The CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) has announced the dates of AIEEE 2012. This year the exam will be conducted via offline (paper-pencil) as well as online mode. DATES ONLINE EXAM 7-25 MAY 2012 (daily) OFFLINE EXAM 29 APRIL 2012 (SUNDAY) APPLICATION PROCEDURE The CBSE has decided to accept application for examination through online [...]
SEPTEMBER’10: The Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) plans a presence in India’s IT hub here, the US and Malaysia, institute director S.G. Dhande said here on Saturday. IIT-K intends to set up research centres in the US and Malaysia as part of a plan to compete with top universities, he said. The presence in Bangalore, [...]
SEPTEMBER’10: Germany and Australia have joined a growing number of developed nations keen to tie up with the new Indian Institutes of Technology that have opened in the last two years. Both have formally told the Indian government their universities would like to collaborate with the new IITs. The reason is clear: the developed world [...]
SEPTEMBER’10: MKP Structural Design Associates, Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI) garnered U.S. Patent 7,694,621 for lightweight composite ballistic armor made with nano-clay. The armor is intended for use in military and tactical vehicles and armored civilian vehicles as well as buildings protecting people, machinery, supplies and fuel, according to inventor Zheng-Dong Ma. Features of the composite [...]
SEPTEMBER’10: Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari has said that there has not been sufficient appreciation of engineering education being a key enabler of India’s growth and a vital element in shaping of our national destiny. Addressing the audiences at the forty-first convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi on Saturday, Ansari [...]
SEPTEMBER’10: The IIT-K will be coordinating the IIT Joint Entrance Exam (IIT-JEE) for 2011. The members of the IIT Joint Admission Board (JAB) will be attending a meeting at IIT-K on August 21 to finalise the schedule. Representatives of all 15 IITs are expected to attend the meeting. The 2010 exam was coordinated by IIT-Chennai. [...]
AUGUST’10: A group of students from IIT-Kharagpur is working on a prototype of an Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV) which, if it proves successful, may be developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for use by security agencies for Low-Intensity Conflict (LIC). The six-member IIT team has bagged the first rank in Phase-I in [...]
AUGUST’10: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), the premier higher technical educational institutions of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) have committed themselves to the responsibility of development of a management plan of the Ganga river basin called the National Ganga River Basin Management Plan Project (NGBRM). Seven IITs have come together for this [...]
AUGUST’10: The BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi have come together to improve the quality and reliability of power supply by reducing transmission and distribution losses. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed Monday between BYPL CEO Ramesh Narayanan and Anil Wali, managing director, Foundation for Innovation and Technology [...]
AUGUST’10: IITians often liken the generation gap between themselves and their teachers to that between MS-DOS and Windows. This semester, however, the students on the Powai campus can look forward to someone much closer to their age: a physics teacher who has just entered his 20s. At 22, Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, who has never studied [...]