Nov 25, 2012

  Read the pdf version here - Issue November 2012     An insight into penetration of modern technology in the campus. Chat with Vice President – Rinshul Chandra. Our take on the status of Inter IIT preparations. A Kgpians guide to Calcutta. Rediscovering the Higgs Boson. A Pan IIT comparison of the placement...

INR 12,50,000. This hefty sum, on an *average*, is what it takes for a student to get through graduate college in the US. Despite the existence of world class universities, state of the art infrastructure and teaching facilities, the pedantic appetites of a majority of students who cannot afford expensive college tuition goes unsatiated.  While this is the case...

The Central Research Facility (CRF) at our campus is a unique and advanced research center that houses a number of sophisticated instruments. In this edition of TechAve, we cover some of the resources at CRF as well as other details of general interest. A total of twenty six instruments are currently available and are broadly divided into two sections: the...

Though FSAE teams have been around for a while in colleges like DCE and IIT Delhi, racing had been unheard of in KGP till March 2009, when Mechanical Engineering student Siddartha Khastgir approached Prof. Partha Pratim Chakrborty and the associate Dean, SRIC for funding the team’s participation in the FSAE. “I presented a proposal before them.  With the...

India being a population that is greater than one billion, considerable time and energy is spent in researching and developing methods of effective population control. While many methods of contraception have been cultivated for women, the only safe and effective ones for men are condoms and vasectomy. Condoms have proven to be largely ineffectual in the rural...