Srishyla Educational Trust (R), Bheemasamudra

GM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, DAVANGERE

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Pre-Alumni Meet

The Pre-Alumni meet was organized for active alumni on 22nd

September 2018 to discuss about

agenda of Alumni Meet 2018 scheduled on 20th

October 2018. Mr. Ganesh K (2007 output), Mr.

Kiran I M (2007 output), Asha T(2009 output), Anand Rahul B(2014 output) and Anusha T

S(2016 output) actively participated along with alumni coordinators Mrs. Venkata Sumana C H

and Ms. Vinutha L B as representatives of ECE department.

Group photo of Pre-Alumni Meet 2018

Anand Rahul B (2014 output) conveyed about Pre-Alumni Meet discussions in the Active

Alumni EC group

Snapshot of GMIT ECE active Alumni discussion

Proceedings of Alumni Meet 2018

Morning session

At 11am, alumni started to gather in the GM Halamma Auditorium and are provided with

welcome drinks and were welcomed by respective department faculty to the auditorium.

MOC by : Mrs. Keerthi S, Assistant Professor, Department of Bio-Technology.

Invocation by: Sharath.

Welcome Speech by: Mr. Santosh Kumar M, Assistant Professor, Department of CS&E.

Address by : Dr. Sunil Kumar B S, Dean Academic & Head, Department of IS&E.

The Dean academic, Dr. Sunil Kumar B S started his speech by welcoming and thanking all the

alumni who had gathered for the Alumni Meet-2018 and following are the highlights of his

speech.

Alumni are the important stake holders of the institution who are familiar with Vision and

Mission of the institute as it was communicated earlier.

Alumni meet is a platform for sharing the knowledge by connecting the alumni with the

institute and within themselves.

He informed the alumni about the overall development of the institution such as

infrastructure, Wi-Fi enabled campus, introduction of additional courses like Diploma,

PG courses, B.Sc., B.Com. and Pre-University courses at GMS academy, digital library

with online courses, ICT enabled classrooms have been established recently in GMIT.

He added that the number of faculty with Ph.D has rised to more than 30 which has

enhanced the quality of teaching even more and also mentioned that in rest of the faculty,

about 90% are pursuing Ph.D.

80% of the students have been successfully placed in various companies under the

guidance of Mr. Tejasvi Kattimani T R, Placement and Training Cell & team.

Student admissions for the year 2018-19 in GMIT is around 95% which is the best

compared to surrounding colleges.

He proudly informed the alumni that the institution is awarded with NAAC accreditation

with a grade of B++ during the academic year 2016-17.

Further he added that the institution is going for NBA shortly for the ECE, CSE, ISE,

Mechanical and Civil programs and also explained its importance and concluded that the

institution is aiming to incorporate excellent standards in the forthcoming years.

He quoted that the growth of the institution together with alumni is possible by means of

alumni acting as mentors to the current students. This can be done by a set of current

students of the institute and the recently passed students shall be mentored by the alumni

in the following areas such as Academic Guidance, Internship, Technology Training,

Placement assistance and Projects/ Mini projects and also suggested that alumni can share

their knowledge with the students by contributing to the dedicated columns in institute

newsletters or through activities such as conducting workshops on emerging

technologies, training on technology and soft skills, conducting mock interviews,

invitation for industry visit etc.,

Every event information is regularly posted on Social Networking Sites(SNS), calendar

of events will be communicated to alumni so that the alumni can actively participate in

the institutional events whenever they are free.

He appealed all the alumni to bring down resource persons from various fields of

industry.

He finally thanked all the alumni for making time for the visit.

The session continued with Self introduction/Life experience speech by distinguished Alumni

and followed by Brainstorming session by Tejasvi Kattimani

Informed the alumni about the statistics of placement of Southern India for the year 2017-

18 which is around 32%.

Informed that our institution has 49 MOUs with major industries and also in the month of

November, Center of Excellence for Red Hat will be established.

He welcomed all the opportunities for interactions with alumni.

Requested support from all the alumni to make our students industry ready and for this

purpose the Training and Placement Cell is ready to provide any assistance required.

Address by Dr. Bakkappa B, Director of MBA

He initially pointed out that before there was teacher-centric environment and now there

is student-centric environment in the field of education.

He appealed to the alumni to think on how to contribute back to society and institution,

because alumni are the one's who can give valuable inputs to students and help the

institution to provide the right education.

He appreciated alumni for their feedback.

He said that the alumni meet should be a celebration, a voluntary effort.

He expressed that the institution is proud of it's alumni and the institution remembers

their contribution.

He informed that it is compulsory for the institution to be in regular contact and monitor

their alumni.

HE also said that the growth of the institution is by inner growth of human resource not

only by buildings.

Speech by Sri G M Lingaraju, Secretary, Srishyla Educational Trust, Bheemasamudra

He suggested that alumni meet should be held regularly both at department and

institutional level.

Appealed to the alumni to share their experience with the students of our institution,

involve more with the institution, to guide the students for their future and give guest

lectures in their respective departments whenever they are free for the benefits of the

students.

He finally thanked all the alumni for their presence.

Message to alumni by Dr. P Prakash, Principal, GMIT

On behalf of our respected Principal, Mr. Imran Khan, Assistant Professor, Department

of IS&E read the Principal's message.

Welcomed back alumni to the institution.

Informed the alumni that Academic Dean and alumni coordinators will always be with

them for any type of assistance.

He finally thanked all the alumni for their presence.

Vote of Thanks by: Mr. Keerthi Prasad G, Assistant Professor, Department of IS&E.

Afternoon Session

Interaction with alumni by Dr. Sunil Kumar B S, Dean Academic & Head, Department of IS&E

Below are the ideas and suggestions given by the alumni for the betterment of the students and

institution:

Effective communication is needed through the emails, letters and SMS about the

institution events.

1. Sagar, ECE, 2008

Willing to help in any way with regards to management, HR.

Willing to give guest lectures, orientation program.

2. Shruthi, ECE, 2008

Willing to give sessions about HR, interviews and personality development.

3. Ganesh K, ECE, 2007

Conduct alumni meet on days other than festive days.

Alumni meet to be held in Bengaluru for at least two days, others also supported this

suggestion.

Panel discussion arrangement for alumni.

Collaboration of alumni for the placement of non placed students.

Alumni meet to be held at department and institutional level in the presence of the

students. Funding by alumni for the product development.

Suggested to develop cloud based application for communication between institution and

alumni.

Suggested to conduct idea presentation sessions.

4. Sandeep, ECE, 2008

Both academic and industrial mentoring are very crucial.

Display the overall achievements of the institution in the alumni meet video.

Conclusion by Dean Academic:

He thanked alumni for their wonderful interaction. He promised to consider the following words

of alumni to respective persons in the institute:

1. Conduction of two alumni meet in a year in which one will be in the branch and other at

the institute level.

2. Conducting institute level meet for the next year at Bengaluru will be decided with the

discussion of institute apex committee.

3. All the department heads will be asked to invite alumni for functions, call as resource

persons for workshops/ guest speakers/ training/ seminars etc. Also they may be asked to

identify and depute resource persons from their industry.

4. Calendar of events will be circulated to alumni well in advance to fix slots with them.

5. Birthday and wedding anniversary wishes shall be done by departments.

6. In the next meet, arrangements will be made to interact with alumni through 'Skype'.

7. A separate column will be reserved for alumni's articles in department newsletters or

magazines.

8. Circulation of newsletters and magazines to alumni will be done regularly.

Finally he thanked Mr. Santhosh Kumar M, other faculty coordinators and alumni for their

participation in the meeting.

Report by: Alumni Coordinators: Nagaveni S A & Vinutha L B Venkata Sumana C H & Vinutha L B

Assistant Professors Assistant Professors

Department of ECE Department of ECE

Alumni Registration Details

Photo Gallery of Alumni Meet in ECE department

All alumni of ECE gathered in the department and HOD Dr. Hadimani sir addressed them

regarding progress of department activities. Awareness about accreditation was given to alumni

by Senior faculty in the department. Alumni visited all classrooms and Laboratory and cherished

their memories. A group photo was taken and followed by grand lunch to all.