BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus conferred more than 1,500 degrees at its convocation ceremony, honouring outstanding students and researchers. Big Basket co-founder Hari Menon urged graduates to embrace challenges, while Director Prof Dharmarajan Sriram highlighted integrity, innovation and societal impact
Researchers at BITS Pilani Hyderabad have developed PestiSafe, a portable dual-mode optical sensing device that detects pesticide residues in food and water. The low-cost system offers rapid on-site testing and could help farmers, inspectors and consumers make informed safety decisions.
BITS Pilani celebrated the achievements of 8,450 working professionals graduating under its Work Integrated Learning Programmes. About 1,050 attended in person, while over 7,400 joined virtually through Metaverse technology, including 122 graduates from 24 other countries.
Developed by Prof P Sankar Ganesh and his team, iSTAR, a single-stage advanced anaerobic digestion process is designed to treat organic waste, converting to methane-rich biogas
The Wind Tunnel Facility has ability to simulate, analyze airflow over objects and recreate various wind speeds and environmental conditions, enabling precision testing
The four-day visit underscored the critical importance of promoting women’s education in STEM, an area where their contributions can drive innovation and societal progress.
The focus will also be on advanced analytics solutions, intelligent information, and document processing, and will foster business- academic collaboration to support innovation and technology growth.
The programme aimed at empowering CRPF Divyang warriors with essential IT skills saw participation of 174 CRPF Divyang warriors from across the country, who sustained severe injuries during combat operations
The workshop was supported by the Centre for Research Excellence in Semi-conduction Technologies (CREST), MEMS, Microfluidics & Nano electronics (MMNE) Lab, and BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus.
It will feature a plethora of technical events including student-led workshops on topics such as rocket science, machine learning, and business analytics, a press release said.
Starting this December, Government Polytechnic Colleges students will be remotely using the advanced equipment put up in the labs at BITS-Pilani Hyderabad campus to master their skills.
