Stay in the Mind of Students, Chancellor Tells Teachers
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Silver Jubilee Year (August 2009 - August 2010) The campus newspaper of SRM University Private Circulation only Volume 4 Number 4 Peeking into an ‘Innomind’ When you meet K.Mohan, a second year Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering (EIE) student of SRM University, you will truly believe in the saying that ‘The greatest of minds are the humblest of people’ Mohan has already won three national awards and three state awards for science and research, including a young scientist award. Hailing from a modest background, Karur District of Tamil Nadu, he has single-handedly filed for three patents for his novel work. One of the highlights of his achievements is having received a National award from the former President of India, Dr. A.P.J The Chancellor addressing teachers of the SRM family. Seen on the dais are the Vice Chancellor and other senior officials of the University Abdul Kalam in December 2008. He is also the ‘My Campus’ category winner Teachers' day at SRM of the recently conducted INNOMIND awards. Shobhana.R and Shruti Iyer of Spectrum caught up with this busy bee to get an insight into his ‘Innomind’. Stay in the mind of students, Question: Tell us about the work which got you the first National award. Answer: I won my first National Chancellor tells teachers Award for formulating a Herbal Mosquito Repellent. I started my research when I Staff Writer “It is important to be a role model”,Dr. There are additional requirements such Pachamuthu reminded teachers gathered as keeping up with developments in was in the 8th standard and was working alling on teachers to pay on the occasion. the field and developments in the mainly in the Biotechnology Laboratory serious attention to research, world”,the Chancellor said going on of IIT Madras. I was successful in the Chancellor of SRM University “This country will live and grow as creating a cheaper and more effective C to make the point “nowadays students and Chairman of the SRM Group of long as teachers are good” the Chancellor are very bright”. substitute for the existing chemical Institutions,Dr.T.R.Pachamuthu asked said. Nearly sixty teachers from various based repellents. The final product the teaching community to be willing SRM institutions were honored on the Dr.Pachamuthu argued that in the costs ` 3 per 25 ml and is valid for to learn and “willing to be always occasion for their academic contributions. current scheme of things research is a approximately 500 days. students”. critical and integral part of teaching,an For a person who has constantly stressed aspect that is stressed at the SRM Group. Q: Give us an overview of your other The Chancellor made his remarks the holistic aspects of education and the “At SRM we are on the positive side. major projects. on the occasion of Teacher’s Day educational process, the Chancellor told But still we have to improve” he said. Celebration at the T.P.Ganesan Auditorium the gathering that the expectation of the A: My second project was on ‘Speed “I wish to make this University one of in Kattankulathur stressing that the student community went beyond covering Breaker Based Power Generation’. This the ranking universities(in the world),the makes use of piezoelectric crystals which “audience” by way of student community the syllabus. “Preparing for the subject must always go out with an impression. alone does not make good knowledge. A P2 A P6 ...all ...National When indoor set to Conference Ted stadium device... on Biotech Came... soon P - 4 P - 7 P - 8-9 P - 10 2 2010 | Spectrum | Volume 4 Number 4 SRM-SAE Collegiate Club steals the show at National Convention “The southern section of SAE India has 96 member clubs and to stand among the top three here gives us immense satisfaction,” Nikita Mahato of Engineering, respectively. The Varun Krishnan team faced tough competition from approximately 10 others in RM SAE Collegiate Club each of the tiers but managed to bagged two awards at hold its own and finished second Sthe National Convention runners up in the southern zone. ’10 organised by SAEISS Student participants at the technical symposiums (Society of Automotive Engineers “The southern section of SAE India, Southern Section). The India has 96 member clubs club stood third in Industry and to stand among the top Problem Challenge and SAE three here gives us immense Go beyond books to gain Club Presentation respectively. satisfaction,” says Vignesh R. The Industry Problem Challenge At the SAE Club Presentation team consisting of Saurav Kumar, Vignesh R, Vinayak Seth event, the various clubs in the knowledge: IT expert and Vineeth Thakur of fourth southern section had to present year Mechanical Engineering the activity and achievements of th Department had to present an their club in the past year and 7 Sense attracts 1800 participants original business idea relevant to also propose their future plans, the technicalities of automotive aims and vision. The event saw engineering. Teams were judged participation from 30 member Karthik Arunapuram at EMSI Software. on the basis of their presentation clubs. Vivek Krishnan, fourth Anjana Nair Other events that were popular skills and practicality, feasibility year Mechanical Engineering and eco friendliness of their plan. student and the chairman of The sense of computing included Code Breaker, Net- SRM SAE Collegiate Club, is what we call the 7th Slam, Quizar, A conventional The SRM team qualified represented SRM University Sense. It is a technology quiz contest, Placement La for zonal level 3rd tier of the “ Craquer, and WebLords. Code convention held at Jeppiar and bagged the 3rd prize at the extravaganza, where participants event. “I hope the club carries from various colleges gather to Breaker was an extension to Engineering College after forward the legacy and soars evaluate and learn”. the Black Hole workshop, bagging the first prize at the intra where participants were given college level 1st tier, held at SRM to ever greater heights in the The Department of Computer the opportunity to code a real University, and city level 2nd coming years,” remarked Vivek Science and Engineering (CSE), world virus scanner. Net-Slam, a tier, held at Hindustan College Krishnan after the success. SRM University, Kattankulathur nerve racking event, had around organised this bi-annual technical 32 participants testing their symposium recently. Peeking into an ‘Innomind’ networking skills. WebLords Inaugurated at the MBA had over 60 participants, who A P2 own money. Once my work got Seminar hall, it witnessed were tested in the coding of recognition, funding came in the presence of technical are activated on compression or The prizes! HTML, Javascript and PHP. from the District Collector and "evangelists" like Mr Subratam expansion of the synthetic speed The gaming zone drew in a lot a few other authorities. Biswas and Mr Ayush Gupta of breaker when a vehicle passes enthusiastic. The event was a of attention with multi-player the Austria-based Emsi Soft. over it. In effect, 33 vehicles Q: What do you do in your platform to share knowledge games like NFS, DOTA CS, can produce about 2hours of spare time? “India has tremendous and learn more about the ever- Quake 3 and Burnout. Crazy potential, compared to any electricity. This project has now A: I don’t have much spare growing technical world.” Bazaar was another one of those other country, in terms of been installed in my hometown time on my hands right now, but entertaining team events where Information Technology. We At least 1800 participated in the to compensate the daily power I collect stamps and coins. In the participants had to guess the have the resources. All we event, which had sponsorships shortages we face. It also got fact, I was State 3rd in philately price of every product placed need is a practical approach from companies like Emsi Soft, me my second national award. and got the District 1st for Mozilla Firefox and Dominos. before them. towards these resources. Students My recent work was the numismatics. I also have a Students from colleges like ought to go beyond the bookish Two Overall winners were ‘Novel Mobile Detector, Sensing, keen interest in rifle shooting. Crescent Engineering College, knowledge and learn a lot more declared amongst the participants Alarming and Reporting System’ through the internet,” said Mr. Easwari Engineering College and Q: What’s next on your who won maximum events for which I won the INNOMIND Biswas. SSN were among the participants. agenda? with the prize being a 180 cc award and the Indian Youth Speaking at the inaugural After the inaugural, the chief TVS APACHE RTR for the Science Conference (IYSC) A: I’m thinking of developing function, Professor C Malathy, guests, Mr Biswas and Mr Gupta, first prize and a 59.9 CC TVS best paper award. a website for tracking lost cell HoD of the Dept of CSE, said, organised a workshop called TEENZ as the second prize. phones. Instead of relying on Q: How do you deal with “The 7th Sense has indeed grown the ‘Black Hole’ that had 300 Sumit Srivastava from CUSAT, SIM tracking which could the cost aspect? Is your research since its inception. This time, Participants . At the end of the Cochin bagged the first prize prove futile, tracking of phones funded or self financed? freshers pitched in and did workshop, two students were and the second prize went to using their IMA would be more a good job. They were very offered a one year internship Jai Kumar from NIT Bhopal. A: Initially, I invested my effective. 2010 | Spectrum | Volume 4 Number 4 3 On track for the mega event AIESEC Internship, a life changing experience says Kartik artik Bhatia, a second took care of my travelling, year Computer Science my pickup and drop from the KEngineering student of airport, helped me reach my SRM University has returned place of work, helped with the from an AIESEC internship local registration and also took from Russia.