IIT Indore 10th Convocation Ceremony: 490 students, including 111 girls conferred

490 students received their degrees, including 111 girl students. They included 269 BTech, 61 PhD, 88 MSc, 65 MTech and 7 MS (Research) students during the IIT Indore 10^th Convocation.

IIT Indore 10th convocation: The Indian Institute o Technology (IIT) Indore conducted its 10^th convocation on August 13. The occasion was graced with the presence of Dr Anil Kakdokar, Padma Vibhushan, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and former secretary to the Government of India as the chief guest. The ceremony was presided by Professor Deepak B Phatak, chairperson, BoG. Professor Suhas S Joshi, director and other Senate members were also present during the convocation.

According to the official press note, a total of 490 students received their degrees, including 111 girl students. They included 269 BTech, 61 PhD, 88 MSc, 65 MTech and 7 MS (Research) students during the IIT Indore 10^th Convocation.

IIT Indore receives grant for 19 patents

Professor Joshi said, “Research has been our forte and we’re committed to contributing to society and helping people at the bottom of the pyramid through it. It is a matter of pride that, out of 83 patents filed, we’ve been granted 19. Although the IITs are known for technology, we’re equally focused on humanities, too, and have been working on the application of technology in this domain. The minister for education has advised IIT Indore to develop ‘Amrit Sarovar', which will be a lake with 100 metres diameter with sitting places, a jogging track and natural amphitheatres and landscaping.”

Blockchain-enabled digital degree certificates to graduates

In order to prevent forgery and tampering of certificates, for the first time, IIT Indore is also issuing Blockchain-enabled digital degree certificates to all the graduating students. These certificates are cryptographically protected and, hence, cannot be tampered with or forged and also globally verified by anyone anytime and anywhere without the need to digitise or scan the hard copy of the certificates manually.

Danyal Shahid Shamsi, IIT graduate of Electrical Engineering received the President of India gold medal during the ceremony. Ankita Mondal received the Buti Foundation gold medal for her performance in the Masters research paper MSc Preeti Jha won this year’s VPP Menon gold medal for the best PhD dissertation work by a female student. Preeti is a PhD student of the Computer Science and Engineering department.

Read More:

• JNTU-Hyderabad to launch BTech in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning