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IIT Guwahati - Winners of AETA 2008
Agilent Technologies, the world’s premier Test & Measurement company, across communications, electronics, Bio analytical measurements and material sciences today announced IIT Guwahati as the national winners for Agilent Engineering & Technology Awards (AETA) 2008 at IIT Delhi. The competition witnessed participation of over top 50 institutes across the country. The eight institutes who made it to the finals were IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, NIT Durgapur, NIT Rourkela, IT Banaras Hindu University, NIT Hamirpur, BIT Mesra & SJCE Mysore. The Winners would get a chance to visit and interact with world class scientists at Agilent’s best-in-class R&D facility based in San Francisco. The exclusive visit would provide the students with an exposure to scientific privileges and new technological developments in the test and measurement industry.
Agilent Engineering and Technology Awards 2008 commenced in November 2007 and involved three rounds of short-listing. The first round was at the institute level of the participating engineering colleges, second round was at the regional level and then the final round where the winners were selected by the jury comprising of leading scientists & engineers of national repute.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Venkatesh Valluri, President and Country General Manager, Agilent Technologies said, “AETA is an annual initiative of Agilent through which we strive to recognize the talent pool of the country and give the students maximum exposure to global standards. Agilent is committed to supporting economic and technological development in India, by expanding several education and community programs in the country furthering science education and the future of technology in India.”
The aim of Agilent Engineering & Technology Awards is to recognize and encourage hands-on-engineering talent in the country and to reward talent in the field of engineering. It also aims to build competence in R&D for students with an emphasis on future technologies. AETA is a program which acts as a vehicle to communicate technical innovation and capabilities to the academia and industries in India.
The winners of AETA 2008 Hari Singhal and Harpreet Singh said, “Culturally, it was incredible to be able to meet so many other students with whom we shared a common bond. We are very happy that the jury liked our project and now we have a much more informed perspective through having met other students and learning about new ideas from them. We hope to have an enriching trip and learn more on R&D and the T&M industry.”
Students from UDCT Mumbai, Vaibhav and Darshan were the winners of last year AETA. They spent a very productive week in the Agilent labs at Santa Clara, USA. Describing the experience they said, “The effort of AETA to build competence in R&D is seen by providing the winners an opportunity to interact with the scientists at their Research Center to help the students see their innovation applied practically. Our expectations were high and we believe they were realized through the efforts, knowledge and skill of Agilent Scientists.
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