August 25, 2010 School of Engineering, Bengaluru R. Karthkeyan, Assistant Professor, ECE Department at Bengaluru, recently returned from the University of Turku in Finland after spending nearly nine months there as a Ph.D. research scholar. This opportunity to study abroad was made available to him through Erasmus Mundus’s India 4 EU program. Given below is a report by him of his work and e
An Amrita research paper titled Real-Time Monitoring and Detection of Heart Attack using Wireless Sensor Networks was awarded the best paper at SENSORCOMM 2010, the 4th International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications. Authored by Kala John K., third semester M. Tech. student of Amrita’s Wireless Networks and Applications program and Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Head of the Department, the research paper will be included in IEEE X
August 25, 2010 Health Sciences Campus, Kochi Smt. P. K. Sreemathi Teacher, the Honorable Minister for Health in Kerala was at the Health Sciences campus in Kochi recently to inaugurate two unique postgraduate programs. DM (Doctor of Medicine) in Pulmonary Medicine was begun as also MDS (Master of Dental Surgery); the former by the School of Medicine and the latter by the School of Dentistry. The H
August 19, 2010 School of Engineering, Bengaluru The optical fiber revolutionized telecommunications, making possible many of the developments we take for granted today. Narinder Singh, a physicist of Indian origin, is widely acknowledged as the father of the optical fiber. Now research in India is helping take this technology forward. Much work in happening, for instance, in WDM or wavelength-division mu
August 19, 2010 School of Engineering, Bengaluru Students at the Amrita School of Engineering in Bengaluru have been busy. As part of one or more forums, they have had the opportunity to participate in several activities this year. “We encouraged all departments to start clubs and forums that could provide the right platform for learning activities by students,” stated Dr. Rakesh, Associate Dean of th
August 19, 2010 School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri Six research papers written by students of the Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT) were recently accepted for presentation at major international conferences. “Peer-reviewers requested no additional changes and recommended the papers for direct acceptance,” proudly stated Dr. Shyam Diwakar, Assistant Professor at ASBT, who guided the students to wr
August 17, 2010 School of Engineering, Amritapuri M.Tech. students of Wireless Networks and Applications in Amritapuri, in addition to attending their regular classes, also make the trek to college every Sunday and Monday to attend a special 2-hour class on both days. The class is special because it is taught by a faculty member not on their campus, but half way across the world.
August 17, 2010 School of Engineering, Coimbatore Stress and relax. One may perhaps sometimes think of these two words in the same context. But is it also possible to read these two words from the same letters? Apparently yes. It is possible when the words are written in the form of an ambigram,” informs S. Gowtham, final-year CSE student at Coimbatore campus. Having worked on th
This year, as in all previous years, student members of Amrita Sanjeevani, the seva association at Amritapuri campus, got together on India’s Independence Day for seva. They worshipped Bharat Mata by cleaning roads and waysides, sorting the trash and disposing it in an environmentally sound manner. Below is a report by the student team that spearheaded these cleaning efforts. Inspired by our beloved Am
September 4, 2010 Amrita School of Business, Amritapuri B-School faculty from all four Amrita campuses viz. Amritapuri, Bengaluru, Coimbatore and Kochi recently came together for a one-day retreat at the Amritapuri campus. Addressing the assembled faculty, Br. Abhayamrita Chaitanya, Pro-Chancellor, recalled Chancellor Amma’s words, underlining her emphasis on research. “When we conduct
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