Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 23: GCET Jammu hosted two-day mega technical event `7th” National Conference and Exhibition on Emerging and Innovative Trends in Engineering Technology (NCEEITET)”, in technical collaboration with IIT Kharagpur.
The inaugural function was attended by dignitaries, technocrats, industry professionals and students from all over the country, both through offline and online mode.
The event was aimed to provide a common platform to academicians, technocrats, researchers, students and industry professionals to forge collaborative alliances, ensuring the progress of science & technology as per the changing economy demands & the wellbeing of the global society with a particular reference at the UT level.
Dr Sameru Sharma, Principal GCET, in her address, highlighted the purpose of organizing such events to provide exposure to the engineering students of J&K on latest trends in engineering and technology and to provide them an opportunity to interact, deliberate and exchange their innovative ideas with amalgam of Academicians, Technocrats, Researchers, students and Industry professionals present during the event.
Prof Manoj Singh Gaur, Director IIT Jammu, motivated the students to make use of various online platforms for enhancing their technical knowledge and skills and keep themselves updated with the latest technological happenings around the world. He assured that full support shall be provided by his institute in taking joint research initiatives.
Prof S S Pathak from IIT Kharagpur, said that the social application is attempted by innovative designs from graduating engineers. He added that the joint contributions from academia, industry and governance are a special model of development taken over in the conference.
The keynote address was delivered by Syed Zubair Shah and Bharat Kotwani from PGCIL, Gurgaon, who emphasized the role of smart power grids and other emerging areas like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Block Chain.
The PGCIL team presented a live demonstration of smart grid project through video conferencing mode. Dr B S Bharj and Dr Jyoti Bharj, both faculties from NIT Jalandhar, demonstrated their IOT based smart indoor Air Bio Filter System named as UV Doser, conceptualised and fabricated as a Start-Up at their innovative creative and appropriate technology services lab set up with an initiative to move from an “Engineering Institute to Industry”.
On the occasion, the E- Proceedings was also released by the Principal, Vinakshi Koul, Registrar GCET, coordinators namely Er Harinder Dhingra, Dr Bhawna Sharma, Er Sheetal Gandotra and other faculty members of GCET.
The two day conference comprised of the invited talks, plenary talks by eminent speakers and resource persons followed by five technical parallel sessions for the contributed paper presentations. Students from different engineering college of Hyderabad, Jammu and Jaipur presented their innovative ideas and accomplished projects. The vote of thanks was presented by Er Harinder Dhingra.
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