GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
(Established Under Gujarat Act. No.:20 of 2007)
Ref:GTU/R&D/EO/IUCEE/SPEED/2014/5897
Date:27/8/2014
CIRCULAR
IUCEE-SPEED is conducting several regional student leadership workshops
in various parts of India
IUCEE has joined hands with SPEED, a global student organization to empower students to
become a factor of change in Engineering Education by providing them with the skills,
knowledge and resources necessary to become a global engineer and show them how they
can
think
globally
and
act
locally.
More
details
about
SPEED
are
at http://www.worldspeed.org/portal/. The theme for these workshops is “21st Century
Grand Challenges of Engineering”. The Regional workshops will be a preparation for the
Indian Student Forum ISF 2015 to be held in Bangalore, India on January 5 and 6, 2015.
ISF 2015 will have the same theme. ISF 2015 will precede the Second International
Conference
on
Transformations
in
Engineering
Education
(ICTIEE
2015):
https://www.ictiee.org/
These regional workshops will help develop regional voice of students with respect to the
topic, and help them in creating action plans which can be implemented locally, resulting in
real time projects. The workshop duration is 3 days. The first day starts in the morning and
includes a ice breaking session, few group activities and introduction to the theme of the
workshop. The second day starts with a presentation on the importance of action plan
development followed by development of action plans by the participants by exploring the
theme and involves presentation of the action plans by various groups to the peer of the
colleges. The third day will have participants presenting their action plans and conclude by
evening. Participants are expected to spend the nights at the location. The workshops are
facilitated by 3 experienced SPEED members from across the country.
You are invited to send a team of 5 to 7 students from your college to one of
these IUCEE-SPEED workshops. Participants can be from B.Tech 2nd and 3rd year and
M.Tech 1st year. SPEED requests that the student’s participants attending the workshops
display the following characteristics: leaders in local student organizations, socially
motivated, communication inclined professional students with ambitions to change the
world.
Below are details for IUCEE-SPEED regional student workshops this year.
Date
Venue
Mobile
Contact Person
Email Id
8th KLU University,
10th September Vijayawada, AP
Dr. LSS Reddy
[email protected]
8th BMS College of
10th September Engineering,
Bangalore, KN
Prof. S. Lalitha
[email protected]
9886252648
15th Vidya Jyothi
th
17 September Institute of
Technology,
Hyderabad,
Dr. Laxmi
Ramana
[email protected]
9177227283
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Telangana
15th Rajarambapu
17th September Institute of
Technology,
Islampur, MH
Prof. Subodh S
Ingaleshwar
15th - 17th
September
Ms.
[email protected]
K.Vijayalakshmi
9849663621
Prof. M.M. Irfan [email protected]
9704324255
Guru Nanak
Institute of
Technology,
Hyderabad,
Telangana
15th SR Engineering
17th September College, Warangal,
Telangana
[email protected]
8600600278
15th DY Patil Institute of Dr. Anju
17th September Engineering and
Kulkarni
Technology, Pimpri,
MH
[email protected]
17th - 19th
September
[email protected] 8826006878
a.info
Dronacharya
Prof.
College Engineering, T.P.N.Singh
Greater Noida, UP
9850896653
Participants will need to pay a registration fee which will include workshop charges, food
and accommodation. Registration fee will be notified by host college and is expected to
range from Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 1,500 per student. Participants are expected so spend the
nights at the accommodation provided by the host college. Some general details about the
workshops are at link: http://iucee.com/speed/
After the workshops, participants are expected to form IUCEE-SPEED Chapters at their
institutions. Representatives from these chapters will come together at Indian Student
Forum in January 2015.
If interested, please register your students by emailing Rohit Kandakatla, President, SPEED
India at [email protected]. Details about accommodations and fees can be
obtained from contacts listed for each host college above.
I/c Registrar
To,
All Principals/ Directors of all Affiliated Colleges