Frequently
Asked Questions(FAQ)
Our objective is:
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that a strong value can be created from a strong alumni network which
will benefit the current students, past graduates, the departments, the
College and our society in large. The role of the Bengal Engineering and
Science University Alumni Association is to enable this value creation
process by leveraging on the relationship and expertise among the alumni
and to be causal in building upon our BEC pride.
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to provide a forum for the alumni to connect back to the college and to assist
recent graduates and current students in shaping their careers.
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to provide a forum and an opportunity to the alumni to give back to the
college.
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to promote the relationship and better understanding amongst alumni,
students, and faculty of all the Departments.
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to initiate and assist in the professional furtherance of its members.
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to provide career advice and employment prospects for BEC students.
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to support the all the Departments and college in hosting social events
that will better form relationships between our existing students and our alumni.
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to conduct outreach with BEC alumni.
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to contribute to the college at large in all the Departments and the other
related technology fields.
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First version of the alumni web site was developed by Subrata Ghosh-84ME and
Swapan Saha-88EE. Apurba Tribedi-94CE and Pranesh Biswas-90CE joined later.
The present alumni web team is represented by
- Siddhartha Banerjee-2003ME
- Sanjay Ghosh-2002ETC
- Ramen Dutta-2002ETC
- Gunjan Mandal-2001ETC
- Gautam Datta-2001ME
- Chitta Haty-2000CST
- Koustav Biswas-2000 ME
- Debabrata Pal-2000EE
- Kaustabh Dasgupta-1997CE
- Apurba Tribedi-1994CE
- Pranesh Biswas-1990CE
- Bhaskar Chattopadhyay-1989ETC
- Swapan Saha-1988EE
- Rajdeep Dutta-1988EE
- Tarun Basu-1967CE
- Santosh Sinha-1965CE
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You can add your information directly to the alumni web site as follows:
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If you have already registered to the alumni web site, but your information is
not upto date, please update them as
- Visit http://www.becollege.org
- Click on "Members"
- Click on "Update Records" in the left menu bar
- Use your username/password and enter your information. If you do not
remember your username/password, please send a request to
webmaster@becollege.org with
your full name, year and department.
Someone from the alumni web team will respond to you within 8 hrs after
receiving your request.
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You can search your batchmate directly from the alumni web site as follows:
- Visit http://www.becollege.org
- Click on "Members"
- Click on "Search Alumni"
- Enter your batchmates’ information and hit "Search"
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- Visit http://www.becollege.org
- Click on "Discussion Board"
- Click on "Login"
- Either login if you already registered to the forum (different from the alumni list) or register to the forum
- Click on any forum (Example: Discuss your thought)
- Click on any topic
- To reply to the topic, click on "post reply" and enter your message and
click on "post reply" when you are done. To add a new message, click on
"new topic", and enter your message and click on "post message"
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The alumni web site maintains a list of local chapter representatives at
http://www.becollege.org -> Alumni
Chapters Section.
They either officially elected representatives and/or volunteer where
there are no official chapters. Please contact your local chapter
representative to update your information. If you are a chapter representative
and need help, please contact web team at
webmaster@becollege.org or
gbecaa@yahoo.com. Someone local to your
area will contact you either by email and/or phone.
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As part of our service to the alumni of BESU, Shibpur, we offer several useful
features such as the following:
- Viewing of detailed information about other registered alumni.
- Discussion boards with focused content, such as Seminar, Careers & Jobs.
These features are available to you only if you Sign In.
Additionally, by Signing In, you can update your profile information that is
currently stored in the alumni directory.
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Thank you for catching this error. Only the "owner" of the profile (in this case,
your friend) has the authority to change information about himself/herself.
Please notify your friend about this problem and urge him/her to correct this error.
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We take all reasonable steps to keep access to this data restricted to only
authorized people.
- We never sell this data to anybody.
- Only the very basic information (like address, phone no., e-mail id,
year of passing) about you is available to the general user from our alumni
directory.
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We offer the services on this web-site as a benefit to BESU, Shibpur alumni.
In order to provide better and focused services, we felt the need to restrict
this message board to registered alumni only. Yes, this will reduce the number
of job openings posted on this board. At the same time however, it will also
increase the quality and focus of the jobs posted here. If you want to take a
look at jobs in general (not neccessarily posted by BEINGS), there are many
other web-sites around which have hundreds of job-postings.
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To send your feedback click on "Feedback" from the link below at the site
and send your feedback to
info@becollege.org
or webmaster@becollege.org.
You can send your questions, comments, suggestions to
webmaster@becollege.org
or gbecaa@yahoo.com. You message will be either responded by
the alumni web team or will be forwarded to appropriate person in
BESU and/or alumni chapters or alumni team.
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You can get your username/password after doing the steps as follows:
After submitting the form the username/password which you have entered will
help you to log in again for modifying your information.
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Just mail to webmaster@becollege.org
and you will be informed 2-3 days later by giving your forgotten username/password.
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- Visit http://www.becollege.org
- Click on "Discussion Board" at the top menu bar.
- Click on "Register" at the top menu.
- Then follow the step to get a new username/password other than your alumni
list username.
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Work on "act locally and think globally" principle to involve local alumni with
the global alumni for the projects which are running:
- Alumni Scholarships and
- Alumni VLSI Project.
- Alumni Seminar Series
- Alumni Seminar Room Upgrade Project
A group of active alumni in the USA and Canada also implemented Alumni
Lan project at the college.
To find all the details of Alumni Projects:
- Visit http://www.becollege.org
- Click on "Projects" from the top menu bar.
- Then find the required project in the Project lists from the menu at left.
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If you notice your chapter information is incorrect and/or is missing,
please contact webmaster@becollege.org,
and we will be glad to update the page with the correct information.
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You can donate to any alumni project or involve with them. Please check
the individual project page for contact information. Otherwise, send a message
to webmaster@becollege.org
or gbecaa@yahoo.com, you will be connected to proper
alumni team.
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A registered user can change his username/password by doing the following steps:
- Visit http://www.becollege.org
- Click on "Members"
- Click on "Update Information"
- Put your present username and password in username and password field
respectively and click on "Submit Form".
- After changing your username/password hit the "Submit" button.
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This forum requires a password to proceed. To get password, please send your
Full Name, Department and year of Passing to
webmaster@becollege.org .
You will get your password within 24 hours.
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Global alumni list is distributed all alumni who registered to the alumni list and
joined distribution list,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/becollege
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Global alumni association is being formed. It will be headquartered in
Kolkata. All alumni will be notified once the association is registered.
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Chapter representatives (where it exist and volunteers where official chapters
do not exist) should contact alumni web team (email:
webmaster@becollege.org or
gbecaa@yahoo.com) to advise to add a chapter. It needs one or more chapter
representatives and they are known as "moderators" in the web site.
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Alumni web team adds/updates a moderator based on request received from the
official chapter representatives. However, moderator needs to be a registered
alumni member at http://www.becollege.org.
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Alumni newsletters are being distributed from
webmaster@becollege.org
to all alumni registered to the alumni web site,
http://www.becollege.org for last 6 years.
Since January 2005, a new distribution list is created,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/becollege,
to distribute the newsletters effectively to all members. The new delivery
mechanism allows archiving the old newsletters and offers industry grade
workflow (to approve/moderate members/messages). In future newsletters could
be delivered by regular post once the global association is formed to paid
members either directly from the headquarter or from regional chapters.
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Any alumnus, faculty, student and BESU officials along with chapter and
global association officials can contribute any BESU/alumni news, events
and major achievement which brings glory to BESU and/or alumni community
beyond any individual person.
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Alumni web team along with global alumni association and local chapters
will moderate the news items.
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Any news and events positively affect BESU will be published to the web site.
Every effort will be made to make sure any strong political and/or social
inclination is avoided. We, alumni web team, also avoid any personal attack
or profane languages in all form of correspondences and contents.
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A small alumni and faculty/BESU official runs each project. Please visit each
project page and find out the contact and team information.
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There is no organized way to help alumni in need. However in last 5/6 years
several cases are handled successfully. Each case is handled individually.
Please visit
http://www.becollege.org ->
Members -> Members in Need.
For each case a small team is formed with mainly class-mate and/or hostel-mate.
The team works with alumni volunteers across major locations and collect funds,
update the status. Fund and medical information is published to the web site
regularly. Local chapter can collect money using local organization and may
get tax benefit for the donors.
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Alumni Seminar project is run jointly by a faculty team and alumni team.
Prof. Pratik Dutta, 90 MinE leads the Faculty team and Mr. Ashish Basu,
83CE leads the alumni team. The team maintains a distribution list,
bec_seminar@yahoogroups.com.
More information is available at
http://www.becollege.org/Projects/Seminar.html
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Contact Registrar to book the guest house at BESU.
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There is no official way to donate books to BESU. You can directly contact
individual department for their interests. Otherwise contact
webmaster@becollege.org;
the web team will arrange communication with BESU including departments.
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There is a no cookie cutter solution for a new project. If you have a new idea,
talk with your fellow alumni and come up with a proposal. You can contact
webmaster@becollege.org;
the alumni web team can distribute your proposal to all interested alumni
and faculty. Even you can post your idea to the Discussion Board. In future
all proposals will be channeled through the global alumni association to manage
the project effectively. If you have an idea and resources (funds and /or subject
matter expertise), contact any official at BESU including VC, Registrar,
Dean or HoDs.
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Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur
Botanic Garden, Howrah 711 103, West Bengal, India.
Tel: 91 33 26684561-63/0521-25
Fax: 91 33 26682916/4564
http://www.becs.ac.in
Dr N. R. Banerjea, Vice Chancellor
Email: vc@becs.ac.in
Dr Indra N Sinha, Registrar
Email: regis@becs.ac.in
indranaths@yahoo.com
indranaths@lycos.com
Ph. No. ++ 91 33 2668 1503(o)
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This brief note describes how alumni list is maintained at the global alumni
web site. It provides multiple options how you can add/update information
directly or how you can contact web team members either by email or fax.
If you need help, please send a message to one of them. Someone will get
back to you either by email and/or phone. We need your help to maintain
the alumni list which is only shared for alumni/BESU activities. We make
sure the list is not used for any other purposes. We need your active
cooperation as all the team members work free for their passions for our
Alma Mater. We only can make our alumni community and our Alma Mater better
once we work together with common goals.
Please send your information in the following format
| Field Name | Example | Comments |
| FirstName | Ram | |
| Middle Initial | N | First character of your middle name, if any |
| LastName | Das | |
| Spouse | Sita | |
| Address1 | 123 Main Street | |
| Address2 | Flat # 12 | Use if you need |
| City | Kolkata | |
| State | WB | |
| ZIP/PIN | 700001 | |
| Country | India | |
| HomePhone | 123-45678 | Include country code etc. specify the format, like (965)3714721 or +965-3714721. |
| Year | 1950 | |
| Dept | CE | |
| WorkPhone | 876-5432 | Include country code etc. |
| Company | My Company | |
| Email | ram@a.com | |
| Homepage | | If you have any personal web site |
| UserName | | Choose your username for future update |
| Password | | Choose your password for future update |
| Hostel1 Name | | First Hostel Name |
| Hostel2 Name | | Second Hostel Name (only two are allowed now) |
| ChapterName | Kolkata Chapter | |
| Achievement | Chairman of my own company | |
| Comments | Like to contact my batchmates | |
| ChildName1 | Lob | |
| ChildName2 | Kush | |
| ChildName3 | | |
| Childname4 | | |
| Degree | B.E. | |
| CellPhone | 12345-67890 | |
| Alternate Email | ram@b.com | |
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If you need help in updating your information, please contact your nearest web
team members located around the world. They are alumni volunteers working for
the web site. Please contact your local chapter representatives for any official
information about your local chapter.
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By local representatives
The alumni web site maintains a list of local chapter representatives at
http://www.becollege.org ->
Alumni Chapters Section.
They either officially elected representatives and/or volunteer where
there are no official chapters. Please contact your local chapter
representative to update your information. If you are a chapter representative
and need help, please contact web team at
webmaster@becollege.org or
gbecaa@yahoo.com. Someone local to your area will contact you either by
email and/or phone.
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By global alumni web team
You have the following options to update your information:
- Add/Update to the web site yourself
- Contact your nearest alumni web team member
- Email the following information to
webmaster@becollege.org
or
gbecaa@yahoo.com
- Fax the information to +1 650-494-5035 (USA and Canada);
From other countries, 001-650-494-5035
First Name
Middle Initial
Last Name
Nickname, if any
Spouse, if any
Address1
Address2
City
State
ZIP/PIN
Country
Home Phone
Year
Dept
Work Phone
Company
Email
Homepage
UserName
Password
Hostel1 Name
Hostel2 Name
ChapterName
Achievement
Comments
ChildName1
ChildName2
ChildName3
Childname4
Degree
Cell Phone
Alternate Email
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Alumni web team is a virtual team of alumni located in almost all
major alumni hub (India, Middle East, Japan, Canada and USA) from different
batches (from 60s to 2003) manages the alumni web site, the distribution list
and email accounts (webmaster@becollege.org,
gbecaa@yahoo.com). Alumni web
team works closely with local chapters, BESU faculty, BESU administration
and the proposed global association out of Kolkata to publish information
to the web site on regular basis.
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Visit to
http://www.becollege.org
-> Alumni Chapter -> Login (Right hand top, use
username/password from alumni list) with username, password
and Action="Manage Chapter. -> Click on
Middle East (as example) -> Click on Oman Chapter (as example)
-> Click on "Add New" or "Add Event". Enter your plain text
message (Copying from Word may not work! - A Bug to be fixed).
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How to update your local member info?
Visit to
http://www.becollege.org
-> Alumni Chapter -> Login (Right hand top, use
username/password from alumni list) with username, password
and Action="Manage Member. -> Enter Country as example "Oman".
It
will bring all alumni registered from Oman. Click on the first
name of any entry and enter the info.
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How to gate “Transcript” from BESU?
To
get prompt action please contacts Mr. Gautam Biswas (+919433134161)
directly. He should try
his best to arrange for this certificate.
You can also reach in case of his unavailability to Dr.
Bhaswati Mitra, Controller of Examination (contex@becs.ac.in,
91-33-26684561/62/63, 91-33-26680521/22/23/24/25;
Extn.356/269 ).
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Last updated on 18th May 2005
