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JUNE 15 - 20, 2015 |
Sahyadri in Top 100 Ranking in The Week Survey
In a survey conducted by The Week magazine among private engineering colleges in India, Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management has been ranked 83rd in the top 100 private engineering colleges.
In another survey by Careers 360 education magazine among Best Engineering Colleges, Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management has been ranked AA+ in the year 2015. The highest ranking is AAAAA and lowest ranking is A.
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Dr. Pradeep K. Pujari of BARC Delivers Special Lecture at Sahyadri
 
Dr. Pradeep K Pujari, Head, Radiochemistry Division, BARC, Mumbai, gave a special lecture on avenues of funding opportunities/Research Projects through the ‘Board of Research in Nuclear Science’ (BRNS) to the researchers and faculty members of Sahyadri. The special lecture was initiated by Research Director, Prof. C. Ranganathaiah giving a prelude of the function. It was attended by the Principal, Dr. U M Bhushi, Dean Academic, Prof. Umashankar, Director-CENT, Prof. Richard Pinto, research coordinators and other research faculties. BRNS is an advisory Body of the Department of Energy (DoE) to recommend financial assistance to universities, academic institutions, and national Laboratories.
Dr. P. K. Pujari explained the sub-categories of BRNS, funding mechanism, and route map of getting funds through BRNS. He also briefed about the schemes such as DAE Graduate Fellowship Scheme which a fund is given to complete an M.Tech. degree from any reputed institute. Basic sciences play a major role in research and the BRNS gives importance for the team with interdisciplinary approach. He highlighted the thrust areas for funding and concluded that all engineering departments have a lot to contribute. He congratulated the chairman and management for creating the best infrastructure and appreciated the vision of the institute. He was certain that this institute will grow into a major engineering institute from this part of the nation. Dr. P. K. Pujari also deeply appreciated the beauty of the Campus and its ambience.
Dr. P.K. Pujari is a renowned scientist nationally and internationally. He joined the 28th batch of Training School of BARC, Mumbai after completion of M.Sc. (Chemistry) from IIT, Delhi. He received the Homi Bhabha Prize as topper of the chemistry discipline in 1985. Subsequently he joined the Radiochemistry Division and has been specializing in positron annihilation spectroscopy and its applications. He has developed a state of the art positron laboratory at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). He has received the T.D. Memorial Young Scientist Award (1997), Japan Society for the promotion of Sciences (JSPS) Fellowship (1998-2000), DAE-SRC Outstanding Research Investigator Award (2008) and Homi Bhabha Science and Technology Award (2008). He has been a visiting professor to Osaka University and has been elected as the president of international committee of Positron and Positronium chemistry. Currently, he is a Professor at the Homi Bhabha National Institute and heads the nuclear chemistry section of the Radiochemistry Division, BARC.
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Faculty Member Conferred PhD at Mangalore University Convocation
 
Mrs. Molly Sanjay Chaudhuri, HoD, Training, was conferred with the Doctor of Philosophy at the 33rd Convocation of Mangalore University held on the 17th of June, 2015. She had qualified for the same in April of 2014, for the thesis entitled, "Emerging Issues in Knowledge Management: A comparative Study of select software companies in Karnataka State" in the faculty of Commerce.
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Two-Day PGCET Training Held for MBA Aspirants
 
The Department of Business Administration organized a two-day PGCET Training for MBA aspirants in the Campus. Seventy-five students from various UG colleges in and around Mangalore participated in the training program. Participants were given hands-on training on subjects like Quantitative Analysis, General Knowledge, Reasoning Intelligence and Proficiency in English Language which form part of the PGCET syllabus. CA Gopalakrishna Bhat, a practicing CA, was the resource person for Quantitative Analysis. Prof. Raghavendra Prabhu, Prof. Mithun Ullal, Prof. Divya Prabhu and Prof. Gayathri Shetty of the department were the other resource persons for the two-day training. The response has been overwhelming with interactive sessions being conducted. The participants were immensely delighted with the infrastructure of the College and the hospitality they received during the program.
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Hewlett-Packard Pooled Campus Recruitment Drive
HP conducted a pooled campus recruitment drive for 150 students from colleges in and around the Mangaluru region. Eighteen students have been selected by the company.
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP (styled as hp) is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. It provides hardware, software and services to consumers, small-and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors.
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Faculty Member Selected for IEEE Special Session
 Mr. Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering is selected for IEEE Special Session on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing at the International Conference on Green Computing and Internet of Things (ICGCIoT 2015) to be held in Galgotias College of Engineering & Technology (GCET), Greater Noida, India, from 8–10 October 2015. Key objectives of this special session is to bring together researchers working in the broad areas of Computer Vision, Graphics, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and related fields to promote community-wide discussion of ideas that will influence and foster continued research in the field. All accepted papers of this special session will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Call for papers: http://gciot-conference.org/2015/sscvgip15.html
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M.Tech. Student and Faculty Members’ Technical Paper in International Journal
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Mr. Rudresh Kumar C. S., |
Mr. Savidhan Shetty C. S., Asst.Professor |
A technical paper entitled "A VLSI Design for Image Scaling Processor Technique Using High Boost Filter" by Mr. Rudresh Kumar C. S., Semester IV M.Tech. (VLSI) and Mr. Savidhan Shetty C. S., Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, has been published in the International Journal of Research in Information Technology (IJRIT), Volume 3, Issue 5, May 2015.
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