Commemoration of World Environment Day

In commemoration of World Environment Day on June 5th, Sahyadri NSS Unit and Sahyadri Pupils Association of Civil Engineers (SPACE) Dept. of Civil Engineering jointly observed the day by planting saplings in the Campus. Mr. Krishna Kumar Poonja, Chairman, Sevanjali Trust, Farangipet; Mr. Pradeep Kumar Shetty, Representative from Adyar Area; Mr. Devdas Hegde, Trustee, Bhandary Foundation; Dr. Rajesha S, Principal and other key functionaries planted saplings in the Campus. More than 25 saplings were planted during the occasion. Ecosystem loss is depriving the world of carbon sinks, like forests and peatlands, at time humanity can least afford it. Global greenhouse gas emissions have grown for three consecutive years and the planet is at one pace for potentially catastrophic climate change. The emergence of COVID-19 has also shown just how disastrous the consequences of ecosystem loss can be. By shrinking the area of natural habitat for animals, we have created ideal conditions for pathogens – including coronaviruses – to spread. With this big and challenging picture, the World Environment Day has focused on ecosystem restoration and its theme is “Reimagine. Recreate. Restore.” Sahyadri is committed to protecting and preserving the environment for future generations.

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

Day Five (4th June 2021):
Mr. Mohan Kumar, Practice Head, Wipro Ltd 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 a certified cricket umpire, volunteer for global sports events like Olympics & Common wealth games and organizes major sports events.
Mr. Mohan Kumar said that a young chap getting ready for Cricket as a career choice would be imbibed with management skills from childhood through rigorous training sessions, fitness regime, time management and self-transformation periods during their life. He advised the participants to take many live examples from cricket and to blend them with classroom sessions as most of the students would be very much interested in the topic.
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. The session involved activities on communicating ideas through sketching and how a Faculty can deliver a session effectively through mind mapping. The session ended by exploring an alternative approach that works with both halves of the brain by harnessing its powers of visualization and association and thereby improves both memory and creative thinking.
Dr. Padmavathi B S, Director-Centre for Educational and Social Studies, Bengaluru on the topic “National Education Policy”
Dr. Padmavathi B S is a Post-graduate in Political Science and also holds M.Phil and Doctoral degrees with specialization in Foreign Policies. She holds a certificate on ‘Introduction to Corporate Social Responsibility’ awarded by United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR, Geneva).
Dr. Padmavathi B S, emphasizing on the importance of National Education Policy said that a Teacher must be at the centre of the fundamental reforms in the Education System. She highlighted that the Pedagogy must evolve to make education more experiential, holistic, integrated, inquiry-driven, discovery-oriented, learner-centered, discussion-based, flexible, and of course, enjoyable.
Mr. Mohit Shetty, HR Business Partner – Infobox and Guest Faculty at Christ University, Bengaluru on the topic - “Real-Time Case Study Analysis”
Mr. Mohit Shetty has handled end to end employee lifecycle for rapidly growing organizations. He specializes in the set up and growth of rapidly evolving companies in the city of Bengaluru.
He kickstarted his presentation with giving an overview of classic case study structure like - Introduction, aims, methodology, results, discussion and recommendation and moved further by giving insights on new innovative methods of using technology blend like podcast, video documentary, video commentary and news editorials approaches alternatively to get students engaged and break that monotonous atmosphere of long traditional case study analysis.

CSE Faculty completes ATAL FDP on "Recent Trends and opportunities for Research in Electronics & Computer Science Engineering”

Dr. Mustafa Basthikodi, Professor in Department of Computer Science & Engineering has completed AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy FDP on "Recent Trends and opportunities for Research in Electronics and Computer Science Engineering" held during 24th May to 28th May 2021 organized by Goa College of Engineering. The FDP concentrated on interdisciplinary research trends and opportunities in Electronics and Computer Engineering fields. The content included, Single trial estimation of visual evoked potentials in time frequency domains, Evolution of Pattern Recognition, Research Trends and opportunities in Video Analysis, Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy Using computer vision, Research Trends and avenues in Advanced Control Systems, Research tools using Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, Recent Trends and Application of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. The FDP was concluded with Indian Knowledge System: Art of Living.

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 4th June 2021 as well as the corresponding No. of hours engaged by the faculty members through Online Classes.

04th June 2021, Friday
DEPARTMENT	No. of Classes Conducted	No. of Hours Engaged
Computer Science & Engineering	28	38
Civil Engineering	9	11
Electronics & Communication Engineering	12	12
Mechanical Engineering	20	21
Information Science & Engineering	12	12
Basic Science	37	37
MBA	11	12

Quote for the day

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin