November 2014; Vol: 90 A Monthly News Bulletin

A Monthly News Bulletin

November 2014; Vol: 90

FROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESK

There comes a rare occasion when a date remains imprinted in your memory, not because something

happened on that day but for something that did not happen. That date is Oct 12, 2014. The cyclone Hud

Hud did not happen as predicted thus sparing NIST and Berhampur the horrors of

yet another Phailin (which had happened same date same time – talk of celestial coinci-

dences!). Our sympathies are with the denizens of Visakhapatnam and people of south-

ern interior districts of Odisha. Of course during the process, we discovered the unique

achievements of our scientific community which could predict to the dot about these

impending meteorological catastrophes which has helped save human lives and property.

That almost simultaneously the successful orbiting of Mars Orbiter Spacecraft around

Planet Mars made this a moment to be really proud of our scientists and technologists. To

the scientists of ISRO - We take a bow! May more NISTians be inspired to join the

Defence and Space Organizations.

The NIST Astronomy Club recently added a new telescope to its arsenal. They viewed Planet Uranus and

Saturn with its numerous rings. I always wanted to peer into the night sky and wonder at the miracle our Galaxy

is. That we can do so from the top of the Atrium Building has been a small dream come true. In an age when so

many of our youngsters are developing inertia and early burn-out, I challenge you to come out of your shell and

learn about Nature and Environment all around us with childlike enthusiasm. Develop a hobby which will stay

with you for your entire life – NIST is the best place to do so!

We welcome all the new faculty members – we are highly enthusiastic that the new batch of students of 2014

will rise to the expectations of NIST and fulfil the mission and objectives of our Institute.

Best Wishes for the forthcoming University Semester examinations for all our students.

Sangram Mudali

FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK

NIST e_news welcomes all the new faculty members and students of the batch of 2014. The students

had exposure to different facets of life through an Orientation Program: arts and crafts, literature,

policy, politics, environment, media, etc., were taught through the eyes of experienced practitioners

and experts in those domains. This unique Orientation Program owes its origin to a similar program of IIT

Gandhinagar and has been well received by the student community.

This issue of NIST e_news has a special message: we would like to urge the readers, both students and

instructors equally that the industry has become over demanding. It is holistic learning that counts. The placement

drives have compelled us to pass on the message to the aspirants that Life is NOT

Easy. Soft Skills and especially Communication Skills share equal merit with Domain

knowledge. So Readers gear up, update and acquaint yourselves with the two Worlds:

NIST and the Industry. Happy Reading!

Advisors Editors

Prof. Sangram Mudali

Dr Ajit K. Panda

Prof. Geetika Mudali

Mr Dipti Ranjan Lenka

Mr Rabi Chandra Singh

National Institute of Science & Technology, Berhampur, 761008 1 of 18

The Campus Placements of the TOP Multi National Companies is

being held in the 7th semester (final year) which is generally

starting in the month of September every year in the various

Institutions of Odisha including NIST. TOP companies such as Infosys

Limited, Wipro Technologies, Cap Gemini India, Tech Mahindra etc. are

visiting NIST for the campus recruitment every year. Recently the job

markets have opened up and companies are in a mood to hire students of

the graduating batch.

It’s a matter of great concern that students are becoming serious only at

the beginning of the 7th semester around June / July and are struggling a

lot to prepare for the campus recruitment. Two months is not sufficient

to get ready for the campus recruitment of the TOP companies as the

selection criteria and process is extremely tough and stringent. Hence

majority of the students are not even able to clear the simple secondary

school standard general online aptitude tests of these companies.

The career planning for Placements must start right from the 1st semester.

During the most important Technical & HR Interviews the questions are

asked from C, C++, Java, DBMS, Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating

Systems, Basic Electrical, Basic Electronics and Basic Instrumentation,

etc. These are the subjects which are mostly taught between 1st to 5th

semesters and are generally common to all the streams.

If the students want to be selected with companies during campus recruitment then they should work

for it throughout all the semesters.

Moreover, all the Recruitment Managers of the above mentioned companies have strongly recommended that

all the students must be excellent in written and spoken English. The students are poor in English and during

the 1st to 6th semester they are not doing anything to improve the quality of their written & spoken English.

The students are poor in Grammar, Vocabulary, Sentence Constructions, Reading, Writing & Speaking skills

in English. In order to improve English the following needs to be done:

1. Read all the articles published in the editorial pages of all the leading English News Papers every day.

2. The students must prepare power-point presentations & deliver talks in each subject in each semester during

the class hours to improve their communication & presentation skills.

3. The students must read the Barron’s GRE Guide & English to English Dictionaries to enhance vocabulary

and learn antonyms, synonyms.

4. Students should read the basic secondary school level good grammar books to improve the usage of

prepositions, articles etc.

5. Most importantly, all students must make it a habit to speak in English while on the campus.

Hence on behalf of the Training and Placement department I urge all the students of all semesters to stay

focused & plan to prepare thoroughly for campus recruitments held in 7th semester starting from the 1st

semester. The students must do at least THREE TECHNICAL SUMMER CERTIFICATION COURSES at the

end of 2nd, 4th & 6th semester. I hope all of you will take this message and feedback seriously and act

accordingly for your future career.

Geetika Mudali

FROM THE PLACEMENT DIRECTOR’S DESK

If the students want to

be selected with

companies during

campus recruitment

then they should work

for it throughout all the

semesters.


12th Anniversary Celebration of NIST e_newsThe National Institute of Science and Technology celebrated the 12th Anniversary of its monthly newsletter,

NIST e_news. Prof Sangram Mudali, Director and Prof (Ms.) Geetika Mudali, Placement Director acknowledged

the efforts of the whole team. Prof. Mudali, with his inspiring speech, persuaded the students to transform

themselves into keen observers and become a part of the developmental process. Around four hundred students

of different batches and branches of the institute participated in the celebration. The Birthday cake was cut

and the birthday issue of the magazine was released on the occasion by Prof Geetika Mudali. The programme

was organised and coordinated by Mr Dipti Ranjan Lenka along with Mr Rabi Chandra Singh, Editors, NIST

e_news.

IEEE EDS Chapter Organized Talk

IEEE-EDS NIST Student Chapter organized a one-day Seminar on ‘Our Need and IEEE: Inception to Present

Status’ on 18th April 2014 at the institute Campus

for the faculty members and researchers to

enhance their research activities. Prof. Debatosh

Guha, Chair, IEEE Kolkata Section explained the

need of professional membership and the benefits

of being an active member from his practices and

experiences. In the second session of his talk, he

discussed the basic concepts, principles of

antennas, and different properties of wireless

communication, its transmission, and

applications in creating a new horizon for

electronics industries. Fifty four participants from

different institutes and industries along with the

M. Tech students attended the seminar.


Visit of Prof K. H. Chen and Prof L. C. Chen to NISTProf Kuei H. Chen, Deputy Director of IAMS (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences) Academia Sinica,

Taiwan visited NIST on 17th October

2014 as a part of the MoU between

NIST and IAMS. Prof Li. C. Chen,

Director, CCMS (Centre for

Condensed Matter Sciences), National

Taiwan University also visited NIST

with Prof L. C. Chen. IEEE EDS

Chapter, NIST organised talks for Prof

K. H. Chen and L. C. Chen in the

TIFAC seminar Hall on the theme,

“Nano Materials for future Energy and

Sensing applications.” A group

meeting was also held where faculty

members of the Nano group discussed about the research of mutual interest. Some of the faculty members also

emphasized and proposed for future collaborative research between NIST and NTU, Taiwan and IAMS. Both

the Taiwan and Indian sides have shown interest to conduct an INDO TAIWAN International Workshop in

December 2015 at NIST, Berhampur. Prof S. N. Sahu, Coordinator of the Nanocentre, NIST and representative

from NIST in the MoU, Prof. Ajit K. Panda, Dean and Principal, Dr S. K. Tripathy arranged the whole programme

with the guidance of Director Prof Sangram Mudali and Placement Director Prof Geetika Mudali.

IEEE Training ProgrammeA training programme on the use of IEEE Xplore Digital Library was organised in the institute on 22nd August

2014. Mr Rajkumar Mahapatra, IEEE Trainer was present for the session at the NIST campus for conducting

the session exclusively for NISTians.

The session highlighted on Overview of the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The following queries were answered:

How to find best papers by using new “sort by Most Cited” (plus ability to view all cited by papers including

IEEE and other publishers), How to conduct a comprehensive literature review in your area of interest, How

to narrow down the results to only articles with full text access from your institute/organization subscription,

How to access future publications in your area of interest, How to save searches, set-up alerts and use other

personalization features, How to save your favourite documents to relevant projects folders for future reference,

How to find experts in a technical area of your interest and in your location, Improved browse options —

browse by document type, most popular or what’s new, Enhanced online support tools, How to promote IEEE

Xplore access in your institution, What are the resources available for authors, and How to find a good conference

to publish your work. (For more information contact faculty Mr Shom P Das.)

Webinar on Soft Computing using Sci-LabFaculty members from the Department of Computer Science Engineering, Information Technology, and MCA

attended the Webinar on Faculty Development Programme on Soft Computing using Sci-Lab organised at the

institute on 23rd July 2014. Sci-Lab tool was demonstrated in the webinar. Another webinar was also conducted

where Prof. Amalendu Pattanaik, NITTR, Chandigarh delivered a talk.

Students Counselling in NISTNIST started the student focused Counselling Services. Dr Rita Bhattacharjee has joined as the Students’

Counsellor and along with the faculty members and students she will lead the Counselling and Career Guidance

for students. She will also assist in the Pre-Placement activities besides the counselling services. NIST has

once again proved its credence as a student centric institute. For the first time about 50 student counsellors

from the 2nd and 3rd year have volunteered to join the Counselling Services.


Opening of ‘Preparation for Competitive Examinations’ LibraryThe New Competitive Examinations Library was opened in the Atrium building on April 23, 2014. The library

is well staked with more than 2500 books and magazines to cater the requirements of the students for

competitive exams like GATE, CAT, MAT, XAT, GRE, GMAT, BANKING, UPSC, SAIL, BHEL, NDA, BSNL

and many more.

First International Internship for NIST StudentsTwo of the Final Year students, Amlesh Kumar and Anisha Mohapatra wereselected in the Taiwan Graduate International Internship Program (TGIP),Academia Sinica, Taiwan. They spent two months, May and June, workingwith Prof Dr Kuei-Hsien, Chen, who is the collaborator of NIST in the Research

Program. The entire program was fully funded with a full scholarship by the

Academia Sinica, Government of Taiwan under the terms of our MoU.

Farewell Party for 2014

Graduating BatchThe institute hosted a grand Farewell for B. Tech 2014graduating batch. The students shared their experiencesof the four years. A warm send-off was given to the studentsby Prof. Sangram Mudali, Director, Prof. Geetika Mudali,Placement Director, Dr Ajit K Panda, Dean, Course

Coordinators, Batch Coordinators and other Facultymembers through a farewell followed by a sumptuous

dinner.

Summer Robotics Workshop 2014 for School ChildrenThe NIST Robotics Club organized the Summer Robotics Workshop for school children from May 21 toJune 5, 2014. The workshop aimed at empowering the young minds with creativity in both Manual andAutomatic Robotics. Students of standard 8th to 10th from various schools of Berhampur participated in the

workshop.

Additional Responsibilities for FacultyWith the start of new session, Prof. Asish Kumar Dass, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

took the responsibility of Assistant Batch Coordinator, B Tech 3rd year and Prof. Agyan Kumar Prusty, Assistant

Professor, Department of Computer Science has now become the Assistant Project Coordinator for B Tech

Programme.


One Day Workshop on Computer Simulation Technology

The NIST IEEE EDS

Students Chapter

organized a One Day

Workshop on Computer

Simulation Technology on

8 July 2014 at the TIFAC

Seminar Hall. Mr Raj

Mondal, CST India Pvt

Ltd, Bangalore was the resource person for the workshop. The faculty members, researchers and students

working on RF Circuits, Antenna and Photonics especially from the Department of Electronics and

Communication Engineering had a great learning experience. This workshop gave an insight into designing

electromagnetic components as well as assembled systems with the use of CST STUDIO SUITE 2014, one of

the leading 3D EM simulation technology tools. The programme was coordinated by Mr Asit K Panda, Assistant

Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering.

NIST wins CADENCE Design Contest 2014The team of K Nabin Rao and B Rupesh Kumar Subudhi 2010-14 Batch

with Mentor Dr. Ajit K Panda won the CADENCE Design Contest

2014 in the Bachelor’s Category Prize for their work on “Windows-

Based Optimized Digital FIR Low-Pass Filter For iPod MP3 Player.”

The projects were judged by a specialist committee consisting of

Cadence and industry experts against criteria including inventiveness,

complexity, and feasibility, breadth of design, effective tool usage, and

presentation. This win has put NIST on the national VLSI Map.

Donation by NIST NSS Unit

The NIST NSS Unit along with Club Innova visited Orissa Service

Centre for the Blind at Badriraj Nagar, Gosaninuagaon on July

27, 2014. The team of Dr Duryodhan Sahu, Dr Suresh Pattnaik,

Mr B.P. Pattnaik, Ms Sukanti Pal, Mr Sukant Swain, and Ms

Soumya Mudali sensitized them with many encouraging ways in

which they could cope with life. The NSS team also donated

specially designed Braille kits worth Rs 10,000 to the students.

This money was collected by the team through the WISH TREE

event during Sankalp 2013.

NIST Strength in EE enhanced to 120 seats from 2014-15NIST has become one of the largest Institutes in Odisha by increasing its seat intake capacity from 870 seats

to 930 seats per annum in B Tech. AICTE has approved the increase of seats in Electrical Engineering from an

intake of 60 to 120 seats from 2014-15 academic year. The institute is all set to provide quality education to a

much larger section of the student community now.


Astronomy Club gets New TelescopeThe NIST Astronomy Club has got CGEM DX 1100 HD Computerized Telescope. It combinesCelestron’s newly designed CGEM DX Computerized Equatorial Mount with its new EdgeHDoptical system. With an optical tube assembly weighing only 28 lbs, this telescope is stillportable enough to be taken to dark skies and has 89% more lightgathering power than an 8" telescope and 40% more than the9.25". Interested students, staff, and faculty members may contact Dr

Sukant Tripathy, Faculty Advisor, Astronomy Club ormembers of the club to fix a date and see the night skywith full of celestial bodies invisible to our naked eyes.NIST Astronomy Club organized a documentary show named the ‘Journeyto the End of the Universe’ on 6th and 8th August in the Galleria Auditoriumespecially for B Tech 2nd year Astral Minds.

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Orientation Day for First Year Students

NIST welcomed the 1st year students of B Tech, MCA, MBA and M Tech to its family on 9th August 2014.

Prof. Sangram Mudali, Director during his address emphasized on the role of the institute in moulding the

students into citizen engineers. Prof. Geetika Mudali, Placement Director shared her views on the changing

trends and demands of the industry. She also emphasized on the importance of academics and health as pre-

requisite for an ideal future. The students witnessed the journey of NIST since its inception through a lovely

presentation. They were then escorted by the various clubs of the institution and introduced to their activities.

Orientation Programme on Basics for Freshers of 2014 BatchThe Orientation Programme on Basics for Freshers of 2014 Batch was organized from 16th to 23rd August

2014 as usual with high hope of widening the horizons of the new batch of B Tech, MBA and MCA students

who chose NIST. The week long program was inaugurated by Prof. Sangram Mudali, Director who urged the

students to maintain their quality as citizen-engineers. The week-long event hosted a series of talks on various

subjects like Media, Ethics and Morality, Psychology, Journalism and Mass Communication, Entrepreneurship,

Usage of Language and many others.


Date Speakers Topics

16th August 2014 Dr Mrinal Chatterjee, Professor

and Head, IIMC, Dhenkanal Media: Why should we be interested?

18th August 2014 Dr Sudhir Panigrahi, Placement Officer Placement&Counselling Activities at NIST

Dr Rita Bhattacharjee, Students’ Counsellor

19th August 2014 Prof Sangram Mudali, Director Entrepreneurship

20th August 2014 Mr Achyut Das and Ms Vidhya Das Social Enterprise

21st August 2014 Anol Chaudhuri, Marketing Manager, Application and Usage of English at Workplace

British Council, East India

22nd August 2014 Swamy Mohan Krishna, Ethics and Morality

Head, ISKCON, Brahmapur

Invited Talk at NISTDr Bidyadhar Subudhi, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology,

Rourkela visited NIST on 27th August 2014. He also visited the renewable energy research and development

laboratories of the institute. Later in the afternoon he interacted with the faculty members of the Departments

of Electrical Engineering, Electronics & Communication and Electronics & Instrumentation and discussed on

the research possibilities in the area of Power Electronics Control of PV Systems.

Corporate Talk at NIST Business SchoolA corporate talk was organised at NIST Business School on 9th August 2014. Mr A. K. Mohanty, Branch Head,

Exide Life Insurance Company addressed the management students and discussed on various issues related to

new insurance players, market conditions, and the scope of management students in carving a niche for

themselves in the current competitive environment. All the faculty members from the Department of Management

Studies attended the programme.


Successful Completion of EOP 2014The 10th batch of the Employment Oriented Program consisting of 110 students from weaker sections of

South Odisha underwent a fully sponsored 4

months training on DTP, Computer Hardware

Maintenance, Renewable Energy, Computer

Skills, Electrical Repair, Workshop Practice, and

Electronics Hardware Repair which was success-

fully completed on May 24, 2014. The program

is part of NIST contribution for social justice for

the economically weak students of the society.

The program was coordinated by Prof. Asesh

Kumar Tripathy, EOP Coordinator. The spon-

sored candidates were trained in Workshop Prac-

tice, Electrical Repair and Maintenance, DTP,

Solar Energy Equipment, Mobile Repairing etc.

Another Novel by NIST Student

Nikhil Kushwaha, B Tech, EEE (2009-13) published his maiden novel “Six Teen

Mistakes” by Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd. This is the second time that a student

of NIST has authored a novel. The book is available at all major stores.

Thursday Lecture Seminar Series


Papers Publishedl Ms Nibedita Priyadarshini Mohapatra, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science Engineering along with

Pratibha Pattanayak (5th Sem MCA) and Sunita Swain (5th Sem MCA) published a paper: “Enhance the Life and

Fault Tolerance Capability of Wireless Sensor Network using Clustering” in the International Journal of Computer

Engineering and Applications Volume V, Issue I (Jan-Mar 2014): 69-78. ISSN: 2321-3469

l Dr Bhaskar Bhaula, Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics along with Mr M. Rajendra Kumar, Associate

Professor, Dept. of Mathematics published a paper: “An Economic Order Quantity Model for Weibull Deteriorating

Items with Stock Dependent Consumption Rate and Shortages under Inflation” in the International Journal of

Computing and Technology Volume 1, Issue 5 (June2014)

l Dr Ratnakar Mishra, Associate Professor, Dept. of Management Studies and Ms Gayatri Panda, Assistant Professor,

Dept. of Management Studies jointly published a paper: “Impact of Financial Status on Designing Training and

Development Programs —An Empirical Analysis”in the Splint International Journal of Professionals (A bi-Annual

Peer Reviewed International Journal of Management & IT) Vol. 1, No. 1 (July 2014) ISSN: 2349-6045.

l Dr Arunanshu Mahapatro, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Communcation Engineering and Pabitra

Mohan Khilar published a paper: “Online Fault Diagnosis of Wireless Sensor Networks” in the Central European

Journal of Computer Science, Springer, Vol.3, No.1 (2014): 26–36.

l Dr Arunanshu Mahapatro and Dr Ajit Kumar Panda, Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering

published a paper: “Choice of Detection Parameters on Fault Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Multiobjective

Optimization Approach” in the Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, Vol.78, No.1 (2014): 649-669.

l Mr K. Kameswaran Peri, Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics along with M. Narayana, S. Shaw, and P.

Sibanda published a paper: “Heat and Mass Transfer from an Isothermal Wedge in Nanofluids with Soret Effect” in

The European Physical Journal Plus (2014) 129-154.

l Mr Sudhakar Das, Associate Professor, Ms Rasmita K. Nayak, Faculty member, Dr Ajit K. Panda, Professor and Dr

Trinath Sahu, Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering published a paper: “Structural

asymmetry induced enhancement of electron mobility in coupled double quantum well structures.” In the Journal of

Applied Physics, 53, 095201(2014).

l Dr Trinath Sahu along with Narayan Sahoo published a paper: “Electric field induced oscillating electron mobility in

asymmetric wide GaAs/AlxGa1-x As quantum well structure” in the Journal of Applied Physics, 116, 043703 (2014).


l Dr Trinath Sahu along with S. Palo, and N. Sahoo published a paper: “Effect of doping profile on multisubband

electron mobility in AlGaAs parabolic quantum well structures” in the journal Physica E 64, 33-38 (2014).

l Dr M. N. Murty, Professor, Dept. of Physics, published a paper: “Recursive Algorithms and Systolic Architectures

for Realization of Type-II Discrete Cosine Transform and Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform” in the International

Journal of Engineering Research and Applications, ISSN: 2248-9622, Vol.4, Issue 4 (Version 4), pp.24-32, April

2014.

l Dr M. N. Murty published a paper: “Recursive Implementation of Type-IV Discrete Cosine Transform Using Type-

II Discrete Sine Transform” in the Journal of Ultra Scientist of Physical Sciences, ISSN: 2231-3478,Vol.26 (2) B,

Page 133-138, August 2014.

l Dr Pandab Patro, Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering along with A. Barik, S. Dash, and S. Mohapatra

published a paper: “Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Air Entrainment into a Louvered Funnel” in the

Journal of Applied Ocean Research, vol. 48 (2014), pp. 176-185.

l Dr U. K. Mishra, Professor, Dept. of Mathematics along with M. Misra, B. P. Padhy, P. Samanta and P. K. Das

published a paper: “Degree of Approximation of the Fourier series of a function of Lipchitz class by product mean”

in the Frontiers of Mathematics and its Applications, Sciknow Publication Ltd.(New York, USA ) ,Vol-1, No.3

(2014), pp. 52 -58,.

l Dr U. K. Mishra with S. K. Paikray and S. Routray published a paper: “A Note on optimal order level for Deteriorating

items with uniform demand rate” in the Proceedings of the Jangjeon Mathematical Society (South Korea) (ISSN:

1598-7264), 17 (2014), No.3, pp 403 – 409.

l Dr U. K. Mishra with M. Misra, B. P. Padhy and S. Nayak published a paper: “Degree of Approximation of conjugate

series of a Fourier series by product ( )( )qpNrE ,,, summabilty methods” in the Journal of Advances in

Mathematics, (ISSN: 2347-1921) (impact factor 0.733), Vol.9, No.2(2014), 1955-1962,

l Dr U. K. Mishra with P. S. K. Reddy published a paper: “Edge Neighborhood signed graphs” in the Applied

Mathematical Sciences (ISSN 1312 – 885X), Vol.8, No.30(2014),pp 1473-1482.

Papers Presentedl Mr P. Mahish, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering along with Prof. S. Chakraborty presented a

paper entitled “Frequency Tuning Properties of Magneto-Optic Sensor” in the International Conference on Devices,

Circuits and Communications (ICDCCom-2014) (Supported by TEQIP) held at BIT Mesra, Ranchi on 12-13

September, 2014.

l Mr Lakshmi Kanta Raju, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics presented a paper entitled “Inventory

Model of Deteriorating items for Linear Holding Cost with Time Dependent Demand” in UGC Sponsored National

seminar on Advanced Analysis and Applications from 20th-21st September, 2014 at Chikiti Mahavidyalaya, Chikiti,

Ganjam, Odisha.

Workshops/Conferences Attendedl Dr Bhaskar Bhaula, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics attended the International Summer and Winter

Term Course on Portfolio Optimization from 19th to 30th May 2014 at IIT Kharagpur. The forum dealt in research

study of Markowitz Novel Concepts on Modern Portfolio theory to achieve Optimum Return from Stock Markets of

the World.

l Mr Manoj Kumar Senapati, Assistant Professor, Dept.t of Electronics and Communication Engineering attended the

AICTE sponsored CEP Short Term Course on “FPGA Prototyping using Verilog” from 16th to 28th June, 2014

organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur.

l Mr Prasant Kumar Mohanty, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering participated in the

National Workshop on “Parallel Computing Architecture and Applications on Multi core to Many Core Processing

Systems (PCAMS-2014)” Organized by CUDA Center of Excellence, IIT Bombay and C-DAC Pune during 16-20

June, 2014 at IIT Bombay.

l Dr M Murali, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering attended a one week Short Term

Training Program on ‘Advanced Engineering Optimization through Intelligent Techniques’ (AEOTIT) at SVNIT,

Surat during 22nd – 26th September 2014.

l Dr U. K. Mishra, Professor, Dept. of Mathematics attended a U.G.C sponsored National Seminar on ‘Advanced

Analysis and Applications’ during 20th – 21st September 2014 organized jointly by Chikiti Mahavidyalaya, Chikiti

and Roland Institute of Technology, Berhampur. Dr Mishra chaired one of the Technical sessions in the seminar and

was felicitated by Usha Devi, Honourable Minister, Odisha assembly.


Electricity Usage Monitoring at NISTThe NIST Technology Consulting Services has developed a wonderful application which allows institute to

monitor the energy usage of the entire Institute on a 24x7x365 basis. This is getting significant amount of

traction among industry, homes, etc. Interested faculty members and staff may login to 172.17.2.1 after collecting

the username, password from Prof. Bhawani Patnaik (NTCS) and see the daily graphical comparison of the

energy usage of each building of the Institute. The graphical display of energy usage for 3rd September is given

below:

Successful Completion of BEC Preliminary ExaminationThe Business English Certificate (BEC) Preliminary Examination conducted by Cambridge University was

successfully completed on September 20,

2014. A total of 541 2nd year students of

B. Tech and MCA were registered for the

exam out of which 523 students appeared

the exam. The students were provided with

a 30-hour training programme before the

exam. The students were trained on

Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing

Skills by the NIST faculty trainers. The Examination Administrators from British Council, Kolkata Division

were here to conduct the exam with Speaking Examiners from Bhubaneswar.

Japanese Language Proficiency TestThe following students have passed the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) level N5 Exam conducted

by Japan Foundation on 6th July 2014. The training was provided by Mr Dev P. Padhi, System Administrator.

NIST Students in Aspiration2020 Programming ContestTwo teams from NIST were selected from NIST to compete in the Aspiration2020 Programming Contest

2014 being organized by Infosys Limited held at Hyderabad DC. The team details are as follows:

Team 1

Harkrishn Patro CSE

Suraj Behera CSE

Tanaya Pradhan CSE

Team 2

Shanaul Haque CSE

Raghav Jha CSE

Sumeet Kumar CSE

Sweta Kumari

ELE - 201117307Kabita Choudhury

EIE - 201111573

Avinash Kumar

CSE - 201140421


Academic Honorarium Award : PhD Guidance and Awards

NIST honoured its faculty who have recently received their PhD degrees or have guided PhD students with a

token honorarium of Rs. 10,000.

Faculty Category

Dr Diptendu S Roy PhD Thesis Guide

Dr Archana Bhagat PhD Awardee

Dr Pradyumna K Patra PhD Awardee

Dr K Hemant Kumar Reddy PhD Awardee

Academic Honorarium Award: Research Paper (July-Dec 2013)

NIST has honoured its faculty who have published seminal papers in top referred journals of the world with a

token honorarium of Rs. 5000 per paper.

l Prabhat K Sahu, V Srinivasadesikan, Min LunJhong and Shyi Long Lee. “Model Calculations for the

Base-Pairing Specificity of Mutagenic Exocyclic DNA Adduct 1, N 6- Ethenoadenine.” Structural

Chemistry Vol. 25, Issue 2 (April 2014): 561-573.

l G Palai, S K Tripathy and T Sahu. “A Novel Technique to Measure the Sucrose Concentration in Hydrogel

Sucrose Solution using Two Dimensional Photonic Crystal Structures.” Optik, Vol. 125, Issue1(January

2014): 349–352.

l S Arun, P S Rama Sreekanth and S Kanagaraj. “Mechanical Characterization of PMMA/SWCNTs Bone

Cement using Nano Indenter.” Materials Technology: Advanced Performance Materials Vol. 29, Issue

B1 (February 2014): B4-B9.

l Murthy Cherukuri, Maibam Singh, Diptendu Sinha Roy and Dusmanta Mohanta. “Well Being Analysis

of Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) Using Markov Model and Event Tree.” Electric Power Components

and Systems Taylor and Francis Vol. 41, Issue. 16 (2013): 1654-1671,

l Mahapatro, Arunanshu. “Mobility Adaptive Unequal Cluster-Based Routing Protocol in Wireless Sensor

Networks.” International Journal of Sensor Networks Volume14, Issue 2 (2013): 65-81.

All India Seminar on

Energy Resources and Emerging TechnologiesNational Institute of Science & Technology in association with Institution of Engineers (India) Berhampur

Local Chapter under the aegis of Electrical Engineering Division Board IE, India organized an All India

Seminar on Emerging Technologies at the Conference Hall on 27th and 28th August 2014. Delegates from

Government Engineering departments, like OPTCL and Southco, Engineering colleges were a part of this

seminar. Er. R K Patro stated the

objective of the seminar, then Er.

K B Choudhary, Convener, briefed

about the theme of the seminar.

Prof. Geetika Mudali, Placement

Director, NIST and the patron of

the seminar addressed the

delegates. Prof. Jagannath Padhy,

Director, Centurion University was the Chief Guest for the occasion. Er. K C Jena, Chairman, IE BLC was

present along with the Chief Speaker, Prof. Debapriya Das, IIT Kharagpur. Issues relevant to the topic were

presented and debated among the experts during the two day seminar. Prof. Bhagabati Prasad Pattnaik, Assistant

Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering coordinated the seminar.


Mr Kunja Bihari Swain joined as AssistantProfessor in the Department of Electronics and

Instrumentation Engineering. He has

done his ME in Instrumentation andControl Engineering from BIT Mesra.He has over 3 years of experience inboth industry and teaching. He has tohis credit research papers published

in National and International journals. His researchinterests include Virtual Instrumentation,Automation and Embedded System.

Mr Bishnu Narayan Mahapatra joined asAssistant Professor in the Department of

Mechanical Engineering. He has donehis B Tech in Mechanical Engineeringfrom VSSUT Burla and M Tech inThermal Science and Engineeringfrom IIT Kharagpur. He has also

worked as Teaching Assistant at IITKharagpur. His research areas are FluidMechanics, Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics.

Mr Tusar Kumar Dash joined as AssistantProfessor in the Department ofElectrical Engineering. He has done

his B Tech from C V Raman Collegeof Engineering, Bhubaneswar and MTech from NIT Rourkela. He hasworked at Centurion University of

Technology, Paralakhemundi and has industry

exposure as well. He has published bothInternational and National papers in IEEE. Hisresearch areas are Power Electronics andRenewable Energy System.

Mr Sibarama Panigrahi joined as Assistant

Professor in the Department ofComputer Science Engineering. Hehas done his M Tech from VSSUTBurla and has been awarded withSilver Medal for Best Computer

Science and Engineering PostGraduate for the Year 2013 at VSSUT Burla. Hehas over 5 years of teaching experience to hiscredit. His research papers have secured place inboth International and National journals. He has

also qualified GATE in 2011 and 2012. He isinterested in Soft Computing, Data Mining and TimeSeries Forecasting.

Mr Shasanka Sekhar Dalai joined as AssistantProfessor in the Department of Mechanical

Engineering. He has done his B Tech from IGIT

Sarang and M Tech in Applied Mechanics from IITMadras. Prior to joining NIST, he hasworked at GIACR Rayagada. He hasover 4 years of teaching experience.His research areas include Solid

Mechanics, Finite Element Methodand Piezoelectric material foractuator.

Mr Tirtharaj Dash joined as Assistant Professorin the Department of Computer

Science and Engineering. He hasdone his B Tech in IT from NISTBerhampur and M Tech in CSE fromVSSUT Burla. He has published 7papers in International journals. His

papers have secured place in 5 International and3 National Conferences as well. He is interestedin Algorithm Design and Analysis, ComputationalIntelligence, Pattern Recognition and AutomataTheory.

Mr Pilla Kartheek joined as Assistant Professorin the Department of MechanicalEngineering. He has done his B Techin Mechanical Engineering fromGayatri Vidya Parishad College ofEngineering, Visakhapatnam and M

Tech in Steel Technology from IITBombay. He has over 2 years of teachingexperience. His research areas include MetalForming, Computational Methods in Manufacturingand Nanotechnology.

Ms Priyadarshini Tripathy joined as AssistantProfessor in the Department of CivilEngineering. She has done herDiploma in Civil Engineering fromSMIT Berhampur. She did her B Tech

in Civil Engineering from Dr MGRUniversity, Tamil Nadu. She hasworked at Kalam Institute of Technology,Berhampur for 2 years.

Mr Sandipan Mallik joined as Assistant Professor

in the Department of Physics. He hasdone his B Sc in Physics fromVidyasagar University, West Bengaland M Sc in Physics from GuruGhasidas University, Bilaspur. He has

worked as Project Assistant at IITKharagpur for 6 years. He has teaching experienceof over 1 year.

NIST WelcomesNational Institute of Science and Technology welcomes the following members to its parivaar:


Mr Praneeth Kumar Pedapati joined as AssistantProfessor in the Department of Electrical andElectronics Engineering. He has done his B Techin EEE from Raghu Engineering College,Visakhapatnam and M Tech in Power Electronics

and Drives from NIT Kurukshetra. Prior to joiningNIST, he was associated with BIT Meerut asAssistant Professor for 1 year.

Mr Partha Pratim Das joined as AssistantProfessor in the Department of Electronics and

Communication Engineering. He has done his BTech in ECE from WBUT and M Tech in WirelessCommunication from BPUT Odisha. He hasworked as Assistant Professor at APEX Instituteof Technology and Management, Bhubaneswar for

over 4 years. He has published one research paperin an International journal of repute. His researchareas include Optical Communication, 3G/4GCommunications, and Nano Optics.

Mr Santosh Kumar Sahu joined as Assistant

Professor in the Department ofMechanical Engineering. He has donehis B Tech in Mechanical Engineeringfrom SMIT Berhampur and M Tech inMachine Design from NIT

Kurukshetra, Haryana. He has 2years teaching experience to his credit. Hisresearch areas are Kinematics of Machine,Robotics and Finite Element Analysis.

Mr Bibhuti Bhusan Mishra joined as AssistantProfessor in the Dept. of Electronics

and Communication Engineering. Hehas done his B. Tech and M. Tech inECE from Berhampur University andBPUT respectively. He has over nineyears of teaching experience to his

credit. His research interest is in the area of SignalProcessing.

Ms Raja Rajeswari joined as Assistant Professorin the Dept. of Electronics and Communication

Engineering. She has done her B.

Tech in EIE from JITM,Paralakhemundi and M. Tech in VLSIand Embedded Systems from ITERSOA University, Bhubaneswar. Shehas over 8 years of teaching

experience to her credit. She has published a paperin an International Conference Proceedings. Herresearch interests include VLSI, DeviceFabrication, Bio-medical Instrumentation.

Dr Pandab Patro joined as Associate Professorin the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. He has

done his M. Tech in Thermal and Fluid Science

from IIT Guwahati and Ph. D in Two Phase Flowfrom IIT Kharagpur. He has 5 yearsof both teaching and industryexperience. He worked as anAssociate Professor at KIIT

University and as a ManufacturingEngineer at Schlumberger ProductCenter, Texas, USA. He has to his credit 13Research Papers in International Journals (8 SCIJournals), 1 International conference, 1 Book

chapter, and 1 Monograph. His research interestincludes CFD, Turbulence modelling, Two-phaseflow, Solar energy, and Heat transfer.

Mr Jatindra Kumar Dash joined as AssistantProfessor in the Dept. of Computer

Science and Engineering. He hasdone his ME in CSE from Govt.College of Engineering, Tirunelvelliand pursuing his Ph. D. in Imageprocessing from IIT Kharagpur. He

has around 11 years of teaching experience. Hehas published 8 research papers in National andInternational Journals. Mr Dash is a Reviewer forthe Journal of Neurocomputing (ELSEVIER), anda Program committee member of IEEE Technical

Symposium 2014 (IEEETechSym- 2014), IITKharagpur. His research interests include Imageprocessing, Medical image analysis, and textureanalysis.

Mr Akshaya Kumar Behera joined as Associate

Professor in the Dept. of ComputerScience and Engineering. He hasdone his M.; Tech in CSE from ISM,Dhanbad and is pursuing his Ph. Din CSE from Utkal University,Bhubaneswar. He has over 11 years

of both teaching and industry experience to hiscredit. Before joining the mainstream teaching hewas working as a Senior Project Manager atSatyam Computer Services Ltd, Hyderabad. Hehas published a paper in an International Journal.

He takes his research interest in Network Coding,Data Warehousing , Computer Networking, ProjectManagement and Digital Image Processing.

Mr Satyanarayana Kumbha joined as AssistantProfessor in the Dept. of Mechanical

Engineering. He has done his M. Techfrom IIT Guwahati. He has threeyears of teaching experience. Hisresearch interests include Heat andMass Transfer, Thermodynamics, IC

Engines, and Two Phase Flow.


Ms Sangita Kumari Swain joined as AssistantProfessor in the Dept. of Chemistry. She has done

her M. Sc. in Analytical Chemistry, M.Phil in Organic Chemistry, and ispursuing her Ph. D from Berhampur

University. She has around two yearsof teaching experience to her credit.Her research interest is in the area of

Organic Chemistry.

Mr Nagen Bhusan Patnaik joined as Assistant

Professor in the Dept. of English. He has done hisM. A. in English from BerhampurUniversity and is pursuing his Ph. Dfrom Utkal University. He has alsodone his PGCTE from EFLU,

Hyderabad. He has over seven yearsof teaching experience and has

published two papers in International Journals andseven online articles. His research interests includeEnglish Pronunciation.

Dr Laxminarayan Sahoo joined as AssistantProfessor in the Dept. of Chemistry. He has donehis M. Sc in Chemistry from Utkal University andPh. D in Synthetic carbohydrate Chemistry fromIIT Madras. He has 11 paper publications to his

credit. He also has a patent to his name. Hisresearch interests include developing newmethodology for synthesis of novel carbohydratederived chemical ligating agents and others.

Mr Gandham Girish joined as Assistant Professorin the Dept. of Electronics and

Communication Engineering. He hasdone his M. Tech in ECE from IITDelhi. He has over 7 years of teachingexperience. His research interestsinclude Image Processing, Wireless

Communications and wireless AdHoc networks.

Dr Tapano Kumar Hotta joined as AssociateProfessor in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.He has done his M. Tech in Thermal Engineering

from SOA University, Bhubaneswar

and Ph. D in Heat Transfer from IITMadras. He has over six years ofteaching experience. He haspublished five papers in both Nationaland International Journals and five

papers in Conference Proceedings. His researchinterests include Active and Passive Cooling ofElectronic Devices, Optimization of ThermalSystems, Solar Refrigeration and Air-conditioning,and Heat Transfer.

Dr Rita Bhattacharjee joined as Students’Counsellor. She has done her M. A in Educational

Psychology and Counseling from Utkal Universityand Ph. D in Counselling Psychology fromAvinashilingam University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu.She has over eight years of experience to hercredit. She has 5 International and 12 National

Publications. She has interest in CounsellingPsychology.

Mr Nitesh Dhar Badgyan joined as AssistantProfessor in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.He has done his B. E. in Mechanical engineeringfrom Vinayaka Missions University,

Salem, Tamil Nadu and M. Tech inManufacturing System Engineeringfrom VSSUT, Burla. He has over twoyears of teaching experience. He hasto his credit nine National and

International publications. His research interestsare Non Traditional Machining, Polymer NanoComposites, and Design of Experiments.

Ms Rasmita Kumari Nayak joined as AssistantProfessor in the Dept. of Electronics andCommunication Engineering. She has done herM. Sc. in Electronics from Sambalpur

University and M. Tech. in ECE fromNIST. She was both a JRF and SRFin the DST-SERC Project, NISTduring 2010 to 2014. She has threeJournal and four Conference paper

publications to her credit. Her research areasinclude Semiconductor materials and devicesAlGaAs/GaAs & AlGaN/GaN based HEMT.

ObituaryNIST mourns its dearest students and faculty who

have left us for their heavenly abode. Not a day goes

without our mourning this grievous loss.

Manas Ranjan Sahu(02/01/1994 - 19/07/2014)

Shree Krishan Kumar Singh(30/04/1993 - 24/08/2014)

Mr Sambhu Kumar

Assistant Professor, CSE(02/11/1987 - 07/09/2014)

The institute grieves the untimely demise of its

beloved faculty and students and prays the

Almighty for their souls to rest in peace.


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