Summer Innovation Award: Fourth-year UG students who carried out summer internship during the summer of 2021 presented their work to BSBE Faculty members on 25 September 2021. The Faculty members evaluated their presentations, the quantum of work done during the internship time and the report/recommendations from their respective supervisors. Mr. Anubhav Kumar has been declared as winner of Summer Innovation Award established under “Joy Gill Endowment Fund”. Ms. Divya Adil was announced as the first Runner-up. Ms. Ruby Kumari and Mr. Sidhant Chandak were declared as the Second Runners-up. Mr. Ravi Praksh Tripathi and Mr. Nikhil Bandi were announced as Finalists.
The above students received certificates during the Twentieth Year Anniversary Function of BSBE Department which was celebrated from 27-30 September 2021. The students also received cash awards from the Joy Gill Endowment Fund.
Bio-Business Plan competition: Under Joy Gill Endowment Fund, Bio-Business plan competition is usually held during the Institute’s Annual Technology Festival Techkriti in March. Bio-Business competition could not be held due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Foundation is supported by Mr. N.R. Narayana Murthy, an IITK alumnus. The Research-I Foundation grant is utilized to enhance the overall research output and research environment of the CSE department. During the 2021-2022 financial year, this fund is utilized in the following ways -
Excellence Fund has been created in each academic department and Inter-Disciplinary Programs (IDPs) to provide more non-governmental financial support from alumni and well-wishers. The funds are raised by the respective departments and a matching grant on such donations is given from IITK (General Corpus) for the utilization to each department and IDPs to conduct various activities and to encourage fund raising programs
This Fund is used for the payment of registration fee of nine faculty members and six PhD students toward participation in the REACH symposium. Among the nine faculty members, four were scheduled to speak at the symposium. They are Prof. Sandeep Shukla, Prof. Piyush Rai, Prof. Swaprava Nath, and Prof. Pramod Subramanyan. Another five faculty members were scheduled to attend the symposium. They are Prof. Debadatta Mishra, Prof. Preeti Malakar, Prof. Ashutosh Modi, Prof. Hamim Zafar, and Prof. Swarnendu Biswas. REACH symposium is an interdisciplinary summit among multiple departments of IIT Kanpur to encourage faculty members and PhD students to take up interdisciplinary research. It was planned to be held from 29-31 March 2020 in Lucknow. The REACH symposium could not be held due to Coronavirus pandemic.
Considering increasing expenses on academic activities in different departments and less support from the government, IITK created Departmental Excellence Fund in each academic department and Inter-Disciplinary Program. These funds are utilized for various academic activities including support to faculty and students attending national/international conferences, organizing seminars, etc. NRNM Endowment was created by Dr. Narayana Murthy and the endowment is utilized by different departments and Inter-Disciplinary Programs for their various activities.
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S.No. | Department | Activity |
1. | Humanities & Social Sciences | Partial support to students/faculty for attending internationalconferences/workshops. |
2. | Earth Sciences | Partial support to students/faculty for attending internationalconferences/workshops. |
3. | Material Sciences & Engineering | Cash awards to students for publications, department workshops and purchase of equipments |
4. | Chemical Engineering | Special lectures and travel support |
5. | Physics | Partial travel support to students attending international conferences. |
6. | Mathematics & Statistics | Department of Colloquium and Open House activity |
7. | Computer Science & Engineering | Publish half-yearly newsletter & dispatch to top 200 CSEdepartments in the countr |
8. | Industrial & Management Engineering | Student research award, partial travel support to students forattending national/international conferences/workshops |
9. | Mechanical Engineering | Partial support to students/faculty for attending internationalconferences/workshops |
10. | Electrical Engineering | Partial support to students/faculty for attending internationalconferences/workshops |
11. | Aerospace Engineering | Partial travel support to post-graduate students for attending national/international conferences. |
12. | Chemistry | Partial travel support for visits of faculty, travel allowance ofeminent scientists for invited lectures. |
13. | Biological Sciences & Bioengineering | Travel allowance of eminent keynote speakers for invited lectures on BSBE Day. |
14. | Civil Engineering | Partial travel support to students and faculty attending nationals and internationals conferences. |
15. | Civil Engineering | Partial travel support to students and faculty attending nationals and internationals conferences. |
Design Program | Accommodation provided to visiting Design Program experts on campus. | |
2. | Nuclear Engineering & Technology Program | Partial travel support to students attending international conferences. |
3. | The Center for Lasers & Photonics | Partial support to students for attending national/internationalconferences/workshops |
The Department continues to recognize & appreciate the kind support of Chevron Corporation through the setting up of The Foundation for Chemical Engineering with a corpus in excess of Rs. 100 lakhs. The utility of the funds received from the interest of The Foundation has a significant impact in assisting the department in conducting various activities and planning for the future. The various activities proposed were:
Due to the pandemic & its widespread effect of curtailed interactions, the department was unable to undertake several activities pertaining to points (vi) & (vii) in the year 2021-2022.
Prof. Ashoke Sen (MSC 2/PHY/1978) contributed Rs. 10 lakhs towards modernization of the Seminar Room of Physics Department and dedicated the same in the honor of Professor Amal K Raychaudhuri in the year 2015-16. During 2019-20, Department of Physics utilized the interest earnings of the fund towards payment for purchase of green chalk board and repairing of its sliding system.
The 12th National Workshop for UG students of architecture was held in IIT Kanpur from 1-7 July, 2019 in which 60 students who had completed six semesters of studies in their respective architecture programmes, from 14 institutes representing 12 cities from all over India particitated in this 7-day workshop. Ms. Annanya Jha, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, and Ms. Sayad Kashaf Fatima, Dr. D.Y. Patil College of Architecture, Navi Mumbai secured first positions.A 10-day (June 27-July 06, 2019) workshop on Earthquake Engineering Literature Survey was conducted in which postgraduate students from engineering colleges across India participated. To spread the message of seismic safety among school children, who are the future builders of the country, NICEE has been organizing Inter-school Quiz based on its most popular publication, Earthquake Tips since 2009. This year there was an overwhelming response from schools for registration for the quiz.
Forty-eight schools from thirty cities participated in the quiz. The schools were given 50 copies of the Tips, to be used for selecting a team of four participants from each school from Class VIII to Class XI. In the final round of the quiz held on January 26, 2020 seven schools participated-DAV, Ludhiana; Centre Point School, Nagpur; DPS Gandhidham; Nehru World School, Ghaziabad; Emerald Heights International School, Indore; Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania School, Thane and Sheiling House School, Kanpur.participating