Inauguration of the Two-Day workshop on “Air Pollution and its Impact on Climate Change”

On account of World Environment Day 2019, observing the theme - Beat Air Pollution, a Two-Day workshop is organized by the Dept. of Civil Engineering in association with Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) during 28th to 29th June’19.

During the Inaugural ceremony, Dr. S Manjappa, Director-Research spoke about the World Environment Day and its history. The workshop as inaugurated by Sri. Kadlur Sathyanarayana Acharya, Principal District & Session Judge & Chairman, DLSA, Dakshina Kannada. In his address, he spoke about the various hazardous aspects affecting the environment and the role of every individual in mitigating the issues related to deterioration of environment.

Dr. R Lakshminarayan, Member, Karnataka Public Service Commission, Bengaluru, the Theme speaker of the inaugural ceremony briefed the audience regarding the implementation of Air Pollution Act through judicial bodies, importance of renewable energy, reasons of urban and rural air pollution and citizen civic sense that should exist amongst the fellow citizens to mitigate air pollution.

Sri. Rajashekar Puranik, Environmental Officer, KSPCB, Mangaluru, highlighted the various industries causing air pollution, common air pollutants and how they are dealt with. He also spoke about the various acts implemented by legislation and exercised by KSPCB.

Post inaugural ceremony, the first Technical Session was facilitated by Dr. H. Lakshmikanth, Environmental Officer, KSPCB, Udupi on the topic –“Air Pollution”. He shared various case studies concerning Air Pollution which was dealt by KSPCB, Udupi.

The second Technical Session was facilitated by Dr. Manippady Krishna Kumar, Chief Scientist, Champs Industrial Pte. Ltd, Singapore on “Indoor Air pollution and various new technologies developed to counter the same”.

The third Technical Session was facilitated by Dr. Srihari, Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, NITK Surathkal. He spoke about various sources of Air Pollution, major Environmental Acts/Rules/Policies in India, Air Quality Index, future trends in ambient air pollution and some of the recent innovations to tackle air pollution.

The fourth session was by Dr. Raj Mohan B, Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, NITK Surathkal. He spoke about the impact of air pollution and its overall impact on climatic changes. He also touched upon the various precautions taken to save our environment and role of each stakeholder to normalize the environmental imbalance.

Sahyadrians recruited by CapitalVia Global Research Limited

Ms. Drishya	Ms. Deeksha Shetty A	Ms. Akshaya

Ms. Drishya from the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering; Ms. Deeksha Shetty A from the Dept. of Civil Engineering and Ms. Akshaya from the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering from 2019 outgoing batch, were recruited by CapitalVia Global Research Limited for the position of Client Acquisition Manager with a salary package of Rs. 3,03,160/- per annum.

Bridge Course – Second Batch of Engineering 2019

During the Day Five of the Bridge Course on 28th June’19, students visited the in-house industries and the Launchpads of the institute and also interacted with the industry heads. They were introduced to various programmes and facilities available in the industries & launchpads that will help them in building their future projects.

In the second session, the students completed the design of their robot based on the requirements of the problem statement.

Technical Support Team attends a Seminar on IT Security

Mr. Chandra Mohan D from the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering and Mr. Guruprasad C from Manframe Computers Pvt. Ltd attended an IT Security Seminar organized by SOPHOS Technologies in association with Automation Technologies, Mangaluru at Deepa Comforts, Mangaluru on 27th June 2019.

Mr. Santhosh Varkey, Manager (South India, SriLanka & Maldives) from Sophos Technologies highlighted various issues - worst threats in cyber security and what a hacker can do in just three hours of time. The seminar also focussed on Cryptomining, Cryptojacking & RDP vulnerabilities and patches, Cyber Security as a System & also the updates in SOPHOS firewall related to upcoming threat protection.

Quote for the day

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
- J.M. Barrie