The NIT Rourkela has bagged the 1st prize in theInternational ChemE Jeopardy competition at AIChE Annual Students Conference 2021, competing against teams from around the world.
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is a professional organisation for chemical engineers with more than 60,000 members from more than 110 countries.
In the final round, the NIT Rourkela competed with team from UFRJ (The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and UNI (The National University of Engineering, Peru). The AIChE Annual Student Conference 2021 was six days’ symposium of career information, social events and competitions where student engineers from more than 200 schools celebrate Chemical Engineering profession.
For the year 2021, it was organised on November 6-8(In-Person) and November 13-15 (Virtual mode) in Boston (USA).
Team AIChE NIT Rourkela participated virtually on November 14. The outstanding performance by all four Pre- Final Year Chemical Engineering students from NIT Rourkela, i.e., Swagat Subhakanta Das, Millen Samantaray, Birupakhya Patro, and Swastik Brahma, resulted in bringing home title of 'International ChemE Jeopardy Champions' and a cash prize of $400.