“Festivista”, an Online Fest of Sahyadri for the First-year Engineering students

College fests are a stimulus to creative personality, and thus make it the best and most memorable time of college lives. It is an amalgamation of entertainment and knowledge.
To counter these abnormal times, the students and faculty decided to digitize these Fests. And thus, was born the concept of the First Online Fest of Sahyadri called “Festivista” for the First-year Engineering students.
Festivista was held on 25th June 2021 starting at 6:00 PM in a complete ONLINE Mode through the ZOOM Platform. The entire event was conceptualized and executed by Student Co-Ordinator’s namely - Brandon Leo John & Ankith Marla.
The inauguration of Festivista was done by Dr. Rajesha S, Principal along with Prof. S S Balakrishna, Vice-Principal; Dr. Prashanth Rao, Head of Dept. of Basic Science and Ms. Pooja Rai, Admission Officer. The programme was conducted and managed by Mohiddin Azhaan Khan & Al Ashqan Babu who were the Master of Ceremonies for this event. Festivista had the perfect combination of Fun and Frolic. It started with a Welcome Address followed by Solo Singing, Magic Tricks, Anthakshari, Ukelele, Dumb charades, Beat Boxing, Dance, and Housie. Festivista brought back the long-missing smiles on the face of all students and portrayed FESTIVISTA as a revolt against the challenges posed by the pandemic. The curtains were drawn over this event at 10:00 PM and thus came an end to the Epic Fest.

Training and Placement: Google Hiring

Google is hiring the 2021 outgoing batch as Software Engineer for Bengaluru and Hyderabad location.
Google’s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Their products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. Google is looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile.
Apply now: https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/104192665471328966-software-engineer-university-graduate-2021-start/

Phase III: AICTE Sponsored One-Week STTP on “Innovative Approaches in Teaching Pedagogy”

Day Four (28th June 2021)

Dr. Pratima Khandelwal, Lead Facilitator – Pedagogy for HEIs & Soft Skills Trainer – NPTEL (IIT Madras) on the topic - “Flip Method of Teaching”

Dr. Pratima Khandelwal holds a Ph.D in Food Technology and Process & Food Engineering. She has contributed in FDPs organized by Infosys Campus Connect-InfyTQ, BITS Pilani, and Biocon Academy. She has been a lead speaker for AICTE-ATAL & ISTE based FDPs in states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Dr. Pratima Khandelwal emphasized on the Application of Blooms Taxonomy and also shared the various ways through which Flipped Classroom can be conducted. She introduced the participants to Jamboard, Padlet.com and Menti.com. In her concluding remarks she mentioned that the combination of Flipped Teaching and Active Learning would result in Amazing Educational Possibilities.

Dr. Rajesha S, Principal, Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management, Mangaluru on the topic - “Interactive/Participative Learning”

Dr. Rajesha S is a B.E., M.Tech and PhD with area of specialization in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering. After joining Sahyadri in the year 2018, he sphere headed the team to achieve NBA accreditation.
Dr. Rajesha encouraged the participants to interact and express their opinion on the challenges of current education system. He also added a note on accountability and documentation, that how it pressurises the academician. He suggested to have own teaching skill, which will definitely add on to the personality of a teacher.
“New Education Policy, 2020: Highlights of Higher Education”

Dr. Gowrisha, Deputy Director, CESS-Bengaluru on the topic - “New Education Policy (NEP)”

Dr. Gowrisha was a Chief Consultant in Technical Secretariat of Committee for Draft Educational Policy constituted by MHRD, Government of India, 2017. He has given more than 35 Lectures on New Educational Policy at National level Seminars, Conferences and Webinars.
He gave a glimpse of New Education Policy related to Higher Education in the country. He also discussed about the future, significant transformative and structural changes among Higher Educational Institutions to become Multidisciplinary Institutions for offering the student-community with holistic and multidisciplinary education.

Mr. Renjit Ravi Keshav, CEO of iSkew Learning on the topic - “Creative Pedagogy/Crossover Learning”

Mr. Renjit Ravi Keshav has done PGDHRM from Symbiosis Institute of Management, Pune. He also holds academic certifications in Faculty Development for Management Education from IIM, Calicut. He won the National Award for Leadership in Education –2017 from 24MRC, NewDelhi.
Mr. Renjit emphasized on being a Great Teacher Vs. Best Teacher as well as Andragogy over Pedagogy. The concept of Genius hour introduced by Mr. Renjit opened up a new Avenue for learning. He urged faculty to design creative pedagogy as the students are from various backgrounds and their learning style differs from one another.

Mechanical Engineering Faculty completed ICT Mode STTP on “Programming and Automation using PLC”

Prof. B C Pramod, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, completed the ICT Mode Short Term Training on “Programming and Automation using PLC (ICT073)” held during 14th June to 18th June 2021 organized by NITTTR, Kolkata.
The Key highlights of the FDP:
• Introduction to PLC, its Architecture
• PLC Programming using PSIM software
• Different type software for programming PLC
• Demonstration on Fanuc Make PLC’s
• PLC ladder diagram demonstration
• Introduction to SCADA, DNS
• Introduction to fieldbus protocol, a mini project.
Click here to view the Certificate (Certificate)

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 28th June 2021 as well as the corresponding No. of hours engaged by the faculty members through Online Classes.

28th June 2021, Monday
DEPARTMENT	No. of Classes Conducted	No. of Hours Engaged
Computer Science & Engineering	14	15
Civil Engineering	9	13
Electronics & Communication Engineering	18	19
Mechanical Engineering	18	22
Information Science & Engineering	13	16
Basic Science	35	33
MBA	22	22

Tomorrow's Event:

Valedictory Ceremony of AICTE Sponsored Short Term Training Programme (STTP) Phase III organized by Sahyadri on “Innovative Approaches in Teaching Pedagogy” has been scheduled to be held on 30th June 2021 at 3:15pm.

Quote for the day

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
- Albert Einstein