Seminar for VLSI/ASIC (Pragyan) held at campus on Feb 21 & 22.
(Report forwarded by Vikalp Agarwal, Civil 2008 and Nihal Ansari, Mechanical 1982)
(Chronicle note: Mr. Manthani Sridhar Reddy (Electronics 1982) is Senior Director of nVidia. He is one of our active volunteers and has pledged for the campus improvement projects.)
Mr. Manthani Sridhar Reddy had conducted a seminar for electronics students on Feb 21 & 22, 2008. The report is attached.
NVIDIA Graphics Pvt. Ltd. recently organized a 2 day workshop (Feb 21 & 22) for from Electrical and Electronics streams, who wish to pursue a career/research in the VLSI/ASIC field. The workshop was organized by the Industry Institute Partnership Cell under the banner of PraGyaN – The Workshop Series.
The workshop, spanning over 2 days covered, Chip Design Overview & a special one day workshop called “Right from the Start”.
Day 1: “Chip Design Overview”
One day training on Chip Design provided a bird’s eye-view of what it takes to build a chip. The program introduced students to the chip design flow, tools and methodologies (such as Verilog) along with some of the engineering considerations that go into building a chip.
This workshop was conducted by Mr. Sridhar Manthani (our alumnus) and Mr. Sunil Nanda, both of whom are senior directors at NVIDIA Graphics Pvt. Ltd. The workshop was also attended by faculty members as observers, faculty present were - Dr. Devender Singh, Electrical Engineering; Dr. RK Mishra, Electrical Engineering; Mr. P K Mukherjee, Electronics Engineering & Dr. Satyabrata Jit, Electronics Engineering.
The workshop was not open for all students and only 25 students were shortlisted from Electrical and Electronics Engineering from both B. Tech & M. Tech. There was a huge interest in students and the organizers had a tough time handling numerous requests to be accommodated.
The workshop was very well received and most students wanted it to be a little slower than it was. There was a considerable request to do more such events.
Day 2: “Right from start”
A 1 day workshop covering soft skills required to get successful in any work environment. The workshop covered topics like how to make the right career choices, opportunities in Engineering and what to expect from the work place once a student makes the transition to a professional work environment.
The workshop was conducted by Mr. Kedar Nayak from Navgati. This workshop was an instant hit with most students and Mr. Nayak established himself as a very friendly coach with the students.
The workshop was also attended by Dr. Devender Singh, Electrical Engineering; Dr. RK Mishra, Electrical Engineering & Dr. P. K. Mishra, Chemical Engineering, Chief Coordinator – IIPC.
The workshops were well managed and received an exceedingly overwhelming response. The only complains being the short duration and the restrictions on the number of participants.
Students have expressed a desire to have many more such workshops and the IIPC has also received written feedback about the future topics that they might be interested in.
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Additional links:
1) Photographs of the workshop
http://picasaweb.google.co.in/iipcell.bhu/NVIDIAWorkshopFeb2008/photo#s5171624816873488850
http://www.nvidia.in/page/home.html
