STIFKI Seminar 6

STIFKI seminar-6, held on February 19, 2009, was primarily targeted towards the students of Electronics and Electrical departments. The seminar started five minutes later than the scheduled time of 6:15 p.m. The guest faculty members for the seminar were Prof. H.O. Gupta and Prof. R.P. Maheshwari from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Dr. S. Dasgupta belonging to the Department of Electronics and Communication. All the faculty members guided and enlightened the audience through their prodigiously knowledgeable presentations. Prof. H.O. Gupta briefed about transformer designing and electronic devices while Prof. R.P. Maheshwari discussed protection techniques, its various aspects and the present day challenges. Lastly Dr. S. Dasgupta encapsulated semiconductors and offered a silhouette of VLSI designing to the students. The seminar continued for one and a half hours followed by an informal interactive session amongst the students and the faculty members in whom the former came up with sincere questions regarding the presented topics. The seminar witnessed a rich mix of first, second and third year students.

STIFKI Seminar 5

The fifth seminar of STIFKI was held on 28th of January 2009. The seminar was an interactive session with active participation of students in the formal as well as in the informal (refreshment) session. The students were from across different branches and years. The seminar had the following schedule:

1. The seminar started with the presentation on various aspects of 'Natural Purification of Water' by Prof. Indu Mehrotra of Civil department. She also listed further improvements in this sphere. A question answer session between students and herself followed the presentation.

2. Next presentation was given by Prof. Ritu Barthwal (HOD Biotechnology) with two other faculty members, Dr. A K Sharma and Dr. Parvinder Kumar. They gave a presentation on the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, 3D Structure, Molecular Modeling. The presentation included a lot of information regarding the works on NMR and MMR .

3. An informal interactive session amongst the students and faculty members succeeded the formal session. Students were very inquisitive regarding works related to the project which was a refreshing change from the precious comparatively unenthusiastic audience. The students got their queries promptly answered to and their feedback about the seminar was very positive.