Civil Engineering Faculty attends Five-Day GIAN course at NIT Warangal

Prof. Sanjith S Anchan, Dept. of Civil Engineering attended a Five-Day GIAN Short term course on “Modelling and Control of Wastewater Treatment Plants” organized by Chemical Engineering Department, NIT Warangal, Telangana. Prof. Ingmar Nopensl, Associate Professor at Ghent University leading the BIOMATH research group was the resource person of the programme. The courses exposed the participants to Biokinetics modelling, Activated sludge models, Benchmark simulation models for WWTPs, Control of WWTPs for improved effluent quality and energy efficiency, Computational Fluid Dynamics for Wastewater treatment, improved mixing modelling with compartmental models and Population balance modelling applied to WWTP.

First Year Engineering students participate in the Launching ceremony of Swacch Soch Seminar at Ramakrishna Math, Mangaluru

The students of first year engineering attended the launching ceremony of Swacch Soch organized by Ramakrishna Mission at Ramakrishna Math, Mangaluru. Sri. B.H.V. Prasad, Group General Manager, (HR & CSR) MRPL, Mangaluru launched the seminars in the presence of Swami Jitakamanandaji, Secretary of Ramakrishna Mission, Mangaluru; Swami Bodhamayanandaji, Director of Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence, Hyderabad; the Chief Guest Sri Vishal Hegde, Pro-Chancellor, Nitte University; Special Invitee Capt. Ganesh Karnik, Former MLC and the Resource Person Dr. Vivek Modi, Corporate Trainer, Hyderabad.

In the first session, Swami Bodhamayanandaji spoke on Human Excellence. He stressed on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda and encouraged students to read his experience. He stimulated the students by saying that they are spirit free Lions and should shake off the delusions. He urged students to have faith in themselves, have the attitude of giving generously and helping the needy on the streets. He said it is vital to have a clean mind-set.

The second session was by Dr. Vivek Modi who spoke on survival by being practical with a pure mindset. He spoke on challenges in concentration by sharing stories of how Vivekananda exhibited great concentration. When you have right focus your span of attention increases. The students were accompanied by all the first year HoDs and teaching faculty members; Ms. Shreelatha U A, Academic Administrative Officer and Mr Shreyas Jain, Student Welfare Officer from the Academics Department.

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering along with the CEO of Caliper visited SKF Group of Industries

Dr. Ravindra Babu G; Prof. Abhishek K and Prof. Rakshith H S from the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering along with Mr. Sunder, CEO of Caliper visited SKF Group of industries. SKF groups are the leading manufacturers of boilers and dryers. SKF Elixer India private Limited is another sister concern company which manufactures the world class drinking water purifiers and coolers. The company has more than 350 employees having worldwide customers.

During the discussion with the Chairman and MD of SKF Groups - Mr. G Ramakrishna Achar has expressed his interest to provide opportunities for collaboration, research and also internship for our students.

Faculty publishes a Manuscript in Elsevier Journal of Expert Systems with Applications

Prof. Manjunath Mulimani, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering published his Manuscript titled "Segmentation and Characterization of Acoustic Event Spectrograms using Singular Value Decomposition" in the Elsevier Journal of Expert Systems with Applications, which has an impact factor of 3.76 and indexed by SCI. The co-author of this manuscript is Dr. Shashidhar G. Koolagudi, Associate Professor, NITK, Surathkal. Manuscript is available online @ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.12.004

Mentor-Mentee System at Sahyadri

Mentor Details:
Dr. Rajesha S. is the Dean of Academics and Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has a PhD in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from IIT, Roorkee, Uttarakhand; M.Tech in Maintenance Engineering from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore and B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from PES College of Engineering, Mandya. He has served as the Professor & Dean (R&D) and Institute level NBA-OBE Implementation Coordinator and also as a Head of the Department (ME) at JSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida Uttar Pradesh. Dr. Rajesha has to his credit 18 journal publication, 23 conference publications and three patents.

Mentee Details:
• Prajesh Narayana Harikanth is a student of 1st semester ‘I’ section. He is from Murdeshwara, Karwar. He has completed his SSLC from Janata Vidyalaya, Murdeshwara & PUC from Siddartha PU College, Bhatkal. His hobbies are Playing Cricket, Reading News Paper & Books.
• Joyston James D Costa is a student of 1st semester ‘F’ section. He is from Moodabidri. He has completed his SSLC from Mount Carmel High School, Shirthady and PUC from Jain PU College Moodabidri. His hobby is playing Volley Ball.
• Mohammed Rahil Malik is a student of 1st semester ‘F’ section. He is from Mangaluru. He has completed his SSLC from Bearys Public School Mangaluru and PUC from Boscos Mangaluru. His hobbies are playing Football and Chess.
• Shahaas A is a student of 1st Semester ‘A’ section. He is from Kanhangad, Kerala. He has completed his SSLC from Durga High School, Kanhangad and PUC from Rajas Higher Secondary School Nileshwar. His hobbies are Reading books & travelling.
• Bradley Roger Henry is a student of 1st Semester ‘D’ Section. He is from Mangaluru. He has completed his SSLC from Bahrain, and PUC from St. Aloysius P U College. His hobbies are Playing Cricket & Football.
• Sathvik is a student of 1st Semester ‘G’ Section. He is from Mangaluru. He has completed his SSLC from Rosario High School and PUC from Sharada Vidyalaya P U College. His hobbies are Dancing, Playing Cricket & Football.
• Varun A Naik is a student of 1st Semester ‘K’ Section. He is from Mangaluru. He has completed his SSLC from St. Aloysius High School, Urwa and PUC from Canara P U College. His hobby is collecting Coins.

Quote for the day

"Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy."
- Sai Baba