Year: 2020

Dec
07
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Faculty Achievement

Faculty Achievement

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Prof. Suman Chakraborty, Dean, Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy Cell and Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering has been named for the prestigious Newton-Bhabha Fund Researcher Link Workshop Grants 2020-21. The program is funded by the UK Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) under the Newton Bhabha Fund facilitated by the British Council. He will be collaborating with the faculty experts from the University of Glasgow, the United Kingdom to hold a series of workshops focusing on high-impact research in the area of healthcare technology for public health preparedness and response to…
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Dec
03
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Ammonia Hotspot Trends in India – First-time observations from India

Ammonia Hotspot Trends in India – First-time observations from India

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Indo-Gangetic Plain an atmospheric ammonia hotspot but India’s overall trends look promising Agro fertilizers containing high levels of ammonia have long been designated as a hazardous material for human health. For the first time in India, the seasonal and inter-annual variability of atmospheric ammonia emitted by the agricultural sector has been analyzed by researchers from IIT Kharagpur in collaboration with IITM Pune and European researchers. And the results are in agreement with the long-held apprehension of global environmentalists - the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) is indeed the global hot-spot of atmospheric ammonia (NH3) due to intense agricultural activities and fertilizer production…
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Dec
02
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Higher Risk in Concentrated Business Control – VGSOM Researchers

Higher Risk in Concentrated Business Control – VGSOM Researchers

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Award-Winning Research from IIT Kharagpur’s Vinod Gupta School of Management Indicate Higher Risks with Family-controlled Firms In an award-winning research study conducted by faculty and alumni at IIT Kharagpur’s Vinod Gupta School of Management, the researchers have found that family and family control ownership is negatively related to firms’ profitability due to lags in management.  The study is based on decadal data from 2007 to 2017 of 421 listed firms in emerging markets which have at least 5%-20% of the equity capital is owned by a family group including concert promoters. The results show that family-owned firms dominant with concentrated…
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Dec
01
2020
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By Poulami Mondal
2020 Day 1 Placement Report

2020 Day 1 Placement Report

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Despite Pandemic, IIT Kharagpur secured a significant number of placement offers for the 2020 season At this ongoing pandemic situation, IIT Kharagpur bagged 276 Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs) out of 425 eight-week internship opportunities through online mode. Companies like Barclay, Goldman Sachs, Honeywell, Microsoft, MasterCard, Dr. Reddy, Tata Steel have offered more than 10 PPOs each. Around thirty companies participated in Day 1 and more than 130 placement offers were received for the final year students. TSMC, Sony-Japan and Cohesity US made international hiring offers. “Key components of this success are excellent technical skills of the students, the flexible online internship…
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Nov
30
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Low-cost Solution for Advanced Manufacturing

Low-cost Solution for Advanced Manufacturing

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IIT Kharagpur researchers develop a low-cost AI-based Industry 4.0 solution for real-time metrological inspection In an initiative undertaken by the Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing Technology at IIT Kharagpur, researchers are on a mission to make AI & ML applications affordable for India’s industrial sector including MSMEs. They have developed an innovative system consisting of a low-cost imaging device and an  AI-enabled software for real-time metrological inspection. The developed system can be utilized in the production line to check the quality of the jobs and get instant results. Explaining the benefit that MSMEs will draw from such an innovation,…
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Nov
28
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Language Hubs for Assisted Learning

Language Hubs for Assisted Learning

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Can regional languages help students understand classroom lectures better? Prof. Virendra K Tewari, Director, IIT Kharagpur shares his views on setting up language hubs at technical institutes to assist students especially those from vernacular medium or facing difficulty in English communication. In a recent briefing, the Union Education Ministry made an announcement to start technical education, especially for engineering courses, in mother tongue from the next academic year including shortlisting of a few IITs and NITs. Since the announcement of NEP 2020 with a thrust on regional languages, , speculations and debates were up for embracing regional languages in the…
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Nov
24
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
AI4ICPS Setting Pace for India’s Transition to Smart Industry Hub

AI4ICPS Setting Pace for India’s Transition to Smart Industry Hub

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IIT Kharagpur is all set to transform the nation’s industrial sector with scalable application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS). The Institute has recently set up a special purpose vehicle, the IIT Kharagpur AI4ICPS I Hub Foundation for translation of academic research at the proof of concept level to industrially scalable products and processes, focused on AI interventions to CPS.  “While research has been happening in AI&ML for decades, mostly limited to software with limited inclusion in consumer goods and daily used gadgets; graduating innovation…
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Nov
20
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
2020 Feats from VGSOM Diaries

2020 Feats from VGSOM Diaries

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It is a time to rejoice for the students at Vinod Gupta School of Management. The School which is ranked among the top 5 in India by the Ministry of Education's National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), has been on a treadmill of success stories, thanks to the achievements of its faculty and students. Recently, faculty members and former research scholars at the School have also been conferred the Emerald Literati Award 2020 for Highly Commended Paper. Dr. Abhinav Kumar Rajverma, Former PhD Scholar, VGSoM (2015-2018), currently Faculty (IRMA, Anand, Guj.), Dr. Arun Kumar Misra, Associate Professor, VGSoM, Dr. Sabyasachi Mohapatra,…
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Nov
16
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Cucumber Peels for Ecofriendly Food Packaging

Cucumber Peels for Ecofriendly Food Packaging

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Are you throwing away the cucumber peels after preparing your salad? You may soon have them back in your kitchen as the eco-friendly packaging material for food items. IIT Kharagpur researchers have developed cellulose nanocrystals from cucumber peels with high cellulose content, compared to other peel wastes, which can be used to create food packaging materials. While single-use plastic is consciously being avoided by consumers, they still remain largely in circulation as food packaging items. Natural biopolymers are unable to make way in this industry as they lack strength, elongation, barrier property, optical property, and in some cases even biological…
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Nov
06
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
The 2020 Winners

The 2020 Winners

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Finally a Winning Feat in 2020: Recent Graduates Bag Third Prize in Global Business Challenge 2020 "EcoDabba", a startup team by IIT Kharagpur graduates comprising Bindu Sancheti and Sourav Kundu from the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Nikita Agrawal from the Dept. of Agricultural and Food Engineering, has secured 3rd position in the Global Business Challenge 2020. The challenge for 2020 was to ‘develop novel and sustainable solutions to aid in resource recovery and promote the circular economy’. 153 teams from 23 nations participated in this competition. Ecodabba, a sustainable food packaging solution, conceptualized by these 2020 graduates provided a…
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