Nimbus (technical festival)

NIMBUS
	File:Nimbus 2010 logo.png
Type	Student-run non-profit organisation
Founded	2004
Place	National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India
Institute	National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur
Prize money	approx 2 lakhs
Website	http://www.festnimbus.org/

NIMBUS is the annual technical festival of National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. It is touted to be an amalgamation of ideas, expressions, innovations,prototypes, knowledge channels, taken to the most premier levels.

Nimbus has become the biggest technical festival of Northern India.^{[citation needed]}

Organizing committee[edit]

YEAR	Faculty advisor	Students' secretary
2004	Dr. R N Sharma, Prof. R. K. Sehgal	Mr. Vineet Mahajan
2005	Dr. R N Sharma	Mr. Vikas Saroha
2007	Dr. Rakesh Sehgal	Mr. Pratik Shrestha, Mr. Vivek Shah, Mr. Agam Gupta, Mr. B. S. Arjun, Miss Shweta Raghaw (Secretary Body)
2008	Mr. Naveen Chauhan	Mr. Aditya Gandhotra
2010	Dr. Hemant Kumar Vinayak	Mr. Akshay Milap
2011	Mr. Siddhartha	Mr. Saurav Agarwala
2012	Mr. Siddhartha	Mr. Abhishek Dwivedi
2013	Dr. Siddhartha	Mr. Ashutosh Kumar
2014	Dr. Surender Soni	Mr. Navneet Singh
2016	Dr. Surender Soni	Mr. Sachin Patiyal

Departmental involvement[edit]

The various departments of NIT Hamirpur participating in the event are as follows:

Department of Architecture
Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Computer Science & Engineering^[1]
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
Department of Management and Social Sciences
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering

Nimbus 2011 – Resurrecting detritus-Alchemy[edit]

Nimbus 2011 was multidimensional in the sense that it diversified into two sub themes: "The Da Vinci Machines" and "Rural Engineering". The Da Vinci Machines covered the aspect of implementing the prototypes propounded by a great scientific visionary Leonardo da Vinci. It was an endeavour to innovate, imagine and aspire. This revolves around the central idea: "things of the mind untested by the senses are useless".

Past events and competitions at Nimbus[edit]

Department of Computer Science and Engineering:This band is responsible for conducting various online and on-campus technical, aptitude based events, workshops, guest lectures and many fun events.
- Coding geeks(Simply the Jumbled Coding): The event required the participants to analyze the given code, understand what it does and then recode it efficiently on computer system.
- Beat Da Clock : This was a time triggered event to check logic and IQ. This was a simple logic based event under time constraints.
- Web Craft : an ultimate web designing competition to show creativity in front of the world.
- Backtrack : This event was all about reverse coding. Teams were provided with executable files. The event required thinking in the reverse order of program development. The teams developed a code that generated the same output as the given executable file. It was a puzzle to figure out the underlying code.
- Logic: “making everything as simple as possible, but not simpler”, this event consisted of two rounds, first round consisted of aptitude and some programming level questions. In the second round participants had to solve a problem using limited set of functions.
- Search spiders : To find information on the hundreds of millions of Web pages that exist, a search engine employs special software robots called spiders. So, here participants had to act like these spiders and search the solution to the given problems as fast as possible using their searching skills and the best tools available on internet to do it.
- Mission impossible : This event consisted of 2 rounds; first round was a video clip based round. The second round continued the story of the video clip and questions were asked at different levels.
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
- On9 Quiz : This is an online event consisting of aptitude as well as basic electronics questions with time constraints.
- De_bug: In this event, the participants were given a complex circuit which they had to simplify keeping the output and input same within the allotted time. The event consists of two rounds.
- E-shoppe: It was an interesting event full of mysteries and puzzles. There was a problem statement related to digital circuits. Each team was given a puzzle and some questions to solve.
- I-m-pedence: This event tested the basic knowledge and implementation of electric components in a combinational circuit. In this, participants were provided with the components like resistors, inductors and capacitors of different values. Teams had to make a combination to get a desired impedance value which was given on the spot.
- Metal mine: Everyone has to face the security checks in airport or public places. First thing you have is to pass through a metal detector door. In this event students had to design a metal detector by using the materials provided to them.
- Rejuvenate : In this, the participants were given a different computer hardware, which they had to assemble in minimum time and with high degree of accuracy.
- The call : In this event, teams had to produce the conversation going on b/w two people in the telephone line on a speaker without even touching or damaging the wire by using the given reactive components.
- www (word without wires) : Participants were required to transmit signals in a wireless mode. Electronic circuitry was to be designed to transmit and receive binary codes up to four digits through wireless communication.
Department of Electrical Engineering
- Elec’con: the participants were supposed to design a contraption made of electrical and electronic components. They were provided with an initial force in the form of metallic ball at an elevated platform. Their target was to strike another ball so as to move it through a distance.
- Vastu wagon: Design a wagon car which moved on the track provided.
- Trans’fig’urator: In this event participants had to build a step up transformer. All the materials for making core and copper winding were provided.
- Circuitus: The teams had to decode the complete circuit, describing the elements in the circuit. A physical circuit with switches was provided to each team in finals.
- Line tillhenger and metal-o-reloded were also organised by Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department.
Department of Civil Engineering
- Civic truss : the problem statement for this event was “A factory has to lay its high-voltage transmission lines passing through the main road using electricity tower. Considering job assigned to you, design a scaled Electricity Tower using trusses for the purpose which will be able to carry the weight of the transmission lines and also should be able to bear lateral loading earthquake.”
- Cast The Curve: Getting really novel was the need of the hour as the participants were to build an arch without using any binding material (the way Inca’s had build Machu Picchu).
- Catechize (Big Quiz): Multiple round quiz to test the grey matter thoroughly i.e. it aimed at testing General Knowledge and the subject knowledge of the participants.
- Con boat : Participants were required to make a model of a boat with concrete as its main building material** Cad Conqueror: Daily event of AUTOCAD where participants were given a CAD problem.
- Darkode : it was an online event based on intelligence and exactitude of the user.
- Prima hombre : participants were provided with question paper consisting of riddles related to the locations where they have to reach along with the rules and regulations.
Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Metamorphosis: The event required conversion of a seemingly useless pile of junk into a fully working device.
- Mega Mechanovation:Teams made prototypes of solutions to grass root problems that do not use electricity.
- Armageddon : The idea was to build a working machine that can do a specific task, using material available in a scrap heap. Participants had to convert a seemingly useless pile of junk into a fully working machine which had to later compete with other teams.
- Bhram: a multilevel online game with linier format requiring players to solve one level before progressing to the next. This event tested knowledge, creativity, logical reasoning, physics and mathematics.
- Quattro: Event in which team had to design and fabricate a breaking system for a car which can be of any type- mechanical, hydraulic or a totally new design.
- Replica The Vinci : replicate any design of Leonardo da Vinci, along with a single page report describing the model and its usage.
- Schwimmer: participants were supposed to design and fabricate an aquaplane that could carry a given payload through the arena.
Department of Architecture
- P.O.Box -2035: The theme of the competition was ‘a home in 2035’. Participants were supposed to demonstrate the spacing, structural and technological aspects of the future environment.
- Things to come in 2035: Painting and sketching competition, essay writing competition, report presentation competition on theme ‘India 2035’ were held.
- Graffiti: A graffiti competition was organised by team Architecture.
- T-shirt: A competition to design a T-shirt on Photoshop was organised.
- Resist the quake!9 was an archineering competition designed to emphasise the construction of earthquake-resistant buildings in the earthquake-prone area.

NIMBUS 2010 guest list[edit]

John C. Mather, Nobel laureate and Senior Astrophysicist, NASA, is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) with George Smoot.
Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google Inc. is a Fellow of the AAAI and the ACM and co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the leading textbook in the field. Previously he was head of Computational Sciences at NASA and a faculty member at USC and Berkeley.
Dr. Sam Pitroda, Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations, former Chairman of the National Knowledge Commission specifically mentioned the importance of quality education and the trouble government is undertaking to establish and provide quality education in India.
Living legend Christopher Benninger, the Architect of the decade, discussed about the appropriate aptitude and attitude required to be a successful architect.
Dr.Archana Sharma, a working CERN Physicist on the Large Hadron Collider experiment, a mega project to study The Big Bang Theory, seeped science and technology into each and every brain of this institute.
Victor Hayes, Popularly known as the Father of Wi-Fi, is senior research fellow at Delft University of Technology in Delft, Netherlands.
M.C Mehta, Raman Magsaysay Awardee, Goldman Environmental Awardee, and a winner of various laurels is the simplest man one can ever come across. He in his speech stressed on the management of available resources.
Manish Gupta, Director, IBM Research - India; Chief Technologist, IBM India/South Asia India Research Laboratory, Bangalore, India.
Dr. Nikolaos Mavridis, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Founder and Director, Interactive Robots and Media Lab, Ass. Professor of Computer Engineering, NYU AD.
Sh. Ashwaghosh Ganju, Director SASE, DRDO and Dr T.P Sasikumar, former Scientist ISRO mesmerized one and all by enumerating numerous shlokas and describing their significance in the modern scientific era.
Vishwanathan Poosala, PhD, CTO - Mobile Applications, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent Ventures.
Giorgio Metta is senior scientist at the IIT and assistant professor at the University of Genoa where he teaches courses on Anthropomorphic Robotics and Intelligent Systems for the bioengineering curricula.

Past exhibitions[edit]

WATER WORKS: Civil Engineering Department exhibited a working model of waste water plant management plant. Going with the theme of rural engineering they purified Life’s Matter and Matrix, mother and medium water.
MOTORAMA: It was a mini auto expo, which went a step ahead and included vehicle stripping.
Participant Companies: TATA, Hero Honda.
Bike Stripping: "Hero Honda Hunk" was dismantled it to the smallest bit by an expert.
BIKE STRIPPING: "Hero Honda Hunk" was dismantled it to the smallest bit by an expert.
CORONA DISCHARGE: This time at Nimbus 2011 Corona discharge was back. Bigger and better than its previous avatar which no one had even seen. This Nimbus, all the folks saw lightning brought to earth, though artificially

Past workshops at Nimbus[edit]

Linux Workshop: - This Linux workshop aimed at introducing the fundamental concepts about the Open Source Software. It was organised by Computer Science and Engineering Department.

Information Security and Ethical Hacking Workshop: - last year National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur organized a two days Workshop on Ethical Hacking and Information Security in association with Appin Technologies, Delhi.

The workshop was specially designed by Appin Technologies in co-ordination with NIT Hamirpur for aspiring hacking and information security geeks.

Understanding Telecom For All: Every one of us use ubiquitously found mobile these days. Ever given a thought how do they work or what all processes involved when you send a sms or even give a missed call. Ever wondered of cloning a SIM??? This workshop dealt with all these questions and basics of telecom.

Matlab Workshop: Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department came with a three day workshop to enhance ability to compute intensive tasks faster than with traditional programming languages provides the right environment to build basic foundation and practical sessions develop skill that can start applying immediately. MATLAB has grown extensively into area such as full 2D and 3D graphics, plotting and animation complete programming language, basic data analysis, integrated circuits, circuits theory, robotics; it is a non destructive testing tool. The lecture was given by Mr. Shaik Affizula, doing his masters in power systems, final year. He has also delivered an expert lecture on matlab simuling basics and application at Winter School Program 2009, NIT Hamirpur.
Web Designing Workshop: A two day workshop on web designing was organised by web designing team for students where an overview about the basic concepts of HTML, CSS and JAVA was given.
Staadway (STAAD PRO Workshop): STAAD PRO is widely used software for structural analysis and design from research engineers international. STAAD pro is the only structural analysis and design software whose maker meets the standards of rigid requirements of ISO 9001 certification.
Autoques: Mechanical Engineering department in collaboration with Morph Edu Tech provided an opportunity to understand the working of automobile with the amalgamation of knowledge from the three big fields Mechanical, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Past shows[edit]

NIMBUS MARATHON: Nimbus witnessed the NIMBUS MARATHON, a marathon race. It had over 200 participants which included students, correction engineers from almost every corner of the country.
BACK TO BEDLAM-GAMING: The bedlam was the platform where the participants from different colleges unleashed their skills and dexterity. The bedlam avenues included:

Counter-Strike1.6 FIFA 2010 Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Need for Speed- Most Wanted

Laser show: A laser show was organised on the second day of Nimbus in the sports ground of National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, where hundreds of students witnessed a laser show.

References[edit]

↑ "CSE Department". nith.ac.in.

External links[edit]

Official website

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[1] "CSE Department". nith.ac.in.

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