Internship Stories: Ashwin, Transocean
Ashwin Mohandas is a fourth year student in the Department of Naval Architecture. Transocean comes for intern selections around the end of September. The selection…
Ashwin Mohandas is a fourth year student in the Department of Naval Architecture. Transocean comes for intern selections around the end of September. The selection…
Vox Populi is a public interview series begun by T5E. Published on a fortnightly basis, it will capture popular opinion on institute relevant issues.
“I am not a dreamer. But I believe in miracles. I have to”, said Terry Fox. The air was charged with a sense of good will and excitement as the Terry Fox Run, Chennai 2012 began. Despite heavy rains, 15,000 people turned up for the event.
In an attempt to clear the factual inaccuracies of media reports on the alleged assault of a photojournalist by an IITM professor, the T5E team met the Director, Dr. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, and Dean of Students, Prof. L S Ganesh, this afternoon. Statements were also taken from student council members present during the incident.
On the 50th anniversary of IIT Madras, former director, Prof. Ananth and the Rector of RWTH Aachen, Prof. Schmachtenberg came up with the idea to collaborate on water-related issues. That was the beginning of the Indo-German Centre for Sustainability (IGCS), an initiative to promote interdisciplinary research and bilateral relations between India and Germany.
Sohini Sarkar is a fourth year student in the Department of Electrical Engineering. She talks about her summer experience while interning at Samsung in Bangalore.
Vikram Rao is a fourth year B.Tech student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He spent the summer interning at Microsoft Research, Redmond (MSR Redmond).
NSS is one of the three optional courses that all the B. Tech. / Dual Degree / Integrated M.A. students have to get enrolled in their first year, but we, the “Family of NSS” consider it as much more than that. Though it is a course according to the academic curriculum, one can see a lot of enthusiasm in the freshers when they do something as a part of NSS, be it the events like DOS collection or the projects. NSS also provides ‘winternships’ (winter internships) and also conducts various lectures and skill –building sessions such as web-operations sessions for the volunteers enrolled in it.
By Navyata Sanghvi The 65th Independence Day celebrations began at 8am at the Administration Block. The road was lined with potted plants and the stage…
A. Sneha is a 4th year student studying MA(Development Studies) at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. Interning at the Wadhwani Center…