The Mumbai Chapter of the Indian Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE) is hosting the Intercollegiate Engineering Quiz Contest, for the seventh consecutive year. There have already been two preliminary rounds on the beginning of March. In each round seven colleges participated.

According to the organization’s press release, the first five highest scoring teams from the two preliminary rounds will participate in the finals, that should take place on the 27th of March 2008 at the Sardar Patel College of Engineering in the afternoon, followed  by dinner. According to Rajeev Kakkar, HVAC Consultant, ISHRAE, the Mumbai Chapter’s project competition allows participants to visit manufacturing and service companies alloted to them to carry out a project. “The interaction between the student and the company provides a mutual forum for interest and potential professional employment”, he stated.

Also, Dr. Sanjeev Jain, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, recently urged HVACR industry companies to host a few of their students as trainees in summer 2008 and extend the necessary guidance and facilities to them. At IIT Delhi, an internship of  50 working days is a mandatory requirement for the degree, as this allows students to learn about an industrial setting and apply their knowledge to a specific problem by executing a project that is of current/future interest to the host organization. The training is scheduled after the student's 3rd year and this year it commences on 12th May 2008.

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