Achievements Update:( 2009-2010)

Achievements by student

Students of IIITM making progress and have good place in various type of courses and competitions.

TGMC-09

IBM in collaboration with its business partners organizes "THE Great Mind Challenge"(TGMC-09) a pioneering contest under the company's academic innitiative programs that provide students programmers with a unique opportunity to develop innovative solutions using open standard based ITtools under grueling real time situation. The Great mind challenge 2009 cons tangeted to participants to provide a hands on experience on IBM software products namely Trivoli information management,Lotus Rational and web sphere and Eclipse which is open source on a Linux platform mentora form 10m a long with the students enabling them throughout the programme

IIITM Academic Roll of Honour

In current changing IIITM, sign boards, dirction boards etc. are first to notice. Currently many larger piece of art are being installed in different halls/ locations.

In this series here comes, 'The Special'...

Team from IIITM won the 1st position in Lord of the code 2007-08

Team comprising of Rahul Kala,Chandra Prakash,Dhirender Sharma and Rahul Khandelwal secured 1st position in Lord of the code. The competition was organized by Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology (KReSIT), IIT Bombay and Red Hat.
Their software was titled "Central System for Admission to Universities (CSAU)" The project is available under Creative Commons License at the project site.

This is the 2nd time consequitivetly that IIITM has won the first position in this competition.

For details please visit the project site :-
http://ekalavya.it.iitb.ac.in/showRhsResult2007.do


Brief Project Report of the team:

Abstract:

We are very much acquainted with the fact that looking at the diversity of courses offered in each university and the number of colleges per university, it is very difficult for both the students and the university officials to co-ordinate.We propose to make a central system ‘Central System for Admission to Universities (CSAU)’ that can be used by the universities and other organizations like CCB/AIEEE for having end-to-end solutions to every phase of the admission right from the application submission to the allotment of the college, branch and hostel..The main idea is to automate the entire task, making it a lot more time-saving, cost-saving and easily accessible by the students, officials and Universities.

Objectives:

• Use of modern technologies in the admission procedures
• Transparency of the system
• Security of the system from illegal intrusions
• Security from lost/lack of internet connectivity at crucial times (alternative measures provided)
• Time-saving, cost-saving measures
• Ease of adaptation to diverse systems being implemented presently
• Provision of integration with manual work at every step
• The system has a very strong back-end design which has been especially designed and analyzed exhaustively with a lot of time and effort.

Purpose:

Project Features

• Online (and offline) Selling of form
• Online form filling
• Online form updation
• Online form verification
• Offline verification of things not verified online, or which cant be verified online
• E-Exam
• E-Counselling
• Online preparation of question paper
• Online admin control for paper setting
• Online declaration of exam, counseling and hostel allotment results
• Central admin control at all levels for every official to monitor/control/manipulate data at any level according to privilegesCentral place for all sorts of static and dynamic information to be available online, like seats/contact information/procedure/updates etc.)

Components from other projects:

• Database Server: DB2 (v9.1, IBM)
• Web Server: Websphere (IBM)
• Application Server: WAS (Websphere Application Server, IBM)
• WSAD: Development Tool
• IDE: Eclipse, Rational Application Developer
• J2EE: Application Architecture (Sun Microsystems)
• Language: J2EE, SQLJ
• XDoclet
• Sun Mail APIs

Innovation:

The system has a very strong back-end design which has been especially designed and analyzed exhaustively with a lot of time and effort. At the time of design we had come to know of enumerable number of ways in which an examination/counseling can be conducted (eg. Counseling procedures for CAT MBA, counseling patterns for MP PET, examination system of IIT JEE(screening and mains), examination system for AIEEE(one paper, fully objective)). The back-end design needs no modification whatsoever to adapt to any of these changes, only modifications to the front-end and business logic are required.

The market which consists of Indian Universities, organizations like AIEEE/CCB and IIT-JEE, university like IIITM, Gwalior which takes students from outside examinations like CAT admissions for MBA. Because of the use, the software is likely to be sold directly to these organizations

Saving paper, resources, manpower, money is a social cause. Since government is the major customer, the govt. money would be saved which can be used for development.

Practical Application:

The University Admission System is mainly dedicated to facilitate all procedures of Admissions ,online in Universities. So that Man power could be reduced in all admission procedures and time could be saved.

The project consists all admission procedures Online.

• · Admission Form fulfillment by candidate
• · Form checking & Identity verification.
• · Examination center allotment
• · Admission cards distribution.
• · Examination conduction
• · Result (Merit list)declaration
• · Score card & counseling letter distribution.
• · Counseling procedure.
• · College allotment.
• · Hostel allotment.

University Admission System is undoubtedly Applicable in all universities which provides higher education.

Declaration

We hereby declare that the project described above is an original work of our team and all help taken from external sources has been duly mentioned.

--Team spiritIIITM

S/W snapshots.

Economic Times Power of Ideas contest 2009: IIITM students are making their mark

"I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out."
-Muhammad Yunus

This is all about grabbing small opportunities and converting those into bigger. Just turn your sight to the other side of the things, you would find many such opportunities.

Only one out of 20 business plans are read by prospective investors beyond the executive summary and only 6 out of 1000 business plans get funded on an average. The quality of the business plan is crucial for winning attention of investors, especially for a first-time entrepreneur who has no track record in managing own business. It is not only important for a business plan to have the right content, but it also must be organized into logical and clearly defined sections and presented in a way that is informative and maintains readers interest.


Economic Times Power of Ideas contest 2009 where our students have made it to finals of the contest among the best 254 to reach the VCs from Angel Investment Group in India. The contest is still going on and the results are awaited.

A team consisting of Mayur Gupta, Pranjal Prashar, Bharat Jain, Bhumpalle Vidya (all IPG2004 Batch) and Dr. P.K. Das (Associate Professor IIT Guwahati) has made into final 254.

"The Power of Ideas" was organized by Economic times in association with Indian Angel Network.
Purpose of this contest was to help entrepreneurs by providing them a platform where they can share their ideas with VCs and angel investors, and can get funds if viable.
First round of the contest witnessed more than 11,000 entries from all over India. ( see ideas.economictimes.com for complete analysis)
however 1000 entries moved to the next level where after a group mentoring session participants made Pitch on a telephonic conference with IAN members.

In the next round 254 entries made to the final list of the contest where after a personal mentoring session of a week participants submitted their B-plan and made face to face presentation with IAN members.

Now IAN will decide upon funding issue. Contest is over, now IAN will contact 'investible' B-plans.

P.S.: To read Pranjal's (one of the participants) experience about competition, you can follow here.