Kurukshetra 2012 underway

Updated on: Friday, February 03, 2012

Kurukshetra 2012 an international techno management fest, hosted by College of Engineering, Guindy is underway at its campus. 

Sankar Srinivasan, Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer of Cognizant Technology Services was the guest of honour who graced the imposing occasion of the inauguration of Kurukshetra, appreciated the efforts taken by the CEG students in organizing an event of such magnitude and emphasized on how technology is driving the world today.

Mr. Sivakumar, director of Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE), who also inaugurated Kurukshetra 2012 said that CVRDE would launch a prototype ‘unmanned ground vehicle' with mine detection capabilities by next year.  He also pointed that India's defence scientists are contemplating the development of hybrid vehicles that can use electricity as a source of fuel, emulating the example set by leading car manufacturers in the world.

The CVRDE director also exhorted the students to join the Union governments mission to provide safe portable drinking water. The “buzz word” today after RTI is “right to water” (RTW). Such is the necessity for safe drinking water.

After the inaugural function, Steven Goldfarb, research physicist of CERN gave a virtual tour of the Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS experiment that is being carried out at the facility through a videoconference session.

Kurukshetra is all about range of challenging events features the best of various institutions battling to match the best brains in the world. Its enriching workshops adhere to the paradigm of "learning made fun". The breath-taking colossal exhibits offer an invigorating respite. Indeed the experience at Kurukshetra is one of those ecstatic eureka moments that you would savour and cherish forever. With more events and bigger prizes than ever before, Kurukshetra 2012 shall truly be a technical extravaganza.

Co-sponsored by Monster College, the four-day tech fest that concludes on Feb 4 features a variety of lectures, workshops and hands-on events. A summit on ‘Nuclear energy: Balancing benefits and risks' is also scheduled for this year.

For further details, log on to www.kurukshetra.org.in.

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