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SAE Society of Automotive Engineers
We introduce ourselves as Team Phoenix Racing, SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) SVNIT.
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It is an organization dedicated to automobile projects consisting of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering enthusiasts. Since our inception, we have bagged various titles and topped All India Ranks for the numerous vehicles that were designed, manufactured, and validated by the students themselves.
Our legacy of winning National and International Level Prizes goes back to 2005. Our past accolades including GARUNA ARAI SAE (2005), PUSHPAK BAJA PORTLAND (2006), ASHWAMEDH (2007), YUYUTSU BAJA (2009), ANSHUMAT BAJA (2009), EKLAVYA MINI BAJA (2010), PHOENIX SUPRA (2011, 12, 14, 15, 16), NATIONAL GO-KART COMPETITION (2013), GO KART DESIGN CHAMPIONSHIP (2019, 2020, 2021), and FORMULA BHARAT (2020, 2021) add feathers in the cap of our glory.
In 2020-21, TEAM PHOENIX RACING SAE SVNIT participated in 2 national-level events and has proven itself again. Even in the rough times of the COVID-19 outbreak, the team initially faced a lot of difficulties in switching to virtual mode but this did not break our spirit.
The team could taste this success due to the immense efforts of all our members who worked tirelessly all day and night, led by: Captain - Shulabh Yadav, Chairperson - Shubham Katrodiya, Team Manager - Oorja Dorkar, Convenor – Shaan Polra, Design Head – Devansh Mamrawala & Khushali Patel, Manufacturing Head - Tirth Lodhiya, Treasurer – Sagar Shah, Transmission Head – Rajan Swami & Nikunj Dhola, Steering and Suspension Head – Jayraj Shah, Brakes Head – Milan Vadgama, Lab Head – Bhumik Patel, Chassis head - Khushali Patel, Electrical Head – Nishant Mittal, Gaurav Sahu, Jagdeesh, Pawan Achanta, Jay Prajapati, Nil Patel, Mehul Agarwal & Arun Singh Parmar to achieve this precision-based performance.
Here is the list of events that the team took part in:
» FORMULA BHARAT 2021 (VIRTUAL) Formula Bharat is an engineering design competition in which students from various colleges and universities all over the country compete with a life-size Formulastyle vehicle in areas of engineering design, overall cost, marketability, and dynamic performance. The series replicates the global student Formula series hosted in approximately 11 countries per year.
We showed a great improvement compared to last year where we stood at overall 39th position. This year our score was: • 92.6/150 in Design • 10th in Design event • 55.28/75 in Business • Completed the whole event successfully with
0 Penalty
• Final score: 147.88/225 • Overall rank: 13th
» E-GO KART DESIGN CHALLENGE, EV OVERALL
CHAMPIONS 2019, 2020, 2021 (VIRTUAL)
With a clear vision in our mind and a specific target, we have toiled towards the establishment of our name in the field of electric go-kart. Revamped designing skills, augmented practical knowledge, and hands-on learning experience are a result of our participation in these events. Electric go-kart has stupendous achievements, having a broad motive of shifting focus to electrification and future development of mobility. The go-kart cleared several rounds successfully for being consistent champions for 3 years.
Phoenix Aero
Phoenix Aero, SAE, is the official aero-design team of SVNIT. We are a group of aviation enthusiasts who aim to discover and recreate aerial vehicles’ uncharted cosmos to develop solutions to real-world problems.
Established in August 2019, the Student Chapter has seen significant growth. The keen interest in aeromodelling and growing curiosity in this field has motivated us to become the team we are today.
Under the guidance and mentorship of our Faculty Advisors, Dr. H. B. Mehta, Dr. Vimal Patel and Dr. Naresh Yarraksetty, we have planned, designed, and crafted 3 Aircrafts - Pegasus, AtmosX, and the flagship aircraft of 2020, Xpartan, which is yet to be manufactured.
The team has a growing e-community of aeromodelling enthusiasts on Discord with over 200 members. We have also conducted a week-long workshop which enhanced the skills of students in aeromodelling. After each workshop, group contests were held for the participants to incorporate the skills learnt during the session.
We’re looking forward to enhancing our projects and engaging in competitions in which top teams from all over the country compete. The sky is not the limit for us and we hope to achieve greater heights in the upcoming terms.
Nirvana
NIRVANA - A reason to smile. “Everyone who knows a little can teach a little.” Nirvana is a social initiative student chapter taken up by our college to provide primary education and moral values to underprivileged children in and around the campus. This activity is volunteered by the students of SVNIT. Volunteers pick up children from in and around the campus and teach them at the LT2 Seminar hall after classes everyday. The primary focus is basic education and awareness. Many fun activities like yoga, drawing, rangoli, and rakhi-making are carried out on weekends. We also celebrate Holi, Diwali, Uttarayana, and other festivals with them to educate them about the festivals and cultures of India. However, due to the unprecedented times of last year, it was not possible. We will keep trying to find new ways to help the children and look forward to it now more than ever before.
Drishti
Drishti
DRISHTI is the technical-hobby club of NIT Surat. It aims to inculcate technical knowledge among the students and represents NIT Surat on both national and international levels. We give rise to intellectual and curious minds that accumulate technical aspects in a productive and optimised way. We also strengthen their social quotient by providing real-time opportunities to work as a team in a competitive, ethical environment where we work in different fields, ranging from Machine Learning to Structural Designing and from Aeronautics to Automated Systems. The club is progressively working and upholding its motive of being a place where “We comes before me”.
Orientation
Orientation is the commencing session for the first-year students to give them an overview of Drishti. It’s the first interaction of the club with the first-year students, where we tell them what we do in Drishti, how we do it, and how they can be a part of it in the future.
Makerspace
It is one of the most significant events organised solely for first-year minds. This provides an impression of what happens at Drishti and an outstanding opportunity for them to acquire knowledge and develop skills. Students are given a challenging-yet-enlightening project which has to be completed within a time limit. Mentors are assigned to each team who guide and help them throughout the project to overcome challenges faced throughout the project’s completion.
Technovation & Workshops
Neither the lockdown nor the monotonous routine could dampen the enthusiasm and the spirit to make projects and learn new softwares for the freshmen. Keeping this in mind, Drishti organised a plethora of technical workshops and mind-boggling competitions based on the same. The workshops consisted of Mechanical Basics, Electronic Systems, Core of Civil Engineering and Flow Diagrams in Chemical Engineering. Next in line was the competition named TECHNOVATION, which required application of the knowledge of the topics discussed in the workshops. Intriguing branch-wise competitions of Anti-Gravity, Chemfluence, Solatronics & Anchorage turned several heads of interested students as they had a chance to explore and learn outside the regular academics. Separate problem statements were released and the students were provided with a mentor to guide them through the whole process. Finally, after brainstorming for about 24 hours, the submissions were taken, marking the end of the enriching event.
Mini-Projects
The recruited second-year members of the club take up this month-long project, thereby enhancing their key technical skills in their respective areas of interest. Miniprojects prepare the fundamental skills in the individuals
for the upcoming major projects. The online sessions involved various software-oriented projects like Proteus simulation, Chainless Power Transmission, Ball Balancer, IPL Prediction, Designing of Separation Membrane, and Heat Exchanger.
Major-Projects
These are 6-month long projects for the second-year students in which they traverse cutting-edge technology. We perpetually work on the enhancement of our projects and also participate in various competitions worldwide. This academic year, we worked on remarkable projects like Solid Propellant Rocket, Mars Rover, Tunes for Expressions, VTOL (Vertical Take-off Landing Vehicle), Farmbot, Virtual Try-On Network, Simulation of Petroleum Refinery, and Pre-Fabricated Building. We’ve had some outstanding achievements this year. These include — Robocon 2021 and Robofest 2.0. Team DRISHTI has been participating in the ABU ROBOCON competition since 2006. We participated in the competition once again this year. We successfully qualified for Stage 1 and Team Drishti successfully made it through with a score of 100/100. Team Drishti was one of the 54 teams that cleared the first stage. For the first time, Team Rover participated in Robofest 2.0 organized by GUJCOST (Gujarat Council on Science and Technology) in the Rover category this year. 23 teams participated in the competition, out of which only 3 made it to Stage 2, our Team Rover being one of them. We successfully cleared Stage 1 with a cash prize of Rs. 50,000.
Giving back to society during COVID-19
For benefaction and efforts in giving back to society, Team Drishti has been felicitated by an award on Diamond Jubilee from SVNIT. We were awarded for our bot DOSTAR (Differentially Operated System To Assist Recovery), designed and developed with the help of workshop professionals from SVNIT for helping and providing support to the society in the best possible way. The bot has been handovered to SMIMER Hospital, Surat and is being used to deliver food and other necessities to the patients without getting in direct contact with them. It is a 4-wheeled differentially-driven PS2 controlled bot operated over a WiFi network. This is a small step by us to support our society and nation in times of crisis.
The Society for Cultivation of Science and Humanities (SCOSH) is the quintessential science club at SVNIT. Our mission is to create a scientific society-like culture at the institute by conducting events that instil a love for science in the hearts of people, and also help make the world a better place. We provide an opportunity to students with high inclination towards scientific research to meet, discuss ideas, share knowledge, do projects, and fill the gaps created due to relatively less research exposure at SVNIT. For this, we conduct workshops, seminars and lectures. It is not, however, all work and no play. We also often design fun competitions, organize night-sky gazing on important astronomical events and screen movies centred on a scientific theme. The most important duty of any such society is science-based communication, i.e., propagating science to the general public, and we achieve this through orchestrating outreach events at various schools around the city.
Even in the pandemic period, the SCOSH team has been active. We have conducted seminars, workshops, and career guidance classes to promote research. For example,
3. String Theory and Role of Indian Coterie
(October 31st)
Speaker – Dr. Mritunjay Verma
4. Job Journey Lecture 1: Careers in Machine Learning
(January 28th) Speaker - Mr. Aman Bakshi
5. Unsolved Millennial Mysteries (February 21st)
Speaker - Dr. Sourabh Dube
1. Let’s Talk Academia
(September 3rd – September 5th)
Speakers - Ms. Archi Tripathi, Mr. Naman Agarwal, Mr.
Aniruddha Deshmukh This was just the tip of the iceberg. The team then conducted four major events brimming with innovation and creativity.
1. SQUIZOSH 2020 (November 7th)
A simple but truly entertaining quiz competition that will test your knowledge in every field of science.
2. Science Hunt (January 31st)
A mystery solving adventure where contestants try to follow a scientific mystery and solve the clues behind the mystery by applying the laws, principles of mathematics, physics, and chemistry.
3. INQUEST 5.0 (February 19th – February 21st)
A two day long Researchathon event where contestants study actual research papers of their interest fields and later on, participate in a professional thesis defence of their research papers. 4. Reel Time Science (April 4th)
One-of-a-kind event where we try to nurture your scientific temper and curiosity through movies. In short, it is a movie science quiz that entertains you but also teaches you something new.
As a fraternity, SCOSH follows the down-to-earth ideology of simple living and high thinking and does not tolerate elitist and supremacist elements. We are a proud but humble little gang of people who adore science and have a dream of contributing towards its upliftment, with SCOSH being merely a platform to work towards collectively achieving this dream.
CEV CUTTING EDGE VISIONARIES
CEV is one of the prestigious technical student societies at the National Institute of Technology, Surat. With a team of 100+ members, we strive to spread knowledge, both inside and outside college boundaries. Besides the various events conducted round-the-session, we majorly focused on the internal development of the group. We hold weekly group discussions and debates on topics ranging from technology to economics and finance, and sometimes on abstract topics as well.
We ensure that our members gain enough knowledge in their fields. To accomplish this goal we organize exclusive study jams for them. Some of these are listed in https://cutting-edge-visionaries.github.io/
We also believe in applying our knowledge to real-world problems, and for that we all indulge in several projects. Some of these include Human Activity Recognition, Paper Trading Web App, Advanced 3D Seismic Visualization, and SEO Improvisation.
LAC LITERARY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
The Literary Affairs Committee is a place where people share their passions of the art of speaking, reading, and writing. It includes fierce debaters, bold orators, quirky quizzers, avid readers, and literature enthusiasts. LAC provides a platform for students to explore their interests while providing them with assistance to improve their communication skills via debates, discussions, and other speaking events. Though the 2020-21 session started with a pinch of disappointments alongside online semesters and a lot of nostalgia, LAC managed to carry on its legacy. The club began by focusing on oratory, quizzing, and literature events only for the members in the initial weeks. The first of our open events was ‘The Boardroom’ event where participants got a chance to understand the working and communication in the corporate world. With
some beautiful recitals, Wordsworth was conducted where poets poured out their hearts and the listeners bathed in the magic of words. To increase knowledge, as well as to test it, several quizzes were held, which included questions based on politics, literature, sports, cartoons, etc. As the chills of winter were fading away, LAC conducted its flagship event, Murder Mystery followed by the orientation session. The 7-day-long interview procedure was focused on giving a fair chance to every candidate to make it to this club. LAC members also participated in Asian Parliamentary Debate conducted by NIT Durgapur. The same format was followed for a debate competition that LAC organised later. A group discussion workshop was conducted in which Asst. Professor Dr. Urvashi Kaushal guided students on how to improve upon their skills before the upcoming placement season. Apart from that, several intra-LAC quizzes, debates, and Suches were conducted to continue the celebration of the common passion we all share. A number of open GDs, debates, quizzes, and a few talks are planned for the upcoming weeks. LAC’s main objective has always been to improve the overall intellect and communication skills of its members and the campus.
DSC DEVELOPERS’ STUDENT CLUB
ACM Association of Computing Machinery
DSC, NIT Surat is a technical chapter of NIT Surat. In general, DSC aims to connect, learn, and grow with its community. DSC NIT Surat’s objective is to enhance the developers’ skills to a large extent. For this sole reason, the core team has conducted several webinars and hackathons that help in the enhancement of developing skills. To date, we have 450+ community members, and 350+ YouTube subscribers altogether. Our major hackathons are HackCovid and MindJam. HackCovid’s objective was to encourage projects related to the Covid scenario to help the students create solutions to existing real-life problems. MindJam aimed to help the students develop a pitch and plan for their projects transparently relative to a start-up. Our webinars include the basic understanding of hackathons, contributing to open-source projects, Git & GitHub to advance technical concepts such as Flutter, React-Redux, Cybersecurity, AI/ML endpoints, and AWS as well (everything available on our YouTube channel). DSC NIT Surat will continue to come up with better webinars to help the community grow and learn.
We at ACM see a world where computing helps solve tomorrow’s problems - where we use our knowledge and skills to advance the profession and make a positive impact. Association of Computing Machinery, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and profession. ACM, NIT Surat is one of the many student chapters of ACM across the globe in various institutions.
Through its year-round activities, be it coding challenges, hackathons, quizzes, or development workshops and competitions, the club has always aimed at doing its best and indulging the majority of the students. The chapter
is moving towards achieving nationwide recognition by conducting open-to-all contests on various digital platforms successfully.
Coding contests such as Epiphany and Inception were conducted to lift and promote the coding culture among the young technogeeks. The various exhilarating workshops held all-round the year include - Linux 101, Web Development with Node and React, and Kickstart to Competitive Programming, which introduced the basic concepts and roadmap of coding and web-based development to all the beginners out there. A webinar on “Blockchain and its Applications” was also conducted by ACM Distinguished Speaker, Dr. Gururaj H L. Apart from this we had the ACM Summer Challenge and AMOC (ACM Month Of Code) which were month-long events to put to test the coding and development skills of our talented newbies and sophomores.
ACM Hour Of Code was conducted by our executives, wherein they gave online presentations in various schools and gave an insight about the opportunities in computer science and the importance of it. This year, we also conducted the Geekend 4.0 under the Diamond Jubilee Anniversary of the establishment of NIT Surat. The various events conducted under it were Code Combat, KuchTohDataKahenge (Data Visualisation and Feature Elimination event), Flutter 101 workshop, and the Tech IQ quiz. The Tech IQ quiz was the perfect opportunity to check up on the tech knowledge of its participants. While the Code Combat was a team-based coding competition, KuchTohDataKahenge tested the intuition and skills of data and logic of its participants.
This year, due to unforeseen circumstances, ACM had a different challenge to execute all of its events in virtual mode. With the support of students, faculties, and the core team, it was quite successful in overcoming the challenge and achieving its motto to promote computer science.
SPIC MACAY (Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth) SVNIT Chapter has always strived to introduce the youth of today to the priceless cultural heritage of our country by organizing various events throughout the year. The youth is brought in close proximity to the eminent artists of performing traditions wherein these young people absorb not only the nuances of the art form but also the values embedded in our classical traditions.
The year 2020-21 was indeed testing, but we as a student chapter grew together overcoming all the obstacles. From overcoming the challenges of lockdown to organizing online events, each volunteer of our team today has had a memorable experience working for SPIC MACAY this year.
The year commenced with a beautiful Carnatic flute concert, “SWARANJALI” on 28th November 2020, by the renowned exponent of the Bamboo Flute from India - Shri Shashank Subramanyam. He has been nominated for Grammy and is a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi’s senior award. The event started with an orientation programme, introducing the students of SVNIT to our movement, followed by the concert. The concert was indeed a fresh start for us as a team, as well as for the audience of SVNIT. At the end of the concert, students were given an opportunity to interact with the artist through live chat and we received an overwhelming amount of responses from the audience. The event was truly a great success for us as a first step of the year. Witnessing the excitement of the young minds of SVNIT to know more about our cultural heritage, we organized “DHAROHAR” on 9th January, 2021. It was an online talk session on the ‘History and Restoration of Surat Fort’ by Heritage conservation expert, Architect Sumesh Modi. The event was also a kick start for celebrating the Diamond Jubilee year celebrations of SVNIT. It was indeed an enlightening session, wherein we learned new things about the history of our very own city, Surat. The talk session was followed by a question-answer session and students were very keen to gain further knowledge about the heritage of Surat.
With all the challenges that lay ahead, we as a team of volunteers, hope to maintain and work harder for spreading the cause of SPIC MACAY’s movement in the coming years.
Madhatters
Madhatters is one of the youngest clubs in our college. The club’s journey began with a small classroom skit, progressing to performing live plays in front of packed audiences at the production seminar hall. Now, we’ve also flourished with our digital content as a result of the pandemic.
Our year began with “Quaranteam”, a short film based on the lives of students in hostels during the imposed lockdown period. It became an instant hit among our peers, and garnered a lot of appreciation for depicting the typical struggles of a college student, stuck with his friends in the hostel, unable to do what they really like, and how they come to terms with this.
We’re also proud to have launched our first sui generis web-series under the name, “The Goldilocks Effect”. It is a conversation between five best friends, that unravels their various interests, what they had been upto, botched-up feelings, and so on. It showed the more real and relatable aspects of friends who were separated from each other, and how this affected their day-to-day lives as they fight the monotony of the pandemic. This series of ours gave us so many favourite characters and catchphrases, and not to forget, some great memes!
Around October, we released “How Not to Talk to Anyone” based on two ‘gurus’ who ‘help’ young men unleash their inner alpha and improve their conversational/personality skills. It was a spoof based off of your typical scamming that profits off of any naïve and gullible person who is desperate to turn their life around.
Surely this year was as challenging for us as it would’ve been for everyone else, but we were able to overcome these hurdles with our content-making abilities which were welcomed well by the student community and various families alike.
Joyfest
Joyfest is a philanthropic initiative run by the students of SVNIT, Surat. We work to spread happiness among the weaker sections of our society. We organize many events throughout the year and take various initiatives, which includes our main event Joyfest. Here we invite children from different NGOs, slums, etc. and organize a full day event for them. We involve them in various activities and encourage children to participate. It is an endeavor to convince them that they too are an integral part of our society. Grandparents’ Day at the old age home, frequent clothing drives (we collect clothes from students, faculty, employees, etc. and distribute them to the needy), Children’s Day celebration, and frequent trips to various non-governmental organizations are some of the events we organize.
We would be grateful if more students came out to support and work for this initiative.
CES Civil Engineering Society
Even in these difficult times when social distancing and work from home became the new normal, the Civil Engineering Society was successful in completing yet another exciting and challenging term completely virtually. Being the oldest student chapter of SVNIT, Surat, Civil Engineering Society has been constantly working to impart knowledge and industrial skills to the students since its inception. The world of infrastructure is a constantly evolving field with
advancements being made everyday and contribution to this field requires immense knowledge and practical hands-on experience, which, in times like these, when the entire education system went online, is not possible. CES organized multiple workshops including the STAAD Pro workshop which gave the students a chance to get a hands-on experience of softwares that would make them industry-compatible. The workshop was conducted by an expert who happens to be an alumnus of the institute. It was followed by the chapter orientation of CES in which the freshers’ batch was informed about career and future prospects in the field of Civil Engineering and also included various fun activities related to the field. The flagship event “KAIZEN 2021”, which is the annual two-day fest organized by the student chapter, was also successfully organized, completely virtually, on 13-14 February, 2021. Being one of the biggest Departmental fests, it witnessed a huge participation from students of different institutes all across India as well as from SVNIT itself. It included various workshops and competitions which required the participants to apply basic concepts of civil engineering to win cash prizes and this also turned out to be a great source of learning. Apart from that, it also had various managerial events for those interested. Working and coordinating was a very huge challenge but the hard work and dedication of the entire team made it possible for CES to complete another successful term. The team looks forward to the same in the upcoming years.
EES Electrical Engineering Society
ISF IETE Students’ Forum
EES, the Electrical Engineering Society, is an official student chapter of the Electrical Engineering Department of NIT Surat.
The pie-chart of the events, either technical or nontechnical, involve knowledge, learning, and creativity. EES proudly teaches and upholds these sections by providing a proper platform to the students and helps them to discover all interesting questions.
The online interaction for the entire year made it difficult to hold events, but we successfully conducted a flurry of interesting technological and non-technical activities.
This remarkable era began with ‘Inquisitive’, a quiz having questions from a bundle of general topics, which gathered the Freshers.
This was followed by ‘Masked Bandits’, an online Treasure Hunt that almost made the students online nomads, hence uplifting their curiosity.
Another annual event, ‘Dextrix’, covered sessions on many trending technical domains like ML, IOT, and EV, giving students a kickstart to study further.
Then flowed an orientation called ‘Discharge’, which helped the Freshers to understand what lanes EES and its events covered. With all legacy, the even semester was charged up with the most awaited Annual Mega Event of EES, ‘Aatish’, which was loaded with its fun, technical, and innovative events and had a large reach.
We also launched a weekly blog titled ‘Techy Tuesday’, which updates our social media followers with new technological happenings.
We are an active team which operates from one department but serves others too and knocking on our door will always fill you with something astonishing!
The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers focuses on the advancement of the Science and Technology of Electronics, Telecommunication, and related areas. ISF stands for IETE STUDENTS’ FORUM. Towards this end, the Institution promotes and conducts basic engineering and continuing technical education programs for human resource development.
The semester was kick-started with an online test series “APTIGRIND”. This was conducted every Tuesday in the month of September 2020. APTIGRIND consisted of the best quantitative and reasoning questions we could find and was held on a virtual platform “HACKEREARTH” so as to give exposure to real-life aptitude tests conducted by companies. Soon after we had IETE ORIENTATION and MEMBERSHIP DRIVE for 2nd-year students. Next, IETE Students’ Forum conducted a hands-on workshop on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. It was a 2-day workshop starting from 31st October 2020. The workshop was conducted by TECH CRYPTORS, Mumbai, an ISO 9001:2015 CERTIFIED COMPANY, also in collaboration with Tirutsava Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati. The workshop was based on the functionalities of Python and R. Along with it, an online interactive webinar on the topic “Universal Object Interaction”, an advanced topic of IoT, was held. The webinar was held on the platform Google Meet on 9th January 2021. This was again presented by TECH CRYPTORS. With the arrival of the New Batch 2020, ISF organized an Orientation to introduce our activities to the new members and NI Multisim workshop on 30th January 2021 to get the Freshies acquainted with the concept of Multisim.
The month of February was quite a busy one. In the beginning, an expert talk on “MOBILITY MANAGEMENT IN 5G NETWORKS AND BEYOND 5G NETWORKS” was held via Google Meet. A novel discussion of the functional requirements from MM strategies for 5G networks took place. The talk was given by Dr. Akshay Jain, an alumnus of ECED, NIT Surat.
Soon after, the Annual Departmental Fest of Electronics Engineering Department HERTZ 6.0 took place. Under Hertz 6.0, we have organized the following events: 1. Mock Placement 2. Circuitrix 3. Quiz Time 4. Flip Flop
ChES The Chemical Engineering Society
The Chemical Engineering Society was instituted on 16th January, 2014. Dr. Meghal Desai, Dr. Jogender Singh, and Dr. Sarita Kalla are the current faculty advisors of the student chapter. Affiliated to the American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE), ChES aims to spread knowledge and experience to future chemical engineers about Chemical Engineering education and its applications.
Over the past years, the Chemical Engineering Society conducted events demonstrating innovation through fun activities and technical events. The various activities undertaken by ChES during 2020-21 are: DWSIM Workshop, DWSIM Flow Sheet Design Competition, ChemE-Car, Cordial Convo (interactive sessions in which we invite the alumni of ChES Student Chapter to share their experiences with the juniors), Alchemy: The Manufacturing Quest, Stock Up (webinar on Financial literacy), Siphon 6.0, Eureka 3.0, Placement & Internship Talk, and webinars with other AIChE Student Chapters. This year, a separate body for Public Relations was also initiated.
The two significant events of ChES are Eureka & Siphon. Eureka started with an initiative to teach and elevate research ideology among students wherein sophomores are mentored by senior years. The teams work on their decided problem statements to find a new idea/solution, i.e., optimising the same. This year, the third edition of Eureka, i.e., Eureka 3.0 (Sept 2020-April 2021), saw teams working on 18 problem statements consisting of industrial & academic backgrounds.
Siphon 6.0, the Annual Departmental Fest, was completed virtually and included participation from colleges all over the Southern Asia region. A total of 13 events were
conducted over three days consisting of various technical, non-technical, managerial events and quizzes to introduce the students to the multiple fields and applications of Chemical Engineering.
The student chapter members also brought laurels. Sheetal Maheshwari (U18CH026), BTech-III, Innovation Head ChES 2020-21, was among the twelve global leaders to receive the International Student Chapter Leadership Development Award 2020 during the AIChE Annual Student Conference 2020.
Yutika Naik (U19CH002) and Bharvi Patel (U19CH021), BTech-II, got selected for the FOSSEE semester-long Summer Internship in DWSIM at IIT Bombay, which is a part of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Ministry of Education, Government of India.
All the events conducted by the Chemical Engineering Society focus on facilitating public understanding of technical issues and advancing the development and exchange of relevant knowledge and ideas.
The committee always tries to motivate its members to participate in innovative activities, and we all work together to gain more knowledge about Chemical engineering.
ChES is a great platform to be a part of something new and develop great attributes like leadership, teamwork, time management, and many other work ethics.
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