Sahyadri Student - Asmath Sharmeen T S, the Golden Girl of VTU with 1st Rank in Civil Engineering and 13 Gold Medals for the Academic Year 2019-20

Asmath Sharmeen T S is now called as the Golden Girl of VTU for securing 13 Gold Medals (highest number of Gold Medals by a single student) and 1st Rank in Civil Engineering in the recently released VTU Rank List for the Academic year 2019-20. It is an achievement for an individual student to have obtained highest number (13) of Gold Medals at VTU. She will be receiving her degree from his Excellency Shri. Vajubhai Vala, the Chancellor of the University during the 20th Annual Convocation to be held on 3rd April’2021 at VTU, Belagavi and sure to steal the limelight clinching a good haul of 13 Gold Medals.
She has secured a CGPA of 9.42 bringing laurels to Sahyadri by securing 1st Rank in Civil Engineering among 203 affiliated institutions of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi. Her Faculty members say that she was not only excellent in Academics but also in extra-curricular activities right from her first semester and Sahyadri was looking forward to a Rank from such a talented Asmath Sharmeen. She is currently preparing for competitive exams for a high yielding career.
The lists of Gold Medals received by Asmath Sharmeen T S are mentioned here:

SI No.	Awarded to	Gold Medals
1	To the student who secures highest marks with first class in B.E Civil Engineering	Sri Nijagunappa Gurulingappa Hakkapakki Gold Medal
2	To the first Rank holder in Civil Engineering	R N Shetty Gold Medal
3	To the student who secures the highest marks and stands first in the B.E Degree in Civil Engineering course of VTU	Sir M Visvesvaraya Co-operative Bank Gold Medal
4	To the First Rank Holder in Civil Engineering Branch	N Krishnamurthy Memorial Gold Medal
5	To the student who secures highest marks in Civil Engineering Branch	Jain University Gold Medal
6	To the student who stands first in B.E in Civil Engineering	Dr. M C Srinivas Murthy Memorial Cash Prize
7	To the student who secures highest aggregate marks in all the eight semesters of B.E Civil Engineering	Er. H S Siddalingaiah Civil Engineering Memorial Award (Cash Prize)
8	To the student who secures 1st Rank in the B.E Civil Engineering	National Institute of Engineering Silver Jubilee Gold Medal
9	To the student who secures 1st Rank in B.E Civil Engineering	Jyothi Gold Medal
10	To the student who secures 1st Rank in B.E Civil Engineering	Murty’s Medal of Excellence
11	To the student who secures highest marks with first class in B.E Civil Engineering	Sri. S G Balekundri Gold Medal
12	To the student who secures 1st Rank in B.E Civil Engineering	VTU Gold Medal
13	To the girl student who secures highest marks  with 1st class  in B.E Civil Engineering	Dr. (Smt.) Malathi Kesaree Gold Medal

Prof. Hemanth Prabhu, Head of Dept. of Civil Engineering and the faculty members are extremely proud of her achievements.

Dheeraj M from MBA secures 8th Rank in VTU for the Academic Year 2019-2020

The Post Graduate Department of Sahyadri – MBA has also contributed a rank to the list of Rank Holders released by VTU for the Academic Year 2019-20.
Dheeraj has secured 8.57 CGPA earning him 8th Rank in MBA from Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi. He was placed from the campus and is currently working as the Audit Associate at KPMG GDC. As a student, Dheeraj has pursued several social concern projects and has also won Govt. Funding and Best Project Award in KSCST Student Project Scheme. Dr. Vishal Samartha, Director-MBA and the faculty members are delighted with VTU Ranks being obtained consistently every year for the Department.

AICTE-ISTE National Refresher Programme organized by Dept. of Mechanical Engineering’

Day Five (30th March’2021):
The first session of the day was engaged by Prof. Ramani Venkat. He is a Serial Entrepreneur, Mentor to 7 Startups, 26 years of Experience in IT sales, and Associated with around 150 Odd Colleges, Sales Strategist Consultant & NLP Coach. He facilitated the session on “Gamification of collaborative learning”. During his presentation, he explained the role of gamification, play strategies and how it makes students to think and act. He also brought out the concept of Strategy & Luck by conducting a number of simple games.
Second session was engaged by Dr. Kalpana Ranganath Kharade, a former elementary school teacher with teaching experience in urban BMC and private schools. Dr. Kalpana Kharade has scaled great heights professionally due to sheer determination and persistence. Her 100% vision impairment has never come in her way to achieve her well-deserved place in the academic community. She is presently an Adjunct Associate Professor, a recognized PhD guide and visiting faculty at HBCSE. He spoke on “Facilitating learning, through PBL approach”.
During her presentation, she mentioned the importance of Problem Based Learning, Learning Approach, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving Skills, and stressed on how to make students work on real-world problems.
Third session was engaged by Dr. Rajesha S. He is currently the Principal at Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management. He holds PhD in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR). He facilitated the session on “Experimental Design in Laboratory Applications”. In his presentation he stressed on the Importance of Laboratory Experiments, Basic Principles of Learning, important factors to inculcate during laboratory to understand the concept and Need of Design Experiments.
Fourth session was engaged by Dr. Vikas Phalle. He is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department and Former Head of Mechanical Engineering Department, at V.J.T.I. Mumbai. He is also a QIP Coordinator and AICTE sponsored ‘Margdarshan’ Scheme coordinator. He holds a M.E. in Mechanical Engineering from V.J.T.I., Mumbai, University of Mumbai and a Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee. He has an academic experience of 26 years. He spoke on “Project Based Learning”. In his presentation, he highlighted on Project Based Learning, Domain of learning, why to have a Project Based Learning, and the Teacher’s Role.

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