Excellence Awards Since Monsoon 2018, CEPT University has established awards for excellence to honor students’ studio work done in Under Graduate programs. These awards have been introduced as an effort to ratchet up excellence in teaching and learning and in recognizing and celebrating the best of students’ projects. The awards intend to complement the respective regular grade that students receive from their tutors. In Jan 2019, the University conducted first exhibition titled ‘Honor’s exhibition’ and published a catalog. Based on the feedback received after the first event, the title of the awards was revised to ‘CEPT Excellence Awards’ for further semesters. This Catalog brings together the work of all student project and studio selected winners for the excellence awards for Monsoon 2021 semester. A special review panel appointed by the University independently reviewed the work of all the students as displayed during the online and abridged semester-end exhibition. The review panel selected individual student projects that showed the best work in terms of concept, resolution of the concept, detailing of material and structure, and ability to evoke quality and experience of the designed space and its context. There were also studio units that collectively produced excellent work. The review panel recognized such studio units as well for the excellence awards. To begin, the review panel first shortlisted the projects with potential for winning the excellence award. For the Monsoon’ 21 semester, twenty individual student works and nine studio units were shortlisted for the excellence award presentation. The shortlisted students and studio units made presentations to the reviewers, based on the which, the excellence award winners were selected. A total of twelve individual student projects and five studio units have been recognized for their excellent work. Each student awardee and studio unit tutor received a certificate. Additionally, the jury awarded the CEPT Gujral Foundation Excellence Awards to three selected student projects. This award, carrying a cash prize of Rs. 1 Lakh each, is supported by the Gujral Foundation. With this, we congratulate all the students and studio units selected for this exhibition and in addition to this all other students as well, who contributed to the larger academic environment through their works in the studio and in multiple other ways in being on a part of the community.
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