Orientation Program Held for the Parents of the New Entrants
The Orientation Programme for the parents of the new entrants to the engineering stream was held in the Campus. Around 100 parents were present for the program held in two different sessions.
Mr. Manjunath Bhandary, Chairman, welcomed the parents of the new entrants and urged them to look beyond academics to shape a better future for their wards. He placed an overview of the college saying that the growth of the college is due to the people of this place. The dream is to make Sahyadri one of the top institutes of India. He gave a message to the parents that they should build a friendly relationship with their wards and requested their parents to share their day-to-day work with their wards by adding a few responsibilities that will be beneficial for development of soft skills. He requested the parents to encourage students to join the Project and Research team which will enhance their career. He emphasized on the need for building analytical aptitude which will be taught as a subject from the third year onwards. Discipline, attitude of the students and their dress code is very important for their professional life and it should be built up by them to march ahead. The Chairman mentioned the Corpus Fund, how it aids to run Sahyadri and the sources to collect the funds. He urged the parents to take up educational loans in the name of their wards to make the students financially responsible. He gave additional details about the E-buzz, E-mails, E-magazine and Newsletter.
Dr. Umesh M. Bhushi, Principal, addressed the parents on the attitude of the students with a live example. He shared a few recruitment incidents, how they lose the opportunity if the recruitment takes place on holidays. He addressed the parents on the rules and regulations i.e. attendance, dress code, mobile usage, internal assessment, updated current contact number as well as their permanent address.
“FEEL-Employable” Learning and Development Intervention Programme Gets Underway
The three-day training session “FEEL - Employable” learning and development intervention programme organised by the Department of Training for the third batch of students of the first year was inaugurated at Netravathi Auditorium.
The resource person Prof. Sunney Tharappan, Director, CLHRD stated that this programme is meant for learning and added that Sahyadrians are fortunate to have this programme in the first year. Learned engineers are necessary but having a resourceful engineer is an asset to the company. Education is one of the methods of improving human resource.
The FEEL Employable programme consists of 12 sessions and each session is associated with one concept. This helps students to 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. Two hundred and forty-six students from four batches of first year Engineering are participating in the session.
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Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. and Sahyadri Sign Landmark MoU
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. and Sahyadri signed an MoU where Reliance shall offer course programmes to the eligible candidates and faculty members of the institute. Reliance shall provide the relevant course materials for the course work and will set up the laboratory and classrooms in the college premises. This MoU will have far reaching impact between Sahyadri and Reliance.
Mr. R.V. Balasubramaniam Iyer, Vice President, L&D, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited and Dr. U. M. Bhushi, Principal, Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management signed the MoU in the presence of Mr. Manjunath Bhandary, Chairman, Sahyadri Educational Institutions.
Social Innovation Workshop Held in the Campus
 
A two-day Social Innovation Workshop was organized for the faculty members in the Campus. Dr. Sanjay Kotbagi, HOD, Department of Humanities, BVB College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli, was the main resource person. Prof. Vilas Purohit and Mrs. Sujatha Kotbagi were the other resource persons.
The workshop focused on the importance of “Social Innovation” in the professional growth of students and faculty. The resource persons illustrated how the concept of social innovation can inculcate certain qualities like positive attitude, team work, communication skills, design oriented thinking, social responsibility, and logical thinking among the students. The resource persons focused on importance of motivating the students to take up projects that focus on social innovation to create social awareness and social consciousness among the students. Various stages of evaluating the social innovative concepts were discussed in the workshop.
Faculty Member Presents a Paper in a National Conference
Mr. Praveen Kumar M., Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, presented a paper entitled “Comparative Analysis of Color Image Watermarking using DWT, DWT-SVD and DCT” at the National Conference on Advances in Communication and Signal Processing, NCACSP-2015 organised by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (UG Programme accredited by NBA, New Delhi), St. Joseph Engineering College, Mangaluru.
Quote for the day
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."
-Steve Jobs
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