1 GMRIT CAMPUS NEWS - Issue 9 Vol : January - April, 2015 R About GMRIT www.gmrit.org GMR Institute of Technology is situated at Rajam, a small P.G. Courses industrial town about 100 Kms from the ‘city of destiny’, - M.Tech (Power & Industrial Drives) Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The campus of the - M.Tech (Transportation Engineering) institute is spread over a sprawling 117 acres of land. The - M.Tech (CAD/CAM) lush sylvan and idyllic surroundings at the heart of the - M.Tech (CSE) - M.Tech (Digital Electronic & Comm. Sys) agricultural belt, offer an ideal setting for higher studies. - M.Tech (VLSI Design) : Second Shift The institute is affiliated to the Jawaharlal Nehru - M.Tech (Chemical Engineering) Technological University, Kakinada and is approved by - MCA AICTE New Delhi. The institute has been accredited by National Board of accreditation (NBA) of AICTE and INSTITUTE RELATED NAAC – ‘A’ grade of UGC. The institution also certified by ISO 9001:2008 Quality Systems. A Guest lecture on “Project Management” by Shri. K.V.V. Rao, Director, GMR Infrastructure Ltd, GMRIT offers 4 year B.Tech programs in eight core Bangalore for all IV B.Tech EEE & MECH Students on th disciplines, 3 year MCA program and 2 year M.Tech 5 January, 2015 programs in seven specializations. A Guest lecture on “Maintenance and Reliability of Plant and Machinery” by Dr. Ahamed Mohideen, Dy. Vice President, Plant and Equipment, Lodha group – The annual intake of the institute is 828 students. It has Mumbai for all B.Tech 6 th SEM EEE & MECH Students fourteen batches of successful B.Tech graduates taking up on 23 rd January, 2015 positions as competent and responsible professionals in All IV B. Tech II Semester students attended a Guest many reputed companies. Lecture “Project Management” by Mr. K.V.V. RAO, Director, GMR Infrastructure Ltd, Bangalore on Courses currently offered: January, 15 th 2015. U.G. Courses: Guest Lecture conducted on “FOCUS RESEARCH AND - Chemical Engineering EXECUTE” by Malla Vijaya Sarathi, Software Engineer - Civil Engineering NGPVAN INC, Washington DC, for All the IT students on 22.01.2015 at 10.30 a.m. - Computer Science and Engineering A Guest lecture conducted on “Plant and Machinery” by - Electronics and Communication Engg. Dr. P.B. Ahmed Mohideen, Dy. Vice President, Plant - Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Equipment, Eastern Freeway, Mumbai for 6 th - Information Technology Semester students on 23 rd January, 2015. - Mechanical Engineering All B. Tech 6 th Semester (2012 Batch) students - Power Engineering attended a Seminar “Maintenance and Reliability of Plant and Machinery” by Dr. Ahamed Mohideen, Dy. Page 1 GMR Institute Technology, GMR Nagar, Rajam-532127, Srikakulam Dist, Andhra Pradesh Ph: 08941 – 251592, 93; E-Mail: [email protected]; Website :www.gmrit.org GMRIT NEWS LETTER | VOL : 9 : | ISSUE : 1 2 Vice President, Plant and Equipment, Lodha Group, A Guest Lecture on “Renewable Energy (Micro Grid)” & Mumbai on 23.01.2015 at 10.00 AM to 12.00 Noon, “Renewable Energy (Modified BF Optimization Venue: Auditorium. Techniques)” by Dr. Narayan Bhende, Assoc. Prof, All B. Tech 4 th Semester (A&B) (2013 Batch) students School of Electrical Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar for all attended a Guest Lecture on “students of Robotics Club B.Tech 4 th SEM EEE students on 25 th April, 2015. and faculty on flexible academic model, centralized IT Department conducted a Guest Lecture on “THE registration and other academic related aspects” by ROLE OF IT SECTOR” by Mr. Venkata Rajesh Naidu Prof. R.K. Mittal, Director of BITS Pilani. Gopisetti, Software Engineer, Infosys, Banglore for II All B. Tech IV-II Semester (A&B) (2011 Batch) students Year Students on 08.04.2015 at 10.00 a.m. attended a Guest Lecture on “Airports and Automated People Movers” by Dr. Murthy V.A. Bondada, Ph.D, P.E., F.ASCE, F.ITE, Vice President, Transportation, ACHIEVEMENTS EPIC Engineering and Consulting Group, LLC, Winter Springs, FL, USA. on 09.02.2015 at 2.00PM to 4.00PM. Rated AA+ among top 80 engineering colleges in AP Venue: Seminar Hall (Civil Department). by Careers 360 for 2012. All the B.Tech IV-II & 6 th Semester (2011&2012) Ranked 45 among top 100 engineering colleges by students attended a Guest Lecture on “Overview of Dataquest for 2011. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)” by Mr. GRK. Ranked 11 in India among top promising Engineering Guptha, Associate Professor, NIT, Warangal on college of Excellence & ranked 14 in Andhra Pradesh by 18.02.2015. CSR for 2012 All the B.Tech IV-II & 6 th Semester, 4 th Semester Ranked 75 among top 75 Engineering colleges by (2011&2012,2013) students attended a Guest Lecture Outlook for June’12. on “Commissioning of Thermal Power Plants” by Submitted questionnaire for 2012 Dalal street ranking Sandeep. PACHPOR, Vice President, Projects, GMR GMRIT is nominated as a NBA Training center to give Energy on 19.02.2015. training, awareness and sensitization about OBE to All the B.Tech IV-II & 6 th Semester (2011&2012) identified faculty and Institutions under JNTUK students attended a Guest Lecture on “Power Plants - affiliated colleges. Industrial Scenario” by Arunendu Saha, Vice President, Submitted a Proposal to MOEF titled “Growing GMR Energy, GMR Group.on 21.02.2015 . urbanization influence and impact on water cycle – a All B.Tech 2 nd semester students attended a Motivation case study in the region under GVMC, Andhra Pradesh, programme by Mr.Gampa Nageswara rao, at India” by Dr G. Venkata Rao, for Rs 20.66 lakhs. auditorium (IV Block) during on 25 th , 26 th and 27 th Feb DST Project “Ground Water modeling for 2015. Hydrogeological characterization of Hazardous Ganta Santhoshi Devi, D-52, 14341A3408 got Prathiba substance release sites-A case study of Award for excellence. for the excellence. This award Pydibhimavaram Industrial area, Srikakulam, A.P.” was given by the Chief Minister of A.P Sri.N.Chandra submitted by Dr. G. Venkata Rao. Babu Naidu on 27.02.2015 at Tirupathi. Dr.D.Tejeswara Rao submitted UGC project titled Blood Donation camp was conducted on 06.02.2015 “Diversity and oriented synthesis of Inidazo[1,2-9] association with Indian Red Cross Society and GMRIT. pyridine analogues for anti cancer and anti candida Dr.KVS Prasad coordinated as a NSS Officer. studies” to (UGC-South Eastern Regional Office Mathematics department was conducted a Guest P.B.No-152, A.P.S.F.C, Building , Ivth Floor Chirag Ali Lecture for A,D,E,F,J,C,I,M,L section students on “The Lane Hyderabad-500 001. Estimated cost of Project: role of mathematics in career selection and knowledge 4,90,000/-. promotion for engineering students” by Dr.P.Tirupathi An amount of Rs 10,000/ was received towards Rao, Associate Professor & Head , Dept. of statistics, research consultancy in relation to the development of Pondicherry University on 13.03.2015. “Research equipment” from AU, Visakhapatnam. Dr. Conducted a guest lecture by Mr. Prakash Chandra M. Gangadhar was instrumental in coordinating the Tiwari, Oracle India Ltd., Hyderabad. on the topic consultancy. “Oracle and Industry outlook” to 4 th & 6 th Semester Mr.J.Venkata Suman, Assistant Professor has received Students on 18 th March, 2015 (Wednesday). “Appreciation Letter” as a reviewer of the papers in Dr. T. Suresh Kumar, Prof. & HOD of EEE has been “2014- IEEE Global Conference on Wireless Computing nominated as member – Technical committee for IEEE and Networking (GCWCN-2014)” organized by Biennial International Conference on “Power & Energy Department of E&TC during December 22-24, 2014 at Systems” towards sustainable energy 2016 of Amrita Sinhgad Institute of Technology, Lonavala. Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Bangalore to be held Maharashtra State. from 21 st – 23 rd Jan, 2016. GMRIT GMRIT NEWS LETTER | VOL : 9 : | ISSUE : 1 3 PMK Prasad acted as member of reviewer committee 2014 organized by Department of Mechanical for International Conference on Computational Engineering & Chemical Engineering. Intelligence in Data Mining ICCIDM-2014(springer conference) organized by Veera Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Odisha, India. Prof. B.I.Neelgar acted as member of reviewer PUBLICATIONS - JOURNALS committee for International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Mining ICCIDM- G.Venkata Rao, P.Kalpana, and R.Srinivasa Rao, 2014(springer conference) organized by Veera published a paper on “Ground Water Investigation Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Odisha, using Geophysical Methods – A Case Study of India. Pydibhimavaram Industrial Area”, International P.M.K.Prasad got best paper award titled “Edge Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology, feature extraction of X-ray images based on spatial Vol. 3, Issue 16, pp 13-17, December 2014. domain techniques” in the IEEE technically co- Mr.M.Satish Assistant Professor presented a paper in sponsored national conference on Emerging trends in International Journal title “ Document Clustering with Signal processing And Communication Engineering Map Reduce using Hadoop Framework. International (ESPACE-2015) during 20-21st February 2015 organized Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing by Dept.of E.C.E. Aditya Institute of Technology & and Communication Volume:3 Issue-1. ISSN:2321- Management(AITAM),Tekkali. 8169, Pg No. 409-413. Dr.D.Srinivasa Kumar, Under BRNS Project entitled Ch. Srinivasa Rao presented a paper on “The three “Demographic and health status survey in Kovvada mistakes of my life: The classical discernment of the art region” got approval and sanctioned by the President of portrayal and the youth aspect of entrepreneurship” of India for the captioned project for three years in the light of realism Indian Scholar (International beginning from financial year 2015-16 with a total grant Mulltidisciplinary Research e-Journal), Research of Rs.37,71,750/- from Government of India, Scholar, Vol.1, Issue III, August 2014.