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Certificate Distribution at IMA advocated a greater participation round the year, as well On, 1st June 2015, Prof. P.K Garg, Hon’ble Vice as the use of technology to have a safer, cleaner and Chancellor Conferred Diploma/Certificate in Military greener environment. Dr S.K Goel, Director WIT Studies and defence management to the foreign organized the function. All faculty of WIT, M.Tech gentlemen cadets, at IMA, Dehradun under an MoU programme and M Pharma programme participated between IMA and UTU. with greater enthusiasm. Everyone later planted the tree in the Campus.

Prof. P.K Garg, Vice Chancellor, Uttarakhand Technical University, Certificate distribution program held in IMA, Dehradun planting a tree on World Environment Day, June 5, 2015

Meeting held to revise existing PhD Ordinance of UTU A meeting was held on June 8, 2015 at UTU to consider the revision in existing ordinances of PhD programme. These will be uploaded soon on UTU website.

VC's visits to various institutes during internal examinations Prof P K Garg, VC, UTU undertook surprise visits to various constituent and affiliated colleges during the Faculty members of Women Institute of Technology (WIT), Dehradun planting trees on World Environment Day June 5, 2015 period (June 2015) in connection with internal examinations to assess the seriousness and guidelines Meeting to revise exiting M.Tech Ordinance of UTU being followed by the institutes and colleges during the A meeting was held on June 10, 2015 at UTU to examinations. During the visits, several good propose the revision in existing ordinances of M.Tech suggestions have been received by him from the Full-time and Sequential programme at UTU. Seventy colleges to make certain improvements in future. Four M.Tech Sequential thesis were submitted at UTU till 30th May 2015, whose evaluation process is under World Environment Day 2015 progress. Women Institute of Technology and UTU Dehradun celebrated World Environment Day on June 5, 2015. Meeting with Industries at Kashipur Chief Guest of the function, Dr Rajendra Dhobal, DG A meeting with several industrialists was organized on of UCOST, Dehradun, delivered a talk and emphasized 15th June 2015, with industries at Kashipur. The the importance of saving environment. He suggested to possible areas of collaboration were discussed by develop the technologies to have clean and potable VC,UTU as given below: water. Prof P K Garg, VC, UTU, on the occasion, 1. Industry involvement in curriculum revision.

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2. Identification of Industrial based project for Prof. Garg in his address elaborated on the concept of B.Tech final year students, M.Tech students and sustainability and its relevance for growth and even for PhD students. excellence for any organization. 3. Invite industry experts to our campus for delivering talks on various aspects, subject matter and entrepreneurship. 4. Identify industries for accepting students for summer internship. 5. Inviting industries to the campus for placement of students. 6. Carry out joint R&D work with the help of faculty. 7. Explore possibility to start B.Vocational Program (3 years) at UTU, Dehradun for 10+2 students with the help of industry. o 8. Identify industries where industrial tours can be Delivering Inaugural Talk at IMS Unison, University arranged for our students. 9. Set up a centre for research with the funding from He highlighted the strong relationship between Govt. and Industry. Technology and Management for sustainable growth and excellence.

th The Vice-Chancellor attended a meeting on 19 International Yoga Day June called by Hon’ble Governor of Uttarakhand June 21 was declared as the International Day of Yoga where various issues related with universities and by the United Nations General Assembly on December institutes as well as in improvement of quality of 11, 2014. Yoga is a physical, mental and spiritual education in the state were discussed. It was practice or discipline that originated in India. attended by all VCs of .

VC’s Inaugural Speech at Seminar at IMS Unison A National Level Seminar on the topic “Managing Business Practices for Sustainable Growth and

Talk on International Yoga Day

University celebrated “Yoga Day” along with Women Institute of Technology, Dehradun premises on 21st June 2015, from 10:00 AM to 01:30 PM. The officers Lighting Lamp at IMS Unison University, Dehradun & teaching and non-teaching staff of University and

WIT were present on the occasion. Excellence”, organized by IMS Unison University on 20th June, 2015, was inaugurated by Prof. P.K.Garg, Vice Chancellor, Uttarakhand Technical University, Workshop on e-Uttarakhand Dehradun. Vice Chancellor, Prof. P.K Garg, attended a workshop on e-Uttarakhand on 27th June 2015 at Sun Park Inn,

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Dehradun. The said workshop was organized by in this exams for their admission into various courses, Uttarakhand Government for implementation of e- such as lateral entry to B.Tech program, MCA, Governance in Uttarakhand. M.Pharma, BHMCT etc. The exams were conducted very systematically and successfully. Entire team of Meeting of UPRNN officials with UTU authorities UTU is appreciated for their help and cooperation. A meeting to monitor the progress of all constituents’ colleges of UTU was held on 24th June 2015. The Counseling Schedule of UKSEE-2015 meeting was chaired by Vice-Chancellor with UPRNN The following counseling schedule is notified for officials as its members and the officials of UTU. admission to various courses such as lateral entry to B.Tech, MCA, B.Pharm, BHMCT etc. The counseling A Move for Students’ Care is planned on 27th, 28th and 29th July, 2015. In order to explore the possibility of having comprehensive Insurance of students of UTU, a Counseling Schedule of Admissions in Various presentation was made by United Insurance Co. in June Constituent and Affiliated Colleges of UTU 2015, which was attended by all UTU officials and For admission in B.Tech, online counseling is Directors of constituent’s colleges. Various options conducted by the university in two phases. The first were discussed for considerations. phase of counseling is scheduled from 15th July 2015 to 29th July 2015 and second phase of counseling is Meeting with Directors of Constituent Colleges scheduled from 3rd August 2015 to 18th August 2015. A meeting was held with VC and Directors of constituent colleges of June 24, 2015 to discuss various Resignation of Director, THDC-IHET, Tehri issues related with infrastructure, faculty and students. Dr. A.K Shah, Director, THDC-IHET, Tehri has In the meeting, it was also decided to organize tendered his resignation due to health problem. UTU conferences/workshop by these colleges. appreciates his contribution and services rendered by him at THDC-IHET and UTU. Successful Evaluation of Answer-Scripts of Internal Exams Re-joining at Pantnagar by Director, WIT, Evaluation of answer-scripts of internal exams was Dehradun done successfully in the month of June 2015. Dr. S.K Goel, Director, WIT, Dehradun has joined back his parent institution at Pantnagar University, after Declaration of B.Tech Final Year Results serving at WIT for more than 2.5 years, UTU B.Tech final year results have been declared on time. appreciates his contribution and the services rendered This time special efforts were made by the Examination by him at WIT and UTU. section of UTU to declare results of B.Tech Final year in a timely manner, keeping in view the requirements Sad Demise for their professional career. It is a matter of great sorrow that Ms Kavita Bisht, Faculty in Civil Engineering at Seemant Institute of Conduct of UKSEE-2015 Exams Technology, Pithoragarh died in a road mishap. UTU UKSEE-2015 results have been declared on June 26, family sends condolences to her family & relatives. 2015 as per schedule It has been uploaded on website of the university. Forthcoming conference at SIT, Pithoragarh Seemant Institute of Technology, Pithoragarh is Declaration of UKSEE-2015 Results organizing a conference on Recent Advances in UKSEE-2015 exams were conducted at ten centres in Sciences & Technology (NCRAST-2015) at Uttarakhand State. A large number of students appeared Pithoragarh. Details can be seen on

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UTTARAKHAND TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY e-NEWSLETTER An Official e-Newsletter of Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun http://uktech.ac.in/conference-notice and also on years will be increasing steadily, India has the http://sitp.ac.in/. advantage of demographic dividend. Harnessing the demographic dividend through appropriate skill College of Engineering, Roorkee development efforts would provide an opportunity to achieve inclusion and productivity within the country 1. HR Conclave and also a reduction in the global skill shortages. An HR Conclave was organized by COER School of There were deliberations by various experts in the Management on June 24, 2015 on the topic Skilling conclave, and concluded the following points: India: Empowering Youth for Tomorrow. More than 50 delegates from various organizations, like Anchor  As skills & knowledge are the driving force for Electrical, Akums Pharma, ITC, BHEL, VIP Industries, the growth & development of the country, Everest Industries, Gargi Enterprise, THDC, IIT hence a quality teaching strategy to be provided Roorkee, Cavendish BP Pvt Ltd, Indo Simmon, ABB, to the students. Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya, Amar Ujjala, HT  Students should be mentored & motivated to media and many other from SIDCUL participated in the select an industry of their interest in the Conclave. beginning of the course so that they have full The topic Skilling India: Empowering Youth for knowledge & skills to serve the best in the Tomorrow was selected to understand the relevance in selected industry. current scenario and alignment with Make in India Plan  Students should be encouraged for of Govt. of India. Skills and Knowledge are the driving Entrepreneurship. forces of economic growth and social development for  Choice Based credit system to be introduced any country. Countries with higher and better levels of and at least one vocational training to be given skills adjust more effectively to the challenges and to the students. opportunities of world of work. The target groups for  There has to be involvement of industry skill development comprise of all those in the labour personnel in curriculum design, expert session, force, including those entering the labour market for the providing industrial visits to students, first time (12.8 million annually), those employed in the facilitating students for industrial training & organized sector (26.0 million) and those working in projects. the unorganized sector (433 million) in 2004-05. The  Colleges may be consulted for solving the current capacity of the skill development programs is problems of industries & may involve teachers 3.1 million. for MDPs & projects.  Case based teaching system to be introduced.  Students should be empowered to select specialized subjects.  Regular interactions of industry with academic industries should be encouraged.  Industrial products & services should have a kind consideration of customers.  Industry & Institutions may join hands with Govt. of India’s NSDC programmes which will help in mission of PM’s Skilling India.  Soft skills of the students should be sharpened which is the need of the hour. India has set a target of skilling 500 million people by 2022. As the proportion of working age group of 15-59

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2. Summer Training Program June -2015 College in Dehradun and Uttarakhand, 11th in Northern Department of CS & IT organized a Summer India and 76th ranked All India. Training Program on “Dynamic Website Development using PHP & MySQL” from 11th June, 2. Advanced Robotic Control (Arc) Lab for Industrial Application 2015 to 26th June 2015.Mr. Dhaneshwar Kumar, Indo Euro Synchronization and APS GmbH- European Centre for Mechatronics, Germany in association with Indian academic partners provided a unique opportunity for Indian students to experience the cutting edge German technology in the Industrial automation Sector. With this opportunity students work on various industry oriented tasks. Implemented work is applied on the robots located in Germany.

Assistant Professor of IT Department trained the students. Training received an overwhelming response with total 56 students from B.Tech (IT/CS) and faculties of the COER participated voluntarily. Topics covered in the training were HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL etc. In the training period, students developed an assignment submission portal for the college to stop the wastage of paper and time. Training received an overwhelming response with total 56 students from B.Tech (IT/CS), and faculties of the COER participated voluntarily. Tula’s Institute The students’ tasks were designed by “The European 1. WEEK Magazine Survey ( as on 12th June 2015) Centre for Mechatronics, Germany” according to current market needs.

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working for more than 30 years in the areas of robotics, sensor technology and information and communication technology. These solutions are provided to the potential clients in cooperation with national and international industrial partners, public authorities and researchers. In addition, to that they strongly support students, undergraduate and postgraduate in their thesis and projects.

3. In-House Summer Training Programme As a part of University curriculum, students of B.Tech 3rd Year have to undergo 5 to 6 week industrial training

programme in their chosen field of specialization. Our students for various industries for internship cum 3. Jloyds Ventures Group for MBA and B.Tech summer training to share first hand practical knowledge (All Branches) Students of the theory that they have learnt in class rooms, and 4. Square Yards Ltd for MBA and B.Tech were also provide In-House summer training 5. Aon Hewitt for Formal Graduates students. 6. Genpact for Formal Graduates students. programme.

This time Mechanical 3rd year students undertook In- House summer Training on “Solid works for 60 hours”. The students learnt to generate 3D structures and to design automobile components as per specifications.

4. Placements in June 2015 at Tula’s Institute

1. Real Ispat & Power Ltd for B.Tech EEE and ME Students. 2. Electrolab India Pvt Ltd for B.Tech ECE Students.

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