MAHE certified naac a
The Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, has been accorded the highest rank ‘A’ by the National Assessment & Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bangalore. This accreditation is valid for five years.
A NAAC team consisting of 17 academicians, including vice chancellors, pro vice chancellors, directors and professors visited the Manipal University campuses in Manipal, Mangalore and Bangalore in May 2016 and assessed the University and its constituent units on the basis of pre-defined criteria.
These include curricular aspects, teaching-learning and evaluation, research, consultancy and extension, Infrastructure and learning resources, student support and progression, governance, leadership and management and innovations and best practices are also taken into account.
Each criteria has key aspects and NAAC grades the institutions for each under four categories viz A, B, C and D, denoting very good, good, satisfactory and unsatisfactory levels respectively.
Dr Ramdas M Pai, president and chancellor, Manipal University, said: “I am glad of the Grade ‘A’ accreditation. We have never compromised on the need for maintaining excellent standards and this recognition will inspire our university to aim at performing better.”
The Centre for Fertility Preservation, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, has also achieved a milestone by providing fertility preservation care to cancer-affected pre-pubertal boys, in collaboration with University of Muenster, Germany.
In a first of its kind programme in the country, the recently established centre has successfully cryopreserved testicular stem cells from two boys diagnosed with lymphoma.
sign language converter
Students of Amrita School of Engineering’s Amrita Robotics Research lab (ARRl) have developed a ‘smart glove’ called Mudra which converts hand gestures based on Indian sign language into spoken English, potentially paving the way for speech-impaired individuals to communicate more effectively with others. The feat was achieved by a team of four BTech students — Abhijith Bhaskaran, Anoop G Nair, Deepak Ram and Krishnan Ananthanarayanan — mentored by HR Nandi Vardhan, Asst Professor, Dept of ECE, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita University.
The lightweight MUDRA glove can be worn like a riding glove. It recognises hand gestures in all directions and angles using flex resistors, accelerometer and gyroscope.
ryan investiture ceremony
leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. This is the vision that Chairman of the Ryan Group of Institutions (RGI) Dr Augustine F Pinto and MD Grace Pinto have for their institution as an enriching platform for students to develop essential skills of leadership and diplomacy.
In compliance with this vision of creating future leaders, the investiture ceremony of the Student Parliament 2016-2017 was held at Ryan International School, Vasant Kunj, on July 12, 2016.
This occasion was graced by the presence of Rajesh Aggarwal, principal secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship who encouraged the young leaders and made the occasion momentous.
All the members of the student parliament took an oath to work relentlessly and with responsibility towards the welfare of the school.
super computer developed
A team of students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Rama University, under the guidance of VC Dr Rushen Chahal, developed an experimental super computer based on linux operating system.
It works on MPICH, said to be a high performance and portable implementation of Message Passing Interface (MPI) and widely used in super computer generation.
Development of PARAM-8000 by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) was the inspiration among students as the USA denied a super computer to India due to arms embargo imposed on India in 1980 as they believed that India can use it to develop nuclear weapons.
Chahal said that the development of this super computer will provide an acceleration among young students to take great challenges to invent new types of digital gadgets which will be helpful for industries to ease their work.
For this, they are providing them a right preparatory guidance to work on these types of projects.
doctoral fellows inducted
The MDI Gurgaon, one of the leading B-schools in India, inducted a new batch of doctoral students into its Doctoral Programme: Fellow Programme in Management (FPM)/Executive Fellow Programme in Management (EFPM).
The event saw the students being greeted with a welcome address by Prof CP Shrimali, acting director, MDI Gurgaon. He elaborated, “The doctoral course in management is one of the prime areas of focus for the institution as it contributes greatly to the academic enrichment of the management scenario of our country.”
It was an enriching experience for students who are ready to dedicate themselves to the cause of identifying and solving economic problems through research and knowledge.
Prof MP Jaiswal, Dean, Research & Accreditation, MDI Gurgaon, inspired the students to undertake rigorous interdisciplinary research in management.
The programme has been appreciated for its year-round focus on providing stimulating seminars, discussions and knowledge-sharing sessions that hone the intellectual skills of its students.