Sample Resources

Some Sample CVs have been attached below. You may use them to develop your own CV/Resume. DO NOT underestimate the importance and function of a good CV during applying for Internships or appearing for jobs. It is your first, and in many cases the  only way, you can impress your potential employer/advisor.

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In many cases during Internships/Graduate School admissions, you have to write a Statement of Purpose (SOP) or a Letter of Motivation. We have provided some sample SOPs that can serve as a guide. But remember, a SOP MUST be original and should explain elaborately about your present and past work and why your evaluator should be interested in you.

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There are large number of guides on the Internet on how to write CVs and SOPs. Please do some research on it. Good document skills (Writing/Emails/Speaking/Communicating) are absolutely important in Industry as well as Academia.

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My Experience in SURGE 2008, IIT Kanpur

This article was written by Jyoti Kumar (Civil Engineering, Class of 2009). He was among the two students selected from all branches of NIT Silchar for the prestigious SURGE Programme (2008) of IIT Kanpur. Other being Jyoti Chaubey (Civil Engineering, Class of 2009). This is his personal side of the story, how he overcame all the odds in his life to reach this height of success. Currently, he is working in Mecon Limited ( A public sector undertaking). CES hopes 2nd/3rd year students will be inspired by this story and would take an active interest in UG Research/Industry Exposure and make NIT Silchar and our Dept.’s name  shine nationally and internationally. He can be reached here and details of SURGE Programme are here.

It was 17^th of March 2008 when I came to know that I had got selected for SURGE programme, 2008 at IIT Kanpur. I was among the 26 NITians who were selected for the programme. The feeling that I was going to stay in IITK (which was my dream campus since my school days) for 10 weeks was thrilling from top to bottom for me.

SURGE programme is a 10-week research-oriented programme for 2^nd and 3^rd year students of NITs (Since 2010, it has been opened up to non-NITs too) and IITK. I joined the programme on 15^th may,2008 though it had begun on 5^th of May. I missed the inaugural function which was attended by the Director and other biggies of IIT Kanpur. We were allotted hall 8 for our stay. Next day I started working on my project. I got a PC, complete access to library and computer centre and all the equipments of the lab. A lot of M. Tech students working in the different fields of transportation engineering in the same lab later became very good friends, guided me a lot and helped me throughout my project work. The interest shown by my mentor was very inspiring and forced me to work more than 12 hrs a day to achieve desired results.

The work environment in IITK was so encouraging and perfect that one cannot even think about cheating himself. I can recall one incident when I asked one of the M. Tech students to teach me application of ABAQUAS. She didn’t only teach me basics of ABAQUAS but sometimes stayed up with me till 2:00 of night when an advanced application of it was required. This incident only throws light on the environment of learning in the IITK campus. The ‘Happy Hours’ arranged every Wednesday was one of the most fruitful events of SURGE programme, where we got the chance to hear from the best faculties of IITK about the fields of their specialisation. It was also the time to interact with the students of other NITs and IITK, who were supposedly the best students in their branch in their respective institute and also learn about their campus and academic life.

SURGE Programme was not only about studying and doing project work all the time. There were  a lot of things to do like swimming, participating in almost all the indoor and outdoor games, gliding, learning photography – just to name a few. At first glance, SURGE Programme was a life transforming experience for me and I am still in touch with most of the participants whom I met there. The transformation is in terms of getting a vision and keen interest towards research work and applied civil engineering rather than attending a series of lecture classes and solving numerical problems of subject just to get a good SPI and CPI and a job or two from the institute. The programme provides a wonderful opportunity to peers towards the possible career options through the lecture series given by esteemed faculty of IITK during ‘Happy Hours’ and also from students of IITK. Personally, I acknowledge that this programme has boosted my confidence level both in terms of technical and personal up to the extent that an ordinary village guy like me who has done his 12 years of schooling in a government school in a Hindi medium school of Bihar and also a five pointer at one point of time has started dreaming about doing higher studies from one of the best universities of world. In fact I never wanted to be a civil engineer, but only after staying for 10 weeks in IITK I came to know that still there are a lot of things to be done in the field of civil engineering and now learning basics of civil engineering has become my hobby.

Finally, I conclude with the remark that the prior mentioned ingredients to develop ones interpersonal skills were well included in various activities of SURGE Programme. Only two students from my batch from NITS got chance to be a part of 2008 SURGE Programme at IITK , but with the number of meritorious and talented students increasing year after year in NITS I am pretty sure that this number will increase in near future.

 

IISc Research Internship – My experience in 2009

IISc Bangalore is always envisaged as an epitome of learning; churning the so-called ‘best brains’ of India. As a part of the college curriculum, I was selected as a research intern in the Electrical and Communication Dept., IISc Bangalore for a period of two months (June-July 2009). I worked in the field of wireless communication as a part of DRDO-IISc Joint Mathematical Program. The icing on the top was a two-month stipend waiting for me at the end of the project. Life never seemed so beautiful to me.

A big scoop of black carrent in the Baskin-Robbins just outside the Bangalore airport greeted me; and I devoured it whole-heartedly. The year 1999 was when I visited the city last; and 10 years hence, zealous was the city in greeting me. Boarded a cab to Lalbagh, I committed myself I would make this summer a memorable one.

A research opportunity at IISc was perhaps the best thing I could have in my entire academic career. I worked in a research group comprising a few M.S. students who were pursuing their full-time courses at IISc. It was Performance Analysis Lab aka PAL Lab (as the local guys used to call it) and I was working and analyzing in different methods in improving the performance of IEEE 802.11 WLAN. The lab had a very congenial atmosphere for research. The lab members were encouraged to work in teams of two/three which according to me increased the productivity and induced a sense of accountability. Original and innovative ideas were greatly appreciated. All the possible support was extended to pursue such ideas. People in the lab were highly spirited and always available for discussions on research related queries, and at times.

In the lab, everyone was a few years senior to me and that was a big help because I spent most of the two months clarifying a number of doubts I had. My Prof was very pleasant to me and spared time while he could. Never was I made to feel inferior. Seeing his humble and down-to-earth attitude, I pondered how we guys bask in our past glories and contemplate ourselves as the ‘King Ozymandias of Egypt’. Perhaps, people tend to become modest and self-effacing as they start picturing in their mind’s eye the zenith of their success. I enjoyed every bit of time out there. The whole ambience of IISc semmed to instill in me a positive vibe in my psychological, philosophical, physiological and of courses my academic life. In short, I was happy!

Despite some unexpected health problems, I stuck to my simple things and renewed my research activities at IISc and eventually completed the project. I felt that although, I did not create a big project there, I came out of there with a far better idea of what research life is likely to be.

I conquered finally!!!

PS: For those interested in pursuing summer internships at IISc Bangalore, a piece of information-IISc Bangalore invites internship applications through JNCASR or IAS at the institute level.

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This post was written by Soumyabrata Dev (ECE Class of 2010, NIT Silchar) on his Internship experience in IISc in 2009. Currently he is a Graduate Engineer Trainee in Ericsson. CES thanks him for writing this article  as a part of our MISSION 2015 initiative and hopes that more and more students from NIT Silchar will take an active interest in Undergraduate Research.

Author’s Publications:

[1] Soumyabrata Dev, Ziaul Haque Choudhury, “A randomized cryptographic algorithm and its simulation in C and MATLAB, with its hardware implementation in Verilog HDL”, IEEE Conference on Anti-Counterfeiting, Security and Identification (ASID 2009), August 2009 available in IEEE Explore Digital Library

[2] Soumyabrata Dev, Nischal S, “An efficient partner assignment algorithm for improving the performance of 802.11 WLAN”. The paper is available in the Academy Publishers, Finland’s Digital Library resources forever, is indexed in the major academic databases, including IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI (ISTP), and other indexing services and published in the special issue (during November 2009) of the International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering [ISSN: 1797-9617] by the Academy Publishers, Finland.

[3] Soumyabrata Dev, Prithviraj Shome, Arijit Upadhaya, Abhijit Deka,”UNIX Simulator with advanced unix features” accepted for poster presentation in IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology, India

[4] Soumyabrata Dev, Krishna L. Baishnab, Ziaul Haque Choudhury, “An efficient heap management technique with Minimum Fragmentation and Auto Compaction”, 2010 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (IEEE ICCSIT 2010), sponsored by IACSIT, IEEE China Council, IEEE Beijing Section, and co-organized by Sichuan Computer Federation, Chinese Institute of Electronics, Peking University, Sichuan Institute of Electronics, Journal of Electronics Science and Technology (JEST), University of Electronics Science and Technology, Northwestern University, and Huazhong Normal University.

CES Archives

INSPIRE Lecture Series in Civil Engineering

1. Prof Jin-Hung Hwang, Dept. of Civil Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan. 10th November, 2010.

Topics: Seismic Capacity Assessment of Sanyi Old Railway Tunnel & A practical reliability-based method for assessing Soil-Liquefaction Potential.

INSPIREmini – For US. By Us

1. Management Studies and CAT preparation. Speaker: Nabanshu Bhattacharjee (ECE Class of 2008, IIM Lucknow Class of 2012), 20th September 2010
2. Email Etiquettes for NIT Silchar Intern & GradSchool Applicants.   Presenter: Manabendra Saharia and Amartya Dey (Dept. of Civil Engg., Class of 2011), 18th October 2010.
3. Internship Apping , Writer: Manabendra Saharia, Harish Borah and Amartya Dey (Dept. of Civil Engg, Class of 2011), November 2010.

INTERNSHIP GUIDES

1. Internship Apping –  A Comprehensive guide on Research and Industry Internships.
2. Sample Resources – Some Sample CVs and SOPs are provided here.
   
3. Civil Engineering Internships Part I
4. Civil Engineering Internships Part II

INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCES

1. IIT Guwahati-A CSE Intern’s view, Writer: Pulakesh Upadhaya (Dept. of CSE, Class of 2011)
2. IISc Research Internship – My experience in 2009, Writer: Soumyabrata Dev(ECE Class of 2010)

KOFFEE WITH CES – Interview Series

Distinguished Engineers

1. Prof. S. Ramamrutham, National renowned educator and author of widely popular books in Civil Engineering, including Strength of Materials.

Students’ Kafé

1. Abhishek Sinha, GATE 2010 topper, Electronics and Communication Engineering

Abhishek Sinha

Internship Apping

Finally after months of writing and editing, its here! There has never been a guide for students of NIT Silchar who want to go for high-profile Research and Industry Internships. Internships help in landing great jobs and Graduate School admits. Mostly this knowledge has been passed on to Juniors verbatim and most students miss out on opprtunities of building their profile.

This guide has been titled INTERNSHIP APPING and is intended to help JUNIORS OF ALL BRANCHES. Though the last page is strictly for Civil Engineering students only. Several addendums will be released and the document will be customised for all branches in January 2011.

WRITERS:

1. Manabendra Saharia (Chief Coordinator, MISSION 2015, Class of 2011)
2. Harish Borah (Training and Placement Executive, CE, Class of 2011)
3. Amartya Dey (General Secretary, Civil Engg Society, Class of 2011)
   

A printed copy of this guide will be provided to all students and costs will be borne by Civil Engineering Society for our MISSION 2015 intiative.

Please read in Fullscreen mode

 

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Prof. Jin-Hung Hwang delivered the 1st INSPIRE Lecture Series in Civil Engineering

Prof Jin-Hung Hwang delivered the 1st INSPIRE Lecture Series in Civil Engineering in NIT Silchar on 10th November, 2010. It was organised by the Civil Engineering Society with the help of Prof. A.K. Dey of NIT Silchar. Prof Dey and Prof. Hwang are currently pursuing Indo-Taiwan Joint Research project on the following topic “Centrifuge modelling and Numerical Analysis on Seismic Response of Clay Embankment”.

Biography

Prof Hwang is a distinguished Professor of the Dept. of Civil Engineering of National Central University of Taiwan. His research interests are in Soil Liquefaction, Tunnel Engineering, Pile Engineering, Soft Clay Engineering, Geotechnical Construction Vibration.

Homepage:http://www.cv.ncu.edu.tw/html/_EnglishVersion/doc_html/00gd5.htm

 

Lecture Topic

Prof. Hwang delivered lectures of the following topics, the presentations of which are provided below.

1. Seismic Capacity Assessment of Sanyi Old Railway Tunnel.

2. A practical reliability-based method for assessing Soil-Liquefaction Potential.

Summary

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More than 150 undergraduate and graduate students of Civil Engineering Dept. of NIT Silchar attended the event including Prof. Satyabrata Choudhury, Dr. A.K. Das and Mr. Parthajit Roy.  Prof. Hwang encouraged NIT Silchar students to apply to NCU for Masters and Doctoral studies and scholarships. Prof. A. K. Dey also expressed his comments and knowledge on the topic after the lecture.

The event was coordinated by Amartya Dey (General Secretary, CES) and Manabendra Saharia (Coordinator, MISSION 2015).

Read about MISSION 2015 here:

https://cesnitsilchar.wordpress.com/mission-2015/

Email Etiquettes for NIT Silchar Intern & GradSchool Applicants

In the world of Facebook and SMSes, the greatest casualty of the Tech revolution has been proper functional English. This INSPIREmini Online presentation has been organised by CES to make sure all students are conversant with the basic rules and etiquettes of Email correspondence, something that will become more and more pervasive in our daily life as a corporate/academic career beckons us soon. CES hopes that it will be specially helpful for students who are applying for Internships, Projects and Graduate School. While most students may already be aware of these fundas, this short presentation is to make sure each and every student of NIT Silchar develops at an early stage the soft skills necessary for success in career and life. The best way to view it is in full screen mode.

 

 

This Presentation was designed by Manabendra Saharia and Amartya Dey (Dept. of Civil Engineering, Class of 2011). Please share the guide with whoever you think will benefit from it.

 

 

Koffee with CES – GATE 2010 Topper (Electronics)

Abhishek Sinha

Graduation: Electronics & Communication

College: Jadavpur University

GATE score: 1000/ 1000

Rank: 2

PG option: ME Telecom Engineering at IISc, Bangalore

Research interest: Artificial Intelligence & Wireless Communication

HE stood eleventh in West Bengal in his SSC and ranked sixteenth in West Bengal Joint Engineering Entrance (WBJEE). Also a recipient of Jagdish Bose National Science Talent Search (JDNSTS) scholarship in his first year of engineering at Jadavpur University (JDU), Abhishek Sinha is not new to academic success.

Praising the research ambience and faculty at JDU, he feels the environment is motivating for students. He began preparing for G ATE in his third year. “I attended classes regularly. Lots of subjects taught at the undergraduate level are common to the syllabus of GATE. You need to be clear about concepts. As GATE is practice-oriented, you need to work consistently,” shares Abhishek.

Abhishek says, practising problems, making concepts crystal clear and consulting the last 10 years’ question papers is essential. Memorising formulae will not be helpful as problems are not straightforward. “Coaching is not an absolute requirement. You need to have access to good books and a good faculty,” he recommends. Abhishek, who gave 10 mock tests as part of GATEFORUM’s test series experienced that they also serve as a shot in the arm.

With over 1 lakh students competing in the stream, GATE is a very competitive exam, he stresses. He fell short of the top position by a mere third of a mark. If you aim to get into IISc, you need to work even harder, as only the top 30 make the cut.

“You have to be very motivated and clear about your goals to pursue research. Publish a lot of papers and keep abreast of the latest developments in your area of interest,” concludes Abhishek, who wishes to do research in Artificial Intelligence and Wireless Communication.

Prep mantras

(Electronics and Communication)

1. Network Analysis: Be conversant with mathematical techniques like Laplace and Fourier Transforms and various network theorems, as they often simplify a given problem. Also, you should possess a general understanding about network graphs like cut-sets, tie-sets, adjacency matrices and related concepts.

2. Communication theory: It requires a working knowledge of information theory and Shannon’s result for an AWGN channel. Stress on various analog and digital modulation techniques and their SNR to Bandwidth trade-off as accomplished in practice.

3. Electromagnetism: A clear understanding of Maxwell’s equations and their significance is essential. Master vector calculus should as early as possible. Also, study the science of electromagnetism from standard Physics textbooks like “Classical Electrodynamics” by J.D. Jackson.

4. Microelectronics: Focus on understanding the working of devices (books like that of S.M. Sze come very handy). You should clearly understand the concept of biasing of active devices and various biasing techniques. Study bipolar and CMOS technology thoroughly.

Recommended Books

Solid State Electronic Devices – Ben G. Streetman, Sanjay Banerjee, 5th Edition

Digital Communications – John G. Proakis, 4th Edition

Microelectronic Circuits – Adel S. Sedra, Kenneth C. Smith, 4th edition

Digital Signal Processing – John G. Proakis, 4th edition

Automatic Control Systems – Benjamin C. Kuo, 7th edition

This Interview was NOT conducted by the Koffee With CES team but was sourced from the Internet. It has been published to support the MISSION 2015 initiative of CES@NIT Silchar.

Management Studies and CAT Preparation

SPEAKER: Mr. Nabanshu Bhattacharjee (NIT Silchar, ECE Class of 2008).

Total Attendees: 230 students, 20th September 2010.

Presently: Pursuing MBA in IIM Lucknow.

Mission 2015 is a comprehensive 5 year initiative by Civil Engineering Society(CES) with innovative programs like INSPIRE Lecture Series in Civil Engineering, INSPIREmini, INSPIRING INTERNS, Koffee with CES.

As a part of our INSPIREmini Series programme CES cordially invited Nabhanshu Bhattacharjee, from IIM Lucknow (NIT Silchar, ECE Class of 2008). He belled the CAT with a score of 99.6 percentile.  Prior to his IIM life, he worked in IBM Bangalore, as an application developer.

The session was organised on 20^th September 2010 in CET hall.  It was expected to be a 1-hr session but was prolonged due to an overwhelming response wherein around 200 students took part.  The session was kick started with a brief introduction of the day’s guest by chief coordinator, Manabendra Saharia.  The General Secretary of the Gymkhana, Sourav Dhal, took the opportunity to acknowledge the civil engineering society for being vibrant and active and wished all the success in its endeavours.  The General Secretary of CES, Amartya Dey, felicitated the guest and extended a hearty welcome on our campus.  The photography secy, Debankur Jana, helped in capturing the moments of the seminar.

The guest chose not to be monotonic, but was keen in having an interactive session.  He first gathered the queries which ranged from preparation perspective of entrances to the life beyond.  Most of the questions seemed to be clustered around the preparation of CAT, as it is of prime importance for 4^th year and 3^rd year students.  The questions also hovered around the necessity of further studies after a Bachelor’s degree.  Though time was a constraint the session was highly productive to the gathering as the guest tried to clear the general cobwebs which a student in a professional college encounters.  He was also generous to offer another visit for an exclusive CAT seminar as he felt that it should be dealt with in depth analysis.

The session was concluded with a memento presentation to Nabanshu Bhattacharjya by general secretary of CES on behalf of the gathering.

This news report was prepared by an enthusiastic first-year student of the Dept. of Civil Engg., NIT Silchar – Praveen Kumar (Civil Engineering, Class of 2014). CES wishes him lots of luck for his career and hopes that more young students will take an interest in the activities of CES.

IIT Ghy-A CSE Intern’s View

It all started with…..

..Receiving a confirmation of my application for internship, under Dr. T Venkatesh at the Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. Dr. Venkatesh had received his Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in July 2009, and was supported by a PhD Fellowship from Microsoft Research India.

The first few days…

Hostel Barak was fixed for my accommodation. A guy used to an old hostel here in Silchar, I found the hostel quite luxurious in the beginning. The food seemed good, but the tendency of the food to have Southern flavours and the monotonous repetition of the same food soon made me avoid the Dining Hall….How (for the first time in my life) I missed the food in my hostel mess here in Silchar!

Hey guys! I did not go there to have food! I went there for some really serious stuff!!(Believe me).There was this long walk from Barak to the Department which took toll on my constitution. I lost weight (if I had any). And it was for around a month and a half that I had to walk from the hostel to the Department and vice-versa braving the scorching heat, and sometimes, torrential downpours!!!

The first few days were spent in understanding what my project actually was…My guide was on a 15 day leave, so my first look at the topic he had assigned for me left me really perplexed. I could not find anything that could match the little (it seemed now) knowledge I had…Indeed for the first two days I did not know what to do!!

The facilities….

I enjoyed the lab facilities. Indeed I found the demonstration of the topic I was working under, right there in the lab…HIGH SPEED INTERNET. And thanks to it, I could find my way through the unknown stuff. Especially in the initial days…When Dr. Venkatesh arrived, I got all the desired help from him to get my project through!

The project….

The Philosophy..

The focus was on high speed internet and efficient address for IP Address lookup so as to help in ensuring it. Now you might ask what IP Address lookup means? It refers to looking up the routing table present in intermediate routers in a Computer Network for an IP Address where the data packets can be sent so that it safely reaches its destination.

With the advent of Classless Inter Domain Routing (CIDR), and high speed internet, efficient algorithms for implementation of IP Address Lookup have become necessary. CIDR requires internet routers to search variable-length address prefixes in order to find longest matching prefix of IP destination address and retrieve the corresponding forwarding information for each packet traversing the router.

In the present age, where the routing table contains a lot of entries, finding the longest prefix, which is a computationally intensive task, is the bottleneck in the performance of routers in high speed internet.

As such it has become highly essential that the time taken for IP lookup be reduced drastically. This can be done by using data structures which have better search time complexity. A lot of research has gone on this aspect of IP Lookup.

The work…

In this project, I used an efficient data structure for testing membership queries -Bloom Filters. Bloom Filters were implemented corresponding to each prefix length and hash tables corresponding to each filter.

The router was implemented in user level using Click Modular Router (a simulator), which already has IP Address Look-up implementations like LinearIPLookup element.

BloomIPLookup element was introduced in Click Modular Router as an improvement upon LinearIPLookup and checked for performance results. It was proved to be an efficient lookup algorithm with constant time complexity.

Conclusion…

The conclusion was that Bloom Filter can be used as an efficient algorithm that can be performed for better performance in high speed networks. All in all, it was an excellent experience for me, primarily due to a very supportive Guide and I look forward to continuing my work on this project.

This Article was written by Pulakesh Upadhyaya (CSE Class of 2011, NIT Silchar) on his Summer Internship in IITG  for summer of 2010. Apart from his studies and reading books, he likes to dabble in debates and is a familiar name in campus quizzing circles. CES thanks him for writing this article  as a part of our MISSION 2015 initiative and hopes that more and more students from NIT Silchar will take an active interest in Undergraduate Research.