A team of four students of the Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs, Department of Electronics and Communication, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, were selected to the elite team from selected countries to participate in the 29th edition of RoboCon International Design Contest (IDC) 2018 to be held at Tokyo Institute of Technology from August 6-18, 2018.
Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri campus, witnessed Asia’s first Hello India x Russia Programming Bootcamp, in collaboration with Harbour.Space University, Barcelona, Spain and Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology, from March 22-30, 2018.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham received Infosys Partnership awards at the Infosys Principal’s Meet held in Infosys campus at Electronic City, Bangalore, on March 23, 2018.
A 14 member delegation from universities in the USA visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore Campus, on March 19, 2018, as part of the Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators (FN-IEA) Program.
Mr. Sivanand Devarakonda, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru Campus, has been awarded a scholarship to pursue the master’s programme at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. The scholarship came after he bagged the first prize at the KTH Master’s Challenge 2018.
The students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, won first prize for Mime competition at the National Level Cultural Competitions, Dhwani’18, held by CET Trivandrum, on March 18, 2018.
Dr. Shriram K. Vasudevan, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore campus, has been nominated as an Intel Internet of Things (IoT) Innovator.
Dr. Balakrishnan Shankar, Associate Dean, School of Engineering, Amritapuri campus, delivered a keynote talk titled “Amrita- Technology for Society” at RTDD 2018 International Conference on Rural Technology Development and Delivery: RUTAG and its Synergy with other initiatives, held at IIT Delhi from March 9th to 11th.
The Amrita Women’s Basketball team of Amritapuri Campus, led by Hima K Sugathan, 3rd year Integrated MSc, Department of Physics, Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, won the Inter-Collegiate Basketball Championship held at St. Thomas College of Engineering and Technology, Chenganoor, on 1st and 2nd March 2018.
The Department of Civil Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore Campus, conducted an interactive talk session with Dr. E. Sreedharan, on February 26, 2018. He received a very warm welcome from the professors and students alike.