INSIDE THIS ISSUE A MESSAGE FROM YOUR VICE - CHANCELLOR

TOP STORIES

Brainstorming by Educational

Leaders

3rd CONVOCATION of GTU

MoU with SIAS International

University, China

TRIBOLOGY Experts across the

World at GTU

INTERNATIONAL

Asian & African Students enrolled

in GTU

International Experience Program

with USA, Canada & Germany

International Students Celebrating

Rakshabandhan at C. M. House

MoU with BOSCH Rexroth

ACHIEVEMENTS

Phase I Completion of

Vishwakarma Yojana

Felicitation of Vishwakarma

Yojana by Shri Bhupendra Sinh

Chudasama

CCCI Technology Education

Excellence Award 2013

EDUCATION

AICTE Chairman—Prof. Mantha at

GTU

GCSR Program of MBA

Introducing Bridge Course in

Engineering

New 5 year Integrated Course

EVENTS

IEEE Explore User Awareness

Program

GTU XITIJ 2013—The Youth

Festival

GTU SPIRIT 2013—The Sports

Festival

Leadership Excellence Meet

List of Workshops, Seminars &

FDP at GTU

SHORT STORIES

Let’s Communicate

FDP with IIT Gandhinagar & IEEE

Combating Cyber Crime

MoU with GUDA

Seminar on Sustainable Energy

PHOTO GALLERY

A University, in which we all can take pride:

―Today, I can take pride in my association with GTU,‖ said

Mr. Haren Shah1 , while inter-acting with some creative young

students. GTU is a University, in which its students and faculty

members can take pride, not because it has become a great

university but because it is taking highly innovative steps for

becoming a great place for learning and which is being

considered as an example to follow by all the other technological

Universities in India.

It is great to hear words of appreciation from GTU’s friends. But what is more

important is that we all -the students, faculty members and GTU officers – should do our

job in the best possible manner for making our University great. Once anyone decides

that he would strive to be the best in his job, he/ she will start taking pride in his/ her

work. Then one will automatically start appreciating, what is being accomplished at GTU

by all of us jointly and one will start looking at the shortcomings of our system as jobs,

which remain to be done. In the natural course, the pride in one’s work will lead one to

take pride in GTU. I suggest we should immediately start working towards becoming the

best in our part of the job and we must not wait till everyone else does, what he/ she is

supposed to do.

At the University, each one of us has to work to progressively improve the service to

our stake-holders till it becomes the best in the world. We can legitimately cite many

reasons for not being able to do our job well. But there are two over-riding reasons of

why our service must not be the second best. These are our self-respect and our pride

in GTU.

The Faculty members have to make their classes, laboratories and workshops voyages

of discovery. The old methods of teaching must be replaced and improved day by day.

The exam papers for mid-sem or the end-sem or the quizzes must not ask for

rote-learning and should be designed to evaluate the degree of understanding of the

concepts. We have to ensure that every student is evaluated fairly during the semester

and at the end-semester exams. The practical examinations and Viva voce examinations

must be conducted well so that every student is able to get grades, which he/ she

deserve.

Students have to work with the management to ensure that during the semester the

classes, laboratories and workshops are conducted on every single day starting from the

first day to the last. They are to work jointly with the faculty to make their class-work

interesting and useful. They should use libraries, visits the industries and exploit other

resources outside the class-room to enhance their learning. They should assess their own

soft skills and see that before they graduate, they acquire the ability to communicate well.

When our researchers work sincerely and hard, when our institutions work with

discipline and with their first focus on students and when our students take pleasure in

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their studies, GTU will become an academic power-house, which would attract the best of students and researchers.

Jointly we can make the University a great place of learning. Jointly we can make GTU a University in which we may take pride.

Jointly we can raise the reputation of the University so that every student gets a job, he/ she wants. Let each one of the members of

GTU family decide to work for the objective.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal

Vice-Chancellor

GTU

1Mr. Haren Shah is the Co-Chair of GTU Innovation Sankul, Gandhinagar and is the founder CEO of Peach Computers. He was participating in a workshop where young

students of GTU were presenting their ideas and their work, as budding entrepreneurs.

Brainstorming by Educational Leaders to Re-design the Structure of

Universities of INDIA at the seminar organized by GTU

GTU organized 2 days seminar

on Re-designing the Structure of

Universities For Coping with Challenges

of the 21st Century on 8th and 9

th January

2014 at GTU Chandkheda Campus.

Vice- Chancellors and Directors of more

than 70 universities across the nation

came together on one platform and

discussed various strategies to take the

education in India to the next level.

Around 44 Vice-Chancellors of the

universities other then Gujarat state

remained present at the seminar.

Honourable, Minister for Education,

Higher & Technical Education, Law and

Judiciary, Food & Civil Supplies,

Consumer affairs, Panchayat, Rural

Housing and Rural Development,

Government of Gujarat Shri

Bhupendrasinh Chudasma and Dr. Jayanti

Ravi, IAS & Commissioner of Higher

Education at Government of Gujarat

attended the inauguration ceremony and

welcomed all the Vice-Chancellors to join

National Education Summit which was

scheduled at Mahatma Mandir during

10th & 11

th January 2013.

Gujarat Technological University

(GTU) has conducted extensive research

on the theme of ―Designing the

Structures of Technology Universities

(DSTU) in India‖ since 27th April 2011. This

research project is designed to

scientifically study the evolution of the

university system and to develop

disruptive strategies to meet the

challenges of the 21st century. During the

DSTU project many of the educationists

who participated in the previous

meetings of DSTU from all over the

country were of the opinion that the ide-

as of governance being discussed at

DSTU were applicable to all the traditional

Universities in the Indian sub-continent.

At the seminar, Dr. Akshai Aggarwal,

Vice Chancellor of GTU drew attention

towards issues related to basic structure,

bequeathed to the affiliating type

Universities of India by the template

designed by East India Company. Under

the DSTU project it is also being studied

that, whether it is this genetic weakness,

which has led to a complete absence of

all Universities from the Indian

subcontinent to be absent from all the

lists of the top-ranking 200 Universities of

the world.

Sessions on different themes were

organized during both the days.

Dignitaries like Professor Rameshwar

Rao, Vice-Chancellor, JNTU ,

Hyderabad , Dr. B. Thimme Gowda,

Vice-Chancellor, Bangalore University ,

Professor Anil Gupta, IIM Ahmedabad ,

Dr. Harkesh Mittal, Member Secretary &

Head , National S & T Entrepreneurship

Development Board, Secretary,

Technology Development Board chaired

different sessions.

All the educationists present at the

event appreciated the initiative taken by

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor of

GTU. The seminar was organized as

pre-summit event of National Education

Summit (NES) organized on 10th – 11

th

January, 2014 at Mahatma Mandir,

Gandhinagar by the Government of

Gujarat.

Themes of Sessions Organised

Innovations, Linking Academia to

Industry and Creating Supportive Ecosystem, Creating facilities at

Universities for creative work, IPR and Entrepreneurial Systems at Universities

Project-based Learning, Design-

oriented education and making the

work in class-rooms, laboratories and

workshops exciting

Re-designing the Structure of

Universities and Public Policy Regime in

India for coping with Challenges of the

21st Century

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The administrative campus of

Gujarat Technological University truly

turned into a University Campus when

thousands of students of GTU came to

receive their degrees at the 3rd

Annual

Convocation. Around 6500 people

including students, parents, academicians

and other dignitaries’ witnessed the

grand 3rd

Annual Convocation of Gujarat

Technological University on Thursday,

16th January, 2014 at GTU Chandkheda

Campus. It was a great experience to

watch the proud parents of the 143

students who had been awarded gold

medals. A total of 62687 students were

eligible to get degree/diploma at the 3rd

Annual Convocation.

Her Excellency Shrimati Kamala, the

chancellor of GTU and Governor of

Gujarat led the procession at the

beginning of the event and received the

guard of honour. Dr. G.P. Vadodaria, I/C

Registrar of GTU delivered the welcome

speech and introduced the guests of the

event. On the occasion while presenting

the Annual Report, Dr. Akshai Aggarwal,

Vice-Chancellor of GTU pointed towards

the example of Shri Parakram Sing Jadeja,

Jyoti Industries, Rajkot, who had instituted

stipends for 25 students, who are working

on their Final Year projects. He invited

other industries and businesses to

collaborate with the University for the

training of the final year students which

can be beneficial for industries as well as

for students.

GTU presented the Honorary

Doctorate of Philosophy to Padmashri Dr.

Vijay Bhatkar. Dr Vijay Bhatkar is one of

the most acclaimed IT leaders of India. He

is best known as the architect of India's

first supercomputer and as the founder

Executive Director of C-DAC, India's na-

tional initiative in supercomputing. On the

occasion he said that ―I feel pleasure to

receive honorary doctorate in philosophy

in presence of Honourable Chancellor,

Dr. Mantha and Dr. Akshai Aggarwal. Dr.

Bhatkar being a leader of IT industry also

mentioned about the leap India has taken

in the IT industry on global platform. He

also praised the progress and

More than 60000 students of GTU conferred degrees on the 3rd

Annual

Convocation of GTU

Sr. No. Course name Students Eligible for Annual Convocation

1st Convocation 2nd Convocation 3rd Convocation

1 Bachelor of Engineering - 14672 26448

2 Bachelor of Pharmacy - 3736 3072

3 Diploma in Engineering 14358 19435 22447

4 Diploma in Pharmacy 182 942 193

5 Master of Business Administration 3498 6049 5119

6 Master of Computer Applications - 1197 2142

7 Master of Engineering 346 786 1333

8 Master of Pharmacy 366 1279 1854

9 Post degree diploma course (PDDC) - - 79

TOTAL 18750 48172 62687

Summary and comparison of Number of Students Eligible for Annual Convocation

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achievements of India in the fields of

space and nuclear science sharing the

example of recent success of Mangalyaan

project. Dr. Bhatkar said that India has

also emerged in the Research and

Development sectors, since a large

number of Multi-national companies

have set up their research and

development centres in India. Dr. Bhatkar

said that GTU has become known for its

new initiatives and achievements over a

short period of time. He also praised GTU

for its efforts towards the project on

―Re-designing the structure of the

universities of 21st century.‖

H.E. Dr. Shrimati Kamlaji conferred

the degrees on all the students and

delivered the presidential speech. Dr.

Kamlaji talked about the Importance of

Quality in Education. She said that GTU

was working to improve the quality of

technical education. She mentioned of all

India Awards, won by GTU. She called

upon the students of GTU to face the

challenges of life with courage. GTU’s

convocation was live telecasted on web

for the students who were unable to

come in-person to receive the degree.

The event turned out to be a major

success with presence of thousands of

students with their parents.

Out of the thousands of students

present to receive the degree in the 3rd

Annual Convocation we also found some

students who had achieved excellence

against all odds. Kumar Nishant

Krishnakumar is the Branch Topper of

M.E. in Civil Engineering. He received his

gold medal on 16th January 2014. Nishant

belongs to Jharkhand and his father is an

auto-rickshaw driver. It is needless to say

how important and challenging his

journey might have been. Nishant said

that his parents have supported him

throughout his education. He said that his

mother used to stay awake until he

finished his study late at midnight around

3 o’clock.

One other student Mitesh

Himmatbhai Motisariya achieved 2 Gold

Medals for topping the branch as well as

the course in M.Pharm in Quality

Assurance. Mother of Mitesh has studied

till 5th standard while his father has

studied till 7th standard only. Both of

them were proud to see Mitesh being

awarded Gold Medals at the event.

During his meeting with the

Vice-Chancellor, Himmatbhai said that it

was for the first time in his life that he had

entered a University.

Out of all, one of the mature

students was Nitinkumar Rasiklal

Prajapati. Nitin has been awarded a Gold

Medal in M.E. in Instrumentation and

Control. He is currently working at PDPU.

Nitin had pursued his B.E. about 10 years

back. After completing his B.E., he worked

in the industry. Then he gave up his job

and worked for his Master’s at GTU.

Nitin’s Mother was a school teacher and a

pensioner and his elder sister supported

him financially during his further

education. During his interview he said

that when he wanted to pursue his M.E.,

he could not get any sponsorship. It was

a very difficult decision to leave the job to

opt for further education. During his

meeting with the Vice-Chancellor, he said

that he would start working for his

doctorate. His mother said that she

wanted him to do as well in his doctorate

work as he has done in his Master’s.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice

Chancellor of GTU felicitated these three

special students and also met their

families. Success stories of such special

students are the inspiration for the society

and they are the true heroes for the

university.

Achieving excellence against all odds - Inspiring Success Stories

at Convocation

―Gujarat can be a trend setter in Education‖ were the words of Dr. S. S. Mantha,

Chairman of AICTE and the Chief Guest of the Event. Dr. Mantha said that generally in India and

particularly in Gujarat GER (Gross Enrolment Ratio) has improved from 14 to 19 but it needs to improve

further as these numbers are too small compared to the rest of the world. Dr. Mantha motivated all the

students graduating and inspired not to layback in difficult times saying that ―Success and failure are two

sides of the coin‖. He also encouraged students to try and chase their dreams.

Gold for Girls at Convocation

GTU awarded degrees in 9

different courses and awarded gold

medals to course and branch toppers.

Out of 9 course toppers 7 are the female

students. Except Diploma Engineering

and M.Pharm all rest of the awards of

Engineering , Management and

Pharmacy have gone to girls this year.

However out of total 143 Gold medal

winners of branch and course topper of

the 3rd convocation around 40 were the

female students.

From left : Mitesh, Nitin & Nishant with

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal. Vice Chancellor of GTU

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On Thursday, 28th November

2013, Gujarat Technological University

signed two ―Memorandums of

Understanding‖ with SIAS International

University of China , JINSHUI KEJIAO New

City (China) & Sias International Software

Park. One of the MoU signed between

Sias International University and GTU is

based on the principle of

reciprocity offering exchange programs

for scholars, students, academic

information and other academic

exchange program. It will also offer an

opportunity to enhance the research and

educational process with mutual

understanding. Professor Li Hai Jun of

SIAS International University & Dr. G.P.

Vadodaria , In charge Registrar of GTU

signed the MoU.

Most of the business districts are

currently developed in the coastal areas

of China but now government is

developing and promoting the New City

named Jinshui Kejiao in the central district

of China which is well connected with

main CBDs of China. SIAS International

University is developing the SIAS

International Software Park where they

have dedicated separate wings for USA &

India. Investors from silicon valley will be

invited for investing in the wing made for

USA while one another wing is made for

global countries. The second MoU was

signed between Mr. Baomin Du, Deputy

Director of JINSHUI KEJIAO New City

(China), Mr. Wei Wang of SIAS

International Software Park and Dr.

G.P.Vadodaria , I/C Registrar of GTU. As

per the MoU, GTU will locate a Software

Lab & Training Centre at the Sias' soon-

to-be available facilities at the JINSHUI in

Zhengzhou, Henan, China. The SIAS will

avail appropriate space and professional

support including office services,

technology infrastructure and business

expansion plans assistance to GTU for the

lab establishment. Sias will assist GTU to

apply preferential policies which is mainly

provided in the respects of revenues,

financial support, talent introduction and

life services assurance, etc.

Global Country Study Report of

GTU MBA program was introduced in

GTU MBA in the year 2011 in which stu-

dents learn about different aspects of

specific country. Two of the GTU MBA

colleges are preparing study report on

China in the year 2013. On 5th October

2013 GTU celebrated National Day of

China with some of the Chinese students

where Mr. Jagat Shah, Chairman - India

China Economic & Cultural Council (ICEC)

and Mr. Roy Han, GM- Sales, Shanghai

Highly Company were invited as chief

guest. Impressed with the GCSR program

of GTU, Mr. Jagat Shah announced that

ICEC will sponsor a visit to China for the

student preparing the best presentation

on the country. GTU has signed MoU

with SIAS International University on

28th November 2013 as a result of the

talks initiated with the help of Mr. Jagat

Shah, Chairman - India China Economic

& Cultural Council (ICEC) after the event

of 5th October 2013.

GTU has signed MoU with many

foreign universities across the world

including University of Alberta (Canada),

Laurentian University (Canada), Bielefeld

University of Applied Sciences (Germany),

Hochschule Wismar – University of

Applied Sciences Technology Business

and Design ( Germany), Kansas State

University ( U.S.A.). 172 students of GTU

went to foreign universities for summer

programs in the year 2013. On the

occasion Dr. Akshai Aggarwal,

Vice Chancellor of GTU said that by far,

International Experience Program of GTU

is the largest International Program in the

country. No other University has a

program which is even 20 % of GTU's

IEP.

After successful International

Experience program with Canadian,

American and German Universities, GTU

students can now also go to a University

in China for studies.

GTU signed MoU with SIAS International Software Park to establish

Software Lab & Training Centre in JINSHUI KEJIAO New City , China

1. I/C Registrar of GTU Dr. G.P. Vadodaria with Mr. Baomin Du, Deputy Director, Jinshui Kejiao New City, and Mr. Wei Wang, Project of-

ficer, SIAS International Software Park 2. SIAS International University , China 3. SIAS International Software Park, China

After many successful

International Experience

programs with Canadian,

American and German

Universities GTU students

can now go to China

University too.

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TRIBOLOGY is still quiet unknown

word for non engineering people but it

can straight away relate to the daily life of

a common man. Today, across the world

massive research is going on in Tribology.

It is said that effective application of

Tribology can directly affect on a nations

GDP improvement. For example effective

application of tribology can reduce the

depreciation of the machineries of the

industries. It can also improve the fuel

efficiency of the machines and we all

know that the fuel cost can directly im-

pact on the inflation and GDP of the

country.

Making a remarkable move in the

direction GTU organized a three day

―International Conference on Advances in

Tribology and Engineering System‖ in

association with L.D.Institute of

Engineering at GTU Ahmedabad—

Chandkheda Campus on 15th to 17th

October 2013. The three day internation-

al conference hosted more than 200

participants including industrial

professionals and academicians from

India as well as abroad. This is the first

and largest International Conference of

GTU Engineering stream said Dr. Akshai

Aggarwal, Vice– Chancellor of GTU at the

inauguration ceremony of the confer-

ence. The conference was organized to

bring academicians, researchers and in-

dustry people on a single platform to

share knowledge.

Dr. K.N. Mistry, professor of GIDC

degree engineering college, Navsari&

Dean GTU has worked with Leeds

University in UK which is pioneer in

research in Tribology. He said that the

word Tribology was introduced by Mr.

Peter Jost in 1966 in Oxford Dictionary. In

a survey conducted in UK it was observed

that they can save 125000 million pounds

in a year with an efficient application of

Tribology. He said that the word

―Tribology‖ is new to people but the

science is generations old sharing the

example of Hand Grinding Mill which

works on the tribology science.

GTU had received 46 research

papers on the subject from all over

India and abroad. Papers selected by a

committee formed by GTU on equal

emphasis of theoretical calculations and

experimental results in different areas of

Tribology were presented at the

conference. A book combining all 46

research papers is published by an

International Publishing house Spinger

Publications which was unveiled at the

beginning of the event. 9 eminent

speakers from foreign countries like

Spain, china, France, USA addressed the

conference while 9 speakers from all over

India delivered the sessions on different

topics of Tribology Science. Total 23

corporate giants participated in the three

day conference including 6 foreign

companies.

Dr. M.N Patel, Principal of L.D.

Institute of Engineering shared that they

had also organized one day seminars on

the topic earlier and had received good

response which motivated them to bring

the event on a large and international

scale. He also said that the faculties and

students need to think and gain

knowledge towards new and emerging

technologies like Tribology.

Researches from all over the world

and India presented their work

on Tribology on 16th& 17th October

2013. The conference marked a major

success with the presence of eminent

researchers in the field from BARC , IIT’s

& Foreign Universities.

Bringing Academicians, Researchers & Corporates together from

all over the World - International Conference on TRIBOLOGY

Dr. N.L.Soni , Head of Fluid power & Tribology

division of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

(BARC) Presented the Design and Develop-

ment of Water Lubricated Bearing used in Nu-

clear Power Plants (NPP)

Dr. Harish Hirani from IIT Delhi

Presented his research on Lubrication by

Molybdenum Disulphide. He is also work-

ing on Permanent Magnetic

Bearing.

Prof. Stéphane PANIER , Mines Douai , Polymers and Composites Technology & Mechanical

Engineering Department, 941 Rue Charles Bourseul BP 10838 - 59508 Douai Cedex , FRANCE

Presented his research done on Hot-spotting in Railway Disc Brakes which is being used in many of the Eu-

ropean Rails currently.

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Campus of Gujarat Technological

University truly turned into an

international campus when students from

more than 12 countries of Asia and Africa

arrived. Gujarat Technological University

has enrolled many International students

with the help of ―Indian Council for

Cultural Relations‖, Ministry of External

Affairs, Government of India. The first

batch of 86 students were enrolled on 1st

August 2013 at GTU Chandkheda

Campus. All the students have got

scholarship for pursuing their studies in

India. Students have come from

Bangladesh, Srilanka, Myanmar, Congo,

Afghanistan , Zambia, Bhutan, Nepal ,

Nigeria and many other countries. Out of

86 students 68 students have come to

study Bachelor of Engineering while the

rest have taken admission in B. Pharm ,

MBA or MCA so far.

Chief Guest of the event

Minister of Education, Government of

Gujarat Shri Bhupendersinh Chudasama

welcomed all the foreign students and

ensured the parents of foreign students

about the safety of their child in the state

of Gujarat. Students were quite excited

about their new beginning in this new

country.

Mr. Makrand Shukla , Regional

Officer of Indian Council for Cultural

Relation , Ministry of External Affairs,

Government of India led the group of all

foreign students and parents. He said that

their team has been receiving all the for-

eign students and arranging their ac-

commodation since last three days and

so they have developed a bonding with

them.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor

of GTU also welcomed foreign students

and motivated them to work hard and

study well.

Zohoruddin, an Afghan student

enrolled in MBA said that ―Gujarat is very

good, it is very different and is very

green. I have come here to get good

education.‖ He also mentioned that he

used to watch many Hindi films and had

last seen Ashique 2. Kin Cho Cho Sint &

Lin Ko Ko from Myanmar also has come

to study MBA. They said that they were

quite impressed with the business

industry and economy of Gujarat. They

find people of Gujarat very helpful,

friendly and kind. Two girls Pema and

Dorji have come to study Mechanical

Engineering from Bhutan. They said that

―our land is rich with nature, environment

and rich in bio-diversity.‖ They said that

they have been to West Bengal in the

past but they find Gujarat very clean.

Kalyani Warnukulasuriya from Srilanka,

mother of a student named Sachith

enrolled in B.E. Mechanical said that her

son has got the ―Nehru Memorial

Scholarship‖ to study. She was satisfied

with the environment and will be flying

back to Srilanka on 6th August 2013.

The students were quite excited

about their new beginning. Enrolment of

these foreign students in Gujarat

Technological University is a new

benchmark of quality education in

Gujarat, India.

GTU Campus goes Global - International Students from more than 12 Asian and African Countries joined the University

Shri Bhupendersinh Chudasama with Dr. Akshai Aggarwal

Students of Myanmar, Africa & Nepal at Gujarat Technological University International Student Registration Desk

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To study in a foreign

university is a dream moment for any

student. This dream of many students at

GTU came true in the months of June,

July & August 2013 when 172 students

went to the universities of Canada, USA &

Germany under International Experience

Programme.

GTU has signed MoU with several

foreign universities for International

Experience Programme under which

the Student of GTU can visit foreign

universities. A group of 96 students of

pharmacy & computer science , led by

two faculty members went to Laurentian

University in Canada in June 2013.

A n o t h e r g r o u p o f 6 2

students went to USA under the same

program with Kansas State University. A

group of 62 students of Mechanical

Engineering and Electronics and Com-

munication Engineering studied at KSU

for 8 weeks. The students attended the

classes on the special subjects in these

universities during the program and GTU

will give the credits for the same.

During the summer of 2012, 18

students had visited Kansas State Univer-

sity, USA. Out of 110 Visa applications

only18 students were granted the Visa.

During the summer of 2011, when the

International Experience Program was

initiated, all the 106 students were denied

the Visa. Since the Visa denials were not

permitting the program to grow a team

of two officers from the International of-

fice of Kansas State University, Professor

Mohammad Hosni, Dean of Engineering

at KSU and the Vice-Chancellor of GTU

called a meeting in November 2012 on

the issue of Visa Denials in Mumbai. The

team visited the Mumbai Consulate and

discussed the issue. The result is that

there have been only two denials of Visa

by the US Consulate and 62 students

have been granted the Visa in 2013.

The third group of 14 MBA

students went to University of Applied

Sciences, Technology, Business and

Design, Wismar, Germany. They also

visited German industries for the

management studies in Germany.

International Experience Program

was launched in the summer of 2011

when 24 Students of GTU affiliated

colleges went to the University of Alberta,

Canada. This program not only offers the

exposure to the education in foreign

universities but also a chance to learn

new language, customs and meet high

profile people of foreign countries like

meeting the Presidents of the Chambers

of Commerce. The International

experience program can be a benchmark

for their career progress in future.

USA, Canadian & German Universities hosted GTU Students of Pharmacy Management & Engineering

Campus of Kansas State University , USA Campus of Laurentian University , Canada & Campus of Wismar University , Germany

University Stream Date Subjects

Mechanical

Engineering

17th June to

15th August 2013

1. Thermal Engineering (Code- 181904)

2. Refrigeration and Air conditioning ( code- 181901 ) Kansas State

University, USA Electronics & Communi-

cation Engineering

1. Digital Signal Processing (Code-171003)

2. Wireless Communication

Laurentian

University,

Canada

Pharmacy 17th June to

2nd August 2013

1. Pharmacology III (Code- 270006)

2. Pharmaceutical Chemistry-X(Medicinal Chemistry) (Code-280003- Sem VIII)

Computer

Science

1. Web Data Management (Code-170708)

2. Wireless Communication &Mobile Programming (Code-170702N)

Wismar,

Germany

MBA 8the July to

17th August 2013

Main Subjects

1. International Marketing – Strategic Management (2830001).

2. International Marketing – Consumer Behaviour (2830101).

Additional Subject

1. Business Ethics

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Photo Gallery of GTU Students in Foreign Universities

It had been even less then a month

of arrival of the International students in

Gujarat for pursuing their education and

these international students started

celebrating the Indian Festivals and Indian

Culture. All the female international

students of GTU and ICCR celebrated

Rakshabandhan at Chief Minister’s Bun-

glow on 20th August 2013.

Dr. Vadodaria, I/C & COE of GTU

& Mr. Makrand Shukla of Indian Council

for Cultural Relation led the group of In-

ternational Students to the C. M. Bun-

glow. The venue was on the full swing of

festival with many of the ladies dressed in

traditional outfits waiting for their chance

to tie a Rakhi to Shri Narendra Modi.

All the students tied the holy

thread of bonding—Rakhi to Shri

Narendra Modi, Honourable Chief

Minister of Gujarat at the event.

Mr. Modi was quite humble while talking

to international students. He also asked

an Indonesian student about the experi-

ence of surviving the tsunami that had hit

Indonesia in the year 2004.

Presence of the national media at

the event itself was the evidence of the

uniqueness of the event. International

Students enjoyed their first Indian festival

celebration and where else could be the

better place then C M Bunglow for them

to celebrate.

An African Student tying Rakhi to Shri Narendra Modi & Group of Foreign Students with Dr. G.P.Vadodaria and Mr. Makrand Shukla at C.M. House

International Students of GTU celebrated Rakshabandhan at C. M. house with Shri Narendra Modi , Chief Minister of Gujarat

Rupees 5 Crore will be invested for the establishment of “Centre for Excellence” in different zones across Gujarat

On Saturday, 18th May 2013, at

Paryavaran Mandir,GTU and a well known

German Company named Bosch Rexroth

signed MoU to start an Industry Institute

partnership in the Field of Automation

technologies. Bosch Rexroth is one of the

world’s leading specialist in the field of

drive and control technologies with more

then 500000 customers across the globe.

Dr. Johanners Thomas Grobe, the

Managing Director of Bosch Rexroth

(India) Ltd. visited Ahmedabad to sign the

MoU with GTU. The primary objective of

this MoU is to start an industry institute

partnership in the field of automation

technologies with Financial and

technological participation with Bosch

Rexroth. It is a concept of Technological

Institute in GTU, where the aim will be to

bridge technology gaps between Industry

and academia with hands on experience

and new pedagogical methods. These

centres will be called ―Centre for

Excellence‖. This centre will act as a centre

to transfer current technologies to

students and evolve into research and

innovation centre for UG and PG

programs.

Under this program, Bosch-Rexroth

will train 12 faculties from GTU at their

Facility in Mysore and 2 faculties at their

plant in Germany after GTU finalizes the

institute where these centres are to be

established.

Rupees Five Crore will be invested for

the establishment of Centres for

Excellence in different zones across

Gujarat which will be well equipped with

the modern tools for learning new edge

engineering. This centre will act as a

centre to transfer current technologies to

students and evolve into a research and

innovation centre where focus will be on

Training, Knowledge transfer, Projects,

Application , Research and Innovation.

GTU has invited expression of interest

from the institutes willing to establish the

Centre in their zone. Establishment of

such centre can provide the best

environment to the next generation

Engineers to experiment and innovate.

Dr. Johannes Grobe, MD Bosch-Rexroth

Signing MoU for GTU-CoE

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Gujarat Technological University is

allotted an important and prestigious

project of Vishwakarma Yojana by the

Government of Gujarat through

Commissionarate of Technical Education

Department. Under this project students

and faculties of GTU affiliated colleges are

working towards Rurbanization of the

Villages in Gujarat. Hon’ble Chief Minister

of Gujarat, Shri Narendra Modi has

described it as ―Creating Big Village "with a ―Rural Soul‖ possessing all urban amen-

ities that a city may have.

Vishwakarma Yojana is a project

framed to provide the benefits of real

world experience to the engineering

students and simultaneously apply their

technical knowledge in the development

of infrastructure in rural development

with the aim of ―Atma Gaon Ki Suvidha

Shaher Ki‖. As a part of Implementation

of Vishwakarma Yojana Phase- I, the

students of Engineering Colleges affiliated

with Gujarat Technological University

have successfully completed the Techno

Economic survey study of 68 villages. The

project is undertaken on ―Design to Deliv-

ery basis‖.

Vishwakarma Yojana is designed

for the development of Rurban Villages

identified by Government of Gujarat.

Phase I of the project included the study

of 68 villages of 25 districts while more

than 150 villages are allotted for

techno-economic survey in second

phase. 200 students of 28 degree and

diploma engineering colleges worked

under the guidance of 33 nodal officers in

Phase I while 700 students will be

involved in the second phase of the

project. The first phase of the project

aimed to study the existing status and

Techno-economic situation of the villages

in terms of basic and public amenities,

essential commodities and infrastructural

facilities for the need of the people

considering the population growth of the

villages and expansion of the area.

Students and Faculties of GTU

affiliated Engineering and Architecture

colleges conducted the survey. Local

Revenue Authorities, TDO, DDO,

Sarpanch and other officials of respective

villages were consulted. The Survey

process is completed during Phase I.

Now, a combined project report will be

submitted to the Government of Gujarat

for further implementation of the

proposed development in Rurban

villages.

The project has catered to the

village needs. Starting from a Physical

infrastructure facilities (Water, Drainage,

Road, Electricity, Solid waste

Management, Storm Water Network,

Telecommunication & Other), Social

infrastructure facilities (Education, Health,

Community Hall, Library, Recreation

Facilities & other) and renewable energy

(Rain water harvesting, Biogas plant, Solar

Street lights & Other) for Sustainable

development and many more such

development plans are made for different

villages in Phase I.

The report of Phase I included the

survey results, gap analysis and study

reports on different development

parameters of villages. It also includes the

development suggestions with the

drawings and plans with estimated

quantity of material required for

construction. Students working on the

project are offered stipend.

The students will get the real life

professional experience by working in the

project while villages and

government will get the privilege of the

knowledge of GTU Students.

All the students and faculties

associated with Vishwakarma Yojna Phase

I were felicitated by GTU. Phase II of

Vishwakarma Yojna has started with the

new academic year and Phase II will have

the theme of Green Technology

as per Dr. Akshai Aggarwal Vice

Chancellor of GTU.

Atma Gaon ki, Suvidha Shaher Ki—Vishwakarma Yojna Phase I Comple-tion

Irrigation Management like Water Harvesting, Check

dam ,dredging lakes, dredging farm-ponds and helping

farmers for irrigation partnership, Drip & Sprinkle meth-

ods.

Construction of Burial

Planning of the land for park, tree plantation, land/Moist

saving.

Training & Awareness for Disaster Management like

Flood & Earth qucke

Co-operative Facilities

Planning of Schools as per village’s requirement—Nursery,

Primary Education, Secondary & Higher Secondary Schools

Planning of Health & Cleaning—C.H.C./P.H.C.

Planning & Building of Internal Roads

Facilities related to drinking water and health

Solid & liquid Waste Management , Drainage , Waste Water

Collection, Processing & Disbursing

Street lights / Solar Lights

Tree Plantation , Building and Maintaining Public Proper-

ties

Infrastructural Facilities identified

Methodology Used in the Phase I

Þ Village Allocation

Þ Survey Form Crafting

Þ Visit of Village

Þ Data Collection & Presentation

Þ Data Analysis

Þ Recommendations & Suggestions

Þ Designing Proposals

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On 23rd

November 2013,

Saturday GTU had organized felicitation

of all the students and faculties associated

with Vishwarkarma Yojna Phase I and

inauguration of the International Seminar

on Ethical Dilemmas in Corporate

Governance and Business Leadership at

conference hall of GTU Chandkheda

Campus. Honourable, Minister for

Education, Higher & Technical Education,

Law and Judiciary, Food & Civil Supplies,

Consumer affairs, Panchayat, Rural

Housing and Rural Development,

Government of Gujarat Shri

Bhupendrasinh Chudasma attended the

event as chief guest. Along with Dr.

Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor of GTU

Dr. M.N. Patel, Principal of L.D. College of

Engineering, Dr. G.P. Vadodaria , In

charge Registrar & COE , GTU , Mr. Sushil

Handa, founder of Claris Life Sciences,

Mr. Shailesh Thaker, Knowledge Inc. and

Dr. Indrajit Patel Honorary Director of

GTU graced the event.

Shri Bhupendrasinh Chudasma

thanked Dr. Akshai Aggarwal for

completing the work of Vishwakarma

Yojna Phase I as it was directed by Chief

Minister of the State. He also showed

willingness of meeting the entire team of

nodal officers associated with the project

in a special meeting to understand the

problems they might have faced during

the project at village level. Throwing light

on the topic of ethics Shri

Bhupendrasinhji said that a person with

―sanskara‖ never faces the challenge of

―ethics‖. He said that today, we daily see

news related to sexual exploitation and so

today is the time of adding values to the

society. He said that ―as Education Minis-

ter I am saying this very seriously that

teacher can teach moral values to all the

students starting from their early child-

hood to be a good human being. Give

them morals that make them responsible

citizens of tomorrow. Only criticizing the

society will not work, we also have to be

responsible‖

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice

Chancellor of GTU appreciated the work

done by students and faculties in the

Vishwakarma Yojna. He said that in phase I we faced some challenges as some of

the colleges did not make it to the final

level but finally we made it with project

reports of the 68 villages in Phase I. But

now colleges and students are more

aware and interested in working in

Vishwakarma Yojna which can offer

real-time experience to them. While on

ethics he said that Indian Villages are still

retaining ethical values more than urban

areas in India and so today both the

events complement each other. Another

special guest at the event Mr. Sushil

Handa of Claris life sciences said that

ethics comes from the values that our

family has taught us in our childhood

similarly it is very important to be a role

model of your own children when you

teach them ethics. He also said that

ethics takes you a long way while

unethical ways can give you only

temporary achievement.

A DPR book of Vishwakarma Yojna

Phase I was presented to Shri

Bhupendrasinh Chudasama at the event

combining all the 68 villages of Phase I.

In the second session all the

students & Faculties associated with

Vishwakarma Yojna Phase I were

felicitated by the university. While on the

other hand Swami Nikhileswaranandaji,

Head of Ramakrishna Mission, Vadodara,

Dr. Charles Savage - President

Knowledge Era Enterprises International

Germany, Shri. Guruji G. Narayana,

Chairman, Emeritus of Excel Industries

Limited and Dr. Shailesh Thaker of

Knowledge Inc. took over the session on

lessons of ethics from different episodes

of Mahabharata.

Criticizing the society will not work, we also have to be responsible - Shri Bhupendrasinh Chudasama

Paryavaran Mandir turned into a

―Gyan Mandir‖- Temple of Knowledge,

when senior academicians ,

Vice-Chancellors and Registrars of Techno-

logical Universities across the country

arrived for ―CCCI Technology Education

Excellence Awards 2013‖.

GTU has set up 25 GTU Innovation

Sankuls. Each Sankul provides a platform for

Colleges and industries in a geographic

region to work together. Every Sankul is Co

-Chaired by a senior academician and a

Leader of the industry. The Consortium of

Co-Chairperson Industry (CCCI) consists of

the 25 Industry associates of the GTU

Innovation Sankuls. CCCI announced

Technological Education Excellence Awards

2013 to recognize the excellence in

different aspects of working of

technological University. The event was

organized in association with CMAI

Association of India. Several Universities

from many states had sent their entries for

the categories in which they achieved

excellence. These included the

technological universities of Punjab, Gujarat,

Uttarakhand, Delhi, Karnataka, Tamilnadu,

UP, M.P., Hariyana, Orissa and many more.

His Excellency Mr. Ndubuisi Vitus

Amaku, the High Commissioner of Nigeria,

the Chief Guest of the event presented the

awards to the winners of different

categories. Gujarat Technological University

was awarded as the Best University in

Internationalization of its Faculty and

Students.

Shri Shailesh Patwari, Co-Chairman of

Naroda GTU Innovation Sankul and

Chairman of NEPL Ltd. delivered the vote

of thanks on behalf of CCCI at the end of

the event.

GTU—the best university in Internationalization of its Faculty and Students

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal with His Excellency Mr. Ndubuisi

Vitus Amaku and Delegates from other Universities.

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Gujarat Technological University

hosted a State Level Seminar on

―National Vocational Education

Qualifications Framework‖ on 26th

September 2013 at Ahmedabad,

Chandkheda Campus. 257 people from

educational industry including directors,

deans, trustees and HOD of different

science, arts & commerce colleges across

Gujarat attended the one day seminar.

Chairman of AICTE Prof. Mantha visited

GTU and shared the concept of NVEQF.

NVEQF is designed to stimulate

and support reforms in skill development

and to facilitate nationally standardized

and acceptable international

comparability of ranging qualifications

from secondary to doctorate level; a

National Qualifications Framework

(NVEQF) is being established by the

Central Government. The major aim of

the scheme is to prepare educated,

employable and competitive human

resources for various sectors of the

economy and the global market .―Gujarat

State has taken initiative to implement

NVEQF for upgrading Vocational

Education System.

Honourable Minister for State,

Women and Child Development, Prof.

Vasuben Trivedi graced the event as a

chief guest while Dr.S.S.Mantha , Chair-

man of AICTE at New Delhi was the Guest

of Honour. Dr. Akshai Aggarwal Vice

Chancellor of the University also graced

the event with Dr. G.P.Vadodaria, I/C

Registrar & COE, GTU, Dr. Jayanti Ravi,

IAS, Commissioner of Technical Educa-

tion, Govt. of Gujarat, Shri A.M.Tiwari ,

IAS, Principal Secretary, Education , Guja-

rat State and Mr. N.K.Goyal , Advisor of

GTU.

AICTE Chairman, Prof. Mantha de-

livered a session on Framework of Voca-

tional Education Qualification and shared

some interesting facts about the educa-

tion scenario. Vocational Education is the

brainchild of Prof. Mantha. He said as per

the statistics of year 2009-10 out of 280

lac students across the county only 108

lac students passed the 10th Board exam.

It means nearly 50 % students failed.

Many students discontinue their

education after failing in 10th or 12

th

Board exams. Such students start

working as skilled manpower but do not

get a chance to grow due to lack of

certification. The program will offer wide

option to the students post S.S.C. &

H.S.C. exams except regular education.

AICTE has established various norms for

the educational & practical training for

the course. To offer this course

educational institutes must match the

norms set by AICTE. GTU has formed a

board for NVEQF after the visit of Prof.

Mantha to take this new educational

course in the next phase.

AICTE Chairman—Prof. Mantha at NVEQF State level Seminar at GTU

NVEQF Framework

Standard Level Certification

9th standard school Level 1 Vocational Skill Certificate of Level 1

10th standard school Level 2 Vocational Skill Certificate of Level 2

11th standard school Level 3 Vocational Skill Certificate of Level 3

12th standard school Level 4 Vocational Skill Certificate of Level 4

1st year college Level 5 Vocational Skill Diploma by Polytechnic

2nd year college Level 6 Vocational Skill Certificate of Level 6

3rd year college Level 7 Vocational Skill Degree by University

Masters & Ph.D. will be Introduced later by AICTE

Prof. Mantha addressing Institute Representatives . Dr. Akshai Aggarwal with Prof. Vasuben Trivedi

Some Facts shared by Prof. Mantha about the NVEAF

Entire Vocational Education will be divided in 7 level certificates.

All the 7 levels will award separate certification to manage the dropouts in between.

Each level will have 1000 hours of learning annually.

Each level will have two methods of learning as Educational & Skill Training.

In the beginning level the educational subjects will have more weightage while Skill training hours will increase periodically. By the last level

certification the skill training will have more weightage then educational subjects.

The first level certification will be introduced in standard 9 schooling and will run parallel as mentioned above.

The certifications will have equivalent value parallel to the standards of schooling or college year.

Educational institutes will be responsible for the academic part while skill training will be done by the technical training institute appointed with

mutual understanding.

Student will have options of pursuing the vocational education along with their regular academic education or can also choose to go for only

vocational education.

Students can take the admission in between based on their latest educational degree and assessment of skill test conducted by the technical

trainer. (e.g. if a 12th pass students wants to freshly take the admission in the vocational education he can get the admission in level 5 directly,

If he clears the technical test taken by the trainer required for level 5 or he will get the admission in the level that the trainer suggests.)

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GTU has an extensive program of

International studies in MBA. Under this

program, GCSR was introduced with a

vision to make MBA program more

qualitative, practical oriented as well as

enabling the students and faculties to

enrich their management knowledge with

global business perspectives in today’s

competitive scenario. In GCSR, the

Faculties and Students of MBA Institutes

have conducted studies of 70 countries in

the year 2011-12 and 110 countries are

being studied in the academic year

2013-14.

GTU has initiated to celebrate the

National Day of the countries selected in

GCSR program to enhance the overall

involvement of MBA students. The aim of

the event is to strengthen the network

among students, professors and other

stakeholders with the selected country ,

to demonstrate and uphold the national

pride and fellowship ,to discuss the

environmental factors for exploring the

business opportunities with the

selected GCSR Country & to provide the

platform to the faculties / students to

interact with the diplomats / corporate

leaders / Entrepreneurs of selected

country for the program.

GTU had invited various

delegates from respective countries on

their national day celebration at GTU to

share the knowledge of their country with

GTU MBA students. Visit of His Excellency

Mr. Ndubuisi Vitus Amaku, the High

Commissioner of Nigeria and H.E. Mr.

Nugen Than Tan - Ambassador of

Vietnam to India has opened new doors

of opportunities for GTU in both the

countries. While Mr. Roy Han, GM- Sales,

Shanghai Highly company showed

interest in recruiting more students from

GTU.

GTU has appointed Mr. Sunil

Modi, Mr. K.H.Patel and Mr. N.K.Goyal as

advisors. All the three advisors are taking

an active participation in supporting the

GCSR program and related events.

Meanwhile a GCSR program handbook

was also launched to provide a guideline

on the subject study.

Groups of students of the

respective colleges present their study on

the specific country and also showcase

the cultural art performance of the specif-

ic country which make the event live and

interesting. National Day Celebration of

China had turned out to be an

outstanding event with the presence of

Chinese students from EDI who shared

presentation in Hindi. Impressed with

GTU GCSR program Mr. Jagat Shah,

Chairman - India China Economic & Cultural

Council announced to sponsor the visit of the

student who prepares best presentation to

China. GTU is constantly engaged in making

GCSR program more and more

interesting and global . National Day

Celebration is an initiative in the same

direction.

National day celebration of world countries and knowledge sharing beyond borders

Date Country Name of participating institute Guest

26th October

2013

National Day Cele-

bration of Germany

& Uganda

J. K. Patel Institute of Management Institute

Baroda & Noble Institute, Junagadh

Mr. Dipendra Pal from the German House for Research

& Innovation , DWIH

Mr. Job Glass, Netherland Trade Office, Ahmedabad

5th October

2013

National Day

Celebration of

China & Nigeria

C K Shah Vijapurwala Institute of Management

Studies, Vadodara; L J Institute of Management

Studies, Ahmedabad and Shri Jaysukhlal Va-

dhear Institute of Management Studies, Jamna-

gar International students from Nigeria Tanza-

nia of Shri Jairambhai Patel Institute of Business

Management & Chinese Students of EDI

Mr. Jagat Shah, Chairman - India China Economic &

Cultural Council (ICEC)

Mr. Mr Roy Han, GM- Sales, Shanghai Highly company

21 September

2013

National Day

Celebration of

Chile & Qatar

Faculty of Management - Grow More Trust Him-

matnagar, N. R. Institute of Business

Management, Ahmedabad and Sunshine Insti-

tute of Management studies, Rajkot s

Mr. K. H. Patel , Advisor of GTU GCSR Program

17th

August 2013

National Day

Celebration of

Afghanistan

and Indonesia

L J Institute of Management Studies, Ahmeda-

bad and Dr. Bharat Barad Institute of Manage-

ment, Sutrapada

Mr. Irawan Sutiono Project Manager,

Inbisco India Pvt Ltd from Indonesia

7th September

2013

National Day

Celebration of

Brazil and Vietnam

Smt. K. K. Patel MBA/MCA College, Palasar and

Som

Lalit Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Laxmi Institute of

Management Studies, Sarigam

H.E. Mr. Nugen Than Tan - Ambassador of Vietnam to

India, Govt. of Vietnam

Mr. Amit Dave, Head Corporate

Strategies– Zydus Cadila, Ahmedabad

Ms. Bhagyesh Soneji, CMD AMEDA Pharma Pvt. Ltd.,

Chairperson –ASSOCHAM ,Gujarat

19th May 2013 Workshop on

African and Asian

countries

All GCSR coordinator from MBA Institutes His Excellency Mr. Ndubuisi Vitus Amaku, the High

Commissioner of Nigeria,

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Over the time it is observed that the

first year engineering students find it

difficult to cope up with the pace of

teaching and new campus life. At certain

level it affects their performance in the

very first year of higher education which

is the base of their graduation. Even a

confident student ends up struggling with

such issues.

To deal with this situation a 6 week

Bridge Course is introduced in GTU

Engineering where all the Engineering

fresher's will have some breathing space

by learning some basic skills and subjects

before their actual syllabus starts. Bridge

course is aimed to act as a buffer for the

new entrants, with an objective to provide

adequate time for the transition to

hard-core engineering courses. Students

will be groomed for the foundation

subjects of Mathematics, Elements of

Engineering, Physics/Chemistry, English,

Information and Communication

Technology, Life Skills, State Cadet Corps.

During these 6 weeks students can

interact with their faculty and class mates

which can help them in developing

knowledge and confidence needed to

take on bigger challenges as future

engineers of this country.

Bridge Course in GTU Engineering

began on 22nd July 2013. The bridge

course was completed on 31st August

2013 and the first academic year has

begin on 1st September 2013. The

bridge course exam is merged with

related subjects of semester exams .

There will be 10 to 20 % Weightage of

bridge course related questions in 6

different papers of semester exams.

Exams of two subjects - Life skills &

State Cadet Corps (SCC) will be

conducted by Institutes. Institutes will

send the names of top 5 students of

subjects Life skills & State Cadet Corps

(SCC) to GTU and GTU will select best 3

students from these selected candidates

and felicitate them.

Transforming Young ones to be an Engineering Aspirant

Gujarat Technological

University recently introduced five years

integrated courses in the stream of

Management and Computer Applications

which will offer an opportunity to achieve

masters without any interruption. Masters

of Applied Management (MAM) is a five

year integrated program in management

and another five year integrated course in

computer applications will be awarding

the degree of Master of Computer

Applications (MCA).

MAM & MCA , both the courses are

AICTE approved and will be following the

AICTE norms for the admissions and

reservation. However the admission will

be on the merit basis of class 12 results

without any entrance exam for the

academic year 2013-14. H.S.C. passed

students of science stream with minimum

45 % in general category and 40 % in

reserved category are eligible for MAM &

MCA and General stream student can

apply for MAM only.

Total 27 GTU affiliated colleges will be

offering MAM and 8 colleges will be

running MCA Integrated courses.

Students who discontinue the studies

after three years or before five years will

be awarded with Bachelors degree as

BAM and BCA. The admission process in

both the courses has begun and may

continue till August or September 2013.

New 5 Year Integrated programs in Management & Computer Applications

On 25th April 2013, Institute of

Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

had signed MOU with GTU for

collaboration and had announced an

offering of educational services and

technical material to the students of GTU

affiliated colleges in Gujarat.

On 29th July 2013, GTU in partnership

with IEEE organized a half-day workshop

on ―IEEE Xplore – User Awareness

Program‖ at GTU Gandhinagar campus.

The workshop was organized to enhance

the research skills of user in order to find

the most relevant technical content in

the IEEE Explorer digital library. More

than 150 faculty and students from

various engineering colleges around

Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar attended

the workshop.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal , Vice Chancellor

of GTU asked the students and faculty to

make use of world’s best platform for

research papers effectively. This will

improve the quality of research work and

lead to higher quality publications from

GTU and contribute to the society.

Meghamala Nugehally and Dhanu

Pattanashetti of IEEE highlighted various

education initiatives of IEEE in India and

shared some quick tips on better

utilization of IEEE. Dr. Anil Roy from

DAIICT Gandhinagar also addressed on

how to publish a technical paper.

This was the first workshop

organized by GTU in association with IEEE

to motivate the use of IEEE-Xplore which

is a globally recognized platform and a

great source of knowledge for

engineering students worldwide.

Half-day workshop on ―IEEE Xplore – User Awareness Program‖ at GTU

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The students of Gujarat

Technological University showcased their

amazing talent during the GTU Youth

Festival XITIJ 2013. XITIJ 2013 was the

second Youth Festival for Diploma

Colleges and third for the Degree

Colleges of GTU. The youth festival took

place in the month of September &

October 2013.

More than 3000 students across the

state participated in XITIJ 2013. Institutes

affiliated to GTU were divided in

5 different zones as Ahmedabad,

Gandhinagar, Vallabh Vidhyanagar,

Rajkot & Surat. Degree Colleges of

respective zones had organized Zonal

Youth Festival and winner of the Zonal

Youth Festival took part in Inter Zone

Youth Festival while Diploma Colleges

had direct Inter Zone Youth Festival.

Each zone had a theme of the year

during the youth festival and they had

decorated the entire venue on the theme.

C. U. Shah College of Engineering,

Wadhwan hosted the inter-zone of XITIJ

2013 during 18-19-20 Oct 2013. The

Inter zone Xitij 2013 for diploma colleges

was hosted by Tolani Foundation Gandhi-

dham Polytechnic, Adipur, Kutch during

17-18-19 Oct 2013.

It is true that nothing can stop this

young 24x7 generation from cherishing

and celebrating. The youth festival faced

the hurdle of heavy rain in Ahmedabad

and all across the state in the month of

September, which forced the university

to postpone some of the competitions

but it did not affected the enthusiasm of

the students from taking part in this talent

hunt.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice-

Chancellor of Gujarat Technological

University awarded all the winners of the

inter-zone grand final on 20th October

2013 at C.U.Shah College of Engineering,

Wadhwan.

HORIZON FOR YOUNG & TALENTED

Zone Theme

Ahmedabad Zone Sanchay - 2013

Gandhinagar Zone Empowering Youth - 2013

VV Nagar Zone XITIJ - 2013

Surat Zone XITIJ - 2013

Rajkot Zone Lead India – 2013

Inter Zonal Sparsh Zalawadno – 2013

Diploma Inter Zonal Innovation & Entrepreneurship - 2013

GTU SPORTS FESTIVAL

To encourage the sportsmanship

and physical wellness among the students

of GTU affiliated colleges, university has

organized a sports festival SPIRIT 2013.

The sports festival started in the month of

August 2013 and will end in February

2014. 18 different types of sports

competitions are being organized during

SPIRIT 2013. GTU had organized its first

Athletic meet and Rifle shooting

competition during October 2013 as part

of sports festival of 2013 with major

participation.

39000 students participated in the

selection rounds of various competitions.

Total 10300 selected students participat-

ed in various tournaments of SPIRIT 2013

while highest participation was from Surat

Zone with 2300 students. 2100 students

from Ahmedabad Zone, 2100 students

from Gandhinagar Zone , 1900 students

from Rajkot Zone & 1900 students from

Vallabh Vidhyanagar Zone participated in

various sports competitions.

Winners of GTU SPIRIT 2013 will get

a chance to participate in National level

sports competition which can offer them

a bigger platform to achieve in the field

of sports.

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GTU students participated in NSS

day state level celebration organized

during 22nd to 24th September 2013.

GTU volunteers achieved three gold

medals respectively in poster making,

solo singing and elocution and one silver

medal in short-film making bringing

pride and glory to the university. GTU

students will also participate in the

National Youth Fest ival being

organized at Rajkot this year as a part of

the Celebration of 150th Birth Anniversary

of Swami Vivekanand .

1. MUSIC

a) Classical Vocal Solo

( Hindustani or Karnataki)

b) Classical Instrumental Solo

(Percussion)

c) Classical Instrumental Solo

(Non-Percussion)

d) Light Vocal (Indian)

e) Western Vocal (Solo)

f) Group Song (Indian)

g) Group Song (Western)

h) Folk Orchestra

2.DANCE

a) Folk/Tribal Dance

b) Classical Dance (Indian)

3. LITERATURE:

a) Quiz

b) Elocution

c) Debate

d) Extempore

e) Poetry Recitation

f) Poetry Completion (Pad-Purti)

4.THEATRE

a) One Act Play

b) Skits

c) Mime

d) Mimicry

e) Mono Acting (EK Patriya Abhinay)

5.FINE ART

a) On the Spot Painting

b) Collage

c) Poster Making

d) Clay Modelling

e) Cartooning

f) Rangoli

Categories of events

THE YOUTH FESTIVAL—XITIJ 2013

List of the Games

1 Badminton (Girls) 10 Kho-Kho (Girls) 19 Judo

2 Badminton (Boys) 11 Football (Boys) 20 Air Rifle/Pistol

Shooting

3 Chess 12 Handball (Boys) 21 Wrestling

4 Hockey (Boys) 13 Handball (Girls) 22 Athletics

5 Basketball (Boys) 14 Volleyball (Girls) 23 Table Tennis (B&G)

6 Kabbadi (Boys) 15 Basketball (Girls) 24 Tennis (Boys)

7 Cross Country

(B&G) 16 Hockey (Girls) 25 Volleyball (Boys)

8 Swimming

(Aquatics) 17 Kho-Kho (Boys) 26 Yoga

9 Cricket (Boys) 18 Tennis (Girls)

- SPIRIT 2013

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Natural Resources and

machineries are not the real asset of

India. The real asset of India is its people.

―India can be one of the powerful nations

with its people if they are given good

education‖ were the lines said by Dr.

Aashish Nanda , the Director of India’s

top management Institute IIM

Ahmedabad at Leadership Excellence

Meet organized by Gujarat Technological

University on 19th

October 2013 at its

Chandkheda Campus. Mr. Nanda said

that looking at the demography of India

the time between 2010 to 2040 is the

most important time for India to grow as

India has high level of young population.

He shared that for the first time ever in

the history of the world, China will be the

only country that will move from less

developed country to medium developed

country but their population will turn to

be older by one generation. He said that

in 20 years, China will come to the stage

where Japan is today due to aging

population. He said that this is the

generation we have to give the resources

and contributions that we can and take

away the barriers from their

entrepreneurial efforts. So educating this

generation is absolutely critical.

Dr. Nanda appealed to educational

institutes to maintain quality of education

as they are responsible for the future of

students. Dr. Ashish Nanda also threw

some light on the efficient leadership in

educational administration. He also

praised GTU’s efforts in developing

technological education. Dr. Akshai

Aggarwal , Vice Chancellor of GTU

thanked Prof. Nanda for accepting the

invitation and shared that the leadership

skill is required in every department of

every college of GTU so that every

college can provide excellent training to

the young generation.

Harish Bijoor, Director of Harish

Bijoor Consults Inc. having presence

across the markets of Hong Kong, Seattle,

London, Dubai and the Indian

sub-continent shared the presentation on

different types of leadership. He said that

faculties must be aware of what their

students think and their likes and dislikes.

Mr. Bijoor motivated deans & faculties to

try and reduce the generation and

communication gaps they face with

students by using social media. Use of

social media can make them aware of

what their students are sharing and

talking about which can help them to

connect with students. While Atika

Dhandhia a trainer of ―Art of living‖ from

Delhi guided the audience on dealing

with stress. She also shared some stress

reliving meditation tricks. Dr. Shailesh

Thaker, business coach and young power

-house of motivation and leadership &

Mr. Himanshu Buch a multi-talented

author, motivational speaker, corporate

trainer and stage actor led the second

half of the leadership meet.

More than 90 deans, faculties &

administrative officers of GTU affiliated

colleges and university employees

attended the event. GTU had organized

the Leadership Excellence Meet to

enhance the Leadership skills among the

leaders of the university & college

employees.

India can be one of the powerful nations of the world – Prof. Aashish

Nanda, Director, IIMA at Leadership Excellence Meet at GTU

List of Workshops, Seminars & Faculty Development Programs

4-5 May 2013 Workshop on Innovation Tools & Techniques—Design

Driven Innovation

GTU Chandkheda Campus

4th May 2013 Workshop on “Advanced Mathematics—A Review” GTU Chandkheda Campus

9th May 2013 Workshop on “Awareness of Cyber Crimes & Cyber Law “GNLU Campus

19th May 2013 Workshop on Studies of African & Asian Countries GTU Chandkheda Campus

11th June 2013 & 28th

June 2013

Workshop on Vishwakarma Yojna GTU Chandkheda Campus

10th August 2013 Workshop on Waste Management GTU Chandkheda Campus

17th August 2013 Workshop on Active Learning Promotion Strategy Session GTU Chandkheda Campus

31st August 2013 & 1st

September 2013

SVCPD Faculty Development Program GTU Chandkheda Campus

7th September 2013 Workshop on Latest Trends of Computer Technology &

Usage of Internet Including Emails

ACPC Campus of GTU

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List of Workshops, Seminars & Faculty Development Programs

7th September 2013 Workshop on Training of Trainers on patent searching &

analysis report generation

ACPC Campus of GTU

13th to 15th September

2013

Workshop on Entre Weekend ACPC Campus of GTU

14th & 15th September

2013

Workshop on Free Space Laser Communication & Ad-

vanced FSO System

GTU Chandkheda Campus

21st September 2013 Seminar on Fundamentals of Tribology ACPC Campus of GTU

21st September 2013 Workshop on Mentoring the Mentor of International

Students

GTU Chandkheda Campus

4the October 2013 Seminar on Fundamentals of Tribology GIDC Engineering College, Navsari

5th October 2013 Oracle Training Program BISAG Gandhinagar

5th October 2013 Seminar on Fundamentals of Tribology G. H. Patel College of Engineering ,

Vallabh Vidyanagar

12th October 2013 NEN Workshop for S4 Extension Centres GTU Chandkheda Campus

18th October 2013 Workshop on Patent Search, Drafting & Filling ACPC Campus of GTU

19th October 2013 Faculty Development Program for engineering students GTU Chandkheda Campus

25th & 26th October 2013 International Faculty Development Program for MBA

faculties

GTU Chandkheda Campus

30th & 31th October 2013 Workshop on Patent Search Drafting & Filling BISEG, Gandhinagar

16th & 17th November

2013

Workshop on SPSS Software Training

18th to 22nd November

2013

Oracle Training Program BISAG Gandhinagar

18th November 2013 Global Meet on NANO Tribology GTU Chandkheda Campus

19th November 2013 Seminar on Life Management Lessons from the Life of

Sachin Tendulkar

GTU Chandkheda Campus

23rd November 2013 International Seminar on Ethical Dilemmas in Corporate

Governance and business leadership “Lessons from

Mahabharata”

GTU Chandkheda Campus

7 December 2013 Workshop on Acquainting international students to Guja-

rat Technological University’s Higher Education System

GTU Chandkheda Campus

20 December 2013 Faculty Development Program on “Getting Good software

projects done to derive rich awards”

GTU Chandkheda Campus

21 December 2013 Workshop on “Sensitize the management and teachers of

technical institutes to tackle the menace of sexual crime

against women”,

GTU Chandkheda Campus

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Gujarat Technological University

Alumni association had organized 2 days

training program for the members of

alumni association. More than 140

students attended this two days

training program on 18th & 19th

November 2013 at GTU Chandkheda

Campus. Many of them were either

searching a job or were unhappy with

their current job. GTU Alumni Association

has taken this initiative to polish their

English language and personality.

Gujarat Technological University had

designed a Training program (phase

wise) for all the graduates/post graduates

for imparting training in the areas of:

On 18th November 2013 students

learned Grammar Concept , Spoken

English , Verbal Communication part – I &

Verbal Communication part – II from

eminent speaker Shri Aashish J. Soni who

is a renowned motivator, trainer as well as

a social worker and has organized num-

ber of such programs for 8 years in USA

and 9 years in India. Dr. Akshai Aggarwal

Vice Chancellor of GTU said that life skills

are very important for students to achieve

bright future.

Students learned Soft skills,

Personality Development, Interview facing

techniques part – I & Part II on 19th

September 2013. At the end of the

program many students were inspired

and feeling confident to face the inter-

view and grow further in their career.

This was the first kind of event organized

for alumni students of GTU.

Let’s Communicate—Training program for GTU Alumni

―Have an ability of looking at things from the perspective of students to

be a good teacher‖ says Dr. Akshai Aggarwal

Gujarat Technological University, IIT

Gandhinagar & IEEE had jointly

organized a Faculty Development

Program for Engineering Institutes in

Gujarat between 13th November 2013.

More than 200 faculties of different

engineering streams took part in this 5

day training program. The training was

organized at IIT Gandhinagar while the

inauguration ceremony of the program

took place at the Gujarat Technological

University conference room with IEEE

delegates and faculties from various

government and non-government

engineering colleges affiliated to GTU, IIT

Gandhinagar.

Prof. Michael Lightner is VP,

Educational Activities, IEEE and also a

professor and chair at department of

Electrical, Computer and Energy

Engineering, University of Colorado,

Boulder, USA. Prof. Lightener chaired the

inauguration ceremony. Other dignitaries

on the Dias were Dr. Akshai Aggarwal,

Vice Chancellor of GTU, Mr. K V V

Murthy,Professor of IIT Gandhinagar &

Dr. Jayanti Ravi, Commissioner of Higher

Education, Gandhinagar.

Vice Chancellor of the largest

Technological University of Gujarat ,

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal said that GTU is

having the largest Faculty Development

Programs in the country for its 17000

teachers across the state. He also shared

his two formulas of good teaching. Dr.

Aggarwal said that the first formula is that

―Besides teaching every teacher should

read a journal of their field at least for 2

hours a day.‖ It will enhance their

knowledge of their own field. The second

formula is to ―Have an ability of looking at

things from the perspective of students‖

which can help in making teaching more

effective.

Dr. Jayanti Ravi also agreed upon

the view shared by Dr. Akshai Aggarwal

of making the classroom teaching more

interesting and active. She motivated all

the faculties to keep learning saying that

―If we stop learning, we stop qualifying as

teachers‖. Dr. Jayanti Ravi also mentioned

about the ―National Program of

Technology Enhanced learning‖ being

conducted at national level with the help

of Government of India, Engineering

Institutes and IIT’s of India.

The Faculty Development Program

is jointly developed by the Institute of

Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

and IIT-Gandhinagar (IIT-GN) with the

singular goal of improving the quality of

engineering education in India and to

bring it on par with international

standards.

The 5 day training program covered the

following subjects

1. Circuit Analysis

2. Introduction to Electronics

3. Digital Systems

4. Electronic Devices

5. Effective Teaching Techniques

(Pedagogy) for Engineering Faculty.

The technical sessions were

delivered by faculty from IIT-GN and the

session on pedagogy were delivered by

IEEE. The program was organized with

the aim of enhancing the knowledge and

skills of faculty at engineering institutions.

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On 22nd November 2013 ,

Gujarat Technological University hosted

a one day seminar on Cyber Warriors /

Ethical Hackers to combat Cyber Crimes

and Safe Web Space Develop-

ment. Shri Pankaj Shah, President - GESIA,

Ahmedabad. Along with GTU Vice Chan-

cellor Dr. Akshai Aggarwal , Mr. Abhilash

V. Sonwane of Cyberoam , Shri Manan

T h a k k a r — A d v o c a t e o f C y b e r

Security, Gujarat, Mr Saket Modi - CEO of

Lucideus Tec, Shri Vineet Kumar - IPS,

Chief Technical Officer - Jharkhand

Police and Shri Ravi Saxena, IAS (Retd.)

Former Additional Chief Secretary (IT),

Gujarat attended this one day

seminar.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal Vice Chancellor

of GTU said that GTU offers Masters in IT

Systems and Network Security with the

help of C-DAC where many teachers from

Pune, Bangalore & Calcutta come to train

students.

Young and talented IPS Chief Tech-

nical Officer of Jharkhand Police Shri

Vineet Kumar shared a very interesting

case of a cybercrime that Jharkhand

police had solved of bank account

hacking through debit card data hacking.

While Shri Ravi Saxena, IAS (RET.) former

additional chief secretary (IT), Gujarat

shared that about the National Policy in-

troduced on 6th July 2013 where

government has proposed to train

500000 Cyber Warrior to condemn

Cybercrime in India.

Another young and talented speak-

er of the event was Mr. Saket Modi.

known as ethical Hacker. He said that our

parents and teachers have taught us how

to cross roads safely but not about how to

use Internet or social media safely. Most

of us have started using Internet without

any official training on it and so we don’t

know about the security measures of it. In

the second session Mr. Vidit Baxi Director

of Lucideus showed some very interesting

session of live ethical hacking.

The workshop was jointly organized

by GTU & CMAI , New Delhi to spread the

knowledge on cyber security and ethical

hacking to combat cybercrimes.

GTU and Affordable Housing

Mission, GUDM, Ahmedabad. Signed

MoU on 19th September 2013 at GTU

chandkheda Campus. Research &

Consultancy Services Cell of GTU will

provide the consultancy for the

engineering capacity building and

human resources development through

training and development for

Affordable Housing mission in Gujarat

under the MoU signed. GTU will also

produce the detailed project report for

the Affordable Housing Mission and will

prov ide the consultat ion for

different aspects like structural designing,

conventional and alternative construction

technology, Quality assurance and many

more.

The MoU was signed by

Mr. Hasmukh Vala, project specialist

of affordable housing, GUDM,

Government of Gujarat and Dr.

G.P.Vadodaria, Acting Registrar and

Controller of Examination, GTU. Civil

branch of GTU will get a great

opportunity of serving for the GUDM.

India is facing the challenge of 9 to

11 % deficit in energy leaving 30 crore

people in darkness. On the other hand

world is depending on the resources like

coal, petrol diesel which are limited

sources and also create pollution that

damages the environment of the earth.

Development in the sector of sustainable

energy is the key to all the problems that

the world is facing today . Sustainable

energy being an unlimited source of

energy can be useful for today’s &

tomorrow’s generation.

To motivate the use of sustainable

energy GTU’s Centre for environment

and green technology and Indo-German

Study Centre had organized one day

International Seminar on Sustainable

Energy on 20th October 2013 at GTU

Chandkheda Campus.

During the seminar Veljibhai Desai

who is an expert of Green Technology

gave a live demonstration of creating a

Solar Cooker in just Rs. 500. Another

speaker of the event Mr. Deepak Gadhiya

is M.S. in Environment Engineering from

Berlin University of Germany. He shared

some of his very interesting creations of

Green Technologies including indoor

solar cooker to solar air conditioner. He

also shared that it is a delusion in

people’s mind that solar energy is an

option for highly sunny areas only like

Gujarat & Rajasthan by sharing a case

study of a solar cooker created in the

ladakh area of India by Indian Army

where it is never very sunny. While Dr.

Reinhard Doleschal professor of

Hochschule Ostwestfalen Lippe ,

Germany shared the concept of Green

Building Technology which can make

buildings independent in terms of

energy .

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal , Vice

Chancellor of GTU , Dr. G.P. Vadodaria I/

C Registrar of GTU , Dr. M.N.Patel,

Principal of L.D.College of Engineering,

Mr. Chandranshu Pandya , Retired wing

commander and Mr. Rajnikant Patel,

Advisor of GTU research & consultancy

cell also remained present at the

seminar.

GTU faculties learned to make Solar Cooker in just Rs. 500 /-

Seminar on Cyber Warriors / Ethical Hackers

to combat Cyber Crimes and Safe Web Space

Development

MoU with Affordable

Housing Mission ,

GUDM

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Photo Gallery of Seminar on Re-Designing the Structure of

Universities for Coping with Challenges of the 21st Century

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Ahmedabad Chandkheda Campus - Nr.Vishwakarma Government Engineering College. Nr.Visat Three Roads,

Visat - Gandhinagar Highway, Chandkheda, Ahmedabad – 382424 - Gujarat.

Phone: 079-23267500 Fax : 079-23267580

Ahmedabad ACPC Campus

Admission Committee for Professional Courses Building,

L.D College of Engineering Campus, Navarangpura,

Ahmedabad -380 015 - Gujarat

Phone: 079-2630 0499, 079-2630 0599

Gandhinagar Campus

Nr. Government Polytechnic

K-6 Circle, E-4 Electronic Estate G.I.D.C, Sector - 26,

Gandhinagar-382028- Gujarat

Phone: 079-23267800

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