Amrita School of Engineering

Bangalore

KritiThe E-Newsletter

March ‘10

"Never be depressed seeing the obstacles on your path. You have the

lamp of faith with you. Light it. Perform your actions with care and attention, with the attitude

that everything you do is an offering to God. "

-Amma

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Realize that the real problem is not what is happening, but how you are reacting to it.”-Amma

Pro-Chancellor’s Visit to the Campus

Pro-Chancellor, Br. Abhayamrita Chaitanya visited ASE Bangalore on

3rd March 2010. In his address to the faculty, he emphasized the need for taking

pride in Indianness. He also called for a ‘collective effort’ in the field of research

from the entire faculty to lift the Institute to greater heights.

On this occasion, the Pro-Chancellor introduced Sri. P. Venugopal, HR

Director, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, who had accompanied him.

Pro-Chancellor’s speech was followed by Q&A session in which he

clarified the administrative and academic doubts of the faculty. In this session he

also made the faculty aware of the system that recognizes the excellence of a

teacher in the field of teaching; and spoke about introducing incentive programme

for faculty’s contribution in the field of research.

Dean Academics at TREAT - 2010

Dr. Nagaraj B. N., Dean Academics was invited to attend the deliberations of

“TREAT-2010”, the International Conference on “Trends and Advances in

Transportation Engineering” held by Association of Bangalore University Highway

Engineering Alumni on 10th and 11th March 2010 in Bangalore. Dr. Nagaraj

was also a panelist on the subject “The Role of Engineering Colleges- the Way

Forward”.

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“Why be anxious thinking about tomorrow? What happened even a moment ago is like a cancelled check.”-Amma

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND

COMMUNICATION ENGINEERINGPAPERS PRESENTED

International Conference

NAME PAPER PRESENTED DATE NAME OF EVENT/ PUBLICATION

Co-Author –Kusuma Keerthi

Presented by –Mr. P. V. Rao (Asst. Prof., RNSIT , Bangalore)

“Image Compression

Using Artificial Neural

Networks”

9th - 11th March

2010

The 2nd International Conference

on “Machine Learning and

Computing” (ICMLC 2010),

Bangalore, India

National Conference

R. JeyanthiK. DeepaPresented by-Ashwini Mary Job and Vaishak Venkat(Students of EIE VIII semester)

“Design and Analysis of

a Generic Control Loop

Feedback Mechanism

for a Four Tank System”

5th March 2010

National Conference on

“Intelligent and Efficient Electrical

Systems” (NCIEES’10), organized

by and held at Sri Sai Ram

Engineering College, Sai Leo

Nagar, West Tambaram, Chennai

Ashwini Mary Job, Deepika Padiyar , Kishore Shek Ahmed, Vaishak Venkat(Students of VIII semEIE) Co-Author - K. DeepaPresented by-Deepika Padiyar and Kishore Shek Ahmed

“Remote Monitoring of

Patient Parameters

Using Body Area

Networks”

5th March 2010

National Conference on

“Intelligent and Efficient Electrical

Systems” (NCIEES’10) organized

by and held at Sri Sai Ram

Engineering College, Sai Leo

Nagar, West Tambaram, Chennai

V. Naveen Kumar

Santosh Hariharan

(Students of EIE VI

semester)

“Study of Graphene

Based Transistor -

The BISFET” 5th March 2010

National Level Technical Symposium organized by Society of Electronics & Communication at TJ Institute of Technology,Chennai

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“Develop selflessness and reduce your personal comforts as far as possible”- Amma

STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS

A technical paper “ Remote Monitoring of Patient Parameters Using Body

Area Networks” won the ‘Best Paper Award’ at the National Conference on

“Intelligent and Efficient Electrical Systems” organized by Sri Sai Ram

Engineering College, Chennai on 5th March 2010. This paper was jointly

authored by Ashwini Mary Job, Deepika Padiyar, Kishore Shek Ahmed and

Vaishak Venkat students of VIII semester EIE under the guidance of faculty K.

Deepa

A paper titled “Study of Graphene Based Transistor - the BISFET” presented

by V. Naveen Kumar and Santosh Hariharan, Students of EIE VI semester,

won the ‘Best Paper Award’ at National Level Technical Symposium

organized by ‘Society of Electronics & Communication’ at TJ Institute of

Technology, Chennai on 5th March 2010

Mr. Gurucharan V. Karnad and Mr. Ninad R. N., students of VIII semester ECE,

secured the Second Prize for the event “Project Display” at “WAVES”, the

National Level Technical Symposium organized by SEEE, College of

Engineering, Anna University, Chennai held from 22nd to 24th March 2010

NAME TITLE NAME OF THEORGANIZER

DATE VENUE

Satish K. Manocha Conference on

“ Em India 2010”

M.I.T. (Boston, USA) and

Cyber Media India

8th-9th March

2010

ITC Hotel,

Bangalore

S. Ravishankar

Kirti S. Pande

Seminar on “Analog

& Mixed Signal”

Mentor Graphics,

Bangalore

12th March 2010 Mentor

Graphics,

Bangalore

WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS / CONFERENCES ATTENDED

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“The mental attitude of a person is transmitted in his actions”- Amma

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND

ENGINEERING

March ‘10

Inauguration of CSE Forum - FACE

FACE - Forum for aspiring Computer Engineers was inaugurated on 3rd March

2010 by Mr. Bhagawan Krishna, HR Director, Motorola. The first two events

to be conducted under this forum were a Quiz and C Classes.

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“The mental attitude of a person is transmitted in his actions”- Amma

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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERINGSTUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS

Mr. K. S. Amit Kumar, VIII semester student has secured 53rd rank in All India

GATE Examination 2010 with a percentile of 99.90% and a score of 860 out

of 1000.

OTHER NEWS

The VI semester students visited a Sub-Station of Power Grid Corporation of

India Limited located in Hosur on 6th March 2010 accompanied by faculty

members Ms. Kavitha J., Ms. Sailaja V., Mr. Giriraja and lab staff Mr. Avinash.

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICSPAPERS PUBLISHED

International Journal

NAME PAPER PUBLISHED DATE NAME OF PUBLICATION

H. T. Rathod

A. S. Hariprasad

B. Venkatesh

C. S. Nagabhushana

“The Use of Quintic

Splines for High Accuracy

Function and Integral

Function Approximations”

Volume (4),

March 2010,

pg104 - 128

International e-Journal of

“Numerical Analysis and Related

Topics”

OTHER NEWS

Dr. P. Anantha Lakshmi Narayana joined the Amrita family on 08th March

2010 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics.

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“Children should be brought up with an understanding of their culture”- Amma

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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL

ENGINEERING

OTHER NEWS

Mr. Kiran Kumar K. joined the college as Assistant Professor (Sr. Grade) on 5th

March 2010

Instrumentation and Control Systems Lab was established and started

functioning in the month of March 2010.

The Mechanical Engineering forum “Ingenium” organised:

A technical talk on “IC Engines” by Mr. Lakshmipathi from

Honeywell on 25th March 2010

A workshop on “Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing” by Mr. K.

Satyanarayan from Epitome Consultancy.

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“Perform your actions with an attitude of worship”- Amma

CISCO NETWORKING ACADEMYFACULTY PARTICIPATION

Ms. Deepa K. R. and Mr. Umesh N. participated in Cisco SAARC Academy

Meet conducted by Cisco Systems at Taj Residency, Bangalore on 26th March

2010. At the SAARC Academy Meet, Cisco Systems appreciated the

‘Networking Club’ running as part of Cisco Networking Academy at Amrita,

Bangalore campus for successfully conducting a National level Technical Fest,

Netwarz ‘09.

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OTHER NEWS

Networking Club and Cisco Networking Academy jointly conducted a

workshop for the students on “Internet Simulation” on 10th March 2010. The

workshop was also marked by an invited talk by Mr. Shripad Sengaonkar

from Juniper Networks.

Cisco Systems organized an Interactive session with top lady executives of

Cisco Systems for the college girls in Bangalore on 20th March 2010. This

program was attended by students from various colleges in Bangalore, and

28 students from different branches of ASE, Bangalore.

Mr. Luca Lepore, Education Program Manager – East Mediterranean, Cisco

Networking Academy, visited the Cisco Networking Academy at ASE

Bangalore on 31st March 2010. CCNA students took this opportunity to have

an interactive session with him on the career opportunities in the East

Mediterranean.

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“The real center is within. It is not to be found in the external world”-Amma

March ‘10

PLACEMENT CELL

The month of March was eventful for the Placement Cell gearing up for the

Placements of the 2007 batch. Various training companies of the city were

roped in by the Placement cell to provide training on technical and soft skills for

the corporate, and competitive exams.

Seminar on ‘Foreign Languages’ was conducted by Vidushi Academy on 1st

March 2010.

TIME conducted a seminar on CAT for the aspiring students on 2nd March

2010.

Workshop on ‘Mobile Technology’ was conducted on 4th & 5th March 2010

by Nextgen Telesystems Pvt. Ltd.

Leaders Ladder, a leading training company that provides high quality

training solutions on soft skills, conducted a workshop on ‘Creativity &

Problem Solving’ on 9th & 10th March 2010.

Seminar on ‘Industrial Automation’ on 25th March 2010 by Prolific, India’s

Number one Company in Industrial Automation training and Projects.

Workshop on Aptitude, C, C++, GD & PI was conducted by Ethnus 27th March

2010.

Seminar on ‘Ship Technology / Offshore Engineering’ on 29th March 2010 by

Dr. S.K Pyarilal, Former Head, Dept of Ship Technology, CUSAT.

Seminar on ‘Emerging Technologies’ was conducted by AbhedyaSoft on 30th

March 2010.

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“In the eyes of the spiritual aspirant all are different forms of God”-Amma

March ‘10

PLACEMENT CELL

The placement of 2010 batch has touched a new high of 95% with several

leading companies visiting the campus such as Patni Computers, Sprint

Technologies Pvt. Ltd, and Microsoft for recruitment.

PLACEMENT ANALYSIS

2010 Passing Out Batch

(Placements Under Progress)

Placement Branch WiseSl

NoName of the Company

B.Tech M.Tech

VLSI

TOTAL

(Overall)CSE IT ECE EEE EIE Total

1 MARICO / SCHNEIDER 1 1 1

2 SUBEX 1 1 1

3 COGNIZANT 51 29 71 15 18 184 2 186

4 INFOSYS 23 11 19 11 14 78 78

5 HP Services 3 1 1 2 1 8 8

6

IBM India Ltd

(Actual count -20

Dream Option-11

Fresh Placements-9)

5 1 2 1 9 9

7 ROBERT BOSCH 1 1 2 2

8 BIRLASOFT 6 6 5 17 17

9

ACCENTURE

(Actual count -28

Dream Option-5

Fresh Placements-23)

4 2 5 5 7 23 23

10 TITAN 1 1 1

11 MINDTREE 1 1 2 2

12 PATNI 3 1 4 4 12 12

13

SPRINT TECHNOLOGY

Pvt.Ltd.

(Job Guaranteed training

program)

2 0 3 0 1 6 1 7

14 UST GLOBAL 1 1 1 3 0 6 2 8

Total Placements 99 52 109 42 48 350 5 355

Total eligible strength 102 55 109 45 54 365 9 374

Placement Status 97% 95% 100% 93% 89% 96% 56% 95%

Amrita School of EngineeringKasavanahalli, Carmelaram P.O,

Bangalore - 560 035

Ph: 080-2843 9565,2843 9566Fax: 080-2844 0092

Web: www.amrita.edu

Dr. Rakesh S.G.Associate Dean

Patron

Ms. Smita SailAssistant Professor

Department of EnglishEditor-in-chief

Mr. Rajesh M.Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science and EngineeringAssistant Editor