Curtains on BIT fest

SINDRI: The three-day Tech-Udbhav, annual festival of BIT Sindri's chapter of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), concluded with fun and frolic on Monday.
After different rounds of brainstorming sessions, finally when Ankit Kumar and Sonakshi were declared Mr and Ms Technocrat, respectively, the entire Deshpandey auditorium gave a standing ovation.The metallurgical engineering branch was declared the best branch on the basis of awards grabbed in different competitions while Shamshad Alam bagged the coveted software building competition. The prize for web designing went jointly to Akash Verma and Keshav. Ankit Kumar and Prashant were awarded for the technical paper presentation competition. Mighty Morphine and Robocop won prizes in the robotics section. BIT director S K Singh and senior teachers and guests from the Dhanbad chapter of Institution of Engineers India distributed prizes to the winners.
Earlier, addressing a national seminar on "Convergence of engineering education through information and communication technology", different speakers lauded the role of information technology and said that the way information technology has made the entire world a global village by way of fast connectivity; it has changed the entire scenario of engineering education. While engineering college laboratories are fast getting converted from hardware to software labs, e-book and e-learning has equipped students with the latest advancements in the field of technology. tnnTechnical papers on "Utilization of renewable energy in present scenario", nuclear energy challenges and opportunities, adoption of smart and digital classroom study and library system in engineering education, application of information & communication technology in engineering were presented during the