March - Amrita University

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MARCH 2014
Blood Donation Camp
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Annual Sports Day
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March, 2014
SLAC
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March, 2014
Seminar on ‘Graphics Programming’
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March, 2014
PESTSE 2014
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March, 2014
Blood Donation Camp
On 4th March 2014, the school organized the annual blood donation camp. The
volunteers of Rashtrothana Blood Bank visited the School and 330 units of blood were donated.
Students and many faculty members enthusiastically donated blood.
Annual Sports Day
On 7th March 2014, the school hosted the Annual Sports Day. The day began with the
inauguration ceremony with students of different departments presenting the March Past. The
March Past was headed by Ms. Aditi Trivedi and Mr. Vijay Andrews, the Secretary and Joint
Secretary of „Chetana‟, the Sports Club. The university flag was carried by the university
players namely Mr. Nikhil of S8 ME, Mr. Jeevan Suhas of S6 ECE, Ms. Vandana Ramesh of S6
EIE, Ms. Sowkhya of S6 ECE, Mr. Siva Kumar of S4 EIE and Mr. Sriram of S4 Mechanical
branch. This was followed by „Oath Administration‟ by Mr. Vijay Andrews.
The Chief Guest of the day was Mr. V. R. Bidu, a Coach for National Level Athletics.
Director Br. Dhanraj and Associate Dean Dr. Rakesh S.G. graced the occasion. The program
began by the traditional lighting of the lamp by the Chief Guest and the dignitaries present.
Many athletic events were conducted. The winners were awarded prizes on the spot by the Chief
Guest. Overall championship trophies were awarded to Mr. Bharath of S8 ME in the men‟s
category and in the women‟s category it was shared by Ms. Vaishnavi of S8 EEE & Ms. Maya
of S8 CSE. The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering won the overall
departmental championship, followed by Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Electrical &
Instrumentation Engineering. The event concluded with the vote of thanks by Ms. Aditi Trivedi
followed by the National Anthem.
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Enable India Workshop
On 15th March 2014, the School organized a workshop in co-ordination with „Enable
India‟ where students were taught to make Braille Computer Screens for the visually challenged
people. Visually Challenged Volunteers from „Enable India‟ were present to conduct the
workshop. The occasion was graced by our Director Br. Dhanraj.
Fund Raiser Programme
„Prerana’, the Social Outreach Club of the school organized a fund raiser to help an
ailing person to undergo kidney transplant. Rs.63,000/- was collected from faculty, staff,
workers and students for this noble cause.
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PESTSE 2014
It was indeed a great honour for the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering,
Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru to successfully host the First International Conference
“2014 Power and Energy Systems: Towards Sustainable Energy (PESTSE 2014)”, in association
with IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) - Bangalore Chapter between 13th & 15th March,
2014.
The conference aimed at providing a platform for researchers, scientists, industrial
professionals and students to exchange & share their research accomplishments, achievements
and new ideas on the contemporary & emerging trends in Power and Energy Systems, which
would enable them to arrive at new ideas and techniques not only to enhance Power and Energy,
but also work towards sustaining it.
The conference received 160 papers from within India and abroad, out of which around
79 papers were presented after being peer reviewed by the technical committee comprising of
experts from across the globe.
This three day event ran smoothly, starting off with the tutorial sessions conducted by
experts in their fields, in order to facilitate the brainstorming discussions which were to follow.
The speakers were:
Dr.
D. P. Kothari, Director-Research, MVSR Engineering College, Hyderabad.
Dr.
Chem Nayar, Professor Emeritus, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Dr.
Ravindra Bhide, Lead Engineer in Electromagnetic System Lab, GE Global, Bengaluru.
These experts enlightened the audience on topics such as Renewable Energy Sources,
Solar Power Plants for Residential, Commercial & Utility Applications and Computational
Electromagnetics in Electrical Machines Design & Analysis. These tutorials focused on the
future scope and technologies related to renewable energy, sustainable and efficient energy
usage, leaving the audience with a clear picture on the relevance of energy in the future.
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The dawn of the second day, 14th March 2014 saw the formal inaugural ceremony, in the
presence of the Guest of Honour, Dr. H. P. Khincha, Chairman of Karnataka Innovation Council.
The inauguration function began with an invocation song followed by the traditional lighting of
the lamp. The welcome address was delivered by Dr. Shikha Tripathi, Professor and Chairman,
Department of EEE, ASE - Bengaluru, who was the Conference General Chair.
The Director of ASE - Bengaluru, Br. Dhanraj blessed everyone. This was followed by an
enlightening talk by Dr. H.P. Khincha, who gave the audience an optimistic glimpse into the
future, where the cost of energy would reduce considerably, with the advancements in technology
in energy management.
The scope and objectives of the conference were mentioned by Ms. Anjana Jain,
Convener of the conference. The conference proceedings were released by Dr. H. P. Khincha,
and the same was handed over to Dr. Shikha Tripathi.
The book of Abstracts was released by the Chief Guest Dr. Paulo M. Mendes, Associate
Professor, University of Minho, Portugal. Dr. Kannan Tinnium, Chair IEEE-Power & Energy
(PES) Society, Bangalore Chapter who was also present during the inaugural function stressed on
the importance of the conference and its horizons.
An overview of Amrita Vishw Vidyapetham (University) was presented by Associate
Dean Dr. Rakesh S.G.
The keynote address was delivered by the Chief Guest Dr. Paulo M. Mendes, who spoke
about “The Energy Harvesting from Radio Frequency Sources”. Finally, the session concluded
with an invited lecture by Dr. D. P. Kothari, on “Energy and Environment Facing the Third
World and Their Problem Solutions”.
The second day proceeded further with 45 papers presented in two technical sessions
(forenoon and afternoon) under four parallel tracks viz., Power Electronics & Drives,
Advancement in Energy, Power System Operation & Control and Energy Management &
Economics in four different halls of the school. Dr. H.V. Manjunath, Professor, Department of
Electrical & Electronics Engineering, ASE - Bengaluru who was the Technical Chair PESTSE2014 and Mr. S. Rajashekhar, Technical Activities Chair – IEEE Power & Energy
Society (PES), Bangalore Chapter were also present during the conference.
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Between the two sessions there was a panel discussion by Dr. Nagaraja R. (Managing
Director - PRDC, Bengaluru), Chair, IEEE PES India Council Chapter, Dr. Kannan Tinnium,
Technology Leader - Electrical Technologies & Systems, GE Global Research, Bengaluru and
Mr. Aveek Chatterjee, Technical Lead with the Systems & Technology Group, IBM, Bengaluru
on “Bulk Scale Integration of the Renewable Energy into Grid”, with Dr. Priya Ranjan Mishra,
Senior Scientist, Philips, Bengaluru as the panel moderator.
The second day of the conference concluded with tranquilizing cultural programme by
students of ASE, Bengaluru, which was followed by a grand banquet dinner.
The final day, 15th March 2014 saw the conduct of two technical sessions in which 28
papers were presented under four parallel tracks. This was followed by a keynote address by Dr.
Chem Nayar on “Energy Security in Small Islands and Remote Communities through Innovative
Microgrid Systems” and an invited lecture by Dr. H. D. Mathur, on “Inter-Area Oscillation
Damping with Super Conducting Magnetic Energy Storage and Wind Power Generating
System”. There were also six poster presentations, which were held during the course of the
conference.
The 3-day conference concluded with a valedictory ceremony with Mr. Mallikarjun
Kande, Group Manager, Communication Group ABB, Bengaluru as the Chief Guest.
Mr. Mallikarjun Kande threw light on the emerging role of Industry - Academia collaboration to
pave way for path breaking innovation. He also stressed upon the need for more such conferences
to help in sharing knowledge and facilitate collaborations.
The closing report was read out by Ms. Anjana Jain, Conference Convener.
PESTSE-2014 was a grand success and further editions of this conference are being
planned in order to keep the aim of sustainable energy going.
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‘Sankhya’ : - the Mathematics Club activity
„Sankhya‟ organized a Mathematical Contest for students of the school in the month of
October 2013, in association with VistaMind Education. After two rounds of rigorous
competition at the school level, seven teams comprising of two members each were short listed
for the city round finals. The city round finals was conducted at Vanguard Business School,
Bengaluru on 8th March, 2014. Around 80 teams from 35 colleges, both engineering and first
grade, situated in & around Bengaluru participated in the event. PESIT, CMRIT, RNSIT, JSSIT,
Oxford College of Engineering are some of the colleges which participated. Two teams from the
School which won the first and second prizes of Rs.15,000/- and Rs.10,000/- respectively in the
city round finals are:
Position
Name of the Student
Register No.
Prize amount
First
a) A. Kiran Sai
BL.EN.U4ECE10015
Rs. 15,000/-
b) R. Sai Venkatesh
BL.EN.U4ECE10146
a) Navyasree ATM
BL.EN.U4EEE10045
b) Chatterjee Subhadeep
Debasis
BL.EN.U4EEE10013
Second
Rs. 10,000/-
These two teams will represent Amrita School of Engineering at the national level which
will held at a later date and the expenses for which will be borne by VistaMind, Bengaluru.
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Papers Presented
International Conference
NAME
TITLE
DATE
Suja P.
Shikha Tripathi
Deepthy J.
“Emotion Recognition
From Facial Expressions
Using Frequency Domain
Techniques”
13th - 15th “First International Symposium
March,
on Signal Processing and
2014
Intelligent Recognition Systems SIRS 2014” held at IIITMKTechnopark, Trivandrum, India.
The paper was published in the
“Advances in Intelligent Systems
and Computing”, Volume-264,
pp 299-310 by Springer.
ISSN : 2194-5357
Indexed in SCOPUS.
ICCTAC International Conference
th
st
20 - 21
on ‘Current Trends in Advanced
February, Computing’ - Kristu Jayanti
2014
College, Bengaluru
Has won the ‘Best Paper
Award’
Tripty Singh
Jibu Varghese K.
“Development of an
Intelligent Recognition
System using Iris and
Sclera Features”
NAME OF THE EVENT
Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan:

has been nominated as Vice-Chair of „IEEE Robotic and Automation Society‟,
Bengaluru Chapter by IEEE Bengaluru section.

has been invited to serve as Member, Technical Programme Committee for the
„International Conference on Embedded Systems (ICES 2014)‟ scheduled on 4th &
5th July, 2014 at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.

has served as General Chair for „IEEE International Conference in the Applications
of Digital Information & Web Technologies‟, which was held at PRIST University,
Chennai from 17th to 19th February, 2014
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
Dr. Tirumale K. Ramesh:

has served on the Advisory & Technical Programme Committees of International
Conference on „Advances in Computing, Communications and Information
Sciences‟ to be held between 26th & 28th June, 2014 at Kollam, India and reviewed 4
papers for the conference.

Mr. Aniruddha Bhattchharjya:

was one of the Programme Committee Members of the Fourth International
Conference on „Digital Information Processing and Communications (ICDIPC2014)‟
that was held at Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU),
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia between 18th & 20th March, 2014. .

was a Technical Programme Committee Member of „World Symposium on Web
Application and Networking-WSWAN'2014‟, which was held in Hammamet,
Tunisia from 22nd to 24th March , 2014.

is chosen as an International Programme Committee Member and reviewed four
papers for the IEEE Fourth International Conference on „Digital Information and
Communication Technology and its Applications (DICTAP2014)‟ that will be held
at University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok, Thailand from 6 th to 8th
May, 2014.

is chosen as an International Programme Committee Member and reviewed three
papers for the IEEE Third International Conference on „Cyber Security, Cyber
Warfare, and Digital Forensic (CyberSec2014)‟ that will be held at the Faculty of
Engineering - Lebanese University, Campus of Hadath, Beirut - Lebanon from 29th
April to 1st May, 2014.

Mrs. Tripty Singh

has been chosen as Technical Programme Committee Member of International
Conference on „Computing, Networking and Communication (ICNC)‟, technically
co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and financially sponsored by
Technology Innovation Association, which was held in Honolulu, Hawaii from 3rd to
6th February, 2014.
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
has been chosen as a Editorial Board Member for „Journal of Advanced Research in
Construction and Architectural Engineering‟.

has been chosen as a Technical Programme Committee Member / Reviewer of Third
International Conference on „Signal, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
(SIPPR - 2014)‟ held in Chennai, on 3rd March 2014.

was selected as a Programme Chair
for the IEEE sponsored fifth International
Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies
(ICADIWT 2014) which was held between 17th & 19th of February, 2014 at PRIST
University, Chennai Campus.
Other News
Cisco Networking Academy Programme
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Bengaluru Campus has completed 10 years of active
participation and service in the Cisco Networking Academy Programme. Cisco has thanked our
academy for the dedication and contributions that have helped in making Cisco Networking
Academy the premier global education programme for developing the networking architects of
the future. Mr. Ullas S. has been training and conducting classes for the students in the
Bengaluru campus. He has been awarded for completing 10 years of active participation and
service in the Cisco Networking Academy Programme.
Industrial Visit to CISCO
Networking Club had arranged an Industrial Visit to Cisco on 6th March, 2014, which
was coordinated by Mr. Ullas S. 103 students along with five staff members visited CISCO
Systems. A talk on „INTERNET OF EVERYTHING‟ was delivered by Mr. Sandeep, Technical
Lead. The talk focused on the emergence of networking, current challenges and its solutions. He
also briefed on the latest technologies invented by CISCO under IoT and IoE such as Smart
Objects, Lockitron, Health Presence and Tele Presence.
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Students visited a Lab where the latest network devices which were to be launched in the
market were displayed. The network devices included Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers,
Cisco 5900 series Embedded Routers, Cisco Cat2960-X, Cat6500 Switch. Students learnt about
the industry, the products developed, the technology used and the challenges that need to be
faced. The visit also gave an idea about the life cycle of a product development. Mr. Kamal
Stephen, HR Recruiter, addressed the students on relevancy of certifications, internship and job
prospects. His words were an insight for the students to target a great career.
Subsequently there was a talk at the school from Mr. Ashwin M., a software Engineer at
CISCO working on Service Module Integration for CAT6500 switches on the same day. He
spoke about the demand of network in the near future and how Cisco is working on the solutions
for those requirements. He motivated students to acquire knowledge on latest technologies and
research areas.
Forum Activities
SLAC (Stay Late And Code) 24 hrs App Development Contest
Stay Late And Code, FACE‟s most anticipated event of the year was held on the 8 th and
9th of March, 2014. Over 45 teams from all three campuses of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
participated in a 24-hour App Development Contest, building apps on any of the six offered
platforms. As the participants began coding at 10 AM, Mr. Subramanian R. a student from S8
regaled his experience of participating in the final round of the University Mobile Challenge at
Barcelona. He told about the various apps on show in the challenge. His talk served as a source
of motivation for the coders.
FACE invited prominent alumni of ASE-B to judge at SLAC. The judges were Mr.
Aaditya Sriram, Mr. Arjun Abhinav, Mr. Rohan Prabhu, Mr. Nikhil Nandagopal, Mr. Bhargav
Krishna, Mr. Suhas S.G. and Ms. Amrita Dilip. The arena was filled with a purposeful
atmosphere. Participants were coding away under the blue lights of the arena. Food stalls were
set up outside the arena for the participants.
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The app presentations began on 9th March, 2014 at 10 AM. Many impressive and
innovative apps were on display. Deatails of the top three teams are given below :
Team Name
Campus
Team Members
App Name
1. The Flying Dutchman
Bangalore
Flying Frog
2. Kamui
Amritapuri
3. Eppimonian
Coimbatore
Farhan Sheik, J. Y. Sandilya,
Anirudh Rayabharam
Arjun Biju, Dixit
Balasubramanyan
Hemanth Malla
Morse code Notifier
Word Zone
Workshop on “Embedded Systems”
A workshop on Embedded system was organized on the 8th of March, 2014. Mr. Raja
Subramanian and Mr. Kanageswaran from Mistral Solutions conducted the workshop. The
objective of this workshop was to introduce the students to Embedded Systems and to provide
an opportunity for the students to interact with highly experienced industrial experts in this field.
Students from B.Tech. and M.Tech. participated in large numbers.
Seminar on “Graphics Programming”
A Seminar on “Graphics Programming” was organized on 12th March, 2014. Mr. Arvind
Devaraj from “Be Limitless” presented a seminar on “Graphics Programming”. The objective
was to introduce concepts related to Graphics Coding. Various graphics transformation
techniques were covered along with the demo. Many Students from B.Tech. attended the
seminar.
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Papers Presented
International Conference
NAME
TITLE
Ms. Priyadarshini V.
DATE
th
NAME OF THE EVENT
th
“Medical Image Processing
6 -8
Scheme for Cancer Detection - March,
A Survey”
2014
To be published in IEEE Xplore.
IEEE International Conference on
‘Green Computing Communication
& Electrical Engineering
(ICGCCEE’14)’, at Dr. N.G.P Institute
of Technology, Coimbatore
Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Dr. Shikha Tripathi:

was chosen as an International Program Committee Member for 6th International
Workshop on „Soft Computing Applications‟, to be held from 24th to 26th July 2014,
Timisoara, Romania.

delivered an invited talk and chaired a session on „Signal & Image Processing‟ at
National Conference on Emerging Technologies in Electronics & Communication
Engineering organized by APS College of Engineering, Bengaluru held on 28th &
29th March, 2014.

Dr. Navin Kumar:

delivered a keynote address on “Emerging VLC in Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS)” at the National Conference on Advanced Communication Networks
at RNSIT, Bengaluru held from 21st to 22nd March, 2014.

reviewed a technical paper for VTC Conference to be held at South Korea, Seoul
from 18th to 21st May, 2014.
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Forum Activities

Mr. Akansh B., a S6 student of ECE conducted two sessions of ongoing lecture series on
„Image Processing using Matlab‟ during March, 2014 for interested students. Around 100
students attended these sessions.
Other News

An online training session on Synopsys Front End Tools (dc compiler, formality and
primetime) was conducted on 14th March, 2014 in the School.

Mr. Srinivasa Rao and Mr. Yashu Vershney, Senior Technical Experts from PMC Sierra
provided hands on training on using Cadence Spectra (SPICE) and ADE tool set with
examples like OpAmps and other circuits on 15th March, 2014 in IT Lab I for students and
faculty of M.Tech. (VLSI Design).
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Papers Presented
International Conference
NAME
TITLE
Manitha P.V.
Jishnu Shankar V.C.
Manjula G. Nair
“Design and Simulation of a
Mini Custom Power Park for
Power Quality”
Manitha P.V.
Anjana P.
Manjula G. Nair
“Simulation of Series Active
Filter with a Newly Proposed
Efficient Controller for Voltage
Harmonic Compensation”
Mamatha I.
Shikha Tripathi
T.S.B. Sudarshan
Nikhil Bhattar
DATE
th
NAME OF THE EVENT
th
6 -7
March,
2014
International Conference on
“Standards for Smart Grid
Ecosystem” organized by Central
Power Research Institute(CPRI)
Bengaluru at CPRI Bengaluru
“Systolic Array
Implementation of DFT with
Reduced Multipliers Using
Triple Matrix Product”
13th -15th
March,
2014
Roshan Prem
Sreekala M.
V.S. Kirthika Devi
“Wireless Control of DC-DC
Converter”
14th -15th
March,
2014
International Symposium on
“Signal Processing and Intelligent
Recognition Systems(SIRS 2014)”,
IIITM Kerala, Trivandrum
Published by Springer and
Indexed in Scopus
2014 International Conference on
“Power and Energy Systems
Towards Sustainable Energy
(PESTSE 2014)”, Amrita School of
Engineering, Bengaluru
To be published in IEEE Xplore
R. Mahalakshmi
Aravind Kumar N.
Aswin Kumar A.
Anujeevitha
“Design of Fuzzy Logic Based
Maximum Power Point
Tracking Controller for solar
Array for cloudy weather
conditions”
Kurukunda Ishwarya
Rashmi M.R.
“Space Vector Based PWM
Strategies for VSI Fed
Induction Motor Drives with
Reduced Complexity”
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International Conference
NAME
TITLE
DATE
th
NAME OF THE EVENT
Rakhi. K.
Ilango.K.
Manjunath H.V.
Manjula G. Nair
“Simulation Analysis of Half
14 -15
Bridge Series Parallel Resonant March,
Converter based Battery
2014
Charger for Photovoltaic
System”
Aiswarya M.
Ilango K.
Manitha P.V.
Manjula G. Nair
“Simulation Analysis of
Modified DC Bus Voltage
Control Algorithm for Power
Quality Improvement on
Distributed Generation
Systems”
“Hybrid Renewable Energy
System: Optimum Design,
Control and Maximum
Utilization with SIBB Converter
using DSP Controller”
John Marshal T.P.
K. Deepa
K.Deepa,
Padmaja P.J.
Vijay Kumar M.
“Cascaded Multi output PushPull Converter”
K.Deepa,
R. Jeyanthi
Shwetha Mohan
Vijay Kumar M.
“Fuzzy based Flyback
Converter”
th
9th -11th
January,
2014
2014 International Conference on
“Power and Energy Systems
Towards Sustainable Energy
(PESTSE 2014)”, Amrita School of
Engineering, Bengaluru
To be published in IEEE Xplore
International Conference on
“Advances in Electrical Engineering
(ICAEE 2014)”, VIT University,
Vellore
To be published in IEEE Xplore
Workshops/ Seminars/ Conferences organized
NAME
TITLE
DATE
VENUE
Anjana Jain
& faculty of EEE
2014 International Conference on
“Power and Energy Systems
Towards Sustainable Energy
(PESTSE 2014)”
13th - 15th
March, 2014
Amrita School of
Engineering, Bengaluru
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Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Ms. K Deepa reviewd the following papers for the special issues (March & April) on
„Modeling and Control‟ for the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power
Electronics:

“Modular Design of a Dual Active Bridge DC-DC Multilevel Converter with
Stepped Two-Level Output for Medium and High Voltage Applications”

“Comparative Analysis of the PI and Fuzzy Logic Controller for the Three-Port BiDirectional DC-DC Converter Interfacing Renewable Energy Sources”
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Papers Presented
International Conference
NAME
TITLE
DATE
NAME OF THE EVENT
Debanshu Basu
Samta Phulli
Vinod Kotebavi
“Performance analysis of a
VCR SI engine using petrol
alcohol blends”
13th - 15th
March,
2014
PESTSE2014 (International
Conference 2014 Power and
Energy Systems: Towards
Sustainable Energy )
2014,Bengaluru, Karnataka
Balasubramanya H.S. “Wear rate behavior of As-cast 27th -29th
Ravi Kumar V.
and heat treated hybrid
March,
Aluminum Metal Matrix
2014
Composites”
Balasubramanya H.S.
Ravikumar V.
Mrudula Prashanth
Ulhas K. Annigeri
“Characterization of A356/
SiCp/Gr Metal Matrix
composites”
28th -29th
March,
2014
ICAMME-14 at NITK
Surathkal,Karnataka
ICAETM-14 at NPR College of
Engineering and Technology,
Tamilnadu.
Workshops/ Seminars/ Conferences organized
NAME
TITLE
DATE
Mr. Prakash Marimuthu K. Workshop on ‘Effective use of
15th March,
MS Word and Endnote software’ 2014
VENUE
Amrita School of
Engineering, Bengaluru
Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Mr. R Pramod :

accepted to be a reviewer for the Journal Carbohydrate Polymers, Elsevier
Publications with impact factor 3.4 and reviewed the paper titled “Effects of Alkali
Treatment on Structure, Morphology and Thermal characteristics of Novel Cellulosic
Fiber from Coconut Leaf Sheath”.

has been chosen among top 70 social innovators for the year 2013-14 by SANKALP
FORUM and has been the recipient of „Entrepreneur Scholar‟ award. He has been
invited to attend the world‟s largest social enterprise focused summit “Sankalp
Unconvention Summit 2014” to be held from 09th to 11th April, 2014 at Hotel
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Workshops/ Seminars/ Conferences organized
NAME
TITLE
Dr. T. Srinivasa Rao National workshop on
‘Advanced Metrology,
Inspection & Calibration
Techniques in Modern
Production Industries’
Mr. R. Pramod
Indian Sustainability
Congress
Mr. Vinod Kotebavi One week Coordinators
Workshop on ‘Fluid
Mechanics’
Mr. K. Shankara
Discovery services and JGate
NAME OF THE
ORGANIZER
Amrita School of
Engineering,
Amritapuri.
Institute on
Climate Change
and Sustainability
(ICCS)
IIT Kharagpur
BMS College of
Engineering and
Informatics(India)
Ltd.
DATE
VENUE
3rd - 5th
March,
2014
Amrita School of
Engineering, Kollam
4th - 5th
March,
2014
Hotel Atria,
Bengaluru
11th - 15th
March,
2014
15th
March,
2014
IIT Kharagpur
BMS College of
Engineering,
Bengaluru
Other News
SAEINDIA COLLEGIATE CLUB ACTIVITIES

Arranged a technical talk on „MEMS Technology‟ on 5th March, 2014 at 2.30pm in
E-Learning center. Speaker for the day was Mr. Mithun B - Product Manager Sri
Dutt technologies, Bengaluru.

Arranged a technical talk on „Aircraft Designing‟ by Mr. P.R. Tejasvi , CEO, Angle
of Attack Systems LLP on 21st March, 2014 at 2.30pm in Krishna hall.
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PROJECTS FUNDED:
The following 3 B.Tech. projects from the department have been approved by the Karnataka
State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST), Bengaluru, for the current academic
year:
Sl. No.
Name of the Student(s)
Name of the Guide
Amount Sanctioned Rs.
1
Mr. Nakka Suryasatya
Mr. Sanjeevi & others
Mr. B.N. Prashanth
6,500.00
2
Mr. M.I. Nadeem & others
Mr. M.E. Shashi Kumar
6,500.00
3
Mr. B. Arjun Nataraj & others
Mr. R. Pramod
6,500.00
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Papers Published
International Journal
NAME
TITLE
K.V. Nagaraja
“Optimal subparametric finite
V. Kesavulu Naidu elements for elliptic partial
P.G. Siddheshwar differential equations using
higher order curved triangular
elements”
DATE
NAME OF THE PUBLICATION
21st March,
2014
International Journal for
‘Computational Methods in
Engineering Science and
Mechanic’
Vol. 15(2014)
pp. 83-100
Scopus Indexed
H index: 8
IF: 0.66
Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition
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Ms. Sarada Jayan reviewed the manuscript titled “Error bounds for Gaussian quadrature
rules using linear kernels” for the International Journal of Computer Mathematics.
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On the occasion of “International Women‟s Day” on 8th March 2014, SAP Labs had
organized a special hiring campaign for all B.Tech. women candidates passing out in 2014.
Ms. Pranavi Veda Venkata C. and Ms. Ipsita Mishra of S8 CSE were selected.
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Ericsson visited the campus on 18th March, 2014 and have selected 13 students from
Bengaluru campus.
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Tavant Technologies and Continental Automotive visited the Bengaluru campus in the
month of March, 2014 and selected 2 students each.
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Department of Mathematics
“Optimal subparametric finite elements for elliptic partial differential equations using
higher order curved triangular elements” - K. V. Nagaraja, V. Kesavulu Naidu and P.G.
Siddheshwar ; International Journal for „Computational Methods in Engineering Science
and Mechanic‟, Vol. 15(2014), pp. 83-100, Scopus Indexed, H index: 8, IF: 0.66, March,
2014.
This paper presents the finite element method using the parabolic arcs for solving
elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) over regular and irregular geometry, which
has many applications in science and engineering. Some numerical examples are given to
demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method. The results obtained are
in excellent agreement with the exact values.
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Dr. Rakesh S.G.
Associate Dean & Head
Chief Editor
Ms. Meera K.N.
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Editor
Mr. Rajesh M.
Assistant Professor
Department of CSE
Editor
Ms. Vasanthi
ES to Associate Dean
Editor
Board Members
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Ms. Paromita Ganguly
(Department of English)
Ms. Kirti S. Pande
(Department of ECE)
Ms. Sreevidya B.
(Department of CSE)
Ms. Lakshmi P.
(Department of EEE)
Ms. Mrudula Prashanth
(Department of ME)
Dr. Amrita Thakur
(Department of Chemistry)
Ms. Sarada Jayan
(Department of Mathematics)
Mr. Shankar Kumaran
(Department of Cultural Education)
Mr. Shiju Kumar
(ICTS)
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