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IITGN StudentScope: Mekdes Wubet Bezabh, MTech Batch of 2021, Biological Engineering

IITGN StudentScope: Mekdes Wubet Bezabh, MTech Batch of 2021, Biological Engineering

Jun 2, 2022 |

STORY CREDITS Writer/Editor: Shivangi Vasudev Bhatt Photo: Media and Communication, IIT Gandhinagar During her free time, Mekdes likes to interact with friends, play football, and do yoga. Her hobbies include reading books, writing poems, painting, playing the harp, and cooking. How far can you go to fix a problem so that it doesn’t adversely affect others the way it impacted your life? Mekdes Wubet from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, decided to join the field of Biomedical Engineering after she saw a critical error in her mother’s medical examination result, which had happened due to a maintenance issue in one of the medical...

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Supercomputer ‘PARAM Ananta’ commissioned at IIT Gandhinagar

Supercomputer ‘PARAM Ananta’ commissioned at IIT Gandhinagar

May 30, 2022 |

STORY CREDITS Writer/Editor: Shivangi Vasudev Bhatt Photo: Media and Communication, IIT Gandhinagar The 838 teraflops (TF) Supercomputing System is powered with 7400 CPU cores, 52TB RAM, 1PiB of Storage space, and an enormous power of GPU nodes. ‘PARAM Ananta’, a supercomputing facility under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) jointly steered by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), and implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), has been commissioned at IITGN today. The new facility will provide a tremendous amount of computational power to the scientific community of IITGN...

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IITGN kick starts the third edition of Invention Factory India

IITGN kick starts the third edition of Invention Factory India

May 26, 2022 |

STORY CREDITS Writer/Editor: Shivangi Vasudev Bhatt Photo: Media and Communication, IIT Gandhinagar The intensive six-week summer programme will train students to conceive inventions as a team of two, prototype and pitch them, and also file US and Indian provisional patent applications. IITGN is back with the third edition of the much-awaited Invention Factory® India. Invention Factory® India is a one of its kind intensive summer programme in inventing in which the selected students from IITs across the country conceive an invention, prototype it, pitch it, write and file the US as well as Indian provisional patent applications for their invention; all within a...

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IITGN organised a three-day exposure camp for higher secondary and undergraduate students from a rural tribal district of Gujarat

IITGN organised a three-day exposure camp for higher secondary and undergraduate students from a rural tribal district of Gujarat

May 25, 2022 |

STORY CREDITS Writer/Editor: Shivangi Vasudev Bhatt Photo: Media and Communication, IIT Gandhinagar About 26 students of Chhota Udepur district attended the residential workshop, which was designed to inform them about higher education opportunities and different career streams across disciplines. A three-day exposure camp on higher education opportunities for about 26 students of Chhota Udepur, a rural tribal district in Gujarat, recently concluded at IITGN. The residential workshop was designed to inform students pursuing their higher secondary and undergraduate studies in Chhota Udepur, about various higher education opportunities and different career streams across disciplines. The workshop was hosted by the Humanities and...

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IITGN StudentScope: Jay Shah, BTech Batch of 2018, Chemical Engineering

IITGN StudentScope: Jay Shah, BTech Batch of 2018, Chemical Engineering

May 25, 2022 |

STORY CREDITS Writer/Editor: Shivangi Vasudev Bhatt Photo: Media and Communication, IIT Gandhinagar Jay will be going for a PhD at the University of Delaware, USA. His long-term goal is to develop more efficient renewable energy storage systems and create a more sustainable society for future generations. There is beauty in the mundane because it is these small, everyday steps that lead you to your goal. Believe it or not, but our BTech Chemical Engineering student Jay Shah has been achieving many milestones with this secret sauce! Hailing from Mumbai, Jay was drawn to an engineering degree at IITGN to bring solutions...

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