Vol : 10

No : 8

November 2014

A Monthly Newsletter of SCMS Group of Educational Institutions, Cochin

Co-ordinating Editor - Mr. Sanal Potty

Editorial Advisory Council: Dr. D. Radhakrishnan Nair, Prof. R. Sahadevan

Edited and published by Prof. B. Unnikrishnan for and on behalf of SCMS Group of Educational Institutions, Prathap Nagar,

Muttom, Cochin - 683 106 and printed at Maptho Printings, Cochin - 683 104.

www.scmsgroup.org Email: scms@scmsgroup.org

SCMS School o f Archi tecture

Water distress can be

addressed with proper technology

Hon. Chief Minister

German solutions to Indian Challenges IndianGerman Water Summit 2014

The SCMS Group has been entrusted with drafting the Water

Policy for Cochin Municipal Corporation. It is expected to offer

scientific and technical tools for addressing water related issues

faced by the City. Hon. Chief Minister Mr.Oommen Chandy was

brimming with confidence while speaking to the audience at the

inaugural function. It gives me great pleasure to know that

Centre for Sustainable Water Technology and Management which

is a water technology development and incubation centre, has

been established by SCMS group of Educational Institutions. It is

heartening to note that this centre of SCMS Group along with

Municipal Corporation is in collaboration with the Indian-German

water Partnership in the conduct of this summit. The Chief

Minister inaugurated the second Indian-German Water

Partnership Summit. The theme of the summit was 'German

Solutions to Indian Challenges' on Monday, 6th October 2014

organized in association with SCMS School of Engineering and

Technology and Kochi Municipal Corporation.

Hon. Chief Minister has emphasized the need for using latest

technologies for water conservation and wastewater treatment in

the State. Several parts of the State are facing acute drinking water

scarcity and clean and safe water is becoming a scarce commodity.

This can be addressed with proper technologies.

Hon'ble Chief Minister Oommen Chandy inaugurating the Indian

German Water Summit. (Sanal sir.... we can put the others name also)

Dr.G.P.C.Nayar, Chairman, SCMS Group presided over the

inaugural ceremony. As the Chairman of SCMS Group, I feel

contented today to see our Water Institute coordinating this event.

CSWTM was established by SCMS group in SSET with a

commitment to serve the society and with a vision to be a resource

centre in water and waste water management in the country. This

water institute is envisaged as a technology incubator, provider

and facilitator for finding solutions to the water issues of the

country. SCMS water institute already has project collaboration

with University of Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany for

establishing centre of competence in water and waste water

management at SSET already ranked as one of the top technical

education institutions in India, Dr. Nayar noted in his presidential

address.

Mr.Jorn Rohde, German Consul General delivered the key note

address. Worshipful Mayor of Kochi, Tony Chammany, Ms.

Christine von Lonski, Director, GWP and Prof. M.Madhavan

participated in the inaugural ceremony. 250 delegates from

Germany, other parts of India and Kerala participated in various

panel discussions. In the evening, Ms.Bhadra B., Worshipful

Deputy Mayor of Kochi attended the valedictory function.

Dr.Sunny George, Director, CSWTM and Ms. Christine von

Lonski, Director, GWP expressed vote of thanks.

I feel contented Dr. G.P.C. Nayar

Hon'ble Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and Dr.G.P.C. Nayar,

Chairman, SCMS Group sharing a casual moment during the inaugural

ceremony.

Dr.Pradeep P.Thevannoor, Vice Chairman, SCMS having a tete-a-tete

with members of German delegation.

Ms. Christine von

Lonski, Director,

GWP voicing forth

feeling of gratitude.

H.E. Mr.Jrn Rohde,

German Consul

General delivering

the keynote address.

Kerala State

Productivity Council

prize for SCMS

The PGDM students secured

the third position in the

Productivity month Contest

for Management students on

"Lean Management for

Productivity Enhancement" held at Productivity House,

Kalamassery. Atul Bundela, Manjusha Muraleedharan, Chitra

Eapen and John D.Thoppil were the team members of the contest.

Mr.V K Ebrahim Kunju, Hon. Minister for Public Works, Govt. of

Kerala distributed the prizes.

Hon. Minister V.K. Ebrahimkunju

giving away the prize.

How to make difference as a Manager (HR)

National HRD network organized a twin program (Road Show &

Monthly Professional Network Meeting) at SCMS Campus on

29/9/2014.

Mr Prince Augustine, Group Executive Vice President, Group

Human Capital Mahindra & Mahindra addressed the gathering on

How to make difference as a Manager (HR).

The Marketing Forum 'Quintessence' - The Marketing Grid was

inaugurated by Mr. Dileep Kumar P.I., Director Sales and

Marketing, Crown Plaza.

The N.S.S. Karayogam of

S o u t h K a l a m a s s e r y

honoured Dr. Indu Nair,

Director, SSTM for her

achievement of Doctorate.

She received a memento

f r o m D r. G . P. C . N a y a r,

Chairman, SCMS Group,

who was the chief guest at the function.

Quintessence

Dr.Indu Nair Honoured

Dr.G.P.C.Nayar presenting memento to

Dr.Indu Nair

Dr.G.P.C.Nayar Visits University of North America

Dr.G.P.C.Nayar, Chairman of SCMS Group

and President, Federation of Associations of

Managements of Unaided Professional

Educational Institutions in India, with Dr.

Claude Marty Martin and Jill KKKu

Martin, - Chairman and President of

University of North America on a recent visit

( 10 09 2014 to 29 09 2014) to the USA.

Dr.G.P.C.Nayar, Chairman of

SCMS Group in front of the Kogod

School of Business at American

University, the oldest accredited

business school in Washington,

D.C.

Awarded Doctorate

Prof. Srikrishnan S., of SCMS COCHIN School of

Business has been awarded Doctorate by Cochin

University of Science and Technology for his thesis

titled Software Risk Management in Information

Systems Off shoring & Outsourcing done under the guidance of

Dr. M. Bhasi and Dr. K.V.Pramod.

German delegation visits SSET

An eighteen member team of delegation from University of

Applied Sciences Ravensburg Weingarten, Germany visited

SSET campus on 5th October 2014.

German delegation at SSET.Dr.Pradeep. P.Thevannoor, Vice Chairman, SCMS

Group and Prof. M.Madhavan, Principal, SSET are also seen in the picture.

Kochi: Infosys Limited recently conducted campus placement

drive for students of final year undergraduate and post graduate

engineering of SCMS School of Engineering and Technology,

Karukutty. A total of 206 students had appeared for the pre-

placement talk and thereafter for online screening exam consisted

of two parts - quantitative aptitude and verbal reasoning. 119

students got eligibility. A total of 100 students were finally selected

and given offer letters.

Infosys offers jobs to 100 students of SCMS

Prof. Wollhaf

Prof. Wollhaf, Professor

on Automation, Robotics

& Mechatronics at the

University of Applied

Sciences, Ravensburg-

Weingarten and visiting Professor to SSET conducting class for

E.E Department students during the faculty exchange programme

between the University of Applied Sciences, Ravensburg-

Weingarten,Germany and SSET. This exchange programme is

part of the project "Indo-German Centre of Competence for Water

and Waste Water Management implemented by CSWTM, SSET

in collaboration with financial assistance by Baden-Wuttemberg,

Stiftung, Stuttgart.

Dr.G.P.C. Nayar,

Chairman, SCMS Group

delivering the

presidential address.

Worshipful Mayor of Kochi

Corporation

Tony Chammany

addressing the audience.

Prof.M.Madhavan,

Principal, SSET

expressing the vote

of thanks.

Worshipful Deputy Mayor of Kochi

Corporation Ms.Bhadra B., and Dr.Johannes

Fritsch, University of Applied Sciences,

Ravensburg - Weingarten, German

Putting heads together - Dr.Pradeep P.Thevannoor, Vice Chairman,

SCMS Group, Prof. Pramod P. Thevannoor, Sr.Group Director,

SCMS and Dr.Sunny George, Director, CSWTM in discussions with

H.E. Mr.Jrn Rohde, German Consul General.

German solutions to Indian Challenges - panel discussion

Ms. Arsha Giri and Sruthi S., Students of E.E. department at SCMS

Engineering College performing Mohiniyattom and Bharathanatyam.

German delegation visits SCMS COCHIN School of Business

The German delegation reaching SCMS campus. Prof. P.C.Pillai, Group

Director, SCMS and Dr.Sunny George, Director, CSWTM receiving them.Dr. G.P.C.Nayar, Chairman, SCMS Group welcoming Dr. Thomas

Spaegele, Rector, Hocshule Ravensburg-Weingarten.

The Management of SCMS Group

in discussion with Dr. Thomas

Spaegele, Rector, Hocshule

Ravensburg-Weingarten.

Dr. Michael Pfeffer, Vice-Rector,

Hocshule Ravensburg-Weingarten,

Dr. Alexander Ross, Rector,

Hochshule Der Medien and

Dr. Johannes Fritsch, Professor,

Thermodynamics, Hocshule

Ravensburg-Weingarten.

SCMS COCHIN School of Business

appointed Dr. Filomina P. George as its

Director with effect from 1 October 2014.

Dr. Filomina earlier had worked with

Zambian National Railway as Chief

Accountant, Zambian as State Insurance

Director and Head, Credit Control

Department - Apollo Tyres. Presently she is

a fellow member in Charted Institute of

Management, UK.

A known management expert, with an MBA from Cusat and

Charted Institute of management at UK, Dr.Filomina had

joined had SCMS in 1990 and had begun her teaching career

in management consulting, corporate and individual training

and academic field as Dean of Academic Administration. She

was awarded Doctorate in Financial Economics from M.G.

University.

Dr. Filomina P. George

Dr.V. Raman Nair took over as Director

o f R e s e a rc h a n d C o n s u l t a n c y

department at SCMS COCHIN School

of Business. A post graduate in English and

Economics, he was awarded Doctorate in

Management by M.G. University. Earlier

he was with the State Bank of Travancore

as director of the training institute. He

joined SCMS as Professor and Director of

SCMS COCHIN School of BusinessDr. V. Raman Nair

"Linking Civic Sentiment to Actuality A Meta Aspect based

Sentiment Analysis of Indian Elections" a paper co-authored by

Dr. Indu Nair, Director-MCA and Dr. Chandana Unnithan, Deakin

University, Australia was presented as a Poster in the Social Media

and Society 2014 conference organized by the Social Media Lab at

Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, during Sept. 27-28, 2014.

Measuring Knowledge Management Index of

Aircraft Design Centre

Job Motivation among working women

Dr.C.Sengottuvelu, Professor and Head-Consultancy attended the

International Conference on Innovative Researches in Commerce

at AVS College of Arts & Science, Salem on September 19, 2014.

Dr.C.Sengottuvelu, published a paper titled 'Measuring

Knowledge Management Index of Aircraft Design Centre' in

International Journal of Research & Business Innovation

(ISSN:2321-5615), Vol.2 No.2 -September 2014.

Dr.C.Sengottuvelu also attended the National Conference on

Strategies, Innovations, and Paradigm Shifts in Logistics and

Supply Chain Management (LSCM) at SDM IMD Mysore, on

September 26, 2014. Dr.C.Sengottuvelu, published the paper

titled A study on green manufacturing strategies and practices

in the proceedings of the National Conference on LSCM ISBN

978-93-83302-04-8,September 26, 2014.

An Article written by Dr.Jayasri Indiran, faculty at

SCMS titled A study Job Motivation among

working women with special reference to those who

stay away from home has been published in the

Journal- PARIPEX-Indian Journal of Research in the

Vol-3 (9) September 2014 issue.

Mr.Deepak Aswani, Chairman and MD, Presteege

Lachmandass Group addressing the students on

10th of October 2014 , on the topic " Recent Trends

in Modern Retailing

The PGDM students of SCMS COCHIN School of Business have

bagged the overall Trophy in South Indian Management Festival

organized by Marian College, Kuttikkanam. Around 500 students

from various South Indian institutes participated in the fest.

Mr. Jithesh M., Mr. Akhil P. Kumar, Ms. Thushara Premarajan and

Recent Trends in Modern Retailing

SCMS Bags Overall Trophy

Mr. Anandakrishnan (First in the Best Branding Team), Ms. Maria

S. Kandathil & Mr. Varun P. (First in the Best Finance Team), Ms.

Sharon Thankam James, Ms. Amala Mary Antony & Mr.

Bhargava Krishna (Second in Crime Scene Investigation)

represented the SCMS COCHIN School of Business.

Hearty Congratulations to the team!

First in HR Game Trivandrum Management Fest

'Yamistha' 2014

SCMS PGDM students

won the first prize for the

HR Game at the College of

Engineering, Trivandrum

M a n a g e m e n t F e s t -

Yamistha conducted on the

26th and 27th September

2 0 1 4 . 6 5 0 s t u d e n t s

representing fifty Colleges

participated in the Fest. Our students, Sharon Thankam James,

Thushara Premarajan, Vivin Christo and Bhargava Krishna

reached the final rounds in all competitions with an impressive

show.

First prize winners: 'Yamistha' 2014

SCMS Bags Overall Trophy

The SCMS students have bagged the overall trophy in the

Management Festival conducted at Albertian Institute of

Management, Ernakulam. In HR Game, Sharon Thankam, Amala

Mary, Gayathri Krishnan and Maria S Kandathil secured the first

prize. Ben Joe,Vishal and Arun Raj got second prize in IT games.

The Finance Game category, Aparna., Sachin Das and Varun got

second position. Athulya and Shahin Usman won in Business

Quiz. R. Nishanthini, Dy. Commissioner of Police distributed the

prizes.

The winners with AIM overoll trophy

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