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NAAC ACCREDITED QUALITY BENCHMARKS

The University continues to be ranked No. 1 Private Member of the Association of Commonwealth University in Delhi and Haryana, in the NIRF Universities Ranking released on 3rd April 2017 by MHRD

Recognized as the University of the year-2016 for Established under Haryana Private University Act Value Based Education by Higher Education No. 25 of 2009 (Third amendment) Value-Based Education Review - Dec 2016

Recognised by the University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, under Section 2(f) of the UGC Act Institutional Member of American Society for 1956, and empowered to grant degrees under Quality (India) Section 22 of the Act.

Recognised by the Bar Council of India, Govt. of Member of International Students Exchange India Programme

University has tied up with IBM Career Education and set up an IBM Lab for Emerging Technologies. University is accredited by the National Assessment IBM conducts courses for the students of ECE, CSE and Accreditation Council (NAAC) for period 2016- & MBA programmes 2021 iNurture, our knowledge partner is an educational The NorthCap University Testing Centre solution company in the business of designing and delivering of innovative industrial relevant estabilished as per ISO/IEC:17025-2005, is NABL jobs in the eld of Animation and VFX, Information Accredited for the Mechanical Testing of Building & Technology, Mobile Application and Analytics T-4402 NABL Accredited Lab Construction Materials.

Recognised as the BEST .govcampus

Accredited by Accreditation Services for International Colleges (ASIC), United Kingdom, in the category of ‘Premier’ Universities, with School of Law, NCU Ranked No.5 amongst Top 'Commendable' Grades, for 2016-2020 Law Schools of Eminence, All India and No.2 in North India by GHRDC Law Schools Survey 2016

School of Management NCU Rank No. 61 amongst Member of Association of Indian Universities all India Top 100 in Business School Ranking for 2016-17 by MBA Universe :

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Copyright © 2017 The NorthCap University F o u n d e r M e m b e r s

N K Dewan Kavita Mishra Shiv Saran Mehra V Daulet Singh

Neera Makhija Avdhesh Mishra Z Daulet Singh

Vision: To be known globally for learning innovations, academic excellence and socially relevant research outcomes; strive to become the preferred destination for students, faculty, employers and collaborators & pride of alumni and the community. Mission: Focus on quality of learning and innovation in all programmes with rigour and relevance. Develop competent professionals - innovative, analytical and independent; committed to excel in all their endeavours. Develop linkages globally with government, industry, academia and alumni for knowledge generation, dissemination and application. Encourage multi-disciplinarity in programmes and projects to explore new frontiers of knowledge. Continuously improve physical, academic and information infrastructure in pursuit of academic excellence. Create a nurturing environment for lifelong learning. Focus on entrepreneurship and socially relevant projects. Core Values: Integrity in all endeavours. Humility, compassion and concern for all. Passion for quality and excellence. Quest for innovation. Leadership and Team Spirit. Autonomy with Accountability. Perseverance. Quality Policy: To impart learning of the highest standards in the disciplines we have chosen, through a blend of theory, practice and performance. We endeavour to seek excellence in our academic activities and in all the services we provide to improve the quality of life of our students and the community we serve.

VectorTech E d i t o r i a l Take a moment to sit down, relax and catch up on what's happening at The NorthCap University, Gurugram. We are ready with another issue of VectorTech, your own biannual magazine which brings to you all the news of the University. The current issue carries our academic progress, accreditation, awards and rankings, interviews with distinguished academics, collaborations with leading industries in India and abroad, ASQ activities, University level Faculty Development Programme and more. In the News from the Schools section, I hope you enjoy reading about some of the varied events, celebrations and individual and collective achievements of our Schools and Departments. We believe there should be a right balance between work and play, finding time to be active in the service of society – all of these are ways of discovering a new meaning and a deeper enjoyment of life. These are showcased in the later section of the magazine. I am thankful to the staff and students of the University for their continued contribution and cooperation in sharing the information for the magazine. It is a request to all the readers to pen down their ideas and send articles, technical or non-technical for subsequent issues. A warm note of thanks goes to Brig. SK Sharma (Retd) and Col Bikram Mohanty (Retd) for their valuable support and guidance at every step. Thanks are due to Mr Akhilesh Kumar for his wide ranging photographs and to Mr Lalit Narayan Lal for the layout and graphics of the magazine.

I hope you will like this issue. I request all the readers of VectorTech to mail to me on any aspect of the issue and to make it an interactive tool or write in to the Editorial Cell.

Happy Reading!

Rekha Mathur Sr Editor Email: [email protected]

VectorTech CONTENTS

Table of Contents Factfile 01 Message from the Governor 02 Message from the Pro Vice-Chancellor 04 Feedback 05 Recent Achievements 06 Outreach Activities of Prof. Prem Vrat 08 Outreach Activities of Brig. SK Sharma 10 News and Events NCU celebrates its 5th Annual Convocation 11 Visit of Prof. John Wilson from ASIC, UK 12 Sixth Academic Advisory Board Meeting 13 White Belt Training in Six Sigma and Lean Basics 14 Collaborations 15 Visit to Mitsubishi Electric Private Ltd, Gurugram 16 Dr Tom Nolan of ITB Ireland visits NCU 17 Special Lectures 18 Faculty Mentors 19 VC’s Innovation Fund for Research 20 News from the Schools School of Engineering & Technology Department of EECE 21 Department of CSE & IT 25 Department of Mechanical Engineering 30 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 34 Department of Applied Sciences 38 School of Management 40 School of Law 43 School of Professional Attachment 46 News from the Centre for Languages Learning 49 Centre for Leadership 51 News from the Library 52

VectorTech Table of Contents Student Activities 53 Social Service 57 Sports 59 Miscellaneous Freshers’ Formal Introduction to the University 61 TEDx at NCU 62 Health Checks 63 Performance by Russian Artists 64 Books & Papers Published / Presented Books/Book Chapters Published 65 Department of EECE 65 Department of CSE & IT 66 Department of Mechanical Engineering 67 Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering 68 Department of Applied Sciences 69 Centre for Languages Learning 70 School of Management 70 School of Law 70 Articles Career option after graduation in Civil Engineering 71 Letter of a daughter to her divorced parents 72 Personality Grooming vis-à-vis Communication Skills: Ladder to Success 73 A unique Start-up Culture in the making 74 Make in India - a Boon for Indian education system 75 Short Poems 76 Dean's List Students 77

VectorTech Factfile

Nature of University : Multidisciplinary, Co-educational University offering Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Doctoral Programmes in Engineering, Management, Law, Applied Sciences and Humanities Established 1996 as affiliated college; 2010 as University By : Educate India Society Located : In the industrial heartland of Gurgaon (Located 7 km from Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi) Campus Address : Sector 23-A, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Tel.: +91-124-2365811-13 Email: [email protected], Website: www.ncuindia.edu Visitor : Prof. Kaptan Singh Solanki, Governor of Haryana Chancellor : V Daulet Singh Pro-Chancellor : Prof. Prem Vrat, PhD, FNAE, FNASc, FWAPS, FISTE, FIIIE Pro Vice-Chancellor : Brig. SK Sharma (Retd.), FIE, FIA, FITP Registrar : Col. Bikram Mohanty (Retd) Student Population : Undergraduate 3109 : Postgraduate 217 : PhD 134 Student Gender Profile : Female 30%, Male 70% Faculty : 207 Scholarships : Merit - cum - Means Scholarships available, covering 100%, 50%, 25% of tuition fee, Merit Scholarships, Teaching Assistantship etc. Dean’s List of Students, Best Project awards

VectorTech 01 Message from the Governor

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Messag Message I am extremely happy to note that ITM University*, Gurgaon has emerged as one of the leading universities in North India. It is good to see that ITM University has been providing high quality education in Engineering, Hon’ble Management and Law. I am impressed by the way; this University has grown Prof. Kaptan Singh Solanki Governor of Haryana from strength to strength since its inception to become a unique multidisciplinary University of higher learning in North India. I am happy to see an absolute ragging-free environment in the University and its excellent intake and placement records. The ratio of female employees and students in different streams is praiseworthy. With relevant and innovative courses, excellent infrastructure and qualified faculty, ITM University shows its commitment to academic development in India in general and Haryana in particular. I am confident that the University will continue to deliver quality education to serve as an intellectual resource base in India and the world, I wish ITM University, Gurgaon all the best in its endeavours to achieve academic goals and excellence.

(Prof. Kaptan Singh Solanki)

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VectorTech 03 Message from the Pro Vice-Chancellor e

As we look to the future one thing is certain – application of

Messag knowledge and skills will be a key resource you have to equip yourself with to be highly sought after. Our challenge is to help generate ideas that will benefit society and learn to work in domains where you will be valued both for your specialized knowledge as well as for your ability to research, communicate and solve problems. We are continually developing new ways to support and empower you and transform your careers through access to high quality education.

Brig. SK Sharma (Retd) To remain contemporary the University undertook a major Pro Vice-Chancellor and exercise in Curriculum Development and Course Design. Credits Senior Professor have been reduced and to enhance self-learning and practical work, the number of contact hours per day too have been reduced. NCU has taken a new initiative to facilitate evaluation of students through scientific and structured Aptitude Tests through third party assessments for graduating students. The aim is to improve the success rate of our students in industry driven evaluation tests.

Besides academics we offer the best facilities for extracurricular activities that provide you with opportunities to develop skills and values that you will need for life. Student-led clubs, social, cultural and sports activities enliven the campus and prepare you to be mentally and physically fit, so necessary in high demanding job profiles. We nurture you to be good human beings and excel in different realms of life and prove your calibre.

I extend my best wishes to all staff and students of The NorthCap University and wish them the best of luck in all their future endeavours.

VectorTech 04 Feedback Impression of Distinguished Visitiors

In association with this University from the last three years. The progress it is making is marvellous and it is growing day by day not only in academics but in research too. I wish it the best luck for its future growth.

Prof. Pradeep Kumar Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, IIT Roorkee Former Vice-Chancellor, Delhi Technological University, Delhi

Wonderful progress and highly innovative. Just keep doing the best.

Prof. SK Kak Founder Vice-Chancellor Mahamaya Technical University, Noida

University is doing extremely well.

Dr Girdhar J Gyani Director General, Association of Healthcare Providers (India)

Impressively moving forward institution.

Prof. KL Chopra, Padma Shri Former Director, IIT Kharagpur SS Bhatnagar Awardee

I have, during my short visit to NCU been impressed with their vision of the future and work that challenges the conventional mode of instruction and learning.

Justice Syed Rafaat Ahmed High Court Division, Supreme Court of Bangladesh

VectorTech 05 Recent Achievements A c c r e d i t a t i o n S e r v i c e s f o r International Colleges (ASIC) UK: A Prof. Prem Vrat conferred the MC Puri Memorial Award respected international accreditation 2016 b o d y f o r a c a d e m i c i n s t i t u t i o n s Prof. Prem Vrat, Pro-Chancellor, The NorthCap University, worldwide, reaccredited The NorthCap

ts Gurugram was conferred with the MC Puri Memorial Award University with a stutus of 'Premier for 2016 at the inaugural function of the 49th Annual University' for a period of four years from Convention of the Central Council of Operational Research emen v Nov 2016. The University was awarded Society of India on 12 December 2016. 'Commendable' grade in seven out of eight measurable areas of a university's The NorthCap University Gurugram, congratulates Prof. t Achie operations. Prem Vrat on his continued achievements and recognitions.

ecen Higher Education Review R The University was Prof. KL Chopra conferred with honorary DSc by Jadavpur University ranked No.1 among T o p E m e r g i n g A stalwart from the scientific community, Prof. KL Universities in India Chopra, has been recognized as one of the seven most cited in a survey by Higher scientists of India during a period of two decades. Education Review, The Jadavpur University, Kolkata conferred an Honorary B a n g a l o r e . T h e DSc on Prof. KL Chopra at its convocation held on 24 U n i v e r s i t y h a s Prof. KL Chopra December 2016. Prof. KL Chopra is an eminent Member reached this pole Padma Shri of the Academic Advisory Board and a distinguished position successively Former Director, Faculty Mentor at the The NorthCap University. for two years in a row. It has also been IIT Kharagpur placed among Top 10 Universities for SS Bhatnagar Awardee Academic Excellence, All India by Higher Education Review. Prof IK Varma receives ICCDM Trivedi Lifetime Achievement Award Dr CR Prasad honoured with Life time Achievement Award Dr CR Prasad Chairman & Managing Director Everest Power Pvt Ltd. Former Chairman & Managing Director of Gas Authority of India Ltd.

Dr CR Prasad, a distinguished Faculty Mentor at NCU, was awarded the Petrotech 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award (Category - Midstream) by the Chief Guest, Hon'ble Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley on 7 December 2016 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.

NCU's School of L a w h a s b e e n recognized as the Best Emerging Prof. IK Varma received the ICCDM Trivedi Lifetime Achievement Award 2015 on Law School in 30 September 2016 at Taj Hotel, Mumbai for her contribution to Indian Chemical India in the survey Industry. Prof. Varma is an Honorary Research Professor at NCU and an expert in c o n d u c t e d b y Polymer Science. Careers 360 in January 2017.

VectorTech 06 INTERVIEW

University records historic win for the 16th time in Garden Competition The NorthCap University has won the First prize continuously for the 16th time in the ‘Educational Institutional Category’ during Annual HUDA Flower Festival held on 25 & 26 February 2017. This time, one more trophy has been won as First prize by the University in Cut Flowers category. Our gardeners deserve all praise for their tireless work of taking care of the plants and protecting of them from the cold and rainy weather. The variety of seasonal flowering plants were prepared in pots and placed in a magnificent stepped formation to make the garden very colourful and giving it a good look. It is a matter of great pride that our garden has stood first continuously for the last sixteen years.

Interaction with Prof. Pradeep Kumar

On the sidelines of the Sixth Academic opportunities for hands-on experience in Advisory Board Meeting held on 18 almost all fields and gain expertise in the February 2017, Prof. Pradeep Kumar, use of software based analysis tools. Professor, Department of Mechanical & Speaking from his vast experience as a Industrial Engineering, IIT Roorkee, distinguished academic and as the Vice- F o r m e r Vi c e - C h a n c e l l o r, D e l h i Chancellor, DTU, Prof. Pradeep Kumar Technological University, Delhi shared was of the opinion that recognition and his insights on some key issues in higher rewards to faculty go a long way in education. In an interaction with Ms encouraging them to bring in more Prof. Pradeep Kumar Rekha Mathur, Sr Editor, NCU, Prof. consultancy and sponsored projects. Professor, IIT Roorkee Pradeep Kumar mentioned that to be Recognitions and awards such as the Best Former Vice Chancellor, better equipped for the changing world Teacher and publication of names of there should be special emphasis on Delhi Technological Achievers of the University are factors enhancing competencies and skills of University, New Delhi that motivate the best minds to the field of students.Motivation of faculty for higher education. research in thrust areas and involvement of students towards project based learning are crucial for taking academic and research standards of relevance to the next level. Students be provided more

VectorTech 07 Outreach Activities of Professor Prem Vrat Pro-Chancellor, Professor of Eminence and Chief Mentor, The NorthCap University

Guest at the Valedictory Session and O u t s t a n d i n g Te a c h e r s w e r e also chaired the Panel Discussion on honoured under ‘Shikshak Gaurav Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Samaroh’. the National Workshop on IPR: q Culmination of Research at Prof. Prem Vrat delivered a lecture Bhaskarcharya College of Applied on 'Goal Programing' and ‘CUSUM’ Sciences, New Delhi on 24 Control Chart at IIT Delhi on 4 and 5 September 2016. Nov 2016. He also delivered lectures on 11 and 12 Nov 2016 as each Activities Prof. Prem Vrat q Prof. Prem Vrat delivered lectures Honorary Professor IIT Delhi. Pro-Chancellor, on ‘Decision Theory’ on 2 and 23 Outr q Professor of Eminence September 2016, ‘Statistical Prof. Prem Vrat attended the Annual General Body Meeting of Surajmal & Chief Mentor Process Control’ on 23 September 2016 and ‘Multi-Criteria Decision Education Society and participated Making’ on 30 September 2016 as in the process of electing their next Honorary Professor of IIT Delhi. Executive Council on 6 Nov 2016. q q Prof. Prem Vrat attended the q Prof. Prem Vrat has been appointed Prof. Prem Vrat attended the 21st International Seminar on ‘India’s as a member of the Expert meeting of the Executive Council of Leap to Methanol Economy- Committee by Ministry of Railways, YMCA University of Science & Opportunities and Option for GOI to prepare a report to set-up a Technology at their university on 17 Energy Security’ organized by NITI world standard Railway Advanced Nov 2016. Ayog on 6 September 2016 at Institute ‘SHRESTHA’ (Special q Prof. Vrat was a guest of honour and Manekshaw Center, New Delhi. Railway Establishment for Strategic delivered a lecture in a session on q Prof. Prem Vrat attended the Te c h n o l o g y a n d H o l i s t i c 'Human Values in Education' at Om Foundation Day Celebrations of Advancement). The Committee is Shanti Retreat Centre, Manesar, Technology Alumni Association expected to give its report in a year’s Gurugram on 20 Nov 2016. (TAA)-Delhi Chapter of IIT time. q Prof. Prem Vrat attended Meeting of Kharagpur at The Ashok, Delhi on q Prof. Prem Vrat attended a meeting Committee formed for guidance of 10 September 2016. Dr Mahendra of the ‘Advisory Group of Expert on p r e p a r a t i o n o f D P R f o r Nath Pandey, Hon’ble Minister of Upgradation of Technology and establishment of SRESHTHA in State, HRD, GOI was the Chief Leveraging Make in India’ in Indian Railways at NITI Aayog on 25 Nov Guest at the event. Railways, at NITI Aayog on 4 2016. q Prof. Prem Vrat attended the 43rd October 2016. q Prof. Prem Vrat was External National Management Convention q Prof. Prem Vrat attended a luncheon Examiner in the Final BTech project ‘India in the Asian Century: meeting as a member and Governor- evaluation in Industrial Engineering Cleaner, Smarter, Faster’ organized Chancellor ’s nominee to the at IIT Delhi on 25 Nov 2016. b y A l l I n d i a M a n a g e m e n t Executive Council of YMCA Association (AIMA) at Hotel Le U n i v e r s i t y o f S c i e n c e a n d q Prof. Prem Vrat was invited as the Meridien, New Delhi on 21 and 22 Technology, Faridabad to meet Chief Guest in the Conference on the September 2016. NAAC visiting team to their Theme of 'Value Engineering: The Game Changer' organized by Indian q Prof. Prem Vrat attended the 8th University on 13 October 2016. Value Engineering Society at Hotel M e e t i n g o f M a n a g e m e n t q Prof. Prem Vrat delivered lectures at Radisson, Delhi on 29 Nov 2016. Evaluation and Accreditation IIT Delhi on 14 and 21 October 2016 Committee (MEAC) of National as an Honorary Professor. q Prof. Prem Vrat attended a meeting Board of Accreditation (NBA) on to pay homage to late Prof. MGK q 23 September 2016 at NBA, New Prof. Prem Vrat graced a cultural Menon, India’s Most Outstanding Delhi. e v e n i n g p r o g r a m m e a s a Scientist at the India International Distinguished Guest of Honour, Centre, New Delhi on 30 Nov 2016. q Prof. Prem Vrat was examiner of organized by a well-known literary BTech Major Projects in Industrial organization ‘Suruchi Sahitya Kala q Prof. Prem Vrat reviewed a book Engineering at IIT Delhi on 23 Parivar’ Gurugram on 23 October proposal from Professors of September 2016. 2016 at Government Post Graduate University in Mexico, submitted for publication to Springer. q Prof. Prem Vrat was the Chief College, Gurugram. At the occasion,

VectorTech 08 OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

q Prof. Prem Vrat was invited as the q Prof. Prem Vrat was invited by q Prof. Prem Vrat was invited by Shri Chief Guest to a three day G h a z i a b a d M a n a g e m e n t Pawan Kumar Agarwal, IAS, Addl c o n f e r e n c e o n O p e r a t i o n s A s s o c i a t i o n ( G M A ) a s a Secretary & CEO, FSSAI (Food Management at BHEL, Noida on 1 Distinguished Speaker in Technical Safety and Standards Authority of December 2016. He participated in Session-1 titled 'E - Education and India) for discussion on Structure a session on 'Issues & Concerns in Healthcare' in the 27th National and Functioning of FSSAI at FDA Managing Operations under Annual Convention on 'Digital Bhawan, New Delhi on 8 Feb 2017. Uncertainty & Complexity'. His I n d i a f o r G r o w t h a n d q talk was well received by the Empowerment-power to empower' Prof. Prem Vrat attended the 2nd p a r t i c i p a n t s f r o m B H E L at Hotel Radisson Blu, Kaushambi, Convocation of YMCA University Engineering & Management Ghaziabad on 21 January 2017. of Science and Technology as a Member of the Executive Council Departments for whom the q programme had been arranged. Prof. Vrat attended the annual and was the Guest of Honour and convocation ceremony of Dr APJ delivered the Convocation address q Prof. Prem Vrat attended the Abdul Kalam Technical University, on 15 Feb 2017. conference on 'India Onward- Lucknow (APJAKTU) (earlier q Scaling Digital India' organized by known as UPTU, Lucknow) on 23 Prof. Prem Vrat attended the IBM at Taj Mahal Hotel, Delhi on 9 January 2017. He also attended the m e e t i n g o f A I C T E - I N A E December 2016. pre-convocation dinner at Hotel Programmes Committee for selection of Distinguished Visiting q Renaissance together with the Chief Prof. Prem Vrat was invited to the Guest Dr VK Saraswat, Member, Professors and Research Fellows at ASQ South Asia Conference on NITI Aayog and Hon'ble Minister INAE Office, New Delhi on 16 Feb 'Manifesting Intent through of Technical Education Uttar 2017. Execution' at Hotel Taj Vivanta, Pradesh. q New Delhi on 16 and 17 December Prof. Prem Vrat attended a meeting 2016. q Prof. Prem Vrat attended the of faculty & staff of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT q Railway Meeting of the Committee Prof. Prem Vrat attended the on 'SRESTHA' at Research Designs Delhi at an annual get-together networking lunch with Silver and Standards Organisation followed by lunch as an invitee, Jubilee Batch of Alumni of 1992 (RDSO), Lucknow on 23 January being an Honorary Professor, on 19 batch. He was later felicitated by 2017. Feb 2017. them in a function in the presence of Director, IIT Delhi. q Prof. Prem Vrat was invited as a q Ve r y S p e c i a l G u e s t a t t h e Prof. Prem Vrat was invited as a inauguration of SPIC MACAY's Outreach Activities of Guest of Honour in 'Innovation in 'VIRASAT' Programme organized Science Pursuit for Inspired by IIT Delhi at IIT Delhi on 24 Director SOET Research'(INSPIRE)-Science January 2017 for a Veena recital by Camp organized by JSS Academy Padma Bhushan, Pt Vishwa Mohan of Technical Education on 26 Bhatt. December 2016 at the academy at Noida. q Prof. Prem Vrat was invited to the Prof. Ravindra Ojha, Inaugural Event by Brahmakumaris q Prof. Prem Vrat delivered a lecture Director a t L e i s u r e Va l l e y G r o u n d , School of Engineering to a delegation of Sri Lankan Gurugram, on 2 Feb 2017. & Technology o ff i c e r s f r o m M i n i s t r y o f Education during a week-long q Prof. Prem Vrat was the Keynote rof. Ravindra OJha visited Jamna training organized by ASQ, South Speaker in the international PAuto Industries Ltd Jamshedpur Asia on 27 December 2016 at Hotel conference on ‘Interdisciplinary along with their Corporate HR and Radisson Blue, Faridabad. R e s e a r c h i n S u p p l y C h a i n Plant-Head on 18 & 19 January 2017. M a n a g e m e n t a n d D e c i s i o n He interacted with the plant's q Prof. Prem Vrat attended a meeting Sciences Applications in Business leadership team to provide inputs in the of the Executive Council of Sharda Practices' on 3 and 4 Feb 2017 at the areas of Value Flow, Organisation University on 31 December 2016 Department of Management Structure, Continuous improvement at the university at Noida. Studies, IIT Delhi. projects, Industrial Relations and q Prof. Prem Vrat delivered lectures q Prof. Prem Vrat delivered lectures Leadership Skill Improvement. on 'Supply Chain Management' at on ‘Supply Chain Management’ at IIT Delhi as Honorary Professor on IIT Delhi as Honorary Professor on all Fridays in Jan 2017. all Fridays in Feb 2017.

VectorTech 09 Outreach Activities of Brig. SK Sharma (Retd.) Pro Vice-Chancellor & Senior Professor, The NorthCap University

Panel Discussion on 'Ecosystem for IBM at Taj Mahal Hotel, Delhi on 9 Internationalization of Higher December 2016. Education' on 8 September 2016 at q Brig. SK Sharma (Retd) was invited PHD House, New Delhi, jointly to a dinner reception at German organized by the Education House, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi Promotion Society for India (EPSI) on 17 February 2017 on the and BIMTECH. occasion of the launch of the q Brig SK Sharma (Retd) attended the German Study & Research Expo each Activities H a r y a n a S w a r n a J a y a n t i New Delhi 2017 held at New Delhi

Outr Celebrations at the Tau Devi Lal & Hyderabad. He took the Brig. SK Sharma (Retd) Stadium, Gurugram on 1 Nov 2016 opportunity to invite the Director Pro Vice-Chancellor & along with the Registrar. (Marketing) of DAAD Regional Senior Professor Office, South Asia to deliver a talk q Brig. SK Sharma (Retd), Pro Vice- at NCU on German DAAD Chancellor attended the North Zone Scholarship Opportunities for Vice Chancellors' Meet 2016-17 on Indian students. 23 December 2016 at Amity q Brig. SK Sharma (Retd) attended a University, Noida. The theme of q Brig. SK Sharma (Retd) attended round table discussion organized this year’s Zonal Conference was t h e E c o n o m i c Ti m e s B e s t by Careers 360 on the New 'Celebrating Success in Higher Education Brands 2017 at Hotel Taj Education Policy for submission Education – Best Practices'. Around Palace, New Delhi on 24 February of recommendations to MHRD, 50 Vice-Chancellors from different 2017. A Panel Discussion was held G O I a t N e w D e l h i o n 1 2 universities located in the North on five issues that are likely to September 2016. A set of 14 major Zone exchanged views on the change education i.e. Diverse time recommendations were submitted subject and best practices under & place – the future of e-learning, by Careers360 to MHRD which v a r i o u s s u b t h e m e s w e r e Personalized learning, Field were moderated based on the exchanged. experience and application based discussions at the round table, learning, The future of exams and dealing mainly with private q Brig. SK Sharma (Retd) attended rd Unconventional course content. A the 3 meeting of the Professional universities. c o ff e e t a b l e b o o k o n B e s t Network Group of India (PNGI) on q Education Brands was launched by Brig. Sharma (Retd) attended a 17 December 2016 at Gurugram. the Chief Guest Mr Manish meeting of Vice-Chancellors of The theme of the seminar was Sisodia, Dy Chief Minister of State and Private Universities in 'Demonetization, its impact on the Delhi. Haryana under the Chairmanship nation and how it should be of the Chief Minister of Haryana managed'. o n 2 9 S e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 6 a t C h a n d i g a r h . T h e m e e t i n g q B r i g . S h a r m a a t t e n d e d t h e discussed university academic and conference on 'India Onward- cultural events to be undertaken by Scaling Digital India' organized by all universities of Haryana during the Swarna Jayanti Celebrations year of the State from 1 November Outreach Activities of Registrar & COE 2016 to 31 October 2017. The Registrar, Col Bikram Mohanty (Retd) and Controller of Examinations, Wg Cdr Manohar Vasudev (Retd) attended a Workshop on ‘The Future of Higher q Brig. SK Sharma (Retd) attended Education Assessments: Developing an Eco System of Quality Examination’ on 9 the Foundation Day Celebrations Nov 2016. Prof. Ved Prakash, Chairman UGC was the Chief Guest at the occasion. o f T e c h n o l o g y A l u m n i To standardize assessment and grading of students passing out from different State Association (TAA)-Delhi Chapter Education Boards in India, the distinguished panellists dwelt on the urgent need for of IIT Kharagpur at The Ashok, introducing Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) for admission to Indian Universities. Delhi on 10 September 2016. Dr Prof. Sanjay Govind Dhande, former Director of IIT Kanpur, stressed on the urgent Mahendra Nath Pandey, Hon’ble need for an ‘out-of-the-box thinking’ and for redesigning examinations and conduct Minister of State, HRD, GOI was methodology by adopting best practices worldwide so that Indian Universities find the Chief Guest at the event. a place amongst the top 100 World Universities. q Brig. SK Sharma (Retd) attended a

VectorTech 10 NEWS AND EVENTS

News and Events

The NorthCap University, Gurugram celebrates its 5th Annual Convocation The NorthCap University, Gurugram held its 5 t h Annual Convocation Ceremony for its various undergraduate and postgraduate courses on 20 December 2016. The event, a memorable one, was presided over by Dr Bibek Debroy, Padma Shri, Member, NITI Aayog and Chairman, High Level Committee, Indian Railways. Other luminaries present at the event included, The NorthCap University's Founder Members Shri Avdhesh Mishra and Shri Shiv Saran Mehra; Chancellor and Founder Member, Shri V Daulet Singh; Pro-Chancellor, Prof Prem Vrat and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Brig SK Sharma LLB (H), 3 from LLM. 3 PhD scholars from stint at The NorthCap University has (Retd). the University also received their degrees equipped you with the requisite skills and A total of 835 students were awarded during the Convocation. Gold, Silver and you are now a very important part of the degrees in their respective disciplines, Bronze medals were awarded to 38 society. Only about 10% of the youth are including 506 from BTech, 128 from candidates who topped the list in their fortunate to get higher education in India MTech, 10 from BSc Maths (Hons), 14 respective streams. and you are a privileged part of it.” from MSc (Maths), 38 from BBA, 30 In his convocation address, Dr Bibek For the first time, the event was streamed from BCom (Hons), 16 from BSc Eco Debroy said, “You are now setting out on a live on Facebook and thousands viewed (Hons), 34 from MBA, 53 from BBA- new path ready to take on the world. Your it.

Annual Scholarship Distribution Ceremony held at NCU

To celebrate the spirit of Haryana Swarna Jayanti Celebrations which began on 1 November 2016, The NorthCap University held its Fee Concession and Merit Scholarship Distribution Ceremony 2016 on 9 December 2016. The University awarded scholarships on merit and means basis to deserving students. The ceremony was presided over by Prof. Furqan Qamar, Secretary General, Association of lndian Universities, New Delhi. A total of 266 students received the scholarships and fee concessions economically weaker sections and amounting to Rs 1.41 crores. The Chief scholarships to meritorious students is Guest, Prof. Furqan Qamar, while laudable. Every university should follow speaking at the event said, “The efforts the 3Es i.e. Equality, Expansion and of The NorthCap University, Gurugram Excellence and I am happy to see that in providing fee concessions to NCU believes in it.”

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Sixth Academic Advisory Board Meeting Honourable members exchanged views, presented new and refreshing ideas, and advised on actions to improve the academic life and other essential deliverables so that the University could achieve its ultimate aim of attaining a position of pre-eminence. They discussed key issues such as the Strategic Plans for t h e U n i v e r s i t y, r o a d m a p f o r improvement of the curriculum, introduction of new programmes and placements for the students. Members of the Board also interacted The sixth Academic Advisory Board development of the University. The with faculty and students on the Dean's Meeting of the University was held on Academic Advisory Board is the think List, sharing their thoughts and inspiring 18 February 2017 to review the progress tank and the appellate body comprising them to be innovators, ground breakers made during the year and advise on of eminent educationists and industry and nation builders. future plans for the growth and experts drawn from across the country.

The Annual Faculty Mentors meeting

The Annual Faculty Mentors meeting Professor, SOL) and congratulated Dr CR Mentors reaffirmed that faculty was held on 3 February 2017 at the Prasad who had been conferred the mentoring has proved its value of University. Our Faculty Mentors, who Petrotech-2016 Lifetime Achievement enriching the faculty, the departments and are eminent academicians, scientists and (Category – Midstream) Award and Prof. the University as a whole and should be renowned experts from different fields, KL Chopra who had been conferred with continued with all seriousness. It was met the Pro-Chancellor, Prof. Prem Vrat, an honorary DSc by Jadhavpur University unanimously agreed that the Annual the Chief Mentor and the Officiating in Dec 2016. He then welcomed Prof. Faculty Mentors meeting should be held Vice-Chancellor, Brig. SK Sharma Ya d a v a s t h e n e w C o n v e n e r & on a fixed date on the 3rd Friday of (Retd) in the presence of the Governing Coordinator of this Mentoring Scheme. January every year. It was decided that the Body members to review the outcome- based progress of their respective Brig. S K Sharma (Retd) informed the Faculty Mentor’s expertise should be mentees, and to plan the way forward for members that Prof. Prem Vrat himself had shared across disciplines to facilitate improving and making the scheme more been conferred with the MC Puri interdisciplinary interaction and research effective. Memorial Award 2016 at the Annual proposals. Convention of the Central Council of At the outset, Prof. Prem Vrat welcomed Operational Research Society of India in Prof. Pushpesh Pant (Emeritus December 2016.

Quality Conclave on ‘Creating Value through Quality’ American Society of Quality (ASQ) Student Chapter of The NorthCap University, organised a Quality Conclave on the theme ‘Creating Value Through Quality’ on 18 November 2016. The conclave was attended by eminent personalities namely Mr Ciby James- Dir ASQ South Asia, Mr Shekhar Dasgupta, Founder & CEO Greenfield Software, Mr Ashish Basu, Co-founder of SafetiPin and Mr Pawan Datta, VP Head Quality at Max Healthcare. The conclave began with a motivational talk by Prof Prem Vrat, Pro-Chancellor, who explained the various aspects of quality included in our lives by quoting from his experiences. Ms Jyotika Pruthi, Asst Prof. recited a thought provoking poem. It was followed by inspirational talks on entrepreneurship and quality by the other speakers. The highlight of the day was the quiz competition wherein six teams participated. The quiz was conducted by Ms Sheetal Soni AGM, Quality & Service Delivery GMR. The top three winning teams have been provided internship with reputed companies. The event ended with a vote of thanks by Prof Ravindra Ojha, Director SOET.

VectorTech 13 White Belt Training in ASQ Vice- Chair Students, Ms Stephanie Six Sigma and Lean Basics Thompson visited NCU Ms Stephanie Thompson, Vice- Chair Students, Quality Management Division, ASQ was at NCU on 22 December 2016. She had an interactive session with our ASQ-NCU Student ts Chapter and Director SOET, Prof. en v Ravindra Ojha. The interaction was aimed at bringing out measures to help students to have better exposure to s and E To bring quality in every facet, the opportunities in the industry. Students presented their ideas and viewpoints. She w University's knowledge partner, ASQ also shared the ASQ webportal named Gennext and asked students to share their Ne organized a one day programme in White feedback, queries and data across the globe. Belt Training in Six Sigma and Lean Basics on 24 September 2016. A total of 102 students from the Schools of Engineering, Law and Management, ASQ students visit Honda, Tapukara plant took part in various brainstorming Learning by Seeing activities. The students were introduced to impossible situations which could only ASQ organised an be solved if they adopted 'out of the box' industrial trip to the thinking. This year, the theme of the w o r l d - c l a s s t w o - conference was 'Make in India'. wheeler Honda Plant situated at Tapukara, After several fun and thought provoking Alwar on 23 Feb 2017. activities, students at the end of the The ASQ- NCU team conference, were able to understand the consisted of 23 students concept of efficiency, to set challenging a n d f o u r f a c u l t y yet achievable objectives, to implement a members led by Prof. uniform approach to resolve all the R a v i n d r a O j h a , problems and to keep working to achieve Director, SOET. breakthrough processes to improve employee performance. The training was The plant offered a learning opportunity from Human Resources to technical aspects. In highly appreciated and proved to be accordance with 'Make in India' Honda has recently launched Honda Navi, first 'Made extremely beneficial for the participants. in India' bike. NCU team got an opportunity to understand assembly line technology, production planning systems, testing processes, 5S and human behaviour.

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Collaborations q MSME collaborates with NCU workshop for identified manufacturing cluster. Government of India recognizes The NorthCap University as a • Student Design Projects taken leading professional educational up by graduating students as i n s t i t u t e i n t h e a r e a o f their final project along with design/innovation/ engineering. MSME. Micro Small & Medium Enterprises • Professional Design project (MSME) is collaborating with NCU taken up by professional under the Design Clinic Scheme industrial design experts along (DCS) that aims to enable 'design' with MSME. a s a t o o l f o r i m p r o v i n g manufacturing competitiveness of Dr Ashwini Sharma, Dept of r e s p e c t i v e M S M E s i n t h e Mechanical Engineering is the manufacturing sector. Details are faculty coordinator for MSME a v a i l a b l e a t h t t p : / / collaboration. Makoto Yokoyama, Director, www.designclinicsmsme.org / q Mitsubishi extends collaboration Mitsubishi Electric India Pvt. Ltd. Under the Design Clinic Scheme with NCU a n d P r o f . P r e m Vr a t , P r o - Chancellor, NCU exchanged the faculty and students of NCU will Mitsubishi Electric India Private collaborate with the MSME sector MoUs. The ceremony was graced Limited signed an MoU to extend by the presence of Mr Hiroshi in Haryana through the following its agreement with NCU to provide activities: K i t a m u r a , G M - F a c t o r y Mitsubishi Electric Factory Automation Centre, Mitsubishi • Design Awareness Seminar for Automation training equipment Electric India Pvt. Ltd. Delegates MSME clusters. worth over Rs 23 lakh for from Mitsubishi Electric also demonstration, learning and • Design Awareness programme inaugurated the PLC kits that were training of students and faculty at consisting of need assessment provided to the University under NCU. In a formal ceremony held at survey and design clinic the MoU. NCU on 26 September 2016, Mr

MoU with Beijing Wave Spectrum Science & Technology Co. Ltd, China

he NorthCap University inaugurated Tits new Mechanics Lab, set up in collaboration with Beijing Wave Spectrum Science & Technology Co. Ltd. China, on 26 November 2016. This lab is a u n i q u e m o d e l o f i n t e r n a t i o n a l collaboration with a private Indian university. The Lab was inaugurated by Mr Lyons Zhu, Managing Director, Beijing Wave Spectrum Science and Technology Co. Ltd. China, and Prof. Prem Vrat, Pro-Chancellor. The Mechanics Lab has been setup with an approximate cost of USD $60,000 (INR 40 lakhs) by Beijing Wave Spectrum under a five year MoU with NCU. Beijing Wave Spectrum is a Chinese company, (testing equipment, sensors with Wave Spectrum engineers. The lab will be dedicated to research and development of software), along with hardware updates used by Beijing Wave Spectrum and the vibration measurement technology, and maintenance. This lab is a part of the University as a platform to continuously measurement and control and sensor Central Research Facility and will help in i m p r o v e a n d d e v e l o p r e s e a r c h technology. The new set up is a boosting BTech, MTech and PhD instruments and testing systems. Mr multidisciplinary lab with test equipment programmes at the University. Dr Rohit Lyons Zhu, Managing Director, Beijing and instruments for mechanical, civil and Singh Lather, Associate Professor, Wave Spectrum is agreeable to take electronics engineering disciplines. The Mechanical Engineering, facilitated the lectures as a Visiting International Faculty lab has 16 research instruments relating to collaboration and will also co-manage the at the University. vibration, design and data acquisition lab and its activities along with Beijing

VectorTech 15 Visit to Mitsubishi Electric NCU signs MoU with Delta Power Solutions The MoU was signed by Ms Rituparna Private Ltd, Gurugram Ghosh Vats, Dy GM HR and Mr Vimal Pandey, Assistant Manager, Delta Electronics India Pvt. Ltd and Prof. Ravindra Ojha, Director, SOET in the presence of Pro-VC, Brig. SK Sharma (Retd). Delta Electronics Group is a ts multi-billion dollar global company and en

v the world’s leading producer of power supplies for the top names in industrial, Prof. Ravindra Ojha, Prof. Swaran medical and consumer electronic Ahuja, Dr Anjali Garg, Dr Shiv s and E devices. Delta shall support research

w Manjaree Gopaliya and Ms Shaveta fund, education promoting budget and Arora visited the office of Mitsubishi The NorthCap University signed an MoU Ne allow use of material equipment and Electric Private Limited, Gurugram on with Delta Power Solutions India Pvt. Ltd on 3 January 2017 to develop and execute buildings in carrying research and 31 January 2017. education and research projects, promote development. During the interaction with The NCU team met Mr Manoj Gupta, development of syllabi and activities that Ms Ghosh, other avenues for future Head & Incharge – MEL with his support research and development engagement such as internship, creation Japanese team members and Ms through work-integrated learning of Centre-of-Excellence, live projects for Ripanjeet Kaur, MoU Coordinator, programmes . students and campus placements were MEL. A detailed discussion was held on also explored. the future directions of the MoU signed between NCU and MEL. Following Delta Electronics organized project training at NCU areas of collaboration were discussed : National training on • Workshops/trainings for students automation, drives and and faculty members. robotics by industry • Proper integration of Mitsubishi experts from Delta PLC kits into the laboratory Electronics Ltd, was experiments for various Courses at held from 3-7 Feb 2017 NCU. at NCU. 75 students were selected from six • Participation of NCU in various different universities to workshops/seminars conducted by participate in this MEL as a part of academic national level training institutions and industries linkages. programme i.e. The NorthCap University, IIT- Roorkee, NIT- Kurukshetra, Amity University- Noida, • Participation of our students in LPU- Punjab and VIT-Vellore. Nine students were selected from NCU's Dept of various events of MEL. EECE and six from Dept of Mechanical Engineering for this valuable training. NCU faculty participated in the two Faculty coordinators Ms Charu Rana and Dr Shiv Manjaree Gopaliya also day training programme on ‘iQ-R participated in this training which was conducted under ‘Delta Cup Contest’ at South PLC Hardware’ on 1 and 2 Feb 2017. Asia Level to be held in July 2017 in China.

NCU signs MoU with American Society of Civil Engineers

he NorthCap University signed an MoU with The American Society of Civil TEngineers (ASCE), Reston, Virginia, USA for conducting ASCE’s webinars TM with a local expert and also for holding conferences and educational activities at NAAC ACCREDITED NCU. The University will provide all logistic and infrastructure support for conducting such academic activities at the University campus. With the signing of this MoU, Dept of CEE hopes to impart knowledge to the students as well as professionals working in the field of construction, environmental, geotechnical, hydraulics and water resources.

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q Dr Tom Nolan of ITB NCU students currently studying at d e v e l o p a n d u s e a h i g h l y Ireland visits NCU ITB under one of the many specialized eService's platform exchange options available through ‘Podium’ for dissemination of a this MoU. wide range of educational programmes, which can be q Dr Glenwood Irons visits e ff e c t i v e l y u s e d f o r m a s s the University dissemination of educational k n o w l e d g e a n d s k i l l s . D r Dr Glenwood Irons, Vice President- Glenwood Irons gave a demo of International, Global Tutoring Hub, ‘Podium’, its connectivity and core visited the University on 17 services etc. He was accompanied February 2017 and interacted with by Director of City Innovates, Mr Dr Tom Nolan, International the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Brig S K Kashish Jhamb. Academic Network Manager, Sharma (Retd), Registrar, Col I n s t i t u t e o f Te c h n o l o g y Bikram Mohanty (Retd), Dean- Blanchardstown (ITB), Dublin 15, Academics, Prof. Swaran Ahuja and Ireland visited The NorthCap Head, Dept of CSE&IT, Dr Latika University on 24 February 2017 to Singh. review the ongoing collaboration Global Tutoring Hub (GTH) is a between the two institutions and to Barbados based corporation discuss the roadmap for expansion focused on worldwide delivery of in the collaborating domain. education. Their aim is to create, D u r i n g t h e v i s i t h e w a s accompanied by Dr Latika Singh, Head, Dept of CSE & IT and Mr Manoj Kumar Gopaliya, MoU Delegation from Curtin University Australia visits NCU Coordinator, NCU-ITB. Dr Tom Nolan’s met NCU delegates representing the Departments of EECE, ME and SOM to discuss possibilities of student exchange for various programmes offered in their respective departments/schools. Dr Nolan informed that ITB is pleased to offer entry to our BTech (Mechanical) students in their B E n g g ( H ) - M e c h a t r o n i c s programme after successful completion of their 3rd Year at NCU. This requires a one week A delegation from Curtin Business School, Curtin University, Australia visited bridge course in the area of The NorthCap University on 24 November 2016. Curtin Business School is one Control Engineering at ITB after of the leading Business Schools in Australia and has a AACSB accreditation. joining. It was also agreed to send Ranked a notch above the IITs at 210 in Times World Rankings, Curtin is course curriculum of EECE amongst the top 10 education providers in Australia with on-campus student programmes to ITB for possible population exceeding 35,000. Last year they had formalized their research tie mapping for student exchange in B ups-through Curtin India Research Academy with quite a few IITs and IIMs. Engg (H) and MEngg/MSc The delegation included Prof. Peter Galvin and Prof. Steve Mckenna from Curtin Programmes at ITB. Business School who delivered prestigious lectures to students on different Dr Nolan interacted with NCU perspectives of management education, apart from discussing opportunities in students and updated them about research, industry tie ups and student mobilization. The delegation also met the various programmes offered at Dean and the faculty members of The School of Management to explore future ITB, Ireland and the benefits of collaborations in areas of research. opting for the student exchange programme. Students also interacted through Skype with

VectorTech 17 Special Lectures q Talk on ‘Course Design and Team) and was Group Coordinator P r o g r a m m e C r e d i t of E-Security and Cyber Law D i v i s i o n , M i n i s t r y o f Structure’ Communications and Information Prof. Dheeraj Sanghi, Dean Technology. Academic Affairs and Dean of He spoke about the Digital External Relationships IIIT Delhi, Revolution and its impact on

ts delivered a talk on ‘Course Design q Internet and Cyber Security. He en and Programme Credit Structure’ Experiential Learning explained about the Indian Cyber v to the DOS/HODs and Programme Prof. Ravindra Ojha, Director Space, what it constitutes and Coordinators of all the three SOET invited Mr Rohit Agarwal, importance of Cyber Security. He Schools. During his talk, Prof. s and E Asst General Manager, Dalmia also discussed how criminals use

w Sanghi highlighted that while Bharat Ltd. for delivering a guest malware (customized software in designing courses, at least 10-15% Ne lecture on ‘Some experiential order to perform malicious o f n o n - S T E M ( S c i e n c e , learning from handling large activities) to hack systems and Technology, Engineering and projects’ on 26 October 2016. Mr commit various types of frauds. Mathematics) should be taken into Agarwal shared his professional Further, he stressed upon the consideration. He stressed the fact experience with students of Project importance of preparing the that the world is becoming more Management which comprised of student’s workforce in the field of complex and it requires multiple students from the Dept of CSE& IT Cyber Security to cater to the ever skills to solve problems and and MBA. He shared interesting increasing demand of Cyber therefore, the University needs to experiences about challenges faced Security Experts in our country. have a more inter-disciplinary by Project Managers, growing need Dr Rai appreciated the University's of project management in software efforts of running an MTech industries, reasons behind delay of programme with specialization in projects, how to restore the original Cyber Security but suggested that plan and how to be mentally and more needs to be done in this physically fit in a high demanding direction by collaborating with job profile of a Project Manager. q Cyber Security The University through the good approach in the subjects offered. offices of Prof. Amitava Sen Gupta, He reiterated that variants in Mentor RDIL invited Dr Gulshan programming like Minor, Double Rai, the first Chief Information Minor, Dual Degree and UG-PG Security Officer (CISO) at Prime dual degree should be examined in Minister's Office, India on 17 detail so that the aspirations of November 2016 to deliver a special industries and Government parents and students are adequately lecture to students and faculty. Prior addressed. organizations. The faculty and to this Dr Rai was working as students of Dept of CSE&IT Director General, CERT-In (Indian actively participated in the Computer Emergency Response interactive session with Dr Rai.

University Level Winter FDP

To enhance our academic and intellectual academicians and industry experts. q Prof. KL Chopra talked on environment and give opportunities to ‘Plasma processing of thin films q Pro-Chancellor, Prof. Prem Vrat, faculty members to update their and nanomaterials’. The talk was spoke about ‘Enhancing Learning pedagogical and research skills, a delivered on 8 December 2016, Effectiveness in Higher Technical University level six day Faculty coordinated by Dr Payal Khurana, Education: Opportunities & Development Programme was conducted CLL. on different topics from 8-14 December Challenges’. The FDP was 2016. Faculty from all the Schools and organized on 8 December 2016 q Prof. Pushpesh Pant shared his Departments participated in the FDP and and coordinated by Dr Payal views on the topic ‘Excellence in gained from the insights of senior Khurana, CLL. teaching and research: challenges

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and problems in contemporary and coordinated by Dr Rekha Vij, India’. The lecture was conducted Dept of EECE. o n 9 D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 6 a n d q Prof. Ravindra Ojha delivered a coordinated by Ms Pallavi Bajpai, l e c t u r e o n ‘ E m p l o y a b i l i t y School of Law. Assessment Test for students – q Prof. AK Ghatak, Honorary CoCubes’. The FDP was held on 10 Distinguished Research Professor, December 2016 and coordinated by NCU, shared his expertise on Dr Rekha Vij, Dept of EECE. ‘Importance of light’ which has q Maj Gen AK Chaturvedi (Retd) q Dr Pramath Raj Sinha conducted fascinated mankind ever since he gave a session on ‘Energy Security a n i n s i g h t f u l s e s s i o n o n could see. The talk was delivered of India’. The FDP was organized ‘Incorporating 21st century learning on 9 December 2016, coordinated o n 1 0 D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 6 a n d in classrooms’. The FDP was by Ms Pallavi Bajpai, School of coordinated by Dr Rekha Vij, Dept organized on 13 December 2016 and Law. of EECE. coordinated by Dr Kavita Khanna, Dept of CSE&IT. q Mr Sachin Jain delivered a talk on ‘Ethos of Management’. The FDP q Mr Avijit Das delivered a talk on the was held on 12 December 2016 and topic’ Entrepreneurship and startups c o o r d i n a t e d b y M s J i v e t a – some experiential facts’. The FDP Chaudhary, SOM. was organized on 14 December 2016 and coordinated by Ms Shikha q Prof. Karmeshu’s talk was on Kashyap, Dept of Mechanical Engg. ‘Mathematical Modelling and its pervasiveness across disciplines’. q In the interactive session on q Prof. Swaran Ahuja shared his The FDP was organized on 12 ‘Leading in the knowledge worker v i e w s o n ‘ R e v i e w a n d December 2016 and coordinated era’, Mr Krishnan was of the view implementation of teaching by Ms Jiveta Chaudhary, SOM. that in today’s time we should learning processes at NCU-new inspire and not just motivate. The guidelines’. He proposed a q Dr Vinnie Jauhari spoke on FDP was organized on 14 December c o m p r e h e n s i v e r e v i e w o f ‘Technology leading to engaged 2016 and coordinated by Ms Shikha curriculum aligned with the experiences in learning’. The FDP Kashyap, Dept of Mechanical Engg. current and futuristic market was organized on 13 December requirements. The FDP was 2016 and coordinated by Dr Kavita organized on 10 December 2016 Khanna, Dept of CSE&IT.

Prof. B Chandra joins NCU as Faculty Mentor Internal Audit of the School of Engg, Management & Law Prof. Chandra has been a Visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh, The Fifth Internal Audit of all three Prof. B Chandra, PhD USA and Penn State University, USA. She Schools of Engineering, Management Professor-Department has also been a visiting scientist at NIST, and Law was conducted from 13 -16 Jan of Mathematics Gaithersburg, Maryland during 2012. She 2017. Indian Institute of has chaired many sessions in Data Mining All departments under SOET performed Technology Delhi and Machine Learning in international quite well with the top honours being conferences organized in USA, UK, Prof B Chandra who has joined the taken by the Dept of EECE and the Dept Canada, Singapore and France. She has University as a Faculty Mentor is of CSE&IT coming a close second. been a Principal Investigator of many working with the Computer Science sponsored research projects in the area of The School of Law and School of group of the Department of Mathematics, Clustering of Gene Expression Data, Management also performed well and IIT, Delhi where she is currently a Pattern Classification, Feature Selection have resolved to put up a stellar Professor and was the Department Chair and consultancy projects with stock performance in the forthcoming BCI from 2004 to 2007. Her areas of interest market companies. inspection in 2018 and NBA accreditation include Statistical Classification & respectively. Clustering for Data Mining, Neural We welcome Prof. B Chandra to The Networks for Statistical Pattern NorthCap University's panel of eminent Recoginition, NLP, Databases, Adaptive Faculty Mentors. Control Models. Her specialization is in the area of Data Mining, Neural Networks, Machine Learning and feature selection for Gene Expression data.

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School of Engineering and Technology Department of Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering Training programme for teachers The objective of the course was to train • I n t r o d u c t i o n t o M AT L A B / conducted by NITTTR, Chandigarh teachers in the emerging and upcoming S I M U L I N K f o r m o d e l i n g topics of research and introduce them to The National Institute of Technical engineering (Power Electronics and various tools that can help researchers Power System) problems. Te a c h e r s Tr a i n i n g & R e s e a r c h improve their research and problem (NITTTR), Chandigarh has been solving skills. The programme was • Hardware validation for MATLAB/ offering faculty training programmes in a designed around the following major SIMULINK models using Arduino, wide variety of areas to train teachers, topics: dSpace and opal-RT. propagate ICT skills and Induction • Ethics in Scientific Research The Course upgraded knowledge and Training Programmes to improve quality programming skills in interdisciplinary • Design of Experiments of technical education at NCU, which is a fields of the faculty from the Depts of Nodal Centre of NITTTR. The Dept of • Optimization Techniques (ANN EECE, APS, ME, research scholars and EECE organized a short term course in Genetic Algorithms) technical staff. The training was association with NITTTR Chandigarh on • Data processing and Statistical coordinated by Ms Amanpreet Kaur, ‘Tools for Engineering Research through Analysis Nodal Coordinator, Dept of EECE. ICT’ from 30 January to 3 February 2017 • Technical Writing and LATEX at the University. software.

Special Lectures q A lecture on 'Future Trends in IT Applications of IoT. He gave a live Infrastructure Services' by Mr demonstration of some IoT based Aman Chandna, Service Delivery devices related to home security and Manager, TCS was organized on s m a r t w a t c h . T h e t a l k w a s 10 Nov 2016. Mr Chandna focused coordinated by Ms Naresh Kumari o n f u t u r e t r e n d s i n I T a n d M s C h a r u R a n a . infrastructure services like cloud (ECE2017G001) computing and Internet of Things. q Mr Pankaj Som Chaturvedi, He discussed career opportunities Country Head, ConnectXcite Mobi in the field of Electronics and Anjali Garg, Ms Kusum Grewal (India) Pvt. Ltd. Delivered a special Communication Engineering. The Dangi and Dr Shardha Vashishth. lecture on the topic 'Emerging Areas lecture was coordinated by Ms [ECE2016G005] in Applied Technology for the Indian Shaveta Arora and Ms Kusum q Mr Mohit Grover, Head, Radio Context - How to align Education for Grewal Dangi. (ECE2016G006) Access GSS-India, Nokia Networks Career Success' on 16 February q A Guest Lecture on ‘Smart Cities’ delivered a guest lecture on 'Internet 2017. was delivered by Mr Jeevan of Things' on 8 Feb 2017. Mr Mohit q A Guest lecture on the topic Talgaonkar, General Manager & spoke about IoT Architecture, IoT ' I n t r o d u c t i o n t o I o T w i t h H e a d P r a c t i c e B u s i n e s s C o m p o n e n t s , C o n n e c t i v i t y, Applications' was delivered by Dr Operations, Ericsson India Pvt. P l a t f o r m , A n a l y t i c s a n d SPS Saini, Former Sr Scientist- Ltd. on 27 Oct 2016. The lecture CEERI-Pilani on 23 Feb 2017. was attended by 3rd Year, 4th Year BTech and 2nd Year MTech ECE students. Mr Talgaonkar spoke about Internet of Things, 3G(LTE) and 4G followed by latest developments in 5G. He also discussed about job opportunities for students of Electronics and Communication Engineering. The event was coordinated by Dr

VectorTech 21 Faculty Activities collaboration with Exicom Ltd, team building, professional etiquette, Australia, a leading manufacturer problem solving, communication etc. She q Dr Rekha Vig, Associate Professor of SMPS based Power Plants for discussed the importance of team work was invited as a Session Chair at telecom applications. The for the success of an organization. ICCCS-2016, a Taylor and Francis objective of the externship was to Dr Virendra N Mahajan, a graduate of the conference at Dronacharya gain real world experience and College of Optical Sciences, University College of Engg, Gurugram, held learn the latest technological of Arizona, delivered a lecture on 'Optical from 9-11 September 2016. Papers advancements in hardware and Imaging: Geometrical and Diffraction o n s i g n a l p r o c e s s i n g a n d software. Possibilities for Approaches' on 13 December 2016. This communication areas were internship, placements and talk was sponsored by SPIE Society, presented by delegates from industrial visits were also NCU. various universities across and discussed. Other departments also om the Schools o u t s i d e I n d i a . D u r i n g t h e propose to initiate similar Mr Mahendra Singh Rajawat delivered an conference Dr Vig was awarded a s fr externships. e x p e r t l e c t u r e o n ' E x p e c t a t i o n w certificate and a memento. Management in the competitive world' on

Ne Dr Vig was also invited as a 14 December 2016. It touched all the Session Chair at ICMETE-2016, aspects for maitaining a stress free mind. an IEEE conference at SRM He spoke about the changing mindset of University, Modinagar on 23 the new generation and how the teaching September 2016 in which papers fraternity can counter the young o n S i g n a l p r o c e s s i n g a n d generation's impatient behavioural anomaly related to higher expectations from life. q Ms Shaveta Arora, Assistant Professor was on an externship at Beumer India Limited from 2- 4 January 2017. Beumer Group has been a supplier of systems and equipment for transportation of bulk and piece goods in the fields of conveying, loading, palletizing, Communication were presented by p a c k a g i n g , s o r t a t i o n a n d delegates. distribution technology, serving Industrial Visit q Dr Sharda Vashisth chaired a core sectors of Airports, Logistics, An industrial visit to Milestone technical session in an IEEE Cement, Petro-Chem, Mining, Switchgear Pvt. Ltd was organized by the s p o n s o r e d I n t e r n a t i o n a l Power Plant etc. around the world Dept for 24, BTech (EE) 6th Semester Conference on Micro-Electronics for many years. The objective of students. The industry is a switchgear a n d T e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n the externship was to gain real- company which constructs panels starting Engineering (ICMETE-2016) on world experience and learn the from sheet bending, powdering, polishing 23 September 2016 at SRM latest technological advancements to circuit designing, switch boards, CT University, Modinagar. in hardware and software. designing, capacitor panels, relay panels, q Dr Sharda Vashisth, Associate Possibilities for internships, control panels, AC/DC drive control, etc. Professor was invited as a Session placements and industrial visit The students were given a chance to visit Chair at REDSET-2016, a Springer were discussed. various sections of the industry and Conference held at GD Goenka explained each and every component of University, Gurugram on 21 and 22 the panels. Having a real life experience October 2016. REDSET-2016 Faculty Development Programme of power boards, control panels, f o c u s e d o n e x p e r i m e n t a l , (FDP) designing etc. allowed the students to theoretical and application aspects A six day long Faculty Development have a better understanding of these of innovations in computational Programme (FDP) was organized in components which they had studied. intelligence. Dr Vashisth was December 2016 for the faculty members [ECE2017V001] felicitated with a memento after the of the Department. The theme of the FDP event. was ‘Synergy for Growth’ and it had a Externships synergistic impact on the team to work together efficiently. q Dr Sharda Vashisth was on an externship at Exicom Telesystems The FDP covered expert talks on 'Team Pvt Ltd (Exicom), Gurugram from Building' by Ms Chanda Sindhwani on 8 21-24 Dec 2016. Exicom is an and 12 December 2016. Ms Chanda has I n d i a n c o m p a n y s e t u p i n trained over 500 individuals on skills like

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Workshop Attended Placements facilitated by the Department Dr Anjali Garg and Ms Shaveta Arora, attended a workshop organized by • Shikha Sharma (Class of 2016) and Mitsubishi Electric India Pvt. Ltd. on the Himanshu Sharma, MTech VLSI topic ‘Programmable Logic Controller (Class of 2017), got internship at (PLC)’ on 1 and 2 February 2017 at MEL, Synopsys. Gurugram. It was based on the trainer • Neetu Goel, MTech VLSI (Class of hardware kits provided by Mitsubishi to 2017) placed with a salary package NCU as a part of the MoU between NCU of more than Rs 8.5 lakhs per annum and Mitsubishi. During the workshop, a at Wizchip, Bengaluru. Shikha Sharma Himanshu Sharma training on Mitsubhishi’s PLC and its programming with hardware interfacing • Neha Yadav, MTech VLSI (Class of was also deliberated. The workshop was a 2017) got an internship at Intel blend of theoretical and practical Technology India Pvt. Ltd, Pune. content.[ECE2016WA004] Intel is the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker and the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors. Neetu Goel Neha Yadav

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Alumni Interaction Toshiyanka Goswami Mr Shivam Garg EECE (Class of 2013) The Department organized an expert talk EECE (Class of 2016) and interactive session on 'Career “I feel honoured to have been a part of “I feel privileged to be part of The Prospects after Engineering' by alumni Institute of Technology and Management NorthCap University's growing family. Ms Agrata Kumar, ECE (Class of 2014) (now NCU) as it was the steppingstone in After pursuing the competitive BTech on 25 January 2017. The lecture was rd st my career. I am grateful to all my p ro g r a m m e i n E l e c t ro n i c s a n d attended by 3 year (BTech, ECE) and 1 professors for assisting me to acquire Communication Engineering, working year (MTech, ECE) students. Ms Agrata comprehensive knowledge in Electronics for a US based multinational company spoke about various options available and Communication. My undergraduate dealing in electronic design automation after engineering in the private and study became more valuable and for electric engineering and electronics is public sector; how to prepare for directional when I got an opportunity to a dream come true for me! I still opportunities in higher education (MBA, work under the supervision of Prof. (Dr) remember my initial days at the MTech, MS from India and abroad) and Neeraj Kr Shukla. I actively participated University when my professors created a what to look for when considering in several workshops, projects, fascination in me to various subjects in studying abroad. In the interactive internships and research work in VLSI this area of study. Of all the subjects, I session students clarified queries related Design under his guidance which helped developed a special interest in Digital & to GRE, TOEFL preparation, how to me to enhance my technical skills and VLSI Design. It was under the guidance choose a university and a major, while prepared me to get admission in Arizona and supervision of Dr Neeraj K Shukla considering for MS abroad and how to State University USA, for Masters. These that I got the opportunity to develop this prepare for the aptitude test and group technical and personal skills helped me interest further. He encouraged and discussion. The event was coordinated during my Masters and in getting a job at motivated me to undertake various by Dr Sharda Vashishth and Ms Kusum Intel Corporation at a package of USD research projects, trainings and Grewal Dangi. 100,000 p.a. I feel privileged to have had workshops. He trained me and helped me such a mentor and supervisor in my life.” grow professionally. I dedicate my job with a Rs 10 lakh plus package at a leading EDA company to him, the Dept of EECE and the University!”

VectorTech 23 PhD Viva-Voce The overall content of this MTech The PhD Viva-Voce of Ms Sheila programme was industry-oriented. Mahapatra, PhD scholar, Dept of EECE More focus was always on doing the was held on 11 February 2017 on Himanshu Gautam things practically and spending more 'Intelligent Control Techniques for TSC MTech VLSI Design and more time on working on the design Implementation in Power Transmission (Class of 2016) tools, available in the labs. System'. It was conducted under the The University also has a very good guidance of Dr Nitin Malik, Prof. AN Jha "Being a part of the MTech Programme campus and supports a lot of sports and Dr BK Panigrahi. The event was in VLSI Design at The NorthCap activities, in which quite often I was attended by faculty members and research University, Gurugram has been a life- involved. I feel thankful to God that I got scholars. om the Schools changing event of my life. Under the such good mentors who guided me all guidance of Dr Neeraj Kr Shukla and s fr the way through to where I am today at w Dr Vinay Budhraja, I learned not only Cadence at a package of Rs 14 LPA."

Ne the technical concepts but they also helped me in conditioning my overall personality. All faculty members helped me in achieving my dream of joining Cadence.

VectorTech 24 NEWS FROM THE SCHOOLS

Department of Computer Science and Engineering & Information Technology Departmental Activities Guest Lectures q The Department organized a guest IBM Research India and an cases and Possibilities’ by Mr lecture by Ms Shweta Juneja, eminent speaker of ACM India. Nitendra, Research Manager and Associate Partner, McKinsey & Co The session was coordinated by Ms Senior Researcher, IBM, Delhi on on 9 September 2016. Ms Juneja Geetika Munjal and Dr Latika 15 Nov 2016. He elaborated on how has over 14 years of experience in Singh. [CSE2016G008] IoT captures data about the building digital teams and is environment using external sensors q Dr Himanshu Gupta delivered a instrumental in defining and and the important features of lecture on the topic ‘Apache Spark’ implementing various talent Mobile and IoT. Mr Nitendra on 10 October 2016. Apache Spark management frameworks to attract, focused on the type of data that can is a fast and general search engine cultivate and retain top talent. She be derived from mobile sensors, the for large-scale data processing and was accompanied by Mr Gaurav data analytics that can be performed can handle big data efficiently. An Chaturvedi, NCU alumnus, on such data and the potential use- alumnus of IIT Kanpur and IIT currently working as Full Stack cases that can be derived through Delhi, Dr Himanshu Gupta is a Developer at McKinsey & Co. such mobile data analytics. The Technical Staff Member at IBM lecture was attended by over 170 The speakers discussed upcoming India Research Lab, Gurugram. BTech 3rd Year students and faculty trends in industry and suggested The session was attended by over th m e m b e r s . T h e l e c t u r e w a s that students should work on 50 students including BTech 5 and th st nd coordinated by Dr Vijendra Singh. diverse real life projects. The 7 sem and MTech 1 and 2 Year. lecture was organized by Dr Latika The lecture focussed on Apache q A n e x p e r t l e c t u r e o n Singh, Head, Dept of CSE&IT and Spark along with added features as ‘Multithreading in Java’ by Mr Dr Prachi. [CSE2016G002] compared to Hadoop, Spark core, Ramanjee, Samsung Research q A guest lecture on ‘Network Spark SQL. The concepts were Institute, Noida was organized by Security and Routing Algorithms’ discussed with practical examples. the Dept on 12 Nov 2016. He by Mr Ashok Kumar Dhaktode, The event was coordinated by Ms discussed about the importance of Network Manager, Nimbuzz Meghna Sharma and Dr Latika multithreading in Java and Technologies Pvt. Ltd was Singh. [CSE2016G009] explained various applications of delivered on 26 October 2016. Mr multithreading such as producer- Dhaktode is a CCIE (R&S) consumer problem and reader candidate with an experience of 14 writer problem and the importance years and has expertise in designing, implementation, optimization and operations in Computer Networks. The event was coordinated by Ms Hitesh Yadav. [CSE2016G004] q The Department organized a guest q A lecture on ‘Cyber Security’ was lecture on ‘Risk Management’ by delivered on 7 Nov 2016 by Ms Ms Aparajita Sinha, Security Dhvanik Miglani. She is currently Analyst at Ernst & Young Global working in EY, at their Dublin- of synchronization in Java. Delivery Services, Gurugram on 22 b a s e d a d v i s o r y t e a m . S h e q The Department organized a lecture October 2016. Ms Sinha is a discussed about different tools and on 'Cloud Computing career certified Privacy Lead Assessor by futuristic opportunities in cyber opportunities, by Mr Narinder Data Security Council of India. The security with 3rd and final year event was coordinated by Dr Yogita s t u d e n t s . S h e s h a r e d h e r Gigras and Dr Latika Singh. experiences on information [CSE2016G006] security and forensics. The event was organized by Ms Mehak q A guest lecture was delivered on Khurana. [CSE2016G011] ‘Security and Privacy Aware Analytics’ by Dr Sameep Mehta, q The Dept organized an expert Senior Researcher and Manager, lecture on ‘Mobile and IoT: Use-

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Club and Society Activities Mentor-Mentee Interaction q The Google Students Club (GSC) conducted an ice-breaking session on 12 October 2016 that included introduction of the GSC team members. The 'Best introductory slide' competition was held which was attended by 40 extended team members and coordinated by Arushi Thakur, Abhishek Barry and faculty Prof. Karmeshu Prof. B Chandra, PhD Prof & Dean,School of Computer Professor, Department of Mathematics coordinator, Ms Jyotika Pruthi. & Systems Sciences, JNU, New Delhi IIT Delhi q Team CapCoders (CodeChef SS Bhatnagar Awardee Student Chapter, NCU) conducted q Prof. Karmeshu, Faculty Mentor, q Faculty Mentor, Prof B Chandra CodeStorm V2.0 on 8 October 2016 visited the Department on 19 visited the Department on 17 Feb with an aim to promote competitive January 2017. Associated mentees 2 0 1 7 t o d i s c u s s r e s e a r c h programming among students. 48 discussed their research progress. problems of scholars and participants registered for the The interaction was further suggested names of agencies for competition including from outside f o l l o w e d b y a l e c t u r e o n sponsored projects and other the University, who put in over 300 ‘Information Theory’ which was aspects regarding publications. submissions. attended by a large number of q ‘ProLan, the Professional Lantern' faculty members. organized by Association of Computing Machinery, Student Chapter in which a lecture was & IT. The snapshots of these events delivered by Mr Rohan Dev Talwar, were published in the CSI Internship/ Placements Analyst, KPMG on the topic Communications magazine, q The Dept organised a mock 'Demographic Dividend of India' on January 2017 issue. The event was placement test to prepare students 15 Feb 2017. Mr Talwar has worked organized by Dr A Charan Kumari, for placements and to provide them CSI Students Branch Counsellor with KPMG as an Analyst and also guidance and strengthem their and Dr Prachi, CSI member. founded an educational startup technical and aptitude skills. This encouraging students to think out- test was conducted in collaboration of-the-box and training them for with Solution Bell, a venture of our successful professional lives. The Alumni Mr Sumit Singla (Class of event was coordinated by Ms 2011). He is ready to provide M e g h n a S h a r m a , A s s i s t a n t guidance for placements to NCU Professor, Dept of CSE&IT. students through this platform. q The CSI Student Chapter of NCU organized competitions in Coding, Watch and Respond, Quiz and IT- Tambola on 3 November 2016 for BTech students of the Dept of CSE

VectorTech 29 Department of Mechanical Engineering QEEE Sessions The Department organized QEEE The Department organized a sessions on 'Basic Machine Tools and special lecture on 5 October 2016 Metal Cutting Principles' for 2nd Semester under the aegis of Indian Society of students on 9, 10 and 16 February 2017 Heating, Refrigerating and Air and on 'Convection Heat Transfer and C o n d i t i o n i n g E n g i n e e r s Fluid Dynamics Fundamentals' for 6th (ISHRAE). Mr Kapil Singhal from Semester students from 8-10 Feb 2017. BP RefCool, Gurugram who has The students were able to get enhanced more than 15 years of experience in om the Schools in-depth knowledge of the subject from HVAC&R industry delivered the s fr subject experts Dr Ajay Kumar talk on past, present and future refrigerants. A total of 22 student participants w Chattopadhyay, Professor, Dept of attended the session. The event was coordinated by the Society coordinator, Dr Ne Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur Amit Arora. [MED2016G003] and Dr SR Kale, Professor, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi.

the new concept of learning 2016 organized by Central Library, Guest Lectures factories in educating and training DTU, Delhi. [MED2016FA001] of employees and the role of IoT in q q Mr S Maitra, MD, IFB Binola m a n u f a c t u r i n g . Mr Anuj Kumar Jain attended the delivered a lecture on the [MED2016WA005] National level programme on ‘MSMEs & Start-ups 2017 important topic 'KAIZEN' to final l Dr A Sharma attended the launch of year Mechanical Engg students on revolution - Driving India Growth’ ‘A Million Innovators (AIM)’ at Russian Centre of Science and 28 January 2017. He shared his platform & ‘Worldwide Academia- rich professional experience and Culture, New Delhi on 28 Jan 2017. Industry Network' (WAIN), at New (MED2017CA001) challenges in the automotive Delhi on 8 September 2016. q sector with the students who [MED2016O022] Mr Anuj Kumar Jain presented a i n t e r a c t e d w i t h h i m paper in the 2nd International l enthusiastically. Dr Ashwini Sharma was invited as Conference on Cutting Edge keynote speaker at MSME cluster q The Department organized a Technological Challenges in of Jalandhar industries on 21 M e c h a n i c a l E n g i n e e r i n g Health Talk by Ms Jyoti, Senior October 2016 where he delivered a Executive, Department of Science, (CETCME-2017) at Greater Noida talk on ‘Design for MSMEs’. from 18-19 Feb 2017 on ‘Dynamic Yakult Danone Pvt Ltd, Sonipat on [MED2016I002] 21 February 2017. Ms Jyoti Modelling and Validation of discussed about the importance of l Dr Ashwini Sharma was selected as Continuous Beam with Free-Free intestinal Micro-flora in health and a Panel Member of the National B o u n d a r y C o n d i t i o n s ’ . disease, the role of Probiotics and Workshop on Design Clinic (MED2017CA002) daily routine activities to maintain Scheme for MSMEs and delivered good health. Mr Gagan Baradia a talk on 'Role of the scheme for the a n d M r D e e p a k M o n g a students of Engineering' at India coordinated the event. Habitat Centre, New Delhi on 28 a n d 2 9 D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 6 . Faculty Activities [MED2017I001] q Dr Ashwini Sharma attended the l Dr Ashwini Sharma presented a ‘4th Indo-German Workshop on paper in the 'International Sustainable Engineering’ at BITS, Conference on Smart Strategies for Pilani from 17-18 September 2016. Digital World – Industrial The theme of the workshop was Engineering Perspective' at related to learning factories, Nagpur from 22-23 Oct 2016 on educating sustainability, IoT and 'Quality Management in Food Industry 4.0. Its objective was to Processing'. (MED2016CA001) raise awareness and train the q Mr Anuj Kumar Jain attended an participants about the role of FDP on ‘E-Resources: A Gateway sustainability in manufacturing, for Research’ from 5-9 September

VectorTech 30 NEWS FROM THE SCHOOLS

q Dr K Mathiyazhagan worked on a 1 9 D e c e m b e r , 2 0 1 6 . q Mr Gagan Baradia participated in a joint research project at the Center [MED2017WA001] panel discussion on the theme for Engineering Operations ‘ Te c h - i n n o v a t i o n ’ i n t h e q Dr Pramod Bhatia was invited for a Management, Department of ‘Entrepreneur Summit 2017’ from guest lecture by MVN University, Technology and Innovation, 27-29 Jan 17 organized at IIT Palwal on 18 January 2017. The University of Southern Denmark, B h u b a n e s w a r. M r B a r a d i a topic of the lecture was 'Introduction Odense under Prof. Kannan discussed about the importance of to Computational Fluid Dynamics Govindan (Head and Professor) innovation in the journey of an and its Applications' and was from 15 December 2016 to 13 entrepreneur while interacting with attended by 60 students of BTech, January 2017. The research focused the young entrepreneurial minds at Mechanical Engineering. The on 'Development of Sustainable IIT Bhubaneswar during the Q/A lecture was appreciated by the indicators for Indian Industries'. session. (MED2017WA001) students as well as faculty members The outcome of the research has of MVN University. Thereafter, Dr q Mr Abhishek Pratap Singh attended been communicated to the SCI Bhatia discussed the road ahead for a workshop organized by Mitsubishi journal. [MED2017O002] strengthening interuniversity ties Electric India Pvt. Ltd. on the topic Dr K Mathiyazhagan presented a b e t w e e n N C U a n d M V N ‘Programmable Logic Controller paper titled 'Application of decision University. [MED2017I002] (PLC)’ on 1 and 2 February 2017 at making trial and evaluation MEL, Gurugram. It was based on laboratory to identify the influential the trainer hardware kits provided indicators towards sustainable by Mitsubishi to NCU as a part of adoption in auto components the MoU between NCU and sector: A case study from India' in Mitsubishi. [ECE2016WA004] the International Workshop on S u s t a i n a b l e S u p p l y C h a i n Management. The workshop was held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark on

Workshop t r u c k b o d y w e l d i n g . Society of Automotive Engineers NCU Engines Lab, Dept of Mechanical [MED2016O023] conducted a workshop on 'Shape your E n g i n e e r i n g , N C U o n 1 0 imagination-training' for students from 12 q Mr Abhishek Pratap Singh and Dr November 2016. Dr Rohit Singh Dec 2016 to 12 January 2017. The Shiv Manjree Gopaliya visited JS Lather and Mr Yogesh Kalia workshop included inputs regarding Enterprises, Manesar along with mentored BTech final year Design, Manufacturing, 3D Printing and BTech final year students on 16 Mechanical and Electronics Robotics. The event was organized by the September 2016 to discuss the students, for their BTech final year society coordinator Dr Ashwini Sharma. planning and execution of ongoing project titled, 'Development of Low [MED2017O001] live project ‘Design and Fabrication Cost Fuel Injection System', being o f P r o g r e s s i v e D i e s . ’ jointly carried out by Dept of ME & Faculty Achievements [MED2016O026] EECE, NCU. q Mr Praveen Singh, Assistant Professor, q The Department conducted an Prof. Ravindra Ojha, Director, Dept of Mech Engg has been awarded the SOET and Ms Shikha Kashyap, th industrial visit to Yakult Danone ‘Gold Medal’ at the 11 Convocation of Pvt. Ltd. Sonipat, Haryana on 1 Assistant Professor visited Malaviya National Institute of October 2016 for the students of Sellowrap on 27 February 2017. Technology, Jaipur for MTech degree in BTech 1st, 2nd & 3rd year. 45 students The company supplies to leading Metallurgical & Materials Engineering. benefited by understanding the OEMs different products like plant layout of an FMCG industry, pressure sensitive adhesive coated Industrial Visits automation facility, packaging etc. door film, products that are based on foam, plastics for interiors of q Dr Ashwini Sharma organized a Mr Deepak Monga and Mr Gagan st vehicles. Two ME final year visit for students of 1 Year (ME) to Baradia coordinated the visit. students, Kunal Upadhayay and the fabrication facility of trucks for [MED2016O031] Dishant Aghi were selected by transporting Maruti cars on 18 q Mr Yogesh Kalia, Director, CTO, Maruti Centre for Excellence September 2016. During the visit, Medhaavi Center for Automotive (MACE) for internship and based students saw different aspects of Research, Hoshiarpur, visited I.C on their perfomance their approval

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national competition. The Engineering and Design' by Refrigerating and Air Conditioning workshop was organized by alumnus Ms Stuti Kaushal (Class Engineers). It has more than 10,000 SAENCU in collaboration with of 2012), Sr Executive Engineer, HVAC&R professionals and 3,000 SAEINDIA conducted on 1 Larsen and Toubro, S & L Division students as members with 40 chapters February 2017. The coordinator of on 31 January 2017. She discussed and sub-chapters across India. Mr Dhiraj this workshop was Dr Ashwini various thermodynamic cycles Rastogi presented the Charter of Student Sharma. (MED2017WO001) used in Power Plants along with Chapter to the faculty coordinator, Dr q A team of 10 students from the the Design aspects of Power Amit Arora. The installation of the Department participated in the plants. She correlated theoretical ISHRAE Chapter is expected to give a ‘ E f f i - C y c l e ’ , a n a t i o n a l concepts with the practical boost to the industry-institute interaction competition at Jalandhar initiated scenario in the industry and also i n M e c h a n i c a l E n g i n e e r i n g . by SAEINDIA North India shared her work experiences with [MED2016O034] Section from 12-15 October 2016. the students. Ms Kaushal has ‘Effi-Cycle’ promotes the offered to help in arranging internships for students at L&T. Faculty Development Programme objective of providing opportunity (FDP) to students to conceive, design and The interaction was coordinated by f a b r i c a t e a t h r e e - w h e e l M r A n m o l B h a t i a . A week long Faculty Development configuration vehicle powered by (MED2017O003) Programme was organized by the human-electric hybrid power. The q A Pre-placement Interview session Department in December on the theme objective is to promote innovation for Mechanical 3rd Year students 'Manufacturing Excellence and Industrial and generate consciousness was organized on 12 Nov 2016. The Safety'. The FDP was facilitated by Mr R amongst the young engineers interview session was conducted B M a d h e k a r , C E O , R B M S S towards an environment friendly by Alumni Mr Ritesh Sethi, (Class Consultancy. He talked about the latest m o b i l i t y s o l u t i o n . of 2006) Deputy Marketing trends that are followed in the automobile [MED2016O035] Manager-Network 18, CNN; industry to match up with the ever alumni Mr Kushal Kalra, (Class of increasing customer expectations. Alumni Interactions 2007) Design Engineer-CB& I; Mr Mr Sudam Maitra, MD, IFB covered Rakesh Kumar, (Class of 2009) the topic, ‘VAVE - the Game Changer’. q The Alumni Cell of the Department Manager-ICAD; Mr Prakhar He shared valuable information organized an interactive session Pandey, (Class of 2009) Director- regarding the requisites expected in any with alumnus Mr Prabhat Tiwari U W E S a n d M r S u r b h i t engineering entrant in the auto industry. (Class of 2013), Masters in Design Arora,(Class of 2009) Manager- from IIT Guwahati; for the 1st Year Dr Amit Tyagi, Scientist ‘E’ DRDO, led Crea Forma India and faculty Mechanical Engineering students a session on 'Industrial Fire Safety'. He members of the Department. The on 20 August 2016. Mr Tiwari discussed types of fire and best suitable panel analyzed students on various conducted a session on ‘Design of fire extinguishing agents that are to be aspects like technical knowledge, Mechanical Systems and Products opted. communication skills etc. with focus on Aesthetics using Dr SP Nigam, Emeritus Visiting Faculty, The session proved to be beneficial Solid works and Photoshop and N C U l e d a s e s s i o n o n ‘ T i m e as students were able to identify emphasized on the importance of Management’. He shared how time their strengths and weaknesses and aesthetics in product design. management skill set helped him were better prepared for future [MED2016O029] throughout his life to perform his best in placement interviews. The session q Mr Tejasvi Mohan, Mr Rachit varied profiles, which he has been was coordinated by Mr Anmol Yadav, Apollo Tyres, Gurugram handling for the past 50 years. He Bhatia, Dr Ashwini Sharma and Mr and Mr Amit, NCU Alumnus concluded with the quote “Manage your Gagan Baradia. (MED2016O036) Automobile Engineering (Class of minutes and hours will be managed 2013) working at Mercedes automatically”. interacted with 25 members of ISHRAE Student Chapter SAE Supra team on 3 September Installation 2016 regarding vehicle making for participating in the Supra Event The Department invited Mr Dhiraj and the future scope of Mechanical Rastogi, President of ISHRAE Sub- Engineers in the Automotive Chapter Gurugram for establishing its sector. [MED2016O030] Student Chapter at NCU on 5 October . ISHRAE is an international associate of q An interactive session was ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, organized on the topic 'Power Plant

VectorTech 33 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering National Conference on ‘Smart, Sustainable, Resilient Civil Infrastructure Development’ Visit by Prof. Gajanan M Sabnis The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering organized a National Prof. Gajanan M Sabnis, P.E., Conference on ‘Smart, Sustainable & Resilient Civil Infrastructure Development M.ASCE, Emeritus Professor, Howard (SSRCID – 2016)’ on 9 September 2016. The importance of the three keywords chosen U n i v e r s i t y, U S A v i s i t e d t h e for the conference, i.e., Smart, Sustainable and Resilience in civil & infrastructure Department from 8-9 September 2016 development cannot be understated in today’s relevance. Infrastructure that supports and suggested initiating MTech in human well-being should be smart enough to conserve the 3Es, i.e., Energy, Infrastructure Engineering where other Environment and Ecology of the natural systems. Sustainability in growth should branches of Civil Engineering can be

om the Schools ensure that our reserves are kept for future generations as well. Also, a resilient involved to prepare students for infrastructure should absorb the sudden shocks imposed by the nature or environment. s fr infrastructure support and growth of w The conference was supported by major Civil Engineering societies, such as, ASCE – the country. He delivered a lecture on

Ne India section, IGS-Delhi Chapter and DFI (India). Decision makers, practitioners and ‘Infrastructure Growth in India & experts from across India participated in the conference to share views, ideas and F u t u r e o f C i v i l E n g i n e e r i n g techniques in real time conversations. [CEE2016WO005] Profession’ for undergraduate and p o s t g r a d u a t e s t u d e n t s o f t h e Department. Prof. Sabnis also presided over the Conference SSRCID – 2016 as the Chief Guest during the opening ceremony and delivered the keynote address on the topic ‘Infrastructure US Experience putting in to work in India’ on 9 Sept 2016. [CEE2016O014]

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Guest Lectures Dept of CEE established The NorthCap In February 2017 the Department q Dr RK Jenamani, Scientist-F, India University Testing Centre (NCUTC)in obtained the National Accreditation Meteorological Department (IMD), D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 6 , t o p r o v i d e Board for Testing and Calibration New Delhi, delivered a special professional services to customers Laboratories (NABL) accreditation for lecture on ‘Cyclone, Drought and involved in real estate business. its testing facility 'NCUTC' which also Floods and their relation with NCUTC, an entity of NCU, is well provides professional services to Monsoon Circulation’ on 28 equipped to carry out mechanical outside customers who are involved in September 2016. Dr Jenamani has testing of building and construction real estate business and construction over 25 years of experience in materials, such as, cement, sand, industries. NCUTC follows the weather monitoring and forecasting, aggregates, soil, bitumen, concrete etc. managerial and testing procedure early warning systems, disaster guidelines as per ISO: 17025 - 2005 and management and mitigation NABL is a Constituent Board of techniques. The session was Quality Council of India. NCUTC provides 3rd party assessment of quality in the area of mechanical testing of building and construction materials such as cement, aggregate, concrete, soil, bitumen, etc. [ CEE2017O004]

VectorTech 34 NEWS FROM THE SCHOOLS

attended by BTech students of 8th Sem of ECE, CSE&IT and ME Space Day Celebrations branches for the Open Elective The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering organized their annual course ‘Disaster Management’. technical fest ‘SPACE Day’ on 4 October 2016. SPACE is the Society in Pursuit of [CEE2016G009] Advances in Civil Engineering. The fest was inaugurated by the Pro-Vice Chancellor, Brig. SK Sharma (Retd), Director SOET, Prof. Ravindra Ojha, q A lecture on 'Climate Change' was Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Dr Pramila Goyal and HOD Civil & delivered by Dr SD Attri, Dy Environmental Engineering, Dr Amit Srivastava, Head, Dept of CEE. The first Director General, of India edition of 'SPACE' magazine was launched and the new SPACE team for 2016-17 Meteorological Department, New was announced. Pro Vice-Chancellor, Brig Sharma (Retd) emphasized the Delhi on 21 December 2016. He importance of Civil Engineering. spoke about the present condition The SPACE Day constituted of various technical and non-technical events like of India in terms of climate change, Bridge making competition, wherein 25 teams from different batches participated p o l l u t i o n l e v e l s , r a i n f a l l in the quiz, dance competition and photo contest etc. Dr Amit Srivastava distributed fluctuations etc. He also explained certificates and prizes to the winners of different competitions. [CEE2016O016] the various changes happening in the country with respect to the global scenario in terms of t e m p e r a t u r e a n d v a r i o u s atmospheric parameters.

q The Department organized an expert session by Dr KN Rai, Former Chief Executive (CW&E) technical insights about new q Mr Gursharanjit Singh Rosha, and Advisor (Special Projects) methodologies being developed in President, ASCE – India Section DRDO, Ministry of Defence for different parts of the world. (Northern Region) delivered an nd rd the 2 and 3 Year students on 10 [CEE2017G001] expert talk on the topic ‘Civil January 2017 on the topic 'Real Engineering Career Prospects - A q An expert lecture on ‘Construction Estate and application of Solar Pragmatic View’ on 18 Feb 2017. He Contracts & Safety’ was delivered Energy'. Dr KN Rai’s expertise is stressed on the need of ASCE – by Mr Saurabh Jolly, Vice President, in the domain of Works and Student Chapter to be more active Seafaradays Pvt Ltd on 11 Feb 2017 Financial Procedures adopted by and showed the benefits that for final year students of CEE. MES, DRDO, CPWD, NBCC, students can derive from it. EIL, RITES, NPCC etc. The Mr Jolly shared his practical session dealt with the scope of expertise and experiences with solar energy development in India, students studying Construction the National Solar Mission, its Practices. He discussed the practical salient features and targets by application of Construction 2020. He shared his practical Contracts and FIDIC in the Indian experiences on the development of construction industry and spoke the real estate sector and various about the importance of safety at new upcoming technologies to construction sites and how it effects harness solar energy and shared labour productivity. He also shared technical insights about the latest methodologies being developed in India and focused on the practical application of various construction practices. [CEE2017G002]

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Faculty Activities Engineering' at Indian Institute of Mentor- Mentee Interaction q Dr Anil Kumar Misra was awarded Science (IISc), Bangalore. He The Department organized a mentor- with a Certificate for good reviews presented papers on 'Geotechnical mentee meeting with Prof. PK Swamee by Elsevier Journal ‘Energy perspectives of failure cases in Head on 7 Nov 2016. Faculty members Conversion and Management’ for walls of Hume pipe culverts and discussed various aspects of teaching and manuscripts published in October their forensic investigations'. the progress in their individual research 2016. [CEE2016CA002] works with the mentor who provided q Dr Misra chaired a technical Ms Megha Kalra attended an various inputs and feedback for the s e s s i o n o n C i v i l a n d i n t e r n a t i o n a l w o r k s h o p o n improvement of the Department, quality Environmental Engg at the 'Inclusive Cities' from 19-20 of work culture and research activities at International Conference on December 2016 held at Jamia Millia the individual level. [CEE2016O009] 'Recent Developments in Science, I s l a m i a , N e w D e l h i . Engineering and Technology' – [CEE2016WA001] Alumni Interaction R E D S E T 2 0 1 6 , w h i c h w a s q To increase awareness about The q Ms Nidhi Verma (Class of 2016) o r g a n i z e d b y S c h o o l o f NorthCap University and its working as a Graduate Engineer E n g i n e e r i n g , G D G o e n k a academic programmes, outreach Trainee, Seafaradays Energy Pvt. University on 21 Oct 2016. activities are being organized in Ltd. interacted with students [CEE2016O017] educational institutions in the regarding importance of internships q Ms Purnima Bajpai was invited to neighbouring areas. On 18 Jan and summer projects. She along deliver a special lecture on 'Power 2017, senior faculty members of with her colleague, Mr Saurabh Infrastructure' at IIT Delhi to NCU delivered Guest Lectures to Jolly (VP- Business & Strategy) MTech and BTech students of Civil students and faculty at MVN briefed students about the potential Engineering on 5 Nov 2016. It was University, Palwal. Dr Anil Kumar of wave energy in India, a followed by an interactive session Mishra, delivered a talk on 'Climate renewable energy resource. with active participation from Change and its impact on Water [CEE2016O020] students. They also discussed Resources'. It was attended by about q Mr Chirag Singla (Class of 2013), associating some of our students 60 participants consisting of faculty interacted with students of 3rd Year, with ongoing projects at IIT Delhi, members and BTech (Civil th on 19 January 2017. The interaction especially at MTech level. Engineering) students of 4 Year. A was based on importance of honing [CEE2016O018] short Concept Quiz was also interpersonal Skills and Body conducted after the lecture. q l a n g u a g e . M r S i n g l a , a n Mr Shubham Bansal was invited to [CEE2017I001] attend a seminar on ‘Upgradation entrepreneur, is running his of Surveying Lab Equipment’ company named QuickDoctorIN organized by Janak Positioning & Pvt. Ltd. [ CEE2017O001] Surveying Systems Pvt. Ltd., Noida on 18 October 2016. The theme of the seminar was, How to train your students with modern s u r v e y i n g s y s t e m s . L i v e demonstration and hands on training on modern surveying equipment s uch as digital q Dr Amit Srivastava conferred PE theodolite and digital GPS system (Professional Engineer) by ECI were provided to the participants. The Engineering Council of India q Dr Amit Srivastava, Associate (ECI) jointly with the Construction Professor & Head attended an Industry Development Council international conference on (CIDC) with the approval from ' F o r e n s i c G e o t e c h n i c a l B o a r d o f R e g i s t r a t i o n o f Professional Engineers (BRPE) conferred Dr Amit Srivastava, Associate Professor & Head, D e p a r t m e n t o f C i v i l & Environmental Engineering, with the title of Professional Engineer (PE).

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Prof. Sanjay Goyal, digitization, Internet of Things (IoT) etc. and industry relevance of courses offered Ex Professor & there is knowledge/information at SOM. Our approach is outcome-based. Dean, School of explosion. The content of businesses has We are striving to promote more industry M a n a g e m e n t , changed from customer experience to specific learning by increasing the NCU, has over 25 customer lifestyle. Environment activities that bring us closer to the y e a r s o f sustainability is crucial in every business industry such as more interaction with international work and thus the world needs new economic industry stalwarts and academia-industry Prof. Sanjay Goyal e x p e r i e n c e i n models. collaboration. NCU’s Centre of Professor & Dean, d e v e l o p e d a n d C r e a t i v i t y , I n n o v a t i o n a n d School of Management 'At NCU’s School of Management, it is emerging markets our commitment to disseminate Entrepreneurship is on my radar and we and over ten years knowledge relevant to the future. For will soon be able to make it a platform for of experience as Adjunct and Visiting providing a holistic professional entrepreneurship at the University.' faculty with leading business schools in experience to students our chief focus Prof. Goyal was of the view that The India and the UAE. He has worked with will now be on content, pedagogy and NorthCap University has a distinct premier institutes like IMT Group, IIFT industry exposure. As we work with our advantage as it is located in the industrial New Delhi, MDI Gurugram, ISB and students, we aim to prepare them for the hub of Gurugram and has three Schools XLRI. His vast industry experience challenges of the workplace and equip viz., the Schools of Engineering & includes Ericsson-India, America, them with the ability to think for Technology, Management and Law Australia and New Zealand; Tennyson themselves. Assimilation of knowledge functioning from one campus creating Technologies, Australia etc. and self-learning are important so that opportunities for synergetic learning. He Prof. Goyal shared his views in a talk with students can continue acquiring useful is of the opinion that if the Schools work Ms Rekha Mathur, Sr Editor, NCU, on the knowledge and using it effectively for more closely with each other, the students changing scenario of businesses and how planning and organizing people, would be able to get an in-house the School of Management is gearing up p r o c e s s e s a n d s y s t e m s i n t h e wholesome experience in a techno- not just to prepare students to be a part of organizations that they will go on to pervasive environment. the future but for getting ready to shape manage.' the future, He opined that with the advent 'We are reviewing the content, pedagogy of globalization 2.0, technology,

Industrial Visit Seminar To provide industry exposure to students, a visit to Air Cargo, Exports & Imports was organised for students of BSc, BCom, MBA on 26 Oct 2016. Students gained first hand insights into import and export documentation requirements, procedures, cargo management/ handling and related issues. The students also got an opportunity to visit the export and import warehouses. The visit was coordinated by Dr Sushmita Biswal Waraich.

SOM in collaboration with PHD innovation into a commercially viable Chamber of Commerce & Industry and product. The speakers and the delegates MSME organized a seminar on the from PHDCCI made the seminar 'Role of Intellectual Property Rights in enriching, taking students through an P r o m o t i n g I n n o v a t i o n a n d array of live cases and examples from Commercialization of Technology' on the industry. The seminar was 10 Nov 2016. The seminar highlighted coordinated by Dr Sushmita Biswal the significant role played by Waraich along with MBA students intellectual property rights in helping a Vimal Dahiya, Sheetal Tiwari and Jatin business gain and retain its innovation- Arora. based advantage and converting an

VectorTech 41 q A seminar on 'Rethinking and Redefining Human Capital in Faculty Development Programme Today's Fast Changing Business Horizon: Dialogues & Perspectives' was organized on 25 February 2017. The speakers were industry stalwarts. Mr Jagjit Singh, Chief People Officer, PwC and Mr P Dwarkanath, Head, Group Human Capital, Max India. T h e s p e a k e r s s h a r e d t h e i r experiences related to challenges om the Schools faced by employees in today's s fr competitive environment and the w c h a n g i n g n a t u r e o f Ne jobs/employment. Factors like agility, adaptability and adding value to business were highlighted. A Faculty Development Programme was held on ‘Research Methodology using Students from SOM and SOET SPSS and AMOS’ from 13-15 December 2016 to facilitate scholars, academicians, attended the seminar which was and practitioners for research. The FDP aimed at providing research stimulus to coordinated by Dr Mansi Khurana keen learners. The resource person at the programme was Dr Shilpa Jain, Assistant and Dr Sushmita B Waraich with a Professor, School of Management Studies, GGSIU, New Delhi. team of student coordinators from The FDP focused on the theoretical explanation of tools viz. Correlation Analysis, BBA, BCom and MBA. Regression Analysis, Exploratory Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Partial Least Square. The FDP concluded with a valedictory session along with award of certificates to the participants. Faculty Activities q Dr Sushmita Biswal Waraich attended 'Responsible Hoteliering Conclave 16' on 5 December 2016 at The Park, New Delhi. Discussions were held on minimizing the carbon f o o t p r i n t o f h o t e l s w h i l e maximizing productivity, the emerging green innovations, and why CSR is much more important than a pursuit of percentages. q The Indian Express published an article, 'MBA: How the changing face of management courses is helping gen-next managers' written by Dr Sushmita Biswal Waraich on 20 December 2016 . q Dr Sushmita Biswal Waraich participated in the workshop on ' C a s e s t u d y w r i t i n g a n d development' organised by IIM Lucknow (Noida Campus) on 5 January 2017.

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School of Law

UK Law Mission Visits SOL Guest Lectures q A lecture on ‘Energy Sector: Delegates of Law Mission, organised by q School of Law organized a guest Contemporary Legal Regime’ was the British Council visited the l e c t u r e o n ‘ T h e S k i l l s a n d delivered by Mr Shashi Kant Yadav University on 14 February 2017 and Techniques of Mooting’ by Ms on 23 Nov 2016. Students interacted interacted with faculty and students. The Chhaya Bhardwaj, Scholar, with the researcher and also the eminent speakers included Prof. Mark Vermont Law School on 30 owner of an NGO working in the field Wing, Southampton Solent University; September 2016 for 1 s t Year of sustainable development. The th th Prof. Paul Arnell, Robert Gordon students. [SOL2016G006] students of 4 and 5 Year, BBA-LLB University and Prof. Andy Unger, (Hons) appreciated the practical q SOL organized a special lecture on London South Bank University. The aspects of the energy sector. The talk ‘Merger and Acquisition, Private distinguished delegates delivered motivated students to initiate a drive Equity and Corporate Social lectures on contemporary issues which to prevent an energy crisis through Responsibility’ by Ms Rachna Jain, are relevant for any Law graduate. optimal utilization of energy Partner, Desai Dewanji, on 7 Discussion focused on the emerging resources. October 2016. She spoke about areas of IPR, Extradition and Human q st basic legal rules of the corporate A special lecture was delivered to 1 Rights. The students got a chance to Year BBA-LLB (H) students on interact and gain from the insights of ‘Professional Avenues for young international professors. NCU's School Legal Professionals’ by Mr Pratiksh of Law also got an opportunity for Rai, Mr Ankit Joseph and Mr Kunal considering MoUs with the respective Mehra, Mylaw.net on 7 February universities of these eminent professors. 2017. They discussed the job market (SOL2017WO003) for lawyers and observed that employers are looking for young lawyers who have acquired extra world and discussed various areas of skillsets. They introduced students to Business Mercantile Law. The various newer learning tools to students were given an insight into enhance their knowledge base. They issues faced by the legal corporate also emphasized on the importance of industry like stamping and areas of moot courts and debates. The lecture law that are still not covered by was followed by an interactive Indian provisions even though they session. Mylaw.net is an online are internationally recognized. MoU with Navjyoti India Foundation learning platform and an initiative of [SOL2016G007] Rainmaker, a nationally recognized NCU Law School signed an MoU with q To discuss the importance of l e a r n i n g , c o n t e n t , a n d t e s t Navjyoti India Foundation (NIF) on Trademark protection and the management company focused on 31January 2017. The MoU is aimed procedure for it, a guest lecture by IP t h e l e g a l p r o f e s s i o n . towards fulfillment of 6-P Project attorneys, Mr Rajeev Suri and Ms (SOL2017G002) proposed by Dr Kiran Bedi, founder of Rachna Bhaskhru, partners at RNA Navjyoti India Foundation. The 6-P (a legal firm) was delivered on 13 Seminar Project focuses on crime prevention to October 2016. The purpose of With an aim to invite experts on Cyber ensure safety of women. The 6P concept Trademark Rights and their Security and Forensic Science and to brings together the six important importance to a business were impart training on new dimensions and contributors -Parents/Principals, Police, discussed. Speakers laid emphasis emerging trends in Cyber Security and Prosecution/Courts, Politicians, Prisons on the registration process for a Forensics, CPGLS & SOL in association and the Press - to prevent crime against mark, possible delays as well as with Cyber Gurukul, New Delhi women and children. SOL will depute its expenses involved during the students on the 6-P Project and will registration procedure. They organize seminars, legal aid camps, inspired the students to pursue a conferences, visits etc to achieve the career as a Trademark Attorney and objectives of the 6-P Project. NIF will discussed common problems faced also involve the SOL in its various other by brand owners like infringement, community development programmes. unfair competition, counterfeiting, (SOL2017O001) etc., along with their possible solutions. [SOL2016G008]

VectorTech 43 nd organized a Seminar on ‘Cyber Security Singh College, Delhi University, 2 prepare an advertisement for a maximum and Forensics Awareness’ on 20 position by YMCA College, Faridabad duration of four minutes. The teams were rd September 2016. Ms Astha Tiwari, and 3 position by IGNOU. given creative and innovative products Company Coordinator, Mr Deepak like Trump Hair Gel. Dancing shoes etc. Kumar Nath, Cyber Security Expert and on the basis of which the teams had to Ms Meena Ruhal, Forensics Expert prepare their Ad, with a little bit of conducted sessions on threats to cyber madness, hence the name Ad-Mad. The 1st security and various methods of forensic Prize was bagged by the team that enacted science to collect evidence. Mr Nath the theme ‘Mitron Energy Drink’ and 2nd inspired the Law students to learn Prize was won by the team that enacted effective tools of cyber security and the theme ‘Black and White converting motivated them to become cyber App.’ (SOL2017O002) om the Schools security experts. SOL students felicitate CJI

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Ne Departmental Activities along with faculty members Mr trials, a Mock Trial was conducted for S e c o n d C l i e n t C o n s u l t a t i o n Subhradipta Sarkar, Ms Pallavi Bajpai and students with basic 5 on 5 trial with roles Competition – 2016 Mr Bilal Ahmed were present at the of barristers, lawyers and witnesses. The nd felicitation programme organized by the case was confined to a simple civil matter SOL organized the 2 Edition of The Bar Council of India on the elevation of heard in the district courts. The Client Consultation Competition on 21 Justice J S Khehar as the Chief Justice of participating teams used all their skills October 2016. About 60 students from India. CJI J S Khehar urged the Bar against the opposition and it was a close different Law schools across India Council of India to train young lawyers to call where the Jury gave the verdict 'Not participated in the competition. The final make them understand the profession and Guilty' in favour of the defendants. The round was chaired by Mr Abhishek its work ethics. He also asked the apex event had six members in the Jury from Phutela, Hon'ble Chief Judicial lawyers' body, BCI, to improve the quality different departments of NCU and they Magistrate-cum-Secretary, District of legal institutions by training and had a difficult job choosing the winners. Legal Services Authority, Gurugram. Mr helping litigants and making lawyers (SOL2017O003) Phutela highlighted the need for such competent enough to discharge their Legal Awareness poster making clinical activities to be undertaken by obligations towards society. He stated that competition Law schools in preparing students for the lawyers serve society and should be the legal profession. The Legal Awareness poster making best. The students got an opportunity to competition was open for all NCU The competition was aimed at promoting interact with the legal fraternity. greater knowledge and interest among students. The theme of the competition Law students in the preventive law and was issues related to women and children counselling functions of a legal practice. and human rights violations. Its aim was to help students show their creativity as It encouraged students in developing well as empathy towards such issues. The interviewing, planning, and analytical participants were asked to express their skills in the lawyer-client relationship in ideas by making posters. A total of 10 the law office. Tanya and Vishakha from teams participated in the competition. University of Petroleum and Energy The winning team comprised of Vanshika Studies, Dehradun emerged as the and Prerna and the First Runners Up were winners of the competition, defeating Training Session organized by Lakshay Setia, Lakshita and Rakshit. Divya and Nidhi of Vivekananda LexisNexis Consolation prizes were given to all the Institute of Professional Studies, New participants. (SOL2017O003) Delhi in the final round. Mementos and Ms Panchali Moitra, LexisNexis certificates were awarded to the conducted a training session for Law participants. students on 18 January 2017. LexisNexis is a leading global provider of content- Quizwale Inc in association with SOL, enabled workflow solutions designed organized the 2nd Edition of the NorthCap specifically for professionals in the legal Quiz on 22 Nov 2016. The quiz was field. New dimensions with user friendly attended by 50 teams from colleges approach in LexisNexis were elaborated across India including teams from by Ms Panchali Moitra. prominent colleges such as NALSAR, AD-MAD Competition GNLU, and others. The quizmasters SOL students visit Bhondsi Jail were Puranjay Bhatt and Shuham Yadav. AD-MAD Competition was organized on nd The 1st Position was bagged by Dyal 7 February 2017 in which teams had to Students of 2 Year BBA-LLB (Hons) visited the Bhondsi Jail as part of their 6P

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'Manupatra' Conducts Training Faculty Activity Session Dr Kanu Priya, Ms Archana Sarma and The School of Law organized legal Ms Pallavi Bajpai visited Navjyoti research training by the online research Foundation, a not-for-profit society with portal 'Manupatra' on 30 January 2017. the objective of crime prevention through The students enthusiastically undertook welfare policing, education of street the certificate training session. children, vocational skills for women project in association with Navjyoti Manupatra is the largest content drug peddlers and detox programmes, in Foundation on 16 February 2017. They aggregator of Indian and international December 2016. learnt about two types of inmates: legal material, linking primary convicts and under-trials, facilities information, secondary material and Faculty Development Programme proprietary analytical content. p r o v i d e d t o t h e m , t h e i r d a i l y A Faculty Development Programme was engagements, their source of earning as It has a database of over 20 lakh Case organized by the School of Law from 9-14 well as the process of reformation of Laws with Citation Search on 300+ December 2016. Prof. Pushpesh Pant criminal minded individuals to make equivalent citations in addition to other delivered an insightful lecture on the ‘Role them better citizens of tomorrow. content. (SOL2017WO002) of Technology in Legal Science’ and The inmates were trained in various skills spoke about how Science and Technology at the training centres within the prison play an important role in the legal regime. like tailoring, art, creative designing, web Prof. Elumalai in his talk on 'Recent application, salon services, etc. The Development in Juvenile Justice System' students observed that out of 2000 male highlighted the major changes brought by inmates, more than 50% were undertrials the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection a n d t h e r e s t w e r e c o n v i c t s . of Children) Amendment Bill 2015. Dr (SOL2017V002) Jaswant Singh, Assistant Professor, MDU Rohtak shared his views on 'Mentorship'. School of Law conducts Legal Aid Workshop Camp His main focus was the problems faced by Adv. RK Nair, IP Attorney delivered a the teachers in today’s scenario while SOL in association with Full Gospel Trust lecture on 'Patent Filing in India and dealing with students. The FDP also of India conducted a Legal Aid Camp in Abroad' on 24 January 2017. He included a lecture by Dr Kanu Priya on the New Delhi on 28 January 2017. Adv. explained the basic concepts of a patent topic of ‘Outreach Based Research’. Sulacha, and Adv. Babitha (Advocates, and criteria for patentability. He also High Court of Delhi) chaired the legal aid explained the process of filing a patent, clinics. The student volunteers from the what can be patented, why India is Legal Aid Cell of NCU participated in the lagging behind in filing the number of event and assisted the advocates in the patents every year and the legal legal aid clinics. The event witnessed requirements for filing a patent, cost good public participation and around 20 incurred and the process through which cases were reported in the clinics. an international patent may be filed. (SOL2017V001)

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PLACEMENTS

M a n a g e m e n t c a r r i e d o u t a happy to interact with our students. q IIMJOBS an exclusive job board for placement drive on 19 December He and his team also appreciated the m i d t o s e n i o r m a n a g e m e n t 2016 and offered jobs to two Civil state-of-the-art infrastructure for the professionals in India conducted Engineering students. holistic development of our students. campus selection on 11 February q Channelplay, a hiring partner of q Daikin, a core company for 2017. NCU, conducted their placement engineers visited NCU on 5 January q VARITE Inc conducted placement drive on 21 December 2016 and 2017 for an on-campus placement process for our CSE, IT and ECE offered jobs to three students. drive. students on 16 and 17 February 2017 q A startup firm based in Gurugram, q Orange Business Services visited and five students were extended job Social Curry conducted campus NCU for a two day process which offers. placement on 21 December 2016. comprised of a Pre-placement talk, q New Age Instruments & Materials q Another startup firm based in aptitude test, GD and interviews. Gurugram, NEST Education Post the exhaustive campus c o n d u c t e d t h e i r o n - c a m p u s placement drive, six students were placement drive on 22 December extended job offers. 2016 and offered jobs to two q Reliance Communication visited students. NCU for an on-campus placement q Hatch Tact Innovations conducted drive on 19 Jan 2017 and three an on campus placement drive on 23 Electronics students received job December 2016. offers. q Real Time Data, our prestigious hiring partner for Computer Science visited NCU for the first time for an students visited the University on 24 on-campus selection process for January 2017 and hired five students. ECE, EEE and MBA students and q Channelplay our esteemed hiring two students got job offers. firm ran a drive for our engineering students and rolled out job offers to two students on 25 January 2017. q FlexiEle, our existing hiring partner Workshop for CSE & IT students visited NCU q Nagarro, an information q Three students of the Dept of EECE, on 4 February 2017 and hired one technology and consulting Mohit Yadav, Aishwarya Basotia and student. e n t e r p r i s e c o n d u c t e d a Khushaal Batra were placed in q Denso, a core company for w o r k s h o p o n ' G a m e Magneti Marelli Powertrain India Engineers conducted the selection Development' on 15 Nov 2016. Pvt. Ltd. as trainee engineers in process on 8 February 2017 for our Students were invited to December 2016. After successful exercise on coding, during the completion of the training period session. they are expected to be absorbed q F i d e l i t y I n t e r n a t i o n a l with a starting package of 4.5 LPA. conducted a workshop at the q A renowned startup firm, Magictap, U n i v e r s i t y f r o m 2 0 - 2 5 based in Gurugram with premium February 2017 for the 12 global clients during an on-campus selected students. placement drive made job offers to 6 students. CEO of Magictap was

Mechanical Engineering students. Five students were extended job offers in March 2017. q GrapeCity Inc. is a privately held multinational software corporation based in Sendai, Japan conducted the selection process for our CSE|IT students.

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VectorTech 48 NEWS FROM CLL

News from the Centre for Languages Learning (CLL)

Faculty Development Programme ‘accountability’, progressively building q CLL conducted two consecutive on trust and motivation amongst FDP sessions on Communication employees. It included inputs on how Skills on 3 and 5 September 2016. ownership can be effectively transferred The sessions gave insights on to employees based on an understanding improving spoken English skills by of required competencies using RACI using standard pronunciation and matrix for the tasks at hand. The giving adequate importance to interactive discussion also emphasized pauses while speaking for better appropriate delegation of authority and effective communication for achievement assimilation by listeners. The after quality by employers, so it is a great sessions introduced the critical of objectives. [CLL2016O007] asset for your career too". The lecture aspects of correct grammatical was coordinated by Dr Divyabha. structures for immaculate speech Departmental Activity w i t h p r a c t i c e s e s s i o n s f o r Students meet French delegation (CLL2017G001) participants, duly facilitated by Ms BTech 2nd and 3rd Year students attended the Prerna Chauhan. [CLL2016FO006] Club/Society Activities Education Fair held at the Embassy of France, New Delhi on 7 February 2017and Altercation- The Great Debate met a delegation from Network ‘n+I’ with During the week of Mahatma Gandhi's whom we have an MoU. It is a consortium b i r t h d a y, s t u d e n t m e m b e r s o f of 50 elite French Engineering Institutes ‘Abhivykat’, the debating society hosted covering all domains of engineering ‘Altercation’, a national level debate studies. The students had a one-on-one competition that urged participants to interaction with the delegates. think and articulate on the principles of The Network 'n+i' Engineering Institutes secularism and freedom of religion as laid q CLL conducted an FDP for NCU presented a programme known as ‘Path to down in the Constitution of India. faculty on 17 February 2017. The Success’ for students / young engineers The debate consisted of two rounds held interactive session provided inputs with a degree in engineering science such on 7 Oct 2016. 15 teams from various and practice on speaking with as BTech / BEng / BSc / BPhil / colleges from all over the country a p p r o p r i a t e d e s c r i p t i o n o f Licenciatura etc. who wished to study for enthusiastically participated and argued situations. It also included practice a Masters or a PhD in France. Information their stand. After the preliminary round, on speaking confidently before an about the French institutes and the six teams qualified for the final round in audience. Tips on conversation programmes they offer etc. was provided which they spoke for and against the along with grammar inputs were to the students. Some of the French motion ‘Interpretation of secularism shared with the participants. The institutes include EPF, ENSICAEN, works in opposition to the freedom of session was conducted by Ms Prerna ENSIAME, ENSGTI, ISIFC, ENSISA, r e l i g i o n w h i c h u n d e r m i n e s i t s Chauhan. (CLL2017FO001) ENSEEIHT and Mines Albi. Dr Divyabha constitutional validity’. Prof. (Dr) c o o r d i n a t e d t h i s n + i v i s i t . Gnyana Gurunathan was the chief guest Faculty Activities (CLL2017O004) and special judge at the event. After a Dr Payal Khurana, Asst. Professor, was heated session of arguments which flew invited to judge the Inter-School English Guest Lecture back and forth, Anuj Bansal and Sahil Yadav from Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Debate Competition at NK Bagrodia CLL organised a special lecture on 'Self- School, Dwarka on 30 August 2016. The National Law University, Lucknow Empowerment for success in life' by Dr motion of the debate was ‘School should emerged as winners, while Sidharth Arora Mohit D Gupta, Associate Professor of be a Techno hub for students’ which and Rajat Bawaniwal, Faculty of Law, Cardiology, GB Pant Hospital on 24 witnessed participation of around 20 nd Jamia Millia Islamia were declared as the January 2017 for 2 Year students. This schools. [CLL2016O006] runners-up. Dr Divyabha coordinated the lecture was one of the lecture series under event. (CLL2016O008) Industrial Interaction t h e c o u r s e ' H u m a n Va l u e s a n d Professional Ethics' where experts deliver As a part of industrial outreach, Ms special lectures. He gave tips to unleash Prerna Chauhan conducted a session at the power of the inner self, "By taking vDoIT Technologies Gurugram on ‘Task responsibility for yourself, challenging Ownership’ and role of related aspects in fostering a productive environment at the your inner critic, being comfortable with workplace, on 10 September 2016. The boundaries, meditating and following the session dwelt on a better understanding path of those that have succeeded, you of the concept of ‘ownership’ and can't lose. Self-empowerment is a sought

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Centre for Leadership

Departmental Activities Orientation Week interdependence of departments. Mr Centre for Leadership hosted its first Nitin has 18 years of experience in Rajesh Kumar Jindal Orientation Programme on 31 August the HR sector in stellar companies 2016. It was a four day event with Vice President, Experiential Marketing, such as Capegemini, Merecer professionals from the business and Asia Pacific and Japan, SAP Consulting and Andersen. academic world interacting with the q students. The Director, Ms Deepa Mr Vikas Gupta, Founder & Director, Mr Rajesh is a Mechanical Engineer (NIT 9.9 Mediaworx Pvt. Ltd delivered a Kapoor welcomed the founding batch of Kurukshetra) and MBA from IIM- lecture on the balance between PGDM students and Dr Pramath Raj Calcutta. He qualified in Leadership & Digital Marketing and the ‘Old Sinha, Managing Director, 9.9 Change Management, Wharton. His areas School’ Marketing on 10 Nov 2016. Mediaworx Pvt Ltd, focused on what to of expertise include Startups, Marketing, Mr Gupta has been associated with expect from the course. Sales, Trade & Alliances Management, ABP (Ananda Bazar Patrika), The Orientation Week included talks Operations & General Management. Mr Unilever and Coca Cola. Mr Vikas about various aspects of professional Rajesh is adapt at hiring, motivating, Gupta’s expertise is in the domain of life in the business world. Mr Rajeev coaching high performance teams and Tewari, Former Director, Canon India stakeholder management in highly marketing, and is an MBA from Pvt Ltd delivered a lecture on bringing matrixed, multicultural, international XLRI, Jamshedpur. passion into profession on 1 September environments. q Ms Shivani Kapoor, a graduate from 2016. On the same day, Ms Shreyasi q North meets South exchange IIT Delhi who completed the Singh, columnist, gave the students a programme Executive Management Programme view of the business world from outside at IIM, Calcutta, spoke to the Students for Term 3 were part of the as a journalist and as an author working students about how she established North meets South exchange on a book about business world and its programme. For this exchange ‘Intellitots’, on 17 Nov 2016. Ms ways. programme they studied at the Shivani has more than a decade's The Orientation Week culminated with a Crescent School of Business, e x p e r i e n c e i n F o r t u n e - 5 0 0 talk by Mr Dhruv Shringi, Founder CEO Chennai where they were part of a companies. She has worked in of yatra.com on 3 September 2016, classroom with students of a various countries such as UK, US, where he spoke of how and why he set different cultural background. The Japan and Canada. up Yatra. The session witnessed the students ended the year 2016 by q The students had a guest lecture with success story of an entrepreneur and bidding farewell to their friends at Karthik Harith, Head of KraftHeinz's challenges faced by him while Crescent School of Business and UK Frozen Ready Meals, Infant embarking on the journey. He also spoke started Term 4 on 9 January 2017. F e e d i n g a n d O r i e n t a l F o o d about why he chose to do a one year Businesses in December 2016. The MBA programme from INSEAD and Guest Lectures session on FMCG and brand trends not a two year programme. was a mix of classroom learning and q The Centre organized a guest Lecture a live visit to a nearby supermarket, by Mr Abhinav Kishore, Business en ab lin g th e ap p licatio n o f Lead-APAC, Google Apps for Work theoretical concepts to real life on 16 September 2016. Mr Kishore scenarios. The session concluded spoke about digital transformation. with an interactive presentation on He said that digital transformation is the analysis. not just putting something on the digital platform but also building a Meet the Mentor session complete digital culture in the office. q A 'Meet the Mentor' session with Ms On 17 September 2016, Dr Baba Kavita Mathur was organized at Grant Prasad delivered a lecture on Thornton on 6 September 2016. 'Strategic Management'. q A special lecture was delivered by Mr Mentor-Mentee interaction N i t i n D h e e r , M B A , X L R I , Mr Rajesh Kumar, Head-Marketing, SAP Jamshedpur, on 28 Oct 2016. He q A lecture by Joe Abraham on Retail India mentored Mohammad Anish who spoke about the hand and glove and Corporate banking along with was looking for a career in the cloud r e l a t i o n s h i p t h a t e x i s t s i n the concept of credit scores and how computing industry. o r g a n i z a t i o n s a n d t h e

VectorTech 51 it is decided was held in December 2016. The parameters used to design banking products and how an individual is evaluated before a loan is approved were discussed. q A special talk was delivered on 7 February 2017 by Ms Shreyasi Singh, Director, Careers at Vedica Scholars Programme and Columnist at MINT. Ms Shreyasi discussed about leadership traits and how to

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Ne Worx and The Diplomat. She works Dr Sriparna Basu, Professor, Fore School of Management delivered a lecture on for women empowerment and is Co- 'Managing Performance in the Digital Age' on 6 February 2017. She spoke about founder of The Foundation of the difference between 20th and 21st century work environment and how today it Working Women (TFWW). TFWW has become a knowledge-based economy and companies need employees to seeks to create an ecosystem where st public policy, awareness and ideate, no matter at what position they are working at. Employees in 21 century infrastructure come together and organizations are expected to be budding with ideas and having the ability to help women do their choice of work. execute them as well. Ms Shreyasi Singh has authored a At the Centre for Leadership, students are equipped to understand team work as book with an interesting title 'The well as agility. The classroom structure and ambience promote understanding of Wealth Wallahs'. individual strengths and how to leverage it in the business world.

Industrial Visit Students visited Ashok Leyland as part of a field trip on completion of their Supply Chain and Logistics course. The students were accompanied by Mr Gurunath. The students got real life Workshop exposure to what they had learnt in their classrooms. The students were q A workshop on exposed to the different ways of ‘ D i g i t a l manufacturing processes and assembly Marketing’ was line systems. conducted by M r V i k a s Gupta, Founder & Director, 9.9 M e d i a w o r x News from the Library Pvt. Ltd on 18 LIRC's collection of Law books and journals are now available in close proximity to the Nov 2016 to familiarize students with different techniques to School of Law, Room No. 308 (Main building) since January 2017. maximize from Digital platforms. q New Titles Added by LIRC in Jan-Feb: q A two day workshop on CV making SOET- 78 titles and interview skills with Mr Ujval SOL- 34 titles Nanavati was held in December SOM- 08 titles 2016. He conducted a group discussion followed by a one-on- one interaction to work on each and q E-Resources renewed by LIRC for the year 2017: every CV in the class. Mr Ujval ASME brought to the workshop his 20 years ASCE of experience in the corporate sector. He has conducted CV and interview E Brary Proquest Technology Collection skills workshops at a number of leading MBA institutions.

VectorTech 52 STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Student Activities

q Pulkit Choudhry (CEE) attended a three day national conference Mohit Yadav, final year student, BTech organized by AIESEC India from (EECE) and President of SPIE Student 9-12 September 2016. The aim of Chapter attended the International Conference the conference was to develop of SPIE Optics and Photonics held at San leadership skills among the youth Diego, California, USA from 26 Aug – 1 Sep and it was attended by 300 2016. He got a good international exposure Delegates from 12 different cities. and many internships/ higher studies offer at Pulkit was declared as the Best the job fare held at the conference. He also got Delegate by the Conference Chair an opportunity to interact with senior and was awarded a six week free professors and functionaries of various w i n t e r i n t e r n s h i p a b r o a d . organizations, thus establishing a good [CEE2016O015] professional network with eminent professors q A team of 25 students from the Dept and experts for The NorthCap University and o f M E p a r t i c i p a t e d i n t h e himself. Mohit had received a grant of $3300 ' Q U A D T O R C ' N a t i o n a l from SPIE to attend the conference. Competition at Chandpur (UP) from 27-30 August 2016. The competition challenges students to q Alumnus, Yashbir Khatri, BTech design, fabricate, test and race the ECE (Class of 2009) cleared the four-wheeled bike. The vehicle prestigious Indian Foreign Services developed by NCU team was Exam. Last year he had cleared the designed under the supervision of Indian Civil Services Exam and had D r A s h w i n i S h a r m a . joined the Indian Railway Accounts [MED2016WA007] Service. q 60 students from the Dept of ME The University is proud of its alumni participated in the International and congratulates them on their Quiz Competition 'Engineeria' success. organized by CADD Centre. The Delhi on 20 September 2016. The q A team of three Law students, Ankush quiz held at NCU was coordinated conference was about upcoming Chattopadhyay and Kshitez Kaushik, by Mr Abhishek Pratap Singh. ventures and Government support 4th Year and Brijesh Ladwal, 3rd Year [MED2016O027] for startups. On 23 September 2016, participated at the Ranka – Manipal q S u s h m a Y they attended CII Leveraging Moot Court Competition organized (15CSU243), one Technology in Education at ITC by Manipal University, Jaipur from of the founding Maurya, Delhi which was graced by 1-3 October 2016. The NCU team members of the the presence of Vice-Chancellors, won the Best Researcher’s Prize. Principals, HoDs, Deans from U n i v e r s i t y ' s q Neha Yadav, MTech VLSI Design got leading universities and colleges Optical Society an internship offer in October 2016, across the nation. They finally (OSA) Chapter with the prestigious Intel Technology attended the PyCon India 2016 held represented OSA India Pvt Ltd. The University wishes a t J N U , D e l h i f r o m 2 4 - 2 5 Student Chapter at a student her all the best in her future September 2016. PyCon India, the leadership conference and FiO endeavours. Congress held at New York, USA premier conference in India on using from 15-21 October 2016. She a n d d e v e l o p i n g t h e P y t h o n presented reports on youth programming language is conducted education outreach programmes annually by the Python developer a n d N C U S t u d e n t C h a p t e r community. activities. q Alumna Kirti Sirohiwal, BTech CSE q Urvika Gola and Pranav Jain, CSE (Class of 2009) qualified the were invited as student delegates at prestigious Haryana Civil Services three conferences in September Exam and is serving as BDPO on 2016. They attended CII Startup initial posting. Conclave 2016 at Hotel Taj Palace,

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q Yashasvee Khanna and Akshay Aggarwal, CEE are among the Top NCU's first student magazine 'Hashtag' launched 100 students, All India who have Students of NCU launched their first been selected for the 'Top Rankers student magazine titled 'Hashtag' on 24 Scholarship' at the National Institute January 2017. Pro Vice-Chancellor, Brig. of Construction Management- SK Sharma (Retd) released the first issue. NICMAR, a prime institute for The guests at the occasion were alumni Construction Management in India Pulkit Garg, Abhishek Girdhar and Tushar and abroad. They have both obtained Girdhar. The event started with a panel a d m i s s i o n f o r A d v a n c e d discussion on topics such as ‘Quality vs Construction Management (ACM) at Quantity’, ‘Kashmir Unrest’ and their Pune Campus for Masters in ‘Expression & Communication’. ACM. The event included a recital of a poem by Ms Jyotika Pruthi; heart-warming medley q CSI, Student Chapter organized a of songs by Hashtag team member Rakshit gaming event on 9 February 2017, Bhatia and a vibrant performance of during the Club Week. The objective Bhangra. Mandeep, President of Hashtag of the event was to motivate students introduced each member of the team to the to learn and apply current trends. audience. The magazine gives the students Several games were developed by a platform to exchange ideas and CSE 1st Year students: 'Star Wars' by information on various socio-economic Ranjeet Singh Rajput, 'Ninja issues and scientific developments at the Warrior' by Ravi Rathee, 'Platform' national and international level. by Ravi Kundu, 'Bounce' by Rohit Chahar and 'Walking Dead' by Pulkit Talwar. Students and faculty platforms like 'HackerRank'. He at FOSSASIA Summit are usually the from various branches came encouraged students to go for one industry leaders from Google, UNESCO, forward enthusiastically to play the challenge per day. Since they have IBM etc. It was a great opportunity for games. All the developers were two or three years left for their our two bright students to share the stage awarded prizes. graduation, this is the right time for with distinguished speakers and other them to learn and enjoy the essence I n t e r n a t i o n a l of coding. Abhay also gave a brief students. introduction to LISP programming For FOSSASIA 2017 language and taught few lines of code (http://2017.fossasia. using LISP. o r g / ) h e l d i n Urvika talked about her experience Singapore in March being an Open Source Developer at 2017, Pranav was Outreachy as an intern. She sponsored by Debian Pranav Jain explained on 'How to get started with a n d O u t r e a c h y. The event was coordinated by Open Source'. She also briefed about Urvika and Pranav discussed about their Rachita Gupta and Rahul under the selection procedure and the work project under Google Summer of Code guidance of Dr A Charan Kumari, s h e i s d o i n g u s i n g A n d r o i d and Outreachy while Urvika shared her CSI Students Branch Counsellor. Development and Java in her project. journey of getting into Outreachy so as to q CSI Student Chapter organized a This session was coordinated by Dr inspire budding female developers like st one hour awareness session for 1 Prachi Ahlawat. her. Pranav shared his work and learning nd and 2 Year Computer Science experience during Google Summer of students on 7 Feb 2017. The Code'16 with Debian. objective of the session was to make NCU students selected for students aware of competitions and FOSSASIA 2017, Singapore opportunities for which they can gear themselves up. Urvika Gola and Pranav Jain, Dept of q Abhay Abraham and Urvika Gola, rd C S E & I T w e r e CSE 3 Year, had an interactive selected as speakers session with CSI students. Abhay for the FOSSASIA gave a live-demo on how to get C o n f e r e n c e a t s t a r t e d w i t h c o m p e t i t i v e Singapore. Speakers programming through enrolling on Urvika Gola

VectorTech 55 NCU students win KPMG Business Ethics Grant It is a pleasure to share that Enactus NCU won the KPMG Business Ethics Grant 2016 of Rs 50,000/- for its new project 'Inaayat'. This is a paper pencil project in association with the NGO Family of Disabled, details of which are available at the l i n k : h t t p s : / / d o c s . g o o g l e . c o m / d o c u m e n t / u / 1 / d / 1ajVpWTVhZjp25udkcPY9eNuCyBNjcynqLK9RSn3aDtM/mo bilebasic For this project, Enactus NCU also received the Walmart Women Economic Award 2016-17 of Rs 20,000/- in November 2016. Our congratulations to Team Enactus and for her inspiration to faculty t Activities coordinator, Dr Dipti Vaya. Studen

Our Engineering students do us proud Sachin Kushwaha, Akarshan Ganotra and Sandeep Yadav, rd NCU bagged three prizes in the 3 National Student Project 3rd Year CSE students participated in a Hackathon at Shiv Exhibition on Engineering Design among 36 colleges with more Nadar University, Greater Noida in February 2017 and won than 150 projects on display. The competition was organized by the First prize. They presented their idea to angel investors GD Goenka University on 17 Feb 2017. Our project 'SUPRA and some well-known companies and won $15 coupons of VEHICLE' won the Best Project in Mechanical and Civil Digital Ocean. NCU students designed an innovative Engineering category. 'Coconut Opener' won the Best Project in working project on Health Care. More than 15 teams from the Open category, while the 'IOT Device for home automation' various renowned colleges including DTU participated in won the Best Project in electronics engineering. The participation the event. was mentored by Dr Ashwini Sharma, Dept of ME.

VectorTech 56 SOCIAL SERVICE

Social Service

Old Age Home Visit by Clothes Collection Drive NCU students T h e U n i v e r s i t y i n collaboration with NGO In continuation with its previous G o o n j o r g a n i s e d a activities i.e. cleanliness drive and Clothes Collection Camp performance during Momentum, the c o v e r i n g e n t i r e Yukti team visited the old age home Gurugram on 6 Nov ‘Tau Devi Lal’ Gurugram, under 2016, under Goonj’s Suvidha and Khushi Cell, on 19 Nov campaign 'Odha Do 2016. Efforts were to provide Zindagi'. The student support and spread cheer among the coordinators from School mentally and physically challenged of Management – Vimal women residents of the old age Dahiya, Priya Bhargava, home. Tushant Satija, Purvanshi, Priyanka Prajapati, Vipul Arora and Tanya took the Students spent time with each initiative, right from campaigning, collection and transportation to the Goonj resident, donated basic amenities Processing Centre. People from all over Gurugram came in large numbers to and shared refreshments. It was a contribute. great experience meeting the inmates, many of whom had been abandoned by their family but still Students Interact with Under Privileged Kids did not lack in spirit. We must 15 students of 2nd Year remember that they do not need gifts alongwith Dr Charan or money, all they need is our time. Kumari, Ms Rita, Mr Sandeep, Dept of C S E v i s i t e d t h e S h a k u n t a l a m Shiksha Kendra, for underprivileged kids on 12 Nov 2016. The objective of this visit was to encourage students to contribute to the needs of the society. The students got an opportunity to interact with the kids who responded enthusiastically. The kids were highly talented, full of energy and exhibited their many skills.

Dr Kavita Khanna, Ms Meghna Sharma, Ms Hitesh along with nine students of 2nd and 3rd Year, Dept of CSE visited the orphanage Asha Greha on 25 Feb 2017. The aim of the visit was to develop empathy, care and gratitude in our students so that they turn out to be better individuals and contribute to the needs of the society. The visit was heart-touching as the students' interaction with the kids brought a smile on their faces. The kids participated in dancing and singing together with our students.

VectorTech 57 Annual NSS Camp witnessed the students actively participating in the Digital India Campaign, performing street plays and delivering awareness lectures on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Plantation of trees and Women Empowerment. The activity was coordinated by the University's NSS Programme coordinator, Ms Jyotsna

VICE Singh. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Satish Yadav, highlighted the need to conserve the ecosystem. Registrar of the NCU, Col. Bikram NSS Self Financing Unit of NCU 45 Students of the University enrolled as SOCIAL SER Mohanty (Retd) visited the camp and organized an annual seven day camp at NSS volunteers attended the camp, out of highlighted the need for the current Abhaypur village under Sohna which 26 were girl students. SDM Sohna, generation not only to work for eco Subdivision from 25 – 31 Jan 2017. Mr Satish Yadav along with the 'Sarpanch' development but also to understand the The theme of this year's camp was of both Abhaypur and Damdama villages culture of our villages, the need for 'Youth for Eco Development'. visited the Camp, site on 28 Jan 2017 and sharing and helping society at large.

Annual NSS Certificate Distribution Ceremony Yukti conducts Cleanliness Drive

Yukti is students' initiative at the University which aims at bringing the faculty and students together to make NCU's Self-Financing Unit of National Distribution Ceremony was organized at life better for the society, regardless of Service Scheme (NSS) completed two the University on 8 February 2017. Shri caste, colour, religion or status. Yukti years since its establishment in February Vinay Pratap Singh, IAS, the then conducted a cleanliness drive in and 2015. The NSS motto ‘Not me but you’ Additional Deputy Commissioner, around the University on 6 October has been well understood by our student Gurugram was the Chief Guest at the 2016 under its Jagriti Cell. The volunteers and they believe that the event. Speaking on the occasion, Shri campaign was conducted to spread welfare of an individual can ultimately Vinay Pratap Singh said, “There is need awareness amongst our students and lead to the welfare of the society. In the for selfless service, to develop and s t a f f , a n d r e s i d e n t s o f t h e past two years our NSS unit has appreciate the other’s point of view, give a neighbourhood about need of a clean environment and to improve the conducted various activities like blood patient hearing to a needy person and to appearance of the residential sector. As donation camps, cleanliness drive, right understand his problem. One good deed a in the past, the student volunteers to exercise your vote, tree plantation, day is all that is required.” 42 student gathered in large numbers to clean the educating villagers about digital volunteers who had completed two years designated arears. Roads from the payments and street plays on women of service with NSS were awarded NSS University campus to Tau Devi Lal empowerment, yoga, meditation and certificates by the Chief Guest. Park, Sector 23 A, Gurugram were self defence for girls. cleaned and garbage was collected. The To acknowledge the efforts of NSS students pledged to continue the drive volunteers the Annual Certificate and make the Swachh Bharat Mission a success.

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Sports

The University's Inter-Department match of 'Boys group', the team of Civil The Basketball matches were played Sports Tournaments for the session Engineering defeated team CSE with a from 20-23 September 2016. In the 2016-17 continued with Volleyball and score of 3-2 in a match of 5 sets. The final finals, the of CSE team emerged as the Basketball matches. Teams from all the match of 'Girls group' was played winner by defeating the team of Civil three Schools of the University between teams of BTech and SOL, in Engineering in 'Boys group', while in participated with full zeal. The which team BTech emerged as the winner the 'Girls group', the team of SOL was volleyball competition was held from with a score of 2-0 in a match of 3 sets. declared the winner and the team of 16-19 September 2016. In the final BTech was declared the runner-up.

The Cricket tournament under December 2016. A limited over University's Inter-Department Sports cricket match was played between for the session 2016-17 was held from Red Team led by Dr Latika Singh 11-17 Nov 2016. Nine teams from the and Blue Team led by Prof. three Schools participated with full zeal Ravindra Ojha. The best shots were and showcased their sports skills. The in the air by the Registrar, Col. final match was played between Depts Bikram Mohanty and Pro Vice- of Mech Engg and CSE, in which Dept Chancellor, Brig. SK Sharma. The of Mech Engg emerged as the winner. match came to an end with the • The University encouraged all declaration of Red Team being the faculty members to don the winner. The match was followed by University cap and get themselves a snack party enjoyed with down on the cricket field on 24 togetherness and bonding.

VectorTech 59 NCU team participated in the Inter-University Table Tennis match held at the LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT), Jaipur, Rajasthan from 20 - 22 January 2017. In the Final Match: NCU vs Rajasthan University, the NCU team comprising of Shubham Jain (15CSU226) and Kartavya Atri (15CSU094) won the First prize.

A new batch of Judo session 2016-17 was started in the University in which 35 students of different departments enrolled. The students are being trained on different techniques and practices of Judo. Introduction to Judo and

Sports fundamentals of Judo techniques (off balance, defence, stance, griping, styles of falls etc.) were introduced to students by the student trainer, Gurushikha Kundu, BBA-LLB and Akash Lal, Dept of Mech Engg. The Judo Club coordinator is Ms Sunil Malik of the Sports Section.

Staff sports tournaments for the session 2016-17 were held from 21-23 December 2016. All staff members participated in various sports activities with full zeal. The tournaments included sports like cricket, volleyball, badminton, chess, carrom, table tennis, tug of war and sack race.

An Athletic meet was organized in the University from 21-24 Feb 2017. There were many events like long jump, high jump, javelin throw, discus throw, shot- putt, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1500, 3000 mts races, relay race 100 x 4, 200 x 4, for boys and girls. The event was followed by the prize distribution ceremony on 24 Feb 2017 and prizes were awarded to all the winners by the Pro Vice-Chancellor Brig. SK Sharma, Registrar Col. Bikram Mohanty, Chairman Sports Committee, Director SOET Prof. Ravindra Ojha, Vice Chairman Sports Committee Dr Gaurav Gupta, Dept of APS, Secretary Sports Committee Dr Praveen Lochab, SOL. They emphasized on the importance of participating in sports. All events were supervised by Sports Officer Mr Sudesh Kumar.

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Miscellaneous Freshers’ Formal Introduction to the University The University organized a welcome party for the new batch of students on 17 September 2016 to formally absorb the new students into the University in a friendly atmosphere. Freshers of all the three Schools of the University participated in an ambience of fun, frolic, dance and laughter. It was a happening experience for the newly inducted students of the University. The senior students organized a scintillating show and welcomed their new companions in an environment of harmony and friendliness. The audience was enthralled by the performances of dances, songs, fashion show and much more. Students were seen swaying to the beats of the Bhangra and Bollywood numbers. The fresh batch put up an attractive and a stimulating fashion show by walking the ramp for the coveted presentability and smartness. Participants Miss and Mr Fresher 2016, while Mohit titles. The contest, held in a number of were supported and encouraged by Bamel of BBA and Yashika Kapoor of rounds was keenly contested wherein the everyone as they performed on stage. LLB were declared winners of the participants were judged on different Mahek Sangwan of BTech CSE and Rajat Fashion Show. parameters of talent, quirkiness, Bajaj of BTech CSE bagged the titles of

'Momentum' and 'Cerebration' 2016 The NorthCap University celebrated its much awaited annual cultural and tech fests 'Momentum' and 'Cerebration' 2016 from 3-5 Nov 2016, which saw a plethora of cultural and technical events, providing students a platform to showcase their talent. Over 25 colleges and universities from Delhi-NCR, besides NCU, participated in the fest and more than 500 participants from various colleges and institutes contested in different competitions, making the event a grand success. During the inaugural ceremony the students presented Ganesh Vandana and a Bhangra dance which was much appreciated by the audience. A musical play on Ramayan was quite entertaining. NCU’s theatre society, Abhimanch presented a street play on s o c i a l h a r m o n y a n d r e l i g i o u s brotherhood which was thought- provoking. The technical shows were equally attractive and fascinating showing creativity and innovation by the students.

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who went through a series of medical to humanity. The University regularly support and bring about dedicated checkups before donating blood and were conducts this event in partnership with services for the upliftment of society. given refreshments, a memento and a the Rotary Club, Gurugram with the certificate of appreciation for this service desire to spread a culture of community Health check-up camp Nivaran III NCU's commitment towards a 'Disease free' society is infallible and in line with this mission, 'िनवारण’-III– Preventive Health Check Camp, was organised at the University on 18 January 2017. It was undertaken in the format of a diagnostic campaign to make people aware about their role in the prevention of diseases and for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The screening/diagnostic campaign was conducted in association with Mantracare, a major Diagnostic Centre. Around 50 people made good use of the specialised diagnostics camp. 'िनवारण’-III was coordinated by Dr Shilpy Wadhwa, Medical Consultant, NCU. Workshop on Positive Psychology Diagnostic Camp informative, and interactive with practical applications. It attempted to engage the audience through the use of In line with NCU 's commitment towards audio-visuals to learn about psychology 'Disease free Fraternity' a free of cost of perception and judgement, how these Diagnostic Camp, was organised in a tie affect our decision making, how these up with Vijaya Diagnostic Centre on 5 are reflected in larger issues like politics, February 2017. The camp was A workshop on Positive Psychology religion, gender and how to work on undertaken in the format of a diagnostic and Permanent Well-being was t h e s e p r o c e s s e s . A r o u n d 1 0 0 campaign for lipid and diabetes conducted by Ms Srividya Rajaram on participants benefitted from the management and to make people aware 10 September 2016.The workshop workshop who learnt the practical tools about their role in the prevention of documented the role of judgement, of judgement and perception and how several diseases by maintaining a perception and other related processes these can be honed and sharpened so as in our lives and helped to spread to become more equipped in handling healthy lifestyle. Around 30 members of awareness that these processes are the our day-to-day issues. The workshop our fraternity which included guards, filter through which we look at the was organized and coordinated by Ms housekeeping staff, drivers etc benefited world, people, emotions and at our Nikita Kapoor, Psychologist-cum- from the camp coordinated by Dr Shilpy environment. The workshop was Counsellor, NCU. Wadhwa, Medical Consultant, NCU. The Qutbi Brothers perform at The NorthCap University Workshop on relationships The NorthCap University takes pride in being the nodal centre for SPIC MACAY A workshop on 'Thinking beyond activities in Gurugram. The Society for yourself with empathy and compassion' the Promotion of Indian Classical Music was conducted by Ms Sonia Puar on 25 and Culture Amongst Youth (SPIC February 2017 for faculty, admin and MACAY) is a movement that promotes technical staff of the University. The Indian music, classical dance, and other workshop focused on 'apathy' a aspects of Indian culture amongst disturbing pattern in society. Despite our students. NCU, apart from aspiring for academic excellence, has always been education and experience, we often fail to promoting the values and wisdom many melodious and popular qawwalis pick up subtle signs regarding the effect embodied in the Indian heritage amongst engrossing the audience completely. The of our words, actions and behaviour on the youth, with a hope that these events students, faculty and staff of the others. The workshop intended to re- will influence their way of life and University were overwhelmed by the sensitize ourselves, reflected on how we inspire them to become a better human heart-touching performance of the artists. are impacting others and taught us how being. Through the performance and interaction we can find a way to create warmth and On 28 September 2016, the University with renowned artists, the audience was respect in our interaction with others. invited Haji Mohd. Idris and Mohd. privileged to understand and appreciate Ilyas, popularly known as the Qutbi some of the intricacies of our classical Brothers, one of the most significant music. The students were enthralled by the Qawwali artists in contemporary Indian beauty of qawwalis and joined the music. The Qutbi Brothers presented eminent singers by clapping to their tunes.

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(2016) 'A review of exudates detection pp. 59-66, CSE2016J064. q Surbhi Dewan*, Akansha Singh, using retinal images', 3rd International q Jagdeep Kaur* and Pradeep Tomar Latika Singh and Sumanlata Conference on Computing for (2016) 'Software component selection Gautam (2016) ‘Role of Emotion Sustainable Global Development , pp. using fuzzy relation-based fuzzy Recognition in Computive Assistive 4019 - 4022, CSE2016P017. clustering', International Journal of Learning for Autistic Person’, Indian q Deepa and Akansha Singh (2016) Software Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 2, Journal of Science and Technology, 'Review of brain tumor detection from pp. 35-44, CSE2016J065. Vol. 9, No. 48, pp. 1-9, CSE2016J073. 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I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e o n Dureja and Shaifali Madan Arora q Shreshtha Gaur* and Rita Chhikara Information and Communication (2016) 'Surface reconstruction using (2016) ‘Memory Forensics :Tools and Technology for Competitive Strategies, feature based approach with radial Techniques’, Indian Journal of Science CSE2016P019. basis function neural network', and Technology, Vol. 9, No. 48, pp. 1- q Rita Rana Chhikara and Meena International Journal of Control 12, CSE2016J075. Kumari (2016) ‘Significance of Feature Theory and Applications, Vol. 9, No. q Kavita Khanna* and Shaifali Madan Selection for Image Steganalysis’, 19, pp. 9239-9250, CSE2016J067. 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INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS Applied Engineering Research, Vol.3, Mapping: Review and Analysis', q Sparsh Bhayare, Shikha Kashyap No.11, pp.1015-1018, MED2016J034. J o u r n a l o f A e r o n a u t i c a l a n d a n d R a v i n d r a O j h a ( 2 0 1 6 ) q Prateek Kalra, Rishab Bhardwaj, Automotive Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 2, 'Production Cost Optimization in Shikha Kashyap and Ravindra Ojha pp. 69-72, MED2016J035. Food Processing Industry: Review and (2016) 'To Increase Overall Equipment q Dishant Aghi, Kunal Upadhayay, Analysis', Journal of Basic and Effectiveness using Value Stream Shikha Kashyap and Ravindra Ojha

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P s p i n d l e d r i l l i n g m a c h i n e ' , (2016) ‘Production of Oil from Waste NATIONAL International Journal of Advance Plastics and Polythene using Pyrolysis q Saket Jha, Shikha Kashyap and Research and Innovation, Vol. 4, No. and its Utilization in Compression Ravindra Ojha (2016) ‘Evaluation of 1, pp. 420-423, MED2016J038. Ignition (C.I.) Engine’, Indian Journal Performance Parameters of End of q Akansha Bhatia*, Jyoti Rani, Rohit of Science and Technology, Vol. 9, No. Line (EOL) Testing Machine in Singh Lather and Anmol Bhatia 48, pp. 1-16, MED2016J044. Automotive Industry Using AHP (2016) 'Development of Lab Scale q Darpan Dahiya*, Rohit Singh Lather Technique’, Journal of Aeronautical Pyrolysis setup to convert waste a n d P r a m o d B h a t i a ( 2 0 1 6 ) and Automotive Engineering, Vol. 3, plastic into oil', International Journal ‘Improvement of the Domestic LPG No. 2, pp. 73-76, MED2016J032. of Advanced Engineering Research Cooking Stoves: A Review’, Indian q Omkar Kaushik, Shikha Kashyap and Applications, Vol.2, No.8, pp.537- Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. and Ravindra Ojha (2016) ‘Analysis 543, MED2016J039. 9, No. Special Issue-1, pp. 1-16, of Rotary Gas Metal Arc Welding q Abhishek Pratap Singh, Anuj MED2016J045. (GMAW) Process in Automotive Kumar Jain*, Darpan Vashishtha, q Satnam Singh*, Rajveer Singh, Industry using 7 QC Tools’, Journal of Manveer Singh and Chaitanya Bhatia Dheeraj Gupta and Vivek Jain (2017) Basic and Applied Engineering (2016) 'Development of desert cooler ‘Preliminary Metallurgical and Research, Vol.3, No.11, pp.1025-1029, design to control humidity and M e c h a n i c a l I n v e s t i g a t i o n s o f MED2016J033. temperature', International Journal of Microwave Processed Hastelloy CONFERENCE PRESENTATION Advance Research and Innovation, Joints’, Journal of Manufacturing Vo l . 4 , N o . 2 , p p . 6 0 0 - 6 0 1 , Science and Engineering, Transactions CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS MED2016J040. o f t h e A S M E , Vo l . 1 3 9 , N o . 6 , q Anmol Bhatia and Reeta Wattal q Abhishek Pratap Singh, Anuj MED2017J001. (2016) 'Paradigm shifts in friction stir Kumar Jain*, Darpan Vashishtha, q Pramod Bhatia* and Ravinder Singh welding research: A critical review', Manveer Singh and Chaitanya Bhatia (2017) ‘Effect of Oxygen Enrichment International Conference on Advanced (2016) 'Design and fabrication of low in Propane Laminar Diffusion Flames Production and Industrial Engineering, c o s t c r o p c u t t i n g m a c h i n e ' , under Microgravity and Earth Gravity MED2016P001.

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS Bulletin of Material Science, Vol. 39, of Science and Technology, Vol. 9, No. q Hukum Singh (2016) 'Cryptosystem No. 7, pp. 1735-43, APS2016J029. 48, pp. 1-6, APS2016J035. for securing image encryption using q Bulkesh Siwach*, Sunita Sharma and q Ayushri Bhargava, Amita Bhagat* and structured phase masks in Fresnel Devendra Mohan (2016) 'Structural, Jaspreet Singh (2016) ‘Modelling and wavelet transform domain', 3D optical and morphological properties performance analysis of cellular RESEARCH, Vol. 7, No. 34, pp. 1-18, of ZnO/MWCNTs nanocomposite Mobile Networks’, Indian Journal of APS2016J023. photoanodes for dye sensitized solar Science and Technology, Vol. 9, No. 48, q Tejpal Singh Chundawat, Poonam cell (DSSC) application', Journal of pp. 1-22, APS2016J036. Kumari, Nutan Sharma, Sunita Integrated Science and Technology, q Antariksha Kar, Sidharth Bhatia and Bhagat (2016) 'Strategic synthesis and Vol.5, No.1, pp. 01- 04, APS2016J030. Gaurav Gupta* (2016) ‘Multilevel in vitro antimicrobial evaluation of q Sunita Sharma*, Bulkesh Siwach, SK thresholding for image segmentation novel difluoromethylated 1-(1, 3- Ghoshal and Devendra Mohan (2017) based on similarity filtering’, Indian diphenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)-3, 3- 'Dye sensitized solar cells: From Journal of Science and Technology, difluoro-1,3-dihydro-indol-2-ones', genesis to recent drifts', Renewable Vol. 9, No. 48, pp. 1-5, APS2016J037. Medicinal Chemistry Research, Vol. and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 25, pp. 2335-2348, APS2016J024. 70, pp. 529-537, APS2017J001. NATIONAL q Phool Singh*, Anju Rani and Ashok q Sunita Sharma* and Divyansh q Jangid (2016) 'Genetic algorithm Mahajan (2016) ‘Cost-effective Pranati Purohit* and Sushil Kumar based approach to study aligned synthesis and properties of graphene’, Jain (2016) 'A Piezo-resonator Method magnetic field with unsteady forced Indian Journal of Science and for Shear Attenuation Measurement of convection', CSI Transactions on ICT, Technology, Vol.9, No.48, pp.1-4, Rubber', Journal of Pure and Applied APS2016J025. APS2016J031. Ultrasonics, Vol.38, No.2, pp.43-46, APS2016J022. q Shri Dhar*, Jyotsna Singh and Phool q Deepika* and Hukum Singh (2016) Singh (2016) 'Insights into various ‘Role of Sb Substitution on Electrical dysfunctions in Parkinson's disease: a properties of Se-Te Glasses’, Indian CONFERENCE PRESENTATION survey', CSI Transactions on ICT, Journal of Science and Technology, q Bharti Arora (2016) 'Self Association APS2016J026. Vol. 9, No. 48, pp. 1-8, APS2016J032. o f G u a n i n e R i c h D N A q Phool Singh, Anil Kumar Yadav* and q L u x m i Ve r m a a n d S a n g e e t Oligonucleotides Under Varied Kehar Singh (2016) 'Phase image Srivastava* (2016) ‘A Data Mining Solution Conditions', A Tributary encryption in the fractional Hartley Model for Coronary Artery Disease Symposium on 100 Years of Chemical domain using Arnold', Optics and Detection using Noninvasive Clinical Bonding - 2016, CSIR - Indian Institute Lasers in Engineering, Vol.91, pp. Parameters’, Indian Journal of Science of Chemical Technology Hyderabad, 187-195, APS2016J027. and Technology, Vol. 9, No. 48, pp. 1-6, India, APS2016C18. q Nutan Sharma, Tejpal Singh APS2016J033. q Dipti Vaya (2016) 'Application of Chundawat, Subash Chandra q M a n o j K u m a r a n d S a n g e e t nanomaterial in waste water treatment', Mohapatra and Sunita Bhagat* (2016) Srivastava* (2016) ‘Identifying Photo Poster, Special Centre for Nanoscience, 'Synthesis of Novel Fluorinated Forgery using Lighting Elements’, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Multisubstituted Pyrimidines and 1,5- Indian Journal of Science and Delhi, India, APS2016C19. benzodiazepenes via Fluorinated N, S- Technology, Vol. 9, No. 48, pp. 1-5, q Anshu (2016) ‘An Algorithm to detect Acetals', SYNTHESIS, Vol. 48, No. APS2016J034. S-Consistency in Common Edge 24, pp. 4495-4508, APS2016J028. q Pranati Purohit*, Dilip Kumar Roy, Sigraph’, 3rd International Conference q S Meena, Dipti Vaya* and Bijoy Shankar Prasad Pati and Sukadev on Recent Developments in Science, Kishore Das (2016) 'Photocatalytic Sahoo (2016) ‘Conduction of Engineering and Technology(REDSET degradation of Malachite Green dye Electrons in Quantum Wires of 2016), School of Engineering G.D by modified ZnO nanomaterial', Circular Crosssection’, Indian Journal Goenka University, APS2016C20.

VectorTech 69 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Conference on Fiber Optics and q Sunita Sharma, Vijay Singh Dalal and q Anshula and Hukum Singh (2016) P h o t o n i c s , p p . T u 4 A . 5 0 , Vasu Mahajan (2016) 'Synthesis of 'Asymmetric image encryption APS2016P007. z i n c o x i d e n a n o f l o w e r f o r scheme by using random phase masks q Hukum Singh (2016) 'Optical image photovoltaic applications', RAINSAT in Fourier transform domain', 13th encryption using random-vortex Materials Today, pp. 1359-1362, ed t International Conference on Fiber structured phase masks in fractional APS2016P009. Optics and Photonics, pp. W3A.4, Hartley transform domain', 13th esen APS2016P006. International Conference on Fiber q Deepika Choudhary, Hukum Singh Optics and Photonics, pp. Tu4A.68, and K S Rathore (2016) 'Effect of Bi APS2016P008. addition on optical properties of Se-Te thin films', 13th International s Published/Pr aper P School of Management Book Chapters

JOURNALS SOM2016J015. CONFERENCE PRESENTATION INTERNATIONAL q Shilpa Sindhu*, Sahil Khatkar and q Mahima Anand and Sushmita Biswal q Alpana Agarwal and Prem Vrat Anupama Panghal (2016) ‘Fiscal Waraich (2016) 'Employer branding (2016) ‘A bio-inspired model of Federalism and States' Economic w i t h a f l e x i b l e w o r k p l a c e : A organizational excellence’, Journal of Growth in India - An Analytical Study’, comprehensive review', International Advances in Management Research, Indian Journal of Science and OB & HR Conference on Riding the Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 130-153, Technology, Vol. 9, No. 48, pp. 1-7, New Tides: Navigating the Future SOM2016J011. SOM2016J016. through Effective People Management, FORE School of Management, Delhi, q q Ajay Bohtan*, Prem Vrat and Anil Archana Mehra and Dhani Ram SOM2016C004. Aggarwal (2016) ‘Impact of Self-help Kumar Vij (2017) ‘Supply Chain of q group scheme of microfinance on the the Indian Public Distribution System: Vibha Dua Satija (2017) ‘Noise economic development of Mewat in a new paradigm.’, Journal of Advances Trading in India: An Emipirical Study’, Haryana’, International Journal of in Management Research, Vol.14, International Conference on Global Development Research, Vol. 6, No. 8, No.1, pp.110-123, SOM2017J002. Transformation: Unleash, Augment and pp. 9185-9193, SOM2016J012. NATIONAL Reinforce", Delhi Institute of Advanced Studies, SOM2017C002. q Karishma Chaudhary* and Prem Vrat q Prem Vrat (2016) ‘Technological q (2016) 'Optimal location of precious Change and Skill Development’, Ruchi Nayyar (2017) ‘Consumer metal extraction facility (PMEF) for RITES, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 7.1 -7.14, Buying Behavior: A changed scenario’, E-waste recycling units in National SOM2016J013. International Conference on Global Transformation: Unleash, Augment and Capital Region (NCR) of India', q Ruchi Nayyar* (2017) ‘Digital OPSEARCH, SOM2016J014. Reinforce", Delhi Institute of Advanced Marketing at NorthCap University: A Studies, SOM2017C001. q Jaya Ahuja (2016) ‘Modelling the Case Study’, Indian Journal of Critical Success Factors of Virtual Computer Science, Vol. 2, No. 1, Teams’, Indian Journal of Science and SOM2017J001. Technology, Vol.8, No.48, pp.1-9,

School of Law Centre for Languages Learning Research Papers Published/Presented Research Papers Published/Presented JOURNALS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL q Divyabha (2016) ‘Dalit Literature: An Insurrectionary q Pallavi Bajpai (2016) ‘The Sunshine Law under a Cloudy Voice’, Contemporary Literary Review India, Vol. 3, No. Regime: Transparency and Accountability of RTI Act’, In 3, pp. 110-119, CLL2016J009. Law, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 24-27, SOL2016J007.

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Career option after graduation in Civil Engineering

CIVIL, I read it as 'SEE I WILL'. In every supply, construction, public works, phase, the driving force behind a Civil power, telecommunications, etc. For Engineer is passion to construct facilities details related to course content, that help improving the human eligibility and selection procedure, and establishment and to work for the future prospects please visit the website betterment of the society. A Civil http://www.upsc.gov.in/. Aspirants for Engineer closely works with the needs of these competitive exams have to start t h e s o c i e t y a n d f o r t h e i r b u i l t preparing during the early years of their environment. From morning till night graduation. Apart from maintaining a whatever facilities you use is constructed good CGPA or score during their course by a Civil Engineer like supply of safe work in the BTech programme, it is drinking water after treatment from important to work on your soft skills and Dr Amit Srivastava, various intakes; sanitary and sewage personality development. P.E. (ECI), M.ASCE, MISSMGE, collection and their treatment before final MIE(I), LMIGS disposal; parking facility for your BE (Roorkee), ME & vehicle; roads, railways, highways, GATE Exams PhD (IISc, Bangalore) tunnels, mass transit system, like Metros, The important national level competitive Associate Professor & Head, for the safe and efficient transport of exam is GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Dept of Civil & passengers and goods; Bridges for Engineering) which is conducted by any Environmental Engineering, NCU crossing river bodies etc. You name it and one of the IITs or IISc, on rotation basis. In you will find a Civil Engineer working India, cracking GATE with a good score around you. and All India Rank is an essential requirement to get entry to various public sector units (PSUs) as well as for pursuing C a r e e r s a f t e r B Te c h ( C i v i l Hello Friends, higher studies, i.e., MTech in various Engineering) I am sure while reading the title of this branches of Engineering in any of the IITs, article you must be surprised as well as What can you pursue after your BTech if IISc or Institute of national importance. curious to know various options you are a Civil Engineering graduate? MHRD recommends monthly scholarship available for Civil Engineering You have many options and the only to GATE qualified students pursuing graduates. Normally we imagine a civil prerequisite to be successful is to ensure higher studies in Government institutions engineer working at a construction site, thorough understanding of the concepts or AICTE approved colleges. Cracking wearing a helmet and struggling with the and their applications. There is no short GATE also requires preparation during labourers to get the work done or cut to success. You can go for higher the early years of graduation and one has climbing on an elevator in a high rise studies in India or abroad, Government to be technically very strong with building, understanding the complicated sector jobs like IES / IAS, PSUs, private thorough understanding of the concepts drawings of concrete dams or bridges, jobs in major construction companies like and related theoretical knowledge. executing construction work with huge L&T, Tata projects, Gammon India, a n d c o m p l i c a t e d c o n s t r u c t i o n HCC, SPCL, etc. You can also opt for the Pursuing Higher Studies (MTech/ equipments. I know that life is tough for a teaching profession and join any MBA) Civil Engineer and there is no scope for a c a d e m i c i n s t i t u t i o n a s a mistakes. It’s not easy to undo and redo in Lecturer/Assistant Professor after post Students with valid GATE score can the Civil Engineering profession. About graduation (minimum) and then PhD, pursue MTech as well as avail teaching one thing I am very sure, in the current which is a must degree to survive longer assistantship (TA) at a University. One scenario, simple graduation will not in Academics. can also opt for a management work just like simply acquiring an MBBS programme like MBA after cracking degree takes you nowhere. Today is an another important national level exam IES / Civil Services Exam by UPSC era of specialization and post-graduation CAT (Combined Aptitude Test) or opt for or specialization is a must. Union Public Service Commission management courses in Construction (UPSC) conducts national level exams Engineering from reputed institutions like I will help you choose one of the many like IES (Indian Engineering Services) IIM NICMAR, Pune, National Institute of options available after you graduate in and Civil Services exams, annually, and Industrial Engineering (NITIE) – Civil Engineering. In my opinion, Civil one has to crack these exams to work as Mumbai, School of Planning and Engineering is real ground engineering civil servants or administrator / officials Architecture, Delhi and many more. In where you plan, analyze, design, at various governmental organizations or any case, qualifying and scoring good construct and maintain the built in the public sector like railways, roads, rank in one national level exam is a must environment. When I see the word defence, manufacturing, inspection,

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Personality Grooming vis-à-vis Communication Skills: Ladder to Success

effectively with convincing ability is the right place, and is an essential ingredient key requirement. Those who are well- for success. It makes a person confident versed in the trade are sought after. and expressive. The way one expresses Communication skills cannot be taught, himself and conveys his ideas is a very but can be developed through proper important factor. It helps in developing an training. impressive personality and also improves interpersonal skills of an individual. This Personality grooming and communication further leads to better relationships at skills are dependent on each other and they work and in personal life, which is again both in combination are the stepping very crucial to succeed in today’s stones to success. A person, who wants to competitive world. Lacking good Dr Payal Khurana be successful, should imbibe these traits interpersonal skills lead to stress in life. Head,Centre for Languages for a confident and impressive personality. Learning, NCU A person’s success and promotions in Along with better communication, career depend on these two mainly. personal grooming also improves one’s Therefore, one should train himself to body language, which is a very important make a difference in life. People who lack tool of non-verbal communication. As the Personality is an unbroken series of these skills will surely lag behind since popular adage goes, “Actions speak successful gestures. - F.Scott Fitzgerald these play an important role in career louder than words”, body language should Personality grooming plays a crucial enhancement. be worked on to enhance personality manifold. Personality grooming also role to attain success in life and Personality grooming, in fact, starts from includes being an active listener, giving especially at workplace. A well- childhood and includes one’s outlook to chance to others to voice their concerns groomed person is able to create a niche perceive things, develop positive attitude, and also understanding other person’s for himself in this highly competitive interpersonal skills, decision-making and viewpoint and being empathetic, if the c o r p o r a t e w o r l d . E f f e c t i v e problem solving. Environment at home situation requires. Communication skills are a part of and school, experiences in life, culture, personality grooming. family background, peers etc. also play an All the above are potent ingredients to Communication skills also play an impactful role in developing one’s enhance one’s personality and help to important part in the success of an personality. It happens mostly that we are reach the heights of success. organization. Organizations directly impressed with some people and would dealing with customers face-to-face like to see them again, whereas some prefer employees those who have people seem to be repulsive in the first excellent communication skills because meeting itself, this is because of their they help in building relationship, persona which they have developed over planning, organizing, directing and the growing years. controlling. They are the brand Effective communication being an ambassadors of a company and people important part of personality grooming, know about or judge the company plays a major part in grooming a person’s through its employees. It is important personality because it trains a person to say that one should have technical the right thing, at the right time and the knowledge but conveying one’s ideas

VectorTech 73 A Unique Start-up Culture in the making

Looking at it proactively, this sprit needs look at problems as challenges. They must to be inculcated, nourished over a period come up with not one but many alternative of time — ie including the formative solutions to the problems. years. Subsequently, at the higher educational level, this spirit can be further Needless to say, educational institutions built on and skills can be honed. Imbibing do play an equally important role. These certain values and beliefs for the should become grounds for encouraging entrepreneurial attitude needs to be done experimentation and thinking differently. from a very young age. Parents being the Even if certain mundane activities need to first point of contact play an active role. be done, there should be enough scope for During the growing-up period, apart from critical and creative thinking and academics, exposure to different generating innovative ideas. Articles Dr Sushmita Biswal Waraich, experiences is equally important. Students must be encouraged to be unique Associate Professor, Head, Thus, the entire process of personality in their thinking and outlook. A ‘can-do’ School of Management, NCU development plays a crucial role. As it is attitude, when it comes to taking up new said, “Rome wasn’t built in a day”. assignments, should be rewarded. Instead Similarly, time needs to be dedicated to of looking down upon failure while developing this culture. Parents need to experimenting, ample opportunity should inculcate certain values and beliefs which be provided to learn and prove oneself. While a clarion call for ‘Make in India’ at a later stage culminate in an Enough platforms should be created for and ‘Startup India’ has been made, the entrepreneurial personality. Children from students to exhibit certain qualities like success of all such ventures largely a very early age need to be put into creativity, leadership, team-building, risk- depends on the values and beliefs situations where they need to take taking ability etc. Projects entailing inculcated by student during the early independent decisions. These decisions solving different problems of the society years, without which the dream of may be in terms of making a choice of through new ideas need to be encouraged. entrepreneurial India will be distant subjects, career options, following one’s Instead of the tried and tested methods of When we talk about ‘start-up culture’, passion as well as in other situations. t e a c h i n g n e w w a y s n e e d t o b e what is it all about? The Cambridge The desire for autonomy should be incorporated. Teachers play a very crucial dictionary defines ‘start-up’ as a small reinforced rather than being forced upon. role when it comes to nurturing these business that has just been started. This would contribute to their self- attributes. Schools should not let it go, Culture refers to values, beliefs, confidence as well as a better decision- assuming that it would be taken up at attitudes, customs and social behaviour. making ability at a later stage. Today, with higher levels. Attaching the word ‘culture’, it is to be the rise of ‘helicopter’ parents imbibing Yes, there is a lot of emphasis being put on automatically understood that culture the right attitude could be a matter of ‘Make in India’, ‘Skill India’, ‘Startup cannot be created in a day. concern. Too protective an environment India’ etc. However, unless these values The Government has been very by parents would only be an impediment and beliefs are inculcated during the early ambitiously planning and playing a in the risk-taking ability of the younger years, entrepreneurial India may remain a critical role in encouraging the start-up generation. distant dream. Rather than giving culture. Apart from the Government, Children should be made to realise early in importance only to academics, fostering other entities too play a significant role in life that shouldering responsibility and the required skills should be paid equal instilling the entrepreneurial spirit. This achieving the same is important and more a t t e n t i o n t o o . B u t p e r s o n a l i t y role needs to be played (and the required satisfying than money. Parents may go development, for becoming entrepreneurs mind-set developed) during the earlier over-board in motivating their young ones should not take a back seat. part of life rather than when the student is through external rewards, whereas it Dr Sushmita Biswal Waraich, Associate stepping into higher education. Here, it is would be better if the young ones realise it Professor, Head, School of Management crucial to ponder on the role played by sooner that they need to do things for The above article was published in the parents and educational institutions. internal satisfaction and be motivated national daily, Pioneer, on 4 June 2017 Start-ups, with the accompanying intrinsically. challenges, are quite vulnerable in the Moreover, the youngsters need to be business world. Though ‘start-up’ is used educated about solving problems in the for new entrepreneurial ventures, in midst of adversity and scarce resources today’s world of privatisation and rather than comfort and abundance, which competition a ‘start-up culture’ is very would be in sync with the start-up culture. pertinent even for established businesses. Additionally, they must be encouraged to

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Make in India - a Boon for Indian education system

Ms Rekha Mathur Sr Editor, NCU

The ‘Make in India’ initiative by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that is aimed at transforming India into a manufacturing hub can prove to be relevant in the Under the ‘One Belt, One Road’ (OBOR) Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar; education sector too. India is a huge initiative, Chinese institutions are MDI, Gurugram, The NorthCap reservoir of talent with the demographic increasingly encouraged to go abroad in University, Gurugram; Xavier Institute of dividend in its favour and having the search of new investments and new Management and Entrepreneurship, highest number of scientists, doctors, opportunities. The recent London Times Bangalore; Nalanda University, Bihar e n g i n e e r s , b u s i n e s s m e n a n d Higher Education Supplement ranking of and others. Such Indo-Chinese opportunities in the young age profile. the world's top 200 universities included collaborations can bring revolutionary three in China and one in India (an Indian changes in the education system of both China and India as two powerful Institute of Technology at number four, India and China. It can potentially emerging economies are strengthening the specific campus was not specified). eliminate the existing flaws of the Indian their business and trade ties for mutual Joshua Mok Ka-Ho, vice-president and e d u c a t i o n s y s t e m a l o n g w i t h benefit. Both countries hold ample Chair professor of comparative policy at strengthening education as well as the opportunities that can be exploited in the Hong Kong’s Lingnan University says, economy of the country. best possible manner through ‘closer “As a developmental state with a strong developmental partnership’. ‘Make in political will to do well globally, the India’ is acting as an excellent facilitator Chinese regime will try every means to What benefits will the students get? in inviting potential partners and position the country and steer the investors around the world. It has Knowledge exchange and technology resources from the whole nation to make significantly attracted China, having vast transfer sure some of their selected universities foreign exchange reserves waiting to be Both the countries are developing rapidly become globally leading”. China is deployed overseas to invest in India w h e r e t e c h n o l o g y t r a n s f e r a n d b u i l d i n g s o m e r e s e a r c h - b a s e d where the cost of capital is still relatively knowledge sharing can act as a catalyst universities that are able to compete with high. for development. The common goals can the world's best institutions. Economic development and enhancing be achieved through cojoint efforts. In his first class on 5 Nov 2014, after human capabilities through higher When two universities collaborate, it taking over as Honorary Professor at education and skill development go hand results in abundant knowledge sharing Peking University, former President Late in hand. In May 2016, Hon’ble President not only at the student level but the faculty Dr APJ Abdul Kalam called for Sino- Shri Pranab Mukherjee witnessed the too undergo new experiences. It assists in Indian joint space collaboration and signing of MoUs between ten universities opting for the best academic practices and interface between universities of the two of India and China to create a standards. countries on development themes. “I “collaborative platform for academic believe that the very act of universities of cooperation in the areas of research and the world working together will be a education, joint seminars and exchange major factor in better understanding of the o f f a c u l t y a n d s t u d e n t s ” . T h e different cultures and contribute collaborative research projects with significantly to the peace and prosperity Chinese institutions could lead to better of the world”, Dr Kalam said. a c a d e m i c s y n e r g y a p a r t f r o m understanding of issues of mutual Many Chinese universities and industries interest. The MoUs aim to bridge regional have shown keen interest in the Prime educational disparity in both countries Minister’s call, and have collaborated and fill the knowledge gap. with Indian universities in recent times. We can name a few like, The Indian

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u and and full i 76 et n n o e b e of to y d d n e s Proud to be part of Dean's List Dec 2016 DEAN'S LIST Dean’s List of Students o promote excellence in academics and to recognize outperformers, students scoring a CGPA of 9.5 and above are included in a selected Dean's List. This achievement is reflected in their degrees. They form a think tank for the University's Tacademic reforms, and enjoy special privileges and pride of place in the University. They are specially invited to conduct distinguished visitors to the University. This policy has worked significantly to encourage students to strive towards making the grade to be on the Dean’s list.

Odd Semester 2016 SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING& AKSHAY KUMAR BHATIA RAVEENA TECHNOLOGY DIVYA BAJAJ RISHAB GABA SAHIL SHARMA RITIKA SHARMA AARUSHI GILOTRA SARTHAK AGARWAL SIDHARTH SHARMA GUNJAN SHRIVASTAVA NITIN VIBHOR MITTAL KIRTI PANKAJ DAGAR ABHISHEK JAIN SURBHI SHAH SUKRIT SHARMA AISHWARYA BASOTIA VANDANA SONI AADITYA VERMA HEMANT HASIJA ABHISHEK JAIN ISHANT BHARDWAJ SCHOOL OF LAW AKANSHA MALLICK RADHIKA AGRAWAL OJASWI KULSHRESTHA ARCHITA RAJ SIMAR PREET KAUR MUKUL SHARMA CHARISHA PHIRANI MEHEK CHANDNA TANISH KHANDELWAL GEETIKA SINGH RAHUL SHARMA AROHI KASHYAP PIYUSH SAMBHAV DALAL MOHIT VATS RAHUL VIKAS KUMAR TASHI VAISH SHUBHAM GARG VINIT HIMANGSHU RATHEE SMIRITHI RAMASUBRAMANIAN BALJINDER SINGH ANUBHA YADAV SURBHI PAPREJA MAYANK JUNEJA VARUN KAPUR NIKHIL JUNEJA PG AADISH GOEL JITENDER VERMA SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & ADITI GUPTA SUMIT JAIN TECHNOLOGY CHHAVI JAIN TANYAM ANKITA GUPTA DINKY KHATRI DINESH DANGI NINNI VAISHNAV MADHUR BAHL SUYASH ABHAY GHIRNIKAR PURNIMA YADAV RUCHI ARORA LAVEENA GARG NEETU GOEL SAKSHI GARG PREETI DAGAR DEVANSH BHATIA SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT GARIMA BHAYANA KHANAK ARORA MITASHA SAPRA LAKSHAY CHAUDHARY SANDHYA JATIN ARORA NANDINI GUPTA APOORVA MANGLA VIMAL DAHIYA ROHIT MALHOTRA KAJAL JAIN SHREYA CHADHA NIHARIKA MARYA

Dean’s List students had a date with the Vice-Chancellor on 27 October 2016 - a dr32eam occasion for a studentsof The NorthCap University, to be in the company of an exclusive gathering and to be recognized amongst his or her peers. The inspirational meeting with the Pro-Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor was followed by a group photograph.

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