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Health-Tech MSME Hub @IITKgp

Health-Tech MSME Hub @IITKgp

Times of India    Business Standard     The Week    NDTV   India Blooms    Telegraph   Telegraph (Print)  DNA   DevDiscourse    Anandabazar Patrika    Swarajya  UNI In a new development aligned with the upcoming 400-bed superspecialty hospital at IIT Kharagpur, the Institute is going to set up a Common Research & Technology Development Hub (CRTDH) on Technologies for Affordable Healthcare. The initiative which is being supported by the Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India, will address the issues of accessibility and affordability challenging the modern healthcare system through technological innovations. Another key area of focus of the Hub will…
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Its ePunch Time!

Its ePunch Time!

IIT KGP is all set to digitize its classroom attendance with a bio-metric system as part of the smart campus project of the Institute. With the growing number of students, attendance keeping has become a time-consuming activity. Though the current teacher-student ratio for classroom teaching at IIT KGP is 1:13.5, but average class strength, especially for undergraduate students, range from 40 - 90. The attendance takes about 10-12 minutes of the 1-hour classes. Sample gadgets have been acquired which will be tested on a pilot basis in the ongoing Spring semester. Both fixed and portable bio-metric machines will be tried…
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Live it up

Live it up

The goal of modern medicine is no longer confined to the mere treatment of sickness. Equally important is disease prevention and improvement of the basic quality of life. This requires knowledge sharing and collaborations among medical profession, architects, administrators, academics and management consultants to help them put forward their view points on the future of healthcare in India. A conference on “Hospital Planning and Beyond” organized by the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning of IIT Kharagpur on January 28 in Kolkata brought together experts from the medical profession, architects, administrators, academics and management consultants to put forward their view…
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Greater reliability

Greater reliability

Times of India    India Today    Economic Times     Energy Infra Post In a major development that will lend impetus to the 2nd stage of India’s nuclear power programme, the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, has entered into a collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur to carry out research related to the design and development of Fast Breeder Reactors (FBRs). A dedicated IGCAR-IITKGP R&D cell has been set up under an MoU in the premises of IIT Kharagpur under the Advanced Technology Development Centre’s Structural Reliability Research Facility of IIT KGP to address the key…
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IIT KGP Partners with AOTS Japan

IIT KGP Partners with AOTS Japan

Financial Express   The Week   Navbharat Times   Business Standard  Techgraph    NDTV    Millenium Post     Gadget Now    NewsNation   The Indian Wire   DevDiscourse IIT Kharagpur and Japan’s The Association for Overseas Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Partnerships (AOTS) have signed an MoU on January 21, 2019, to explore opportunities for an Indo-Japanese Research Centre at IIT Kharagpur to showcase research and technology developments in thematic areas. The two organizations shall focus on state of the art joint certification courses in the domains of technology and management to be co-taught by faculty/experts in both countries including visits to the host institutions. This…
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KGP – Alberta Collaboration

KGP – Alberta Collaboration

Business Standard     Times Now     NDTV     Outlook     Yahoo   DevDiscourse      CanIndia     World Education Review     Tech2     ProKerala IIT KGP and University of Alberta (UoA), one of Canada’s top ranking university have rekindled their partnership with an MoU signed on January 14, 2019. The two institutions have agreed to explore opportunities for a joint doctoral degree program where doctoral students will be working on collaborative projects and co-supervised by faculty members at both institutions. The special scheme from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India and UoA will be explored where doctoral students…
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Going places

Going places

Prof. Abhijit Mukherjee, Dean international South Asia and Director, Curtin-India Academy, Curtin University, has been visiting IIT Kharagpur for the past five years with a team drawn from the top faculty of Curtin University who understand, as he does, the immense potential the Curtin University-IIT Kharagpur joint PhD programme holds out for both countries in the field of education, research and the betterment of human resources. Prof. Mukherjee is a civil engineer, researcher and educator. At the School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, he has taught structural mechanics, structural design, structural stability and finite element analysis courses. His…
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IIT KGP Sets New Placement Benchmark

IIT KGP Sets New Placement Benchmark

The Week     Business Standard    Economic Times   Zee Business  Financial Express IIT Kharagpur has completed the phase 1 of placement for 2018-19 with 1275+ offers from 192 companies. The campus has witnessed the presence of many IT-Software, e-commerce, Finance and Analytics companies including the core engineering one. About 40% of the profiles offered are in IT-Software followed by 20% in core engineering, 15% each in analytics and e-Commerce and 10% in finance. Companies who have made a remarkable contribution in terms of number of hires are Google, Apple, Microsoft, EXL, Intel, Tata Steel, Flipkart, L&T Construction, Mahindra & Mahindra, TVS…
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Global Experts to address Antimicrobial Resistance Challenge at IIT KGP

Global Experts to address Antimicrobial Resistance Challenge at IIT KGP

Business Standard      Jagran Josh     NDTV     The Week     Millenium Post Antimicrobial Resistance is one of the most crucial challenges faced by the healthcare industry. In the 21st century, germs are evolving resistance to drugs at a faster rate which has now been identified as a severe global threat. A major contributor to this issue has been our malpractices of antibiotic use, be it not finishing the entire antibiotic course or over-prescription of antibiotics for human patients or in livestock and pisciculture. This is further aggravated by poor infection control in health care settings, poor hygiene and…
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6 Days, 1000+ Offers

6 Days, 1000+ Offers

Times of India   Business Standard   India Today    CNBC TV18   Anandabazar IIT KGP has received 1000 job offers in a record 6 days. A total of 112 companies visited till December 6, 2018 with the 6th day ending with 1000+ offers. This included more than 250 PPOs. This has been the fastest 1000 till date, typically it takes a little more than a week. About 40% of the profiles offered are in IT-Software followed by 20% in core engineering, 15% each in analytics and e-Commerce and 10% in finance. "The dynamic content of the curriculum equipping the students with the necessary technical skill which is…
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