The twelfth convocation of Mody University of Science and Technology

was held on 24th

January, 2018. Like the previous years, this year too,

College of Engineering and Technology (CET) was in charge of the

convocation for the University. This year, the total number of Degree

awardee (Bachelors, Masters and PhD) in the University was 621 of

which more than 340 were from CET alone.

As convocation comes as the part of the Founder’s Day Celebration in

Mody University, the morning session for the day was preceded by a talk

on ethics from Dr. Amitava Mukherjee. Dr. Mukherjee is an

internationally recognized scholar and development practitioner on food

security, hunger and poverty reduction. He has worked extensively in the

countries in Asia, especially in China, South East and Central Asia and

India. Dr. Mukherjee is currently the Senior Adviser, Government of

India, in the Ministry of Rural Development, NRLM and New Delhi. His

talk incited the audience to stretch the questionnaire session way more

than its stipulated time.

The convocation ceremony was declared open at 3:00 pm by the

President, Prof. Suresh Advani. The degree award ceremony started after

convocation address by the Chancellor, Shri R. P. Mody Ji and the Chief

Guest.

The Chief Guest for the convocation was prestigious Rhodes scholarship

awardee Prof. V. S. Chauhan, Ex-Chairman University Grants

Commission, India. Prof. Chauhan was honored by the Government of

India in 2012 with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.

Presently, Prof. Chauhan is a member of the core committee of National

Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). He is also Chairman of the

National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). Moreover, he

is continuing his research as a Visiting Scientist at ICGEB as a J. C. Bose

Fellow & Distinguished Biotechnology Research Professor (Department

of Biotechnology).

After the convocation, the evening session was for the informal musical

event - 100 years of Bollywood. The event was conducted by Milind Oak

of Niche Entertainment and his team in an overcrowded Swami Haridas

Sabhagar. The audience enjoyed the performance to the brim and

applauded Mr. Oak and his team after their performance.

THE CONVOCATION CEREMONY OF MODY UNIVERSITY

THE ALLURING BONFIRES OF LOHRI

CELEBRATIONS

Lohri is a festival that celebrates the most important resource of our

country. This holy festival was celebrated on 13th

January 2018 by the

College of Engineering and Technology. The celebrations took place

in front of 10S1 Hostel (Saraswati Bhawan). The celebrations started

with welcoming Dr. V. K. JAIN, DEAN CET and other faculty

members. Many performances including singing and dancing were

put forward by the first year students of CET. The holy bonfire was

then lit up after a puja ceremony. The night concluded with light

snacks, Prasad and music. Everyone enjoyed the evening and the

festival of Lohri was bid farewell to.

FACULTIES RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

1. Research Paper of Prof. Ritu Tak got published in Journal of

Engineering Science and Technology Review.

Ritu Tak , Sudhir Y Kumar, B. S. Rajpurohit, “Estimation of Rotor

and Stator Resistance for Induction Motor Drives using Second order

of Sliding Mode Controller” Journal of Engineering Science and

Technology Review. ISSN: 1791-2377- SCOPUS Index, vol. 10, Issue

6, pp.9-15, Dec. 2017,

2. Research Paper of Prof. Ranjana Thalore got published in

International Journal of Sensors, Wireless Communications and

control.

Ranjana Thalore, M. K. Jha and P. P. Bhattacharya multi- layer

MAC (ML-MAC) Protocol for WSN in Irregular Terrains,

International Journal of Sensors, Wireless Communications and

Control,

Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp 110-117, ISSN 2210-3279/2210-3287, Dec. 2017

Dr. A. Senthil, Associate Professor in Department of Computer

Science and Engineering has been nominated to be trained to evaluate

degree programs in Computer Science by CSAB-ABET. CSAB InC is

the lead ABET member society for accreditation of degree programs in

Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Systems, Information

Technology and Software Engineering.

Prof. P. P. Bhattacharya is working as a Jury in selecting papers

for Springer Best Paper Award in 11th

ICACCT 2018 scheduled on 17-

18 February, 2018 at APIIT Panipat.

Dr. Anand Sharma presented a paper in the seminar titled,

‘Women’s Rights and Legal Issues: Cyber Law Perspective’ at the

National Seminar on the theme Revisiting the Nexus of Women’s

Rights, patriarchy and Legal Issues organized by the center for Gender

Studies, National Law University, Jodhpur on January 27 & 28, 2018.

COMMEMORATION OF REPUBLIC DAY WITH

UNDERPRIVILEGED

The members of Karuna Society along with Faculty Coordinator Ms.

Purnima Sharma celebrated the Republic Day with the students of Bal

Seva Sadan, a School at Lakshmangarh for the underprivileged children.

The school children gave inspiring performances in the form of P.T.,

Dances, Poems, Recitation and Group Songs. The members of Karuna

also presented a patriotic song and recited verses to inspire the students.

This was followed by distribution of refreshment to the children in the

School and interaction with the students and teachers. The members

finally returned after spending quality time with the children.

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

CET ORGANIZES AN INFORMATIVE WORKSHOP ON

ETHICAL HACKING

The workshop of “Ethical Hacking” associated with Make Intern was

organized at CET by Computer science & engineering Department with

Makeintern.com & Kshitij (IIT KGP Event) recently, Mody University

during January 11 & 12, 2018. The workshop was successful under the

guidance of Ms. Aditi Kajala. The objective of the workshop was to make

the students aware about Ethical Hacking techniques & Information

Security and how to implement them in positive manner. Mr. Sahil, senior

research engineer which had a tie up with Makeintern.com taught and

gave hands on training the students during the two days of workshop.

DAY 1:

The first lecture session of the workshop was delivered by Mr. Sahil

Baghla, Certified Ethical Hacker & Web Application Security

Researcher and currently associated with Make Intern. He explained the

various types of hackers and covered the necessity of hats and security

hackers. He had covered the conception regarding OWASP TOP 10 non-

profit organizations which are dedicated to provide unbiased, practical

information about application security. Students were given hands-on on

topics like live hacking tutorials, buffer overflow, masking system

entropy, thought to them. Rich information on cyber laws was also

provided.

DAY 2:

The second day session started with the discussion of insecure direct

object reference which mainly focused on manipulation and unauthorized

access of data. The main focus of this session was security

misconfiguration which includes the application frameworks, application

server, web server, database server and platform secure setting

configuration. The implementation and maintenance was also covered.

ANDROID WORKSHOP

A workshop on Android Application Development was organized at

CET by Computer Science & Engineering Department with

Makeintern.com & Kshitij (IIT KGP Event) recently. It was organized

from January 11, 2018 to January 12, 2018 under the guidance of Ms.

Aditi Kajala. This workshop was interesting as it was completely

practical. Mr. Adarsh Rawat, senior research engineer at Entrench

Electronics which had a tie up with Makeintern.com taught and gave

hands on training the students during the two days of workshop.

The participants were provided with Abstract Developer, software for app

development just like NetBeans and Android Studio. It also included JDK

2.0 with it which is important for Java programs. Students were told how

to put simple elements in the application with the help of just drag and

drop. Simple buttons were inserted in the application. Also there was a

layout view of how the application will be visible on mobile phone.

PATRON- PROF. V.K. JAIN

CHIEF MENTOR- MR. KAUSHIK GHOSH

MENTOR- MRS. MOUMITA GHOSH

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF- VARUNI GUPTA

HEAD DESIGNER- BHAGYASHREE ROKADIYA

SPORTS FEST, DESPORTIVOS 2018 AT LNMIIT

JAIPUR

The students of Mody University accompanied by four faculty members

(Dr. Nitin Kishore Saxena, Mr. Ramesh, Mr. Vinay Tiwari & Ms. Sunita)

participated in DESPORTIVOS 2018, sports fest held at LNMIIT Jaipur,

Rajasthan, during January 26-28, 2018. In total, 32 college & university

teams from different parts of India participated in the meet including 46

students from our own Mody University. Teams from JIET Jodhpur,

GGSIPUO Delhi, SRI RAM University Jabalpur, MAC DU, JDMC Delhi,

GLA University, Amity Noida, Rajasthan University, Amity Haryana,

GEC Ajmer, Sophia Girls College Ajmer and some others participated in

the sports fest. The Mody University students participated in various

games and could make in finals of Football and Volley ball. The Football

finals was a tight match and Janki Devi Memorial College (JDMC), Delhi

University could only defeat Mody in penalty shoot-out with score being

1-0. In Volley ball finals, the opponent team Shree Ram College, Jabalpur

took away the finals from Mody in two straight sets. The scores being, set

1: 25-15 & set 2: 25-12. Therefore our girls had to be contained with the

ANDROID WORKSHOP

runners-up trophies in Football and Volley ball. Altogether Mody

University bagged 22 Silver medals.

S.No. Event Position

(Medals)

Name Of Student Scores

1. Football II

Position

Aanchal Mewara-COBMEC

Chetansi Chaudhary-CET

Himadari Pareek-CET

Nikita Bijarniya- CET

Priyanka Goyal-CET Rabina

Parsai-CET

Shefali Nagori-COBMEC

Shreya Mishra- CAD

Shreya Surbhi-CET

Shrishti Verma-CET

JDMC vs Mody

university

1-0

Mody university vs

LNMIIT

3-0

JDMC vs Mody

university(finals) 0-0

Penalty shoot-out-1-0

2. Volley

ball

II

Position

Aku-CLG

Ameera Salam-COBMEC

Ananya Singh-CET

Kirtilata-COBMEC

Reenila –CLG

Sakshi Jaiswal-COBMEC

Saloni Kothari-CET

Shailja Bareaiyan-CET

Sonu Sihag-CET

Srishti Rana-CET

Stuti Anand-CET

Vaishali Gausa-CLG

Mody University vs

SKIT

Set 1 : 25-15

Set 2 : 25-18

Mody University vs

Graphic era(quarter

final)

Set 1 : 25-19

Set2 : 25-21

Mody University vs

Amity Manesar(semi-

finals)

Set1 :25-21

Set2 : 25-22

Mody University vs

Shree Ram Jabalpur

(final)

Set1 : 15-25

Set2 : 12-25

“Success is not always about

greatness.

It’s about consistency.

Consistent hard work leads

to success. Greatness will

come.”

QUOTE OF THE

MONTH

PATRON- PROF. V.K. JAIN

CHIEF MENTOR- MR. KAUSHIK GHOSH

MENTOR- MRS. MOUMITA GHOSH

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF- VARUNI GUPTA

HEAD DESIGNER- BHAGYASHREE ROKADIYA