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A Monthly News Bulletin

September 2015; Vol: 92

Advisors : Mr. Sangram Mudali, Dr Ajit Kumar Panda, Mrs. Geetika Mudali

Mr Dipti R. Lenka

FROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESKFROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESKFROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESKFROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESKFROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESK

In a few weeks from now, we will celebrate the launch of the 20 year celebrations of thefounding of NIST. There will be opportunities to look back into our glorious past as weplan for the future. The future of technical education is critical to a backward state such as

Odisha since this is perhaps the only vehicle which will directly help in transforming the economyof the State. The rise of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra coincided with theplethora of engineering graduates coming out of colleges in those states, so it will be the samein Odisha. For long we have been beating the drums about the untold wealth of Odisha in its mines, scenic beauty,long coastline, fertile plains, etc., but now it is crucial to convert the same to jobs, education and healthcare for itscitizens. Else, this generation of entrepreneurs, decision makers, politicians, educationists and bureaucrats wouldhave failed the State.

The placement season is upon us. The top industries of the country are visiting our campus in the few months. ThePlacement Department has roped in top IT companies, core companies and others to visit our campus and taketheir selection of our talented graduates. We hope that the batch of 2016 will surpass the records of the previousbatches in this placement season. Do remember: companies look for a 360degree personality in tune with theirrequirements and a person willing to learn and work in a team. Once again, the oft repeated quote for the batchof 2016:

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” - Paulo Coelho

Best Wishes,

Sangram Mudali

FROM THE EDITORS’ DESKFROM THE EDITORS’ DESKFROM THE EDITORS’ DESKFROM THE EDITORS’ DESKFROM THE EDITORS’ DESK

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hourare lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single momentin all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose. With fresh thinking and new hope,

new aspirations and new scope, team NIST e_news welcomes the 2015 Batch.

The last few months have been very eventful. The recognition for the constant efforts put in by our students andfaculty members is quite evident in our National rankings in DATA QUEST TMR Survey and the OUTLOOKmagazine. The Nanosoft, VTS, RE Innovations, Cadence and many more showcase our achievements andnovelty. The ICBPC, the International and National Fellowships attest to our persistent effort for excellence. Thebooks and papers published, the seminars attended, the Thursday Lecture Series etc. highlight the academic andresearch quality of the members of the NIST family.

We hope this edition provides the newbies the food for thought for their futureendeavors and encourages them to intensify their learnability. Happy Reading!

Mr Rabi C. Singh

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FROM THE PLACEMENT DIRECTOR’S DESKFROM THE PLACEMENT DIRECTOR’S DESKFROM THE PLACEMENT DIRECTOR’S DESKFROM THE PLACEMENT DIRECTOR’S DESKFROM THE PLACEMENT DIRECTOR’S DESK

It gives me a great pleasure to inform you that the campus recruitment for the graduating batch of 2015 wasexcellent. More than 35 companies from the Information Technology, Product Manufacturing, Design, CONSULTING and Service sectors have recruited our students in good num-

bers. Most of the students have already joined in various companies.

The industries are doing well now. The campus recruitment of the graduating batch of 2016 isknocking at the doors and can start anytime in September 2015. The students are required toprepare thoroughly & brush-up their aptitude, GD, Technical & HR skills exhaustively. Thestudents should go through various portals to get the latest updates about campus recruitment ofthe current batch.

I have already informed the students of the final year about the APAC University Graduates Test of GoogleIndia one of the most sought after companies in India for a lucrative and challenging job. The test is open foranyone above 18 years of age and with excellent programming skills. You can register and take the online testscheduled on September 20th, October 18th and November 8th 2015 on the website: https://code.google.com/codejam/apactest. For any queries you may contact the Placement Department.

There are different types of companies and different types of eligibility criteria to appear the selection processes.Some companies consider the students who are throughout Career 60% and above (first division marks from10th onward), they are generally referred to as career companies and some are non-career companies whichallow the students even if they don’t have 60% marks in 10th, 12th or diploma.

Last year the following Non-Career companies have provided career opportunities to our students: Wipro Tech-nologies, Miracle Software Systems, NTCS India, Perfect VIPs, Wipro Infrastructure Services, Aanvi Support,Epic Research, Entuple, ESSPL, Globussoft, Ramtech, HCL, Keeves Technologies, Broadcom, Caliber Tech-nologies, Myntra.com, Semtech Technologies, AptusDataLabs Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Seawind Solutions,Thyrocare, Neebal Technologies, RetailOn, ShieldwatchInfotech, etc.

Also, the following throughout Career 60% companies have also provided career opportunities to our students:Infosys Limited, L & T Technology Services, Tech Mahindra, Capgemini, Hexaware Technologies, HCL Tech-nologies, R-Systems International, Sankalp & KPIT Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd., AMDOCS, Cadence, CoreELTechnologies, GGK Technologies, PRATIAN Technologies, Innofied Solutions, etc.

I urge all the students of final year to prepare well and give in their best for the campus recruitment as this is agolden opportunity to get a good job. I wish all the best to the students of the graduating batch of 2016 for theirforthcoming campus recruitment season. Do well and make everyone proud!

Geetika Mudali, Placement Director

LALALALALAURELS TO NISTURELS TO NISTURELS TO NISTURELS TO NISTURELS TO NIST

OUTLOOK RANKING - 2015Yet, another achievement for NIST - A rank up in the OUTLOOK RANKING - 2015 of Top 100 EngineeringColleges of India. NIST ranks 64th and is the only Private Engineering College from Odisha to be in the covetedlist of 100 Best Engineering Colleges of the country.

DATAQUEST DQ-CMR Survey - 2015NIST has been ranked as the 13th Best Private College in India by DATAQUEST DQ-CMR Survey, May2015. In 2014, NIST was at 28th rank.

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Nanosoft by NISTEntrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) in collaboration with Sunmokshaand NTCS has developed NanoSoft Technology which is now widely usedand highly appreciated in the field of trade and industry. Being developed touse, control, and monitor electricity remotely, Nanosoft has immenselybenefitted the farmers and citizens. The technology has substantially contributedin making Chhotkei, a village of Angul district, India’s first Smart Grid Village.The installation of the power plant at Chhotkei has been done in associationwith Sunmoksha, Wartsila, Kotak and OREDA.

Vehicle Tracking System by NISTNational Institute of Science and Technology, the premier technical institutionof South Odisha, has achieved another milestone in the field of science andtechnology. After Nanosoft, the Vehicle Tracking System (VTS) developedby the researchers of NIST Training and Consultancy Services (NTCS) ofthe Institute is all set to serve general public. To use the VTS go to http://www.vtslive.in/nist.

VTS is a modern GPS based technique which enables schools, colleges, busand taxi operators to obtain detailed information about the movement of theirvehicles via internet. It also helps in tracking the speed of the vehicle andconsumption of fuel. In addition to this, VTS ensures the safety and securityof the students as the speed and movement of the vehicles can be tracked bytheir parents through mobile applications. The accuracy of information will help the commuters to reach theirstoppages on time. Presently, this technology is being used, for a fleet of 20 buses at NIST and a few otherorganizations in India.

MNRE Secretary Appreciates RE Innovations at NISTGovernment of India, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE),Secretary, Shri Upendra Tripathy along with Dr V K Jain, MNRE, ShriBivash Panda, MNRE and Shri Ashok Choudhury, Odisha RenewableEnergy Development Agency (OREDA) visited NIST on August 22, 2015.During his stopover he interacted with faculty and students involved in theRE Innovations. The whole team appreciated the Renewable EnergyInnovations at NIST and discussed the future prospects with Mr. SangramMudali, Trustee , NIST, and Dr Ashok Das, CEO, SunMoksha.

NIST Wins Cadence Design Contest 2015This is the second time in a row that NIST has won the Cadence Design Contest (UnderGraduate Category). The team of Deepak Kumar Tripathy (2011 Batch) and Gyana RanjanPanigrahy (2011 Batch) along with mentor Dr Ajit K Panda designed Automated ParkingSystem using the Cadence Tool. The competition was held in Bangalore on July 22, 2015and the winning team takes a prize of Rs. 50000.

ICBPC-2015The following students (2011 Batch) of NIST have once again proved their mettle by winning the Best B TechProject Awards in the Inter-College B Tech Project Competition (ICBPC 2015) organized by Silicon Institute of


Technology, Bhubaneswar and technically sponsored by BPUT on April 20, 2015. Ms Anisha Mahapatra andMs Snigdha Sahoo from EE got the Best Project Award for Tribioelectrification using thin Hydrophobic PolymerCoating; Mr Saurav Kumar from CSE for C/C++ Cloud based Online Compiler; and Mr V Ajay, Mr S K Patra,Mr V Nayak and Mr A Ranjan from ECE for Band Gap Reference Modeling and Layout in the event.

NIST Principal as BPUT DeanDr Ajit Kumar Panda, Principal, NIST has been appointed as the Dean of Computer Applicationsfor Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) with effect from July 21, 2015. He is also appointedas the Dean of Science. His term is for a period of 3 years. This is a great honor for Dr Ajit KumarPanda and NIST as well.

Faculty Awarded PhDMr Bishnukar Nayak, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics has been awarded PhD for the thesis: Some

Interaction Studies on Relativistic Cosmology, Berhampur University under the supervision ofDr Upendra Kumar Panigrahi, Retired Principal, UCP Engineering School, Berhampur and Prof. VUma Maheswar Rao, Former Head, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Andhra University. ProfP.N.Pandey, Head, Dept. of Mathematics, Allahabad University was the external examiner for thePhD defense. Mr Nayak’s thesis was highly appreciated.

NEW RESPONSIBILITIESNEW RESPONSIBILITIESNEW RESPONSIBILITIESNEW RESPONSIBILITIESNEW RESPONSIBILITIESMr Santosh Kumar Kar, Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science has been given the responsibility of

Assistant Batch Coordinator, B Tech 4th year, Mr SatyabanPanigrahi, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematicshas become the Superintendent, Hostel 8 Gajapati Nagar, DrDiptendu Sinha Roy, Associate Professor, School ofComputer Science is now the Coordinator, CSI NIST Students

Branch Chapter and Mr Hemanta Kumar Nayak, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineeringis the new NSS Coordinator. Congratulations!

Orientation POrientation POrientation POrientation POrientation Programme on Basics for Frogramme on Basics for Frogramme on Basics for Frogramme on Basics for Frogramme on Basics for Frrrrreshers,2015eshers,2015eshers,2015eshers,2015eshers,2015The Orientation Programme on Basics for Freshers, 2015 was organized this year as usual with the high hope ofwidening the horizons and initiating the fresh engineering students to the rudiments of different disciplines otherthan engineering like Law, Ethics and Morality, Linguistics,Political Science, Journalism and Mass Communication,Entrepreneurship, Personality Development, Literature,English in the Corporate World, and Sources of CareerOpportunities etc. A series of talks by experts from varioussignificant areas inspired the freshers during August 10-22,2015. It was inaugurated by the Trustee , Mr. SangramMudali who maintained that students of NIST should notonly be the front-runners in inventing the technical know-how in future and become the most advanced engineers,but also be adjudged everywhere as the best human beings,looking at the society from multiple perspectives derived from different disciplines. It was coordinated by Dr E.Raja Rao, Professor, Department of English.


Name of the Speaker(s) Subject of TalkProf. N.S. J. Rao, Former Prof., Dept. of Law, Berhampur University General Principles of LawMr Chandra Kant, Business School, Bangalore Optimization of “Life in NIST”Dr. Ashok Das, CEO, SunMoksha, Bangalore EntrepreneurshipProf. S.P. Pati, Emeritus Professor, NIST, Berhampur Recent Applications of PhysicsH.G. Mohan Krishna Das, Head, ISKCON, Berhampur Ethics and MoralityProf. Mrinal Chatterjee, Prof. & Head, IIMC, Dhenkanal Why You Should Know about MediaProf. Surya N. Misra, Former Professor, Pol. Sc., Utkal University India: Manu to Manmohan and After- Rights and Duties under

Indian ConstitutionMrs. Geetika Mudali, Placement Director, NIST Personality DevelopmentMr. Nigamananda Swain, Lecturer, Govt. College of Arts & Crafts, Khallikote, Art and PaintingMr. G. Joshua, Education Advisor, British Council, Kolkata Language Skills in the Corporate WorldDr. Urmimala Das, Director, WSRC, Berhampur University Gender SensitizationProf. E. Raja Rao, Professor, Dept. of English, NIST Different Forms of the NovelMr. Sangram Mudali, Trustee, NIST Social Entrepreneurship

WELCOME CEREMONYWELCOME CEREMONYWELCOME CEREMONYWELCOME CEREMONYWELCOME CEREMONY for 2015 Batch for 2015 Batch for 2015 Batch for 2015 Batch for 2015 BatchNIST welcomed the Freshers of 2015 Batch in an Orientation Programme organized on August 8, 2015. Themajor objective of the programme was to tell the studentsand parents about the aspects of the course, the rules andregulations of the institute and ensuring parental participationin monitoring the performance and progress of the students.Mr. Sangram Mudali, Trustee , NIST while addressingthe newbies accentuated the role of the institute in preparingthe students to become citizen engineers and stand uniqueamong the lakhs of engineers graduating every year. Healso encouraged the students to explore the wider compassof engineering studies. Mrs. Geetika Mudali, PlacementDirector shared her experiences of the industry, and thechanging trends and requirements of placement. She also emphasized on the significance of good health for ahealthy engineering career. The students also witnessed NIST’s journey from the year of its inception to thepresent day through a presentation. The students, on their very first day at the college, were introduced to the hostof clubs and their activities. In addition, they were also informed about the counseling services at the institute.

National Seminar on Composites : National Seminar on Composites : National Seminar on Composites : National Seminar on Composites : National Seminar on Composites : Metals and PolymersMetals and PolymersMetals and PolymersMetals and PolymersMetals and Polymers

The Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIST conducted the National Seminar on Composites: Metals andPolymers on 31st July and 1st August 2015. The Honorable Vice Chancellor, BPUT, Prof. S. S. Pattnaik inauguratedthe seminar in the presence of Prof. Altaf Khan, Registrar, BPUT, Dr R I Ganguly, Retired Professor and Ex-Dean, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, NIT Rourkela,Mrs. Sangram Mudali, Director, NIST and Mrs. Geetika Mudali, PlacementDirector, NIST. The honorable VC shared his plans of revamping BPUTand stressed on the importance of the role of the management, faculty andstudents for the university to excel in terms of both academics and research.Mr. Sangram Mudali and Mrs. Geetika Mudali shared their vision of trainingthe students for the industry and showed the eagerness to see the studentsof NIST contributing their modest share towards the promotion of research


and technology, through participation in suchseminars. The resource persons came from variousreputed organizations like the IITs, NITs, and CentralLaboratories andthe industry. The participants for theseminar came from different parts of Odisha, AndhraPradesh, Telangana, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh.The speakers highlighted the basics and latest trendsin metallic and polymer composites. The studentsactively participated in the program along with

delegates. The program was coordinated by Prof. P S Rama Sreekanth and Prof. Venkata Siva, Department ofMechanical Engineering.

National Himalayan TNational Himalayan TNational Himalayan TNational Himalayan TNational Himalayan Trrrrrekking 2015ekking 2015ekking 2015ekking 2015ekking 2015Every year in Summer, NIST students, faculty members and staff go on

adventurous trips to Himalayan Ranges formountaineering, rafting, biking and otherexciting activities. This year was noexception. This year around twenty eightNISTians including students and faculty wenton a National Himalayan Trekking toSandakphu-Gurdum range - 11000 ft above

sea-level during 15th-26thMay 2015. The trekking was organized in association with the Youth Hostels Associationof India (YHAI), West Bengal.

Project Day at NISTProject Day at NISTProject Day at NISTProject Day at NISTProject Day at NISTThe best 30 B. Tech projects fromvarious categories of HardwareDesign, Software Programming,Simulation and Modelling, VLSIDesign and Renewable Energywere demonstrated by the finalyear NIST students on the Project

Day and were evaluated by Industry Experts: Mr Gyana Pattnaik, Global Head, L & T Technology Services; MrArindam Das, Chief Operating Officer, Pratian Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd.; and Ms Suchitra Pattnaik, Director,TEKONS, Bhubaneswar.

NIST Principal at IEEE-EDSNIST Principal at IEEE-EDSNIST Principal at IEEE-EDSNIST Principal at IEEE-EDSNIST Principal at IEEE-EDS

Governors’ MeetGovernors’ MeetGovernors’ MeetGovernors’ MeetGovernors’ MeetDr Ajit Kumar Panda, Principal, NIST and Senior Member, IEEEattended the EDS Governance Meeting at Singapore on 31st May 2015.The Mid Year Governance Meeting discussed nearly every aspect of thesociety’s operations ending with an extended Open Forum to provide afree exchange of ideas and debate on how it can continue to improve thesociety to ensure its preeminence as the World’s leading organization devotedto device engineering.


WWWWWorkshops/Conferorkshops/Conferorkshops/Conferorkshops/Conferorkshops/Conferences/Seminars Aences/Seminars Aences/Seminars Aences/Seminars Aences/Seminars AttendedttendedttendedttendedttendedMr Arabinda Panda, Associate Professor and Mr Aditya P Padhy, AssistantProfessor from the Department of Electrical Engineering attended a two-day workshopon Low Voltage Hybrid AC-DC Microgrids (LVHADM) organized by the Dept.of Electrical Engineering, Andhra University during 2nd and 3rd March2015.

Mr Venkata Siva, Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering attended a Short TermTraining Program (STTP) on 3D Printing Experience at NIT Warangal from 5th - 9th, May 2015.

Mr Tirthraj Dash, Asst. Prof., Dept. of CSE was selected for the IASc/INSA/NASI Summer ResearchFellowship 2015 and completed his internship under the supervision of Prof. Nikhil R. Pal, ECSU, ISI Kolkataduring May-July 2015.

PPPPPapers Papers Papers Papers Papers PrrrrresentedesentedesentedesentedesentedDr Ratnakar Mishra, Associate Professor and Ms Gayatri Panda, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Management

Studies attended and presented a paper titled ‘Negative Personality traits and itsimpact on organizational Productivity: A Study on Retail Sector in Odisha’ in theconference “The Endless Pursuit of Winning in the VUCA Environment” held at KSOM,KIIT University, Bhubaneswar during 30th and 31st January 2015.

PPPPPapers Papers Papers Papers Papers Publishedublishedublishedublishedublishedn Dr Debashis Panda, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physicsalong with A. Dhar and S.K. Ray published a paper:Diffusion Kinetics and Evolution of Self-Assembled Nickel Germanide Nanorings on Germanised Si(100)inRSC Advances, 5, 33283-33288 (April 2015).

n Dr Debashis Panda along with Ming-Chi Wu, and Tseung-Yuen Tseng published a paper: Evolution ofBipolar to Unipolar Switching in Cobalt Nanocrystals Embedded ZrO2 Based Memristorin the proceedingsof IEEE Mini-Colloquium and 1st National Conference on Device and Circuits 2015 (IEEE MQ and NCDC 2015),held at National Institute of Science and Technology, Odisha, 20-21 February 2015.

n Dr Debashis Panda along with M. Panda, P. Sahu, and T. Y. Tseng published a paper: Effect of NiSi layer onthe switching properties of HfO2 RRAM in the proceedings ofthe 2nd International Conference onNanotechnology (ICNT 2015) held at Haldia Institute of Technology, West Bengal, February 19-22, 2015.

n Mr Tirthraj Dash, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering published a paper:Automatic Navigation of Wall Following Mobile Robot using Adaptive Resonance Theory of Type-1, inthe Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 2015, DOI: 10.1016/j.bica.2015.04.008; Publisher: Elsevier.

n Mr Tirthraj Dash along with P.K. Sahu published a paper: Gradient Gravitational Search: An EfficientMetaheuristic Algorithm for Global Optimizationin theJournal of Computational Chemistry, 2015, DOI: 10.1002/jcc.23891; Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.

n Mr Tirthraj Dash along with T. Nayak, R. R. Swain published a paper: Controlling Wall Following RobotNavigation Based on Gravitational Search and Feed Forward Neural Network In the proceedings of the 2ndInternational Conference on Perception and Machine Intelligence (PerMIn’15), C-DAC, Kolkata, India, 2015; pp.196-200; DOI: 10.1145/2708463.2709070, Publisher: ACM.

n Ms Nibedita P Mohapatra, Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE along with Jagruti Jena, Sujata K Sahupublished a paper: Improving the Life of the Wireless sensor network using Energy harvesting Clusteringin the International Journal of Computer Applications ,Volume 114 - Number 10,pp:37-43, March 20 2015.


n Ms Nibedita P Mohapatra along with Adyasa Mohanty, Prajna Parimita Pradhan, Sasmita Kumari Sahu,published a paper: Enhancement of Energy EfficientProtocol for Wireless Sensor Network with ImprovedCommunicationinInternational Journal of InventiveEngineering & Sciences (IJIES), ISSN: 2319-9598 (Online),Volume-3 Issue-4,Page No.: 23-27, March 2015.

n Ms Nibedita P Mohapatra along with Pramod Kumar Behera, Rabindra Kumar Dash published a paper:Energy Efficient Multilevel clustering Protocol for Wireless sensor networks with Improved Stability intheIJERT, Volume. 4, Issue. 03, ISSN:2278-0181, March - 2015.

n Ms Nibedita P Mohapatra along with Ravindranath Raut,and K.Ramakrishna Prusty published a paper:Hierarchical Adaptive Balanced and Improved Multilevel routing protocol for Energy Efficiency inHeterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks in the International Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering andDevelopment, ISSN No: 2249-6149,issue 5 vol.2,18March.

Book PBook PBook PBook PBook Published by Fublished by Fublished by Fublished by Fublished by Faculty Alumnusaculty Alumnusaculty Alumnusaculty Alumnusaculty AlumnusDr Balamati Choudhury, Scientist, Centre for Electromagnetics (CEM),CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories has authored a book titled SoftComputing in Electromagnetics: Methods and Applications publishedby Cambridge University Press. Dr Choudhury has worked as a Senior Lecturerin the Dept. of ECE, NIST during 2006-08.

Book PBook PBook PBook PBook Published by Fublished by Fublished by Fublished by Fublished by FacultyacultyacultyacultyacultyDr Ram Kulesh Thakur, Assistant Professor,

Dept. of English has authored a booktitled Poetic Communication: A Studyof Verbal Art. This book is publishedby YKING Books, Jaipur (ISBN 978-82532-88-0) and is available at all

leading bookstores. The book presents a newapproach, i.e. Communicative approach to discoverand discuss the embedded meaning and hiddeneffects of poetry. It analyses, interprets and evaluatesthe Verbal Art. It particularly concentrates on the deviant use of language, which lends multiplexity to the texts.

Book Published by StaffBook Published by StaffBook Published by StaffBook Published by StaffBook Published by StaffMr Prashant Kumar Dash, Caretaker NIST CampusHostel has authored Pala: Laxmipuranaand Chitrangada. The book is publishedby Institute of Indian Music, Bhubaneswar.He has also authored a short story“Kichhikatha Rahijau” in a renownedOdia monthly named Odia Galpara Nabajatak Katha,Bhubaneswar. Mr Prashant is a regular writer in differentOdia newspapers and magazines.


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Documentary Show by NACNIST Astronomy Club organized a documentary show“Journey to the End of the Universe” for 2nd yearstudents on 4th and 8th August, 2015. The showintended to create awareness among the students aboutsome facts of our solar system and information onother celestial bodies which arepresent outside the Earth suchas Supernova, Galaxies, Stars,Black Holes and others.

REC NewsletterThe Renewable Energy Clubhas published its first quarterlye-newsletter GREENSENSEon the eve of IndependenceDay. It has been published at atime when the entire country has realized the potentialof all renewable forms of energy. This newsletter willupdate the campus on various techno-commercialadvancements in the areas including the

NIST SAE Club Enters Final RoundNIST Society of Automotive Engineers Club participated for the first time in a National SAE India Effi-CycleCompetition 2015 along with 190 other institutes of the country. NIST’s team MERAUDERS cleared the first roundof the competition i.e., the Designing Round alongwith 80 other colleges with a license to fabricate and manufacturean EFFICYCLE. NIST is the fourth college from Odisha alongwith the top institutes of the state like NIT Rourkela,IIT Bhubaneswar and KIIT. MERAUDERS are getting ready for the combat which will be held at Lovely ProfessionalUniversity (LPU) Punjab on October 15, 2015.

INVITED TALKSINVITED TALKSINVITED TALKSINVITED TALKSINVITED TALKSn Prof. J Majhi, Visiting Professor of NIST, and Former Professor of IIT Madras delivered a talk on HigherEducation in India: Problems and Challenges at the TIFAC Seminar Room on 14th August 2015.n Mr Gyana Pattnaik, Gobal Head, L & T Technology Services and Mr Arinadam Das of Pratian Technologiesdelivered talks on Embedded System and its related Technology on 11th April 2015 in TIFAC Seminar Hall.n Prof. Amit Kumar Mishra, Assistant Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa (former faculty of IITGuwahati) visited NIST on 14th July 2015 and delivered a talk on “Few advances in engineering and How to doResearch” at the TIFAC Seminar Room. His research interests include Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition,Radar and Remote Sensing, Big Data.C

campus RE events and otherconnected developmentsacross the globe.

Cosmic Dive by NISTAstronomy Club

The students of NIST Astronomy Club published theirmaiden issue of CosmicDive, a quarterlynewsletter. Thenewsletter extensivelycovers theories ofa s t r o p h y s i c s ,astrophysicists, latestastronomical gadgets andactivities carried out bythe club. Its prime mottois to ignite a sense ofawareness among thecommon masses aboutthe universal happeningsand nourish the tendencyof answering unusual events.

Antenna Position ControllerAntenna Position ControllerAntenna Position ControllerAntenna Position ControllerAntenna Position ControllerAn expert from Sahajanand Laser Technology,Gandhinagar installed and demonstrated the AntennaPosition Controller in TIFAC 104 (MicrowaveMeasurement Lab) on July 7, 2015. The faculty andstaff members from the associated field attended thedemonstration and were immensely benefitted.

Mentor Graphics TMentor Graphics TMentor Graphics TMentor Graphics TMentor Graphics Tooloolooloolool

TTTTTrainingrainingrainingrainingrainingMr N Vidya Prakash, Field Application Engineer,Mentor Graphics, Bengaluru installed the tool in theserver room and trained the faculty and staff memberson April 13, 2015.

THURSDTHURSDTHURSDTHURSDTHURSDAAAAAY LECTURE SEMINAR SERIESY LECTURE SEMINAR SERIESY LECTURE SEMINAR SERIESY LECTURE SEMINAR SERIESY LECTURE SEMINAR SERIESMarch 26, 2015 Mr. Rajeev Ranjan Machine Learning Algorithms and Data Analytics

Mr. Bhabani Sankar Samantray Implementation of dense matrix multiplication on 2D meshMr. Mitu Baral Comparison of a 32-bit Vedic Multiplier with a Conventional Binary MultiplierMr. D. Kanhar and Mr. B P Patnaik Academic Leadership

April 2, 2015 Mr. Dhirendra Kumar Malik &Mr. Tusar Kumar Dash National Work shop on Emerging Technologies in Electrical PowerEngineering with focus on

Grid Integrated Renewable Energy Systems: Design Consideration & ChallengeMr. Pradeep Ku. Jena Automatic Vehicle Identification: LPR with enhanced noise removal techniqueDr.Bhanu Prasad Behera Overall Optimization of the Process with Strategic Scheduling of Small Group of Processesin Presence of Uncertainty”. A Case Study

April 9,2015 Mr. Debasish Chowdhury Monitoring the change in resonance frequency of a dentalimplant in hardening dental plasterusing micro controller

Mr. Sunil Kumar Panigrahi, CSE,Apex Institute TM, BBSR Statistical Analysis Of Parallel Matrix Multiplication In Simd Model Using ‘P’,’P2’,’P3’ Processor’s

With Different InterconnectionNetworksMr. Sibarama Panigrahi A Hybrid CRO-K-Means Algorithm for Data Clustering

April 16, 2015 Mr. Debasis Patro,Mr. Bhabani S Gouda, Mr. R K Shial Concert Evaluation of Routing protocols in Manet using Random Waypoint Mobility ModelMr. S.M.A.K. Azad Glance of Smart Grid in India and its Technology issues in MarketMs. Monalisa Mishra The intricate sections of sounds in pronunciation for speakers of English in Odisha

April 23, 2015 Dr. Mihir Hota Photonic Crystal Structures for sensing applicationMr. Partha Garai A Talk on “WiCOM 2014, The 10th International Conference onWireless Communications,

Networking and Mobile Computing, Beijing, China,Sept-2014”Mr. Rakesh K Patnaik andMs. Ritwika Choudhuri NI Days, 2014Mr. Praneeth Kumar P Embedded System and Communication Protocol used in Automotives

July 2 , 2015 Dr. D. S. Roy and Dr. M. Reza A Genetic Algorithm for Optimal Power Scheduling for Residential Energy Management

July 9, 2015 Mr. Pilla Kartheek Characterization of Argon plasma Surface modified UHMWPE/MWCNTs nano-compositesDr. Ajay K Bhurjee Efficient Solutions of Multi-objective Optimization Problem withInterval Parameters

July 16, 2015 Dr. Sandipan Mallik Hafnium Based High-K Gate DielectricMr. Alok Patra Conference on Automotive R&D Trends, 7th edition-2015Mr. Manoj Kumar Kar Design, Analysis and Simulation of D-STATCOM for improvement of Power factor in a Grid

connected system

July 23, 2015 Mr. Balakrushna Sahu Exploring frequency control capability of a PV systemDr. P Patro Biogas production, purification and power generationDr. Snehasis Kundu Inadequacy of particles in suspension in the near-bed region

July 30, 2015 Dr. D. S. Roy and Dr. M. Reza A Genetic Algorithm for Optimal Power Scheduling for ResidentialEnergy Management


FFFFFarararararewell Pewell Pewell Pewell Pewell Party to 2015 Graduating Batcharty to 2015 Graduating Batcharty to 2015 Graduating Batcharty to 2015 Graduating Batcharty to 2015 Graduating BatchThe institute hosted a grand Farewell Party for the B Tech2015 Graduating Batch on May 9, 2015. The final yearstudents shared their experiences of the past four years. Awarm send-off was given to the students by Mr. SangramMudali, Trustee , Mrs. Geetika Mudali, PlacementDirector, Dr Ajit K Panda, Dean, Course Coordinators,Batch Coordinators and other Facultymembers through afarewell followed by a sumptuous dinner. During thefarewell function Mrs. Geetika Mudali felicitated the 9pointers of each batch and course with Director’s Award of Merit.

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Academic Honorarium Award (PhD)Faculty Thesis Title University

Dr Bhanu P Behera Overall Optimization of the process with Berhampur Universitystrategic scheduling of small group ofprocesses in presence of uncertainty: A case study

Dr Lakshmi K Raju A study on some aspect of inventory System Utkal UniversityDr Kola Premeswar Working capital management of Indian CMJ University, Meghalaya

corporate Houses

Academic Honorarium Award (Best B Tech Project 2014)Category Advisor Project NameRenewable Energy Mr. Sangram Mudali NIST Electric VehicleSoftware Development Prof. Bhawani S Patnaik NIST VOIP Server on SIP PlatformSimulation and Modelling Dr. M. Reza Web based Simulation software on Multi-core

platformHardware Development Prof. Bhawani S Patnaik Internet Controlled Security Robot

Academic Honorarium Award Research Papers (Jan 2014 – Dec 2014)n Narayan Sahoo and Trinath Sahu, Oscillation of Electron mobility inParabolic Double Quantum well structure due to

applied Electric field, AIP Advances 4, 127106 (2014) (IF: 1.591, Online: ISSN 2158-3226)n T. Sahu, S. Palo, P. K. Nayak and N. Sahoo, Enhancement of low temperature electron mobility due to an electric field

in an InGaAs /InAlAs double quantum well structure Semiconductors 48, 1318-1323 (2014)(ISSN: 1063-7826, IF: 0.705)

n Sudhakar Das, Rasmita K Nayak, Ajit K Panda and Trinath Sahu,Structural asymmetry induced enhancement ofelectron mobility in coupleddouble quantum well structures, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 53, 095201(2014)(Print ISSN: 0021-4922, IF: 2.25)

n Narayan Sahoo and Trinath Sahu, “Electric field induced oscillatingelectron mobility in asymmetric wide GaAs/AlxGa1-x as quantum well structure, J. Appl. Phys.116, 43703 (2014). (ISSN: 0021-8979, IF: 2.25)

n S. Palo, N. Sahoo and T. Sahu, Effect of doping profile on multisubb and electron mobility in AlGaAs parabolicquantum well structures, Physica, E64, 33-38 (2014) (ISSN: 1386-9477,IF:1.43)

n S. Das, R. K. Nayak, T. Sahu and A.K.Panda , Enhancement of electronmobility in asymmetric coupled quantum wellstructures, J. Appl. Phys. 115, 073701-8(2014) (Print ISSN: 0021-4922, IF: 1.057)

n S. Das, R.K. Nayak, A. K. Panda and T. Sahu, Multisubb and electron mobility in asymmetric GaAs/AlGaAs quantumwell structures Super lattices and Microstructures 66, 39–47 (2014). (IF: 1.48)


Dr. Tapano Kumar Hotta &Mr. Hemanta Kumar Nayak Advances in Solar Energy Technologies: A short term training program at IITDelhiMr. Tirtharaj Dash Study on Self Organizing Feature Map

August 6, 2015 Mr. G. Girish Hyper spectral Image Processing

Mr. G.Vivekananda Clustering in multi hop wireless sensor network

Mr. Hemant Kumar Nayak andTeam Members( B. Tech students) SAE EFFI-CYCLE 6 -IN A NUT SHELL

August 20, 2015 Dr. Santanu Kumar Pradhan System Identification and Adaptive Control

Dr. Bibekananda Bira Collision of characteristic shock with weak discontinuity innon-idealmagnetogasdynamics

Mr. Anisur Rehman Applications of Combinatorial Optimization Techniques in Computer Science

n Pradipta Majhi and Partha Garai, IT2 Fuzzy-Rough Sets and MaxRelevance-Max Significance Criterion for AttributeSelection, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, pp. 1-12, 2014. (IF: 2.01)

n P. S. Rama Sreekanth, S. Kanagaraj. Influence of multi walled carbonnanotubes reinforcement and gamma irradiationon the wear behavior of UHMWPE. Wear,Elsevier : ISSN: 0043-1648, IF: 1.86)

n Venkatesan Srinivasadesikan, Prabhat K Sahu, Shyi-Long Lee,Spectroscopic probe on N–H….N, N–H...O andcontroversial C–H...OcontactinA–T base pair: A DFT study, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular,Spectroscopy 120 (2014) 542–547 ISSN: 1386-1425, IF:2.1.2)

n Arunanshu Mahapatro and Ajit K Panda. Choice of DetectionParameters on Fault Detection in Wireless SensorNetworks: A Multi objective Optimization Approach. Wireless Personal Communication,Springer.Vol. 78, No. 1, pp.649–669, September-2014( ISSN: 0929-6212,IF: 0.97)

n Cherukuri Murthy, K. A. Varma, Diptendu Sinha Roy, D. K. Mohanta,”Reliability Evaluation of Phasor MeasurementUnit Using Type-2 Fuzzy Settheory”, IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 1302-1309, Dec. 2014ISSN: 1932-8184. (IF: 1.746)

n Cherukuri Murthy, D. Ghosh, A. Mishra, Diptendu Sinha Roy, D. K.Mohanta, “Reliability Analysis of PhasorMeasurement Unit Using HiddenMarkov Model”, IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 1293-1301., 2014,ISSN:1932-8184. (IF: 1.746)

n R.Nandkeolyar, Peri K Kameswaran, S.Shaw and P.Sibanda, Heat transferonnanofluid flow with homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions and internalheat generation. Journal of Heat Transfer, Transactions of the ASME. 136:122001(1 - 8) (2014) Impact factor 2.055

n Peri K. Kameswaran, M. Narayana, S. Shaw and P. Sibanda, Heat and mass transfer from an isothermal wedge innanofluids with Soret effect. TheEuropean Physical Journal – Plus. 129: 154 (2014) Impact factor 1.475

n Chakraborty, Shrabani Mahata, A. Mitra, G. De and T. Pradeep,”Controlled synthesis and characterization of theelusive thiolated Ag55cluster”, Dalton Transactions, 43, 17904-17907 (2014) (IF-4.097).

n S. Mahata, B. Mondal , S.S. Mahato, K. Usha, N. Mandal, K. Mukherjee,”Chemical modification of titanium isopropoxidefor producing stable dispersion of titanianano-particles”, Materials Chem. & Phy.,151, 267-274 (2015) (IF -2.129).

n Panigrahi, S, Reza, M., and Misra, A. K., (2014): MHD effect of mixedconvection boundary-layer flow of a Powell-Eyring fluid past nonlinear stretching surface, Applied Mathematics and Mechanics(Impact Factor0.6). Volume 35,Issue 12, pp 1525-1540

n P. Majumdar, A. Pati, M. Patra, R. K. Behera, A. K. Behera, Acid Hydrazides, Potent Reagents for Synthesis ofOxygen-, Nitrogen,and/orSulfur-Containing Heterocyclic Rings, Chemical Review 114(2014)2942-2977.(IF: 45.661)

n G.Palai, S.K.Tripathy, Measurement of glycerol concentration in B-H-G solution using 3D photonic crystal structure,Optik -Int. Journal for Light and Electron Optics,(2014)http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2013.11.055 (IF: 0.5 )

n N. Muduli, G. Palai, S.K. Tripathy, Analysis of nonlinear PCF forbirefringence application using FDTD method, Optik-International Journalfor Light and Electron Optics,Vol. 125.14, July 2014, Pages 3499–3502 (IF: 0.5)

n Schmidt TC, Welker A, Rieger M, Sahu PK, Sotriffer CA, SchirmeisterT,EngelsB.Protocol for rational design ofcovalently interactinginhibitors. Chemphyschem. 2014 Oct 20;15(15):3226-35. doi:10.1002/cphc.201402542. Epub 2014Sep 24. (IF: 3.360)

n S. N. Sarangi, Shinji Nozaki, S. N. Sahu, ZnONanorod-BsdNon-Enzymatic Optical Glucose Biosensor, Journal ofBiomedicalNanoTechnology, Vol-10, 2014 (IF: 7.5)

n Peri K.Kameswaran, S.Shaw and P.Sibanda, Dual solutions of Cassonfluidflow over a tretching or shrinking sheet.Sadhana - Academy Proceedingsin Engineering Science. DOI 0.1007/s12046-014-0289-7 Impact factor 0.587

NIST VLSI TNIST VLSI TNIST VLSI TNIST VLSI TNIST VLSI Team Develops Open Source EDeam Develops Open Source EDeam Develops Open Source EDeam Develops Open Source EDeam Develops Open Source EDA LabA LabA LabA LabA LabThe NIST VLSI team has developed the Open Source Laboratory Experiments named Open Source EDA Lab with the help ofIIT, Bombay as part of the NMEICT (National Mission on Educationthrough Information and Communication Technologies)Project. It includes 15 experiments on Analog and Digital Circuit Design prepared using the freely available OSCAD tool.Thecourse can be downloaded from http://freeeda.in/lab_migration_run//.The team has also developed the Video Courses onVLSIDesign using Open Source VLSI tool. It is a series of 36 lecture hours video and is now available at http://www.nist.edu/Projects/NMEICT/index.html//


NIST Summer Research Internships & FellowshipsNIST Summer Research Internships & FellowshipsNIST Summer Research Internships & FellowshipsNIST Summer Research Internships & FellowshipsNIST Summer Research Internships & FellowshipsAround 40 interns from different reputed colleges and universities of the country, like VSSUT, Burla; MKCE,Tamil Nadu; BCRE, West Bengal; SUIIT, Sambalpur; RGUKT, Andhra Pradesh; IIIT Hyderabad; PunjabUniversity; SGGGSW University, Punjab; MIT, Manipal; NIT, AP; GGV, Bilaspur; NIT, Rourkela; IIITBhubaneswar; Jabalpur Engineering College; MAIT, Delhi; NIT, Manipur; ISM Dhanbad; SRMCEM, UP; VNIT,Nagpur; NIT, Jamshedpur, SVNIT, Surat participated in the NISTSummer Research Internship/Fellowship Programme.

The internship provides hands on educational experiences for adiverse pool of talented and highly motivated undergraduate andpostgraduate (B Tech /MCA / M Tech) students and faculty ofdifferent engineering institutes in India. These opportunities exposemany of the brightest engineering college students/faculty membersto pursue research work in NIST environment. The objective ofthe program is to execute an innovative research and developmentproject under the guidance of an NIST faculty.

The purpose of the scheme is to identify talented scholars whoare interested to do research work with NIST faculty members. The scheme helps students and faculty membersin promoting their professional growth by enabling them to devote extra time in research and development work.

Research Areas:Embedded Systems, Wireless Communications, Sensor Networks, VLSI Design, Nanotechnology,Solar cells,Semiconductors Devices, High PerformanceComputing, Cloud Computing, Parallel Processing, Cryptography adNetwork Security, Computer Vision, GraphMining, Fault Diagnosis in WSN, Low Power FPGA Design,QuantumSemiconductor devices and materials, Controller design of various dynamical systems, Fiber Optics,VirtualInstrumentation, Simulation Studies, Robotics, Fluidflow, Heat and Mass Transfer, CFD , OrganicSynthesis,Computer Vision, Network Security, Solar Cell, RenewableEnergy

EOP 2015EOP 2015EOP 2015EOP 2015EOP 2015The 11th Batch of Employment Oriented Programme with more than100 students from underprivileged sections of South Odisha wastrained in a fully sponsored 4 month programme on DTP, ComputerHardware Maintenance, Renewable Energy, Computer Skills,Electrical Repair, Workshop Practice, and Electronics HardwareRepair. This programme is a part of the Institute’s commitmenttowards social welfare. The programme was coordinated by MrAsesh Kumar Tripathy, EOP Coordinator.

National Sports Day atNational Sports Day atNational Sports Day atNational Sports Day atNational Sports Day at

Berhampur StadiumBerhampur StadiumBerhampur StadiumBerhampur StadiumBerhampur StadiumThe NIST Volleyball Team played a friendly match withSports Hostel, Berhampur Stadium to mark the GanjamDistrict Athletic Association’s National Sports Day cel-ebration on August 29, 2015 at Berhampur Stadium.


NIST WELCOMESNIST WELCOMESNIST WELCOMESNIST WELCOMESNIST WELCOMES

Dr Basant Kumar Sahu joined asAssociate Professor in the School ofElectrical Sciences. He has done his PhDin Control System from NIT Rourkelaand M Tech in Electronics Design and

Technology from Tezpur Central University, Assam.He has also done M.Sc in Electronics fromBerhampur University. He was awarded the CanadianCommonwealth Scholarship by the Canadian Bureaufor International Education, Govt. of Canada forpursuing research in the University of Saskatchewan,Saskatoon (2012-2013). He was also a ResearchTrainee at Central Electronics Engineering ResearchInstitute (CEERI) during the year 2007-08. He haspublished over 15 papers in national and internationaljournals of repute. His research interests includeControl System, Advanced Robotics and ArtificialIntelligence.

Dr Santanu Kumar Pradhan joined as AssociateProfessor in the School of ElectricalSciences. He has done his PhD in ControlSystem (Electrical Department) NITRourkela and M Tech. in Energy Systemfrom IIT Roorkee. He did his B Tech inEEE from BPUT Odisha. He has over 4

years of teaching experience. Prior to joining NIST,he was working at VSSUT Burla, Odisha. He hasalso published around 10 papers in reputed journals.He is interested in Non-linear system identificationand adaptive Control, Robotics and RenewableEnergy.

Mr Pradeep Kumar Sahu joined as AssistantProfessor in theSchool of Electrical Sciences. He has

done his B Tech in Electrical Engineeringfrom OSME, Keonjhar, M Tech in PowerElectronics & Drives from KIITUniversity, Bhubaneswar and PhD inDistributed Generation System PV

system from NIT, Rourkela. He has over 12 years ofteaching experience. He has also published papersin reputed journals. His research areas are PowerQuality Improvement of Grid-connected PV systemand Control of Power Electronics converters.

Mr Krushna Chandra Jena joined as AssistantProfessor in the Department of Civil Engineering. Hehas done his B Tech in Civil Engineering from OrissaEngineering College, Bhubaneswar and M. Tech inGeotechnical Engineering from NIT, Silchar. He hasworked as Assistant Engineer at SimplexInfrastructures Limited, Kolkata for two years.

Ms Manisha Mohanty joined as Assistant Professorin the Department of Civil Engineering.She has done her B Tech in CivilEngineering from ITER, Bhubaneswarand M Tech in Environmental Science andEngineering from VSSUT, Burla.

Mr Biswajit Samal joined as Assistant Professor inthe Department of Civil Engineering. Hehas done his B Tech in Civil Engineeringfrom ITER, Bhubaneswar and M Tech inEnvironmental Science and Engineeringfrom VSSUT, Burla.

Ms Ankita Suman Mohanty joined as AssistantProfessor in the Department of Civil Engineering. Shehas done her B Tech in Civil Engineering from ITER,Bhubaneswar and M Tech in Structural Engineeringfrom NIT Durgapur. She has also published a paperin a reputed journal.

Ms Padminee Samal joined as Assistant Professorin the Department of Civil Engineering.She has done her B Tech in Civilengineering from VSSUT Burla and MTech in Water Resource Engineering fromNIT Silchar. She has worked as AssistantEngineer at ACIL, Kolkata for two years.

Mr Lalita Kumar Maharana joined as Lab Assistantin the Dept. of Electrical Engineering; Mr LambodarBadatya as Lab Supervisor in the Dept. of CSE; MrLalitendu Adhikari as Lab Supervisor in the Dept.of Electrical Engineering; Ms Lipsa Panigrahi asLab Supervisor in the Dept. Of CSE; Mr KishoreSahu as Lab Supervisor in the Dept. of ECE; Md.Adeeb Anjum Akhtar as Software Engineer inNTCS, and Ms Swayamprava Nayak as LabSupervisor in the Dept. of ECE.

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