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COEP Charitable Foundation, USA. North-East USA Chapter Alumni Event: June 9, 2007. Welcome. COEP Charitable Foundation Activities. Endowment for Distinguished Alumni Professorship Alumni Student Fellowship Robot study circle: Robocon Astronomy club: Telescope making workshop
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COEP Charitable Foundation, USA North-East USA Chapter Alumni Event: June 9, 2007 Welcome
COEP Charitable FoundationActivities • Endowment for Distinguished Alumni Professorship • Alumni Student Fellowship • Robot study circle: Robocon • Astronomy club: Telescope making workshop • Assisting a COEP student for her project in USA • Renovation of badminton courts at Boat club • Webguru: Long distance learning initiative: SVC • Websetu: Networking and mentoring: SVC
Endowment for Distinguished Alumni Professorship (DAP) • Designed by Dr. Narendra Dahotre • UT/ORNL Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee • Six departments • Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, E & TC, Instrumentation, Metallurgy • $150K investment per department • Supports the professorship forever • Includes stipends for Alumni Graduate Fellows (GF) • And funds for lab equipment etc.
Robot study circle: Robocon Contest Kunal Mulay , Sidharth Garde, Chetan Tonde, Shrirang Joshi, Aditya Dattawadkar, Aseem Deodhar, Ravindra Kakade (red cap) , Vineet Bhatawadekar, Shriram Devi, Amey Deshpande, Pratap Tokekar, Sandesh Gandhi • Watch video • http://youtube.com/watch?v=C8X-4ETSVOo
Grinding lenses Astronomy club: Telescope making workshop Nachiket Gokhale E & TC, 3 Trupti Ranka Instru. 4 Measuring focal length
Assisting a COEP student for her project in USA • Kshitija Deshpande • Attended an educational course called Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy (CUREA) at Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California
(Picture: Volunteers: (From bottom left): Nitin Mhaske, Sameer Vaidya, Sushil Choudhari, Avanti Ketkar-Ambekar, Tejal Goyani (From top left): Haripriya Rajagopal, Saket Jamkar, Dinesh Kanawade, Rahul Dabane, Mandar Waghmode, Mohit Gundecha, Paritosh Ambekar, Vinay Kakade, Aditya Kothadiya Silicon Valley Chapter Projects • Webguru: Long distance learning initiative: SVC • Dr. Haresh Shah: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1193820802140829364&q=webguru+svc&hl=en • Dr. Nickil Jakatdar: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-148950641764862901&q=webguru+svc&hl=en • Dr. Nitin Salunkhe: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2245424318745692023&hl=en • Websetu: Networking and mentoring: SVC • Form for mentorshttp://www.coepfoundation.org/websetu/mentor_form.doc • Form for Mentees http://www.coepfoundation.org/websetu/mentee_form.doc • Fill and send to websetu_mentee@coepalumni.org
COEP Charitable Foundation, USA New Project Let's build something together North-East USA Chapter Alumni Event: June 9, 2007
Carnegie Mellon University Carnival Show and tell by a student
Vacuuformer http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/vsn/vaccuformer.htm Watch the tools used Carnegie Mellon University Undergrad project
Let's build something together Involves hands on technical work Promotes interaction between current students and alumni every year (recurring activity) North-East USA Chapter Alumni Event: June 9, 2007 Is a LOT of fun
Let's build something together • Sponsor ten technocraft booths/models • Built by COEP students • During “Arts & Crafts Exhibition” • Part of annual social gathering, Regatta • Six departments and four student clubs • Astronomy, Robot circle, CIED, Environmental club • Alumni contribute Rs. 10,000/- for each group • Students buy raw material and build a model • Based on a central theme • Have a competition North-East USA Chapter Alumni Event: June 9, 2007
Let's build something together • Example: • Theme: “Large things made small” • Models: • Bridge, Dam, • Roller coaster, Ferris Wheel • Catapult, Cannon • Windmill, Watermill • Comet, Rocket North-East USA Chapter Alumni Event: June 9, 2007