In yet another successful demonstration of the innovation ecosystem at Amrita, student teams, ‘Unorthodox Inc’ and ‘Yorkers’ from the School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, have made a mark in international hackathons and secured top ranks. Unorthodox Inc. was ranked in the top 25 out of 10,000 teams worldwide in the 7th edition of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) EngiNX 2019 engineering design & innovation contest.
Dr. Kalyani Suresh, Vice Chairperson, Department of Mass Communication, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, was awarded the Prof. Indira Parikh 50 Women in Education Leaders award on July 4, 2019, at the Taj Lands End, Mumbai.
A two-week Indo-French Summer Camp on Technology & Culture was held at the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, from July 8-19, 2019.
Teams SAK, Bend and Vindicators, three student teams from the School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, have been ranked among the top 15 teams nation-wide in the Cisco ThingQbator program.
Prof. Prashant R. Nair, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, has been named as an IEEE Region 10 (R10) Newsletter Editor.
The students from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, along with Professor Dr. Vidhya Balasubramanian, won “Best Paper Runner-up Award” for their paper titled “A Dynamic Weighted Trilateration Algorithm for Indoor Localization using Dual-band WiFi” at the 17th International Symposium on Web & Wireless Geographical Information Systems, held at Kyoto, Japan, from May 16-17, 2019.
Ruthvik Chandrasekaran, a former student of the Department of Aerospace Engineering (2013 Batch), School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, won first place in the Georgia Tech (GT) College of Sciences’ Art Crawl competition.
Dr. Shriram K. Vasudevan, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, was awarded “Top Innovator” at Intel SA and Innovator Summit – 2019 held at Bengaluru, from June 13-15, 2019.
MSW students of the Department of Social Work, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, rallied on June 26, 2019, to mark the annual International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
As part of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)’s knowledge exchange initiative and sharing of best practices of Amrita with other higher educational institutions, Prof. Prashant R. Nair, Chairman, IQAC, addressed 100+ faculty from various departments of Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering & Technology (SSIT), Coimbatore, in a Faculty -Development Program (FDP) held June 18-19, 2019.
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