Genesis
The major objectives of the ISTE are:
The
Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering in association with ISTE
SJEC Student Chapter organized a technical talk on Accident Prevention and Awareness on Personal Protective Equipment
by Resource Person Mr Shivraj, Manager (Safety & Training) at KIOCL - Mangaluru
on 12th May 2017 from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm in Fr Fred Seminar Hall.
The
Talk was organised for 4th year EEE students as a finishing school
activity. The programme was aimed at providing awareness on accident prevention
in industrial sectors & existing personal protective equipment. In his
talk, the resource person presented statistics of accidents for the past three years
that occurred in the industries, in India as well as in Karnataka. He also
explained the various causes for the industrial accidents and the proper
measures to be taken, to prevent these accidents. Resource person gave a
detailed description and use of existing personal protective equipment in the
industry to prevent the accidents.
The
session was informative & all students appreciated the programme.
Mr
Ajithanjaya Kumar M K & Ms Denita D Souza, Assistant Professors in the
Department of EEE coordinated the programme.
A
Technical Talk and Interaction was organized by the Indian Society for
Technical Education (I.S.T.E) SJEC Students’ Chapter on 31th August
2016 for the students of Mechanical Engineering Department. The topic presented
was Nanofluids by Prof. Shuichi Torii, Assistant Director and Professor in the Department
of Mechanical System Engineering, Kumamoto University (College of
Cross-Cultural and Multidisciplinary Studies) - Japan from 10:15 am to 12:00
noon in Spoorthi Conference Hall, 7th Floor of Academic Block - III.
The programme began at 10:15 a.m. with the
prayer song sung by choir team led by Mr Joshwin Sequeira. Mr Vicky Vaz, ISTE Student
Coordinator gave a brief introduction to ISTE SJEC Students' Chapter to the
audience. Ms Gautami Shetty, ISTE Student Coordinator, welcomed the gathering. Mr
Noel Shiri, ISTE SJEC Chapter Chairman, introduced the Chief Guest, Prof.
Shuichi Torii and gave a detailed description of the research work and
achievements of Prof. Torii to the
gathering.
Rev. Fr Rohith D'Costa, In-charge
Director – SJEC, Dr Ajay Kumar Yadav, Professor, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, NITK, and Dr Sudheer M, Head of Mechanical Engineering, were the
Guests of Honour; Dr Rio D' Souza, Vice Principal – SJEC, presided over the
function.
Dr Rio D’souza, Vice Principal of SJEC delivered
the presidential talk to the gathering. He told about the importance of such technical
talks, and gave brief introduction to Nanotechnology and the challenge set by
Richard Feynman which led to the development of Nanotechnology. He gave an
example of storing giga-bytes of data in a chip as small as a pin head, which
can be possible only through Nanotechnology. He talked about recycling and how
it could be possible through Nanotechnology. He appreciated the efforts of ISTE
in organizing such a good technical talk. He also thanked Dr Ajay Kumar Yadav
in helping SJEC to bring Prof. Shuichi Torii for technical talk. He thanked Prof.
Shuichi Torii for agreeing to give this Technical talk. He then called upon all
the gathering to benefit from this technical talk. Later a Memento and a gift were
given to Prof. Shuichi Torii by Director-in-charge Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa as a
token of love and appreciation.
Technical talk on Turbulent Heat
Transfer behaviour of Nano Fluid in a circular tube heated under constant heat
flux was presented by Prof. Shuichi Torii. He started his talk by showing the
location of Kumamoto, Japan in the world map and how far it is from India. He
gave a brief history of Japan and specifically about Kumamoto University and
the legends born from this university. He also told about the recent earthquake
which struck Japan and how international news channels like CNN, BBC gave wrong
information about the whole of Kumamoto city being destroyed in earthquake, but
in reality only a small town outside of Kumamoto was affected by the earthquake.
Later in the talk Prof. Shuichi Torii
described what exactly a Nano-Fluid is. He stated that it’s a fluid with
particles less than 100nm in diameter suspended in a conventional fluid like water, engine oil or any other fluid etc.
Then he continued by showing a brief history of
all the research works done on Nanofluids.
He stated that the research on Nano-Fluids is particularly recent i.e. around after
1980s. All the research being done is on
Convective Heat Transfer on laminar flow of Nanofluids.
They see the thermal conductivity of the Nano-Fluids against the concentration
of Nanofluids. Generally, the Nano-fluids
include agglomeration of Alumina or Graphene or Carbon Nanotubes in traditional
fluids. He even told about Nano Fluid technology and its Current Status and
Future Research scope. Prof. Shuichi Torii stressed that in Industries,
turbulent flow is of higher importance than laminar flow. Therefore his
research is about Thermal Conductivity of Nano-Fluids in turbulent flow. He
shows the compounding of Nano Particles of Cu and Al2O3 with water. He showed the thermal conductivity and normalised
conductivity against the concentration of the Nanoparticles.
His research is being done in the Shockwave
and condensed matter research centre of Kumamoto University. Here he uses
dynamite to make Nano-particles of diamond using
detonation and shock application. It’s a low cost and easy process of
producing Nano-Diamonds. His research of nano-fluid is water + Nano-Diamonds.
He also showed the Zeta potential of Nano- Diamonds in fluid.
His future vision is in cooling systems by
the usage of Nanofluids as coolants where
higher performance and lower size can be achieved. He ends the talk on a
positive note on the Main Research topics on the Enhancement of nano-fluids,
Heat transfer performance, Aggregate Nano-Particles and how to separate them.
The talk was followed by interaction with mechanical engineering students.
Dr. Ajay Kumar Yadav suggested all the
students to read some books and watch the video lectures on Nano-Fluids. He also
gave the information on the international symposium which is held in Japan
every year around the month of March and requested the students and staff
members to apply. After the technical talk a Memento
was presented to Dr. Ajay Kumar Yadav by Dr. Sudheer M, Head of
Mechanical Engineering, SJEC. Vote of thanks given by Mr. Loy Fernandes,
President of ISTE-SJEC Students’ chapter.
A
Seminar and Interaction was organized by the Indian Society for Technical
Education (I.S.T.E) SJEC Student’s Chapter on the 28th of March,
2016 for the students of all branches.
The topic presented was Product Design in India by a German national, Mr Wolfram Thurm, who is a Product Designer, from Bauhaus University in Weimar, Dresden, Germany.
The
programme began at 2:15 p.m. with the dignitaries being welcomed into the
Bethania Hall by the M.C. Mr Vicky Vaz and ISTE Student Coordinator. The prayer
song was rendered by the College choir led by Mr John Rodrigues.
Mr Loy Fernandes, ISTE Student Coordinator presented a brief introduction to ISTE SJEC Students' Chapter to the audience. Mr Ankith K.R., ISTE Student Coordinator, presented the Report of Activities organized by ISTE since 2014. Mr Sandeep, ISTE Student Coordinator, welcomed the gathering. Mr Noel Shiri, ISTE Chapter Chairman, introduced the Chief Guest, Mr Wolfram Thurm, to the gathering.
Rev. Fr Rohith D'Costa, Assistant Director - SJEC was the Guest of Honour and Dr Rio D'souza, Vice Principal – SJEC, presided over the function.
Mr
Wolfram Thurm kicked off the series of short and insightful speeches, followed
by Rev. Fr Rohit D’Costa, Assistant Director. Dr Rio D’Souza, Vice-Principal of
SJEC articulated his thoughts and views of the Seminar topic in his
Presidential Address. Dr Rio, in his speech, shared a few insights into the art
of Disruptive Creativity, wherein a person seeks creative answers by
questioning the norms.
Assistant Director Rev. Fr Rohit D’Costa, presented the chief guest with a memento.
Certificates of honour for the teachers and students who had participated in I.S.T.E sponsored Srinivasa Ramanujan Mathematical Competitions 2014-2015 (SRMC 2014-15), the nationwide mathematics exam held on 1st November 2014 for Engineering Students and Teachers, were distributed by the chief guest Mr Wolfram Thurm and Dr Rio D’Souza, to the teachers and students respectively. Mr Prashanth Kamath, ISTE Student Coordinator, concluded the formal function with a vote of thanks.
Mr
Wolfram Thurm started the seminar by introducing himself in a manner that
showed his humble nature whilst highlighting his achievements. He is a
conglomerate of a Musician, Product Designer and Fashion Designer. As a
Designer, Mr Thurm believes that a product has to be made based on logic and
purpose whereas the aesthetics comes in secondary. He then went on to elucidate
his current project work in India.
In
his talk he presented his belief in the Right to Interaction among people concocted
his project titled – TOGETHERNESS –
Public Spaces for Transformation in which he specified a few key points,
notably:
Plan for an existing site (public space).
He
asked the gathering – Why Should People Work Together? His answers were
eye-openers:
Spirit
of Collaboration will be felt.
Design
+ Engineering = Exceptional Products
Meaningful ideas and innovations will lead to better economy and understanding.
With this, Mr Thurm ended his seminar on a retrospective note – To create something with his Own Hands rather than Just Talk about ideas. After this, he answered the myriad of questions posed by the intrigued audience. And on the request of students, Mr Thurm sang a hymn by playing a guitar.
Dr
Vincent Crasta, HOD-Physics felicitated Mr Thurm, and with that, the activities
of ISTE SJEC Student’s Chapter for the current semester had culminated.
The Student Association of Mechanical Engineering Department, TORQUE, along with ISTE Student’s Chapter, celebrated Teachers Day on 5 September 2014, at 2:30 pm, in the Seminar Hall, Civil Engineering Block. A video on the life of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was presented.
It was also an occasion to felicitate senior faculty member from the Mechanical Engineering Department, Professor Ganapathi Bhat, who retired in June 2014.
Dr Joseph Gonsalvis, Principal, presided over the function and Rev Fr Ajith Menezes, Director in-charge, was the Guest of Honour. Dr Raju K, HOD, Mechanical Engineering, and Dr Thirumaleshwara Bhat, Dean Quality Assurance, were also present on the dais.
The program began with a prayer led by Mr Denzil Tom and students from VII Sem.
Dr Raju K, welcomed the gathering after which, Dr Thirumaleshwar Bhat, introduced the Chief Guest, Professor Ganapathi Bhat, to the gathering and shared his experience of working with him as a colleague. Mr Joel Concesso addressed the gathering on behalf of the Alumni and Mr Shishir Aithal spoke on behalf of the students, about their experience with Professor Ganapathi Bhat.
In his speech, the Chief Guest urged the teachers to be committed and dedicated toward their duty of imparting knowledge to the students. He called upon students to take Dr S Radhakrishnan as their role model and urged them to use modern technology to enhance their learning and experience of engineering. He also remembered Fr Valerian D’Souza, former Director, and Dr R K Yaji, former Principal, on this occasion.
Mr Shreeranga Bhat, Coordinator TORQUE, proposed the
Vote of Thanks. Ms Ramya, Assistant Professor, was the emcee. The function was
followed by games and other activities that were conducted by the students for
teaching and non-teaching staff.
An Engineering Academic Project Exhibition contest TECHNOVISION-2014 was held on 16th and 17th May 2014 in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at St Joseph Engineering College, Mangalore. The exhibition was jointly organized by the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering and SJEC Students Chapter of IEEE and ISTE. The main objective of the exhibition was to motivate the interests of students in the fields of Science, Mathematics, Technology and Engineering and to provide a valuable educational experience for students. Here, students got an opportunity to showcase their engineering talents and their outstanding efforts and achievements were recognized.
On 16th May, 2014 the contest was held
for the final year students of Electronics and Communications Engineering of St
Joseph Engineering College, Mangalore. A total of 33 teams participated in the
contest and the contest was held in the Logic Design Laboratory, Analog
Electronics laboratory, and Advance Communication Laboratory. Six Judges were invited
to judge the projects; three from the Department of Electrical and Electronics
and three from the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering. Two
best projects were rewarded and selected for inter college project exhibition
held on 17th May, 2014. Projects were Smart Street Light Monitoring
Control System and I-Series Smart Kitchen. Another nine best projects were
selected for College level project exhibition.
On 17th May, 2014 inter college project
exhibition was held in the Department of Electronics and Communications
Engineering. A total of 21 teams from neighboring Colleges registered for the
event and among those the best 10 projects were selected for the event. The
contest was held in Logic Design Laboratory and Analog Electronics Laboratory.
Two judges were called for the event. The External judge was from NMAMIT, Nitte,
Prof Sunitha Lasrado, Department of E&C and the internal judge from SJEC,
Prof Satisha K from the Department of E&E.
The valedictory program was held in Logic Design
Laboratory with MC being 3rd year E&C student Ms. Raksha
Jathanna. Principal-SJEC, Dr Joseph Gonsalvis was the Chief Guest of the
function and Head of the Department of E&C, Prof. B.V. Nityananda was the Guest
of Honor. Best Project prize was won by students of Sahyadri College of
Engineering and Management for the project titled “Image Transparency
Computer Vision for Effective Content Delivery”. Second place was shared by
students of N.M.A.M.I.T, Nitte, for their project titled “Semi-Automatic
Electronic Gear Control for Automobiles”, and students of St Joseph
Engineering College, for their project titled “Smart Street Light Monitoring
Control System”. The exhibition was convened by Mr Rohan Pinto, Assistant
Professor, IEEE Branch Counselor - SJEC, and Mr Gandhimathinathan, Assistant
Professor, ISTE-ECE Branch Coordinator – SJEC.
Technical
Talk on:
Error
Control Techniques: Modern & Classical Approach
The ISTE SJEC Chapter in association with Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
organized a Technical Talk for
the III Year UG and II Year PG students of Electronics and Communication
Engineering on 25th April 2014 at 3.30 pm in Fr Fred Memorial Hall.
The program was started by welcoming
the Guest Dr Prashantha Kumar, Assistant Professor, NITK Surathkal. The event
was also attended by Prof BV Nityananda, HOD ECE Dept, Mr Gandhimathinathan A., ISTE-ECE
Coordinator, and Mr Prajwal & Ms Prajna, Student Counselors of ISTE-ECE
Chapter, Staff members from ECE Department, and III Year UG & II Year PG students
of Electronics and Communication Engineering.
Dr Prashantha
Kumar
introduced the topic “Error Control
Techniques: Modern & Classical Approach”. He elaborated how Error
Control coding is frequently used to minimise the errors which occur naturally
in the transmission and storage of digital data. He also explained many methods for decoding
such codes which are already in use, and the choice falls mainly into two
areas: Hard-decision algebraic decoding,
a computationally-efficient method, and Soft-decision
combinatorial decoding, which although more complex, offers better
error-correction.
Nearly 110 students took part in this session. The program ended with a vote of
thanks by Mr Shashank U, III Year ECE, who was also the Master of Ceremony for the
event.
