Continuing the yearly tradition, the NIT Tiruchirappalli Institute Day 2020 will be celebrated on

Continuing the yearly tradition, the NIT Tiruchirappalli Institute Day  2020 will be celebrated on the 6th of March 2021 to recognize the  achievements of students, faculty, and meritorious students across all  departments. This year, Shri. Vikas Swarup, an Indian diplomat and the  author of Question and Answer, adapted as Slumdog Millionaire, has  kindly consented to be the chief guest. Shri Bhaskar Bhat, chairman of  the governing body, will preside over the function in the presence of  the director Dr.(Mrs.) Mini Shaji Thomas. Complying with the COVID-19  protocols, the event will have limited dignitaries on the dais and  will be streamed online.

YouTube Live Streaming Link:https://youtu.be/hy-zand-7UI

 

Program Schedule:

11.00 AM                INVOCATION

Welcome Address      SNEHIT GALLA,Student President, 2019-20 NIT, 
Tiruchirappalli

Academic Achievements   Dr RAMAKALYAN AYYAGARI, Dean (Academic) NIT, 
Tiruchirappalli

Director’s Address      Dr (Mrs.) MINI SHAJI THOMAS, Director NIT, 
Tiruchirappalli

Chairman’s Address      Shri.BHASKAR BHAT, Chairperson, Board of 
Governors NIT, Tiruchirappalli

Institute Address       Shri.VIKAS SWARUP, Secretary (West), Ministry 
of External Affairs Govt. of India

Felicitation of Achievers

Vote of Thanks          P.KAMALESH KHANNA, Student President, 2020-21 
NIT, Tiruchirappalli

A copy of the invitation is enclosed.

Inauguration of FDP under AICTE Teaching and Learning (ATAL) Academy by

Inauguration of FDP under  AICTE Teaching and Learning (ATAL) Academy  by
Prof. M. Chidambaram, Former Director, NITT

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli has scheduled to organise two Faculty Development Programmes titled “Energy Engineering” and “Advances in Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks  in Artificial Intelligence” from 28-12-2020 to 01-01-2021, sponsored  by the AICTE Teaching and Learning (ATAL) Academy, India.

The inaugural function of this programme was held on 28th, December  2020 through the online mode, in which Dr. M. Chidambaram, Former  Director, NITT, Former Professor, IIT Madras and presently Emeritus  Professor, Chemical Engineering, NIT Warangal was the chief guest. In  his inaugural address, he emphasized the need for such events in  creating awareness among young researchers about the nuances of Energy  Engineering and Artificial Intelligence along with challenging  research problems. Dr. Mini Shaji Thomas, Director, NITT presided over  the function and she said that these ATAL programmes are conducted  jointly  by the Departments of EEE and Mathematics, to train about 400  participants including faculty, research scholars and  post graduate  students and industry personnel  from all over India.

Dr. V.Sankaranarayanan, Prof. & Head, Department of EEE, NITT gave a  felicitation address, briefing on the research facilities available in NITT. Eminent experts from IITs, NITs and IIITs would deliver special  lectures, sharing their vast experience in various research topics.

Earlier, Dr. N. Kumaresan, Professor, EEE, NITT welcomed the participants and mentioned that the objective of the ATAL programme is  to constantly update the research group and academicians, on the 
advancements taking place in the emerging areas and to underscore the importance of fostering research, innovation and entrepreneurship.  Further, he also pointed out that the World Book of Record, London, UK has recognized the ATAL Academy, for having very successfully  organized more than 1000 FDP Programmes, thereby training about 1 lakh  faculty members, across premier institutions like IITs, NITs, and  IIITs in the year 2020-2021 and also added that the budget for this  year to conduct the online FDP programmes is Rs 10 crores. Dr. V.  Lakshmana Gomathi Nayagam, Associate Professor and Head, Department of  Mathematics, proposed the vote of thanks.

Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (CoE-AI) was inaugurated by

Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (CoE-AI) was inaugurated by Dr. Mini Shaji Thomas, Director, NIT-Tiruchirappalli in the presence of Deans and Faculty members of the Institute. This AI has been established with 1.18 Crores sanctioned from Higher Education Funding Agency (HEFA). The CoE has been setup with a focus on interdisciplinary research in AI which is one of the thrust areas of research in recent times.

In line with this, NIT Tiruchirappalli has recently signed a MoU with NVIDIA Corporation in June 2020. The centre has already been sanctioned sponsored projects from DRDO, ISRO and Naval Research Board amounting to a total of 1.5 Crores. The Institute has also taken initiatives to extend the facilities available at the CoE to other organizations through Consultancy mode. In addition to these, the CoE-AI is plan to submit proposals to different Government and Private organizations to expand the R&D activities.On this occasion, the Director of NIT Tiruchirappalli said that, “This initiative will result in generation of highly skilled manpower in terms of Internships, Project Staffs in due course of time with expertise in AI. In addition, there will also be focus in attempting to solve the Societally relevant problems such as Crisis Management, Healthcare and Decision support System in light of the ongoing Pandemic”.

The core team of CoE-AI added that, in long term, this centre can establish itself as an Independent Centre for Research in Artificial Intelligence attracting and creating lot of potential opportunities with its available expert facility and expertise manpower.

Institute Day 2019 held today at NIT Tiruchirappalli

The Institute Day Celebrations started with an invocation to the  Almighty following which the Students’ Council President Mr. Shivam  Sharma welcomed the gathering.

The Dean(Academic) of NIT Tiruchirapalli then gave a brief report on the various activities undertaken by the institute in the current  academic year in his address to the gathering. He began by mentioning  
the number of students who graduated this year and the various  achievements by the faculty members and students of various  departments of the institute. Following the mention of these achievements he gave a brief talk about Festember the cultural fest o NITT, Pragyan, the Techno management fest of NITT and NITTfest the  
intra college cultural fest. He concluded his address by giving a  special mention to the sports contingent of NITT who won the inter-NIT  championship held in NIT Tiruchirapalli this year.


Dr.Mini Shaji Thomas,Director,NIT Trichy began her speech by  congratulating the faculty, alumni, staff and students of NIT Trichy  for their phenomenal accomplishments in 2018-19. She also took this as  
an opportunity on few of the milestones accomplished during her  tenure.  She was extremely happy in conveying that our impressive  ranking positions in this year’s NIRF Rankings stands as a testament  
to our tradition of excellence, which has reached newer heights this  year. NIT Trichy has secured an astounding 10th position with regard  to Engineering, thereby outranking various NITs and IITs with the aid  
of research volume, industry-academia collaborations, perception and  unbeatable talent in our campus. She also emphasized that the students  and the faculty must be even more responsible to climb up the ladder  
even more. She also focused on the most important historic achievement  of our college via the inauguration of the 190 Crore Centre of Dynamic  Excellence in Manufacturing in partnership with Siemens Industry  
Software by the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Prakash  Javadekar and the unveiling of the Institute’s five-year Strategic  Plan (2019-2024). She also made a note on the revising of the Vision  
and Mission statements of our college and also recounted on the design  of a brand new emblem. She also spoke about the rise of several  industrial collaborations with the likes of Tata Steel Ltd., Tata  
Motors, BHEL, Tech Mahindra, CII, TNDISTSIA, Airports Authority of  India. Dr. Mini Shaji Thomas mentioned about the establishment of a  fully functional Office of Alumni-Institute Interaction Cell including  
appointing new Dean (Alumni Relations) with an aim to expand our  global footprint and to reshape ourselves as a cosmopolitan  institution of the 21st century. She also acknowledged the tremendous  
services rendered by the ‘Public Relations and Media Cell of NIT  Trichy’ team which issues regular news releases thereby remaining as  the point of contact for journalists and new media.

She then congratulated the students for bringing laurels to the  institute and mentioned about securing second prize at Singapore-India  Hackathon 2018.She also made a note about MHRD’s Unnat Bharat Abhiyan,  
a programme that aims to improve the quality of life in rural areas  where NIT mentors 14 institutes. She mentioned that in 2018, NIT  Trichy became the only NIT among the thirty-one NITs in the country to  
be awarded a position in the Swacch Campus Rankings and also bagged  the Green Award conferred by TNPCB. She also congratulated the award  winners on the Institute Day and motivated the students by saying that  much more potential yet to be realized. She was confident that with research-led teaching, inspiring faculties, highly skilled staff, and  well-developed students, the students, faculties and the  administration as an entity will be in a position to successfully  complete the priorities identified in the strategic plan. She finally  concluded by urging everyone to work diligently as a team to make thisinstitution reach newer heights. Following the Director’s address Dr.  Arumugam, Former Principal of REC and Director of NIT Trichy and Dr.  
M. Chidambaram, Former Director of NIT Trichy were felicitated by the  Chief Guest and Director.

The Chief Guest of the occasion, Prof.Deepak B Phatak,Subrao Nilekani Chair Professor,Kanwal Rekhi School of Information  Technology,Department of Computer Science and Engineering,Indian  
Institute of Technology Bombay began addressing the gathering by  congratulating the students being honored for their achievements. He  then emphasized on the fact that a large number of people do not avail  
such opportunities that an institute like NIT has to offer. Further,  he stated that though our country has been making rapid progress to  alleviate the twin problems of ignorance and poverty, we as a nation  
still have to develop. He then shed light on some of the developmental  issues faced by our nation such as low Gross Enrolment Ratio in higher  education, having per-capita income levels amongst the lowest in the  
world and the differences amongst us in terms of religion and  language. However, he asserted that our country survived as a great  democracy for seven decades overcoming these issues. He stressed on  
the role of academic institutions in contributing to the society. He  emphasized the need to cultivate social skills in addition to joining  the rat race of academic excellence.  He cited Dr. Abdul Kalam as a  
person who had excelled in appreciating talent in young and old and  that is an important trait of a leader. He exhorted the audience to  develop such leadership skills and make it their ambition to improve  
themselves on a daily basis. He urged the students to become leaders  in their chosen field and contribute significantly towards nation  building.

 He also encouraged the faculty members to lead national  initiatives in their chosen field. He concluded by saying that one  need not compromise his personal life to contribute towards society,  and that on the contrary people performing well on their personal and  family front are in a much better situation to contribute more  
significantly to the nation. The Director then presented a memento to  
the Chief Guest.


The students who have excelled in academics and the faculty members  who have contributed to significant research publications and  citations were then honoured with awards.