The strategy is to showcase recent headways and the issues that make news. It’s a critical insight into the ventures going around and analysis of certain socio-technical bustles.
Basic Rules and Suggestions:
• A paper in any of the above two categories can be authored by at most two students.
• The abstracts for the paper and queries etc. must be mailed at magnumopus.nitk@gmail.com
• The Subject of the mail must contain the category i.e. Interface or Mechvibes as applicable.
• The entries may or may not be from among the suggested topics.
• Word limit for abstracts: 300 words
• Abstracts must be in a paragraph format.
• The abstracts must necessarily sum up the essence of the final paper, including the thought process and the key ideas. Unnecessary usage of flowery language should be avoided.
• Abstracts must be submitted latest by Saturday, 13th September, 2008
• The results of the elimination round will be announced by Monday, 15th September, 2008.
Suggested Topics
Interface:
1. NSG Waiver: End of Nuclear Apartheid or just a hogwash?
2. Gay Pride Parades: Has India come of age?
3. Kashmir Issue: Is secession the only solution?
4. Seven new IITs: A compromise on quality?
5. Mayawati as PM: A symbol of Dalit pride or height of petty politics?
6. Kosi flood fury: How efficient is India’s disaster management system?
Mech-Vibes:
1. Quasi Turbine Engines
2. Supply Chain Management 2.0
3. Reverse Engineering
4. Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT)
5. Amphibious Vehicles
6. Magnetorheological Fluids
Event Coordinators:
Interface : Manik Raina 09896212364
Anup Kumar 09896959680
Mech-Vibes : Vidhan Biyani 09896460405
Prateek Goel 09896175349
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