IIT Guwahati achievements in 2020 are great indeed

IIT Guwahati achievements in 2020 were impressive beyond any doubt.

That was a year which saw the great institute realign its working in tandem with the new normal.

IIT Guwahati achievements spread across various segments.

Worth mentioning one among IIT Guwahati achievements is the fact that institute worked really hard to overcome challenges posed by COVID-19.

IIT Guwahati achievements in 2020 are great indeed

Be it virtual learning or virtual convocation or virtual placements and intership, IIT Guwahati achievements were significant in all these aspects.

Among the IIT Guwahati achievements, innovations to tackle COVID-19 indeed stood a highlight.

Self check kiosks, multiple diagnostic kits, low cost UVC LED systems were among the innovations churned out at IIT Guwahati.

Academic
Physical learning came to a grinding halt across educational institutions in India, IIT Guwahati was not an exception.

However, worth noting was the fact that institution took to virtual learning to ensure the process of regular teaching receives no disruption.

The learning did not stay restricted to regular academics alone, it also focused on addressing mental health issues which comprised conducting online counselling and yoga classes.

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Needless to say, this stood a remarkable one in the list of IIT Guwahati achievements.

During the pandemic, IIT Guwahati through E&ICT Academy has enabled the scientific community by organising online courses (both short term and long duration), free three month long online summer internships, interactive sessions and webinars.

IIT Guwahati achievements on the academic front are no less splendid.

The annual progress seminars, synopsis and viva-voce examinations of PhD students are also being conducted in an online mode to continuously monitor their progress and to ensure that these uncertainties do not delay their career growth.

Convocation
The next worthy tale in the long list of IIT Guwahati achievements was on convocation.

COVID-19 situation did leave little room for a grand physical convocation. However, that did not dampen the spirit at the institution.

IIT Guwahati conducted convocation on a virtual mode which was indeed impressive. This will be a worthy one among the IIT Guwahati achievements, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the convocation.

Prime Minister said pandemic has changed the way convocation is conducted. But still it is as special as it was before. I congratulate students for their bright future.

The future of the nation is in what youth think today. Your dreams will shape the reality of India in the future. This is time for you to be Future-Fit and Future-Ready, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Over 1803 students received degrees during the convocation.

Innovation
IIT Guwahati achievements remained impressive when it comes to innovation. The institution remained on the forefront in waging war against the pandemic.

It has been providing scientific and technical support.

Worthy point in IIT Guwahati achievements on the innovation front is that it involved itself completely for developing life saving equipment for Assam State and Guwahati Medical College and Hospital.

Since the initial days of COVID19 outbreak, IIT Guwahati has prepared hand sanitizers at its various departments and academic centres for public distribution.

Couple of remarkable IIT Guwahati achievements on research and innovation front are:

· Development of low-cost UVC LED system to disinfect areas amid COVID-19

· Development of affordable antiviral/antibacterial spray-based coating for Personal Protective Equipment to prevent spread of infection

· Development of 3D Printed Ear Guard for Comfortable Use of Face Masks by Healthcare Workers

· Data-driven assessment of COVID-19 situation in India by IIT Guwahati in collaboration with Duke-NUS

· Designing and development of low-cost ventilators

· Designing and development of low-cost intubation boxes

· Development of contactless mobile application for safe air travel

· Development of Low-cost heat-based Sanitizer Trunk

· Development of Injection Mould for mass manufacturing of Face Shield

· Development of Disinfectant Tunnel

· Collaboration with Hester Biosciences Limited to develop vaccine against COVID-19

· IIT Guwahati alumni develops and deploys drones for spraying disinfectant in public spaces to prevent Coronavirus.

The drones can also be equipped as Medical Delivery Drone and Thermal Imaging drones.

· IIT Guwahati joined hands with RR Animal Healthcare and supplied lakhs of ICMR approved VTM kits, RNA isolation kits to National Health Mission, Assam and across the country and have also developed RT-PCR kits very soon.

Rapid antigen kits have also been developed by the institute to help the cause of Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan, a first for any educational institute.

The impressive list of IIT Guwahati achievements did not end there when it comes to research and innovation.

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Researchers from IIT Guwahati and the Duke-NUS Medical School of Singapore, have used data science models to analyse and predict the total number of COVID19 infected people for different states in India.

They have considered the exponential, the logistic, and the Susceptible Infectious Susceptible (SIS) models, along with the model-free daily infection-rate (DIR) using open-source data.

Atleast a dozen companies have begun operation in the newly formed research park at IIT Guwahati resulting in multiple technology transfers, product development and MoU signing with these companies.

Courses
Significant among the IIT Guwahati achievements list was introduction of new courses.

IIT Guwahati introduced for the first time a new programme, MS (Research) in E-mobility.

Due to the multidisciplinary nature of the curriculum, the programme is being jointly offered by the Departments of Electronics and Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from the upcoming academic year 2020-2021.

IIT Guwahati is also the first IIT to introduce a course on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 in the Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) curriculum from this academic year (2020-2021).

The course has been offered to all the second year B.Tech students as a compulsory course, to reorient the thinking of young and dynamic individuals towards the path of sustainable development.

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the 17 SDGs, Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences, the nodal department for this course, has collaborated and pooled resources from eight other departments of the Institute to design and implement the course.

Faculty members from each of these departments will jointly conduct the course and will provide exposure to B.Tech students on the technological, economical, ecological and societal aspects of these 17 SDGs.

Computing
IIT Guwahati achievements in the field of computing also deserves a pat.

The institution collaborated with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) in Pune for establishing a supercomputing facility under National Supercomputing Mission.

Rankings
The goodwork at the insitution through out the year paid its result it took the esteem of the institution to an all time high only to get good ranks.

Highlight among IIT Guwahati achievements was when various rating systems gave this institute a good rank.

IIT Guwahati has been the only academic institution from India that occupied a place among the top 100 world universities – under 50 years of age – published by London based Times Higher Education (THE) in the year 2014 and continues to do this even today in various International Rankings.

That point among the IIT Guwahati achievements remains highly significant.

Along with older IITs and Delhi University, lIT Guwahati has also been ranked below 500 in the QS World ranking released recently and the only one to improve its ranking from the previous year.

IIT Guwahati achievements on the ranking front indeed remains impressive.

IIT Guwahati ranks 6th Overall, 5th in Chemistry, 9th in Physical Sciences, 18th in Earth and Environmental Science, 17th in Life Sciences and 350th Overall world rank as evaluated by Nature, the most reputed scientific research magazine.

What is special among the IIT Guwahati achievements is that the institute has one of the highest faculty to publication ratio of 4:5.

There is more to IIT Guwahati achievements on the ranking front.

The institution has also been ranked 3rd in the “Swachhata Ranking” conducted by the Government of India and is the only centrally funded technical institute to be among the top 5 consistently for the past three years ever since these rankings were launched.

IIT Guwahati achievements on the ranking front has yet another special point.

IIT Guwahati has been ranked 7th (Engineering and Overall) in the national institutional ranking (NIRF) framework conducted by MHRD in the year 2020.