Author: External Communications

NEEV empowered more than 100 rural youth and women through Skill Development Courses

NEEV empowered more than 100 rural youth and women through Skill Development Courses

Jul 5, 2019 | ,

NEEV, a community outreach program of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) organized the valedictory event of its May – July 2019, Summer Skills Courses on July 05, 2019. Smt. Mona Khandhar (IAS), Secretary and Commissioner, Rural Development, Government of Gujarat (GoG) graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. Mittal Gohil, Director, Desai Foundation Trust, which has provided philanthropic support to NEEV’s projects, was also present at the event. This year, more than 100 participants from nearby villages were trained by NEEV from May to July 2019, through various Skill Development Courses. Smt. Mona Khandhar (IAS), Secretary and...

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Winners of Invent 2.O announced!

Winners of Invent 2.O announced!

Jun 29, 2019 | ,

On June 28, IITGN concluded its second edition of Invent@IITGN – a unique six-week annual summer programme in inventing  which was started for the first time in India by the institute during the summer of 2018. Selected students of IITs from across the country gather at IITGN to ideate, build and prototype their inventions. These inventions address a real societal or consumer need, and are designed to be feasible and practical in terms of safety, size, weight and cost. The programme was initiated started in 2013 in the US at The Cooper Union by Prof Alan Wolf and Prof...

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Lessons on ‘Building Design for Fire and Life Safety’ at IITGN

Lessons on ‘Building Design for Fire and Life Safety’ at IITGN

Jun 29, 2019 |

Students, professionals, consultants and manufacturers from across India participated in the course, with participants coming from Jammu & Kashmir to Kerala, Odisha to Gujarat. The course also had an international participant. A four- day short course on Building Design for Fire and Life Safety was conducted during June 26-29 at IITGN. With increasing density of Indian urban and rural areas, the threat of fire poses more and more challenges. This course aimed at covering aspects of fire and life safety in the design of buildings. The course covered fundamental design aspects of buildings, including structural systems, MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) systems...

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IITGN student bags prestigious Cargill Global Scholarship

IITGN student bags prestigious Cargill Global Scholarship

Jun 27, 2019 |

Ms Deepika Soni, a BTech student in Electrical Engineering, is one of the 10 selected students from all over the country to have received this scholarship. Deepika Soni, a BTech student in Electrical Engineering at the institute, has been awarded the prestigious Cargill Global Scholarship for the year 2019-20. Cargill, a US Agri & Food conglomerate, in association with the Institute of International Education (IIE) – a not-for-profit organisation which administers more than 250 education and scholarship programmes – has set up the competition cycle of the Cargill Global Scholars Program (CGSP) in five countries, including India, to help build future...

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