Add wannachange.iit@gmail.com to your g-talk

Dear Friends,

Please add wannachange.iit@gmail.com to your IM account like g-talk for instant messaging. Also rename it PoWER for convenience.

best wishes
Team PoWER

Tinkering Lab

Dear Friends,

Do you ever think to play with technology? Just make some mechanical model or make some bot or make a circuit or design an algorithm, make some mathematical models? Definitely yes!

So, how can you do that?

Clubs under Science and Technology Council are meant for that.

But many-a-times, you will find these clubs confined to only few domains. Also, clubs have valuable resources that are meant for dedicated club projects. And, you also feel it to be dominated by generally 1st and 2nd year UG students. So, how can you play with technology once you are in 3rd year or a PG?

Very soon, institute is going to establish a tinkering lab. This lab will have all basic resources related to common technical hobbies, all departments and interdisciplinary like design, energy, finance, high speed computers, media technologies etc.

This lab is also expected to support different types of student competitions like Robocon, Vehicle design, Energy etc.

Please express your expectations with this laboratory.

regards
Team PoWER

Technocracy: IIT Delhi

Dear Friends,

PoWER is spreading out to different universities across the country, starting from IIT Delhi, our sister IIT.

The website for Technocracy is http://www.ideas2ignite.com/tech/

please visit it.

PoWER and Technocracy are working together. The two teams regularly visit campuses of each other and we target industries and outside agencies together to create opportunities for our students.

Once we prove the concept to be functional, we will try to expand to other universities.

They are conducting some basic workshops in coming weeks, please visit the website for more details.

best wishes
Team PoWER

CRUX: A new approach to Problem Solving

Dear Friends,

You always wanna do something new, interesting and challenging. While doing it, you find a lot of your time is wasted in doing a lot of redundant things or things which are not much challenging. So, many-a-times, you loose your interest the interesting part of the whole work is undone.

You fail in doing something which you have aimed.

PoWER is very soon gonna announce a competition in which you have to only solve or do the most interesting/challenging/rate determining part of the idea. It means you have to solve only the CRUX.

So gear up friends for this new new approach and start exploring cruxes around you.

For more details, please visit http://www.iitk.ac.in/dord/power/news.php.

Best wishes
Team PoWER

ID: Innovation Database

Dear all,

PoWER is creating a database of experts, faculty, alumni, students and outside agencies. This will help each-other for better and easy communication and finding appropriate person for projects and other opportunities.

Link for Innovation Database is: http://www.iitk.ac.in/dord/power/signup.php

Unfortunately, it is facing some technical problems, so all are requested to wait for some more time.

We strongly regret for this delay.

Best wishes
Team PoWER

Open for Support: Local-Based Tourist Information System (LBTIS)

1. Title of the project: Local-Based Tourist Information System (LBTIS)

2. Abstract: The aim is to design and install a Location-Based Tourist Information System for urban areas, current focus is on Commonwealth games and tourist centers across the country.
This system will have a kiosk with a touch-based screen, from where a user can get multiple information like roads, bus routes, timings, frequency, map, fare, distance, local options for fooding, shopping, accommodation, multi-model routing etc. The idea is being developed together by PoWER and an SIIC-IITK incubated company named Geokno Pvt. Ltd.

3. Budget and Duration: 15 Lacs, 12 months from day of commencement

4. Skills required: Web GIS, Hardware, electronics, embedded systems, design

5. Primary developers of the idea:
Faculty Mentor: Dr Bharat Lohani, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering IIT Kanpur
Hari Om Agarwal (M-Tech 2nd Year, Electrical Engineering),
N Balaji (M-Tech, Web GIS), CEO Geokno Pvt Ltd.

6. Collaborators: IITK, Survey of India, Commonwealth Games Authority, Geokno Pvt. Ltd.,

7. Contact Details: power@iitk.ac.in

This project is open for sponsorship. Interested parties may respond to power@iitk.ac.in for more details.

Explore the relationship between the static contact angle and the dynamic contact angle of a liquid drop resting on a flat surface.

1. Title of the project: Conduct experiments to explore the relationship between the static contact angle and the dynamic contact angle of a liquid drop resting on a flat surface.

2. Abstract:

3. Budget and Duration: 5 months

4. Skills required:

5. Collaborators: Dr Sameer Khandekar, Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

6. Apply:
Time: 5 months, August-December 2009
Working hours: 8-10 hours per week (and more if excited)
Place: Refrigeration and A/C lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Facilities: Quite a bit available
Materials: will be provided
Salaries: Rs 10,000 for the entire period

7. Contact: Dr Sameer Khandekar power@iitk.ac.in

Last date of Application: Aug 22
Details of interested students will be further conveyed to Dr Sameer Khandekar on Aug 22, 2009. The project will commence after the examinations.

best wishes
Team PoWER

Project Management and Dissemination System

1. Title of the project: Project Management and Dissemination System (PMDS)

2. Abstract: Database Management System (DBMS) has become an essential part in almost all aspects of the Computer Science.
A Project Management and System (PMS) is a type of DBMS that controls the organization, storage, management, and retrieval of data in a database. The PMS accepts requests for data and from the application program and instructs the operating system to transfer the appropriate data. Here data means data (generic meaning) as well as multimedia information for a project.
In this project we want a Project Management System and a set of 5 web templates (along with codes).
The PMS will perform functions mentioned above.
The web templates are meant for all labs and individual projects. So the working team needs to develop many templates which are easily customizable according to the needs of the lab/project/ individual/department. These web templates will also contain multimedia information.

3. Budget and Duration: 4 Months.

4. Skills required: MYSQL, PHP, Javascipt, Ajax, HTML, Photo editing technique, Microsoft FrontPage, LATEX, Design etc.

5. Collaborators: IITK

6. Apply: Floating of Project: 17 Aug
Last Date of submission of PMS ideas: 22 Aug
Selection of team, idea and students: 23 Aug
Project Commencement: 5 Sept
If you are not having ideas and still interested, please respond.
Release of different test versions: Depending upon the project proposal
Interested students/group of students need to submit a simple minimum 3 page (A4) soft copy proposal mentioning the attributes of the PMS (input, display, back-end, technical information, skills required and other features).
Size of the working Team: 4 students
Interested students need to respond at the given e-mail id.
7. Contact details: power@iitk.ac.in

This project is supported by Office of Dean, Research and Development. Participating students may be given financial incentives and recognition.

best wishes
Team PoWER

Baseline Survey of Solid Waste of IITK Campus

Title of the project: Baseline Survey of Solid Waste of IITK Campus

2. Abstract: The project comprises of a survey of solid waste produced in IIT Kanpur and its classification into various categories like organic waste, plastics, waste paper, glass etc. in order to and efficient ways of their disposal which are environment friendly as well as a source of revenue which can be further used for waste treatment. For the survey, one of the hostels and a small residential area would be monitored for a period of two months and the waste production of the entire campus would be estimated through this data. To achieve this, the students of IITK will work in collaboration with CEE and share technical knowhow to this effect.

3. Budget and Duration: INR 36,200, 2 Months

4. Skills Required:

5. Collaborators: IITK, CEE

6. Tam-members: Keshav Goel, Nitish Sinha

7. Contact Details: keshavg@iitk.ac.in

8. Periodic reports: Will be made available soon on the website of PoWER

IITK Search Engine

Primary Proposal for IITK Search Engine to be developed by Students


Introduction: Search has become a very strong tool for getting information efficiently by saving time as well as providing accurate information. Search is done through a tool call Search Engine which browses through the websites and finds the relevant information.

Motivation: IIT Kanpur website is hosting a primary Search Engine powered by GOOGLE (a US bases private firm). This search tool is highly inefficient in terms of accuracy and precision, so, there is an urgent need to develop a search engine to provide IITK specific results. Also search is a very interesting field which will attract a number of students, faculty and researchers to come together to create expertise in this domain. Hence we aim to start an IITK Search Engine Project.

Expected Attributes of Search Engine:

User Interface: The proposed Search Engine will have a user interface like this:

Input

· Text field for searching
Features: advanced Boolean search
Specific domain search
Restrict a particular domain

· Options:
Specific domains to be included
What key words
How many results to be displayed
What results to be excluded for later
Search query input similar to Google...[site:...*,+ """,]
Directory search...and classification of search results

Display

· Relevance ranked results

Results from other search engines

· Options:
Grouping of results
Similar searches ..suggestions
Show partial information when the user mouse over a query

Back End:

· Technical details (features):

- Stay updated with new developments

- Keep track of changing server addresses

- Hypertext indexing and web mining

- Rank the results

- Display similar searches

- Give suggestions to the user

- Search based on specific domain

- Search based on format of output desired

- Image tagging and document indexing

- User feedback to improve search results

- what data structures to be used for indexing and searching

Fields that need to be covered:

· Basic logical components: crawling---indexing--searching—evaluation (monitors and measures efficiency and effectiveness of search results)

· Basic components of the architecture: effectiveness (quality of results) and efficiency (response time and throughput)

· Features:
Recall and precision improvement
How to decide upon the relevance of the searched documents
Query improvement techniques such as query suggestion, query expansion and relevance feedback, spell checking
Efficient searching and indexing
Coverage and freshness
Growing with data and users
Tuning for applications
Avoiding spam ..example...multiple indexing of same content generated in many differently named dynamic pages
Updating the indexes while processing the queries is also a design issue
Text acquisition...conversion of variety of documents into a consistent format + the metadata ...conversion if the encoding
Distributed processing for efficiency
Document crawlers for enterprise and desktop search...follow links and scan Directories (first we might try to build it)
Text transformation :like stopping,stemming,link analysis,
Information extraction, classifier, document statics, document statistics, inversion,
performance analysis

Flow of Work:

Floating of Project: 17 Aug

Last Date of submission of Search Engine ideas (if you are not having ideas right now and even if you are interested, please respond): 7 Sep

Selection of team, idea and students: 8 Sep

Project Commencement: 9 Sept

Release of different test versions: Depending upon the project proposal

Certain Queries:

You are free to use to come up with the idea of language and database you will be using but you have to justify the reason for using it.

As mentioned earlier this will be domain specific restricted for internal and external of IIT Kanpur.

What you have to submit:

You have to come up with new ideas which you can add to this proposal and you have to
suggest a way in which you will proceed for the problem. This all must be submitted in written (printed).

Incentives:

IIT Kanpur site will be hosting a search engine developed by you.

You will be certified for this work.

You may get some financial benefit in terms of stipend.

End Notes:

Developing a search engine is an evolutionary process; also search engines are creating new methods of internet use as well as they themselves are changing greatly. So, we hope that IITK will also make its presence felt in this domain in coming years.

We expect dedicated students to come forward for this challenge and make our presence felt in this field.

We will also suggest that you can think the whole search paradigm in a different perspective which may be not be existing. Who knows, it will be the next big hit :)

Interested students, please respond to power@iitk.ac.in.

The team size for the project will be 3 students. The project is supported by Office of Dean, Research and Development. So participating students may get financial incentives and recognition :)

best wishes.

Team PoWER

Glucoband Project Vacancies

Hi all,

GLUCOBAND, many of you might be knowing about it (the cover story of NERD magazine, Volume 1 http://www.nerdmag.org/downloads/v0n1.pdf) is a flagship project of PoWER.

The aim is to fabricate a device which will ensure continuous monitoring of patient glucose level and delivery of insulin by painless injection as far as possible with micro needles. The project is going on for quite some time towards an achievable direction, and it is time that we require more team members. It is interesting to note that it has been developed by three students as their BTP, won several Business Plan Awards (including first prize at Techfest IITB).

So interested students can apply to power@iitk.ac.in in following format with subject: Glucoband

Name:

Roll No:

Program:

Dept:

Time that you can devote weekly:

Relevant previous experience(if any):

Please note that we need at least

one person from Physics,

one person from Chemical Engineering

one from MME.

Students from 2nd, 3rd and 4th year (dual degree) and PG will be preferred though 1st, 4th yr (B-Tech) and 5th year (M-Tech, Int MSc) can also apply.

Last Date of Application is Aug 17, 2009.