Kerala Expedition by CALTECH-SAINTGITS team: the {international expert team lead by Dr. Kenneth Pickar, Professor, CALTECH University along with the SAINTGITS team comprising of § ME students,8 MBA students, Dr Jason Cherian Issac, Prof. Thomas Varghese & Asst. Prof. Vinay Mathew John gs has visited 16 organisations in (Angust 2011), ‘erala within a period of 11 days QSenate Challenge: 78 teams participated in “Q’SENATE CHALLENGE”, the National Open Quiz Competition hosted by SAINTGITS College of Engincering as a part of Decennial Celebrations, Among them 22 teams were [rom the schools and 56 were professionals teams from the states MEE of South India Graduation Day: ‘The Sixth graduation day of SAINTGITS Group of Professional institutions was celebrated to honour the outgoing students of sixth Batch of B. Tech, filth Batch of MCA, fourth Batch of MBA and! fifth Bateh of B.Com on 174 June 201 1 Dr. Babu Paul 1S, former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Kerala was the Chief Guest of the occasion. The celebrations were also attencled by the Director, CEO & GM of SAINTGITS Group of Professional institutions,reese 4 ; ‘The college Football (Men) team Were the runners up of the EL-JUEGO'12, All Kerala Inter Collegiate Football Tournamnet, at Model Fngineering College, Cochin and MESITAM Tournament, Ameca Sha Memorial Soccer Cup-All Kerala. Inter Collegiate Placement: SAINVGIIS strives to ensure cent per cent placements by organizing placement drives exclusively for intgits, by coordinating pooled carpus drives @ Saintgits; av well as by participating i off campus placement drives. The chare gives the consolidated list of placements for the year 2012, as on April, As we are expecting the final results ofa few more drives soan, the igures are expected go up further, Football Tournament, at MES Institute Of Technology and Management, Chathanoor, Kollar, CE Natya oe rae proere tre Pree eH Rey coal ral The First All Kerals Inter Engineering College Volleyball Tournament. "MINT ‘ONETTE-2012" was held ak SAINTGITS rosin from 2 to 8! of February 2012, The tournament was inangurated by Prof. (Dr) MC Pillpose, Principal, SAINTGITS Collegeof Engincering, Pata smuttom, at 04.00 pm om 02/02/2012, Mount Zion College of engineering, Pathanamttta grabbed the Championship, Annucll Sports Day 2011-12: the Anal Spots Bay of SAINTGILS College ol engineering SAINTGITS NEWSNATIONAL SERVICE ad it TI mul Kayan SFECIAL CA p ee Ferny ed 2k Women’s Day Celebrations 2012: To express the importance of ‘ween in the society, NSSTech eel celebrated International women’ day (8® March 2012) at college campus. Separate oaths were readout by [NSS volunteers for Lads and Gents of SAINTGITS, An awareness lass was also taken by Prof, Lekha Susan jacob about "Gender Equality” IEEE Student Branch Inauguration and SDLP: The oficial inauguration of EEE stent branch a SAINTGITS was 6th Augast 2011. Thas the S2nd student branch under TEEE Kerala section was inaugurated by Mr. Gupakumar, Adviser, Stadt activites weted on committee, IEEE, Th first Session of Distinguished Lootare Program, In Kerala section was conducted on the same da: Freshers Day: Ti day wae cclerate to welcome the 2011-15 batch of SAINTGITS Collegeof engineering National Service Scheme Annual Special Camp: The NSS Tech Call of SAINTGITS College of Engineer Special Camp at Pampady Dayara from I Conducted a Seven Day to 24% March 2012. The camp as inaugurated by Smt Annarama Cherian (Panchayath Pres in a fmction presided by Mr-ThomasT John (Director, he camp theme was “Say no to Drugs and Alcohol” The 8 Annual General Body Mecting of SAINTGITS Parent Teacher Association was held on 19 June 2010 in the Amphi ‘Theatre, PTA President Mr. K, Sudhakaran Pillai presided over the fmction, SAINTGITS NEWSsexo tsmegeg Anti Drug and Anti Alcohol Campaign: field campaign on “Anti drug and Alcohol” was carried out by NSSTech Cell volunicers at various wards of Parnpady and Mecnadom Panchayath on 21!" Mar 2012. They visited various heures, explained the health aspects of consumption of alcohol and drug and distributed the leaflets provided by the Fxcice departmet, Kottayam, They also took a survey Pal fof persons requiring re care and handed over the details to the Pampady Dayara Manager as they are starting a Palliative care project. atatuapeip Ponte Capa Ax saree pitamime abit the Mullaperiyar Dam ksue was felicated by Er. Ashwin PV on 2 December 2011 anda poster campalgn wat organized on 7*Decernber > 2011 to extend brotherhood to the protesters of Mullperiyar Damn Sanrakshana Samiti, NSSVolnicers through ther posters tied to depict geo 95 le ppl Die Scag hae World AIDS Day Observance 2011: NSS Tech Cell of fof Engineering in association with KSACS observed World AIDS day (December Ist, 2011). NSS Vohuntcers displayed posters of AIDS awareness and clstributed Red Ribbons to all, a a symbol for the Fight against AIDS, Asst Prof. Vinayakumar B gave a talk on “How to deal with HIV infected person” an the sarne dey Blood Donation Camp: NSS Tech CFLL SAINTGITS College of Engineering conducted a Voluntary Blood Donation Camp on October 23° 2011 as part of the "NATIONAL BLOOD DONATION Month Activities" in association with Hindustan Later Family Planning Promotion rust (HLEPPT), Ree c Sac Secerity Mision Campaign fn arene Campi sprend the functions of Sockl Security Misson" has hoe organized on 25% Feb 2012 at Kottayam Tan hy thes Security Mission in assocation with various National Serviee Scher units NSSTech Cell Volunteers of SAINTGITS tok part in the same, They covered Kotsayan engine "7 4 sasipraar eparunpipay pra, nanan ances ag sn ASTRO fa) Gane sma wae Aer, Amn Ka Depot Shee, va Kaan Scher, Hage Fe Cpt rpm tm onl Soars sen, NS lances ol hte. 32150/- fom the al nd suk of SAINTS ling thee tan SAINTGI Ss NEWSElectronics & Communication Engineering HORIZON 2011: Er, Jayakrishnan, Sub Divisional Engineer, RITC, BSNL, ‘Thiruvananthapuram, inaugurated Horizon 2011 organized by ASGEC in association with IETE and ISTE, An exhibition on the ‘Evolution of VLSI Technology’ was also arranged, A manual on ‘ How to conduct Technical Fest! was released after Horizon 2011, A PCB Manufacturing Workshop was conducted by Ex. Mithun CA under the banner of Hobby Club of ECE Dept on 24th April 2012 Students were given hands-on training on PCB layout drawing using p> Express PCB, Layout transferring, PCB etching, Drilling and Soldering, leas toa market ready product. The session was useful for converting th ROBOTRYST 2012: A Zonal round of Robo Tryst 2012 was conducted by the college in association with Fotrepreneur ship cell, 7 Kharagpur on 3rd and 4th of October 2011, Er. Chinn Mohanan was the coordinator for this programme, 50 students partielpated in the ‘contest and a team of $5.AEI won first prize & a team from RIT was the frst runner-up. $5 ABI team participated in the inal round at ITT, Kharagpur ‘A course on Application of SPICE on Network Analysis and Cireuit Design” was conducted by ECE depastment for 3rd semester from 07/12/2011 19 09/12/2011 A course on “ EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN USING KFIL & ORCAD ” was conducted by ECE department for third years in January 2012 ‘A course on Electronic System Design” was conducted by ECE department for final years From (8/12/2011 to 12/12/2011 ECE department organized Technical Talks on “Mobile/ Tablet app Development” by ISLET Systems, Innovation tltainated, Ereakularns “Electrochemical Miero Fabrication without Photo lithography -ENFACE” by prof, Sudipta Roy from New Castle Univershy, UK and "Evolution of Telecommunication” by Fr, Jayakrishnan, Sub Divisional Engineer, RTTC, Thirusananthapuram, FDP on Engineering Applications Using LabVIEW: Two Days Faculty Development programme on Engineering Applications Using LabVIEW was organtzed by SAINTGITS LabVIEW Academy, Kerala In assoetation with National Instruments - Bangalore. on Sth & 9th Deo 2011 Asst, Prof, Jishmu § got selection for PhD programme at USC, Bangalore Motivational Talks wore arranged by ECE department on *Know your Capabilities” by Prof, Susan Abe, HOD;“Leadership Capabilities’ by Ex. Riboy Cherian; “How to plan your Carce:” by Prof. Shajimon K John and “Importance of learning beyond the syllabus” by Er. Pradeep ‘C for students and “Model Class” by Dr, Narayana Iyer for new faculty members, Project titled “Child Safety Bel” by Archana, Anjali Rani and Gayathri of SSECE was selected forVuva Mastermind, jojo N Varghese, Irine Sajan and Aiswarya Pal were qualified in Gate 201taining to both faculty and students, ‘The theory classes were ‘combined with practical sessions Talk on ‘Value Education’ : A talk on ‘Value Faducation” was conducted on 7th July 2011 by Prof, SunnyKutty John, Department Of Physics for $2 MCA students. The session was interesting and a ‘path shower’ for the students. The resource person through illustrating simple stories. made the students understand the moral se of! fo and how to be confident, how to develop own way of perceiving things and attitude, He bo focused on the qualities and duties of a student. Talk on " legal amareness, for wome Women’s Cell of SAINTGITS and MCA echnical talk on ‘Local Language Computing was ccondueted by the departments of CSE and MCA on 23rd January 2012. Mr. Hiran Venugopal from Salt Mango Tree, Kochi gave the SMART Inauguration: Saintgits MCA Association of Radiant Talents - SMART Inanguration 2011-12 was conducted on 3rd August 2014. "the ssocaton actives were Inaugurated by Mr. Sebastian Antony Ukken, Associate View President and Head, Quality & Testing, Network Systems & “Technologies Limited (NeS1),Technopark, “Trivanclrum One day workshop on ‘Drupal’: A one day workshop on “Drupal-Content Management Safiware' was conducted on 7° January 2012. Mr Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment (SPACE —Kerala), gave the training to both faculty and students, Nambiar from Society for MCA Fresher's Day 2012: The students of MCA provided a hearty welcome to the freshers on 25° Feb 2012, As behalf of women’s day, a tall on legal awareness for women was conducted by the department on 12.03.2012 for women students of MCA. Adv, Rachel Mathew, specialist in family laws of Thituvalla Court talked about the rights of women, An RHCE Training Programme by IPSR was organized by the MCA department for the $3 MCA 2010-2013 BATCH SL_MCA (2011-2014 batch) students bagged overall championship in the echnical Fest Conducted by Marian College, Kurttikkanam on 20/01/12 SAINTGI Ss NEWSASCEND-2011; ‘The national level technical symposium of the department of Computer Science, ASCEND was held on 4th July 2011. Mr; Antony Satyadas, Solution Strategist of IBM Corporation inaugurated the symposium, DB? Training + ‘The IBM seademlcinlative conducted a certication program called DB2 from 4th to 16 th Dec 4€ D011 for 82 students oF MCA along with ta members ol the department . Mr, Ratnam K V(IBM) has leo the training, ACER’12: Dr. S. N. Sivanandam (Professor Emeritus, Karpagam Educational Institutions) inaugurated the National Conference Cum Faculty Development Programme organised by the dept. of CSE on 10 April 2012 . Fourteen students from different colleges, presented papers on Various topics. RAD Training : The UBM academic initiative conducted a certification program called Rational application Developer(RAD}, organized by the departments of CSE and 4 MCA from 20th to 23rd July 2011 for the students of CSE and MCA along with 28 staf members of the college. Mr, Chinmay IBM) has lead the training for students and Faculty members TMC Seminar: The IBM academic initiative bas conducted a Seminar on TEMC by Mr, Sachin Kumar R $ IBM for the 2008 bate students organised hy the department of CSE and MCA, A Technical talk on "ANDROID OS’ was deliserd by Mr, Nebu Mathow Joseph Pocus Infotec,Cochin for 2009 hatch students, A Workshop on 'TT infrastructure and management? was conducted by Mr. Shyam al, Corana Systems, Katlayam organived by CSE dept, on 28.10.2011 for $3 and $7 CSE students, Interaction on IBM softwares with CS faeul + The faculty of CSE dept, were given an awareness of thm tools and the usability of tin the campus, by Mr, Lawerenes Mohanraj, Regional manager, I8M on 21st Dee. 2012 Lotus conducted on 19th March , 2012. $6 studemts and 7 faculty gor certified Wg: A four day traning was conducted on Lotus by IBM. faculty Me, Rajentry Choudhary."The Certiffeation exam was SAINTGITS NEWSA Two day workshop on “Limit State Design of Steet Structures" as per IS $00: 2007 was organised by CE department in association with ISTE Saint Gits Chapter on 20th and 21st of April 2012 Knowledge Seriies Talk: Er. Anil Joseph, Managing, director, Geostructural Pvt Limited delivered a talk on >. “Cost comparison of different types. of foundations” organised by the dept, of CE on 16th Sep. 2011 ICE Student Chapter: Indian Concrete Institute (ICI) Student Chapter of SAINTGITS was inaugurated by Dr. Vivish Thomas, M.D., Vettoor Constructions Engineer ¢P) Ltd on 23rd March.2012. al STRHENA-20015 Ee. James acc: Chie Haginecr tte inaugurated the techniacal fest of CE department on 26th, Sept 2011 PRIMAVERA Trai 1g A 40 hes package of project management software PRIMAVERA was conducted for pre-final year students on 19/12/2011 Er. Gisha Mary Mathew got admission far Ph.D program in Structural Engineesing at 1 Mumbai A Survey Camp was conducted ly CE department faculty for the final year students \Vimal Jacob and Gigy Aleyarnma secured fourth position in the Kerala Regional round of All India Technical Quiz competition ‘organived by Dalmia Cements Gopika Krishnan secured Lat prize for Instrumental Music (Flute) in the MG university Youth Festival 'Sargodhaya'” SAINTGITS NEWSSFERICS 20112 Sferies 2011, the National level ‘echnical symposium conducted under the banner of ISA and INERTIA was hosted by the Applied Electronics and Instrumentation department on 23rd August 2011, The flagship event was Inaugurated by NS Parameswaran, the Deputy General Manager of HNL. Steries wasa real rendezvous for the " and "technocrats" Prof. Godwin Anand P 5 awarded Ph.D degree from Anna University forthe research topic "Optimal Design of Furay Logic ‘Controller for Industrial Process using Evolutionary Algorithm”. Team from AEI department presenting their project “Portable Chiller” in the Project Design Competition organized by Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Cell (IEDC) of SAINTGITS College of engineering during the last semester, The competition was arranged branchwise and the best projects in cach department was awarded with a prize money of Rs.6000. ROBOTRYST 2012: Tears Irom $5 AFL S7AFI zonal competition of I’ Garagpur E cell Certified Robotiesvorkshop "ROBO TRYST 2012", got first and thied Place respectively in the IT'S LabVIEW Academy Virtual Instrumenta i hand with National Instruments froma 12.12.2011 tot4.12.2011 = Core 1:1 The training programme was organized by AEI depastment with SAINT Engineering Applications Using LabVIEW: Three Day workshop on Enginoering Applications Using LabVIEW’ was conducted by Dr, Godwin Anand, Professor and Head, AFI from 11th to 13th January 2012, FDP on Engineering Applications Using LabVIEW? Two Days Faculty Development programme on Engineering Applications Using TabVIEW was organized by SAINTGITS LabVIFW Academy Kottayam, Kerala Sth & 9th December 2011 association with National Instruments - Bangalore. on ‘One day workshop on Introduction to Labview by Crains Softvare, Bangalore was organized for SAINEGITS Faculty on 7-12-2011 Vi-Manthra 2011: De PS. Goekvin Guided four Projects far $7 students for presenting in he National Level Project contest VIEManthra 2011, Ont of four projects, one project of ts shortlisted in the top ten projects, which was the only project from Kerala state Dy, P §, Gadvin Anand has published a paper stled Evolutionary Design of IFLC for a'thvee"Tink System in International Journal of ‘Computer Science Issues, November 2011 Er. R. Krishna priya has published a paper titled, Fuzzy C-Mcans method for Colour Image Segmentation with L*U*V* Colour ‘transformation, International Journal of Computer Seience Issues, Nevesuber 2011 Er, ANUMOLT- FPGA and ASIC implementation of DWT based invisible image water marking algorithr-international conference held at Karunya University SAINTGITS NEWSInauguration of Electrical & Electronics Association PHASE 2011-12: The Electrical & Electronics association PHASE 2011-2012 was inaugurated on 21st July2011 by Shei. Simon,A.Akkara, Executive Engineer, KSEB Region: IT unit, Kochi. In connection with this he delivered a tal: ‘on “Power, Usiit and Operation; An overview”, DYUTHI-2011; The annual technical fest of Electrical & Electronics department DYUTHI 2011 was organized in association with PHASE & conducted on 24th August 2011, The event was inaugurated by Ex.George Mathew; former deputy general manager M.R.P. A seminar on “Current Industry Standards & 44, Expectations” by Sv Bhadran Pilla wa organized on de August 2011 & sas attended by all staff members and sturlents of EEE department. Prof Jaimol Thomas has awarded the PID in Flectrical engineering for the research work on “Optimal electricity AS pricing strategy for distributed generation” SL Tf from NIT Calicut. Fr, Reshma $, has secured first Workshop on CYME: A one day sorkshop om CYME (poner rank in MeTech Power Systems cngincering software) was organized on 17th September 2011. The i workshop was handled by Me. R Giridhar, Technical Manager, Image Grafix, and Qatar from the University of Kerala Workshop on Electrical machines and Electromagnets: The EEE Dept. organized a three day workshop on 27/2/2012 to 1/3/2012 Electrical machines and Electromagnets. STTP on “Reliability Concerns of Tomorrow's Power System": A STTP on “Reliability Concerns of Tomorrows Power System” was conslucted from 28th November to 2nd December 201 A course on Auto CAD was conducted on 2/1/2012 to 6/1/2012 for S6 EEE students.52 students passed associate exam, The students of S4 EEE orgs clan awareness programme on 11/2/2012 for local people about the effective usage of electricity. En Anh of ELE Dept scoured GAYE score of 91.3% ‘The project submitted by Anju Mariam Sunny, Noble'T Kuruvilla Kiran Babu & Riya Varghese of $8 EEE (2008-12 atch) titled “Magnetically Levitated Axial Flux Wind Generator” as been selected for the final round of Motozela scholar awards SAINTGITS NEWSFaculty Development Programme on ANSYS: Department of ‘Mechanical Engincering organised a three day faculty development programme on 'ANSYS' from 14th to 16th November 2011 10 improve the software skils ofthe faculty. The main objective of this FDP was to familiarise the faculty with ANSYS and enable them to nalyss (FE) with ANSYS. do Finite Element = a MECHNIUS 2011: The tech fest of ME department was inaugurated by Dr Rameshkumar, Head, Honeycomb > Product Development Division, VSSC, Trivandrum on 3rd Oct at SAINTGITS College of Engineering, Prof Rijo Jacob'Thomas of ME department has boon awarded Doctorate of Philosophy [Ph.D] from HT Kharaghpur Technical Talk on ROBOTICS: ‘The department of Mechanical engineering conducted a technical talk on ROROTICS engineering students on 20th July 2011.’The session was handled by Prof. Dr. Pramod Sreedhar of Amita School of for the seventh semester mechanical Engineering, Amritapur, Kollam. Dr. Jason Cherian Issac delivered a lecture on ‘Aireralt Stuctures’ [or the trainee ollicers and sailors at'The Naval Institute of Aeronautical Technology (NIAT), Naval Base, Kochi on 9th March, 2012 The Quiz. Club team of Saintgits College of Engineering secured the third position MG University Youth Festival 1 the Quiz Competition of The students of ME department acquired a sum of Rupees 2,59,000 as prize moncy by participating in various National level and State level programmes. SAINTGITS NEWSNAKSHATRA 2012 The National Techno-Caltural Fest of SAINTGITS Collegeof Engincering was inaugurated by Film Actor Sidharth Bharatan on {Sth March, 2012 PRATITYA 2012 - SAINTGITS Arts Day Arts day of SAINTGITS College of Engincering was celebrated at the college campus on 17th March, 2012 SAINTGITS Laurels e = \ ef Sujo P George Junet Babe Alith Kuriakose Maat mith Aravind Roshni Oommen 17 Rank 1 Rank 17 Rank 17 Rank 1 Rank M.Tech Power Systems M.Tech Machine Desigo M.Tech Machine Desiga M.Tech Machine Deslgn B.Tech - ECE MG, University MG, University M.G. University M.G. University MAG. University SAINTGITS College of Engineering Printed & Published by: Kottukulam Hills, Pathamuttom P 0, Dr. M.C. 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