Of all the annual events of IIT Bombay, one event that goes least noticed
is perhaps the Convocation. Although the most important of all events, it
usually loses its due share of news to the buzz related to the new
entrants on campus... the freshies. Well, did some one say 'The world
salutes the rising sun'?
IIT Bombay witnesses its 40th Convocation of the Institute on 9th of August, 2002. Mr. Nandan M. Nilekani, CEO, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Bangalore will be the Chief Guest and deliver the Convocation Address. Mr. Nandan Nilekani has been one of the illustrious alumni of IIT Bombay. He obtained his BTech in Electrical Engineering in 1978 and was General Secretary (Cultural) in the student government.
At convocation the recipients of degree are expected to wear traditional attire. White Kurta and pyjama for gents and White Sari/ White Kurta Salwar for ladies. This is to be accompanied by an 'Uttaria' issued by the institute. From this year onwards, the Uttaria can be kept by the students as a memento of their convocation. An interesting point to note in the invitation for the convocation is... 'For footwear: Students should have shoes or leather chappals or leather sandals. No one should wear hawai chappals or bathroom slippers.' Goes only to show the carefree attitude and lifestyle that an IITian adopts during his/her period of stay in IIT. .
Here is the list of all students who will be receiving Gold medals, Silver medals and other awards at the convocation.
President of India Medal B.Tech. 2001-2002 Dilys Thomas - Computer Science and Engg. Institute Gold Medal B.Tech (Dual Degree) 2000-2001 Aditya Dua - Electrical engg Silver medals Chinmay Karsandas Patel - Aerospace engg Mahendra Chhabra - Chemical engg Singhi Pranaykumar Sharad - Civil engg Borade Shashibhushan Prataprao - Electrical engg Karnik Rohit Nandkumar - Mechanical engg B Sreekar - Metallurgical engg and Materials Sci. Rishi Sharma - Engineering Physics M.Sc programme Arindham Pal - Applied Geology Iyer Janaki Kannan - Biotechnology Prabhuddha Mukherjee - Chemistry Hogadi Amit Pratap - Mathematics V. G. Krishnamurthy - Physics Hrishikesh Vidyadhar Kelkar - Physics Vineet Aggarwal - Applied Statistics and Informatics M.Tech (DD programme) Ghate Gevendra Prakash - Aerospace engg Ankit Singhvi - Chemical engg Aditya Dua - Electrical engg Shodhan Rao - Mechanical engg Anu Chandan - Metallurgical engg and Material Sci. Other medals Miss Jayanti Deshmukh Memorial Gold medal - Dilys Thomas Rajit Bhagwati] Memorial Gold medal - Ms. Sheeja Jagadevan ISRE (India chapter) ERTL (W) Bombay Gold medal - Yogesh J Pitkar Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold medal - A G Krishnakant Hindi Vidyabhavan Gold medal - Vishnu S Ramachandra
Zishaan M. Hayath is a third year dual degree student in the Civil Engineering
Department. He can be contacted at d0zmh@civil.iitb.ac.in.