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Instincts & Rhapsody’17Contents

Instincts & Rhapsody’17

Healthy Campus Initiative Blood Donation Camp’17

Expert Lecture on Road Safety by Mr.Amit Khatri

Second at State-Level in Mega ATVChampionship

Team Impulse at Robocon 2017

Vivechanam-Book Club Inauguration

Seminar on ‘Image Processing andComputer Vision Using MATLAB’

Workshop on PCB Making

Seminar on GRE Exam Preparation

Workshop on PCB Design

Expert Session on Electrical CADSoftware

Expert Session on Power SystemFault Analysis

Fling 2017

Faculty Achievement

Students’ Achievement

Industrial Visits Industrial Visits Photo Gallery

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The Office of Students’ Affair at Indus Universityachieved another milestone with successful executionof a five-day Cultural & Sports festival under the ban-ner of Instincts’2017 from 2nd – 5th March’17 in theuniversity campus. The inauguration ceremony waspresided by Cdr M P Felix (Retd), Director StudentAffairs accompanying the Chief Guest Mr. Sumeet-Tembe, an International Tennis Player and the Guestof honour, Mr. Himalaya, a Gujarat Ranji TrophyCricketer, both alumni of Indus University along withfaculty members and students.

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Instincts comprised of Literati (Literary), Aakar (Fine Arts), Rhapsody (Performing Arts), andCollympics’17 (Sports) with the finale being nothing short of terrific including popular DJ Shaan ofTomorrowland fame. The jury members for most inter college events were invited from variedfields & expertise. The finale with Rhapsody’17 entailed Performing Arts events namely Dance,Song, Skit and Fashion Show. The university campus came alive with splendid performanceswhich left the audience, comprising of dignitaries, corporate entrepreneurs, faculty members andstudents, awestruck and asking for more.

On the concluding eve of the festival, DJ Shaan the first Indian to perform at Tomorrowland,performed live at Indus University Campus. In total around 1200 EDM fans from across the city ofAhmedabad attended the concert. The event was sponsored by ICE, Cash back partner: CashBasket, Fortune Basmati Rice, CADD Centre, Tripology, Printing Partner: Siddhi Printech &Online Ticketing Partner: www.meraticket.com. The event was managed by 4 Heads Events &Entertainment.

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Healthy Campus Initiative

Healthy Campus is an initiative of the Narcotics Control Bureau for the education institutionsof the state of Gujarat in India, to help the campus community get the most out of their yearsspent at the educational institutions. The initiative aims to be led by the students whoundertake activities to promote healthy living on campus. The initiative has identified sevenkey areas, which include - Healthy living, Social consciousness, Stress management,Building self-esteem, Developing critical thinking, Developing soft skills & Living a drug freelife. As a part of this initiative a seminar was organized for all students and faculty membersof Indus University on Tuesday 28 March 2017 to highlight existential threat that drugs poseto our society. Mr. Hari Om Gandhi, Zonal director, NCB addressed all students and facultyof the university. The session was interactive with students clarifying many myths aboutaforementioned topics and educating them with the expert advice coming their way.Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has sought support of educational institutions to curb suchmenace in the society by forming Healthy Campus committee.

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Blood Donation Camp’17

Second at State-Levelin Mega ATV

Championship

In the times when everysecond tragedies due to aroad mishap, Road Safety isof paramount importance fortoday’s youth so on 16th

March 2017 Indus Universityorganized a special experttalk for its students by Mr.Amit Khatri, a renowned RoadSafety Consultant. Like agood communicator Mr. Khatrieffortlessly made hispresentation on Road Safetymuch interesting throughvariety of videos and imagesto drive home many poignantlesser known facts about roadsafety which made the entiresession very engaging and

interactive. As the acronymsuggests, Mr. Khatriimplored every young mindin the audience to Seek,Aim, Follow, Ensure, Teach,Yield (SAFETY) becausemaking city roads safer foreveryone starts with each ofus.

Expert Lecture on RoadSafety by Mr. Amit Khatri

The entire community of IndusUniversity including studentsfrom all programs, facultym e m b e r s , t e a c h i n ga s s o c i a t e s , r e s e a r c hassociates and staff cametogether for a noble cause on29th March 2017. A blooddonation camp was organizedat the Indus University campusin association with CivilHospital, Ahmedabad in which192 people donated blood andconsiderable units werecollected. The camp has beena tradition at the universitycampus for the last eight yearssince the inception of theinstitution. Every year thecamp is organized with ahumble motive of creatinggeneral awareness amongyouth on campus. This yearthe blood donation camp waso rga n i ze d b y s t u d en tvolunteers namely VitragShah, Raviraj Chauhan, AkashThakkar, Kishan Ponda,

Karan Sarodia, ,VaishaliGangwani, Sumit Vachhani, &Jinendra Mehta with laboratoryassistants & administrativestaff, who participated whole-heartedly to lend meaning tothe cause.

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newsletterTomcar Vikings under IndusUniversity Motorsports clubperformed at the 10th edition ofSAE BAJA in February 2017 atPithampur, Indore among 150participants across India.Though performance at SAEBAJA could not meet thedemand of the competition,students of Motorsports clubput their best foot forward forMega ATV Championship inwhich they secured secondposition in Gujarat and 10th

across India. The club hasexpressed deep sense ofgratitude towards sponsorsnamely RohanBrc, Al Huraiz,E l e c t r o t h e r m , I n t a sP h a r m a c e u t i c a l s ,MaxenerWelness, Cll Logisticsfor their support andassistance throughout thecompetition.

R o b o t i c s c o m p e t i t i o nscheduled from 2nd – 4th

March 2017 at Balewadistadium, Pune. The eventwas organized by MIT-AOE inwhich 120 college teams fromacross India had participated.Team IMPULSE stood at5thposition among the teamsselected from Gujarat. Theteam has expressed theirdeep gratitude towards thesponsors Electrotherm IndiaL t d . , S v a y a m b h uMultispecialty Hospitals & MCMachines for their continuousassistance, along with thefaculty coordinators Mr.Sauravsingh Tomar & Mr.Hiren Patel for theiru n r e l e n t i n g s u p p o r tthroughout the competition.

Team IMPULSE atROBOCON 2017

Vivechanam – BookClub Inauguration

To lose ourselves in books isthe only way to findourselves; with this noblethough t a Compu te rEngineering student AbhiThadeshwar initiated theidea of Vivechanam, a bookclub at Indus University. Theinaugural was on 24th March’17 where in two articlestitled ‘How the GPS Rewiresour Brain’ and ‘Why the For-Profit Education Fails’ wered iscussed by twe lveparticipants. Studentsshared variety of insights ontheir reading of the two pre-determined articles alongwith brainstorming sessionabout their interest genres inbooks and movies for furtherfruitful planning underVivechanam. More numberof students must takeadvantage of this creativeopportunity to realize thatbooks are a uniquelyportable magic.

Team IMPULSE under IndusRobotics Club participated inROBOCON, an International

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newsletterSeminar on ‘Image

Processing andComputer Vision Using

MATLAB’

A seminar on GRE Preparation

was organized by EEE

department .This seminar was

organized for 4th & 6th

semester students. Mr. Shah

from Renaissance Educare

was key note speaker who

spoke of techniques to crack

GRE exam and elaborated on

various options available after

graduation in US & Canada.

Electronics & CommunicationEngineering Department hadorganized a seminar on‘Image Processing andComputer Vision UsingMATLAB’ by Alka Nair,Application Engineer, Mathworks (India) on 22ndMarch’17.The topics coveredin seminar were accessings i g n a l s a n d i m a g e sin MATLAB, introduction tobasic signal processing, app-based approach for commonimage processing tasks,introduction to computervis ion workf lows withmachine learning.

Workshop on PCBMaking

The prime goal behind thisworkshop was to impartCircuit designing knowledgeamong the students. Thisworkshop dealt with designingvarious kinds of electroniccircuits and their use inmaking PCB Designing &A n a l o g C i r c u i tDesigning ,Basic of Hardware& Software ,New & UpcomingTechnologies ,PCB DesigningSoftware (Proteus Software) .

Workshop on PCBDesign

i-EESA conducted workshop

on Printed Circuit Board

(PCB) Design. The workshop

was exclusively for pre final

year Electrical Engineering

students only. The workshop

was all about designing the

PCB manually and also with

dedicated layout software.

The workshop was conducted

on 23rd March 2017 by Prof.

Hinal Shah.

Indus Electrical & ElectronicsAssociation (IEEEA) hadorganized a workshop on‘PCB Making’ for 4 t h

semester students.

Seminar on GRE ExamPreparation

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Expert session onElectrical CAD Software

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Power System FaultAnalysis

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Faculty Achievement

ECAD: Electronic ComputerAided Design seminar byR_CAD Solut ions wasorganized on 29th March2017 at Indus University by i-EESA (Indus UniversityE lec t r i ca l Eng inee r ingStudents Associa t ion) .R_CAD Solutions is a leadingengineering design unit whichdelivers training and servicesof industrial design softwarefor CAD-CAM-CAE onadvanced automated designsoftwares. The seminar washosted by Mr. UtkarshMahaliya, the director ofR_CAD solutions.The main objective of theseminar was to makestudents aware about ECAD.

Indus Electrical EngineeringStudent Association (i-EESA)& Department of ElectricalEngineering organized anexpert session on ‘PowerSystem Fault Analysis’ on30th March`17. The expertProf . B.A .Oza (Retd .Professor, B.V.M College ofE n g i n e e r i n g ,V.V.Nagar) addressed 6thsemester students of EE &EEE. He shared theinformation about generalconcepts of power system.Students gained knowledgea b o u t f au l t a nd i t stroubleshooting in thesystem .

Department of EC organized

Fling '17 on 15th March under

E-sync students’ association.

Interesting events like Selfie

Contest, Treasure hunt and

Quiz were put up for students

and faculty members of

department.

Dr. Vishal Dahiyapresented Research

paper on ‘Proposed Model

for an Expert System for

Diagnosing Degenerative

Diseases- using Image

Processing and Neural

N e t w o r k ’ a t 2 n d

International Conference

on ICT for Intelligent

S y s t e m s h e l d i n

Ahmedabad March 25-26,

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Prof. Sweta Shahpresented a researchpaper titled ‘Short TermLoad Forecasting usingArtificial Neural Network’at a National conferenceon 10th-11th March 2017at Noble Group ofInstitution, Junagadh;where she received theBest Paper Award -Nobcon 2017.

Chirag Rathod fromM.Tech Electrical PowerSystems 2nd semesterconducted supplementaryclasses on AutoCAD from1 5 t h -31 s t Ma rch ’1 7organ ized by C iv i lEngineering Departmentof Birla VishwakarmaMahavidyalaya (BVM),Vallabh Vidhyanagar,A n a n d w h i c h w a ssponsored by TEQIP-II.

Divya Patel & GaurangPatel of 4th semester,Mechanical engineeringwon 2nd prize in ‘Best outof Waste’ event organizedduring cultural & sportsevent INSTINCTS’17.Theymade a multipurposeproduct which can beused as a Flowerpot forplanting small plants andalso be used as nightlamp by just adding alamp to it.

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SR.NO. BRANCH SEMESTER INDUSTRIAL VISIT1 EC 2 Akshay Patra,Bhadaj

2 EC 6 BISAG (Bhaskracharya Institute for SpaceApplications and Geo-Informatics), Gandhinagar

3 EC 4 Metro electronics, Sector-26, Gandhinagar

4 MECHANICAL 4 Karnavati Engineer works, Hydralic Jack makingindustry, Vatva

5 MECHANICAL 6 Rainbow Techno cast, Rajkot

6 MECHANICAL 6 Jyoti CNC Automation Ltd., Rajkot

7 MECHANICAL 6 Adani port, Mundra

8 EEE 4,6 Hindustan Coca-Cola Bevarages Pvt. Ltd.

9 CIVIL 6 Kotarpur Water Treatment Plant

10 CIVIL 6 Sardar Sarovar Dam

11 CIVIL 6 Kadana Dam

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Ms. Meeta Agarwal

Prof. Mamta Amin

Gaurav Pandya

Aman Shah

Shail Desai

Nikunj Patel

Jay Limbasia

Principal Coordinator:

Chief Editor :

Students’ Team:

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