IIT Gandhinagar - Indian Institute of Technology: News & Events

CCL-IITGN Launches 20-20 Lamps Series; To Create 20 Unique DIY Mathematical Lamps of Paper in 20 Days

November 3, 2020: The Center for Creative Learning (CCL) at the IIT Gandhinagar - Indian Institute of Technology has launched a series of '20-20 lamps' with the intention of lighting Diwali with environmentally-friendly self-made decorations that also teach some mathematics lessons. As part of this video sequence, which was launched on Dussehra Day and will continue to Diwali for 20 days, the CCL team will publish a video on its YouTube channel every day on how to create a new paper lamp based on one of the principles of mathematics.     

During one of the episodes of the enormously popular 3030 STEM show, a live Sunday weekly YouTube series to engage Mathematics and Science by generating a sense of wonder from daily life, IITGN originated this offering from CCL. With more than 15 lakh views, 3030 STEM has drawn about 4 lakh registered users. These easy-to-make DIY paper lamps are exclusively built and look incredibly stunning by the Center of Creative Learning team at IITGN. The CCL team not only outlines the method of making these lamps in these videos, but also discusses the math behind them for those who are interested in learning about platonic and Archimedean solids such as Tetrahedron, Octahedron, Square, Dodecahedron, and so on. In addition, this imaginative practice also provides the opportunity to spend time enjoying the festivals together as a family.

IIT Gandhinagar Launches Covid-19 Testing Drive

October 25, 2020: IIT Gandhinagar - Indian Institute of Technology has recently organised the Covid-19 test drive for its whole campus population to supplement the precautionary steps against the current global pandemic. Over 1,800 community members, including teachers, employees, residents, outsourced support staff, and students currently on campus and those going to work on campus, will undergo accelerated antigen checks over the next few days as part of this special push.

Over the course of the days, the medical teams of the Government of Gujarat will conduct the tests at two separate locations on the campus. The Institute authorities have assigned token numbers to each family or person to ensure protection and adherence to social distancing norms at the testing locations so that they can come to the testing location turn by turn. Student volunteers have already come forward, along with the leadership of the Institute, to help coordinate all appropriate logistics for registration and correspondence so that the testing can be conducted with a high degree of efficiency.

IIT-GN Inks MoU With NIPER-A, Vegshakti Mahila Kalyan and C-DAC to Impart Quality Education to Students

October 15, 2020: IIT-GN recently entered into an agreement with a few of the well-renowned organisations namely NIPER-A, Vegshakti Mahila Kalyan and C-DAC to give students academic, research and knowledge transfer opportunities.  

The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research- Ahmedabad (NIPER-A) aims to collaborate on information building, technological advancement and human capital growth through collaborative R&D proposals. As part of this arrangement, faculty, students and researchers from both institutions will also be able to make use of each other's lab infrastructure. It will also promote incubation in different fields and student internships for "hands-on" experience.

Vegshakti Mahila Kalyan Sangathan (VMKS), a registered company under the aegis of National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL), has agreed to set-up a 'Vegshakti Mahila Kalyan Sangathan Scholarship' at the Institute to provide Rs 75,000 per year as financial support for educational expenses for each of the two chosen female students over the four-year period of their BTech curriculum. The annual renewal of the scholarship depends on the merit performance of the student every year.

This scholarship will be awarded to IITGN first-year female BTech students who have passed the IIT JEE Mains and Advanced exams and have confirmed admission to the Institute. However, preference will be given to the female students studying in the Institute's Civil/ Computer Science & Engineering/ Electrical/ Materials Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering discipline.

The third agreement has been signed with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), a premier R&D organisation of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, to install a Supercomputing System at IITGN under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). with C-DAC will install the 650 TF Supercomputing System (70:30 CPU & GPU) as part of this agreement, with suitable data centres with storage capacity at the Institute. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) have previously chosen IITGN to operationalise the system on the basis of the available facilities at the Institute.

IITGN to Host Two More Live JEE Open House Sessions with Dean, Students and Alumni

October 7, 2020: IIT Gandhinagar - Indian Institute of Technology is all set to host two more live JEE open house sessions with the Institute's deans, students and alumni after a massive response to the live JEE Open House with Prof Sudhir Jain, Director of IITGN. These two Open Houses intend to direct IIT applicants in their inquiries about the layout of the IITGN academic course, different resources, events and student life at the Institute.

The second Open House on ‘Academic and Student Life at IITGN’ is scheduled for October 8 at 5 pm and will be facilitated by Dean of Academics Professor Kabeer Jasuja and Dean of Student Affairs Professor Harish. Aspirants interested to attend the session can get themselves registered on http://bit.ly/jeeopenhouse2

The third session has been scheduled for October 9 at 5 pm. This will more about interaction with alumni. It will provide prospective students with the opportunity to connect directly with the Institute's students and alumni and gain more insight into IITGN and know how the Institute provides its students with all possible resources and provide them with the best global academic and research visibility, as well as to shape their overall personality. To register for this session, please copy the link to your browser http://bit.ly/jeeopenhouse2 

IIT-GN Organises Live JEE Open House Session with Professor Sudhir Jain

October 4, 2020: For students awaiting JEE Advanced results, IIT Gandhinagar - Indian Institute of Technology hosted a live JEE Open House Session with Professor Sudhir K Jain, Director of IITGN. The virtual interactive session intended at educating JEE Advanced qualifying students and their parents learn and understand the framework of IIT and its various Engineering branches.

All students' queries were answered related to undergraduate courses at IITs and IITGN in particular. Students gained insights on IITGN education innovation; undergraduate curriculum, which includes dual major, minor, dual degree courses, the liberal strategy of reform in the branch; IITGN 's undergraduate study opportunities; the Institute's Career Development Programs and several other student-centred initiatives. IITGN has been exceptional in its reaction to the global Covid-19 pandemic; the Institute has taken many steps to ease the situation and to ensure that the community is safe and secure. This element, which is of great significance to the students and parents in the current period, was also discussed in the online session.

Professor Sudhir urged students to gather as much information as possible and take one of the most important decisions of their life.

IIT-GN Hosts One-Day International Webinar on ‘Gandhi and the Adivasi Question’

October 2, 2020: Celebrating Mahatama Gandhi’s 151st birth anniversary, the IIT Gandhinagar - Indian Institute of Technology organised a one-day international webinar on ‘Gandhi and the Adivasi Question’ in collaboration with Flinders University, Australia on October 1.

The webinar aimed at recognising the history of Adivasi societies, politics and their culture today through Gandhi and Gandhian legacy. This was part of SPARC (Ministry of Education, Government of India) initiative.  

Many writers, intellectuals and Adivasi activists participated in the webinar to explore the Gandhian political ideology, the history of the post-independence Gandhian movement, contemporary struggles for the rights of Adivasi, the influence of Gandhi with regard to Adivasis and how his ideas have influenced social movements in Adivasi today. The panel of keynote speakers included Dr Dhananjay Rai from the Central University of Gujarat; Dr Bina Sengar from Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad; Dr Sangeeta Dasgupta from Jawaharlal Nehru University; Arjun Rathva from MC Rathva College Pavi Jetpur; and Dr Daniel J Rycroft, Chairperson of India Dialogue at the University of East Anglia, UK.

They discussed on various topics  such as the omission of Adivasi issues in the initial constructive programs and its inclusion in the later ones (after 1945), Historicising Political Discourse of Gandhians and Adivasi Communities in Western India, how a section of the Oraon tribal community in Jharkhand known as ‘Tana Bhagat’ reveres Gandhi as a deity in the community and idea of ‘Adivasi citizenship’ within the field of human dignity laid out by the UN Sustainable Development Goals

IITGN Offers On-Campus Overnight Accommodation Support to JEE Advanced Exam Candidates

September 18, 2020: The Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) is offering applicants and an accompanying parent limited overnight accommodation on its campus with the intention of providing some degree of assistance to candidates appearing for the JEE Advanced exam in the current pandemic situation.

Speaking about this particular arrangement, IITGN Director Prof Sudhir Jain said, "At this time, it is definitely difficult for the candidates and their guardians whose JEE Advanced Examination Centers are far from their current residence and must be concerned about seeking secure accommodation. IITGN aspires to be an institution that is receptive. Providing those candidates with on-campus overnight lodging is our humble attempt to provide some of the nervous candidates and their parent's relief.”

Students who have their centres in the Gandhinagar/Ahmedabad region and would like to stay overnight on IITGN campus can register themselves on https://www.iitgn.ac.in/jeeaes. The registered candidates would receive further communication and details from the Institute in due course. 

Institute Organises 30-30 Stem Online Live Education Programme in Collaboration with CBSE

September 16, 2020: 30-30 Stem, an innovative online live education programme on promoting critical thinking of Mathematics and Science launchd by IIT-GN in joint efforts with CBSE and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune (IISER Pune) recently completed its first 30 days.

More than 10 lakh viewers have been drawn to the 30-week programme with live one-hour sessions every Sunday within only the first five weekly sessions. Students, teachers and guardians, who are dispersed across 20 Indian states including Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha, Assam, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu, and Kerala, among others, actively follow the sessions.

30-30 STEM’ brings unique content every week to elicit the joy and inherent beauty in the curriculum of Science and Maths that is all around us. The purpose of the Initiative is to provide teachers, students and their parents with an online forum to make STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) more appealing through limitless subject boundaries and build a feeling of wonder across daily life.

The first session began with ‘Adventures of A4 Sheet’, creatively explained how a paper could be used to understand the concepts of Area, Perimeter, Volume, Geometric Progression, Ratio and Proportion, Triangles, Octagon, Square and Square Root. The second episode - ‘Find Your Lung Capacity’, used a plastic bag and a 3-in-1 easy to make toy to elucidate Bernoulli’s principle and concepts of Buoyancy, Air, Air Pollution, Atmospheric Air, Respiratory system, Lungs, Weight of Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen, Weight of Air and Compressed Air, Vacuum, Weight and Mass, Velocity and Speed, and so on. Similarly, the third session was based on ‘The Wonder of Calendar’, the fourth episode was about ‘The Science of Stars, Earth and Moon’ and the fifth episode was based on ‘Computational Thinking’.

The next 25 weekly sessions will bring more interesting themes, topics, and puzzles such as combinatorics with playing cards; knowing our gut; how animals interact (to discover the science behind it); 3D visualisation with kheera (cucumber); ICT tool GeoGebra to understand the concepts of geometry, algebra, statistics and calculus; geometry with dough and broom-sticks, among others.

IIT Gandhinagar Ranks Fourth in India in Times Higher Education's World University Ranking

September 4, 2020: Times Higher Education (THE) recently released World University Ranking 2021 in which IIT Gandhinagar - Indian Institute of Technology ranked fourth in India and among top 800 higher education institutes across the globe. For the second year in a row, IITGN has won a global spot in this prestigious international education ranking.

The institute has been ranked in 601-800 band worldwide. It is Gujarat's only institute ranked among the 1,000 world's best institutes. In this ranking, THE has ranked about 1,500 universities and institutions across 93 countries. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings measure the performance of research-driven universities based on 13 parameters which include teaching, research, citations, industry income and international outlook.