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| + | [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F04%2F03&entity=Ar00812&sk=FCB4EC2B&mode=text Somdatta Basu, IIT students get lesson in humility ...in dining hall, April 3, 2018: ''The Times of India''] | ||
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| + | When third-year IIT-Kharagpur student Krushi Bandi served lunch to mess worker Sanjay Modak at the institute’s Lal Bahadur Shastri Hall, it wasn’t merely a temporary reversal of roles. For the institute, which churns out tech graduates who vie for multi-million-rupee starting salaries, this role reversal was meant to be a lesson in humility, a way of telling its students that life was worth more than the CGPAs — and the millions — earned. | ||
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| + | The oldest IIT has embarked on a unique programme to instil in its students life lessons that go beyond the chapters learnt in classrooms. Students have been waiting on their “mess bhaiyas” — and serving food to those who wait on them throughout the year — in hostels on the campus as part of a programme that started in March and will continue through the year. | ||
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| + | “It was a special moment for me,” Bandi said. “After serving lunch to the person who fed me all through the past three years and ensured that I never went to bed on an empty stomach, we sat next to each other for dinner,” the third-year metallurgical engineering student added. | ||
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| + | As many as 5,000 students across the eight students’ hostels — called halls on the IIT campus — have already taken part in this initiative. The other halls will pick up the thread after July, when a new batch joins. Learning to give back to society was the idea behind the move, according to Institute Wellness Group, which is dedicated to building a united community on the campus. | ||
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| + | The month-long activity saw participation from even the administrative staff; hall management committees, administrative staff and hall wardens have all come together, spending quality time together. So, when Rajendra Prasad Hall of Residence warden Uday Shankar shared the table with the mess dadas, a mess worker could not hold himself back, saying how he had never experienced anything like this in 11 years of service. | ||
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| + | Teachers feel this adds to privileged youngsters’ awareness of things like dignity of labour and the importance of humane behaviour towards the less privileged. | ||
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Character building
2018: Lessons in humility
When third-year IIT-Kharagpur student Krushi Bandi served lunch to mess worker Sanjay Modak at the institute’s Lal Bahadur Shastri Hall, it wasn’t merely a temporary reversal of roles. For the institute, which churns out tech graduates who vie for multi-million-rupee starting salaries, this role reversal was meant to be a lesson in humility, a way of telling its students that life was worth more than the CGPAs — and the millions — earned.
The oldest IIT has embarked on a unique programme to instil in its students life lessons that go beyond the chapters learnt in classrooms. Students have been waiting on their “mess bhaiyas” — and serving food to those who wait on them throughout the year — in hostels on the campus as part of a programme that started in March and will continue through the year.
“It was a special moment for me,” Bandi said. “After serving lunch to the person who fed me all through the past three years and ensured that I never went to bed on an empty stomach, we sat next to each other for dinner,” the third-year metallurgical engineering student added.
As many as 5,000 students across the eight students’ hostels — called halls on the IIT campus — have already taken part in this initiative. The other halls will pick up the thread after July, when a new batch joins. Learning to give back to society was the idea behind the move, according to Institute Wellness Group, which is dedicated to building a united community on the campus.
The month-long activity saw participation from even the administrative staff; hall management committees, administrative staff and hall wardens have all come together, spending quality time together. So, when Rajendra Prasad Hall of Residence warden Uday Shankar shared the table with the mess dadas, a mess worker could not hold himself back, saying how he had never experienced anything like this in 11 years of service.
Teachers feel this adds to privileged youngsters’ awareness of things like dignity of labour and the importance of humane behaviour towards the less privileged.
Research
Superpower drone BHIM
HIGHLIGHTS
BHIM can create a Wi-Fi zone within a radius of 1-km when it flies overhead
The automated drone has an actual vision-based guidance with built-in intelligence
The real edge of BHIM lies in its ability to maintain long flight times and drop emergency supplies by using parachutes
KOLKATA: The might and muscle of Mahabharata's epic warrior Bhima continues to be an inspiration, even to the country's premier tech school.
A research group at IIT Kharagpur has designed the country's first indigenous superpower drone and named it after the second Pandava. It's just under a metre in length, but its uniqueness lies in the unmanned aerial device's state-of-the-art protection shield, superior imagery and hitherto unknown abilities, say its creators.
BHIM can create a Wi-Fi zone within a nearly 1-km radius when it flies overhead. Aimed for conflict zones, the drone -which has a battery backup of seven hours -can fly into a disaster (or war) zone and create a seamless communication network for security forces, rescue personnel and even the common man.
The real edge of BHIM lies in its ability to maintain long flight times and drop emergency supplies by using parachutes. It can also be used for rescue operations in remote and hard-to-access areas. The drone can conduct integrity checks for boundary walls and find out breaches, if any.
Designed especially for emergency situations, the automated drone has an actual vision-based guidance with built-in intelligence that helps it identify if an area is crowded or not. It will then fly away and land in a safer place.
"Such advanced built-in intelligence is not available in drones now. The design is completely in-house. The controlling and guiding algorithms of the drone have been developed in our lab," said Sudip Mishra, a faculty member of the computer science and engineering department, who led the research along with another faculty member, N S Raghuvanshi, and research scholars Anandarup Mukherjee and Arijit Roy.
Researchers at IIT-Kharagpur took care to keep the drone lightweight, but with strong body movements, made of off-the-shelf indigenous components. This ensures that it costs just one-fourth the price of any average drone used for surveillance in India now.The drone was shown to Defence Research and Development Organisation when a team visited the institute to inspect network securities solutions that IIT-Kharagpur had developed.
"Disaster management becomes much easier through seamless wireless communication that only the internet can provide. However, when disaster strikes and Wi-Fi facilities on the ground are destroyed, an aerial Wi-Fi broadcast can come as a boon since radio communication has limited reach," said Sudip Mishra, a faculty member of the computer science and engineering department. Anyone within the specific radius can log on to the drone and efforts are on to increase this reach.
BHIM has been built by using the "internet of things" -the inter-networking of physical devices, vehicles, buildings and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators and network connectivity -which enables these objects to collect and exchange data. "These days, you hear of intelligent buildings and smart cities built using IoT technology. It means everyone and everything is connected wirelessly ," Mishra explained.
What makes it the best ?
Romita Datta , Crucible of excellence “India Today” 26/6/2017
2016, rankings
National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF): ranked No. 3
The Times of India, April 14, 2016
The rankings under the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) have been carried out in four categories: Engineering, management, pharmacy and university.
There were five key parameters on which an academic institutes were assessed, these include: Teaching, learning and resources; Research, consulting and collaborative performance; Graduation outcome; Outreach and inclusivity; and Perception.
Over 3,500 institutes participated in inaugural edition of these rankings, the process for which started in December 2015.
The oldest IIT in the country IIT Kharagpur gets a weightage of 83.91. It was established in the year 1951
