nist e-news(vol 77, may 15, 2011) special edtion

EditorsMr. Amrut Phalguni MohantyMr. Dipti Ranjan Lenka

AdvisorsProf. Sangram Mudali

Dr. Ajit K. PandaMs. Geetika Mudali

National Institute of Science and TechnologyPalur Hills, Berhampur, Orissa.Phone: 0680-2492421, 2492422, Fax: 0680-2492627e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

SPECIAL EDITION

I am delighted that the editors of NIST E-news are publishing a special

edition covering the high points of 2010-11. Our greatest accomplishments

this year has been the fantastic progress of research and development in

NIST. The undergraduate research assistantship program is progressing well

and so are the sponsored projects of our faculty members. More than 35 referred

journal publications in this year are a satisfactory achievement. Similarly

“innovation” has been the buzz with students and faculty working jointly in

incubating new companies on the campus.

I was recently asked what an aspiring student should look for while choosing

a college for a career. My answer is “First: look at the Institute’s Promoters,

their Education, Vision, Plans, Second: Faculty, their qualifications, research,

grants, achievements, Third: Placement Track Record especially the quality

of Placements, Fourth: Student Academic Performance Track Record,

Student Activities, Sports & Extra-Curricular, Fifth: Infrastructure,

Ambience & Discipline, and Finally, Choose the Best College - Branch is

immaterial.

I want all top rankers of AIEEE and Orissa JEE to seriously consider NIST as

their choice for an engineering or management career. As we have promised,

we shall continue to pursue our goal of providing the students the highest in

quality education. As the saying goes the finest steel goes through the hottest

furnace, so shall be NIST – the hottest furnace of education.

With Best Wishes,

The finest steel goes

through the hottest

furnace, so shall be

NIST – the hottest

furnace of education.

The campus recruitment drive for the graduating batch of 2011 conducted in the month

of January was one of the most successful ones at NIST. The companies that visited

the campus were Cap Gemini, Infosys Technologies, HCL Technologies, Mahindra

Satyam, Wipro Technologies, Wipro VLSI, Acumen Consultancy Services, Sankalp

Semiconductor, TVS Motor Company, Gennum Technologies, L&T Integrated Engineering

Services, Infotech Enterprises, Mphasis. The total B.Tech. and MCA placement till date is

557. In addition, 90 job offers to NIST Business School students also sets a benchmark placement record.

Congratulations to all those who have been selected. Continue to keep your focus in the academics as this area is

equally important. Campus recruitment was not as stringent as it used to be for the previous batches because the

requirements are high and the companies are in a mood to hire as many candidates as possible. Therefore the job

market is bright with many opportunities. If the trend continues in the same way, the next batch also will be lucky!

However, there can be no easy approach for the preparations for the selection process for these companies. All the

students must put in the maximum efforts for the pre placement training especially in the area of verbal skills and

communication skills. At NIST there are lots of opportunities to develop and hone talents and personalities in

different ways. Instead of wasting time students must utilize it to the fullest and make ‘Learning’ – a continuous

process. At regular intervals they must evaluate themselves – progress towards your goals, both short and long

term. Inviting criticism from friends, teachers and parents would help them to trace their own drawbacks. Analyzing

their own strengths and weaknesses would help them to improve further. Developing leadership skills and most

importantly, improving communication skills is always paramount. Communication skills are very important for

career advancement and professional achievements.

Ms. Geetika Mudali

Prof. Sangram Mudali

National Institute of Science & Technology, Berhampur, 761008 1 of 22


The National Institute of Science & Technology (NIST) was established in the year 1996 by a group of academicians

educated in the top Institutes of India & abroad with the avowed mission to “create engineering minds capable of mastering

the global challenges of tomorrow’s technology”. The Institute is approved by the AICTE (under MHRD, Govt of India) and

is affiliated to Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT), Odisha. The Chairman of the Institute, Shri Surendra

Mudali had a dream to build a world class institution in his home state of Odisha, more specifically in an educationally

challenged location of South Orissa. In the year 1996, NIST was the first Engineering College of the entire South Odisha.

Today NIST is a leading Institute within top 100 engineering colleges of India and a leading icon in technical education in

Eastern India. The founder Director, Prof Sangram Mudali is B.Tech from IIT Kanpur (1985) & MS from Univ. of Houston,

USA (1987). He & his wife Mrs. Geetika Mudali, Placement Director (B.Tech-Osmania University, MS-NJIT, USA) left

USA to pioneer a world class institute in their home state of Odisha. Within a short span of 14 years, it has produced 4

BOYSCAST faculty scholars who have been funded by Government of India to pursue postgraduate research in the top

institutes in USA and Germany. NIST has produced 3 FullBright Scholars. Three of its faculty has won the Samant

Chandrasekhar Young Scientist Award given by the Government of Orissa. Three faculties have been awarded the

URSI Young Scientist Award. Currently 2 AICTE funded Emeritus Professors are working in NIST. More than 20 Post

doctorate scholarships have been awarded to the Institute faculty. The faculties of the Institute are alumni of IIT’s, IISc,

ISI, Jadavpur Univ., etc. The faculties of the Institute have published more than 150 journal papers in refereed journals

and are authors of about 15 books published by reputed publishing houses. The Institute also has its own publishing

house “NIST Press”. The Institute has received a number of grants, projects, special funding, travel funding, SDPs, FIST

grant, scholarships, etc., from the DST, CSIR, AICTE, IT companies, etc. In the year 2010-11, NIST has received about

Rs. 50 Lacs funding from AICTE, DST, CSIR. TIFAC (Govt. of India), IBM and CADENCE have already established

Centre of Excellences in the NIST campus to train and develop the students through certifications and small projects.

NIST has State-of-the-art-laboratories for its B.Tech and M.Tech programs. Some of the unique high end laboratories

are the Device Fabrication Lab, VLSI Design Lab, Antenna Design & Fabrication Lab, Parallel Computing Lab, Wireless

Communications Lab and Industrial Automation Lab. About 15 faculty members are currently in the process of completing

their Ph.Ds. The teaching learning process has been significantly enhanced with the availability of NPTEL courseware

(web and video based) from the IITs / IISc which are being extensively used by all NISTians. The unique product of NIST

Technology Consulting Services (NTCS) called “Online Information Systems (OIS)” is currently being used by most

Orissa colleges for the management of the institutes. NIST is a leader in implementing e-governance and best practices.

NIST has established long-lasting campus-corporate relationships with the top MNCs to train, develop, certify the

graduating students every year. Infosys Technologies conducts the Campus Connect foundation program on latest

technologies and soft-skills. They also conduct the Aspirations2020 on Programming contest, Quiz contest, outstanding

student contest and Music band competition & SPARK, an industry awareness program on IT. Wipro Technologies

conducts the Magnum Opus Project program for the recruited students. Wipro also conducts Mission10X program at

NIST. The teachers of the Institute go through a 7 days training program of teaching methodology followed by a certification

program. Wipro organizes CodeZapGuru contest every year to find the best talent in India. In 2010, 7 out of the top 10

“All’s Well that Ends Well”, in other words, an enterprise is justified so long as it turns out well in the

end. With the wrapping up of the accomplishments and landmarks of the year, be it, academics, research,

trainings and workshops, sports and cultural activities, the Campus Journalism takes the privilege of

publishing one more ‘Year round-up’ for the readers. With innumerable reasons to celebrate the success story,

the magazine awaits the arrival of new buds, bringing in new hopes and aspirations, and add few more feathers

into its cap.NIST e_news welcomes all the aspiring fresher into the abode of Learning and Wisdom.

Amrut Phalguni Mohanty Dipti Ranjan Lenka

Engineering students are from NIST who won the Wipro Technologies Code Zap Guru online coding contest from all over

India. TCS conducts its 5-phase induction program called Pre ILP program for its recruited students. Mphasis conducts

the College Connect program for students and faculties. They also run a domain skill enhancement program of the

students and faculties. IBM has launched The Great Mind Contest (TGMC), a programming contest which has lots of

prizes and job assurances on successful completion of the program.

The Institute conducts rigorous Pre-Placement Training Programmes for the B. Tech, MCA, M. Tech, MBA and

PGDM students to make them Industry-ready throughout the academic year. The Institute has tied-up with IMS and

TIME, Bhubaneswar, to train the students in Aptitude, Critical Reasoning, Spoken English, Group Discussions, Technical

and HR Interview skills. The T & P Cell assists the faculty members to provide certification courses during the summer

vacation at NIST campus on VLSI, Oracle, J2EE, CCNA, Industrial Automation, Electrical Engineering, SAP,

Software Engineering, Embedded Systems, Japanese, etc. to groom the students and make them Industry-Ready.

The Institute is also a SAP University Alliance Partner During the summer vacation every year NIST students visit the

top Institutes of India and Abroad, like, IIT, NIT, ISI, IIIT, etc. to work on small research-based projects under the guidance

of eminent Professors as a part of Academic Internship Programmes. They are also sent for Industrial visits to Tata Steel

Plants, Vedanta Aluminium Factories, ISRO, DRDO, Indian Telephone Industries, NALCO, SAIL, NTPC, HAL, etc.

NIST- Centre of Excellences

TIFAC-Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council established its Rs. 9.15 crore Centre of Excellence

at NIST on 3G/4G Communication Technologies under the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. The

foundation of this mission rests firmly on the triangular linkage between the academic institution, industry and government.

Its objective is to create a Centre of Excellence for the growth of Indian Telecom Industry and an Incubator for Emerging

Technologies in the field of Communication. For the development, training and product marketing linkage is established

with the following Industries: NI Systems, Freescale Semiconductor, Ammos Software Technologies, Altera Semiconductor,

ARM Embedded Technologies, Adya Systems & Software, Agilent Technologies, VI Microsystems, Sutra Consulting,

Sovereign Technologies, Microline India, Integrated Microsystem, Cranes Software International, CoreEL Technologies,

etc. TIFAC is led by renowned Professor Ajit K Panda, Dean, recipient of the DST BOYSCAST Scholar at University of

Michigan, USA and fellow of the ICTP, Trieste, Italy.

Cadence, a VLSI Tool Company, in association with NIST, Berhampur, Orissa, got the Cadence Centre of Excellence

inaugurated at the NIST premises on 10 th August 2010.

A total of sixty final year students registered for the same

in the Cadence lab incepted in the institute premises.

The Cadence team emphasized that the collaboration

with NIST would enable the students to be exposed to

industry relevant practical training, have access to the

latest EDA Software/flows, certifications, industry access

via cadence, soft skills training and above all, it would

build a complete solution for all pressing challenges.

Cadence has promised to celebrate a VLSI DAY in the

campus along with the other VLSI Companies. This type

of initiation by Cadence is first of its kind in India. The

first batch of 60 students has achieved over 80% placement with the highest pay package of Rs. 7.8 Lacs per annum.

IBM Center of Excellence, the 1st of its kind in Orissa, was established to give students and faculty the opportunity to

work closely with the industry and utilize both the resources in the best possible manner. IBM has donated software

worth lakhs in the fields of database engineering, software engineering, web applications, etc. In addition, IBM key faculty

is training our students towards certification. NIST faculty is working together with IBM trainers on key projects, sabbaticals,

research, etc.

The students of Biju Patnaik University of Technology have ranked NIST as the No. 1 Engineering Institute of Orissa,

having surpassed all private and government engineering colleges of the state. In an online voting portal held in May, 2010,

consisting of votes of thousands of students, NIST, has been ranked 1st with 97.2% based on parameters of industry

exposure, infrastructure, placement, learning, faculty and extracurricular activities.


B. Tech. Programs :

Computer Science and Engineering 180

Electronics and Communication Engineering 120

Electrical and Electronics Engineering 60 + 60*

Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering 60

Information Technology 90

Mechanical Engineering 60*

MCA Program:

Master in Computer Application (MCA) 60 + 60*

BOYSCAST Fellowships 4

FULLBRIGHT Fellowships 3

Samanta Chandra Shekhar Young Scientist Awardees 3

URSI Young Scientist Awardees 3

AICTE Emeritus Professors 4

Faculty members with Ph.D. Degrees 30

Faculty with Post Doctorates 20

Faculty members from IIT’s 25

Faculty with Degrees from Foreign Univ’s. 13

60 acre green and eco-friendly campus, 5 Lakh square feet of space | 600 seated boys hostel & 500 seated girls

hostel on Campus | 800 seated hostels outside campus in Berhampur | Food Court serving hygienic food |

Swimming pools | Wi-fi enabled entire campus & hostels | Tennis courts | Gym | Medical center | Billiard room|

Dedicated 10 mbps Connectivity | Multimedia Library | NPTEL Courseware

We offer the following programs with the intake as mentioned below:

M. Tech. Programs:

Computer Science and Engineering 18

Electronics and Communication Engineering 18

Electrical Engineering 18

VLSI & Embedded Systems Design 18

Wireless Communication Technology 18

Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering 18*

Nano-Technology 18*

Management Programs:

Master of Business Administration (MBA) 60 + 60*

P. G. Diploma in Management (PGDM) 180

*awaiting AICTE approval for 2011-12.


The Institute Campus

The Institute campus of 60 acres is located at the picturesque Palur Hills about 12 kms from Berhampur and 3 hours drive

from Bhubaneswar. The entire campus is 24x7 wi-fi connected. For the recreation of students and employees of the

Institute, we have Lawn Tennis court, Basket Ball court, Swimming Pool, Cricket ground, Paragliding, Gymnasium,

Adventure Sports, Wind Surfing, Canoeing, Kayaking, Himalayan Trekking, etc. A plethora of rock gardens, fruit gardens,

nurseries, water fountains, aquarium, green house for cactus vegetation, animal parks, etc., make the campus an eco-

friendly zone where man and nature coexist in a rare ambience away from the dust and grime of city life.

Student Community

About 2700 students are studying in various disciplines of B. Tech, M. Tech. (CSE, ECE, EE, VLSI and Embedded

Systems, Wireless Communications), MCA, MBA & PGDM at NIST. Students of 16 states are studying in the Institute.

The Institute runs clubs such as Robotics Club, Electronics Hobby Club, Astronomy Club, Renewable Energy Club,

Bioinformatics Club, Literary & Dramatics Club, Entrepreneurship Club, Eureka Club, Programming Club, NIST Musical

Society, GATE/GRE Club, etc. The students reside in the on-campus 600 seated Boys Hostel and 500 seated Girls

Hostel. In addition the Institute has 600 strength hostel accommodations off- campus.


1. “Enjoy Your Breath” by Maharshi Dr. Yogiraj, Founder & Chief Faculty of

Hundred Years Life Club, NIST Publications, Berhampur

2. “A Textbook of Small C Programs” A Comprehensive Introduction to ANSI

C by Dr. Ravi P Reddy, NIST Publications, Berhampur

3. “An English Vocabulary Reader” for GRE, TOEFC, GMAT, SAT, CAT,

MAT, & all Examinations requiring vocabulary skills by Dr. Ravi P Reddy, NIST

Publications, Berhampur

4. “Optimization in Engineering” by Dr. Purna Chandra Biswal, SCITECH

Publications (INDIA) Pvt. Ltd., Chennai.

5. “Probability and Statistics” by Dr. Purna Chandra Biswal, Prentice - Hallof India, New Delhi

6. “Discrete Mathematics & Graph Theory” by Dr. Purna Chandra Biswal,

Prentice - Hall of India, New Delhi

7. “Numerical Analysis” by Dr. Purna Chandra Biswal, NIST Publications,Berhampur.

8. “Linux for Beginners” A Self Study Book by K. Lakshmi Narayan, NIST

Publications, Berhampur.

9. “Web Designing with HTML, JAVA Script and Flash MX” by K. Lakshmi

Narayan , NIST Publications, Berhampur.

Papers published in International Journal in 2010 - 11

10. “MATLAB and Simulink” A Quick Start Guide by Dr. Partha S. Mallick,

SCITECH Publications (INDIA) Pvt. Ltd., Chennai

11. “Production and Operations Management” by Mr. Sushanta Tripathy,SCITECH Publications (INDIA) Pvt. Ltd., Chennai.

12. “Operation Management” by Mr. Sushanta Tripathy, S.M. Publication,

Bhubaneswar.

13. “Materials Science” by Dr. Sukanta Tripathy & Dr. Arun K. Padhy ,SCITECH Publications (INDIA) Pvt. Ltd., Chennai

14. “Digital Systems Fundamentals” by Dr. Ashutosh K Singh , Prentice - Hall

of India, New Delhi

15. “Object Oriented Programming using C++” by Mr. Muktikant Sa, SCITECH

Publications (INDIA) Pvt. Ltd

16. “Differential Equation” by Dr. P. C. Biswal, Prentice Hall of India, Ltd.

17. ‘Internet and Web Technology’ by Mr. K. Lakshmi Narayana and Ms. M.

Aparna, Faculty, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineerin, Scitech Publications

(India) Pvt. Ltd.

18. ‘C Programming’ by Mr. K. Lakshmi Narayana, Faculty, Dept. of ComputerScience and Engineering, Sure Success Publications.

Books published by NIST Faculty

1. Dr. Sidhartha Panda, “Application of non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II technique for optimal FACTS-based controller design”, Journal of the Franklin

Institute, ELSEVIER, Vol. 347, Issue 7, pp. 1047-1064, 2010. (Journal Impact Factor: 1.13).

2. Dr. Sidhartha Panda, S. C. Swain, P. K. Rautray, R. Mallik, and G. Panda, “Design and analysis of SSSC-based supplementary damping controller”,

Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory, ELSEVIER, Vol. 18, pp. 1199-1213, 2010. (Journal Impact Factor: 0.799).

3. Dr. Sidhartha Panda, S. R. Khuntia, NISTian,2006 Batch, “ANFIS Approach for TCSC-based Controller Design for Power System Stability Improvement”

and “A Comparative Study of PSO-technique and Fuzzy based SSSC Controller for Improvement of Transient Stability Performance” in the proceedings of ‘IEEE

International Conference on Communication Control and Computing Technologies (IEEE ICCCCT 2010)’, Ramanathapuram, Kanyakumari, during 7th – 9th

October, 2010.

4. Dr. Subhagata Chattopadhyay, Rabhi F., Acharya R.U., Joshi R., Gajendran R., “An Approach to Model Right Iliac Fossa Pain using Pain-only-parameters

for Screening of Acute Appendicitis”, in the ‘Journal of Medical Systems (2010)’; in press DOI: 10.1007/s10916-010-9610-0 (Indexing: *ISI/THOMSON

REUTERS, *ELSEVIER: SCOPUS, SciSearch, Pubmed/Medline) ISSN: 0148-5598 (Print) ISSN: 1573-689X (Electronic) Publisher: Springer Verlag. Impact

factor: 0.654.

5. Dr. Subhagata Chattopadhyay, Davis R.M., Menezes D.D., Singh G.,Acharya R.U., Tamura T., “Application of Bayesian Classifier for the Diagnosis of

Dental Pain”, in the ‘Journal of Medical Systems (2010)’; in press DOI: 10.1007/s10916-010-9604-y. (Indexing: *ISI/THOMSON REUTERS, *ELSEVIER:

SCOPUS, SciSearch, Pubmed/Medline) ISSN: 0148-5598 (Print) ISSN: 1573- 689X (Electronic) Publisher: Springer Verlag. Impact factor: 0.654.

6. Mr. Abhro Mukherjee, S. Sengupta, Prof., Electrical Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur, “Active Stabilization of Rotors with Circulating Forces due to Spinning

Dissipation” in the ‘International Journal of Vibration and Control’ 1077546310380728, published on November 22, 2010 as doi:10.1177/1077546310380728.

7. Ms. Sasmita Padhy, Mr. Swadhin Mishra , Dr. Susant Kumar Das, and Ms. M. Santhi Sri Rukhmini, “A Low Complexity Antenna Selection Algorithm for

MIMO System” in the ‘International Journal of Electronics Engineering’, Vol-2, Number-2, December 2010.

8. Dr. Sidhartha Panda, Dr. S.C. Swain and Dr. A. K. Baliarsingh, “Differential evolution algorithm for simultaneous tuning of excitation and FACTS-based

controller” in the International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, INDERSCIENCE Publications, UK, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 404-412, 2010.

9. Mr. Sarat Ku. Jena, S. S. Padhi, “Identification of Bottlenecks to Improve Equipment Availability: A Case Study” inthe ‘International Journal of Data Analysis

Techniques and Strategies’ Inderscience publication, UK, Vol.3, No.1, 2011, pp.105- 116.

10. Mr. Lakshmi Kanta Raju, Mr. Bhaskar Bhaula, Dr. U. K. Misra, & Dr. S. K. Sahu, “An inventory model for Weibull deteriorating items with permissible delay

in payments under inflation” in the ‘International Journal of Research & Reviews in Applied Sciences’, Volume-6, Issue-1, pp-10-17, January 2011.

11. Mr. Dulal Manna, Mr. Abhishek Bhattacharya, Mr. Bireswar Paul, & Mr. Amitava Datta, “Biomass Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Power Generation

with Supplementary Biomass Firing: Energy and Exergy based Performance Analysis” in the ‘International Journal: Energy’, Elseviewer, Impact Factor: 2.952,

doi:10.1016/ j.energy.2011.01.054.

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12. Dr. Saiful R. Mondal, Dr. A. Swaminathan, ‘Stable Functions and Extension of Vietoris’ Theorem’ in the Journal, ‘Result in Math.’ The link of the volume is

https://springerlink3.metapress.com/content/x051327772473795/ resource secured/?target=fulltext.pdf&sid=2yy2xg45pwd4l545wia5rqq3&sh=www.springer link.com.

13. Dr. Saiful R. Mondal, Dr. A. Swaminathan, ‘Geometric Properties of Generalized Bessel Functions’ in the Journal, ‘Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical

Sciences Society’. The link of the volume is http://www.emis.de/journals/BMMSS/ accepted_ papers.htm.

14. Dr. Subhagata Chattopadhyay, Mr. F. Daneshgar, “A Framework for Crisis Management in Developing Countries” in an International Journal, Intelligent

Decision Technologies, 2011; 5(2): pp. 189-199. DOI: 10.3233/ IDT-2011-0106. (Indexing: Ulrich & Scirus) ISSN: 1872-4981 Publisher: IOS press, Netherlands”.

15. Mr. Ch. Murthy, “DistributionAutomation Using Wireless Communications for Improving Reliability”, co-authored by Ms. Sasmita Kar, M. Tech., student, BIT,

Mesra, Dr. R. C. Jha and Dr. D. K. Mohanta, IEEE XPLORE, pg. 1-5, Digital Object Identifier : 10.1109/ICDECOM.2011.5738544, ISBN: 978-1-4244-9189-6.

16. T. R. Lenka and A. K. Panda, “Role of Nanoscale AlN and InN for the Microwave Characteristics of AlGaN/ (Al, In) N/GaN - based HEMT,” Fizika

i Tehnika Poluprovodnikov/ Semiconductors (Springer), Vol. 45, 2011 (In Press). Impact Factor: 0.637 (2009).

17. T. R. Lenka and A. K. Panda, “Effect of Structural Parameters on 2DEG Density and C~V Characteristics of AlxGa

1-xN/AlN/GaN-based HEMT,” Indian

Journal of Pure and applied Physics, Vol. 49, No. 6 (2011). Impact Factor: 0.3 (2009).

18. T. R. Lenka and A. K. Panda, “Characteristics Study of 2DEG Transport Properties of AlGaN/GaN and AlGaAs/GaAs-based HEMT,” Fizika i Tehnika

Poluprovodnikov/ Semiconductors (Springer) , Vol. 45, No. 5 (2011), pp.660-665. Impact Factor: 0.637 (2009).

19. T. R. Lenka and A. K. Panda, “Polarization Induced 2DEG Study of Strained Al1-x

InxN/GaN-based HEMT,” International Journal of Computer

Applications (IJCA) through ISDMISC 2011, pp. 475-478, 2011 (In Press).

20. T. R. Lenka and A. K. Panda, “Self-consistent Subband Calculations of AlxGa

1-xN/(AlN)/GaN-based High Electron Mobility Transistor ,” Advanced

Materials Research Vol. 159 (2011) pp 342-347, doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.159.342. Impact Factor: 0.232 (2009).

21. T. R. Lenka and A. K. Panda, “Effect of Nanoscale AlN layer for improving 2DEG Transport properties in AlGaN/AlN/GaN-based HEMT,”

International Journal of Pure and Applied Physics (IJPAP), Vol.6, No.4 (2010), pp.419-427. (Elsevier SCOPUS/EI Compendex/INSPEC/ACM/CSA Indexed).

22. T. R. Lenka and A. K. Panda, “Polarization Dependent Capacitance Voltage Analysis of GaN-based Heterostructure Field Effect Transistor,”

International Journal of Materials Sciences (IJoMS), Vol. 5, No. 5 (2010), pp. 747-758. (Elsevier SCOPUS/ EI Compendex/INSPEC/ACM/CSA Indexed).

23. S.P.Dash, Mihir Hota, Trinath Sahu and S.K.Tripathy “Analysis of Coupling Efficiency between Two Holey Fibers Using a Holographic Coupler”

International conference on Computing and Signal Processing (ICCSP-2011) available in IEEE explore.

24. S.K.Tripathy, Amit Suryavansi, Priyanka, “Optical Interconnects For Multichip Module Using Polymer Embedded Waveguide Gratings”, International

Journal of Material Science,Vol 5,No 5,715-722 ,2010

25. S.K.Tripathy and Lingaraj Sahu “ Efficiency Improvement in Vertical Interconnection using Phase Grating in Wave Guide”, International Journal Of

Physics,V0l.3,No.1.pp.33-39,January-June,2010

26. S.P.Dash, M.Hota and S.K.Tripathy , “Segmented Core-clad Fiber Design for Enhanced SBS Threshold and Improved Coupling Efficiency”, International

Conference on MEMS and Optoelectronics Technology(ICMOT-2010) organized by International Accreditation Council of quality Education and Research.pp76-79

27. S.S.Mishra,D.Das and S.K.Tripathy,”A New Approach to Optical Character Recognition for Oriya Based on Character Crossing Set Ratio”,Conference

proceeding NCETACS-2010,PP 42-43

28. Trinath Sahu,M.Hota and S.K.Tripathy “Analysis of Coupling Efficiency between Two Large Mode Area Photonic Crystal Fibers Using a Holographic

Coupler” presented at International conference on Radio Science(ICMARS-2010) held at International Center for Radio Science(ICRS) Jodhpur and to be published

in IEEE explore.

Papers Published by Emeritus Professors, NIST, from June 2010 - April 2011.29. M. M. Khandpekar and S. P. Pati, “Growth, Characterization, Non-Linear Optical Properties and Dislocation Studies in New GCF Crystals”, Journal of

Crystal Growth, Vol. 312, Issue 8, 01.04.2010, 1150-53, Elsevier, North Holland Publication.

30. M. M. Khandpekar and S. P. Pati, “Growth and Characterization of New Non-Linear Optical Material á-Glycine Sulpho-Nitrate (GLSN) with Stable Dielectric

and Light Dependent Properties”, Journal of Optics Communication, online: 20.03.2010, Vol. 283, pp 2700-04, 2010, Elsevier, North Holland Publication

31. Shankar P. Pati, Pravash R. Tripathy and Santosh K. Dash, “Avalanche Breakdown Characteristics of Wide Band Gap vis-à-vis Low Band Gap Junctions

and High RF Power/Low Noise Generation in ZnS DD IMPATTs”, Accepted for International Journal of Pure and Applied Physics, 2010.

32. Moumita Mukherjee, Pravash Tripathy, S. P. Pati, “Effects of Mobile Space-Charge on Dynamic Characteristics and Parasitic Resistance of InP Terahertz

IMPATT Oscillator Operating at Elevated Junction Temperature”, Archives of Applied Science Research(USA) (Release in June 2010) Manuscript No: SRL-

AASR-2010-988 Date: 21/05/2010.

33. S. K. Dash , P. R. Tripathy, MIEEE, P. K. Mishra and S. P. Pati, FIETE, ”Effect of Diffusion Impurity Profile across Junction Interface, on MM-Wave

Properties of Si Complementary SD Diodes”, Orissa Journal of Physics, pp 233-44, No. 1, Vol. 1, 2010.

34. P. R. Tripathy, R. K. Mishra and S. P. Pati, “MM-Wave Characteristics of SiC-Based IMPATT Oscillators”, IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference Proc.

(AEMC-2009) : IEEE Explore.

35. Surjyo Behera, Shamalendu Bose, D.Ndengeyintwali.electromnic “Transport through a Quantum Dot with metallic Contacts”, APS, Volume 55, No 2, March 2010.


l l l l l Prof. S. C. Bose, Sr. Scientist, CEERI, Pilani, delivered a

Guest Lecture on ‘VLSI Design’ on 28 July, 2010 to the final

year students of ECE, EIE and EEE branches and also

encouraged students to do project works on VLSI Design and

fabricate on Silicon.

l l l l l Dr. K. K. Patnaik, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of

Information Technology & Management (IIITM), Gwalior

delivered a talk on ‘High Performance and Grid Computing’ to

the Computer Science Faculty members & M. Tech. students

of the institute.

l l l l l Dr. Saroj Kumar Meher, Visiting Assistant Professor,

Center for Soft Computing Research, Indian Statistical Institute,

Kolkata, delivered a talk on ‘Granular Computing: A New

Paradigm in Information Processing’ on 10 July 2010 at NIST.

l l l l l Dr. Priya Ranjan , Assistant Professor, Department of

Electrical Engineering, IIT, Kanpur; a Ph. D. in Electrical and

Computer Engineering from University of Maryland at College

Park, delivered an invited talk on ‘Non-Linear Dynamics and

Control’ to the students and faculty members on 27th September

2010 in the institute premises. Dr. Ranjan had worked in the

field of Networking, Underwater Robot, Power System

Operation, etc.

l l l l l Dr. Ranjan Kumar Behera, Assistant Professor, Dept. of

Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),

Patna delivered a talk on ‘Renewable Energy’ on 20th December

2010. Dr. Behera has received his M. Tech. and Ph. D. degrees

from IIT Kanpur and B. Tech. from NIT Rourkela. He was a

visiting Scholar for The Center for Energy Systems, Tennessee

Technological University, Cookeville, USA. His research

interests include Design and Fabrication of Power Electronics

Circuits, Control of Electrical Drives, Renewable and Alternative

Energy. Many of the institute’s faculty members and all M.

Tech. 1st semester students attended the talk.

l l l l l Dr. Nirmal Hui, Assistant Professor, Department of

Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology

(NIT), Durgapur delivered a talk on ‘Computational

Intelligence’ from 5th -7th January, 2011. He did his Ph. D from

IIT Kharagpur, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. His research

interest lies in Robotics. All M. Tech. students and few of the

faculty members attended the informative sessions which

mainly focused on ‘Traditional Optimization’ & ‘Search

Techniques’. The talk was coordinated by Dr. Diptendu Sinha

Roy, Faculty, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering.

l l l l l Prof. B. S. Panda , Associate Professor, Department of

Applied Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),

Delhi delivered a lecture series on ‘Algorithm Analysis and

Design’ from 23rd – 25th December 2010. All the M. Tech CSE

students along with other faculty members attended the

lectures. The lecture series was coordinated by Mr. Anisur

Rahman, Faculty, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering.

A talk on NanotechnologyA Talk on Nanotechnology was delivered by Prof. S. N. Sahu,

Nanotechnology and Cluster Lab, Institute of Physics,

Bhubaneswar on 25th and 26th March 2011. Many faculty

members, staff and students attended the 2-day seminar. Prof.

Sahu delivered a series of lectures, including, Fundamentals

of Nanotechnology, Experimental Method for Characterization

of Nano Material, and Application of Nano Material in Alcohol

Sensor, Glucose Sensor Devices. The aim of the lecture series

was to motivate the young faculty members and students to

pursue a career in the field of Nanotechnology.

Funds to NIST in 2010-111. AICTE Industry Institute Partnership Cell (IIPC) Grant of Rs. 6.56 Lacs vide RIFD/IIPC(52)/2010-11 dated 31.3.2011.

2. AICTE Funded SDP for Rs. 2.10 Lacs on “Application of Econometrics Tools for Management Research” vide 1-78/

RIFD/SDP(54)/2010-11 dated 28.3.11.

3. AICTE financial assistance of Rs. 5.76 Lakhs as PG GATE scholarship vide F. No.PG/GATE-SCH/2002-2003/161

dated 3/3/2011.

4. DST Inspire Grant of Rs. 10.0 Lacs for conduct of Inspire 2010 Science Camp.

5. DST, CSIR, UGC Travel Grant of Rs. 0.68 Lacs to faculty to attend Conference.

6. DST SERC Project Grant on “HEMT Modeling for High Frequency Communication Circuit” of Rs.27.0 Lakhs in the

year 2010-11.

7. MSME Project Grant on “K-Technologies” of Rs.9.64 Lakhs in the year 2009-10 vide No.6(19)/(NMCPIncubator/

Meeting/2009-10 dated 29/3/2010.

8. MSME Project Grant on “Wi-Fi Electronic Guide/E-Guide for Tourist Application” of Rs.12.7 Lakhs in the year 2009-

10 vide No.6(19)/(NMCPIncubator/Meeting/2009-10 dated 29/3/2010.

9. MSME Project Grant on “A service aimed at students community to understand Industry needs and its best

practices” of Rs.7.36 Lakhs in the year 2009-10 vide No.6(19)/(NMCPIncubator/Meeting/2009-10 dated 29/3/2010.

10. MSME Project Grant on “Noiseless Solar Grass Cutter” of Rs.10.0 Lakhs in the year 2009-10 vide No.6(19)/

(NMCPIncubator/Meeting/2009-10 dated 29/3/2010.FU

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Dr. Arun Kumar Padhy

Dr. E.Raja Rao

Mr. Trupti R Lenka

Asst. Prof., Dept. of Electronics and

Communications Engineering, received the

DST Young Scientist Grant for International

Travel Support (ITS), Travel Grant fromCCSTDS/INSA, Chennai and Grant of Partial

Financial Assistance (PFA) from CSIR

towards International Travel to attend the International Conferenceon Micro Nano Devices, Structure and Computing Systems

(MNDSCS 2010) at Singapore. During his stay, he visited the

National University of Singapore to have an exposure of the State-of-Art Laboratories of Department of Electrical and Computer

Science Engineering.

Faculty, Dept. of Management Studies, has

been certified as a ‘AIMA (All IndiaManagement Association) Accredited

Management Teacher’. She has now been

empanelled on a number of organizations as

exam setter/evaluator/ trainer etc.

Ms. Sanjukta Mohapatra

Ms. Tripti Mund

Faculty,

Dept. of

English,completed

Post

GraduateDiploma in

Teaching

English from English andForeign Language University

(EFLU, earlier CIEFL),

Hyderabad.

Faculty,Dept. of

English

cleared theBusiness

English

CertificateVantage

Examination held at the

Institute and is now a

Cambridge UniversityCertified BEC Trainer.

Ms. Sreta Patnaik

Dr. Saiful Rahman Mondal

Faculty, Dept. of Mathematics, has been

awarded with his Ph.D. Degree on the Thesis,titled, “Geometric Properties of

Hypergeometric Type Functions using

Positivity of Trigonometric Sums” from IIT,

Roorkee, at the Convocation held on 13th Nov.2010 under the supervision of his guide, Dr. A. Swaminathan.

Prof.,Dept. of

Chemistry,

visited IIT,Chennai

under

Indian

NationalScience Academy (INSA)

Visiting Fellow Program. He

worked with Prof. AshokMishra, Dept. of Chemistry

and carried out research on

‘Fluorescence ActiveMolecules for Metal ion and

pH Sensing’.

Prof. Dept.of English,

won a

VisitingFellowship

for one

month to

the Centre for Contemporary Theory,

Baroda, the foremost Center in developingLiterary Theory in the country. He worked

on an avant-garde topic, “A Theoretical

Construct for the Reading of the

Postmodernist A-canonical Texts.”

Best B. Tech. Project Advisor Award

1st Prize

Project Title

Smart Surveillance System using Mobibot

Advisor

Mr. Rajesh Kumar Dash

Project Title

Smart Surveillance System using Mobibot

AdvisorMr. Nihar Ranjan Sahu

Project Title

Implementation of Speech using DSP

Processor

AdvisorMr. Satyabrata Das

2nd Prize:

Project Title

The AQUABOT

Advisor

Mr. Nihar Ranjan Sahu


A Mr. K. Venketeswar Reddy, B. Tech., final year student has been awarded with the 1st prize in the

State Level Essay Competition on ‘Oil and Gas Conservation and its Relevance in Daily Life’, in Oriya

during the observation of Oil and Gas Conservation Fortnight 2011, Govt. of India. The award was presented

by the Secretary to the Govt. of India, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Chairman, Petroleum

Conservation Research Association.

A Ms. Smita Patanayak and Mr. P. Shankar, MBA 2nd Year students participated in the Business

School Meet, ‘Romanthan 2011’ held at DRIEMS, Cuttack and won 1st prize worth Rs.10000/-.

A Mr. Subhendu Sekhar Behera, B. Tech. 3rd Yr. got 1st prize in the C – CODING Event in NOESIS-

2K10 organized by Silicon Institute of Technology (SIT), BBSR.

A Mr. Subhendu Sekhar Behera, B. Tech., 3rd Yr. stood 1st in C-Debugging & Java Debugging; 2nd in

C – Coding along with Mr. Nitin Kumar Maharana, B. Tech., 3rd Yr., at CHAKRAVYUH-2K11 organized by

Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, BBSR.

A Mr. Sai Baba Sachidananda, Mr. Manjeet Sahu & Mr. Simanchal Ku. Panigrahi, B. Tech. 4th

year, stood 1st in C- Coding and Mr. Subhendu Sekhar Behera, Mr. Anurag Panda, Mr. Sujeet Ku.

Panigrahi & Mr. M. Shiva Kumar, B. Tech., 3rd year stood 2nd., at KRITANSH-2K11 organized by KIIT

UNIVERSITY, BBSR.

A Mr. Nitin Kumar Maharana, B. Tech., 6th Semester, CSE, participated in ‘Alfresco ‘11’ – the Tech Fest

organized by Gandhi Engineering College (GEC), Bhubaneswar in the contests like ‘Java Wise’ and ‘Algo Design’

and was adjudged 2nd in both the events and been awarded with a certificate and cash prize of Rs. 1000/- and Rs.

500/- respectively. He also participated, in ‘TSAR 2K11’ – the Tech Fest organized by Gandhi Institute for Technology

(GIFT), Bhubaneswar in ‘C – le - Program’ and received the 1st prize with gift vouchers worth Rs. 35000/-.

A Mr. Chandan Kumar Mohanta and Mr. B. Jagannath Patro, Final year PGDM students participated in the

Business Quiz Contest held at Rajadhani College of Engineering and Management, Bubaneswar and won the 2nd

Prize of Rs. 1500/- along with the certificate of merit.

A Mr. Swasti Ranjan Khuntia, 2006 Batch, EEE,

presented a Paper, entitled, “ANFIS Approach for SSSC

Controller Design for the Improvement of Transient

Stability Performance” co-authored by Dr. Sidhartha

Panda, Faculty, Department of Electrical & Electronics

Engineering at the International Conference, the Fourth

Global Conference on Power Control and

Optimization held at Kuching, Malaysia and was selected

as the ‘Best Oral Presenter’. (Details available in http://www.pcoglobal.com)

A Mr. Soumya Debabrata Pani, B. Tech., 8th Sem., CSE, presented a paper, “Empowering Measures for

Quantum Finite Automata (QFA)” co-authored by Mr.

Chandan Kumar Behera, Faculty, Dept. of Computer

Science and Engineering at the 3rd International

Conference on Computer Research and Development

(ICCRD 2011) in Shanghai, China organized by IEEE

and IACSIT (International Association for Computer Science

and Information Technology). Nearly 150 papers from 20

countries were selected for presentation. People from

various countries like USA, UK, Canada, UAE, China,

India, Australia, etc. presented their prudent ideas in various

fields of Computer Science like Computer Network, GPS

Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Computer Vision, etc.



The University of Cambridge, UK in collaboration with

British Council, Kolkata conducted the Business

English Certificate (BEC) Preliminary Examination

in the institute for 259 registered B. Tech., MCA,MBA, and PGDM students. It tested on all four skills

of learning English, including, Reading, Writing,

Listening & Speaking. Ms. Parminder Jeet Kaur, fromBritish Council, Kolkata administered the entire

program along with 18 of our faculty-invigilators & 6

student-ushers. Out of the toal appeared students 240passed the examination which makes a record

breaking result of 92.6 %.

NIST Students as Toppers in WIPRO

Code Zap Guru Contest

NIST Students have topped the list of WIPRO Code

Zap Guru - the all India Test conducted by WIPRO

Technologies at its different centers. Seven of our

student-turned-Wipro employees found a place in the

top 10 list of the contest which stands as a rare well-

deserved achievement of our Institute. Bravo! Code

Gurus of NIST!

Name Rank

Jagadish Kumar Sethi 2

Swadesh Nayak 4

Manjit Sahu 5

Jayanta Dhupal 7

Sai Nageswar Satchidanand 8

V.Jagannath 9

Simanchala Prasad Panigrahi 10

We are delighted at the large number of students (more

than 50) who have cleared GATE and are eligible for

admission to top Institutes in the country such as IITs,

IISc, NIT. The GATE Club and its Coordinator SatyabrataDash, Faculty, have taken the challenge to put NIST in

the top bracket in the GATE examinations. The topper of

each Department having scored greater than 99percentile will be awarded with the Director’s Award of

Excellence with prize money of Rs. 5000/- each from

the Institute.

GATE Scorers

BEC Certified NIST Students

Sri Surya Narayan Panda, MedicalOfficer, NIST Medical Centre and

Ex-Pharmacist, MKCG MedicalCollege Hospital, Berhampur has

been felicitated with the ‘BestPharmacist Award’ for his

outstanding services rendered to the poor and sickof the state of Odisha at MKCG MCH campus by

the MKCG Orissa Pharmacists’ ServiceAssociation (OPSA) branch, in presence of the

Honorable MLA Dr. R. C. Chyaupatnaik, Prof.Jogendra Prasad Behera, Superintendent, Prof. R.

N. Mangual, Prof., Surgery and Prof. Tapan Roy,HoD, Anasthesia with President Mr. Ashok Kumar

Sahu, Pharmacist and Sri. Rabindra Rout, GeneralSecretary of the Association.

Best Pharmacist Award

Name Mark Gate Score All India Rank

ECE

Shahbaz Sarik 54.33 648 1304

Ashutosh Ranjan 48.33 577 2558

EEE

Gourav Kumar 37.67 488 2403

Anil Kumar 36.67 474 2752

EIE

Abinash Tripathy 43 735 67

Siddhanta Dash 34.67 588 228

CSE

Saibaba Satchiotanand 53.33 672 1107

Shailesh Kumar 50 632 1604

Orissa IT OLYMPIAD 2010

NIST students bagged six positions out of top

10 in the IT Olympiad conducted by Orissa

Information Technology Society (OITS) on 21st

November 2010. The test was conducted at

different centers in Berhampur, Puri, Sambalpur,

Rourkela, Sarang, Cuttack, Dhenkanal,

Rayagada, Balasore, Damanjodi, Paradeep,

Angul, Paralakhemundi, Gunupur, and

Bhubaneswar. About 1500 students registered

for the same, and around 1300 students appeared

the said test. Professor Sudarshan Padhy,

Convenor, and Dr. A. K. Rath, Coordinator, IT

Olympiad, organized this activity.

Sl. No. Name Position

1. Niral Kumar, 1st

2. Sai Baba Satchitanand, 2nd

3. Swadesh Kumar Nayak, 4th

4. Laxmi U., 5th

5. Bhagirath Kumar, 6th

6. K. Venketeswar Reddy, 7th

The Annual Techno-Management Fest, SANKALP-2010 race for the coronet was held on October8th, 9th and 10th. The 7th edition of SANKALP chose ROMAN as its theme and witnessed a trueconglomeration of brain, skills and talent. The annual extravaganza witnessed some magnificent

events with the gladiators viz-a-viz the young technocrats from myriad technical institutions competingto outdo each other in the RACE FOR THE CORONET. The total number of events that were thrownopen to the students was 29 and the number of participating students touched a huge figure of 2500students. The events were divided into four categories that included TECHNICAL, CULTURAL,MANAGEMENT AND RECREATIONAL.

The three day extravaganza saw some of the most prominent figures of the state grace the occasion. Anumber of invited talks were organized and the list of dignitaries present included the following names:

Opening Ceremony

Prof. S. N. Behera (Chief Guest), Ex- Vice Chancellor, Berhampur University, Ex-Director, Insitute ofPhysics, Orissa.Prof. S. P. Pati (Guest of Honor), Ex-Professor Sambalpur University, Emeritus Professor(AICTE)

Invited TalkDr. B.P. Patra, XIMB (topic: Beyond WhistleBlowing: Corporate Ethics of 21st Century)

Mr. Dilip Satapathy, Bureau chief , BusinessStandard , Odisha (topic: India is rich but Bharat ispoor)

Prof. S.N Sahu, Institute of Physics (topic: Themagic of Nano Technology )

The cultural flavor over the entire three days was even more breathtaking. It

included a fabulous performance by the NIST Musical Society, who for the first timebroke the shackles of the trend set by the seniors and ventured into a completely

new world of music. The 9th evening witnessed the magic of India’s truly

international band- INDIAN OCEAN. Their music touched the souls of the

audience and proved to be the perfect conclusion to a fabulous event. We expectthe trend would continue and the next editions become bigger and better.

Mr. Suresh Raina (topic: Entrepreneurship andRisk Taking)

Panel Discussion

Topic: Industrialization and its Impact on Odisha

Panelists:

Choudhary Pratap Mishra, Ex-Justice, OdishaHigh Court

Closing Ceremony

Mr. Dilip Satapathy, Bureau Chief, Business Standard, OdishaDr. B. P. Patra, Professor, XIMB

Mr. Naquib Akhtar (B. Tech., NIST)Mr. Kishore Swain, (Head, ISU, TCS, BBSR)

Dr. Suman Bhattacharya, TCS, BBSRAll the events that were held over the period of 3 days witnessed some really close competitions

with NIST finally emerging as the overall Champion bagging the maximum number of awards.



To drench NIST in the colors of competitiveness,

fun and frolic, WAVES 2010, the intra collegiate

fest of our college, was organized on the 18th

and 19th of March 2011. This much awaited fest was

inaugurated by Ms. Geetika Mudali, Placement Director

along with Prof. Sangram Mudali, Director, Dr. Arun

Kumar Padhy, Course Coordinator, B. Tech. program.

The celebrations started with a series of sports events

which included Basketball matches, volleyball match

(student vs. Faculty), swimming, lawn tennis etc. The

evening was splashed with the spirit of enjoyment as

students took to the stage showcasing their varied talents

in the field of music, dance and acting. Our very own

band NMS brought the audience to their feet as they

belted out one mellifluous number after another. The

second morning was dedicated to various stage events

like antakshari, dumb charades, Quiz and the “Faculty

student event “organized by club Innova. However, off

the stage was not less interesting. The Dog Show was

no way less thrilling and exhilarating than any other

shows. The stunts shown by the rarest of breeds of dogs

with the help of the trainers were really breath stopping.

The series of events provided another liberal dose of

fun to the proceedings as both the students and the

faculties came together to make the events a success.

The evening of the 19th commenced with the felicitation

of the toppers for the 2010 pass out batch with Gold

and Silver medals been awarded to them. This was

followed by several performances by students

showcasing the plethora of talent that is hidden inside

all NISTians. From breathtaking dance moves to soulful

renditions to hilarious mimicries and amazing acting

skills, the student community took the stage by storm.

However the show stopper like any other year was

the performance by our faculty members. This time our

faculty members in their own inimitable style did

something different from the usual by staging a skit

revolving around the theme of life at NIST. The

wonderful play won the hearts of all present and the

applause just did not stop. The celebrations were

capped by a fashion show by the students titled “Phases

of Life” which put on display the various facets, emotions

and stages that life takes an individual through. The

celebrations came to an end with the singing of the

national anthem.


NIST AD Club celebrated ‘The Earth Day’ on 22nd April 2010 on the theme “Green and Global

Warming” with the motto of spreading awareness on global warming and to seek for individual

contribution in curbing the pandemic. The NISTians organized, ‘open-exhi’ an open exhibition on global warmingwhich exhibited the aspects and impact of the same on the Green Globe through various posters prepared by the

members. All NISTians wore the badge of green ribbon to observe the occasion. The observation culminated with

a road show sharing opinions and feedbacks on the theme, and discussing the measures to make the campusgreener.

INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONThis time the Institute celebrated the 64th Independence Day in a noble way by organizing an awareness campaign

on ‘Child Labour’ in the city of Berhampur. The students surveyed many of the child labour schools run by NCLP,

India, in Berhampur. They raised a fund

of around 13000 INR from the staff,

student and faculty members of NIST

and donated two sets of uniforms and

study materials to each of the students

of one of the child labour schools at

Lochapada, Berhampur. Various

competitions were also conducted and

the prizes were distributed among the

school children. In the afternoon, more

than 60 NIST students held an ‘Anti Child Labour’ awareness rally in the town from Berhampur Stadium to

Courtpeta Square, carrying placards and banners with very innovative slogans.

NEW YEAR PARTY AT SONEPUR BEACHThe institute celebrated the New Year 2011 in a very unique fashion. All NISTians, including faculty and staff

enjoyed the Picnic Party at Sonepur Beach. The half an hour bus ride followed by the boat sailing to the venue was

quite enjoyable. NISTians enjoyed the serene Sun and Sand, and with the encouragement of Director Sir, started

cleaning the littered beach, touched which the Sarpanch of the nearby village and the local people so much that

they complemented by saying that the beach witnessed many picnics but this kind of noble gesture is one of its kind.

Honorable Director, Prof. Sangram Mudali, welcomed all NISTians to the institute after the winter break and

wished a great year ahead which was followed by a very special and sumptuous lunch.

REPUBLIC DAY CELEBRATION AT NIST

NIST commemorated the 62nd Republic Day at the Institute hostels by hoisting the Tri-Colour and observed the day

by distributing food packets among the hostelites. Hostel superintendents, Dean of the institute, faculty members,

staff and students were all present to mark the celebration.

FELICITATION FOR COMPLETING A DECADE AT NIST

The Institute recognizes and appreciates the service rendered by its employees and boosts their spirit up on a

regular basis by honoring them. On such an occasion, NIST felicitated and celebrated the successful completion of

10 years of selfless and dedicated service of its employees and each of the deserving members was garlanded and

felicitated with a memento, certificate of appreciation and cash award. Prof. Sangram Mudali, Director, NIST along

with Dr. Ajit Kumar Panda, Dean, while felicitating the members congratulated them and felt nostalgic about the

golden past that was created few years back. NIST e_news congratulates all the members and wishes few more

great decades ahead!


National Institute of Science and Technology celebrated the 9th Anniversary of its monthly newsletter, NIST e_news on 17th

March 2011 at its premises. Prof. J. Seshagiri Rao, Prof., Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Berhampur

University, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest, Mr. Sisira Panigrahy, State Correspondent, The Indian Express and

Dr.Yadam Ram Kumar, Eminent Writer as the Guests of Honour. The audience was enlightened by the very informative

talks of the dignitaries. Prof. Sangram Mudali, Director, NIST, while chairing the meeting, persuaded the students to look

beyond and go that extra mile in substantiating their future goals and as an individual they must contribute in some way

towards the national growth and prove their mettle in becoming the true citizens of the globe. The Youth Forum on “Social

Networking” witnessed a wonderful participation from the audience and generated a lot of debate on the topic. Birthday

was cut, Anniversary issue of the magazine was released, e_news T-Shirts were distributed, the regular columnists were

felicitated, and food packets were distributed on the occasion.

Wipro Mission10X program @ NISTThe Institute hosted the Wipro Mission 10X Program at the Institute premises. The program was primarily designed

to radically transform the cultures of learning in the institutions of engineering education. It was highly critical about

the teacher-centered pedagogy and positioned learner at the center of the educational discourse. Amongst the many

pedagogical and androgogical approaches, the Mission 10X learning approach focused on ‘Bloom’s Taxonomy’ and

‘Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence’. Around 15 of our faculty members, 10 from Roland Institute of Technology, Berhampur

and 2 members from SMIT, Berhampur and 3 members from APEX Institute of Technology & Management participated

in the program and received certificates from the Wipro, Bhubaneswar DC Head and Prof. Sangram Mudali, Director,

NIST, for successfully completing the Mission 10X Certification Program. Dr. J. Surya Rao and Ms. J. Jayalaxmi,

Founder Promoters and Directors, Roland Institute of Technology, Berhampur graced the occasion in the Valedictory

Function.

First PGDM Convocation, NIST Business School, 2010NIST Business School held the debut Convocation Function to confer the Degrees on the PGDM students of the session, 2008-

2010. Out of a total strength of sixty, fifty one students qualified themselves to be conferred with the Post Graduate Degree of

Management. Prof. Sangram Mudali, Director, National Institute of Science and Technology while presiding over the Convocation

Function, categorically stressed on the need of the corporate discipline coupled with ethical values to be successful Managers

in future. Prof. Arun K. Mohapatra, Professor, Management Studies, NIST Business School submitted a biennial report on the

PGDM Program, emphasizing on the criterion of admission into the Program, and the rigorous discipline of teaching which was

responsible for the grand achievement of the students. Prof. Binayak Rath, Vice-Chancellor, Utkal University graced the

occasion as the Chief Guest, conferred the Degrees on the qualified students, and delivered the Convocation Address entitled,

“Prospects and Opportunities for the Management Professionals in the Globalizing World of the 21st Century” which was richly

nuanced with several factors relevant to the future Managers. The topper of the PGDM Program, 2008-2010, Ms. Trisha Singh

was felicitated with a gold medal and a Certificate.

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INSPIRE Science Camp 2010 @ NISTNIST organized the Department of Science & Technology (DST, Govt of India) funded Science Camp for the top1% (based on their 10th examination marks) Class XI and XII students. The students were drawn from all overOrissa, especially South and Western Orissa. About 25 teachers of top schools also attended the science camp.Reputed Scientists of International fame such asProf Trilochan Pradhan, Padma Bhusan, Prof.B. K. Mishra Director, IMMT, served as Mentorsto the students and inspired them to think anddream about research and development. Facultyfrom IIT’s, top Universities, NISER, ISI, etc.,were the other mentors. The students of NISThad organized a science and technology exhibitionon this occasion which was highly appreciated.The Director of the Institute, Prof SangramMudali, said the science camp has succeeded in its mission in inculcating research ambitions among the participants.The DST Advisor, Dr. Mukhopadhyay urged the students to join the INSPIRE program and avail the numerousscholarships for research. Dr. Ajit K Panda is the Coordinator of the DST program alongwith other faculty membersand student volunteers.

Orissa Physical Society Meeting @ NISTThe Orissa Physical Society conducted its first ever executive members meeting outside Bhubaneswar, since its

inception in 1971, at NIST. Twenty executive body members and around 40 Physics Professors from in and

around Berhampur attended the meeting. Prof. S. P. Pati, Emeritus Professor, NIST, President, Orissa PhysicalSociety (OPS), chaired the meeting. A conceptual talk on ‘How to teach Quantum Mechanics’ by Prof. Niranjan

Barik enlightened the physicists present on the occasion.

English Reading Revolution (ERR) ProgramThe Institute has initiated an innovative approach for instilling the reading interest in the students and thus improving

their communication skills through, one of its kind program, ‘The English Reading Revolution’, with the first year

students of B. Tech. and MCA. This program is based upon testing the students on newspaper reading, vocabularybuilding (GRE, Barron’s Guide Word List), and critical appreciation of novel. As a part of the English Reading

Revolution, the Saturday Movie Series has also been started in the institute auditorium to give the students the

taste of Classic English Movies and to rejuvenate them for the following week.

IEEE EDS Mini-Colloquium on ‘Nano-Electronics’ @ NISTA 1-day IEEE-EDS (Electron Devices Society) Mini-Colloquium on ‘Nano-Electronics’ was organized by IEEE-

EDS Berhampur Students Chapter in collaboration with NIST, Berhampur. Distinguished Professors such as, Prof.Hiroshi Iwai, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao, IIT-Bombay; Prof. C. K. Sarkar,

Jadavpur University and EDS Chair, Calcutta Chapter; Prof. K. Mohan Rao, EDS Chair, Madras Chapter; Prof. J.

Majhi, Emeritus Professor, NIST delivered a series of lectures on Nanoelectronics on the occasion.

Training Program on Support Vector MachinesA 1-day Training Program on Support Vector Machines (SVM) was organized in the institute. Prof. Sudershan

Padhy , Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, International Institute of Technology (IIIT),

Bhubaneswar, being the resource person, delivered talks on the areas like, SVM Classification, SVM Regressionand Application of SVM. Around 20 faculty and students attended the training program.


IBM Training and Certification Programs at NISTIBM Rational Functional Tester Training

Through the NIST IBM Center of Excellence, under the aegis of IBM Academic Initiative Program, IBM

conducted the following host of certification, training and workshops for the students and faculty members of NIST:

F DB2 Training cum Certification Program

F RAD Training Program

Entrepreneurship Awareness ProgramThe Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) of the institute conducted an Entrepreneurship Awareness Program

in the campus. Being the resource person, Dr. Sasi Bhusan Mishra, Institute Professor, Entrepreneurship Development

Institute of India (EDII), Gandhinagar presented a talk on ‘Prospects and Career in Entrepreneurship’ and Mr.Sibashish Mishra, MD, Five Elements Group, Bhubaneswar delivered a talk on ‘Idea Generation and Business Plan

Statement’ to all the PGDM, MBA and B. Tech., 6th semester students.

Employment Oriented Summer Courses - 2011 @ NISTThe Institute as part of its academic pursuit offered the following certification and training courses to the

students of B.Tech., MCA, MBA, and PGDM programs :

l l l l l Electronic Design Automation Software Tools for VLSI / ASIC Design l l l l l Certification Course on

Introduction to ORACLE 9i: SQL l l l l l Advanced Industrial Automation Technology l l l l l Embedded

System and Embedded VLSI l l l l l Certification course on CISCO certified Network Associate (CCNA)

l l l l l Certification course on J2EE and Rational Rose (SCWCD) l l l l l Business Process Integration using

SAP l l l l l Data Warehousing, Data Mining and Business Intelligence on SAP Platform l l l l l Software

Design and Testing l l l l l J2EE and Rational Rose l l l l l Spoken English Language Course.

Campus Connect Road Show and Orientation ProgramThe Infosys Campus Connect Team conducted a Road Show and Orientation Program at the institute campus. Mr.

Sumesh Khatua and Mr. Bhupesh Dheka, Resource persons from Infosys, Bhubaneswar DC, took sessions onBusiness Etiquette, Basics of Communication, Introduction to Computer System, and Global Effectiveness. An

Online Assessment (Pre Test) of Foundation Program and Soft Skills were also conducted.

Employment Oriented Program (EOP) 2011Like every year, as an Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) initiative, the Institute started the Employment

Oriented Program (EOP), with 60 students from different parts of South Odisha been short-listed and selected fromaround 120 applications. They are registered under different branches like : Basic Computer Skill (BCS), Computerized

DTP, Electronics Repair & Maintenance (ERM), Computer Maintenance & Repair (CRM), Repair of Electrical

Appliances (REA), and Workshop Practice (WP).All the students are provided with hands on training onCommunication Skills Practice, Interview Skills, Business Writings, Presentation Skills, and Etiquettes. The program

is of 4 months duration during which each of the candidates receive a stipend amount of Rs. 1000/- per month along

with free transportation facility, lunch and books & study materials. Hostel facility has been provided to the out-

station students.

F Rational SEED Program

F Workshop on Tivoli Directory Server


Prof. Sangram Mudali, Director:

B. Tech. from IIT-

Kanpur and MS from

University of Houston,

USA. Worked at B. F.

Goodrich Company,

Ohio in the area of ‘Computer Aided

Design’. JFK Lincoln awardee

during his master’s program and

also worked with HCL Technologies

in the CAD/CAM division. He is the

founder promoter and Director of

NIST. He was a member of the

Board of Management, Biju Patnaik

University of Technology (BPUT),

Orissa. He is considered as a

leading icon of technical education

in Orissa.

Dr. Ajit Kumar Panda, Dean:

Ph. D. in Micro-

electronics from

Sambalpur University,

M. Tech. in ECE.

Was a CSIR Fellow

during his Ph.D. Received the

BOYSCAST Fellowship from the

DST, Govt. of India and pursued his

Post Doctorate at University of

Michigan, USA. Recipient of ICTP

Regular Associate Award for

collaboration work with ICTP

Microelectronics Laboratory. Has

been awarded a number of

prestigious DST projects in the field

of semiconductors. Member of

IEEE, IETE, ISTE, and VLSI

Society of India. Presently the

Coordinator of TIFAC CORE in 3G/

4G Communications at NIST.

Ms. Geetika Mudali, Placement

Director:

B.E. from Osmania

University,

Hyderabad and MS

from New Jersey

Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA.

Founder promoter of NIST. Played a

key role in the formation of the Pre-

Placement team for the purposeful

improvement of soft skills among

the students. Has been

instrumental in bringing top IT

companies and MNCs to NIST and

helping build Brand Orissa

Engineers.

Dr. Arun Kumar Padhy, Course

Coordinator, B.Tech:

Ph.D. in Chemistry

from Berhampur

University. Worked in

a UGC sponsored

project as University Research

Fellow at the Dept. of Chemistry,

Berhampur University, as a visiting

scientist at the University of Denver,

USA, in a US Army Medical

Defense project. Life Member of

Indian Chemical Society, Chemical

Research Society of India, Indian

Council of Chemistry, and Patron

Member of Orissa Chemical

Society. Dr. Padhy has qualified

NET (CSIR-UGC). The recipient of

Dr. R. K. Nanda award and Young

Scientist Award conferred by Orissa

Chemical Society.

Prof. Shankar Prasad Pati, AICTE

Emeritus Professor, NIST:

SIETE, SIMS,

Former Professor,

Sambalpur

University and

Berhampur

University, Department of

Electronics, Former Director, UGC

Academic Staff College, Sambalpur

University. Research Interest in

Semiconductor Physics.

Prof. Jagabandhu Majhi, AICTE


Former Professor,

Berhampur

University and IIT –

Madras. More than

36 years of teaching

and research experience. Research

Interest in Materials Science.

Prof. Surjyo Narayana Behera,

AICTE Emeritus

Professor, NIST:

Renowned

Physicist, Former

Vice - Chancellor,

Berhampur University, Senior

Professor and former Director,

Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar.

Leading authority on theoretical

aspects of Nanotechnology.

Prof. Niranjan Das, AICTE


Retd. HOD and

Professor,

Department of

Electronics &

Telecommunication

Engineering, UCE, Burla, Former

Research Scientist, Brown

Beverages, Switzerland, Advisor,

DRDO. Research Interest is in

Communications Technology.

Mr. Shom Prasad Das, Course

Coordinator, MBA:

M. Tech. in Computer

Science and Engg.

from NIST, Joined as

Software Engineer in

TCS as a Project

Leader. Life Member of Orissa

Information Technology Society

(OITS) and member of IEEE (USA).

Sun Certified Web Component

Developer (SCWCD) and SAP

Certified Trainer. Currently

continuing his Ph. D. in the area of

‘Computational Finance’.

Mr. Bhawani Shankar Patnaik,

Director, NTCS:

M. Tech. in CSE

from NIST, 8 years

of experience both in

industry as well as

teaching. Currently

continuing his Ph.D. in the area of

Parameterization, Fault detection

and isolation for any process using


Bond Graph Modeling and

Simulation’ under BPUT. Leading a

team of 15 software professionals

under NTCS in software development

especially for E-Governance of

Educational Institutions.

Mr. Sidhharth B. N., Course

Coordinator, MCA:

M. Tech. from Indian

School of Mines,

Dhanbad . Life

Member of Orissa

Information Technology Society

(OITS) and ISTE also a SCWCD and

CCNA. Core team member of NTCS.

Mr. M. Suresh, M. Tech.

Course Coordinator:

M.E. from Jadavpur

University, B.E. From

Andhra University.

More than10 years of

experience in the field of Industry &

Teaching. One of the core members

of the NIST VLSI Group.

Dr. Motahar Reza, R & D

Coordinator:

Ph.D. in Maths, IIT ,

Kharagpur, M. Sc in

Applied Mathematics,

Jadavpur University,

Kolkata. 4 yrs. of Research and

Teaching Experience at IIT,KGP.

NET Qualified. Post Doctorate

Program through BOYSCAST

fellowship of DST at Institute of fluid

mechanics, Erlangen-Nurnberg

University, Germany. Recipient of

Samanta Chandra Sekhar Orissa

Young Scientist Award-2006.

Dr. Sukanta Kumar Tripathy,

Associate Prof. ECE:

Ph.D. in ‘Optical

Communication’ from

Berhampur University

and has more than 15

years of teaching and research

experience. Presently guiding a

number of Ph.D. students.

Dr. Arun Kumar Mohapatra,

Professor, MBA:

Ph.D., M. Com.,

L.L.B. More than 34

Years of Experience

in teaching at

Government Colleges. Has

supervised 3 Ph.D theses, 4 M.Phil.

theses and other P.G. projects.

Dr. E. Raja Rao, Professor,

English:

Ph.D. in English,

Utkal University.

Former Prof.,

English, Berhampur

University, Former Director, Centre

for Canadian Studies, B.U., Senior

Fulbright Fellowship at the Univ. of

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.,

Canadian Academic Fellowship at

the Univ. of Regina. U.G.C. Visiting

Associateship, Utkal Univ.,

Canadian Academic (Women-and-

Development) Research Fellowship

at the Univ. of Winnipeg, Canada.

U.G.C. Teacher Fellow at the Utkal

University. Teaching experience of

more than 40 years.

Dr. Sidhartha Panda, Prof. EEE:

B. Tech. from

Bangalore University,

M. Tech. from UCE,

Burla, and Ph.D.

from IIT, Roorkee.

Worked as Associate Prof. at

VITAM, A.P., & KIIT Univ., a

Research Scholar at IIT, Roorkee.

He is a Reviewer of 3 Elsevier

Journals and IEEE Journals and has

teaching and research experience of

18 years. Presently guiding a

number of Ph.D. candidates.

Dr. Sisira Kanti Mishra, Associate

Prof., MBA:

Ph. D. in ‘Capital

Market Efficiency

through Share Price

Behavior’, M. Phil. in

both Commerce and Futurology,

B.U., Continuing D.Litt. More than

12 years of teaching experience.

Dr. Sudhir K. Panigrahy,

Associate Prof.,

MBA, Placement

Coordinator

M. Phil and Ph. D. in

Economics,

Berhampur University, MBA in

HRM., U.G.C. NET Qualified. More

than 12 yrs. of teaching experience.

Mr. Anisur Rahman, Asst. Prof.,

CSE:

M. Tech, Computer

Science, Indian

Statistical Institute,

Kolkata, M. Sc (Pure

Maths), University of Calcutta. Has

industry, teaching and research

experience of over 7 yrs. in Parallel

Computing, Algorithm Design, etc.

Mr. Rabindra Kumar Shial, Asst.

Prof, CSE:

B. Tech., Moulana

Azad College of

Technology, Bhopal

(REC), M.E., Bengal

Engineering College, West Bengal.

CCNA from IIIT, Hyderabad. More

than 11 yrs. of teaching experience.

Life Member of ISTE & OITS.

Mr. Trupti Ranjan Lenka, Asst.

Prof., ECE:

B.E., NIST, M. Tech.

in VLSI Design, U.P.

Technical University.

Worked as Reader in

the Dept. of ECE at G.L.A. Institute

of Technology & Management,

Mathura. Pursuing Ph.D.

Mr. Abhro Mukherjee, Asst. Prof.,

EIE:

Pursuing Ph.D.,

M.S., Ecole Centrale

de Lille France,

Received the


prestigious ‘Excellence Eiffle

Scholarship’ from the French Govt.

Worked with Stuerung Anlage Ltd.

as a Design Engineer and as a Sr.

Executive at DPS Technologies.

Mr. Debananda Kanhar, Asst.

Prof., CSE:

M. Tech.IIT,KGP.

Currently pursuing

Ph. D. under BPUT,

More than 5 yrs. of

academic experience. Coordinator

IBM Center of Excellence, Infosys

Campus Connect and Wipro Mssion

10X Program.

Mr. Sushanta K. Tripathy, Asst.

Prof., MBA:

M. Tech in Industrial

Management, UCE,

Burla, continuing

Ph. D from IIT,KGP.

Worked as a Research Scholar at

IIT KGP., as an Asst. Prof. at

Mekelle Univ., Ethiopia. Has

authored a book, “Production and

Operations Management”. More

than 20 years of teaching &

research experience.

Mr. Bhaskar Bandyopadhyay,

Asst. Prof., MBA:

MBA in Marketing,

IISW & BM, Calcutta

University, PGDBA

from Annamalai

University, Continuing Ph.D.

Experience as a Business

Development Officer at World Bank-

IFAD-Govt. of India, 18 years of both

corporate & teaching experience.

Dr. Diptendu Sinha Roy, Asst.

Prof., CSE:

M.Tech & Ph.D,

BITS, Mesra, 3 yrs.

of teaching and

research experience.

Working in the area of parallel

processing and computer

architecture.

Mr. Satyabrata Dash, Asst. Prof.

EIE:

B. Tech., NIT, Rkl &

M. Tech, MNIT,

Allahabad. Over 15

years of teaching

and research experience in DSP,

Virtual Instrumentation.Coordinator

of GATE Club.

Dr. Saiful Rahman Mondal, Asst.

Prof., Mathematics:

B. Sc. and M. Sc. in

Mathematics from

Aligarh Muslim

University, Ph. D.

from IIT, Roorkee. Received P.G.

Merit Scholarship from Department

of Mathematics, AMU, cleared

GATE with an all India Rank of 192;

cleared CSIR-UGC NET; UGC,

Junior Research Fellowship, also

UGC, Senior Research Fellowship.

Dr. Martha Narayan Murty,

Professor, Physics:

M. Sc. Physics from

Berhampur University,

Ph. D. on ‘Algorithm

and Architecture for

VLSI Implementation

of Discrete Sine Transform’. More

than 35 years of teaching

experience.

Dr. Subhagata Chattopadhyay,

Professor, CSE:

MBBS and PG

Diploma in

Gynecology &

Obstetrics from

Calcutta Medical

College, Kolkata, M.Sc. in

Bioinformatics from Sikkim Manipal

Univ., Ph. D in Information

Technology from IIT, KGP. Pursued a

prestigious postdoctoral fellowship in

the University of New South Wales,

at its Singapore and Sydney

campuses. Research Interest in

Applications of IT in medical fields.

Mr. Tryambaka Mahapatra, Asst.

Prof., MBA:

B. Sc. Chemistry from

G. M. College, M. A.

in English from

Sambalpur University,

MBA, Dept. of Management Studies,

Benaras Hindu University, MBA in

Finance from Leeds University

Business School, Leeds University,

and PGCRM, Paisley Business

School, West Scotland University.

Dr. Satya Sopan Mahato, Asst

Prof., ECE

Ph.D. from Jadavpur

University. Presently

working in MHRD

project in

collaboration with IIT,

Kharagpur on “Virtual Laboratories”.


The Institute has a unique Research Assistant Schemefor the students of B. Tech. (3rd & 4th yr), MCA, MBA

and PGDM (final yr) to provide them with the ultimate

workforce preparatory research experience for careers in

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The

purpose of the scheme is to identify talented students

who are interested to do research work with faculty

members and help students and faculty members in

promoting their professional growth. It also supports

original research work undertaken by a team of faculty

and students, for periods of at least one year up to a

maximum of two years.

Funding and Benefit

Research Assistants (students) associated to all selected

proposals given by faculty will be given an assistantship

of Rs1000.00 per month for the period of the research

grant. All research related expenses will be paid by the

Institute. Research Assistants and Research Guide can

attend one conference/workshop per year within India (TA/

DA and other expenses paid by the Institute). Research

Assistant on being an author of a paper in any journal/

conference/workshop given an Honorarium and a

Commendation Certificate by the Institute. Research

Assistants may be sponsored with all expenses paid for

any special training by the Institute.Faculty members with

Research Assistant(s) will be given due credit and

recognition by the Institute.

RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP Economic Hardship Scholarship

This scholarship is given to Yearly 20 students ofB.Tech, 3 Students of MCA, 2 Students of MBA and2 Students of PGDM. The amount of Scholarshipis Rs. 1000/- per Month to each student.

Book Grant Scholarship

This scholarship is given to 15 student of B. Tech.,3 Student of MCA, 2 Student from MBA and 2 Stu-dent from PGDM per Semester. The amount ofScholarship is Rs.1500/- per Semester.

Shiv Shankar Bisoi Scholarship

This scholarship is given to one Student Per Yearand amount of Scholarship is Rs.15000/-

Travel Grant Scholarship

This scholarship is given to students who publishpaper in any national/ international conference. Allthe expenses incurred to present the paper aretaken care of under this scholarship.

M. Tech Scholarship

M. Tech scholarship is given to students of Elec-tronics and communication engineering and com-puter science and Engineering departments. Rs.3000/- per month has been given to the studentswho are not sponsored by any institute or do notreceive any GATE scholarship. All GATE qualifiedstudents receives RS. 8000/- per month.

Merit Scholarship

This scholarship is given to all the students of B.Tech, M. Tech, MBA, MCA and PGDM who securegreater than 9.0 CGPA in under graduate programand greater than 8.5 CGPA in graduate program.The amount of scholarship is between 1000/- to5000/-

Club Eureka- the 3rd Inter-School Literary CompetitionThe NIST Literary Club Eureka, successfully conducted the 3rd Inter-School Literary Competition. An overwhelming

response from 18 different schools of in and around Berhampur with a total of around 100 students made the event agrand success. Eleven different events including, Debate, Essay

Writing, Poem Composition, StoryWriting, Extempore, Collage

Composition, Spell Bee, both in English & Oriya, kept thecontenders busy throughout the day. De Paul School, being the

recipient of the highest number of awards, was adjudged the

Champion Team and was felicitated along with other winning

members of different schools by Shri Surendra Nath Mudali,Chairman, NIST. Being present on the occasion as the Chief

Guest, Mr. Mudali emphasized on the importance of literary

skills and encouraged the student contenders to participate insuch events and hone their literary flair.C

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Teaching Assistantship

Teaching Assistantship is given to the toppers ofeach branch to assist faculty members inacademics, such as grading answer sheets etc.Around 14 students of each batch qualify for thesame and each of them is given with a stipend ofRs. 1000/- per month.

Electronics Hobby Club (EHC)- 2nd Electronics MonthEHC observed the Electronics Month (Version 2) by conducting Quiz

(Electronics Dexterity), Electrokriti (Electronics Workshop), Design

Contest and Optimized Design Contest. The workshop for the junior

level was on bread-boarding that comprised working with voltage regu-

lators, timer ICs and decade counters and the second module being

soldering in which the students themselves soldered an object sensor

using an LDR. Working with Microcontrollers was the topic of interest

for those attending the workshop for the senior level. Ms. Geetika

Mudali, Placement Director, NIST distributed the prizes to the winners

of different events.

NRC won National Award at ROBOCON-10NIST Robotics Club (NRC) participated in the 8th ROBOCON 2010,

the National Level Robotics Competition, organized by

Doordarshan, India in collaboration with MIT, Pune. Contending

with 45 top engineering institutes of the country, including all IITs

and NITs, NIST was awarded with the ‘National Award for Best

Idea in Designing the Robots’ and was felicitated with a Trophy. It

was a moment of pride and glory for NRC members receiving this

national honor from Mr. Lakshmendra Kumar Chopra, Senior Di-

rector, Prasar Bharti Doordarshan Mumbai.

Congratulation NRC for bringing this National Accolade to

NIST!

Renewable Energy ClubThe club has collaborated with OREDA (an agency of

Science & Technology, Govt. of Odisha) and conducts

many activities for promoting the use of Renewable

Energy. The Club recently organized different Seminarsand Workshops inviting professor from IITs and other

reputed technical institutes. It holds inter-college

competitions on various models & posters presentations.The club participated in the model competition held at

APEX, Bhubaneswar & bagged the 1st & 2 nd positions. In

the institute’s Inter - College Technical Symposium,SANKALP, this year, 40 models were exhibited and three

of NIST models won 1st, 2nd & 3rd prizes.


Club EXCELThe club conducted Workshops on ‘Awareness on

Entrepreneurship” and participated in many activities

across India and the following lists their winning streaks:

1st in C programing contest in Silicon institute ofTecnology, BBSR

2nd in C programming contest in ITER bbsr

1st in C-Debugging in ITER, BBSR3rd in Java programming Cotest in ITER, BBSR

2nd in C-programming contest in KIIT BBSR

1st in C-debugging in IEM Kolkatta2nd in C-programming contest IEM Kolkata

1st in c-Programming in GEC-BBSR

Entrepreneurship Development CellAs an EDC Venture, NIST “Business Incubator Scheme” has been funded a grant of Rs. 35.95 Lakhs by

Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Govt. of India (MSME) for the projects like K- Technologies,Wi-Fi electronic guide / E Guide for tourist application, Service aimed at students community to understand Industry

needs and its best practices, Noiseless Solar grass cutter.

1st Inter-College Basket Ball

Tournament-2011As a part of the Annual Sports Meet, NIST organized the

1st Inter College Basket Ball Tournament, ARGONAUT’S

TROPHY – 2011 in the institute campus. Ten different

colleges of Odisha including the host institute participated

in the tournament. The grand finale was between the host

institute and GIET, Gunpur in which the host institute lost

the battle to GIET with 39 – 41. DRIEMS, Cuttack was

awarded as the Best Disciplined Team, Satish Tiwari,

GIET, got the title of Man of the Series and Subhrojeet

Samant, NIST, the Man of the Match.

Play on CHARANDAS CHORIn Association with SPIC MACAY (Society for Promotion

of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth)

Odisha Chapter, the institute organized a famous Play by

‘Habib Tanvir’s Naya Theatre’ at the open stage of the

institute campus. Habib Tanvir, one of the most popular

Indian Urdu, Hindi Playwrights, a theatre Director, Poet

and Actor, won several national and international awards,

including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Padma Shri,

Kalidas Samman, Padma Bhushan including the Fringe

Firsts Award at Edinburgh International Drama Festival.

Lawn Tennis Coaching Camp

A Lawn Tennis Coaching Camp was organized for students

at the institute’s Lawn Tennis Court. Around 95 students,

both boys and girls, participated in this camp. The enrolled

students were trained by Coach, Md. Rafique, every day

during morning and evening hours. Dr. Sukanta

KumarTripathy, Faculty, Dept. of Electronics and

Communication Engineering inaugurated the camp and

Dr.Ajit Kumar Panda, Dean, NIST, being present on the

Closing Ceremony addressed the students and discussed

on the importance of sports activities in students’ lives.

National Himalayan Trekking & Biking ExpeditionHimachal has been referred to as the land of Gods and Goddesses and snow-clad mountains, perennial streams

with crystal clear water. Its beautiful valleys present extensive forests and picturesque meadows dotted with a

variety of flora and fauna which beckon the young adventure lovers to come and experience the serene and calm

atmosphere of all pervading nature. Its beautiful colourbirds, wildness of wild life, botanical species of thick and

colourful foliage enchanting fragrance, leave passers by tempted to the irresistible view of natural beauty. It has

always been a dream about doing adventurous things and NIST provides an opportunity to be a part of mountaineer-

ing and biking at the heights of Himalayan Ranges. Kullu, Manali, Manikaran, and Rohtang Pass are among

some of the most sought after summer destinations and NISTians, every year, find respite from their pressing

schedules and rejuvinate themselves in the fantabulous, dreamy lap of mother nature.

7th Asim Memorial Engineer’s

Cricket Tournament

The Institute organized the 7th Asim Memorial Engineer’s

Cricket Tournament at Berhampur Stadium. Different

Engineering colleges such as, C. V. Raman College of

Engineering, Bhubaneswar; SILICON, Bhubaneswar;

IACR, Raygada; GIET, Gunpur; RIT, Berhampur; TRIDENT,

Bhubaneswar; APEX, Bhubaneswar and the host institute,

NIST, Berhampur, participated in the 4-day tournament.

Prof. Sangram Mudali, Director, NIST presented the

Champion’s Trophy to the winning team, GIET, Gunupur

and NIST, Berhampur was declared as the Runners-Up

in the final match played between the two teams.

Parasailing @ NISTThe NIST Student Activity Centre in association with the

NationalAdventure of Foundation, Bhubaneswar,

organizes Parasailing at NIST Cricket Ground. The

NISTians enjoy flying at the height of 300ft above ground

level. The para-sailors being strapped in the harness are

dragged by a jeep that towed them up gradually from a

height of 50ft to 300ft. The rarest experience of flying free

at such a height is greatly enjoyed by students, faculty

members and staff.


B. Tech., and MCAName of Company Students Recruited

INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES 138

CAPGEMINI 129

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES 69

HCL TECHNOLOGIES 83

MAHINDRA SATYAM 55

MINDFIRE SOLUTIONS 15

OTHERS 12

Electronic EDA/ VLSI Companies:

L&T INTEGRATED ENGINEERING SERVICES 23

WIPRO VLSI 19

SANKALP SEMICONDUCTOR 4

TVS MOTOR COMPANY 3

ACUMEN CONSULTANCY SERVICES 3

GENNUM TECHNOLOGIES 2

NETLOGIC 1

BROADCOM 1

The highest pay package received is Rs. 7.8 Lacs

while the minimum is 3.10 Lacs.

More than 40 Top Multinational and Indian IT sector & Core Engineering sector companies are hiring

our students each year. In the year 2010 - 11, the top five companies hired around 500 students

from NIST. They are Infosys Technologies (138), Capgemini (129), HCL Technologies (83), WiproTechnologies (69), Mahindra Satyam (55). In addition, numerous companies hired NIST students

leading to the record breaking on-campus placement with the statistics of 83.08% of placements in

CSE branch, 89.23% in EIE, 91.8% in EEE, 92.03% in ECE, 92.94% in IT, and 55.17% in MCA.

Business SchoolName of Company Students Recruited

THYROCARE TECHNOLOGIES LTD, MUMBAI 15

CAPITAL IQ, HYDERABAD 1

FUTURE GENERALI 6

SMC GLOBAL 7

AADMARC 8

TIME 2

INDUSIND BANK 1

PUMEC CONSULTANTS PVT. LTD. 1

RARE N FAIR 5

ZUVENTUS 1

HB ENTERTAINMENT 20

LINXSMART TECHNOLOGY PVT. LTD. 4

CEASE FIRE INDUSTRIES LTD. 3

ARTHATATWA CONSULTANCY PVT LTD 1

MONEYLAND ASSETS & SECURITIES LTD 2

SUV SATYA PROPERTIES & INFRASTRUCTURE (P) LTD 1

RELIANCE LIFE INSURANCE 2

BINAYAK GROUP 2

MET LIFE INSURANCE CO LTD 1

A.V THOMAS & CO LTD 2

SANJEEV ENTERPRISERS 2

OCL 3

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