RSETnews 2020 Volume XV Issue I JANUARY 2020– DECEMBER 2020 RSETnews 2020 2

The Vision To evolve into a premier technological and research institution, moulding eminent professionals with creative minds, innovative ideas and sound practical skill and to shape a future where technology works for the enrichment of mankind. The Mission Contents To impart state-of-the-art knowledge to individuals in various technological disciplines and to inculcate in them a regular high degree of social consciousness GRANT OF AUTONOMY and human values, thereby enabling NIRF LISTING 2020 them to face the challenges of life with courage and conviction. B.TECH IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA SCIENCE Objective CHANGE IN ADMINISTRATION NEW DEPARTMENT The institution has the broad ICNTDM 2020 objective of being an active agent of DEEKSHARAMBHAM 2020 change by responding to the needs FACULTY ORIENTATION PROGRAMME 2020 and challenges of the times. This is COVID RELATED ACTIVITIES achieved basically through the process STEAG CENTRE FOR SMART CITY TECHNOLOGIES of education, training and research. MoUs SIGNED TRAININGS WORKSHOPS COURSES TALKS & LECTURES SEMINARS & WEBINARS

FEATURING

FACULTY AS RESOURCE PERSONS FACULTY PAPER PRESENTATIONS ACTIVITIES PROJECTS, CONSULTANCY & INITIATIVES INDUSTRIAL VISITS PLACEMENTS INTERNATIONAL OFFICE SPORTS NSS ACCOMPLISHMENTS TOP POSITIONS IN UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS FACULTY PUBLICATIONS UPCOMING EVENTS ENDNOTE Rajagiri Contents School of Engineering & Technology (Autonomous)

GRANT OF AUTONOMY

SET has been granted autonomous status by UGC for a period of 10 years from the academic Ryear 2020-2021 onwards. This has been officially approved by the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Trivandrum. The autonomous status would enable RSET to enhance all aspects of its academic activities, and offer programmes in line with contemporary industrial and research requirements. he Autonomy Inspection Team had visited the institution on January 6 & 7, 2020. The team Tcomprised Prof. Keshava Prasad Singh, Emeritus Professor, IIT BHU (Chairperson); Prof. Suresh Kumar Garg, Pro Vice Chancellor, Delhi Technological University; Mr Jaisukhlal N., Additional Secretary, Department of Higher Education, GoK; Prof. S. Anil Lal, DME, CET; and Dr Salil S., Education Officer, UGC, Bangalore.

NIRF 2020

SET has been listed in the National Institutional Ranking Framework 2020 (NIRF), published Rby the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India in June 2020. The institution is ranked in the 251-300 range. It has the rare distinction of being the only private self- financing engineering college from Kerala to be ranked by NIRF.

B.TECH IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA SCIENCE

SET has started its eighth undergraduate programme in engineering, B.Tech in Artificial RIntelligence & Data Science from the academic year 2020-2021 onwards. A branch which offers diverse opportunities, this programme is being offered jointly by the Department of Information Technology and Department of Mathematics. The number of seats for the programme is 60. 4

CHANGE IN ADMINISTRATION RSETnews 2020 ev. Fr Benny Nalkkara CMI took charge as the new RManager of RSET after he assumed the office of Provincial, CMI Sacred Heart Province, in August 2020.

ON CREATIVE DESK ev. Dr Jose Kuriedath CMI took charge as the Director Rof RSET from October 1, 2020. Former Principal and Professor of Sociology of Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Rev. Dr Jose Kuriedath was serving as the Provincial EDITED BY: Superior of the Sacred Heart Province for the last three years. Dr Vinod Kumar P.B. Dr Sonia Paul

Inputs from the departments: Ms Aparna George ev. Dr Joel George Pullolil CMI has taken on the Ms Priya S. Rresponsibility of the Assistant Director. Ms Nimisha Reji Ms Aswathy G. Dr Aysha Zeneeb Majeed Ms Dincy Paul Ms Sangeetha Jamal Dr Varghese S. Chooralil Ms Caroline Ann Sam ev. Dr Jaison Paul Mulerickal CMI has assumed the Dr Rinu Alice Koshy Roffice of the Vice Principal on December 1, 2020. Dr Anand S. Ms Tressa Michael Ms Nikhila T. Bhuvan Dr Lakshmi K.S. Mr Jibin Noble Mr Sidheek P.A. Dr Rinku Jacob ormer Director, Rev. Dr Mathew Vattathara CMI has Mr Binu R. Fassumed the mantle of Director, Rajagiri College of Management and Applied Sciences (RCOMAS), our sister Sports: institution. Ms Sinu Jacob Mr Rejeesh T. Chacko

Placements: Mr Varun Jose

International Office: Ms Nisha K.P. ev. Fr Ajeesh Puthussery CMI, faculty member of Design: Mr Krishnadas Naduvath Rthe Department of Mathematics, RSET, has been appointed as the Principal of RCOMAS. Photographs: Mr Nithin P. Vijayan RSETnews 2020 5

ICNTDM 2020

An international conference on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, organized by the Ramanujan Mathematical Society was hosted at RSET from December 11 to 14, 2020. The conference was organized to mark the hundredth year of the passing away of the legendary mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Prof. Bruce C. Berndt, University of Illinois inaugurated the programme on December 10, 2020. Rev. Dr Jose Kuriedath CMI presided over the inaugural function. Prof. R. Balasubramanian, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, addressed the gathering during the inaugural function, while Prof. Ambat Vijayakumar, Chair IAPC, ICNTDM, and Vice President of RMS elaborated on the conference. Felicitations were offered by Prof. S. Ponnusamy, President RMS, Prof. R. Balakrishnan, Bharathidasan University, and Prof. Poulose Jacob, Dean Research, RSET. Dr P.S. Sreejith, Principal, welcomed the gathering and Dr Vinod Kumar P.B., Convenor, ICNTDM proposed the vote of thanks.

As a part of ICNTDM, a public lecture on Ramanujan, Number Theory and the Pandemic was delivered by Prof. M. Ram Murty FRSC, Queen’s University, Canada on December 11, 2020. ICNTDM featured renowned mathematicians from across the globe joining on the online platform to share their insights on the conference themes.

NEW DEPARTMENT - DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

separate Department of Mathematics (DMA) has been established in July 2020. Formerly, the discipline of Mathematics was a Apart of the Department of Basic Sciences & Humanities. The newly established department is led by Dr Ramkumar P.B. (Head of the Department), while Mr Binu R. serves as the Assistant Head of the Department.

MA consists of 12 faculty members. Apart from offering PhD in Mathematics, the department is also jointly offering the DB.Tech programme in Artificial Intelligence & Data Science with the Department of Information Technology. The Centre for Topology and Applications had already been established under the aegis of the discipline. RSETnews 2020 6 DEEKSHARAMBHAM 2020

Deeksharambham 2020, course initiation the students to sharpen their creative ceremony of the 20th batch of B.Tech intelligence, develop a healthy network Principal, Dr P. S. Sreejith in his address and 13th batch of M.Tech students was with teachers and peers, use freedom of provided an overview of the institution held on November 23, 2020. Due to the college life with maturity and discernment, and pointed out to the students both the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, the and balance their emotionality. opportunities and expectations which lie programme was conducted in the online ahead. mode, with only a select few joining from The Chief Guest of the day, Dr Vinay the institution. Kumar Dadhwal, Director, IIST, Trivandrum, Deeksharambham 2020 was followed by a pointed out how the capacity and capability week-long Student Induction Programme Rev. Fr Benny Nalkkara CMI, Provincial of the human society has developed which familiarized the students with the Superior and Manager, in his presidential through science and technology. He institution, their programme of study, address urged the students to develop ABC, directed the students to understand the departments, activities and mentors, and namely accountability to oneself, others needs of society and use education to also provided them with valuable insights and to God; belongingness, that is owning respond appropriately to the challenges from professionals and academicians up their mission in life; and connectivity, of the times. Dr Dadhwal encouraged drawn from diverse fields. which is social sensitivity. Director, the students to become ambassadors of Rev. Dr Jose Kuriedath CMI encouraged transformational social change. RSETnews 2020 7 RECONSTITUTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BODIES

Following the award of autonomy, RSET reconstituted its Governing Body and Academic Council, and established the Board of Studies in individual disciplines GOVERNING BODY • Rev. Fr Benny Nalkara CMI, Provincial & Manager, RSET – Chairperson • Rev. Dr Jose Kuriedath CMI, Director, RSET • Rev. Dr Saju Madavanakadu CMI, Councilor for Education & Communication Media, SH Province • Rev. Dr Jaison Paul Mulerickal CMI, Vice Principal, RSET • Rev. Dr Joel George Pullolil CMI, Dean (UG) & Assistant Director, RSET • Prof. Lakshmi Narayan Singh, Head, Department of Physics, Dr B.A. Technological University, Lonere, Maharashtra – UGC Nominee • Mr Ajayan C., Additional Secretary, Higher Education Department, Govt of Kerala – State Government Nominee • Dr. Vinodkumar Jacob, Professor & Head, Dept. of Electronics & Communication, Mar Athanasius College of Engineering, Kothamangalam - University nominee • Dr M.S. Ananth, Emeritus Research Fellow, IIT Madras, Educationist • Dr P.B. Sunil Kumar, Director, IIT Palakkad, Educationist • Dr Vinay Kumar Dadhwal, Director, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram, Educationist • Dr K. Poulose Jacob, Dean (Research), RSET, Educationist • Dr Jacob T. Varghese, Chairman, STEAG Energy Services, Industrialist • Dr Vinod Kumar P.B., Dean (PG), Professor in Mathematics, RSET • Rev. Dr Varghese Panthalookaran CMI, Professor in Physics, RSET • Dr Jobin K. Antony, Professor in Electronics & Communication, RSET • Dr Sminu Izudheen, Associate Professor in Computer Science, RSET • Adv. Kurian George Kannamthanam, Senior Counsel, High Court of Kerala • Mr C.J. Romid FCA, Chartered Accountant • Prof. Dr P.S. Sreejith, Principal, RSET – Ex officio Secretary

ACADEMIC COUNCIL • Prof Dr P.S. Sreejith, Principal – Chairperson • Rev. Dr Jaison Paul Mulerickal CMI, Vice Principal • Dr Vinod Kumar P.B., Dean (PG) • Rev. Dr Joel George Pullolil CMI, Dean (UG) • Prof Dr K. Paulose Jacob, Dean (Research) • University Nominee • University Nominee • University Nominee • Prof. Dr Lillykutty Jacob, NIT Calicut • Prof. Dr Sunil Jacob John, NIT Calicut • Prof. Dr Tide P.S., SoE, CUSAT • Mr Rajeev Mullakkara Azhuvath, TCS, Kochi • Prof. Vincent K. John, HoD, DCE • Dr Manoj G. Tharian, HoD, DME • Dr Elizabeth Rita Samuel, HoD, DEE • Dr Rithu James, HoD, DEC • Dr Dhanya P.M., HoD, DCS • Dr Neeba E.A., HoD, DIT • Dr Hari C.V., HoD, DEI • Dr Ramkumar P.B., HoD, DMA • Dr Sonia Paul, HoD, DBSH • Ms Liza Annie Joseph, Assistant Coordinator, IQAC

ESTABLISHMENT OF EXAM CELL n independent examination cell has been established for the conduct of the exams of the autonomous programmes. Dr. AVinod Kumar P. B. has been appointed as the Controller of Examinations. The deputy controllers are Fr Mejo Paul CMI and Dr Sreekumar G. RSETnews 2020 8

EXTERNAL MEMBERS IN THE BOARD OF STUDIES

Dr Sreenath Vijayakumar, Assistant Dr Biju N., Professor, Dept of Mechanical Professor, Dept of Electrical Engineering, IIT Engineering, SoE, CUSAT Applied Elec- Palakkad Dr C. Muraleedharan, Professor (HAG), NIT tronics & Instru- Dr Raghu C.V., Assistant Professor, Dept of Mechanical Calicut mentation Electronics & Communication Engineering, Engineering Mr Jimmi Mathew, Associate Director (TD- NIT Calicut NC), Nuclear Power Corporation of India, Dr M. Suresh, Chief Research Engineer, Fluid Mumbai Control Research Institute, Palakkad

Dr Sobha Cyrus, Professor & Head, NITTTR Dr Sunil Jacob John, NIT Calicut Extension Centre, Kalamassery Dr Sherry Fernandez, CUSAT Dr Radhakrishna G. Pillai, Associate Mathematics Mr Nishanth P.R., Managing Director, Civil Engineering Professor, IIT Madras Technovia Info Solutions, Kochi Dr Jimmy Thomas, Consultant in Geotechnical Engineering Dr Soney Varghese, Associate Professor, NIT Calicut Dr Madhu Mutyam, Professor, Dept of Chemistry Dr Honey John, Professor, CUSAT Computer Science, IIT Madras Dr Kochubaby Manjooran S., Senior Manager Computer Sci- Dr Vineeth Paleri, Professor, Dept of (Rtd), BPCL Kochi Refinery ence & Engi- Computer Science, NIT Calicut neering Mr A. Kabir Pary, Management Consultant & Coach, Zinetico Solutions, Kochi Physics Dr Pramod Gopinath, Director & Professor, International School of Photonics, CUSAT Dr Titus K. Mathew, Professor & HoD, Dept Dr Vinod A. Prasad, Professor & Dean, of Physics, CUSAT Industry Collaboration & Sponsored Dr K.R. Suresh Nair, CTO, Design Alpha, Kochi Research, Electrical Engineering, IIT Palakkad Electronics & Dr S.M. Sameer, Professor, Dept of Communication Electronics & Communication Engineering, Prof. C.S. Jayaram, Formerly HoD of English, Engineering NIT Calicut SH College, Thevara Mr Jayaraj Narayana, Program Engineer, English Dr Joseph Koyippally, Associate Professor, Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru Central University of Kerala, Kasargod Ms Rajasree Shenoy, Head HR, TCS Kochi

Dr Manas Kumar Jena, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Dr S. Muraleedharan, Visiting Faculty, Electrical & Palakkad Dr K.N. Raj Centre, MGU and School of Electronics Engi- Dr Sindhu M.R., Amrita School of Industrial Fisheries, CUSAT neering Engineering Economics Dr Sunilkumar S. Menon, Associate Ms Rakhi L. Mohan, Manager (Control & Professor, Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam Instrumentation), BHEL, Bengaluru Dr V.K. Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist, Geojit Financial Services

Dr Unnikrishnan C., Assistant Professor, IIT Palakkad Dr Dhinu M.R., Associate Professor & Information Dr Vimina E.R., Assistant Professor, Dept of Deputy Director of Physical Education, SS Technology CS & IT, Amrita School of Arts & Science University of Sanskrit, Kalady Mr Ajil Antony, Principal Architect, Marlabs Physical Educa- Dr Jayarajan David D., Director of Physical Innovations Pvt Ltd, Kochi tion Education, University of Kerala Mr Tinu Yohannan, Director, High Performance Centre, KCA RSETnews 2020 9

FACULTY ORIENTATION PROGRAMME 2020

he Internal Quality Assurance Cell of RSET conducted and personal attributes in the success of teachers. Dr P.S. Ta three-day Faculty Orientation Programme for the Sreejith, Principal, welcomed the gathering; Dr Poulose benefit of faculty members who joined the institution since Jacob, Dean, Research, offered felicitations and Ms Liza 2018, from September 14 to 16, 2020. Annie Joseph, Assistant Coordinator, IQAC, proposed the vote of thanks. ev. Fr Benny Nalkkara CMI, Provincial and Manager, Rinaugurated the programme. He asked the faculty he three day programme featured sessions by internal members to develop the Rajagiri Quotient in the students, Tresource persons such as Rev. Dr Joel George CMI, Dr which he elaborated is the essence of the CMI educational Poulose Jacob, Dr Vinod Kumar P.B., Dr Manoj Tharian, policy and the hallmark of CMI education. He also invited Dr Silvy Mathew, and Mr Binu A.; and external resource them to be contributors and leaders at the institution, persons such as Rev Dr Jose Cletus Plackal CMI and rather than participants, observers or detractors. Prof. P.R. Madhava Panicker. Ms Tressa Kurian, DCE and Ms Caroline Ann Sam, DEE were the coordinators of the peaking on the occasion, Director, Rev. Dr Mathew programme. SVattathara CMI reminded the faculty members about the importance of pedagogical competence, professionalism

COVID RELATED ACTIVITIES

hile COVID19 has crippled our time, and minimizes the requirement hospitals, pharmacies and medical Wlives in various ways, students of human intervention in preparing shops. A project with functionalities at RSET put on their creative caps to the batter, pouring it into the mould to suit both the hospital and the design and develop many potential and frying the sweet treats. This pharmacy/medical shop setting, it solutions to the challenges faced in student team was guided by Ms Priya helps to minimize human contact in the health care sector and other walks S. and Dr Hari C.V. these vulnerable places. This project of life in the face of the pandemic. was guided by Dr Abraham Thomas, nother team from the same Mr Vimal Kumar, Dr Hari C.V., Ms Liza hird year Applied Electronics & Adepartment and year, Gayathri N. Annie Joseph, Mr Ravi Balakrishnan, TInstrumentation Engineering Shenoy, Chithu Rajan, Shiby Varghese Mr Damien and Mr Paulose K.P. This students Akhil Jayaprakash, Antony and Vignesh M.V., under the guidance system was developed in collaboration Thomas, Alex George, Rockey Faby and of Ms Shanmughapriya M. developed with Consyst Technology and Crescent Ashwin Sankar developed a luggage a sanitizing robot Steriloid, which can Industries. sanitizer, Hygieia – an automatic disinfect rooms both manually and device which can find use in shopping automatically. Ultrasonic sensors ivins Mathew, final year student of malls, airports, hospitals and offices. guide the robot in the automatic DComputer Science & Engineering The student team was guided by Dr mode, while a mobile application developed AutoTemp, a completely Hari C.V., Mr Krishnakumar K.P., and using Bluetooth controls the robot in automated temperature reading and Ms Shanmughapriya M. the manual mode. logging platform. The device which can be mounted anywhere, utilizes inal year students of Applied et another team of students ultrasonic sensors for detecting FElectronics & Instrumentation Yfrom Applied Electronics & human presence and reading the Engineering, Ephron Martin, Teresa Instrumentation, Abin Martin, temperature, which is then stored in Benny, Akhil Antony and Joseph Ashwin Abraham, Joseph Mathew, an online database. If the temperature Antony developed an automated Fazna Zainab and Shilpa Gopakumar is above normal, a photo of the person Unniyappam machine, which can be developed A.I.R.S. – Automated is also captured and uploaded. This used for large scale manufacturing of Inventory Storage and Retrieval project was developed under the the traditional favourite by bakeries System, which can be used for guidance of Dr Sminu Izudheen. and restaurants. The machine saves storage and retrieval of medicines in RSETnews 2020 10

COVID RELATED ACTIVITIES TRAININGS inal year Computer Science & S. Nair and Ashik Faizal developed a emergency care ventilators. DEI and FEngineering students, Aarsha Joji, Multi-Utility Unmanned Disinfection DME have also joined the development Alaka V. Louis, Amala Sebastian and Robot – Rakshak 20, under the team. The ventilator designs are the Anusree under the guidance of Ms guidance of Mr Vishnu Sankar and Dr result of long-distance collaboration Sangeetha Jamal, developed a method John M. George. Equipped with a 16 by Kochi-based Sinergia Media Labs, to detect COVID19 from Chest X-Ray litre storage tank, surveillance camera, with expertise in IoT, mobile and cloud images, using DenseNet binary class all terrain tracked wheel system, a software, Chennai-based Ionic3DP, classification model. The prototype was small storage space for medicines which is into 3D printing and robotics developed using Machine Learning. and equipment, and a sprayer system, and the artificial intelligence startup Rakshak ’20 can be effectively used for Aruvii, based in Singapore. Currently, epartment of Electronics & disinfection and sanitation purposes two cost-effective ventilator designs- DCommunication Engineering first within a range of 1 km. INDVENTR-100 and INDVENTR-200 year student Jerin Peter developed protypes are ready to enter the an Automatic Robo Soap Dispenser. ME has also set up Automatic and validation and testing phase. Students This cost effective sanitizer was made DPedal operated sanitizer dispensers Suvij K. S. and Safwan Ali Naushad using 3D printed parts, a metal gear in the campus. The sanitizer is made by of DEE are actively involved in the servo motor, an Arduino Uno, ultrasonic the faculty of Chemistry. complete development of the hardware sensor and jumper wires. and software required. lectrical & Electronics Engineering echanical Engineering students Edepartment has initiated a MGokuldas V.R., Jerin P. Raju, Aswin collaboration with Simelabs, to develop

STEAG CENTRE FOR SMART CITY TECHNOLOGIES

TEAG Centre for Smart City Technologies was inaugurated by His Excellency Mr. Walter J. Lindner, German Ambassador Sto India in the presence of Dr. Ralf Schiele, CEO and MD of Steag Energy Services GmbH on January 24, 2020. This center is housed in the K.E. Block Extension.

MoUs SIGNED

• RSET signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany in July 2020 for academic and research cooperation

• RSET signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Sacred Heart College, Thevara for IT related consultancy and support on November 13, 2020

• DEE has signed an MoU with Sinergia for further development, validation, and deployment of emergency care ventilators in November 2020 RSETnews 2020 11

TRAININGS

DME in association with United NDT DEE conducted a Faculty Development DIT in collaboration with TCS conducted a •Training & Inspection Centre, Kochi •Programme on Control System •one-month short term training programme organized International Certification Applications from July 27 to 31, 2020 on Cloud Computing in October 2020 Course in NDT and Mechanical QA/QC for S5 & S7 students from January 2020 DEE organized a national level 5-day DIT organized a 5-days online Faculty onwards •training programme on Electric and •Development Programme on Artificial Hybrid Vehicle Engineering from August 3 Intelligence, sponsored by AICTE under the RSET Library conducted a training to 7, 2020 AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy, •programme on IEEE E-journal Package from October 19 to 23, 2020 and EBSCO Engineering Core E-book DME & DEI, along with Bio Instruments package by Mr. Nanda Lal T. S. Senior •Research and Development Society DIT organized training programmes Training Manager (EBSCO information organized a five-day national level Faculty •Introduction to Cloud Computing and Azure services) on January 17, 2020 Development Programme on Biomaterials, Networking Capabilities and Components on Biodevices and Medical Imaging Processes October 19, 2020 DEI conducted a LaTeX training from August 10 to 14, 2020 •program for final year AEI students on DCS organized an online Faculty January 24, 2020 DCS organized a Faculty Development •Development Programme on Vedic •Programme on Deep Learning & Natural Mathematics from November 7, 2020, held on DEC organized a training programme Language Processing from August 10 to ten Saturdays •on IC Design using Cadence Virtuoso 14, 2020 tool suite on January 24 & 25, 2020 DIT organized training programmes on DCE organized a 6-day Faculty •Security, Storage, Disaster Recovery, DEE organized a 1-day hands-on •Development Programme on Recent Compute, Automation, and Backup on •training on Simulation of Power Research Advances in Geotechnical & November 2, 4, 6, 9, 10 and 12, 2020 Electronic Converters using MATLAB/ Geological Engineering on August 17 to 22, Simulink on January 25, 2020 2020 IQAC and DME organized an AICTE •sponsored 6-days national level short DEI organized a hands-on training on DEI organized a hands-on training term training programme on Outcome Based •Digital ICs on February 3 & 10, 2020 •programme on MATLAB and Simulink Education for Technical Institutions from Fundamentals from August 24 to 26, 2020 November 16 to 21, 2020 DCS organized a training programme •on Machine Learning from February A four-day online Capacity Building for DBSH organized a four day training 2020 till April 2020 for S4 students •Innovation Programme was organized •programme Understanding the exclusively for RSET students by STEAG Constitution of India for faculty members RSET Library in association with Centre for Smart City Technologies from of KTU colleges as a preparation for the •DIT conducted a two-day hands-on September 1 to 4, 2020 second year B.Tech course on the same, from training programme on Green Stone and December 11 to 16, 2020 DSpace on March 5 & 6, 2020 at Kleinrock DEC organized a 3-day hands on Lab for the M.LI.Sc. students of RCSS, •training on TINKERCAD from September A four-day online Capacity Building for Kalamassery 16 to 18, 2020 •Innovation Programme was organized by STEAG Centre for Smart City Technologies on DCS & DIT, in collaboration with Tata IEDC organized a training programme on November 22 & 29, December 6 & 13, 2020 •Consultancy Services conducted a •SCRATCH on September 25 & 26, 2020 Faculty Development Programme on IQAC and DME organized an AICTE Machine Learning and Deep Learning IQAC and DME organized an AICTE •sponsored 6-days national level short (online) from May 18 to 20, 2020 •sponsored 6-days national level short term training programme on Outcome Based term training programme on Outcome Education for Technical Institutions from DEI conducted a Faculty Development Based Education for Technical Institutions December 10 to 16, 2020 •Programme on Artificial Intelligence from October 14 to 20, 2020 and Machine Learning (AI/ML) in May 2020 RSETnews 2020 12

WORKSHOPS

DEC in association with STEAG Centre RSET IEDC organized a one-day •for Smart City Technologies conducted Coordinator, Chinmaya Viswavidyapeeth, Mr •Workshop on Startups & Business a one-day international workshop on Binu A., RSET, and Shri Shahul Hameed, Peers Plan –Hatch Up 2020 on January 25, 2020 product development on March 3, 2020. Solutions, Berlin, Germany were the resource The workshop had participants (UG & persons DEE organized a workshop on PG students) from Frankfurt University •Simulation of Power Electronic of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany DCS & DIT jointly organized a workshop Converters by MATLAB/Simulink on and RSET •on E-Content Development for Academic January 25, 2020 Institutions: Tools and practices- Video RSET in association with Cyber Security editing for the technical staff from August 18 CSI student branch organized a one- •Club, Kochi City Police and Internet to 20, 2020 •day workshop on R- Programming Society, Trivandrum Chapter organized a for CSI members on February 20, 2020. national level online workshop Education DCS organized an online workshop on Basic Resource person was Dr Bindu Krishnan, 4.0 from July 6 to 11, 2020. Shri Vijay •Mobile App Development for the Class XI Associate Professor, Department of S. Sakhare IPS, IG & Kochi City Police students of Cardinal Higher Secondary School, Statistics & Data Science, Jain University, Commissioner, Prof. Poulose Jacob, Thrikkakara on December 5 & 6, 2020 Kochi Dean Research, Shri Satish Babu, Chair ICANN, Dr Leela Ramamurty, Academic

COURSES

•Bridge course in Computer Applications was conducted for first year students (2019 admissions) in January 2020 •DEC organized short term courses on MATLAB for Signals & Systems, Tina-Ti and PCB Design for S4 ECE students from January 2020 RSET in association with Fortune IAS Academy started training classes for UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Examination on February 22, •2020

Indo-German Summer School 2020 – RSET and Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany was held from March 2 to March 7, •2020. This was organized by DEC in association with STEAG Centre for Smart City Technologies

DCS conducted a short-term course on AI/ML for third year Computer Science and Engineering students from August 29, 2020 onwards • DCS conducted courses on Basic Web Development using PHP MySQL, Linux Administration and Basic Networking & Windows •Administration for the students from August 2020 •DCS & DEI jointly organized short-term courses on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for students in September 2020 RSETnews 2020 13

TALKS & LECTURES

SAE Collegiate club organized a technical Google Cloud conducted Study Jam on •talk by Dr. R. Rajendran, Chairman, SAE •Career Readiness - ACE Track on February DCE organized a talk on Green and INDIA Engineering Education Board (BAJA, 4, 2020 •Intelligent Buildings by Dr.-Ing. Harald SUPRA, AWIM) on Automotive Materials and Drück, University of Stuttgart, Germany on Surface Engineering on January 16, 2020 An interactive session was organized with February 20, 2020 •Ms. M.S. Madhavikutty IAS, Assistant Dr P.S. Sreejith, Principal, gave a lecture on Collector, Ernakulam on February 5, 2020 DEC organized a talk on Recent Trends in •Research & Research Ethics on January 25, •Mechatronics by Prof. Karsten Schmidt, 2020 RSET IEEE Student Branch organized a Department of Computing and Engineering, •talk on IEEE Xtreme (24-hour international Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, DEC organized an invited talk and coding competition) on February 5, 2020. Germany on March 10, 2020 •motivation session by Mr. Arjun The session was led by Ms. Aathira Marayil, Narayanan, Scientist, ISRO (RSET alumni, Region 10 Lead for IEEE Xtreme 13 DEE organized TechEra, a series of 2006-2010 batch) on January 27, 2020 •technical talks on December 2 & 3, 2020. Steag Centre for Smart City Technologies Mr Kanwaljeet Singh Kukreja, Regional Head DEI organized a talk on Do It Yourself •organized Hack Chat - Familiarization of (West), Schneider Electric India gave the talk •– Robotics by Dr. Sreekanth M., CEO of use of 3D Printer on February 13, 2020 on Smart Grid and Smart City Technologies; M/s. Kabanitech, a Maker Space/Fab Lab Mr Sumit Banerjee, Tendering Manager, & Product Development Centre, Palakkad, DIT organized a technical session on Schneider Electric India spoke on Smart Kerala on January 29, 2020 •Career opportunities in IT industry by Mr. Equipment in GIS; Mr Sachin Subhash Patil, Sujas Ali, CEO, Aabasoft on February 18, 2020 Smart Grid Solution Architect, Schneider DCS organized a technical talk & demo Electric India gave the talk on Supervisory •session on Ethical Hacking- Essential DME organized a talk on Industrial Control and Data Acquisition in GIS; and Ms Security skills by Mr. Gobinath Arumugam, •Automation by Mr Jithin Felix, National Jaya Viswanathan, Business Development Xplore IT Corp, Coimbatore on January 30, Head Training & Development, and Mr Prince Officer, Schneider Electric India spoke on AIS, 2020 Noorudheen, GM, SMEC Automation Pvt. Ltd. Transformer, RMU & PSS on February 18, 2020

SEMINARS & WEBINARS

DBSH in association with Sports Club Education in a Post-Pandemic Era on July 15 & Professor, and Industry Expert on July 18, 2020 •organized a 2-day international webinar 16, 2020. The resource persons were Dr Arun on Health, Fitness and Well Being on June 26 B. Nair, Psychiatrist; Rohith J. Mathew, RSET DCS and DIT jointly organized a webinar on & 27, 2020. The resource persons were Mr. IEEE SB; and Dr P.C. Unnikrishnan, Professor, •E-Readiness by Educational Institutions C. Vijay, Founder & CEO, Smart & Wellness, DEE, RSET during COVID 19 by Prof. Ajay Kapoor, Pro Vice Chennai and Mr. S. Sriharan, Senior Lecturer, Chancellor, Swinburne University, Australia on Sabaragamuwa University of Srilanka. DEI organized a webinar To Gain a Greater July 21, 2020 •Appreciation for Instrumentation by Mr DCS organized a webinar on Evolution of Biju C. Thomas, Deputy Project Director, GSLV DEC organized a webinar on Fully Depleted •Transformers & Hands-on Text generation MkIII Project, VSSC on July 16, 2020 •Silicon on Insulator Applications for using GPT2 on June 23, 2020 by Mr Abhinav Advanced Architectures by Dr Arun Ashok, Thomas, Machine Learning Engineer, SAP Lab CCASH organized a webinar on Academic Senior Research Engineer, Juliech Research India •and Professional Challenges in the Centre, Germany on July 24, 2020 COVID19 Pandemic Scenario – some Positive DEC organized a webinar Stop Worrying, Thoughts by Ms. Pallavi Arora, Vice President, DME organized a webinar on Industrial •Start Living by Mr S. Saravana Prabhu, APJC Customer Experience Centers in Cisco •Automation by Mr. S. Sendilkumar, Senior software professional and life skills trainer, Systems India Pvt. Ltd. on July 17, 2020 System Engineer, Festo India Pvt. Ltd. on July for students on June 27, 2020 27, 2020 DCS organized a webinar on Making DEE organized a webinar on Redefining and •Decisions – A Game Theoretic Approach DEC organized a webinar on Industrial IOT •Reassessing Value Proposition in Technical by Dr Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer, Researcher, •and Industry 4.0 by Dr Hudyjaya Siswoyo RSETnews 2020 14

SEMINARS & WEBINARS

Jo, Senior Lecturer, Swinburne Institute of DBSH organized a three-day international CSI organized a webinar on Courses, Technology, Sarawak Campus, Malaysia on •webinar on Nanoscience and Technology •Projects and Job Prospects in AI by Ms August 10, 2020 from September 16 to 18, 2020. The inaugural Pooja Vinod, alumnus, on November 7, 2020 session was by Dr Sabu Thomas, Hon’ble DEC organized a webinar Chasing a Million Vice Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University, DBSH organized a national level webinar •Dollar Dream by Mr Jithin Joji Anchanattu, Kottayam •series Expert Voices from October 2020 Technical Lead -IBS and entrepreneur, onwards. The first webinar Internet and alumnus 2010-’14 ECE, on August 11, 2020 DCE organized a webinar on Opportunities Communication Revolution was by Prof. •for Civil Engineers in the Public Sector by Rangarajan Gopalakrishnan, RCBS on October DEE organized a seminar on Grid Vault: Ms Aarya K.R., Manager, Corporate Relations, 31, 2020. The second, Stress Mindset: A New •Power up your Perception on Power Grid Civilianz on September 19, 2020 Approach to Stress Management was by Dr by Ms Avanthika Satheesh, Industry Research Jayavel S., Central University of Karnataka Manager, Customized Energy Solutions, DMA and CETA organized the Student on November 14, 2020. The third webinar, On Chennai and Dr Deepa S. Kumar, Deputy •Teacher Enrichment Programme webinar Umbrellas and Sewing Machines: Collaging Manager, PGCI, Trivandrum on August 12, series from September 2020 onwards. The first Creativity was by Prof. C.S. Jayaram, ASAS 2020 set of webinars organized from September on November 28, 2020. The fourth webinar, 23 to 25, 2020, on Topology, featured Prof Secrets of Great Teamwork, was delivered by DBSH organized a webinar on Next Saber Elaydi, Trinity University, USA, Prof Dr Nobin Thomas, IIM Indore, on December 12, •Generation Challenges in Astrotechnology Vinod Kumar, RSET, Prof Krzysztof Lesniak, 2020. by Prof. A.N. Ramaprakash, Scientist G, Head Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland, Prof Instrumentation, Inter-University Centre for Vijay Natarajan, IISc, and Prof Patrizio Frosini, DBSH organized a national level webinar Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune on August University of Bologna, Italy. The second series, •series Ethics Matters from November 12, 2020 which was on Graph Theory, from September 2020 onwards. Dr C.D. Sebastian, IIT Mumbai 29 to October 1, 2020 featured Prof Aparna delivered the webinar on Ethics in Engineering DEI organized a webinar Exploring a World Lakshmanan, St Xavier’s College, Prof Indulal on November 7, 2020. The session on Business •Full of Opportunities by Dr. Kalyani Menon, G., St Aloysius College, Prof Narayanan N., IIT Ethics was by Dr Nisigandha Bhuyan, IIM alumnus 2004-’08 AEI, Head of Technology, Chennai, and Prof Jason I. Brown, Dalhouse Kolkata on December 5, 2020 Collins Aerospace, United Kingdom on August University, Canada. The third series, on 13, 2020 Linear Algebra, conducted from October 7 to DCE organized a webinar on Modern Trends 9, featured Prof. Reji T., Govt College, Chittur, •in Structural Design and Construction DEC organized a webinar on 5G End to End and Prof M.N. Narayanan Nambudiri, CUSAT. Management by Mr Reji Zacharia, Chief •Technology by Mr Mohit Asrani, Technical The fourth series, on Mathematical Modelling Engineer, S&R Consultants, on November 7, Lead and Scrum Master, Nokia on August 14, and Stochastic Processes, conducted from 2020 2020 October 14 to 16, 2020 featured Prof. A. Krishnamoorthy, CUSAT, Prof Pramod P.K., DEI organized a webinar From Academia DME organized a webinar on Indian Maharaja’s College, Prof Anoop N. Nair, College •to Corporate: Career Transitions and •Automotive Industry – Job and Tech during of Engineering & Management, Punnapra, Opportunities for Instrumentation Students and after COVID-19 by Mr Sundar Iyer, on and Prof Raju K. George, IIST by Dr Anuj Abraham, Scientist I, A* STAR, August 19, 2020 Singapore on November 13, 2020 DEI organized a webinar The Success Story DBSH & DME jointly organized a webinar •of a Young Entrepreneur by Mr Sachu T. DCS organized a webinar on Design •on Nuclear Reactor Technology in India Russak, Chief Managing Director, AMY Exports •Thinking for students of Rajagiri College – Advances & Opportunities by Mr A.K. & Imports Pvt Ltd, on October 16, 2020 of Management and Applied Sciences on Balasubrahmanian, Distinguished Scientist November 28, 2020 and Director (Technical), NPC Mumbai on CSI organized a webinar on Cyber Security September 4, 2020 •– Opportunities and Threats by Mr Joe DCE organized a webinar on Basics of Bastian, Certified Data Protection Officer, •Earthquake Engineering by Dr Resmi DEI organized a webinar My Twelve Years CEO-ISSSA on October 28, 2020 Sebastian, IIT Ropar on December 5, 2020 •of Chasing Chaos by Mr Mohammed DCE organized a webinar on Future Ready Nizwan, Senior ASIC Verification Engineer at •Designers – Sustainable Thinking in Civil NVIDIA, alumnus 2008-’12, on September 11, Engineering by Ms Reshma Azhakiya Namby, 2020 Structural Engineer, Aurecon, Australia, alumnus 2013-’17, on October 31, 2020 RSETnews 2020 15

FACULTY AS RESOURCE PERSONS

Prof. K.S. Mathew, DCS was organized by Amal Jyothi College •the resource person for a Dr Varghese Paul, DCS gave of Engineering, Kanjirappally on and Data at SRM University on training programme on Time •a talk on Data Security using July 10, 2020 September 25, 2020 Management organized by SBL Cryptography at Muthoot Knowledge Services, Madurai on Institute of Technology & Science Dr Ragin Ramdas, DBSH Dr Vinod Kumar P.B., DMA January 4, 2020 on February 18, 2020 •gave a talk on Synthesis and •gave a talk on Transformations Characterization of Tunable between Fractals at Christ Dr Unnikrishnan P.C., DEE was Dr Unnikrishnan P.C., DEE Shape Memory Polytriazoles College, Irinjalakuda on •the resource person for an •gave the keynote seminar at the National Webinar on September 26, 2020 FDP on Distributed Generation on Smart Meters at MBITS, Polymers – A Century of and Smart Grids, organized by Kothamangalam on February 19, Advancement, organized by Amal Dr Ramkumar P.B., DMA Jawaharlal College of Engineering 2020 Jyothi College of Engineering, •gave a talk on Mathematical & Technology, Palakkad on Kanjirappally on July 11, 2020 Morphology at St Albert’s College, January 9, 2020 Dr Ramkumar P.B., DMA Ernakulam on September 26, •gave a talk on How to Review Mr Vishnu Sankar, DME was 2020 Prof. K.S. Mathew, DCS was an Article as part of Walk with •the resource person for a talk •the resource person for a the Scholar program of Vypin Follow Your Passion at Global Prof. Dominic Mathew workshop on Design Thinking Government Arts & Science, Public School on July 15, 2020 •delivered a webinar on organized by SBL Knowledge Elamkunnapuzha on February Artificial Intelligence and Services, Madurai on January 11, 20, 2020 Dr Rinku Jacob, DBSH gave a Machine Learning for the faculty 2020 •talk on Importance of Moon and students of University of Dr Ajith Kumar A., DME Day to the students of Chovva Technology and Applied Sciences, Dr Unnikrishnan P.C., DEE •gave an expert lecture on Dharma Samajam U.P. School, Ibra, Oman on October 15, 2020 •delivered a lecture on Modern Computational Fluid Dynamics Kannur on July 21, 2020 Trends in Electric Vehicles in at RIT, Pampady on February 26, Mr Vinay Menon, DBSH the ISTE sponsored FDP on 2020 Dr Indu Geevar, DCE delivered •delivered a webinar The Sustainable Energy Processes at •a webinar on Design using Edutainment Decoder – Make M Dasan Institute of Technology, Dr Hari C.V., DEI was the Strut and Tie Method, organized a Positive Impact on Students’ Ulliyeri on January 18, 2020 •resource person for the by IIT Madras on August 18, 2020 Lives for Chitkara International training program Introduction School, Chandigarh on October Dr Vinod Kumar P.B., DMA to LaTeX, writing the paper right Dr Vinod Kumar P.B., DMA 15, 2020 •delivered a seminar on Finite way, organized by Sahrdaya •gave a talk on Toplogical Data Topological Spaces at St Joseph’s College of Engineering and Analysis at Al-Ameen College, Dr Vinod Kumar P.B., DMA College, Devagiri on January 24, Technology, Thrissur on February Edathala on September 18, 2020 •delivered a webinar on 2020 28, 2020 Classification of Surfaces, for the Dr Silvy Mathew, DBSH international webinar organized Dr Vinod Kumar P.B., DMA Dr Hari C.V., DEI delivered •delivered a webinar on by Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam •gave a talk on Introduction •a webinar on LaTeX at GEC, Enhancing Optimal Academic on December 8, 2020 to Topology at Rani Anna Kozhikode on April 27, 2020 Performance by Understanding Government College, Thirunelveli Poor Academic Performance, Dr Vinod Kumar P.B., DMA on January 27, 2020 Dr Hari C.V., DEI gave a talk on organized by the Rotary Club of •delivered the Ramanujan •Filter Realization – Structures Cochin Lords in association with Commemorative Webinar on Dr Vinod Kumar P.B., DMA for FIR Filters as part of ASAP on Global Public School, Kochi on From Analysis to Topology •was a resource person at the May 9, 2020 September 19, 2020 organized by CMS College of workshop on NBA Accreditation, Science & Commerce, Coimbatore organized by Christ College of Dr Aysha Zeneeb Majeed gave Dr Deepa K. Baby, DBSH on December 16, 2020 Engineering, Irinjalakuda on •a class on Structural Analysis •delivered a webinar on February 13, 2020 for ASAP on May 14, 2020 Drug Delivery Vehicles from Dr Ramkumar P.B. delivered Biopolymers for the Chemistry •a webinar on Mathematical Prof. K.S. Mathew, DCS was the Dr Deepa K. Baby, DBSH gave a association of St Dominic’s Morphological Operators on •resource person for a training •talk on Chitosan and Chitosan College, Kanjirappally on Graphs and Hypergraphs, for the programme on Scope, Schedule Derivatives in Biomedical September 22, 2020 international webinar organized and Cost Management, as part of Applications: Drug Delivery at the by Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam PMP training, organized by PMI National Webinar on Polymers Dr Vinod Kumar P.B., DMA gave on December 26, 2020 Trivandrum on February 16, 2020 – A Century of Advancement, •a talk on Topology – Dynamics RSETnews 2020 16

FACULTY PAPER PRESENTATIONS ACTIVITIES

Ms Divya James, DIT presented a paper on Improving the Product for the same •Services Using IoT for Controlling In-Transit Parameters at the 8th International Conference on India-SAARC Trade, Cultural & Mr Binu R., DMA presented a paper on Neutrosophic Exact Economic Development, organized by Vivekanandha College of Arts •Sequence of an R-Module in the Recent Trends in Applied & Science, Tiruchengode on February 10 & 11, 2020 Mathematical Science Conference organized by Arunai International Foundation and Department of Mathematics, University of Kerala Ms Kavitha M., DCE presented a paper on Feasibility of Coir on September 26 & 27, 2020 •Geotextiles in Permeable Pavement Construction for Stormwater Management at the International Conference on Recent Advances Mr Shyam Sunder Iyer, DMA presented a paper on Effect of in Civil Engineering, conducted by CUSAT on July 16, 2020 •Viscoelasticity and Internal Current on Wave Attenuation at the 86th Annual Conference of the Indian Mathematical Society, Mr Vishnu Sankar, DME presented a paper on Optimization of organized by Vellore Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu from •Thermal Barrier Coatings in a Single Cylinder Diesel Engine using December 17 to 20, 2020 Thermal Analysis and Genetic Algorithm at the 1st International Conference on Physical Sciences and Materials, SNS College of Ms Angel Sebastian, DCE presented a paper titled Study on Technology, Coimbatore on August 14, 2020 •Pedestrian and Cycling Zones in an Educational Area and an Urban Area at the 7th Conference of Transportation Systems Dr Ragin Ramdas, DBSH presented a paper on Dual-stimuli Engineering & Management organized by KSCSTE-NATPAC and •Responsive Polytriazoles via Click Polymerization during the two CET on December 29 & 30, 2020 days International Webinar on Chemistry: A Motivation in Research organized by Government General Degree College, Keshiary, West Bengal on August 26, 2020. He was awarded the Best Paper award

ACTIVITIES Rajagiri Valley Credit Union & RSET NSS RSET hosted an International Education workshop on LED Bulb Assembling on •in association with The Eye Foundation, •Fair in association with TCGlobal, March 7, 2020 Edappally conducted Free Eye Check Up featuring universities in Canada, UK, Ireland, Camp for Rajagirians, on January 10, 2020 Europe and Australia on January 29, 2020 IEEE PES student branch chapter •conducted an interactive session on Rajagiri Valley Credit Union & RSET NSS 30 students from Government P.G. electric vehicles and the display of the all- •in association with Colgate and the •College, Dharmsala, Himachal Pradesh new electric vehicle from Hyundai – ‘KONA’ Dental Association, Kochi conducted Free were in RSET from January 30 to February on March 7, 2020 Dental Check Up Camp for Rajagirians, on 5, 2020 as part of the Ek Bharat, Sreshta January 10, 2020 Bharat initiative of the Government of India RSET IEDC organized REDTales featuring •business magnate Mr Kochouseph The 16th Mathematics Club Day featuring DEI organized a Design Project Expo on Chittilappily on June 25, 2020 •competitions such as Paper presentation, •February 12, 2020 Mathigon, Tile to Tile – Just a Slide followed The finals of RSET Voice Hunt 2020 for by the 16th All Kerala Mathematics Quiz Arts festival, Bharatham 2019-’20 was •first year students (2019 batch) was competition was organized on January 24, •launched by Ms Prayaga Martin, film conducted in the online mode, and the 2020 actress on February 7, 2020. Bharatham winner of the title is Vimal P. Nandakumar was inaugurated by Ms Honey Rose, film of S2 ECE Gamma. First runner up is As a precursor to the Mathrubhumi actress on February 13, 2020. The fest was Jessmary Ann John of S2 ECE Beta, and •International Festival of Letters 2020, held on February 14 & 15, 2020 second runner up is Advaith Jayakumar of Thiruvananthapuram, i-Trax in association S2 CSE Alpha with Mathrubhumi Media jointly organized RSET IEDC organized a 15 hours Startup an Intra Collegiate Quiz Competition on •Weekend from 6.00 p.m. on February 7, DBSH in association with Sports Club International and National Literature on 2020 to 9.00 a.m. on February 8, 2020 •organized a live online quiz on the January 29, 2020 occasion of National Sports Day – August RSET IEDC, Unnath Bharath Abhiyan 29, 2020, on the topic Indian Sports on •(UBA) and NSS jointly organized a August 26, 2020 RSETnews 2020 17

ACTIVITIES

RSET IEDC organized REDTales featuring Jackfruit 365 founder, B.Tech college merit admissions 2020 was held on September •Mr James Joseph on August 27, 2020 •18, 2020

DBSH in association with Sports Club organized a live online M.Tech admissions 2020 was held on October 27, 2020 •Zumba session on September 26, 2020. The session was led • by Mr. Sreejith K. & Ms. Saniga, international certified Zumba DMA & CETA organized an online mock test for GATE and UGC- instructors •CSIR Test for JRF/Lectureship on November 7, 2020

RSET and Malayala Manorama Thozhil Veedhi jointly launched Speakers Forum organized a Quiz Competition on November •an online competition – Knowledge Safari in September 2020 •14, 2020

IEDC organized a quiz competition QRIOUS to mark Engineer’s RSET IEDC organized REDTales featuring Mr Christo George, •Day on September 15, 2020 •founder and CMD, Hykon India on December 5, 2020

PROJECTS, CONSULTANCY & INITIATIVES

DCE student project Strength and Durability Enhancement of providing platform in August 2020 •Pervious Concrete by Refinement using Nano Silica, by Sarath Paul, Aslam Harif, Jaison T. Joy and Anujith A. of S8 CE has received Centre for Advanced Technologies in Disaster Management, KSCSTE funding in January 2020 •CUSAT has granted funding for the project Multi Utility Unmanned Robot, presented by Mr Vishnu Sankar, DME in October 2020 DCS student project Composite Face Image Synthesis received •KSCSTE funding in January 2020 NPOL, DRDO has granted ten lakhs to the project Development of •software to archive, analyze and visualize Ocean Data, presented DME received KSCSTE funding for the project Efficient Municipal by DIT faculty member Mr Binu A., and DCS faculty members Dr •Solid Waste Management Plan for Emerging Cities presented by Preetha K.G. and Dr Saritha S. in December 2020 Dr Ajith Kumar A. in January 2020 DST-SERB has granted five lakhs funding to the project Study and DCE offered consultancy services to Southern Railway for Mix •Characterization of Cardiac Dynamics from ECG Signals based on •Design and Testing of 10 mm steel bar from February 2020 complex network measures and to automate the classification of arrhythmias using convolutional neural network in December 2020. DEI received a fund of twelve lakhs from AICTE under the The PI is Dr Rinku Jacob, DBSH and Co-PI is Dr Ramkumar P.B., DMA •MODROBS scheme in May 2020

DEI third year students Iwin John and Ashik V.A., along with DCS •first year student Dijo Daiju started buymeawork.com, a service

INDUSTRIAL VISITS •S8 CE students visited Chikmangalur and Udupi from February 21 to 23, 2020 •S8 EEE students visited Ace Components, Mysore on February 21, 2020 •S8 ME Alpha students visited Supa Dam, Dandeli, and Gokarna, Karnataka from February 21 to 23, 2020 •Four students from DEI visited Synergia, Smartcity, Kakkanad on August 13, 2020 RSETnews 2020 18

INTERNATIONAL OFFICE

Delegate from University of Huddersfield, UK Dr. Jonathan Wakefield visited RSET in January 2020 and signed Memorandum of •Understanding •Delegate from Flinders University Australia, Ms. Maria Parapally visited RSET in January 2020 •Delegate from Shimane University- Japan, Ms. Ai Muto visited RSET in January 2020 •Delegates from ICAM, France, Mr. Nicolas Georges Jean Juhel and Mr. Alexandre Olivier Marie Dufer visited RSET in February 2020 •RSET signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UNITEC New Zealand Ltd - Auckland, New Zealand

SPORTS - KTU ATHLETIC MEET

RSET men secured the overall runner up position in the 2nd APJAKTU inter zone athletic meet 2020 held at University Stadium, •Thiruvananthapuram from February 5 to 7, 2020.

SI. NO NAME EVENT PERFORMANCE REMARKS

100 II (11:51) BMR

1 GARRY VARGHESE KURIAN (S6 ME α) 200 II (23:44) BMR

4 x100 Mtr Relay I (45:34) NMR

10000 I (38:27) NMR 2 FREDERIC THOMSON (S8 CSE β) 5000 IV (18:44)

4x100 Mtr Relay I (45:34) NMR 3 MATHEWS JAMES (S8 AEI) Long Jump IV (6:44 Mtrs)

4 MILDO P IYPE (S8 ME β) 4x100 Mtr Relay I (45:34) NMR

5 JAIN XAVIER (S4 CSE β) 4x100 Mtr Relay I (45:34) NMR

6 TOM K THOMAS (S6 CSE γ) 1500 IV

7 STEPHY ROMICHAN (S8 CSE γ) 3000 III

8 EVANA ELSA BOSE ( S2 CSE β) 3000 IV RSETnews 2020 19

NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME ACTIVITIES

Launched CORO-NAA, online competitions for storytelling, poster Onnichoronam on September 8, 2020 •design, pencil drawing, rhymes, quiz etc. on March 31, 2020 • Blood and Eye Donation webinar on October 1, 2020 NSS volunteers participated in Karuthal, a bowl of concern from • •April 6 to 20, 2020 Video compilation of over 80 Gandhi sookthams by NSS •volunteers released on October 2, 2020 Conducted a meme making competition from April 1 to 15, 2020 • Virtual three-day camp Swachatha/Adukalathottam/Khel ka 100 RSET NSS volunteers registered in Sannadhasena in April •Samay across Kerala from October 24 to 26, 2020 •2020 Study material distribution for Rajagiri Outreach sponsored Conducted Nostalgia Photography Competition from May 7 to •students on October 24, 2020 •10, 2020 National Unity Day on October 31, 2020 RSET NSS Unit was part of Vande Bharat Mission • • Food packet distribution at Kolenchery on November 9, 2020 Created International Nurses Day Celebration Tribute video in • •May 2020 •Sannadhasena Orientation on November 21, 2020 •Tree planting challenge from May 12 to 27, 2020 •Children’s Day celebrations on November 14, 2020 Conducted Vyapthi, nature photo caption contest on July 15, 2020 Quick Quiz, weekly online current affairs quiz launched in • •November 2020 Smart TV Project at Udumbanchola, Aluva on July 16, 2020 • Online Kudukka inaugurated on December 7, 2020 Online Orientation Programme on August 14, 2020 • • Home Energy Auditing, in association with KTU NSS Energy Cell, •Independence Day Celebration on August 15, 2020 •Adi Shankara College, on December 17, 2020 Visit and donation to old age homes, Christu Vikas, Manalimukku, Vision Clean on December 28, 2020 •and Sree Poornathrayeesa Vridhasadanam, Puthiyakavu on • September 1, 2020 Sanjeevani – life beyond cancer: cancer prevention and healthy •lifestyle webinar on December 30, 2020 Sanitizer distribution in Tripunithura Municipality on September •2, 2020 Chiriyootu, in association with Don Bosco Snehabhavan, •Palluruthy on December 31, 2020 •Teacher’s Day Celebration on September 5, 2020 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Abhishek Anil & Ebin Thankachan, S4 CSE Alpha won the first conducted at Government Polytechnic, Periya, Kasargod on March •prize in Fr John Therezhath Endowment Quiz Competition in 6, 7 & 8, 2020. The theme was Disaster Management Mathematics, conducted by SH College, Thevara on February 3, 2020 The Special Jury Award for the Best Team Performance at Pooja Vinod, S8 CSE received the IEEE Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor •the Techathlon 2020 Grand Finale, organized by ICT Academy •Society Award 2019, given by the International Honor Society for of Kerala, in partnership with Government of Kerala, KSUM, Computing & Information Disciplines in March 2020 and Salesforce, on March 5 & 6, 2020, was won by RSET’s team “Coldblocks” comprising Karthik Menon, Jim Thomas, Denil John and Team comprising Vinay Narayan, S6 CSE Gamma; Ajay Kevin Thomas, S8 IT •Padmanabhan & Adithya M.S., S6 CSE Alpha; Agasto Boney & Anisha Anil Kumar, S4 CSE Alpha; and Sradha Suresh, S4 CSE Gamma Team comprising Prince Poulose, S6 ME Beta, Bevan Jude & got the second runner up position in Reboot Kerala Hackathon 2020 •Abhishek Esaya, S6 ECE Alpha, Denil Titus, S8 IT and Ashley RSETnews 2020 20

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Suzanne, S8 CSE Alpha won the first prize in the Acoustic Band DCS students Maria James and Joanne Mary Jons received Competition organized by NIT Calicut in March 2020 •the GHCI Student Scholarship organized by Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing India in July 2020 Team comprising Prince Poulose, S6 ME Beta, Bevan Jude & •Abhishek Esaya, S6 ECE Alpha, Denil Titus, S8 IT, Ashley Suzanne Pramod Govindan, Arathi Sreevalsam Gokulanathan, Anju & Benjamin John, S8 CSE Alpha, and Joanne Mary Jones, S6 CSE •Suresh, Anna Mary Mathew and Anisha Natarajan of DEC beta won the second prize in the Battle of Bands competition were granted a patent for High Speed Microprocessor Design and organized by DePaul Institute of Science & Technology, Angamaly Implementation - Indian Patent No 348017, in September 2020 in March 2020 Nivetha K.M. of S7 ECE won the first position in the Compact Team comprising Prince Poulose, S6 ME Beta, Bevan Jude & •and Efficient Laboratory Power Supply Design Competition •Abhishek Esaya, S6 ECE Alpha, Denil Titus, S8 IT, Ashley Suzanne organized by IEEE PES SB, GEC, Thrissur on August 18, 2020 and Benjamin John, S8 CSE Alpha won the first prize in the Unplugged Band Competition organized by TKM, Kollam on March 2016-2020 batch ECE students Rizwana R., Sherin Paul, 8, 2020 •Vignesh H., and Vivek Murali got the best paper award for their work Smart Glove for Deaf People Using Machine Learning at the DEE students Safwan Ali, Alwin Varghese, Kamil Akthar and AICTE sponsored International Conference on Current Trends in •Sreelakshmi M. won the first position in Any Ideas competition Health Care Information & Technology, organized by KSR College organized by IEEE Kerala Section in May 2020, while Geo Benedict, of Engineering, Tamil Nadu on December 10 & 11, 2020 Ananthu T. Mani and Geo Agnel Manoj won the second position in Doodle Making, Webcrafts and HACCOVID events Jerin Peter of S3 ECE Beta emerged the winner at IEEE IAS CMD •Robotics Contest 2020 DEE student Rohith Joseph Mathew won the first position in •the Innovation Competition, and second in the Mock Interview Manas Manohar of S3 CSE Beta got a funding of Rs 12,000/- organized by IEEE PES Kerala Chapter in June 2020, while Aravind •as a part of the Government of Kerala’s Young Innovators B.S. from the same department won the first position in Poster Programme, for his project GFile: Bringing Accountability and Competition, Ananthu T. Mani won the second position in Webpage Transparency into E-Governance. He has also won the Best Designing, and Nikhil Joy, Anwin J. Dominic and Joel Johnson won Project Award for the same at the 7th National Level Technical the second position in the Idea Presentation Contest Project Exhibition & Competition, conducted by Saint Gits College of Engineering, on February 11 & 12, 2020

TOP POSITIONS IN APJAKTU B.TECH UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS RSETnews 2020 21

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

No Name Number of 1 Dr Jayanthi V.S. 1 publications 2 Dr Sabna N. 1 Applied Electronics & Instrumentation 3 Dr Jaison Jacob 1 1 Ms Aparna George 1 4 Dr Jisa David 1 2 Ms Shanmughapriya M. 1 5 Dr Simi Zerine Sleeba 1 3 Ms Priya S. 1 6 Dr Sreekumar G. 1 4 Dr Poornima S. 1 7 Mr Dhanesh M.S. 2 Basic Sciences & Humanities 8 Ms Santhi Jabarani 1 1 Dr Deepa K. Baby 1 9 Ms Tressa Michael 1 2 Ms Parvathy N. 1 Information Technology Civil Engineering 1 Prof Kuttyamma A.J. 1 1 Dr Aysha Zeneeb Majeed 1 2 Dr Biju Paul 1 2 Dr Indu Geevar 1 3 Ms Divya James 2 Computer Science & Engineering 4 Ms Nikhila T. Bhuvan 3 1 Dr Sminu Izudheen 1 5 Ms Abey Abraham 1 2 Ms Sangeetha Jamal 1 Mathematics 3 Ms Meharban M.S. 2 1 Dr Vinod Kumar P.B. 3 4 Dr Renu Mary Daniel 3 2 Dr Ramkumar P.B. 4 5 Dr Varghese S. Chooralil 1 3 Mr Binu R. 5 6 Ms Mehbooba P. Shareef 1 4 Ms Bindu V.A. 1 7 Ms Jyotsna A. 1 5 Ms Radhika Das 1 8 Mr Paul Augustine 1 Mechanical Engineering 9 Dr Preetha K.G. 2 1 Fr Dr Joel George Pullolil 1 10 Ms Tripti C. 1 2 Mr Vishnu Sankar 4 Electrical & Electronics Engineering 3 Dr Thankachan T. Pullan 1 1 Dr Elizabeth Rita Samuel 2 4 Mr Tony Chacko 1 2 Mr Ginnes K. John 1 5 Mr Rathish T. R. 1 Electronics & Communication Engineering RSETnews 2020 22

PLACEMENTS

PLACEMENTS  Number of companies who visited for placement in 2019-2020 – 83  Total number of offers - 824

COMPANIES WHICH HAVE VISITED RSET FOR RECRUITMENT IN 2020:

ACSIA TECHNOLOGIES LITMUS 7 VANENBURG AMAZON MARLABS VERIZON BYJUS MITSOGO TECHNOLOGIES Voyon Technology Services Pvt LTD CARESTACKS NAVIGANT VVDN CERIUM SYSTEMS NCR CORPORATION WIPRO COGNIZANT NEUDESIC WIPRO VLSI COGNIZANT BASE + OPENTEXT WISILICA COGNIZANT SALES FORCE PATHPARTNER WRENCH SOLUTIONS COMMVAULT PREDMAC TECHNOLOGIES COMMVAULT WEB DEVELOPER QATAR ROBOTICS CSS CORP QBURST DEXLOCK QUEST GLOBAL DIAGNAL TECHNOLOGIES REDBLACK DIDITALCORE TECHNOLOGIES RIA ADVISORY DXC TECHNOLOGIES ROBERT BOSCH ELEATION ROYAL ENFIELD EXCELACOM RUBY SEVEN STUDIOS EXPERION TECHNOLOGIES SAINT GOBAIN EY SALVE MARIA INTERNATIONAL FEATHERSOFT SAP LABS FORD MOTORS SAPAAD FSS SLK SOFTWARE G10X SOUTH INDIAN BANK GADGEON SPERIDIAN TECHNOLOHIES GES INFOTEK SUNTEC HEXAWARE Sununited Infologics LLB HIGH PEAK SOFTWARE SURVEY SPARROW IBM TATA COMMUNICATIONS IBS TATA ELXSI IMAGE INFOSYSTEMS TCS INCTURE TECHNOLOGIES TCS DIGITAL INFORMATICA TEK SYSTEMS INFOSYS TEMENOS INNOVATURE LABS TRIASSIC SOLUTIONS KALKITECH TURN B KEYVALUE SOLUTIONS UST GLOBAL L&T UST GLOBAL - HIGHER RSETnews 2020 23 RSETnews 2020 24

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

• ICACC 2021 – International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communication October 21-23, 2021

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