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CONTENTS EDITORIAL v Top Stories 2 Research Culture at our university and focus on Sustainable v Faculty Achievements & Contributions 3 Development Academic research plays a signicant role in the economic development of a v Events Organized 4 country as new innovations and technologies assist in the development of the v Events Attended 10 society by enhancing the depth and breadth of knowledge and is indispensable for v Industry Visits Organized For Students 12 sustainable growth. I am happy to see exponentially growing culture of research v Patents 13 at Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh. During these last six months, our faculty members have received funding of close to INR 75 lakhs from DST and v Publications 14 HIMCOSTE for three different projects. This is in addition to several other ongoing funded projects in the university. There are three more projects that have been submitted to DST and SERB and are under consideration. The best part of these sanctioned and submitted research projects is that all these have a direct application to the society. DST sponsored IPR Cell of our university as well as Entrepreneurship Cell is doing an excellent job in their respective departments. Chitkara University H.P. has attained a milestone of 50 patents with 6 patents being led during January – June 2019, and till June 2019 four patents have been granted to us by the Indian Patent Ofce. In addition to other events, Entrepreneurship Cell or CEED conducted a huge event - SURGE 0.1 to bring together start-up eco-system, FUTURE EVENTS entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists of the region as well as academic community on a single platform. v DST Expert Committee Meeting on Landslide All the departments in the university have been organizing pertinent, signicant Hazard Mitigation (September 2019) and state of the art technical events by inviting experts from outside. Our faculty v Startup Weekend (September 2019) members have been participating in many external events and our university has v International Conference on Chemical, always encouraged such participation. You will nd details of all the events Physical and Biological Sciences (October conducted and attended during January – June 2019 in this issue of the 2019) newsletter. In addition to this, you will nd a big section on the achievements of our v Global Week (October 2019) faculty members during this timeframe. Chitkara University is committed to focus on sustainable development. We have EDITORIAL BOARD recently received Environment Leadership Award 2019 from honourable Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh – Shri Jai Ram Thakur ji. The Department of Civil v Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar, Vice Chancellor Engineering of our university organized a 21-day DST sponsored summer school (Chairman) on Mountain Disaster Management and Landslide Management that was attended by selected scholars and academicians from all over India. v Mr. Sagar Juneja, ECE (Member Secretary) Lastly, I wish to mention that our RnD News has taken nascent steps in v Mr. Shankar Aggarwal, CSE showcasing all our research and development activities at a glance. We started v Dr. C. Prakasam, CE this effort four years back and this is the 8th issue. I hope you will like reading it and v Dr. Sita Ram Sharma, Applied Sciences nd it useful. If you have any comments or feedback please do write to us! v Dr. Sartajvir Singh, ECE “The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person.” - Steve Jobs Online issue is available on Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar www.chitkarauniversity.edu.in Vice Chancellor Chitkara University, H.P.

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TOP STORIES FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & CONTRIBUTIONS Felicitation by Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Dr. Nitin Saluja – Associate Director (CURIN) is Co-PI of the CSIR fellowship for PhD scholar Following faculty members of Chitkara University, H.P. were Sh. Jai Ram Thakur - Chief Minister, Himachal Pradesh felicitated project that has received a grant of Rs 37,90,000. Mr. Aravinth R. - Ph.D. research scholar in department of Civil awarded in the function - Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar - Vice Chancellor, Chitkara University, v Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar, Dr. Ajay Sharma – Professor, Applied Engineering (CE) has received Council of Scientic and Industrial Ÿ Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar – Professor, Department of Civil Himachal Pradesh with Environment Leadership Award 2019 on 5 Sciences (AS) and Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav – Assistant Professor Research (CSIR), Govt. of India Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) Engineering (CE) and Dr C. Prakasam - Associate Professor June 2019, recognizing the efforts of our university in solving (AS) received a funding of INR 10,00,000 for project entitled XRF for a period of two years to continue his research work under Dr C. (CE) received External Funding Award 2019. Ÿ problem of sludge disposal faced by industries situated in Baddi, Evaluation of Soil, Water and Plants Polluted with Garbage and Prakasam – Associate Professor (CE). Dr. Sartajvir Singh – Associate Professor (ECE) received Barotiwala, Nalagarh Development Authority (BBNDA). Himachal Industrial Sludge: Remedial Measures from H.P. Council for Teachers Excellence award in all three categories Most Pradesh Government has also released a Coffee Table Book with a Science Technology and Environment (HIMCOSTE), Shimla. Collaborative, Most Committed and Emerging Leader special mention of the initiatives taken up by Chitkara University and v DST has approved a project funding of INR 30,00,000 for the Ÿ Dr. Ajay Sharma – Professor (AS) was awarded Research best practices in the area of environment conservation and project titled Capacity Building and Technology Demonstration Excellence award for his research publications. sustainability in educational institutions of Himachal Pradesh. for the Socio - Economic Upliftment of SC/ST Population in Ÿ Mr. Sagar Juneja – Associate Professor (ECE) received Research nearby Villages of Himachal Pradesh. Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar is Excellence award for ling 6 patents in last one year. In addition PI, Dr. Hitakshi Dutta – Associate Professor, Dr. C. Prakasam - two patents are granted to him this year. He also received Teacher Associate Professor (CE) and Dr. Ashok Kumar - Associate Excellence award in Most Enterprising category. Professor (AS) are Co-PIs of the project. Ÿ Dr. Neeraj Kumar – Assistant Professor (ECE) received Teacher Excellence award in Most Enterprising category. Book publication by CE professor PhD degrees awarded to two faculty members of ECE Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar – Professor, Department of Civil Engineering Mr. Neeraj Kumar – Assistant Professor (ECE) completed his PhD Recognition for CE department (CE), Chitkara University, H.P. in collaboration with Prof. K.V.S Thakur from Chitkara University, Punjab in May 2019. The title of his thesis IIRS-ISRO gave an appreciation certicate to ISRO Outreach and Prof. Narinder Sharma - Chief Engineers (Retd.), BBMB was Ofine Handwritten Gurmukhi Word Recognition and Mapping Centre of Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh for regularly published a book entitled Modern Temples of Resurgent India with Devnagri Script. Mr. Shivendu Prashar – Assistant Professor organizing different outreach courses. The centre is coordinated by Engineers' Pilgrimage to Bhakra, Beas and Ranjit Sagar Dams. The (ECE) also completed his Phd in May 2019 and title of his PhD Dr. C. Prakasam – Associate Professor (CE). Silver Award at 12th QCI –DL Shah Quality Awards book was published by Lambert Academic Publishing. thesis was Modelling Performance Parameters of Fiber Grating for Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh received Silver Award at the an Optical Sensor. PhD thesis award and Best paper award Dr. Sartajvir Singh – Associate Professor (ECE) received 12th Quality Council of India (QCI) – DL Shah Quality Awards 2018 Another faculty member from ECE, Mr. Amit Monga – Assistant Outstanding PhD Thesis Award in the eld of Signal and Image for the case study entitled Zero Discharge Environmental Friendly Professor qualied GATE 2019 with 93 percentile. Educational Campus. The award recognizes successful project Processing at the International Conference on Signal Processing, VLSI and Communication Engineering (ICSPVCE-2019) held at organization of our university that is resulting in continuous Certication courses completed by faculty members Delhi Technological University (DTU), New Delhi, 2019 during improvement of processes and services through cost-effective (CSE and ECE) March 28-30, 2019. In another conference - Chitkara University operations and with increased level of satisfaction for all Faculty members from department of Computer Science and Doctoral Consortium 2019 held during May 17-18 at Chitkara stakeholders. Chitkara University is the rst university in the country Engineering (CSE) and department of Computer Applications (CA) University, Punjab Ms. Minaxi Dassi – Assistant Professor (ECE) to receive this honour among 1000 participants from different have completed following certication courses - received Best Paper Award for paper entitled Investigation of sectors like industries, service sector and MNCs. The award Ÿ Ms. Aashima Malhotra & Ms. Nirmaljeet Kaur (CSE) successfully Semiconducting Silicide Source Double Gate Tunnel Field Effect ceremony was held on February 12, 2019 at New Delhi. completed an online certication course - Programming in Java as Transistor. part of a faculty development programme from AICTE-NPTEL. Techelone 2019 – Annual Tech Fest organized Ÿ Ms. Neha Mittal & Ms. Harpreet Kaur (CSE) have successfully Techelone is annual intra-university technical fest of Chitkara completed InfyTQ based Foundation Program with A+ grade. University, H.P. that provides an exclusive opportunity to our students The program was conducted by Infosys. to showcase their skills by competing in a large number of technical Ÿ Dr. Prasenjit Das – HoD (CA), Ms. Praveshika, Ms. Aashima, Mr. events. Techelone 2019 was held on April 19, 2019 and about 350 Manik Gupta, Ms. Ankita & Ms. Vaishali (CSE) have completed students participated in 15 different events conducted during the fest. IUCEE International Engineering Educators Certication There were three software related events – Hackathon, Debug the Program (IIEECP). Code and UI Development; three hardware related events – PC Ÿ Dr. Lipika Gupta – Associate Professor, Department of Electronics Garage, Simulate IT, and E-waste Artist; four events were of Civil and Communication Engineering (ECE) and Mr. Amit Monga – Engineering eld – Arbit, Ballista, Survey Hunt, and Build-o-Arch; and Assistant Professor (ECE) have also completed IIEECP. two events were organized by School of Hospitality Management Research funding worth of INR 7,800,000 received Our faculty members are reviewers of esteemed journals Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh bagged four projects from (SHM) – Blind Date and Fold Away. Mr. Vipin Sharma (VT NetzWelt Guest lecture delivered by AS faculty member Ÿ Dr. Ashok Kumar – Associate Professor, Applied Sciences (AS) Government of India worth of INR 7,800,000. Pvt. Ltd.) and Prof. Pradeep Prabhakar (Chairman, CSI Chandigarh) On March 23, 2019 Dr. Sita Ram Sharma – Associate Professor, is a recognized reviewer of SCI indexed Journal of Applied v Research project entitled Evolutionary Studies of Cultural were chief guests during the inauguration and Mr. So Zahoor (Quark Department of Applied Sciences (AS) was invited as a resource Science and Engineering published by Tamkang University Sculptures in Cultural Heritage with Non-Destructive Inc.) was the chief guest of the valedictory ceremony and he person at Patel College, Rajpura to deliver a guest lecture. Press, Taiwan. Microwave Spectroscopy has been approved by Department of distributed the cash prizes to the winners. Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar – Excellence awards won by our faculty members Ÿ Dr. Sartajvir Singh – Associate Professor, Electronics and Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi. Dr. Varinder S. Vice Chancellor, Chitkara University, H.P. graced the inauguration Chitkara University had organized Excellence Awards function on Communication Engineering (ECE) received appreciation for Kanwar - Professor, Department of Civil Engineering (CE), and valedictory functions with his benign presence and motivated April 6, 2019 to recognize extraordinary efforts of faculty members reviewing research article submitted to Current World Chitkara University, H.P. is the Principal Investigator (PI) and the students to excel. of Chitkara University, H.P. and Chitkara University, Punjab. Environment Journal Published by ENVIRO. 2 3 www.chitkarauniversity.edu.in www.chitkarauniversity.edu.in Vol 4, Issue 2, July 2019 Vol 4, Issue 2, July 2019

Ÿ Mr. Sagar Juneja – Associate Professor (ECE) also received Ÿ Dr. Sartajvir Singh – Associate Professor (ECE), Dr. Shivendu Workshop on Social Entrepreneurship Valentines Day hamper by SHM appreciation for reviewing a paper submitted to journal entitled Prashar – Assistant Professor (ECE) and Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav Prof. Shefali Saluja –Assistant Professor at Chitkara Business Valentines Day is an important day in the calendar for any hotel, as Studies in Higher Education published by Taylor and Francis. – Assistant Professor (AS) have submitted a project to DST with School, Chitkara University visited the E-Cell of Chitkara University, on this day a lot of goodies including cakes, chocolates etc. are Mr. Sagar is also Production Editor of Journal of Today's Ideas proposed funding of INR 36 lacs. The title of the project is H.P. to deliver a session on social entrepreneurship on January 23. purchased by people for their valentine and pastry & confectionery Tomorrow's Technology published by Chitkara University, Scientic Development of Precision Farming and Smart She holds a certication in Social Entrepreneurship & the focus of section of hotels experience brisk sales. To introduce students to Publications. Agriculture Integrated System using Articial Intelligence (AI) her workshop was to make students aware about recognizing social the importance and relevance of this day for hotel industry, a pre- Ÿ Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav – Assistant Professor (AS) is a reviewer in and Internet of Things (IoT). problems and brining about a social change with the help of ordered Valentine Day Hamper Sale was organized within campus three prestigious journals - Journal of Cleaner Production Ÿ Another project has been submitted by Dr.Sartaj, Dr. Shivendu entrepreneurial principles, processes and operations. Session was by School of Hospitality Management (SHM), Chitkara University, (Elsevier), Journal of Food Processing and Preservation (Wiley) and Dr. Arun to DST with a proposed budget of INR 37 lacs. This attended by 42 students & was coordinated by CEED. H.P. Each hamper consisted of a chocolate box, valentine cake and and Applied Water Science (Springer). project is entitled Reconstruction of Traditional Agriculture a stem of articial rose ower. Students got an overview of planning Practices to Monitor Crop and Soil Health using Digital Image and implementation of this event on a small scale; this experience Project proposals submitted for funding by ECE faculty Processing. would help them during their internships in hotel industry. Ÿ A project entitled Estimation and Validation of Seasonal Snow members Cover Maps using Ku-band SCATSAT-1 Data over the Western Ÿ Faculty members from department of Electronics and Himalayas, India has been submitted by Dr. Sartajvir Singh for Communication Engineering (ECE) have submitted following funding to SERB with a proposed budget of INR 10 lacs. three projects for funding to different government agencies.

EVENTS ORGANIZED One-day workshop on Vedic Mathematics Department of Applied Sciences (AS) organized a one-day Mentor-Mentees series vol. 2 - Entrepreneurship as learn programming. The workshop was coordinated by Mr. Shankar workshop on Vedic Mathematics and it was delivered by Mr. Anuj a mindset Aggarwal – Assistant Professor (CA). Gupta from Ek Pathshala, Chandigarh. Around 400 rst year E-cell of Chitkara University, H.P. hosted Mr. Shivam Gupta, CEO of students participated in the workshop and learned various tricks of global multinational organization Azuratech on January 18 for solving logical reasoning questions using Vedic mathematics. The SURGE 0.1 – 5-day entrepreneurship event organized Mentor – Mentee Series Vol-2. His session was focused on the idea workshop was held on February 13 and was locally coordinated by Chitkara University organized SURGE 0.1 to bring together region's of entrepreneurship as a mindset and philosophy. He emphasized Dr. Sita Ram Sharma – Associate Professor (AS). startup ecosystem, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and on capacity and willingness to develop such mindset and how to academic community on a single platform. The ve day event manage business venture along with risks and make prot. It was a conducted during February 18 – 22, 2019 was held for two days in very interactive session in which he gave different scenarios to Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh and for three days in students to test their problem solving skills. The session was Chitkara University, Punjab and it witnessed participation of over attended by 106 students and was locally coordinated by Ms. Abha Hackathon-2k19 organized 700 entrepreneurs, budding entrepreneurs, researchers, faculty, Sharma and Ms. Roopali Dogra – Center of Entrepreneurship On January 22, 2019 one of the most sought after technical events of staff and students. The event featured numerous talks, panel Education and Development (CEED), Chitkara University, H.P. Chitkara University, H.P. was organized in the campus. The event was discussions, project demonstrations and networking sessions. The open for all engineering students of the university and it featured key highlights of the event at Chitkara University, H.P. was diverse participation with as many as 128 students participating in it to inauguration of Incubation Center by Mr. K. Suresh Kumar – nd most innovative and out of the box solution for a given problem President Indian Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Parks and statement. The problem statement was based around building a Business Incubator Association (ISBA) and the launch of ZADD IoT platform where corporates and innovators can engage in a meaningful Workshop on getting started with Machine Learning based E-bike that has been designed and conceptualized by way. The theme was closely related to Govt. of India initiative of Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) in students of our university. SURGE 0.1 was anchored by Chitkara building a start-up nation. Students used tools and programming collaboration with student chapter of IETE organized a two-day University Center of Entrepreneurship Education and Development languages like C++, JAVA, SQL, MongoDB etc. The top three winning workshop on Getting Started with Machine Learning during Feb 14-15, (CEED). Mr. Sumeer Walia – Director (CEED) and his team teams respectively bagged cash prizes of INR7000, INR4500 and 2019. 53 students from different streams of engineering participated in coordinated the event. INR3500. The event was organized under the student chapter of CSI the workshop that was delivered by Mr. Ram Kumar and Mr. Pankesh and it was jointly organized by Department of Computer Science and Gupta from Coders Point. The focus of the workshop was on different models of machine learning and articial intelligence and it was locally Workshop on advance C programming organized by Engineering (CSE) and Computer Applications (CA). Mr. Shankar coordinated by Dr. Neeraj Kumar – Assistant Professor (ECE). CSE and CA Aggarwal – Assistant Professor (CA) and Mr. Manik Gupta – Assistant Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Professor (CSE) were the local coordinators. Computer Applications (CA) in collaboration with Computer Society of India (CSI) organized advance C programming workshop during January 19-20, 2019. It was attended by 50 rst year students of CSE. The emphasis during the workshop was on topics like le DST sponsored 2nd annual IPR workshop conducted handling and making your code more presentable. During the 2nd Annual IPR workshop was jointly organized by DST sponsored workshop senior batch students of CSE showcased their innovative IPR Cell, Chitkara University, H.P. and Ofce of Patent Facilitation, project with an objective of highlighting the innovations being carried Licensing and Consultancy (OPFLC), CURIN on February 19, 2019 out in university campus and also to motivate rst year students to at the university campus. Theme of this one day program was Make

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Your Innovative Ideas Patentable and its objective was two folds – Workshop on Kali Linux and Information Security Holi special gujjia by SHM Workshop on healthy meal options by SHM 1) to make participants aware about patent process through hands- Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) & School of Hospitality Management (SHM), Chitkara University, H.P. School of Hospitality Management (SHM), Chitkara University H.P. on exercises, 2) to motivate and encourage students and young Computer Applications (CA) under the banner of ACM India student organized one month Holi Special Offer during which Chef Divay organized two half-day workshops on Healthy Meal Options for all researchers to convert their projects and research into patentable chapter conducted a two-day workshop on Kali Linux and Mehta along with his team of students prepare and ran a sale of faculty members of the university. The workshop was held on World inventions. It was delivered by Mr. Yogesh Khullar - Patent Attorney, Information Security during March 8-9, 2019. Mr. Saksham popular Indian sweet Gujjia made of chocolate avoured desiccated Health Day (April 5, 2019) and was delivered by Chef Divay Mehta. Khurana & Khurana Advocates and Dr. Man Singh - Dean Choudhary from Learn Code Online Inc. was the resource person of coconut stuffed in a mould of rened our, deep fried and garnished Before demonstrating the preparation of three course menu (Chemical Sciences), Central University of Gujarat and was workshop that was attended by about 60 CSE and CA students. The with a dip of chocolate and crushed dry fruits. Through this activity comprising of a Soup, Salad and Dessert (Cookies) he also attended by about 100 participants from Chitkara University as well workshop was centred on ethical hacking, setting up virtual hacking students got an exposure in planning, preparation and delivery as explained nutritional content of different food items. Each session as from neighboring institutions in the region. The workshop was environment to perform real penetration testing attacks, nding per the retail demand in hotel industry. was attended by about 30 faculty members. conducted with nancial support of INR40,000 from State Council vulnerabilities/loopholes and xing them. It was locally coordinated for Science, Technology & Environment, H.P. (HIMCOSTE), Shimla by Dr. Neha Kishore – Associate Professor (CSE). Three-day workshop on Open Road Software and was locally coordinated by Mr. Sagar Juneja – Assistant Dean, Third year students of department of Civil Engineering (CE), IPR Cell, Chitkara University, H.P. Chitkara University H.P. were exposed to designing of roads using Open Road Software through a three-day training program that was conducted by our training partner Bentley Organization India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. The workshop was held during March 26-28, 2019 and was delivered by Mr. Lalit Negi and Mr. Neeraj Yadav from Bentley. Around 75 students attended the workshop and it was locally coordinated by Ms. Diplali Sharma and Mr. Abhishek Kanoungo - Assistant Professors (CE) Workshop of IoT and Embedded Systems A four-day workshop on IoT and Embedded Systems was Workshop on Machine Learning and AI using Python conducted by department of Electronics and Communication Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) in Engineering (ECE) during April 15-18, 2019. Mr. Shivansh Sethi collaboration with CSI organized a workshop on Machine Learning from Aiotize was the resource person of the workshop that was and Articial Intelligence using Python during March 12-16, 2019. NOVATE+ An exposition of innovation organized attended by about 25 students. Prior to this workshop Mr. Shivansh During the rst two days 41 participating students learned basics of Chitkara University Research and Innovation Network (CURIN) also visited the university on March 8 and delivered a talk on Python programming and over the next three days they focused on organized NOVATE+ to provide a platform for innovators from all embedded systems that was attended by about 100 students. the concept of Machine Learning and Articial Intelligence and over India to showcase their product ready ideas that have good Shivansh Sethi is an alumnus of Chitkara University. worked on facial detection, AIML chatbot, image classiers etc. The market potential for commercialization. The contest received 115 workshop was delivered by erudite students of our university under 3rd start-up day of CEED entries that comprised of a good mix of entries from student teams, the guidance of Mr. Shankar Aggarwal – Assistant Professor (CA). Center of Entrepreneurship Education and Development (CEED), fresh start-ups as well as established start-ups. Top 35 teams were Chitkara University, H.P. organized the nals of its 3rd Start-up day on shortlisted and these teams showcased their prototypes/products Workshop on Data Analytics March 27, 2018 at Chitkara University, H.P. These start-up days help during the competition that was held on February 19, 2019 at Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) in Chitkara University, H.P. After the evaluation by jury, 14 teams were students in converting their ideas into successful business ventures collaboration with Computer Society of India organized a workshop shortlisted and were awarded INR 2.5 lacs each in the form of by providing them mentorship, workspace, seed funding and by on data analytics focusing on the basics, importance and future of project funding. creating investment opportunity for them. In total 28 business ideas data analytics, and it was delivered by an expert having 25 years of were received and 11 of them were given opportunity to present their experience working in companies like IBM, SAP etc - Dr. Nitin nal pitch. Top three ideas were selected by jury and were given Verma. The workshop was held on March 14 and covered topics like funding of INR 100,000 to develop their early stage business ideas. business analytics and importance of MS Excel as a tool in These top three ideas were - Choco Library (customized chocolate DST sponsored summer school organized by CE analytics, he also discussed about Python and R as game changers gifts for different occasions), The Salvators (bio-plastic from potato Geo-informatics and Building Technology Research Centre, in the eld, and role of data visualization in analytics. The workshop peels), Smart Ignition (theft proof two-wheeler lock). department of Civil Engineering (CE), Chitkara University, H.P. was attended by 110 students and was locally coordinated by Mr. organized a 21-day summer school with sponsorship of Shankar Aggarwal – Assistant Professor (CA). INR10,00,000 from DST. It was entitled Geospatial Technology (Level-2) Mountain Disaster Management (Landslide) and was One day workshop on UX Design and Design Thinking conducted during 9-29 May, 2019. 22 scientists, academicians from Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) in various research and academic institutions across India collaboration with CSI organized a one-day workshop on UX Design participated in the program that was inaugurated by Maj. Gen. (Dr.) and Design Thinking on March 1, 2019. It was delivered by Mr. B. Nagarajan – Professor (CE), IIT Kanpur and Dr. Varinder S. Abhayjeet Singh – Director, ImagineXP who covered the concepts Kanwar – Vice Chancellor, Chitkara University, H.P. It was a like user inquiry, rapid prototyping, understanding user tasks, interface design and principles of visual design. Mr. Rinku Saini – complete hands-on program and the topics discussed include Assistant Professor (CA) locally coordinated the workshop that was Landslide types, scenarios & early warning, Slope instability attended by about 30 students and a few faculty members as well. problems in hilly terrain, Landslide investigation and mapping 6 7 www.chitkarauniversity.edu.in www.chitkarauniversity.edu.in Vol 4, Issue 2, July 2019 Vol 4, Issue 2, July 2019

techniques, Landslide hazard and risk modelling etc. QGIS tool was attended by 50 faculty members of various departments of the Ÿ on Fourier Series and Laplace Transform by Dr. Vinay Kanwar Talk on UI/UX – An expert talk on user experience design (UX) and used for hands-on practice and lab exercises and participants also university. from U.I.E.T, Chandigarh and a lecture on Complex Analysis by user interface design (UI) was held on March 14 and the invited did mini projects in groups which were duly evaluated. In one of the Dr. Keerti Vardhan, Panjab University, Chandigarh. speaker was Mr. Abhay Vohra - UX Program Manager, sessions of the workshop on May 27, Dr. Sartajvir Singh – Associate Ÿ On March 25, 2019 Dr. Rakesh Kumar from IIT Ropar visited our NetSolutions, Chandigarh. Mr. Rinku Saini – Assistant Professor Professor (ECE), Chitkara University H.P. was a resource person. campus and delivered a lecture on Spectroscopy. (CA) locally coordinated the session that was attended by about 150 The valedictory ceremony of the program was held on May 29 and CSE and CA students. Dr. Madhu Chitkara – Pro Chancellor, Chitkara University, H.P. and Dr. Bhoop Singh – Head, NRDMS, DST, New Delhi graced the occasion with their presence. The program was coordinated by Dr C. Prakasam- Associate Professor (CE).

Ÿ March 20: Ms. Parul Datta & Ms. Kanika Bhalla delivered a session on how to present research paper in international conference. They delivered presentation on their own papers to faculty members participating in the session. Titles of their Expert Talks organized by CSE and CA departments papers were a) Detection of eye ailments using segmentation of Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Talk on Cyber Crimes – On April 17 we invited Mr. Gurcharan Singh - blood vessels from eye fundus images & b) Comparative Computer Applications (CA), Chitkara University, H.P. organized Faculty of Cyber Crime, CDTS, Chandigarh to deliver a talk about analysis of image fusion techniques. various expert talks for students during the semester implication of cyber crimes on youths. He discussed and presented case studies on how social media platforms and certain mobile apps Train Yourself to get Hired – On February 13 Mr. Viney Khurana - can be misused to carry out crimes. He advised students to remain Director, Cosmic Ray Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. visited our campus and alert and not to share their personal information casually on these FDP on fundamentals parameters of research publications delivered a motivational lecture on how students should train platforms. Around 120 students attended the session that was Dr. Sartajvir Singh – Associate Professor, Electronics and themselves to get hired. He gave an insight into the criteria adopted by locally coordinated by Dr. Neha Kishore - Associate Professor Communication Engineering (ECE) and Dr. Bhisham Sharma – most companies for hiring and advised students to focus on their (CSE). Associate Professor, CURIN delivered a session for faculty academics. About 150 students attended the session that was locally members of all the departments in the university on June 7, 2019. coordinated by Mr. Shankar Aggarwal – Assistant Professor (CA). The objective of this workshop was to make participants aware Talk by Quick Heal: Mr. Vishal Kumar and Mr. Rahul Mishra from Quick about terms like H-index, impact factor of a journal etc. They also Heal visited our campus on February 20 and delivered a two hour discussed various tools and techniques for nding right journal for session on different types of security threats in computer systems like submitting a research paper etc. The session was attended by Advanced Persistent Threats, Phishing, Trojans, Botnets, about 70 faculty members. Ÿ March 30: Dr. Bhisham Sharma – Associate Professor (CURIN) Ransomware, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), Wiper Attacks, In the same session Dr. Ishwar Dutt – Associate Professor, Applied delivered a session on Research Impact Metrics. The session Intellectual Property Theft etc. They also shared their product portfolio was focused on understanding different metrics to evaluate Sciences delivered a talk on how to apply for different research with the students and also exposed them to security mechanism and impact and quality of journals and various databases available projects and gave an overview about different funding agencies. protocols followed by cyber security professionals. The session was to search for journals and also to check their authenticity. It was attended by about 150 CSE students and was locally coordinated by attended by 40 faculty members. Mr. Alok Aggarwal – Assistant Professor (CSE). Ÿ May 18: Mr. Girish Rao – Associate Professor (CSE) and Mr. Rinku Saini - Assistant Professor (CA) delivered a Talk by Infosys and EduCorp – We invited Mr. Deepanshu Singla - DBMS Concepts – An expert talk on concepts of DBMS and various session to share their experiences from a) workshop on Senior Systems Engineer, Infosys and Mr. Abhinav Sharma - Business normal forms was organized under ACM student chapter. The leadership Mr. Girish attended in Wipro, Bangalore and b) Development Executive, Educorp to address students on how to crack invited speaker of the talk was Dr. Parteek Bhatia from Thapar industrial visit to ImagineXP by Mr. Rinku with his interview questions of software and IT companies. They also guided University, Patiala who also explained how to solve normal forms students. This knowledge sharing session was attended students on how to overcome fear of interviews and bust common myths and applications of these concepts in real world. Around 75 students by a large number of faculty members from CSE and CA regarding the same. The session was held on February 26 and was along with some faculty members attended the session that was departments. locally coordinated by Ms. Shivani Gauram – Assistant Professor (CA). locally coordinated by Mr. Manik Gupta - Asssistant Professor (CSE) and was held on April 25, 2019. Guest lecturers organized by AS department Department of Applied Sciences (AS) organized four guest Talk on Coding Hacks - Mr. Harshit Mehta, Senior Community FDPs organized by CSE and CA departments lectures during the last semester. Each of these lectures was Evangelist from TopCoder.com visited our campus on May 8 and Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and attended by over 100 rst year engineering students of all delivered a talk on various coding techniques and good coding Computer Applications (CA) organized multiple faculty branches. practices. 120 students who attended this session were also development programs (FDPs) on different contemporary topics. Ÿ An invited lecture on Ion Exchange Process and its Applications exposed to various coding platform to rene their coding skills. Ÿ February 2: Mr. Shankar Aggarwal – Assistant Professor (CA) on Environment was delivered by Dr. Deepak Pathania, from Session was locally coordinated by Ms. Nirmaljeet Kaur – Assistant delivered a workshop on how to conduct online evaluations Central University of Jammu on February 11, 2019. Professor (CSE) and Mr. Shankar Aggarwal – Assistant Professor and set quality question papers on Examly platform. It was Ÿ On February 13 two invited lectures were conducted – a lecture (CA).

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Expert talks organized by department of CE currently working as site engineer in IIT Ropar and he shared his during May 7-9, 2019. Bhuvan is web mapping service that lets the entitled XRF Evaluation of Metal Mobility from Soil to Plants and to Expert Talk on Advanced Surveying: On March 6, 2019 Maj Gen experiences with the students. users explore 2D and 3D representation of earth surface. Suggest Bioindicator Plants for Phytoremediation in Indus (Dr.) B. Nagarajan - Professor, Geoinformatics Lab, Department of Synchrotrons Users' Meeting (ISUM-2019) held at Raja Ramanna Invited Talk by Professor of IIT Bombay: Department of Civil Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur visited our campus to deliver an expert Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore during March Engineering, Chitkara University, H.P. invited Dr. Raaj talk on the topic Advanced Surveying. The talk was intended for 1st 27-29, 2019. The poster was co-authored by Dr. Arun Lal Ramsankaran - Associate Professor, Hydro-Remote Sensing and 2nd year engineering students of department of Civil Srivastav, Dr Ajay Sharma – Professor (AS) and Dr Varinder S. Applications (H-RSA) Group, Department of Civil Engineering, Engineering (CE), Chitkara University, H.P. and was locally Kanwar – Professor (CE). Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay on April 17, 2019. He coordinated by Dr. C. Prakasam. 75 students & 6 faculty members Ÿ Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav participated in an international seminar on delivered an expert talk on Overview of High Denition Surveying of CE attended the talk. Sharing Best Practices in Teaching on May 3, 2019. The seminar was and Applications of Terrestrial LiDAR in Civil Engineering Projects. jointly organized by Macquarie University, Australia & Vancouver Island His talk was attended by 1st and 2nd year CE students and faculty University, Canada and was held at Chitkara University, Punjab. members and it was locally coordinated by Dr. C. Prakasam. Landslide mitigation workshop attended by CE faculty member National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi organized a CE faculty member attended a workshop by NHAI two-day training program on Landslide Mitigation and Detailed On February 8, 2019 National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) Project Report Preparation in collaboration with NDMA, Govt. of organized a one-day workshop on Road Safety Issues and India. Dr C. Prakasam - Associate Professor, Department of Civil Remedial Measures. The workshop was held in Chandigarh and Mr. Engineering (CE), Chitkara University, H.P. attended this program. Ahishek Kanoungo - Assistant Professor, Department of Civil The workshop was held on March 18-19, 2019. Engineering, Chitkara University, H.P. attended the workshop. Academic Meet at IIRS,ISRO attended by CE & ECE Session by Alumnus: Mr. Surrender Rana Alumnus of Chitkara Workshops attended by faculty members of CSE and CA University, H.P. visited the campus on April 16, 2019 and he faculty members Faculty members from department of Computer Science and interacted with students of Civil Engineering department. He is Two-day Academia Meet IAM-2019 was organized by Indian Engineering (CSE) and Computer Applications (CA) attended Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Space Research numerous workshops outside university. Organization (ISRO) Dehradun during March 13-14, 2019. Dr. C. EVENTS ATTENDED Ÿ Mr. Karan Bajaj attended a six-day LEX based Foundation Prakasam – Associate Professor (CE) and Dr. Sartajvir Singh – Program for faculty enablement at Infosys, Chandigarh during Associate Professor (ECE) attended the Meet. International conferences attended by faculty members the same conference Dr. Lipika Gupta – Associate Professor February 18-23. (CSE & CA) (ECE) was invited as one of the IUCEE leaders. Ÿ Ms. Aashima Malhotra attended a four-day workshop on Swift Faculty members from department of Computer Science and Training held during April 9 to 12 at Apple, Bangalore. Engineering (CSE) and Computer Applications (CA) attended Ÿ Ms. Nandini Nayar & Mr. Karan Bajaj attended a one-day various international conferences workshop on Sharing Best Practice in Teaching on May 3 at Ÿ Dr. Prasenjit Das and Ms. Praveshika Sinval attended Sixth Chitkara University, Punjab. International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Ÿ Ms. Nandini Nayar attended a two-day Pega Awareness Education (ICTIEE 2019) during January 10-11, 2019 at Workshop for Professors held at Pegasystems Worldwide India Chitkara University, Punjab. Private Limited, Hyderabad during May 28 and 28, 2019. Ÿ Ms. Parul Dutta – Assistant Professor (CSE) attended international conference on Recent Innovations in Computing MHRD workshop attended by our faculty member (ICRIC-2019) during March 8-9 at Central University of Jammu, Dr. Hitakshi Dutta – Associate Professor, Chitkara University, H.P. J&K. was among 20 participants shortlisted across India to attend the Ÿ Ms. Kanika and Ms. Shruti attended 6th International faculty development workshop for MBA Program in Waste Ÿ Dr. Lipika Gupta and Dr. Sartajvir Singh – Associate Professors Management and Social Entrepreneurship organized by Mahatma Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development (ECE) participated in Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Gandhi National Council of Rural Education (MGNCRE) and (INDIACom-2019) during March 13-15 at Bharati Vidyapeeth's Achievements and Smart India Hackathon at Chitkara Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of Institute of Computer Applications and Management, New University, Punjab on January 12, 2019. India. The two day workshop was held during March 22 and 23 at Delhi. Ÿ Ms. Harpeet Kaur – Assistant Professor (ECE) attended an Administrative Staff College, Hyderabad. Workshop and conferences attended by ECE faculty International Conference on Signal Processing, VLSI and members Communication Engineering (ICSPVCE-2019) held at Delhi Events attended by AS faculty members Faculty members from department of Electronics and Technological University (DTU), New Delhi, 2019 during March Faculty members from department of Applied Sciences (AS) Communication Engineering (ECE) participated in various 28-30, 2019. participated in various external events and conferences workshop and conferences outside Chitkara University. Ÿ Ms. Shaminder Kaur – Assistant Professor (ECE) attended a Ÿ Dr. Madhu Gupta and Dr. Ishwar Dutt – Associate Professors Ÿ All faculty members of ECE participated in International three-day faculty development program on VLSI Testing held at (AS) attended a national seminar on Quality Assurance in Indian Conference on Transformation in Engineering Education IIT Roorkee during April 26-28, 2019. Higher Education through Academic and Administrative Audit (ICTIEE) 2019 held at Chitkara University, Punjab during Ÿ Dr. Sartajvir Singh attended a three-day Bhuvan Overview held at Chitkara University, Punjab on February 22, 2019. January 10-11, 2019. This is an annual conference of IUCEE. In Training at National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), ISRO Ÿ Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav – Assistant Professor (AS) presented a poster

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INDUSTRY VISITS ORGANIZED FOR STUDENTS Industrial visits organized by AS department Chuahan visited the under construction commercial project at Maya Infosys, Chandigarh - 110 students along with Mr. Gaurav Mehta – About 25 students along with Mr. Sukhraj Singh and Ms. Harpreet Department of Applied Sciences (AS) organized following industrial Garden Magnesia, Zirakpur. Assistant Professor (CSE) and Mr. Shankar Aggarwal - Assistant Kaur - Assistant Professors (ECE) went for this visit. visits during January to June 2019 – April 17: 60 third year CE students visited Water Supply Scheme, Professor (CA) visited Infosys, Chandigarh on March 13. The objective Ÿ Woodland, Baddi – One January 16 as many as 56 rst year HIMUDA Parwanoo, H.P. along with their faculty members Mr. of this visit was to give students exposure the industry environment. engineering students along with Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav – Abhishek Kanoungo, Mr. Vivek Sharma and Mr. Sushil Kumar. Assistant Professor (AS) visited Woodland Shoes Industrial visits organized by ECE department Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) Manufacturing plant in Baddi. Students were exposed to various organized following two industrial visits for students - software tools used by footwear industry. Ÿ HFCL, Solan - A visit was planned to Himachal Futuristic SCL, Mohali – On March 7 about 20 students along with Ms. Communication Ltd. (HFCL), Solan on February 4, 2019 by Dr. Harpreet Kaur and Ms. Minaxi Dassi - Assistant Professors (ECE) Ishwar Dutt – Associate Professor (AS) and Dr. Arun Lal visited Semiconductors Limited, Mohali. Objective of this visit was to Srivastav. They took 55 students on the visit to make them provide third year ECE students rsthand experience on VLSI aware about transmission equipments, optical bre cables, design and fabrication methods. Industry Visit by SHM terminal equipments etc. On March 18, 5 faculty members and 54 students of School of Hospitality Management (SHM) visited JW Marriott, Chandigarh. The objective of this visit was to provide an overview of luxury hotel Industrial visits by CSE and CA departments operation to our students and give them an opportunity to relate their Bebo Technologies, Chandigarh – On February 5, 40 students from class room learning with practical applications. Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Computer Applications (CA) visited Bebo Technologies, IT Park, Chandigarh along with Mr. Shankar Aggrawal – Assistant Professor (CA). Students were given tour of the campus and certain engagement sessions were planned for them the HR team. The day BCC Fuba – A visit to BCC Fuba PCB manufacturing plant was long visit helped the students to learn about various industry practices. organized on March 13 to give students an exposure on PCB manufacturing processes. Students learned about various Ÿ CS Soft Solutions, Mohali – Two batches of 120 rst year processes like testing of bare boards, masking, etching, students under the guidance of Mr. Tapas Sharma, Ms Salisha electroplating, manual and computerized testing of nished PCBs. Kumar and Dr Arun Lal Srivastav – faculty members (AS) visited CS Soft Solutions on February 7 and April 16. PATENTS Ÿ Thermal Power Station, Ropar - Visits to Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Power Station (GGSTP), Ropar were planned for two batches of 100 rst year students. These visits took Patents Granted Patents led by Chitkara University, H.P. during The Patent Ofce, Govt. of India has issued Certicate of Registration place on January 23 and 25 under the guidance of Dr. Arun Lal January - June 2019 of Design during April 2019 to following two ideas submitted by faculty Srivastav and Mr. Tapas Sharma. Students learned about the Self-Service Shopping Cart CS Soft Solutions, Mohali - In order to make students aware about member and students of Chitkara University, H.P. process of generating energy from coal, they learned about By - Abhishek Garg and Manisha Duggal (students ECE & CSE Software Development and Software Testing processes this various properties of coal and complete process of energy Weight Measuring Scoop respectively) production. industry visit was planned on February 12. Ms. Parul Datta – By - Gangesh Kumar, Arun Chaudhary (students) and Sagar Assistant Professor (CSE) & Mr. Rinku Saini – Assistant Professor Juneja (faculty member) Application No. 201911002689 (CA) took 70 second year students to this visit. Application No. 307983 Self-service shopping cart to feature a closed lid that only opens ImagineXP, Pune – 17 third year students of UX/UI course along with after detection of an item by a sensor and computational unit Mr. Rinku Saini – Assistant Professor (CA) visited ImageXP Pune attached to it. As the lid opens and the item drops into the cart it during March 11 to 15. During this ve day visit they learned about automatically gets added to the purchase list. There is a execution of user research, qualitative analysis of user research, provision to detect and weigh the items and it is also possible to Heuristic study, customer journey mapping, afnity mapping etc. detect any wrong practice on part of customers.

Weight Measuring Scoop By - Gangesh Kumar, Arun Chaudhary (students) and Sagar An Apparatus to Enhance Security of a Lock Industry visits by students of CE Juneja (faculty member) By - Pintu Kumar, Manik Sharma, Ajay C Rajan (students CSE, February 1 and February 8: 44 second year CE students along with Application No. 308571 CSE, ECE) their faculty members Ms. Dipali Sharma and Mr. Naveen Nishchal visited under construction hostel site at Chitkara University, Punjab Application No. 201911003785 on February 1, and 35 third year CE students along with Mr. Akhil A rotary device is proposed to enhance security in two-wheeler Shetty and Mr. Sushil Kumar visited the same site on February 8. locks that can only operate with the help of a control unit to prevent February 14: 42 second year CE students along their faculty unauthorized access. In other words only the authorized key can be members Mr. Gurmohan Singh, Mr. Naveen Nishchal and Mr. Girish inserted in the lock.

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Cap for Container Process for Manufacturing Bioplastics from Greenwaste (ICSPVCE-2019). Delhi Technological University, Delhi. [27] Prakasam C., Aravinth R and Saravanan R. (2019). Effects By - Pintu Kumar, Mandheer Ram and Shubham Taneja (students By - Pranav Goyal (student, CSE) , Neeraj Kumar (faculty member, [16] Kaushik S., Tiwari U., Nilima, Prashar S. Das B. and Sinha of landslide on socio-economic and trans communication CSE) ECE) and Saloni Goyal R.K. (2019). Label-free detection of Escherichia coli systems: A case study of kotropi landslide, Mandi district, Application No. 201911005728 Application No. 201911018834 bacteria by cascaded chirped long period gratings HP. International Conference on Sustainable Environment immunosensor. Review of Scientic Instruments. American and Civil Engineering. Easwari Engineering College, Chennai. A cap is proposed for water bottle that contains additive (like glucose In this invention process of manufacturing biodegradable plastics Institute of Physic. March 28-29. etc) and there is a mechanism in the cap that allows discharging of i.e. polyactic acid (PLA) from vegetable waste especially waste [17] Kumar M. and Salal Y.(2019). Systematic review of [28] Prakasam C., Aravinth R., Kanwar V.S. and Nagarajan B. additive from it into the water bottle. The whole assembly is reusable potatoes is proposed. predicting student's performance in academics. (2019). Landslide hazard mapping using geo- multiple times. environmental parameters—A case study on Shimla Tehsil, A Gas Sensor Analysing Apparatus International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Instant Custard Mixture Composition Comprising of By - Sartajvir Singh (faculty member, ECE) and Deepak Punetha Technology. Himachal Pradesh. In: Ghosh J., da Silva I. (eds) Applications of Geomatics in Civil Engineering. Lecture Jackfruit Seed Application No. 201911019803 [18] Kumar M. and Singh A.(2019). Performance analysis of By - Pranav Goyal (student, CSE) , Neeraj Kumar (faculty member, students using machine learning & data mining approach. Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 33. Springer, Singapore. Apparatus consists of a platform congured to hold a gas sensor, ECE) and Saloni Goyal International Journal of Engineering and Advanced [29] Prakasam C., Aravinth R., Kanwar V.S. and Nagarajan B. inlets to allow inow of one or more gases that interact with the Technology. (2019). Soil erosion modelling and its impact on landslide Application No. 201911017835 sensor to produce a measurable change in sensor conguration. vulnerability - A correlation study on Rampur Tehsil, This invention relates to instant custard mixture composition Two probes are electrically coupled with gas sensor to measure the [19] Kumar M., Salal Y. and Abdullaev S.(2019). Educational Himachal. 4th World Congress on Disaster Management. comprising of jackfruit seed, corn starch, milk powder and sugar response. Comparison of response of a gas sensor with a data mining: student performance prediction in academic. Indian Institute of Technology and Tata Institute of Social powder or icing sugar and a process for manufacturing the predetermined response of a reference gas sensor enables International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Science. same. evaluation of efciency. Technology. [20] Mittal N., Kaur N. Gupta, M. and Sharma C.(2019). [30] Prashar S., Singh S. and Shubham. (2019). 2-layer and 3- layer ber geometry model- based analysis of refractive PUBLICATIONS Improvising on demand protocol to improved energy utilization in wireless sensor network. Journal of index sensitivity of LPFG with reduced cladding. Journal of [1] Chitkara M., Kanwar V. and Dutta H.(2019). Chitkara Sixth International Conference on Transformations in Communication Engineering & Systems. Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials. University, Himachal Pradesh: A zero discharge Engineering Education (ICTIEE 2019). Chitkara University, [21] Pathak S. and Sharma B.(2019). A comparative analysis of [31] Sharma C. and Das P.(2019). Study of computer aided face environmental friendly educational campus. 6th Edition of Punjab. routing protocols in IoT. 6th International Conference on recognition methods in constrained and unconstrained Quality Best Practices of 12th Cycle QCI-D.L. Shah Award [9] Gupta L., Kumar A., Singh S. (2019). Gm/ID method based Computing for Sustainable Global Development environment. Elk Asia Pacic Journal of Computer Science Winning Case Studies of Quality Council of India, New Delhi. low-power, low-noise pre-amplier design for EEG. (INDIACom-2019). and Information System. June 2019. International Conference on Computing, Power and [22] Prakasam C. and Saravanan R. (2019). Environmental ow [32] Sharma C. and Kaur D.(2019). A correlative contemplation [2] Chitkara M., Kanwar V. and Dutta, H.(2019). Strategizing Communication Technologies. methods – A review. International Conference on of CPU utilization of assorted scheduling algorithms. excellence in education across the globe. Special Issue: [10] Gupta L., Kumar A., Singh S. (2019). Low-voltage, low- Sustainable Environment and Civil Engineering. Easwari Journal of Operating Systems Development & Trends. University News. Association of Indian Universities. vol 57, power bulk-driven and bulk-driven-quasi-oating-gate Engineering College, Chennai. March 28-29. [33] Sharma C. and Sharma S. (2019). Inuence and impact of no.6, pp. 67-70. neural amplier design for EEG. 3rd International [23] Prakasam C. and Saravanan R. (2019). Evaluation of information technology on Himachal Pradesh tourism. E - [3] Chitkara M., Kanwar V. S. and Dutta H. (2019). Strategizing Conference on Advanced Informatics for Computing environmental ow by hydrology method for sustainable Commerce for Future & Trends. STM Journals. excellence in education across the globe. University News, Research (ICAICR-2019). agricultural practices. 2nd International Conference on [34] Singh G., Singh S. and Gupta L. (2019). A study on different 57(06) pp11-17. [11] Jain S. and Das P. (2019). Impact of industry academia Sustainable Technologies for Environmental Management. MOOC models for engineering education. IUCEE-Sixth [4] Dassi M., Madan J., Sharma R. and Chaujar R. (2019). collaboration. Sixth International Conference On Department of Environmental Engineering, Delhi International Conference on Transformations in Investigation of semiconducting Silicide source double gate Transformations In Engineering Education (ICTIEE 2019). Technological University. Engineering Education (ICTIEE 2019). Chitkara University, tunnel eld effect transistor. Chitkara University Doctoral [12] Juneja S. and Sharma R. (2019). Design of high gain, high [24] Prakasam C. and Saravanan R. (2019). Identication of Punjab. Consortium (CUDC) 2019, Chitkara University, Punjab reverse isolation and high input matched narrowband LNA groundwater potential zones using GIS- drought mitigation [35] Singh S., Sood V., Kaur R. and Prashar S. (2019). An [5] Dutta H. (2019). Media and women Empowerment. Role for GPS L1 band applications using 0.18µm technology. measure: A case study of Gangavalli, Salem District. 4th efcient algorithm for detection of seasonal snow cover and Impact of Media on Society. Unistar Publishing House. Iranian Journal Of Electrical And Electronic Engineering. World Congress on Disaster Management. Indian Institute variations over undulating North Indian Himalayas, India. [Book Chapter] [13] Kanika, Sharma B. and Koundal D.(2019).Comparative of Technology and Tata Institute of Social Science. Advances in Space Research. Elsevier. [6] Dutta P., Rani S. and Koundal D.(2019). Detection of eye analysis of image fusion methods. 6th International [25] Prakasam C. and Saravanan R. (2019). The study of [36] Sinval P., Gupta V. and Malhotra A. (2019). MOOC courses: ailments using segmentation of blood vessels from eye Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global drainage patterns of sub basin of Beas river for sustainable Inuence on millennials. Sixth International Conference On fundus images. International Conference on Recent Development. environmental planning, Himachal Pradesh. International Transformations In Engineering Education (ICTIEE 2019). Innovations in Computing (ICRIC-2019). [14] Kanoungo A., Kanwar V. S. and Shukla S. (2019). Effect of Conference on Sustainable Environment and Civil [37] Srivastav A.L. , Kaur T., Rani L. and Kumar A. (2019). [7] Garg A., Gupta L. and Singh S. (2019). Expected benets of aging on characteristics of bitumen modied with waste Engineering. Easwari Engineering College, Chennai. March Scientic research production of India and China in augmented and virtual reality based online learning lime sludge. Advances in Civil Engineering Materials, 8(1) 28-29. environmental chemistry: a bibliometric assessment. platforms for engineering education. IUCEE-Sixth pp298 307. [26] Prakasam C., Aravinth R. and Nagarajan B. (2019). Soil International Journal of Environmental Science and International Conference on Transformations in [15] Kaur H., Kaur H., Hooda M. and Singh S. (2019). erosion modelling and its impact on landslide vulnerability - Technology. Springer. Engineering Education (ICTIEE 2019). Chitkara University, Comparative study of performance parameters of PIN A correlation study on Shimla Tehsil, Himachal Pradesh. Punjab. diode at different doping concentrations of N and P-type International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for [8] Gupta L. and Monga A. (2019). Using Google classroom for materials. IEEE International Conference on Signal Environmental Management. Department of Environmental teaching Post –Millennial: Benets and challenges. IUCEE- Processing, VLSI and Communication Engineering Engineering, Delhi Technological University.

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