Worth While Achievement by

D.G, COER

Dr. Gopal Ranjan, DG COER has been conferred Eminent Educationist Award on

May 10, 2011. The International Institute of

Education and Management, New Delhi has honoured him by this award in recognition of

his outstanding achievements in the field of education.

Dr. Gopal Ranjan, DG COER has been the recipient of

Rashtriya Vidhya Samman Puruskar on the May 15, 2011.

The President and members of Economic Growth Society of India, New Delhi has honoured him by the award in

recognition of his sterling merit excellent performance and outstanding contribution for the progress of the nation and

worldwide.

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Sequential M.Tech. at COER

M.Tech Sequential Programme of Uttarakhand Technical

University, Dehradun in Computer Science discipline for the MCA qualified faculty members started from June 13, 2011,

at College of Engineering Roorkee (COER).

Thirty three faculty members from different Engineering Colleges participated in this programme. In this programme

several experts such as Dr.Ishan Ranjan,Director & Professor, MIET,Meerut, Dr. K. V. Arya,Associate Prof., IIIT,Gwalior,Dr.

Mohal Lal, IIT, Roorkee ,Dr.D.Ghosh, IIT, Roorkee,Dr. Vikram

Kapoor, Omkaranand Institute, Rishikesh, Dr.Garima Krishna, DIT, Dehradun have been invited to deliver lectures.

Mr. B.M.Singh was the Chief coordinator and Mr. Kuldeep

Yadav was coordinator.

8th CONVOCATION of COER Eighth Convocation of College of Engineering Roorkee was held on Saturday April 2, 2011. Mr. Rajiv Sachdeva, Vice President, IBM India PVT. Ltd. was the Chief Guest. Mr. Neeraj Gupta, General Manager, Information Security, IBM India Pvt. Ltd. and Prof. D.S. Chauhan, Vice Chancellor, UKTU, were the distinguished Guests of Honour. The event was declared open when the dignitaries lighted the lamp along with Mr. J.C. Jain, Chairman, COER and Dr. Gopal Ranjan, Director General, COER. Vice President and other guests were welcomed by Mr. J.C. Jain, Chairman, COER. Addressing on the occasion, Chief Guest, Rajiv Sachdeva, Vice

President IBM India PVT. Ltd. congratulated the degree holders and distributed Gold Medals and trophies to the first position holders of each branch/course. He advised all the students to always remember Code of Ethics and keep the interest of Nation as their top priority. Describing the culture of IBM, Mr. Neeraj Gupta, General Manager, Information Security, IBM India Pvt. Ltd. welcomed and encouraged the new passouts to join IBM for contributing

their best to the Nation. He recalled the contribution made by College Of Engineering Roorkee in the last few years and the tremendous development that has been taking place in the last one decade. He congratulated all the recipients of the credentials and wished them glorious career. Distributing the Silver Medals to second position holders of each branch/course, he expressed his immense happiness for all the achievers. Prof. D.S. Chauhan, Vice Chancellor, UKTU, delivered the coveted “ Seth Roshan Lal Jain , Trophy” and University Gold , Silver & Bronze Medals to the winners. He gave his hearty wishes to all the degree recipients and congratulated them for their hard work, dedication and discipline to qualify for the award of degree. In all 412 B.Tech degrees, 59 MCA’s and 60 MBA’s were awarded post graduate degrees by the dignitaries. Vote of thanks was presented by Mr. Subahsh Jain, Secretary, COER. Prof D.S. Chauhan, Vice Chancellor, UKTU announced the closure of the convocation.

Activities by Student Growth & Development Group

Mr. A.K.Upadhaya, Head of SGD Group of COER

delivered the Guest of Honour Valedictory address on

April 9, 2011 at UPES (University of Petroleum & Energy Studies), Dehradun on the theme of “Sustainable

Development in Energy Sector- HR related issues”. The International Conference was attended by a large

number of National & International delegates from India

& abroad. The talk was very well received and appreciated.

SGD Group Facilitated 9 sessions for Infosys selected COERians in the area of Soft Skills(IPR, Interview & GD

Skills) training, essential for selected candidates prior to

joining INFOSYS .

COER ECO CLUB

Under the supervision of Dr. Romesh Kumar Sharma, COER ECO-CLUB has organized an event “VICHAR” an Environment

Meet” April 26,2011

The event was catagorised into two sections namely Paper

Presentation & Sketch / Painting Competition. A total of 20 number of students in Paper presentation & 40

students in Sketch / Painting Competition actively participated.

The event was started with the key Lecture of Dr. Vinay

Shetty (DST, Scientist) Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar on topic “Avian Biodiversity & its Conservation in Urban

Habitat” followed by motivational speech of Dr.Gopal Ranjan,

Director General and Dr.Ankush Mittal, Dean Research.

The Literary Committee organized its prize distribution

ceremony on April 27, 2011. Winners of all the nine

events conducted by Literary Committee during the year

2010-11 awarded with trophies and certificates. The

committee members of 4th

year were recognized for their

exemplary services with certificates. The certificates of

design excellence given to students who contributed in

designing College Magazine Mucure.

The Linguistic Committee The Linguistic Committee has always aimed at the development of the COERian’s in every possible aspect. In order to boost

students confidence, polish their oratorical skills and to provide the COERian’s with the exposure of the competition which they

will face in the corporate world, the Linguistic Committee conducts various events time to time. In this direction, “The White Collar” was organized by Linguistic Committee under the coordination of Dr. Rashmi Gupta, Asstt. Prof. It was held in three

phases from April 19–20, 2011. These phases comprised of Presentations, Group Discussions and Personal interviews respectively. The event received a great response from all B.Tech, MBA and MCA students. The esteemed judges provided the

participants with their personal feedback, highlighting their strengths and areas to work upon. The event and its format were

much appreciated by the students and the faculty members altogether.

Sad Demise

This issue of Saraansh cannot help giving space to pay

hearty tributes to the departed soul of Mr. T.J.Marcos,

PS to Director General whose sudden demise has

aggrieved COER family. We pray the Almighty that

his divine soul may rest in peace.

S.No Company Name Courses/Branch Date Selected

1 SKF ME 13/04/2011 06

2 Vardhman Developers CE 18/04/2011 03

3 Ishan Constructors CE,MBA 22/04/2011 03

4 Jai Bharat Maruti ME 01/05/2011 24

5 Amber Enterprises ME,EN 14/05/2011 08

6 Tech Mahindra CS,IT,ET,EN 25/05/2011 09

7 Godrej ME 01/06/2011 01

8 Havells ET/EN/ME 03/06/2011 07

9 Bank of America MBA 09/06/2011 02

10 Wipro Ltd. MBA 23/06/2011 01

11 Bajaj ME 28/06/2011 01

Summer Internship Program - 2011 For the benefit of the B.Tech IInd and IIIrd Year students of all the

disciplines a Summer Internship Program 2011 was carried out. The COER Summer Internship Program (COER SIP-2011) is

seeking talented, knowledgeable and motivated students who want to play a significant role in their carrier. Under this program

COER students have participated & successfully completed various

research level projects under the supervision of six faculty members of COER,namely Mr. Kuldeep Yadav , Mr. Brij Mohan

Singh, Mr. Anurag Raii, Mr. Vishal Singhal, Mr. Taresh Singh and Mr. Amit Kumar.

This program was organized to enrich the students with the

knowledge so that they can successfully take part in research level activities & develop themselves so that they can develop rational

thinking& write international research papers & develop projects. 36 students also were registered for internship with I.B.M (India)

under the guidance of Dr. Ankush Mittal.

Mr. B.M.Singh was the Coordinator of Summer Internship

Program 2011

AIEEE-2011 For the admissions to B.Tech in first year of session 2011-2012, for

NIT’s ,self financed deemed Universities and self financed Private Colleges in some States, Central Board of Secondary Education

(CBSE) organized the All India Engineering Examination, AlEEE-

2011 on Sunday, May 01,2011 in different states of the country. AIEEE Examination is conducted to fulfil the eligibility criterion for

admission to Professional and Technical programmes. College of Engineering Roorkee also considers AIEEE for admission. It may be

noted that College of Engineering Roorkee (COER) was one of the

examination Centres. Under the supervision of Dr. V.K. Mehta, Centre Superintendent, 600 candidates appeared at COER centre

and completed the examination successfully.

Book Chapter

A. Pande, P. Kumar and Ankush Mittal,

Distributed Video Coding and Content Analysis

for Resource Constraint Multimedia

Applications, in Book: Ubiquitous Multimedia

and Mobile Agents: Models and

Implementations, Information Science (USA),

2011.

Workshop

Dr. Sunil Kumar Jha, attended the Train the

Trainer Workshop on Star Prime Conducted

by Campus Connect at Infosys Limited,

Chandigarh, June 3 -5, 2011.

Mrs. Veera Laskshmi , Himadri Phuhan

attended AICTE sponsored QIP Program

organized by Department of Management.

Studies IITR on “Care Based learning in

business and management” IIT, Roorkee

,June 5-9 ,2011.

Papers Presented in Seminars & Conferences…

Kishore, Ranit, “Growing Import of Corporate Social Responsibility – A Perspective on Employee Welfare”

National Seminar on Ensuring Comprehensive Growth – A Managerial Challenge , SIRT Bhopal, May 13 -

14, 2011.

Kumari, R, Kumar, A, Dass, N and Kuchhal, P, “ Self – Diffusion of Liquid”, 13th

International Conference

of International Academy of Science, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, June 14-16,

2011

Kumari R, Kumar A, Dass N and Kuchhal P, “Surface Tension of Liquid Alkali Metals”, 13th

International

Conference of International Academy of Science, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun,

June 14-16, 2011

Gangodkar,D, Gill,G. S., Gupta,S., Kumar, Padam ,Mittal, Ankush, “Motion Detection in Low Resolution

Grayscale Videos Using Fast Normalized Cross Correlation on GP-GPU”, International Conference on

Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC-2011), Bhubaneswar, India, 2011

Singh,V.K, “ Learner Centered Approach of Teaching in Engineering Education”, International Seminar of

the Learing Community on Innovative Practices in education, H.Y..B.D College, Lucknow, June 18-

19,2011. pp. 138-140.

Technical Papers Published………..

Kishore,Ranit , Arya,Ashish “A Conceptual Study on Relationship between Vision and Work Efficiency (A

case study of visual display units at work place)” , Gurukul Business Review Journal Vol. 7.

Kumar A, Kachhal P, Dass N and Pathak PP, “Anomalous Behaviour in Sound Velocity of Water” ,Physics

and Chemistry of Liquid – International Journal, Vol. 49, pp 453(2011)

Jha Sunil Kumar, “Redemption of Sin in the Character of Raju : A Study of R.K.Narayan’s The Guide”

International Biannual Journal of English Studies, Vol. VIII PP 113 (April 2011)

Singh,B.M., Gupta,Nitin, Tyagi,Rashi ,Mittal, Ankush,Ghosh, D., “Parallel Implementation of Devanagari

Text Line and Word Segmentation Approach on GPU ”, International Journal of Computer Applications

(IJCA),USA, Vol. 24 (9),P.P.2987-3988, Impact Factor-0.832.

Singh,B.M,Mittal,Ankush,Ghosh,D, “An Evaluation of Different Feature Extractor and Classifiers on

Devanagari Handwritten Character Recognition,” Journal of Pattern Recognition, Germany, pp. 567-

575,2011, Impact Factor- 2.32.

Singh,B.M,Mittal,Ankush,Ghosh,D, “Handwritten Devanagari Word Recognition: A Curvelet Based

Approach”, International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering, Singapore, Vol. 2(3), pp. 457-465,

2011.

Kumar,Praveen, Pande, Amit, Mittal,Ankush, “Efficient Compression and Network Adaptive Video Coding

for Distributed Video Surveillance”, International Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer,

May 2011.

Gangodkar,D, Kumar,P., Kumar, Padam, Mittal, Ankush, “Real Time Motion Detection using Block

Matching Algorithms on Multicore Processors”, International Journal of Information and Communication

Technology, Vol.3, No. 2, Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland.

Kumar, Praveen , Mittal, Ankush , “Parallel Implementation of Video Surveillance Algorithms on Multi-core

Cell Processor”, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, Journal of Real Time Imaging, Springer, 2011

Editor in Chief: Dr. Rashmi Gupta (Asstt. Professor)

Associate Editor: Dr.Sunil Kumar Jha (Asstt. Professor) Design & Layout: Mr. Rakesh Negi Special Thanks : Sharad Kr.Singh, Manoj Dhiman

Suggestions invited at: saraansh.coer@yahoo.co.in