Greetings to all the Freshers for making it to IIT Kharagpur. Did you get your favourite branches? If not, you still have another chance. It is often mentioned that “Your admission rank dictates the department you enter at IITs, whereas your determination does not.” Nevertheless, in several IITs, including IIT Kharagpur, students are provided with …
आई आई टी खड़गपुर का कैंपस अगर वाकई में ‘एक शहर-जैसा’ प्रतीत होता है, तो तमाम तरह कि दुकानों के बीच बिन मिठाई की दुकान के, प्रसिद्ध ‘मिष्टी-प्रेमी’ बंगाली उपनाम कुछ अजीब मालुम पड़ता। इसी सन्दर्भ में कैंपस निवासियों के जिह्वा को वर्षों से मिठास प्रदान करने वाली एवं उनको ‘मिष्टी-सुख’ का एहसास कराने वाली …
Humans of KGP | Bimal Kumar Ghosh (Bablu Da) | Bimala Sweets Read More »
Department change remains a hot topic among freshers as soon as they enter the campus. Everyone’s rushing and burning the midnight oil to achieve the department of their choice. The department/branch of an individual changes based on the CGPA they obtain during their first year, the cutoff being 8.5, in which some of the courses are not accounted for.
Campus Placement is undoubtedly the most crucial phase in a college student’s life. It offers them in-door opportunities to start their professional career in their desired direction just after completing their college degrees and build a concrete foundation for their long-term career goals. This year also, the placement drive was carried through virtual mode in the wake of the ongoing pandemic. Compared to last year, this year’s placements were significantly better. A massive spike in the total number of offers as well as the highest CTC was observed.
Moving forward with our Core vs Non-Core Series, we have with us Kunal Pattanayak, a final year PhD student at Cornell University. Kunal completed his MTech under the Dual Degree programme in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 2018.
21st March 2022 saw students gathering in front of the main building at 1:45 pm protesting for an open house after receiving irresponsible and unsatisfactory responses in the meeting held between student representatives and the administration on 16th March regarding the mandatory calling back of students. The students’ demand for holding an Open House was …
On the 17th of March, 2022 International Relations Cell, IIT Kharagpur conducted an Open House on Semester Away Internship Program (SAIP) & New Curriculum at Netaji Auditorium. The event took place in Hybrid mode to accommodate the students of First Year with the other students on the campus. This Open House took place to address …
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Moving forward with the Core vs Non-Core Series, we have with us Puja Paul & Swarit Dwivedi pursuing Chemical Engineering.
Instructions You have to attempt the paper according to your chosen portfolio(s). To eliminate confusion we are listing all the possible combinations here in order of precedence.a. Only Design/Cartooning : 1 article + 1 artworkb. Design/Cartooning + Any Other Portfolio : 1 article + 1 artworkc. Only Literary (or) Literary + Videography/Management : 2 …
Moving forward with the Core vs Non-Core Series, we have with us Saurabh Mirani, a Robotics Engineer (Human-Robot Interaction), currently working at Flexiv Ltd. Saurav did his Masters from the University of California San Diego, while having completed B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 2019.
Omkar Roy, Graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering in 2020, Graduate Engineer at Johnson Matthey This micro specialization will allow the students to understand how the nature of fluid flow changes under severely confined conditions. The specialization will focus on how the effect of different forces changes/ get altered in the mesoscale, due to …
Kumar Shubham, Graduated in 2020 from EEC Department, working at Qualcomm in the area of communications Embedded Wireless Systems This course aims to disseminate the necessary knowledge base on signal processing methodology, algorithms and protocols for design and development of embedded wireless communication systems. Source: Brief description from Micro Curricula Q.1. In your curriculum, you …
-Feedback by Runjhun Goswami, Graduated in 2020, Architecture and Regional Planning “Innovation, entrepreneurship, and enterprise are inextricably related. An executive is expected to possess entrepreneurial qualities for effective decision making that call for innovative thinking about enterprise resources. The proposed micro specialization has been structured to impart knowledge in a balanced way so as to …
Anirban Majumder, Graduated from Department of Chemical Engineering, in 2020, PhD candidate at University of Pennsylvania This micro specialization will allow the students to understand how the nature of fluid flow changes under severely confined conditions. The specialization will focus on how the effect of different forces changes/ get altered in the mesoscale, due to …
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Feedback by Rishabh Kumar, 5th year UG, Mathematics and Computing “Theory of optimization plays an important role in Engineering management and mathematics and is closely related to several other fields in decision science. The objective of this micro specialization framework is to provide a solid foundation of various optimization techniques and their applications.” -Source: Brief Description …
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Moving ahead with the Core vs Non-Core series, we have Arjun Wadhawan, a delightful personality, who has completed his doctorate in Computational Chemistry from the University of Amsterdam. Arjun graduated from the Department of Geology and Geophysics, IIT Kharagpur in 2015, worked as a Petro physicist at Schlumberger and soon realized his passion for Computational …
Despite being surrounded by a plethora of fields, our vision is often obscured by just a few popular ones. The hidden fields are apparently less traveled paths and students are reluctant to travel and explore these paths. Awaaz, IIT Kharagpur is here with a new series of articles “Core vs Non Core – Grad School …
Arghyanil Bhattacharjee – Composite Materials & Polymers Read More »
There has been a lot of fuss among the student community regarding the reopening of campus and warning mail sent to students for filling the resource-constrained form not intended for them. Awaaz reached out to the Dean of Student Affairs to inquire about the concerns of the student community and got the administration’s stance regarding …
Awaaz, IIT Kharagpur was given the opportunity for asking questions to both the candidates in their respective Statements of Purpose, held on 3rd August 2021 for TSG Elections 2021-22. In this article, we are highlighting the questions asked to the candidates, the rationale behind the question, and the answers given by the candidates. You can …
SOAPBOX | Awaaz’s questionnaire to the VP candidates | TSG Elections 2021-22 Read More »
Elections remain to be a fundamental core of any democracy; it won’t be unjustified to say that an election is the manifestation of democracy. The TSG Constitution came into being in 1952, and we have seen many elections since then. It is undeniable that representation of student opinions and interests in the administration is of …
In these unprecedented times when the needs of the students have to be addressed in a more coherent and proactive way, an elected Students’ Senate becomes much more important. Unlike previous elections, this time the candidature for the post of Vice President of Technology Students’ Gymkhana was radically different in many ways, it almost seemed …
Curious Case of KGP’s Nomination Withdrawal Syndrome – the problem goes way beyond this Read More »
This year, two new posts are being introduced in the Gymkhana Elections for Students’ Welfare Secretary – Academic Help Subcommittee and Community & Crisis Subcommittee. Read what Nikhil Kumar and Aditi Singhania, Officiating General Secretary Students’ Welfare, have to say about them.
In continuation to our previous posts, here we have the Sports and Games Secretaries from the session 2019-20. In this article we have contacted: Aviraj Bevli, Anshul Gupta, Satya Sai Kiranmayee, Piyush Sahu, D Abhilash, Siddharth Gandhi, Hardik Shah, Himanshu Dang, and Raju Ram to share their experiences.
In continuation to our previous post, here we have the position holders of Technology Secretaries from the session 2019-20. Do read this article to know what experiences Utkarsh Agrawal, Devaki Nandana, Bhavik Jain, and Vasu Chourasia have to share with us.
We contacted the previously elected secretaries (for 2019-20) to share their experiences. In this article, we have Nikhil Agarwal, Aditya Khandelwal, Deepa Fageriya, Ratan Raj, Rajnandni Sharma, and Inakshi Kar, who held Social & Cultural posts during their tenure.
Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship (RMSoEE), founded at IIT Kharagpur in 2010, aims to incubate the start-ups from the student community by getting them the infrastructure and technical expertise to develop their product and business plan while guiding them through the route from lab to market. We talked to Prof. Mrigank Sharad, a faculty …
“Everything around you that you call life was built by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again” -Steve Jobs Smart India Hackathon is an annual nationwide innovation-driven competition for college students and held separately for school …
Organising Protests, conducting class-boycotts, running social media campaigns – in some way or the other, the KGP community is in a state of turbulence. Our Director could offer little relief with a series of unofficial statements about the administration’s approach to reopening campus but students are yet to receive a concrete plan. The student’s senate …
Veni, Vidi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered). The phrase is used to describe a quick, decisive victory. IIT Kharagpur seems to have tweaked it, to aptly explain its loss, in a long-drawn, slow battle, where nothing except its lack of initiative is to be blamed. In the reply given to the Students’ Senate, …
The amount of rising protests in the last few days by the student community has clearly indicated the apparent uncertainty and vagueness in the plans, that the administration presents in several official and unofficial forms, and the existing lack of communication with the students regarding the reopening of campus. Awaaz, along with the students’ senate is …
In wake of the protest from the last few days, Awaaz, IIT Kharagpur presents to you a detailed analysis of all the shortcomings of the administration, and evidence and most importantly- guidelines for students from sister IITs and some other institutes calling back their students.
To discuss the issues related to reopening the campus and conducting the next semester. Awaaz reached out to the Vice President, TSG, to inquire about various issues in detail.
It takes a huge amount of guts, ambition and skill to tell stories about the sections of the society considered taboo. The people we look down upon consciously or subconsciously, the people who are no different from us, yet we treat them quite differently. ‘Pichhutan’, a short film, is another step towards such storytelling. A group …
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In the wake of the feedback we have seen regarding various issues with the online conduction of Autumn 2020 semester, we contacted some faculty members whose taught courses the students claimed to have enjoyed, managed with relative ease and gained good training out of them. We then interviewed those who responded and then articulated their …
In a proud moment for IIT Kharagpur, the novel technology for the rapid and ultra-low-cost diagnosis of COVID-19, developed by a team of researchers in IIT Kharagpur led by Prof. Suman Chakraborty (Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department) and Dr Arindam Mondal (Assistant Professor, School of Bio Science) has been approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research …
KGP’s indigenously developed COVID testing kit — COVIRAP Read More »
Disclaimer: All the facts, and opinions presented in this article have been scouted from various documents provided by relevant Hall Employees Union representatives and based on conversations with them. On the 10th of December this winter, Hall Employees Union started a silent protest asking for their demands to be met. One can still see a group …
Internet connectivity is a basic need in the present scenario, to satisfy our needs in instant communication, exposure to the global hub, easy access to information and staying connected. The necessity of stable and high-speed internet connectivity was felt by the students and staff, so there was a provision of WiFi connectivity in various places …
Note: Awaaz, IIT Kharagpur has substantial evidences and proofs to justify each and every statement stated underneath. Just when the potential candidates for the post of Vice President were gearing up, a sudden change in the rules for eligibility to contest upcoming elections shattered the ambitions and aspirations of two of them. The change in rules, …
Bending the IIT KGP election rules: the abuse of power! Read More »
Awaaz, IIT Kharagpur conducted a survey regarding the general issues and concerns of student community so that the candidates could design their crucial SOP according to the needs of the KGP community. Based on the responses of the survey, we hereby present the analysis of the ‘Pre Election Survey’. So, let’s have a look at …
What’s the Good Word || 8th April, 2019Gold: PatelSilver: RKBronze: Azad Short Film Making || 7th April, 2019Gold: NehruSilver: BRHBronze: MT Street Play || 7th April, 2019Gold: RPSilver: PatelBronze: RK Thermocol and Clay Modelling || 31st March, 2019Gold: AzadSilver: PatelBronze: Nehru Groups || 31st March, 2019Gold: RPSilver: RKBronze: LLRCopper: AzadIndividual Awards:Best Vocalist: Nikhil Kh …
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What is open source programming and why are we discussing it? Open source software refers to software whose source code is made available freely to all the users to modify and distribute according to the requirement of the user. The development of such source codes is called Open Source Software development and the mutual sharing …
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The nerve-wracking competition between halls of residence for the general championship 2018–19 crown is up and running. With three out of 15 sports on program completed, we decided to present current standings and a brief description of the sports that have culminated. We will keep updating this as and when a sport concludes. CRICKET As …
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To fulfil our daily appetite, our halls have mess services. Though it is one of the basic amenities, yet it remains consistent as one of the controversial issues pertaining to the campus for years. We have been waiting for changes to come but the administration seems frozen on this matter. To raise voice against this …
Disclaimer: Article under “Your Perspective” is the perspective of the students of IIT Kharagpur on the prevailing issues and the incidents. Awaaz, IIT Kharagpur has no take on this. My name is Ksheera Sagar K N. I am an alumni of IIT Kharagpur of the class of 2018. I am currently enrolled in PhD Statistics …
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To ease down the passport application procedure and the hassle students needed to through, a new ‘Passport Seva Kendra’ has been set up in IIT Kharagpur at the Technology Mukhya Dakghar. The procedure to get your passport made is as follows: Get an appointment in the PSK office through online application(Link for the online application: https://portal2.passportindia.gov.in/AppOnlineProject/user/RegistrationBaseAction Applicants …
Every engineering aspirant has a dream of clearing JEE and getting admission into IITs. However, many students are not able to get their desired branch and hence, wish to get a department change at the end of their first year. The main criteria for department change is to score a CGPA greater than 8.5. Moreover, …
The layout of much awaited Assimilation Program for second-year undergraduate students has been released for the hall and central activities [Photographs attached in the post and Departmental events schedule yet to be released]. In this reference, Awaaz, IIT Kharagpur had an interview with UG representative in the Senate, Mr. Krushi Bandi who expressed his opinions …
IIT Kharagpur has always been recognized as one of the pioneers of academic excellence which has gone on to contribute heavily in the development of our nation. With its motto ‘Dedicated to the service of the nation’, the students graduating from the institute have been of the highest merit and distinct character, who have achieved …
Pictures narrate a story, don’t they? Around a month ago, most of us witnessed some great effort put in by few halls in the Inter-Hall Gardening competition and the fresh pictures of lovely gardens were enthusiastically shared. It was the culmination of months of hard work of staffs and their perseverance in nurturing the flowers. …
