Volume VII, 2016
REFLECTIONS ach time I get to say something for this column, I have done so with a feeling of more pride Ethan before. This time, I owe that pride to the position Ramaiah University has found itself- in the top 100 universities of India in 2016.
Our lives today move faster than ever, thanks to the pace that society is moving. Every event that happens, scientic or social, is reaching out farther, stronger and longer than ever before. As an Bowling Robot for World Robot Olympiad, 2016 academician, I can’t help often brooding over the research challenges that are created in the wake of Acknowledgments such change. The editorial team sincerely thanks Dr. S. R. Showcased in this issue are articles from faculty and Shankapal, Vice- Chancellor, Ramaiah students that reect their pursuits from research thru adventure. I and my team hope these interest you, the University of Applied Sciences for giving the reader, to forge or strengthen your relationship with opportunity to bring out this seventh issue of the university. ‘Reections’. The team also thanks all faculty, Dr. B. V. Vijay students and staff who have contributed Editor to the content of this issue.
Dr. B. V. Vijay
Dileepa C. Dr. Arun R. Rao
Editorial Team Vignesh R. Dr. Ashmitha K. S.
Goutham N. Chiranjith Barui
Dr. Neena Prasad Ms. Sathiya R.
Mrs. R. G. Shilpa Contents
4 What is required to make a “Global University”? - Dr. S. R. Shankapal
6 Future solutions could lie in the past… - Dr. S. Shrinivasan
7 Seriously, India Needs a Mission for Optimization - Dr. B. V. Vijay
10 The Road to Learning Can Begin Anywhere - Varun D.
11 Development of MoS Nano rods for Photovoltaic Applications- Dr. S. Srikari
13 Stability of Continuation of Solution of an Ill-Posed Inverse Problem - Dr. Deepak A. S.
15 Design of a Safe Modular Kitchen for Elderly Indians - Lohit H. S. & Chiranjith Barui
17 Analytics in Finance -Uday Jaggannathan Revenue management in the Airline Industry - Ms. Chandra Sen Mazumdar
20 Rapid Prototyping in Dentistry - Dr. Rakesh N.
21 Silver Jubilee Year of FDS - A Milestone Achieved - Dr. B. V. Sreenivas Murthy
25 “Be A Responsible Citizen – Begin Composting Your Kitchen Waste” - Ms. Supriya Rao
27 TECHNOCENTRE
30 SAMPARK
36 STUDENT PROJECTS
42 SERVICE TO SOCIETY
46 TRAVELOGUES OPINION What is required to make a “Global University”? - Dr. S. R. Shankapal country's scientic capability is quite and have international appeal. With time a university c o m m o n l y g a u g e d b y s o m e k e y , that provides an environment that attracts global Ademonstrated achievements. Some of these talent to teach, draws students from across the world include, for example, the ability to launch rockets, to its campuses and whose education methodologies deploy satellites in space, build nuclear reactors, and systems are comparable to the best in the world design and manufacture state-of-the-art defence will attain global recognition. By so positioning itself equipment, superior aircraft and automobiles. India such Universities will, in time, be recognised as is among the very few countries in the world that international brands. Harvard and Cambridge are, ranks in this list having successfully showcased its truly global universities, as they are able to attract the capabilities in these areas. Similarly, in the present best of talent from across the world and successfully knowledge era, countries are vying each other to combine all these in a truly, multi-national and multi- position at least a few of their own in the list of Top cultural environment to attain global recognition and 100 Universities in Global Rankings. It is widely educational excellence. The building of a global believed that the number of universities appearing in brand, therefore, requires enormous efforts to global rankings is a reection of the intellectual address the concerns and perceptions inherent in a capabilities of the academic, talent pool in that given cultural and geographic setting and embracing country. By guring in the Ranking Lists these a vision that will prepare the institution to attain universities are in a strong position to differentiate global acceptance. themselves and compete in the open and transparent international education markets. Despite India Global universities address global issues. The enjoying a fair amount of success by contributing to purpose of education is to make humanity more contemporary technologies, in the Information intelligent, knowledgeable and wise enough to technology sector, no Indian University has, as yet, address global challenges. To list a few: achieving been successful in featuring in any of the top hundred sustainable development while addressing global university lists published by Times Higher climate change; provide access to sufcient clean Education, QS or Shanghai Ranking systems. As a water without conict for everyone; balancing country which has set its ambitions to be a world population growth and the demand for resources; player it is high time that India focused some of its replacing authoritarian regimes with genuine energies into the education sector so that some of its democracy or other collaborative forms of Universities will elevate themselves to Global government through change processes that are University status. By denition, global universities a c c e p t e d b y a l l ; m a k e i n f o r m a t i o n a n d are those that appear in the Global Ranking Systems. communications technologies benet the lives of In this context, it is necessary to examine what it takes everyone; establishing ethical market economies that to become a global university. help reduce the gap between the rich and poor; combating the threat of new and re-emerging A university that aspires to be recognised as a global diseases and micro-organisms; drawing up new university may have to adopt systems and practices security strategies to reduce ethnic conicts, check that are globally acceptable and have global terrorism and the use of weapons of mass destruction; relevance. As a start a global university may need to meeting the growing demand for energy safely and induct, into its governing body, eminent efciently; accelerating scientic and technological educationists of different nationalities to reect the development to improve the condition of human international positioning and outlook. The beings and infuse ethical considerations into global University should move towards maintaining a truly decisions. These global issues need to be solved for international mix of faculty members that will cover achieving a society that can co-exist on the planet the diverse communities to be able to provide harmoniously. It is but natural that the solutions to comprehensive education to students who will come such global issues are expected to come from from different countries and from diverse cultural Universities which house global talent. In a practical backgrounds. A global university, therefore, requires context, however, in most countries, universities are to have access to sufcient nancial resources and unable to undertake research to address these global attract global human talent to attain the global status issues mainly for want of adequate funding. 4 REFLECTIONS OPINION
A global university educates global students. A The mantle of a global university should not be global University should be able to attract casually assumed. It imposes signicant international students coming from different responsibilities on all members of the university countries with diverse ethnic background and all community. Accepting the responsibilities requires students should be allowed to express themselves knowledge and understanding that implies an without bias or discrimination. educational task in itself.
Cultural openness is a critical pre-requisite. Simply The realisation of the dream of producing a global being open to the presence of international faculty university, for any country, does not come easily and members and students does not make a university so also for India. It is not also sufcient that a country global. Indeed, if there is no real cross pollination of spends huge sums of money to push some of its students, coming from different nations, then the universities to global university status. Other actions University campus is destined to become a set of silos. should be taken, in tandem, to support the cause of The willingness to embrace attitudes, pedagogies and Global University dream. For example, it is essential systems from beyond the national context is that federal and local governments pledge their necessary. This does not mean throwing away or support and commitment, populations are educated setting aside the unique contributions that a to accept cultural diversity and increased levels of particular location or institutional tradition might tolerance amongst local communities, faculty make in the process of globalisation but it certainly members are encouraged to actively think about means being comfortable going beyond them. global challenges, strategies, and educational practices. To put it succinctly it is the equivalent of A global university has global partnerships. A global converting a city like Bangalore into London or partnership is to be built on complementarity with the Boston and making members of faculty think like collaborating parties gaining mutual advantage. A Harvard or Cambridge University professors while global university understands that the world is a big educating the local population to think global, act place. It knows that it cannot be omnipresent and that global and consciously contribute to make the local it must make choices about where to focus its efforts. environment attain the characteristics of a true, The difference between a global university and a global, melting pot. national or regional university is that those choices are made with a view to opening up to global inuences and contributing to the global scene rather than take decisions that are driven purely by local nancial imperatives. It also understands that pursuing a strategy to go international is a long- drawn effort requiring patience as partners will take time to understand, bond and take actions to assimilate each other's unique contributions to enrich the pool of knowledge.
Finally, but most importantly, a global university should educate its students to become global citizens and prepare them for global careers. This is easy to prescribe but hard to implement given the multitude of barriers that exist; many of them being man-made! It covers a wide array of challenges from certication and accreditation, at the more straightforward end, and all the way through to ensuring that the curricula includes international problems and to the teaching of the much more complex soft or transferable skills that a global citizen must possess. These importance of these skills should not downplayed in the belief that an internationally diverse staff and student body Dr. S. R. Shankapal is Vice- Chancellor, Ramaiah will sufce to make a global educational experience. University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru REFLECTIONS 5 OPINION Future solutions could lie in the past… n developing countries like ours, the future may - Dr. S. Shrinivasan seem bleak when we consider some problems we Ihave to face regarding essentials like food, potable water, medicines and convenience. Dr. Meinke of Tasmania University opined that we need to produce as much food in the next 50 years as we did Dr. S. Shrinivasan is Professor in the entire 10,000 years history of agriculture! In a and Head of the Drug Design similar context, the M S Swaminathan Research and Development Research Foundation observed that growing rice and saline Centre tolerant plants could be a means of food security. Likewise, desalination of ocean water as an alternative to parched rivers is a probable solution to paucity of potable water. Among other areas, speed of solutions in electronics will never reach a point of satiety. Today two or more electronic gadgets can readily communicate / transfer data among themselves. Maybe someday, thinking wishfully, two minds may be able to communicate/ transfer information too?
India, despite being a developing country, has an enviable abundance of scientic and intelligent talent amongst its young citizens, if groomed properly. In literature available. This may itself be a beacon for the elds of pharmacy and drug development, it is new achievements for the drug researcher who may probably safe to say that new application of old dare to veer off the beaten track & employ novel “established” drugs are albeit less harmful than resource utilization. This 'piggy back' approach is one newly tested molecules. Some examples of this trend: of the shorter routes to drug discovery. With no Aspirin (pain medicine) has a new use in bowel patent protection on the old molecules and big cancer; Metformin- a safe and cheap diabetes drug as companies disinterest to pursue research on them is an anti-ageing compound, Cimetidine (used for in itself an opportunity. Also, prior to the days of GERD) may be used for lung cancer. It's great that Google search, published / unpublished research many drugs are off-patent and cheap, but using them work, were archived in universities library (store) as in a new way still requires a clinical trial to test their Masters' & PhD thesis. Reviewing (scratching) these efcacy but without the risks of new adverse events. works may open up new opportunities to view the concepts with a new /novel scientic approach. This Another opportunity to aid this “reinvention” can be may offer pleasant surprises in discovery and found in a relatively new eld- Data mining/ Data inventions to a sharp mind. analytics; the current drugs and the drugs which have lost the glamour (old drugs – deleted from current To explore this concept of “reinvention” and drug usage) could be revisited and the data analyzed to see discovery, can we hope for Centers of cooperative if the properties can be used benecially in a different focused research (this can itself become center of group of people or a different disease. During the Excellence later), or a chain of contributive research in clinical trials of drugs, the focus is on treating the a particular topic / concept / area? Colleges or specic ailment. However, is it possible that the universities with research facility in a city or province undesired effect or any other unfocused drug action can collaborate and work towards all / different may be recorded but not recognized? This could be aspects of the focused area / theme and explore what easier or a challenge for the group of analysts who all could be done. This could turn out to be a resource could review to re-position/ remedy / re engineer/ hub in that eld. Currently, it is difcult to say if a renovate / nd a way to block the undesired effect of model like this exists in practice. Can the the drugs deleted from usage, by using newer governments or institutions support reinvention?
6 REFLECTIONS OPINION Seriously, India Needs a Mission for Optimization
ptimization, as nearly everyone knows, is that - Dr. B. V. Vijay Ocomputational process aimed at achieving relatively high benets- to- costs in any system, tangible, or virtual. My own research work for D r . B . V . V i j a y i s instance has broadly to do with design shape Professor, Department optimization, in which one seeks an optimal of Automotive and geometric form of design to achieve high structural A e r o n a u t i c a l performance relative to its weight. Engineering
Having achieved quite impressive solutions in much of my academic research from a robust search tool I developed for ISRO not long ago, I should have been one somewhat contented academician.
But I am not and likely won't be, soon enough.
Why? Because, doing optimization spurs one into thinking far and wide rather than narrow and deep. And to me, viewing the nation as one wide eld where the game of life is being played by some 130 crore people today, optimization's presence seems no larger than microscopic, if at all.
If 'right' infrastructure can bring synergistic gains, so We'll rst sample this relatively recent news article can synergistic losses result from bad infrastructure, from a popular international newspaper, on Jun 15th, something a developing nation like India can ill- 2016. It mentions that worldwide infrastructure afford! That is my motivation in proposing a national spending needs a boost, and in particular, India needs mission for optimization. to be spend an additional 67,000/- crore INR or more every year, all the way until 2030. On the other hand, So what do I see as scope of the mission? China and Japan are spending more (negative red Infrastructure? Right, and everything else as well. In bars in the graph) and can afford to cut down on this an 'optimal' number of words, the national mission's front. In hindsight, that liberal spending must have scope would cover any spending or investment that matters surely contributed to their superior economic status to the country's micro- and macro- economies. In more vis- a- Vis India's! familiar terms, that would mean agriculture, telecom, manufacturing, banking, transportation, hospitality, Now, infrastructure is to a nation as blood vessels are healthcare, education, social welfare, and even to any of us- the more of them we have, and the entertainment! healthier they are, the more energy our muscles can get with every heartbeat and the better we can work, The mission will need its own good resources of think and play! That is, gains from the 'right' course: human, and computing. But those resources I infrastructure are synergistic and payback a lot on believe will work to get the world to admire India for investment. long!
REFLECTIONS 7 Faculty of Engineering
Departments Automo ve and Aeronau cal Engineering Civil Engineering Computer Science and Engineering Electrical Engineering Electronics and Communica on Engineering Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Offers B.Tech Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineering Computer Science Engineering Electronics and Communica on Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering
M.Tech Aircra Design Automo ve Engineering Automo ve Product Design Electrical Machinery Design Automo ve Powertrain Design VLSI-System Design Turbomachinery Design Biomedical Engineering Civil Structural Design Construc on Engineering and Management Sanita on Engineering and Waste Management Transporta on Engineering Automo ve Electronics Computer Science and Networking Real me Embedded Systems Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems and Technology
M.Tech Sensors and Control Systems Engineering Digital Signal and Image Processing Electronics Systems Design Engineering Signal Processing and Communica on Technologies Advanced Machinery Design Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Engineering and Manufacturing Management Robo c Engineering
STUDENT OPINION The Road to Learning Can Begin Anywhere
A doctoral programme teaches one and all to be researchers. A research student is always considered an apprentice in his/her eld. Learning from his/her advisor and others in the eld the current state of affairs, the language they use, the questions that remain unanswered, and the methods that can be applied to answer new questions is always necessary. A doctoral research is not proof that the person is smart, or of anything else. It just proves that one can demonstrate his/her ability to do original research, and to survive a system that is often unfair in numerous ways. Thus we can loosely state “Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought ” (Albert Szent-Gyorgyi). This statement is proved to be very true in case of my doctoral research. My journey was a straightforward one- completion of masters lead me to join M. S. Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies (now Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences) as a faculty in Electronic and Communication Engineering department. To my disbelief, a research project on building a Varun D. communication system was assigned on my rst Ph. D. Scholar, Department of Electronics and day of work. This project triggered the thought Communication Engineering process to see what nobody else might have thought. The discussions during this project my doctoral research. During the rst week I was phase resulted in Prof. Govind Kadambi completely lost. I did not know what I was doing enquiring about doctoral aspirations, this further or what I was going to do. This was the situation led to choosing a topic of interest. Being a for a few weeks into the doctoral research but the Communication Engineering student Cognitive rst presentation on the research topic was well Radio was one topic that has always fascinated appreciated which enhanced the condence in me so Cognitive Radio became the eventual my abilities. The rst presentation on the choice. Cognitive Radio also is of immense progress was all it took get accustomed to the interest due to its research prospects as well as it system. It's been three years since enjoying the is a concept where an end user becomes research. Many examinations have gone by since; independent of service providers for various it has been a great journey of learning and doing value added services in a mobile communication research. environment. The discussions on various other research projects aided me to formulate the objectives of my doctoral thesis. The beginning of my doctoral research is no exception. All beginnings are tough. It took a while to get the hang of the new situation I was in. I still remember how it felt at the beginning of
10 REFLECTIONS RESEARCH
Development of MoS2 Nano rods for Photovoltaic Applications - Dr. S. Srikari anostructured metal chalcogenides like
Molybdenum Disulde (MoS2), Tungsten Disulde (WS ), which have the analogy of N 2 graphene, have gained interest in recent years for increasing the efciency of heterojunction photovoltaic (PV) cells. A layer of Nano rods in solar cells provides a large interface for better charge Dr. S. Srikari is Professor, Dept. of separation and charge transfer along with reduction Automotive and Aeronautical Engg. in reection, resulting in an increase in the efciency Fig. 1 of solar cells. MoS2 has a direct optical band gap of 1.2 eV in bulk and behaves like p-type semiconductor at
room temperature. The absorption spectrum of MoS2 can be modulated by varying the thickness. Nano
rods made up of 2H-MoS2 can be used as separation tubes as they provide both absorption and separation chances. This project (Sponsors: DST-SERI) was
undertaken to develop MoS2 Nano rods with suitable
thickness on Si/SiO2 substrate using Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) technique.
Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) process is a promising process for development of Nano rods as it gives high purity substance with less wastsge. A CVD Fig. 2 unit was designed and developed, which has capacity to operate at 1100 C and a vacuum up to 10-4 Torr.
MoO3 and Sulphur powders were used as precursors
for development of MoS2 coating on Si substrate. Ar gas was used as carrier gas. The synthesis was done by varying annealing temperature, heating rate, gas
ow rate etc. MoO3 powder will be reduced by
Sulphur vapor to form volatile sub oxide MoO3-x. The sub oxides thus formed will diffuse to the substrate
and further react with Sulphur vapor to form MoS2 Fig. 3 lm. The heating rate used were 4-10 C/min and all the samples were held for 1 hour at the reaction temperatures with Ar gas being own at different
rates. It was observed that MoS2 Nano rods can be achieved at low temperature as 700 C. The coatings were done on Quartz and Silicon substrates and suitable temperature, heating rate and gas ow rate were arrived to obtain nanostructures. It was
observed that coatings of MoS2 has nanoparticles, Nano rods as well as Nano sheets (Fig. 1). X-ray diffraction studies done on the samples showed only
MoS2 peaks (Fig.2), conrming the purity of the coating obtained. Calculations of the dimensions of Nano sheets and Nano rods (Fig. 3). Further the crystal structure using Scherrers formula, investigation are being carried out to arrive at suitable
conrmed the development of nanostructured MoS2. parameters to obtain desired morphology and higher The structure on Silicon substrate showed more yield of the Nano rods.
REFLECTIONS 11 Faculty of Science and Humanities Offers Departments M.Sc. Physics Applied Solid State Physics Chemistry Optoelectronics Mathema cs Nuclear Physics and Technology Analy cal Chemistry Industrial Chemistry Medicinal Chemistry Applied Mathema cs RESEARCH Stability of Continuation of Solution of an Ill-Posed Inverse Problem Dr. Deepak A. S.
Dr. Deepak is Professor and Head, Dept. of Mathematics
REFLECTIONS 13 Faculty of Art and Design Departments Offers Industrial Design B. Des. Fashion Design Product Design Visual Communica on Fashion Design M. Des. Product Design
Computer Anima on & Game Design Rural Product Design Commercial & Retail Design Fashion Design RESEARCH ARTICLE
Design of a Safe Modular Kitchen for Elderly Indians - Lohit H. S. & Chiranjith Barui he project aims to design and develop a safe and ergonomic modular kitchen for senior Tcitizens empathising on their physical and psychological necessities. The conceptualized kitchen will be built and tested to meet the requirements of the elderly in the Indian context. The objective of the project is to develop a modular kitchen for the elderly addressing their physiological and psychological needs. Lohit H. S. Chiranjith Barui The demographic projections indicate that by 2050, 20 Head, FAD Asst. Professor, FAD percent of the aggregate populace of India will be the elderly individuals as reported by the United Nations P o p u l a t i o n F u n d ( U N P F ) a n d H e l p A g e International. As indicated by the GfK (2015), Indians spend on an average of 13.2 hours per week in the kitchen. As per the Maguire M. et al (2014) journal paper titled “Kitchen Living in Later Life”, for a sample size of 48, 35% of elderly people suffer from poor sight, 27% from hearing limitations, 79% with mobility issues and 40% with strength and dexterity related issues. The present modular kitchen designs do not address these issues, hence the elderly continue to be subjected to discomfort in the kitchen.
carrying out their daily kitchen activities with ease and minimum effort and dependency is essential. This would help in building a sense of independency The kitchen is an important hub of people's homes. It and delay the need to opt for assisted care. is a space where activities like cooking, dining and having tea with friends happens. The elderly people A comparative analysis of collected data would be in our country often nd it personally satisfying to performed to identify if the elderly can minimize the continue with familiar kitchen routine that they have effort to carry out their daily kitchen activities been doing throughout their lives. A new kitchen without any assistance Improvisations on the designed that would meet the physiological and developed test prototype to be executed to suit the psychological needs of the elderly and assist in special needs of the elderly.
REFLECTIONS 15 Faculty of Management and Commerce
Departments Management Studies Commerce Offers MBA M Com Marke ng Management Accoun ng and Taxa on Human Resources Management Banking and Finance Opera ons Management Financial Management Small Business and Entrepreneurship Innova on and Entrepreneurship MHA Hospitality Management Hospital Administra on Pharma Business Management BUSINESS ANALYSES
Analytics in Finance be avoided with the use of algorithms to detect non- - Uday Jaggannathan performing assets. Overall banking performance can be measured and then improved using benchmarks. The use of machine learning techniques to can be Uday Jaggannathan is Asst. deployed to identify potential fraud. Professor, FMC A paradigm shift in computing has shifted from mere t r a n s a c t i o n p r o c e s s i n g t o i d e n t i c a t i o n , categorization of information followed by decision making post processing of vast amounts of customer n the fascinating subject of nance, information is, information. The result is improved performance, well almost everything. Asset prices quickly fewer defaulted loans and a streamlined environment adjust to new information and there is no more I to manage risk events in the nancial sector. prot to be had or loss to be avoided. In the context of information, nancial services and banking rms have to ever adopt a framework for decision making Revenue management in the using relevant, real-time data in large volumes. The Airline Industry nancial industry is the most data hungry of all and - Ms. Chandra Sen Mazumdar per rm, an estimated 3.8 Petabytes are managed on average, according to estimates. Ms. Chandra Sen Mazumdar is Asst. In another estimate, more than 80 percent of data is Professor, FMC unstructured or in text form in large nancial institutions. The opportunity to integrate channel, customer and geo- locational data is colossal for With liberalization of the airline sector, airlines are analytics as a platform in such organizations. faced with the added nemesis of appropriate capacity utilisation and pricing, in the face of competition. In the insurance sector, unstructured text information Introduction of no-frills, low-fare ights means an collected from the customer could be integrated with increased customer base for airlines. Liberalization of the claims data in order to offer a streamlined the Indian aviation sector also means that airlines can customer experience and reduce fraudulent claims control their fares. Low-fare airlines follow a third which may be made. degree price discrimination and segmentation of the market, charging a higher price to the market with a A large US bank used big data analytics in order to relatively inelastic demand. Customers booking early nd that a drift of customers from their bank was due with low-fare airlines will normally nd much lower to absence of modular solutions related to cash prices if they are prepared to commit themselves to a management. This helped to reinvent themselves and ight by booking early, on the justication that the offer better solutions related to cash management and consumer's demand for a particular ight becomes future such drifts were prevented. more inelastic as the service time approaches. This is possible thru what may be called differential pricing.
Differential pricing brings with it two advantages. Firstly, it encourages the price- sensitive customer, who would have otherwise travelled by rail or road, to travel by air. Secondly, it allows the regular-fare airlines to maintain a competitive image in the face of the low-fare carriers. The differential pricing strategy brought with it the challenge of how to allocate seats Fig.1: Depiction of risk and return of 2,500 portfolios to each of the fare-classes such that the revenue constructed at random, with actual data. earned could be maximized. Revenue management problems in the airline industry attempt to answer the problem of capacity allocation and pricing in the face Risk analysis is a key area of nance and bad loans can of competition, to maximize the revenues earned by airlines. REFLECTIONS 17
RESEARCH
Rapid Prototyping in Dentistry - Dr. Rakesh N. apid prototyping denotes a set of technologies that allow the realization of Rautomatic physical models based on design data, all through the aid of a computer. Though this technology has been around for two decades, it's relatively new in dentistry and is mainly used for mock surgeries and making customized restoration/implants Dr. Rakesh N. is Reader, Dept of Oral Medicine & Rapid prototyping techniques (RPT) offer new Radiology possibilities both in medicine and in medical education. Since its rst use in industrial design process, Rapid prototyping has covered vast territories right form aviation sector to the more artful sculpture designing. The use of Rapid prototyping for medical applications although still in early days has made impressive strides. Its use in orthopaedic surgery, maxillo-facial and CBCT images from Carestream CBCT machine dental reconstruction, preparation of scaffold for tissue engineering and as educational tool in elds as diverse as obstetrics and gynaecology and forensic medicine to plastic surgery has now gained wide acceptance and is likely to have far reaching impact on how complicated cases are treated and various conditions taught in medical schools. The use of RPT in dentistry is still however catching up and has been used for fabrication of surgical templates, performing Rapid Prototype Surface Models mock surgeries and fabrication of temporary dentures. Rapid prototyping. Rapid prototyping was done at Techno Centre Engineering, MSRUAS Peenya The objective of our study is to fabricate rapid Campus using Fused Deposition Modelling prototyped surface models of a) parotid and based rapid prototyping machine Dimension submandibular salivary glands and b) various BST 768. morphological forms of stylohyoid chain complex, from 3D reconstructed image obtained The models were fabricated successfully and in from the CBCT images c) CBCT angiography incredibly great detail. To the best of our model showing the external and internal carotid knowledge this is the rst time an attempt has artery and its branches. CBCT images were been made to rapid prototype this highly obtained from the archives using Carestream complicated head and neck structures. study CBCT machine (Model CS 3D 9300 ). The DICOM further opens the vistas of rapid prototyping and images thus obtained were segmented for the its applications in dentistry. These models can be required anatomical structure and further u s e d f o r e f f e c t i v e c l i n i c i a n - p a t i e n t converted to a STL format le using InVesalius communication, better diagnosis and presurgical 3.0 software. Preprocessing of the STL le was planning education and teaching tool for done using MeshLab v1.33 software and sent for students. 20 REFLECTIONS Silver Jubilee of FDS Silver Jubilee Year of FDS - A Milestone Achieved - Dr. B. V. Sreenivas Murthy othing in this world is as satisfying as a task well done. There is no reward as Npleasing as that which comes with the mastery of a difcult problem. I can boldly say that we have excelled in every initiative that we undertook and we have stood together in facing the challenges in realizing quality education. In all this, we have made every effort to be sensitive and compassionate to student in need. It is a matter of great pride that the Faculty has made Dr. B. V. Sreenivas Murthy is Professor & Dean, consistent progress, year on year, in academic Faculty of Dental Sciences and co-curricular activities and this year the faculty is celebrating its Silver jubilee. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences In the Faculty of Dental Sciences, we pledge to comprises a diverse, interdisciplinary landscape map academic excellence with virtuous human that complements, enables and facilitates value system, which in innumerable ways is research-related activities across all faculties. ingrained in the beliefs of our Institution. To The variety of potential topics and depth of achieve this, we strongly feel that a paradigm scholarly inquiry reveals the resources available shift in the minds of all stake holders should and the diversity of faculty research interests. necessitate as the college becomes the nucleus to With increased emphasis by the university on initiate and reinforce education. Our scholarly engagement, the opportunities for commitment to such education techniques undergraduate research will continue to persists in all our endeavors. Therefore, the increase. This includes research-based courses, system of education should work as a catalyst for and funded projects that provide a useful each student to balance his core strengths in the introduction to a given research area. learning experiences originating from our teaching Institute. The Faculty of Dental Sciences aims to deliver competency based dental education with inter & Modern education, curriculum development multi-disciplinary approach adopting global and teaching methodologies have been kept in educational practices to create competent dental mind for our vision and future goals. Holistic surgeons with empathy and ethics intact. The education should include all round development faculty also emphasizes development of critical, of a student. This will require tremendous self- analytical and problem solving abilities in its motivation on the part of all concerned but will graduates and associates with a passion for be fullling for the student as well as the faculty. lifelong learning and independent thinking, for Consistently, we never hesitated to look into our developing and embracing new methods and deciencies and transform us to an efcient agent practices to provide efcient oral healthcare of social change. Our students' success cannot be services. dened by qualications alone. Students graduate from the institution as dynamic and As the late A P J Abdul Kalam said “The purpose impactful global citizens, equipped to play a of education is to make good human beings with leading role in whichever walk of life they skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings choose. To achieve this, students are encouraged can be created by teachers”… our entire faculty to participate in the extensive array of endlessly encourages and guides students in all opportunities which exist beyond the classroom. facets, for their complete development. REFLECTIONS 21
Faculty of Hospitality Management and Catering Technology
Departments Offers Food and Beverage Produc on BHM Food and Beverage Service Bachelor in Hotel Management Management Studies - Hospitality Front office Housekeeping MBA Hospitality Management degree RESEARCH
“Be A Responsible Citizen – Begin Composting Your Kitchen Waste” he words garbage and waste immediately bring - Ms. Supriya Rao to our minds ugly pictures of overowing Tgarbage bins and images of dirt, lth which is Ms. Supriya Rao is Asst. something that people dislike and avoid looking at. P r o f e s s o r , F a c u l t y o f Garbage when left open putrees and hence stinks. It Hospitality Management and also attracts ies, cockroaches, mosquitoes, pigs, dogs, Catering Technology rats, cows etc. and all these serve as vectors of diseases. All human activity results in waste of some sort and this need to be handled with care if we wish for a clean environment.
Disposal of solid waste is a major issue of concern in India. Our very own city, Bengaluru is facing severe problems regarding waste and one sees almost all areas strewn with garbage. From the glorious title of garden city, Bangalore is now commonly referred to as the garbage city. With the onset of industrialization and the growth of population, the buildup of waste in the cities has caused a rapid deterioration in levels of sanitation and the general quality of life. based on a scientic principle that nothing ever really Waste is of three types; biodegradable, non- disappears, but changes shape and takes on new forms. biodegradable and inert. Biodegradable waste is When leaves fall and decompose, they are broken over commonly found in municipal solid waste (sometimes time by weather, micro- organisms and earthworms. called biodegradable municipal waste, or BMW) as Organic wastes (remains of living matter) can be buried green waste, food waste, paper waste, and in the soil to make compost or humus, the rich black dirt biodegradable plastics. The main environmental threat formed by the decomposition of animal and vegetable from biodegradable waste is the production of methane wastes. This is a great way to reduce the amount of in landlls. Methane is 21 times more potent a garbage one sends to the garbage bin. Segregation of greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide and accounted for waste at source is a must and is the rst step to its over 3% of total greenhouse gas emissions. effective handling.
Waste is usually handled by either dumping it in Bio-degradable (Kitchen) waste can be easily converted unsightly landlls or through attempts at recycling. into rich compost as I have been doing since the year Landll sites (also sometimes called "dumps") are used April 2012 in my small balcony using the composting as a depository for over ninety percent of the world's unit called the Kambha sourced from the Daily dump. waste. This is essentially disposal of waste materials by This has been the most fullling experience since I have burial and this approach has been used for many years. stopped adding to the waste of the BBMP. You too can be Leaching, (The movement of contaminants, such as a responsible citizen and manage the biodegradable water-soluble pesticides or fertilizers, carried by water kitchen waste that your home generates on a day to day downward through permeable soils) is generally basis. prevented by lining the landll sites with impermeable clay or synthetic materials however liner breaches do The set up and process is very simple. The Kambha- occur. There are a number of environmentally adverse composters consist of three pots placed one on top of the effects of landlls. These include groundwater and soil other. To use it, kitchen waste should be thrown into the contamination, release of the greenhouse gases like top-most pot and this pot should be replaced by the methane and carbon dioxide, harboring of diseases second one once it is full. It takes about 90 days to ready especially in poorer countries and nuisance factors (such one pot of compost. Most use the compost for their own as noise, odor, dust, etc.) for communities near landlls. gardens but some people sell it to nurseries for around Rs 20 a kilo. So generating compost is good for the Composting is one of the oldest forms of recycling. It is environment and can also be protable. REFLECTIONS 25 Techno Centre Comprises
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Design and Development of Low cost Wi- carried out in the phase 2 part of the 5KW Generator Fi Switch/Sensor Interface unit CFD is given below. The effect of the modications explained below on the ow and thermal characteristics of the generator was analyzed, The design and development of Wi-Fi switch compared and tabulated. involves the selection of smart Wi-Fi module, controller, Firmware development, GUI application Two geometry modications were done for the end development, PCB Design and fabrication, enclosure fan in the nal geometry with CFD simulations. For design and the server application development. one of them, blade prole is kept same as original but outer diameter is increased to reduce gap to 1.5mm The developed Wi-Fi switch has three main features, from 6.5mm. For the other, entire end fan is scaled up so that gap is reduced to 1.5mm.
Four modications in the outlets of nal geometry were made and a CFD study was done to check out the effect of these modications on internal ow and temperature. In one case, length was increased, in second, the number of outlets was increased. In third, the width was increased and in nal case, both length and width has been increased. Based on the different geometrical modication there was a drastic reduction in the maximum system temperature (∆T=18oC).
single click, double click and press &hold feature. Each feature is assigned to different functions that would perform specic application. The smart phone based application has been developed for the Wi-Fi switch conguration. The developed mobile app provides options for selecting the router which would be connected to the server internally. The manual jumper settings has been provided to change from AP Mode to STA Mode and vice versa. The developed Wi-Fi Switch is battery powered and is always in deep sleep mode to save the power and an external Reset button has been provided for wake up and system resetting purposes.
5KW GENERATOR Thermal Re-Design
In this project, a conjugate heat transfer simulation of a 5KW BLDC Generator is done. The major work REFLECTIONS 27 Directorate of Training and Lifelong Learning
“A very good knowledge transfer in limited period of time, Excellent representation, Very engaging and productive sessions, Overall an excellent program” - Mercedes- Benz Research and Development India Private Limited - Automotive Electronics
“The Trainers have very nicely & clearly answered all our queries. Kudos for covering too much too soon. The way trainers relate automobile solutions to the real world problems is really commendable” – Continental – Vehicle Dynamics Dr. Aakarsh : “The ICOI fellowship was an eye opener course to the world of implants, starting from the basics, to placing implants on cadavers, with a sophisticated lab to perform complicated sinus lift and ridge augmentation procedures, it was all like a dream come true. The best part of it was to have an amazing team of such dedicated and friendly staff, who stood by us, guiding us through every single step and clearing all our doubts, no matter how trivial. The entire program has changed the way I
Mr. Ponanna: “The contents of training program is good and we got lot of knowledge from the training classes. Even the placement opportunity by the “I got organization is also what I expected. good.” Good show overall. Thanks for good facility, food and hospitality” - Thermal Management in Aero Propulsion Systems
“ECG Interaction was very good. Overall session was very informative. Please conduct such sessions again so that we can update ourselves” – Basics of ECG Interpretation and Clinical Implication using Interactive Simulation Application SAMPARK
Nishitha K. A. R. Manikandan Engineering and Manufacturing Management Engineering and Manufacturing Management MME Department, FT-14 MME Department, FT-14
“…If you are determined to learn, no one can I am R.Manikandan. I nished my B.Tech ( stop you”. Back in engineering I always wanted Chemical and Electro Chemical Engineering) in an experience of practical implementation of Central Electro Chemical Research Institute in everything I had studied. I attended various 2010 and then started working in TVS Motor internship programs but somehow they just Company. After completing 3 years, my weren't enough. So when I decided to do my company had offered me an opportunity to masters I wanted an institution wherein I could pursue post graduate studies in MS Ramaiah study and implement it at the same time. Hence University of Applied Sciences in Bangalore. after much search and studying course material First of all, I would like to express my sincere I decided this college is where I wanted to study. thanks to TVS Motor Company and MSRUAS And this was exactly what I was looking for and for giving such a wonderful opportunity to it did not disappoint. The course provided all pursue my post graduate M.Tech (Engineering the facilities to grow in all directions from and Manufacturing Management) Course as a research based modules being able to full time student. concentrate on one subject at a time to practical knowledge with assignments backing up with The course was well structured and designed real time case studies. With the faculty being so based on module based teaching system which supportive in every aspect there is nothing more is very new to our education system. Each you can ask for. Although working in an module consists of written examination, lab test industry is completely different this course has and assignment. The assignment part was a new prepared me with various industrial visits, and nice concept designed by MSRUAS for assignments and projects that demanded real students to learn and explore a new and current work. trends across the world. Also, the softwares such as CAD, ANSYS, CES, Simulation are As Aristotle said “The roots of education are useful to apply in my organization. Further the bitter but the fruit is sweet”. This course has not latest concepts of design techniques such as only shaped my professional life but also helped reverse engineering, rapid proto typing and the me in my day to day life. I can condently say manufacturing techniques such as Kaizen, Lean, that I have emerged a total different person after TQM, and Six Sigma were well designed, these 2 long years marching towards excellence. developed, and delivered by the faculty And for that I shall always be grateful to members of MSRUAS. All the faculty members MSRUAS and all the faculty members. were very supportive and their friendly
30 REFLECTIONS SAMPARK approach helped to learn and explore new things The learning environment here is unique. and shared their enriched knowledge. The key Learning from experienced teacher itself is a gift. learning's for me are supply chain management, I was amazed by my department staff's greeting manufacturing strategy, TQM techniques, and and encouraging attitude in teaching us and Kaizen. The entire course was very interactive preparing us for the best in anything we do. Here with live case studies and simulations, which we are provided with advanced equipment and helped to understand practical applications. My materials in both oral health care diagnosis and group project was based on product design and treatment. Not only have I learned new skills but development. It was a great experience to design also how to manage the different situation and develop a product in our project. smoothly. We were taught for 3 years not only to master our speciality but also provided with My individual project was based on quality practice management skills to master our life improvement of painting process using six sigma. professional life too. It resulted in substantial benets of our company. The college has very good lab facilities, library, I am really grateful to god for making me a part and hostel rooms and the entire college of “PEDO FAMILY environment is well maintained by specialized team which was very impressive and admirable. I am really enjoyed my course in MSRUAS and am sure that the learnings will take me to next level in both personal as well as professional life. I strongly believe that there is a great difference in my thinking process after pursuing my post graduate studies in MSRUAS. Once again, I would like to thank my management, MSRUAS management, and all the faculty members of MSRUAS for their continuous support and guidance to complete my post graduate studies. Namita Nagaraja Product Design, Faculty of Art and Design, FT-14
When I was looking to study something creative and join a design school, the M. Des. program at M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences came to me at the right time. After having completed an undergraduate degree and worked for a few years, I knew that I could mould and make what I could, out of a postgraduate degree. Hence I worked hard right from day one. Elements of Design, Sketching, Pottery, Dr. Maladevi M. Creativity and Systematic Innovation were some Dept. of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry of the modules that I particularly enjoyed.
To start with my journey in M S Ramaiah Dental The M. Des. program at FAD helps an individual College and Hospital, I enrolled under the aim of reach his/her full potential and also participate improving my Professional skill but what I in various co-curricular activities. The structured received was more akin to an overall makeover! curriculum helped me in developing my own
REFLECTIONS 31 SAMPARK approach towards problem solving. My benets of the topic. MHA students had endeavors could not have borne fruit without the unhindered access to its two State of the Art support of the FAD faculty. I will always be hospitals i.e. MH & MTH. The theoretical aspects grateful to them for that. I will cherish my time were practically experienced by students in these spent at this school and also remember the great hospitals under very qualied medical staff. The connections I have made with progressive assignments really tested our understanding on thinkers and teachers here. the module and were focused on student's approach in solving the problem. The emphasis Equipped now with basic design knowledge, I was more on research and to bring it to practice. hope to successfully use it solve real world The nal project, research paper and group problems. I hope more students join FAD in the project helped us to practically apply the years to come and carve their niche in design.” learning which was enabled by our mentors, professors and medical staff.
To summarize, the course fulls the professional need of modern day Healthcare Administrators to cope up their skills with the expanding needs of healthcare sector. It is an excellent course which has enhanced my personal and professional growth.
Finally, I would like to thank the management Lt. Col. Nixon Harnal and staff of MSRUAS/MTH/MH for the MHA, FT-14 immaculate conceptualization, planning and conduct of the MHA course, which is nicely I am a serving Army Ofcer with a rich and designed to meet the requirements of modern diverse operational and administrative day Healthcare Management. experience. I was earmarked by my organization under its domain specialization scheme to undergo a two years MHA course from any prestigious and reputed UGC recognized institution. The aim was to facilitate my post course employment to administer various Healthcare facilities for Defence Forces /Ex Servicemen thereby, relieving medical specialists from administrative nature tasks and enabling them to focus on their medical cases. My Aneash V. Bharadwaj search homed on to MSRUAS; which is a institute M. Tech. in Aircraft Design, FT-14 managed by Gokula Education Foundation which has given a lot of reputed educational Engineering taught the engineering way institutions to the society that are popular all over enabling students to endeavour career goals is India. Ramaiah University. The university is multicultural, open, committed to research at the The syllabus of course is module based practical highest standards. I studied M. Tech in Aircraft education which is at par with top universities. Design at Ramaiah University and am now The entire course was well structured and very working as Junior Engineering Professional at interactive with live examples, which helped to Genser Aerospace & Information Technologies understand the practical applications and Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India. 32 REFLECTIONS SAMPARK
The best thing I liked about the university was Surgery, I discovered my interest leaning its tendency to provoke research ideas in towards the administration side of the hospitals. students and to allow them test a prediction. I wanted to pick up the line of hospital Student efforts are aided by the expertise in management in a good university and a hospital the specic eld of research that is the other attached college to get the required training and big motivation. I enjoyed the teacher-student skills for managing a hospital. I couldn't have feedback, contents of the courses and the found a better environment than MSRUAS for framing offered. Moreover, I have an pursuing masters in hospital administration, excellent memory of all my professors and where in we can get trained in a best possible way especially my thesis supervisors who were form the perspectives of a corporate hospital as always there to answer and to help me. The well as a teaching hospital. Both the hospitals entire 2 year process was time-oriented, combined contain about 700 plus beds and all the which made me work quick and efcient with required specialities and super specialities for time deadlines. Though I started slow, I could real time training and understanding on how a pick up speed eventually. In brief, my hospital functions. The entire curriculum is well experience in the module system was; “Take sectioned in a systematic way including an it thorough, one at a time. Time is the key to internship program for a month in a reputed unlock yourself”. It was during my M. Tech hospital for training in hospital operation. A six course I could understand the physics behind months module for dissertation exclusively for the subject and thus appreciate what I research work and exploring our interest in studied. The overall design ideas inculcated research is an icing on the cake for students who in myself, helped me to focus well on my are aspiring to continue their carrier in PhD. research during my thesis period. Overall, this intensive training has helped me in my The professors are impeccably good and always day-to-day tasks as a manager and a leader, available in their best possible way as and when such as reection, capacity to take a step back, n e e d e d . U n d e r t h e g u i d a n c e o f D r . allowing to gain a bigger picture of the Narendranath, chief administrator of M S solutions needed by a company and to Ramaiah hospital, who has an experience of 25 motivate people at work. I feel extremely years, is one of the greatest advantages of the lucky to have studied in such an environment program. Learning under him is more like a that allows me to conduct research on what blessing where u can imbibe a lot of practical interests me the most, so in all my time here I knowledge which is very essential for eld like never felt bored during the course. hospital administration. Our Head of Hospital Administration department, Dr. Shalini D is one of the most understanding and approachable HODs I have come across, with a lot of compassion towards her students as well as her position and not to forget to mention about her excellent teaching skills. The research faculty are highly experienced, educated and very helpful to students during the research period. On the w h o l e t h e M S R U A S f a c u l t y a r e v e r y knowledgeable, approachable and cooperative.
G. V. Khyathi The college provide a good library facility with MHA, FT-14 all the required books for references along with other add on facilities. As I will be completing my After nishing my Bachelors in Dental masters in hospital administration this REFLECTIONS 33 SAMPARK
September, 2016, I can proudly say that I am a in class which helped us understand the subject product of MSRUAS, which in the near future matter much better. The faculty was very will turn out to be one of the best universities in friendly, a quality which I feel is important for the India. M S Ramaiah institutions are already the students to learn their subject effectively. I felt at best in academics in many number of elds, and home. The one-to-one feedback that we were now is the time for its university to climb up on to provided at the end of each module, about our the top position, which is very evident to happen performance, proved to be very helpful to soon. Finally I express my immense gratitude to improve myself and try to avoid the same the institution and strongly recommend mistakes from repeating. We were prepared for M S R U A S f o r t h e e l d o f H o s p i t a l writing our nal thesis by doing our assignments Administration to my friends and acquaintances. every month in the rst year which required us to record them in a systematic manner.
In each module, we were recommended a careful selection of books, which were all available in the library, to give us a deeper knowledge on the subject. Reading those books helped me solve my assignments better! The library staff was also very friendly and they helped in searching for the books and research papers we wanted. The management and research methodology modules helped me prepare for my life after the university and provided an insight about how to Sanjhiya move to a higher position in an organization. The M. Des. in CAGD, FT-14 group project and nal thesis lead to me having a better understanding of especially software's, I had graduated in B.F.A. (Applied Arts), a few which we did not get much time to learn during years ago and had an acute desire to make a the modules due to the time constraint. In career in animation. During my search for the closing, I would like to express my gratitude to perfect course to launch me into this eld, I came the entire faculty for being so warm and across MSRUAS and it turned out to be the few welcoming towards us all and putting so much of rare colleges in India to offer a master's degree in their hard work behind us, and especially to Mr. my eld of interest. I found the course content, Abhilash B. S. and Ms. Archana P. Patil for from their website, to be quite interesting and making our classes so much fun! decided to pay a visit to the college. My visit proved that the faculty was dedicated and knowledgeable and the college had adequate facilities for my eld. And hence, my master's course at MSRUAS began!
It was the rst time I had experienced module system and it proved to give me ample amount of time to concentrate on a subject and prepare for it. The monthly assignment presentations that we had to give during the rst year, increased my Dr. Divya Saini condence to speak formally and organize Dept. of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry information. We learnt with explanations and videos and also did some practical assignments Having done my Master in Dental Sciences in 34 REFLECTIONS SAMPARK
Pedodontics and Preventive dentistry from undergo hospital administration course for Faculty of Dental Sciences I can say it is a great management of Field hospitals and eco-system of place to be in right from taking admission, and Ex- servicemen health care management. I was one nds the atmosphere very comfortable. posted in Bangalore and decided to join M S Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences The teaching staff places students in a (MSRUAS) to undergo a two year contact course. continuously challenging environment with high quality seminars and journal clubs and thus Joining an academic institution after a long gap the academic base they help us build is highly (last being in year 1990), came as pleasant commendable. The sense of freedom and surprise and more so, sharing academic space responsibility here ensures that students learn and time with young classmates was a different beyond classrooms. The department is well- experience altogether. The course which I equipped with sophisticated newer instruments, pursued was also totally different from the eld which helps the students to get a good clinical which I was serving. So in a nut shell, it was a hands-on experience. The department is actively total surprise and challenge for me. The involved in community outreach work. institution (MSRUAS) and the course were Numerous school dental health camps are guided by excellent faculty of professionals, organized by the department across various having in-depth knowledge supported by a government schools and special schools on a modern and dynamic infrastructure. Coupled regular basis. with these two factors, the practical approach to the curriculum was again a high point of the Being a north Indian, it has been a great course. experience to meet students from different cultural backgrounds and learn. However, the On completing two years of sabbatical, I have hostel and mess facilities could denitely be again moved back to my profession in Olive in a worked upon! new assignment of looking after the needs of “VETERANS and VEER NARIS”, true to the In short, the college inculcates a perfect blend of ethos of Armed Forces “CRADLE TO GRAVE”. I comprehensive knowledge, ne clinical skills also take this opportunity to place on record my and bright personality to create bright dentists of sincere gratitude for the faculty and staff of tomorrow. MSRUAS.
Soumen Adhikary MHA, FT-14
After completing 21 years in Armed Forces, it was conveyed to me by the organisation to REFLECTIONS 35 STUDENT PROJECTS Improving the Ride Quality of a Passenger active suspension system. Car by Implementing a Control Strategy From the study, for the given road input, the peak for a Semi-Active Suspension System displacement has reduced by 57.69% with designed the semi-active controller. The peak acceleration has also decreased by 13.92%. N. S. Sachin AEL (FT-14) Design and Development of Various Types of Blended Tea Brewing Machine
Three important metrics of vehicle dynamics is performance, handling and ride. Proper design of transmission, braking, steering and suspension D. Sumanth system are important to achieve desired vehicle PD (FT-14) dynamic metrics. Design of suspension system is important to achieve better handling and ride characteristics of the vehicle. There are various semi- active and active suspension technologies to In terms of dialectical thinking, the sector of vacuum overcome this issue. (the opposite of pressure) is still under study for implementation along traditional resource depleting processes. Here an apparatus is designed and developed to brew various types of blended tea. V a c u u m a s s i s t e d a v o r i m p r e g n a t i o n i s experimented. The key elements of the apparatus comprises o f a c o n t r o l l e d b r e w i n g c h a m b e r where variables such a s h e a t e r c o i l s , Passenger car FBD – Seven DOF vacuum pressure and air are regulated to In this dissertation work, a new achieve a quick brew control strategy for semi-active and increased infusion s u s p e n s i o n t e c h n o l o g y w a s rate. The air in the developed to improve the ride g l a s s c h a m b e r i s q u a l i t y o f a p a s s e n g e r c a r . regulated between Dimensions and suspension negative and normal parameters of the benchmarked atmospheric pressure. vehicle was considered and the Prior devices use mathematical modelling was developed using pressure systems to MATLAB/SIMULINK software. Both passive and infuse tea with water. semi-active suspension system was modelled. The pressure systems Controller design was implemented to the semi- are heat dependant active suspension model. The road input to both the and consume a lot of SIMULINK models was given in the form of a energy. specically created road prole. For the given road input, the peak displacement has reduced by 57.69% This study explores with designed the semi-active controller. The peak v a c u u m a s s i s t e d acceleration has also decreased by 13.92% thereby brewing technology proving that the ride quality can be improved by systems (VABTS) for a using the control strategy designed for the semi- 36 REFLECTIONS STUDENT PROJECTS quick brewing mechanism. The study mainly focuses n e c e s s i t y f o r on implementing design development process for a retrotting of the new product. The methods used for design s t r u c t u r e . W e b development were questionnaire survey and b o n d e d C R F P translating customer requirements to technical retrotting in joints is requirements through QFD chart. The requirements c a r r i e d o u t f o r were analyzed to arrive at Product Design specied joints and Specication (PDS). Concepts built on 3D modelling n o n - l i n e a r n i t e 3-D Model of structure software and study models were created for element analysis was visualization and one concept was nalized through carried out to determine the moment rotation considerations for manufacturability and assembly, relationship. and application of materials. The results of non-linear analysis conducted on Detailed specication and engineering drawing were retrotted joint showed generated and based on the same the nal concept successful relocation of was detailed and a prototype was built for testing. plastic hinge away from The working prototype was designed to be controlled the joint and increase in by a smartphone application. The beverage extraction its load carrying capacity was programmed for infusion for validation with a and moment capacity. user group The additional rotational Capacity curve stiffness generated by retrotting was incorporated Pushover Analysis to Evaluate Seismic in the exterior joints of the structure and results of the analysis indicates increase in base shear of the Performance of FRP Retrotted RC structure and the objective of retrotting was Building achieved with the FRP application scheme adopted in this project.
Results of the analysis show increase in base shear up Daniel Yumnam to 15.6% more than the design base shear for the given CSD (FT-14) lateral loading with the FRP application scheme adopted.
Structural Design and Optimization of Damages to the structure and loss of life due to All- Movable Horizontal Tail for Future earthquakes witnessed in the past has exposed the Combat Aircraft design and construction practices adopted for structures and generated a great demand for seismic resistant design of structures and performance Aneash V. Bharadwaj evaluation procedure for expected ground motion in ACD (FT-14) structural engineering eld. Non-linear static analysis or the pushover analysis is becoming increasingly popular for seismic performance evaluation due to its simplicity and also as it An all- movable horizontal tail (AMHT) can perform considers the post elastic behaviour of materials. roles of stabilization as well as maneuver that are important design 'drivers' of combat aircraft. A 3 storey model structure of plan 20mx10m (4 bays x However, the horizontal tail is susceptible to 2 bays) designed without considering earthquake aeroelastic instabilities such as divergence and utter, loads was chosen for seismic evaluation using for which stiffness and modal characteristics are pushover analysis procedure as specied by ATC-40 highly important. This study was thus an attempt to (Capacity Spectrum Method). Lateral loading for seek shape- optimum designs for a concept all- pushover analysis is determined by response movable horizontal tail from modal frequency norm spectrum method. Results of analysis revealed the criteria. This study was aimed at gauging the potential for structural performance improvement of REFLECTIONS 37 STUDENT PROJECTS a typical AMHT baseline. Towards this, shape- Case 3 optima were sought for a conceptual 'skin- grids' horizontal tail from modal frequency norm criteria.
Shape optimization w a s d o n e u s i n g GENSOLV, an in- house code which d r i v e s M S C - N A S T R A N f o r solutions. GENSOLV was run for a total of three cases, with ±20% allowable change in dimension in each case: Case 1: chord and span; Case 2: box depth; Case 3: chord, dramatic improvements of 235% and 579% span, and box depth. respectively, but accompanied by a marginal mass increase of 5%.
Case 1 Evaluation of Cardioprotective Effect of Capparis Sepiaria Linn. Root in Doxorubicin Induced Heart Failure in Rats
K. A. Dhanusha FPH (FT-14)
Capparis sepiaria Linn. known as 'Himsra' in Ayurveda is employed in folk medicine since time We clearly see that the modal frequency immemorial. In Ayurveda it is described as improvements are higher under box depth related 'Hrudayottejak'- cardiotonic. Currently used shape change, compared to shape changes related to cardiotonics have a narrow therapeutic margin and span and chord. When span, box depth and chord are their efcacy remains controversial. The present all allowed to cause shape change, modal frequencies study was designed to evaluate the cardioprotective are vastly higher than in individual cases. The large effect of alcohol extract of C. sepiaria root against difference is attributed to the dominant shell- like Doxorubicin induced heart failure. form resulting for the grids in Case 3 in contrast to cases 1 and 2 where grids were found dominantly of Cardiotonic effect of C. sepiaria root extract was plate- like forms. studied in vitro using Langendorff's heart perfusion assembly. In the in vivo study, Doxorubicin (2mg/kg, Results for Case 1 showed improvements of 5% and i.p, daily) for 7 days was used to induce 17% respectively in the lowest two modal cardiotoxicity. The protective effect of C. sepiaria root frequencies, with a 6% reduction in the structural extract was studied at doses 200 and 400 mg/kg and mass. Respective gures were 26% and 35% in Case 2 the effects were compared with the standard with a 0.7% mass reduction. Case 3 showed the most cardiotonic drug, Digoxin. The effects were assessed 38 REFLECTIONS STUDENT PROJECTS by ECG; serum SGOT, LDH and CPK. The effect of has been analyzed for predicting the temperature rise alcohol extract of C. sepiaria root on normal heart was in different parts of the motor. Thermal analysis of an also evaluated. induction motor of 15 kW has been implemented in computational methods such as Finite Element In the in-vitro study, C. sepiaria at 2 mg/mL Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics concentration showed a moderately signicant (CFD). Heat sources (power losses per volume) act as cardiotonic effect in the failing heart model. In-vivo input to the model. The thermal analysis of induction study revealed that ECG of C. sepiaria treated groups motor without and with ns have been simulated in showed a signicant decrease in QT and RR interval CFD tool at both 250C and 500C ambient prolongation and the serum SGOT, LDH and CPK temperatures under steady state operation at levels were signicantly reduced, in comparison with different design conditions. the disease control. The results were conrmed by the The simulation results are veried with theoretical histopathology studies. and compared with practical data given by ABB India Ltd. The simulation results conclude that the motor Thermal Analysis of Three Phase Squirrel with ns decrease the temperature by 15˚C at rated load and 6˚C at no load condition under the air ow Cage Induction Motor for Computation of velocity of 23.57 m/s. Geometric structure of each ns Minimum Temperature have been modied based on the temperature rise in different parts of the motor, which results temperature has been decreased by 0.11% and 0.26% at no load and rated load conditions respectively. The Sohail Khazi sensitivity analysis has been carried out by +/-10% EMD (FT-14) change in heat source for stator windings, which introduces the temperature in the motor by+/- 4.15˚C for rated load at 250C and 500C ambient temperatures respectively.
The induction machines are used widely in Development of Classication Algorithm industries. Even though induction motors are reliable for Epileptic Seizures using ECG Signal and robust in construction, the machine faces failure rate of 12% annually. Generally, sudden and heavy loads cause the overheating in various parts of the Nikita S. Valke motor. The temperature dissipation inside the BME (FT-14) machine exceeds the thermal limits; which results in vibration, thermal expansion and reduces the life time of the machine. Therefore, prediction of temperature rise in an induction machine by thermal Epileptic onsets often affect the autonomic function of the body during a seizure, whether it is in pre-ictal, interictal or post-ictal periods. In epileptic patients, the seizures affect Heart Rate Variability (HRV). This emphasizes the importance of autonomic function changes in diagnosing epilepsy. The epileptic discharge propagation activates the central autonomic nervous system, leading to cardiac changes, like tachycardia or bradycardia, which result in the variation of R-R Interval (RRI), in ECG signal. Thus, ECG signal serves as a potential biomarker in detecting signatures of epilepsy.
This thesis proposes an algorithm that classies a person as epileptic or non epileptic using ECG signal. analysis has been carried out in this present work. Twenty epileptic and twenty non epileptic ECG In this work, thermal analysis of an induction motor signals were sorted out from the collected data and REFLECTIONS 39 STUDENT PROJECTS subjected to HRV analysis. Time Domain Features Design and Development of Semi- (TDF) (mean, variance, standard deviation, RMS and Automated Wall Painting Equipment RR50) and Frequency Domain Features (FDF) (LF, HF, LFnu, HFnu and LF/HF), derived from the RRI of K. A. Nishitha, G. Sarika, ECG signal are utilised. In addition, Statistical R. Manikandan & T. Features (SF), Q and T2 statistics are derived from Sathiya Narayanan extracted TDF and FDF. The Support Vector M e c h a n i c a l a n d Machines (SVM) classier is used to classify the ECG M a n u f a c t u r i n g signal as epileptic or non epileptic based on the Engineering (FT- 14) extracted TDF, FDF and SF. Leave One Out Cross- Validation (LOOCV) approach is used to Wall painting along the years have been performed demonstrate the consistency of the classication manually through the use of scaffolds, ladders, or results. other equipment built around the subject therefore having raised many problems such as high personal The performance parameters such as specicity, risks, time consumption, skilled labour issues, classication accuracy and sensitivity of the proposed unclean method exhibits 95%, 97.5% and 100% respectively. w o r k Analysis on clinical data shows that the proposed environ combination of TDF, FDF and statistical HRV features m e n t , gives excellent classication accuracy provided the e t c . T o appropriate number of principal components are mitigate selected. The results indicate that the proposed t h e s e method can be applied to wearable heart rate i s s u e s , measuring devices, which provides an easy and s e m i - valuable diagnostic decision-support tool for doctors automat who treat epileptic patients. ed wall Product Novelty painting equipment was developed with adjustable height, for different types of wall painting applications. Using this equipment, one can reduce painting time and improve quality of paint application and health and safety of the operator.
To attain the nal product, voice of customer, market survey, and existing practises were studied. The ndings thus obtained were evaluated and through QFD and customer requirements were converted into product specications. The product uses rope drive pulley, variable frequency drive, AC induction motor, limit switches, counter, airless paint spray gun, adjustable height for vertical and base wheels for horizontal movement. These features have thereby made the product economical, easy to use, efcient, time saving and also portable.
Based on the trials made the speed of the motor should be kept at 0.1m/s, trigger position length is 5mm which gives productivity of 100 Sq. ft./hour when compared to conventional system of 31.25 Sq. TDF, FDF and SF were extracted from RRI of ECG ft./hour, paint consumption has reduced from signal to classify signatures of epilepsy. SF aid in 16.5ml/sq. ft. to 11.5 ml/sq. ft., painting cost from Rs. better classication. The classication accuracy 800 /day to Rs. 500/day increasing customer of the proposed method exhibits 97.5%. satisfaction. 40 REFLECTIONS STUDENT PROJECTS An Experimental Setup to Conduct Effect of Hemidesmus Indicus Var. Dynamic Analysis of One Span and Two Pubescens R. Br. Linn Root Extract against Span Beams Galactose Induced Cataract in Isolated Mir Basar Suhaib, Goat Lens Daniel Yumnam, N. K. A. Dhanusha, Joe I Pooja, Neeraj Nagesh Monichen, Ranjitha Kolli Ankolekar, M. Sri & Kanchan Prabha Harsha & K. V. Veena FPH (FT- 14) Civil Engineering (FT- 14) Indian Sarsaparilla, Hemidesmus indicus is an important drug in traditional system of medicine and is also known as Sariva in Ayurveda. It is used Vibration analysis of piping structures in industrial traditionally in the treatment of venereal and skin plants subjected to earthquake loads is of signicant diseases, arthritis, rheumatism, epilepsy, nervous interest in Civil Engineering. These structures can be diseases, tonsillitis, liver disease, syphilis, stomach idealized as simple beam structures for the purpose of disorders and also as an aphrodisiac to treat preliminary studies. The work carried out involves impotence. Hemidesmus indicus var. pubescens is setting up of an apparatus to carry out dynamic another variety of H. indicus. and var. indicus is analysis of one and two span xed beams. The reported to have antidiabetic and antioxidant dynamic response of one and two span xed beams properties. subjected to free vibration and motor induced vibration is studied. Four cases have been considered T h e p r e s e n t for the study. Three cases of one span xed beam s t u d y w a s having an effective span of 1200mm, 900mm and d e s i g n e d t o 750mm respectively and one case of two span xed e v a l u a t e t h e beam of effective length 1200mm where the e f f e c t o f intermediate support is provided at the mid-span i.e. m e t h a n o l 600mm. For free vibration, an initial displacement is e x t r a c t o f induced in the beam by simply tapping on the beam H e m i d e s m u s with a hammer and for forced vibration, a DC motor i n d i c u s v a r . is used to induce vibration in the beam. Frequencies pubescens root against galactose induced cataract in are obtained using Data Acquisition System. isolated goat lens. Methanol extract of H. indicus var. pubescens root at concentrations of 500µg/mL and A mathematical model of 1000µg/mL were used in the study and their effects the structural system is were compared with the standard drug Vitamin E derived using nite element acetate. The parameters evaluated were levels of method (unit load method) superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase, reduced and natural frequency has glutathione (GSH), total proteins, aldose reductase been found out. To validate (AR), malondialdehyde (MDA), Na+ and K+, Lactate the theoretical and experimental calculations of dehydrogenase (LDH), Sorbitol dehydrogenase natural frequency, the modal analysis of the problem (SDH), Sorbitol and Calcium. Both the concentrations has been simulated using ANSYS to obtain the of test drug (500µg/mL and 1000µg/mL) exhibited a natural frequency and mode shapes. The maximum signicant increase in the levels of GSH, SOD and variation between various methodologies was found catalase indicating their antioxidant effect. to be within 20% and the possible reasons for this could be the support conditions of the experimental In addition a signicant decrease in lipid setup and the non-calibration of the sensor. Also, FE peroxidation, LDH and AR activity was also seen. models are stiffer than the analytical models, they The study revealed that methanol root extract of H. yield higher values of natural frequencies. indicus var. pubescens possesses signicant in vitro However, with the current experimental setup it anti-cataract activity that could be accounted for its is possible to obtain reasonable results for one ability to inhibit AR activity as well as its antioxidant span and two span xed beams. effect. REFLECTIONS 41 SERVICE TO SOCIETY
he university organized a 2- day "Service to Society" on 29th and 30th Jan 2016, that reached out to many schools in Karnataka and the public in general. Awareness, cleanliness drives, Tand activities were conducted with high enthusiasm on both sides. All faculty and students participated in the successful programme, whose highlights are captured here. Many of the events found place in the local press as well.
CLEANLINESS AND WASTE MANAGEMENT HYGIENE AWARENESS SOCIAL AWARENESS AWARENESS AND CRAFT WORK AND DENTAL CHECK-UP
Govt. School, Hulibele village, Kolar Hegganahalli Govt. High School, Peenya Govt. Schools, Ramnagara, Karnataka Team Leader: Mr. Veerabhadra Team Leader: Mr. Srinivasa Team Leader : Dr . K H Anilkumar
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WOMAN SAFETY AWARENESS POND CLEANING SCIENCE KITS DONATIONS CAMPAIGN AND TREE PLANTING AND DEMONSTRATIONS
H.M.T. Higher Primary Bengaluru Railway Sta on Kannada School, Bengaluru and Surroundings Team Leader: Mr. Nagananda S N Team Leader: Dr. C. Narendra Babu
AWARENESS & HEALTH AWARENESS ON CLEANLINESS, CHECK ACTIVITIES HYGIENE, AND CAREERS
Boothanahosuru village, Karnataka Team Leader: Mr. H. P. Santhosh
CAD/ CAM SKILL ENHANCEMENT
Government High School Vijaya Jyothi Public School Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, HMT High School & Bengaluru Ramaiah University , Peenya Campus Radhakrishna Public School, Bengaluru Team Leader: Dr. T. N. Srikantha Dath Team Leader: Mr. Vijaya Kumar S. Team Leader: Mr. Balappa
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ACTIVITIES ORAL HEALTH AWARENESS CLEANLINESS DRIVE AND DENTAL CHECK UP AND DENTAL CHECK UP AND GROUP ACTIVITIES
Govt. Primary School, Siddanavasa Halli Sneha Jyothi Orphan Children Home Thagachaguppe Halli, Bengaluru Govt. and Private Schools, Devanahalli Team Leader: Dr. Rinki Sharma Team : FHMCT
Govt. High School, Mandikal Ramaiah High School CLEANLINESS AND Team Leader: Dr. Mahantesh HIGHER EDUCATION AWARENESS HYGIENE AWARENESS AND CAREER GUIDANCE CLEANLINESS DRIVE
Govt. High School, Nandigrama, Swami Vivekananda PU College, Karnataka Shivaganga and Lalbagh Chikkaballapur Team Leader : V . Nagendra Team Leader: Dr. Subarna Team Leader: Mr. Kiran Kumar
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CLEANLINESS DRIVE GENERAL AWARENESS HYGIENE AWARENESS AND GENERAL AWARENESS AND DENTAL CHECK UP AND DENTAL CHECK UP
UAS Campus School, Hebbal, Bengaluru Team Leader : Dr . Suman C.
GENERAL AWARENESS AND DENTAL CHECK UP Thyavanahalli village , Kolar Chiipinakere Village, Chitradurga Team Leader : Dr. S.D. Anitha Kumari Team Leader : Dr . T. Niranjana Prabhu
CLEANLINESS DRIVE TRAFFIC QUEUE STUDY AND GENERAL AWARENESS AT SIGNALS
Florida English School, Padarayanapura High Traffic Junc ons Government Junior college, Bengaluru Peenya Ramanagara Team Leader: Mr. Deepak V. Team Leader : Dr. B. V. Vijay Team Leader : Mr. Umesh
REFLECTIONS 45 TRAVELOGUE Disco Dancing in the 'Stans!!! road trip is like a travel none other. And to do that across 17 countries, 23,700 kilometers in over 95 days is life changing to say the - Ms. Rashmi Koppar A Associate Professor, FHMCT least.
It all began with Women Beyond Boundaries. Women Beyond Boundaries is conceptualized by Nidhi Tiwari and Smita Mazumdar. WBB is a platform to empower women drivers with skills to reach out to other women in far ung areas, in difcult terrain in order to deliver goods and services.
When Nidhi proposed this crazy expedition from Delhi to London in an Indian car, across 17 countries, my cousin Soumya and I promptly hitched our excitement to hers, packed our bags and jumped into the car. The three of us agged off from Dhyanchand Stadium on the 23rd of July 2015 and reached London on the 28th of October 2015, after having traversed across Myanmar, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, France and UK.
The Indian leg was surprisingly the most exciting and adventurous. All went as planned till Manipur. Driving from kohima to Imphal, we were stuck in the middle of the road due to a strike called at Imphal. The roads were blocked and we could not move further or go back to where we started. So, we were sitting in the car...with nowhere to go, watching the protesters pass us by, some with sticks and stones in the hand!! They looked on us curiously wondering what these women were doing on the road. One guy, drunk to his gills, walked up to us and started talking to us. We kept a straight face and humored him by making some polite conversation. He told us all about how we reminded him of his sisters back home...for about 15 minutes and then moved on. Phew!!! So we thought to ourselves, this is what we will have to endure for the next 7 hours!!! Then came another bunch of guys who rst passed us by and then came back curiously peering into our car. One of them told us that it was not safe for us to be sitting in the car during these protest hours and urged us to come to his house where he could organise lunch for us. We were in a dilemma now...to trust or not to trust? Just trusted our instincts and drove behind him to his house. When we parked the car outside his house, it was a by lane with a small wooden entrance and just as we parked, about 4 guys walked out to check us out. We were now getting slightly panicky! 46 REFLECTIONS TRAVELOGUE
Was it a wrong decision to trust our instincts and follow him? He kept asking us to come inside his house. We asked him where his family was and he urged us to come inside his house yet again. We stepped into his house with a lot of trepidation only to be greeted by the most welcoming smiling faces of his mother and two sisters. What a relief ! From then on, till 7 in the evening, we probably had a wonderful time. His mother cooked the most awesome pork and some authentic Manipuri food for us, after which we went for an off road drive to a picnic spot by the Sekmai river, he played the guitar for us, sang songs and made us feel so at home and like a part of his family. These were the rst of the many people we met en route who went out of their way to help us.
On completing the trip, people always ask us, what was the most memorable part of the trip? Well, the 'Stans! Driving through the erstwhile silk route was an onslaught to the senses from the quirky to the exotic, Las Vegas meets Purani Dilli.
Deserts, Mountains, High altitude lakes, Lush valleys, this region has it all! Dictators and nomads, yurts and palaces, the soviet detritus and the excitement of a new nation, over a 1000 years of history to explore and we were straining at the leash! We were completely blown over and amazed by the impact that the Indian culture has over this region, to exit. The fee included our accommodation and particularly Bollywood. It is almost reverential. We meals. Also, China requires an English speaking got the rst taste of this when we crossed over from guide in the car for self-drive vehicles. We also had to China to Kyrgyzstan. It was quite chilly and we were take care of the food and accommodation of the guide. waiting for the customs to clear our papers. This big The best way to go about it is to contact travel agencies and burly ofcer walks up to us and says, “ in these countries and they would process it for a fee Hindustan?” we nod yes and he gives us a big grin (and it doesn't come cheap!) and breaks into a gig, singing” Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy”!!! He then went on to ask us about Mithun Diesel was a problem in Uzbekistan in the sense that Chakraborty! they didn't have any! Had to buy in black and adulterated one at that. Ensure that the basic What's was like traveling as women through Central maintenance of the vehicle is carried out every 5000 Asia? These countries are Muslim, but of a more kilometers. Split your money between travel cards moderate, open and secular variety than you might and cash. If travelling in the winter, make sure that nd in parts of the Middle East. This combined with you are geared up with enough warm clothing. The Soviet and Russian inuence, can make Central Asia cold is brutal. We have the deepest appreciation and feel like the land of paradox. It never felt unsafe and respect for Bangalore weather post this expedition. we were treated like royalty. We for one felt like exotic Lastly, ensure that you pack an open mind and a spices on this silk route! whole lot of curiosity. Travel is liberating and the learning is immense. Another most frequently asked question is how easy or difcult it was to get the permit. The process is So, Next time you plan a trip abroad, we recommend laborious but doable. Myanmar and china require Central Asia. Just get off the plane/car and yell permits if you plan to drive. Myanmar regulations “Mithun Chakraborty”!! and let the magic unfold! require that an escort vehicle follows you from entry REFLECTIONS 47 TRAVELOGUE
Sri Lanka-Buddha's Abode
y visit to Sri Lanka with family was - Dr. Ashmitha K. Shetty incredible.Sri Lanka is lled with Reader, FDS Mromantic landscapes and peace huddling into the exuberant nature's paradise. As we landed in Colombo, the rst thing we did was check in to one of the beautiful resorts. After that, like any other Indian the rst place to visit would be religious places like temples. Pinnawala is notable for having the largest herd Gangarama Temple in Colombo situated near of captive elephants in the world. Elephant ride the scenic lake was mesmerizing .The country was an awesome experience. has no shortage of beautiful inspiring spots, natural, historic and cultural, each more picture Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is a Buddhist perfect than the previous. Majority of Sri temple in the city of Kandy. Tooth Temple!! I was Lankans are Buddhists. Watching sculptures of really excited to visit. It is located in the royal Buddha for hours will not be enough to satiate palace complex of the former Kingdom of Kandy, your desire to feast your eyes on beauty of which houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha. incredible merging of nature with harmony. The perfect combination of beauty and serenity. Beach resorts, exquisite cuisine, clean beaches, relaxed turtles ,palm trees ,cool breeze and Pinnawala Elephant orphanage, nursery and mesmerizing sunset …cannot be more dramatic captive breeding ground for wild Asian …should I leave this place? Can I live here elephants located at Pinnawala village. forever? Found it hard to leave!
48 REFLECTIONS TRAVELOGUE Weekend Ride To Lepakshi - Arun R. & Dileepa C. t was 25th September 2016, Sunday, a bright Asst. Professors (FET & FAD) weekend, with perfect weather for a road trip. We Iwere an group of eight young faculty from FET & FAD. The destinations planned were Nandi Hills, Lepakshi & Vidurashwatha. We had two bikes and one car. We set off for our journey from Hebbal yover at 7:30 A.M., taking the airport road towards Chikkaballapur, one of the best roads in the city. Our vehicles, overawed by the perfect riding conditions, roared on, with vigour, towards our rst destination for the day – Bhoga Nandeeshwara temple. We stopped breakfast at Devanahalli.
We reached Bhoga Nandeeshwara temple at 9:10 A.M. Located at the foot of Nandi Hills, the temple has beautiful architecture and provides few mesmerizing views of the hill surrounding it. The temple has a Shiva-Linga as the main deity. But the most talked about aspect of the temple is a pond inside. It is one of the most beautiful ponds and is a perfect photo-spot. By 10:30 A.M. we started towards Lepakshi and reached around 11:45 A.M. A huge monolithic Nandi (Bull, Lord Shiva's vaahana), standing majestically in a lawn, greeted us. As we entered the temple, we had a glimpse of Lord Veerabhadra Swamy, the main deity. We then headed towards the two main attractions of the temple – 'The Hanging Pillars' and the gigantic sculpture of 'Naagalinga'. The hanging pillars are called so We started our journey back by 4 P.M. The road from because there is a tiny gap between the ground and Gauribidanur to Bangalore was a single road and, to the base of the pillars. The 'Naagalinga' sculpture is a add to the woes, patches of civil work on the road, massive monolithic sculpture of the sacred every 3-4 miles, made our journey slow and bumpy. Shivalingaa seated over a serpent, protecting the We reached Bangalore at 7 P.M. 'Shivalingaa'. On the whole, it was a wonderful day, which By 1:45 P.M., moved towards our nal destination of involved 300 kilometres of riding, a visit to few of the the day – Vidurashwatha temple. After lunch at beautiful and sacred temples, a couple of new Hindupur, reached Vidurashwatha by 3:30 P.M. This acquaintances, and lots of fun. It is said that all good place has its roots during the time of Mahabharata, things come to an end. But I believe, this is not the end. where Vidura, a courtier of Hastinapur, planted a It is just the beginning. sapling of the 'Ashwatha' tree, and the tree stands tall even today. Hence the name, Vidurashwatha. The place consists of a 'Naga Devatha' temple and pilgrims install 'Naga Shila' to relieve themselves of 'Naaga Dosha'.
REFLECTIONS 49 AKAIRA and Freshers Day Sports Day 2015 University House, Gnanagangothri Campus, New BEL Road, M S R Nagar, Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA - 560 054. Tel: (+91) 80 4536 6666 (+91) 80 4536 6677 Email: [email protected] Website: www.msruas.ac.in