The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee is gearing up for Cognizance 2022, the institute’s annual technical festival that will be held in hybrid format from March 25 to 27.
In its hunt for academic excellence and innovative ideas, the fest offers a range of competitions across the engineering departments. This year’s theme is Unravelling Enigma, which revolves around the quantum entanglement theory. Events are divided into two categories — Departmental and Centerstage.
Registration closes on March 20, midnight: www.cognizance.org.in.
The departmental category will see online competitions organised by the various departments of IIT Roorkee. For the preliminary round on March 20, one has to provide an abstract of their project. In the final round, from March 25 to 27, your full paper submission will be judged.
Here are some topics that will be touched upon by the different competitions:
IDEAZ Civil Engineering: Noise Management System; Drone for Irrigation Management or Earthquake Predictor Model.
IDEAZ Computer Science and Engineering: Natural Language Processing; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Software Engineering and Web Technology; and Quantum Computing.
IDEAZ Electrical Engineering: Automatic Irrigation System on Sensing Soil Moisture Content; Solar Powered LED Street Light with Auto Intensity Control; and Power Grid Failure Detection Based on Voltage and Frequency Variance Detection.
IDEAZ Electronics and Communication Engineering: Analog circuits for wireless application; 5G and Beyond Communication System; Image and Video Forensics; and Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits.
IDEAZ Chemical Engineering: Fuel Cells, Hydrogen – A future generation fuel and Nuclear Waste Management.
IDEAZ Architectural Engineering: For this competition, students will have to create a kiosk that will be used in the fest. The design should be cost-effective, functional and easily movable.
The centrestage category includes gaming, technical events, innovation conclave, cognition summit, business and finance.
Here are the competitions for this category:
IIT Roorkee Model United Nations: Participants will be assigned different nations and will discuss the solutions for geopolitical problems.
Techzibition: This offline competition will provide scientific innovators an opportunity to present their work in front of students and eminent figures.
International Coding Challenge: Competitors will get to display their mathematical and coding prowess.
SCYTHE CTF: This event is intended to train students on cybersecurity using their hacking skills.
Design X: You will have to develop a Super App compatible with any software. The app should be created for gamers. Judging will be based on the user interface and user experience.
Gaming: Online games include Call of Duty: Mobile, Valorant, Battlegrounds Mobile India, PokerStars and Chess.
Marketorama: This competition will assess creative entrepreneurial minds. Participants will have to present solutions to business problems.
Cognistreet: A virtual stock market game with real-time share price movements.
Stubble Trouble: Students will present innovative solutions to the problem of stubble burning, a practice that puts millions of lives at risk of lung diseases during winters.
Cryptomania: With the cryptocurrency space in its primitive stages – making it vulnerable to market manipulations, which are not easily possible with mature markets – participants will need to provide solutions to counter manipulation.
Product World: Participants have to offer a case study by putting themselves in the shoes of a product manager at Angel One, a stockbroker company, and helping it emerge as the top FinTech brand in India.
Privatiza: This event encourages the participants to find solutions to the privatization of the public sector units in India and to minimize the company’s losses.
Innovwave: Like an investment summit, this corporate event offers contenders the opportunity to pitch their startup proposals to a panel of investors. The best one would receive funding in the future.
Pedalthon: Another corporate event that will require contenders to design a handy electric commuter bicycle. The best plan will receive funding from investors.
Agrone: This event calls for solutions to problems combining UAV technology with agriculture. It focuses on how drones can optimize agricultural growth, making the process more sustainable and economical.
Vision-I: Here you will be asked to design an application that uses computer vision and augmented reality to detect surrounding objects in real-time and create a bounding frame around them.
Guest lecturers
The following panelists will interact with the students through the Zoom video conference platform.
