Intel® Higher Education Program in association with Intel India Development Center organizes an annual event for final year undergraduate and post graduate students from select premier engineering institutions across India.
The objectives of this contest are to:
Develop problem solving and analytical skills
Stimulate innovative thinking
Encourage them to take up higher research as a career
The Intel India Research Challenge Contest (IIRC) program worldwide has been developed to inspire and support students engaging in research in the sciences and engineering disciplines. The research focus is based on Intel’s research goals and is implemented independently worldwide to reflect local universities’ and Intel’s strengths.
The IIRC program is an organized contest that supports designated students research projects conducted at the engineering institutes. Students work with their university professor(s), and consult with designated Intel researcher(s) on their project. At the end of the research period, the students travel to Intel, Bangalore to present their work before a panel of experts and meet with senior Intel researchers. Research areas for participating in the competition were:
Low-Power and Higher Performance Platform Architecture
Advanced Multi-Core Platform Capabilities
Advanced VLSI Design Techniques
Advanced Silicon Validation and Debug Techniques
Signal Integrity
Intel India Research Challenge (IIRC) 2006 – 07 launched in Sep 2006 saw its finals stage, Project Presentation on 04 June 2007. IIRC Finals had 14 finalist teams from top 11 engineering institutes with 42 students. The participating teams converged at Bangalore in BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore on 04 May 2007.
The chosen teams presented their final project to the judges on 04 June 2007 to compete for the top 3 slots. In a nail-biting finish, the top honors were bagged by International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad winning the first place, Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi at the second place and National Institute of Technology – Rourkela in a close third.
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Institute
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Members
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Winners
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IIIT Hyderabad
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Sreehari
Kirthi Krishna
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Novel High-Speed Architecture for 32-bit ALU using Hybrid Logic Style
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1st Runners-up
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IIT Delhi
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Pawan
Gaurava
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Design of a Low Power Analog VLSI Chip to emulate directional and orientation selectivity within less than 5%
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2nd Runners-up
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NIT Rourkela
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Abhijit
Supreet
Sumeet
Amartya
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A decision support system for disease surveillance in rural India
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Winners received Rs 1 lakh as cash grant, Rs 50,000 for 1st Runners Up followed by Rs 25,000 for 2nd Runners Up. All the participants were given Shopper’s Stop gift vouchers as recognition for their active participation in the contest.
Intel’s objective to reward and encourage future scientists and engineers will continue with many more research contests to come.
