A discovery starts as a spark of imagination that feeds on creativity, rational thinking and perseverance to become an instrument of change. From time immemorial, great minds have pondered on the never-ending mysteries of the universe and have attempted to understand the myriad ways in which it works. “Papyrus” is for all ignited minds who believe in the use of their intellectual proficiency as ammunition for contribution in the development of technological research of their field. If one amalgamates harnesses and unleashes the massive ravaging power of thinking units residing in the billions of heads, one can transform the world…So storm your brains and bring out the hidden innovation in you.

• Core Chemical Engineering Areas

• Process System Engineering

• Environmental/Renewable energy

• Biotechnology

• Nanotechnology

Any other topics which somewhere corelates with the above, for any such queries please contact Ms. Shreya Gupta : 09924865715

Team formation

Papyrus is open to all students of engineering, science and pharmacy branches.
Team can have maximum of 2 students.
No student can be part of more than one team.
It is not necessary that the students forming a team should be from the same college.
There is no restriction on the numbers of team from the same college.

The event would be conducted in two phases

PHASE I

Submission of abstract and full paper.
Any one of the above mentioned themes/tracks can be used.
The paper should either in form of Word Document or PDF, less than 6,000 words, Times New Roman, 12 font size, with default spacing.
The full paper (including abstract of 500 words) should reach us by 12th March  to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with subject of mail as ‘Papyrus’.

Please mention the following things on the FrontPage of your paper
Track/Theme
Author(s) Registration ID
Name of Author(s)
Name of your Topic
College Name
University Name

Based on the papers’ evaluation, best 10 papers in each track would be selected for PHASE II.

PHASE II

The paper submitted will have to be presented.

The first page of the paper should contain
Track/Theme
Author(s) Registration ID
Name of Author(s)
Name of your Topic
College Name
University Name

Picture clippings and graphs may be used.
The teams will get 8 minutes to present their paper. It will be followed by a question and answer session of 2 minutes.
The participants will have to present their paper in Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 compulsory.
We will provide computer, LCD, OHP, Mike and other requisites for presentation.
Violation of any rule can result in rejection.
The organizers reserve the right to change/update the rules of the contest at any point of time and will do their best to inform the participants of the same. However, it is ultimately the responsibility of the teams to keep themselves updated.

• Objectives
• Review of Literature
• Methodology
• Findings and Analysis
• Conclusions
• Implication/Application
• Limitations/References/Bibliography

All papers must be submitted in the prescribed format given below at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it only.
For PHASE-I selection the full paper (including abstract of 500 words) should reach us by 12^th March, 2010 to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with subject of mail as ‘Papyrus’.
On selection of Paper participants are required to send us 3 hardcopy of paper for the final presentation.

Format for Submission
The paper should either in form of Word Document or PDF, less than 6,000 words, Times New Roman, 12 font size, with default spacing.

Please mention the following things on the FrontPage of your paper
Track/Theme:
Author(s) Registration ID:
Name of Author(s):
Name of your Topic:
College Name:
University Name:

For more details contact

• Ms.Shreya Gupta: 09924865715
• Mr.Nishil Davawala:09979141019