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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 />

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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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CUT<br />

UPPER<br />

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 />

4<br />

TO<br />

7<br />

th<br />

th<br />

11<br />

TO<br />

14<br />

th<br />

th<br />

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 />

rd<br />

23 2016<br />

th<br />

24<br />

TO<br />

th<br />

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 />

11<br />

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.


12<br />

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.


18<br />

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.


20<br />

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.


22<br />

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 />

29 Seoul National University South Korea<br />

30 RWTH Aachen University Germany<br />

31 University of Southern California United States<br />

32 University of Tokyo Japan<br />

33 Purdue University United States<br />

34 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong<br />

35 Columbia University United States<br />

35 University of Manchester United Kingdom<br />

38 University College London United Kingdom<br />

39 Pennsylvania State University United States<br />

40 Pohang University of Science and Technology South Korea<br />

41 McGill University Canada<br />

42 KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden<br />

43 Kyoto University Japan<br />

44 National Taiwan University Taiwan<br />

45 University of California, San Diego United States<br />

46 University of British Columbia Canada<br />

47 Zhejiang University China<br />

48 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany<br />

49 Texas A&M University United States<br />

50 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States<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

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