OSTIUM- 2019

Sports

Kabaddi

Event Result

VTU Bangalore North Zone Runners
New Horizon Cup 2019 2nd Runner Up

Represented VTU in Inter University Competation in 2018-19

1 2018-19 Mr. Nikhilesh R AERO BASKETBALL

2 2018-19 Mr. Rahul Yadav MBA BASKETBALL

3 2018-19 Mr. Syed Izhaan MECH BASKETBALL

4 2018-19 Mr. Sailesh S ECE BASKETBALL

5 2018-19 Mr. Amoghavarsha CIVIL VOLLEYBALL

6 2018-19 Mr. Deepak D Gowda MBA VOLLEYBALL

7 2018-19 Ms. Tejaswini Nadagowda ISE VOLLEYBALL

8 2018-19 Ms. Phalguni EEE VOLLEYBALL

9 2018-19 Mr. Pranav S EEE BADMINTON

10 2018-19 Mr. Nithin H V MECH BADMINTON

11 2018-19 Mr. Sahil Annigeri MECH ATHLETICS

12 2018-19 Mr. Aditya V A MECH SWIMMING

13 2018-19 Mr. Vallish Prabhu ECE CRICKET

14 2018-19 Mr. Pranav K AERO CRICKET

15 2018-19 Ms. Rashmi H N ECE TEAKONDOW

National Level Representation in Various Sports Activities in 2018-19

1 2018-19 Mr. DEEPAK D GOWDA MBA VOLLEYBALL

2 2018-19 Mr. NITHIN H V MECH BADMINTON

3 2018-19 Mr. PRANAV S EEE BADMINTON

4 2018-19 Ms. Rashmi N ECE TEAKONDOW

5 2018-19 Ms. Yogeshwari ISE NETBALL

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The

Comedy Club

The comedy club of NMIT goes
by the name “The Chool School”.

It was newly started this year to
encourage and cultivate the
budding standup comedians
of the college. The founding
of the club has brought for
the college great laughs and
memorable moments.
The comedy club
has conducted standup
comedy contests within
college and hosted a comedy
event during the cultural fest -
Anaadynata.

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Dept of MECH

The

Music Club

It is said that when words fail, music speaks, and this
language of music brought together a group of friends
to embark on a musical journey nine years ago. The
culmination of their efforts stands proudly today as the
Music Club, sanctuary to all the music enthusiasts of NMIT.

The Music Club has a strength of over 50 members,
each with diverse interests and talents in music. The club
has never failed to enthrall audiences with performances across the country and has numerous wins credited
to its name.

Home to 6 different music groups, the Music Club has 2 Indian music bands, 1 western band, 2 acoustic
bands and 1 acapella troupe.

Year Award/Fest Name of the student/Event
2017-2018 1st place BITS-Goa Algorhythm (Music Group)
2017-2018 1st place BITS-Goa Lavanaya N (Vocal Solo)
2017-2018 2nd place BITS-Goa Joanna (Vocal Solo)
2018-2019 3rd place BITS-Goa Algorhythm (Music Group)

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Music Club
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The

Literary Forum

With its rise to prominence ten years ago, the Literary Forum
has been the perfect destination for connoisseurs of both, the
spoken and written world. The club seeks to bring out in its
members the aspects of logical thinking and creativity in speech
and writing.

The club hosts fun filled session of debate, quiz, and JAM
(Just a Minute) every week and has successfully hosted some of

the best inter college literary events. The members of the club
actively participate and have bagged multiple wins in various
literary events throughout the country.
The club was initially founded as a
platform to hone one’s talents in the
English language, however, has expanded
its reach to Hindi as of 2018.

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Literary Forum

Year Award/Fest Name of the student/Event
2018-2019 2nd place BITS-Goa Arjun Kini, Aishwarya Rao(Word Games)
2018-2019 1st place Sir MVIT Arjun Kini (JAM)
2018-2019 1st place BMC Supriya Hegde (Creative and Letter writing)
2018-2019 1st place BMC Praveen Bhat (Hindi Poetry)
2018-2019 2nd place Presidency Aishwarya Rao (JAM)
2018-2019 1st place DSCE Sandhya Jayaraman (Pandora's Box)

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The

Dance Clubs

Sangharsh and Jhankaar

The dance clubs Sangharsh and Jhankaar have they perform. Dance to them is a way of expression
left us with no doubt that dance is a communication and a platform to relay an underlying message.
between the body and soul to express something
that is too deep to find in words. It gives the college immense pleasure that Prajwal
and Darshan of Sangharsh performed at Conrad
These incredibly talented dance teams of NMIT Bangalore in collaboration with the band Suraj
are home to the best dancers and performers of the Mani and the Tatva Trip and also put up a thrilling
college. The members are given a chance to feel the guest performance at the show Anand
wonder of dance and joy of performing. They leave no Dhanakoti, a concert.
stone unturned in refining their art to perfection and
have never failed to wow their audience, wherever

Year Award/Fest Name of the student/Event
2018-2019 1st place BITS Goa Sangharsh, Dance Team
2018-2019 1st place Nrityanjali Sangharsh, Dance Team
2018-2019 1st place, BMC Cobalt Skies Sangharsh, Dance Team
2018-2019 2nd place, IIT Chennai Saarang Sangharsh, Dance Team
2018-2019 Finalists – Floor’d Orion Mall Sangharsh, Dance Team
2018-2019 Finalists – IISc Bangalore Sangharsh, Dance Team
2017-2018 2nd place Sir MVIT Jhankaar, Dance Team
2018-2019 1st place RNSIT Jhankaar, Dance Team
2018-2019 2nd place BMSCE Jhankaar, Dance Team
2018-2019 2nd place, BMC Cobalt Skies Jhankaar, Dance Team

Sangharsh Dance Team

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Dance Clubs

Jhankaar Dance Team
Performance by Sangharsh

Team Sangharsh

Team Jhankaar
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The

Theatre Clubs

Goonj and Invictus

In the famous words of William Shakespeare, ‘All the world’s a stage’ and
quite literally so to Goonj and Invictus, the theater clubs of NMIT.

Goonj, the Hindi Street play crew is known for its witty and strong
depictions of the various issues that society today is plagued with. The
members of the club walk the extra mile to ensure that their scripts,
enthusiasm and most importantly their acting and portrayal are honest
and meaningful. The club has made name for itself through securing
repeated wins over the years and this year is no different.

Invictus is the English theater club and was founded about ten years
ago. Through various original plays revolving around relevant themes,
the club is an abode to the theatre enthusiasts and script writers of
the college.

Year Award/Fest Name of the Student/Event
2018-2019 1st place BITS-Goa Goonj, Hindi Theatre (Street Play)
2018-2019 2nd place IISc Bangalore Goonj, Hindi Theatre (Street Play)
2018-2019 2nd place BMC Goonj, Hindi Theatre (Street Play)
2018-2019 1st place BITS-Goa Goonj, Hindi Theatre (Street Play)

Goonj Theatre Club

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Theatre Clubs

Invictus Theatre Club

Play Performance by

Street Goonj

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The

Fashion Team

Over the years, the pages of fashion have
been filled with the works of some of the world’s
greatest designers, models and creative directors.
The fashion team of NMIT is all set to leave their
footprint here by bringing in a fresh perspective to
glamour, style and sophistication.

The fashion team is a group of budding
trendsetters and models who enjoy expressing
themselves through their art. They design their
costumes and perform over unique underlying
themes.

The fashion team has displayed its talent on
various platforms, notable ones including Waves
by BITS Goa and the Deccan Herald fashion show.
The team has bagged multiple wins at fests in and around Bangalore.

Year Award/Fest Name of the student/Event
2018-2019 3rd place Presidency College Fashion Team, NMIT
2018-2019 1st place Surana College Fashion Team, NMIT

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Fashion Team

The Fashion Team performing at Anaadyanta 2019

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The

Art Club

Studio 371

Studio 371, the art club of NMIT engages The Art Club decorates
with the college as a creative center for the campus for Anaadyanta
artistic expression. While art might exist in
many places on campus, the art club exists to
immerse our students in the art of creation and beyond.
Students learn from one another and share their prowess
in different aspects of art.

At NMIT, Studio 371 is one that constantly flourishes
and involves many aspects of campus and academic life.
During Anaadyanta, our art community release their
creativity with a group of like-minded students creating
the most astonishing works all over the campus.

Year Award / Fest Name of the Student / Event
2018-2019 1st place BITS-Goa Shiva (Art)

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Art Club

THE ART CLUB – STUDIO 371

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The

Cultural Activities

Ethnic Day and Inception

Every year, in the month of November, all students
look forward to ethnic day celebrations along with
Kannada Rajyotsava to be conducted in full pomp
and splendor. The student population of NMIT
who come from different parts of our country
and the world, display the cultural wonders of
their respective motherlands with respect
to their attires. It is truly a celebration of
rich culture and sacred heritage.

Inception is the annual intra-college
extravaganza which was held on the
19th of November 2018. The clubs
of NMIT threw a stellar show in their
conduction of various events. Some of
the highlights included the Mr. and Ms.
Fresh personality contest and Dialogue
Raja – a standup comedy event. The fest
received enthusiastic participation from the
students and was a grand success.

The fest also showcased a musical
performance by the Naik and Jois project, a
comedy performance by the Funny Monks
and a performance by the Artistbond crew which left the crowd cheering and wanting for more.

Performance by Mr. and Ms. Fresher Performance by the Funny Monks at
Rap Cypher Trophies Inception 2019

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Cultural Activities
Naik and Jois Project performing during Ethnic Day 2018

Inaugration ceremony of Inception 2018
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Bangalore Times &
Times Fresh Face

The media is always looking for young talents and the best place to find it is in colleges. This year, NMIT
paid host to the Times Fresh Face Season 11 auditions which provided a massive platform for students
passionate about showcasing their talents and making it big in the industry.

The students of NMIT put up a stellar performance. Kalpana Kumari and Nishchay V’s personalities
and talent helped them clinch the winners’ title. Meanwhile, Preksha Vijay and Hemanth R’s bagged the first
runners-up spot, followed by N Tejaswini and Aakash NS, who were named second runners up. Shristi Gupta
and Prateek S were given the titles of Livon Miss Fab Hair and Set Wet Mr Charming, respectively.

Nishchay V and Preksha Vijay cleared several rounds and were among the top 10 in Bangalore. Nishchay
V made it to the top 5 and Preksha Vijay was declared Livon Miss Fab Hair for the night.

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Fresh Face
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Fresh Face

Times Fresh
Face Season 11 saw
Preksha Vijay and

Nishchay V
among the
top 10 finalists

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There’s one time in the year, when
for college students all roads don’t
lead to the classrooms. Yes, we are
talking about the annual college fest.
During this time, the college transforms
itself and moves away from its mundane
routine, while also opening the doors to
students from across the country.

Students get the chance to interact with
others, learn from them and have a whole lot
of fun. And all of this was also seen at NMIT’s
annual techno-cultural fest Anaadyanta’19,
which was conducted from March 6th-9th.

Every college fest is a getaway for the students from their classes and

assignments. Instead, they learn more about organizational skills and leadership. But not to forget, all of it is

done with a lot of fun.

This year’s theme for Anaadyanta 2019 was
JOURNEY THROUGH THE AGES. From events
like Battle of the bands, fashion show, Hackathon,
Debate, Street X to a plethora of other sports,
cultural and technical, the events managed to keep
all the participating students excited.

The four-day fest had many events that kept
the students entertained. The flagship event of
Anaadyanta’19, Fashion show and street X were
most loved by the audience where students
showcased their fashion and dance quotient.

A unique initiative was the technical pro-show,
“The Glowdiators”. This event saw the light tricks
performed by three professionals. There was a

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Anaadyanta

drone show too, organised by the technical team to show case different
types of drones and a showcase of various high-performance
vehicles was done. Among the star attractions were the
popular Indian singer - Sunidhi Chauhan and the Canadian
DJ - DJ Tara and a musical performance by the Girish
Prabhu collective. The Sandalwood actor Mr. Garuda Ram
and our respected politician, Mr. Veerappa Moili were the
esteemed invitees to the inaugration program.

Bike stunts and
Bonfire Night at
Anaadyanta 2019

Glowdiators
performing at
Anaadyanta

– Technical
Pro Show

Astounding performances by Sunidhi Chauhan and
DJ Miss Tara left the crowds wowed

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A Tribute of Love

Mr. Sachin D S Ms. Deeksha Chhabra
Mechanical Engineering (3rd Year) ECE.(2nd Year)
19th Feb 2019
30th Oct 2018

We deeply mourn the sad demise of We deeply mourn the sad demise of
Mr. Sachin D S, Ms Deeksha Chhabra, 2nd Year
Electronics & Communication Engg
3rd Year Mechanical Engg Student who student who expired on Tuesday 19th
expired on Tuesday 30th October 2018. February 2019 in a road traffic accident.
May God give the strength and courage to May God give the strength and courage to
his parents & family members to bear the her parents & family members to bear the
loss and may her soul rest in peace.
loss and may his soul rest in peace.

Diksha, a vibrant young girl came to me when she was in sem 3 and was pursuing LEGO class. She,
along with few students, started fundamental training and Hands-on exercises in various problems with
the aim to do better in their engineering career. The news of her sudden demise came to me as a big
shock, since I met her in the previous afternoon and next day evening sent her problems and requested
her to bring the results when it is done. That’s the time i got a call from a team mate of her that she is no
more. The sadness had no limit after hearing such an unexpected and unbelievable news.

No one has any idea what The Almighty is planning to do with us and at what instant. I pray to the
Almighty that May her soul rest in peace. I also pray to the Almighty God to give enough strength to her
parents to bear this irrepairable loss.

- Dr. Jharna Majumdar
Dean R&D,

Prof. Dept of CSE (PG)
Head Centre for Robotics Research

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Sketches
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Photographs

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Joyce Alexander, PGDM Prajwal M S Rao, 3rd year_ISE Kumar Aman Vatsa, 1st year_ISE Milind Kulgod, 4th year_ISE

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Photographs
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Testimonial

The road to being an “Aeronautical Engineer” is Festival ‘UDAAN’.
more of a road less taken and NitteMeenakshi
Institute of Technology has only helped me, to At the beginning
reach my dream of being an aeronautical engineer. My
journey at NMIT has only been of sheer growth, I can still of my final year of
remember my first day at college, nervous about what the
future holds. Each and every step of these four years at engineering, I was
NMIT, with the help and support of the staff and faculty
has only helped me make my place in the world and stand given an opportunity to Tejas Christopher
out. be the team manager Pursuing masters at Royal
of the solar vehicle
As a part of the cultural committee of NMIT, I have team, ‘TEAM HORUS’ Melbourne Institute of
helped organize various college festivals, including the of NMIT. The team Technology, Australia
annual national level technology and cultural festival of handled the design Dept of AERO2018 Batch
NMIT, ‘ANAADYANTA’ as a part of the core committee.
and fabrication of a
I have also held many leadership roles in the college. In
my third year of engineering, NMIT introduced its student solar race car, which was to race in the intercollegiate
entrepreneurship cell in which I was given the opportunity
of being its first CEO. It was a great opportunity to interact Indian solar vehicle championship.This practical process
with the students from various parts of India and the
world at entrepreneurial summits. increased my knowledge of automotive aerodynamics

As a part of the department of aeronautical engineering, and its diverse applications. The car had won the best
the students’ association ‘FALCON’, which dealt with the
encouragement of technical and non-technical prospects design award and was appreciated by the officials of IT
of its students, elected me as their General Secretary
in my third year and their president in my final year of applications and mechanical design firm Credible Future
engineering, in which I convened over its aero-technical
which organized the championship.

My engagement in all the above-stated activities

had only made me gain profound knowledge in diverse

academic and non-academic aspects during my education

and the desire to gain more knowledge and has given me

the confidence to face the world.

I can proudly introduce myself everywhere as an

Aeronautical Engineer graduating from Nitte Meenakshi

Institute of Technology.

When I joined were explained about Nano materials, its products, its
engineering applications and importance of MEMS Etc. and I found it
in NMIT I very much interesting. and I would like to mention that all
wanted to pursue my the faculties in the lab were so helpful to us at any point
of time, clarifying our doubts & did their best in teaching
Course in a research us the new area called “Nano Materials”. As a result of
this I decided to do even my final year Project also in the
oriented way, than same Lab itself. We were team of 4, did project in the lab
on a Mini Submarine under the guidance of Veda mam,
the regular way of Habib Sir, Rachith Sir. and the project took 1 year for
accomplishment .As a result of our hard work, guidance
passing the subjects of our faculties, our team won many prize inside and
outside college one of them is “ISSS Best UG Project”
and scoring the Award in the ISSS National conference 2018 ,with a cash
price of 15000/. And because of our Project all my team
Grade points. When mates including me are placed in good companies today,
and presently working in good positions. And we all have
I looked out for secured a bright future. It is all due to the facilities provided
in Lab, support of our Guides, and NMIT. By thanking all
the opportunities, of them I would suggest my Juniors to take up projects in
CNM and make their future bright.
Sunilkumar T S, NMIT had many
Center for Nanomaterials & R&D’s. “Center for
Nano Materials and
MEMS MEMS”(CNM) is one
Trainee eMEDS of the best among
KPIT Technologies Ltd them. I was interest

in Nano materials

so I joined the CNM

and initially I did my Internship, just to understand the

research work going on there. During the internship we

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Testimonial

8th August, 2008 NMIT taught me to be disciplined, loving, caring and
was my first day helped me look at the world from a different perspective,
in NMIT and life a perspective of which I am not sure, I would have seen
has been different ever it, if I wouldn’t have been here.NMIT gave me equal
opportunities, freedom and platform to showcase my
since, then. Coming talent and which in return helped me, find the talents in
me, which I never knew that I had.
from a middle-class
I still remember the day, when it was our last exam and
family and able to I just finished my exam, and came out and asked myself,
what’s next? I asked one of my faculty, Ma’am, what’s next?
afford a college like And the reply from the teacher was “Placements”! Ismiled
and I was like, oh yeah, that thing. The best way to know
NMIT was not easy, the truth, to know where you stand in the competition
and preparing for it, and that is what NMIT has helped me
but the question to the most. Not only they provided the platform to interact
with corporate, they also provided equally good training
myself was, Is it worth to make our soft skills and technical skills up to the mark,
so that we are there in the top of the list for corporates.
Venkatesh Naidu, it? And right now, I can
answer this with lot of Now, I work for Microsoft, reflecting back almost
7 years ago, I was sitting in the placement room giving
Support Escalation Engineer, confidence that, Yes, it interviews and things, which I had learnt and apply them
on practical life assures me that I did not make a mistake
Costa Rica, Microsoft, is! on 8th August, 2008.

Batch: 2008 - 2012, My college, I would end by saying that this college provides you the
platform to showcase yourself, but at the end of the day, it
Dept: Electrical and NMIT was the most is YOU who needs to decide, if you want make the most of
it or not.
Electronics Engineering inspirational thing
which ever happened

to me. Without NMIT I would not be the natural me, what

I am right now in my life. NMIT helped me find my real

strength, both as a person and as a student, who is going

to enter the world of Corporates. My college days from

attending the lectures, to spending time on the famous

basketball court to hostel, everything had a learning lesson

for me. For me. I was having fun learning my subjects, but

what I didn’t realize is that, I was becoming a better me, a

better personality, a better human.

Icurrently work at EY as a Tax Analyst and I am programs offered by
proud alumni of NMIT MBA 2016-18 batch.
Google, Alibaba and an
I am very grateful to NMIT- Both faculty and
Placement cell. I was keen on studies and NMIT helped me organizational study
in planning the path I should follow to achieve my dreams
by the guidance of my professors. My mentors at NMIT report to be completed
including the HOD Dr. S Harish Babu always supported
our ideas, used to guide us by providing their valuable so that students
suggestions on any issues we came across, during the span
of 2 years, I have spent at NMIT. The avenues to groom have an exposure
one were available in abundance at NMIT and students are
encouraged to follow their passion such as sports, drama about the corporate
or any other extra-curricular activities without hampering
our studies by the full support from our faculty members. requirements, which

I am very thankful to the Placement Cell, who helped helped us to articulate
us in grooming for placements in the first few months by
providing coaching from Faculties of TIME Institute on the skills to bridge
Basic aptitude and Soft Skills. I was completely confident
and cracked the aptitude and technical tests, interview the gap between
rounds due to the mock interviews and tests done by
Placement cell. the industry and POOJA V
academics.
As my batch was the first autonomous batch, we had
the perks such as syllabus was concise and relevant to To sum up, my life MBA
the current industrial needs, new specializations were
offered such as Supply chain management, Certification at NMIT made me 2016-2018 Batch

stronger and took me a

step ahead for being an

independent woman.

I am thankful to all the professors for being such a great

support throughout our masters. I loved the infrastructure

of NMIT and its vivid and vibrant culture.

I appreciate every moment; I have spent at NMIT and

would not trade that for anything else.

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Our world Iam highly
is a global impressed
village by the great
where education plays opportunity given to

a very crucial and wide me, to have hands-

role in every person’s on experience, on

life. It was the same for the latest tools and

me, when I joined MCA technology employed

at Nitte Meenakshi by Industries. We

Institute of Technology have been facilitated

in 2012. with various

They say that specialized labs, to

Darshan Jahagirdar, when you can touch apply the theoretical Aman Akash,
Senior Technical Engineer, the horizon, you are knowledge. Our skills Bengaluru, India,
at your journey’s were brought into Course: Centre of Excellence,
Salesforce.com end. But, the journey light by the eminent
personalities who Specialization: Aerospace & IoT
at Nitte Meenakshi
visited our institute to
Institute of Technology
provide the necessary
was actually so special
training for the deserving candidates. The Centre of
and fabulous that I never actually wanted it to end. I can’t
Excellence is an excellent place, to make the students
find enough words to describe, what a great role NMIT
realize their true potential and enable them to perform
Department of MCA has played in my life - a wonderful
industry-oriented projects, so as to get absorbed by the
lush green campus, friendly atmosphere, tech savvy
companies, by the end of their engineering course. The
educational infrastructure, qualified and ever helpful
gap between the academics and industry is bridged by
staff, excellent curriculum and academia to name a few
providing a better scope of opportunities for the future.
specialties.

I am extremely grateful to the management and entire

faculty members of the MCA Department, for their

tireless efforts to ensure a bright and prosperous future Fi r s t ,
Thanks
for us. The skills I have gained through my post graduate for

studies at NMIT,have equipped me to accomplish my

professional goals. making Team

Now, I know this and will proudly say that choosing Member of Studsat

MCA@NMIT was one of the best decisions of my life. and their Research

work. I’m Very

Happy to tell

Ireceived an that I had started Karthik
excellent
education my career with Automotive Software
that I am proud of. Developer KPIT
Studsat. It was My
Technologies Limited,
Pleasure to Work Pune, STUDSAT

with Team Studsat.

Pruthvi GN Tejaswini, It would be
Engineer - Technical Solutions DCN difficult to sum
up 2 years in
Company Name : OSI NMIT in just few lines. I
say that the learning and
exposure is commendable.
The faculty is amazing.
Overall had wonderful
days in NMIT and I’ll
definitely cherish these
moments forever”

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Sachin Jaiswal, Firstly I congratulate Civil Engineering
Program for getting National Board of
Project Assistant, Accreditation (NBA) for three years from
Mumbai Zonal Centre, 2017-18 till 2020. I feel proud to be an Alumni of Civil
Engineering Department, NMIT.
CSIR-NEERI,
2016 Batch - Being one of the best Programmes of NMIT, Civil
Engineering has an excellent infrastructure facility for
Civil Engineering Program, all the laboratories, industry-oriented syllabus and
well experienced faculty team eager to support the
NMIT Bangalore students all the time. Teachers are ever approachable

for professional and personal matters and solutions.

There is scope for all round growth in the

Department, as students are encouraged to participate in the Technical Competitions, Sports and Extra Curricular

activities, etc. We have been provided with the additional training in latest software and industry equipment’s, apart

from curriculum, for better placement opportunity, whenever required.

The beautiful and pleasant campus has given us always the positive energy to improve in academic and personal

growth.

The Department of Information Science and Pruthvi N Shetty,
Engineering at NMIT has played a pivotal
role in bringing a culture of innovation Graduate Student |
to the campus, backed by sound technical skills. In Computer Science
addition to providing a strong scholastic foundation,
the department encouragedus to develop multi- School of Informatics and
faceted skills, which are equally important once a Computing
student steps out to the real world. Under the able
guidance of Dr. Sanjay H. A., the department has been Indiana University

steadily achieving newer heights with each passing

year. An extremely conducive atmosphere is created

for the students, enabling them to develop key skills

towards making a foray into industry or towards higher academic pursuits.

I can affirm that my time at NMIT, especially at Dept. of ISE has had a significant positive influence on shaping my
personality, building my opinions and realizing my aspirations. The faculty of the department are very approachable and
supportive towards the interests of students. Likewise, the department is equipped with equally good infrastructure,
curriculum and facilities. As a proud alumni, I would highly recommend aspiring students to pursue their bachelor’s
degree at the Dept. of Information Science and Engineering at NMIT, Bangalore.

Devikarani Training at Center for Design Engineering
USN No: 1NT16ME407 and Process Simulation (CDEPS)
Place: Bangalore, India has provided an excellent learning
Course: 3D Experience, environment. I have taken many classes at small
and large training centers as well as online but for
Duration: 2 months, me, CDEPS interactive training is actually the best
Batch:2015-2019 way to learn. The CDEPS provides a quiet learning
environment with newer computers and latest
given me a very good insight into 3D Experience. version of the software modules. With the entire
course being offered offline, it enables the student
to have seamless interaction with the instructor.
Overall, I am very impressed with the learning
environment CDEPS has provided. The course has

This is one of the good centres to learn the different kinds of software modules within a short span imparting
good knowledge. The faculties are very co-operative and I feel proud of being one of the students. It was really a nice
experience and the Center is providing Industrial level training.

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It gives me Ni t t e
immense Meenakshi
pleasure to be Institute
a part of the system that of Technology has

has given me a great been a platform of

insight into the field of serendipity, with

Machine Design. We immense knowledge

had full freedom to and opportunity.

express our ideas and Here, I learned an

thoughts.We enjoyed effective way of

every moment of our engineering and I

college life with the should remember

Kirana K. K. facilities provided, every faculty Ashok Kumar Srinivas
with a professional Senior Software Engineer,
Course: Master of Technology, touch by admin and who identified an LetsVenture technologies pvt . ltd.,
Specialization: Machine Design, management team.Our Computer Science (2010-2014)
knowledge and skills engineer in me,
Batch: 2016-2018
which enabled me to

plunge into computer

were enlightened with science in a deeper

care by well qualified way. Also, because

and magnificent professors, lectures and other laboratory of all the passionate teachers, I got confidence to start

associates/supportive staffs. my career in start-up and going forward. I have authored

The project was carried out by me at AVTEC Ltd. books; also I have become a speaker in the international

and I need to thank the faculties to have given me the conferences that were held in Germany, Paris, and other

golden opportunity to carry out my project there. The brilliant countries. All of this started in this organization.

Professors here were a major source of inspiration in I couldn’t be grateful enough to NMIT Bangalore.

making us recognize our talents and use the same in real

life situations. The group of Professors and other non-

teaching staff taught us to use the acquired knowledge to

solve real life problems.

Universities and colleges are the primary blocks to shape one’s success in
life, and NMIT was one such institution for us.This institution with their
highly qualified and experienced Professors and specially trained staff
members and the challenging curriculum had everything to offer for a beginner like

me.

Wewereconstantlyexposedtovarioustechnologicallydemandingandchallenging

subjects like Gas Turbines,Jet Propulsion, Aerodynamics and Aeronautics to name

a few.We also had the added advantage of being trained by highly experienced

and practically skilled teachers in these fields.The practical exposure received at

this institution was immense and this motivated me to participate in national and

international level competitions like SUPRA and Mars city design competition

through NMIT’s tutelage.

Darshini Later on, with the guidance and support from my senior Professors like Dr
NEWTEC, Sekhar Majumdar, Dr Kiran Aithal, Dr P G Mukunda and others, I decided to pursue

Space Science Institution my higher studies in Europe.I have done a Space Science MastersDegree from the

Specialization - Satellite University of Liege, Belgium with a specialization in Exoplanetology. Here I had the
Communication privilege to study about the newly discovered planetary system TRAPPIST-1 whilst
working with a renowned scientist in the same filed.

I currently work for NEWTEC, a Space-Technology based company specializing in Satellite Communication

worldwide.

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Testimonial When I joined NMIT to pursue my BE in Mechanical Engineering I was just
a blank page. I took there the first opportunity to be associated with a
Suraj R. Human Robot project. From the Professors and seniors there, I learnt
Masters Student in about inter-disciplinary engineering and the wide scope of work for a mechanical
Computational Mechanics engineer. The advice I got was to try everything so that at the end of four years I
Ecole Centrale de Nantes, will know what I want to do. My interests directed me first to design and build a
student Formula Car and later leading the team as the captain. All these activities
France with the support of the department taught me how to manage, lead and develop an
early professional attitude, interact with industry and so on. I found my passion in
fluid dynamics and did my thesis on Flow past Ellipses with the CFD Centre, NMIT
which has shaped my present now. Doing different things and working with peers of
different backgrounds helped me realise how to be the master of one trade but also a
jack of other trades. NMIT offers this unique platform. My choice of master’sproject
has been in that view where I can understand problems of solids and fluids and focus
on solving the problems computationally. With all these experiences from NMIT, I
helped creating the first formula student team here in our university and I am now
guiding and working with a group of international students while gaining a whole
range of new learning experiences.

Currently pursuing PhD at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin City
University(DCU), Ireland in the field of Computer Vision and Data Analytics
applied on Advanced Driver Assistance System(ADAS) for Autonomous
Driving Cars. When I reflect on my journey at NMIT, Bangalore starting as a Bachelor’s

student in ECE(2010), continuing as a Research Associate(2010-2013) at the Center

for Robotic Research(CRR) and later finishing my Master’s in 2015 with CNE(ISE),

I conclude that this years-long experience not only provided me an entry to the

field of research but also prepared me in various ways on how to proceed further to

build my professional career. Today, it gives me immense pleasure and pride to say

that I was associated with the Robotics Lab, NMIT since its inception to carry out

my Bachelor’s and Master’s projects in Computer Vision under the able guidance of

Dr. Jharna Majumdar. Head Robotics Lab.,NMIT which has later been established Venkatesh G.M.,
as the Centre for Robotics Research(CRR) with an amazing work-environment for PhD Scholar
carrying out multi-disciplinary projects which paved the path of research in new
scientific directions utilising one’s own specialties and eventually blending the Insight Centre for Data Analytics

concepts of basic scientific thoughts to the practical aspects of implementation Dublin City University,

in various technical projects carried out successfully at the centre ranging from Ireland

simple Pick and Place Robots to the most complex Autonomous Mobile Robots. My

experience gained through different challenging projects along with different team members in the CRR,NMIT boosted

my confidence and motivated me to continue working further in the field of Robotics. After finishing my masters degree,

I joined the Continental Automotive Components (India) Pvt. Ltd as a Senior Engineer where I was mostly involved with

the development of Computer Vision and Machine Learning algorithms for ADAS. While working with this company for

nearly three years, I realised the vital applications of the modern Artificial Intelligence techniques in industry and I was

further motivated to join the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, DCU at Ireland to pursue my PhD.

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Students Article Interviewee
M. Praveen Acharya
Interview Questions
(V.P,Cyient )
M. Praveen Acharya
Interviewers:
Guruprasad S
Aero 3rd year and
Mayur Mahale
Aero 3rd year

Two students from the Ostium team 1. As a leading figure in the electronics and
interviewed Mr. M Praveen Acharya, semiconductors industry, please tell us what
the current Vice President of Cyient initially interested you to take up Electronics and
Technologies, on the 6th of March at Communication as your Bachelor’s degree?
NMIT. He carries with himself over
33 years of experience spanning High A:
Reliability Electronics and Systems
Design to Semiconductor/ VLSI Design To be very honest about this, there was a time when my
and Engineering Business Management dad was in electronics because he was a radio engineer.
and Delivery for global semiconductor/ He used to work for the company called Murphy limited
system companies. The students had with their radios, which we used to listen to Vividh
a discussion with him ranging from Bharati or whatever. And those technologies at that time
the semiconductors industry and AI to were on valves and inevitably at home, he used to fiddle
skilling and management. around a lot with electronics. It caught my imagination
at that time as a young kid, much younger than what you
194 | OSTIUM - 2019 | NMIT are today. And then at the point when I had to make a
choice in my engineering career, I decided to be in the
electronic stream. Microelectronics in semiconductors,
what I do today, happened later in work that came out of
a need and that’s how my electronics career started. So
the trigger I should say is my dad.

2. There is a lot of difficulty faced by freshers today
in the Industry because of the so called “skill
gap” between what we learn in college and what

Students Article

actually gets implemented in the workplace. relevant to the students they are teaching. That is
What can students do to overcome this? and something that we have to do and hence the gap can
by extension, what should the industry do to be addressed. Everything is not sponsorship-based
develop skilled members of the workforce? rather it would be called as drive based or initiative-
based. With students what they can do. Knowing
A: that there exists a definite to gap, adequate summer
time internships may be taken up and the internship
Let’s take a snapshot of where things stand should be encouraged not from a point of view of
from what I think as a person from the industry. grade but encouraging the concept that, “if I have an
The curriculum that we go through in the colleges internship certificate it makes me feel much better
today, university or colleges is good to address than the others without it.”. The purpose should be to
some fundamental understanding but it is not identify the gap that is exists between the academic
something which is updated with time. And that curriculum and the industry. requirements. How do
is where the gap comes from. What we teach in I do something such that by the time I’m done with
colleges today becomes a base layer as we call it out my course, I also have the additional skills that will
about the fundamentals. But the practical layers of be relevant to the industry ? For example, today
understanding on top of that is something that is I have micro electronics and when we call young
missing and both are culprits. Industry is a culprit, electronics engineers fresh from colleges into our
I take the onus first, and the academia as well is a discussions for the industry on semiconductors side,
culprit; the way the gap can be addressed is that our we find their understanding about microelectronics
faculties need to be encouraged to come into the is pretty bad - of course with very few exceptions of
industry- learn and be a part of projects, be a part of the order of four or five out of a hundred candidates
their work environment. And then later, after some interviewed. But what we can do is, that we might
time, they need to come back to their academic explore if during the summer vacation they might
environment their first passion. It’s like upskilling go through a specialized two weeks’ concentrated
and if this upskilling happens, they can train, they can course in Micro Electronics where they learn some
coach or they can guide and mentor the students in more basics, which is not otherwise taught in the
the relevant stream be it science- be or Electronics,or college curriculum. That is something that has to be
Mechanical or whatever. But what’s happening in leveraged. Overseas universities follow this practice
our Indian context is that the collaborative efforts and offer credits or credit courses. So these are
between academia and industry or vice versa is fairly some very focused two to three weeks of specific sub
limited. We do a lip service to fill this particular gap. courses or special topics, which enables the students
We all say that, you know, our colleges do teach, but come up to some level matching to the expectation
what they teach is not related to the industry and of the industry. And this can be done alongside, not
the academia says that our industry is not passing necessarily in the campus, they can even come to the
the knowledge or the know-how to the universities industry. Like when I was graduating, I went to ITI for
or to the faculties. What is really required is a my internship. Like I never had the concept of going
relationship where the industry, have to connect up on a “Bharat Tour” for what they call as “industrial
to our academia. It’s like a marriage, if I can call it. Two learning” that really happens. But we never had that.
parties come together and they build a relationship We were forced to do a couple of courses or a couple
that goes forward. A college can tie up, with one of events inside one of the reputed companies like
or two companies and build a very close working BEL and ITI, that helped. But are all colleges doing
relationship where there is an exchange of faculty that or are all faculties pushing for that ? I don’t know
members and technical experts into the running and I therefore can’t comment.
projects. For example if there is a micro electronics
faculty here, I would love to see if that faculty can 3. Sir, out of technical curiosity: Moore’s law is
be a part of at least one of the projects that I do at coming to an end as we reach 7nm processes.
my company. Correct? And if that person gets that How will the VLSI industry adapt to this natural
particular knowledge, he or she can come back later barrier created by Physics? Is there any way to
to this academic world and then teach what they learn go even smaller?
from their industry experience and that becomes

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A: is a solution of an entire system for example, we may
talk about AI as an important topic.
Moore’s law is not running out of steam, materials
are running out of steam. We are moving from Now AI is a vast area, but when you cut it down
aluminium connect between transistors to copper into certain application areas, that vastness is
connect and from copper we might go to something reduced and then you find chip solutions to do that
else. The size of the transistor is reducing dramatically application. One of the examples I can give you is
where we are adding more and more capacity into the for a large processing company, we have designed
same square mm of the silicon chip. And we are now a graphics chip which encompasses AI algorithms
exploring newer chemicals or materials which can so that the entire processing of graphics for an
allow us to have a similar level of integration at lower application, let us say gaming or for an application
power. So in that context, Moore’s law is not really in defence, it is faster and more reliable. Instead of
running out of steam, it is the manufacturability and using a standard processor to do it, the AI algorithm is
the device physics, which is running differently today. hard coded into a chip. So it gives faster turnaround,
They’re already talking about a science or academia throughput is better and power potential is less. And
which defines transistors as thin as an atom, which then it is an IP or intellectual Property which is now
means that we are going much below a nanometer, embedded in the form of a chip rather than a piece
and we are going into the femtometer domain. of software. You do gaming right? You know how
important graphics is for the quality of your gaming
So there is a possibility that Moore’s Law still experience!
exists. It’s not driven out. It’s a material science, it
is the physics and also a degree of what we call the 5. In 2010 you co-founded Kromaspects with
integration challenges that we face in electronics your spouse Dr Vani Acharya. Could you
and that needs to be handled with care. So personally enlighten us about this venture?
I believe that the industry will invent certain new
materials or new processes because after a certain A:
degree of design and electronics, the rest of the
implementation of a chip is all about physics and The time when I came out of KPIT after forming
chemistry. It has nothing to do with electronics any a Semiconductors Group, I had a push from my wife
more and it is called lithography. Once the design is who is from the life sciences domain, specifically the
frozen. the emphasis is shifted to the manufacturing Pharma domain, as we call it, Pharmaceuticals. She
and materials side and there’s nothing to do with was grappling with a design idea for a product which
the design part of it. So there is room for further could help improve the productivity in the pharma
expansion - may be beyond the Moore’s Law. Some companies. It’s called as a quality of product or quality
other law may come into play where the complexity is of systems in a lab. So she conceptualized on some
doubling. The design rate or the cycle time for design product ideas from an application point of view, but
now gets shorter and shorter. Earlier we used to take to implement it, you need electronics. So I brought
three years to design a chip. Now it may be done in that particular knowledge and we created a couple
five months because there are excellent design tools of products for the pharma company. Today, one of
which enable us to achieve a higher productivity. But those products is a patented device which is obviously
at the same time, the tool is a tool. A garbage input owned by my wife because she is the creator of that
data may lead only to garbage data out. So we need to idea and I had to implement that. So because of that
make sure that we prepare the right information for we created a company called KromaspectsScitec
a tool to work to maintain the required productivity. Solutions and in that we had two divisions, one
focused on life sciences quality and then a business
4. Can you enlighten us on the key areas of unit which was focused on product development
research in the current Semiconductors using electronics, which I used to manage. Eventually
Technology? to cut the long story short, that particular group got
merged into Sankalp Semiconductors as a part of
A: strategic relationships. And then that eventually got
even further merged when we brought KPIT’s team
Today, what we look at is solutions, which is not into Sankalp. So then all of us together became KPIT
just the chip performing a given functionality, but it Semiconductors Pvt. Ltd. So the idea that time was to

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create not just a chip solution, but a product solution through Analytics. So vision systems, prediction and
for the Pharma Industry. And that exists under the some of the technologies that we use for production.
banner of Kromaspects. My wife still runs it and I am
one of the directors in her company. She’s the brain We need AI as the underlying technology. In
and I’m like the body of the company. one of the programs that we have at the company
which is actually and is sponsored by the corporate,
6. Cyient has a very diverse profile as an the corporate management of the company that
organisation serving for over 28 years in is and the CEO of the company has enabled what
multiple sectors like aerospace, defence, we call new business accelerator. It’s like having an
data analytics and many more. What new opportunity where the CEO and his management
technologies will the company adopt over the team is now a venture capital for teams in the
next few years, as technology is progressing company who can see the ideas and then build that
at a very rapid rate with AI and automation idea to a particular level of maturity. It could be proof
among other things? of concept and from proof of concept if it goes to
manufacturing ideas, then it can become a separate
A: business line for Cyient eventually. So these ideas
are seeded by every business unit, sponsored by the
The company(Cyient) is focused on business in top management and these are time bound, mission
the engineering stream only. We don’t do anything bound and delivery bound meaning that there has
on the IT side. In the engineering itself, we have to be certain deliverables. And of course internally
eight different business units. I come from one there’ll be a competition for submitting different
such business unit called semiconductors, IoT and ideas and seeing which of them fructifies. So all of
Analytics. The technologies that is in play today that is happening as a part of Cyient’s growth story
across all that we use, Analytics is a big part of it. because we don’t always wait for customers to tell
And analytics is enabled by computers, software us what to do. We have to be two steps ahead of
and hardware. If you want faster analytics, you have the customers most of the time. But there are times
to implement your analytics algorithms into a chip, when we have to also do what the customer wants us
that that would work faster for you. If you want to do because we are in services.
solutions, where you want to do a very efficient
production in your shop floor in any manufacturing 7. As a successful technical manager, how can
industry you need IoT. So we are investing a lot in engineers develop the necessary skill set to
these domains to create solutions for customers. balance the technical aspects of any job along
Either based on customer’s challenge statement with the managerial considerations?
or what we call problem statement they give or by
our study of that particular industry and we foresee A:
what are the challenges that they are likely to face
and therefore what solutions we need to have. These I guess managerial skills is a part of our interactive
will also encompass certain advanced technologies learning. There’s no book that will teach you how to be
of machine learning, artificial intelligence and vision friendly with a person and non-friendly with another
systems. Because today a lot of our manufacturing person. There’s no book that you learn from each
practices is by deploying more manpower and you other. It’s called adaptive. How do you survive with
know, you have supervisors over supervisors looking other members in the hostel? Do you like everybody?
at various manufacturing set ups is not necessarily You have adapted. You’d not like everybody at the day
the most productive environment because humans one and you will learn how to deal with each person
make mistakes. But then if you’re deploying vision for that person’s behavior and that’s called adaptive.
system where the vision or the cameras take images, In any kind of a managerial responsibility, one of the
..........and these images can be processed. And by best things to do and to learn is to “observe”. And that
processing that we will get to know whether a is a big teacher for us. We can never learn by just
particular production line is giving the required being the first person.
quality or the production is low or whether we can
enhance the production volume and optimize the We can sometimes learn being the second person.
time. All of that analysis can be done, which we call You have to observe, understand people, understand
how to work with them, and then get into the practice

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of working with them, not in theoretical terms. You computerization helped them to do that. The same
have to practice. If a person is very difficult to deal people, you know, if I just stepped back from a labour
with, maybe in a hostelite’s life, there’s one person point of view, there were bankers association, the
she wants to get friendly with, but the person is employees associations, which fought tooth and nail
behaving differently. If she gives up then she stops saying that don’t computerize the banks.
learning. If she says no, this is a challenge, I want to
be friendly to that particular person and therefore Because they thought, if a guy sits with the ledger
she continuously makes an attempt to connect up to and does the accounting then 20 people will be kept
communicate; that will make her a better manager at busy. A computer will do it just like that. But when the
some point. I’m just giving this as an example. There’s computer does it just like that, there is one person
no book on what we call the human relationships. required for that, but it creates an opportunity for
There are guidelines, but there’s nothing called “book 20 more people to do 20 different things. So AI is
for dummies”. It’s something that we practice. In my something like that today. It is disruptive from the
life of work there have been times when I have been way that there are certain activities, certain level
challenged by some very difficult people, but those of quality that we require, which even a human will
are also the people that I have to deal with saying make mistakes in. That is where we can apply AI, even
that I shouldn’t give up. If I give up, I stop learning. if we have an excess in manpower. If it takes three
So the tough people in your career come up because people to work in three shifts to cover 24 hours for a
they are a benefit to you. There are actually, if I can given human productivity, I could have the computer
use the term, a silver bullet or they are actually the to do that with a vision system, say with the same
people who hold the torch for you, we can’t shy away productivity, I can get in say eight hours, which
from that. means the other two people which we would have
deployed there now I could deploy in a better way
So it’s a learning which comes with practice to other areas, perhaps into a new product, perhaps
and I was not a born manager. I was never taught to a new service or perhaps into something different
management of people in my engineering course where it makes a big difference for them as well as
when I did it in 1986. They also advised us to learn for the company.
electronics and it is useful. That’s it. Beyond that we
didn’t know much. Computerization was thought to be a threat to
manpower in a manpower-rich country like India
8. AI has been classified as a disruptive but this is where we are doing the majority of the
technology. What do you think its impact will development in computers today. So it’s a fear. It’s a
be in a country like India where we already fear that, you know, computers will overtake human
have a population problem but AI seeks to beings or AI will overtake human beings. AI will
make things more efficient by replacing certain never replace a human being because human being
tasks in the factory? inherently has one level of more cognition than AI.
So we have some sensors which is not duplicated on
A: the AI side. Through AI, you can identify a vision or
you can identify, perhaps a touch, but there are other
Twenty years ago, computerization and banks, faculties, which you cannot really do it. That is why
it wasn’t autographs, right? People will, if you bring AI is an enabler. It is never a threat. We can make it a
computers into the banks, a million people will lose threat, by misusing it, but then that’s not the purpose
their jobs. Right. Did it happen? No. Efficiencies in the of technology.
banking systems went up which strengthened the
economy also. The people who were not computer-
literate learned how to use computers within the
banks and they created ideas. They created software.
They created processes which allowed the banks
to do the same business what they were doing in a
much more efficient manner at a lower cost with a
lower footprint in terms of operations and they could
do 25 more branches for the same money instead
of having one branch for the same money because

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