Phase II: AICTE Sponsored One-Week STTP on “Innovative Approaches in Teaching Pedagogy”
Day Three (16th June 2021):
Mr. Mohan Kumar, Practice Head, Wipro Limited on the topic – “Management Lessons through Cricket”
Mr. Mohan Kumar has 32 years of IT experience. He holds Electrical Engineering degree and MBA in HR. He is part of the Board of studies, Industry Academia Advisory Committee Member for several colleges & universities. He is a certified Cricket Umpire.
He spoke about Mentor Vs. Coach. He also conducted Business Quiz related to Cricket and how these quizzes will excite students to engage in class. He concluded his session stating that - “Cricket teaches you that there is always second innings in your life. If you fail today, there’s this second innings which may be two days later.”
Ms. Pavani, Associate Head Training - Tech Mahindra Pvt Ltd on the topic “Audio-Visual Based Learning”
Ms. Pavani is a PGDBM in Advertising and Marketing Communication. She has 10 plus years of experience in ITES, India. She has handled pre and post-training (Soft skills - Voice Training for UK, US, CAN, ANZ and India accounts).
Pavani spoke about the Learner Types and Facilitator Types with examples. She referred to various free Recording and Video tools available for faculty to explore and introduce in the Teaching.
Dr. Rajendra Kumar V Joshi, Senior Consultant, CESS and Formerly Director, Learning & Development at Marwadi University, Rajkot on the topic - “New Education Policy (NEP)”
Dr. Rajendra Kumar V Joshi is a Doctorate in Philosophy from Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai. He received the prestigious Emerald and the AIMA Research Fund Award in 2008.
He discussed about the future, significant transformative and structural changes in Multidisciplinary Institutions to offer the students community with holistic and multidisciplinary education. He threw light on the Structural Changes related to the types of HEIs – Research-Intensive Universities, Teaching-Intensive Universities and Autonomous Degree-Granting College.
Dr. Radha Raman Mishra, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, BITS-Pilani on the topic - “Mind Mapping Visualization Tools”
Dr. Mishra has served as a Project Officer, the Design Innovation Center, IIT Roorkee.
Dr. Mishra gave LIVE examples from his experiences in solving practical problems with the help of Mind maps. The participants had Hands-on experience on designing a Mind Map. They were given a Case and asked to design a Mind Map as a post-training activity.
ISE Faculty Members Publish Book Chapter in IGI Global
A book chapter article titled - "Bio Entrepreneurship Globally" authored by Prof. Madhura N Hegde, Prof. Jayapadmini Kanchan, Prof. Ganaraj K and Prof. Asha B Shetty, from Dept. of Information Science & Engineering has been published by IGI Global publisher in its book titled - "Bio Entrepreneurship and Transferring Technology into Product Development".
The link to the chapter is
https://www.igi-global.com/book/bioentrepreneurship
Faculty Members from CSE complete ATAL FDP on “Cyber Security Vulnerabilities & Safeguards”
Prof. Namita A Amdalli, Prof. Alakananda K, Prof. Shiji Abraham from Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering have completed AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Online Elementary FDP on “Cyber Security Vulnerabilities & Safeguards” held during 17th May to 21st May 2021 by National Institute of Technical Teachers Training And Research Chandigarh.
Major points covered in FDP are:
•Various Security Attacks on Web Applications IT Security
•Advance Cyber Threats to National Security
•Symmetric Key Cryptography
•Forensic tool for investigation
•Introduction to Dark Web
•Asymmetric Key Cryptography
•Security analysis of safety critical systems
•Cyber Law and IT Act
Placement and Training - IBM Off-Campus Hiring
IBM is conducting an Off-Campus Recruitment Drive for the Engineering students of 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 outgoing batches. Hiring is for the role of Associate System Engineer.
Steps to Apply:
1. Apply to the Job Opening on the IBM career portal: https://ibm.co/2T6onBe
2. Candidate will receive an email that will have the candidate reference number.
3. Update the candidate reference number and complete the form: https://ibm.co/3puS7Eb
Glimpse of Online Classes held in June 2021
Here is the information related to the Department-wise breakup of No. of Online Classes conducted on 16th June 2021 as well as the corresponding No. of hours engaged by the faculty members through Online Classes.
16th June 2021, Wednesday |
| DEPARTMENT |
No. of Classes Conducted |
No. of Hours Engaged |
| Computer Science & Engineering |
33 |
44 |
| Civil Engineering |
9 |
10 |
| Electronics & Communication Engineering |
13 |
13 |
| Mechanical Engineering |
20 |
21 |
| Information Science & Engineering |
13 |
14 |
| Basic Science |
39 |
40 |
| MBA |
30 |
30 |
Upcoming Webinar
Webinar on “Application of Machine learning
Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management and IETE Student Branch- SCEM in association with SAHYADRI-IIC is organizing a Webinar on “Applications of Machine Learning” on 19th June 2021 11.30 AM. The resource person for the event is Dr. Steven L. Fernandes. The event will be held in online mode and participants can join using below
Google Meet Link:
https://meet.google.com/nmg-byek-hjd
Quote for the day
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
- Dale Carnegie 
