Communiqué March 2017

Team Corporate Communication

INDEXS. No. Topic

1 In the News

2 Star Students

3 Faculty Achievements

4 Campus Buzz

5 Through the Corridor

6 UPES in Media

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In the News01

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Ex-President of Mexico visits India Mr. Ernesto Zedillo, Ex-President of Mexico visited

India to address an event co-organized by UPES.

At the event, Mr. Zedillo discussed globalization and

the role of today’s youth in revving tomorrow’s economy’.

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President Zedillo and President,

UPES, Mr. Utpal Ghosh share a light moment before the event.

Mr. Utpal Ghosh in

conversation with Mexico’s Ambassador to India, H.E. Melba Pria at the event.

UPES

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Star Students02

Amitabh Sails to Geneva as Summer Student

Hard work of Amitabh Yadav, student of B. Tech Electronics

Engineering course turned out rewarding when he earned for himself, selection in one of the most prestigious organizations in Europe CERN (European Organization for Nuclear

Research) in Geneva, Switzerland this summer.

Amitabh has been selected among 2000 candidates as a Summer Student for 10 weeks i.e. from 5th June to 11th August 2017. Under this program he would work on a

research project in the field of electronics and attend academic sessions in Physics, openLab, workshops, events,

presentations on Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Detectors (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb).

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His accommodation and other expenses are also covered as

associated stipend amounting to 6300CHF.

Krishnam’ International Stride

A final year student of B.Tech. (Energy Technology),

LL.B.(Hons.) with specialization in IPR, Krishnam Goyal has received a scholarship from the University of New Hampshire, Concord, New England USA ( Franklin

Pierce law, US News Ranking No. 5)

Krishnam Goyal has been offered admission to the fall 2017 entering class for the LLM IP in the prestigious school.

He has been offered a scholarship of $8000.

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MSNT Students Rock

Akshaya Venkatakrishnan, B. Tech student of 4th

year has been granted admission in Materials Science and Engineering (MS) program beginning the Fall 2017, at Arizona State University, Tempe,

USA. U.S News & World Report ranks ASU at No. 1 among the most innovative schools in America for

the second year in a row.

Shubhangi Goel and Anirudh Varanasi have been

selected for the student exchange programs with TPU - Russia.

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With pride sharing series of achievements galore that students of B. Tech Mechanical with

specialization in Material Science and Nano Technology course have brought for themselves spreading delight among friends and faculty alike.

MSNT Students … Anirudh Varanasi and Prateek Jain have been selected

for the Tata Steel Summer Internship through the Mind Over Matter Competition - Season 4. This is Tata Steel’s annual innovation challenge for the sharpest minds to

innovate and implement cutting-edge solutions to real-life problems related to steelmaking. In Addition, two more

students of UPES from other streams are also chosen for the same.

As a team, Bodhanapu Vishnu from MSNT and Prateek Awasthi from B. Tech Applied Petroleum Engineering

(Gas) won Tata Crucible - The Business Quiz.' The team got a cheque of Rs. 75, 000 as prize.

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UPES Alumna wins Best Paper AwardSurabhi Rana was selected as the winner of Airports Council

International (ACI) Asia Pacific Young Executive of the Year 2017. Her paper has been selected as best of the sixteen submissions from Asia Pacific Airports.

She was Alumna of MBA Aviation Management (2006-2008)

batch and currently working as Assistant General Manager, Aero Marketing, GVK Mumbai International Airport.

ACI is the global representative of the world’s airports with five regional offices. ACI Asia-Pacific Young Executive of the Year

Award is a research paper competition to encourage and promote innovative ideas and solutions to challenges facing the aviation industry.

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Mechatronics Students win Laurels in Cognizance

7 students of B.TechMechatronics (6th semester) went to

participate in different events of Cognizance 2017 which is an annual Technical Festival of IIT, Roorkee. These students won first prizes in their respective categories.

1st prize in paper presentation of MIED (Mechanical

department) on Vertical Parking 1st prize in ECE paper presentation 1st prize in Alternate Hydro Energy Conversation (AHEC)

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Faculty Achievements 03

Young Scientist Award to UPES Faculty Mr. Arjun Arora, faculty, UPES won the Young

Scientist Award 2017.

The award was bestowed at the 11th

Uttarakhand State Science and Technology Congress in the discipline of Mathematics;

Statistics and Computer Science.

He presented a paper on the topic “VANET

based reactive protocol for traffic information distribution during critical scenarios in

Uttarakhand.”

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UPES Incubation Center head becomes Country Ambassador for UBI Dr. Ajit Nigam, Head, Incubation Center, UPES is nominated as Country

Ambassador from India for UBI.

Headquartered in Sweden, UBI global has started its Country Ambassador

Program (CAP - The UBI Global Country Ambassador Program). CAP is a

platform for adopting international best practices to each country's specific

needs - which will lead to a more efficient and competitive national innovation

ecosystem.

To stay on top, UBI appoints experts in Entrepreneurial field as its Country

Ambassadors to work closely with the professionals that know their own

ecosystem the best.

Currently UBI-Global has a growing network of 600+ incubators in 70+

countries, which gives them access to 10.000+ startups and entrepreneurs.

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Research Paper Publishes

An article co - authored by Dr. Sheetal Khanka and Prof Akhil Damodaran faculty UPES titled,

“Ola Vs Uber Vs Regulator: The Case of Indian Cab Aggregator” got published in ECCH (European Case Clearing House).

The details of the case can be found on following link: OLA VS UBER VS REGULATOR: THE CASE OF INDIAN CAB AGGREGATOR(Case)

with reference 317-0052-1 OLA VS UBER VS REGULATOR: THE CASE OF INDIAN CAB AGGREGATOR(Teaching

note) with reference 317-0052-8

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UPES Team Earns Pragati Award

Ms. Prachi and Ms. Neha have done UPES proud!! Beating RBI is

no mean feat.

Pragati – a Quiz competition was organized at the AIMA on 29th

March 2017. AIMA has organized an event that celebrated

achievements of women.

Representing UPES, a team of two comprising Ms. Neha Agrawal,

faculty, Dept. of Public Policy and Administration and Ms. Prachi

Bhardwaj from HR, UPES has won the competition.

Confronting 16 teams for a good two and a half hours, this team

emerged winners in the finals. In a teeth biting round, Team UPES

beat RBI team who were last year’s champions of the competition.

Winners brought home laurels including a trophy and money as

prize.

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Campus Buzz04

Research Seminar Series

The College of Management and Economics Studies at Knowledge Acres has

initiated and innovative way to keep themselves abreast in gaining and sharing

knowledge.

As a result, a series of sessions have been decided to be organised under

Research Seminar series.

Mr. Aditya Gupta, Head, Business Development, Drive India Enterprise

Solutions Ltd (DIESL) was invited to deliver a thought provoking sessions. Mr.

Gupta spoke on the topic ‘Developing a Framework for Integrating Inland

Waterways with Other Modes to Create an Intermodal Transportation System

In India.’

Mr. Gupta’ shared the global scenario on IWT with its advantages He also

discussed the methodology on developing the conceptual model for IWT in

India.

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Market Maestros

Manthan Maestros - The Marketing Club at CoMES was

organized on 23rd March, 2017 to gear up enthusiasm among participants.

100 students clubbed in 50 teams from 2 colleges (CoMESand CoLS) participated in 3 rounds of Quiz, Extempore and

Re-branding the products.

The objective was to acquaint students with promotional

strategies used in marketing through re-branding.

Shivani Arora and Tanya Chugh (students of MBA IB) secured 1st position.

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Rural Women Technology Park delivers the

Best Rural Women Technology Park (RWTP) Team has successfully

completed and delivered an order of 500 Gift Hampers to DST, for

handing over to Hon’ble Members of Parliament at Science Exhibition

event held at New Delhi (28th – 29th March, 2017).

The gift hamper comprised Natural Jute Fibre Bag and pouch with 6

(woodless) Pencils made up of waste newspaper.

The products were designed and created by rural women beneficiaries of

RWTP, under the supervision of WTP team.

Dr Chandra Mohan (Head /Scientist G, Science for Equity,

Empowerment & Development (SEED) Division, Department of Science

& Technology) and Dr. Rashmi Sharma, Scientist 'E‘, RWTP-UPES, has

been generous in providing opportunity to this team to showcase the

products at prestigious national event.

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Financia creates Buzz

Financia – Finance Club of UPES organized an interesting

buzz creating event, "The Dalal Street Survivor“ on 29th and 30th March, 2017.

More than 60 students from engineering and management courses were witnessed in 3 rounds.

All participants were awarded virtual money and the choice of 8 different companies from various sectors for shares

selling and display.

It was quite an interesting learning and real time experience for students to understand the concept practically of shares dealing.

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Science Engineering Connect

Around 480 enthusiastic 1st year B. Tech. students registered to

participate in Science Engineering Connect that kicked off on 22nd

October 2016.

Undergoing various rounds, 60 students could qualify in 1st round. 2nd

round filtered participants on Logic, Puzzle and Reasoning ground. In

the final round, innovative ideas on a specific topic was presented in a

presentation and interaction round held on 17 th February 2017.

Top 5 students of 3rd round had an Interaction and discussion with the

Distinguished Guest of the event Prof. Vivek Tiwari, Professor of

Physics, Allahabad University. Based on the interaction, winners were

announced.

The students got opportunity to attend an informative session delivered

by Prof. Tiwari on the topic, “Probing deep in to the heart of matter”.

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Computer Science Students Celebrate Digital India Week

Digital India Week (DIW) 2017 was a week long series of

events which were organized by UPES, along with ISSA

Dehradun Chapter to outline the impact of digitization on our

regular lives, started on 17th March.

Talks from prolific professionals from IT industry including Mr.

Venkata Maruti, Project Leader, DE Shaw, Mr. Ramandeep

Singh, CEO QOS Technology and Mr. Sandeep Kumar,

Director Konnected Mindz Mobile Solutions interacted with

students on topics ranging from Role of Engineering in Digital

Forensics to Security in IOT.

The Chief guest, Mr. Venkata Maruti, Project Leader, DE

Shaw, shared his experience and distributed prizes to the

winners of respective events worth over Rs. 75,000.

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Through the Corridor05

Dr. Jha Represents UPES College of Management at Prestigious Forums Dr. Karunakar Jha was appointed as a Convener (Skill

Development) for the year 2017 at an event organized by All India Management Association Diamond Jubilee (AIMA ) in Delhi on 21st February 2017.

The event was addressed by various leading corporates to

appreciate their contribution to building AIMA.

UPES College of Management & Economics Studies

(COMES ) has become the Corporate member besides Confederation of Indian Industries (CII),Uttarakhand Circle.

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He also participated in National Leadership Conclave organized

by AIMA organized on 22nd & 23rd of March 2017. The Theme

of the conclave was ‘The New World Order – Will Asia Dominate

the Next 10 years.’

Dr. Jha represents…Prestigious Forums Dr. Jha participated in a prestigious forum, the Future

of Healthcare Improvement & Innovation in India organized by Monash University, Australia, Newcastle University, UK & International Institute of Health

Management & Research (IIHMR), India at Delhi on 3 rd

March 2017.

At the event, various speakers spoke on the importance of key management disciplines such as

Finance, HR, Marketing and Technology in Healthcare Sector in India.

Dr. Jha addressed on the topic of importance of Digital Marketing & Social Media in Healthcare Management.

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BBA Students Enjoys Community Service Students of BBA course along with their faculty and staff participated in pre-holi celebrations at

Nanhi Duniya, Dalanwala, Dehradun. Nanhi Duniya is a special needs school.

The students of the special needs school performed brilliant events which included classical

dances and plays. Subsequently, UPES students joined the special needs students in a jointdance & celebration in their playground.

UPES students felt a great sense of satisfaction at having contributed to the happiness of the students and expressed their desire to return again to the school

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UPES Monthly CR SCOOP

CR Scoop is a monthly initiative to

update about the domain specific

conclaves, progress on faculty

internships - “Abhigyat”, pursuing

industry linkages, and last but not the

least, cultivating alumni relations

being organized by UPES.

To know what exciting has been

initiated by Corporate Affair, don’t

forget to read this exciting issue of this

month.

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Forging Ahead

Forging Ahead - The University e-newsletter was launched

by Vice Chancellor, UPES Dr. Shrihari Honwad along with Mr. Sanjiv Zutshi and other OMC members and the faculty.

This e-newsletter is an endeavour to present updates about the University under its constituent college sections.

To relish reading faculty articles across disciplines, facets of UPES, events and more, click on the link below

http://www.upes.ac.in/pdf/Forging-Ahead-2017.pdf

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Sharing Happiness

30Leading Department

Contentment Expressed

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When I see UPES and the four years of engineering and

learning experience I had here, I feel and realize how

much I have grown both intellectually and as a person. I

found innumerable number of ideas, exposure and

knowledge from all walks of life here - among students,

with professors and even while sitting idle with the nature.

Interdisciplinary projects, entrepreneurial activities and

finding ways to sustainable use of technology is the

approach that UPES guides us to. A studentship at CERN

was the best thing that could have happened to me as I

step out. A big thank you to UPES, its people and

everyone here! Its been an honor.

Amitabh Yadav, student of B. Tech Electronics Engineering

BBA (Auto Marketing) students placed in Big Boy Toyz (BBT)

Congrats ! Shubham Malhotra Rajveer Ratnakar

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Industrial Visit to Relaxo Footwear Ltd.

One day industrial visit of UPES BBA (Logistics

Management), batch 2016-19 was organized at RelaxoFootwear Limited, Sidcul, Haridwar on 4th February 2017.

A group of 35 students accompanied by two faculty members; Dr. Saurabh Tiwari & Mr. Aman Dua visited the

plant & learnt the world class operations of footwear industry.

The purpose of the visit was to get a hands-on experience on the practical aspect of the operation of the

footwear industry, and also to match the theoretical & practical aspects of operations.

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UPES in Media06

Mr. Ghosh’s comments on Union Budget

A Look Back

37Leading Department

Magic hits Success 4th International Conference, Methods, Aesthetics and Genre

in English Communication (MAGIC) 2016 saw a great success.

5th in series MAGIC received 88 abstracts and witnessed 50 delegates at the campus. Additionally, 5 with their virtual

presentations.

Plenary speakers included Prof. Sisir Basu (Banaras Hindu

University), Prof. Rashmi Gaur (I.I.T. Roorkee) & Prof. S. Chakrabarti (Delhi University) and Dr. Thalia Nazario,

Managing Editor, HLRC.

38Centre of Professional Communication, UPES

The inclusion of two other themes besides Communication & Language and Communication & Literature

namely, Communication & HBO and Communication & Skill India were widely accepted and excellent

deliberations ensued. The Conference was organised in association with Higher Learning Research

Communication (HLRC), International Journal of the Laureate Network.

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