Sahyadri Team gets selected for Smart India Hackathon 2020
Smart India Hackathon 2020 is a nationwide initiative to provide students a platform to solve some of the pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem solving. The last edition of the Hackathon saw over 5 million+ students from various colleges compete for the top prize at 65+ locations. In SIH 2020, the students would have the opportunity to work on challenges faced within various Ministries, Departments, Industries, PSUs and NGOs to create world class solutions for some of the top organizations including industries in the world, thus helping the Private sector hire the best minds from across the nation. It can help to:
● Harness creativity & expertise of students
● Spark institute-level hackathons
● Build funnel for 'Startup India' campaign
● Crowdsource solutions for improving governance and quality of life
● Provide opportunity to citizens to provide innovative solutions to India's daunting problems
This initiative involves 2 Lakh+ students with 57,000+ ideas from 2200+ institutions against 530+ problem statements provided by 120+ organizations from across India.
This year a team of six members from Sahyadri is selected to compete in Round two of the Hardware edition of this national event. The team has to qualify two more rounds to compete for the grand prize. Team Alcatraz proposed a solution for a problem statement posed by the Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India via the SIH portal which got qualified for the next round among submissions from other engineering colleges across the country.
Team Alcatraz comprises of:
SI No |
Name |
Branch |
Year |
1 |
Vishal Bajpe |
Mechanical |
III |
2 |
Adarsh Pakkala |
Electronics and Communications |
III |
3 |
Athmika Shetty |
Information Science |
II |
4 |
Tanisha Singhal |
Computer Science |
II |
5 |
Vallabh Bhandary |
Mechanical |
II |
6 |
Abhishek Kamath |
Mechanical |
II |
Glimpse of ICT Classes held on 13th Apr’2020
E-Classes at Sahyadri, continue with great response from the students under thorough supervision from the Leaders of the institution and timely reporting to the Heads of the Department. Faculty members are leaving NO stones unturned in order to create the best learning experience for the students.
Department |
Number of Classes |
Basic Science |
15 |
Civil Engineering |
22 |
Computer Science & Engineering |
36 |
Electronics & Communication Engineering |
22 |
Information Science & Engineering |
26 |
MBA |
33 |
Mechanical Engineering |
34 |
Session on Citavi Tool organized for the CSE Faculty
Prof. Duddela Sai Prashanth, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, conducted a session on "Using Citavi tool for Organizing Literature" on 11th Apr’2020 for the faculty members of his Department.
Citavi is an open-source tool created by 'Swiss Academic Software' company that enables researchers to organize literature w.r.t. papers and thesis. Prashanth demonstrated various features of the tool such as creating categories, uploading papers, associating categories to papers, adding quotations, figures, and references for the papers. He also demonstrated the integration of citavi tool to Word document as a plugin, and automation of several sections of the paper viz., introduction, literature survey, methodology, results, and conclusion based on pre-entered Citavi data.
Key takeaways:
• The use of Citavi tool reduces up to 90% of the researcher's effort in organizing literature.
• Automates the process of reference generation.
• Direct integration with Word document and Latex.
In addition to the faculty members of Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Ms. Bryal, faculty of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education and Ms. Sapna, Research Scholar, VTU, also attended the session.
Quote for the day
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.”
-Willie Nelson 
