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JANUARY 2014 |
Republic Day Celebrated
 The 65th anniversary of the Republic Day was celebrated in the Campus with the hoisting of the national flag. Mrs. Irene Veigas, Principal, Sahyadri Nursing College and the Guest of Honour, hoisted the national flag followed by the national anthem. In her address on the occasion, she gave a glimpse of how the constitution was framed and how India became a Republic nation after its freedom from the British rule. Mrs. Irene Veigas, recalled the sacrifices made by all the freedom fighters and our ancestors who fought for freedom. She stressed the need for humanity in our day-to-day transactions and that our strength lay in unity of one and all towards taking our country to greater heights. The formal function came to an end with the recitation of Bankim Chandra’s, “Vande Mataram.”
 The Republic Day celebration was followed by Staff Sports Day with exciting individual games and team events. A host of winners were felicitated by Dr. Mohandas Bhat S., Dean-Academics and Prof. Mahesh N. Nayak, Administrator, at the Valedictory function.
Staff Sports Day Results Click here.
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Leadership and Skill Development Workshop at Shimoga
A one-day workshop on Leadership and Skill Development was organized for Data Entry Operators of 265 Grama Panchayats of Shimoga district, under the guidance of Dr. Manjunath Bhandary, President, Bhandary Foundation, in association with Hosabelaku Charitable Trust.
Dr. Manjunath Bhandary explained the main theme of the programme which aimed to develop skill in the youth of Shimoga rural area; to be social, economical and political leaders. The programme was inaugurated by Sri Oscar Fernandes, Hon’ble Union Minister for Transport, Road and Highways, Govt. of India. Sri. Oscar Fernandes, in his inaugural speech, spoke on the importance of knowledge and technology.
 Eminent persons like Mr. Kagodu Thimmappa, Hon’ble Speaker, Govt.of Karnataka, Mr. Kimmane Rathnakar, Hon’ble Minister of Education, Govt. of Karnataka, Mr. Praveen Chakravarthy, Advisor to NSDC, New Delhi, spoke on the occasion. Other important resource persons were Dr. U. M. Bhushi, Principal, Mr. Chethan Ram, International Trainer, Mrs. Sindhu Girish, HR Manager, Rural Shores, Bangalore, Mr. Rajesh Bhat, CEO, Head Held High, Bangalore, and Mr. Narendra Swami, MLA, Malvalli, Mandya .
The workshop commenced with the “Leadership and Motivational Speech” by Dr. U. M. Bhushi, Principal, Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management.
Mr. Chethan Ram, International Trainer, spoke on “Leadership and Personality Development.” His enthusiastic and dynamic approach helped the participants to awaken the spirit of leadership.
Mrs. Sindhu Girish, HR Manager, Rural Shores, highlighted on skill enhancement and gave information regarding BPO, KPO Services in the rural areas.
Mr. Rajesh Bhat, CEO, Head Held High, spoke about the transformation of employment from urban to rural area and inspired the youth with live examples.
The workshop ended with a panel discussion, question and answer session and participants shared their experience and appreciated the efforts of Dr. Manjunath Bhandary.
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Team DREAMERS win Best Team Award at IIT, Madras
Continuing the journey of success, Team Dreamers have won the `Best Team’ award in the Lunar Rover Challenge organized by team Indus, hosted by IIT, Madras, and the only team that will be participating in the Google Lunar X Prize.
The team comprising of Johnson Tellis, Gautham Nayak, Nishanth Kottary, Sachin Ganesh, Rakhesh Permudannaya, Sona Krishnan, Aman Agarwal, John Nikhil, Preetham, and Achala Shetty were selected as the top team in the Zonal held at IIT, Madras. The team competed against 201 teams from all over India. Team DREAMERS after being selected as top team from the south zone, faced heavy challenges in the finals where they had to compete against fifty teams. After rigorous effort and perseverance DREAMERS got into the top ten finalists. The team DREAMERS was awarded as the `Best Team’ for their innovation, group work and their determination.
 The bot was also appreciated by Michael Meyyer (chief scientist of NASA’s Curiosity Mission) who said, “I have been watching for your bot in the arena and would suggest that you participate in the GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE).” He along with Mr. Rahul Narayan (founder of team INDUS) and others who were present there, wished Team DREAMERS good luck!
This is yet another significant win by the team which only recently had won the first place in the challenging event, "The Drill Droid," at the National Students’ Space Challenge’13 at IIT, Kharagpur, the second place in the IIT event, "Kshitij 2013" for their design "the DREAM Overhaul," and the second place in the event `Lakshman Rekha (line following robot)’, a national level technical fest organised by SNIST, Hyderabad.
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An Interaction with Dr. C. Ranganathaiah
 An eminent Scientist, Dr. C. Ranganathaiah, M.Sc. with Nuclear Physics as a special subject and Ph.D in Physics, interacted with the Principal, the Dean- Academic, Dean-Research and the Heads of all the Departments. With over 35 years of teaching experience, Dr. Ranganathaiah has published more than 262 research papers in international and national journals including conference proceedings and has delivered several invited talks abroad and in India. He has contributed chapters for books on various topics which have been published abroad. He has been the guide for 18 Ph.D. students. Dr. Ranganathaiah is the Chairman and member of academic bodies in several universities in India and is a Life member of several scientific associations in India and abroad.
Dr. Timothy G. Lenihan, Dean Research shared his experience and challenges that he faced while working at Sahyadri. He also gave some insights on how Sahyadri could continue the research programme and become globally reputed.
Dr. C. Ranganathaiah, spoke about research in higher education and the involvement required in carrying forward the research work. He emphasized on the attitude towards research and developing a mindset to bring out the best possible.
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Dr. Timothy G. Lenihan, presents Research, Development & Innovation (RDI) planning for the academic year 2013-14: a Research Overview
Dr. Timothy G. Lenihan, Dean-Research, presented the "Research, Development & Innovation (RDI) planning for the academic year 2013-14'’, to all the faculty members. In his presentation, he focused more on RDI values such as Quality, Professionalism, Passion, Team Work, Accountability, and Continuous Learning. He emphasized the needs of the management to encourage establishing collaborations between departments with other RDI faculty at other universities and with industry. He also briefed about the RDI Quality Policy, the Strategic/Tactical Plan, the Infrastructure Plan, and presented an outline of a Generic Proposal.
Dr. C. Ranganathaiah addressed the faculty members and introduced himself to the audience. He stressed on bridging the gap between theory and experiments by simulation and promised to take forward the research culture in Sahyadri.
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Three-day Workshop on `Leadership for Excellence’ inaugurated in the Campus
A three-day workshop on `Leadership for Excellence’, from International Academy for Competency Enhancement (IACE), was held in the Campus. Dr. K. Balveer Reddy, former Vice-Chancellor, VTU and Dr. D. Vasudev Naidu, senior leadership training professional and motivational speaker were the key resource persons for the programme.
The topics on day-one of the workshop were, Introduction to Strategic Leadership, Importance and Approaches, Strategic Framework for Educational Institutions, Transactional Analysis in Leadership Effectiveness, and Change Leadership. The Principal, the Deans and the HoDs of various departments were the participants of the workshop.
The second day of the workshop covered topics such as Balanced Score Card Approaches in an Educational Institution, Developing Institutional Strategic Goals, Strategies and Sub-Strategies for Institutional Strategic Goals.
The Chairman addressed the participants and shared his views and appraised how this institution evolved with the help of Dr. Balveera Reddy, former Vice- Chancellor of VTU. Dr. D. L. Prabhakara, Director of Sahyadri Group of institutions was also present during the workshop.
 On the third and closing day of the workshop the topics covered were, Developing Institutional Strategic Goals, Departmental Goals (long, mid and short term strategies), and Sub-Strategies for Institutional Strategic Goals.
Dr. K. Balveer Reddy and Dr. D. Vasudev Naidu, motivated the participants to prepare sub- strategies for all the goals and the HoDs presented the vision and mission statements of their respective departments. The participants shared their experience of the three-day workshop.
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Registrar-Evaluation, VTU visits Sahyadri Campus
,-VTU.jpg) Dr. H. G. Shekharappa , Registrar (Evaluation), VTU, Belgaum visited our college and appreciated the efforts put in by the college as VTU Digital Valuation Centre for the region. He looked at the infrastructure facility provided by the college for the smooth functioning of the VTU Digital Valuation work which has helped the VTU to announce the results in record time.
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Dr. D. H. Rao on Holistic Process in Teaching-Learning using
NLP Techniques
The Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on, `Holistic Process in Teaching Learning using NLP ( Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Techniques’, commenced in the Campus with a formal inaugural programme. Dr. Mohandas Bhat S., Dean-Academic, introduced Dr. D. H. Rao, Dean, VTU, Belgaum, who was the resource person for the programme. Dr. U. M. Bhushi, Principal, explained the objectives of the FDP.
Dr. Rao has 35 years’ experience in teaching and administration in India and abroad. He is also a visiting faculty in the Glasgow University, and has conducted training and faculty development programmes in India and abroad. His areas of interest are Adaptive Control, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, Cryptography, HRD, Executive Training and Personality Development. He has to his credit 100 plus papers/publications in a number of National and International Journals and Conferences / Workshops.
The programme threw light on the topics of culture and professionalism and getting to know one-self with real essences of real life examples and videos. Dr. D. H. Rao emphasized on respecting organizational culture and being professional in one’s efforts in teaching. He also spoke about knowing one’s strengths and weaknesses and motivated the participants to be a self-individual.
He explicitly spoke about Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), its background and the different techniques such as changing perception, communicating the information effectively, setting and achieving the goals, building relationship, creativity, etc., which could be useful in one’s teaching-learning process. The session included different tests like VAK (Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic), Creativity Test, and Self-Esteem Test, etc., to understand one’s own personality and develop it effectively. The programme was very informative and enlightened the participants to be effective teachers. The programme ended with the sharing of experience on the FDP by the resource person, the Principal and some participants. Seventy-one faculty members including the Principal, the Dean-Academic and the Heads of Departments attended the programme.
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Dr. S. Manjappa and
Dr. Dinesh Rangappa on, “Funding Opportunities and Schemes”
  A workshop on, “Funding Opportunities and Schemes”, by Dr. S. Manjappa and Dr. Dinesh Rangappa was held in the campus for all the faculty members.
Dr. S. Manjappa, Regional Officer, Bangalore Region, VTU, Belgaum is specialized in ‘Inorganic Chemistry.’ He has successfully carried out many funded/sponsored project of environmental importance. He has been awarded with “Karnataka State Environment Award”, “Rajarambapu Patil National Award”, 6th World Environmental congress awarded “WEC-11E-1AEWP environmental award”, etc. for his outstanding contribution in the area of Environment Science & Technology.
Dr. Dinesh Rangappa, Professor and Coordinator of PG Department of Nano Technology, VTU PG Centre, Bangalore, is specialized in Environmental Science and Material Science & Engineering. He has worked as a Senior Scientist at International Advance Research Centre for powder Metallurgy and New materials (ARCI), Hyderabad. He has received many honors and recognitions from different institutions from different parts of the world. He has over forty peer reviewed publications/reviews/ refereed abstracts on his credit.
Dr. Mohandas Bhat, Dean-Academics, introduced the resource persons and Dr. U. M. Bhushi, Principal, outlined the objectives of the workshop.
Dr. S. Manjappa, talked on different schemes and research areas available and stressed on, “Institutional Development and R & D”, emphasizing the work that the faculty members in different categories have to carry out as prescribed by the AICTE. He pointed out the basic needs to quench ones thirst for research which helps in claiming the research fund. He enlightened the gathering by giving an overview of the funding agencies at various levels and the quantity of funds available for research.
Dr. Dinesh Rangappa, spoke on the procedure and formalities for getting the funds. He explained the filling up of the application and other policies. He also encouraged the faculty members on how to tap the research opportunities and build a career in research. The workshop was very informative.
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Sahyadri College of Nursing celebrates its Annual Day
 Sahyadri College of Nursing celebrated its Annual Day in the Campus. Rev. Sr. Winnifred D’Souza, Principal, Father Muller College of Nursing, Mangalore, was the Chief Guest. Prof. Mrs. Irene Veigas, Principal, Sahyadri College of Nursing, presided over the function. Prizes were distributed to the winners of the various cultural events conducted during Karanji -2013. The highlight of the programme was a variety of cultural performances given by the students of nursing.
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