e-Behind The Teacher’s Desk (e-BTTD-2020), an international student seminar on Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, was organised by Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) Jamshedpur Chapter in association with CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jamshedpur and Tata Steel Limited.
This year due to Covid-19 pandemic situation around the globe, the seminar was organised on a virtual platform in the form of e-BTTD-2020.
The aim of the seminar is to provide a common platform for promising and aspiring metallurgists to interact with the pool of experts from industries, R&D centres and academia.
The student participants of this event will get an opportunity to update their current knowledgebase, and share their academic achievements, innovative thoughts and new ideas in the field of metallurgy and materials technology.
Like previous years, this year also around 70 students from 25 engineering colleges/institutes. There were rigorous interactions among the students on the YT channel. Thereafter, a total of 17 participants were selected for presentations for the finale event which was organised on 28th Aug, 2020 through CISCO platform WebEx.