Sixteen students of Amrita School of Engineering were selected to Google Summer of Code’s and Outreachy project internships. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham nationally stands 3rd in the number of Google Summer of Code selects among other universities. Amrita is the youngest institution to reach the top three positions in the list. IIIT Hyderabad and BITS stood ahead of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Dr. Sanjay Banerji, Founder Dean and Professor Emeritus, Amrita School of Business (ASB) Coimbatore was invited by Dr. Cecep Effendi, Director General, Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) to visit Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore (ASBC) completed its summer placements for its entire batch of 128 students of Class of 2017, with manufacturing firms hiring the most number of students.
Dr. R. Raghu Raman, Chairman, Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore, was invited to speak at the 2nd Asian Management Conclave (AMC), Singapore on March 7th-8th, 2016. The conference, organized by MBAUniverse.com and hosted by Singapore Management University (SMU), focused on the theme, ‘Enhancing Competitiveness of Asian B-schools’.
In order to enhance the knowledge of our heritage and history amongst our student community, the Department of Cultural Education, Coimbatore campus, arranged a three day heritage tour to prominent cultural and religious sites in the state of Karnataka, during Yugadi (Ugadi) – the Telugu New Year.
The Department of Cultural Education conducted a one-day Symposium on Indian History and Culture on 23rd April 2016 at the Ettimadai campus. The symposium received an overwhelming response from the students and faculty community and recorded more than 400 participants. Amrita alumni, parents of students, and teachers and students from colleges and schools in and around Coimbatore also participated in this programme.
Amrita Students won Cisco’s first-ever “Great Digital India Challenge – iDeate” – an event focused on Internet of Things (IoT) based ideation challenge for India. The first prize for the project SMART WATER includes Rs. 2,50, 000 and was awarded to Amrita School of Engineering Coimbatore’s Akshay, Surya, Parthasarathy and Murali Siva, 3rd year B.Tech. Electrical and Electronics Engineering students.
Dr. Dietmar Jennewein, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Plastics Engineering, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany visited the Amritapuri and Coimbatore campuses in early 2016.
Brave New Woman in a Brave New World is a series of sensitization programs planned for B.Tech. female students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Coimbatore campus. A program held on April 6,2016, helped the students to understand and appreciate the role of young women personally and in society.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was featured in the International Comparative Research Base (2009-14) – A Bibliometric Analysis.
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