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‘Quiz it Up’

OCTOBER 2013 PAGE 1

On 5th October 2013, „Aavishkara‟ – the Sciences & Humanities Forum of the School

organized „Quiz it Up‟ for the students of I year B.Tech. It had three rounds of fun quizzing

where the winners were given gift vouchers.

National Level Mathematical Competition

A national competition that puts intelligence, speed and teamwork to test was conducted

by „Sankhya‟, the Mathematics club of the school in association with VistaMind Education.

VistaMind Education is a pioneer in conducting this competition amongst top engineering and

degree colleges in India. Strong mathematical skills, including the ability to work with numbers

rapidly and accurately are skills that are in great demand. These skills are a part of the

recruitment test of major corporates in the fields of IT and Finance. They are also a part of

major postgraduate entrance exams like GATE, CAT, etc. More than 500 B.Tech. students took

part in the first round conducted in Amriteswari Hall and Sudhamani Hall on 8th October, 2013.

Based on the performance of the first round, twelve teams (a team of two) were selected to the

second round, which was an Audio-Visual round and was conducted on 15th October, 2013 in

the Krishna Hall. Based on the performance of the second round, seven teams have won cash

prize of Rs. 1500/- each. These seven teams will represent Amrita School of Engineering,

Bengaluru in City Finals round to be held during January, 2014.

OCTOBER 2013 PAGE 2

On 10th October 2013, „Hackers for Applied Cyber Security‟ was inaugurated in the

School. The HACS team conducted a workshop on Ethical Hacking. This Hack-a-thon was

conducted for over a week.

‘Hackers for Applied Cyber Security’

„Ayudha Puja‟ was celebrated in the campus on 11th October, 2013. „Ayudha Puja‟ is

an integral part of Navarathri festival. On this day we worship all the implements that one uses

in day today life. All the implements are placed in an altar to the divine and worshipped. All the

classrooms, laboratories, library and offices were decorated and pujas performed with great

devotion.

‘Ayudha Pooja’

OCTOBER 2013 PAGE 3

On 19th October 2013, Google conducted a workshop through Google Student Club in

which the number of people who can write Bengali and Malayalam was investigated. The

participants were given Google T-shirts.

‘Google Workshop’

From 25th to 27th October 2013, INK conference was live streamed for the students of

the institution. The participants were taken for an emotional joyride while witnessing over 70

talks and videos.

‘INK Workshop’

On 26th and 27th October 2013, Texas Instruments conducted a two day workshop on

„Microcontrollers and its Applications‟ in the campus.

Texas Instruments Workshop on ‘Microcontrollers and its Applications’

OCTOBER 2013 PAGE 4

Aarohan‟13, the Annual Science Fest for students of high school and pre-university

students was held at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru, on 29th and 30th October, 2013

for the fifth time in a row. With every passing year, Aarohan has witnessed a substantial growth

in terms of scientific temper and innovation among young and talented enthusiasts. Around 25

schools registered and more than 700 participants conglomerated for this Science Fest. Some of

the schools and colleges which participated in this Science Fest were Delhi Public School

(East), Indian Public School, Indus International, National Public School Koramangala, Amrita

Vidyalayam, Mysore and Bangalore, BEL Vidyalaya (CBSE), Presidency School, Vidyamandir

PU College etc.

The event was inaugurated by Mr. K. Srinidhi, Director, AMD India. The two day event

opened new vistas in the field of technology with events like „Aavishkara‟ (Project Exhibition),

„Aashubhashan‟ (Symposium), „Maths and Science Olympiads‟, „Utkarsh‟ (Technical Quiz)

and „Mocktail‟ (a mélange of engineering challenges). Fun filled events like Sudoku, Treasure

Hunt added extra flair to the fest.

„Aavishkara‟, the flagship event received overwhelming response through the exhibits

on various fields like Robotics, Sustainable Energy and Astronomy. The project made by

Presidency School, Bilekahalli, was declared the best. The project showcased an Exquisite Villa,

which had automated sensors for saving electricity, fire control & security purposes and won the

first prize.

Cash prizes worth Rs. 4 lakhs were awarded to the winners and runners up of all the

events. The rolling trophy was bagged by National Public School, Koramangala. The

enthusiastic participation and eagerness to explore the world of engineering ensured that

Aarohan retained its legacy.

‘Aarohan’13’

OCTOBER 2013 PAGE 5

Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan :

attended the „Asia-Pacific Internet Workshop and Meet‟ as part of Internet

Governance Forum (IGF)-2013 held at Bali, Indonesia between 19th & 22nd October,

2013. The event was organized to share the knowledge, policies and network with

Internet Industry Professionals and Academicians from various countries, on

numerous educational and informational activities related to Internet.

has been invited to serve as a „Reviewer‟ for International Journal of Computing and

Digital Systems.

has reviewed a research paper for Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing,

Springer.

Ms. Tripty Singh :

defended her Ph.D. thesis titled “A COMPUTER AIDED MEDICAL EXPERT

SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSIS OF BREAST CANCER” on 24th October, 2013 at

Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, also known as Rajiv Gandhi Technical

University, Madhya Pradesh.

presented a paper titled “INTELLIGENT SYSTEM DESIGNING FOR AIRCRAFT

IMAGE STRETCHING, NOISE REMOVAL AND ANALYSIS” at an International

Conference on STME (Smart Technologies for Mechanical Engineering) 2013 held

at Delhi Technology University, New Delhi on 25th and 26th October 2013.

Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

OCTOBER 2013 PAGE 6

reviewed a research paper for the journal IET Image Processing pertaining to

Sampling Theorem in October, 2013.

served as a member of the Technical Program Committee for InCIEC 2013

International Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Conference held between 22nd &

24th September 2013 at Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

served as Technical Program Committee member for AEECT 2013, 2013 IEEE

Jordan Conference on „Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing

Technologies (AEECT)‟ on 15th October 2013.

Mr. Aniruddha Bhattacharjya served as Technical Program Committee member for World

Congress on Multimedia and Computer Science held at Hammamet, Tunisia, from 4th to 6th

October, 2013.

Dr. Amudha J. evaluated a thesis titled “Novel OUT based watermarking techniques for two

dimensional and spectral images for copyright protection and authentication” for Anna

University.

Ms. Nalini Sampath completed her M.Tech. in CSE from R.V. College of Engineering, an

autonomous institution under Visvesvaraya Technological University.

Dr. Tirumale K. Ramesh, joined the department on 16th October, 2013. He has over 30 years

of combined academic and industrial experience in Advanced Secure Embedded Computing

Architecture and Design, High Performance Computing, Reconfigurable Computing,

Hardware Security, VLSI and FPGA. Previously, he served as a Corporate Fellow for

Advanced Embedded Computing at Boeing. He has also held

senior technical positions as „Chief Engineer‟ at Gateway

Computers, „Senior ASIC Scientist and Technical Program

Manager‟ at IBM Microelectronics and „Senior Systems Engineer

and Group Leader‟ for Advanced Systems Technology Program at

Lockheed Marin Corporation.

Other News

OCTOBER 2013 PAGE 7

Forum Activities

ACROM Workshop on „Basic Robotics‟

Amrita Club for Robotics and Mechatronics (ACROM) had organized a Hands-on

Workshop on „Basic Robotics‟ at the School on 27th October, 2013. The workshop was an

effort to familiarize beginners with the basic procedure involved in Robot making and

programming. The workshop covered the following modules like Line and Light Following,

Detection of Edges and Sumo Wrestling (using bumper sensors).

This is the first of its kind event where in the senior members of the club were the

trainers for the workshop. Students participated in groups of three with a take away kind of robot

for every team. The event witnessed a very good participation from 32 teams.

GCDC Hackathon

FACE, the departmental forum organized a GCDC Hackathon on 26th October, 2013.

The main aim of the event was to make the students comfortable with GCDC Hackathon which

is conducted at the international level. A hands-on workshop on web application development

was also organized.

The event was attended by most of the students from the first year of B.Tech. There were

about 73 participants who attended this hackathon, which began at 10 AM and went on till 4.20

PM. The participants were given some prizes at the end of the event. By 15th November 2013, all

the applications will be evaluated online and will be suitably awarded by Google.

OCTOBER 2013 PAGE 8

Amrita ACM Student Chapter organized:

a talk on „Web Access Through Voice‟ held on 11th October 2013. The speaker of

the day was Dr. Ashish Verma who is working as a „Senior Researcher‟ at IBM

Research-India, New Delhi. He spoke about “IT Services Provided”. The talk gave

deep insights on topics like contact services, customer satisfaction data, social

media data-social CRM, analysis engine and tools. It also gave information on the

ticket data analytics, its technical challenges and enterprise data. The event was then

followed by the Technical Quiz of three rounds which included „crossword puzzle‟,

„guess the doodle‟, „guess the personality‟ and „buzzer‟ rounds.

the second event was a talk on „Security and Privacy in Smart Grids‟ which gained

good enthusiasm and response from the audience, around 140 in number. The event

was held on 25th October, 2013. The Distinguished Speaker for the day was Prof.

(Dr.) R.K. Shyamasundar. He is with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,

Mumbai since graduation and is currently a Senior Professor at the Tata Institute of

Fundamental Research, Mumbai and is a JC Bose National Fellow. The talk gave

deep insights on topic like Internet security and Smart Grid. It covered important

points like integrity check, intrusion detection, big data, Smart grid: framework, its

features and vulnerabilities, security and privacy and challenges faced. The session

also briefed about SCADA, stuxnet and risk management and ended with a question

& answer session.

ACM Chapter Activities

OCTOBER 2013 PAGE 9

Workshops/ Seminars/ Conferences attended

Dr. Shikha Tripathi has been invited to be a member of the Advisory Board of International

Conference on „Innovations in Computer, Communications and Control Technologies‟

conducted by Noorul Islam Center for Higher Education, Kumaracoil, India, April 2014.

Ms. Susmitha Vekkot reviewed a technical paper for Institution of Engineering and

Technology (IET) Image Processing Journal, which has an Impact Factor of 0.895.


NAME TITLE NAME OF THE

ORGANIZER DATE VENUE

Dr. Shikha Tripathi One week Coordinators Workshop on “Signals and Systems”

National Mission on Education through ICT(MHRD), Government of India at IIT, Kharagpur

30th September - 4th October, 2013

IIT, Kharagpur

A motivational talk was organized in the school on 4th October, 2013. Dr. P. R. Vaya,

Dr. Dhanesh G. Kurup, Dr. N. S. Murty and Prof. Braj Bhushan Jha delivered motivational

talks focusing on „Goal Achievement‟. All the students of S5 of ECE and EIE departments

were present on the occasion. The talk which was about ambition, determination and

dedication in life threw light on having the right attitude and left all the students highly

inspired.

A video presentation on “Electronic Recycling” was arranged on 28th October, 2013. The

presentation aimed at inspiring the “fixer” in a student. There was a video presentation on

how to fix one‟s own earphones, which was followed by a hands-on session.

Other News

OCTOBER 2013 PAGE 10

A workshop was organized by Dr. N. S. Murty with the title “Challenges and Job

Opportunities in SoC Design” on 25th October, 2013 in the campus. The workshop was

conducted by ChipEdge. The workshop was arranged for the B.Tech. & M.Tech. students

and the faculty members of the department. The workshop focused on how the rapid

increase in design complexity has presented many challenges to designers working on

system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs. This sharp increase is driven by several factors, a major

one being the exponential rise in the number of IP blocks integrated in a single SoC and the

difficulty in connecting those IP blocks, challenges in functional verification, controlling

chip power consumption, design for testability (DFT) challenges, physical design challenges

etc. The workshop also focused on how these design challenges have created job

opportunities for VLSI Engineers and what kind of skills one has to acquire, to get into these

jobs.

Ms. V. Priya Darshini joined the Department as „Assistant

Professor‟ on 7th October, 2013. She is a post-graduate - M.E.

(Applied Electronics) - from Anna University, Chennai. She

has also registered for Ph.D. in „Medical Image Processing‟

under Anna University, Chennai. She has a teaching

experience of about 8 years from various engineering colleges

in Tamilnadu.

A technical quiz was organized by ECIF on 5th October 2013 at ASE, Bengaluru. Around 60

students from all the semesters of ECE and EIE participated in the quiz with each team

comprising of 2 students. The quiz paper had twenty technical questions based on

Electronics and Communication Engineering related subjects, which were to be answered in

thirty minutes. The team comprising of Ms. V. Deepthi and Ms. K. Priyanka were the

winners and the team comprising of Ms. Sreevidya and Ms. Ashwini Bhaskar were

declared runners-up of the event.

Forum Activities



Following students from S3 of the department, secured 5th position in a Robotic

Competition AXIS‟13 held at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur,

between 20th & 22nd September, 2013. Several events like Auto Bot, Aqua Doze, Robot-

wars, Robot-lava and Mechatryst were conducted. Their project was selected for the

presentation in the event of Aqua-Doze (Rescue Robot).

Venkata Sai Krishna Vallury

Shabari Girish

K.S. Sai Kiran

A. Sailesh

P. Sai Ganesh


International Conference

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE EVENT

K. Deepa T. Deepti M. Vijaya Kumar

“New Multi-output Switching converter with low drop out post regulator”

10th -11th October, 2013

IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Communication, Control, Signal Processing and Computer Application (C2SPCA 2013), Oxford Engineering College, Bengaluru. Paper published in IEEE Xplore.

K. Deepa D. Mahalakshmi Yuvasri M. Vijaya Kumar

“Bi-directional push- pull converter fed four quadrant DC Drive”

10th -11th October, 2013

IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Communication, Control, Signal Processing and Computer Application (C2SPCA 2013), Oxford Engineering College, Bengaluru. Paper published in IEEE Xplore.

National Conference

K. Deepa Shwetha Mohan

“Challenges for Faculty of Technical Education”

11th - 12th October, 2013

16th state level ISTE Faculty convention on “Challenges for Faculty of Technical Education in competitive environment”, AMC Engineering College, Bengaluru.

Papers Presented


Ms. R. Mahalakshmi, Assistant Professor registered for Ph.D. under the guidance of Dr. H.

V. Manjunath, Professor in the Department on the topic "Application of power converters in

renewable energy systems".

Ms. K. Deepa reviewed the paper titled "Self-starting Poly-phase ZVS Current-fed Push-pull

Resonant Inverter for Wireless Power Applications" for the International IET Power

Electronics Journal – October, 2013.


Forum Activities

„Vidyuth‟, the EEE forum conducted a 2-day workshop on “Embedded System Designs

using Ultra Low Power TI MSP430”. Mr. Mayank Ranjan the Marketing Head of

M/s. Cranes Software International Limited and his team members Mr. Dilip and Mr.

Hussain Ali enlightened the students about the advantages of MSP430 Micro controller

over other Microcontrollers and gave an insight to some of the basic features of MSP430

Microcontroller. This event was attended by 118 students from both B.Tech. & M.Tech.,

which gave a theoretical and practical exposure to the students. This workshop proved to be

the first step for students aspiring to be technical developers and laid a strong foundation for

their future projects.


NAME TITLE NAME OF THE

ORGANIZER DATE VENUE

Mr. Dileep B.P. Composite Materials and Applications

Vijaya Vital Institute of Technology, Bengaluru.

26th October, 2013

Vijaya Vital Institute of Technology, Bengaluru.

Workshops / Seminars / Conferences Attended

International Conference

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE EVENT

Srinivas Rao T. “Design of Genetic Algorithm for a Web Based Aggregation Model”

19th - 23rd October, 2013

46th Annual Convention of

Operational Research Society of India

(ORSI) held at Department of

Statistics, University of Kashmir,

Srinagar.

Papers Presented


Ms. Mrudula Prashanth received the gold medal by securing first rank

in the M.Tech. Programme - „Manufacturing Science and Engineering‟

at the graduation day ceremony at M.S. Ramaiah Institute of

Technology, Bengaluru on 25th October, 2013.

Other News

Mr. U. Magarajan joined the Amrita family on 1st October, 2013 as

„Faculty Associate‟, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

He holds a M.Tech. degree in CAD/CAM from VIT

University. He has worked as an „Engineer‟ at Quest global,

Bengaluru for a period of one year.


Forum Activities

„Ingenium‟, the departmental forum organized:

a program „Science Fiction and Engineering for Youth‟ from 15th to 17th October

2013, in order to bring awareness among the students about the technologies used in

science fiction. It also conducted workshops on creative writing and origami.

the Preliminary round of Auto Quiz for the students of the School by the Society of

Automotive Engineers (SAE) Collegiate club on the 18th of October, 2013. 25 teams

comprising of students across all departments participated in the event. It received

overwhelming response from all the car and bike lovers. The event was coordinated

by Mr. Vinod Kotebavi, a faculty from the department.



Dr. K.V. Nagaraja reviewed the following journal papers:

“Effect of Different Positions of the Heater on Laminar Natural Convection in Right

Triangular Enclosure” for the Journal Horizon Research Publishing Corporation,

USA on 21st October, 2013.

“Exponential stability with weight for generalized delay functional differential

equations” for The Scientific World Journal (Indexed in Scopus, IF: 1.7) on 11th

October, 2013.

Department of Physics


Papers Presented

National Conference

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE JOURNAL

Praveen D. “Optical Gamma ray connection in Blazars”

5th - 8th October, 2013

National Conference on ‘AGNs’

Physics Department, Kashmir University

CIR


Placement Update

The month of September, 2013 saw the mass recruiters and some key corporate visiting

Amrita University. Infosys & Cognizant mass recruitment drive for the Bengaluru students

took place in the campus. It was a parallel process in Bengaluru & Ettimadai campus. A total of

338 students, from the Bengaluru campus received offers, out of which 87 students from

B.Tech. and 2 students from M.Tech. were selected by both the mass recruiters. SAP Labs too

visited the School in September, 2013. The details are as follows:

12 students from ECE, EEE and Mechanical Engineering departments got selected in

Robert Bosch that visited the Ettimadai campus on 21st October 2013.

Name of the

Company Date

Eligible

Branch

Location of

Placement

Process

Number of

offers

Infosys 09th - 10th

September, 2013 All Bengaluru

132- B. Tech.

06- M.Tech.

Cognizant

12th - 13th

September, 2013 All Bengaluru

191- B.Tech.

09- M.Tech.

LMS India

14th September,

2013

Mechanical &

Circuit

Branches

Ettimadai 02- B.Tech.

UST Global 19th -20th

September, 2013 All Ettimadai 18- B.Tech.

CIR


„ACE‟ Inauguration

The Bangalore chapter of ACE (Amrita Centre for Entrepreneurship) was inaugurated

on 18th October, 2013.

As part of the inauguration, two young entrepreneurs who recently started a company

called DigiCollect were invited to deliver a motivational guest talk on their experiences and

share some tips for aspiring entrepreneurs. The session was attended by about 60 students and 5

faculty members. Mr. Krishnan who heads the ACE initiative of CIR across all campuses was

also present for the occasion.

The guest talk was received very well and students felt greatly motivated. The speakers

shared valuable information on concepts of innovation, the various aspects of starting a venture,

means to get trained and obtain funding etc.

Dr. Rakesh S.G. Associate Dean & Head

Chief Editor

Ms. Meera K.N. Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics

Editor

Mr. Rajesh M. Assistant Professor

Department of CSE

Editor

Ms. Vasanthi ES to Associate Dean

Editor

Board Members

Ms. Paromita Ganguly (Department of English) Ms. Kirti S. Pande (Department of ECE) Ms. Meena Belwal (Department of CSE) Ms. Lakshmi P. (Department of EEE) Mr. Mrudula Prashanth (Department of ME) Dr. Amrita Thakur (Department of Chemistry) Ms. Sarada Jayan (Department of Mathematics) Mr. Shankar Kumaran (Department of Cultural Education) Mr. Shiju Kumar (ICTS)

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