Amrita School of Engineering

Bengaluru

KritiThe E-Newsletter

July'11

“Gaining mastery over the mind is the real spiritual education.

Only if that is gained, will we be able to make wise use of all other fields of education in this world.”

-Amma

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“The main purpose of education should be to impart a culture of the heart, a culture based on spiritual values.” -Amma

Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru was one of the remote

centers for hosting a two week ISTE workshop on “Basic Electronics” conducted

from 28th June to 8th July 2011. Department of ECE took the responsibility, and

executed it successfully with technical assistance from ICTS group and the support

from facility department.

Around 19 faculty from various engineering colleges of Bengaluru and

10 from ASE, Bengaluru attended the workshop. Lectures were beamed across the

country through internet using A-View software. The objective of the workshop

was to train the teachers on effective teaching methodology for Basic Electronics.

The experts also identified the concepts that need to be highlighted while

teaching. The workshop also included quizzes conducted by IIT Bombay for the

participants. There were interactive sessions with the faculty of IIT Bombay. CPLD

kits that were used to conduct various experiments in the lab during the workshop

were supplied by IIT Bombay. The workshop was executed under the guidance of

the Co-Coordinator Mr. Giriraja C. V., teaching support provided by Mr. Ganapathi

Hegde, Mr. Karthikeyan and Ms. Sankari, and with technical assistance extended

by lab instructors Mr. Narendranath, Mr. Shinith E. T. and Mr. Jagadeesha.

July'11

ISTE Workshop on Basic Electronics

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“Just as a person needs air to breath, the soul needs to be nurtured with love and care.”-Amma

July'11

Orientation Programme for B.Tech. First Year Students

B.Tech. 2011 batch took their first step into Amrita School of

Engineering on 27th July 2011, and the occasion was marked by a grand

orientation ceremony. The event began with a video clip depicting Amma’s

charitable activities and her selfless service to mankind. Dr. K. Shreekrishna Kumar,

Director, AICTE, South-West Region was the Chief Guest of the inaugural function,

and dignitaries on the dais included Poojya Swami Amritageetananda Puri;

Correspondent, Br. Dhanraj Swami; Dean Academics, Dr. B. N. Nagaraj; and

Associate Dean, Dr. Rakesh S. G.

Br. Dhanraj Swami welcomed the gathering and introduced the Chief

Guest. Dr. K. Shreekrishna Kumar addressed the gathering wherein he praised the

University’s academic excellence and its flawless image in the educational

endeavor. Associate Dean assured the freshers of a ragging-free campus, and

administered the oath. The Chief Guest was felicitated by Poojya Swami

Amritageeanda Puri.

In the afternoon session, the students were oriented on various

aspects of the institute. Ms. Suja P., Academic Coordinator, explained the

academic system with its rules and regulations. Mr. Balakrishnan, Head of the

Corporate and International Relations Cell, took the young aspirants through the

tremendous job opportunities enjoyed by Amrita students. He also spoke about

the various training sessions conducted for preparing the students for the campus

interviews. Mr. K. K. Suresh Kumar, the Chief Librarian, spoke about the various

features and facilities offered by the Amrita library. The students were also briefed

about the hostel facilities and the code of conduct by the Chief Warden, Dr. G. N.

Kumaraswamy.

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Grace will flow into us when we have the humble attitude ‘I am nothing’.”-Amma

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Ms. Jyotsna G. S., Chair, Amritadhara, introduced the students’

Activities Council and its activities to the students. The President of Amritadhara,

Ms. Nandini Mathan spoke to the freshers about the multifarious opportunities of

participating in both co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. The orientation

programme ended on a warm note, with a video showing various activities

conducted by the college.

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Whenever a heart beats with compassion : God is there.”-Amma

July'11

National Seminar on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery of Medical Data

A national seminar on “Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in

Medical Data” was held at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru Campus on

the 28th and 29th of July. The seminar was organised by the Department of

Computer Science and Engineering, and was sponsored by the Indian Medical

Council. The seminar sought to broaden the understanding of the role of data

mining in the medical field. The seminar was attended by over 70 participants

which included faculty and students from different states and colleges.

The key note address for the inaugural ceremony was delivered by

the Dr. P. S. Jaganathan, Director of PG Studies, PSNA College of Engineering,

wherein he spoke about the relevance of data mining, and its potentials in the

field of medical data.

On the first day, presentations were made on various research areas

in the field of data mining by eminent academicians of Bengaluru. Dr. Shirish K.

Shevade, Associate Professor, IISc Bengaluru spoke on “Machine Learning

Algorithms in Medical Applications”; Dr. P. Jaganathan from PSNA College of

Engineering spoke on “Data Mining in Medical Domain” and Dr. A. Srinivas, HOD,

Dept. of ECE, PESIT Bengaluru spoke on “Data Mining Techniques for Predicting

Cardiovascular Diseases”.

The second day began with a lecture on “XML Data Mining on

Medical Records” by Dr. K. G. Srinivasa from MSRIT, Bengaluru. The next speaker

was Ms. Pushpita Roy Pushilal, Project Data Manager, Ecron Acunova , who spoke

on “Data Mining in the Pharmaceutical Industry”.

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Only when goodness awakens within, will one's personality and actions gain beauty and strength .”-Amma

July'11

The afternoon session had a lecture delivered by Dr. Deepa Gupta

from Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru, on “The Role of Natural Language

Processing in Electronic Health Domain”. Professor S. Nandagopalan from

Bengaluru Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, spoke on “Echo Cardio-graphic

Image Analysis”. A lecture on “Data Mining and its Applications in Neuro

Degenerative Disorders with a special reference to Alzheimers Disease” was

delivered by Ms. P. Sandhya Joshi from Amrita School of Arts and Sciences,

Mysore.

The seminar concluded with a vote of thanks delivered by Ms. B. Uma

Maheswari from the CSE department and presentation of certificates to the

participants by Dr. T. S. B. Sudarshan, Chair – CSE.

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“Love sustains everything. Love is the foundation of the Universe.”-Amma

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND

COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

July'11

PAPERS PUBLISHED

NAME PAPER PUBLISHED DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

Ganapathi Hegde,

P. R. Vaya

“An Efficient VLSI ASIC

Architecture for 3-D DWT

Using Lifting Scheme for

Video Processing”

July 2011,

Volume No.

3, Issue 11

CiiT International Journal of Digital

Image Processing

PAPERS PRESENTED

International Conference

NAME PAPER PRESENTED DATE NAME OF THE EVENT/ PUBLICATION

S. Ravishankar,

Nagadastagiri Reddy

C. (student) and

M.V. Joshi

“Single Image Super

Resolution Using Sparse

Image and GLCM Statistics

as Priors”

6th to 8th July

2011

World Congress on Engineering

2011, International Conference on

Signal and Image Engineering,

organized by International

Association of Engineers(IAENG),

London, U.K.

T. K. Ramesh,

Amrutha Lakshmi N.,

Anjali Madhu,

K. Saumya Reddy

(Students), and

P. R. Vaya

“A Proactive And Self –

Regulated Ant-Based RWA

Protocol for All- Optical

WDM Networks”

20th to 22nd

July 2011

2011 International Conference on

Process Automation, Control and

Computing (IEEE PACC 2011),

organized by Coimbatore Institute of

Technology, Coimbatore

Ganapathi Hegde

and, P.R. Vaya

“An Efficient Distributive

Arithmetic Based 3

Dimensional Discrete

Wavelet Transform for

Video Processing”

20th – 22nd

July 2011

2011 International Conference on

Process Automation, Control and

Computing (IEEE PACC 2011),

organized by Coimbatore Institute of

Technology, Coimbatore

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“Develop selflessness and reduce your personal comforts as far as possible”- Amma

WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS / CONFERENCES ATTENDED

NAME TITLE NAME OF THEORGANIZER

DATE VENUE

Mr. C. Babu,

Mr. Hemanth

Kumar,

Ms. Kirti Pande,

Ms. Sushmitha

Vekkot,

Mr. Ranjith, and

Mr. Swami

Nathan

Two Weeks’ ISTE

Workshop on “Basic

Electronics”

National Mission on

Education through

ICT(MHRD, Govt. of

India) conducted by

IIT Bombay

28th June to 8th

July 2011

ASE, Bengaluru

July’11

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS / PARTICIPATION / RECOGNITION

Mr. T. K. Ramesh presented the second open seminar as a part of his Ph.D.

program titled “All Optical WDM Networks” on 6th July 2011 at ASE,

Bengaluru.

Ms. Ponni M. completed M.Tech. in VLSI Design from Amrita School of

Engineering, Bengaluru in July 2011.

OTHER NEWS

Ms. Jeyanthi R. joined as Assistant Professor on 11th July

2011. She has a degree of M.E., Mechatronics from Kongu

Engineering College Perundurai. She has seven years of

teaching experience.

Ms. Aditi Patwa joined the department as Assistant Professor on

11th July 2011. She has a Master in VLSI Design & Embedded

Systems from PESIT, Bengaluru. She has four years of teaching

experience and nearly one year industrial experience with Intel

Technology, Bengaluru.

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“The mental attitude of a person is transmitted in his actions”- Amma

July'11

Ms. Nita Mishra joined as Assistant Professor on 11th July

2011. She is qualified with degree of M.Tech. in

Communication Engineering from Malaviya National

Institute of Technology, Jaipur. She has nearly four years of

teaching experience.

Ms. Jeeva Priya K. joined as Assistant Professor on 11th July

2011. She holds a master’s degree in Applied Electronics from

Maharaja Engineering College, Anna University. She comes in

with nearly nine years of teaching experience.

Ms. Sonali Agrawal joined as Assistant Professor on 11th

July 2011. She is M.Tech. in VLSI Design & Embedded

System from N.I.T. Rourkela. She has six years of teaching

experience.

Ms. Vibha Mehrotra joined as Assistant Professor on 11th

July 2011. She has a degree of M.Tech. in Communication

Technologies from J. K. Institute of Applied Physics,

Allahabad. She has nearly six years of teaching experience.

Ms. Jisha Haridas joined as Assistant Professor on 11th July

2011. She has a degree of M.Tech. in VLSI Design from

Karunya University, Coimbatore. She has two years of

teaching experience.

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“Children should be brought up with an understanding of their culture”- Amma

July'11

Mr. N. V. S. Murthy joined as Assistant Professor on 15th July

2011. He holds an M.Tech. degree in VLSI Design and

Embedded Systems from PESIT, Bengaluru. He has one year of

teaching experience and four years of industrial experience.

Mr. Mahesh Kumar R. joined as Assistant Professor on 11th

July 2011. He is qualified with M.Tech. degree in Wireless

Communication from Pondicherry Engineering College,

Puducherry. He has one year of teaching experience.

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND

ENGINEERINGWORKSHOPS / SEMINARS / CONFERENCES ATTENDED

NAME TITLE NAME OF THEORGANIZER

DATE VENUE

Ms. Chandrika K. R.

Ms. K. V. Vidya

A two-day workshop on

“Data Traffic Engineering”

BMSIT, Bengaluru 6th and 7th BMSIT,

Bengaluru

Ms. Chandrika K. R.

Ms. K. V. Vidya

One-day workshop on

“HiPC Pre-Conference

Paper Writing Workshop”

PESIT, Bengaluru 23rd July 2011 PESIT, Bengaluru

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS / PARTICIPATION / RECOGNITION

Ms. Amudha J. served as a member of the interview panel of M.Tech.

program in Embedded Systems at Ettimadai campus on 1st and 2nd July 2011.

A Faculty Development Programme on “Soft Computing” was organized at

ASE, Bengaluru. Two modules of this FDP have been successfully completed.

The module on “Fuzzy Logic” was conducted by Dr. Deepa Gupta, Assistant

Professor, Dept. of Mathematics.

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“In the eyes of the spiritual aspirant all are different forms of God”- Amma

July'11

Mr. Veeresh G., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,

conducted the second module on “Artificial Neural Networks”. The following

faculty attended the FDP: Ms. Suja P., Ms. S. Santhanalakshmi, Ms. Supriya

M., Ms. Radha D., Ms. Kavitha C. R., Ms. Divyaprabha K. N., Ms. Sangeetha

Khare and Mr. Radhakrishnan G.

OTHER NEWS

Four students Sidharth Mani, Rohan Prabhu (VII CSE B), Aditya Sriram (VII

CSE A) and N. Bhargav Reddy (V CSE B) from ASE, Bengaluru participated in

the Yahoo Open Hack 2011 contest held at Lalit Ashok Hotel, Bengaluru on

30th and 31st July 2011.

Ms. Akanchha Misra joined the Department as Assistant

Professor on 11th July 2011. She holds a Master’s degree in

Computer Science. She has 6 years of teaching experience.

Ms. Divya joined the Department as Assistant Professor on

11th July 2011. She holds a Master’s degree in Multimedia

Technology. She has 2 years of industrial experience and 1.5

years of teaching experience.

Ms. Bhargavi joined the Department as Assistant Professor on

11th July 2011. She holds a Master’s degree in Embedded

Systems from ASE Bengaluru. She has 3 years of teaching

experience.

Mr. Nippun Kumaar A. A. joined the Department as

Assistant Professor on 11th July 2011. He holds a Master’s

degree in Embedded Systems from ASE Bengaluru.

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“Be loving and compassionate”- Amma

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERINGWORKSHOPS / SEMINARS / CONFERENCES ATTENDED

NAME TITLE NAME OF THEORGANIZER

DATE VENUE

Ms. J. Kavitha,Ms. Kirthika Devi V. S.,Ms. Mamatha I.,Ms. SreekalaManmadhan

Two- Week ISTE

workshop on “Basic

Electronics”

IIT Bombay, and

funded by MHRD

28th June to 8th

July 2011

E-learning

Centre,

Amrita School

of Engineering,

Bengaluru

Ms. Nithya M. Two day workshop

on “C2000

Microcontrollers”

Texas Instruments

India in collaboration

with PSG College of

Technology,

Coimbatore

1st and 2nd July

2011.

PSG college of

Technology,

Coimbatore

July'11

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS / PARTICIPATION / RECOGNITION

OTHER NEWS

Dr. K. Manickavasagam has reviewed research papers titled “Design of

Differential Evolution Algorithm Based Robust Fuzzy Logic Power System

Stabilizer Using Minimum Rule-Base” and “Improved Shuffled Frog Leaping

Optimization Algorithm Based on Fuzzy Multi-Objective Technique for

Optimal Capacitor Placement in a Distorted Distribution Network” for the

International Journal, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution.

Ms. Syama S. joined the Department as Assistant

Professor on 11th July 2011. She holds a Master’s degree

in Computer Controlled Industrial Power from NIT Calicut.

Dr. Manjula G. Nair has assumed charge as Chair of the Department from 1st

July 2011.

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“The real center is within. It is not to be found in the external world”-Amma

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL

ENGINEERING

July'11

OTHER NEWS

Mr. S. Mohan Kumar reported as the Assistant

Professor on 11th July 2011. He is specialized in

Machine Design and has one year of teaching

experience.

Mr. Ulhas K. A. has been appointed as Assistant

Professor and he joined the institute on 13th July 2011.

He holds a master’s degree in Tool Engineering and has

two and half years of teaching experience.

Ms. Y. P. Deepthi joined the institute as Assistant

Professor on 13th July 2011. She is qualified with a

M. Tech. degree in Tool Engineering and has 3

years of teaching experience.

Mr. B. P. Dileep reported as the Assistant Professor on

20th July 2011. He is specialized in CAD/CAM and has

over two years of teaching experience.

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“Behind every success there is a sacrifice. ”-Amma

July'11

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

OTHER NEWS

PAPERS PUBLISHED

NAME PAPER PUBLISHED DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

Neetu Srivastava “Effect of Curvature on

Oscillatory Free Convection

from an Infinite Horizontal

Cylinder Embedded in a

Porous Medium”

Accepted for

publication

Journal of Applied Mathematics and

Fluid Mechanics

PAPERS PRESENTED

International Conference

NAME PAPER PRESENTED DATE NAME OF THE EVENT/ PUBLICATION

K. Murali, and

K. V. Nagaraja

“Generalized Gaussian

Quadrature Nodes and

Weights for Integration

over a Tetrahedron”

July 20th-22nd,

2011

International Conference on Fluid

Dynamics and its Applications,

BNMIT, Bengaluru

Sarada Jayan,

K. V. Nagaraja

“Generalized Gaussian

Quadrature Nodes and

Weights for Integration

over a Triangle”

July 20th-22nd,

2011

International Conference on Fluid

Dynamics and its Applications,

BNMIT, Bengaluru

V. Kesavulu Naidu,

K. V. Nagaraja

“Advantages of Parabolic

Arcs for Approximating

Curved Boundaries by Sub-

Parametric Transformations

for Some Higher Order

Triangular Elements”

July 20th-22nd,

2011

International Conference on Fluid

Dynamics and its Applications,

BNMIT, Bengaluru

Ms. D. Jayashree joined the Department of Mathematics

as Assistant Professor on July 11th 2011. She was

previously working in R. V. College of Engineering and

has 5 years of teaching experience. She has submitted

her Ph.D. thesis titled “A Study on Generalized

Symmetric Fuzzy Matrices” in Anna University.

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“Perform your actions with an attitude of worship”- Amma

July'11

CISCO NETWORKING ACADEMY

Dr. Sukanya Saha joined the Department on 11th of July.

She comes in with 2 years of experience and a Doctorate

degree in Linguistics.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Ms. Deepa K. R. and Mr. Umesh N. Dev attended the Cisco Academy Meet

and Re-Tooling session conducted by Cisco Academy on 29th July 2011 at

Coimbatore.

Anirudh M. Mavilakandi, Suarabh Rai and Pavan Kashyap, CCNA qualified

students of 2011 batch, got placed in Cisco Systems.

Mr. Praveen D. has joined Department of Physics. He was

employed with ASE Bangalore in the year 2008-2009 and

took a break to pursue research in Bangalore University.

His areas of interest are Ionically Conducting System,

Batteries, and Active Galactic Nucleus.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

Dr. Shastry has joined the Department as Professor

Emeritus. Prior to joining Bangalore campus, he was

Professor Emeritus and Chairman at Ettimadai campus

from 2003 to 2011. He also worked at North Eastern Hill

University from 1985 to 2003 and BITS Pilani from 1971 to

1985. His area of specialization is Theoretical Nuclear

Physics.

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“The smile that lights up a face brimming with love is the most beautiful in the entire world”-Amma

July'11

CORPORATE AND INTERNATIONAL

RELATIONS CELLWORKSHOPS / SEMINARS / CONFERENCES ATTENDED

NAME TITLE NAME OF THEORGANIZER

DATE VENUE

A. D. Balakrishnan,

Soma Mukherjee,

Dipankar Karmakar,

Adity Chamuah

Campus Connect

Program

Infosys Bengaluru 13th to 15th July Infosys Campus,

Bengaluru

OTHER NEWS

Placement News

Four students from Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru have

been placed in Mu Sigma and Microsoft. Two students who got placed in Mu

Sigma are Sidhartha Mani of CSE VII Sem and Udaya Shravan Kumar of ECE VII

Sem. Aditya Sriram and Rohan Prabhu of CSE VII Sem have been selected by

Microsoft. These students were last year’s interns in the company.

Accenture Technical Training Program

165 students from CSE, ECE and EEE underwent 17 days of rigorous

hands-on-training delivered by project managers of Accenture. This training has

considerably strengthened the students for the upcoming placement season.

New Appointment for CIR team

Bangalore CIR team has been strengthened by the addition of

Mr. Sureshkumar who will play the role of Placement Manager for engineering

disciplines.

Initiation of Credit System in Learning & Development

The University has made the placement training a credit course from

the academic year 2011. CIR training delivery team has commenced the delivery

of credit course for the III semester in Aptitude and English Communication.

Students will be assessed from the 4th semester onwards.

Amrita School of EngineeringKasavanahalli, Carmelaram P.O,

Bengaluru - 560 035

Ph: 080-25183700Fax: 080-2844 0092

Web: www.amrita.edu/campuses/blr

Dr. Rakesh S.G.Associate Dean

Patron

Ms. Smita SailAssistant Professor

Department of EnglishEditor-in-chief

Mr. Rajesh M.Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science and EngineeringAssistant Editor