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Engineer is an annual technical symposium in India organized by NITK Surathkal

Surathkal

Surathkal is a locality under Mangalore City Corporation located in the Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka state, India...

. The event was started after the amalgamation of many technical festivals held at NITK by student clubs. Held for the first time in 2005, it has consistently attracted participants from all over the India.

Engineer provides the perfect platform for students across the globe to showcase their technical talents and their passion in the field of science and technology through events of international standards. It attracts enormous participation from students, subject experts, corporates and eminent personalities from all over the world.Each year, the festival
surpasses its predecessor in terms of quality of events, industrial and entrepreneurial
involvement and participation. In its previous edition, Engineer brought organizations such as
CERN, MIT Media and Bell labs while catering to a participation pool of over 6000 students
from 150 colleges across 65 countries.

Guest speakers have included Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman

Richard Matthew Stallman , often shortened to rms,"'Richard Stallman' is just my mundane name; you can call me 'rms'"|last= Stallman|first= Richard|date= N.D.|work=Richard Stallman's homepage...

, Sam Pitroda

Sam Pitroda

Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda popularly known as Sam Pitroda is an inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker. Currently Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations, he is also widely considered to have been responsible for India’s communications revolution...

, Dr. Devi Shetty, Sir Anthony James Leggett, Ankit Fadia

Ankit Fadia

Ankit Fadia is an independent computer security consultant. He runs a program on computer security for corporates in alliance with Reliance Info.-Biography:He started a website called "HackingTruths"....

and other personalities.

Engineer' 11

NITK will be organizing our Annual Technical Symposium Engineer between the 26th and the 30th of October this year.Engineer 2011 aims to bring the engineering
community together, help innovate ideas and to bring about a positive change in thinking
amongst the people who will be a part of it.

Flag ship events

Blueprint

Blueprint is more than a competition. Blueprint attracts some of the best minds from all over the country and gives them a platform to put their ideas forth in front of an experienced panel of judges. Be there to witness the ideas for tomorrow take shape.

Socially Conscious Engineering

‘Sparsh,’ the initiative by Social Conscious Engineering (SCE), which is an important facet of ‘Engineer,’ the annual technical symposium of NITK, the students have literally touched the lives of many at Munda, a small hamlet about 9 km away from the Institute.
The main motive of SCE is to remind the students that inventions and innovations are void if they have no social benefit, to the common man. The Sparsh project starts during Engineer, as an idea generation event, continues with the implementation of the best ideas of the winning team.

E-Pitch

E-Pitch is the
flagship entrepreneurship event which provides a platform for students to put forth their
business ideas.
Technites

Technites will present an impressive list of events: a truly colossal game of Tetris, played out on
a 7 storey building; Skeet Shooter and Laser Tanks, and so much more. What makes Technites
more impressive is the fact that the events presented there are developed by the students of NITK,
Surathkal.

Mining Events

The mining events this year boasts of Mining Tycoon, a unique event which blurs the line between
mining and management making the participants enumerate all possible alternatives for a
given situation and come up with plausible solutions. Also on the list are Sustantivo, an event
to illustrate how important surveying is to a project and Poster Presentation, a twist on the
paper presentation where you let the poster do the talking.

Computer Events

Inscription, which is the Computer events’ flagship
online coding event, boasts of participation from over 47 countries and teams from Google,
Microsoft and Yahoo. Marathon, a scripting and basic programming event
spanning the entire festival, android apps development, code error hunting and developing
bots to play a variant of pacman.

Mechanical Events

The Mechanical events will see exciting events such as Velocity, the
remote controlled I.C engine powered car competition which has always been a crowd puller.
Perfect machine will let you build an all terrain vehicle modeled on planet roving robots. The
ever favorite Robowars will also be held.

Material Science

The material science committee has a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) expo, showcasing a
working demonstration of the high-tech equipment. MetaMagic, an open exhibition to show
the wonders of the materials around us, is also up for display. If you feel that you have an
idea, breakthrough or solution to problems that we face, then Canvas- the Poster presentation
event- is for you. The Metallurgy quiz boasts a refreshing new format combining materials
trivia with ingenuity, strategy and quick thinking. Lastly, Metamorphosis, the flagship event
is bigger than before and will push the participants to the limit with their industrial problem
statement from Buhler group.

Biz Events

For the entrepreneurs around, TechVenture is being
organized to solve a real problem using your technical and entrepreneurial skills. Events are E-Pitch, Mock stock, TechVenture, Ad-Venture

Chemical Events

ChemUdyog will let you design a town where industries and the biosystem
exist in harmony. The Industry defined problem statement will ask for participants to come
up with a solution for a problem given by Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers (MCF).

Other events

The Electrical and Electronics committee have a wide range of
events in store this Engineer which include Automata, the autonomous robot competition and
Trade Off, which will challenge your digital and analog problem solving ability, Simplicity,
if coding on MATLAB is your forte, Symphony, the event where you design your own
musical fountain-an all time favourite among electronics engineers, Trailblazer, a simple
line follower robot event and lastly Foxhunt, the HAM radio competition which is the most
exhilarating in this line-up of events. Engineer 2011 has many events for the entrepreneur
in you. This includes Finanza, which will test your financial skills in a recession hit market,

Personeel, the HR event where the participant designs a compensation program for a given
situation, Mercades, the marketing event which tests the competency of your product over
all the others, and lastly MindBend, a quiz that will test all your core concepts.
Apart from the branch events mentioned, Blueprint is being held as a paper presentation
competition where innovative research papers in all fields of engineering are welcome.
For further details.Engineer '11

Engineer '10

Engineer in 2010, included video lectures with Vic Hayes

Vic Hayes

Victor "Vic" Hayes is a Senior Research Fellow at the Delft University of Technology. His role in establishing and chairing the IEEE 802.11 Standards Working Group for Wireless Local Area Networks has led to him being referred to by some as the "Father of Wi-Fi".-Awards and honors:He is the...

, Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist. He is currently the Director of Research at Google Inc.-Educational Background:...

amongst the usual events.

Engineer '09

The fifth edition of Engineer promised to continue its success story. For the first time, it features Impetus, where robotics events' preliminary rounds were held at a venue outside the institute's campus, in cities of Hyderabad, Bangalore and Pune. The technical fest's website may be visited for further details.Engineer '09

Engineer '08

Engineer in 2008, in line with the ongoing trend, was conducted on an even grander scale. It had Green Engineering as its theme, where technical progress is considered keeping in mind sustainability and protection of the environment. It featured traditional favourites such as Automata, Perfect Machine and Last Word and a host of new additions which included a dazzling laser show and an UV light dance. The website may be visited for further knowledge.Engineer 08

Engineer '07

The 2007 edition of Engineer was conducted on a larger scale and witnessed international participation with participation from the Gulf along with participants from major colleges across India. The online events drew programmers from universities in Europe, Americas and Asia. The robotics events were appreciated and well contested. The workshop conducted by Indian Underwater Robotics Society (IURS) was unique to Engineer. The four-day event included video conferences with Kevin Warwick

Kevin Warwick

Kevin Warwick is a British scientist and professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom...

, Ehud Shapiro

Ehud Shapiro

Ehud Shapiro is an Israeli computer scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He received his Ph.D from Yale for his dissertation entitled "Algorithmic Program Debugging" which was an ACM distinguished dissertation for 1982. He has been an exponent of the Prolog computer language and logic...

, Nobel Laureate John C. Mather

John C. Mather

John Cromwell Mather is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite with George Smoot. COBE was the first experiment to measure ".....

and Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup ; born December 30, 1950 in Århus, Denmark) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and the development of the widely used C++ programming language...

Engineer '06

The events at Engineer 2006 included paper presentation competitions, project presentations, Shrishti, where participants are required to apply engineering for the greater good of society, robotics events (Perfect Machine, Automata), hacking contests, programming contests, design problems, and workshops and seminars.