A team of four students of the Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs, Department of Electronics and Communication, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, were selected to the elite team from selected countries to participate in the 29th edition of RoboCon International Design Contest (IDC) 2018 to be held at Tokyo Institute of Technology from August 6-18, 2018.
On March 23, 2018, Amrita’s Virtual Laboratories and its deployment outcomes won the GOLC Online Lab Award 2018 for visualized experiment category.
Mr. Sivanand Devarakonda, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru Campus, has been awarded a scholarship to pursue the master’s programme at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. The scholarship came after he bagged the first prize at the KTH Master’s Challenge 2018.
The Department of Civil Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore Campus, conducted an interactive talk session with Dr. E. Sreedharan, on February 26, 2018. He received a very warm welcome from the professors and students alike.
Dr. Maya Mahajan, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore Campus, received the International Women Achiever Award 2018 at the International Women’s Meet held on March 3, 2018, at Chennai.
The Computer Society of India (CSI) branch of Amrita School of Engineering (ASE), Coimbatore, which is hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), has set a unique national record by securing the ‘Best Accredited CSI Student Branch in India’ award for the seventh consecutive year.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, jointly won the Aegis Graham Bell Awards (AGBA) 2017 in the Innovation in mHealth category.
Mr. Nara Chandrababu Naidu, the Honourable Chief Minister (CM) of Andhra Pradesh and Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri, President of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, jointly laid the foundation stone of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amaravati campus, on February 7, 2018.
Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri, Vice-Chairman, Mata Amritandanandamayi Math and President of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, addressed the distinguished audience at the second day of the New Indian Express’s ThinkEdu Conclave.
Amrita Vasudha, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized an awareness session on the topic, “Saukhyam Reusable Pads” on 2nd November, 2017 at the Amritapuri Campus as well as on 3rd November, 2017 at Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi.