Shri. M. Mallikarjun Kharge Senior Leader Congress Party Visits Sahyadri
Shri. M. Mallikarjun Kharge, Senior leader of the Indian National Congress Party and leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha visited Sahyadri. He was the former Minister of Railways in the Government of India. He went round the campus and was happy about the infrastructure and cleanliness. He found the college excellently managed, appreciated its academic growth and personally felt that unique colleges like Sahyadri should be established more and more in the country in view of skill development required. He wished all the best to the college management, staff, students, and particularly our founder Mr. Manjunath Bhandary.
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Ashok Madaravally Director NASSCOM 10000 Startups Visits Sahyadri: Speaks on the Startup Scenario & Opportunities in India
Mr. Ashok Madaravally, 10000 Startups & Director NASSCOM visited the Campus and interacted with students of the various startups at the Sahyadri Entrepreneurship Cell.
The Chairman, Mr. Manjunath Bhandary welcomed and thanked Mr. Madaravally for taking time to visit our campus and spoke on the facilities provided by Sahyadri In his introductory remarks he spoke about the opportunities provided by NASSCOM to startups through their 10000 startups. In his address to a packed audience, Mr. Ashok Madaravally gave insights into NASSCOM and the purpose of setting up the 10000 startups. He spoke about the power of India, the digital revolution, and the large potential and strengths of India, the opportunities available and how startups can tap into these opportunities. He threw light on the challenges for Indian startups and spoke about some of the deficiencies in Indian start-ups like poor communication and marketing skills, poor design skills, being more passionate and less based on customer requirement and not open to feedback.
He also spoke on the Startup India movement by the Government of India and the tremendous support for startups by the Karnataka Government like Idea2PoC with funding and grants for startups.
He highlighted that through its 10000 startups programme, how NASSCOM will give support to startups through the 400 events and the process of funding. He invited the startups to participate and exhibit their products at the NASSCOM Product Conclave as well as the various other workshops and technical events conducted by them across the country. He encouraged the students to make use of the opportunities provided and benefit for them.
The address was followed by a question and answer session.
In another session with the student entrepreneurs, he gave them valuable insights on how to make a startup successful. He stressed on the need to not only build a good product but to constantly innovate to the market needs. He emphasised the need for excellent communication skills and marketing. He encouraged the student entrepreneurs to research the market and be data driven, have a good mix of team, and to be passionate with reality checks and regular feedback. He gave them an insight into the various sources of funding and Government support. He cleared the doubts of the students on several issues during question hour.
Mr. Ashok Madaravally is super passionate about the startup and product eco-system. He has overall experience of 15 years in product and operations roles across large companies like Google and Hewlett Packard and startups. With a strong work ethic and a highly collaborative leadership style, Mr. Ashok Madaravally set up the first co-working space under the 10,000 Startups program in Bengaluru- the Startup Warehouse on Old Airport Road and has expanded the NASSCOM 10,000 Startup Warehouse to 8 other cities across India. The Startup Warehouse program currently stands at a collective office space of 120K Sq ft, 1,000+ seats, 140+ startups incubated, and over 50 startups that have raised capital and got customers through the program.
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Kargil Vijay Divas Celebrated in the Campus
 The Department of Civil Engineering organized Kargil Vijay Divas - A Tribute to Martyrs. Major Lohith Suvarna, Retired Major, Indian Army was the chief guest of the function. Major Lohith Suvarna served the country in The Indian Army for a span of 30 years. In his keynote address, he shared his experience of the career that he had as an army man in the Indian Army and also his experience being a part of the Kargil War in the year 1999 fighting for the nation. Major Lohith Suvarna is the proud father of our student Ms Yashwitha Suvarna, Semester VII, Civil Engineering.
Rotarian Vikram Dutta, was the guest of honour for the function. He stressed on the importance of higher education of the present youth and also mentioned that it is the responsibility of every youngster to play a vital role in the development of the country.
Dr U M Bhushi, Principal, acknowledged the sacrifices of all the men who have served the country in the Indian Army and congratulated the Civil Engineering Department for organizing Kargil Vijay Divas. Prof Umashankar, Dean Academic and Prof Purushothama C T, HOD of the department were present on the occasion. Mr Varun, student of Semester VII Civil Engineering coordinated the function.
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Dakshina Kannada Pre-University Principals’ Meet
Dakshina Kannada PU Principals’ Meet was held in the Campus. The programme was inaugurated by Mr. Manjunath Bhandary, Chairman, who gave the keynote address. At the outset he congratulated all the principals and greeted the toppers and the retired principals who were honoured in the program. He advised all the participating principals to take the initiative to encourage young individuals to work towards their future plans and career. He emphasized on taking the right decisions at the right juncture in a right manner. He urged on giving importance to government colleges and their outcome.
Principal Dr. U. M. Bhushi spoke on the importance of education in the modern scenario. He gave statistical references to emphasize his statements. He thanked all the principals for their support in SSTH-2015 program and expected the same in 2016 too. PU Deputy Director Mr. K. R.Thimmaiah presided over the function. Mr. Rajesh V. Rodrigues, Proprietor, Nuthan Cloth Store, Madantharu, was present on the occasion. Around 160 principals attended the Meet.
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Inauguration of Coherent-Excimer Laser and a Seminar on Pulsed Laser Deposition
 Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management (SCEM) organized a seminar on Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) on the occasion of the inauguration of Coherent-Excimer Laser at Sahyadri Campus. The chief guest Dr. Burkhard Fechner and the guest of honor Dr. Lalit Kumar inaugurated the Excimer Laser. The seminar was organized by Center of Excellence in Nano-science & Technology (CENT) in association with the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electronics & Communication Engineering of Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management.
Dr. Burkhard Fechner in his inaugural address spoke about the historical perspective of lasers and especially, the origin of Excimer lasers starting from the early effort in the development of Excimer Lasers at Lambda Physik Germany. He also talked about Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) other applications of Excimer Lasers.
Prof. Richard Pinto, Director, CENT, explained the genesis of PLD starting with the first publication of the growth of superconducting film using Excimer laser in 1987. He thanked Dr. Manjunath Bhandary, Chairman, for funding the Excimer laser and also Coherent (Dr. Burkhard Fechner and Dr. Lalit Kumar) for co-sponsoring the Excimer laser. The total cost of the laser with special gases for operation is about Rs. 1 Crore. The Coherent-Excimer Laser Compex-Pro 201 is the only gas laser with high energy over 750mJ in the west coast of India excluding the institutions at Mumbai.
Pulsed Laser Deposition is a powerful technique for the growth of thin films of multi-component complex materials. Hence, the inauguration of Excimer laser will act as nucleus for CENT and the research effort on thin films and Nano-materials is to make rapid progress, especially with collaboration with neighboring institutions and industry partners.
Dr. Fechner received PhD in 1987 from University of Hannover, Germany, in "Laser Atomic Spectroscopy in High Electric and Magnetic fields". Dr. Lalit Kumar as a head of Laser Science Services (I) Pvt. Ltd represents over 30 of the leading laser manufacturers from all over the globe, covering a wide range of products which includes: scientific and industrial laser systems, spectroscopy and microscopy equipment and imaging systems.
Dr. U. M. Bhushi, Principal, presided over the program. Prof. S. S Balakrishna, Vice Principal, Prof. Umashankar, Dean Academic, Dr. Rajesh Rai, HOD of Mechanical Engineering, A.J.I.E.T., Mangalore, faculty members of the institute and researchers from various institutes including Mangalore University were present during the program.
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Sahyadri Hosts Fellowship Dinner at Taj West End
Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management hosted a Fellowship Dinner at the Taj West End, Bangalore. The event was organized in gratitude for the overwhelming support to Sahyadri from the many corporate houses over the years. A gathering of over 150 distinguished guests with more than 80 companies attended the Fellowship. To name a few, representatives from Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Huawei, Amada, Toyota Kirloskar, JSW, Volvo and Wipro graced the occasion.
Mr. Manjunath Bhandary, Chairman addressed the gathering on the Six Methods for Disruptive Innovation in Engineering Education. He took them through the many initiatives of Sahyadri and pointed out that the college is focused on ensuring that ideas are realized into products and how the entire management and faculty at Sahyadri are geared towards this. He informed the gathering on the Sahyadri Science Talent Hunt, The Sahyadri Student Support Schemes and how from this year onwards aptitude training with twenty-four dedicated faculty will become part of the curriculum in the engineering course. He invited everyone to be stakeholders of Sahyadri as Sahyadri belongs to everyone.
 Mr. Priyank Kharge, Karnataka’s IT Minister spoke to the gathering and was very appreciative of the initiatives taken up by Sahyadri which he said the government should actually have been doing and that the government has initiated initiatives which academic institutions can take up like the New Age Incubation facilities and the Startup Cell so that ideas can be generated.
Dr. Umesh M. Bhushi, Principal thanked the delegates for their overwhelming participation and partnering with Sahyadri.
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Bridge Course for New Entrants
  The 18-day Bridge Course for the new entrants to the College was held in the Campus. The students were given a warm welcome by the Program Director Dr. C. K. Manjunath. He briefed students about the outline and importance of the Bridge Course. Dr. Ananth Prabhu and Mr. Rakshith Shetty, faculty members engaged sessions with the participants. Plenty of videos, ice-breaking sessions and other activities were conducted to make the students get energised to get into the college.
144 students took part in the Bridge Course and have immensely benefitted from it. Topics such as communication skills, the success stories of the first year engineering students, written skills, Basic CAD and Basic Electronics were some sessions taken up during the course by DTlabz. The course included core subjects such as computer science, electronics and mechanical engineering. Students were taught concepts like Raspberry Pi, Python coding, Open CV for image processing and Android app building. Students used Raspberry Pi to code a robot with Python and Open CV, which could detect color by image processing and navigate through a Bluetooth app made by them. Students came across open source software which helped them in learning more concepts without any barriers. The mega event during the course was the students witnessing firsthand the arena built by DTlabz to experience the mega events conducted in IITs.
Dr. Shreedhar K., HOD, Department of Mathematics, KVG, Sullia, engaged a two-house session on ‘Applications of Mathematics in Engineering’ where he expounded the importance and applications of mathematics in the engineering field which was an eye-opener to the new entrants to the engineering courses.
At the valedictory Mr. Johnson Tellis, Director, DTlabz, summarized the entire course to the audience. The student teams then gave presentations about robot building experience. They also gave their feedback about the course. Letters of Appreciation were distributed to all the second year students who were the mentors of DTlabz.
Dr. U. M. Bhushi, Principal, presented a video on `Do Dare, Do Dream’. Dr. C K Manjunath, Professor of Humanities & Administrator gave the concluding remarks. A cultural program was organized on the occasion. Dr. U M Bhushi, Principal, Dr. B Umashankar, Dean Academics, Jacob Tellis, Chairman – Dtlabz, Mithra, HOD, Department of Mathematics, were present on the occasion.
A Bridge Course for new entrants to the College is conducted every year before the commencement of the first semester classes. The main objective of the course is to bridge the gap between subjects studied at pre-university level and subjects they would be studying in their engineering course. The Bridge Course will help the students to have a smooth transition to the Engineering course. A sound grasp of the fundamentals of the engineering subjects will lay a strong foundation for the entire four-year programme.
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Orientation Programme for Parents of New Entrants Held in the Campus
The Orientation Programme for the parents of the new entrants to the engineering stream was held in the Campus. Chairman, Mr. Manjunath Bhandary welcomed the parents and provided an overview of Sahyadri and its growth since inception. He addressed parents saying that a college is just dead infrastructure to which only the students can bring about a difference and make an impact.
He shared few of his personal views with parents that they need to develop a friendly relationship with their wards and also closely monitor every activity of theirs. He also advised the parents to make their ward self-dependent, and insisted that skill and personality development to be taught from home itself. He added that discipline and attitude of the student plays a vital role in shaping one's career. He provided an option to the parents of availing educational loans, in order to make their ward financially responsible. He gave additional details about the E-buzz, E-mails, E-magazine and Newsletter. He concluded by saying - “Do not educate the children to be rich. Educate them to be happy. So when they grow up, they will know the value of things, not the price”.
Principal, Dr. U. M. Bhushi, delivered the concluding remarks at the end of the program, by narrating live examples in connection to the students’ attitude. He placed the placement statistics and explained the code of conduct that every student has to follow in the campus.
Vice Principal, Prof. S. S. Balakrishna briefed about the academic structure: attendance, IA marks etc. He also stressed on the point that placements will not depend on academics only and certain core additional skills are important.
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TCS Conducts CodeVita Programming Competition in the Campus
TCS conducted the CodeVita programming competition in the campus which saw more than 400 students participating. TCS' CodeVita a programming competition, is TCS way of attracting young talented college students to adopt the culture of looking at programming as a sport and experience the joy of programming.
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Campus Recruitment Drives
 HCL TalentCare conducted a pooled campus recruitment drive for the engineering students of the 2016 batch at the campus. Ms. Anusha Ashok, HCL TalentCare accompanied by the panelists on the recruitment team was at the campus to facilitate the entire process. The final results are awaited.
Anglo Eastern Ship Management Ltd. conducted the GME panel interviews for the engineering students of the 2016 batch at the campus. Sahyadri is the Regional Center for the company’s recruitment. The final results are awaited.
 TEK Systems-Oracle India Private Limited conducted a pooled campus recruitment drive for the engineering students of the 2016 batch in the Campus. Seven students have been shortlisted to attend a further round of interview.
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Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) conducted a pooled campus recruitment drive for the engineering students of 2016 batch at the campus. Three students have been selected.
Deloitte conducted a pooled campus recruitment drive for B.Sc. and BCA graduates of the computer science and information science stream. More than 100 students from the pool colleges were part of the recruitment process. Ms. Padmaja Pandey, Talent Acquisition, Deloitte accompanied by the panelists on the recruitment team was at the campus to facilitate the entire process.
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Sahyadri Ranked 42nd among Top 100 Private Engineering Colleges in India
Sahyadri has been ranked 42nd among the Top 100 Private Engineering Colleges in India by The Higher Education Review in their Top 100 Private Engineering Colleges Survey 2016. The College has been ranked for the positive impact it has made on the society and the education fraternity.
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Team `Sahyadri Athurians’ in SAE SUPRA 2016
 Twenty-six members of team “Sahyadri Athurians” participated in "SAE SUPRA 2016" – a national level student version of the Formula Car Racing Competition held at Buddh International Circuit, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The team cleared majority of the tests such as presentation (design, business & cost), technical inspection, safety scrutiny test, test, weight test, noise test and the tilt test and performed at its optimum.
The team members are Jerin David, Larry Denzil, Karthik J, Deekshith K.S, Swasthik Bhandary, Akshay Bhandary, Darshak P, Sandesh, Nikhil, Tharanath, Keith Pias, Sagar Kulal, Upendra Rajan, Sayyed Nameez,Athif, Ashish, Afridi, Dharmaraj,Prajna, Arpitha, Prathista, Nireeksha, Vidya and Praveen.
173 teams participated in the event from various colleges of the country out of which only 54 teams were able to clear the Technical Inspection Test including team Sahyadri Athurians. The team was accompanied by faculty members Mr. Kiran Prakash and Mr. Rakshith H.S. from the department of mechanical Engineering. The faculty advisor for the team was Mr. Kiran Prakash.
SUPRA 2016 is a competition organized by the Society of Automotive Engineering (SAE) India for the undergraduates to build and race student built cars. SUPRA is widely known as the student version of Formula One Race. The objective of the competition is for students to design and fabricate a 600 cc (max) concept race car worthy of mass-production by a hypothetical manufacturing firm. The teams are evaluated first on the car’s dynamic performance in several grueling tests. They must also present a business strategy with cost analysis and marketing plans to “sell” the concept to a judging panel of hypothetical manufacturers.
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Dr. U. M. Bhushi invited as resource person for the “Career Guidance Programme”
 Dr. Umesh M. Bhushi, Principal, was invited for the “Career Guidance Programme” as the resource person by Vikas Pre-University College. The programme was held at Besant Women’s College auditorium. Dr. Bhushi spoke to the gathering about engineering courses and enlightened them about the various options that students can opt for in the engineering field and successfully manage career development.
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Sahyadri Assigned as Third Party Consultant for Construction Work in Bantwal
The Department of Civil Engineering was assigned as third party consultant for all Government related construction works which will be taking place in Bantwal Taluk. Er Narendra Babu, AEE, PRCD Sub Division, Bantwal visited Sahyadri and had an interaction with Dr U M Bhushi, Principal and Prof Umesh S S, PG HOD, Civil Department in this regard.
Faculty members, Mr. Umesh S. S., Associate Professor & HOD(PG), Mr. Premanada Shenoy, Associate Professor and Mr. Manohar K., Assistant Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering evaluated the performance of a school building in Bantwal Taluk as third party consultants. Er. Jagadish and Er. Krishna, Panchayat Sub Division, Bantwal, were present during the evaluation.
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Dr. S. Manjappa Appointed as Member of DEIAA
 Dr. S. Manjappa, Director - Research & Consultancy, Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management, has been appointed as one of the members of the District Level Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (DEIAA) of Chittradurga district; a statutory committee constituted under the Ministry of Environment and Forests and Climate Change, Government of India. He is also renominated as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board for another term.
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Sahyadri Innovations Channel - SPSS Projects on YouTube
Sahyadri Projects Support Scheme (SPSS) projects are now uploaded onto YouTube under Sahyadri Innovations Channel. This channel demonstrates the projects of the Engineering students of Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management in public domain. Sahyadri Innovations Channel is a novel concept where the benefits are multi-fold i.e., knowledge sharing to public, strengthening student CVs, publicity to the students and also the institution. It also inspires them to proudly showcase their projects in public domain and also enhances opportunities to pursue better projects in future. Students can also link their YouTube project videos in their CVs as an investment for their future. https://www.youtube.com/channel/
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Sahyadri MBA Alumnus wins “Golden Beam” Award
Chethan Prabhu, an alumnus of Sahyadri MBA (2012–2014 Batch) has won the “Golden Beam Award for Quality & Performance YR 2016”. He is currently an Advanced Tax Analyst at Ernst & Young India, Bangalore. Mr. Chethan Prabhu was nominated under "Quality & Performance" for maintaining 99% Quality at work throughout the year. Apart from Quality, the additional pointers that won him this award were appreciation from clients and innovative ideas on Automation Process which reduced 367 hours annually for the department he worked in.
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SSTH 2016 Awareness Program Held in PU Colleges
In a run-up to the main SSTH 2016 event which will be held in Sahyadri campus later this year, awareness programmes by faculty and DTlabz the student startup in the college, are being conducted in various pre-university colleges and high schools in the region.
The main objective of this program is to provide a platform for exhibiting new ideas and the creative work of young talent of PU/+2 colleges, creating curiosity towards science and latest technologies along with exchange of views and ideas with their peer group.
SSTH 2016 awareness programmes were conducted St. Joachim's PU College, Kadaba, St. Aloysius PU College, Expert PU College, St. Agnes PU College & Girls’ High School, Prestige International School, Kunil High School and Kunil PU College, Sharada PU College and S.R.P.U. College. The SSTH team was warmly welcomed by the coordinators and the principals of these colleges. The team explained the ideation process, importance of project and its importance in day-to-day life and demonstrated the quadcopter and smart helmet. Close to 3000 students so far enthusiastically interacted with the SSTH team and showed great interest to participate in the upcoming SSTH events.
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Sahyadrians Recruited in Various Companies
 Rakesh from the Department of Mechanical Engineering has been selected by Krisam Automation Private Limited.
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McD BERL has recruited Inchara H. D. and Blesson S. from the Department of Civil Engineering, Sachin Kumar and Kalandar Abuthamas from the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Chitharanjan M., M.Tech (CADS) Civil Engineering who was shortlisted by Vimal Anil Consultants, Mangaluru, during the core companies’ campus recruitment drive held in May at the Campus, has been recruited and has joined the company in the first week of July.
 Ms Arha Raghavan, final year student of Civil Engineering who was shortlisted by InterCAD Systems (P) Ltd., Trivandrum during the core companies campus recruitment drive held in May in the Campus has been recruited by the company.
Mr. Amruth Shetty, second year MBA student has been recruited by Ninjacart, Bengaluru as a Management Trainee – F&V DC Operations.
Ms. Prathika V Shetty, second year MBA student has been placed in AJ Hospital & Research Centre, Mangaluru as an HR Executive.
Mr. Rajesha T Mathew (2014 – 2016 MBA batch) has been appointed by Kingdom University, Bahrain, for the position of “Specialist in Accreditation and Quality Assurance Office” with highest salary package in the zone ie. Rs.14.04 lakhs per annum. He was felicitated by the College in the presence of his parents for being appointed by the Kingdom University, Bahrain. He overwhelmingly mentioned that his first salary would be donated to the Sahyadri Corpus Fund, the fund that will be used for the up-liftment of students.
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Ms. Megha Shetty, second year MBA student has been recruited by IBM, Bangalore, as a Procurement Specialist.
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