Kriti- Newsletter of Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru...School Highlights March 2019 PAGE 3 As a part of Women’s day Celebration (8th March 2019), few fitness related activities

Volume : 10 ; Issue : 9 : March 2019

AMRITA SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Bengaluru

NEWS LETTER

SHIVARATHRI 4TH MAR 2019

SPORTS TOURNAMENT 6TH MAR 2019

PRABIDHI 14TH MAR 2019

AMRITOTSAVA 15TH MAR 2019

AMRITAKALANJALI 15TH & 16TH MAR 2019

INTERNMELA 23RD MAR 2019

GRADUATE CONGRESS 30TH MAR 2019

SLAC’19 30TH & 31ST MAR 2019

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SHIVARATHRI CELEBRATIONS

School Highlights

Vedanta, the Spiritual club along with AYUDH organised the celebrations of ‘Shivarathri’ on 4th March 2019. The students celebrated the festival with fervent spirit. The celebrations commenced at 6 pm, with rendition of Bhajans.

Campus Director Br. Dhanraj Swami participated in the Rudra Homa conducted by the priests. The event was well co-ordinated by Mr. Manish Rajan Walvekar of Amrita Darshanam. Videos were screened to educate the students about Lord Shiva and significance of Shivarathri. Smashaana yatra, a walk through a haunted house, was organised. Devotional music and dance performances enthralled the audience throughout the night. Bhajans were recited by students, immersed in devotion.

The Quiz Club hosted a quiz on mythological aspects of Lord Shiva.

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SPORTS TOURNAMENTS FOR STAFF

School Highlights

Chethana club and the Department of Physical Education organized Badminton and Table Tennis tournaments for the teaching and non-teaching staff on 6th March 2019. Around 30 staff members participated in these tournaments. The results of the winners and runners, in various categories are below.

Event Teaching Non-Teaching

Badminton: Men’s Singles

Winner: Mr. Chintala Ramesh (ECE) Runner: Mr. Rajeevlochana G.C. (ME)

Winner: Mr. Divakar Kulal (ADMIN) Runner: Mr. Aniruddha S. Prabhu (LIB)

Badminton: Women’s Singles

Winner: Ms. Sreebha Bhaskaran (CSE Runner: Ms. Deepakumari S. (ENG)

Badminton: Men’s Doubles

Winners: Mr. Divakar Kulal (ADMIN) & Mr. Aniruddha S. Prabhu (LIB) Runners: Mr. Rajesh R. (ME) & Mr. Rajeevlochana G.C. (ME)

Badminton: Women’s Doubles

Winners: Ms. Sreebha Bhaskaran (CSE) & Dr. Thangam S. (CSE) Runners: Ms. Deepakumari S. (ENG) & Ms. Jalpa Shah (ECE)

Badminton: Mixed Doubles

Winners: Mr. Rajesh R (ME) & Ms. Sreebha Bhaskaran (CSE) Runners: Mr. Lohith (Transport) & Ms. Manjushree (EEE)

Table Tennis: Men’s Singles

Winner: Dr. Srinath Naidu (CSE) Runner: Dr. Praveen D. (PHY)

Winner: Mr. Madivalappa (PE) Runner: Mr. Divakar Kulal (ADMIN)

Table Tennis: Men’s Doubles

Winners: Dr. Srinath Naidu (CSE) & Mr. Giriraja C.V. (ECE Runners: Dr. Praveen D. (PHY) & Mr. Manjunatha H. (PHY)

Cricket tournament for female staff members was organized on March 7, 2019 and the winners & runner-up teams are below: Winners Runners

Sl.No. Name Dept. Sl.No. Name Dept.

1 Ms. Vineetha K.V. CSE 1 Ms. Anjali B.S. ECE

2 Dr. Supriya M. CSE 2 Dr. Thangam S. CSE

3 Ms. Sreebha Bhaskaran CSE 3 Ms. Jyotsna C. CSE

4 Ms. Manjushree EEE 4 Ms. Rekhamani Clinic

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School Highlights

As a part of Women’s day Celebration (8th March 2019), few fitness related activities were organized for the women on campus, by a few women volunteers. The events saw participation of more than 60 female teaching & non-teaching staff members. The results of the events are as under: Winners Runners

Further, a friendly cricket match between female staff and female students were organized as a part of Women’s Day Celebration. The staff team gave a good fight but were no match to the student’s team, which won the match.

Sl.No. Name Dept. Sl.No. Name Dept.

1 Ms. Sreebha Bhaskaran CSE 1 Ms. Manju Venugopalan CSE

2 Ms. Mamatha T.M. Maths 2 Ms. Vineetha K.V. CSE

3 Dr. Smita Singh Civil 3 Ms. Jyotsna C. CSE

Abhinaya, the Drama Club, hosted its flagship event, ‘Theatrics’ on 11th March 2019.

The participants were required to perform a mono act, not exceeding 3 minutes, in any given genre and were judged in accordance to their performance in all the 3 rounds. The event, which witnessed engaging performances by 25 participants, was judged by Mr. Arjun Bharadwaj and Mr. Manish Rajan Walvekar from Amrita Darshanam. Mr. E.K. Srivathsan (S2-EIE) was declared Winner for the ‘Best Actor’ award followed by Ms. Sreeja Sridhar (S4-CSE) as Runner-Up. Mr. V. Kamesh Bharadwaj (S4-EEE) won the ‘Favourite Actor’ award.

Prabidhi ’19, the Annual Tech Fest of the School, was organised on 14th March 2019.

The event commenced with Associate Dean & Head Prof. Rakesh S.G., lighting the lamp and inaugurating the fest. Dr. N.S. Murty, Chairman, Dept. of ECE, Ms. Shali S., Co-Chair, Prachodana Wing-Amritadhara, Ms. Jyotsna, Co-Chair, Sanskriti Wing-Amritadhara, Mr. Vinod Kotebavi, Ms. Jyotsna C., Dr. K.N. Meera along with other faculty members were also present during the inauguration. Prof. Rakesh S.G. appreciated the enthusiastic efforts of the organising committee and hoped for an equally enthusiastic participation. He welcomed everyone and declared the event open. The participants were informed of the rules and regulations before the registrations opened. JIDO organised ‘Dirt Fingers’ wherein

participants were required to assemble and disassemble cycles.

IEEE-WIE & ComSoc organised ‘Breakthrough’, which tested the electric knowledge of participants.

‘Maze Runner’, conducted by Vidyuth and IEEE PES, was an event where participants entered a maze and right answer to question at every checkpoint put them on the right path.

ECIF and ACROM organised ‘Prison Break’, which tested the endurance of the participants.

Aavishkara hosted ‘Link Up’, which involved connecting 4 pictures and ‘Key Quest’ where participants had to find locks to come out of a maze.

ACM-W and CSI, organised ‘Hunt’em-Up’, which was a treasure hunt with QR codes as clues.

‘Business Street’ conducted by ACE & Sankhya, simulated stock market and the team with highest amount of profit was declared the winner.

THEATRICS

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School Highlights

PRABIDHI

‘Suit Me’ conducted by FORGE, judged the design creativity and the game building skills of the participants.

B&W had two rounds, ‘Levitating Ball’ by Vyom and ‘Wheel of Fortune’ by Ingenium.

IEEE RAS & SAE hosted ‘Robotrix’, involved controlling a ‘bot’ in the specified path.

Four teams with high scores qualified to the final round, ‘Wrath of Wizards’. ‘Stupid Theory’, qualifier round, required the team members to come up with a logical explanation for the given unscientific phenomenon. The team with the most persuasive explanation qualified for the quiz round, hosted by IEEE ComSoc and ANC. The team which solved ‘Picture Puzzle’ in the next round emerged as the winning team. The technical fest culminated with declaration of

winners of each event.

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School Highlights

PRABIDHI

PRABIDHI

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School Highlights

The school witnessed the Institution Day, Amritotsava ’19, a platform that rewards academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular achievements of the students, faculty & staff members on 15th March 2019. The event commenced with lighting of the lamp by the Chief Guest Commodore Sudhir Gopalakrishna N.M. Station Commander, Naval Detachtment, HQ Naval Station, Br. Dhanraj Swami, Campus Director, Prof. Rakesh S.G., Associate Dean & Head, and Chairmen of the Engineering Departments.

Br. Dhanraj Swami encouraged the students

through his words and said to be always

prepared for various challenges that come ahead

of us. He said to be persistent in achieving the

set goal.

Prof. Rakesh S.G., the Associate Dean & Head,

then presented the annual report in which he

outlined the achievements of various

Departments of the School, Staff & Student

recognitions. The annual report also included all

the projects that were undertaken in the

preceding year. He then went on to summarize

the accomplishments of students and staff and

expressed his wish that the subsequent year’s

annual report should encompass even more

achievements and recognitions than the current

year.

Commodore Sudhir Gopalakrishna N.M. in his address expressed his happiness to be at the campus on the occasion of the Institution Day and also apprised the audience of Memorandum of Understanding that has been signed between the Academy of Navy and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham considering the facilities and resources that the university has. Commodore Sudhir believed and said to the young audience to believe in one self & their ability and utilize the opportunity & time gainfully. He concluded his address by reciting the famous poem ‘Don’t Quit’ by John Greenleaf Whittier.

Following this, the Chief Guest and the

dignitaries launched the 11th edition of Sanchita,

the school’s annual magazine. Members of the

team were congratulated on producing the latest

edition and they secured certificates of

appreciation.

The following awards were presented to the

meritorious students: ‘Academic Excellence

Award’ and ‘Karthik Kalaichelvan Memorial

Award’. Winners of various cultural and technical

events were lauded. The office-bearers of Amrit-

adhara, the student activities ensemble was also

awarded with mementos for their contributions,

and the winners of sports events received their

medals & certificates. The Department of ECE

emerged the overall winners and carried home

the Champions Trophy.

The event then drew to a close with Dr. Rashmi,

Chairman, Dept. of EEE, delivering the vote of

thanks.

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AMRITOTSAVA’19

AMRITOTSAVA’19

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AMRITOTSAVA’19

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School Highlights

Amritakalanjali’19, the Annual Cultural Fest of the School was hosted on 15th & 16th March 2019, with ‘mythology’ as the theme. Various events were conducted during the 2-day fest. On the first day, ‘Quiz Up Duels’, ‘Amrita’s Got Talent’, ‘Paparazzi’, ‘La Comdie Tragique’, ‘Mehendi Mela’, ‘Capture the Emoticon’, ‘Be in the Skene’, were some of the fun events organised. The events ‘Franchise Mania’, ‘Cooking without flame’, ‘Jack of all trades’, ‘Group Dance’, ‘Sherlocked’ witnessed enthusiastic participation all through. The events on second day included ’Don Quixote’, ‘Rub A Dub Dub’, ‘Fill in the Blank’, ‘Fast N Furious’, ‘Piquotes’, ‘Face Painting’, ‘Ragnarok’, ‘Go Tattoo’, ‘Who’s the next Thespis?’, ‘Mannequin’, ‘Open Mic Morning’ and ‘Chess’, among many others . Events such as ‘Street dance’ and ‘Battle of Bands’ received much fanfare amidst cheers. ‘ICON ‘19’, the flagship event of the two-day

cultural fest, consisted of a series of assessment

rounds, which concluded with Ms. Tejaswini (S2-

ECE) being declared as Ms. Kalanjali 2019.

The fest culminated with the declaration and

certificate distribution to the winners of various

events, making Amritakalanjali’19 memorable

and successful.

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AMRITAKALANJALI’19


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INTERNMELA

Amrita Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) takes pride in having organized ‘InternMela’ on 23rd March, 2019, fifth of its kind internship drive in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, since 2015. The motto is ‘to give a platform for the students to experimentally learn the organizational structure and understand the culture of entrepreneurial world’. The event is aimed to bring the Start-up Houses and students of Amrita’s Bengaluru campus together in order to provide an opportunity to interact with budding entrepreneurs. Through this, the students understand what it takes to be an intern in a Start-up in their domains of interest and also are exposed to the Start-up Ecosystem. INTERNMELA’19 was inaugurated by the Chief Guest Mr. Amitabh Saxena, CEO of Anexas Consultancy in the presence of Capt. (Retd.) Rajiv Sood, Head, Corporate and Industry Relations of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru campus and the mentor of ACE, Mr. Adarsh M. The event kicked off at 9:00 am, with 33 Start-up companies eager to recruit young and enthusiastic interns from the School. Companies like Digi Collect GIS, Smartanius, Binocolor, Wiki Results, Guide Trip, GRID India, IBNC, Hasovan, Khojio, Karyaa and many more held their interviews throughout the day and many of these companies found promising talent in the School and recruited interns. The event progressed smoothly owing to the collective effort of the ACE team members with the valuable mentorship of Mr. Adarsh M. of CIR Department. Many companies remarked on the efficient proceedings of the day and had very positive comments on the event. The event boasted of 500 registrations with more than 142 students being hired to be a part of Start-Up worlds. The overall response from the majority of the companies was highly encouraging with many of them praising and commending the standard and the calibre of our students. The event ended on a high note with the companies leaving impressed by the potential of our students and many of our students finding internships in not only engineering domains but also in marketing, sales, journalism and content writing.

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Lekhani, the Press Club hosted ‘Pot Pourri’, a blend of various events on 29th March 2019.

The event consisted three rounds, ‘Spellathon’, ‘Brain Teasers’ and ‘Poetry Slam’. Spellathon and Brain Teasers put a test to linguistic abilities of the participants while ‘Poetry Slam’ witnessed soulful performances of original works of diverse genres.

RAAGA, the music club of Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru conducted a workshop on 'Reinventing Music towards Holistic Health' on 30th March 2019.

Dr. Geetha R. Bhat was the guest of the day. Dr. Geetha R. Bhat is an accomplished Veena artiste with wide research and achievements in the field of “Neuro-Musicology”, which further emphasise her intense devotion and dedication as a Carnatic Vainika, vocalist and a therapist. The event started with the audio-visual presentation on origin and framework of Carnatic music, elements of Carnatic music and the concepts of sapta swara. The importance of music therapy, the current trends and benefits were expounded on. The benefits mainly focused on treatments to various disorders and neurological impairments. Intriguing questions were raised by the audience during the Q&A session. The workshop enabled the audience to connect their lives spiritually and emotionally to the sound of classical touch. Dr. Geetha and her team presented an enthralling veena concert, which consisted of eight classical songs. The workshop culminated with Dr. Geetha and her team being presented a memento as a token of appreciation.

POT POURRI

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REINVENTING MUSIC TOWARDS HOLISTIC HEALTH

GRADUATE CONGRESS (GraTE’7) (Graduate Thesis Evaluation in 7 minutes)

An annual National level workshop is conceptualized by IEEE ComSoc Bengaluru and Kerala to recognize and award few top/best thesis work at post graduate level and Ph.D. level in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The event is known as Graduate Congress: Graduate Thesis Evaluation in 7 minutes (GraTE’7). In this event, it was decided to recognize 7 best thesis; 4 from Masters’ and 3 from Ph.D. students and the other criteria being that the awardees should belong to an institution/university located in either Kerala or Karnataka state. (However, the plan from next edition would be to cover entire nation). The award comprises Rs.20,000/- cash prize for each Ph.D. thesis and Rs.15,000/- for each Masters’ thesis along with a Certificate of Merit. The corresponding supervisor was also to be recognized as the ‘Best Supervisor’ for the work. The first event was organized on 30th March 2019 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. 21 short listed thesis after initial screening and evaluation were called for presentation for the final round. In this round, each candidate was made to present their work in 7 minutes in front of evaluators/experts. Experts were chosen from industry and academia, who are also the executive members / office bear-ers of both sections (Kerala and Bengaluru). Graduate Congress began with a welcome note by Ms. Sreebha Bhaskaran followed by a brief introduction about GraTE’7’ by Dr. Navin Kumar (the brain behind GraTE’7 program) and started with presentations. 21 Thesis were presented in which 7 were in the category of Postgraduate and 14 were under the category of Ph.D. The event had 7 evaluators, four from IEEE Communication Society Bengaluru chapter and three from IEEE Communication Society Kerala chapter. The details of the invited experts are appended below: Dr. Dilip Krishnaswamy - Chair of IEEE ComSoc Bengaluru Chapter and Vice President at Reliance

Jio. Dr. Lillykutty Jacob - Senior Member of IEEE and Chair of ComSoc Kerala Chapter Dr. Aloknath De - Chair Elect., IEEE ComSoc Bengaluru Chapter and Corporate Vice President and

CTO a Samsung Electronics India Dr. Ganesan Thiagarajan - Vice-Chair of IEEE ComSoc, Bengaluru Chapter Dr. Gopakumar A - Past Chair of IEEE Malabar Subsection Dr. Lakshmi Narasimhan Theagarajan - Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical

Engineering at IIT Palakkad Mr. Subhas Mondal - Chief Architect, Wipro Ltd GraTE’7 witnessed many prominent thesis and the post lunch session saw in-depth discussions by the evaluators. Graduate Congress concluded by awarding two best thesis from the PG category and four best thesis from the Ph.D. category. The key people involved in the conduct of GraTE’7 are: Dr. Navin Kumar, Senior Member of IEEE, Immediate Past Chair & ExCom Bengaluru Section -

Associate Professor, Department of ECE. Mr. Sagar B. Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, as In-charge of Logistics. Ms. Sreebha Bhaskaran, Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, as In-charge of Hall

arrangements. Mr. Vignesh V., Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, as In-charge of Registration.

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GRADUATE CONGRESS (GraTE’7) (Graduate Thesis Evaluation in 7 minutes)

SLAC’19

On the 30th & the 31st of March, 2019, The Forum for Aspiring Computer Engineers (FACE) club of Amrita School of Engineering - Bengaluru, organized and conducted the Stay Late and Code (SLAC) event - The annual 24-hour hackathon containing workshops and events for rising Engineering students to showcase their skills.

The Participants checked in at 8 am and Inauguration was held at 9 am in the Amriteshwari hall. The Chief Guests, who were also the judges for the event, explained the problem statements and wished students luck. SLAC officially began at 10:30 am. The teams filled in their allocated places and were provided with free internet access. The hackathon consisted of two categories: healthcare sponsored by GE Healthcare, and the general category sponsored by the CSI-Bengaluru chapter. Participants began to work on problems from domain of their choice (General and Health). There were 26 teams that worked in the GE domain and 38 in the CSI domain. In the Healthcare category, the winning team was ‘Interrupt Zero’ from RVCE and 2nd place was bagged by ‘Localhost: 8080’ from Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri. In the general category, from CSI, the winner was the team ‘Joker Clan’ from Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru and the runner up were ‘Falcons’ from PES University. In both domains, the winners were awarded a Cash prize of Rs. 15,000/- and the runners up were given a cash prize of Rs. 10,000/-. The entire event was filled with innovation, team spirit and healthy competition. Face also conducted fun mini events:

Storytelling with Data - Data Visualization Challenge

Codathon - Coding contest

Algorithm Safari - Algorithm Contest

UI/UX Design Challenge

Various merchandise was distributed such as SLAC stickers, Skillenza stickers and more for the participants. The Winners were given SLAC bookmarks, ACM bags and pens.

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SLAC’19

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Papers Presented

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE

CONFERENCE

Presented By: Shrujana L. Murthy Author(s): Shrujana L. Murthy Kavitha C.R.

“Intelligent Security Frame-work for Multimedia Medical Data in IoT Devices”

13th-14th March 2019

International Conference on ISMAC in Computational Vision and Bio-Engineering (ISMAC -CVB 2019)

Presented By: V.T. Sai Sandeep Raju Author(s): V.T. Sai Sandeep Raju Meena Belwal

“Driver drowsiness detection”

Presented By: Sowjanya Bulusu Author(s): Sowjanya Bulusu Kavitha C.R.

“IoT based Monitoring System for Safe Driving”


3rd International Conference on Data Engineering and Communication Technology (ICDECT) 2019

Presented By: Kantamneni Raviteja Author(s): Kantamneni Raviteja Supriya M.

“IOT based Agriculture Monitoring System”

Presented By: G.A.Vishnu Lohit Author(s): G.A.Vishnu Lohit Nalini Sampath

“Multiple Object Detection mechanism using YOLO”

Presented By: Madhuri K. Author(s): Madhuri K. Uma Maheswari B.

“Adaptive Steering Control and Driver Alert System for Smart Vehicles”


3rd International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication [ICCMC 2019], Surya Engineering College, Erode.

Presented By: Sithara Surendran K. T. Author(s): Sithara Surendran K. T. T. Sasikala

“Non-Invasive System to Measure Glucose Level in Human Body”

Presented By: Rakesh G. Author(s): Rakesh G. Meena Belwal

“Vehicle Collision Avoidance in a VANET environment by data communication”

Department of CSE

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Papers Presented



CONFERENCE

Presented By: C. Jyotsna Author(s): M. Sai Mounica M. Manvita C. Jyotsna Amudha J.

“Low Cost Eye Gaze Tracker Using Web Camera”


3rd International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication [ICCMC 2019], Surya Engineering College, Erode.

Presented By: Lahari Kolasani Author(s): Lahari Kolasani Supriya M.

“Parallelized Heat Map Algo-rithm using Multiple Cores”


International Conference on Data Science, Machine Learning & Applications (ICDSMLA 2019), held at CMR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India

Department of CSE

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Facutly Achievements/Participation/Recognition

Dr. Suja P. delivered a talk on “Machine Learning Approach to Image Processing” on 19th March

2019. The talk was followed by a live demo of programs using Matlab and Python where

applications of machine learning on images were demonstrated. The programme was organised

by IEEE I² INNOVATION CLUB of ECE Department of ASEB.

Dr. N. Rakesh, Participated as Ph.D. Comprehensive Viva external examiner for Visvesvaraya Technological University at PES University, South-campus, Bengaluru on 13th March 2019.

“AI IN INDUSTRY” by ACM ASE-B Student Chapter

A talk on “AI IN INDUSTRY” was organized on 8th March 2019 and speakers Mr. Rangaprasad

Sampath and Mr. Madhusoodhana Chari were from HPE Aruba Networks.

The event commenced with an introduction of the speakers by Ms. Ashwini Nayak, former Chairperson of

ACM Student Chapter. After the introduction about the speakers, the speakers started the session.

The speakers divided their talk into three parts, the WHAT, the HOW and the WHERE of AI and ML in the

industry.

Mr. Rangaprasad spoke about the WHAT of AI/ML, he spoke about the Use Cases of AI and many

applications of AI and ML in use, like Speech-To-Text systems, Recommendation Systems and the likes.

He delved into the different domains that AI/ML can be implemented, AI for betterment of our society,

the Industry, and discussed some projects like Disaster Response, FarmBeats and Track Diseases, Deep

Dreams, Autodraw and the likes. He also discussed a few project ideas that would be helpful for the

audience to dabble in, like those in NLP and Planning & Scheduling.

Departmental Activity

Department of CSE

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ACM-W Event for Prabidhi

ACM-W, Association for Computing Machinery Women’s Chapter, conducted an event in collaboration

with CSI, Computer Society of India student chapter, on 14th March 2019 for Prabidhi, the annual Tech

Fest of the School.

The event Hunt’em-Up consisted of two rounds, first being a treasure hunt and the next as a Tech-Taboo

competition. Students had to participate in teams for 4. During the treasure hunt, the teams were given

clues encrypted in a QR code which in turn lead them to the next clue. Each clue had a specific letter

assigned to it and the teams which presented the correct order of letters at the finishing point got the

maximum number of points. This in retrospect made the hunt more challenging and interesting requiring

the students to be conscious of the order of collection of their clues.

The top few teams of the first round proceeded to the Tech-Taboo round where each team had to make

their respective team members guess the maximum number of Taboo words under a minute.

A tally of both rounds scores were then calculated and the corresponding teams proceeded to final round

of Prabidhi.

This event saw a booming participation of around 40 teams each consisting of 4 students and faired well

among the students proving to be one of the most popular events of the day.


Papers Presented



CONFERENCE

Presented By: P. Aswathy Author(s): P. Aswathy M. Vinodhini Vipin K.

“Weight Based Segmentation of Scan Cells for Efficient ATPG Technique”

3rd International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication (ICCMC 2019), organized by Surya Engineering college, Erode, Tamil Nadu.

27th March 2019

Presented By: C. Sai Manasa Author(s): C. Sai Manasa K. Jeeva Priya Deepa Gupta

“Comparison of Acoustical Models of GMM-HMM Based for Speech Recognition in Hindi using Pocketsphinx”

Presented By: Karthikeyan R. & Aishwarya Raja Author(s): Durga Prasad V. Rao Aishwarya Raja Karthikeyan R.K. Vijay Pal S.V. Tharun Priya B.K.

“Design and Implementation of 1553B Bus Controller on FPGA”

Presented By: R. Adithi Author(s): Rakshith H. R. Adithi M. Vinodhini Jayashree M. Oli

“2D Mapping Robot using Ultrasonic Sensor and Processing IDE”

30th March 2019

International conference on Vision towards emerging trends in Communication and Networking (ViTECON 2019) and organized by School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Department of ECE

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Dr. Abhilash Ravikumar delivered an invited talk on “Charge transfer dynamics in 2-D materials” at Department of Physics, MSRIT, Bengaluru on 2nd February 2019.

Dr. N. Neelima chaired a session titled Information Security in International Conference of Recent

Advances in Computer Science and Engineering (IC-RACE) 2019 on 4th & 5th March 2019, at Acharya Nagarjuna University, India.


Department of ECE

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Dr. Navin Kumar

Delivered an invited talk on “Suitability of mmWave for Edge Computing in 5G Wireless” at IEEE International Conference on IconDSC 2019 on 2nd March 2019, organized at Christ University, Bengaluru.

Served as TPC Co-Chair for IEEE International Conference on IconDSC 2019 on 1st & 2nd March 2019.

Jointly organized as a chair the First of annual event, IEEE ComSoc Graduate Congress: “Graduate Thesis Evaluation in 7 minutes (GraTE'7')” with ComSoc Kerala. In this event, 7 best theses (3 Ph. D. and 4 Master) of 2018 from Institution belonging to Karnataka and Kerala were awarded the best from 40 submitted theses.


Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru, has sanctioned amount of Rs. 5000 to the project titled, “All in One Smart Health Checkup De-vice”, under 42nd Series of Student Project Programme: 2018-19. The project is carried out by Mr. Vivek K. R. (S8-ECE) and Mr. Vishruth Chawla (S8-ECE) under the guidance of Ms. Priya B. K. The details of the project can be found on http://www.kscst.iisc.ernet.in/spp.html Project ID no: 42S_BE_1501.

Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru,

has sanctioned amount of Rs. 6000 to the project titled, “Assistive Technology for Physically Challenged People”, under 42nd Series of Student Project Programme: 2018-19. The project is carried out by Mr. M. Sandeep Mohan (S8-ECE) and Mr. Akshay Kumar (S8-ECE) under the guidance of Dr. Neelima N. The details of the project can be found on http://www.kscst.iisc.ernet.in/spp.html Project ID no: 42S_BE_2287.

Student Achievements

Short introduction to Low Power Interfaces on modern ASICs

IEEE I2 Innovation Club held an event titled Short introduction to Low Power Interfaces on modern

ASICs on 12th March 2019. The invited speaker Mr. Sanjeeb Mishra, Senior Manager-Validation at

Microchip Inc. Pvt. Ltd., gave an idea about how the application specific integrated circuits (ASIC’s) inside

any electronic device communicates with each other or the outside world. He briefed the students about

the various types of communication interfaces used and how each one is helpful in its own way.

The speaker brought out the importance of electronics in the real world and how widely they are

used. He motivated the students to explore more in the field of electronics (embedded systems) and

study their functioning by just experimenting with all of simple data lines present around us.

The event could grab the attention of the participants in learning and understanding the importance

of electronics in this digital world.


Department of ECE

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Architectural Structural Analysis

IEEE Communication Society Student Chapter organized an introductory talk on ‘Architectural Structural Analysis’ on 13th March 2019 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.

The session was presided over by the guest speaker of the session Dr. Aynur Ünal, who is an alumna of Stanford University. She is presently the Strategic Adviser for Institutional Development to IIT, Guwahati and also the founder of the Open Innovation Centre in IIT, Guwahati.

Mr. Yashwanth P. V. (IEEE Amrita ComSoc Chair) introduced the speaker and gave insights of using Digital Monozukuri technique in various platforms like Designing Educational Games, Digital Building Blocks for City Design, Designing New Digital Toys, Designing Digital Robots, Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL) and Transition from Active Learning to Interactive Learning. The session proved to be beneficial and interesting for the all UG, PG students and faculty from various Departments of the school.

Around 60 participants attended the talk. The event was well coordinated by IEEE volunteers.


Department of ECE

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Application of Machine Learning to Image Processing

IEEE I2 Innovation Club in collaboration with IEEE Women in Engineering conducted a talk on ‘Application of Machine Learning to Image Processing’ on 19th March 2019.

The speaker was Dr. P. Suja, Assistant Professor at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. She introduced the audience to the various applications of machine learning in the real world, such as autonomous car, automatic speech recognition. The different types of machine learning and their applications were taught. The various tools and techniques of machine learning in image processing were introduced and explained briefly. The steps to test a new data after removing all the unwanted noise from the images was also explained and a couple of demo programs were run using MATLAB and Python. Some of the demo programs were, classification of emotions using MATLAB, detecting circles using half transform, face detection, edge detection, people detection and finding objects. She also gave an idea of how to use Google Colab and run our programs in the google cloud so that we can reduce the program execution time.

Talk on IOT

IEEE Communication Society and Amrita IEEE Student branch chapter arranged a guest lecture by Dr. Fawzi Behmann, President, TelNet Management Consulting, Inc., IEEE COMSOC North America Region Vice Chair and Co-Author of book titled “Collaborative Internet of Things for Future Smart Connected Life and Business”, on 27th March 2019 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.

Dr. Fawzi Behmann discussed about the “Understanding Pre-IoT, IoT and Collaborative IoT (C-IoT) Model”. Prof. Fawzi was the recipient of several awards from Industry and IEEE including CEO Freescale Diamond Chip Award in 2008, and IEEE ComSoc Chapter of the year award in 2015 and 2017, and Outstanding R5 member award for 2013, 2014 and 2015. Recently, he received 2017 IEEE R5 Professional Leadership Award and 2018 IEEE CTS Exceptional Service Award. The talk covered the early adoption of IoT and the technology with standards for sensing, connectivity/gateway and big data/analytics and services connecting an estimate of 50 billion smart things by 2020, to improve business efficiency and quality of life. The session included introduction to several concepts and upcoming challenges in all the domains with focus on building smart homes along with smart energy and smart car exploring current and emerging solutions. The session received overwhelming response from the participants.

Department of ECE

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Other News

NEW APPOINTMENT Dr. Kamatchi S. joined the department as ‘Assistant Professor (Senior Grade)’ on 11th March 2019. She holds a Ph.D. degree (Development of Efficient Aging-Aware Reliable Multipliers for the Application of Error Detection and Correction in FIR Filter) from Anna University, Chennai. Her research area of interest is Low Power VLSI Digital Design. She has around 11 years of teaching experience from other institutes.

Papers Presented



CONFERENCE

Presented By: K. Deepa Author(s): Sweya Sasikumar K. Deepa

“Comparative Study of LCL-S and LCC-S Topology of Wireless EV charging System”

22nd–23rd March 2019

IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Power and Advanced Computing Technologies”, i-PACT-2019, VIT, Vellore.

Presented By: Akaash Balaji Author(s): Jeevanigi Jayateertha Akaash Balaji Manitha P.V. K. Deepa

“Automatic Control of Active and Reactive Power for Stand-Alone Solar Micro-Grid”

24th March 2019

International Conference On Science And Innovative Engineering 2019 (ICSIE- 2019), Jawahar Engineering College, Chennai.

Department of EEE

March 2019 PAGE 27

Workshops / Seminars / Conferences Organized

NAME TITLE DATE VENUE

Dr. K. Deepa Two-day workshop for students on “Industrial Automation”

2nd–9th

March 2019 Department of EEE, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru

Workshops / Seminars / Conferences Attended

NAME TITLE DATE VENUE

Dr. K. Deepa One day workshop on “The Emerging Role of Battery Energy Storage Technologies In Future Power And Transportation Applications”

27th February 2019

Central Power Research Institute, Bengaluru

Dr. K. Deepa Ms. P. V. Manitha Ms. K. Sireesha

Faculty Development Programme on Electric Vehicles

23rd–24th

March 2019

Department of EEE, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore


Department of EEE

March 2019 PAGE 28

Two-day workshop on ‘Industrial Automation’

IEEE-PES & IAS Jt. SBC [PE31/IA34-SBC63931] of Amrita School of Engg., Bengaluru conducted a two-day workshop on ‘Industrial Automation’ on 2nd February & 9th March 2019.

The workshop focused on familiarizing the students on the automation of a substation and the concepts associated to PLC & SCADA. Speaker of the first day was Mr. Anand R. C., who is an alumnus of Bangalore University.

He initiated the workshop with a basic single line diagrams and explained the protection systems by shedding light on the protection equipment such as relays and circuit breakers. He also explained about the main protection requirements of a substation, operation of the 52-trip breakers, theory of automation, SCADA architecture, protocols and standards for the real-time grid management.

Speakers of the second day were Ms. R. Jeyanthi, Asst. Prof., Dept. of ECE, and Dr. K. Deepa, Senior IEEE member and IEEE PES & IAS Jt. SBC Advisor, Amrita School of Engg., Bengaluru. Ms. R. Jeyanthi elucidated the operation of a PLC, its internal structure and applications in industrial domain. Dr. K. Deepa has explained about PLC and programming techniques in PLC along with hands-on in PLC, where students were familiarized on the real-time applications of PLC in the laboratory.

The two-day workshop culminated on a high note with the students realizing the importance of the automation of a substation and programming in PLC. This workshop was attended by 25 students.


Department of EEE

March 2019 PAGE 29

Electric Vehicle Charging Station Infrastructure

IEEE-PES & IAS Jt. SBC [PE31/IA34-SBC63931] of Amrita School of Engg., Bengaluru under the mentorship of Dr. K. Deepa had hosted a talk on ‘Electric Vehicle Charging Station Infrastructure’ on 8th March 2019.

The speaker of the event was Mr. C. K. Sreenath, Deputy General Manager (SG&EV), Corporate Office, BESCOM, K.R. Circle, Bengaluru. He initiated the talk with the introduction of electric vehicles with their real-time scenario in India. Further, he gave the importance of a charging station and the various standards associated with it. Also, he explained about the various initiatives undertaken by BESCOM and the discrete incentives offered by the government to encourage the use of electric vehicles.

The talk commenced on a high note with the students gaining a brief knowledge on electric vehicles and their use to modernize the present society. A total of 80 students participated in the event.


Department of EEE

March 2019 PAGE 30

Fables on Objects

IEEE WIE SB Affinity group of Amrita School of Engineering (SBA63931) Student Branch chapter,

Bengaluru hosted an online event writing contest on “FABLES ON OBJECTS” from 8th to 11th March 2019.

The competition was about writing story about an object where the main character of the story must be an object and whole story should revolve the object. The event was organised to know the hidden script writer within the students. Nearly 20 students have mailed their creative writings.

The winners were Ms. Sanjana (S6-ECE) and Mr. Nikhil (S2-CSE). The winners of the event were awarded with the certificates.

Breakthrough

EEE WIE SB Affinity group of Amrita School of Engineering (SBA63931) Student Branch chapter,

Bengaluru in collaboration with IEEE ComSoc student chapter conducted an event ‘Breakthrough’ during

PRABIDHI 2019, Annual School Tech-Fest on 14th March 2019.

The participants were given a circuit containing 5 to 6 components which was to be identified. The

minimum time limit was 5 minutes.

Almost 50 teams (150 participants) took part in this competition and the event turned out to have a good

response.


Department of EEE

March 2019 PAGE 31

Women’s Day Celebrations

IEEE WIE Affinity group of Amrita School of Engineering (SBA63931) SBC, Bengaluru organized few events commemorating Women’s day during 10th – 22nd March 2019.

On 19th March 2019, a talk was conducted on ‘Application of Machine Learning to Image Processing’ in collaboration with IEEEI2 Innovation Club. The speaker of the talk was Dr. P. Suja, Dept. of CSE, Asst. Prof., Amrita School of Engg., Bengaluru.

She gave an idea about various tools, techniques, and applications of machine learning in the real world. On 20th March 2019, a talk was conducted on ‘Role of Intelligent Algorithm in Decision Making’ in collabo-ration with IEEE PES & IAS Jt. SBC. The speaker of the talk was Dr. Surekha P., Asst. Prof., Dept. of EEE, Amrita School of Engineering., Bengaluru. She gave the idea about various techniques of intelligence algo-rithm in the real world.

On 21st March 2019, an event ‘Buzz up’ was conducted in collaboration with ComSoc. The main objective of the event was to bring awareness about prominent women who plays major role in the society and also about the achievements of women in various domains like sports, politics, Astronomy etc.

On 22nd March 2019, an event ‘Blind Chess’ was conducted in collaboration with IEEE student branch, ASE, Bengaluru.

Totally 30 people took part in the event and it ended on a high note.


Department of EEE

March 2019 PAGE 32

Maze Runner

IEEE-PES & IAS Jt. SBC [PE31/IA34-SBC63931] of Amrita School of Engg., Bengaluru had organized an event - ‘Maze Runner’ - on 14th March 2019 on the eve of the School’s Tech Fest “Prabidhi 2K19”.

A team of three members were allowed to play the game once. The participants were taken into a dark room, which was having 2 doors as entry and exit gates. The team was supposed to enter from the entry door and should encounter the exit door, if they are successful in finding the right paths. A question was given to the teams comprising of four options and its answer gave the right direction to go further. This process continued until the team encountered the exit door. The maximum time limit was 8 minutes for the entire game. Once the team identifies the wrong path, they were not allowed to play the game again. The winners were based upon their score and the time taken to complete the maze.

272 students participated in the event. Team ‘Redwings’ was the first winner of this event.


Department of EEE

March 2019 PAGE 33

Benefits of IEEE

IEEE PES and IAS Jt. SBC [PE31/1A34-SBC63931] and WIE affinity group (SBA63931) of Amrita

School of Engineering, Bengaluru organized a talk on ‘Benefits of IEEE’ on 28th March 2019 in the campus.

The talk was given by Mr. Abhishek Appaji. He explained to students about the benefits of IEEE member-ship. He also briefed about the number of societies, the major societies contributing, and about scholarly professors in IEEE. He also made the students understand the importance of continuing the membership and how it helps students in a wide variety of research areas and upcoming technologies, study abroad, awards, Ambassador Possibilities, Young Professional importance, WIE, STEP.

The session culminated with executives conducting a membership drive. Students were very curious to clear all their queries about research and exploring new things in IEEE.


Department of EEE

March 2019 PAGE 34

Industry Institute Academia

IEEE PES & IAS Jt. SBC [PE31/1A34-SBC63931] of Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru organized a one-day event on ‘Industry Institute Academia’ to bridge the gap between Academia and industry. A talk on cutting edge technology in the areas of electric vehicles, cyber security for smart grid, and technical risk management was organized on 30th March 2019 at Amrita School of Engg., Bengaluru. The session began with a talk on electric vehicles by Dr. Chandra Shekar, Technical Lead, TCS. He explained about the industry based real-time challenges in this field, battery charging and discharging, power electronics involved in electric vehicles, and the advantages of switching to electric vehicles from the conventional IC engine vehicles. Also, he delivered a talk on Cyber-security for the Smart Grid. Another talk was given by Mr. Jairam Shankar, Business Analyst on technical risk management. He briefed the students about how keen they should be with micro details being a Business analyst and the risk it would cause in the whole system.

The session culminated with their inspiring words to young minds and hoping they would see many future scientists in these bright students.

Papers Presented



CONFERENCE

Presented By: Y. P. Deepthi Author(s): Y. P. Deepthi P. Santhosh Kumar Madhu Surya Vinayak V. N. Vaishak

“Experimental investigation on

tribological properties of PTFE

based Composite”

9th March 2019

ICAMEN 2019/AIP/Manipal University/Manipal University, Jaipur.

Presented By: Divya Sharma S. G. Author(s): Divya Sharma S. G. T. Srinivasa Rao

“Development of Optimized solution for a Generic Disaster Management Problem through Construction of Responsive Supply Chain A Review”

Presented By: T. Srinivas Rao Author(s): Prakash K. Marimuthu T. Srinivas Rao

“An Ant colony and nearest neighbourhood approach to solve an excess capacity vehicle routing problem in a FMCG Company”

Department of ME

March 2019 PAGE 35


Ms. Y.P. Deepthi received the Best Paper Award in the Composite Materials stream for the paper titled, “Experimental investigation on tribological properties of PTFE based Composite”, presented at ICAMEN 2019, Manipal University, Jaipur on 9th March 2019.

Dr. T. Srinivas Rao received the Best Paper Award in the Manufacturing Process stream for the paper titled, “An Ant colony and nearest neighbourhood approach to solve an excess capacity vehicle routing problem in a FMCG Company”, presented at ICAMEN 2019, Manipal University, Jaipur on 9th March 2019.

Ms. Divya Sharma S.G. has successfully completed the Course on Six Sigma Black Belt held

during 11th & 12th February and 11th to 16th March 2019 by Indian Statistical Institute SQC & OR Unit, Bengaluru and has been certified as a Black Belt in Six Sigma

Departmental Forum Activity

Department of ME

March 2019 PAGE 36

Seminar on HVAC

Ingenium, the forum of Mechanical Engineering conducted a seminar on ‘Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC)’ on 12th March 2019. The session was conducted by Mr. Asif Akter, Prinston Smart Engineers.

The session started with an introduction to the field of Mechanical Electrical Plumbing (MEP) industry, Codes and standards used in HVAC design, plumbing design and fire-fighting design, construction infra-structure, refrigeration cycle and major components. The session also focussed upon career opportunities for mechanical engineering students where the speaker educated the students about the job opportuni-ties, nature of the job and job roles in MEP industry.

The speaker stressed upon the importance of internships and hands-on experience in the HVAC design

and also projected various domains and organizations where the HVAC design certified candidate may find

a guaranteed job opportunity.

A total of 82 ME students from S6 participated in the session. The session concluded with interactions and

feedback between students and the speaker.

Departmental Forum Activity

Department of ME

March 2019 PAGE 37

Industrial visit to Vishnu Forge

An Industrial visit was organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, headed by Ms. Mrudula Prashanth for S4-ME students.

A total of 30 students visited Vishnu Forge on 30th March 2019. The factory, Vishnu Forge basically produces forged products using different forging methods. It also consists of huge lathes, milling and power cutting machines which is used for finishing operations. The students were explained about the different forging methods and were demonstrated live, the different ways of forging the components. The students found it very interesting and enjoyed experiencing the processes. The visit enhanced the understanding about the theory course which they have learnt in the class room thereby bridging the gap between the academic learning and an industrial environment. Students were accompanied by Ms. Mrudula Prashanth and Mr. Raghavendra Ravi Kiran, faculty from Department of Mechanical Engineering.


Amrita Darshanam

March 2019 PAGE 38

Sanskrit Drama at Kalagowri, Bengaluru Kalagowri, an institution dedicated to the promotion of Cultural activities invited our students to stage the

Sanskrit drama- Mattavilāsaprahasanam on 24th March 2019.

Our students performed the play in the august presence of Śatāvadhāni Dr. R. Ganesh, a renowned

Sanskrit scholar and Dr. Shobha Shashikumar, Professor, Jain University. Dr. Ganesh expressed his heart-

felt appreciation to our students and the drama for the incessant efforts and dedication.

The URL links of the drama were uploaded on several social media platforms and the drama was

commended by several scholars across the world.

The drama was directed by Mr. Manish Rajan Walvekar and Mr. Arjun Bharadwaj of Amrita Darshanam.


Amrita Darshanam

March 2019 PAGE 39

Guest Lecture by Dr. Bharat Gupt

A lecture on the topic ‘The Importance and Significance of the Kumbh’ was organised in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) on 25th March 2019 in the campus.

The speaker, Dr. Bharat Gupt is a Professor Emeritus from the University of Delhi, an Indian Classicist

and a musicologist. The lecture drew audience from across Bengaluru and the faculty and students of the institute participated in large numbers too.

Dr. Bharat Gupt also spoke to the students on ‘The Importance of Reading Classical Texts’ and cleared

their doubts on the topic.

Two-day Workshop on Computational Linguistics A workshop on ‘Computational Linguistics’ was organized on 30th & 31st March 2019.

Prof. Malhar Kulkarni (IIT-Bombay), Prof. Amba Kulkarni (University of Hyderabad) and Dr. Anand Kumar

M. (NITK-Surathkal) were the resource persons for the workshop.

Prof. K. P. Soman (Amrita Center for Computational Engineering and Networking, Amrita Vishwa

Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai Campus) guided the participants with the help of his team.

Several aspects of the Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing were covered. To

name a few - Deep learning for NLP, Computational Linguistics Tools, Morphological Analysis and Genera-

tion, Relevance of the Indian Grammatical Tradition for NLP, Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, Indo

Word Net etc.

Day 1 saw the computational aspects of NLP and Day 2 was dedicated to the linguistics part of NLP.

The workshop drew participants from across the country.


Amrita Darshanam

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Embracing the World: Women Empowerment

Embracing the World: Women Empowerment

Ms. T. Sasikala Dept. of CSE

Ms. Kirti S. Pande

Dept. of ECE

Ms. Anjana Jain Dept. of EEE

Ms. Mrudula Prashanth

Dept. of ME

Mr. H. Manjunath Dept. of Sciences

Dr. Neetu Srivastava Dept. of Mathematics

Ms. Smita Sail Dept. of English

Prof. Rakesh S.G. Associate Dean & Head

Chief Editor

Ms. Kavitha C.R. Assistant Professor

Dept. of CSE Editor

Ms. Vasanthi

ES to Associate Dean Editor

Mr. Shiju

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Kriti- Newsletter of Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru...School Highlights March 2019 PAGE 3 As a part of Women’s day Celebration (8th March 2019), few fitness related activities