IIT Delhi organised an Academic Outreach Day for teachers and students of the Haryana government’s technical universities and colleges on Saturday at its Sonipat campus in the state.
Shri Anand M. Sharan, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary to Govt., Haryana Higher Education & Technical Education Department, was chief guest on this occasion.
The daylong programme, organised by the Institute’s Academic Outreach and New Initiatives office, was attended by over 300 students and teachers and it featured talks by IIT Delhi faculty and demonstration of research works (models and prototypes) by its researchers and start-ups.
On this occasion, the IIT Delhi researchers showcased their works in the area of biomass pellet based clean combustion device, covid-19 rapid antigen kit, development of multimodal endoscope for early-stage oral cancer screening among others. Optica Student chapter also showed interesting demonstrations on 3D display, diffractive optics, etc.
The Sonipat Campus has some state-of-the-art facilities in the form of lecture rooms and conference halls. It also has a Central Research Facility (CRF) with some of the most advanced equipment for research in the sciences and the engineering disciplines. The participating students and teachers visited the CRF also.
Last year, IIT Delhi launched an online platform (https://crf.iitd.ac.in/) to enable the booking of the instruments available at the CRF in Sonipat as well the Institute’s main campus in New Delhi by the researchers within the Institute as well as outside. Both academic and industrial users enjoy the benefits of the sophisticated facilities housed here.
IIT Delhi is also establishing an atmospheric observatory on its Sonipat campus. The observatory will be equipped with state-of-the-art equipment such as radars, lidars, mass spectrometers, and a satellite ground station. By observing air pollutants, greenhouse gases, clouds, radiation and meteorology simultaneously, the facility will transform science-based action. The observatory will be open for researchers from across the country as well as international collaborators.
This first of its kind observatory in the heart of the Indo-Gangetic belt will enable researchers to make new discoveries and help find sustainable solutions to some of the country’s pressing problems such as severe air pollution, erratic monsoon and extreme weather events associated with climate change.
During the Academic Outreach event, Prof. Rajesh Prasad from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi delivered a keynote talk titled, ‘Titanic, Balloons and Paper: How things fail’ accompanied by demo.
