Placements 2011-12 – Phase 1 analysis
Welcome back dear reader, and a happy new year to you. As another spring semester begins, we at The Scholars’ Avenue focus on two important events from last month – the first round of campus placements and the inter-IIT sports meet. Both saw intense competition among students, were critical to the Institute’s reputation, and saw [...]
Snapshots from the Alumni Meet
Thursday, January 26, 2012
January in Kharagpur is traditionally spanned by an assortment of events. This year, the new semester kicked off with warm days, an Inter-IIT hangover, placement worries, and more importantly, the 9th Alumni Meet. Here’s a rundown on the last. The Inaugural Ceremony Kharagpur saw the inauguration of the 9th Alumni Meet on 7th January at Kalidas Auditorium. [...]
NPTEL finds its feet
Friday, January 13, 2012
The NPTEL project began in 1999-2003 with suggestions from Carnegie-Mellon University. The aim was to address the discrepancy in standards of teaching in engineering colleges across India. In a number of colleges, the qualifications of educators is not high enough to appropriately deal with the syllabus. Such faculty can be trained by exposure to online [...]
The Scholsave Internship Blog
Thursday, August 18, 2011
The Scholars' Avenue presents its Internship Blog : internships.scholarsavenue.org
Career Launcher Registrations – February 4, 2012
Fri, Feb 3, 2012
Career Launcher will be holding registrations for their Online CAT Test Series on February 4 (Saturday) from 3PM to 5PM. The venue is Vegies. Features:- 29+ All India Mock CATs 100 hours of online video classes on fundamentals Access online topic-wise and section-wise online tests in Test Gym Free GD and PI classes for IIM call-getters Special [...]
Kshitij Day 0 : Guest Lectures
Sat, Jan 28, 2012
Day 0 of Kshitij 2012 saw Kharagpur playing host to two of the most eminent personalities science and technology has known. The guests lectures by Ajay Bhatt, the ‘co-creator’ of the USB as he likes to call himself, and by Dr Holger Nielsen, the father of the string theory, were major draws as was evident [...]
The Other Guy
Fri, Jan 27, 2012
I slam the door as I leave for the afternoon class and wonder whether that would wake him up. Then I realize that it doesn’t make much of a difference whether he is asleep or not because he is either shallowing in a dream or in [...]
Happy Indie-pendence Day
Thu, Jan 26, 2012
KGP has no dearth of gamers but the franchises which they endorse are usually limited to the popular ones like Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and Rockstar Games. Away from the spotlight, the glitz and the glamour hogged by mainstream game production houses lies a surprisingly rich world of games brought to life by independent game developers. [...]
Indian Case Challenge 2012
Tue, Jan 24, 2012
Genese-de-Strategie, the Business Strategy and Consulting Club of IIT Kharagpur, had recently organized Indian Case Challenge 2012 – the largest Indian case study competition of its kind. For the uninitiated, such a competition requires participants to form 3-4 member teams and create case studies, which are records of research pertaining to the development of something [...]
IIT Kgp triumphs in Earthian
Fri, Jan 13, 2012
IIT Kharagpur had another reason to be proud as Angam Parashar and Manan Shah, two students of the department of Mechanical Engineering, presented the winning entry in Earthian, a sustainability competition organized by Wipro. The Research for their paper on impact Analysis of distributed generation and RE based distributed generation on Indian economy of Bop [...]
KGP students pen book on entrepreneurs
Fri, Jan 13, 2012
On the historic occasion of IIT Kharagpur completing it’s Diamond Jubilee, two of it’s students Yuvnesh Modi and Rahul Kumar and an alumnus Alok Kothari have penned the book, “The Game Changers- 20 extraordinary success stories of entrepreneurs from IIT Kharagpur”. This book, through the awe-inspiring stories of 20 successful changemakers, narrates the success and [...]
Other news:
News
- Read our January 16th issue here(in PDF format)
- Placements Analysis. The Alumni Meet. The World of Independent Games. And why you should tie a lungi today!
- The Scholars' Avenue brings to you our first issue of 2012.
January 16th 2012 Issue
- Placements 2011-12 – Phase 1 analysis
- Snapshots from the Alumni Meet
- NPTEL finds its feet
- The Scholsave Internship Blog
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