During JOSAA counselling, while filling in the choices of various Departments students have to rely on scattered bits of information, hearsay and sometimes even guesswork. It would be much better if they can base their options on some reliable information from trusted sources. What source could be more trustworthy than the Professors themselves of the various Departments! In this video, I sit down for a discussion with a faculty member from Aerospace Engineering so that students can find comprehensive information about this Department. The interview is with Prof. Sunil Manohar Dash from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. The following questions are discussed: What is the difference between Aerospace Engineering and Aeronautical Engineering? What are the broad divisions of the Department? What are these divisions about? Which aspects of engineering do they cover? Can you give us an idea of the important/fundamental courses that are taught? What kind of students (based on their skills/temperament/academic interests) are best suited for this Department? Students learn various things in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and invariably they develop special interests in some topics. Which students would be a perfect fit for this Department based on their PCM interests? In other words, a student may be considered to be a perfect fit for this Department should be strong in which topics from PCM? How heavy is the course load? Does it leave time for extra-curricular or co-curriculuar activities (like learning programming) What kind of core jobs are there? Are these available in India? In which kinds of industries or parts of industry are engineers from this Department absolutely indispensable? To what extent do you envisage the future of this engineering discipline being impacted by AI? (Not in terms of research but in terms of requirements of engineers from this Department) What kind of skills, expertise do you think engineers from this Department would need to develop beyond their core skills? Website: http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ac.in/~jeevanjyoti/ GitHub: https://github.com/jeevanjyoti4 Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeevanjyoti Blog: https://jchakraborty.wordpress.com/ #josaa #jc #Aerospace ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZgZflrj0yQ

Many students face the dilemma of giving preference to the Department or their dream institute at the time of JOSAA counselling. In this video I share some tips to help them resolve this dilemma. The overall advice here is: Give preference to the Department because that is what students will have to study and build their career in. If they are not fundamentally interesting in the Department they choose just to be in their dream institute they are in all likelihood going to regret their decision later. The points I put forward are based on what I had seen myself when I was an undergraduate student at IIT Kharagpur and also as a faculty members over the past few years at IIT Kharagpur. This video is part of a YouTube playlist where I give various general advice to students at different levels (Bachelor, Master, PhD): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjqHSJaE98hnbB3n6qZf0xH1QneBx9zwk Video by: Dr Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty, Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur Website: http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ac.in/~jeevanjyoti/ GitHub: https://github.com/jeevanjyoti4 Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeevanjyoti Blog: https://jchakraborty.wordpress.com/ Disclaimer: I am a faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department of IIT Kharagpur. However, the views expressed in this video are my own and do not necessarily represent those of my Department or my Institute. #jc #josaa2022 #IIT ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fENTnz1Gz8

A demonstration video for beginners of the LaTeX typesetting environment on how to create citations and reference list in a quick and easy way. Use is made of LaTeX+BibTex. Video by: Dr Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty, Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur Editor used: vim Platform: Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) but with i3wm window manager PDF reader used: Zathura (People using Windows may use SumatraPDF for similar functionality) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gttr3bo7gvE

Course: Applied Elasticity (ME40605/ME60401) Instructor: Dr Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty, Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXGDv8pnDYs