Adding a new milestone, the School of Agricultural Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, was inaugurated on August 9, 2019, by Swami Ramakrishnananda Puri (Mata Amritanandamayi Math), Prof. S. K. Barik (Director, National Botanical Research Institute) and Mr. A. Shanmugham (MLA, Kinathukadavu Constituency, Tamil Nadu).
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.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham opened its 6th campus at Chennai on July 29, 2019. As of now, the new campus hosts a School of Engineering offering undergraduate engineering (B.Tech.) programs in Computer Science, Civil, Electronics & Communications, Electrical & Electronics and Mechanical.
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.
Team bi0s from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, will attend the ISITDTU CTF 2019 Finals on August 10, 2019, at Vietnam.
Dr. Minu Rosamma Joseph, First year PG Scholar, Department of Shalyatantra, School of Ayurveda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, secured second prize in the poster presentation competition at THARVA-19 National Seminar on Emergency Management – An Ayurveda Approach, held at Government Ayurveda College, Trivandrum, from July 3-4, 2019.
Dr. Anupama.J. Dileep, Dr. Aswathy Krishna and Dr. Ashita Ali, PG scholars from the Department of Shalakyatantra, School of Ayurveda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, won first, second and third prize respectively for presenting scientific papers at Prayukta 2019 – National Seminar on Parasurgical Methods conducted by Sree Narayana Institute of Ayurvedic Studies and Research, Pangode, Puthoor, on June 28, 2019.
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.
The students of the Department of Visual Media and Communication, School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi campus, won first prize for their documentary ‘Prathichaya’ at the 12th International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) held at Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala, from June 21-26, 2019.
Team bi0s from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, participated in Troopers 19 Conference, held at Germany from March 18-22, 2019.
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