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SEPTEMBER 08 - 13, 2014 |
Mr. Nalin S. Kohli Political and Media Personality Visits Sahyadri
 Mr. Nalin S. Kohli, Political and Media Personality visited the College and met and interacted with Mr. Manjunath Bhandary, the Chairman. Recalling his earlier association with the Chairman, Mr. Kohli expressed his happiness on seeing the Chairman’s vision that has taken shape in building an institution such as Sahyadri. He was delighted to see first hand the various facilities and infrastructure provided by the management. He conveyed his best wishes to the management, staff and students of the institution. Mr. Nalin S. Kohli is a political personality with over two decades of professional experience in the Education Sector and the Media and Entertainment Industry. He is the National Spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the ruling political party in India. Mr. Kohli is also a National Executive Member of the BJP and in charge (Prabhari) for the state of Mizoram and member of the BJP’s Committee for the North East Region.
Mr. Nalin S. Kohli has conducted media management workshops at various institutions including as a visiting faculty to the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Ranchi. He has also conducted Media Training Workshops in India and Sri Lanka for television, radio presenters and management professionals. He is the former Chairman and Founder Director of a leading international curriculum boarding and day boarding school in Faridabad near Delhi and was the founder Director and creator of a leading Media Institute in collaboration with the Missouri School of Journalism, USA, the oldest journalism school in the world.
Mr. Kohli is the former Primetime News on Doordarshan (India’s National Television Channel) and Anchor for over 2000 hours of Live and Recorded Broadcasting of various genres of programming. He has produced and directed over 100 hours of television programming on Art and Culture, Literature, Dance, Tourism, Advocacy and Health.
Mr. Kohli has an LLB degree from Delhi University, a Post Graduation in Business Management, FORE School of Management and B. A. History (Honours) from the Delhi University (University position holder). He has travelled widely to many countries several times over.
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Dr. C. Ranganathaiah Conducts Sessions on Research Methodology
 Two sessions on Research Methodology was conducted by Dr. C. Ranganathaiah, Director Research, Govt. Research Center, Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management in the Campus. He addressed all faculty members of the institute. He spoke extensively on various aspects of research and inspired young faculty members to take up research.
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Sahyadri Hosts HCL Recruitment Drive
 The College hosted the recruitment drive for HCL Technologies Ltd. Around 125 candidates with 2 to 8 years of experience with a Java profile from across the state attended the drive. Eleven employees of HCL conducted the drive for technical and HR rounds. Credit goes to Mr. Adithya Kollaje, Recruitment Enabler, TAG Offshore, HCL Technologies Ltd., an MBA alumnus of the College - 2013 batch, Dr. Vishal Samartha, and Mr. Raghavendra Prabhu, faculty members of the Department of Business Administration for their support. Mr. Adithya Kollaje also interacted and motivated the present MBA students.
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Faculty Members’ Papers Published in IEEE Xplore
Digital Library
 The fourth research manuscript “Recognizing Facial Images Using ICA, LPP, MACE Gabor Filters, Score Level Fusion Techniques” by Mr. Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, has been published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. To view the manuscript click on http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6892552.
The earlier three research manuscripts already published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library are "Robust Face Recognition in the presence of Noises and Blurring effects by fusing Appearance based techniques and Sparse Representation”
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6714143,"A Comparative Study on Score Level Fusion Techniques and MACE Gabor Filters for Face Recognition in the presence of Noises and Blurring effects”
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6701502, and “A Comparative Study on ICA and LPP Based Face Recognition Under Varying Illuminations And Facial Expressions” http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6497972.
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Faculty Members Attend Workshop
Dr. Vidyavathi and Prof. B. Raghavendra Prabhu, Department of Business Administration have attended one-day workshop on the revised syllabus for the year 2014-2015 at VTU Regional office, Bangalore.
Dr. Vishal Samartha, Prof. Sushma and Prof. Gayathri Shetty of the Department of Business Administration, attended a workshop on “Behavioral strategies for success” organized by National Institute of Personnel management (NIPM) at SDM College. Mr. P. Jayashankar Rai, Head HR-MCF, Mangalore, was the resource person who emphasized on the aspects that are important to achieve success in life. According to him, one should not only work hard but also strategically be strong in their approach in achieving success. In addition to this, he highlighted that one should be egoless, cleverly delegate the tasks, be practical, adaptable and also control one’s emotions and feelings. He stressed on the fact that one should learn to be reasonable, accept feedback and positively work towards it.
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Principal becomes Member of Board of Studies
 Dr. Umesh M. Bhushi, Principal, has been accepted as a Member of Board of Studies for Industrial and Production Engineering Discipline of Poojya Doddappa Appa College of Engineering, Gulbarga. It is a great honour for the College.
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Orientation for M. Tech. Freshers
The orientation program for the M.Tech. freshers was held in the Campus. Dr. U. M. Bhushi, Principal, gave a brief about the College which was followed by a visual presentation of the College by Mrs. Shreelatha U. A., AAO. Prof. Umashankar B. S., Dean Academic, explained the M.Tech. program and VTU regulations. Prof. M. N. Nayak, Administrator, addressed the students on the code of conduct to be followed. Prof. Abdul Kareem, Head, Projects & Funding spoke about projects and funding schemes, Dr. A. P. Manu, Head, Department of Information Science & Engineering and Prof. Dayanda Shetty, Director-STEP spoke about the College’ association with Microsoft and involvement with Intel and entrepreneurship, respectively.
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Faculty Member Invited as Guest of Honour
 Mr. B. Raghavendra Prabhu, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration was invited as the Guest of Honour by Lions and Lioness Club International, Bantwal. He delivered a lecture on the importance of education and about Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management.
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Sahyadrian Wins First Place in High Jump
Carol R. Monteiro, Semester VII, has won the First place in High Jump in the Mangalore Taluk Dasara Sports Meet 2014-15 held at Mangala Stadium, Mangalore.
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Faculty Member Invited as Judge
Mrs. Divya Prabhu, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration was invited to judge a Cultural Dance Variety Competition held at SVS College, Bantwal, on their Annual Day celebrations.
She was recently felicitated along with the chairperson of JJB, Sri. Nagalinganagowda Patil, Chief Judicial Magistrate, DK and another member of JJB, Prof. Ramila Shekar, Dean, School of Social work, Roshni Nilaya, by the District Commissioner, Shri. A. B. Ibrahim in a function.
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