The 4th Amrita Anaesthesia Refresher Course 2017 (AARC), was conducted by the Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, on 1st October, 2017, at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences. Dr. Sanjeev K. Singh, Medical Superintendent, Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi, was the chief guest of the event.
AmritaCREATE, one of the research initiatives of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs for School Lab Experiments at Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, on September 9, 2017. The workshop was attended by seventy science teachers from seventeen schools.
A technical talk was organized by the Department of Management and Commerce, School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus, in collaboration with ‘YUVA’ on the topic ‘Uncovering the Management Lessons of the Bhagavad Gita’ on October 11, 2017, for the students of BBA Semester I and B.Com. Semester III of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus.
The IEEE Student Branch Chapter, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, won the “The Darrel Chong Student Activity Award” for the year 2017 under gold category, for the International Symposium on Education, Technology and Entrepreneurship (ISEE) 2016.
A Faculty Development Program on various funding agencies and ways to submit funding proposals was held at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus, on October 16, 2017.
A hands-on session on installation, configuration and network setup in Hadoop Distributed Environment was conducted at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus, on October 16, 2017.
Vikas Brahmavar, a former student of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (2002 Batch), Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore campus, has set up a company, TransWaters Private Limited, that treats water after STP treatment to potable quality.
The 12th issue of SAMVIT, the Bi-Annual Cultural Magazine, was released by Prof. R. Vaidyanathan, former Professor of Finance, IIM Bangalore, who has been featured in Thinkers50 India list, on 3rd October, 2017, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus.
A training program on Online Labs for School Lab Experiments, one of the educational research project of AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, was held at the Ashram Public School, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, on September 22, 2017. Fifty-two science teachers from ten schools participated in the training programme.
A seminar on various process models of software engineering which support agile process development was held at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus, on October 16, 2017.