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Encyclopedia > Engineer (Technical Fest)

Engineer is an annual technical symposium organized by NITK Surathkal. It has, over the past years, consistently attracted participants from all over the India[citation needed]. The National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) is one of the premier institutes of technology in India. ... Surathkal is a place in Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka, India Surathkal Railway Station Surathkal is home to one of Indias best technical institutes - the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), formerly known as Karnataka Regional Engineering College (KREC). ...


The events at Engineer 2006 included paper presentation competitions, project presentations, Shrishti, where participants are required to apply engineering for the greater good of society, robotics events (Perfect Machine, Automata), Hacking contests, Programming contests, Design problems for various disciplines and a variety of workshops and seminars[citation needed]. Guest speakers in the past have included Richard Stallman,Sam Pitroda, Dr. Devi Shetty, Sir Anthony James Leggett, Ankit Fadia and other personalities[citation needed]. Richard Matthew Stallman (nickname RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is an acclaimed software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. ... Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda, better known as Dr. Sam Pitroda, born in Titlagarh, Orissa, is an inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker. ... Sir Anthony James Leggett KBE (born March 26, 1938 in Camberwell, London, England), is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ... Ankit Fadia is an Indian computer security and digital intelligence consultant. ...


Several corporations provide sponsorship and conduct workshops during the 3 day event. Previous sponsors and mentors included the GE,Indian Oil Corporation Limited, AMD, Tata Motors, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Reliance industries, Dell, Ansys, Novell, McAfee, the Indian Space Research Organization, Thoughtworks and Biocon[citation needed]. Ge may refer to: Gê, a group of indigenous Brazilian tribes and their Ge languages Ge (Cyrillic) (Г, г), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet Ge with upturn (Ґ, ґ), a letter of the Ukrainian alphabet Nikolai Ge, a Russian painter Dagger-axe, an ancient Chinese weapon G.E. may stand for: Germanium, a... ... Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ... Tata Motors Limited-(Hindi:टाटा मोटरस) is Indias largest private automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturing company. ... ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited) (incorporated on June 23, 1993) is a public sector petroleum company in India. ... Reliance could refer to: Reliance Industries Limited, Indian conglomerate which includes: Reliance Infocomm, telecommunications subsidiary Reliance Energy, electricity subsidiary Reliance (yacht), Americas Cup defender in 1903 a popular name for the ZPG-3W airships of the US Navy. ... Dell Inc. ... ANSYS is a software package which used in finite element analysis. ... Novell was also the name of a road bicycle racing team. ... McAfee, Inc. ... The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is Indias national space agency. ... The current version of the article or section reads like an advertisement. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


The sponsors for Engineer 2007 are Hindustan Construction Co Ltd. (main sponsor), Thermax, GE, Accenture, Microsoft, IBM, Intuit , MRPL, ICICI, Sun Microsystems, Perot Systems, Exeter, Infosys and many more. Ge may refer to: Gê, a group of indigenous Brazilian tribes and their Ge languages Ge (Cyrillic) (Г, г), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet Ge with upturn (Ґ, ґ), a letter of the Ukrainian alphabet Nikolai Ge, a Russian painter Dagger-axe, an ancient Chinese weapon G.E. may stand for: Germanium, a... Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. ... Microsoft is one of few companies engaging itself in the console wars Where they are up against sony, nintendo, and of course sharps new console which may cause a threat. ... International Business Machines Corporation (known as IBM or Big Blue; NYSE: IBM) is a multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. ... Look up Intuit on Wiktionary, the free dictionary To intuit has the definition to know or grasp by intuition or feeling. Intuit, Inc. ... Mangalore Refinery Private Limited (MRPL) is comapny majority owned by ONGC. It was acquired by it from AV Birla Group. ... ICICI Bank (formerly Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India) is Indias largest private bank and also the largest bank in the country. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... Perot Systems Corporation NYSE: PER is an information technology services provider based in Plano, Texas. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this articles infobox may require cleanup. ... Infosys Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: INFY) is an information technology (IT) company founded in Pune, India in 1981 by N. R. Narayana Murthy. ...


References

  1. Engineer
  2. Article in The Hindu about ENGINEER'05
  3. Robots steal the show at `Engineer 2005'


 

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