MBA Dept. organizes an Awareness Session on “POSH at Workplace” for Teaching & Non-Teaching Staff

MBA Dept. in collaboration with ISTD (Mangaluru/Udupi Chapter) organized an Awareness Session on “POSH at Workplace” for the employees of Sahyadri. The session saw participation from Engineering & MBA Departments, Administration, Hostel, Placements, Admission, Academics, Security and other departments. Ms. Nivedita Mirajkar, Chairperson of ISTD (Mangaluru/Udupi Chapter) and Ms. Vidya Shenoy, a Life Skills Coach were the resource persons.
Key Takeaways of the session:
• Mantra of Corporate world since 2018 – Gender Diversity & Inclusion
• Today, there is a call to make agricultural equipment women-friendly as majority of women involve actively in agriculture
• The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 - Definition of Sexual Harassment and Objectives of the Act
• Organizations with more than 10 employees need to constitute an ICC
• Internal Complaints Committee (ICC), a 4-member committee to handle cases related to Sexual Harassment
• Report on ‘Zero Occurrence’ should go to the Government incase there are NO cases reported
• “Not the intent of what you say, but the impact of what you say” will be considered while handling a Sexual harassment case.
The session was concluded by leaving behind a thought – “Let’s make our work environment safe for all to work in”

MBA student Donates Hair for Wigs of Cancer Patients

Prakruthi, a student of First year MBA, donated her hair to be used for the preparation of wigs for Cancer Patients who lose their hair during chemotherapy. She donated her hair to Fly High Charitable Trust under their Hair 2 Share Campaign through Mercy Beauty Academic, under the directions of Mr. Ankith S Kumar, Student Counsellor.

AICTE-ISTE National Refresher Programme Phase-2 organized by Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Day One (6th Apr’2021):
The second session of AICTE-ISTE sponsored Online Refresher program – Phase 2 (6th to 12th April’2021) on “Cooperative and Collaborative Teaching Learning Processes” was engaged by Dr. Vijaya Kumari S N, Associate Professor of Education, PG Studies and Research in Education, St. Ann’s College of Education, Mangaluru. She is a Doctorate in Education from SNDT Women’s University Mumbai and has been awarded the Jamunabhai Gobindji Madhabji award for her Ph.D study. She facilitated a session on “Cooperative and Collaborative Learning: Constructivist Pedagogies to develop 21st Century Skills”.
Third session was engaged by Dr. Janardhanan Gangathulasi, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Head of Centre for International Affairs and Centre for Curriculum Development, Planning and Coordination at the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chennai. Dr. Janardhanan has over 18 years of research, teaching and consulting experience within the broad fields of civil, environmental engineering and engineering education. He facilitated the session on “Technology enabled teaching learning: NEP 2020 Perspective”. He mentioned that Technology-enabled learning aims to focus on increasing access to quality teaching and learning by supporting policy formulation and innovation in the application of ICT in education, and the development of ICT skills.
Fourth session was engaged by Dr. Ravichandra K R, Professor and Head of Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management. He is also handling additional responsibility as Dean- Industry Connect and Head of Autonomous Working Committee. The session he engaged was on “Simulation tools for interactive assignments”. In his presentation, he brought out the difference between Traditional Method of Education & Outcome Based Education, Student Centric Education, and Competency in Graduates of Higher Education & Bloom's Taxonomy.

Civil Engineering Faculty clears GATE-2021

Prof. Vijayalaxmi Kedilaya B, Dept. of Civil Engineering has cleared the GATE-2021 examination with a score of 378. She has taken up this examination with a view to pursue her career in the field of research.

Commemoration of World Health Day - Awareness Programme on COVID-19 Vaccination

In commemoration of World Health Day on 7th Apr’2021, Sahyadri Youth Red Cross and the Dept. of Business Administration organized an Awareness session on COVID -19 Vaccination for the MBA students and Staff by Mr. Ankith S Kumar, Student Counsellor. Dr. Vishal Samartha, Director-MBA shared her experience about receiving the Vaccination. Mr. Ankith S Kumar gave the necessary information regarding the Vaccination protocol, procedures, the working of the vaccination and also debunked many of the myths and misconception; the people have regarding taking vaccines. Prof. Samarth Shenoy and Prof. Manjunath Kamath of Dept. of Business Administration shared their experiences battling against COVID-19 and urged the students to be responsible and understand the seriousness of the situation.
Ms. Shreelatha UA, Academic Administrative Officer and Youth Red Cross Programme Officer was present for the session.

Placement and Training - Extramarks Hiring

Extramarks is hiring Java Developer with three years of experience in developing web applications, Backend, API and Big Data based applications/software. CTC offered is INR 10 LPA. Interested students can share their profile with [email protected]
Extramarks Education is an education technology company that sells online and offline schooling and curricula. It was founded in 2007, and headquartered in Noida, India. As of March 2018, Extramarks has tied up with 9,000 government and private schools. It has over 8 million students and over 1.1 million online users.

Quote for the day

"Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination."
- Mae Jemison