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

Day Three (8th Apr’2021):
The first session was engaged by Dr. Pooja Birwatkar. She holds a Ph.D degree in Education and is currently working as an Assistant Professor in K J Somaiya College of Education, Somaiya Vidyavihar University Mumbai. The main focus of her talk was on Dialogues, Argumentations and Design thinking in Collaborative Learning Spaces. During her presentation, she highlighted on how to use argumentation as pedagogy, the power of strategic pauses class lectures, project-based learning, experiential learning, problem-based learning and Inquiry learning.
Second session was engaged by Dr. Ravichandra K R. He is currently working as Professor and Head-Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management. He is also holding an additional responsibility of being the Dean-Industry Connect at the institute and is heading the autonomous working committee. In his interactive session he spoke on Interdisciplinary cooperation between hard skills and soft skills. His talk focused on 21st century skills, AICTE model curriculum and assessment of soft skills.
Third session was engaged by Dr. Rathishchandra R. Gatti, Professor, Head of Projects and Funding, Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management, Mangaluru. The topic of the resource person was Collaborative tools for student-faculty research teams. In his presentation, he highlighted the student faculty collaborative research culture, research standards, and usage of collaborative tools with the hands on demonstration of Zotero – A cloud based application for seamless collaboration of across various platforms and groups for research.
Fourth session was engaged by Prof H.S. Ganesha Bhatta. He is a former Principal of MES Teachers College Bengaluru. He holds a Doctoral degree from University of Mysore. In his presentation he stressed on Collaborative TLP practices. His talk also focussed on components of cooperative learning.

MBA Dept. Receives Funding under Student Project Programme from KSCST, Govt. of Karnataka

Out of the 24 Projects approved by KSCST for Engineering & MBA Departments this year by KSCST under Student Project Programme 2020-21, Dept. of Business Administration (MBA) has bagged 5 Student Project Grants. Every year Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST) conducts the Student Project Programme (SPP) for providing financial and academic support to the Final Year students of B.E, M.Tech, M.Sc and MBA in Karnataka state.
44th Series of Student Project Programme: 2020-21
LIST OF STUDENT PROJECT PROPOSALS APPROVED FOR SPONSORSHIP MBA PROJECTS

SI NO	Name of the Guide(s)	Name of the Students	Sponsored Amount (In Rs.)
1.	Mr. PADMANABHA B  Ms. SUSANNA ZEENA DSILVA	Mr. ROSHIN ALEX JOHN  Ms. BHAT CHAITHRA TRIVIKRAMA  Ms. PAYAL SHETTY  Ms. VARSHINI R SHETTY	5,000.00
2.	Dr. VISHAL SAMARTHA  Dr. V ANANDVELU	Ms. VINDHYA VASANTH AMIN  Mr. SAYAD AKHIL  Ms. MUKAMBA V  Mr. AKSHAY RANE K	5,000.00
3.	Mr. MANJUNATHA KUMATH M	Ms. NEEPA RAI  Ms. ASHIKA  Ms. AKSHATHA RAO K L  Ms.ASHALAKSHMI K	3,000.00
4.	Ms. SUSANNA ZEENA DSILVA	Ms. VIJETHA SHETTY  Ms. ANUSHA RAO  Ms. CHITRA ULLAS NAYAK  Mr. SHADMAN	3,500.00
5.	Ms.MONISHA SHETTY	Mr. HELSITA ZINA MENEZES  Ms. DAIMINI R SUVARNA  Mrs. ASHWITHA N P  Mr. HARSHITH G K	4,000.00
TOTAL GRANTS FOR THE MBA DEPT			20,500.00

CSE Faculty publishes paper in Health Informatics Journal

Dr. Shreyas Rao, Associate Prof., CSE has published a paper titled "ROTA: A system for automated scheduling of nursing duties in a tertiary teaching hospital in south India" in Health Informatics Journal. The Journal is indexed in Scopus (Q2 category) and Web of Science (SCI Impact Factor is 2.93).
Click here to view the index sheet of the paper.

Mechanical Engineering Faculty publishes a Research Paper in Scopus Indexed Journal

A Research Paper by Prof. Ajith B S, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering titled “Engine performance and exhaust emissions of Garcinia gummi-gutta based biodiesel–diesel and ethanol blends” is published in the SN Applied Sciences, Springer Publications. The Journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, Ei Compendex and DOAJ.
The author would like to acknowledge Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, related to Competitive Research Grant (Reference: VTU/TEQIP 3/2019/321) under TEQIP Program for the financial support of INR 2 Lakhs and Advanced Energy Research Lab (A Sahyadri Initiative) for providing facilities to conduct tests.
Reference link for the Article:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42452-021-04537-0

Placement and Training - Ceyone Hiring

Ceyone Marketing Private Limited conducted the first round of virtual Campus Recruitment drive for Civil Engineering students of 2021 outgoing batch. Hiring is for the role of Assistant Manager Sales.
Ceyone, a sales and marketing firm focuses on real estate and they believe in providing families with a beautiful home-owning experience. They provide their customers decision critical information on their dream home.

Quote for the day

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success."
- James Cameron