Sampige A QUARTERLY NEWS BULLETIN OF MSRIT Chief Editor: Dr. S.Y. Kulkarni Editor: Dr. V. Ramachandramurthy Volume 2: No. 1,2,3 & 4 Mar, Jun, Sept, Dec 2014 From the editorial board Chief Editor Dr. S Y Kulkarni Principal Message from the Principal and Chief Editor Friends, Editor Dr. V Ramachandra Murthy HOD, Dept. of Mathematics Editorial Board Dr. B M Nagabhushana Professor, Dept. of Chemistry Mr. Jagadish S Kallimani Associate Professor, Dept. of CSE Mr. Shashidhara H S Associate Professor, Dept. of ISE Mrs. Sarala S M Assistant Professor, Dept. of ECE It is my pleasure to present another issue of “Sampige” with details on the activities of MSRIT and also achievements of our staff and students. All efforts have been spared to compile information about the activities of the institution effectively since we consider this news letter as an effective communication tool. I am also happy to note that “e-sampige” is now available on our website for the information to all our parents, students and other stake holders. Wish you all a happy reading Best wishes, Dr. S. Y. Kulkarni Contents Message from the Editor Departmental Activities Friends, Library Placement and Training NSS Sports New Appointments Rank Holders It gives me great pleasure to share with you this issue of Sampige, a collation of issues from the past quarters. As always, we envisage providing crisp, accurate information on several activities at MSRIT. This time too, I wish to thank all contributors from their enthusiastic participation. Here I wish to share that those inputs will play a significant role in enhancing the reading experience further. Look forward to your support, Dr. V. Ramachandramurthy Founder Chairman Dr. M. S. Ramaiah (1922 - 1997) this foundation in the same year, creating a landmark in technical education in India. Through the years MSRIT has imparted quality engineering education, accessible thousands from across India and abroad, facing a lack of opportunity to pursue higher education . Industrious and enterprising, Dr. M. S. Ramaiah is among Karnataka’s illustrious sons and an engineering contractor of national repute. He founded ‘Gokula Education Foundation’ in 1962 without expecting any kind of assistance from the establishment with an objective of serving the society. M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT) was born under the aegis of Widely acknowledged as a visionar y, educationist, industrialist and philanthropist, Dr. M. S. Ramaiah personally ensured that the institution which began with just two disciplines, grew phenomenally over the years. MSRIT now offers Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate programmes in several disciplines and is recognised as one of India’s leading names in technical education. The institution is equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories, well stocked libraries and has highly qualified, experienced and dedicated faculty. In tune with the noble ambitions and aspirations of Dr. M.S. Ramaiah to keep the institution growing and developing continuously so as to become a 'Jnana Sagara', all departments are continuously engaged in implementing appropriate procedures to initiate, include and conduct unique programmes keeping in touch with the emerging requirements of the industry. Hearty Congratulations! Gandhar Ajit Kunte (Mechanical Engineering) and Priya N (Electronics & Instrumentation) students of MSRIT have been awarded “Spirit of Invention” (InvEnt) scholarship by prestegious Avery Dennison Foundation offered to select students on an all India basis. Principal Dr. S.Y. Kulkarni was present at the award ceremony as a special invitee - a proud moment for MSRIT. ¸ÀA¦UÉ INAUGURATION OF I YEAR CLASSES (FRESHER'S DAY) OF BE AND B.ARCH GRADUATION DAY Inauguration of I year classes (Fresher's day) of BE and B.Arch for the academic year 2014-2015 was held in the institutes premises on 11-08-2015. Mr. Nipun Sahni, Group Director (International Business) Tejas Networks was the chief guest of the function. In his inaugural address he reiterated that students should not worry about the discipline they have chosen. Like a sponge they should keep absorbing the things in and out of class rooms and dare to take calculated risks. Graduation day of the institute for the graduating students in BE, B.Arch, M.Tech and M.Arch was held on 16-08-2014. The graduating students who had gathered had full of great joy and enthusiastic feeling for their great achievement of their many years restless effort. Pupils' happiness doubled while receiving medals by chief guests. Mr.Nipun Sahni addressing the fresher's during the inaugural function Chief guest of the function Mr. Upadyaya, former Director of NAL inaugurated the graduation day. Addressing the august gathering he said that 'Student life is just one phase in every individual life, the inculcation of discipline and life skills are very important for your future'. He continued, especially in the era of technology every information available in the computer may have more answers for single problem but the Professor explains appropriate answer to the academic issues of the students. He expressed only success is possible in case you have love and dedication in employment. You must develop your skills to improve and capable to start your own company. Sri S M Acharya, CEO(GEF Engg. and Gen Sci.) stressed upon the students to be more disciplined during their four years of stay and bring good name to the institution and parents. Dr. S Y Kulkarni Principal MSRIT addressing the gathering said that students graduated from the institute have made remarkable achievement and progress at national and International levels. Sri M R Ramaiah Secretary GEF and Director MSRIT, Sri G Ramachandra CFO, Sri Tallam Venkatesh, President MSRIT Alumni Association, Dr. N V R Naidu Vice Principal MSRIT and Dr. T V Suresh Kumar Registrar (Academic) graced the occasion. 3 ¸ÀA¦UÉ MAKE IN INDIA Rejuvenating Indian Manufacturing The Manufacturing panel of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Karnataka had organized 7th annual manufacturing conference on the theme “Make in India - Rejuvenating Indian Manufacturing” during 14th15th, November 2014 at Vivanta by Taj, Bangalore. Dr. Mohan Babu. G.N, Professor, Dept. of IEM, MSRIT participated as a member of the Discussion panel and shared his perspectives with 200+ executives from the Indian manufacturing sector. Speaking on the occasion Dr. MR. Jayaram, Chairman Gokul Education Foundation said that,'learning could not complete only within 30 years'. In the wave of modernization people wanted take rest in learning. Knowledge is not for sale. He insisted everyone should think seriously to indoctrinate human values for livelihood. Sri S M Acharya, CEO(GEF Engg.) in his speech congratulated all the gold medalists and graduating students and asked them to be good ambassadors of the institute. Dr. Mohan Babu. G.N., addressing the member executives of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Karnataka. M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT) jointly with the Manufacturing panel of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) organized a Road show to Promote Manufacturing Engineering as a Profession for Graduating Engineers of Mech.Engg. and Ind.Engg and Mangt programmes from both MSRIT and other engineering colleges on 27th September, 2014. Dr. S.Y. Kulkarni, Principal, presided over the function. A large number of CII member companies, represented by their top executives, took part in the Road show and more than 700 participants engaged themselves in the proceedings of the programme. Dr. S Y Kulkarni Principal in his welcoming speech reiterated that students should apply the knowledge earned in their respective discipline during their four years of stay in their future endeavors and bring good name to the organization. Sri G Ramachandra CFO, Sri Tallam Venkatesh, President MSRIT Alumni Association, Dr. N V R Naidu Vice Principal MSRIT and Dr. T V Suresh Kumar Registrar (Academic) graced the occasion. Dr. Mohan Babu.G.N., Liaison officer with CII-Karanataka, launching the “Road show to Promote Manufacturing Engineering as a Profession for Graduating Engineers" at MSRIT Campus. 4 ¸ÀA¦UÉ performance through thought leadership, on 4th August 2014. The lectures were delivered by Sri Basavaraj, Founder Director, Graceful Growth Consulting (India) Private, Ltd. DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING l The department has conducted three day national conference, ZEN &TAO of Electrical Engineering during 7th-8th Jan 2014. This conference had talks from eminent scientists from IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Madras, Calcutta University, Purdue University, IBM, CEDT, Schneider Electric, PRDC and IISc, to discuss the existing challenges, solutions and implementing technology based transformations. It was a special forum to present and discuss research based knowledge among academicians, people from industry and practitioners on various issues related to the various field of Electrical Engineering Sciences. l The department in association with Roboversity, conducted two day workshop on Solar and Smart Energy Systems and QuadCopter Design, on 19th and 20th September 2014. As a part of this workshop, the students were exposed to sensors, microcontroller programming and embedded systems. The total number of participants in this workshop were 35 which included 5 students from other colleges. One team from our college has got selected to participate in the regional level solar design competition. Industrial Visits: l Department has organized an industrial visit to HVDC Substation, Kolar and Nelamangala Receiving Station, for VI semester students on 13th February 2014. l Department organized visit to Electrical Marketing and Manufactures Association expo (EMMA) for V semester students, held at BIEC, Bangalore, on 9th September 2014. Publications in (International/National) Journals MSRIT was co-organizer for Seventh ISSS l International Conference on Smart Materials Structures and Systems (ISSS-2014) during 8th11th July 2014, organized by the Institute of Smart Structures and Systems (ISSS) and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. ISSS organizes triennial International Conferences and annual National Conferences, which are the major events providing the platform for dissemination of knowledge and information amongst the practitioners of Smart and Micro Systems Technology. Sreedevi J, Premila Manohar and R S Shivakumara l Aradhya – 'Simulation of VSC based HVDC link on Real Time Digital Simulator', National Symposium on HVDC Transmission in India, Bangalore, 2nd 3rd, May 2014, pp 120-126. C S Suresh Babu and Dr. Premila Manohar - 'Design l of fringe capacitance based low cost dual Mode sensor for pick & place robot hand-A novel Approach', National Conference on Zen and Tao of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, (NCZTEE14), ISBN: 978-93-82880-98-1, MSRIT, Bangalore, pp.102-107, 7th - 9th January, 2014. The department in association with IEEE-PES l Student chapter conducted one day hands on training on PSCAD/EMTDC on April 21st, 2014. More than 30 students participated in the workshop. Ramya. N and Pradipkumar Dixit –'Analysis and l Simulation of Electric Field Distribution in Air-Filled Cavities in the Insulation of Induction Motor slot', National Conference on Zen and Tao of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, (NCZTEE14), ISBN: 978-93-82880-98-1, MSRIT, Bangalore, Paper ID HV002, pp.24-27, 7th – 9th January, 2014. The department has conducted one day Faculty l Development Programme on Seven Habits for 21st Century Educators - a unique program for the engineering faculty to enable innovation and 5 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Anguraja R and Pradipkumar Dixit – 'Field Analysis l of High Voltage Transformer Bushing using Quickfield', National Conference on Zen and Tao of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, (NCZTEE14), ISBN: 978-93-82880-98-1, MSRIT, Bangalore, Paper ID HV003, pp.28-31, 7th–9th January, 2014. Conference on Zen and Tao of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, (NCZTEE14), ISBN: 97893-82880-98-1, MSRIT, Bangalore, Paper ID PS003, pp.75-78, 7th – 9th January, 2014. l Prajwal M.S. and T.V. Snehaprabha – 'Modeling and Analysis of MPPT and Buck Boost Converter for Solid Power Application', International Journals of Multidisciplinary Research Academy (IJMRA) September, 2014. R. V. Srinivasamurthy and Pradipkumar Dixit l 'Studies on Surge Performance of Transformers', National Conference on Zen and Tao of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, (NCZTEE14), ISBN: 97893-82880-98-1, MSRIT, Bangalore, Paper ID Hv004, pp.32-35, 7th– 9th January, 2014. l Prithviraj Shetty and S. Dawnee –'Modeling and Simulation of the Complete Electric Power Train of a Hybrid Electric Vehicle', International Conference on Magnetics, Machines and Drives, IEEE Kerala Section, Amal Jyothi college of Engg, Kerala, 24th– 26th July, 2014. Suresh A. G and Pradipkumar Dixit – 'Minimum l Leakage Current for Dry Band Formation under Polluted Environment', National Conference on Zen and Tao of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, (NCZTEE14), ISBN: 978-93-82880-98-1, MSRIT, Bangalore, Paper ID HV005, pp.36-39, 7th–9th January, 2014. l Kusumika Krori Dutta –'Effect of R Type and L type SCFCL in MSRIT distribution network using BI2223A Comparison', Proceedings of National Conference on Zen and Tao of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, (NCZTEE14), ISBN: 97893-82880-98-1, MSRIT, Bangalore, pp.79-81 7th– 9th January, 2014. Mouneswarachar H. C and Pradipkumar Dixit – l 'Role of Critical Arc Length in Pollution Flashover of Porcelain Disc Insulators', National Conference on Zen and Tao of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, (NCZTEE14), ISBN: 978-93-82880-98-1, MSRIT, Bangalore, Paper ID HV006, pp.40-43, 7th–9th January, 2014. l Kusumika Krori Dutta, Anil S, Bharat Kumar G and Adarsh Kumar M – 'Advanced ATM systems with Dual Security', National Conference on Issues in Power quality and Renewable Energy Systems (CIPRES14), Bhratidasan Institute of Technology, 29th & 30th April 2014. Chandrashekhar A Badachi and Pradipkumar Dixit l –'MATLAB based Optimization of Ayrton's Arc Constants', National Conference on Zen and Tao of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, (NCZTEE14), ISBN: 978-93-82880-98-1, MSRIT, Bangalore, Paper ID HV007, pp.44-46, 7th – 9th January, 2014. l Prashanth Kumar HR and Archana Diwakar – 'Design of space vector control scheme for brushless DC Motor Drive', National Conference on Zen and Tao of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, (NCZTEE14), ISBN: 978-93-82880-98-1, MSRIT, Bangalore, pp. 17-20, 7th – 9th January, 2014. Manasa G P and Pradipkumar Dixit – 'Effect of l Harmonics on the Life of Induction Motor Winding Insulation', National Conference on Zen and Tao of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, (NCZTEE14), ISBN: 978-93-82880-98-1, MSRIT, Bangalore, Paper ID HV008, pp.47-51, 7th – 9th January, 2014. l Ajay Kumar Singh, Kushagra Shukla, Akash Singh Aaryan, Chandan Kumar, Archana Diwakar – 'Study of P&O MPPT Technique using Buck and Boost converter for solar PV systems', National Conference on Zen and Tao of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, (NCZTEE14), ISBN: 97893-82880-98-1, MSRIT, Bangalore, p pp. 60-64, 7th – 9th January, 2014. Ramesh Kumar V and Pradipkumar Dixit – l 'Artificial Neural Network based Short-term Load Forecasting of Karnataka State', National 6 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Achievements - Students Tech fest Surge-14 held at Vidhyavardhak College of Engineering, Mysore, on 26th April 2014. l The students have organized three day Intra Collegiate Techno cultural fest on 24th-26th April 2014. The main sponsors of the event are Inelec Engineers. Anchor Electrical, Digitrack, GateIES & Royal MSRIT society of Electrical Engineers. The technical events were Project presentation, Quiz, Energy Debate, Circuit Debugging, Gaming etc. The cultural events were MSRIT got talent, Karaoke and Dance as you like and many more. More than 100 students participated form different branches. The fest was a huge success. l Shivkumar and team won 2nd place in paper presentation, for the paper Study of breakdown characteristics in different configuration of electrode, at Tech fest Surge-14 held at Vidhyavardhak College of engineering, Mysore, on 26th April 2014. l Sharada Srinivasan, winner & 2nd best speaker at LIS parliamentary debate held at Bangalore from 18th-20th January 2014. Also organized world debate at Chennai from 26th Dec-5th January 2014. She is the winner & Final Adjudicator at Christ Parliamentary Debate, held at Christ University, 14th to 16th February 2014. l Anjana Selvakumar & Tanay Arora, were part of the MSRIT team which were runners up at 14th annual VTU youth festival from 25th February to 1st March 2014, held at VTU Belagavi. Guest Lectures l Sri Harish.V Mekali, delivered a talk on “Application of ARM Processors” to M.Tech I sem students on 4th January 2014. l Dr Dipankar of Treelabs, IIT, Mumbai, delivered a talk on “Energy Efficient Engineering” for all branches of Engineering at MSRIT premises on 24th Jan 2014. Shri Bheede, from Larsen & Tubro, Bangalore l delivered guest lecture on Towards effective leadership, under IEEE-PES MSRIT Student chapter at MSRIT premises, on 31st Jan 2014. Prizes by students Jerome and team won 1st place in paper l presentation for the paper Leakage current analysis of porcelain disc insulator due to unusual pollutants, at Tech Fest Enigma-14 held at Malanad College of Engineering, on 21st March 2014. M/S think Labs, SINE, IIT Mumbai delivered talk on l “Advanced Embedded System & Career opportunities”, under IEEE-PES student chapter, at MSRIT premises, on 7th Feb 2014. Nithin Kumara et al won 1st place in MSRIT open l day Project exhibition held in May 2014, for the project Home Automation. Vishnu and Team won 2nd place in MSRIT open day l project exhibition, held in 1st May 2014 for the project Power quality audit at MSRIT campus. Dr S S Prabhu, Advisor, IIIT, Bangalore, gave talk on l SCADA Systems-Developments & Security Concerns, under IEEE-PES student chapter, at MSRIT premises, on 21st Feb 2014. Tarun, and Team won 1st place in paper l presentation, for the paper Effect of nearby earth objects on the breakdown of the sphere gap, at Sri Kalyan Ram, CEO, Electrono solutions Private l Ltd delivered a talk on Innovation Labs –A Proposal for combined Success & Growth. 7 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l Dr Aravind Vishwanathan, Chief Strategy Officer, Xellect IP solutions delivered talk on Patent Drafting, for VIII sem students as a part of their course IPR on 29th March 2014, at college premises. Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals Dr. Putta bore Gowda – 'Causes of variation in l performance parameters of different Wind Turbine Generators located in different parts of India', International journal of commerce, managements l Prof. Saifur Rahman of Virginia Tech delivered a talk on ‘Developments in Smart grid & Sustainable Energy Generation Policy, Technology and Deployment Issues’, in association with IEEE - PES Bangalore Chapter, and IEEE-PES MSRIT student chapter. and tech. e-Journal ISSN: 2320 - 7787,Vol.2, No. 1, Jan-2014, pp 374-381. Dr. Puttabore Gowda – 'Investigation of l Mathematical modeling to access the performance of Solar flat plate collector', International Journal of renewable energy resources, Vol. 2, Issue 2, Feb Guest Lectures - delivered by the dept faculty 2014. l Dr Premila Manohar has been invited as the resource person for the question paper workshop, Staff Selection Commission, 13, 14 and 15th Feb 2014. She has been invited to deliver a series of lectures on ‘Introduction to HVDC Transmission systems and controls’, at Power System Training Institute, Bangalore, on 23rd Aug 2014 and 30th Oct 2014. Arunakumara P C, Dr. P. Dinesh - 'Study of Fatigue l Crack Growth in Heat Treated Aluminium 2024', International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(An ISO 3297: 2007 Certified Organization), Vol. 3, Issue 2, Feb 2014. Dr. Putta Bore Gowda – 'Investigation of l Dr. Pradip Kumar Dixit, has delivered a talk on l Ar tificial Neural Network and Design of experiments, during the four day workshop conducted by the Chemical Engineering department titled ‘Design and Optimization of experiments’, from 4th-7th August 2014. mathematical modeling to assess the performance of solar flat plate collector', International journal of renewable energy research: Vol. 2 Issue 2, Feb 2014. Dr. Niranjan Murthy – 'Further investigations of l heat transfer characteristics from DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING arrays of multiple water jets', International Journal of Innovative research in science, Engineering and Technology, ISSN 2319 8753, Vol.3, Issue 3, Conducted One day seminar on ‘Biomass Energy l Technology and Sustainability’ on 8th March 2014 under TEQIP. [March 2014], pp10030-10037. T. Anil Kumar – 'Effect of electromagnetic induction l and heat treatment on the mechanical and wear Conducted Three day National level workshop on l ‘Processing and characterization of advanced composite materials’ on 25th to 27th March 2014 under TEQIP. properties of LM25 alloy', International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing and Materials Engineering, Conducted one week Faculty Development l Programme on ‘Vibration, monitoring & its control’ on 19th to 23rd August 2014 under TEQIP AMME 2014 Vol.1, pp118-127, ISBN978-93-82338-03-1, 27-29th Mar 2014. Ms. Jyothilakshmi. R, Dr. S.V.Prakash l 'Biomethanation Plant for Vegetable Waste and Conducted two days International conferences on l ‘Recent advances in Engineering Sciences’ on 4th & 5th September 2014 under TEQIP Utilization of Biogas Slurry', International Journal of Research in Advent Technology (IJRAT), Vol. 2, Issue 8, 2014. 8 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Lokesha, Dr. P Dinesh – 'Vibration in condition l monitoring of a machine - tool - A review', International conference on recent advances in engineering science, MSRIT, Bangalore-54, 4th & 5th Sep 2014. Mr. Rajeesh. S, Dr. S V Prakash, Mr. Girish V l Kulkarni – 'Performance characteristics Analysis of Diesel Engine Using Biodiesel derived from Cashew Nut Shell Liquid (CNSL) As a Alternative Fuel', International Journal of Research in Advent Technology (IJRAT), Vol. 2, Issue 8, 2014. Jyoyhi lakshmi, Dr. S V Prakash – 'Indian scenario l of small scale plug flow bio gasifier designed for biodegradable solid waste with relevance to its operation, performance and sizing calculation', International conference on recent advances in engineering science, MSRIT, Bangalore-54, 4th & 5th Sep 2014. Dr. Mohandas K N. - 'Investigation of residual stress l and flank wear on insert by hard turning of hard chrome plated surfaces on EN24 substrate', International Journal of Manufacturing, Materials, and Mechanical Engineering Vol.4, N2, April-June 2014, pp 14-29 Dr. Mohandas K N – 'Study of the surface integrity l and heat measurement of hard turning of hard chrome coated EN24 substrate', International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing and Materials Engineering, AMME 2014, March 27th – 29th March, 2014, NIT-K Surathkal, published in Elsevier Procedia Materials Science, Vol.5, 2014, pp 1947-1956. Sridhar B S, Suhas R - 'Dynamic response analysis l of aircraft hydraulic flight control surface actuation system', International conference on recent advances in engineering science, MSRIT, Bangalore-54, 4th & 5th Sep 2014. Sridhar B S, Abhiram B Aithal - 'Mechanical l analysis of HMC shunt switch module of power distribution package for space applications', International conference on recent advances in engineering science, MSRIT, Bangalore-54, 4th & 5th Sep 2014. Dr. Mohandas K N – 'New method of joining Steel l and Carbide using a Porous Binder Cloth', Journal of Mechanical Engineering Research and Technology, Vol.2, N1, 2014, pp 323 – 329 Dr. Mohan Das K N , Pavan S - 'New method of l joining steel and carbide using a porous binder cloth', International conference on recent advances in engineering science, MSRIT, Bangalore-54, 4th & 5th Sep 2014. Dr. K. R. Phaneesh, Anirudh Bhat, Gautam l Mukherjee and K. T. Kashyap – '3D MC simulation of grain growth kinetics and the Zener limit in polycrystals', Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vol.598(2014) pp 8-12. Dr. Raji George, Ashish R Bhat - 'An engineering l approach for manufacturing process changes from casting to Hog out of aerospace component', International conference on recent advances in engineering science, MSRIT, Bangalore-54, 4th & 5th Sep 2014. Papers presented in (International / National) Conferences l Arunakumar P C - 'Fatigue crack growth thresholds in Heat treated En8 Steel', International conference on recent advances in engineering science, MSRIT, Bangalore-54, 4th & 5th Sep 2014. Dr. Srinivas Murthy P L, Pradip Dutta - 'Design and l fabrication of cooling slope for semi solid forming of aluminium A356 alloy', International conference on recent advances in engineering science, MSRIT, Bangalore-54, 4th & 5th Sep 2014. l Rajeesh S, Dr. S V Prakash – 'Performance analysis of diesel engine using cashew nut shell liquid (CSNL) biodiesel and cashew nut shell liquid (CSNL) blended with ethonal as a alternative fue'l, International conference on recent advances in engineering science, MSRIT, Bangalore-54, 4th & 5th Sep 2014. Dr. Ramesh CM , Venugopal N - 'FEM analysis of bio l material for dental implantation', International conference on recent advances in engineering science, MSRIT, Bangalore-54, 4th & 5th Sep 2014. 9 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Jaya christian K G, - 'Integration of reverse l engineering and 3D printing for development of bike chassis', International conference on recent advances in engineering science, MSRIT, Bangalore-54, 4th & 5th Sep 2014. l Dr. Ramamurthy and his Team Members WTO & IPR relay cell Bangalore – 'WTO & IPR Matters in International Trade', 11th Oct 2013. l Dr. Sivaranjani Galy, Associate Professor, MSR Dental College, Bangalore – 'Reverse Engineering for better health', 29th Nov 2013. Rajeesh. S - 'Experimental And Mathematical l Analysis Of Bio fuel (CNSL Blended With Diesel) Run Diesel Engine' 2nd IEEE Conference on Power Engineering and Renewable Energy ICPERE 2014, 9th - 11th Dec 2014, Indonesia, Bali. Mr. Ajay, Carrier Launcher Education Ltd Bangalore l - 'international education for Enginners', 25th Oct 2013. Mrs. Vimala Narayanan, Program Director and l Head CFD Group, GTRE Bangalore – 'CFD in Engineering Applications', 10th Dec 2013. J yo t h i l a k s h m i . R , D r. S . V. P r a k a s h – l 'Biomethanation plant for vegetable waste and utilization of biogas slurry', Two day national level seminar on alternate sources of energy for agriculture and allied purposes, 28th and 29th March 2014. Mr. Nithyananda Rao & Team CAD Centre l Malleshwaram, Bangalore - 'Preliminary Test on National design Competition', 21st Feb 2014. Sri Dinesha AG, Assistant Manager, NTTF l Bangalore – 'Press Tools for sheet Metal fabrication', 7th march 2014. Dr. Mohandas K N – 'New method of joining Steel l and Carbide', National Conference on Metallurgy of High Performance of Steels, Coimbatore, 4th-5th April, 2014. Dr. Gopala Krishna, Jain University, Kanakapura, l Bangalore- 'Multi displinary Emerging technology An over view on alterin Vehicle', 11th Mar 2014. Dr. K. R. Phaneesh – 'Extra-Curricular activities - A route l to value based education' State level conference 'EMPOWER YOUTH - EMPOWER NATION THROUGH VALUE INITIATIVES', Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore, 12th Feb. 2014. Dr. Raji George, Professor, MSRIT - 'Introduction to l nano composites', 21st Mar 2014. Dr. Vaidehi Ganesan, Senior Scientist, Indira l Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Dept. of Atomic Energy, Kalpakkam – 'Failure analysis and damage assessment of some engineering components using NDE Techniques', 24th Mar 2014. Achievements - Faculty l Mr. D Venkatesh & Mr. Sunith Babu along with their student team participated in the AUTODESK university conference held at Loas Vegas from 1st Jan 2014 to 6th Feb 2014. The Inauguration of SME activities for year 2014-15 l was inaugurated by Dr. H Sundhara, Chairman, Energy saving commission, world Foundry organization, Bangalore and Dr. K P Puthuraya, Professor, Emeritus, International Medical college, Bangalore on 15th September 2014. Mr. D Venkatesh and his student team l participated in the All Terrien Vehicle (ATV)BAJAE held at Indore on 19th to 23rd Feb 2014. Dr. Phaneesh K R, Professor, attended l International conference on Mechanics, simulations & control on 11th & 12th June 2014 held at Mascow, Russia. Gopala Krishna KN, Consultant – 'llean six sigma', l 13th Oct 2014. Guest Lectures Ravi Chandra Rangappa, HOD, Nillai University, l Malaysia – 'HYBRID & electric vehicles', 15th October 2014. l Mr. Karthikeyan Vardarajan, Director EDS Technologies Pvt Ltd – 'Product life cycle management and its importance for current Business', 6th Sept 2013. Chetan Vasista, Marketing Manager, MFG & l Subscription, AUTODESK India Ltd – 'Fostering innovation', 30th Oct 2014. 10 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l Dr. M R Ramesh, Assistant Professor, NITK, Surtkal – 'Effect of spray coating on structure, mechanical properties, wear and corrosion resistance of materials', 26th Nov 2014. Faculty who obtained Ph.D degree P.L. Srinivas Murthy was awarded Ph.D degree for his work on 'Studies on Retrogression and Re-ageing of Aluminium-Zinc-Magnesium (7075) alloy, by JNT University, Anantapuramu. Siddaraju C was awarded Ph.D degree for his work on 'Effect of austempering temperature and time on structure, mechanical properties, wear & corrosion resistance of ductile iron castings' by VTU, Belgaum. 41st Survey Camp 2014 at Kaiwara The projects carried out by the students included Old Tank Restoration Project, New Tank Project, Canal Project, Highway Project and Public Health Engineering Project DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING l The department of Civil Engg at MSRIT is known for its quality teaching and training students in the field of practical applications of Civil Engg Technology. Apart from regular academic activities the students are exposed to the field problems of surveying, planning, and designing of Civil Engineering Projects. In view of this '41st Survey Camp 2014' of Civil Dept, MSRIT was organized at Kaiwara in January 2014 for VIII Sem students. l The Department of Civil Engineering conducted a two day seminar on “RESEARCH AND APPLICATION OF INNOVATIONS IN HIGHWAY TECHNOLOGY” ON 10th & 11th March, 2014. Thea im of the seminar was to encourage long term innovation in terms of the design, construction, maintenance, evaluation, rehabilitation and safety of roads in the country. The focus of the programme therefore was to address quality, efficiency, safety, sustainability and reliability aspects in Road Building. The highlight of the valedictory function of the 2-day seminar was the Felicitation of Prof. C E G Justo, who is a pioneer in the field of Highway Engineering and a senior Professor of Civil Engineering. He shared his words of wisdom which young participants of the seminar have to carry along with them in the days to come. The function was graced by Dr. A Veeraragavan, Dr. B R Srinivasa Murthy and our beloved Principal. Dr. S Y Kulkarni. 11 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Dr. S Y Kulkarni, Principal of MSRIT welcomed the delegation and Dr. R Prabhakara, HOD Civil introduced the delegation and the coordinator India Platform Mr Sandeep Shetty proposed the vote of thanks. l The department of Civil Engineering hosted its second inter college Civil Tech Fest- Sameeksha 2014 on 28th and 29th of April 2014 in the college. More than 300 students from various colleges of Bangalore participated in highly competitive technical events like Civil Quiz, Mega Pascal, Real Estate Tycoon, Build If You can, CEvolution etc. 30 Prizes of worth Rs. 62000/- were distributed to the participants from various colleges. The high light of Sameeksha 2014 was that an exhibition was organized by Mr. Surudh Reddy and his team and it was inaugurated by LIC member Dr. Vinod Hosur. Model exhibited during the workshop Felicitation to Dr. C.E G Justo VISIT OF DELEGATES FROM GHENT UNIVERSITY l Mr. Chris Poulissen, the CEO of the Belgian urban planning company NP-Bridging and Dr. Jakob De Roover, who is responsible for the urban planning projects of the India Platform visited MSRIT on 25th March 2014. An interaction meeting was held with faculty members of Civil and Architecture department to explore the possibility of working in the domains of urban planning, city planning, urban design, traffic management, pollution control, w a s t e m a n a g e m e n t , c a r b o n fo o t p r i n t , telecommunication, smart city development and other areas related to Urban Planning. l The Department of Civil Engineering, MSRIT and Department of Microbiology, MSRMC conducted a collaborated a two day workshop on 'Water and Air Borne Diseases' from 29th to 30th April, 2014. There were 100 participants in the workshop comprising 45 doctors and 55 engineers. Medicos and Engineer's to Safe Guard Health 12 ¸ÀA¦UÉ International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences (ICRAES 2014) l Five departments of our institute namely Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, Industrial Engineering and Bio technology joined Teacher's Day & Engineers Day Celebrations together and conducted an international In the evening freshers day was celebrated welcoming 1st sem students of civil engineering to our department. It showcased talents of newcomers as well as senior students. Function was graced by the presence of HOD DR R Prabakara. It was well attended by students and faculties. conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences from 4th to 5th of September 2014, under TEQIP-II program. More than 500 participants consisting of Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals academicians, practicing engineers, Prashant Sungar, Sunil B – 'Dynamic Response Of l 3D Steel Frame',International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Vol. 5, Issue 6, ISSN 2229-5518. pp 1444 – 1454, Jan 2014. research scholars and students attended this conference. Over 350 research papers were presented by the participants in various T. G e e t h a k u m a r i , A s h w i n k u m a r M . P, l Dr. C.G.Puttappa, Dr. Shashidhar C, Dr. K.U. Muttu – 'Finite Element Analysis on Flexural characterstics of SFRNC and SFRSCC one way restrained slabs using ANSYS', Journal of Civil Engineering Technology & Research, Vol. 2, pp 267276,2014. sessions during the conference. Separate abstracts were compiled by various departments. Journal of Civil Engineering Technology and Research (JCETR) having ISSN 2349-9575 was inaugurated and released in the conference. T. Geethakumari, D. S. Sudin, Srinidhi. M –'Use of l crushed Mangalore tile waste as fine aggregate in cement mortar and concrete mixes', Journal of Civil Engineering Technology and Research , Vol. 2, pp 403-409, 2014. Santhosh .D – 'Non-Linear static analysis of RC l frame structure'.IOSR Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering (IOSR-JMCE) e-ISSN: 22781684,p-ISSN: 2320-334X, Vol. 11, Issue 2 Ver. II (Mar- Apr. 2014), pp 78-89 Teachers Day and Engineers Day l The Royal society of Civil engineers celebrated Santhosh .D – 'Pushover analysis of RC frame l structure using ETABS 9.7.1', IOSR Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering (IOSR-JMCE) e-ISSN: 2278-1684,p-ISSN: 2320-334X, Vol.11, Issue 1 Ver. V (Feb. 2014), pp 08-16. Teachers day and Engineers day on 17th September 2014. On this occasion prominent personalities Prof. M. Venkatakrishniah, former HOD of Civil Department of MSRIT and Mr. Hiriyannaiah, Chief Santhosh .D and N. Jayaramappa – 'Case Study on l Slender Multi-storey RC Buildingwith Brick infill',. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology.(2014) eISSN: 23191163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 Engineer, Bhagirath Constructions, Bangalore were the distinguished guests who were felicitated by our beloved Principal Dr. S. Y. Kulkarni on this occasion. 13 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Aggregate in High Strength Concrete', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences MSRIT Bangalore, 2014. Papers presented in (International / National) Conferences Jyothi Roopa. S.K, Dr. C. G. Puttappa – l 'Toxicological Impact on Vegetation of Arkavati Reservoir Command Area (Karnataka, India)', 3rd Annual International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Sciences (SEES 2014)” organized by GSTF at Singapore (in Hotel Fort Canning) during 24th– 25th February, 2014 - ISSN 2251-189X. l Raje Gowda, Dr. Prabhakara R, Manu Hegde, E.T. Arasu, B. G Jagadeesha Kumar - 'Potential Use of Rigid Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste Materials as Fine Aggregate in Self- Compacting Concrete', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences MSRIT Bangalore, 2014. Prashant Sunagar – 'Crushed cement concrete l substitution for construction aggregates', Emerging trends in Engineering Technologies (ETET 2014), Jyothi Institute Of Technology, Bangalore, 21st– 22nd February 2014. l Nambiyanna.B,Atul Gopinath, Dr. Nakul R, Dr. Prabhakara R – 'Parametric Study on Rotation and Plastic Hinge Formation in RC Beams', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences MSRIT Bangalore, 2014. B. G Jagadeesha Kumar and R. Prabhakara – 'Ecol Bricks By Microbial Mineral Precipitation' International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences MSRIT Bangalore, 2014. l Dr. B. V. Venkata Subramanya & Dr. Srikanth M. Naik Lakshmikanth, Vinay M – 'Economical feasibility Study on Using demolished Building waste material for Road Use',International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences, MSRIT, Bangalore, 2014. B. G Jagadeesha Kumar, and Prabhakara R – l 'Potential use of Rigid Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste Materials as Fine Aggregate in SelfCompacting Concrete', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences, MSRIT, Bangalore, 2014. l Laxmikanth, Vinay.M, Dr. Srikanth M Naik – 'Effect of stilt floor on the behavior of reinforced hollow concrete block masonry infilled RC frames due to lateral loads',in International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences MSRIT Bangalore, 2014. B. G Jagadeesha Kumar - 'Vaastu Shastra and l Sustainable Building Design', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences, MSRIT, Bangalore, 2014. l Harsha N, Srikanth M. Naik and Umadevi B – 'A Review on Construction and Demolition Waste Management and its Role in Sustainable Development', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences MSRIT Bangalore, 2014. B. G Jagadeesha Kumar – 'Development of l Location Specific Green Building Guidelines – A Case Study', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences, MSRIT, Bangalore, 2014. l Srilatha.N, Madhavi Latha. G and Puttappa C.G – 'Shaking Table Studies on Geotextile Reinforced Soil Slopes', Golden Jubilee Conference of the IGS Bangalore Chapter, Geo-Innovations, 30th-31th October 2014. Raje Gowda, Dr. Prabhakara R, Manu Hegde, l E.T. Arasu – 'Potential Use of Rigid Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste Materials as Fine Aggregate in Normal Strength Concrete', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences MSRIT Bangalore, 2014. Achievements - Students l Mr. JYN Bharadwaj won the 1st in debate in Megalith 2014 at IIT Kharagpur. Raje Gowda, Dr. Prabhakara R, Manu Hegde, l E.T. Arasu – 'Potential Use of Rigid Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste Materials as Fine l Sparshit & Anand achieved One in top six in Bending moment 1314 14 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Students With Awards l Dr. Srikanth M. Naik was invited to be the Judge for the event 8th 2014 Technocultural Fest at RVCE for the event ESTIMATION. l Swathi T S secured 12th rank, in PG diploma in industrial safety from Kuvempu University. The winning team at Nirmaan-ICESS 2014 l A strong contingent comprising of 14 students from the final year of civil engineering department participated in Nirmaan ICESS-2014, an international level inter college civil technical fest held at BMS College of Engineering on 28th and 29th Sep. 2014 and emerged as the overall champions and brought laurels to the institute and the department. There was an active participation of five students accompanied by two faculty members from our department. Dhanyata Poovaiha, Saniya Syed, Sanjitha, Dasika Shruthi and Rohitha. M. were the students of 5th semester students and Swathi. T. S and Jyothi. M.R the faculty attended the program. Guest Lectures - delivered by the dept faculty VigneshNayar, Soumitra Chatterji - 1st prize in Quiz l l Dr. Umadevi. B – 'Solid Waste Management’- in Workshop on ‘Water Resources and Environmental Engineering (WREE – 2014)', Dept of Civil Engg, NiiteMeenakshi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, 3rd - 7th February, 2014. Harish K V S, Vignesh Nayar, Soumitra Chatterji - 1st l prize in concrete cube casting Dheeraj P V, Bhagyashree Ankolekar, Sahana V - 1st l prize in AutoCad and real estate tycoon Soumitra Chatterji, Vignesh Nayar- 1st prize in l Geotechnique The Bandra–Worli Sea Link, named the Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link is a cable-stayed bridge that links Bandra in the Western Suburbs of Mumbai with Worli in South Mumbai. The bridge is part of the proposed Western Freeway that will link the Western Suburbs to Nariman Point in Mumbai's main business district. Kenneth Nazareth- 1st prize in potential professor l Karan Pawar, Abhijit Darekar, Menaka Patel, Tracy l Maria George, Rhythm Bhatnagar, Dhanarjun Reddy, J Y N Bharadwaj all were finalists in different events. Costing US$250 million, the bridge was commissioned by the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), and built by the Hindustan Construction Company. The bridge was fully opened in 2010. The Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian l Institute Of Science organized the Climate Change Quiz Program for students from engineering and science colleges on Tuesday 23rd September at J N TATA Auditorium Indian Institute of Science Bangalore The sea-link reduces travel time between peak hours from 60–90 minutes to 20–30 minutes and has an average daily traffic of approx. 37,500 vehicles. 15 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l Department organized annual Project Exhibition for 8th Sem on 8th and 9th May 2014. Students in teams exhibited their talent in the exhibition that attracted the public and students with great interest. DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING Final Year B.E students Farewell held on 16th May 2014 . l Workshop on Pedagogy (Core Module) was held on July 30th, 1st & 2nd August 2014. This workshop attempted to improve the personal and professional attributes of a teacher and their communication skills. The workshop focused on the concept that learning is a process and never a product; it presented important reasons to justify this concept. It also helped to analyze existing course designs and how to improve them (and the parameters or metrics used to quantify such an activity). The program is intended to communicate thoughts about effective engineering education to lecturers. Final Year M.Tech students Farewell 12th May 2014. Department conducted B E Orientation Program 12th Sept 2014. Workshop on Pedagogy (Core Module) 16 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l Department organized a workshop on 'Advances in VLSI system Design' from 13th to 20th August 2014. The objective of the workshop was to understand the capabilities of CMOS ASIC Technologies using Cadence Tool and to demonstrate an ability to use industry standard synthesis tool to conduct VLSI Design Lab and to achieve desired project objectives. l Workshop on Micro- Nano Structures for Consumer Electronics was held by the department on 8th July 2014. The Seventh ISSS International Conference on Smart Materials Structures and Systems was jointly Organized by ISSS and IISc .The workshop aimed at giving insight to the curriculum to be adopted in the Engineering education. Micro-Nano Technology is an exciting area of scientific development that promises breakthroughs in all kinds of fields. Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals l K. Manikantan - 'Entropy based Binary Particle Swarm Optimization and classification for ear detection', Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier Journal (International Journal) Vol. 27, pp 115–128, Jan 2014, (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2013.07.0 22). Workshop on Advances in VLSI system Design l V. Anandi – 'A Novel 32 X 32 MAC Unit for Low Power Hearing Aid Application', ACEEE International Journal of Signal and Image Processing, ISSN:2152-5056, Feb 2014. l Regional Level competition on “Skill of Electronics” was held on 21st and 22nd August 2014. The objective of the competition is Spearhead India's participation in World Skills competition. Provide motivation and knowledge to aspire to higher standards and recognition for outstanding achievement. l Rashmi R, Sarala S M – 'OFDM: Modulation technique for wireless communication', International Journal of Innovative research in Advanced Engineering (IJIRAE) Vol.1, Issue-1, March 2014. l Mamtha M, Dr. B K Sujatha – 'A Novel Blend of DWT and SVD for medical images using digital watermarking', International journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engg, Vol-1, Issue-9, March 2014. l Dr. K. Indira, Bibi Ayesha H Patil – 'Automatic Recognition of Rodent Species based on Mathematical Morphological Characterization of Skull', IJEAT,Vol. 3, Issue 4, April 2014. Papers presented in (International / National) Conferences l Suma K V, Bheemsain Rao Nitishi M, Meghana S, Prathibha N – 'Nailfold Capillaroscopy in Assessment of Microcirculation in diabetes mellitus – A Review', National conference on The Zen & Tao of Electrical Engineering, MSRIT, Bangalore, 7th – 9th Jan 2014, pp 108 - 110. Regional Level competition on Skill of Electronics 17 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Achievements - Students Rashmi R, Sarala S M – 'Blind Channel Estimation l Technique for Cognitive Radio', 7th IETE conference on RF & Microwave and Wireless (Icon RFW-2014) , HKBK College of Engg , Bangalore, May 8th -10th, 2014. l Abhiram LS, Gowrav L, Punith kumar H L, Sriroop B K, Manjunath C L – 'Design and synthesis of Pseudo dynamic SBOX based AES encryption', National conference on Electrical and Electronics Engg (NCE-14) conducted by dept of Electrical and Electronics Engg, HKBK Belgaum & IEEE – HKBKCE students chapter held on 5th June 2014. This paper was awarded Best Paper. Aditi Prabhu, Harsha Manivanan, Karthik Sridhar, l Shakeel Ahmed, Lakshmi Srinivasan – 'Study of Noise Assessment on situation systems developed for Aviation scenarios', National conference on Electrical and Electronics Engg (NCEEE-14), Dept of Electrical and Electronics Engg, HKBK Belgaum & IEEE – HKBKCE students chapter, 5th June 2014. Vishwanatha R, Sarala S M – 'Development of l Electronics on the Pigtail and Multi Sensor Moduel for Temperature Measurement in Exhaust Gas System', International Conference on Networks, Information and communications 2014 (ICNIC 2014), Sri Venkateshwara College of Engg , ECE Dept, Bangalore, July 10th - 12th, 2014. Abhiram LS, Gowrav L, Punith kumar H L, Sriroop B K showing best research paper award certification along with supervisor Mr. Manjunath C L l MOKSHA Unmanned Ground Vehicle project represented college in IGVC 2014 held on 6th-9th June 2014 at Oak land University, Michigan US, Placed 11th position in Auto Navigation Challenge Globally and 2nd position in Indian standings, Harish A J, Tilak D, Bharath B V (6sem), Sai Akhil (4sem), sponsored from Honeywell, Ostrich Mobility and MSRIT . Amar Shetkar, Sarala S M – 'BodyCom Technology l –An Authentication System', International Conference on Networks, Information and communications 2014 (ICNIC -2014), Sri Venkateshwara College of Engg , ECE dept, Bangalore, July 10th - 12th, 2014. M Rakesh, S Hitesh babu, Samarth Tambad, l Sanjay Simha, Sarala S M – 'Android application controlled spy robot implementing face detection for enhanced surveillance', 2nd International Conference on Emerging research in computing , Information and communication applications (ERCICA -2014), NMIT, Bangalore, 1st -2nd Aug, 2014, pp 34-40 . Dr. K.Indira, Suma KV, Nitishi M – 'Classification of l Nail fold Capillary Images for Diabetes detection in Indian Population', International Conference on Communication and Computing (IMCIET 2014), NMIT, Bangalore, August 21st – 23rd, 2014. Dr. K. Indira, Suma KV, Nitishi M – 'Segmentation of l Nailfold Capillary Images for Study of Microcirculation in Diabetic Mellitus in Indian Population', Second International Conference on Emerging Research in Computing, Information, Communication and Applications, VVIT, Bangalore, August 2014. l Harish Jamakandi, Aman Vora, Chaitanya K,Lashmi S, “Road Characterization for Digital Maps”, Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge India Analog Design Contest 2014, Won Consolation Award. The Project was among 19 Winning entries of the 365 shortlisted entries. 18 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l Prof. Anantharaman, Director, Jaya College Group, Chennai – 'Wireless Technologies', 17th Sept 2014 Guest Lectures - delivered by the dept faculty l V. Anandi – 'Introduction and Latest Trends in VLSI Design', 13th July 2014. Lakshmi Srinivasan – 'Simulation software's on l Electronic circuits', M. S. Ramaiah College of Arts, Science and Commerce, 27th March 2014. l Pawan J. S, Mukesh Kumar Saini, MD Gulam Hussian, Mohammed Shamim Ebrahim, Lakshmi S, “Unmanned Mobile Patrol Vehicle For Hoysala”, Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology, 37th Series Student Project Exhibition, B.V Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Tehnology, Hubli, 28th-29th July 2014, won The Best Project Award. DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING l The department of Chemical Engineering organized 5 day Faculty Development Programme on 'Recent Advances in Catalysis and Engineering' from 27th to 31st January 2014 under TEQIP- II. Archna & Sri Ravi Sadasivan coordinated the FDP. Pawan J.S, Mukesh Kumar Saini, MD Gulam Hussian, Mohammed Shamim Ebrahim with Best Project award along with Dr. S Y Kulkarni, Dr. T.V. Suresh Kumar, Registrar (Academics), Dr. Sethu Selvi and supervisor of the project Mrs. Lakshmi S. The programme was inaugurated by Dr. Laxmi Narashimhan, General Manager, Center for Novel Catalytic Materials, SHELL Technology Center, Bangalore and presided over by Dr. S Y Kulkarni Principal. Invited eminent speakers from industry and academia across the state interacted with the participants who had come from various parts of the state and delivered useful talks on the topic of the FDP. At the end the participants thanked and appreciated the department for conducting such an important program in a befitting manner. Guest Lectures Roopa Ramaswamy, CEO, Pragathi Technologies, l PG Students – 'Digital Design Using Verilog', February 2014. Dr. P G Madhavan, CAO, SYZEN – 'Predictive l Analytics and X-Event Marketing', 4th Feb 2014. Sangamesh N Ragate, Senior Design Engineer l FPGA Application development, Mistral Solutions Pvt Ltd and Srujan S J, Design Engineer GE Healthcare – 'Digital Down Conversion (DDC) & its implementation on XILINX FPGA', 15th Feb 2014. National Seminar on 'Energy Today & Tomorrow' l was organized by the department on 7th February 2014 sponsored by IIChE, Bangalore Regional Centre. Dr. Archna, Dr. Brijesh and Smt Sravanthi V co ordinated the National seminar. Dr. Bipin Vora, Chief Advisor & Distinguished Fellow of UOP, LLC, l Dr. Ashok Rao, Former Head, Network project, CEDT, IISc – 'DSP Tasks using Multidisciplinary approaches', 1st Sept 2014. 19 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Dr. S.Y. Kulkarni, Principal, MSRIT in his presidential address informed that all branches of engineering need to interface with other streams. He added that preserving the existing resources and thinking in the direction of developing alternative resources is the need of the hour. The dignitaries released the souvenir of Rasayan'14 on this occasion. Rasayan - the technical extravaganza had paper presentation, poster presentation, MS Ramaiah Memorial Tech-Quiz, Junk it and Chemfusion as other events that followed the day. Dr. Anand B Halgeri, Director, PoornaPrajna Institute of Scientific Research was the Chief Guest of Valedictory session. Honeywell Company, USA inaugurated the seminar. In his inaugural address he spoke about the prospects of Chemical Engineering. The seminar had speakers from industries related to energy sector. Dr. S Y Kulkarni Principal, MSRIT Presided over the function. The beneficiaries, participants across the nation thanked the department for organising such an important seminar. l A 4 days Faculty Development Programme On 'Design and Optimization of Experiments' was organized from 4th to 7th August 2014, sponsored by TEQIP - II. Sri. S. Swaminathan, Ramsivakiran Reddy and J Koteswara Rao coordinated the program. Dr. E. Vasantha Kumar, Visiting Professor, l The department held its annual RASAYAN 2014STUDENT TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM on 07th April, 2014. Faculty Dr. Archna, Smt. Rajeshwari M. K, Smt. Sravanthi V, and Students Christine Thomas, Harit Bhargava, Sanjana Chndrashekar, Sarayu Rao, Sharath Ravi, Vishnu T coordinated the program. Rasayan-2014 the National Level Technical Symposium was inaugurated by the chief guest Dr. A Sivakumar, Vice President, Sami labs. The theme of this year's Rasayan was Power Up – Alternative Energy Sources. Prof G A Shareef, Head, chemical engineering department welcomed the gathering. In his inaugural address, Dr Sivakumar stressed on the need of using alternate energy. Biomass and organic waste holds great potential as an energy source, he added. Sri S M Acharya, Chief Executive, Gokula Education Foundation (Engg.) stated that chemical engineering has to play an important role in developing ideas and technology for green energy. Students must be inquisitive to explore exciting vistas to discover new ideas, he added. University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore inaugurated the program. Eminent speakers from reputed institutes and industry delivered useful talks in various areas of design of experiments. The seminar helped the participants to learn the criteria for running a DOE, the requirements and pre-work necessary prior to DOE execution, and how to select the appropriate designed experiment type to run. Dr. S Y Kulkarni presided over the inaugural function and in his presidential address he highlighted the importance of the DOE in engineering and industrial problems. He asked the participants to make use of the opportunity provided by the department. 20 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l G M Madhu “Adsorption of Lead from Aqueous Solution using Aluminium Oxide”, Journal of Chemical Engineering and Research, Vol.2 No.1, 145-150, 2014. Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals l Rajeswari M Kulkarni, Srinikethan, G. Vidya Shetty, K. Cadmium (II) and nickel (II) biosorption by Bacillus laterosporus (MTCC 1628) Journal of the Taiwan institute of chemical engineers, 45, 1 6 2 8 1635, 2014. Papers presented in (International / National) Conferences l Dr. Archna A Niveditha, Pradima J, “Sorption and Kinetic Studies of Chromium (VI) By Industrial Spent Biomass” published in Elsevier Proceedia for Int. Conf. on Advances in Chemical Engineering and Technology, ICACE TKMCE '14 (308–312). Dr. Archna, A Niveditha, Pradima J, “Biosorption of l Chromium Using Industrial Spent Biomass” presented at International conference HETIS-2014 held at Dr. SSB Univeristy Institute of Chemical Engineering & Tech, Panjab University during 19th20th Septemberl 2014. l Dr. Archna, A Niveditha, Pradima J, “Chromium (VI) Adsorption and its Kinetic Studies Using Industrial Spent Biomass” published in International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology (ISSN : 2277-1581), Volume No.3 Issue No.9, pp : 11981202 , Sep 2014. Archna, Sarayu S Rao, Adarsh K, “Bioremediation l of hydrocarbon contaminated soil- A Review ” at International Conference on Green and Clean Technologies in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at SIT, Tumkur: 14th & 15thFeb 2014. l Archna, Pravan Clarence Pinto, “Biological Denitrification of Ground Water Contaminated by Leachate from Landfills” published in The International Reviewer , Volume 1 , Issue 1, January - June 2014 , pp. 9-11 . Archna, Niveditha, “Biosorption of chromium using l Immobilised Trichoderma viride ” at International Conference on Green and Clean Technologies in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at SIT, Tumkur: 14th & 15thFeb 2014. l Sravanthi V, Archna, Rajeswari M Kulkarni Biodiesel production from sunflower oil and cotton seed oil using different catalysts- A comparative study Journal of Chemical Engineering Research 2(1) 187-191, 2014. Archna, Lekha, Vasumathi, Neelam, “Biosorption l of Methyl Red Dye using low cost adsorbents ” at International Conference on Green and Clean Technologies in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at SIT, Tumkur: 14th & 15thFeb 2014. l Rajeswari M Kulkarni, G. Srinikethan, K. Vidya ShettyOptimization of factors influencing Ni (II) and Cd (II) biosorption on Bacillus laterosporus using response surface methodology, Journal of Chemical Engineering Research, 2(1). 181-186, 2014. Sravanthi V, Archna, Rajeswari M Kulkarni, l “Comparison of Biodiesel production from sunflower oil and cotton seed oil with various catalysts” at International Conference on Recent advances in Engineering Sciences (ICRAES14) held at Department of Chemical Engineering, MSRIT Bangalore on 5th-6th September 2014. Brijesh, Girish Kamath, Pravan Clarence Pinto, l Simulation of reactive distillation column for methyl acetate production Journal of Chemical Engineering Research 2(1) 171-180, 2014. Rajeswari M Kulkarni, G. Srinikethan, K. Vidya l Shetty, “Optimization of factors influencing Ni (II) and Cd (II) biosorption on Bacillus laterosporus using response surface methodology” at International Conference on Recent advances in Engineering Sciences (ICRAES14) held at Department of Chemical Engineering, MSRIT Bangalore on 5th -6th September 2014. V Venkatesham, G M Madhu, S V Satyanarayana, J l Koteswara Rao, “Kinetic Studies of Photocatalytic Degradation of Methylene Blue (MB) Dye in water by Nano Zinc Oxide Derived from Solution Combustion Synthesis” Journal of Chemical Engineering and Research, Vol. 2, 215-222, 2014. 21 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Brijesh, Girish Kamath, Pravan Clarence Pinto, l “Simulation of reactive distillation column for methyl acetate production” at International Conference on Recent advances in Engineering Sciences (ICRAES14) held at Department of Chemical Engineering, MSRIT Bangalore on 5th6th September 2014. SCHEMCON Haldia 2014during 19th & 20th, September 2014. l Y. Suryamitra Apurup, Siddharath Bagri “Removal of Nickel using Zeolite 4A, Isotherm and kinetic studies”, presented at International Conference HETIS-2014, held at Dr. S.S. Bhatnagar, University Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology, Punjab University, Chandigarh, during 19th & 20th, September 2014. Sravanthi. V, Archna, D. Subba Rao, Prabhatranjan l Jha, Anish Singh, “Heterogeneous Ecofriendly catalyst for esterification reaction-Kinetics” presented at International conference HETIS-2014 held at Dr.SSB Univeristy Institute of Chemical Engineering & Tech, Panjab University during 19th20th Septemberl 2014. l Prabhatranjan Jha, Neelam R Knot, Anish Singh, “Biodiesel from Algae”, presented at RASAYAN2014, 7th April, 2014, MSRIT, Bangalore. l Prabhatranjan Jha, Anish Singh, “Silver Nano particles in waste water treatment”, presented at CHEMOVATION - 2014, 28th-29th March,2014, DSCE, Bangalore. Archna, Lekha, Vasumathi, Neelam, “Biosorption l of methyl red dye using agro wastes” at National Conference – CHEMCLAVE-2014, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras: 21st – 23rd March, 2014. l Anju S Joy, Shruti S Tanga, “Biodiesel as an Alternate Fuel”, presented at RASAYAN-2014 , 7th April, 2014 , MSRIT, Bangalore. Venkatesham V Madhu, G.M Satyanarayana, l S J Koteswara Rao, “Photocatalytic degradation of Mythylene blue dye in water by gel combustion derived nano zinc oxide”, presented at International conference on “Remedies of Environmental pollution: Current perspectives “JNTUA, Ananthapuramu, AP 30th April 2014. Achievements - Students Jai Kumar Banthia - Graduate Aptitude Test in l Engineering (GATE-2014), AIR = 208, direct admission to IIT Delhi. Sourabh C - Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering l (GATE-2014), AIR = 467 Paper presenation - Students Sarayu S Rao - Graduate Aptitude Test in l Engineering (GATE-2014), AIR = 2046 Abhishek Raizada, Debargh Ganguly, Madri l Manish Mankad, Paper presentation at International Conference on “Adsorption of Lead from Aqueous Solution using Aluminium Oxide” at International conference ICRAES 2014 held at M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore during 4th & 5th September 2014. Guest Lectures Guest Lecture on the topic “Mathematical l modeling of Bacteria-Mineral interactions” by Dr. M.N Chandra Prabha, Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, MSRIT on 24th January 2014. Ishaan Bhargava, Adithya G, Abhinav V Sagar, l “Copper Oxide – A potential nano material for the treatment of industrial effluents, presented at International Conference HETIS-2014, held at Dr. S.S. Bhatnagar University Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology, Punjab University, Chandigarh during 19th & 20th, September 2014. Guest Lecture on the topic “Business leadership” l by Mr. Ramesh Dasary, Consultant, Improvise Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore on 14th February 2014. “Techo-charades” - a competition organized on l 21st February 2014. “Banner/ Collage Designing on the Themel Alternate Energy Sources” - a competition organized on 7th March 2014. Amogh Vishwanath, Preethi Venicia Cardoza l “Equilibrium and kinetic studies on removal of lead ion on Spirulina platensis” presented at 22 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Training Programme on “Design Engineering in l Process Industries by Mr. Sharan Kumar K P and Mr. Vivekanand Moorti, Lead Process Engineers, Magnus Global Tech Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore on 28th March 2014. DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT l The department of IEM conducted 3days Faculty Development Program on 'Achieving Organizational Excellence through Industrial Engineering Techniques' from 20th to 22nd February 2014. The objective of the program was to enhance the knowledge and implementation of modern industrial engineering techniques in the Organization, to bridge the gap between the industry-academics in addition to provide common platform for academicians and industry experts to share and exchange their views and ideas. Participants from across the state from various engineering colleges had fruitful discussion and interaction with the resource persons in the program. Participants gained an understanding on how benchmarking practices are applied in industry and how it can be used as a measure to understand about the organization as a whole. At the end the most beneficiaries the participants appreciated the effort made by the department in organizing such an important program. Guest Lecture on “Role of Chemical Engineers” by l Mr. K.P Ravinath Shetty, API Unit Head, Cipla Ltd., Bangalore on 12th September 2014. Guest Lecture on “Higher Education Abroad – Brain l Drain” by Mr. Prasad S, Marketing Executive, The Copra's, Bangalore on 26th September 2014. Guest Lectures - delivered by the dept faculty l Dr. G. M. Madhu, Title: Nano Polymer composites synthesis and characterization, Venue: MSRIT, Mechanical Dept., 26.03.2014. Ramasivakiran Reddy, Title:Design of Experiments. l Venue: Daewoong Phamaceutical Co Ltd, Hyderabad, India. Date: 13.02.2014 Ramasivakiran Reddy, Title: Taguchi Design of l Experimentation. Venue: Airis Pharma Hyderabad, India. Date: 17.09.2014 Funded Project l Dr. G. M. Madhu, Prof. G. A. Shareef, Development of Nano Metal oxide Complexes for High Temperature Sorption of Carbon Dioxide, Funded by DRDO, 2010 (2 Years) for 14.70 Lakh -Completed Dr. G.M. Madhu, Dr. K. S. Rajanandam, Degradation l of Azo dyes and Cyanides by Hydrodynamic and Acoustic Cavitation, Funded by VTU, 2010 (3 Years) 8.93 Lakh - Completed 3days Faculty Development Program on 'Achieving Organizational Excellence through Industrial Engineering Techniques' Faculty who obtained Ph.D degree l 2 days International Conference on 'Recent Advances in Engineering Science – (ICRAES – 2014)” was conducted by the department from 4th to 5th September 2014.International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences – 2014 mainly focused on bringing together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of basic Engineering Sciences. The focus areas of ICRAES – 14 were – Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Management and Biotechnology. Sri V. Venkatesham, Associate Professor has been awarded Ph.D degree in the field of N a n o t e c h n o l o g y fo r h i s Research on the topic “Development of nano metal oxides and coupled metal oxides for heavy metal adsorption and Photocatalytic Degradation of Azodyes” by Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, (JNTU) Anantapur. 23 ¸ÀA¦UÉ A special issue of the International Journal of Manufacturing, Industrial and Management Engineering comprising the peer-reviewed papers presented in the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering Sciences 2014 (ICRAES-2014) was brought out during the conference. The scientific programme of the conference involved plenary and invited lectures from internationally eminent experts and paper presentation by contributory authors. Some of the important topics covered in the conference are Decision Science/Operations Research, Supply Chain and Logistics Management, Human Factors and Ergonomics,Manufacturing and Production Systems, Quality Engineering and Simulation Modeling and Analysis. The participants expressed their overwhelming satisfaction over the conduction of the conference & expressed their willingness to participate for such conference in future. delivery valve production', Global Journal of Finance and Management, ISSN : 0975-6477, Vol.6, No. 1(2014), pp. 35-40. l Dr. G.S. Prakash – 'Designing an Optimal Café Delivery Network using Traveling Salesman Problem', International Journal For Scientific Research & Development (e-jounral), Vol.2, Issue 4, June 2014, ISSN (Online): 2321-0613. l Smt. M. Shilpa & Vinay Kumar. S.P - 'Reduction of inventory through implementation of milk run',International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT),Vol.3, Issue.6, 27th June 2014. ISSN : 2278-0181 (ESRSA Publications). l M.R. ShivaKumar, Vivekanand. V & Kiran Hanjar. S –'Modeling the Fruit Processing Line and understanding its behavior through Simulation, Designed Experimental Approach',Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT), Vol.3, Issue 06, 17th June 2014, ISSN : 2278 – 0181 (ESRSA Publications). l Smt. R. Shobha & Vishwanath. V.K – 'Implementation of Kanban based Pull Production in Finish Match Grinding Lines', International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT), Vol.3, Issue.06, 27th June 2014. ISSN : 2278-0181, pg.No. 1556-1560 (ESRSA Publications). l Sri. Deepak Kumar, Dr. H. Ramakrishna and Ms. Sneha. C – 'A strategic program for overcoming stress through time management in work places', International Journal for Scientific Research & Development (IJSRD),Vol. 2, Issue 4, June 2014, ISSN:2321-0613, pg.no.: 61-66. 2 days International Conference on 'Recent Advances in Engineering Science – (ICRAES – 2014) Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals Dr. N.V.R. Naidu & Sri. M.R. ShivaKumar – 'Studies l on tensile response of aluminium alloy/sodalime glass composites at elevated temperature through Taguchi's orthogonal array approach', International Journal of Engineering, Vol.3, Issue 1, January 2014, e-issn – 2278 – 0181, pp 3339 to 3344. l Sri. Deepak Kumar, Needheesh. C. Shetty, Pramod Rajaram , Shashank. M. S & Sukesh. K – 'Study and Re-design of the layout using facilities planning tools',International Journal for Scientific Research & Development (IJSRD),Vol.2, Issue 5, July 2014, ISSN:2321-0613. Dr. G.N. Mohan Babu –' Imperatives of cognitive l and affective skills innovative problem solving. A fresh perspective', International Journal of Research in Education Methodology, Vol.5, No.2, March 2014, pp 662 – 672. l Dr. G.N. Mohan Babu & Mr. Varun Yadav – 'Application of lean line concepts to improve efficiency of PE pump assembly lines', International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT), Vol.3, Issue.06, 27th June 2014. ISSN : 22780181 (ESRSA Publications) pg.No.: 1026-1033. Dr. G.S. Prakash & Mr. Bharath. R – 'Lead time l reduction using Lean Manufacturing Principles for 24 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Dr. S. Bharath & Smt. Soundharya. K.S 'Process l analysis and reduction of aluminium (AI) and Galvanized Iron (GI) scrap levels by optimizing its consumption in bus body building process using Linear Programming Model', International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT),Vol.3, Issue 6, 24th June 2014, ISSN:22780181, pg.no.: 1245-1249. l Dr. G. S. Prakash, Dr. S. Bharath and Smt. Soundharya - 'Process Analysis and Reduction of Galvanized Iron (GI) scrap levels by optimizing its consumption in bus body building process using linear programming model', International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology,Vol.1, Issue 4, September 2014, ISSN: 2349-6002. Smt. R. Shobha, Ms. Arpitha Muthanna, Ms. Asha l Lakshmi, Ms. Neha Deepak Gudi & Ms. Sneha Priya. M – 'Improve the 5s performance in an assembly plant using fuzzy logic based modeling', International Journal for Scientific Research & Development (IJSRD),Vol. 2, Issue 5, 2014, ISSN:2321-0613. Dr. N.V.R. Naidu & Dr. M. Rajesh –‚ Enhancing fuel l economy of an automobile through Taguchi's approach',Business Review. A Journal of St. Joseph's College of Business Administration, Vol.8, No.1, June 2014, pp 80 – 89 ISSN: 0973 – 9076. Papers presented in (International / National) Conferences Dr. G. S. Prakash, Dr. M. Rajesh & Ms. Seema Banu l – 'Improving first pass field and reducing defect cost of delivery valve using six sigma approach', Global Journal of Finance and Management, Vol. 6, No.3, 2014, pg.No: 253-258, ISSN 0975-6477. Smt. R. Shobha, Dr. K.R. Suresh and l Dr. H.B. Niranjan – 'Mechanical and Micro structural Evaluation of Insitu Aluminium Titanium Boride Composite Processed by Sever Plastic Deformation', International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka 27th – 29th March 2014. Sri. S. Appaiah – 'Synthesis & characteristics of l aluminium metal matrix composites using AL203 & SIC as reinforcement materials', International Journal of Innovative Research in Advanced Engineering (IJIRAE), Vol – 1, Issue 7, August 2014. Dr. N.V.R. Naidu & Smt. M. Shilpa - 'Quantitative l Evaluation of Quality Loss for Nominal-The-Best Quality Characteristic',International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing and Materials Engineering,National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka 27th – 29th March 2014. Sri. A. Balakrishna & Mr. Kishore, P. Chakravarthy l – 'Implementation of a pull based procurement system from suppliers to an automobile company', International Journal of Manufacturing, Industrial & Management Engineering (IJMIME), Vol.2, No.1, (2014) pp143 – 149, January – June 2014. Dr. C.S. Chethan Kumar & Mr. Shridhar. B. Sutar – l 'Enhancing the performance utilization of locos at JSW Steel Ltd',International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences (ICRAES – 2014),organized by IEM Dept., Bio-Tech Dept., Civil Dep't., Mechanical Engg., Dept. & Chemical Engg. Dept.,4th & 5th Sept 2014. Dr. M. Rajesh, Sri. Deepak Kumar & Ms. Seema. B – l 'Optimization of process parameters influencing the bore roughness of delivery value using Taguchi's orthogonal array approach', International Journal of Manufacturing, Industrial & Management Engineering (IJMIME), Vol.2, No.1, (2014) pp199 – 203, January – June 2014. Smt. M. Shilpa & Mr. Vinay Kumar. S.P -' Reduction l of inventory through implementation of milkrun', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences (ICRAES – 2014),organized by IEM Dept., Bio-Tech Dept., Civil Dep't., Mechanical Engg., Dept. & Chemical Engg. Dept.,4th & 5th Sept 2014. Dr. G. S. Prakash – 'Design and crash analysis of a l rollcage for formula SAE Race Car', International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology (IJRET),Vol.3, Issue 7; July 2014, e-ISSN: 23191163/p-ISSN: 2321-7308. 25 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l Dr. G.S. Prakash & Mr. Bharath. R 'Application of l Dr. Bharath. S & Smt. Soudharya. K.S – 'Process analysis and reduction of aluminium scrap levels by optimizing its consumption in Bus Body Building process using Linear Programming Model', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences (ICRAES – 2014),organized by IEM Dept., Bio-Tech Dept., Civil Dep't., Mechanical Engg., Dept. & Chemical Engg. Dept.,4th & 5th Sept 2014. lean manufacturing principles for reducing lead time for a manufacturing organization', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences (ICRAES – 2014),organized by IEM Dept., Bio-Tech Dept., Civil Dep't., Mechanical Engg., Dept. & Chemical Engg. Dept., 4th & 5th Sept 2014 Smt. R. Shobha, Sri. Sudheer. D. Kulkarni & l Mr. Vishwanath. V.K – 'Application of Lean Concepts in Production Line for an Automobile Company', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences (ICRAES – 2014). Dr. G.N. Mohan Babu & Mr. Varun Yadav. D – l 'Evolution of Assembly Line Balancing Techniques – An Overview', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences (ICRAES – 2014), organized by IEM Dept., Bio-Tech Dept., Civil Dep't., Mechanical Engg., Dept. & Chemical Engg. organized by IEM Dept., Bio-Tech Dept., Civil Dep't., Mechanical Engg., Dept. & Chemical Engg. Dept., 4th & 5th Sept 2014. Dept., 4th & 5th Sept 2014 Dr. M. Rajesh, Sri Deepak Kumar & Ms. Seema. B – l Sri. M.R. ShivaKumar, Mr. V. Vivekanand & l Mr. Kiran Hanjar. S – 'Improving the performance utilization of fruit processing line using DOE Approach', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences (ICRAES – 2014),organized by IEM Dept., Bio-Tech Dept., Civil Dep't., Mechanical Engg., Dept. & Chemical Engg. Dept., 4th & 5th Sept 2014 'Optimization of process parameters influencing the bore roughness of Delivery Valve using Taguchi's Orthogonal Array Approach', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences (ICRAES – 2014),organized by IEM Dept., Bio-Tech Dept., Civil Dep't., Mechanical Engg., Dept. & Chemical Engg. Dept., 4th & 5th Sept 2014 A. Balakrishna & Mr. Kishore. P. Chakravarthy - ' l Implementation of a pull based procurement system from suppliers to an Automobile company', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences (ICRAES – 2014),organized by IEM Dept., Bio-Tech Dept., Civil Dep't., Mechanical Engg., Dept. & Chemical Engg. Dept., 4th & 5th Sept 2014 Ms. Arpitha Muthanna, Ms. Asha Lakshmi, Ms. l Neha Deepak Gudi & Ms. Sneha Priya.M has published in International Journal for Scientific Research & Development (IJSRD) titled “Study and Re-design of the layout using facilities planning tools.” Vol 2, Issue 5, ISSN:2321-0613, pg.no: 146-151, July 2014. Dr. N.V.R. Naidu & Mr. Chandrashekar. G – l 'Improving the availability of the machine in the Mr. Vamshi Krishna. N.V, Varun Kashyap and l CNC cell through implementation of Total Varun. V.K – 'Application of peltier cooler in Productive Maintenance', International computers', National Conference on Emerging Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Trends in Engineering Management (NCETEM – Sciences (ICRAES – 2014),organized by IEM 2014) Organized by IEM Dept., in association with Dept., Bio-Tech Dept., Civil Dep't., Mechanical IIIE, IIMM, QCFI & COSPIK on 6th & 7th November Engg., Dept. & Chemical Engg. Dept., 4th & 5th 2014 at Dept. of IEM, JSS Academy of Technical Sept 2014 Education, Bengaluru. 26 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Achievements - Students Funded projects l Mr. Sudeep. S, Ms. Supraja Mahapatra, Mr. Vivek Krishna Kumar, Mr. Anand. K.R – were awarded best project award for their innovative project on “Layout planning and optimization and design of material handling system for the factory warehouse of thyssenkrupp aerospace india private limited. [tkai]' carried out at M/S. THYSSENKRUPP, Bengaluru. Dr. N.V.R. Naidu & Dr. C.S. Chethan Kumar - DST(on l going) project- 'Mathematical Models in the design and optimization of perishable goods supply chain with an emphasis on fruits and vegetables'. Grant: Rs. 10.7 lakhs. Dr. N.V.R. Naidu & Sri. M.R. Shiva Kumar – VTU (on l going) project- 'Development and Characterization of glass reinforced magnesium alloy metal matrix composites' Ms. Seema Banu, M.Tech stuident was awarded l best M.Tech project for her project titled 'Improving first pass yield and reducing the defect cost of Delivery Valve using six sigma methodology' carried out at M/S. Bosch Ltd., Bengaluru. Grant: Rs.8 lakhs. Dr. N.V.R. Naidu & Sri. M. Rajesh – UGC (ongoing) l project - 'Enhancing fuel economy of automobiles through Design of Experiments'. Ms. Arpitha Muthanna, Ms. Asha Lakshmi. R, l Ms. Neha Gudi, Ms. Sneha Priya M - Won 1st prize for open-day best project exhibition on “Improve the 5s performance in an assembly plant using fuzzy logic based modeling” carried out at M/S. ABB India Ltd. Grant: Rs. 9.502 Lakhs Faculty who obtained Ph.D degree M Rajesh completed his Ph.D degree in the year 2014 and obtained his Doctorate in April 2014 on “Study, Analysis and O p t i m i z a t i o n o f ex te r n a l parameters of an automobile for fuel economy through design of experiments” by VTU, Belgaum. Mr. Sujoth.K.A, Mr. Sushruth. B, Mr. Vasanth. M, l Mr. Veekshith. R - Won 2nd prize for open-day best project exhibition on “Development of work holding device to facilitate quick and easy inspection of mounting bracket of hawk aircraft” carried out at M/S. HAL, Bengaaluru. Six Sigma is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. It was developed by Motorola in 1986 and Jack Welch made it central to his business strategy at General Electric in 1995. It is used in many industrial sectors today. Guest Lectures Dr. Gopalkrishna M.N, Director – Research Centre l – Jain University, Bangalore –'Robotics and its Universal Application', 18th Feb,2014. Guest Lectures - delivered by the dept faculty Six Sigma improves the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects and minimizing the variability in manufacturing and business processes. It uses a set of quality management methods, mainly empirical and statistical to create a special infrastructure of people within the organization ("Champions", "Black Belts", "Green Belts", "Yellow Belts", etc.) who are experts in these methods. Each Six Sigma project carried out within an organization follows a defined sequence of steps and has quantified value targets, for example: reduce process cycle time, reduce pollution, reduce costs, increase customer satisfaction, and increase profits. l Dr. G.N. Mohan Babu 'How to be more creative and innovative'?, BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, 11th April 2014. Motorola set a goal of "six sigma" for all of its manufacturing operations, and this goal became a byword for the management and engineering practices used to achieve it. Dr. S. Sundaram, Former Director, National l Aerospace Laboratories, Bengaluru –'Marvels of Engineerin', 22nd Sep,2014. Sri. Kashinath. M. Patnasetty, Lead Advisor – Tech l Center & Value added services, Micromatic Machine Tools Pvt. Ltd., Bengalure – 'Trends and opportunities in manufacturing sector', 10th Nov, 2014. 27 ¸ÀA¦UÉ DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING The department has organized the faculty l development programme and train the trainer workshop on Infosys campus connect workshop on business intelligence under Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP-II) during August 5th-7th, 2014. The department has conducted the three day l faculty development programme under TEQIP-II on “Pedagogy (Core Module)” during July 21-23, 2014. The department has organized a three day l workshop on “SAP technologies” during April 28th-30th, 2014. The department has conducted one week l workshop on “HPC, CUDA and Parallel Programming Using Mathematica” during July 7th12th, 2014. This workshop provided a platform for exchanging and enhancing scientific and technological knowledge of experts from R&D, academia and industry in the area of parallel programming. Techno-cultural events were conducted during l 12th-15th March 2014. The MojoJojo Hackathon was held on the 15th of l March, 2014. It saw participation from various colleges in and around Bangalore. The prizes were sponsored by Huawei and IEEE MSRIT. The ACE organization conducted a fest where all the l students of CSE department were actively took part. CodeMSRIT has conducted three contests as part of this year's programmes. The first contest was held on 10th September 2014 where 25 teams participated. The second contest was held on CodeChef platform on 26th October 2014. 34 students were participated and Varshini Ramesh and Kartik Gayatri stood first and second respectively. The third contest was held on 29th of November 2014, where 21 students were participated. Diptanshu Kakwani and Kartik Gayatri stood first and second respectively. All winners were awarded Rs. 1000 and Rs. 500 respectively. l The department has conducted a workshop on “Network Security Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing” during June 11th-13th, 2014 under TEQIP-II in association with the Department of Computer Applications. The workshop was focused on various vulnerability assessment techniques. Participants were introduced to the basic and few advanced vulnerability assessment and penetration testing tools available for this purpose. The workshop had equal session on lectures as well as hand-on tools. During the three days workshop a hands-on session on Kali Linux, Backtrack Linux, Metasploit and many other tools for security and vulnerability assessment were also conducted. Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals l Srinivasa K G, S Gosukonda – 'Continuous multimodal user authentication: coupling hard and soft biometrics with support vector machines to attenuate noise', Springer doi 10.1007/s40012014-0054-4, 2nd Sep 2014. l Srinivasa K G, et al – 'SLA based virtual machine management for heterogeneous workloads in a cloud data center', Journal of network and computer Applications. 1st August 2014. 28 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l Anita Kanavalli –'Study of secure and Energy Efficient Hierarchical Routing Protocols in WSN', IJERT, Vol 3, Issue 6, pp.1221-1228, June 2014, ISSN:2278-0181. l D S Jayalakshmi –'Object Detector using Semantic Segmentation with fisher vector', International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Vol 3 Issue 6 June 2014 pp 71197122. ISSN (online):2278-1021; print: 2319-5940. l Anita Kanavalli – 'Context aware computing algorithms using Location Management Scheme', International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research (IJSER) with impact factor 1.4, Volume 5, Issue1, (ISSN 2229-5518), January 2014. l D S Jayalakshmi – 'Recommending music by combining content based and collaborative filtering with user preferences', Emerging Research in electronics, Computer Science and Technology, vol.248, pp.507-515, 2014. DOI: 10.1007/978-81322-1157-0_52. l Anita Kanavalli –'Context aware computing algorithms using Location Management Scheme', International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research (IJSER) with impact factor 1.4, Volume 5, Issue1, (ISSN 2229-5518), January 2014. Sanjeetha R –'Improving web information quality by l age detection & security analysis of web pages', International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Scientific Research (IJAESR) –ISSN 2349-4824, Vol. 1, Issue 4, August 2014. pp 28-34. Seema S – 'Searching the Web Querying services l over ontological process', IJARCCE, Vol.3, Issue 6, June 2014. ISSN (Online): 2278-1021, ISSN (Print): 2319-5940. Sanjeetha R, Netstalker –'A packet capture and l Analysis Tool', International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Scientific Research (IJAESR) –ISSN 2349-4824, Vol. 1, Issue 4, August 2014. pp 45-51. Seema S –'Design and Implementation of Health l care Tool that provides suggestions and Doctors Appointment', IJARCCE, Vol.3, Issue 6, June 2014. ISSN (Print): 2319-5940, ISSN (Online): 2278-1021. Sanjeetha R – 'Traffic Dissector Discover and Inspect l your network', International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Scientific Research (IJAESR) ISSN: 2349 –3607 (Online) ISSN: 2349 –4824 (Print) Volume 1 Issue 2 pp. 21 to 30 June 2014. Annapurna P Patil – 'Building Intelligence in l MANET's for Efficient Routing', International Journal of Computer Science and Technology [IJCST], Vol. 5, SPl - 1, Jan - March 2014, ISSN : 0976-8491 (Online) ISSN: 2229-4333. URL: http://www.arseam.com/content/volume-1issue-2-june-2014 Jagadish S Kallimani –'A Comprehensive Analysis l of Guided Abstractive Text Summarization', International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI), Volume 11, Issue 6, September 2014. ISSN (online): 1694-0784, ISSN (print): 1694-0814. Sini Anna Alex – 'Context aware computing l algorithms using Location Management Scheme', International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research (IJSER) with impact factor 1.4, Vol. 5, Issue1, (ISSN 2229-5518), January 2014 Edition. Jagadish S Kallimani –'Abs-Sum-Kan: An l Abstractive Text Summarization Technique for an Indian Regional Language by Induction of Tagging Rules', International Journal of Information Retrieval Research (IJIRR), IGI Global, accepted in June 2014, in press, ISSN: 2155-6377. Veena G S – 'Video Based Crowd Density Analysis l for Visual Surveillance' International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication. Vol. 3, Issue 6, June 2014. pp. 7100-7104. ISSN (online): 2278-1021, print: 2319-5940. Veena G S – 'Object Detector using Semantic l Segmentation with fisher vector', International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication, Vol. 3, Issue 6, June 2014, pp 71197122. ISSN (online): 2278-1021, print: 2319-5940. D S Jayalakshmi – 'Video Based Crowd Density l Analysis for Visual Surveillance', International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Vol 3 Issue 6 June 2014. pp. 71007104. ISSN (online):2278-1021; print: 2319-5940. 29 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Paper presentation - Students l Meeradevi A K – 'Remote Tracking of Android Smart phones', IJITR, vol.2, Issue 4, June-July 2014. ISSN: 2320-5547. l Arvind M A, Jagadish S Kallimani –'Enhancement of software with minimal description of services', International multi conference on innovations in engineering and technology (IMCIET-2014), 21st 23rd August 2014, Bangalore. Papers presented in (International / National) Conferences l Srinivasa K G - 'Participated and presented in 2014 IEEE fifth international conference on the applications of digital information and web technologies, February 2014. l Ravindranath G Tontanal, Jagadish S Kallimani – 'An approach for protecting sensitive files at endpoint via meta data extraction', IRAJ research form international conference on electrical, electronics and computer engineering (ICEECE) organized by IRF, 20th April 2014, Chennai. Annapurna P Patil –'Automatic Text Summarizer”, l Third International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics', ICACCI-2014, September 24th-27th, 2014, Greater Noida, India. l Shreyas Balakuntala, Sandeep venkatesh, Rajarajeshwari S, Nitin jagadish, Sunil Kumar K M, Abhiram E – 'An intelligent system to detect, avoid and maintain potholes: A graph theoretic approach', ICMU 2014, 6-8 Jan 2014, Singapore Management University, Singapore. Annapurna P Patil - “An Improved Energy Efficient l AODV Routing Protocol for MANETs”, 11th International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, WOCN2014 Next Generation Internet, 11th-13th of September 2014, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA. Awards and Recognitions l Mallegowda M has received the Mentor award for mentoring students under The Great Mind Challenge (TGMC) projects from IBM during 2013-14. S Rajarajeshwari – 'An Intelligent system to detect, l avoid and maintain potholes: A graph theoretic approach, Seventh International conference on mobile computing and ubiquitous networking, IEEE, 978-1-4799-2231-4/14, Jan 2014. Guest Lectures Dr. Ramadoss, NIT, Thirchy, addressed the faculty l members of all departments who have applied for eNBA on 21st March 2014. He discussed on some of the issues related to applying for eNBA and some evaluation criteria. Publications - Students Jagadishappa B Akkimaradi, Jagadish S Kallimani l – 'Recognition and description of Toponym in Kannada Cartographic maps', International Journal of Advance Research in Science and Engineering (IJARSE). ISSN: 2319-8354, Volume No 03, Special Issue (01), pp. 66-73, Sep 2014. IF: 1.142. Dr. Sathish Wadiyar from SAP technologies has l delivered a technical talk on research opportunities in parallel computing on 13th March 2014. Rishab Animesh, alumni of the department (2007-11 l batch) has delivered an invited talk on 24th Jan 2014. Sagar sunil wani, Sanjeetha R – 'Traffic dissector: l discover and inspect your network', International journal of advances in engineering and scientific research (IJAESR) Vol 1, Issue 2, pp: 21-30, June 2014. Guest Lectures - delivered by the dept faculty l Dr. K G Srinivasa has delivered an invited talk on big data and data science at NMIT, Bangalore on 30th July 2014. Ankit, Anmol, Akash, Ashish, Sini Anna Alex – ' l Epidemic Analysis (Web application for epidemic Analysis and prediction)',IJSER April 2014, International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 5, Issue 4, April-2014, ISSN 2229-5518. l Prof. Pramod Sunagar has delivered an invited talk on programming skills at Shirdi Sai Engineering College, Bangalore on 14th March 2014. 30 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Funded Project DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING Project Title: Design and Development of Assistive Internet of Things (IoT) Framework for Physically Challenged People, Funding Agency: SERC Fast Track Proposals for Young Scientists Scheme, DST, Duration: 3 Years (June 2013 – June 2016), Grant Amount; 24,00,000/- l The department has organized three day faculty development programme on Advanced Training Program in Industrial Automation Using PLC & SCADA under TEQIP from 4th-6th August 2014. The event was inaugurated by BHEL general manager Dr. Ananda & MSRIT Principal Dr. S Y Kulkarni. The experts are from BHEL, KPCL, Schneider and I-MAX automation. This workshop was carried out in the intent to provide advanced engineering aspects of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). Project Title: Empirical Analysis of Public Data Sources to Understand the Development Methodologies of Free and Open Source Software Engineering, Funding Agency: University Grants Commission, New Delhi, Duration: 3 Years (July 2012 – June 2015), Grant Amount; 10,35,800/- Faculty who obtained Ph.D degree Annpurna P Patil, associate professor, obtained PhD degree for her work on “Design and performance analysis of routing protocols in MANETs” in January 2014 from VTU, Belgaum. l The department has jointly organized a Faculty Development Programme on Pedagogy under TEQIP - Phase II from 22th-24th July 2014 with Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Depar tment of Medical Electronics. Key facilitators were Dr. B G Barki, Advisor, NITTTR, Chennai, Dr. T M. Srinivasan, Dean and Professor Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samstana (VYASA), Bangalore, Dr. Lawrence Jenkins, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, B a n g a l o r e , D r. A m b a l a l V i n aya k Pa te l , Scientist/Engineer 'F', Integrated Flight Control Systems (IFCS) Directorate, Aeronautical Development Agency (Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India). Monica R Mundada, associate professor, obtained PhD degree for her work on “Energy efficient and energy aware technique in cluster based networks” in June 2014 from MGR University. Seema S, associate professor, obtained PhD degree for her work on “Some studies on application of data mining algorithms for analysis of gene expression data” in August 2014 from VTU, Belgaum. The Technical fest UPAKARAN was conducted l during 25th-26th March 2014. T N R Kumar, assistant professor, obtained PhD degree for his work on “Location and detection of a text in a video” in September 2014 from VELS University. Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals l Elumalai R, Jenitha A – 'Equal & unequal memory partitioning & task scheduling for multiprocessor SOP, International Journal of advancements in Research & Technology, Vol. 3, Issue 7, page 142144, July 2014, ISSN 2278-7763. 31 ¸ÀA¦UÉ M D Nandeesh, Jagadeesh B. Kanade, l l Suprotim Sinha M and Marut Patnaik have participated and won several positions in BIZ Tech Quiz, IeMPULSE 2014, Quiz, Amperage 2014, MSRIT QUIZ CLUB, Pravega, and IISc. B. Sivakumar – 'Analysis of Masking Energy for PEAQ Model using Lifting Technique', International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 8887), Volume 93 – No.7, May 2014 DOI The students have participated in STUDSTAT, Quiz l and other activities in different Technical events. 10.5120/ 16225-5696. DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SCIENCE & ENGINEERING A. Saravanan, V. Alamelumangai – 'Performance l of Attribute Charts and Fuzzy Control Charts for Variable Data', International Journal of Advanced l The department organized three day workshop on “Knowledge Mining Using Machine Learning and It's Applications” from 23th – 25th January, 2014. Research in EE&I, Vol. 3, Issue-5 May 2014. ISSN: 2320-3765. Elumalai R, K M Vanitha, ElavaarKazhali – 'CMOS l Design, Simulation and Physical Design of a Two Channel Demodulator', International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Vol. 3, Issue 3, March 2014, ISSN (Online): 2278 – 8875. Elumalai R, A.Ramachandran, J V Alamelu, Vibha l B Raj - 'Encoder And Decoder For (15,11,3) and (63,39,4) Binary BCH Code With Multiple Error Correction', International Journal of Advanced This workshop offered an approach for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Knowledge Mining and Machine Learning. The goal of this workshop was to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding Modern knowledge mining concepts, role of machine learning such as Support Vector Machines, Social Area Networks, Big Data and Information Retrieval and establishing new collaborations in these areas. The aim of this workshop was to disseminate the future of information technology in the light of the recent wave of Big Data, Semantic Web, Social Computing and Knowledge Acquisition technologies. By bringing together representatives of academia and industry, the workshop was also a means for identifying new research problems and for fruitful interaction within the research community. This workshop provided a platform for exchanging and enhancing scientific & technological knowledge of experts from R&D, academia and industry in the area of Knowledge Mining using Machine Learning and its applications. Research Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering (IJAREEIE), Vol 3, Issue 3, March 2014, pp.7782-7788, ISSN 2320-3765. G. Shivaprakash, S. Elavaar Kuzhali – 'Approaches l to EEG Source Localization', Global Journal of Publications in (Intrnational/National) Journals - Students Sandeep Kumar E, GP. Mohanraj, Raghuchandra l R. Goudar –' Clustering approach for wireless sensor networks based on cuckoo search strategy', International Journal of advanced research in computer & communication engineering, Vol3, Issue 6, June 2014. ISSN: 23195940. B Rajulu, S Dasiga, N R Iyer – 'Open source RTOS l implementation for on-board computer in STUDSAT-2', IEEE Aerospace conference, March 2014. DOI:10.1109/AERO. 2014.6836377. Achievements - Students l Manjayya M Nagur was a Participant for the Student Satellite Training Programme STUDSAT. 32 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Mr. Ramasuri Narayan, Researcher, IBM Research Labs, who was a key note speaker for the workshop stressed the need and importance of Social Network Mining. Dr. Hareesh, Professor from Manipal Institute of Technology talked on progress and challenges of spatial data mining. l Siddesh G M, K G Srinivasa, Tejaswini L –'Recent trends in cloud computing security issues and their mitigation', Securing Cloud-Based Databases with Biometric Applications, Chief editor – Sambit Bakshi, Ganesh Deka, IGI Global publishers, pp.1646 (Chapter 02),OCT 2014. Three Days Workshop was organized in association with Department of Computer Science and Engineering on Business Intelligence from 5th – 7th August, 2014. Malavika Jayanand, Anil Kumar M, K G Srinivasa, l Siddesh G M – 'Big Data Computing Strategies”, Securing Cloud-Based Databases with Biometric Applications', Chief editor –Sambit Bakshi, Ganesh Deka, IGI Global publishers, pp.72-90 (Chapter 04), OCT 2014. Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals Sandeep Kumar E, Kusuma S M, Dr. Vijaya Kumar l B P – 'Clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks based on Rhesus Macaque Animal's social behavior', International Journal of Computer Applications, ISSN: 0975-8887 © 2014 by IJCA Journal, Vol.87-No.8, pp.20-27, Feb, 2014 The Department entered into a Memorandum of l Understanding (MOU) with Tationem to foster Knowledge and Innovation among faculty and students under the leadership of Dr. Vijay Kumar B P, Head of the Department. The Collaboration mainly focuses on Shantala Devi Patil, Dr Vijayakumar B P – 'Secure l Health monitoring in wireless sensor network with mobility-supporting adaptive Authentication scheme', International Journal of Computer Networking, Wireless and Mobile Communication, Print ISSN: 2250-1568, Online ISS: 2278-9448, © TJPRC Pvt. Ltd., Vol.4, Issue 1, pp.27-34, Feb 2014 1. Research and Development team that focuses on the following technological areas: i) Machine learning and Data Mining, ii) Social computing and Crowd sourcing, iii) Statistical Modeling, iv) Rapid prototyping of software, v) Bioinformatics, vi) Semantic web 2. Student Engagement Program to tackle Indio's Social Challenges through technology development. Dr Vijayakumar B P, Dilip Kumar S M - 'Neural l Networks based Efficient multiple multicasting routing for Mobile networks', International Journal of Information and Electronic Engineering, ISSN:2010-3719, Copyright © 2008-2013. International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology Press (IACSIT Press), Vol.4, No.2, PP.145-152, Mar 2014 Anupama H.S, N. K.Cauvery, Lingaraju. G. M – l ' BR AI N C ON T ROLLE D W HEELC HAI R FOR DISABLED', International Journal of Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology Research (IJCSEITR), ISSN(P): 2249-6831; ISSN(E): 2249-7943, © TJPRC Pvt. Ltd., Vol.4 No.2, pp.157166, April 2014 MOU Signing with Tationem l The department has also signed an MOU with SECO, an Italy based benchmarking embedded systems solutions creators and received Rs. 5 Lakhs grants and 20 Q7 Carriers boards. The Qseven Carrier Board SECOCQ7-pITX/Xboard is a full featured carrier board for Qseven CPU modules, in the size of a Pico-ITX board. Due to the embedded module concept, this baseboard can be used with Book Chapters l Siddesh G M, K G Srinivasa – 'Realization of Open Clouds & Platforms, Continued Rise of the Cloud: Advances and Trend in Cloud Computing, Editors Zaigham Mahmood, Computer Communications and Networks Series, Springer publishers, pp.103117 (Chapter 04), 2014. 33 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l Mr. Rakshath Kashyap an Alumni of ISE department and currently developer at Iron Galaxy Ornaldo, Ornaldo, USA enlightened Students of ISE on Gaming and Entrepreneurshipon 20th January 2014 every available Qseven CPU module taking advantage of all possible features that can be offered by x86 and/or ARM architectures. It is specially designed for being both an advanced development board, for skilled users who want to design their own carrier boards, and a good solution for mass production, for customers whose needing are satisfied by this compact and versatile Carrier Board. Faculty who obtained Ph.D degree Megha P Arakeri was awarded Ph.D for her work on “Computer Aided Diagnosis of Brain Diseases” by NITK, Surathka. l The department procured the software QualNet which provides an easy start because it provides ultra high-fidelity predictions of wireless, wired and mixed-platform network and networking device performance. Also it is useful for testing, network design, modeling & simulation, and hardware and software development into the world of computer networks, adhoc and wireless sensor network. Siddesh G M was awarded Ph.D degree for his work on work on “Design and Implementation of High Performance Middleware for Next Generation Web Services by JNTU, Hyderabad Also, the accompanying software iSense Sensor Network Starter Kit provides an easy start into the world of wireless sensor networking along with the add ones and other embedded devices. Using this tools we can carry out the research works for the challenges in Wireless sensor networks. Big data is a term used for data sets that are so large and complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate. Challenges include analysis, capture, curation, search, sharing, storage, transfer, visualization, and information privacy. The term often refers simply to the use of predictive analytics or other certain advanced methods to extract value from data, and seldom to a particular size of data set. Achievements - Students l Archana C S, Nalini B S, Janani K, Pooja Krishnan, have won Excellent Paper Award for their paper M2M Automation: Matlab to Mapreduce Automation in International conference ICEECS held at Chennai held during June, 2014. Prof. Savita K Shetty was the mentor of the group. Analysis of data sets can find new correlations, to "spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime and so on."[1] Scientists, practitioners of media and advertising and governments alike regularly meet difficulties with large data sets in areas including Internet search, finance and business informatics. Scientists encounter limitations in e-Science work, including meteorology, genomics, connectomics, complex physics simulations biological and environmental research. l Anudeep Kulkarni, a PG student of Software Engineering Program won Best Paper Award for his paper Face Reconstruction: Its role in reducing Malicious Attacks in IRF International Conference held in Hyderabad during April, 2014 Data sets grow in size in part because they are increasingly being gathered by cheap and numerous informationsensing mobile devices, aerial (remote sensing), software logs, cameras, microphones, radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers, and wireless sensor networks. The world's technological per-capita capacity to store information has roughly doubled every 40 months since the 1980s and as of 2012 every day 2.5 exabytes (2.5×1018) of data were created. Guest Lectures Mr. Niraj from CL Educate Ltd delivered a lecture on l Awaremess Programme on Higher Education on 11th February for Students of ISE Mr. VijayKant Nadadur, CEO, Tationem, Bangalore l delivered a talk on Data Mining Applications 13th September, 2014 34 ¸ÀA¦UÉ DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL ELECTRONICS l A two days workshop on PSoC was conducted by Department of Medical Electronics and IEEE EMBS Bangalore Chapter in January 2014. It was taken by Mr. Srinivas and Mr. Kritin from Tiny Chips. Thirty students from II, III and IV year attended along with Mrs. Prabhu Ravikala Vittal, Associate Professor and Mrs. Uma Arun, Assistant Professor . Dr. Lukoschus addressing the gathering. l KAIVARA Rural PROJECT TRIP: The EMB MSRIT students along with Ms. Supriya and Mr. Adithya had one day rural camp on 11.4.2014 at Kaiwara rural community center in association with Dept of Community Medicine, MSRMC. The members visited the primary Health Center, Deflourination plant, Goshala and Ashram. Mr. Srinivas A.N explaining concepts to the participants l A two days hands on workshop on Medical Device Development: Idea to Prototype was organized by the Department of Medical Electronics and IEEE EMBS Bangalore Chapter from 7th to 8th of Feb 2014. The facilitators were Dr.Jagadish Chaturvedi (Stanford India Biodesign Fellow-2012), Adithya Pasupuleti (Stanford India Biodesign Fellow-2013), Nitesh jangir (Stanford India Biodesign Intern2013) and Ramakrishna Pappu (Inn Accel). Hands -on Training Program on "Scientific l Computing using Open Source Software-SCILAB for Signal and Image Processing", by Mr. Mahesh Anand S, Chief Consultant and Master Trainer from Scientific Computing Solutions, Chennai was organized by the IEEE EMBS Bangalore chapter and IEEE EMBS MSRIT student Chapter from 26.06.2014 to 28.06.2014 l A two days workshop on “BIOMATERIALS AND BIOMECHANICS” (under TEQIP-II) and India Platform was organized by the department on 12th and 13th of Feb 2014. Dr. Prashant K.Sharma of University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands and Dr. Dieter Lukoschus of University of Applied Sciences, Gelsenkirchen, Germany Inaugurated the workshop. Dr. S. Y. Kulkarni, Principal, MSRIT presided over the workshop. Important lectures on topics including Biomaterials associated infections and prevention, Solar cooling Technology, Biolubrication and its modifications - a Biomaterials challenge, Plastic Surgery, Bone and its organic and inorganic substances and Rehabilitation biomechanics were delivered during the workshop by eminent speakers. The workshop was well attended by the students, faculty and medical professionals. The Departments of Medical Electronics, Electrical l & Electronics Engg., and Electronics & Instrumentation Engg., have jointly organized a three day Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Pedagogy (Core Module) under TEQIP-II. Resource persons Mr. Anish, visiting faculty on personal growth and personality development, Bengaluru, Dr. Sudhakar Varanasi, Chief Mentor, Bengaluru, Dr. B.G.Barki, Consultant to Technical Institutions, Bengaluru, Dr. Lawrence Jenkins, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, (EEE & ML) and Dr. Ambalal Vinayak Patel, Scientist/Engineer 'F', Integrated Flight Control Systems (IFCS) Directorate, Aeronautical Development Agency (Ministry of Defense, Govt. of India), Bengaluru. (E & I) handled the sessions at the FDP program. 35 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l Mr s.Prabhu Ravikala Vittal, Ms.Rohini, Ms.Bhuvaneshwari and Sahana Roop Kumar, 'INTELLIGENT STETHESCOPE', International Journal of Biomedical and Clinical Engineering, pp. 63-72, Jan-Jun 2014. N. Sriraam, Ashwini B Setlur, Nikitha D, Megha l Rani, Pratibha Ashok, Pooja R, Priyanka Gopakumar, Eepsa, Shreya Sridhar – 'Clinical Engineering in India :A case study', International Journal of Biomedical and Clinical Engineering, Vol. No. 3, pp. 52-62, Jan –June 2014. Faculty and staff members of departments of ML, EEE and E&I N. Sriraam, S. Tejaswini – 'Infant Cry Detection and l Pain Scale Assessment : A pilot study', International Journal of Biomedical and Clinical Engineering, Vol. No. 3, pp42-51, Jan –Jun 2014. l Three days hands on training programme on Medical Image Processing & Analysis using MATLAB was started by Mr. Mahesh Anand and organized by IEEE EMB Bangalore chapter at Medical Software lab, Dept. of Medical Electronics from 31.07.2014 to 02.08.2014 · · B.R. Purnima, N. Sriraam, U. Krishnaswamy, K. l Radhika - ' A Measure to Detect Sleep Onset Using Statistical Analysis of Spike Rhythmicity', International Journal of Biomedical and Clinical Engineering, Vol. No. 3, pp.2741, Jan –June 2014. Two days hands on training programme on Sci Lab was conducted by the IEEE EMBS Bangalore chapter and IEEE EMBS MSRIT student Chapter from 12.08.2014 & 13.08.2014.Twenty five students from Final year attended and the resource person was Mr. Mahesh Anand, CEO, Scientific Computing Solutions, Chennai. Papers presented in (International / National) Conferences Mr.Venkataraman, Lakshminarayanan (CDOT, l India); N Sriraam – 'The Effect of Temperature on the Reliability of Electronic Components' IEEE conference, IISc , Bangalore, 07.01.2014 Medical Electronics Alumni Club had organized an Interaction with the following Alumni Students. Ms. Shreya Anand (Philips Health care), Mr. Chennakesava (GE Health Care), Mr.Vasuki Selvanarayana (Open Text) and Mr. Gurupad (Skan Ray) in Hitech seminar hall on 20.08.2014. Mr. Basavaraj Hiremath, Suma. R – 'Mammogram l Enhancement Using HRSST scheme and automated classification of breast masses', International conference on Recent Trends in signal processing, Image Processing and VLSI, DonBosco Institute of Technology, Bangalore, 21.02.2014 Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals l Sandra D'Souza, N. Sriraam – 'Design of EOG Signal Acquisition System Using Vir tual Instrumentation: A cost Effective Approach', I n te r n a t i o n a l J o u r n a l o f M e a s u r e m e n t Technologies and Instrumentation Engineering, Vol. No. 4, pp.1-16, Jan-March 2014. Mr. Basavaraj Hiremath, Ananya B.J, Divyashree – l 'Early Detection of Breast Cancer', National Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering IEEE at HKBKCE, Bangalore, 05.06.2014 Mrs. Uma Arun, Assistant Professor, Ms.Anima l sharma, Ms.Namitha M.K and Ms. Ashwini Venugopal – 'DESIGN OF NASAL ULTRASOUND – A PILOT STUDY', International Journal of Biomedical and Clinical Engineering, Vol. No. 3(1), pp.73-80, January-June 2014. Mr. Basavaraj Hiremath, Chetana Javali N, l Sanjana U Shankar and Venkatapavani Pallavi P – 'Nonlinear Medical Image Enhancement Technique based on image compression and histogram matching', National Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering IEEE at HKBKCE, Bangalore, 05.06.2014 36 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l Dr. C.K.Narayanappa Associate Professor, along with G.R.Poornima, S.C.Prasanna Kumar, S.Ramachandran – 'Functional Module Design for H-264 Video Encoder', International conference on Networks, Information and Communications-2014 held at SVCE, Bangalore, 10.07.2014 Venkata Pavana Pallavi P, Sanjana U Shankar, l Chetana Javali - secured second place in CAMTECH INDIA JUGAAD – A THON Guest Lectures Mr.Murali.N.L from Path Focus Technologies, l Bangalore – 'Higher Education & Career options for Engineers in Medical Electronics &Instrumentation domains', 06.02.2014. Achievements - Faculty Dr.Sriraam N, Professor and HOD received Seed l Money to Young Scientists for Research(SMYSR) award of Rs.6 Lakhs for his Project titled as Design and Development of Portable device for infant cries detection from VGST Dr.Atam Dhawan, Distinguished professor of l electrical and computer Engg, NJIT – 'Trends in biomedical engineering sciences and in medicine', 04.03.2014. Mr.Sanjay H.S, Assistant Professor reviewed the l book on “Signals, Systems and Transforms” for Pearsons Publication. Dr. Srinivas, Associate Professor, ECE Dept, IISC, l Bangalore – 'How to write technical papers for conference and journals', 27.03.2014. Mr.Sanjay H.S, Assistant Professor accompanied l students of MSRIT to Malaysian Debate Open (MDO)-2014 organized by Multimedia University, Malaysia as team manager for four days. Dr. Mahesh Shanmugam, Head, Vitreoretinal & l Ocular Oncology Services, Sankara Eye Hospitals, India – 'Smart Phone Imaging of the Eye', 22.04.2014. The MSRIT Special Interest Group on Humanitarian l Technology (SIGHT) has been approved by IEEE, USA. The Center for Medical Electronics and l Computing(CMEC) of MSRIT, IEEE EMB Bangalore Section in association with SMOI & M.S. Ramaiah Advanced Learning Center has organized a DISTINGUISHED LECTURE PROGRAM on Wheeled Mobility and Seating on 04-07-2014. The invited Speakers were Dr.Padmaja Kankipati and Mr. Prashanth Singh. Dr Sriraam. N, HOD received the Outstanding l Chapter Award for the EMB Bangalore Chapter from Dr Bruce Wheeler, President, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) Chapter at the 36th Annual International Conference on EMB, Chicago, USA. Dr Sriraam. N, HOD has been appointed as l reviewer for the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA), USA. Guest Lectures - delivered by the dept faculty l Dr. Sriraam N – 'Perspectives of artificial neural networks for healthcare applications', Two days workshop on Soft computing', Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, MIT, Manipal, 28th -29th Mar, 2014. Achievements - Students Winners of the open day Project Exhibition -2014 from the dept. of Medical Electronics: Dr. Sriraam N – 'CAD for Medical Imaging and Vein l Imaging System', PSG Technology Coimbatore as part of one week TEQIP workshop on Medical Imaging and Informatics, 27.04.2014. 1st Prize of Rs.5,000/ by Nikitha D, Pratibha A, l Priyanka G K, Shreya Sridhar - project titled as Design and development of PPG based physiological monitoring system. Dr. C. K. Narayanappa, Associate Professor l participated as resource person for one day workshop on Principles of Pedagogy for effective instructions dissemination at S J C Institute of Technology, Chikkaballapur 19.07.2014 2nd prize of Rs.3,000/ by Avinash Tripati, Ankit l Anand, Rahul Khevji, Ratan Kumar - project titled as Correlation of EEG and pain in Osteoarthritis. 37 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l The department has conducted three day workshop on Elements of Pedagogy from 30th July to 2nd August, 2014 along with Electronics & Communication Engineering department. l Dr. Sriraam.N – 'Medical data Visualization: Toward Integrated Clinical Workstations and Computer Aided Diagnosis in medical Imaging: Achievements and challenges, case studies on clinical applications', National Engineering College, Tamilnadu, 28/7/2014. This workshop has improved the personal and professional attributes of our teachers and their communication skills. The workshop focused on the concept that learning is a process and never a product. It also helped to analyze existing course designs and how to improve them. l Dr. Sriraam N – 'Computer Aided Diagnosis and Visualization of Medical Images-Case Studies', Workshop on Visualization for Big data, organized by C-DAC, Knowledge Park, Bangalore, 18/9/2014. Funded Project l Dr. N. Sriraam – 'Design and Development of Portable device for infant cries detection', VGST(on going) project Grant: Rs.6 lakhs. Faculty who obtained Ph.D degree Mr.Narayanappa.C.K was awarded Ph.D degree for his work on 'Studies relating to modeling, simulation and control of a physical system' by VTU, Belgaum. Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals l Kusuma S.M – 'Clustering Protocol for wireless Sensor Networks based on rhesus Macaque (Macacamulatta) animal social behavior', International Journal of Computer Applications (0975-88887), Vol. 82- No 8, Feb 2014. DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING l The department has conducted one day workshop on Light Runner - an Optical test bench and its Applications under TEQIP-II on 15th April 2014. This workshop has enabled participants to understand Light runner, its programming and its various peripherals. l Dr. B.K. Sujatha –'FPGA Implementation of High Throughput Digital QPSK Modulator using Verilog HDL', International Journal of Advanced Computer Research (IJACR) under Association of Computer Communication and Education for National Triumph Society (ACCENTS), India. Impact Factor: 1.83. Vol. 4, Issue 14, March 2014, pp 217-222, ISSN: (Print): 2249-7277, ISSN: (Online): 22777970. Dr. B.K.Sujatha – 'Robust Estimator for Continuous l Time Non-Linear Systems', International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT), published by. Impact Factor: 1.76. Vol. 3, Issue 5, May 2014, pp 1813 - 1818, ISSN: 2278-0181. 38 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Swetha Amit, Chinmoy Kumar P R, Nayana Arvind l Laxmeshwar, Saurabh R Badenkal – 'A Spidron Fractal Array Antenna with Enhanced Impedance Matching for Multiple Frequencies', IEEE International Conference on IMPact of ETechnology on US (IC-IMPETUS), 10th and 11th Jan, 2014. Papers presented in (International / National) Conferences S. G. Shiva Prasad Yadav – 'Design and l Implementation of a Wireless Sensor Network using PICmicro and ZigBee', International Conference on Systems Engineering and Emerging Systems ICSEES '14, Organized by PSG College of Ananth Pukale and Ramya H R - 'Design and l optimization of CORDIC on Modulation and Demodulation', International Conference on recent trends in Signal Processing, Image processing and VLSI, Feb 2014 held at Don Bosco institute of Technology, Bangalore. Technology in collaboration with University of South Australia Computer Society of India, 23th-25th January, 2014 Page number 78-84. S G Shivaprasad Yadav - 'An approach to Test ECU l on Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation Platform', Swetha Amit, Chinmoy Kumar P R, Nayana Arvind l Laxmeshwar, Saurabh R Badenkal – 'A Novel Swastik Shaped Spidron Fractal Array Antenna for S-Band Applications', 7th International Conference, ATMS INDIA, 11th and 12th February 2014, Chennai. National Conference on Recent Advances in Electronics & Communication Engineering held at New Horizon College of Engineering, Bangalore, pp. 133-139, May 23th, 2014. Swetha Amit – 'A Spidron Fractal Array Antenna l with Enhanced Impedance Matching for Multiple S a n d e e p Ku m a r E , Ku s u m a S M a n d l Dr. Vijayakumar B P – 'Clustering Protocol for wireless Sensor Networks based on rhesus Macaque (Macacamulatta) animal social behavior', International Journal of Computer Applications (0975-88887), Vol. 82, No 8, Feb 2014. Frequencies', IEEE International Conference on IMPact of E-Technology on US (IC-IMPETUS), 10th and 11th January, 2014. Swetha Amit – 'A Novel Swastik Shaped Spidron l Fractal Array Antenna for S-Band Applications', 7th Sandeep Kumar E, Kusuma S M and l Dr. Vijayakumar B P – 'A Random Key Distribution Based Artificial Immune System for Security in Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks', IEEE students conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Science, March 2014. International Conference, ATMS INDIA, 11th and 12th February 2014, Chennai. S M Kusuma – 'A Random Key Distribution based l Artificial Immune System for security in Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks', SCEECS 2014, 1st – Upasana, S G Shivaprasad Yadav, Amith A and l Shivaprasad Surya – 'An approach to Test ECU on Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation Platform' published in Proceedings of National Conference o n Re c e n t Ad va n c e s i n E l e c t ro n i c s & Communication Engineering held at New Horizon College of Engineering, Bangalore, p. no. 39, pp. 133-139, May 23, 2014. 2nd March 2014 organized by IEEE MANIT Student Branch at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India. Papers presented in (International / National) Conferences - Students l S.G Shiva Prasad Yadav and Sanket Dessai – 'Design and Implementation of a Wireless Sensor Ananth Pukale and Ramya H R – 'Implementation l and Optimization of CORDIC Design on Modulation and Demodulation', IRF International Conference on 6th April 2014 at Hyderabad, India. Network using PIC micro and Zigbee', International Conference on System Engineering and Emerging Systems ICSEES -14, organized by PSG college of Technology in collaboration with University of South Sangeetha G, Swetha Amit – 'Design and l implementation of Novel Nine shaped MIMO Australia Computer Society of India, pp 78-84, Jan 2014. 39 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Funded Project Antenna for LTE Applications',International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (IJARCCE), Vol 3, Issue 5, May 2014, ISSN : 2278-1021, l Dr. K Natarajan, Dr. Pramila, Ms. Lashmi has got a funded Research project titled “Design, Development, Fabrication & Packaging of RFMEMS switch” at a cost of Rs.26.90 lacs. Funding is received from NPMASS, a Government of India Programme. l Sangeetha G, Swetha Amit – 'Design of a Novel Nine Shaped Tri-Band MIMO Antenna for LTE Applications', International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology & Science (IJIRTS), Vol. 2, Issue 3, May 2014, ISSN:2321-1156. Dr. Vishwanath Talasila has got a funding of ~ 3 l lakhs (5000$) for the project titled “Vibration based personal identification for cockpit seat” from ANRC/BOEING in March 2014 . l Navya K N, Swetha Amit, Dr. B K Sujatha – 'Robust Estimator For Continuous Time Non-Linear Systems', International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), Vol. 3, Issue 5, May 2014, ISSN: 2278-0181. Mr. Adarsh B U, under the guidance of l Dr. K. Natarajan & Dr. K. R. Shobha, titled “Effluent treatment of water for dyeing industries based on wireless micro and nano sensor network” with the project reference number 37S1313 has got a funding of Rs. 8,000/- 37th Series of student project programme: 2013-2014 from KSCST, IISc, Bangalore, during March 2014. l Sandeep Kumar E, Kusuma SM & Dr. Vijayakumar BP –'An Intelligent Defence Mechanism for Security in Wireless Sensor Networks-' International Conference on communication and signal processing (ICCSP) 3-5, April 2014. l S a n d e e p Ku m a r E , Ku s u m a S M a n d Dr. Vijayakumar B P – 'Fire-LEACH: A Novel Clustering Protocol for Wireless sensor Networks based on Firefly Algorithm', International Journal of Computer Science: Theory and Applications (IJCSTA), ISSN:2336-0984, Vol. 1, No. 1, May 2014. Faculty who obtained Ph.D degree Mrs. K R Shobha was awarded Ph.D degree for her work on “Dynamic and Adaptive Mechanisms for High Performance Routers in MANETS” by VTU, Belgaum. l Nisarga Kulkarni, Venu K N – 'Isolated Word Recognition Using Multiple Features', International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), Vol 3, Issue 05, May-2014. The Indian smartphone market is expected to emerge as the world's second biggest market in 2016. Smartphones as a category is growing at a phenomenal pace and the entry-level smartphone market will see more companies launch affordable handsets going forward. Guest Lectures One day seminar on “Software Defined Radio” was l given by Dr.Jeffrey Pawlan from Pawlan Communications, California on 24th Jan 2014. According to research firm eMarketer, India will exceed 200 million smartphone users topping the US as the world's second largest smartphone market by 2016. Fiber Bragy Grating Sensors and its Applications” l by Prof. Dr. Sundarrajan Asokan, Chairman, Robert Bosch, Centre for Physical Systems & Professor, Instrumentation, IISc on 19th Sept 2014. The focus will be on Rs. 10,000-13,000 price range for the mass market. A drop is also expected in the LTE-enabled smartphones as India is ready for a massive LTE deployment. Guest Lectures - delivered by the dept faculty Dr. Viswanath Talasila, International Workshop on l Passivity Based Control - New Vistas, 19-23 May 2014, VJTI Mumbai and IIT Mumbai. According to research firm IDC, over 44 million smartphones were sold in 2013. Compared to this, handset makers have already sold over 59.3 million handsets in the January-September 2014 period. Dr. Viswanath Talasila, Product Realization and l Productization, Talk delivered at Texas Instruments as part of the Innovation Challenge Contest, 2015. 40 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Bindu Sadanandan, Amruta P Jogalekar, Veena l Vishwanathan – 'UV Induced Increase in Activity of Subtilisin from Bacillus subtilis MTCC441', Research & Reviews (2014): A Journal of Microbiology & Virology, Vol. 4: 22-27. DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING International Conference on “Recent Advances in l Engineering Sciences (ICRAES-2014)” under TEQIP II was organized from 4th to 5th September, 2014. ICRAES - 2014 brought together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars. This forum helped them to exchange ideas and share their experiences and research results in the areas of basic Engineering sciences. The focus areas of ICRAES-14 were – Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Management and Biotechnology. Bindu Sadanandan, Amruta P Jogalekar, Veena l Vishwanathan – 'UV Induced Increase in Activity of Subtilisin from Bacillus subtilis MTCC441. Research & Reviews: A Journal of Microbiology & Virology. 4(1): 22-27. Bindu Sadanandan, Prerna lal, Rhonchamo l Humtsoe, Amit Mishra – 'Antibacterial activity of Garlic against Bacillus subtilis', International Review of Applied Biotechnology & Biochemistry. 2(1):107-119. In the Biotechnology discipline of ICRAES 2014, there were a total of 42 registrants and 30 research papers were presented in 4 technical sessions during the two days of the conference. The technical sessions were chaired by eminent personalities from academia. Two invited talks were organized one on each day of the conference by inviting eminent scientists from Biozeen India Limited and University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore. ICRAES 2014 in the Biotechnology discipline encompassed lot of exchange of ideas and many new concepts were learnt. Overall the deliberations were very fruitful. Chandraprabha M N, Lokesh K N, Ramesh KP, l Rashmi R B, Roshna R G, Vijai S N – 'Evaluation of hyperthermia effect of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles coated with different polymers', Journal of Chemical Engineering Research, 2(5), 77-84. Chandraprabha MN, Lokesh KN, N. Ahalya, A. G. l Rajeev, P. Monika –'Characterization of Cancer Biopsy Tissues by Potentiometric Method', M.S.R. Journal of Engineering and Technology Research, Vol 2: 32-36. Workshop on “Real Time-Polymerase Chain l Reaction (RT-PCR) Technique” was organized on 22nd March 2014, which received about 34 participants. Practical training was provided to the students on RT PCR. The workshop involved training given by scientist and experts from Biopractice, Bangalore & Astrazeneca, Bangalore Dattatraya Bhat and Channarayappa – 'Molecular l docking studies of Sinefungin and Cladribine with Mycobacterium tuberculosis trna-(N(1)G37)', International Review of Applied Biotechnology and Biochemistry. 2(1):153-158. Dhamodhar P, Sreenivasa Murthy, Channarayappa, l Shanthakumar S S and Indiresha H N –'Prevalence, characterization and heterogeneity studies onStreptococcus mutans isolated from Bangalore urban population', Int J Pharm Bio Sci, 122-128. Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals l Ahalya N, Chandraprabha M N, Kanamadi RD and Ramachandra TV - ‘Adsorption of fast green on to coffee husk’, Journal of Chemical Engineering Research, 2(5): 201-207. Karthick Raja Namasivayam, S.Y. Justine koilpillai, l R.S.Arvind Bharani and K.Samrat – 'Synthesis, Characterization, Anti-Bacterial Activity and Ecotoxicity of Silver Nanoparticles From Callus Extract of Justicia Jendaracia (BURM.F)', Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research Vol. 7: 212-216. l Amruta Jogalekar, Priya Ashrit, Bindu Sadanandan – 'Comparative Study on Candida biofilm Quantification Methods. International Review of Applied Biotechnology & Biochemistry. 2(1):139-144. 41 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l Kavita SH, Krishnamurthy V, Chandra Prabha MN, l Saravanakumar K, M Gokulakrishnan, D Venkatesan – 'Study of molecular interactions in binary liquid mixtures of Acetophenone with benzyl acetate using volumetric and viscometric properties', Research journal of pharmaceutical, Biological and chemical sciences Vol 5(2): 13921400. Roshan Makam, Sneha K M, Sarayu R, Sanjana B S – 'Production and Optimization of Biodiesel from Waste Cooked Oil Using Factorial Design of Experiments', Journal of Chemical Engineering Research, 2(1) 51-59. Kavyaa Venkat, Jyoti Kumari, Chandraprabha M.N. l and Amitava Mukherjee – 'Cytotoxicity of titanium dioxide nanoparticles on a bacterial population isolated from lakewater sediments' Research & Reviews: Journal of Biotechnology, Vol.4: 31-35. Sharath R, Harish BG, Channarayappa, Samrat, l Preetham J, Muktha, Sushma S. Murthy 'Evaluation of Antioxidant Activity of Coumarin Isolated from Eupatorium triplinerve', Research & Reviews: A Journal of Pharmacognosy, Vol. 1: 18 – 22 Kavya C, Channarayappa and Harish BG – l 'Phytochemical evaluation and pharmacological screening of Wedelia Trilobata', International Review of Applied Biotechnology and Biochemistry. 2(1):239-249. l Shilpa Hiremath, Vidya C, Chandraprabha M N, M A Lourdu Antonyraj, Indu Sabaraya Venugopal, Ayushi Jain, Kokil Bansal - 'Photo-catalytic Degradation of Reactive Red, Reactive Yellow and Direct Blue dyes using bio-synthesized Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles', International Review of Applied Biotechnology and Biochemistry 2(1):159-168. Kevin Dagbay, Scott J. Eron, Banyuhay P. Serrano, l Elih M. Velázquez - Delgado, Yunlong Zhao, Di Lin, Sravanti Vaidya, and Jeanne A. Hardy. In Avi Ashkenazi, Junying Yuan, Jim Wells, editors '(A Multipronged Approach for Compiling a Global Map of Allosteric Regulation in the Apoptotic Caspases' Regulated Cell Death Part A, , MIE, UK: Academic Press, Vol. 544: 215-249. l Shilpa Hiremath, Vidya C, MA Lourdu Antonyraj, Chandraprabha M N, Shrinidhi R, Manjunath R, Padmanabha, Himanshu Agrawal - 'Photocatalytic Degradation of Methylene blue and Rhodamine B using Bio Synthesized ZnO', International Review of Applied Biotechnology and Biochemistr y, 2(1), 207-213. Lokesh KN, Channarayappa, Karadi RV, Bindu l Sadanandan – 'Production, Characterization & Toxicological Evaluation of Eco-friendly Flavolipid Biosurfactant', Research & Reviews: A Journal of Toxicology. 4(1) 2231-3834. l Shraddha Shah, Chandraprabha M N and Samrat K – 'Synthesis and Characterization of Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles and Assessment of its Antibacterial Activity', International Review of Applied Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 2(1), 145-151. Priya Ashrit, Amruta Jogalekar, Bindu l Sadanandan – 'Candida albicans biofilm and its Polymicrobial Associations', International Review of Applied Biotechnology & Biochemistry. 2(1):139144. l Sunil Palani, Jastin Samuel, Chandraprabha M.N and Amitava Mukherjee – 'Studies on Cr (VI) removal from aqueous solution using Al2O3 and ZnO Nanoparticles composite', Journal of NanoScience, NanoEngineering & Applications, Vol. 4: 39-45. Pujashree A.K, Rajeshwari A, M.N. Chandraprabha l and Amitava Mukherjee – ‘Characterization and stability study of synthesized gold and silver nanoparticles',, Vol. 4: 33-38. Surabhi, Deepak Kumar, Chandraprabha M.N and l Amitava Mukherjee – 'Cyto-toxicity of silver nanoparticles on a bacterial population isolated from lakewater', Research & Reviews: Journal of Toxicology, Vol. 4: 31-35. Rajesh Kumar K, Channarayappa, K Chandrika, l KT Prasanna, Balakrishna Gowda – 'Biodiesel production and characterization from non-edible oil tree species Aleurites trisperma Blanco', Biomass Conv. Bioref. Springer-Verlag-Berlin Heidelberg: 79–86. ISSN 2190-6815. Suryakanti Sahu, Richa Chaturvedi, Bengeorge l Mathew, Payel Behra, Divya R, Venkatesha R T, Bindu Sadanandan – 'Antibacterial & antioxidant activity of endophytic bacteria isolated from 42 ¸ÀA¦UÉ & Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Biotechnology & Anona muricata', International Review of Applied Biotechnology & Biochemistry. 2(1):139-144. Bioengineering, Organized by Sir MVIT during 24th to 28th of March 2014. l Sushma R, Dharini H, Sadiya Tabassum, Krishna Murthy TP, Bhavya SG, Manjunath Dammalli – 'Extraction Of Polyphenols From Decalepis Hamiltonii Root: Optimization Of Batch Extraction Process Parameters', Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological & Chemical Sciences, Vol. 5: 624-632. l Amruta Jogalekar, Priya Ashrit, Bindu Sadanandan – 'Ocimum sanctum – The Wonder Plant in the Control of Microbial Biofilms', Poster presented at National Conferences on Recent Advances in Biosciences, Organized by department of life sciences, M S Ramaiah College of arts, l Vidya C, Shilpa Hiremath, MA Lourdu Antonyraj, Chandraprabha M N, Seemashree - 'Green Synthesis of TiO2 Nanoparticles by using Neem Leaf Extract', International Review of Applied Biotechnology and Biochemistry 2(1): 11-17. Science and Commerce , Bangalore on 28th March 2014. l Amruta Jogalekar, Priya Asrit., Bindu Sadanandan – 'Algorithms for bioavailability prediction of dietary Papers presented in (International / National) Conferences iron: The past, present & future', National conference on Food Technology, SCOFTECH-2014”, 7th-8th Feb, 2014, Organized by the Ministry of Ahalya N, Chandraprabha M N, Vignesh S, l Prashanth K – 'Removal of Malachite green dye by adsorption onto ZnO nanoparticles synthesized by Aloe vera leaf extract', National conference on Recent advances in Biosciences (Bioblooms), March 2014, Bangalore, India. Food Processing, Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology, Thanjavur. l Bindu Sadanandan, Amruta P Jogalekar, Lokesh K.N, Indumati V A, Beena & Rameez Raja - 'Optimization of physical conditions of growth of Ahalya N, Chandraprabha M.N, Jyothi Halakatti l –'Removal of Hazardous Malachite Green Dye By Distillery Sludge From Aqueous Solution', International conference on Green and Clean Technologies in Chemical Engg., & Biotechnology. Feb 2014, India. Candida albicans biofilm using response surface methodology', International conference on Green & Clean Technologies in Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, ICGT-2014 held on 14th-15th February' 2014 organized by Siddaganga institute of Technology, Tumkur. Ahalya N, Chandraprabha M.N, Jyothi Halakatti – l 'Removal of hazardous malachite green dye by l Bindu Sadanandan, C K Kishore Kumar and Rathish P R – 'Antinutritional Factors & Sports Nutrition',International Conference on Physical Education and Sports Sciences, ICPESS-2014, held on 8th-11th January' 2014, organized by Manipal University, Manipal. distillery sludge from aqueous solution', National Conference on Recent advances, Career prospects & Entrepreneurship opportunities in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Mar 2014, India. l Ahalya N, Chandraprabha M.N., Kanamadi R.D. l Chandana GK, Prathima Prabhu T, Bindu Sadanandan – 'Microencapsulation of fish oil for increased shelf life & bioavailability of omega-3fatty acids in humans', National conference on Food Technology, SCOFTECH-2014, 7th-8th Feb, 2014, Organized by the Ministry of Food Processing, Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology, Thanjavur. and Ramachandra T.V – 'Removal of nickel by low cost agricultural waste', International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences, Sep 2014, Bangalore. Amruta Jogalekar, Priya Ashrit, Bindu Sadanandan l 'Biofilm Formation & Candida albicans Virulence: The Hidden Agenda', Poster presented at National Conference on Recent Advances Career Prospects 43 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Chandraprabha MN, Ahalya N, Shaun M.K, l Harshavardha, Nandita N.C, Anjana P, Shilpa B, Shruthi S.H – 'Antimicrobial applications of embedded silver nanoparticles synthesized using Azadirachta indica extract, National conference on Recent trends and future prospects of microbiology & biotechnology, March 2014, Rajasthan, India. l Shantha Kumar S S, Chandraprabha M N, Ahalya N – 'ZnO nanoparticles in dye removal: A review', National conference on Recent advances in Biosciences (Bioblooms), March 2014, Bangalore, India. Shanthakumar SS, Chandraprabha M.N, Ahalya N l – 'Synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles using citrus lemon extract and its application in the removal of malachite green dye', International conference on Nanoscience and Engineering, India, July 2014. Priya Ashrit, Amruta Jogalekar, Bindu Sadanandan l – 'Candida albicans and Bacterial Polymicrobial Associations: A Route to Infection & Resistance', Poster presented at National Conference on Recent Tejaswini RP, Vijayalakshmi V, Bindu Sadanandan l – 'Alternatives to Conventional Packaging & their benefits', National conference on Food Technology, SCOFTECH-2014”, 7-8 Feb, 2014, Organized by the Ministry of Food Processing, Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology, Thanjavur. Advances Career Prospects and Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Organized by Sir MVIT during 24th - 28th of March 2014. Priya Ashrit, Amruta Jogalekar, Bindu Sadanandan l – 'Microbial Biofilm Formation and Control Achievements - Faculty Strategies in Food Industries',. Poster presentation l Dr. Bindu S, Won Third prize for overall best poster presentation in the National conference on Food Technology, ‘SCOFTECH-2014'. 7th-8th Feb, 2014, Organized by the Ministry of Food Processing, Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology, Thanjavur. at 5th National Conference on Future Prospects in Food Processing and Quality Assurance (NCFPFPQA14), Organized by Department of Food Process Engineering School of Bioengineering SRM University, Kattanulathur in association with AFSTI Chennai during March 20th - 21st 2014. l Dr. Bindu S, Won Second prize for theme area in poster presentation in the National conference on Food Technology, ‘SCOFTECH-2014'. 7th-8th Feb, 2014, Organized by the Ministry of Food Processing, Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology, Thanjavur. Priya Ashrit, Amruta Jogalekar, Bindu Sadanandan l – 'Polymicrobial Biofilm: Reservoir for infection', Poster presentation at National Conferences on Recent Advances in Biosciences, Organized by department of life sciences, M S Ramaiah College of arts, Science and Commerce, Bangalore on 28th l Dr. Bindu S, wrote a Popular Article in Kannada on 'Antinutritional factors & their effect on sports nutrition' published in 'Kreeda Darshini' Volume 2, April 2014. March 2014. Priya Asrit., Amruta Jogalekar, Bindu Sadanandan l – 'Analytical tools for food safety assessment: A Dr. Channarayappa, popular article on “My name is l Dr. E. coli” published in Progenitor 2014. comparative study', National conference on Food Technology, SCOFTECH-2014, 7th-8th Feb, 2014, Organized by the Ministry of Food Processing, Indian Researchers from Texas have discovered a compound found in a natural Chinese herb that they say works better at blocking the virus from interacting with cells, thus preventing it from taking hold and infecting the body. Tetrandrine derived from the Stephania tetrandra plant blocks a key pathway through which the Ebola virus would otherwise make its way into various cell compartments. Institute of Crop Processing Technology, Thanjavur. Rashmi RB, Vijai S N, Lokesh K N L, Rajeev A G, l Ramesh K P, Chandraprabha M N – 'Evaluation of Doxorubicin Tagged Magnetic Nano-Particles for Hyper thermia', National symposium of Biotechnology, April 2014, MIT, India. 44 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Invited Assignments l Dr. Channarayappa, Co-Chair person, International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences (ICRAES 2014) Dr. Bindu S, Member, Board of Studies, M. Tech l Food Technology Program, Jain University, Kanakpura Road, Ramanagaram. Dr. Chandra Prabha, Author Advisory Board l member for International Journal, “Journal of Biochemical Technology” Dr. Bindu S, Member, Editorial board, International l Review of Applied Biotechnology & Biochemistry, Jan-June 2014 Guest Lectures Dr. Bindu S, Member, Scientific Committee, l International Conference ICRAES-2014 4-5, MSRIT. l Dr. Gangaboraiah Professor of statistics at Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore delivered a guest lecture on the topic “Application of Statistics for Research in Biological Sciences” on 19th September 2014. Dr. Bindu S, Reviewer, 2014, International Research l Journal of Public and Environmental Health Dr. Bindu S, Reviewer, 2014, World Journal of l Agricultural Sciences. Ms. Swathi International Office from Kings College l London United Kingdom “The Career Progressions in UK as well as the specialized subjects in their related field in KCL University” on 2nd September 2014. Dr. Chandra Phrabha, chaired a Technical session, l International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences (ICRAES 2014). Dr. Chandra Prabha, Editorial Board Member, l International Journal of Human Genetics Medical Biotechnology and Microbiological Studies (IJHGMBMS). Prof. Steve Winder, The University of Sheffield, UK l delivered a guest lecture on the topic “Recent Trends in Stem, Cells & Regenerative Medicine” on 20th March 2014. Dr. Chandra Prabha, Editorial Board Member, l Scientific Society of Advanced Research and Social Change. Dr. Gowrishankar, Prof. & Head, Dept. of l Biotechnology, SIT, Tumkur delivered a guest lecture on the topic “Fermentation Science and Technology” on 12th May 2014. Dr. Chandra Prabha, Judge, Model building, l Rasayana (National Fest) 2014. Guest Lectures - delivered by the dept faculty Dr. Chandra Prabha, Member, Doctoral Committee, l Centre for Nanobiotechnology, VIT University. Dr Bindu S, Invited speaker during Guest lecture series l on, “Candida albicans biofilm & its control” at M S Ramaiah College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Bangalore, on 02-08-2014. Dr. Chandra Prabha, National Advisory Committee, l First International conference on polymeric materials (ICPM) Kottayam, India. Dr. Bindu S, Resource Person, TEQIP sponsored, l Faculty Development Workshop on, “Design & Optimization of Experiments” at M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, 4th – 7th Aug, 2014. Dr. Chandra Prabha, Reviewer for Biotechnology & l Bioengineering Journal (Elsevier) Dr. Chandra Prabha, Reviewer for Colloids & l Surfaces B: Biointerfaces (Elsevier) Dr. Bindu S, Resource Person, UGC sponsored, l International Seminar on, “Health Related Physical Fitness & Wellness” at Poornaprajna College, Udupi, 22th – 23th Aug, 2014. Dr.Chandra Prabha, Reviewer for International Journal l of Mineral Processing (Elsevier) Dr. Chandra Prabha, Reviewer for International l Research Journal of Public & Environmental Health. Dr. Chandra Prabha M N, Associate Professor, l Dept. of Biotechnology delivered a guest lecture on the topic” Mathematical Modeling of Bacteria – Mineral Interaction” for the students of Chemical Engg. MSRIT on 24th January 2014 at Dept. of Chemical Engg. MSRIT. Dr. Chandra Prabha, Reviewer for Transactions of l the Indian Institute of Metals. Dr. Chandra Prabha, Scientific Committee member, l International Conference on Bioengineering and Biotechnology (ICBB-2015), Barcelona, Spain. 45 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Dr. Channarayappa, Prof. & Head department of l biotechnology delivered a guest lecture on the topic “Study of Molecular Dynamics at Plant Microbial Interface” on 10th April 2014 at National Conference on Producutivity and Sustainability: Role of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms organized by the department of Agricultural Microbiology, GKVK Campus, Bangalore DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE l School of Architecture conducted INSPIRIT 2014, an annual Design Fest conducted on March 28th & 29th 2014 at MSRIT Architecture Dept. The Fest was inaugurated by Ar Dean D Cruz followed by his impressive presentation showcasing cost effective Goan Architecture. The noon event welcomed Ar. Shahrukh Mistry & his team with much anticipated spirit. The Mistry family stole the hearts of all with their inimitable charm presenting their works to the audience. A number of design & cultural events were conducted. The event was participated by other Architecture colleges in Bangalore. The second day of the fest was awaited with bated breath to watch world famous Ar. Hafeez Contractor. He floored the audience with his unique style & gave valuable inputs to the budding architects of MSRIT. Sponsors to the event spoke about their products & had their stalls in the quadrangle. Dr. Channarayappa, Prof. & Head department of l biotechnology delivered a guest lecture on the topic “Cytogenetic Analysis of Tomato leaf Curl Virus (TLCV) Infected Tomato Plants” on 20th April 2014 at school of Life Sciences, Manipal University, Dubai Dr. Channarayappa, Cytogenetic and Molecular l Analysis of DNA damages: for screening and diagnosis, In a Lecture Series on Molecular Genetics. Organized by K.S. Hegde Medical Academy (A Constituent College of Nitte University), Deralakatte, Mangalore – 575018 in association with Karnataka Science and Technology Academy (KSTA). On 27th–29th November 2014 (Lead Speaker). National Guest lecture on 'Acid mine drainage – The l Bioremediation perspectives', at Centre for Nanobiotechnology, VIT University, Vellore, Oct 2014. The School of architecture organized International study tour for students of architecture in the month of june- july 2014, led by faculty Ar.jyotirmay achari and Ar. Ganesh babu to places like Italy, Greece and USA to study the works of History of architecture and Modern architecture. Guest lecture on 'Mathematical Modeling of l Bacteria – Mineral Interaction', at Department of Chemical Engineering, MSRIT, Jan 2014. Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals Invited talk on 'Evaluation of Doxorubicin Tagged l Magnetic Nano-Particles for Hyperthermia' at Second International Conference on Nanostructured Materials and Nanocomposites (ICNM 2014), Kottayam, Kerala, Dec 2014. Rajshekhar Rao – 'Biomimicry in Architecture', l International Journal of Advanced Research in Civil, Structural, Environmental & Infrastructure Engineering and Developing Vol.1, issue 3, (April 8, 2014), ISSN NO : 2320-723X. Funded Project Dr Bindu S has obtained funds of Rs. 24.74 Lakhs l for the project Control of Candida biofilms causing vulvovaginitis in women using household spices and herbs from DST for 2 years Rajshekhar Rao - 'Bamboo Architecture for l ecological living', International Journal of Advanced Research in Civil, Structural, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering and Developing, Vol.1, issue 3, (April 8 2014), ISSN NO : 2320-723X. Dr Bindu S & Ms. Priya Ashrit received funds worth l Rs, 13.64 Lakhs for Characterization & control of Candida sp. Associated polymicrobial biofilms causing reproductive tract infections & fouling of prosthetics in women from DST for 3 years Rajshekhar Rao – 'In search of Art in landscape l D e s i g n ' ,1 s t I n t e r n a t i o n a l c o n g r e s s o n Environmental Biotechnology and chemistry Engineering (IPCBEE ) Vol.64, (March 2014) IACSIT Press, Singpore , ISSN: 2010-4618, PP 87-92. 46 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Rajshekhar Rao – 'Ecological restoration of Basalt l quarry, the case of Timba, Gujarat',IOSR, journal of mechanical and Civil Engineering, (IOSR- JMCE) (eISSN: 2278-1684,p-ISSN: 2320 -334X, Volume 11, Issue 1 Ver. V (Feb. 2014), PP 17 -19. Rajshekhar Rao – 'Urban water bodies and l challenges of sustainability : The case of Bangalore city',International conference on Environment, Technology and Sustainable development : Promises and Challenges in the 21st Century, Gwalior, 04th March 2014. Rajshekhar Rao – 'The town that disappearedl Dhanushkodi- a case study',IOSR Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering (IOSR – JMCE) e – ISSN: 2278 -1684,p – ISSN: 2320 – 334X, Volume 11, Issue 1 Ver. III (Jan. 2014), PP 37- 40. Rajshekhar Rao – 'In search of Art in landscape l design',International conference proceedings of chemical, Biological and environmental engineering (IPCBEE )ISSN 2010- 4618, pp 87-92 at International conference on Civil and Urban Engineering ( ICCUE 2014 ) at Pune, India, organized by South Asia Institute of Science and Engineering on 21st– 23rd February 2014. Rajshekhar Rao – 'Music in Architecture Too' l architecture-Time space& people, the magazine of the council of Architecture, (March 2014) Vol.14, issue 3, pp 32 – 35. Rajshekhar Rao – 'In search of Art in Landscape l architecture- A new approach to landscape design workshop', architecture-Time space& people, The magazine of the council of Architecture , (February.2014) Vol.14, issue 2, pp 16 – 23. Rajshekhar Rao – 'A need for Sustainable Tourism l development -the case of Sringeri', International conference on Contemporary Research in Tourism and Hospitality: Theory, Practice and pitfalls held at Pondicherry University, Pondicherry on 18th-21st February 2014 pp -114. Rajshekhar Rao – 'In search of Vernacular l architecture' architecture-Time space& people, The magazine of the council of Architecture, (October 2013)Vol.13, issue 10,pp 36-42. Rajshekhar Rao – 'Impact of Tourism on cultural l and Natural Environment the case of Coorg', International conference on Contemporary Research in Tourism and Hospitality: Theory, Practice and pitfalls held at Pondicherry University,Pondicherry on 18th-21st February 2014, pp-113. Faculty Publications in (National/ International) Journals Ganesh Babu - 'Rejuvination of Vrishabhavathi l River – a measure to improve the carrying capacity of river basins in western Ghats', A National Conference on conservation of sustainable management of wetland ecosystem in western Ghats held at Sirsi, organized by Indian Institute of science on 13th- 15th November 2014. Ganesh Babu, Lavanya Vikram – 'Bio – diversity at l a Global level-A credible threat to national Parks and Protected areas', International conference on Contemporary Research in Tourism and Hospitality: Theory, Practice and pitfalls, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, 18th-21st February 2014. Lavanya Vikram, Neelima Reddy – 'The role of l policies of lake water management in Bangalore', International conference held at Delhi on 21st22nd June 2014. Arunachal Hombali – 'Sustainable Re-Interpretation l of Heritage Sites-A case study of Belur & halebeedu',International conference on Arts & Humanities, Colombo, Srilanka, 2th-3rd April 2014. Rajshekhar Rao – 'Sustainability in Built l environment',National conference on Built environment, Rajalakshmi school of architecture, Chennai, 12th -14th March 2014. Achievements - Faculty l Rajshekhar Rao, awarded for best paper in the International Science and Research Journal, March 2014 issue for the paper titled "Bamboo Architecture for ecological living". Rajshekhar Rao – 'Sustainable management of l lakes – the case of Bangalore',National conference on Architecture and Built environment held at Siddaganga Institute of Technology,Tumkur on 11th & 12th of September. Rajshekhar Rao, honored by Lions Club for l Teachers Award on Teachers Day on 5th September 2013 at Century club, Bangalore 47 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Ar. Ananth Ram R, talk and presentation on l architectural photography on Mar 14th, 2014. l Aruna S has been bestowed the title “Autodesk Expert Elite”, by Autodesk in recognition to the contributions made to the global Autodesk Community.2014 Ar. Sanjay Sridhar, talk and presentation on Urban l design on April 5th, 2014 l Vijayanand Muthu, Co-Authored a book titled “ I n d e te r m i n a te S t r u c t u r a l A n a l y s i s ” I K International New Delhi, ISBN 978-93-82332-602, 2014. Ar. Anjaleena, Italian Architect and research scholar l from Australia gave a presentation on architecture of Italy. Dr ChandraShekar & Ar. Smitha, talk on l Architecture design on Jan 24th, 2014 l Amritha Menon, conducted an Exhibition of Art works titled 'VIBGYOR', hosted by 'Urban Solace' gallery. It was met with good responses and its review was published in 'The Hindu' 2014. Arul Das, Presentation on types of glass, structural l glazing systems for buildings on October 27th, 2014 Eduwise, Foreign university presentation on l October 17th, 2014 Guest Lectures 7th and 5th semester students gave presentation l on study tour on Italy, Greece and U.S tour Ar. Anshul Hoda , presentation followed by QUIZ on l September 19th, 2014 Ar. Gautham R gave presentation on High rise l building in Abudhabi on September 26th, 2014 Achievements - Students Akash Moish of 7th semester has won IGBC Green l Design competition on the theme of prevention over prescription. Prof. B.S Jagadeesha Chandra conducted l 'Architectural Quiz on September 19th, 2014 Godrej pvt.ltd company gave presentation on l Godrej Security Systems on 22nd Aug, 2014 Nikhil and Vivek Agarwal of 7th Sem. have won l VITas' 14, INNOVATE Sundaresh Iyer gave presentation on 5th Sep, 2014 l Abhishek L, Final Year B.Arch has won the following l medals for the institution. Birla white competition Presentation about l products and introduction to the Yuva ratna competition for students on introduction on 12th Sep, 2014. Anjali Srikant, 5th Sem has represented India in l International Cultural Exchange Program held on 11th August 2014 at ADA Rangamandira, Bangalore. She has represented ShivaPriya School of Dance in Bengaluru Youth festival held on 12th to 14th August 2014 at Sree Kanteerava Indoor Stadium, Bangalore Ar. Arathi K Parigi gave a talk in '2 Iconic American l Houses by 2 Iconic Master Architects' on 7th Feb 2014 Shreya Balaji, 5th sem has won 1st prize at DAVANA, l VTU Fest held at Davangere on February 2014 Structural Deliberations in architecture ' a talk & l workshop by eminent structural engineer B.L Manjunath of Manjunath & Co. On 14th Feb 2014 on collaborative 'Concept & Design development' with Architects & Structural Engineers . This was followed by a workshop on Structural deliberations in Architecture for the 8th semester Students on their Thesis projects. The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, Australia. Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, the facility formally opened in 1973 and comprises multiple performance venues which together are among the busiest performing arts centres in the world - hosting over 1,500 performances each year attended by some 1.2 million people. The venues produce and present a several in-house productions and accommodate numerous performing arts companies, including Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Over 7 million people visit the site each year, with 300,000 people participating annually in a guided tour of the facility. Ar. Vineeth, talk and presentation on Mar 21st, 2014 l Light & Shadow Play' A Puppet show by Students of l 2nd Semester 'T' Sec was enthusiastically conducted under the guidance of Prof Rajasekhar Rao & Ar Sudha Kumari. The students displayed the 5 different stories through light & shadow effects. 48 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Papers presented in (International / National) Conferences MATHEMATICS l Dinesh P A et all – 'Study of Utilization of wind induced vibrations in generation electricity', The sixth Annual Green Technologies conference, Corpus Christi,Texas, USA, 2014 l The department of Mathematics conducted One day seminar on 'Statistical Modeling, Analysis and its Applications to Engineering' on 8th July, 2014 Dinesh P A et all – 'Numerical solution of modified l Reynold's equation using multigrid method', %th National Conf.on Emerging trends in Fluid Mechanics, Christ University, 14th-15th March 2014. under TEQIP-II Program. Monica Anand et all – 'New Relaxation Schemes for l Viscous Flows', ISTAM Conference, Alliance University, Dec 2014. Guest Lectures l Dr.Ashwathanarayana Muthkur –'My Experience as a Research Scholar', 31-07-2014. Dr.Govindan Ranagarajan –' Numkerical Solutions l of Ordinary Differential Equations and Stability of Numerical Methods', 04-08-2014. One day seminar on 'Statistical Modeling, Analysis and its Applications to Engineering The seminar mainly focused on developing Dr.Thirupathi Gudi – 'Adaptive Finite Element l Methods for the Obstacle Problem', 26-09-2014. statistical models from ecological data and data from the field of Medicine. The program provided a common platform for exchanging and enhancing Guest Lectures - delivered by the dept faculty knowledge from eminent resource personalities. l Dr. V.Ramachandramurthy – 'Finite difference methods for differential equations', Bangalore University,29-01-2014. Noted speakers from Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore, MS Ramaiah Medical College and GE India Technology Centre Bangalore delivered Dr. Monica Anand – 'Design of Experiments: An l Analysis',FDP on Design and Optimization of Experiments, Dept. of Chemical Engg., MSRIT, 4th Aug 2014. useful talks during the seminar. Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals Dinesh P A et al – 'Flow of conducting fluid on solid l core surrounded by porous cylindrical region in presence of transverse magnetic field', Mapana J Science,Vol.13,No.3,pp 13-30, 2014. Funded Project l Dr. Neeraja & Dr. Dinesh P A –'Two phase model of blood flow by inserting a catheter under the influence of external forces',VTU (on going project), Belgaum Dinesh P A et al – 'Shooting method to study mixed l convection past a vertical heated plate with variable fluid properties and internal heat generation', Mapana J Science,Vol.13,No.3,pp 3142,2014. Grant: 1 lakh Faculty who obtained Ph.D degree Mr. M.V. Govindaraju was awarded Ph.D degree for his work on “Rayleigh-Benard and Benard Marangoni convection problems in variable viscosity liquids” by VTU, Belgaum. G.Neeraja et all – 'Hematocrit reduction in l bifurcation due to plasma skimming - steady model', International Journal of Science Engineering and Technology, Vol.17,No.4, pp 219228,2014. 49 ¸ÀA¦UÉ DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY In association with Luminescence Society of India: Karnataka Chapter (LSIKC) an interactive session was arranged with Professors form SJCE, Mysore on 08-012014, research scholars working on water treatment have participated and get befitted. In association with Luminescence Society of India: Karnataka Chapter (LSIKC), an innovative program called 'My Research Journey' was held on 13-7-2014. In which, research scholars secured Ph.D degree from LSIKC group, shared their research experience with young research scholars. In association with Luminescence Society of India: Karnataka Chapter (LSIKC), Research Review Meetings (RRM) for research scholars was held on 09-03-2014. Prof. K.C. Patil from I.I. Sc. and Dr. B A Patil from Ink and Think foundation were chaired the session. One day work shop on “Tips to Research Scholars” was organized on 20-07-2014 in association with Luminescence Society of India-Karnataka Chapter (LSIKC). In association with Luminescence Society of India: Karnataka Chapter (LSIKC), Department conducted Research Orientation Program for Research Aspirants (ROPRA) was conducted at SVCE, Bangalore on18-52014 A two day Workshop on X-ray Crystallography was organized jointly by the Departments of Physics and Chemistry between 1-7-2014 and 2-7-2014. 50 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals green combustion routes', Materials Research Bulletin, 55 (2014) 237-245. R. Hari Krishna, B. M. Nagabhushana – 'A Highly l Efficient Copper Oxide Nanopowder for Adsorption of Methylene Blue Dye from Aqueous Medium', Journal Chemical Engineering Research 2 (2014), 249-258. l B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Structural, photo and thermoluminescence studies of Eu3+ doped orthorhombic YAlO3 nanophosphors', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 601 (2014), 75-84. R. Hari Krishna, B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Influence l of Precursors on Photo luminescence of Hydrothermally Derived ZrO2', Journal of Chemical Engineering and Research, 2 (2014) 105-111. l Sharanabasappa B. Patil –'Anomalous reaction of hydrazine hydrate with 5-arylidene barbiturates: Formation of benzalazines'. Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry. 21 (2014)277-282. R. Hari Krishna, B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Synthesis, l characterization & spectroscopic investigation of Cr3+ doped Wollastonite nanophosphor, Spectrochimica Acta Part A',: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 103 (2014) 403 -407. l B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Synthesis and luminescence properties of Sm3+ doped CaTiO3 nanophosphor for application in white LED under NUV excitation, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 128 (2014) 891 -901. R. Hari Krishna, B. M. Nagabhushana – l ‘Combustion synthesis approach for spectral tuning of Eu doped CaAl2O4 Phosphors’, Journal of l B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Gd1.96_xYxEu0. 04O3 (x = 0.0, 0.49, 0.98, 1.47, 1.96 mol%) nanophosphors: Propellant combustion synthesis, structural and luminescence studies, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 128 (2014)730-739. Alloys and Compounds, 589 (2014)596-603. R. Hari Krishna, B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Autol ignition based synthesis of Y2O3 for photo- and thermo-luminescent applications', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 585 (2014) 561-571. l B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Study on low temperature solution combustion synthesized Sr2SiO4:Dy3+ nano phosphor for white LED, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 127(2014) 381 – 387. R. Hari Krishna, B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Low l temperature synthesis of pure cubic ZrO2 nanopowder: Structural and luminescence studies, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 122 (2014) 216-222. l B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Synthesis, EPR and luminescent properties of YAlO3:Fe3+ (0.1-0.9 mol%) nanopowders, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular, 126 (2014) 220-226. R. Hari Krishna, B. M. Nagabhushana - CaTiO3: l Eu3+ red nano phosphor: low temperature synthesis and photo-luminescence properties, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 120 (2014) 395-400. l B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Synthesis and luminescent properties of Tb3+ activated cadmium silicate nanophosphor', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 592 (2014) 319-327. P. Murali Krishna - 'DNA binding, In silico Docking l and In vitro biological screening of some transition metal complexes of Schiff base ligand as potential blockers of cancer causing receptors', Int.J. ChemTech Res., 6(1) (2014)150-162. l Kottam Nagaraju – 'Multivalent Cu doped ZnO nanoparticles with full solar spectrum absorbance and enhanced photoactivity, American Chemical Society'. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 3, (2014) 5895- 5904. P. Murali Krishna – 'Synthesis, molecular docking, l DNA binding and biological evaluation of Schiff base transition metal complexes', Der Pharma Chemica, 6(6) (2014) 192-202. l B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Effect of different fuels on structural, photo and thermo luminescence properties of solution combustion prepared Y2SiO5 nanopowders, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy,, 127(2014) 177 – 184. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Comparison of structural l and luminescence proper ties of Dy2O3 nanopowders synthesized by co-precipitation and 51 ¸ÀA¦UÉ B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Synthesis, structural and l thermoluminescence properties of YAlO3:Dy3+ nanophosphors', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 591 (2014) 37 – 345. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Dielectric and Electrical l studies in Pr3+ doped nano CaSiO3 perovskite Ceramics', Journal of Materials Research Bulletin, 50 (2014)197 –202. B. M. Nagabhushana - 'Low temperature synthesis l and photoluminescence properties of red emitting Mg2SiO4:Eu3+ nanophosphor for near UV light emitting diodes, Sensors and Actuators B': Chemical, 195 (2014)140-149. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'MgO: Eu3+ red nano phosphor: l low temperature synthesis and photoluminescence properties, Spectrochimica Acta Part A': Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 121 (2014) 46 – 52. B. M. Nagabhushana –' Synthesis, Structural and l Luminescence studies of Magnesium oxide nanopowder, Spectrochimica Acta Part A': Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 118 (2014) 847 -851. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Magnetic and dielectric l interactions in nano zinc ferrite powder: Prepared by self sustainable propellant chemistry technique', Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials., 358 (2014) 132-141. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Plant latex mediated green l synthesis of ZnAl2O4:Dy3+ (1-9 mol %) nanophosphor for white light generation', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 585 (2014) 561-571. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Nd2O3:Gd3+ l nanocr ystalline phosphor: ã-induced the rmoluminescence, EPR and structural properties', Journal of Alloys & Compounds, 591 (2014) 286-292. B. M. Nagabhushana – ''Particle size, morphology and l color tunable ZnO:Eu3+ nanophosphors via plant latex mediated green combustion synthesis, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 584 (2014) 417-424. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Synthesis, l Characterization and Optical Properties of Hybrid PVA-ZnO Nanocomposite: A Composition dependent study', Materials Research Bulletin, 31 (2014) 438-446. Papers presented in (International / National) Conferences B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Effect of zinc substitution on l the nanocobalt ferrite powders for nanoelectronic devices', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 587 (2014) 50-58. R. Harikrishana, B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Synthesis, l Characterization of Nano MnO2 and its Adsorption Characteristics Over an Azo Dye', National Conference on Advanced Functional Materials, (NCAFM – 2014), Department of Physics, Bharathiar University, 30-31st Jan 2014. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Hydrothermal synthesis of l Gd2O3:Eu3+ nanophosphors: Effect of surfactant on structural & luminescence properties', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 587 (2014)755 – 762. Kottam Nagaraju – 'Electrochemistr y of l cytochrome immobilized on lead sulphide nanoparticle modified glassy carbon electrodes and its electrocatalytic activity', International conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences, 4th- 5th September 2014, MSRIT, Bangalore B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Low temperature l synthesis, structural & dosimetric characterization of ZnAl2O4:Ce3+ nanophosphor, Spectrochimica Acta Part A': Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 122 (2014) 489 -498. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Self propagating l combustion synthesis and luminescent properties of nanocrystalline CeO2:Tb3+ (1–10 mol%) phosphors', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 590 (2014) 131-139. P. Murali Krishna and D N Rao – 'Comparative l Anticancer Potential of an Indian SpicesOverview',3rd International conference of Indian Council Chemists held from June 10-14, 2014 at Dubai and Abu Dhabi. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Temperature dependent l magnetic ordering and electrical transport behavior of nano zinc ferrite from 20 to 800 K', Journal of Alloys & Compounds, 590 (2014) 184192. P. Murali Krishna, N. B. Gopal Reddy and l B. C. Yallur – 'The Pharmacological Versatility of Cumin and its derivatives: An over view, 52 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l B. M. Nagabhushana – 'A highly efficient Cuo nanopowder for adsorption of Methylene Blue dye form aqueous medium', International conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences, 4th5th September 2014, MSRIT, Bangalore. Poster presentation, Recent Advances in Pharma Research (RAPR-2014), Sri Krishnadevaraya University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Anantapur (AP) During 14th, 15th March 2014 (Awarded Best poster presentation award) l R. Harikrishana, B. M. Nagabhushana 'Preparation of á-Al2O3 Nano-Particles by Facile Solution Combustion Synthesis for Defluoridation', National Conference on Advanced Functional Materials, (NCAFM – 2014), 30-31st January, 2014 Department of Physics, Bharathiar University. Achievements - Faculty l Kottam Nagaraju was awarded INSA- IAS summer research fellow ship 2014 from Indian Academy of Sciences. Bangalore. Worked in CSIR- Central Electro Chemical Research Institute, Karaikudi. Guest Lectures - delivered by the dept faculty l B. M. Nagabhushana - 'Synthesis, Characterization and biological response of ZnO nanparticles prepared by hydrothermal and green synthesis', National Conference on Recent advances, carrier prospects and entrepreneurial opportunities in biotechnologyand bioengineering. 24th March, 2014, Sir MVIT, Bangalore. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Wet chemical methods for l synthesis of nano - metal oxides' Department of Chemical Engg. MSRIT Bangalore. 27-01-2014. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Nano-structured materials l for versatile applications', Two Day National Workshop on Recent Trends in Nanomaterial Synthesis and Characterization Techniques (NSCT2014), Department of Physics, JNTUA College of Engineering, Pulivendula, 27th-28th, Jan 2014 (Under TEQIP –II). l B. M. Nagabhushana - 'Nano Cuo as adsorbent for color removal from Textile wastewater', International Conference on “Energy Technology, Power Engineering & Environmental Sustainability (ETPEES-2014), Organized by “Krishi Sanskriti” on 21st – 22nd June, 2014, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Low temperature l synthesis, characterization and applications of nano metal oxides', One day national conference on recent trends in Science and Humanities on 11.04.2014,Department of Physics, Saveetha Engineering College, Chennai. l B. M. Nagabhushana - 'Color removal from textile wastewater using CuO nano-particle coated on sand and cinder', 2nd International Conference on Current Trends in Engineering and Management (ICCTEM-2014), 17-19, Vidyavarhaka College of Engineering, Mysore, 17th-19th July, 2014. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Dimension Controlled of l Synthesis of Nano-structured Metal Oxides with Novel Properties for Potential Applications', Modern trends in Chemical Research and their applications, N.M.A.M. Institute of Technology, Nitte, 11-07-2014. l B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Synthesis, characterization and comparison of antimicrobial activities of ZnO nanopowders prepared by hydrothermal and solution combustion methods', Advancement in materials science, 26th & 27th September 2014, Coimbatore Institute of Technology Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Processing parameters in l synthesis of nano metal oxides with technological applications', NMIT, Bangalore 18-07-2014. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Hands–on training : l Solution combustion synthesis', organized by Luminescence Society of India: Karnataka Chapter (LSIKC), SVIT, Bangalore,18-5-2014. l B. M. Nagabhushana - 'Preparation of Silver nanoparticles by self-ropagating solution cpmbustion synthesis and its characteristic studies (in Kannada)', 10th Kannada Vignana Sammelana, held at Mysore, 15th-17th, September 2014. Received best oral presentation. B. M. Nagabhushana – 'Application of nano- oxide l materials: Size matters', National Seminar on 53 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Recent Trends in Crystal Growth and Nano Materials', PG & Research Department of Physics, National College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli, 0808- 2014. DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 3rd National Conference on Software Engineering was organized by Department of Computer Applications during 20th and 21st February 2014. The conference is sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the conference proceeding is published by International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT) as a special issue. The conference was inaugurated by Prof. Deepak D'Souza from Indian Institute of Science and the Keynote address was delivered by him on “Program Verification using Refinement”. During the conference four technical sessions and a Panel Discussion on “Software Engineering Curriculum in Indian Universities: Is it meeting the expectation of industry/ academia?” were scheduled. l P. Murali Krishna - 'Investigations of DNA interactions and development of Anticancer Drugs', Recent Advances in Pharma Research (RAPR2014) held at Sri Krishnadevaraya University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Anantapur (AP),14th- 15th March 2014. DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES The Department of Humanities conducted a training program in Basic English course for 1st year and also students from higher semester courses to enrich listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. A good number of students from PG program -M.tech & MCA also enrolled for this course. A short social documentary titled 'Existence' directed by Pranav Krishna was screened for these students to understand, analyze and interpret. The department encourages students to cultivate good speaking and writing habits through such courses and creative writing sessions. Guest Lectures - delivered by the dept faculty l Smt Premila Swamy –' Indian English poetry with special reference to Toru Dutt' CMR Institute of Management, Bangalore, 4-8-2014. 3rd National Conference on Software Engineering-NCSE-2014 Department of Computer Applications has conducted a 2-Day workshop on “Android Application Development” on 27th & 28th March 2014. There were 50 participants for the workshop. The main idea of the workshop is to provide the fundamental knowledge on the current demanding technology, Android. The objective of the workshop is not only to provide knowledge but also to motivate participants to develop innovative applications. Topics covered are Introduction to Android, Android Architecture, Setup of Android Development environment, Main Building Blocks, User Interface, Android Resources, SQLite, Android Game Ideas and Projects. Participants were divided into teams and asked to come up with a new idea. At the end of the workshop all the teams have come up with good ideas and showcased their ideas. The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India. It is a living document, an instrument which makes the government system work. It lays down the framework defining fundamental political principles, establishes the structure, procedures, powers and duties of government institutions and sets out fundamental rights, directive principles and the duties of citizens. The Indian constitution is the longest written constitution of any sovereign country in the world, containing 448 articles in 25 parts, 12 schedules, 5 appendices and 98 amendments (out of 120 Constitution Amendment Bills). Besides the English version, there is an official Hindi translation. Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is widely regarded as the architect of the Indian Constitution. 54 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l Niranjanamurthy M – 'Research Study on Internal Order Cancellation in online shopping industry', International Journal of Computer Science and Mobile Computing ISSN 2320–088X Vol.3 Issue 7, July- 2014 p343-349 2014 l Niranjanamurthy M – 'E-commerce: Recommended online Payment Method-Paypal', International Journal of Computer Science and Mobile Computing ISSN 2320–088X Vol.3 Issue 7, p669-679 July- 2014 l Niranjanamurthy M, DR. Dharmendra Chahar –'Recommended Screening-Checks for placed orders in Industry Internal Tool- OMS', International Journal of Computer Science and Mobile Computing ISSN 2320–088X Vol.3 Issue 7, July2014 2-Day workshop on “Android Application Development” on 27th & 28th March 2014 The Department of Computer Applications organized a state level project competition second time in succession for final year students and got a very positive response from colleges all over the state. The idea of having such an event was to exhibit potential talents of MCA students by providing a platform. All the projects were very innovative and employed the latest technologies. The projects were evaluated on a 10 point scale and parameters were innovative concept, research oriented and latest technologies used. Papers presented in (International / National) Conferences Seema D, D Evangelin Geetha –'Mobile RFID based l Traceability for tracking seeds and fuzzy logic applications', International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies, PES Institute of Technology and Management, Shimogga. 8th May, 2014 S Uma, D Evangelin Geetha, T V Suresh Kumar – 'A l Study on applicability of Agents to the Evolution of Web', International Conference VELS University, Chennai 28th & 29th March Manish Kumar, Dr. M. – 'Scalable Distributed l Intrusion Detection System using Cloud Computing Infrastructure', IEEE-International Conference on Knowledge Collaboration in Engineering - ICKCE 2014 Kathir College of Engineering, "Wisdom Tree”, Neelambur, Coimbatore 641 062, Tamilnadu, INDIA. 2014 MCA Project Exhibition Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals S. Jagannatha, T. V Suresh Kumar, K Rajani Kanth l – 'Comparative Study of Back-End Vs Front-End System by Performance Analysis during Preliminary Design stages', Engineering Research and Technology p- 87-93 -2014 C H. Rammohan Reddy, R V Raghavendra Rao, D l Evangelin Geetha, T V Suresh Kumar K Rajani Kanth – 'Survey on UML Based Modeling for Web Services', DST Sponsored 3rd National Conference on Software Engineering- NCSE'14. MSRIT Feb-2014 S. Jagannatha, T. V Suresh Kumar, K Rajani Kanth l – 'Performance Analysis of Distributed database during Preliminary Design stages using ER model', Journal of Computer Applications p-40-47 2014 S Jagannatha, D EvangelinGeetha, T V Suresh l Kumar K RajaniKanth – 'Load Balancing in Distributed Database System using Resource Allocation', DST Sponsored 3rd National Conference on Software Engineering- NCSE'14. MSRIT Feb-2014 Manish Kumar, Dr. M. Hanumanthappa – 'Intrusion l Detection System using Dynamic Agent Selection and Configuration', International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology (IJAET), Volume 7 Issue 3 p-1044-1052. 2014 55 ¸ÀA¦UÉ S. Ajitha, Dr.T.V. Suresh Kumar, Dr.K.Rajanikanth – l l Archana U L, Niveditha K T, Jagannatha S – 'The Comparative study of DynomoDB - NoSQL database service', (NCITSF ' 14) National Conference On Information Technology For Sustainable Future-Organized by Department of Computer Science & Information Technology, Jain University, Bangalore. on 9th May 2014 'Multi-Agent Based Food Processing Supply Chain Management', DST Sponsored 3rd National Conference on Software Engineering- NCSE'14. MSRIT Feb-2014 K Sailaja Kumar, D Evangelin Geetha, l T V Suresh Kumar – 'Key Challenges in Online Social Networks Analysis: A survey', DST Sponsored 3rd National Conference on Software EngineeringNCSE'14. MSRIT Feb-2014 Achievements - Students Saaima Amber won the 3rd Prize for the l project titled “Incorporating Ipv6 Functionality In Akamai Tools” in the State level project competition organized by department of Computer Applications, MSRIT. Manish Kumar, Dr. M. Hanumanthappa, l Dr. T V Suresh Kumar – 'Secure Mobile Application Development's Critical Issues and Challenges', DST Sponsored 3rd National Conference on Software Engineering - NCSE'14. MSRIT Feb-2014 Saaima Amber won the best project award l for the project titled “Incorporating Ipv6 Functionality In Akamai Tools” awarded by MSRIT Alumni Association. Niranjanamurthy M, Shravan N S, Kavya K, Mithun l U – 'Cloud Computing Study on Cloud Computing and its Security threats', (NCITSF ' 14) National Conference On Information Technology For Sustainable Future-Organized by Department of Computer Science & Information Technology, Jain University, Bangalore. on 9TH May 2014 Manikantan.H & Sanjay Nag won the l Treasure Hunt competition in ESPERAN' 2014 organized by PESIT, Bangalore South Campus, Bangalore on 24th and 25th April 2014. Niranjanamurthy M, Sai Prasad C, Manushree SP – l 'Research Challenges in Mobile Application Testing and Test Cases', - (NCITSF'14) National Conference On Information Technology For Sustainable FutureOrganized by Department of Computer Science & Information Technology, Jain University, Bangalore. on 9th May 2014 Manikantan.H & Shravan won the 2nd prize l in IT quiz at ESPERAN'2014 organized by PESIT, Bangalore South Campus, Bangalore on 24th and 25th April 2014. Sanjay Nag & Shravan won the 2nd prize in l Tech Collage at ESPERAN'2014 organized by PESIT, Bangalore South Campus, Bangalore on 24th and 25th April 2014. Papers presented in (International / National) Conferences - Student l Sai Prasad, Asharani.A – 'Research challenges in Mobile Application Testing', National conference on Software Engineering – “NCSE14” organized by Department of Computer Applications, MSRIT on 20th and 21st February 2014. Manikantan.H won the 2nd prize in Crack the l Shell at ESPERAN'2014 organized by PESIT, Bangalore South Campus, Bangalore on 24th and 25th April 2014. l Mithun U, Kavya.K & Shravan.N.S –'Study of Mobile c l o u d C o mp u t i n g ( M C C ) a n d Re s e a rc h Challenges',National conference on Software Engineering – “NCSE14” organized by Department of Computer Applications, MSRIT on 20th and 21st February 2014. Guest Lectures - delivered by the dept faculty l Manish Kumar “Network Security Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing” held on 26th July, 2014 in CSI Bangalore Chapter Premises, Bangalore, organized by CSI-Bangalore Chapter. 56 ¸ÀA¦UÉ “Transaction Analysis”. This workshop aimed at providing a clear understanding of components of personal growth and interpersonal effectiveness. The Students were highly benefitted by this workshop. DEPARTMENT OF MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) l Two Days – NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON “NEW PERSPECTIVES IN INDIAN MANAGEMENT” was conducted by the department on 23rd & 24th April 2014. Dr. N.S. Vishwanath, Director, M.P. Birla Institute of Management inaugurated the conference. Dr. K.R.S.Murthy, Director,Ex IIM, Bangalore had shared his rich experience highlighting the “New Perspectives in Indian Management”. Mr. C. Rakesh Marwaha, Marketing Consultant had lead a session on “New Trends In Indian Marketing”. Dr. Ashwin Kumar, Member of Knowledge Commission had shared his rich experience in “Indian Business Innovations”. Dr. Bharath Chandra was the Chief Guest for valedictory function and highlighted various new business ideas. The conference was highly successful and received excellent feedback from the participants Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals l Dr. A. Mahalakshmi – 'Validity of Altman's Z score model in Determining Corporate Sickness among Indian Companie's, Indian Journal of Applied Research, Volume 4 Issue: 4, ISSN-2249-555X, P.No. 28-29 l Dr. M. Rizwana – 'Product attributes of Handloom Weavers' Co-operative Societies: An empirical study with reference to Erode District', Prerana Journal of Management thought and Practice, Volume 6 Issue: 2, ISSN:0974-908X P.No49-57 Papers presented in (International / National) Conferences Dr. A.Mahalakshmi – 'The implications of Credit l Default Swaps on Corporate Sickness in WORKSHOP ON “RISK MANAGEMENT AND DERIVATIVES” ON 14-02-2014 India',International Conference on “Debt & Debt Derivatives Market (UGC SAP DRS-1)”, School of l A One day workshop on “RISK MANAGEMENT AND Management, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, DERIVATIVES” was conducted by the Department 23rd and 24th January , 2014 on 14-02-2014. Prof. Ajay Kumar from SIT, Tumkur Dr. M. Rizwana – 'Consumer Behaviour on l was the Chief Guest for the workshop and lead a Mechanism”. Handloom Products- A Study with reference to Mr. Alok Kumar, Investment Consultant, Bangalore KHDC', International Conference on “Globalization lead session on “Options Trading Strategies”. Dr. and its impact on Indian Economy”, Sri Vasavi P.V.Raveendra lead a session on “Forwards and College, Erode, 2nd January , 2014 session on “Commodity Trading Futures”. Dr. Y.M.Satish lead a session on “Swaps”. Dr. B. Janakiram – 'A study on the Organizational l Role Stress and its effect on Locus of Control in WORKSHOP ON “PRACTICAL COMPONENTS OF PERSONAL GROW TH AND INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS” ON 21-02-2014 Public Sector', International Conference “Competency Building Strategies in Business and Technology for Sustainable Development”, Ganesh l A One day workshop on “PRACTICAL COMPONENTS OF PERSONAL GROWTH AND INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS” was conducted by the Department on 21-02-2014. Dr. B.Thygaraja was the Chief Guest for the workshop and lead a session on “FIRO B”. Prof. Manjunath from Nitte Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore lead a session on “BIG Five and Type A & Type B”. Dr. B.Janakiram lead a session on “Emotional Intelligence” and School of Business Management, 25th & 26th February , 2014 Dr. M. Rizwana – 'A Perspective study about l Handloom Weavers with reference to Erode District', International Conference on “Emerging trends in HR Practices “, PGP College of Arts and Science, Namakkal, 15th Feb, 2014 57 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l Dr. B. Janakiram –'A Study on Rewards & Recognition Programme and its Impact on Employee Motivation', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 Dr. M. Rizwana –' Social Entrepreneurship: l Contributions in India', National conference on “Entrepreneurial Competency, Excel Business School, 30th January, 2014 Dr. A. Mahalakshmi – 'Validity of Altman's Z Score l model in Determining Corporate Sickness among Indian Companies', National Conference on “Creativity and Innovation for Contemporary Managerial Issues”, Periyar Maniammai University, 26th March , 2014 l Dr. P.V. Raveendra – 'Analyzing the Determinants of Gold Price in India', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 l Dr. A. Mahalakshmi – 'A Study on Assets and Liability Management with Reference to Vijaya Bank, Bangalore', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 Dr. B. Janakiram – 'Financial and Non-Financial l risk Assessment Model for Software Companies', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 l Sri D. C. Arun Kumar – 'Analyzing the Determinants of Gold Price in India', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 Dr. B. Janakiram – 'Non Performing Asset l Management In A Public Sector 28Bank', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 l Dr. Y.M. Satish – 'NPA Management in Canara Bank, National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management', MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 Dr. B. Janakiram - 'A Study on Foreign Institutional l Investment and its Impact On Selected Nifty Stocks', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 l Sri G.Vijaya Kumar – 'Financial and Non-Financial risk Assessment Model for Software Companies', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 Dr. B. Janakiram –'Diversity Management l Practices in Indian Context', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 l Dr. Y.M. Satish – 'A Study on Non Performing Assets in Karnataka Bank Ltd', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 Dr. B. Janakiram – 'Effects of Locus of Control in l Sucession Planning In Manufacturing Sector - A Study of BEML Ltd., Mysore', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 l Dr. Y.M. Satish, Non Performing Asset Management In A Public Sector Bank, National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 Dr. B. Janakiram – 'A Study on Training Needs l Identification in Automobile Financing Industry - A Study at Toyota Financial Services India', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 l Sri S. Santhosh Kumar –'A study on Quality of Work Life with Reference to ITI Ltd, Bangalore', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 Dr. B. Janakiram – 'Organizational Role Efficacy l and Self-Mastery Regulation in Public Sector – A study with Reference to KPTCL Bangalore', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 l Sri S. Santhosh Kumar – 'A Study on Rewards & Recognition Programme and its Impact on Employee Motivation', National Conference on 58 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Sri N. Srikanth Reddy –'Retail Store Taxonomy', l National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 l Sri G.Vijaya Kumar – 'A study on Quality of Work Life with Reference to ITI Ltd, Bangalor'e, National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 Dr. P.V. Raveendra – 'Influence of Consumer l Demographics on Online Booking of Train Tickets', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 l Sri N. Srikanth Reddy – 'Customer Profile and Shopping Experience at Auchan', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 Dr. P.V. Raveendra – 'A Study on Emerging Trends of l Tourism and its Problems with Reference to Infrastructure Facilities in Karnataka', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 l Sri N. Srikanth Reddy – 'Distributor Perception Towards Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 Sri S. Santhosh Kumar - 'A Study on Emerging l Trends of Tourism and its Problems with Reference to Infrastructure Facilities in Karnataka', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 l Sri N.Srikanth Reddy - 'Customer Satisfaction Towards Garuda Maruti Pvt.Ltd. Services', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 Sri S. Santhosh Kumar – 'Role of Digital Marketing l on Hospitality and Tourism Industry with Special Reference to Karnataka State', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 l Sri N. Srikanth Reddy, Service Quality at B.M. Patil Medical College and Research Centre, National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 Sri S. Santhosh Kumar –'Linkages and Partnership l Required Between Academics and Industry to Bring the Reforms in Management Education', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 l Sri N. Srikanth Reddy –'Customer Satisfaction at SS Packaging', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 l Dr. M. Rizwana – 'Retail Innovations in Rural IndiaAn Emerging Trend', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 Dr. P.V. Raveendra – 'A Study on Problems of l Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists in Bangalore', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 l Dr. P.V. Raveendra –'Marketing Home Loans through Festivals: An Effective Promotional Tool', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 Dr. A. Mahalakshmi –'The Scope of Private Equity l In India', National Conference on “Innovative Management Strategies for Future Markets”, BSMED, Bharathiar Univ., Coimbatore, 29th Jan, 2014 l Dr. P.V. Raveendra –' Retail Store Taxonomy', National Conference on “New Perspectives in Indian Management”, MSRIT, Bangalore, 23rd & 24th April, 2014 59 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l Dr. A. Mahalakshmi – 'Inclusive Banking towards financial inclusion in the state of karnataka', ICSSR Sponsored National Conference on “Inclusive Banking through Technology”, Periyar E.V.R. College, Tiruchirappalli, 21st Feb, 2014 M. Rizwana was awarded Ph.D degree for her work on “Marketing Mix and its impact on Customer Satisfaction- A Study with Handloom weavers co-operative societies in Erode district” by Bharathiar University, Coimbatore Dr. A. Mahalakshmi – 'The role of Indian Micro l Finance Institutions in Poverty Allegations', ICSSR Sponsored National Conference on “Millenium Development goals (MDG)- Challenges and Future, VELS University, Chennai, 13th & 14th March, 2014 A.Mahalakshmi was awarded Ph.D degree for her work on ‘Industrial Sickness in Indian Corporate Sector - Discriminators, Predictors & Development of Prediction models’ by Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. Achievements - Students Mr. G. Sandeep Kumar participated in Focus l Discussion on “Digital Marketing: Future Opportunities & Challenges at PES University, Bangalore on 27-09-2014. Mr. Bharat Raj B.R participated in Focus l Discussion on “Digital Marketing: Future Opportunities & Challenges at PES University, Bangalore on 27-09-2014. LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRES The Library begins its existence in 1962. The library with its modern collection knowledge resources and innovative information services fills an essential role for students, faculty and the surrounding community in their intellectual pursuits. It is a centralized Air Conditioned fully automated library predominantly related to Engineering, Technology, Management and allied subjects. The collection comprises of 111272 volumes of Books with 30,465 Titles and subscribed by VTU Consortium & GIST to 9990 E-journals (Full Text) from IEEE, IETE, Springer Link, Taylor & Francis, Emerald and Pro Quest, 1505 Conference Proceedings and with 20897 full text E-Books are the major Eresources. In addition there are 3720 Bound volumes of journals, 3000 Compact Discs (CD's), 75 Video Cassettes & 1421 IS Standards. All the Operations of the Library are automated using Libsys 7 (Release 3.0) software. Mr. Murali T.R won the I prize in Shot Put event l conducted at MSRIT during the year 2014. Guest Lectures Prof. M. Ajoy Kumar - “Commodity Trading l Mechanism”, 14-02-2014 Mr. Alok Chhajer - “Option Trading Strategies”, 14l 02-2014 Prof. B.Thyagaraj - “FIRO-B orientation”, l 21-02-2014 Prof. V.S. Manjunath - “Big Five Personality Traits”, l 21-02-2014 Mr. Saif Ahmed - “Business Intelligence”, l 03-04-2014 Mr. Sanjeev Chenjeri - Employability Skills, l 25-09-2014 Faculty who obtained Ph.D degree l Three Day FDP On “Current Library Issues and Challenges in Flat World” was organized by Library and Information Centre, under the sponsorship of TEQIP-II from 3rd to 5th 2014. Dr. A.N.Rai, Director, NAAC inaugurated the FDP program. Dr. S. Y. Kulkarni, Principal, Presided over the Function. Y. M. Satish was awarded Ph.D degree for his work on “Turnaround strategies for SSIs” by V TU Belgaum, Karnataka. 60 ¸ÀA¦UÉ PLACEMENT & TRAINING DEPARTMENT During fifth semester vacation we have provided rigorous Soft Skills Trainings for 2015 batch students. Sessions on Aptitude, Presentation & Communication Skills, GD facing Skills, Interview facing skills, Picture perception & so on were conducted. Mock GD, trial tests are conducted on almost every week end. FDP On 'Current Library Issues and Challenges in Flat World' We had campus drives by Mu Sigma, Akamai, SAP Labs, JP Morgan, Unisys, HP, Capgemini, L&T Construction, Hindustan Unilever, Bosch, Volvo, SapientNitro, Aricent, Tesco, CUMI, ICICLE, Temenos, Cerner, Deloitte, Fidelity, Amazon, Texas Instruments, Cybage, Cyient, Dell, Diamond Storm, Akamai, Microsoft, Analytics Quotient, Redbus and so on. Publications in (Inernational / National) Journals Kattimani, S. F. & Naik, R.R – 'Evaluation Of l Librarianship and ICT Skills of Library and Information Professionals Working in the Engineering College Libraries in Karnataka, India: A Survey', EMERALD PROGRAMME: ELECTRONIC LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS, 47 (4), pp.345-369. LONDON. http://www.emerald insight.com/journals.htm?Issn=0033-0337. Apart from this we had nearly 82 companies on campus, who were the First time visitors to MSRIT. All put together we had 137 companies. Kattimani S. F. & Naik R.R – 'E-Learning Technology l in the ICT Era: Application to Technical Education', DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology, New Delhi, 32 (6), pp.459-467. INTERNSHIP Internship opportunities were provided to the students by the department. Internship were honored by TVS Motors, Philips, Sap, L&T ECC, Digim2m Solutions, Odessatech, Volvo, Cisco, Cerner, Robert Bosch, Nokia Siemens Networks, Thorogood, Diamond Storm, Cyient, Unisys, Texas Instruments, Amazon, HP, Temenos, to name a few. Totally internship was provided by 25 companies Bhaskar Reddy M & Sujatha H.R – 'Web Scale l discovery Services/Tools; transforming Access to Library Resources', Library Herald,52 (2), pp.99-108. Papers presented in (International / National) Conferences Kotreshappa A. G – 'Effective Usage of Digital Library l Collection, E-Information services and facilities of Engineering College Libraries', National Conference on Lead the Change: innovative Information Professionals in the Digital Age, Dravidian University, KUPPAM (AP), 7th -8th March-2014. We had nearly 18 companies where the CTC offered was above 10 LPA. At this point of time, the highest CTC for this 2015 batch is 24 LPA. INTERNATIONAL PLACEMENTS We were able to get Khimji Ramdas from Muscat, PNC Architect, Dubai, Emrill Dubai and so on At this point of Shankar - 'Design and Development of Institutional l Repository using Dspace@MSRIT, Bangalore',Health science Library, Manipal University,Manipal, 21st22nd February 2014. time we have successfully made 2015 batch in just 5 months 1492 offers for Faculty who obtained Ph.D degree NATIONAL SOCIAL SERVICE Sri. Shivaputrappa Kattimani, Librarian was awarded Ph.D degree for his on 'Evaluation of ICT Skills of Library and Information Professionals Working in the Engineering College Libraries in Karnataka State: A Study' by Karnatak University, Dharwad. l 11th Special Service Camp (31st July to 9th August 2014) l The inauguration ceremony of the 11th NSS-MSRIT Special Service Camp, in memory of our founder 61 ¸ÀA¦UÉ chairman, Late Dr. M.S. Ramaiah, was held on 4th August 2014 at Athumanesar Church, M.R. Jayaram Colony, Mathikere at 10:30 am. The ceremony was graced by the presence of our honourable chief guest, Sri M.R. Seetharam MLC, Vice Chairman, GEF & Director, MSRIT and Dr S Y Kulkarni, Principal, MSRIT. As part of the special camp NSS volunteers held many useful programs for the society. l A free vehicle emission test was conducted for the residents of M.R. Jayaram Colony. A total of 41 vehicles were tested and certified in the colony. A group of eighty five enthusiastic NSS volunteers sat together and worked tirelessly to make new note books out of old, discarded blue books. About 6100 note books the highest number of recycled note books ever made,which broke all the previous record were distributed to the needy students of Corporation and Govt. run schools in and around Bengaluru. Students and teachers thanked all the NSS volunyeers and Dr.PuttaBore Gowda an able NSS Coordinator for extending such a magnanimous help and support. l NSS-MSRIT takes up tree plantation initiatives every year. This year the tree plantation activity was held on 24th August 2014 at CQAE, Jalahalli Camp Road National Service Scheme (NSS) under the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports Govt. of India, was launched in Gandhiji's Birth Centenary Year 1969, in 37 Universities involving 40,000 students with primary focus on the development of personality of students through community service. Today, NSS has more than 3.2 million student volunteers on its roll spread over 298 Universities and 42 (+2) Senior Secondary Councils and Directorate of Vocational Education all over the country. 62 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Visit to Community Rehabilitation Centres (20th September 2014) Fifteen teams of NSS-MSRIT volunteers visited various orphanages and old age homes in the city. The orphanages housed children between ages 7 to 18 and the old age homes accommodated senior citizens of both genders. The main aim of this activity was to sensitize the volunteers towards the plight of those less unfortunate and also to give them an opportunity to interact with them so as to understand their condition a little better. Prior to the visit, NSS MSRIT had organised a collection drive in the college premises where in students were asked to donate clothes, books, toys, ration items, bed spreads, toiletries or any other useful items that could help make the lives of the kids and senior citizens in orphanages and old age homes a little easier. The response from the students and staff of MSRIT was fantastic.NSS Volunteers distrbuted all the donated items to all the community rehabilitation centres. The inmates of the rehabilitatin centres thanked the volunteers for their help and support E-Waste Collection Drive l NSS-MSRIT volunteers conducted an Electronic Waste Collection Drive on 27-09-2014. The volunteers formed teams and visited neighbouring residential colonies and educated the residents about the impact of improper disposal of e-waste on the environment. The volunteers collected old electronics like mobile phones, printers, scanners, computer monitors, cables, chargers, radio sets, etc. The collected waste was sent to an e-waste recycling centre for safe disposal. 63 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Talk on laws relating to animal protection by Mr. Rakesh Shukla (20th October 2014) DEPARTMENT OF SPORTS l Mr. Rakesh Shukla, founder 'The Voice of Stray Dogs' interacted with the NSS-MSRIT volunteers on 20-10-2014. He spoke about the rights conferred to stray dogs and the laws relating to animal protection. He also shared some rescue operations that he had performed and he encouraged the volunteers to take up an initiative to protect stray dogs against inhumane treatment. This awareness program was received with enthusiasm by the volunteers. VTU Achievements l Cricket team Secured Winners Trophy in VTU Bangalore Central Zone Inter Collegiate Tournament host by our College from 24th Feb to 3rd March 2014. l Handball women team Secured Runners Trophy in VTU Single Zone Inter Collegiate Tournament held at JNNCE, Shimoga from 21st to 23rd March 2013. l Cricket team Secured First Runner up Trophy in VTU Inter Zone Cricket Tournament held at JNNCE, Shimoga from 24th Feb to 28th March 2014. MSRIT NSS Congratulations to ISRO for the sucessful MOM project on 26/09/2014 Mangalyaan’s Success NSS wing of MSRIT held a progrm at the institute level to congratulate and thank the ISRO and scientists who worked tirelesly for the Mangalayan’s success on 2609-2014. Dr.S Y Kulkarni Principal, Dr.N V R Naidu Vice Principal,Sri G Ramachandra CFO, Dr.T.V.Suresh Kumar Registrar(Academic), Sri Ramesh Naik.S Registrar(Administration) and Dr.Putta Bore Gowda NSS Co-ordinator graced the occasion. Volleyball Men team Secured First Runner up l Trophy in VTU Bangalore Zone held at HKBKCE, Bangalore on 18th & 19th Feb 2014. Hockey Women team Secured Runners Trophy in l VTU Single Zone held at VTU Regional Office, Mysore from 4th to 6th April 2014 Final V|S RYMEC, Bellary. Basketball Men team Secured Runners Trophy in l VTU Bangalore Central Zone host by our College on 21st & 22nd April 2014 Final V/S NHCE. Tennis Men team Secured Runners Trophy in VTU l Bangalore Zone Tennis Tournament held at Gopalan CE, Bangalore on 5th & 6th April 2014 (Final v/s BNMIT). Tennis Women team Secured Runners Trophy in l VTU Single Zone Tennis Tournament held at VTU, Belagavi from 8th to 10th April 2014. Tennis Men team Secured Second Runner up l Trophy in VTU Single Zone Tennis Tournament held at VTU, Belagavi from 8th to 10th April 2014. Basketball Women team Secured First Runner up l Trophy in VTU Single Zone Tournament held at GAT, Bangalore from 8th to 10th April 2014. Chess Women team Secured Winners Trophy in VTU l Bangalore Zone Chess tournament held at RVCE, Bangalore from 20th to 22nd August 2014. 64 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l VTU Single Zone Swimming Competition held on 10th September 2014 organized by our College. l 17th VTU Athletic Meet held at VTU, Belgaum from 5th to 8th Nov.2014. The following are the Medal Winners: The following are the Medal Winners: Akash Rohit – V ISE Gold – 2, Silver – 6 & Bronze – 3 Jithendra H K – M Tech(E&C) Gold Medal in Javelin Throw Meghanaa Sreevatsa – III IT Gold – 3, Silver – 1 & Bronze – 2 Sachin B M – V IEM Silver Medal in 200 Mtr Race Setu Snehil – III CIVIL Silver – 2 & Bronze -1 Medal WOMEN 4 X 100 M Relay - Silver Medal MEN 4 X 100 M Relay - Bronze Medal Akash Rohit of V Sem ISE represented VTU in All India Inter University Swimming Competition held at Jain Uni., Bangalore from 25-29 Oct.2014 and Secured Gold - 1, Silver - 1 & Bronze - 1 Medals. Invitational Inter Collegiate Achievements l Tennis Women Team Secured Winners Trophy in RVCE Inter Collegiate tournament held from 12th to l Swathi H Nayak of VII Sem Civil Secured Bronze Medal in VTU Single Zone Archery Competition held at DBIT, Bangalore on 13th & 14th September 2014. 14th Feb. 2014. Basketball Men Team Secured Winners Trophy in l RVCE Inter Collegiate tournament held from 12th to 14th Feb. 2014. l Kaiser Sheik of V Sem Civil Secured Silver Medal in 90 kg category and Ravi Kumar K L of VII Sem TCE Secured Bronze Medal in 90 kg Category in VTU Single Zone Best Physique competition held at NMAMIT, NITTE from 20th to 22nd Sep.2014. Basketball Women Team Secured Runners Trophy l in RVCE Inter Collegiate tournament held from 12th to 14th Feb. 2014. Cricket Team Secured Winners Trophy in RVCE Inter l l Throw ball Women team Secured Runners Trophy in VTU Bangalore Zone Tournament held at Sai Vidya IT, Bangalore on 9th & 10th Oct. 2014. Collegiate tournament held from 5th to 17th Feb. 2014. Volleyball Men Team Secured Runners Trophy in l NMIT K C MEMORIAL Inter Collegiate tournament held on 11th & 12th March 2014. l Throw ball Women team Secured Runners Trophy in VTU Inter Zone Tournament held at NIEIT, Mysore on 12th Oct. 2014. Cricket Team Secured Winners Trophy in MIT, l Manipal REVELS Inter Collegiate tournament held from 18th to 22nd March 2014. l Sreekanth B of III Sem ISE Secured Gold Medal in 56 kg Category in VTU Single Zone Judo Competition held at KLSVDRIT, Haliyal from 17th to 19th Oct. 2014. Hockey Men Team Secured Runners Trophy in MIT, l Manipal REVELS Inter Collegiate tournament held from 18th to 22nd March 2014. Badminton Women team Secured Winners Trophy l in VTU Bangalore Zone Badminton Tournament held at BMSCE, Bangalore on 25th & 26th Oct. 2014. Cricket Team Secured Winners Trophy in IISC l Centenary Cup Inter Collegiate tournament held on 16th, 29th March 6th, 13th, 20th & 27th April 2014. Badminton Men team Secured Runners Trophy in l VTU Bangalore Zone Badminton Tournament held at BMSCE, Bangalore on 25th & 26th Oct. 2014. College Athletics Team secured the following l Medals in KLE's Athletic Meet held at Sports Authority of India on 28th April 2014. 4x100 Mtrs Relay – Gold, 200 Mtrs – 1Gold & 1 Bronze, 100 mtrs - 1 Silver &1 Bronze, Long Jump – 1 Silver Medal. Badminton Women team Secured Winners Trophy l in VTU Inter Zone Badminton Tournament held at SDMIT, Ujjire from 29th to 31st Oct. 2014. 65 ¸ÀA¦UÉ l Basketball Men Team Secured Winners Trophy in prestigious 9th Dr. M S Ramiah Memorial Basketball Tournament held from 15th to 18th Oct.2014. Basketball Women Team Secured Runners Trophy l in prestigious 9th Dr. M S Ramiah Memorial Basketball Tournament held from 15th to 18th Oct.2014. 17th Dr. M S Ramaiah Memorial Cricket Tournament Badminton Women Team Secured Winners Trophy l is RVCE – MOMENTUM-14 Inter Collegiate Tournament held on 15th Oct.14. Basketball Men Team Secured Runners Trophy is l RVCE – MOMENTUM-14 Inter Collegiate Tournament held on 17th to 19th Oct.14. Tennis Women Team Secured Runners Trophy is l RVCE – MOMENTUM-14 Inter Collegiate Tournament held on 17th to 19th Oct.14. Students participation in Inter University Competitions Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering Secured Winners Trophy in the Tournament (17th Dr. M S Ramaiah Memorial Cricket Tournament) The following players are represented VTU and State Teams in All India Inter University & National level tournaments. 1. Rohit D Hemmady III 2. 3. 4. Aashish P Govind M Prabhu V III Sujan Kumar J VII 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Akash Rohit G Akshay S Murthy Sofiyamma Chacko Ragini Gopi Swathi H Nayak Apeksha B Ronad Akash K Raju Prateeksh V I V III VII III I VII MEC H E&C ISE Handball Chess Chess Cross CHEM Country Race ISE Swimming IT Swimming E&C Basketball IEM Basketball CIVIL Archery ARCH Archery Roller Skating ISE ECE Cricket VTU VTU VTU VTU VTU VTU VTU VTU VTU VTU STATE VTU RVCE Team Secured Runners Trophy in the Tournament(17th Dr. M S Ramaiah Memorial Cricket Tournament) l 9th Dr. M S Ramaiah Memorial Basketball Tournament for Men & Women was held in the institute from 15th to 18th of October 2014. Dr.S.Y.Kulkarni Principal inaugurated the Tournament. Teams representing various colleges across the state took part in the tournament with all enthusiasm and made the tournament a grand success. In the men's section MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology and RV College of Engineering shared Winners and Runners trophies. In Women's section RV College of Engineering and MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology shared Winners and Runners trophies respectively. l Department of sports Organized annual 17th Dr. M S Ramaiah Memorial Cricket Tournament from 6th to 17th September 2014. Sri S.M.Acharya CEO, GEF(Engg. & Sci) and Dr.S.Y.Kulkarni Principal inaugurated the Tournament. The tournament witnessed the active participation of teams from various engineering colleges across the state. Finally Dayananda Sagar College of engineering emerged as winners and R V College of Engineering as runners in the tournament. 66 ¸ÀA¦UÉ 9th Dr. M S Ramaiah Memorial Basketball Men & Women Tournament from 15th to 18th Oct. 2014. Dr. S Y Kulkarni Principal giving away the prizes to the members of the teams of winners and runners. l Organized VTU Inter Collegiate Swimming Competition on 10th September 2014. Teams representing various colleges across the state took part in the tournament with all enthusiasm and made the tournament a grand success. VTU Tournaments l VTU Bangalore Central Zone Cricket Tournament was organised by the sports department from 24th Feb to 1st March 2014. The entire tournament was held in the MVIT sports grounds. Various teams from Engineering colleges affiliated to VTU took part in the tournament. MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology beat Atria Institute of Technology in the finals and declared as winners and Atria Institute of Technology settled for the runners trophy. The tournament was inaugurated by the Principal Dr.S.Y.Kulkarni. Mr.Arvind M of RV College of Engineering was declared as individual champion of the tournament. Akash Rohit of MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology and Supreeth S of PES Institute of Technology were declared as II and III Individual champions of the tournament. Sri S M Acharya CEO, GEF honoured the prize winners during the ceremonial event. MSRIT cricket team with VTU Bangalore Zone Cricket tournament-Winners trophy l VTU Bangalore Central Zone Basket ball Tournament was held in the institute's sports ground from 21st to 22nd April,2014. Various teams from Engineering colleges affiliated to VTU took part in the tournament. New Horizon College of Engineering emerged as winners and MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology as runners in the tournament. 67 ¸ÀA¦UÉ In House Activities l Department of sports Organized 44th Annual Athletic Meet in college new ground on 23rd September 2014. Sri M.R. Seetharam MLC, Director MSRIT inaugurated the athletic meet.In his speech he appreciated the interest in sports shown by the students and staff in large number. He wished all the participants best of luck. Sri S M Acharya CEO, GEF, Dr.S.Y.Kulkarni Principal MSRIT, Registrar(Academics) & Registrar (Administration) graced the occasion. March past of individual departments was held along with student contingent. Department contingents showed their best performance during the march past. Department of Electronics and Communication was adjudged as the best performer in the march past and awarded the trophy. Department of Electronics and Communication receiving the Best March past contingent prize from the Chief guest. 44th ANNUAL ATHLETIC MEET Sri. M R Seetharam, Hon'ble Vice-Chairman, GEF & Director, MSRIT declaring 44th Athletic Meet open Women Individual Champion - Ms. Kavya Kurian Of III Sem Mechanical Sri. M R Seetharam, Hon'ble Vice-Chairman, GEF & Director, MSRIT taking the guard of honor. Men Individual Champion - Mr. Sachin B M of V Sem IEM 68 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Mr. Sreekanth B, an UG student of ISE department won Bronze Medal in 8th Sahyadri Judo Championship conducted by Sahyadri Judo Academy at Shimoga. Department of sports conducted MPL MSRIT Premier Cricket League T-20 Cricket Tournament (Inter Branch Competition) from 6th to 27th September 2014. Akash Rohit an UG student won Gold Medal in 4 x 200m freestyle Relay, Silver Medal in 4 x 100m Medley Relay and Bronze Medal in 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay conducted by All India Inter-University swimming Competition -2014, Bangalore. Department of sports conducted Inter Branch Football Tournament from 22nd to 29th November 2014. OUT STANDING SPORTS ACHIEVER Mr. Akash Rohit, Swimming Champion felicitated by Dr. B P Vijayakumar, Vice Chairman, Sports Committee COLLEGE TEAMS ACHIEVEMENTS Swimming Men Team Secured Men Championship Trophy In Vtu Single Zone Aquatic Championship Organized By Our College on 10th September 2014 Mr. ASHWIN MENON International Swimmer, Alumni of MSRIT Graduated in 2013-14 from ISE department has been Awarded “EKALAVYA” from Govt. of Karnataka for the year 2013-14 69 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Cricket Team Secured Winners Trophy in VTU Bangalore Central Zone Cricket Tournament Held from 24th Feb to 1st March 2014 in our College. Secured 1st Runner-up Trophy in VTU Inter Zone Cricket Tournament, Won MIT Manipal Inter Collegiate tournament & also Won the IISc, Cricket Tournament Women Throw ball Team Secured Runners Trophy in VTU Bangalore Zone Throw ball Tournament held at Sai Vidya IT on 9th & 10th Oct.2014 and Won 1st Runner-up Trophy in VTU Inter Zone Throw ball Tournament held at NIEIT, Mysore on 12th Oct.2014. Badminton Men Team Secured Runners Trophy and Women Team Secured Winners Trophy in VTU Bangalore Central Zone Badminton Tournament held at BMSCE on 25th & 26th Oct.2014 and also Women Team Won Winners Trophy in VTU Inter Zone Badminton Tournament held at SDMIT, UJJIRE from 29th to 31st Oct.14 & RVCE Inter Collegiate Tournament held on 15th Oct 2014. Men Basketball Team Secured Winners Trophy in 9th Dr. Ms Ramaiah Memorial Basketball Tournament held from 15th to 18th Oct.2014 and also they Won Runners Trophy in VTU Bangalore Central Zone Basketball Tournament held on 21st & 22nd April 2014 Women Basketball Team Secured Runners Trophy in 9th Dr. Ms Ramaiah Memorial Basketball Tournament held from 15th to 18th Oct.2014 and also they Won 1st Runner-up Trophy in VTU Single Zone Basketball Tournament held on 8th & 9th May 2014 at GAT, B’lore. Athletic Team Secured Medals in Javelin Throw, 200 Mtrs & 4x100 Mtr Race (M & W) in 17th VTU Athletic Meet held at VTU, Belgaum from 5th to 8th Nov.2014 70 ¸ÀA¦UÉ ShoutOut 7.0 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES l As part of the activities of Dept. of Cultural Activities, organized variety of programs for the students of newly admitted and senior students. ShoutOut has always been the most coveted event during an odd semester. ShoutOut 7.0 was no less, as it was organized, publicized and executed to perfection. Very popular edition of ShoutOut was held on the 16th, 17th and 18th of October 2014. The performances by the members of ChirarangaThe Kannada Theatre Society and Theatrix - The MSRIT Theatre Society were appreciated by a houseful audience on all 3 days. l Department of Cultural Activities organized its 5th edition of annual Dr. M.S. Ramaiah Memorial Parliamentary Debate tournament from 15th to 17th August, 2014. More than 200 students from reputed institutions across the countr y participated actively in the tournament. After 5 qualifying rounds and 2 elimination rounds the team of Souradip and Tarang was adjudged the best. The adjudicators of the tournament were the distinguished debators Sharada- Ex MSRIT, Aditya Shetty. Parnil and Anirudha Basu- NLS. At the end of the tournament the organising committee received an immensely positive feedback on the quality of the tournament. The event showcased 9 Skits, 19 One Acts and 13 Short Movies and 3 Short Ads which left the judges amazed with the young talent present in our college. At the end of each day, the judges provided their valuable insights on every performance and feedback, which was well received by every performer. With the success of the event, the next year's edition of ShoutOut is expected to raise the bar to a whole new level. Dr M S Ramaiah Memorial Parliamentary Debate Tournament Freshers Quiz THE NATURE WEEK l The NATURE CLUB MSRIT held its annual nature week from the 16th of October to the 21st of October 2014. In its very first instalment ,it managed to garner the students attention towards the cause of nature. On the very first day it held a pledge towards a greener diwali on the grounds of MSRIT, which meet appreciation from both students and faculty alike.The students did so by leaving their hand prints on paper as a sign of authenticity .Various activities like Photography, Walkathon and an art out of waste were held for the students under the leadership of Dr. K.R.Phaneesh as part of the program. 71 ¸ÀA¦UÉ In the last two days students were made to think about the plight of nature while simultaneously tickling their creative events like creative writing, face painting, poster making and a session of brain storming. The artistic brilliance of the MSRITIAN's being showcased in an exhibition held in the cultural committee office by the NATURE CLUB exhibition struck a chord with a student and faculty alike, and received much appreciation for the same.Dr.S.Y.Kulkarni Principal appreciated the Cultural Dept. for its noble thought and expressed hisfull support in all its future endeavors. Face painting, Photography, Treasure hunt, Rangoli, Chief guests distributed prizes to all winners of various competitions held as part of the Rajyothsava celebrations. Kannada Rajyotsava 2014 l Institution's Annual Kannada Rajyotsava was held on 07-11-2014.Dr.Puttaraya and Mr.ShashiKumar Kannada cine artiste were the chief guests. In their speeches they reiterated that the students should encourage non Kannadiga students to learn the state language Kannada and at the same time respect other languages also. Dr S Y Kulkarni Principal presided over the function.The dept. Of Cultural Activities as part of the Rajyothsava celebration conducted week long various competitions for students and staff such as Street dance, Fun events, Voice Of Msrit, Light vocals, Cooking, Anthakshari, Aircrash, Dc, Personality, Quiz, Debate, Jam, Creative writing, 72 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Mr. Pradeep Kumar K V - Assistant Professor NEW APPOINTMENTS Mr. Pradeep Kumar K V is working as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MSRIT, Bangalore since 4th August 2014. He completed his B.E. from Dr. AIT, Bangalore in 2009 and M.Tech from EWIT, Bangalore in 2013. He has worked in Infosys Technologies Limited, Mysore as System engineer for the period of two years and ISRO, Bangalore as Design & Analysis Engineer on Contract basis for a period of one year respectively. Department of Mechanical Engineering Dr. Ramesh Rao - Professor and Head Dr. Ramesh Rao graduated in Mechanical Engineering from University of Mysore, in the year 1983. He further pursued his M.Tech in Machine Design in the year 1989 and obtained his Ph.D from Kuvempu University in Industrial Production. He has been serving the teaching profession with a great devotion for 30 long years. He started his career in 1984 as a Lecturer in BIET, Davangere and reached the post of Professor & Head in the same college. Dr. D. Ramesh Rao joined M.S.R.I.T as Professor & Head in the department of Mechanical Engineering during July 2014. Department of Civil Engineering Mr. Basavanagowda. G.M - Assistant Professor Mr. Basavanagowda. G.M Completed his B.E in Civil Engg from MSRIT and M.E in Earthquake Engineering from UVCE Bengaluru. He has 3 years of teaching in Achar ya Institute of Technology and 2 years of industry experience in Soma Enterprises limited and Navayuga Engineering Company Limited. Presently he is pursuing his Ph.D in the field of Earthquake Engineering under VTU. His areas of interest are Earthquake Engineering and structural Dynamics. Mr. Bharath M R - Assistant Professor Mr. Bharath M R received his B . E . f r o m S i r M . V I T, Bangalore in 2007, MTech from MIT, Manipal in 2009 and MBA from Dairy Science College, Bangalore in 2012 before eventually joining ABCTCL (Coffee Day), as R&D and Production Executive since 2012-14. Currently he is working in the dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MSRIT as an Asst. Professor Mr. Santhosh .D - Assistant Professor Mr. Santhosh .D completed his B.E in Civil engineering from Dr. AIT,Bangalore and M.E in Structural Engineering from UVCE Bangalore. He has got 2 years of industrial experience in Nagarjuna Construction company limited and one and half years teaching experience in engineering colleges. He has published papers in international journals. His areas of interests are structural engineering and Seismic analysis of structures. Mr. Rajendra. P - Assistant Professor Mr. Rajendra. P is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MSRIT, Bangalore since 2014. He received his B.E. from BEC, Bagalkot in 2010, his MTech from SIT, Tumkur in 2013. He has worked in JSW, Bellary as Engineer Trainee on Contract basis for a period of one year. And also worked as Assistant professor in MVJCE, Bangalore for a period of one year respectively. 73 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Dr. H. U. Raghavendra - Assistant Professor Mr. Vinod Kumar H.A - Assistant Professor Dr. H. U. Raghavendra completed his B.Sc from Govt. Science College and M.Sc from Dept. of Geology, Bangalore University. He obtained Ph.D degree from Bangalore University in the year 2014.He has published and presented papers in journals and in conferences. He has teaching experience of 3 years for Post graduation students. Mr. Vinod Kumar H.A has completed his B.E Civil from DSCE, Bangalore and M.Tech from NIT, Surathkal, Karnataka. His areas of interest are Remote Sensing & GIS and Water Resources Engineering Mr. Nambiyanna B - Assistant Professor Mr. Nambiyanna.B completed his B.E in Civil Engg from STJ Inst. of Tech., Ranebennur and M Tech in Structural Engg, from MSRIT. His areas of i n te r e s t a r e C o mp o s i te structures and pre-stressed concrete. Mr. Harish M.L. - Assistant Professor Mr. Harish M.L. Completed B.E in Civil Engineering from JNNCE, Shivamogga and M.E in Structural Engineeringfrom BVBCET, Hubli. He has 3 years of construction industry experience and 1 year of teaching Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Dr. Raghuram S - Assosiate Professor Mr.Charan Prasad M - Assistant Professor Dr. Raghuram S holds an MS and Ph.D from the University of Cincinnati and a BE from SJCE Mysore. Previously he has worked as a Research Associate in the Supercomputer Education and Research Centre at IISc. He is interested in innovations in teaching and research in the VLSI area. Mr.Charan Prasad M completed B.E in Civil Engineering from NCET, Bangalore & M.E in Highway Engineering from UVCE Bangalore. He has served as A s s i s t a n t P ro fe s s o r a t JSSATE, Bangalore and at JSSATE Noida. His areas of interest are drainage studies for pavement materials and use of waste materials in pavements. Miss. Chitra M - Assistant Professor Miss. Chitra M graduated in ECE from APSCE and M.Tech. in Digital Electronics and Communication (DEC) from DSCE, Bangalore. She served at A.P.S. College of Engineering for seven years as a faculty in the Dept. of E&C and published three papers in International journals and presented one paper in National conference. She is specialized in Communication field. Mr. Raje Gowda - Assistant Professor Mr. Raje Gowda completed his B.E Civil from EWIT, Bangakore and M.Tech from MSRIT. He has got 6 months of teaching experience. He has published papers in international journals and presented papers in conferences. His areas of interest are material and structures. 74 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Pradeep Kumar D - Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Engineering P r a d e e p Ku m a r D h a s received his BE and M.Tech degree from VTU. He has interned at NetApp and LSI. He has three years of teaching experience. His research interest is in the field of cloud computing and big data. Dr. S. Ramani - Emeritus Professor Dr.S.Ramani joined as Professor (Emeritus) in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology in August 2014. He worked as Scientist in Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for 37 years and retired as Associate Director in 2014. He received his Ph. D in computer science. Srinidhi Hiriyannaiah - Assistant Professor Srinidhi Hiriyannaiah has c o m p l e te d h i s B . E . i n C omp uter S cien ce an d Engineering at Dr.AIT and Master of Technology in Software Engineering at MSRIT from Visveswaraya Technological University. He has worked as an associate software engineer at IBMIndia Software Labs, Bangalore. His Main areas of interest include studies related to big data and its applications, and information management. He was deputed to Government of Karnataka for three years, as Advisor, IT, Bangalore Mahanagara Palike to carry out e-governance projects and GIS for Bangalore City. He implemented successfully many online applications and also contributed to many societal applications. His research areas are Software Engineering, eGovernance, and Networking and Information security. He has published many technical papers in international journals and conferences. Chetan - Assistant Professor Chetan has completed his BE graduation in ISE from C h a n n a b a s av e s h aw a r a Institute of Technology, Tumkur in 2009, and PG from Sri Jagadguru Balagandharanatha Swamiji Institute of Technology 2012, Bangalore. He has 2 years of teaching experience and 1 year of industry experience. Darshana A Naik - Assistant Professor Darshana A Naik has obtained her BE from Atria Institute of Technology, Bangalore in 2 0 0 9 & M . Te c h f r o m Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore 2011. She has three years of teaching experience. Ganeshayya I Shidaganti - Assistant Professor Master of Computer Applications Ganeshayya I Shidaganti has completed his BE from BVBCET, Hubli and M.Tech (CSE) from MSRIT in 2012. He has two years of teaching experience. He is currently pursuing research in the area of Big Data and Analytics. Mr. Ananda N - Assistant Professor Mr. Ananda N holds an MCA degree from MSRIT. He worked in software industry earlier and his areas of interest are sof tware development in Android application development and Multimedia framework 75 ¸ÀA¦UÉ Department of Biotechnology Master of Business Administration Mr. Krishna Murthy T P - Assistant Professor Mr. Arun Kumar D C - Assistant Professor Mr. Krishna Murthy T P did his B.E in Biotechnology from Visvesvaraya Technological University in 2009 followed by his M.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Manipal Insitute of Technology in 2012. He has 3 years of teaching experience and one year of research experience. He has contributed several research articles in the area of Food Processing, Bioprocess Engineering, and Supercritical Fluids. B E ( Mechanical ), MBA, NET and (Ph.D) with a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from V TU, Masters in Business Administration from MSRIT (Autonomous) and pursuing Ph.D at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. He holds a specialization in the area of Finance. His area of interest is Risk Management, I nve s t m e n t M a n a g e m e n t , a n d O p e r a t i o n s Management. He has previously worked with PESITM, Shivamogga. He has paper publications in International Journals and Presented papers in International/National conferences. Department of Mathematics Dr. Nancy Samuel - Assistant Professor Mr. Adarsha.K - Assistant Professor Dr. Nancy Samuel completed her Master's degree in Mathematics from B h a r a t h i a r U n i v e r s i t y, Coimbatore in 2007, M. Phil from MIT Campus Anna University, Chennai in 2008 and PhD from Anna University Chennai in 2014. She has four years of teaching experience in Anna University Chennai. She has published 4 papers in international journals. B E ( E & C ), MBA, NET and (Ph.D) with a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering f ro m V T U, M a s te r s i n Business Administration from VTU, Cleared UGC NET in 2012 and pursuing Ph.D at Mysore University. He has 3 years experience in Industry and 4 years in teaching. Previously he worked in East West Institute of Technology as a faculty. presented papers in International conferences and seminars. He has published papers in reputed Journals. Dr. Y. S. Kalyan Chakravarthy - Assistant Professor Dr. Y. S. Kalyan Chakravarthy completed his Master's degree in Mathematics from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur in 2003, Ph.D in Mathematics from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur in 2013. He has 10 years of teaching experience in various organizations. He has published 6 papers in International journals and presented papers in national conferences. Mrs. Padmalini Singh - Assistant Professor Mrs. Padmalini Singh holds an MBA degree with specialization in the area of marketing and try to apply it for consumer behavior and rural marketing situations. Currently she is pursuing her Phd in the field of marketing, B.R.A.Bihar University. 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Our work should be mainly educational, both moral and intellectual. Educate and raise the masses, and thus alone a nation is possible. Education has yet to be in the world, and civilisation civilisation has begun nowhere yet. Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]. - Swami Vivekananda Aim to eat at least five servings of vegetables daily (that’s about 2 1/2 cups of cooked vegetables), and that includes leafy greens. As long as they're prepared in a healthy way, leafy greens, like other non-starchy vegetables, are a great addition to your diet as they are full of vitamins, minerals, and disease-fighting phytochemicals. They are rich in fiber, an important nutrient for weight loss and maintenance because it keeps you feeling full and helps control your hunger. Fiber can also lower cholesterol and blood pressure, and help to temper blood-sugar swings by slowing the absorption of carbohydrates into your bloodstream after meals. This lowers your risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. M.S. RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MSR Nagar, MSRIT Post, Bangalore - 560 054 - Ph: 080-2360 0822, 2360 6934 Fax: 2360 3124 www.msrit.edu