Ostium - 2018

Journals : Dept of CSE

1. Vijaya Shetty S, Sarojadevi H, Akshay K.S., Analysis of Efficient Routing Protocols for IoT ,
Deepthi Bhat, Thippeswamy M. N., IoT Based ICEEMAS- on 22nd and 23rd2017, December,
Automated Car Maintenance Assist, 6th publishing in AIP: Conference Proceedings -
International Conference on Advances in Scopus (Elsevier).
Computing, Communications and Informatics
(ICACCI), 13-16 September 2017, Manipal 4. Sridhar Manda, Nalini N, A Study on Trust
University, Manipal, India. Scopus Indexed. Based Routing Protocols in Internet of
Things, International Conference on Cognitive
2. Mohan BA, and Sarojadevi H, Energy Efficient Informatics & Soft Computing (CISC-2017),
Routing Protocols for WSNs : A Comparative 20th to 21st December 2017, Publication
Analysis, Springer Conference (Scopus in “Advances in Intelligent Systems and
Indexed), 2nd International Conference on Computing (AISC Series Springer), Indexed
Smart Computing and Informatics (SCI-2018) By: ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP,
SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink.
3. Sridhar Manda, Nalini N, Performance

Colloquiums Organized by the Department :

Faculty name Topic Date
Ms. Ramyashree B. R.
Ms. Nirmala J. S. Localization in wireless sensor networks 28-6-2017
Ms. Kavya B. S
Mr. Sathish E. G. Augmented Reality 21-7-2017
Ms. Asha H. V.
Green computing 23-8-2017
Ms. Sowmya M. R.
Ms. Jagadevi N. K Intelligent transpot system 27-9-2017
Dr. M. N. Thippeswamy
An overview of Indian Regional Navigational Satellite 28-10-2017
Dr. Ramachandra System (IRNSS)
Ms. Sushma M
Predictive Analysis- an overview 27-11-2017

Apache Cassandra 22-12-2017

Co assessment tools, co target and computation of 16-01-2018
co attainment

Cloud centric IOT challenges 26-02-2018

DNA Computing 28-03-2018

Department Associations & Its Activities :

CRYPTEC- 2017-18 :

Cryptec, the branch association has organized Ayudha Pooja on 28-september-2017 which is an
integral part of the Navratri Festival (Festival of Triumph), a Hindu festival which is traditionally celebrated
every year in our department. Cryptec Innaugration was held on October 6th 2017.Mr.Vigneshwaran
Paramathayalan Principal Consultant ,Cloud Bull and Mr.Sanjeev Kubakaddi CEO & Founder ITIE
solutions Executive Council Member, VTU were invited as Chief Guests. Inauguration Started with
the small tribute to Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan and Dr.Sir M Visvesvaraya as the remembrance of
Teacher’s day and Engineer’s day.

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Ayudha pooja celebration Branch Association Inauguration

On the day of Cryptec Inauguration, Dept. of CSE released “Aretha”, an in-house News Letter
published by our department. The articles in this edition are both thought provoking and inspirational.
Also on the same day Fresher’s day was celebrated for the 2nd year students by conducting various
games and activities for the students.

Release of Aretha Fresher’s day Celebrations

Department Research Activities

1. Navigation and Collision avoidance system for the Visually Impaired (DST) Dr. K. Venkatesh, Dr. N.
Nalini and Dr.Thippeswamy M N.

2. Adaptive Fault Tolerance Framework for Cloud Computing Applications by Dr. Nalini N (VGST)

Demonstration of DST Project “Navigation and Laboratory established in association with M/s
Collision avoidance system for the Visually Subex and VGST
Impaired

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Workshop on Android Applications Kore Fabric Team Interaction

Jetking Workshop 11th NOV 2017 Workshop on Cloud Computing,
13-14, OCT 2017

Jetking Workshop 11th NOV 2017 Workshop on Cloud Computing,
13-14, OCT 2017

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Dept of ECE

Department of
Electronics &

Communication Engineering

About the Department :

he Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering was established in the
year 2001, with an intake of 60 students and now the intake has been increased to 180 in
the year 2012-13. The department has a well-equipped research center approved by VTU
and University of Mysore. The Department has high-end lab with industry-standard tools like
Cadence VLSI CAD Tool, MATLAB, HFSS, Xilinx, etc.

The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering has 8 PhDs and 12 others pursuing
PhD. The Department regularly conducts continuing education programs such as seminars, workshops
and courses on current technical topics, related to the emerging trends of technology development.

Achievements/Awards
Students :

SI NO Student Name Sem Details of Achievement/Award
7th Sem
1 Shashank (ECE) Won Second Prize in national level IoT
Dilip Sai (ECE) 5th Sem Innovation Challenge 2017 organised by
Shreyas (ECE) 5th sem Nasscom.
5th sem
2 Taha Hasan Ahmed Won First prize in DrishTI -2017, a
Technical Contest
3 Navyashree A C
Won Second prize in DrishTI -2017,
4 Eshwar S A Technical Contest

Won Third prize in DrishTI -2017,
Technical Contest

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Patents :

Patent Title Name of the Patent File Patent Status
Faculty Number Applied
Method and System for Fault-Resilient
Radhard all-Digital-Phase Locked Loop Dr. S Sandya, 201741034414 Applied
Varsha Prasad
Method and System for Charge Pump 201841002432
frequency Synthesizer using RHBD Dr. S Sandya,
Approach Varsha Prasad

Workshops Conducted :

Sl No From To Title Resource Person
15-2-2018 Prof. Sitaram Yaji
1. 14-2-2018 15-2-2018 Linux OS and IP Networking Prof. SankarDasiga OSTIUM
2. 14-2-2018 Development of Embedded
applications and IoT

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3. 14-2-2018 LabVIEW
Dr. S. L. Pinjare
4. 23-2-2018 24-2-2018 Analog Circuit Design using
Cadence Dr. Raghunandan
5. 23-2-2018 24-2-2018 Prof. Shashidhara K. S.
6. 23-2-2018 24-2-2018 Multimedia

Digital Design using Xilinx Vivado
tool

OSTIUM Research Publications 2017, Accepted: October 2017.
4. Prasanna Paga, H C Nagaraj, Rukmini T S,
Journals :
“Design of Tri-Band Frequency Monopole
1. Prajna K B, Savithri Hande, “Survey on Antenna for GSM UMTS and Wi-Fi Applications”,
Multipliers Utilized in VLSI”, IJESC, Vol 7, Issue International Journal of Electronics and
12, ISSN 2321 3361, December 2017 PP : Communication Technologies, Vol. 8, Issue 2,
15829-15833. April - June 2017.
5. Prasanna Paga, H. C. Nagaraj, T. S. Rukmini,
2. Prajna K B, “Review of Robots in Agriculture”, “Design of Dual Band CSRR Based Fractal
IJSTE, Vol 4, Issue 6, December 2017 PP: 50-54. Antenna for Wi-Fi and Wi-Max Applications”,
IJCESR, Vol 4, Issue 9, 2017, PP-26-35.
3. Deepak K, Amit Roy, P. Anjaneyulu, Sakthivel
Kandaiah, and Sampatrao L. Pinjare, “Charge High Spatial Information Preserving Spectral
transport mechanism in p-type copper ion Information Content”, Innovative in Electronics
containing triazinethiolatemetallopolymer and Communication Engineering, held on
thin film devices”, Journal of Applied Physics, July 21 st and 22 nd July 2017, organized by
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4993983, October Guru Nanak Institutions Technical Campus &
camp; Guru Nanak Institute of Technology,
Conferences : Hyderabad.

1. Rekha Padke, Dr. H C Nagaraj, “Fabrication
and Characterization of Enzymatic
Electrochemical Glucose Sensor for Closed
Loop System”, December 2017.

2. Dr.Lalitha Y G, ShashidharSonnad, “Hybrid
Image Fusion Algorithm For Fusion Of
Panchromatic And Multispectral Images For

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3. PrasannaPaga, Dr. H C Nagaraj, Dr. T S 5. DivyanshuSahay, Navaneet V, S Sandya,
Rukmini, “Design of Dual Band Frequency “Development, Selection and Testing of
Reconfigurable Monopole Antenna for WLAN Attitude Determination Algorithm for
& WI-MAX Applications using Planar EBG STUDSAT-2”, IEEE Aerospace Conference,
Structures”, IEEE conference on Science March 2017 paper has accepted.(Montana,
Technology Engineering and Management - USA).
ICSTEM 2017.
6. Karigowda N G, PrasannaPaga, Binu
4. DivyanshuSahay, Kannan T, Tejashwini M, Singh, “Online Multihop Communication
Santosh, Yuvaraj, Rakshit, S Sandya “Reaction for Confidential Nodes and Infrastructure
Wheel Control, Testing and Failure Analysis Development”, Proceedings 2nd Annual
for STUDSAT-2”, IEEE Aerospace Conference, International Conference on Comupters,
March 2017 paper has accepted.(Montana, Communications, Control and Applied
USA). Science, 2017.

Invited Talks / Guest Lectures Delivered by Faculty Members :

Faculty Name Topic Occasion/Venue Date
23-09-17
Mr Dattatri Salagame What’s world Like when IRIS - Department
you Graduate !. forum inaguration

Colloquiums Organized by the Department :

Faculty Name Topic Date

Ms. Smitha Prabhu Exploration of the Universe 21-06-2017
M.r Badarala Sri Pavan Technology role in Agriculture 19-07-2017
Dr. Veda S. N. Integration of MEMS based sensor with readout circuitry 16-08-2017
Ms. Varsha Prasad Extreme Environment Electronics 20-09-2017
Ms. Deeksha R. Shetty Introduction of Polytronics 25-10-2017
Ms. Kushalatha M. R. Science behind the Myth 20-12-2017
Prof. Sitaram Yaji Product development in Electronics Industry 11-01-2018
Ms. Naina R. Karkal Quantum Computing in a Nutshell 24-01-2018
Ms. Bhuvaneshwari 5G Technology 16-02-2018
Ms. Ayesha Siddiqua Intellectual property: Engineers’ Perspective 21-03-2018
Ms. Pramodhini R. Light Speed Communication 27-04-2018

Department Associations & It’s Activities in today’s world, where there is a huge demand OSTIUM
for the IT engineers.
IRIS
We commence all our department related
IRIS is the techno-cultural forum of ECE cultural and technical events and welcome the
department, where technical and cultural events third semester students into the department
are organised for the students of ECE department. every odd semester of the academic year by the
IRIS was started in the year 2009 with a vision inauguration of the Forum and close the activities
of exploring talents at the departmental level at the end of the even semester.
through which the talents are nourished and a
platform is provided for them to excel. As Iris is This academic year the inauguration of
the core to the Eye, Our forum IRIS is the core of
our department and we, with our infrastructure
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Dept of ECE Department Farewell to outing students was
held on 19-04-2018 at new seminar hall. Mr
activities was held on 23-09-17. Our chief Guest Jagan from KPIT addressed the students.
was Dr.DattatriSalagame , Vice President ,Bosch
India who inspired our students with his excellent Open house for final year projects was also
Talk on “What’s world Like when you Graduate !”. held on the same day, where 65 undergraduate
projects were demonstrated along with poster
presentations. The event was inaugurated by the
principal Dr HC Nagaraj. Open house was visited
by all the students of the institute.

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Dept of EEE

Department of
Electrical &
Electronics Engineering

About the Department :

he Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering was established in the year 2001
with a sanctioned intake of 60 students for the Undergraduate Program. The department
is accredited by National Board Accreditation and also by AICTE, New Delhi. The department
is equipped with state of art laboratories and the faculty members are well qualified and highly
motivated.

The main objective of the course is to provide education and training mostly on electrical energies,
IC gadgets, and their essentials and fundamental materials and analysis of equipment and systems
used in the generation, transmission, distribution and utilization of electrical energy. The course also
provides comprehensive coverage of broad range of topics like electronic devices and circuits used in
the measurement, instrumentation, control and protection of electrical equipments and conversion
systems. Students are also able to learn concepts related to computers and applications for computer
based systems used in the design, analysis and operation of power system. The course encourages
students to execute mini-projects in their laboratory courses. Students are also encouraged to publish
papers in national and international conferences and are also actively engaged in multidisciplinary
work on satellites (Studsat), Robotics and MEMS. The faculty members are actively engaged in research
and regularly publish their work in reputed journals and conferences. Industrial visits for the students
and invited talks by experts on special topics are often organised in the department for the benefit of
the students as well as for the teachers.

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Achievements / Awards
Faculty Members :

SI NO Faculty Name Details of Achievement/Award
1 Dr. Habibuddin Shaik
Published a paper entitled Comparative Study on
2 Mrs. Vasudha Hegde Capacitive Pressure Sensor for Structural Health Monitoring
3 Mr. V. M. Parthasarathy Applications inthe International Journal of Innovative
4 Mr. Nagaraj M. J. Research in Science, Engineering and Technology”, Vol. 6,
5 Mr. Sudeep Shetty Issue 5, May 2017

Participated in the Four days’ Reimagine Waste-2
Hackathon with the team titled ‘Paradigm Shifters’
conducted by IISc from 11/08/2017 to 14/08/2017, under
the theme of Smart Streets for Smart City.

Presented a paper entitled A Novel Design of Hardware
Realizable ANN Predictor with Weight Converted
Multiplication in the IEEE Explorer Digital Library, Sri
Venkateshwara College of Engineering, Bangalore May,2017

Presented a paper entitled Validation and monitoring
of 1MW solar rooftop on-grid PV system in International
Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and
Instrumentation Engg., 6th June 2017

Presented paper of title Hybrid solar and effluent water
based power generator” in IJAREEIE, July 2017

Students Members :

SI Student Name Sem/ Details of Achievement/Award
NO Section

Arun Kumar, VII Reimagine Waste-2 Hackathon: Team titled ‘Paradigm
1 Narendra
Shifters’ participated in four days hackathon held at IISc
Chaulagain, K, Hom
Bahadur Tamang VI under the theme ‘smart streets for smart city’, and a
and Srihari D V solution on segregation of plastic waste from other waste

using electrostatic method (using high voltage pulses) was

proposed. The event was held on 11th to 14th August 2017.

2 Gagan PE, Manasa VI Demonstrated a project titled ‘Automated air purifier’ in
Hegde, Rahul N U Srishti-2017 held at RVCE, Bangalore from 26th to 28th May
and Sachin Angadi 2017

3 Akhil Dev VI Football Tournaments

OSTIUM 1. 4th Place in Chrispo-2017 held in Christ University from
28th August to 5th September 2017

2. Entered quarter finals in Kalanjali-2017 held at MVIT from
27th -29th September 2017

3. 4th place in Reliance youth cup-2017 held at HMT
grounds from 10th – 17th October 2017

4. Entered Semi Finals in Presidency Cup 2018 held from
30th Jan to 2nd Feb 2018-03-19

5. Won 2nd place in VTU Bangalore north zone held in
Acharya institute from 21st Feb to 22nd Feb 18

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5 Prajwal Shetty III Badminton Tournament
Shashikiran N R 1. 1st place in Vtu North zone- 2017 held at Adithya
Nandan R Institute from 4th – 5th September 2017
2. 4th place in Vtuinterzones 2017 held in JNNCE Shimoga
6 Darshan H D 6th -8th September 2017
7 Nikita Kumari 3. Entered semifinals in Infini International sports fest-2017
held in PES-University from 11th – 14th October 2017
8 Shreya J 4. Won 2nd Place in Nitte kreedothsava-18 held in Nitte
Nadgaouda university from 24th – 25th Jan 2018
Vrinda S M 5. Eneterd Semi Finals in RVCE -18 held in RVCE on 19th
Feb 2018
9 Chandan Kumar
VI Volleyball Tournament
III 1. 2nd place in St pauls cup-2017 held in St pauls institute
III Bangalore on 22nd September 2017

2. 3rd place in Inter-college tournament-2017 held at
Acharya institute, Bangalore from 30th – 31st October
2017

3. Entered league stage in Sports fest-2017 held at St john’s
medical college Bangalore

4. Won 1st place in NITTE KREEDOTHSAVA -18 held in Nitte
university on 24th Jan 2018

5. Won 1st place in Inter College tournament held in RVCE
on 19th Feb 2018

6. Entered Semi Finals in VTU Bangalore North Zone held in
Acharya Institute on 2nd March 2018

VI 1. Entered league stage in RVCE Cup-18 held in RVCE on
2nd March 2018

VI Street Plays (Goonj Team )
1. 2nd place in Cobalt skies ’17 conducted by BMCR,
Bangalore from 12th – 14th October 2017
2. 3rd place in Sargam ’17 conducted by New Horizon
College of Engineering Bangalore from 22nd – 23rd
September 2017
3. 1st place in Utsav’17 held at BMSCE, Bangalore
4. 3rd place in Lasya ’17 held in CMS Jain University

III 5. 1st place in Utsav’17 held at BMSCE, Bangalore

III 1. 1st place in Utsav’17 held at BMSCE, Bangalore
2. 3rd place in Sargam ’17 conducted by New Horizon
College of Engineering Bangalore from 22nd – 23rd
September 2017

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Conference / Workshop Conducted :

SI From To Conference/Workshop Title Resource Persons
NO

1 10-7-2017 15-7-2017 One week FDP on Power System, IIT Dr Tanmay Bhattacharya
Khargapur

2 14-10-2017 11-11-2017 Three day hands-on training session on Mr Narahari K R and Mr. Y
MATLAB, SIMULINK AND STATEFLOW Sai Krishna Saketh
FOR EMBEDDED AND SIMULINK (3
Saturdays Under Tesla Forum)

3 21-02-2018 22-02-2018 Two days Workshop on Innovative Mr Ganesh, Fluxgen,

Engineering Projects in Control System Dr Gokual Krishanan, IISc

Design

Invited Talks / Guest Lectures Delivered by Faculty Members :

Faculty Name Topic Occasion/Venue Date
26th April,2018
Dr. Habibuddin Shaik 0-D, 1-D and 2-D BMSIT&M

nanomaterials and their device

applications

Colloquiums Organized by the Department :

Faculty Name Topic Date

Mr. Nagaraj M. J. MEMS Bio Sensors 27th June 2017
Mrs. Shruti Gatade
Mr. Anand S. Unique Ways of Generating Electricity 28th July 2017

Mrs. Veena S. An overview of Modeling & Simulation of 24th August 2017
Mr. V. M. Parthasarathy Power System Using PSCAD

Mrs. N. Samanvita The Energy Audit Process 27th Septmeber 2017
Mrs. Shruti Gatade
Mrs. Vasudha Hegde Modern trends in Power System Stabilizer 25th October 2017
Ms. PalimaruAparna design

Ms. Siridevi N. C. Role of Blockchain in Renewable Energy 30th November 2017

Smart Cities 29th December 2017

G2V and V2G – A Smart Approach 31st January 2018

Application of Machine Learning in 27th February 2018
Detection of Cardiac Arrhythmia

Smart Water Irrigation System 28th March 2018

Department Associations & Its Activities :

TESLA The EEE branch association of UG and PG students are actively involved in
the activities organized through TESLA forum. TESLA is a vibrant association
OSTIUM through which students organize guest lectures, industrial visits and other extra-
curricular activities. Tesla logo is launched by TESLA students members of 2016-
17.Students are encouraged to participate and conduct various Inter branch &
collegiate competitions, sports, and technical talks by eminent resources persons
from the industry and academic and also serves as an avenue to help students
with good internship opportunities at reputed industries.

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Conducted Three day hands-on training session on MATLAB, SIMULINK AND STATEFLOW FOR
EMBEDDED AND SIMULINK conducted by Mr.Narahari K R and Mr. Y Sai Krishna Saketh on 14th,
28th October and 11th November 2017.

Visit to KSLDC- SCADA Centre and 220/66kV substation along with 50 students of 5th semester
E&EE and 4 faculty members to enhance students’ practical knowledge on SCADA and Substation.
The students got exposure on facilities used in Switch yard (220/66kV Substation), Control Center
for switch yard and SCADA Centre and SCADA center (Karnataka State Load Dispatch Centre). The
visit was successful with the help of KSLDC staff members Mr.S B Chandrashekharaiah - Executive
Engineer (Elec) SCADA Design, SLDC Mr. Madhu - AEE, SCADA Design, SLDC Mrs. Shyla Shree - AEE,
SCADA Design, SLDC

Industrial visit to Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation, Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu with 4th
and 6th semester students of E&EE along with three faculty members.

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Department of
Information Science & Engineering

About the Department :

he Information Science and Engineering department is a dynamic and progressive
department at NMIT. The department was established in 2001. The department offers 4-Year
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) program in Information Science and Engineering with an intake
of 180 students, 2-Year M.Tech program in Computer Network Engineering with an intake of 18
students and a PhD program.

Department Highlights :

The department has highly qualified and competent faculty members who are very strong in their
area of expertise. Good number of faculty members are involved in research and pursuing their
Doctorate (PhD).

Successful implementation of Outcome Based Education.
Visvesvaraya Technical University (VTU) granted the department with a Research Centre status in

the year 2011-2012.
The B.E - Information Science & Engineering Programme has been accredited by National Board of

Accreditation (NBA) under the Tier-1 scheme (Equivalent to Washington Accord).
Permanent affiliation has been granted for the B.E. Programme by VTU till 2022-23.
The department has several research projects funded by Department of Information and Technology

(DIT),ISRO, Vision Group on Science and Technology (VGST), Visvesvaraya Technological University,
KSCST and others.
Department believes in Open Source Software. All five laboratories use Linux platform & Open
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The department boasts of state of the art facilities for research purposes. There are six laboratories
and two R&D lab equipped with the latest technology. Faculty and students have access 24x7
to a well-established Advanced Computing Research Lab & Center for Smart Things to facilitate
maximum utilization of the resources for research and projects.

The department motivates and encourages all the pre-final and final year students to take up
internships in prestigious institutes and companies. The internships provide students with exposure
to the industry. Starting from 2010-11 about 90% of the under-graduate students undergo Industry
internship programs each year in reputed R&D organizations/Industries.

Frequent workshops and seminars are conducted to keep the faculty and students updated with
current technology and Global/Industry requirements.
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Achievements / Awards
Students :

SL NO. NAME EVENT
Selected for the grand finale of Smart India Hackathon 2018
1 Sarang Parikh software edition for the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs,
ShaiSundar which was held at RMK Engineering College in Chennai, Tamil
Amith K K Nadu.
Keerthana T They bagged the first runners up prize for their solution for
Niharika M R Urban Mobility - Easing Traffic Congestion, which involved
Vyshnavi R the use of Computer Vision as well as a Machine Learning
model backed by an Artificial Neural Network that determines
OSTIUM 2 Prajwal Vipra the optimal time for every signal to stay green, and hence
Pranith Hengavalli controlling the traffic lights to do the same.
Aditya Sethi Finalists at Smart India Hackathon 2018, Chennai
Swathi R
Ramya Rajesh Carl Zeiss hackathon A bi Nation Hack(India and Germany)
M Ajay Developed a low cost solution using VR to detect field of vision
Declared as runner up, Price amount 1 lakh
3 Sabari P Total Participants – 200
Pranith
Priyanka S Empresario (part of Ges – global entrepreneurship summit), IIT
Deivanai Kharagpur Education system with biofeedback mechanism for
mentally disabled children Declared as most innovative product
4 Sabari P in India.
Pranith Total Participants – 1000
Priyanka S Zonal Winner, Badminton
Deivanai 4th place in Interzonal, Badminton
1st place in Acoustics, BITS Goa
5 Aditya Vashisht 1st place in Battle of the bands (Eastern), St. Joseph’s
autonomous college
6 MilindKulgod
Arjun Kini 2nd place in IOT Innovation Challenge by Buoyanci and
Ajay Venkat NASSCOM
3rd place in JAM, MSR Medical College
7 Arjun Kini 1st place in Creative Writing, St. Joseph’s autonomous college
2nd place in Creative Writing, CMS Jain University
8 Aishwarya Rao 2nd place in Solo Singing, BITS Goa
1st place in Acoustic band, St. Joseph’s autonomous college
9 Joanna Joseph 3rd place in Skime, BITS Goa

10 Tashwin 1st place in Street Play, SIT, Tumkur
Devaya 1st place in Street Play, Reva University
2nd place in Zonal Round of Techvriddhi, BMSCE
11 Ravinder Pal Singh

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Sponsored Projects :

Title of the project Sponsoring Agency Cost Status

Multimodal data security framework ISRO 3 Lakhs On Going
Syrasoft, LLC Rs 50,000 completed
Optimization and Efficient Refactoring of
Syrasoft’s .NET solution Purple Tea 1.5 Lakh Completed

Development of Web/Mobile App

Recent Workshops :

Workshops on Cyber Security, Internet Of Things, Web development over a course of three weeks
5 Days Hands-on Workshop on “Web App Development using Angular JS“
1 Day Workshop on IOT and Cloud Computing
1 day talk on Engineering Technology in Health care and hospitals

Department Research Activities : Profit Driven Cloud Brokerage
Agri-cloud
ISE Department engages in various research Edu-cloud.
areas such as Department has 15 International Journal
Cloud Computing publications (SCOPUS/ISI/Thomson Ruitors/
Hybrid Computing Google Scholar) and 45 Research Papers in
Internet of Things International Conference proceedings (IEEE/
Network Security Springer/ACM/Elsevier).
Data Mining Students have 2 journal publications and 20
Mobile Wireless Networking Research Papers in International Conference
Parallel & Grid Computing proceedings (IEEE/Springer/ACM/Elsevier).
GPU-CPU Programming
Power Aware Computing

Industry Relations : School Developement
Internship and project offered by UNISYF
The Department interacts with reputed
Industries and Organizations on academic and Ltd for M. Tech Students
research activities. Students are interacting with Research projects from ISRO
Industry through Internship Program/Projects. Infosys Campus Connect for Curriculum

Aiming developement with unity ltd development.
KSCST UNESCO for Rain Water Harwasting

1st Runners Up at Smart India Iignis Inaugration
Hackathon, 2018
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2nd place at Solo
Singing at BITS, Goa

Winner in 65
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Dept of Mech

Department of
Mechanical Engineering

About the Department :

he Department of Mechanical Engineering was established in the year 2002 with an
intake of 60 students. The intake was increased to a number of 120 in the academic year
2009-2010 and was increased to a number of 180 in the academic year 2012-2013. The
Department offers a rich curriculum of education as well as research to the students encouraging
them to undergo internships at various research organizations such as HAL, NAL etc. The students are
highly encouraged to publish a paper pertaining to their final year project in a good reputed Journal
and atleast present a paper in an International Conference.

The courses presently offered by our Department:
Bachelor of Engineering: Intake – 180
Master of Technology in Machine Design: Intake – 24
Master of Technology in Thermal Engineering: Intake – 18

THE DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION WAS GRANTED
NBA ACCREDITATION FOR THREE YEARS

The Department comprises of 50 faculties, one of them have just completed PhD from Indian
Institute of Science (IISc) and joint our Department. The Department has faculties from diversified
domain such as the Research organizations like IITs, defence and also the corporate industries such
as the Computer Aided Engineering domain. The Department has 8 PhDs including one that has
completed from IISc recently and the remaining 18 who are pursuing from esteemed organizations
of our Country.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering recently acquired a R-13-300 Aircraft Engine from
Indian Air force. The engine is a MIG-21 Aero Engine that is a development of the successful R-11

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engine. It is used by MiG-21M, MF, SM, and SMT. Manufactured by
erstwhile USSR.

The Department has acquired CNC Lathe machine worth Rs. 12 lakhs
located in the Basic Workshop Lab. The machine is J300LM model that
is acquired from ACE Designers Bangalore. The machine possesses a
Machine Connect as a Smart feature and Fanuc/Siemens as the Control
System.

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Achievements / Awards
Industry Relations :

SI Faculty Name Details of Achievement/Award
NO Mr. Harish Kumar L
Team TRYDON from NMIT SAE Collegiate Club has cleared the virtual
1. rounds by securing 2nd place at SAE INDIA EGA- Hybrid 2 wheeler
Championship 2017( a national level collegiate design competition
2. Mr.Nithin Aithal focused on designing, manufacturing and testing of a Hybrid electric
2-wheeler)which was held on 14/10/2017

The Team HORUS (Solar vehicle team of NMIT) won the BEST DESIGN
AWARD for Indian Solar Vehicle Championship 2018, Organized by
Credible Future at Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Ambala,
Haryana

TVS Motor Company sponsored Jupiter scooter for the participation
in SAE EGA event to be held in the month of April 2018 where
Team Trydan have stood 2nd in the Virtual Round among all the
participants in India.

Team Scorpions from Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology had
participated in RCDC 2018. The team cleared the Technical round
and participated in the dynamic rounds of the race.

Team Vyghra from Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology had
participated in RCDC 2018. The team cleared the Technical round
and participated in the dynamic rounds of the race.

Conference / Workshop Conducted :

SI From To Conference/Workshop Title
NO 04-07-2017 04-07-2017
Elite Group Conducted a Workshop on Formula Car
1 18-07-2017 Fabrications which includes basics of automotive, design,
21-07-2017 analysis and fabrication with testing of the car after the
2 18-07-2017 workshop. 56 students participated in the workshop.
3 21-07-2017 28-07-2017
02-08-2017 Elite Group Conducted a Workshop on ATV car design
4 25-07-2017 20-08-2017 andf fabrication with testing. 76 students participated for
other colleges.
5 01-08-2017
6 19-08-2017 Conducted International Conference on ‘Emerging
Research in Civil, Aeronautical & Mechanical Engineering
OSTIUM on 21st July, held at PGDM Block of NITTE School of
Management ERCAM – 2017. 56 Papers were presented.-

Nine faculty conducted a 4 day modular based skill
training for Car Air-conditioning and Maintenance at
MCVTMTSD campus NMIT.

Two days Orientation Program was conducted for NMIT
faculty members in the New Seminar Hall.

Face – face interaction of 2-week AICTE approved FDP on
‘Foundation Program on ICT for education’ conducted
by IIT Bombay, was organized in the Dept of Mechanical
Engineering in Room No. 412

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7. 05-02-2018 07-02-2018 Department of Mechanical Engineering and Centre of

nanomaterials and MEMS organized a 3-day FACULTY

DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM on “Microsystems”in CDEPS

Lab.

8. 09-02-2018 09-02-2018 Industry 4.0 IIOT (Expert Lecture Series – 1) by the

Department of Mechanical Engineering in association

with Indian Institute of Plant Engineering (IIPE) and

Indian Association of Energy Management Professionals

(IAEMP)

Research Publications

Journals : ASM International, Volume 17, Issue 2, April OSTIUM
2017, pp 255-261
1. Mallikarjun, Sukruth M, Chethan K S,
KiranAithal S, “Study of Functionally 7. Shiv Pratap Singh Yadav, Sandeep G M, ―
Graded Al-Si Alloy Fabricated by Centrifuge Design and Fabrication of Revolving Doors
Casting Technique”, International Journal for Production of Electricity and Compressed
of Advancesin Scientific Research and Air‖, International Journal of Engineering
Engineering, Vol.3 (11) December-2017 Research & Technology, Volume VI, Issue
IV, April – 2017, Pg. 822-824. http://dx.doi.
2. Sukruth M, Mallikarjun, Chethan K org/10.17577/IJERTV6IS040678
S, KiranAithal S, “Study of aluminum
based functionally graded materials with 8. Shiv Pratap Singh Yadav, Sandeep G M,
reinforced alumina nano-particles using Avinash L, ―Numerical and Analytical Study
centrifugecasting techniqe”, International on Curved Beams‖, International Journal of
Journal of Current Research, Vol. 9, Issue 12, Engineering Research & Technology, Volume
pp.63753- 63757, December-2017 VI, Issue IV, April – 2017, e-ISSN: 2278-0181,
Pg. 748-751.http://dx.doi.org/10.17577/
3. Anup G M, Nikhilesh J, Nandan Gowda AR, IJERTV6IS040639
CM Aiyappa, Chethan K S, “Design of fixture
for floor grid of Asphalt Paver”, International 9. Shiv Pratap Singh Yadav, Sandeep G M,
Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and RudraNaik, ―Design, Analysis and Fabrication
Innovations in Technology, Volume 4, Issue 2, of Gearless Power Transmission by using
pp 1390-1392, March 2018 Elbow Mechanism‖, International Journal of
Engineering Research & Technology, Volume
4. Bharath Raman S, Anthony Rishabh Paul, VI, Issue IV, April – 2017, e-ISSN: 2278-0181,
AkashA, Rohith K, Chethan K S, “Dual Internal Pg. 739-741. http://dx.doi.org/10.17577/
Combustion Engine”, International Journal IJERTV6IS040617
for Scientific Research and Development”,
Volume 6, Issue 2, April 2018 10. Shiv Pratap Singh Yadav, Sandeep G M, ―A
Review on Single Plate Clutch‖, International
5. Suraj R., Pavan Kumar A.V., Kulkarni Journal of Engineering Research &
A.P., Kiran Aithal S., Vinutha R. (2017) Technology, Volume VI, Issue IV, April – 2017,
Optimization Technique Applied for Method e-ISSN: 2278-0181, Pg. 697-700. http://dx.doi.
of Evaluation of a Controllable Factor of FSAE org/10.17577/IJERTV6IS040587
Car Chassis. In: Bajpai R., Chandrasekhar U.
(eds) Innovative Design and Development 11. Sandeep G M, Shiv Pratap Singh Yadav, ―
Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Tribological Characterization of Al-Beryl
Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Aluminium Metal Matrix Composite‖,
Engineering. Springer, Singapore, DOI: International Journal of Engineering
10.1007/978-981-10-1771-1_37 (SCOPUS). Research & Technology, Volume VI, Issue IV,
April – 2017, e-ISSN: 2278-0181, Pg. 151-154.
6. Simon K John, R.K.Mishra, Balachandra P http://dx.doi.org/10.17577/IJERTV6IS040188
Shetty, ―Development of Reclamination
Technology for a Turbo-Shaft Engine‖, Journal 12. Avinash L, Hemanth Kumar, Adithya
of Failure Analysis and Prevention, Springer,

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Engineering Sciences & Management
Parthasarathy, Varun Kumar KN, Basavaraj Research, ISSN 2349-6193,pp56-65
Sajjan ―The Effect of Ceramic Reinforcement
on the Microstructure, Mechanical 19. Mohammed Talib Syed, Sai hemanth, K S
Properties and Tribological Behavior of Al- Prabhu, Avinash l,Shiv Pratap “Studies of
7.5%Si-0.5%Mg alloy‖ Applied Mechanics Microstructure Mechanical and Tribological
and Materials , Trans Tech Publications, Properties of AL-2Cu-2.6Mg-7.8Zn MMCs”,
Switzerland, ISSN: 1662-7482, Vol. 867, March International e-journal for Technology and
2017,pp 3-9 doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/ Research 2017 Volume 1,Issue 3 ,March 2017
AMM.867. 3
20. Mahesh L, J Sudheer Reddy, P G Mukunda
13. Adithya Parthasarathy, Avinash L, Varun “Compaction, Sintering and Characterization
Kumar KN , Basavaraj Sajjan, Varun S, ― of TiC Reinforced Aluminum Metal Matrix
Fabrication and Characterization of Al- Composites”, SSRG International Journal
0.4%Si-0.5%Mg - SiCp using Permanent of Mechanical Engineering (SSRG - IJME),
Mould Casting Technique‖, Applied 4(2),24-28 February 2017. ISSN: 2348 - 8360.
Mechanics and Materials , Trans Tech
Publications, Switzerland, ISSN: 1662-7482, 21. L Mahesh, J Sudheer Reddy And P G
Vol. 867, March 2017,pp 34-40. doi:10.4028/ Mukunda, ―Studies On Titanium Nitride
www.scientific.net/AMM.867. 3 Reinforced Aluminium Metal Matrix
Composites‖. International Journal of
14. Basavaraj Sajjan, Avinash L, Varun, Varun Mechanical Engineering & Technology
Kumar KN, Adithya Parthasarathy, ― (IJMET), 8 (3), 2017. ISSN: 0976-6340.
Investigation of Mechanical Properties and Pages:114-122.
Dry Sliding Wear Behaviour of Graphite
reinforced Al7068 alloy‖, Applied Mechanics 22. L Mahesh, J Sudheer Reddy And P G Mukunda,
and Materials, Trans Tech Publications, ―Development and Characterization of
Switzerland, ISSN: 1662-7482, Vol. 867, Titanium Nitride Reinforced Aluminium
March 2017, pp 10-18, and doi:10.4028/www. MMC‘s through Powder Metallurgy
scientific.net/AMM.867. 3 Technique‖, Journal of Mechanics and
Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2017)
15. Mohammed Talib Syed, N Sai Hemanth, K S 29–36.
Prabhu, Avinash L, Shiv Pratap ―Studies of
Microstructure, Mechanical and Tribological 23. Balachandra P. ShettySudheerReddyR. K.
properties of Al-2Cu-2.6Mg-7.8zn MMCs‖, Mishra, (2017), ―Numerical Analysis of Bird
International Digital Library Of Technology & Impact on Glass-Reinforced Leading Edge of
Research, Volume 1, Issue 3, MAR-2017 an Aircraft Wing‖ Journal of Failure Analysis
and Prevention, Volume 17, Issue 4, pp 750–
16. Sathisha N, Tejas G, Praveen kumar R A, 755
Manjunath Vajjaramatti, Avinash L ― Studies
on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties 24. C. Srinidhi and A.Madhusudhan, ―A Diesel
of Flyash Reinforced Al2024 Composites‖ Engine Performance Investigation Fuelled
International Digital Library Of Technology & with Nickel Oxide Nano Fuel-methyl Ester‖,
Research, Volume 1, Issue 3, Mar 2017 International Journal of Renewable Energy
Research, Vol.7, No.2, 2017.
17. Sandeep Hegade, Shrishaila, Sunil Kumar S,
Prashanth M, Hemanth Kumar N, Avinash 25. Mallikarjun, Sukruth M, Chethan K S, Kiran
L, ―The Effect of Heat treatment Parameters Aithal S, “Study of Functionally Graded Al-
and Grain refinement on Microstructure Si Alloy Fabricated by Centrifuge Casting
and Mechanical properties of A357 alloy‖ Technique”, International Journal of Advances
International Digital Library Of Technology & in Scientific Research and Engineering, Vol.3
Research, Volume 1, Issue 3, Mar 2017 (11) December-2017.

18. Avinash L, Madkari S, Somashekar H, 26. Sukruth M, Mallikarjun, Chethan K S,
Pavan Kumar S, Thirtharaj V, Reddappa Kiran Aithal S, “Study of aluminum based
HN & Abhishek Nagendra ―Studies on functionally graded materials with reinforced
Microstructure, Mechanical and Tribological alumina nano-particles using centrifuge
Properties of 1.2Mg-0.70Fe-0.40Cu Reinforced

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casting techniqe”, International Journal of Innovations in Technology, Volume 4, Issue 2,
Current Research, Vol. 9, Issue 12, pp.63753- pp 1390-1392, March 2018.
63757, December-2017.
28. Bharath Raman S., Anthony Rishabh Paul,
27. Anup .G M, Nikhilesh J., Nandan Gowda A.R., Akash A., Rohith K., Chethan K. S, “Dual
C. M. Aiyappa, Chethan K. S, “Design of fixture Internal Combustion Engine”, International
for floor grid of Asphalt Paver”, International Journal for Scientific Research and
Journal of Advance Research, Ideasand Development”, Volume 6, Issue 2, April 2018.

Conferences :

1. Chethan K S, Kiran Aithal S, “Mathematical 4. Suraj A Maidarkar, KotgiKotresh, V.R.Kabadi,
study of particle distribution in Functionally ShailaHosamani “Effect of Manganese on
Graded Aluminium alloy, produced using Wear Behaviour of Al-Si-Mn alloy”. Scientific
Centrifuge casting technique”, Emerging & Academic Publishing National conference
Research in Civil, Aeronautical and Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering‘
Mechanical Engineering, N.M.I.T, Bangalore, St.Joseph Engineering College Vamanjoor,
July 21, 2017 Mangalore 4th to 5th august 2017.

2. P.B.Kowalli, R.G.Tikotkar, V.R.Kabadi “An 5. Manjunath H N, Kiran Aithal S, Harish Kumar
experimental study of three body abrasive L, Ramesh BabuN, V. Auradi- ―Transient
wear of Hadfield steel on Tribological Thermal Analysis During External Chilling
properties”. International conference on _ Of Al-18%Si Castings Through Experimental
Engineering Research in Civil, Aeronautical And Finite Element Modelling‖ IMME 17,
& Mechanical Engineering‘. Nitte Meenakshi Elsevier, Materials Today Proceedings, March
Institute of Technology, Yelahanka, Bengaluru 10-12 2017, NIT, Trichy.
21st July 2017.
6. Ramesh Babu N, Ramesh M R, Kiran
3. Algur, V. R. Kabadi “Taguchi ‘s Orthogonal Aithal S Kotgi Kotresh “Effect of Lateral
Array Approach to Study the Dry Sliding Vibrations during Directional solidification on
Behaviour of ZA-27 Alloy” International Mechanical Properties of Al-18%wt Si Alloys”
conference on _Engineering Research in IMME17 Proceedings 5 (2018) 6954–6962
Civil, Aeronautical & Mechanical Engineering‘. Elsevier Materials Today proceedings.
Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology,
Yelahanka, Bengaluru 21st July 2017.

Books / Articles Published :

Title of the Book/ Faculty Name Publisher Publication Date
Article 17th March 2017

Applied Dr. M. K Muralidhara, Subhash Publishers, 18th March 2018
Thermodynamics Dr. B. K. Muralidhara, 9th Edition
Dr. C. K Umesh

Heat Transfer Dr. M. K Muralidhara, Subhash Publishers,
Dr. B. K. Muralidhara, 5th Edition
Dr. C. K Umesh

Colloquiums Organized by the Department :

Faculty Name Topic Date
Gold Polypyrrole Actuator for Underwater Operation Sep-2017
Mr Samir Kumar
Panda Flow past a circular cylinder with a long flexible splitter Oct-2017 OSTIUM
plate
Dr Sanjay Kumar
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Mr Anand M N Laser Doppler Vibrometer Nov-2017
Mr Lokesh N Dec-2017
Mr Preetham Seaswarm Jan-2018

Mr Ganesh K Numerical Simulation Of Natural Convection In A North Feb-2018
Light Roof Under Winter Day Boundary Conditions
Mr. Puneeth Kumar March-2018
MV Performance, Combustion and Emission Characteristics
of Diesel Engine by Using Bio Diesel as A Fuel

Finite Element Analysis of Stress and Contact Pressure
Distribution of the Straight and Crowning Profiles of
Tapered Roller Bearing

Department Associations & Its Activities :

YANTRA taken by the students in developing such kind of
vehicles for the International and National level
Mechanical Engineering Department student competitions.
association ‘YANTRA’ celebrated Ayudha Pooja in
Machine Shop Lab on 28/09/2017 on a grand scale
inviting students and staff from all departments.

NBA Committee Visit to NMIT SAE Collegiate
Workshop

NMIT SAE Collegiate Club students
explaining the NBA Committee about various
aspects of the ATV and Formula Car developed

by the students at NMIT

OSTIUM The NMIT SAE Collegiate Club showcased ENIGMA-The Entrepreneurship cell of NMIT
their in house fabricated Student Formula Car had participated in a national level competition
and All-terrain vehicle (ATV) during the NBA visit named “E-WEEK 2018” themed “Live Your
to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Entrepreneurial Dream” conducted by Wadhwani
The NBA Committee appreciated the efforts Foundation’s National Entrepreneurship Network
(NEN) to celebrate Entrepreneurship in and
around the campus.

E-WEEK 2018 is the flagship event of
Wadhwani Foundation’s NEN. E-Week 2018
is the 10th edition and is one Asia’s biggest
entrepreneurship events covering 45 cities.
Designed to encourage educators and students
to become innovation catalysts and job creators
by making deep investments in ideas and
conducting events like workshops, literary events
like JAM, Gaming events like Mini Militia, Counter
Strike, Informal events like Marathon, Rubix
cube, Flip a cup and many more events to bring
awareness about entrepreneurship among the
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Team HORUS (Solar Vehicle Team of NMIT) renewable sources will represent the facade of
Indian Solar Vehicle Championship (ISVC) 2018 the automotive industry.

Date : 12th March - 17th March 2017 Achievements:
Venue : Maharishi Markandeshwar University,
Team Horus at ISVC 2018
Ambala, Haryana Won the “Best Design Award” in the Dynamic

round.
Stood 1st in the Virtual Round.
3rd Place in Drag race and 4th Place in

Acceleration and Braking Test.
RALLY CAR DESIGN CHALLENGE (RCDC) - 2018

Date : 23rd - 26th March 2017
City: Bikaner, Rajasthan

Venue : Karni Singh Stadium, Bikaner and Shiv
Bari Desert, Bikaner

1. Rally car design challenge (RCDC) is an
Engineering design challenge for the budding
new engineers of the country. This is India’s first
challenge in which Engineering students will
be coming in contact and participating with
professional motorsports people. The target
for the teams is to design a two-seater buggy
which is aesthetically and ergonomically
sound and is a fun and durable machine in its
own ways.

2. Team Scorpions and Team Vyghra from
Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology had
participated in RCDC 2018. Both the teams
cleared the Technical round and Participated
in the dynamic rounds of the race. There were
3 rounds in the Dynamic stage:

Team Scorpions at Karni Singh Stadium,
Bikaner, Rajasthan

About the Team Team Vyghra at Karni Singh Stadium, Bikaner, OSTIUM
Rajasthan
Team Horus, the Solar vehicle team of NMIT,
Bangalore, is a Team of 25 members who aspire
to design a Solar car which sets new standards
and breaks existing records for functionality,
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engineer and design a parallel hybrid electric
ONE DAY WORKSHOP “Industry 4.0 - IIOT” scooter to surpass the other students and to
(Expert Lecture Series-1) earn the badge of honor. With improved and
trusted design methods, knowledge and bundle
The Department of Mechanical Engineering of experience, the team aims the National top
organized a One Day Workshop on “ Industry 4.0 - ranking. Team Trydan have stood 2nd in the
IIOT “(Expert Lecture Series- I) in association with Virtual Round among all the participants in India.
Indian Institute of Plant Engg (IIPE) and Indian TVS Motor Company sponsored Jupiter scooter
Association of Energy Management Professionals for the participation in SAE EGA event to be held
(IAEMP) on 09th February 2018 at Old Seminar in the month of April 2018.

Hall NMIT. Team Spartan:
SAE EGA Hybrid 2-Wheeler Championship 2018
Team Spartan, a group of automotive enthusiast
Industrial Visits from department of mechanical engineering
have participated in Full throttle competition
held at Techfest IIT Bombay December 2016, it
was an great opportunity given to Mechanical
students to exhibit there talent and also it was
an great exposure towards the outer technical
world.

Trappist exoplanets:

Mr. Manoj RM and Mr Darshan B presented the
case study on Astronomical topic called Trappist
exoplanets in National student space Challenge
held at IIT Kharagpur, secured third position in
the competition.

Third Year Students visited M/s Sandhar & Unnati
Ltd on 15/09/2017

OSTIUM 6th Semester Students Visited NTTF on
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6th Semester Students visited ACREX-2018 on
24/02/2018

3rd year students visited ACE Designers &
Foundry , Peenya on 22/01/18.

4th Semester ‘B’ section students visited IMTEX
– 2018 on 29/01/2018.

Few Students of Mechanical Engineering Visited
M/s Federal Moghul

4th Semester ‘C’ section students visited IMTEX –
2018 on 30/01/2018

6th Semester Students undertook Industrial visit
to Goa 28/02/2018 to 04/03/2018

4th Semester ‘A’ section students visited IMTEX –
2018 on 23/02/2018

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M. Tech in
Digital Communication & Networking

About the Department :

he department of Electronics and Communication Engineering offers masters programme
in Digital communication and Networking since the year 2012 with an annual intake of 18
students. The department has well equipped with communication and networking lab with
high end hardware and software tools like Zed board, HFSS and Vivado. Students have been
encouraged to take up projects / internships in organisations like DRDO, Aeronautical department
agency.

Research Publications :

Journals

1. Prasanna Paga, H C Nagaraj, Rukmini T S, 2. Prasanna Paga, H.C. Nagaraj, T.S. Rukmini,
“Design of Tri-Band Frequency Monopole “Design of Dual Band CSRR Based Fractal
Antenna for GSM UMTS and Wi-Fi Applications”, Antenna for Wi-Fi and Wi-Max Applications”,
International Journal of Electronics and IJCESR, Vol 4, Issue 9, 2017, PP-26-35.
Communication Technologies, Vol. 8, Issue 2,
April - June 2017.

Conferences :

1. Prasanna Paga, Dr. H C Nagaraj, Dr. T S Rukmini, “Design of Dual Band Frequency Reconfigurable
Monopole Antenna for WLAN & WI-MAX Applications using Planar EBG Structures”, IEEE conference
on Science Technology Engineering and Management - ICSTEM 2017.

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M. Tech in
Structural Engineering

About the Department :

.Tech. program in Structural Engineering was startedin the academic year 2013-14
withan intake of 24 students. The department has well qualified and experienced faculty
members. The department has well equipped laboratories for carrying out various research
activities. An exclusive structural laboratory with loading frame of 200T capacity, Shake
Table for Dynamic Experiments and also NDT equipment that can provide research scholars and PG
students to carry out their work beyond curriculum. Additionally, Department also offers software
training facilities for PG student to meet the modern day need of various Modern tools for structural
analysis and design application such as ETABS, ANSYS, REVIT,SAFE etc.
The department is registered as Research Centre under VTU since 2013. It also offers access to
various online peer reviewed journals like ASCE and NIMBUS. The institute has an excellent library
facility providing access to numerous books, journals, e-books, monographs etc. The department offers
various site visits, workshops, seminars, technical talks etc. to the students for their overall growth and
exposure.
The department has student chapters of leading Professional Body such as Association of Consulting
Civil Engineers(India), Indian Concrete Institute, Institute of Engineers(India) and ASCE (under progress)
and thus has an excellent networking with industry making young Engineers ready for industry.
PG in Structural Engineering and in an Autonomous Program since 2017 with scheme designed
exclusively as per the advice of Prof. N.R. Shetty, Advisor, NMIT, having a most appropriate Scheme
with first two semesters for dedicated learning and writing Course Work examination, third semester
is exclusively for internship followed by Dissertation work in the fourth semester. Plagiarism check is
compulsory for UG and PG seminar reportsand Project Reports using facility of ‘Turnitin’ software for
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Achievements / Awards :
Faculty Members :

SINO Faculty Name Details of Achievement / Award

   1   Dr. Durga Prasad Chose for awarding honorary membership in ASCE (American
Society of Civil Engineers), USA, 1997.

Included the biography in Who’s Who in the world (Millennium
edition of the marquis, USA), 2001.

Invited by the Editor, ASCE, USA, based on the research paper
published, to author a book on "Knowledge Processing for Risk
Analysis of Structures.", And received excellent reviews for the
work, 1997.

Fellowship from UNDP (United Nations Development Program),
1994.

Contacted to review the manuscript of one of the Scopus
indexed IEEE Journal Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
-Review of SMCA-18-01-0046

Students :

SINO Student Name Sem/ Details of Achievement/Award
Section
1 Abhishek, Venkatesh Short film-1st Prize at BITs Pilani, Goa, titled ‘The
Sai, Pramod, II Transition’.
Chandrashekhar
II Paper Presentation on topic ‘Forensic study using GPR
2  Ranjitha B at Srishti, IIT Bombay
Tangadagi,   II Bridge Design Challenge, Techkriti, IIT Kanpur

3 Abhishek, Marutish, II   Bridge Design Challenge, Techkriti, IIT Kanpur
Karthik

4 Yogesh, Chandra
Shekhar, Rajesh

Sponsored Projects :

Title of the Project Principal Sponsoring Agency Amount Month & Year
Investigator Sanctioned of Sanction
  “Challenges of High Risk High
Big Data in the Dr. Durga Prasad Reward Research, (In Rupees) Proposal
world by cracking Science & Engineering Rs. 35,41,200 submitted to
the Entanglement Research Board SERB
in Heisenberg's (SERB), Department of
Uncertainty Science & Technology,
Principle” New Delhi

Sponsored Projects

SI NO From To Conference/Workshop Title Resource Persons
01.03.18
OSTIUM  1     01.03.18 “MIDAS Engineering Software Mr. Sourabh Ghadge, C.A.,

Training Program” Technical Consultant

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2 02.04.18 17.04.18 Two day Workshop on Mr. Sourabh Ghadge, C.A.,

and “MIDAS Engineering Software Technical Consultant

18.04.18 Training Program” for 75
students

3. 04.04.18 04.04.18 Hands on training on Ansys Mr. Ashok , Head- CADD Centre,

Yelahanka

Invited Talks / Guest Lectures Delivered by Faculty Members :

Faculty Name Topic Occasion/Venue Date

Dr. R. N. Pranesh   Key Note Speaker for ” Alternate  Kolkata   6th to 7th
Materials as Fine aggregates for April 2018
Sand”-Two day National Conference
NMIT-ASCE National 19th to 20th
"Less is More - workability Aspects
of Using Alternative Materials in Level -2 Day February 2018
Concrete"
Conference, Bangalore

Department Research Activities
Research Project Detail of Structural Engineering Student -2017

NAME USN Research Project Title

ABHIJITH J ULLAL 1NT15CSE01 Study on Durability of Geopolymer Concrete using roof as
Alkaline Activator
ABHILASH GOWDA M 1NT15CSE02
Feasibility Study for Replacing the fine Aggregate by
ANILA SUSAN 1NT15CSE04 M.Sand in Developing Mix Design
MATHEW 1NT15CSE06
1NT15CSE08 Optimization of Multi-Storey Structure with Shear wall at
CHETAN KUMAR Different Position
ANGADI
Seismic Performance Study on Different Later load
GIRISH SEJEKAN resisting System for Tall RC Building

HARSHITH U S 1NT15CSE09 Comparative Study of different types of Base Isolators
onRC Building with & without Shear wall
HARSHITHA M K 1NT15CSE10
1NT15CSE11 Performance Evaluation of Seismic Behaviour of Hollow
M V YASHWANTH Concrete Columns in RC Buildings
REDDY 1NT15CSE12
Analysis of Framed Structure with Different Bracing System
MANASA B N
Comparative Study on High Rise Building with & without
PRATHIBHA REDDY T 1NT15CSE15 Oblique Columns Using E-TABS & STAAD PRO

PRAVEENRAJ ABYAL 1NT15CSE16 Study of Behavior of a Braced RC Structure with Lead
Rubber Bearing
SANJANA G M 1NT15CSE17
Seismic Soil Structure Interaction of irregular Building of a
SANTHOSH KUMAR V 1NT15CSE18 piled raft foundation using Sapwood OSTIUM

Compressive Strength & Micro Structural Properties of
Geopolymer Concrete

Analysis & Design of Bowstring Bridge

Comparative Study of Antenna Supporting Structure with
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SOMANAGOUDA 1NT15CSE19 Constructive Sequence of RC framed Structure with
BIRADAR Floating Column
SREERAG A 1NT15CSE20
SRIKRISHNA MISALE 1NT15CSE21 Seismic Behavior of Semi Rigid Steel Frames

VISHWANATH G M 1NT15CSE23 Establishing mix Proportion for Geopolymer mortar under
HARIKRISHNA M 1NT14CSE03 ambient using

Seismic Performance of Soils

Comparative Study on Flat Slab,Waffle slab & Post-
Tensioned Slab Under the action of Dynamic Loading

Department Associations & Its Activities

Sponsored Projects :

Student of M.Tech. Structural Engineering visited International Building Material Expo at Bangalore
International Exhibition Centre, Bangalore on 07.10.17 under the guidance of Mr. Divith Kumar, Asst.
Prof, Civil Department. Student get a chance to get exposure to latest construction material used in
Construction Industry by various internationally renowned vendor. Student also got exposure to live
demo organized by respective vendor about application of their product. Apart from this, they also
had an opportunity to see the latest mechanics and electronic equipment available for Civil industry.

Site Visit :

Under the supervision of Dr. R. N.Pranesh, Prof., PG, Civil Department, M.Tech. Student have visited
a Construction site at Rajankunta, where were exposed to detailing for T-Beam and Slab as roof
elements for a school building. This has provided them to visit live construction of shuttering and
various ongoing site activities.

Workshop :

Students of M. Tech. 2nd semester have attended 5 days’Workshop on “Repair, Rehabilitation and
Retrofitting of concrete Structures” organized at Brindavan College of Engineering, Bangalore from 6
February to 10th February 2018.

Photographs of Important Activities & Distinguished Visitors to the Dept

Workshop
on “Repair,
Rehabilitation
and Retrofitting
of concrete
Structures” at
Brindavan College

OSTIUM MIDAS Software Training Program PG-Structural Engineering students at BIEC International Exhibition
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M. Tech in
Renewable Energy

About the Department :

nergy is vital for improving the quality of human life of every nation. The growing scarcity
of conventional fuels and their adverse ecological and environmental impacts have raised
global interest in harnessing various renewable energy sources. Renewable Energy Technologies
are emerging as the source of sustainable energy, which will be very important for future energy
supply strategies of the entire world. Availability of adequate manpower and appropriate resources is
crucial for success in this endeavour. Providing renewable energy education at all the required levels
in an efficient and effective manner is a challenging task.

With an increasing energy crisis and global climate change issues, renewable energy has occupied
a prominent position in industry and international relations in recent years. This has resulted in an
increased demand for specialists and engineers in renewable energy. There are very few institutes
in India and First in Karnataka that offer a structured programme to cover the diverse range of
issues to meet this demand. The program at NMIT is intended to fill the gap and provide the much
needed human resource capacity in renewable energy technology and management. The program is
designed to train students not only in renewable energy technology and implementation but also in
equally important synergetic areas of energy infrastructure, energy economics, and energy conversion
technologies. The program will lead to a specialization in renewable energy

Achievements / Awards
Faculty Members :

SI Faculty Name Details of Achievement/Award
NO
Presented paper of title PLC based load shedding mechanism using
1 Dr. H L Suresh battery SOC in micro-grids” in IEEE, ICPSI, at Saveetha Engg collge,
Chennai from 21st and 22nd Sep 2017

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2 Mrs. Vasudha Hegde Presented Paper of title Optimal Design of Hybrid Microgrid for Off
Grid Villages in IJFRSCE held on March 2018
3 Mr. C H Ramesh
4 Mrs. Sujath Presented a paper “ Effect of Temperature on Performance of Solar
Panels- Analysis”, in IEEE International Conference on Current Trends
Shivashimpiger in Computer, Electrical, Electronics & Communication ,(ICCTCEEC),
Vidyavardhaka College Of Engineering ,Mysuru held in between 8-9th
Faculty Members : sepetember

Presented Paper of title Optimal Design of Hybrid Microgrid for Off
Grid Villages in IJFRSCE held on March 2018

Presented paper of title A combined approach towards the efficiency
improvement of solar photovoltaic panel” in IJAREEIE, June 2017

SI Student Name Sem/ Details of Achievement/Award
NO Section

1 Adarsh T V 4th 1. Presented paper of title PLC based load shedding
mechanism using battery SOC in micro-grids” in IEEE, ICPSI,
at Saveetha Engg collge, Chennai from 21st and 22nd Sep
2017

2. Presented Paper of title Optimal Design of Hybrid Microgrid
for Off Grid Villages in IJFRSCE held on March 2018

2 Mohammed 4th Presented a paper “ Effect of Temperature on Performance
Sufiyan Khan of Solar Panels- Analysis”, in IEEE International Conference
on Current Trends in Computer, Electrical, Electronics &
Communication ,(ICCTCEEC), Vidyavardhaka College Of
Engineering ,Mysuru held in between 8-9th sepetember

3 Chandrashekhar 4th Presented paper of title Hybrid solar and effluent water based
power generator” in IJAREEIE, july 2017

4 Srilakshmi C S 4th Presented paper of title A combined approach towards the
efficiency improvement of solar photovoltaic panel” in
IJAREEIE, june 2017

5 Yuvaraj M 4th Presented paper of title Validation and monitoring of
1MW solar rooftop on-grid PV system in in International
Journal of Advanced research in Electrical, Electronics and
Instrumentation Engg 6th June 2017

OSTIUM Research Publications : 2. Nagaraj M J , Yuvaraj M M Design, “Validation
and monitoring of 1MW solar rooftop on-
1. V M Parthasarathy .“A Novel Design of Hardware grid PV system” in International Journal of
Realizable ANN Predictor with Weight Advanced research in Electrical, Electronics
Converted Multiplication” in IEEE Explorer and Instrumentation Engg 6th June 2017.
digital LibrarySri Venkateshwara College of
Engineering, Bangalore May,2017. 2. Sudeep shetty, Chandrashekhar, Ganesh
Shankar “Hybrid solar and effluent water based
Journals power generator” in IJAREEIE, vol-6, July 2017
International Journal :

1. Sujatha Shivashimpiger, Srilakshmi “A
combined approach towards the efficiency
improvement of solar photovoltaic panel” in
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Conferences : Performance of Solar Panels- Analysis”, in
IEEE International Conference on Current
International Conference : Trends in Computer, Electrical, Electronics &
1. Dr. H L Suresh, Adarsh T V “PLC based load Communication ,(ICCTCEEC), Vidyavardhaka
College Of Engineering ,Mysuru – 570 002,
shedding mechanism using battery SOC in Karnataka, INDIA, 8th & 9th September 2017
micro-grids” in IEEE, ICPSI, 21st and 22nd
Sep 2017 at Saveetha Engg collge, Chennai.

2. Vasudha Hegde, Mohmed Sufiyan Khan,
Ganesh Shankar “ Effect of Temperature on

National Conference :

1. Sujatha Shivashimpiger, Joy Mary “A qualitative analysis of global wind energy scenario” in
NCPOC-2017, 20th June, AIT, B’lore.

Internships :

P G Students are doing Internships in below companies
1. FLUXGEN Engineering Technologies
2. Tata Power Solar System Limited
3. Karnataka Power Corporation

M.Tech students visited 2000MW (600MW commissioned) Solar Park at Pavagada and 1250KW
(capacity each) Suzlon Wind Farm at Chitradurga on 06/04/2018.

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M. Tech in
Computer Science & Engineering

About the Department :

ost-Graduate course (M.Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering has been offered by
Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology from the academic year 2008, with sanctioned
intake of 18 students, which is enhanced now to 24 students. The program is approved and
recognized by AICTE and affiliated to VTU, Belgaum. One of the prime objectives of this M.Tech
program is to train the students and upgrade their knowledge to be compatible to meet the
growing needs of today’s Industries and R & D Organizations.

The department is well established with necessary infrastructure and has an excellent R&D
Centre approved by Visveshvaraya Technological University, Belgaum and Mysore University. The
students are encouraged to work in Multidisciplinary Research and take part in various externally
funded R&D projects. The major areas of Research are Image and Video Processing, Big Data,
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Security Issues in Cloud Computing, Data and Web Mining,
Pattern Recognition, Intrusion Detection, Face and Emotion Recognition.

Achievements / Awards
Faculty Members :

SINO Faculty Name Details of Achievement/Award

1 Dr. Jharna Majumdar Reviewer of Defence Science Journal, Ministry of Defence, DRDO,
Government of India.

Member, Paper Review Committee for ICCSE 2018: The Third
International Conference on Computational Science and
Engineering 2018, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, August 28-30, 2018.

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Member, Paper Review Committee for Indonesian Journal of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Member / Core Member, Recruitment and Assessment Board,
DRDO, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi.

Conference / Workshop Conducted :

SI From To Conference/ Resource Persons
NO Workshop Title

1 04-12-2017 06-12-2017 Three Day Faculty Dr. Kumar Thirunellai Rajamani

Development Manager (Technical)

Programme on Robert Bosch
“Deep Learning for Engineering and Business Solutions Ltd
Computer Vision” Bangalore

Dr.Sathish Prasad Rath
Chief Innovation Manager for Healthcare
Research
Xerox Innovation Group

K Sumanth Reddy
Deep Learning Engineer,
BLINCAM, Tokyo, Japan

Dr.Amod Anand Kumar
Senior Team Lead – Signal Processing &
Communications
Application Engineering Group
Mathworks India Private Limited
Bangalore

Mr. Arul Selvan Mathew
Mathworks India Private Limited
Bangalore

Mr. Kumar Gangwani
General Manager
ITC Infotech, Bangalore

Dr. Naresh Neelakantan
Lead Consultant
ITC Infotech, Bangalore

Mr. Viraj Vinayak Ghorpade
Lead Engineer / Staff Engineer
Yaskawa India Pvt Ltd

Research Publications 2. Sinchana T N, Jharna Majumdar, “Warehouse OSTIUM
Review Classification Using Naïve Bayes
1. Prathima Guruprasad, Jharna Majumdar, Classifier”, International Journal on Recent
“Optimal Clustering Technique for and Innovation Trends in Computing and
Handwritten Nandinagari Character Communication, Volume: 5 Issue: 8, August
Recognition”, International Journal of 2017
Computer Applications Technology and
Research, ISSN:-2319–8656, Volume 6–Issue
5, 213-223, 2017

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Majumdar, “Analysis and Detection of
3. Tabassum S, Mamatha Bai B G, Jharna Diabetes using Data Mining Techniques – A
Majumdar, “Analysis and Prediction of Big Data Application in Healthcare” - Paper
Chronic Kidney Disease using Data Mining Submitted to ERCICA 2018
Techniques”, International Journal of
Engineering Research in Computer Science 12. Shilpa Ankalaki, Sudip Chandra Gupta, B
and Engineering, ISSN (Online) 2394-2320, Prassanna Prasath, Dr. Jharna Majumdar,
Vol 4, Issue 9, September 2017. “Design and Implementation of Neural
Network Based Non Linear Control System
4. Divyashree N, Santhosh Kumar K L, Jharna (LQR) for Target Tracking Mobile Robots” -
Majumdar “Opinion Mining and Sentimental Paper Submitted to ERCICA 2018
Analysis of TripAdvisor.in for Hotel Reviews”,
International Research Journal of Engineering 13. Santhosh Kumar K L, Jharna Majumdar,
and Technology (IRJET), Volume: 04 Issue: 11, “Decision Making on Customer Review using
November 2017 Sentiment Analysis” - Paper Submitted to
ERCICA 2018
5. Jharna Majumdar, Anand Mahato
“Identification of Commonly used Medicinal 14. Priya Esther W, Dr. Jharna Majumdar,
Leaves using Machine Learning Techniques “Camshift based Kalman filters for Object
with SIFT Corner Detector as Features”, Tracking” – Paper Submitted to ERCICA 2018
International Journal of Computer Sciences
and Engineering (IJCSE), Volume 6, Issue 2, 15. Manish Awale, Santhosh Kumar K L,Jharna
February 2018 Majumdar, “Video Shot Detection based
on SIFT Features and Video Summarization
6. Janhavi N L, Santhosh Kumar K L, Jharna using EM Clustering” - Paper Submitted to
Majumdar “Sentiment Analysis of Customer ERCICA 2018
Reviews on Laptop Products for Flipkart”,
International Research Journal of Engineering 16. Sarala Madolli, Ms. Shilpa Ankalaki, Jharna
and Technology (IRJET), Volume 5, Issue 3, Majumdar, Applications of Clustering
March 2018. Algorithms for analysis of Agriculture data
for different districts in Karnataka - Paper
7. Min Raj Nepali, Priyanka C Karthik, Submitted to ERCICA 2018
Jharna Majumdar, “Implementation and
Performance Analysis of Control System 17. Sumant Udandakar, Mamatha Bai B G,
on Embedded Platform for Human Dr. Jharna Majumdar “Implementation
Robot Interaction”, Paper Accepted in the of CURE Clustering Algorithm for Video
International Journal of Human Computer Summarization and Healthcare applications
Interaction (IJHCI) in Big Data” - Paper Submitted to ERCICA
2018
8. Dr. Jharna Majumdar, Anand Mahato,
“Comparison of SIFT and SURF Corner 18. Dr. Jharna Majumdar, Giridhar N R, Aniketh
Detector as Features and Other Machine M, “Modelling Fade Transition in a Video
Learning Techniques for Commonly used using Texture” – Paper under processing
leaves”, International Research Journal of
Engineering and Technology (IRJET), e-ISSBN: 19. Dr. Jharna Majumdar, Giridhar N R, Aniketh
2395-0056, Volume 5, Issue 3, March 2018 M, “Modelling Dissove and Wipe transistion
in a Video using Texture”– Paper under
9. Dr. Jharna Majumdar, Aniketh M, Abhishek processing
B R, “Detection of Cut Transition of Video in
OSTIUM Transform Domain”, Paper accepted in the
Computing Conference 2018 10-12 July
2018 London, UK

10. Dr. Jharna Majumdar, Aniketh M, Giridhar N
R, “Optical Flow for Detection of Transitions
in Video, Face and Facial Expression” Paper
accepted in the Computing Conference
2018, 10-12 July 2018, London, UK

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Copyrights

1. Aniketh V M, Dr. Jharna Majumdar, 2. Dr. Jharna Majumdar, Giridhar N R, A Peter

Applied for a Copyright entitled “SIFT Hudson, HariVenkata Deepak S, applied for

Corner Detector and Descriptor”, Copyright entitled “Modelling of Transitions

Diary Number 10718/2017-CO/SW in Video using Textures”, Diary Number –

14707/2017-CO/SW

Invited Talks/Guest Lectures Delivered by Faculty Members

Faculty Name Topic Occasion/Venue Date
Dr. Jharna April 21 2018
Majumdar One day Lecture on N M A M Institute of
Advanced Image and Technology April 17 2017
Photo Gallery Video Processing April 28 2017

Key Resource Person for Acharya Institute of May 12 2017
the Technical Talk Technology, Bangalore
June 30 2017
Guest of Honour for S E A College of
Inauguration of “SEAZONS Engineering and July 27 2017
– 2017” Technology, Bangalore

Resource Person for the Maharaja Institute of
Conference organized by Technology, Mysore
Karnataka VidhanParishad

Key Resource Person for Channabasaveshwara
the Graduation Day – 2017 Institute of Technology,
Gubbi

Chief Guest and Keynote Reva University,

Speaker a Two Day Bangalore

Faculty Development

Programme on “Current

Trends on Image and Video

Processing”

VTU LIC committee Visit OSTIUM
NBA Committee Visit

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M. Tech in
Design Engineering

About the Department :

he Department of Mechanical Engineering offered the Master of Technology (MTech)
course in Machine Design in the year 2013 with an intake of 24 students and it was affiliated
to the Visveswaraiah Technological University, Belgaum and approved by AICTE New Delhi.
However since 2016, the same post graduate program in Machine Design has been enjoying
the Autonomous status when the Department has been able to thoroughly reshuffle the course
material covering the subjects and schemes under the close supervision of the Board of Studies
consisting of Senior University Professors and experts from Industries in the relevant field. The topic
Machine Design, involving knowledge in multifarious areas like Material Science, Static, Kinematic and
Dynamic analyses of Machine components, forms a very important branch of Engineering Science.
The program emphasizes on the creative, innovative and constructive aspects of design. Some of the
interesting subjects covered in this program are Theory of Elasticity, and Plasticity, Experimental Stress
Analysis, Advanced Vibrations, Finite Element Methods, Tribology, Dynamics & Mechanism Design,
Composites, Fracture Mechanics, Nanotechnology and Mechatronics. Apart from theory the students
also take part in internship training at relevant industries or at In-house research centers at NMIT
and continue their final semester Project further under the joint supervision of the Technical Experts
from Industry on Research Centers and one of the senior faculty members of the department. An
Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory has been set-up in the department with emphasis on the special
manufacturing facilities like Stri Casting, Centrifugal and Centrifuge Casting. It also houses Heat

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Treatment Furnace, Polishing Machine, Electronic Tensometer, Computerized Wear Testing Machine
and Inverted Microscope with dedicated Image Analysis Software. Students also have access to the
Simulation Laboratory provided with MATLAB software and Advanced Computer Aided Engineering
software like CATIA. This post-graduate program has wide scope and opportunity in the field of
engineering. On completion of this program, students may opt for excellent career in Automobile
or Aerospace or Machine Tool Industries. Modern Foundries, Modelling-Simulation and Analysis in
Product Design and many other modern areas of specialization.

Internship :

1. Mr. Harsha G (1NT16MMD05), MTech III Sem student of Machine Design has completed his
internship at AVTEC, Hosur on 15th July 2017, under the guidance of Mr. Rajaguru B – IE Manager.

2. Mr. Kirana K K (1NT16MMD08), MTech III Sem student of Machine Design has completed his
internship at AVTEC, Hosur on 15th July 2017, under the guidance of Mr. Rajaguru b – IE Manager.

3. Mr. Nagaraj S B (1NT16MMD10), MTech III Sem student of Machine Design has completed his
internship at AVTEC, Hosur on 15th July 2017, under the guidance of Mr. Vazha Prabhu P– Senior
Manager - MO.

4. Mr. Sharatraj B (1NT16MMD11), MTech III Sem student of Machine Design has completed his
internship at AVTEC, Hosur on 15th July 2017, under the guidance of Mr. Shankar Dinesh Singh –
MEAssistant Manager.

5. Mr. Sunil D Patil (1NT16MMD12), MTech III Sem student of Machine Design has completed his
internship at AVTEC, Hosur on 15th July 2017, under the guidance of Mr. Rajaguru B – IE manager.

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M. Tech in
Thermal Power Engineering

About the Department :

hermal Power Engineering was first offered as a specialization for MTech degree under
VTU by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NMIT in 2010. However, since 2015-
16, this post graduate program has been enjoying the Autonomous status like all other post
graduate studies existing right now at NMIT. The syllabus and scheme of each subject has been
modified thoroughly and reviewed by the respective Board of Studies (BOS) consisting of some senior
departmental faculty members along with a few external experts from reputed universities and
industries. The BOS has approved the modified syllabi of different subjects to be taught. Expertise
in Thermal Power Engineering enables the development of long term solutions to meet the rapidly
growing energy needs of our planet. In this program, students study Alternative Energy Sources such
as wind, solar and biomass as well as sustainable energy production from existing sources like coal, oil
and gas. They also learn the fundamental principles of Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Combustion,
Heat Transfer, Finite Element Method, CFD etc. Students are provided adequate exposure through
departmental laboratories, industrial visits and workshops. The laboratories meant for practical training
of the students, are well equipped in the areas of Heat Transfer, IC Engines, CAD, Fluid Machinery. The
Centre for Computational Fluid Dynamics also provides internships and hands-on training for the
interested students

Research work for the students are mostly related to subjects like Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer,
Renewable Energy Sources, Biofuels etc. Four of our students – Shashikumar, Sandeep, Rakesh &
Charan carried out their final year projects in CFD. Multiple research areas explored were Conjugate
Heat Transfer, Transonic Aerodynamics, Evaporative Cooling, and Laminar to Turbulent Transition. The
other very interesting topic pursued by few students focussed on the enhancement of heat transfer
rate using twisted tape inserts in tubes using a Nanofluid. The enhancement of heat transfer rate
and the pressure drop have been measured setting up an experimental test facility and validated
against CFD predictions as well. The remaining students have worked in the area of Biofuel and Solar
Refrigeration partly in collaboration with faculty members from Nagarjuna College of Engineering, using
their experimental facilities. All the fourteen students of the fifth batch (2014-2016) have successfully
completed their final year projects and eight of them secured FCD (First Class with Distinction) in their
final semester.

The sixth batch (2015-2017) consisting of nine students only have completed their internship
and continuing thereafter their fourth semester project work. As suggested by VTU, internships were
arranged either at established industries or at reputed institutes like CSIR-NAL, Aerospace Deptt., IISc,
Centre for Sustainable Energy, IISc or even at our own Centres of CFD and Nanotechnology, NMIT.
Shashikumar, our topper of the fifth batch, who worked on the project entitled CFD analysis of Cooled
Heat Sinks of Electronic Equipments, has now joined his PhD program with the Applied Mechanics
Department, IIT Madras. Md. Asheruddin, the topper of our sixth batch has worked on an interesting
project on Gasification of Biomass Particles at the Centre for Sustainable Energy, IISc Bangalore under
the supervision of Prof. Dosh and has now been selected by the relevant apex committee for his
admission to IISc for continuing his research work further leading to PhD degree at IISc. The seventh
batch (2016-2018) consisting of six students are just finishing their first semester examinations.

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Typical Twisted Tape Inserts with or without holes

Experimental Set up at NMIT for measuring Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop

Enhancement of Heat Transfer rate and Pressure Drop while using Twisted Tape Inserts for water
mixed with Nanofluid as working medium

Our young faculty member Mr.K.N.Pavan and his students have initiated enormous effort to
analyse the design and performance of heat exchangers in industry. Both experimental as well as
computational investigation (using the CFD software STAR CCM+) have been pursued on how to
augment the convective heat transfer rate in conventional heat exchangers modifying the flow path
installing Twisted Tape Inserts in the pipe and further using Nanofluid as the working medium. The rate
of heat transfer is found to increase by using inserts which modify the geometry of the flow passage
in the duct. The kind of twisted tapes used, the experimental set up in the Heat Transfer laboratory
of the department and further how the heat transfer rate and the corresponding pressure losses are
enhanced are shown in the figures above. Three different research papers have been published and
presented on this excellent piece of work.

Md Asheruddin, our MTech student of 2016-2018 batch carried out another excellent project
work on the thermal aspects of the Gasification process - a clean and efficient way of producing a
combustible gas from biomass mostly in a fixed-bed gasifier, where the reactant gases (H2O, CO2)
react with a bed of charcoal particles (solid residue after wood pyrolysis). The process of gasification of
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Gasification Process for a single particle Gasification occurring in a packed bed

Investigations to understand the process of Gasification of wood, charcoal or coal

The gasification eventually produces syngas, consisting of the clean hydrogen to be burnt in an
engine. Asheruddin has now joined the Research Group of Prof. Dosh at IISc as a Research Scholar
to work for his PhD thesis on the CFD analyses coupled to extensive experiments on gasification of
biomass particles like charcoal, wood and coal.

Achievements / Awards :

Prof. Sekhar Majumdar delivered the following Invited Talks :

Fluid Mechanics – Some Basic Concepts and Applications addressing the 4th Semester
Mechanical Engg. students at the New Horizon College of Engineering on April 12th, 2018

Computational Fluid Dynamics – Trends of Teaching and Research, addressing the final year
students and Faculty Members, Mechanical Engineering Department, NMAMIT, Nitte from
May 18th and 19th, 2018

Identify yourself in the Scenario of Education, as the Address of the Chief Guest of the Annual
Day function of the Vijaya Vittala Institute of Technology, Bangalore on May 16th ,2018

OSTIUM Research Publications : 3. Pavan K. N., Suresh S., Madhusudhan and
Sekhar Majumdar, Experimental Investigation
1. Charan Kumar D., Vashisth G. A., Satish G., on Enhancement of Heat Transfer Rate in
Sekhar Majumdar Numerical prediction of Heat Exchangers using Plain and Punched
incompressible turbulent flows including Twisted Tape Inserts and Nanofluid employing
laminar to turbulent transition, Proceedings Al2O3 Particles, Indian Journal of Science
Emerging Research in Civil, Aeronautical& and Technology, Vol 10 (25), DOI: 10.17485/
Mechanical Engineering, ERCAM 2017, held ijst/2017/v10i25/104684, July 2017
at Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology,
Bangalore on July21st ,2017 4. PavanKN, MadhusudhanNumericalprediction
for fluid flow and heat transfer in ducts using
2. Pavan K N, Varun S M, Madhusudhan, Suhas twisted tape turbulators, International Journal
H C, Heat Transfer Enhancement in Heat of Research in Aeronautical and Mechanical
Exchanger with Rotating Twisted Tape Insert Engineering, Proceedings of the International
Using Water and TiO2 Nanofluid, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical
Journal of Engineering Science and Engineering , ETME-2017 held on December
Computing, Vol. 7, Issue 11, 2017, pp. 15362 27th & 28th , 2017,pp. 335-343
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M. Tech in
VLSI Design & Embedded Systems

About the Department :

he department of Electronics and Communication Engineering offers masters
programme in VLSI Design and Embedded Systems since the year 2007 with an annual
intake of 18 students. The department has well equipped with VLSI and Embedded lab with
high end hardware and software tools. Students have been encouraged to take up projects /
internships in organisations like Intel, NAL, DRDO and various excellence centres at NMIT many more.
The department is equipped with Xilinx, Cadence, MATLAB, Nexys 4 (Artix-7), FPGA Board.

Achievements / Awards
Faculty Members :

SINO Faculty Name Details of Achievement/Award

1 Dr Veda SN Nominated as ISSS Chairperson for Education Subcommittee,
Member Governing Council ISSS.

Research Publications :
Journals :

1. Deepak K, Amit Roy, P. Anjaneyulu, Sakthivel Kandaiah, and Sampatrao L. Pinjare, “Charge transport
mechanism in p-type copper ion containing triazinethiolatemetallo polymer thin film devices”,
Journal of Applied Physics, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4993983, October 2017, Accepted: October
2017.

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M. Tech in
Computer Network Engineering

About the Department :

he Department of Information Science and Engineering introduced a PG program
in Computer Network Engineering with an intake of 18 students in the year 2012. The
Program is approved by AICTE and Government of Karnataka and is affiliated to Visvesvaraya
Technological University (VTU), Karnataka. Computer Networks and Engineering is a very
important field in our digital and networked world. There is growing demand for professionals with
knowledge of and experience in communication networks, related standards and trends, network
protocols and network security.

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Master of
Business Administration

About the Department :

nder the auspices of Nitte Educational trust, the MBA programme of NMIT was rolled off in
2004. The programme is an autonomous programme affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological
University and approved by AICTE. The Department got its Autonomous status in the Year
2016 offering specialization in the areas of Logistics and Supply chain, Marketing, Finance, HR
and Business Analytics.

The program has now grown into a well-recognised and well- received program with an approved
intake of 120 students. The Department of management studies is an approved research centre for
the PhD programmes of VTU, and University of Mysore. Currently 27 Research scholars have registered
for the Doctoral Programmes covering the various areas of Management Research.

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NMITs MBA Programme emphasizes on instructional as well as experiential learning. Over the two
years, apart from the classroom teaching students are also engaged in several course based term
projects, seminars, Case Analysis and presentations resulting in Paid internships and appreciable
placements. The overall objective of the programme is to make a front runner who is ready to thrive
and succeed in the current marketing environment.

Department of Management studies (DoMS) resides faculties who are a mixture of academic
excellence and industry practice, with about half of them having doctoral degrees.

Achievements / Awards
Faculty Members :

SI Faculty Name Details of Achievement/Award
NO

1 Dr. S Harish Babu Qualified Certification from Google and IUB Europe on Digital
Marketing.

2 Dr. S Harish Babu Nominated as a Prestigious Editor in the Journal of Corporate and
Business Laws.

3 Dr. S Harish Babu Mr. Meherdad has submitted final thesis under the guidance of Dr. S
Harish Babu for the award of PhD under UoM.

4 Dr. B. Janakiraman Resource person for 5-Day AICTE sponsored workshop on
Pedagogical Tools Techniques for Teaching Management held from
14-18 March 2016 at Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore

5 Dr. Senthil Kumar Nominated as member of Board of Studies member(BOS) for MBA
Program at Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi

Nominated as member of Board of Studies member (BOS) for MBA
Program at PES College of Engineering, Mandya.

Nominated as member of Board of Examiner member (BOE) for MBA
Program at PES College of Engineering, Mandya

6 Dr. Malini TN Awarded PhD in the domain of HR from Periyar University in January
2017.

7 Ms. Nayana Desai Content writer for a Canadian Project based SEO Company

8 Dr. Jayasmita Rath Ms. Bhanumathi Research scholar under Dr. Jayasmita Rath , was
awarded PhD in July 2016.

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Students :

SI Student Name Sem/ Details of Achievement/Award
NO Section

1 Ms.Rashmi and Mr.Gaurav IV Semester Emerged as winners of 6th Nitte Kreedotsava
held in Mangaluru between 24 and 25 January,
2018. Ms.Rashmi emerged as winner in Throw
ball and Tennis tournaments. She was also
awarded as the best player.Mr.Gaurav won volley
ball tournament.

2 Vishal H, Hemanth R, II Semester Won 1st Prize in Neon-Ads at M.S Ramaiah
Nishanth Reddy and Vijay Institute of Technology
kamath
II Semester Won 1st Prize in Mad-ads at Sir M Visvesvaraya
3 Farhan, Govind, Mahesh, Institute of Technology.
Thanzeer, Kuttaiah, Deepak
shetty IV Semester Won 1st Prize in Best Manager at Malnad

4 Amar Gokhale IV Semester Won prize in Business quiz
5 Deepak and Sandesh
6 Mr.Nitin III Semester Secured 2nd place in Zonals Badminton
tournament held at BMSCE, Bengaluru
7 Ms. Sandhya and Ms.
Nithya Janani III Semester Secured 1st place in Business Plan, State level
III Semester Tech-fest organized by Sai Vidya Institute of
8 Ms. Sahana and Mr.
Technology, Bangalore.
Prathap David Carlo
III Semester Secured 3rd place in Business Plan, State level
9 Mr. Nitin Tech-fest organized by Sai Vidya Institute of
Technology, Bangalore
10 Mr.Jairam
III Semester Secured 3rd place in VTU Interzone Badminton
tournament held at RYMEC, Bellary

III Semester secured 1st place in Basket Ball tournament
held at PESIT International Sports Meet,
Bengaluru

III Semester 2nd place in Badminton tournament held at
PESIT International Sports Meet, Bengaluru

Conference / Workshop Conducted :

SI NO From To Conference/Workshop Title Resource Persons
1
04th 04th Industrial Expectation from MBA Mr. Muralidhar Koteshwar
2 October October
students Industrialist and Academician
3 2017 2017
Talk on “Goal Setting” Mr. Ravi Onkari Assistant
07th 07th President of HSBC
October October
Talk on Enterpreneurship Mr. Rajshekar, CEO and
2017 2017 partner of Symcan Engineers
OSTIUM
07th 07th
October October

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4 October 31, 31st one day workshop on Case Dr. B.Jankiraman, Professor,
DoMS, NMIT
2017 October Analysis

2017

5 08th 08th Talk on “Digital Marketing Mr. Kirankumar V T Program
Director Indian Institute of
November November E-Commerce

2017 2017

6 10th 10th Talk on Importance of Mr. Arun K, Specialist
Market India, Association
November November Management Accounting of International certified
Professional Accountants
2017 2017 Certificate for MBA students

7 13th 13th Talk on “International Taxation” Mr. Tousif Ahmed and

November November Mr. Yuvaraj, CITO Outsourcing

2017 2017 Services Private Lmited.

8. January 8 9th Workshop on Data Analysis Dr. John Manohar, Professor

2018 January using SPSS was arranged for the and HOD, BMSIT

2018 students of 2nd Year.

OSTIUM Research Publications : School of Management Sciences Khushipur,
Varanasi , “Comparative analysis of corporate
1. Dr. S Harish Babu, International Journal of cross cultural management in IT vs non IT
Advanced research in Computer Engineering companies of Bangalore”, Vol- VIII No. 2, 2017,
and Technology, “Big Data Analytics-Its impact 85-97, ISSN0975-024X.
on changing trends in Retail Industry”,Vol7, 6. Dr. Jayasmita Rath, International Journal of
Issue 4 , April 2018, ISSN: 2278-1323 Management (IJM), “Spiritual Traits Affecting
Leadership Performance - Reflection from
2. Dr. S Harish Babu, International Journal of ViduraNeeti” , Volume 08, Issue 2, 2017,Page
Advanced research in Computer Science No-
“Big data technologies for E-business- Future 7. Dr. Senthil Kumar, Intercontinental Journal of
opportunities, challenges ahead and growing Human Resource Research Review, “Impact
trends” , Volume-9, Number-2- March 2018, of Demographic Variables on Contextual
ISSN: 0976-5697. Intelligence in Leadership: A Study with
reference to Banking Sector in Bengaluru”
3. Dr. S Harish Babu, International journal , Volume.5, No.6 (June-2017), ISSN No:
of Academic research, “Empowerment of 2347-1662(Print), ISSN No:2320-2793(online)
SFG women through CMSSS”, Vol.4, Issue 8. Dr.SenthilKumar,AcmeIntellectsInternational
2(10),2017,ISSN 2348-7666. Journal of Research in Management, “Make in
India and Skill India –A hand in glove schemes
4. Dr. B. Janakiraman, International Journal of GOI designed to transform India Economy”
of Human Resource Management and , Volume.20, No.20(October-2017), ISSN No:
Research (IJHRMR), “Demographic analysis 2320-2939(Print), ISSN No:2320-2793(online).
of managerial traits impacting Diversity
management in India”, Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2017, Published a research paper titled “A conceptual
35-52 study on performance of Co-operative banks in
the wake of Demonetisation” in “ International
5. Dr. B. Janakiraman , Journal Purushartha- A Journal of Finance”. With a impact factor:
journal of ethics,management and spirituality 3.432, ISSN- 2348 – 0475, page no : 156 – 158,
Volume-1 Issue IV, April 2017
Journals

Mr. PavanKumar G Kulkarni :

Published a paper titled “ A conceptual study
on issues and challenges of cooperative
banks in Karnataka” in Asia Pacific Journal
of Research”. A peer reviewed International
Journal, With a Impact Factor: 6.58, Print
- ISSN- 2320 – 5504, Online – E-ISSN – 2347
– 4793, page no : 72 – 75, Volume-4, Issue 2,
January – June 2017

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