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A QUARTERLY NEWS PUBLICATION FROM SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY<br />
aspirations<br />
to achievement<br />
The SVES News Magazine<br />
ISSUE <strong>13</strong> OCT 2016 PAGES 24<br />
BIGGER<br />
CAUSE<br />
Community Outreach@ Vishnu<br />
To address the issues of rural population who are deprived of oral care needs, Vishnu Dental College of Sri Vishnu Educational Society started primary level<br />
dental care centers ( called satellite clinics) at identified rural locations. Five such satellite clinics have been established till date at Kumudavalli,<br />
Dirusumarru, Juvvalapalem, Allampuram and Dwaraka Tirumala in Andhra Pradesh. Each establishment caters to the needs of around 65,000 people in<br />
the surrounding villages.<br />
CONT.. on page 9<br />
INSIDE HIGHLIGHTS<br />
FACE TO FACE<br />
FAST FORWARD<br />
ATL PROJECTS<br />
SCHEMCON 2016<br />
LEADER SPEAK<br />
GOAL POST<br />
UPPER CUT<br />
BIGGER CAUSE<br />
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VALUE ADDITION - VEDIC<br />
NUMERO UNO<br />
CONFLUENCE<br />
BVRIT-N<br />
FINAL FRONTIER<br />
07 FOSTERING RESEARCH<br />
BVRIT - H<br />
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VIPER<br />
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VDC<br />
SVCP<br />
SVECW<br />
SBSP<br />
VIT<br />
THE WISE CHOICE<br />
09 BVRICE<br />
16 CAREER PATH<br />
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FACE TO FACE<br />
Dr. Srinivasan Sundarrajan<br />
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FACE<br />
FACE<br />
to<br />
A QUARTERLY NEWS PUBLICATION FROM SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY<br />
Dr. Srinivasan Sundarrajan<br />
Director,<br />
Sri Vishnu Educational Society<br />
Int<strong>era</strong>ction with A.L.Kishore, Associate Professor<br />
(BVRIT N), Mr. Arun Kumar (3 ECE), Ms Caroline (3<br />
EEE) & K Anuraag Kaushik (3 ECE) at VEDIC Campus.<br />
Sri Vishnu Educational Society has the privilege to have Dr. Srinivasan Sundarrajan as<br />
its Director. It is really an honour to have someone of his stature to be at the helm of<br />
affairs at Sri Vishnu Educational Society whose leadership acumen will definitely take<br />
SVES to the next level. His most endearing quality is his humility and his genuine good<br />
nature. His illustrious contributions to the nation and humanity have made him a role<br />
model who has inspired vast multitudes of our present day gen<strong>era</strong>tion.<br />
Dr. Srinivasan Sundarrajan was an outstanding missile scientist with Defence<br />
Research and Development Laboratory, Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad between 1974 and 2011. Prior to<br />
joining NIT in 2011, Dr. Sundarrajan was with Missile Programme of Defence Research<br />
and Development Organization for over thirty years and received mentoring by<br />
Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam.<br />
He was the Director of National Institute of Technology – Tiruchirappalli (NIT-T) from<br />
2011 – 2016, a prestigious Institute that is rated consistently among top ten institutions<br />
in India. He was actively engaged in transforming this Institute to the future<br />
requirements through strategies and initiatives, adopting disruptive technology<br />
route.<br />
Dr.Sundarrajan completed Mechanical Engineering from Thiagarajar College of<br />
Engineering, Madurai, and did his post graduation and doctorate degrees at the Indian<br />
Institute of Technology, Madras, in Industrial Metallurgy. He also has a PG certificate<br />
from Indian Statistical Institute. As an INAE (Indian National Academy of Engineering)<br />
– AICTE Distinguished Professor, Dr.Sundarrajan made significant contribution in<br />
integrating curriculum development and emerging areas of technology.<br />
The recognitions he won include UNESCO Fellowship (1988), Best Metallurgist of the<br />
Year Award from the Govt. of India (1992), Vishwa Bharathi Award for Professional<br />
Excellence (1999), Performing Team Award (2004), and Best JV Management Award<br />
(2008). Madras Management Association awarded Professional Excellence Award<br />
(20<strong>13</strong>) in the category of Best Managed Education Institution.<br />
Do all successful people realise their dreams? What was your dream when you<br />
were young?<br />
For me, dreams keep on changing with time. As a high school student my dream was to<br />
become a Loco Engine Driver. After finishing engineering, I wanted to become a great<br />
technologist. Then, at a later stage, when I started handling major projects as a part of<br />
missile programs my dream was to become the head of a very major missile program.<br />
After having successful and satisfying stint at the best of defence organizations, I<br />
changed over to academic line. I joined NIT as Director and then my strong dream was to<br />
bring out transformation in Higher Education. I pursue my dream at SVES now.<br />
When I have relooked of the path I have travelled so far, the very first stage was all<br />
oriented to skill (Locomotive driver). The second stage was oriented to knowledge and<br />
research (Head of the technology). The third stage was aligned with Management (Head<br />
of Missile Programme). During the current stage, my orientation is towards society at<br />
large (Transformation of Higher Education).<br />
Do you think the curriculum we follow today is a bit out-of-date considering the<br />
amount of advancement witnessed in Science and Technology?<br />
As on now, academic curriculum is related to books .It takes consid<strong>era</strong>ble period of time<br />
to compile and publish a book. Technology is changing very fast and it is very difficult to<br />
keep up pace with the technology. So, there will always be a gap between curriculum and<br />
technology. In this age of internet, knowledge is disseminated expeditiously and books<br />
are slowly becoming obsolete to us. However books on Mathematics, Physics and other<br />
basic concepts will always remain significant but books on technology will always lag<br />
the actual advancements and breakthroughs. Keeping this in mind, one should not give<br />
much prominence to the old technologies in textbooks and be open to replace those by<br />
the relevant technology. Only then we will be able to fill the gap between our curriculum<br />
and present day scenario.<br />
How crucial is it to network R&D institutes and laboratories to educational<br />
institutions?<br />
The national R&D laboratories have state of art facilities. Government has invested
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heavy funds in R&D infrastructure like CSIR, ISRO, DAE and DRDO.<br />
These institutions have highly specialized scientists, with focus on<br />
emerging technologies. We have to accept the fact that it is highly<br />
difficult for us to have R&D facilities like them. The best strategy we<br />
may follow is to make use of these R&D organizations by linking with<br />
them. It is not easy to have collaborations with these reputed<br />
organizations, but once we enter into such partnerships, it will be a<br />
huge opportunity for us. At SVES, our goal would be to have a program<br />
plan, which is a win-win strategy for all players.<br />
You got mentored by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at DRDO. What was<br />
the most unique quality of him that you admired and tried to<br />
emulate?<br />
Dr Kalam was an excellent person with superb qualities. For him there<br />
was no hi<strong>era</strong>rchy. He was a simple and highly focused person and<br />
always very open to criticism. The one aspect which really inspired me<br />
was his focus towards youth development. India with highest<br />
population of youth by 2020 can definitely aim at becoming knowledge<br />
superpower if we keep our focus on youth education, skill and<br />
entrepreneurship.<br />
Dr Kalam was instrumental for my entry into academics.<br />
After my career in Missile program I was moving out as<br />
global head of a multinational R&D facility. At that time<br />
there was an offer from MHRD to join as the Director of NIT. I<br />
consulted Dr Kalam regarding this. He gave specific<br />
direction for me to use the opportunity to head NIT and<br />
execute strategies for transformation as a service to give<br />
back to the society.<br />
What would be your message to the students who<br />
aspire to become Missile Scientists?<br />
Anyone who aspires to be a Missile Scientist should first<br />
aspire to become a technology leader. Missile systems<br />
having complex subsystems and components offer exposure<br />
to multidisciplinary technologies. These technologies have<br />
great business potential. Missile Scientists are technology<br />
developers, integrators and entrepreneurs. Students have<br />
to develop knowledge, skill and business acumen to<br />
succeed as Missile Scientists<br />
Please brief about the project that you consider the<br />
most challenging in your career as Missile Scientist<br />
at DRDL.<br />
For anybody, the biggest challenge comes during the first<br />
ten years of one's career. As a student of IIT Madras, there<br />
were many opportunities available for me and I was able to<br />
secure as many as fourteen jobs. I landed in DRDL at<br />
Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad with a plan of seeing places at Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad and<br />
move over to TELCO Pune. The assignment at DRDL was so<br />
attractive that I spent my entire career there. When I joined<br />
DRDO in mid 70's, only six countries had missiles technology<br />
and I was placed in a top secret project. I got initial exposure<br />
at HAL, Koraput, Odisha where they were working on<br />
Russian technology. Later I returned to DRDL and worked on<br />
developing hundreds of components based on the<br />
technology experience. This was the most challenging<br />
period of my career.<br />
Will we see SVES working in collaboration with<br />
premier R&D institutes in near future?<br />
SVES is a versatile organization with multiple institutions in various<br />
disciplines. India has many premier government agencies (ISRO,<br />
CSIR, DRDO, DAE) that focus on R&D. They all have heavily funded<br />
applied research programs. These institutions have excellent<br />
scientists and state of the art research facilities. We will get aligned<br />
to their requirements and involve our faculty and students. Our focus<br />
will be on networking these major organizations with SVES. In the<br />
beginning, it would be challenging, but once started, we will move<br />
forward.<br />
What was your immediate response when you got the proposal<br />
for being the director of SVES?<br />
My work at NIT was the first phase of my journey in academics. My<br />
focus was to transform the 50 year old government funded institution<br />
to the current requirements of higher education with special attention<br />
to students needs. Because of the limited number of seats in NITs and<br />
IITs, only a few lucky students get a chance to study in these<br />
institutions. I realized that majority of our students are in private<br />
institutions. These students require much more attention. Institutions<br />
like SVES are capable of taking and executing very quick decisions.<br />
This is not possible in Government institutions. Also there is a gap<br />
between aspirations of these students and capabilities of the faculty.<br />
A person with very high academic qualifications need not necessarily<br />
be a good communicator or a good teacher. So there is a need for<br />
improving the communication and psychological connection between<br />
students and faculty. I decided to focus on students in private<br />
institutions and get involved in faculty development activities during<br />
the second phase of my academic career.<br />
Our Chairman Mr Vishnu Raju is a Distinguished Alumnus of NIT,<br />
Trichy. He received the award from Honourable President of India for<br />
his outstanding contribution to the society. During discussions with<br />
him, I could sense his passion combined with sincere efforts to shape<br />
up our students to ethical and excellent professional. Dr V S Raju, a<br />
leading academician and past Director of IIT Delhi, spoke very high<br />
about Mr Vishnu Raju during his visits to NIT, Trichy. Mr Vishnu Raju<br />
impressed me with his simplicity and sincere goals. With this<br />
background, I was happy when he offered the post of Director SVES<br />
during our discussions. Our Vice Chairman, Mr Ravichandran is also an<br />
“<br />
The personal satisfaction came, when I changed my<br />
field to academics and started focusing on students. I am on<br />
Facebook with my students (Higher Education, India). I am<br />
connected to about 14,000 students. I know their aspirations,<br />
difficulties, dreams and challenges. I find immense<br />
satisfaction in int<strong>era</strong>cting with students and this keeps me<br />
going forward in my mission.<br />
“<br />
alumnus of NIT, Trichy. The zeal and enthusiasm with which both of<br />
them are putting efforts to bring the best practice available in any part<br />
of the world to SVES during the past decade confirmed the<br />
professionalism in management and commitment to society. Setting<br />
up of VEDIC is an excellent initiative being executed for the first time in<br />
the country. My mission matched with SVES goals. I took the decision<br />
and joined SVES.<br />
Sir, we have read that you have "networked over 400 industries<br />
and 40 academic institutions for R&D leading ". How do you<br />
comprehend or associate so many things?<br />
When we consider major programs, each program costs about 3000 to<br />
4000 crore rupees and almost 70,000 personnel are involved in such<br />
programs. Development and production are taken care of by industry<br />
and research part is done in academic institutions and research<br />
laboratories. There are 20 to 30 major industries like HAL, ECIL, etc.<br />
and 400 small scale industries. We follow a structure called project<br />
management and program management, which gives us necessary<br />
expertise on managing large scale programs, in terms of networking,<br />
monitoring and maintaining these programs. The flow of information<br />
is very fast. Networked management structure is the key factor.<br />
Programme Management with structured information flow and timely<br />
decisions helped me to handle the otherwise complex looking tasks.<br />
What developments do you want to bring about in the SVES<br />
society for the next five years?<br />
SVES is an excellent group with multiple streams of education like<br />
Engineering, Pharmacy, Dental, Science Courses, etc. Because of this,<br />
we have the advantage of faculty having different skill sets and<br />
expertise. Academic Integration could help in forming<br />
multidisciplinary teams that work on the emerging areas of<br />
technology. This makes us relevant in 2020. Collaboration with the<br />
Industry and foreign universities is the key. Also, Classroom Lecture<br />
delivery has changed over a period of time. We will use more of virtual<br />
classrooms and the concept of flipped classroom, where in the student<br />
go through the lecture at home or hostel and work out the assignments<br />
and carry on activities in the class. Flipped classrooms allow teachers<br />
to have more time to clarify the doubts of the students. At VEDIC we<br />
are designing few studios that will help the expert faculty to prepare<br />
the video lectures that could be used by the students<br />
anytime, anywhere. Students can watch these lectures<br />
even during their travel between the college and their<br />
home. It will be more learning than teaching in future, both<br />
for the student and teacher. We will focus more on applied<br />
research, Innovation and entrepreneurship activities by<br />
establishing an effective Industry – Institute<br />
collaboration. We will also build up an useful alumni<br />
int<strong>era</strong>ction cell. VEDIC is a very good initiative to bring all<br />
of us viz faculty, students and nonteaching staff together<br />
to achieve our goals. I am sure with all these initiatives,<br />
SVES can become a force to reckon with in the field of<br />
higher education in future.<br />
Sir, you have achieved many milestones throughout<br />
your marvelous career .Name any one achievement<br />
that stands out - the one which gave you immense<br />
satisfaction.<br />
I found professional satisfaction in my three decade long<br />
career at DRDL. The personal satisfaction came, when I<br />
changed my field to academics and started focusing on<br />
students. I am on Facebook with my students (Higher<br />
Education, India). I am connected to about 14,000<br />
students. I know their aspirations, difficulties, dreams and<br />
challenges. I find immense satisfaction in int<strong>era</strong>cting with<br />
students and this keeps me going forward in my mission.<br />
What do you think of the popular opinion that hard<br />
work isn't enough to rise up the ranks?<br />
Hard work definitely plays a major role in one's success.<br />
But there are other things which need to be practiced. Prior<br />
to hard work one needs to plan properly. Once planned,<br />
one should focus on it and carry out midcourse corrections<br />
wherever necessary. A good team-player achieves a lot. A<br />
lot more can be achieved working together than working<br />
alone. It is similar to music where many instruments are<br />
played together to create a good tune and each instrument<br />
has pivotal role in making the song soulful.<br />
What is your success mantra for life, any favorite<br />
quotes and from whom did you draw inspiration from during<br />
your formative years?<br />
Swami Vivekananda's famous quote “Arise, awake, and stop not till<br />
the goal is reached” continues to inspire me and is my mantra for life. I<br />
don't have any personal quotes.<br />
I was inspired by sev<strong>era</strong>l people at different stages of my life. When I<br />
was young, my parents inspired me the most. My father was mentored<br />
by Dr Annie Besant for the education of Indians. He was an excellent<br />
orator and an authority in English. My mother was the first lady in the<br />
family to study in Queen Mary's college in 1930s.Both these noble<br />
persons sacrificed their life for education and were my primary source<br />
of inspiration. During my college days, I drew my inspiration from Prof.<br />
Md Roshan, who was instrumental in bringing my focus towards<br />
research and technology. Subsequent to him was Air Marshal<br />
Narayanan and finally Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. I was highly inspired by<br />
Dr. Kalam.<br />
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B E S T<br />
INNOVATIVE PROJECT<br />
FAST<br />
A QUARTERLY NEWS PUBLICATION FROM SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY<br />
AMAZON MENTORSHIP<br />
FOR BVRITH STUDENTS<br />
FORWARD<br />
BVRIT Narsapur congratulates Mr A. Mani Tejan Reddy, Mr. B. Koushik Reddy and Miss<br />
Y.Durga Bhavana of IV IT for achieving “Best Innovative Project” award in “Project Expo”<br />
organised by JNTUH on 2nd July 2016 for their developed product “Snore Controller”,<br />
which was guided and certified by Dr. Dileep Kumar(Gen<strong>era</strong>l Physician), Dr.<br />
Chandrashekar (Cardiologist) and Dr. Prasad Reddy(Neurologist). This product comprises<br />
of both IoT and Android App, which activates the air pump that pumps air into the air bag<br />
placed below the pillow. Android App helps to monitor the health status of the person.<br />
A m a z o n I n d i a t e a m l e d b y<br />
Ms.Deepti Varma (Director-Human<br />
Resources) and Mr.Venkatraghava<br />
Parthasarathy (Senior Manager-<br />
Technology) and other senior<br />
members have visited BVRITH with<br />
a proposal to select BVRITH<br />
students for its mentorship<br />
program. They are doing it for the<br />
first time and looking to take<br />
students from only two colleges<br />
and BVRITH is one among them.<br />
This follows the success of<br />
Microsoft mentorship program,<br />
wherein 10-15 students from<br />
college are selected every year for<br />
mentorship program by their senior<br />
leaders at Microsoft campus.<br />
Amazon team int<strong>era</strong>cted with all Third year students and<br />
explained all about Amazon, prospects of working with<br />
Amazon and proposed mentorship program. Few students<br />
have explained to them about their specific achievements<br />
which they did over and above regular academic program.<br />
Amazon will be shortly conducting a test to select 20<br />
students from the college for the Mentorship program.<br />
Selected students will undergo 4 sessions of mentorship by<br />
the leaders of Amazon. After completing the mentorship,<br />
students will be assessed again and some of them will be<br />
offered Internship at Amazon.<br />
Chairman Shri K.Vishnu Raju garu and Principal<br />
Dr.K.V.N.Sunitha garu thanked Amazon team for coming<br />
forward to provide Mentorship opportunity to BVRITH<br />
students. Mr.Satish Chandra (Director-IR), HODs and<br />
Placement Team members were part of the int<strong>era</strong>ctions<br />
with the team.<br />
ATL PROJECTS 2016<br />
BVRIT Narsapur - Assistive Technology Lab (ATL) in<br />
collaboration with UMass, Lowell, USA<br />
PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM<br />
Mind Mouse<br />
Intelligent Wheel Chair<br />
Patient Monitoring Systems<br />
Smart Hat<br />
Balance Shoe<br />
Heartbeat Sensor<br />
Mobility<br />
Electric Auto<br />
Voice activated<br />
Home Automation<br />
Swarm Robot<br />
Speech &<br />
Hearing<br />
Talking<br />
Box<br />
Vision<br />
Smart Stick<br />
Jukebox for Visually<br />
Impaired<br />
Eyeball controlled<br />
Wheel chair
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PERFECT<br />
'REACT'ION<br />
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SCHEMCON 2016 BVRIT Narsapur<br />
B.V.Raju Institute of Technology (BVRIT) Narsapur, Medak takes the<br />
pride in organizing the 12th edition of the prestigious National level<br />
Annual Students Chemical Engineering Congress (SCHEMCON 2016)<br />
on 10th and 11th of September 2016 in collaboration with Indian<br />
Institute of Chemical Engineering, Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad Regional Centre (HRC)<br />
and the colleges under IIChE Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad Chapter.<br />
The theme of this conference “Chemical Engineering Cutting edges<br />
–Towards brighter Prospects” provided a scope to the student<br />
community to focus on the developments and advancements in the<br />
field of Chemical Engineering. The theme was more relevant as this<br />
region of Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad is a hub of Pharmaceutical and Chemical<br />
Industries. This two day event witnessed students from different<br />
college/universities all over the country participate in different<br />
technical events like paper presentations, poster presentations, project<br />
expo and the technical quiz. Around 1000 student delegates from<br />
across the country participated for the two day conference.<br />
The inaugural session of the conference was chaired by Dr. Ch.<br />
Venkateswarlu, Principal, BVRIT with a welcome note. The patron of the<br />
event Sri K.V Vishnu Raju, Chairman Sri Vishnu educational society<br />
(SVES) inspired the gathering with a motivating quote “Chemical<br />
engineers never die they start reacting”. He said “this conference<br />
provides an excellent platform for all the budding Chemical Engineers<br />
to showcase their technical and innovative skills". The guests of honour<br />
for the event are Dr.T.Kishen Kumar Reddy, Vice Chancellor, Pandit<br />
Deendayal Petroleum University and Sri Shyam Bang, President, IIChE<br />
and the Chief Guest for the conference Sri.C.Krishna Prasad, Chairman<br />
& M.D Granules India Ltd.<br />
The conference was preceded by a keynote lecture by Dr.K.Krishnaiah,<br />
Emeritus Professor, IITM. The guest lecture for the day is given by<br />
Dr.S.Sridhar, Principal Scientist ,IICT.<br />
The first day of the conference scheduled with technical sessions in 12<br />
advanced fields of Chemical engineering followed by an exciting<br />
cultural night “X-Tacy”.<br />
The second day of the conference commenced with a Guest Lecture by<br />
Prof V.V.Basava Rao ,OUCT, Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad followed by technical and<br />
poster sessions. The second invited talk for the day was given by Dr. Ch.<br />
Venkateswarlu, Principal, BVRIT. Technical quiz was an extra event<br />
during the conference.<br />
The valedictory function was graced by Prof.G.D Yadav , Vice Chancellor,<br />
ICT, Mumbai. The certificates of Merit were awarded to winners of all the<br />
technical sessions.<br />
PRESENTATIONS / PUBLICATIONS @ GLOBAL LEVEL<br />
A paper titled "Implementation of Human Tracking System using<br />
DM3730 Dual Core Processor," by Alekhya and Dr.U.Syed Abudhagir of<br />
BVRIT N published in an International Journal titled Global Innovations,<br />
Vol 4. No.1,2016<br />
A paper titled "“Electronic Railway control and safety system " by<br />
Simpi Kumari and Dr.U.Syed Abudhagir of BVRIT N published in an<br />
international journal titled “ International Advanced Research Journal in<br />
Science, Engineering and Technology (IARJSET)” as special issue<br />
ICRAESIT, ISSN:2393-8021, 2016.<br />
A paper titled ”Evaluation of Antiulcer Activity of Polyherbal Formulation<br />
Against Ethanol Induced Gastric Ulcer In Albino Rats” by<br />
Ms.D.Santhosha, Assistant Professor of VIPER published in<br />
“International Journal of Innovation Sciences and Research” in June-<br />
2016<br />
Dr. P Kiran Sree's (from CSE) of SVECW published a paper on “10<br />
dimensional CA for eliminating aging and Diseases” in the IJCIR, on 10-<br />
05-2016(PD).<br />
Mr.S.Adinarayana, Associate Professor of SVECW presented a paper in an<br />
International conference on "Processing of Materials, Min<strong>era</strong>ls and<br />
Energy: PMME-2016" organized by PACE Institute of Technology and<br />
Sciences, Ongole on 29th – 30th July,2016.
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A QUARTERLY NEWS PUBLICATION FROM SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY<br />
LEADER SPEAK<br />
Intarakushon - インタラクション (The Int<strong>era</strong>ction)<br />
Masayoshi Tamura, the Gen<strong>era</strong>l Manager of the Hitachi India Pvt. Ltd. is in charge of the op<strong>era</strong>tions of Hitachi software group in India.<br />
His goal is to work in partnership with India. He is the Co- Chair, Japan Council, NASSCOM, and he aims at collaboration between Japan<br />
and India. He works in collaboration with Indian companies. He also bridges the industry academia gap by being a part of educational<br />
institutions, engineering colleges in particular.<br />
Given below are excerpts of his int<strong>era</strong>ction with the staff and students of Vishnu Institute of Technology and Shri Vishnu Engineering<br />
College for Women.<br />
Masayoshi Tamura built an instant rapport with the students. “I love India” he says with an infectious enthusiasm. He presents the<br />
Japanese perspective of Indian culture in terms of cricket and movies. For him, like for other Japanese, India brings to his mind cricket<br />
and movies. He likes the movie “Three Idiots” and he identifies himself with the character of Raju in the movie. He likes the “You keep<br />
your job, I keep my attitude” kind of thing in the movie and feels it represents the energy and will power of Indians.<br />
This rapport now intensifies into affinity as he draws a comparison between India and Japan. The Indian and Japanese ecosystems are<br />
well laid out.<br />
T H E C U LT U R A L A F F I N I T I E S<br />
Mr. Tamura finds similarities between India and Japan. Both the<br />
countries share the concept of the three wise monkeys or the three<br />
mystic apes. It is a pictorial maxim which embodies the principle "see<br />
no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil".<br />
The second resemblance is in terms of mythology and folklore. The<br />
Hindu Goddess Saraswati is also present in Japanese mythology as<br />
Benzaiten. She is one among the seven Japanese Gods of Fortune. She is<br />
most often seen carrying a musical instrument called a Biwa. She came<br />
from India originally. She was associated with all virtues in movement<br />
and in progress. She is the goddess of knowledge, art and beauty,<br />
especially music.<br />
Amitabha, of Buddhism is the third resemblance. Buddhism is a<br />
common religion between India and Japan.<br />
I N D I A A N D H I TA C H I<br />
For him India is not a business field, it is a field to work. One example is<br />
pollution. The garbage segregation system is not effective in Bangalore.<br />
Japan experienced such a pollution which caused the Minamata disease<br />
resulting in the death of many people. He fears the same for India.<br />
Adequate precaution needs to be taken.<br />
It is here that Hitachi can support India. Hitachi is a social infrastructure<br />
company working for social innovation. It is into power, water, transport<br />
and financial services.<br />
Moreover, in India there are million people who are not connected to the<br />
grid. Hitachi can support them. For Mr. Masayoshi Tamura, India is an<br />
exciting country. Technological development is taking place rapidly.<br />
Anything can happen in India. He loves to work in India, for India, with<br />
India. For him India is a gate way to work for the world.<br />
I N D I A N ' J U G A A D ' V S<br />
J A PA N E S E I N N O VAT I O N<br />
When it comes to engineering, India and Japan have some things in<br />
common. The Japanese learn from KAIZEN which is just in time<br />
philosophy and the Indians also learn from their past. Indians have<br />
Jugaad which is based on frugality and flexibility. Indians can do<br />
Jugaad, but the Japanese cannot do it. They have their own restrictions<br />
like quality assurance.<br />
O P P O R T U N I T I E S<br />
Mr. Tamura sees India as a heterogeneous country. The geographical,<br />
social, political, religious and cultural diversity is huge and the range<br />
and volume of this diversity is absolutely bewildering. On the other<br />
hand, he finds Japan to be homogenous. They have a uniform culture<br />
and they manage any minor differences, if any.<br />
He has an interesting observation to make. On the world map, India is<br />
smaller when compared to Greenland. Japan is much smaller. India<br />
must project itself on the world. India is a mystery to many Japanese<br />
and so is Japan to the Indians. Mr. Tamura makes an effort to bridge the<br />
cultural differences and increase the mutual awareness of both the<br />
cultures. “I request you Indians to show yourself more to Japan. They<br />
don't know you very well”, he quips. The need is sharing of ideas,<br />
resources, in short a partnership between the two countries.<br />
T H E I N D I A N PA R A D O X<br />
Engineers in India develop technologies, work on their products and<br />
also do Jugaad. Innovation is in their blood. Some criticize that global<br />
innovation companies are yet to emerge in India. But, on the other hand,<br />
there are many Indian leaders in the global scenario.<br />
D I F F E R E N T I AT O R S<br />
The Japanese are slow. But they have their own strengths. They are<br />
committed and aim at perfection. For them high quality is the<br />
differentiator and they build reliable systems. On the other hand the<br />
Japanese find that there is agility and quick action in India. When it<br />
comes to time, Japanese are sticklers to punctuality. For them two<br />
minutes is 120 seconds where as for Indians time goes on.<br />
Mr. Tamurai feels that India with its 1.2 billion populations is a land of<br />
huge human talent and resources. Its strength is the huge pool of young,<br />
talented, passionate work force. The youngsters are dynamic and have a<br />
can do attitude and culture.<br />
Mr. Tamura aims at combining the strengths of both the countries. For<br />
example, he says, Indians can build the prototypes and the Japanese<br />
can then perfect them. “We need people who experiment, who do R & D.<br />
kind of things. Indians are good at that. After having tried the output,<br />
then the Japanese can perfect them and build a reliable product.” This is<br />
being done in software already he points out. For him, Jugaad is<br />
strength of the Indians.<br />
Another interesting observation made by Mr. Tamura is about the Indian<br />
traffic. Indian traffic is chaotic. Actually, it is one of the major problems<br />
of India. But on second thoughts, he finds that this chaos caused by<br />
traffic turned out to be source of strength. People in India are trained to<br />
deal with confusion and chaos. That could probably be one of the<br />
reasons why they make good leaders in global organizations. Satya<br />
Nadella, an Indian, current CEO of Microsoft, one for example, and<br />
Indian CEOs of other MNCs can deal with complicated issues. The<br />
labyrinth of Indian traffic must have trained him, he opines.<br />
Let's work for the world using your<br />
strength. The world is waiting for you.”<br />
he calls on a closing note.
ISSUE <strong>13</strong> OCTOBER 2016<br />
LEAD YOUR WAY<br />
7<br />
GOAL<br />
POST<br />
Pavan Kumar (Raju) Kanteti,<br />
ECE (2008-12), BVRIT<br />
MS in Information Technology &<br />
Management, University of Texas<br />
at Dallas<br />
Everyone has his own reasons for coming to the US for Masters. My<br />
reason was to have a degree in Management and at the same time<br />
experience a diverse learning environment and global exposure.<br />
With these two ideas in mind, I came to the United States in the fall<br />
of 2014 to the University of Texas at Dallas.<br />
Usually most of the students who come to the US from India are<br />
completely involved in their studies and do not take time for other<br />
activities. Considering the amount of money one spends for a<br />
foreign degree, this is totally valid. But along with achieving a<br />
world class Master's degree, I wanted to take full advantage of the<br />
other opportunities that the University provides to shape myself<br />
into a better, well learned person.<br />
I started off with volunteering for the Indian Students Association<br />
(ISA) here, which is the largest Indian Students Association<br />
across the United States with more than 2500 students. This part<br />
of being active in extra-curriculars was something I learned at<br />
BVRIT. During my stay at BVRIT, I was one of the student<br />
conveners and creative head for Zealotz 2011. So the<br />
participating nature came naturally to me and I int<strong>era</strong>cted with<br />
my peers, participated in the club activities and tried to help the<br />
organization and I gradually grew from a volunteer to the<br />
President of the organization. I lead a team of 25 officers. My take<br />
away from this was learning team management and developing<br />
leadership skills. I had a chance to work with the likes of the<br />
President of the University, the Dallas Police Department etc.,<br />
when the student community was facing some issues. I got a<br />
chance to lead the team that represented India and won 1st place<br />
at the International Talent Show, which is a competition among<br />
all the nationalities here and UTD has 110 of them. We have<br />
organized International Student Pickups 2015 and picked up 1000+<br />
international students from airport and provided temporary<br />
accommodation and helped in their smooth transition. We have<br />
organized Webinars and Orientations for newly admitted students<br />
to help in their smooth transition. These are to name a few of the<br />
numerous activities of the organization. From all these, I have<br />
learned how to represent a community to the world. I believe this<br />
experience taught me more than what an MBA degree would teach<br />
me.<br />
Along with ISA, I have been a part of other technical clubs and I was<br />
awarded with Dean's Impact Scholarship for displaying<br />
extraordinary impact to the school.<br />
Apart from these, my most cherished stint at the University would<br />
be participating in the Business Idea Competition. One of the<br />
biggest competitions of the Dallas area that started with more than<br />
a 100 teams and filtered down to 6 teams for finals through quarters<br />
and semis. The final presentation was to a 1100+ audience and<br />
investors and was judged by Mark Cuban of Shark Tanks and<br />
owner of the Dallas Mavericks himself. My team mate and I won<br />
first place in People's Choice Award, second place in Judge's<br />
Award and a cash prize. Being one of the best experiences of my life,<br />
this taught me everything from how to make a business pitch to<br />
presenting in front of a huge audience to competing with<br />
executives who are already running their businesses. I have got<br />
investors for my business idea at the same stage and the University<br />
is helping me in setting up my business. When other students of<br />
Indian origin were only aiming to be the audience at the event, I<br />
took the initiation to participate and it made all the difference.<br />
Again I can proudly say that BVRIT has prepared me for this. When<br />
I was at BVRIT, I participated in the Microsoft Ideation Contest and<br />
worked on a project sponsored by them at the BVRIT Innovation<br />
Center. So again the roots came from there. When I think of it now, I<br />
remember the famous words by Steve Jobs, “the dots only connect<br />
backwards.”<br />
Just before my graduation, I was awarded with the Student Leader<br />
of the Year Award, the highest and most prestigious award for any<br />
student at the University with a community of more than 30,000<br />
students. The other Indian who has won this Award was Mr. Naveen<br />
Jindal of Jindal Steel in '92. My name was entered into the<br />
University's Hall of Fame.<br />
At the time of writing this post, I have just received job offers from<br />
Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and SunTrust. I'll start working with<br />
one of them soon.<br />
The reason why I'm telling all these is not boast about myself, but<br />
but to make a point to the reader that one has to take full advantage<br />
of all the opportunities that come across their way to improve<br />
themselves along with studies. And one should never fear to dream<br />
big. Learn to participate, take initiative and try new things.<br />
Whatever be the result, at the end of the day, all you will have is a<br />
wealth of knowledge. Had it not been for my participation, I<br />
would have been a regular student who finished off his Masters<br />
and took up a job.<br />
BVRIT provides you with a waterfall of opportunities. How you<br />
make use of them to be a better person will depend on you. I<br />
believe no other college in AP invests so much time, money and<br />
effort in the ov<strong>era</strong>ll development of students. If not for BVRIT, I<br />
wouldn't have developed this inquisitive nature and willingness<br />
to participate which has brought made all the difference in me.<br />
I believe there is learning everywhere. Not just in books. I get<br />
surprised every time I think about how aptly they have given the<br />
tag line 'Universal Learning' to the Vishnu group.<br />
A continuous quest for knowledge should be the only goal for any<br />
student. You never know how the dots are going to connect. So<br />
keep learning and have fun while doing so.<br />
If you feel that I can help you or guide you with any suggestions or<br />
advice, feel free to drop me an email at pavan.kanteti9@gmail.com<br />
with the subject BVRIT or ping me on Facebook. I'll always be<br />
happy to help my alma mater.<br />
Thank You! Good Luck!
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A QUARTERLY NEWS PUBLICATION FROM SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY<br />
Dr Suresh Sajjan M C<br />
Principal,<br />
Vishnu Dental College,<br />
Bhimavaram, AP<br />
Education<br />
Completed BDS 1985. Completed MDS 1989 from<br />
Bapuji Dental College & hospital Davangere.<br />
Diploma in end user computing 1996<br />
MBA in Health Care Sciences 2008.<br />
Work experience<br />
Started Career as faculty member at Bapuji<br />
Dental College and College of Dental Sciences<br />
prior to 2007.<br />
Joined Vishnu dental college in 2007<br />
Awards<br />
Dr G C Das award “ best prosthodontist<br />
speaker”1996 IPS conference.<br />
Prize winner for poster presentation at AAID<br />
conference Las Vegas in 2015<br />
Associate fellow American Academy of Implant<br />
Dentistry 2014<br />
More than 35 Publications<br />
Favourite book of all time<br />
“Parva” By Dr S L Bhirappa<br />
Teacher who changed my life<br />
It is difficult to name one.<br />
Perfect day out - what, where, with whom<br />
Koorg With My Family<br />
The best advice I've ever been given<br />
Work Hard and Pray God.<br />
The best advice I've ever given<br />
whatever happens is for our good only,<br />
accept and smile.<br />
My most unexpected achievement<br />
winning Prize in International<br />
conference at Las Vegas.<br />
The prettiest natural landscape I've ever seen<br />
The Himalaya On the way to Kedarnath<br />
The hardest question a child has ever asked me<br />
why don't you make dentures for me<br />
I can eat as many chocolates as I want.<br />
The most treasured book in my library<br />
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin s Sharma<br />
Song that makes me move no matter how bad I feel<br />
“oo papa lali” from Geethanjali<br />
The one item I would take to the desert island<br />
Swiss Knife<br />
Favourite famous person I've admired,<br />
living or dead, whom I'd like to meet<br />
Swami Vivekananda<br />
If I had one hour to live, what would I spend it doing?<br />
Spend some time with my students and family.<br />
Favourite movie of all time.<br />
Geethanjali (Nagarjuna's)<br />
Your Favourite Quote<br />
Anything In Excess Is Bad.
ISSUE <strong>13</strong> OCTOBER 2016<br />
9<br />
BIGGER CAUSE<br />
Oral health is a critical, but an overlooked component of ov<strong>era</strong>ll health<br />
and well-being. Dental diseases like cavities, gum diseases, irregular<br />
teeth, oral cancer and injuries to dental structures affect a large number<br />
of people and cause much discomfort and pain. Their impact is<br />
therefore consid<strong>era</strong>ble, both at individual level and community level.<br />
India has approximately 301 dental colleges with around 25,000<br />
students graduating every year. With such a huge work force<br />
theoretically all these diseases should have already been <strong>era</strong>dicated.<br />
However, in reality, about 90 % of our population harbors one or more<br />
dental diseases.<br />
Oral health services in India are affected by problems of availability,<br />
accessibility, affordability, acceptability and accommodation of<br />
services. Majority of the Dentists tend to practice in urban and suburban<br />
areas ignoring poor rural population with greater treatment<br />
needs. These people need to travel far distances to get their dental<br />
needs addressed. The fact that majority of these people survive on daily<br />
wages; traveling and abstinence from work inflates the cost of dental<br />
treatment and limits their affordability. Majority of these rural<br />
inhabitants lack awareness about the dental diseases, reducing the<br />
acceptability of such services even if readily provided. Accommodative<br />
problems in terms of availability of dentist in emergency hours, waiting<br />
period and ease of getting an appointment are other factors that need to<br />
be considered for effective dental service<br />
utilization<br />
.<br />
Hence to relieve pain and<br />
suffering, restore and<br />
maintain oral health,<br />
and to address the<br />
above mentioned<br />
i s s u e s o f r u r a l<br />
p o p u l a t i o n<br />
deprived of oral<br />
care needs, we<br />
h a v e s t a r t e d<br />
primary level<br />
d e n t a l c a r e<br />
centers (satellite<br />
c l i n i c s ) a t<br />
identified rural<br />
l o cations. Five<br />
s u c h s a t e l l i t e<br />
clinics have been<br />
established till date at<br />
K u m u d a v a l l i ,<br />
D i r u s u m a r r u ,<br />
Juvvalapalem, Allampuram and<br />
D w a r a k a T i r u m a l a . E a c h<br />
Feedback and followup<br />
through local<br />
network<br />
VISHNU DENTAL COLLEGE<br />
VISHNU DENTAL CARE<br />
(Primary Care Center)<br />
2 Dental Chair Units<br />
1 Dental Surgeon<br />
1 Dental Nurse<br />
1 Attender<br />
establishment caters to the needs of around 65,000<br />
population in the surrounding villages. Every satellite clinic is<br />
Screening for dental diseases,<br />
appraisal and follow up<br />
equipped with 2 dental chairs, a qualified dental surgeon, a dental<br />
nurse and an attender. Basic primary and emergency dental care will be<br />
provided at these centers on all working days. On-site specialist dental<br />
care will be provided by a visiting specialist on a weekly basis. Patients<br />
requiring comprehensive multi-disciplinary care are referred to our<br />
tertiary care center where all provisions to render such care exist.<br />
In order to create oral health awareness among the<br />
rural population, we int<strong>era</strong>ct and work in<br />
collaboration with village level health workers like<br />
Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs),<br />
Anganwadi workers and Multi-purpose Health<br />
Workers (MPHWs). These health care workers are<br />
trained to identify common oral diseases in a given<br />
population and also to inform about the services provided at our<br />
centers. Both undergraduate and post graduate students are deployed<br />
to work in association with these village level workers to appraise the<br />
rural inhabitants regarding oral diseases and their prevention. Periodic<br />
meetings are held at all levels to resolve any issues encountered.<br />
Taking the advantage<br />
of digital technology,<br />
all the satellite clinics<br />
are equipped with<br />
i n t e r n e t , d i g i t a l<br />
r a d i o g r a p h y a n d<br />
digital photography<br />
f acilities. T h is<br />
ensures better<br />
connectivity<br />
o f t h e s e<br />
c e n t e r s<br />
w i t h t h e<br />
t e r t i a r y<br />
c a r e<br />
c e n t e r<br />
a n d<br />
a l l o w s<br />
exchang<br />
5<br />
Primary care centers<br />
established till date<br />
8167<br />
Patients received<br />
treatments<br />
1259<br />
Patients referred<br />
to tertiary center<br />
<strong>13</strong>,586<br />
Patients screened<br />
till date at these<br />
centers<br />
e o f<br />
opinions with specialists. To update the knowledge of<br />
working dentists and enhance their skills, continuing<br />
dental education programs are conducted regularly. As a<br />
unique initiative, we utilize our community radio service,<br />
Radio Vishnu (90.4 FM) to deliver health care messages to the<br />
rural masses through panel discussions, live int<strong>era</strong>ctive sessions,<br />
phone in programs and health talks. All these initiatives enhance<br />
provision of high quality dental health care and help to improve the oral<br />
health related quality of life of rural population we serve.<br />
Vishnu Oral Healthcare Delivery Model for Rural Population<br />
KUMUDAVALLI<br />
7 KM<br />
14 KM<br />
36 KM<br />
DIRUSUMARRU<br />
24 KM<br />
Community Outreach@ Vishnu<br />
ALLAMPURAM<br />
80 KM<br />
JUVVALAPALEM<br />
DWARKA<br />
TIRUMALA<br />
Location of Vishnu Dental Satellite Clinics<br />
VALUE ADDITION @ Other<br />
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7<br />
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JULY<br />
2016<br />
JULY<br />
2016<br />
‘Intellectual Learning in Engineering<br />
Applications'<br />
‘Intellectual Learning in Engineering<br />
Applications'<br />
ECE,EEE,MECH & BME Final year<br />
Hostel students of BVRITN<br />
CSE & IT Final yr Hostellers of<br />
BVRITN<br />
th<br />
16 JULY 'Intrinsic Motivation' Training Placement Team of SVES<br />
2016<br />
st<br />
21<br />
TO<br />
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23 2016<br />
th<br />
24<br />
TO<br />
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26 2016<br />
th<br />
27<br />
TO<br />
th<br />
28 2016<br />
JULY 'e-Lab' in C-programming for Teaching staff and supporting<br />
staff<br />
JULY ‘Scientific Educational Practices' Teaching Faculty from SVECW<br />
and VIT<br />
JULY 'e-Lab' in C-programming III CSE & IT students from<br />
BVRITH.<br />
th<br />
29<br />
TO<br />
th<br />
30 2016<br />
3<br />
TO<br />
6<br />
rd<br />
th<br />
JULY 'e-Lab' in C-programming III CSE & IT students from<br />
AUG<br />
2016<br />
nd<br />
22<br />
TO<br />
th<br />
24 2016<br />
th<br />
25 AUG<br />
TO<br />
th<br />
27 2016<br />
th<br />
29 AUG<br />
TO<br />
st<br />
31 2016<br />
‘Intellectual Learning in Pharmaceutical<br />
Educational Practice'<br />
BVRITH.<br />
AUG 'Ethical and Cultural diversity Faculty<br />
Activities<br />
@ VEDIC<br />
‘Intellectual Learning in Engineering<br />
Applications'<br />
‘Intellectual Learning in Management<br />
Applications'<br />
for Final year VIPER students<br />
2016 passed out and un-placed<br />
students of BVRITN<br />
MBA II & Final year students<br />
of BVRITN<br />
Annual Conclave of SVES Training &Placement Team – was conducted on 17th July, 2016 .<br />
"Career Aspirations in Science & Technology" (CAST) for First year Engineering students of BVRITH was<br />
conducted on 11th -<strong>13</strong>th Aug 2016 (a one day Motivational workshop for CSE,IT,ECE and EEE students.)
A QUARTERLY NEWS PUBLICATION FROM SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY<br />
10<br />
Numero Uno<br />
INDIA SKILLS<br />
Ms. Meher Nori Rishika,<br />
3rd year student of BVRIT<br />
Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad has won First<br />
Prize in India Skills<br />
competition.<br />
India Skills is an initiative<br />
of the National Skill<br />
Development Corporation<br />
( N S D C ) u n d e r t h e<br />
M i n i s t r y o f S k i l l<br />
D e v e l o p m e n t a n d<br />
Entrepreneurship. NSDC,<br />
through its initiative, has<br />
b e e n l e a d i n g t h e<br />
country's participation at<br />
World Skills International<br />
competitions since 2011.<br />
F o r I n d i a S k i l l s<br />
competition 2016, there were a total of 24 skills and student of BVRIT Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad College of<br />
Engineering for Women, Ms. Meher Nori Rishika participated in the skill "IT Software Solutions<br />
for Business" and won the First Prize at National Level.<br />
BADMINTON STAR<br />
OF SBSP<br />
Ms. D.Harsini, a student of Smt. B. Seetha<br />
Polytechnic secured 3rd place in state level<br />
under 18 Badminton Competitions held in<br />
KADAPA district. She also secured 2nd place<br />
in singles under-17 and 19 and 1st place in<br />
Doubles under 19 in a district level Badminton<br />
Competition conducted by Bhimavaram Town<br />
Hall Badminton Council.<br />
Ms. Harishni, the Badminton star of SBSP, started playing badminton at school, when she was in<br />
class IX. She participated in various Badminton competitions, both in singles and doubles<br />
categories and won many prizes at district and zonal levels.<br />
BEST SHORT FILM<br />
WINNERS<br />
Niharika Na Colourful Chilaka<br />
A short moral-based film “Niharika Na Colourful Chilaka” that was made in VISHNU Campus by<br />
the students of Vishnu Institute of Technology, won the Best Short Film Award in Reel Race<br />
contest. This film is fairly light-heartened and fast-paced film. It is remarkably well put together,<br />
and is unique. The cam<strong>era</strong>-work is particularly stunning. The film is by RCV Productions presents<br />
in association with Tara Creations.<br />
PEAK PERFORMANCE<br />
Dr. Indukuri Sai Lakshmi Durga, an intern won an Appreciation Award in “National IAOMR<br />
Conference” for scoring the highest marks in the subject of Oral Medicine & Radiology from Dr.<br />
N.T.R. University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada for the year 2015 and was also felicitated by<br />
our Chairman, Sri K.V. Vishnu Raju.<br />
M s M e h e r R i s h i k a s t o o d F i r s t a t N a t i o n a l l e v e l i n I T S o f t w a r e d o m a i n<br />
(http://www.indiaskillscompetition.com/winners.aspx). She now has an opportunity to<br />
participate in World Skills competition 2017 at Abu Dhabi, UAE. After winning the competition, Ms.<br />
Rishika attributed her success to special programs in college like WISE.<br />
Best Project Award,<br />
Performer Award and<br />
Best Mentor Award<br />
Dr. D. Sushanthi, II MDS, Dept of Orthodontics won 1st prize for her table clinic presentation<br />
titled “Tooth Accel<strong>era</strong>tor” in “3rd SPIRIT 2016 NATIONAL CONVENTION” organized by the<br />
department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics of SRM Dental College & Hospital<br />
,Chennai on 15th-16th July,2016.<br />
Best Mentor Award - Dr.Syed Abudhagir Umar -project titled "Carrier Aggregation and Deletion of<br />
SCells" from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), May 2016.<br />
Best Project Award for the project Titled "Carrier Aggregation and Deletion of SCells" from Tata<br />
Consultancy Services (TCS), May 2016.<br />
Best Student Performer Award - Sheethal Battu for "DCI Format Selection and DCI Decoding"<br />
from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), May 2016
ISSUE <strong>13</strong> OCTOBER 2016<br />
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Dr. D. R. Chandini and Dr. K.<br />
Roja, II MDS, Department<br />
o f O r a l M e d i c i n e &<br />
Radiology attended and<br />
won First Best Paper<br />
Award in “National PG<br />
Convention 2016 – Indian<br />
Academy of Oral Medicine<br />
& Radiology” held at New<br />
Delhi on 20th – 21st August<br />
2016<br />
Dr. T. B. L. Prasanna, Dr.<br />
A n a n t h J . , a n d D r .<br />
Ramakrishna V., 3rd year postgraduation<br />
students from the<br />
department of Orthodontics<br />
attended and won 1st Prize for<br />
poster presentation in “1st<br />
International Digital Dental<br />
Conference” held at Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad<br />
from 26 August to 28 August<br />
Dr. D. Geetanjali, II MDS,<br />
D e p a r t m e n t o f O r a l<br />
Medicine & Radiology<br />
attended and won Third<br />
B e s t P a p e r A w a rd i n<br />
“National PG Convention<br />
2016 – Indian Academy of<br />
Oral Medicine & Radiology”<br />
held at New Delhi on 20th-<br />
21st August 2016.<br />
Dr. Suggu Sagar Reddy, II MDS,<br />
Department of Oral Pathology &<br />
Microbiology attended and won<br />
3 r d p r i z e f o r S c i e n t i f i c<br />
P r e s e n t a t i o n i n “ 1 8 t h<br />
International Association of Oral<br />
P a t h o l o g y & X X V I n d i a n<br />
A s s o c i a t i o n o f O r a l &<br />
M a x i l l o f a c i a l P a t h o l o g y<br />
Conference” held at ITC Grand<br />
C h o l a , C h e n n a i f r o m 8<br />
September to 11 September 2016<br />
BEST POSTER<br />
AND PAPER<br />
PRESENTATION<br />
AWARDS<br />
M s . V i n y a 3<br />
B . P h a r m o f<br />
VIPER received<br />
BEST POSTER<br />
PRIZE in the<br />
T w o d a y<br />
n a t i o n a l<br />
conference on<br />
"Trend Setting<br />
Innovations In<br />
Pharmaceutica<br />
l S c i e n c e s "<br />
held at JNTU-H<br />
on 18th &19th<br />
July- 2016.<br />
P r o f D i n e s h<br />
Mohan of VIPER<br />
r e c e i v e d B e s t<br />
p o s t e r<br />
p r e s e n t a t i o n<br />
award in Two day<br />
n a t i o n a l<br />
co n fe re n ce o n<br />
"Trend Setting<br />
I n n ovations I n<br />
Pharmaceutical<br />
Sciences" held at<br />
JNTU-H on 18th<br />
&19th July- 2016.<br />
Ph.D Awardees<br />
“ B.R. Sanjeeva Reddy, Faculty in Department of ECE was awarded<br />
Doctor of philosophy in Electronics and Communication from NIT<br />
Warangal on 3rd Sept 2016".<br />
CONFLUENCE<br />
Annual Conclave of SVES<br />
Training & Placements Team<br />
In the month of July far before starting the<br />
placement season, SVES placement team<br />
geared up to ensure the readiness in place. A<br />
two days residential meeting at VEDIC was<br />
hosted for the SVES Placement Team,<br />
Industry Liaison Officers from Pune,<br />
Bengaluru & Chennai, TPOs from all SVES<br />
colleges and placement coordinators from all<br />
departments on 16th and 17th July. The<br />
activities for the first day included<br />
motivational sessions to build sustainable<br />
enthusiasm among the students. The second<br />
day included inspirational speech by<br />
honorable Vice-Chairman, Sri. Ravichandran<br />
Rajagopal and Honorable Director, Dr.<br />
Sundarrajan. The teams from all SVES<br />
colleges shared their road maps for this year<br />
placements and trainings.<br />
Mr. P Rambabu Asso. Prof of Civil Engineering at BVRIT N has been<br />
Awarded Ph.D for the Thesis entitled “Selection of Suitable Sites<br />
for Water Conservation Structures using RS & GIS in Kosigi<br />
Mandal, Kurnool Dist, AP, India” by Andhra University,<br />
Vishakhapatnam on 16th March 2016.<br />
Mr. R Vijay Kumar Asso. Prof of Civil Engineering at BVRIT N has<br />
been Awarded Ph.D for the Thesis entitled “Behavior of Geocell<br />
Reinforced Base Layers overlying Weak Subgrades under<br />
Repetitive Traffic Loading” by IIT Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad, on 1st June 2016.
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A QUARTERLY NEWS PUBLICATION FROM SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY<br />
INDUCTION PROGRAMME<br />
congratulated the parents for taking the right choice by opting BVRIT. The<br />
Director of Sri Vishnu Educational Society Sri Srinivasan Sundarrajan said<br />
BVRIT offers a myriad of opportunities in for the students to excel in the<br />
field of Engineering and prepares the individual holistically for the world<br />
out there. The present gen<strong>era</strong>tion has to be observant, attentive and<br />
positively curious. They have to ask right questions and search for answers<br />
from the right places.<br />
Almost over the past two decades BVRIT has the credit of producing some of the<br />
finest Engineers with achievements at national and international<br />
competitions. The strengths of the Institution have been the passion and<br />
commitment of the management to impart the best in class Engineering<br />
education. The Driving force of the Institution is the Chairman of SVES Sri<br />
K.V. Vishnu Raju and his Management Team.<br />
B.V.Raju Institute of Technology welcomed the First year students through the<br />
Induction programme (2016) organized in their campus at Narsapur on 5th of<br />
August 2016. Dr. E Laxmi Narsaiah HOD and Dean (Freshman) gave the welcome<br />
address. Addressing the gathering Sri.K.V.Vishnu Raju, Chairman Sri Vishnu<br />
Educational Society said that the establishment of various centers of<br />
excellence and its commitment towards providing exposure to students in<br />
cutting edge technologies made BVRIT as one of the most sought after colleges<br />
among the student community. Sri Ravichandran Rajagopal, Vice Chairman, SVES<br />
The Principal Dr.Venkateshwarlu presided over the Programme. The function<br />
was also graced by Sri Ram Kumar, Director, SVES, Sri Satish Chandra,<br />
Director, Industry Relations at SVES and the faculty of BVRIT.A sumptuous<br />
lunch was arranged for all the Guests, Freshers and their parents and the<br />
Faculty of the College.<br />
The Principal Dr.Venkateshwarlu presided over the Programme. The function<br />
was also graced by Sri Ram Kumar, Director, SVES, Sri Satish Chandra,<br />
Director, Industry Relations at SVES and the faculty of BVRIT.<br />
A sumptuous lunch was arranged for all the Guests, Freshers and their parents<br />
and the Faculty of the College.<br />
GRADUATION CEREMONY FOR THE<br />
C L A S S O F 2 0 1 6<br />
BVRIT, Narsapur, celebrated its graduation ceremony,<br />
where N.V. Ramana Rao, rector, JNTU-Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad, was<br />
the chief guest. The academic toppers of 2012-16 batch<br />
were felicitated with scholastic medals, while the heads<br />
of departments presented degrees to the graduating<br />
students of their respective departments.<br />
This was followed by a pledge by the administration. It<br />
was an unforgettable day for the graduating students, as<br />
it is a much awaited event in every student's life because<br />
it gives the returns of the effort they put into their<br />
academic endeavor. Principal Ch. Venkateswarlu,<br />
director Srinivasan Sundarrajan, and Chairman K.V.<br />
Vishnu Raju addressed the gathering. Calling upon the<br />
graduating batch of 2016, he urged the students to align<br />
personal objectives with the growth impulses of the<br />
country and to take up the responsibility of contributing to<br />
the society.<br />
CONGRATULATIONS 'SUPER' SENIORS<br />
Miss Sreeja and Miss B.Sneha<br />
IT for their successful<br />
completion of Internship on the<br />
Project “Automation of Aviation<br />
Control” in HCL, Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad.<br />
Ms.Datla Sruthi & Ms.Sai<br />
Sushmitha of CSE for getting<br />
placed in John Deere.<br />
Aditya Mankal, B.Avinash,<br />
D.Greeshma, S.Santhosh Reddy,<br />
P.Sindhiya, Ch.Sruthi & S.Vijay<br />
Kumar of CSE for getting placed<br />
in Virtusa Polaris.<br />
Aditya Mankal, B.Avinash,<br />
K.Avinash, Ch.Sruthi & V.Sudha<br />
of CSE for getting internship in<br />
KONY Labs for duration of 12<br />
months.<br />
Ms. Sravani Durga of CSE for<br />
getting Internship in Amazon.
ISSUE <strong>13</strong> OCTOBER 2016<br />
FINAL FRONTIER<br />
Campus to Company<br />
from Club InQuizitive<br />
New Block<br />
Inauguration for<br />
IT Department<br />
<strong>13</strong><br />
Club InQuizitive organized the next edition of<br />
CAMPUS TO COMPANY on 28th of August, 2016.<br />
In this initiative the real campus selection process is<br />
replicated. This consists of an email (essay)writing<br />
test, Aptitude test TR & HR rounds. The entire<br />
selection process is exactly similar to most of the<br />
software company's Selection process. The purpose<br />
of this event is to make the students perform better in<br />
the upcoming Placement season. Also this event<br />
made the things better and easier for students<br />
during the selection process. Mr A.L.Kishore, Assoc<br />
Professor @ BVRIT N is the Faculty Lead, Club<br />
InQuizitive.<br />
The Screening test w as provided by our Placement<br />
team. (Courtesy: Mr Ravi Kiran, Asst Manager,<br />
Placements, SVES). This edition is special because of<br />
different reasons viz.,<br />
We have chosen external mentors from different<br />
(big) companies - FMC, Wells Fargo, XilinX,<br />
SYNPOSYS, Deloitte @ TCS (#so that they get<br />
different perspectives #all of them are our (proud)<br />
Alumni from 2009,2010 passed out). The mentors<br />
were Mr Rakesh (FMC), Mr N Sampat (TCS), Ms<br />
Sandhya Madhuri (Wells Fargo) & Ms Srimayee<br />
(XylinX). Mr Sriram (Deloitte) and Mr Sai Kumar<br />
(Synopsys) are going int<strong>era</strong>ct with the students soon.<br />
All the students were given chance to participate in<br />
all the rounds (email writing, aptitude, Technical &<br />
HR rounds). Their performance was recorded on the<br />
evaluation sheet. In the sheets, their strengths and<br />
weaknesses (Room for improvement) were given.<br />
These sheets were given back to the students at the<br />
end of the day.<br />
Dress code was followed.<br />
Also a special session on FACING INTERVIEWS was<br />
conducted by Mr A L Kishore a couple of days earlier<br />
to make students ready for Campus to Company.<br />
FACULTY<br />
ACHIEVEMENTS<br />
going<br />
global<br />
“Bhaskara Block” the new block for IT<br />
Department at BVRIT Narsapur was<br />
inaugurated by the Chairman Sri.<br />
K.V.Vishnu Raju on 22nd of July, 2016.<br />
Dr. Srinivasan Sundarrajan, Director of<br />
SVES also attended the ceremony.<br />
Dr.Ashok Kumar Nanda became<br />
Fellow member of the Institution of<br />
Engineers (India), Kolkota and also<br />
became the senior member of IEEE.<br />
Dr.M.Prameela of EEE, BVRIT attended an<br />
International Training Program on “DESIGN,<br />
ERECTION, OPERATION, MAINTENANCE AND<br />
PROTECTION OF EHV SUB-STATIONS Conducted by<br />
CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR RURAL ELECTRIFICATION<br />
from 8th August 2016 to 2nd September 2016.<br />
ANDROID APP FEST<br />
The Department of IT, BVRIT Narsapur<br />
organized 2-day training program<br />
“Android App Fest” on 23rd-24th<br />
August 2016. Mr. Shashank from<br />
NADC, IIT New Delhi attended as<br />
Resource person for this training<br />
program. All the III B.Tech students<br />
enthusiastically participated in the<br />
training program. To encourage the<br />
participants, coding contest on the<br />
trained topics was conducted at the<br />
end of the session. Miss Shireesha,<br />
Miss Pujitha and Mr. Arun Sai of III<br />
B.Tech IT have bagged the prizes.<br />
Prof.Dasaradh was the Convener, Mr<br />
Bheema and Mr. Haricharan Sharma<br />
were the Coordinators for this App Fest.<br />
IEEE awareness program is conducted for 2nd year students by the IEEE BVRIT student<br />
branch. The chairperson of IEEE BVRIT is T. Vijay Mohan Singh and the faculty Mr. K.<br />
Rama Krishna coordinated the programme.<br />
Industrial Tour<br />
A one day industrial trip to the Hydel power plant, Singur was organized on 12th August 2016<br />
for the EEE students of BVRIT and was coordinated by Mr. K. Rama Krishna, Mr A.Vijay<br />
Kumar and M.Murali, faculty of BVRIT.<br />
IEEE Programmes
14<br />
MoU between<br />
Reliance Jio<br />
and BVRITN<br />
An MoU got exchanged between Reliance Jio and<br />
BVRITN. As per this MoU, students of BVRITN will<br />
get training and placement from Jio.<br />
Mr.Balasubhramanyam Iyar, Vice-President,<br />
Reliance Jio Infocomm, Dr.Ch.Venkateswarlu,<br />
Principal, BVRITN, Dr.I.A.Pasha, HOD, ECE Dept<br />
and faculty members participated in this event.<br />
A QUARTERLY NEWS PUBLICATION FROM SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY<br />
WORKSHOPS<br />
Recent Trends in IoT<br />
DST PROJECT TO ECE DEPARTMENT<br />
YOGA RESEARCH PROJECT<br />
Project sanctioned to ECE department, titled "Design &<br />
Development of an Embedded Assistive YOGA System to Treat<br />
Autism Spectrum Disorder" under SATYAM (Science and<br />
Technology of Yoga and Meditation) scheme of CSRI, DST, Delhi.<br />
INTER<br />
ACTION<br />
Mr.Sanjeev reddy, Faculty ECE had the<br />
opportunity to int<strong>era</strong>ct with "Prof. John<br />
Volakis, Director, Electroscience Laboratory,<br />
Ohio State University, during his visit to NIT<br />
Warangal in June 2016 in GIAN program".<br />
CONGRAT<br />
ULATIONS!!<br />
The Department of ECE congratulates their B.Tech Final Year<br />
Student Ms.R S S Deepika Rani for getting placed in John Deere.<br />
The Department of ECE has organized a two day national level workshop as a part of “IoT Challenge<br />
2016" on 23rd and 24th, August 2016. 95 students from BVRIT and 10 from other colleges attended<br />
this workshop. Five teams from BVRIT got selected to the next stage. Out of these five, three teams<br />
will be selected for the finals of TECH FEST 2016, which will be held at IIT Mumbai on 16th and 17th<br />
December 2016. The workshop served as a qualifier to TECH-FEST 2016, which is going to be held at<br />
IIT Bombay. The resource persons were Mr.Fazal and Mr.Saravan from I3indya Technologies, in<br />
Collaboration with IIT Bombay. The workshop was organized by 3rd year students K.H.Anuraag<br />
Kaushik, K.Snapika, Sushmitha, M.Phani Rohith & Nikhil Chandra Reddy and the faculty co-ordinators<br />
were Mr.K.Prabhakar Rao, Professor , Dept of ECE and Mr.Kausalya Nandan ,Associate Professor,<br />
Dept of ECE.<br />
Mr. Mandeep Singh, Technical Lead, Cyient Ltd conducted training program for the 2nd batch of<br />
BVRIT- CYIENT Incubation center on 27th July 2016. Mr Prasad Raju Manager, Cyient Ltd, Prof.<br />
Sanjay Dubey, Mr.I.B.K.Raju, Assoc Professor, Mr.U.Gnaneshwara Chary, Asst. Professor and<br />
other faculty took part in the session. A total number of 32 students were shortlisted.<br />
C-DAC<br />
Certified<br />
Course<br />
The Department of ECE, BVRIT N conducted a 15day course on “Digital System Design (VLSI)”<br />
in association with CDAC from 16th June to 2nd July 2016 for B-tech III year students and<br />
Mr.M.C.Chinnaiah was the chief coordinator. (of the C- DAC course The total duration of the<br />
courses is 15 days.)<br />
A One Day workshop on “Verification using system Verilog” was organised on 27th August,2016 by<br />
Centre for VLSI design, Dept of ECE along with Lucid Technologies(India) Pvt.Ltd, Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad and Mr.<br />
Raja Bandi, Director, LUCID Technologies was the resource person.
ISSUE <strong>13</strong> OCTOBER 2016<br />
Fostering a culture of<br />
Research and Innovation<br />
15<br />
Education, particularly higher education, has a significant role in promoting students'<br />
creativity and their thinking outside the box. BVRIT has an ecosystem that is conducive<br />
to the buttressing of the innovation potential of all the Institutions. An essential<br />
ingredient of such an ecosystem is the honing of the entrepreneurial skills of the<br />
students. The long term vision is the harnessing of existing and new knowledge<br />
followed by its exploitation resulting in enhanced economic performance with the<br />
consequent betterment of Society.<br />
Students & Faculty are highly encouraged to pursue research experiences. For<br />
students, research plays an important role in the educational experience and provides<br />
practical skills for future employment. Students @ BVRIT have a wide range of<br />
opportunities available to participate in groundbreaking research with faculty and<br />
peers. Students are encouraged to involve themselves in the activities of Centres of<br />
excellence @ BVRIT<br />
Research Opportunities<br />
Engage in meaningful and exciting research experiences under the mentorship of a<br />
faculty advisor. Explore research laboratories and discover new knowledge while<br />
getting prepared for engineering degree. For junior faculty, these experiences are<br />
invaluable especially if you have plans to pursue a Ph.D.<br />
Here is the list of Sponsored R&D Projects @ BVRIT N till the year 2016<br />
SPONSORED R&D PROJECTS<br />
Name of the Investigator Dept. Title of the Project Funding Agency Budget Year<br />
Status<br />
sanctioned (in Lakhs)<br />
Ms Shiva Subhashini ATL Biosensor based Controlled Interface for Life DST 65 Mar-16 On Going<br />
like Mobility of a Transradial Prosthetic Arm<br />
Dr B Venkata Swamy BS&H Cluster Method of improving Vegetable Farming DST SEED 36.03 Jan-16 On Going<br />
Practices for enhanced vegetable production for<br />
sustainable livelihood among Rural women in<br />
selected Mandals of Medak District, Telangana<br />
Dr. T Neelima BS&H Polyclinic 1, 4-Benzoxazines via oxidative<br />
dearomatization and Intermolecular Aza-Micheal<br />
DST SERB 35.93 Sept – 15 On Going<br />
and Aza-Diels- Alder Cyclization, Synthesis of<br />
Levofloxacin<br />
Dr. Ch. Venkateswarlu CHEM Augmenting R & D Facilities<br />
DST FIST 50.00 2014-19 On Going<br />
Dr G B Radhika CHEM Anti reflection coatings on Glass Surfaces<br />
UGC - MINOR 2.55 2014-16 On Going<br />
Mrs R J Bhargavi CHEM Effluent treatment using Nano materials<br />
UGC - MINOR 2.95 2014-16 On Going<br />
Mrs P Archana Rao CHEM Af/F/Hg Removal using Tie-Nano Fibers<br />
UGC - MINOR 2.35 2014-16 On Going<br />
Dr E Laxmi Narsaiah BS&H TBI / DC- MSME<br />
Govt of India 49.052 Long Term 4<br />
Mr N Ram Chander EEE Power Electronics Lab<br />
MODROBS 5.0 Aug – 12 Completed<br />
Mrs Jayasree Das ECE Reconfigurable Real time Signal Capturing on FPGA DST 23.6 July – 12 Completed<br />
Dr. D Bharathi BS&H Common Fixed Point theorems for Six Self Mappings DST 15 July – 12 Completed<br />
Mrs B Deepthi EEE Quadriplegic Tilt Communicator with Monitoring Sys. DST 21.05 Mar-12 Completed<br />
Dr Kalaimagal CSEA A Quality web portal using Six Sigma<br />
DST 20.07 Mar-12 Completed<br />
Dr I A Pasha ECE Assistive Devices for Quadriplegic & ALS Patients DST 45 Feb-12 Completed<br />
Dr I A Pasha ECE Polyalphabetic Radar Signal Processor<br />
RPS 16.05 Dec-11 Completed<br />
Dr M Rama Krishna CHEM Recovery of Organic Compounds from Waster RPS 8.6 Oct – 10 Completed<br />
Solvent Pharmaceutical Industries<br />
Dr M Rama Krishna CHEM IIPC<br />
AICTE 6.0 2008-09 Completed<br />
Dr E Laxmi Narsaiah BS&H Entrepreneurship Development Cell<br />
AICTE 7.0 2008-09 Completed<br />
(50:50 Mode)<br />
sanctioned<br />
6<br />
Completed<br />
Under Progress
16<br />
MOU<br />
VIPER has signed a Memorandum of<br />
Understanding(MOU) with<br />
Maheshwara Medical College .<br />
Incogen Th<strong>era</strong>peutics Pvt Ltd on Sep 1st, 2016.<br />
A QUARTERLY NEWS PUBLICATION FROM SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY<br />
INDEPENDENCE DAY<br />
On the occasion of Independence Day, Vishnu Cultural and Lit<strong>era</strong>ry Club<br />
conducted various competitions in essay writing, drawing and painting under<br />
the guidance of VCLC coordinators Dr. D.Ravishankar and Mr P. Chandra<br />
Gangadhar on August 10 and 11, 2016. All the students of B.Sc. and B.Com.<br />
took part with great ardor. Ms. M. Navya Surekha of II M.P.Cs. and Ms. Ch.<br />
Ramya Bharathi of II M.S.Cs. secured first and second place respectively in<br />
Telugu essay writing competition. Ms. V. Sridharee of I MB.BT.BC, Mr. P.<br />
Bharadwaj of II B.Com. and Ms. Y. Ramya Sri of I M.E.Cs.(B) received first,<br />
second and third prizes respectively in English essay writing competition.<br />
Mr. P. Bharadwaj of II B.Com. and Ms. Y. Ramya of I MPC stood first and second<br />
in Drawing. Ms. K. Mani Deepika of II BT.BC.C. and Ms. G. Vandana of II<br />
MB.BT.BC. got first and second positions respectively in Painting.<br />
VANGUARDS<br />
What can you expect from a student at the age of 17? Probably you would say<br />
that this is an age where everything seems only for joy, an age which brings out<br />
all the mischief in an individual, an age of dreams, an age of recklessness. But<br />
the actions of BVRICE students spoke a different story. During Krishna<br />
Pushkaras, duty of most of the police of Bhimavaram was shifted to<br />
Vijayawada. 12 August onwards, from 4pm to 9pm every day, BVRICE students<br />
controlled the traffic. With the T-shirts of Vishnu Logo, a whistle in their<br />
mouth and their hand movements to control the traffic made everyone<br />
astonished. They did a great job and were admired by everyone. Their job was<br />
not limited to Bhimavaram. They even extended their duties working at Undi<br />
and Akividu. By contributing to the welfare of the society these BVRICE<br />
students proved themselves as responsible citizens. They have laid an<br />
inspirational path for others.<br />
PLACEMENTS IN VIPER<br />
(LSSSDC Trained)<br />
22 of the LSSSDC/B.Pharm students(2016<br />
Passed out) got placed in various<br />
companies<br />
10 students got placed in Dr.Reddys<br />
Laboratories Ltd , out of these, seven were<br />
B.Pharm graduates and the rest are B.Sc<br />
graduates .<br />
Department as QC chemist. Out of them<br />
seven are B.Pharm graduates and the rest<br />
are B.Sc graduates.<br />
Recruitments were also carried out for<br />
regular students .Two students got placed<br />
in STARTECH laboratories which was<br />
conducted on 8th August 2016.<br />
Happenings<br />
Sri K. V. Vishnu Raju, Chairman-SVES along<br />
with Sri R. Ravichandran, Vice-Chairman<br />
and Dr. S. Sundarrajan, Director, Sri Vishnu<br />
Educational Society, inaugurated Cone Beam<br />
Computed Tomogram (CBCT) at Oral<br />
Medicine & Radiology department on 15 July<br />
2016.<br />
12 students got placed in Granules India<br />
LTD, Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad in Quality Control<br />
One got placed in RA Chem Pharma Ltd as<br />
Bio Analyst.<br />
International yoga day: Vishnu Dental College<br />
Celebrated International Yoga Day on 21st June<br />
2016. As a part of this program health benefits of<br />
practicing yoga were explained, demonstrated<br />
Surya Namaskara and few diet tips were given to<br />
keep our body active throughout the day.<br />
Q.I.P/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED<br />
Mrs.Vanitha Kondi and Ms.D.Santhosha attended a workshop on” Innovation, Incubation and<br />
Entrepreneurship ”on 29.7.2016 at UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY INTERACTION CENTRE,JNTUH<br />
MAKING<br />
A MARK<br />
Dr. Suresh Sajjan, M.C., Principal,<br />
Professor & Head, Department of<br />
Prosthodontics attended “Bio Research<br />
Master Class and 50th Anniversary<br />
Conference” held at Milwaukee, USA<br />
from 11 July to 16 July 2016.
ISSUE <strong>13</strong> OCTOBER 2016<br />
17<br />
Autonomous Status for SVCP: Shri Vishnu College of Pharmacy got Autonomous status by UGC for a period<br />
of 6 years, i.e. from the academic years 2016-17 to 2021-22.<br />
Alumni Meet-2016 Shri Vishnu College of Pharmacy conducted an Alumni Meet-2016 at BVRIT,<br />
Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad on 28 August 2016.<br />
WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS<br />
A one-day seminar on “Skill Development in<br />
Pharmacy Field” was conducted in Shri Vishnu<br />
College of Pharmacy by Sri. Vegesna Krishnam<br />
Raju-MD, Versa Pharma, USA, on 20 August 2016.<br />
A five-day seminar and a workshop “Pharmacokinetic<br />
Evaluations-Bioavailability & Bioequivalence<br />
Principles” was conducted by Shri Vishnu College of<br />
Pharmacy, during 20 July and 24 July 2016.<br />
Visits<br />
As a part of Training and Placements, M. Pharm students (4<br />
boys+20 girls) of SVCP visited various industries on 22 and 23<br />
August 2016 at Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad with the help of Sri S.R. Parthasarathy<br />
Commencement of<br />
B.Pharm and Pharm D<br />
Classes<br />
First year B.Pharm, Pharm.D, and M. Pharmacy<br />
of the academic years 2016-17 inaugural function<br />
was held on 04 August 2016.<br />
NSS<br />
camp<br />
Shri Vishnu College of Pharmacy conducted an NSS camp on<br />
“Blood Pressure and Hemoglobin” at Kovvada Annavaram village<br />
on 17 July 2016.<br />
TOP RANKERS in NIPER<br />
Ms.V.G.S.Sainaga Jyothi (43), Mr. V. Taraka Rama Prasadu (73), Ms. M. Naga Lakshmi Renuka (702) & Ms.<br />
N. Hanisha (703) of IV B. Pharm. (2015-16 Batch) were qualified in NIPER-2016.
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FDP /<br />
WORKSHOPS /<br />
GUEST LECTURES<br />
An unending Thirst for<br />
Knowledge Acquisition<br />
A QUARTERLY NEWS PUBLICATION FROM SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY<br />
CHIP DESIGNING<br />
A five day faculty development program on “Structural & Foundation Analysis” was organized<br />
by the Department of Civil Engineering of Sri Vishnu Engineering College for Women from 25th<br />
July ,2016 to 29th July,2016 , resource person was Mr.Satadru Chowdary from Skyfilabs,<br />
Bengaluru and was coordinated by Mr.P.Janaki Rama Raju, Associate Professor .<br />
A five day faculty development program on “Structural & Foundation Analysis” was organized by<br />
the Department of Civil Engineering of Sri Vishnu Engineering College for Women from 25th July<br />
,2016 to 29th July,2016 , resource person was Mr.Satadru Chowdary from Skyfilabs, Bengaluru<br />
and was coordinate by Mr.P.Janaki Rama Raju, Associate Professor .<br />
A five day workshop on “Analog Integrated Circuit Design and ASIC Implementation using<br />
Cadence EDA Tools” was organised by the Department of Electronics and Communication<br />
Engineering under the guidance of Dr. G.R.L.V.N. Srinivasa Raju from 6th June 2016 to 10th June<br />
2016 under TEQIP-II for in-house faculty and also for the faculty of other Engineering Colleges.<br />
The objective of the program was to impart both theoretical and practical knowledge.<br />
SPEECH RECOGNITION<br />
A three Day Workshop on “Speech Recognition” was organized by the Department of<br />
Electronics and Communication Engineering from 21 to 23 July 2016 Under TEQIP -II. Vice<br />
Principal Dr.P.Srinivasa Raju, along with coordinators Dr.K.Pushpa and Mr.M.V.Ganeswara Rao<br />
and Resource person Dr.V.Anil Kumar from IIIT Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad and Mr.A.K.N.R.K.Raju were<br />
present.<br />
Department of Mechanical Engineering conducted a workshop on “the latest developments in<br />
the areas of thermal Engineering with special impetus on CFD, Heat Transfer & Gas Turbines”.<br />
The objective of the workshop was to create awareness among young Mechanical Engineers<br />
about the current advances of research and importance of the knowledge of solving real life and<br />
industrial problems in the process of achieving the individual, collective and societal goals with<br />
sustainable technology, processes and products. Resource Persons were Prof. B.V.S.S.S. Prasad<br />
from IIT Madras, Sri.V.F. Saji, Scientist D, NSTL and Dr.K.N Malleswara Rao from VRSEC.<br />
TOTAL<br />
STATION<br />
SURVEYING<br />
The Department of Civil Engineering conducted a student workshop on “Total station surveying”<br />
from 11th - 14 July 2016. The Resource persons were Mr.P.Prasanare<strong>era</strong>ju, Mr.V.Nagagopi,<br />
Mr.Macherla Sridhar, Mr. S.Ashok Kumar, Mr. Yalla Raju and Mr.Ketha Anjaneya Swamy from<br />
Nishita Technologies, Vijayawada and was coordinated by Mr.B.Venkatesh, Assistant professor.<br />
The objective of this workshop was to give hands-on practice for II & III year B.Tech Civil students<br />
AN INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO<br />
VEMAGIRI GRID SUBSTATION<br />
A five day faculty development program on “Structural & Foundation Analysis” was organized<br />
by the Department of Civil Engineering of Sri Vishnu Engineering College for Women from 25th<br />
July ,2016 to 29th July,2016 , resource person was Mr.Satadru Chowdary from Skyfilabs,<br />
Bengaluru and was coordinate by Mr.P.Janaki Rama Raju, Associate Professor .<br />
A FEATHER<br />
IN THE CAP<br />
Dr. Sankar Peddapati, Associate professor, Department of<br />
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, received Early Career<br />
Research Award Grant from Science and Engineering<br />
Research Board, DST for the project titled “Photovoltaic<br />
based Pumping system using multi-level inverter”.<br />
Dr.P.V.V.Rama Rao, HoD, EEE Dept was on the panel of<br />
judges for “RCE TECH FEST-2016” organized by<br />
Ramachandra College of Engineering, Eluru.
ISSUE <strong>13</strong> OCTOBER 2016<br />
PARENTS<br />
ASSEMBLAGE<br />
Smt. B. Seetha Polytechnic College conducted a meet with first year students' parents on 23 June 2016 at<br />
9am in Smt. B. Seetha Indoor Auditorium. Dr. D. Suryanarayana, Director of SBSP and Sri D.V. Subba Rao,<br />
Principal of SBSP addressed the gathering and gave their inspiring thoughts and valuable suggestions. The<br />
students who got the best result in the first year were awarded on this event.<br />
SOLAR POWER<br />
SURYAMITHRA IOM PROFESSIONAL Solar Skill Development Program was inaugurated on 23 June 2016 at<br />
the colloquium of SVES. This program was organized by Smt. B. Seetha Polytechnic College in association<br />
with NREDCAP and NISE. It was sponsored by MNRE & NISE under the guidance and monitoring of NREDCAP.<br />
Sri Kamalakar Babu, Vice-Chairman & Managing Director of NREDCAP, was the chief guest of this event.<br />
The main motto of this program is to develop the skills in the students. Suryamithra is giving not only<br />
free training for students giving but also better employment opportunities.<br />
Sri D.V. Prasad, Executive Engineer of NREDCAP, Sri Shekhar Maram Raju, Solar Program Director, Sri D.V.<br />
Subba Rao, Principal of SBSP, Sri M.V.Hussain, Vice Principal, and Sri B.S. Satish Chandra, Head-EEE<br />
department and all the faculty and the students participated in this program.<br />
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BEYOND THE<br />
CURRICULUM<br />
Smt. B. Seetha Polytechnic conducts intracollege<br />
monthly activities for the students of<br />
SBSP to improve their communication and<br />
presentation skills and to inject competitive<br />
spirit.<br />
On 27 July 2016, an “ESSAY WRITING” competition<br />
and on 29 August 2016 a “JUST A MINUTE” session<br />
were conducted.<br />
Ms. N. Ramya Sree, Mr. G.S.C.D. Vinay and Mr. K.<br />
Vinay Raja received 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes<br />
respectively in essay writing. Sri D.V.Subbarao,<br />
Principal and Sri M.V.Hussain, Vice Principal and<br />
Sri P. Nageswara Rao, HOD of Basic Sciences<br />
distributed the prizes.<br />
Mr. Aditya, Ms. Y. Tejaswini and Ms. D.K. Chandra<br />
received 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes respectively in<br />
JAM by the Principal, HOD and the respective<br />
faculty members. Mr. N. Pavan Kumar and Ms. N.<br />
Tulasi, Assistant Professors of English, Vishnu<br />
Institute of Technology acted as the judges for<br />
Just a Minute session.<br />
Serving the Needy<br />
SEETHA UNITED HANDS (SUH)<br />
B. Rangababu studied Diploma ECE Branch in SBSP<br />
during the academic years 20<strong>13</strong>-2016. Unfortunately<br />
he has been suffering from cancer. The students of<br />
SBSP collected an amount of Rs. 12,000/- under<br />
Seetha United Hands (SUH). The total collected<br />
amount was contributed to his parents by Seetha<br />
United Hands Team on 27 July 2016.<br />
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT<br />
Brahmanandam<br />
Thadikonda<br />
ALUMNI OF<br />
Smt.B.Seetha Polytechnic<br />
CURRENT POSITION<br />
Design Engineer<br />
TATA Consulting Engineers Limited<br />
CAREER ADVICE<br />
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.<br />
The important thing is not to stop questioning.<br />
THE STEPS TO REACH A GOAL<br />
Plan the way to reach your goal, Put hard efforts towards your<br />
goal, Keep the hope, Be sure to be confident in your skills<br />
A PASSION FOR IMPROVEMENT<br />
There are two things we can do in our lives, viz. to dream<br />
and to make our dream come true.<br />
A NEED TO COMPETE:<br />
To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love<br />
with your work.<br />
Formal education will make you a living; selfeducation<br />
will make you a fortune. The thing which<br />
you are studying should be practically implemented.<br />
The single most important key to success is to be a<br />
good listener.
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Fresher's Day<br />
Celebrations<br />
Fresher's party for the First Years of B.Tech. was organized by their immediate seniors on 24<br />
August 2016. Vice-Principal Prof. K. Srinivas addressed the students and reit<strong>era</strong>ted the<br />
importance of discipline.<br />
Workshop on e-Lab<br />
Online Programming Software<br />
Book Publication<br />
The Department of CSE,<br />
V i s h n u I n s t i t u t e o f<br />
Technology conducted a<br />
two-day workshop “e-<br />
L a b ” a n O n l i n e<br />
Programming Software on<br />
29 August and 30 August<br />
2016 in its Virtusa Lab. Dr.<br />
Lakshmi and Mr. Naveen<br />
acted as the resource<br />
persons for this workshop.<br />
Dr. N. Padamavathy, Professor of ECE published a book “MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS: Reliability<br />
Analysis and Evaluation” in collaboration with an International Publisher “Lambert Academic<br />
Publishing, Germany”. ISBN: 978-3-659-91776-9.<br />
A QUARTERLY NEWS PUBLICATION FROM SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY<br />
Chairman's Int<strong>era</strong>ction<br />
with the Freshman<br />
Sri K.V. Vishnu Raju, Chairman, SVES int<strong>era</strong>cted with the students and parents of I B.Tech (2016-<br />
2020) on 14 July 2016. As the I B.Tech class work having just begun, it was the right time for an<br />
int<strong>era</strong>ction with the parents and students. In his address, Sri K.V. Vishnu Raju outlined the<br />
opportunities to be availed of, challenges to be faced and the responsibilities to be taken up. He<br />
outlined the scope of engineering education where distinctions between various disciplines were<br />
blurred and education was becoming interdisciplinary.<br />
The program began with the welcome address of the Director and Principal of Vishnu Institute of<br />
Technology, Dr. D. Suryanarayana. Vice Chairman Sri R. Ravichandran stressed on the need for<br />
conceptual education in engineering. He also highlighted the need to develop skills to carry<br />
oneself professionally in both education and at the workplace. Director of SVES Dr. S.<br />
Sundarrajan dwelt on the challenges faced by engineering students in rural areas and advised<br />
the students on how to go about their education.<br />
A one-day workshop<br />
on AutoCAD Fusion 360<br />
The department of Mechanical Engineering conducted a workshop on “AutoCAD” in association<br />
with Design Labs, Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad on 08 July 2016 at Vishnu Institute of Technology. Sri S. Venu Gopal<br />
Reddy, acted as a resource person for this workshop.<br />
Placements<br />
Mr. P. Pavan Kumar of Mechanical<br />
Department, Vishnu Institute of Technology<br />
got selected in John Deere Company.<br />
<strong>13</strong> students of CSE, Vishnu Institute of<br />
Technology were selected in a campus drive<br />
co n d u c ted b y V i r t u s a a n d Polaris<br />
C o m p a n i e s a t V i s h n u I n s t i t u t e o f<br />
Technology.<br />
3 students of CSE, Vishnu Institute of<br />
Technology got selected as interns in Kony<br />
Labs Company.<br />
Mr. M. Rushendra Babu of CSE, Vishnu<br />
Institute of Technology got selected as an<br />
intern in Amazon<br />
A one-week workshop<br />
on CATIA<br />
The department of Mechanical Engineering conducted a one-week workshop on “CATIA” in<br />
association with RamTech Engineering Services Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad from 03 August 2016 to 09 August<br />
2016 at Vishnu Institute of Technology. Sri Pradeep Reddy was the resource person for this<br />
program.
ISSUE <strong>13</strong> OCTOBER 2016<br />
BVRIT HYDERABAD<br />
hits DOUBLE Century<br />
BVRITH proudly announces the crossing of 200 placement offers for the very first batch (2012-16) of students. So far 142<br />
out of 183 eligible students were placed in various companies. Seven students secured above 5 lakh per annum package.<br />
BVRITH has also opened its account for 20<strong>13</strong>-17 batch, with 2 students already getting placed in John Deere with 5 LPA<br />
package!<br />
Honorable chairman of SVES, Shri K.V.Vishnu Raju garu and Principal Dr.K.V.N.Sunitha garu congratulated the students,<br />
Placement Team and Faculty for this achievement. S.Jagapathi Reddy, Placement Manager thanked the Management,<br />
Central Placement Pell, College Placement Team and all the faculty members under the leadership of dynamic Principal, for<br />
their active support in making this possible.<br />
Memorable Moments<br />
with Q Cares Team<br />
“People can only live fully by helping others to live”, with this motive, a group of people from QUALCOMM formed a team<br />
named “Q Cares” with the aim of sharing their practical experience, working culture in corporate with the young budding<br />
engineers for their professional growth with human values. BVRIT Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad is proud enough for being the first college<br />
selected by Q Cares team to initiate the Knowledge sharing Session. It is really a great boon and experience for students of<br />
BVRIT Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad. It's really correlates with the vision of our beloved Chairman's to promote innovative practices at the<br />
campus. Mr. Sudhir, with his team of 20 people from Q Cares shared their knowledge with students in 10 sessions separately<br />
for ECE, EEE and CSE, IT respectively useful for their domain along with gen<strong>era</strong>l sessions related to placements. Happy to<br />
share that Honorable Chairman, SVES Sri K V Vishnu Raju felt grateful for their excellence in service oriented and felicitated<br />
each person of the team along with the presence of Principal Dr. K V N Sunitha, Placement Manager Sri Jagapathi Reddy,<br />
HOD's . It's a great memorable moment and one of the mile stone in the history of BVRIT Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad!!!!!!. Team of Qualcomm<br />
really excited with the support extended by Principal Dr. K V N Sunitha and also thanked to Sri Jagapathi Reddy, Manager<br />
Placements and team for their perfect planning for smooth conduction of program.<br />
Two day Colloquium on<br />
“Inspiring Young Engineers Aspiring for Start-up”<br />
Under IEEE Student Branch, with new Executive Committee members the first mega Inter college event “Inspiring Young<br />
Engineers Aspiring for Start up” with a motive of Digital India Making was conducted at BVRIT Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad on 29th & 30th<br />
July 2016.The event was graced by successful start up's evangelists. 150 Students from 20 different Engineering colleges<br />
and 150 students from BVRIT Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad attended the session and made it a grand success. On the first day, program was<br />
initiated with a grand inaugural ceremony graced by Mrs. Rajalakshmi Sivanand, Sr. Director, HR, Model N as chief guest<br />
and Mr. Bhaven Shah, Founder & COO of Freight Bazaar Past Chair, Young Indians-Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad chapter, CII as the guest of<br />
honour along with honourable Chairman Sri. K. V. Vishnu Raju, Director Sri. S. Sundarrajan, Principal Dr.K.V.N Sunitha and<br />
Student Branch Counselor Mrs.M Praveena .<br />
Sri K V Vishnu Raju delivered a motivation lecture for the gathering aiming for start-up. Mrs. Rajalakshmi Sivanand inspired<br />
the gathering with her real life experiences and all the hurdles she came across in her life. Mr. Bhaven Shah delivered<br />
keynote address on the kind of support available for Start Ups.<br />
Mr. Pankaj Diwan, Managing Director, UPTEC Idea Labs addressed the audience regarding, the requirements for a<br />
successful entrepreneur and the role of IOT Makerspace in entrepreneurship development. An interesting and entertaining<br />
session by Mr. Sri Charan, CEO Founder, Stumagz was the next. He has related real life scenario with entrepreneurship. He<br />
stated that we need not think big to be a successful entrepreneur but learn from real life experiences. Mrs. Radhika<br />
Meenakshi Shankar the founder of Wise Owl Consulting has continued the session by explaining how a silly idea can be<br />
implemented successfully. Her speech was very refreshing.<br />
With more exciting, the second day of colloquium was commenced with the session of Mr. Vijay Bawra, the manager, 10000<br />
start-ups, NASSCOM. He explained the kind of support NASSCOM offers to start-up companies. He has also revealed how<br />
many big companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook are all funding the start-ups and later acquiring them. Mr. Uma<br />
Shankar Founder, Call Ambulance shared his ideas on successful entrepreneurship. Mr. Viiveck Varma the Founder of SAHE,<br />
Co-organizer – TEDx, Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad has explained that for implementation of Ideas, the two most important things are<br />
execution and monitoring. The founder of Possibillion Technologies Mr. Ayyappa Nagubandi told about his journey from the<br />
first business he has started and what are the ups and downs he experienced. He showed his trendy T-shirt with LED's that<br />
were manufactured in his company. It was really a wonderful experience. Session by Mr. Vamsi Krishna, Vice Chair, IEEE –<br />
Young Professionals – Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad section conveyed the importance of being ourselves.<br />
An Ideathon contest was held on 30th July afternoon for the participants who are interested to share their ideas before the<br />
jury comprising of Mr. Pankaj Diwan, MD, UPTEC Idealabs, Mr. Vamsi Krishna, Vice Chair, YP – Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad section, Mr.<br />
Priyakanth, Faculty Coordinator, ATL. At the end of Ideathon Mr. Pankaj gave valuable suggestions on their ideas like how to<br />
modify them, how to present their idea to the outside world. The most memorable and successful event came to an end with<br />
a Valedictory session graced by Principal Dr.K.V.N. Sunitha, Guest of Honor, Mr. J. Vamsi Krishna Vice Chair, IEEE – Young<br />
Professionals – Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad section and Mr. Pankaj Diwan, MD, UPTEC Idea Labs.<br />
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“CLASSIC”AL PERFORMANCE<br />
A CARNATIC VOCAL<br />
MUSICAL CONCERT<br />
Sri Abhishek Raghuram garu, an Indian carnatic vocal, performed a two hour concert VIRASAT 2016 conducted under the<br />
aegis of SPICMACY “The Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Among Youth” a non-profit,<br />
voluntary, apolitical and participatory youth movement, at BVRITH College of Engineering, Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad. He has an impressive<br />
record internationally in concerts and recitals. He was accompanied by Shankaranarayanan Ramani on mridangam and<br />
Akkarai Subhalakshmi on voilin.<br />
In order to demonstrate and teach about the many facets of Indian culture and heritage Spic Macay has organized this<br />
concert at BVRITH. BVRIT H was fortunate to host this program and get benefited. BVRITians saw classical music come<br />
alive. It was a virtuoso performance , It was commanding, exciting and vibrant experience. The SPICMACY ensemble played<br />
with great panache and the audience experienced a heartfelt performance.
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THE<br />
A QUARTERLY NEWS PUBLICATION FROM SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY<br />
WISE, is a unique program instituted only in BVRITH. Students are exposed to various<br />
programming and scripting languages like C , R , Python ,Java, HTML, Bootstrap Javascript,<br />
CSS, Android Programming, not merely the syntaxes of the language but we dive deep into the<br />
applications of the language. Industry stalwarts guide the students. The professional<br />
environment is preserved in every walk as we use platforms like GitHub and bitbucket to submit<br />
our work and track our progress. The WISE program teaches us to be self initiated, professional<br />
and being empathetic apart from various emerging technologies like Big Data, Cloud<br />
Computing. The competitive spirits are held high throughout the training module as the quality<br />
of training is monitored and mentored by process of elimination after every module depending<br />
on students' performances and day-to-day assessment. The spirits of the class is maintained<br />
high and a healthy competition prevails among everyone to top the assessment. We also learn<br />
stress management and managing things because we have to balance the academics too. Thus<br />
it's a domain which teaches us many skills.<br />
In the present world it's really important to bridge the gap between theoretical and practical<br />
approach and this is what exactly happens in BVRITH. We learn the concepts from the academic<br />
classes and put them into action in WISE classes under the mentors. To evaluate our summer<br />
module projects various experts are called from premier organizations and these esteemed<br />
companies provide us with valuable suggestions and also give opportunity to become an intern<br />
at their place. This way we not only learn technical skills but also are sound with soft skills<br />
which many of the other students' lack. Through this platform we get opportunity to utilize our<br />
WISEskills, build exciting products and finally contribute them to the society.<br />
CHOICE<br />
By Rishikha 3 CSE<br />
Be it my college, be it my decisions, be it my friends, be it my career, be it my destiny…everything<br />
revolved around one common denominator, my WISE Choice<br />
It was exactly twenty three months ago I stepped into this unknown world of Computer Science.<br />
Very little I knew about a new college that I got admission into to pursue my dreams. While all my<br />
friends made it into their dream colleges like IITs, and some into large Universities like SRM, SP<br />
Jain, et al I joined BVRIT College of Engineering for Women, a sure shot choice compared to my<br />
dream colleges like CBIT, Vasavi and Sreenidhi after the Eamcet.<br />
If I rewind to my early childhood dreams, I always wanted to be a doctor influenced, by my brother<br />
who is a doctor and my father's constant encouragement. The fear of studying for many years and<br />
the hard work needed to become a successful medical professional made me accept my next best<br />
choice of joining for a career in engineering. Like most others in my class, Sri Chaitanya was a sure<br />
shot formula for my dreams to come true to join a professional course.<br />
My first year at BVRIT removed all my apprehensions that until then was only a hearsay from<br />
friends and family assuring me that all will be well. Little did I realize that BVRIT was creating a<br />
culture of its own, redefining how engineering is to be taught to undergrads like me. My<br />
college had a visionary Chairman and a handpicked academic team that encouraged us girls<br />
to think differently.<br />
Women in Software Engineering [WISE] was a rage in my college. All my seniors where<br />
talking about it as if a cult. Little did I know that this program would bring out the<br />
entrepreneur in me. The theme behind this program is to bring a programming mind set<br />
early on in the student. After my Eamcet I took some coding classes at NIIT near my home,<br />
just keeping myself busy. But WISE was different. It was handled by a team of dedicated<br />
professionals from the Industry who train at various corporate like eBay, ADP, Virtusa,<br />
Broadridge, you name it. Thanks to our seniors the program was well tested. Every<br />
semester, in addition to the regular syllabus, we had 30 hours of training and exposed to<br />
various programming and scripting languages like C , R , Python ,Java, HTML, Bootstrap<br />
Javascript, CSS, Android Programming, not merely the syntaxes of the language but we<br />
dive deep into the applications of the language. During the summer breaks we get 50<br />
hours of real industry project experience that we can convert to mini and major projects for<br />
our academic program.<br />
Wow, that was heavy metal! I then started talking about WISE to my friends in IITs and other<br />
universities. While all have their experiences to share, nothing like this was offered to them early<br />
on in their program. What made them special was that there was a legacy left behind by their<br />
seniors that made them aspirational and thereby self initiated for shaping their future. BVRIT is just<br />
a baby in the cradle, but already I never felt left behind from my friends in these IVY institutions,<br />
what with WISE, IoT Makerspace and mentorship programs in large corporate like Microsoft and<br />
Amazon. WISE actually bridged the technical divide and shaped me for what I am.<br />
I was declared the Winner in “India Skills Competition – 2016” in IT Software Solutions for<br />
business skill. The competition was held at New Delhi after a rigorous three tier elimination. There<br />
were 300 students from all over India, and 20 were selected at the zonal level. At the National level<br />
it was 5 and I was the lucky “only girl” winner. Wait… have I broken the glass ceiling that coding<br />
was only the preserve of the boys! Here is Meher Rishika, the winner meeting the President of<br />
India at Rajbhavan. I received the award from the diligent minister of Skill Development and<br />
Entrepreneurship, Mr. Rajiv Pratap Singh Rudy, and a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh. I should be<br />
representing India at the “World Skills – 2017” at Abu Dhabi. The world is opening its doors to my<br />
dreams.<br />
I am proud to leave behind a legacy for my juniors to dream about, and my foot prints on the sands<br />
of time for my alma mater.
ISSUE <strong>13</strong> OCTOBER 2016<br />
23<br />
CAREER PATH<br />
YOUR TOMORROW STARTS HERE!!<br />
Compiled by<br />
Ms R S S Deepika Rani<br />
(4 ECE, BVRIT N)<br />
Student Lead,<br />
ERC, Club InQuizitive<br />
Rank<br />
Institution<br />
The 2015-2016 Times Higher Education World University Rankings' - Engineering and Technology table judges world class<br />
universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. We use <strong>13</strong><br />
carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons, trusted by<br />
students, academics, university leaders, industry and even governments. The performance indicators are grouped into five<br />
areas: Teaching (the learning environment), Research (volume, income and reputation), Citations (research influence),<br />
International outlook (staff, students and research) & Industry income (knowledge transfer).<br />
Country<br />
Rank Institution<br />
Country<br />
1 Stanford University United States<br />
2 California Institute of Technology United States<br />
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States<br />
4 University of Cambridge United Kingdom<br />
5 University of California, Berkeley United States<br />
6 University of Oxford United Kingdom<br />
7 Princeton University United States<br />
8 ETH Zurich – Swiss Fed<strong>era</strong>l Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland<br />
9 Imperial College London United Kingdom<br />
10 Carnegie Mellon University United States<br />
11 Harvard University United States<br />
12 Georgia Institute of Technology United States<br />
<strong>13</strong> National University of Singapore Singapore<br />
14 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland<br />
15 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States<br />
16 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Hong Kong<br />
17 University of Michigan United States<br />
18 Northwestern University United States<br />
19 Delft University of Technology Netherlands<br />
20 Nanyang Technological University Singapore<br />
21 Cornell University United States<br />
22 University of California, Santa Barbara United States<br />
23 University of Texas at Austin United States<br />
24 Peking University China<br />
25 University of Toronto Canada<br />
26 Tsinghai University China<br />
27 Technical University of Munich Germany<br />
28 KU Leuven Belgium<br />
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24<br />
RURAL WOMEN<br />
TECHNOLOGY<br />
PARK<br />
(RWTP) – DST<br />
A QUARTERLY NEWS PUBLICATION FROM SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY<br />
DST has sanctioned a grant of Rs.<br />
1.35 crore under the scheme of<br />
Rural Women Technology Park<br />
(RWTP) to set up a Women<br />
Technology park at B.V.R.I.T,<br />
Vishnupur village, Narsapur,<br />
Medak District, Telangana.<br />
The Principal Investigator is Dr. E.<br />
Laxmi Narsaiah and the coinvestigators<br />
are Dr. G B.<br />
Radhika, Dr. T.Chandrabai, Mr. J<br />
Bangarraju, Dr. B Venkata Swamy<br />
and Mr. J Venkata Ramana. It is<br />
believed that the Women<br />
Technology will act as a resource<br />
centre where all necessary<br />
support will be made available to<br />
women from a single platform<br />
for improving the socioeconomic<br />
quality of life. This<br />
would act as window for<br />
providing information, creating<br />
awareness, giving training for<br />
appropriate technologies leading<br />
to skill upgradation and will also<br />
help in establishing the all<br />
forward and backward linkages<br />
for income gen<strong>era</strong>tion through<br />
micro enterprises for women.<br />
About 1000 women along with<br />
their families in and around<br />
Narsapur are expected to get<br />
benefit in improving their socio<br />
economic conditions and<br />
livelihoods. The arenas in which<br />
these people are going to be<br />
trained are:<br />
Cultivation of Dry Land<br />
Crops and Developing<br />
Value Added Products<br />
Production of exotic<br />
flowers through<br />
Greenhouse cultivation<br />
Non Timber Forest<br />
Products (NTFP) based<br />
livelihood interventions<br />
Interventions in Handloom<br />
and Handicrafts<br />
Introduction of mixed farming<br />
systems and developing value<br />
added products like Coarse<br />
cereal based foods.<br />
Production of flowers like rose,<br />
gerb<strong>era</strong> and carnation under<br />
controlled conditions/<br />
Polyhouses.<br />
Training will be carried out for the<br />
cultivation of hill brooms and processing<br />
/value addition to increase the market<br />
value. Making value added products from<br />
Butea monosperma (Modhugu).<br />
Computer Aided Designing will<br />
be introduced for design<br />
diversification and "Asu" making<br />
machine will be promoted in<br />
weaving for drudgery reduction.<br />
SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY (SVES)<br />
Plot No. 7 & 8, Nagarjuna Hills, Punjagutta Main Road,<br />
Hyd<strong>era</strong>bad – 500082. Telangana, India<br />
Tel: (040) 40334899, 40334897, 40334866, 40334829<br />
Fax: 40334818, 40334848<br />
www.sri<strong>vishnu</strong>.edu.in<br />
Ms Santosha (VIPER)<br />
Ms. U. Madhavi (BVRICE)<br />
Ms. N.L. Pavani (SBCP)<br />
Mr. M. Hari Babu (VPS)<br />
Mrs Y V Sudha Devi<br />
Guest Editor (BVRIT N)<br />
Mr Arun Kumar Singh (3 ECE), BVRIT N<br />
Ms Caroline Sangave<strong>era</strong> (3 EEE), BVRIT N<br />
Mr Anuraag Kaushik (3 ECE), BVRIT N