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JULY 11 - 16, 2016 |
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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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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Orientation Programme Held for Parents of Second Batch of
New Entrants
The Orientation programme for the parents of the second batch of 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 called upon the parents to motivate their wards to learn new things using facilities which are available in the college adding that the College is just a dead infrastructure to which only the students can bring about a difference and make an impact.
He shared some of his personal views asking parents 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 also briefed about the code of conduct that every student must 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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Dr. Shreedhar K. Elucidates the Applications of Mathematics in Engineering to the New Entrants
Dr. Shreedhar K., HOD, Department of Mathematics, KVG, Sullia, engaged a two-house session on ‘Applications of Mathematics in Engineering’ for the Bridge Course students. 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.
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Civil Engineering Faculty Evaluate School Building as
Third Party Consultant
Faculty members, Mr. Umesh S. S., Associate Professor & HOD(PG), Mr. Premananda 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. Recently, 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.
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Campus Recruitment Drives
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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.
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.
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In-house FDP OpenFOAM CFD Workshop Held in the Campus
A two-day Faculty Development Workshop on "Computational Fluid Dynamics using OpenFOAM – an open source CFD software" organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering was held in the Campus. Mr. Mahesh Davanageri, Associate Professor & Head of the department introduced the resource person Dr Sachin Borse. Dr Sachin Borse is professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rajarshi Shahu College of Engineering, Pune and an expert in the field of computational fluid dynamics.
A prerequisite workshop one day prior to the actual workshop was organized by the department, where faculty members Mr. Lawrence Fernandes and Ms. Ramyashree engaged sessions on fluid mechanics and heat and mass transfer. The intention of the prerequisite workshop was to lay the foundation for the OpenFOAM workshop.
The main objective of this workshop is to build in-house simulation strength and achieve self-reliance in numerical simulations using open source software. Dr. Rathishchandra R. Gatti, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering was the convener of this programme.
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MBA Faculties attend FDP at IIMB
Dr. Vishal Samartha, Mr. Abhaya Kumar, Mr. Girish M and Ms. Sushma V, faculty members of the Department of Business Administration attended a one-day Faculty Development Programme on “Blended MOOCs” at the IIMB campus. This programme made them well acquainted with MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and had maximum learning with the IIMB faculties on aspects related to people management, the banking & financial markets and the international business environment & global strategies.
The education sector is due for a major makeover; MOOCs play a key role in matching the pace at which the education sector is growing. This FDP mainly focused on blending classroom teaching with MOOCs which can add great value and learning experience for the students. MOOCs include imparting education through videos, reading materials, animation, exercises, games, case studies, etc. and it works on the EDX platform. Technology will not take away teachers’ jobs but will alter them in certain ways. Numerous free courses are available on MOOCs but nominal amounts are charged for certification.
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Civil Engineering Students on One-Week Internship with BSNL
One hundred final year students of civil engineering are undergoing a one-week internship training with BSNL, Mangalore Sub Division. The rigorous internship will cover Overview of Execution of Building Project - Inspection to hand over, Estimation and Quantity Surveying, Structural Design of RCC Building, Overview of CPWD specifications, Building Services, and Expansive Soils - Problems and Remedial Measures.
Prof. Purushothama C. T., UG HOD and Prof. Umesh S. S., PG HOD, Mr Sunil Kumar K, Assistant Professor and Mr Sudeep Shetty, Internship Co-ordinator, Department of Civil Engineering were present during the inauguration ceremony of the program and interacted with the General Manager, BSNL, Dakshina Kannada.
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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. 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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Faculty Members Paper Published in International Journal
 
A paper entitled “Architectural problems in earthquake resisting buildings” by Prof Purushothama C.T., HOD(UG), Department of Civil Engineering, and Dr. I. R.Mithanthaya, Vice Principal & Dean Academic, NMAMIT, Nitte has been published in the International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, Volume 7, Issue 6, June 2016.
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MBA faculty attends Short Term Course at IIT, Kharagpur
Mr. Karthik Raj Kudroli, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, attended “QIP Short-Term Course on Quantitative Decision Modelling” organised by Department of Industrial & systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. This five-day course focused primarily on Advanced Operations Research which included topics related to Linear Programming Models & Graphical Approach, Simplex, Time Series Forecasting, Duality Theory, Integer Programming, Regression, Heuristic Methods in OR and so on. It also gave hands- on exposure in CPLEX, LINGO and SOLVER as a tool to achieve optimisation in linear programming problems.
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