Volume: 3Issue: 3February 2019

A Monthly Newsletter of SCMS Group of Educational Institutions, Cochin, India.

Dr. G.P.C.NayarFounder & Chairman

SCMS Group of Educational Institutions

With the intention of renovating the house, a man in Japan breaks open the wall. Japanese houses usually have a hollow space between the wooden walls. When splitting open the walls, he found that there was a lizard stuck there because a nail from outside hammered into one of its feet.

On seeing this he feels pity for the creature. At the same time he becomes curious, because when he checked the nail, it was nailed some five years ago when the house was first built.

What a great surprise? The lizard has survived in such position for five years! In a dark wall partition for five years without moving; it is something impossible and mind-boggling. Then he wondered how this lizard survived for five years without moving a single step - since its foot was nailed!

So he stopped his work and observed the lizard, what it has been doing, and what and how it has been eating. Later, not knowing from where it came, appears another lizard, with food in its mouth. Ah! He was stunned and touched deeply. For the lizard, that was stuck by nail, another lizard has been feeding it for the past five years.

Imagine, it has been doing that untiringly for five long years, covering almost the entire lifespan of the animal, without giving up hope on its partner.

Think, will you do that to your partner? Think, will you do it to your mom, who brought you after a big struggle of nine long months? Or at least to your dad, brothers, sisters, friends and co-workers?

Imagine what a small creature can do that a creature blessed with a brilliant mind can’t.

As information and communication technology advances, our access to information becomes faster and faster. But the distance between human beings, is it getting closer as well?

Please never abandon your loved ones.

Never say you are busy when they really need you. You may have the entire world at your feet. But you might be the only world to them. A moment of negligence might break the very heart which loves you through all odds.

To live use heart and to survive use brains. Then life would be a paradise unfurling only love, joy and happiness.

“Love is the ocean which accepts all manner of the rivers without questioning their origin.”

Dr. G.P.C.Nayar

When a lizard can, why can’t we?

Dr.Pradeep Thevannoor’s vision, imagination and untiring energy continue to inspire -- Governor Justice (Retd.) P.Sathasivam

India is one of the youngest nations, with more than 54

percent of the population below 25 years of age and more than 64 percent of the people in the working age group. The true potential of this demographic dividend should be fully real-ised. Through this large population of youth, India could corner most of the lucrative jobs in the emerging sectors in the world, if we really prepare for it, said Governor Justice (Retd.) P. Sathasivam while inaugurating the Dr.Pradeep P.Thevannoor Commemorative Annual Lecture Series at the Prathap Nagar campus of SCMS Group of Institutions. The topic chosen for the inaugural lecture was ‘Youth – The Architects of the Future.’

Governor of Kerala Justice (Retd.) P. Sathasivam inaugurating the Dr. Pradeep P. Thevannoor Commemorative Annual Lecture Series by lighting the lamp. Prof.Pramod P.Thevannoor Vice Chairman SCMS Group, Prof. Baiju Radhakrishnan, Dr. Radha Thevannoor, Prof. S.Gopakumar and Dr. Indu Nair, Group Directors are also in the picture.

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Mr. P.A. Nagarajan, the Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary of Tata Ceramics Ltd., gave a talk on ‘Decision making in a dynam-ic world’ to MBA and PGDM students on December 20, 2018. Mr. Nagarajan cautioned the students that the corporate world which awaited them is dynamic and education and knowledge they now acquire from college will just be a small platform to lean on. The 3 Cs of decision making i.e. Command,

Consult, and Consensus, the DARE (Define, Assess, Respond and Evaluate) models of decision making and the different decision making tools were also addressed in the talk. He gave examples on decision making from Tata Nano, Tata Salt and the like. The talk was an eye opener to the management students on the corporate world.

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SCMS SpectrumSCMS Group launches InnovatioNext CentreSCMS inaugurated InnovatioNext Centre on December 28, 2018.

Mr. Pravin Rajpal who is the founder and CEO of InnovatioNext and World Innovation Network Pvt. Ltd. was present to inaugurate the function along with Prof. Pramod P. Thevanoor, Vice Chairman of SCMS Group.

Mr. Pravin Rajpal, Founder and CEO of InnovatioNext and World Innovation Network Pvt. Ltd. speaking after launching the InnovatioNext Centre at SCMS COCHIN School of Business. Seated beside him are L-R: Dr. C.N.Narayana, Director, SCMS COCHIN School of Business, Prof. Pramod P.Thevannoor, Vice Chairman, SCMS Group and Mr.Baiju Radhakrishnan, Group Director.

A training for all faculty and select students of SCMS Group was conducted on the next day.

Mr. Pravin Rajpal phrases the InnovationNext Centre as Industry 4.0 centre of Intrapreneurship where projects can be undertaken that transform into Breakthrough Innovation Models by using Innovation Mind Map Templates provided in the InnovatioNext Centre.

Diverse projects may be undertaken in this centre for creating solutions for real life and meeting the challenges of industry, customers, community and society.

Nav Disha -- Two-day Development Programme for Indane Distributors

SCMS is the nodal agency for imparting developmen-tal training to the distributors of Indian Oil LPG

division operating in Kerala. The first Nava Disha programme was conducted in September 2018 at SCMS campus.

The fourth Nav Disha programme was conducted on December 14 and 15, 2018 at Hotel Marina Residency, Kozhikode. This was the second training programme for distributors under Kozhikode Area Office. There were 38 participants for the programme.

The training programme was inaugurated by Mr.S.S.R.K. Murthy, Chief Area Manager, Kozhikode Area Office. He stressed the need for a change in the business approach of distributors and wished that they would fully utilise the opportunity to learn about the changes that are taking place in the environment and re-orient their business towards customers.

There were three sessions on the first day on the topics like self-development and self management, leadership and team management, and managing the work force. The sessions on the second day were on topics like distributorship operations, best sales practices, customer orientation and CRM, and profitability improvement. Dr.Mohan B., Associate Professor, Prof.R.T.R.Varma, Mr.Praveen Madhavan, Assistant Professor and Mr.Sandeep of Glowmind were the resource persons.

Mr. S.S.R.K. Murthy, Chief Area Manager, Kozhikode Area Office was the chief guest at the concluding session. He distributed certificates to the participants. Dr.C.N.Narayana, Director, SCMS COCHIN School of Business also addressed the participants.

The fifth batch of Nav Disha programme was conducted at Hotel Blue Nile, Kannur on December 17 and 18, 2018. The programme was inaugurated by Ms. Chitra, Manager Sales-Kannur Area, IOC.

Prof.Cherian Peter, Dr.Mohan B., Associate Professor, Dr.Bindu K.Nambiar, Associate Professor and Mr.Praveen Madhavan, Assis-tant Professor were the resource persons.

The participants are seen along with Mr.S.S.R.K. Murthy, Chief Area Manag-er, Kozhikode Area Office, IOC, Dr.C.N.Narayana, Director, SCMS COCHIN School of Business, Dr.Mohan B., Associate Professor and Consultan-cy-in-charge and the resource persons.

The participants are seen along with Ms. Chitra, Manager Sales-Kannur Area, IOC, Dr.Mohan B., Associate Professor and Consultancy-in-charge and other resource persons.

Institute industry interaction

Mr. P.A. Nagarajan

Christmas celebratedChristmas was celebrated at the campus under the auspices of Tarang, the Cultural Club on December 21.There was a carol singing competition for students.

Carol singing by the staff and the faculty.

SCMS Group together. Alumni from PGDM, MBA, MCA, BTech and PGD PR courses were delighted at the best turnout ever with over 180 members in attendance.

The association was christened as ‘Eno-sis.’ The Greek word ‘enosis’ means union.

There was a presentation of the logo of the association and the rationale behind it.

Apart from Prof.Pramod P.Thevannoor, Vice Chairman and the Group Directors, the Principals and all the members of the faculty from all the institutions participated.

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The spirit of youth, as described by Dr.S.Radhakrishnan, our former President is a flexibility of mind, spirit of adventure and the eager-ness to improve on the past. The great Statesmen who framed our Constitution and gave us the duty of creating a caste-less and classless society, would have certainly expected the involvement of our youth in such a noble effort. Such a social transformation can become a reality only if national resources, development and opportunities for growth reach every citizen, especially the youth, regardless of gender, religion or caste, the Governor stated.

While we expect from the youth, the responsibility of being at the fore-front of our nation building activities, we have to ask ourselves, whether we have done enough to help them realise their potential. As a nation, we have a responsibility to save our youth from being misdirected by people and organisations with vested interests, the Governor remarked.

To make our youth properly skilled, we need to urgently fine-tune our syllabi in order to accommodate employability skills. We have not achieved great success in this regard so far, but many of our colleges are offering add-on courses to enhance the skills of the students. “I am glad that Kerala had managed to enter the top 25 percentile of the most employable States in as early as 2016 itself,” he commented.

He urged all institutions under the SCMS Group to include edu-cation on the Fundamental duties of citizens, as envisaged in the Directive Principles of our Constitution.

At the outset, the Governor paid his respects to the memory of Dr.Pradeep Thevannoor who served as Vice Chairman of the SCMS Group, inspiring his colleagues through words and deeds that always evinced his strong urge to take the institution to greater heights. Dr.Pradeep’s vision,imagination and untiring energy con-tinue to inspire his team to take forward his dreams of institution building, he observed.

Dr.Radha Thevannoor, Group Director and Registrar welcomed the Chief Guest and the audience. Dr.Indu Nair, Group Director proposed the vote of thanks. Prof.Baiju Radhakrishnan and Prof. S.Gopakumar, Group Directors also spoke.

Alumni Association reunion held at SCMS campus

The annual homecom-ing of SCMS Alumni Association was held at the Prathap Nagar campus of SCMS on

January 12. It was for the first time that a re-union took place for all the institutions under

FDP on Teaching and Learning: Innovative Approaches

Prof. S.Gopakumar, Group Director speaking at the faculty development programme by Dr. K.P.Ouseph IFS (Retd.), Specialist- Training and Development.

As a part of its policy to provide the best quality services and to compete healthily in the international market, SCMS Group has decided to introduce Quality Circles as its strategy. The objective of the new venture is to grow from ‘good to great’ by making use of the knowledge and creativity of the people doing the job through participatory mode.

As the first step towards this objective a faculty development programme was conducted for the benefit of PGDM and MBA faculty members on December 22, 2018 and January 4, 2019. Dr.K.P.Ouseph IFS (Retd.), Specialist- Training and Development, SCMS Group conducted the session.

SSTM News

Dr.Bindu K.Nambiar, Associate Professor was an invited resource person for a talk on career guidance for high school students at Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir, Elamakkara on January 19.

Resource person for career guidance

Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam organised a two-day workshop on Restructuring the Curriculum of the Post Graduate Degree Courses in Biosciences at Mar Athanasios College for Advanced Studies, Thiruvalla on January 10 and 11. The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. C.Mohankumar, Director, SCMS Insti-tute for Bioscience and Biotech Research and Development.

Dr.Mohankumar inaugurated the workshop

SCMS School of Technology and Management

A group photo of the participants of the alumni reunion.

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Papers published Mr. Vignesh Karthik S.A., Assistant Professor published an article ‘A study of the influence of negative E WOM on the customer preference of movies through apps and review blogs,’ in the International Journal of Management Technology and Engineering (Online ISSN 2249-7455), Vol. 8, Issue 12, December 2018. (UGC listed Journal).

A paper co-authored by Dr. Anjana S.Chandran , Assistant Professor-MCA titled ‘GLEnc Algorithm to Secure Data in Public Cloud Environment’ has been published by IEEE in 2018 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics with DOI: 10.1109/ICACCI.2018.8554451.Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 03 December 2018.

Faculty achievementMr. Binu V.S., Assistant Professor cleared NISM Series X A Investment Adviser Level 1. This is his third NISM after Series V A and Series VII.

Students achievement28 students of MBA Finance specialisation have passed NISM Series V A Mutual Fund Distribution exam this year. The top scorer is Amar Shariar with 76 percent marks. His is the topper among the past three batches.

FDP/ workshop attendedMs. Raymol Mary Jose and Mr. Mariadas Ronnie C.P., Assistant Professors-MCA attended Google FDP on ‘Android Developer Fundamentals’ held at Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kalady from December 17 to 21, 2018.

Ms. Rekha Sunny and Ms. Anupama Usha, Assistant Professors-MCA attended a ‘Two-day National Hands-On Workshop on Angular 6 – One Framework: Mobile & Desktop’ on December 6 and 7, 2018 at Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kala-massery, Kochi.

SSET Digest SCMS School of Engineeering and Technology

SCMS Water Institute and Kochi Metro Rail Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding for conducting a study to identify effective utilisation of rainwater collected over metro stations, depot and viaducts. The main objective of the study, which will be completed in three months, is to have a comprehensive water management policy for the operations of Kochi Metro.

“There is scarcity of water everywhere. To counter this extraordinary situation every effort to conserve water has to be taken. Through the initiative we are sending a wonderful message to the society that whatever be the space available, water should be conserved,” said Mr.A.P.M. Mohammed Hanish IAS, MD, KMRL.

SCMS Water Institute will conduct a water audit of metro facilities and explore con-servation opportunities. SCMS will provide

SCMS Water Institute signs MoU with KMRL

technical support in the formulation of Kochi Metro water policy, water literacy promotion and dissemination of water harvesting con-cepts among different sections of society.

KMRL has an average rooftop area of 2,000 sq.m. and about 6 lakh kiloliters of storm water can be collected from metro station rooftops and viaducts (constructed section at present) per annum. Metro can act as a major rainwater harvesting structure for the city.

Prof. Pramod P. Thevannoor, Vice Chairman, SCMS Group and Mr. A.P. M. Mohammed Hanish IAS, MD, KMRL signed the MoU. Dr. Sunny George, Director, SCMS Water Institute, Mr. Vijesh V. K ., Scientist , Central Ground Water Board , Thiruvananthapu-ram, Mr. Kumar K.R., Director (Finance), KMRL and Mr. Thiruman Archunan, Director (Projects), KMRL attended the MoU signing function.

Mr. A. P. M. Mohammed Hanish IAS, MD, KMRL and Prof. Pramod P. Thevannoor, Vice Chairman, SCMS Group exchanging documents after signing the MoU for conducting a study on effective utilisation of rainwater collected in Metro Rail. Dr. Sunny George, Director, SCMS Water Institute looks on.

Delegation from International Water Association visits SCMS Water Institute

The delegation from International Water Association (IWA),The Netherlands visited SCMS Water Institute on December 21,

2018 and had highly appreciated the work done by SWI, particularly in addressing the real time water related problems of the local self governments of the State. The initiatives which SWI undertake for helping in ensuring water security in urban areas like Kochi and Guruvayur are the prime reason why IWA decided to visit SWI. This is because urban water security is one of most important concerns all over the world. The Department of Civil Engineering in IIT Madras has started an office for IWA for South India and it has been decid-ed that SWI shall associate with that office. In the meeting SWI had with International Water Association, they expressed the willingness to accept SWI as their technological partner for Kerala.

The delegation of IWA to SWI consisted of Prof. Kalanidhi Vairavamoorthy, Executive Director, IWA, Prof. Shajan John,

The delegation from International Water Association in discussion with Prof.Pramod P.Thevannoor, Vice Chairman, SCMS Group (extreme right) and Dr.Sunny George, Director, SCMS Water Institute (extreme left).

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wis-consin, USA and Dr. Charles Joseph, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras.

Prof. Kalanidhi Vairavamoorthy who is now an official guest to IIT Madras and one of the world’s most sought after consultants on water sector has agreed to visit SSET again tentatively in last week of January 2019 in order to deliver an invited lecture for our MTech Environmental En-gineering students on recent developments in global water research. Contd. on page 6

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SCMS Water Institute was selected by Guruvayur Municipality for conducting a City Level Water Audit for this temple city. SWI won this project through invited bid announced by the Municipality where our quote was the lowest in comparison with various other government institutions and agencies. SWI completed the study in time and made a detailed presentation of the same at the Guruvayur Municipal Council.The work was widely appreciated.

The report was handed over to the Municipality at a public function held on January 7. Prof.Pramod P.Thevannoor, Vice Chairman, SCMS Group handed over the report to Mr.K.P.Vinod, acting Municipal Chairman in the presence of Mr.K.V.Abdul Khader MLA, Prof.Santhakumari Teacher, former Municipal Chairperson and Dr.Sunny George, Director, SCMS Water Institute.

SCMS Water Institute presents the water audit report to Guruvayur Municipality

The Municipality will in turn submit the report to the State government and implement the recommen-dations made by the study.

The population of Guruvayur Municipality is only around 1 lakh but the number of pilgrims visiting this temple city every year is even higher than the entire population of Kerala State and thus water has become the most important resource limitation of this city.

SWI feels much satisfied that we won this project

through highly competitive government tender procedures and could complete the study winning appreciation from different sec-tions of the society, media and government officials. It is for the first time that a private educational institution is honoured by this local self government by arranging a public function.

Prof. Pramod P.Thevannoor, Vice Chairman, SCMS Group handing over the water audit report to Mr. K.P.Vinod, acting Municipal Chairman in the presence of Mr. K.V.Abdul Khader MLA, Prof.Santhakumari Teacher, former Municipal Chairperson and Dr. Sunny George, Director, SCMS Water Institute.

Dr. Vinod P., Professor and HoD, Dept. of CSE, presented a paper titled ‘Malware Signature Generation Using Locality Sensitive Hashing’ in the 2nd ISEA International Conference on Security and Privacy organised by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Malaviya Na-tional Institute of Technology, Jaipur, held during January 9-11.

Ms. Neenu Sebastian, Assistant Professor-CSE presented a paper titled ‘A Comparative Study of Performance and Security Issues of Public Key Cryptography and Symmetric Key Cryptography in Reversible Data Hiding’ during the 8th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies on December 17, 2018.

Ms. Nimmi K., Assistant Professor-CSE presented a paper titled ‘An Analysis of the Balance between Security and Utility of Mobile Applications’ in the IEEE International Conference on Circuits and

Papers presented

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Systems in Digital Enterprise Technology- 2018 during December 21-22, 2018.

Ms. Blessy Antony, Assistant Professor-CSE presented a paper titled ‘A Perspective View on Sybil Attack Defense Mechanism in Online Social Networks’ in the 2018 International Conference on Computational Vision and Bio Inspired Comput-ing, organised by Inventive Research Organi-sation at RVS Technical Campus, Coimbatore, during November 29-30 2018.

Mr. Santhosh G., Associate Professor-CE presented a paper titled ‘Variation of Swelling Characteristics of Bentonite Clay mixed with Jarofix and Lime’ in Indian Geotechnical Confer-ence IGC-2018 held at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, organised by IGS Bangaluru Chapter and Indian Institute of Science, Bangaluru during December 13-15, 2018.

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Ms. Diana P.G. Percy, Assistant Professor attended a five-day work-shop on Advances in Machine Learning,’ organised by the Division of Computer Science and Engineering, SOE, CUSAT under TEQIP Phase- III, during November 26-30, 2018.

Dr. Varun G. Menon, Associate Professor-CSE, Ms. Deepa K., Ms. Viji Gopal, Ms. Remya S., Ms. Blessy Antony and Ms. Binu John, Assistant Professors attended a Faculty Development Pro-gramme on ‘Applications of Innovative Tools for Creating Break-through Innovations/ Intrapreneurship Projects’ at SCMS, Muttom, on December 29, 2018.

Ms. Beena Puthillath, Assistant Professor-EEE participated in the training programme on Multivariate Data Analysis held by the Government Engineering College, Thrissur during December 17-21, 2018.

Mr. Manoj Jose Kalathil, Assistant Professor-ME attended the 4th International conference on reliability, safety and hazard held from January 11 to 13 at IIT Madras, Chennai.

Dr. Sunil Jacob, Professor and Director-Centre for Robotics and Dr. Saira Joseph, Associate Professor and HoD, Dept. of ECE attended a one-day programme on Smart India Hackathon, 2019 at MGM College of Engineering and Technology, Muvattupuzha on January 15.

Seminars, conferences and workshops attended

Workshop conductedThe Department of Computer Science and Engineering organised a two-day workshop on ‘Machine Learning and New Generation Data Analytics’ during December 18-19, 2018. Dr. Vijay Krishna Menon, Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking, Amrita School of Engineering, was the resource per-son for the workshop. There were 35 participants for the workshop from the Dept. of CSE and Dept. of ECE.

The participants of the workshop along with Dr. Vijay Krishna Menon, Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking, Amrita School of Engineering (sitting-4th from the left), Dr. Praveensal C.J., Principal, SSET and Dr. Vinod P., Professor and HoD, Dept. of CSE and Dean-Research and Publications.

Staff achievementsDr. Sheeja Janardhanan, Professor-ME is awarded with Certif-icate of Appreciation for her instrumental role as SPOC for the SWAYAM-NPTEL Local Chapter.

Dr. Balagopal G. Menon, Associate Professor-AU has received a membership in the International Association for Energy Economics, USA from January 2019 for a period of one year.

Mr. Jith J., Assistant Director-Physical Education, is appointed as Chief Coach of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technological University Cricket team in All India Inter University Competition held at Shimoga, Karnataka from January 14 to 24.

Abdul Adil Basheer of Computer Science Department at SCMS School of Engineering and Technology received the 1st Runner Up for the Student Innovator of the Year Award and a cash prize from Springer Nature for his project ‘Dynamic brake lighting and collision avoidance system’ submitted to 5th edition of the Indian Automotive Technology and Innovation Awards organised by Auto Tech Review at The Leela Ambience Delhi on December 21, 2018. The project was developed at SCMS Centre for Robotics under the supervision of Dr. Sunil Jacob. The project focuses on providing better driver-to-driver communication through the implementation of variable intensity tail lamps which would provide information respective to the rate of braking. It also works in coordination with a collision avoidance system that would detect the obstacle in front of the vehicle and brakes according to the relative velocity.

The IATIA recognises local engineering and technology development, major improvements in engineering processes, as well as significant technical upgrades.

The award was handed over by Mr.Pratap Bose, Head of Design TATA Motors and Mr.I.V. Rao, Executive Advisor , Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.

Student achievementRunner Up for the Student Innovator of the

Year Award

Dr. Sunil Jacob, Professor and Director-Centre for Robotics, SSET and Abdul Adil Basheer, Sixth Semester Computer Science Engineering student receiving the award from Mr.I. V. Rao, Executive Advisor, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. and Mr.Pratap Bose, Head of Design, TATA Motors.

SSA News SCMS School of Architecture

Guest from University of Hong KongMs. W.Ritter, a senior researcher in the Technology Research Proj-ect on intermodal transport data at the University of Hong Kong, visited SCMS School of Architecture and interacted with students and faculty on January 16.

In her lecture on the topic ‘From Transportation to Sustainable Mobility: A Public Policy Challenge,’ Ms. Ritter addressed the

Placement news (Engineering)The following numbers of offers were given to our students by various companies:

Wipro Limited(2019 batch) – 15 South Indian Bank (2018 batch) - 3 Verdant Telemetry (2018 batch) – 1 Henry and Ford Private Limited (2018 batch) – 1

The final results of Suntec Business Solutions and SMEC labs are awaited.

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As a part of the course in basic design, a carpentry workshop was conducted on December 18, 2018. Students created products using glass, tile and wood in the design studio. The purpose of the workshop was to bring in curiosity, sense of building an object and to provide hands on experience in the process of creation. There were two carpenters to guide the students in the process of creating the product and to give them an overview about wood and carpentry.

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SCP News SCMS College of Polytechnics

Ms. Ritter (sixth from left), Senior Researcher in the Technology Research Project on intermodal transport data at University of Hong Kong while on a visit to SCMS School of Architecture. Ms.Kerstin Frick, Principal-SSA is next to her.

Debate competition on International Migrants Day

Product development carpentry workshop

A debate competition was held on the topic ‘Should immigrants get the same rights as the permanent residents of a country?’ on December 18, 2018, the International Migrants Day.

Faculty achievementAr. Lijo John Mathew and Ar. Madhushita Aravind, faculty members of SCMS School of Architecture, were selected from the State to participate in the national design exhibition 2019 organised by French Language and Cultural Centre, Delhi from January 24 onward. They are also the founders of Cochin Creative Collective.

Ar. Madhushita Aravind (sitting) and Ar. Lijo John Mathew (standing)

FDP for the faculty and staffA faculty development programme was con-ducted for the entire faculty and staff of SCMS College of Polytech-nics on December 21, 2018. Dr.K.P.Ouseph IFS (Retd.), Specialist-Train-ing and Development, SCMS Group was the re-source person. He spoke on the role of the faculty, development areas

(teaching and quality circles), and contributions to the institution, students and society.

Dr. K.P.Ouseph IFS (Retd.), Specialist- Training and Development speaking at the FDP. Others in the picture are Prof. C.I.Abdul Rahiman, Director, Dr.Indu Nair, Group Director and Prof.Baby P.P., Principal.

Seminar on Automation and Building ManagementThe Electrical Engineering Students Association of SCMS College of Polytechnics conducted a full day programme on ‘Automation and Building Management’ for the students of Electrical and Elec-tronics department on January 4. The classes were handled by the engineers of SMEC LAB Automations, Ernakulam. The sessions were on Industrial Automation and Building Management Systems. The programme was inaugurated by Mr.Dileep Kumar K., General Manager, SMEC LAB Automations.

Prof. C.I.Abdul Rahiman, Director speaking at the inauguration of the seminar. Sitting beside are: Mr.Baby P.P., Principal and Mr. Dileep Kumar K., General Manager, SMEC LAB Automations.

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challenges of urban mobility to be solved in the near future.

She elaborated that transportation being one of the cross-cutting issues of the United Nations Sustainable Development goals it is also one where technology-driven solutions are considered prom-ising in getting around in increasingly congested cities. Ms. Ritter touched upon Smart City concepts that include sensor technolo-gies to monitor traffic flows and ICT systems to increase connectiv-ity in the transportation infrastructure, as well as an increased focus on fossil fuel-free public transport.

One of the key areas for urban innovation is mobility; making cities more walkable as well. Ms. Ritter emphasised that promoting a variety of transport options with a focus on public transport is a must. As most smart city planning put mobility at the core, this is an area where technology has a huge potential to make cities more sustainable and livable, she pointed out.

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We salute our founderfor his vision for a different kind of educational institution:

one that would produce scholars who look beyond conventional wisdom to improve quality of human life.

Glimpses of the founder’s day celebrated on January 23

Superb Carnatic Vocal Recital by Mr. R.K.Ranjith, SCMS alumnus PGDM batch 24. Mr. T.R.Raghu-nath, also SCMS alumnus of the same batch, on mridangam and Mr. Harishankar on violin.

Super Comedy Show by Mr. Jayaraj Warrier.