Baneesh, a 4^th year student from ECE won the title Mr. Punjab, 2019 organized by Punjab Amateur Bodybuilding Association and bagged 3^rd position in Mr. Uttrakhand 2019. He has also qualified for participation in Mr. India Body building, 2019.

"Enigma", a team of 2^nd year ECE students consisting of Karan Thakur, Anmoljeet Singh and Japneet Kaur showed technical expertise and great team work by winning 1^st prize along with 15000 INR cash prize in college Hackathon organised by IRSC (Indian Road safety and campaign) at IIT Delhi.

TEDxTIET 2019

TEDxTIET 2019 was all about the genesis of new and creative ideas on one platform. With speakers coming together from different walks of life and talking about their journeys, TEDx aimed at bringing about a change in the world through these ideas.

Thapar Institute will soon sign a comprehensive agreement with University of Toledo, Ohio, U.S. for Biomedical Engineering which will be a golden opportunity for aspiring students looking to explore studying Biomedical.

TI has been named among 80 Indian institutions eligible to apply for DAAD WISE. The German Academic Exchange Service, or DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic cooperation. It awards competitive, merit-based grants for studies and/or research internship in an accredited German institution of higher education.

TIET received CSR National Award for Excellence in Education for the year 2019 from Competition Success Review.

The travel e-commerce company, Booking.com has tied up with Thapar Institute to provide funding to female students pursuing education in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics helping bridge the gender divide within the tech sector.

Virginia Tech partners with TIET to build research centre

Thapar-Virginia Tech Centre of Excellence in Frontier Materials will be setup in Patiala to enroll faculty, post-doctoral fellows and PhD students to work on the subject. TIET will fund Virginia Tech $1 million over five years to fund the Thapar Professorship. TIET will also invest an additional $1 million over five years to build and equip the centre on its campus. Esteemed Prof Roop Mahajan will serve as inaugural Chair and will spend 3.6 months at the centre in Patiala.

Prof. Aard Groen, Dean of University of Groningen visited Thapar Institute for review of Embedding entrepreneurship in engineering education initiated by TIET.

The Food Security Centre of Excellence a joint initiative of TIET and Tel Aviv University, Israel was accorded operational on a high level meeting on 11^th May, 2019. The meeting convened by coordinator TIET/TAU Food Security Science and Technology Center Prof. Moushumi Ghosh and was chaired by Shri R.R Vederah, Hon’ble CBOG. TIET. The Director, Deputy Director, TIET and a top level delegation from Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana led by Additional Director Research Dr Thind and scientists participated in the meeting. Five interdisciplinary research projects involving scientists from TIET, PAU and TAU from Biotechnology, Civil, Mechanical, Electronics, Computer engineering department were approved. Tel Aviv University was represented by Dr Eyal Friedmann, Dr Hadas Mammane Steindel and Pof Eyal Ben Dor and Prof Yosi Sacham. The progress of the Food Security Science & Technoogy Centre was presented by Prof. Moushumi Ghosh, Head Department of Biotechnology. Prof Yosi Sacham, a distinguished scholar with long standing experience and international reputation in technology development and transfer was introduced as the Chair Professor and International director for the Food Security Science & Technology Centre.

On 11^thth May 2019, Open Day was conducted on the campus. Numerous students stepped-in to get a better understanding about placements opportunities, choice of programmes, & teaching pedagogy. They got a chance to explore the campus and interacted with students and faculties.