Tathva

Infobox University
name = National Institute of Technology Calicut


motto = "Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya"
"May light advance piercing the shroud of darkness"
head_label = Chairman
head = S C Tripathi
free_label = Director
free = Dr. G.R.C. Reddy
type = Public
established = 1961
city = Calicut
state = Kerala
country = India
undergrad = 1600
postgrad = 700
alumni = 12700
faculty = 150
campus = 350 acres
website = http://www.nitc.ac.in

Tathva is the annual techno-management fest organized by the National Institute of Technology, Calicut(NITC),Kerala,India. The fest is organized during the month of September and lasts for four days after which the normal academic session resumes.

The fest which was started in a small scale, as a technical festival during the era of REC(NITC was formerly CREC-Calicut Regional Engineering College) has now grown by leaps and bounds attracting budding engineers from far and wide. The fest is on its way to daunt greater heights by transforming into a techno-management fest from the coming year. Apart from the showcasing of events that are of commendable nature, it is also the manifestation of the organizing capabilities of NITCians. The event attracts budding technical minds from other NITs, professional colleges and almost all the engineering colleges in Kerala. It also attracts various school students as part of the school project competitions and quizzes which also gives them the chance to get a feel of the emerging and proven technologies at the various stalls, thus inspiring them.

Tathva over the years has come to be regarded as one among the biggest technical festivals of South India.It has been held as an All India Annual technical meet since its beginning in 2001.Aimed at inspiring innovation and technical interest among students and awareness among the public, the event has played host to various intriguing lectures, seminars, workshops, competitions, paper presentations, exhibitions, quizzes, model displays and robotics events in the previous editions.

HISTORY

Tathva was started as a students’ national technical symposium in 2000. The first edition of it was conducted from 9th-11th November 2000.

TATHVA '07

Yet again proving her ardour for technological excellence, NIT Calicut presented [http://www.tathva.org TATHVA] 2007 during 27th to 30th of September 2007. Like its previous editions TATHVA 2007 also became a proving ground for the wizards of tomorrow to test their mettle and gather the pearls of information which flooded the fete all the four days through events of international standards, lectures by the frontrunners in various fields, workshops and informative stalls. It too asserted the brand's ever alive thirst to grow in all respects and achieve a distinct standing among its contemporaries.

The torch of TATHVA 2007 was set ablaze in the inaugural ceremony on the evening the 27th september 2007 at NITC and the days followed saw the participation from all over south India. Unlike its precedents TATHVA 2007 rose to a techno-management fete widening its vistas with the business competitions "B-APTIST" and "BULLS N BEARS". The 2007 edition also saw superior robotic events like "Minimouse"(automatic grid solving robot), "ibot" (imageprocessing robot) along with the classic, "league of machines"(robosoccer). Associating with techfest 2008, tathva became venue for Nexus -their robotics prelims.

Tathva 2007 was privileged to present video conferences with Jimmy wales, the wiki guru and Aaron swartz, the technology whiz kid. It too hosted lectures of frontrunners like Dr subramonia sarma(director PGP, ISB), Nagendran S(NAL), Mr Hemachandran S(VSSC), Dr P S Harikumar(CWRDM).

Asserting the necessity of effective managerial skills and role of 'market' in developing science and technology, Tathva became venue for the entrepreneurship workshop by Mr Vinod Dumblekar of MANTIS group. The workshop which got mass reception, informed and inspired the crowd at Tathva to become corporate visionaries. The image processing workshop at Tathva too saw a greater quanta of participation and budding enthusiasm among the young ' would be technocrats'.

The external appeal of an event is often apprehended by the weight of its sponsors and Tathva was honoured to have the PSU ONGC, SBI, Canara Bank and global corporate giants like Toshiba, Aricent, Wipro, Accenture, Larsen and Toubro, Satyam and Reliance General Insurance.

In short, Tathva 2007 was a munificent gift from NITC to science and technology and duty of a T-school of her standing, bountifully fulfilled, living the caption 'inspiring innovation'.

TATHVA '06

Tathva '06 was as successful as a technical festival could be. With an attendance of more than 700 registered participants and 64 colleges, Tathva '06 with its tagline of "Grey Matters" , could be sealed as the most innovative Tathva to date. Keeping abreast the modern trends , the main highlights were the Robotics competitions held over the three days. Robotics competitions included Capto-tractus(line following robot), League of the Machines (robosoccer), Transporter and Cruise Control. Participation in these were impressive and extremely competitive skills were put up by all teams. Various other innovative Design on Paper competitions and Model displays evidently kept the Grey-matters running. In addition, there were more than 25 competitions spanning over the various branches of engineering. Besides these deviceful competitions the fest played venue for various seminars, workshops and exhibitions. The key features included the HAM Radio and Automobile Embedded Systems workshop, seminars on "India in space" , "Chaos Theory", "Spoken Dialog Systems", etc. One of the most creative display by the students of the college was "Return to the Montgolfier" , where students launched self-made hot-air balloons. The various exhibitions set up by the college and ISRO attracted many students as well as the general public.

TATHVA '05

Tathva ‘05, which was held from Sept-30 to Oct-2, acted as a platform for the engineering minds to demonstrate their intellectual prowess and innovative ideas. True to the tagline “Where parallels converge”, the fest saw the confluence of ideas in different fields of scientific interest. This edition of Tathva saw over 300 participants from over 60 colleges, battling it out, under different events like ‘Spardha’, the paper presentation contest, ‘Prayoga’, the design contest, ‘Prashnothara’, the technical quiz and ‘Pradarshini’, the model exhibition. Aero enthusiasts were spellbound by the model air show conducted by Bangalore based Sri. P Easwar as a part of the fest . The Crossroads- the only quiz fest of its kind in Kerala- conducted by the Enquire club of NITC was one of the star attractions of the fest.The quiz fest also saw one of the most prominent quiz masters of all time- Arul Mani - of Karnataka Quiz Association(KQA) hosting a quiz.

TATHVA '04

Tathva 2004 was held from 28 February to 1 March. It was this year that Tathva transformed itself from a technical presentation contest into a fully fledged techo fest. The tagline in 2004 was "The Joy of Innovation". Complete funding for Tathva came from corporate sponsorship and alumni contribution. For the second year running there was an open house and a science Exhibition. The various events were organised by the various departments under their own banners as Vigyan - The Quest for Discovery (Science), Vishvakarma - the Quintessence of Creativity (Architecture), Lakshya - Focus on the Virtual (Computer Science), Kanika - Small is Beautiful (Electronics), Vidyulatha - The Power of Electricity (Electrical), Yantramaya - The Magic of Machines (Mechanical) and Nirmaan -Cementing Aspirations (Civil). Events like the 'Debugging Contest','Board game design ', 'Quick circuit design', 'Rural innovation' and 'The structure building competition' were held for the first time.

TATHVA '03

After CREC got a facelift to NIT-C,the tech-fest saw a growth in terms of stature and a widening of realms. Conducted on 6th, 7th, and 8th of March, Tathva 03, for the first time, was a united effort of all the departments of NIT-C including Mathematics and Applied Sciences. There were a wide range of competitions including Paper Presentation, Design Contests, Technical Quizzes etc which covered all fields and provided a platform for students from all over the nation to exhibit their knowledge and skills. The fest also hosted some workshops on management and software and saw a participation of about 40 colleges from various parts of the country. Another major attraction was the Open House Exhibition in which, for the first time since 1986, all the labs and workshops of NIT-C were open for the general public. Also part of this exhibition was a scintillating display of talents that attracted more than 2000 visitors which included students from schools and colleges, as well as the general public. On the whole year 2003 showed a complete facelift for Tathva as it was known, latching to it the tag of one of the best Tech-fests in South India.

TATHVA '02

Tathva 02 was much different from the humble beginning it made the year before. It was with this edition, that Tathva saw it being placed as an annual event in the college calendar. The inaugural function saw Dr P.S. Nair (the then Group Director of Aerostructures Division ISRO) and Dr V.A.Thomas(the then Director of Programme Planning ,ISRO) addressing the audience and stressing the need for technical excellence. Apart from paper presentations in five different streams of engineering, there were design contests, software contest and twin workshops, one on information technology and one on management. The workshops were handled by reputed professionals in respective fields. Students of nearly 40 institutions from various parts of the country attended the festival. Tathva 02, sponsored by AICTE, ISRO & CSIR-India provided an opportunity for students to interact in an intellectually stimulating environment as well as to promote the scientific temper and creativity among the student community.

OVERVIEW OF THE EVENTS

COMPETITIONS

EMINARS

WORKSHOPS

EXHIBITIONS

External links

* [http://www.tathva.org Official Tathva Website]
* [http://www.nitc.ac.in NITC Home Page]

Tathva Newsreports

* [http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/20/stories/2007092051280200.htm Tathva 07 Launch ]
* [http://www.thehindu.com/2007/09/28/stories/2007092851500300.htm Tathva 07 Inauguration]
* [http://www.thehindu.com/2007/09/30/stories/2007093050770300.htm Tathva 07 Conclusion]
* [http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/27/stories/2006102705580300.htm Tathva 06]
* [http://www.thehindu.com/2006/10/29/stories/2006102906940300.htm Tathva 06 ]
* [http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/03/01/stories/2004030101870300.htm Tathva 04]