SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad Aug 30: Twenty-one BIT Sindri students returned to the campus after successfully completing their research projects in various universities in Canada under the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship programme.
BIT Career Development Centre (CDC) Chairman Prof Ghanshyam Kumar Singh said that all 21 students were selected under the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Projects 2022 and all completed their research successfully.
“All the students performed exceptionally well and acquired a great deal of knowledge through their respective research. It is a matter of pride that the BIT students coordinated well with their respective professors and added to the glory of the college,” said Prof Singh.
Prof Singh also informed that some students completed the research projects in groups and some were engaged in individual projects in the advanced research lab of PhD and Master’s students.
The University of British Columbia, University of Waterloo, University of Ottawa and MC Gill University of Canada had selected these students for research projects.
The students who completed research projects were:
- Ritesh Kumar
- Kriti Kumari
- Shashimita Gupta
- Sagar Mishra
- Rohit Kumar Mishra
- Mugdha Singh
- Akanksha
- Payal Priya
- Laxmi Sharma
- Harsha Sinha
- Abhinav Kumar Singh
- Iysha Kumari
- Harshita Singh
- Sulagna Mahata
- Shubhangi Anand
- Sakshi Gupta
- Rishabh Singh
- Vineet Kumar Das
- Amar Kumar Gupta
- Ashutosh Sinha
- Sonu Kumar
Mitacs, set up in 1999, is a non-profitable educational institution run by the private and the Canadian government jointly for promoting social research work and industrial training and modernization.
Prof (Dr) D K Singh, Director of BIT Sindri, appreciated the performance of the students and congratulated them for their research work.
“It is never too late to be what you might have been. Your determination, thoughtfulness and ambitions have taken you far and we know you have many more astonishing goals to reach,” said the director in his message to students.
In the last three months, BIT Sindri has made its mark at the national level. In June, the institution bagged the 2nd position in the nationwide survey conducted by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) among the engineering colleges of the country based on meritorious students.
BIT Sindri also registered record placement on campus in the 2021-22 sessions and last week, a six-member team of BIT got the first prize of Rs 1 lakh for innovation in the Smart India Hackathon held at Parul University in Vadodara (Gujarat).
