All about IITK Alumni Institute Students Reflections: Messages from the Graduating Batch Hi Y14! As you embark upon the wonderful journey that you will cherish for your life, we asked some graduating batch people to do what they do best, fundebaazi! The life at IITK, especially the first few months, is replete with opportunities and the plethora of activities sometimes disconcerts even the best of us. It […] Written by Vox Populi August 3, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Events Institute Reports and Investigations Students Entrepreneurship at IIT Kanpur “An entrepreneur searches for change, responds to it and exploits opportunities. Innovation is a specific tool of an entrepreneur. Hence an effective entrepreneur converts a source into a resource” ~Peter Drucker Entrepreneurship is about solving real world problems using business as a tool! So say, for instance, your home city faces frequent power cuts. You […] Written by Vox Populi August 3, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Gymkhana Institute Raktarpan Himanshu Agarwal, a graduate of 2014 batch, received the convocation award for Excellence in Community Services. Himanshu laid the foundation of Raktarpan – A student’s initiative started by NSS IIT Kanpur, which aims to tackle the grim situation of blood in Kanpur. It works to promote voluntary blood donation and to ensure that no person […] Written by Vox Populi August 3, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Beyond IITK Events Institute Stalwarts of Physics at Techkriti! Techkriti 2014 saw as its chief guest the celebrated and widely respected astrophysicist Dr. Walter H.G. Lewin. Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT, Dr. Lewin has been the childhood hero of many a student across the world for his unique teaching style and nature as well as for his eccentric experiments. His video lectures on […] Written by Vox Populi August 2, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Faculty Institute Interview with Prof. Lilavati Krishnan Professor Lilavati Krishnan, from the HSS department, has retired from active teaching this year. She taught PSY151A almost every year for the incoming batch. She has left behind a rich legacy, as her unique style of teaching, combined with her exceptional oratory skills, has enriched the minds of hundreds of students. Even after 36 years […] Written by Vox Populi August 2, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Faculty Institute Reports and Investigations Engineering Sciences: The Real Picture Of the many programs offered at the undergraduate level at IIT Kanpur, the newest one, chronologically, but not so much ideologically, is B Tech in Engineering Sciences. The program has been made available to the Y11 batch and onwards. Given the relative newness of the program, it is offered as a branch change option to […] Written by Vox Populi August 2, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Institute Students Bag Tags Stretching your vision range will not do the trick, A plethora of bags all around, which one is your pick? Many students seek solace in the library as exams start to cross the dates on calendar. It is mildly amusing how productive the library turns us into, a day before the exam. Besides the evident […] Written by Vox Populi August 2, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Institute Reports and Investigations Students 49th Inter IIT Sports Meet, IIT Guwahati: The Great Kanpuriya GC Campaign After days, weeks and months of gruelling practice sessions, carefully planned meals and workout schedules, and intense discipline and self restraint, the Sports Contingent of IIT Kanpur began its week long quest for the General Championship at the 49th Inter IIT sports meet in the spellbindingly beautiful campus of IIT Guwahati. Each one […] Written by Vox Populi August 2, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Institute Reports and Investigations Child Labour in Campus: A Reality Check-Up THE SCENARIO 5-6 children employed in MT and Canteens Working hours from 6 am to 7 pm Do not receive formal education Wages range from Rs.700 to Rs.1000 a month, much below the minimum wages Authorities indifferent, feign ignorance When we go to have a cup of tea at MT with our friends, how often […] Written by Vox Populi August 2, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Alumni Institute A tribute to Norman Dahl Dr Norman Dahl, a Mechanical Engineering Professor at MIT co-authored what is regarded as the Bible of Mechanics of Solids along with Dr Crandall. He also played a stellar role in establishing IITK and lived here from 1962-64. He passed away at an age of 85, of Alzheimer’s disease on Jan 11 2004. Following is […] Written by Vox Populi August 2, 2014December 26, 2020
