Schemcon

The “Students-Chemical Engineers Congress”(S-CHEMCON) is also an annual flagship event of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE). The 16th Annual Session of Students’ Chemical Engineering Congress, SCHEMCON 2020, will be organised by the Students Chapter of IIChE, Chemical Engineering Department, Kongu Engineering College, Erode, Tamil Nadu under the aegis of Coimbatore Regional Centre, IIChE on 11 and 12 September 2020. The abstract submissions starts in the month of march.

CONTACT: schemcon2020@gmail.com

WEBSITE:https://www.schemcon2020.co.in/

During the event various scholars, professors, industrial experts and students across India share their research experience and get to know each other. The event focusses mainly on students and scholars below the age of 35.x It is a wonderful platform to advance your skills, get to know about research topics, explore newer tech. The event has merits by its own ways and being a part of it, is itself a great credit to oneself.

Here are some of my experiences of participating in chemcon 2019.

The first updates are rolled out in the month of February in their official website. Keep looking for updates regularly and try ton stick to the deadline. Keep you abstract ready to update in easychair or sometimes in their page it self. You can refer to my posts on creating and handling your easy chair account from below.

Easy chair is a EasyChair is a free web-based conference management software system used, among other tasks, to organise paper submission and review. EasyChair is widely used, since 2002, in the scientific community, with reportedly more than two and a half million users in 2019. Make sure to have an account in it.

The selection of abstract is intimated by the end of august. They usually dont send a mail to tell you that you are not selected. But you can very well contact them to get more info by phone, as they dont respond well through mail. They decide- if you have to present your abstract as a paper or as a poster. They also roll out the designs for both of them. Generally, this is how it looks, you can modify a bit and deviate from the prescribed design while making the poster, but its not the case for paper presentation(for which I participated). The paper has to strictly adhere to their prescribed conditions.

The 16th edition of Schemcon in 2019 was organised in STRICT-Ankleshwar, and was attended by about 300 students all around the country. There were about 100 paper presenrtations and 40 posters. Prizes are awarded for the best paper in each session and best poster in this conference. There were also plenary lectures by top subject and matter experts with loads of information. The event occurs for 2-3 days with time for exploring the place.

Be well prepared with your presentation or posters as the people attending will have a lot of questions about it. You will have pay for the accommodation and registration separately, food is complimentary. We also got to the visit the Statue of Unity, the Worlds Largest Statue and also visited the UPL factory in ankleshwar as part of the event. We took the navjeevan express to reach ankleshwar, which is a 20 hour journey from chennai(where I live). The college is about 20 kms from the main station of ankleshwar in a place called Vataria. It was a great experience to travel through the dark and deserted roads in the night. One can also experience the greatness of the river Narmada and also the temples on its shore in Ankleshwar. We also got to taste the Great delicacies like chat items and also the gujarati thali. The place was famous for black metal jewellary and also for groundnuts.

It was an awesome experience and one should never miss a chance to attend these kind of conferences where we have both fun and knowledge gain.