Programs
- M. Tech. in Automotive Engineering -
- B. Sc. Clinical Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science - Undergraduate
AmritaCREATE, a research and development institution of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, conducted an Online Labs training program at Sarvodaya Vidyalaya, Delhi, on January 19, 2017. Forty-three science teachers from eighteen schools participated in the training programme.
A healthcare research project at Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (AmritaWNA) has been focusing on developing affordable and indigenous sensors, healthcare data analytics techniques, and communication architectures for use in sparsely connected regions in India.
Asha Vijayan, Chaitanya Nutakki (PhD students), Dhanush Kumar, a computer engineer, and Dr. Shyam Diwakar, based at the Computational Neuroscience Lab at Amrita School of Biotechnology, are working on bio-inspired robotics.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs at The Spice Valley Public School, Bodinayakkanur, TamilNadu, on January 7, 2017. Eighty-three science teachers participated in the workshop.
Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri, and Cochin Refineries School, Ambalamukal, Kochi, Kerala, conducted a one day coding camp for high school students, CodePRO, on 14 January, 2017. A similar workshop was conducted by Amrita School of Engineering faculty members for the high school teachers in November 2016. This workshop was a sequel to the one which was organized for teachers.
RAHA 2016, an International Conference on Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications, was held December 18- 20, 2016, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus.
Amrita TBI, the government recognized technology business incubator of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is hosting the fifth edition of the popular national startup program titled Amrita TBI PitchFest on Jnauary 28- 29, 2017.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri campus, won two prestigious awards at the recently held International Conference on Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications RAHA 2016, Amritapuri, during December 18-20, 2016.
The Instrumentation Development Program (IDP) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, has extended a 2 year grant of more than Rs 4 million for further development and creation of a viable remote ECG Monitoring system for postoperative and high-risk cardiac patients. As an industry partner, Amrita Technologies will be also be a contributing entity in this project. The project is being spearheaded by Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh from AmritaWNA, Dr. Natarajan from AIMS and Mr. Pradeep Achan from Amrita Technologies.
Dr. Sujay Chattopadhyay, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, with established expertise in Computational Genomics, visited the Amrita School of Biotechnology on December 14th, 2016. He gave a very insightful talk on “Adaptive Evolution in Microbial Genomes”, as a part of the invited lecture series.