NIST e-NEWS(Vol 80, April 15, 2012)

National Institute of Science and TechnologyPalur Hills, Berhampur, Odisha.Phone: 0680-2492421, 2492422, Fax: 0680-2492627e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]: www.nist.edu.

EditorsMr. Amrut Phalguni MohantyMr. Dipti Ranjan Lenka

AdvisorsProf. Sangram MudaliDr. Ajit K. PandaMs. Geetika Mudali

Cover pageArpit Mohapatra

NIST e_news: Year of birth 2002. Mission: to witness and report the events of NIST as they happened to allits readers – students, parents, faculty and society at large. Today on its 10th anniversary we look back atwhat has been a glorious journey that has been an enriching one with many experiences worth sharing.

We would like to share one of them on this occasion (of course all experiences would be shared in the due course).It happened few days after I (Dipti Ranjan Lenka, the only editor of NIST e_news as Amrut Phalguni Mohanty ismoving on) joined the institute in September 2005. One day, I was delayed at the college and was about to moveto town, ignorant of the fact that there were no buses after 5 PM. As per the guidance of the guard at the gate, Iwaited for someone in a four wheeler (the dedicated people go late) to offer me lift to the town. I was lucky. A deepblue Maruti 800 came to my rescue. Without wasting any time and suppressing all apprehensions, I asked for a liftand the only man in the car stopped, opened the door and allowed me to get in. Surprisingly, with little interactionwe started to move. On our way, after almost 15 minutes when the man (little short in height, little hefty, and roundheaded) opened his mouth, he told about my debut appearance in the previous faculty meeting at LHC 409, theConference Room. I was shocked and felt elated at the same time with a little doubt and gladness in my mindabout how this person knew me and the fact that even though I was only a few days old in the campus, peopleknew me. In fact, it was not I who was popular but the whole credit goes to that person who was much vigilant in

learning about every soul who joined the institute. That person was the first editor ofNIST e_news, Dr. Partha S. Mallick. The first lesson I learnt, “Having eyes openfor all minor and major incidents of people, place and publication, makesgood editors”.

NIST e_news owes its glorious 10 years to all its readers.It would never have been so enjoyable without them.

Thank you readers for your good wishes and support.A. P. Mohanty

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Coming close on the heels of the much disappointing performance by Indianschool students in the PISA test conducted worldover (India stood 72 out of73 countries), the recent report of Aspiring Minds regarding state of the nation’s

graduating engineers comes as another shocker. As shown in the accompanyinggraph only about 22% of our graduating engineers are employable in the IT products/services domain. Of course, I have many reservations regarding the process andresults of the test, but the results are reasonably true as I have been witness to theslide in students lack of seriousness towards the business of academics. Manystudents from the graduating batch asked me why should we try for higher gradeswhen recruiting companies makes no distinction or gives no extra recogntion due tohigher CGPA (read domain knowledge). This argument is fallacious. All product based companes, either IT or corecompanies, hire engineers only for domain excellence, the soft skills are an added extra. Most engineers graduatingtoday will find the workplace much more competitive that it was before as HR’s keep deleting bottom 10% for non-performance. It is domain competence and skills which will keep our engineers in the forefront when the demandis much more for innovative and creative engineers rather than vanilla engineers. A > 9.0 CGPA, or a “O” grade in

a tough course or a superb “Project” or apublished “Research Paper” is arecognition by your peers, faculty andInstitute of your hardwork, determination,sheer brilliance or as they say in today’sparlance “fundu”. When the legendarymountaineer George Mallory was askedwhy he wanted to climbed Mount Everest,he replied “because it is there”. So that’sour answer – get the top grades becauseit is there! In this vein, I congratulate allthe students who have secured CGPAgreater than 9.0 in the BPUTexaminations. May your tribe increase!

With Best Wishes. Sangram Mudali

D. R. Lenka

Branch - ECE

NAME RANK PERCENTILEA. Avinash 1279 99.27718Tapan Ku Sabat 1701 99.03868Soumya Ranjan Senapati 5667 96.7973Sourav Kumar Agarwal 7981 95.48953Rishu Kumar 9070 94.87408

Branch - EIEIpsita Panigrahi 612 97.15468Ashutosh Pati 827 96.1551Swarup Ku Sahu 1412 93.4353Anurag Kumar 1577 92.66818Aditya ansuman Routray 1612 92.50546B.Manoj Kumar 1662 92.273Dibyajyoti Mahapatra 1841 91.4408

Branch - EEEGourav Kumar 1049 99.04745Sourav Kumar Mishra 2055 98.13394Ankur 3163 97.12781

GATE Qualified Students


Ch. Eshwar Prasad 4717 95.71668Bibhuti Bhusan Padhy 7234 93.4311

D.Gopal 9540 91.33712

Branch - CSE / ITDilip Ku Meher 1479 99.05664Pashupati Jha 2337 98.50938K Sudipta Achary 3837 97.55262Manish Kumar 5709 96.35859Sonal 6132 96.08878Tirtharaj Dash 9479 93.95395Ujjwal Prakash 10240 93.46855Y.Manas 1151 92.63236Pankaj Klumar Agarwal 11551 92.63236Rakesh Kumar Sahu 11998 92.34724Lopamudra Mahapatra 15108 90.36356B.Swati 15108 90.36356Subhendu Sekhar Behera 15607 90.04529

Congratulations all GATE Scorers!

AICTE sponsored SDP on “Recent and Future Trends inIndustrial Mathematics for Engineers”

Department of Mathematics, NIST organized a 5-day AICTE Sponsored Staff Development Program on “Recentand Future Trends in Industrial Mathematics for Engineers” during 20th – 24th March 2012. The programhad host of luminaries from top academic institutions of the country. The 50 participating candidates from differentinstitutions of the country were exposed to various facets of Industrial Mathematics.

The following is the list of students who cleared the GATE examination 2012 with a percentile pointof > 90. Around 40 students have cleared the examination this year.

The Director’s Award of Excellence of Rs. 5000.00goes to each of the Top GATE Scorers above 99%.

Objective of the Program:

Industrial mathematics is inter-disciplinary by nature and thisprogram provides a broad understanding of the differentaspects of applied mathematics and computer applications.In order to tackle complex problems in the applied engineeringsciences there is an increased demand for interdisciplinaryresearch between mathematicians and researchers workingin Engineering, the sciences and business. The mathematicalsciences are undergoing rapid changes and the boundariesbetween the mathematical sciences and other disciplines areblurring. An important objective of the study of industrial

and applied mathematics is to analyze and visualize phenomena of nature and real world problems for its proper understanding.Gradually, it is also becoming the language of modern financial instruments. The applied engineering sciences are faced withincreasingly complex problems which call for sophisticated mathematical models. Fast computers make it possible to optimizestrategic objective and industry is applying mathematical models that aim at reducing production costs and increasing profitability.

S.No.Resource Person Institute Topic

1 Prof. Swadhin Patnayak Institute of Mathematics and Application Fourier Series of a FunctionBhubaneswar

2 Prof. Saroj Meher Systems Science and Informatics Unit, Applied Soft ComputingISI Bangalore

3 Prof. M. Reza NIST, Berhampur Ordinary Differential Equation4 Prof. P. A. Sreeram IISER, Kolkata High performance computing/

Parallel Computing5 Prof. A. K. Mishra Berhampur University Time estimates for simple

arithmetic operations6 Prof. U. C. Gupta IIT, Kharagpur Probability and Statistics7 Prof. Sudarshan Padhy IIIT, Bhubaneswar Cryptography & Network Security8 Prof. N. Rao IIT, Chennai Finite element methods9 Prof. C. Nahak IIT, Kharagpur Applied Optimization10 Prof. P. C. Biswal Parala Maharaja Engineering Graph Colouring Problem

College, Berhampur11 Prof. R. C. Das APEX Institute of Technology Modelling of Industrial problem

& Management, BBSR (Steel Casting)12 Prof. Anisur Rahman NIST, Berhampur Parallel computing design and

analysis of algorithms13 Prof. Sujit K Samanta NIST Berhampur Queuing theory and its application

AICTE sponsored SDP on “Emerging Trends in BusinessCommunication and the Methods of Teaching”


Department of English, NIST organized a 5-day AICTE Sponsored Staff Development Program on “Emerging Trendsin Business Communication and the Methods of Teaching” during 20th – 24th March 2012. A galaxy of eminentresource persons from top institutes of the country and corporate houses delivered their talks on different aspects ofBusiness Communication and the emerging trends in teaching methodologies. Around 50 delegates from variouscolleges of Odisha, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh participated in the program.

Objective of the Program:To explore the areas like the LSRW skills in business communication, effect of culture on communication, level of languageneeds of the industry, types of communication , new areas of hindrances in communication, emerging types of businesscommunication.To bring the language teaching fraternity and representatives from the industry to a common forum which could give anopportunity to the faculty to understand the real challenges of communication problems in the corporate world.To recognize the right method of transferring knowledge to the students and sensitize the teachers with the emergingmethods of teaching business communication.

The program was coordinated by Dr. Motahar Reza.


Sl. No Resource Person Institute Topic1 Prof. Meenakshi Raman BITS, Pilani, Goa Campus 1. Conducting Productive

Business Meetings,2.Effective ProfessionalPresentation

2 Mr. Sumesh Khatua Infosys Technologies, Ltd. Emerging Trends in BusinessCommunication and the Methods ofTeaching

3 Mr. J. K. Das Emeging Syndicate Negotiation Skills & Hindrances inS.A.R.L, NICE, France Communication

4 Mr. Rajeev Sasmal T.I.M.E., Bhubaneswar GD, Interview and Resume Writing Skills5 Prof. Ram Krishna Singh ISM, Dhanbad 1. Teaching English for Communicative

Performance and Business Comm.2. Process Approach to Writing

6 Dr. Punyashree Panda IIT, Bhubaneswar Teaching Listening and Speaking7 Dr. Manmath Kundu NISER, Bhubaneswar 1. Cultural Communication

2. Developing Self Awareness, CulturalAwareness, and Intercultural Awareness

8 Dr. E. Raja Rao NIST, Berhampur 1. Listening Skill and Business Comm.2. Non-Verbal Communication

9 Mr. Amrut P. Mohanty NIST, Berhampur Pedagogy: A Humanitarian Approach10 Mr. Dipti Ranjan Lenka NIST, Berhampur Business Etiquette11 Ms. Tripti Mund NIST, Berhampur Methods of Teaching & Types of

Activities to Personalize TeacherInstructions

Conference/ Seminar/ Workshop AttendedMr. Chandan Kumar Behera, Faculty, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, attended a workshop onRecent Advances in Data Structures from 17th – 20th December 2011, organized by Institute of MathematicalSciences (IMSc), Chennai. The workshop covered research topics in the area of succinct data structures,external memory data structures, data streams, dynamic graph algorithms and many more. Among the speakerswere, Roerto Grossi, University of Pisa, Italy, Francesco Silvestri, University of Padova, Italy, John Lacono,Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and many others. The talks were targeted towards the research in

data structures and algorithms.Mr. Ashish Kumar Dass, Faculty, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering attended a 2-day National Conference onEmerging Trends in Signal Processing & Embedded Systems on 9th and 10th February 2012 organized by GeetanjaliCollege of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad and presented a paper entitled, “A Fingerprint De-noising Techniqueusing Wavelet Transformation”. The conference is held every year and it aims at bringing together the different researchers,engineers, scholars and students from all disciplines of engineering education and provides a national forum fordissemination of original research results, new ideas, practical developments and experiences, which concentrate on boththeory and practices.Ms. Monalisa Misra and Ms. Sreta Patnaik Faculty members, Dept. of English attended the one-day workshop on “Pedagogical Implications of Teaching Spoken English to ProfessionalStudents” organized by C. V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar on 17th February2012. Among the resource persons were, Dr. Kalyani Samantaray, Prof., Dept. of English, UtkalUniversity, Bhubaneswar and Dr. Sridhar Mohapatra, Prof., Dept. of English, CVRCE. Around 35candidates from different engineering colleges of the state participated in the workshop.

Dr. Sisira Kanti Mishra, and Mr. Pramath Nath Acharya, Faculty members, Department of ManagementStudies attended a 2-day UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Infrastructure Development duringPost Global Slump - The Promotional & Operational Issues, organised by Dept. of Commerce,Ganjam Degree College held at Youth Hostel, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Berhampur on 26th & 27th February2012. Dr. Mishra presented a paper on Growth of Infrastructure in India and also chaired the 4th

Technical session on 27th February 2012.

Mr. Ashish Kumar Dass along with Mr. Santosh Kumar Kar, Faculty, Dept. of Computer Scienceand Engineering attended a Faculty Developed Program on Object Oriented Analysis and Designin Business organised by TCS, Kalinga Park, Bhubaneswar on 27th February 2012. Faculty membersfrom different engineering colleges of Odisha attended the program.

The program was coordinated by Ms. Tripti Mund.

Papers PresentedMr. K. Hemant Reddy, Faculty, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, presented a paper, entitled, “An AdaptiveScheduling Mechanism for Computational Desktop Grid Using Grid Gain” co-authored by Dr. D.S. Roy, AssociateProfessor, NIST, and Dr. Manas Ranjan Patra, AssociateProfessor, Berhampur University, in the 2nd InternationalConference on Computer, Communication, Control andInformation Technology (C3IT-2012) during 25th - 26th

February 2012 at Academy of Technology, Kolkata. Around400 delegates participated in the conference. All acceptedand presented papers will be included in conferenceproceedings and will be published in ScienceDirect by ELSEVIER.

Mr. K Hemant Reddy, along with Mr. Buddhadeb Pradhan, M. Tech. (CSE) 2009 Batch, NIST, presented a paper,entitled, “Intentional Islanding of Electric Power Systems in a GridComputing Framework: A Graph-Theoretic Approach” co-authored byDr. D.S. Roy, Associate Professor, NIST , Prof. Dusmanta Mohanta,Professor, BIT, Mesra, in the International Conference on Recent Trendsin Information System (ReTIS-2011) during 21st - 23rd December 2011at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Around 350 delegates participated inthe conference. Conference proceedings got published in ieeexplore,Page(s): 156-160 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ ReTIS.2011.6146859.

Ms. Tanistha Nayak, B. Tech., 8th Sem. IT student presented a paper entitled, “Pushdown Automata Vs QuantumPushdown Automata” co-authored by Ms. Basanti Meher, B. Tech, 8th Sem, Computer Science &Engineering, under the guidance of Mr. Chandan Kumar Behera, Faculty, Dept. of CSE at the IEEE-International Conference on Advances in engineering, Science and Management-2012 (IEEE-ICAESM-2012) in Nagapattinum, Tamil Nadu. The conference was held during 30th – 31st March 2012, organizedby E.G.S Pillay Engineering College, Nagapattinam, Tamilnadu and around 700 delegates participatedin the conference. The presented paper will be published in IEEExplorer.

Ms. P. Praveena, B. Tech., 8th Sem. CSE presented a paper entitled, “Base Conversion By UsingAutomata”, under the guidance of Mr. Chandan Kumar Behera, Faculty, Dept. of CSE at the IEEE-International Conference on Advances in Engineering, Science and Management-2012 (IEEE-ICAESM-2012) organized by E.G.S Pillay Engineering College, Nagapattinam, Tamilnadu during 30th & 31st March2012,. The presented paper will be published in IEEExplorer.

Ms. Tripti Mund, Faculty, Dept. of English attended the 10th Asia CALL Conference held at Bangkok from 9th – 12th

February 2012. The theme of the conference was ‘Mobility in Language Teachingand Learning Through Technology’. Ms. Mund presented her paper on ‘VideoShooting: A Therapy to No English Speaking Syndrome’. Her paper focused onhow video recording could help in overcoming the stage fright and building inconfidence, hence the English speaking skills. She also presented a model moduleto do this. The conference was hosted by Srinakharinwirot University Bangkok,Thailand. There were around 60 paper presentations from different countries.

PAPER PUBLICATIONSDr. M. N. Murty, Faculty, Dept. of Physics, published a paper, “Recursive Algorithm for One-dimensional DiscreteHartley Transform with High Throughput Rate” in International Transactions on Electrical, Electronics andCommunication Engineering(ITEECE),Pages:26-38,Feb.2012,ISSN:2249-8921, Publisher: Ada LovelacePublications.

Ms. Devashree Mahato, Ms. Sulipta Das, M. Tech., ECE, NIST along with Mr. Durga Prasad Dash, Faculty,Dept. of ECE, NIST published a paper, “A Novel Architecture of I2C Slave using One-Hot Encoding Technique”the International Journal of Computer Application (IJCA).

Acharya U. R., Ghista D. N., Nergui M., Chattopadhyay S., Ng E. Y. K., Sree V. S., Tong J. W. K., Hong T. J., MengL., Suri J. S. – “Diabetes Mellitus: Enquiry into its Medical aspects and Bioengineering of its Monitoring and


Regulation”, Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (2012); 12(1): 1-40. World Scientific [ISI IF:0.493]. Lim T-C., Chattopadhyay S., Acharya U. R. – “A Survey and Comparative Study on the Instruments forGlaucoma Detection”, Medical Engineering & Physics (2012); 34:129-139, Elsevier [ISI IF: 1.906].

Mund, Tripti and Dr. Arun Kumar Behera. “Understanding the Theories of Personality: A Step towards Being Effectivein Communication Skills.” International Journal of Social Sciences and Education, vol 2 Issue 1, January 2012.

Mund, Tripti and Dr. Arun Kumar Behera. “Know Your Audience before You Teach: A Study on the Students ofNIST.” International Journal of Social Sciences and Education, vol 2 Issue 1, January 2012.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Chattopadhyay S., Joshi R., Gajendran R., Acharya UR., Tamura T., Eddie Y-K Ng. – “Prevention Rehabilitationof Suicide Prone Patients” in Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare - Vol.3 (Editors: E.Y.K. Ng, U.R.Acharya, T. Tamura) Chapter 15, pp. 241-252 American Scientific Publishers, USA. (2012). ISBN: 1-58883-237-6, Library of Congress Control Number: 2009937545, 2012.

Acharya UR., Yu W., Faust O, Chattopadhyay S., Lim T.C., Eddie Y-K Ng., Tamura T., Mei S S. “Non-linearanalysis of simulated hemiplegic walking” in Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare - Vol.3 (Editors:E.Y.K. Ng, U.R. Acharya, T. Tamura) Chapter 16, pp. 253-274 American Scientific Publishers, USA (2012).ISBN: 1-58883-237-6, Library of Congress Control Number: 2009937545, 2012.

The IEEE-EDS NIST Students Chapter organized a Seminar talk on 10th January 2012 where Dr. Shinji Nozaki,University of Electro-Communications, Japan delivered a talk on MOS device characterization on the topic, “Zinc

Oxide Nano-Rods Grown by the Hydrothermal Techniqueand their Selective Growth”. NIST signed an MOU withUniversity of Electrocommunications, Japan.Abstract:Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods were grown on various substratesby the hydrothermal techique, and the effects of a substrate tobe used on the growth of ZnO nanorods were studied. ZnOnanorods could grow vertically on a GaN but not on a Sisubstrate. However, they could grow on a Si substrate coatedwith a thick Ag film. The crystallinity and luminescencecharacteristic are also affected by a substrate to be used. Itwas also found that an array of ZnO nanorods could be formed

by selective growth of ZnO on the e-beam lithographed resist pattern. Some unique properties of the grown ZnO nanorodsare also discussed.Mr. Santosh Kumar, CEERI, Pilani delivered talks on VLSI for Wireless Communication, RF and Mixed Signal ICDesign, Communication System Design to all M. Tech students during 10th – 14th January 2012.Mr. Kanhu Charan Behera, CEERI, Pilani and Ex-Faculty, NIST delivered talks on RF IC Design (ADC & DAC)during 16th - 21st January 2012.Prof. Rutu Parna Panda, VSSUT, Burla, delivered talks on Adaptive Signal Processing during 22nd - 24th January2012.As part of corporate seminar series NIST B-School organised a Seminar Talk on ‘Leadership Qualities; TransformedNow-a-Days’ by Dr. Abinash Panda, Associate Vice President (Learning and Development), Adani EnterprisesLtd., Ahmadabad on 23rd February 2012 at NIST Conference room. Dr. Panda has an illustrious background rangingfrom XLRI to overseas assignments to Adani now. He delivered a talk comprised of a survey that showed the variedfacets of leadership qualities of modern day entrepreneurs. The seminar was presided over by Dr. E. Raja Rao andattended by all management faculty members.Dr. Anil K. Rajvanshi delivered a talk on ‘Social Entrepreneurship’ on 30th January 2012.Profile : Dr. Anil K. Rajvanshi, B.Tech (IIT), PhD (USA, founder Director of the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI),Maharashtra. Dr. Rajvanshi was born and raised in Lucknow. He has been the director of NARI, Maharashtra since 1981. Priorto taking this position he served on the faculty at the University of Florida. Dr. Rajvanshi has more than 25 years of experiencein renewable energy research, rural and sustainable development. He has 135 publications and 7 patents to his credit. For hissolar energy and rural development work Dr. Rajvanshi has been inducted into the Solar Hall of Fame (1998). He has receivedthe Jamnalal Bajaj Award in 2001, the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FICCI) award in 2002 andan Energy Globe Award in the AIR category in 2004. In 2009 he received the Globe Award for Sustainability Research.

Invited Talks @ NIST


Dr. Mihir Hota, Faculty Member , Dept. of Physicsdelivered an Invited Talk on “Nanotechnology andits impact on Society” at National Conference inNagaland held by Agricultural University (NagalandCentral University) on 18th February 2012. The topicof the conference was “Material Science”. Theconference was organised by Department ofChemistry, Patkai Christian College (Autonomous)in collaboration with School of Agricultural Scienceand Rural Development, Nagaland University.

Invited Talks by NIST Faculty Member

NIST Faculty Membersas Soft Skill Trainers

Mr. Dipti Ranjan Lenka and Mr. Amrut PhalguniMohanty, Faculty members, Dept. of English visitedVikram Deb Autonomous College, Jeypore asResource Persons for a 6-Day Soft Skills TrainingProgram. The training was imparted to the graduateand post graduate students of all disciplines. Around50 students attended the program.

High PerformanceComputing Lab@nistThe institute installed a High Performance Computing(HPC) Lab with the help of TIS Lab, Kolkata, toenable students work efficiently on many of theirprojects. Four Dell Power edge Rack Servers wereused to setup the lab. Cent OS was used asoperating systems with other HPC tools. This lab isprimarily used to write parallel and distributedcomputing based programs. At present around 10B. Tech project groups are using the lab fordeveloping their projects in OpenMp/MPI. Mr.Kaushik Goswami, and Dr. P. A. Sreeram, TIS Lab,Kolkata, demonstrated the various functioning of thevery lab equipment.

A 1-Day Workshop on‘The Challenges ofTeaching English to

Engineering Students’The Department of English organized a 1-Dayworkshop on ‘The Challenges of Teaching Englishto Engineering Students’ sponsored by OxfordUniversity Press, New Delhi, on 15th February 2012.Dr. Meenakshi Raman, Prof., and Head, Dept. ofHumanities, BITS, Pilani, Goa Campus and Dr. E.Raja Rao, Prof., Dept. of English, NIST deliveredtalks on the topic to around 40 delegates fromdifferent engineering and management institutesof the state of Odisha and the neighbouring states.

During the panel discussion on the topic,participants shared their practical classroomproblems and an effort was made to bring out thesolutions to face the challenges of teachingEnglish. Ms. Tripti Mund coordinated the program.


NIST Robotics Club (NRC), the only contender from Odisha, participated in the ROBOCON 2012 during 1st

– 3rd March 2012 held at MIT, Pune. ROBOCON is a national level contest jointly organized by Doordarshanand MIT, Pune. The winner of this contest will be representing India in the international contest. In ROBOCON2010 NIST won the National Award for BEST IDEA for design of Robot. This year the theme of ROBOCON2012 was ‘In Pursuit of Peace and Prosperity’. A total of 67 colleges from the country participated in this megaevent including IITs and NITs. Contending with the top institutes, NIST was ranked 12th out of 18 top performingcolleges. Eventually the host, the organizing institute, MIT, Pune became the winner of the contest. Mr. SwagatSamantaray, Faculty Advisor, NRC along with a team of 18 students from B. Tech pre-final year and final yearrepresented NIST at this event.

NIST Robotics Club @ ROBOCON 2012

DST INSPIRE ProgramThe Institute organized the 3rd DST Sponsored INSPIRE Science Camp at the institute premises during

31st January – 4th February 2012. Around350 top 1% students from all over the stateof Odisha participated in the program. Ahost of luminaries, academicians andscientists through their talks andpresentations exposed the students tovarious aspects of science. Among thespeakers were, Dr. Anil K. Rajvanshi,Director, Nimbkar Agricultural Research

Institute (NARI), Maharastra, Dr. Sanjio S. Zade, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, IISER, West Bengal, ProfS P Pati, Dept. of Physical Sciences, Former Professor, Sambalpur Univeristy, Prof. Bimalendu B.Bhattacharya, Dept. of Geology, INAE Distinguished Professor, S N Bose National Center for BasicSciences, Prof. Bichitra K. Guha, Dept. of Popular Science, Professor of Physics and DEAN, Faculty ofBasic and Applied Science, BESU, Shibpur, Howrah, Prof. Indranath Sengupta, Dept. of Mathematics,Jadavpur Univeristy, Prof. Debi Prasad Duari, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Director, Researchand Academic, M P Birla Institute of Fundamental Research, Prof. Tavarekere. K. Chandrashekar, Dept.of Chemical Sciences, Director, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER),and Dr.Subhash Chandra Bose, Dept of Electronics, Scientist, CEERI, Pilani.


Academic Honorarium AwardsPh. D GuidanceDr. Arun Kumar Padhy, Course Coordinator, B. Tech program and Prof., Dept. of Chemistry for being the Ph. DGuide for Dr. Satya Prasad Nanda, Berhampur University on his Ph. D Thesis titled, “Studies on Synthesis andReactivity of some Nitrogen Heterocycles”.

Best Feedback (July – December 2011)Semester Names FeedbackB. Tech7th Sem Mr. Kaushik Halder (CSE) 9.85th Sem Mr. M. Suresh 9.53rd Sem Mr. Rajesh Kumar Dash 9.631st Sem Mr. Amrut P Mohanty 9.84MCA5th Sem Mr. Kaushik Halder (CSE) 9.9

Employment Oriented Program (EOP) 2012As every year this year too Employment Oriented Program (EOP), 2012 started with more than 200 applications outof which 164 were selected for the interview and finally 102 applicants were selected. The number of selectedstudents is the highest this year and they are being trained in different programs like:

1. Basic Computer Skills (BCS)2. Repair of Electrical Appliance (REA)3. Computerized DTP (DTP)4. Electronics Repair & Maintenance (ERM)5. Computer Repair and Maintenance (CRM)6. Workshop Practice (WP)The program is a part of the NIST Entrepreneurship Development Centre (EDC) venture. It is a free-of-cost programwhere the students get a stipend of Rs. 1000 per month besides free accommodation, lunch, books and studymaterials. The honorable Placement Director, NIST, Prof. Geetika Mudali while inaugurating the program wishedeveryone a very successful learning stint at NIST. Mr. Asesh Kumar Tripathy coordinates the program.


Semester Names Feedback

3rd Sem Mr. Anisur Rahman 9.611st Sem Mr. Pradeep K. Jena 9.53MBA1st Sem Mr. Bishnu Kar Nayak 9.32PGDM1st Trim Prof. E. Raja Rao 9.68

Research Papers Publication (July – December 2011)1. Acharya U. R., Molinary F., Sree V. S., Chattopadhyay S., Ng K-H. – “Automated Diagnosis of Epileptic EEGusing Entropies”. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (2011), DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2011.07.007, Publisher:Elsevier, USA. [ISI IF: 0.734]2. Chattopadhyay S., Kaur P., Rabhi F., Acharya U. R. – “Neural Network Approaches to Grade Adult Depression”,Journal of Medical Systems (2011), DOI: 10.1007/s10916-011-9759-1, Publisher: Springer Verlag, USA [ISI IF: 1.064]3. Faust O., Acharya U. R., Molinari F., Chattopadhyay S., Tamura T. – “Linear and Non-Linear Analysis of CardiacHealth in Diabetic Subjects”, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (2011), DOI:10.1016/j.bspc.2011.06.002Publisher: Elsevier, USA. [ISI IF: 0.734]4. Lim T-C., Chattopadhyay S., Acharya U. R. – “A Survey and Comparative Study on the Instruments for GlaucomaDetection”, Medical Engineering & Physics (2011); accepted on 22/07/2011 (in press) DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2011.07.030 Publisher: Elsevier, USA. [ISI IF: 1.906]5. Chattopadhyay S., Pratihar D. K., De Sarkar S. C. –”A comparative study of fuzzy C-means algorithm andentropy-based fuzzy clustering algorithm”. Computing and Informatics (2011); 30(4):701-720 Publisher: SlovakAcademic Press Ltd. [ISI IF: 0.356]6. Faust O., Acharya U.R, Nergui M., Ghista D.N., Chattopadhyay S., Joseph P., Ahamed T., Tay D. – “Effects ofMobile Phone Radiation on Cardiac Health”, Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (2011); 11(5):1241-1253doi:10.1142/S0219519411004186 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing, USA. [ISI IF: 0.493] 7. Reza, M.and Gupta, A. S: (2011), Magnetohydrodynamic thermal instability in a conducting fluid layer with throughflow, InternationalJournal of Nonlinear Mechanics, ELSEVIER, 2011, doi:10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2011.10.006. ((Impact Factor 1.388)

IBM WID TrainingIBM Web Sphere Integration Developer V6.2 Solution Development training was held for B. Tech 3rd year, 4th year,MCA 2nd year and 3rd year students of the institute at the IBM Center of Excellence Lab during 21st – 24th February2012. Around 65 students and 5 faculty members attended the training program delivered by Mr. Chinmay Saraswat,Resource Person, IBM.

Infosys Spark ProgramInfosys organized the Spark Program at the institute for the students of B. Tech, and MCA. The aim of the programwas to raise the aspirations of the students to a new high by exposing them to IT, helping them understand therelevance of IT in business, and helping them sow the seeds to a dream career. The resource persons from Infosys,Mr. Swastik Choudhury, and Ms. Arati Patra (both NIST alumni), through the Infosys story and the Infosys experiencedemonstrated the possibilities of dreaming and making dreams come true. Efforts were made to identify the students’hidden talents and awaken their potential to excel. Interaction with senior Infosys employees exposed the studentsto current trends in the IT industry.

NIST Summer Research Internships & FellowshipsThe Institute has initiated a Summer Research Internships and Fellowships Program for faculty membersand students from all over India. The aim of the program is to facilitate talented student interns/faculty to workunder the guidance of highly experienced research professors resulting in R & D publications, Term Papers, innovativeB. Tech. Projects, Ph.D Topics, etc. Faculty member with M. Tech or Ph. D degree and final year or pre-final yearstudents of B. Tech/M. Tech/MCA/M.Sc. are eligible to enroll for the program. The duration of the program is 2months and is tentatively starting from May/June, 2012. The enrolled candidates would get a stipend of Rs. 1200/-per month in addition to free boarding & lodging. Their travel expenses would also be reimbursed.Research Areas: Embedded Systems, Wireless Communications, Sensor Networks, VLSI Design, Nanotechnology,Semiconductors Devices, High Speed Computing, Cloud Computing, Parallel Processing, Optimization, Fiber Optics,Virtual Instrumentation, Simulation Studies, Robotics, Fluid flow, Heat and Mass Transfer, CFD, Organic Synthesis.NIST is a DSIR, Government of India, certified and recognized R & D Center. NIST is the only TIFAC CORECenter of India funded by Department of Science & Technology in 3G/4G Communications.Application forms, list of faculty members and research areas can be downloaded from http://www.nist.edu/current/SUMMER_RESEARCH_INTERNSHIPS.html. For more details please contact Dr. Motahar Reza.


Mini TrekkingAround 100 first year students, facultymembers and staff of the instituteparticipated in a mini-trekking programorganized by Students Activity Centre,NIST on 18th March 2012 from RamaiyaPatnam to Dhabaleswar Temple (nearArmy Defense College) along the side ofBay of Bengal. Dr. Arun Kumar Padhy,Course Coordinator, B. Tech programflagged off the program along with Dr. MihirHota, Mr. Rabindra Shial, Dr. RatnakarMishra, Mr. Trymbaka Mahapatra, Ms.Basanti Patra and Ms. Vilomita Sarkar.Trekkers T-Shirts and Caps weredistributed among the trekkers and lunchwas provided at the destination point. Thetrekking was coordinated by Mr. VinayKumar Das, Coordinator, SAC.

Book Fair

The Institute organized a Book Fair in the institute library on March21st and 22nd. More than 5000 recent books from renowned publishersin all fields were on display. Being inaugurated by the PlacementDirector, Prof. Geetika Mudali, the fair was a good exposition ofbooks catering to the technical, literature, general and competitivetastes of all who thronged the place. This is the first such book fair atNIST.

A Bang! and then the Blast! Save was the call. But the dynamite had to explode. Theinevitable blast encumbered entire NIST assaulting its members with heavy doses ofexcitement, energy and entertainment. Yes we are talking about the whimsical waves

2011 that whirled around like a tsunami, whelmed the entire NIST in its gigantic whirlpool ofexuberance and exultation and finally waned away leaving tranquility and serenity all around.23rd March, 2011. The aura was resplendent with hues of spring palette, the fire of passionwas inflaming, the glee and enthusiasm was snowballing, the river of excitement and zeal wasflowing unrestrained in entire campus of NIST and intoxication had begun! Finally after 1 yearof prolong wait it was time to extricate anxiety, forget the load the academics and unveil thereal self of you.Waves-2011 justified its conduction by divulging the talents, unfathomable perseverance andboundless determination of students as well as faculty members in extra-curricular like sports,dance, songs, skits etc. Entertainment and relaxation became motive of Waves – 2011, BIKESHOW and DOG SHOW were organized showing different exciting bike moves and differentfunny and thrilling dog gestures. Sports like LAWN TENNIS, BASKET BALL COMPETITION(boys and girls) and VOLLEY BALL COMPETITION held between staff & faculty membersversus students revealed the athletic skills and team spirit.Melodious SONGS sung by students rooted the audience to their chairs and brought theminto anodyne state. Jazz and hip-hops exacerbated the addiction of audience to theentertainment and everyone stood up shaking wildly. Our very own Band NMS let the audiencesink into the melody dipped musical notes. SKITS and MIMICRY played major role in removingthe worries and burdensome life of engineering and spreading laughter. Innovation was flourishing.The ALVIDA NIST portrayed by two final year students, one in form of rap and one in shayariandaaz was flabbergasting. SAND ARTIST was invited from Puri to fill his creativity in sandand portray it in different amazing looks.ALUMNI AWARD DISTRIBUTION CEREMONY was conducted where highly talented andinnovative alumni toppers were awarded.The following is the list of Awardees:


Name Regd. No. Branch CGPA AwardB. TechChinmaya Mohapatro 0701202142 ECE 9.38 GoldSuman Mohanty 0701202051 CSE 9.12 SilverItishri Dash 0701202023 CSE 9.12 SilverK. Praveena 0701202041 IT 8.97 SilverAbinash Tripathy 0701202109 EIE 8.85 SilverNishant Kumar 0701202306 EEE 8.55 SilverM. TechBhawani S. Pattnaik 0807202009 CSE 9.37 GoldSonali Prava Dash 0807202020 ECE 8.93 SilverMCABijayalaxmi Sahoo 0805202011 8.87 GoldMBAL. Rama Kumari 0906202013 8.49 Gold

Waves-2011


But Hey! That was not the end. The FASHIN SHOW by teachers and students becamethe cynosure of entire show. Dazzling the stage with exotic look landed the facultymemebers of NIST. Their bizarre style and outlandish dressing amazed the students.Their motive was to depict different attitudes, approaches and variety of teachers and theywere successful in it. The FASHION SHOW by STUDENTS completely drowned us in theimmense depth of razzmatazz. Some get-up such as those of DON and WEDDING themewere astonishing and mesmerizing. It was based on the central idea that what suits whatoccasion? That is different style of dress-up in different circumstances of life, moods andoccasion.The plethora of razzle-dazzle that was flowing in entire campus of NIST finally came to anend. The blast was over and college was entombed in stark silence and lull. The regularcollege life routine started. We started attending 100 minutes classes, teachers in sameflow engaged in course completion and we same way complaining about hectic schedulesof NIST.

Report prepared bySheetal Chandni, B. tech., 8th Sem., & Anjali Sinha, B. Tech., 6th Sem

But the enjoyment and thrill which sustained in our heartsfor two days has left us vividly thinking about it. But don’tworry it’s said good things never end. So wait! Next yearpromises us a better and bigger blast, WAVES – 2012.Till then keep enjoying your regular classes and keepenvisaging the next Waves with promising features. Enjoy!

Thursday Lecture Seminar SeriesDate: December 01, 2011

Speakers Title

Ms. Sagarika Satapathy and Mining Important PredictorsProf. S Chattopadhyay of Heart AttackMr. Asim Kumar Mahakul Development of Portable i-

TongueMr. Satyabrata Das &Mr. Abhro Mukherjee NI EDUCATOR DAYDate: December 08, 2011Mr. Pradyumna Ku Patra Fabrication, Testing and

Validation of ComplimentarySplit Ring Antenna

Kewal Krishna, Ankit Goyal,(2008-2012 Batch CSE) Non-correlated character

Recognition usingHopfield network: A study

Ms. Sonali Prava Dash Realization of Logic gatesusing Y defect in a twoDimensional Photonic CrystalStructure

Date: December 15, 2011Mr. Pabitra Kumar, Tata Elxsi Ltd. SGI performance suite and

performance of FujitsuWorkstations

Date: January 12, 2012Mr. Rajendra Kumar Khadanga Gravitational Search

Algorithm for Unified PowerFlow Controller BasedDamping Controller Design

Dr. Diptendu Sinha Roy Reliability Analysis of GridComputing Based PowerSystem Monitoring andControl

Date: January 19, 2012Mr. Niranjan Sahu Development of Nuclear

power in India and its impactDr Ratnakar Mishra Psychometric Test for self

improvementMr. M. Suresh and Mr. T R Lenka International Conference on

VLSI Design, 2012Date: February 09, 2012Mr. Sukanta Kumar Swain,Mr. Mitu Baral &Mr. Mukesh Kumar Sukla National Conference on VLSI

Design & Embedded Systems(NCVDES-2011)

Prof. Bhaskar Bandyopadhyay &Prof. (Dr.) A.K.Mahapatro Application of Business

Intelligence in constructingthe Lead Strategy for theStrategic Marketing ofAgrochemicals in EasternIndia: An ISM Approach

Dr. Mihir Hota &Dr. Manabendra Patra 4th Bangalore NanoMr. Bhanu Prasad Behera,Mr. Pinaki Prasad Panigrahi Workshop on SAP GBI 2.0 at

IMI New DelhiDate: February 23, 2012Mr. Rabindra Ku.Shial Grid Computing Based NIC

Infrastructure: A step towardsIT Enabled IndiaMr. Durga

Prasad Dash The 2011 InternationalConference on FieldProgrammable TechnologyFPT-2011

Ms. Monalisa Misra How is IE phonology systemdifferent from RP/GA?

Dr. D. S. RoyMr. Buddhadeb Pradhan(M. Tech. CSE), Intentional Islanding of

Electric Power Systems in aGrid Computing Framework:A Graph-Theoretic Approach

Ms. Trupti Mund An Introduction to ELTAIDate: March 01, 2012Dr. M. N. Murty Systolic Architecture for

Implementation of Two-Dimensional Discrete SineTransform

Ms. Sasmita Padhy Genetically OptimizedSupplementary Controller ForSSSC to Damp Sub-Synchronous Oscillations

Dr. D. S. Roy, Mr. Subhendu,Mr. Sujit and Mr. Siddharth(B. Tech, final year) Auto scaling A Web ServerMr. Kumar Srikanta Nayak Using A Native Grid MiddleSAP TECHED 2011, Bangalore ware

Date: March 08, 2012

Mr. O. P. Suresh , Modeling and control of hybridApex Institute, BBS energy systemsMr. Satyabrata Das Paradigms and Applications

of Pattern Recognition inImage Processing andComputer Vision

Mr. Abhro Mukherjee &Mr. Satyabrata Das LabVIEW core1 & core2


8th Asim Memorial Engineers Cricket CupThe “8th Asim Memorial Engineers Cricket Cup-2012” tournament was hosted by National Instituteof Science and Technology from 15th – 18th March 2012 at Berhampur Stadium, Berhampur. Thetournament was played between the following teams:1. G.I.E.T., Gunupur2. GITA, Bhubaneswar3. SILICON, Bhubaneswar4. CEB, Bhubaneswar5. SMIT, Berhampur6. RIT, Berhampur7. APEX, Bhubaneswar8. NIST, Berhampur

Congratulations to NIST Cricket team!

NIST won the 8th ‘Asim Memorial Engineer’s CricketCup Tournament’ in the final match by defeating GIET,Gunupur. Dr. Arun Kumar Padhy, Course Co-ordinator, B. Tech program, NIST, honoured thewinning team and the best performers of thetournament.Winner -:NIST, BerhampurRunners-Up -:GIET, GunupurBest Bats Man -:Pramatesh Bhatt-NISTBest Bowler -:Md. Waqar-GIETMan of the Series -:Amarnath Singh-NISTBest Fielder -: Baba Balaram Hansda-NISTBest Wicket Keeper -:Pramatesh Bhatt-NISTBest Disciplined Team -:SMIT, Berhampur


A decade at NISTThe institute celebrated the relentless service of its facultymembers and staff on their completion of 10 years. The followingmembers were felicitated with a certificate and cash award.

Name Designation D.O.JMs. Malabika Pattnaik Faculty 1 -12 -2000

Mr. K. Premeswar Rao Admn. Manager 1 -11- 2000

Mr. Nruparaj Sahu Liasoning Officer 10 -1- 2000

Ms. Haripriya Mishra Manager, NTCS 1 -7- 2000

Mr. Manas Rn. Biswal Lab Supervisor 16 -10 -2000

Mr. Haris Mohanty Store Keeper 1 - 7 - 2000

Mr.Dhirendra Parija Peon 25 - 9 - 2000

Mr. Surendra Behera Peon 1 -10 - 2000

Mr. Subas Sethy Driver 5 - 1-2000

Mr. Lokanath Sethy Driver 16 - 8 -2000

Mr. K. Mohan Reddy Bus Helper 12 -1- 2000

Mr. Satyapriya Choudhury Guard 17- 6 -2000

Mr. N. Raghunath Patra Guard 3 - 1- 2000

Mr. W. Kanka Rao Guard 2 -1 - 2000

Mr. Sagar Choudhury Lift Operator 1-12 - 2000

Mr. Uma Sankar Behera Sweeper 1- 7 -2000

Mr. Mahendra Hati Sweeper 19 -10-2000

Mr. Ranjan Kumar Nayak Sweeper 23 -8 -2000

Runners-up

Mr. Trilochan Panigrahi joined as Faculty in the Dept.of Electronics and CommunicationEngineering. Mr. Panigrahi has done his M.Tech in ECE from NIST and Ph. D on thethesis, “On the Development ofDistributed Estimation Techniques forWireless Sensor Network” from NIT,

Rourkela. During his Ph. D, he worked on the UKIERI(United Kingdom India Education Research Initiatives)project in collaboration with University of Edinburg, UK.Before he left for his Ph. D., Mr. Panigrahi served NIST atthe position of a Lecturer in the Dept. of ECE for 3 years.He has 6 International Journal Publications and 20 Nationaland International Conference Paper publications to hiscredit. His research interest lies in the areas of DistributedSignal Processing for wireless sensor network.

Ms. Manaswini Misra joined as Faculty in the Dept. ofElectronics and InstrumentationEngineering. She has done her B. Tech inEIE from GIET, Gunupur and M. Tech in ECEfrom NIST. She has more than 5 years ofteaching experience working at RIT,Berhampur and NIST. Her research interestlies in the area of VLSI design.

Dr. Sujit Kumar Samanta joined as Faculty in the Dept.of Mathematics. He has done his B. Sc andM. Sc in Mathematics from VidyasagarUniversity, West Bengal and Ph. D from IIT,Kharagpur. Dr. Samanta visited TechnicalUniversity of Lisbon, Portugal, University ofAvignon, France and Wilfried Laurier

University, Canada during his Post doctorate. He workedat KIIT University, Bhubaneswar for a period of one yearbefore he left for his post doctorate. His research interestlies in the areas of Queueing Theory, Inventory Systemand Adhoc Wireless Network.

Mr. Aswini Kumar Khuntia joined as Faculty in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering. Hehas done his BE from SMIT, Berhampur andis pursuing M. Tech in Mechanical SystemDesign from IGIT, Sarang. Mr. Khuntia has3 years of teaching experience and 5 yearsof industry experience. He has 2 IEEE, 1journal, and 4 national and international Conference paperpublications to his credit. His research interests lies inthe areas of robotics.

Mr. Kailash Pati Mandal joined as Faculty in the Dept.of Computer Science and Engineering. Hehas done his B. Tech and ME in CSE fromBengal College of Engineering andTechnology, Durgapur and JadavpurUniversity respectively. He has around threeyears of experience in teaching as faculty

at Institute of Science and Technology, PaschimMedinipur, West Bengal. His research interests lies inthe areas of Mobile Computing.

Ms. Reena Devi joined as Laboratory Supervisor in theDept. of ECE. She has done her DiplomaEngineering in ETC from UCPES,Berhmapur and has undergone ApprenticeTraining for 1 year at the same college. Shehas 4 years of experience as an Instructorat IEM, Jeypore.

Mr. K. Manoja Kumar Patra joined as LaboratorySupervisor in the Dept. of ECE. He has donehis ITI in Electronics from Govt. ITI,Berhampur and his Diploma Engineering inETC from UCPES, Berhmapur. Before joiningus, Mr. Patra worked at GRIDCO asApprentice Trainee.

Mr. Jiban Chand Padhy joined asLaboratory Supervisor in the Dept. of ECE.He has done his Diploma Engineering inETC from Hi-Tech Institute of Informationand Technology, Jeypore and underwent atraining at NALCO for a period of one month.He worked with Flash Electronics, Pune as TraineeOperating Engineer before joining us.

Ms. Sagarika Behera joined asLaboratory Supervisor in the Dept. of ECE.She has done her Diploma Engineering inETC from UCPES, Berhampur.

Mr. Baba Baidyanath Mahapatra joined asAdministrative Officer. He is a BA and LLBfrom Berhampur University. Mr. Mahapatrahas worked in different capacities like,Assistant Consolidation Officer, Tahasildar,Executive Magistrate at many places ofOdisha and retired as the DistrictDevelopment Officer from Collectorate, Ganjam, Chatrapur.

NIST WelcomesNIST welcomes the following members to its Parivaar :


2012 (MMXII) is a leap year that started on a Sunday. In the Gregorian calendar, it is the 2012thyear of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 12th year of the 3rd millennium and of the21st century, and the 3rd of the 2010s.There are variety of popular beliefs about the year 2012. These beliefs

range from the spiritually transformative to the apocalyptic, and center upon various contemporary interpretations ofthe Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Scientists have disputed the apocalyptic versions. Moving on, the explosionof fist fights, police, jeers, and cheers that greeted the notorious series of co-ordinated bombing attacks in Kano,Nigeria, results in 185 deaths. The attacks are blamed on the radical Islamist group Boko Haram, 11 members ofwhich are killed in a shootout in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri. The King who opted to be driven aroundin a taxi, George Tupou V, the king of Tonga, has died after ten days in intensive care in a Hong Kong hospital. The 63-year-old brought democracy to his nation of 115,000 people. The reformist swore into power in 2006 but his coronationwas pushed back two years in the wake of Nuku’alofa rioting. War crimes are serious violations of the laws applicablein armed conflict, also known as international humanitarian law, giving rise to individual criminal responsibility. TheLatest such incident was reported in Afghanistan, when a US soldier, Sgt Robert Bales, went on a spree, killing 16civilians. The aftermath of World War II left Korea partitioned, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a Soviet-style socialist regime, was established in the north while the Republic of Korea, a Western-style republic, wasestablished in the south. Amidst tension, President Barack Obama visited the demilitarized zone (DMZ) on SouthKorea’s border with the North on Sunday before a nuclear summit in Seoul. The United States president’s trip to thearea separating the north and south on the Korean peninsula comes amidst increased tension over Pyongyang’s planto launch a rocket next month. His visit was a show of support for South Korea. The US has travelled a long way inrecent decades, but cases like the killing of Trayvon Martin stir up fears that some lessons have not been learnt wellenough. There’s mounting outrage at the shooting dead of an unarmed black teenager in Florida - it is online and it ison the streets. The reason for the fury is the belief that 17-year-old ‘Trayvon Martin’ was a victim of racism.Focusing on the national forefront, the biggest news maker was ‘Akhilesh Yadav’. The youngest CM of Uttar Pradeshis credited for winning the state for the ‘Samajwadi Party’. In a stunning electoral performance that decimated theruling Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh’s Samajwadi Party won 224 Assembly seats, shatteringthe ‘national’ conceits of both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party along the way. Unhappy over the railwaybudget , Trinamool Supremo , Mamata Banerjee demanded the resignation of Dinesh Trivedi . Trinamool Congress MPMukul Roy was sworn in as a cabinet minister and is expected to replace party MP Dinesh Trivedi, who had to quit asrailway minister following the rail budget in which he proposed to hike passenger fares. The Maoist abduction of twoItalians have taken the state of Orissa by a shock. Two Italian citizens were taken hostage by Maoists at an undisclosedlocation in Odisha’s Kandhamal district on Saturday. One of the two abducted men, Boscusco Paolo, has beenvisiting Odisha sinch 1999 and runs a travel agency in Puri that takes foreign tourists on tribal tours. The other, ClandioColangilo, is a tourist. Fast industrialization has seen the state lose close to 12000 hectares of forest land that havebeen diverted in the past 10 years for mining activities and also to make way for industries in sectors like steel,aluminium, power and petroleum refining.While mining activities have taken the lion’s share of the forest land (10,182hectares), 1749.02 hectares have been diverted for industrial projects. In the business world, Apple has launched theirnew iPad3 . First weekend sales exceed the iPad 2, but not the iPhone 4S. Early reports that its reception was “not-so-spectacular” seem to have been off the mark. Within hours of Supreme Court dismissing the review petition in theVodafone’s tax case, government on Tuesday refunded about Rs 2,500 crore plus four percent interest to the firm. Inits judgment on January 20, the Supreme Court had set aside the Bombay High Court ruling and asked the IncomeTax Department to return Rs 2,500 crore deposited by Vodafone International Holdings within two months along with4 per cent interest. Rise, cheer, shed a tear, or just clap in awe. The milestone – which for some was awaited withbated breath, for others seen as merely a number, for some a zenith – has finally arrived. He searched it the world over,for over a year, not knowing that the landmark would come near to home. And on March 16, 2012, he finally found it,in Bangladesh. Sachin Tendulkar is a 100-century man. On the other hand ‘THE WALL’ of Indian cricket , Rahul Dravid, has announced his retirement from International cricket. Dravid left cricket assuring everyone that India had anabundance of batting talent which could easily fill in the No. 3 slot he has left vacant. The pundits however find it hardto arrive at a consensus over the most likely candidate capable of filling the void created by his departure.

NewsdeskMr. Manish Billung, B. Tech., 6th Sem., Team e_news


Mr. Ashraf Haroon Rashid, B. Tech., 4th Sem., Team e_newsSports Cast

As this month marks the beginning of a typical warm, sunny and at times sultry, Berhampuriansummer along with a tightly packed NIST schedule, we have Mr. Fidio with us who is helpingme out to get latest sports update from all across the globe. ‘Regards NISTIANs’, he says. Let’s see what

he has got for us. ‘All’s well that ends well’, he says. Yeah, you guessed it right, it’s for our dearest team India whofinished off their despicable campaign in Australia in super style by beating Sri-Lanka in their last encounter. TeamIndia’s batsmen showed off some real guts to chase down a score of 321 within 37 overs. Applauses to Virat Kohliwho went all guns blazing, scoring 133 in just 86 balls. In the end of the Australian tour, team India lost more thanjust a series, as ‘The Wall’ took a highly dignified retirement from all forms of international cricket. The Aussies wonthe CB series after they beat Sri-Lanka in two out of three well fought finals. In the national level, West Bengal leadby Sourav Ganguly won the Vijay Hazare trophy. Asia cup has begun and Pakistan draws the first blood by beatingBangladesh in a close first encounter. Also during the start of the Asia cup, there was a mass speculation aboutSachin’s retirement. But ‘the master blaster’s’ fans do not have to worry much because Sachin won’t be retiring asof now. ‘The god doesn’t retires’, does he?Speak of the god, how can Lionel Messi be left out? The current ‘Ballon d’ Or’ scored an amazing 5 streak to guideFC Barcelona to a 7-1 win over Bayern Leverkusen in the UEFA champion’s league. Barcelona thereby entered theUEFA quarters. Chelsea produced a stunning victory against Napoli by beating them 4-1 and entering the UEFAquarters by overturning a two goal lead. This was only the fourth time when in the champions league when such afeat has been attained by any team. The other teams that qualified for the UEFA quarters are Apoel, Bayern Munich,Real Madrid, Milan, Marsielle, Barcelona, Benfica. In EPL, Manchester United lead the table followed by RobertoMancini’s Manchester City. Tottenham and Arsenal are having a neck to neck competition for the third and fourthplace followed by Chelsea at the fifth position. The La Liga is still being ruled by Real Madrid, who managed to takea more or less unbeatable lead. Following them Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona in the second place. Valencia, Levanteand Malaga are at third, fourth and fifth position respectively. In Asia Cup, the Indian soccer team showed a dismalperformance as they lost all of their league matches, and looked desparate to open their account. And thus, theircampaign ended without even a single goal being scored by them. ‘With despair comes joy’. The Indian HockeyTeam managed to qualify for the London Olympics in style as they won each and every game and emerged as the‘Numer Uno’ of their in the asian olympic qualifiers. ‘Ladies first’ says Fidido, for the Indian Women’s kabaddi team,which won the women’s hockey world cup. This was a perfect answer to the critics and Mr. Sukhbir Badal who washell bent on demoralizing the formers. There was yet another added attraction for the women’s sports fraternity,which was marked by the well fought final of the Australian open between the screaming queens Victoria Azarenkaand Maria Sharapova. The former came up triumphant. It was a ‘clash of the titans’ at the Rod Lavers arena in men’sAustralian open finals which was fought between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovick, which was the longest in thehistory with time duration close to six hours. Djokovick was bestowed a win by the ‘goddess of victory’. This wasDjokovick’s third Australian Open title. Leander Paes gave India yet another glory by winning the men’s doubles finalalong with Stepanek whereas, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Robert Vinci won the women’s doubles event. LeanderPaes and Elena Vesnina lost the mixed doubles finals of the Australian Open against Mattek-Sands and R. Tacau.But, apart from the all the sports action across the globe, the NIST cricket team has managed to steal the show yetagain by usurping the 8TH ASIM MEMORIAL ENGINEER’S. Also the Intra-college lawn tennis tournament was heldduring Waves. The main draw consisted of 16 spots with 8 for top seeds and the rest from qualifying rounds. Aftersome exciting matches the semi final line up came down to top seed Sandeep facing 4th seed Shankarsan and 3rdseed Pratik Mohanty facing 2nd seed Gaurav Rath. The Final was held on the 23rd of March where Gaurav Rathdefeated Sandeep Terai 6-2, 7-6 in just under two hours to emerge champion.That’s all folks for this edition ofsportscast, and stay tuned for more interesting sports updates. Adios amigos…Guided by: Mr. Naquib AkhtarThat was all for this edition of Sportscast. For any queries mail me at [email protected]


NOISE POLLUTION:Will it remain an integral part of Berhampur forever?

Mr. Gaurav Rath - MBA, 1st SemBerhampur has always been a victim of noise pollution. This is due to the heavy use ofloudspeakers at various temples, marriage processions, domestic functions and politicalevents. This happens because the city administration and the police turn a deaf ear. If one approachesthe police, the first reaction they give is as if you are an alien. They seem to be oblivious to theterm/concept of noise pollution. They try to give various reasons like: they cannot prevent or playwith the sentiments of the people. This gives the public a perception that using loudspeakers is theirbirth right and they carry on with their crime of using them at any place and any level, irrespective ofhow it affects others.

The reason behind the problem is the lack of awareness among the people. They are not aware ofthe various laws that prohibit the use of loudspeakers. The city administration is equally responsiblefor this lawlessness. They have never initiated any steps to counsel the temple administrationsagainst use of loudspeakers. Although the police have the necessary powers and equipment tomonitor noise pollution levels they hardly try to give it a thought. Whenever the public approachesthem, they try to pass the buck by saying that the permission is granted by the Sub-Collector etc.This inaction on the part of police and city administration gives a boost to the spread of this evil.Some or the other temple always has some function and the first thing they do is: put up two hugeloudspeakers and conduct their proceedings. The other horrible practice in the city is that of marriageprocessions. They use heavy loudspeakers and very loud crackers. During the marriage season thewhole city feels like a warzone. The law is clear:

· No permission can be granted by any authority for use of public addresssystem in the open after 10.00 PM and before 6.00 AM. No exception ispossible. Any person or organization making noise on amplified system after10.00 pm is violation of the law and the person can be prosecuted under theprovisions of the EPA 1986. Only District Magistrates can grant permissionsafter 10.00 PM for functions within closed premises. District Magistratescannot grant permission for use of any amplified public address system after10.00 PM.

· After permission has been procured the sound must fall within the soundlimits prescribed in the Noise Rules. This can be measured on a sound meter.Any person violating the Rules is liable to be arrested under the stringentprovisions of the EPA.

This gross violation of law is almost a daily affair in the city. To be specific let me give the example:The Mahashivratri on 20/2/2012.

This is believed to be a very sacred and holy festival as per Hindu tradition but the way it wasconducted all around the city squeezed all the holiness out of it and turned it into a sham. Although,it was scheduled for 20th February, most of the temples around the city started playing loudspeakerstwo days prior to its commencement. They continued this all through the night. By conducting suchheavy crime in the name of God they violated the very basis on which every religion stands. Noreligion ever preaches to achieve itss goals by harming innocent people. And all the so called religiouspeople who attended the functions at these temples also become a party to this crime. Theirculpability cannot be absolved by feigning ignorance about the law. Because of the way thereligion is preached in most of our cities, it loses all the sanctity that it is supposed to have.

The city police patrol teams like PCR Vans are just show pieces. Even when they pass the placewhere a function is going on with use of loudspeakers they do not bother to get out of their vehiclesand see to it that the law is not violated. They do not seize the equipment nor do they take any legalaction against the offenders. All this only gives us an indication about the things to come ( a state ofanarchy). The major reason behind this is that people generally do not come out and report this



This is different… also awkward… but true! When I sat down to think about an issue for this edition Isuddenly got overwhelmed. No, this is not my ast piece for the bulletin, but yes, this will end very soon.Writing for e_news has been one of the most treasured feelings for me. I have received more than I couldcontribute and above all, I am proud that hundreds, if not thousands, read what I wrote.This issue is not to bring a change in you but will focus on what a college gives you. You lament theending of a college life only when a couple of months are left and you realize that you will never get backthis life, even in the exchange of no matter what. This is the time when you realise how perfect everythingwas at college.I hadn’t started to lament the ending of my college experience until one of my cousins told me, “Makesure you have fun your last few months of college. And it’s O.K. if you cry when you leave.” That one linemade me realise I grew up in college. I am a completely different person than the stubborn, naïve,wisdom-tooth-less18-year-old (yes that is news! I have three of my wisdom tooth growing) who stumbled,nervous about facing her seniors. I’m certainly not saying that after four years I know it all. In fact, I wouldguess that I know little to nothing about anything. But, I am thankful to the Almighty that I had my collegesurrounding and protecting me. When unemployment is at its peak I am lucky that I have a job in handwhile I will be leaving my college. It actually does matter if your career is molding into the shape youalways wanted, but, again, this is not the end of the road. The day you will be leaving college, it won’tmatter how many offer letters you have in your pocket, what will matter most is, if all your friends areleaving with a job in hand. This is what college teaches you.My college life has been like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires, and yet for at least a secondbrings light in to the dark and stormy night. The things I hated about the college at the beginning all of asudden I am starting to love them (There always are exceptions… I still do not love attending the 100minutes class.). It seems like time is running away now. A very few days are left and I have got so muchto enjoy, so much to do (yes, including the project work!) and so much to write about.I am privileged that I will not be leaving instantly and have this chance of saying “Good Bye” to the college,the one that gave me the best memories of my life, people whom I can look up to and also showed a newdirection which surely leads to a road with no ends. (To be continued…. in the next edition…) [Any suggestions or feedback regarding the article are welcome and can be mailed [email protected]]

Ms. Neena Choudhary, B. Tech., 8th Sem., Team e_news

Cynosure of all Eyes

matter or lodge a complaint with the appropriate authorities. They prefer to just shut their own doorsand windows so that they are not disturbed. By doing this we are only encouraging such incidents. Insuch circumstances it is the duty of us, the educated people of this city, to take up this issue andtry to sensitise people about the issue. So my dear friends let us try to be more civilized and act ina more mature way given that we are well educated. Let’s not spoil the peace of others by acting ina selfish manner. If we continue to take part in and encourage such acts then what can we expectfrom others? Please try to pass on this message to as many people as possible. I expect a goodresponse to this article and wish that many of the readers come forward and join me instarting a mass movement to bring about a change. Because if we consider these issues tobe petty ones and not act on it now, then a time would come when things would have slippedfrom our grip. If we continue to turn a blind eye to these issues and prefer to shut our doorsand windows rather than pointing out the wrong of others then, we would only be encouragingthis malady.

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It’s time you take out your kerchiefs. Its time you find a shoulder to weep on. Its time youdive in nostalgia. Its time you savor every word you read. Its time for your beloved, yourchampion, your voice to fizz out. The time has come for SAT to die...

Well not just yet. How can SAT depart before giving one of SAT’s famous preaching? Didn’t you all enjoythose monologues- sometimes rude, sometimes catchy, sometimes biased, sometimes even racist butalways true and insightful. In this final issue SAT won’t do any of that but rather take you through a tripdown memory lane. SAT started out as an acronym for satire. “Satire on Attire”, the first trumpet, thoughnaive, was well appreciated by you all. Thank You. Students personally came up to the so-called-creator ofSAT, Kewal Krishna (however SAT, has already made it clear in earlier issues that Kewal is just a medium.SAT is nothing but that voice within you that begs attention but is always unheard and ignored) andthanked him for writing something related to the students of this college and not about world economicsand politics. Who reads them anyway? From there it became a mandate for SAT. SAT’s sayings wouldalways then be related to the student fraternity.

Next in the series was, “P for Placements”. It was the only occasion when you all wanted to follow theplacement department’s advice sincerely. Well almost sincerely, except when it came to attending the PPTsor bringing in a photo attached CV or wearing a tie. “Strike it out” was the next memorandum wherein SATurged the student fraternity to strike against the university strike. The semesters are 3 months and theexams, Dear Lord, are 2 months long. It can happen only in our dear BPUT. “Waka Waka” was where SATbrought to you the April fool’s joke played on all Indians by Shakira (now this is where “O la la” fits.Listening Bappi da? Not Vidya, Shakira), that Waka Waka was the FIFA world cup theme. It actually meantWake and Whack for us Indians. Wake up from the dream of 3.25 package and whack out the depravityprevailing in the country by becoming IASs, politicians, policemen and so on. “The death of GOD” was acorrespondence form He Himself requesting you all to let secularism prevail. SAT does not deny the factthat it was an opportunistic time to say so as this all took place in the wake of the judgment of the Babridemolition. Then the Golden period came for SAT where SAT’s popularity rose and rose and rose. (It’s nosecret that SAT likes to brag)

“NIST leaks” based on Wiki leaks were received with great appreciation. That Sagar Xerox’s methods weremonopolistic or that the faculty was also tired of taking classes were all revealed in this cable. “V day”made fun of girls and their unreal desire for perfect love and the more perplexing one, soft toys. It alsoshowed how boys spend their mess bills to get those teddies and chocolates. SAT continued the traditionin “International Men’s Day” demanding a day in recognition of the opposite’s opposite gender. Men duh...Don’t you hate it when a girl gets ahead of you in the queue and gets the last available tickets of yourfavorite movie? How often do you have to get up in a bus or train so that the pretty lady there can beseated? Don’t you despise the fact that you have to carry around the entire luggage whenever you aretraveling? And how often have you to pay the bill just because you don’t put a lipstick or a suns crème ormascara…the list can go on and on and on….It was then that SAT proposed a day for the anger amongstpeace, for the greed amongst sacrifice, for the ruthless amongst love, for the problem amongst solution.How about an INTERNATIONAL MEN’s DAY on the 30th of FEBRUARY because that’s how the dark andhandsome had turned dark to the women in their life for the past thousands of years- oblivious to theirneeds and butchers of their desires. SAT’s last gig featuring the fairer sex was “A or I” where SAT unearthedan interesting phenomena that 87.5% of the girls studying at NIST from its inception have had a nameending with, yeah you guessed it right, an “a” or an “i”. After this SAT brought before you “Resolutions2012” where SAT tactfully showed that the resolution of every boy was to get a girl and that of girls wereto get slim, to get fairer, and to buy clothes… SAT was brought to you the resolutions of famous personalitieslike that of the man with the turban having a resolution of making one decision on his own.

It has been a great journey. The love and support you extended mesmerized SAT and SAT alwaysacknowledged them in the issues. THANK YOU. Now it’s time to say the goodbyes. SAT hopes you wouldremember SAT as SAT would always remember you.

<<Heartfelt gratitude to the editors of E-news, Amrut Sir & Dipti Sir. SAT was rejected 4 times beforefirst being published. Those rejections are what made SAT what it is today. As always mail anythingyou like to [email protected]>>

Mr. Kewal Krishna, B. Tech., 8th Sem., Team e_news

SAT SAYS: The Last Hooray!!!



SAP Labs changes the fate of FIVE

It started at 11:00 am on the 24th of March, 2012 at the office of SAP Labs, Bengaluru. We had two rounds ofinterview, technical and Management. Each was an elimination round. The interview was on a one to one basisand results were told almost immediately to the concerned candidate. Basically, the interview revolved around

what was written in the resume. So like our teachers say from day zero, we ought to know every letter inour resume in detail.In technical round we were asked questions majorly from Database. Other subjects that they asked questions werefrom C/C++/Java (whichever language we said we were comfortable with), Algorithms, Data structures and Operatingsystems. Some of us were grilled on the projects we had mentioned in our resume. Some technical interviews lastedfor an hour. Every technical interview included at least one puzzle question. One thing we all realized was that wewere asked very fundamental questions. It was our understandability of the concepts that they wanted to check.The management round covered questions from every area including our introduction, projects and technical know-how.In one round or the other we wereasked what we knew of the companyand its products. They even asked someof us our goals and where else we havebeen placed. One of the most surprisingquestions was: “Whether the facultiesof NIST are good or the students?” To that the answer as we know is BOTH. We were asked to write codes and whiledoing that they continued to bombard us with more questions. Overall, they made sure we knew what we said we did.Our suggestion to our juniors would be that make sure you know everything about what you have written in yourresume, including you project partner’s name! Do not take seminars, lab projects, summer training or your paperpresentations lightly. You never know wh en these may turn your interview around. Make sure your basics are clearand please do keep your class notes, DO NOT lose them. We know how much they matter. At the nth minute bookswill look like a big jumble. Most important never ever put yourself down, believe in yourself and have faith.We thank our Director, Prof. Sangram Mudali; Placement director, Prof. Geetika Mudali; Dean, Dr Ajit Ku. Panda;Course co-ordinator, Mr A.K.Padhy; the Placement Cell and every single teacher who has taught us either insidethe classroom or the lab or anywhere outside it. Our special thanks to Mr Atanu Dutta, Mr Sudhir Panigrahy, MrBhawani Shankar Pattnaik and Mr Shom P. Das for their help and guidance from the beginning to the end. Lastlywe thank our parents and friends for standing with us through it all.

Anna Jain, 200860006, Hiranmayee Nayak, 200860088, Kumari Sunita, 200870180, Saswati Misra,200863496, Sonal, 200870173

Saraswati Puja Celebrations Republic Day Celebrations

The ChallengeMr. N. Serish, Faculty Member ,

Dept. of English

“Lots of work – practice. Interested in moredetail, read books, see me, practice more examples. Ifno go – OK we slow up. Hand in some problems so Ican tell.”This was one of the principles that physicistRichard Feynman wrote up for himself and for hisstudents before settling down as a lecturer ofmathematical physics at Cornell, US. His subsequentlectures collected as “Feynman Lectures on Physics”rewrote the knowledge of physics which wasnecessitated by the shockwave of atomic age. Quantummechanics, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, particlephysics almost every aspect of reality and science thatstudents learnt at top universities in Berlin, Cambridge,Caltech, MIT, Princeton and dozens of other universitieswas outdated by the time of Trinity test in Los Alamos.Today, when we read these lectures, we can almost seeProfessor Feynman sitting on the desk in the classroomand trying to talk, running up to the black board and drawand then try to explain the fundamentals as well as themore esoteric aspects of physics.But in the classrooms of 21st century India the curriculumhas not changed since 1970s. The textbooks are onlybecoming fatter and fatter presenting the students with achallenge of just reading rather than letting them getenlightened.Let me state one example, one of the best grammar booksI have read is Richard Morris: English Grammar. A 133-page book that set me on the path of using correctlanguage, it also had a message that English can be learnt/corrected only by using it. Now, when I encounter 700or 800 page tomes on Technical Communication, I amzapped. For a fact, I know that a student in a technicalinstitution would be more focused on his subject thanlearning about parsing a sentence into its elements.NIST students now have access to the sea of technicalknowledge through the e-journals. And as the world learnsmore about neutrinos travelling or not travelling fasterthan light and God particle (Higgs Boson) the challengesof learning, problem solving and innovation are becomingever more for the students.For the teachers, the crux of the problem is faced in theclassrooms of 90 students. Should the teachers focusonly on completing the vast syllabus or should they try toopen up the young minds to ideas, problem solving,innovation turning the students into thought leaders,entrepreneurs and innovators?


ODISHA DIARYAnil K. RajvanshiEmail: [email protected]

1. I was invited to give 2 lectures in late January2012 at National Institute of Science and Technology(NIST), Berhampur, Orissa. This gave me anopportunity to see Orissa after 30 years.2. NIST is run by a dynamic IIT Kanpur alumnusSangram Mudali. He is trying to set up a first classInstitute of Technology in Orissa almost modeled onIITs. I gave a lecture on social entrepreneurship tohis MBA/engineering students.3. NIST also conducts a program (funded by DST)called Inspire. In this program the toppers of Orissaschools (CBSE, ICSE and Odisha board) are invitedfor a 4-5 days camp at NIST campus to be inspiredto join S&T stream for higher studies. I was the chiefguest of this program this time. It was a wonderfulexperience to interact with nearly 400 bright studentsof class XI/XII and to respond to their sharpquestions. This was the third time that “Inspire” campis being conducted at NIST.

From : Bimal Sethi [email protected]: [email protected]: Hello SirDear Sir,I am Bimal Kanta Sethi, Roll No - 200215237, Branch-EEE. NIST has given me excellent knowledge in thefields of Instrumentation as well as Electrical.I joined BHEL in the year February 2008 in the ProjectDivision. I worked in Electrical & Instrumentation fieldin the Thermal as well as CCPP (72MW CFBC Boiler& 351MW CCPP) in Gujarat. Now I am in Noumea,Nouvelle Caledonia, French colony for assignment for2X135CFBC Boiler.If anyone interested to gain knowledge about PowerPlant in the field of Electrical & Instrumentation, theyare mostly welcome.My email id:[email protected],[email protected] u all the best.Bimal

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