Amrita School of Engineering

Bangalore

KritiThe E-Newsletter

April ‘10

“My children,it usually takes less time

to demonstrate something through action than

to really get it across with words"

-Amma

Kriti

SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

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

A farewell was organized for the out going students on 7th April 2010.

Dr. Eswaran, Head, Vedanta Institute graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. The

Correspondent, the Dean, the Associate Dean and the Chairs of all the

Departments blessed the outgoing students with their inspiring and advising

words. The students were administered the Hippocratic Oath of Engineers by the

Associate Dean Dr. Rakesh S. G.

Pre-final year students, Shomir Dutt and Meenakshi raised the toast

for their seniors and the reply to their toast was given by two out going students

Nikshep Apasangi and Lakshmi Nair.

The farewell meet concluded with cultural programs including music,

dance and drama.

April ‘10

Farewell ‘10

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

April ‘10

Amritakalanjali ‘10

The Annual Cultural Festival, ‘Amritakalanjali’ was held on 8th and 9th

of April 2010. The theme of the fest was ‘The Glorious Period of Indian History’.

For the first time the fest was held at an inter-campus level. The fest was

inaugurated by the Chief Guest Ms. Pallavi M. G. and Mr Arun Kumar, popular and

versatile musicians. The ceremony was presided over by the Correspondent,

Dhanraj Swami, and the Assoaciate Dean, Dr. Rakesh S.G.

The event began on a high note with the fine performance by the

Chief Guests, with Mr Arun Kumar playing magic on drums and Ms. Pallavi singing

at his music. The overwhelming response from all the Amrita Campuses added

excitement and spirit of healthy competition to the galore of fun filled events held

on these two days. The valedictory function, held on 9th evening, rewound the

extravaganza of the two-day celebration of talent and creativity inherent in the

students. The chief Guest for this event was Mr. Vinay Chandra Menon. The

ceremony closed with the prize-distribution, recognizing the excellence exhibited

by students in various events.

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Spirituality is the science that teaches us how to live happily in the material world.”-Amma

April ‘10

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Always keep a positive attitude towards life. Optimism is a great tool to eliminate agony from life.”-Amma

April ‘10

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

April ‘10

Amritotsava ‘10

Institution Day, ‘Amritotsava’10 was celebrated on 9th April 2010. The

ceremony was inaugurated by the Chief Guest Dr. Wooday P. Krishna, Member,

Karnataka State Disaster Management Authority. The function was presided over

by poojya Swami Amritageethanandapuri, the Correspondent, Br. Dhanraj and the

Associate Dean, Dr. Rakesh S.G.

The Associate Dean, Dr. Rakesh S.G. presented the Annual Report on

all curricular and extra-curricular activities of the school.

’Sanchita’ the college magazine was released on this occasion. The

Newsletter of the Mechanical forum was also released. The ceremony ended with

distribution of prizes and concluded with a Vote-of-Thanks by Dr. Sangeetha Iyer,

the HoD, CSE Dept and Chairperson, Amritotsava Organization Committee

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Be careful not to fall in love with your ego, in the name of loving and serving others”-Amma

April ‘10

Inter Campus Sports Fest 2010

In the 4th Inter-Campus Cricket Tournament (10th – 12th April 2010)

held at Ettimadi campus, the team from ASE Bangalore repeated the history by

winning the match against team Ettimadai. Bangalore team beat Ettimadi team by

5 wickets. Tejaswy (47runs) and Mohit (30 runs) were the major contributors in

the 134/5 target put up by the Bangalore team. In response to this, Ettimadi

could make only 129. Tejaswy was awarded the Player of the Match.

Bangalore Campus also won the Overall 2nd Place in the Inter-

Campus Swimming Competition.

ASE Bangalore bagged the place of Runner-up in the Football match

held at Amritapuri Campus.

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Never be depressed seeing the obstacles on your path. You have the lamp of faith with you. Light it”-Amma

April ‘10

ACROM: The Robotics and Mechatronics club of ASE Bangalore

ACROM: Amrita Club for Robotics and Mechatronics was set up in

March 2010 to give flight to the scientific fervor much needed in engineering

students.

The club conducted its first workshop on “Basics of Robotics” on 14th

April 2010, and was attended by over 60 students. The student members Mr.

Niipun Kumar, Mr. Kiran G. and Mr. Sagar conducted seminars on fundamental

topics like “Mechanical Drives”, “Sensors”, “Actuators” and “Basics of

Microcontrollers”.

The event also showcased various projects by students on Robotics.

The club has planned Hands-on training as the next event.

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

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

To mark the world dance day on April 29th, SPIC MACAY conducted a

week long series, “MUDRA - A Celebration of Indian Classical Dance Forms” from

21st to 30th April. This series was inaugurated at Amrita School of Engineering,

Bangalore on Wednesday, the 21st April in the college premises.

SPIC MACAY aims at introducing traditional Indian culture to the

youth of this country with a hope that the beauty, grace and wisdom embodied in

it, dating back to antiquity will become an integral part of their life, whatever their

dreams and aspirations may be.

Padmashri Darshana Jhaveri, a Manipuri dance exponent and her

troupe performed on this occasion depicting the myriad elements of Manipuri

dancing and drum playing.

Celebration of World Dance Day at Amrita

April ‘10

Kriti

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

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND

COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

April ‘10

PAPERS PRESENTED

International ConferenceNAME PAPER PRESENTED DATE NAME OF THE EVENT /

PUBLICATION

Shikha Tripathi

Rishi Mathur &

Jyoti Arya (BITS ,

Pilani Students)

“Unified 3GPP and

3GPP2 Turbo Encoder

FPGA Implementation

Using Run-time Partial

Reconfiguration”

* The paper was

awarded the best paper

under the category of

contribution by

undergraduate student.

21st - 23rd

April , 2010

“Wireless Telecommunications

Symposium 2010” ( WTS 2010)”

held at the Embassy Suites/USF in

Tampa, Florida,USA and Co-

Sonsored by the IEEE

Communications Society

National Conference

Ganapathi Hegde

Co-Authors:

P. R. Vaya &

Prabhu Maria

Pragasam (M.Tech.

Student)

“Hardware Description

for a Reduced Bit

Multiplication Algorithm

Using Vedic Sutra:

Nikhilam

Navatashcaramam

Dashatah”

23rd - 24th

April 2010

4th National Conference on

“Recent trends in

Communication, Electronics &

Information Technology:

NACTECIT’10” organized by

Department of Information

Science & Engineering , CMR

Institute of Technology,

Bangalore

Ramesh T. K.

Co-Author:

P. R. Vaya

“An Efficient Algorithm

for Routing Issue in WDM

Optical Networks”

23rd April

2010

National Conference on

Information and Communication

Technology NCICT-2010 organized

by New Horizon College of

Engineering, Bangalore.

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“Recognize that we are God’s instruments, and develop the attitude of a servant”-Amma

April ‘10

International Journal

NAME PAPER PUBLISHED DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

K. Deepa

R. Jeyanthi

K. S. Amitkumar

( VIII Sem EEE

student)

“A Comparative Study of PI

and Fuzzy Based

Controllers for DC-DC

Converters”

March 2010 CIIT: International Journal of

Programmable Device Circuits and

Systems, Vol 2, No 2.

PAPERS PUBLISHED

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS / PARTICIPATION / RECOGNITION

Prof. C. G. S. Sarma was invited to the Annual Day Celebrations of Sri Kottam

Tulasi Reddy Memorial College of Engineering, Mahaboobnagar Dist., AP as

Chief Guest of the function held on 2nd April 2010.

Following faculty and students visited Tata Communications ,Bangalore on

8th April 2010 for a technical talk on “Infrastructure, Services, Projects”:

Mr. Satish Kumar (Asst. Prof.)

Mrs. Sanjika Devi (Asst. Prof.)

Mrs. Anuradha (Asst. Prof.)

Ms. Lalitha (Asst. Prof.)

Mr. Hemanth Kumar (Asst. Prof.)

Ms. Swetha Priya (M.Tech. VLSI Design Student)

Ms. Rajeshwari (M.Tech. VLSI Design Student)

Ms. Archana (M.Tech. VLSI Design Student)

Ms. Pratibha (M.Tech. VLSI Design Student)

Ms. Nanditha Gopikrishana (M.Tech. VLSI Design Student)

Ms. Ramya (M.Tech. VLSI Design Student)

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

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

Following students of VII semester ECE have bagged the 2nd place in the

Science Exhibition conducted by VertTechX 1.0 held on 1st April 2010 at MVJ

College of Engineering, Whitefield, Bangalore:

Mr. Gurucharan V. Karnad

Mr. Ninad R. N.

April ‘10

Following staff members and students visited Trimax Data Centre, Bangalore

on 15th April 2010, for the technical presentation on “Trimax Data Centre –

Infrastructure, Services, Support, Challenges and Customers”:

Prof. S. K. Manocha (Professor)

Mrs. Deepika (Lecturer)

Mrs. Sirisha (Lecturer)

Mr. Hemanth Kumar (Asst. Prof.)

Mr. Sathish Kumar A. (M.Tech. VLSI Design Student)

Ms. Moncy (M.Tech. VLSI Design Student)

Mr. Vinay Kumar (M.Tech. VLSI Design Student)

Ms. Mahalakshmi (M.Tech. VLSI Design Student)

Ms. Steffi (M.Tech. VLSI Design Student)

Ms. Lakshmi (M.Tech. VLSI Design Student)

Ms. Geetha (M.Tech. VLSI Design Student)

Kriti

“If we are not ready to willingly change, Nature or God will take up the task in His own way”- Amma

April ‘10

A technical paper by Prof. S. Ravishankar titled “ MAP-MRF Estimation for

Multiresolution Fusion of Remotely Sensed Images” has been accepted for

publication and presentation in 2010 IEEE International Geoscience and

Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) to be held from 25th to 30th July 2010

in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

A technical paper by Prof. S. Ravishankar, titled “Multiresolution Fusion in

Remotely Sensed Images: Use OF Gibbs Prior and PSO Optimization” has

been accepeted for publication and presentation in “2010 IEEE International

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)” scheduled for 25th –

30th July 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA .

A technical paper titled “ A Reliable Anti- Counterfeiting Technique Using

Lossless Code ” by Santosh Hariharan and V. Naveen Kumar ( VI semster

students) under guidance of Prof. S. Ravishankar has been accepted for

publication and presentation in the International Conference on “Image

Processing, Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (IPCV’10)” that will be

held from 12th to 15th July 2010 in the USA.

OTHER NEWS

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

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

April ‘10

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS / PARTICIPATION / RECOGNITION

Mr. Manickavasagam reviewed a research paper titled “A Fuzzy Thermal

Generation Planning Strategy with Wind Power System by Hybrid Particle

Swarm Optimization” for the International Journal “IET Generation,

Transmission & Distribution”.

Prof. Baldev Raj attended the HOD Conclave on “Experiential Education–An

Approach for Enhancing Engineering and Science Education” at NI Bangalore

on 30th April 2010.

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL

ENGINEERING

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS / PARTICIPATION / RECOGNITION

Prof. S. R. Nagaraja attended the HOD Conclave on “Experiential Education–

An Approach for Enhancing Engineering and Science Education” at NI

Bangalore on 30th April 2010.

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

The first edition of the magazine ‘Fourth Dimension’ by Ingenium was

launched on the occasion of the Institution Day – 9th April 2010.

April ‘10

‘Fourth Dimension’ – Magazine by Ingenium

OTHER NEWS

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL

ENGINEERING

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS / PARTICIPATION / RECOGNITION

Prof. S. R. Nagaraja attended the HOD Conclave on “Experiential Education–

An Approach for Enhancing Engineering and Science Education” at NI

Bangalore on 30th April 2010.

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“Our humbleness and large-heartedness are the foundation of our upward progress”- Amma

The Lathe & Special Machine Lab was inaugurated on 19th April 2010.

April ‘10

The Lathe and Special machine Lab – Inauguration

OTHER NEWS

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“Change is possible only through action”- Amma

April ‘10

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“Pray: May none of my thoughts, words or deeds ever harm anyone”-Amma

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICSPAPERS ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION

International Journal

NAME PAPER PUBLISHED DATE NAME OF PUBLICATION

H. T. RathodH.Y.ShrivalliK. V. NagarajaV. Kesavulu Naidu

“New Cubic Spline

Interpolation with

Application to Quadrature

Vol. 4, No. 28, Page

Nos. 1387-1415

(To appear in July 2010

issue)

International Journal of

Mathematical Analysis

V.Kesavulu Naidu,K. V. Nagaraja,

“The Use of Parabolic Arc in

Matching Curved Boundary

by Point

Transformations for Septic

Order Triangular Element

and Its Applications”

Vol.13,No 2,

( To appear in July

2010 issue)

Proceedings of the

Jangjeon Mathematical

Society

April ‘10

CISCO NETWORKING ACADEMY

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS

Mrs. Deepa K. R. has been certified as CCNP (Cisco Certified Network

Professional).

Amrita School of EngineeringKasavanahalli, Carmelaram P.O,

Bangalore - 560 035

Ph: 080-2843 9565,2843 9566Fax: 080-2844 0092

Web: www.amrita.edu

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