Sahyadri opens its door to the new Principal Dr. Srinivasa Rao Kunte

Dr. Srinivasa Rao Kunte has joined Sahyadri as a new Principal. Dr. Kunte comes with a vast 29 years of experience in Administration, 36 years of teaching experience which includes 19 years of experience in Research. He has received his Doctorate Degree in Character Recognition from University of Mysore. He is also a 1st rank holder in M. Tech (Industrial Electronics) from University of Mysore. Prior to Sahyadri, Dr. Kunte was working as a Professor at the Department of Electronics & Communication at Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering, Shivamogga. He has also served as a Principal for 9 years in JNN College of Engineering, Shivamogga. He has to his credit more than 35 research publications in reputed international and national journals and conferences. Dr. Kunte has supervised and guided PhD scholars and M.Tech research Projects. He is a member of the COMEDK Executive Council. He is presently the academic senate member of VTU and Chairman of BOS in E&C/TC board of VTU. He is the reviewer for International Journal of American Society of Science and Engineering USA and has also reviewed papers for several conferences along with chairing the sessions. Dr. Srinivasa Rao Kunte is associated with many reputed Professional Organizations. He is the Member of IEEE (Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) USA, IETE (Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers) and a Life member of ISTE (Indian Society for Technical Education). He was instrumental in acquiring many AICTE grants and Projects for the college and also worked as Principal Co-ordinator for AICTE funded projects. JNNCE witnessed many developmental and innovative activities during Dr. Kunte’s tenure.

Dr. Srinivasa Rao Kunte will take over the role of Principal from his predecessor Dr. Umesh M Bhushi effective 10th May’18 and Dr. Bhushi has been elevated to the role of Director – Strategic Planning and will be involved in core administrative task. Sahyadri family welcomes Dr. Srinivas Rao Kunte as the Principal and also congratulates Dr. Umesh M Bhushi for his new role.

Dr. Steven L. Fernandes dedicates his first technical book to students

Dr. Steven L. Fernandes, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, currently pursuing his Post-Doctoral Research at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama Birmingham, USA dedicates his first technical book "Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition" to Sahyadri students. He has thanked the management, faculty and staff members of the institute for their continued support. This book is an extended version of Packt’s bestselling book "Raspberry Pi for Python Programmers - Second Edition" written by Mr. Tim Cox who lives in England.

In this book readers will learn to set up and run Raspberry Pi 3, build text classifiers and perform automation using Python, predict sentiments in words and create games and graphics, detect edges and contours in images, build human face detection and recognition system, use Python to drive hardware, sense and display real-world data, build a neural network module for optical character recognition and movie recommendations system.

Click here to read more:https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/raspberry-pi-3-cookbook-python-programmers-third-edition

Campus Recruitment Drive - GRE Edge

GRE Edge conducted a Pool Campus Recruitment drive for the shortlisted students of 2018 outgoing batch. Mr. Anand Kannan, Managing Director accompanied by Mr. Hariharan Mourougan, Asst. Manager, Talent Acquisition from the recruitment team were at the campus to facilitate the entire process. A total of 68 students attended the drive & the final results are awaited.

Campus Recruitment Drive - Manipal ProLearn

Manipal ProLearn conducted a Pool Campus Recruitment drive for the engineering students of 2018 outgoing batch. Mr. Ashwin Bhat, Senior Manager accompanied by Mr. Rudresh N Sandur, Centre Director from the recruitment team were at the campus to facilitate the entire process. Six students attended the drive & the results are awaited.

Quote for the day

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein