Amrita School of Engineering

Bengaluru

KritiThe E-Newsletter

August ‘11

The main indicator that true knowledge is growing,

is the blossoming of discriminative thinking-

the ability to differentiate that which uplifts us

from that which pulls us down.

-Amma

Kriti

SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Grace will flow into us when we have the humble attitude ‘I am nothing’.”-Amma

August ‘11

Sri Krishna Janmashtami Celebrations

Sri Krishna Janmashtami was celebrated with a splendor at Amrita

School of Engineering, Bengaluru on 10th August, 2011. The celebrations were

marked by exemplary stage performances by students that included Meera

Bhajans, Gopika Dance and a play “Kishen Vs Kanhaiya”, staging the theme -

Cynicism Vs Opportunism. This was followed by a speech by Mr. Vishwanath, a

second year student, on pragmatism in Bhagavad Geeta.

To celebrate the true spirit of Lord Krishna, His playfulness and

mischievousness, Dahi Handi and Tug-of-War were organized by Chetana, the

sports club.

Kriti

SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Love sustains everything. Love is the foundation of the Universe.”-Amma

August ‘11

M.Tech. Orientation Programme

The classes for the new M.Tech. batch of 2011-2013 commenced on

10th August, 2011. A brief orientation programme was conducted to give an

overview of the structure and the rules & regulations of the programme.

Kriti

“Nature is a book to study. Each object in nature is a page in the book.”-Amma

August ‘11

Independence day

Independence Day was celebrated with a patriotic fervour at Amrita

School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The day began with flag hoisting by the

Correspondent, Br. Dhanraj Swamy, and was attended by the Associate Dean,

Dr. Rakesh S.G., faculty and the students. Following this, the Students Council put

up a cultural show to solemnize the event.

The event began on an auspicious note with an invocation to the

Gods, followed by a variety of cultural events. A group consisting of second, third

and fourth year students captivated the audience with their chorus of “Neme

Indians”, a Telugu song. Another group sang “Ussele Ussele”, a popular Malayalam

patriotic song. Patriotic spirits were roused when a group sang “Suno Gaur Se”, a

fiery Hindi Song. A play by second and third year students conveyed the plight of

common man during the struggle for independence. Ms. Jyotsna, a second year

student delivered a speech on Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. Finally, students from the

School Dance Team performed a ballad depicting the struggle for Independence.

The day ended with a patriotic fire kindled in every heart and a

resolve to ensure that the sacrifices made by our forefathers were not in vain.

SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

Kriti

SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Whenever a heart beats with compassion : God is there.”-Amma

August ‘11

Musical Night

Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru, became a conclave for all

the music lovers on 23rd August, 2011 when the Music club, Raaga presented an

exclusive Musical Night. It featured highly laudable band, solo and group

performances. The evening showcased varied performances of all music forms; be

it devotional, melody or metallic. The performers and organizers were appreciated

by one and all.

Kriti

“Spirituality is the science that teaches us how to live happily in the material world.”-Amma

August ‘11

Kalakriti 2011- Talent Hunt

Kalakriti 2011, the talent search for the first years, was held on

24th August, 2011. The ceremony began with the lighting of the lamp and an

invocation to Lord Ganesha. The guests on the dais included Dean –

Academics Dr. Nagaraj B.N., Associate Dean Dr. Rakesh S.G. and Chair-

Amritadhara Ms. Jyotsna G.S.

Ms. Jyotsna welcomed the audience and formally inaugurated

Kalakriti. Ms. Nandini Mathan, the Student Council President, introduced

Kalakriti to the audience, and invited the outgoing President and Vice

President on to the stage to share their experiences. Following this, the

Secretaries were formally entrusted with their duties by their predecessors.

The opening ceremony showcased performances by the senior

students. The performances included two group dances by the school dance

teams and a mime put up by the school mime team. With the conclusion of

the cultural show, Kalakriti 2011 began in earnest.

Featuring a wide variety of events ranging from singing & dancing

to sketching & debating, Kalakriti ensured that everyone had a platform to

exhibit their talents. The main stage events included solo dance, group song,

and instrumental music. In addition to these events, there was also an

outdoor event “Treasure Hunt” which had students going excitedly from one

location to another, guided by clues and volunteers.

SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

Kriti

“Wherever you are, you have to adapt to the circumstances. Patience is needed for every matter .”-Amma

August ‘11

In addition to these competitions, the organizers had also set up a

number of game stalls which ensured that every student had something to do.

Graffiti spots were put up near the venue which allowed the students to express

their views.

The annual event was once again successful in bringing out new

talent and promising more spirited participation in all future events.

SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

Kriti

SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“ If we are not ready to willingly change, Nature or God will take up the task in His own way.”-Amma

August ‘11

8th Convocation of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

The 8th Convocation of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was held on

27th August, 2011 at Ettimadai Campus and was attended by 4298 graduands from

all five campuses. The Chief Guest, Padmashree Dr. Srikumar Banerjee, Chairman

of Atomic Energy Commission of India, in his convocation address said “The

guiding principle of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham - education for life and

education for living - blends spirituality and the ancient Indian value system with

the conventional education of today’s world.”

All graduands pledged to uphold the ideals of Amrita Vishwa

Vidyapeetham. Top students were honoured with medals and certificates. The

students of Amrita Bengaluru swept the medal tally with 33 ranks, six gold medals

and three silver medals in B.Tech. & M.Tech. category.

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Just as a person needs air to breath, the soul needs to be nurtured with love and care.”-Amma

August ‘11

Rank List

Sl. No. Roll Number Name of the Graduands CGPA Rank Medal

ECE

1 BG107EC009 Aditya Varma Sagi 9.56 Third Rank

2 BG107EC073 Navneeth Shashank Pusapati 9.15 Eighth Rank

3 BG107EC074 Neha Pinjare 9.14 Ninth Rank

4 BG107EC128 Vinayak Bhargav S. 9.11 Tenth Rank

EEE

1 BG107EE066 Unnikrishnan M. Menon 9.34 First Rank Gold Medal

2 BG107EE009 Alekh Yadav 8.93 Eighth Rank

CSE

1 BG107CS096 Rashmesh R.K. 9.82 First Rank Gold Medal

2 BG107CS103 S Supraja 9.46 Fifth Rank

3 BG107CS042 Indrakanti B. Shankar 9.36 Sixth Rank

IT

1 BG107IT048 Ramya Rajaraman 9.31 First Rank Gold Medal

2 BG107IT056 Shivali Uppal 9.00 Second Rank Silver Medal

3 BG107IT060 Sudeep Kumar 8.99 Third Rank

4 BG107IT049 Riyana Andrews 8.94 Sixth Rank

5 BG107IT005 Akshatha M.K. 8.67 Ninth Rank

EIE

1 BG107EI001 Abhay Gopi 9.26 First Rank Gold Medal

2 BG107EI044 Santosh Hariharan 8.78 Fourth Rank

3 BG107EI011 Debanjana Ghosh 8.66 Fifth Rank

4 BG107EI063 V Naveen Kumar 8.57 Sixth Rank

5 BG107EI067 Vinodhini B. 8.44 Eighth Rank

6 BG107EI031Pisharody Anilkumar

Ramanathan8.34 Ninth Rank

7 BG107EI045 Sarath Mohan 8.30 Tenth Rank

ME

1 BG107ME058 Vaisakh R. 9.16 Sixth Rank

2 BG107ME021 Krishnakumar P.G. 8.96 Ninth Rank

3 BG107ME052 Shijith K. 8.91 Tenth Rank

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Our humbleness and large-heartedness are the foundation of our upward progress.”-Amma

August ‘11

Sl. No. Roll Number Name of the Graduands CGPA Rank Medal

M.Tech. Embedded Systems

1 BL.EN.P2EBS09008 Kiran G. 9.38 First Rank Gold Medal

2 BL.EN.P2EBS09018 Sunanda M. Nair 9.23 Second Rank Silver Medal

3 BL.EN.P2EBS09013 Nippun Kumaar A.A. 9.17 Third Rank

VLSI Design

1 BL.EN.P2VLD09008 Mahalaxmi V. 9.54 First Rank Gold Medal

2 BL.EN.P2VLD09006 Lakshmi M.S. 9.40 Second Rank Silver Medal

3 BL.EN.P2VLD09010 Muthyala Naresh Babu 9.06 Third Rank

4 BL.EN.P2VLD09016 Rebecca Steffi Evangeline R. 9.05 Fourth Rank

5 BL.EN.P2VLD09017 Sathish Kumar A. 8.95 Fifth Rank

6 BL.EN.P2VLD09022 Vinay Kumar V. 8.90 Sixth Rank

Gurupoornima Celebrations

The School observed Gurupoornima by offering prayers to our own

guru, Satguru Mata Amritanandamayi Devi. The ceremony was presided over by

Swami Dhyanamrita Chaitanya who spoke about the need to surrender oneself to

one’s guru to experience the ultimate peace. The celebration was marked by

bhajans of AMMA sung by one and all.

Kriti

“The real center is within. It is not to be found in the external world.”-Amma

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND

COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

August ‘11

International Journal

NAME PAPER PRESENTED DATE NAME OF PUBLICATION

S. Ravishankar,

Nagadastagiri Reddy,

Shikha Tripathi and

K.V.V. Murthy

“Image Super

Resolution Using

Sparse Image and

Singular Values as

Priors”

29th - 31st

August 2011

International Conference on Computer

Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2011),

University of Seville, Spain. Organized by

University of Seville under the auspices of

this University, IAPR and Spanish Ministry of

Science and Innovation

Ponni,

Karthikeyan Rama

Murthi (Former

Manager , INTEL

Corporation) and

P.R. Vaya

“Performance

Analysis of Parallel

Prefix Adder

Architecture using

Synopsis Tools”

August 2011

Issue

ISSN 0974-

9624

CiiT International Journals, Coimbatore

Institute of Information Technology

S.V. Viswajith,

L. Suganthi and

M. Manivannan

“Modeling the

Effects of Upper

Arm Cuff Pressure

on Pulse

Morphology”

June 2011,

Volume 12,

Nos. 5/6,

Pgs.: 422-

433

International Journal of Healthcare

Technology and Management

PAPERS PUBLISHED

WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS / CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

NAME TITLE NAME OF THE

ORGANIZER

DATE VENUE

Ganapathi

Hegde

National Workshop on

“Linear Algebra and its

Engineering Applications”

Department of

Mathematics, Manipal

Institute of Technology

19th - 20th

August 2011

Manipal Institute of

Technology, Manipal

Kriti

“We cannot change situations in life, but we can change our attitude towards them.” -Amma

August ‘11

OTHER NEWS

Ms. Sunitha R. rejoined the Institution on 01st August 2011 after the study

leave availed for doing M.Tech. in Bio-Medical Signal Processing.

Web based tutorial on HSPICE was organized by Digipro Design Solutions Pvt.

Ltd., Bengaluru, on 23rd August, 2011 for III semester M.Tech. (VLSI Design)

students at E-Learning Hall, ASE, Bengaluru. Around 25 students attended this

tutorial. The tutorial was meant for beginners, and the students found it very

instructive in carrying out projects in the area of Analog VLSI Design. The

tutorial was arranged by Prof. S. Ravishankar.

Mr. Ganapathi Hegde delivered a seminar titled “An Efficient 3-D DWT for

Video Processing Using Distributive Arithmetic Architectures” on 17th August,

2011 in the department.

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS / PARTICIPATION / RECOGNITION

Dr. P.R. Vaya has been selected as an Editorial Board Member for International

Journal of Engineering (IJE). The IJE Editorial Board makes its valuable

contribution by evaluating and approving the research documents for

publications.

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND

ENGINEERING

Kriti August ‘11

International Conference

NAME PAPER PRESENTED DATE NAME OF THE EVENT

Supriya M. “An Uncompressed Image

Encryption Algorithm based on

DNA sequences”

01st August

2011

CCSEA-2011, International

Conference held at Chennai

PAPERS PRESENTED

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS / PARTICIPATION / RECOGNITION

Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan has been invited to be the Publicity Chair for the IEEE

International Conference on Technology Enhanced Education to be held in

Amritapuri during 3rd – 5th January, 2012.

Mr. Nippun Kumaar A.A. attended a demonstration session on “ARM Kits” in

the Embedded Systems Lab. The session was conducted by Electro System

Associates.

Prof. Raj Sreedharan was the External Examiner for project evaluation of

M.Tech. (VLSI) students batch 2009-2011 at ASE, Amritapuri on 22nd July, 2011.

OTHER NEWS

Forum Activities:

Organized a seminar on “Mac and iPods” by Apple at Amriteshwari Hall on

17th August, 2011.

Organized a seminar on “Vx Works – Real Time Operating System” conducted

by Mr. Srujan Babu fom Corel Tech Solutions on 29th August, 2011.

“The smile that lights up a face brimming with love is the most beautiful in the entire world.”-Amma

Kriti August ‘11

Embedded System Lab :

The Embedded System Lab has been equipped with the following kits:

25 ARM 7, one each of ARM 9, ARM Cortex-M3 kits with peripherals like

Stepper Motor, DC Motor, Traffic Light Control, A/D Converters, LCD display

and Elevator Interface.

The Lab has also been equipped with 25 CPLD, 25 FPGA SPARTAN 3, four

SPARTAN 6 and one VIRTEX 5.

An Image processing DEV-kit 8000 and Embest University package have also

been purchased. These kits will provide advanced support to the teaching

and research activities.

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

Dr. Rashmi M.R. joined the Department as Associate Professor on 03rd August,

2011. She has obtained her Ph.D. for the thesis titled “Sensorless Vector

Control of Induction Motor Drives” from Sathyabama University, Chennai in

November 2010. She has four international publications, one national journal

publication, one international conference and six national conference papers

to her credit.

OTHER NEWS

“No real learning is possible as long as there is fear.”-Amma

Kriti

“The success of one’s life depends upon one’s ability to forget what is not relevant at the moment.”-Amma

August ‘11

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

International Journal

NAME PAPER PUBLISHED DATE NAME OF PUBLICATION

Nanjunda Reddy B.H.

& others

“Mechanical Properties of

Randomly Oriented Short

Sansevieria Trifasciata

Fiber/Epoxy Composites”

July 2011 International Journal of Fiber and

Textile Research

PAPERS PUBLISHED

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

OTHER NEWS

Ms. D. Bhargavi has been awarded Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur for her thesis

titled “Forced Convection Heat Transfer with Viscous Dissipation Channels

Partially Filled with Porous Medium”. She had carried out her research under

the guidance of Prof. V. V. Satyamurty at IIT Kharagpur.

Ms. T.M. Mamatha has registered for Ph.D. on “Numerical Integration

Formulae for Arbitrary Functions over Hexahedral Regions” at Amrita Vishwa

Vidyapeetham. She will be working under the guidance of Dr. B. Venkatesh,

Head, Department of Mathematics, ASE, Bengaluru.

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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL

ENGINEERING

“Although the world has become closer through technology, we have not drawn closer in our hearts.”-Amma

August ‘11

International Journal

NAME PAPER PUBLISHED DATE NAME OF PUBLICATION

R. Pramod

B.N. Prashanth

Shashi Kumar M.E.

“Finite Element Validation

and Calibration of a

Modified SENT Specimen to

Study Fracture”

August Issue

2011

CIIT Journal of Automation and

Autonomous System

R. Pramod

B.N. Prashanth

Shashi Kumar M.E.

“Exchange of Data between

PLM and ERP Systems

through Middleware

Integration”

August Issue

2011

CIIT International Journal

of Software Engineering and

Technology

PAPERS PUBLISHED

International Conference

NAME PAPER PRESENTED DATE NAME OF THE EVENT

Veeresh Kumar G.B. “Combined Effect of T6 Heat

Treatment and Reinforcements

on Tribological Properties in

Al6061/WC/Gr Metal Matrix

Hybrid Composites”

19th – 20th

August 2011

Joint International Conference

on Advanced Materials- ICAM

2011, BTLIT, Bengaluru

Janaki R.,

Mrudula Prashanth,

V. Ravikumar

“Application of DOE Techniques

in the Development of a Robust

Simulation Model for the

Analysis and Optimization of

System Performance”

19th – 20th

August 2011

Joint International Conference

on Advanced Materials- ICAM

2011, BTLIT, Bengaluru

R. Pramod,

B.N. Prashanth,

Shashi Kumar M.E.

“Finite Element Modeling and

Analysis of Drilling of

GFRP/CFRP Composites”

19th – 20th

August 2011

Joint International Conference

on Advanced Materials- ICAM

2011, BTLIT, Bengaluru

PAPERS PRESENTED

Kriti

“When we realise that real happiness lies within us, we will know that everything outside of us is just a play.”-Amma

August ‘11

WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS / CONFERENCES ATTENDED

NAME Conference ORGANIZER DATE VENUE

Veeresh Kumar G. B.

Shashi Kumar M. E.

“Recent Trends in

Machining”

Department of

Mechanical

Engineering,

Amrita School of

Engineering,

Coimbatore

25th – 26th

August 2011

Amrita School of

Engineering,

Coimbatore

CISCO NETWORKING ACADEMY

Cisco Academy conducted the online competition “NetRiders-11” on 11th

August, 2011. Among 98 teams from all over India, 7 were from Amrita,

Bengaluru campus. The team from ASE, Bengaluru, represented by Ms. Nisha

Unnikrishnan (ECE) and Ms. Lavanya M.S. (ECE) stood fourth in this national

level competition.

“Ingenium” – The Mechanical Engineering Department Forum, organized a talk

on “Applied Engineering” by Mr. Varun Sharma B.V., Application Specialist,

Altair Engineering Inc., Bengaluru. This event was held on 03rd August, 2011 in

E-learning hall and was attended by faculty and students.

The forum also arranged for a video presentation on Engineering Connect –

AIRBUS – 380 / F1 Car Design on 10th August, 2011.

OTHER NEWS

Amrita School of EngineeringKasavanahalli, Carmelaram P.O.,

Bengaluru - 560 035

Ph: 080-25183700Fax: 080-2844 0092

Web: www.amrita.edu/campuses/blr

Dr. Rakesh S.G.Associate Dean & Head

Patron

Ms. Smita SailAssistant Professor

Department of English

Editor

Mr. Rajesh M.Assistant ProfessorDepartment of CSE

Editor

Ms. Vasantha KumariExecutive Secretary to Associate Dean

Editor