IIT Kanpur Summner Intership Program

Under the Summer Undergraduate Research Grant for Excellence (SURGE) program, undergraduate students from IITK and other participating institutions undertake short duration, but focused research projects and push their intellectual abilities beyond those driven by the classroom. The duration of the programme is 08 weeks starting from 13 May, 2014 to 15 July, 2014. Students working at IITK receive a stipend. An award plus a commendation certificate is given to those SURGE students who produce exceptional quality research during the period.

Between 2006 - 2012, 389 Grants were offered from university across the country and from participating overseas institutions as part of the SURGE program.

The SURGE program of Summer 2014 has three different components:

Surge overseas program for IITK students:

In this program, IITK students are given a unique opportunity to spend 08 weeks of the summer at the prestigious universitiy. The University for SURGE 2014 is University of Melbourne WEB, Melbourne School of Engineering WEB.

Interested students need to complete the online application form. In addition, two letters of recommendation have to be provided as hard copy to the SURGE Office. The deadline for submission and receipt of recommendation letters is February 10th. Applicants are requested to follow the instructions given in the ONLINE APPLICATION FORM,Recommendation Form.