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Interactive session on Interview & Communication skills for career success

On the 20th of September, Material advantage has organized a workshop on Interview and Communication skills. We had an energetic speaker Ajay Prakash Mishra works at KOAK education and is commonly known as ‘COACH APM’. The speaker mentored students on acing the interviews and improve one communication skills. The event drew a lot of student participation not only from the material science departments but also from other departments of IITK. The event lasted for 2 hrs, with more than 100 attendees.

Introduction to MA@IITK & Unveiling Membership Drive

On 19th September 2021, Prof. Kantesh Balani, Faculty Advisor, MA@IITK unveiled Material Advantage Fall Membership drive 2021-22 and gave an introductory talk briefing about material advantage and the tremendous growth of MA@ IIT Kanpur chapter has been seeing at a global scale. Following the talk, the Core team members of MA@IITK introduced themselves and briefed their experience of being associated with it, and shared their vision for Material advantage. The audience were introdcued to the events that have been planned during the memebership drive by Ms. Shruti Dubey Chair MA@IITK.

Outreach event “Short Talk and Quiz”

MA @ IIT Kanpur conducted an interactive panel discussion and quiz for the MSME students of Chatrapati Sahuji Maharaj University Kanpur on August 28, 2021. The discussion topics such as “The Thermodynamics of pressure cooking” by Mr. Rupesh Chafle (PhD, MSE-IITK), “Functionally graded materials” by Ms. Shipra Bajpai (PhD, MSE-IITK), and “Introduction to X-Rays and X-Ray Diffraction” by Ms. Rubia Hassan (PhD, MSE-IITK). After the discussion session, MA @ IIT Kanpur organized an online quiz. The quiz had multiple choice questions from the discussion session. Around 32 students participated in the quiz. The quiz was evaluated by MA members and results were declared after the quiz was over. Top three positions were awarded based on the score in quiz. The winners were provided with discounted memberships for becoming members of the Material Advantage along with certificates of merit.

• Winner: Ujjwal, UIET Kanpur
• 1st Runner Up: Saurav, UIET Kanpur
• 2nd Runner Up: Praveen Soni, UIET Kanpur

We have a new logo!

Thank you all for your participation in the Logo design competition. The results of the logo design competetion are as follows:

• Winner : Ayush Azad (B.Tech, MSE)
• 1st Runner Up : Yashvardhan Rathore (B.Tech, MSE)
• 2nd Runner Up : Sarika Yadav (PhD, MSP) and Govind B (Staff, MSE)

Revive Mother Earth Contest - Results

Thank you all for your participation in the "Revive Mother earth" competition organized by MA@IITK. Through this competition, I would like to acknowledge your contribution towards reviving mother nature. The results of the photography event are as follows:

• Based on social media publicity: Saurabh Jha
• Lucky Draw : Sachin Kumar Tarnalli

Ms. Shruti's selection as ASM board member!

Shruti Dubey has been selected as the ASM student board member for a 1-year tenure. She will be representing not only IIT Kanpur but, will also be a national representative for Material science student community to provide insights and ideas to the ASM board.

Charge Handover Ceremony

On 25th May 2021, a meeting was conducted to finalize the appointment with current core team members along with the Faculty Advisor, and on 1st June 2021, a charge handover ceremony was conducted with the appointed members so as to formally take up the positions in the executive team of MA@IITK 2021-22.

Ms. Shruti's selection as ACerS PCSA Student Delegate!

Shruti Dubey has been selected as a delegate of President's Council of Student Advisors (PCSA) for the term 2021-22. PCSA is the student-led committee of American Ceramic Society (ACerS) responsible for representing student interests to ACerS and its subsidiary committees, divisions, sections, and classes. The PCSA is the primary face of ACerS to ceramics and materials science students. This recognition of Ms. Shruti as PCSA, the student leadership council within The American Ceramic Society (ACerS), is rare honor to represent the subcontinent.

MatAd Quiz

Material Advantage IITK organized a quiz on materials science named "MatAd Quiz" on April 10,2021. Each team were asked 10 multiple choice questions, which were prepared by participated oponent teams. A total of 21 teams registered for the same and as per the guidelines, maximum 3 students were permitted to participate in each team.

Magnet Ki Pol Khol

Material Advantage IIT Kanpur student's chapters organized a lecture named "Magnet Ki Pol Khol" by Padma Shri Professor H. C. Verma on March 13, 2021 (Saturday). The lecture started at 3:00 PM by welcoming words of Prof. Kantesh Balani in honor of prof. H. C. Verma. In this lecture, Prof. Verma covered the basic principle of magnet to advance research on the magnet. He also clarified the myths and facts about magnet and magnetic properties. The lecture ran for 2 hours in which students also clarified their doubts in the end.

Sponge Ironmaking

Material Advantage, IIT Kanpur Chapter organized an interactive session on "Sponge Ironmaking" : "An Alternate Ironmaking Technology" on 31st January 2021 at 10 AM via ZOOM.

Speaker for the session was Dr B.B. Agrawal, who briefly discussed about sponge ironmaking technology and explained how sponge iron has established itself as an excellent metallic substitute to steel scrap for electric steelmaking and basic oxygen steelmaking in the converter.
The session lasted for an hour in which Dr. Agrawal briefly discussed various technologies of sponge ironmaking keeping various entrance examinations including GATE in mind. Apart from this, he also spent a bit of time on numerical problems related to sponge ironmaking in which students were discussed the techniques to deal with those problems.

XRD Workshop

MA@IITK in association with department of Material Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur organized a lecture on X-Ray Diffraction for MA members. This lecture was a part of XRD workshop which was conducted in two parts: 1 - Theory & principles (Speaker: Dr. Nilesh Gurao) 2 - Analysis via XPERT HIGHSCORE. The first part of the workshop was conducted in ollaboration with the TEQIP workshop. The workshop started with welcome words by Dr. Kantesh Balani and over 40 members attended it in which the students learnt the basics of XRD and cleared their queries towards end the workshop.

Annual Christmas cum New Year Celebration

Annual Christmas cum New Year Celebration: The Annual Christmas cum New Year Celebration was organized by Material Advantage IITK on December 31, 2020 virtually to bid goodbye to the year 2020 together with gaiety and joy with the members. The team organised many virtual games while the members socialised to know each other better.

One on one Mock Interview

Material Advantage student's chapter organized "One on one Mock Interview " series for the students who are sitting for placement session of 2020-21. Interviews were taken from 25th-29th November 2020 for various core companies like TATA STEEL, JP Mittal etc. Several students were interviewed by our alumni, who are already placed. HR as well as technical mock interviews were conducted.

Questionnaire Session

On Nov 10, 2020, a session was conducted on possible questionnaire from Steel Companies by Dr. B.B. Agrawal, Visiting Professor IIT Kanpur who also has 35 years of experience in steel plant. It was an initiative to augment the success rate for our students in Placement Process.

Lucky Draw

Lucky draw was conducted among the most active participants to waive of partial and complete membership fees. The lucky draw was done live on October 14, 2020 by spinning a wheel using an online application. Winners: Kaushal (100% Discount) Jatin Jain (50% Discount).

Workshop on LaTeX software

Material Advantage @ IIT Kanpur initiated a workshop on LaTeX document writing on Oct. 12,2019 (Afternoon Session) by Dr. Somnath Bhowmik (Assistant Professor, Material Science and Engineering Department, IIT Kanpur) and Mr. Pawan Tripathi (PhD student, MSE Department, IIT Kanpur).

Panel Discussion on Career opportunities after CoVID

MA@IITK conducted an interactive panel discussion session on career opportunities on October 10, 2020. MA@IITK brought professionals from different sectors. Dr. Kantesh Balani, Chapter Advisor, himself, was the moderator for this event. The panelists were Dr. J. Ramkumar, Dr.B.B. Agarwal, Dr. S.S. Singh and Mohd. Shafiq.