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Mr. Mukul Sharma from TCS Chicago North America, USA Visited Symbiosis University of Applied Sciences, Indore Campus and enlightened SUAS students. With a lucrative knowledge base in IT sector he addressed the students on how IT sector affects marketing and analysis strategy in businesses and how data scientists play an important role in determining the micro accepts of marketing in business. Especially in retail sector how data analysis can be used to achieve precise demographics of the customers.

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The Skill AffairsThe Skill AffairsVolume : IIIssue : 2February 2018

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Prof. Mahendra Padhy, Director-Retail, School of Retail, Symbiosis University of Applied Sciences, Indore won 100 Top Retail Minds Award.Congratulations to our Director of Retail Management Dr. Mahendra Padhy for being among 100 top retail minds!It has been an astonishing achievement and it's always a privilege to work under the mentorship and wide knowledge spectrum of sir.

DECATHALON VISIT

Thursday, 15th February 2018, Retail II semester students made a visit to sports category retail giant DECATHALON and w i t n e s s e d t h e m a n a g e m e n t o f s u c h humongous product line from ground zero. To learn skills to deal with sports user as customers and to be a part of the energy that decathlon brings to the store oor.

LEARN WITH FUN how category killers kill in their category!

On 17 February 2018, Mr. Rakesh Soni from Institute for Industrial Entrepreneurs conducted a seminar on “Intellectual property rights”. Having an experience of 20 years in the field of labor law and patent filling, he provided students with immense knowledge of this field. Information regarding product's patent, trademark and copyright acts as well as filing techniques for the same with government and international organizations was delivered by him. As per him a person or a firm suffering from theft of product's copyright can claim its rights through the civil, criminal and administrative court remedy. An innovation must be unique, undisclosed, useful and should have industrial application to be patented.He also discussed about Institute of Industrial Entrepreneurs, ISO certification, Labor law and Patent drafting. The main idea was about Trademark Act 1999 and Copyright Act 1957 which are renewable after 10 years. Industrial intellectual properties are goodwill patents and trademark and the non industrial is copyright. Patent must be disclosed to the government and the trade secrets are not needed to be disclosed. Various patent cases were illustrated by him which were Apple vs. Samsung and Bajaj vs. TVS. Thereafter he also discussed several websites which can be used for patent and copyright filing which are www.copyright.gov.in www.googlepatent.com, and www.ipindia.in.

BFSI SEMINARBanking Financial Services and Insurance

Dr. Swati Mujumdar (Pro Chancellor & Chief Patron)

Dr. Kailash Srivastava (Vice Chancellor & Patron)

Dr. Jyoti Bajpai (Chairperson)

Mr. Vilas Nair

Ms. Amruta Sharma

Mr. Suresh Hadantiya

STUDENT TEAM Mohana Ratnaparkha Poonam Pandey Tanishq Shastri Yuti Kher Shubhi Lakhotia Ritwik Upadhaya Priyansh Thakur Shresth Tongia Ayush Soni Mansvi Naroliya Avani Zingade

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A MONTHLY NEWS LETTER OF SYMBIOSIS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES, INDORE

The Students, faculty members of Automobile Engineering and Vice Chancellor Dr Kailash Srivastava visited SAE BAJA 2018 event held at NeTRip Facilty at Pithampur on 25th Jan 2018. The Students from A u t o m o b i l e S e c o n d y e a r Mr Abhishek Kumbhare, Mr Ishan Pusalkar, Mr Shreekant Badade and Mr Jyotirmay Saini have Volunteered for the event from Symbiosis University of Applied Sciences ,Indore

SAE – BAJA 2018

A GST and career guidance seminar was conducted at St. Vinsent Palloti School Indore by CA Harish Kothari and Dr Yogesh Pandya on 30-01-2018 for more than 250 school students. In the interactive session of 2hrs, the students were exposed to current Goods and Services TAX (GST) rules and procedures in India. They were also given the introduction about the importance of Skill education initiatives at Symbiosis University of Applied Sciences, Indore.

Dr Jitendra Sharma Presented a paper on “Mathematics in Horology in the National Seminar on “ Recent Development in the Science and Their Impact on Religion and Society” at Saint Paul Institute of Professional Studies on 20th January 2018

Dr Ravi Mishra has chaired a session in the International Congress “SANMANTRANA 2018 at Shri Vaishnav Vidhyapeeth Vishwavidhyalay (SVVV) Indore on 6-02-2018 in the field of Electronics and Communication.

An Industry Visit to IGTR Indore for 4th Sem Automobile Students has been conducted on 09/02/2018 followed by a Guest Lecture at IGTR by Dr Bhaskar Pal on 10/02/2018 on Technology Revolution and Disruption.

Expert Lecture by Dr. Devendra Deshmukh, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Indore on “Fundamental of IC Engine and Alternative Fuels” on 12-02-2018 for the Automobile and Mechatronics Students

An Industry Visit to Simplex Metal Processor PVT Limited had been conducted for the 2nd Sem SAME and SOM Students on 13/02/2018

Esummit (26-28 January 2018) The MBA Students of SUAS Indore accompanied by Dr Ravi Mishra has visited IIT Mumbai on 26th Jan to 28 Jan 2018 for the Esummit. The Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT Bombay hosted the 13th edition of Entrepreneurship Summit (E-Summit) 2018: 'A Zenith of Innovation' on 27th-28th January. E-Summit 2018 is the place where prominent voices from India's startup ecosystem will converge for the two-day summit. Prominent speakers at this year's E-Summit include Former Chairman of SBI Arundhati Bhattacharya, Divyank Turakhia, Country Head of LinkedIn Akshay Kothari, VP of Netix Michael Spiegelman, CEO & Co-Founder of Ola Cabs Bhavish Aggarwal, Indian Author & Business Coach Shiv Khera and Founder of AIB Tanmay Bhat to name a few.

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To cater to the overall development of the students, the School of Interdisciplinary Sciences launched various activity clubs with an aim to provide the students with a haven, away from their day to day routine. A place where they shall be free to pursue their own interests to their heart's content. The students are free to be a part of the literary and photography clubs which play a major role in the enhancement of co-curricular skills of the students.The literary club offers a competing platform and promises to cultivate confidence, self-efficacy and logical thinking. The club exists as a platform for intellectual information sharing and in turn also hones the students overall personality. The club plans to conduct events like quizzes, debates, open mics, creative writing competitions, and street-theatre etc. wherein the students can enjoy and learn at the same time. The events in the club are decided based on the creative inputs of the members themselves, so as to provide a mind boggling experience to all. The photography club exists to serve a multitude of purposes; it exposes the members to art of photography and aims to turn the hobby and passion into something that will benefit the students. It helps use their photography in a meaningful way: students can showcase their talents by using photography as a medium to communicate.Besides both the clubs, German and Spanish classes are introduced by the School of Interdisciplinary Sciences to enhance cross-cultural communication abilities of the students and to make them globally competent.

A MONTHLY NEWS LETTER OF SYMBIOSIS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES, INDORE

A two days Faculty Development Program (FDP) was conducted by the school of Automobile and Manufacturing Engineering from 16th to 17th Feb 2018 on Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing. Dr Yashwant Modi from JPUT Guna was the expert and resource person. On the first day, theory session related to Additive manufacturing has been conducted by the expert. On the second day of the program Vice Chancellor Dr Kailash Shrivastava gave a talk on Disruption in the Printing technology. The hands on session on CAD modelling and 3D printing were conducted on the second day. Around 40 faculties and students from different colleges participated in the program.

FDP on Additive Manufacturing 16-17 February 2018.

About the School: Moving ahead with the beginning of 2nd month of the year 2018, our school has initiated new techniques for enhancing education quality and student's assessment programs .The motto of the School is to provide more technical knowledge and to make our students #industryready , #futureready.Objectives of School OF CSIT: To conduct workshops, seminars on latest technology & trends by industrial experts. Use of digital technology for teaching and showing videos, Presentations to have a better

understanding. Weekly assessments of students through Moodle (suas software for digital submission of

assignments), quizzes.Initiatives: Under the banner of CSI (Computer Society of India)we have conducted two workshops /

seminars during the month of February:

Expert lecture on Big Data (Hadoop) – was delivered Mr Amit Jadiya, Senior Application Developer, IBM

Android Application development: It was a 2 days workshop, during which students learnt image transmission using android studio.

Expert lecture on Cyber Security: Mr Varun Kapoor, Police, ADGP, Indore e n l i g h t e n e d s t u d e n t s r e g a r d i n g cybercrimes and awareness.

SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Guest from TCS, Chicago : Mr Mukul Sharma, Retail

solutions group, Chicago, North America visited

Symbiosis Indore campus on 7 February 2018. He

enlightened the students of CSIT about the current and

futuristic technologies and the kind of preparations that

the students should undertake in order to build a

successful carrier.

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IMA Conclave – Abhay Prashal, Indore Date: 2 -3rd Feb, 2018

The two day IMA International Management Conclave featured eminent speakers from different walks of life who shared unique ideas from India and around the globe. The conclave was designed to help organizations and individuals to ignite conversation and better connection with the corporate world.

Visit to 3 HDFC Branches – Goyal Nagar, Airport Road and Cloth Market Date: 7 – 8th Feb, 2018

Hands-on experience and exposure to retail banking operations.Learning outcome:Delivering better experiences, not products, will win your organization long term success.Basic key points The purpose of your branch Customers are open to technology –when comes with human

touch These are marketing stores, not branches Bank employees are brand ambassadors Rethinking of role in community Marketing a relationship not a product

Anand Mohan Mathur Auditorium Date: 10th Feb, 2018Launch of BIMA App by Indore Institute of Insurance in association with Insurance Institute of India, also an expert session by Insurance experts was delivered.The experts from the industry explained that how this app is a unique platform for all insurance professionals and agents to stay connected and updated to the Insurance Industry. Also, there were many sessions from the industry experts themselves on various topics related to the Insurance Industry which were very fruitful for the students.

SUAS Campus Date: 22nd Feb, 2018Session by Mr. SP Yadav, Retd. IOFS (Nagpur) on Communication Barriers in Managerial Communication.Communication skills are critical for managers…understanding these barriers and taking steps to minimize or overcome them can

help to ensure that managers are effective in their communications with employees and others. The key barriers are distraction, time limitations, biases and skills.

SUAS Mock Bank Date: 24th Feb, 2018A practical mock bank activity for students to understand how to fill application forms and logging-in policy insurance online, Conducted by Mr. Mohan Vatnani and Officials from National Insurance

SUAS Campus Date: 26th Feb, 2018Expert session by Mr. Shantanu Bhardwaj, CEO – Way2Wealth (Mumbai) on Indian Insurance Industry: Opportunities and ChallengesAt first, he gave an introduction about the insurance sector and then he explained about its types. Further, he gave an idea about the major challenges and opportunities in the Industry. Then he conveyed the key challenges that the industry was facing in a country like India. And then finally, he came to a conclusion and gave his recommendations for improvements.Insurance sector plays an important role in financial sectors of a country. The marketing strategy should be laid out in such a manner that it includes the requirements from launching the policies till the final stage when it reaches in the hand of the customers, means the service provided to the policy holders or the end users.Basic key points Explained Types of insurance {2 Types} Insurance growth drivers in IndiaMajor challenges Rising competition Product distribution Risk Management

Major opportunities Multiple channels of distribution Huge untapped market Increasing life and health risk

t h t h24 -25 February –Dr Kai lash Sr ivastava ,

Vice Chancellor, Symbiosis University of Applied

Sciences, Indore was invited as 'Key-note Speaker for

IEEE International Students Conference’ on

Electrical, Electronics and Computer Sciences

(SCEECS) organized by IEEE student branch of

Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology,

Bhopal, India. The agship conference of IEEE

Mumbai Sub Section featured a comprehensive

technical program including paper presentations,

workshops and expert guest lectures by prominent

personalities, whose contribution has inuenced the

modern world. On the occasion, Dr Kailash Srivastava

enlightened the gathering with his work and

experience.