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MARCH 17 - 22, 2014 |
Chairman Files Nomination Papers and becomes the first to do so from the Shimoga Constituency
Congress MP Candidate Mr. Manjunath Bhandary filed his nomination papers on Wednesday, the 19th of March 2014 and was the first candidate to file his nomination papers from the Shimoga Lok Sabha Constituency. Mr. Bhandary accompanied with his daughter Deeksha, MLA K. B. Prasanna Kumar, District Congress Committee President R. Prasanna Kumar, and Legal Advisor Praveen Kumar, submitted his nomination papers to the Returning Officer Mr. Vipul Bansal.
More than 40,000 people gathered with full enthusiasm and for nearly four hours entire Shimoga was at a standstill. The Chairman was really happy that Shimoga district workers and voters created history on this day. He was extremely overwhelmed to see the support extended and this boosted his confidence to the next level.
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Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp conducted in the Campus
A three-day VTU sponsored Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp was inaugurated by Dr. Chidanand Gavimath, Special Officer, ED Cell & Biofuel Research Centre, VTU. Dr. Umesh M. Bhushi, Principal, presided over the inaugural function. Dr. A. P. Achar, Director, Department of Business Administration, welcomed the gathering and Prof. Dayananda Shetty, Director- STEP, delivered the vote of thanks. Following the inaugural programme, Mr. Addoor Krishna Rao, Retired Director- RUDSETI addressed the participants on "Competencies required to become an Entrepreneur" and Dr. A. P. Achar, engaged a session on "Stages in Entrepreneurship Development." Mr. Vilas Nayak, CEO, Hanuman Transport, addressed the topic "Charm and Challenges of being an Entrepreneur", through his experience sharing.
  The second day of the three-day VTU sponsored Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp began with a session on "Business Opportunity Identification", by Dr. Chidananda Gavimath, Special Officer, VTU. He addressed the students about the new business opportunities available if perceived beyond the usual dimension. He discussed about the bio-diesel project undertaken by him and the various benefits derived from the project. Mr. Addoor Krishna Rao, Retired Director, RUDSETI, briefed about the requirements to start a new business. He called on the student community to look beyond the obvious to identify new business opportunities.
Post lunch, the participants visited Gunashree Cashew Industry as a part of industry exposure. The students were accompanied by faculty members, Mr. Ragavendra Prabhu, Mr. Ramesh and Ms. Shilpa Shetty of the Department of Business Administration.
 The third and final day of the three-day VTU Sponsored Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp began with a session on "Steps in Creating New Enterprise" by Dr. A.P.Achar, Director, Department of Business Administration. Prof. Dayananda Shetty, Director- STEP, spoke on "Institutional Support for New Enterprise Creation". Dr. Chidananda Gavimath, Special Officer, VTU, Belgaum and Dr. Umesh. M. Bhushi, Principal, were present on the occasion.
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Faculty Development Programme held for teachers of
under-graduate colleges
Inaugurating the one-day Faculty Development Programme on `Student Enterprise; an Entrepreneurial Pedagogy for Excellence in Higher Education’ in the Campus, for teachers of under-graduate colleges, Dr. Venugopal, Director, School of Management, Manipal, and the Chief Guest of the programme, stressed on the need for inclusive growth in India. He said that entrepreneurship today has more challenges to face, yet it does have a social orientation. `Student enterprise is not just being self-employed but being employed in doing something which one enjoys doing’, he said.
Dr. Prasad, Professor, NITIE, Mumbai, the keynote speaker said that, `enterprise is missing in academics. It's a medicine that needs to be administered to our students. Embedding entrepreneurship in academics is an art.’ Dr. Prasad engaged various sessions on the need and ways to create student enterprise and the support available to enable such an enterprise.
The Faculty Development Programme was organised by the Department of Business Administration. Dr. Umesh M. Bhushi, Principal, gave his presidential remarks and wished the programme a grand success. The director of the department, Dr. A. P. Achar also engaged a session on `Entrepreneurial Competency.’ Mr. Mahesh Prabhu, Director, Business World, shared his experience with the audience. About forty faculty members of various under-graduate colleges in and around Mangalore participated.
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AEnCES conducts Traditional Day
 
AEnCES (Association of E&C Engineering Students), Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, held a `Traditional Day’ in the Campus to display Indian culture. Students came attired in ethnic wear. On the occasion, a technical talk was delivered by Dr. Ramesh Kini M., Associate Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, NITK, Surathkal, on "FPGA Architecture and its Design." He spoke on the architecture and design of Spartan 3E. Students showcased their talents through technical and cultural events.
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Sahyadrians recruited by Tech Mahindra
Sixteen students of the Departments of Computer Science & Engineering, Information Science & Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering and Mechanical Engineering have been recruited by Tech Mahindra in the recent pool campus recruitment drive held at NMAM Institute of Technology.
180 students from NMAMIT, MIT and Sahyadri participated in the drive. Forty-nine students have been selected in all including the sixteen from the college.
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AAO Invited as Chief Guest and Resource Person
 • Mrs. Shreelatha U A, Academic Administrative Officer, was invited as the Chief Guest for the Women’s Day celebration, at St Aloysius Institute of Education, Kodialbail, Mangalore. She delivered a talk on, ‘Gender Issue’ on this occasion.
• Mrs. Shreelatha U. A., Academic Administrative Officer, Member of Juvenile Justice Board, DK, was invited as the Chief Guest for the “Lok Adalat” organized by District Legal Services Authority, D.K., in association with D.K. Zilla Panchayat.
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Bon Voyage
Dr. Vishal Samartha, Prof. B. Raghavendra Prabhu, and Prof. Karthik Kudroli, faculty members of the Department of Business Administration are leaving for Colombo, Sri Lanka, on the 24th of March 2014 to attend the International Conference on Engineering, Management & Social Science, organized by World Academic Industry Research Collaboration Organization. More than 200 delegates from all over the world will be participating in the conference. They will be presenting papers on topics in the area of Occupational Stress, Financial Literacy, and Green Supply Chain Management.
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Faculty members present papers in National Conference
• Ms. Sushma V., Assistant Professor and Dr. Vishal Samartha, Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, presented a research paper titled, `Attrition, a major challenge in a BPO industry’, in the National Conference on “Institution Building”, held at SDM College of Business Management, Mangalore.
 • Mr. Lokesh, Assistant Professor S.G., Department of Business Administration, presented a research paper titled, "Human Capital and Organisational Performance”, in the National Conference on “Institution Building”, held at SDM College of Business Management, Mangalore.
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Principal invited by University B.D.T. College of Engineering as resource person
 Dr. Umesh M. Bhushi, Principal, has been invited by University B.D.T. College of Engineering, Davanagere, to deliver technical talks in the Faculty Development Programme on `Recent Progress and Challenges Ahead to Assure Quality in Engineering Education.’ He will deliver talks on `TQM and its Prospective’ and `Application of TQM in Engineering Education’ to the faculty of the College at Davanagere.
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Career Forum held at RiiiT, Mysore
`Industry-Institution Interface;’ a Placement Officers meet on career forum was hosted by RiiiT, Mysore in association with VTU, Belgaum. The programme was inaugurated by Dr. Ravi Kumar, Special Officer, VTU, Mysore. Ms. Raksha K.M., Department of Placement and Training, represented the college at the meeting.
Eminent personalities from Wipro, Infosys, Unilog, Birlasoft, Dell, Span Infotech and SPI were the panelists. Topics like Diversity in IT requirements, Desire versus Deserve, Solution Ahead and 2014 Hiring- a Change in Trends were discussed. Around fifty placement officers from various colleges of Karnataka participated in this event.
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J. V. Global conducts training programme
Mr. Vincent D’Souza, Director, J. V. Global, along with his team of four trainers, conducted a two-day training programme for students of the pre-final year. The training gave the participants fruitful insights to face the placement process.
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M.Tech students’ research paper published in IJERT
A research paper titled, "Designing a Network Based Intrusion Detection System using MIB with the aid of SNMP Agents ", authored by Mrs. Nisha A. Rai, M.Tech, Semester IV, Computer Science & Engineering, under the guidance of Prof. Pavan Kumar V, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, has been published in the International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), Vol. 3 - Issue 3 (March - 2014), ISSN: 2278-0181,www.ijert.org
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Sahyadrians win coding and debugging competition
Karthik Bhat K., Semester VI and Koushik Raj, Semester VIII, Department of Computer Science & Engineering have won the First Place in the coding C++ program to print XML tags in a .xml file and debugging C++ program organized by Aloysius Institute of Management and IT, Mangalore. Fifteen teams from different colleges participated in the competition.
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B Section of Mechanical Engineering Boys’ Cricket Team Emerge the Winners
 The B Section of Mechanical Engineering Boys’ Cricket Team has won the UG Inter-Branch Cricket Tournament organized by the Department of Physical Education by defeating the C Section team of Mechanical Engineering in the finals. Eighteen teams participated in the tournament.
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MBA Men’s Volleyball Team Emerge Victorious
 The Men’s Volleyball Team of the second year MBA has won the PG Inter-Class Volleyball Tournament organized by the Department of Physical Education by defeating the first year MBA team in the finals. The first year MBA team is the runners-up. Six teams participated in the tournament.
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Faculty members invited as judges
 Mr. K. Abhaya Kumar, and Mrs. Gayathri Shetty, Assistant Professors, Department of Business Administration, were invited to judge the Finance Event "Solitaire", a part of their management fest, ‘ECHELON-2014’, organized by the Department of Business Management, Shree Devi Institute of Technology, Kenjar, Mangalore.
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