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Mr Paul Mundadan (Chairman) receiving the award for the ‘Best Institute for Excellence in Engineering Education 2018’ from Hon'ble Kerala Governor Justice (Retd) P Sathasivam

Federal Institute of Science and Technology Approved by AICTE, “駚uˊ†Ëo APJ €†Ð§ 2u§u­ WŠ˜®´§´”šu§ \®šÙŠÁŚËà &´Á­šÅ ;u”uÁŚ :´´¥¥u®®´´Á P.O., ®”u­u§àŰ 683 577, 2ŠÁu§uŚ Ph: +91 484 272527Ҋ­uš§ř ­uš§ơéÅuËşuşš® web: ÚÚÚşéÅuËşuşš® Focus on excellence FISAT Chairman's Message The speed of technological innovation FISAT !Á´®ËšŠÁÅ and industry demands is faster than higher education's ability to adapt.FISAT's Managing Committee Members collaborations with reputed national universities and industries helpstudentsto 1.Sri.PAULMUNDADAN bridge this gap. They get opportunity to CHAIRMAN,GOVERNING BODY learn and get ˆ¿É˜éˆdon new add on 2.Sri.VSPRADEEP- courses, get a real world experience of VICE CHAIRMAN,GOVERNING BODY corporate demands through internships, 3.Sri.SACHINJACOB PAUL seminars, workshops and other events and TREASURER, FBOAES hone themselves. 4.Sri.RAJARANARAYANA The incubation center at FISAT provides a VICE PRESIDENT, FBOAES platform for budding entrepreneurs with 5.Sri.ABDUL NAZAR M.P. innovativeideas by offering mentoring ASSOCIATE SECRETARY, FBOAES 6.Sri.JOJO K.J. support and facilitating industrial FISAT has along, distinguished traditionin ASSOCIATE TREASURER, FBOAES interactions. Consultancy activities, Super the 鈥„ of technical education embellished 7.Sri.GEORGEC.CHACKO Computer facility at Center for High with strong sense of commitment,focus on 8.Sri.E.K.RAJAVARMA excellenceand cognizance of ethical Performance Computing, Industry Institute 9.Sri.XAVIER GREGORY values. Our prime objective has always Partnership, Academic Counseling, 10.Sri. K.T. THOMACHAN etc assist studentsin completing their been, to inculcate in every student, 11.Sri.PAPPACHANTHEKKEKKARA wholesome educationinFISAT. unparalleledtechnical know-how ,strong 12.Sri.JENIBJ.KACHAPPILLY moral and ethical values along with I congratulate wholeheartedly, the editorial commitment and obligationtothe society. It team of Impetus, for presenting this next is the untiring, persistent and eternal efforts issue of College Annual Newsletter. u†Š­š &Šu†Å of allFisatians, which helps FISAT to stipulate quality and perfectioninall realms 1.DR. GEORGE ISSAC, of interest. Paul Mundadan PRINCIPAL 2.DR. C SHEELA, VICE-PRINCIPAL 3.DR. K S M PANICKER, DIRECTOR (ACADEMICS) Development by providing quality 4.DR. SUNNY KURIAKOSE, Principal's education and has thereby enabled the DEAN (STUDENT AFFAIRS) Message studentst o become globally competent. 5.DR. GEORGE V ANTONY, The fact that we are accreditedb yt he DEAN, FISAT BUSINESS SCHOOL NAAC with an A Grade isac lear example 6.DR.PRASAD J C, fort hat.W e have plans and dreams in the HEAD, CSE DEPT. 7.DR.JOSE CHERIAN It gives me immense pleasure to pen down years to come. Educationi s not an act of HEAD, ME DEPT. afew words as a preface to theFISAT acquiring knowledge but learning a skill to 8.DR.MINI P R , HEAD, ECE lead life and forming one's personality. This Newsletter, Impetus-2018. FISAT has 9.MR. UNNI KARTHA G, is an ennobling process of growth. I can stood above the rest in its approach to HEAD, CE DEPT. boldly say that we have excelledi n every technical education and in its pedagogies. 10.MS. PARVATHY R, initiativet hat we undertook and we have The ways we teach and the ways our HEAD, EEE DEPT. studentslearn are unique and creative. We stood together in facing the challenges in 11.MR. S SUNDARARAJAN, never hesitatetolook into our „ˆé˜ˆ¬˜ˆÃ realizing quality education. Iw isha ll the HEAD, EIE DEPT. and transform ourselves into an ˆ‘阈¬É very best to our staff and studentsf or 12.MR. SANTHOSH KOTTAM, agent of social change. Critics would success in allt heir endeavours in the HEAD, MCA DEPT. ²¬é¿« that FISAT has contributed upcoming year. substantially to the process of National Dr.George Issac IMPETUS FISAT 02 ...... NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY Inauguration of Founder’sDay Celebrations

PVMathew (27-9-1953 to 16-6-2017)

Our Founder Chairman

Our founder Chairman Adv. P V Mathew, expired on 16th June 2017. His vision and initiative were instrumental in the formation of this college. 'PUż–sÃż„ˆ˜„ˆ„żÉ²żˆ¥ˆ~¿sɈż–˜Ãż~˜¿É–„sÞżŬŇŌɖżPˆ¼Éˆ«~ˆ¿żŇŅņŌŭżsÃżÉ–ˆż ²Î¬„ˆ¿źÃż„sÞżˆ×ˆ¿ÞżÞˆs¿şżU–ˆżé¿ÃÉż‘²Î¬„ˆ¿źÃż„sÞż¼¿²’¿s««ˆżżØsÃż inaugurated by Mr. Shyam Srinivasan M D & CEO of Federal Bank; There was a commemorative lecture by Supreme Court Judge Sri. Kurian Joseph. Chairman of FISAT, Sri.Paul Mundadan announced ten socially relevant activities to sustain the memory of the great founder chairman P.V.Mathew...... NBA ACCREDITATION PROCESS IS UNDER WAY AFTER NAAC ACCREDITATION After the successful completion of the NAAC Accreditation with A grade, we are now preparing for National Board of Accreditation for all the programmes. Even though the preparations had started a couple of years ago, greater momentum had attained recently. A team of teachers attended an FDP exclusively on NBA Accreditation during February 12 - 16, 2018 in CUSAT.A one-day workshop on various challenges in NBA accreditation was conducted on February 17, 2018 by Therese Yamuna Mahesh from Amal Jyothi College of Engineering.Yet another two-day workshop as a part of 6-day FDP was organized during April 27- 28, 2018. The detailed exposition on Outcome Based Education was given during the workshop. Dr. S. Baskar from Thiagarajar College of Engineer- ˜¬’Śż8s„οs˜ŚżØsÃżÉ–ˆż«s˜¬ż¿ˆÃ²Î¿ˆż¼ˆ¿Ã²¬şż˜‘‘ˆ¿ˆ¬Éż²«¼²¬ˆ¬ÉÃż²‘ż? ż–s׈ż~ˆˆ¬żé¬ˆżÉ܈„ż~Þżˆs–ż„ˆ¼s¿É«ˆ¬ÉşżżU–ˆż9 ż¿ˆ„˜Ésɘ²¬ż committee consisting of representatives from all programmes is actively functioning for helping the departments for the successful implementa- tion of Out-come Based Education and successful accreditaion by NBA for all the programmes offered. IMPETUS FISAT ...... 03 NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY FISAT NPTEL LOCAL CHAPTER RECOGNIZED WITH GRADE 'A'

The National Programme on Technology based on the performance in NPTEL Online 2017, total 248 students successfully Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), ajoint venture of ˆ¿É˜ésɘ²¬ courses during the period January- completed different courses,122 students got Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian December 2017. During January- April 2018, Elite ˆ¿É˜ésɈà and two students got Elite+Gold Institute of Science, funded by the Ministry of a total of 122 students successfully completed cˆ¿É˜ésÉˆÃş Ms.ReshmiR,Asst.Professor, Human Resource Development (MHRD) has different courses and 79 students got Elite Senior Grade, CSE Dept. is coordinating the accorded FISATs local chapter with a rating of A, ˆ¿É˜ésɈà and during January- November activities of NPTEL in FISAT Campus. Toppers of NPTEL Exam

Lakshmi Nandakumar Raji P Sheelu Susan Mathews JeslinPJ Faculty- Dept Of EIE Faculty- Dept of EIE Faculty- Dept of ECE Faculty- Dept Of ECE Course- Embedded Course- Problem Solving Course- Intro to IoT Course- Effective Engg System Design Through Programming in C Topper- 1% in this course Teaching In Practice Topper- 1% in this course Topper- 5% in this course Elite+ Gold ˆ¿É˜ésɈ Topper- 5% in this course

AbhijitKKumar Student- Dept of ME DeepaNR Rose Mary Mathews Meleesha Treesa Paul Course-Intro to modern Faculty- Dept of ECE Faculty- Dept of MCA Student- Dept of CSE application development Basic Electronics Course- Intro toRSoftware Course- Intro to programming in C Topper- 1% in this course Topper-5%in this course Elite+ Gold ˆ¿É˜ésɈ Topper-5%in this course Elite+ Gold ˆ¿É˜ésɈ

Basil Shaju Student- Dept of ME Haritha Ravichandran Ashwin kumar S Courses- Manufacturing of Courses (Topper5%in this course), Student- Dept of EIE Student- Dept of CSE Non Traditional Abrasive Machining Processes- Ultrasonic, Course- Soft Skills Abrasive Jet and Abrasive water jet machining(Topper-5% Course- Introduction to modern Topper- 1% in this course in this course), Theory and practice of non destructive testing application development ( Topper-2%in this course) Topper-5%in this course

Honey Devassy Reshmi R Faculty- Dept of EIE NPTEL Coordinator Course- Control System Topper 2%in this course Other Toppers of NPTEL Exam

FISAT has been recognized No Name Department Course as best performing 1 Antu.P.J. Science & Humanities Graph Theory IEDC in Kerala 2 Seena Varghese Computer Science & Programming, data structures and 3 Preethi N P Engineering algorithms using python 4 Nincy Jose Civil Engineering Design of reinforced concrete structures 5 Resmi K N 6 Ambili A R Analog communication 7 Ambili A R Introduction to Programming in C 8 Subha Thomas Electronics 9 Christy Jose & Communication Basic electrical circuits 10 Nimmy M Philip Estimation for Wireless Communications: 11 Basil K Jeemon IMPETUS FISAT MIMO-OFDM Cellular and Sensor Networks 04 ...... NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY 12 Jose Varghese MBA Marketing Research & Analysis NAUTILUS 2k18 , Technical Festival of FISAT

A mega inter-college technical fest conducted by FISAT, NAUTILUS offered a platform forthe technically aspiring engineering students on 5th and 6th February 2018. Morethan 2500 delegates participated in this event. The major eventsof Nautilus 2K18 were GAME OF DRONES, APPSPRINT, ARGONOUTICA, MICON, ROBOWAR, TRIIPLEX, TOUR DE FORCE, SIMCITY, INSTRIDGE, GAMEATION, ROBOTRON, VR ROOM, KANDUPIDITHAM, AR TREASURE HUNT, PHOTOGRAPHY, AI WORKSHOP, ROBOTICS, VR WORKSHOP, AUTOMOBILE WORKSHOP etc NAUTILUS 2k18 was agreat opportunity forthe studentsofFISAT to enhance their skills in A Scene from the Inter Collegiate Technical Fest Nautilus 2018. Adv. N.C.Mohanan,Chairman, TelkIndia Ltd, along with Paul Mundadan Chairman FISAT and other dignitaries Visiting theProject Expo. various 鈥„sof engineering and management. Objectives of the program was “To impart a technical spirit in young engineering minds and inspire innovations in their area of expertise”. A mega inter-college technical event such as NAUTILUS boosted the credibility of the institution among public and other technical institutions and organizations. ´®”ÁuËЧu˚´®ÅŜżW˜ŠżWŠu­ż´“żżN´€´ËšÅżu®†ż(´W

The Center of Excellence in Robotics and IoT (CER) was established in the year 2014 under the aegis of Center for Continuing Education, FISAT. The center has ~ˆˆ¬żÃΈÃÑΥż˜¬ż²¬„Îɘ¬’żÉ–¿ˆˆż¬sɘ²¬s¥ż¥ˆ×ˆ¥żØ²¿£Ã–²¼Ãż‘²¿ż‘sÎ¥ÉÞż˜¬żsÃò˜sɘ²¬żØ˜É–ż''Uż ²«~sÞşżU–ˆżˆ¬Éˆ¿ż˜Ãż˜„ˆ¬É˜éˆ„żsÃżsż9²„s¥żˆ¬Éˆ¿ż‘²¿ż¼¿²¢ˆÉż eYantra by IIT Bombay and upgraded as an eLSI lab in 2016. The major research areas of the center are Robotics , IoT, AI, ML and Sensor fusion. Mr. Bejoy Varghese, Asst.Professor, ECE Dept and Mr.Mahesh C, Asst.Prof., CSE Dept are the Coordinators of this centre.

ËšÙšËšŠÅż´®†ÐËŠ†ż€àżN ´Ű´Á†š®uË´ÁÅż´“żN :´Á®š®”żRŠÅŚ´®Åżř !uÐ§ËàżŠÙŠ§´¾­Š®ËżKÁ´”Áu­żřż A session of 2 hours every morning was conduct- Four faculties Mr.Mahesh C,Mr.Bijoy Varghese,Mr. ed in the month of November and December for Muhammed Noufal C and Mr. Shinto Sebastian students of ‘CER’ by Mr.Mahesh C, Assistant attended faculty development program organised Professor, Department of Computer Science and by IIT-B from January-March. Engineering and Mr.Bijoy Varghese,Assistant ŠŰlu®ËÁużRà­¾´ÅšÐ­żŚ((WŰżřż Professor , Electronics and Communication Two faculty, Mr.Mahesh C and Mr.Bijoy Varghese Engineering. The sessions covered topics like :u˜ŠÅ˜ż Š¤´àżeuÁ”˜ŠÅŠ and two students, Mr.Amrith Athmaram and programming in python, machine learning, Mr.Madhu Krishna attended e-Yantra Symposi- euu˚´®ż§uÅÅŠÅżř microcontrollers and microprocessors etc. um, an annual event at IIT-Bombay to bring Classes were conducted for the students of ‘CER’ WڴۆuàÅż!uÐ§ËàżŠÙŠ§´¾­Š®Ëż together colleges which have set up robotics labs in the month of June & July .The students had a KÁ´”Áu­ż´®żŠŰlu®ËÁużŚż((WŰřż through the e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI). hands-on session about making various types of robots and programming it. The students also A two day FDP was organised by ‘CER’ in the AÁšŠ®Ëu˚´®ż¾Á´”Áu­żř took up a ‘Two programs a day challenge’ where month of december. Headed by Ms.Krishna An orientation program was conducted by they had to solve at least two programming Lala,IIT-B a team of resource people handled the 8¿ş ˜¢²Þż cs¿’–ˆÃˆż ά„ˆ¿ż ŹLźż ‘²¿ż ɖˆż é¿ÃÉż ވs¿ż questions everyday session on Robotics and Firebird V. The session students of Electronics and Communication was attended by about 40 faculties from all over Engineering in the month of July on ‘Introduction ŠŰlu®ËÁużN´€´ËšÅż´­¾ŠËšËš´®żř Four teams were selected for e-Yantra Robotics Kerala to Robotics’. 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:´€š§Šż!u€§u€żšÅżu®żŠßˊ®Åš´®ż´“ż!(RWż!u€§u€żÚ˜š˜ż uš­Åż Ë´ż Åо¾´ÁËż ÁÐÁu§ż š®®´ÙuË´ÁÅż u®†ż ÅËІŠ®Ëż Ë´ż ´®ÙŠÁËż ˘ŠšÁż š†ŠuÅż š®Ë´ż ¾Á´†ÐËşżżÙŠ˜š§Šż šÅż ËÁu®ÅŰ “´Á­Š†ż š®Ë´ż ­´€š§Šż “u€Ášu˚´®ż ЮšËżÚšË˜ż ®ŠŠÅÅuÁàż ­u˜š®Šż “´Áż ¾Á´Ë´Ëྚ®”ż uż ¾Á´†ÐËşż W˜Šż ­u˜š®ŠÅż ÐŊ†ż š®ż ˘Šż ­´€š§Šż !u€§u€ż uÁŠż š®†š”Š®´ÐÅ§àż †ŠÙŠ§Ű ´¾Š†ż€àżË˜ŠżÅËІŠ®ËÅż´“ż!(RWżÐŚ®”ż!u€§u€ż“uš§šËàşż IMPETUS FISAT ...... 07 NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY ;ŠÚÅ “Á´­ ´­¾ÐˊÁ RšŠ®Š CSE DAY- MANTRA 2018 u®† ®”š®ŠŠÁš®” Š¾Ë

The Annual CSE Day- Mantra 2018, was conducted inagrand manner on April 7th 2018, in association with THYRA- The association of computer engineering students. Technical Talk, FinalYear Project expo, Celestia 2018 by ACM etc were the major events.

ŠÅË :uš® KÁ´¤ŠË !u§§ ŠËŠËš´® by Soniya Johny, Visakh Ajith, Sooraj Balan, Noah Paul S8 CS B ŠÅË Second :uš® ¾Á´¤ŠË eš†Š´ ´§´Ášåu˚´® by Aagi Mariam, Allan Jojo, Divya Jose and Lakshmi Priya, S8 CS A ŠÅË :š®š ¾Á´¤ŠË MACHINE LEARNING WORKSHOP Book RЭ­uÁšåu˚´® by :uÁšŠË Rš”àŚ R´®šàu Johny, NšåÚunTS, :u®Ð FISAT ACM student chapter organized a workshop on Machine Learning. K´†ÐÙu§Ś S8 CS B It was a one day hands-on workshop about Machine Learning concepts and ŠÅË Second :š®š ¾Á´¤ŠË šÁŠu§ ®u§àŚŠof Áuš§Úuà ËÁu¥Å Ë´ u§Ð§uˊ “ÁšËš´® ÐŚ®” ˘ŠÁ­u§ š­u”š®” its limitations. The date of workshop was on February 5th Monday from 9am by Anoh Ignatious, Arun Anand, Edwin Biju, Gautham Nair, S8 CS A to 4:30pm. The session was led by Mr. Praseed Pai KT, Senior Architect, fš®®ŠÁÅ of ;uÐ˚§ÐÅ ŠÅË ي®Ë §uÅÅ ÚšÅŠŰ S4 CS A UST Global. ACM Š§ŠÅ˚u 2k18 QUIZ fš®®ŠÁÅ First ´­¾ÐˊÁ :ÐŊЭ (®uДÐÁu˚´® ArjunRNath and AbrahamJRoy of S8 CS A Second Inauguration of Computer Museum was done SreehariKVand Vishnu Prasad of S8 CS B by Dr Sunny Kuriakose, Dean, Student Affairs R˜u”˜ŠŠ¤ :Š­´Ášu§ ´†š®” in CSE Department Library on 7th April 2018. ´­¾ŠËšËš´® SMRITHI 2k18 fš®®ŠÁÅ Computer Museum was worth a treat for all. It included a lavish display of both old and new 1.Ahamed Sinan, Harigovind, S6 CS A Best Outgoing Student award for electronic components, particularly PC 2.Thomas Pauly, SreehariCP,S6CSB 2014- 2018 batch was presented 3.Mohit Rajan, Sandeep R, S4 CS B to Divya Jose of S8 CSA components and rare processors CSE §Ð­®š :ŠŠË & 4uЮ˜š®” of R˜u”˜ŠŠ¤ :Š­´Ášu§ Fund

The meeting of CSE alumni’s was conducted on 7th April 2018 at 11 a.m. Former students and faculty members had a very fruitful discussion regarding the growing industrial needs and HOUR OF CODE PROGRAMME challenges and steps that could be taken to mould the department’s vision and mission to cater to modern corporate Hour of Code isaglobal movement by Computer Science Education Week world’s demands. Launching of Shagheej Memorial Award, in memory of Lt and Code.org, reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries through Shagheej (2013-17 pass out batch) was also conducted during the program. a one-hour introduction to computer science and computer programming. Parents of Lt Shagheej were also there and they contributed an amount of ACM Student chapter of FISAT has organized this programme for the 50,000/- to the already started Shagheej Memorial Fund, initiated by his students of Santhome Central School ,Mookkannoor on 7th February 2018. classmates. Dr. PrasadJC, Head of CSE Dept inaugurated the programme. the ACM members has taken class on Scratch and the session was very funny, IMPETUS FISAT 08 ...... knowledgeable and interactive for the students. NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY ICE FOSS 2017 FOSSHACK FISAT Free Software Cell (FFSC) conducted a 24 hour open source hackathon, FOSSHack on 18/4/2018 at FISAT. It was conducted in associa- tion with Ignitho Technologies and Redpanthers. FOSSHack is an open source hackathon for college students across the state where they can build innovate solutions to problem statements.

Winners were awarded cash prizes worth 15k and job offers from Ignitho Technologies and Redpan- thers.

ICE-FOSS (ICEFOSS is a Conference for Enthusiasts of Free and Open Source Software) is a national level fš®®ŠÁÅ Free Software Conference organized jointly by FISAT Free Software Cell (FFSC) and Department of Computer Science. ICEFOSS 2017 was conducted as a two day conference on October 6,7 2017. ICEFOSS was inaugu- 1.Team ENBITREE-FISAT rated by Dr. Jayasankar Prasad C, Director ICEFOSS. 2. Team COAX TECH-Adi Sankara 3. Team PACMEN-VJCET ICEFOSS 2017 had Workshops covering different aspects of Free Software. It also had a project exhibition by Computer Science students. ICEFOSS is one of the longest standing technical conference in FISAT. 230 free Event was conceived and organized byateam software enthusiasts from different parts of Kerala attended the event. led by Mr. Adam Shamsudeen (CSE Alumni FISAT 2013-2017 batch). Six workshops were conducted as part of the event. They are 1. From Neural Network to Deep Learning: by Dr.Sreeraj 2. Learning Rust by Programming Embedded Linux Systems: Mr. Pramod C E 3. Miles to Go : GoLang Workshop by Baiju M 4. Introduction to Docker by Johny James 5. Introduction to ReactJS by TCS Team from Cochin 6. Introduction to Apache Spark by Nithin P V (®†ÐÅËÁàż(®Å˚ËÐˊż(®ËŠÁuËš´®żËšÙšËà To improve the industrial connect with academia ,the Industry Institute Interaction Cell of FISAT is associating with ICT Academy and KTU in organized a webcasted Tech Talk series for Engineering students. K Nanda RŠ­š®uÁż¾Á´”Áu­Å by CSE DepË 1Ϋs¿żůż ²Î¬„ˆ¿ŚżI¿ˆÃ˜„ˆ¬ÉżżƟż?ŚżPάUˆ–ż„ˆ¥˜×ˆ¿ˆ„żżÉ–ˆżé¿ÃÉż¥ˆÉοˆż˜¬żÉ–ˆżÃˆ¿˜ˆÃż²¬żÉ–ˆżÉ²¼˜żŷ ˜ɘ²¬żÉ²ż !Á´­ 1u®ÐuÁàżËo June 2018. Reality using Technology” on 29th August 2017 at 3.00 pm. Another Seminar on BitCoins was conducted by 1.GIT control System' for Fourth Semester P¿˜ş!²£Î¥ż¥ˆÝŚż'¬é¬˜ÉÞż¥s~ÃŚżZPUż!¥²~s¥ż²¬żŇŌɖżPˆ¼Éˆ«~ˆ¿żŇŅņŌşżżżUˆ––sÉż¼¿²’¿s«żŹ%Ϋs¬²˜„ż‘¿²«ż!²„Ãż CSE Students own country’ was conducted by Jayakrishnan T, Founder and CEO of ASIMOV Robotics Pvt. Ltd on 22 2.Django' for Second Semester CSE Students November 2017. 3.INTRODUCTION TO FOSS' for s2 and s4 CSE Students The faculty Members under the leadership of Jestin Joy handled the sessions. Mr. Adam Shamsudeen, Founder Mindhack, Sreehari (CSE Alumni) and Yedhu Krishnan, CSE Alumni handled few sessions. RËІŠ®ËÅż˜šŠÙŠ­Š®ËÅ ChandanaS&Ahamed Sinan of S6 CS participated in the Regional Finals of the e-Yantra Idea Competition held at FISAT on 21st February 2018

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CSE Students achievements will be continued inpage 32 IMPETUS FISAT ...... 09 NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY ;ŠÚÅ “Á´­ §ŠËÁ´®šÅ & AGNITIO 2k17 by ECE Dept. ´­­Ð®šu˚´® ®”š®ŠŠÁš®” Š¾Ë

AGNITIO 2K17, the department technical fest of ECE was heldon19th April, 2017. The chief guest of the event was renowned celebrity musician, Mr. SachinWarrier, alumni of ECE Department. The highlight of the event was the Project exhibition, which showcased the main projects implemented by the é¬s¥ year students of ECE. The exhibition was reviewed and evaluated by delegates from companies such as TCS, Procsys, USTGlobal, Kalkitech, Digital Core Technologies, Multunus and more. The presence of these é¿«s providedagreat opportunity for the students and the college, while guaranteeing good placements in the coming years.

Valedictory function was heldin the seminar hallat2:30PM and was attended by 2,nd 3rd and é¬s¥ year students of ECE. The program included welcome speech by Ms.MiniP.R, the Head of ECE Department, Felicitations by Dr. K.S.M. Panicker, Director, Academics and Dr. Sunny Kuriakose, Dean, Student affairs. Thiswas followed by Prize distributions for E-Yantra, NAUTILUS 2K17 and for best project of the event. The awards for Best outgoing student and Hima endowment award for 2nd and 3rd year students was also announced. Vote of thanks was delivered by Anna Cherian, Students Secretary, ECHO. A special prize wasawarded to Athira S for securing allOutstanding (10 CGPA) for 3rd semester Kerala Technological University examinations 2017.

WŠ˜®šu§ Ëu§¥ by ECHO

A technical talk was organized by ECHO (Electronics and Communication Heuristics Organization), technical organization of Electronics and Communication Department of FISAT ,on30th August. The session was graced by Mr. Thomas S, CEO –Digital Core Technologies ,Kakkanad. The event was attended by over 180 students from ECE Department. The session highlighted the latest trends in Embedded System technology.

HIGHER STUDIES by ECE Students Following ECE Alumnis are pursuing higher studies in different prospects

1. Anand Baby Alias (M.Tech Communication Engineering, 2013 batch)- Ph.DNational TsingHua University, Taiwan 2. DeenDayal (B.Tech ECE, 2014 batch)- Ph.Din State University of New York , Buffalo 3. Sachin Antony (B.Tech ECE, 2015 batch)- MS in University of Cincinatti,US 4. Lekshmi Pratap (B.Tech ECE, 2015 batch)- MS in University of Colorado-Boulder, US 5. Akhil Abraham (B.Tech ECE, 2015 batch)- Master in International Business, Grenoble Graduate School, Germany 6. Aiswarya Prince (B.Tech ECE, 2016 batch)- MBAinNIT Trichy

IMPETUS FISAT 10 ...... NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY KTU Pro Vice Chancellor, Prof. (Dr.) M. Abdul Rahman visited ECE ICON stall

As part of NAUTILUS technical festival,Staff and Studentsof ECE arranged an ICON stall. The stall was stacked with various projects by our students such as greeting robot (which welcomes and greets each visitortostall with “Hi, welcometo ECE ICON stall” with a handshake and bids goodbye), smart cradle, CIDU (Compact&Intelligible Drumming Unit) etc. One of the most highlightingfeedbacks was from Pro-Vice Chancellorof APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Dr. Abdul Rahman appreciating the staff and students.

´®”ÁuËЧu˚´®Å :š®š PR WORKSHOP Ms.Mini PR,HoD of Electronics and ON PYTHON Communication engineering,has been awarded Ph.D under the Faculty of School A workshop on Python of Engineering(SOE) , CUSAT for her thesis was organized by ECHO, entitled "Development ofacomputationally and was taken by ˆ‘阈¬É antenna beamforming algorithm Mr Jestin Joy, Assistant and itsimplementation using FPGA". Professor FISAT

Staff&Students Achievements

1. AthiraSof Fourth Semester Electronics and Communication Department (2016 admission) secured Outstanding Grade for all subjects (10 SGPA) in 3rd Semester B.Tech University Examination .

2. Allstaffmembers participated in ICT Enabled Teaching-Learning Methods 3. Six Staff members attended various online NPTEL courses conducted by IITs And got ˆ¿É˜éˆ„ş 4. Three Staff members attended Spoken Tutorial Course on LateX conducted by IIT Bombay and got ˆ¿É˜éˆ„ş 5. Seven Staff members attended ISTE STTP on CMOS, mixed signal and radio frequency VLSI design conducted by IIT Kharagpur and got ˆ¿É˜éˆ„ş 6. Four Staff members attended Foundation Program in ICT for Education and Pedagogy for Online and Blended Teaching Learning Process conducted by IIT Bombay. 7. Hrishikesh Deleep was selected as the best outgoing student of ECE Batch- 2014 admission.

8. Mr. Akhil KumarTAwas selected as the best performer of ECHO.

9. Following students received the Hima Memorial Endowment award for best performance. Mr. Anand Paul, Ms. Gopika S, Mr. RohanCS, Mr. Amrith Aathmaram, Ms UnnimayaKS, Mr RohansCS, and Cicin Sunny. 10. Unnikrishnan and Kevin Antonyof S7 ECE-B Won Second Prize in the Inter Department Mathematics Quiz competition for PVMathew Memorial Trophy, FISAT.

IMPETUS FISAT ECE achievements will be continued in page 30 ...... 11 NEWS LETTER2018JULY NATIONAL SCIENCE DAY News from Mechanical CELEBRATIONS 2018 Engineering Department

The Department of Mechanical Engineering has organized an invited lecture, marking the occasion of National Science Day on 28th February 2018, where Padma Bhushan award recipient Dr. A.S. Pillai, Founder CEO &MDof BrahMos Aerospace was the resource person. This was the 3lrd ecture in their Erudite Lecture Series organised every year.

Dr. A. S. Pillai, the Founder CEO&MDof BrahMos Aerospace, currently serve as Honorary Distinguished Professor (ISRO), Honorary Professor (IIT Delhi), Visiting Professor(IISc). His contributions to the successfull development of SLV-3 and evolution of PSLV ²¬é’οsɘ²¬ for ISRO have been remarkable. from Kerala to qualify forthe HPVC maineventsin consecutive years.The His contributions are commendablein the development of Agni, Prithvi, Nag team aims at buildingafaster, safer andgreener human powered vehicle and Akash missiles for DRDO. He authored many books including Revolution that can make long distance transportationsas simpleas using an automobile in Leadership and Nano Science and Nano Technology for Engineering. He GO KART CLUB co-authored with Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam for the books Envisioning an Empowered Nation and Thoughts for Change- we can do it.

KARMA 1.0

The go kart club operating under Department of Mechanical Engineering, FISAT is aclubwith avisionof revolutionizing the automobile industry. The main objectiveof thisclubisto prepare mechanical engineering students to participate in BAJA(Baja SAE is an intercollegiate design competition run by the Societyof Automotive Engineers (SAE)). The club was established in 2018 afteragroup of mechanical engineering aspirants created a fully functioning go kart named KARMA. The next stages planned by the students will bring about more advanced vehicles, éÉɈ„ with superior technology. HYDRAULIC MACHINES LAB INAUGURATION Renovation work of HM lab was completed in March 2018. Old turbines of low capacity were replaced by new ones of high capacity and test rig was done open type. New turbines- 1. Pelton wheel (5HP) 2. Francis turbine (5HP) 3. Kaplan turbine (5HP) THE HUMAN POWERED VEHICLE CLUB Switch on ceremony was carried out by Mr. Paul Mundadan, Chairman, The Human Powered VehicleClub operating under the Department of FISAT on 18th April 2018. The upgraded labwill be highly ~ˆ¬ˆéɈ„ by Mechanical Engineering, FISAT isaclubwith the vision of revolutionizing the mechanical and also civil engineering students of UG programme. human powered transportation. The club was established in 2018 after a team of mechanical engineering aspirants competed in the ASME Human Powered Vehicle Challenge in 2017 heldat LNMIIT, Jaipur and achieved respectable position in the competitions. They have become the 2nd team from Kerala ever to compete in HPVC. after the formation of the Human Powered VehicleClub,the club is now getting ready to compete in the ASME HPVC 2018 which will be heldin New Delhi this year. The team which represents the college at the event has now become the only team IMPETUS FISAT 12 ...... NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY Awareness Talk on Opportunities ONE DAY SEMINAR ON GAS TURBINES in Indian Navy

ASME FISAT chapter arranged an awareness talk session on the various opportunitiesinthe Indian Navy on 18th Nov 2017. The session was handled by Captain Rajesh fromthe Naval Institute of Aeronautical Technology, Kochi. CaptainRajesh gave atalkonIndian Navy, Various opportunitiesthe Navy offers, ~ˆ¬ˆéÉà of joiningthe Navy and how to join the Navy. Every one clearly got an idea about the defense sector and almost everyone was active through- out the session. He displayed a presentation on the different streams in the Indian Navy which inspired the students. The session was inspiring and it did motivate many students to try their –s¬„żsɿɖˆż¬s×s¥żˆÝs«˜¬sɘ²¬Ãż˜¬żÉ–ˆżé¬s¥żÞˆs¿ż ASME FISAT Chapter under the aegis of Mechanical Engineering Department, of the course. Captain Rajesh gifted a potrait of has organized a one day seminar on Gas Turbines in association with the ASME Navy to the College. GT India Panel at the Federal Institute of Science and Technology (FISAT) on 7th April 2018. Experts from the gas turbine industry in the area of GT Design & Research, were present in the seminar which gave students a unique opportuni- ÉÞżÉ²ż˜¬Éˆ¿sÉżØ˜É–żÉ–ˆ«ŚżsÃżØˆ¥¥żsÃżé¬„ż²Îɿɖˆż¥sɈÃÉż«ˆÉ–²„Ãżs¬„żÎÉɘ¬’Űˆ„’ˆż technology to improve operation of gas turbines in the future. ASME Gas Turbine Chapter of India, supported by ASME International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI), panel conducts one day seminar at engineering institutions one each at all the 4 zones biennially. ASME GT India seminar 2018 for the South zone was conducted at Federal Institute of Science and Technology (FISAT). ASME India is sponsoring the event partly and will cover majority of the expenses related to Congratulations 벲ɖż²¬„ÎÉż²‘żÉ–ˆż¼¿²’¿s««ˆşżU–ˆżÃ¼ˆs£ˆ¿Ãż¿ˆ¼¿ˆÃˆ¬Éˆ„ż¿ˆ¼ÎɈ„żé¿«Ãż¥˜£ˆż GE Global Research, GE Power, Rolls Royce, Siemens Technology and Dr.Sumanlal M.R. Services Private Ltd and aerospace laboratories of national importance like Gas obtained Ph.D. from Turbine Research establishment under DRDO. National Institute of Technology, Surathkal on the topic “ Combus- tion control and ¼ˆ¿‘²¿«s¬ˆżs¬s¥ÞÃ˜Ãż²‘ż'ż«²„˜éˆ„ż%'ż¬’˜¬ˆż using Lean combustion Technology”

ASME Charles T. Main Student Leadership Award Jithu Paulose got involved in ASME during his periods and took initiative to start ASME chapter in FISAT in the year 2014. Based on his leadership qualities, he was globally selected to be one among the two students to receive ASME Charles T. Main Student Leadership award for serving as the secretary and chair of the student section at FISAT, and assisting more than 25 student sections as Zonal Representative for the PÉ΄ˆ¬Éż ˜ÃÉ¿˜Éż ?¼ˆ¿sɘ¬’ż ²s¿„ż '¬„˜sŦØsŰIs˜éş%ˆż ¿ˆ¼¿ˆÃˆ¬Éˆ„ż '9'ż sÉż PÉ΄ˆ¬Éż 3ˆs„ˆ¿Ã–˜¼ż U¿s˜¬˜¬’ż Conference 2016 at ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress ; Exposition in Arizona, USA. Jithu spearheaded FISAT's ASME student chapter towards winning the Best Student Chapter Award 2016 in India. He mentored and successfully established 12 new ASME student sections in his zone. He guided the ASME Student Training Conference (STC), Student Led Design Conference 2016 at two universities. Current- ly he is a part of ASME India Group Leadership Training (GLT) committee engaged in organizing activities for early career engineers and students International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition IMECE 2017 in Florida. Eight students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering attended ASME’s International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition IMECE 2017 held in Tampa, Florida from 3 to 9 November 2017. Team Endurance from FISAT ASME chapter took part in the International Finale of the Student Design Challenge ŬPŭşżU–ˆÞż¿ˆ¼¿ˆÃˆ¬Éˆ„ż'¬„˜sżsÃż²¬ˆż²‘żÉ–ˆżÉ²¼żÉ–¿ˆˆżÉˆs«Ãż‘¿²«żØsżIs˜éż¿ˆ’˜²¬ş

IMPETUS FISAT ...... 13 NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY News from Electronics & TECHATHON Instrumentation Department

Techathon'17 organized by department of EIEwas centered on the themeof “Automation in Agricultural Industry “. It opened awide array of events for both college and school level students. It was organized in two phases. Phase-1: The prelimsofINSTRA International Quiz (I2Q) competition was conducted across various schools in Kerala. Around 100 students were short-listed from 26 schools, who represented the respective schoolsat the é¬s¥Ã held at FISAT. Phase-2: The phase-2 of techathon was conducted at the campus on 24-25 April 2017.

Grand é¬s¥ˆ of IQ2

Project expo and competition at various levels Paper presentation Techno games

Workshops:3D Printing, Robotics, IOT BSNL Exhibition

Lepton Talk Series Lepton talk series gives a platform to learn from the professionally experienced persons and helps to develop skilled professiona for the future. Eminent personalities from industry and academia are invited to deliver lectures and they share their experience in the real world. Mr.Kamalasanan P.K SDE BSNLMobile Services gave an informative session on the evolution of Mobile Communications from 2G to 5G. He worked in the 鈥„ of installation of core equipments for a period of 15 Years and have installedanumber of core switching systems like ERICSSON, OCB, CDOT, and 5ESS in different parts of Kerala. He playedakey role for the implementation of Mobile Number Portability(MNP)in Kerala. This seminar helped the students to understand the importance of IMEI &IMSEI number to track people and solve crimes.

SDC (National Skill Development Corporation) Learning Program

NSDC learning programme isanot-for- ¼¿²éÉ company setup by the ministry of é¬s¬ˆş It aims to promote skill development by catalysing creation of large, quality and for ¼¿²éÉ vocational institution. NSDC providedasession on the “career opportunities and development” for the students of the EIE.

IMPETUS FISAT 14 ...... NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY Faculty Publications MATLAB Workshop A MATLAB Workshop was held for the S2 Faculty Titleof the Paper Conference/ Jounal Month& year students asapart of NAUTILUS 2K18, under National symposium on Antennas, Speed control of brushless Signal processing and the leadership of Ms. Lakshmi Nandakumar dc motor using neural network Mr.S.Sundararajan interdisciplinary research in April2017 Electronics (ASPIRE) -Muslim along with Mariya Susan John, Vijay Rajiv and Association college of Engineering. Krishnanugrah (S8 EIE). This workshop

1. Survey on Brain tumor detection International Journal of Innovative June 2017 introduced students about the software called and segmentation techniques on Science and Research Technology MRI images ISSN No:-2456-2165 MATLAB and its basic operations. The students

2. An Optimized approach for Journal of Advanced research came to learn about the various applications of SVM based Brain tumor in Dynamical and Control segmentation of MRI images September 2017 the same and how it can be used for future Ms.Sreevidya P System ISSN 1943-023X Vol.9, N0.8, 2017 projects.

3. DTCWTwith Fuzzy based IEEE sponsored International thresholding for despeckling Conference on Intelligent TinkerCAD Workshop of ultrasound images Computing, Instrumentation July 2017 and Control Technologies @ TinkerCAD workshop wasahands on training VimalJyothi College of Engineering workshop conducted for the students of S1-EIE.

National symposium on ANoval Approach in air The classes were handled by Sarath K.K and Antennas, Signal processing conditioning using electro Ms.BeenuRiju and interdisciplinary research IjasMuhammed of S8 EIE with the support and caloric effect April2017 in Electronics (ASPIRE)- Muslim Association college guidance from faculty of EIE. The simulation of Engineering. software was introduced to the students by

Reaction separation interaction doing simple circuits on the control of ideal two-feed, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. Mr.Anish Mathew two-product exothermic reactive April2017 distillation columns 95(2),331-342

Alumni Interaction Programs merchant navy. He shared that his disciplined The program aims to give the students a life asastudent and his technical knowledge platform, where they can interact with the alumni acquired from FISAT helped him to grow in his and to know how the life in the department of career. EIE and FISAT have helped them to succeed in Students Achievements their life. Also the alumni share their current 1. SarathKK, Ijas Mohammed, George Thomas, work experience in the instrumentation 鈥„ Ashin Sajan, Arun UofS8 EIE were the which provide a motivation to the students. ¼¿ˆé¬s¥˜ÃÉà of product designing conducted by the National Instruments. They were funded 1.Mr Edwin Devassykutty worked asaresearch Rs 10,000 by Kerala State Council for Science, associate in FISAT for 1.5 years and is now Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) for working asaresearch associate in Fraunhofer researching in the project titled ‘Vertical Profarm', ARDUINO&LATEX Workshop University, Germany. He detailed the guided by Ms.Sreevidya P. importance of doing mini/micro projects from A one day workshop was conducted for the é¿ÃÉ year onwards. He also explained about the instrumentation students of S3 under the procedures of obtaining admission in foreign leadership of Ms.Sreevidya P along with Ijas universities. Muhammed, Mariya Susan John, Joseph P Joseph and Farzana Saleem. This workshop introduced students about thedocument preparation software called LaTeX and developer board ARDUINO. The students came to know about the various advantage of 2. 'Automatic Egg Candling Machine',aproject using LaTeX over other software. ARDUINO guided by Ms.Sreevidya P & donebyJoseph P Workshop enlightened the students about its Joseph, KrishnanugrahPU, Maria Susan John, various advantages and how it can be used for 2.Mr.Hariprasad is an alumnus of FISAT, EIE Vijay Rajeev, Arun Kumar TVofS8 EIE are also these projects in the future. graduated in the year 2012 .He is currently in the ¾Îs¿Éˆ¿é¬s¥˜ÃÉà of the currently running IMPETUS FISAT see page 33 ...... 15 NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY NIRMAN 2K18 News from Civil Engineering Department

With the success of thejoint venture,NIRMAN 2K17 by Department of Civil Engineering, Federal Institute of Science and Technology (FISAT), Angamaly, Ernakulam and Builders AssociationofIndia-Angamaly Center,this year NIRMAN 2K18, theBuild Expo was organised at CSA Hall, Angamalyon9th &10th March 2018with thetheme of "Modern Building Materials and Green Initiatives" and provided a platform forthe ~ˆ¬ˆé˜slinteraction among Manufacturers, ConstructionIndustry Professionals, Students and General Public to explore Novelty Materials and NINCYJOSE Green Alternatives and offer opportunities for the industry to showcase and 1. Successfully completed the course Design of Reinforced Concrete Stuctures promote their products to create new partnerships and potential clients. The withaconsolidated score of 85% expo aimed to bridge construction industry and public, to share knowledge, to 2. ˆ¿É˜ésɈ -Mentor for NPTEL online ˆ¿É˜ésɘ²¬ course HYDRATION, provide solutions and to explore modern construction technologies and wide POROSITY AND STRENGTH OF CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS FEB - APR variety of building materials. 2017

UNNI KARTHA In connection with the build expo, there were two technical sessions titled ·As Resource Person for Workshop on “SKETCHUP” for Nautilusat FISAT “Modern and Conventional Construction Practices” by Dr. P.V. Ouseph, Dean on8to9April 2016 - Vastuvidya Department, Sree Sankaracharya Univerity of Sanskrit, Kalady, ·As Resource Person for Invited Talk on "Placement opportunities and Ernakulam and “Site Mix Vs Ready Mix Concrete" by Er. Shelly S. Fernandez, preparation required" at Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science, Director, Q Crete Readymix (India) Pvt. Ltd, Ernakulam Puthencruz, Ernakulam on 29 April 2016. ·As Resource Person for ISTE Sponsored STTP on Numerical Modelingin Civil Engineering at ViswaJyothi College of Engineering, Vazhakkulam on 13 to 17 March 2017. ·As Resource Person for “Ask an Expert for prospective engineering students ” organised by Mathrubhoomiat Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kozhikode during May June 2017. ·As Resource Person for Career Guidance Seminar, Mathrubhoomi Education at SKMJ School, Kalpetta, Wayanad on 10 January 2018. STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS KRISHNARAJ (S8CEA): NIDHI M Won second prize withAGrade in Aksharashlokam in MG University Arts fest Awarded with Ph.Dfor her research titled“Strength and Behaviour of SAFFWAN&THANVEER(2013 batch): Thanveer Ahamed and SaffwanAN(S8,Civil HFRFPC Beam Column Slab joints under Reverse Cyclic Loading” fromNIT Engineering) secured 2nd place for MG university table tennis during November 2016 Calicut in the year 2017. Her thesisalso won ICIUltratech awardfor B VYSAKH: WonFirst prize in Quiz Competition ENCUSTA in the National outstanding PhD thesis. level Techno-cultural Fest AGREYA'17 organised by SNGIST,NParavur in April2017 JAWAHAR SAUD BENNETJOYABHRAHAM,EBIN THOMASAND CHRISTY ANTONY GEORGE (CEA ,2013 batch): Co-authored a Text book with Dr. P. Purushothama Raj on “Construction ·secured 1st place for band conducted by Christ University college, Bangalore on Technology”with ISBN 978-93-85364-34-1 in the year 2017, published by Feb 32rd 017. Sri Krishna Hitech Publishing Company, Chennai, India, with reach in ·secured 1st place for band conducted by De Paul Institute of Science and Technology, Angamaly on Feb 7th 2017. Engineering colleges in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. ·secured 1st place for band conducted by Sacred Hearts college, Thevara on February PANJAMIK 18th 2017. Resourse person for a One day National workshop on “Land disturbance due ALLWIN VARGHESE(S2CEA): Allwin Varghese Shibu secured 1st prize in western to soilpipinginWestern Ghats” conducted by National Centre for Earth music band competition Swararaga conducted by National Institute of Technology, Calicut from 23rd to 25th March 2018 Science Department(NCESS),Thiruvananthapuram on 5 July 2017.

IMPETUS FISAT 16 ...... NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY AAVISHKAR'18 SECON’18

Aavishkar’18 was a Project Expo exhibiting all the eighth semester B.tech projects. The expo ¼¿²×˜„ˆ„żsż¼¥sɑ²¿«ż‘²¿żÉ–ˆżé¬s¥żÞˆs¿żÃÉ΄ˆ¬ÉÃżÉ²ż exhibit their project works to the public. The programme was conducted on 10th April 2018. The following Project groups won the awards in different criteria:

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2. Best Project constituted by department: ‘Digitization and route mapping for solid waste management in Mookkannoor Panchayath’ by Manu Devassy, Hendry Poulose, Kiran Thank- achan V, Mahesh R, Guided by Jawahar Saud

3. Best Innovative Project: ‘Shoreline change The Second National Conference in Structural Engineering and Construction Management, organized analysis using remote sensing and GIS’ by by the Department of Civil Engineering aimed to present, share and discuss current interests and Maryann Stephen, Meghna M Manohar, Susan developments in structural engineering and construction management during 17th and 18th of April Maria George, Swetha Krishna B, Guided by 2018. The theme of the conference was broadly divided under two heads viz. Structural Engineering Abhiya Abhas Mundol and Construction Management U–ˆż²¬‘ˆ¿ˆ¬ˆżs„„¿ˆÃȄżÉ–ˆż¿˜É˜s¥ż˜ÃÃÎˆÃż²‘żÉ–ˆżˆ¬’˜¬ˆˆ¿˜¬’żéˆ¥„ż˜¬żsż‘²ÎȄż«s¬¬ˆ¿ŚżØ–˜–ż–sÃż 4. Project with Industrial Relevance: ‘Digitiza- made it noticeable as one of India's premier event in the domain of Structural Engineering, Construction tion and route mapping for solid waste manage- Technology and Management. The conference consisted of seven sessions over two days. A panel of ment in Mookkannoor Panchayath’ by Manu twelve experts including Mr. Katta Venkataramana, Ms Kavitha P E, Ms Praseeda K I, Dr C Justin Jose, Devassy, Hendry Poulose, Kiran Thankachan Mr Vinay Mathews, Ms Sunitha K Nair, Mr Abhay Shankar, Ms Deepa G Nair, Mr Vasudev R, Mr Elson V, Mahesh R, Guided by Jawahar Saud John, Mr Shyju P Thadathil and Ms Aysha Zaneeb reviewed and chaired the sessions.

5. Project with Social Relevance: ‘Parametric Assessment of Household Carbon footprint and its management for Mookkannoor Panchayath’ by Jithin Jose, Mariya Joshy, Mariya Jacob, Binitha Antony, Guided by Jawahar Saud

6. Best Poster: ‘Application of Geotextiles for landslide mitigation’ by Alphy Christo Thomas, Ahmed Abdul Rahiman, Anu Kuriakose, Gayathri R, Guided by Sowmya V Krishnankutty.

IMPETUS FISAT ...... 17 NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY News from Electrical and PROJECT EXPO ILLUMINAR Electronic Engineering Department

ILLUMINARa project expo to unleash the talents of all students was heldon the behalfofElectrical and Two Days workshop on "Arduino Electronics department at FISAT on 20th Aprilwith all elegance and innovations. 16 projects were and Robotics displayed in the expo with utmost care and overwhelming enthusiasm .More than 200 visitors have “Electra" thestudents'association of the visited project fair. Mr.Mahesh C Asst Professor CSE dept, Mr.Bejoy Varghese Asst Professor ECE dept, department of Electrical and Electronics were the judging panel members. They analyzed all the projects thoroughly and selected the winners EngineerIng conducted atwo Day hands-on on the basisof novelty, innovation, creativity, research content and commercialization of the projects. workshop on "Arduino and Robotics" for40 The best project of the day wasawarded with Edison Award for Real time monitoring of crop health and students of the sixth semester EEE with the the best successfully accomplished project was Automatic speed regulation of fan by linear regression . intention of introducing a development board The best poster was the poster for Wireless animatronic hand using control glove. The best mentor that will foster their ²¬é„ˆ¬ˆ in doing their wasMr. Noufal C, for providing the best guidance. The ˆ¿É˜ésɈà were given away for participants of projects on theirown on 3rd and 4th April 2017. arduino workshop and for the winners of best logo, name and caption and poster and brochure design The resource persons for the workshop were competions for the expo Miss Parvathy R. H.O.D. EEE Dept. and Mr. Muhamed Noufal,Assistant Professor, Department of EEE. The workshop introduced all basic programming procedures with Arduino. The students were also familiarized in integrating ultrasonic sensors,relays and motor driver IC (L293D) with the Arduino board. Interfacing Bluetooth modulewas detailedin the workshop. The students were able to control the motion of atwo wheeled robot through the Bluetooth module provided.A demonstration on the closed loop PID controller for the speed control of the wheeled robot wasalso conducted as part of the workshop. INVITED TALK ON POWER MEET THE DEPARTMENT PROGRAM ELECTRONICS&THE WORLD Meet the department program of S1 EEE-2017 Admission was conducted on 1/8/17 Tuesday 1.30-4.00 OF SINUSOIDS Invited talkon the topic“Power Electronics & p.m. The students were invited and they assembled on time. The program started with an introduction the World of Sinusoids”by Dr. Vincent, H.O.D., about it, followed byasilent prayer. A presentation about the department, association activities round Govt. Engineering college Sreekrishnapuram, our alumina etc. Thiswas followed byafaculty introduction. The faculty members introduced was conducted as a part of Learn from great themselves, their areas of interest etc., They inspired the students & offered their support. The students minds, alecture series program organized by were divided into several groups. Tasks like role-plays, talks on current issues etc. were given to them Electra, Students Association for Btech and and alsoapreparation time was offered. It wasjust an ice-breaking session. They camein groups and Mtech Students of the Department. As the trend introduced them&did their task. The program cametoan end by 4.00pm. towards ˆ¥ˆÉ¿˜ésɘ²¬ and renewable energies increases, enabling technologies such as power electronics are becoming ever more important. Power electronics is an umbrella term that encompasses the systems and products involved in converting and controlling the ê²w of electrical energy .The talk established the potential of power electronics in revolutionizing power processing methods. It explained the sanctity of sine shape in power systems, the causes of wave form distortions and the roleof power electronics in restoring the same. IMPETUS FISAT 18 ...... NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY MoU Signing with TELK and lectureon“Power Scenario with special reference with TELK's contribution”

An MoU signing ceremony with TELK, TransformersElectrical KeralaLtd. Angamaly was conducted on 15th November 2017. A lecture on “Power Scenario with special reference with TELK's contribution” as a partof Lecture series'Learn fromgreat minds' was also organized on the same day. The inaugural address was given by Mr. Prasad B, Managing Director TELK. He Joined NTPC IN 1983 as Engineering Trainee and has 34 years of experience. The inauguration was followed by thesigning ceremony of MoU with TELK. This gave an opportunity forthe students and faculty of Department of Electrical Engineering, FISAT to make use of theindustrial experiences with TELK . This session was followed by a Lecture on “Power Scenario with special reference with TELK's contribution” by Anju George, Surya Susan Alex “StudyofMulti Quadrant Operation of a Mr.Prasad B. He very well explained the present scenariointhe 鈥„ of BLDC Motor with Digital Implementation”, International Journal of Innovative power system and therelevance and role playing by TELK in this area. Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, Volume 6, Special Issue 5, Honouring of Ms. Reeshma Rameshan,All India March 2017. Civil Service Examination Rank holder & Newsletter Surya Natarajan, Asst.Professor, Spl.Grade Sheeja Raphel, Surya Natarajan “ Release Of Electra-STROM Interleaved Flyback Inverter for High Power Applications” International A programme was conducted to honour Ms. Reeshma Rameshan alumini, Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation All India Civil Service Examination Rank holder and to release the Newsletter of EEE Department, STROM on 23rd September 2017 at Seminar Hall. The EngineeringVol. 5, Special Issue 2, March 2016. ISSN (Print) : 2320 - 3765, Newsletter,STROM was released by the Chairman to the Chief Guest of the ISSN (Online): 2278 - 8875. day,Ms. Reeshma Rameshan. Priya Thottan, Surya Natarajan “AnImproved Dual Switch Converter with An interactive sesson was arranged with Ms. Reeshma for the students in Passive Lossless Clamping” International Journal of Advanced Research in which the students were given an opportunity to ask questions and clarify Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering Vol. 5, Special Issue 2, their doubts .Ms.Reeshma shared her experience in overcoming barriers and March 2016. ISSN (Print) : 2320- 3765, ISSN (Online): 2278 – 8875. how she reached her goal. This session was reallyamotivation and inspiration for all the students.The session came to an end by 1.30 pm. Deepa K, Asst. Professor, Spl.Grade UmaPS, Deepa K“A Study of Interleaved Buck Converter PFC with Slope Compensation”, International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, Volume 6, Special Issue 5, March 2017.

SreejaEA, Asst.Professor, Spl.Grade Manu Jacob T, Sreeja EA“Quazi Z-source cascaded H bridge Multilevel Inverter using Multi carrier phase Opposition Disposition” National conference on Future Technologies in power, control and communication systems (NFTPCOS_16) ISSN 2320-3765.

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS Anusree M, Sreeja EA“A Highly ‘阈¬É SEPIC - Flyback Intergrated Parvathy R, HoD Converter as an LED Driver”, International Journal of Innovative Research in Aisha Kalam, Parvathy R“A comparative study on Optimal Path Planning Science, Engineering and Technology, Volume 6, Special Issue 5, Algorithms foraMobile Robot”, National Conference on Emerging technology, March 2017. MES Kunnukara, May 2016. Rakhee R, Asst.Professor, Spl.Grade Dr. Archana R, Associate Professor Shelma MG, Rakhee R “High gain Direct Ac to AC resonant converter applied Athira K Anil, Dr. Archana R “Review of Dissolved Gas Analysis and to Domestic induction heating applications”. Transformer Health Condition”, International Journal of Advance Research IJAREEIE, Vol.5, Special Issue 2, March 2016. and Innovative Ideas in Education ISSN[O]-2395-4396 vol2issue 1-2016 ReshmaKR, Rakhee R “Transformerless Step-Down Integrated Buck Surya Susan Alex, Asst.Prof., Sr.Grade Buck-Boost Converter”, GRENZE International Journal of Engineering and Surya Susan Alex “Reduced order extended Kalman é¥Éˆ¿ for state estimation Technology, March 2017. of Brushless DC motors”, IEEE International Symbosium on Embedded see page 31 Computing and System Design, IIT Patna, December 15 -17, 2016. IMPETUS FISAT ...... 19 NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY PRAYAAN 2k18 News from MCA Department

PRAYAAN 2k18,atwo-day National Level IT Fest held on 16th and 17th of February 2018 was an initiative taken by FIESTA. Around 230 students actively participated in all the challenging technical events. The prize amount was worthatotal of One Lakh Ten Thousand with placement offers from STUDENT UST Global exclusively for the winners of the Coding event. Mrs.Eesha Priya IAS Asst. Collector ACHIEVEMENTS inaugurated the fest on 15th February 2018. The students were presented with an array of technical events such as Coding, Web Hunt, IT Quiz, Gaming, Mock CID, Best Gang, Photography and 3D ball 1. Amal Antony, Akhil Varghese, Dinil Mathew, game. The events on the é¿ÃÉ day ended withaCultural Extravaganza'in which the MCA students Gitto Benny (First year MCA lateral students ) showcased their talents through dance&music. On the 17th, all the È«˜Űé¬s¥ and é¬s¥ rounds were won the First Prize in the Treasure Hunt- Inter held from which the winners were selected.Alive interview was held by the Mr.Praseedth Pai, collegiate IT Fest@Naipunnya Institute of Senior solutions architect, UST Global in the é¬s¥ round of Coding Event. During the valedictory Management and Information Technology, function, prizes were distributed to all the winners. M.A college kothamangalam emerged as the Pongam on 28th and 29th October 2017 overall champions of the fest. 2. Disney Devassy and Anishma .S.Kumar of S3 MCA (Regular) won the P.V Mathew Memorial Trophy for Inter-Department Mathematics Quiz Competition organized by the Maths Club of Fisat on 7th November 2017.

3. Shamseela Subair, Ancy Joseph, Neethu, Riya, Anu Davis (S3 Lateral students of MCA Department) participatedin the Inter collegiate IT Fest ZENORIX organized by SaintGits on 9th and 10th November 2017 and won the First prize for project presentation

4. Arjun and Adarsh (s1Lateral students of MCA Department ) participated in the Inter collegiate IT Fest ZENORIX organized by SaintGits on 9th and 10th November 2017 and won the First prize for Quiz

5. Anoop .K .Babu, Manu.P.Shaju, Abhinav .T (S3 Regular students of MCA Department) participated in the Inter collegiate IT Fest Best Teacher Awardofthe year 2017 ZENORIX organized by SaintGits on 9th and 10th November 2017 and won the Second prize for The Head of the Department of Computer Applications ,Mr.Santhosh Kottam Best Gang was awarded as the Best Teacher for the academic year 2017 .The award was presented by the honorable chairman of FISAT on 23rd September 2017.

IMPETUS FISAT 20 ...... NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY BLOOD DONATION CAMP

In connection with Prayaan 2K18-Technical Fest organized by the Department of MCA conductedaBlood Donation camp at FISAT Campus. Paul Mundadan Chairman FISAT, Dr. George Issac, Principal, Dr. KSM Panicker Academic Director, Dr.CSheela Vice Principal, Dr. Sunny Kuriakose, Dean student affairs, Prof Santhosh Kottam HoD Department of MCA were also present in the camp.

SeminarsOrganised Seminar on Big data analytics ,10Mth ay 2017 byTCS Cochin Organized seminar on“Raspberrypi and Arduino” for KTU MCAfirst semester students on 16th November 2017. Mr. Pakaj Kumar G, Asst.Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Seminar on IEEE explorer-how to use on 26th October 2017, Mr. TSNandalal was resource person. Seminar on Wireshark on 23rd November 2017 Project exhibition S3 MCA Lateral students exhibited theirmini projects on 22nd November 2017 at MCA seminar hall. Students from Departmentof ComputerApplications visited the exhibition stall and viewed the projects

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In association with Opentrends, Barcelona (Spanish company), department startedajoint venture program. They are providing internshi p for é¬sl year students. At the end of the internship, eligible students will be securing placements in Opentrends. Department of Computer Applications signedaMemorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Opentrends, Barcelona on 21st Noemebr 2017.

RANKS Mr. Adarsh Kadameri,MCA Lateral 2014 batch secured third rank inMGUniversity 2016-2017 MCA degree examination PAPER PRESENTATION National conference-1 International Journal-2

ADD-ON COURSE ON ADVANCED JAVA PROGRAMMING INDUSTRIAL VISITS

MCA department has conducted an Add-on course on “Advanced Java Programming” for MCA2016 batch students from 03/07/2017 to 12/07/2017. The resource person was Mr Pankaj Kumar G,Asst. Professor cum System Analyst & Software Engineer, CSE Department, FISAT. Training has been given on the topics such as Java Version 8, Atom editor, Eclipse IDE, Apache Tomcat Web server, and Postgres DB. Around 12 Project groups , each consisting students, were formed to implement the concepts that they have learned during the course. A total of 45 students of MCA 2016 Batch have participated in the Add-on course.

IMPETUS FISAT ...... 21 NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY FASTEST GROWING BUSINESS SCHOOL AWARD News from MBA Department

Received Fastest Growing Business School in South India Award 2017 by Symposium on “WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP Federation of world academicians & business standards. FBS also become ɖˆż²¬ˆżs«²¬’żÉ–ˆżÉزż¾Îs¥˜éˆ„ż ŰP–²²¥Ãż‘¿²«ż1ˆ¿s¥sżÉ²ż¿ˆˆ˜×ˆż Ɩż¿sɘ¬’ż˜¬ż As partofthe Entrepreneurship course of the é‘É– trimester, of the MBA All India B-School Ranking released by ASSOCHAM & Educational Post. Program under Kerala Technological University (KTU) the department Congratulations Business School Team. conducted a one-day symposium on “WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES”on14th December, 2017. The symposium featured a panel of experts, women entrepreneurs with years of experience running businesses, who shared theirinsights and contributed to knowledge sharing among aspiring management students. The speakers wereDr. Deepa Mathai, Arkind Architects, Ms. Manju Mathew, Burger Junction, Ms. Riya Ann Cheriyan, Guiders Academy, Ms. Jeemol Varughese, Eva's Healthy Bakes, and Ms. Molly Babu, Adona Diamonds. It was moderated by Ms. Pushpy Muricken CA, of Muricken Associates.

Congratulations Dr.George V Antony.

Dr. George V Antony, Dean, FBS received Innovative Academic Leader Award (2017) He has been Seminar on Six Sigma Methodology in Indian Software companies nominated as the Director of ASSGON (UK). Honorary Corporate Professor series é¿ÃÉ session was initiatedon5th January Dr. George was invitedto Malaysia University of 2018 where Mr. Brijesh Krishna, Director-Organisational Excellence, Science & Technology to discuss on latest research Sutherland Global Services have takenasession on SixSigma Methodology avenues in management domain. He was also invited in Indian Software companies. Sutherland Global Services have extended to international conferences at Australia and UAE as student's internshipfor FBS operations specializationstudents. Mr.Prasanth V, conferences chair and invited panelist. Assistant Professor, FBS has coordinated the event. Soft skill Program The International Speaker Series On 13th January 2018-FBS has organised2full day trainingon Soft skill for The International Speaker Seriesisanattempt to bring in speakers from allstudentsofT3 MBA for enhancing their communication skills. International contextstoFISAT. It was inaugurated by Prof. Ahmad Hashem, Vice President- Open University Malaysia&COO Meteor learning on August 3rd, 2017 Workshop on digital marketing tools

As partofthe Digital Marketing specialization paper of theT5 MBA Program a free hands-on workshop on various digital marketingtools wereto30 studentson 29th November, 2017. Digital Marketingfaculty Mr. PrasanthV has organised&coordinated the event.

Seminar on Internet of Things (IoT) A session on Internet of Things (IoT) applicationindifferent industries was taken by Mr. Rajith Krishna on 23rd January 2018 and the event was organised by Mr. PrasanthV, Assistant Professor, FBS. Union budget Live streaming Union budget Live streaming session was organised at FBS seminar hallon 1st February, 2018 under the guidance of Mr. PrasanthV, Assistant Professor, FBS. IMPETUS FISAT 22 ...... NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY International Linkages of FISAT Business School

FBS students have visited Leads Beckett University, Open University Malaysiaat UK delegates at FBS-FISAT OUM Campus, Malaysia. for collaborative management for Global Leadership programs. ˆ¿É˜ésɘ²¬ş

2nd Edition of International Mr. Paul Mundadan, Conference on Corporate Chairman and management Social Responsibility and team at Heriot Watt University Organisational Governance to explore possible held under at FISAT collaborative opportunities for Business School twining program.

Delegates from Edinburg First year MBA students Napier University, Scotland attending a training session at FBS to explore possible at Siam Technology College, collaborative opportunities Thailand. FBS has signed for twining program. MoUwith STC for long term Induction Pr strategictie-ups.

Training Programs Offeredby MBA Dept. 1. 3 day Microsoft excel 2016 training wasoffered from 21st March 2018 to T3 MBA student leading to direct Microsoft ˆ¿É˜ésɘ²¬ş The session was coordinated by Mr. Prasanth V, Assistant Professor. 2. SAP trainer providing SAP global ˆ¿É˜ésɘ²¬ training to T5 students based on their functional specialization. 3. Several training sessions were organised for developing aptitude skill among T4 MBA students. MBA InductionProgramme Events

The MBA 2017 Batch A session on corporate Mr. Sudarshan Gopala, An experience sharing Mr.BijimonKR, Chief Inauguration was carried expectation from fresh MBA Executive Director, ihaps.org session by FBS alumini General Manager, Muthoot

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Mr.JitheshPV, AGM, Mr. Jayaraj V, Head –HR, Mr. Anil Kannat, Director and A session on cybercrime Atime and stress Federal Bank has delivered CIAL has takenasession on Co-Founder of Knowleo and Anti raging from a legal management session a session on changing trends ¿ˆ„ˆé¬˜¬’ the role of HR in Business School has taken a and regulatory perspective was conducted by

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Mr. Sreenivas, Nutritionist, have helped the students to know the relevance of health man .

IMPETUS FISAT ...... 23 NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY News from Basic Science THE INAUGURATION OF MATHS CLUB FISAT and Humanities Department

Signing of MOU th The inauguration of MATHS CLUB FISAT was conductedon30October The MATHS CLUB FISAT and Department of Science and Humanities in 2017. Mr.Paul Mundadan, Hon. Chairman of FISAT inaugurated theClub. association with Kerala Mathematical Association (KMA) conducted the fourth Dr.George Isaac, Principal FISAT presided over the function.Mr. P.I. Bose, All Kerala Inter-collegiate Mathematics Quiz Competition on 31st January Treasurer, FISAT gave thefelicitations. Dr. KSM Panicker, Director, 2018. Dr. Sunny Kuriakose (Dean Student Affairs) was the Quiz master. 37 teams from various departments participated in the competition. Academics released Logo of MathsClubFISAT. Dr.C. Sheela(Vice-Principal & HOD),Mr.ShinoyGeorge(Staff Co-ordinater, MathsClub FISAT) and After the preliminary round,aseminar on 'Foundations of Mathematics' was Mr.Renjith Prasad (Secretary,MathsClubFISAT) were present in the given by Dr. T.Thrivikraman. function. Thiswas followedbyan invited lecture by theChiefGuest The following teams were the winners of the competition: Dr.A.Krishnamoorthy, Former HOD&EmeritusProfessor, Department of FIRST PRIZE- Vivek S.and Anand O.R., U.C.College, Aluva Mathematics, CUSAT on 'MathematicalModelling'. SECOND PRIZE- Vysakh S. and Arun Abraham, Model Engineering Inter-Department Mathematics Quiz Competitionfor College, Thrikkakara P.V. Mathew MemorialTrophy THIRD PRIZE- Kevin Antony and Unnikrishnan, FISAT, Angamaly In the valedictory function, Mr. Paul Mundadan (Chairman, FISAT) delivered the presidential address. Dr.George Isaac (Principal, FISAT) addressed the gathering. Dr. K.S.M. Panicker (Director, Academics) gave felicitation. Dr. T.Thrivikraman (President, KMA) gave his remark about the programme. On this occasion FISAT honoured Dr. T.Thrivikraman for his contributions in the 鈥„ of Mathematics. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the department of Science&Humanities and Kerala Mathematical Association (KMA). Mr. Paul Mundadan (Chairman, FISAT) and Dr. T.Thrivikraman (President, KMA) signed the MoU. The MATHS CLUB FISAT conducted Inter-Department Mathematics Quiz Mr. Paul Mundadan distributed the prizes. The winners were given trophies, Competition for P.V. Mathew Memorial Trophyon 7th November 2017. cash awards and ˆ¿É˜ésÉˆÃş Dr. C. Sheela (Vice-Principal & HOD), and Dr. Sunny Kuriakose (Dean Student Affairs) was the Quiz master. 30 teams Mr. Renjith Prasad (Secretary, Maths Club FISAT) addressed the gathering. from various departments participated in the competition. The following teams Refresher Course were the winners of thecompetition: The MATHS CLUB FISAT conductedarefresher course on 'Foundations of FIRST PRIZE –Aneeshma S.Kumar&Disney Devassy [S3 MCA(R)], Engineering Mathematics' for S2 B.Tech students. The course was conducted SECOND PRIZE-Kevin Antony&Unnikrishnan[S7 EC- B] for 10 days from 26-2-2018 to 09-03-2018. Around 30 students attended THIRD PRIZE –Abin James&Flikson C.J.[S1 ME-A] the course. In the presentation ceremony,Dr. K.S.M. Panicker (Director, Academics) Achievements delivered P.V. Mathew memorial talk. Dr.George Isaac (Principal) distributed 1. Our Mathematics Quiz Team won different All Kerala Inter-collegiate the Prizes. Thewinners weregiven Trophies andCˆ¿É˜ésÉˆÃş Dr.C.Sheela Mathematics Quiz Competitions in the academic year 2017-2018. The (Vice-Principal & HOD),Mr. Shinoy George(Staff Co-ordinator, MathsClub following were positions in various competitions. FISAT) and Mr.Renjith Prasad (Secretary,Maths Club FISAT) addressed SL. NO. Venue Position the gathering. National Mathematics Day Celebrations 1. Union Christian College,Aluva First and Third Prizes

The National Mathematics Daywas celebrated on 22ndDecember 2017 2. St.Paul's College, Kalamassery Third Prize by Maths Club FISAT. Dr.C.Sheela (Vice-Principal& HOD) inaugurated the 3. Sacred Heart College, Thevara Third Prize programme.Dr. K.S.M. Panicker (Director, Academics) gave thefelicitation. It was followed byavideo-talk show ‘Ramanujan-A brief ¼¿²é¥ˆ'by 4. KMM College, Thrikkakara Second Prize Dr.A.Sunny Kuriakose. All KeralaInter-Collegiate Mathematics Quiz Competition In fondmemory of our dear Shinoy Sir...... Signing of MOU with KMA

IMPETUS FISAT 24 ...... NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY INAUGURATION OF FISAT OPEN AGRICULTURAL INITITATIVES

In co ordination with IIT Mumbai FISAT Engineering College launched the new initiative of FISAT OPEN AGRICULTURAL INITIATIVES. Mr Muhammad Hanish IAS, Chairman, Metro th Rail Kochi inaugurated thefunctionon22 Feb 2018. Paul Mundadan Chairman, Dr. George Issac,Principal,Dr. C Sheela Vice Principal, Dr.KSMPanicker Academic Director, Prof. Bijoy Varghese, coordinato Yentra Project werealso participated in the event. Book Exhibition 2017 FISAT Library and Information Centre organised a Book Exhibition from7th November to 11th November 2017. Governing Body Chairman, 120 special school students actively participated IMPULSE- IEEE in various activities prepared by FISAT students. Shri. Paul Mundadaninaugurated the Book In connectionwith IEEE Seminar Ms Nishanthini Congratulation to FISAT NSS Unit. Exhibition. IPS, DCP KOCHI,Inaugurated the function. Endowment Fund Paul Mundadan Chairman FISAT, A meeting of the staff of the college on Dr.K.S.M Panicker AcademicDirector, 14/09/2017 unanimously decided to contribute Dr.CSheelaVicePrincipal,Prof BejoyVarghese one day salaryasapartofraising an endowment Program Coordinator and other dignitaries were fund in thenameof our founder Chairman late participated. PVMathew. The interest of thefund will be used to provide annual scholarship to the Best Non Teaching Staff Award 2017 students based on their outstanding academic Sino Varghese, Librarianreceived Best Non performance and economic back ground, as per Teaching Staff Award 2017onthe institution rules andregulationofthe scheme. day based on his special contributions and Hairfor Hope performancetothe Institution. It is an event organized for donating hairfor the cancer patientsby NSS and WOMEN CELL . Event was organizedin association with Amala InaugurationofPV Mathew Memorial Institute of Cancer center Thrissur. Debate Competition The literary and CulturalassociationofFISAT called'RollingStone' conducted PVMathew Memorial Debate Competitionon.Veteran Poet Ms. ShaliniSinaugurated the function. Paul Mundadan Chairman, Dr. George Issac PVMathew MemorialADay to Remember A social outreach programme fordifferently Principal, Dr.CSheelaVicePrincipal, Prof. Molly abled children initiated by FISAT to Joseph Program coordinator and other commemorateP.V. Mathew, Founder Chairman dignitaries were participated. of FISAT. The programme was organizedby Inititativefor Caringthe Paliative FISAT NSS unitin associationwith Stallion Paul Mundadan Chairman FISAT inaugurated International,an NGO working among children the NSS event organizedfor caring palliative and SpecialSchool Teachers Associationat peoplein Thuravoor Public Health Centre. Aelli Hills,Aluva. 45 NSS Volunteers under the guidance and leadershipofMr. Jiby Varghese (NSS Programme ?‘鈿ŭŚ Mr. Tom Anto, (NSS Programme ?‘鈿ŭ and student coordinators-Hrishikesh K Swami of S5 EIE, FISAT INTER COLLEGIATE TWENTY Vivek C Ravi of S5 ME, Riya Mary Thomas, of TWENTY CRIKET S5 CSE and Divya Unikrishnan of S5 CSE, Rajagiri College of Engineering has wonthe th made October 7 a special day of cheer,joy Trophy of FISAT Inter CollegiateTwenty and funfor differently abled children. Around TwentyCricket.Former Indian Team Cricketer IMPETUS FISAT see page 26 ...... 25 NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY CASHLESS TRANSACTION PROMOTION PROGRAMME

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, in association with Federal Bank CSR, administered and conducted about 40 workshops on cashless (digital) É¿s¬Ãsɘ²¬Ãż˜¬ż„˜‘‘ˆ¿ˆ¬Éż¼s¿ÉÃż²‘ż1ˆ¿s¥sşżPÉs‘‘Ãżs¬„żÃÉ΄ˆ¬ÉÃż²‘żPż„ˆ¼s¿É«ˆ¬Éż²¬„ÎɈ„ż¬Î«ˆ¿²ÎÃż¥sÃÃˆÃż²¬ż×s¿˜²ÎÃż¼˜×²És¥żs¿ˆsÃż¥˜£ˆżZ¬˜éˆ„ż¼sÞ«ˆ¬Éż Interface (UPI Technologies), SMS Banking, *99# banking, missed call banking, use of credit cards, debit card, mobile banking, etc to make awareness, ά„ˆ¿ÃÉs¬„˜¬’żs¬„ż²¬é„ˆ¬ˆżs~²Îɿɖˆż×s¿˜²ÎÃżż„˜’˜És¥żÉˆ–¬²¥²’˜ˆÃżs«²¬’ż’ˆ¬ˆ¿s¥ż¼Î~¥˜şżIˆ²¼¥ˆż¿ˆÃ¼²¬„ˆ„żÉ–sɿɖˆż²Î¿ÃˆÃżØˆ¿ˆż¥ˆ’˜É˜«sɈ¥Þż¼¿²„Îɘ׈Śż s¬„żØˆ¿ˆżÉ²żs¬żˆÝɈ¬ÉŚżs~¥ˆżÉ²żˆ¿s„˜sɈżÉ–ˆżêο¿Þż²‘ż²¬ˆ¿¬ÃżÉ–sÉż–s„żsÎȄż¼²Ãɿɖˆż„ˆ«²¬ˆÉ˜Ãsɘ²¬ż˜¬ż’ˆ¬ˆ¿s¥ŚżˆÃ¼ˆ˜s¥¥Þż˜¬ż¿Î¿s¥żÃˆɲ¿şżI¿˜«s¿˜¥ÞŚżØˆżØˆ¿ˆż able to make people aware of the advantages that we could get, if we go digital in terms of economy - namely getting rid of bulky wallet, freebies and discounts, ease of transactions, time saving, reduction in counterfeit money, budget saving etc.

ˆ¬É¿s¥ż8˜¬˜ÃɈ¿ż8¿żI˜ÞÎÖż!²Þs¥żŚż˜ÃÉ¿˜Éż²¥¥ˆɲ¿ż1şż8²–s««ˆ„żjşżPsé¿Î¥¥sŚżs¬„ż«s¬Þż²¿’s¬˜ãsɘ²¬Ãż²¬’¿sÉÎ¥sɈ„żÉ–ˆżPż„ˆ¼s¿É«ˆ¬Éżż²‘ż 'PUż‘²¿żÉ–ˆ˜¿ż social commitment and wrote appreciation letters for their stupendous effort.

Android Workshop

ACM Student chapter organized a workshop on Android on 20th January 2018. The workshop was conducted as a part of Google’s Applied CS with Android Programme and sessions were handled by Mr.Visakh Ajith of Eighth semester Computer Science of FISAT. He was selected as the Google’s Applies CS Facilita- tor by Google and got training from there. About 50 students from various batches registered and attended the workshop and the hands-on sessions for developing ¬„¿²˜„ż s¼¼¥˜sɘ²¬ż ؈¿ˆż ¿ˆs¥¥Þż ÎȑΥż ‘²¿ż ɖˆż ÃÉ΄ˆ¬ÉÃşż Is¿˜˜¼sɘ²¬ż ˆ¿É˜ésÉˆÃż were awarded to the students

Entrepreneurship Training programme for Students on 30th August 2017

Entrepreneurship orientation programme called 'Margadeepam' was organised in association with Directorate of Industries and Commerce, Kerala Government at FISAT on 30th August 2017. Around 200 students from B.Tech and MCA courses attended the ²¿˜ˆ¬Ésɘ²¬ż ¼¿²’¿s««ˆşż U–ˆż ÈÃز¬ż ØsÃż –s¬„¥ˆ„ż ~Þż 8¿şż I¿s׈ˆ¬ż 8Śż ˜ÃÉ¿˜Éż ²‘鈿Śż Directorate of Industries and Commerce.

IMPETUS FISAT 26 ...... NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY INAUGURATION

OF MOBILE FAB LAB

on 6th November 2017

U–ˆż–²¬²¿s~¥ˆżc˜ˆż–s˜¿«s¬ż²‘ż'Uż¿şż8żIżI²²¬˜sż–s¬„˜¬’ż²×ˆ¿żÉ–ˆż£ˆÞż²‘ż 'PUż8²~˜¥ˆż s~ż3s~żÉ²żÉ–ˆż0˜~Þżcs¿’–ˆÃˆż9²„s¥ż²‘鈿ż'Śż¿ż!ˆ²¿’ˆż'ÃÃsż Principal, Anthony Johnson Vice Chairman, Paul Mundadan Chairman, Roji M John MLA, P I Bose Treasurer, Dr.Ramesh U Director AICTE, Dr C Sheela Vice Principal, Dr. KSM Panickar, Director Academics, Dr. Sunny Kuriakose Dean Student Affairs, Dr. George V Antony Dean MBA were also seen.

Workshop on “DIGITAL FABRICATION TECHNIQUES”

FISAT FABLAB has organized hands on workshop titled “Digital fabrication techniques” for teaching and non teaching staff of FISAT. 15 staff participated in the 1st edition of workshop. Second Workshop on “DIGITAL FABRICATION TECHNIQUES” Edition 2 on 25 , 26 August 2017. 12 staff members participated in the 2nd edition of workshop. Workshop on “DIGITAL FABRICATION TECHNIQUES” Edition 3 was conducted on 15 , 16 September 2017.

Professional enhancement programme for UKF college of Engineering and technology, Kollam on 21st & 23rd July 2017

FISAT Fablab has conducted a 3 day professional enhancement programme for faculty members from UKF College of engineering and technology, Kollam. 21 faculty members attended the programme and they successfully presented 6 innovative products at the end of programme.

Orientation programme on Astronomy and Astrophysics on 31st Oct & 1st Nov 2017

Astronomy Club constituted under FISAT centre for astronomy and astrophysics has organized a two day orientation cum hands on workshop on astrophysics area. Prof. Avinash Deshpande, Raman research Institute, Bangalore handled the session for the astronomy club members.

Miss South India 2018

Our alumni Lakshmi P (2012-2016, ECE B batch) crowned Miss South India 2018 and Miss Queen of India 2018.

IMPETUS FISAT ...... 27 NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY National Level Best Project Award from IIT-Bombay

As part of CER(Center of Excellence in Robotics and IoT) initiative, an Ideas Competition called the eYIC 2018 was conducted by IIT Bombay out of which 18 teams were selected sÃżØ˜¬¬ˆ¿ÃżØ˜É–˜¬żÃ¼ˆ˜éˆ„żsɈ’²¿˜ˆÃşż?οż’¿²Î¼ż‘¿²«ż 'PUż~s’’ˆ„żÉ–ˆżsØs¿„ż˜¬żÉ–ˆż “Most Realistic” category for our project “Disease Diagnosis Machine”. The project was to help the rural people by developing a disease diagnosis machine. Later they got the opportunity to go to IIT Bombay for a 10-day workshop on Innovation and Entrepreneur- ship, in which only 20 students from all over India were able to attend.

Launch of Fab International programme on 6th November 2017

FISAT Science & Technology Park and Research Centre has launched “Fab International programme” for extending the activities of fablab to outside of India.

Launch of Weekend Fab Programme on 6th November 2017

FISAT fablab in association with State NSS technical cell has launched “Weekend Fab programme”. The programme is a 3 day residential programme for school students where students imagine, invent, design, test and collaborate to solve compelling problems. Visit By Rajastan Technical University on 8th November 2017

A team from Rajastan Technical University headed by Vice chancellor, PRO Vice chancellor and Principals of 3 Engineering colleges visited Fablab and Mobile fablab.

FISAT Fablab Team Participated in Bangalore maker fair 2017 on 17th & 18th November 2017

FISAT Fablab has participated in National level Maker fair conducted in Bangalore. The maker fair was an excellent platform for showcasing FISAT Fablab projects and got wide appreciation from the technocrats and the public

IMPETUS FISAT 28 ...... NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY FISAT ENS MAKER FAIR 2018

FISAT Science & Technology Park and Research Centre along with The Emirates National School, Sharjah in association with APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), has conducted a three day programme 'FISAT-ENS MAKER FAIR at The Emirates national School, Sharjah. Around 6000 School students from various schools of sharjah and Dubai have participated in the maker fair.

Workshop on The Robot Operating System(ROS)

FISAT IEDC has conducted a one day workshop on The Robot Operating System (ROS) on 10th March 2018. The ROS IS a set of software libraries and tools that help to build robot applica- tion. Around 50 students attended the workshop.Mr. Chandykunju Alex, Mentor cum robotic engineer, Future technology lab, KSUM was the resource person for the workshop.

Department of Science & Humanities

The Annual Event of Rolling Stone was conducted on 20th February 2018 with the eminent Chief Guest from Banglore, Ms. Saranya Francis . The Chairman, Mr. Paul Mundadan instituted PV Mathew Memorial Ever Rolling Trophy and it was given over to Abraham Jeevan Roy (S 8 CS) with a cash Prize of rs/ 3000. The second went to Dhiyeri. P Joy ( S8 M E) with a cash money rs/ 2000, and the third given to Lisabeth Maria George ( S6 EEE). An Endowment Fund instituted in the name of Vinaya Menon ( EC ) to the winners of Art and Literary Competitions were handed over to 5 students ( rs/ 1000 each) Wall Painting : J.S Keerthy (S6 EC), Karthika S. Jayan ( S6 EC) Spot Painting : Sukanya Suresh ( S2 EC) Poster Design : Namitha Krishnakumar ( S2 ME) Debate : Antony V, Varghese ( S8 EC) A book of Poems written by Dr. Molly Joseph, Myna’s Musings was released by the Chief Guest followed by a Book Talk. The Annual Manuscript Magazine of Rolling Stone “ Phoenix” was released by the Pricipal and handed over to the Chairman. It was followed by the culturals ; a mono act by Anamika, (S4 C.S); Macbeth , Banquet scene enacted on Stage by Akshay Ajith and team.

Activities & Mathematics

Renjith Prasad K (S7, EC-B) has participated in the “Summer School in Mathematics to the memory of Sarvadaman D.S.Chowla”(20 days Workshop) organized by Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thriruvarur during 11th-30th June, 2017.

IMPETUS FISAT ...... 29 NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY FISAT INTER COLLEGIATE TWENTY VEGETABLE HARVEST NPTEL TRAINING TWENTY CRIKET Sri. Paul Mundadan Chairman Inaugurated the U–ˆż é¿ÃÉż –s¿×ˆÃÉż ²‘ż cˆ’ˆÉs~¥ˆÃż ¼¥s¬Éˆ„ż ~Þż ɖˆż Rajagiri College of Engineering has won the NPTEL training for teachers from various Trophy of FISAT Inter Collegiate Twenty Twenty students and faculty of FISAT was reaped by the colleges on 19th June 2017. Professors from IIT Cricket. Former Indian Team Cricketer Tinu Honorable MLA Mr. Roji M John on 29.10.17. Madras led the sessions. There were 115 Yohannan given away the trophy to the winners. Paul Mundadan Chairman, Anthony Johnson colleges participated in the programme. Vice Dr. George Issac, Principal, Mr. Arun Surendran, Vice Chairman, Dr. George Issac principal, Ms Chairman Anthony Johnson, Treasurer P I Sports Coordinator and other dignitaries were Shalini Warrier COO of Federal Bank Ltd Dr. C Bose, Principal Dr. George Issac, Dr Andrew participated. sheela Vice Principal, were also present. Thankaraj, Dr. Prathap Haridoss, Ms Bharathi Balaji (specialist from IIT Madrass) Vice Princiapl Dr. C. Sheela, Academic Director Dr. K S M Panickar, Dean student affairs Dr. Sunny Kuriakose, Dean MBA Dr. George V Antony Program Co Ordinator Ms Rashimi R were present in the function

Prof. DeepakBPathak Interacting with thestudents A renowned Professor and the founder of the Akash Tablet project of Govt of India Dr. Deepak B Pathak Visited the College Campus and ATM INSIDE CAMPUS World Enviornment Day Celebrations interacted with the students and faculty on 23.10.17. He also addressed the faculty of More The Federal Bank Placed an ATM Counter at the World environmental day celebrations was than 1500 institutions all over India through College Campus and Mr. Roji M John MLA inaugurated by Ms Molly Vincent Panchayathu Video Conference. Dr. KSM Panickar Director Opened the counter for the General Public and President Mookkannor Gramapanchayath on Academics, Mr. Unnikartha G Placement the students on 29.10.17. Paul Mundadan Ŋɖż 0܈şż ’¿˜Î¥Éοs¥ż ?‘鈿ż 8Ãż P–ˆ¿¥Þż 8ż ²‘鈿Śż 8¿şż ¬²²¼ż !ż ¼¿²’¿s«ˆż ²‘鈿ż ؈¿ˆż Chairman FISAT, Ms Shalini Warrier COO, presided over the function. P I Bose Treasurer also seen Federal Bank Ltd, Ms Molly Vincent President FISAT given the key note address. Dr. George Grama Panchayathu Mookkannor and the Issac principal, Dr. K S M Panicker Director ²‘é˜s¥Ãż‘¿²«żÉ–ˆż‘ˆ„ˆ¿s¥ż~s¬£żØˆ¿ˆżs¥Ã²ż¼¿ˆÃˆ¬Éş Academics, Dr Sunny Kuriakose, Dean Student affairs Ms. Jijy Antony Program Co Ordinator SWAN Dr. Saraswathyamma Program coodina- tor SWAN Mr. Dhanish M SWAN were participated in the function.

IEEE TECH MEET The event of IEEE Tech Meet was organized by Kochi Chapter of IEEE Cell and Ms. Sujatha Madhav Chandran, Global Head - Asset Leveraged Solutions, Analytics and Insights Unit, TCS inaugurates the Tech Meet Women In Engineering Program. Paul Mundadan EC Students Achievements Chairman FISAT GOVERNING BODY, P I Bose Treasurer FISAT, Dr. George Issac Principal, Dr K S M Panickar Director Academics Dr.C Sheela Vice Principal, Bejoy joseph Faculty coordinator Team members -Renjith Prasad, Rohan C.S., Lakshmi S. Pillai, Unnikrishnan, and students representatives were also seen. Anand Sreekanth(S8EC-B) Team Co-ordinator: Shinoy George, Asst. Professor in Mathematics 2. Unnikrishnan (S8EC-B) won the é¿Ãtprizeinthe Mathematics Relay Competition in theintercollegiate Maths Fest held5th March 2018atU.C.College, Aluva 3. Renjith Prasad (S8EC-B) won the é¿ÃÉ prizeinthe Teaching Skill Competition and Unnikrishnan (S8EC-B) won the é¿ÃÉ prizeinthe Sudoku Competition heldon 26th February 2018atSt.Paul's College, Kalamassery. 4. Renjith Prasad (S8EC-B) won thesecond prizeinthe Teaching Skill Competition heldon21st February 2018at KKM College, Thrikkakara. 5. Renjith PrasadK(S8, EC-B) has participated in the“Summer School in Mathematics to the memoryof Sarvadaman D.S.Chowla” (20 days Workshop) organized by Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thriruvarur during 11th-30th June, 2017.

IMPETUS FISAT 30 ...... NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY From page 23continue CSR initative Students and faculties FBS visited the SSSMILE Faculty Achievements village, vettikuzhy as their CSR initiative. FBS team provided material Mr. PraveenVwas recognized as the Best Student supplies and é¬s¬˜s¥ Coordinator in Kochi for the Student Chapter of IEEE in FISAT, among allIEEE chapters at the vast number of engineering instituteus in Kochi

New Doctorates in MBA Department

Dr. K. Sreekumar wasawarded Dr. Jose Varghese wasawarded Dr Femina Syed was PhD by School of Management PhD by School of Management awarded PhD by School Studies CUSAT in the topic Studies CUSAT in the topic of Management Studies "Management accounting "Management Accounting CUSAT in the topic: Practices and Organisational Practices and Organisational Ambidextrous culture, Performance: A Study of Performance:A Study of contextual ambidexterity Environmental and Organisational Environmental and Organisational and product innovation Antecedents as Perceived by Antecedents as Perceived by in software development Finance and Accounting Managers Finance and Accounting Managers organizations in Kerala in the Manufacturing Sector in India in the Manufacturing Sector in India"

From page 19, EEE Faculty publication continue AnilJThomas, Asst. Professor, Spl.Grade Diana Xavier, Rosemin Parackal “Performance Evaluationof PFC Based Dc Varada Asok, AnilJThomas “A Flicker-Free LED Driver with Two variable Voltage CSC converter fed BLDC Motor”,National conference on Parallel Inverted Buck Topology”, International Journal of Innovative Future Technologies in power, control andcommunication systems Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, Volume6, Special (NFTPCOS-16). Issue 5, March 2017. Arsha R, Rosemin Parackal ŷ8²„˜éˆ„ Buck-Boost Converter with

Jyothi GK, Asst.Professor High Step-up and Step-Down Voltage Ratio”, International Journal AnjaliPRadhakrishnan, JyothiGK“An Improved Power Quality of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, SMPS using Power Factor Corrected Zeta Converter”, GRENZE Volume6, Special Issue 5, March 2017. International Journal of Engineering and Technology, March 2017. StanyEGeorge, Asst.Professor

Rabiya Rasheed, Asst. Professor AparnaMN, Stany E George “Non Linear Predictive Control Minu M Sajeer, Rabiya Rasheed “Hybrid Five-Level Inverter using Strategy for Standalone DC Microgrids”, GRENZE International Switched Capacitor Unit”, National conference on Emerging Journal of Engineering and Technology, March 2017. th Technologies (NACET 2K16),8April 2016. Rinku Scaria, Asst.Professor

Surumi Hassainar, Asst.Professor Sajana Soman, Rinku Scaria “Differential evolution of disparity line Shilpa Krishnan, Surumi Hassainar “Study of H6 Transformerless Full utilization factor based congestion managementof power system Bridge PV Grid Tied Inverters” GRENZE International Journal of with Inter line power controller”, International Journal of Engineering and Technology, March 2017. Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering Vol.4 May2016. Soumya Simon, Asst.Professor Shebin Rasheed, Soumya Simon “A Novel Voltage multiplier for high voltage AthiraKR, Rinku Scaria “A Novel Solar Power Generation System low current Applications”,National Conference on futureTechnologies in withaSeven-Level Inverter”, International Journal of Innovative Power, control communication systems(NFTPCOS-16). Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, Volume 6, Special Issue 5, March 2017. Atul VS, Soumya Simon “A High Step-Up Boost-Flyback Converter with Voltage Multiplier Module for Photovoltaic System”, International Journal Muhammed Noufal C, Asst.Professor of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, Volume 6, Asha Alex, Muhammed Noufal C “Optimal Placement ofaResistive Special Issue 5, March 2017. Superconducting Fault Current Limiter in a Multimachine Power Rosemin Parackal, Asst. Professor System”, GRENZE International Journal of Engineering & Technology, MeenuJose Thekkan, Rosemin Parackal “High Gain converter with Dual March 2017. coupled Inductors”, National conference on Future Technologies in power, control and communication systems” (NFTPCOS-16). IMPETUS FISAT ...... 31 NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY From page 9 continue

MOTIVATIONAL TALK ON HIGHER EDUCATION Students Achievements A motivational talk regarding the higher education was arranged for the second year students on 20-4-2017. The talk was organised during the 3rd ·Ms. Nandini Menon, S4 CSEBwon the KTU Table Tennis Championships 2017 held at CET Trivandrum. hour at the S4 EEE classroom. The chief guest was Mr. Vishnu Lona Jacob ·Ms.Nandini Menon of S4 CSEBhas secured First Position alumni of IIM Kozhikode,working asacarrier guide andamentor and in team championship in Mixed Doubles,Second Position in Mr. Elias. The talk began with the resource person introducing himself and Team Championshipfor women's team event,Second the journey of his life. He talked at length about how big the world is and how Position inTeam Championshipfor women's doubles event, small an exposure we get, living inasmall part of the world. He encouraged Second Position inTeamChampionship for Youth Girls team the students to gain more experience and exposure and partake in all activities. event and Third Position inTeamChampionshipfor Youth He wasaliving example of how, what we study and what we do foraliving Girls team event in the 46th inter district&65th kerala Ms.Nandini Menon maybe completely unrelated. He explained about deciding the life path early state table TennisChampionship 2016 held at Kasargode and focusing the energy and effort into achieving the goal at the end of that from 9th to 13th November 2016 path. He described the students must haveaclear idea about their future and it's never too late to start anything. In the end, he talked about how competitive ·Mr.RohithNarayanan of S8 CSEBhas won the world is and how we must give our 200% in order to succeed. the Grand Prize in ACM Ambassadors program 2016-17 andacash worth $400.

Mr.Rohith Narayanan

MsDivya Unnikrishnanof S6 CSA was selected for the 22nd National Youth Festival held at Jaipur, Rajasthan from 12th January to 16th January 2018. She was one among the 10 NSS volunteers who represented NSS Technical Cell, Kerala. Ms Divya Unnikrishnan

ONE DAY WORKSHOP ON DESIGN OF MAGNETIC CIRCUIT FOR POWER CONVERTER ·Ms.Ashwini Harikumar and Ms.Aishwarya Santhosh of S4CSA won second prize in 'ESPERANTO' event conducted on 5th, 6th and 7th October A workshop on design of magnetic circuit for power electronic converter was 2017 at School of Engineering,CUSAT conducted on 16/12/16 by Mis. JYOTHI G. K., Asst. Professor EEE Dept. ·Mr.JiyadKSalim and Mr.Gokul Babu of S4-CSE A woné¿ÃÉ prize in with the support of Mr. Saju Kuriakkose,Lab Instructor, for the PG students 'PENTATHLON' event conducted on 19th March 2017 as part of DRISHTI'17, of the department. Design of magnetic circuit is the key part of the power the technical fest of CET, Trivandrum electronic converter design, especially in SMPS and Resonant converters. It ·Mr. Mufeed Patel of S6 CSE-B has won the 3rd prize under the spot event includes design of inductors and high frequency transformers of the required contest category“Maker Summit ” conduced as part of TECHFEST-2017 of üˆ˜ésɘ²¬Ãş KSCSTE (Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment) organized jointly by KSCSTE and APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University hosted by MA College of Engineering,Kothamangalam. ·Mr. Mufeed Patel has also achieved 2nd prize in the ' Innovation Challenge 17 ' event conducted as part of DRISHTI'17,the technical fest conducted at CET Trivandrum. ·Mr.Visakh Ajith of S8 CSE-B was selected as the facilitator for “Google Applied CS with Andriod Program'' in the year 2017-18. ·Ms. LakshmiASof S6 CSAwas selected as the “ACM Ambassador” for the month of November 2017. ·Ms. Anjaly J A(S2 CS A) and Ms.Sona Grace John (S2 CS B) won the college level PES Quiz competition organized by IEEE PES Kerala chapter as part of IEEE Day 2017 celebrations. ·Mr. Noel Joseph Sam of S6 CSEBhas secured é¿ÃÉ prize in Indian Music Group at IN-BLM 2017, the national level inter-collegiate/university cultural fest of Christ University, Bengaluru IMPETUS FISAT 32 ...... NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY ·MrNoel Joseph Sam of S6 CSEBhas secured é¿ÃÉ prize in music band competition organized by De Paul School Of Media&Communication, Angamaly

Name Class ANANTHAKRISHNANMA CSE A(2013 Admission) Toppers- HEERA MAHESH CSE A(2013 Admission) GATE DIVYA JOSE CSE A(2014 Admission) LAKSHMI PRIYA CSE A(2014 Admission) Nair AshwathyHarikumar of S6 EIE: VPVISHNU PRASAD CSE B(2014 Admission)

Android Workshop 1. She was one among the5é¬s¥˜ÃÉà of the ACM Student chapter organizedaworkshop on and got training from there. About 50 students beauty pageant 'Miss Millenial 2K17' conducted Androidon 20th January 2018. The workshop from various batches registered and attended by Manorama Online powered by Federal Bank. was conducted asapart of Google's Applied CS the workshop and the hands-on sessions for She also won the zonal level of Speak for Kerala with Android Programme and sessions were developing Android application were really contest conducted by Federal Bank. handled by Mr.Visakh AjithofEighth semester useful for the students. Participation ˆ¿É˜ésɈà 2. She got third prize for poetry writing Computer Science of FISAT. He was selected as were awarded to the students. conducted by Darsana Publications the Google's AppliesCS Facilitator by Google 3. d²¬é¿ÃÉ prize for poetry writing conducted by Rolling Stone (Literary club of FISAT) From page 15 continue asapart of Women's Day Celebration. 5. Arathi E, AshinSajan, Ditto Paul, Ijas contest of Indian Innovative Challenge Design 4. Arun C, Rohith M, Nair Aswathy Harikumar of Mohammed, Monica Clare Albin of S8 EIE Contest (IICDC – 2017) by NSRCEL, IIM EIE won é¿ÃÉ prize in fashion show held at MA bagged the 'Best Instrumentation Project Award' Bangalore which is an initiative by the Texas college of Engineering, Thejus Engineering in the technical fest – 'Shrishti' held at Saintgits Instruments and Department of Science and College, and SNMIMT Technology (DST), supported by MYGOV and College of Engineering, Kottayam. Project Title– EI Faculty as Resourse Persons Make In India. They were also funded Rs 3000 Smart Farm 1.Mr. S. Sundararajan by Kerala State Council for Science, Technology 6. Arun KumarTV, Basil Joy, MelvinTomy won Workshop on' Simulation of Power Electronics and Environment (KSCSTE) for the project. the é¿ÃÉ position for their research paper titled using MATLAB' forthe students of Govt. “PORTABLE MILEAGE SENSING DEVICE FOR Polytechnic College, Cherthala. VEHICLES”in KETCON-2018 jointly organized 2.Ms.Sreevidya P by APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University Workshop on 'PLC and LabVIEW' for the S5 and KSCSTE, hosted by Sahradaya Engineering students of EEE,FISAT college during February 2018 .This paper also 3.Mr. Shinto Sebastian won third prize atTEQUEST, technical fest Workshop on 'PLC and LabVIEW' for the S5 conducted by the department of Instrumentation, students of EEE, FISAT CUSAT. 4.Mr. Anish Mathew K 7. Aishwarya Lakshmi Pradeep, P²és Sara Biju, Two Workshopson'LabVIEW programming' 3. Arun U, AnkithSaju, ArathiEwere funded Mary Jeny P.J, Jismol Thomas presented a and' Advanced Virtual Instrumentation' Rs 7,000 by Kerala State Council for Science, paper on 'Virtual Instrumentation in Power respectively for the students of Govt. Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) for Quality Monitoring'at College of Engineering, Polytechnic College, Cherthala. project research in 'Self Piloted Robot 'with Kidangoor. Ms.SreevidyaPas principle investigator & 8. Meera Benny, SuhanaPHand NajlaMN Mr. Anil Johny as Co-Investigator. of s4EIE participated inapaper presentation 4.Aproject titled 'Real Time Process Controlling contest of TEQUEST, technical fest conducted and Simulation Through VR' was selected for by the department of Instrumentation, CUSAT 2nd round of Quest INGENIUM,acontest for Non-Technical Achievments engineering talent search conducted by QUEST 1. Akash Anil of S2 EIE, secured the National GLOBAL where the project was researched by level boxing championship held in Chhattisgarh Vijay Rajeev, KrishnanugrahPU, Joseph P and another National level boxing championship Joseph, Arun KumarTVofS8 EIE, with held in Delhi, conducted by Chhattisgarh and Ms.SreevidyaPas mentor. Delhi association respectively. IMPETUS FISAT ...... 33 NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY CULTURAL FEST “ ARANGU" Arangu is the intra-collage cultural fest of FISAT conducted every year to boost the cultural talents of the students. Arangu’18 splurged its colors over FISAT on 29th and 30th of January 2018. Every year, Arangu is the most unforgettable days of the life at FISAT......

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Dr.Prasad J C- CSE Dept. Ms. Beenu Riju - EIE Dept. Mr. Shinto Sebastian - PRO Ms. Joice T - MCA Dept. Dr. Anoo Anna Anthony - MBA Dept. Ms. Sunny Basil - ME Dept Ms. Deepa K- EEE Dept. Mr. Nizamudeen Akbar - S&H Dept. Mr. Basil K Jeemon - ECE Dept. Ms. Rajalekshmi T R - CE Dept. Mr. Nisha Rajeev - CSE Dept. :Åşż:u®¤ÐŘużKżŰżA“遊 Ms. Soumya Sooraj V S - Library

IMPETUS FISAT 34 ...... NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY Placement Team FISAT probably has one of the best trained students in the state and this is clearly indicated by the high acceptability of its graduates in the industry. Our students have also been successful in bagging more number of offers in the combined recruitment drives conducted by various companies. There are multiple training programs spread across the whole course which focus on Life Skills, Communication, Aptitude, GD and Interview Skills. Among this, a 40 hour communication development workshop, mPower conducted by Mr. Krishakumar & Ms. Mridula, accredited trainers and "Turning Point" , a 90 hour, 6 day intensive workshop conducted by Mr. Thomas George and his team are worth praising. Apart from this, training programs which focus on preparing the students for campus recruitment, like aptitude, group discussion, and personal ˜¬Éˆ¿×˜ˆØżs¿ˆżs¥Ã²ż²¬„ÎɈ„ż˜¬żÉ–ˆż¼¿ˆŰé¬s¥żÞˆs¿şż'¬żs„„˜É˜²¬żÉ²żÉ–ˆżs~²×ˆŚż²¬ˆż–²Î¿ż¼¥sˆ«ˆ¬Éż²¿˜ˆ¬Ésɘ²¬żs¬„ż s¿ˆˆ¿ż’Θ„s¬ˆż¥sÃÃˆÃż‘²¿żs¥¥ż~¿s¬–ˆÃżs¿ˆż²¬„ÎɈ„ż‘²¿żÉ–ˆż~ˆ¬ˆéÉż²‘żÉ–ˆżÃÉ΄ˆ¬ÉÃż„ο˜¬’żÉ–ˆżÃ˜Ýɖżs¬„ż seventh semesters, every week. These classes help the students to gain information relating to different career options after B.Tech. Information pertaining to various higher study options is also discussed. Guidance on how to prepare for various competitive exams like GATE, CAT, MAT, GRE, UPSC, PG entrance examina- Jomon MC , Unnikartha G, Bejoy Varghese tions etc. are also given. Training and placement Cell @FISAT List of organisaƟŽŶƐ in which placements offeredfor FISATians

Accenture Wins Infotek Bank of Baroda South Indian Bank MRF MaxxionTechnologies Allfon systems Wipro Wipro BPO Energid Technologies FACE INNOVATURE BirlaSoft Slash Support Nobel Software Cordiant Uroleaf SOFTWARE LABS Bosch Yokogawa India Ltd Ernst & Young Sourcebits Claysys Technologies HINDUJA GLOBAL CARITOR Allsec Hyperlink Robosoft Saviance SOLUTIONS City Lights, Dubai TCS Cognitel Standard Charted Bank Biz Time CADANCE CONVERGYS Spectrum IWSPvt Ltd Onmobile VVDN RAZORTHINK Mindtree CTS Allianz Cornhill BPO SITMobiles Applied Tex Aptean Mindtree Dell Syntel Maveric Systems Goan Inst. of Six Dee Technologies Goan Institute of e-funds Al Saleh, Muscat Kalkitech Comm. English Platino Classics Comm. English GDA Aditi Technologies Siemens Digital Nirvana Qburst Grey Techno Labs Genpact KGISL Verizon SITEL Coral Businees Solutions InApp Godrej Infotech Sonata Software Reubro Vijya Energy Plus Ichanical MindTree HCL Tanker Is˜é Thinksoft Vidyatech Envestnet Decathlon Hexaware Mgmnt, Singapore FOCUSINFOTECH Indian Air Foce Verbicio Labs Pvt Ltd. Eben Telecom Honeywell 5th Generation MUZIRIS SOFTTECH Procsys (Hardware) Experion THINK&LEARN Huwaei Reliance Petroleum CSS Corp CMC Ltd Next Education FACE ACADEMY IBS Reliance Industries HP Shriram Group Ruby Software Tally Solutions ˜ŰêˆÝ Sapient HCL Tech Nokia SiemensNetwork Eastern Group UVJ i-gate Trivitron Business Services Arbitron Lotus Enterprises GOQii Indian Navy Ajaile Cummins Aricent Ruby Seven Studios NUVENTO SYSTEMS Indian Oil Corpn. NRSWITCHNRADIO Path Partner CoreEL American Tower NUVENTO SYSTEMS Infosys SERVICES PVT. LTD SunTec Razorthink Corporation MIL CONTROLS Integra HSBC SPI Multunus Empower labs SMARTNERAM L&T Shriram Value Mphasis Nippon Toyota IMS AMAZON INDIA L&T Infotech Services Pvt. Ltd. ADP Eazy Learn Appzoc Softwares GES INFOTECH NeST Hindustan Organic Speridian Indus Motors Advenser ZERONE TECHNOLOGIES TBHS Poornam ChemicalsLtd,Maharashtra Capgemini RM ESI UIT Group WELD CRAFT Procsys Federal Bank ORACLE VGuard Beehive Systems BYJUS APP Reliance IBM Cabot Solutions Revelation Automatiion Tismo Technology ADRENALIN Sasken Microsoft HCLInfosystems Corgentz Solutions IVTL INFOSYSTEMS Satyam CG CoreEl Cordys Software Robert Bosch Digital Core Technologies GNext SUBEX Programmable Solutions Third Wave IBM Support Media Systems MD Esthappan Sutherland ToonzAnimation ChaYoWoGames Citrix Systems Federal Greens ARMIA SYSTEMS INC Tataelxsi PerotSystems Muthoot Armia Systems Litmus7 Vanenburg Tech Mahindra Infovista SPROUTS Sevana Electrical Travancore Analytics Wrench Solutions US Technology Media Systems SAMAGRASOLUTIONS Appliances Pvt. Ltd SAP ElkanIO IMPETUS FISAT ...... 35 NEWS LETTER 2018 JULY RECOGNITION FOR FISAT

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS 1. Won the ‘Best Educational Brands 2017 Award’ instituted by The Economic Times As a symbol of Excellence in Educating and Skilling India’s future 2. Won ‘Best Engineering College In Kerala Award’ at the National Achievers Conclave and Awards “by Indian Research Media. Delhi 3. Won the ‘Excellence award for contribution to Kerala Education’ by the DC Media at the Emerging Kerala Education Conclave 4. Won the award for ‘Best Quality Institution in Professional Education’ instituted by the KHRA Ŋşżd²¬żÉ–ˆżŹ ˆÃÉż'¬ÃɘÉÎɈż‘²¿żÝˆ¥¥ˆ¬ˆż˜¬ż¬’˜¬ˆˆ¿˜¬’ż„Îsɘ²¬żŇŅņŌźż˜¬ÃɘÉÎɈ„ż~Þż'¬„ÞżØ²²„żé¥«żs¿¬˜×s¥Śż1ˆ¿s¥sż–s¼Éˆ¿şż 6. Won the award for the ‘Best Engineering Institute With Quality And Focus’ instituted by Rashtra Deepika Ltd 7. Won the Award for ‘Most Promising Private Engineering College of Kerala’ Instituted by the Prime Time Research Media New Delhi 8. Won the ‘Best Private Institution Award for Project Based Cultivation’ instituted by the Department of Agriculture, Govt. of Kerala. 9. College is selected as the ‘Best IED Centre (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre)’ of KERALA STARTUP MISSION during 2016-2017. 10. FISAT Governing Body Chairman Paul Mundadan won the ‘GOLDEN LEAF award for Excellence in Engineering Education’ instituted by Future Kerala 11. FISAT has won the Special Jury Award for ‘The Environment and Green Initiatives’ instituted by Kerala Management Association (KMA) ņŇşżd²¬żÉ–ˆżLˆ²’¬˜É˜²¬ż‘²¿żŹ ˆÃÉż„Îsɘ²¬s¥ż'¬ÃɘÉÎɘ²¬ż‘²¿żP˜’¬˜és¬Éż²¬É¿˜~Îɘ²¬żÉ²ż¬ˆ¿’Þż²¬Ãˆ¿×sɘ²¬źż˜¬ÃɘÉÎɈ„ż~ÞżÉ–ˆżIˆ²¼¥ˆźÃż ²¿Î«ż²‘ż Sustainable Development from MG University. 13. Won the Top rank award for ‘Outstanding Engineering Colleges of Excellence in India’ by Competition Success Review Magazine New Delhi. 14. Won the International award of ‘Premium Brand” for Institute of Excellence in Professional Education’ at Globe Luxurié Décodé by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Indian Business Professional Group IBPG – Abu Dhabi. 15. FISAT Governing Body Chairman Mr. Paul Mundadan received the ‘Visionary Edupreneur of the year 2017’ Award from Business World and Education Post Delhi ņŋşż 'PUż!²×ˆ¿¬˜¬’ż ²„Þż–s˜¿«s¬żIsÎ¥ż8ά„s„s¬żØ²¬żÉ–ˆżé¿ÃÉżŹI¿²Î„ż²‘ż1ˆ¿s¥sżØs¿„źż˜¬ÃɘÉÎɈ„ż¿şżI0ż~„Î¥ż1s¥s«ż'¬ÃɘÉÎɈż²‘ż ÎجˆÃÃż Management and Skill Development – Kochi 17. FISAT Business School received the award of ‘Fastest Growing Business School In South India’ award from Business World and Education Post ņōşżd²¬żÉ–ˆżŹ ˆÃÉż'¬ÃɘÉÎɈż‘²¿żÝˆ¥¥ˆ¬ˆż˜¬ż¬’˜¬ˆˆ¿˜¬’ż„Îsɘ²¬żŇŅņŌźż˜¬ÃɘÉÎɈ„ż~ÞżÉ–ˆżPÉsɈż!²×Éşż²‘żUˆ¥s’s¬sżs¬„ż'¬„ÞżØ²²„żé¥«żs¿¬˜×s¥Śż Hyderabad 19. FISAT Governing Body Chairman Paul Mundadan Won the recognition of ‘Best Edupreneur of Kerala 2017’ award for making FISAT into an epitome of wisdom instituted by the state body of KHRA 20. Won the ‘Best Institute for Excellence in Engineering Education’ – Unfolding human Elements in Technology’ instituted by the Future Kerala Educational Conclave 2018 21. Won the award for ‘Best Research Oriented Private Engineering College in Kerala 2018’ instituted by Time Cyber Media, New Delhi 22. FISAT Governing Body Chairman Paul Mundadan won the ‘Business Deepika Excellence award 2018’ for Making FISAT into an admiring Place of Professional Education. 23. FISAT ranked as the ‘Third Best Engineering College’ by the Competition Success Review, New Delhi. 24. FISAT Governing Body Chairman Paul Mundadan won the ‘Award for Excellence in Academics 2018 – Kerala’ instituted by Time Cyber Media, New Delhi 25. FISAT won the ‘International award for best Engineering institution in Professional Education 2018’ instituted by ANRIA, Abu Dhabi 26. FISAT Governing Body Chairman Paul Mundadan won the First ‘Skill Excellence Award’ instituted by Block Panchayath, Angamaly; for the contributions of skill development for the rural people and the Young Budding Generations. 27. FISAT has won the ‘Environment and Green initiatives award’ instituted by Kerala Management Association (KMA) 28. FISAT Ranked as the ‘14th Position of Outstanding Engineering Colleges of Excellence in India’ by the Competition Success Review, New Delhi.

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Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Institute of Paul Mundadan Chairman, Management and Technical skill in and Dr.George Issac Principal association with St. Tresas's college receiving the AWARD FOR Ernakulam Organised an event called Proud of Kerala. Mr Paul Mundadan GREEN INITIATIVES Chairman FISAT GOVERNING BODY IMPLEMENTED BY FISAT received the é¿ÃÉ Proud of Kerala Award instituted by KERALA along with MrPVijayan IPS and MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION Dr.JLatha Vice Chancellor CUSAT. Prof Richard Hay Hon'ble Member of from Dr.Deepak Vohra IFS Parliament given away the award. ambassador

To become a world class professional institute with focus on excellence, moulding committed global profession- VISION als and technocrats who can meet the demands of business, industry and research.

To transform into an advanced centre of technical education, which will, in turn, bring out professionals with MISSION superior skills and social commitment. To provide state-of-the-art facilities to mould brilliant young talents, enabling them to take up challenging assignments in the highly competitive global scenario.