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HAPPENINGS…The Monthly 2017 E-Newsletter September,HAPPENINGS…The Monthly 2017 e-Newsletter HAPPENINGS The Monthly e-Newsletter Volume - 24 Shri Ramswaroop Memorial Group of 1 Professional Colleges Lucknow HAPPENINGS…The Monthly e-Newsletter H HH We welcome following additions to our family A DOJ S.N EMPL ID Faculty /Staff Name Designation Department A Date Month Year A 1 E0000001362 Mr. Abhishek Kumar Asst. Professor EC 23 August 2017 2 E0000001363 Ms. Anjali Nosaria Asst. Professor EC 28 August 2017 E0000003232 Mr. Chandrasekhar 4 September 2017 3 Helper PG Library Yadav P 4 E0000001364 Ms. Nidhi Dubey Lab Instructor ME 7 September 2017 PP 5 E0000001365 Mr. Abhishek Pathak Lab Instructor CS 11 September 2017 6 E0000001366 Mr. Sumit Khanna Sr. Lecturer BBA 18 September 2017 7 E0000001367 Mr. Ashutosh Nautiyal Admin Officer Admin Office 21 September 2017 E0000001368 Assistant to 25 September 2017 8 Mr. Vidhya Sagar Admin P Secretary P P Members who bade us farewell Members who are promoted: Faculty /Staff Date E S.N EMPL ID Designation Department Name Date Month Year E Mr. Siddharth EE 1 E0000001356 Sr. Lecturer BBA 18 August 2017 Srivastava N Promotions NN I I Designation II S.N EMPL ID Faculty /Staff Name Department From To N 1 E0000000429 Dr. Bhagwati Prasad Sr. Lecturer Asstt. Professor Hamanities NN Admin (Generator 2 E0000003182 Mr. Rahul Kumar Helper Electrician Room) G GG SSS 2 HAPPENINGS…The Monthly e-Newsletter Moments of Rejoice H A P Shri Ramswaroop Memorial college of Engineering and management got an alluring blush in the 9th September, 2017 on the eve of fresher’s party. P The college grounds flooded with the fragrances which was followed by their owners in the decorated avatar of saree-draped damsels and handsome boys carrying E suits. The light drizzle outside was just not enough to dampen the excitement, on the event of their welcome N party hosted by seniors. Balloons scattered across the floor, dazzling halogens, kaleidoscopic lights, and jazzy beats made the usually I mundane abhivyakti stage ground much more eye catching. N G S 3 HAPPENINGS…The Monthly e-Newsletter H A P P E N I N G S 4 HAPPENINGS…The Monthly e-Newsletter H Soon the most awaited competition for “Miss Freshers and Mr. Fresher” begun under the judgment of the college dean Er. Pooja Agrawal and Er. Panjak A Agrawal. The lights twinkled, Spotlight switched on, and the ramp walk began! P P E N I N G S 5 HAPPENINGS…The Monthly e-Newsletter H Vishwakarma Day, also known as Vishwakarm Jayanti or Vishwakarma Puja was celebrated at SRMGPC. A It is a day of celebration for Vishwakarma, a Hindu God, the divine architect. P P E N I N G S 6 HAPPENINGS…The Monthly e-Newsletter H A The much awaited day of 5th September at SRMGPC was marked with P honours and acknowledgement to Teachers. The students hosted special programs in their honour. The students expressed profound gratefulness to their teachers for guiding them, P inspiring them and making them what they are. E N I N G S 7 HAPPENINGS…The Monthly e-Newsletter H Achievement for EN departnent. Our student Prakhar Dixit from EN 4rth year secured 1st position in university level speech competition.. He was taking his prize from the Vice Chancellor (LU) and the Director A General BSF (retd.) at Lucknow University old campus.The speech competition was held in H SRMGPC on september 6th, 2017. P A P P E P N E I N N I G N S G 8 S HAPPENINGS…The Monthly e-Newsletter H Sonali Singh from EE 3 Year has been selected as one of the finalist in beauty contest i.e. Miss diva 2017, if she wins the competition then she will represent India in Miss Universe 2017.Before her road to A miss diva, she is selected for campus princess and she competed with many contestants and by overcoming all the challenges she is P selected for miss diva. P E N I N G S 9 HAPPENINGS…The Monthly e-Newsletter H Academic Activities Members who are promoted: A P Workshop has been conducted by CAREER LAUNCHER ON 13th and 14th September for Btech 3rd year all branches. Mr. Sidharth Sethia and Mr. Sidharth Malik alumini of IIT and IIM has addressed the P student. M/s TIME (GATE, CAT) conducted a workshop for Btech-2nd year students (ME, CE, EE). Mr Ashish Sinha alumini of IIT Khozikode has E addressed the student. Workshop on “BRIDGING BETWEEN IT INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION SYSTEM” was conducted on 7th September, 2017 for N Btech-4th year (CS/IT) by Mr. Pranjal Consultant, Deloit US India. 3. A workshop on “Mobile application Development” was conducted for 4th year student of IT,CS by Mr. Sumit Gupta RPI Soln.,lucknow I on 8th Sept, 2017. A workshop on the software “ORELL- dell” was conducted for MCA student at SRMU, Deva Road Lucknow on 21st September, 2017. N Mr. Rohit Kumar project manager, Softpro India Pvt Ltd conducted a workshop for MCA students on the topic “PHP WORKSHOP ON DATA G BASE HANDLING”. A workshop on “NETWORKING, ETHICAL HACKING, LINUX” by Btech EE department and delivered by Mr. Nitin Srivastava, Mr. S Samran Singh & Ms, Richa on 19 September, 2017. 10 HAPPENINGS…The Monthly e-Newsletter H Dr. Taskeen Zaidi associate professor of SRMU, Lucknow A delivered a lecture on “HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION” to the students of MCA 1st, 2nd, 3rd year student on 19th September. P “EMPLOYABILITY INGREDIENT ENHANCES AND MARKET REQUIREMENT” was conducted for Btech- ME 3rd year P student by D.V. Mahindru (HOD, ME). Guest lecture was conducted on the topic “MACRO MACHINING” for Btech- ME 2nd year students by Mr. Sunil E Kumar Yadav ( Astt. Professor, ME). Guest lecture on “SATELLITE NAVIGATION” was conducted N for the students of Btech EI & EC-4th year by Er. D.K. MISHRA. Guest lecture on “WHEELS AND BRAKE FOR AIRCRAFT” I was conducted for the students of Btech ME- 3rd & 4th year by Mr. Naveen Neeraj (AGM HAL, LKO). N A seminar was conducted by Ms. Swasti Agrawal Director, Precursor Info Solutions, Lucknow on the topic “structuring data with java technology” for Btech (CS/IT)-2nd year. G A guest lecture deliver by Dr. Shalini Agarwal, Associate S Professor, SRMU Lucknow. The guest lecture emphasized on 11 HAPPENINGS…The Monthly e-Newsletter H “cloud Data Center”, Organized by MCA department for 2nd and 3nd year students on 13th –September-2017. A A guest lecture delivered by Ms. Neha Pant, Assistant Professor, SRMU Lucknow. The guest lecture emphasized on “Wireless Sensor Network”, Organized by MCA department P for 3rd year students on 1st –September-2017. A Seminar on “Structuring data with java technology” was P conducted for 2nd year student of IT,CS by Swasti Agarwal (Director,Precursor Info. Soln),Lucknow on 22nd Sept, 2017. E SPEECH COMPETITION was conducted on 6th September, 2017 on the topic “ideology and philosophy of Shri VIvekanand and winners are:- CATEGORY-HINDI Sr. no Name Course Prize N 1 PRAKHAR DIXIT EC-4th year FIRST 2 RUCHI SINGH BCA-3rd year SECOND I CATEGORY-ENGLISH Sr. no Name Course Prize 1 MAHIMA SAXENA IT 4th year FIRST N 2 ASMITA BHATT BBA 1st year SECOND G S 12 HAPPENINGS…The Monthly e-Newsletter H A MCA students went to Aliganj , Lucknow for industrial visit at Softpro India Computer Technologies PVT ltd, kapoorthala on12th –September-2017 P Tour was organized by EC department from 16th September to 20th September. P Students of 3rd yr, 4th yr along with 4 faculty members went to tour. They went Ludhiana, Dharamshala, Dalhousie & Chandigarh. E Students actively participated in paragliding, horse riding & many more interesting event. Watwerfall view in Dhramshala N was very beautiful. Students felt re-enenrgized after tour. I N G S EE 4rth year, Industrial visit, Unnao, September 8, 2017 13 HAPPENINGS…The Monthly e-Newsletter H A P P MBA 1st year went to brindavan bottlers, safedabad. MBA 2nd year went to AMUL, sitapur road, Lucknow. E Placement N Recruitment drive/ FInal Campuses/ S.N Description Student Final Selection Selection I 2017 batch Recruitment 1 M/s TATA Elxsi Ltd for Btech-17 batch (EC, EN, CS, IT) drive Recruitment 2 M/s Net2Source for Btech/MBA/MCA/BBA/BCA-18 batch N drive Final 3 TATA Consultancy Service for Btech (CS, IT)-18 batch G selection 4 Recruitment By Indian Air Force for 2017 passout batches (NCC special 4 drive entry) S 14 HAPPENINGS…The Monthly e-Newsletter H Recruitment M/s Concentrix (Former IBM DAKSH) for Btech all branches- H 5 drive 18 batch Recruitment By Teleperformance for flipkart for B tech/ BCA/ BBA-17 6 A drive reumes invited date will be intimated soon. A Recruitment By Jaro Education Mumbai for MBA, BBA-18 batch scheduled 7 P drive for sep-17 By Indian Navy (UES) for B.tech all branches, students have P Recruitment 8 to registered for the campus, scheduled for 05th & 06th Sep- drive P 17. E UPCOMING EVENTS N Members‘Gandhi who Pustak are promoted: Mela’ is being organized from 2nd October to 15th October in association with Northern Railways. A book stall has come up nearby Charbagh N Railway Station in the honor of father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi. A broad spectrum of books and Publications ranging from stories, autobiographies & biographies to personality development, life hacks and career planning are present I over there at discounted rates. It was visited by us and according to us students I visiting railway station during holidays shall give few minutes to visit it as they may find something useful there over there at cheap prices.
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