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• 4th Indo-German Workshop

  • 17 Sep 2016
  • BITS, Pilani

  The 4th Indo-German Workshop on Sustainable Engineering 17-18 September 2016, BITS Pilani

  4th Indo-German Workshop

  17 September 2016

  The 4th Indo-German Workshop on Sustainable Engineering was organized by the Indo-German centre for sustainable manufacturing during 17-18 September 2016 at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus. Prof. Souvik Bhattacharyya, Vice-Chancellor of BITS Pilani and the Chief Guest at the inaugural ceremony emphasized the need of sustainability in the modern era in all spheres of the engineering and sciences. He elaborated how sustainability has become integral with thermal engineering curriculum since his days as an engineering student. Prof. A. K. Sarkar, Director of BITS Pilani, Pilani campus welcomed the participants and exhorted the participants to practice sustainability in day to day life. Dr. Reinhard Pittschellis, Global Development Research Head of FESTO Didactic SE, Germany was the guest of honour for the 4th edition of the Indo-German workshop. He emphasized the need of learning factories for the skill development of engineering graduates. Prof. Kuldip Singh Sangwan, the convener of the workshop and the coordinator of the Indo-German centre for sustainable manufacturing introduced the theme of the workshop. He elaborated how the learning factories can be used to improve the skills of the graduate engineers in India to make them directly employable by the industry. Various topics related to learning factories, sustainability education, IoT, and Industry 4.0 were discussed by speakers from industry and academia. Dr R Pittschellis; Prof. Kuldip Singh Sangwan; Dr Gerrit Posselt, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany; Mr Sameer Seksaria, Vice President, Aditya Birla Group Corporate Business Excellence; Mr Kamal Batra and his team, PTC; Dr K S Raju, CEERI Pilani, Dr K K Gupta, Dr M S Soni, Dr Samita Raghuvanshi, Dr Srinivas Kota, and Mr Vikrant Bhakar delivered various lectures on the theme of the workshop. The star attraction of the workshop was the demonstration of the learning factory by the Festo India Ltd. Prof. S C Sivasubramanian, Registrar and Dean Administration shared his views on sustainability and its importance as chief guest at the valedictory session. 53 participants from Germany and India attended the workshop.

• BITSync 2016 The first pan-American BITSian Conference

  • 20 Sep 2016
  • BITS Pilani

  BITSync 2016 The first pan-American BITSian Conference

  BITSync 2016 The first pan-American BITSian Conference

  20 September 2016

  The inaugural pan-American professional and cultural conference for BITS Alumni in Silicon Valley and from across the world, BITSync 2016, was held in Palo Alto, California on 17th September 2016. Prof Souvik Bhattacharyya, Vice Chancellor, BITS Pilani addressed the over 300 gathering highlighting the role played by the alumni in building the BITS Pilani brand name and how events such as BITSync goes a long way in its strengthening. He was accompanied by Prof A K Sarkar, Director, Pilani Campus. Prof Bhattacharyya briefed the Alumni about the Physical infrastructure & the latest developments in various spheres and presented the initiatives that are on the anvil where the alumni are going to be intimately engaged to support various instructional and research processes of the institute. He also mentioned the plans to have a structured Alumni Cell in the University to closely interface with the Alumni on several fronts. The critical contribution of the Alumni in the institute’s journey to excellence was also discussed.

• 49th Engineers' Day 2016 Celebrations at BITS Pilani

  • 16 Sep 2016
  • BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

  49th Engineers' Day 2016 Celebrations at BITS Pilani

  49th Engineers' Day 2016 Celebrations at BITS Pilani

  16 September 2016

  15 September is celebrated every year in   the   country   as   “Engineers’   Day” to commemorate the birthday of the legendary engineer Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. Sir Visvesvaraya, an eminent Indian engineer and statesman.  Due to   his   outstanding   contribution to the society, Government of India conferred “Bharat Ratna” on this legend in the year 1955. A theme of national importance is chosen every year by the National Council of the Institution and deliberated at its various State/Local Centres to educate the engineering fraternity in general and the society in particular. This year the theme is : Skill Development for Young Engineers to Reform the Core Sector: Vision 2025 .This time  the Government of India has set a target to impart the necessary skills to 500 million people by the year 2022,  identifying five sectors, i.e. infrastructure, auto, building and construction, textiles and transportation, with the expectation to create majority of employment.
  
  BITS Pilani, Pilani campus was celebrating the 49th Engineers' Day to commemorate the birthday of the legendary engineer Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya on 15th September 2016. Quiz competition, poster making competition and panel Discussions were organized  during the event. After the invocation and lighting of lamp and floral tributes to Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, four minute movie on the life of Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, has shown. The theme of the Day was introduced by Dr. Manoj Soni, the  Convenor of the event which was followed by  a panel discussion. The panelists included Prof. Souvik Bhattacharyya, VC, BITS Pilani, Prof. A K Sarkar, Director, BITS-Pilani, Pilani campus, Prof. Chandra Shekhar,  Ex- Director CEERI, Dr. Tapomoy Guha Sarkar, faculty Department of Physic,  two students Ms. Ramya Vadigineni and Mr. Vishwesh Shrimali and Moderator, Prof. S. K. Choudhary, faculty. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Each panelist had expressed their views on the theme that how to develop different skills among the young Engineers to reform the core Sector.
   
  Prof. Choudhary, started the  discussion with the objectives of the Skill Development Ministry and also discussed about the problems regarding the rejection of the trained people by the industry. Prof. Bhattacharyya threw lights on the importance technical skill enhancement by both the Government sector and Non government sectors through their activities. He also shared the statistics describing the employability in various sectors like IT, basic Science, Pharmacy, Polytechnic, Engineering, etc. .  Prof Sarkar said skill is now a days are becoming an important part of our career. It is not possible to impart all the skill in a span of four years time, so he suggested the students to learn their subjects seriously, which help them to correlate the things in future. Prof. Chandra Sekhar , highlighting the importance of the cross cultural and cross national skills development he said that the profession of Engineering is the work of imagination. Dr. Guha Sarkar, highlighted the importance of the role of a instructor in developing the values, skills and ideas among the students. The students from the panel said that most of the engineers of our country lack mostly the communication skill and  it is the duty of the Government to make them aware of it and also discussed several problems related to the skill developments among the engineers. At the end of the event prizes were distributed for the quiz competition and vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. Soni.

• BITS Pilani Sports Fest Catches Nationwide Attention

  • 14 Sep 2016
  • BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

  BITS Pilani Sports Fest Catches Nationwide Attention

  BITS Pilani Sports Fest Catches Nationwide Attention

  14 September 2016

  With only a few days left for the BITS Open Sports Meet (BOSM), the annual sports fest of BITS Pilani, the campus is brimming with enthusiasm. Expecting to host 1500 participants, compared to 1200 last year, from around 70 colleges across the country and from Dubai and Sri Lanka, the college’s fest commences on the 15th of September and will last for four days.
  
  The meet sees fierce competition in 16 sports, including basketball, football, cricket and badminton. Apart from these, BOSM also engages those who are not athletically inclined with a variety of casual games, shows and stalls. A highlight of this year’s edition is a set of wrestling exhibition matches by members of the BSF. Furthermore, this edition of BOSM will see Lagori, the Bengaluru-based folk rock fusion band, performing in Pilani.
   
  Past chief guests have included world class athletes - the likes of Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, who has not only won a silver medal in the 2004 Athens Olympics but is also currently the Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting. This year’s chief guests are Babitha Phogat, a Commonwealth Games gold medallist and with medals in World Wrestling Championships and Asian Wrestling Championship, and Sanjeev Rajput, who has won multiple medals in the Commonwealth and Asian games.
  
  Like every year, this BOSM was also preceded by the fourth edition of Junoon, a sports fest for the differently abled. Hosted by NSS, BITS Pilani, this two-day national event is the students’ attempt to give the differently abled a shot at sports. Ms. Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla, Arjuna awardee and a Padma Shri recipient, was the chief guest for the event. A decorated para-athlete with over 300 medals to her name and her extensive work with children with disabilities, Ms. Malathi is a champion on the field and off it as well.
  
  Sports fests are an important part of any student’s life, regardless of athletic ability, since they stand for so much more than a collection of physical activities. It is indeed reassuring to see one of the nation’s top institutes ensuring that its students are exposed to the increasingly rare qualities of sportsmanship and team spirit.