The students of Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore have won the silver and bronze medals at the prestigious 20th Student Management Games (SMG 2016) – Southern Regional Rounds and South Finale held at Sri Krishna Institutions, Coimbatore on 6th-7th October, 2016.
B.Sc. Respiratory Therapy students of Amrita Centre for Allied Health Sciences, Kochi, won prizes for intercollegiate poster and quiz competition held as part of the 10th National Conference of Respiratory Therapists (RESCARE – 2016) at CMC Vellore held during October 6-8, 2016.
Mr. Edwin Jegam, HR – Head Corporate Accounts TCS, presented the “TCS Best Student Project Award 2016” to Srivenkata Krishnan S., Sundarrajan G., Kiran Kassyap S. of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, for the project titled, “A Robust Approach for Improving the Accuracy of IMU based Indoor Mobile Robot Localization”, guided by Dr. Vidhya Balasubramanian, Associate Professor, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore on 30th September, 2016.
Students from Amrita Health Sciences Campus, Kochi won the championships of the inter-campus basketball tournament (both men and women) held at Amritapuri, Kollam from September 8th-10th, 2016. Ram Vibhakar of 4th year BDS was selected as the Best Player of the Tournament.
The team of 2012 batch MBBS students of Amrita School of Medicine comprising of Aaditya Rameshwara and Jishnu Narayanan Nair won first prize in the Compos Mentis 2016 – National Forensic Medicine and Toxicology Quiz conducted by Kasturba Medical College, Manipal on September 15, 2016.
The Formula category racing car designed and built by students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has won multiple awards, including the National Award for ‘Best Appearance at SUPRA 2016, a national engineering contest organised by SAE India. The car also received third place overall and bagged the second prize in design and cost estimation categories.
Amrita MBA Program, Kochi Campus added another feather to its cap as it was chosen by McGrawHill Education (MHE) to launch the first-ever ‘McGraw Hill SmartBook Champions’ award. The ‘SmartBook Champions’ award honors the top performing students of courses based on the innovative SmartBook platform from McGraw Hill Education.
Amrita MBA students from Amritapuri campus secured the 2nd spot in the national Startup Weekend contest powered by Google, conducted on 5th, 6th and 7th August 2016.
The Rover Phoenix, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Mars Rover team, secured 4th position among the 40 teams in the UK University Rover Challenge (UKURC) held at Manchester, UK from July 23-24, 2016.
An MBA student of Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore, Vignesh Viswanathan, Class of 2017, won the second place under ‘Best Presentation-Manufacturing’ category, for his presentation “Process Design for Reducing Customer Returns of Castings” at a workshop organized by Indian Statistical Institute, Coimbatore. Titled “Smart Solutions to Wicked Problems”, the workshop focused on statistical techniques for business process improvements and was held at Codissia Trade Fair Complex, Coimbatore.
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