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Oct

2019

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International Outreach Programme @ VGSOM

Eventsbusiness management, business school, Experiential learning, immersive learning, inclusive learning, international, international collaboration, international outreach, Management, Singapore, Singapore Management University, VGSoM, Vinod Gupta School of Management

Economic Times Jagran Josh India Today Times of India IIT Kharagpur’s Vinod Gupta School of Management has signed an MoU with Singapore Management University for ‘SMU-IITKGP Inclusive and Immersive Experiential Learning (I2XL) Programme’. The programme is aimed at providing a managerial education and business school experience like no other – one that encourages students to apply classroom concepts in a global business environment. The scope of the MoU will include student projects and immersion programmes, reciprocal exchange of research and teaching staff, research and other collaborations. The programme is focused on…

Aug

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Engineering is fine

StoriesIIT Kharagpur, Microfluidics Lab, research, Singapore, Tanushree Banerjee, thermoelectric cooler, United World College of Southeast Asia

If you happened to visit the Mechanical Engineering department or the Microfluidics Lab recently, you would have found a teenager deep in conversation with the research scholars. Not unusual? Then consider the fact that this young girl, not yet out of school, had travelled all the way from Singapore and elected to do her summer internship at IIT Kharagpur to resolve a question that was bothering her – to do engineering or not? It is not that such a question has bothered only Tanushree Banerjee – our visitor, who is presently a Grade 12 student of Singapore’s United World College…