Programs
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Activities
Dr. Anantha Narayanan V., Assistant Professor and Dr. Shunmuga Velayutham C., Vice Chairperson and Associate Professor, Department of Computer Scince Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham , Coimbatore, attended the IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (IEEE EDUCON 2019), organized by American University in Dubai, from April 9-11, 2019.
Workshop on Kotlin
A Workshop on Kotlin was conducted by ASCII supported by ACM, CSI chapters, on November 2, 2019, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus.
AiSmart Hackathon
Aismart Hackathon was conducted by the Association of Students of Computer Science for Information Interchange (ASCII), sponsored by Intel Software and IETE.
Workshop on Introduction to Blockchain
A Workshop on Introduction to Blockchain was conducted by the Association of Students of Computer Science for Information Interchange (ASCII) on August 5, 2019.
Workshop on IoT and Drones for Beginners
A workshop on IoT and Drones was conducted by the leadingindia.ai for first year and second year engineering students on March 16 – 17, 2019.
Top Coder Coding Contest
The department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimabatore campus, hosted a programming contest co-organized by Topcoder on March 10, 2019. Harshit Mehta, Senior Community Evangelist / Topcoder, Inc., was the resource person.
Kaavya S (CB.EN.U4CSE16214)
Keerthana S (CB.EN.U4CSE16531)
We had been shortlisted for CISCO WIT Hackathon 2019 held on 14, March 2019 at Bengaluru. The event started with key notes from prominent women employees of CISCO, followed by a Q&A session. We then had the Hackathon which lasted for an hour and half. It comprised of 5 Questions: 2 Easy, 2 Medium and 1 Hard level question. The questions were based on Dynamic Programming, Graph and Greedy Algorithms. We were then taken for lunch and the results of the hackathon were announced after that. We were shortlisted for the interview round.
The interview had a panel of two members. We were asked questions based on our projects and areas of interests. We were then asked to wait for sometime and were then informed as being selected for the internship. We were then given the offer letter and some goodies.
We thank Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham for having guided us to excel in our actions.
IETE Sponsored Workshop on New Generation Big Data Tools & Techniques
A hands-on session on programming with Scala and Spark languages was conducted on 21st and 22nd December, 2018. In this era of smart devices, universal internet connectivity and IoT, managing big data efficiently becomes an absolute necessity. Big Data is defined as technologies and initiatives that involve data that is too diverse, fast-changing or massive for conventional technologies, skills and infrastructure to address efficiently.
Game of Codes – One day Workshop on Problem Solving and Coding
The “Game of Codes” Workshop on Python Programming and Introduction to Competitive Coding was conducted on November 3, 2018, by the Code @ Amrita club of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus.
Mathworks – IoT and Machine Learning Workshop
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Coimbatore Conducted a workshop on IoT and Machine Learning on September 17th 2018.
Workshop on Bringing Computational Thinking to Schools
The Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, organized a half-day workshop on Bringing Computational Thinking to Schools on July 31, 2018 at Muralikrishna Hall – CIR Building, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.
Intel – AI workshop
This 1-Day training program is targeted at those who want to learn the basics of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. The training provides an overview of AI fundamentals on modern Intel® architecture, by reviewing the types of problems that could be solved, understanding the building blocks, learning the fundamentals of building models in Machine Learning & Deep Learning and Exploring key algorithms.
Attendees: M.Tech. (CSE I Year), Research Scholars, B.Tech.Students – 70 Attendees.
Organized by: Dr. Shriram KV and Dr. S. Thangavelu
Scala and Spark Workshop 2018
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Coimbatore has organized IETE Sponsored “Workshop on Scala and Spark” at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore on 16th and 17th March 2018.
Intel IoTHackathon – 2018
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Coimbatore Conducted a workshop on Intel IoTHackathon – 2018 on September 23, 2018.
Shakti Women in Computing
Shakti-Women in computing workshop was conducted by Department of Computer Science and Engineering in association with ACM student chapter and was collocated with Anokha 2018.
Workshop 1 Java Selenium by CodeTantra
The workshop in forenoon session was conducted by Ms. Gayathri S –Associate Vice-President of CodeTantra on Java and Selenium from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. The workshop began with an explanation of Core Java and Selenium followed by a hands-on session. Around 30 students attended the workshop.
Hands on Training Session on Image Processing
Dr. T. SenthilKumar, Associate Professor and K. S. Gautam, Ph. D. Scholar of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, conducted a Hands-on Training Session on Image Processing for the Employees of L&T Technology Services, Mysore from June 19-23, 2017.
The session concentrated on concepts of teaching Image acquisition & generation, Image color depths, Image enhancement, Image Transformation, Image quality restoration, Image segmentation. The session was covered with hands-on training using Mat lab for learning the image processing concepts. The session also covered K-Means clustering, Neural Network for Image Classification. The session was done in a practical manner with the participants trying to experiment and validate their learnings through Mini project.
One Day Workshop on Networks
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore conducted one day workshop on NETWORKS to III semester B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering students on 22nd July 2017 at Seminar hall I in Amriteswari building.
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (India), 2017
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (India) is India’s largest gathering of women technologists. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (India) is India’s largest gathering of women technologists. It is produced by the Anita Borg Institute and presented in partnership with ACM India. Radhika K. and Devika K. of M.Tech(Computer Science) and Bindu K. R., Faculty Sponsor, Amrita ACM Student Chapter attended The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (India) at Bangalore on November 16-17, 2017. Bindu K. R. was an organizing committee member in Data Science and Machine learning track. The students and faculty obtained scholarship for complimentary registration for GHCI 17 which was sponsored by ACM and ABI India.
Live-in-Labs Project
Live-in-Labs project course for scheduled during the vacation period in the month of June for a period of 15 days including 6 days workshop and village visit. From our department 4 faculty members and 2 students were involved. Faculty members visited to the villages identified to identify the problems to be solved which can make the village self-reliant. Following faculty members visited the villages
| Faculty | Village Visited | Problem Addressed |
| B.A.Sabarish | Byse, Karnataka | Income Generation |
| Vidhya. S | Kali Nagar, West Bengal | Income Generation |
| M.Divya | Dewgain, Jhargand | Agriculture |
| G.Radhika | Dunda, Uttarkand | Agriculture |
Coding Challenge
A coding challenge was conducted for the first year students by ASCII, Student chapters of ACM and CSI on April 26, 2017. The event organizers were Dr. C. K Shyamala and Bindu K. R. The winning teams were awarded with cash prizes and certificates during the ASCII event.
FDP on Introduction to Embedded Systems
FDP on Introduction to Embedded Systems was conducted on January 1, 2017 by the resource persons Dr. Shriram K. V. and Dr. V. Ananthanarayanan.
Workshop on Wireless Networks (Hands-on training in Omnet++)
A one day Workshop on Wireless Networks (Hands-on training in Omnet++), sponsored by IETE, was held on February 3, 2017. The resource persons of the workshop were Mr. Karthikeyan, General Manager of Netcon Technologies and Dr. Muralidharan, Anna University, Coimbatore.
Third Edition of Shakti Program
The third edition of Shakti was held on March 3, 2017 with the objective of encouraging women to pursue higher education and research in the field of Computer Science and expanding the “Women in Computing” community through interactions with women achievers. Convergence of women from different parts of the country set the platform for sharing experiences and ideas. 70 participants from various colleges participated. Panel discussion, technical workshops, on the spot contests, career development workshop, interaction with industry and academia were the program highlights
National Workshop on Computer Vision and Image processing Techniques (NWCVIPT’17)
National Workshop on Computer Vision and Image processing Techniques (NWCVIPT’17) was conducted on the theme “Deep Learning and spectral processing in CVIP” between 30.03.2017 to 01.04.2017. Eminent speakers from various organizations gave their lectures on different topics.
Workshop on Scala and Spark
Workshop on Scala and Spark was conducted on 11th and 12th April 2017 by the Resource Person: Vijay Krishnan Menon about Scala and Spark.
Women Rock IT
A Seminar on Women Rock IT (26.04.2017). This was conducted online with CISCO. The speakers were Miss. Ayesha Khanna, CEO & Co Founder, ADDOAI, Miss. Marisa Warren, CEO, Chair & Founding Director, and ELEVACAO Foundation.
Workshop on Jive
Workshop on Jive was held on 18.05.2017 with Ms. K P Jevitha as resource person to introduce visualization tools for Java Programming in curriculum.
FDP on Computational Thinking and Problem Solving was conducted from May 22-24, 2017. CTPS handling faculty members from all campuses of Amrita discussed on Spreadsheet, Scratch and Flowgorithm tools, theory topics and introduction of Physical computing using Arduino.
FDP on Computer Organization and Architecture
FDP on Computer Organization and Architecture between 26.05.2017 to 27.05.2017. A session was handled by Mr. Nippun Kumar of Bangalore campus in which basics of Verilog using Modelisim and Xilinx for FPGA hardware was taken. FPGA (Spartan -3) hardware based experiment was demonstrated.
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) 2016
The ACM ICPC is sponsored globally by IBM, Code Chef, Direct and Academy was held at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Coimbatore on 21st and 22nd December 2016. Over 1200 students participated in the event.
Smart Grid International Conference
The Departments of Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering of Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore campus, organized an International Conference on Smart Grid Technologies during August 6-8, 2015 at its Coimbatore campus. More than 250 delegates from all over India and abroad attended this international conclave, which witnessed the presentation of 100 research papers in this cutting-edge area. The objective of this conference was to provide a forum where researchers in academia and industry can interact and present their latest findings, and also identify and discuss future directions in the field of smart grid and communication technologies.
Some of the keynote speakers and distinguished panelists include:
A two-day Workshop on “Internet of Things (IoT) on Smart Grid” was conducted by Dr.Gurjeet Singh from Gill Instruments, Bangalore in collaboration with Texas Instruments and PTC. Conference tutorials include Smart Microgrid Simulator, Cloud computing, Big data analytics & data security, Biomass gasification, Reliability analysis for smart grid improvements, Challenges and Key Issues in Smart Grid Implementations, Hybrid energy systems. Tutorials were also on Distributed Power Grids – A Future Energy System and Maximal Secure Mitigation of Protection and Misoperations in Power Systems. The organizing chairs and Program Co-chairs of the conference were Dr.N.Radhika of CSE department and Dr.V.Vanitha of EEE department of AMRITA.
Hands-On training in Design of IoT Nodes and interfacing to Cloud was held on 28th and 29th March 2016. Students got hands-on training in design of IoT nodes using node MCU. They had Been trained in processing physical parameters like temperature, humidity, moisture and uploading them into cloud using WiFi connectivity. Bluetooth Interface and BLE with IBeacon technology was introduced and students were trained to collect the sensor informationthrough hardware to their smart phone using both BlueTooth as well as WiFi interface.
It was supported by IETE Coimbatore Centre and ASCII, Dept. of CSE. The Program Co-ordinator(s) were: Assistant Professors Mr. V. Anantha Narayanan, Mr. R. Shanmugasundaram and Mr. K.P Peeyush
A One-day Workshop on BigDATA was conducted on 12th April 2016. Students were exposed to the current trends of utilization of REcSys2015 and Spark fundamentals. Discussion on Machine Learning algorithms which comes out of the box with MLLib. The Resource Person was Mr.Senthilkumaran from 1000Lookz, Chennai. The workshop co-ordinators were: Dr T Senthilkumar and Mr.V.Anantha Narayanan.
Mr. Mohankumar Rangaraj, Manager, Pricol Advanced Engineering delivering a talk to the post graduate students regarding scope for collaborative research work to be carried out with Pricol Advanced Engineering on 18-8-2016.
A one day BHUVAN Workshop on “Remote Sensing and Application Development” was held on September 29, 2016.
The Indian Space Research Organization, in its venture into engaging the student community over various prospects of Human Standard of Living, offered a one day Workshop on Remote Sensing and explained why it’s various ventures are important to the Human Community.
The guests, esteemed were Mr. Shadab and Mr. Naresh, who came to lecture the students and explored them upon the different operations that each of their satellites performed.
Abhinav, Managing Director & CEO, Cardea Labs & Cardea Biomedical Technologies, Stanford India Biodesign Affiliate gave a demonstration of MI Beat and its working mechanism. He also opened up the challenges and applications of MI Beat relevancy in curriculum in Biomedical Engineering on 10-8-2016.
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, organized the sixth edition of “National Workshop on Computer Vision & Image Processing Techniques” during March 18-19, 2016 co-sponsored by IETE.
The objective of this workshop was to provide an opportunity for participants from academic institutions and industries to understand the research avenues in the areas of Image processing, video processing, computational intelligence and evolutionary computing. The participants for the workshop were researchers, post graduate and undergraduate students working in this specialized area. Eminent scientists and engineers delivered special lectures, tutorials and workshops in this field of research.
Around 65 participants from various institutions like Government College of Technology-Coimbatore, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Karunya University, Periyar University, VIT etc had hands-on experience in the open source tools used for image and video processing, computational intelligence and evolutionary computing applications. We had a talk delivered by software developers from ‘1000 Lookz’, an image processing firm. This helped the participants to understand and apply computer vision, image processing and data analytics in their domains of interest. Poster and project presentation session was also organized and prizes were given for innovative projects. The workshop provided a platform for the participants to have a one to one interaction and discussion with each other and the speakers. We thank CIR for the support they provided for conducting the workshop.
Asia Amritapuri site Regional Contest @ Coimbatore conducted on 19th, 20th and 21st December, 2015. 333 teams from the top institutions like all IITs, IIITs, NITs participated in the event.
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) 2015 was held concurrently at Amritapuri, Bangalore and Coimbatore campuses of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham on 20 and 21 December, 2015. ACM ICPC is considered as the Olympics/World Championship of Computer Programming with a total annual participation of 38,000 students from 2500 universities in 101 countries.
AMRITA has been hosting the Asia-Pacific semi-finals of this contest in India, since 2005 and has emerged as the largest ICPC site worldwide. At Coimbatore campus, the contest is organized by the department of computer science & engineering of Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore. In this prestigious contest organized @ AMRITA, 333 teams participated with representation from premier engineering colleges in India with all of the IITs, IIITs, NITs as well as foreign teams from Bangladesh being represented. ACM ICPC is sponsored globally by IBM. The AMRITA School of Engineering, Coimbatore team was ranked a credible 100th position. This is an outstanding achievement considering the fact that the best computer programmers and geeks in the country’s top universities and institutes participate in this contest, popularly known as the “battle of the brains”.
Workshop on Computer Vision for Medical Imaging sponsored byIETE & ASCII was conducted on 14.12.2015. Sessions were delivered on the topic “Opportunities in dentistry for challenging applications” by Dr.Prabathsingh (Professor and Head of the department, Conservative dentistry &Endodontics ,Amrita school of dentistry , cochin).
Workshop on Mobile Education Kit based on Raspberry Pi was conducted on 24.11. 2015 by Dr. S. Ramanarayanan Reddy (HoDfor CSE Dept& Associate Professor, IGDTU for Women, Delhi).
Mozilla Localization and Translation workshop is a one-day hands-on workshop sponsored by Mozilla and ASCII on 14.11.2015. Sessions were delivered by Mr. KhaleelJageer (Mozilla rep India) and Mr. KarthicKeyan (Regional Ambassador India). Around 35 students from B.Tech CSE attended the workshop.
CodeHour , a coding competition was held on Oct. 27th and 28th, 2015 at IT Lab I and II which was jointly organized by ACM Student Chapter and ASCII .Preliminary round on Oct. 27th 2015 and finals were conducted on Oct. 28th 2015. Top three positions were given prize winning certificates.It was organised by Vinuthna ,Vandana ,Srivathsan ,Achai and Vignesh.
Competitive Coding Primer I – Introductory Session for First Years Sep 08 2015 Tuesday. This event witnessed overwhelming participation with 50+ first year students and around 15 second year students
Icebreaker Session– Mr. SarupBanskota Alumnus of B.Tech CSE gave an inspiring talk to juniors on how to find and realise goals and make the best out of the four years at college on Sep 10 2015, @Seminar Hall, CSE Block.
SFD Hackathon – Mini Hackathon for First Years Sep 19 to Sep 20 2015 On the occasion of Software Freedom Day, for participantsto experience as much free software as possible and to realise its power,Hackathon was hosted. First year students attended the same.
Competitive Coding Primer II – Introductory Session for First and Second Years Sep 22 2015 .
The second session, by Mr. Aakash, Mr. Bernett and Mr. Aravind, of BTech CSE introduced the concept ofDynamic Programming. Some intriguing problems were discussed for Competitive Coding. Around 35 firstyear and 13 second year students attended the event.
Workshop on Web Designing and Adobe Photoshop was conducted on Sept 9th and 10th 2015 organised by ACM Student Chapter and ASCII. Around 81 students attended the workshop
Workshop on OpenCV for Image and Video Processing sponsored by IETE was conducted on 12.08.2015 and 13.08.2015.
Workshop onMATLAB for Image and Video Processing sponsored by IETE was conducted on 10.08.2015 and 11.08.2015.
An International Conference on Smart Grid Technologies jointly organized by CSE and EEE during August 6-8, 2015 at Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham, Coimbatore.
Workshop on High Performance Computing was conducted on 08 August 2015. Sessions were delivered by Mr. AnathaKinnal ,Mr.Rajaram Subramanian and Mr.Sharath of BTech CSE.
FDP on Computational Thinking for problem solving On 27-05-2015 and 28-05-2015.
A workshop on Research Supervisor Workshop for Supervisors and How to write a Research paper for Research scholars was conducted by Dr.BalaSrinivasan of Monash University in Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, between 16th and 21st of March, 2015.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering and IETE jointly organized a Student Workshop on Android App Development & Network Simulation Tools (SWAD’2015) at Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham, Coimbatore on 27th February 2015. The workshop was intended to be a forum for understating the Android mobile application development and network simulation tools for the for the undergraduate final year students studying B.Sc/BCA/B.Com-CA and related disciplines
The fifth edition of “National Workshop on Computer Vision, Image Processing Techniques and Data Analytics” during18.02.2015 to 20.02.2015, co-sponsored by IETE, IEEE and CSI. Resource Person includes Mr. Apurba Das, Solution Architect, TCS Embedded Innovation Labs, Bangalore,Mr. Vishnu Prasad on Big Data Hadoop,Mr. Ravikumar, ISRO,Dr.Jayakumar, Bharathiar University, and Mr. Lawrence Mohan Raj and Mr. VikasManoria of IBM.
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) 2014 Asia Amritapuri site Regional Contest @ Coimbatore conducted on 15th and 16th December, 2014
International Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Applied Computing (ICONIAAC) 2014 conducted on 10th and 11th October, 2014.
Two Workshops on
NS2 Workshop on 13th and 14th September, 2014. The Resource Person includes Dr. Mohit P Thilani, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NITK, Surathkal
Workshop on Document Image Analysis on 23rd August, 2014Sessions handled by Professor Dr. LathaParameswaran,Asst.ProfessorHemaMenon, Asst.ProfessorManjusha R and Asst. Professor T. Bagyammal
Workshop on Computer Networking Conducted by IITB through A-View (Remote Center – Amrita) from 30th of June to 5th of July 2014.
National workshop on Mobile Applications And Developer Challenges In Android Powered Devices ,MADCA2K14 18-20 April 2014
Seminar on Technical Presentation Review was conducted by Department of Computer Science and Engineering Jointly with Department of Humanities on 11.03.2014.Student Workshop on Android app Development SWAD’14 was conducted by Department of Computer Science & Engineering on 08.03.2014.
A National Workshop on Computer Vision and Image Processing Techniques was conducted by Department of Computer Science and Engineering sponsored by IETE, Soliton Technologies Pvt.LTd. from 06.02.2014 -08.02.2014.A Workshop on Image processing with Beagle board was conducted by Department of Computer Science and Engineering sponsored by IETE & Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham from 20.12.2013 – 21.12.2013
A Workshop on Image and Video Processing using OpenCV was conducted by Department of Computer Science and Engineering sponsored by IETE from 12.12.2013 -13.12.2013.A Scrolling Message Workshop – Hardware and Software Design of Message Scrolling Display (with mosaic pattern) was conducted by Department of Computer Science and Engineering on 19.09.2013.
A Workshop on MATLAB and OpenGL for Image Processing Techniques was conducted by Department of Computer Science and Engineering sponsored by IETE from 22.08.2013 – 24.08.2013.Workshop on Hadoop was conducted by Department of Computer Science and Engineering and ASCII in association with CIR on 07.08.2013.
Workshop on Recent Technologies with Programming was conducted by Department of Computer Science and Engineering and ASCII from 19.07.2013 – 20.07.2013.A two day workshop on Problem Solving and Programming Paradigms was conducted by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering on 23st January 2013 and 25th January 2013.
Amrita international conference on women in computing (AICWIC)was hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Amrita was co-sponsored by ACM-W and ThoughtWorks. The main conference theme centered on Emerging Trends in Computing. The organizing chair for the conference was Dr. LathaParameswaran, Professor, Vice Chairperson, CSE Department. Dr. Rebecca was addressing delegates during the inauguration of the second edition of the International Conference on Women in Computing organized in the Coimbatore campus of Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham, during January 9-11, 2013. The other delegates were
Dept. of CSE- ASCII conducted a hands-on workshop on Android system development from 17th November 2012 to 18th November 2012.
FOSS Club of CSE Department organized the MoWorkshop on 9th November 2012 to commemorate the Birthday of Mozilla.
ASCII Sponsored a One Day Hands on Workshop Embedded Software Development on Beagle Board and Leopard Board and was conducted on 8thNovember 2012
M. Tech CVIP students organized a Workshop on Open CV from 17th September 2012 to 20th September 2012.
Faculty Development Programme on Computer Language Engineering was conducted from 10th July 2012 and 11th July 2012.
Faculty Development Programme on Problem Solving and Paradigms was conducted on 9th July 2012.
Workshop on Applying concepts of information security and cryptography on 28 January 2012.
Dr.N.Radhika, Associate professor, Department of Computer science and Engineering, Organized workshop along with the Fossee and open source team — Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay on Linux and Phyton.
Workshop on Open Source Tools for Image Analysis on 31-Oct-2011 & 1-Nov-2011. The seminar was delivered by Dr. Kumar Rajamani, Research Engineer, GE, Bangalore. The workshop focused on image processing open source tools VTK and ITK using Python environment.
Seminar on Open Source for Image Processing –MeVis Lab on 29-Oct-2011. The seminar was delivered by Dr. Kumar Rajamani, Research Engineer, GE, Bangalore
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, in coordination with FOSS Club of Amrita conducted a FOSS workshop on Oct 10 – Oct 12 & Oct 19, 2011 sponsored by ASCII and IETE. The workshop also helped student on, how to use IRC and Netiquette.
Seminar on ‘Advanced Image Segmentation Techniques’, 12th October 2011. The seminar was delivered by Dr. K. A Narayanankutty, Professor, Dept. of ECE, Amrita School Of Engineering
Social Outreach
Water purifier Installation
Water purifier was sponsored by ASCII and installed at Chinapathi School on 20.02.2017.
NSS Cleaning Programme
NSS Cleaning Programme was conducted to help the village residents in improving the condition of their life at Chinnambathy on 25.03.2017 to 31.03.2017.Another NSS Cleaning Programme was organized to clean Selva Chinithamani Kulam Lake on 12.03.2017.
To support these exceptional people is the whole idea of the program. We students of Amrita VishwaVidyapeetam, CSE Dept. volunteers stand up to take up this task of giving to someone who is not lucky or fortunate as us.On Febuary14th, the team with Asst. Professor Sabarish.B. A. , Asst. Professor S.Vidhya,went to Helping Hearts home of Children and elder people. The purpose was to give them what they need (Love, affection and care) and serve them food for the day. We also came to know that they were in need of beds, bedspreads, grocery items, sports accessories etc. which we had pleasure buying them, which was funded by Pradnya.
On the Eve of Deepavali, the department of CSE We covered five schools in C.G.Pudhur, Muruganpathy, Chinnampathy, Puthupathy and ettimadai on 05th November 2015 by 20 faculty members and 36 students. Conducted competitions for the children, Sweet distribution, Lunch and gifts of dresses, books and instructional materials.
Clubs
Grace Hopper Celebration India, 2019
The Grace Hopper Celebration India is Asia’s largest gathering of women technologists. It is produced by AnitaB.org and presented in partnership with ACM India. Malavika M and Deepika J. of 2017-2021 batch received ACM student scholarship to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration, India 19 held on 6th to 8th November, 2019 in Bangalore.
Ms. Bindu K. R., Assistant Professor, Department of CSE attended the Grace Hopper Celebration, India 19 held on 6th to 8th November, 2019 in Bangalore. She was an organizing committee member for the TECH EXPO event in the conference.
The CSI student branch of Amrita School of Engineering organizes several events like guest lectures, seminars, interactions with luminaries from the industry, competitions and workshops for the students. Our CSI student chapter was adjudged as the best CSI student chapter in India for the last seven consecutive years: 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 , 2015-16, and 2016-2017. This is a spectacular achievement considering the fact that there are over 600 CSI chapters in various colleges and universities in India. The award was conferred in recognition of various technical and societal activities organized by the student chapter including expert lectures, seminars, technical workshops, short term training programs and inter-college symposia. Prof.Prashant R. Nair had been awarded CSI Academic Excellence Award in the year 2011 for maximum publishing in the CSI Communications Journal. Our CSI Student Branch Coordinator Prof. Prashant R. Nair and Dr.Shriram K. Vasudevan, Assistant Professor(Selection Grade) have been selected as CSI Distinguished Speakers among the membership base of over 120,000 all over India and abroad for the year 2016. Computer Society of India has funded for a research project titled “GPS based Location Assisting System” in the year 2015. During the CSI Annual Convention 2016, Prof. Prashant R. Nair has been awarded with Computer Society of India (CSI) Academic Excellence award and Mrs. U. M. Ramya, CSI Student Branch Counselor of Amrita School of Engineering has been awarded with Longest Continuous SBC Award.
Group ID: 67504 Client Number: 4201301 Chapter Type: Student
ACM- A student branch of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) was inaugurated on 8 January, 2009 by Dr. RaghavRao, Professor of Information Systems, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.Currently it has more than 50 student chapter members.
IEEE Amrita, Coimbatore chapter was established on 10th December, 2007 inaugurated by Dr. T.R.Padmanabhan, Prof.Emeritus, I.T Department, Former Dean Amrita School of Engineering. The IEEE student chapter help students to access the research papers found on the IEEE database. It works to spread awareness among the students about latest technologies, that concern their respective fields, by conducting workshops and seminars which give them the necessary information. The students are encouraged to participate in various competitions and research competitions where they can improve on their skills and discover their interests in specific fields.
Mission
The IEEE student chapter actively organizes various events at the institution and has won several accolades for its performance.
We strongly believe that a student at Amrita should be a performer in all dimensions. In addition to the curriculum there are ample opportunities for the students to participate in co-curricular and extracurricular activities. They also have opportunites to conduct events both at institution level and inter-collegiate level. The department has a few clubs under which the students are encouraged to exhibit their skills, hone inter personal skills and organizing capabilities.
The Association of Students of Computer Science for Information Interchange (ASCII) is the technical association of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. It was established in the year 1997. It started with 195 members including both student and faculty members in 1997. It is a union of the Undergraduate students (B.Tech – Computer Science and Engineering), Post Graduate students (MCA, M.Tech -Computer Vision and Image processing and M.Tech – Computer Science and Engineering) and faculty members…
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“Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology” , said John Tudor. Nevertheless this has proved to be true always over the past and will be in the future. Technology is so much fun, but the probability of drowning in it is high. Amrita was not an exception. The feel of this craze crept into the students of Amrita and led to the launch of the Microsoft campus club in Amrita school of Engineering, Coimbatore on 26th March 2008 as TECH{KNOW}LOGY club…
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Amrita CodeChef Chapter is a department-wide club and we target every student who is interested in problem-solving. We conduct events and contests for students to achieve mastery in Competitive Coding. We have hosted a good number of coding contests for students to learn and practice (including long contests). For newbies, it is important for them to get the basics right. So we also conduct a lot of discussion sessions on DSA topics and editorial sessions discussing the solutions for already hosted contests to promote community learning. A Mini Long Challenge [2021 Headlines] was conducted in the Codechef platform recently, where around 76 students participated. A discussion session on the problems was also conducted to help the students understand the logic and to improve their problem-solving skills. We also spread awareness about ICPC – International Collegiate Programming Contest, and we believe that the sessions we take help students prepare for it…
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