• Technical Talk

  Mathematics in South Indian Classical Music with special emphasis on percussion instruments”(Jan 8 2018)

  Mr. Anoor Anantha Krishna Sharma, a Mridangist & the Founder of Anoor Anantha Krishna Sharma Foundation for Music, Bengaluru. Mr. Anoor Anantha Krishna Sharma, a Mridangist & the Founder of Anoor Anantha Krishna Sharma Foundation for Music, Bengaluru delivered a talk on “Mathematics in South Indian Classical Music with special emphasis on percussion instruments”. He stated that each and every stroke of the music tunes are going to be calculated mainly addition and subtraction. The main Kriyas are Shashabdha Kriya and Nishyabdha Kriya. The basic Thala of the music is Adi Thala. The oral numinous of the music is known as thala. The 3 speeds of music include: 8 bit, 16 bit (Rhythmic one) & 32 bit. The geometrical composition is Yathi’s. The uniform structure of beats is Samayathi. Structure of Mrudanga is Mrudangayathi. Structure of Damaru is Damarugayathi. Structure of Gopura is Gopuchchayathi. Structure of V is Shrothuvahayathi. He also spoke about the permutation and combination of maths in music. He stressed on the different types of phrases and said that playing music in higher beat is URUTU.




• Alternate Energy and Opportunities in terms of R&D for the future”(Jan 8 2018)

  Dr. Suresh Nagesh, Managing Director, Voith Engineering Services spoke about needs, opportunities and challenges in the field of alternative energy resources, how increase in the demand of global energy affects the economic growth, lifestyle of people and vice versa. The main source of energy in many countries still is usage of fossil energy and it is Time not to think, but through action to replace the use of fossil fuels with alternative energy sources. He also emphasized on careful selection of alternative energy sources by considering its reliability, effect on environment, lifestyle etc.




• “Mathematics in South Indian Classical Music with Special Emphasis on Percussion Instruments(Jan 8 2018)

  Mr. V Krishna Venkataram, Professor & Head, Mechanical Engineering, PES Institute of Technology, Bengaluru. spoke on “Mathematics in South Indian Classical Music with Special Emphasis on Percussion Instruments”. He briefed about koruppu, the session where they reduce the time and increase the bits levels. He explained about the Thala, where Thala is the musical time, i.e., physical act. The time difference between each thala is kept constant. He explained about LAYAGNANA is the ability to maintain the time in Thala. He demonstrated Adithala with 3 bits to 9 bits. He even told that western art of music are simple than the Indian. He briefed about Avadhana,Ashtavadhana, Shathavadhana.




• “Enchanting Waves”(Jan 9 2018)

  Prof. Gopalan Jagadeesh, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore delivered a session on “Enchanting Waves”. He started the session by distinguishing Science, Engineering and Technology. He quoted the importance of working with interest rather than working out of pressure. He discussed the concept of Shock waves and its uses in various fields. He brought out the role of various disciplines involved in constructing a technology. He stressed on the importance of being employer rather than being an employee.




• “Robots are tools to design to achieve human goals”.(Jan 9 2018)

  Prof. Robert Richardson, Scientific Researcher in Robotics, Leeds University, UK spoke on “Robots are tools to design to achieve human goals”. He elaborated the use of Robots in the field of Agriculture. He said that Robots should not be designed to harm human beings. Robots can operate in many environments. Underwater- Materials to withstand pressure, Corrosion, Sealing of moving parts. Explosive proof- Design to prevent explosive mixtures.






• Sahyadri Science Talent Hunt (SSTH) 2017.(NOVEMBER 06 - 11, 2017)

  Prof. S N Omkar, while addressing the gathering expressed his happiness to be at the event and the initiative of Sahyadri to collect talent pools & ignite their minds. He also said – in the current scenario we have ideas & concepts, however fail to take it to the consumers. He stimulated students to take their labs to life. He referred to the discoveries of renowned scientists & conveyed that the greatest inventions happened through simple experiments and not through major funding.
  Mr. M V Subramanian congratulated the participants of SSTH as they are half engineers already due to their interest in projects & models. Once they pursue their course they shall be complete engineers & not mere graduates. Mr. M V Subramanian expressed his interest to mentor students on entrepreneurship and also advised them to host their projects on social networking sites which can fetch them appreciation and feedback. He concluded his speech by stating that “the best way of learning is teaching your friends” hence emphasizing the importance of peer learning.




• “Inauguration of Caliper Engineering & Lab Pvt. Ltd” (NOVEMBER 06 - 11, 2017)

  Caliper Engineering & Lab Pvt. Ltd, a Centre for Mechanical Engineering Start-Ups & Incubators was inaugurated at Sahyadri in the presence of Mr. Shreenadha Reddy Nayani, Mr. M V Subramanian, Mr. Vasanth Shetty, Mr. K Balakrishna Bhandary, Mr. Manjunath Bhandary, Chairman, Bhandary Foundation, Mr. S M Sunder, CEO, Caliper and Ms. Prasanna Bhandary, Director, Caliper.
  Mr. Shreenadha Reddy Nayani is the Chairman & Managing Director of Sai Srushti Group (SSG), a conglomerate comprising of companies in real estate, education and energy. Before starting SSG, Mr. Reddy was the Vice-President of SiteLite Inc, a start-up based in Los Angeles, USA that provides web services monitoring software to global clients. Prior to that, he worked for Canon and OSI Consulting Inc in USA.
  Mr. Vasanth Shetty, Assistant General Manager is heading Canara Bank, Mangalore Circle which is having 460 branches spread across West Karnataka including Goa. In his career spanning 32 years, he has held many important positions in the Bank. He has been rewarded with many awards & accolades in recognition for his service to the Bank.
  Mr. M V Subramanian is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Future Focus Infotech Pvt. Ltd. (FFI), a premier IT Staffing & Software Consulting Services Company. Popular in the Investment community & respected for his keen business acumen, Mr. Subramanian is often consulted to ideate, incubate and model different start-up ideas through his association with TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) & IAN (Indian Angel Network).
  Mr. K. Balakrishna Bhandary is the Chairman, SAMS Techno Mech Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai & Trustee, Bhandary Foundation. SAMS Techno Mech is one of India's leading solution providers in the field of formulation processing, serving the global pharmaceutical industry for more than 2 decades.




• Work culture in an Industry / Company(OCTOBER 23 - 28, 2017)

  Mr. Naveen Nazareth Graduated from TU Berlin and currently placed in Siltronic AG located in Burghausen, Germany. Mr. Naveen Nazareth spoke to the students of third year Mechanical Engineering on work culture in an Industry / Company. He explained about the production, Quality, R&D Departments and also on handling Technical and Management difficulties in a company.
  He spoke on opportunities in Germany for students who are seeking to work in industries. He encouraged students to have an aim in life and to keep working until the goal is reached. "No shortcut for Success, Hard work is a must". Naveen Nazareth graduated from TU Berlin and currently placed in Siltronic AG located in Burghausen, Germany. He worked as a Project and Maintenance Engineer for 20 months at Jindal Steel Works Limited. Out of 8 months of his internship experience, 5 months has been in Germany & the remaining 3 months in India.

• Personal Development Activities

  FEEL-Employable (11-08-2015 Tuesday, August 11, 2015)

  Prof. Sunney Tharappan, Director, CLHRD Stated that the quality of a programme depends on the person who goes through the training. He also added that learning happens only when we have reflections on it.
  FEEL Employable programme helps students redefine themselves through reinforcement of various areas of one’s own human resource. The strategies employed, the methodology adopted, the techniques used, and the action plan implemented is necessarily meant to promote the students to think in positive lines and feel comfortable with his or her achievements.




• Organizational Behaviour (Thursday, August 13, 2015 13-08-2015)

  Mr. Amithabh Vyas, Head HR, Dubai Airport He urged the students to take part in all team/group activities. He gave an insight into vision, mission and values of an organisation. He asked the students to have a purpose listed at the beginning of every year, evaluate with the inner voice and start believing it. He told the students to put their thinking hats on and prioritize between knowledge, skills and abilities.






• Soft concept (Thursday, July 07, 2016)

  Dr. N Dr. N. K. Vijayan Karippal, Principal, Expert PU College, Valachil, Mangalore He e He elaborated on its implementation for 4-year undergraduate engineering course: identifying problems, developing “soft concept” at first year level, and in later years creating hard prototype and coming up with a final product. He presented several successful case studies and motivated the faculty to involve themselves in projects.






• Success, Motivation & Personality Development (Monday, August 08, 2016)

  Chethan Ram R A, Dean & Managing Trustee, 'Parivarthana School In his In his talk said that one should be self-motivated and focused on the goal to become successful. He mentioned that each one of us is a gift of nature. How best we make use of our talent, and give our service to the society is what we are gifting back to the nature.
  He ur HE urged the students to make best use of the opportunities provided. About 680 students participated in two batches and were greatly inspired by the motivational talks.






• Value Driven Leadership (Friday, August 19, 2016)

  Sampoojya Swami Purnamritananda Puri, Secretary of the world renowned organization, Mata Amritanandamayi Math
  In his In this highly motivated lecture gave excellent messages - Unity is power for leadership, one need to enjoy every problem of life, Sustain purity and innocence, No compromise on values, Respect everything in nature, Commitment and Consistence, Healthy body and Powerful Mind, help others and get satisfaction. For the past twenty eight years he has been engaged in the very noble spiritual and humanitarian activities of the Math that Amma envisioned.





• Focus on Agricultural Setor. (Thursday, August 25, 2016)

  Anil A. Uppin, Additional Director(Vishwa) Department of Industries and commerce(DIC) Shri. Uppin highlighted various avenues of utilizing these innovations in an organizations. He suggested varied personalities spanning all areas of Engineering and said to focus on agricultural sector which has ardent need of technology implementation.






• GST & Tax issues (Wednesday, December 07, 2016)

  Mr.shreyas, Indian Revenue Services Officer, Civil Servant He spoke to the students about different subject like Civil Service exams, GST and tax related issues. He spoke about various challenges, a civil servant has to face. He also encouraged students to work hard with determination in-order to achieve success in life. He has assured the students of visiting Sahyadri again.






• SHAPE-IT.(Monday, December 26, 2016)

  Ms. Vaijayanthi Srinivasaraghavan, Certified Delivery Project Executive, GH Program Team, IBM Their agenda to visit the campus was mainly to explore the opportunities to feature the college success stories, with the concept of SHAPE-IT. being Being in the IT industry for more than two decades, and working closely with the fresh talent from campus, and having received numerous feedback from student community, project managers / recruiters from Industry and the academia intends to survey the student requirements/needs to be prepared for the “INDUSTRY” while still in campus.




• Social Innovation.(Monday, January 16, 2017)

  Dr. omar A Saraereh, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hashemite University Jordan – Zarqa he inr He interacted with students in Social Innovation Lab and staff members about various ongoing projects. Dr. Omar has appreciated facilities provided by Sahyadri and assured to visit our institution again with his team.






• Understanding Mental Health and Adolescence.(Thursday, August 03, 2017)

  Dr. Srinivas Bhat U, MD, Professor, K S Hegde Medical Academy, Deralakatte He emphasised on the nature and characteristics of adolescence and the problems they encounter during their transition. She explained various scenarios referring to case studies. He spoke about diverse psychiatric problems faced by the adolescence and also mentioned about some common cases he came across in his clinical practice. He also spoke about substance abuse and suicide. Dr. Rameela concluded the talk by re-iterating the role of a teacher in helping students to develop healthy habits and living.




• Leadership Development Programme (Saturday, September 02, 2017)

  Mr. Ramani Venkat, Co-Founder of Varnaaz leadership The main focus of the training was conveying the importance of working as a team, appreciate people, time management and also out of the box creative thinking. First session had insight on brand value which included ideas on brand value creation. He mentioned that every single human being even without unique traits are considered to have brand value, however the instances in which people remember them is what defines as a brand value for that person. He also touched upon the relevance of having a vision and working towards it. He emphasised that Communication is imperative in almost all spheres of Leadership like Strategising, Research, innovation, advertising, after sales service and so on.




• Self-Management.(Monday, January 29, 2018)

  Col. Mahendra Babu (Retd.) he urged the teachers and students to inculcate the habit of “Talk to yourself” which can be easily attained by “Write to yourself” – Write as if someone else is writing about you. He gave strategies on Self Management which he urged the participants to practice. Better the Emotional Intelligence (EI) better will be the Self Management Skills. He gave strategies on Self Management which he urged the participants to practice. Better the Emotional Intelligence (EI) better will be the Self Management Skills. He also shared the importance of Self Control and gave inputs on how it can be attained. He threw light on Shreya (GOOD) & Preya (PLEASANT).




• Tech Vision (Tuesday, May 01, 2018)

  The main objective of this event is to inspire young minds of the engineering students by providing them a Platform to demonstrate their skills and knowledge through projects. Identify innovative projects for POC to incubation. Briefing on the Entrepreneurship.












• Discussion on Sahyadri Innovation Campus with faculty by Subramanian Sivakumar, CEO of World Research Centre, World Research Investments Limited and Pratian Technologies.(Saturday, March 23 2019)

  ? Subramanian Sivakumar presented on the Sahyadri Innovation Campus, Envisioning the future to the faculty. Key Takeaways of the discussion: • Current System of Education Vs Envisioned Ecosystem • Importance of developing Competencies in students – Knowledge, Behaviour, Attitude and Skills • Focus on Value Creation and Value Communication • Provide Industry-centric value to learners • Knowledge should not be limited to Application but should lead to solving problem.






• Department of Mechanical Engineering organizes Career Awareness Programme.(Tuesday, April 30 2019)

  ? Mr. Surya Shekar gave an overview of Konkan Railways. In his session, Mr. Shridhara spoke extensively on the opportunities at Konkan Railways. ? The speakers called on students to start their own enterprise as railway contractors. The department explored possible opportunities for internships.

Talk about Entrepreneurship

• Leadership and entrepreneurship (Wednesday, February 14, 2018)

  Mr. Rajkumar Bansal, AVP – Group Leader, Strategy Planning & Operations, Infosys, Bengaluru
  While addressing the students he emphasised that it is the extra effort in terms of time, energy and thinking that makes a difference. Students should have a “small extra” in them to stand out in a crowd. Mr. Bansal shared his failure stories and how Toastmasters Club assisted him in overcoming his weaknesses. He expressed that after college while getting into a job, he came out with flying colours in the initial rounds of interview, however during the final round where he had to bring out his abilities he failed drastically.




• Entrepreneurship (Tuesday, August 02, 2016)

  Mr. Aditya Gupta, CEO, at the India Didactics Association
  He addressed the faculty on the various tools and techniques available in teaching and learning pedagogy across the globe. He appreciated the teaching fraternity because of which renowned people have adorned various key positions across the world. Changing the mindset and willingness to use technology in classroom is vital in today’s technological age.

  He advised students to go beyond classroom teaching and develop innovative products which would cater to the needs of the society




• Rural Development & Entrepreneurship (Monday, June 27, 2016)

  Balasaheb Darade, Expert Member, Govt of Maharashtra
  is an innovator, entrepreneur and political leader striving hard for youth empowerment and to solve rural problems. He has founded Shankara Rural Transformation, which concentrates on creating sustainable model villages in India and youth empowerment. He is the founder of the IT company Relations Bridge Innovators which concentrates on elevating startups and helping businesses by providing them access to quality technology and human resources.




• Corporate life & Entrepreneurship (Friday, February 05, 2016)

  Mr. Bharath Kumar, Business Transformation Programme Director – Arthur J Gallagher International, London
  He addressed students on the topic "How to face Corporate life".
  In his talk he enlightened the students on facing corporate life. He started his lecture by narrating life incidents where he recalled his childhood days and introduced the concept of systematic learning. He urged the students to learn the art of reading and narrating stories to enhance their self confidence and presentation skills. He mentioned that freedom is associated with responsibility. He guided the students on taking career decisions and encouraged the students to develop skills to differentiate in the job market. There is no dearth for opportunities for students.




• Social innovation & Entrepreneurship (Friday, January 29, 2016)

  Rajashekar Hiremath, President, Flexitron,
  He gave insights on what is social innovation and how a social enterprise can arise. He also produced some of his own case studies on how to solve a social problem by make the society better. He also appreciated Sahyadri for the kind of support and freedom it has given to the faculties and students to innovate and learn.
  Rajashekar Hiremath has over 300 plus innovations in varied fields like solar photovoltaic’s, wind energy, led lighting, empowerment equipments for the rural population, textiles, khadi, ceramics, disability aids, silk , artisan equipment and tools.




• Strategy and management in Entrepreneurship (Monday, December 21, 2015)

  Mr. Sanjeev Baitmangalkar, Principal Consultant, Strategy & Lean Management, Stratmann Consulting, Bengaluru
  “he highlighted that the definition for success is different for different individuals and it is a never ending process that begins from within. He emphasised that we should learn from our failures, dream big, manage time, handle stress, build relationships through networking, develop communication skills, be persistent and be an entrepreneur.




• Ethics & Entrepreneurship (Monday, OCTOBER 05, 2015)

  Swami Veereshananda Saraswati President, Ramakrishna Vivekananda Ashrama, Tumkur
  Explaining the importance of ethics in the present day education system, Swami Veereshananda Saraswati stated that the teacher is the real architect of the institution so teachers should join this profession by choice and not by chance and teachers should not deny knowledge to the student and should be ready to learn from the students. Stating the importance of time and common sense he said that time is inelastic. cannot be replaced and common sense is not common to all, common sense is very much needed everyone not only book knowledge




• Research & Entrepreneurship (Tuesday, September 29, 2015)

  Dr. Krishna Shenai, Vice President, LoPel Corporation and Adjunct Professor, EECS Department, Northwestern University, USA MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland
  He has raised venture capital and founded two successful startup companies, he also informed students to have research as a carrier option. Having reviewed the education, research and commercialization efforts at Sahyadri, he has expressed his desire to provide the leadership




• Entrepreneurship skills (Monday, July 27, 2015)

  
  
  Ms. Raquel Gambian Training Lead, Hewlett Packard
  Given a talk on communication skills. The session was insightful with topics on body language, phonetics, assertiveness, and presentation skills

Technical Talk

• Dr.Vittal Prabhu, Penn State University, US visits Sahyadri (Saturday, April 27 2019)

  

  Dr.Vittal Prabhu, Professor, Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Director, Service Enterprise Engineering (SEE 360) an Initiative of Penn State University, United States of America, visited Sahyadri. He held an interactive session with the engineering and management students on the teaching learning process in the US. He explained as to how the students were able take up social issues, find solution through case studies and innovative methods. He explained as to how creativity is going to be the key differentiating factor while explaining the top skill sets required for workplace success by 2020.





• Chief Executive Director, Tedra Technology Pvt Ltd, Malaysia interacts with Mechanical Engineering students (Friday, March 29 2019)

  

  Mr. Raghunathan spoke extensively on Augmented Reality /Virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies and its prospects in automobile engineering. The students also got hands-on exposure to AR/VR tools. He also called on the students to harness necessary skills in the field of AR/VR as it would be a pre-requisite for industries in the future.





• Mr. Anuj Sharma, Chairman of World Research Centre and Abhishek Vaish, IIT Allahabad, Ex-Counsellor S&T, GOI interact with the faculty (Thursday, March 21, 2019)

  Key Takeaways of his interactive session

  Educators should teach the future in the present

  • • Come up with 2-3 month course or a programme that peeps into the future.

  • • Upskilling is the need of the hour for the future which is ‘Technology’.

  • • Intends to set-up Research Centres in India however facing challenges in finding the right talent.

  • • Either create something new with unique value or end up buying from the foreign inventions.

  • • Institutions are changing their approaches to meet the challenges and there arises the need for self-learning and then disseminate the knowledge before it is lost.





• Researcher from HAN University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands visits Sahyadri (Wednesday, January 30 2019)

  
  Rakshith Kusumakar, Researcher, HAN University of Applied Sciences, interacted with the faculty and students of Mechanical Engineering. He gave an overview of various automotive projects that are being carried out at HAN University. He also stressed on the importance of IOT and its application in the intelligent transport systems.






• General Manager-Education & Training, Schneider Electric addressed the faculty (Saturday, January 26 2019)

  

  Mr. Sai Krishna Rao also held a session on “The Four Foundations of Leadership” for the Faculty Members.
  1.Being committed to something bigger than oneself: A leader is one who does not look at what he/she wants but looks at what the community, institution and the world wants.
  2.Integrity: Honour one’s word. Whatever you promise to self and to the world should be whole and complete.
  3. Authenticity: Be consistent with what you are in Actual. Give up your attachment to be admired as lot of energy is wasted in it. Refer to ssrn.com for Presentation on Integrity
  4.Responsibility: Drop the complaints of your life and see what you can do to correct the complaints. Take charge of your life.





• India First Leadership Talk Series” organized by MHRD Innovation Cell & AICTE (Tuesday, January 8, 2019.)

  
  MHRD Innovation Cell (MIC) in association with AICTE organized the "India First Leadership Talk Series" by Mr. Anand Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group which was streamed Live for the students and faculty in the campus. Mr. Anand Mahindra inspired the budding leaders through his real life stories.







• Senior scientist of DRDO visits Sahyadri (Monday, April 09, 2018)

  

  Dr Ramakrishna A. from Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) visited the Sahyadricampus. Dr. Ramakrishna A. is the Head of Research Appliances and Senior Principal Scientist (Food Engineering&Packaging), DRDO, Ministry of Defence. He had a fruitful interaction with faculty and students about innovative mechatronics technology and management.





• Mr. P V Vaidyanathan conducts a session on “In search of Excellence” for students & faculty (Tuesday, March 27, 2018)

  

  A session on “In search of Excellence dwelling on education, career and life” was facilitated by Mr. P.V Vaidyanathan, a Trainer in Digital Techniques, Electronic Switching & Cellular Technology for the students and faculty of Mechanical & MBA Department. In his session, he mentioned that a dream is not what you get when you sleep, but that which doesn’t let you sleep. He also highlighted about Individual Excellence which is not just being effective but being efficient. He further spoke about Masterly Retreat which meant that Happiness is not achieved by fights, arguments, challenging others and winning arguments but by challenging ourselves to be a better person.





• Research and innovation (Friday, March 23, 2018)

  

  Dr. Ananth Seshan, Chairman, 5G Group, Canada and Ms. Sumitra Seshan, CEO, 5th Generation Tech
  5G is a boutique research and innovation group founded in the year 2000. With a vision of being a niche player in the automated discovery and use of real time intelligence, 5G has conducted research, developed and successfully commercialized 4 software/digital products to large manufacturers, utilities and facilities worldwide.





• British Deputy High Commissioner visits Sahyadri (Monday, February 12, 2018)

  Mr. Andrew Fleming, British Deputy High Commissioner visited Sahyadri along with his colleague Mr. Manjunath K Sripathy, Political Economy Advisor of British Deputy High Commission, Bengaluru. He spoke to the Higher semester Engineering students about United Kingdom’s engagement of Next Gen Students through Chevening Scholarship which is a UK government’s international awards scheme aimed at developing global leaders.






• “Machine Learning and its various applications” (Friday, January 19, 2018)

  Dr. Joachim Denzler Professor in Computer Science and Head of the Computer Vision Group, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller University, Germany. His research interests comprise of automatic analysis, fusion, and understanding of sensor data, especially development of methods for visual recognition tasks and dynamic scene analysis. He contributed in the area of active vision, 3D reconstruction, as well as object recognition and tracking.





• Director of the Institute of Design, Robotics and Optimization and Director of the Leeds EPSRC National Facility for Innovative Robotic Systems visits sahyadri (Jan 7 2018)

  Prof. Robert C Richardson, the Director of the Institute of Design, Robotics and Optimization and Director of the Leeds EPSRC National Facility for Innovative Robotic Systems spoke on “Robotic Inspection maintenance and repair of urban water systems”. He held a prestigious research contract to explore the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt using robotic technology and has discovered writing in the Great Pyramid that was hidden for thousands of years. He explained regarding the structure, motors and sensors required to build the robot. He also explained about under-water robotics.





• Teach Next Generation Engineering (Monday, June 5, 2017)

  He emphasized that teachers play a vital role in building the society by transforming young minds into a great human being, the key contributors to the development of the nation. He said that “Good teachers are made & not born”. Every teacher can be extraordinary by inculcating these 5 skills: Critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity and courage.

  He said - “A good teacher is the one who makes students ask questions & creates an ambience of civilized discussion in the class room”.





• Remote sensing (Saturday, August 27, 2016)

  

  C. J. Jagadeesha, Scientist, ISRO- NRSC- RRSC, Bangalore.

  He insisted mainly based on the areas where remote sensing is widely used. Prof. Jagadeesha explained in depth the concept of remote sensing. He emphasized on using remote sensing technologies in order to find out the origin of a particular problem and also added that it can help to overcome a majority of problems that are being faced by the farmers. He also introduced the concept of water irrigation.





• Education processes & Entrepreneurship (Thursday, April 21, 2016)

  Mr. Bharat Lal Meena IAS, Additional Chief Secretary of Government Education Department, Higher Education, Govt. of Karnataka, He stressed on the responsibility of a student in the institution and how the education in an institution can be improved with complete involvement using all the amenities provided to be a practicing engineer. He emphasized the need of collaboration with all the institutes in and around and to develop an ecosystem of mutual growth and expand the horizon of working for an inclusive growth.





• Expert talk on Tivoli and WebSphere suite of security products (Tuesday, August 16, 2016)

  Dr. Saritha Arunkumar, Senior Scientist in IBM UK She had deep expertise in Identity and Access Management solutions, Web Services security, and Public key Infrastructure, Cryptography and mobile security. She talked about her in-depth experience in defining end-to-end security architecture, high level and detail security designs and Infrastructure security solutions. She has also worked on a number of security assessment engagements, which involved assessing IBM WebSphere Application Server on AIX and Solaris systems.





• Latest trends & current affairs (Friday, August 12, 2016)

  Mr. Dayanand Allapur, Vice President & Head HR, Capgemini Business Services India Ltd, Bengaluru said that one should be updated about the current affairs happening across the globe, latest trends in their respective fields and also stressed that one should adapt to the technological advancements. He said it is important to practically implement the knowledge gained and stated that the application beyond academics is essential. He advised to know the level of competition in the modern world to be at the forefront and also to have a unique perspective of accomplishing the task assigned to them.





• Research funding/Technical talk (Monday, June 15, 2015)

  

  Dr. Pradeep K Pujari, Head, Radiochemistry Division, BARC, Mumbai. A special lecture on avenues of funding opportunities/Research Projects through the ‘Board of Research in Nuclear Science’ (BRNS) to the researchers and faculty members of Sahyadri. He explained the sub-categories of BRNS, funding mechanism, and route map of getting funds through BRNS. He also briefed about the schemes such as DAE Graduate Fellowship Scheme which a fund.

Talk by Experts about Startup’s

• Director of ITBT, Govt. of Karnataka visits Sahyadri (Thursday, December 27 2018)

  

  Mr. Girish R, Director of ITBT, Govt. of Karnataka interacted with the Company Heads & also the Start-Up’s set up within the campus. He addressed the Faculty members about the activities carried out by Government of Karnataka to promote start-up culture among the student community.




• Startup India Karnataka Yatra & Boot camp (Thursday, December 13,2018)

  

  Mr. Karandeep Singh addressed regarding the advantages of being an entrepreneur. Camp will have an ideation workshop and then the pitching sessions. session will be for the faculty "Train the Trainers" on how to promote entrepreneurship concept in the students.




• Modern Youth” & “Start-Up for Rural India” (Friday, February 10, 2017)

  Swami Nikhileshwarananda, Adhyaksha, Shri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Vadodara, Swami Sarvasthananda, Adhyaksha, Shri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Rajkot
  Swami Nikhileshwarananda, in his session on “Modern Youth” acclaimed that they are Highly Intelligent, Highly Ambitious, need instant success and are more focused on their career, however they break down very easily on small issues as they lack total personality development. He urged the youth to give equal importance to IQ, EQ and also SQ (purpose of life) which contributes to the total development of the personality of an individual. He also added that there is infinite power in each and every individual and one should awaken it through education, prayer, selfless service and rigorous reading.
  Swami Sarvasthananda re-iterated that one should never forget the women and the masses in the context of Social Entrepreneurship. He mentioned that India can rise only when Rural India rises, hence youth should feel for the underprivileged, think about it, dream about it, let every particle of the body work on it, use their knowledge and contribute to them.




• Start-up companies on the marketing perspective. (Thursday, December 22, 2016)

  Jayachandra Aradhya, CEO, Silicon Microsystems
  He had series of discussion with the students shared real life practical experiences as an Entrepreneur. Dr. Manjappa, Director Research & Consultancy facilitated the interaction.
  He expressed his support with a concrete roadmap for start-ups at Sahyadri and shared his best wishes to the institute in its professional endeavour to produce practicing Engineers.




• Start-Up at Sahyadri (Friday, September 23, 2016)

  

  Flicker Infotech, the student Start-Up,
  Flicker Infotech has conducted a workshop on web development using HTML, CSS and PHP for the students. Flicker Infotech is a Software company involved in Web Designing and Development of Mobile Application. The trainer of the workshop was from a Software Industry with four years of work experience. This workshop was appreciated by the participants for the immense learning outcome.




• Startup Scenario & Opportunities in India (Thursday, July 28, 2016)

  Mr. Ashok Madaravally, 10000 Startups & Director NASSCOM,
  visited the Campus and interacted with students of the various startups at the Sahyadri Entrepreneurship Cell.
  he spoke about the opportunities provided by NASSCOM to startups through their 10000 startups. In his address to a packed audience, gave insights into NASSCOM and the purpose of setting up the 10000 startups. He spoke about the power of India, the digital revolution, and the large potential and strengths of India, the opportunities available and how startups can tap into these opportunities. He threw light on the challenges for Indian startups and spoke about some of the deficiencies in Indian start-ups like poor communication and marketing skills, poor design skills, being more passionate and less based on customer requirement

Participation in Inter College Events by students