Promotion of Work Experience & Research (PoWER) is a student body under Office of Dean of Research and Development IIT Kanpur, under the supervision of a Board comprising of Faculty Advisors, Chaired by Dean Research and Development and represented by Convener Institute Research and Development Committee, Coordinator, SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Center, and students across various disciplines; to promote and coordinate student research and development through industry-academia interaction.

It aims to provide students the freedom and opportunities to work upon diverse areas of business , technology and existing industrial and national challenges as well as pursue their own ideas so as to become innovators and future leaders. It is also interacting with faculty, departments, alumni and government bodies to create a Sustainable Innovation Ecosystem.

Basic administration of PoWER is reflected in following diagram.

Nucleolus is the administrative head of PoWER.
Its members include:
  • Dean Research and Development, IIT Kanpur (Chairman)
  • Board of Faculty advisors, one from each department
  • Coordinator PoWER
  • Representative from Institute Research and Development Committee
  • Coordinator SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Centre
  • Representative from Alumni Association
  • General Secretary Science and Technology Council
  • IPR Head
  • President and Vice-President KoMent (Council of Mentors)#
  • President and Vice-President KoRep (Council of Representatives)##
  • Representative Corporate wing
  • Representative Dissemination Wing
  • #KoMent (Council of Mentors): Mentors are the backbone of any knowledge-driven program. So, PoWER proposes to create a Council of Mentors. Democratic set-up requires representatives of people; similarly technocratic set-up requires representatives of technology.
  • ##KoRep (Council of Representatives): Representatives of groups and departments are major actors in leading, motivating and engaging students; so they perform a very crucial role. A proper platform will help them in getting their challenges solved and creating a support system which may help in creating enterprises out of groups/teams.
It comprises of students, faculty, alumni and scientific and technical individuals in following teams.
  • KoMent (Council of Mentors)
  • Project Groups: These are the groups of students involved in various projects under PoWER.
  • Autonomous Groups: These are the group of students brainstorming together to work in emerging areas and areas of national and global importance.
  • KoRep (Council of Representatives)
It will include students in following teams to search for external partners for PoWER.
  • Alumni Interaction team: This team is involved in communications with esteemed alumni of IIT Kanpur.
  • Industry Relation team: This will communicate to all private companies, governmental and non-governmental institutions and organizations and individuals to seek further collaborations.
  • Resource Management and Generation team: This team will be responsible for generation of resources for all the ideas selected through various competitions and to manage all the resources pumped into PoWER.
This wing will be responsible for disseminating all the news and information generated within and about PoWER. It will include students in following teams.
  • Web Development team: This is responsible all issues related to website of PoWER.
  • Media and Public Relation Team: This is responsible for reaching to the people informing them about PoWER and getting feedback about PoWER.
  • PoWER Post: It will be the periodic newsletter of PoWER containing periodic reviews and activities of PoWER. It will come soon.
Innovation database (ID), is the technical database of students, faculty, alumni and external agency involved in the process.

This database will be useful in following manner:
1. Accreditation.
2. Alumni Mentorship Program (will be announced soon).
3. It will let all the members of IITK family to find like minded people.
4. Your profile will be like your technical CV.
5. Designing policies, thrust area and research investment planning.
6. Finding students for different real-life projects based on their interest and expertise.

Students will find the right mentor among alumni or faculty, faculty will find appropriate student for their projects, Alumni will find an opportunity to share their expertise by mentoring a student or a group of students and outside agencies will have a privilege to interact directly with IITK Family and further find right people to get solutions of their challenges.

To build this database we need a team of enthusiast people who can take up the responsibility. To know more please click here.

Incentives

a. Attributes:
1. All old and current projects, thesis and research works of faculty, students and researchers @ IITK
2. Skill sets and area (working/interest) of students
3. Areas of interest/working of faculty alumni and researchers @ IITK
4. Portfolio of outside agencies
5. Facilities and resources in the institute

b. Utilities and incentives:
1. Information
ID will provide vast information about various fields and in multiple dimensions.
2. Eliminating wastage of time in redundant efforts and finding people with required expertise
A lot of similar efforts are done by students @ IITK for different purposes. This redundancy of efforts cases wastage a lot of time and resources. Also a lot of time is spent in finding people with right expertise. ID will provide all kinds of information and hence save time. This place will be like a road map to help you optimize your journey.
3. Accreditation (Certification and approval)
Many-a-times, students are not certified/recognized/approved for the works and skills they have devoted their time and efforts. This platform will give them recognition.
4. Mapping
ID will help in mapping students with alumni and experts of the same field (s)he is working/ interested in. Students will then personally interact with them.
5. Networking
ID will help you in knowing more about others, expanding your personal network within and outside the institute.
6. Mentorship
With the help of ID, students can choose mentor for his/her idea as well as potential mentors can find their mentee. Through this mentorship, students will get a lot of learning support in role of apprentice in both fields: technical as well as entrepreneurial.
7. Technical counseling
Students at IITK learn a lot of technical and non-technical skills. But most of the times, selection of skills to be learnt is not focused. So, at the end of their graduation, a large number of them are indecisive about their career. This condition can be improved if students are provided regular counseling 2nd year onwards for UG and 2nd semester onwards for PG students. These counseling sessions will help them to identify the opportunities, challenges and their position.
8. Thesis/Project counseling
Most of the thesis (M-Tech/PhD) and projects (B-Tech Projects, course projects, student-driven projects) are done seriously and have potential real-world application, but most of them end up without connecting them to the real world applications.
Abstracts of M-Tech Thesis, PhD thesis, B-Tech Projects and course projects will be made available in the ID. Alumni will analyze the abstracts, interact with the corresponding students and help them in improving their thesis/project so that they can get best output. It will be the best day for IITK when every student will be having at least one patent at the time of graduation.
9. Industry Relationship
Connecting students directly with industries will provide a vast background to nurture skills, interest, and promote their ideas so that they will get taste of work culture in industry and will be prepared better to face the real world challenges.
10. Promotion to ideas
Many ideas are lost as they do not get proper guidance/recognition/appreciation or they are continued after the people working on them leave them. Here, with a vast network, you can get all kinds of help to nurture, develop, reinforce and sustain your idea right from the beginning. By converting them to a success, really BIG!
11. Awareness and better career selection
Innovation Database will bring you in contact with diverse range of people and companies and will definitely help you choose a better career according to your interest.
12. Knowledge Online
Innovation database will help us to promote online discussions, work, and publications. So that others can contribute with new innovative ideas.
13. Internship opportunity
This will help you finding right internship so that you can use well your ideas. Work- experience and research opportunities will give students a valuable insight to proceed further in their studies and career.
14. Funding to projects
Ideas are lost many-a-times due to lack of funding. By a firm relationship and network, getting funding will become easier.
15. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Patenting, Technology Management
The knowledge is power and now it is wealth! ID will help you to find all kinds of help on issues as patents, IPR, technology management. It will make students more aware of the outside competitive world and how to ensure success in it.
16. Feedback
ID will help you to find a feedback for your endeavor and ideas.
17. Assessment
ID will help in quick assessment of project ideas brought by students or offered by any external agency.
18. Commercialization
Commercialization is very important as well as most time consuming process. With access to a powerful network and exposure to technicalities and formalities it will be highly helpful to aspiring entrepreneurs.
19. Infrastructure access
ID will help everyone in finding information to access resources, facilities and infrastructure.
20. Effective medium of communication
This will provide rapid communication and sharing of ideas.
21. Innovation
Innovation is the key to progress. Here you will get all sources, exposure and encouragement to excel.
22. Diverse environment-
Here we will be interacting with people of different fields, which will create a much diversified environment and instant growth to ideas.
23. Creating opportunities
Lastly it will create opportunities to many future events that we haven't even thought of yet!

PoWER is the first initiative of its kind in India to promote a coordinated Research and Work-Experience through student-industry interaction. It gives students the freedom and opportunities to work in diverse areas of business, science and technology and existing industrial and national problems. It also provides an opportunity for students to work upon his/her own ideas.

PoWER focus on building research and technical aptitudes among students with participation of faculty, research scholars, PG & UG students, industries and other external agencies.

POWER envisions empowering students for:
  • Emerging and traditional areas of Science and Technology
  • Increasing competition in innovation and application development
  • Bringing innovation to existing problems of nation in particular and world in general
  • Future leadership in areas of business, research and technology
To fulfill these targets, PoWER offers:
  • A web of experts, accessibility to institute resources, funds
  • Basic skill-building projects (including lecture series, workshops, visiting trips)
  • A platform where they will learn how to convert dreams and ideas into reality
  • Opportunity to participate in solving real-life challenges by working upon industrial research and projects
  • Please find reports, brochures and PowerPoint presentations at Documents.
  • PoWER mandate includes:
    • Formulation of policy statements and guidelines for student research and technology development
    • Co-ordination of areas of Science Technology in which a number of students have interests and capabilities
    • Support to basic and applied research and technology development
    • Support minimum Infrastructural facilities for Testing & Instrumentation
    • Technology Development and Commercialization
    • Autonomous Research Groups
    • Fostering National and International Cooperation in S&T at student level
    • Socially oriented ST interventions for rural & weaker sections
    • Support Science Technology Entrepreneurship Development for promotion of knowledge Based Technology Driven Entrepreneurs
    • Popularization of Science Technology
    • Promotion and Development of ST
    • Management of Information Systems for Science & Technology
    Procedural Ethics

    We strongly believe in ethical practices in technology creation and development. The whole policy is under formulation and we need your feedback.

    Safety of body and life is a pre-requisite for establishing a good laboratory or working apsce and we strongly believe in that. Our all labs follow the best safety practices and we appreciate as well as promote it at all levels.

    Govt. of India S & T Policy (copy it from www.dst.gov.in )

    Safety

    Safety of body and life is a pre-requisite for establishing a good laboratory or working space and PoWER strongly believe in that. All labs of IITK follow the best safety practices and we appreciate as well as promote it at all levels.

    Confidentiality and Intellectual Property Management, Patents and Copyrights

    For confidentiality and IPR related issues PoWER has very simple policy which can be downloaded from the following link along with the two annexure mentioned in policy statement.

    Policy
    Annexure1
    Annexure2

    The institute policies are as follows: (source : SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Center, IIT Kanpur : http://www.iitk.ac.in/siic/ipr.html )

    Utthaan

    UTTHAN is a join program by PoWER IIT Kanpur and IIA in participation and guidance of NPC, QCFI, MSMEDI and KPC. UTTHAN is targeting promotion of innovation, standardization, quality enhancement, productivity increment and optimization of available resources through different methods. It aims to provide consultancy services to industries in Kanpur and and at the same time, engage students and workers in this whole development process so that we develop innovative and capable workforce for present as well as future needs.

    Indian Industries Association(IIA)

    Indian Industries Association, popularly known as IIA is apex representative body of Micro, Small and Medium industries with a strong membership base of more than 6000Micro, Small and Medium Scale Units. IIA’s formidable presence is the direct result of its extensive network of more than 35 chapter spread in most of the important districts of the important districts of the region. IIA operates on the board based objective of fostering co-operation and support for the promotion of Micro, Small and Medium Scale Industries.

    Quality and Productivity

    Quality and values added to a product determine the choice of a customer. Better quality and standard increase customer base and revenue. Now, customers have worldwide options, so producing quality products is the need of hour. There are methods through which industries with limited resource and poor infrastructure can also improve quality. Expert from Quality Circle Forum of India ,are coming from Hyderabad and Kanpur to share their expertise and help you to implement different quality improvement method as well as solve your quality related problem.

    Resources are always limited. Hence, their utilization in the best possible manner measured through efficiency and productivity is key to success. Globalization has brought down every local enterprise in direct competition with various MNCs at international standard. This has forced every enterprise to increase their standards. There are many standard methods which increase productivity. Lean manufacturing is one of them. National Productivity Council NPC is leading national agency working in the field of enhancing productivity. Government of India has launched schemes to promote productivity governed by NPC. Expert from NPC will be sharing their expertise in attaining better productivity. They will discuss different method, their implementation and their benefits.They will also help to solve different productivity related problems.

    Student Panel

    Students are the future of a society. They provide low investment window which ensure current as well as future growth and sustenance. Students participate in many industrial projects during their professional student. Many of these projects have helped industries to save power, reduce-recycle-reuse waste, apply many quantity and productivity methods, improve their technology and supply chain management. Power Promotion of Work-Experience and Research, a student body at IITK is a plate form through which student body at IITK are trying to reach out to industries and society, understand their system and work with them on them on their problem.

    Company Name Represented by
    IAITO INFOTECH Pvt. Ltd. (SIDBI) Mr.M.A. Siddique
    INNOSIUM TECHNOLOGIES Pvt. Ltd. (SIDBI) Mr.Jitendra Bhardwaj
    GT Silicon Pvt. Ltd (SIDBI) Mr. Amit Gupta/ Mr.Varun Hajela (SIDBI)
    Trident Analytical Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (SIDBI) Mr. Amitesh Misra
    Bhramm Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (SIDBI) Mr. Utkarsh Shukla
    APCEGEN Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (SIDBI) Mr. Praveen Gupta
    Cenogen Materials Pvt. Ltd. (SIDBI) Mr.Prem Prakash/Mr. Ashu Mishra
    Innovative WiTech Systems Pvt. Ltd. (SIDBI) Mr. Ashish Kumar Agarwal
    E-Spin Nanotech Pvt. Ltd. (SIDBI) Dr. Sandeep S Patil
    Objectify Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (SIDBI) Mr. Ankit Sahu/ Mr. Umang Kedia / Mr. Arpit Sahu
    Falcon Industries
    SUPER PRECISION PRODUCTS
    KAIZEN TRAINING INSTITUTE
    JESSONS MACHINE TOOLS (P) LTD
    J K Industries
    INDIA METAL PRODUCTS
    KEERAT STEEL PVT LTD
    KHANNA LUBRICANTS
    KANHAIYA TRADING COMPANY
    KALI JI BHARTIYA FOR WORDING AGENCY
    JAI KRISHNA GOATING
    BHARTIYA AGROW PHARMA
    AMAR PHARMACEUTICALS & LABS ( INDIA ) PVT. LTD.
    RAJANI ENGINNERING
    R K TRADING CO
    PRIME PRECISION TOOLS
    R S AGRO INDUSTRIES
    R S AGRO INDUSTRIES

    Intellectual Ventures seeks the disclosure of inventions related to Brain-Computer interfaces for Augmented Reality (AR). An immersive and fluid user experience in augmented reality (AR) applications will require new human-computer interaction mechanisms and frameworks that are faster and less obtrusive than those requiring physical data entry (such as text entry). The final frontier in such an immersive interaction is a brain-computer interface that allows users to control computers and applications with their thoughts.

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    Intellectual Ventures seeks the disclosure of inventions related to material and texture identification from images and video for Augmented Reality (AR). Augmented Reality seeks to overlay images of real objects with virtual information. In many cases, it is important to identify the material and texture of real objects from images or video, in order to better track them and realistically overlay augmented information on these objects. Therefore, object and texture recognition under varying “real world” physical environments and lighting conditions is needed.

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    Intellectual Ventures seeks the disclosure of inventions critical to enabling a mobile, audio-driven Augmented Reality (AR) Personal Assistant.

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    Intellectual Ventures seeks the disclosure of inventions related to audio for Augmented Reality (AR). The goal of Augmented Reality is to provide users with an extended, fluid interaction with their environment. Audio is an important feature in a fully immersive AR experience and may, in some cases, form the basis for that experience. The audio for AR must seamlessly mix the augmented audio with the real audio to provide an engaging AR soundscape.

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    Intellectual Ventures seeks the disclosure of inventions related to user interface for Augmented Reality (AR). The goal of Augmented Reality is to provide users with an extended, fluid interaction with their environment. The user interface is the most critical component of providing users a natural interaction with AR systems. The AR user interface must provide users with a sense of immersion, be intuitive to work with, and support multimodal (e.g., touch, motion, gesture, and speech) interaction.

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    Intellectual Ventures (IV) seeks the disclosure of inventions related to privacy and safety of data for Augmented Reality and related applications. Privacy and safety of data are concerns for users of Augmented Reality (AR) systems. These concerns are also important to people who provide information that helps AR systems be more valuable, such as location-specific information. Without solutions to address these concerns, the AR market will not grow to its full potential. Many aspects of AR, such as the real-time nature of AR, its highly personal nature, and the broad range of potential applications, present significant unique challenges – and opportunities—for innovative solutions. It is anticipated that a range of technologies could be generated in response to this Request For Invention. IV wants to encourage its network of Inventors to think broadly and creatively about the challenges and potential novel solutions.

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    "Most discrete devices for monitoring body health and function incorporate specific single-purpose sensors, which are bulky and often only capture piecemeal data without providing a comprehensive snapshot of an individual’s health. Such sensors are often cumbersome and heavy, require frequent battery replacement, restrict natural movement, and interfere with daily activities and sleep patterns. While many of the products currently on the market increase health awareness to some degree, owning several of these discrete devices can be cost prohibitive; such combinations also offer a false sense of security with regard to health. Medical monitoring devices that are small, low-cost, lightweight, multi-functional, wireless, simple, low-power, and minimally obtrusive are very desirable. Of particular interest are inventions that enable a single physician to remotely monitor multiple patients undergoing similar procedures or with similar conditions."

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    Intellectual Ventures (IV) seeks the disclosure of inventions related to repurposing of existing models for use in Augmented Reality and related applications. Models of environments and objects are used extensively in Augmented Reality (AR) systems. In many cases, the quality and “information resolution” of models defines the fundamental capabilities of an AR system. Unfortunately, creation of models is often an expensive and laborious process. Re-purposing of existing models is one approach to reducing this cost. New approaches, potentially in the form of middleware, are needed to discover, translate, use, manage, and supplement existing models. We anticipate that a wide range of technologies could be generated in response to this Request For Invention. IV wants to encourage its network of Inventors to think broadly and creatively about the challenges and potential novel solutions.

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    Models of environments and objects are used extensively in Augmented Reality (AR) systems. In many cases, the quality and “information resolution” of models defines the fundamental capabilities of an AR system. However, creation of models is often an expensive and laborious process. Innovation in the model creation process can have a substantial impact on AR applications –in terms of both functionality and cost. Intellectual Ventures (IV) seeks the disclosure of inventions related to creation of models for use in Augmented Reality and related applications. A wide range of technologies could be generated in response to this Request For Invention. IV wants to encourage its network of Inventors to think broadly and creatively about the challenges and potential novel solutions.

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    Intellectual Ventures seeks the disclosure of inventions that further enable object recognition for use in Augmented Reality and other environments. Object recognition is an important component for Augmented Reality (AR) systems. The more an AR system understands what an end-user is looking at (person, specific person, mood of the person), the deeper and more valuable an experience it can offer. While the field has been the subject of research for many years, several areas for potential innovation exist. This innovation can be applied to a range of markets -- from industrial to consumer. It is anticipated that a wide range of technologies could be generated in response to this Request For Invention. IV wants to encourage its network of Inventors to think broadly and creatively about the challenges and potential novel solutions.

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    "The “big picture” vision for Augmented Reality (AR) is simple: the world as user interface – using real objects, places and people encountered in the world as reference points for additional computer-generated information. AR has traditionally focused on computer graphics objects being blended into real footage in real-time, but the field is expanding."

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    Intellectual Ventures seeks the disclosure of inventions in the broad area of information retrieval and search with specific emphasis on using GPU based systems as applicable to massively large databases. Information retrieval is a fundamental problem for organizations and consumers working with the large and rapidly increasing volume of digital data (both user generated and machine generated) and data types (text, pictures, music, and video, for instance). In this RFI, we address how the massive computation capabilities of commodity graphics processor (GPU) hardware might be applied to traditional and more large-scale information retrieval problems.39-55

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    IR is a fundamental problem for organizations and consumers working with the large and rapidly increasing volume of digital data (both user generated and machine generated) as well as an increasingly broad set of data types (text, pictures, music, and video, for instance). In this RFI, we seek inventions related to IR approaches that adapt to the individual user’s needs on various dimensions such as search context, knowledge about the underlying data, cost-performance characteristics of queries, and timing considerations (e.g., real time or near real time).

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    Historically, computer secondary storage has been based on the rotating-platter magnetic disk drive. Future approaches to storage architectures (for example, flash based solid state drives) will have fundamentally different performance characteristics than traditional storage media, and thus invalidate many of the underlying implementation and semantic assumptions of the existing software stack. This RFI concerns itself with how these software components will change to accommodate new storage technologies, and what new software mechanisms will need to be invented to make efficient use of the new media.

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    Although some petabyte-scale data sources will be tolerant of occasional inaccuracy, unavailability, or outright failure, others will not. Additionally, some of the anticipated petabyte-scale data producers (for example, the scientific community) will have sustained data rates that will outstrip the capacity of many of the existing redundant storage techniques; worse, the data will be fundamentally irreproducible, thus making it imperative that it is preserved intact. This RFI concerns itself with what lies beyond our current approach to ensuring consistency and robustness of large, petabyte-scale data repositories.

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    Efficiently building ubicomp environments will require next-generation software development tools. Historically, approaches to software development have focused on predictable, single-threaded applications built upon well-defined, thoroughly tested APIs. However, ubicomp will present even greater demands for loosely-coupled, distributed, asynchronous, and dynamically-composable programming methodologies. Current approaches to development, modeling, testing, and debugging have not yet demonstrated that they can meet the requirements posed by ubicomp.

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    In a ubiquitous computing (“ubicomp”) environment, users will be immersed in a world of dynamically changing connectivity where remote resources are exploited for a wide variety of services. Current business models—in which users and devices are “bound” to a particular network—are ill-suited for allowing rapid, transparent, and promiscuous access to networks, devices, and services. Economic models that enable the ubicomp service provider to monetize subscribers/usage will drive investment and mass-adoption thereby helping realize the ubicomp vision. This RFI concerns itself with technologies that enable new or improved economic and business models for ubicomp.

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    Sensors, displays, processors, and other devices play a foundational role in ubiquitous computing (“ubicomp”). All of these will be omnipresent in the near future—with potentially thousands of ubicomp devices interacting with each other within the space of a few meters. With every ubicomp device clamoring for power, decreasing their energy requirements is essential to reducing their size, environmental impact, and operating costs. While significant work is underway in improving battery technologies (which is beyond the scope of this RFI), there is an equally important opportunity to improve the run-time efficiency of these devices through software power management.

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    Dream! Imagine! Think! Explore! Network! Develop and Innovate!! You are a visionary now!!

    Your Role:
    • Primary source of ideas/initiatives/endeavor/innovation.
    • Consultants to outside agencies.
    • Knowledge creators and disseminators.
    What you can get:
    • Satisfaction and experience of producing a valued and tangible end result.
    • Development and improvement of soft skills like team work, communication skills, research skills, time-management etc.
    • Real life problem solving experience.
    • Chance to develop your own Intellectual Property like patent or copyright etc.
    • Chance to write research paper of your own.
    • Joint Certification from institute and company of your participation in project.
    • Financial incentive in form of monthly stipend.
    Challenges you will face:
    • Managing the peer group, especially the delegation of duties and tasks within the student team.
    • Emotional involvement (frustration and social disharmony from the non-participation and lack of sharing within the group).
    • The sheer quantity of work involved and their time management to achieve deadlines.
    • Development of inter-personal skills (group dynamics).
    • Fulfilling the expectations of the project/research/activity.
    Modes of participation:
    • Join a project offered by PoWER.
    • Come up with an idea.
    • Join the organizational activities of PoWER.
    • Be part of an autonomous group or start one of your own and sustain it.
    • Participate in workshops, brain storming sessions, lectures/discussions, industrial visits, forums, competitions etc.
    Process:
    • Create your profile on Innovation Database.
    • Register yourself for a project or propose an idea of your own.
    • To participate in any competition, follow the instruction given on that link.
    • To organize a basic skill building activity please email to power@iitk.ac.in.
    For any further detail, mail to power@iitk.ac.in
    Roles:
    • Facilitator of knowledge, information and network
    • Analyst of ideas
    • Different roles like manager, supervisor, mentor, motivator, mediator
    • Source of resources, challenges, ideas
    Positive Inferences:
    • Development of relationships with students, fostering trust and team work.
    • More number of students are participating in your area of interest and engaging in your lab. More quality student input will directly increases the outputs of the lab in terms of quality and quantity.
    • Satisfaction in observing students learning and applying their skills to develop something.
    • Greater synergy with industry.
    Challenges:
    • Managing it with lot many other engagements.
    • Allowing students doing thesis to engage in these projects.
    • Motivating students for a delivery maintaining balance with academics.
    • Managing individual contribution and grading if any academic credit is assigned to a project.
    • Ensuring equity among distribution of responsibilities, incentives and opportunities among the student group.
    • Assessing the expectations of students as well as outside agencies.
    • Selecting projects that satisfy learning needs of students so as to keep coordination with academics.
    Mode of Participation:
    • Become faculty advisor/mentor to PoWER in your area of research.
    • Guide PoWER in assessing projects, designing plans, their implementation, building networks and mobilizing resources.
    Process:
    • Please register and create your profile on Innovation Database.
    For further queries please mail to power@iitk.ac.in

    Success of an institute is glorified by its successful alumni and research outputs.

    Roles:
    • Become PoWER Ambassador and help PoWER in engaging more with real world.
    • Creator of engagement for students in some ideas that you want to work upon/implement
    • Assessment of project ideas brought by students or offered by any external agency.
    • Support some student ideas technically and monetaririly.
    • Mentor to design policies, decide focus areas, strive for emerging areas
    • Fostering national as well as global network
    Positive Experiences:
    • Finding fruitful reasons to come back to institute again and again
    • Diverse engagement with Alma Mater
    • Finding potential partners for any venture/collaborative research
    • Feeling good after pre-equipping young for current and future challenges
    • Direct relations with students and again going back to academic years at IITK
    Mode of Participation:
    • Become PoWER Ambassador (similar to Brand Ambassador).
    • Guide PoWER in assessing projects, designing policies, networking etc.
    • Design some activities/engagements
    • Create and support different interest-based groups through resources and mentorship
    • Organize application/technology demonstration oriented workshops to provide students information regarding current opportunities and challenges in real world
    • Engage your corresponding agencies/organization/firm to channelize challenges and information to students and support ideas brought by students.
    • Join discussions, brain-storming sessions, debates etc to motivate students
    Process:
    • Register and create your profile on Innovation Database.
    • Express your interest to become PoWER Ambassador.
    For any query please mail on power@iitk.ac.in
    Your Roles:
    • Source of challenges, on floor/off floor Work-Experience opportunities to students
    • Source of information and technology currently practiced in real world and emerging/going to emerge in coming years
    • Source of support for student ideas
    • Non-project based engagements like organize workshops demonstrating any technology or application of skills learnt by students
    • Facilitating industrial trips, brain storming sessions, competitions, lectures
    • Participate and promote industry-academia interactions
    Positive Experiences:
    • Source of challenges, on floor/off floor Work-Experience opportunities to students
    • Source of information and technology currently practiced in real world and emerging/going to emerge in coming years
    • Source of support for student ideas
    • Non-project based engagements like organize workshops demonstrating any technology or application of skills learnt by students
    • Facilitating industrial trips, brain storming sessions, competitions, lectures
    • Participate and promote industry-academia interactions
    Mode of Participation:
    • Channelizing real time industrial projects to students .
    • Investments in commercially feasible student ideas.
    • Organizing industrial trips, workshops, demonstrations etc.
    • Support various competitions.
    Process:
    • Register and create profile of your organization/firm/agency on Innovation Database.
    • Fill and submit Expression of Interest.
    Winter internship : Innoverve Inventions Pvt. Ltd.

    An internship opportunity for undergraduate students to get a work experience within the campus

    About the company: Innoverve Inventions Pvt. Ltd. is a startup based in Indore. The company was started by Mr. Rajat Goyal (IITK alumni) in 2009. Objectives of our company are to provide efficient and cost effective automation solutions for small and medium enterprises and to develop newer and industry changing technologies in the field of industrial automation, robotics and artificial intelligence. Since 2009 our company has developed products like CNC Routers, CNC X-Y Tables, CNC Retrofit Kit, CNC Milling Machine, Digital Readouts and Automatic Packaging lines.

    For more details you can visit company website : http://www.innoverveinventions.com/

    About the internship/job: They are looking for students who are passionate about technology and innovation. Students will be required to assist the team in software and embedded systems development for automation (CNC Machines and robotic arms).

    Who can apply: Students with any or all of the below mentioned skills/interests can apply: - Excellent coding skills in C++ - Microcontroller programming, PCB design, Power electronics (knowledge of IGBTs, MOSFETs).

    Working Location: - SIDBI VH extension, IITK campus

    Hours: Winter Vacation

    Compensation: stipend will be paid on per project basis.

    How to apply: -
    Step 1: Fill in the following doc here
    Step 2: Send you resume to gautam.sinha705@gmail.com

    Deadline for applying is 8th Nov, 2013, 1900 hrs Interview on 9th Nov, 2013 (venue will be mail to shortlisted candidates)

    For any doubt contact Mr Gautam Sinha at +91 9956817258

    • Post


      Professor A. K. Chaturvedi
      Chairman

      Professor A. K. Chaturvedi
      Dean, Research & Development
      IIT Kanpur

    Contact


    Professor A. K. Chaturvedi
    Dean, Research & Development
    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
    Kanpur 208016
    Faculty Building 255
    dord@iitk.ac.in
    Phone: +91-512-259 7578/7182
    Fax: +91-512-259 0134
    • Professor Deepu Philip
      Faculty Advisory Group

      Professor Deepu Philip
      IME Department

    Professor Deepu Philip
    IME Department
    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
    Kanpur 208016
    dphilip@iitk.ac.in
    Phone: (91) 0512-259-7460
    • Professor A.K.Mittal
      IPR Mentor

      Professor A.K.Mittal
      IME Department

    Professor A.K.Mittal
    IME Department
    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
    Kanpur 208016
    • Amit Shukla
      Consultant & IPR Advisor

      Amit Shukla
      SIDBI

    Amit Shukla
    SIDBI
    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
    Kanpur 208016
    amitsh@iitk.ac.in
    Phone :+91-9236001370

    Post


    Randhir Shah
    Overall Coordinator, PoWER

    Randhir Shah

    Contact


    Randhir Shah
    H-109, Hall 9
    IIT Kanpur
    Kanpur
    Uttar Pradesh
    Pin: 208016
    randhirs@iitk.ac.in
    Phone: +91-90058-50159
    +91-87652-46122
    Bivek Kumar
    Head, Industrial Relations

    Bivek Kumar

    Bivek Kumar
    C-311/Hall 1
    IIT Kanpur
    Kanpur
    Uttar Pradesh
    Pin: 208016
    bivek@iitk.ac.in
    Phone: +91-72751-34857
    Vipul Goyal
    Head, Industrial Relation

    Vipul Goyal

    Vipul Goyal
    C-320, Hall 11
    IIT Kanpur
    Kanpur
    Uttar Pradesh
    Pin: 208016

    Phone: +91-90449-57923
    Kunal Mahawar
    Head, Industrial Relation

    Kunal Mahawar

    KUnal Mahawar
    111, Hall 3
    IIT Kanpur
    Kanpur
    Uttar Pradesh
    Pin: 208016
    mkunal@iitk.ac.in
    Phone: +91-96513-64646
    Pranav Agrawal
    Head, Industrial Relation

    Pranav Agrawal

    Pranav Agrawal
    E-211,Hall 1
    IIT Kanpur
    Kanpur
    Uttar Pradesh
    Pin: 208016
    pranavag@iitk.ac.in
    Phone: +91-99365-82707
    Akash Chandra
    Head, Industrial Relation

    Akash Chandra

    Akash Chandra
    303, Hall 3
    IIT Kanpur
    Kanpur
    Uttar Pradesh
    Pin: 208016
    akashch@iitk.ac.in
    Phone: +91-87652-29359
    Amitha Sapavath
    Head, Public Relations

    Amitha Sapavath

    Amitha Sapavath
    B-206, GH-1
    IIT Kanpur
    Kanpur
    Uttar Pradesh
    Pin: 208016
    sapavath@iitk.ac.in
    Phone: +91-76075-96089
    Gundeep Kaur
    Head, Public Relations

    Gundeep Kaur

    Gundeep Kaur
    B-206, GH-Tower
    IIT Kanpur
    Kanpur
    Uttar Pradesh
    Pin: 208016
    gundeepk@iitk.ac.in
    Phone: +91-73889-43393
    Rohit Hemrajani
    Head, Projects

    Rohit Hemrajani

    Rohit Hemrajrani
    A-103,Hall 1
    IIT Kanpur
    Kanpur
    Uttar Pradesh
    Pin: 208016
    rohithem@iitk.ac.in
    Phone: +91-76074-81200
    Surjit Sngh Gautam
    Head, Projects

    Surjit Sngh Gautam

    Surjit Singh Gautam
    C-321,Hall 1
    IIT Kanpur
    Kanpur
    Uttar Pradesh
    Pin: 208016
    ssgautam@iitk.ac.in
    Phone: +91-97619-90981
    Abhishek Kumar Singh
    Head, Events

    Abhishek Kumar Singh

    Abhishek Kumar Singh
    G-111,Hall 5
    IIT Kanpur
    Kanpur
    Uttar Pradesh
    Pin: 208016
    msinghka@iitk.ac.in
    Phone: +91-96480-50024
    Tarun Meena
    Head, Student and Faculty Relations

    Tarun Meena

    Tarun Meena
    A-330, Hall 10
    IIT Kanpur
    Kanpur
    Uttar Pradesh
    Pin: 208016
    tarunm@iitk.ac.in
    Phone: +91-87651-74674
    Jitendra KUmar
    Head, Student and Faculty Relations

    Jitendra Kumar

    Jitendra Kumar
    F-314, Hall 9
    IIT Kanpur
    Kanpur
    Uttar Pradesh
    Pin: 208016
    kumarj@iitk.ac.in
    Phone: +91-95320-94884
    Avisek Bhattacharya
    Head, Design

    Avisek Bhattacharya

    Avisek Bhattacharya
    D-106, Hall 8
    IIT Kanpur
    Kanpur
    Uttar Pradesh
    Pin: 208016
    avisekbh@iitk.ac.in
    Phone: +91+96516+30033
    Pankaj Gupta
    Head, Web Development

    Pankaj Gupta

    Pankaj Gupta
    B-111, Hall 5
    IIT Kanpur
    Kanpur
    Uttar Pradesh
    Pin: 208016
    pankajg@iitk.ac.in
    Phone: +91-94534-25611
    +91-89604-02155
    • Gaurav Dixit
      Overall Coordinator
      2011-12

      Gaurav Dixit
      Department of Chemical Engineering
      IIT Kanpur

    • Alok Bansal
      Overall Coordinator
      2009-11

      Alok Bansal
      Department of Electrical Engineering
      IIT Kanpur

    • Veerender Kumar
      Overall Coordinator
      2007-09

      Veerender Kumar
      Economics
      IIT Kanpur

    Name Department Email Id
    Veerender Kumar Economics veek@iitk.ac.in
    Alok Bansal Electrical Engineering alokb@iitk.ac.in
    Abhineet Gupta
    Amit Shukla SIDBI
    Kritika Bhargava
    Mukesh Kumar
    Neeraj Kumar Ojha
    Satendra Kumar Yadav
    Aveek Dutta
    Sarvesh Kumar Singh
    Anshul Goyal