The TechNext India 2018 awards for Amrita School of Engineering (ASE), Coimbatore, were conferred by Computer Society of India (CSI) Mumbai chapter and IIT Bombay on February 11, 2018, at IIT Bombay, through its Free & Open Source Software in Education (FOSSEE) interdisciplinary initiative under MHRD National Mission on Education using ICT.
Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore campus, conducted Anokha 2018, the 8th edition of Techfest, from 22nd to 24th February, 2018. It is the first and only techfest in India with United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) accreditation. The theme of Anokha 2018 was "Innovation for Societal Benefit".
Br. Anand Shenoi, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, won the 2018 ACM ICPC Foundation Asia Distinguished Leadership Award, in recognition of service to the communities, industry, academia, and students of computing sciences and engineering through strengthening the ICPC throughout Asia.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and the Defence industrial major, L&T, were awarded the TDF certificate on 18th January, 2018, by Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman in Chennai. L&T in collaboration with Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham will develop the light weight bullet proof materials for the Indian Army.
Sudarsan S, a final year student of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, co-authored a paper titled, "Detection of a Westward Hotspot Offset in the Atmosphere of Hot Gas Giant CoRoT-2b", which was published in the Nature Astronomy journal, on January 22, 2018.
