News & Achievements

IEM-UEM group now has #students and #teachers from various #countries:- India Bangladesh Nepal Bhutan England Canada USA Dubai Nigeria www.uem.edu.in [gallery ids="2838,2839,2840,2841,2842,2843,2844,2845,2846"]

The Roller Coaster Ride To XLRI – Suman Saha, XLRI https://insideiim.com/the-roller-coaster-ride-to-xlri/ I remember two years ago sitting there on the usual last bench of my classroom supposedly learning electronics and telecommunication engineering, having no idea what I was doing with my life or where it was actually headed. The placement season was about to begin and I lacked the motivation to actually prepare for an IT job. Our beloved Sanghamitra ma’am suddenly walked in. She looked angry and not her usual happy self. Then followed an hour-long verbal bashing for all of us and the crux of the matter was “Please buckle up! Do something about your lives. You all are better than this”. That somehow clicked. I’m sure most of us would have forgotten that one hour in the next minute or so but that stayed with me reverberating in my ears all day long. I was already taking classes for these MBA examinations at a renowned coaching center of the city. But it was more like a stroll in the evening every Sunday with my close bunch of friends. That changed immediately. The very thought of being a frustrated software developer for the rest of my life was enough to get me going. And hence the journey started. The Sunday stroll turned into serious four hours in class trying to improve every single moment. Those uncountable hours over Facebook and WhatsApp changed to online materials and mock tests. I was on a roll. I was improving in every single mock test I was giving. The feeling was ecstatic. More ecstatic than Manchester United scoring a goal. I knew I was on the right track. Sure, my engineering studies got a bit disrupted but I didn’t care. I had my goals set. I hadn’t felt this determined ever in my life. Finally, the time had arrived. The hard work and determination had actually paid off and I ended up with amazing scores in all the three exams I had appeared for. (98.48%ile in CAT, 98.68%ile in XAT and 99.54%ile in IIFT). But this was just the beginning. The roller coaster ride had just begun. It followed a staggering one month of numerous group discussions and personal interviews which drained me both physically and mentally to the core. I kind of realized the battle was more mental than physical. And only the strongest would survive. I kept pushing on. The season of results had arrived and I was freaking tensed. Would all this hard work ultimately give anything? The next month was the toughest. I was waitlisted in about 7 or 8 B-schools including IIM Shillong, SP Jain Mumbai, MDI Gurgaon, IIFT, IIT B and XLRI. The wait was very difficult. Every day felt like a week. But it was all worth it in the end. That mail from the B-school of your dreams is the most prized possession I had back then. It was XLRI. YES! I had to actually read the mail twice to believe this was actually happening. Being a general engineering fresher, my chances were as low as it could get but somehow the things just fell into place. The first thing that came to my mind was that one hour of being reprimanded that day in the classroom. Had that not happened who knows where I’d be now! Having completed the dreaded first term here in XLRI, I can safely say that this has been an experience of a lifetime. This shapes you as a person. This makes you so clear professionally and to some extent personally as well. You learn to think with a clear mind about what you want to do with your life. I ended up getting a coveted internship offer at JPMorgan Chase. Along with that, I kind of sorted out my personal life as well which was going through a huge storm before coming here. Cheers to XL! Cheers to the best B-school you can ever think of! And as they say, “Happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time.”

IEM-UEM group got appreciation from Optical Society of India for Optronix 2015 The news of IEM-UEM group getting #appreciation from Optical Society of India for Optronix 2015 got published in indiaeducation.net The link of the published post is as follows:- http://www.indiaeducation.net/…/iem-uem-group-gets-apprecia… www.uem.edu.in [gallery ids="2829,2830,2831,2832,2833"]

UEM Kolkata students' performances in #NPTEL #examinations in September-October cycle have been #ranked no. 1 in whole India. Around 4 lacs registrations were there in that cycle. IEM has ranked 4th in pan India. CONGRATULATIONS !!! to our students. NPTEL stands for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning which is an initiative by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for creating course contents in engineering and science. A proposal was jointly put forward by five IITs (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Madras) and IISc for creating contents for 100 courses as web based supplements and 100 complete video courses, for forty hours of duration per course. Web supplements were expected to cover materials that could be delivered in approximately forty hours. Five engineering branches (Civil, Computer Science, Electrical, Electronics and Communication and Mechanical) and core science programmes that all engineering students are required to take in their undergraduate engineering programme in India were chosen initially. Contents for the above courses were based on the model curriculum suggested by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the syllabi of major affiliating Universities in India. www.uem.edu.in Students of University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Kolkata won the 1st prize in #NPTEL, IIT Kharagpur nationally amongst all colleges of the country where various IITs also participated. University as a whole won the AAA #rating which is the best amongst all. Even the 4th prize was won by IEM students followed by several IITs. The award function was held at IIT Chennai and was attended by Prof. Dr. Rajiv Ganguly, Dean, UEM Kolkata, Prof. Amitava Chakraborty, UEM Kolkata and Prof. Dr. Amlan Kusum Nayak, Principal, IEM, Kolkata. #achievement [gallery ids="2826,2825,2824,2823,2822,2821"]

UEM Jaipur students stood 1st in the NCPT-2016 that was held in JAIPUR (RAJASTHAN) on 17 & 18 Dec 2016, which comprised mainly of a Paper Presentation Competition. It was also accompanied by CULTURAL EVENTS :- 1.Theme Based Group Dance/Solo 2.Shayari Competition 3.Group song/Solo Song 4.Special Talent Hunt 5.Fashion Show University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Jaipur students have stood 1st in #paper_presentation #competition at National Congress of Physical Therapy (NCPT) where more than 1000 students all over the country participated. [gallery ids="2807,2808,2809,2810,2811,2812,2813,2814,2815"]

Mir Nurezzaman, Somdeep Kabiraj, Sourav Raha & Mrinmoy Banik of University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Jaipur grabbed the 1st position in the prestigious National Student's Space Challenge '16 organized by IIT KGP & ISRO in Sensorous, a #robotics_event...winning certificates, awards and Rs. 25000 prize money. 2nd position and 3rd position were NIT Rourkela & IIT KGP CONGRATULATIONS TO THE STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING & MANAGEMENT (UEM), JAIPUR ! www.uem.edu.in [gallery columns="2" ids="2801,2802,2803,2804"]

Prof. Indrani Bhattacharyya, Head, Research Council, University of Engineering & Management (UEM) was invited for the prestigious position as member of steering committee of International Symposium of Optomechatronic Technology (ISOT), a truly multidisciplinary #Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Opto-electronics. Prof. Bhattacharyya of UEM Kolkata was the only professor of India to be present in the prestigious steering committee. She also gave her Invited Talk on 8-Nov-2016, Tuesday from 9:00-9:30 am, which created attention amongst the #Scientific_Community. It created a scope of immense #collaboration of UEM Kolkata with prestigious Universities all over the world and also, our students to take part in ISOT in near future. Prof. Bhattacharyya proposed ISOT-2017 to be held in India, and UEM Kolkata & Jaipur to be the host. The steering committee of ISOM, International Society for Optomechatronic Technology has accepted the proposal. The speakers were:- 1) Prof. J. W. Kim from South Korean Institute of Technology 2) Prof. Toru Yashizawa from Tokyo University-Founder member of ISOM, Prof. Wong from Korean Institute of Technology 3) Prof. Rainer Tusch - President of ISOM from Germany 4) Prof. Muzutani from University of Osaka 5) Prof. Jonathan Koffman from Germany 6) Prof. Hidetoshi Katori, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Japan. It is a probability that Prof. Katori may be awarded Nobel in next year. 7) Prof. Y. Otani, General Chair, ISOT 2016 8) Mr. T. Sakamoto Mayor of Tokyo-Itabashi City 9) J. Tsujiuchi, Prof. Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Prof. Bhattacharyya visited Riken Industry, Material Fabrication Lab, Topcon Corp. followed by Opto-electronic lab visit at Utsunomiya University, where there is a huge scope of Indian students wiring under professors of USA, Canada etc. www.uem.edu.in

IEM-UEM group students participated in IONS, Dhanbad. These students of IEM-UEM group are representatives of SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) and OSA (Optical Society of America), India student chapters. These students of IEM-UEM group represent India in these American societies. www.uem.edu.in On 7th September, 2016, Kuntal Sengupta and Sombuddha Chatterjee, 4th year students of IEM-UEM group and President and Vice-President of OSA approved India Student Chapter, attended ISM Dhanbad to attend & present their #Poster_Paper at OSA IONS #Conference. After participating in OSA approved IONS Conference, the chapter achieved eligibility to apply for another IONS Conference at IEM-UEM group and OSA will be sponsoring the whole event. www.uem.edu.in [gallery ids="2791,2790,2792,2793,2789,2794"]