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.
A colloquium on the topic ‘Transforming B-School Graduates to Corporate Gurus’ was held at the Sri Krishna Hall of School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, on January 10, 2019.
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.
Amrita Darshanam, International Centre for Spiritual Studies (ICSS), in association with Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR), organized a seven-day national workshop on Madhusūdana Sarasvatī’s“Siddhāntabindu” from November 10-16, 2018, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore Campus.
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.
Under the theme of “Future Universities in The Asia-Pacific: The Changing Face of Higher Education”, the annual QS higher education conference, took place November 21-23, 2018, in Seoul, South Korea, followed by Ranking Forum at KAIST University.