Feel | Compete | Enhance

Repertus 2K16 1-3 APRIL, 2016

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Introduction

Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research And Management (IITRAM) is one of the fastest growing State Government institutions of Gujarat. The Institution has proven its standard by accepting ‘The Outstanding Institute - West’ award under ‘The National Education Awards’ by ABP news in the third year of its inception. In the year 2016, IITRAM was honored by DNA as the ‘Best

Institute in Skill Development’. IITRAM, Ahmedabad organized a Techno-Cultural Fest, ‘REPERTUS 2K16’ for the first time in our institute during the period 1-3 April 2016. The theme for the festival was “Smart Infrastructure”. Such an event, we believe, has provided a tremendous opportunity and better platform for enhancing technical and practical knowledge among the students across the nation.

This Fest was an opportunity for reputed companies to associate themselves with us and harness the skills and abilities of students across the nation. The institution was eminently positive towards the outbreak of the event and was

successful assembling around 500 students from different parts of the country with a footfall of around 1500.

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Acknowledgement

We would like to take this opportunity to express our profound gratitude and deep regards to our Director General Shri. Mukesh Kumar, IAS (State Project Director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Govt. of Gujarat), Dr. Nilay N. Bhuptani (Registrar, IITRAM), Prof. Ravindra E. Amritkar (Chairperson, Repertus Committee) and Prof. Shanti Prasanna (Dean of Student & Academic Affairs, IITRAM). Along with this, we would like to thank the most enthusiastic and cooperative faculties of IITRAM for their exemplary guidance, valuable feedback and constant encouragement for Repertus. We are thankful to our Administration, Accounts Section and IT Department for their valuable suggestions and perceptive criticism that kept us working to make Repertus as successful as it was. Working under all these esteemed minds was an extremely knowledgeable experience for us.

We would also like to give our sincere gratitude to all our sponsors:

• Title Sponsor: o Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of Gujarat

• Co-Sponsors: o Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board (GIDB) o Gujarat Council of Vocational Training (GCVT) o Industrial Extension Bureau (iNDEXTb) o Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL)

o Gujarat Tourism o Gujarat Urban Development Corporation (GUDC) o Green Enterprise o Godrej Interio o Silver Touch Technologies

• Advertising Partner: o Chitra Outdoor Solutions

We would also like to thank all the students of IITRAM for coordinating and volunteering for Repertus 2K16 passionately.

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Table of Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................. 1

Acknowledgement ....................................................................................................... 2

Inauguration ................................................................................................................. 4

Competitions ................................................................................................................ 5

Workshops.................................................................................................................... 6

Confluence .................................................................................................................... 7

Infra Talk....................................................................................................................... 9

IdExpo ........................................................................................................................... 11

Thinké – Posté ............................................................................................................ 13

Sternights ..................................................................................................................... 14

Registrations ................................................................................................................ 15

Publicity Response ...................................................................................................... 16

Vote of gratitude to the Sponsors

Overall Feedback......................................................................................................... 17

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Inauguration

The first Annual Techno-Cultural fest of IITRAM, Repertus 2K16 had its grand

opening with an Inaugural Ceremony held on 1st April, 2016. The event started

with a documentary of IITRAM, introducing the institute to the crowd. The

dignitaries were then welcomed on the dais by the student coordinators. The

function was graced by the presence of Dr. (Prof.) Utpal Sarkar (I/c Director of

Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad) as the Guest of Honor. He

gave an educative and informative speech which inspired the students. The

Director General of IITRAM, Shri Mukesh Kumar, IAS (State Project Director,

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Govt. of Gujarat), introduced the Institute to the

dignitaries, guests and the media. He then shared the coming together of

Repertus with everyone and encouraged and appreciated the students and

faculties of IITRAM for their hard work. The event was blessed by the presence

of Prof. S. P. Melhrotra (Dean of Research and Development, IIT Gandhinag ar),

Dr. Nilay N. Bhuptani (Registrar, IITRAM) and Dr. Shanti Prasanna (Dean of

Student and Academic Affairs, IITRAM). For an auspicious start of Repertus, the

dignitaries on the dais lighted the lamp. The fest was introduced to all, by student

coordinator, Parth Modi. Further, Prof. Ravindra E. Amritkar (Chairper son,

Repertus Committee) welcomed everyone for being a part of Repertus in one way

or other. With this Inaugural Ceremony, the start of Repertus 2K16 was marked.

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Competitions

Death Race

In this competition the robots of the participants will have to traverse a certain

pathway while defending themselves from the destructive attempts of other

robots to destroy it, along with proving the stability of their bots while going

through various obstacles posed to them by the track.

This competition was meant to co-relate the skills of team work and

coordination, sportsmanship, smart work, and the best to come out creative ly

from situations.

Bridge the Sea

This is the competition in which students will apply civil engineering knowledge

to build a bridge under the given dimension. The bridge will be analyzed by

applying load on it or can also be checked by taking deflection into

consideration.

This competition helped to bring out the creativity of solving a dynamic situation

with minimum requirements given by applying engineering capabilities built in

them

Contraption

This competition was aimed to bring out the best from participants by analyzing

their competitor skills, and pitching out the instantaneous solution to reach with

maximum moves but still in time.

Greenovate

This competition was meant to come up with innovative solution to solve current

bigger problems faced by humanity.

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Workshops

NX - RPT - nearly 30 participants

NX - RPT was an extra ordinary workshop for design lovers which included

designing on software and then visualizing the 3-D model on Rapid Proto Typing

machine which was conducted by Designtech.

STAAD.Pro - 30 participants

Building construction in front of the eyes is the best feeling for any civil engineer

and we made it happen with Bentley India in our workshop STAAD.Pro.

UDR - 12 participants

The trend of robots didn't stopped even at IITRAM and therefore we arranged a

ROBO based workshop UDR in which student got to know the making of

Universal Driven Robot with the help of Robotech Labs Pvt. Ltd.

IOT (Internet of Things) - 4

In this workshop participants got the knowledge about the controlling things

like, fan, tube light, etc. with their mobile phones under the mentorship of

Robotech Labs Pvt. Ltd.

Ethical Hacking - 15

Participants enjoyed the basics of hacking but that too ethically. The workshop

was conducted by i3 India.

FPGA (field programmable gate array) - 5

The workshop was mainly for the participants from the branches EE and EC

because the workshop of working R-duno chips required the advanced

knowledge of the subject as per the guidelines by the well renowned company

NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS.

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Confluence

Repertus 2k16 hosted a guest lecture series involving eminent personalities from

the fields of infrastructure, education, entrepreneurship and research under the

banner of “Confluence”. It was well received by the students and faculties. The

audience drew insights into various aspects of the subject matter presented by

the guest lecturer.

MR. JAGDISH SALGAONKAR,

PROGRAMME DIRECTOR & REGIONAL MANAGING DIRECTOR,

AECOM TECHNOLOGY CORP.,

GUJARAT INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR CORPORATION LIMITED,

GANDHINAGAR.

The first eminent guest of Repertus 2k16, Mr. Jagdish Salgaonkar, enlighte ned

the audience on the smart city project DHOLERA SIR – Gujarat, which is

currently in the planning stage. He shared his experience about working on

smart city infrastructure and gave first – hand introduction to the key features of

the upcoming DHOLERA SIR project. He emphasized on Programm e

Management as a better tool than Project Management to execute large scale

infrastructure plans. The audience drew inspiration by his views on the Industri al

Corridor (DHOLERA SIR being one of the projects in it), which links major

industrial hubs of India. DHOLERA SIR is carefully planned giving adequate

space for industry, comfort residence and clean environment for parks, clubs etc.

The lecture was followed by a short documentary video on DHOLERA SIR. The

lecture was throughout received with applause from audience. The questions by

the students on present scenario of Indian infrastructure and its future got

explained by a very critical point of view of Mr. Salgaonkar.

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MS. NIVEDITA MENON,

GLOBAL HEAD / COORDINATOR,

DESIGN FOR CHANGE.

The guest lecture by Ms. Nivedita Menon who represented 'Design for Change'

organization was a very enlightening one where she talked about cultivating 'I

can' mindset in every individual. She explained her belief that there is no end to

learning and we learn something new every day from every person we meet. She

cited examples where children were asked to identify and transform anything

that bothered them in their community - shifting their mindset from 'Can I?' to

'I can!' This lecture inspired everyone present and made them realize the power

of words 'I can'. She received a very warm applause from the audience.

DR. K. S. PARIKH,

DEPUTY DIRECTOR,

SATCOM AND NAVIGATION APPLICATIONS AREA, SAC, ISRO.

The eminent scientist who graced Repertus 2K16 by his presence was Dr. K.S.

Parikh. Dr. Parikh is well known scientist for outstanding work in developme nt

of the space programme of India and dedicated to ISRO, serving it in all his

capacity. Dr. Parikh gave a presentation on present projects of ISRO and

highlighted its on-going efforts to take India up to its mark in space research

throughout the world. The main technologies that were mentioned in his speech

are GPS, Remote Sensing and Oceanography etc. The lecture received a

tremendous applause from the audience. The students asked questions

pertaining to career in space research, future pursuits of ISRO. Dr. Parikh made

the students understand the importance of space research for the society and not

to judge it only on results in science and technology. He inspired the young

engineers to strive hard for development of space research in country.

MS. SURABHI DEWRA,

FOUNDER, CARRERGUIDE.COM

Confluence got an entrepreneurial spark by hosting a lecture on career guidelines

by Surabhi Dewra, founder of www.careerguide.com. Career Guide provides

expert counselling to students who want to be entrepreneurs and help to choose

a right profession. The audience consisting of students keen on venturing into

business listened attentively to the lecture. Ms. Dewra shared her experience in

initial years of careerguide.com and gave 10 most essential characteristics every

entrepreneur must possess. The lecture was punctuated by applause from

audience at regular intervals. She emphasized on the need of communication

skills and positive approach in business and dealing with the customers. She

detailed the marketing plan for the right kind of customers and shared her

knowledge on efficient customer services. Her inspiring words and viewpoint on

corporates gave a huge morale to students who were keen on going in

entrepreneurship.

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Infra Talk

A panel discussion event on smart cities and infrastructure named “Infra Talk” was held on 2nd April, 2016. The event was organized with the aim of providing a

bird’s eye view of what the smart city means to developing infrastructure of a particular and facilitate a healthy interaction among the students of various universities of Gujarat with the leaders in this field. The event marked the presence of some of the most eminent personalities of various industries who are working in direction of development of smart infrastructure in India. The event

was based on the themes of:

• Sustainable Development • Feasibility and Finance • Smart Infrastructure and Intelligent Transport System (ITS)

• Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

The panelists were accorded a warm welcome at the institute by moderator, Dr. Mahesh Mungule (Assistant Professor, IITRAM), along with Prof. Ravindra E. Amritkar and Dr. Nilay N. Bhuptani. The introduction of the panelists was given by the student coordinators. The panelists then gave their perspectives on smart cities. The panelists were:

• Mr. Aamer Azeemi, Director of Smart Cities Council of India • Mr. Piyush Gandhi, Vice President of Finance and Account – Gujarat

International Finance Tech-City (GIFT City) • Shri Ravi Ranjan, Assistant Vice President - Reliance Industries Ltd.

• Prof. T. Harinarayana, Director - GERMI • Mr. Mohmedsaeed Mombassawala, General Manager - Keysight

Applications Ltd.

The very first question raised thereafter was “What does ‘Smart’ mean and how do we define ‘Smart City’?” There were many answers pointed out by the panelists which gained a huge round of applause. Thereafter question session from the audience began which was quite interactive where students put forward their queries regarding electrical, governance, finance, sustainable developm ent,

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terrorism and civil infrastructure. In answer to one of the question regarding the qualification needed for a citizen to live in smart city, the panel gave a simple

rule of complying with the rules and doing their duties dutifully was the best qualification. The panel also put forward their suggestions on e-governance and about the problem of not having web connectivity to all citizens and that the government should make efforts in improving internet services to rural areas.

The session ended with the moderator thanking the delegates for giving their valuable insights on various issues and sharing their professional expertise with students, thereby enhancing their knowledge.

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IdExpo

The IdExpo event started with the pitch presentations from participants, judged

by Shri Gaurang Shah [Joint Secretary, DST (GoG)], Mr Akshay Kanoria [Head of incubation centre ‘IGNITE’ at Silver Oak Group of Institutions], Dr Abhijeet Singh [Professor, LJ College of Engineering] and Dr Axay Mehta [Associa te Professor, IITRAM].

Participants from various colleges across Gujarat presented their ideas and their business strategies. Ideas included – e-commercializing renting of products and

commodities, GPS suitcase, multipurpose card system, bike taxis, platform independent router - information without accessing internet, hybrid manufacturing units, digital publication app - digitizing almost every publicatio n with interactive screens, faster and effective way for solar panel cleaning, starting generic medicine stores, e-commercializing reading material by app, crop dusting, reading on a tablet, doorbell security system, collaborated work of NGO

online, idealizing ‘scrap to cash’, online stationary & two ideas to melt hearts of caring ones by surprising/wishing them on an occasion on the requestor’s behalf.

Shri Sanjay Kaul [Director - IT and e-Governance, and Managing Director - GIL] explained and highlighted on the highlights of Startup India - a flagship by the Govt. of India, consisting of the different beneficial opportunities that will act as government support for a period of time. He enlisted the current entrepreneu ri al

job statistics and from which part of the country does the most share of startup goes to. He reflected the fact that most of the startups in India are based on E-commerce. He also had interaction with some QnA from the audience about startup policies to expect in near future and the potential that state government tends to offer for good startup ideas. He also explained that although global

startup failure rate is more than 90%, policies from government will try to encourage startup enthusiasts in succeeding, reducing the failure rate. He also enlightened the audience about the keywords ‘incubators’ and ‘startup’. He also said that the objective of ‘Startup Gujarat’ is to facilitate at least 2000 startups, establish at least 100 incubators in Gujarat, develop 2 million sq.ft. of incubatio n

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space & the ‘Startup Gujarat’ flagship facilitates investment of US$ 1 billion to startups.

The lunch facility was arranged for all the participants as well as faculty, staff and

invitees of REPERTUS 2K16 on April 3rd, 2016, to honor the title sponsor of the fest.

The post lunch session included lecture on patents by Mr Amitkumar Patel [Project Officer, IPR/Patents, GTU Innovation Council]. Followed was a joyous interaction with audience by Mr Vikas Chawda [CEO, Quantum Leap-Vadoda ra; Expert–National Innovation Council, New Delhi; Mentor–Global Cleantech Innovation USA & UNIDO; Secretary–Vadodara Innovation Council; Secretary–Doctors Engineers Forum; Chairman (BLING)–Baroda Management Association].

Finally an upfront informative lecture on incubation by Mr Vipul Patel [VP-Investments, CIIE, IIM-A]. Vipul Patel presented on the basic idea of how the journey of CIIE started in IIM-A.

The event concluded by the award ceremony. Students from our institute also

took part in the event to present their startup ideas in-front of the judges. Totally 20 team participated in the event and out of them 3 (three) winners were awarded cash prizes worth ₹22,500 (twenty two thousand five hundred rupees) as an encouragement.

The winning ideas and their colleges, were –

a. 1st cash prize (₹10,000) – team of ‘Solar Panel Cleaning’ of IITRAM.

b. 2nd cash prize (₹7,500) – on ‘Platform Independent Router’ of VGEC.

c. 3rd cash prize (₹5000) – ‘Crop Dusting’ by student of IITRAM.

REPERTUS 2K16 was then concluded by valedictory function, on April 3, 2016 at 1840 hrs (IST), after IdExpo.

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Thinké – Posté

A student level poster presentation competition was organized in Repertus 2k16.

The competition was held on the theme – “Smart Cities”. Posters were to be

presented on the following fields:

• Sustainable Development

• Feasibility and Finance

• Smart Infrastructure and Intelligent Transport System (ITS)

• Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Various participants from different colleges presented their posters. The posters

were judged by Dr. Uday Trivedi, GES Class II, Government Polytech nic,

Himmatnagar.

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Sternights

The most awaited event Sternights was enjoyed whole heartedly on the sprawling

lawn of IITRAM featuring VH1 SonicBoom artist Thermal Projekt and opening

act by Dual Drama along with a supporting act by DJ Asen at the dusk of 2nd

April, 2016. The promise of a memorable evening was kept by the arrangem ent

of Sternights, which was a break from the monotonous schedule. Sternights was

one of a kind experience at Repertus 2k16, where the crowd danced, waved,

exhausted onto the beats of the fabulous artists. The zest and energy, that was

seen, was like never before in the campus. Everyone together enjoyed life at its

fullest in this one evening, forgetting all worries. The music emerging from

between the cracks is sharp and modern, fusing contemporary Indian and

American influences with a playful fluency unique to the city. The performance

was put forward by the well renowned artist Dual Drama in the beginning and

then as the night settled, the featuring act by Thermal Projekt was being

showered in front of the crowd. The supporting act of DJ Asen, playing the tracks

of Bolloywood during the last hours of Sternight was a nice experience. Everyone

had a great time synchronizing with the music.

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Registrations

Repertus 2K16 witnessed a large number of participation from all over Gujarat.

Over 350 students had registered for Repertus 2K16. Competitions, Workshops

and Insights (Confluence, Infra-Talk, IdExpo, Thinké – Posté and Exhibitio ns)

attracted a huge number of participation. Students came from different places of

Gujarat mainly from Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. A considerable amount of

participation was also from Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Anand, Nadiad, Modasa and

Valsad. Not only students but faculties from many colleges and ITI were

fascinated by confluence and exhibitions. This clearly shows the enthusiasm of

students from various colleges towards Repertus 2K16.

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Publicity Response

Repertus has started its journey with great pick up speed. Every working person

is the only reason for this success. Publicity department would like to give its

work brief.

Repertus 2K16 was publicized in 100 different collages from Gujrat. Around 200

IITRAM students actively took part for publicizing event in these collages, which

resulted 250 participants registered. Publicity duration was 29th February, 2016

to 29th March, 2016. Online portal was also facilitate through official website of

Repertus. Around 50 students registered through this way. Repertus 2k16 event

registered as a page and event on social website Facebook for the publicity

purpose. There was campus ambassador scheme also introduced. Workshops

were partially having good response than competition and insight.

Repertus 2k17 is on its way and Publicity department should think and work

more effectively on duration, social way of publicity and CA scheme. All insight

should be given equal respect regarding publicity.

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Vote of gratitude

List of Sponsors for Repertus 2K16

Sr. No.

Organization Expected

Amount (Rs.)

1 Department of Science & Technology (DST)

5,00,000

2 Gujarat Council of Vocational Training (GCVT)

2,00,000

3 Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board (GIDB)

2,00,000

4 IndextB 2,00,000

5 Gujarat Tourism 1,00,000

6 Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd. (GUVNL)

1,00,000

7 Gujarat Urban Development Corporation (GUDC)

75,000

8 Silver Touch Technologies 50,000

9 Aarti Industries (Godrej) 75,000

10 Automation Engineers 40,000

11 Shree Ram Krishna Welfare Fund

25,000

12 Centre for Integrated Development

4,000

13 Green Enterprise

Sponsor of Stage for Sternights, Decoration for Sternights and

whole event, Stall Preparation, Stages for exhibition.

Total 15,69,000