Bridge Course: Engineering Batch 2022

Day Two:

After the energizing Day One, students started their morning having an introduction session from Flotanomers Pvt Ltd., an in-house start-up at Sahyadri working on UAV-unmanned aerial vehicles building and development innovation. Mr. Midhun introduced the company to the students - how they started it and what they work on. Later, he conducted a fun activity, teaching the basic mechanism of aeroplane. Following that, Zayn from Flotanomers explained the applications of drones and how to build a drone. To wind up the session, students were made to create paper planes and they competed with each other to fly their paper plane to the longest distance. Team Peak innovators emerged as winners of the competition.
Post lunch, students had the Design Thinking session handled by Mr. Gautham Kumar, the COO of InUnity LLP. InUnity is a start-up at Sahyadri which identifies and nurtures an Entrepreneurial mindset among the youth. Students designed a wallet on different problem statements they have encountered in the past in terms of their wallet. They learnt on how to empathize with a problem, the ideation process, how to build a prototype and also test it.
Day Three:

During the Day Three, students prepared a prototype of different wallets using their creativity introducing their product through a small expo in their own created table stalls. They also shot promo ads for their product and presented it to the jury. Team Phoenix and Sherlock homies emerged as joint winners. Proceeding with the afternoon session, the Dreamkit was introduced to students by Mr. Aashish from DTi Labs which works on electronics kits. During this session, students developed an understanding of the product on its own and interfacing it with multiple sensors by playing around alongside the kit, understanding the basics of electronics in engineering.

Agri-Business Field Trip: MBAs visit Soans Farm, Moodbidri

MBA-Marketing students of Dept of Business Administration (MBA) along with Prof. Padmanabha B, visited Soans Farm, Moodbidri on a field trip as an academic activity for Agri-Business Marketing Subject. Mr. Ivan Soans gave an introductory remark on the history of Soans Farm. The Farm initially started by the Swiss and German missionaries in 1926 as a pilot project to bring under useful cultivation, hilly areas dependent only on seasonal monsoon rains for irrigation has now developed into a large centre of innovative horticulture.
Mr. Vinod Soans guided the students on the farm visit. Presently, the farm is growing over 30 different fruit crops like Coconut, Pineapple, Cashew nut, Mango, Sapota, Vanilla, Areca, Bread fruit, Banana, Jackfruit, Cocoa and several spices like Pepper, Nutmeg, Clove, Allspice, Cinnamon etc. Several new crops have also been introduced from other tropical areas of the world. These are Rambutan, Durian, Langsat, Macadamia nut, Mangosteen, Dragon fruit, Abiu and Jaboticaba. Many species of bamboo from around the world and medicinal herbs are also grown here.
Through this trip, students got to experience the agri–business farm where the cultivators shared their difficulties in trade through credit and also exports. They also talked about the subsidies provided by the government and the difficulties they have in obtaining it.

Paper of Mechanical Engg. Students and Faculty accepted as Book Chapter in Nova Science, USA Book

The paper titled - 'An Overview of Cyber-Physical Systems in Manufacturing Systems' authored by the students - Rithin B Nambiar, Dheeshith CP, Abhijith K, Shahaas A and corresponding author Dr. Rathishchandra R Gatti is accepted as book chapter in the book 'Computational Modelling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Systems' published by Nova Science, USA. The book will be sent for indexing in SCOPUS and Web of Science.

Professors from CSE Dept. interact with students of VBLC, Manipal

Dr. Ananth Prabhu G, Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering and Principal Investigator at the Digital Forensics and Cyber Security Centre was invited by the Management of Vaikunta Baliga Law College Manipal to deliver a lecture on Cyber Laws and security to the students of their institution. Prof. Srinivas from Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering also joined him in this interaction.
Topics such as Cyber Laws, new generation Cyber Crimes, importance of evidence act and how to preserve digital evidence were few of the topics discussed in the 2.5 hour exhaustive interaction session with 265 students of the institution. The event was coordinated by Prof. Jayamol and Prof Raghunath KS delivered the vote of thanks.

Quote for the day

In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.
-Les Brown