Successful completion of Open House at IIT Ropar for JEE rank holders

Successful completion of Open House at IIT Ropar for JEE rank holders

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IIT Ropar successfully organized an Open House, JEE Counseling and Interaction meeting on 22nd June 2019, for the benefit of IIT aspirants, in particular, those who qualified in JEE (Advanced) 2019 successfully. More than 100 students and their parents actively participated in the counseling session. The session started with welcome note by the Associate Dean Student Affairs, Dr. C. C. Reddy.

Prof. S.K Das , Director IIT Ropar welcomed the students and parents to the permanent campus of  IIT Ropar and congratulated the JEE (Adv.) qualified students for their commendable achievement. He gave an in-depth overview into the evolution of the IIT system in India including a brief talk on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation IITs, and IIT education in general. He also mentioned in detail about the philosophy of IIT’s as they believe in not just creating an engineer by profession but a noteworthy personality. He emphasized that the UG education in IIT’s is at par with any of the global class institutions in the world. He also briefly spoke about the rapid strides being made by IIT Ropar on several fronts, including education, infrastructure, research, and about the startup culture and entrepreneurship opportunities at the institute.

This was followed by an introduction to unique curriculum at IIT Ropar by Dr. Anupam Agrawal, Associate Dean, UG and presentation on Clubs and Boards available at the institute by current students and members of Institute Student Mentorship Program (ISMP).

The inclusion of supernumerary seats for female students from 2018 as per the policy of the Central Government, aimed at bringing gender balance in the engineering education was highlighted. The girl students were also counseled by the JEE help desk team to fill as many choices as possible to maximize their chances of getting a seat in IITs.

IIT Ropar would conduct Reporting Centre (RC) activity for JEE Advanced 2019 for qualified candidates in its permanent campus at Ropar from 28th June, 2019 to 19th July, 2019. Candidates allotted seats in any of the IITs can do their reporting, document verification and accept their seats at IIT Ropar during this course of time. More details can be found on the website: http://josaa.nic.in.

The Q & A session was highly interactive with an active participation of all the participants. There were several very pertinent questions put by the IIT aspirants and their parents regarding choice of branch, seat, suitable career choices, dual specialization, sub specialization, difference between regular and integrated dual degree programs, and suitability of female students to branches such as mining engineering along with several questions pertaining to choice and seat allotment in Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JOSAA).The participants expressed happiness on the initiative of IIT Ropar in educating the students as well the parents on various technicalities in IIT Education, JEE Admission Process and general queries on various academic programs. Post the completion of the session, the students and parents were given hands on opportunity to visit the facilities at IIT Ropar.    

For clearing more dilemmas for the students who were unable to turn up at the open house can now have the Live streaming session with the Director, IIT Ropar on 25^th June 2019 starting at 10:00 to 12:00 noon. During this Prof. S.K Das along with the Panel of JEE cell, for solving queries.