Chairman holds Interaction session with the First year MBAs

Chairman Mr. Manjunath Bhandary had an interactive session with the 1st year MBAs on 23rd March’2021. In the initial part of the programme, he played a video that conveyed to students that they get value depending on the people they are found with and the place they belong to. He forced the students to think and answer as to how they research in prior when they buy a mobile phone and questioned the students if they did similar research before choosing their college to purse their MBA Course. He urged the students to now accept MBA as their course and Sahyadri as their institution to pursue this professional course and also accept all initiatives and activities as their own and take keen interest in them.
He informed students that Sahyadri focusses mainly on the activities and introduce initiatives like Immersive MBA that ultimately lead to enhancing skills and knowledge and thereby increasing the Placement opportunities.
He forced the students to think – Why MBA? He also enlightened the students on the expectations of MBA Graduates. He urged students to mentor 5-10 undergraduate students/Juniors which will enhance their leadership capabilities contributing to Networking Skills and efficiency in People Management.
He explained the present scenario of Management Education and showed the latest facts and figures of 93% unemployed MBAs. He stressed on how different MBA is from under graduate studies. Students were asked to analyze the amount they pay for every hour in a year and how their parents are at loss when they miss classes.
He concluded his interaction by asking students to acknowledge everyone with a SMILE, Use Social Media responsibly as it is one of the platforms of Hiring & Selection process. Think before you Post, Share and Comment. Finally, he asked students to appreciate the positives and learn to ignore one negative in a series of events that happen in life.

Peer to Peer Learning for First Year Engineering students

As a part of peer to peer learning process for first year students, Mr. Arjun Bhandary of A section has taken a session on Bernoulli's equations for his fellow classmates. He has explained the standard form of Bernoulli's equations, method of solutions and the applications. The same was conducted by Arjun Yashpal of G Section. The session was very interactive and well accepted by the students. Dr. Prashanth Rao, HoD of Basic Science coordinated the session.

ECE Dept. holds Interaction with Parents, Students and Faculty on “Importance of 100 Points”

Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering has held an interaction programme with Parents, Students and Faculty on 21st March’2021 for pre-final year batch using online mode.
The interaction programme aimed to enlighten students and the parents regarding the importance of 100 points activity as per the AICTE/VTU for the completion of their degree in Engineering. Now, engineering graduates need to earn activity points before their graduation or they won’t be awarded the degrees. Students should earn these activity points by working in rural places and coming out with technological initiatives to beat the civic crisis in the city and State.
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has come up with a 15-point activity programme for students to take up in order to earn stipulated points. All the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) affiliated colleges have been informed about this and students are instructed to follow the AICTE order. According to the AICTE, a regular student admitted to the four-year degree programme and student now entering the four-year degree programme through lateral entry shall earn 100 and 75 activity points respectively for the award of degree through AICTE Activity Point Programme. It also said that students transferred from other universities, directly to the fifth semester are required to earn 50 activity points from the year of entry. Officials stated that this new rule was applicable to Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Technology (B.E or B.Tech) students, admitting into VTU from 2019-20 academic year.

Dept. of ISE conducts PAC Meeting

The Program Assessment Committee (PAC) Meeting of the Dept. of Information Science & Engineering was conducted on 22nd March’2021. Dr. Shamanth Rai, Head-Dept. of Information Science & Engineering, presented the progress and action plans needed to be taken regarding the Information Science & Engineering programme.
Details of student and faculty performance, placement statistics were presented. Professional Elective, Open Elective subjects, AICTE 100 Points activity, and action plans for upcoming Even Semester were also discussed and deliberated in the meeting. The discussion also included many aspects like improvement in publication and research funding projects.
Dr. Nalini Rebello, Dean-Academics, gave her feedback and valuable suggestions about various aspects discussed during the presentation. The faculty who were present gave their inputs to enhance the overall OBE implementation in the department.

Placement and Training: Elevate II - Technical Internship Program

Considering the demand for Elevate resources and based on an overwhelming response of 1,50,000+ applications from their last ELEVATE Batch, Tech Mahindra as part of their academia-industry interface, have launched – ELEVATE II aligned with RISE philosophy.
The program is uniquely designed to offer young individuals an opportunity to put their academic knowledge into practical situations while gaining relevant industry and domain experience.
Registration Link - https://registration.techmahindra.com.
Registrations will remain open till 28th March 2021.
Candidates shortlisted from the registered list will undergo a selection process where they will be evaluated on Aptitude, Communication, Personality, Technical Skills (Basic Programming Test) and Business Awareness.

Tomorrow at Sahyadri

AICTE-ISTE Faculty Development Programme (FDP) Inauguration

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering is organizing an online AICTE-ISTE Sponsored One-Week Induction/Refresher programme for Faculty members of AICTE affiliated institutes, Polytechnic, Pharmacy, Architect and Industrial training personnel on "Cooperative and Collaborative Teaching Learning Processes".
This FDP aims to provide awareness about the pedagogical approaches of Cooperative and Collaborative Teaching Learning Processes (TLPs) to faculty members and provide the necessary tools and techniques that can improve teaching - learning experience. FDP is scheduled to be held during 25th to 31st March’2021.

Quote for the day

"It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive."
- Ellen DeGeneres