School Highlights

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‘Amritotsava’ - Institution Day

‘Amritotsava’, the Institution Day was celebrated on 4th April, 2013. Dr. P.S. Anil Kumar,

an eminent Scientist from the Department of Physics, IISc., Bengaluru was the Chief Guest of

the day. He spoke about the ‘Wheel of Revolution’ and emphasized on the importance for each

one of us to be technically updated and contribute positively towards the society. Mr. Shyam

Bhat, an eminent Advocate from Mysore graced the function. Correspondent Br. Dhanraj

Swamy, Dean Academics Dr. Nagaraj B.N. and Associate Dean Dr. Rakesh S.G. were also part of

the function and addressed the gathering.

Students who had achieved excellence in Academics, Sports, Extra Curricular Activities

and the Office Bearers of various clubs were felicitated on this occassion.

An Android application ‘It’s My Amrita’ developed by students Mr. Santosh Reddy and

Mr. Dhanush of S6, CSE was launched on this day. The students developed the application

under the guidance of Ms. Santhanalakshmi, faculty from the Department of CSE. The

application gives complete information about the Campus, Programmes and Courses offered

as well as extra & co-curricular activities of the School. It is a one stop solution to all

information regarding the School.

The school magazine ‘Sanchita’ was also released on this day.

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‘Amrita Kalanjali - 2013’

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Amrita Kalanjali, the annual cultural extravaganza of the School, was conducted

between 4th & 6th April, 2013.

Day - 2 was celebrated as Ethnic Day along with many other events which saw active

participation of the students. Some of the events were Indian Group Song, Instrumental Solo,

Face Painting, Lone Wolf Quiz, Stage Play, Duet Song, Dumb Charades, Antakashari, Clay

Modelling, Debate, Movie Quiz, JAM and Crossword. Mixed Bag was also conducted which

comprised many word games such as Pictionary, Guess the Right Words etc. The day ended

with the programme - ‘Band Wagon’ which had the different bands of Amrita School of

Engineering making the entire crowd tap its feet to the tunes.

Day - 3 had the final rounds of many events conducted previously were held. Dancing

Duos, Group Dance, Blind Art and Last-Man-Standing were conducted. Adzap was also

conducted, wherein the participants had to advertise any product like it is done on television.

The event had an overwhelming response and fullest participation from the students

and staff members.

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Farewell Function

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On 6th April 2013, the School bid farewell to the outgoing students. Mr. Tilak

Kesavapillai was the Chief Guest of the evening. A graduate from Anna University and MBA

from Edith Cowan, Australia, Mr. Pillai has worked with Bell Labs and been responsible for

setting up the software division for the Network Product Group in India.

In his speech, Mr. Pillai urged the students to work hard and contribute to a developed

India. He motivated the students to become entrepreneurs and to generate job opportunities.

Correspondent Br. Dhanraj Swamy presided over the function. Associate Dean, Dr.

Rakesh S.G., Chairmen and Heads of various Departments who were integral part of the

function also spoke wishing the students all success and urged them to make the institution

proud.

The function ended with dinner for all the students and staff of the School.

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Spiritual Book Exhibition @ ASE Bengaluru

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On 9th and 10th of April 2013, a ‘Spiritual Book Exhibition’ was organized in collaboration

with the School Library. The exhibition had nearly 1000 visitors and books worth Rs. 20,000

were sold. The publishers from Ramakrishna Math, Amritanandamayi Math, ISCKON and

SVYASA participated in the exhibition.

SPICMACAY Programme @ ASE Bengaluru

The SPIC MACAY Club invited Dr. Neena Prasad, a renowned artist to perform

‘Mohiniyattam’ at ASE, Bengaluru on 23rd April, 2013. The artist performed five acts, which

were all master pieces. A brief introduction was given by her before the start of every act. The

entire audience was enthralled by her performances. She also emphasized the need to

preserve the various art forms of India and encouraged youngsters to learn and pursue them.

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ACM Student Chapter was inaugurated on 19thApril, 2013 at ASE Bengaluru, by

Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Vice Chairman, ACM India and Principal Researcher at Software

Engineering & Technology Labs (SET Labs) in Infosys Technologies Limited, Bengaluru and Dr.

Sangeeta Bhattacharya, Research Scientist in the Parallel Computing Lab (PCL) at Intel Labs,

India.

Dr. Sangeeta Bhattacharya, explained the benefits of an ACM student membership, the

reason to become one and also encouraged people to take further interest in ACM organized

events.

Dr. Srinivas conducted a technical session on multiple topics. He explained about Turing

Awards and gave insight into how TCP/IP and Map Algorithms won such awards. He mentioned

how the world has changed, from the era of coding from scratch, to the era of APIs. He also

discussed the security issues in Cloud Computing. He encouraged students to take up real

challenges of security aspect as their project work. This session was attended by around 100

students and faculty members of CSE.

Inauguration of ‘ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)Student Chapter’

@ ASE Bengaluru

Department of CSE

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International Journal

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

S. Nandagopalan Sudarshan T.S.B. Adiga B.S. C. Dhanalakshmi C.N. Manjunath

“SQL based cardiovascular ultrasound image classification”

April, 2013 International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, An Interscience Publication - Vol. 7, No. 3, 201 pp 266-283. The journal is indexed in Scopus and has an impact factor of 0.7.

Papers Published

Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Mr. Aniruddha Bhattacharjya was chosen as a ‘Reviewer’ for the journals - International Journal of

Radio Frequency Identification Technology and Applications, International Journal of Information

and Computer Security (IJICS) and International Journal of Communication Systems, published by

John Wiley & Sons.

Ms. Tripty Singh reviewed a paper for International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) in April,

2013.

Forum Activities

‘FACE’ - the Forum for Aspiring Computer Engineers, organized a guest lecture on ‘Power

optimization in IT’ and the importance of innovation by Mr. Srinivas Varadarajan, CEO, Vigyanlabs,

and Mr. Balu Masti, Vigyanlabs, on 8th April 2013 in Amriteshwari Hall. Vigyanlabs have created an

environment impacting energy saving product. They presented a lecture and demonstrated the

product and its usefulness / criticality in today's world. Around 150 students from CSE B.Tech.,

M.Tech. Embedded Systems and the faculty from Department of CSE attended this lecture.

Department of ECE

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Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Dr. Shikha Tripathi, Dr. N.S. Murty and Mr. P. Satish Kumar attended the Texas Instruments

Educators Conference and tutorial on ‘Analog System Design’ at Nimhan’s Convention Center,

Bengaluru in April, 2013.

Dr. Shikha Tripathi reviewed a technical paper for International Journal of Electronics published by

Taylor and Francis.

Dr. Dhanesh G. Kurup arranged a meeting to introduce the Scilab/XCOS for Wireless System

Simulations to the faculty members and students of S4 & S6 of the School on 20th April 2013. The

introduction was followed with programming an XCOS block by Mr. Srinivasulu from BOSCH, who is

also a Research Scholar at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. A discussion on forming a social

networking site with the goal of sharing individual ideas, contributions on long term goals and key

milestones to reach the goals also formed part of the session. Around 30 members attended the

session.

Workshops / Seminars / Conferences Attended

NAME TITLE NAME OF THE ORGANIZER

DATE VENUE

Ms. Sunitha R. Ms. Sumathi S. Ms. Neeta Mishra Mr. Hemanth Kumar G. Mr. Sagar B. Mr. Vignesh V.

National Workshop on “Trends and Developments in Signal Processing and Applications TDSPA-13”

Department of ECE, ASE, Bengaluru

27th - 28th April, 2013

ASE, Bengaluru

International Conference

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE CONFERENCE

Mr. Alok Kumar Jha “A Sensor for Detection of Contaminants in Water”

24th April, 2013

International Conference on

Electronics and Communication

Engineering IECE-2013, Bengaluru.

Sponsored by IRD India.

Papers Presented

Department of EEE

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Workshops / Seminars / Conferences Attended

NAME TITLE NAME OF THE ORGANIZER

DATE VENUE

Ms. Nithya M. TI India Educators Conference 2013

Texas Instruments 4th & 5th April, 2013

NIMHANS convention Centre.

Ms. Mamatha I. Ms. Sreekala M.

Trends and Developments in Signal Processing and Applications-TDSPA-13

Department of ECE, ASE, Bengaluru

27th & 28th April, 2013

ASE, Bengaluru

Forum Activities

‘Vidyuth’ - the departmental forum, organized a guest lecture on the topic “Application

Development using AVR, PIC, TI and Arduinomicrocontrollers” on 25th April, 2013 by

Mr. Ajay Prabhu, an alumni of the School, who is now working as Application Engineer in

Botrio Design Labs Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru.

Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Ms. Anjana Jain has been appointed as ‘Branch Counselor’, IEEE Student Branch, Amrita School of

Engineering, Bengaluru.

Students’ Achievements

Mr. A. Trivikram, a student of S2 M.Tech. (Power Electronics) stood in the 18th position in the CEED

(Common Entrance Exam Design) and has obtained admission to ‘Masters in Design Programme

(M.Des.)’ in IIT Mumbai.

Department of EEE

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Other News

Mr. Ullas S. of Computer Science and Engineering Department conducted a half-day workshop on

“Data Flow in Computer Networks-A Realistic Approach” to the S6 students of EEE Department on

24th April, 2013.

The IEEE Student branch at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru organized a motivational

lecture for its students. The talk also marked the reactivation of the student branch. Dr. Preeta

Sharan, Professor, Oxford College of Engineering and Chair of Student Activities, Bengaluru Section

was the Chief Guest of the day. Dr. Preeta Sharan spent enough time briefing the audience on

topics such as ‘Benefits of being an IEEE Member’, ‘IEEE as a platform to nurture talent’, ‘IEEE as a

union of professionals working on advancement of technology for humanity’ etc. The speaker also

shared her personal experiences to inspire the young minds.

Department of ME

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International Journal

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

V. Krishna S. Spoorthi Pradeep G. Hegde K.N. Seetharamu

“Effect of longitudinal wall conduction on the performance of a three-fluid cryogenic heat exchanger with three thermal communications”

March, 2013 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Impact factor: 2.407 (five year impact factor-2.913) Scopus indexed

Papers Published

Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Dr. T. Srinivas Rao was awarded Doctoral degree at the 12thConvocation of VTU, Belgaum held on

5thApril, 2013 for his thesis titled “Design of aggregate material planning in a supply chain network”.

Forum Activities

INGENIUM - The Mechanical Engineers Forum organized a technical talk on “Introduction to MSC

Nastran and MSC ADAMS software” by Mr. Murthy, Lead Engineer, Techlead Solutions, Chennai in

April, 2013 for S4 and S6 students.

Department of Mathematics

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Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Dr. Deepa Gupta delivered an invited talk on the topic, “Domain Based Bilingual Parallel

Data Extraction and an Unsupervised Hybrid Approach to Align Sentences and Words in

Parallel Corpora” at a Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition

conducted at R.V. College of Engineering, Bengaluru in April, 2013 .

Ms. Mamatha T.M. attended a Faculty Development Program on ‘Computational

Techniques for Research’ from 8th to 10th April, 2013, at R.V. College of Engineering,

Bengaluru.

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Abstracts of International Journal Papers Published

Department of CSE

“SQL based cardiovascular ultrasound image classification” - S. Nandagopalan,

Sudarshan T.S.B., Adiga B.S., C. Dhanalakshmi, C.N. Manjunath; International Journal

on Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Vol. 7., No.3, 2013, pp 266-283. Indexed in Scopus

and IF: 0.7

This paper proposes a novel method to analyze and classify the cardiovascular

ultrasound echocardiography images using Naï ve-Bayesian model via database OLAP-

SQL. Efficient data mining algorithms based on tightly-coupled model is used to extract

features. Three algorithms are proposed for classification namely Naï ve-Bayesian

Classifier for Discrete variables (NBCD) with SQL, NBCD with OLAP-SQL and Naï ve-

Bayesian Classifier for Continuous variables (NBCC) using OLAP-SQL. The proposed

model is trained with 207 patient images containing normal and abnormal categories. Out

of the three proposed algorithms, a high classification accuracy of 96.59% was achieved

from NBCC which is better than the earlier methods.

Department of ME

“Effect of longitudinal wall conduction on the performance of a three-fluid cryogenic heat

exchanger with three thermal communications” - V. Krishna, S. Spoorthi, Pradeep G.

Hegde, K.N. Seetharamu; International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 62,

March, 2013

In addition to operating and design parameters, the thermal performance of heat

exchangers, working in cryogenic temperature range, is strongly governed by losses such

as longitudinal conduction through the wall, heat-in-leak from the surroundings, flow

maldistribution, etc. In this paper, a three-fluid cryogenic heat exchanger, involving

thermal interaction between all the three-fluids, is investigated for the effect of

longitudinal heat conduction in the separating walls on its performance.

Dr. Rakesh S.G. Associate Dean & Head

Chief Editor

Ms. Meera K.N. Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics

Editor

Mr. Rajesh M. Assistant Professor

Department of CSE

Editor

Ms. Vasanthi ES to Associate Dean

Editor

Board Members

Ms. Paromita Ganguly (Department of English) Ms. Kirti S. Pande (Department of ECE) Ms. Meena Belwal (Department of CSE) Ms. Sreekala Manmadhan (Department of EEE) Mr. Shashi Kumar M.E. (Department of ME) Dr. Amrita Thakur (Department of Chemistry) Ms. Sarada Jayan (Department of Mathematics) Mr. Shankar Kumaran (Department of Cultural Education) Mr. Shiju Kumar (ICTS)

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