Articles in Engineering 2024
The Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi has invited applications for the posts of Post Doctoral Fellowships. The details of the vacancies are as follows: No. of vacancies: not specified Essential Qualifications: Candidates must possess a Ph.D. (awarded or thesis submitted) in relevant areas from a recognized university or institute. Age limit: Candidates should not be […]
An engineering college with one of the highest intake capacities for students in India has finally taken an initiative to break the humdrum of the engineering grind that students go through. Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), unlike many of the premier engineering institutes, has just two fests- one technical, and one sports event – throughout […]
About 1.5 million engineers graduate in India annually. Many colleges don’t get enough students to join them, and other colleges have students lining up to get admission. Have you ever wondered why such a vast difference exists nowadays? There are myriad reasons for this. One could be the reservation system for different caste-based minorities. This […]
Today, Huffington Post reported that the IIT Madras management took down an article from their student blog, ‘The Fifth Estate’, before putting up a heavily edited version back online. The original blog, on depression and suicides at IITs, was heavily critical of the IIT system, which seems to have been toned down in the revised […]
Newton’s Law of Gravitation is a fundamental law we study in early classes. This law gives the gravitational force of attraction between two bodies located at some separation. This law forms the basis of understanding gravitational field theory. To cover the basics related to Newton’s Law of Gravitation, see the video below: There are some […]
Gitanjit Medhi, a class 9 student of the Resonance PCCP Mumbai Study Centre, has been selected for the Indian National Mathematics Olympiad (INMO) training Camp to be held in New Delhi in Feb 2016. He is one of only 3 students to be selected from Mumbai. Medhi expressed pleasure on his selection. Mathematical Olympiads are […]
In a post last week, we wrote about AICTE wanting to reduce 6 lakh engineering seats across India. That the need to do so is immediate and apparent is visible from the dire straits that the engineering education sector in Odisha is facing, as reported by scroll.in yesterday. Over 30,000 seats from the available 46,000 seats have gone […]
Cases of Toppling: There are several problems framed on cases of toppling. A body topples over a point only if the line of action of its weight crosses this point in either direction where it can topple. Below is a case of toppling of a prism which is fundamental but very important in understanding the […]
Prom night zeal, first date jitters, and the fervour of dressing up: all are alien experiences to many IITians. Popular demand from students led to the birth of a prom night culture in IIT Bombay (IITB) and IIT Gandhinagar (IITGN) last year. While IITB has restricted prom night entry to only 4th year students, IITGN […]
A seminar inviting suggestions from the youth brigade of the education city Kota was conducted in Allen Career Institute’s Samyak campus, at Kunhari, Kota by the consultants of Feedback Infra Ltd. who have been appointed by the Municipal Corporation of Kota for the Smart City initiative. The suggestions and solutions would be then proposed to […]