BITOSA Bangalore meet @ IISc on 4th Oct 2009

Hi all.....I got this mail for a BITOSA meet at Bangalore. Since I am currently not in India, so I am sure to miss it, but in case you are able to attend it, Please do so.

Thanks & Regards

Sarsij Nayanam

Dear Sir/Madam,

At BITOSA Bangalore, our continuous endeavor has been to inspire BITIANS to scale new heights. In this attempt we bring to you every quarter a personality who has excelled in his/her field, personalities who hold a considerable sway over the industry, personalities who started their journey at BIT, Mesra like all of us. For this quarter’s “One Life to Lead” series of talk we have Arun Nathan, CEO and Managing Director of Rittal India Private Ltd., Subsidiary of Rittal GmbH & Co. KG, Germany. Rittal is the world's largest manufacturer of enclosure systems.

Mr Nathan graduated from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BIT Mesra in the year 1969 and fondly remembers BIT for “laying the foundation stone of my career in engineering ”. During the talk, he will be covering the Enclosure System Industry and Rittal’s reach and influence in the industry. He will also be talking about his personal journey starting graduating from BIT to now heading the Indian subsidiary of the World’s largest manufacturer of enclosure systems.

Mr. Nathan firmly believes that one needs to learn all the time from everything around. In his own words “Every day is a quest and I learn something new”

We are sure there will be lessons from his life which will be relevant for all of us. For the folks looking at the future, he will also be discussing challenges and opportunities in the industry as well, followed by a Q&A session.

On our request Mr. Nathan has agreed to personally mentor not more than 2-3 folks from our Alumni provided there is an interest match. Mentorship request forms will be available at the venue and we will work with Mr. Nathan to come up with a match. The same will be notified to the interested folks.

The details of the event are as follows.

Location: Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Bangalore

Date: October 4^th 2009, Sunday

Time: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

If you haven’t attended the “One Life to Lead” series of talks before, we would like to inform you that the setup very informal to ensure the most enriching experience. There will be plenty of opportunity to get personal time with Mr. Nathan and other fellow alumni, to exchange ideas, build relationships and find out something new. We would like you to make the most of this opportunity. An early confirmation mail will also help us plan the logistics.

Since you are one of the senior member of BITOSA we eagerly look forward to seeing you there.
Please acknowledge this mail.


Thanks
Anupam Kumar Srivastava
Joint-secretary
BITOSA-Bangalore
URL: www.bitosabangalore.net

At Melting Point : Gangotri Shifts, Scientists shifty

Gangotri glacier: It’s said glaciers are the water towers of the planet. But these towers are fast crumbling – melting, rather – to global warming.

In the run-up to World Environment day, a CNN-IBNteam comprising correspondents Bahar Dutt, Tridip Mandal and video journalist Farooq Khan undertook a tough journey - trekking 44 km across four days to the source of the river Ganga – the Gangotri glacier – with a team of scientists to witness firsthand how the glacier is melting.

Rajesh Kumar, a glaciologist with the Birla Institute of Technology, points out show the snout of the river has shifted from 1891. “I have found that this has gone back by 2.2 kms during the span of 117 years,” he says.

At the weather station near the glacier, instruments are collecting vital data which show why planet earth is in trouble

Data reveals two-thirds of Himalayan glaciers are melting towards extinction. In the last 50 years 21 per cent of the area covered by the Himalayan glaciers has already vanished.

“The rate of retreat differs for glaciers. For Gangotri, it is somewhere 17-20 m on average per year. The conclusions of these scientists is not confined to the Gangotri glacier,” says scientist Prakash Rao.

The falling pieces of ice at gangotri are a wake up call. The solutions to curbing climate change are many - but they first require us to accept that climate change is upon us.

[Source : CNN-IBN ]

BIT Mesra @ Formula Student

In year 2007, BIT Mesra participated in Formula student with a car made by a group of 8 students from Mechanical Engineering Deptt.

This car was made in a record time of 3 months. It was one of the two entries at Formula Student 2007, Silverstone (UK). The entire assembly was done at Top Gear, Ranchi and fibre work was done at Auto Fibre Craft, Jamshedpur in a record time of 7 days.

Team members - Nirbhai Chandha, Ankur Aggarwal, Vishal Gupta, Pratik Dhaboo, Ashish Mehta, Prikshit Gupta, Gaurav Jhingran, and Hitesh Manchanda.

4 years @ BIT Mesra

this video, which was created by the batch of 2002 students (class of year 2006) depicts the day to day life @ BIT Mesra

Winners in the eleventh annual international Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence Competition announced

Since its founding, the international Berkeley Prize Competition encourages undergraduate architecture students to write about issues central to the understanding of the social art of architecture and the social role of the architect in today’s world. What is that role? What should it be? By asking students to grapple with just such problems, the prize brings to the forefront of students’ thinking the reality that architecture is a social art.

The prize now comprises three separate and distinct competitions: the Essay Competition; the Travel Fellowship Competition; and the Architectural Design Fellowship Competition. This year, architecture students from 22 countries entered the competition, and the winners reflect the diversity of the authors and illustrate the worldwide interest in and thinking about the ideals of a socially grounded architecture.

This year's Essay Competition focused on the topic of Sustainable Architecture/Traditional Wisdom. Two first-place prizes of $4,000 each were given to: Ms. Neelakshi Joshi, Birla Institute of Technology, MESRA, Ranchi, India for "Banaras – A Continuing Natural, Cultural and Architectural Landscape" and Ms. Sharayah Jimenez, University of Arizona, USA for "Los Recuerdos del Barrio." Two second-place prizes of $750 each were given to Ms. Hajir Alttahir, Manchester School of Architecture, UK for " Mesopotamian Peace Park" and Mr. Tyler Rozicki, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for "Learning from Canada's Brick Masonry History."

In the Travel Fellowship Competition, three awards of stipend and airfare were given to: Ms. Hajir Alttahir, Manchester School of Architecture, UK for travel to Article 25 Build, Maputo, Mozambique or Lesotho; Mr. Dominic Mathew, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India for travel to the Auroville Earth Institute, Auroville, India; and Mr. Tyler Rozicki, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for travel to the Rebuilding of the Cotswold Canals, Gloucestershire, UK.

One award was given in the Architectural Design Fellowship Competition to Neelakshi Joshi, Birla Institute of Technology, MESRA, Ranchi, India to stage a local competition entitled “Translating Traditions – Looking Backwards, Moving Forward.” This award consists of a $2,500 honorarium plus $3,500 allotted for the and student prizes for the competition.

For more information, please visit www.berkeleyprize.com

[Source : http://www.canadianarchitect.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?aid=1000330724]

BIT Opens Campus in Ras Al Khaimah

The Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) at Ranchi Royal College has opened its campus in the Academy Zone of the Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone (RAK FTZ).

Shaikh Faisal bin Saqr Al Qassimi, Chairman of RAK FTZ, inaugurated the campus on Wednesday, which has been facilitated by Sudhir Gopi Holdings and the Royal College of Applied Science and Technology (RCAST).

Official Link - http://www.bitmesra.ac.in/overseas/ras.htm

[Admission Notification] B. Pharm, BHMCT & B.Sc. (FPT)

Birla Institute of Technology
Mesra: Ranchi 835215

Admission Notification for B. Pharm, BHMCT & B.Sc. (FPT) – 2009

Applications are invited for admission to the 4-year (8-semester) Bachelor of Pharmacy (B. Pharm), 4-year (8-semester) Bachelor of Hotel Management & Catering Technology (BHMCT) and 3-year (6-semester) Bachelor of Science in Food Processing Technology programmes at Mesra:

Eligibility Criteria:

For B. Pharm:

a) Candidates must have appeared in AIEEE – 2009 or AIPMT MAIN-2009, conducted by the CBSE. General category / OP candidates from AIEEE group must have AIR upto 1,50,000. SC/ST candidates who have been declared eligible for online Central Counselling / have at least 44 marks in AIEEE may apply. All candidates who possess the AIPMT MAIN – 2009 rank card may apply.

b) Candidates must have passed in English, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics / Biology / Biotechnology in Class 12 / I. Sc. or equivalent examination with minimum 60% marks (50% for SC/ST). Marks in Class 12 to be computed as average of best 5 subjects including English, Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics / Biology / Biotechnology.

c) Candidates of PCMB group will be preferred

For BHMCT:

a) Candidates must have passed in all subjects in which they have appeared in Class 12 / Intermediate or equivalent examination (excluding optional subjects) with minimum 50% marks in average (45% for SC/ST)

b) Candidates must have English in Class 12 / Intermediate or equivalent examination

c) Marks in Class 12 to be computed as average of best 5 subjects including English

For B.Sc. (FPT):

Pass in Class 12/QE with minimum 60% (45% for SC/ST) in aggregate in best 5 subjects, including Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics / Biology.

How to Apply:

1. Candidates should obtain our Undergraduate Information Brochure – B of 2009 and Application Form to apply.

2. The Undergraduate Information Brochure – B of 2009 giving details of the eligibility criteria, number of seats, fee structure, reservations and containing the prescribed application form will be available across the counter as per the dates mentioned below from all our Centres on all working days during working hours, on payment by crossed Bank Draft of Rs. 800/- drawn in favour of Birla Institute of Technology, payable at Ranchi.

3. To receive the Undergraduate Information Brochure – B of 2009 and application form by post, send a crossed bank draft for Rs. 900/- in favour of Birla Institute of Technology, payable at Ranchi, along with two self-addressed slips of paper (10 cm x 10 cm) with your name and address clearly written in block capitals and telephone number, and a letter mentioning the course applied for to reach any Centre positively by 18 June 2009. Write UG-B 2009 on the envelope. Candidates in their own interest should send their requests for Brochure by appropriate means well in advance of the last dates mentioned.

4. The Brochures can be obtained in person / by post from various Centres at the addresses given below.

5. Candidates may use the Application Form provided with the Brochure to apply for admission to only one of the undergraduate programmes described in this Brochure, either B. Pharm or BHMCT or B.Sc. (FPT). Use separate application forms if you wish to apply for two or more programmes. Photocopies will not be accepted.

Important Dates:

Sale of Brochures commences from: 3 June 2009

Last date for receipt of postal requests for Brochure: 18 June 2009

Last date for obtaining Brochure over the counter: 23 June 2009

Last date for receipt of completed forms at Mesra:

a) For BHMCT: 24 June 2009

b) For B. Pharm: 3 July 2009

c) For B. Sc. (FPT) 3 July 2009

For Selections Procedures, Pattern and Syllabus etc visit:www.bitmesra.ac.in/admission/admission_bpharm_bhmct_bsc_2009.htm

For more details, visit: www.bitmesra.ac.in