GMRIT CAMPUS NEWS Vol :11 Issue-1 January – April- 2017
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GMRIT CAMPUS NEWS Vol :11 Issue-1 January – April- 2017 R About GMRIT www.gmrit.org GMR Institute of Technology (GMRIT) is located in Rajam, Achievements Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh. GMRIT offers its community a stimulating and enabling learning GMRIT is ranked among Top 6 Engineering colleges in AP- environment. The campus is, in every way, geared for shared NIRF, MHRD, New Delhi-April, 2017. knowledge and constant inquiry. Located far from the Rated AAAA among the best Engineering Colleges in AP distractions of city living, spread over 117 acres and equipped by Careers 360 magazine, April, 2017 with all major facilities, students and faculty can look forward to Rated 4-Star among the best Engineering Institutes in a fruitful and memorable learning experience at the Institute. AP by Career Connect magazine, April, 2017 GMRIT is an Autonomous Institute affiliated to JNTU, Kakinada. GMRIT Ranked in the band of 151-200 in NIRF (National Institute accredited by NAAC with ‘A’ Grade, and UG programs Institutional Ranking Framework) survey results released accredited by NBA(under Tier-1) by MHRD, on 3 rd April, 2017. The annual intake of the institute is 966 students. It has Twenty Ranked 22 nd in the category of outstanding Engineering batches of successful B.Tech. Graduates taking up positions as colleges of Excellence-2017 and 62 nd position in the competent and responsible professionals in many reputed overall country level by CSR-GHRDC-2017. companies. Ranked 79 th in Top private engineering colleges at all India level and ranked 51 st in the south zone by the week Courses Currently Offered Magazine ranking-2017. U.G. Courses: GMRIT Ranked 29 th in India and 5th in AP among Top private Engineering colleges by CSR- GHRDC, July, 2016. Chemical Engineering GMRIT Ranked 65 th in India and 4th in AP among Top 100 Civil Engineering Engineering colleges in India by Data Quest, June, 2016. Computer Science and Engineering GMRIT Ranked 72 nd in India and 10th in AP among Top Electronics and Communication Engineering 100 private Engineering colleges by Higher Education Electrical and Electronics Engineering Review June, 2016. Information Technology Ranked 42 out of top 100 private Engineering Colleges Mechanical Engineering Survey – “Education World”, May, 2016 Power Engineering P.G. Courses Institute Related CSE Dept. conducted a 2day workshop on “Virtual Labs” M.Tech (Power & Industrial Drives) th th M.Tech (Transportation Engineering) on 9 & 10 January, 2017 M.Tech (CAD/CAM) Shri.Ch.VidyasagarRao, Honorable Governor of M.Tech (Cyber security) Maharashtra and Tamilnadu visited the campus and M.Tech (Digital Electronic & Comm. Sys) addressed the students of GMRIT on 21.01.2017 M.Tech (VLSI Design) : Second Shift Organised JNTUK Weight and Power Lifting (Men and M.Tech (Chemical Engineering) Women) and Best physique (M) competitions during 20 – 21 January 2017 Page 1 GMR Institute Technology, GMR Nagar, Rajam-532127, SrikakulamDist, Andhra Pradesh Ph: 08941 – 251592, 93; E-Mail: [email protected]; Website :www.gmrit.org GMRIT NEWS LETTER | VOL : 9 : | ISSUE : 2 2 Mr. Vineet Nayyar, Vice Chairman, Tech Mahindra visited has given a guest lecture on Topic: Principles of the campus and addressed the students of all final years Engineering Drawing, Projections of Solids and on 23.01.2017. Conversion of Isometric to Orthographic and Vice Versa Dr. M.Venkateswara Rao, HOD & Associate Professor held on 13-03-2017 from 10.30 AM to 12.30 Noon and Dept. of EEE awarded Ph.D., in Jan.2017 2.30PM to 4.30PM on Engineering Drawing course. Stepcone-17 has been conducted from 27 th to 29 th Guest Lecture on “Radar Signal Design” for 6th sem and Jan.2017 “Applications of Electromagnetics” for 4th sem by Dr. Dr. Ganta Subba Rao , Secretary, Andhra Pradesh State Tara Dutt Bhutt, Professor, MGIT, Hyderabad on 15-03- Skill Development Corporation visited the campus and 2017 and 16-03-2017 addressed the faculty on 30.01.2017 Guest lecture on “Role of Condition Monitoring in Industry” by Mr. K.Ramesh Kumar, Manager (O&M-MTP), NTPC, Simhadri for 8th & 6th Semester PE students on 18th March, 2017. Celebrated Achievers Day on 24.03.2017 for the students of GMRIT. Mr. Venkata Raman, AGM, Ultra Tech Cements, Vijayawadaa and few Principal’s of intermediate colleges addressed the students. Approximately 100 students along with parents received the Awards Department of EEE and Civil Engineering organized a Two-day National workshops on “Thrust areas of research in Renewable energy and storage systems” during 3 - 4 March, 2017 and “Advanced Construction Techniques and Swami Vivekananda Centre for Human Excellence Practices in Civil Engineering” during 31 st March & 1 st (SVCHE) has arranged a programme on “Heartfulness April, 2017 respectively Meditation” during 1 – 3 February 2017 Dr. Tata Narasinga Rao and Dr. B. V. Sarada, Scientists, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI) visited the campus and addressed the students on 04.02.2017 Dept. Of IT conducted a Work shop on “Internet of Things” for 6th sem students, by Mr. R.Danil, Assoc. Professor, VIIT, Visakhapatanam on 06.2.2017 Organised an Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp in association with AP Productive Council of India during 07 -08 February, 2017. Organized Women's Day Celebration on 08.03.2017. Mrs. T. Indira, PF Commissioner addressed the students and staff of GMRIT. Celebrated Sports Day and Annual Day during 24 – 25 March 2017. Ms. Ch. Santhi, International Athlete and Dr. G. Padmanabham, Director, ARCI addressed the students Civil Department, Conducted “A Two-Day National Workshop” on “Advanced construction Techniques and Practices in Civil Engineering” from 31st March 2017 to 1 st April 2017. One DST Proposal has been approved project titled “Design and Development of a prototype wearable spectacle device to get Audio/Speech from Image documents and moving text.” by Dr. S S Gantayat, Dr. V Sreerama Murthy& B Anil Kumar, approved at a total cost Guest Lecture has been delivered by Mr.Venkat Ramana of Rs. 34,64,166/- . Kuruhuri, General Manager, Corporate Services, Ramtech, Mr.T.Prabhakar invited as a judge for the event of for 8 th semester students. The title of Guest Lecture Technical Paper Presentation in National Level technical “Industry Expectations” on 13.03.2017. time: 11.00 a.m to symposium (CONVERGE 2K17) at Sri Venkateswara 1.00 p.m. college of engineering & Technology, Etcherla, th th Dr BVR Gupta , Formerly Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh on 27 and 28 February Engineering & Dean, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, 2017. GMRIT GMRIT NEWS LETTER | VOL : 9 : | ISSUE : 2 3 Department of ECE Organized a Two-Day Workshop on M.Swapna and R.Srikanth, presented a paper on “Recent Advances in Signal Processing and “Ambient Air Sampling & Modeling: A Review”, A Communications” during 21-22 April, 2017 National Conference on ‘Pollution Control Strategies in Organized Alumni Meet at Hyderabad on 30 th April, 2017. Chemical & Related Industries’ (PCSCRI-2017), Organized Two of our faculty members, Mr. Eswara Rao (English) by Department of Chemical Engineering, College of and Mr. Ravi Kiran (EEE) got selected for Master Trainer Engineering, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati during for Pilot on English Communication and Soft Skills by BEC 10th and 11th March 2017. and APSCHE. They have attended the training at M.Gangadhar, M.Mohan, R.Srikanth and V.Srinivasa Rao, Tirupathi in summer vacation. presented a paper on “Air Quality Management for Organized Placement Day Celebrations on 27 th April 2017 Cashew Nut Industries: A Case Study on Palasa Cashew Academic Achievements Industrial Cluster”, A National Conference on ‘Pollution Technical Paper Publication in Conferences Control Strategies in Chemical & Related Industries’ (PCSCRI-2017), Organized by Department of Chemical V.Vasudha Rani has Presented a paper at International Engineering, College of Engineering, Sri Venkateswara Conference on Innovative Applications in Engineering University, Tirupati during 10th and 11th March 2017. and Information Technology IAEIT- 2017, entitled “ Use of V.Srinivasa Rao, G.Kalyani and H.Joga Rao, presented a Twitter in Health Data Analysis” organized by the Dept. paper on “Treatment of Effluent Waters for Copper of Computer Science Sri Padmavati Mahila st nd Removal using Adsorption onto 5A Molecular Sieves Visvavidyalayam, Tirupati during 1 – 2 Feb, 2017. using Response Surface Methodology”, A National Ayyarao T.S.L.V., P.V.Ramanarao, has presented a paper Conference on ‘Pollution Control Strategies in Chemical on ” Tuning of Extended Kalman Filter for Power Systems & Related Industries’ (PCSCRI-2017), Organized by using Two Lbest Particle Swarm Optimization”, IJCTA, Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Vol-10, issue-5, pp 197-206, 2017. (Impact factor: 0.85) Engineering, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati during (Scopous) (ISSN No: 09745572) 10th and 11th March 2017. T S Kishore, S D Koushik, I Vidyabharati, has presented a H.Joga Rao, R.Srikanth and G.Kalyani, presented a paper paper on “Life Cycle Costing based LCOE Method for on “Optimization of Heat Exchanger Network in Crude Economic Analysis of Low Head Small Hydro Power Distillation Unit for an Existing Refinery using Pinch Plants in India”, Water & Energy International, Volume Technology”, A National Conference on ‘Pollution 59, Issue 10, Pages 43–48, January 2017 . (Indexed in: Control Strategies in Chemical & Related Industries’ Scopus) (ISSN No : 0974-4711) (PCSCRI-2017), Organized by Department of Chemical G. Chandra Sekhar, M. Venkatesh and A. Appa Rao, has Engineering, College of Engineering, Sri Venkateswara presented a paper on “ Wind Energy Source Interfacing to University, Tirupati during 10th and 11th March 2017. Grid by using Five-Level Inverter”, I J C T A, Vol. No.10, Dr.G.Venkata Rao, Professor, Mr.R. Srinivasa Rao, Issue No.5, pp 577-587, March 2017. (Indexed in: Scopus) Assistant professor Dr.(Mrs.) Faby Sunny Presented A (ISSN No.: 0974-5572) Technical Paper Titled “Groundwater Recharge through P.