NIST e-NEWS(Vol 80, April 15, 2012)
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Editors<br />
Mr. Amrut Phalguni Mohanty<br />
Mr. Dipti Ranjan Lenka<br />
Advisors<br />
Prof. Sangram Mudali<br />
Dr. Ajit K. Panda<br />
Ms. Geetika Mudali<br />
National Institute of Science and Technology<br />
Palur Hills, Berhampur, Odisha.<br />
Phone: 06<strong>80</strong>-2492421, 2492422, Fax: 06<strong>80</strong>-2492627<br />
e-mail: editorsnistenews@gmail.com, enews@nist.edu<br />
Website: www.nist.edu.<br />
Cover page<br />
Arpit Mohapatra
Coming close on the heels of the much disappointing performance by Indian<br />
school students in the PISA test conducted worldover (India stood 72 out of<br />
73 countries), the recent report of Aspiring Minds regarding state of the nation’s<br />
graduating engineers comes as another shocker. As shown in the accompanying<br />
graph only about 22% of our graduating engineers are employable in the IT products/<br />
services domain. Of course, I have many reservations regarding the process and<br />
results of the test, but the results are reasonably true as I have been witness to the<br />
slide in students lack of seriousness towards the business of academics. Many<br />
students from the graduating batch asked me why should we try for higher grades<br />
when recruiting companies makes no distinction or gives no extra recogntion due to<br />
higher CGPA (read domain knowledge). This argument is fallacious. All product based companes, either IT or core<br />
companies, hire engineers only for domain excellence, the soft skills are an added extra. Most engineers graduating<br />
today will find the workplace much more competitive that it was before as HR’s keep deleting bottom 10% for nonperformance.<br />
It is domain competence and skills which will keep our engineers in the forefront when the demand<br />
is much more for innovative and creative engineers rather than vanilla engineers. A > 9.0 CGPA, or a “O” grade in<br />
a tough course or a superb “Project” or a<br />
published “Research Paper” is a<br />
recognition by your peers, faculty and<br />
Institute of your hardwork, determination,<br />
sheer brilliance or as they say in today’s<br />
parlance “fundu”. When the legendary<br />
mountaineer George Mallory was asked<br />
why he wanted to climbed Mount Everest,<br />
he replied “because it is there”. So that’s<br />
our answer – get the top grades because<br />
it is there! In this vein, I congratulate all<br />
the students who have secured CGPA<br />
greater than 9.0 in the BPUT<br />
examinations. May your tribe increase!<br />
With Best Wishes.<br />
Sangram Mudali<br />
<strong>NIST</strong> e_news: Year of birth 2002. Mission: to witness and report the events of <strong>NIST</strong> as they happened to all<br />
its readers – students, parents, faculty and society at large. Today on its 10th anniversary we look back at<br />
what has been a glorious journey that has been an enriching one with many experiences worth sharing.<br />
We would like to share one of them on this occasion (of course all experiences would be shared in the due course).<br />
It happened few days after I (Dipti Ranjan Lenka, the only editor of <strong>NIST</strong> e_news as Amrut Phalguni Mohanty is<br />
moving on) joined the institute in September 2005. One day, I was delayed at the college and was about to move<br />
to town, ignorant of the fact that there were no buses after 5 PM. As per the guidance of the guard at the gate, I<br />
waited for someone in a four wheeler (the dedicated people go late) to offer me lift to the town. I was lucky. A deep<br />
blue Maruti <strong>80</strong>0 came to my rescue. Without wasting any time and suppressing all apprehensions, I asked for a lift<br />
and the only man in the car stopped, opened the door and allowed me to get in. Surprisingly, with little interaction<br />
we started to move. On our way, after almost <strong>15</strong> minutes when the man (little short in height, little hefty, and round<br />
headed) opened his mouth, he told about my debut appearance in the previous faculty meeting at LHC 409, the<br />
Conference Room. I was shocked and felt elated at the same time with a little doubt and gladness in my mind<br />
about how this person knew me and the fact that even though I was only a few days old in the campus, people<br />
knew me. In fact, it was not I who was popular but the whole credit goes to that person who was much vigilant in<br />
learning about every soul who joined the institute. That person was the first editor of<br />
<strong>NIST</strong> e_news, Dr. Partha S. Mallick. The first lesson I learnt, “Having eyes open<br />
for all minor and major incidents of people, place and publication, makes<br />
good editors”.<br />
<strong>NIST</strong> e_news owes its glorious 10 years to all its readers.<br />
It would never have been so enjoyable without them.<br />
A. P. Mohanty<br />
Thank you readers for your good wishes and support.<br />
D. R. Lenka<br />
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Branch - ECE<br />
GATE Qualified Students<br />
The following is the list of students who cleared the GATE examination <strong>2012</strong> with a percentile point<br />
of > 90. Around 40 students have cleared the examination this year.<br />
NAME RANK PERCENTILE<br />
A. Avinash 1279 99.27718<br />
Tapan Ku Sabat 1701 99.03868<br />
Soumya Ranjan Senapati 5667 96.7973<br />
Sourav Kumar Agarwal 7981 95.48953<br />
Rishu Kumar 9070 94.87408<br />
Branch - EIE<br />
Ipsita Panigrahi 612 97.<strong>15</strong>468<br />
Ashutosh Pati 827 96.<strong>15</strong>51<br />
Swarup Ku Sahu 1412 93.4353<br />
Anurag Kumar <strong>15</strong>77 92.66818<br />
Aditya ansuman Routray 1612 92.50546<br />
B.Manoj Kumar 1662 92.273<br />
Dibyajyoti Mahapatra 1841 91.4408<br />
Branch - EEE<br />
Gourav Kumar 1049 99.04745<br />
Sourav Kumar Mishra 2055 98.13394<br />
Ankur 3163 97.12781<br />
Ch. Eshwar Prasad 4717 95.71668<br />
Bibhuti Bhusan Padhy 7234 93.4311<br />
D.Gopal 9540 91.33712<br />
Branch - CSE / IT<br />
Dilip Ku Meher 1479 99.05664<br />
Pashupati Jha 2337 98.50938<br />
K Sudipta Achary 3837 97.55262<br />
Manish Kumar 5709 96.35859<br />
Sonal 6132 96.08878<br />
Tirtharaj Dash 9479 93.95395<br />
Ujjwal Prakash 10240 93.46855<br />
Y.Manas 1<strong>15</strong>1 92.63236<br />
Pankaj Klumar Agarwal 1<strong>15</strong>51 92.63236<br />
Rakesh Kumar Sahu 11998 92.34724<br />
Lopamudra Mahapatra <strong>15</strong>108 90.36356<br />
B.Swati <strong>15</strong>108 90.36356<br />
Subhendu Sekhar Behera <strong>15</strong>607 90.04529<br />
The Director’s Award of Excellence of Rs. 5000.00<br />
goes to each of the Top GATE Scorers above 99%.<br />
Congratulations all GATE Scorers!<br />
AICTE sponsored SDP on “Recent and Future Trends in<br />
Industrial Mathematics for Engineers”<br />
Department of Mathematics, <strong>NIST</strong> organized a 5-day AICTE Sponsored Staff Development Program on “Recent<br />
and Future Trends in Industrial Mathematics for Engineers” during 20 th – 24 th March <strong>2012</strong>. The program<br />
had host of luminaries from top academic institutions of the country. The 50 participating candidates from different<br />
institutions of the country were exposed to various facets of Industrial Mathematics.<br />
Objective of the Program:<br />
Industrial mathematics is inter-disciplinary by nature and this<br />
program provides a broad understanding of the different<br />
aspects of applied mathematics and computer applications.<br />
In order to tackle complex problems in the applied engineering<br />
sciences there is an increased demand for interdisciplinary<br />
research between mathematicians and researchers working<br />
in Engineering, the sciences and business. The mathematical<br />
sciences are undergoing rapid changes and the boundaries<br />
between the mathematical sciences and other disciplines are<br />
blurring. An important objective of the study of industrial<br />
and applied mathematics is to analyze and visualize phenomena of nature and real world problems for its proper understanding.<br />
Gradually, it is also becoming the language of modern financial instruments. The applied engineering sciences are faced with<br />
increasingly complex problems which call for sophisticated mathematical models. Fast computers make it possible to optimize<br />
strategic objective and industry is applying mathematical models that aim at reducing production costs and increasing profitability.<br />
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S.No.Resource Person Institute Topic<br />
1 Prof. Swadhin Patnayak Institute of Mathematics and Application Fourier Series of a Function<br />
Bhubaneswar<br />
2 Prof. Saroj Meher Systems Science and Informatics Unit, Applied Soft Computing<br />
ISI Bangalore<br />
3 Prof. M. Reza <strong>NIST</strong>, Berhampur Ordinary Differential Equation<br />
4 Prof. P. A. Sreeram IISER, Kolkata High performance computing/<br />
Parallel Computing<br />
5 Prof. A. K. Mishra Berhampur University Time estimates for simple<br />
arithmetic operations<br />
6 Prof. U. C. Gupta IIT, Kharagpur Probability and Statistics<br />
7 Prof. Sudarshan Padhy IIIT, Bhubaneswar Cryptography & Network Security<br />
8 Prof. N. Rao IIT, Chennai Finite element methods<br />
9 Prof. C. Nahak IIT, Kharagpur Applied Optimization<br />
10 Prof. P. C. Biswal Parala Maharaja Engineering Graph Colouring Problem<br />
College, Berhampur<br />
11 Prof. R. C. Das APEX Institute of Technology Modelling of Industrial problem<br />
& Management, BBSR<br />
(Steel Casting)<br />
12 Prof. Anisur Rahman <strong>NIST</strong>, Berhampur Parallel computing design and<br />
analysis of algorithms<br />
13 Prof. Sujit K Samanta <strong>NIST</strong> Berhampur Queuing theory and its application<br />
The program was coordinated by Dr. Motahar Reza.<br />
AICTE sponsored SDP on “Emerging Trends in Business<br />
Communication and the Methods of Teaching”<br />
Department of English, <strong>NIST</strong> organized a 5-day AICTE Sponsored Staff Development Program on “Emerging Trends<br />
in Business Communication and the Methods of Teaching” during 20 th – 24 th March <strong>2012</strong>. A galaxy of eminent<br />
resource persons from top institutes of the country and corporate houses delivered their talks on different aspects of<br />
Business Communication and the emerging trends in teaching methodologies. Around 50 delegates from various<br />
colleges of Odisha, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh participated in the program.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Objective of the Program:<br />
To explore the areas like the LSRW skills in business communication, effect of culture on communication, level of language<br />
needs of the industry, types of communication , new areas of hindrances in communication, emerging types of business<br />
communication.<br />
To bring the language teaching fraternity and representatives from the industry to a common forum which could give an<br />
opportunity to the faculty to understand the real challenges of communication problems in the corporate world.<br />
To recognize the right method of transferring knowledge to the students and sensitize the teachers with the emerging<br />
methods of teaching business communication.<br />
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Sl. No Resource Person Institute Topic<br />
1 Prof. Meenakshi Raman BITS, Pilani, Goa Campus 1. Conducting Productive<br />
Business Meetings,<br />
2.Effective ProfessionalPresentation<br />
2 Mr. Sumesh Khatua Infosys Technologies, Ltd. Emerging Trends in Business<br />
Communication and the Methods of<br />
Teaching<br />
3 Mr. J. K. Das Emeging Syndicate Negotiation Skills & Hindrances in<br />
S.A.R.L, NICE, France Communication<br />
4 Mr. Rajeev Sasmal T.I.M.E., Bhubaneswar GD, Interview and Resume Writing Skills<br />
5 Prof. Ram Krishna Singh ISM, Dhanbad 1. Teaching English for Communicative<br />
Performance and Business Comm.<br />
2. Process Approach to Writing<br />
6 Dr. Punyashree Panda IIT, Bhubaneswar Teaching Listening and Speaking<br />
7 Dr. Manmath Kundu NISER, Bhubaneswar 1. Cultural Communication<br />
2. Developing Self Awareness, Cultural<br />
Awareness, and Intercultural Awareness<br />
8 Dr. E. Raja Rao <strong>NIST</strong>, Berhampur 1. Listening Skill and Business Comm.<br />
2. Non-Verbal Communication<br />
9 Mr. Amrut P. Mohanty <strong>NIST</strong>, Berhampur Pedagogy: A Humanitarian Approach<br />
10 Mr. Dipti Ranjan Lenka <strong>NIST</strong>, Berhampur Business Etiquette<br />
11 Ms. Tripti Mund <strong>NIST</strong>, Berhampur Methods of Teaching & Types of<br />
Activities to Personalize Teacher<br />
Instructions<br />
The program was coordinated by Ms. Tripti Mund.<br />
Conference/ Seminar/ Workshop Attended<br />
Mr. Chandan Kumar Behera, Faculty, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, attended a workshop on<br />
Recent Advances in Data Structures from 17th – 20th December 2011, organized by Institute of Mathematical<br />
Sciences (IMSc), Chennai. The workshop covered research topics in the area of succinct data structures,<br />
external memory data structures, data streams, dynamic graph algorithms and many more. Among the speakers<br />
were, Roerto Grossi, University of Pisa, Italy, Francesco Silvestri, University of Padova, Italy, John Lacono,<br />
Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and many others. The talks were targeted towards the research in<br />
data structures and algorithms.<br />
Mr. Ashish Kumar Dass, Faculty, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering attended a 2-day National Conference on<br />
Emerging Trends in Signal Processing & Embedded Systems on 9th and 10th February <strong>2012</strong> organized by Geetanjali<br />
College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad and presented a paper entitled, “A Fingerprint De-noising Technique<br />
using Wavelet Transformation”. The conference is held every year and it aims at bringing together the different researchers,<br />
engineers, scholars and students from all disciplines of engineering education and provides a national forum for<br />
dissemination of original research results, new ideas, practical developments and experiences, which concentrate on both<br />
theory and practices.<br />
Ms. Monalisa Misra and Ms. Sreta Patnaik Faculty members, Dept. of English attended the oneday<br />
workshop on “Pedagogical Implications of Teaching Spoken English to Professional<br />
Students” organized by C. V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar on 17 th February<br />
<strong>2012</strong>. Among the resource persons were, Dr. Kalyani Samantaray, Prof., Dept. of English, Utkal<br />
University, Bhubaneswar and Dr. Sridhar Mohapatra, Prof., Dept. of English, CVRCE. Around 35<br />
candidates from different engineering colleges of the state participated in the workshop.<br />
Dr. Sisira Kanti Mishra, and Mr. Pramath Nath Acharya, Faculty members, Department of Management<br />
Studies attended a 2-day UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Infrastructure Development during<br />
Post Global Slump - The Promotional & Operational Issues, organised by Dept. of Commerce,<br />
Ganjam Degree College held at Youth Hostel, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Berhampur on 26 th & 27 th February<br />
<strong>2012</strong>. Dr. Mishra presented a paper on Growth of Infrastructure in India and also chaired the 4 th<br />
Technical session on 27 th February <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Mr. Ashish Kumar Dass along with Mr. Santosh Kumar Kar, Faculty, Dept. of Computer Science<br />
and Engineering attended a Faculty Developed Program on Object Oriented Analysis and Design<br />
in Business organised by TCS, Kalinga Park, Bhubaneswar on 27 th February <strong>2012</strong>. Faculty members<br />
from different engineering colleges of Odisha attended the program.<br />
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Papers Presented<br />
Mr. K. Hemant Reddy, Faculty, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, presented a paper, entitled, “An Adaptive<br />
Scheduling Mechanism for Computational Desktop Grid Using Grid Gain” co-authored by Dr. D.S. Roy, Associate<br />
Professor, <strong>NIST</strong>, and Dr. Manas Ranjan Patra, Associate<br />
Professor, Berhampur University, in the 2 nd International<br />
Conference on Computer, Communication, Control and<br />
Information Technology (C3IT-<strong>2012</strong>) during 25 th - 26 th<br />
February <strong>2012</strong> at Academy of Technology, Kolkata. Around<br />
400 delegates participated in the conference. All accepted<br />
and presented papers will be included in conference<br />
proceedings and will be published in ScienceDirect by ELSEVIER.<br />
Mr. K Hemant Reddy, along with Mr. Buddhadeb Pradhan, M. Tech. (CSE) 2009 Batch, <strong>NIST</strong>, presented a paper,<br />
entitled, “Intentional Islanding of Electric Power Systems in a Grid<br />
Computing Framework: A Graph-Theoretic Approach” co-authored by<br />
Dr. D.S. Roy, Associate Professor, <strong>NIST</strong> , Prof. Dusmanta Mohanta,<br />
Professor, BIT, Mesra, in the International Conference on Recent Trends<br />
in Information System (ReTIS-2011) during 21 st - 23 rd December 2011<br />
at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Around 350 delegates participated in<br />
the conference. Conference proceedings got published in ieeexplore,<br />
Page(s): <strong>15</strong>6-160 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ ReTIS.2011.<br />
6146859.<br />
Ms. Tanistha Nayak, B. Tech., 8 th Sem. IT student presented a paper entitled, “Pushdown Automata Vs Quantum<br />
Pushdown Automata” co-authored by Ms. Basanti Meher, B. Tech, 8 th Sem, Computer Science &<br />
Engineering, under the guidance of Mr. Chandan Kumar Behera, Faculty, Dept. of CSE at the IEEE-<br />
International Conference on Advances in engineering, Science and Management-<strong>2012</strong> (IEEE-ICAESM-<br />
<strong>2012</strong>) in Nagapattinum, Tamil Nadu. The conference was held during 30 th – 31 st March <strong>2012</strong>, organized<br />
by E.G.S Pillay Engineering College, Nagapattinam, Tamilnadu and around 700 delegates participated<br />
in the conference. The presented paper will be published in IEEExplorer.<br />
Ms. P. Praveena, B. Tech., 8 th Sem. CSE presented a paper entitled, “Base Conversion By Using<br />
Automata”, under the guidance of Mr. Chandan Kumar Behera, Faculty, Dept. of CSE at the IEEE-<br />
International Conference on Advances in Engineering, Science and Management-<strong>2012</strong> (IEEE-ICAESM-<br />
<strong>2012</strong>) organized by E.G.S Pillay Engineering College, Nagapattinam, Tamilnadu during 30 th & 31 st March<br />
<strong>2012</strong>,. The presented paper will be published in IEEExplorer.<br />
Ms. Tripti Mund, Faculty, Dept. of English attended the 10 th Asia CALL Conference held at Bangkok from 9 th – 12 th<br />
February <strong>2012</strong>. The theme of the conference was ‘Mobility in Language Teaching<br />
and Learning Through Technology’. Ms. Mund presented her paper on ‘Video<br />
Shooting: A Therapy to No English Speaking Syndrome’. Her paper focused on<br />
how video recording could help in overcoming the stage fright and building in<br />
confidence, hence the English speaking skills. She also presented a model module<br />
to do this. The conference was hosted by Srinakharinwirot University Bangkok,<br />
Thailand. There were around 60 paper presentations from different countries.<br />
PAPER PUBLICATIONS<br />
Dr. M. N. Murty, Faculty, Dept. of Physics, published a paper, “Recursive Algorithm for One-dimensional Discrete<br />
Hartley Transform with High Throughput Rate” in International Transactions on Electrical, Electronics and<br />
Communication Engineering(ITEECE),Pages:26-38,Feb.<strong>2012</strong>,ISSN:2249-8921, Publisher: Ada Lovelace<br />
Publications.<br />
Ms. Devashree Mahato, Ms. Sulipta Das, M. Tech., ECE, <strong>NIST</strong> along with Mr. Durga Prasad Dash, Faculty,<br />
Dept. of ECE, <strong>NIST</strong> published a paper, “A Novel Architecture of I2C Slave using One-Hot Encoding Technique”<br />
the International Journal of Computer Application (IJCA).<br />
Acharya U. R., Ghista D. N., Nergui M., Chattopadhyay S., Ng E. Y. K., Sree V. S., Tong J. W. K., Hong T. J., Meng<br />
L., Suri J. S. – “Diabetes Mellitus: Enquiry into its Medical aspects and Bioengineering of its Monitoring and<br />
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Regulation”, Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (<strong>2012</strong>); 12(1): 1-40. World Scientific [ISI IF:<br />
0.493]. Lim T-C., Chattopadhyay S., Acharya U. R. – “A Survey and Comparative Study on the Instruments for<br />
Glaucoma Detection”, Medical Engineering & Physics (<strong>2012</strong>); 34:129-139, Elsevier [ISI IF: 1.906].<br />
Mund, Tripti and Dr. Arun Kumar Behera. “Understanding the Theories of Personality: A Step towards Being Effective<br />
in Communication Skills.” International Journal of Social Sciences and Education, vol 2 Issue 1, January <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Mund, Tripti and Dr. Arun Kumar Behera. “Know Your Audience before You Teach: A Study on the Students of<br />
<strong>NIST</strong>.” International Journal of Social Sciences and Education, vol 2 Issue 1, January <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
BOOK CHAPTERS:<br />
Chattopadhyay S., Joshi R., Gajendran R., Acharya UR., Tamura T., Eddie Y-K Ng. – “Prevention Rehabilitation<br />
of Suicide Prone Patients” in Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare - <strong>Vol</strong>.3 (Editors: E.Y.K. Ng, U.R.<br />
Acharya, T. Tamura) Chapter <strong>15</strong>, pp. 241-252 American Scientific Publishers, USA. (<strong>2012</strong>). ISBN: 1-58883-237-<br />
6, Library of Congress Control Number: 2009937545, <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Acharya UR., Yu W., Faust O, Chattopadhyay S., Lim T.C., Eddie Y-K Ng., Tamura T., Mei S S. “Non-linear<br />
analysis of simulated hemiplegic walking” in Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare - <strong>Vol</strong>.3 (Editors:<br />
E.Y.K. Ng, U.R. Acharya, T. Tamura) Chapter 16, pp. 253-274 American Scientific Publishers, USA (<strong>2012</strong>).<br />
ISBN: 1-58883-237-6, Library of Congress Control Number: 2009937545, <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Invited Talks @ <strong>NIST</strong><br />
The IEEE-EDS <strong>NIST</strong> Students Chapter organized a Seminar talk on 10 th January <strong>2012</strong> where Dr. Shinji Nozaki,<br />
University of Electro-Communications, Japan delivered a talk on MOS device characterization on the topic, “Zinc<br />
Oxide Nano-Rods Grown by the Hydrothermal Technique<br />
and their Selective Growth”. <strong>NIST</strong> signed an MOU with<br />
University of Electrocommunications, Japan.<br />
Abstract:<br />
Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods were grown on various substrates<br />
by the hydrothermal techique, and the effects of a substrate to<br />
be used on the growth of ZnO nanorods were studied. ZnO<br />
nanorods could grow vertically on a GaN but not on a Si<br />
substrate. However, they could grow on a Si substrate coated<br />
with a thick Ag film. The crystallinity and luminescence<br />
characteristic are also affected by a substrate to be used. It<br />
was also found that an array of ZnO nanorods could be formed<br />
by selective growth of ZnO on the e-beam lithographed resist pattern. Some unique properties of the grown ZnO nanorods<br />
are also discussed.<br />
Mr. Santosh Kumar, CEERI, Pilani delivered talks on VLSI for Wireless Communication, RF and Mixed Signal IC<br />
Design, Communication System Design to all M. Tech students during 10 th – 14 th January <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Mr. Kanhu Charan Behera, CEERI, Pilani and Ex-Faculty, <strong>NIST</strong> delivered talks on RF IC Design (ADC & DAC)<br />
during 16 th - 21 st January <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Prof. Rutu Parna Panda, VSSUT, Burla, delivered talks on Adaptive Signal Processing during 22 nd - 24 th January<br />
<strong>2012</strong>.<br />
As part of corporate seminar series <strong>NIST</strong> B-School organised a Seminar Talk on ‘Leadership Qualities; Transformed<br />
Now-a-Days’ by Dr. Abinash Panda, Associate Vice President (Learning and Development), Adani Enterprises<br />
Ltd., Ahmadabad on 23 rd February <strong>2012</strong> at <strong>NIST</strong> Conference room. Dr. Panda has an illustrious background ranging<br />
from XLRI to overseas assignments to Adani now. He delivered a talk comprised of a survey that showed the varied<br />
facets of leadership qualities of modern day entrepreneurs. The seminar was presided over by Dr. E. Raja Rao and<br />
attended by all management faculty members.<br />
Dr. Anil K. Rajvanshi delivered a talk on ‘Social Entrepreneurship’ on 30 th January <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Profile : Dr. Anil K. Rajvanshi, B.Tech (IIT), PhD (USA, founder Director of the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI),<br />
Maharashtra. Dr. Rajvanshi was born and raised in Lucknow. He has been the director of NARI, Maharashtra since 1981. Prior<br />
to taking this position he served on the faculty at the University of Florida. Dr. Rajvanshi has more than 25 years of experience<br />
in renewable energy research, rural and sustainable development. He has 135 publications and 7 patents to his credit. For his<br />
solar energy and rural development work Dr. Rajvanshi has been inducted into the Solar Hall of Fame (1998). He has received<br />
the Jamnalal Bajaj Award in 2001, the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FICCI) award in 2002 and<br />
an Energy Globe Award in the AIR category in 2004. In 2009 he received the Globe Award for Sustainability Research.<br />
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Invited Talks by <strong>NIST</strong> Faculty Member<br />
Dr. Mihir Hota, Faculty Member , Dept. of Physics<br />
delivered an Invited Talk on “Nanotechnology and<br />
its impact on Society” at National Conference in<br />
Nagaland held by Agricultural University (Nagaland<br />
Central University) on 18 th February <strong>2012</strong>. The topic<br />
of the conference was “Material Science”. The<br />
conference was organised by Department of<br />
Chemistry, Patkai Christian College (Autonomous)<br />
in collaboration with School of Agricultural Science<br />
and Rural Development, Nagaland University.<br />
<strong>NIST</strong> Faculty Members<br />
as Soft Skill Trainers<br />
Mr. Dipti Ranjan Lenka and Mr. Amrut Phalguni<br />
Mohanty, Faculty members, Dept. of English visited<br />
Vikram Deb Autonomous College, Jeypore as<br />
Resource Persons for a 6-Day Soft Skills Training<br />
Program. The training was imparted to the graduate<br />
and post graduate students of all disciplines. Around<br />
50 students attended the program.<br />
High Performance<br />
Computing Lab@nist<br />
The institute installed a High Performance Computing<br />
(HPC) Lab with the help of TIS Lab, Kolkata, to<br />
enable students work efficiently on many of their<br />
projects. Four Dell Power edge Rack Servers were<br />
used to setup the lab. Cent OS was used as<br />
operating systems with other HPC tools. This lab is<br />
primarily used to write parallel and distributed<br />
computing based programs. At present around 10<br />
B. Tech project groups are using the lab for<br />
developing their projects in OpenMp/MPI. Mr.<br />
Kaushik Goswami, and Dr. P. A. Sreeram, TIS Lab,<br />
Kolkata, demonstrated the various functioning of the<br />
very lab equipment.<br />
A 1-Day Workshop on<br />
‘The Challenges of<br />
Teaching English to<br />
Engineering Students’<br />
The Department of English organized a 1-Day<br />
workshop on ‘The Challenges of Teaching English<br />
to Engineering Students’ sponsored by Oxford<br />
University Press, New Delhi, on <strong>15</strong> th February <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Dr. Meenakshi Raman, Prof., and Head, Dept. of<br />
Humanities, BITS, Pilani, Goa Campus and Dr. E.<br />
Raja Rao, Prof., Dept. of English, <strong>NIST</strong> delivered<br />
talks on the topic to around 40 delegates from<br />
different engineering and management institutes<br />
of the state of Odisha and the neighbouring states.<br />
During the panel discussion on the topic,<br />
participants shared their practical classroom<br />
problems and an effort was made to bring out the<br />
solutions to face the challenges of teaching<br />
English. Ms. Tripti Mund coordinated the program.<br />
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<strong>NIST</strong> Robotics Club @ ROBOCON <strong>2012</strong><br />
<strong>NIST</strong> Robotics Club (NRC), the only contender from Odisha, participated in the ROBOCON <strong>2012</strong> during 1 st<br />
– 3 rd March <strong>2012</strong> held at MIT, Pune. ROBOCON is a national level contest jointly organized by Doordarshan<br />
and MIT, Pune. The winner of this contest will be representing India in the international contest. In ROBOCON<br />
2010 <strong>NIST</strong> won the National Award for BEST IDEA for design of Robot. This year the theme of ROBOCON<br />
<strong>2012</strong> was ‘In Pursuit of Peace and Prosperity’. A total of 67 colleges from the country participated in this mega<br />
event including IITs and NITs. Contending with the top institutes, <strong>NIST</strong> was ranked 12 th out of 18 top performing<br />
colleges. Eventually the host, the organizing institute, MIT, Pune became the winner of the contest. Mr. Swagat<br />
Samantaray, Faculty Advisor, NRC along with a team of 18 students from B. Tech pre-final year and final year<br />
represented <strong>NIST</strong> at this event.<br />
DST INSPIRE Program<br />
The Institute organized the 3rd DST Sponsored INSPIRE Science Camp at the institute premises during<br />
31st January – 4th February <strong>2012</strong>. Around<br />
350 top 1% students from all over the state<br />
of Odisha participated in the program. A<br />
host of luminaries, academicians and<br />
scientists through their talks and<br />
presentations exposed the students to<br />
various aspects of science. Among the<br />
speakers were, Dr. Anil K. Rajvanshi,<br />
Director, Nimbkar Agricultural Research<br />
Institute (NARI), Maharastra, Dr. Sanjio S. Zade, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, IISER, West Bengal, Prof<br />
S P Pati, Dept. of Physical Sciences, Former Professor, Sambalpur Univeristy, Prof. Bimalendu B.<br />
Bhattacharya, Dept. of Geology, INAE Distinguished Professor, S N Bose National Center for Basic<br />
Sciences, Prof. Bichitra K. Guha, Dept. of Popular Science, Professor of Physics and DEAN, Faculty of<br />
Basic and Applied Science, BESU, Shibpur, Howrah, Prof. Indranath Sengupta, Dept. of Mathematics,<br />
Jadavpur Univeristy, Prof. Debi Prasad Duari, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Director, Research<br />
and Academic, M P Birla Institute of Fundamental Research, Prof. Tavarekere. K. Chandrashekar, Dept.<br />
of Chemical Sciences, Director, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER),and Dr.<br />
Subhash Chandra Bose, Dept of Electronics, Scientist, CEERI, Pilani.<br />
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Academic Honorarium Awards<br />
Ph. D Guidance<br />
Dr. Arun Kumar Padhy, Course Coordinator, B. Tech program and Prof., Dept. of Chemistry for being the Ph. D<br />
Guide for Dr. Satya Prasad Nanda, Berhampur University on his Ph. D Thesis titled, “Studies on Synthesis and<br />
Reactivity of some Nitrogen Heterocycles”.<br />
Best Feedback (July – December 2011)<br />
Semester Names Feedback Semester Names Feedback<br />
B. Tech<br />
7th Sem Mr. Kaushik Halder (CSE) 9.8<br />
5th Sem Mr. M. Suresh 9.5<br />
3rd Sem Mr. Rajesh Kumar Dash 9.63<br />
1st Sem Mr. Amrut P Mohanty 9.84<br />
MCA<br />
5th Sem Mr. Kaushik Halder (CSE) 9.9<br />
3rd Sem Mr. Anisur Rahman 9.61<br />
1st Sem Mr. Pradeep K. Jena 9.53<br />
MBA<br />
1st Sem Mr. Bishnu Kar Nayak 9.32<br />
PGDM<br />
1st Trim Prof. E. Raja Rao 9.68<br />
Research Papers Publication (July – December 2011)<br />
1. Acharya U. R., Molinary F., Sree V. S., Chattopadhyay S., Ng K-H. – “Automated Diagnosis of Epileptic EEG<br />
using Entropies”. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (2011), DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2011.07.007, Publisher:<br />
Elsevier, USA. [ISI IF: 0.734]<br />
2. Chattopadhyay S., Kaur P., Rabhi F., Acharya U. R. – “Neural Network Approaches to Grade Adult Depression”,<br />
Journal of Medical Systems (2011), DOI: 10.1007/s10916-011-9759-1, Publisher: Springer Verlag, USA [ISI IF: 1.064]<br />
3. Faust O., Acharya U. R., Molinari F., Chattopadhyay S., Tamura T. – “Linear and Non-Linear Analysis of Cardiac<br />
Health in Diabetic Subjects”, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (2011), DOI:10.1016/j.bspc.2011.06.002<br />
Publisher: Elsevier, USA. [ISI IF: 0.734]<br />
4. Lim T-C., Chattopadhyay S., Acharya U. R. – “A Survey and Comparative Study on the Instruments for Glaucoma<br />
Detection”, Medical Engineering & Physics (2011); accepted on 22/07/2011 (in press) DOI: 10.1016/<br />
j.medengphy.2011.07.030 Publisher: Elsevier, USA. [ISI IF: 1.906]<br />
5. Chattopadhyay S., Pratihar D. K., De Sarkar S. C. –”A comparative study of fuzzy C-means algorithm and<br />
entropy-based fuzzy clustering algorithm”. Computing and Informatics (2011); 30(4):701-720 Publisher: Slovak<br />
Academic Press Ltd. [ISI IF: 0.356]<br />
6. Faust O., Acharya U.R, Nergui M., Ghista D.N., Chattopadhyay S., Joseph P., Ahamed T., Tay D. – “Effects of<br />
Mobile Phone Radiation on Cardiac Health”, Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (2011); 11(5):1241-1253<br />
doi:10.1142/S0219519411004186 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing, USA. [ISI IF: 0.493] 7. Reza, M.<br />
and Gupta, A. S: (2011), Magnetohydrodynamic thermal instability in a conducting fluid layer with throughflow, International<br />
Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics, ELSEVIER, 2011, doi:10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2011.10.006. ((Impact Factor 1.388)<br />
Employment Oriented Program (EOP) <strong>2012</strong><br />
As every year this year too Employment Oriented Program (EOP), <strong>2012</strong> started with more than 200 applications out<br />
of which 164 were selected for the interview and finally 102 applicants were selected. The number of selected<br />
students is the highest this year and they are being trained in different programs like:<br />
1. Basic Computer Skills (BCS)<br />
2. Repair of Electrical Appliance (REA)<br />
3. Computerized DTP (DTP)<br />
4. Electronics Repair & Maintenance (ERM)<br />
5. Computer Repair and Maintenance (CRM)<br />
6. Workshop Practice (WP)<br />
The program is a part of the <strong>NIST</strong> Entrepreneurship Development Centre (EDC) venture. It is a free-of-cost program<br />
where the students get a stipend of Rs. 1000 per month besides free accommodation, lunch, books and study<br />
materials. The honorable Placement Director, <strong>NIST</strong>, Prof. Geetika Mudali while inaugurating the program wished<br />
everyone a very successful learning stint at <strong>NIST</strong>. Mr. Asesh Kumar Tripathy coordinates the program.<br />
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IBM WID Training<br />
IBM Web Sphere Integration Developer V6.2 Solution Development training was held for B. Tech 3 rd year, 4 th year,<br />
MCA 2 nd year and 3 rd year students of the institute at the IBM Center of Excellence Lab during 21 st – 24 th February<br />
<strong>2012</strong>. Around 65 students and 5 faculty members attended the training program delivered by Mr. Chinmay Saraswat,<br />
Resource Person, IBM.<br />
Infosys Spark Program<br />
Infosys organized the Spark Program at the institute for the students of B. Tech, and MCA. The aim of the program<br />
was to raise the aspirations of the students to a new high by exposing them to IT, helping them understand the<br />
relevance of IT in business, and helping them sow the seeds to a dream career. The resource persons from Infosys,<br />
Mr. Swastik Choudhury, and Ms. Arati Patra (both <strong>NIST</strong> alumni), through the Infosys story and the Infosys experience<br />
demonstrated the possibilities of dreaming and making dreams come true. Efforts were made to identify the students’<br />
hidden talents and awaken their potential to excel. Interaction with senior Infosys employees exposed the students<br />
to current trends in the IT industry.<br />
<strong>NIST</strong> Summer Research Internships & Fellowships<br />
The Institute has initiated a Summer Research Internships and Fellowships Program for faculty members<br />
and students from all over India. The aim of the program is to facilitate talented student interns/faculty to work<br />
under the guidance of highly experienced research professors resulting in R & D publications, Term Papers, innovative<br />
B. Tech. Projects, Ph.D Topics, etc. Faculty member with M. Tech or Ph. D degree and final year or pre-final year<br />
students of B. Tech/M. Tech/MCA/M.Sc. are eligible to enroll for the program. The duration of the program is 2<br />
months and is tentatively starting from May/June, <strong>2012</strong>. The enrolled candidates would get a stipend of Rs. 1200/-<br />
per month in addition to free boarding & lodging. Their travel expenses would also be reimbursed.<br />
Research Areas: Embedded Systems, Wireless Communications, Sensor Networks, VLSI Design, Nanotechnology,<br />
Semiconductors Devices, High Speed Computing, Cloud Computing, Parallel Processing, Optimization, Fiber Optics,<br />
Virtual Instrumentation, Simulation Studies, Robotics, Fluid flow, Heat and Mass Transfer, CFD, Organic Synthesis.<br />
<strong>NIST</strong> is a DSIR, Government of India, certified and recognized R & D Center. <strong>NIST</strong> is the only TIFAC CORE<br />
Center of India funded by Department of Science & Technology in 3G/4G Communications.<br />
Application forms, list of faculty members and research areas can be downloaded from http://www.nist.edu/current/<br />
SUMMER_RESEARCH_INTERNSHIPS.html. For more details please contact Dr. Motahar Reza.<br />
Book Fair<br />
The Institute organized a Book Fair in the institute library on March<br />
21 st and 22 nd . More than 5000 recent books from renowned publishers<br />
in all fields were on display. Being inaugurated by the Placement<br />
Director, Prof. Geetika Mudali, the fair was a good exposition of<br />
books catering to the technical, literature, general and competitive<br />
tastes of all who thronged the place. This is the first such book fair at<br />
<strong>NIST</strong>.<br />
Mini Trekking<br />
Around 100 first year students, faculty<br />
members and staff of the institute<br />
participated in a mini-trekking program<br />
organized by Students Activity Centre,<br />
<strong>NIST</strong> on 18 th March <strong>2012</strong> from Ramaiya<br />
Patnam to Dhabaleswar Temple (near<br />
Army Defense College) along the side of<br />
Bay of Bengal. Dr. Arun Kumar Padhy,<br />
Course Coordinator, B. Tech program<br />
flagged off the program along with Dr. Mihir<br />
Hota, Mr. Rabindra Shial, Dr. Ratnakar<br />
Mishra, Mr. Trymbaka Mahapatra, Ms.<br />
Basanti Patra and Ms. Vilomita Sarkar.<br />
Trekkers T-Shirts and Caps were<br />
distributed among the trekkers and lunch<br />
was provided at the destination point. The<br />
trekking was coordinated by Mr. Vinay<br />
Kumar Das, Coordinator, SAC.<br />
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Waves-2011<br />
ABang! and then the Blast! Save was the call. But the dynamite had to explode. The<br />
inevitable blast encumbered entire <strong>NIST</strong> assaulting its members with heavy doses of<br />
excitement, energy and entertainment. Yes we are talking about the whimsical waves<br />
2011 that whirled around like a tsunami, whelmed the entire <strong>NIST</strong> in its gigantic whirlpool of<br />
exuberance and exultation and finally waned away leaving tranquility and serenity all around.<br />
23rd March, 2011. The aura was resplendent with hues of spring palette, the fire of passion<br />
was inflaming, the glee and enthusiasm was snowballing, the river of excitement and zeal was<br />
flowing unrestrained in entire campus of <strong>NIST</strong> and intoxication had begun! Finally after 1 year<br />
of prolong wait it was time to extricate anxiety, forget the load the academics and unveil the<br />
real self of you.<br />
Waves-2011 justified its conduction by divulging the talents, unfathomable perseverance and<br />
boundless determination of students as well as faculty members in extra-curricular like sports,<br />
dance, songs, skits etc. Entertainment and relaxation became motive of Waves – 2011, BIKE<br />
SHOW and DOG SHOW were organized showing different exciting bike moves and different<br />
funny and thrilling dog gestures. Sports like LAWN TENNIS, BASKET BALL COMPETITION<br />
(boys and girls) and VOLLEY BALL COMPETITION held between staff & faculty members<br />
versus students revealed the athletic skills and team spirit.<br />
Melodious SONGS sung by students rooted the audience to their chairs and brought them<br />
into anodyne state. Jazz and hip-hops exacerbated the addiction of audience to the<br />
entertainment and everyone stood up shaking wildly. Our very own Band NMS let the audience<br />
sink into the melody dipped musical notes. SKITS and MIMICRY played major role in removing<br />
the worries and burdensome life of engineering and spreading laughter. Innovation was flourishing.<br />
The ALVIDA <strong>NIST</strong> portrayed by two final year students, one in form of rap and one in shayari<br />
andaaz was flabbergasting. SAND ARTIST was invited from Puri to fill his creativity in sand<br />
and portray it in different amazing looks.<br />
ALUMNI AWARD DISTRIBUTION CEREMONY was conducted where highly talented and<br />
innovative alumni toppers were awarded.<br />
The following is the list of Awardees:<br />
Name Regd. No. Branch CGPA Award<br />
B. Tech<br />
Chinmaya Mohapatro 0701202142 ECE 9.38 Gold<br />
Suman Mohanty 0701202051 CSE 9.12 Silver<br />
Itishri Dash 0701202023 CSE 9.12 Silver<br />
K. Praveena 0701202041 IT 8.97 Silver<br />
Abinash Tripathy 0701202109 EIE 8.85 Silver<br />
Nishant Kumar 0701202306 EEE 8.55 Silver<br />
M. Tech<br />
Bhawani S. Pattnaik 0<strong>80</strong>7202009 CSE 9.37 Gold<br />
Sonali Prava Dash 0<strong>80</strong>7202020 ECE 8.93 Silver<br />
MCA<br />
Bijayalaxmi Sahoo 0<strong>80</strong>5202011 8.87 Gold<br />
MBA<br />
L. Rama Kumari 0906202013 8.49 Gold<br />
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But Hey! That was not the end. The FASHIN SHOW by teachers and students became<br />
the cynosure of entire show. Dazzling the stage with exotic look landed the faculty<br />
memebers of <strong>NIST</strong>. Their bizarre style and outlandish dressing amazed the students.<br />
Their motive was to depict different attitudes, approaches and variety of teachers and they<br />
were successful in it. The FASHION SHOW by STUDENTS completely drowned us in the<br />
immense depth of razzmatazz. Some get-up such as those of DON and WEDDING theme<br />
were astonishing and mesmerizing. It was based on the central idea that what suits what<br />
occasion? That is different style of dress-up in different circumstances of life, moods and<br />
occasion.<br />
The plethora of razzle-dazzle that was flowing in entire campus of <strong>NIST</strong> finally came to an<br />
end. The blast was over and college was entombed in stark silence and lull. The regular<br />
college life routine started. We started attending 100 minutes classes, teachers in same<br />
flow engaged in course completion and we same way complaining about hectic schedules<br />
of <strong>NIST</strong>.<br />
But the enjoyment and thrill which sustained in our hearts<br />
for two days has left us vividly thinking about it. But don’t<br />
worry it’s said good things never end. So wait! Next year<br />
promises us a better and bigger blast, WAVES – <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Till then keep enjoying your regular classes and keep<br />
envisaging the next Waves with promising features. Enjoy!<br />
Report prepared by<br />
Sheetal Chandni, B. tech., 8th Sem., & Anjali Sinha, B. Tech., 6th Sem<br />
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Date: December 01, 2011<br />
Speakers<br />
Thursday Lecture Seminar Series<br />
Title<br />
Ms. Sagarika Satapathy and Mining Important Predictors<br />
Prof. S Chattopadhyay<br />
of Heart Attack<br />
Mr. Asim Kumar Mahakul Development of Portable i-<br />
Tongue<br />
Mr. Satyabrata Das &<br />
Mr. Abhro Mukherjee<br />
NI EDUCATOR DAY<br />
Date: December 08, 2011<br />
Mr. Pradyumna Ku Patra<br />
Fabrication, Testing and<br />
Validation of Complimentary<br />
Split Ring Antenna<br />
Kewal Krishna, Ankit Goyal,<br />
(2008-<strong>2012</strong> Batch CSE) Non-correlated character<br />
Recognition using<br />
Hopfield network: A study<br />
Ms. Sonali Prava Dash<br />
Realization of Logic gates<br />
using Y defect in a two<br />
Dimensional Photonic Crystal<br />
Structure<br />
Date: December <strong>15</strong>, 2011<br />
Mr. Pabitra Kumar, Tata Elxsi Ltd. SGI performance suite and<br />
performance of Fujitsu<br />
Workstations<br />
Date: January 12, <strong>2012</strong><br />
Mr. Rajendra Kumar Khadanga Gravitational Search<br />
Algorithm for Unified Power<br />
Flow Controller Based<br />
Damping Controller Design<br />
Dr. Diptendu Sinha Roy Reliability Analysis of Grid<br />
Computing Based Power<br />
System Monitoring and<br />
Control<br />
Date: January 19, <strong>2012</strong><br />
Mr. Niranjan Sahu<br />
Development of Nuclear<br />
power in India and its impact<br />
Dr Ratnakar Mishra<br />
Psychometric Test for self<br />
Mr. M. Suresh and Mr. T R Lenka<br />
Date: February 09, <strong>2012</strong><br />
Mr. Sukanta Kumar Swain,<br />
Mr. Mitu Baral &<br />
Mr. Mukesh Kumar Sukla<br />
improvement<br />
International Conference on<br />
VLSI Design, <strong>2012</strong><br />
National Conference on VLSI<br />
Design & Embedded Systems<br />
(NCVDES-2011)<br />
Prof. Bhaskar Bandyopadhyay &<br />
Prof. (Dr.) A.K.Mahapatro<br />
Dr. Mihir Hota &<br />
Dr. Manabendra Patra<br />
Mr. Bhanu Prasad Behera,<br />
Mr. Pinaki Prasad Panigrahi<br />
Date: February 23, <strong>2012</strong><br />
Mr. Rabindra Ku.Shial<br />
Prasad Dash<br />
Ms. Monalisa Misra<br />
Dr. D. S. Roy<br />
Mr. Buddhadeb Pradhan<br />
(M. Tech. CSE),<br />
Ms. Trupti Mund<br />
Date: March 01, <strong>2012</strong><br />
Dr. M. N. Murty<br />
Ms. Sasmita Padhy<br />
Dr. D. S. Roy, Mr. Subhendu,<br />
Mr. Sujit and Mr. Siddharth<br />
(B. Tech, final year)<br />
Mr. Kumar Srikanta Nayak<br />
SAP TECHED 2011, Bangalore<br />
Date: March 08, <strong>2012</strong><br />
Mr. O. P. Suresh ,<br />
Apex Institute, BBS<br />
Mr. Satyabrata Das<br />
Mr. Abhro Mukherjee &<br />
Mr. Satyabrata Das<br />
Application of Business<br />
Intelligence in constructing<br />
the Lead Strategy for the<br />
Strategic Marketing of<br />
Agrochemicals in Eastern<br />
India: An ISM Approach<br />
4th Bangalore Nano<br />
Workshop on SAP GBI 2.0 at<br />
IMI New Delhi<br />
Grid Computing Based NIC<br />
Infrastructure: A step towards<br />
IT Enabled IndiaMr. Durga<br />
The 2011 International<br />
Conference on Field<br />
Programmable Technology<br />
FPT-2011<br />
How is IE phonology system<br />
different from RP/GA?<br />
Intentional Islanding of<br />
Electric Power Systems in a<br />
Grid Computing Framework:<br />
A Graph-Theoretic Approach<br />
An Introduction to ELTAI<br />
Systolic Architecture for<br />
Implementation of Two-<br />
Dimensional Discrete Sine<br />
Transform<br />
Genetically Optimized<br />
Supplementary Controller For<br />
SSSC to Damp Sub-<br />
Synchronous Oscillations<br />
Auto scaling A Web Server<br />
Using A Native Grid Middle<br />
ware<br />
Modeling and control of hybrid<br />
energy systems<br />
Paradigms and Applications<br />
of Pattern Recognition in<br />
Image Processing and<br />
Computer Vision<br />
LabVIEW core1 & core2<br />
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A decade at <strong>NIST</strong><br />
The institute celebrated the relentless service of its faculty<br />
members and staff on their completion of 10 years. The following<br />
members were felicitated with a certificate and cash award.<br />
Name Designation D.O.J<br />
Ms. Malabika Pattnaik Faculty 1 -12 -2000<br />
Mr. K. Premeswar Rao Admn. Manager 1 -11- 2000<br />
Mr. Nruparaj Sahu Liasoning Officer 10 -1- 2000<br />
Ms. Haripriya Mishra Manager, NTCS 1 -7- 2000<br />
Mr. Manas Rn. Biswal Lab Supervisor 16 -10 -2000<br />
Mr. Haris Mohanty Store Keeper 1 - 7 - 2000<br />
Mr.Dhirendra Parija Peon 25 - 9 - 2000<br />
Mr. Surendra Behera Peon 1 -10 - 2000<br />
Mr. Subas Sethy Driver 5 - 1-2000<br />
Mr. Lokanath Sethy Driver 16 - 8 -2000<br />
Mr. K. Mohan Reddy Bus Helper 12 -1- 2000<br />
Mr. Satyapriya Choudhury Guard 17- 6 -2000<br />
Mr. N. Raghunath Patra Guard 3 - 1- 2000<br />
Mr. W. Kanka Rao Guard 2 -1 - 2000<br />
Mr. Sagar Choudhury Lift Operator 1-12 - 2000<br />
Mr. Uma Sankar Behera Sweeper 1- 7 -2000<br />
Mr. Mahendra Hati Sweeper 19 -10-2000<br />
Mr. Ranjan Kumar Nayak Sweeper 23 -8 -2000<br />
8 th Asim Memorial Engineers Cricket Cup<br />
The “8th Asim Memorial Engineers Cricket Cup-<strong>2012</strong>” tournament was hosted by National Institute<br />
of Science and Technology from <strong>15</strong> th – 18 th March <strong>2012</strong> at Berhampur Stadium, Berhampur. The<br />
tournament was played between the following teams:<br />
1. G.I.E.T., Gunupur<br />
2. GITA, Bhubaneswar<br />
3. SILICON, Bhubaneswar<br />
4. CEB, Bhubaneswar<br />
5. SMIT, Berhampur<br />
6. RIT, Berhampur<br />
7. APEX, Bhubaneswar<br />
8. <strong>NIST</strong>, Berhampur<br />
<strong>NIST</strong> won the 8 th ‘Asim Memorial Engineer’s Cricket<br />
Cup Tournament’ in the final match by defeating GIET,<br />
Gunupur. Dr. Arun Kumar Padhy, Course Coordinator,<br />
B. Tech program, <strong>NIST</strong>, honoured the<br />
winning team and the best performers of the<br />
tournament.<br />
Winner<br />
-: <strong>NIST</strong>, Berhampur<br />
Runners-Up<br />
-: GIET, Gunupur<br />
Best Bats Man -: Pramatesh Bhatt-<strong>NIST</strong><br />
Best Bowler<br />
-: Md. Waqar-GIET<br />
Man of the Series -: Amarnath Singh-<strong>NIST</strong><br />
Best Fielder -: Baba Balaram Hansda-<strong>NIST</strong><br />
Best Wicket Keeper -: Pramatesh Bhatt-<strong>NIST</strong><br />
Best Disciplined Team -: SMIT, Berhampur<br />
Congratulations to <strong>NIST</strong> Cricket team!<br />
Runners-up<br />
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<strong>NIST</strong> Welcomes<br />
<strong>NIST</strong> welcomes the following members to its Parivaar :<br />
Mr. Trilochan Panigrahi joined as Faculty in the Dept.<br />
of Electronics and Communication<br />
Engineering. Mr. Panigrahi has done his M.<br />
Tech in ECE from <strong>NIST</strong> and Ph. D on the<br />
thesis, “On the Development of<br />
Distributed Estimation Techniques for<br />
Wireless Sensor Network” from NIT,<br />
Rourkela. During his Ph. D, he worked on the UKIERI<br />
(United Kingdom India Education Research Initiatives)<br />
project in collaboration with University of Edinburg, UK.<br />
Before he left for his Ph. D., Mr. Panigrahi served <strong>NIST</strong> at<br />
the position of a Lecturer in the Dept. of ECE for 3 years.<br />
He has 6 International Journal Publications and 20 National<br />
and International Conference Paper publications to his<br />
credit. His research interest lies in the areas of Distributed<br />
Signal Processing for wireless sensor network.<br />
Ms. Manaswini Misra joined as Faculty in the Dept. of<br />
Electronics and Instrumentation<br />
Engineering. She has done her B. Tech in<br />
EIE from GIET, Gunupur and M. Tech in ECE<br />
from <strong>NIST</strong>. She has more than 5 years of<br />
teaching experience working at RIT,<br />
Berhampur and <strong>NIST</strong>. Her research interest<br />
lies in the area of VLSI design.<br />
Dr. Sujit Kumar Samanta joined as Faculty in the Dept.<br />
of Mathematics. He has done his B. Sc and<br />
M. Sc in Mathematics from Vidyasagar<br />
University, West Bengal and Ph. D from IIT,<br />
Kharagpur. Dr. Samanta visited Technical<br />
University of Lisbon, Portugal, University of<br />
Avignon, France and Wilfried Laurier<br />
University, Canada during his Post doctorate. He worked<br />
at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar for a period of one year<br />
before he left for his post doctorate. His research interest<br />
lies in the areas of Queueing Theory, Inventory System<br />
and Adhoc Wireless Network.<br />
Mr. Aswini Kumar Khuntia joined as Faculty in the<br />
Department of Mechanical Engineering. He<br />
has done his BE from SMIT, Berhampur and<br />
is pursuing M. Tech in Mechanical System<br />
Design from IGIT, Sarang. Mr. Khuntia has<br />
3 years of teaching experience and 5 years<br />
of industry experience. He has 2 IEEE, 1<br />
journal, and 4 national and international Conference paper<br />
publications to his credit. His research interests lies in<br />
the areas of robotics.<br />
Mr. Kailash Pati Mandal joined as Faculty in the Dept.<br />
of Computer Science and Engineering. He<br />
has done his B. Tech and ME in CSE from<br />
Bengal College of Engineering and<br />
Technology, Durgapur and Jadavpur<br />
University respectively. He has around three<br />
years of experience in teaching as faculty<br />
at Institute of Science and Technology, Paschim<br />
Medinipur, West Bengal. His research interests lies in<br />
the areas of Mobile Computing.<br />
Ms. Reena Devi joined as Laboratory Supervisor in the<br />
Dept. of ECE. She has done her Diploma<br />
Engineering in ETC from UCPES,<br />
Berhmapur and has undergone Apprentice<br />
Training for 1 year at the same college. She<br />
has 4 years of experience as an Instructor<br />
at IEM, Jeypore.<br />
Mr. K. Manoja Kumar Patra joined as Laboratory<br />
Supervisor in the Dept. of ECE. He has done<br />
his ITI in Electronics from Govt. ITI,<br />
Berhampur and his Diploma Engineering in<br />
ETC from UCPES, Berhmapur. Before joining<br />
us, Mr. Patra worked at GRIDCO as<br />
Apprentice Trainee.<br />
Mr. Jiban Chand Padhy joined as<br />
Laboratory Supervisor in the Dept. of ECE.<br />
He has done his Diploma Engineering in<br />
ETC from Hi-Tech Institute of Information<br />
and Technology, Jeypore and underwent a<br />
training at NALCO for a period of one month.<br />
He worked with Flash Electronics, Pune as Trainee<br />
Operating Engineer before joining us.<br />
Ms. Sagarika Behera joined as<br />
Laboratory Supervisor in the Dept. of ECE.<br />
She has done her Diploma Engineering in<br />
ETC from UCPES, Berhampur.<br />
Mr. Baba Baidyanath Mahapatra joined as<br />
Administrative Officer. He is a BA and LLB<br />
from Berhampur University. Mr. Mahapatra<br />
has worked in different capacities like,<br />
Assistant Consolidation Officer, Tahasildar,<br />
Executive Magistrate at many places of<br />
Odisha and retired as the District<br />
Development Officer from Collectorate, Ganjam, Chatrapur.<br />
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Newsdesk<br />
Mr. Manish Billung, B. Tech., 6 th Sem., Team e_news<br />
<strong>2012</strong> (MMXII) is a leap year that started on a Sunday. In the Gregorian calendar, it is the <strong>2012</strong>th<br />
year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 12th year of the 3rd millennium and of the<br />
21st century, and the 3rd of the 2010s.There are variety of popular beliefs about the year <strong>2012</strong>. These beliefs<br />
range from the spiritually transformative to the apocalyptic, and center upon various contemporary interpretations of<br />
the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Scientists have disputed the apocalyptic versions. Moving on, the explosion<br />
of fist fights, police, jeers, and cheers that greeted the notorious series of co-ordinated bombing attacks in Kano,<br />
Nigeria, results in 185 deaths. The attacks are blamed on the radical Islamist group Boko Haram, 11 members of<br />
which are killed in a shootout in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri. The King who opted to be driven around<br />
in a taxi, George Tupou V, the king of Tonga, has died after ten days in intensive care in a Hong Kong hospital. The 63-<br />
year-old brought democracy to his nation of 1<strong>15</strong>,000 people. The reformist swore into power in 2006 but his coronation<br />
was pushed back two years in the wake of Nuku’alofa rioting. War crimes are serious violations of the laws applicable<br />
in armed conflict, also known as international humanitarian law, giving rise to individual criminal responsibility. The<br />
Latest such incident was reported in Afghanistan, when a US soldier, Sgt Robert Bales, went on a spree, killing 16<br />
civilians. The aftermath of World War II left Korea partitioned, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a Sovietstyle<br />
socialist regime, was established in the north while the Republic of Korea, a Western-style republic, was<br />
established in the south. Amidst tension, President Barack Obama visited the demilitarized zone (DMZ) on South<br />
Korea’s border with the North on Sunday before a nuclear summit in Seoul. The United States president’s trip to the<br />
area separating the north and south on the Korean peninsula comes amidst increased tension over Pyongyang’s plan<br />
to launch a rocket next month. His visit was a show of support for South Korea. The US has travelled a long way in<br />
recent decades, but cases like the killing of Trayvon Martin stir up fears that some lessons have not been learnt well<br />
enough. There’s mounting outrage at the shooting dead of an unarmed black teenager in Florida - it is online and it is<br />
on the streets. The reason for the fury is the belief that 17-year-old ‘Trayvon Martin’ was a victim of racism.<br />
Focusing on the national forefront, the biggest news maker was ‘Akhilesh Yadav’. The youngest CM of Uttar Pradesh<br />
is credited for winning the state for the ‘Samajwadi Party’. In a stunning electoral performance that decimated the<br />
ruling Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh’s Samajwadi Party won 224 Assembly seats, shattering<br />
the ‘national’ conceits of both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party along the way. Unhappy over the railway<br />
budget , Trinamool Supremo , Mamata Banerjee demanded the resignation of Dinesh Trivedi . Trinamool Congress MP<br />
Mukul Roy was sworn in as a cabinet minister and is expected to replace party MP Dinesh Trivedi, who had to quit as<br />
railway minister following the rail budget in which he proposed to hike passenger fares. The Maoist abduction of two<br />
Italians have taken the state of Orissa by a shock. Two Italian citizens were taken hostage by Maoists at an undisclosed<br />
location in Odisha’s Kandhamal district on Saturday. One of the two abducted men, Boscusco Paolo, has been<br />
visiting Odisha sinch 1999 and runs a travel agency in Puri that takes foreign tourists on tribal tours. The other, Clandio<br />
Colangilo, is a tourist. Fast industrialization has seen the state lose close to 12000 hectares of forest land that have<br />
been diverted in the past 10 years for mining activities and also to make way for industries in sectors like steel,<br />
aluminium, power and petroleum refining.While mining activities have taken the lion’s share of the forest land (10,182<br />
hectares), 1749.02 hectares have been diverted for industrial projects. In the business world, Apple has launched their<br />
new iPad3 . First weekend sales exceed the iPad 2, but not the iPhone 4S. Early reports that its reception was “notso-spectacular”<br />
seem to have been off the mark. Within hours of Supreme Court dismissing the review petition in the<br />
Vodafone’s tax case, government on Tuesday refunded about Rs 2,500 crore plus four percent interest to the firm. In<br />
its judgment on January 20, the Supreme Court had set aside the Bombay High Court ruling and asked the Income<br />
Tax Department to return Rs 2,500 crore deposited by Vodafone International Holdings within two months along with<br />
4 per cent interest. Rise, cheer, shed a tear, or just clap in awe. The milestone – which for some was awaited with<br />
bated breath, for others seen as merely a number, for some a zenith – has finally arrived. He searched it the world over,<br />
for over a year, not knowing that the landmark would come near to home. And on March 16, <strong>2012</strong>, he finally found it,<br />
in Bangladesh. Sachin Tendulkar is a 100-century man. On the other hand ‘THE WALL’ of Indian cricket , Rahul Dravid<br />
, has announced his retirement from International cricket. Dravid left cricket assuring everyone that India had an<br />
abundance of batting talent which could easily fill in the No. 3 slot he has left vacant. The pundits however find it hard<br />
to arrive at a consensus over the most likely candidate capable of filling the void created by his departure.<br />
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Sports Cast<br />
Mr. Ashraf Haroon Rashid, B. Tech., 4 th Sem., Team e_news<br />
As this month marks the beginning of a typical warm, sunny and at times sultry, Berhampurian<br />
summer along with a tightly packed <strong>NIST</strong> schedule, we have Mr. Fidio with us who is helping<br />
me out to get latest sports update from all across the globe. ‘Regards <strong>NIST</strong>IANs’, he says. Let’s see what<br />
he has got for us. ‘All’s well that ends well’, he says. Yeah, you guessed it right, it’s for our dearest team India who<br />
finished off their despicable campaign in Australia in super style by beating Sri-Lanka in their last encounter. Team<br />
India’s batsmen showed off some real guts to chase down a score of 321 within 37 overs. Applauses to Virat Kohli<br />
who went all guns blazing, scoring 133 in just 86 balls. In the end of the Australian tour, team India lost more than<br />
just a series, as ‘The Wall’ took a highly dignified retirement from all forms of international cricket. The Aussies won<br />
the CB series after they beat Sri-Lanka in two out of three well fought finals. In the national level, West Bengal lead<br />
by Sourav Ganguly won the Vijay Hazare trophy. Asia cup has begun and Pakistan draws the first blood by beating<br />
Bangladesh in a close first encounter. Also during the start of the Asia cup, there was a mass speculation about<br />
Sachin’s retirement. But ‘the master blaster’s’ fans do not have to worry much because Sachin won’t be retiring as<br />
of now. ‘The god doesn’t retires’, does he?<br />
Speak of the god, how can Lionel Messi be left out? The current ‘Ballon d’ Or’ scored an amazing 5 streak to guide<br />
FC Barcelona to a 7-1 win over Bayern Leverkusen in the UEFA champion’s league. Barcelona thereby entered the<br />
UEFA quarters. Chelsea produced a stunning victory against Napoli by beating them 4-1 and entering the UEFA<br />
quarters by overturning a two goal lead. This was only the fourth time when in the champions league when such a<br />
feat has been attained by any team. The other teams that qualified for the UEFA quarters are Apoel, Bayern Munich,<br />
Real Madrid, Milan, Marsielle, Barcelona, Benfica. In EPL, Manchester United lead the table followed by Roberto<br />
Mancini’s Manchester City. Tottenham and Arsenal are having a neck to neck competition for the third and fourth<br />
place followed by Chelsea at the fifth position. The La Liga is still being ruled by Real Madrid, who managed to take<br />
a more or less unbeatable lead. Following them Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona in the second place. Valencia, Levante<br />
and Malaga are at third, fourth and fifth position respectively. In Asia Cup, the Indian soccer team showed a dismal<br />
performance as they lost all of their league matches, and looked desparate to open their account. And thus, their<br />
campaign ended without even a single goal being scored by them. ‘With despair comes joy’. The Indian Hockey<br />
Team managed to qualify for the London Olympics in style as they won each and every game and emerged as the<br />
‘Numer Uno’ of their in the asian olympic qualifiers. ‘Ladies first’ says Fidido, for the Indian Women’s kabaddi team,<br />
which won the women’s hockey world cup. This was a perfect answer to the critics and Mr. Sukhbir Badal who was<br />
hell bent on demoralizing the formers. There was yet another added attraction for the women’s sports fraternity,<br />
which was marked by the well fought final of the Australian open between the screaming queens Victoria Azarenka<br />
and Maria Sharapova. The former came up triumphant. It was a ‘clash of the titans’ at the Rod Lavers arena in men’s<br />
Australian open finals which was fought between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovick, which was the longest in the<br />
history with time duration close to six hours. Djokovick was bestowed a win by the ‘goddess of victory’. This was<br />
Djokovick’s third Australian Open title. Leander Paes gave India yet another glory by winning the men’s doubles final<br />
along with Stepanek whereas, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Robert Vinci won the women’s doubles event. Leander<br />
Paes and Elena Vesnina lost the mixed doubles finals of the Australian Open against Mattek-Sands and R. Tacau.<br />
But, apart from the all the sports action across the globe, the <strong>NIST</strong> cricket team has managed to steal the show yet<br />
again by usurping the 8 TH ASIM MEMORIAL ENGINEER’S. Also the Intra-college lawn tennis tournament was held<br />
during Waves. The main draw consisted of 16 spots with 8 for top seeds and the rest from qualifying rounds. After<br />
some exciting matches the semi final line up came down to top seed Sandeep facing 4th seed Shankarsan and 3rd<br />
seed Pratik Mohanty facing 2nd seed Gaurav Rath. The Final was held on the 23rd of March where Gaurav Rath<br />
defeated Sandeep Terai 6-2, 7-6 in just under two hours to emerge champion.That’s all folks for this edition of<br />
sportscast, and stay tuned for more interesting sports updates. Adios amigos…<br />
Guided by: Mr. Naquib Akhtar<br />
That was all for this edition of Sportscast. For any queries mail me at ashurshd1@gmail.com<br />
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NOISE POLLUTION:<br />
Will it remain an integral part of Berhampur forever?<br />
Mr. Gaurav Rath - MBA, 1 st Sem<br />
Berhampur has always been a victim of noise pollution. This is due to the heavy use of<br />
loudspeakers at various temples, marriage processions, domestic functions and political<br />
events. This happens because the city administration and the police turn a deaf ear. If one approaches<br />
the police, the first reaction they give is as if you are an alien. They seem to be oblivious to the<br />
term/concept of noise pollution. They try to give various reasons like: they cannot prevent or play<br />
with the sentiments of the people. This gives the public a perception that using loudspeakers is their<br />
birth right and they carry on with their crime of using them at any place and any level, irrespective of<br />
how it affects others.<br />
The reason behind the problem is the lack of awareness among the people. They are not aware of<br />
the various laws that prohibit the use of loudspeakers. The city administration is equally responsible<br />
for this lawlessness. They have never initiated any steps to counsel the temple administrations<br />
against use of loudspeakers. Although the police have the necessary powers and equipment to<br />
monitor noise pollution levels they hardly try to give it a thought. Whenever the public approaches<br />
them, they try to pass the buck by saying that the permission is granted by the Sub-Collector etc.<br />
This inaction on the part of police and city administration gives a boost to the spread of this evil.<br />
Some or the other temple always has some function and the first thing they do is: put up two huge<br />
loudspeakers and conduct their proceedings. The other horrible practice in the city is that of marriage<br />
processions. They use heavy loudspeakers and very loud crackers. During the marriage season the<br />
whole city feels like a warzone. The law is clear:<br />
· No permission can be granted by any authority for use of public address<br />
system in the open after 10.00 PM and before 6.00 AM. No exception is<br />
possible. Any person or organization making noise on amplified system after<br />
10.00 pm is violation of the law and the person can be prosecuted under the<br />
provisions of the EPA 1986. Only District Magistrates can grant permissions<br />
<br />
after 10.00 PM for functions within closed premises. District Magistrates<br />
cannot grant permission for use of any amplified public address system after<br />
10.00 PM.<br />
· After permission has been procured the sound must fall within the sound<br />
limits prescribed in the Noise Rules. This can be measured on a sound meter.<br />
Any person violating the Rules is liable to be arrested under the stringent<br />
provisions of the EPA.<br />
This gross violation of law is almost a daily affair in the city. To be specific let me give the example:<br />
The Mahashivratri<br />
<br />
on 20/2/<strong>2012</strong>.<br />
This is believed to be a very sacred and holy festival as per Hindu tradition but the way it was<br />
conducted all around the city squeezed all the holiness out of it and turned it into a sham. Although,<br />
it was scheduled for 20 th February, most of the temples around the city started playing loudspeakers<br />
two days prior to its commencement. They continued this all through the night. By conducting such<br />
heavy crime in the name of God they violated the very basis on which every religion stands. No<br />
religion ever preaches to achieve itss goals by harming innocent people. And all the so called religious<br />
people who attended the functions at these temples also become a party to this crime. Their<br />
culpability cannot be absolved by feigning ignorance about the law. Because of the way the<br />
religion is preached in most of our cities, it loses all the sanctity that it is supposed to have.<br />
The city police patrol teams like PCR Vans are just show pieces. Even when they pass the place<br />
where a function is going on with use of loudspeakers they do not bother to get out of their vehicles<br />
and see to it that the law is not violated. They do not seize the equipment nor do they take any legal<br />
action against the offenders. All this only gives us an indication about the things to come ( a state of<br />
anarchy). The major reason behind this is that people generally do not come out and report this<br />
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matter or lodge a complaint with the appropriate authorities. They prefer to just shut their own doors<br />
and windows so that they are not disturbed. By doing this we are only encouraging such incidents. In<br />
such circumstances it is the duty of us, the educated people of this city, to take up this issue and<br />
try to sensitise people about the issue. So my dear friends let us try to be more civilized and act in<br />
a more mature way given that we are well educated. Let’s not spoil the peace of others by acting in<br />
a selfish manner. If we continue to take part in and encourage such acts then what can we expect<br />
from others? Please try to pass on this message to as many people as possible. I expect a good<br />
response to this article and wish that many of the readers come forward and join me in<br />
starting a mass movement to bring about a change. Because if we consider these issues to<br />
be petty ones and not act on it now, then a time would come when things would have slipped<br />
from our grip. If we continue to turn a blind eye to these issues and prefer to shut our doors<br />
and windows rather than pointing out the wrong of others then, we would only be encouraging<br />
this malady.<br />
Responses at:gauravrath@yahoo.com, http://www.facebook.com/gauravrath<br />
Cynosure of all Eyes<br />
Ms. Neena Choudhary, B. Tech., 8th Sem., Team e_news<br />
This is different… also awkward… but true! When I sat down to think about an issue for this edition I<br />
suddenly got overwhelmed. No, this is not my ast piece for the bulletin, but yes, this will end very soon.<br />
Writing for e_news has been one of the most treasured feelings for me. I have received more than I could<br />
contribute and above all, I am proud that hundreds, if not thousands, read what I wrote.<br />
This issue is not to bring a change in you but will focus on what a college gives you. You lament the<br />
ending of a college life only when a couple of months are left and you realize that you will never get back<br />
this life, even in the exchange of no matter what. This is the time when you realise how perfect everything<br />
was at college.<br />
I hadn’t started to lament the ending of my college experience until one of my cousins told me, “Make<br />
sure you have fun your last few months of college. And it’s O.K. if you cry when you leave.” That one line<br />
made me realise I grew up in college. I am a completely different person than the stubborn, naïve,<br />
wisdom-tooth-less18-year-old (yes that is news! I have three of my wisdom tooth growing) who stumbled,<br />
nervous about facing her seniors. I’m certainly not saying that after four years I know it all. In fact, I would<br />
guess that I know little to nothing about anything. But, I am thankful to the Almighty that I had my college<br />
surrounding and protecting me. When unemployment is at its peak I am lucky that I have a job in hand<br />
while I will be leaving my college. It actually does matter if your career is molding into the shape you<br />
always wanted, but, again, this is not the end of the road. The day you will be leaving college, it won’t<br />
matter how many offer letters you have in your pocket, what will matter most is, if all your friends are<br />
leaving with a job in hand. This is what college teaches you.<br />
My college life has been like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires, and yet for at least a second<br />
brings light in to the dark and stormy night. The things I hated about the college at the beginning all of a<br />
sudden I am starting to love them (There always are exceptions… I still do not love attending the 100<br />
minutes class.). It seems like time is running away now. A very few days are left and I have got so much<br />
to enjoy, so much to do (yes, including the project work!) and so much to write about.<br />
I am privileged that I will not be leaving instantly and have this chance of saying “Good Bye” to the college,<br />
the one that gave me the best memories of my life, people whom I can look up to and also showed a new<br />
direction which surely leads to a road with no ends.<br />
(To be continued…. in the next edition…)<br />
[Any suggestions or feedback regarding the article are welcome and can be mailed to<br />
me.neenac@gmail.com]<br />
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SAT SAYS: The Last Hooray!!!<br />
Mr. Kewal Krishna, B. Tech., 8 th Sem., Team e_news<br />
It’s time you take out your kerchiefs. Its time you find a shoulder to weep on. Its time you<br />
dive in nostalgia. Its time you savor every word you read. Its time for your beloved, your<br />
champion, your voice to fizz out. The time has come for SAT to die...<br />
Well not just yet. How can SAT depart before giving one of SAT’s famous preaching? Didn’t you all enjoy<br />
those monologues- sometimes rude, sometimes catchy, sometimes biased, sometimes even racist but<br />
always true and insightful. In this final issue SAT won’t do any of that but rather take you through a trip<br />
down memory lane. SAT started out as an acronym for satire. “Satire on Attire”, the first trumpet, though<br />
naive, was well appreciated by you all. Thank You. Students personally came up to the so-called-creator of<br />
SAT, Kewal Krishna (however SAT, has already made it clear in earlier issues that Kewal is just a medium.<br />
SAT is nothing but that voice within you that begs attention but is always unheard and ignored) and<br />
thanked him for writing something related to the students of this college and not about world economics<br />
and politics. Who reads them anyway? From there it became a mandate for SAT. SAT’s sayings would<br />
always then be related to the student fraternity.<br />
Next in the series was, “P for Placements”. It was the only occasion when you all wanted to follow the<br />
placement department’s advice sincerely. Well almost sincerely, except when it came to attending the PPTs<br />
or bringing in a photo attached CV or wearing a tie. “Strike it out” was the next memorandum wherein SAT<br />
urged the student fraternity to strike against the university strike. The semesters are 3 months and the<br />
exams, Dear Lord, are 2 months long. It can happen only in our dear BPUT. “Waka Waka” was where SAT<br />
brought to you the <strong>April</strong> fool’s joke played on all Indians by Shakira (now this is where “O la la” fits.<br />
Listening Bappi da? Not Vidya, Shakira), that Waka Waka was the FIFA world cup theme. It actually meant<br />
Wake and Whack for us Indians. Wake up from the dream of 3.25 package and whack out the depravity<br />
prevailing in the country by becoming IASs, politicians, policemen and so on. “The death of GOD” was a<br />
correspondence form He Himself requesting you all to let secularism prevail. SAT does not deny the fact<br />
that it was an opportunistic time to say so as this all took place in the wake of the judgment of the Babri<br />
demolition. Then the Golden period came for SAT where SAT’s popularity rose and rose and rose. (It’s no<br />
secret that SAT likes to brag)<br />
“<strong>NIST</strong> leaks” based on Wiki leaks were received with great appreciation. That Sagar Xerox’s methods were<br />
monopolistic or that the faculty was also tired of taking classes were all revealed in this cable. “V day”<br />
made fun of girls and their unreal desire for perfect love and the more perplexing one, soft toys. It also<br />
showed how boys spend their mess bills to get those teddies and chocolates. SAT continued the tradition<br />
in “International Men’s Day” demanding a day in recognition of the opposite’s opposite gender. Men duh...<br />
Don’t you hate it when a girl gets ahead of you in the queue and gets the last available tickets of your<br />
favorite movie? How often do you have to get up in a bus or train so that the pretty lady there can be<br />
seated? Don’t you despise the fact that you have to carry around the entire luggage whenever you are<br />
traveling? And how often have you to pay the bill just because you don’t put a lipstick or a suns crème or<br />
mascara…the list can go on and on and on….It was then that SAT proposed a day for the anger amongst<br />
peace, for the greed amongst sacrifice, for the ruthless amongst love, for the problem amongst solution.<br />
How about an INTERNATIONAL MEN’s DAY on the 30 th of FEBRUARY because that’s how the dark and<br />
handsome had turned dark to the women in their life for the past thousands of years- oblivious to their<br />
needs and butchers of their desires. SAT’s last gig featuring the fairer sex was “A or I” where SAT unearthed<br />
an interesting phenomena that 87.5% of the girls studying at <strong>NIST</strong> from its inception have had a name<br />
ending with, yeah you guessed it right, an “a” or an “i”. After this SAT brought before you “Resolutions<br />
<strong>2012</strong>” where SAT tactfully showed that the resolution of every boy was to get a girl and that of girls were<br />
to get slim, to get fairer, and to buy clothes… SAT was brought to you the resolutions of famous personalities<br />
like that of the man with the turban having a resolution of making one decision on his own.<br />
It has been a great journey. The love and support you extended mesmerized SAT and SAT always<br />
acknowledged them in the issues. THANK YOU. Now it’s time to say the goodbyes. SAT hopes you would<br />
remember SAT as SAT would always remember you.<br />
<br />
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SAP Labs changes the fate of FIVE<br />
It started at 11:00 am on the 24 th of March, <strong>2012</strong> at the office of SAP Labs, Bengaluru. We had two rounds of<br />
interview, technical and Management. Each was an elimination round. The interview was on a one to one basis<br />
and results were told almost immediately to the concerned candidate. Basically, the interview revolved around<br />
what was written in the resume. So like our teachers say from day zero, we ought to know every letter in<br />
our resume in detail.<br />
In technical round we were asked questions majorly from Database. Other subjects that they asked questions were<br />
from C/C++/Java (whichever language we said we were comfortable with), Algorithms, Data structures and Operating<br />
systems. Some of us were grilled on the projects we had mentioned in our resume. Some technical interviews lasted<br />
for an hour. Every technical interview included at least one puzzle question. One thing we all realized was that we<br />
were asked very fundamental questions. It was our understandability of the concepts that they wanted to check.<br />
The management round covered questions from every area including our introduction, projects and technical know-how.<br />
In one round or the other we were<br />
asked what we knew of the company<br />
and its products. They even asked some<br />
of us our goals and where else we have<br />
been placed. One of the most surprising<br />
questions was: “Whether the faculties<br />
of <strong>NIST</strong> are good or the students?” To that the answer as we know is BOTH. We were asked to write codes and while<br />
doing that they continued to bombard us with more questions. Overall, they made sure we knew what we said we did.<br />
Our suggestion to our juniors would be that make sure you know everything about what you have written in your<br />
resume, including you project partner’s name! Do not take seminars, lab projects, summer training or your paper<br />
presentations lightly. You never know wh en these may turn your interview around. Make sure your basics are clear<br />
and please do keep your class notes, DO NOT lose them. We know how much they matter. At the nth minute books<br />
will look like a big jumble. Most important never ever put yourself down, believe in yourself and have faith.<br />
We thank our Director, Prof. Sangram Mudali; Placement director, Prof. Geetika Mudali; Dean, Dr Ajit Ku. Panda;<br />
Course co-ordinator, Mr A.K.Padhy; the Placement Cell and every single teacher who has taught us either inside<br />
the classroom or the lab or anywhere outside it. Our special thanks to Mr Atanu Dutta, Mr Sudhir Panigrahy, Mr<br />
Bhawani Shankar Pattnaik and Mr Shom P. Das for their help and guidance from the beginning to the end. Lastly<br />
we thank our parents and friends for standing with us through it all.<br />
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Saraswati Puja Celebrations<br />
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From Mailbox<br />
ODISHA DIARY<br />
Anil K. Rajvanshi<br />
Email: anilrajvanshi@gmail.com<br />
1. I was invited to give 2 lectures in late January<br />
<strong>2012</strong> at National Institute of Science and Technology<br />
(<strong>NIST</strong>), Berhampur, Orissa. This gave me an<br />
opportunity to see Orissa after 30 years.<br />
2. <strong>NIST</strong> is run by a dynamic IIT Kanpur alumnus<br />
Sangram Mudali. He is trying to set up a first class<br />
Institute of Technology in Orissa almost modeled on<br />
IITs. I gave a lecture on social entrepreneurship to<br />
his MBA/engineering students.<br />
3. <strong>NIST</strong> also conducts a program (funded by DST)<br />
called Inspire. In this program the toppers of Orissa<br />
schools (CBSE, ICSE and Odisha board) are invited<br />
for a 4-5 days camp at <strong>NIST</strong> campus to be inspired<br />
to join S&T stream for higher studies. I was the chief<br />
guest of this program this time. It was a wonderful<br />
experience to interact with nearly 400 bright students<br />
of class XI/XII and to respond to their sharp<br />
questions. This was the third time that “Inspire” camp<br />
is being conducted at <strong>NIST</strong>.<br />
From : Bimal Sethi bimal237@gmail.com<br />
To: editorsnistenews@gmail.com<br />
Sub: Hello Sir<br />
Dear Sir,<br />
I am Bimal Kanta Sethi, Roll No - 2002<strong>15</strong>237, Branch-<br />
EEE. <strong>NIST</strong> has given me excellent knowledge in the<br />
fields of Instrumentation as well as Electrical.<br />
I joined BHEL in the year February 2008 in the Project<br />
Division. I worked in Electrical & Instrumentation field<br />
in the Thermal as well as CCPP (72MW CFBC Boiler<br />
& 351MW CCPP) in Gujarat. Now I am in Noumea,<br />
Nouvelle Caledonia, French colony for assignment for<br />
2X135CFBC Boiler.<br />
If anyone interested to gain knowledge about Power<br />
Plant in the field of Electrical & Instrumentation, they<br />
are mostly welcome.<br />
My email id:<br />
bimal237@gmail.com,bksethi@bhelpswr.co.in<br />
Wish u all the best.<br />
Bimal<br />
The Challenge<br />
Mr. N. Serish, Faculty Member ,<br />
Dept. of English<br />
“Lots of work – practice. Interested in more<br />
detail, read books, see me, practice more examples. If<br />
no go – OK we slow up. Hand in some problems so I<br />
can tell.”<br />
This was one of the principles that physicist<br />
Richard Feynman wrote up for himself and for his<br />
students before settling down as a lecturer of<br />
mathematical physics at Cornell, US. His subsequent<br />
lectures collected as “Feynman Lectures on Physics”<br />
rewrote the knowledge of physics which was<br />
necessitated by the shockwave of atomic age. Quantum<br />
mechanics, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, particle<br />
physics almost every aspect of reality and science that<br />
students learnt at top universities in Berlin, Cambridge,<br />
Caltech, MIT, Princeton and dozens of other universities<br />
was outdated by the time of Trinity test in Los Alamos.<br />
Today, when we read these lectures, we can almost see<br />
Professor Feynman sitting on the desk in the classroom<br />
and trying to talk, running up to the black board and draw<br />
and then try to explain the fundamentals as well as the<br />
more esoteric aspects of physics.<br />
But in the classrooms of 21 st century India the curriculum<br />
has not changed since 1970s. The textbooks are only<br />
becoming fatter and fatter presenting the students with a<br />
challenge of just reading rather than letting them get<br />
enlightened.<br />
Let me state one example, one of the best grammar books<br />
I have read is Richard Morris: English Grammar. A 133-<br />
page book that set me on the path of using correct<br />
language, it also had a message that English can be learnt/<br />
corrected only by using it. Now, when I encounter 700<br />
or <strong>80</strong>0 page tomes on Technical Communication, I am<br />
zapped. For a fact, I know that a student in a technical<br />
institution would be more focused on his subject than<br />
learning about parsing a sentence into its elements.<br />
<strong>NIST</strong> students now have access to the sea of technical<br />
knowledge through the e-journals. And as the world learns<br />
more about neutrinos travelling or not travelling faster<br />
than light and God particle (Higgs Boson) the challenges<br />
of learning, problem solving and innovation are becoming<br />
ever more for the students.<br />
For the teachers, the crux of the problem is faced in the<br />
classrooms of 90 students. Should the teachers focus<br />
only on completing the vast syllabus or should they try to<br />
open up the young minds to ideas, problem solving,<br />
innovation turning the students into thought leaders,<br />
entrepreneurs and innovators?<br />
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