The Institution of Engineers (India),
Varanasi Local Centre
I.T. - B.H.U., Students’ Chapter
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The Institution of Engineers (India), IT-BHU, Students Chapter, has by far continued to conduct Quiz Competitions, Classes on technical issues and Paper presentation sessions as its endeavors for the benefit of IEI members of Varanasi Students’ Chapter. We are pleased to state that this year also, IEI successfully conducted a quiz competition, a class on electronic components and circuits and a paper presentation session as its events during the session 2007-2008. With the consent and direction of our Student Advisor Dr. R.K. Mishra, a quiz competition was organized on 29 January 2008, a class on 30 January 2008 and a paper presentation session on 31 January 2008.
QUIZ COMPETITION
The Quiz Competition was held for all IT Students and IEI members on 29 January. 2008. A wide publicity was done through departmental notices and hostel posters. Vaibhav Srivastava (B. Tech. Part III-Electronics) gratefully agreed to be the quizmaster for the event and his talent and knowledge beautifully helped the organizers. The quizmaster decided to hold a written qualifying round to select teams amongst the rich audience of 100 students. A team of 2 students was allowed to participate and 6 teams were selected after the written round. These six teams faced a grueling quizzing session from the quizmaster and finally the scorer declared the results. The team of Vivekanand S. and Mandeep Jindal stood first. The team of Sunny Talwar and Akash Kumar and the team of Abhijit Shukla and Raj Kamal Ranjan jointly shared the runner-up prize. The team of Prateek Gupta and Sreedhar K. were awarded the third prize.
The quizzing session also included surprise questions for the audience. The winners were awarded CDs and DVDs and the audience were awarded ‘chocolates’ for the surprise questions. The event was conducted and compered by Praharsh Sharma (2nd year Electronics and Member, IEI, 2006-07 and 2007-08) who was thankful to the Students Convener Sandeep Singh (3rd year Electronics and Students Convener, IEI, Varanasi Students’ Chapter) for his co-operation and guidance. The event was held at G-7, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IT-BHU on 29 January 2008 and was beautifully appreciated by the audience and saw encouraging participation from the students.
CLASS ON ELECTRONICS
A Class on ‘Electronics Components, Circuitry and Oscilloscope’ was organized by IEI, Students’ Chapter, Varanasi on 30 January 2008 at G-7, Department of Mechanical Engineering. The class lecture was given by Ashish Ranjan and Himanshu Shekhar (both of 3rd year Electronics). The class was attended by about 60 students interested in the field of Electronics competence and circuitry. The lecture imparted to the students, a good deal of basic knowledge in the field of Analog and Digital Electronics, Cathode Ray Oscilloscope and recent developments in the field. The organizers, Sandeep Singh and Praharsh Sharma were thankful to Ashish Ranjan and Himanshu Shekhar for devoting there time and concern.
PAPER PRESENTATION
Lastly, IEI, Varanasi Students’ Chapter also organized the most sought after and awaited paper presentation session on 31 January 2008 at G-7, Department of Mechanical Engineering. The organizers received a good response as a result of wide publicity through academic department notices and hostel wall-maps.
During the presentation, 10 different papers on varied topics were presented by the students. Most of the papers depicted original research work and were greatly appreciated by the judges and the audience. Dr. Satyabrata Jit (Department of Electronics Engineering), Dr. P. Ghosh (Department of Mechanical Engineering) and Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Singh (School of Materials Science and Technology) were the judges for the event. IEI, Varanasi Students’ Chapter was pleased to have amongst them, Er. N.D. Tiwari (IG, Department of Defense Services) as the chief guest for the event. Er. Tiwari is also Ex-Chairman of IEI, Varanasi Chapter and was very enthusiastic to witness the proceedings of the paper presentation session.
Dr. R.K. Mishra, Students Adviser was also present during the event to bestow his guidance on the organizers and participants. The winners for the event were awarded certificates and prizes (Winner- 1GB Pen drive and Runner up - 512MB pen drive). Deep Jariwala (2nd year Metallurgy) presented a paper on ‘Molecular Dynamics Study of Wetting of Carbon Nano-tubes’ and was judged as the winner. Harsh Agrawal (4th year Electrical) was judged as the runner-up for his paper on ‘Single Spin Universal Boolean Logic Gate’ and the team of Alok Kumar Singh (3rd year Electronics) and Himanshu Shekhar were awarded the third prize for their paper on ‘Temporal Video Segmentation for Video Indexing’.
The winners were awarded certificates and prizes by Dr. Satyabrata Jit, Dr. Akhilesh Kumar and Dr. R.K. Mishra during the valedictory. The event was compered and conducted by Praharsh Sharma under the able guidance of Sandeep Singh. Finally, Dr. R. K. Mishra delivered a vote of thanks to the staff, organizers and members of IEI and expressed his gratefulness towards the judges and showered his blessings on the participants.
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 | PRAHARSH SHARMA B. Tech. Part II, Department of Electronics Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University Email: praharshsharmaster@gmail.com |