Civil Engineering Department has always been actively carrying out innovative research work in its department.

To receive inputs from across the world, we bring the competition-Ideaz. This year topics for paper presentation are as follows: Structural, Hydraulic and Geotechnical Engineering Geomatics, Environmental and Transportation Engineering

General Rules
1. Any undergraduate or masters student of any discipline is eligible to participate in this event. However PhD students and research scholars are not allowed to present their papers 2. Each team may have a maximum of three members. 3. No team is allowed to send more than one entry for the same departmental cell, but you are free to send multiple entries provided your papers are related to different cells. 4. This event will be conducted in two stages and its detailed procedures have been clarified below. STAGE-I: Abstract Submissions

1) Participants are needed to send in the abstract of the original/review work including the references, the idea proposed with figures (if needed) to cognizance2013.civil@gmail.com. 2) Abstract should not exceed 500 words and the covering page of the abstract must have Name(s), Institution of study, Email address(s), contact number(s), Name of the cell you wish to present the paper in, & Topic of paper presentation , Cogni ids of all the team members. 3) Your email should have the category name and team id as your subject and your file name should have the title of the concerned paper. For Example, A paper on simulation of a Hydrocracker unit in a refinery unit should have its mail subject as IDEAZ: Modelling, Simulation, Design and Process Control: COG13/XXXXXX and its title as Simulation of Hydrocracker unit.

4) Selection to the next round for final presentations will be based on the abstract submitted. 5) Deadline for Abstract Submissions is 15TH February 2013. 6) The result for the first round will be put up on the website till 20th February 2013 and will also be mailed to you. 7) For any particular queries regarding paper presentations, please contact the event coordinators (contacts have been mentioned below).

STAGE-II: Full Paper Submissions

The second round will be conducted at IIT Roorkee during COGNIZANCE 2013 (22-24 March). 1) Participants should submit their full paper in .doc and .pdf format. You need to bring three hardcopies of your complete paper (i.e. printed report) & two passport size photographs of each participant along with all the necessary details attached. 2) Formatting rules should be strictly followed. A font type of Bookman Old Style with a font size of 12 should be kept. 3) Participants should ensure that their papers include all relevant figures, tables and bibliography. 4) Submissions, in any case, should not exceed 12 pages in length, double-columned. Final Presentations 1) Final Presentations should be in .ppt format strictly and should be timed for 15 min. (12 minutes for presentation and 3 minutes for Question and Answer round. 2) The decision of the judges shall be final and binding. REGISTRATION PROCEDURE The registration shall be done through the Cognizance website.

Steps 1. Each Member needs to register on the website. This will generate a unique cogni id. 2. The Team Leader (which you will select yourself) needs to login into the website through his username and password. 3. The Ideaz event page has the tab Register to register the team for the event. 4. This will generate your Team Id and a mail shall be sent to the mail id of team leader about the registration. Submit your entries and mail your queries to cognizance2013.civil@gmail.com.
For Further Details Contact:

Anurag Pandey
Manager Events Department of Civil Engineering

Ph. +91-7895661366