NIST e-NEWS(Vol 56, Sept 15, 2008)

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Inauguration of NIST Business SchoolNational Institute of Science & Technology, Berhampur added another feather into its existing disciplines bystarting the NIST Business School. The institute runs the 2 Years Full Time Post Graduate Diploma inManagement (PGDM) with 60 seats of intake. Approved by the All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE), New Delhi & Govt. of India (Ministry of Human Resource Development), the program’s coursesstructure is designed based on the Industry & Business requirement.The NBS will focus on the ever changing paradigms in the Industry context and will teach students in the growingsegments of the industry. The intake of the NBS is through CAT/MAT/XAT/JEE scores and performance in GD/Interview. The NBS is housed in a separate building with 15000 sq. ft of space. It is well equipped with aexclusive computer laboratory, English Language Laboratory and Digital Library with access to latest case toolsand management journals.The NBS was formally inaugurated with the first batch joining the PGDM program on its orientation day on 6 thSeptember, 2008. Mr. Shom P Das is the Course Coordinator of the PGDM program. We wish him all the bestin the efforts to make the PGDM program the most sought after in the state of Orissa.Orientation Program for the FreshersThe Orientation Program for the 2008 batch of B.Tech, MCA &also the 3 rd batch of MBA & the 1st batch of Post GraduationDiploma in Management (PGDM) was held on 30 th Aug and 6thSeptember 2008 respectively. Prof. Sangram Mudali, Director,NIST along with the Placement Director of the Institute, Ms.Geetika Mudali; Dean, Dr. Ajit Kumar Panda; CourseCoordinator, B. Tech., Dr. Arun Kumar Padhy; CourseCoordinator, M. Tech., Mr. M. Suresh; Course Coordinator,MBA, Mr. Shom Prasad Das; Course Coordinator, MCA, Mr.Siddharth B Neelamani welcomed the freshers and enlightenedthem with their much informative, inspiring and thought-provokingtalks.‘Replenir Mantra’ by RECThe Renewable Energy Club (REC), NIST organised the event, “Replenir Mantra” which was carried fora week in the institute premises. Students were asked to put insuggesion for a feasible power generation method using renewablesources. The Q.Terra quiz was also organised and proved to bea huge success with more than 200 participants in it. The winningteams of different events were awarded with cash amount by thechief guest, Col. Rajendran, Army Air Defence College,Berhampur in the valedictory function along with Prof. SangramMudali, Director; Dr. Gayadhara Panda, Coordinator, REC; Ms.Sanghamitra Banerjee, President, REC. The prize winners ofProf. Mudali, Col. Rajendran, Dr. Panda & Ms.Banerjee (L to R) in the valedictory func.Ms. Geetika Mudali (R), PlacementDirector, NIST welcoming the freshersSlogan Competition are 1 st Prize-Shambit (2nd yr.) & 2 nd -Ravideep(4th yr.), Idea Generation: 1 st Prize- Birupakshya Dash(3rd. yr.), 2 nd -Sameer Kumar Patro & Niladri Bihari Nayak (3rd.National Institute of Science & Technology, Berhampur, 761008 9 of 18
Yr.) & Consolation Prize-Ms. Elima Tripathy (2nd yr.), Quiz contest: 1 st Prize - Gopal Kinkar Sahu & AnimeshSadangi (2nd Yr.), 2 nd - Arvind Kumar Nahak & K. Narsingh Subudhi (2nd Yr.), 3 rd - Byomkesh Panda &Surjya Narayan (3rd Yr.).M. Tech. program in Computer Science& Engineering at NISTNIST got the approval from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi to run the M. Tech.program in Computer Science & Engineering with 18 seats from the academic session 2008- 09. Admission tothe program with be through the PGAT conducted by the BPUT.Foreign Delegation at NISTA Foreign Delegation comprising of high ranked dignitaries fromthe Republic of Uganda, East Africa had visited the NISTcampus on 16th May 2008.The Special Advisor to the President of Uganda on IT, theMember of Parliament of Republic of Uganda, the ManagingDirector of Advance Technologies (a $70million IT company) &Mr. Pradeep Verma, MD, Knowledge Online, India had a formalinteraction with the faculty members of the institute along withthe Director, Prof. Mudali & the Dean, Dr. Panda, with respectto a collaboration on the opening of Jinja Institute of Technology,a premiere Post Graduate and Professional Education Instituteat Republic of Uganda.New modules in OISTwo new modules have been added to the existing Online Information System of the institute: the HumanResource Development (HRD) module which provides detailed information of the employees of the instituteand the Leave Management System (LMS) module which enables the employees taking leave online in abetter and smoother process.Techastra ‘08A National Level Technical Symposium entitled, Techastra ‘08was organized by the Department of Computer Science andEngineering of Dr. MGR Educational and Research Institute, aDeemed University under UGC in Chennai on 17 th and 18 th April,2008. Participants over 200 in number participated from all overTamil Nadu and other states in different events. Mr. Yusuf Sirajof B.Tech 4 th sem., NIST represented the state of Orissa andbagged 1 st Prize in the Coding (Programming in C), 1 st Prize inSangfroid (Quiz), 2 nd Prize in War of Wizards (Counter StrikeGaming) and 3 rd Prize in Adzap (Advertising Product). He gotcertificates of merit and a prize money of Rs. 9000 in all.Prof. Sangram Mudali,(R) Director, NISTwith the Foreign DelegatesMr. Yusuf Siraj (R) receiving award at‘Techastra 08’National Institute of Science & Technology, Berhampur, 761008 10 of 18
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