Amrita School of Engineering

Bengaluru

KritiThe E-Newsletter

February ‘11

“My children, it usually takes lesstime to demonstrate something through action than to

really get it across with words."

-Amma

Kriti

SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Spirituality is the science that teaches us how to live happily in the material world”-Amma

Sadaguru Mata Amritanandamayi’s most anticipated visit to

Bengaluru was on 24th and 25th February 2011. The staff and the students of

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru Campus were drawn to the Ashram by

their sheer love and devotion to their beloved Amma.

On the occasion of her visit, Amala Bharat Clean-up Drive (ABCD), a

pan-India clean-up initiative of Mata Amritanandamayi Math (MAM) was

launched in Bengaluru. This movement was initiated by distribution of

handkerchiefs to the devotees.

In her discourse, she expressed her lamentation over the lack of civic

sense that is rampant in Indian society, and Amma made a clarion call to uplift

India from the clutches of unhygienic civic sense. She also maintained that human

beings, for their greed, have exploited the Nature, creating a serious imbalance.

Many students rendered their selfless service in several seva

activities such as Crowd Control, Catering, Stage Management and Cleaning. The

students performed a musical on ‘Dashaavatara’ which received accolades from

Amma and the audience. The college also received a Certificate of Appreciation

from Poojya Swami Amritageetanandapuri on behalf of the Math.

Amma’s Discourse and bhajans had meditative and cleansing effect

on all present. The staff and the students returned with Amma’s hug, the most

sought and blissful experience.

February ‘11

Amma’s Visit

Kriti

SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Wherever you are, you have to adapt to the circumstances. Patience is needed for every matter ”-Amma

February ‘11

Kriti

SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Just as a person needs air to breath, the soul needs to be nurtured with love and care.”-Amma

February ‘11

Workshop on VIRTUAL LABS in Physics and Chemistry

A workshop on Virtual Labs in Physics and Chemistry was organized at

Amrita School of Engineering Bengaluru on 18th February 2011. This workshop is

one in the series of workshops conducted by Amrita University's VALUE (Virtual &

Accessible Laboratories for Universalizing Education) project which is an initiative

of Ministry of Human Resource Department. The objective of the workshop was to

spread awareness regarding the VALUE project to the teachers of various

Engineering, Degree and P.U. colleges of Bengaluru and surrounding area.

Virtual Lab is a widely accepted solution for both remotely delivered

online courses, and for limited access available to remote experimenting to a

single university. Thus, The Amrita University in collaboration with IITs, NIT

(Suratkal), IIIT (Hyderabad), Dayalbagh University, COE Pune, has developed an

online virtual lab to fill this gap and make the teaching learning process more

informative.

Dr. Rakesh S.G., Associate Dean welcomed the gathering and gave a

glimpse of the activities of Mata Amritandamayi Math.

Dr. Krishnashree Achutan, the MHRD Project Coordinator, Amrita

Vishwa Vidyapeetham, gave an introduction to the VALUE Project followed by

hands-on training session in using the Virtual Labs’ website.

The participants from across the state appreciated the software, and

found it to be student-friendly. Some of them were of the opinion that the virtual

lab would serve as a teaching aid for theory classes and pre-lab sessions.

Kriti

“Grace is openness. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views, and allow divine grace to express itself”-Amma

February ‘11

SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

Kriti

“People look for happiness in things whose essential nature is not happiness at all. They go from one object to another”-Amma

February ‘11

Amrita Bengaluru Student wins University Mobile Challenge

SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

Aaditya Sriram, the student of 6th semester CSE, represented Amrita

University in the University Mobile Challenge held at Mobile World Congress,

Barcelona. The event was organized by Berkeley Mobile International

Collaborative (BMIC) that works with leading Universities around the globe to

foster entrepreneurship qualities and opportunities among the students. This

global competition saw participation from students of 12 universities from 7

countries including India. India was represented by two Universities, one Amrita

Vishwa Vidhyapeetham and the other was IIT, Kharagpur. Aditya’s travel to US was

funded by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

Each team comprising of two to six students, had to develop a

working mobile application, a business model, and had to make a presentation to

a panel of venture capital partners, that included people from Nokia, Navteq, Blue

Run, Standard Chartered and other leading companies. The panelists asked

questions and selected the best overall effort. Aaditya Sriram teamed with

University of California, Berkeley that emerged as the winning team.

Kriti

“Always keep a positive attitude towards life. Optimism is a great tool to eliminate agony from life”-Amma

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND

COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

February ‘11

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS / PARTICIPATION / RECOGNITION

Dr. Shikha Tripathi delivered an invited talk at National Conference on

Advancements in Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN1011)

conducted by Amity School of Engineering & Technology on 24th and 25th

February, 2011 at Noida. She chaired a session on “Digital Image Processing

Techniques”, and also judged the Poster Presentation.

Mr. C. Babu, Mr. Sathish Kumar P., Ms. M. Vinodhini, Ms. Kusuma Keerthi

and Ms. M.S. Sanakari attended a training session on “Forum Nokia Qt for

Mobile” held on 9th and 10th February 2011 at Nokia India Ltd, Bengaluru.

The training on Qt software was conducted by Mr. Tuukka Ahoniemi,

Director, Digia, Finland. The training included hands- on- exercise sessions on

Nokia Qt applications. The training helped the participants create, build and

install the applications on mobile.

WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS / CONFERENCES ATTENDED

NAME TITLE NAME OF THE ORGANIZER DATE VENUE

Mr. T. K. Ramesh Workshop on

‘Research Tool-

NS2’

Department of Computer

Science and Engineering,

Kaveri Engineering College,

Mecheri

10th & 11th

Feb 2011

The Kaveri

Engineering

College, Mecheri,

Salem

Mr. R. Karthikeyan Workshop on

‘Process

Modelling and

Control Using

MATLAB’

Department of

Instrumentation and Control

Engineering, Dr. Mahalingam

College of Engineering and

Technology, Pollachi

18th & 19th

Feb 2011

Dr. Mahalingam

College of

Engineering and

Technology,

Pollachi

Kriti

“Each kind word, each smiling face, each good action benefits our neighbors, our community and the world”- Amma

February ‘11

An Industrial Visit to Kolar Power Grid was arranged on 5th February 2011 for

VI semster EIE students. They were accompanied by the following faculty

members:

Mr. R. Karthikeyan

Mr. G. Hemanth Kumar

Ms. T. Sirisha

The purpose of this visit was to make the students familiar with Supervisory

Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) application for Power Grid.

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

AND ENGINEERING

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS / PARTICIPATION / RECOGNITION

Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan reviewed a research paper on “Wireless Sensor

Network” for International Journal of Adhoc, Sensor and Ubiquitous

Computing.

Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan is invited to be a member of the technical committee for

the International Conference on Image Processing cosponsored by IEEE

Computer Science to be held during 3rd – 5th November 2011 at Shimla,

India.

WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS / CONFERENCES ATTENDED

NAME TITLE NAME OF THEORGANIZER

DATE VENUE

Mrs. Uma Maheswari B. National level workshop

on ‘Network Simulator 2’

VIT, Chennai 12th Feb

2011

VIT, Chennai campus

Kriti

“ If we are not ready to willingly change, Nature or God will take up the task in His own way”- Amma

February ‘11

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERINGPAPERS PRESENTED

International Conference

NAME PAPER PRESENTED DATE NAME OF THE EVENT/ PUBLICATION

Savitha P.

Vinothini B. (Students)

Guided by K. Deepa

“Harmonic Analysis of a

Modified Cascaded

Multilevel Inverter”

3rd-5th

January 2011

International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems (ICEES’11)Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS / PARTICIPATION / RECOGNITION

Dr. K. Manickavasagam reviewed research papers titled “Dynamic Modelling

of Power Systems for Faults Studies: Part I Transmission Line Faults Model”

for the International Journal, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution,

and “Fuzzy Logic Based Controller for Two Area Power System with

Generation Rate Constraint” for the International Journal European

Transaction on Electrical Power.

Mr. K. Ilango along with students participated under Flood Rehabilitation

Programme of the Amritanandamayi Math. They were actively involved in

construction of houses from 16th Feb. to 20th February 2011 in

Thongarampur, Raichur district in Karnataka for flood affected people.

Dr. N. Madhumohan, Assistant Professor, Amrita School of Engineering,

addressed the faculty handling Electrical Engineering (ECE100) course for the

current second semester on 1st and 2nd February 2011. His topic for

discussion was “Semiconductor Physics” and he contributed his valuable

inputs both for the subject and the methods of teaching. The visit was

arranged by Ms. V. Sailaja, Assistant Professor of the Department.

Kriti

“Change is possible only through action”- Amma

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL

ENGINEERING

February ‘11

PAPERS PUBLISHED

International Journal

NAME PAPER PUBLISHED DATE NAME OF PUBLICATION

G. Jagadeesh,

Rakesh S.G. et al

Micro-Shock Waves Mediated

Needle-less Vaccine Delivery

9th Feb. 2011

Published On-

line

Clinical & Vaccine Immunology,

American Society of Micro

Biology

OTHER NEWS

Mr. Veeresh Kumar G.B has been appointed as Assistant Professor (Senior

Grade) on 3rd February 2011. He is specialized in Production Management

and has 7 years of teaching experience. He has authored 30 papers, which

have been presented and published in Conferences and Journals both

National and International. He has submitted Ph.D. thesis on Composites

and Artificial Neural Networks.

Prof. S.R. Nagaraja, Chairman, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering successfully

defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Investigations on Thin Metallic Plates

Subjected to Shock Wave Loading” at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra,

Ranchi on 22nd February 2011.

Kriti

“Change is possible only through action”- Amma

February ‘11

A news paper article “India’s first Needle-less drug device” on the research

work carried out by Prof. Rakesh S.G., his guide Dr. G. Jagadeesh and other

members from I.I.Sc. has appeared in ‘Mint’ newspaper published by ‘The

Wall Street Journal’ on 22nd February 2011.

The students of IV semester accompanied by Mr. Bhanu Prakash S. actively

participated in the Seva Programme at Dongarampur village organized by

The Math from 16th - 20th February 2011. The team was involved in

construction of houses for flood affected people. The trip also included a

visit to the Raichur Thermal Power plant.

Kriti

“Our humbleness and large-heartedness are the foundation of our upward progress”-Amma

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

PAPERS PUBLISHED

International Journal

NAME PAPER PUBLISHED DATE NAME OF PUBLICATION

Sarada Jayan

K. V. Nagaraja

Generalized Gaussian

Quadrature Rules Over Two-

Dimensional Regions

with Linear Edges

15th Feb 2011 Applied Mathematics and

Computations(2011)

Volume: 217

Page numbers: 5612-5621

February ‘11

Department of Mathematics arranged a talk by an eminent Professor,

Dr. Krishnakumar, Principal, Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Amritapuri

on February 14th 2011. He is a doctorate from IIT, Madras and worked in the

Department of Mathematics, University of Calicut for more than 30 years.

Dr. Krishnakumar gave lecture on "Linear Algebra- An overview". He spoke

about the certain important things in Linear Algebra that every research

scholar must know.

Ms. D. Bhargavi has joined the Dept. as Assistance Professor on 28th Feb.

2011. She obtained her Masters degree from Central University, Hyderabad.

Later, she joined IIT Kharagpur to pursue her Doctoral program in the area of

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Numerical Heat Transfer. She was

awarded CSIR fellowship during her doctoral program. She has published

three papers in International journals and presented two papers in

conferences during her doctoral program.

OTHER NEWS

Kriti

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

February ‘11

CISCO ACADEMY

Cisco Academy at Amrita, Bengaluru campus is now offering the CCNA

course for the external students. Course will be conducted during the

regular working hours and is of two months duration.

ICTS DEPARTMENT

RHCE course which has been conducted by the ICTS Department

has completed One year. The first batch of students have already passed out

and a fresh batch is started in January 2011.

For the convenience of the students studying and to promote

computer usage, the RHCE resources will be available on the net using Moodle

software. This will consist of PPT’s, Sample Question Papers, Lab Questions,

discussion forum etc.

Moodle student login Links

internal - http://192.168.2.26/redhat

external - http://210.212.205.26/redhat

Amrita School of EngineeringKasavanahalli, Carmelaram P.O,

Bengaluru - 560 035

Ph: 080-25183700Fax: 080-2844 0092

Web: http://blr.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

Post your valuable feedback to s_smita@blr.amrita.edu or m_rajesh@blr.amrita.edu