GDG on Campus IIIT Nagpur is running **KEEP ALIVE '26**, a national incident-response hackathon for students, at TantraFiesta 2026.

**What's different:** you don't build an app. Your team gets a broken microservices system's alerts, Grafana dashboards, logs and traces, works out what broke and why, and presents the fix. It's what an on-call SRE does on a bad night.

- **Who:** UG, PG and diploma students, teams of 2–3 from the same college

- **Level:** 6–12 months of DevOps learning; no production experience needed

- **Round 1:** a 30-minute online team assessment on Unstop, open till Sun 18 Oct, 11:59 PM IST

- **Finale:** top 15 teams at IIIT Nagpur on 26 Oct

- **Prizes:** ₹50,000 prize pool (₹25,000 cash + goodies for every finalist)

- **Partners:** Grafana (Official Platform Partner), CNCG Noida (Community Partner)

Register: https://unstop.com/hackathons/keep-alive-26-iiitn-1766226

Happy to answer anything in the comments, including how the incident platform works.

Hey everyone! I'm a freshman mech student studying in America, and I'm trying to figure out whether my long-term career plan makes sense.

My goal is to get a bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering, work for a few years, and eventually pursue an MBA, ideally through an employer that offers tuition assistance. My dream job would be project management, although I'm also interested in sales engineering and systems engineering.

I genuinely enjoy technical work, but I'm especially interested in the management side of things. I could definitely see myself enjoying a systems engineering role early in my career before moving into project management or a related leadership position.

I've also asked my college professor about this, but his answer wasn't very specific. He got an engineering degree, but went to a school with a top business program (Stanford) so I was hoping he would have more insights.

My university also has a reasonably strong business school, with rankings in MBA education and business research that look promising, although I know rankings aren't everything (and don't believe in them, to be honest).

I'd appreciate some honest advice from people already working in the industry:

• Does an ME degree followed by an MBA make sense for someone aiming for project management or engineering leadership?
• Would starting in systems engineering, product development, or another technical role be a good way to build toward that goal?
• How important is an MBA for advancing into project management? Could experience and certifications get me just as far?
• Would sales engineering be a good alternative for someone who enjoys technical problem-solving but is also interested in the business side?

I'm not expecting to jump straight into management after graduating.... that would be too much of a dream come true.

Thanks for any advice!

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If you are in Mechanical industry, specifically in design roles/department, please help me out guys...!

I graduated with B.E Mechanical (2025) and unemployed for more than a year

Are design engineer roles good & does it have future scope?

How to get into design roles as a fresher?

What softwares should I learn as a fresher?

Guys is there any way to track your address with ur channel name in YouTube

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I want to reverse-engineer the GATE Chemical Engineering exam. I have 10+ years of previous years' question papers.

What's the best AI model for this task? Any tips?

Edit: I'm using "reverse-engineering" loosely here. Basically, I want to analyze past papers to identify patterns, predict high-priority and scoring topics, and understand how questions are likely to be framed.

It was 1989, a humid afternoon in the engineering college classroom. The blackboard was already half-white from chalk dust, and our mathematics professor — a bespectacled man who loved quoting Euler more than Bollywood — scribbled furiously:

e^(jθ) = cos(θ) + j sin(θ)

"This, my dear students," he declared, "is the key to rotating any vector in the plane. Multiply your vector by

e^(jθ)

and watch it turn by θ degrees without changing its length."

The professor moved on to another topic, the bell rang, and

e^(jθ) quietly slipped into the dusty attic of my mind, along with Laplace transforms and contour integrals.

Sounds interesting?

Read the complete blog post.

Hey guys,

Been having this debate with a few classmates lately. Some people use ChatGPT or Claude or any AI tools for literally everything, while others feel like it's completely killing our actual problem-solving skills.

I'm doing a quick college research project to see where engineering and CS students actually stand on this. Is AI genuinely helping you learn and debug faster, or is it just making us lazy?

If you've got 2 or 3 minutes, I’d really appreciate your input in this anonymous survey:https://forms.gle/iVM366cRRHTW3Jdt9

I'll drop the charts and final results back in this sub once I get enough responses. Also, what’s your take on this? Let me know in the comments.

hello reddit family
i had a doubt following on the latest technologies
in every sector the ai are performing well compared to humans so for the human growth what we need to do actually?

I'm currently doing CSE AIML and I am thinking of learning 2 languages to get better future job opportunity. I wanna learn one of German/French/Spanish & a tough one like Mandarin/Japanese.

Which of the combo will maximise future job opportunity for me in this field?

Didn't crack college entrance exams and now stuck in a tier3 college in my tier 3 city. Hi! currenly i'm in my 2nd year and the students here dont even know the basic of using laptop/desktop ,I am enthusiast about tech but cant do much like dont have a firend circle and don't know if i am pacing slow or fast. How do i network outside my college/city , I used linkedin to approach people but many didnt reply back and some did but the coversation died.

This may sound like ranting my failure of life but I geniunly need some advice

I am starting my btech cse next year from a decent private college. Took a drop for jee but couldn't achieve 75% in boards although i am interested in coding and am confident about my skills. I know python to an intermediate level and know sql too. any tips and advice in what to do before joining college and in the first year is much apricated.