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Students discuss new methods of copper production at technical symposium

Staff Reporter

The event allayed fears of diminishing number of metallurgists in the country

Practical application was at its best at METTLE 2007, the national-level technical symposium, conducted by the Metallurgical And Materials Engineering Department of NIT-Tiruchi, earlier this month.

The department fest projected how engineering education could be made complete with knowledge of practical application. The event allayed fears of diminishing number of metallurgists in the country, with 50 students from colleges as far as Shibpur and Durgapur in West Bengal and Raipur participating.

There were also participants from engineering colleges in Salem and Coimbatore.

The two-day event consisted of technical sessions, where the students presented papers on a range of subjects from new methods of copper production to the role of nano particles in environmental clean-up.

There were also guest lectures delivered by eminent personalities from both the academia and the industry.

They included P. C. Angelo, a former scientist at Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, Sakthivel and Jaganathan of Sterlite Industries, Vikram Jayaram, a professor of Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, and Eashwaran from BHEL.

Informal events

The informal events — Technical quiz and Materials Hunt — elicited maximum enthusiasm, with even the professors taking part along with the students.

The highlight of the fest was the Industrial Problem Solving Contest conducted by Sundar, a Claims Analyst of an insurance company. He presented to the students cases he had come across in his profession.

The valedictory was marked by distribution of prizes to the winners by the chief guest, Uma Shanker, chairman, Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), Tiruchi Chapter.

Delegates expressed delight at being a part of METTLE. In the words of the delegate from Durgapur, "It was worth coming 2500 km across the country for this event."

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