Wednesday, October 28, 2009

When Sparks Flew at BMS College of Engineering

Here comes another episode of the coveted Let Sparks Fly Session. Hosted this time around at one of Bangalore's premier engineering colleges- BMS College of Engineering.
With some 80 participants (not all in photo though), there was yet another set of exhibitions from the students community. Before that, here's is a preview of the college.
Being one of India's first private engineering colleges, BMS College of Engg intakes about 630 students in various branches of IT engineering as well another 460 in core engineering, making it one of the largest in India. Having visited the institute, I can vouch for the infrastructure that can house such an audience. About 252 permanent faculties as well 38 visiting faculties makes it a good student-teacher ratio as well. One of the most impressive assets of the institute is its Data Centre which offers high performance computing and networking capabilities (one of the largest in India); and is been used for the research purpose.
The vast library is another feature here housing over a lakh of books and 38,000 titles. This coupled with a vast suite of online journals make is one of India's best.
As for the session, the teams came up with above 50 very powerful ideas. A couple of these include: Bio-Wall (emitting oxygen); Nano-material helmets (caps that blow up as helmets); touch data transfer (chip on the finger); Self healing body parts (implants); and others.
In all it was a nice experience interacting with bright sparks and letting them fly.

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