Ostium-2021_ XVII Edition

KNOWLEDGE | CHARACTER | UNITY

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OUR MISSION NMIT

To develop Nitte Meenakshi Institute of OUR
Technology through high quality, innovative VISION
and state-of the-art educational initiatives
into a center of academic excellence that will To provide India and the World,
turn out youth with well balanced personality technical manpower of the highest
& commitment to the rich cultural heritage of academic excellence and world class
India and who will successfully face the by shaping our youth through holistic
scientific and technological challenges in the and integrated education of the
fast-evolving global scenario with high degree highest quality.
of credibility, integrity and ethical standards.

QUALITY

POLICY

To bring about constant and continuous improvement in the quality of education imparted and
turning out high quality professionals with balanced and globally competitive personality through
regular monitoring of the academic / administrative activities of the Institution and implementing
corrective actions in following the best ethical and transparent practices.

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C ONT EN TS

6 | Founder
9 | Rankings & Accolades
10 | NMIT in Brief
13 | Externally Funded Sponsored Research Projects
16 | Department of Aeronautical Engineering
22 | Department of Applied Sciences and Humanities
28 | Department of Civil Engineering
38 | Department of Computer Science & Engineering
50 | Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering

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62 | Department of Information Science & Engineering
68 | Department of Mechanical Engineering
76 | Master of Computer Application
81 | Master of Business Administration
87 | M. Tech in Aerospace Engineering
88 | M. Tech in VLSI Design & Embeded System
93 | M. Tech in Renewable Energy
94 | M. Tech in Design Engineering
95 | M. Tech in Data Science
100 | M. Tech in Computer Science & Engineering

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101 | Centre of Excellence in Aerospace
103 | Centre of Excellence for Space Research
105 | Centre for Nanomaterials and MEMS
109 | Centre for Robotics Research
114 | Centre for Design Engineering and Process Simulation
116 | Innovation Centre in Cyber Security (IoT)
117 | Training & Placement
121 | National Cadet Corps (NCC)
130 | National Service Scheme (NSS)
132 | Department of Library and Information Centre
136 | Sports
142 | Clubs
158 | Sketches / Photography

162 | Testimonials |5
164 | COVID Report
170 | NMIT in Media
171 | Students Articles
221 | Outgoing Students

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Founder NMIT

THE Justice K. S. Hegde
FOUNDER
Justice Kowdoor Sadananda Hegde was born in Kowdoor
village and had his early education in Karkala and Mangalore.
Thereafter, he pursued his collegiate education in Madras at the
Presidency College and got his B.A. (Honors) in Economics and later, a
Degree in Law from the Government Law College, Madras. He began
his legal practice at Karkala in 1936 and later moved to Mangalore,
where he was appointed Public Prosecutor to South Kanara district in
1948.

He was elected Member of the first Council of States (now known
as the Rajya Sabha). In 1954, he represented India at the General
Assembly of the United Nations. He then became a Judge of the
Mysore High Court. In 1966, he was appointed as the first Chief Justice
of the Delhi and Himachal Pradesh High Court. He held this office till
he was elevated to the post of Judge of the Supreme Court of India in
1967. However, he resigned this office in 1973 in protest against the
super-session of senior judges in the appointment of the Chief Justice
of India.

In 1977, Justice K S Hegde was elected to Lok Sabha and was
elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha. He held this office till 1980. After
a distinguished career, he retired from public life and settled at Nitte
to relentlessly work for the upliftment and empowerment of the rural
people. Justice K. S. Hegde passed away on May 25th, 1990.

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Founder

Mrs. Meenakshi Hegde

Mrs. Meenakshi Hegde was born in Mundkur on October
16th 1936 to Shri. Mundkur Nitte Siddu Shetty and Smt.
Nitte Guthu Rukmini Adyanthaya. Her earlier schooling was
in Nitte, but she had to discontinue studies after Seventh standard
due to inadequate facilities in the village. She then married Kowdoor
Sadananda Hegde, an advocate. She was blessed with six children -
three boys - Capt. N Prasanna Hegde, Mr. Vinay Hegde and Justice N
Santhosh Hegde and three girls - Mrs. Nirmala Adyanthaya, Mrs. Asha
Ajila and Mrs. Usha Punja. Mrs. Meenakshi Hegde has travelled all over
the world and spent larger part of her life at Mangalore, Bangalore and
Delhi. She finally settled in her home town at Nitte in 1982 when her
husband stepped down as speaker of Lok Sabha. She along with her
husband late Justice K S Hegde has been instrumental in starting the
Nitte Education Trust in 1979. She breathed her last on 28th January,
1999.

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CHIEF PATRONS

Shri N V Hegde Prof. N. R. Shetty
Advisor -NET,
Chancellor Nitte University & Chancellor, Central University of Karnataka, Kalburgi
President, Nitte Education Trust Chairman, Karnataka State Universities’

Review Commission,
Former Vice Chancellor, Bangalore University,

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Prof L M Patnaik Prof. K. Sudha Rao
Advisor-Technical, NMIT
Adjunct Professor and INSA Senior Scientist, Advisor: Administration & Management, NMIT
Consciousness Studies Program, Senior Advisor: AICTE New Delhi,
Member: KKC, Bangalore
NIAS, IISc Campus. Former:
Former Professor, IISc, Bengaluru Vice Chancellor :
KSOU, Mysore, Karnataka
Former Vice Chancellor,
Defence Institute Advanced Technology,

Deemed University, Pune

Mr. Rohit Punja Dr. H. C. Nagaraj
Administrator, Principal, NMIT
Nitte Education Trust Dean, Faculty of Engineering ,

VTU, Belagavi

Dr. V. Sridhar
DEAN Academics,
NMIT

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Ranking

NMIT

is RANKED 168

PLATINUM
RANKING

03

RANK

NMIT, was under ARIIA 2020 - PRIVATE OR
SELF- FINANCED COLLEGE/ INSTITUTIONS category and s

ecured 3rd RANK

Institute has been selected for the Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan program of the government of India.

Institute has been placed in Gold category in
QS-I Gauge Engineering Institute ranking at

the National level.

MDRA Best Colleges Ranking – 2021 – 35th Rank (Private Engg. Colleges)
MDRA Best Colleges Ranking – 2021 – 10th Rank (Private Colleges with Lowest Fees)
MDRA Best Colleges Ranking – 2021 – 7th Rank (Private Colleges with Best Value for Money)
Hansa Research - Engineering College Survey 2021 – 32nd Rank (Private Engg. Colleges)

Education World Ranking 2021 – 13th Rank (State) & 61 Rank (World)
Times-annual Top Engineering Institute Survey 2021 – 30th Rank (Engineering Research)
Times-annual Top Engineering Institute Survey 2021 – 19th Rank (Top Engineering Institutes on Placement)

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NMIT in Brief NMIT

NMIT in Brief

Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology(NMIT) NITs and IIITs
is an Autonomous Institution affiliated to the
Visveswaraya Technological University with the NMIT is the only unaided private engineering
approval of UGC & AICTE,New Delhi college in Karnataka State to be selected be
selected by the Govt. of India for World Bank
NMIT was established in the year 2001 by Nitte under TEQIP Phase II - Subcomponent 1.1 in
Education Trust, Mangalore. the year 2011.

The institute offers wide range of academic The institute has a strong focus on excellence
programs comprising of seven UG and seven in Education, Research and Promotion of
PG Programs in Engineering besides MBA and Innovation and Entrepreneurship
MCA. Ten departments of NMIT offer doctoral
programs of VTU or University of Mysore The institute has a strong focus on excellence
(UoM) in Education, Research and Promotion of
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
NMIT has been accredited by the National
Board of Accreditation (NBA) under Tier 1 status Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development
and Grade ‘A+’ by the National Assessment Centre was established in the year 2010 and
and Accreditation Council [NAAC UGC] funded with Rs 45 lakhs by the Department of
Science and Technology (NSTEDB), New Delhi
NMIT is the youngest engineering college in
the country to be conferred the prestigious The institute has also established a Business
Autonomous Status by UGC/Govt. of Karnataka Incubator supported by the Ministry of Micro,
New Delhi in the year 2007 Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Govt.
of India.
National Institutional Ranking Framework
(NIRF) Ministry of MHRD, Govt. of India has NMIT has several sponsored research projects
conferred all India rank of 168 to NMIT has amounting to more than Rs 14+ Crores
become one among the top 200 engineering sanctioned by National Funding Agencies
institutes in the country which includes the IITs, such as DST,DIT,AICTE,DRDO Labs, VGST, IEEE

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VTU etc. The institute has also established an ISRO has recognized NMIT as a Centre for NMIT in Brief
Innovation Club supported by VTU and Govt. Small Satellite Research Centre for undertaking
of Karnataka with a seed money of Rs 5 Lakhs. collaborative research on space technology
and satellite development in future. NMIT led
With the strong enthusiasm and support from a consortium to build a picosatellite launched
our mentor Prof.N.R.Shetty, several different successfully by PSLV of ISRO on July 12th,2010.
multi disciplinary research centres have been The first Small Satellite Ground Station
established – NASTRAC was also established and operational
at NMIT Campus.
NMIT in association with Dassualt Systemes
and DCS has established state of the art Centre

of Excellence (CoE) on Aerospace & Internet The institute has well equipped laboratories
of Things (IoT) to develop industry relevant with more than 1800+ computers. NMIT has
skills to the students and making them industry advanced softwares, library resources and high
ready. The total investment of the project is speed Internet connectivity 200 Mbps (leased
around Rs 30 crores. line - 1:1).

A unique course entitled Robotics Engineering NMIT is identified as Regional Nodal Centres
Lego Mindstormsand TETRIX has been of IIT-B/ IIT-KGP for faculty development
introduced for the first time in the country programs under National Mission on Education
for our second year BE students in 2015-16 through ICT (NMEICT), under MHRD, Govt. of
and this interesting course consisting of 40% India.
theory and 60% hands-on sessions has been
continuing till date with enormous enthusiasm The Institute has an active and dynamic
from the participating students Training and Placement cell. The Placement cell
attracts large number of reputed well known
organizations for on-campus placements. The
Placement cell conducts training programs
to improve the competence of students by
enhancing soft skills / analytical abilities /
problem solving capabilities/ attitudinal and
leadership qualities.

The NMIT has separate modern hostel facilities
in the campus for boys and girls with in-house
dining facilities.

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NMIT in Brief NMIT  Civil Engineering
 Electronics & Communication Engineering
PROGRAMS OFFERED  Electrical & Electronics Engineering
UNDERGRADUATE  Information Science & Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering
 Aeronautical Engineering
 Computer Science & Engineering
 Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
 Artificial Intelligence & Data Science

POSTGRADUATE  M.Tech in Machine Design
 M.Tech in Computer Science & Engg  M.Tech in Structural Engineering
 M.Tech in Data Science  M.Tech in Renewable Energy
 M.Tech in VLSI Design & Embedded Systems  MBA
 M.Tech in Aerospace Engineering  MCA

RECOGNITIONS

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Externally Funded Sponsored Externally Funded
Research Projects- 2021

Sl. Title of the Project Principal Sponsoring Amount Date of
No. Investigator (s) Agency Sanctioned Sanction
(In Rupees)

1 An Intelligent English Karnataka State Rs. 4000 April 2021
Completed
Essay Scoring System "Dr. Vijaya Shetty Council for
for Rural Educational S. & Science and
Institutes using NLP Dr. Mohan B.A." Technology
and Sentimental

Analysis

2 Navigation and Dr. K. Departmetnt Rs. 67.50 April 2016
Collision Avoidance VenkateshDr. of Science and Lakhs Completed
System for the Co-PI: N. Nalini, Technology (DST),
Visually Impaired Dr. Thippeswamy New Delhi
M. N.

3 Adaptive Fault Vision Group Rs. 30 Lakhs June 2016
on Science and Completed
Tolerance Framework Dr. Nalini N Technology
for Cloud Computing (VGST),Ban galore

Applications Activities

4 Establishment of Vision Group Rs. 60.00 Apr 2015
of Science and Lakhs Ongoing
Centre for Robotics Technology
(VGST)
Research to Promote Dr. Jharna
Multidisciplinary Majumdar
Research in

Engineering

Education

5 Synthesis of proteins AICTE RS. 21.9 lakhs 08-01-2020
Ongoing
and its effect on the Dr srilatha Rao
performance of nano

mebranes

6 Design and Vision Group Rs 15 lakhs 9-11-2020
of Science and Ongoing
Fabrication of Metal Technology
(VGST)
nanoparticle and

Graphene reinforced Dr. Hitha D

flexible Polymer Shetty & Mr.

nanocomposites Ashok Reddy

for Electromagnetic

Interference Shielding

applications.

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Externally Funded 7 Design, simulation, ARB, DRDO, New Rs 24 Lakhs 21-06-2021
8 DElhi Ongoing
9 Fabrication, Packaging
10 03-03-2021
11 and Characterization Dr. Habibuddin Ongoing

12 of MEMS based Shaik 24/04/2021
Completed
13 sound source localizer
14 25/08/2020
15 for Gunshot events. Completed
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Design and Dr. P N Tengli Naval Science Rs 94,4000 "January
Development of & Technological Rs 8000 2021"
Amphibious Drone. Laboratory Rs 948999.99 Ongoing
(NSTL) - DRDO, Rs 3,75,000
Design, Fabrication Mr. Sridhar K Visakhapatnam "January
and Analysis of Dr. Srikanth H V Rs 3,37,000 2021"
composite multicell Karnataka State Ongoing
structures Council for Rs 7000
Science and Rs 6000 "April
To study the effect of Technology Rs 7000 2021"
pressure oscillations Completed
in a SRM using CFD Armament
and its effects on Research and "April
flight stability. Development 2021"
Establishment Completed
Development and Dr. Kapilan N (ARDE), DRDO,
Evaluation of Solar Pune "April
Geothermal Hybrid 2021"
Heating and Cooling The American Completed
System Society of
Heating,
Development and Dr. Kapilan N Refrigerating and
Evaluation of Three Air-Conditioning
Stage Evaporative Engineers
Cooling System (ASHRAE)

Design, Development Mr. Prashanth N The American
of Multidrive Mobile Society of
Robot for Defence Heating,
and Reconnaissance Refrigerating and
Application Air-Conditioning
Engineers
Remote Controlled Mr. Prashanth (ASHRAE)
Multi-Purpose N & Dr. Sudheer
Differential Drive Reddy J Karnataka State
Transplanter Council for
Science and
Search and Rescue Dr. Kiran Aithal S Technology
during Natural & Mr. Pramod S (KSCST)
Disaster using a
Hybrid Flying Wing Karnataka State
VTOL Council for
Science and
Technology
(KSCST)

Karnataka State
Council for
Science and
Technology
(KSCST)

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16 Karnataka State Rs 4500 NMIT Externally Funded

Covid-19Detection "Dr.Jayavrinda V Council for 24-04-2021
Using Cough Dr.Raghunandan Science and Completed
S" Technology

(KSCST)

17 Odour and Air Karnataka State Rs 6000 24-04-2021
Quality Detection Council for Completed
and Mapping in a "Dr.Jayavrinda V Science and
Dynamic Environment Dr.Raghunandan Technology
S" (KSCST)

18 development Vision Group Rs 3 Lakhs 2020-21
Ongoing
of algorithams of Science and

for extraction of Technology

features from clinical Dr. Manoj Kumar (VGST)
reports and pattern M. V
recognition to

predict of treatment

outcomes related to

infectious diseases

19 Schemes for AICTE Rs 1 Lakhs 2020-21
promoting interests, Dr. Sanjay H A Ongoing
creativity and ethics Mr. Kiran B R
among students

20 Skill and personality AICTE Rs 20.5 Lakhs 2019-20
development Ongoing
program for SC and Dr . Sanjay H A
ST Students

21 Cloud based machine " Rs 15 Lakhs 2019-20
Vision Group Ongoing
learning framework Dr. K Aditya of Science and
Technology
for prediction of shastry (VGST)"

chronic diseases

22 STTP on " Industrial AICTE Rs 3 Lakhs Jan-20
Internet of Completed
Things (IIoT)-A
Manufacturing Dr Sudheer
Perspective, What, Reddy J
Why, Where and
How?

23 MODROBS- AICTE Rs 12 Lakhs Dec-19
Completed
Establishment of

Centre For Applied

Mechatronics Dr Sudheer
and Industry Reddy J
4.0 To Promote

Multidisciplinary

Training, Research and

Development

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Dept. of Aero NMIT 1

Department of

Aeronautical Engineering

ABOUT DEPARTMENT

The With the vision of developing developed in collaboration with Dassault Systems,
technically competent engineers in the which supports our stakeholders in developing
field of aeronautical and aerospace, the their technical skills to serve the national and
department of Aeronautical Engineering has global needs.
become the finest technical education providers,
which encouraged its stakeholder in meeting The regular internship and project programs
the national and international requirements will be carried out by the students at the reputed
of industry and society with highest academic Government organizations such as DRDO, DRDL,
standards. Airport Authority of India, HAL, NAL, GTRE, ADA,
IISc, and at private Aerospace Sectors like TATA
The Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Advanced Materials Ltd, GE, Airbus, Boeing,
NMIT was started in the 2011-12 with the intake Mahindra Aerospace, Cyient Tech and Sansera
of 60 and it is increased to 120 from the Academic Aerospace etc, to fulfil the academic needs and to
Year 2020-21. The department is comprised of have practical exposure through industry institute
two Professors, two Associate Professor and interaction and interdisciplinary research.
twelve Assistant Professors. More than 50% of
teaching staff have Doctorate degree in their The Aeronautical Students’ Association
respective areas of interest. In addition, we invite named ‘FALCON’, is responsible for organizing
the experts from top educational organizations, co-curricular and extracurricular activities in
R & D sectors and industries regularly to interact the department such as webinars, seminars
with the students and faculty. and workshops, guest lectures and technical
competitions, which would help the students
With the top-class teaching – learning facility to impart their knowledge in various aspects of
and well-designed curricular & co-curricular Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering and
activities, our department has become the one of Technology.
the top technical education providers. The state-
of-art infrastructures inclusive of department This year our students have performed very
library well-equipped laboratories in the fields well in GATE 2021 and thirteen students have
of Aerodynamics, Aircraft Propulsion, Aircraft scored Best All Inia Rank in GATE 2021. In addition,
Structures, Flight Physics, Design, Modeling and our students have encouraged in participating
Analysis, Simulation and Basic Material testing. in number of technical events and technical
competitions to improve their technical
Our department recognised as the Research
Centre for pursuing the Ph.D in Aerospace and managerial skills.
Engineering and Technology by VTU Belagavi.
We provide the consultancy services for
the Vacuum Bag moulding composite
manufacturing process. The Center of
Excellence in Aerospace Engineering and IoT,

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ACHIEVEMENTS / AWARDS Dept. of Aero
FACULTY MEMBERS

Sl. No. Faculty Name Details of Achievement/Award
1 Dr P K Dash
2 Dr P K Dash Selected as Panel Judge for AIAA 2020 student section, Sydney.
3 Dr P K Dash
Selected as PTC (Panel Technical Committee) of Ship Structures
4 Dr P K Dash committee, USA.

5 Dr P K Dash Appointed as member of Board of Examiners for the year 2020-21 for
6 Dr P K Dash Aeronautical Engineering, VTU
7 Dr P N Tengli
Invited as a Keynote Speaker for 4 th International Conference and
Expo on Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering to be held in
Valencia, Spain during October 25-27, 2021

Invited as Speaker at the International Meet & Expo on Aerospace
& Aeronautical Engineering (AEROMEET2022), which will be held
during March 21-23, 2022 in Dubai, UAE.

Selected for the SAT session chair by AIAA.

Domain Expert for the Panel of Faculty recruitment at DSCE Bengaluru.

STUDENTS

Sl. No Student Name Sem/ Details of Achievement/Award
Section
1 Pavan Kumar S V Best All India GATE Rank 2021 - 25
2 Karkera Yathish P 8th Best All India GATE Rank 2021 – 83
3 S Thankapparaj Best All India GATE Rank 2021 – 107
4 Gouthami T S 8th Best All India GATE Rank 2021 – 148
5 Guruprasad S 8th Best All India GATE Rank 2021 – 369
6 Sushmitha Rao B 8th Best All India GATE Rank 2021 – 369
7 Amulya S S 8th Best All India GATE Rank 2021 – 461
8 Kartik Sharma 8th Best All India GATE Rank 2021 – 496
9 Reshma C K 8th Best All India GATE Rank 2021 – 586
10 Saini Jitendra Kumar Purnmal 8th Best All India GATE Rank 2021 – 645
11 Praveen Kumar V 8th Best All India GATE Rank 2021 – 645
12 Haricharan Gokul 8th Best All India GATE Rank 2021 – 705
13 Pruthvi Kumar V K 8th Best All India GATE Rank 2021 – 804
8th
8th

CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP / GUEST LECTURES CONDUCTED

SI. No From To Conference/Workshop Title Resource Persons

1 18-06-2021 21-06-2021 Alumni Webinar Series-2021 Alumni of Aeronautical
Engineering Dept
Five day National Workshop Dr. Bharath V G
18-06-2021 on “PYTHON for AEROSPACE
2 14-06-2021
ENGINEERS” Freelancer

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Dept. of Aero Webinar on Potential use of Mr. Leo Peter Charles,
DRONES for Infrastructure
3 01-06-2021 01-06-2021 Inspection & Survey Founder
& Managing Director, Jane
Aerospace Pvt. Ltd.

Air Vice Marshal Pranay

4 11-04-2021 11-04-2021 Webinar on “Biological Warfare” Kumar Hridayesh Sinha
(Retd.) Advisor, BEL, CRL

Bengaluru

Webinar on “Take A Step DE Montfort University, UK

5 17-03-2021 17-03-2021 Forward to Aviation Career” with

DE Montfort University

6 23-01-2021 23-01-2021 Guest Lecture on “Entrepreneur Dr. Kishore Kumar, Nitte
and Intellectual Property Rights” School of Management

Webinar on “Drones Bench - DPM Electronica &

7 22-01-2021 22-01-2021 Evaluates the technical quality DronesBench, Foggia, Italy.

of Drone”

Webinar on “Future Study SIEC Education Private
8 21-01-2021 21-01-2021 Options at Overseas and Limited, Bengaluru

scholarship opportunities”

9 02-11-2020 06-11-2020 National Level Webinar Experts from CEMILAC,
‘AEROVISION 2020' ADA, ISRO, AddWize
Wipro 3D Bangalore and
DRDL Hyderabad,

Five day online workshop Aerotics Technologies
10 28-09-2020 03-10-2020 on “Aerospace Technical

Publication”

Five day webinar series on Experts from AIRBUS,
11 19-10-2020 23-10-2020 “AEROSPACE JOURNEY TO Boeing, Rolls-Royce, GE,
GKN aerospace & QT
INDUSTRY“ company

12 01-09-2020 05-09-2020 Webinar on ‘SUCCEEDING @ Mr. CAN Murthy,
INTERVIEW’ Management and
Professional consultant

13 27-07-2020 29-07-2020 Technical training on Microsoft Mr. Sridhar K, Assistant
Excel for Technical Staff Professor, Aeronautical
Engineering Department

14 16-07-2020 25-07-2020 Online Technical ‘C’ QuanTech Origin,
programming training Bengaluru

INVITED TALKS/GUEST LECTURES DELIVERED BY FACULTY MEMBERS

Faculty Name Topic Occasion/Venue Date
Dr. P N Tengli 22-06-2021
“India as a market and Presentation of Czech
manufacturing destination Aircraft Association
of Space and satellite
components”

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Dr. P N Tengli Solid rocket motor Presidency University 22-05-2021 Dept. of Aero
Dr. P K Dash processing and testing Bangalore 20-10-2020
Dr. A K Sarkar 01-10-2020
Public Sector Summit Amazon Web Services
Online

Evolution of Flight Vehicles International Conference

Control and Guidance Since on Efficient Engineering

Second World War-II Systems (ICEES) 2020

COLLOQUIUMS ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT

Faculty Name Topic Date
21-05-2021
Mr. Suthan R Development of thermo-chronic variable emittance coating
on spacecraft surface 23-04-2021
Mr. Prashant M 26-03-2021
Mr. Sridhar K Nano Technology and its applications 27-02-2021
Mr. Vinod L 22-01-2021
Mrs. Jhumki Noble metal coating over carbon-carbon composites
Nandy 18-12-2020
Structural health monitoring for aircraft applications
Dr. Praveen B 27-11-2020
Characterisation of Wax on improved hybrid propulsion
Dr. Athul Joseph system

Numerical study of near-limit flame spread in spacecraft
environments

Experimental Characterisation of sprays in a recessed Gas-
centered swirl coaxial Atomizer

DEPARTMENT ASSOCIATIONS & ITS ACTIVITIES :

FALCON

FALCON has the vision to provide the students platform for the participants to interact with the
more exposure to the real world, with many eminent personalities from industry, R & d sectors
opportunities to interact with the industries for and academics. with specific knowledge sharing
personality development of Aeronautical students. and hands-on experience in the fields of Space
Technology, Rocket Propulsion, Aerodynamics,
In this academic year, the FALCON organized Aircraft Propulsion, Aircraft Structure, Aircraft
a national level webinar series AEROVISION 2020 Materials, Computational Fluid Dynamics,
on ‘Advancement in Aeronautical & Aerospace Composites, Heat and Mass Transfer, Airworthiness
Engineering’, Technical Training Python for & Certification, Aircraft Control and Guidance and
Aerospace Engineers, Workshop on Aerospace Additive Manufacturing.
Technical Publication, Webinar on “Biological
Warfare” etc. these activities have provided the

DEPARTMENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

The department of Aeronautical Engineering with experienced faculty has involved in research
activities, which displayed their ability and obtained funded projects from various agencies. Presently
the department is carrying out the following funded projects

Design and development of amphibious drone

Design, development and analysis of composite multi cell structures

To Study the effect of Pressure Oscillations in a SRM using CFD and the effect on flight stability

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FAREWELL TO 2021 BATCH

The department of Aeronautical Engineering has organised the Farewell to the students of 2021
Batch on 7th August 2021.

Dr. H C Nagaraj, Principal, Dr. V Sridhar, Dean (Academics) and Faculty of Aeronautical Engineering
with outgoing students of batch 2021

NATIONAL LEVEL PROJECT COMPETITION AND EXHIBITION “AERO EXPO 2021”

AEROEXPO- and Aerospace branches. Around 49 teams had
registered online for the event. The projects
2021, an Offline/ were from Aerodynamics, Structures, Propulsion
and Drones/Space Technologies field and
Online – National were evaluated based on respective faculties
specialization. Mr. Pradeep Kumar Sarangapani,
Level Project Quality Manager, Auditor and Drone Instructor
Airbus Group, India was the Chief Guest and
Competition and Judge of the event. Administrator Mr. Rohith
Punja, Principal Dr. HC Nagaraj, HoD Dr. PK
Exhibition was Dash and Professor Dr. P N Tengli addressed the
participants. Event Organizers were Dr. Vinayaka
conducted on 27- N and Mr. Ram Vishal, faculties of Aeronautical
Department, NMIT.
July-2021 at NMIT

Aeronautical

Department.

We had final

year Project

participants from

all over India of

HoD Dr. PK Dash welcoming both UG and PG

Administrator Mr. Rohith of Aeronautical

Punja to the event

Mr. Pradeep Kumar Sarangapani, Quality Manager, Airbus and Dr. HC Nagaraj, Principal, NMIT are
addressing the participants

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THE DEPARTMENT OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING HAS SIGNED MOU WITH Dept. of Aero
R&D SECTORS AND INDUSTRIES AND ARE AS FOLLOWS

The department of Aeronautical Engineering The department of Aeronautical Engineering
has signed MoU with two Industries viz; has signed MoU with DronesBench DPM
PUSHPAK Products Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore and Electronica SRL having their registered office at,
TVAKSA Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, on Via Sant’Alfonso Dei Liguori, 61-71121 Foggia,
1st September 2020, for mutually utilize the Italy on 22nd March 2021. DronesBench will
facilities of NMIT and industries. allow access to NMIT faculty and students to
various test and research facilities. NMIT and
DronesBench to recognize each other as Center
of Excellence for Academic and Research
collaborations and to share their facilities
and resources for research and other mutual
benefits. NMIT students can execute their
projects in DronesBench, Italy at a nominal fee.

Dr PK Dash, HoD, Dr V Sridhar, Dean (Academics), The department of Aeronautical Engineering
Dr H C Hagaraj, Principal, NMIT and delegates has signed MoU with International Advanced
from PUSHPAK Products Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore and Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy &
TVAKSA Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bangalore were New Materials (ARCI), Hyderabad on 25th
present November 2020 for the utilization of facilities
available with ARCI as and when required as
well as consultancy services while executing
advanced research projects.

ALL INDIA BEST GATE SCORE OF THE YEAR 2021

The following students have secured all India best rank in GATE 2021

Pavan Kumar S V Yathish Parshvanatha S Thankapparaj Gouthami T S Guruprasad S
AIR - 25 AIR - 83 AIR - 107 AIR - 148 AIR - 369

Sushmitha Rao B Amulya S S Kartik Sharma Reshma C K Saini Jitendra Kumar
AIR - 369 AIR - 461 AIR - 496 AIR - 586 AIR - 645

Praveen Kumar V Haricharan Gokul Pruthvi Kumar V K
AIR - 645 AIR - 705 AIR - 804

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Dept. of AS&H NMIT 2

Department of

Applied Sciences and
Humanities

Department of Mathematics

ABOUT DEPARTMENT

The major focus of the Department of dedicated well qualified and experienced faculty.
Mathematics is to inculcate mathematical Eight of them have doctoral degree and two
thinking in engineering students. Based on are pursuing Ph.D. program. The department is
the needs of various disciplines, the department recognized as a research centre by VTU, Belagavi
is imparting the updated curriculum from time and 6 candidates were awarded Ph.D. degree,
to time to the students at undergraduate and 5 candidates are pursuing Ph.D. in our research
postgraduate level as well as offer electives in centre. For this academic year, the department
mathematics. faculty have published 16 papers in international
journals indexed in scopus/wos/others.
The Department of Mathematics has 12

PH.D AWARDED FROM THE RESEARCH CENTER,
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, NMIT

Student Name Title of the Thesis University Type of Guide
Registration Dr. Indira. R
Venkataswamy K Mathematical Modelling VTU
of drug release system Part Time Dr. Chandrakala S. B

Roshini G. R Study of Topological VTU Full Time
Indices of Graphs

COLLOQUIUMS ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT

Faculty Name Topic Date
Dr. Padmavathi R 23/07/2021
Dr. Chandrakala S B Significance of C-C heat flux and Arrhenius activation energy
Dr. Sreekala C K over a hybrid nano-particles by considering slip flow and 26/06/2021
convective heat transfer 28/05/2021

Non-Neighbour Topological Indices of Graphene Networks

Analysis of Squeezing characteristics between a Sphere
and Rough Porous Flat Plate with variations of Pressure
Dependent viscosity by using lubricant additives

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Mrs. Swathi H R diffusive mass transfer with reference to drug eluting stent
Mrs. Pallavi G 19/04/2021
Mr. Pramod S Applications of Eigen values and Eigen vectors
Dr. Kiran S 30/03/2021
Convection in Porous Media 23/02/2021
Mrs. Sumashree P 28/01/2021
Dirichlet Series Solution for Boundary Value Problem 23/12/2020

Natural Convection in a linearly heated vertical porous 22/11/2021
annulus under the effect of magnetic field

An Explicit Integrals for Calculating stiffness matrix by
Generalized Gaussian Quadrature Rule.

Department of Physics

ABOUT DEPARTMENT

The objective is to enable students to In this A.Y. 2020-21 two projects are sanctioned:
understand the basic ideas and concepts
in Physics, which plays a primary role in 1. Project title: Design and Fabrication of Metal
all branches of engineering and thereby motivate nanoparticle and Graphene reinforced flexible
students to understand the relationship between Polymer nanocomposites for Electromagnetic
physics and engineering. Interference Shielding applications.

The department is having dedicated well P.I: Dr. Hitha D Shetty
qualified and experienced faculty. Three faculty
with Ph.D. and three are pursuing Ph.D. The Sanctioned Agency: VGST, Karnataka
department is recognized as research centre
by VTU, Belgavi in 2014 and two external and Amount: 15 Lakh
internal candidates are pursuing Ph.D. in our
research centre. We have established the Polymer 2. Project title: Design, simulation, Fabrication,
Nanocomposites lab in this A.Y. 2020-21. The Packaging and Characterization of MEMS
department is having worth of Rs. 83 Lakh based sound source localizer for Gunshot
ongoing projects. events.

P.I: Dr. Habibuddin Shaik

Sanctioned Agency: DRDO, New Delhi

Amount: 24.04 Lakh

COLLOQUIUMS ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT

Faculty Name Topic Date
Mrs. Jyothi Gupta 30-12-2020
Cyclic Voltammetry 28-01-2021
Mr. Ashok Reddy G.V
Synthesis, Characterization & optimization of WO3 thin 23-02-2021
Ms. Jyothi G.B. films for electrochromic applications 23-03-2021
Mr. Shivaprasad H.B. OLED Technology for better display 20-04-2021
Ms. Kavitha Kamath Nanocomposite materials 21-05-2021
Thermoelectric generator
Dr. Habibuddin Shaik Aluminium doped zinc oxide (AZO) thin films for
optoelectronic device application

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Dept. of AS&H Department of Chemistry

ABOUT DEPARTMENT

The Department of Chemistry was from premier institutes who are actively engaged
established in 2001. Over the period, the in pursuing research in frontier areas of chemistry
Department has been nurtured to be one in addition to their teaching assignments. As
of the best departments. The Department of a result, more than 100 research papers have
Chemistry teaches and promotes practical aspects been published from this Department in reputed
of Science to build a solid foundation as part of National and International Journals. To keep
the Engineering Education. The Department of pace with the advancement in principal areas
Chemistry has teaching programme at graduation of Chemistry, our faculty members have been
level to all engineering programs in semester I and updating their knowledge by visiting conferences
II. The department offers Engineering Chemistry at different places. At present, there are three
and Engineering Chemistry laboratory courses ongoing projects sponsored by DST and VGST with
covering basic concepts in various sub-disciplines total outlay worth 1.2 crores. The Department also
of chemistry (physical, inorganic, organic). offers Ph.D research programs from Visvesvaraya
Technological University, Belgaum
The department has a team of faculty graduated

Chemistry Research Lab Instrumentation Lab

Research projects can be used to develop the knowledge that can be used to further a student’s
research prowess to prepare them for their future. To test the validity of instruments, procedures, or
experiments, research may replicate elements of prior projects as a whole which involves

Synthesis of pseudopeptides and DNA cleavage study

Corrosion and inhibition studies
Water purification using membrane technology

COLLOQUIUMS ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT

Chemistry Mrs. Sowmyashree National Production of paper from
Chemistry A.S, Asst.Prof, & National DesmostachyaBipinnata (Dharbe)
Dr. Srilatha Rao, from malnad region
Assoc.Prof& HOD Ref. No.: RE0018A23N04S2016
RECEIPT Date: 23-04-2016
in the department Published
of Chemistry
Purification of water using proteins
Mrs Vidya Kumbla extracted from plants and plant
Dr. Srilatha Rao, products Filed
Dr Aravinda T

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PROJECTS Dept. of AS&H

Sl. Project Sponsoring Funds Granted Duration
No Agency
AICTE
1 Synthesis of proteins and its effect on the VGST 2119608 2020-23
performance of nano membranes
VGST
An innovative study: Synthesis, DNA activity of 5,00,000/- 2018-19
DST
2 Heterocyclic Novel ligands and their transition
metal complex as antitumor drugs. Dr. Aravinda VGST

T (Investigator)

Synthesis and characterization of PVDF-PES 20,00,000/- 2017-19

3 ultra filteration nano membranes for water
purification with long lasting antifolling

properties. Dr. SrilathaRao(Investigator)

Evolvement of metal oxide Nanoparticals as a 44,61,600/- 2016-2019

4 catalyst: Therapeutic advantages of transition
metal pseudopeptides in organic process and

DNA studies. Dr. Aravinda T (Investigator)

Polymer based hybrid nano structure: 6,00,000/- 2015-16
fabrication, characterization and application
5 for next generation high performance super
capacitors and batteries.
Dr. RaghuM S(Investigator)

SOLAR CELL LAB

SOLAR Cell Lab Solar cell testing

Organic photovoltaics (PVs) with liquid crystals macroscopic levels. LCs are accepted as the fourth
(LCs) lab was established in the year 2018. LCs in state of matter after the three classical states of
organic PVs are used in bilayer solar cells, bulk matter: solid, liquid, and gas. LCs are ubiquitous
heterojunction solar cells and dye-sensitized solar in everyday life in the form of LC display devices,
cells. thermal sensors and so on. They are not only
important in materials science but also in living
LCs, also referred to as mesophases, are systems and in biology. Bio-molecules, such as
materials that have the properties of both DNA, lipids and proteins, form various liquid
crystals and liquids. These materials show order crystalline phases under appropriate conditions.
and mobility at molecular, supramolecular and

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Dept. of AS&H PATENT

Chemistry Dr Ananda A hybrid ferroelectric discotic liquid crystal solar cell
Selvi Raj National Application No:TEMP / E-1/21830 / 2018-CHE Ref no:

201841020592 Filed

COLLOQUIUMS 2020-21

Faculty Name Topic Date
Dr Swaminathan 21st Jan 2021
Dr Kshama Shetty Ionic self Assembly 13th Feb 2021
Mrs Shwetha Amphiphilic materials through Ionic Self-assembly 26th May 2021
Mrs Shwetha strategy and their mesomorphic 17th June 2021
Mrs Sadhana Electrochemistry and Metal finishing 29th July 2021
Mrs Sadhana 28th August 2021
Polymer based nano composite
Detecton of organo phosphorus pesticide residues by
enzume based device
Sensor for insecticitde detection

Department of English

CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP / GUEST LECTURES CONDUCTED

SINO From To Conference/Workshop Title Resource
Persons
1 22nd May 23rd May Conducted workshop for two days Priyadarshini
2019 2019 Mgt. Institute, Nagpur, Maharashtra on 22nd & Dr. Neha Jain
23rd May 2019 on the topic -”Role of HR and
changing business dynamics “, for Faculty.
Priyadarshin Lokmanya Tilak Institution
Engineering & Mgt. Institute, Nagpur,
Maharashtra

BOOKS /ARTICLES PUBLISHED

Title of the Book/Article Faculty Name Publisher Publication Date

Paradigm Shift in Higher Education Exele Article
http://https//www.theleadersglobe.com/
article/paradigm-shift-in-higher-education- Dr. Neha Jain Publication in the 02 Jan 2020
excellence-v-s-inclusion / Leaders Globe

Magazine.

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COLLOQUIUMS ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT Dept. of AS&H

Faculty Name Topic Date
Dr. Neha Jain
Dr. Neha Jain “Talent and Human Capital” 25th April, 2019

Mrs. Shruthi S. ” Independent Thinking towards Personality 14th August, 2019
Development” 27th September, 2019
Mrs. Shruthi S 25th October,2019
Dr. Neha Jain “English and Communication Skills for the Global 11th November 2019
Mrs. Shruthi S. Engineer”

“ Prominence of English Language for Career
Development”

“Preparation for the Interview Session”

“Effective Leadership is all about Communicating 24th January, 2020
Effectively: Connecting Leadership and Communication”

Dr. Neha Jain “The Key Role of Communication Skills in the LIfe of 20th February 2020
Professionals”

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Dept. of Civil NMIT 3

Department of

Civil Engineering

ABOUT DEPARTMENT

The Department of Civil Engineering at 2020 – NBA accreditation is renewed up to
NMIT is one of the Core Engineering 2023.
Departments, growing in leaps and
bounds in both academics and research fields. The department imparts an Outcome Based
It is grooming the budding engineers to the Education [OBE] and modifies the syllabus
ever challenging requirements of the field.The once in three years/need based in line with
department is imparting quality education to meet industry requirements.
the technological and industrial advancement.
The accomplishments of the Department are Internship/Visits to Industry/Research
highlighted as follows. Centre/Hands-on practices are mandatory
requirements of the curriculum.
2009 – The Department was established– an
Autonomous UG Program in Civil Engineering Signed MoUs with reputed industries and
started with an intake of 60. Research Institutes for Internship, industry
based live project works and technical
2013 – Intake is increased to 120 training. The department presently has 9
MOU with different industries.
PG – M.Tech in Structural Engineering
Programme started with intake of 24. MOOC / NPTEL Courses are a mandatory part
of the curriculum.
Recognized Research Centre for M.Sc. Engg.
by research and PhD Programme. A team of qualified faculty led the department
includes 09 PhD holders, 8 pursuing PhD and
2015 – Permanent affiliation under VTU. others with master’s degrees.

2016 – PG Programme obtained its The department has well-equipped specific
Autonomous Status under VTU. laboratories that caters academics and
beyond academics requirements.
2017 – UG Programme was accredited by
NBA under Tier-1 for 3 Years till 2020.

ACHIEVEMENTS / AWARDS
FACULTY

SI. Faculty Details of Achievement/Award
No Name
Secretary for the term 2021-23, ASCE India Section Southern Region.
1 Dr. Bharathi State Coordinator 2020-21 – Technical, Engineer Council of India (ECI), New
Ganesh Delhi.

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Dr. Bharathi NMIT Dept. of Civil
Ganesh
President of NMIT National Digital Library of India – NDLI Club.
2 Dr. Raghava Member of National Task Force – Committee, No.3 & 4, Engineer Council
G of India-ECI, New Delhi
Joint Secretary, North Bangalore SVAK – Awdeshi Vignana Andolana
3 Mahesh Karnataka an organization under Vignana Bharathi.
Kumar C L General Co-Chair, SSPPE 2021, Montreal, Canada, March 29-31, 2021.
2021 International Conference on Soil Science, Pollution Prevention and
Environment. (http://www.ssppe.org/Committees.html).
Organizing Committee member (http://icaice.net/national-advisory-
committee.php) - International Conference on “Advancements and
Innovations in Civil Engineering”, (IC-AICE-2021)- 18th and 20th of March
2021 organized by K.D.K. College of Engineering, Nagpur.
Member of PhD Synopsis Scrutiny Committee at K D K College of
Engineering, Nagpur.
Session Chair, FISAT – SIMCON 21, an International Conference organised
by FISAT, Kerala.
Organising Committee member – Nirmaana 2021, an International
Conference on Tunnelling and Construction organised by INSTRUCT,
Bangalore.
An ATAL FDP on Smart City sponsored by AICTE under ATAL Scheme
(amount sanctioned is Rs. 93,000/-) is conducted from 5th Jan 2021 to 9th
Jan 2021.
Eminent Speaker for a Technical Session – Webinar organized by GEC,
Ramanagar on 18th Jan 2021 “Basics of research and Publications”.
Doctoral Committee member – BGSIT, Mandya.
Ph.D Comprehensive Viva – Doctoral Committee, Nambiyanna, MSRIT, 8th
Jan 2020.
BGSIT – Expert Committee member for PhD candidate’s selection for BGS
University.
Technical Expert Committee as a Reviewer, International conference on
Sustainable Materials and its green Technologies for Industry at Aditya
Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India, 7th - 9th April 2021
Eminent Speaker, online knowledge sharing session and interaction with
Prayojana CMTI Engineers and Construction Professionals, Architects on
the topic, ‘Quantity Surveying-an Employment Perspective’ on 18th June
2020.

Member of Sub-Board on Education, Training and Skill Development of
ASPIRE (Automotive Solutions Portal for Industry, Research & Education) of
International Centre for Automotive Technology, Gurugram

3rd prize in National Level Paper Presentation Competition on the subject
matter the Global Impact of Covid-19 on Society, Business and Economy
held at NITTE School of Management on 29th and 30th July 2020.
Best Paper Award for “Structural Health Monitoring of Bridge Using
Sensors” during 3rd International Conference on Trends and Recent
Advances in Civil Engineering, (Trace-2020) online Technical Paper
presentation in Amity School of Engineering & Technology, Amity
University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India on 20th & 21st August 2020.

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Dept. of Civil 4 Bharti Prasad Evaluator for TOYCATHON 2021 an inter-ministerial initiative organized by
Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell with support from All India Council
for Technical Education, Ministry of Women and Child Development,
Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Ministry of MSME, Ministry of Textiles
and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, GoI.

STUDENTS

SI No Student Name Sem / Details of Achievement/Award
Section
1 Ankush P A Best Project of the Year 2019-20 of 43rd Series SPP - -
8th / A Karnataka State Council of Science and Technology,
IISc, Bangalore

2 Lathashree S R 6th / B First prize in Intra-Collegiate Photography contest
3 Manikanta B 6th / B 20-21
4 Mithun S 8th / A
5 Prathap S 8th / B Second prize in Intra-Collegiate Photography contest
8th / A 20-21
6 Raghavendra K L 4th / B
Top Scorer Award in Karnataka State level
7 Ms. Megha C 5th / A Environmental Engineering E-Quiz Competition 2020

8 Ms. Harshita Hedge Top Scorer Award in Karnataka State level
Environmental Engineering E-Quiz Competition 2020
9 Mr. Pushpak V K
Top Scorer Award in Karnataka State level
10 Ms. Vishnu Priya Environmental Engineering E-Quiz Competition 2020

11 Omkar Vernekar 3rd prize in National Level Paper Presentation
Competition on Global Impact of Covid-19 on Society,
Business and Economy held at NITTE School of
Management on 29th and 30th July 2020.

Runner Up - Concrete Fair 2020 held by RV College of
Engineering

CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP /GUEST LECTURES CONDUCTED

SI No From To Conference / Workshop Title Resource Persons

1 1-07- 2021 1-07- 2021 A Webinar on “Application Dr. Manamohan R Kalgal
of Prestressed Concrete in Past President ICI & VP I A
Infrastructure and Building struct E, Technical Advisor,
Sector: Series 1” UltraTech Cement Ltd.

2 5-07- 2021 5-07- 2021 A Webinar on “Application Dr. Manamohan R Kalgal
of Prestressed Concrete in Past President ICI & VP I A
Infrastructure and Building struct E, Technical Advisor,
Sector: Series 2” UltraTech Cement Ltd.

3 18-06-2021 20-06-2021 Workshop on “Structural Mr. Bharath, Autodesk ATC,

Analysis and Design using ETABS CAAD Centre

& STAAD PRO”

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4 16-06-2021 16-06-2021 A Webinar on “Huge Mr. Anand T, CEO and Dept. of Civil
Opportunities in Industry” Founder of Swifterz Creative
Services.

5 09-06-2021 09-06-2021 A Webinar on “Emerging Mr. Mihir Murari Ayyanchira,
Technologies in Built Assistant Professor, School
Environment” of Built Environment, RICS

6 21-05-2021 21-05-2021 A Webinar on “Design and Build” Mr. Sasidharan S,” Senior
Structural Engineer at HKBK,
Lusail Stadium (FIFA), Qatar

7 11-05-2021 14-05-2021 Training on “Gate Coaching” Mr. Kailash, ACE Academy,
Bangalore

8 16-04-2021 25-04-2021 Workshop on “Building Mr. Pradeep Kallur, Technical

Information Modelling – Phase Director & MD, Medini Pvt.

-1” Ltd

9 07-04-2021 07-04-2021 A Webinar on “Non-destructive Dr Guruprasad Y K,
Evaluation, Damage Assessment Associate Professor, MSRIT,
and Retrofitting of Distressed RC Bengaluru
Structures”

10 12-02-2021 12-02-2021 Seminar on “Perception of Mr. Madhukar, CMD,
Institutions” “ Potential Consultants,

11 05-01-2021 09-01-2021 ATAL- FDP- “Smart Cities
– Concept, Strategies,
Opportunities and Challenges”

Keynote Speaker B. S. C. Rao, Senior
Consultant & Practicing Civil
Engineer, Bangalore

Smart City Projects - an Dr. N. Gopalakrishnan
Overview Director, CSIR -Central
Building Research Institute,
Roorkee, Uttarakhand

Considerations for Planning Dr. Abhishek Chhabra,
and implementing Fire Safety in Market Development
Smart Cities Manager, Thomas Bell
Wright International
Consultants, Abu Dhabi

Smart City Projects in India – Dr. D. R. Ravi, Environmental
Planning Aspects, Public Policy Officer, Karnataka State
Pollution Control Board
(KSPCB), Bangalore

Challenges, Smart City Indices & Dr. Bharathi Ganesh,
Case Studies - Smart Cities Professor & Head,
Department of Civil
Engineering NMIT,
Bangalore

Smart Cities and Disaster Dr. G. Raghava, Professor,
Management in Indian Context NMIT, Bangalore, Former
Chief Scientist, CSIR-SERC,
Chennai

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Dept. of Civil Smart & Sustainable Options for Dr. V. Ramachandra,
Housing and Roads Functional Head, Ultratech
Cements Ltd. Mumbai
Green Approach to meet Energy
Demands of Smart Cities Dr. Ajit Sabnis, Principal
Consultant, ASP-SDI,
BIM Applications - An Integral Bangalore
Part of smart City Constructions
Scope for Future Research Dr. Amarnath, Head - BIM
Opportunities w.r.t Smart Cities Strategy, L&T Ltd., Chennai
Smart & Sustainable Building
Services and MEP Systems Dr. V. Senthil Kumar,
Professor, IIT Palakkad

Dr. Jyothi Trivedi, Professor,
CEPT University

Dimensions of collaborations Dr. A N Parameshwaran,
for Personal and Professional Director-IIC NMAMIT, Nitte,
Development Mangalore

12 02-12-2020 02-12-2020 A webinar on “Importance of Dr. Shailesh Kr Agrawal,

e-Course "Vulnerability Atlas of Executive Director, BMTPC,

India" New Delhi.

13 04-12-2020 04-12-2020 A webinar on “Importance of Mr. Shreedhar Revankar,
Controlled Slump in Concrete “Importance of Controlled
& Application of Chemical Slump in Concrete &
Admixtures Application of Chemical
Admixtures

14 03-12-2020 08-12-2020 "Preparing Technical Documents Dr. B.S. Mahanand, Raman

Using LaTeX" Fellow (Harvard University,

USA) Associate Professor,

Dept. of ISE, JSSIT, Mysore

15 24-11-2020 24-11-2020 A webinar on “Future Mr. Prashanth, Technical
Prospectus” Team, BYJU’s

16 05-11-2020 05-11-2020 Virtual Field trip “Shree Steels, Mr. Prashanth, Plant officer,
Pvt. Ltd, Nepal” Shree Steels, Pvt. Ltd, Nepal

17 06-11-2020 06-11-2020 Virtual Field trip” Arghakhanchi Mr. Krishna, Plant officer,

Cement Pvt Ltd, Nepal” Arghakhanchi Cement Pvt

Ltd, Nepal

18 06-11-2020 06-11-2020 Entrepreneurial Mindset: Tips Mr. Satadru Chowdhury,

and Tricks to kickstart your civil Founder Director - Vaanahaa

engineering career Education and Innovation

Labs

19 04-11-2020 04-11-2020 Opportunity-Move with Mr. Pradeep Kallur, Technical
confidence from Institution to Director & MD, Medini Pvt.
Industry Ltd

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20 12-10-2020 17-10-2020 FDP-Waste Management & Mr. D. R Kumaraswamy Dept. of Civil
Environmental Protection: A Honorary Director, Prakruthi
Sustainable Approach Institute of Environmental
Studies, Bengaluru
Sustainable Development and
Biodiversity Dr. Nagappa, Former Senior
Scientific Officer, KSPCB
Analysis of Water & Wastewater Bengaluru

Ozone Protection and Its Mr. D. R Kumaraswamy
Importance Honorary Director, Prakruthi
Institute of Environmental
E-waste Management and Studies, Bengaluru
Recycling
Mr. Venkatesha Murthy,
Air Pollution and Control & Air Founder & CEO, Vans
Quality Index Chemistry Pte, Ltd,
Singapore
Selection of STP Technologies
and Zero Liquid Discharge- A Mr. T. Mahesh, Senior
Case Study Environmental Officer,
KSPCB Head Office,
Bengaluru

Dr. Ananth Kodavasal,
Director, Ecotech
Engineering Consultancy
Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru

BOOKS / ARTICLES

Title of the Book/Article Faculty Name Publisher Publication Date

Transactions in Civil and Dr. Raghava G Springer 2020
Environmental Engineering 01 April 2021
Dr. Bharathi Ganesh Springer
Soil Dynamics

INVITED TALKS / GUEST LECTURES DELIVERED BY FACULTY MEMBERS

Faculty Name Topic Occasion/Venue Date
Dr. Raghava G 19-02-20 to 21-
'Corrosion Fatigue' in the FFBSSC ‘20 at the CSIR 02-20
Dr. Raghava G advanced course on ‘Fatigue and Structural Engineering
Fracture Behaviour of Structures Research Centre, 29-03-21 to 31-
and Structural Components Chennai. 03-21

“Structural Integrity Involving A webinar organised 13-08-20
Fatigue and Fracture Analysis in Department of
Industrial Application” Mechanical, Sambhram
Institute of Technology
Dr. Durga Prasad Fundamentals of Strength,
Stiffness and Stability: A research Tech Webinar Series
XIV by KPR Institute
Perspective of Engineering and
Technology

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Dept. of Civil INVITED TALKS / GUEST LECTURES DELIVERED BY FACULTY MEMBERS

Faculty Name Topic Date
Mrs. Prathima G 29-10-2020
Various Studies on Construction and Demolition Waste
Mr. Muralidhar H Materials for application in concrete and pavements for 27-11-2020
Mr.Kiran M Umachagi Sustainability 29-12-2020
Dr Krishnamurthy M. P 18-01-2021
Future Trend in Transportation System -The Hyperloop
Mrs. Shwetha K G 19-02-2021
Mr. Shreyas A V Sustainable Materials for Affordable Housing 31-03-2021

Mrs. Shruthi B S A Review on Toxicity Mechanism of Heavy Metals and Their 20-04-2021
Impact on Human Health

Nanotechnology for Civil Engineering Applications

Failures of Towers and Tower like Structures - Few
Investigations and Prevention Strategies

Needs for Developing Smart Cities in India and Challenges

Mr. Mahesh kumar C L Photovoltaic Energy and its applications in Civil Engineering 22-05-2021

Mr. Vishwachethan S G Industrial wastes for Soil Stabilization and Other Methods 19-06-2021

DEPARTMENT ASSOCIATIONS & ITS ACTIVITIES
MoU

1. NMIT has signed a Memorandum of Authority of India [NHAI], Bengaluru on 28th
Understanding (MoU), with “Protect October 2020 with the following objectives
Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru” to provides Infrastructure Quality Audit, Students Internship
technical solutions to various filed problems with Remunerations and Live Project Work,
(Industrial, commercial, residential structures), Suggestions of Govt. Projects on Feasibility
with focus on eco-friendly and sustainable Study etc.
products with water proofing as the thrust area.
4. MoU with the Supreme Industries Ltd.
2. NMIT has signed Memorandum of Maharashtra for establishing a Knowledge
Understanding with Medini, Vijayanagar, Centre in Plumbing and Sanitation
Bengaluru on 18th November 2020. The
objectives are industrial exposure to students, 5. Deliberation with establish American Society of
free Autodesk Products, Placement, Internship, Civil Engineering to establish Regional Office -
Project works, Industrial Consultancy projects. American Society of Civil Engineering – India
Section – Southern Region, at NMIT campus.
3. NMIT has signed MoU with National Highway

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATED ACTIVITY

Conducted Curtain raiser lecture Series – International Conference on Tunnelling and Underground
Construction 21

1. Lecture Series #01 - Tunnel Lining Configuration 2021. Resource person: Markus Treinen, MC-
on 27th May 2021. Resource Person: Amit Kaul, Bauchemie Muller GmbH & Co. KG, US.
Specialist & AGM product Management UGC,
Master Builders Solution Pvt.Ltd. US. 3. Lecture Series # 03 – An Overview of Software
Applications in Tunnelling. Resource Person:
2. Lecture Series #02 - Injection Technology Speaker: Tadavarthi Sree Harsha, Geotechnical
Supporting Successful Tunnelling & Engineer, Midas Information Technology.
Underground Excavations on 17th June

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PHOTOGRAPHS OF IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES & Dept. of Civil
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS TO THE DEPT`

Mr. Rohit Punja, Administrator, NMIT awarding Mr. Rohit Punja, Administrator, NMIT awarding
Certificate and Cash prize Intra-Collegiate Certificate and Cash prize Intra-Collegiate

Photography contest 20-21 prize winner Second Photography contest 20-21 prize winners - First
place: Raghavendra K L, Department of Civil Place: Prathap S, Department of Civil Engineering,
Engineering, NMIT.
NMIT.

Felicitation of Mr. Pradeep Kallur, Technical Felicitation of President of ISRO Layout Association
Director & MD, Medini Pvt. Ltd on inaugural of on 27.03.21 by Principal Dr. H C Nagraj for
facilitating layout to conduct Survey Camp
webinar on 4.11.21

Covid Relief Camp to provide food by Department Colloquium by Mrs. Prathima G on 29.10.20
Alumini

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Dept. of Civil

Dr. Bharathi Ganesh presenting on Faculty
Orientation on 18.12.20

Research Work carried out by Mr. Manjunath on

Purchase of Auto plotter Software on 11.08.21

Dr. Ramesh B R and Dr. Jairaj having agreement
with Bentley Software on 10.08.21
Internal Review of ISRO Basket Project Proposal
by Dr. C J Jagadeesha, Former Sr. Scientist of ISRO
and Dr. P N Tengli, NMIT Advisor (Prof), Head
CNM&MEMS

Research Work carried out by Mrs. Prathima G on Dr. Ramesh B R and Dr. Jairaj having agreement
with Bentley Software on 10.08.21
Concrete Road using Construction C&D waste

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Dept. of Civil

Dr. H. C. Nagraj, Principal, NMIT addressing the M.Tech students at Site Visit to Precast Plant with

students at Survey Camp Dr. Bharathi Ganesh and Dr. Durga Prasad

Two-Day International Seminar Cum Deminar on Alternate Material at BMSIT, Bangalore 16.03.21

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Dept. of CSE NMIT 4

Department of

Computer Science &
Engineering

ABOUT DEPARTMENT

The Department of Computer Science 7. Internships to students in prestigious
and Engineering is one of the pioneering Institutions and Companies.
departments in NMIT. The department
has an excellent record of achievements since its 8. Hands-on workshops and seminars to
establishment in the year 2001. keep the faculty and students updated with
cutting-edge technologies.
Courses offered:
9. MoU’s with Infosys, Unisys, Subex, Saka
Bachelor of Engineering (B. E.). Global, Connaissance, IBM, and Pinaacle
Consulting India Pvt Ltd.
Tech.) in Computer Science and Engineering.
10. Department provides opportunities to
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), recognized by students to work on projects proposed by
VTU Belagavi and UoM, Mysore companies in various domains under the
guidance of the executives of the company.
Department Highlights: Currently, projects are being executed for
UNISYS, SUBEX, PINAACLE, and IBM.
1. Accredited by National Board of
Accreditation (NBA) during 2004-2007, 11. Unisys, IBM, LG, FASAL, RR-Logic, and
2008-2011, and 2017-2020, 2020-2021. Infosys support us in covering advanced
topics in Operating Systems, Big Data
2. Acquired Permanent affiliation by VTU till Analytics, Computer Graphics, Python,
the year 2022 - 23. Compiler Design, and IoT.

3. Highly qualified and competent faculty 12. The Department conducts a National Level
members involved in academic and research Hackathon every year which attracts more
activities. than 1000 registrations from all over India.
Experts from the industry are invited to
4. Research projects funded by the Department judge the participants and winners will be
of Science and Technology (DST) and Vision awarded cash prizes.
Group on Science and Technology (VGST).
13. The Department organizes webinars on
5. Center of Innovation technical and entrepreneurial domains, by
in Cyber Security and IoT, in experts from industry/academia for faculty
association with SubexLtd, and students in association with IIC, NMIT
Bangalore. on regular basis.

6. A student branch 14. The Department conducted the annual
student project exhibition Invati 2021 on
association- “CRYPTEC”, which virtual mode to exhibit the students’ project
building skills and the poster presentation.
provides the platform for

both technical and

extracurricular

activities.

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ACHIEVEMENTS / AWARDS Dept. of CSE
FACULTY

SINO Faculty Name Details of Achievement/Award

1 Dr. Thippeswamy M.N. Associate Editor- International Journal of Informatics and
Communication Technology (IJ-ICT), ISSN 2252-8776, e-ISSN
2 Dr. Nalini N. 2722-2616
Reviewer- Scientific Journal in the International Journal of
3 Dr. Saroja Devi H. Informatics and Communication Technology (IJ-ICT) in May
2021.
Reviewer- AICTE Sponsored 3rd International Conference
on Computational Intelligence & Data Engineering (ICCIDE
- 2020) in association with Springer organized by the
Department of Information Technology, Vasavi College of
Engineering, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, during 8-9 August
2020.
Reviewer -Scientific Journal in the International Journal of
Electrical and Computer Engineering in June 2021.
-Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems
Journal and Inter Journal of Computing and Digital Systems
in January and February 2021.

Reviewer- 7th International Conference on Electronics,
Computing and Communication Technologies, IEEE
CONECCT 2021 organized by IEEE, Bangalore.
Program Chair- ERCICA 2020, International Conference, 25-
26 September 2020, NMIT, Bangalore.
Recognized as FSIESRP (Educational- Professional
Membership Grade: Fellowship) Editorial Board Member
Registration as Hon. Consulting Editor on 28th July 2020.
3rd Place in the quiz on “Exploring IEEE resources for
Academic & Research” conducted by the Department of
Information Science and Engineering in association with IEEE
Computer Society Bangalore Chapter and NMIT Library on
29th May 2021.
Guest of Honor in the inaugural function of Computer
Society of India Student Branch on 22nd October 2020 at
Sapthagiri College of Engineering, Bangalore.
Guest of Honor in the inaugural ceremony of Computer
Society of India, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering at Dr. T. Thimmaiah Institute of Technology- Dr.
TTIT- CSE Student Branch on 2nd November 2020.
Chief Guest in the inaugural ceremony of CSI student branch
at PACE, Mangalore held on 4th November 2020.
Reviewer-International Journal of Intelligent Computing and
Cybernetics in December 2020.
Reviewer International Journal of Circuit Theory and
Applications in February 2021.

Reviewer- Conference ICETE-AIDE 2020 organized by NMAM
Institute of Technology, Nitte.

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Dept. of CSE NMIT Ms. Jagadevi N. Part of the evaluation team for Toycathon 2021 which
4 Kalshetty was conducted in February by the Ministry of Education’s
Innovation Cell, New Delhi.
5 Reviewer- Conference ICETE-AIDE 2020 organized by NMAM
6 Institute of Technology, Nitte
7
8 Mrs. Ramya Reviewer-Manuscript in the Indian Journal of Science and
Srikanteswara Technology in September 2020
Ms. Sowmya M. R.
Winner in the quiz conducted by Library Orientation & IEEE
Ms. Sharmila S. Sequeira Training Program on 11th Feb 2021 at NMIT.

Mr. Anil Kumar Reviewer- Conference ICETE-AIDE 2020 organized by NMAM
Institute of Technology, Nitte.

Part of the evaluation team for Toycathon 2021 which
was conducted in February by the Ministry of Education’s
Innovation Cell, New Delhi.
Reviewer - SCI indexed Journal of Ambient Intelligence and
Humanized Computing in February 2021.

STUDENTS

Sl No Student Name Sem / Details of Achievement/Award
Section
1 Mr. K.R.Guruvyas, Mr. 8th sem B “An Intelligent English Essay Scoring System
Pranav P. Partial & Mr. for Rural Educational Institutes using NLP and
Jeevan J Acharya 8th sem C Sentimental Analysis” has been approved for
6th sem C sponsorship by Karnataka State Council for Science
2 Ms. Sangeetha C. 6th sem B and Technology in April 2021.

3 Bijin Nhuchhe Pradhan 6th sem Team member of Conquerors won 1st Runner Up at
and Prasanna M. G NMIT Hacks 2021 organized by the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering on 20th & 21st
4 Devesh Mirani, Harsh March 2021.
Kumar, and Alini Christ
Paul(ME) Placed in Top 10 in HASHCODE 2020, a 24-hour
Hackathon conducted online by PES Innovation Lab
5 Harsh Kumar and on 23rd and 24th January 2021
Harshil Dhingra
• Bagged 2nd position in IDEATHON under
SOCIOPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT’20 organized by
Enactus, Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College held
on 09th November 2020.
• Finalists in the National Agri-B-Plan Event
‘The next Seed’ by the Institute of Agri-Business
Management, Bikaner held on 30th September
2020.

Won 1st and 2nd place respectively in the
Ninja Freedom Coding Event conducted by the
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
in association with Incognito Club on 15th August
2020.

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6 Sakshi Thakur 6th sem 1st position in the female category and overall Dept. of CSE
2nd position among 1500+ participants in
7 Mr. Aditya Vijaykumar 4rd sem an online coding contest "10 days Coding
and Mr. Anshul Rai Challenge" organized by EVidyut between 20th
and 29th July 2020.
8 Mr. Prasanna M. G. 6th sem Secured 3rd rank and scored at Code War:
Bangalore vs Chennai vs Hyderabad conducted
9 Mukesh Jaiswal, Mir 6th Sem by Coding Ninjas in August 2020.

Mohsin, Aman Tulsyan, Won Ceramic Network’s bounty -Best IDX based
Developer Tool and a prize of $1,000 for their
Ritvik Jaiswal, and Project Aletheia held from 2nd October to 23rd
October.
Madan Raj S
Guest Speaker in "Drone Stories" organized by the
10 Anshul Rai 4th sem Indian Flying Community held in November 2020.

11 Manan Vanawat & 6th sem Won 3rd place in “Hack the Rainbow” International
Hackathon with prize money of USD 1000
Keshav Mundhra (ISE) organized by Near Protocol, USA.

12 Manan Vanawat 6th sem Secured place within top 10 for the Ethereum India
Fellowship track 2 across India which was held from
March 2021 – May 2021. He was awarded a cash
prize of $2000.

Secured 1st place with the cash prize of USD
1000 at the global online Ethereum hackathon,
EtherPunk 2021 held from Jan 22nd to March 1st
2021.

Winner in the Social Good theme category in the
AR Challenge for Students by School of Innovation
India from Facebook conducted from June 06-21,
2020.

CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP / GUEST LECTURES CONDUCTED

SI No From To Conference / Workshop Resource Persons
Title

1 07-05-2021 13-05-2021 Skills Learning & Dr. M.N. Thippeswamy, Dr. Shiva
Development Sessions Darshan S.L., Dr. Mohan B.A., Ms.
Deepthi Shetty, Mr. Anil Kumar, Ms.
Mamatha Bai B.G., Ms. Shruti B.V.,
Ms.Sowmya M.R., Ms. Mahadevi S.,
Ms. Bhuvaneshwari P. (Faculty, CS &
E) and the students of 8th Sem CS &
E, NMIT.

2 23-05-2021 23-05-2021 Introduction to Dr. Thippeswamy M.N., Professor and
3 07-04-2021 07-04-2021 COURSERA Head, Dept. of CS & E, and Mr.Anil
Kumar, Asst Prof, Dept. of CS & E,
NMIT

Improving Personality Mr. Avinash Rath
Development skills

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Dept. of CSE 4 30-03-2021 30-03-2021 Mentorship Session Mr. Raghu Gollamudi, Co-

on Innovators (or) founder & CEO, Integris

Student Entrepreneurs Software, Washington, USA

through experts

and (or) Innovation

Ambassadors/

Innovation Agent

5 27-03 2021 27-03 2021 Business Model Canvas Mr. Arunjit Chowdhuray

(BMC) CEO, Enterprise Building

Training Solution

6 27-02-2021 27-02-2021 Intellectual Property Mr. Afsar S. Patent & Trademark
Rights and IP Attorney
Management for
Startups

7 16-01-2021 16-01-2021 Advances in Computer Mr. Khader Nawaz Khan, Quality

Networks Engineering Lead, FICO, Bangalore.

8 28-12-2020 2-01-2021 Hands-on workshop on Mr. Gurvansh Singh, Senior Subject
Artificial Intelligence and Matter Expert, KSI.
Machine Learning

9 31-12-2020 31-12-2020 Orientation session on Dr. Thippeswamy M.N. Prof & Head,

National Innovation and Dept. of CS & E, NMIT, Dr. J Sudheer

Start-up Policy Reddy, Prof & Head, Dept. of ME,

NMIT and Mr. Madan J.

10 28-12-2020 28-12-2020 Design Thinking, Mohan Kumar C. S., Project Manager,
Critical Thinking, and TietoEVRY, Bengaluru.
Innovation Design

11 11-12-2020 11-12-2020 Identifying Intellectual Dr. T.V. Ravi, Senior IP Counsel
Property component
at the early stage of
Innovation

12 7-12-2020 11-12-2020 Cutting Edge Dr. Thippeswamy M.N., Prof &
Technology Trends in Head, CSE, NMIT, Mr. Nivarthi
Agile and DevOps for Jayaram, Vice-President, and Head
Problem Solving and of Transformation Societe Generale
Ideation Global Solution Centre, Bengaluru,
Mr. Praveen Kumar Donthi Enterprise
Transformation Leader, Change
Enabler and Agile Coach, Mr. Mahesh
Basapur, Principal Consultant Yayati
Consulting LLP and Mr. Milind
Kanbur

13 4-12-2020, 21-12-2020 Functionalities of Mr. Naveen K. K., Mr. C

7-12-2020 a Next-Generation Dhanumjayarao, Ms. Bala Vilasini,

Firewall’ & and Mr. Karthik P. V., IBM India Pvt.

Understanding Software Ltd.

Defined Networking,

Network Function

Virtualization and

Network Security

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14 7-11-2020 9-11-2020 Entrepreneurship and Dr. Harish G. Ugraiah, Dr. D. K. Dept. of CSE
Innovation as Career Subramanian, and Dr. Sudeendra
Opportunity, Digital Koushik
Entrepreneurship
and Startups, and
Motivational Session
by Successful Startup
Founder.

15 23-11-2020 23-11-2020 Higher Education, Mr. Swaroop, BYJU’s Learning App
Technical Profile spoke
Building and Industry
Oriented Courses

16 30-10-2020 6-11- 2020 Skill Development on Dr. Shashidhara, Assistant Professor,
Network Security Bennett University, Dipak Kumar
Bhagat, SUBEX Ltd and Ms. Kavya,
Developer, Freedom Mortgage,
USA(CSE Alumni 2017)

17 5-10-2020 5-10-2020 Kubernetes Mr. Visagan Santhanam, Mr.
Shivdeep Nancherla

18 10-10-2020 10-10-2020 Need of Mr. Sankar Dasiga, CTO at Wellnesys,

Microcontrollers and Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Microprocessors in

Computer Science and

Engineering stream

19 24-08-2020 28-08-2020 Recent Innovations in Ruma Mukherjee ( Chief Architect,
Big Data Analytics Data Analytics, Unisys), Mr. Pradeep
Muninarasimhappa Simha (Service
Consultant - Information Security
at McAfee, USA), Dr. Vijaya Shetty
(Associate Professor, Dept of CS&E,
NMIT), Mr. Stephen Deva Paul
(Founder, Ignite X Labs, Bangalore),
Dr. Thippeswamy M.N., (Professor
& HoD, Dept of CS&E, NMIT), Mrs.
Ushashree P (Assistant Professor,
Dept of CS&E, NMIT), Mrs. Archana
Naik (Associate Professor, Dept
of CS&E, NMIT), Dr. Sarojadevi H
(Professor, Dept of CS&E, NMIT),
Rachana Vishwanathula,( Developer
Advocate - AI/ML, Developer
Advocate System - DTL, IBM,
Bangalore) and Mr. Sumit Kumar
(Program Director, IBM Data and
AI, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, IBM
Bangalore)

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Dept. of CSE 20 22-08-2020 27-08-2020 Resource Innovations Dr. Bhadrinath G Srinivas (Senior
and Skills Development Research Scientist -III Amazon
(India) Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore) and Dr.
Manjanna B ( Bits Pilani, Hyderabad),
Mr. Stephen Deva Paul,( Founder,
Ignite X Labs), Dr. Pratap Uppara
(Solutions Architect, HP Inc.,
Bengaluru), Mr. Venkatesh G. (Senior
Associate, State Street Corporation,
Bangalore, Dr. M. N. Thippeswamy
(Prof and Head, CS & E, NMIT), Dr.
Venkatesh K.( Prof, CS & E, NMIT,
Dr. Mohan B. A.(Assoc. Prof. CS &
E, NMIT), Dr. Vasanthakumar G. U.(
Asst. Prof. CS & E, NMIT), Dr. Shiva
Darshan S. L.( Asst. Prof. CS & E,
NMIT) and Mr. Vinay T. R.( Asst. Prof.
CS & E, NMIT).

21 20th -22nd 24th -26th – Skill Enhancement Mr. Stephen Dev Paul Founder, Ignite
X Labs, Mr. Sethunathan Former VP,
– 08-2020 08-2020 Program CelStream Mrs. Ramyashree B. R.
Asst. Prof, CS & E, NMIT

22 8-08-2020 8-08-2020 Web Application Mr. Vinod Kumar D. P. (Manager-
Automation using SDET, Selenium, Bangalore)
Selenium Web driver

23 25-07-2020 25-07-2020 Kubernetes Mr. Bipul Adhikari,
Associate Software Engineer,
RedHat, Bangalore (CS & E
2019 Alumnus

24 20-07-2020 20-07-2020 Design and Analysis of Dr. Asai Asaithambi, Professor,

Algorithms College of

Computing, Engineering and

Construction, University of

North Florida, USA

25 16-07-2020 18-07-2020 Webinar on Preparing Mr. Rahul Banerjee (Associate
for Job Opportunities Research Analyst, Manipal University
amid the Covid-19 Jaipur, CS
pandemic & E Alumnus 2019 Batch) and Mr.
Anirudha Achar, (Development
Support
Engineer, Microsoft,
Bengaluru, CS &E Alumnus
2018 Batch).

26 13-07-2020 13-07-2020 webinar on Cloud Ms. Haashitha, Technical Solutions
Computing with Engineer, Microsoft
Microsoft Azure Bangalore, (CS & E Alumna 2017
Batch)

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27 3-07-2020 8-07-2020 Mobile Application Mr. Ashok Kumar S. ( Alumnus, 2014 Dept. of CSE
Development for Batch, Consultant, CAPCO
Covid-19 Pandemic Technologies), Dr. Mohan B. A.
(Associate Professor, CS & E,
NMIT) & Mrs. Supriya P.
(Assistant Professor, CS &E,
NMIT)

28 3-6-2020 & 4-6-2020 & IoT for Product Design Mr. Abhay Bharadwaj, Fasal,

13-6-2020 16-6-2020 (Data to Analytics) Bangalore

Mr. Rithesh Sreenivasan. Philips

Research India

Dr. Mohan B A and

Mr. Chethan D Chavan, NMIT,

Bangalore

BOOKS/ARTICLES PUBLISHED

Title of the Book/Article Faculty Name Publisher Publication Date
August 26, 2020
INTERNET OF THINGS: Advanced Mr. Sridhar Manda, Independently
Wireless Technologies for Smart Dr. N. Nalini, Dr. A. published

Ecosystems Arun Kumar

INVITED TALKS/GUEST LECTURES DELIVERED BY FACULTY MEMBERS

Faculty Name Topic Occasion/Venue Date
Institute Ranking 07-12-2020
Dr. Thippeswamy M.N Framework Guru Nanak Dev
Engineering College, 24th - 28th
Dr.M.N.Thippeswamy, Dr. Recent Innovations in Bidar via online -08- 2020
Sarojadevi H., Dr. Vijaya Shetty Big Data Analytics
S., Mrs. Archana Naik, Mrs. P. Department of 22nd -27th
Ushashree Resource Innovations Computer Science and -08- 2020
Dr.M.N.Thippeswamy, Dr. and Skills Engineering, NMIT,
Venkatesh K., Development Bangalore.
Dr. Mohan B. A.,
Mr. Vinay T. R., Department of
Dr. Vasanthakumar G. U., and Computer Science and
Dr. Shiva Dharshan S. L Engineering, NMIT,
Bangalore

Dr. Nalini N Blockchain SSIT, Tumkur via online 4-12-2020
Dr. Nalini N. Technologies 29-01-2021.
CSE, Soundarya Institute
Dr. Nalini N. Chief Guest and of Management and 10-08-2020
Keynote Speaker at Science, Bangalore
the Capacity Building
Program REVA University,
Bengaluru
Security Aspects in
Distributed Sensor
Networks

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Dept. of CSE NMIT Artificial Intelligence Department of MCA, 9-07-2020
Dr. Nalini N and Emerging Trends NMIT
Dr. Nalini N. in Technology
Dr. Nalini N.
Dr. H. Saroja Devi Cyber Security-Issues, Department of ISE, NMIT 9-11- 2020
Dr. Mohan B. A Challenges and
Solutions

Digital Transformation Aegis of India-Indonesia 9-10-2020
Collaborations

Fundamentals of Computer Society of 24-07-2020 &
Deep Learning with
TensorFlow / Keras India, Bangalore Chapter 25-07-2020
Framework
Presidency University 3-08-2020
Internet of Things

Mrs. P. Ushashree Virtual Labs in Mechanical Engineering, 24-07-2020
association with NMIT, and Bangalore.
SOLVE-CSD-NITK

Dr. Shiva Darshan S. L Cryptography Lab Mechanical Engineering, 25-07-2020
online using Virtual NMIT, Bangalore.
Labs in association
with SOLVE-CSD-
NITK

COLLOQUIUMS ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT

Faculty Name Topic Date
Dr.Mohan.B.A. 21-05-2021
Dr.Vijaya Shetty S. Microservices and Containerization 29-4-2021

Dr.Sarojadevi H. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in 19-3-2021
Dr.Nalini .N Pioneering Application Domains 18-2-2021
28-01-2021
Mrs. Mahadevi S. Deep learning with TensorFlow/Keras
28-12-2020
Mr. Anil Kumar Genetic Algorithms
30-11-2020
Dr. Shiva Darshan S.L. Energy Based Centrality Measure to Analyze
Network Properties

Machine Learning Based Design Space
Exploration of Network-on-Chips

Dynamic Assessment of Behaviour of Malware
using Sandbox Technique

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DEPARTMENT ASSOCIATIONS & ITS ACTIVITIES :

INCOGNITO- STUDENT COMMUNITY

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering has formed a student community, INCOGNITO
in association with Coding Ninjas. This was inaugurated on 15th August 2020. The student community
aims to guide, teach, and learn coding in various domains. The faculty coordinators for the student
community are Dr. Thippeswamy M. N., Dr. Vasanthakumar G. U., and Mr. Chethan D Chauvan.
Events organized under INCOGNITO- Student Community are:

1. Ninja Freedom Coding Event held on 15th August 2020.
2. Progate Learning Weekend from 11th September 2020 to 13th September 2020.
3. ENODO (Analyse-Innovate-Implement) event from 26th September 2020 to 27th September

2020.
4. Code Pile conducted 21st November 2020

DEPARTMENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

1. Dr. K.Venkatesh (PI), Dr. Nalini & Dr. Thippeswamy (CO-PI’s): “Navigator and Collision, Avoidance
System for Visually Impaired” 66.48 Lakhs, DST –TIDE

2. Dr. Nalini. N (PI): “Adaptive Fault Tolerance Framework for Cloud Computing Applications”, 30
Lakhs, VGST, Bangalore

3. Dr. M.N. Thippeswamy, Mr. Anup, Mr. Gourav, Mr. Shrey Ambesh: Working on IoT platform
projects for Subex, Bangalore

4. Dr. M.N. Thippeswamy: Center for Innovation in Cyber Security and IoT, 65 Lakhs, Subex Ltd,
Bangalore

5. Dr. Jharna Majumdar & Mrs. Shilpa A, Detection of COVID – 19 using Deep Convolutional Neural
Networks, 0.25 Lakhs, VTU (TEQIP 3)

6. Dr. Vijaya Shetty S, Dr. B A Mohan, An Intelligent English Essay Scoring System for Rural Educational
Institutions Using NLP and Sentiment Analysis, 0.04 Lakhs, KSCST, 2021

7. Dolly U, Vinuthna, Pavan, Arpit, Dr. Thippeswamy M N, Vinay T R, Security in quantum computing,
Unisys, 2021

8. Aakanksha, Bhavika, Ramkishore, Dr.Venkatesh K, Chetan, Low Code Platform, Unisys, 2021
9. Uday, Sangeeta, Neha Choudary, Dr Nalini N, Dr Chaitra H V, Security MANET, Unisys, 2021
PHOTOGRAPHS OF IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES & DISTINGUISHED VISITORS
TO THE DEPT

Dr. H. C. Nagaraj, Principal,
NMIT, and Dr. M. N.

Thippeswamy, Prof and
Head, CS & E, Inaugural

Address at Recent
Innovations in Big Data
Analytics from 24th – 28th

August 2020.

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Faculty and Student
Coordinators of NMIT Hacks
2021 held on 21st – 22nd March

2021

Dr. Manoj Kumar K.C. CEO, Pinaacle and Mr. Anand Krishnan COO, Urban Oxygen and Dr. Thippeswamy
M.N. Prof & Head, Dept. of CS&E and Mr. Avinash Rath, official meet with Prof. N.R. Shetty, Advisor,
Nitte Education Trust, Chancellor, Central University Of Karnataka, Kalaburgi on 21st January 2021.

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