Engineer (technical fest)

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Engineer or ‘Engi’, is the Annual Technical Symposium of NITK Surathkal. It ranks second amongst India's top technical fests, with over 5000 students from more than 60 colleges across the country participating. The event takes place during the odd semester of the academic year, falling in the month of October. It is typically held over a period of four days.

The official logo of Engineer, a Penrose Triangle, serves as a statement to challenge the impossible and is accompanied by the motto “Think, Create, Engineer”.  The fest aims to promote technical and managerial enthusiasm among students and help bring their innovate ideas to life. The 2019 edition of Engineer is scheduled to be held from the 17th to the 20th of October, 2019.

Engineer
Genre	Technical symposium
Begins	October 17, 2019
Ends	October 20, 2019
Frequency	Annual
Venue	National Institute of Technology Surathkal
Location(s)	Surathkal, Mangaluru
Country	India
Founded	2005
Organised by	Student community of NITK Surathkal
Filing status	Non-Profit Student Organization
Website	engineer19.nitk.ac.in

History and growth

Engineer, in the form it is known in today, began in 2005. It developed from the conglomeration of various student organised technical activities and has since evolved into a uniquely identifiable “tech fest”.  It was created as a platform for aspiring engineers to showcase their abilities and gain some exposure to their industry.

The 2006 edition, Engineer ’06, featured various paper and projects presentations, robotics events, hacking contests, programming contests, design problems, along with workshops and seminars. A standout event that year was “Shrishti”, a competition where the participants used their technical skills for the amelioration of society.

A number of notable guest speakers have appeared at Engineer over the years; Richard Stallman, Sam Pitroda, Anthony James Leggett, Ankit Fadia to name a few. The fest has also played host to global organisations such as CERN, MIT Media and Bell Labs among many others.It also incorporated fun-filled events like freefall which served as pinnacle of attraction fro the festival.

Engineer edition	Date
2010	22nd to 25th October
2011	26th to 30th October
2012	24th to 28th October
2013	23rd to 28th October
2014	16th to 19th October
2015	8th to 11th October
2016	20th to 23rd October
2017	12th to 15th October
2018	12th to 15th October
2019	17th to 20th October

The 15th edition of Engineer far exceeds its ancestors, the fest emerged to be a nation-wide celebration. Racing its way to the zenith, Engineer became a kaleidoscope of the exhilaration of various flagship events such as Velocity, Robowar, Tronix events, Workshops, Flashmobs, online coding events with participation from various teams.

Event

Engi Talk

The talk is one of the most prominent events of the technical fest where renown personalities from different domains share their experiences to make the world a better to live. The talk not only focuses on technology but also on social issues around the globe. Through this talk, students get a proper glimpse of the emerging technologies and researches going on. Dr. Pankaj Joshi, Major General SN Mukherjee, Indian film actress-Natasha Doshi, Henry Menezes have contributed to the stage of Engineer in previous editions.

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairman and Managing Director, Biocon Limited and Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson, Professor for Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University conducted seminars to grant exposure to promising engineers in their fields.

EngiConnect

EngiConnect is a science exhibition cum competition organized for school going and pre-university students to promote innovative scientific ideas. It primarily aims to inculcate creativity and bring technology closer to school students. It includes many exciting workshops (on Android Apps, RC Aircrafts etc.).

Bizwaves

Bizzwaves is a management fest conducted by School of Management NITK during the technical festival ENGINEER. It is a 3-day Management Fest which has number of events from different domains of Finance, Human Resource, Marketing and Analytics. There are also a few Workshops and Symposiums.

Finance event - Game of Finance

Human Resource event - Thrive

Marketing event - Vi|oanan

Analytics event - Bizlytics

Fun events

The one event which makes true engineer is one of the most loved events where students along with their loaded team members showcase their gaming skills in trending games, whether it be Call of Duty, Battlefield, Counter Strike, Mini Militia or PUBG they just make kills with their amazing strategies, coordination and planning.

SCE Events

Umbrella walk

As the name suggests, it is a morning walk with an umbrella. Though the act is as simple as it can get, is embedded with a deep meaning, it is Engineers medallion for showing support to a current socially relevant issues, thereby instilling in all empathy to our fellow beings.

Sparsh

Engineer is creating a shift in consciousness by organizing a tree plantation drive around NITK under the name of Sparsh. Not only is this event an initiative for a greener campus, but also a silent protest against deforestation and the increasing hazardous nature of pollution. A month before the event, the departments of the college are invited to plant saplings and tend to them.

Sky Lanterns

The phenomenal parade of lights is definitely a treat to the eye of the beholder. Illuminating the darkest of nights and proving that light can always be found during dark times, Team Engineer sees these sky lanterns as a mark of respect and support to a social movement or cause.

Last Word

This event witnesses eminent personalities from diverse fields discuss issues pertaining to education, entrepreneurship and social responsibility of engineers. The panelists and students get to exchange good amount of ideas in the final open session on topics like government funding for higher education, social responsibility, the Government's involvement in public education and many more.

Tech Events

Technites

Technites is a committee that hosts events and displays projects spanning different domains of engineering with just one motive which is to provide a place for visitors to hang around and have loads of fun. Technites shimmering display of technological treat includes-

1. Bot Football- Bot football is a multiplayer game where two players their wireless bots to defeat their opponent in a limited use time football match.
2. Laser Harp- This eye-catching project is a harp-like laser device which mainly focuses on playing a harp with laser, as a true MIDI controller.
3. Laser Turret- There is a big display screen in front of two players with PED and BLUE LEDS blinking at random. Every player has a gun with laser attached to it. Each person will try to aim the laser on either BLUE or RED blinking LED.
4. Comps Projects- Be blown away by Augmented Reality Sand Box, Prisma and Virtual Quidditch!

Tronix

Tronix attracts almost all techies and witnesses a footfall of big number every year. Its events includes-

1. Trailbrazer- Participants are required to build an autonomous robot which can traverse across a path using the line following technique and accomplish a task specified in the problem statement in the shortest time.
2. Symphony- Participants are required to build a musical fountain that controls both water and lights based on the music being played. Skyrocketing footfall is witnessed every year which is exhilarating.
3. Light of the seven- A robotics design competition where the participants need to come up with a bot which can automatically move towards light streak and satisfies the conditions of the problem statement.
4. Trade off- This is the quiz event of the committee and it is held in two rounds, this event tests the participants' basic circuit designing skills using limited resources and logical thinking.
5. Automata- The teams are required to come up with the fastest robot which can complete a real-time video feed provided by an overhead camera and image processing to traverse through the arena.

Mechanical

As part of the Mechanical Committee of Technical Fest "Engineer", various competitions and events are conducted by this committee throughout the fest.

1. Robowars- Robowars, is highly popular in the college where a bot fights and knocks out its opponent to establish its supremacy. The bots need to satisfy certain criteria like dimensions of the bot, structure, and other criterion.
2. Perfect Machine- In this event, participants have to build Bots which have to perform tasks efficiently and effectively according to the given problem statement to earn as many points as possible in a limited period of time.
3. Bot Hockey- Bot Hockey is a competition featuring two teams with remote controlled robots competing against each other to score goals with a ball.
4. Wright flight- The objective of this event is to model, construct and fly an electric radio controlled plane. The planes must go through a Stability Round, a Stunt Flying and Payload Drop round.

Metamorph

This Engineer showcases the principles of metallurgy in a way that contrasts the average college boy's view that metallurgy is all about bland theories. Events are -

1. MetaMagic- A series of events that prove that metallurgy is a force to be reckoned with.Nylon Interfacial Condensation, Chemical Garden, Rod Climbing experiment, Mercury heartbeat, Thermochromic mug, Heat Treatment of Nails, Dry lce, Liquid Nitrogen Freezing experiments.
2. Mindbend- A thrilling quiz with an interesting blend of pop culture, test our brain cells in this maze of questions that will surely bend your mind!
3. SEM TEM Expo- Participate in this guided tour through labs and get to see how the Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopes work.
4. Cornstarch event- This interactive session shows how crazy of a non-Newtonian fluid cornstarch can be!
5. Thermite Demo- This extremely stunning visual demonstration shows the practical side of how welding rails work using the Thermite Welding process.

Chemical

The Chemical Events Committee organizes Chemical Events for the annual technical symposium of NITK - Engineer. Major events of the committee include-

1. Chemical Breakdown- It is the flagship event which is exclusively conducted for the newbies. Conducted on the first day of engineer, it consists of a general aptitude quiz, a unique 'Picture Connect' round and an extremely exhilarating Treasure Hunt.
2. Workshops- Workshops are golden opportunity to have hands on skills relevant to professional world apart from theoretical learning. Attendees get to know how to relate to what they have studied in class to any outgoing process in industry. Chemical Events Committee has been organizing workshops every year with an aim to help students develop on new skills.These have been conducted by companies like MRPL, Royal Dutch Shell in the past.
3. IDP (Industry Defined Problem)- IDP aims to enhance interaction with the industry through real time problem solving. Participants are encouraged to take part in groups of two or three. A probiem statement is given a week before the event for participants to come up with the best possible solutions.

Mining

Engineer 2019 features a bunch of Mining events. Being one of the fundamental branches of engineering, one just cannot simply ignore the magnificent knowledge cookies this field offers. The events include-

1. Substantivo- Basically a surveying based event, to create awareness about the role of surveying in the exploration subjects by testing the logical ability of contestants. Elaborating the levels by testing the conceptual and practical clarity of surveying.
2. Mining Tycoon- This Event takes through a whole roundabout through an amazing and unique relationship between Mining and Management,which dates back to the industrial revolution. Contestants are put to analyze a certain case, come up with the best solution, surpassing all exceptional cases.
3. Tech Mining- Software being linked to almost all core fields, relationship between mining application and software which took birth in the form of simulation software is taught. This event celebrates the relation in the form of workshop by making students aware about simulation software and analysis.

Civil

The annual Tech fest of NITK boasts of some extremely creative events related to civil engineering and architecture. They are a hit especially amongst those who like getting their hands dirty in the physical realm of engineering applications.

1. Colossus - Tests knowledge in structural Engineering. Design and fabricate a bridge in the most Innovate way possible. The event is aimed to improve Design and management skills of participants. And also provides an opportunity to learn fabrication processes.
2. Mindbend - Mindboggling questions, tests Aptitude and reasoning, fun & exciting rounds. The Event is an Amalgamation of visual rounds and written Tests, full of interesting and intriguing challenges.
3. Architect - Simply builded, but working models from daily use items (popsicle sticks, paper etc.).
4. Fantasticity - Showcases creativity by coming with novel methods to curb the growing urbanization. Fantasticity puts forward an opportunity for the innovative minds to plan effectively and efficiently

Comps

Gives future coders real life challenges, and hands-on experience with some of the hot topics in Information Technology. Following are the events conducted in previous edition:

1. Inscription - A flagship event by the Computer science department, this INDIVIDUAL online event attracts participation from some of the top teams like Microsoft, Yahoo, and Stanford. Participants prove your mettle, write best codes faster than the best coders to win the war!
2. Kode Kombat - Three rounds, each being a mix of coding, debugging and puzzles, engage in continuous battles collecting points on the way. Participants are tested on not just their programming skills but also on their creativity and out of the box thinking.
3. Rectify - This event tests skills with programming for real world scenarios, and is must attend with its top coder challenges format.
4. ECTF - This is a Jeopardy style, 'Capture the flag' event, an online team competition, where the ultimate goal is to find a specifically formatted string using the given resources efficiently, and it has participation all around the world.

Pronite

This Event transpires in the evenings of Engineer, promoting a wide range of illusion acts, shadow performance and laser shows. Engineer'18 and Engineer'14 witnessed Sunburn as its flagship event featuring well known music artists such as DJ Farmeen.

The Pronites of Engineer'17 featured a grand opening by DJ Paroma and Nina Malika. Zakir Khan took on the stage during Engineer'16.

Sponsors

Engineer has attracted sponsorships from various corporations with their technical events and a turnout of more than 6000 students. Informatica was title sponsor of Engineer'18. Brands having sponsored in the past include Dell EMC, IBM, Intel, HDFC Bank, Canara Bank, The Times of India, Zebronics, BIG 92.7 FM, Bosch, LIC, Volvo, SAP, Reliance, CFAL, AEQUS, IES Master, Royale academy, TIME.

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