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RKU NEWSLETTER, ISSUE 12 | 1st NOVEMBER, 2016 Year : 3 Pages : 5 www.rku.ac.in/sparkupnewsletter Date of Publication 1st of Every Month

ORGAN DONATION DAY 13th August is organ donation day. RK University. Students from various schools of Apart from these, a pleading and appealing University. It was followed by a tness University organized a series of activities and the University participated and executed message was taken to public through a promotional program lead by MZ tness events to bring awareness regarding the these series of activities on 12th and 13th thematic dance performance and a tness trainers' team. It was kept open for all. Public burning, vital need of the nation. Every day August 2016. Students from School of promotion program. It was held on 12th of Rajkot, present in city's one of the most on an average, 15 and yearly 5,00,000 people Physiotherapy and from SHWET club, RK August at RK University campus and on 13th crowded mall, participated and moved with die in , deprived of organ in case of University did canvassing to bring awareness August at Crystal Mall, Rajkot. An rhythm of Zumba. “Satayu", a foundation organ failure. for organ donation among people. introductory speech to preface the act of working on the same act collaborated with In RK University, this noble act was On campus canvassing was done on, 12th organ donation was given by Dr. Chandani RK University. Mr. Maulik Shah, the inspired and ignited by Mr. Denish Patel, The August 2016 morning at RK University. Parsania, faculty, School of Physiotherapy, representative from the foundation has taken Executive Vice President, RK University. It On 13th August morning, organ donation RK University. A heart touching message a presentation for students at the University. was directed by Dr. Priyanshu Rathod, Dean, canvassing was done at Race Course ring w a s d e l i v e r e d b y a t h e m e b a s e d The entire act and events were coordinated Faculty of Medicine and by Mr. Yash road among, active and health conscious contemporary dance performance by by Prof. Dr. Chandani Parsania, and Prof. Chawla, Head of Public Relation Ofce, RK people of Rajkot. students of D'Dazz dance club, RK Ashwin Raiyani, Faculty of RK University.

Engineering Students qualify for STUDENTS OF SCHOOL OF PHARMACY National Level "IT OLYMPIAD 2017” EXCEL AT STATE-LEVEL PHARMA EVENT Disha Patel & Yash Sodha, 5th Sem B. K University, secured 1st rank in medicinal A National Level open competition for Following students performed very PHARM. students of school of Pharmacy, R formulation development competition held Degree & Diploma Engineering well in the initial round and have at, Atmiya Institute of Pharmacy, Rajkot, on students and IT Professional, "IT qualied for the further rounds of the 16th and 17th September, 2016. Both have O LY M P I A D 2 0 1 7 " h a s b e e n competition. prepared "Pharma Recipe" of castor oil organized by Rotary Club of Pune. VISHAL KACHALIA emulsion (CASTROPHIL). As well as Competition was structured in 5 KISHAN SAGAR Yash sodha secured 1st rank in Pharma Innovation competition. He has prepared rounds, in which students from VINIT MANIYAR working model of Spinal cord. Hundreds of Computer Engineering & Information MAHEK PANCHMATIA Number of students has participated in Technology departments at School of HIMALAY DOBARIYA event from different pharmacy colleges. On Engineering, RK University, have behalf of School of Pharmacy and entire participated under the guidance of We would like to wish them all the RKU family we heartily congratulate both Prof. Kapildev Naina. luck and success. the students on their achievement. PAGE01 Newsletter by RK University 1ST November, 2016

Google's Applied CS with Android with Vijay Chavda Prof. Arjav Bavarva: Reviewer of ICACCI 2016 There is nothing that a code cannot do. course conducted at RK University, International Conference, sponsored by IEEE This was proved in the 6-week long students from CE, IT and MCA had workshop on Google's Applied CS enrolled. This course is designed for Every year, International Conference Cybernetics Society. The Conference with Android which was facilitated by university Computer Science students o n A d v a n c e s i n C o m p u t i n g , is indexed by DBLP since 2012 and by Vijay Chavda, 7th Semester Computer to enhance various concepts from their Communications and Informatics SCOPUS and Web of Science Engineering, SOE. Around 35 curricular work and focusses on (ICACCI) has been (THOMSON REUTERS students from India were selected as concepts from Data Structures & o r g a n i z e d . 5 t h Conference Proceedings facilitators who were trained for this Algorithms, Articial Intelligence, international conference Citation Index) since course, sponsored by Google at using Android as a platform. Self- ICACCI 2016 was held 2013. The proceedings . During the 6-weeks of the study and course related materials on 21 to 24 September, will be published by were provided by Google and students 2 0 1 6 a t T h e L N M IEEE Xplore as well as w e r e e n t h u s i a s t i c t o l e a r n . Institute of Information other Abstracting and Discussions and ideas were shared Technology, Jaipur, I n d e x i n g ( A & I ) among the students, and interactions , technically databases. Prof. Arjav A. made the workshop fruitful. Students sponsored by IEEE B a v a r v a f r o m earned their certicates provided by S M C S T e c h n i c a l D e p a r t m e n t o f Google after completion of the course. Committee on Soft E l e c t r o n i c s & T h i s w a s o n e o f t h e m a n y C o m p u t i n g , I E E E Communication, School opportunities that RK University has C o m S o c I n t e r n e t of Engineering, RK brought for the students to enhance Technical Committee (ITC) and IEEE University was appointed as one of the their skills. ComSoc Technical Committee on reviewer of ICACCI 2016. He G r e e n C o m m u n i c a t i o n s a n d reviewed ve research papers related Computing (TCGCC) and co- to Wireless Sensor Networks and sponsored by IEEE Communications Wireless Communication domain. Society and IEEE Systems, Man, and

Diploma Electrical engineering students visited Divine pumps Students of Diploma Engineering manufacturing, windings and its (Electrical) visited Divine Pumps to connection with the supply were also know in-depth about working, demonstrated by Mr. Nitin Khunt assembly, types and criteria of from Divine Pumps. Prof. Dhara designing, applications & testing of Kalola & Prof. Riaz Israni had School Of Diploma Studies organized submersible pumps. Specications of accompanied the students on this an industrial visit at Yudiz Solutions, various types of pumps, their industrial visit. Ahmedabad for Computer Engineering students Yudiz Solutions (A-6, First Floor, Android.During the course of Safal Protaire, Nr. Ramada Hotel, interaction, 19 students along with 1 Corporate Road, Prahlad Nagar, faculty member got knowledge about Ahmedabad) is a multinational the current situation of IT engineers, company working in several areas like Industries and Scope, also lot of web development , mobile app weightage on the open source development, logo Design, web s o f t w a r e s a n d p r o g r a m m i n g designing, web hosting and other languages like Advanced PHP, Java, services in Ahmedabad. They also Android, .Net , UX/UI. They shared An Expert Talk on "Ofce Manners and Business work for project training on several his ideas about freelancing and also Etiquette" School of Engineering, RK University latest technologies like Advanced about the new technologies in Virtual PHP, Virtual Reality ,unity game Reality etc. Also he reacted positively Mr. Avijeet Banerjee, Regional etiquette, social etiquette, dinner development ,.net ,mobile app against many queries asked by the Operational Manager (), TCS, etiquette etc were also elaborated development training on I-phone and students. Student learnt latest facts Gandhinagar has delivered an active during the session. The program related to IT sector. During the course expert talk on "Ofce Manners and concluded a very interactive Q&A of interaction, students got to know a Business Etiquette" at School of session. lot about the current situation of IT Engineering, RKU. Students of engineers and Industries. Also various CE/IT/MCA had attended the session, posts and duties of Employees and and got a deep sense on kind of skills also they discussed the recruitment that are important for the industry process of various IT sectors and what along with technical skills. Also, is required to get a chance to do job as students got an idea on the importance a fresher. of behaviour & attitude in their career. Business etiquette such as email etiquette, phone etiquette, interview Expert Talk on “Search Engine Optimization” at School of Engineering, RK University Industrial Visit at Tulsi Industry M r . V i v e k S a n c h e t i , E Y U VA your own website/blog, how to determine Technologies, Rajkot has delivered an search objectives and dening your site’s active expert talk on “Search Engine audience, keyword research list etc. has Pvt. Ltd., Metoda GIDC, Rajkot Optimization" at School of Engineering, explained very well with example. An Industrial Visit at Tulsi 180+ Students were part of the visit RK University on 12th September,2016. In limited duration a lot of technical Industries had been organized by the who got the benet to face to face Expert talk was delivered by Mr. Vivek knowledge was shared among students by D e p a r t m e n t o f M e c h a n i c a l conversion with the supervisors and Sancheti who is owner of. Mr. Sancheti Expert. It was highly benecial and all the Engineering under School of operators there. Students also visited has introduced himself very briey. Then students expressed their gratitude to he presented that what is the mission of Expert for their presentation and sharing Engineering of 2nd August, 2016 for the Material Testing laboratory at Search Engines, the human goals of their valuable time. 3rd year students of Mechanical last where nished products are Searching, determining a Search Intent, More than 80 students of CE/IT/MCA Engineering with 6 faculty being tested in Microscopic Level how people search, How search engines department have actively participated in members. Tulsi Industry is basically before dispatching. drive Commerce on the web. He had this session. well popular in the eld of Metal nicely explained various aspects to be Casting. Several Automobile parts kept in mind while searching in the search like Fuel Pump & Accessories are engines. He has covered the reasons why some being casted through different websites come very rst. Before casting methods and nished in implementing SEO in website or blog, VMC automation techniques. what thing need to know for better Students observed entire Sand optimization so that page get good trafc. Casting Process from basics with He has demonstrated how things are post casting machining process implementing in SEO. As a developer of through automation tools. Total PAGE02 Newsletter by RK University 1ST November, 2016

INDUSTRIAL VISIT REPORT AGRICULTURE ENGINEERING STUDENTS A one day educational visit to Radhe Vijay Kalavadia explained about process VISITED SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT Engineering Co., at Bhojapara village, of briquetting it is a densication of A one day educational visit to Sewage after that recycled water is used for Gondal was organized for 3rd year biomass or crop residues to increase its treatment plant at Raiya village, irrigation and sludge collected in Agricultural Engineering, SOE students bulk density, lower moisture content, on 16th September, 2016. The visit uniform size and shape for easy handling, Rajkot was organized for 3rd year sludge bad. A sample of waste water to planning was initiated by Dr. Surya Nath transport, storage and uniform burning. Agricultural Engineering, SOE measure the BOD,COD and turbidity along with the Head, Department of Groundnut shell, castor seed shell/stalk, students on 30th July, 2016. The visit of it. Agricultural Engg. Dr. Kartik Kothari. sugarcane baggasse, wood dust, cotton planning was initiated by Dr. Surya A small welcome session was held. Mr. stalks, leaves from orchard and shrubs and Nath along with the Head, Department of Agricultural Engg. Dr. Kartik Kothari. A short welcome session was arranged. Students are addressed with certain rules and regulations to be followed. One of the faculties of S.T.P accompanied through the visit. The team of 18 students along with 3 faculties, Dr. Surya Nath, Hina Bhatu, Vipal Mansuriya, visited the sewage treatment plant. Vijay K alavadia CEO of Radhe lot more are used as raw material, in raw Mr.yagnik, staff member of S.T.P was engineering Co. accompanied through the material, the moisture content is not more explained about plant process. The visit. The team of 32 students along with 2 than 10% and size maximum 20mm. capacity of this plant is 51 MLD faculties, Dr. Surya Nath and Hina Bhatu Lignin is present in the biomass which (million liter day) and it is aerobic type were taken to the Briquette plant. The visit used as a binder. The Capacity of and based on gravity effect no pump is With sheer co-operation of staff was very helpful as it helped in partial briquetting plant is 1500kg/hr. Briquette is used in whole plant. The waste water members, Mr. Joshi, Mr. Yagnik and fulllment of the practical work of the in cylindrical shape with 90mm dia. It is treatment divided in two parts a) Mr. Solanki, of sewage treatment syllabus. used in various industries like gasier primary treatment b) secondary plant, the visit was smoothly Radhe Engineering Co. is the core system application, ceramic industries, treatment. Waste water is collected undertaken. Students not only gained company of Radhe Group of Energy chemical industries, food processing mainly engaged in the Research and industries etc. With sheer co-operation of from the Rajkot city by a different knowledge but also enjoyed the Development, manufacturing and CEO, Radhe Engineering Co., visit was pumping station and treated at this pleasant atmosphere during the visit. marketing of non-conventional and smoothly undertaken. Students not only place. By the primary and secondary The visit was helped in partial renewable energy equipment like biomass gained knowledge but also enjoyed the treatment removes the solid waste, fulllment of the practical work of the Briquetting plant, biomass/coal gasify pleasant atmosphere during the visit. organic and inorganic matter etc. and syllabus. system and other energy equipment. Mr. Expert talk on 'Thermal Energy Driven RO System Basic Photography Workshop Organized & Multiple effect water distillation (MEWD)' Under by Pictza Photography club on 29/9/2016. the Banner of The Institution of Engineers, India Pictza (a Photography club) has organized nature & street photographer by passion. An Expert Lecture had been organized by distillation process often used for sea Basic Photography Workshop on He is also in this photography line since 8 t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f M e c h a n i c a l water desalination. It consists of multiple 29/9/2016. This was very rst workshop years. Expert had covered topic like Engineering entitled 'Thermal Energy stages or "effects". In each stage the feed w h i c h w a s o rg a n i z e d b y P i c t z a exposer triangle including shutter speed, Driven RO System & Multiple Effect water is heated by steam in tubes. Some of Photography Club. Various departments of aperture & ISO. Expert had also shown Water Distillation' on 10th-Sep-2016 the water evaporates, and this steam ows s t u d e n t s & f a c u l t i e s h a d t a k e n their best picture which they had taken at under the banner of IE (India) by Dr. into the tubes of the next stage, heating and participation who wants to learn various situation & condition. This Anurag Mudgal (Associate Professor, evaporating more water. Each stage photography. In this workshop two workshop was organized with help of School of Technology) form the Pandit essentially reuses the energy from the wildlife & nature photography expert had "Fotography Club Rajkot" which is a non- Deendayal Petroleum University, previous stage. The tubes can be came to guide. Among those expert one prot club for photographer who wants to Gandhinagar, Gujarat. He elaborated on submerged in the feed water, but more expert as well as key speaker was Dr.Sunil learn photography. Both experts are key Thermal Energy Driven Reverse Osmosis typically the feed water is sprayed on the Moteria who is Urologist by Profession person of this Fotography Club Rajkot. Process to get the Fresh and Pured water. top of a bank of horizontal tubes, and then and wildlife & nature photographer by Students and faculties who had taken part In this century, the shortage of fresh water drips from tube to tube until it is collected passion. He is in this photography line in it, those people got participation may rival or surpass the shortage of energy at the bottom of the stage. since 8 years. He had recognized and got certicate. This workshop was handled by as a global concern for humanity. Many of This technique can be easily implemented various awards for his wildlife as well as student founder of Pictza club, Mr.Bhagav the existing processes for producing fresh in Costal Areas to get the fresh water and a nature photography. Another expert was Nandasana(Civil-SOE) & Mr.Vedant water from seawater (or to a lesser degree, good of research scope is there in design Mr.Shamshersingh who is owner of Star Dave(CE/IT-SOE) and faculty coordinator from brackish water) require massive improvement and manufacturing of it. Electronic by profession and wildlife, Prof.Jay Ghodasara(CE/IT-SOE). amounts of energy. Reverse osmosis (RO) is currently the leading desalination technology, but it is energy intensive and still relatively inefcient due to the large pressures required to drive water through membranes and their tendency for fouling. Multiple-effect distillation (MED) is a

One-day Workshop on "Angular JS" by Mr. Jinal Shah at School of Engineering, RK University. Friendship day celebration with different concept Mr. Jinal Shah, Co-Founder of Brainoorja framework in the world right now." Hands-on Creations, has conducted one-day workshop on session starts with basic installation of Angular JS Every year the students of RK not realized (until they stop working). "Angular JS" for the students of CE, IT & MCA at on machine along with its essential conguration. University take up a different concept Hence the students lead by SHWET - School of Engineering, RK University on 30- During the Workshop, expert has covered the topics September-2016. This one-day workshop on like, AngularJs2.0 with its demand and popularity, to celebrate Friendship Day. Studying An SOAC Club at RK University, "Angular JS" organized under ISTE student typescript, component and nesting component, in a university, we always have went around the university tying chapter. The event was scheduled from 9:00 AM to string interpolation, method binding, property friends, teachers, principals / friendship bands to all the support 2:30 PM. The workshop agenda included a binding, Data pipe (Inbuilt and custom), 2-way complete hands-on session binding component, basic directors to whom we interact staff of the university. It was gesture on HTML5, CSS and Routing with Angular 2.0 regularly and their presence is felt by of gratitude towards them, for staying Angular JS. The students and web-services and us. But, there are a lot of people behind the scene and support in were instructed to come CRUD Operations. More along with their personal t h a n 8 0 s t u d e n t s o f working as support staff in the smooth functioning of the activities laptops and coded along by CE/IT/MCA department university, the presence of whom is of RK University. b u i l d i n g a s m a l l have actively participated application. Mr. Jinal Shah in this workshop. At the has started the session with end, quite interesting interesting fact about why Question-Answer session Angular JS is so much c o n d u c t e d t o c l a r i f y popular in today's modern student's doubts on topics. era technology. Again made clear distinction At the end of workshop, students are quite between the usage of Node JS and Angular JS. condence about creating a front-end application Expert stated: "AngularJS, the super-heroic using Anjular JS. The workshop was organized JavaScript framework, simplies many of the under the guidance of Dr. Amit Lathigara (HOD - challenges associated with developing single-page CE/IT/MCA). This event was coordinated by Prof. web applications. It is one of the hottest front end Nirav Bhatt & Prof. Ashwin Raiyani. PAGE03 Newsletter by RK University 1ST November, 2016

A Summary Report of 1-Day workshop on Teacher's Day celebrated at SOP “LARAVEL” for students of CE / IT / MCA Department School of Pharmacy, RKU, celebrated thereby lending true worth to this On 24th September' 2016, students from CE/IT During the workshop, students Teacher's Day on 5th Sept, 2016, as a auspicious day. Pharma Treasure Hunt Computer/IT/MCA department had the were instructed about the setup and continuation of their tradition over the and 1-minute formed the fun-n-games opportunity to have handsom working of the framework, how to use years. 16 students, including those of part. Students also played the role of session on a popular free, open source commands over command prompt and 1st sem. B. Pharm., participated as one-day Dean, Director and Class PHP web framework, i n t e r a c t w i t h "faculties" and took lectures in various Counselors, for which they were L a r a v e l . M r . PHPStorm, security semesters. Post lunch, the students interviewed by Dy. Director Dr. Siddharth Ghedia while transferring paid tribute to each faculty by Devang Pandya. Events of the entire had conducted this information to avoid showcasing their journey on the basis day were co-ordinated by Asst. Prof. s u c c e s s f u l 'Cross-site Request of "interviews" of the faculties which Mr. Tejas Ganatra. workshop.Laravel is Forgery, etc., Mr. they had conducted a week ago, intended for the Siddharth Ghedia development of web h a d h e l p e d a n d a p p l i c a t i o n s g u i d e d s t u d e n t s following the recent during the workshop. approach of model CE/IT department, ”view” controller SOE, RK University (MVC) architectural pattern. There are has been organizing such workshops to three models that are inter-related to make the students aware of the provide efcient and effective code. opportunities that are in front of them. Laravel is a PHP framework for 'web Head of Computer Engineering and artisans'.Technologies keep advancing Information Technology Department, and it is therefore the students who have Dr. Amit Lathigara had encouraged to be at par with them. Computer and IT students to participate in such kind of Department, School of Engineering, workshop. 1-Day workshop on tries to nd such opportunities for the “LARAVEL” Faculty Coordinator, students to brush up their skills with P r o f . K a p i l d e v N a i n a S t u d e n t latest technology. SCHOOL OF Coordinator, Brijesh Vora, Chirag ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT of Virani Celebration of 49th Engineers' Day at School of Engineering, RKU in association with The Institution of Engineers (India)-Saurashtra Local Centre on 15th-September-2016 In India, Engineer's day is celebrated of . On this auspicious day, Engineering, RKU), Head of other and Opportunities for young every year on September 15. This day School of Engineering in association d e p a r t m e n t s o f S c h o o l o f engineers for development of the commemorates the birthday of the with The Institution of Engineers Engineering, Faculty members & society by power point presentation l e g e n d a r y e n g i n e e r S i r (India)-Saurashtra Local Centre Engineering Students with the team of with audio visual. Er. Anupam Singh Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya KCIE celebrated with worthy presence of Er. I E C o r p o r a t e M e m b e r s f r o m Gehlot suggested to the engineering (popularly known as Sir MV) (1860- Anupam Singh Gehlot (IPS, Police Saurashtra Region. students that domain knowledge and 1962). He was a recipient of the Indian Commissioner of Rajkot) as the Chief The celebration had been started by soft skills having vital importance Republic's highest honor, the Bharat Guest and Er. Anil Bhardwaj (IES, the Prayer at 10: 30 AM and welcome because skilled engineers are always Ratna, in 1955. Internationally Director of Doordarshan Kendra, address by the Er. Ramesh Pipaliya demanded and even they are also recognized for his genius in Rajkot) as the Guest of Honour. Er. (Honerable Chairman of IE (I), being recruited in Police Department harnessing water resources, he was Denish Patel (Executive Vice Saurashtra Local Centre, Rajkot) and to minimize the Cyber Crime and responsible for the successful design President, RKU), Dr. Ranjit Goswami Dr. Ajitkumar Shukla on behalf of RK other Internet/Social Media related and construction of several river (Vice Chancellor of RKU), Dr. Ajit University. Er. Grinij Haria deliverd frauds. Er. Anil Bhardwaj explain the dams, bridges and the implementing Kumar Shukla (Director of School of the speech on Theme entitled 'Skill importance of Skilled Engineers to irrigation and drinking water schemes Engineering, RKU), Dr. Kartik Development for Young Engineers to develop the entire nation as the all over India. He served as the dewan Kothari (Associate Professor and Reform Core Sector in India-2025', concept of Digital India. At the end Er. of the erstwhile Mysore State and was Head of Department of Mechanical after garlanding of the Portrait of Sir Sachhadev (Former Chairman of considered to be the architect of the all Engineering & Chairman of IE (I) M. Visvesvaraya by the dignitaries. IE(I)) presented the vote of thanks on round development of his home state s t a f f c h a p t e r o f S c h o o l o f Er. Grinij elaborated the Challenges behalf of Local Centre of Saurashtra.

REPORT OF TEACHER'S DAY CELEBRATIONS ISTE staff chapter of School of Engineering RK University has celebrated 'Teacher's student and country as well. They said Day' celebrations very exuberantly on 5th "Success doesn't possess with ease but it and School of Diploma Studies, RK University September, 2016 which is well known as Dr. needs great dedication, determination and ISTE staff chapter of School of brief introduction of him. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's birth hard work, the teacher is ultimate who can anniversary and who is a great inject such attitude into the young minds". Engineering and School of Diploma Dr. Ketan Kotecha gave brief politician, philosopher, educator, inspirer Naimish Khara from nal year Mechanical Studies, RK University, Rajkot had i n t r o d u c t i o n o n E m o t i o n a l and a great teacher. Students of nal and Engineering had created a small poem on jointly organized a session on Intelligence and also stressed on the pre-nal year of Mechanical and teachers which he shared during the event. Emotional Intelligence on 10th importance of Emotional Intelligence Agriculture engineering decided to At the last some teachers expressed their celebrate Teachers' day by cutting cake and blessing by giving a small speech. Prof. felicitating the teachers. All the teachers of Chetan Patel quoted the value of teaching the department were invited and all together profession, the role of a teacher in career celebrated the event. Students and Teachers building of the students and how a good offered cake to each other. On this event student is a great source of country for the student's expressed their feelings or development. Dr. Suryanath from gratitude towards the teachers by giving a Agriculture department quoted that a small speech. They pointed out that every student is a lifelong learner. teacher is back bone of the society and the Some glimpses of the photographs..? teacher can only change the future of the September, 2016 for staff members. in personal life as well in professional The session was conducted by Dr. life also. He gave various professional Ketan Kotecha (Provost, Parul examples to show the importance of University). The function was emotional intelligence. He also inaugurated by Dr. Amit Lathigara compared EQ with IQ. After the (ISTE Chairperson & Head of session Dr. Nilesh B. Kalani (Dy. Department Computer Engineering) Director, School of Engineering, RK by welcoming the speaker and giving University) delivered vote of thanks.

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A one-day educational visit to Chirag foundry Participation in three days IIEECP Pre-Certication Workshop A one-day educational visit to Chirag team member Kishor bhai has explain whole P r o f . G a u r a v B h a t t , C E / I T formative evaluation, active learning foundry, near aji dam, Rajkot, was organized sand casting method. They have explained Department, SOE and Prof. Ravindra strategies, effective course design, self for 3rd year Mechanical Engineering, SOE what are processing steps of sand casting Dangar, Computer Department, SDS, assessment, project based learning students on 23th September, 2016. The visit method, which raw material is required for planning was initiated by Nipurn Rajguru molding as well as melting practice. Along have attended three days IUCEE and Outcome based education. The and Pratik Parsania with with that they have International Engineering Educators w o r k s h o p w a s c o n d u c t e d b y the Head, Department explain the construction Certication Program's (IIEECP) Pre- Sivakumar Krishnan, organizational of Agricultural Engg. of cupola furnace over Certication workshop at Rajkot, July Consultant - Education and Training, Dr. Kartik Kothari. The there. Apart from that 20-22 at Atmiya Institute of Hydrabad. Both participants have company had arranged a they have discuss all the small welcome session safety issue also. With Technology and Science. It was c o m p l e t e d t h i s w o r k s h o p and treated with the sheer co-operation of s e r v e d a s a b e g i n n i n g o f satisfactorily, and recognized as Pre- hospitality. Owner of Chirag foundry, visit transformation in individual teaching Certied for the IIEECP (IUCEE the foundry Mr. Chirag, w a s s m o o t h l y abilities as well as contribution to International Engineering Educators accompanied through undertaken. Students Outcomes Based Education. The Certication Program) Certication. visit. A team of 87 n o t o n l y g a i n e d topics covered in workshop were students and 2 faculties knowledge but also and 2 lab assistant, Nipurn Rajguru, Hina enjoyed the pleasant atmosphere during the parmar, Lucky and Babu bhai were taken to visit. sand casting foundry. The visit was very Visit Outcomes: helpful as it helped in partial fulllment of With the help of industrial visit student will the practical work of the syllabus. Chirag be able to foundry is a leading manufacturing of Cast Identify the tools in foundry Iron products. Mainly products of Chirag Identify the defects in sand casting. foundry are cylinder piston ring set, silent Memorize the steps of sand casting power generators, gas power generators and procedure ? Recognize the furnace on basis turbo chargers. They have facility of sand of its structure casting method, cupola furnace, lathe Choose the types of sand according to machines, shot blasting. Mr. Chirag and his requirement. EDUCATIONAL VISIT TO IMPETUS TERNOMATIC LTD (IMPEL) EDUCATIONAL VISIT TO NIKOO FORGE PVT. LTD. A one-day educational visit to size 63 to 132M in 2, 4 & 6 pole A one-day educational visit to Nikoo Closed Die Forged & Machined IMPETUS TERNOMATIC LTD speeds. Available with IE2, IE3 Forge Pvt. Ltd., Sapar-Veraval, Rajkot, components from Veraval (Shapar), (IMPEL), at C1/55, Road-D, Phase-1 Efciency. Many applications often was organized for 3rd year Mechanical Rajkot, Gujarat, India, NFPL is ISO 9001 : Aji GIDC, Rajkot 360003, was have adverse operating conditions Engineering, SOE students on 27th 2008 & CRISIL Rated organization. They organized for 7th SME Mechanical including repeated starting and September, 2016. The visit planning was have facility of forge shop, QC laboratory, Engineering, SOE students during occasional overloading; the IM cast initiated by Nipurn Rajguru and Pratik VMC machine, CNC machine, die shop, Parsania with the Head, Department of Magnetic particle test (NDT) and mufe 30/09/2016 to 05/10/2016. The visit iron range is well suited to these Agricultural Engg. Dr. Kartik Kothari. furnace. Mr. Mihir, Mr. Sarkar and Mr. planning was initiated by Prof.Pratik situations. Impel offers IS/IEC metric The company had arranged a small Nirav has explain whole forging process, Parsania with the Head, Department frame Motors in Aluminum die cast welcome session and treated with the steps and function of each machinery. of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. body construction. These motors cater hospitality. Director of Nikoo forge Mr. They have explained colour coding Kartik D. Kothari. The company had to the needs of the global customer for Mihir Donga and his employees Mr. method applied to raw material, which arranged a small welcome session and light weight and efcient motors with Sarkar and Mr. Nirav, accompanied alloy element plays important role, why treated with the hospitality. CEO Mr. improved ventilation. The EX through visit. A team of 87 students and 2 heat treatment is required after forging Murtuza and his engineers Mr. aluminum range covers products with faculties and 2 lab assistant, Nipurn operation and defect generally found in D e v a n g a n d M r . J a y d e e p , outputs from as little as 0.18kW to Rajguru, Milan sanathara, Lakeeraj forging operations. Bhensdadiya and Anil Patel were taken to With sheer co-operation of Nikoo Forge accompanied through visit. From 7.5kW in frame sizes 63 to 132M in Forging unit. The visit was very helpful as Pvt. Limited, visit was smoothly department Prof. Pratik Parsania, 2,4 & 6 pole speed. Some of the it helped in partial fulllment of the undertaken. Students not only gained Prof. Kaushal Gevariya, Prof. benets of aluminum over cast iron practical work of the syllabus. knowledge but also enjoyed the pleasant Dushyant Joshi, Prof. P. Murlinath & include high resistance to corrosion Nikoo Forge Pvt. Limited (NFPL) is atmosphere during the visit. Prof. Jaydeep Kevadia accompanied and atmospheric attack except company of Nikoo Group, manufactures Visit Outcomes: with students during visit. Impel chlorine, salt-laden or sulphuric acid various closed die forged and precision With the help of industrial visit (Nikoo offers IS/IEC metric frame IM Series and the fact that aluminum is machined components from carbon and Forge Pvt. Limited) student will be able to M o t o r s i n C a s t I r o n b o d y approximately one third the weight of alloy steel and supplies to Indian OEM's & Memorize the types of forging construction. IM series covers output cast iron. JV's and Exporters. NFPL engaged with Identify the type of forging machine ? Automotive, Oil & Gas, Farm Equipment, Understand the defects in forging from as 0.18kW to 7.5kW in frame Earth Mover, Material Handling, operation. International Railway and Several General Memorize the processing steps of forging E n g i n e e r i n g S e c t o r s . S i n c e operation commencement of operations in 1996, Understand the need of post forging NFPL is among the leading and operations technologically advanced manufacturer of

Industrial Visit at Atlanta Transformer, Anand (Gujarat) An industrial visit at Atlanta m a n u f a c t u r e s o t h e r t y p e s o f Electricals Pvt. Ltd. at Anand t r a n s f o r m e r s l i k e F u r n a c e (Gujarat) was conducted by total 31 transformers, Neutral Earthing students from semester 3 and semester transformers, Motor starting 5 o f E l e c t r i c a l E n g i n e e r i n g transformers, Dry type transformers. Expert session on "iOS Application development” department, School of Engineering Company also deals with the along with two faculties Prof. Mayur manufacturing of mobile substation CE/IT/MCA department of School of application. He has demonstrated Engineering, RK University has organized development process of iOS application Vaghela and Prof. Shyam Pankhaniya which is a substation with all the expert session on "iOS Application by putting necessary UI elements and code on 9th September 2016. The company substation equipment and protective Development" on 8th September, 2016. t h e m a c c o r d i n g t o a p p l i c a t i o n deals with manufacturing and service devices along with transformers CE/IT/MCA department organizing requirement. o f P o w e r a n d d i s t r i b u t i o n mounted on a trailer. The electrical various seminar and workshop to enhance He interacted with students and had a huge transformers since the year of 1983. engineering department welcomes the student's skill towards new and technical talk on various topics related to Students were illustrated the step by such fruitful industrial meets and offer trending technology. The expert session iOS development. During the session, step process of manufacturing and regards to the company. was organized to enhance the student's there was quite interesting Question- service of transformers within the knowledge towards the iOS application Answer going on to clarify student's company. development. Expert session was doubts on topic. delivered by Mr. Prashant Halavadiya who More than 45 students of MCA department Atlanta Electricals Pvt. Ltd. is working as Senior Trainer at TOPS have actively participated in this session. Manufactures the transformers of Technologies. Mr. Prashant has covered up rating ranges from 50 kVA to 100 fundamentals to develop iOS application MVA and has manufactured a from scratch to deployment. He had nicely transformer of capacity 160 MVA at explained various aspects to be kept in the maximum. The company has mind while developing the iOS developed a laboratory for testing of applications. In session, he has covered impulse wave on the transformers in iOS application architecture, Cocoa Touch its own premises. The company also framework, Concept of Objective C, various UI elements and deployment of PAGE05 Sparkup (Monthly) Publisher, Printer & Owner - Denish K Patel, Place of Publication, Sparkup office RK University Rajkot. Printed at Shree GeleeAmbe Graphics, RK University Rajkot. Editor: Mr. Yash Chawla | Asst. Editor: Mr. Vaibhav Sukhwal Submit your entries at [email protected]