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The subsidiary of South Korean tech giant Samsung India announced a fellowship programme for IIT students. Samsung fellowship programme will be granted to 130 students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and Guwahati.
The Company made the announcement regarding the scholarship on Thursday. A company statement stated that it presented fellowships to 100 undergraduate and 30 postgraduate engineering students of IITs.
The initiative reinforces Samsung's engagement towards its vision of Powering Digital India, Samsung stated.
The fellowship would assist the students in their projects varying from traffic evaluation and dynamic control of traffic lights. It will also help study anti-cancer drug analysis, intrusion detection methods, and power control for electric vehicles.
"Samsung R&D Institute India, Delhi has been serving towards improving analysis and discovery among learners at IITs, particularly those from more vulnerable sections of the society. Through Samsung Fellowship, we wish to empower the coming generations to utilise their capabilities for social good", Samsung Research and Development Institute Managing Director Deokho Kim stated.
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Final year engineering learners working on a project that would lead to software or hardware products are eligible for the fellowship. Students from deprived backgrounds are given preference. They must have an aggregate grade of over six in any branch of engineering, the statement appended.
Samsung Innovation Campus is the Company's global citizenship plan that strives to connect knowledge gaps in the nation by skilling learners on cutting-edge technologies such as IoT, pervasive computing, data science, machine learning, AR/VR and others.
Samsung currently has nine Samsung Innovation Campus at IIT-Delhi, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Hyderabad, IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Roorkee, IIT-Guwahati, IIT-Jodhpur NSUT and Delhi Technological University (DTU). So far, these labs have reached over 1,000 students.
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