Fit India Movement observed at Sahyadri
In commemoration of National Sports Day, the students and staff of Sahyadri took part in the Fit India Movement campaign launched by the Honourable Prime Minister during the LIVE streaming of the event and pledged to keep oneself fit. Various activities were organized by Sahyadri NSS unit in association with Department of Sports and Sahyadri Health Centre on 29th Aug’19. 10,000 steps challenge was conducted for the students and a walkathon was also arranged for the faculty within the campus.
Executive Director of Padi-Valored Mangaluru addressed first year engineering students
As a part of Social Innovation Programme, an Expert Talk on Education Sector was held in the campus on 29th Aug’19 facilitated by Mr. Renni D’Souza, the Executive Director - Padi Valored Mangaluru. He addressed the first year engineering students on various problems in the Education Sector, presented the overview of Education System in South Kanara District, highlighted the importance of Quality in Education and emphasised on the role of Parents in children’s education. The expert has shared problem statements of this sector which will be taken up by students as research projects.
Director Research visits VTU Belagavi
Dr S Manjappa, Director- Research visited VTU, Belagavi on 29th Aug’19 and had an interaction with Dr Karisiddappa, Vice Chancellor and Dr Annigere, Registrar-Evaluation. He congratulated Dr. A. S. Deshpande for being newly appointed as Registrar and conveyed regards on behalf of Sahyadri family.
Bridge Course for New Entrants to MBA Batch 2019
On 29th Aug’19, the fourth day of Bridge Course started with a session by Dr. Azhar Shaheen Shaikh on ‘Communication’. He stressed on the importance of Body Language and Tone in communication and how it affects the message that needs to be conveyed.
The next session was facilitated by Mr. Ankith S Kumar, Student Counsellor on ‘Health & Success’. He spoke about finding oneself and being a better version of it from time to time. He re-iterated the importance of Dancing for fitness and conducted a Zumba session too.
The afternoon session was facilitated by Ms. Vathika Pai, Women Entrepreneur-Nirmala Travels & Vathika Enterprises. She shared her journey as an Entrepreneur and the various challenges faced in her business. She encouraged the students to take up entrepreneurship as a career choice. She also shared information regarding various facilities provided by the Government to stimulate entrepreneurship.
VTU e-Learning Video Lecture on ‘Electronic Devices’ for E&C Engineering students
The third semester students from the Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering attended the VTU e-Learning Video lecture on “Electronic Devices” under “VTU e-Shikshana” platform on 28th Aug’19. The deliberations of the session included topics on Electron conductivity and mobility, Drift and Resistance, Effects of temperature and mobility.
VTU e-Learning Centre, has taken up a new initiative in enriching knowledge and empowering education through implementing Virtual Interactive e-Learning platform named as “VTU e-Shikshana- Empowering Education through e-Learning Platform”, which enables the students of VTU to interact with eminent scholars in an immersive e-learning environment. This interactive e-Learning platform enables video conferencing which allows the users to have seamless live video and audio streaming experience.
Quote for the day
“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow."
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
