HBTI Kanpur Alumni

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Established in 1921, and offering almost every engineering study stream, Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur is a premier engineering institute in India.  HBTI is associated with Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University (erstwhile Kanpur University). The admission to HBTI is through UPSEAT (also here) exam.  However, unlike other state colleges, competition in admission to HBTI is a national one, thus ensuring a diverse mix of students and richness of experience.

Lets network to take our alma mater to even greater heights!

• Aug 024, 2005: Microsoft shakes hand with HBTI, Dainik Jagran.
• Aug 09, 2005: HBTI Kanpur to have digital library, New Kerala Newspaper.
• May 07, 2005: Bangalore Alumni Meet.
• May 02, 2005: CSC recruits 16 students from IIIrd year. (5 CS, 3 Electronics, 4 IT, 2 Electrical, 2 MCA)
• April 8-10, 2005: International Alumni Meet of Harcourtians and Seminar cum Expo 2005 on “Role of Technical Education in Upliftment of the Society”. 
• Tech-Era'05, ( A National level technical festival, organised by Elelctronics Department) being organized during March3-March4 2005.
• HBTI organized a successful Incord during Feb15-17, 2005.
  • Contribution from Alumni across the world was galvanized.
  • Alumni Dinner hosted by Dr R P Singh, the new Director on Feb 15, 2005.
  • Event in news: Day 1, Day 2, Day 2 (another link)
• HBTI in news: A Shift from IQ, Times of India, Feb 03.
• Bangalore Harcourtians Meet was organized on 21st Jan, 2005.
• Visit this link to know what the VC has to say about HBTI getting deemed status.
• HBTI in news: Alumni contributes to development at HBTI. (Dainik Jagran, Jan 23, 2005 Kanpur)
• HBTI in news: HBTI gets a grant of Rs 25 crores.
• Fantastic Hindi blog Rojnamcha maintained by Atul Arora (MCA 1995). Winner of Best Hindi Blog award at Indibloggers.
• I visited HBTI, Kanpur during Dec 22-Dec 24, after a gap of almost 10 years. Interacted with HoDs, Students, and visited hostels.
• Meet 1031 more (as of Feb 09, 2005) Harcourtians at Batchmates.
• HBTI seats get filled on the first day of counseling itself! News item here (Amar Ujala, Aug 7, 2004)
• Harcourtian in news: Spotted this news article SAP Makes Another 'Slick' Deal With BRPL on CXOToday (Mumbai, June 14, 2004) whose target audience is usually CIOs/CEOs. Mr. S K Sharma, chief manager-IT, BRPL India Ltd, is from 1974, Plastics Technology batch.
• Accenture coming to campus on 22nd July, 2004.  They will be considering final year as well as 3rd year students. (Info courtesy R R Bhaskar, Paints '97)
• The Indo-Canadian (SICI-CIDA) Partnership Project: Managing Environmental Risks.

  Website: IndiaEnviroment , Discussion Forum open for business.

  Participating Institutions: 

  • Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, India

  • University of Guelph, Canada

• June 14: Joint Convocation for the batches 2000-01, 2001-02 & 2002-03 scheduled for June 14, 2004. But postponed later.
• June 11, 2004: Wipro takes 25 students. Out of these 25, eight are from 2004 batch and 17 from the 2005 batch.  (Info courtesy: Saurabh Katiyar, Final CSE).
• June 08, 2004: Harcourtians hit the Bull's Eye as 41 of them (3rd year) get placed with Infosys which visited the institute.
• June 06: 2004: A new HBTI community site hbtik launched. Conceptualized and maintained by Navneet Kumar (2001, Plastics Tech.)
• May 2004: IBM/Infy confirm visiting campus for placements. Unofficial word is that "this year's placements are jam-packed and most of the students of 2005 batch may get offer in June this year itself. Four companies have already visited , Infy is scheduled on Jun 8-9 followed by Wipro. Quark on 13-14. Others already lined up are Accenture, Hughes, Sify (in July).
• May 19, 2004: Manu Kuchhal (CSE, 2000), working with IBM, takes IBM to campus for recruitment. Out of 48 students eligible, 18 could clear the written test and out of those 12 were finally selected! Congatulations to those who made it to IBM and thanks to Manu! 
• May 18, 2004: Mail from Amit Kataria says that the "Examination Controller has given one month ultimatum to get their degrees from university or after that you have to collect it from college. You have to write application in the name of Examination Controller and get it forwarded from Mr. Shukla, Dy. Registrar and deposit a fee of Rs.200 at Lucknow. Make sure you go there within a month."
• May 5, 2004: A petition supported by 65+ Harcourtian graduands sent to the Director, the Registrar, and the Cice Chancellor, Kanpur University, asking them to hold convocation on time as its been getting delayed over the years causing a lot of trouble to graduands in applying for jobs and academic courses.
• 26th of March, 2004 : Mr. Satyendra Sinha (1989), Quality Assurance Manager, RSystems, visited HBTI. He had a 2 hour long interactive session with the students. It helped both the third and the final year students clear their confusions relating to IT industry.
• Whizkomp 2K4: Feb 21st, 2004
  • Info courtesy Gaurav Rai, Final lT, and President, ITEA, HBTI Kanpur

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    The two day seminar christened WHIZCOMP 2K4 on the  scintillating and all new theme of  "Recent Trends in Computing and Applications"  wrapped up on a fine note here on the 21st of March at the HBTI Campus.

    The inauguration ,Invocation and lightning of lamp was done by  our Chief guest was Mr. K.P. Singh , Director HBTI followed by Welcome Address by Amit Kumar , President ACE,after which Mr. Raghuraj Singh , Convenor and HOD CSE Deptt,introduced us about the newly formed ACE(Association of Computer Engineers ) and the ITEA (Information Technology Engineers Association) . Mr .Narendra Kohli, Organising Secy and HOD IT precised about WHIZCOMP 2K4. Our Alumni Mr. Dinesh Agarwal ,CEO Indiamart.com gave the keynote address .I delivered the vote of thanks , being the President of ITEA.

    The first day witnessed the Seminar papers presented by the HOD's and faculty members(Mostly of CSE AND IT Deptt.) of good institutes like BIET Jhansi, MMEC Gorakhpur , KNIT Sultanpur , DCE Delhi etc....
     
    The various events were the paper presentation contest, the website design contest, technical n bussiness quizzes , computer gaming etc etc.The cultural event VELOCITY was the HOT-SHOT of the day ...with fashion shows , break dances and not to forget ..harcourtians turning into music-band groups.
     
    The happening stall , where free contests such as complete the slogan , internet humours ,whats ur dream software ? , open crowd quizzes etc etc etc ......showered the whole campus with an aroma of brotherhood and enjoyment.The new songs buzzing in the campus added sweetness to the event.
     
    The second day was due for the final round of the above contests along with the prize distribution.
     
    The funding by the World Bank and the Accreditation by AICTE could be directly felt during these two days.
     
    We hope to improve the level of all such events in the future and serve our alma mater with our dedication , support invaluble views and ideas.
     
    Cheers once again for HBTI.
     
    GAURAV RAI
    FINAL IT
    (PRESI ITEA)
    HBTI KANPUR.

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• Harcourtian Mayank Sharma (ChE '95) is world's best product developer, wins American International Business Award (Stevies) :  News item in Economic Times and on Stevies website
• Department Of Computer Science, HBTI's new website
• HBTI's new website.
• Jan 04, 2004: HBTI's 11 departments get National Board of Accreditation's (NBA) certification. News item in Amar Ujala, Jan 04, 2004 (Hindi Fonts required).  PDF file. 
  • Complete state-wise list of Accredited Institutes .
• Sanjog Aul, class of 1992 (Comp Science), working as an Exec. VP with Avaal at Illionis hosts unique Internet Talkshow.
• Vikram Thukral (Plastics Tech., 96?) gets Infosys' most valuable employee of the year award award. (no response on this as yet from Vikram)
• HBTI granted Rs. 14 crore from World Bank under TEQIP programme (an earlier news item).  Proposal report prepared by HBTI is available at http://www.hbti.edu/worldbank.zip
• Anu Garg, a Harcourtian (and MS from Case Western Reserve Univ) featured on rediff: January 30, 2003, and May 21, 2001 for his very-popular service, Wordsmith.
• Harcourtians return it with love, Times of India, August 15, 2003.
• July 10th, 2003: Roger Phillips scholarship announced. (Application Form here)
• July 05, 2003: Announcement on Radiocity FM 91 for Bangalore Harcourtians to get in touch.
• May 10, 2003: Bangalore HBTI alumni meet happened.
• HBTI a hot favourite, Times of India, July 04, 2003
• A major initiative is underway to network ALL alumni (across batches, across branches) of HBTI.  Join one and only, HBTI Alumni egroup , a single-stop contact point for ALL Harcourtians.
• Official HBTI Alumni Page and  HBTI Alumni directory
• Other HBTI Links

  • The 1921 Inaugaral Address, maintained by Rajat kapoor, ChE '89

  • Alumni Page maintained by Rajat kapoor, ChE '89

  • Harcourtian's Association 1996 letter by Rajat kapoor, ChE '89

• Some other HBTI Egroups and some more 

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  Last updated: Aug 25, 2005

Created: Feb 10, 2002