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Communiqué October 2016
Team Corporate Communication
INDEX S. No. Topic
1 In the News
2 Industry Academia Interface
3 Student Achievements
4 Faculty Achievements
5 Campus Buzz
6 Through the Corridor
2Communiqué October 2016
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In the News01
Latest edition of University Magazine Xpression Launches
Download the soft copy of the
magazine from the website
http://www.upes.ac.in/upes-
university-magazine
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Department of Corporate Communication
Industry- Academia Interface02
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Who’s Who from HR fraternity seen deliberating at the IT HR Roundtable
To discuss and find possible solutions to overcome the challenges, HR
bigwigs from leading organizations like IBM, Tata, Grasim Industries, SAP
Labs, ABC Consultants, Dell, ITC Infotech and CL Infotech gathered at the
2nd IT HR Roundtable organized by UPES in Bengaluru on 14th October
2016.
Mr. Dilpreet Singh, Vice President (HR), India/South Asia, IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
set the tone for the stimulating discussion which was led further by Mr. H.N.
Shrinivas, CEO (Vocational Skill Development), Tata Institute of Social
Science.
Among other prominent guests were seen Mr. Suresh B Eswar, CEO, CLi,
Mr. Vanitha Sathyanarayanan, Associate Director, ABC Consultants, Mr.
Dinesh Khanna, Sr. Manager, Talent Acquisition, India, Dell, Xebia IT
Architects India and IBM, Mr. Kartihikeyan Natarajan, Senior VP & Global
Head-Integrated Engineering Solutions, Tech Mahindra Ltd.
6Department of Corporate Relations
Thoughtful Deliberation Ignites at the Agro Supply Chain Conference Vice Chancellor FRI University, Dr Savita delivered the inaugural
address to the gathering of academicians, scholars and
agriculturists in a two-day Agro Supply Chain Conference (ASSC-
2016) held in Knowledge Acres.
Organised by Department of Logistics and Supply Chain of UPES,
the Conference witness thought provoking deliberations by Mr.
Nikhil, AGM, Supply Chain Management of Patanjali Ayurved
Limited, Dr. Neelam Grewal, Dean and Prof, PGS Punjab
Agricultural University, Ludhiana and many more.
The two day long conference witnessed 120 research papers
presented from diverse backgrounds in the field of agriculture.
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College of Management and Economics Studies
International Conference on Next Generation Computing Technologies
A three day 2nd IEEE International Conference on Next Generation Computing Technologies (NGCT-2016) was
organized on 18th – 20th October. Co-sponsored by “Department of Science & Technology, Government of India”,
“Defence Research & Development Organization, Government of India”, “RCPL” and Institute of Electrical &
Electronics Engineers, USA, the conference concluded in Energy Acres of UPES.
The key speakers were Dr. Michael Coyle, CEO of Avatar Med Vision US, North Carolina, USA ; Dr. P Shekhar,
Chairman & MD of Micro Technologies; Dr. E G Rajan, President of Pentagram Research Centre, Hyderabad and
Scientific Advisor at Helios & Matheson Analytics, USA.
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Over 150 technical presentations which were shortlisted from a total 437 submissions from reputed international
and national institutes and organizations were presented during the span of 3 days.
Centre for Information Technology
Beyond the Barrel discussion finds success Department of Oil and Gas organised its annual
fest, “Naftanomics 2016 Beyond the Barrel” on
21st - 22nd October. It was 5th celebration of this
student led initiative.
The aspiring theme for this year was “Resilient,
Resourceful and Rising.”
The conference hosted a galaxy of enlightened
and resourceful think tanks and academicians to
deliberate around the topics covering energy
policy makers and energy trading.
Mr. Prashant Agarwal, BSES, Dr. Sanjay Jain,
ONGC, Mr. Nagendra Singh, IOCL, Dr. B.S. Negi,
PNGRB were the key resources among other
deliberators who enlightened gathering with their
thought provoking speech.
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College of Management and Economics Studies
Creativity Unlocks at Math-Mania
The first of its kind event, ‘Math Mania’ was
organized by Department of Mathematics to
explore new ways for students to achieve
21st century competencies in mathematics
and engineering.
Aim was to unlock the potential and
encourage great amount of creativity,
currently stifled by the calculus oriented math
curricula.
Here are some highlights of the event which
not only received massive participation, but
also broadened the scope of opportunities
for Mathematics students!
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Student Achievements 03
Rishabh, the Only Indian Student to receive Student Fellow at FISITA 2016, South Korea Rishabh Jain, a student of B. Tech. Automotive Design Engineering is awarded Student Fellow at FISITA 2016
World Automotive Congress held on 19th – 23rd September in South Korea.
Rishabh is now among 12 outstanding young student engineers selected across 37 countries.
The fellowship included long week technical and cultural tour to Korean Automotive Industry. This trip was
jointly sponsored by the SAE INDIA and KSAE SAE INDIA (Society of Automotive Engineers India) and KSAE
(Korean Society of Automotive Engineers ) & FISITA.
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FISITA is the international federation that brings together the global
automotive mobility sector to share ideas and advance automotive
technological development. FISITA World Automotive Congress is one
of the major events organized by FISITA. It is a biennial congress aims
at facilitating the dialogue between engineers and industry,
governments, academia, and environmental and standards
organization, across all the areas of automotive technology.
College of Engineering Studies
Vignesh among Top Twenty at the International Train Design Contest
Vignesh Vasukuttan, a final year M. Des. student is selected among the top
twenty finalists of the International Train Design Contest.
Organized by CRRC Corporation and RVID Society for Railway industrial
Design, the objective of the contest was to collect creative design works and
solutions across the world.
The contest focused on “Design of Future High-speed Train” and Green
Railway Transportation.”
Vignesh got opportunity to travel on a sponsored trip to attend CRRC
Corp - Chinese rolling stock and components conglomerate in China.
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CRRC Corp has opened its first joint venture manufacturing plant in India. IT manufactures electrical equipment such as traction motors, as well as
assembling and repairing complete locomotives.
RVID is an industrial and academic social association voluntarily and jointly formed by enterprises, social associations and individual contributors engaged
in industrial design of railway as well as related sectors, entrepreneurs and activists who support and make earnest efforts to industrial design career of
railway at home and abroad, and it is also a non-profit social organization.
School of Design Studies
M. Des Students among Top 10 finalists in Design Challenge Prateek Arya and Sai Sharan Ramesh, students of M. Des and
B. Des Transportation Design are selected among the ‘Top 10
Finalists’ in the SIAM Automotive Design Challenge 2016.
They would present a scale model along with other deliverable to
the jury members during the final round of SIAM Automotive Styling
and Design Conclave.
The theme of the Challenge is to design an Electric Autonomous
Personal Mobility Vehicle for the year 2030.
The winner of the final round would get a prize of Rs. 1,00,000/- at
the final event to be held in Goa on 9th February 2017.
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SIAM ADC is an annual event organised by Society of Indian Automotive Manufacturers (SIAM) where
students from across the country participate and compete with each other on a given theme.
School of Design Studies
B. Tech. Student talks about ATM machine in Panel Discussion on a TV channel Siddhartha, student B. Tech. with specialization in Electronics,
Instrumentation and Control was featured in a leading Assamese
satellite (television) channel to discuss and present his views on the
issue of recent ATM card breach as a technical expert.
In his interaction he talked about packet tracing software and
dedicated hardware attached to ATM machines and its uses. He
presented his view to bankers and customers to safeguard
themselves.
With him other speakers at the panel discussion were CGM, SBI
(North East), Director, IIE, Chairman, AGVB and CGM, SBI (NE,
Customer Relations).
The interaction was telecast in Assamese language on the channel
DY365 which is a regional channel in Assam.
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College of Engineering Studies
Blazing Stars of College of Legal Studies Win awards at Various Competitions…. Winner at the 2nd NorthCap National Client
Counselling Competition, 2016. The team comprises
Tanya Srivastava and Vishakha Singh (B.B.A. LL.B
Hons 4th year) students.
Runner-up at 7th SKVM Nyayavalokan National Trial
Advocacy Competition, 2016. The team comprises
Madhur Azad, Mansi Bansal, Aishwarya and Nivideta
Menon (2nd year) students.
Semi-finalist at the K.L.E Law Society National Trial
Advocacy, 2016. The team comprises Prakhar
Khanna, Samanvi Narang and Kamakshi Gupta
(B.B.A. LL.B Hons 3rd year) students.
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Blazing Stars …..The Best Delegation Trophy was earned by 22 member student delegation who participated in the International
Model United Nations in Bhopal on 1st & 2nd October, 2016.
High Commendation Certificates were awarded to Mohit Uppal 2nd year B. Com. LL.B (Hons) student and
Sanchari Goswami, student of 1st year B.A. LL.B (Hons). The Special Mention Certificate was awarded to
Udit Thakran, a 1st year student of B.A. LL.B (Hons).
Deeksha Chugh from1st year B.A. LL.B (Hons) and Priyanka Sadhukhan 1st year B.A. LL.B (Hons) got
Honourable Mention Certificates. Pranjal Pauchori, B.Com LL.B 3rd year student was the Vice Chair of Lok
Sabha Committee and Lovleen Mishra, Nancy Jain and Nikita Tyagi, B.A. LL.B 3rd Year and Saumitra
Shrivastava, B.A. LL.B 3rd Year were among the Core Committee members.
On Sports Front: 4 Gold Medals were won by Virudhika who played the various tournaments held at the
National Sports Competition in National Law University, Bhopal. The phenomenal performance of this law
student grabbed gold medals in 4 sports namely: Footbal, Basket Ball, Table Tennis Mix Doubles and Table
Tennis Single
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BBA student presents a Research Paper in the Conference Shubh Mehta, student of BBA, Auto Marketing (2nd year) UPES,
presented a paper "Optimization of Biodiesel in Automotive Diesel
Engines" in the 3rd Agro Supply Chain Conference, organized in
Knowledge Acres, UPES on 7th – 8th October 2016.
This paper was co-authored by Dr. Ankur Kumar Rastogi, Program
Head- BBA (Auto Marketing),
This paper has been published in Edited Book with ISBN No: 978-
1-63535-684-7.
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MA Economics student works on Project with CIRC
This project has been
awarded by Mr. Shivam
Mohaley, Research
Associate, CIRC, who is
an alumnus of MA
Economics (with
specialization in Energy
Economics) first batch.
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Faculty Presents Research Paper
A paper titled Use of Mind-Mapping Technique as a ‘Pre-Writing’
Exercise to Impart Writing Skills in Budding Lawyers Based on Tony
Buzan’s Ideology of Mind-map”, co-authored by Dr. Radhika B
Pasricha and Samiksha, faculty UPES was presented at the
Coherence 2016. The paper was also published in the conference
proceeding “Interdisciplinary Integration for Legal Enrichment” under
ISBN : 978-93-85989-98-8.
Another paper co-authored by Dr. Radhika B Pasricha with Ms.
Neha Nagpal was also presented at Coherence 2016. The title of
this paper was Imparting ‘Service Oriented Skills’ to Second Year
UG Law Students through sensitizing them in reference to Client
Communication Quotient Hyderabad.
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Coherence 2016 - 2nd International Multidisciplinary Law
Conference was conducted by Symbiosis International University
– Symbiosis Law School Hyderabad.
Incubating Entrepreneurs of UPES, receives appreciation by Hon’ble CM, Dehradun The UCIE team (UPES Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship) recently
helped Vembryo Start Up Session and Engaging Young India (EYI) in
conducting an interactive session on Startups in the Dehradun region.
The participants showcased their business ideas to experts from Vembryo and
interacted with other stakeholders of entrepreneurial ecosystem of
Uttarakhand.
The conclave was chaired by Honorable Chief Minister Mr. Harish Rawat.
A Cash Prize of Rs. 15000 each was announced to for four teams of UPES
who presented their ideas in the session.
In addition 10 teams of UPES were also named for a Cash prize of INR 11000
each for effectively explaining and displaying their ideas.
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College of Engineering Studies
Dr. Ajit moderates the Panel Discussion at CII National Start up Conclave in Delhi CII (The Confederation of Indian Industry) conducted two day
National Startup Conclave in Delhi on 20th - 21st September
2016.
Dr. Ajit Kumar Nigam represented UPES Center of
Innovation and Entrepreneurship (UCIE) at the Conclave.
Dr. Nigam moderated a panel discussion of Young
CEOs/Founders of early stage Startups comprising Mr. Sahil
Saini, Chairman and CEO JustBuyLive, Mr. Pranay Gupta,
Cofounder 91springboard, Mr. Arjun Pillai, CEO Profoundis
and Mr. Sahil Goel, Cofounder Kraftly.
In addition, Dr. Nigam deliberated a talk on sectoral
performance of Startups in India.
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College of Engineering Studies
Hon’ble Governor of Uttar Pradesh Inaugurates the Academic Block of UPES The new academic block of ‘College
of Management & Economic Studies’
of UPES was inaugurated by Hon’ble
Sh. Ram Naik, the Governor of Uttar
Pradesh in the Kandoli Campus on
30th September.
Speaking on this occasion and
applauding the diversified and swift
growth of the University in such a
short period of time, Sh. Naik said
that the sheer growth in enrollment
numbers from 200 to 11,000 in just
thirteen years could well be a national
record.
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Minute to Minute Ad Selfie Contest
Team GEMS organized “Minute to Minute Ad
Selfie” contest on 20th October, 2016, which
exhibited Ad selfies along with creative
taglines for advertising the products that were
assigned to the students.
This fun filled contest concluded with
announcement of winners for the Contest as
below:
First Prize: Falgun Sehgal, B.Com.
LL.B
Second Prize: Samiksha Shukla, BBA
LL.B
Third Prize: Saloni Chhabra,
Shambhavi Mishra, Raj Nandani,
B.B.A LL.B
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Listen to your heart while deciding careers says Mr Ashok Kumar, ADGP, Dehradun Addressing a gathering of over 100 students of
UPES at the amphi-theatre of Energy Acres
campus, Mr Ashok Kumar, Additional Director
General of Police, Uttarakhand & Director Vigilance
delivered an inspiring address to the students on
25th October.
He spoke on the topic “Careers in Civil Services”
and said that the chosen career should be close to
one’s heart, one must have an aptitude for it and
must run one’s life for it.
Elaborating on above three points, Mr. Kumar aptly
quoted example of Arjun for Focus, Ekalavya for
dedication and Thomas Edison for perseverance.
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Directorate of Student Affairs
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Through the Corridor06
29Leading Department
Launch of RISE-2017 The College of Engineering Studies launches RISE-2017 welcoming
fresh ideas and new arenas of the students by providing them a
fabulous platform for converting their ideas and dreams into realities.
The specific features associated with RISE-2017 include:
Invitation of proposals in two separate categories, one involving
the submission of new ideas, and second involving the
proposals for development of products (from the ideas
which have already been executed in RISE-2015/RISE-
2016).
The last date for submission of proposals was 25th November’2016
The working duration for students will be from January 2016 –
November 2017.
RISE stands for Research Initiative for Students of Engineering. With a corpus of Rs. 15,00,000/-,
RISE 2015-16 was launched to provide financial and technical support to the innovative ideas of
the students. Around 63 projects were funded grant last year through this initiative.
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Project, People and Contract Management Program organises
The Centre for Management Development of UPES successfully
conducted its 3 days management development program titled
“Project People and contract management” from 20th – 22nd October.
Understanding the need of project management and people skills as
the need of the hour for performance of the industry, Department of
LSCM & Operations added another feather to its cap by successfully
organizing this development program.
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The purpose of the program was to orient participants to various facets of the project management through various
sessions. Participants were seen from IOCL - Retail, IOCL R&D, HPCL – Retail, UJVNL and PTCUL. Mr. Ajay
Vishwakarma, AVP – Technip, Advocate A.C. Kher and Mr. Ramakrishnan, Head – Tendering and Contracts, Tecton
Engineering and Contracts LLC, UAE. Mr. M.V.N.Rao, Group Head – HR, L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, Mumbai .
Prof.S.K.Tyagi, Adviser IIT Roorkee, Shri D.K.Jasuja, Consultant UPCL and Mr. B.C.K.Mishra, MD – UJVNL
College of Management and Economics Studies
UPES Commemorates Women in ‘Computing Machinery’ The Association of Computing Machinery – Women (ACM-
W) in UPES commemorated women in computing at the
National Conference held on 12th October for ACM-W India.
With over 164 active Chapters across the globe, Association
for Computing Machinery-Women supports, celebrates, and
internationally advocates inclusive engagement of women in
all aspects of the computing field. The association also
provides wide range of programs and services to ACM
members towards promoting contributions of technical
women working in the larger global community.
UPES ACM-W emphasizes on technological awareness and
has since its inception been very active in disseminating
information on contemporary technological advancements in
the domain of computing.
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