Events

Events that are going to take place in MNIT

• Faculty Development Programme on Entrepreneurship Development from 14/05/12 to 25/05/12

  Thursday May 17th, 2012

  A Faculty Development Programme on Entrepreneurship Development was inaugurated by Prof.I.K.Bhat, Director MNIT Jaipur on 14.05.2012 at Ajmer. This programme is being organized by Entrepreneurship Development Cell, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, in association with Govt. Women Engineering College Ajmer and Govt. Engineering College Ajmer. The programme is supported by National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), DST, Govt. of India and will be held from 14th May 2012 to 25th May 2012 at Govt. Women Engineering College, Ajmer and Govt. Engineering College, Ajmer.

  More than 20 faculty members from various engineering, science and management institutes are participating in this programme The programme aims at infusing entrepreneurial traits in faculty members who are, in turn, expected to motivate and help students in adopting entrepreneurship as their career option.

  
  Prof. I.K. Bhat, Director MNIT Jaipur lighting the lamp

  
  A Picture of Inaugural Ceremony

  
  Prof. I.K. Bhat, Director MNIT Jaipur delivering talk on ‘Entrepreneurship and Leadership’

  
  Prof. Rajesh Kothari delivering talk

• Short Term Course on “Smart Grid Technologies” (14 – 18 May, 2012)

  Thursday April 19th, 2012

  Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur is organizing a short term course on “Smart Grid Technologies”. This course shall be conducted from May 14-18, 2012 and is open to faculty members from academic institutes, Industry Professionals, Govt. functionaries/administrators, consultants, researchers and students.

  The objective of the short term training program on smart grid technologies is to integrate and optimize distributed energy resources to achieve a more efficient and reliable grid, enable active participation of consumers with more environmental constraints.

  Course Contents

  1. Smart Grid Networks, Micro grid and Service Management
  2. Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Sources
  3. A C & D C Transmission and Distribution Systems- Planning and Operation
  4. Self Heating Grids- Intelligent Monitoring and Outage Management
  5. Advanced Metering, Communication Networks and Solution of Smart Grid
  6. Load Frequency Control in Power Systems
  7. Bidding Strategy Formulation in Power Systems
  8. Wide Area Monitoring Protection and Control
  9. Power Trading and Management
  10. Physical Cyber Security Systems and Power Electronics Applications in Grid System
  11. Planning and Marketing Management
  12. Architectures, Models, Grid Codes and Standards of Smart Grid
  13. Restructuring of Distribution Systems
  14. FACTs Technologies Transmission Systems

  Course coordinators:  Dr. Vikas Gupta and Dr. HP Tiwari

  Brochure (with more details)

• Training Programme Organized by MNIT for Bosch Ltd. April 16-20, 2012

  Wednesday April 18th, 2012

  Report

• Fifth International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2012)

  Wednesday April 4th, 2012

• Centralized Counselling for M. Tech./M.Plan. Admissions for All NITs ( CCMT-2012)

  Monday March 19th, 2012

• Green Energy Initiative at MNIT

  Friday February 3rd, 2012

• DAAD Scholarship to Eight MNIT Students

  Saturday January 21st, 2012

  Following MNIT students have been awarded “Working Internship in Science and Engineering (WISE) Scholarship” for summer internship during May-June-2012 by German Academic Exchange Programme (DAAD).

  1. Saket Rathi (B.Tech,  Mechanical)
  2. Pankaj Jindal (B.Tech,  Mechanical)
  3. Pranjal Tyagi  (B.Tech,  Chemical)
  4. Arpit Agarwal  (B.Tech,  Civil)
  5. Shalini Laddha   (B.Tech,  Computer)
  6. Ajeeta Banerjee  (B.Tech,  Chemical)
  7. Dheeraj Agarwal   (B.Tech,  Computer)
  8. Poonam  (B.Tech,  Electrical)

  
  

• OPJEMS Scholarships

  Saturday December 10th, 2011

  Prof. I. K. Bhat, Director MNIT Jaipur, presented the O P Jindal Engineering and Management Scholarship (OPJEMS) to the winners for  year 2011. Four MNIT students:

  1. Ashish Gupta (I year Electronics and Communication Engineering),
  2. Mohit Maheswari (II year Computer Engineering),
  3. Rashi Kumawat (III Electronics and Communication Engineering)
  4. Mohit Bansal (IV civil)

  have been awarded this scholarship this year. The scholarships are aimed at encouraging and promoting academic and leadership excellence of meritorious students of the leading Engineering and Management institutes in the country.

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• Course on “Power System Restructuring and Electricity Markets”

  Friday November 18th, 2011

  SUMMARY

  A short term course was organized in the Department of Electrical Engineering from 19^th to 23^rd December, 2011. The course was entitled “Power System Restructuring and Electricity Markets”.

  The inaugural ceremony of the course was addressed by the Chief Guest, Sh. Shailendra Agarwal, CMD, RVPNL, and the Guest of Honour, Prof. S.L. Surana, Director (Acad.) SKIT Jaipur. The speakers lauded the course content and stressed the need to organize more such programmes for the industry personnel and the academia.

  The STC was highly successful, in terms of number of participants and quality of lectures delivered. A total of 72 participants registered for the course. These included participants from POSOCO (A subsidiary of PGCIL), Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited, Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited, and from IIT /Government Engineering Colleges /Self funded academic institutions situated in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Gujarat and Rajasthan, along with a large number of institutional participants.

  The course was addressed by various speakers from IITs, NITs and industry. These included Prof. S.N. Singh, IIT Kanpur, Prof. N.P. Padhy, IIT Roorkee, Dr. R.C. Bansal, The University of Queensland, Australia, Dr. Ashwini Kumar, NIT Kurukshetra, Dr. A.R. Abhyankar, IIT Delhi, Dr. Naran Pindoriya, IIT Gandhinagar, and Mr Lakshminarayana, Power Exchange India Limited, Mumbai.

  The course content was a reflection of a variety of industry relevant issues. Initially, a general introduction to the issue of power sector deregulation was provided, followed by a reflection of state of art in Indian and world power scenario. Issues of contextual relevance like Smart Grids and Carbon Trading were also discussed. This was followed by a detailed discussion on short term power market in India and different restructuring models adopted worldwide. The speakers discussed in depth on trading and bidding strategies, risk management, market power, ancillary services, available transfer capability, congestion management, renewable energy certificates, load and price forecasting, and transmission and distribution pricing. The professionals from the industry provided an excellent view of the operation of power exchanges and pools, trading mechanism, financial derivatives and different products being traded in the exchange.

  The course was well received and the participants were appreciative of the subject matter delivered and its relevance to the present day electricity markets.

  Brochure

• ICSSD-12, January 4-6, 2012

  Tuesday May 31st, 2011

  The Department of Structural Engineering (now Civil Engineering), MNIT Jaipur successfully organized the 4th International Conference on Structural Stability and Dynamics (ICSSD-2012) , during 4-6 January 2012, in collaboration with Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, Texas (USA).

  Event Highlights

  1. The Conference was inaugurated by Ms. Vibha Puri Das, Secretary, Ministry of Human Resources Development, and Govt. Of India, with Prof. Pardipta Banerji, as Guest of Honour, Prof. I. K. Bhat (Director MNIT), Patron, ICSSD and Prof. J. N. Reddy, Chairman, ICSSD and Dr. M. K. Shrimali, Co-Chair, ICSSD .
     
  2. Prof. J. N. Reddy, Chairman, ICSSD 2012, and Distinguished Professor, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Prof. P. K. Banerji, Guest of Honour, ICSSD 2012 and Director, IIT Roorkee, Prof. Y. B. Yang, Advisor, ICSSD 2012, and President, YunTech University, Taiwan.
  3. Plenary speakers of the Confetrwence were: Prof. C. M. Wang, National University of Singapore (NUS), Prof. S. Kitipornchai, City University of Hongkong, Prof. Karan S. Surana, The University of Kansas (USA), Prof. Tarun Kant and Prof. R. S. Jangid, of IIT Bombay, Prof. J. S. Rao and Prof. T. K. Datta of IIT Delhi, Prof, C. V. R. Murty of IIT Madras, Prof. N. S. Vyas of IIT Kanpur.
  4. In all 134 papers were presented, besides ten Plenary Lectures and six Keynote lectures, the delegates attended from fourteen different countries; and IITs, NITs and other premier institutions. The papers covered a broad range of topics that include, structural dynamics, structural stability, computational and experimental methods, inverse problems, smart materials and structures, earthquake engineering, and nano & bio mechanics. Selected papers from those presented at the conference will be invited to be peer-reviewed for publication in International Journal of Structural Stability & Dynamics, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, and International Journal of Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics.PS: Some of the photographs of the conference are attached.
     

  4th International Conference on Structural Stability and Dynamics (ICSSD-12), January 4-6, 2012 This information can also be downloded through web news of the event.