The Department of Social Work, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham organized a two day training program on “Anti-Human Trafficking Interventions with a special focus on Labor Exploitation” at the Coimbatore campus on April 16-17, 2015.
The innovator Vishnu Padmanaban and his team member M. Ramesh Nachiappan, final-year students of BTech (Mechanical Engineering) of 2010-2014 batch at the Coimbatore campus received awards for their innovative product, “Cost Effective Vegetable Chiller for Rural Small Farmers.”
Vishnu Padmanaban of Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, was selected to represent the national member society, SAE India, for the FISITA Travelling Fellowship Award. He also presented a paper at the FISITA Student Congress 2014 held from 2-6 June 2014, in MECC Maastricht Conference Venue, the Netherlands. Vishnu Padmanabanis a final year Mechanical Engineering student of 2010-2014 batch.
Vijayalakshmi S., from Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore campus, was selected to represent India at ESOMAR’s APAC 2015 Conference to be held in Singapore. She is from the Institute’s 2013-2015 batch of marketing majors and has always had a penchant for the subject. She had prior work experience of about three years in mainline advertising from premier agencies in India such as Lowe Lintas and RKSwamy BBDO before taking up her MBA at Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore.
Nazneen P. Kotwal, the final year student from the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was the winner of the coveted TCS Best Student Award for the year 2015.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s academic and student initiatives, such as industry electives and ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Asia Pacific Regional contest, were showcased by the Infosys Campus Connect leadership as pioneering initiatives in industry-institute interaction at the Infosys Principals Meet on March 13, 2015.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, one of the leading universities in southern India signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with Vrije University of Amsterdam.
The 5th edition of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s annual national-level student technical festival, “Anokha 2015” was held at the Coimbatore campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham from March 5-7, 2015.
The Media Convention, ‘Media Musings’ held on 20th March to mark the occasion of the 10th Anniversary celebrations of Amrita School of Communication started with a brisk inaugural address in which the Dean of Amrita School of Engineering, Dr. Sasangan Ramanathan, succinctly summarised the idea behind a journalistic education, the ability to ask ‘why’ even under difficult circumstances
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham MSW (Master of Social Work) admissions open for the academic year 2015