BOAT & DTE in collaboration with Sahyadri organize an Apprenticeship Fair

Board of Apprenticeship Training (SR), Chennai & Directorate of Technical Education, Bengaluru in collaboration with Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management organized an Apprenticeship Fair for Engineering Graduates/Diploma/General Graduates in Sahyadri Campus which saw participation from Eight Hundred students of Karnataka. Mr. Suresh Kumar, Assistant Director, BOAT; Mr. Mohamed Ansar, Joint Director, Directorate of Technical Education, Bengaluru were the guests for the Inaugural Ceremony along with Mr. Manjunath Bhandary, Chairman, Bhandary Foundation.

Mr. Manjunath Bhandary, while addressing the gathering urged the students to develop interest, commitment, involvement & discipline in the job they are assigned. He also emphasized on the growing need for SMART Skills and encouraged them to work on it. He appreciated the Government of India for providing opportunities to students through Apprenticeship Training. He stressed on the importance of initial 3 to 5 years in building a strong foundation through learning. He brought to light the recent trend in downfall of students opting for mechanical engineering & how this would impact the core mechanical based companies.

Mr. Suresh Kumar shared the process of registering under BOAT. He also mentioned that Karnataka ranks 3rd in India for Apprentice training. He highlighted that National Apprenticeship Training Scheme in India is a one year programme equipping technically qualified youth with practical knowledge and skills required in their field of work. The Apprentices are imparted training by the organizations at their place of work. During the period of apprenticeship, the apprentices are paid a stipend amount, 50% of which is reimbursable to the employer from Government of India. He mentioned that the National Apprenticeship Training Scheme is one of the flagship programmes of Government of India for Skilling Indian Youth.

Mr. Mohamed Ansar, Joint Director, DTE spoke on how best we can initiate IT industries for Apprenticeship. Mechanical companies are more into apprenticeship & we have to focus more in getting the IT companies for Apprenticeship that would help the software Engineers to get into a company.

Mr. Rajesh GS, DGM of System Control Technology Solutions spoke about how houses are converted into rented offices for engineering development & how companies focus on developing their own product.

Mr. Kiran Deshpande, Kirloskar Toyota Textile Machinery, addressed the problem as to how the present generation look for easy job. He spoke about how important is the first 3 to 5 years to build a foundation through learning.

Sahyadri Empowers the Blind & Visually Impaired - VL GLASS: A Ray of Hope for the blind

A path breaking, innovative eye glasses was conceptualized, researched and designed by RDL Visible Light Communication and Research Centre at Sahyadri Innovation Hub.

To enable the visually impaired / blind person to move around freely within indoor environments like home or office or any unfamiliar spaces, with freedom and without facing any obstacles, RDL has invented a product by using visible light communication.

RDL VLC Lab was inaugurated by Dr. Sudhir Kumar Mishra, CEO & MD BrahMos Aerospace, DRDO on 26th March 2018. Immensely inspired by Dr. Mishra’s inspirational presence and encouragement, the whole team of Research Engineers, Faculty members and students, headed by Mr. Raghavendra Shetty, set forth to develop the product and within 3 months of inauguration of the lab, the product was delivered.
YouTube Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=colEdOCDWzk

Toppers of Semester II Civil Engineering

Drishya K A SGPA - 9.33	Kathija SGPA - 9.33	Manish SGPA - 9.25	Gurukiran SGPA - 9.25	Stapley V S SGPA - 9.17	Ayshath SGPA - 9.17

Rathan H P SGPA - 9.08	Vaishnavi C P SGPA - 9.08	Priyanka SGPA - 9	Anish SGPA - 9	Shikha SGPA - 8.92

Sahyadrian selected as the Campus Ambassador of Hackerearth

Prakyath from 3rd year Information Science & Engineering has been selected as the Campus Ambassador of Hackerearth of Sahyadri. He is also an active member of Sahyadri Open Source Community (SOSC) – Technical club which is affiliated with Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, OWASP programmes etc. SOSC aims to create a student community to promote technological research and development.

HackerEarth is a network of top developers across the world where you can practice solving problem statements. It is a great website for practising competitive programming. Also, they have amazing tutorials to get you going with topics such as Data Structures and Algorithms, mathematics.

Orientation Programme for 2nd Year CSE Students

With the intent of making the students familiar with the department, an Orientation programme for the second year Computer Science & Engineering students was held. The programme began with the inauguration in the presence of Dr. R Srinivasa Rao Kunte, Principal; Prof. Ravichandra R, Dean–Industry Connect; Prof. Sudheer Shetty, Dean-Examinations and Dr. J V Gorabal, HOD. Principal while giving the inaugural address told the students to maintain consistency in their performance and also asked them to refer to various books other than text books to enhance their knowledge. Further, Dean-Industry Connect emphasized the importance on industry connect courses. Dean-Examination stressed on the importance of attendance and also advised them to maintain good health. Dr. Gorabal welcomed the students to the branch and gave the glimpse of the Computer Science Department.

Day Two of 9th Indian Management Conclave

Day Two of 9th Indian Management Conclave began with a Panel Discussion on the theme "Pedagogy for developing job competencies in MBAs". Few of the Management Institutes presented their case on unique practices they have implemented to enhance the competencies of their students to improve employability.

The 2nd session was on "Leveraging Technology in Education Delivery". Dr. V G Narayanan, Professor and Chair, MBA Elective Curriculum, Harvard Business School spoke about the effective use of technology in MBA Curriculum. It was followed by a lecture by Dr. P D Jose, Professor, Digital Learning, IIM Bangalore.

The 3rd session was a Directors Round Table on "Developing Framework for 21st Century Indian Business School". Dr. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE spoke to the participants through a video address about importance of value education and how we can shift from teaching to self learning mode. This was followed by IMC Distinguished Alumni Award 2018.

Sahyadri faculty along with KCTU Team visited CPCRI, Kasargod

Mr. Anil Uppin, Managing Director, Karnataka Council for Technological Upgradation (KCTU); Mr. Venkatesh, DIC-Mangalore and Sahyadri faculty team - Dr. Rathishchandra R Gatti, Assistant Professor; Mr. Dennis Pinto and Mr. Nataraj from Caliper visited Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI), Kasargod. The Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (ICAR-CPCRI) is a premier research institute established for coconut, arecanut and cocoa crops affiliated to Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

During their visit they interacted with Dr. Chowdappa P, Director of CPCRI; Dr. Ravi Bhat, Head-Division of crop production and other scientists. They discussed numerous challenges that the farmers were facing and how engineers must work on those issues. The discussion suggested new ideas to work upon that can be introduced as engineering projects for students and staff of Sahyadri.

Faculty members attend AICTE-ISTE Induction/Refresher Programme at JNNCE, Shivamogga

Prof. Sunil B N, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering and Prof. Janardhana D R, Dept. of Information Science & Engineering attended AICTE-ISTE sponsored Induction/Refresher Programme on “Data Science and Classification Practicing with Python and MatLab” at Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering, Shivamogga.

The objective of the course was to provide participants with an insight to Data Science focusing on Data Classification, Deep Learning, Feature Extraction, Data Visualization and Fuzzy Approach. Chief Guest of the inauguration programme was Prof. A S Kiran Kumar, Vikaram Sarabhai, Former Chairman, ISRO, Bengaluru.

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