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‘Vedanta’ - the Cultural Club

FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 1

The club organized:

„Amrita Pravas‟ to Veda Vigynana Gurukulam on 16th February, 2014. Around 40

students participated in the event.

A workshop on „Vedic Life in Modern World‟, where students were taken through

sessions on spirituality in the modern world and goal setting. The workshop also

focused on „Shramaseva‟, which made students realise the importance of social service.

Spoken Samskritam classes in the campus in the evenings from 6.00 PM to 7.30 PM in

the Yoga Hall from 17th to 28th February, 2014. More than 30 students attended the

event which was conducted by Mr. Tapasi, Diagonising Engineer CISCO. Mr. Tapasi is

associated with an organization called „Samskrita Bharathi‟ and teaches samskritam to

students as a part of his social service activity.

‘Maardhani’ - the Literary Club


„Maardhani‟ – the Literary Club conducted „Litathon‟, an event which included Dumb

Charades, Go Illogical and JAM from 19th to 21st February, 2014. Over 20 students participated

in this event.

Invited Talk

On 24th February 2014 a talk was held by an young researcher Mr. Tarun Ayitam in the

area of „Science Communication‟. He spoke on the topic of Indian Science. The event was

attended by more than 200 students.

‘Mahashivarathri’ Celebrations

„Mahashivarathri‟ was celebrated in the campus on 27th February, 2014 with great

devotion. The programme was graced by Br. Dhanraj, Director of the School. Many faculty

members and more than 450 students participated in the event. The members of Vedanta Club

enacted a play on „Lord Shiva‟ in Samskritam. This was followed by singing of Bhajans by the

Bhajanamritam team. The lyrics of the bhajans were shown on a screen in order to enable the

audience to join the team. Videos on Lord Shiva were also screened. The programme which

went on upto 1.30 AM on 28th February, 2014 was a night of „Jagaran‟ in the true sense.


‘MAD Nite’

The School organized „MAD Nite‟ on 28th February, 2014 which was a Music, Art and

Dance night. Students of the school enthusiastically put up performances which included group

songs, group dances and bands. The performances were very well received by the guests and the

audience present.


International Conference

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE EVENT

Anasuya Threse Innocent

K. Sangeeta

“Secure Two-Party Computation with AES-128: Generic Approach and Exploiting Specific Properties of Functions Approach”

17th -19th February, 2014

The Fifth IEEE International Conference on ‘Applications of the Digital Information and Web Technologies – 2014’ at PRIST University-Chennai

Supriya M. Sangeeta K. G.K. Patra

“Comparison of Trust Values using Triangular and Gaussian Fuzzy Membership Functions for Infrastructure as a Service”

21st & 22nd February, 2014

International Conference on

‘Advances in Communication,

Network and Computing, CNC

2014’ at Chennai

Papers Presented

Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan:

attended the “World Ranking Summit” at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai,

Coimbatore on 25th February 2014 on an invitation, wherein results of the QS World

University Ranking by Subject were announced.

has been invited to be a member of the Technical Program Committee for 2014

International Workshop on Mobile Application (MobiApp 2014) to be held in

Barcelona, Spain during 27th - 29th August, 2014.

Mr. Aniruddha Bhattacharjya:

was invited as a Technical Committee Member (Part of the Organizing Committee) for

the International Conference on „Remote Sensing and Wireless Communications

(RSWC 2014)‟ which was held on 15th & 16th February, 2014 in Shangai.

reviewed two papers for IEEE Technology and Engineering Education(ITEE) in the

month of February.

Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition


„FACE‟ the departmental forum organized:

Workshop on „Android App Development Techniques‟ on 1st February, 2014 by

Mr. Santosh Reddy, a student of S8 CSE. It was a one day workshop held in Krishna

Hall. The workshop was aimed at beginners, who had no prior experience in Java/

Android development. The workshop started with a brief introduction to Java with the

Android app market and explored the interface of the Android Developer Tools. Mr.

Santosh explained about the Android Virtual Device Manager. Then the participants

created a simple Hello World app and executed it on Android Virtual Device Manager.

Students learned how to create a Toast Message, created a login page with fields for a

username & password and a submit button. Nearly 70 students who participated in this

workshop also created alert boxes and designed simple applications. Deployment of

app to Google Play Store was also covered.

A workshop on „Web Development‟ on the 5th and from 26th to 28th of February,

2014 in the E-Learning Center. The objective of this event was to inspire the B.Tech.

students to participate in the upcoming event called SLAC. Mr. Adivandhya. B.R. of

S6 CSE took a series of sessions on web development. Students were taught how to

build web applications right from the ground up. Bootstrap, front-end framework along

with back-end coding in python were taught. Many B.Tech. students attended this

workshop.

„CTF‟ Training on 20th February, 2014 in the E-Learning Hall. Mr. Tanoy Bose of S8

ECE and Mr. Shiek-Al-Farhan S4 CSE were the speakers. The speakers conducted an

introductory session regarding „Capture the Flag (CTF)‟ contests. Students were told

about CTF and how to go about solving challenges. The speakers demonstrated these

techniques by solving a simple CTF and gave a chance for the students to take part in a

CTF. Many B.Tech. students attended the training.

Forum Activities


Dr. Shikha Tripathi attended the Summit on Higher Education, Innovation & Excellence and

Release of QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2014, at Amrita Vishwa

Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai Campus held on 25th February, 2014.

Dr. N.S. Murty arranged a talk on „System Verilog‟ for M.Tech. (VLSI Design) students and

for the faculty members of Department of ECE. The talk was delivered by Mr. M. Ramdas,

Verification Engineer at Intel on 1st February, 2014 in the E-learning hall.

Dr. Navin Kumar has reviewed a technical paper for IEEE Transactions on Communication

in February, 2014.

Ms. Susmitha Vekkot has reviewed a technical paper for the IET Image Processing Journal

in February, 2014.


Forum Activities

„ECIF‟ the departmental forum organized:

a talk on „Social and Behavioral Engineering‟ on 18th February, 2014 in the School. The talk

was delivered by Prof. Vijay K. Arora, an IEEE-EDS Distinguished Lecturer who is

specialized in Electrical and Computer Engineering and is currently working at Wilkes

University. He has delivered many lectures at universities in Australia, Malaysia, Tokyo &

Singapore and has presented his papers around the world. The talk was graced by

Dr. P.R.Vaya and Mr. Satish Manocha, former Professor in the Department of ECE, Amrita

School of Engineering, Bengaluru. Prof. Arora enthralled the audience by explaining the

difference between Science and Engineering with certain humorous illustrations. He then

spoke about the necessary triple package namely, skills for success, teamwork and

leadership. His talk was highly informative and useful for one‟s career development as it

dealt with various skills that one must possess for a successful career. Around 90 members

attended the event.


Student Achievements

The two member team comprising of Mr. Subramanian R. of S8 CSE and Mr. Prashanth

Reddy K. of S6 ECE has been selected for the final round of the prestigious „University

Mobile Challenge 2014‟ to be held in Barcelona, Spain between 24th & 26th February, 2014.

The 5-member team comprising of Mr. Viswa Anoop, Mr. Sai Teja Krishna & Mr. Ganesh

Prasad from S8 EIE and Mr. Y.V. Harsha Vardhan & Mr. T. Vinay Sai from S6 ECE under

the Mentorship of Mr. R. Karthikeyan, Assistant Professor in the Department has won the

Second Prize in the „Atmel India University Program Embedded Design Contest - AEDC

2013‟ held at JNTU, Hyderabad on 26th February, 2014. The prize includes a Memento,

Certificates and Samsung Galaxy Tab 3.

The 5-member team comprising of Mr. Shreyas Mohan, Mr. Bichu Vijay, Mr. Sunesh N.V.,

Mr. Mithun R. Chembra and Mr. Anil R. Pai students of M.Tech.(VLSI Design) under the

Mentorship of Mr. P. Satish Kumar, Assistant Professor in the Department, has won the

„College Level Prize‟ in the „Analog Design Contest‟. The event was organized by Texas

Instruments India University Program in association with Cranes Software International

Limited and Amrita School of Engineering for the undergraduate and postgraduate students

between 24th September to 31st October, 2013. The prize includes Certificates and Texas

Instrument Watch with Embedded Development Board.

A series of lectures on ‘Image Processing using Matlab’ by Mr. Akansh B. a student of S6

ECE from 28th February 2014, for the interested students in the area. The classes will be

conducted twice in a week during the entire month of March, 2014. Around 85 students

attended the first session on 28th February, 2014.



Dr. Rashmi M.R. has reviewed a paper titled „Multi Input High Performance Z-Source

Inverter for Hybrid Wind-Solar Power Systems‟ for the Journal of Engineering Science and

Technology, Taylor‟s University.

Ms. K. Deepa has reviewed a paper titled „Modular Design of a Dual Active Bridge DC-DC

Multilevel Converter with Stepped Two-Level Output for Medium and High Voltage

Applications‟ for the special issue on modeling and control for the IEEE Journal of

Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.

Forum Activities

„Vidyuth‟, the departmental forum organized:

a seminar on „Embedded System Design using Soc MSP430‟ on 5th February, 2014.

Mr. G.L. Karthik, Senior Field Application Engineer, GILL INSTRUMENTS discussed and

shared his knowledge on the Embedded Systems design using MSP430. He described about

some of the real time applications such as digital thermometer, single phase electricity meter

and many biometric applications that can be implemented using MSP430. The speaker also

encouraged the students to move into the Embedded System industry. The event was

attended by around 70 students from the S6 EEE and M.Tech. Power Electronics.


a talk by Mr. R.Vinod Kumar, CEO, Mennekes India on „Spelling mistakes of being an

engineer‟ on 21st February, 2014. The seminar mainly focused on different phases of life,

rapid changes that occur from one phase to another, the social pressure etc. The speaker

spoke about the importance of standing out of the crowd and achieving what one wants. He

also stressed on the fact that to achieve success one should have the qualities like

individuality, self awareness, confidence, communication etc. He also mentioned about the

mistakes done by engineers while choosing their careers, the importance of decision making

skills in students and the ways to make the students „Industry ready‟. The event was attended

by 60 students of the S6 EEE.

an Industrial visit to Power Grid Corporation of India, Bidadi, Bengaluru on 26th February

2014 for the S8 EEE students. The students got an insight into the working of the substation.

They were shown the different elements in the power distribution system like the surge

arrestors, isolators, contactors, wave traps, circuit breakers, current and potential

transformers etc. They also got an opportunity to see the distribution automation and control

of the power system using SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition).


Workshops/ Seminars/ Conferences attended

NAME TITLE NAME OF THE

ORGANIZER DATE VENUE

Ms. Mrudula Prashanth Three-day FDP on ‘Achieving Organizational Excellence Through Modern Industrial Engineering Techniques’

Department of IEM, MSRIT, Bengaluru.

20th - 22nd February, 2014

MSRIT, Bengaluru.

Mr. Shashi Kumar M.E. Ms. Deepthi Y.P.

Three-day Workshop on ‘Research Methodologies & LaTeX’

VTU e-Learning Centre, Mysore

20th - 22nd February, 2014

K. S. School of Engineering & Management, Bengaluru.

Mr. Vinod Kotebavi Workshop on ‘Advanced flow diagnostics for high speed flows’

Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc., Bengaluru.

19th February, 2014

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.

Mr. Prashanth B.N. Mr. Pramod R. Mr. Mohan Kumar S.

One-day FDP on ‘Springer Author Workshop’

VTU, Belgaum & Springer

13th February, 2014

Central College, Bengaluru.


Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology [KSCST] has approved the following

project proposals for sponsorship under 37th Series of Student Projects Programme (SPP):

2013-2014.

Sl.

No. Title of the project Name of the guide Student-1 & team leader

1 “Design and Development of Automobile Driving Mechanics for Disabled Arm People”

Mr. Pramod R. Mr. B. Arjun Nataraj

2 “Design and Development of Drainage Inspection and Anti-Clogging Robot”

Mr. Prashanth B.N. Mr. N. Suryasatya Sanjeevi

3 “Development of an Eco-Friendly Pneumatic Engine for Reduced Fuel Consumption”

Mr. Shashi Kumar M.E. Mr. M.I. Nadeem



Dr. K.V. Nagaraja has reviewed a paper titled „A Fitted Finite Volume Method for Unit-

Linked Policy with Surrender Option‟ for the Universal Journal of Applied Mathematics.

International Journal

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

Neetu Srivastava “Analysis of Flow Characteristics of the Blood Flowing through an Inclined Tapered Porous Artery with Mild Stenosis under the Influence of an Inclined Magnetic Field”

25th February, 2014

Journal of Biophysics, Hindawi

Publishing Corporation, New

York, USA.

Papers Published

Department of Physics



„Inter University Accelerator Center‟ is an Autonomous institute under the Government of

India which allots machine time for university users. The machine time or beam time is to

irradiate samples of various types and study the damage created by such an experiment. The

allotment of beam time for various users is allotted by Annual User's Committee which

meets in the center. Various users from all over India justified their need for beam time

before the committee and the committee decides upon allotting the beam time depending on

the need and freshness of the proposal. Dr. Praveen D., Assistant Professor, Department of

Physics had defended his project proposal for beam time and student funding at the Inter

University Accelerator Center, New Delhi in December, 2013 by competing with more than

100 other users. The decision of the committee has now been announced and Dr. Praveen D.

has been granted a beam time of 3 shifts of 8 hours each for his project.

Department of Chemistry




Giridhar Reddy S. Akanksha Saxena Pandit

“Compatibility and Control Release Studies of Sodium Alginate (SA)/Lignosulphonic acid (LS) Blends using Ciprofloxacin as model drug”

6th - 8th February, 2014

International Conference on ‘Functional Materials ICFM- 2014’ at IIT Kharagpur.

B.H. Nanjunda Reddy K.R. Vishnu Mahesh

“Effect of Particulate Fillers on the Mechanical, Thermal, Moisture and Fire Performance of Unsaturated Isopthallic Polyester GFRP Composites”

14th -16th February, 2014

International Conference on ‘Advancements in Polymeric Materials CIEPT-LARPM’ at Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Papers Presented

Department of English




Deepakumari S. “Complexity and accountability in redefining the lives of the Daughters of Yellamma”

7th and 8th February, 2014

Two day International Conference -

‘ENGCONF 2014’ on ‘Post-Colonial

Voices in South Asian Literatures and

Cinema’ organized by the Department

of Languages, Garden City College,

Bengaluru.

Papers Presented

Department of Cultural Education


Mr. Shankar Kumaran presented a paper titled „Value Education in Amrita School of

Engineering at a state level conference „EMPOWER YOUTH- EMPOWER NATION

THROUGH VALUE INITIATIVES‟ on 12th February, 2014. The conference was jointly

organized by an NGO called DISHA and Maharani Lakshmi Ammani college for Women,

Bengaluru.

CIR


As a growing number of customers embrace online shopping many still prefer to visit a

physical store for purchases. But to avoid missing out on lucrative deals, Pipal Tech

Ventures Pvt. Ltd., a Bangalore-based startup company with offices in Delhi and the US,

aims to solve this problem with a location-based marketing and commerce platform focused

on India. The startup has launched „Delight Circle‟, a Smartphone and Tablet app which

does location-based marketing, in store marketing and consumer engagement application

that connects local retailers and brands with consumers. It helps make their shopping from

local retailers more convenient, delightful and rewarding. Mr. Ravi Teja, an IIT-Kharagpur

alumni, who is the Co-founder of „Delight Circle (Pipal Tech Ventures)‟ visited the school

and shared his experiences. On 25th February 2014, Amrita Centre for Entrepreneurship

organized a talk by this eminent entrepreneur. The session focused on his entrepreneurial

journey from being a student to establishing a successful business model and the challenges

associated with it. A quiz was also organized by the office bearers of ACE on business

current affairs.

The placement season is underway with many core companies also visiting the campus.

Two core companies GMMCO Ltd. and Titan selected two students from Mechanical

Engineering.

IBM visited a second time for exclusively recruiting female students on 2nd February, 2014.

One student was selected.

Asahi India Glass, another core company selected two students from both ME and EIE

pegging the overall placement status of Bangalore campus at 85.21%.

http://delightcircle.com/


Department of Mathematics

“Analysis of Flow Characteristics of the Blood Flowing through an Inclined Tapered

Porous Artery with Mild Stenosis under the Influence of an Inclined Magnetic Field” -

Neetu Srivastava; Journal of Biophysics, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, New York,

USA, February, 2014.

Analytical investigation of MHD blood flow in a porous inclined stenotic artery under the influence of the inclined magnetic field has been done. Blood is considered as an electrically conducting Newtonian fluid. The physics of the problem is described by the usual MHD equations along with appropriate boundary conditions. The flow governing equations are finally transformed to non-homogeneous second-order ordinary differential equations. This model is consistent with the principles of magnetohydrodynamics. Analytical expressions for the velocity profile, volumetric flow rate, wall shear stress, and pressure gradient have been derived. Blood flow characteristics are computed for a specific set of values of the different parameters involved in the model analysis and are presented graphically. Some of the obtained results show that the flow patterns in converging region ( < 0), diverging region ( > 0), and non tapered region ( = 0) are effectively influenced by the presence of magnetic field and change in inclination of artery as well as magnetic field. There is also a significant effect of permeability on the wall shear stress as well as volumetric flow rate.

Dr. Rakesh S.G. Associate Dean & Head

Chief Editor

Ms. Meera K.N. Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics

Editor

Mr. Rajesh M. Assistant Professor

Department of CSE

Editor

Ms. Vasanthi ES to Associate Dean

Editor

Board Members

Ms. Paromita Ganguly (Department of English) Ms. Kirti S. Pande (Department of ECE) Ms. Sreevidya B. (Department of CSE) Ms. Lakshmi P. (Department of EEE) Ms. Mrudula Prashanth (Department of ME) Dr. Amrita Thakur (Department of Chemistry) Ms. Sarada Jayan (Department of Mathematics) Mr. Shankar Kumaran (Department of Cultural Education) Mr. Shiju Kumar (ICTS)

‘Contentment’ and ‘Happiness’

depend solely on the mind, not on the external objects or

circumstances.

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