WASHINGTON: There was more than a hint of irony in the Obama White House on Friday naming Arun Majumdar, a product of the best engineering schools in India and US, as the first Director of the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), an agency asked with reducing America’s reliance on foreign energy [...]
KANPUR: Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur signed an MoU with the University of Texas, San Antonio, US, here on Saturday. Director, IIT-K, SG Dhande represented the institute and CM Agarwal (an alumnus of IIT-K of the 1982 batch), dean, College of Engineering, represented the University of Texas. They hoped that the two educational institutes will be [...]
On Sunday students, researchers and scientists of IIT Kharagpore (IIT-KGP) had gathered to watch a game of football. As they rooted for their teams in the five-a-side match, all the players have been built by them and by students from three other technical institutes. The techies were witness to the prestigious RoboCup, being held in [...]
The launch of IIT-K’s ISRO funded dream project, nano satellite ‘Jugnu’ has been postponed to next year, Director IIT-Kanpur said. “The project designed by the students and the scientists of the institution was scheduled to be launched by the end of this year but now it has been rescheduled for some time between Jan-March next [...]
Banking upon the rich expertise the IIT-Kanpur has in field of research and technology, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which plans to send a lunar rover as a part of Chandrayan-II mission to the moon in the year 2012, has handed over the responsibility of development and testing of computer vision based autonomous 3D [...]
A Central team will visit the desert state next week to study the sites proposed to set up IITRajasthan and IIM. The final decision about the location of the institutes is likely only after the team’s visit to the sites suggested by the state-constituted Vyas committee,” Vipin Chandra Sharma, principal secretary, higher education, told TOI [...]
The Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, an outcome of the Assam Accord, has earned the distinction of being ranked 10th in a list of 67 top engineering and technology institutes in India. The honour attests to the relatively young institution’s impeccable academic and research credentials. The coveted top spot has been taken by Bangalore-based Indian [...]
NEW DELHI: Close to three decades ago, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) upped the bar for selecting faculty: only PhDs were allowed to take classes. Diluting that lofty standard, the HRD ministry has now allowed non-PhDs to join as lecturers. What’s more shocking is that at least 10% jobs have been reserved at the [...]
MUMBAI: If you’ve made it to an Indian Institute of Technology, you no longer need to travel to the campus to book your seat. The tech schools have decided to take the counselling process online, thus allowing students to submit their preferences a mix of streams and IITs from home. Currently, students from across the [...]
In an unforeseen effect of RTI, globally respected IITs have been stuck in a spiral of low cut-offs in their joint entrance examinations (JEE) for the last three years even for general candidates. Despite all their efforts to pull out of the single-digit cut-offs they had fallen into in 2007 and 2008 (1,4 & 3 [...]