IIT AND KOTA

The Indian Institutes of Technology have fallen back on the old saying unity is strength after being ranked embarrassingly low among global universities for successive years. At a brainstorming session here today, directors and chairpersons of the 16 IITs discussed whether the tech schools should be projected as a single entity when agencies like the Times Higher Education, Quacquarelli Symonds and Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranked institutions. If the idea is followed through, sources in the HRD ministry and some IIT directors said, the premier institutions were likely to score higher on parameters like volume of research, technology transfer, international students, international faculty and peer comment. “We are considering this idea that all the IITs will present themselves as one entity or brand. We are going to write to the ranking agencies on this,” higher education secretary Ashok Thakur said after the meeting. Only four IITs ranked among the top 500 world instituti

Eager to make a mark on international ranking lists for educational institutions, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) on Thursday decided to step up inter-disciplinary research collaborations tailored to meet the national development agenda and open the premier engineering institutions to more foreign students at the post-graduate and research levels. This was agreed at a retreat of IIT Directors, hosted by the Union Human Resource Development Ministry, which was also attended by senior heads of public sector undertakings like Oil & Natural Gas Corporation and Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd, besides the Indian Council of Medical Research. In advocating greater intake of foreign students, the IITs see a double-advantage. First, it will help internationalise IITs. As per the report of the IIT Ranking Committee — which was presented and accepted at the Retreat — IITs are “weak, almost nowhere, on internationalisation” as per the criterion of the ranking agencies. Like the

The Board of Directors of Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) have decided to permit students of National Institute of Technology (NIT) to complete their final year in an IIT. The proposal will be placed before the meeting of the Standing Committee headed by Union Human Resource Development Minister M M Pallam Raju on January 7, 2013. Through this, the IITs will identify bright students from NITs with a consistently outstanding performance in the first three years of their engineering course, considering recommendations from their teachers and evaluate their research potential through an interview After identification, the students will be admitted immediately to an IIT and will complete their B Tech programme as well as their PhD in about five years. The B Tech degree could be awarded by the institute they came from and the PhD in due course by IIT. The move is expected to work at two levels: one, it will utilize the IIT resources optimally; two, the IITs will be able to

ISRO ignoring rover built by IIT-K ISRO had given a project to IIT Kanpur to develop a rover to be launched with Chandrayaan-II, which the university's scientists completed in 2010, but the space agency was yet to pick it up and make part payment to the institute, according to its professor.  When contacted, an Indian Space Research Organisation official said in Bangalore that they will take some time to respond. "In 2009, ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram had given a project to IIT Kanpur's mechanical engineering and electrical engineering departments to build a rover that would be launched along with Chandrayaan-II," Prof K S Venkatesh of IIT Kanpur's electrical engineering department said.  "ISRO had promised to give us Rs 7.5 lakh for the project, of which Rs 3.75 lakh was paid up front," he said.  The IIT-K professor said scientists at the institute had completed building the rover, weighing 100 kgs, in O

  IIT-Kanpur  student Shivam Kumarhas scored 99.98 percentile in the  Common Admission Test (CAT)  of IIM. Currently pursuing BTech and MTech dual degree five-year course from the civil engineering department of the institute, Kumar now aspires to to study in IIM-Ahmedabad. Speaking to TOI, Shivam attributed his success to his capability of  striking  a balance between his studies in IIT-K and CAT preparations. "Time management is everything in life. This is what I learnt during my stay on the IIT-K campus," said Shivam. He added that he had received a call from  IIM  but "I will like to pursue MBA in finance from Ahmedabad." Shivam's father Ajay Kumar is an IFS officer currently posted at Solan in Himachal Pradesh. Shivam's teacher Neeraj Prasad was in all praise for his hardwork. tnn He added that Shivam understood the importance of time management.

The Global Entrepreneurship Summit at IIT Kharagpur was organized with the aim of fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship among faculty students in india. The institute has perpetually inspired entrepreneurship with over fifty start-ups incubated within the last seven years. The GES was command here from Januqry 10-12 and witnessed the presence of stalwarts like Rajat Sharma (Chairman Asian nation TV), Avinash Vashistha (CMD Accenture India),Varun Agarwal (Author and Co-Founder Alma Mater), Arunanchalam Muruganantham (Jayaashree Industries), Farrah Acidwalla (Rockstah Media), Devita Saraf ( VU Technologies), Ira Trivedi (Novelist,Entrepreneur), MN Srinivasu (Billdesk). A large variety of workshops were organized to initiate the spirit of entrepreneurship. These were organized by IBM ( Cloud Computing), Infosys (Product Architecture), Flipkart (Supply Chain Management), Amazon net Services, bse Mahindra (Ideation and Development), bse (Capital Markets), NSE (Dynamics of Broking b

IIT-Madras ties up with 5 universities IIT-Madras has joined hands with  5  universities from across  the globe ,  together with  one in China, for collaboration in  research .  After  quite  a year of negotiations, Universite  de  Technologie  de  Troyes in France, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, University of Waterloo in  canada , University of  liverpool  in  uk  and National Tsing  hua  University in China have  involved  with IIT-M  to offer  joint  Doctor of Philosophy  programmes.  Lih J Chen, president of NTHU,  known as  the agreement with IIT-M a watershed moment for the Chinese varsity. "To perform   analysis  of  the very best  quality... it  will   not   just  be  associate degree  'in-house' affair," he said.  R Nagarajan, IIT-M dean of international & alumni relations, said: "We follow  an easy  4-stage  method ," he said. "We begin  with  college  collaboration,  locomote  to student exchanges,  that   results in  co-

There  are  singers.  and then  there  are  performers. Benny Dayal clearly belongs to the latter  class . He rocked Sunday evening at Saarang,  bestowed  by IIT Madras, with raw energy in his chartbuster numbers, providing the  zealous audience with some goosebump-inducing moments. While his rendition of  standard   Bollywood  songs clicked with most of the audience, the innovative twists he gave songs like Dil Se, Omana  penne  and even the evergereen Chinna Chinna Aasai... had the music aficionados hooked. once  the singer asked  the crowd  to bring out their cellphones  and lightweight  up the venue —  a practice  at IIT — the audience  joyfully  responded. What followed was a grand spectacle  within which ,  because the  singer competently   place  it, the 'stars visited earth for  a moment .' This was followed by  a vigorous  performance by standard   Bollywood  music  pair   salim  and Sulaiman,  who   belted  out their hit numbers,  therefore  keeping  the gang  on t

Welcome to kota "Yaar kota badal gya hai" "Yaar Kota mein ab voh baat nahi rahi" "Ab toh Bansal classes bhi tuthkar bikhar gya hai -Vibrant, Allen, Resonance, Motion, eduwave mein" "Kota jaakar bacche bigadh jaate hain" The above lines are said by students who have girlfriends in their cities, parents who pressurise their child to study and know that he will get spoilt in kota as well as by people who locality children went to kota but failed in exams. TO STUDENTS :- If you have made up your mind to come kota then mind you that you have to be honest to yourself. You have to be consistent with your completition of assignments. You get DPP(daily practice problems), sheets on the topics being taught in your classes. DPPs have question from 1-15(approx) & sheets divided into 3 or 4 parts as per difficulty level along with jee mains and advance questions. If you think its an easy work then mind you that please come out of your