- Nimbus (technical festival)
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Nimbus 
Organisation type Student-run non-profit organisation Founded 2004 Place Hamirpur, India NIT, Hamirpur Institute National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur Website http://www.festnimbus.com/ Nimbus is an annual technical festival which takes place in Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. Organised by the students of the National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, the festival comprises a variety of events aiming at honing the technical and managerial skills of individuals. The logo of the festival is the atom. The festival began in 2004, and has grown each year since, adding new events each year.[citation needed] It now comprises a variety of events catering to many aspects of engineering and management, covering both technical and non-technical subjects.[citation needed] With more than 100 events and participations of many colleges, Nimbus has become the biggest technical festival of Northern India.[citation needed]
Nimbus 2011 is scheduled to be celebrated from 3 March 2011 to 6 March 2011.[dated info]
Contents
Organizing Committee
YEAR FACULTY ADVISOR STUDENTS’ SECRETARY 2004 Dr. R N Sharma, Prof. R. K. Sehgal Mr. Vineet Mahajan 2005 Dr. R N Sharma Mr. Vikas Saroha 2007 Dr. Rakesh Sehgal Mr. Aditya Gandotra, Mr. Pratik Shrestha, Mr. Vivek Shah, Mr. Agam Gupta, Mr. B. S. Arjun, Miss Shweta Raghaw (Secretary Body)
2008 Mr. Naveen Chauhan Mr. Aditya Gandhotra 2010 Dr. Hemant Kumar Vinayak Mr. Akshay Milap 2011 Mr. Sidhartha Mr. Saurav Agarwala Departmental involvement
The various departments of NIT Hamirpur participate Numbus:
- Department of Architecture
- Department of Civil Engineering
- Department of Computer Science Engineering
- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Department of Management and Social Sciences
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
Nimbus 2010 – Agamya Kritya Sidhya “Stripping Ideas Assembling Innovations”
The three day festival was opened by Sh. Ashwaghosh Ganju, director Snow and Avalanche Study Establishments, DRDO, and Dr T.P Shashikumar.
Day 1 of Nimbus 2010 was marked by a series of expert lectures and competitions. The day began with the marathon in which students circumscribed the campus. About 250 students of NIT Jalandhar, NIT Kurukshetra, and adjoining colleges of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh participated in it.
There were workshops on ethical hacking and web design, and at night there was a star gazing event - telescopes from Jantar Mantar observatory were arranged for this purpose.
The festival concluded with a performance by Indian rock band Parikrama.
Past events and competitions at Nimbus
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Pirates Of Silicon Valley-Hacking Based Game: The participants were provided with a shell environment and a mailbox. The participants were required to solve various hacking based missions that were mailed to them.
- Tease Your Brain (Programming On New Language): The event required the participants to code some problems based on the given set of rules and with limited tools of programming. The event aimed at testing the logic power and general aptitude of participants.
- Decipher (Simply the Jumbled Coding): The event required the participants to analyze the given code, understand what it does and then recode it efficiently on computer system.
- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Doordarshan (Antenna Design) : Event where participants were to design an antenna out of junk which should catch Doordarshan signal.
- Radio Head-Tune In: Participants were required to design a simple radio receiver which could receive FM/AM signals.
- Spicy P-Spice: Participants were required to draw schematics of given circuit and implement it on p-spice.
- Tack-Da-Electronics: The event required participants to perform hardware implementation of a design problem.
- Open Hardware Design Contest: The event required the participants to bring device, gadget or model that has been conceptualized, designed/developed by them. Emphasis was be given to innovation, besides aspects like creativity, technical superiority and cost effectiveness.
- Department of Electrical Engineering
- Aqua’lumnia: An event where participants were required to innovate a design for hydroelectric generator.
- Metallo-De-Guerra: The fascinating war of metals drew huge amount of interest from the students. This was evident from the participation of students from within and outside the campus.
- Switchcraft: A circuit designing competition which attracted tremendous participation. The event was an amalgamation of electrical and electronics engineering.
- Phaeton Ride: An event emphasizing the emergence of solar energy as an alternate to fossil fuels .The event managed to fire the ideas of students to the extent that they managed to innovate their own design for our future transportation.
- Department of Civil Engineering
- Chakravyuh (Treasure Hunt-The Civil Way): The event aimed at testing the Surveying Skills and general aptitude of the participants.
- Cast The Curve: Getting really novel was the need of the hour as the participants were to build an arch without using any binding material (the way Inca’s had build Machu Picchu).
- Catechize (Big Quiz): Multiple round quiz to test the grey matter thoroughly i.e. it aimed at testing General Knowledge and the subject knowledge of the participants.
- Consectize (Power Point Presentation): Event where participants were to deliver a PowerPoint presentation on either of the given topics.
- Cad Conqueror: Daily event of AUTOCAD where participants were given a CAD problem.
- Construct (Design Your Own Dream Hostel): The event required designing of a seismic proof wonder with combination of intelligence and innovation.
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Car-De-Ology: The event was an opportunity to design and fabricate prototypes of technologies that could make the automobiles more efficient and more perfect. Participating teams had made prototypes of technologies employed in cars like 4WD, Air brake/spoiler and pressure sensing fuel injector.
- Metamorphosis: The event required conversion of a seemingly useless pile of junk into a fully working device.
- C.A.D. (Conceive, Analyse, Design): Teams undertook a CATIA V5 workshop followed by a 2 stage competition on modeling of CATIA part design and surface modeling.
- Mechanovation: Teams made prototypes of solutions to grass root problems that do not use electricity.
- Cannon Ball-Z: An event aimed at testing both the technical and mechanical skills of the participants. It involved constructing a cannon and using it as a trebuchet to throw a ball across a specified arena and achieve the maximum number of points.
- Department of Architecture
- Anangat: The event required the participants to design an eco high rise structure inculcating concepts of village lifestyle within a building fabric which could be better termed as “SKY VILLAGE”
- Udvij: The event was aimed at intensifying the innovating powers of participants by providing an architectural solution for homeless people by designing a house out of Junk.
- Tribalscape: A bamboo house was designed keeping in mind that the eco friendly spirit. As bamboo has high strength and is environment friendly too, the whole concept was applauded by Mr. Christopher C. Benningar.
Past guest lectures
- Sam Pitroda, Chairman of the National Knowledge Commission; advisor to the Prime Minister of India (2010 speaker).
- John C. Mather, astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite. 2010 speaker; Dr Mather's speech was entitled "From Big Bang to the Nobel Prize to the end of the universe”.
- Christopher Charles Benninger, architect, winner of the Golden Architect Award for Lifetime Achievement (2010 speaker).
- Mahesh Chandra Mehta, lawyer and environmentalist, winner of the Governor's Gold Medal, the Goldman Environmental Prize, and the Ramon Magsaysay Award[1] (2010 speaker)
- Mahesh Murthy, advertising executive, founder of Pinstorm and former CEO of Channel V, he co-founded Seedfund.[2]
- T.P. Sasikumar, government official and author.
- Archana Sharma, experimental physicist, working on the Compact Muon Solenoid instrument at CERN. (2010 speaker)
Past exhibitions
- TIMBER TRAIL "PADDLING IN AIR"
- Transporting goods to and from an elevated height is a basic requirement in hilly regions. Not just at elevated heights, but at times transportation of horticulture produce and other essential goods across the valleys and rivers is essential in higher Himalayan regions. Timber trail as the name suggests is a mode of transport of goods. It is basically a ropeway which is a popular and cheap mode of transportation of goods in hilly areas using motors as drive.
In the exhibition, the electric motor was completely replaced by a complete mechanical driver so that the electricity constraint was detached which made it a better option to be used in rural areas where electricity is still a problem. - MOTORAMA
- It was a mini auto expo, which went a step ahead and included vehicle stripping.
Participant Companies: TATA, Hero Honda.
Bike Stripping: "Hero Honda Hunk" was dismantled it to the smallest bit by an expert. - SMART SENSORS
- This was a demonstration of various types of sensors, from the simple clap sensor to the principle of automatic robots which can sense obstacles. Lasting throughout the three days of NIMBUS’10, it showed all the aspects of sensor technology and provided an insight into the field.
- CONCRETION
- The go-green future welcomes innovation of crib retaining walls.[clarification needed] Concretion was an exploring display of this extravagant and rare piece of art, engineering and innovation.
- AERO MODELLING
- Nimbus inclued a demonstration of aero modelling as an unmanned aerial plane soared over everyone’s head.
- CORONA DISCHARGE
- This time at Nimbus 2010 Corona discharge was back... bigger and better than its previous avatar which no one had even seen...This Nimbus, all the folks saw lightning brought to earth, though artificially.
Past workshops at Nimbus
- CATIA V5
- Nimbus 2010 in association with CADD-CENTRE Hamirpur organized a 20 hour workshop on CATIA V5 from 20 to 26 February. The workshop was followed by a competition called C.A.D. based on CATIA during NIMBUS.
- CIRCUIT DESIGNING
- This workshop covered everything necessary for the continued understanding of the much more advanced topics presented these days in various circuits and systems in use in the industry.
All those dealing with electronic circuit designs and development require knowledge of basic electronic components. In this workshop they were made familiar with commonly used active and passive electronic components and then made to work on circuit designing using the knowledge of components.
Students were taught the use of basic building blocks of electronic circuits using sensors, 555 timers, op-amp and other commonly used circuits in making projects.
- PHOTOGRAPHY
- It was a workshop which had in it all about Photography, camera, images and digital implications. A special interest of the participants was built towards Portrait, Landscape and Architecture. An eminent speaker and instructor was available to answer questions during this two day workshop.
- WEB TECHNOLOGIES AND WEB CMS JOOMLA
- The main aim of the workshop was to make participants understand all about Latest Web Technologies and Web Content Management System (CMS) with Joomla implementation and to begin managing their own website like a professional. Participants were provided with instructions to build and manage their own new Joomla website. A live speaker and instructor was available to answer questions during this two day workshop.
- ETHICAL HACKING
- For the First Time in India, Innobuzz Knowledge Solutions in association with APOGEE, BITS Pilnai organized a workshop on Information Security and Ethical Hacking. This workshop was designed to provide the students with knowledge on the basic as well as advanced topics of ethical hacking and information security.
Past shows
- P.A.R.I.K.R.A.M.A.
- NIMBUS 2010 witnessed a live performance by P.A.R.I.K.R.A.M.A. an Indian rock and roll band on the night of March 15, 2010.
- STAR GAZING
- On the three nights of the tech fest, festival attendees gathered with all their friends under the umbrella of constellations, planets and satellites to experience the night life of our universe.
- NIMBUS MARATHON
- On 12th MARCH 2010, Nimbus witnessed the NIMBUS MARATHON, a marathon race. It had over 200 participants which included students, correction engineers from almost every corner of the country.
- BACK TO BEDLAM-GAMING
- The bedlam was the platform where the participants from different colleges unleashed their skills and dexterity. The bedlam avenues included:
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- Counter-Strike 1.6
- FIFA 2010
- Age of Empires II: The Conquerors
- Need for Speed - Most Wanted
- GREEN HOSTEL CAMPAIGN
- Nimbus witnessed the first ever green hostel campaign, where the different hostels fought out for being the most eco-friendly of the lot.
References
- ^ M.C. Mehta Environmental Foundation
- ^ "About Us", Seedfund website
External links
Categories:- Technology conferences
- Technical festivals in India
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