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Engineer is an annual technical symposium organized by NITK Surathkal . It has, over the past years, consistently attracted participants from all over the India( references mentioned). The events at Engineer 2006 included paper presentation competitions, project presentations, Shrishti, where participants are required to apply engineering for the greater good of society, robotics events (Perfect Machine, Automata), Hacking contests, Programming contests, Design problems for various disciplines and a variety of workshops and seminars. Guest speakers in the past have included Richard Stallman , Sam Pitroda , Dr. Devi Shetty , Sir Anthony James Leggett , Ankit Fadia and other personalities( references mentioned). The 2007 edition of Engineer was conducted on a larger scale and witnessed international participation. The online events drew programmers from universities in Europe, Americas and Asia. The robotics events were appreciated and well contested. The workshop conducted by Indian Underwater Robotics Society (IURS) was unique to Engineer. The 4-day event included video-conferences with Kevin Warwick , Ehud Shapiro , Nobel Laureate John C. Mather and Bjarne Stroustrup . Several corporations provide sponsorship and conduct workshops during the 3 day event. Previous sponsors and mentors included the GE , Indian Oil Corporation Limited , AMD , Tata Motors , the Oil And Natural Gas Corporation , Reliance industries, Dell , Ansys , Novell , McAfee , the Indian Space Research Organization , Thoughtworks and Biocon ( references mentioned). The major sponsors for Engineer 2007 are Hindustan Construction Co Ltd . (main sponsor), Thermax , GE , Accenture , Microsoft , IBM , Intuit , MRPL , ICICI , Sun Microsystems , Perot Systems , Exeter , Infosys , Nvidia . ( references mentioned) REFERENCES # Engineer # Article in The Hindu about ENGINEER'05 # Robots steal the show at `Engineer 2005' # NVidia Sponsored gaming Event # ENGINEER'07 Inaugration article in Deccan Herald # Article in Times on India on LAST WORD: Panel Discussion at ENGINEER'07 |
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