Presidential Address. Dr. R. Jayavel, Director (Research), Anna University inaugurated the workshop. Around 150 participants have got benefitted with the Lectures delivered by Dr. S. Gunasekaran, Dean (R&D), St. Peter’s Institute of Higher Education & Research and Dr. G. Anbalagan, Professor, Department of Nuclear Physics, University of Madras, over ATR- A Fortune to FTIR Spectroscopy for Materials Characterization and UV-Visible Spectroscopy for Materials Characterization. In continuation to the lectures, experimental demonstrations were made at SAIF-SPIHER.