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MIT, Manipal wins accolades at AICTE’s Most Clean Campus Awards
Times of India | Kevin Mendonsa | TNN | Oct 3, 2017 |
MANIPAL: Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal University won accolades at the first ‘Most Clean Campus Award 2017’ instituted for Engineering Institutions by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). MIT, Manipal also bagged the third place for the ‘Most Clean Campus’ in India and first for ‘Most Clean Campus in South Western Region’. The awards were given away by Anil D Sahasrabudhe, chairman of AICTE at a function held on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti in the College of Engineering, Pune. B H V. Pai, joint director and H S Bhat, executive manager received the awards on behalf of MIT. AICTE has also planted a tree for each of the awardees at its heead quarters in New Delhi.
Reacting to the achievement, G K Prabhu, director MIT, also the Pro Vice Chancellor of Manipal University said he was happy that the institute won laurels in the inaugural year of the competition. “We’ll strive to do better the next time,” he said and added, “It is a good initiative started by the AICTE, as it will encourage campuses across the country to be spick and span all the time. AICTE, under Swachh Bharath Mission, had invited nominations from about ten thousand institutions across the country to participate in the Clean Campus Award 2017 contest in September 2017. Data on infrastructure, cleanliness, green initiatives, water conservation initiatives, solid and liquid waste management, e-waste management, environment consciousness and development programmes, contributions to the society, student and workforce safety, hygiene and other parameters were submitted. Institutions from 20 states took part and following evaluation the reports were examined by a Jury appointed by the AICTE to select the award winners. – Courtesy / http://www.aicte-india.org/CleanGreen_Campus
Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) to Take Personalization in Education One Step Forward
Business Wire India | July 11, 2017 | Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal University, one of India’s premier engineering institute announced an enhanced curriculum for the academic year 2018. As pioneers in personalizing curriculum based on interest and aptitude, the institute aims to provide students a holistic learning experience. In a general scenario, while selecting elective subjects students are given a limited choice of subjects that they can choose from. The University introduces a major change at regular intervals and the next one is scheduled to take place in 2018. With the curriculum revamp, students will be able to take up ‘Open Electives’ – subjects which are not essentially from the same area of specialization they have chosen as their main stream. The University is continuously enhancing the curriculum to make it more relevant to the changing requirements in today’s workplace. The revised curriculum allows students to select electives that they are passionate about, even if it does not fall under the scope of engineering. An Engineering student can even choose to study journalism if it interests him and still manage to get credits.
Speaking on the occasion Dr. G K Prabhu, Director of MIT added, “Our industry is going through a tremendous overhaul and there is an increasing need for students to upskill and stay relevant in today’s workplace. As a world-class institution, we are taking up numerous initiatives to provide students the flexibility and freedom to follow their passion. With this curriculum change, our students can choose electives that are outside the program, for instance, an Electronics and Communication branch student can study foreign languages or chose another engineering subject as an elective. This will help them earn the prescribed credits as well as explore multiple areas of interest.”
The interdisciplinary nature of Manipal University adds to the feasibility of this syllabus advancement. The University is home to over 30 different institutions from Medicine and Hotel Administration to Communications and Nursing. This makes it possible for an Engineering student to even take up journalism with easy access to the highly recognized Communications School or even Culinary Arts at the Hotel Management Institute, all under one campus. “We place a lot of emphasis on providing students hands-on experience through student projects. Students who are working on a particular project can also choose it as their elective and gain credits. Every year our students work on various projects that are well received in several competitions, we hope to offer such major projects as open electives for students,” added Dr. G K Prabhu.
Students who have opted for more open electives than they are required to can convert them into a certificate course which will be a part of their final transcript as a minor specialization. Apart from this, students can also choose to pursue a semester in an approved college abroad and have the credits transferred. Similarly, students can also take online courses through the Coursera portal and get certificates from overseas universities offering such courses on the portal. These opportunities offer several advantages to the students, such as, bringing in an element of flexibility in curriculum, develop self-learning skills, encourage International student mobility and also improve their employability potential. The University is also working at including off-beat courses like Music, Dance, Drama, Yoga, and Yakshagana to their credit offering in the years to come. Through timely upgrades to the curriculum, MIT is focused at providing students holistic education with a keen focus on practical knowledge and flexibility to choose their area of interest.
MIT engineer Raghunath Manohar receives patent for invention
The Hindu | Mangaluru | Manipal, May 09, 2017 |
Raghunath Manohar
The Indian Patent Office has granted patent to an invention by Raghunath Manohar of Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), a constituent of Manipal University. A statement issued by the university here said that Mr. Manohar’s invention, “A Multi lens System which is a microscope and a component of a telescope”, was approved recently. He had applied for it in 2009, and is the only inventor of the device. Earlier, he had received a U.S. patent for “Marking Gauge”, of which too, he was a sole inventor. Giving details about the invention, Mr. Manohar, Deputy Engineer (Laboratory), Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing, MIT, said that the telescope has 9 lens, which form the erecting lens system using 9 biconvex lenses of same focal length and diameter 10 cm and 50 mm, respectively. The optical system in the apparatus has eight PVC tubes of the required size. This is called the distance tube pieces. The above are slid into a slightly larger PVC container pipe having a collar at one end with a hole at the centre to view the image.
MITian (Armaan) enters Guinness for longest selfie stick
The Times of India | TNN | Jun 1, 2016 |
Udupi: Armaan, a BTech student of Manipal Institute of Technology, has been recognized for breaking Guinness World Record for creating world’s longest selfie stick. Armaan attempted to break the world record by demonstrating his selfie stick measuring 10.39 metres on the MIT ground on April 11. He received confirmation certificate through courier on Monday. On Tuesday, a team from Guinness World Records handed over a certificate recognising his achievement to him in the presence of college authorities. Armaan broke the record set by actor-comedian and filmmaker Ben Stiller. Stiller demonstrated his 8.56-metre-long selfie stick during the premier of Zoolander 2 in London. Armaan said, “I am happy to get the confirmation from Guinness World Records’ team. I was confident of getting the record. When a month after submission of necessary documents I did not get any reply from them, I got tensed. On Monday, when my parents confirmed the receipt of the certificate, I felt blessed.”
The BTech student has no intention to stop at this record-making effort as he is planning to build a 12-metre long selfie stick with better technology within two months. Though Arman is an electronics engineering student, his passion and interest is in automobile engineering, and this paved way for him to be part of Formula Manipal team of Manipal University. He aims to design, conceptualize, fabricate, test and race a single seater, open-wheel formula 1-style race car. The Formula Manipal team will participate in Formula Student – a student engineering competition – at Czech Republic and Germany in August 2016. The Formula Student competition also gives participants the opportunity to connect with potential employers in the automobile and allied industries. Armaan’s parents, Mohammed Sujrinji and Rahana Sulthan, said, “It is not just a proud moment for us but for the whole nation. We are happy that our son has made India proud. Armaan is a smart child. He is in love with vehicles since his childhood. He used to disassemble vehicles part by part and then assemble them. After growing up, he has become an expert in assembling the vehicles.” Armaan has two siblings, one passed second PUC with 96% marks and another one is in fifth standard.- Courtesy
Manipal Institute of Technology’s SolarMobil (solar car) wins innovation contest for engineering students
Economic Times | By ET Bureau | 17 Sep, 2015 |
BENGALURU: SolarMobil, a team of engineers from the Manipal Institute of Technology, was declared winners for the Solar Electric Road Vehicle (SERVe), a prototype solar car, at the fifth edition of QuEST Ingenium 2015 -the pan-India innovation contest for engineering students organised by global engineering services company QuEST Global. The winning team will receive a cash Rs 1 lakh and is being sponsored prize of by aircraft manufacturing giant Airbus to go on a facility tour of its Stade and Bremen facility in Germany. The team consisting 27 students de signed a four-wheeled prototype that runs on solar energy that can reach up to a speed of 60 kmph, and is custom-fit with solar panels designed by Tata Power Solar capable of providing up to 960 watts of power.
Out of over 5,700 registrations from 750 colleges across 27 states, a total of 10 teams were shortlisted that produced innovations suc0h as a real time air pollution monitoring system, human detection robot for disaster management, a robotic arm and a PCB printing machine among others. “At QuEST Global we are glad that we could make a positive impact with this initiative to harness and nurture India’s future talent to shape tomorrow’s India,” said Ajay Prabhu, chief operating officer, QuEST Global, that offered placement exploration opportunities to the top 100 qualifying teams. “Nurturing talent is an important aspect of our globalisation strategy and we are glad that we are extending our hands to such students to come forward and be a part of this big industry,” said Marcus Gehle, head of engineering for wing movables and plant engineering teams – Stade and Bremen, Airbus.- Courtesy
U.S. patent for MIT engineer’s (Raghunath Manohar) device : Marking Gauge
The Hindu | Karnataka | Manipal, August 17, 2015 | |
Raghunath Manohar, deputy engineer in the advanced material testing laboratory of Mechanical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Manipal University received a U.S. patent for his invention, Marking Gauge. According to a press release by the university here on Friday, Mr. Manohar is the single inventor of the device which is a flexible marking tool for single and multiple parallel lines and vice versa, with variable depth of the scribing pins to suit the hardness of the material being marked. “I decided to come up with another which could perform better and was more useful in its application. It took me some time to work on it, and only five years ago I achieved a breakthrough,” Mr. Manohar said. “I immediately applied for a patent to the US and in just four and half years I was awarded the patent (US 9085079 B2),” he added. “I am grateful for the support I received from Manipal University and Head of Mechanical Department at Manipal Institute of Technology, Divakar Shetty,” Mr. Manohar said. – Raghunath Manohar is the single inventor of Marking Gauge. Courtesy
At 19, this boy (Aadarsh Mishra) has 23 research papers & counting
Aadarsh Mishra
“I started working on thin films of tin sulphide while I was in the second year of mechanical engineering. The topic was fascinating and has enormous applications in the field of solar energy. After coating the samples with tin sulphide (using thermal evaporation method) followed by the characterisation of samples and the calculation of quantum efficiencies, my results were quite good and a far more encouraging,” Mishra told Bangalore Mirror. “I presented my paper at an international conference held in Pune. Later I sent my research paper to the National Metallurgical Laboratory where it was accepted for publication in the Journal of Metallurgy and Material Sciences.” Mishra, who is elated to be a national record holder, regards this research paper as his best. Later on, he went on to publish three more research papers on the same topic. Based on his experience, he secured a summer internship at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru. There he worked on research topics in relation to tribology, which is the study and application of friction, wear and lubrication. He started working on titanium alloys which find a lot of application in the aerospace sector. While at IISc, he published a number of research and review papers on wearing mechanisms in titanium alloys, cast steels and the application of titanium dioxide in the industry.
After completing his internship at IISc, Mishra took a transfer to Cardiff University, which he chose for its innovative research and independent way of studying. “While at Cardiff, I wrote a book, Introduction To Wear, and published a research paper on finite element analysis,” Mishra said. After completing his second year at Cardiff, Mishra won a fellowship at Oxford. But his stint at Oxford was not without challenges. Financial constraints forced him to take up part-time jobs. Despite being a science scholar, Mishra draws inspiration from people from various fields. While it’s not surprising that eminent scientist CNR Rao and late president APJ Abdul Kalam, who was a career scientist, are his inspirations, Mishra has also been influenced by prime minister Narendra Modi and Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan. Mishra fondly remembers his stint at Manipal. “The institute allowed me to manage research work and studies simultaneously. I used to work in research labs during the two-hour break between classes. I also used to spend time in the lab after classes. Sunday was mostly reserved for writing research papers and doing literature reviews.” After completing his degree, Mishra wants to open a research centre to bridge the gap between academic and industrial research. Courtesy
Engineering students of Manipal Institute of Technology shine on road, build solar-powered car
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