The Year 2020 in Review

The iet Herald ISSUED: 01, JANUARY 2021

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A major boost for the Institute:

The

year 2019 ended on a very good note.

5 Departments have been accredited for the session 20192022. As a result of this accreditation, the Institute now has five of it's departments in Tier 1 which will benefit the ranking and placement scenario of the institute. It will also make the students of Insitute eligible for foreign institutes that require NBA accredited applicants.

AKTU ARTS & CULTURAL FEST: Pravah F E B R U A RY, 2 0 2 0

I

n the year 2020, IET missed out on almost all major events, branch fests, sports fests, Convergence, Encore and more.

Pravah was the only one that saw the faces of joy and excitement among all college students. Pravah, the final round of AKTU arts and cultural competition, was held on 28th and

and then the lockdown struck...

From online classes to an exam-less semester, to a pandemic-struck country. A never-ending holiday with the occasional academic stress.

29th of February. Ramp Walks, Rangoli competition, face painting, dance, singing and much more were the major events and attractions. The Rock Band competition became a concert for students of IET and the other participants. The two days were one of the most memorable moments of the year 2020. Soon after one week of Pravah, lockdown hit the floors.

What’s inside?

Placements hard work does pay off.

Sooner or later, but it does.

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Alumni Connect+ IET registered itself and thus students got free access to all It was a wave of doing courses on the platform.

everything online, still is, from classes to labs, club It was a tough time for meets to books.

everyone around us, especially for migrants and daily wage Coursera launched a workers. IET turned its campaign where it would Ramanujam boys hostel to a give its courses for free to all food distribution center for the students of the registered workers, thus providing them college. with safe and healthy food.

leverage Alumni learning and experiences for the guidance of current students

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Clubs Galore a little progress each day adds up to big results.

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The College

When even in Lockdown people were working hard on themselves and their skills, our college under the aegis of IIC found a way to keep people on their toes, by its Covid 19 Ideathon. Held from 18-26 May, this event saw more than 400 registrations and a plethora of unique solutions.

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IET also teamed up with the Hult community to hold the HULT Prize On Campus Round, inviting start-up ideas to regulate the food industry and combat food waste. It's main theme revolved around issues related to all steps of food growth, from farms to plates and defeating hunger.

Talking about Hackathons and startups, SIH 2020, Smart India Hackathon also saw a great amount of participation from the college.

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Talking about the placements of 2020 batch,

students grabbed placement at TCS. 18 students got placed at GSG. 3 students of Electronics and Communication branch got placed at Himalayan Futuristic Communications Limited. 16 students got placed at Newgen while other 16 at GlobalLogic. 16 bright students got placed at Humming Wave. 7 got placed at Naini.

3 students from Electronics and Electrical dept. got placed at Amperes Energy Solutions. 9 students got jobs at NEC while 3 from CS and IT Dept. placed in Cron J. 5 students were selected at Optum.

Alumni

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The winning team Unique-O, will now be representing our college for the Regionals.

The

E-Cell

has organised preliminary rounds for the Lucknow region in collaboration with E Summit, IIT Roorkee. The E Cell, IET Lucknow is now an Incubation Centre , certified and permitted to promote , modify , incubate and launch brilliant start ups that come to us.

Bringing

college

laurels to the

Another achievement that unfolded this year was that Team Estrella from our college was declared winners in Grace Hopper Celebration India(GHCI) Codeathon 2020. They built an AI-assisted solution for Early detection of Sepsis. Team Members: Aanchal Singh, Aditi Shreya, Namrata Gupta.

Connect: Strengthening Relations With immense support from some notable alumni from the institute, IET Whiteboard came up with the platform of ALUMNI Connect which can serve as a medium of interaction between the current students and alumni. Under this project, WB conducted a series of Career Guidance episodes wherein alumni from diverse sectors like space technology, machine learning and AI, etc. were hosted. Recently, another series of sessions- ‘Inspire’ was hosted which aimed at motivating the students.

In an extended time period, such paradigm aims at developing a more complex mechanism- one on one mentorship- to help current students learn from the experiences of our alumni.

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CLUBS

GALORE

SWARANJALI

The classical music club sang its way right through the year, whether it was on a stage, or at home, they hit the harmonies perfectly. With the creation of their brand new Instagram page (iet_swaranjali), they didn’t let us wallow in the depths of boredom by releasing soulful covers every now and then.

KALAKRITI The year 2020 was in no way a

deterrent for the members of Kalakriti.

The club looked into the decoration of the college and the auditorium during Pravah, the Arts and Cultural Fest conducted by AKTU, which was hosted

by IET this year; the beautiful rangoli made for Pravah‘20 with its huge size (5 feet radii) is one of the most appreciated works of the team till date.

The members of the club participated in a number of events at the AKTU zonals (cultural) in the month of February, including Art from Waste, On the Spot Painting, Collage making, Poster making, Mehndi, Cartooning, Face Painting competition, and bagged the 3rd position in Rangoli Making.

The club also conducted an “Online Farewell Contest” for its members. One of the members competed in the “Kalakriti ‘20”, the Online Fine Arts Competition organized by IIT BHU and stood 4th. The club took the Inktober’20 challenge, something we are all thankful for, as it blessed us with a number of beautiful sketches posted on the club’s social media handles.

I E T W h i t e b o a rd

ROBOTICS CLUB

The year at home in no way

stopped the members of the Robotics club from bringing laurels to the institution. The year started with fresher members of the club working on various projects like "attendance system through face recognition and OpenCV" with their mentors.

This was followed by two teams bagging 5th position in Eyantra, a robotics competition organised by IIT Bombay. The finalist teams in the theme Construct O Bot and Survey and Rescue both came 5th out of 7 teams in their individual category, selected for finals from 1057 participants.

Later in the year, two teams, Team Sharang in Department of Atomic Energy and Team Legion in Department of Railways were selected for Smart India Hackathon organised by MHRD.

Other than various medals, the members of robotics club also bagged 7 internships at IIT Bombay working on projects like PIC microcontroller development, smartphone based self controlled bot, ROS for Differential Drive based SLAM application and real time game development. Other members also interned in various fields in prestigious institutions like IIT patna, IIT bhu and roboslog.

Electrical Engineering Society

Despite the retarding blow of the pandemic which had all the academic activities put on hold, the year looked up, educationally speaking for Electrical Engineering Society. EES conducted a number of expert lecture in the field of energy efficiency, WAMS, and conducted a five days training program in Electrical Vehicles. Pre Covid, the students participated in an industrial industrial training at L&T.

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AURORAS The

western music club didn't let quarantine dampen their passion. It was a rough year for all of us, but the Auroras did not shy away from recording raps, songs and guitar solos.

Auroras also stepped into the social media world with the creation of an Instagram page (iet_auroras).

Another notable achievement for the club was the release of the debut album of Rachit Srivastava(CSE 2020), former coordinator, on streaming platforms such as Spotify, YouTube and Hungama.

MIRAGE The photography and filmmaking club covered the whole 2 day event of Pravah held on 28th and 29th of February. Not only did they click astounding pictures, but also recorded scintillating videos of the performances and ramp walks.

Then, lockdown hit but Mirage didn't sit back.

They published a comical episode, "Chronicles of Lockdown", on YouTube starring people from the club, strutting off their acting skills.

Finally, they held their annual event, "Diwali with Mirage", a competition organised to find the best pictures with its theme as "Festival of Lights".

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EXCELSIOR 2 020

online platform is all that a coder needs.

panned out to be a great year for

This year the students of fractal pooled in various

Excelsior. The club’s website was launched in June

competitions

internships

(ietexcelsior.com)

grew to

and

bagging

from various

positions

companies. The

and team

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poems

where

written

articles,

by

the

book-reviews

members

were

number of more than 650+ students on online

published from time to time. A team of four

platforms like codechef, codeforces, HackerEarth,

consisting of the members of the club qualified

and the 18th global ranking in Spoj as well as

for the quarter finals of Dr. DR Singh Memorial

participated

like

British Parliamentary Debate organized by the

hackathon, KWoC'19-20, code-n-counter, Skillenza

and

qualified

in

contests

PCTE Group of Institutes in February this year,

codeathon, CCDSAP, ACM-ICPC, SnackDown19,

defeating many law schools.

Smart India Hackathon and many more. A Team was selected for Zonals at IIT Delhi for DRDO

The club also released its very first publication,

Unmanned System Exposition.

“The Reflect” on the 16th of November. The club turned six on the 27th August, 2020, and the

With

excellence

software

occasion was celebrated with a college-wide quiz.

development many students have been offered

A number of members of the club participated as

placements at places like Codenation, Unacademy,

debaters as well as adjudicators in the IIT BHU

and

Parliamentary Debate which was held online this

the

in

"Digital

coding

Product

skills

and

School

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Germany.

year. Throughout the year, various activities were conducted within the club including book and poetry

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drama club of IET Lucknow also bagged

some achievements such as- Best content winner at IIT Roorkee Thomso 2019 and Runner up at AKTU Zonals 2020. There was also a video release during

the

discussions,

lockdown

on

their

Instagram

page

named "mudda garam hai !", an IET Josh production in its entirety, showcasing the acting and dialogue

on

topics

like

extempores, quizzes, & case studies.

The Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn pages of the club saw many “Select”, “Word of the week” and article posts among other posts which kept the

literature

aficionados

of

the

college

entertained all through the year.

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delivery skills of new members of the club.

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PARMARTH P

discussions

“Uniform Civil Code” & “Arctic Oil Spill”, debates,

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oming to IET’s talented

dance crew- Insaniax, the

armarth, the social club of IET, is devoted to the education of every

past

year

brought

them

child living in the slum area around the college. The team also arranges

some laurels too - Group

co-curricular activities and games for the children. First event hosted by

Dance Runner up at AKTU

Parmarth came on 26th January. It was delightful to see a patriotic smile

zonals'

on the face of each child on the Republic Day event as they took part in

Runner up at IILM Lucknow

the activities organized for them including dancing, singing, and drawing

Zeal'20 and Group Dance

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Parmarth also took the initiative of organizing a blood donation camp on

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Group

Dance

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Sanskriti

the 2 rd of February, where professors, students, and the college staff

Surbhi'20. The dance club

came forward for a good cause. Creating awareness among the parents

has

about the rights of girls and women, as well as about the ongoing

organise

Online

government schemes they can benefit from is also a part of their vision.

Sessions

by

When the pandemic struck, their dedication motivated them to continue

DANCE

teaching, and the children started studying online

collaboration with PELTO.

.

The club also organized

a ration distribution during lockdown, helping the labourers and migrants

.

Parmarth also organized an online event called UDGAM marking the foundation of the social club. They also gave a virtual farewell to the final year club members.

also

planned

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to

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The main motivation being

:

Let's dance together. Stay Healthy at Home!

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The infamous Covid 19 had the sports in a complete standstill before it did not. Let's steal a peep into the pre pandemic world where the Sports at IET saw some real good times.

Athletics at AKTU Zonals

Prabhanjan, BIET Jhansi

AKTU Zonals, sports fest of AKTU, was the time to shine for the students of Sports club at IET. From 4X100m relay to Chess, students and teams showcased their talents everywhere. In Long Jump (Girls), 4x100m relay (Boys and Girls), Discus Throw ( Girls), Long Jump (Girls), BADMINTON (Boys), and CHESS Long : On Clock (Girls), students and teams bagged a proud Gold. Whilst it were Silver medals in sports ofTable Tennis(boys and girls), Chess Long, On Clock (Girls), Badminton (Girls) and High Jump (Girls); and Bronze medals in 100M race (Girls), 1500M race (Boys) and Long Jump (Boys).

Teams from IET Lucknow went all the way to Jhansi to participate in BIET's sports fest Prabhanjan.

Students and teams brought home a gold medal for Shotput throw , Javelin throw and Chess while our cricket and volleyball teams and a student in Triple Jump bagged a proud Silver.

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