IIT Mandi students to receive IEEE awards in US

NEW DELHI, JUNE 12: IIT Mandi students have bagged awards in the ‘Outstanding Student Branch Chapter Chair’, ‘Continued Outstanding Performance Student Branch Chapter’ and ‘Web Contest’ categories in the Chapter and Membership Development (CMD) contest of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) Industry Application Society (IAS), United States.

Mr Adil Usman, PhD Scholar and Student Chapter Chair at IIT Mandi won the ‘Outstanding Student Branch Chapter Chair’ award, which is given to only one individual across the globe. The team of Ms Jhalak Chaudhary, Mr Utkarsh Jain and Mr Neeraj Sharma, students of 2nd year B.Tech at IIT Mandi, have won 2nd prize in the website contest which awards three best website developer teams. “This has encouraged us a lot that our efforts are being awarded at such a great platform,” said Ms Jhalak Chaudhary on winning the award.

The ‘Continued Outstanding Performance Student Branch Chapter’ award was won by the Student Branch Chapter at IIT Mandi. In this award, student branches from across the globe are evaluated on the basis of their performance throughout the year while also considering their previous records.

The IEEE is the largest global technical professional organization of the world headquartered in New York, USA. The students will receive the awards during the IEEE IAS Annual Meet 2019 in Baltimore, United States between 29th September 2019 to 3rd October 2019.