On 21st January, 2019, a senior administration team from O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, comprising of Dr. Y.S.R. Murthy, Registrar and Dr. Indranath Gupta, Controller of Examinations, visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus.
On Thursday, 10th January, 2019, The Institution Innovation Council (IIC) at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham organised its second workshop on the topic ‘Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)’.
As part of the Live-in-Labs® program, Engineering students from Coimbatore campus visited the Dewgain village in Namkum tehsil, Ranchi, Jharkhand. Even though about 90% of the population of Dewgain village are dependent on agriculture, severe water scarcity during the summer months had caused the agricultural yield in the village to go down in recent years.
In an intercollegiate rapid style chess tournament held at Kollam on December 9th, 2018, the Amrita chess team, comprising of four players, grabbed second prize which included Rs. 3000 cash prize, trophies and certificates.
On 11th January, 2018, Prof. Prashant R. Nair (Chairman, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has showcased Amrita Educational Technology Innovations at SNS College of Engineering, Coimbatore.
The ACM ICPC 2018 Asia-Amritapuri Multi-site Regional Contest was held on December 29, 2018, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri and Coimbatore campuses This years’ ICPC Asia-Amritapuri multi-site regional contest witnessed more than 275 teams from premier institutions like IITs, IIITs, NITs and IISc from India and Bangladesh.
A hands-on session on programming with Scala and Spark languages was conducted on 21st and 22nd December, 2018.
The 15th edition of IEEE INDICON 2018, the flagship conference of the IEEE India Council organized by IEEE Madras Section, with technical support of IIT Madras, was held at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus from 16th to 18th December.
On 19th December 2018, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Navy for collaboration in aerospace, anti-submarine warfare, cybersecurity, management, and medical research.
Arumuga Rajan, a student from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, participated in the peace summit of emerging leaders.