Month: December 2020

The Agri Business Incubation Centre (ABIC), IIT Kharagpur, in association with its Agricultural & Food Engineering Department, Centre for Rural Development & Innovative Sustainable Technologies and Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship, is organizing Agri-Food Techathon (AFT 2021), a national level online technical fest during January to March 2021. This is an event open to university/college students, entrepreneurs and rural youths to exhibit and depict their creativity, problem-solving, and prototyping-skills in the different domain of Agri-Food sector. The event will provide orientation and exposure to innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities in the Agriculture and Food Technology sector, to the aspiring entrepreneurs,…

IIT Kharagpur to impart training on high-performance computing. The Institute has received a project titled ‘NSM Nodal Center for training in HPC and AI’ from Dept. of Science and Technology, C-DAC under the National Super Computing Mission of Govt. of India.  The Center will focus on manpower creation and upskilling of students, faculty, scientists, researchers, scientific users in large scale computing across different science domains with an aim to bridge the gap between application and development aspects in HPC. In the first phase topics to be covered are fundamental areas like basics of parallel computing; MPI, OpenMP and CUDA programming,…

IIT Kharagpur and the University of Leeds have agreed for institutional collaboration in education and research. The primary objective is to promote interaction and collaboration between faculty, staff and students of the two institutions through visits and exchange programmes, carry out joint academic and research programmes, joint supervision of doctoral and masters students, on a reciprocal basis. The relationship also aims at enhancing the technological, social and cultural relations of both countries/states/regions.  Apart from the short course, seminars, workshops or conferences, the scope of the MoU will include exploring joint PhD/Masters programmes, possibly in association with other reputed academic, research or…