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School Highlights

7th All India Students Conference on ‘Science and Spirituality Quest’

Mr. Pramod, Mr. Pradeep Hegde, Mr. Gurumurthy Sharma from the Department of

Mechanical Engineering, Mr. Alok Jha from the Department of ECE and few students of S1, S3

& S7 from the Departments of CSE, ECE & ME - Mr. Sharath Chandra, Mr. Bharath Bhushan and

Mr. Srinivas attended the 7th All India Students Conference on ‘Science and Spirituality Quest’

at IISc., Bengaluru on 1st & 2nd September, 2012 which was organized by Bhaktivedanta

Institute, Kolkata.

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Inauguration of the new premise of the CIR Department

A formal inauguration of the new premise of the CIR Department was held on 5th

September, 2012. A pooja was performed by Correspondent, Br. Dhanraj in the presence of an

august gathering. The function was attended by Dean Dr. B.N. Nagaraj, Associate Dean

Dr. Rakesh S.G., Chair - School of Business Mr. P. Manoj, Heads of various Departments and

several senior dignitaries from the campus.

School Highlights

9th Convocation of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

The 9th Convocation of Amrita Vishwa

Vidyapeetham was held on 16th September,

2012 at the University Headquarters at

Ettimadai, Coimbatore. The convocation was

attended by graduands from all five

campuses. The Chief Guest for the occasion

was Dr. D. Purandeswari, Hon’ble Minister of

State for Human Resources Development,

Government of India and the Guest of Honour

was Mr. K. Venkataramanan, CEO & Managing

Director, Larsen & Toubro Ltd.

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As is being done every year, all the

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 26 ranks, five gold medals

and one silver medal in B.Tech. & M.Tech.

categories.

School Highlights

9th Convocation of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham - Rank List

B.Tech. CSE

Mr. B. Vasudev - 8th Rank Ms. Aswathi K.M. - 9th Rank

ECE Mr. Vijay Anand - 4th Rank Ms. Vidya Ravi - 5th Rank Ms. S. Nivedita - 10th Rank

EEE Ms. Namitha K. - 1st Rank (Gold Medal) Ms. Kavya P.S. - 6th Rank Mr. Harsha Deepak R.V.S. - 7th Rank Mr. Bharadwaj Kaka - 10th Rank

EIE Mr. Rahul Kumar Yadav - 1st Rank (Gold Medal) Ms. Affney Loveney D’ Souza - 3rd Rank Ms. Deva Priya - 4th Rank Mr. Aditya Ranjan Singh Baghel - 5th Rank Mr. Deepak P.V. - 6th Rank Ms. Mattupalli Sri Anagha Vaishnavi - 7th Rank Mr. Eguturi Surendra Reddy - 8th Rank Mr. Dev Asish Nalam - 9th Rank Ms. Aishwarya Chandramohan Warrier - 10th Rank

IT Ms. Yisanaka Priyanka - 2nd Rank (Silver Medal) Mr. Abhash Jain - 7th Rank

ME Mr. Binu Surendran - 7th Rank Mr. Akhil Nair - 10th Rank

M.Tech. Embedded Systems

Ms. Parul Mathur - 1st Rank (Gold Medal) Power Electronics

Ms. Manitha P.V. - 1st Rank (Gold Medal) Ms. T. Deepti - 4th Rank

VLSI Design Ms. Jyothi P. - 1st Rank (Gold Medal) Ms. Dhanya Menon V.P. - 6th Rank

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School Highlights

Women’s Table Tennis Team won Runners-up Trophy @ ‘Autmun Muse - 2012’

The women’s table tennis team of the school comprising of Ms. P. Sameera of S7,

Department of ECE, Ms. Aditi Trivedi of S3, Department of ECE, Ms. Madhuri Reddy of S1,

Department of EIE and Ms. Raghava Selvi of S1, Department of CSE were declared runners-up

after winning over the prestigious Manipal University team in the quarter finals and the team

from Bangalore Institute of Technology in the semi-finals in ‘Autmun Muse - 2012’, the Inter-

collegiate Table Tennis tournament held at St. Johns Medical College on 16th and 17th

September, 2012.

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SPICMACAY Programme @ ASE Bengaluru

On 18th September, 2012 a performance by Mr. Anil Srinivasan, a renowned pianist

and a pioneer in both carnatic and western classical music was arranged as part of the

SPICMACAY programme. It was a spectacular show, which was very well appreciated by the

students & staff members. Mr. Anil Srinivasan left the audience spell bound by his

performance.

School Highlights

‘Annadanam’ on the Occasion of Ganesh Chathurthi

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Teacher’s Day Celebrations @ASE Bengaluru

Teacher’s Day was celebrated in the School on 21st September, 2012. The event began

with an invocation followed by cultural programmes by the teaching staff members.

The celebration provided a platform for the teaching staff members to showcase their

artistic talents like music, dance, skit etc. The celebration was a grand success.

On the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, an ‘Annadanam’ program was organized by the

School at a village in the neighbourhood on 21st September, 2012. Around 350 people were

served with food by around twenty student volunteers under the guidance of Mr. Shankar

Kumaran of the Cultural Education Department.

School Highlights

Students Participated in a ‘Quiz’ Programme at R.V.C.E. Bengaluru

On 21st September, 2012 six students of the School participated in a quiz program

conducted by R.V. College of Engineering, Bengaluru.

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Amma’s Birthday Celebrations

Around 500 students and 100 teaching and non-teaching staff members visited

Amritapuri between 24th and 29th September, 2012 for Amma’s Darshan during her 59th

Birthday celebrations. Students participated in various cultural programmes and were involved

in ‘Sevas’.

Students Participated in the Sir MVIT Fest

On 28th and 29th September, 2012, a few students of our School participated in the MVIT fest

held at Sir MVIT, Bengaluru and won prizes worth Rs. 14,000/-. The following are the winners of

different events.

Classical Song - 2nd Prize : Ms. Madhura (S5 CSE)

Antakshari - 1st Prize : Mr. Gourav (S5 ECE)and Mr. Ashwin (S5 ME)

Essay Writing - 2nd Prize : Ms. Anshika (S5 ECE)

Group Song - 1st Prize : Mr. Gourav (S5 ECE) and group

Cartooning - 1st Prize : Mr. Varun rahul (S5 ME)

School Highlights

‘Joy of Giving’ Week Celebrations @ ASE Bengaluru

The School of Engineering and the School of Buisness jointly celebrated the ‘Joy of

Giving’ week from 27th September to 3rd October, 2012. The contributions made by the staff

and students of the Bengaluru campus were utilized for the following activities organized by

‘Prerana’, the social outreach club.

In the true sense of the event, a lunch was hosted for the workers of the campus

followed by umbrella distribution to all of them.

On 27th September, 2012 thirty students and three faculty members visited ‘Om

Ashram’, an oldage home in Bannerughatta Road, Bengaluru. Groceries for about a

month, 5 utensils, a 12 litre pressure cooker, 15 one kg containers, fruits, snacks, a

Housie Board to play were provided to the ashram housing 42 inmates. The students of

the School entertained the inmates by singing, dancing and playing games with them.

On 29th September, 2012 about fifty students and faculty members visited ‘Grace’

orphanage at a village on Hosa Road of Bengaluru. Lunch and evening snacks for all the

72 children and staff members of the orphanage were provided. Toys, blankets,

uniforms, socks, floor mats, medicines, band aids and stationary items were distributed

to them. The road leading to the orphanage and the play ground in the premises which

was water logged due to rain was levelled by the students by toping it up with sand.

The volunteers of the prerana club played many outdoor games like kabaddi, kho-kho,

lemon & spoon with the inmates of the orphanage.

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Department of CSE

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Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B. has been invited to be a member of the Technical Program Committee for the

2nd International Conference on ‘Advances in Computing, Communication and Informatics’ to be

held from 22nd to 25th August, 2013 at Mysore, India.

Dr. K. Sangeeta Iyer, Ms. Radha D., Ms. Tripty Singh and Ms. Sangita Khare attended a 2-Day Hands

-on Train the Trainer Program on ‘Embedded Software Development on Beaglebone Platform’

conducted by Texas Instruments India University Program in collaboration with IEEE - CAS

Beaglebone chapter and Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.

Department of ECE

NAME TITLE NAME OF THE ORGANIZER

DATE VENUE

Ms. Latha Ms. Vibha Mehrotra

Workshop on ‘Information Theory’

IEEE - IISc. Student Branch

7th September, 2012

Indian Institute of

Science, Bengaluru

Workshops / Seminars / Conferences Attended

Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

A workshop on Texas Instruments ‘DSP Kits’ was conducted by Cranes Software Limited, Bengaluru

under the Industry - Academia Program on 29th and 30th September, 2012. Sixty students from the

School participated in the workshop.

JULY 2012 PAGE 9

Department of EEE

International Journal

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

A. Siva Prasad (M.Tech. Student) K. Deepa K. Mathew (IISc.)

“Power Factor Corrected Battery Charger For Electric Vehicle”

August, 2012

CIIT International Journal of Programmable Device Circuits and Systems, Volume 4, No. 13, August 2012, pp. 713-717. Impact Factor : 0.492

R. Mahalakshmi P. Usha (DSCE, Bengaluru)

“Simulation of VSC based HVDC transmission system for the integration of wind farm into grid”

September, 2012

International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. (Open Access) Volume 1, Issue 4 pp. 9-12

Papers Published

International Conference

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE EVENT

Ilango K. Manitha P.V. Manjula G. Nair

"Modified ICosФ Controller for shunt active filter interfacing Renewable energy source and grid"

2nd - 5th September, 2012

AASRI Conference on Power and Energy Systems (PES 2012) organized by Elsevier, American Applied Science Research Institute, Hong Kong Education Society at Hong Kong and published in AASRI Procedia 00 (2012) 000–000.

Ilango K. Bhargav A. Trivikram A. Kavya P.S. Mounika G. Vivek N. Manjula G. Nair

"STACOM Interface for Renewable Energy Source with Power Quality improvement"

2nd - 5th September, 2012

AASRI Conference on Power and Energy Systems (PES 2012) organized by Elsevier, American Applied Science Research Institute, Hong Kong Education Society at Hong Kong and published in AASRI Procedia 00 (2012) 000–000.

Ilango K. Manitha P.V. Manjula G. Nair

"An Enhanced controller for shunt active filter interfacing renewable energy source and grid"

24th - 27th September, 2012

Third International conference on sustainable energy Technologies(ICSET-12) held in Kathmandu, Nepal

Papers Presented

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Department of EEE

Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Ms. K. Deepa reviewed the following five Papers for 2012 IEEE 5th India International Conference

On ‘Power Electronics (IICPE 2012)’, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India.

Mathematical Modelling and Transient Analysis of DC-DC Buck-Boost Converter in CCM

Modelling and Stability Analysis of Buck-Boost DCDC Converter Based on Z-Transform

Optimal Hybrid Power System design using HOMER

Stability Analysis of Boost DC-DC Converter Using Z-Transform

Realization of a Novel Current Mode Fully Differential PID (FDPID) Controller

JULY 2012 PAGE 11

Other News

Dr. Manjula G. Nair, Chairman of the Department resigned on 18th September, 2012 and was

relieved of her duties. Dr. Shikha Tripathi, Chairman, Department of ECE has been given the

additional responsibility of heading the Department and Dr. Rashmi M.R., Associate Professor, of

the Department has been nominated as Vice-Chairman with effect from 18th September, 2012.

The EEE forum, ‘Vidyuth’ arranged an Industrial Visit to Diesel power plant at Yelahanka, Bengaluru

for the students of S3 M.Tech. (Power Electronics) and S5 & S7 B.Tech. (EEE) on 11th, 12th and 13th

of September, 2012 respectively. The students were accompanied by the faculty members

Ms. K. Deepa, Ms. V.S. Kirthika Devi, Ms. D. Mahalakshmi, Ms. Manitha P.V. and Mr. K. Ilango.

Department of ME

JULY 2012 PAGE 12

International Journal

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

Smita Singh Sanjay R. M.U. Aswath

“An Experimental Study on Flexural Behavior of Reinforced Geopolymer Concrete Beams with Recycled Aggregate in Bending”

September, 2012

International Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering and Development, (IJETED) ISSN 2249-6149 Issue 2, Vol.6, pp.186 -199 Indexed in Scopus

Papers Published

Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Dr. Nagaraja S.R. has been nominated as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal

‘Mechanical Engineering Research’ published by Canadian Center for Science and

Education.

The article ‘Investigations on micro-blast wave assisted metal foil forming for biomedical

applications’ authored by Dr. Nagaraja S.R. and Dr. Rakesh S.G. has been listed in ‘Advances

in Engineering’.

Dr. Veeresh Kumar G.B. has reviewed a paper titled ‘Mode-I and mixed-mode fracture

characterization of High Silica Glass-satin textile fiber reinforced hybrid polymer

composites’, Journal of Composites, Part B – Elsevier.

Dr. Veeresh Kumar G.B. has been awarded the Ph.D. degree at the 10th Convocation of NIT,

Warangal held on 15th September, 2012 for his thesis titled ‘Wear Studies on Aluminium

based MMCs and Prediction of Wear by ANN Models’.

Mr. Prakash Marimuthu K. has been awarded the M.Tech. degree at the 9th Convocation of

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham held on 16th September, 2012 for having successfully

completed the course on ‘Integrated Design & Manufacturing’.

Department of ME

Other News

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Activities of the Departmental forum ‘INGENIUM’

Mr. Bharath Shekar, Deputy Manager, Design Liaison, Hindustan Aeronautics

Limited, Bengaluru delivered an invited talk on ‘Iundustrial Design’ on 17th

September, 2012.

Dr. Jafar Ali, Senior Lead Engineer, G.E, Bengaluru delivered an invited talk on

‘Introduction to Finite Element Method’ on 30th July, 2012.

Dr. Veeresh Kumar G.B. receiving his Ph.D. degree at the 10th Convocation of NIT, Warangal

Department of Mathematics

JULY 2012 PAGE 14

Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Dr. Neetu Srivastava evaluated a thesis titled ‘Determination of Sample Size for Vibration and EEG

Signals in Machine Learning Approach to Fault Diagnosis‘ for Karpagam University.

Department of Physics

Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Mr. Praveen D. has reviewed a research article titled "Blending poly (ethylmethaacrylate) on barium

titanate dispersed Lithium bis (perfluoroethanesulfonyl) imide based poly (vinylidene fluoride) co-

hexa fluoro propylene composite" for the Journal IONICS (Springer).

National Conference

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE EVENT

Mr. Praveen D. "Role of silica nanoparticles in conductivity enhancement of nanocomposite solid polymer electrolyte (PEGxNaBr): ySiO2"

3rd - 5th September, 2012

National Conference on “Recent Trends in

Material Science Research” - NIT Srinagar

Papers Presented

Department of Chemistry

JULY 2012 PAGE 15

CIR

Placement Update

CIR Department of the School initiated parallel mass recruitment drives for the first time in the

Bengaluru campus. The results were outstanding with over 370 students being offered jobs by

corporate giants like IBM, Cognizant, Infosys and CISCO. IBM conducted its placement program on

9th & 10th, CISCO on 11th, CTS on 21st and INFOSYS on 25th & 26th of September, 2012. Following is

the branch wise details of students placed in various companies at the end of September, 2012.

International Journal

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

Amrita Thakur “Antimicrobial Screening of Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II) Complexes with Nitrogen and Oxygen Containing Schiff Base”

September, 2012

Oriental Journal of Chemistry Volume. 28, No. (2), Pp. 943-948 Indexed in SCOPUS Impact factor(SJR) - 0.03

Papers Published

Branch Total

eligible

Total

Placed

%

Placed

ME 41 35 85

CSE 93 76 82

EEE 42 35 83

EIE 39 28 72

ECE 140 125 89

Total 355 299 84

Branch Total

eligible

Total

Placed

%

Placed

ES 17 10 59

PE 14 7 50

VLSI 19 10 53

Total 50 27 54

M.Tech. B.Tech.

Abstracts of International Journal Papers Published

Department of EEE

“Power Factor Corrected Battery Charger For Electric Vehicle” - A. Siva Prasad, K.

Deepa and K. Mathew; CIIT International Journal of Programmable Device Circuits and

Systems, Volume 4, No.13, August, 2012.

Power electronic circuits comprising of AC-DC converters and DC-DC converters

are Integral part of modern day electric vehicle. Batteries play a major role in an electric

vehicle. Thus the selection and implementation of battery charger using DC-DC converter

has important role in the development of electric vehicle. In addition to this, the existing

battery chargers are without power factor correction which will affect the life and

performance of the battery. So this paper presents a charging circuit for batteries used in

electric vehicle with the concept of power factor correction. This paper emphasizes the

necessity for a boost converter for the power factor correction. Half bridge converter

topology is implemented for battery charging purpose and it is simulated using MATLAB

software with rectifier and boost circuit for verifying the improvement in power factor

correction. The power factors and harmonic distortion obtained are presented and

analyzed in detailed.

JULY 2012 PAGE 16

“Simulation of VSC based HVDC transmission system for the integration of wind farm

into grid” - R. Mahalakshmi and P. Usha; International Journal of Electrical and

Electronics Engineering. (Open Access) Volume 1, Issue 4, September, 2012.

Wind energy has huge potential to become major source of renewable energy for

the modern world. For integrating wind farms to the AC grid, HVDC transmission systems

have several advantages over AC transmission systems. This paper presents the design

and control of voltage source converter based HVDC system for integration of wind farms

in to AC grid. The designed VSC-HVDC system performance under steady state conditions

and various transient conditions are presented. The PSCAD/EMTDC software package is

used for the simulation studies.

Abstracts of International Journal Papers Published

Department of ME

“An Experimental Study on Flexural Behavior of Reinforced Geopolymer Concrete

Beams with Recycled Aggregate in Bending” - Smita Singh, Sanjay R. and M.U. Aswath;

International Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering and Development, (IJETED),

ISSN 2249-6149, Issue 2, Vol.6, September, 2012.

This paper presents the attempt to utilize the industrial by-products and

construction & demolition waste in the synthesis of geopolymer concrete. The industrial

by-products comprising of flyash and Ground Granulated Blast Furnace slag (GGBS) were

geopolymerised by sodium silicate and sodium hydroxide (NAOH) solution. Recycled

aggregate completely replaced the ordinary Portland cement (OPC) aggregate in the

geopolymer concrete. As the compressive strength was found to increase with the

increase in NAOH molarity, an optimum molarity of 12M was adopted. Experimental

investigations showed that the inclusion of GGBS in the binder material increased the

compressive strength by 10%. The effect variation of binder percentage on workability,

compressive strength, flexural strength and split tensile strength were analysed. Most

promising results were obtained when the binder content (fly ash + GGBS) were 27% of

the total solid constituent of the geopolymer concrete mix using recycled aggregate.

Results of compression test showed a decrease in strength of about 10% compare to

ordinary Portland cement (OPC) aggregate. Adopting 27% of the binder content with 12M

NAOH molarity beams were casted and tested for the load deflection behaviour, ultimate

load and crackwidth.

JULY 2012 PAGE 17

Abstracts of International Journal Papers Published

Department of Chemistry

“Antimicrobial Screening of Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II) Complexes with Nitrogen and

Oxygen Containing Schiff Base” - Amrita Thakur; Oriental Journal of Chemistry

Volume. 28, No. (2), September, 2012.

This study reports the preparation and spectroscopic evaluation of a series of

transition metal complexes of Co(II), Ni(II), and Cu(II) with schiff base ligand 1-ethyl, 1, 2,

3, 5, tetrahydroimidazo (2, 1-b) quinazolin 5-one semicarbazone (ETQS). The ligand and

its Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II) complexes were formulated by elemental analysis, molar mass,

infrared spectra, electronic spectra, molar conductivity and magnetic susceptibility

measurements. In the light of above studies it is proposed that the compound ETQS

behaves as bidentate ligand and coordination takes place through azomethine nitrogen

and carbonyl oxygen of semicarbazone moiety. The remaining positions of metal ions are

satisfied by negative ions such as Cl-, Br-, I- and NO3 . The complexes were proposed

octahedral geometry. All the synthesized ligand and complexes have been screened for

antimicrobial activity.

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“While the expansion of knowledge allows the blossoming of

the intellect, meditative contemplation facilitates the

blossoming of the heart”

Amma’s teachings on Spiritual practices

AMRITA

Dr. Rakesh S.G. Associate Dean & Head

Patron

Ms. Meera K.N. Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics

Editor

Mr. Rajesh M. Assistant Professor

Department of CSE

Editor

Ms. Vasanthi ES to Associate Dean

Editor

Board Members

Ms. Paromita Ganguly (Department of English) Ms. Kirti S. Pande (Department of ECE) Ms. Meena Belwal (Department of CSE) Ms. Sreekala Manmadhan (Department of EEE) Mr. Shashi Kumar M.E. (Department of ME) Dr. Amrita Thakur (Department of Chemistry) Ms. Sarada Jayan (Department of Mathematics) Mr. Shankar Kumaran (Department of Cultural Education) Mr. Shiju Kumar (ICTS)

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