EOY2013

Ansal University campus

EDITORIAL BOARD:
Parul Garg Munjal
Vijaya Sethi
Sangeeta Trehan
Namita Wasan
Pratibha Kumari Singh
Kiran Khatter
ADVISORY BOARD:
Rupinder Singh
Mike Knowles
Alok K Kushwaha
Surinder Batra
Sanjeev K Sharma
Shikha Gupta
Atul Kumar
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YEARBOOK 2013
SUSHANT SCHOOL OF ART & ARCHITECTURE
SUSHANT SCHOOL OF DESIGN
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
SCHOOL OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
The Editors thank all the faculty and students of Ansal University whose works
have been featured in the book and who have contributed to the content in a
myriad ways.
SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCES
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES & LANGUAGES
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Content
Chancellor’s Message 4
Vice Chancellor’s Message 5
Trustee’s Message 7
REVOLUTION BY DESIGN 50
SUSHANT SCHOOL OF DESIGN 57
Dean’s Message 58
Design Programmes 60
Programme Structure 61
Faculty - SSD 64
Foundation Exhibition 66
Painting Workshop 68
PLATFORM LECTURE SERIES 88
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
STUDIES 95
Dean’s Message 97
HOW STORIES CAN SAVE US 130
SCHOOL OF COMPUTER
APPLICATIONS 133
Dean’s Message 135
Events and Activities 136
Platform Lecture Series at SCA 141
Faculty - SCA 142
Faculty Achievements 144
SUSHANT SCHOOL OF
ART & ARCHITECTURE 9
Dean’s Message 10
About the School 12
Associations 70
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING &
TECHNOLOGY 73
Highlights of 2012-2013 98
International Conference 104
B Sc. Hotel Management & Catering
Technology 106
SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCES 149
Dean’s Message 151
Faculty - SAS 152
Brief of the Programme 13
Dean’s Message 75
Faculty - SMS 109
Faculty Achievements 155
Architectural Design 16
Projects 2012-2013 28
Highlights of the Academic Session 2012-13 76
Faculty - SET 82
Faculty Achievements 110
Achievements/Activities of Students 114
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES &
LANGUAGES 157
Design Competitions and Awards 30
The Founders Day 34
Platform Lecture Series at SSAA 36
Faculty Achievements 83
Student Achievements 87
LIFE AT CAMPUS 118
SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL
STUDIES 121
Programmes at SHL 158
Adventurous Trip organized under the
aegis of IAYP 159
Highlights of 2012-2013 160
Campus Development 37
Dean’s Message 122
Faculty - SHL 162
Convocation: Batch of 2006-2011 40
Brief of the Programme 123
Faculty Achievements 163
Faculty - SSAA 42
Faculty - SIS 123
Faculty Achievements 44
Events at SIS 124
ALUMNI CORNER 164
Bachelor of Fine Arts in
Painting and Applied Art 48
Distinguished Visitors at AU 128
ANSAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
AND MANAGEMENT, LUCKNOW 166

CHANCELLOR’S MESSAGE
VICE CHANCELLOR’S MESSAGE
The journey of excellence which started more than two decades ago,
reached a new milestone with the establishment of Ansal University under
the Haryana Private Universities Act, 2006. I congratulate the management of
this new age University for its progressive and futuristic approach to imparting
higher education to students drawn from around the world in disciplines
and professions that have the greatest bearing on the future of India and the
World.
The greatest universities in the world pursue their mission of serving mankind
through imparting knowledge and wisdom and exploration of the unknown
through in-depth research, thereby improving the quality of life. Ansal
University is regarded as an institution which lays extraordinary foundations of academic excellence. Our alumni, as
professionals and industry leaders have added value to the best companies and organisations throughout the world. We
aim to build the future on these strengths and rise to even greater heights of distinction, scholarship and service. We shall
develop Centres of Excellence that bring the cutting-edge to all fields, benefitting society as a whole and the poor and
underprivileged in particular. Our collaboration with the top ranked Universities of US, UK, Canada, Australia and France
have helped us in benchmarking the global best practices.
The future of our societies entails greater-than-ever-before responsibility on the universities. In a world which will witness
increasing age of its people, governance issues, newer horizons in use of technologies and fast changing economic
landscape, specialized knowledge and skills will be key resources and will be highly sought after. The challenges shared
by all universities, will be to generate new knowledge keeping in mind the environmental sustainability.
I thank the university staff, alumni, students and industry who have contributed to the growth of our institutions and
commit ourselves to nurturing students who shall lead the communities of the future and work with a visionary zeal to
serve the humanity and transform societies by bringing peace, harmony and prosperity.
The Ansal University is a new-age University known for globally
recognized quality education in technology, management, humanities,
architecture and design. At the University, we maintain the highest
standards of education and give our students the most stimulating
environment for learning. Our focus is on developing human resources
that are appropriate for India’s emerging needs as we go forward in the
new millennium. There has never been a greater need for having different
perspectives, right attitudes, relevant practical knowledge, softer skills,
innovative thinking, creativity and above all, leadership. The changing
business, social and economic environment needs restructuring of
educational processes and educational programmes in new areas.
At Ansal University, we believe in academic excellence, social responsibility, professional and personal growth of
students and faculty and these values guide us in every endeavour. Our faculty have the right blend of experience,
academic qualifications from leading institutions in India and abroad and rich experience of working in leading
institutions and universities. They employ latest pedagogical tools like structured lectures, seminars, case studies,
live projects and assignments to create a learning environment. The trans-disciplinary approach to learning helps
students develop integrative skills, research orientation, sound reading habits and inculcate team spirit.
There is a structured approach to engage the students in projects related to social problems to sensitize them
towards these issues and become better human beings.
The End of the Year book presents an account of varied learning activities undertaken by schools of the University
and represents rich learning our students undergo in an inter-disciplinary environment with understanding of multicultural
sensitivities.
Wish you an enjoyable reading!
SUSHIL ANSAL
CHANCELLOR, ANSAL UNIVERSITY
C S NAGPAL
VICE CHANCELLOR, ANSAL UNIVERSITY

TRUSTEE’S MESSAGE
Our cardinal principle at Ansal University is that we are ‘learning-centric’ and not ‘system-driven’. For us, the seminal
activity is the interaction between a teacher and a student, whether within a classroom or without. Every other is a support
to this seminal activity. The freedom of academic enquiry precedes all.
Each of our eight schools and programmes has its own specific pedagogy, methodology and emphasis. But still there are
some common qualities that mark an Ansal University education. This includes the high quality of our dedicated faculty
which has an international outreach, the small intimate size of our programmes and classes, the emphasis on dialogue
outside the classroom and the intensive nature of the education. Among these I wish to highlight two aspects that make
Ansal University experience truly distinct. First is a hands-on, discovery mode of learning: enquiry by doing. Across the
different programmes, there is an emphasis on concrete doing, of moving forward from concrete problems to solutions
and not from abstract principles or rote learning.
This segues into the second aspect of the unique Ansal University experience. This is the hands-on enquiry that happens
under the rubric of ‘Trans-Disciplinary Learning’. TDL, as it has come to be known, builds on the long tradition of a liberal
arts education: to think, learn, question and research liberally, freely and yet in a disciplined manner without disciplinary
boundaries. TDL emphasizes a necessary width of horizon in contrast to a narrow vocational focus and encourages
students towards dialogue and team-building. It espouses in itself all the aspects of a good education.
Our excellence is well illustrated by the global and national recognition our students and faculty have garnered. Across
the schools, our students have won national and international awards, our faculty has published in high-impact journals
and the University has hosted a number of international conferences. What has been truly remarkable are the many
international tie-ups as well as the students and faculty exchange programmes that have poured into the various schools.
We remain focused on the service of our nation, but our benchmarks are truly global. Our students step out confidently
not only into a fast growing country but as leaders in a global arena.
At Ansal University, we have embarked on a boundless journey of enquiry with imagination, discipline and determination. The
works, activities and conference notes contained in the year book here are a testimony to this and a harbinger of things to come.
SHEETAL ANSAL
TRUSTEE ANSAL UNIVERSITY
Work by Deepak Aggarwal - SSAA Student

SUSHANT SCHOOL
OF ART &
ARCHITECTURE

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ethical - this is not just a favourable set of values one espouses when convenient, but what one deploys
even when not personally favourable. In a fast developing country with critical sustainability, environmental
and equitability issues, the ethical cannot be overemphasized. These emphases, and the dynamism of our
exceptional faculty, make SSAA the benchmark for every architecture school in the region today.
Two years ago SSAA had began focusing on sustainability and in incorporating the new tools that have
emerged in energy analyses. We specifically set out not to create an add-on understanding of sustainability but
to address it as a core concern of design. In the new curriculum and structure that SSAA has now adopted,
there is now even more hands-on training with this and the accompanying new digital tools. SSAA graduates
will be on the forefront of addressing any issue of sustainability with more advanced means.
Dean’s Message
Sushant School of Art and Architecture is now almost 25 years young. Excellence has been the mode of
existence since inception, and today we step forward with a confidence that comes only with success and
experience. An SSAA education is unique and marked for the emphasis on free thinking, technical expertize
and design that addresses social and cultural issues. Architecture for us is still heroic and modernist but today
it is also a mode for theoretical enquiry and consideration in a country that is now taking its rightful place in
the global arena.
At SSAA there are four aspects of architectural education, just as there are four legs to a chair. First is the
emphasis on vocational skills that one must learn to master just as any craftsperson. Second is the emphasis
on professional skills, which particularly in architecture means not only spatial manipulation, but also the
ability to concretize ideas in to built form. A third emphasis is that of liberal thinking- that is the ability to think,
analyze and learn freely and follow a query without a consideration for an end. This emphasis on philosophia
is what separates architecture from other professional and vocational training. A last emphasis is on the
With the completion of our digital lab with 3D printers/ rapid prototype machine, laser cutters and scanners,
we are now also setting up a new design pedagogy which will seamlessly move from digital to analog. In India
we are the first architecture school to do so. We are also now emphasizing more on intensive workshops
with emerging technologies such as robots in the construction industry, again a first. These workshops as
well as our dynamic student exchange programme and joint studios with international universities and our
guest lectures and conferences has brought home a simple point- our students and faculty exceed global
standards and yet remain focused on addressing problems specific to India with imagination and highest
technical expertise. The success of our students and faculty in national and international competitions as well
as publications makes this an indisputable fact.
Sushant School of Art and Architecture will continue to be one of the most intense and cutting-edge centres
of architectural discourse. With our community of innovative designers, architecture practitioners, scholars
as well as excellent students we will continue to structure professional roles, political agendas and academic
discourses in India and the global arena.
Rupinder Singh
Dean, Sushant School of Art and Architecture
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ABOUT THE SCHOOL
The Sushant School of Art & Architecture (SSAA) was established in September 1989 by
Chiranjiv Charitable Trust, a premier voluntary organization devoted to the cause of education.
In the last 20 years, SSAA has established itself as one of the top three architectural institutes
in the Indian subcontinent (as per the EUMD India List of Top Architectural Institutes in India
by the British Council). The B Arch. degree at Sushant School from the current academic year
shall be awarded through Ansal University, Haryana. The school is recognized by the ministry
of Human Resource Development, Government of India, All India Council for Technical
Education (AICTE) and the Council of Architecture (COA).
SSAA is located within a sprawling 14 acre campus against the scenic Aravalli hills and
boasts of modern infrastructure and facilities. In every stage of its long history, the school
has renewed the faith in the agenda of change, which can inspire the students to experiment,
create and refine their ideas and encourage a process of guided self learning. The emphasis
is on the development of faculties of perception, analysis, assimilation and decision making
with the help of both objective information and subjective attitudes based on reasons.
Architectural education at SSAA encompasses training in specific skills and exposure to a
broad range of issues. Technology and humanities are integrated with design to enhance
this process.
SSAA has a reputed tradition of excellence, which is demonstrated in excellent work being
done by the alumni in many countries across the globe. The faculty at Sushant School is
geared towards developing in each student, a strong sense of design, technical sensibility
and all–round awareness early in their career and endeavours to form many more research
and practice alliances in the future.
Through its alumni and faculty linkages, the Sushant School has cultivated associations with
a number of international universities such as Oxford Brookes’ University, University of York,
University of Melbourne, University of Virginia, University of Montreal, University of British
Columbia, and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Illinois Institute of Technology in
Chicago, The Frank Lloyd Foundation, USA and The Schumacher Institute, Bristol, UK. The
school is an affiliate member of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA),
USA. International relationships ensure that SSAA renews its respected status within the
world design community.
brief of the programme
The five year under graduate programme in Architecture aims at attaining a high level of
excellence in architectural design, supported by lateral inputs from other subjects. The
students are exposed to a wide range of regular subjects and elective courses to equip
them with the knowledge and skills required to deal with the regional, climatic, economic,
technological and socio-cultural diversity of India, and the need for evolved solutions that
are unique to their context.
TO STIMULATE SENSITIVITY AND UNVEIL
CREATIVE TALENTS
TO REINFORCE INTELLECTUAL CAPABILITIES
AND DEVELOP PROFICIENCY IN PROFESSIONAL
SKILLS TO ENABLE GRADUATES TO COMPETENTLY
PURSUE ALTERNATIVE CAREERS WITHIN THE
BROAD SPECTRUM OF ARCHITECTURE
TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES TO STUDENTS TO
TRY OUT THE ROLE THEY WILL EVENTUALLY PLAY
AS RESPONSIBLE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY UNDER
SUPERVISION AND INTERACTIVE GUIDANCE
Each year of study at the school concentrates on a thematic base, addressed
programmatically in the design studio and supported by theoretical understanding and
related technological knowledge. Rural and urban settlement, social housing, community
structure and cultural fabric, urban process and architecture of the city are some of the
themes, connected with each other at various levels of the five years of study. The three
pillars of sustainability (environmental, social and economic) form the underlying principle
of learning at the school: a common thread through the years. Students are encouraged
to develop their individual design approach with an understanding of making of
architecture through the analysis of history of ideas, theories and cultural agendas, which
constitute the base for an architectural outcome of a particular time. Faith in creative
architecture therefore gets linked with the historical continuum in order to reinforce the
process of introspection.
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The second year
curriculum includes studios for
Architectural Design, Building
construction & Materials and
Drawings & Communication in
continuity with first year. The
theoretical courses covered are
Theory of Structures, Building
services, History of Architecture
& Psychology
The fourth year curriculum
includes research work in the form of
an individual dissertation. The design
studio involves group housing or Urban
Design and culminates the last semester
in the form of an individual Design Thesis.
Parallel to the Design, the final year
students take a building construction
studio and theoretical courses including
Professional Practice & Contract
Management, Town Planning and Theory
of Structures.
The first year curriculum
includes studios for
Architectural Design, Building
Construction & Materials,
Drawing & Communication
and practical courses for
Model Workshop and
Surveying & leveling. The
theoretical courses are History
of Human settlements,
Theory of Structures, History
of Art and Climatology &
Environmental Studies.
In the third year,
a practical course in
Advanced Computer
Application is added to
the curriculum, along
with the studios for
Architectural Design,
Building construction &
Materials. The theoretical
courses in the third
year include Theory of
Structures, Building
services, History & Theory
of Architecture along with
Quantities, Specification,
Estimation and Contract
Management.
The fifth year comprises of Practical Training
during which students undertake apprenticeship
with a registered architect in any organization
which provides services related to habitat design
and construction. The work includes assistance
in design, preparation of construction drawings
and documents, visits to construction works and
attendance of meetings with clients/ consultants..
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FIRST YEAR
THIRD YEAR
SECOND YEAR
FOURTH YEAR
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Architectural design is seen as the central discipline of the architecture programme. The design studio is the arena
where the student develops his basic design skills while testing out the theories and methods learnt in the other courses
of humanities, technological and professional streams. The students understand the determinants of built form as
the interplay between form and space, affected by the contextual imperatives such as society, economy, cultural and
environmental concerns and the craft and technology of building. They review experiences from their own immediate and
personal environments as well as the values and perceptions of others involved in the process of design, namely, the user,
the client and the public at large. Derivation of concepts and strategies then lead to deliberate responses in the shape of a
specific design proposal with the help of organizational and communicative skills.
Each architectural design studio includes both short problems known as ‘time problems’ or sketches and major problems
that are process-oriented schemes. At every stage, the design problems are introduced through lectures, group discussions
and library research so as to provide the necessary philosophical and attitudinal background to a rational design approach.
The studio programme for various design problems is set well in advance of the commencement of the term. Wherever the
scope of integration exists, it is ensured that learning in other subjects is directly relevant to the studio problem.
The design faculty ensures clarity between cumulative and cyclical processes whereby the experiences from the previous
year are used as a base for increasing the depth and breadth of knowledge and development of skills in the following
year. There is an overall progression from first to fourth year, whereby the students start with engaging with spaces for the
self, to community, institutions and the scale of housing and urban design. Through the iterative and cumulative design
process, different sets of aesthetic operations are performed on available data of various kinds. This anchors research into
the design process.
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First Year
The first year design studio gives an introduction to design, its meaning, relevance and impact on the society. All designs,
whether they are abstract or material, have a common basis that they always express a new idea. In order to design, one
must invent, create a new and original conception for the given problem and finally, develop and execute this invention.
The origin of design process lies in the creative thought that takes numerous factors into account. The studio enables the
students to understand these tools and begin the process of design thinking.
Introduction to the creative method through design principles and taking the mind of the student from the ‘known to
the unknown’ is a continuous process. The tangible outcome of the extensive studio assignments is, to corroborate
the perception of space. It exposes the students to the plethora of the space world. The students coming from the
traditional vertical system of education unlearn and relearn by focusing on ‘learning by doing’. The objective is to tackle
students from varied backgrounds to a highly focused training in analytical abilities, visualization, communication and
representational skills.
The syllabus of the first year provides a creative stimulus and a starting point towards visual design and basic elements in
design, that is points, lines, planes and solids along with their application. The creative exercises are designed with these
elements in conjunction with the design principles. The studio involves continuous research that prepares the student for
higher courses in the succeeding years.
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Second Year
The second year design studio is envisioned as a ‘contextual’ studio that introduces an understanding of the urban
context, building bye-laws and opportunities offered by local environments. The design studio emphasizes on progressive
understanding of the site surroundings, up to the complexity and scale of a neighbourhood. Through the course, there is
an emphasis on overall built form and its integration with open spaces, constructional systems appropriate to social and
economic contexts and climate responsive design.
As a part of the studio, a study trip is conducted, during which the students undertake a settlement study. The emphasis is
on documenting and analyzing the cultural context and its impact on various building typologies and settlement morphology.
The final project of the studio enables the students to engage with the issues and opportunities that emerge from the
settlement study, culminating in a design project that embodies cultural expression and symbolism in form and function.
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water body
water body
STUDY MODELS GAVE AN IDEA TO THE SCALE OF THE PROJECT AND WERE REALLY HELPFUL IN THE DESIGN
DEVELOPMENT STAGES. THE INITIAL THOUGHT OF COMBINING ALL THE PROGRAMS AND STACKING THEM ,
LATER CHANGED INTO AN ARENA OF A BUNCH OF BUILDINGS WITH PROPER
CONNECTIONS TO SUPPORT THE MAIN IDEA BEHIND THE VERTICAL URBAN FACTORY .
Third Year
site - sector 29, gurgaon
In order to understand the complexity of design and its interaction with social, environmental VERTICAL URBAN and economic FACTORYperspectives
SANCHIT ARORA
the studio was themed as ‘responsible design’ and students were given a choice between two design problems, namely
a world trade centre design or a hotel complex. A world trade centre being a mixed used development, students were
guided to understand the dichromatic nature of areas where multiple activities take place. Based on the nature, students
were asked to present case studies, one primary and one secondary, such that the concept of programmes interacting
with each other at various levels and scales is understood. Students were also asked to germinate the concept for using a
unique feature that was coined as the ‘X-programme’, introduced along with the other programme requirements.
3A
section - aa’
1:500
The hotel project had to accommodate multiple uses in addition to the guest rooms and reception and lobby areas. These
spaces could include multiple restaurants, cafes, spa, service rooms, offices, luggage store, banquet hall and auditoriums
for conferences and meetings, along with associated ancillary functions as needed. The expected product would be a
designed building or complex that functions round the clock, making better use of the expensive resource and providing
infrastructure like parking space, service cores, facilities confirming to all the bye law norms, but at the same time,
presenting innovative creative solutions that make it sustainable by all means.
section - aa’
1:500
site - sector 29, gurgaon
site sections
section - bb’
VERTICAL URBAN FACTORY
SANCHIT ARORA 3A
1:200
1:500
typical apartments layout
1:200
section - bb’
1:500
1:200
elevation b
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Fourth Year
The intention of the fourth year urban design studio was to help students envisage an alternate future for Gurgaon,
understanding the unique conditions and possibilities it offered both as India’s first neo liberal city and a hub of the
service sector as well as a magnet for migrants of all sections of society. The studio faculty stressed on an urban design
pedagogy that focused on inclusive, people centric strategies taking into account the unique nature of urban design in the
Indian context.
The studio takes up for study, two sites in Gurgaon: the first was ‘Gurgaon Old City’, north of National Highway 8, and the
second, ‘the Rapid Rail influence corridor’, comprised of the area between Mehrauli Gurgaon Road and National Highway
8, including areas like Cyber City, Nathupur village, DLF Phase two, DLF Phase three and so on. The two sites were
taken up because they offered learning opportunities in terms of understanding different types of urban fabric, formed at
different times, shaped by different historical forces, and continuing to be acted upon by forces that range from migration
to global investment, from infrastructural interventions like the metro rail and personal rapid transit (under construction) to
significant shifts in ecology.
The studio started with an immersive pedagogical model, letting the students observe, document and express through
any combination of media, things that caught their eye and were of interest to them. This was followed by a structured
visual analysis based on an understanding of specific concepts from works of Kevin Lynch, Robert Venturi, Yoshinobu
Ashihara and Gorden Cullen. Parallel to this, the students were required to understand and present from two urban design
books, in a further attempt to introduce ways of thinking specific to the discipline. After the visual analysis, the students
moved on to physical network analysis (Module 2) and socio-economic analysis (Module 3) of their respective sites.
The entire site analysis exercise was instrumental in forming a Vision that took into consideration social and economic
issues and was articulated in coherent spatial strategies that imbue character and identity to the urban environment.
The Structure Plan, thus developed, then enabled the students to move on to the design stage where they proposed
interventions and specific projects on their respective sites.
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Architectural Thesis
A guided self study course consisting of the design of a project of the student’s choice to demonstrate the ability of the
student to design a building with a command on design strategy and technical proficiency. Students are asked to come
up with a comprehensive documentation of the design intent, the rationale and development of the design brief, the
understanding and analysis of the climatic, physical, social and economic contexts of the design, design methodology
and history of design development, selecting and devising appropriate construction systems, leading to a final design
presentation with three dimensional representation and model. Students are encouraged to explore debatable and
complex design issues and to construct methods of design to apply their creative imagination.
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Projects 2012-2013
Documentation studio
An integral part of the architecture curriculum is the training of the students in documentation of historical landscapes.
This is seen as a way to inculcate the habits and skills of observation, measurement, documentation and analysis through
various formal and socio-cultural theoretical matrices. Students engage with local contexts through interviews of residents,
interaction with local government officials and inputs from experts and scholars. The documentation studio is also a life
changing exposure to non-urban contexts and lifestyles and challenges that students living in cities are rarely exposed to,
even when they venture out as tourists. The studio contributes to the building up of an archive of studies that the school
taps into regularly for providing the basis for further research and design intervention. A study tour is conducted every year
to expose the students to such unfamiliar urban and rural contexts so that they can expand their imaginations and get
familiarized with the realities of India.
BIKANER, RAJASTHAN
The objectives of the first year measured drawing exercise which is presently placed at the beginning of the second
semester are multi-fold. It should ideally span across the three main studios, i.e. Architectural Design, Drawing and
Communication as well as Building Construction with each studio focusing on the various aspects of documentation and
analysis of buildings, architectural forms and representation of the built form through graphical techniques. As a general
guideline, historic buildings are selected for study or traditional typologies, in order to familiarize students with issues of
local and vernacular architecture, as well as introducing them to construction technologies which they may not have come
across. The process included documentation of havelis in Bikaner and compilation of the study in the form of a report
including the macro level understanding of the town, the historical, physical and cultural characteristic of the havelis and
a comprehensive set of drawings of these. Students learnt to work independently on a problem on site and discover
innovative means to document a building, not just through tape measuring but also through photographs, sketches and
understanding geometric proportion systems. They developed on-site understanding into two dimensional representations
through the standard drawing formats and were able to document not just what they saw, but also what they couldn’t see
because of site constraints. They understood building systems in Bikaner and Jaisalmer and regional differences between
the two, along with learning skills of drawing and representation and working in groups. The study helped the students
understand the space making process in a haveli, response to harsh climates, volumetric proportions and historic building
styles, how ornamentation may have a practical function and stone masonry.
MAHESHWAR, MADHYA PRADESH
The objectives of the second year study trip were
to engage the students in the documentation of
physical and cultural aspects of a typical historic
settlement that has strong cultural components
such as social hierarchy and traditional crafts that
reflect in the settlement pattern and built form.
The study of socio-cultural factors was extremely
important as the students were to select a site,
develop a programme as per their analysis of the
contextual requirements and design a building
based on these. Documentation and analysis
of the fortified settlement in Maheshwar and the
areas that form an interface between the core
and the newly expanding areas, helped them
understand the morphology and transformations
due to economic and cultural factors. The study
was compiled in the form of a report including the
macro level understanding of the town, along with
the historical, physical and cultural characteristics
of the settlement. The students designed a building
as per programme developed by them individually
that varied from singular to mixed use such as
residences, workshops, community centre, school,
interpretation centre, museum, exhibition space,
retail, restaurant, ashram, dharamshala, women’s
empowerment centre etc.
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DESIGN COMPETITIONS AND
AWARDS
World Architecture Festival
NIASA Thesis Awards
SSAA Students Abhimanyu Prakash
and Nitish Jain represented SSAA in the
National Institute of Advanced Studies
in Architecture (NIASA) Thesis Awards.
Both of them were declared as the
winners from the North Zone, at the Zonal
NIASA Awards held at LPU, Jalandhar.
Subsequently they also won the National
Finals on October 6, 2012 at Cuttack.
The 4th year housing Design of SSAA students was
shortlisted in the World Architecture Festival (WAF) Student
Competition as part of the top ten teams who then went
for the charrette and live judging session to Singapore in
September 2012. At the festival, the students went through
a round of critics followed by a live judging which comprised
of a panel of world renowned architects. The team included
Harsh Varshneya, Khushboo Bansal, Harshodaya Bhardwaj,
Deepanshu Arneja, Sameeksha Gulati, Sanchit Gupta, Ananya
Vij and Akash Maan.
Archumen Architecture Quiz
Berkeley Prize:
4th year SSAA students were selected for the
National Finals of Archumen -India’s Biggest
Architecture Quiz for students of architecture. The
event is conducted in four major interfaces and the
northern interface took place on September
14, 2012 at S P A Delhi. The SSAA students were
the ‘First Runners Up’ and hence went to Bengaluru
for the finals on November 9, 2012.
4th year SSAA student, Disha Sahu won the annual undergraduate Berkeley 2013 Essay
Prize Competition and has been selected for travelling to Helsinki, Finland to participate in
the YTK/IFHP Urban Planning and Design Summer School. The Berkeley Undergraduate
Prize for Design Excellence endowment, established in the Department of Architecture at the
University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design, promotes the investigation
of architecture as a social art. Disha responded to topic of the 2013 Essay Competition, ‘The
Architect and the Accessible City’ through her essay by putting across the idea of ‘integrated
inclusiveness- exploring the requisite for accessibility in mass transit infrastructure and a
seamless vertical integration between various modes of urban transit to achieve first and last
mile connectivity’.
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The National Association of Students of Architecture,
commonly referred to as NASA, is one of the largest
communities of architectural students in Asia. NASA provides
an interactive platform for architecture students all over the
country by holding conventions both at the national and
zonal levels, as a part of which, Architecture schools all over
India compete for the prestigious trophies awarded. SSAA
performed brilliantly well at Fibonacci, zonal convention 2012
held by NIT, Hamirpur. Out of the possible ten, SSAA won five
trophies and also the best college trophy, North zone 2012.
The team included Deepanshu Arneja, Asmeeta Das, Naman
Ahuja, Yatin Tokas, Harshdeep Arora, Debojyoti Das, Sanchit
Arora, Karan Saharan, Akash Maan, Harsh Soni, Ashish Gupta
and Satya Gopalan.
SSAA students won the National
Finals at TRANSPARENCE, India’s
biggest forum for architecture
students across the country. It is
Saint-Gobain Glass India’s annual
design competition for students of
architecture and design that provides
the budding architects a priceless
opportunity to demonstrate their
potential in architectural design and
creativity. Arav Kumar, Monisha
Nasa and Neel Kaul from SSAA won
the National Finals of Transparence
2011 held at the Grand Finale held
at the Dayananda Sagar College of
Architecture, Bengaluru.
transparence: arav monisha neel
NASA Zonal Convention
TRANSPARENCE
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The Founders Day
‘One perhaps looks back in order to have a clearer view of what is yet to come. Hopefully, all our dreams for the future too
will be much more than a mere match.’ – Mr. M M Rana
September 1st, the birthday of Mr. M M Rana, is celebrated as the Founders Day. Keeping the tradition alive, the students
of Sushant School of Art and Architecture had all come together to celebrate Sir’s 94th birthday on September 1, 2012,
in great festive spirit and ethnic wear! With the unfortunate demise of Mr. Rana, in less than a month of the celebration, it
turned out to be the last Founders Day celebrated with him, a memorable and unforgettable event!
Established in 1989 by Chiranjeev Charitable Trust and founded by late Mr. M M Rana, the school has built its reputation
as one of the top three architectural schools in the Indian subcontinent, because of the efforts of the great visionary who
made the journey full of milestones and progresses.
The day began with welcoming Mr. Rana, followed by the lamp lighting ceremony and the Saraswati Vandana. Mr.
Rana came up to the podium and addressed all, beginning with, ‘I am really happy to see that all my students are as
comfortable sitting on the floor as they are on a chair in an air-conditioned room. That is the spirit of Sushant. That is what
sets us apart!’ A series of stories, incidents and facts followed, about what it was like to be an architect, the possibilities
and the difficulties, the world outside, our responsibilities and much more. It was great to see Sir, old in age but still young
in spirit, and that sure is an inspiration for all the students.
An innovative birthday gift from the young students of architecture was a handmade calendar with all the memories
captured since the inception of the School, a portrait of Sir himself, a painting and a movie with interviews of the students
whom he had taught and the people who knew him since the establishment of the School. But the best part was the
‘curtain raiser’, when the students unveiled the wall dedicated to Sir, a portrait of him and got it autographed by him. And
that will remain forever in the physical memory of this college.
Alumni speeches, cake cutting, lunch and snacks and a lot of fun just enlivened the day.
Cheers to the Spirit of Sushant!!
Kritika Gaggar
III A, SSAA
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PLATFORM Lecture Series AT
SSAA
Platform Lecture Series (PLS) at SSAA is a new and an innovative lecture
series that encourages students to experience and interact with realms of art,
architecture and beyond, leading to a gateway of emerging technologies in
the field. The topics range from basic art, scientific subordinate, community
development, investigative techniques, design and urban design that provide
the foundation for practice-based research in the architecture programme. The
Lecture Series features an industry guest speaker at the decision making level,
discussing challenges related to a real world implementation with the young
minds eager to explore their potentials. The event is a yearly series of guest
speakers, sharing conceptual ideas as well as practical aspects. SLS is held at
the beginning of every academic year so that the students get acquainted with
the knowledge and take insights in order to orient themselves in their research.
PLS at SSAA 2012 saw eminent architects of our country come down to talk
to the students. Prof. A G K Menon and Ar. Kshitij Rana along with our faculty
Dristi Neog, Ryan Sequeria and Manas Murthy were a part of the brain
storming Panel Discussion on ‘Gurgaon 2025: Resolutions in Infrastructure,
Housing and Transportation’, aiming to discuss the trends of development in
the city and in order to find out probable reformations needed to redefine the
city. The final outcome of the discussion led to one conclusion that there is a
potential to incorporate all the different complex parameters but retrofitting the
development will make it very robust and simple to use and have more people
oriented cities.
Architect Pradeep Sachdeva, Principal Architect at Pradeep Sachdeva Design
Associates, a studio that has been a pioneer in establishing bench marks for
innovative projects, talked to the first and second year students about ‘The
relevance of Contextual Architecture’, showcasing some of his prestigious works.
CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT
Campus development undertaken as a part of the annual Festival ‘Atharva’ highlights the Sushant culture. During Atharva
2012, walls around the entire campus were redesigned and painted by the students of the School of Architecture and the
School of Design. Lighting modules were also designed and installed, with which the entire campus was beautifully lit up
during the three day festival. SSAA students created a colourful mosaic using broken ceramic tiles for the amphitheatre,
along with designing and construction of a structure on the second floor.
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Convocation: Batch of 2006-2011
The convocation held on May 5, 2012 was a formal event with a short cultural programme and prize distribution followed by exhibition
of students work and refreshments for the parents and students. Our Dean Emeritus Mr. M M Rana, Architect Manit Rastogi & Shri.
Pranav Ansal handed out the degrees and awards to the outgoing batch. Mr. Rana delivered an inspirational and memorable speech that
inspired the students. The batch of 2011 was presented with farewell tokens. On the whole it was a colourful and unforgettable event.

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Faculty - SSaa
Teaching design requires insight and perception. It is a mentoring method that has been honed into a specific
Sushant tradition, one that goes well beyond the shibboleths that go under design pedagogy. Just as much
for their dedication and perseverance as for their proficiency in their field of study, the principal source and key
resource for us is our faculty.
Left to right: Manas Murthy, Vanicka Arora, Guneet Raj Singh,
Bodh Saraswat, Parul G Munjal, Amrita Madan, Shikha Duggal
Relating with Sushant as student and as
faculty
All our faculty members are licensed architects with affiliations and memberships to a number of professional
bodies, both national and international. All of them also have at least one specialization at the Masters level,
and more than one third of them hold a doctorate, well beyond the Council of Architecture norms. These
specializations range from such new fields as Tall Buildings, Digital Fabrication and Sustainability to traditional
ones such as Urbanism and History/Theory. In addition to this, almost three-fourth of them have an international
education from such premium institutes as MIT, Harvard, Princeton, UT Austin and Arlington, AA London,
University of Nottingham, and Universities in France, Germany and Australia. The experience of the faculty
ranges from 35 years of teaching experience to that with just five, facilitating the students to interact with a
diverse range of ideas that they bring with them.
Being from the last batch to have passed out of the old campus of Sushant on MG Road, the last memories of the School
for me remained to be those of the campus that we nostalgically relate to: the tall trees as focal points around which
the built form grew, the C-shaped seating near the library and lots of memories of the daily trip to the almost deserted
surroundings, the annual festival, working late in studios and growing with the school.
Returning to the new Sushant as faculty, the first and foremost aspect that brought back familiarity were the non teaching
staff members who have been a part of Sushant for more than a decade and a half and are still on board, though as part
of the bigger institution – Ansal University. Despite the campus and life on it being much different now; irrespective of the
change in role from student to faculty, the ownership that one feels towards the School remains unchanged. It is indeed a
pleasure to be here and contribute to the shaping of the institution further.
Through the Sushant Cell for Research and Consultancy, SSAA faculty members have also acted as
consultants for both government and private projects in the fields of infrastructure, urban design, urban and
regional planning and architecture design, across the country. In addition to this, especially this year, faculty has
presented more than 11 papers in national and international conferences and have had five articles accepted in
leading international journals of high impact value. This has also led to some travel abroad, especially to France
and Singapore.
Another unique strength of Sushant is the highly diverse panel of visiting faculty. There is barely any leading
design professional or academician who has not taught at SSAA at some point. The insight provided by the
visiting faculty is one of the key reasons that Sushant graduates walk out as ‘market ready’.
Parul G Munjal
Assistant Professor, SSAA
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Faculty achievements
Anurag Roy
Conducted a workshop on ‘Methods and Techniques of Modern Building Construction’ at Aayojan School of Architecture,
Jaipur in December 2012.
Delivered a talk at Indian Institute of Architects, Gurgaon on ‘Point of View: Is Heritage Relevant in Architecture’, in
November 2012.
Conducted a workshop on ‘Green Architecture’ at the Pillai College of Architecture, Mumbai in October 2012
Delivered a talk on ‘Nanotechnology: The Future of Architecture’ at School of Planning and Architecture, Vijaywada in
August 2012.
Tejwant Brar
Conference papers and Publications:
Brar, T. S. & Kamal, M. A. (2013). Green Building Guidelines for Residential Buildings in India, International Research
Conference on EXTROPIANISM: Towards Convergence of Human Values and Technology – ICECHVT, Ansal
University, Gurgaon, India.
Brar, T. S. (2013). Waste Water Recycling for Sustainable Urban Water Management, 1st International Conference on
Global Environmental Changes, Government College University, Faislabad, Pakistan.
Kamal, M. A. & Brar, T.S. (2012). Evaporative Cooling Techniques in Buildings: A Step Towards Mitigating Global Warming
and Climate Change, SPANDREL Journal of School of Planning and Architecture, New Dimension in Research of
Environments for living, 5, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India.
Brar, T. S. & Kamal, M. A. (2012). Low Energy Residential Building Design For Hot Arid Climate: A Green Approach,
International Journal of Advanced Materials Research Journal, Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.
Brar, T. S. (2012). Urbanization and its impact on Surface runoff, Bonfring International Journal of Advances in Image
Processing, 2 (3).
Brar, T. S. (2012). Aptitude of Architecture Entrant In India, Proceedings of National Conference on Best Practices
of Quality Enhancement in Higher Education Institutions, BPQE-2012, S. N. Arts, D. J. M. Commerce & B. N. S.
Science College, Sangamner, Ahmadnagar, Maharashtra, India.
Brar, T. S. & Kamal, M. A. (2012), Low Energy Residential Building Design for Hot Arid Climate: A Green Approach, 2nd
International Conference on Green Buildings Technologies and Materials (GBTM 2012), Wuhan, China.
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Brar, T. S., Kamal, M. A. & Jain, R. K. (2012). Seismic Retrofitting of Heritage Structures, Indian Society of Earthquake
Technology Golden Jubilee Symposium, Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Roorkee, Roorkee.
Brar, T. S. (2012). Decentralized Wastewater Treatment System for Restoration of Water Quality, 5th International
Congress of Environmental Research, ICER-12, organized by Journal of Environmental Research and Development,
Bhopal (INDIA), and Centre for Socioeconomic Development, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Terengganu,
Malaysia.
Brar, T. S. & Emerson, P. (2012). Construction and Demolition: Waste Recycling in India, Conference on Emerging
Trends of Energy Conservation in India, EECB – 2012, Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, Uttarakhand,
India.
Dristi Neog
Presented research titled ‘Pedestrian Accessibility Index (PAI) for Transit Stations; framework to evaluate pedestrian
accessibility to public transit’ at the 13th International Conference on ‘Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled
Persons’ TRANSED 2012 held in New Delhi, India from September 17 - 21, 2012.
Panel chair and speaker at a panel discussion held in SSAA on ‘Gurgaon 2025: Reformations in Housing, transport and
Infrastructure’, October 2012.
Publication- Brown, J. R. & Neog, D. (2012). Central Business Districts and Transit Ridership: A Reexamination of the
Relationship in the U. S., Journal of Public Transportation, 15 (4).
Sudeshna Chatterjee
Attended a meeting with the Focal Group of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva on September 29-
30, 2012 to finalize the draft of the General Comment 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as a part of the
14 member international Working Group.
Panelist and moderator for the session on ‘Issues in Urban Infrastructure’ for the Calcutta Management Summit 2012
titled ‘Bengal Matters’ hosted by Calcutta Management Association (CMA) on September 13, 2012.
Attended a meeting to review the Bernard van Leer Foundation’s ‘Information Map on children’s physical environment’ as
an international expert on March 7, 2012 at The Hague, The Netherlands.
Publications- Chatterjee, S. (2012). Challenges and opportunities for new urban imaginations. In S. Iltus (Ed.) Living
Conditions: The influence on young children’s health, Early Childhood Matters, 118.
Chatterjee, S. (2012). Planning urban spaces for children: a research project in Delhi, India. In L. Brooker & M. Woodhead
(Eds.) Healthy Environments, Early Childhood in Focus, 8.
Ritu Verma
Actively participated in the launch of IIT Global Mentorship Programme Initiative, NCR at IIT Delhi, August 1, 2012 as
Founder Member and Branding Head of IIT Global Mentorship Operations Team.
Tanaya Verma
Attended the Delhi Working Session for the Global Superior Energy Performance (GSEP) Cool Roofs and Pavements
Working Group Meeting at New Delhi, on October 3-4, 2012.
Attended National Conference on Green Design organized by Association for Development and Research on Sustainable
Habitat (ADaRSH) and The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI), MNRE (Ministry of New and Renewable Energy at New
Delhi on February 14-15, 2013.
Publication- Neog, D. & Verma, T. (2013). Intelligent Technological Innovations for Energy Efficiency in the Built
Environment: Application to the Ansal University Campus in Gurgaon, India, Proceedings of the International
conference on: Extropianism-Convergence of Human Values and Technology, 255-259.
Parul G Munjal
Publication- Munjal, P. G. (2013). Corporate Social Responsibility in the Cultural Heritage Sector: An overview of the
Indian scenario, Global Competitiveness and Corporate Governance Imperatives in Emerging Economics,
Ansal University, Gurgaon, 403-413.
Bharti Chadha
Attended two day workshop on ‘Curved Folded Origami’ organized by Architects Ankon Mitra and Suryansh Chandra in
Gurgaon, from November 23-24, 2012.
Shruti Poddar
Attended three day workshop on ‘Heritage Understanding’, organized by INTACH, New Delhi from September 6-8, 2012.
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BACHELOR
OF FINE ART
COURSES
in
Painting
and
Applied
Art
With its national and international reputation, Ansal University is proud to include and launch from the forthcoming
academic session, a new four year Bachelor of Fine Art programme with specializations in Painting and Applied Art.
The curriculum combines a unique blend of practical and theoretical training that harnesses and hones the aspirant’s
inherent capability and skills while identifying and diminishing existing weaknesses. It has been set by
M Vijayamohan, Head of Department. One amongst the most respected art academicians in the country with nearly
38 years of teaching experience at the collegiate level, M Vijayamohan had served for the last 12 years of his service as
the Principal, College of Art, 20-22, Tilak Marg, New Delhi, until his superannuation in November, 2012.
The Faculty is amongst the best comprising the finest art teachers, selected with careful diligence bearing in mind the
respective strengths individually and assembled with a clear view of offering the aspirant a 360 degree learning experience
with each faculty member addressing crucial, core realm of the syllabi. In addition to the team, the Calendar is replete
with guest visits to the Campus by eminent artists, established professionals, and senior academicians to share their
knowledge and experience with the students.
The four year (eight semesters) full time BFA Degree Course is divided into two parts: (a) FOUNDATION (2 Semesters),
and, (b) SPECIALIZATION (8 Semesters). The Foundation is common to both the Specializations. As implied, the Course
provides instructions to lay the base for the Specializations and their amalgamation through a teaching schedule of
assisted learning of practical subjects and theory, leading to the degree.
The vocational aspects of these Courses will enable the aspirants to gain knowledge of various skills of: i) painting
and advertising profession, materials and methods, both past (traditional) and present (multi-media), ii) mixed media
techniques and their effect on visual language, iii) study of History of Art and Aesthetics, both Oriental and Western, iv)
understanding of related fine arts such as Music/ Dance/ Theatre and Film/ Architecture and Literature, and v) about the
fundamentals and appreciation of art.
The aspirants can also continue the process of art education focussing on the changing social /political scenario - its
effect on art education and its application, changing trends/ languages, social functioning, and understanding new and
conventional mediums.
Public and private participation would be by exhibiting one’s work in the form of drawings, paintings and mural
installations through campaign projects, art academies and galleries sponsored both by the Government and private
promoters of art. The process would also involve public awareness through art education and art appreciation workshops
and seminars and the importance of art therapy that could also include students from other streams of education.
Facilities offered are of top notch quality, including the strong, mutually bound connections with creative luminaries and
professionals in the field of art and design. Reputation of the school is to be built on exceptional academic quality with the
contribution of the faculty having relevant skills for the studio work, and discipline required for learning substantiated with
the rewarding experiences of interaction with the extraordinary peers and visiting academics. Offers of scholarships/ fee
concessions based on merit of performance are also in the pipe-line.
M Vijayamohan, HOD, BFA (Fine Art)
An alumnus of the Govt College of Arts & Crafts, Chennai, Tamilnadu, M Vijayamohan completed Diploma in
Fine Art in 1970 and Post-Diploma in Industrial Design (Ceramics) in 1971. He also attended the New York
Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York, USA.
M Vijayamohan was appointed as a Faculty member to teach Drawing, Painting, Sculpture and Ceramics at
the Govt. College of Arts & Crafts, Chennai, Tamilnadu, from September, 1974 and continued in that capacity
until August, 1978. He became Principal of the College in February, 2000 and served this position until his
superannuation in November, 2013.
M Vijayamohan actively practices his own art and has received numerous recognitions including the award
of the President of India’s Silver Plaque for the Best Exhibit and Cash Award in 1991 at the Annual All India
Exhibition organized by the All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, (AIFACS), New Delhi. His works are in collection
with the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, College of Art, New Delhi,
besides other private collections in India and abroad.
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March
11-13, 2013
THE BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER SIR JAMES BEVAN
‘Today’s youth is immensely talented and gifted. They are young and unique people, who are a
delight, “the next big thing”, because the future is theirs. Revolution makes diplomats a bit nervous
and I am nervous about the Third Industrial Revolution. The point is not to understand the world but
change it. Considering how India and UK are good at design, this revolution isn’t an armed struggle,
but a change through design and creativity. It is dangerous wiring with great people, because if
you ask for different designs of a light bulb, they will throw you with a question of the necessity
of it being a light bulb in the first place. Design enriches, improves life, constructs order, entropy,
mediocrity, it induces excellence, induces functionality.’
The international conference on ‘How design practice and pedagogy will steer the Third Industrial Revolution’ gave a
platform for expression of national and international views on the role of design thinking and pedagogy in bringing about
changes. Can design innovations guide the way for a sustainable future? Should the solutions be global or local? How
does one address the challenges of context, crafts, identity? Should design be for the few or for the many? As a part
of the conference, eminent academicians as well as practitioners in the areas of design, architecture and environment
converged and reflected on these questions and the common concern for defining a way forward.
DEAN SSAA RUPINDER SINGH
‘A very distinct flavour of design in India is “jugaad”, a poor translation of which is the word
“improvisation”. India has carried it out through ages, as proven by the continuity of the Ambassador
car till date. The original design is British, but it is the Indian jugaad that has kept it going.’
DEAN SSD MIKE KNOWLES
‘What does design mean in common language? It is the emphatic view towards
problems and solving them in a creative manner. Design isn’t something that one can
package. It isn’t something that one can teach, it is a power that is pre-conceived
within our five feet nine inch body. The beauty of being able to think upon designs is
something that everybody possesses. However, the way you present it is totally based
on your personal experiences and sensory connections. Further, if designs are correctly
harnessed, they can enhance life, create jobs and spread joy.’
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SUNITA KOHLI ON LUTYENS’ DELHI
Sunita Kohli is a research-based interior designer, a leader in historical architectural restoration
and a manufacturer of fine contemporary and classical furniture. She specializes in the design of
public buildings, hotels and resorts, luxury hotel boats, forts, palaces, heritage properties, aircrafts,
corporate offices and private residences.
In New Delhi, Sunita Kohli has restored and decorated many British period buildings designed by
Sir Edward Lutyens, Sir Herbert Baker and Sir Robert Tor Russell; notably Rashtrapati Bhawan, the
Prime Minister’s Office and Secretariat and Hyderabad House. She has also restored No. 3 and No.
5 Race course Road, the Official Residence of the Prime Minister, among several other bungalows
in the Lutyens Bungalow Zone. Presently, she is also working on the restoration, decoration and
modernization of the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Along with this, she has also interior designed the British
Council Building, the largest of their 80 institutions worldwide and done the interior architecture and
design of the DLF Corporate Office on Parliament Street.
In 1992, Sunita Kohli was conferred the Padma Shri by the President of India ‘for contribution to
national life by excellence in the field of Interior Design and Architectural Restoration’. That same
year she was presented the Mahila Shiromani Award, which recognizes women of achievement, by
Mother Teresa.
In 2005, Sunita Kohli founded the Museum of Women in the Arts, India ‘to honour women artists
of the past, promote the accomplishments of women artists of the present and assure the place of
women artists in the future’. This is associated with the ‘National Museum of Women in the Arts’, in
Washington DC, where she has also served on their National Advisory Board.
Addressing the youth at the conference ‘Revolution by design’ at Ansal University, she shared a lot
of insights on ‘Lutyens’ Delhi’ and while discussing the design features of the Rashtrapati Bhavan,
she shared that: ‘Sir Edwin Lutyens was a man who was greatly taken up by crafts and paid a lot
of emphasis to them. One of the most important features of the Imperial style and that Lutyens
designed was the Delhi Order. He did not use any of the pre-existing orders in the Rashtrapati
Bhavan. He designed a new column with bells on all four sides. These bells pleased the Hindu,
Buddhist, Jain sentiments and hence were greatly appreciated.’ Further she mentioned, ‘according
to Lutyens, architecture was about building with wit. Despite all his influences from various styles of
architecture, Lutyens had a rare originality of mind and genius.’
SIR CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING
Sir Christopher Frayling was until recently Rector of London’s Royal College of Art, the world’s
only entirely postgraduate university of art and design, and was also Chairman of the Arts Council
of England. He was Professor of Cultural History at the RCA from 1979 until last year, and is now
Professor Emeritus.
A historian, a critic and an award-winning broadcaster on network radio and television, Christopher
has published 17 books on art, design and modern culture - including most recently, Ken Adam:
The Art of Production Design, Once Upon a Time in Italy and Henry Cole and the Chamber of
Horrors.
His television series include: The Face of Tutankhamun, Strange Landscape and Nightmare – The
Birth of Horror; his radio series include America - the movie and Britannia - the film. Christopher has
also introduced several of Tony Nourmand’s previous books on the history of film posters.
Christopher was knighted in the year 2000 for ‘services to art and design education’.
Addressing the conference ‘Revolution by design’ at Ansal University Sir Frayling discussed some
of the issues that design faces today. According to him some of these issues were: user centric
design, design and its effect on society, inspiring good citizenship via design, designing for the
elderly, issues of employment in the field of design, issues of lack of frugal innovation and interlinking
the capital D of design to the small d of design. Sir went to state a possible solution for all the above
as the extremely well known phrase-THINK GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL.
Karen Richmond. Camberwell College of Art and Design UAL
Karen Richmond has a broad practice, which includes making things, curation, site specific works,
installations, participation projects and research projects. Karen is currently Course Director for the BA
hons in 3D Design at Camberwell College of Arts, (University of the Arts London). In 2000 she received
an MA in Design Products from the Royal College of Art. In 1996 she graduated from Kingston University
with a BA Hons in Sculpture. Karen currently lives and works in London.
While addressing the students and faculty of Ansal university at the conference ‘Revolution by design’,
Karen began her talk by questioning the etimology (epistemology) of objects in other terms, why
objects are the way they are? She further added the interconnection between the form of the object, its
functionality and the feeling evoked by the final product.
Ms. Richmond also explained, how the concept of small d and big D, as explained by Sir. Christopher
Frayling, is also apt for creativity in terms of small c and big C.
She ended on the note that one should not try to create and analyze at the same time.
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Media
Releases
M N ASHISH GANJU
Delhi based architect, M N Ashish Ganju’s work seems to spring from the self same concern for
the user. His approach believes in a user-friendly architecture first and foremost. He calls his style
of architecture - quiet, unassertive, and simple. For him form is not just shape. It means the way a
building shapes up and integrates with the user, slightly similar to the sense in which we say – ‘this
is or isn’t good form.’
He mentioned in his talk at the conference at Ansal University that his work with Dalai Lama made
him introspect on a lot of questions of the past – ‘What is it that can make people construct such
large structures with no training in this field what so ever? Is it the devotion? What is it that makes
this possible?’
He felt that the possibility of creating such complex structures all by hand is all to do with dedication
and devotion. He concluded that the way of the future is to train our own interior mindscape.
Keeping a warm heart and working out the challenges of everyday life which are disturbing, would
make us better designers in future.
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The design industry is dynamic, surging and demands extreme passion. India
is witnessing an upsurge in design. From cars to buildings and almost every
usable item needs design. Lifestyle products sell as designer items.
Contemporary times are the times for design, innovation, creation and
groundbreaking concepts. A lot of changes have been witnessed in every
sphere globally. With population increase and urban explosion there is
a severe demand and need for designers to create infrastructure, which
provides solutions.
At the School of Design the students learn how to solve problems from the
day they start to study, how to create new things, how to untangle knots and
at the same time turn the results into something beautiful and artistic. I don’t
just mean objects, indeed good designers can conjure up from the depth of
their knowledge and passion amazing bags, shoes, bottle openers and just
about anything. Not only these, great designers tend to develop systems,
projects, offices, spaces, malls, supermarkets and homes full of warmth.
Designers are people who work in teams, are user focused and very positive.
Thus, at the School efforts are made to hone the soft skills of students. Our
students become naturally entrepreneurial and enterprising. Our pedagogy is
designed to train and develop superb designers.
Portrait of Mike Knowles
Created by Radhika Mehra,
Surbhi Kalra and Tanya
Mike Knowles
Dean, Sushant School of Design
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design programmes
B Des. (Bachelor of Arts In Design) – Interior Design - 4 years
B Des. (Bachelor of Arts In Design) – Visual Communication - 4 years
B Des. (Bachelor of Arts In Design) – Fashion and Textiles - 4 years
Ph.D
BASIC PHILOSOPHY
The Bachelors in Design (B Des.) programme begins with a foundation year where the students are exposed to the
multi-faceted world of the designer and the diverse skills that need to be developed for pursuing a career in design.
The First Year (Foundation) programme is an introduction to concept development, technique, critical discussion and
expression. Students develop a set of basic design skills and are introduced to methods of application. The programme
trains students to evolve a distinct design approach and to develop a holistic attitude to the creative industries that they
will choose to inhabit as professionals. Students apply their training in creative thinking and making to various mediums
of expression and materials for construction, including textiles, ceramics, metal, wood, paper, canvas, board and natural
materials. Students undergo a continuous learning process that culminates in the creation of a final design project at the
end of four years. This project is expected to represent the acquired knowledge and skills of each student.
SALIENT FEATURES OF TEACHING PEDAGOGY
The Bachelors in Design (B Des.) programme allows the student to gain a foundation in design in the first year, and
thereafter to branch out into three learning streams – Interior Design, Visual Communication, Fashion & Textiles. The
delivery of content is achieved primarily in the studio format, supported by workshops, labs and lecture halls. The
curriculum ensures that the student gets a consistent exposure and practice in the broad areas of learning, namely
Design and Theory, Technology and Materials, Media and Technology, Discourse and Discovery, and Creative and Cultural
production.
SCHEME OF THE PROGRAMME
Duration: 8 Semesters x 18 weeks per semester
Teaching format: 30 contact hours per week
Specialization: First Year common to all streams, followed by three years of specialized study. Stream of specialization to
be selected after First Year.
PROGRAmme STRUCTURE
BACHELOR OF DESIGN
The detailed programme structure of Foundation year and year two for Interior Design, as taught over the last year is
outlined as follows:
YEAR 1 - FOUNDATION
Design Principles - The focus is given to design from a visual perception, with respect to various 2D and 3D form
development capabilities according to their creative skills.
Studio Materials - Material exploration and handling of the same innovatively is the key to great ideas. Developing the
skill to do so is the purpose of this studio.
Drawing - The objective of the course is to develop the basic fundamentals of drawing based on direct observation.
The students are to develop hand and eye coordination, to make drawings more accurate. They are trained to ‘see’ rather
than simply ‘look’, in order to develop their observation skills.
History (Civilization & Technology) - The Course objective is to introduce students to global histories through objects.
The objects chosen (from the project of the British Museum) all tell a story about how their local area has interacted with
the wider world. It aims to encourage people to discover the power of objects.
Research & Documentation - Research is all about addressing an issue, asking and answering a question or solving
a problem, so the objective of this course is to introduce students to the ethical methods of exploration, conducting
research, collecting information, analyzing it and documenting it appropriately in the fields of Art and Design.
Portfolio Techniques - The development of visual problem-solving presentation assignments to enhance the students’
personal portfolios. Portfolio techniques would make the students realize the importance of presentation skills and how
different tools of design combine to create a portfolio.
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Culture, Cinema and Media - The main purpose of this course is to introduce students to global cultures through
cinema and media and make them sensitive to good cinema.
Drawing & Sketching - This course aims at developing visualization skills, and to help the students generate and
transform ideas on paper
Creative Practice - The course synthesizes training in all aspects of design and guides in the development of a design
which is created due to a need based analysis. The course enables to understand the complete design processes and
methods of delivering a design from concept to consumer.
Story boarding and ideation - The development of visual problem-solving presentation assignments to enhance the
students’ personal portfolios. Story boarding would make the students realize the importance of design thinking and
converting verbal language to visual language.
YEAR 2- INTERIOR DESIGN
Spatial Design - The objective of this course is to introduce students to the process of spatial design through looking
at functions and concepts related to the Personal and Dwelling. Students gain an understanding of how basic functions
relate to one another and how to develop ideas around these functions.
Graphics & Representation - This course is about developing skills in graphic communication. It involves combining and
organising the graphic elements of type with illustrative and photographic images, diagrams, signs and symbols.
Structures: Principles & Systems - The objective of this course is to introduce basic structural principles that are
employed in architecture and the design of buildings. The learning is intended to give Interior Design students knowledge
and understanding of structural systems, elements and materials that are appropriate for the work of an Interior Designer.
Colour I: Theory & Psychology - We are constantly surrounded by colour whether in nature where colour is present
in everything, the flowers, the trees, the sea etc. or human-produced colour in the form of dyes, paints etc., everywhere
about us there is colour. Colour means different things to different people and colours impact people differently.
Interior Services I: (Climate & Lighting) - The objective of this course is to introduce students to the field of lighting,
with technical knowledge in creating basic lighting schemes related to type of function.
Object & Furniture - The built environment we now inhabit is contracted from objects and forms ranging from the very
small to the very large. It is an interior designers role to ensure that all those objects are in harmony and correctly suit
the purpose in every sense. As our world becomes ever more populated, energy and space demands will intensify. This
course will have this PROBLEM at it’s core.
In all streams, through year three, the basics and extended knowledge developed in Foundation year and year two are
applied to push the boundaries further, producing the ‘expanded designer’. The final year or year four gives the student
the opportunity to round off the knowledge gained through final project and internship. This can be in practice in India or
abroad or in a one term course at one of the schools of the University of the Arts London.
Materials & Construction - The course is designed to familiarize students with the process and nomenclature of building
construction and the various structural components associated with it. In parallel it would teach system and standards of
creating construction drawings.
History of the Arts - As consumer goods, unique artworks and various forms of visual communication are central to the
modern world, studying their history and culture is one of the most stimulating and rewarding ways to understand our society.
Technical Drawing - The objective of the course is enable the student to understand and visualize the relationship between
3D and its representation in 2D. The skills imparted would act as tools to design thinking, visualization and representation.
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Faculty - SSD
The SSD team is an integrated body of creatives, trained in the finest design schools in India and abroad which
includes the Mecca of design: the Royal College of Art London, Central St. Martins, Camberwell and Chelsea Colleges,
the New York School of Visual Arts and National Institute of Design Ahmedabad.As with any great design institute, all
the members of faculty are recognized and successful designers in their own right and their work is regularly featured
in leading design journals both in India and abroad. The SSD faculty, following the same league, have also scholarly
articles to their acclaim which have been published by some of the world’s top journals including Architectural Digest,
Dwell Asia, Surface Asia, Home Trends and Living etc.
The faculty of SSD has always been pushing the boundaries of the design course development, which not only
continues to upgrade the right route for aspiring young students but also seeks to develop programmes for special
need students. Not to miss that we champion the power of the great crafts folk of India, encouraging a continuous
conversation between Designers and Makers.
Whereas many schools of design are content with graduating technicians, it is essential for us to produce design
thinkers, unique creative minds that will one day dominate the worlds enlightened movement. The launch of our
powerful and unique Masters in Design (M Des.) in Design Thinking and Management is a symptom of the same.
Because of our visionary approach, we have attracted an Advisory Board and Executive Board which boasts the
presence of some of the world’s leading design gurus, both academicians and practitioners. With our prowess,
we have also attracted the University of the Arts London, the finest collective of creative schools, to work with
us on a Study Abroad programme.
There is an integrated commitment to design education at the very highest level that dovetails perfectly with our
collective belief that design is at the very heart of society and that great designers build great civilizations.
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FOUNDATION EXHIBITION
The end of year Foundation exhibition is always an exciting time for SSD as they can showcase their diverse talent. Students,
initially new to and insecure in the creative industries get the chance to show their skills of creativity. From ceramics to cheese
graters, fine art to paper sculptures, glass shards and bent metal and woven biris to animation, the media used was varied
and the outcome was wonderful. These depicted the beginnings of the aesthetically aware designer.
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PAINTING WORKSHOP
This year SSD ran into one of the most daring and rewarding projects about deconstructing an existing artwork. The
students were encouraged to study and deconstruct a well known painting from a famous painter. The work was
reviewed by internationally renowned artist Subodh Gupta, and design guru Ambrish Arora.
Ambrish said Design as a domain has the power to deeply affect our lives. If design as a profession is to have a
sustained and meaningful impact on Indian society, this will mean having to fundamentally question and raise the bar
on the manner in which design education is being imparted in the country. It is not just a need but also an imperative. He
appreciated SSD and commented that it is successfully raising the bar.
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SSD has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with
University of the Arts London (UAL) for the development
of a Study Abroad programme. SSD students will spend
a semester in London as undergraduate students at one
of the six famous Colleges of UAL - Camberwell College
of Art, Central St Martins College of Arts and Design,
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London College of
Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon
College of Art. These courses will introduce practicing artists
and designers to the latest thinking, techniques, styles and
products from London, one of the greatest creative cities of
the world. To help students who want to take their art and
Platform Lecture
Series at SSD
With Mr. Gurmeet Singh, MD Gurind Glass, there was never a
moment when we felt that we had an industrialist amongst us
and not one of our professors. He spent his invaluable time in
explaining various facets of glass like tinted glass, coated glass,
toughened glass, laminated glass, insulated glass and mirrors.
He also explained us the Indian market of glass where very
little of processed glass is used unlike other countries. He also
shared with us his Mantra of success which is made up of five
Ds - dream, direction, deadline, determination, and dedication.
It was a very enriching experience and he shared a few of his
own life stories and ended his talk by suggesting - ‘failure is
something that will come your way, you just need to know how
to deal it with.’
Mou with UAL
design studies forward in the UK, SSD is also working with
the University of the Arts London Awarding Body to develop
and deliver their Foundation Diploma in Art and Design.
Danny Lane at SSD
Danny Lane, an acclaimed glass artist and
globally reputed sculptor delivered a talk
about his work and creative philosophies
at Sushant School of Art and Architecture,
Gurgaon. He shared his experiences with
the students, the faculty and staff of this
institute and the Sushant School
of Design.
In February 2012 SSD in association with the British Council, UAL, and Royal
Society of the Arts spearheaded a seminar on the subject of design education
in India which attracted a wealth of eminent thinkers and practitioners both
from India and overseas.The day started with sessions where representatives
from the Indian Government, deans from leading designs institutes in India
and representatives from the UAL, RSA and BC discussed their views on the
current situation design education wise in India and their hopes and aspirations
for the future. Andrew Summers, director of both the Design and Arts Councils
in London and a trustee of the RSA led the session. Penny Egan, Director of
Fulbright, UK, moderated the discussions.The afternoon saw a series of round
table discussions on related issues, with an audience of design teachers,
designers and students. Faculty of SSD ran a daylong workshop for students
based on design and craft skills.
Seminar at
British Council

SCHOOL OF
ENGINEERING &
TECHNOLOGY

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dean’s message
The Ansal University Yearbook is an eagerly awaited publication and gives
us an opportunity to reminisce about the year gone by and opportunities
ahead. The School of Engineering and Technology is committed to develop
the 21 st century technical workforce by offering a well-balanced education in a
supportive environment.
Another unique offering from the School is in the form of Trans-Disciplinary Learning (TDL) which focuses on
project based learning with value adding deliverables. The journey of this learning experience from choice
of subject to successful completion stretches the realm of traditional learning. These projects involve joint
well-rounded research, threading together concepts, theories and approaches from more than one discipline.
Such learning experiences prepare the students better to face real world situations and approach them
with an all encompassing approach along with respect for other disciplines and ways of thinking. Students
of all our programmes are well prepared for employment in scientific and professional careers, advanced
professional training, and graduate study. By offering a hands-on learning experience through practicals,
industrial orientations, application of latest technological tools and softwares, we are constantly endeavouring
to provide an industry ready workforce.
Analytical and independent thinking are key ingredients to a student’s success along with ability to
communicate effectively, both orally and in writing. We want our students to develop the required skills to
respond to fast changing environment and face challenges that will help them lead happy and productive
lives. We also motivate our students to think beyond their own personal success and to consider how they
can enrich the lives of others.
Alok K Kushwaha
Professor & Associate Dean, School of Engineering & Technology, AU
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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ACADEMIC
SESSION 2012-13
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON “EXTROPIANISM: TOWARDS CONVERGENCE OF HUMAN VALUES AND
TECHNOLOGIES” - JANUARY 18-19, 2013
The School of Engineering & Technology organized an International Conference on Extropianism-Towards Convergence
of Human Values & Technology on January 18-19, 2013. The conference was successful in its aim of bringing together
researchers, scientists, engineers and academicians from physical and social science domains to achieve sharing of new
ideas on the convergence of human values and technology.
The inaugural ceremony was presided over by our distinguished guests Lt. General Karan Singh Yadava Honourable
Vice Chancellor YMCA University Haryana, Mr. Amit Allawadi, Executive Director –Manikaran Power Ltd.,Professor (Dr)
Mohammad Shahabuddin from University of Malaysia and our Honourable Vice Chancellor Dr. Raj Singh.
Publication of Conference Proceedings
Proceedings of the conference have been published in the form of an edited book through Excellent Publishing House for
wider dissemination of the deliberations. The soft copy of the proceeding has also been made available on the Conference
Website.
Conference Theme
We are all aware that human values exist alongside technology. Technological advances occur all around, whizzing
by, while human values change little and at a much slower pace. As scientific advances improve our lives, they also
complicate how we live and react to the new technologies. More and more human values come into conflict with scientific
advancement as we deal with important issues such as nuclear power, environmental degradation and information
technology. To fully cover this field and the vital issues that arise on an almost daily basis, we decided to bring together
participants from all over the country and abroad from physical and social science domains to achieve sharing of new
ideas and approaches towards this objective of gaining new insights and ideas on the convergence of human values and
technology.
ICECHVT 2013 offered the best keynotes featuring technical paper presentations and demonstrations. We received
an overwhelming response for presentation of papers at the Conference. These papers were evaluated on the basis of
their significance, novelty, and technical quality. Of the various papers submitted, 54 were selected as regular papers
for presentation at the conference, giving an impressive acceptance rate. There were participants from South Africa,
Singapore, Malaysia and various parts of the country. The conference was divided into five sessions: Material Science
and Technology, System Modeling and Simulation, Artificial Intelligence and Networks, Data Science and Computing,
Structures, Electrical Energy and Power Systems.
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INDUSTRIAL VISITS
Visit to Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project, Jhajjar
A group of 15 students from B Tech. EEE fourth semester visited coal based INDIRA GANDHI SUPER THERMAL POWER
PROJECT which is set up at Jhajjar (Haryana) and is being executed by NTPC. The installed capacity of plant is 3 x 500
MW, two units each of 500 MW are already synchronised and the last unit is progressing towards completion by October,
2012. The visit started with a warm welcome by Mr. S Kumar (Senior Manager, NTPC) and presentation regarding thermal
plant diagram was briefed by Mr. Rakesh (Senior Manager) followed by a site visit.
The visit was planned to help the students achieve the following:
1. Recognise the process units – Boiler, Pump, Condenser, Steam turbine, Generator, Electrostatic precipitator, Pulverizer,
Reclaimer etc. & generate the process flow diagram.
2. Identify the input and output for different processes.
3. Experience the importance of working safely.
4. Understand the concept of thermal energy conversion.
5. Understand how the product of the plant is interfaced to the world.
Students found this visit very useful and they were able to remember a fair bit of information even at the end of the degree.
They had a real life experience of all the units of thermal power plant. This visit was successful in achieving its objectives.
Industrial Visit to 220KV Substation, Rohini
An industrial visit for fourth semester EEE students was organized at 220KV Substation at DTL substation, located at
sector 11 Rohini, Delhi on February 12, 2013.
The students were divided into two groups consisting of 29 students in each group for better understanding of the
equipments at the substation. This visit was organized for the students to make them understand the technical details of
the theory subject POWER SYSTEM which they are studying in their current semester.
This industrial visit provided an insight on how industries work and also useful information related to the course which
cannot be visualized in theory lectures. The industrial visit, thus met its purpose by giving the students the opportunity to
learn through observation that is needed for budding engineers. The day the students spent attending the industrial visit
was both enjoyable and useful for improvement of their technical skills.
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WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED & CONDUCTED
1. PLC Programming & SCADA Designing
The Electrical and Electronics Department of AU organized an electrical workshop on ‘PLC Programming and SCADA
Designing’ with the support of M/s SOFCON India Private Limited, Gurgaon on April 2, 2012 in Ansal University,
Gurgaon. Dr. U K Choudhury inaugurated the workshop. The students of Electrical stream were the participants. Some
faculty members were also invited for the programme.
The technical experts of Sofcon India Pvt Ltd, presented a meaningful seminar by describing the automation, need of
PLC, function of PLC, components of PLC, function of SCADA etc. They also gave tips on the programming of PLC.
The instructor also showed the PLC from Allen Bradly, as well as field equipments such as thermocouples, RTD, push
buttons, relays etc.
All the students were benefited by the workshop. It gave an impetus to the practical approach to students in their field. Dr.
Alok K Kushwaha aired his opinion that such type of academic activities are to be promoted to enhance the technical skill
and knowledge of the students. It also encourages the students to do better coupled with the theoretical and practical
education taught in the class room.
2. ROBOTRYST-2013
The School of Engineering and Technology organized a two-day workshop on ‘ROBOTICS’ which was held on October
12-13, 2012. The workshop covered various practical activities that enriched the development of autonomous robots,
sensors array interfacing skills of the participants. The participants were from Computer Science Engineering, Electronics
& Communication Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering branches of School of Engineering and
Technology of Ansal University and Ansal Institute of Technology. Many other institutes also participated in the event.
The two days of workshop were followed by practical competitions among participants of 22 teams comprised of four
members each. A preliminary round of ROBO TRYST-2013, IIT Delhi was held after the completion of the workshop. The
winners were given wild card entry in the finals of ROBO TRYST-2013 at IIT- Delhi during TRYST-2013.
The view of the students was that the workshop was a great learning experience towards basics of robot working, robot
concepts and related basics of electronic circuits. They enjoyed getting hands on experience to assemble the different
components of robots and interfacing skills.
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Faculty - SET
FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS
Alok K Kushwaha
The purpose of engineering education is to develop a logical thinking process in a student to be able to analytically
evaluate every aspect of a task. This purpose is achieved by our faculty at SET, who enable students to learn the
application of engineering in creating the technologies they use in everyday life. They impart the best pedagogical
practices towards improving learning and also make recommendations for research aimed at enhancing what
they have learnt. SET has reform-oriented educationists grounded in enquiry, reflection, problem-solving and
experimentation, who involve the students in active, in-depth activities and focus on improving both content and
teaching techniques.
The faculty of Engineering has a clear focus on teaching and training in various areas based on a convergence
of theoretical knowledge, its application in industry and problem solving through live projects, simulation and
modelling. A special emphasis is laid on providing a hands-on experience to the students through in-house
laboratories and floor shops in the industrial units. Most of the faculty members have doctoral and postgraduate
degrees from renowned institutes like IITs & NITs and have published their work in top-notch international journals
like ‘International Journal of Computational Intelligence Techniques’, ‘International Journal of Semiconductor
Technology & Science’ and ‘Microwave and Optical Technology Letters’.
SET has meaningful collaborations with several government and private sector agencies such as Appin
Technologies, Automotive Skill Development Council and Sofcon India Ltd. for providing in-house training
programme to students, faculty as well as industry professionals. The faculty members of SET are committed to
develop the 21st century technical workforce by offering a well balanced education in a supportive environment.
The School faculty has an opportunity to engage in research activities related to automobile, information security,
non-conventional energy etc. through the Ainstein Center, a result of collaboration between Ansal University
and Steinberg University, Germany. By offering a hands-on learning experience through practicals, industrial
orientations, effective mentoring, application of latest technological tools and softwares, the faculty constantly
endeavours to provide an industry ready workforce.
Alok K Kushwaha, and Manoj K Pandey, “Suppression of hot carriers in DM DG FD SOI MOSFET”, International
Conference on “Extropianism: Towards Convergence of Human Values and Technology”- ICECHVT 2013, Vol-I ISBN:
978-93-81583-79-1, pp 39-46, 2013.
Alok K Kushwaha “An Efficient Simulation of D-Flip-Flop Using the GDI Technique”, International Conference on
“Extropianism: Towards Convergence of Human Values and Technology”- ICECHVT 2013, Vol-I ISBN:
978-93-81583-79-1, pp 47-50, 2013.
Alok K Kushwaha and P Thakur, “Design and simulation of a microstrip antenna with multiple patch using HFSS”,
International Conference on “Extropianism: Towards Convergence of Human Values and Technology”- ICECHVT 2013, Vol-I
ISBN: 978-93-81583-79-1, pp 72-74, 2013.
Alok K Kushwaha, Rakhi Dua, “K-Loops Transformations for Reconfigurable Architectures”, International Journal of
Computational Intelligence Techniques, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2012, pp 72-75, 2012.
Alok K Kushwaha, P Thakur, S Dwary, “Enhancement of bandwidth by using photonic bandgap structure in microstrip
antenna”, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Techniques, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2012, pp 112-113, 2012.
Alok K Kushwaha And Rakhi Dua, “Solution to Optical Character Recognition problem using Back Propagation Algorithm”,
International Conference on “Extropianism: Towards Convergence of Human Values and Technology”- ICECHVT
2013, Vol-I ISBN: 978-93-81583-79-1, pp78-83, 2013.
M M Chaturvedi
M.M. Chaturvedi, “International approaches to critical infrastructure protection”, BIC Workshop on the cross domain
coordination of International Cooperation at Brussels http://www.bic-trust.eu/events/, 21st -22nd June, 2012.
M.M. Chaturvedi, “Research on ‘Online Trust’ construct in Indian context”, BIC Workshop on the cross domain
coordination of International Cooperation at Brussels http://www.bic-trust.eu/events/, 21st -22nd June 2012.
M.M. Chaturvedi, “Privacy & Security of Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC)”, BIC Workshop on the cross domain
coordination of International Cooperation at Brussels http://www.bic-trust.eu/events/, 21st -22nd June 2012.
M.M. Chaturvedi, M.P. Gupta & J. Bhattachrya, “Addressing Cyber Threats To Emerging Critical Infrastructures”,
International Conference on “Extropianism: Towards Convergence of Human Values and Technology”- ICECHVT
2013, Gurgaon, India, Jan 18 - 19, 2013.
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M.M. Chaturvedi et al, “Design of a framework to evaluate Indian Government Websites“ International Conference on
“Global Competitiveness and Corporate Governance Imperatives in Emerging Economies”, Ansal University,
February 15-16, 2013.
M. M. Chaturvedi, M. P. Gupta & J. Bhattachrya “Hierarchy of Information Security Issues in Indian Context”, Scholar
Warrior, Journal of Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), 2013 (Accepted).
M. M. Chaturvedi, M. P. Gupta & J. Bhattachrya “Analysis of Issues of Information Security Metric at National Level”, Paper
submitted to Computers & Security and under review, 2013 (Communicated).
Alpana Jijja
Alpana Jijja , Kriti Gupta, “Challenges in adopting Open Source systems in higher education” ITCE Ansal University,
October 19–20, 2012.
Alpana Jijja, Kriti Gupta, “New Era of Security: Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem”, ITCE Ansal University, October 19–20, 2012.
Alpana Jijja, Pramneet Kaur, Sonal Maskeen, “A detailed Study of high capacity Stegnography techniques”, International
Journal of Computer Science and Emerging Technologies, 978-93-81583-79-1, Vol 1, Issue 1, January- 2013,
pp 179, 2013.
Bindu Thakral
Bindu Thakral, Garima Bakshi, “Frequency Domain Step Size Control method for LMS using Gradient based weighted average
and Genetic Algorithm”, International Conference on “Extropianism: Towards Convergence of Human Values and
Technology” Vol-I ISBN: 978-93-81583-79-1, pp 116-119, 2013.
Bindu Thakral, “Artificial neural networks for e-nose: a review”, IJAER (International Journal of Applied Engineering Research)
Volume-7, 2013 (Communicated).
Bindu Thakral, Garima Bakshi, “Study of Complexity of the step size updates for LMS using gradient based weighted average
and genetic algorithm”, International Conference ESTEEM-2013, PPIMT Hisar, March-2013.
Meha Sharma
Meha Sharma, Rewa Sharma, “Implementation of Discrete Wavelet Transformation for sustainable Power Systems”,
International Conference on “Extropianism: Towards Convergence of Human Values and Technology”
Vol-I, ISBN: 978-93-81583-79-1, pp 212-218, 2013.
Meha Sharma, Rewa Sharma, “Implementing VHDL Code for arithmetic calculation without using addition”, International
Conference on ESTEEM-2013 at PPIMT Hisar, March-2013.
Meha Sharma, Rewa Sharma, “A comparative study of MATLAB results and VHDL ANALYSIS of DWT for efficient power
systems”, International Journal of Engineering Research and applications, ISSN:2248-9622, Vol 3, Issue 2, pp 276-282,
March 2013.
Priyanka Mathur
Priyanka Mathur, “Terrain Classification for Traversability Analysis for Autonomous Robot Navigation in Unknown Natural Terrain”,
International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST), Jan-12, Vol. 4, pp 38-49, 2012.
Priyanka Mathur, “Silicon Nanowire based Field Effect Transistor”, International Conference on Extropianism: Towards
Convergence of Human Values and Technology- ICECHVT, Vol. 1, pp 58-59, 2013.
P Thakur
P Thakur, S Dwary & Alok K Kushwaha, “A new Yagi-Uda microstrip antenna with good f/b ratio”, International Journal of
Scientific and Engineering Research (IJSER) - (ISSN 2229-5518), Paper ID: I024458, June 2013 (Accepted).
P Thakur, S Dwary, Alok K Kushwaha, “Enhancement of bandwidth by using photonic bandgap structure in microstrip antenna”,
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Techniques, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2012, pp 112-113, 2012.
Pramneet Kaur
Pramneet Kaur, “Steganography and Flawless Carriage of Sensitive data”, International Journal of Information Systems and
Communication, Vol.3, pp 64-67, 2012.
Monika Roopak
“Performance Analysis of AODV and DSR Protocol in MANET”, International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research,
Vol 7, pp 53-57, 2012.
Jaya Bhushan
Jaya Bhushan, “An Approach for Sentiment Analysis for Hindi Text”, International Conference on “Extropianism: Towards
Convergence of Human Values and Technology”- ICECHVT 2013, Gurgaon, India, pp. 97-101, Jan 18 - 19, 2013.
Jaya Bhushan, “Issues of Sentiment Mining”, International Conference on “Extropianism: Towards Convergence of
Human Values and Technology”- ICECHVT 2013, Gurgaon, India, pp. 97-101, Jan 18 - 19, 2013.
Jaya Bhushan, “Foundations and trends in information retrieval using opinion mining and sentiment analysis” International
Conference on “Extropianism: Towards Convergence of Human Values and Technology”- ICECHVT 2013, Gurgaon,
India, pp. 97-101, Jan 18 - 19, 2013.
Jaya Bhushan, “Issues Faced By An Organization In Data Integration”, International Conference on “Extropianism: Towards
Convergence of Human Values and Technology”- ICECHVT 2013, Gurgaon, India, pp. 97-101, Jan 18 - 19, 2013.
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STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENTS
Four students of B Tech. first semester (SET) Aditya Lochan, Anubhav
Dhawan, Ravinder Kumar and Saurabh Juneja who were the winners in
“Robotryst”, the Robotics workshop which was organized by the School
of Engineering & Technology in October, made us proud again by winning
the first prize in the Robo Run and Robo Line Follower in the fest held at
CGC (Chandigarh Group of Colleges) Landran. They received Rs. 3000/- &
Rs. 2000/- as cash prize, certificates as well as trophies. These prizes were
awarded to them by Chief Guest Smt. Hasmareet Singh Badal, Member of
Parliament, Punjab. We would like to congratulate them and wish them all
the best for all future endeavours.
Three students of SET, namely Nitesh Kr. Arora, Rashi Burman and Kunal
Bhatia won prizes in the Robo-Run & Robo Takedown events in “Robo-
Race”, the technical fest organized at GB Pant Engineering college on
October 17-19, 2012.
Seven students of B Tech. final year (AIT) comprising of B Tech. final year
EEE & ECE students made us proud by winning the 2nd & 3rd prizes
at “Vyan’2012-Evangelist”, the Entrepreneurship Event organized by
Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee on November 19, 2012.
The topic of the first team, “Halo Aviators”, was “Pedal Powdered Water
Purifier”. It comprised of Aditya Kumar, Dhruv Gupta, Navneet Kumar and
Neha Khawas.
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benchmarking the discourse
PLATFORM LECTURE SERIES
‘Barack Obama's re-election as US president
would have a positive impact on business
opportunities for India.’
Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal
Hero Motor Corporation Joint
Managing Director (JMD) and Hero
Corporate Services Chairman
Lectures by prominent persons from different walks of life on topics of current interest are organized from time to time
under the celebrated Platform lecture series. The speakers present a public lecture or presentation followed by discussion.
Hearing out renowned personalities and sharing their rich experiences instills the importance of social values, leadership
qualities, commitment and diligence and a temperament for research among the students. Brief extracts from the lectures
are given below:
‘Today's youth is immensely talented and gifted.
They are young and unique people, who are a
delight - the next big thing - because the future is
theirs.’
‘Laughter eliminates negative stress and
induces a feeling of peace and health.
Those who laugh last.’
Dr. H K Chopra MD, MBBS
Chairman World Heart
Academy
Sir James Bevan
British High Commissioner
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‘It's no longer about one product or two products - its
about shopping category, and India still has a huge mass
of population at the bottom of the pyramid, and there is a
whole mind there for business perspective.’
Mr. Raj Jain
MD & CEO, Bharti Wal-Mart Pvt. Ltd.
‘Within difficulties lie the opportunities and these
opportunities bring to light the prospects which we
have today in India and in the Global Supply Chain.’
Dr. Anand Gramopadhaye
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and
Professor, Dept. of Industrial Engineering,
Clemson University
‘For Nussbaum, democracy cannot exist
without an educated electorate, and being
educated for life means more than being
trained for an occupation, and neglecting
to acknowledge that which endangers
our development and the full flourishing of
humanity and a just distribution of the world’s
bounty.’
Professor John Ruff
Director, Valparaiso University
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‘Underlying philosophy of the Juvenile
Justice System is to ensure that all
children, be they in conflict with law or in
need of care and protection, are provided
with nurturing environment.’
Shri Anil Kumar Rao
Joint Commissioner of Police
‘For those who want to focus on growing
professionally and making their mark, I
feel the focus should be on developing the
ability of interacting with, getting along with
and understanding people.’
Mr. Sachit Jain
Executive Director, Vardhman
Group
‘Diversity in India is an
opportunity, not a weakness.’
Dr. Bill Farrell
Professor, Clemson
University
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MANAGEMENT: CAPACITY BUILDING FOR
ADDRESSING REAL LIFE CHALLENGES
The world of work is full of complexities and challenges. Business and industry thrive on identifying
opportunities, managing change, dealing with conflicts and solving real life problems. Management
education equips us with the requisite knowledge and skill sets and builds up our capacity in
addressing these challenges.
The School of Management Studies (SMS) at Ansal University strives to achieve excellence in management education through
imaginatively designed curricula for both under-graduate and post-graduate programmes. Not only do we offer the typical
streams such as marketing, finance, HR and International Business, we also enable our students to develop management
expertise in the emerging sectors of economy by providing sector-specific courses. The philosophy of trans-disciplinary
learning of Ansal University perfectly blends with this multi-dimensional learning approach offered by the School. The
underlying objective of the content and pedagogy followed in our programmes is to develop employability skills and a mindset
oriented towards life-long learning among our students.
It is no longer enough for students building up their career to bank upon academic courses which provide them with
conceptual learning in various streams of management. The students need to build up professional competence as well in the
fields of their choice through additional options that are valued by the industry. The School provides such options by offering
certification courses such as Certified Financial Planning certification of the Financial Planning Standards Board, India. We
recognize the prestige and aura associated with global linkages in the academic programmes of the School, and towards that
end, we offer our students the option of pursuing additional post-graduate degrees from our partner universities abroad. This
gives the students a dual advantage in building their career path.
The excellence of an institute depends upon the excellence of faculty and their ability to build win-win relationships with
the external community. We believe in continual interactions with the employers, contemporary academic institutes in India
and abroad, fellow professionals and the community at large by reaching them out through conferences, publications and
collaborative programmes. Our faculty members consciously build up their identity capital by enhancing their academic
and professional visibility to the outside world through research and publications in the form of books, journal papers and
conference papers. Many of our faculty members have won laurels and acclaims for their achievements.
Surinder Batra
Dean, School of Management Studies
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HIGHLIGHTS OF 2012-2013
A MOMENT OF PRIDE
A group of SMS faculty attended a Global Business Workshop at Indian Institute of Management (Lucknow) NOIDA campus
as ambassadors of the newborn Ansal University on May 19-20, 2012. While the then-Director attended on day one, a
group of nine faculty members from the School of Management of AU participated on day two.
World-renowned faculty from Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, US, conducted the Workshop. The IUAA Delhi
India Chapter in conjunction with Kelley School of Business (KSB) facilitated the entire two-day programme. SMS faculty
Sangeeta Trehan is the founding President of the Chapter.
There was a glorious moment for AU when Sangeeta Trehan was honoured as the “distinguished alumna and Chapter
leader” by the visiting delegation from Indiana University Kelley School of Business (KSB) at the conclusion of the
Workshop on Global Business on Sunday, May 20, 2012. Prof. Rameshan (Director, IIM-Rohtak) was the guest of honour
on day one while Prof. M Akbar from IIM-L represented the IIM Faculty on day two. A host of IU alumni and their friends
from all over India attended as participants.
ORIENTATION PROGRAMME
Lao Tzu has so rightly said, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. The first session at Ansal University
began with an elaborate and meticulously planned, three-day Orientation Programme to help its first batch transition
smoothly from a high school student to a college student. For the Undergraduate courses, the session was conducted
from August 6 - 8, 2012. On a similar pattern, the Orientation Programme was conducted for MBA and other AU
programmes later in the month. The programme was aimed at settling the newest batch of students and tackling their
apprehensions (if any). The entire Ansal University fraternity joined hands to communicate one message across the board
that the students were going to be in safe hands during the course of their stay here. A ceremonial havan was organized
to seek blessings for the Institution and the students. Honorable Vice-Chancellor addressed the students and also
showered his blessings on them. During these three days the students were given an insight into their course curriculum,
annual co-curricular activities, anti-ragging and disciplinary guidelines. A session on mentoring was also given wherein
the concept of faculty as mentors was introduced. As part of psychometric profiling, the students were familiarized
with transactional analysis and the Levensons’ Test of Locus of Control, which was a hit with the students. They were
quite excited to interpret their personalities. A session was also planned for their goal setting and career opportunities,
to help students identify the path they need to take for themselves and the preparation required to capitalize on the job
prospects. Talent Hunt brought in an element of fun and frolic amongst the youngsters, wherein there was dance, music
and a wave of enjoyment. Students were given a platform to shed their inhibitions and showcase their talent, the first step
of the University towards creating an all-round personality. A Panel Discussion was also scheduled wherein prominent
industry professionals were invited. We had Mr. Dheeraj Dogra (National Director – Retail, BNP Paribas), Mr. Daman Soni
(Co-founder, Adchakra), Mr. Rohit Aggarwal (Regional Manager – North, Firstnaukri.com), Ms. Usha Mehta (Manager-
Recruitment, Steria (India) Ltd.) who shared their views on the topic: Industry Expectations from the students. Welcoming
the students with open arms, giving a peak into the University life and helping them feel a part of AU, this session set the
ball rolling for the session ahead.
Just out of school, with expectations galore; college life brings in excitement and more.
‘CONFLUENCE 2012’
Ansal University was the zonal center for the two-day Entrepreneurship Workshop, Idea to Execution conducted by
Nurture Talent Academy in association with Confluence - International Business Summit of IIM Ahmedabad, where
students got a chance to learn how to generate ideas, make business plans, start a venture, manage finance and
launch their products in market. Held on September 28-29 2012, the workshop gave participating students a real
experience on entrepreneurship through practical, live and a very interactive workshop. The shortlisted students would
get an opportunity to participate in the Grand Finale of Masterplan Business Plan Contest to be held at IIM Ahmedabad
from November 30 – December 2, 2012. This initiative is in line with AU’s vision to have a significant impact on the
entrepreneurship eco-system in India and to further the spirit of entrepreneurship among students.
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
A two-day National Conference on “IT Innovations and Sustainability: Current Trends and Ethical Issues” was jointly
organized by the School of Management Studies and School of Computer Applications from October 19-20, 2012 at
Ansal University campus. It provided a platform for academicians, professionals, industry experts and research scholars
to present their original work and/or share experiences related to the Conference themes. Around hundred papers were
received, out of which around 45 were presented over the two days. The Event started with the Inaugural Session:
Mr. Ram Subramanian, MD and CEO (Maples ESM), the Chief Guest accompanied by Guests of Honour
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AU PROGRAMMES
NATIONAL
CONFERENCE
NEWSLETTER,
DE FACTO
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Mr. Raja Natesan, Chief Operating Officer (TUI India) and Mr. Vijay Rai, President and CEO (Powercon) shared their views
on innovations and sustainability. The Chief Guest also officially launched Trans-Disciplinary Learning or TDL during the
Inaugural Session. While counterparts in other Institutions are still struggling with the comprehension of the concept, Ansal
University is one of the pioneers in implementing TDL. Through an integration of disciplines, learning becomes relevant
to the real world thus leading to the holistic development of students. While technical sessions were spread across both
the days, a Panel Discussion was scheduled where the invited guests shared their pearls of wisdom around the theme
of innovation, ethics and business. The Distinguished Panelists in the Panel Discussion included Mr. Sachin Sethi, Sr.
Director (Deloitte Consulting); Mr. Niraj Prakash, Director (Oracle); Mr. Amitabh Srivastava, Director Technology (Impetus
Technologies); Mr. Puneet Mansukhani, Business Head (Infodart), Cdr MM Chaturvedi (Retd. Indian Air Force officer)
and Prof. AK Saini, Professor – Management (IP University). The technological innovations in industry particularly mobile
space, focus on greening and sustainability were the key points deliberated upon. Overall, the two-day Conference was
an amalgamation of research paper deliberations and expert deliberations on the current innovations, business ethics and
sustainability.
TRANS-DISCIPLINARY LEARNING
Trans-disciplinary Learning or TDL integrates the perspectives of multiple disciplines in order to connect new knowledge
and deeper understanding to real life experiences. By inculcating the understanding of various disciplines to address the
problem at hand, students are able to connect to the subjects rather than studying them in strict isolation. This makes
learning relevant to real world. TDL leads to the students’ holistic development through an active, participatory approach
promoting critical thinking thus enhancing their employability and acceptability by the corporate houses. SMS students
are involved in a wide variety of TDL projects like Social Marketing to Young People: What works In Youth Development;
Himachal Tourism, Advertising and Society, Food Adulteration and Chemical Pollutants, Waste Paper Management @ AU.
Supply chain in Hotel Industry, Primary education to the poor, Public Health- An Integral Part of Undergraduate Learning,
Save Water! Save Electricity, A Photo-essay, a Three-minute Video Film with a Message, Customer needs identification
by Fashion Designers, Education to Slum Children, Automobiles & Solar Energy, Hospitality Industry, Identity and Heritage
Awareness, Orphanage: Career Option, Real Estate Management, Social Awareness towards Child Labour, Study of
Restaurants, Traffic Jam Solutions- MG Road, Tree Plantation and Physical Fitness Programmes.
‘STOCKMIND’
An awareness session for management students about financial services sector called ‘StockMind’ was organized by
School of Management on November 2, 2012. Mr Kunal Kaushish, Sr. Manager (Equity Product Group), ICICI Securities
Ltd and Mr Yudhister Kaul, Regional Marketing Manager, ICICI Securities Ltd conducted the sessions. ‘StockMind’
imparted applicable knowledge and essentials skills to students, which will help them grow in the financial domain.
The sessions also enhanced their understanding about the career options available in financial services sector. All
students participating in the seminar were given a free 12 months’ subscription to the online monthly magazine- MONEY
MANAGER to help them keep updating and adding to their financial knowledge.
NEWSLETTER, DE FACTO
SMS has taken lead to launch the first Newsletter of a School in the University in November 2012. De Facto is a topical
(theme-based) e-newsletter that is taken out on a quarterly basis and incorporates inputs from industry experts, academia
and students. It is widely disseminated among the corporates and the academicians besides our internal students
and alumni. The theme of the first Newsletter was “Retail Industry: Dressed to Compete”. A special issue on “CSR:
Responsibility on Cards” was taken out on December 3, 2012 to mark the Bhopal Gas tragedy. The ensuing issue is
proposed to have the theme “Knowledge Cities”.
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International Conference
on “Global Competitiveness
and Corporate Governance
Imperatives in Emerging
Economies”: Feb. 15 & 16, 2013
The School of Management Studies organized an International Conference on
“Global Competitiveness and Corporate Governance Imperatives in Emerging
Economies” on Feb. 15 & 16, 2013. Over 80 participants attended the
conference. There were eleven participants from foreign countries, including
three from international partner universities of Ansal University from USA. A total
of 58 papers were presented in the conference, including 55 from India and
three from abroad. 18 papers were contributed by the faculty of Ansal University.
The countries represented in the conference included USA, UK, Hong Kong,
Nigeria, South Korea and Afghanistan. The international partner universities
participating in the conference included Valparaiso University and Tarleton State
University. Besides, senior level participation from Government, industry, foreign
consulates and NGOs, as well as faculty from academic institutes/ universities in
India were the highlights of the conference.
The AU Theatre Group was launched during the conference and a cultural
programme for conference guests was organized by the Theatre Group. The
food served in the conference and hospitality for the same was totally managed
by the Hotel Management faculty and students of the School of Management
Studies of Ansal University.
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B Sc. Hotel Management & Catering
Technology
AIM: B Sc. Hotel Management & Catering Technology is a core programme of School of Management Studies at Ansal
University. The programme is structured to educate and train the students in such a manner that after the completion
of the course, students may join hotels in the core departments: Front Office, Housekeeping, Food Production, Food &
Beverage Service and other areas like Training, Human Resource and Sales & Marketing. This programme also focuses
on the entrepreneurial flair, which is ideal for people who have desire and admirable commercial insight to start their own
business in service industry. Emphasis is given on technical skills and professional attitude through classroom teaching,
practical demonstration and hands on training that gives a wide range of specialist opportunity to be a part of many other
service related organizations.
JOB PROSPECTS & CAREER OPPORTUNITIES: Among the emerging professional courses that have attracted the
youngsters in the recent years, hotel management is very prominent. The boom in the tourism industry has resulted in
the immense growth of the hotel industry in India. The hotel industry promises a bright future for anyone who wishes to
take up a career in this segment. In fact, after the completion of hotel management course, there are lots of lucrative and
interesting openings in various fields other than hotels like -
LABS & FACILITIES
Front Office Lab
Housekeeping Lab
Mock guest room
Food Production Lab
Food & Beverage Lab
Computer Lab
Language Lab
Fully computerized, air conditioned and networked library
with multi-media resources
International standard well furnished hostels on campus,
separately for boys and girls with attached bath
Specially designed air-conditioned lecture theaters/
classrooms and ultra modern AV facilities
Sprawling Wi-fi campus at the foothills of Aravali range
Sports complex
Transport facilities (a fleet of buses) covering major parts
of Delhi, Gurgaon and Faridabad
Airline catering and cabin services
Academics
Corporate catering
Cruise liners
Customer services
Entrepreneurship
Facility management
Hospital administration and catering
Multinational companies
Public relations
Railway catering
Travel agency
Hotel & Tourism associations
FUTURE EVENTS AT BSCHMCT FOR THE
ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-13
March 11-13, 2013 - International conference by SSD
in the campus, catered by HM Students.
March 15, 2013 - Academic Award Ceremony, catering
done by HM Students.
March 16, 2013 - Aluminum Meet at campus, catering
done by HM Students.
Workshop on HACCP (External Speaker).
Workshop on Wine Appreciation.
Session by Industry professional on Leadership Skills.
Inter University Chef Competition.
Food Fest
Visit to Resort Hotel
TEACHING METHODOLOGY
Assignments and Case study
Audio visual training
Classroom discussion
Demonstrations
Expert interactions
Field visits and Guest lectures
Group discussions
Hands on training and Hotel Visits
Industrial training
Presentations and Projects
Seminars
Trans Disciplinary Learning
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Writing About A Sunrise School
Faculty - SMS
We have a diverse set of students at SMS - in addition to students from NCR we get students from Haryana, UP,
Uttarakhand, Punjab, HP, Rajasthan and a few students from the north-eastern states of India as well besides
students from some African countries. And the students themselves are different.
Why are they here? By all accounts, they appreciate the kind of education they receive. Ranging from small class
size to the accessibility of professors to the responsiveness of the entire administration to the overall educational
experience, students here have a wide range of opportunities not available elsewhere in our region. These
include, for example, the academic freedom that is essential to higher education, potential for collaborative work
with faculty mentors for their professional and personal development, ability to participate in trans-disciplinary
projects in various skill areas and community service and availing a world-class physical and sports infrastructure
on campus. In short, SMS, nay AU, is becoming known for having a lively college atmosphere — in addition to
tremendous educational opportunities.
2012-2013 was an exciting time on our campus, as we played host to a plethora of activity. Writing an account
of the same reminds us just how much the student experience at AU has evolved in a short span of time. It also
calls to mind the many reasons why this is a great place to go to college. There’s a synergy of ideas and resources
like never before. We are proud of the progress we have made in our relationships with students, faculty here and
elsewhere, staff, community and business leaders.
Looking forward, it is no secret that we aspire to expand further and become home to more and more students. It
is a goal that guides us in our long-term planning to design and offer meaningful programmes, forge new alliances,
expand capacity, re-engineer workflows and upgrade facilities.
These highlights are just the beginning. With more bridges, paths, and ties to the student community than ever
before, we are not just shaping the footprint of our campus. Indeed, we at AU are helping to shape the future of
India. We look forward with great anticipation to the academic year ahead.
Sangeeta Trehan - Faculty
School of Management Studies
Collectively, the faculty of SMS represents a unique blend of youth, experience and commitment towards all the
values that a management faculty should stand for. These include excellence in teaching, aptitude for research and a
continual urge to update their knowledge through participation in academic conferences. The faculty members engage
themselves in institution building activities in a collective manner by organizing events in the campus in which international
academicians and participants from other prestigious business schools and management institutions of the country
participate. One such event was the international conference on “Global Competitiveness and Corporate Governance
Imperatives in Emerging Economies” organized by the School in February 2013.
Another highlight of the collective strength of SMS faculty is their compassion for and ability to relate with the students.
Their professional relationship with students extends beyond teaching them in the prescribed contact hours to mentoring
them and guiding them towards careers suited to them. The SMS faculty also easily relate with the philosophy of transdisciplinary
learning (TDL) owing to their multi-disciplinary orientation in management. This is seen by the fact that several
of the TDL projects pioneered by the SMS faculty have been appreciated in the social community to which these projects
were targeted. Besides, the faculty members aim to enlarge the learning perspective of their students by conducting
knowledge sessions on current themes, case analysis workshops, management club activities and other such themes.
In a short span of time, the faculty members of SMS have contributed to creating intellectual property for the university
and themselves. The School has brought out a volume of published papers culled out of the papers presented at the
International Conference held in February, 2013. The School has also regularly brought out “De Facto”, a thematic
quarterly newsletter. Three volumes focusing on the themes, (a) FDI in retail sector, (b) Corporate Social Responsibility and
(c) Knowledge Cities have been published that have had contributions from faculty and students as well as from industry
professionals and academicians from other business schools. Some of the faculty members have the proud distinction
of co-authoring books in their chosen management discipline and publishing research papers and articles in journals and
business magazines.
The SMS faculty members have yet another quality not usually seen in business schools- the sense of art and an aptitude
for theatre. The SMS faculty won acclaim by creating and enacting a play in the evening hours of the first day of the
international conference held in February 2013. Not only did this add some spice to the heavy intellectual activity during
the day time, it also revealed the multi-faceted personality of the faculty of SMS
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Faculty achievements
C S Yadav, Monika Bhatia and Rameesha Kalra
Co-authored a paper “De-Tariffication: A Risk Based pricing & Risk Reduction regime”, published in Pacific Business Review
International, volume 5 issue 6 (December, 2012)
Deepti Wadera
Surinder Batra
Dean, School of Management Studies
He is a member of the International Advisory Board of World Capital Institute, Mexico since 2007; and a member of Scientific
Committee of “Information System Dynamics”, a project of CIGREF Foundation of France and University of Paris-Sud, France,
since 2009.
Was invited as a panelist by GIZ (German Agency for Technical Cooperation) and the Alumniportal Deutschland (a programme
of GIZ) as a panelist on the topic “The role of social media in international academic research & cooperation” in an on-line
forum held on May 1, 2013.
Published a paper, “Acknowledging Villages” in the April 2013 issue of “Rural Marketing”, a monthly magazine published in
India.
Co-edited the Conference Proceedings, “Global Competitiveness and Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies”,
on behalf of School of Management Studies, Ansal University, February 2013.
Co-authored a paper, “The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of India: An Overview”, published in “Sustainability & Development”,
Bloomsbury Publication, January 2013.
Presented a paper titled, “Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Based Development” at the Eleventh International
Entrepreneurship Forum at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from September 4-5, 2012.
Presented a paper titled “Human Implications of Emerging Technologies: An Indian Perspective” at the International
Conference on “Extropianism: Towards Convergence of Human Values and Technology” organized by School of
Engineering and Technology, Ansal University on January 18-19, 2013.
Amarjeet Kaur Malhotra
Published a paper on “Impact of Foreign Institutional Investment on Exchange Rate Movement in India” in the Journal
“Manthan”, Dec 2012, Vol. V.
Presented a paper “M-Banking: A must for Sustainable Growth in Banking Sector” in the International Conference
on Business Sustainability: Challenges and Issues at FORE School of Management, New Delhi.
Authored a Book, “Marketing of Services”, published by Global Vision Publishing House available in market since Dec 2012
Published a paper, “Store Choice Behaviour: A study Of Retail Marketing Mix And VALS Model “ IFRSA Business Review,
Journal of International Forum of Researchers Students and Academician, Vol. 3, Issue 2, June 2013
Dhirendra Singh Parihar
Published a paper titled, “Probabilistic Periodic Review Model With A Mixture of Backorder and Lost Sales under Constraint
and Varying Holding Cost”, Paripex-Indian Journal of Research, April 2013.
Published a paper titled, “The effect of lot sizing rules on the order variability”, International Journal of Application
Innovation in Engineering & management, September 2012.
Kuldeep Kumar Chandel
Presented a paper titled “Identifying and Analyzing Key Factors in Measuring the Indian Financial Development Index: An
Overview” at the International Conference on “Global Competitiveness and Corporate Governance Imperatives in
Emerging Economies”, organized by School of Management Studies, Ansal University on February 15-16, 2013.
Manmohan Rahul
Presented a Case Study “Millennium City Gurgaon- Infrastructure and Public utilities issues”, at the International Conference
by Suleman Dawood School of Business, Lahore University of Management Science, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan.
Navdeep Barwal
Presented a research article on “IT innovations in Indian Banking Sector” at National Conference, “IT Innovations and
Sustainability” at Ansal University from October 19-20, 2012.
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Pratika Mishra
Founder Editor of Quarterly E- Newsletter of School of Management Studies- “De Facto”.
Published a co-authored paper, “The Resurrections of Moments of Truth on Out-shopping Behavior: An Indian Overview”, at
6th International Conference on Contemporary Business 2012, IIT Delhi and Curtin University, October 18, 2012, IIT Delhi.
Puja Chhabra Sharma
Co-authored a book, “Total Quality Management” published by Bizantata Publications, New Delhi in February 2013
Co-authored a paper titled “Emerging Human Resource (HR) Crisis in India: An Analysis of Critical Issues for Capacity
Building” in International Journal of Learning and Development, 2 HYPERLINK “http://www.macrothink.org/journal/
index.php/ijld” (1) , 2012.
Contributed a paper on “Knowledge Transfer involving HRM Practices & Policies within Multinational Companies: An
Overview of Strategic Issues & Challenges” in Proceedings of International Conference on Leadership in Business and
Management for Sustainable Global Economy, IIT Delhi, November 3-4, 2012.
Puja Sareen
Published a Paper titled e-HRM: A Strategic Review in International Journal of Human Resource Studies, Vol. 2, No. 3,
August 2012.
Sona Vikas
Assistant Dean, School of Management Studies
Paper accepted for presentation at the International Journal of Arts & Sciences (IJAS) Conference for Academic
Disciplines to be held at Harvard University, Massachusetts in May 2013. Title of paper is “Providing Sustainability to Micro
Enterprises: Exploring the Model Village Approach”.
Co-edited the Conference Proceedings, “Global Competitiveness and Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies”,
on behalf of School of Management Studies, Ansal University, February 2013.
Paper titled, “Talent Development in the Travel Industry: Creating a Training Inventory for Generation Y employees of Travel
Agencies in India”, presented and published at National Conference on Managing Generation Y @ Workplace: Issues
and Challenges at IP University, Delhi.
Swati Oberoi Dham
Awarded best paper award for the paper, “Discounted Services offered by e-Tailers: An Innovative Service” at International
Conference on Innovations in Management and Information Technology at IMT Faridabad, held on April 9, 2012. The
Paper is published in Vision International Journal ISSN 2231-3311.
Ritu Jain
Published paper titled “Changing Work Environment and its effect- Analysis of IT professionals” in Arth Prabandh,
November 2012.
Sangeeta Trehan
Honoured as the “Distinguished alumna and Chapter leader of Indiana University Alumni Association (IUAA) Delhi, India
Chapter” in May 2012 by the visiting delegation from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business (KSB).
Shilpa Sachdeva
Paper presented in All India Commerce Conference on ‘An Empirical study of consumer perceived level and attitude towards
FDI in Multi-brand retailing’.
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Achievements/Activities of
Students
VOLUNTEERING AT A GLANCE
A group of five students named: Geetika Gaba, Sanjana Arya, Spriha Mathur, Radhika Rajput and Sakshi Sharma
extended their helping hands to the differently able students in writing their exams at the Blind School RK Puram, Delhi
on September 17, 2012. The experience made the students more compassionate towards the needs of differently abled
and acted as a stimulus for other students also to be a part of many such volunteering activities so that they feel more
connected to their communities thereby enhancing their civic-engagement role in building and shaping the society.
Our MBA student Neha Raghav co-authored with Preeti Deswal (a graduate student at Banasthali University, Rajasthan) a
paper titled “Human Capital – Its Importance and Role in Organisational Efficiency”. They presented the paper at the twoday
inter-national conference organized by Ansal University, Gurgaon on 15-16 February 2013.
MBA student Shorya Malhotra authored and presented a paper titled “The Globalized Automotive Industry” also at the
aforesaid inter-national conference at AU.
MBA student Shweta Chauhan authored and presented a paper titled “Global Competitive Strategies to Manage Human
Capital” also at the aforesaid inter-national conference at AU.
BBA students Naman Bhutani, Aditya Bhatia and Aman Saxena co-authored and presented a paper titled “Changing
Phase of Indian Retail Industry” also at the aforesaid inter-national conference at AU.
BBA student Karan Setia authored and presented a paper titled “Corporate Governance Imperatives In Emerging
Economies” also at the aforesaid inter-national conference at AU.
BBA students Taruna, Aditya and Naman presented a paper on “IT Innovations in Retail” at National conference organized
by Ansal University, Gurgaon on October 19-20, 2012.
Manav Nagpal, Surbhi Midha, Suditi Gupta and Himanshu won Ist Prize in “Youth to business 2012” competition of
AISEC Delhi.
Manav Nagpal won the third position in the Zonal Business Plan Competition “Confluence 2012”, a flagship programme of
IIM Ahmedabad.
Divit, Akansha and Ashish participated in the Dance Competition, 2012 at ITM University, Gurgaon.
UNLEASHING TALENT @ VOTERS’ DAY
As Einstein once said that “Imagination is more important than knowledge” and to witness the same, Ansal University
in close coordination with the Dy. Commissioner and District Election Officer, Gurgaon organized the three college level
competition for Gurgaon District on October 9, 2012. The students from various colleges and universities participated in
the following competitions:
1. Poster Making Competition
2. Slogan Writing Competition
3. Debate
This event allowed the participants to showcase their various talents as orators, artists and creative writers. At the same
time the event was a great success in providing a lot of information on the rights of Indian voters and led everyone to
think about various challenges India faces being one of the biggest democratic nations in the world. The event also invited
many thought provoking questions that allowed a room for discussion to all the participants.
In this event, a group of BBA First Year Students named Divya Agarwal, Gaurav Wadhava, Sakshi Kaushik and Chirag
Jain, also participated in poster making competition and unleashed their creativity as poster makers.
A PAGE FROM SPITI DIARY
“My journey to Lahul and Spiti, my stay there, the people I met and the challenges I faced together are things that I would
cherish all my life...” says Apoorv Tiwari, a Gold Level Participant who is pursuing his IAYP award (The International Award
for the Young People).
For his residential project Apoorv went to Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, from June 9, 2012 to June 25, 2012. As part
of this project, Apoorv accompanied 23 other award participants from seven different countries of the world. In this
residential project all the award participants joined their hands in constructing a complete solar bath using the traditional
Tibetan technique and local construction material and thus making it totally eco-friendly. The completed Solar Bath was
inaugurated by the King of the Spiti Valley in a ceremony held at the monastery.
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During their stay at Spiti, all the participants lived in the monasteries with the monks and had a closer look at the Tibetan
life, culture and tradition in which they also enjoyed the local meals and cuisines (momos, yak milk), explored local flora
and fauna and were amazed to witness one of the most ancient monasteries and its architecture.
Besides his residential project, Apoorv also completed his adventurous journey which is another section of the Award.
He did mountain climbing and trekking for almost three days and finally reached to witness the pristine beauty of snowcapped
mountain at Bhalari, the highest mountain top. While on his way to this final destination he also confronted a land
slide, an incident which left an abiding impression on his mind.
To sum up Apoorv strongly believes in what Helen Keller says that “Life is an adventurous journey or nothing”. And his
stay at Spiti has one of the most memorable and learning experiences of his life.
SEVEN WONDERS/WHIZ KIDS OF IAYP@AU
Avi Bhargava, Priyanka Kumari, Chitra Sharma, Harish Vats, Charika Gandhi, Shikha and Nandini Vij completed their
Bronze level of the IAYP Award. As award participants, they consistently worked in the four sections of the Award, i.e.
Service, Skill, Adventurous Journey and Physical Recreation. All these awardees unanimously believe that the award
has enthused in them a new zeal to look at the things from a different angle and perspective and now they all believe
in confronting new challenges everyday as the tag line of the award also says “Challenging Young People Everywhere”.
Through the award, the awardees have honed their leadership skills, communication skills, interpersonal skills; creative
thinking, problem solving and all of them now see themselves as better team players.
The award has been a journey not a destination which has helped all the participants in exploring their self. Thus all the
awardees believe in what Aldous Huxley says, “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,
and that’s your own self.”
TURNING THE SULTANPUR NATIONAL PARK IN TO A TOURIST HUB
A trans-disciplinary team of students from schools of management, engineering, and architecture of AU has undertaken
a project to suggest and implement improvements in the local Sultanpur National Park in the Spring 2013 semester. The
project is being conducted under the overall guidance of SMS faculty Ms. Sona Vikas, Ms. Garima Chauhan and Dr.
Deepti Wadhera.
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BRIEF OF THE PROGRAMMe
Ansal University has established the School of International Studies (SIS) to promote
international education, fostering cross-cultural awareness, cooperation and understanding
by collaborating with universities and centres of excellence around the world. The school aims
at creating ‘study abroad programmes’, integrating international and intercultural perspective
into our educational system, preparing students for their experience abroad and encouraging
research in the field of international education. SIS offers the following programmes:
B Tech.
BBA/ Bsc.
MBA
M Tech.
Ph.D
DEAN’S MESSAGE
The dictates of a globally intertwined environment demand developing human and social capital
across the globe to build mutual trust and cross-cultural communication that, ultimately, may
realize a shared dream of peaceful co-existence and reciprocal understanding. Globalization
has posed many new challenges and every student wants to widen his/her horizon to access
knowledge and find opportunities, learn to live with multiculturalism and intercultural views.
Global Education can be seen as a response to the challenges of a more and more globalized
world. Students in their professional capacities wish to recognize global diversity and build
multicultural collaborations moving beyond there domestic boundaries.
Sanjeev K Sharma
Assistant Dean, School of International Studies
faculty-sis
The faculty, well-known and highly respected in their respective academic fraternities, is
really what distinguishes School of International Studies of Ansal University from the other
neighbouring institutions. SIS faculty have earned their Masters and / or Doctorate degree from
highly reputed institutions of India and abroad. The faculty includes acclaimed scholars and
professors drawn from all disciplines and have been associated with highly known and refereed
journals with a keen interest in research and uniform strive to be great classroom teachers.
Many SIS faculties have been invited as speakers in the International Conferences and
workshops which helped them a lot in providing a global perspective and latest advancements
in respective fields to their students. The faculty of SIS has also been invited by US Universities
as visiting Faculty members for their teaching contribution and collaborative research. They
have played a key role in organizing various International and National Conferences, Workshops
and Faculty Development Programmes. The International conferences proceedings being
published in International Journal and include the video conferencing based presentation by
a Nobel laureate. The faculty members also made contribution to research and academia
in terms of research papers, book chapters, books and review articles. Many of our
faculty members are vitally connected to the business world as corporate advisors. These
associations give them and students a real world perspective.
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VISIT OF LINDEN GROUP OF UNIVERSITIES, USA (POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF NYU, OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY,
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY AND UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA- TAMPA) AT ANSAL UNIVERSITY (AU)
The officials met with the AU officials as well as students and made formal presentations about graduate studies in the USA,
the application process and about various areas of specializations. The major objective of the visit was to give an exposure and
opportunity to AU students to meet with the US University representatives (faculty and admissions officers) and get a good insight into
US education and what it takes to get admitted to US Universities. The universities are large flagship institutions with broad offerings
that understand the importance of IT, engineering and business programmes. Hence, they were able to highlight these areas when
talking to AU administration and students.
SEMINAR ON “NEWLY ARISING THREATS IN CYBER SECURITY OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES”, CONDUCTED BY Mr.
KRISHNA PRASAD FROM SCHOOL OF LAW AND JUSTICE OF EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA ON MONDAY,
OCTOBER 8, 2012
Mr. Prasad made a presentation on “Newly Arising Threats in Cyber Security of Nuclear Facilities”. He also discussed regarding
the opportunities and advantages of Higher education at ECU. He mentioned about Faculty of Business and Law at Edith Cowan
University as one of the largest business schools in Western Australia and offers an extensive range of undergraduate and graduate
programs in fundamental business disciplines and provides internationally recognized qualifications for contemporary and future
careers in business.
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY VISIT INDIA STUDY TOUR
Deakin University, Australia visited Ansal University on November 21, 2012, with a group of students on a part of India Study Tour. Dr.
Raj Singh, Vice Chancellor, Ansal University took a session on Ethical Management as a part of study tour for the students of both the
universities. The session followed with a cricket match between the students of Ansal and Deakin University and a debate competition
on “Downloading Music is Killing Creativity” where Ansal University students spoke against and Deakin University students in favour of
the proposition. The event was closed by a cultural evening planned in the amphitheatre with performances by the students of Ansal
and Deakin University.
FRENCH ENGINEERING INSTITUTES UNDER THE “n+i” NETWORK AT ANSAL UNIVERSITY
A 15 member French delegation consisting representatives from prestigious French Engineering Institutes under the “n+i”
Network, hosted an Education Fair at Ansal University (AU) campus on Thursday, December 6, 2012. Prof. Dr. Raj Singh, Vice
Chancellor of Ansal University welcomed the delegation and also spoke about the changing scenarios of Higher Education in
India. Prof. Dr. TROTIGNON Jean-Pierre, Director, “n+i” Engineering Network gave the presentation to the students and faculty
members to appraise them about the opportunities for pursuing post graduate and research doctoral work at France. The visit was
well received and concluded with one-to-one interaction with interested prospective students.
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CONDUCTED AN INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP ON “DEVELOPING CURRICULUM TO CREATE
EMPLOYABLE GRADUATES” IN COLLABORATION WITH ANSAL UNIVERSITY
On February 7, 2013 at AU campus, Deakin University conducted an interactive workshop for curriculum leaders, and specifically
those who lead the design, development, implementation and evaluation of courses (degree programs) in a range of disciplines, and
particularly at the undergraduate level. Prof. Beverly Oliver, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Learning Futures) and Mr. William Confalonieri,
Chief Digital Officer from Deakin University, Australia deliberated on curriculum development issues in the workshop. Honorable
Prof. Dr. Raj Singh, Vice Chancellor, Ansal University emphasized on the pioneer concept of Trans Disciplinary Learning (TDL) being
implemented for the first time at Ansal University. Prof. Oliver mentioned that the assurance of learning for graduate employability
framework suggests that the required capabilities are most likely to be achieved through a 360-degree evidence-based approach
to curriculum enhancement by: Determining the appropriate standards in specific capabilities; mapping where and how they are
developed, deployed and assessed; evaluating their achievement (based on a range of evidence such as summative and formative
teacher, self- and peer assessment, course quality indicators; stakeholder perceptions of graduate performance) and benchmarking,
planning and monitoring enhancements. The intensive discussions was done during the interactive session of the workshop on
designing course-learning outcomes with employability-related generic capabilities, articulate standards in those course learning
outcomes, and design how they will be evidenced by graduates. It was also discussed that we must scope opportunities for workintegrated
learning within and beyond the formal classroom and also we should deploy portfolio approaches to self, peer and teacher
assessment and judgment of capabilities.The workshop was concluded by discussing on incorporating key indicators to identify
where and how graduate capabilities might be enhanced and exploring benchmarking opportunities for course enhancement.
UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX STUDENT INTERACTION AT ANSAL UNIVERSITY
The School of International Studies, Ansal University invited delegates from University of Sussex, UK on February 14, 2013. Mr. John
Sander, Senior International Liaison Officer from the University with four Bachelor Degree students from School of Law and Business
interacted with the Honorable Vice Chancellor, Dr. Raj Singh, Dean School of Business and senior faculty members from School of
International Studies, followed by their interaction with Ansal University students. During the interactive session with the AU students,
Mr. John briefed about the programme options available with the University of Sussex, the fee structure and the scholarship options
available across different schools of the University. The students of both the Universities shared their views about their experience
with their respective University education system, the teaching pedagogy and the culture across both the country’s education
environment.
ACADEMIC COLLABORATION WITH VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY, USA
An agreement of cooperation was signed with Valparaiso University, USA. This agreement will provide an opportunity to AU students
to have global exposure. The academic collaboration will provide dual degree options at UG and PG level courses, study semester/
year abroad, student and faculty exchange and joint research collaboration.
AWARD CEREMONY FOR SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Ansal University organized the award ceremony for meritorious students on March 15, 2013. The alumnus and the current batch
students of School of International studies were awarded with Chairman’s Honours Award , Director’s Merit Award and Prof. Subhash
Saxena Award for their academic excellence. Hon’ble Mr. Patrick Smith from the US Embassy was the Chief Guest at the occasion.

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Distinguished
visitors at au
Minister Counselor of Angolian Embassy - Joaquin Filipeg, Mr. Jose Santos
Scholarship Institute of Angola - Mr. Baptista
Economic Department of INABE, Angola - Mr. Sebasto Junior
St. Mary’s University, USA - Ms. Lauren Cullen
Eastern Michigan University, USA - Ms. Michelle Henry, Ms. La Verne
Polytechnic Institute of New York, USA - Elif Noor Dogan
Oklahoma City University, USA - Farida Shams
San Jose State University, USA - Siguard Meldal
University of South Florida - Tampa, USA - Ms. Lisa Rycroft
Deakin University, Australia - Ms. Grace Diep, Dr. Darryl Coulthard, Ms. Lidia
Xynas, Professor Beverley Oliver
Czech Republic Embassy - Ms. Radka Calabkova, Ms Jana Peterková
Valparaiso University , USA - Dr. Renu Juneja, Rick Amrhein, Jaishankar
Raman, John Ruff, Moninder Holly Singh
Edith Cowan University, Australia - Mr. Krishna Prasad
Eastern Institute of Technology, New Zealand - Ms. Helen Kemp,
Phillippa S Jones
“n+I” group of Institutes, France - Mr. Jean-Pierre Trotignon
University of Arts, London - Prof. Bob Mastaton
Northumbria University, UK - Dr. Joe Allen
Clemson University, USA - Prof. William G Ferrell
Tarleton University, USA - Marilyn Robetaille, Sudarshan Kurwadkar
University of Saskatchewan, Canada - A.Dalai, R. Srinivasan
University of Sussex, UK - J. Sander
Tarleton State University, USA - Prof. Benevides
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How Stories
Can Save Us
Professor John Ruff, Valparaiso University
The America fiction writer Tim O’Brien, in the last story of his brilliant collection of interconnected stories about a platoon
of American foot soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War, The Things They Carried, claims “stories can save us.” Not our
bodies, O’Brien contends, but our souls. And I think he’s right in a number of ways. Here’s such a story. Once upon
a time a young man named Henry David Thoreau built himself a cottage at the edge of a pond, on land a mile or so out
of Concord, Massachusetts that belonged to his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. With a borrowed axe, with lumber
salvaged from an Irish railroad worker’s shanty, with the volunteer labor of famous friends, including Emerson and Bronson
Alcott, Thoreau fashioned for himself a place to read and think. While the rest of country put its shoulder to the massive
undertaking of development and Western expansion, digging canals, putting in railroads, building factories and forges,
Thoreau read, thought, took walks, filled his notebooks with news about the weather and the wildlife, grew beans and
baked his bread. The most famous fruit of his labor there was Walden, a book to which we can trace the origins of
environmental thinking in America--it is where ecocriticism begins, and where we find one of the shrewdest critiques of
American capitalism and consumer culture yet written.
In his journals, we learn that nothing he reads moves Thoreau more than certain ancient Indian classics he probably
borrowed from Emerson’s library, The Upanishads, The Vedas, The Law of Manu, The Dharma Shastras, and most of all,
The Bhagavad Gita. To students of American literature and culture, it can come as a something of a revelation, for some
it might border on heresy, to read that one of the prime architects of American individualism, American as apple pie in his
anti-authoritarianism and freedom of mind and expression, an American original if there ever was one, was in certain ways
an intellectual knockoff made in India. But it is a true, and there is evidence to support that claim all through out Walden.
And why does that matter? Well, consider how it might affect the way we read the writer of Essay on Civil Disobedience,
which Thoreau wrote to explain his decision not to pay a poll tax that would support a government that would launch
an unjust war against Mexico and countenance slavery and protect the legal rights of slave holders. In whatever
history of non-violent resistance you read, that essay is a landmark even as Sophocles’ Antigone and Plato’s Apology
are landmarks. Scholars debate where and when exactly Mohandas Gandhi read Thoreau’s Essay, whether it was at
Oxford in 1900 or in South Africa in 1908, when he and others went to jail rather than pay a tax imposed unfairly on
people of color there. One scholar I consulted says Gandhi read (or reread) Thoreau’s account of his night in jail while
Gandhi himself was in jail. One wonders if Dr. King, in jail in Birmingham, Alabama, about to write his famous Letter
from Birmingham Jail in the margins of a newspaper, though of these famous precedents. Now there can be no doubt
Thoreau’s essay contributed to the formation of Gandhi’s practice of satyagraha, which Dr. Martin Luther King himself
would embrace and implement as a young leader of a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. King claims in “Pilgrimage
to Non-Violence,” a chapter from his book, The Montgomery Story, that it was Gandhi who taught him how to read
Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount as bodying forth a philosophy of nonviolence and love that could be applied by oppressed
peoples fighting for freedom and justice. Prior to reading Gandhi, King claims he took the gospel message of turning the
other cheek and forgiving one’s enemy as applying to individuals, not entire groups. That is a huge debt to acknowledge,
as a Christian preacher descended from generations of Christian preachers, for being instructed on the true meaning of
his own religious tradition by a Hindu leader, though I seem to recall Gandhi also acknowledging Thoreau on having a
similar impact on his relation to the Gita.
That Thoreau influenced Gandhi, King, and Nelson Mandela is beyond doubt, and the impact of that influence in human
history is inestimable. Behind that long story stands, imperturbed, Arjuna’s story in the Bhadavad Gita. So what is the
point of all this? American philosopher Martha Nussbaum, in a recent book entitled Not For Profit: Why Democracy
Needs the Humanities, makes the argument that education without the humanities will leave us ill-prepared to create a
habitable future that is just and wisely governed; that the study of history, philosophy, and literature create such
intellectual virtues as curiosity, integrity, and self-scrutiny, habits of the mind and also habits of the heart, especially
empathy, without which a sense of community beyond the family cannot exist. For Nussbaum, Democracy cannot
exist without an educated electorate, and being educated for life means more than being trained for an occupation, and
neglecting to acknowledge that endangers our development and the full flourishing of humanity and a just distribution of
the world’s bounty.
John Ruff has been in the teaching profession for 30 plus years. He has taught in the English department at Valparaiso University since
1989. He specializes in teaching first year students, literary modernism, poetry, children’s literature, and American literature. Besides
teaching in the English department, Professor Ruff is director of Valpo’s CORE programme for freshmen- He helped develop and since
1998 has directed and taught in their first year core class, a year-long interdisciplinary humanities course that all first year students in their
general education programme take there. He says “putting together CORE was the most exciting thing I’ve done in my academic career.”
This inter-disciplinary first year core programme is the cornerstone of their general education programme and constitutes about a third of
the credits required for graduation for most students, no matter what their major.
John Ruff was an Assistant Dean for five years, so he has worked a lot in academic advising. He also served on a University Task Force on
Writing at Valpo that helped to design a campus wide writing programme modeled after some of the best programmes in the United States.
He is also on the Wordfest Committee, Faculty Senate, the Curriculum Committee for the College of Arts and Sciences, the General Education
Oversight Committee, and the Collection Committee for the Brauer Museum of Art.
John Ruff began his teaching career teaching elementary in Rome, Italy, in 1975; He has also taught at the middle school and high school
level. Please visit his personal homepage at the Valpo website http://www.valpo.edu/english/faculty/ruff.php to know more about him. Prof.
Ruff has had three different opportunities to teach in China. He arrived at Ansal University on March 2, 2013 on his maiden visit to India.
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Dean’s message
In present scenario ICT is experiencing extraordinarily rapid change. The trend is
changing toward globalized business, the pace of technological advancement,
and the constant evolution in communication and knowledge dissemination
and transfer are but a few of the factors forcing changes. With changes in the
technology must come changes in education. School of Computer Applications,
through its undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D programmes, team of
distinguished faculty and cutting edge curriculum, has always aimed at preparing
students not only for leadership roles in information and communication
technology, but also at making them employable and inculcate values in them.
The entire year has been challenging and exciting - full of events at school and
university level ranging from workshops and lectures on ethical hacking and
robotics to organizing a National conference. The School admitted its first batch of
Ph.D scholars and is host to a number of international students in their endeavour
to reach their educational goals. I thank the entire faculty for successfully
accomplishing all the jobs assigned; let us continue it in this year as well.
All the Best!
Shikha Gupta
Assistant Dean, School of Computer Applications
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Events & Activities
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ITCE-2012
School of Computer Applications and School of Management and School of Computer Applications, Ansal University
jointly organized a two day National Conference on “IT Innovations & Sustainability: Current Trends & Ethical Issues”,
ITCE on October 19 – 20, 2012. Objective of this conference was to present and discuss innovations in technology and
business practices to conserve and sustain our environment. It provided a platform for academicians, professionals,
industry experts and research scholars to present their original work and share experiences for creating value for
businesses and ensure that we are able to sustain economic growth for the empowerment of citizens and societies.
Technological and innovative business practices are essential for progress. Sustainable development policies require
technological innovations to find alternative ways for efficient utilization of scarce resources, new production processes
and economic instruments to promote social equity, economic growth and ecological health. Current technologies are
being designed to achieve economic and environmental sustainability so as to meet the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own need. Entrepreneurs and technologists are joining hands
to adopt technological innovation, sustainable business practices and green innovation to gain competitive advantage and
emerge as low cost leaders. In the inaugural session, Mr. Raja Natesan, Chief Operating Officer (TUI India), Mr. Vijay Rai,
President & CEO (Powercon), Mr. Ram Subramani, MD and CEO (Maples ESM) were chief guests.
Second day, guests for Panel Discussion were Mr. Sachin Sethi (Sr. Director, Deloitte), Mr. Niraj Prakash (Director-PSM,
Microsoft), Mr. Amitabh Srivastava (Director - Technology Impetus), Mr. Puneet Mansukhani (Business Head - Infodart), Mr.
Chaturvedi (Sr. Professor) and Prof. AK Saini (Sr. Professor, GGSIPU).
INDIA TODAY MIND ROCKS YOUTH SUMMIT 2012
Students of School of Computer Applications participated in India Today Mind Rocks Youth Summit 2012 on September
7, 2012. This forum allows bright young minds to interact in an open two-way conversation with their icons. Leaders from
different spheres of life shared their success stories and students got inspired from their role models. Students get to
know about different fields and recognize the best field among politics, film direction, music direction, fashion designing,
acting, singing, and business. Theme for India Today Mind Rocks Youth summit 2012 was “BE THE BEST YOU”.
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TALENT HUNT
Ansal University hosted its first event - ‘Talent Hunt for Mr. & Ms. Fresher” of School of Computer Applications on
September 10, 2012 Monday. The event was open to all students of BCA (I Sem) and MCA (I Sem). Students were
informed in advance and given sufficient time for the preparation to showcase their talent. A total of 50 students and
faculty members graced this event. The students showed enthusiasm and excitement throughout the event. Participants
were judged on various parameters such as confidence, expressions, and performance.
Participants were very excited and there was huge applause from the audience. Sonali Chawala and Hemant Kapoor were
selected as contenders for Ms. and Mr. Fresher respectively.
COUNSELLING SCHOOL CHILDREN
In its endeavour to create awareness and counsel students on various career options that Computer Science and
Information Technology and Applications has to offer, faculty members of School of Computer Applications conducted
sessions with students of Class XII from various schools. One such interaction was held on September 26, 2012 with
students from Summer Fields School and another with students of Chiranjeev Bharti Palam Vihar on October 17, 2012.
The sessions saw informal discussions with students and to further tickle their interest in Computer Applications we
engaged them in games and quizzes on their knowledge of daily usage of computers. Students participated actively and
were excited to play different puzzles and string games with some basic Java functions explained to them.
WORKSHOP ON ROBOTICS
The students of School of Computer Applications attended two-day workshop on “ROBOTICS” held on October 12-13,
2012 organized by The School of Engineering and Technology of Ansal University. The workshop covered various practical
activities that enriched the development of Autonomous Robots, Sensors Array interfacing skills of the participants. The
view of the students was that the workshop was a great learning experience towards basics of Robot Working and Robot
Concepts. They were excited with the opportunity to get hands on experience to assemble the different components of
robots and interfacing skills.
The application also provides online application for dealership. It also educates users on different safety measures while
using an LPG cylinder. The project followed a top-down approach as in waterfall model and comprised of four types
ofusers: admin, customer, guest and dealer. IBM Rational softwares were used for its development.
WORKSHOP ON ETHICAL HACKING
On October 13-14, 2012 students of School of Computer Applications attended a 16 hours workshop “Ethical Hacking
Level 1” at Delhi Technical University organized by Sunny Vaghela (Director and CTO of Techdefence). The workshop
was about: cyber ethics, information gathering and scanning, email hacking, google hacking, wireless hacking, mobile
& voip hacking, web application hacking, cyber crime investigation, cyber law. “Certified Ethical Hacking Expert level 1”
certificates were awarded to all participants by the organizers Techdefence and DTU, Delhi.
STUDENT PLACEMENT
There are various career opportunities given to BCA students throughout the year. Companies like Samsung, Wipro,
iGate Patni, visited the campus this year. Vipul Gupta, Happy Japra, Ravi Dagar, Rohit Mehlawat, Nitin Bansal, Monica
Dhillon, Stuti Saini, Manvi Madan, Nidhi Gulati and many other students from School of Computer Applications have been
successfully placed in these multinational companies.
STUDENT MENTORING
To bridge the gap between students and faculty, mentorship is one of the concepts which have been applied in the
campus. The mentors regularly meet the assigned mentees (20 approx.) and hear out their day to day problems. They
collect the information regarding individual class performance and other activities from class teachers. All mentors
personally contact all the parents and discuss the issues like attendance, students’ class performance. Parents are quite
happy and satisfied with this interaction.
PROJECT E-GAS SEWA
SCA faculty Dinesh Rai guided the students for the project E-Gas Sewa. The project aimed to create a web application
which provides its users with services like online booking of a gas cylinder, getting a new connection online, cancellation of
online booked gas, checking the status of their booked gas, searching the nearest LPG dealer and many more services.
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Platform Lecture
Series AT SCA
School of Computer Applications organized a lecture series on November 23,
2012. The speaker of the session was Ms. Karleen Kaur, (Universal Banker,
Citibank), who spoke on ‘PERSONALITY TRAITS THAT ACCELERATE
INFLUENCE ON WORKPLACE’. It was an interactive session for BCA and
MCA students. The session was an hour during which she talked about various
personality traits such as creativity, leadership, competitiveness, compassion,
being energetic and extroverted etc. which are very important for an individual
to excel in his career. She emphasized on ‘out of the box’ thinking and ‘desire to
take initiative at workplace’. She explained it by giving various analogies.
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FACULTY - SCA
The SCA faculty shares a common view of research as a progressive approach in imparting knowledge
and encouraging growth in building students’ career. Their focus is to encourage students to use their
personal competencies and develop programming skills to meet industry requirements. The faculty
adopts various teaching methodologies like activity based teaching and trans-disciplinary learning to
provide a wider reach to real world problems and equip the students to take on the challenges of the
corporate world.
Members of the faculty act as mentors and constantly guide students regarding their career challenges.
The faculty collects information regarding individual class performances and activities of students and
discusses their progress with them as well as with their guardians.
Constantly on the lookout for new ideas and research emerging in their area of interest, the School faculty
regularly attends conferences at national and international level and publishes papers in conference
proceedings of repute. The faculty’s works have also been published in journals with high impact factor.
This is evident from the fact that more than 30 research papers are credited to the department in the last
academic year. Many of these are published in conference proceedings published by IEEE and Springer
and in journals like ‘Computer Society of India’ and ‘Eurasip Journal of Image and Video Processing’.
The School fosters cooperative and collaborative learning culture and to this effect, the faculty members
are motivated to organize workshops for their fellow colleagues to share their respective expertise and
exchange their ideas for further skill enhancement.
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FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS
Shikha Gupta
Presented a paper on ‘Challenges in managing ICT in Academic Institutions: An Action research Experience’ in
PICMET International Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
Ravinder Kumar
Presented a paper titled ‘Fingerprint Matching Based on Texture Feature’, in Second International Conference on
‘Advances in Information Technology and Mobile Communication’ AIM 2012, in Bangalore, India, jointly with Prof.
Pravin Chandra and Prof. M. Hanmandlu. Paper published by Springer.
Presented a paper titled ‘Information Theoretic Approach for Fingerprint Matching’, in Fourth International Conference on
‘Advances in Computing, Control, and Telecommunication Technologies’ ACT 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Paper
published by Springer.
Publication - Kumar, R. (2012), Orientation Local Binary Pattern (OLBP) Based Fingerprint Matching, Eurasip Journal of
Image and Video Processing, Springer.
S K Sharma
Publication - Sharma, S. K. (2012), Empirical Evaluation of Adaptive Sigmoidal Activation Function on a Constructive
Algorithm, CSI Journal of COMPUTING, Computer Society of India.
Dinesh Rai
Presented a paper titled, ‘The New Role of Social Media as Innovative Pedagogical Tools for Effective Teaching and Learning’
in National Conference on ‘IT Innovations & Sustainability: Current Trends & Ethical Issues’ jointly organized by School
of Management Studies and School of Computer Applications, Ansal University, Gurgaon.
Kiran Khatter
Presented a paper titled ‘Modeling Non-functional Requirements Relationship using Fuzzy Relational Map’ in International
Conference on ‘Advances in Computing, Control, and Telecommunication Technologies’ ACT 2012, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, jointly with Dr. Arvind Kalia. The paper was published by Springer.
Presented a paper titled ‘Information Theoretic Approach for Fingerprint Matching’ in International Conference on ‘Advances
in Computing, Control, and Telecommunication Technologies’ ACT 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Published a paper titled ‘Modeling Software Failures Using Neural Network’ in International Conference on ‘Advances in
Recent Technologies in Communication and Computing’ ARTCOM 2012, Bangalore, India jointly with Dr. Arvind Kalia. The
paper was published by Springer.
Publications – Khattar, K. (2012), ‘Goal based Analysis of Non-functional Requirements for Web-based Systems’, CSI journal of
Computing, Computer Society of India.
Khattar, K. & Kumar, R. (2012), Impact on Student Learning using Tablet PC, Proceedings of National Conference on IT
Innovations & Sustainability: Current Trends & Ethical Issues, Ansal University, Gurgaon.
Gagnesh Arora and Deepika Malhotra Arora
Presented a paper on ‘Web Based Client Server Technology - A three Tier Architecture’, at International Conference on
‘Education and Research’, confER-12, organized by Lingaya’s Univesity, Faridabad on January 12-13, 2012.
Presented a paper titled ‘UML- A Language to Develop Software Intensive Systems’ in National Conference on ‘IT Innovations
& Sustainability: Current Trends & Ethical Issues’ on October 19-20, 2012 at Ansal University, Gurgaon.
Kiran Kawatra
Presented paper on ‘Overcoming Challenges to Data Center True Business Application’ at IMT, Faridabad.Presented paper on
‘Mobile Learning over Cloud Computing Platforms: Issues and Challenges’ in National Seminar at Ansal University.
Presented paper on ‘Innovative IT Strategy for Business’ in National seminar at IMS Bhaddal (Near Mohali).
P Vidhya Lakshmi
Presented a paper titled ‘Defining Reliability for Cloud Environments’ in National Conference on ‘IT Innovations &
Sustainability: Current Trends & Ethical Issues’ on October 19-20, 2012 at Ansal University.
Publications - Lakshmi, P. V. (2012), Cloud Risk Management, International Journal of Research in IT and Management
(ISSN: 2231-4334).
Lakshmi, P. V. (2012), Data Security Risks in Cloud Computing, Proceedings of ICACM2012 (ISBN No.978-81-921768-0-2).
Padma Chahal
Presented a paper titled ‘Use of Cloud computing in Agile Methodology’ in National Conference on ‘IT Innovations &
Sustainability: Current Trends & Ethical Issues’ on October 19-20, 2012 at Ansal University, Gurgaon.
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Vijaya Lakshmi Singh
Presented a paper titled ‘Route Disruption Attacks in Ad Hoc Network: Implementation and Solution’ in National
Conference on ‘IT Innovations & Sustainability: Current Trends & Ethical Issues’ on October 19-20, 2012 at
Ansal University.
Jyoti Mor and Monika Chauhan
Presented a paper titled ‘A Web-Based Decision Support System for E-Services’ in National Conference on ‘IT
Innovations & Sustainability: Current Trends & Ethical Issues’ on October 19-20, 2012 at Ansal University, Gurgaon.
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SCHOOL OF
APPLIED SCIENCES

dean’s message
Welcome to the School of Applied Sciences (SAS), where our mission is to provide
research based education in a range of natural and applied sciences. The School
provides an unparalleled opportunity to study in a positive learning environment.
The nature of the courses that are offered are interdisciplinary and the philosophy
behind delivering these courses is trans disciplinary. The aim of the School primarily is
to deliver research and industry inclined curriculum so that the graduates of this School can find their rightful place in the
world of higher education, public sector undertakings and multinational companies.
The School is well connected to many institutes and universities in India and abroad (especially in USA) and also has a
strong industry interface. SAS is proactive in responding to new technologies and emerging trends that will shape the lives
of current and future generations.
The School offers the following programmes:
B Sc. – ENGINEERING PHYSICS (3 YEARS)
B Sc. – STATISTICS (3 YEARS)
B Sc. – INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY (3 YEARS)
M Sc. – BIOTECHNOLOGY (2 YEARS)
M Sc. – NANOTECHNOLOGY (2 YEARS)
M Sc. – COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS (2 YEARS)
Ph.D
The faculty of the School is involved in contemporary research and development and submits various projects for funding
to government organizations.
Atul Kumar
Professor & Dean – School of Applied Sciences

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faculty - sas
Faculty of SAS is a rich mix of experienced and young talent. The School faculty has expertise in the fields of
Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biotechnology and Nanotechnology. Out of 15 faculty of the school, 10 have
earned their doctorates from the most reputed institutes or universities such as IITs, IVRI, and International Max
Planck Research School in Chemical Biology, Dortmund, Germany, Agra University and CCS University. Four
faculty of school are pursuing their Ph.D from Ansal University.
Some of the faculty members have conducted their post-doctoral research from Korea Advanced Institute of
Science & Technology (KAIST), South Korea, Research Center for Advanced Science & Technology (RCAST),
University of Tokyo, Japan, Center of Advanced Materials & nanotechnology Lab, North Carolina State University,
USA, Center for Biotechnology, North Dakota State University, USA, Emory University, Atlanta, USA.
Faculty of SAS is actively involved in research in their respective field. Over the last five years, the SAS faculty
has participated in various conferences, along with organizing two international conferences and workshops
on Nanotechnology. As of now, the faculty is collaborating with faculty of School of International Studies in
organizing the 3rd International Conference on Nanotechnology on July 25-26, 2013. One faculty of the School
is a Co-PI for the Department of Science & Technology (DST) sponsored project on Nanotechnology. Recently
one of our project proposals submitted to DST has been accepted for funding of Rs. 28 Lakhs.
Besides their regular duties of teaching and research, the faculty of SAS has played a very significant role in the
growth of the University. SAS faculty has served the University over the years in the capacity of Faculty In-charge
for Library, Controller of Examination, Professor In-charge for Ph.D programme, Dean - Admissions, faculty
counsellors and mentors.
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FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS
PROJECT PROPOSALS
Project Proposal entitled “Effect of Gold Nanoparticles Incorporation on Lateral Organization of Model Biomembranes”
has been submitted by Monika Khurana to the Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi.
Project Proposal on “Investigation on Super-continuum light generation in nonlinear media and its applications” to be
submitted to DST by Atul Kumar.
PAPERS PUBLISHED AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
Monika Khurana and Neelam Vohra presented a paper entitled “Green Chemistry: Technological Evolution to Sustain
Environment” at International Conference on Interface between Chemistry & Environment on December 13-14,
2012 at Ramjas College, Delhi University, Delhi.
PAPERS PUBLISHED/PRESENTED AT NATIONAL CONFERENCES
Monika Khurana and Neelam Vohra, “Development of Sustainable Technology and its Relevance to Chemical Industry”,
National Conference on Managing Change & Innovation in an era of technological Evolution on April 20-21,
2012 at AIT Gurgaon.
Monika Khurana and Neelam Vohra, “Fostering Institutional Quality by Promoting Resources and Leadership”,
Conference on Excellence in Higher Education at IIT Delhi on June 28-30, 2012.
Neelam Vohra and Monika Khurana, “Role of Ethical Issues in Environmental Sustainability Practices”, National
Conference on IT Innovations & Sustainability: Current Trends & Ethical Issues on October 19-20, 2012 at
Ansal University, Gurgaon.
Monika Khurana, “Effect of Temperature and Humidity on the Structure of the Lipid Bilayers”, National Conference
on NexGen Biotechnology Amalgamating science and Technology on November 23-24, 2012 at Kurukshetra
University, Kurukshetra.
Neelam Lohia presented a paper in national seminar on Entrepreneurship “Development in renewable energy” on
“New trends in renewable energy” on March 12, 2012 at Bhartiya Vidyapeeth college of Eng. New Delhi.
Neelam Lohia presented a paper on “Green chemistry on pharmaceuticals” in National seminar at SRM university
NCR campus Ghaziabad on September 19, 2012.
Neelam Lohia prepared a food analysis manual for industrial consultancy.
Neelam Lohia attended workshop on chemical software on April 17, 2012 at Sharda University Greater Noida.
ENROLLMENT IN Ph.D
Neelam Lohia, Anju Rani and Shweta Bakshi, faculty of SAS are pursuing Ph.D from Ansal University.
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SCHOOL OF
HUMANITIES &
LANGUAGES

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Programmes at SHL
SHL offers the following courses.
B A (Hons) - PSYCHOLOGY - 3 YEARS
B A (Hons) - ECONOMICS - 3 YEARS
B Com. (Hons) - 3 YEARS
M A - ENGLISH - 2 YEARS
M A - ECONOMICS - 2 YEARS
M A - COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY - 2 YEARS
Adventurous trip organized
under the aegis of IAYP
To inculcate the spirit of adventure, fun and frolic along with the real learning of team work in planning and
execution, students are taken to trips. These trips provide the examination grounds of classroom concepts and
theories. It is at these trips that students learn to work in a group, work as a part of team, take real decisions
and develop self reliance and independence.
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HIGHLIGHTS OF 2012 - 2013
A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE ACTIVITIES DONE UNDER IAYP@AU
Ansal University is a YES Center and has a tie-up with IAYP, wherein currently more than 210 students and 25 members
of the faculty are associated in this initiative for positive youth empowerment, drawing together people, institutions and
generations with the common purpose of youth development and inclusion. The Award is an exciting self-development
programme that allows every individual between the age of 14 to 25 to participate and engage in community and learn
new skills. It is a youth development programme which provides a platform to young individuals to discover their hidden
talents and also contribute towards social development. The Award does not only give an international recognition but
also acts as a platform for the youth to touch new horizons. The Award’s concept is one of individual challenge, giving
young people a balanced, non-competitive programme of voluntary activities that encourage personal discovery and
growth, self-reliance, perseverance, responsibility to themselves and service to their community. Those who participate in
the Award are expected to follow its requirements in a non-competitive manner with a determination to succeed, either
individually or as part of a team.
YES TRAINING WORKSHOP
A two day YES Training Workshop was organized on September 21-22, 2012. This workshop was a joint venture
between Ansal University as a YES Partner and the National Award Authority (NAA) which runs the Duke of Edinburgh
Award known as the International Award for Young People (IAYP) in India. Spread over two days, the objective of the
workshop was training and developing mentors and volunteers to augment their potential as Award Leaders with
enhanced skills and to help in exponential growth of the Award Programme in India.
CULTURAL EVENTS
What we read, we forget and what we do, we remember. Therefore, students at Ansal University are encouraged to
participate in various cultural events like: dance, music, skit, theatre, debate etc. As a result of participation in these
events they not only gain the true meaning of art, culture and literature which is not confined to reading books, but also
broaden their experiential horizons of learning.
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FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS
Ashita Sharma
The faculty of School of Humanities and Languages (SHL) at Ansal University strives for holistic development of its
students by teaching a range of subjects from hard skills to soft skills in the fields of Economics, Psychology and English.
Keeping this vision in mind, the members of faculty who are well versed in their respective fields provide robust grounding
in the subjects under inquiry. Through their teaching, training and mentoring, they guide and nurture students so that
students unleash their potential in an environment which is very conducive to learning.
Insatiable thrust for knowledge is the hall mark of this school; therefore the members of SHL keep themselves abreast
with the latest developments in their field of study. The testimony of this is their regular participation and contribution in
national and international conferences, seminars, workshops, refresher courses, MDPs, FDPs, and training programmes
related to their respective fields. The learning from these wide range of academic activities is efficiently blended in critical
pedagogy used by SHL members in their effective classroom teaching.
The mark of rich academic blend is profoundly visible in the erudite profile of the members of SHL. While some of the
SHL members have been nominated as the editorial members of national and international journals of standing in the field
of Economics, the others have unveiled their knowledge pool through significant publication in the field of Psychology.
Through their incessant endeavours, the members of English faculty have devised soft skills course for all the University
students with the aim of not only preparing proficient professionals but also shaping global citizens for tomorrow.
These members of English faculty have also been associated and certified as trainers by the International Award for
Young People and through this award they try to equip, engage and empower the students by organizing events and
adventurous trips for the overall development of students.
In addition to the above activities, the members of SHL have many research articles, papers, and other scholarly
publications to their credit in journals of national and international repute. Besides these research assignments, the
members have been invited in delivering lectures on issues related to the corporate world and have also been actively
involved in giving corporate training and consultancy services to various organizations. This entire exposure of the SHL
faculty bridges the ever widening gap between academia and industry and its culmination takes place in enriching
research and innovative class room teaching.
Presented a paper titled, ‘Role of IT Innovations in Cross- Cultural Management’ at National Conference on “IT
Innovations and Sustainability: Current Trends and Ethical Issues” organized by Ansal University on October 19-20,
2012.
Bindiya Bhalla and Pratibha K Singh
Jointly presented a paper titled, “Leadership and its Paradigms in Emerging Economies” at the International Conference
on “Global Competitiveness and Corporate Governance Imperatives in Emerging Economies”, organized by
School of Management Studies, Ansal University, February 15-16, 2013.
Gunjan Mathur
Presented a paper titled, “HR practices for Managing Generation Y: Transformational Insights for 2013” at National
Conference on “Managing Generation Y @ workplace”, GGSIPU, November 30, 2012.
Gunjan Mathur and Puja Sareen
Presented a paper titled, “Emotional Intelligence in the workplace and its impact on occupational stress- A study of
Academicians in NCR” at International Conference on “Managing Change in Business and Economy” Pacific
University, Udaipur, April 6-7, 2013.
Jitender Bhandari
Presented a paper “Indian Healthcare - A Case of Pharmaceutical Industry of India & South Korea” presented at National
Conference on “Transforming Indian Economy through Service Led Growth in Global Era: Gains and Concerns”
organized by NIILM, Greater Noida on October 12, 2012.
Paper titled “Foreign Direct Investment in Multi-brand Retail in India” accepted to be published in October 2012 issue
of The Diplomatist Magazine.
Editor of the Forthcoming Biannual Journal of School of Management Studies, Ansal University Business Review (AUBR).
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alumni corner
Sanjeet Kumar, BCA, 2007-2010
Sanjeet Kumar is a goal driven, self motivated and highly energetic
entrepreneur with acumen. He has an ability to build relationships,
Amit Golyan, MBA
2007-2009
Gautham Sah, BBA
(TMU), 2007-2010
After completion of his BBA in
2010, Gautham joined IBM India
as a Technical Support Executive
and after that he was promoted
as a Change Coordinator. He has
also been awarded twice as the
star performer of the quarters.
Then he moved to Wipro Infotech
as a Engineer Service Desk
Management for a critical project on
Honeywell Site. He is also certified
Amit Singh, BBA-CIS,
2008-2010
‘International education develops
the aptitude necessary for operating
in the global marketplace’. For
him, the international programme
at Ansal proved to be a stepping
stone to a scholarship at an
American University, a business
degree with honours, and a
career at one of the world’s most
prestigious consulting firms Deloitte.
trust and rapport with almost anyone and broker the relationships.
He completed his graduation in the year 2010. After completing his
graduation, he got various job offers from top notch IT companies
but he declined them and began his career on a path that is rare
among other IT executives. He started his own proprietorship venture
with the name SOFT4U in 2010. He is the Founder and Managing
Director of Soft4u Solutions Private Limited, a Delhi based IT Company
that provides impeccable services to their clients. In a couple of
months with a view of booming e-commerce business in India,
Soft4u is planning to launch its e-commerce arm with the name of
“OLKART”, which is a complete solution for all kinds of IT needs at an
unmatchable price and can be reached at www.olkart.com. With an
enthusiastic and genuinely friendly attitude, Sanjeet radiates a sincere
passion for delivering value and benefits to his customers.
Amit got campus placed
in ICICI Securities Ltd.
and he is working as a
Manager, Equity Product
Group I. He has cleared
NSE’S CERTIFICATION
IN FINANCIAL MARKETS
(NCFM).
with ITIL V3 and ISO 20000.
Abhishake Bansal, MA-Economics, 2010-2012, MBA-Finance,
2008-2010
Abhishake joined Accys management services as Astt. Internal Auditor in May
2010 and then he joined American Express India Pvt. Ltd. as Financial Analyst.
After that he got an Intrapreneurial venture/profile with Trading Barons Pvt. Ltd. He
joined there as the Project manager. He was responsible for complete Research,
Incorporation and Execution of a creative project with revolutionary vision. Then,
after the successful completion, he was promoted as VP-Corporate Affairs and
assigned a responsibility to meet and deal with State Governments of Punjab and
Aman Jain, MBA
2008-2010
Aman Jain completed his MBA
in 2010 and at present he is
working with Genpact-Silokhere
as Process Developer. He has
earned LEAN Six Sigma 3 STAR
Certification from his current
company.
Riddhi Kumar, B Tech. (IT), 2008-2012
Riddhi completed her engineering degree in 2012 and
scored 80.24%. She was awarded the Chairman’s Honour
for securing the 1st position in fourth semester. She worked
as a member of the Core Organizing Committee of the
annual cultural festival, Atharva, for two years. She also
anchored for major college events like the HR Summit and
Atharva’11 Inauguration. Riddhi was also part of the Student
Editorial Board for the college magazine AIT Spectrum. She
Latika Ahuja, B Tech. (CSE),
2008-2012
Latika completed her engineering
degree in 2012 and scored 82%.
She was an active member of
CCR. She is certified in Microsoft.
Net by International Association for
Distance Learning (IADL) through
Appin Technology Lab. She has also
Haryana to introduce this project. He was also awarded with “Chanakya Award” for
has been an active member of the Centre for Corporate
earned Certification in Android Apps
strategic planning. Then, he bought some substantial stake with TBPL and became
Relations. Riddhi has been working with Cvent since July’12
Development by TRYST 2012. She
Director & VP-Corporate Affairs. During the same period, in November 2011, he
as a Software Quality Engineer. During her tenure so far at
has successfully completed IBM DB2
got appointed as a Director with a BSE Listed LSI Ltd. (formerly known as Lifestyle
Cvent, she has contributed to the most recent release, having
Certification in Database Fundamentals
Fabrics). At present he is occupied in his own venture LSI Ltd. (Lifestyle Fabrics),
worked on multiple projects.
and application. Currently, she is
Chandigarh.
working in Location Labs Private Ltd.,
Gurgaon as a Software Engineer.
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Ansal Institute
of Technology and
Management, Lucknow
The Ansal Institute of Technology and Management, Lucknow has a state of the art campus spread across an area of
14 acres in Sushant Golf City, situated at approximately 15 minutes drive from the airport. Established by Sushil Ansal
Foundation (SAF), the Institute is affiliated to the GB Technical University, Lucknow and runs AICTE approved technical
undergraduate and graduate courses, namely B Tech., B Arch. and MBA. Some of the innovative projects being worked
upon at the technology centre of the campus include a ‘green car’ powered by solar energy, intelligent surveillance and
security systems and unmanned ground vehicles as a part of robotics.
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