December 2019 Volume 4, Issue 1

GM INSTITUTE OF

TECHNOLOGY,

DAVANGERE

WIZONICS

VOYAGE INAUGURATION OF FORUM WIZONICS

The Forum of Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, “WIZONICS 2019-20” was

inaugurated on 23-08-2019. The Chief Guest for the event was Mr. Vinayaka R Deskar, Avionics Engineer,

Team Lead, Collins Aerospace, Bengaluru. The Guest of Honor was Mr. Vinay B N, Physical Design Engineer,

Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru. Both of the guests are the proud Alumni of our institution. The

event was presided over by Dr. Y Vijaya Kumar, Principal, GMIT, Davangere. The event was conducted under

the guidance of the Forum Chairman, Dr. Hadimani H C, HOD, Department of E&CE, GMIT, Davangere.

Forum coordinators Mr. Vikas C Yatnalli, Ms. Nagaveni S A and the Faculty Forum Treasurer Mr.

Sharanabasaveshwara H B were present on the stage along with student Vice President, Mr. Sanjay U, General

Secretary, Ms. Varshini S B and student Treasurer Mr. Basavraj Hiremath. All the teaching and non-teaching

staff and all the students of department had attended the event.

“The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.”

- Edward Teller

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”

- Louis Pasteur

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS &

COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

NEWSLETTER

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FORUM ACTIVITIES

The summary of various activities conducted under Wizonics for the academic

year 2019-20 odd semester is as follows:

On spot story building competition was conducted on 16-08-2019 to ignite

creative thinking in students and to improve the presentation skills of the

students.

On the same day, Circuits Mania even was conducted to impart practical

knowledge into the students and give them hands-on experience regarding

simple applications of the Timer IC.

To help the students improve their communication and time management

skills, Group Discussion was conducted on 30-08-2019.

The event Logo Abbreviation was conducted on 06-09-2019 with the

objective to instigate the idea of entrepreneurship skills in the students

and help them improve their creativity, time management and presentation

skills.

A talk on leadership, communication and entrepreneurship was organized

to instigate the idea of entrepreneurship skills in the students and help

them improve their communication skills and leadership skills.

Super Minute was conducted on 27-09-2019.

A technical talk was conducted on 04-10-2019 to provide an insight to the

students on presenting the ideas through PPTs and posters and also on

conduction of research using journal publications.

A two day workshop on “MATLAB and its Applications” was conducted

from 09-10-2019 to 10-10-2019 by the resource persons Mr. Mallesh V S,

Technical Manager and Mr. Shivaraj V S, Product Application Engineer from

Abeyaantrix Softlab, Davangere.

A Technical Presentation competition was conducted on 11-10-2019 to

enhance the technical knowledge of the students through presentations.

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“Good education is not what fills your head with facts but what stimulated curiosity. You then learn for the rest of your life.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.”

- Matt Biondi

Mr. Amith Gaikwad, 7th semester student from our department participated

in a national level technical symposium called PALASMA-19 organized by

JNNCE, Shivamogga, presented a paper titled “Advancing Hand Gesture

Recognition with High Resolution Electrical Impedance Tomography” and

secured FIRST place and also received a cash prize of Rs. 3000.

Ms. Nagaveni S A and Ms. Vinutha L B, Assistant Professors, completed the

NPTEL course on “Introduction to Research” and received ELITE+SILVER

grade.

Mr. Santosh Herur, Assistant Professor, completed the NPTEL course on

“Digital Image Processing” and received ELITE grade.

Mr. Rajendra Soloni, Assistant Professor, completed the NPTEL course on

“Microwave Theory and Techniques” and received ELITE grade.

Mr. Sharanabasaveshwara HB, Assistant Professor, completed the NPTEL

course on “Digital Image Processing” and received ELITE+SILVER grade.

RESULTS FROM 2018-19 EVEN SEMESTER

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ACHIEVEMENTS

Sl. No. Semester Overall Result

(%)

1 4 60.58

2 6 65.89

3 8 94.89

TOPPER’S LIST

Editors

Ms. Nagaveni S A & Ms. Vinutha L B Assistant Professors Department of ECE

GMIT Davangere

Sl. No Semester Name SGPA Percentage

(%)

1

4

ASHWINI M KOPPAD 9.63 90.62

2 MANJUNATH S ALADAKATTI 8.74 84.62

3 MANSOOR AKTAR H S 8.70 83.12

4

6

LAKSHMI M 8.54 80.62

5 POOJA M 8.54 79

6 SONAL R RAIKAR 8.35 78.3

7 SINDHU B PARAKAL 8.31 78.75

8 YASHODHA S K 9.35 87.28

8 9 PARVATHI H G 9.3 89.71

10 SWATHI B R 9.10 87

11 SPOORTHI B M 9.10 86.85

Over 3.8 billion people use the internet today, which is 40% of the world’s population.

The Digital Revolution is just starting. A working Quantum Computer could arrive

within the next 10 years. It will enable exponential jumps in computing power.

Artificial intelligence will outperform humans in many activities in the next 10 years.

The amount of technical information is doubling every 2 years.

There are over 3.5 billion searches per day on Google.

On average, technology users carry 2.9 devices on them at all times.

The computers used in the Apollo 11 trip to the moon had less processing power than a

modern day cell phone.

TECHNOLOGY FACTS