IIT AND KOTA

IIT-Bombay continues to be the top choice for the best of the young brains in the country. The institute has retained its position as the most sought-after IIT in the country, with Delhi and Chennai coming a distant second and third. A number of factors have been responsible for this, ranging from importance given to streams over geography, from placement records to newer short-term courses on offer, tell students. Of the top 100 rankers in JEE-Advanced 2014, almost all have opted for IIT-B computer science as their first choice. But 58 were allotted seats at IIT-B in computer science in the first round, followed by Delhi, where 36 of the top 100 have been admitted (see box). While 58 of the top 100 rankers joined IIT-B, the number has fallen a bit, compared to 67 in 2013. Thirty-six students were allotted seats at IIT-D, as opposed to last year's 29. IIT-B director Devang Khakhar said he was happy that 44 of the top 50 rankers have opted for the Powai institute. "Students ma...

OPENING AND CLOSING RANKS FOR VARIOUS COURSES : JEE (Advanced) – 2013 GE (CML) OBC SC ST BRANCH OPEN CLOSE OPEN CLOSE OPEN CLOSE OPEN CLOSE 4-year B.Tech. Course Biotechnology 3192 5849 2396 2747 1123 1591 717 760 Chemical Engineering 1929 3241 1273 1556 743 866 376 512 Civil Engineering 1523 3039 856 1241 367 598 114 195 Computer Science and Engineering 379 766 212 377 178 306 111 167 Electrical Engineering 1039 1741 459 723 240 440 112 183 Electronics and Communication Engineering 878 1338 460 763 347 487 172 255 Mechanical Engineering 1117 1911 445 728 169 331 68 192 Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 3572 5146 1838 2470 1191 1366 552 709 Polymer Science and Technology 5463 6470 2641 2919 1514 1601 812 851 Production and Industrial Engineering 2817 3648 1245 1717 799 1050 453 554 Pulp and Paper Engineering 6070 6911 2210 3025 1384 1647 0 0 Five-Year B. Arch. Course Architecture 5423 7408 3963 4167 1781 1965 0 0 Five-Year In...

Ninety per cent undergraduate students at IIT-Roorkee received campus placement offers this year from globally renowned companies, with the highest international placement offer standing at Rs 73 lakh. As many as 1,047 out of 1,631 students registered at the institute got job offers from global giants like Google and Microsoft through campus interviews which took place for the first time in the history of the institution, a release from IIT-Roorkee said here today. The highest salary package among international offers stood at Rs 73 lakh while the one in domestic category stood at Rs 32 lakh, it said. 171 companies have already visited the campus (till date) for the Campus Recruitment Programme this year, it said. Prof In-charge (Training and Placement), IIT-Roorkee, N P Padhy said, "10 startups have also visited the campus this year and offered 56 jobs to the students. Some of these include companies like Unbxd, MySm...

In Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee (IIT-Roorkee), a group of PhD students are working on a four-legged robot that would be able to carry weapons to soldiers on the battlefront. "We are working on the operational prototype of a four-legged robot that consists of a chassis and can be used at the forefront of war areas, for instance to carry weapons," P.M. Pathak, associate professor in the mechanical engineering department, told IANS. "Even if one limb is hit by a bullet, the robot can continue to function on the remaining three limbs, and even of two," explained Divye Anand, a third year student in the robotics department. Some students are working on a robotic arm that resembles a human arm with flexible finger-like extensions that can be used to pick up, hold or even push objects. The robotic arm can withstand high heat and can be used by people who work in hazardous spaces like blast furnaces. At the annual IIT-Roorkee TechFest - Cognizance - hundr...

An IIT Roorkee student allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan inside his room in the hostel premises at Roorkee in Haridwar, police said today. 25-year-old Udai Tanajirao Biradare, a second year M.Tech student at IIT Roorkee was found hanging from the ceiling fan of his hostel room yesterday, Circle officer Renu Loheni said.  Biradare hailed from Latur in Maharashtra, she said.  Police have recovered a suicide note from the spot which says the victim was taking the extreme step as he had let down his parents who had expected him to become a doctor.  

We all know about the infamous lipstick scandal at IIT Roorkee and government ordering a probe. Why so much fuss was there against this normal college prank? Or was it really shameful on our part to conduct such an event? The tragedy of people in their 20s is that while the society expects them to be independent, mature, responsible, and everything else you would associate with being an adult, their lives continue to be decided and governed to a significant extent by people in their 40s or older.  They live in a world whose laws are made, at best, by the generation before theirs, and at worst, by people who lived decades ago. While they are drivers of social change, they also have to bear the residual effect of whatever the generation before theirs thought was acceptable. It's the best of times; it's the worst of times. The IIT Roorkee lipstick brouhaha is just another in the series of incidents resulting from the perennial conflict between the old and the new. Usually,...