The final year students from the Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs, Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering (ECE), School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, won First Prize and Sponsors' Best Prize at RoboCon 2018. RoboCon18 is an international robotic design contest, and was held at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, from August 6-18, 2018.

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham announced the graduation ceremony details. The events will include awarding PhD, PG and UG degrees of all programs offered at its various campuses. 

Prof. Prashant R. Nair, Vice Chairperson and Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, was appointed as Treasurer for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Coimbatore Chapter, on July 31, 2018.

The one-day workshop on "Earthquake Hazard, Risk and Mitigation: Theory and Practice", organized by the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, was inaugurated on August 10, 2018 at the campus.