Hcellence 2020

INGENIOUS RECORDS

A friend of mine, who was intensely religious, once asked me a Question, "If God Almighty were to appear before you and offer you two boons in place of all your wealth, what would you choose?"

I pondered a while. Obviously, my choice of boons had to be powerful enough to re-build my capital.

After much contemplation, I made my choice: ETERNAL ENTHUSIASM and PERSEVERANCE. For these are the Qualities that made me what I am.

Excerpt from “Wheels & Wings” Autobiography

Founder Chairman

Dr. K. C. G. Verghese (1940-2006)

Preamble

The Birth of an Institution

In 1965, Late. Dr. K.C.G. Verghese took up teaching assignments in Automobile Engineering subjects at two educational institutes. His well-acquainted knowledge on the subject and inquisitiveness to the know-hows of the Automotive industry worldwide drew in a large number of students. While coaching for British Automobile Examination, Dr. K.C.G. Verghese realized that the standard of the examination was far below the level of our Indian Universities; and that our students could easily clear exams with minimum preparation. Students promised Dr. K.C.G. Verghese to bring over a hundred students from Singapore and Malaysia if he were to set up an institution on his own. The idea dawned upon Dr. K.C.G. Verghese as he felt the time has come to start his own venture—very soon, Hindustan Engineering Training Centre (HETC) was started in 1966 as an educational institution intended mainly for foreign students. This irresistible quest for knowledge eventually paved way for the commencement of other Institutions under the Hindustan Group of Institutions (HGI).

RANKINGS Ranked in Top 50 globally for SDG 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation, Top 100 for SDGs 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy and 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production and Top 300 under the overall category among other 800 universities globally in 2020.

Rated 107th Position in India under Engineering Category, 22nd in Tamil Nadu & 7th in Chennai. Also, ranked Architecture 20th in India, 4th in Tamil Nadu & 2nd in Chennai.

Ranked 1st among Private Deemed to be Universities in South India; 2nd among private deemed to be Universities in India; 19th among Technical Universities in India in the India’s Top Technical Universities Rankings 2020.

Rated HITS as AAAA in National Level under Engineering colleges. Also, ranked 10th in Tamil Nadu, 5th in Chennai and ranked 2nd in the Private Engineering college category in Chennai by Career 360 Magazine in 2019.

Ranked 27th in South India and 7th in Chennai by Outlook India survey 2019.

Rated SOM B++ in National Level and in private institution category ranked 15th in South Zone & 2nd in Chennai.

Ranked 5th in the Private Universities category in Tamil Nadu and 10th in the top 100 Private Universities in India by Education World, the Human Development Magazine 2020.

Ranked SOM as Top 102nd B-School in India, 44th in terms of Living Experiences and among the Top 5 B-Schools in Chennai by India Today B-School Rankings 2019.

Recognized among India’s Top Private Universities in i3RC Times Ranking by IET.

About HITS HINDUSTAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE (HITS), a deemed to be University, is one of the most sought after and recognized institutions in India, located at Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Commenced in 1985, it offers a wide spectrum of Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Diploma, Research & Doctoral Programmes in diverse fields of Engineering, Technology, Architecture, Management, Law, Fashion, Design, and Arts, Aviation, Applied Sciences and Arts and Sciences. The technical courses at UG and PG levels are approved by AICTE. HITS is a part of the most illustrious Hindustan Group of Institutions which caters to the academic needs of over 15,000 students.

Towering as a portal of learning, HITS is aesthetically landscaped to house 8 Academic Blocks, 14 Centres of Excellence for Research, state-of-the-art Workshops and Laboratories. The learning community comprises students from several foreign countries besides those from India. HITS has curved a niche for itself through established global collaborations with Institutes and Industries to promote Faculty & Student Exchange Programmes, Joint Research, Consultancy Projects, Conferences, and Guest Lectures. HITS has been awarded many Patents, Funded Research Projects from leading organizations like Department of Science and Technology (DST), Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Naval Research Board (NRB), and many others. With the noble vision of the Founder-Chairman, Late Dr. K.C.G. Verghese, “To Make Every Man a Success and No Man a Failure”, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science chisels its learners with a competitive spirit to face the future.

ACCREDITATION Accredited B.Tech Programmes offered

by Aeronautical Engineering, Automobile Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

Accredited with an “A” Grade by the National Assessment & Accreditation Council (NAAC), Govt. of India; approved by AICTE

Rated in the 301-350 band in the World University Rankings 2019 by QS BRICS Ranking TIMES I3 Research All India Private Engineering Institute Ranking - 26th Rank • •

Ranked under Category – 2

by MHRD-UGC.

Certified E-LEAD institution

by QS I∙GAUGE with total score of 150/150.

11th Among Top Private Engineering Institutes, 18th Among Top 50 Private Institutes for Placement, 19th Among Top Engineering Institutes in the TIMES Engineering Institute Ranking Survey 2020.

SOM secured 92nd position at the National Level in the Week Best B School 2019.

SOM ranked 4th in Chennai, 16th in South Zone in The Week – Hansa Research 2019.

Ranked SOM as Top 11th Outstanding B-School of Excellence and as the Top 4th B-School in Tamil Nadu by Competition Success Review 2019.

Ranked SoM No.4 in Chennai, No.8 in Tamil Nadu, No. 30 in South India and No.79 in All India Level Private Category by The Hindu – Business Line.

Ranked 20th in India and Engineering Institutions in terms of Placements/ Industry Interface/USP. Ranked 13th in Top Engineering Colleges of Excellence. Ranked 13th in Top Private Engineering Colleges. Ranked 3rd in Tamil Nadu by GHRDC & CSR.

Rated an overall GOLD in the QS I-GAUGE Indian University Rating under categories such as Accreditation, Facilities, Teaching and Learning, Research, Entrepreneurship, Employability, Faculty, Quality, Student Diversity and Social Responsibility.

5S Certified by TUV Rheinland for successfully implementing 5S Work Place Management System.

CONTENTS

Guest Book

Patents

EDITOR’S DESK

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Covid Warriors

the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

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We’ve burnt the midnight oil in the making of Hcellence 2020—solely to give our readers a unique experience. The sense of contentment and completion will surely be felt as you flip through the pages. My heartfelt and earnest gratitude to the students who have aided in collecting the content for the magazine. Bundle of love to every little hand that has sketched, clicked, & penned creatively.

Thanks to all for making Hcellence 2020 a sound success!

EDITORIAL TEAM Ms. G. B. Hemadarshini, Editor & Assistant Professor - Languages.

Mr. Yogesh, Photographer.

Coordinators

Ms. Reshmi Panicker, Associate Professor, SoA. | Mr. D. Praveen Kumar, Assistant Professor, CSE. | Ms. N. Meenakshi, Assistant Professor, IT. Ms. B.C. Kavitha, Assistant Professor, ECE. | Mr. N. Karthik, Assistant Professor, EEE. | Mr. M. Vinoth Kumar, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engg.

Mr. T. Shanmuganathan, Assistant Professor, Automobile Engg. | Dr. M. K. Badri Narayanan, Head, SoM. | Ms. Jini Varghese, Head, FDA. Dr. G. Kavitha, Assistant Professor, Mathematics. | Dr. B. Gajalakshmi, Assistant Professor, Chemistry. | Dr. A. Sherine Joy, Head, Languages & Rankings.

Ms. V.S. Pragatha, Coordinator, HITSAA | Ms. P. Pooja Rao, Final year B.Tech. Civil Engg. | Mr. R. Arun Kumar, Final year B.Tech. Aeronautical Engg.

Ms. Gousia Khatun, 2nd year B.Sc. Fashion Design. | Ms. S. Priyanka, 2nd B.Sc. Food Technology. | Mr. A. Ankith Kumar, 1st year BA Triple Major.

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International Affairs

Sports

Creative Corner

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Annual Report

Research Centres Reports

Training & Placement

NCC, NSS & Alumni

Graduation Batches

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Chancellor “An investment in knowledge paves the best interest” -Benjamin Franklin

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e find that during this pandemic there is a surge in the quest for knowledge across all quarters of life. Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science has fulfilled the academic year 2019-20 taking in its stride the tumultuous change towards the end of this academic session and proved successful in its endeavour to excel in online teaching and learning.

I am happy to note that HITS has continued to excel in all fields during the academic year 2019 -20. The various academic reforms and the sustained efforts of the HITS

academic fraternity have resulted in HITS achieving national and global recognition. HITS have secured the 107th Rank in Engineering and 20th Rank in Architecture in the recently conducted National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings by the Ministry of Human Resources Development. I am extremely proud that two of the top most global ranking agencies THE and QS have recognized HITS achievements. THE Impact Rankings 2020 have placed HITS on a pedestal in global rankings in four Sustainable Development Goals Categories. HITS emerged as the premier institution and Ranked 18th in the SDG6 (Clean Water and Sanitation); and is the sole University in India to Achieve the Highest Rank in the Category. This recognition is towards building a more sustainable and equitable society and it is heartening to note that 800 Universities and 85 Countries were in the fray for the reputed global rankings. QS E LEAD certification also certified HITS as one of the premier institutions of excellence for their tremendous contribution in online education that was an inevitable transformation during the pandemic. I appreciate the sincere and concerted efforts by all the department staff for conducting 425 online events, which included International and National Webinars, Workshops, Faculty Development Programmes, Professional Body Events, Competitions, Online Certification Programmes, Online Placement, Doctoral Committee Meetings, Research Promotion Webinars and Department Meetings. HITS has also partnered with COURSERA and edX to offer 5000+ courses free of cost, to promote learning by students and staff.

Hindustan COVID warriors require a special appreciation and I am extremely elated to note that SEVILI – service robot was designed and developed by our engineers at HITS; and it was deployed in Govt. hospitals in Chengelpet and Chennai to assist the medical frontline handling COVID 19 patients. It is a well-known fact that social distancing and quarantine has been the norm of the day during the pandemic, HITS engineers deployed drones to assist the Chennai Police force, to get an aerial overview of the people who tried to break the norms of social distancing. Services to the society have been one of the primary goals of our educational institution as envisaged by our late Founder Chairman, Dr. KCG Verghese Hindustan has always been in the forefront to reach out to the needy and lend a helping hand in times of crisis. Monetary contribution to PM and CM Funds, distribution of food and essential commodities to villagers and migrants, two Scholarship Schemes for wards of COVID warriors who lost their lives, including a complete waiver of the Tuition Fee in the discipline of their choice and coverage of all expenses including boarding and lodging and monthly stipend.

The concerted and committed efforts of the entire Hindustan fraternity have enabled this institution to scale greater and newer heights and achieve laurels in all spheres of its activities. I personally welcome all the aspirants who would like to join HITS for their new academic session. I congratulate the editorial team for compiling the HCELLENCE magazine 2020 in a meticulous manner.

Dr. Mrs. Elizabeth Verghese

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esurgence of Hcellence 2020 delights me and it's a matter of pride that Hindustan is making headway and carrying the rich legacy of Late Dr. KCG Verghese, FounderChairman, HGI far and wide through its accomplishments.

The entire academic year 2019-20 has been tremendous with several awards being conferred on us, especially, “The Institute of the Year for Higher Education – South” Award by ASSOCHAM; “Institution Deploying Innovative Practices in Promoting Research & Innovation Amongst Faculty & Students” Award at I-TEC Conclave; and “Best University Award” under universities within a ranking of 100 in NIRF at the ThinkEdu Conclave. Similarly, we’ve attained 107th Rank in Engineering and 20th Rank in Architecture in NIRF 2020 Rankings by the Ministry of Human Resources Development.

Although we enjoyed a terrific academic year, it has been quite challenging as well with the intervention of COVID-19 disrupting our academic plans. I firmly believe that consistent hard work and dedication will ultimately reach the destination called ‘Success’. With recurring lockdowns, our Faculty members exhibited proficiency in Online Teaching and have efficiently handled classes and evaluation as per schedule amidst all odds.

Hindustan has made immense contributions to the society during this unprecedented pandemic. Innovations such as Sevili - the Service Robot, to navigate into Corona isolation wards at Government General Hospitals at Chennai and Chengalpet; Drones to monitor and restrain the movement of public during the lockdown and an exclusive Hindustan Camp Covid organized to distribute essentials worth over Rs. 1.2 Crores to the underprivileged, are a testimony of our constant endeavour to serve society and the nation at large.

This year several conferences, seminars and cultural programmes were organized and notably among them was AeSI’s 70th Annual General Meeting and National Conference on “Recent Developments in Aerospace & Defence Technology” organized during February 2020 in which Dr. K. Sivan, Chairman, ISRO was conferred the “Outstanding Leader in Aerospace and Defence Award” by the Hon’ble Governor of Tamil Nadu, Mr. Banwarilal Purohit.

Students have performed exceptionally well and attained outstanding laurels in International and National arenas. To name a few, Team "Kratos" secured 11th position at the International in the SAE Aero Design East 2020 organized at Florida Air Museum at Lakeland, Florida, USA; Team Stalwartz won “Cost Award” at BAJA 2020 SAEINDIA, in Pithampur, MP and Team MBA bagged Runner Trophy in the 11th ABBS BRICS Meet held at China. These have instilled a winning spirit amongst our students.

In Hindustan, emphasis is laid not only on the quality of education, but on development of necessary skills with integration of entrepreneurship training into our curriculum. Our continued endeavours to excel has penned a saga of success.

Hearty congratulations to all the achievers of the year and best wishes to all!

Dr. Anand Jacob Verghese

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am happy to pen down a few lines as a message in the HITS’ annual Magazine - Hcellence 2020. The magazine details the achievements during the last one year and keeps us hankering for more excellence and fulfilment in the future.

HITS has received several awards and accolades during this year, the most important among them is that we have secured the 107th rank in Engineering and 20th rank in Architecture in the recently announced National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) Rankings – 2020.

Several new initiatives such as “One Faculty One Industry” scheme, Research@UG, etc. were introduced to improve the academic standards of the University. The HITS LMS (MOODLE) and MS TEAMS Platforms were successfully used for the conduct of classes online towards completion of classes of the last part of even semester 2019-20 which was necessitated due to the COVID pandemic situation. We have also successfully conducted internal assessment, Project Viva Examination and End Semester examination for the students through online mode during the lockdown period. Added to this, to convert the challenge to opportunity, 422 online events were organized during this lockdown period which includes expert talks by industry and academia, seminar, workshops and a conference.

We have added the School of Design as new school which focuses on UG and PG courses in Communication, User Experience, Fashion Design, Visual Communication, & Interior Design. We have obtained the approval to start Open Distance Learning programmes in MBA and MCA. Our students have bagged several awards and prizes in various competitions held across the globe which are listed in detail in the Annual Report of the Magazine. HITS team have won 20 winner’s trophies and 10 Runners trophies in National/State level Intercollegiate and Inter University Basketball, Cricket, Football, Volleyball tournaments under Men and Women categories.

The Centre for Automation and Robotics (ANRO) has developed SEVILI (Caretaker) a service robot to assist the medical frontline handling COVID19 patients and was employed at major hospitals in Tamil Nadu. The Department of Mechatronics has also developed an affordable protection from harmful viral and bacterial infections for the medical frontline when they work inside the critical care units for long hours. This system is uniquely designed for public health professionals to be used along with PPE, to fight against COVID-19 pandemic.

The improvement in the teaching learning process by implementing several academic reforms, involvement of the faculty and students in carrying out research and dissemination of the same through publication in indexed journals, the involvement of the students in various extracurricular and co-curricular activities in the socially relevant projects, participation of the industry in the academic activities are the real mantras for this great achievement. The University Magazine “HCELLENCE 2020” will give glimpses of our achievements and strategic steps to achieve the same. We continue to strive hard to achieve greater heights with several initiatives and academic reforms supported by improvements in infrastructure.

Dr. K.P. Isaac

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DIRECTOR “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

– Martin Luther King

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hile I bask into the splendour of the yesteryears, a sense of fulfilment runs through me for having seen the victory Hindustan has stepped into.

The year 2019-20 was truly remarkable in terms of awards, achievements, and placements amidst the pandemic strike across the globe. Hindustan has acclaimed the “Best University Award” under universities within a ranking of 100 in NIRF at the ThinkEdu Conclave; the “Best Private University for Research & Innovation of the Year” Award at the Asia Education Summit; and conferred with “The Institute of the Year for Higher Education – South” Award by ASSOCHAM during 13th Higher Education Skill and Livelihood Conclave. Students have brought mammoth laurels: Team Jhatayu, an Aero HTBI start-up’s invention got placed in Asia Book of Records; Team Mechatronics bagged “Design Excellence Award” in the International VEX Robotics Competition; Team Automobile bagged First & Second positions at JK Tyres Intercollege Cup 2019; Team Kratos secured 11th position at the International in the SAE Aero Design East 2020; Team MBA bagged Runner Trophy in the 11th ABBS BRICS Meet; and many more.

Hindustan has involved in outstanding services during COVID 19 pandemic. The Centre for Automation and Robotics developed a service robot, ‘Sevili’ to navigate to isolation wards; drones were donated to Tamil Nadu Police for surveillance; and over 5000 families were assisted with essential relief kits and groceries through the Covid Camp. I feel content that we could serve the needy in times of the crisis in association with Dr. KCG. Verghese Charitable Trust.

The pandemic crisis and has also brought in an unanticipated new wave of online education. However, we quickly transformed into the groove of it; our classes and semester exams were conducted effectively.

Change is riding in an accelerated speed—the present times have witnessed numerous changes in varied fields— Technology, Trade, Industry, Tourism, Education etc. As educators, we shoulder a huge responsibility to offer quality education along with requisite skills to meet the Industry requirements and the augmenting challenges of the nation. At Hindustan, we just rightly do that. I compliment all the staff and students on their accomplishment and wish them good luck for the next academic year & future.

Heartiest congratulations on publishing of -Hcellence 2020!

Dr. Aby Sam

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DIRECTOR “When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”

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cellence is an illuminating chronicle of Hindustan that revels in capturing the past. Some of the notable accolades received were,

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“Innovation in Global Collaborative Learning” during the 14th World Education Summit; • “Best University Award” presented by Dr. Edappadi K. Palaniswami, Honorable Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu at the ThinkEdu Conclave.

• “The Institute of the Year for Higher Education – South” Award

by ASSOCHAM. “Institution Deploying Innovative Practices in Promoting Research & Innovation amongst Faculty & Students” Award at I-TEC Conclave conducted by MHRD. “Best Private University for Research & Innovation of the Year” Award at the Asia Education Summit.

Ranked 107th in Engineering; and 20th in Architecture in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) Rankings–2020.

Management By Example is a desired leadership trait. I feel honoured to obtain the 1st Patent for Hindustan on “A Method and a Prior Warning Mixed Mode Communication System for the Natural Calamities.” Subsequently, HITS Faculty earned 3 more Patents.

These achievements have made HITS to be Ranked in the 8th position in India (Private Institution Category). Knowledge, Skills, & Attitude are built through learning experiences and opportunities created for learners in college. Hindustan has obtained many projects sanctioned by Funding Agencies and others such as DRDO, SERB, NSTL, Royal Academy of Engineering, etc., estimated at more than 8 crores. My appreciations to the Faculty for their involvement in obtaining innovative projects.

Hindustan is keen on growth and enhancement. We aim to create apt platforms for learning and training our GenZ students. We have exchanged partnership with leading organizations such as IBM (Deep Learning), AWS, HTC, Okinawa Skills, eDx, Coursera, Ansys, EDS and many more. We have also expanded our facility by procuring the latest 3D Printers and Fatigue Testing Machine to name a few. The year has witnessed the latest partnership with Trier University, Germany on a major Research Project under the DAAD German Academic Exchange Service.

Academics and Sports go hand in hand. The Basketball Women’s Team emerged victorious, bagging the All India InterUniversity Tournament Championship, and Silver Medal in the Khelo India University Games 2020. Likewise, Team India clinched the Winners title in the 10th Dr. K. C. G. Verghese Memorial International Football Tournament organized for foreign students.

Wishing continued success to Hindustan!

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REGISTRAR I feel proud that the year 2019-2020 has been a year of success for HITS. The achievements of HITS in 2019-2020 are remarkable and outstanding. The NIRF 2019 has rated HITS in 107th Position in India under the Engineering Category. HITS has also bagged awards under various categories in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

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HITS has achieved ‘A’ Grade in NAAC Accreditation.

The National Board of Accreditation has accredited five B.Tech Programmes.

The MHRD recognized HITS as a Category-II University in India with several privileges.

The Week, India Today, Competition Success Review have rated HITS one among top private Universities in India.

At this juncture, I would like to highlight the contribution made by HITS during the pandemic situation. The SEVILI robot of HITS was invented and used in Tamilnadu government hospitals to treat the COVID patients. HITS also launched Drishyam for crowd monitoring and control in Chennai during the lockdown. The NSS team distributed relief kits to the migrant labourers and poor people in the village.

I heartily congratulate HITS for the tremendous achievement during the year 2019-2020. I wish HITS to win many more laurels in the forthcoming years.

I also congratulate the editorial team for bringing out the HCELLENCE 2020.

Dr. Pon Ramalingam

DEAN (E&T) True to the quote by Dr. John G. Hibben “Education is the ability to meet life’s situations” it instantly connects with the present educational scenario. Due to the pandemic at the end of the academic year all educational institutions had to close down across the globe. HITS kept the pace of the teaching learning process by completely shifting to online pedagogy since April 2020. At a time when COVID-19 had shaken up the education sector and forced institutions to devise ways and means of grappling with the pandemic, the Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai received E-(E-LEAD) Certification from the coveted QS IGAUGE for E-learning excellence. Online education and digital learning opportunities have the ability to contribute towards the democratisation of the higher education system with a strong emphasis on quality, accessibility, inclusivity, and excellence.

It has been a year with significant achievements and remarkable improvements in all domains. I am proud to note that HITS has done exceedingly well in the rankings and secured 107th rank in Engineering and 20th rank in Architecture in the recently conducted National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings by the Ministry of Human Resources Development. Similarly, THE Impact Ranking 2020 ranked HITS 18th in SDG6 (Clean Water and Sanitation). HITS is the only institution in India to have achieved highest rank in this category.

In the academic front there was a spurt in the educational events this year. It is a matter of pride that staff and students quickly adapted to virtual platform, since the HITS fraternity were already trained and accustomed to Blended Learning.

It is really heartening to note that 132 programmes including International Conferences, International Workshops/ Seminars, National Conference, Webinars, Competitions, Guest Lectures, Research oriented programmes, and FDPs were organized. More than 420 online events were organized during the lockdown period.

Staff and students had also a fabulous opportunity to do free online Coursera and EDex courses initiated and encouraged by the Management. The success of institution reflects the sustained efforts and commitment of the entire HITS fraternity guided by the authorities to excel no matter whatever hurdles come on the way. Education never stops and adaptation to novel situations has become the norm during this new normal.

I wish the editorial team all the success for compiling this issue.

Dr. N. Vasudevan Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science

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The Most Rt. Rev. Dr. Joseph Mar Thoma Metropolitan, The Metropolitan of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, Thiruvalla The other day while I was travelling, the Chancellor of Hindustan University, Dr. Mrs. Elizabeth Verghese, called me and said, “Thirumeni, your 90th birthday is coming soon. When we wished to start an organization, in a small room in Kilpauk in 1967, you came and prayed for us. Today, it has grown to become Hindustan University.”

The institution has grown to greater heights since then. I felt so happy to note that the college was coming up with Virtual Choir during the Pandemic. The Choir of Hindustan University along with their students and Alumni have sung this “Heal the World” by Michael Jackson. I was invited by this prestigious Hindustan Group to inaugurate the rendition of this Virtual Choir; and I agreed happily to their request. Later, the Chancellor of the University said they would like to donate Rs. 10 lakhs as a gift on my birthday. They wanted me to use this money for any project that I would like to use it for. I humbly accepted and informed the Sabha Secretary. The Sabha Council decided to build a complex and the money could be used for it in addition to the budget. And today, I am happy to lay the foundation stone for this building in this auspicious occasion, and in the name of the Holy Trinity, I am able to entrust this into the hands of the Sabha Trustees.

Many wishes to Hindustan University! I pray, the Almighty gives all blessings to the University to attain greater heights.

May it continue its remarkable services, and act as a pillar of support to the needy and society at large.

Thiru. Banwarilal Purohit

Honorable Governor of Tamil Nadu.

I’m happy to be in HITS for the inauguration of the 70th Annual General Meeting of The Aeronautical Society of India and the National Conference on “Recent Developments in Aerospace and Defence Technology.” The Founder Chairman of Hindustan University (Late) Dr. K.C.G. Verghese has inspired and motivated many students in the field of Aviation. Hindustan University has grown in leaps and bounds and is producing many talented engineers. Appreciations to the institution for its notable contribution towards the development of the nation.

Dr. K. Sivan

Chairman, ISRO.

The 70th Annual General Meeting of the Aeronautical Society and the National Conference on “Recent Developments in Aerospace and Defence Technology” on the theme “Regional Transport Aircraft - Opportunities and Challenges” held at Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science was excellently arranged. I’m honoured to receive Outstanding Leader in Aerospace and Defence Award at this event.

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Dr. V.K. Saraswat

Member, NITI Aayog.

I’m delighted to be present at the 70th Annual General Meeting of the Aeronautical Society and honoured with Life-time Achievement Award. I dedicate this award to my team members for last 40 years who have helped me in my journey of developing certain technologies for the nation. Our country has done tremendous work as far as Aerospace & Defence technologies are concerned. But the technology is not static and we have many more miles to achieve. When the technologies are changing, universities like Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science with their programs like Aeronautics & Aerospace have to make a major change.

Dr. R. Jayanthi

Dean, Rajiv Gandhi Govt. General Hospital, Chennai.

I sincerely thank Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Nissan Renault India Ltd. for providing us with the Sevili Robots for effective management of Covid 19 patients in our hospital. It will be very useful in protecting Health Care Workers of our hospital.

Mr. A. John Louis

District Collector, Chengalpattu.

I’m overwhelmed to note the release of Hcellence 2020, the Annual Magazine of Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science. It gives me a profound privilege to observe Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science is involving in yeoman’s service in times of crisis and calamities and has been donating in lakhs for such relief measures.

It has done an exceptional service to the medical frontlines and society during the recent COVID pandemic by means of its inventions, namely, Sevili the service Robot being deployed at Rahiv Gandhi and Chengalpattu Hospitals. I inferred the remarkable milestones attained in the last academic year; and I’d just say that the institution is progressing in the right path by offering quality and technical education and training young minds to address challenges lying ahead.

I extend my warm greetings and felicitations to the Management, Staff, and the Students of Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science and extend my wishes to continue to serve the society and nation at its best through their inventions and accomplishments. Nurturing creativity and inspiring innovation are two of the key elements of a successful education; and a college magazine is the perfect amalgamation of both. I congratulate the Management and the Editorial board.

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Dr. Peter Koenig

Professor, Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

When I visited Hindustan Institute of Technology & Sciences first time during the FISITA Congress in Chennai, I was very impressed about the passion and energy of students, professors and staff. Their extraordinary welcoming and cooperative way and the strong and visionary mindset of the HITS leadership convinced us to define a Joint Academic and Research Project within the area of Automotive Technology and successfully apply for a significant funding at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) a year ago. Facing the actual global political instabilities and the urgent need for joint social, economical, environmental and technological solution, we need to provide our junior researchers and students with an improved intercultural understanding, technological excellence and the belief in successful long-term partnerships.

Today, one year and many personal visits and video-conferences later, we may be proud as we have been successful in supporting a strong Indo-German partnership. We, as Trier University are proud to have you as a strategic academic partner - and as a friend. Against this background, we are looking forward to further cooperating with you and extending our partnership! Please keep your passion and stay as energetic as you are!”

Dr. Colin Okashimo

Founder, Okashimo Pte Ltd., Singapore It was a pleasure and honour to give my lecture titled “ The Power of Pause for Place-Making” to the various Architectural students and faculty of the Bachelor of Architecture programme at the Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, India.

As my first Online Lecture, it posed a unique challenge as I typically rely on the physical reaction of the audience to gauge the pace and depth that I should deliver. Without that ‘feedback’ I decided I would dwell to the most in-depth explanations of my processes and methodologies.

I was pleasantly surprised that the lecture was well-received and understood evidenced by the depth of the questions asked at the end of the lecture as well as by text from other students that could not fit in their questions within the Q&A period.

It is hoped that in the future, in-person Design Workshop/Sessions can build upon that which I lectured, in order that it is experienced rather than just talked about. Remembering that experiential research is key and taking back time to pause, reflect and meditate during the process allows for pristine encounters and revelatory moments to reveal the essence of a place and test the solution one is seeking. Best wishes to Hindustan University!

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Mr. David D. Moore

AIA | Senior Vice President, Regional Director, Asia Pacific.

I want to thank you for including me with the School of Architecture Studio this semester as your students took on the challenge of designing a 5-Star Hotel and luxury Apartments. It was a big task; but I believe the students stepped up and developed some very interesting concepts.

What I truly liked about the approach was, it’s an actual project, and sits on an actual site and you used an actual Ritz Carlton programme for the students to see, and begin to understand the complexities of a mixed-use development.

This is something they will be able to take with them as they start their professional careers. Also, the intricate nature of designing a hotel, with its guests, staff and service uses will give them a unique understanding of how to approach complex design problems in the future.

As mentioned, I believe this semester was a very unique opportunity for the students and I believe they will cherish as they become licensed Architects. I appreciate you inviting me to review their drawings, and I would been keen to participate again if you believe I could be of service.

Also, I would like to thank the faculty at Hindustan University for the hospitality given to me during my visit.

Good luck!

Mr. VK Mathews.

Executive Chairman, IBS Group, Trivandrum.

It is a pleasure and privilege to participate in the Convocation and my sincere thanks for considering me worthy of the Honoris Causa degree. The world is shaken by economic uncertainties, and disruptive innovations that have changed the paradigm of comfort and permanency. With emerging technologies, 50% of human jobs can be automated; which most likely means the same percent of deprivation in job opportunities. I beseech all the young the graduates to technically upgrade themselves, intellectually consume more every day, and learn to live with technology and machines.

All the very best for HITS and to all the graduates and students.

Mr. Bala K Baradwaj

Managing Director, Boeing India Engineering & Technology Centre, Bengaluru & President SAEINDIA Very honoured and happy to be part of the 10th Convocation. I’m very impressed by the dedication of the leaders and officers of HITS in creating the next generation of young educated Engineers, Technologists, Scientists, and other professionals.

Ambition, Bravery backed up by Commitment is the ABC formula for success. As much as we take from the society, we must also ensure our contribution paid back in double.

I urge the graduates to take a moment to recall and reflect on their journey till today and express their due gratitude to family, teachers, and well-wishers for being their spine. Hindustan has the potential to go to much higher level. I wish all the best and success in future!

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Mr. Tony Thomas

Corporate Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Global IS/IT, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Japan Privileged to be a part of the august gathering at the Convocation. Attaining degree is not the end, but the beginning of knowledge. Half of the jobs that exist today will vanish without a trace in another 20-25 years from now. And the only way to get alive and be connected is by adapting to the change and keep enhancing knowledge according to the time’s relevance. Congratulations to all graduands! Great campus, wonderful energy! Good luck!

Prof. Col. Dr. James Thomas

Principal Advisor, Prof. Cardiac Surgery, Director Specialties & Former Vice Chancellor, Padmashree Dr. D Y Patil University, Navi Mumbai My absolute pleasure to attend the 10th Convocation of Hindustan University.

I’m impressed by the excellent infrastructure, congenial atmosphere, dedicated faculty, excellent research team, and enthusiastic students. C’s: Curiosity, Creative, Communicative, Character, Courage, Conviction, Charisma, Competence, and Common Sense are essential for oneself to lead a life intertwined with values. In a stead fasting world, almost all are driven towards eatables that are mostly devoid of nutrition. This has caused a major setback in health, especially youngsters, and make them disease-proned. A fight against this irregular lifestyle is the need of the hour is vital alongside other needs. It was great to receive Honoris Causa degree.

All the best to Hindustan!

Mr. Arun Kumar V. C.

Vice President (Enterprise Solutions), HTC Global Service, Chennai.

I am happy to take to part in the Inaugural function of AICTE Sponsored Short Term Training Programme on “CYBER SECURITY, CYBER FORENSICS, CYBER LAWS“. It is highly appreciable to organize the training programme on Cyber Security as it is a need of the hour during the Covid-19 Pandemic. I am admiring about the online arrangement for the training programme, it was well-arranged. I congratulate the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the University to organize such training programme and I wish all the best for the successful conduction of the training programme.

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Mr. N. Krishnamurthy

Founder/CEO, Plant Control & Automation Technologies.

I had an opportunity recently to be an External Examiner for final year EEE students of Hindustan University. First of all, I consider it as a great honour. Projects chosen were very good; most of them industry oriented. The very fact that students answered my question satisfactorily showed not only their dedication, but also that of the faculty who had trained them. Critical evaluation method had been set by the department extremely well.

I also understand that many of them have got placement from reputed companies. I congratulate Dr. Uppu Ramachandriah, Head, EEE & his team, & the Management of the University for this achievement. I can easily infer that the university focuses not only on the curriculum but also on the future of the students and prepares them for a challenging career.

Mr. Joshua David M. D.

Hexaware Technologies, Chennai Recruitment Manager APAC

It is indeed a great pleasure being a part of Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science placements during 2019-2020 campus season from Hexaware Technologies, Chennai. The Chennai campus is obviously one of the greatest attractions to Corporates because of the best in class infrastructure clubbed in with the course curriculum. We had a vision-oriented interaction with the college Management, HoDs and Faculty members of different branches during our visit as well. The unique quality of the students is their discipline during the course of hiring process. Starting from the Pre-Placement Talk, Online Assessment, Group Discussion, Interviews, we have been assigned separate conference rooms for conducting flawless interview coordination. Interestingly, we had a premium set of Lab facilities to conduct online test for all the students at a time and made our jobs easier. I also appreciate the fact that the Placement Team and its coordination with other departments to get in students’ availability for the process is commendable. Over all, it’s a delightful experience to be part of this college.

Finally, during this lockdown, from the Corporate Connect Programme, the college Management and Placements Team had organized a Webinar on “Skills needed in Today’s Workspace” on 28 May 2020. By this initiative, we addressed all the pre-final year students and gave them a heads-up on what’s the New Normal currently the industry is stepping towards, how Digital Footprint is going to change the landscape of every student, and how students should get acclimatize to the Virtual world of hiring. So, all these corporate connect initiatives will definitely bridge the gap between industryacademia and pay way for betterment of students’ community on the whole.

I wish the Hindustan and the Management a great future!

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Mr. Charles Godwin P.

HR Lead, Zoho Corporation

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometime they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

I am happy to know that, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science is coming up with a College Magazine. Glad to understand the various initiatives taken by the institute to build strong young minds. I am sure that this magazine will stimulate and encourage the hidden talents of the students and hope it will continue to inspire all the students.

I would like to convey my heartiest wishes to the entire team. May all your students soar high and bring glory to the world and their profession with the wings of education!

Mr. P. Parthiban (B.Tech. Aerospace - Batch 2013)

Scientist/Engineer, U. R. Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), Indian Space Organization (ISRO), Department of Space, Govt. of India.

Dreams are something that comes out of passion. Anyone with passion are free to dream but converting the dreams into reality isn’t easy. Perseverance and determination are very important; but without guidance the route to success can be very frustrating.

I believe a good education system can help students to transform their dreams into reality. In that sense, I’m glad I did my Aerospace Engineering in Hindustan University.

The support I got from my Professors and the guidance I received from them played a major role in my success. Thanks to Hindustan for giving me a rewarding experience!

Ms. Jessy Mathew (MBA - Batch 1996)

Director, Al Amal Al Watania LLC, JJ2 Consultancy UK Limited.

As a first batch MBA-student, I look back at my time in Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science as a great experience. The academic experience with a world class infrastructure and excellent faculty at HITS has endured me with a lifelong career excellence. The exceptional programmes and teaching methodologies backed by practical skills and industry interface have given me the confidence to pursue my career ahead. The all-time support and motivation of the faculty members of Hindustan have enlightened me throughout the beautiful journey.

My journey from working Executive to an Entrepreneur was truly because of my excellent grooming at Hindustan. I sincerely appreciate the dedication of the Management in student‘s welfare and wish the Institute and its students a lot of success in times to come....

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INSTITUTION RANKINGS & AWARDS

◀◀ Positioned in 150 - 200 band in the Overall Ranking of Institutions, and 95th position in Engineering in the NIRF 2019 Ranking. ◀◀ Ranked in the band of 301-350 in the QS BRICS University Rankings 2019

◀◀ Ranked in the band of 501-550 in the QS World University Rankings 2020.

L-R: Dr. G.D. Sharma, Former Secretary, UGC; Padma Shri.

Dr. Pritam Singh, Ex-Director, IIM-Lucknow; Mr. Deepak Sood, Secretary General, ASSOCHAM; Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey, Hon’ble Minister, Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Mr. Ashok Verghese, Director, Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science,Chennai; and Dr. Prashanth Bhalla, Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council of Education.

▶▶ Conferred with “The Institute of the Year for Higher Education – South” Award by ASSOCHAM during 13th Higher Education Skill and Livelihood Conclave held on 25 & 26 Feb. 2020 at New Delhi.

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▶▶ Accorded with “Excellence in Initiatives Taken for Industry-Academia Synergy” Award.

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▶▶ Bagged “Best Private University for Research & Innovation of the Year” Award at the Asia Education Summit on 27 Feb. 2020. Mr. Ashok Verghese received award from Shri. Ramdas Athavale, Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment. Other luminaries present during the event were Smt. Maneka Gandhi, Hon’ble Member of Parliament & Former Cabinet Minister, GOI; Smt. Jaya Prada, Indian Film Actress & Former Member of Parliament; and Shri Shri Shyam Jaju, National Vice President of BJP.

▶▶ Received “Institution Deploying Innovative Practices in Promoting Research & Innovation amongst Faculty & Students” Award at I-TEC Conclave conducted by MHRD on 3 Jan. 2020.

▶▶ Renewed 5S Certification for successfully implementing 5S Work Place Management System on the Campus on 4 March 2019.

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Mr. Ashok Verghese, Director, HITS receiving the award from the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Thiru. Edappadi K. Palanisamy.

Also seen left is Ms. Smriti Irani, Minister, Union Cabinet of India; and Mr. Prabhu Chawla, Editor, Indian Express.

▶▶ Recipient of “Best University Award” under universities within a ranking of 100 in NIRF at the ThinkEdu Conclave, an initiative of the New Indian Express group on 9 Jan. 2020.

▶▶ Bestowed with “VCWare IT Academy in recognition of successful completion of all program participation requirements,” and “ICT Academy Centre of Excellence for design powered by Autodesk in the field of design for the academic year 2019-20” awards during ICT Academy, BRIDGE’19 Conference at New Delhi on 11 Dec. 2019. Prof. Anil D Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE; Prof. KK Aggarwal, Chairman, NBA; and Mr. Lakshmi Narayanan, Emeritus Vice Chairman, CTS were present at the event.

◀◀ Recipient of World Education Summit Award, “Innovation in Global Collaborative Learning” during the 14th World Education Summit held at New Delhi on 9 & 10 Aug. 2019.

◀◀ Honoured with “Best Educational Institution 2019” Award by Provoke Lifestyle Magazine during Provoke Awards 3.0.

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INDIVIDUAL AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS

“Women Icon of India” L-R: Dr. Lakshmi Narayanan, Emeritus Vice Chairman, CTS; Dr. Elizabeth Verghese, Chairperson, Hindustan Group of Institutions; Mr. Hans Raj Verma, Additional Chief Secretary, Dept. of IT, TN Govt.; and Mr. M. Siva Kumar, CEO, ICT Academy.

Dr. (Mrs) Elizebath Verghese, Chairperson, Hindustan Group of Institutions was honoured by the ICT Academy at BRIDGE 2020 with the highly acclaimed “Women Icon of India” Award in recognition of her achievements in the field of education on 26 Feb. 2020.

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Dr. Anand Jacob Verghese, Pro Chancellor, HITS was honoured with the most coveted “Edupreneur of the Year” Award at 13th Higher Education Skill and Livelihood Conclave held on 25 & 26 Feb. 2020 at New Delhi.

Mr. Ashok Verghese, Director, HITS received “Education Entrepreneur” Award for being the Exemplary Leader and for Outstanding Contribution as an during the event organized by the Industry Academic Forum in association with Amma Kalviyagam on 6 Jan. 2020.

Mr. Ashok Verghese become Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India).

Besides, 7 faculty members have received awards during the year.

Dr. D. Jini, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engg. received an “International Best Researcher Award in Silver Nanoparticles and its Antidiabetic Activity” from RULA awards in association with World Research Council, and United Medical Council on 26 Jan. 2020.

Ms. D. Chitradevi, Assistant Professor, MCA received “Active Participation (Women) Award” by Education Directorate of Computer Society of India on 18 Jan. 2020 during the CSI Convention at Chennai.

Mr. T. Shanmuganathan, Assistant Professor, Automobile Engg. received “Toastmaster Outstanding Member” Award from Toastmaster International, District 82B, Division G on 14 Dec. 2019 during Division G Semi-annual Conference & Contest 2019.

Dr. T. Manvel Raj, Dean, Student Affairs, and Mr. N. Jeyakkannan, Assistant Professor, and Officer Student Affairs received “Teacher for Peace Award” from Gandhi Peace Foundation, Madras during Gandhi-150, Kasturba-150, Vinoba-150 Birthday Celebrations at Chennai on 5 Oct. 2019.

Mr. Vijay Samuel G., Assistant Professor, Chemical Engg. received “Newgen Achiever Award 2019” under Science & Technology from World Peace University in association with Success IAS Academy on 15 Aug. 2019.

Dr. Akkara Sherine, HOD (Languages) achieved “Accomplished Educational Speaker” award during World Education Summit 2019 organized by Elets Technomedia during 9 & 10 Aug. 2019.

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HITS offers 30 UG and 17 PG programmes. 1291 UG students and 182 PG students were admitted during this academic year making a total student strength of 7000.

64 Value Addition Courses were offered to prepare students for better career options and enhance employability Student Scholarships and Fee Concessions worth Rs. 28.94 Crores were granted to 3198 students.

For the academic year 2019-20, reputed companies have visited campus. IBM, Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Kaar Technologies, Zoho Corp, Verizon, Object Frontier Software, Saint Gobain Glass, Gestamp Automotive, Advanced medical systems, Healthwatch Telediagnostics, Brillio, AGS health etc. to name a few.

Over 120 hours of Pre-placement Training in Employability Skills by the Placement Department produced excellent results in recruitment of Infosys and other companies.

Placement 2019-20 Number of Companies / Number of Dream Status Number of Students Number of Placement Organizations Visited Companies (more than Rs. 5 Participated Students Placed Percentage Lakhs per annum)

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RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 461 scholars are currently undergoing studies for Ph.D. in the campus and number of fulltime scholars have increased to 91.

The institute encourages fulltime research by providing assistantship to them.

PhD Degrees

29 Ph.D. degrees and 1 MS by Research were awarded during the year 2019-20.

Projects Sanctioned

6 projects with a project outlay of Rs.183.43 lakhs have been sanctioned by Funding Agencies such as DRDO, SERB, NSTL and Royal Academy of Engineering.

Patents

Government of India has granted 4 Patents

Faculty & Students Publications in International/National Journals & Conference Proceedings Faculty members have published 314 papers which are indexed in Scopus and WoS.

Grants

AICTE has released grants to the 3 staff members for the conduct of Short Term Training Programmes (STTPs) under AQIS 2018-19 during the financial year 2019-20.

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CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS ORGANISED 132 programmes including 2 International Conferences, 3 International Workshops/Seminars, 2 National Conference, 65 Seminars/Workshops, 42 Guest Lectures and 17 FDPs were organized.

Besides, the following 422 online events were organized during this lockdown period.

• Online Industrial webinars/Guest Lectures - 222 • Online Workshops - 20 • Online FDPs - 5 • Online Courses - 4 • Online Conferences - 1 • Online International Experts Talk (Industry) - 32 • Online International Experts Talk (Academic) - 11 • Online National Experts Talk (Industry) - 93 • Online National Experts Talk (Academic) - 33 • Online Contest - 1

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“Robotics, Automation & Non-Destructive Evaluation” on 29 & 30 Aug. 2019.

“International Vex Robotic Competition” on 26 & 27 Sept. 2019.

International Workshop

“Sustainable Energy & Smart Grid” on 8 Aug. 2019.

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“Smart Transportation and Infrastructure” on 22 Aug. 2019.

“Next Generation Mobility” on 22 Aug. 2019.

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“VAKTRA NASA Talk Series” organized during Silver Jubilee Celebrations of Arch. dept on 31 Aug. and 1 Sept. 2019.

“Artificial Intelligence” on 27 & 28 Feb. 2020.

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Razzle Dazzle 5.0- Graduation Fashion Show of 2019 batch B.Sc. Fashion Design students was conducted on 12 July 2019.

“CENTAURUS-2019,” an intra-group Space Competition jointly organized by Hindustan Innovation Factory, Rocketeers Club, School of Aeronautical Sciences & SAE - HITS Aero Club in association with Aeronautical Society of India – Chennai Branch was conducted on 20 and 21 Sept. 2019.

Hosted “National Folk Festival” organized by the South Zone Cultural Centre, Ministry of Culture, from 8 to 10 Aug. 2019.

Hosted “Regional Convention of 3rd AICTE-Chhatra Vishwakarma Awards 2019” in Southern Region on 18 Dec. Hosted “70th Annual General Meeting of Aeronautical Society of India and National Conference on Recent Developments in Aerospace & Defence” on 21 and 22 Feb. 2020.

Hosted “AICTE Training Programme for Experts of Southern Region” on 24 Feb. 2020.

HITSATHON V3.0, a National Hackathon was organized on 31 Aug. 1 Sept. 2019.

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15 International Academic MoUs were signed with leading Universities in USA, Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Poland, Latvia, Cambodia, Argentina and Chile for Staff, Scholars and Student Exchange, Joint Research, Summer Program and Conference.

19 MOUs were signed with leading Industries/Institutions in India.

INBOUND & OUTBOUND PROGRAMMES Student Outbound

75 students participated under Semester Exchange Programmes, Summer Programmes, Cultural Exchange, Global Learning Programmes in foreign universities across the globe.

Student Inbound

15 students from foreign Partner Universities participated in Semester Exchange Programmes.

Staff Outbound

27 HITS faculty members participated under Staff Exchange programmes, Ph.D. and Joint Research at Universities in several countries.

Staff Inbound

8 faculty members from foreign universities visited HITS under Staff Exchange and Research activities.

36 Guest Lectures were delivered by International delegates who visited HITS. 63 International delegates from foreign universities visited HITS in 2018-19 for exploring opportunities for academic cooperation between universities.

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CONVOCATION 10th Convocation Celebrated in Splendour!

The 10th Convocation of Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science was celebrated in splendour on 19 Oct. 2019 with the presence of Mr. V K Mathews, Executive Chairman, IBS Group, Trivandrum as Chief Guest; and Mr. Bala K Baradwaj, Managing Director, Boeing India Engineering & Technology Centre, Bengaluru & President SAEINDIA; Mr. Tony Thomas, Corporate Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Global IS/IT, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Japan; and Prof. Col. Dr. James Thomas, Principal Advisor, Prof. Cardiac Surgery, Director Specialties & Former Vice Chancellor, Padmashree Dr. D Y Patil University, Navi Mumbai as Guests of Honour. The convocation viewed 1413 graduands comprising 29 Ph.D., 1 MS by Research, 216 PG, 966 UG and 201 UG Arts and Science being honoured with degrees. Besides, the chief guest and the guests of honour were awarded with Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) on this remarkable event.

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1st Rank Holders - Rs. 25,000/2nd Rank Holders - Rs. 15,000/-

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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS Team Events

Students have participated in many National/International Competitions and won 12 Team event and 9 Individual event awards.

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Students of B. Tech. Mechatronics Engineering bagged “Design Excellence Award” in the International VEX Robotics Competition, organized by the Mechatronics and Robotics Society of Philippines (MRSP) in association with the Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific (AUAP) at Manila, Philippines on 26 and 27 of Sept. 2019.

Students of Aeronautical Department participated in the Singapore Space Challenge-2020 during 6 & 7 Feb. 2020 organized by Singapore Space and Technology Association, Singapore and were shortlisted to the final round among 15 teams.

Two satellite payloads: to measure the radiation from cosmic rays in space and thermoelectric power generation using temperature difference in space have been accepted for the launch on PSLV-C-49 of ISRO in Feb. 2020.

Team Jhatayu, an Aero HTBI start-up’s invention got placed in Asia Book of Records for its Flying Bike on 5 Nov. 2019.

Mr. David Ryan and Mr. Sai Prithvi Sudhakar, 2nd B. Tech. Automobile Engineering exhibited phenomenal racing skills and physical endurance, and bagged the First and Second positions respectively at the JK Tyres Intercollege Cup 2019 held at Kari Motor Speedway, Coimbatore between 28 Aug. and 1 Sept. 2019.

An 8-member student team representing Mechanical Engineering won cash prize of Rs. 10,000 from the Institute of Aeronautics Astronautics & Aviation (IAAA) during the Drone Racing competition, MLRIT, Hyderabad on 15 Oct. 2019.

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Mr. Thangavel Sanjeeviraja, Research Scholar, Aeronautical Engg. has got duo credits “Asia & India Book of Records” to his label by developing the most economical femto satellite “Spaceman-SAT” weighing 51.6 grams at a cost of Rs. 10,173/-. The satellite has all possibilities now to be soon acclaimed as the “World Lightest Satellite” breaking the current Kalam SAT record (64 gms).

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Student team from 1st MBA won Winner and Runnerup respectively in 23rd AIMA-SMG Student Management Games organized by All India Management Association, New Delhi on 4 & 5 Nov. 2019.

An 8-member student team from SOM won Overall Runner-up in 11th ABBS–BRICS Student Meet organized

by MBA Education Centre, School of Business, GDUFS from 15 to 17 Nov. 2019.

Students of Civil Engineering participated and won following awards during the 5th National Convention and National Conference of MEMSAAS-2020 organized

by SAMP - Society of Aerospace and Mechanical Professionals on 24 and 25 Jan. 2020 at CSI Engineering College, Ketti, Ooty. »» Mr. V.S. Srivishnu & Ms. Geetanjali Chandam - Best Project Award for “Analysis of traffic flow and safety for Sholinganallur junction by the DAAD Research Group” in collaboration with Trier University, Germany. »» Ms. P. Pooja Rao - M Vishveshvaraya Award for Excellence in Civil Engineering. »» Mr. Yanchen Oinam - Best Student Award.

Team Stalwartz E-Racing representing Automobile Engineering & ECE won “Cost Evaluation Award” and bagged Cash Award of Rs.40,000 in SAEINDIA- eBAJA 2020 competition conducted at Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh from 20 to 28 Jan. 2020 A 4-member team from Food Technology received Second prize in New Product Development and Third prize in Food Quiz in the Competition Essence 2020 organized by MOP Vaishnav College, Chennai on 13 Feb. Team from FDA bagged First prize in “Corporate Walk” (Fashion show) at Dr. M.G.R. University on 21 Feb. 2020. on 21 Feb. 2020.

Mr. Karapati Hemadrieswar, from Automobile Engg. won 1st Prize in Musica Eastern organized by the Madras Christian College, Chennai during February 2020.

Ms. Rajnini R, 2nd Fashion Design & Arts won First place in Light Music (Solo Singing) “MIRAKI” at ICAT Design and Media, Chennai held on 21 Feb. 2020.

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SPORTS ACHIEVEMENTS

Team Events Team HITS have won 20 Winners and 10 Runners trophies in National/State Intercollegiate and Inter-University Basketball, Cricket, Football, Volleyball Tournaments under Men & Women categories.

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Basketball Women Team won the Winner Trophy in the South Zone Inter-University Basketball Tournament organized by University of Madras, Chennai from 15 to 19 Dec. 2019.

Basketball Women Team clinched the Winner title in the All India Inter-University Basketball Women’s Tournament organized by Association of Indian Universities at Haryana on 6 Jan. 2020.

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Men’s Cricket Team won the Winner Trophy in the South Zone Inter-University Cricket Tournament organized by University of Mysore, Karnataka from 28 Nov. to 10 Dec. 2019.

Men’s Cricket Team entered till Quarter Finals and emerged in the overall Top 8 position in the All India Cricket Tournament. organized by ANU, Guntur from 3 to13 Feb. 2020

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International Dressage Development League (IDDL) South Zone was organized by Chennai Equitation Centre, Chennai on 16 & 17 Feb. 2020. Below students have won medals in various events: »» Mr. Narayanan, 2nd Automobile Engg. won Gold Medals in Intro Dressage (Open) and Equitation Advance Dressage. »» Mr. B. Manoj, 4th Aeronautical Engg. won Silver Medal in Preliminary Canter Dressage. »» Ms. Lipika Pilli, 3rd Aeronautical Engg. won Bronze Medal in Intro Dressage (Open).

• Ms. T. Dharshini, 3rd BBA got selected for the Indian Basketball Team Coaching Camp that is to participate in the Olympic Qualifiers at South Korea.

• Mr. S. Laxmanan, 1st B.Com. got selected for Tamil Nadu Basketball team to participate in the Under 18 National Championship.

• Mr. M. Kapilmaran, 3rd BBA won the Gold Medal in Heavy Weight (81-90 kgs) Category; Mr. Samudeen, 1st B.Sc. PEHES won the Gold in youth Light Heavy (75-81 kgs.)

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Madhavan, 1st B.Sc. PEHES won the Bronze Medal in Light Fly (46-49 kgs) in the Invitation Boxing Championship organized by Corporation Boxing Club, Chennai from 11 to 13 Oct. 2019.

Mr. Washington Sundar, 3rd BBA and Mr. M. Shahrukh Khan, 2nd MBA (SM) got selected in the Tamil Nadu Cricket Team to participate in Vijay Hazare Trophy where Tamil Nadu won the Runner up Trophy.

Mr. D. Rahul, 3rd BCA; Mr. K.Vishal Vaidhya, 2nd MBA (SM); Mr. Samrudh Bhatt, 2nd MBA (SM); and Mr. Kiran Akash, 1st MBA (SM) got selected to represent Under 23 Tamil Nadu Cricket Team in C.K. Naidu Trophy which will be conducted in various venues by BCCI. Mr. P. Kumaravel, 3rd BBA got selected for the Under 19 Tamil Nadu Cricket Team and participated in Cooch Bihar Trophy in various venues organized by BCCI. Mr. Adithya Sharma, 1st Mechatronics participated in Iron Man 70.3 Goa Triathlon International event held on 20 Oct. and completed (1.9 Kms Swimming, 90 Kms Cycling and 21 kms Running) by taking a total 7hrs and 46 minutes to complete 112.9 kms distance.

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ALUMNI ACTIVITIES HITS Alumni Association (HITSAA) is active with the conduct of reunion of batches and meetings in the Chapters of the Alumni. Alumni are continuously contributing to their alma mater by way of instituting Alumni Awards, and involving in Alumni Talk. In the reporting year, 15 Alumni Talks were successfully completed.

NCC NCC cadre represented TN, P & AN NCC Directorate and won All India Vayu Sena Cup 2019-Runner Up Trophy.

Flt. Lt. R. Giri, NCC Officer represented TN, P & AN NCC Directorate as Contingent Commander for the 5th consecutive year.

SOCIAL OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Rotary Citation: Rotaract Club of HITS received the Rotary Citation with Gold Distinction for helping the Rotary being the inspiration in the lives of people all over the world for the year 2018-2019 from Rotary International.

Unnat Bharat Abhiyan: NSS Cell and Rotaract Club of HITS began Unnat Bharat Abhiyan activities in the adopted

villages. The Village survey and Household survey were completed in Kayaar village on 20 July 2019. NSS Cell also conducted various competitions among Government School students on the theme “Rain Water Harvesting” on 13 Aug. 2019.

One Student One Tree project: One Student One Tree scheme was inaugurated by Dr. M. P. Poonia Vice Chairman, AICTE on 7 Sept. 2019.

Blood Donation Camp: NSS Cell in association with Rotary Club of Chennai Capital organized Blood Donation Camps at HITS on 24 Sept. 2019 and 14 Feb. 2020 collecting a total of 488 and 472 units of blood respectively.

Swachatta Hi Seva Campaign: Organized an Awareness Rally on “Plastic Usage & Ill Effects” on 24 Sept. Over 2000 students were given awareness through this rally.

Fit India Run: "Fit India" Rally was conducted in collaboration with Chennaiyin F.C on 2 Oct. 2019 to promote fitness

and hygiene in all citizens, on the occasion of 150th Birth Anniversary of the Father of the Nation. Around 300 students and staff participated in the rally.

Rain Coat Distribution: Y's Men Club of Hindustan Youth along with Y's Men Club of Mylapore, Y's Service Club of Karapakkam, Y's Men Club of OMR and Y's Men Club of Padappai have distributed 500 Raincoats to underprivileged school children on 8 Nov. at KCG College of Technology.

Diwali Celebrations: Y’s Men Club of Hindustan Youth in association with Y's Men Club of Mylapore & Y's Men Club of Chennai OMR Celebrated Diwali by distributing sweets to the needy people at Irular Colony, Thiruporur on 26 Oct. 2019.

Swachh Pakhwada: Organized a series of events in view of Swachh Pakhwada week as per UGC’s instructions. Hostel

cleaning drive and campus cleaning drive were conducted on 21 Jan. 2020. The Swachh Pledge was taken by more than 300 students on 22 Jan. 2020.

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Celebrations Christmas

Chief Guest: Dr. Mathews Mar Makarios, Bishop of Mar Thoma Church, Chennai-Bangalore Diocese Guest of Honour: Mr. Nitirooge Phoneprasert, Consul General, Thailand.

Date: 20 Dec. 2019

National Science Day

Chief Guest: Ms. Akila Ramachandran, Head, Service PracticeLearning, TCS Date: 12 Mar. 2020

Date: 26 Feb. 2020

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14th Founder’s Memorial Day

Chief Guests: Mr. A. John Louis IAS, District Collector Chengalpattu; Mr. JCD Prabhakar, Ex-MLA Villivakkam Constituency; and Rev. Dr S Xavier Alphonse, Director Indian Centre for Research and Development of Community Education.

Date: 14 Feb. 2020

73rd Independence Day

Chief Guest: Lt. Gen Bobby Mathews, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Joint Director, Hindustan International School.

Date: 15 Aug. 2019

Pongal

Chinese New Year

Chief Guest: Ms. Bharathi Thirumagam, Carnatic Musician & Performing Artist, AIR. Date: 15 Jan. 2020 Date: 24 Jan. 2020

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CULTURALS

National Folk Festival

The National Folk Festival organized by the South Zone Cultural Centre, Ministry of Culture, was hosted by Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science from 8 to 10 Aug. 2019. Prof. M. Balasubramoniam, Director South Zone Cultural Centre presided the festival as Chief Guest. The national folk festival provided a platform for 10 teams comprising 135 artists to exhibit their talents. The performance segment during inauguration began with a special dance performance by Dr. Malathi Hariharan followed by folk art performances such as Lavani of Maharashtra; Siddi Dhamal of Gujarat; Phag & Ghoomer of Haryana; Kalaripayattu of Kerala; Bhadai, Baredi and Northa of Madhya Pradesh; Mathuri, Lambadi & Dhimsa of Telangana; Dummy Horse, Karagam & Kavadi of Tamil Nadu; Thappetta Gullu of Andhra Pradesh; Kaaliyattam of Puducherry; and Pooja Kunitha & Veerabhadra of Karnataka.

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FIESTA 2019, Fresher’s Day celebrated on 14 Sept. was quite a memorable event for every first year students of batch 201920.Dr. E. Bhaskaran, Joint Director (Engineering) & GM, District Industries Centre, Dept. of Industries and Commerce, Govt. of Tamil Nadu and Mr. Mohammed Sadiq, Director, Parveen Travels presided over the event as chief guests for Liberal Arts & Applied Sciences (forenoon session)and Engineering and Architecture students (afternoon session). Students found the stage as an apt platform to reveal talents and rejoice at the cultural events organized exclusively for them.

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2019,” the Inter-Departmental Cultural Fest hosted on 28 Sept. 2019 witnessed a clash of talents competing at several individual and team competitions.

To mention a few, Indian & Western Group Dance, Solo Singing, Street Play, Solo/Duet Dance, Clash Of Bands, Western Music Group, Rap & Beat Boxing, Adzap, Mime, Mimicry, Stand-Up Comedy, Face Painting, Junk Art, Puddle Jumper, Stack Attack, Eat The Cookies, Watermelon Mania, Lights Camera Action; ON With Dance, Rain Dance, Treasure Hunt, Tug-of-War, Clash of Bands, DJ War, Fashion Show, Group Dance, Channel Surfing, Super Human, Mono Acting, Cooking Without Fire, Don’t Blow The Kings, etc., were held concurrently at nine different venues. Around 250 student volunteers and 210 faculties were actively involved in successfully organizing YARONA 2019.

The celebration saw a huge contingent of cultural troupes numbering 642 teams and 3168 participants (Boys 2043, Girls 1125) for 59 events. Mr. Ashok Verghese, Director, HITS felicitated and honoured the valedictory function. Mr. Arav Nafeez, Actor and Model and Alumnus (B.Tech. Mechanical Engg. Batch 2012) presided over the event as Chief Guest and conferred the Overall Championship and Rolling Trophy to the Department of Aeronautical Engineering; and the Runner Up Trophy to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

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SCHOOL OF AERONAUTICAL SCIENCES

AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING (Established 1996)

Staff Achievements • •

DR. A. DILIP SHAH DEAN We’re proud to note that our department is the largest in the country based on the undergraduate students’ intake.

The department has the largest number of Aircraft, Engines and Airframe which are the trademarks of Hindustan being a pioneer in commencing Aviation programme in an engineering college. The institution also boasts the presence of a Boeing 737-200, a Beechcraft Twin Bonanza and a Queen Air, a Beechjet 400, a MiG 23, a Cessna 152, Chetak Helicopter and a Harvard Trainer within the campus. The school has active exchange programs for students with countries such as France (ENAC and IPSA) and Russia (Moscow Aviation Institute). I wish all students a bright future and a successful career. All this is possible due to strong and eminent faculty members and their support in all the departmental activities.

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Mr. G. Dinesh, Assistant Professor, accomplished Universal Records for creating Jaihind 1S- Lightest Micro Satellite on 6 Dec. 2019.

Mr. Stanley Samlal, Assistant Professor, won Best Paper Award titled "Low Velocity Impact Damage Study on Sandwich Composites with Different Face Sheets" in the IEEE International Conference on “Computational Intelligence and Knowledge Economy” (ICCIKE), Dubai during Dec. 2019.

Mr. C. S. Karunakaran, Assistant Professor, got inducted as National Board Member of SAEINDIA Aerospace Board in an event presided by Dr. David Schutt, SAE International CEO on 16 Dec. 2019.

Mr. C. S. Karunakaran monitored Jhatayu-Flying Bike that entered Asia Book of Records on 5 Nov. 2019.

Mr. C. S. Karunakaran bagged Third Place in Toastmasters Club Contest organized on 23 Oct. 2019.

Mr. S. Thangavel, Assistant Professor, designed and prepared Hindustan SAT & SpaceMan- SAT whose payloads were selected for next launch of ISRO along with CAN-SAT.

Mr. Stanley Samlal towards being awarded for the Best Paper titled “Low Velocity Impact Damage Study on Sandwich Composites with Different Face Sheets”

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A student briefing to the school children in one of stalls during ISRO Space Carnival

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During the Proceeding release of National Conference on Recent Developments in Aerospace & Defence Technology

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DR. R. ASOKAN HEAD The School of Aeronautical Sciences is endowed with versatile faculty to empower the Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineers of 21st century. The facilities in the department including DGCA approved Alsim 50 and Alsim 250 Flight Simulators, Aircrafts, and modernized Labs add advantage to students to gain in-depth knowledge in the respective domain. The Centers of Excellence housed by the department in various areas including UAV, enhance learning experience and enables students to utilize vast resources available. Our students have the proven record of winning several International competitions this year as well. Innovation and creativity are inculcated to the students letting them spread their wings globally with long feathers. Looking forward for a challenging year ahead!

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Bagged Overall Winners Trophy in Yarona 2019 on 28 Nov. Team Falcon won Overall Championship in IAAA Drone Racing held at MLRIT Hyderabad on 15 Oct. 2019.

Team Cruzonic won Third Place in Best Technical Award in IAAA National Aircraft Build Competition on 16 & 17 Sept. 2019 at KIIT, Bhuwaneshwar, Odissa.

Team Water Raiser got qualified as Finalist in PALS Innowah conducted on 27 Feb. 2020.

Team Jhatayu received International Startup Motivation Award at Chennai International Airport by IAAA, AAI and ICAO on 7 Dec. 2020.

Team "Kratos" comprising 14 members secured 11th position at the International and 3rd in the Asia Pacific level for the oral technical presentation in the SAE Aero Design East 2020 organized at Florida Air Museum at Lakeland, Florida, USA between 6 and 8 March 2020.

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National Conference on “Recent Developments in Aerospace & Defence Technology” was organized on 21 & 22 Feb. 2020.

SAEINDIA Lecture Meeting was organized on 30 Nov. 2019 with Dr. M. Annadurai, Director ISRO; and Mr. V Ranganathan, Deputy Director, SDSC SHAR presiding over Team Kratos at the SAE Aero Design East 2020 field the function.

CENTAURUS 2019, an Inter Group Student Competition was conducted on 20 & 21 Sept. 2019 inviting Mr. Nellai S Muthu, Former Scientist, ISRO & Science Popularization Awardee as Chief Guest.

Chennai International Youth Fest 2019 - CIYF Seminar on “Satellite and Rocket Science” was conducted on 9 Sept. 2019.

Guest Lecture on “Access to Space and Planetary Exploration, Indian Capabilities: A Perspective” was scheduled on 23 August 2019 with Dr. S. Ramakrishnan, Former Director of VSSC LPSC, ISRO; and Air Marshal M Matheswaran, AVSM VM, Chairman & President, The Peninsula-Foundation, Chennai as guests.

Guest Lecture on Aerospace Day by Mr. Jagadeesh Kanna, Founder and CEO of Vayusastra Aerospace on 10 Jan. 2020.

Guest Lecture on “Aircraft Design An Industry Prospective” by Dr. Bala K Bharadvaj, MD, Boeing India Engg. & Tech.

Centre, Bengaluru & President SAE India was organized on 19 Oct. 2019.

Space Carnival-Centenary celebration of ISRO Founder and Space Father of India, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai was organized on 12 and 13 February 2020. Space themed stalls exhibiting Debris Management, Space 3D Printing, Lunar Details, Mars Details, Astro Suits, Space Food, VR Kits for Experiencing Space & Star Gazing, Tattoos, Planetarium, Rocket Landing Simulation, Fun Activities and Games drew the attention of the visitors.

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ARCHITECTURE (Established 1993)

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DR. SHEEBA CHANDER HEAD The School of Architecture (SoA) scaled new frontiers this academic year. This year we successfully conducted an International Seminar with experts from all around India and abroad which has greatly aided in engagement of our studio sessions and has benefited the students tremendously. Two National level design competitions hosted by SoA improved the students’ perceptions and enhanced their knowledge.

To nurture learning process and imbibe professionalism students attended around 30 guest lectures and 20 industrial visits. SoA has stamped its global footprint through collaboration with many premier foreign Universities and has sent 6 students as part of semester exchange program. Our team of wellexperienced academicians spread their wings in research through 10 Scopus Indexed Journals, 5 Conference Proceedings and 1Book Chapter. Overall, this year also, SoA successfully facilitated creative thought process and research orientation amongst the learners to make them socially responsible Architects.

Recipient of Best Department Award for generating revenue from Summer and Winter Programmes.

Hosted National Finals of Design competition 'Transparence 19 Grand Finale' in association with Ethos and Saint Gobain India Pvt. Ltd. Conducted Zonal Jury of Zone 05 CoA Awards for Excellence in “Architectural Thesis & Documentation of Architectural Heritage 2019” Conducted Architectural Design Studio for VI semester in association with Ar.David Moore, WAT&G, Singapore.

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Dr. Sheeba Chander, Dr. R. V. Nagarajan, Ar. D. Karthigeyan and Er. C. Yoganantham received “University Attendance Award.”

Dr. Sheeba Chander received an “Honorary Award” from Saint Gobain India Pvt. Ltd. for hosting 'Transparence 19 Grand Finale.'

Dr. Sheeba receiving an Award for Transparence Finale 2019

Chander Honorary hosting Grand

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Ms. P. Sowmiya, Ms. S. Mathimetha & Ms. S. Asvantika, 3rd year, underwent Semester Exchange Programme at the University of Applied Sciences, Detmold, Germany.

Mr. Ayush Bipin 3rd year, was elected as the Zonal Secretary for Zone 6 of National Association of Students of Architecture (NASA).

Mr. Ronny Philip on his 4th year was shortlisted in Top 10 in Zonal Jury of Zone 05 CoA Awards for Excellence in Architectural Thesis & Documentation of Architectural Heritage 2019.

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Dignitaries at the Vaktra-NASA Talk Series

Inaugural Function of Zonal Jury of “Zone 05 COA Awards for Excellence in Architectural Thesis and Documentation of Architectural Heritage 2019”

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International Seminar “Vaktra-NASA Talk Series” was organized during 31 Aug. & 1 Sept. 2019. Ar. David Moore, Managing Director, WAT&G, Singapore; Ar. Sushanth Verma, Computational Designer, Rat (LAB), New Delhi; Ar. Aniket Bhagwat, Landscape Architect, M/s. Prabhakar Bhagwat, Ahmedabad; Ar. Durganand Balsavar, Principal Architect, ARTES Foundation, Chennai; Ar. C. Madhumitha, Principal Architect, WeBe Design Lab, Chennai; Ar. Sanjay Antony, Junior Architect, COSTFORD, Trivandrum; Ar. Anuj Kale, Founder, Leewardists Architect & Urban Designer, Nashik; Ar. Jay Parag Shah, Winner of National Awards for Excellence in Architectural Thesis 2018; and Ar. Mihir Desai, Winner of National Awards for Excellence in Architectural Thesis 2018. delivered lectures during the series.

Webinar on “Thesis Report and Journal Paper Writing -An Architectural Perspective” by Dr. Vijayalakshmi J, Prof. & Dean Research, SPA Vijayawada was scheduled on 12 May 2020.

Workshop on “Traditional Techniques and Materials” was organized on 23 Jan. 2020.

Workshop on “Allegory – Art & Architecture” in Dakshinchitra was organized on 15 & 16 Oct. 2019.

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Dr. Marc Schnabel addressing in a Guest Lecture on “Immersive Architectural Technologies”

Guest Lecture on “Immersive Architectural Technologies”

by Dr. Mark Aurel Schnabel, Dean, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand was organized on 18 Feb. 2020.

Guest Lecture on “Planning and Society Place shaping in Multicultural Cities” by Dr. Lakshmi Priya Rajendran, Senior Research Fellow, School of Engineering and Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University, UK was scheduled on 5 Feb. 2020.

Guest Lecture on “Understanding Place Ranking in Knowledge and Innovation Spaces” by Dr. Surabhi Pancholi, Lecture, School of Architecture & Built Environment, Deakin University was organized on 23 Sept. 2019.

Winter Programme on “Strategies for Successful Architectural Thesis” handled by Ar. Pramod Balakrishnan, Chief Architects, Edifice Architects, Chennai; and Ar. Murali Murugan, Chief Architect, Murali Architects, Chennai was organized on 14 & 15 Nov. 2019.

Educational Tour to northern regions of India was organized for 3rd years so as to familiarize them to prominent architecture and heritage structures between 12 and 28 June 2019 Educational Tour to the northern regions of India

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CIVIL ENGINEERING (Established 1985)

Department Achievement Submitted Project Titled "Large-scale Hydrogen Production from Sulphide Wastewater Using Solar Energy” to SERB under Core Research Grant on 09 Mar. 2020.

Students Achievements DR. T.P. SOMASUNDARAN HEAD Our prime focus lies always on the wholesome development of the students. One facultyone industry policy in the department has paved the way for many Industryoriented guest lectures on the new trends of Construction industry and productive inplant training for the students.

We encourage our learners to take up periodical site visits, and projects on the problems faced by the society and arrive at the best, creative solution possible. Students’ involvement in projects under faculty who have received grants from various National schemes such as Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Science and Technology, AICTE and Tamil Nadu State Council have instilled them confidence and wide exposure. The year has witnessed several prizes won by students in competitions conducted by other institutions.

Our faculty members have introduced recent softwares through a few workshops conducted in the department and were persistently involved in research activities, faculty exchange programmes and paper presentation in foreign universities. A fabulous year with laudable outcomes, looking forward to many more!

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Mr. N. Vimalraj & Mr. T. Santhakumar accompanied by Dr. V. Preethi at Universiti Malaysia Pahang

Ms. Pooja, 4th year, received “M. Visvesvaraya Award” for outstanding & sustained contributions to the Engineering field and the Society at large by Society for Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Professionals during 5th National Convention and National Conference & MEMSAAS-2020 on 24 & 25 Jan. Mr. Yanchen Oinam, 4th year, was bestowed with “National Best Student Award” for his outstanding & sustained contributions to the Engineering field and the Society at large by Society for Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Professionals during MEMSAAS-2020.

Ms. Geetanjali Chandam, 4th year, received “Best Project Award” during MEMSAAS-2020.

Ms. P. Pooja was bestowed with “Second Best Presentation Award” for the Paper “Carbon Sequestration by Curing in Concrete” during the 9th International Conference on Research & Developments in Engineering & Technology on 18 Aug. 2019.

Mr. V.S. Srivishnu and Ms. Geetanjali Chandam, 4th year were selected for German Academic Exchange Service DAAD project based on an agreement of Indian and German Government for academic cooperation and attended international academic activity between 19 and 26 Oct. 2019.

Mr. N. Vimalraj and Mr. T. Santhakumar, 2nd year Environmental Engg. visited Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia towards international academic activity between 22 Oct. and 20 Nov. 2019.

Mr. Gudapati Sravan and Mr. Nithish Kumar N., 4th year won Special Recognition Design Award in the 2019 Design Challenge, India conducted

by Bentley Institute.

Mr. Yanchen Oinam, Ms. Pooja, & Ms. Geetanjali throw a victory pose at MEMSAAS-2020

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Participants & Dignitaries of International Seminar on “Smart Transportations & Infrastructure”

Mr. Sravan & Mr. Nithish Kumar receiving Special Recognition Design Award in the 2019 Design Challenge.

German Academic Exchange Service -DAAD Project visit to TUAS, Germany.

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International Seminar on “Smart Transportations and Infrastructure” observed Prof. Dr. Ing Roland Trapp,Head, Civil Engineering, Service Engineering & Food Technology, Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany; and Dr. K. Gunasekaran, Professor & Head, Division of Transportation Engineering, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Anna University preside over the event on 22 Aug. 2019.

National Seminar on “Underground Tunnel Construction for Chennai Metro Trains” witnessed Mr. G. Boopathi, Senior Construction Manager, L&T as resource person on 15 July 2019.

Workshop on “Application of Robotics & Automation in Civil Engineering” was organized from 26 to 28 June 2020 inviting Mr. Benny Raphel, Professor, Dept. of Civil Engg., IITM, Dept. of Civil Engg.; and Mr. S. Kavinkumar, Director, Engineering Project Mgt, Consultancy & Research, Chennai as guests.

Workshop on “Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structures- An Overview” by Prof. S. Arul Jayachandran, Professor, IIT, Madras was scheduled on 6 & 7 Sept. 2019.

Workshop on “Chemical Admixture Uses in Modern Concrete” by Mr. S. Duraimurugan, Senior Regional Concrete Manager in FOSROC India Pvt. Ltd. was conducted on 6 Mar. 2020.

FDP on “Analysis & Design of Civil Engineering Structures using Softwares” by Dr. T. Asokan, Professor , IIT Madras, Chennai; Mr. K. Arunkumar, Engineering Design, Femlogic Technologies, India Pvt. Ltd., Chennai was conducted by on 6 and 7 June 2019.

Guest Lecture on “Strategies and Practice of Zero Emission, Circular Economy and Material Flow Management" by Prof. Dr. Peter Heck, Managing Director, Institute for Applied Material Flow Management, Germany was organized on 16 Aug. 2019.

Online Lecture on “Sustainable Development - How can you HELP?”

by Dr. Ngien Su Kong, Associate Professor & Head, Department of Civil Prof. Ian Holman's lecture on “Waste Water Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia was scheduled on Transport & Treatment” 30 Apr. 2020.

Guest Lecture on “Waste Water Transport and Treatment” by Prof.

Ian Holman, Head, Civil Engineering, Service Engineering and Food Technology, Cranfield University, UK on 19 Sept. 2020.

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COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING (Established 1993)

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Dr. Angeline Geetha HEAD Our CSE Team consists of energetic and erudite faculty who have mastered the art of sculpting engineers with great social conscience. We create world class practicing engineers with equal emphasize on moral and ethical values. Our alumni are spread across the globe, exhibiting the brand Hindustan proud and loud. We believe in stress free education with a focus on industrial needs and societal expectations from a good engineer. The academic year has been phenomenal with new milestones attained by the Faculty & students; specifically, obtaining the 1st Patent for the institute has been a momentous occasion.

Honoured to be a CSEian@ HITS!

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Inaugurated IBM NVIDIA Deep Learning Centre in association with Machine Intelligence and Data Analytics Research Centre (MIDARC) to support current research trends among students and staff in areas such as Euroscience, Biomedical Informatics, Drug Discovery, Speech Recognition, Language Processing, Computer Vision, Recommender Systems, Learning Theory, Robotics and Games.

Received Digital Badge issued by IBM to CSE students for successful completion of Cloud Computing and Virtualization under IBM-ICE. Signed MoUs with HTC ITMR and GRANT THORNTON FOR BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY.

Inauguration of IBM NVIDIA Deep Learning Centre

Digital Badge completion of Virtualization."

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Dr. T. Sudalai Muthu, Associate Professor, obtained the First Patent (India) for HITS entitled “A Method and a Prior Warning Mixed Mode Communication System for the Natural Calamities.”

Ms. A. Thamarai Selvi, Assistant Professor, secured All India Rank 1, Rank 2 Rank 3 in Online Quiz competitions on AICTE Initiatives on Leadership Talk Series conducted by MHRD - IIC between 11 and 30 Apr. 2020.

Ms. Pavithra, Assistant Professor Secured All India Rank 1, Rank 3 in online quiz competitions on AICTE Initiatives on Leadership talk series conducted by MHRD - IIC between 11 and 16 Apr. 2020.

Mr. S.K. Shankar, Assistant Professor, got certified as “Competent Communicator” in Toastmaster International during March 2020.

Mr. S.K. Shankar, received appreciation for Fostering an Ecosystem bridging Government, Industry and Academia from DST & Texas Instruments.

Mr. S. Ravi, Assistant Professor, received “Best Humourous Speaker Award” by bagging First place at Club level in Toastmaster International & “Best Speaker Award” from TCS, Sipcot, Siruseri.

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Mr. Lauxley G R Pandiyan, 3rd year, won IET PATW competition in IET CLN ZONLAS on 18 July 2019.

Mr. K Ammar, 3rd year, secured Second place in Code Warrior & Second place in COMP TECH in the 11th National Level Technical Symposium, Techastra'19 at Dr. M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute, Chennai on 27 Aug. 2019.

Mr. Ilin Mariam Abraham, 2nd year, Mr. P.S. Akhil, 3rd year & Mr. Joel J Varghese, 3rd year won Second prize (Cash Award Rs. 15,000) in Round-3 Demonstration of Prototypes organized by IET on 28 Sept. 2019.

Mr. K Ammar, 3rd year, bagged “Activity Award” in Young Professionals Section Awards 2019 from IET Chennai Local Network on 28 Sept. 2019.

Ms. CJ. Jyothsna Reddy, 3rd year, won “Academic

Mr. K. Ammar receiving 'Activity Award' from IET

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Performance Award” in Young Professionals Section Awards 2019 from IET Chennai Local Network on 28 Sept. 2019.

Ms. Madhura G Joshi, 4th year, was honoured with “Trend Setter of the Year Award” in Young Professionals Section Awards 2019 from IET Chennai Local Network on 28 Sept. 2019.

Mr. Ajay R, 4th year, secured 21st Rank (All India) in 2019 ICPC India Chennai Provincial Programming Contest on 9 Nov. 2019.

Mr. R. K. Ganeshan, Mr. S. Hariharan, Mr. Chirag Baid & Mr. J. Daniel Pushparaj, 2nd years won Second prize in Infosys Hackathon organized by Mahindra City, Chennai on 8 Jan. 2020.

Winners of HITSATHON

Ms. CJ. Jyothsna Reddy bagging 'Academic Performance Award' from IET.

Ms. Madhura G Joshi being honoured with 'Trend Setter of the Year Award' in Young Professionals Section Awards 2019 from IET Chennai

Winners of Infosys Hackathon organized

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Mr. Lauxley G R Pandiyan, Winner of IET PATW competition in IET CLN ZONLAS.

Mr. R. Ajay, 21st Rank Holder (All India) of ICPC India Chennai Provincial Programming Contest.

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National conference on “Artificial Intelligence” (NCAI-2020) in association with IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology) and MIDARC (Machine Intelligence and Data Analytics Research Centre) was conducted on 27 & 28 Feb. 2020.

Online International Seminar on “Software Development, Soft Skills, Entrepreneurship” by Mr. Srikanth Ramachandran, President and CEO, Ntrust Infotech, USA was scheduled on 14 May 2020.

Online International Seminar on “Future of Technology Beyond Pandemic” by Mr. Madhavan Srinivasan, Director, Development, Care Voyant Inc., Schaumburg, USA was conducted on 8 May 2020.

Online International seminar on “Getting a Head the Curve- Empowering Tech Minds of Tomorrow” by Mr. Nikhil Nair, Business Intelligence Engineer, Clairvoyant, Canada was organized on 21 Apr. 2020.

Online International Seminar on “Towards Cloud Affinity and Do a Volte-face on Network Design” by Mr. C. Gladius Bravin, Information Security & Network Specialist, F5 Networks, Chertsey, Surrey, UK was scheduled on 21 Apr. 2020.

National Seminar on “Programming with Embedded” by Mr. Donald J. P., Senior Software Engineer, Tech Mahindra, Chennai was conducted on 9 Nov. 2019.

Summer School on “Research in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning" by Dr. M.G. Sumithra, Group Head, Artificial Intelligence Real-time Application Group (AIRAG); Mr. V. Chandran, IBM; Ms. Surya, Trainer, Artificial Intelligence Real-time Application Group (AIRAG) was organized between 11 and 15 June 2019.

Workshop on IBM Minsky Server by Mr. Krishna Balaga, IBM was organized on 27 & 28 Jan. 2020.

5-day Winter School Programme sponsored by IET titled “Data Analytics and Machine Learning using R and Python” was handled by Mr. Solai Murugan, Principal Engineer, CDAC, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology from 25 Nov. 2019.

National Hackathon event HITSATHONV3.0 organized in association with Manya-The Princeton Review, QS Techno Solutions, Webpika, Yamaha, Averzs Technology, Hindustan Rotaract Club, and Clothgram drew over 350 students on 31 Aug. and 1 Sept. 2019.

Guest Lecture on “Big Data in Precision Medicine” by Dr. Anbasaru Lourduraj, Professor, University of Nottingham, UK was conducted on 19 Aug. 2019 Guest Lecture on “Cyber Security and Forensics” by Dr. Muthukumaran B., GM, HTC Global Service was organized on 28 Apr. 2020.

Hosted ICPC India Chennai Provincial Contest on 9 Nov. 2019 wherein 87 Teams across India participated.

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D. Chitradevi, Assistant Professor, received “Active Participation Women Award” from Computer Society of India.

Dr. P. S. Sreeja, Assistant Professor, and Mr. Anurag Sinha, 1st BCA visited ISRO as their concept paper on “An Innovative Defense System” was shortlisted for presentation by ISRO at the 12th International High Energy Materials Conference & Exhibit held at IIT Madras on 18 Dec. 2019.

Dr. P.S. Sreeja presented a research article titled “Using Weighted Graph for Identifying Emotion Flow from Poems” in an International Symposium LKE2019 at Technological University, Dublin.

Dr. A. Rama Prasath did a Project on “Automatic Face Recognition System” for automatically calculating students Attendance in classroom using image processing.

Dr. P.S. Sreeja with LKE2019 participants at Dublin

Dr. P.S. Sreeja and Anurag Sinha during their visit to ISRO, Sriharikota.

Dr. P.S. Sreeja and Mr. Anurag Sinha at HEMSI 2019, IITM

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Mr. Musthafa Muhaideen, 2nd BCA, Mr. Karthikeyan, 2nd BCA, Mr. Mothis Kumar, 1st BCA won First prize in Virtual Warriors (Network Gaming) from Computer Society of India.

Mr. Anurag Sinha, 1st BCA got promoted as Head of Automation at National Automation and Design Solutions Pvt. Ltd, a HTBI supported company.

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Seminar on “Introduction to Machine Learning” with speaker Mr. N. Rajarajan, Senior Quality Service Associate, Amazon Development Centre, Chennai was organized in association with Computer Society of India Kanchipuram Chapter on 18 Oct. 2019.

Organized a 2-day Hands-on Workshop on “Insights into Web Design” with Mr. Mohammed Jasim Anikkadan, Co-Founder, Techzia on 5 & 6 May 2020.

A student interacts with the Speaker, Mr. N. Rajarajan during the Seminar on 'Introduction to Machine Learning'

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Kruptos Security Club conducted a Training Programme on “Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Course” for HTBI student members under Earn While you Learn initiative of HITS. Developer Student Club trained over 500 students across various universities in Google Cloud, Tensor Flow and Flutter by conducting around 15 events initiated through Google Student Ambassador Programme.

Dr. V. CERONMANI SHARMILA HEAD We provide high quality education programmes by imparting comprehensive knowledge coupled with practical exposure, which is essential for software design, development and testing in the IT industry. The department provides ample facilities in terms of software and hardware to enable the students to learn by practice.

The curriculum is designed to cater to the needs of the industrial organization and fosters students to apply a design thinking approach to solve the social and industrial problems. The year 2019-20 has been quite challenging at the same time, very inspiring as well with outstanding contribution from the students and staff.

Participants of “Spring Boot Technology with Database Accessibility Workshop”

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Dr. B. Dwarakanath, Assistant Professor, received Infosys Inspire Partnership Award from Infosys on Nov. 2019.

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Ms. Sujitha Sunder Singh, 4th year, was elected as Cultural Secretary in the Student Council for 2019-2020.

Mr. P. Shijo, 2nd year, bagged First place in Crack the Case in the Chennai International Youth Fest and was also awarded as the CEO of the Year.

Mr. P. Shijo participated in 2019-Global Cultural Exchange Summer Camp at Chang

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Mr. S. Naveen, 4th year was invited as Speaker for Sand Box event organized by SRM Mozilla Club.

Mr. Akkash Babu Nattamai Sivanathan and Mr.vJoe Martin Jeyakumar Thanasingh, 3rd year, participated in Ubaya Summer Programme on the topic "When Technology Meets The Natural Beings" during Dec. 2019.

Mr. Shaik Izaaz, 2nd year, secured All India 29th Rank in the Online Quiz competition on “Scope & Opportunities during & after COVID-19” organized by MHRD's Institution Innovation Council, Ludhiana.

Mr. S. Mohamed Yahiya, Ms. V. Naga Susmitha, Ms. A. Sandhya, and Mr. P. Praveen Kumar, 3rd years were a part of Interdisciplinary Project on “Driver Pattern Recognition”, an Indo-German Joint Research Collaboration through DAAD Funding.

Ms. P. Jannani and Ms. D. Jaina have done the paper presentation on IoT Security in Finale competition at Ford GTBC, Chennai by the month of Oct. 2019.

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Mr. P. Shijo during GLobal Cultural Exchange Summer Camp at Taiwan

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National Seminar on “Agile Methodologies and Software Testing” addressed by Mr. Mukesh Sekar, Member, ETA, Infosys, was organized on Aug. 2019.

National Seminar on “Opportunities in User Interface and Game Technology” addressed by Mr. E.D. Sathish Kumar, Sr. Subject Leader of Image Information Ltd. was organized on 25 Sept. 2020.

Zonal Championship Workshop on “Cyber Security and Ethical Hacking” with the eminent speaker Mr. Radhakrishnan, Founder & CEO, WhiteHat Global Solutions, Coimbatore, was conducted on 12 & 13 July 2019.

Workshop on “Spring Boot Technology with Database Accessibility” associated by Dr. T. Ruso, Associate Consultant, Wipro Ltd., Chennai was held on 15 Oct. 2019.

Winter Workshop on “Design and Analysis of Deep Learning Algorithms”, associated by Dr. Kannan from VIT; Dr. Vivekanandan, Dr. Lakshmana Pandian from PEC; Dr. Aravindan from SSN and Dr. Saurish Das from CMI, was held between 2 and 4 Dec. 2019.

Guest lecture on “Speaking and Networking for a Better Job” associated by Mr. S. Pritom Das, University of Texas, was organized on 14 May 2020.

Guest Lecture on “Introduction to Blockchain for Enterprises” by Mr. T. V. Ramakrishnan, Chief Product Owner, SAP Labs Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore was organized on 5 May 2020.

Guest Lecture on “Machine Learning” by Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair, Head, Dept. of Computational Biology and Bio Informatics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum was organized on 12 Mar. 2020.

Guest Lecture on “Smart Cities” by Dr. Daval Thakker, Senior Lecturer, University of Bradford, UK was organized on 19 Dec. 2019.

Hitsathon V3.0 Competition (Hackathon) was organized inviting over 300 participants across India with Mr. Amuthan, Atal Mentor for India; and Mr. Ashwin from Manya-the Princeton Review adjudging each team on 31 Aug. & 1 Sept. 2019.

Dr. Daval Thakker, Senior Lecturer, University of Bradford, UK in a lecture on “Smart Cities”

Mr. P. Shijo on conferrring the “CEO of the Year” title at the Chennai International Youth Fest

Ms. Sujitha Sunder Singh, Cultural Secretary, has been instrumental in organizing many events

Winners of Hackathon

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Dr. Aby K. Thomas published a Book Chapter Publication in Springer, ISRL Series (2019) titled, “A Novel FFT Architecture for an Efficient Utilization of OFDM Using Adaptive FFT Method” in Recent Trends and Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things.

Students Achievements Dr. ABY K THOMAS HEAD I have a sense of accomplishment when I reflect back on the performance of the department during the academic year 2019-20.

Many faculty members have published several technical papers and over 13 research articles in reputed Journals; and were invited to deliver Key note addresses and chair sessions at various institutions. With rigorous efforts of the faculty, we’ve successfully organized two Summer and one Winter workshop, and inaugurated “Electronic Hobby Club” drawing active involvement of students in making models.

Though COVID-19 pandemic jeopardized the academic programmes, the department coped with the situation and conducted online classes successfully. We could also accomplish augmenting the curricular activities with 19 Online Technical Talks by Alumni and Industry experts; and organize a one-month Online Internship with CoreEL Technology, Bangalore for the pre-final students.

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Mr. Tejeswar Reddy, 4th year won Cost Evaluation Award in SAE INDIA BAJA 2020 on 26 Jan. 2020.

Mr. Tejeswar Reddy bagged title “Champions of Champions” in the event organized by ISIE India, at KL University, Vijayawada on 12 Feb. 2020.

Ms. Honey Pandey, 3rd year secured Second place in PALS QUEST 2020 held at Aalim Mohammed Salegh College of Engineering, Chennai on 30 Jan. 2020

Participants of Summer programme on IoT

School students of Class 12 taken on Lab visits during Open House

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Mr. Tejeswar Reddy bagging 'Champions of Champions' title at an event organized by ISIE India

Inauguration of Electronics Hobby Club

Mr. Vijayaraja, Chairman & MD, Gemicates Technologies briefs on “Automation Based on IoT”

Ms. Honey Pandey's presentation during PALS Quest where she obtained Second place

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Inauguration of “Electronics Hobby Lab” and Technical Seminar on “Smart City & Automation” by Mr. R. Venkatasubramanian, Head Cyber Security, L&T; and Mr. Sanjay Singh, Lead Electronics Design Engineer- MicroGO LLP was organized on 3 Mar. 2020.

Orientation Programme for 1st year students by Ms. Ruby Selvan, Soft Skills Freelance Trainer & Alumni of HCE was conducted between 3 and 11 July 2019.

International Seminar on “An Overview of Software Testing” with speaker Mr. Hilman Gomez, Senior Associate, Cognizant, Chicago, USA was conducted on 5 June 2020.

International Seminar on “Industrial Automation with PLC” with speaker Dr. Thangavel Bhuvaneswari, Assistant Programme Coordinator, Robotics & Automation, Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Multimedia University, Malaysia was organized on 27 Apr. 2020.

National Seminar on “The Semiconductor Industry- Opportunities and Expectations” by Mr. K. Padmanabhan, Chief Faculty, School of Embedded System Design, Design Training division of CoreEL Technoogies Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore was organized on 28 Apr. 2020.

Summer workshop on “Vivado Design Suite and PYNQ Productivity for ZYNQ using PYNQ Z2 Board” by Mr. V. Vijendra, Lead Application Engineer; and Mr. V. Senthilmurugan, Manager, University Relations, CoreEL Technologies, Bengaluru was organized on 26 & 27 June 2019.

Guest Lecture on “Signal Processing for Ocean Technology” by Ms. K. Chithra, Scientist E, National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai was organized on 30 Sept. 2019.

Guest Lecture on “Role of Electronics and IT in Health Sector” by Mr. Edward Samraj, Vice President, HealthEC, USA on 24 July 2019.

Guest Lecture on “Automation Based on IoT” by Mr. Vijayaraja Chairman & MD, Gemicates Technologies was organized on 28 Aug. 2019.

A five-day STTP on “Machine Learning & Deep Learning Using Python” with Mr. Bipul Shahi, Senior AI & ML Research Engineer & Corporate Trainer, Esoir Business Solution, Gurugram was scheduled between 2 & 6 Dec. 2020.

Open House for aspiring school students was arranged on 25 Oct. 2019.

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Dr. UPPU RAMACHANRAIAH HEAD I am happy to report the activities carried out by EEE right from Funded Projects worth Rs 1.286 crores from various funding agencies, to publishing 25 papers in reputed Scopus Indexed Journals and Conferences; and two faculty members successfully completing their doctorate degree. Our students have participated in various National level competitions. Hackathon and Prototype Building Competition organized in association with Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group served as a platform to promote innovation among interdisciplinary groups of students. Online webinars

by Industry experts and eminent scientists have greatly benefitted both the students and faculty: specifically, interactive sessions have kindled new ideas in students and also served as an eye opener for industrial practices.

The year has also enabled students and faculty attend several Massive Open Online Courses offered by reputed Universities across the globe and get certified in several specializations.

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Dr. A.K. Parvathy and Dr. K.R. Devabalaji visited Imperial College London, University of Bradford and University of Leeds as a part of UK visit under Newton Bhabha Funded Project funded by Royal Academy of Engineering, UK. Dr. M. Sujatha and Dr. A.K. Parvathy published a Book Chapter titled “Investigation of Reliability of DC–DC Converters Using Reliability Block Diagram and Markov Chain Analysis” Dr. Uppu Ramachandraiah, Dr. S. Sekar, Dr. A.K. Parvathy, Dr. E. Sathish and Dr. K.R. Devabalaji, received Research Promotion Awards 2019.

Ms. M. Sujatha and Ms. M. Maheswari, Assistant Professors were awarded with PhD Degree in 2019.

Ms. C.E Geethadevi, Mr. N. Mahiban Lindsay, and Ms. S. Priyadarshini Assistant professors received yearly Best Attendance Award 2019.

Ms. C.E Geethadevi received award in recognition of her “25 Years of Service” in Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science.

Dr. A.K. Parvathy & Dr. K.R. Devabalaji's visit to UK universities under Newton Bhabha Funded Project.

Students Achievements Mr. A. Eswararo, Mr. Rapuru Ganesh Reddy, Mr. NL. Sai Inesh, 2nd years, were the Finalist of IET Smart Challenge Competition held at KCG College, Chennai.

Mr. N. Nallarasan, GM (SO & PSDF), NLDC delivering the Keynote Address on “Indian Power System Scenario” during International Workshop on 'Sustainable Energy & Smart Grid'

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Organizing Committe of Hackathon & Prototype Building Competition

Faculty engaged in the making of transformer and inverter kit during FDP on 'Product Development in HV Power Devices' A team being evaluated by Panel Members during Hackathon

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International workshop on “Sustainable Energy & Smart Grid” was organized on 8 & 9 Aug. 2019. Prominent speakers at the event included Dr. Joseph Antony, Associate Professor, School of Chemical & Process Engineering, University of Leeds, UK; Mr. N. Nallarasan, GM (SO & PSDF), NLDC, Power system operation Corp.8 Ltd., Delhi; Dr. R. Gnanadass, Professor, Pondicherry Engineering College; Dr. Petros Aristidou, Assistant Professor, Dept. of EEE, University of Leeds, UK; Dr. Velraj, Professor & Director, Anna University, Chennai; Dr. Sakthi Ganesh, Managing Director, Velev Motors, Chennai; and Dr. S. Umashankar, Associate Professor, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia.

Online International Seminar on “Introduction to Machine Learning” by Mr. Sharath Babu, Founder & Director, Yes Labs Pvt. Ltd., Australia was organized on 7 May 2020.

Online International Seminar on “Introduction to Industrial Control System” by Mr. Dennis Chiriyath, Senior Control System Engineer, Kemira Chemicals Bradford, UK was scheduled on 4 May 2020.

Online International Seminar on “Virtual Commissioning of PLC for Automobile Industry” by Mr. Vignesh Gandhiram, Senior Controls Engineer, Wood Coventry, UK was conducted on 2 May 2020.

Online International Seminar on “Closed Loop Control Using Fuzzy Logic vs Classical Controller” by Dr. K.R. Prabhu, Dept. of Production Systems, University West, Trollhattan, Sweden was organized on 27 Apr. 2020.

National Seminar on “Applications of Microprocessor’ by Mr. Kumar Abhimanyu, Business Development Team Lead, Accenture, & HITS Alumni was scheduled on 2 May 2020.

National Seminar on “Design and Engineering for Digital Manufacturing” by Mr. Venkat Janaradanan, General Manager, Redington India Limited, Chennai was organized on 29 Apr. 2020.

National Seminar on “Power Electronics Converters for Electric Vehicles” by Dr. B. Chandra Sekhar, Technical Lead, Electric Vehicles Division, TCS, Bengaluru was organized on 25 Apr. 2020.

Hackathon and Prototype Building Competition was held on 13 & 14 Dec. 2019.

Guest Lecture on “IoT for Smart Grid Applications” by Mr. Vijayaraja Rathinasamy, Director & Mr. P. Anbarasu, Executive, Gemicates Technologies Pvt. Ltd. was organized on 19 Sept. 2019.

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Completed CVRDE project worth 90 Lakhs granted in 2017.

Signed MoU with M/s. EDS Technologies Pvt. Ltd., (EDST) Bengaluru.

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Dr. P. Vijayabalan HEAD We’ve had a tremendous growth in this academic year.

Two of our students’ team, namely STALWARTZ RACING & FALCON have brought laurels to us by participating in MBAJA-SAE-2020 (4th position) and Drone Racing 2019 (Winners) respectively. On the teaching learning front, we have conducted 2 Workshops, 20 Guest lectures with a collaboration of academics and industry personnel, completed a funded project from CVRDE and published 50 Scopus Indexed Internal Journal Papers. Our students had been placed in leading Core Companies such as Saint Gobain, Danfoss, Capgemini with a starting package of 6.5Lpa. Overall, the academic year 2019-2020 has been highly rewarding and we are determined to strive to grow further and reach higher levels of accomplishment in the coming year

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Dr. Manvel Raj, Professor, received “Teacher for Peace Award” from Gandhi Peace Foundation, Madras during Gandhi-150, Kasturba-150, Vinoba-150 Birthday Celebrations on 5 Oct. 2019.

Dr. Micha Prem Kumar, Associate Professor, acted as a Moderator in the“ 2nd Pan India Research Network Meet, Industry & Academia Amalgamation” organized by National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE), Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India, on 6 Jan. 2020, at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Rajasthan.

Dr. Micha Prem Kumar being hnoured for moderating the “2nd Pan India Research Network Meet, Industry & Academia Amalgamation.”

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Team STALWARTZ RACING secured 4th position in MBAJA-SAEINDIA-2020, a competition to design and build innovative vehicles, organized by Society of Automotive Engineers, in association with Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., held at Chitkara University, Chandigarh from 6 to 8 Mar. 2020.

Team FALCON bagged the Overall Championship with cash prize of Rs. 10,000/ in DRONE RACING 2019 competition organized by Institute of Aeronautics, Astronautics and Aviation (IAAA) on 15 Oct. 2019 held at MLR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.

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Team STALWARTZ RACING's victory roar on obtaining 4th position out of 80 teams in ”MBAJA-SAE-INDIA-2020”

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A Deep Drive Talk on “Block Chain Technology Demystified” was delivered by Dr. Raghavendra Prasad, MD & CEO, AstraQuark Digi Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, on 7 Feb. 2020.

A 3-day “Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp” for students was organized with Mr. K. Manoj Kumar, Manager, Training (TNFSC), Chennai; Prof. Raja Team FALCON, the Overall Champions Sreenivasan, Director, Rajshree Management Services, of DRONE RACING 2019 pose with faculty Chennai; Mr. R. Jaganathan, Proprietor, Nallakeerai members of the department Farm; Mr. Lakshmi Narasimhan, Entrepreneur; and Mr. R. Palanivel, Branch Manager, TN Industrial Investment Corp. Ltd. as resource persons on 29 Jan. 2020.

“Awareness on Industry 4.0” programme with Mr. C. V. Gowri Sankar, National Secretary, National Institution for Quality and Reliability (NIQR; Mr. S. Muralishankar, National Vice President, NIQR; Mr. V. Raghavan, National Treasurer, NIQR; and Dr. VSV. Chezhiyan, ECM, NIQR, Chennai was organized on 27 Feb. 2020.

Webinar on “E-Vehicles” by Mr. Sundareswaran, Deputy General Manager, Ashok Leyland, Chennai, was organized on 22 May 2020.

• Webinar on “Energy Management, Energy Audit & Career Opportunities”

by Dr. P. Dharmalingham, Director, Ensave Consulting & Training Pvt. Ltd., & Former Director & Head, National Productivity Council, Chennai, was organized on 20 May 2020.

• Webinar on “Manufacturing Processes” by Mr. C. Chandrasekar, Divisional Manager, Ashok Leyland, Chennai, was organized on 16 May 2020.

• Industrial Visit, intended for 2nd years, to M/s. Neyveli Lignite Corp. India, Thermal Power Station-II (Expansion Unit), and Mine-II, Neyveli, Tamil Nadu was organized on 7 Aug. 2019.

Dr. Raghavendra Prasad, MD & CEO, AstraQuark Digi Solutions in a drive talk on “Block Chain Technology Demystified”

At the inaugural session of,“Awareness on Industry 4.0” programme

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Dr. M. JAIKUMAR HEAD Our mission is to cater to train the students to design, develop, manufacture, and service automobiles. The year 2019-20 has been incredible in all ways: we received Research Grant of Rs. 397.25 Lakhs from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) in association with Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany to extend the Research Project on Drivers Assistance, Crash Simulation and Traffic Infrastructure. A lot of awards and laurels were obtained by the students and staff this year both at the technical & cultural front. We are proud to announce our recent establishment of HITSOKINAWA Skill Next Centre, and introducing 3 Major Hon’s Specialization such as Motorsport Engg., Autotronics and Electric Vehicles and Mobility, and B.Sc. Automobile Maintenance, and also, BBA Automobile Management from the academic year 202021. The department’s fantastic amalgam of experienced faculty & professionals from the industry along with its sophisticated equipment & laboratories has turned itself to be a leading hub of Automobile learning centre in the country.

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Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS), TUAS, Germany for Dual Master Degree Programme.

School of Design, TUAS, Germany for Student-Staff Exchange Programme.

Greaves Cotton Ltd., for Students Research Projects.

Introduced 3 new Major Hon’s Specialization course namely,

Motorsport Engineering (Asia’s first institution to offer), Autotronics and Electric Vehicles, and Mobility.

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Dr. M. Jaikumar, Associate Professor, Mr. T. Shanmuganathan, Assistant Professor and Mr. P.R. Raghavendran, got Collaborative Research Promotion Award 2019-2020 for successfully obtaining a Project from DAAD valuing Rs.397.25 Lakhs.

Mr. P.R. Raghavendran, Assistant Professor, successfully completed the first phase of Faculty Exchange Programme at Trier University of Applied Sciences, Trier Germany through DAAD programme from 14 Sept. 2019 to 7 Mar. 2020.

Dr. V. Nadanakumar, Dr. J. Godwin John, Dr. S. Jenoris Muthiya, Assistant Professors, successfully defended their PhD thesis and were awarded Doctoral degree.

Mr. T. Shanmuganathan received “Toastmaster Outstanding Member Award” from Toastmaster International, District 82B, Division G on 14 Dec. 2019 during Division G Semi - annual Conference & Contest 2019 held at HITS.

Dr. M. Jaikumar, Mr. T. Shanmuganathan, & Mr. P.R. Raghavendran, receiving Collaborative 'Research Promotion Award' 2019 for DAAD Project

Team Stalwartz Racing with their first ever proud display of 'Cost Report Award' at BAJA SAEINDIA 2020

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Team Stalwartz Racing secured Fourth Position in All India & First Position in Tamil Nadu among 82 Teams in SAEINDIA mBAJA 2020 at Chithkara University, Chandigarh, Punjab from 5 to 9 March 2020.

Highlights: »» Sledge Pull-2nd Position. »» Design Evaluation-3rd Position. »» Manueverability-5th Position. »» Cost-12th Position. »» Endurance-12th Position.

• Team Stalwartz comprising 19 students won “Cost Report Award” with prize money of Rs. 40,000/- at BAJA SAEINDIA 2020, in Pithampur, MP from 22 to 26 Jan. 2020.

• Mr. David Ryan Marthandan, 2nd year, won First prize and Overall Championship in JK Tyres ICC 2019, held at Kari Motor Speedway, Coimbatore between 28 Aug. and 1 Sept. 2019.

• Mr. Sai Prithvi Sudhakar, 2nd year, won Second prize in JK Tyres ICC 2019, held at Kari Motor Speedway, Coimbatore 28 Aug. and 1 Sept. 2019.

• 22 Students were bestowed with “COC EBAJA Maneuverability Award 2020 & Future Award 2020 - Champions of Champions” at ISIE, KL University, Vijayawada from 2 to 5 Mar. 2020.

• Mr. Adimoolam Hemchandvardhan, 3rd year, got Third Prize in Chittoor District Body Building competition on 12 Jan. 2020.

• Mr. Karapati Hemadrieswar, 3rd year, won the following prizes: »» Winner - CIYF, Chennai Got Talent organized by SRM University on 15 Sept. 2019. »» First prize - Light Music, DEEPWOODS 2020, MCC from 14 to 16 Feb. 2020. »» First prize – GRANDEUR 2K19, Inter college FIESTA at Guru Nanak College on 16 Sept. 2019.

• Mr. Dinesh Kumar and Mr. V. Viggnesh successfully completed a 1-month project excursion on DAAD projects from 26 Oct. 2019 to 29 Sept. 2019.

• Mr. Kapilesh Kathiresh, Mr. C Edwin Samuel, Mr. Mohamed Ashfaque, and Mr. Akash Raja successfully completed 1-week project excursion on DAAD projects from 20 to 26 Oct. 2019.

Team Stalwartz Racing's stunning performance led to attaining 4th position in SAEINDIA mBAJA 2020.

Mr. Hemadrieswar's winning performance with team during CIYF Battle of Bands

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International Seminar on “Next Generation Mobility” by Prof. Dr. Peter Koenig, Trier University, Germany; and Mr. M. P. Prasad, President, Agnito Insights, Chennai was organized on 28 Aug. 2019.

International Seminar on “Smart Transportation and Infrastructure” by Prof. Dr. Ing. Roland Trapp, Head, Civil Engineering, Service Engineering and Food Technology, Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany was organized on 22 Aug. 2019.

International Seminar on “Ancient Historians and Mechanical Engineering” by Prof. Dr. Karl Hofmann-vonKap-herr, Project Lead -DAAD & Faculty, Manufacturing and Production Technologies, TUAS, Germany on 10 Dec. 2019.

International Seminar on “Material Flow Management and Green Business Potential in Climate Change” by Dr. Michael Knaus Head, International Department Institute of Applied Material Flow Management Environmental Campus, Birkenfeld, Trier University of Applied Sciences (TUAS), Germany was held on 25 Feb. 2020.

Summer Workshop on “Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics for Underwater Vehicles” handled by Mr. A. Muthuvel, Hexiqon Technology, Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore; Dr. Dhiman Chatterjee, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras; Dr. Deepak Kumar, Associate Professor, IITDM, Kanchipuram; and Mr. Anand Kishor, Scientist ‘C’, NIOT, Chennai was conducted on 18 & 19 July 2019.

Winter Course on “Vehicle Dynamics” was conducted

by Dr. C.S. Shankar Ram, Professor, IIT Madras; Mr. D. Rajkumar Application Engineer, Design Tech Systems Ltd.; Dr. S. Jai Ganesh, Senior Specialist, Passenger Vehicle Pre-Development, Apollo Tyres Ltd., Oragadam on 4 & 5 Nov. 2019.

Guest Lecture on “Failure Analysis” by Mr. Venugopal Azhagarsamy, Manager, WABCO was organized on 18 Feb. 2020.

Guest Lecture on “Application of Lean Management Systems 4M Analysis and 8D Methodology” by Mr. Jaganathan, Head Training and Development Division, Simpson; and Mr. Shravan Kumar, Asst. Manager, BMW India was held on 6 Feb. 2020.

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Department Achievement Obtained Sponsored Research Project titled “Development of an On-line Measurement System for Hydrogen Concentration in Steam Environment” worth Rs. 45.4 Lakh from Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India.

Staff Achievements Dr. A. ANITHA HEAD We strive with the dynamic mission to achieve excellence in both academic and research activities in the areas of Chemical Engineering and Bio-Technology. The academic year has witnessed our faculty publish 23 Journal Papers in Scopus Indexed Journals. The department has received a Sponsored Research Project on “Development of an OnLine Measurement System for Hydrogen Concentration in Steam Environment.” Our students have been performing so well in academics by winning fellowship at AIIMS, Delhi and bagging accolades in sports as well.

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Dr. B. Vivekanandan, Associate Professor, received “Best Paper Award” in National Technical Symposium, BIONICS’19, at Periyar Maniammai Institute of Science & Technology during 10 & 11 Oct. 2019.

Dr. B. Vivekanandan Chaired GCETFT-2020 National Conference at Annamalai University on 1 Feb. 2020.

Mr. T Srinivas, Assistant Professor, was selected for Young Scientist Award to be awarded in 2020 at the International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science and Medicine by VDGOOD Technology Factory.

Dr. Sivashankar Raja, Assistant Professor, secured Top Performer Award (Rank 2 out 310 participants) during Online Workshop on “Design of Experiments: An Engineering Perspective” organized by Journal of Advanced Engineering Research in association with Hexacube India.

Dr. T. Srinivas has been nominated for “Young Scientist Award” to be awarded in 2020 at the International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science & Medicine.

Dr. Sivashankar bagged Top Performer Award in 'Design of Experiments An Engineering Perspective' workshop

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Mr. Mugil Surya, 3rd year, Biotechnology was awarded prestigious Indian Academy of Sciences Fellowship 2019 at AIIMS, New Delhi.

Mr. S. Mritul Eshwar, 2nd year, Chemical Engineering received Gold medal in the 6th National Youth Rural Games-2019 organized by Youth Rural Games & Sports Association, Amritsar, Punjab.

Ms. Tanya Mohan, 2nd year, Chemical Engineering received Third prize in Open Adults & Kids event organized by the Chennai Passion Table Tennis at Tejesh Sports Academy, Chennai.

Mr. Mugil Soorya, recipient of the prestigious Indian Academy of Sciences Fellowship 2019 at AIIMS.

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Mr. Mritul Eshwar, Gold Medalist at 6th National Youth Rural Games 2019

Ms. Tanya Mohan obtained Third prize at the Open Adults & Kids Table Tennis event.

Seminar on “Membrane Separation Techniques” was organized on 26 July 2019.

Winter Workshop on “Molecular Techniques in Biotechnology” was conducted on 4 & 5 Dec. 2019.

Summer Workshop on "Mathematical Modelling and Computation in Process Industries" was organized on 28 & 29 June 2019.

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Dr. Sree Kumar DEAN The Liberal Arts Department is home to vibrant undergraduate programmes namely B A Triple Major (Psychology, English and Political Science), B. Sc. Visual Communication, and B. Sc. Food Technology. As part of its expansion for the 2020-21 academic year, the Liberal Arts Department is going to launch six additional undergraduate programmes. Though the department is in its budding stage, it has conducted a podcast on “Brexit” by inviting an eminent Political Scientist in January 2020. We look forward towards many such programmes in the promising year. My wishes to all students who have won several prizes in varied events!

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Ms. Tejaswita, 3rd B.Sc. secured Second place in Drawing and Painting Competition organized

by MHRD's Youth Development Consortium.

Mr. K. Antony Vinoth Kumar, Assistant Professor, received “Be st Presenter Award” for the research Paper titled "An Exploration in Domains of Compatibility in Marriages" in the International Seminar cum Workshop on Positive Psychology: Perspectives and Applications, organized by Dept. of Psychology, Govt. College for Women, TVM, Kerala.

Ms. Tejaswita, winner of Drawing and Painting Competition

MoU with AJ School of Excellence

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Signed MoU with AJ School of Excellence.

Showcased paint works of 1st years, and photographs of 2nd and 3rd years during Women’s Day celebration on 10 Mar. 2020.

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A podcast on “Brexit” by Dr. Garimella Subramaniam, Deputy Editor, The Hindu, Chennai was conducted in Jan. 2020.

Workshop on “Body Language” by Fr. Arul Xavier, Counsellor & Psychotherapist, Director, Fountain College, Krishnagiri was conducted on 13 Mar. 2020.

Industrial Visit to Pichavaram was arranged on 9 Nov. 2019.

Industrial Visit to Pichavaram

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Dr. M. Selvamuthukumaran HEAD We toil with a unified mission to enable the graduates be successful in their career as Food Technologist. I feel absolute fulfilment & joy on looking at the various participation of students at competitions.

They have bagged several prizes in various product development competitions conducted both externally and internally. Faculty members have published papers in the reputed journals for the year 2019-2020.

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Ms. P. Sanjana and Ms. S. Vineetha, 2nd B.Sc. won Second prize in ‘Product Development’ competition held at MOP Vaishnav College, Nungambakkam, Chennai.

Ms. S. Priyanka and Ms. Nazeeha, 2nd B.Sc. won Third prize in Quiz competition held at MOP Vaishnav college, Nungambakkam, Chennai.

Mr. S. Ajay Kumar and Mr. G. Brinesh Balaji, 1st B.Sc. won First prize in ''Bake from Home" competition held at MOP Vaishnav college, Nungambakkam, Chennai.

Ms. Sai Priya, Ms. Khadija Shabbir Quilonwala, and Ms. Nissi Mereena John, 3rd B.Sc. won First prize in ‘Product Development’ competition held at Ameet University, Chennai.

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Industrial Visit to Biogas Plant at Loyola College

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“Poshan Abhiyan-2019”-Improve Nutritional Outcomes in a Holistic Manner was organized on 9 Nov. 2019. Mr. Vinay Pushpakaran, Consultant & Coach presided the event as the Chief Guest.

Food Expo-2019 themed “Healthy Eating in Today’s Food Environment” with resource person Dr. T. Anuradha, District Designated Officer, Food Safety Department, Kancheepuram District was organized on 23 Aug. 2019.

Industrial Visit to Biogas Plant managed by Carbon Loops Pvt. Ltd. at Loyola College campus was scheduled on 18 Feb. 2020.

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FASHION, DESIGN AND ARTS FASHION, DESIGN & ARTS

(Established 2011)

Staff Achievement Mr. Obulum Vidya Sagar, Assistant Professor bagged Best Craftmanship Award at Let’s Think Sustainable Competition held by Antway Fashions Chennai on 6 Mar. 2020.

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Ms. Jini Varghese HEAD We focus on developing dynamic design professionals equipped with strong creative and technical skills to become fashion leaders and trend setters.

Our talented, experienced, and skilled faculty, state-of-the-art laboratory facilities, periodical Industrial Visits, Guest Lectures, Workshops, Internships etc., provide practical exposure in all the aspects of Apparel and Fashion designing and enhance the holistic development of the students.

The Graduation Fashion Show conducted every year is a sheer display of the creativity, designing skill which the students acquire during their course of study. The students are trained in all aspects of designing, manufacturing along with entrepreneurship aspects in Fashion field making them capable to start own entrepreneurial venture.

Looking forward towards many more challenging and successful years ahead, alike 2019-2020!

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Ms. R. Ranjini, 2nd year B.Sc. Fashion Design won First prize in Solo Singing at CIYF 2019 & Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, Music Band at Gurunanak College, and Duet singing at Yarona 2019; Second prize in Light music & Solo singing at ICAT, and Solo Singing at Madras Institute of Technology; Third prize for Solo singing at Vaishnav College Govt. Stanley Medical College during Sept. 2019.

Ms. Lakshaya J, 2nd B.Sc. Fashion Design won “Best Inspiration Award” at "Let’s Think Sustainable" Competition held by Antway Fashions Chennai on 6 Mar. 2020.

Team FDA won First prize at Dr. MGR University & Second prize at VIT, Chennai during Intercollege Fashion Show Competition in Feb. 2020.

Ms. Mohammed Gousia Khatun, 2nd year B.Sc. Fashion Design won First prize in “Corporate Fashion Walk” by Rotract Club of Chennai during 20 Oct. 2019.

Mr. Mohammed Nawas, 1st B.Des. Fashion & Apparel Design bagged “Best Male Designer Award” at Let’s Think Sustainable Competition held

by Antway Fashions Chennai.

Ms. Praveena Sundar, 1st B.Des. Fashion & Apparel Design secured “Best Female Designer-Runner Award” at Let’s Think Sustainable Competition held by Antway Fashions Chennai.

Mr. R. Ganesh & Ms. J. Teena, 1st B.Sc. Fashion Design bagged Second prize in Paper Dressing at SRM, Chennai in Sept. 2019.

Mr. Mohammed Nawas & Mr. Haricharan, 1st B.Des. Fashion & Apparel Design won Third prize in Paper Dressing at SRM, Chennai in Sept. 2019.

Mr. Mohammed Nawas, 1st B.Des. Fashion & Apparel Design bagged First prize in Collage Competitions at SRM, Chennai & VIT, Chennai during Sept. 2019.

Ms. S. Raashmika,1st B.Des. Fashion & Apparel Design won Second prize in Collage Competition at SRM, Chennai during Sept. 2019.

Mr. R. Ganesh & Ms. M. Harini, 1st B.Sc. Fashion Design won First prize in Face Painting at VIT, Chennai in Sept. 2019 Ms. Varsha M, 1st B.Sc. Fashion Design won First prize in Focussed Madness at Shasun Jin Collge for Women, Chennai during Oct. 2019.

Ms. Sandhya, 1st B.Sc. Fashion Design got First prize in Adaptune organized at Shasun Jin Collge for Women, Chennai in Oct. 2019.

Winning Team FDA at the Fashion Show Competition held in Dr. MGR University

The Nightingale of Hindustan Ms. R. Ranjini at a cultural contest

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Ms. Gousia Khatun being awarded on bagging First prize in “Corporate Fashion Walk”

Razzle Dazzle 5.0, a stunning collection of B.Sc. Fashion Design students’ design wears kick started the 8thedition of Chennai International Fashion Week at Hotel Residency Towers on 12 July 2019.

Workshop on “Fashion Styling & Make up” by Ms. Malathy, Lakme Certified Trainer was conducted on 14 Mar. 2020.

Workshop on “Aari Embroidery” by Ms. Shanthi, Prakruthya Designs was scheduled on 8 Jan. 2020.

Workshop on “Portfolio Preparation for Higher Studies

by Ms. Kate Scully, CCW- University of Arts London, Edwise International was held on 21 Nov. 2019.

Workshop on “Textile Dyeing & Printing” by Mr. Krishnamoorthy, Rtd. Assistant Processing, Weavers Service Centre, Adayar was organized on 6 Aug. 2019.

Workshop on “Sustainable Menstrual Products” by Tmt. Rekha Rangarajan, Director, Data Patterns, organized towards International Menstrual Hygiene Day on 28 May 2019 distributed Cloth Pad Kits.

Training programme for Faculty on “Smart Textiles” by Dr. Ashok Kumar, Dept. of EEE, PSG Tech., Coimbatore was organized on 7 Dec. 2019.

Guest Lecture on “Visual Merchandising and Retail Concept to Consumer” by Ms. Aarthi Raghunathan Owner & Principal Design, TSOR was conducted on 13 Mar. 2020.

Guest Lecture on “Business Marketing” by Dr. Badri Narayanan, HoD, SOM, HITS was organized on 10 Jan. 2020.

Industrial Visit to Magnum Clothing Pvt. Ltd. was organized on 4 Oct. 2019.

Glimpses of Razzle Dazzle 5.0 - a stunning collection of B.Sc. Fashion Design students’ design wears

Aari Embroidery

T-Shirt Painting

Students observing work process at the Printing Unit in an Industrial Visit to Magnum Clothing Pvt. Ltd.

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SCHOOL OF LAW LAW

(Established 2019)

Department Achievements • •

An MoU was signed with Surana and Surana, International Lawyers for the promotion of the School of Law. Established tie-up for Exchange Programme on LL.M. in International Law with Kent Illinois University, Chicago, USA.

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Dr. V. L. MONy DEAN With the everchanging dynamics of legal education, the interface between technology and law form an interesting area to explore. The School of Law is a pioneering School envisaging the goal of achieving excellence in imparting legal education through exemplary teaching and learning methods.

Hindustan School of Law offers courses with an objective of creating skilful professionals with practical exposure to legal and industrial sector.

The School has excellent faculty and has its MOU with Surana & Surana, International Lawyers, Chennai for their academic activities. It has good infrastructure including library, Moot Courts and all other facilities required for a modern law school. At Hindustan, we’re committed to strive for excellence and produce eminent graduates!

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Dr. V.L. Mony, Dean, Law, chaired a session in an International Conference at Malaya University, Kula Lampur from 8 to 10 Sept.

2019 and also presented a Paper on “International Human Rights of Child” which got published in ISBN Proceedings.

Dr. V.L. Mony authored a Book titled “Private International Law” published by Central Law Publications, Allahabad.

Dr. V.L. Mony was invited as a Guest of Honour for the Mangalam Press Conclave on 3 and 4 July 2019 at Hotel Regency Tower, Trivandrum.

Events “Private International Law” authored by Prof.

V.L Mony

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Prof. V.L. Mony during a travel to Kula Lampur chaired a session at the International Conference organized by the Malaya University

Inaugural Ceremony of Mangalam Press Conclave

Guest lecture on “Constitutional Awareness” by Ajith Kumar IRS, Asst.

Commissioner, GST was organized on Constitution day 26 Jan. 2020.

Guest lecture on “Art of Cross Examination” by Mr. Viswambaran, Advocate, Thiruvananthapuram was organized on 21 Mar. 2020.

Guest lecture on “Domestic Enquiry in IT Companies” by Mr. Viswanathan, Sr. HR Executive, TCS, Kerala was conducted on 21 Mar. 2020.

FDP on “TLP” was attended by Dr. V.L. Mony, Dr. S. Pandiaraj, Dr. I. Sreelatha, Dr. Chandrika Mehta, at IIT, Madras between 18 & 20 July 2019.

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SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

(Established 1994)

Department Achievements

Dr. M. BADRI NARAYNAN HEAD The year 2019-2020 is a significant year in the history of the School of Management, since it marks the 25th year of the inception of MBA programme in the campus. In this illustrious journey of Silver Jubilee, the SOM has created several business leaders and entrepreneurs spread across the globe in various industry domains. Having trained business leaders and entrepreneurs from the era of Globalisation 1.0, the SOM has been constantly reinventing itself for training the young aspirants to the era of Globalisation 4.0, which is the digital driven era of globalisation. This year has been remarkable in terms of students’ achievements; and a year of graduation of many good research scholars from the SOM. The collaboration with Logistics Sector Skill Council for the BBA Logistics programme, signing of MoU with IFAS-Trier, Germany for the MBA Green Business Programme and renewal of MoU with RTU, Latvia are important milestones attained.

Rankings • Top 11th Outstanding B-School of Excellence and Top 4th B-School in Tamil Nadu by Competition Success Review.

• Top 102nd B-School in India, 44th in terms of Living Experiences and among the Top 5 B-Schools in Chennai by India Today.

• Top 111th Private Institution in India, 48th among Top 60 B-Schools in South Zone and 65th among University constituent colleges in India by Outlook magazine.

• Top 92nd B-School in India, 76th among top private B-Schools in India, 23rd among Top B-Schools in South Zone and 3rd among Top B-7Schools in Chennai by the Week magazine.

• Ranked 4th in Chennai, 8th in Tamil Nadu, 30th in South India and 79th in All India Private Category by the Hindu – Business Line.

• Rated B++ in National Private Institution category and ranked 15th in South Zone & 2nd in Chennai by Chronicle.

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With Govt. school students towards International Ethics Day celebration.

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Dr. M.K. Badrinarayanan participated and represented HGI and HITS at the NAFSA 2019 held at Washington DC & the Myanmar Higher Education Expo held at Yangon and Mandalay in June 2019.

Dr. M.K. Badrinarayanan delivered an Online Lecture on "Indian Steel Industry" for the students of IMAT Programme of IFAS-Trier, Germany in May 2020.

Ms. S. Hemalatha, Professor, has conducted over 12 Training Programmes to mid-level Executives of several star hotels across Chennai on the theme of "Inculcating Ownership Culture among Millennial Workforce: Principles of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB)". She has sensitized about 260 millennial Executives across the star hotels on OCB. Dr. M. Rajeswari, Professor, has completed 100+ Online Certification Programmes in Coursera.

Dr. B. Senthilkumar, Associate Professor, was recognized as a NPTEL Discipline Star (Management) in Dec. 2019 for completing more than 50 weeks of learning successfully.

Dr. Harihara Sudhan, Assistant Professor was certified as Financial Modeling and Valuation Analyst by Corporate Finance Institute (CFI) Mr. R.J.T. Nirmal Raj, Professor, was invited as a speaker in the 13th Annual Global Water Alliance Conference held at Novotel Hotel on 6 & 7 Jan. 2020.

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Winning MBA Team at the 23rd Regional Selections of AIMA SMG

HAL Industrial Visit by BBA Aviation & TTM students

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Mr. Sri Charan and Ms. Sheethal Edith Das, 1st MBA bagged 4th place with a Special mention by Jury at the MMA Paper Presentation on 23 Sept. 2019.

Team SOM comprising Ms. Amala, Mr. Shiva, and Mr. Sanjeet, 1st MBA emerged as Winners; and Ms. Sheethal, Ms. Reshma, Ms. Indu and Mr. Yokesh, 1st Team MBA Media & B.Sc, Viscom during participation in Media Con 19 at Loyola College Chennai MBA First bagged the First Runners Up trophy at the rd 23 AIMA SMG Regional-Simulation Management Games during November 2019.

Team SOM comprising Mr. Justin J, Mr. Jeffrey J.C, Mr. Ernest Reuban K., Mr. Sri Charan M, Ms. Jennifer Maria Camilla J., and Ms. Gnancy Grace Angel S., won the overall Runners trophy at the 11th ABBS BRICS MEET held at GDUFS, Guangzhou, China during Nov. 2019.

Ms. Sheethal Edith Das, MBA HHC, entered the national Semi-finals of the QS-I Gauge Rethink Tank: “Impact of Gender Inequality on Women Entrepreneurship”, Live Debate on Facebook on 10 June 2020.

Mr. Rahul Srivatsav, 1st BBA Aviation won “The Best Team” award in the leadership event hosted by District Rotaract Council.

Mr. K. Shyam Morris, and Mr. A. Alwin Jebakumar, 2nd BBA Aviation won prizes in various music competitions. It includes, First prize in CIYF, Battle of Bands; First prize in CIYF Chennai Got Talented 2019; First prize in COMBAT 2K19 Bate of Bands; First prize in Light Music at MCC Deepwoods; Second prize in COMBAT 2K19 for Light Music; and Second prize in Light Music at VELS University.

Mr. Santhosh, 3rd B.Com. was invited to judge Tiktok competition conducted in cultural event "Rhythm" hosted by Dr. MGR Janaki College of Arts and Science for Women.

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Team SOM, the Runners of 11th ABBS BRICS MEET held at GDUFS, Guangzhou, China.

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A 7-day Online Certification Workshop on “7 Principles of Emerging HR”

by Mr.Viswanadh Raju, Global Head, Talent Acquisition, Axiscades was organized on 6 May 2020.

Online Certification Programme on “Change Management for Working Professionals” was organized between 22 and 26 June 2020.

“This Too Shall Pass” - a Motivational Lecture on “Surviving the Fear Psychosis of Covid-19” by Mr. G. Olivannan, CEO, Emerald Publishers, Chennai was conducted on 21 May 2020.

Online Lecture on “Building Resilience During Crisis – Ms. E.Sri Visalakshi, AGM, TCS, UK & Europe was organized on 2 May 2020.

Guest Lecture on “Managers 4.0” by Mr. K. Suresh, CEO, India Cements Capital; was organized by HITS-MMA Students Chapter on 24 Feb. 2020.

Guest Lecture on the “Essentials Skills for Managers in the Changing Scenario” by Mr. Sundaram, Executive Director, Super Auto Forge Pvt. Ltd. and Dr. C. Jayakumar, Vice President, Head – Human Resource Divisional Corporate, L&T Chennai was organized on 7 Aug. 2019.

AIMA Business Simulation Workshop was conducted on 1 & 2 Nov. 2019.

“Idea”: A Business Presentation contest was organised for the BBA Aviation first year students by Mr. S. Saravanakumar, Assistant Professor, on 6 Mar. 2020.

Credo Fiesta 2k19: International Ethics Day was celebrated on 8 & 9 Nov. 2019. Students donated a Smart Board to Government School, Perungudi.

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SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES

The School of Science and Humanities comprises of the department of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and English. A total of 780 students were inducted in the first year programme. We have had a tremendous year with 4 International Seminars, 70 Faculty Publications in reputed Journals, and over 40 Guest Lectures arranged for the benefit of students and staff. The efforts taken by Faculty during the fag end of the academic year, disrupted by COVID-19 is highly appreciative.

Wishing the very best to all the students and faculty for the upcoming year!

Dr. A. RAMESH BABU HEAD

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES PHYSICS

(Established 1985)

We’ve had a spectacular year wherein lots of efforts were put in research activities in various interdisciplinary fields of Science and Technology; especially in areas of Polymer Nanocomposites, Nanomaterials and Nanofluids. The department has published 15 research papers in the reputed international journals in the academic year 2019-2020; and we are focused to target more in the upcoming years.

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Dr. V. Parthasaratthy, HoD, received an “Encouragement Award” from HITS during Teacher’s Day celebrations for more publications (14 papers) in Journals during the calendar year 2019.

Ms. J. Selvi, Assistant Professor, presented a paper on “Thermal Properties and Thermal Degradation Kinetics Studies of PVA Nanocomposites” in the Second International Conference on Advanced Materials & Technology (ICMAT-20) organized by Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysuru from 16 to 18 Jan. 2020.

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Guest lecture on “Technologically Important Single Crystals and their Applications” by Dr. N. Vijayan, Sr. Scientist, National Physical Laboratory (CSIR Lab), New Delhi was organized on 1 May 2020.

Guest lecture on “Laser Technology" by Senior Assistant professor, Sastra deemed university, Thanjavur was organized on 29 Apr. 2020.

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SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES CHEMISTRY

(Established 1985)

Staff Achievements • • •

Dr. M. Chandrakala received Doctoral Degree from Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai during November 2019.

Dr. S. Sumathi, Professor, received the Best Attendance Award for the year 2019.

Dr. B. Gajalakshmi, Assistant Professor authored a book titled “Engineering Chemistry” published by Dhanam Publications in July 2019.

Dr. S. INDUJA HEAD The department imparts in-depth knowledge in Chemical and Material Science courses for B.Tech. students of all streams which is essentially required to transform the engineering students as Technocrats. The well-qualified and experienced faculty members of the department are actively involved in Research activities in the areas of Green Chemistry, Polymers, NanoTechnology, Catalysis, Organic Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry, etc. Our emphasis on multidisciplinary research has enable students involve in research activities by ways of Projects that could result in Publications in High Impact factor Journals.

Dr. M. Chandrakala at her PhD Convocation

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Guest Lecture on “Path to Power” by Dr. T. Kumar, Senior Scientist, Section Head, MAPS, IGCAR, Kalpakkam was organized on 19 Sept.

2019.

Guest Lecture on “Advancements of Biomaterials in Drug Delivery”

by Dr. Agnishwar Girigosai, Professor, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chettinad Academy of Research and Education, Chennai was organized on 7 Feb. 2020.

Science Meet Model Making competition on the theme “Advancements in Science & Technology for Cleaner Environment” was conducted exclusively for the I year B. Tech. students on 16 Sept.

2019.

Students displaying their Models at the Model Making competition themed Advancements in Science & Technology for Cleaner Environment during Science Meet.

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SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES MATHEMATICS

(Established 1985)

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Dr. S. VELMURUGAN HEAD The incredible year observed a Funded Project, International Journal Publications, and 3 Text Book publications by faculty. We successfully organized 18 events including Seminars/Guest Lectures/Webinars, both National and International.

3 Research Scholars completed Ph.D. A Faculty completed Professional Certification Course from IBM with Coursera and obtained a digital badge. industrial visits were organized for the students for industry exposure.

Faculty have attended in total 60 FDPs, Webinars, Seminars for their selfdevelopment.

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Dr. G. Kavitha has penned 3books applicable for B.E. & B.Tech. students.

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Dr. D. Nagarajan, Professor received a Funded Project titled “A New Formulation of General Fuzzy Automata with Output Associated with the Transitions” from the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia in Sept. 2019.

Dr. D. Nagarajan, received the “Best Teacher Award” from HITS for 2019-2020.

Dr. M. Latha Maheswari, Assistant Professor received Doctoral Degree from HITS in Aug. 2019.

Mr. H. Ebenezer, Assistant Professor received the “Attendance Award” from HITS for 2019-2020.

Dr. A. Rajkumar, Associate Professor was invited as the Chair Person for UGC SAP sponsored International Conference on “Advances in Applicable Mathematics” organized at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore on 21 & 22 Feb. 2020.

Dr. G. Kavitha, Assistant Professor authored a book titled “Matrices & Calculus” published by Dhanam Publications. She has also authored revised editions of “Operations Research”, and “Probability, Random Processes, Statistics and Queuing Theory”.

Dr. G. Kavitha received a Digital Badge and Achievement Certificate from Coursera for completing a professional course, “IBM Data Science Professional Certificate.”

Dr. R. Sundara Rajan, Associate Professor, visited National University of Singapore, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Malaysia in view of research collaborations and exchange programmes. He also delivered lecture on “Fuzzy Embedding in Interconnection Networks” and submitted a research project titled “Analysis, Characterizations and Simulations of Malaysian Networks” to the Government of Malaysia.

Dr. R. Sundara Rajan interacts with Professor Leong Hon Wai, CSE, National University of Singapore during his academic travel to Malaysia & Singapore.

International Seminar on “Laplace Transform & its Applications” by Dr. Kulandaivel, Department of Information Technology, Al Mushnna College of Technology, Sultanate of Oman on 28 Apr. 2020.

International Seminar on “Multiple Intégral and its Application” by Dr. J. Kavikumar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Applied Science and Technology, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia was scheduled on 20 Apr. 2020.

International Seminar on “Applications of Mathematics in Computer Science Dr. M. Latha Maheswari is conferred with Doctoral degree by Dr. (Mrs.) Elizabeth and Information Technology” by Dr. Andrea Semanicová-Fenovcíková, Verghese, Chancellor, HITS. Also seen in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Technical University in picture is Dr. K.P. Isaac, Vice Chancellor, HITS. Košice, Slovakia was organized on 2 Mar. 2020.

Hosted National Mathematics Talent Contest-NMTC 2019 organized by Association of Mathematics Teachers of India (AMTI) on 2 Nov. 2019.

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SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES LANGUAGES

(Established 1985)

Department Achievement The professional body ELTAI, Kancheepuram, HITS, an active chapter has won Best Chapter Award at the Golden Jubilee & 14th International Conference of ELTAI in October 2019.

Dr. AKKARA SHERINE HEAD We offer a plethora of Indian and Foreign languages; it includes Tamil, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Mandarin. As a unique department of Languages, it caters to the needs of Engineering, Management, Architecture, Liberal Arts & Science departments. Besides, regular English course, Open Electives are also offered with focus on Communication Skills, Employability Skills, Presentation skills, Interview Skills, English for Competitive Examinations, Business English, Project Writing and Editing, Academic and Creative writing etc. Guest lectures, workshop and FDPs in communication skills were conducted. Four webinar series were conducted during this pandemic situation benefitting over 300 participants. The Literary club Athena and Masquerade Theatre Club have also conducted several competitions, well-coordinated by a dedicated team.

A still post lecture on 'Dynamics and Effective Ways of Drafting a Research Paper' with speaker, Dr. Annie Kuriachan.

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Dr. Akkara Sherine, Head, Languages & Tanking got selected by TANSCHE & DOTE as Master English Trainer and was certified for attending a twoday Online Hands-on Training Workshop on "Design, Develop and Deliver through MOODLE Platform" on 29 & 30 May 2020.

Ms. Sonu Joseph, Assistant Professor adjudged ‘Speak for India’ an initiative by the Federal Bank in association with Times of India on 22 Jan. 2020.

Dr. Akkara Sherine, Dr. Raji Dhinakar, Associate Professor; Dr. Sheeja Rajagopal, Mr. Chillakuru Nagaraju, Mr. Manikandaboopathy, and Ms. Beulah Catherine, Assistant Professors completed a 10-week Annual Refresher ARPIT course in English Language Teaching.

Dr. Akkara Sherine received “Competent Communicator” Toastmasters certification. She also completed Advanced Communicator Silver, Bronze and Gold and Professional Leadership Excellence Certification.

Mr. Samuel Jeyakumar, delivered a talk on “Post Modernism & Post Colonialism: Two ‘Post’ Literary Theories for Post Lunch Session” in a National Seminar on Recent Trends in Contemporary Literary Criticism organized by Bishop Caldwell College, Thoothukudi.

Dr. A. Sherine is acknowledged with a Letter of Appreciation for being recognized as an accomplished Educational Speaker at the 14th World Education Summit

Ms. Sonu Joseph honoured with a memento for adjudging ‘Speak for India’

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Activity during 'Let’s learn Korean' class

Cre'pe Party during French Caf'e Club

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Mr. Nelson Dias, 2nd MA English; Ms. Varsha, Ms. Lakshmi Priya and Ms. Annie Angel, 1st MA English students won the Second prize for Mock Skit at the ELITE2K19 organized by Hindustan College of Arts and Science on 20 Sept. 2019.

Mr. Nelson Dias and Ms. T. Varsha won the First prize in Debate on the theme “Walk for Water” conducted by the Athena Literary Club on 28 Sept. 2019. They also won won Second & Third prize in Elocution conducted by HITS as a part of H2O Movement - Walk for Water during Sept. 2019.

Ms. Carolyn Mariam Tharakan, 1st year Aerospace Engineering reached the pre-final round of ICT Academy Speech Competition on 21 Sept.

2019. She was trained by Ms. Sonu Joseph, Convenor, Athena Literary Club.

Choose France Tour visit

Pride of the Dept.- Mr. Nelson Dias & Ms. T. Varsha's oratory skills have blown away many spectators.

Team MA on bagging Second prize in Mock Skit at ELITE2K19

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Guest Lecture on “Dynamics and Effective Ways of Drafting a Research Paper” by Dr. Annie Kuriachan, Head, English Department, Women’s Christian College, Chennai was organized on 16 Mar. 2020.

Organized “Tryst with Letters” with Dr. J. Mangayakarasi, Head, English Department, Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai and the National coordinator, ELTAI, India on 9 Sept. 2019.

Workshop on “Developing Skills for Education for Professors” (HITS) was conducted by Faculty members with focus on nuances of language skills from 15 to 28 Nov. 2019.

Four Webinars Series were conducted during Apr., May and June 2020 on topics such as “College to Corporate – A Tool Box for Smart Career”, “Sharpening Your Linguistic Arsenal: Do’s and Dont’s”, “Managing Stress & Making the Best Use of Time-An Educator’s Approach”, “Challenges in Learning a Second Language-Experiences Beyond the Borders”, “Strategies for Enrichment of Vocabulary” etc.

Online Creative Writing Contest on theme “Water, Oh! Water...” was organized during Aug. & Sept. 2019. Students partook under different genres of writing, namely, Short Story, Sonnet, Haiku, and Essay Writing.

Choose France Tour event was organized during Feb. 2020. Students got to meet officials from different French Universities and check their exchange programmes and career opportunities.

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RESEARCH CENTRES CENTRE FOR RESEARCH & CONSULTANCY

(Established 2015)

Dr. K. NANDAKUMAR

Dr. BABY JOSEPH

DIRECTOR, RESEARCH

DEAN, RESEARCH

The Centre for Research and Consultancy is responsible for all research related activities in HITS. It takes care of the welfare and provides administrative support to all Research Scholars of HITS right from the time of selection, registration, carrying out research work, through submission of thesis and conduct of viva voce examination to the final award of the degree. Currently there are about 461 Research Scholars registered under full-time and part-time categories. The Research Office is also responsible for providing administrative support to those Faculty members who apply for research funding through Sponsored and Consultancy Projects. Assistance is provided in preparation of proposals, presentation of results etc. Sponsored Projects are generally supported with funding by Government agencies like Department of Atomic Energy, ISRO, DRDO, SERB, DBT etc. for research topics of direct interest to them. Presently, there are 23 Ongoing Sponsored Projects. Also, there are few projects which are supported by the Indo-British Newton-Bhabha Fund administered by the British Council. The Research Office encourages faculty members to submit project proposals to the various funding agencies which will promote a robust and healthy research eco-system within the University.

Research Scholars: 461

Award of Degrees: 29 Ph.D. Degrees & 1 Ms

Faculty Publications: 398

CENTRE FOR AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS (ANRO)

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Funded Project titled “Adaptive Control of Robotic Fettling for Asymmetric Geometry and Close Tolerance Cast Components” was sanctioned by SEB, DST in Jan. 2020 for Dr. D. Dinkaran.

• Developed ‘Sevili’–an assistive robot to help medical frontline in isolation wards Dr. D. DINAKARAN during COVID-19. Sevili is successfully deployed for action at Government hospitals at HEAD Chennai and Chengalpattu.

• Dr. D. Dinakaran and Dr. M. M. Ramya received Appreciation Certificate from Chengalpattu District Collector for the contributions during the Corona crisis.

• Dr. M. M. Ramya received WTUN Exchange Grant and visited University Teknologi Malaysia for a period of 15 days in December 2019. She was also invited as a delegate to WTUC4 held at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in Oct. 2019.

• Mr. Lena Sekar, Mr. Gian Carlo, Mr. Haran Pragadeesh, Mr. Mukesh Sriram, Final and Pre-final B. Tech. Mechatronics Engineering won “Design Excellence Award” in the International VEX Robotics Competition, organized by the Mechatronics and Robotics Society of Philippines (MRSP) on 26 and 27 of Sept. 2019.

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Team Sevili at the hospital post deployment & observation.

Dr. D. Dinakaran & Dr. M. M. Ramya with ‘Sevili’ - A Service Robot

Sevili lined up at Rajivi Gandhi Govt. General Hospital. Team Hindustan has developed Sevili in association with Nission Renault India Ltd. as a protective measure to assist doctors & frontilne workers at the pandemic.

Students with “Design Excellence Award” at the International VEX Robotics Competition

RANE 2019 - Release of Proceedings

Event International Conference titled “RANE 2019” was organized on 29 and 30 Aug. 2019 with Dr. Shane Xie, Professor and Chair, Robotics, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds as Chief Guest. Dr. Himangshu Das, Director, National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities (NIEPMD), Chennai delivered a Special Address. Dr. S.G. Ponnambalam, Professor, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia; Dr. Manukid Parnichkun, Professor, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; Prof. Philip Picton, Senior Professor, University of Northampton; Dr. T. Asokan, Professor and Dr. Nilesh J Vasa, Professor and former Head of Engineering Design from IIT Madras delivered Invited Talks.

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CENTRE FOR SENSORS AND PROCESS CONTROL (CENSE)

Achievements Received below Funded Projects

Dr. UPPU RAMACHANDRAIAH

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DURATION

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“Development of an On-line Measurement System for Hydrogen Concentration in Steam Environment”

AERB – DAE

Rs. 45,36,560

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“Wall Climbing Robot with Reduced Sound Levels Using Active Noise Control”

ERIPR DRDO

Rs. 60,62,000

Aug. 2019- Aug. 2022

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“Development of Automatic Tea Leaf Cutter for Inclined Terrain Harvesting”

Rs. 12,86,250

Nov. 2019 – May 2021

Rs. 9,75,771

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“Development of Position Control

POABS TEA PVT. LTD. GTRE, DRDO

Webinar on “Virtual Commissioning of PLC for Automobile Industry” with Mr. Vignesh Gandhiram, Senior Controls Engineer, Wood Coventry, UK as resource person was organized on 2 May 2020.

Guest Lecture on “Concepts in Signals and Systems and Concepts in Digital Signal Processing” by Prof. (Dr.) K.M.M. Prabhu, IIT, Tirupathi was conducted on 27 Sept. 2019.

CENTRE FOR CLEAN ENERGY AND NANO CONVERGENCE (CENCON)

Achievements • •

Dr. PUSPAMITRA PANIGRAHI

Obtained Funded Project on “Sn Integrated 3D, Porous Carbon Based Scaffolds as High Capacity Anode for Sodium-ion Batteries” worth Rs. 18,30,000 under TARE, SERB Scheme.

M.Tech. Nanotechnology and B.Tech. Nanotechnology students from Department of Nanotechnology, Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Kanyakumari completed their Internship at CENCON.

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Department Achievements • • •

Acclaimed with a 4-Star Rating by MHRD – IIC. Faculty Coordinators of MHRD– IIC attained Certification for attending successive 17 Leadership Talks by MHRD, Govt of India.

Two Teams from HTBI & HEIC were selected for Finals of Smart India Hackathon 2020.

MR. K. Viswanathan HEAD

Hindustan Technology Business Incubator (HTBI) and Hindustan Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre (HEIC) is focused to encourage the innovative talents and spirits of the students.

Emphasizing on three thrust areas: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Outreach Programmes, the centre determines to reach out to students of all disciplines right from the first year, so as to provide ample time to discover themselves; and thereby get a chance to be innovative and tactical to pursue their dreams and gain economic, technical and entrepreneurial expertise in their chosen field.

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QS Techno Solutions receiving award for “Best Pitching” in My Story-Innovators’ Life & Crossword Motivation event.

Startup’s Achievements • • •

Aero2Astro organized MAYVI-Make Your Vimana, a 24-hr National RC Plane Building Competition on 5 & 6 Oct. 2019. 250 students participated in the event.

Aero2Astro, is working with government officials for the campaigning against Covid -19 in Chengalpattu and Coimbatore on Drone Surveillance and Announcements.

Dronoid Aerospace Pvt. Ltd., got selected in Indian Force Drone Completion. It was granted Indian patent in Wind energy.

QS Techno Solutions received “Young Entrepreneur Award” during Achievers Meet and Award Function conducted

by HTBI-HEIC in association with MHRD-IIC on 2 Sept. 2019.

QS Techno Solutions bagged award for “Best Pitching” in the event My Story Innovators’ Life & Crossword Motivation conducted in association with MHRD-IIC on 16 Sept. 2019.

QS Techno Solutions developed an Android APP for the Client Way2Workers for their business operations to be carried out in this Pandemic Covid 19.

National Automation and Design Solutions (NADS) have successfully completed projects namely, Control cabins in moving docks, Plant Design Validation systems, Automation in highly compressible door reliability testing, and SU30(MKI) Fuel system and tank pressurization system development(HAL-NASHIK).

Way2Workers have signed contracts with House Remodeling, Event Management – Marriage, AC Repairs/Contactor provider for all Household essentials clients in Andhra Pradesh.

An array of planes displayed at MAYVI-Make Your Vimana, a 24-hr RC Plane Building Competition.

Aero2Astro involving in Drone Surveillance along with Govt. officials.

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Mr. S. K. Shankar, Assistant Professor, CSE & E Cell Coordinator was invited to preside as the Jury panelist at the Singapore India Hackathon 2019’ from 28 to 30 Sept. 2019.

Dr. M. K. Badri Narayanan, HoD, MBA & Mr. S. K. Shankar have developed a software (Testing Phase) for HTBI HEIC (HTBI TRACKER) for the benefit of students to get tracked about their performance in Innovations, and Updates on Events Attended/Participated with the help of Ms. Anuradha Moorthy, Faculty, HTBI. Mr. S. K. Shankar & Student Team have developed a software for Research Department, for monitoring the progression of Research Scholars in HITS digitally.

QS Techno Solutions bagging “Young Entrepreneur Award” during Achievers Meet.

Students Achievements •

Participants of AICTE Chaatra 3rd Vishwakarma Awards 2019 briefing their Models to the Jury.

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Project AUTOTRON-Home Automation Using Smart Watch innovated by Mr. Joel J Varghese, Mr. Akhil P. S., Mr. Ilin Mariam Abraham, (CSE) was awarded Second Place with a cash prize of Rs. 15,000/- in IET Smart City Challenge 2019 held on 28 Sept. 2019. The Team was also granted a one-month Internship at Nokia Solutions and Networks Ltd. Ms. Mitta Devi Keerth Reddy, 3rd year, B. Tech. CSE received “Sparkling Star Certificate” from PALS campus event – Aspire held at Alpha Engineering College on 6 Aug. 2019.

Ms. Meghana Kelam, 3rd year, B. Tech. CSE and Mr. R. Balaji, 3rd year, B. Tech. Mechanical received Appreciation Certificate for their performance in PALS Campus event at IIT Madras, on 5 Mar. 2020.

Mr. Pranav, 4th year, B. Tech. Automobile Engineering, underwent PALS Summer In-plant training at Brakes India Ltd. Mr. Anirudh Shashang, 4th year, B. Tech., Mechanical Engineering, underwent PALS Summer Internship at Ashok Leyland Limited.

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Hosted PALS Tinkathon, a one-day workshop on problem solving on 29 Aug. 2019. Over 150 students from 7 Engineering colleges in Chennai (VIT, Sai ram, SVCE, KCG, ALPHA, RI, and HITS) participated in the workshop and were judged on their prototypes built.

Hosted Regional Convention of AICTE Chaatra 3rd Vishwakarma Awards 2019 on 18 Dec. 105 teams from various Institutions in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry exhibited their product under 8 different categories such as Waste Management, Energy, Farm and Flock, Land, Livelihood, Water etc., for evaluation. Felicitations was given by Mr. Ramesh, Dy.Director, and AICTE. Hindustan Innovation Challenge 2020 was initiated for the students of HITS. It witnessed 120 Ideas with student’s participation of around 720.

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Office of International Affairs FACULTY & STUDENTS’ EXCHANGE DETAILS

DR. ILAVAZHAGAN DIRECTOR

The main objective of the Office of International Affairs is to promote transformative global learning opportunities and crosscultural understanding. With International Programs growing in leaps and bounds, our students, faculty and management visited various countries to participate in Conferences, Workshops, Competitions, Internships, Study/ Cultural Tour, Semester Exchange Programmes etc. Students from foreign shores arriving at our institution and those of our own reaching destinations abroad— the learning has proven to be synergistic. The mobility of faculty and Students was affected due to the travel restrictions caused to the Covid-19 Pandemic. However, we’re looking forward towards promising days that could open the doors of opportunities far and wide.

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Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan.

University of Mendoza, Argentina.

Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany.

Kent Illinois University, USA. University of New Haven, USA. University of Wisconsin, USA. San Diego State University, USA. Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia.

King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand.

Universite De Nantes, France.

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Institut Sup’biotech De Paris, France.

The University of Cambodia, Cambodia.

University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Hengyang Normal University, China.

Gongqing College of Nanchang University, China.

Vistula University, Poland.

Korea University of Media Arts, Korea.

University Catholica Del Maule, Chile.

MoU Exchange with Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany.

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DETAILS OF THE STAFF Dr. Ravishankar, Assistant. Professor.

Tanta University, Egypt.

PURPOSE Keynote Speaker at International Conference

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Dr. G. Ilavazhagan, Director, OIA.

Korea

FICCI Delegation

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Dr. Ceromani Sharmila, HoD – IT.

Bradford University, UK.

Research Work

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Mr. Natarajan, PED

Tanta University, Egypt.

Competition

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Mr. K. Deepak Kumar, PED.

SIAS International University, China.

Competition

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Dr. Anand Jacob Verghese, Pro Chancellor, HITS.

SIAS International University, China.

Collaboration

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Mr. Milton, Deputy Director -Corporate Affairs & Training.

SIAS International University, China.

Collaboration

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Mr. Ashok Verghese, Director, HITS.

USA

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Dr. Badri Narayanan, HoD – SOM.

USA

Collaboration

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Mr. Dinesh, Assistant Professor, Aero Engg.

USA

Collaboration

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Dr. R. Sundara Rajan Associate Professor, Maths.

National University of Singapore

Research Collaboration

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Dr. M. Jai Kumar, Associate Professor & HoD – Auto Engg.

Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Research Collaboration

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Mr. P. R. Raghavendran, Assistant Professor, Auto Engg.

Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Research Collaboration

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Dr. A. K. Parvathy, Professor, EEE.

University of Leeds, UK.

Research Collaboration

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Dr. Dev Balaji, Assistant Professor, EEE.

University of Leeds, UK.

Research Collaboration

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Dr. K. Periyadurai Assistant Professor.

University of Beira Iterior, Portugal.

Staff Mobility under Post-Doctoral Fellowship

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Dr. Kuppan Chetty Associate Professor, ANRO.

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Dr. Deenadhalayan, Assistant Professor, ANRO.

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Mr. P.R. Raghavendran, Assistant Professor, Auto Engg.

World Trade Centre, Manila, Philippines.

Paper Presentation Mentor for Competition

Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Research Collaboration

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan.

Collaboration

Shih Cien University, Taiwan.

Collaboration

Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Collaboration

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Dr. K.P. Isaac, Vice Chancellor, HITS.

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Dr. M. Ramya, Professor, ANRO.

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Dr. K.P. Isaac, Vice Chancellor, HITS.

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Dr. M. Ramya, Professor, ANRO.

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Mr. Ashok Verghese, Director, HITS.

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Dr. K.P. Isaac, Vice Chancellor, HITS.

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Mr. Shanmuganathan, Assistant Professor, Auto Engg.

Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Research Collaboration

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Dr. R. Samuel Devadoss, Associate Professor, Civil Engg.

Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Collaboration

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Dr. V. Preeti, Associate Professor, Civil Engg.

Universiti Malaysia Pahang

Collaboration

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Dr. Sreeja Ramesh, Assistant Professor.

Technological University, Dublin.

Paper Presentation

30

Dr. Anand Jacob Verghese Pro Chancellor, HITS.

Naresuan University, Thailand.

Conference

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Mr. Salim Mahmood, Deputy Director – Admissions.

Naresuan University, Thailand.

Conference

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Dr. G. Ilavazhagan, Director – OIA.

Naresuan University, Siam University & King Mongkut University, Thailand.

Paper Presentation

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Dr. G. Ilavazhagan, Director – OIA.

Addis Ababa University, Gage College, Ethiopia.

Collaboration

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Dr. G. Ilavazhagan Director – OIA.

University of Kampala, Kampala International University, Kyambago University, Uganda.

Collaboration

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Dr. Anand Jacob Verghese Pro Chancellor, HITS.

University of Kampala, Kampala International University, Kyambago University, Uganda.

Collaboration

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Mr. Salim Mahmud, Deputy Director-Admissions.

University of Kampala, Kampala International University, Kyambago University, Uganda.

Collaboration

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STUDENTS EXCHANGE UNDER SEMESTER/CULTURAL EXCHANGE/SUMMER PROGRAMME/INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 75 students participated in semester exchange, summer programs in partner universities like University of Applied Science, Germany; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan; Yildiz Technical University, Turkey; Moscow Aviation Institute, Russia; École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile, France; University of Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

STUDENTS INBOUND UNDER EXCHANGE PROGRAMME

13 Students from Trier University of Applied Sciences visited HITS to participate in a Joint Project Funded by DAAD. A Student from Gunma University was on Internship with Automobile Department.

DELEGATES VISIT

Dr. Micaela Spiers, Lecturer, Deakin Business School, Deakin University, Australia delivered a Guest Lecture on “Branding and Employability” exclusively to BBA, B.Com. and MBA students on 23 Sept. 2019.

63 faculty members from Western Sydney University, Australia; Yildiz Technical University, Turkey; Gunma University, Japan ; University of New Haven, USA; Michigan Technological University, USA; University of Leeds, UK; University of Northampton, UK; Cranfield University, UK; University of Bradford, UK; Dublin City University, Ireland; Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany; University of Malaysia, Pahang; Riga Technical University, Latvia; University of Leiscester, UK; Staffordshire University, UK; Deakin University, Australia; University of Dundee, UK; National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; University of Lincoln, UK; SUP Biotech, France; Arizona State Univer sity, and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland visited HITS during 2019-2020.

EVENTS The 34th Annual Conference of Association of Universities of Asia Pacific was organized between 10 and 14 Nov. 2019 at Naresuan University, Thailand. A delegation led by Dr. Anand Jacob Verghese, Pro Chancellor, HITS comprising Dr. G. Ilavazhagan, Director, International Affairs and Mr. Salim Mahmood, Deputy Director, Admissions, HITS attended the conference.

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VISIT OF INTERNATIONAL DELEGATES

Delegates from 35 countries of various Governments, Universities, Colleges and Schools visited HITS on 11 Dec. 2019.

Drawn from Africa, SAARC, South East Asia and Central Asia, the aim of their visit to India was intended to understand the education system and the quality of education provided by various Higher Educational Institutions in India.

BRICS MEET

The 11th BRICS–ABBS students’ meet was held in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China. 6 MBA Students from School of Management bagged the Runners Up trophy by participating in business game, quiz, debating competition themed “The Trade War: the Proponent and Protester”, paper presentation on “Dealing with International Political Risk: How Multinationals Win in a Dynamic World,” and discussion on “Trade Wars and the BRICS: Challenges & Opportunities”.

PAID INTERNSHIP & JOB OPPORTUNITY Mr. Vivian, M.Tech. (Avionics) was offered paid Internship at CT Engineering after he completed his Semester Exchange Programme in Ecole Nationale De L' Aviation Civile. Based on his performance during the Internship Mr. Vivian got placed in CT Engineering, Paris and continues to work there.

Mr. Vivian during Semester Exchange at Ecole Nationale De L’ Aviation Civile.

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SEMESTER EXCHANGE PROGRAMME

Hochschule Ostwestfalen, Lippe, Germany

IPSA, France

Ms. Sowmiya Kaarthik, Mr. V. Sakthivel V., and Ms. V. Nivetha, 3rd Yr. B. Arch.

CULTURAL IMMERSION PROGRAMME

Ms. Ashwini Mahakalkar, Final Yr. Aerospace Engg.Recipient of Charpak Scholarship with a paid grant of 700 euros per month

Panyapiwat Institute of Management (PIM), Thailand

Mr. Keerthirajan Asokan, B.Tech. Final Yr. Mechanical Engineering

SUMMER PROGRAMME Ubaya Universitas Surabaya, Indonesia

Mr. P. Sandeep Kumar, Mr. A. Sai Kiran, Ms. A. Syamala Sravya, & Mr. N. Kumar Ganesh, Final Yr. Aerospace Engg.

Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI), Moscow

Mr. Akkash Babu N.S. & Mr. Joe Martin J., B.Tech. PreFinal Yr. IT Ben Gurion University-Israel

Ms. Sameena Shaik, Ms. Mulpuri Namratha, Mr. Ronak Ghatge, & Mr. Vajja Jaya Vikeswara Rao, Pre-final Yr. Aeronautical Engg.; & Ms. Reenu Rakshanna, Ms. Lekhana Gurijala, Ms. Suniti Mangaraj, Mr. Srinjoy Dasgupta, Ms. V. Priyanka, & Ms. S. Saranya Pre-final Yr. Aerospace Engg.

Mr. S. Naveen, Ms. Juhi Singh, B.Tech. Final Yr. IT & Mr. R. Ajay, B.Tech. 4th Yr. Final Yr. CSE.

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COMPETITION International VEX Robotics Competition

Mr. Lena Sekar, Mr. Gian Carlo, Mr. Haran Pragadeesh, Mr. Mukesh Sriram, Final and Pre-final B. Tech. Mechatronics Engineering won “Design Excellence Award” in the International VEX Robotics Competition, organized by the Mechatronics and Robotics Society of Philippines (MRSP) on 26 and 27 of September 2019.

FACULTY EXCHANGE PROGRAMME Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)

Dr. M. M. Ramya, Professor, Mechatronics Engineering was bestowed with WTUN Exchange Grant for a period of 15 days.

CONFERENCE Dr. R.M. Kuppan Chetty, Associate Professor, ANRO being honoured towards his Paper Presentation on “IoT Enabled Smart Waste Bin with Real Time Monitoring for Efficient Waste Management in Metropolitan Cities” at the 1st International Conference on “Automation, Mechatronics, & Robotics” at Philippines.

RESEARCH COLLABORATION Dr. A. K. Parvathy, Professor, & Dr. Dev Balaji, Assistant Professor, EEE visited UK under Newton Bhabha Funded Project funded by Royal Academy of Engineering, UK.

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A New Passage to India-German -Indian Higher Education Co-operation 2019-2023”

Hindustan Institute of Technology and Sciences (HITS) and Trier University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) have combined to develop “A New Passage to India-German –Indian Higher Education Co-operation 2019-2023” under DAAD German Academic Exchange Service with a total funding of 0.494 million Euros. The two Universities are working on a Research Project titled “Vision Zero” aiming to reduce traffic accidents through an advanced research and planning of Traffic Infrastructure, Driver Assistance and Vehicle Safety aspects. As a part of the research project the students and the faculty members of both universities are visiting each other and sharing their expertise and gaining new-fangled knowledge.

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Team TUAS at Hindustan

In connection with review of project, exchange of students and projects, TUAS delegates’ team visited HITS during August 2019. The esteemed delegation comprised Mr. Michael Wegener, Dy. Consul General, German Consulate, Chennai; Prof. Dr. Peter Koenig, Project Lead – DAAD, Head, Automotive Technology; Prof. Dr. Karl Hofmann-von Kap-herr, Project Lead – DAAD, Head, Manufacturing and Production Technologies; Prof. Dr. Peter Heck, Managing Director, Environmental Planning and Management; Prof. Jorg Obergfell, Head, Design and Architecture; and Prof.

Dr. Roland Trapp, Head, Civil Engineering, Service Engineering and Food Technology and 14 students pursuing various branches of study at TUAS. Later during the stay at HITS, Prof. Dr. Peter Koenig and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roland Trapp gave a seminar on “Next Generation Mobility” and “Traffic Safety in Road Infrastructure” to students respectively

Expected outcome of "Vision Zero"

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Team Hindustan at TUAS

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Assistance to setup eco-friendly Campus Product Development on Driver Assistance Scientific Research & Recommendations to attain Vision Zero at OMR Journal Publications & Conference Participations Participation in FISITA 2020

Team Hindustan led by Mr. Ashok Verghese, Director, HITS visited TUAS during October 2019. The delegation included Dr. K.P. Isaac, Vice Chancellor, HITS; Dr. Raja Thilagar Samuel Devadoss, Associate Professor, Civil Engg.; Mr. Shanmuganathan Thangaraju, Assistant Professor, Automobile Engg.; Mr. Charles Edwin Samuuel, Mr. Mohamed Ashaque, Mr. Naidu Dinesh Kumar Anguraj, and Mr. Vairavakrishnan Viggnes (4th year Automobile Engg.); Mr. Kathiresh Kapilesh, Mr. Raja Akash (3rd year, Automobile Engg.); Mr. Vibi Shathish Srivishnu, and Ms. Geetaanjali Chandam (4th year, Civil Engg.)

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CENTRE FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION & CAREER DEVELOPMENT

CENTRE FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION & CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Courses Offered

MR. MILTON HUGGINS HEAD

Our prime focus is to foster Interaction between University and Industry, Postsecondary learning activities within the domain which include, Courses for Nontraditional Students, Non-degree Career Training, Workforce Training, Formal Personal Enrichment Courses (both oncampus and online) Self-directed Learning (such as through Internet interest groups, clubs or personal research activities) and Experiential Learning.

Campus Placement Training Programmes and Training Programmes on core competency development such as employability skills, awareness on employment avenues are also provided by the Centre. The Centre has partnered this year with the leading company-Aluminum Bahrain to train their employees for skill upgradation on various areas of Engineering. The Centre will be soon partnering with major Brands in the Industry for delivering training to their workforce.

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Advanced Diploma in Autotronics Industrial Robots and its Applications Arduino Real Time Embedded System Ethical Hacking DOT NET/ASP Python Programming Java Programming Oracle –DBMS Oracle – Primavera Mat Lab Non Destructive Testing Business English Course Soft Skills and Aptitude Revit Structure Building Information Modelling & Estimation MSC Nastran Creo & Creo Simulate Catia & Catia Kinematics Hypermesh Ansys NX CAD /NX CAM Surveillance, Switching & Wireless Counselling and Classes for Competitive Exams such as GRE,GATE,GMAT,CAT,IELTS, TOEFL

The total number of students benefited through these programmes are over and above 4000. In addition to these programs, Faculty Development Programs (FDP) on Technical and Non-Technical areas were conducted covering reaching over 500 faculty members.

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PLACEMENT PLACEMENTS 2019-20 Placements can certainly accelerate a graduate’s career trajectory!

PLACEMENT

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There is prodigious satisfaction in seeing the heart-warming smiles and merriment that a successful placement process brings to the faces of our students. After months of meticulous preparation and planning they feel rewarded with an appropriate job in a company of their choice.

The modern educational world is reverberating with waves of novelty all around the globe. In this dynamic milieu, it is mandatory that the young minds of our country be nurtured and encouraged to be placed at the highest pinnacle of success. The purpose and goal of Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science is to narrow down the widening gap between University’s educational curricula and the knowledge and skill requirements of industries, sectoral industrial development and country’s economic growth. I am proud that the students of previous batches have been well-received by the industry.

I express my sincere gratitude to all the organizations who have extended their active cooperation to the Placement Team in accomplishing its endeavours successfully.

We welcome all recruiters to come and experience the spirit of Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science!

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The batch of 2020 was a fine blend of students with a combination of Engineering fundamentals and skill acquisition programs like communication skills, Aptitude training and Technical training. With corporate engagements in the form of HR summit and live projects, students had an opportunity to interact, share and clarify their thoughts with industry stalwarts from reputed companies such as Cognizant Technology Solutions, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro Technologies, Infosys Ltd, IBM India Pvt ltd, Virtusa, Hexaware Technologies, Think and Learn Pvt Ltd, Sutherland Global Services, Sopra Steria, Zoho Corporation, CSS Corp, Excelacom, HCL, Hewlett Packard, Health Watch Tele Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd., Ramco Systems, Saint Gobain, Sundram Fasteners, Vestas R&D, Object Frontier Software, First Source, Gestamp Automtive Pvt Ltd, Brillio, New gen Technologies, Ziegler Aerospace, Advanced Medical Systems.

Our Recruiters

PLACEMENT STATUS Companies visited

Average package

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Highest package

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Testimonials of Final Year Students “It has been a splendid 4 years at HITS. My sincere appreciation and gratitude to the Training and Placement department for their efforts of imparting quality technical and aptitude learning. This college evolved and groomed all of us. With its exclusive soft skills training program taught by experts, the Placement Cell had enabled me to grab two offers from Hexaware Technologies and BYJU's, making the first step towards my career.”

Ms. Tanisha Choudhury

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Mr. Roopesh Ratakonda

“The union of a placement cell, faculty, and constant support from benevolent family and friends has led me to where I am today. I got two placement offers, one at Brillio and the other at Infosys, very grateful for that. Acts like this is one of those things that cannot be repaid; but remain grateful and committed as an Alumni.”

Computer Science and Engineering

Mr. Vishakh Cherian Cherian Mechatronics Engineering

“If you are someone who is looking for a job, the Placement department can definitely help you and any student can walk in and have a word with the staff who are very comforting and will let you know all the information about the upcoming interviews, requirements and also how to prepare for it. I would like to thank the Placement department for providing me an opportunity for getting placed in Think and Learn Pvt. Ltd. ( Byju’s) and Jaro Education.”

Mr. Likhith Krishna

Computer Science and Engineering “Coding & Communication are two important aspects that an IT Engineering is always looked up to by the Industry. Here at Hindustan, we are being given proper guidance with our industry specialized faculty to make us good in both areas and also the industry 4.0 curriculum followed by us has been a very good advantage for understanding the real time industry needs. The handson training provided by the industry experts with the help of Placement team gave us a good confidence to crack each and every round of placement exam in a very easy manner. I’m thankful to Hindustan for making my mission of getting placed by 2020 a reality.”

“I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the faculty members and the Management.

In these four years, they had supported us in our academics as well as for the interviews.

I am extremely grateful to the placement department for their efforts to ensure a bright future for us and made me achieve my dream of getting placed in Infosys. I feel very proud to be a part of the Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science.”

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DR. B. SELVAMUTHU KRISHNAN SPORTS OFFICER

Winner

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Won the Winner Trophy in the South Zone InterUniversity Basketball Tournament organized by University of Madras, Chennai from 15 Dec. 2019.

Clinched the Winner title in the All India InterUniversity Basketball Women’s Tournament organized by Association of Indian Universities at Haryana on 6 Jan. 2020.

Hindustan Men’s Cricket Team

Third position Secured third position in the South Zone InterUniversity Tournament organized by Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai on 11 Dec. 2019.

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Hindustan Volleyball Women’s Team

Winner Won the South Zone Inter-University Tournament organized by Mysore University on 10 Dec. 2019.

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Khelo India University 2020

Third position Secured third position in the South Zone Inter-University Tournament organized by SRM IST, Chennai on 10 Dec. 2019.

Won Silver Medal in 1st Edition of Khelo India University Games 2020 organized by AIU in collaboration with Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports and Sports Authority of India (SAI) at KIIT, Bhubaneshwar from 22 Feb. to 1 Mar. 2020.

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Chancellor’s Trophy 2019

India

South Sudan

In the Chancellor’s Trophy 2019 & the 10th Dr. K. C. G. Verghese Memorial International Football Tournament for foreign students organized from 24 to 26 September 2019 , India emerged as Winners while South Sudan bagged the Runners title.

Founders Trophy All India Inter Collegiate Basketball Tournament

Women’s Team

Men’s Team

In the Founders Trophy organized by SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai from 20 to 24 August 2019, Women’s and Men’s team bagged the Winners and Runners Trophy respectively.

33rd Federation Cup-National Basketball Championship Tamil Nadu Basketball Women's Team won the Runners Trophy of Federation Cup, organized by Uttar PradeshBasketball Association under the aegis of the Basketball Federation of India at Gautham Budda University, Noida.

Four of our HITS players Ms. T. Dharshini, Ms. R. Anbarashi, Ms. S. Rajeshwari, and Ms. M. Thilagavathi, were part of the winning team.

Individual Events Adhithya Sharma

Mr. Adhithya Sharma, 1st Mechatronics won Gold Medal in 60 Kms Cycling organized by Just Bicycle on 25 August 2019.

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Ms. T. Dharshini, 3rd BBA and Ms. K.B. Harshitha, 1st B.Sc. (PED) got selected for Senior Indian Basketball Team Camp at Kandeerava Stadium, Bengaluru from 26 July to 26 August 2019.

Mr. M. Washington Sundar, 3rd BBA represented Indian Cricket team in all three T20 Series against West Indies in August 2019.

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10 students took part in the TNPL (Tamil Nadu Premier League) Cricket Championship organized

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Flt. Lt. Giri Rangarajan received “Service Badge” for his 9 Years’ Service in Defence through NCC on 15 Nov. 2019.

TN, P & AN NCC Directorate won Vayu Sena Cup-Overall Championship Runners in the AIVSC 2019 - All India Vayu Sainik Camp organized at Jodhpur, Rajasthan between 5 and 15 Oct. 2019.

FG. OFFR. GIRI RANGARAJAN FLYING OFFICER

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New batch of 25 cadets were selected during the first year’s selection on 1 Aug. 2019.

Conducted exams for NCC staff candidates on 1 Dec. 2019.

Third year cadets appeared for C Cert Exams on 28 Feb. 2020.

Participated (30 Cadets) in CATC 2019- Combined Annual Training Camp at Veltech Multitech College, Avadi between 10and 19 July 2019.

Participated (10 Cadets) in IGC CAMPInter Group Competitions at PMIST, Thanjavur between 22 and 31 Aug. 2019.

Participated (9 Cadets) in VSC Training Camp at Puducherry NCC Unit, Puducherry between 12 and 21 Sept. 2019.

Participated (8 Cadets) in VSC Launch Camp at Omega International School, Pallavaram between 23 Sept. and 2 Oct. 2019.

All India Vayu Sainik Camp 2019

CATC 2019-Combined Annual Training Camp

IGC Camp-Inter Group Competitions

Vayu Sena Cup 2019 Overall Championship Runners

Independence Day Parade

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Rotaract Club of Hindustan University received Rotary Citation with Platinum Distinction for helping the Rotary being the inspiration in the lives of people all over the world for the year 2019-2020 by Rotary International.

Received “Ashok Leyland Rolling Shield” for mobilizing highest blood donors among engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu on 27 Sept. 2019.

Mr. K. Gnanasekaran, NSS coordinator and Mr. Nandakumar, EEE., was awarded for the contribution towards Rotaract Movement in Preconference (ENVISION) conducted by Rotary International District 3232 on 31 Jan. 2020.

Mr. Albinus Sanjeevan and Mr. Ajay Kumar of Y’s Men Club of Hindustan Youth attended a 3-day Regional Youth Camp at Yercaud on 1 Nov. 2019 and were selected as the Best Youth from Madras district.

Awareness Rally on 'Use of Plastic and its Effects'

Celebrating International Awareness DayContributing 'Shiksha'

Fit India Rally

Planting of saplings & ‘Walk for Water’ rally marched by over 1000 students emphasizing the need for water and creating a social alert.

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2019-2020 ROTARY CITATION WITH PLATINUM DISTINCTION

Awarded to the Rotaract Club of

HINDUSTAN UNIVERSITY for helping Rotary connect the world in the lives of people all over the world.

Plantation-One Student One Tree Scheme Mark Daniel Maloney President, Rotary International

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Awareness Camp about COVID-19 was organized in HITS’adopted villages in association with Thirupporur Town Panchayat on 17 Mar. 2020.

Organized RYLA, a three-day “Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Camp” in association with Rotary Club of Chennai Capital along with Rotaract Club of HU, HCAS, KCG, HIET on 28 Feb. 2020 in HITS Campus.

Organized “Blood Donation Camp” in association with Rotary Club of Chennai wherein 472 units of blood were collected and given to Adyar Cancer Institute, Rajiv Gandhi Govt. Hospital and Kilpauk Medical College on 14 Feb. 2020 Awareness rally on the “Use of Plastic & its Effects” in support of Swachatta Hi Seva Campaign was organized on 24 Sept. 2019.

One Student One Tree Scheme was inaugurated by Dr. M.P. Poonia, Vice Chairman, AICTE on 7 Sept. 2019.

"Fit India Run" Rally was conducted in collaboration with Chennaiyin FC on the auspicious occasion of 150th Birth Anniversary of the Father of the Nation on 2 Oct. 2019.

The 5th Installation Ceremony of Rotaract Club of Hindustan University along with RACHCAS, RACHIET, RACKCG was organized on 24 July 2019 in Hindustan International School, Guindy. Rtn. Ashokraja, Director, Youth services 2019 -2020 presided as the chief guest.

Village and household survey in Kayaar village was carried on 20 July 2019; and Illallur and Pudupakkam village on 17 Aug. 2019 as a part of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan activities.

Celebrated International Awareness Day by contributing to ‘Shiksha’–an initiative to provide educational kits to the underprivileged children of our society.

“WALK FOR WATER” an event proposed by Par Anand Charitable Trust, Friends for Good Health (USA), and Healing Lives (UAE) was conducted on 1 Oct. 2019.

The event held under the aegis of Dr. Sanjana Jon, a New York-based Philanthropist and Designer celebrity primarily observed Thiru S.R.L. Idhayavarman, Member, Legislative Assembly, Thiruporur Constituency; and Mr. Vijay Yesudas, Playback Singer & Actor as special guests.

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Reunion 20 Jul. 2019

MS. V.S. PRAGATHA COORDINATOR

6th Batch HCE (‘90-‘94) Silver

MBA (‘97-’99) Batch 20th Yr.

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Reunion

27 Jul. 2019

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Instituting Alumni

Ambassadors

19 Oct. 2019.

Alumni Ambassadors 2019 were instituted during the 10th Convocation Day. Mr. Unni Krishnan, Playback Singer & National Awardee was the Chief Guest for this event.

Annual Alumni Meet

Alumni

7 Dec. 2019

Contributions

Batch of 1992 presented Cash Awards worth Rs 50,000/-

Alumni

Batch of 1994 presented Merit Awards worth Rs. 60,000/-

Invitees

Yarona 2019 was dazzling with the presence of our star Alumni, Mr. Arav (Nafeez) Actor; the Chief Guest, Mr. Arun & Aravind, Famous Twin Brothers of Vijay TV; Ms. Aishwarya Ravichandran, Playback Singer; and Mr. Pon Kathir, Editor.

The event was organized by yet another prominent Alumnus, Mr. Prabhu Dhanasekar, CEO, Spring Boots Academy.

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Ms. C. Nithyasri 1st B.Com.

Ms. Anjali Ramani 3rd BBA General

The Zentangle method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. I love drawing Zentangles using drawing pens and colour pens.

As a kid, and a school student, I loved sketching, and would draw in my mind all the time.

Zentangles create a positive influence on creativity, self-image, focus and problem solving and I would like all of you to try it out when you face any problem in your life.

Ms. K. Dhamini 1st B.Com.

Ms. Lipika Pilli

3rd B.Tech. Aeronautical Engg.

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft keys, play on.

And I, a happy melodist, unwearied, For ever playing keys for ever new!

For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd, For ever panting, and for ever young!

What a pursuit! What an ecstasy!

Ms. Dinaish Kaizad Mistry BA Triple Major

Smart Goals Towards a Smarter Life

Mr. K. S. Nitya kumaar

3rd B.Tech. Aeronautical Engg.

Pencil Sketch is a freehand drawing that is not usually intended as a finished work. It brings imaginations alive through pencil. I always had this passion for sketches and that’s how I indulged myself in it. Pencil sketch is all about portrayal of an object with variation in pencil shades.

Madhubani Art is a style of Indian painting, practiced in the Mithila region of the Indian subcontinent. It is considered to be one of the oldest forms of Ethnic Indian art. The beauty of this artwork lies in the imperfection and vibrant ethnic colours used. Any colouring medium can be used for this particular art. These unique qualities have built an urge in me to master this ethnic artwork

Ms. Madhura G Joshi 4th B.Tech. CSE

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Ms. S. Harshaa

Ms. Poshini Ganesh Kumar

1st B.Tech. Aersospace Engg.

4th B.Tech. CSE

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A Memory that time tries to steal from you but you can keep it forever - Photography is an art that let's you enjoy the tiniest of joy in our life.

Ms. Namitha Sandeep

4th B.Tech. CSE

Missing you has become an essential part of my breathing!

Art with Coffee Powder

Go Green!

Mr. Gururaj Salokhe

1st B.Tech. Aeronautical Engg.

CORN My Queen!

Corn Lady in an Elegant Style!

Figurines—Cabbage Monster & Rice Engraved Watermelon

Mr. Obulum Vidya Sagar Assistant Professor, FDA.

Greenery—something everyone pauses by a moment.

To feel its freshness, bliss, and miss not to run through fingers on it.

It’s an inviting home for all—birds, animals, and humans: the beast.

The beast who destroys the bounteous beauty of Nature, While in admiration of it!

Let it live, Go Green!

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Mr. S. Kishore Durai 4th B.Arch.

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Mr. D. Vijayabhaskar

The Ripples of Water . . .

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Assistant Professor, LAAS

Dr. Aby K Thomas Head-ECE

Mr. N. Harsha Vardhan

3rd B.Tech. Aeronautical Engg.

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We know that India is a land of agriculture.

Almost 60% of the people in India are from agricultural background. Each and every person in India is dependent on farming. Now-a-days people are attracting to the coming technologies and forgetting about farming; and we are aware that any given day, we always need the backup of agriculture. Our country consumes a greater number of foods compared to others. Our government focuses more on the food preserving process, and are least concerned bothering about the agricultural lands and farmers. Many cut trees and build, some stop farming and sell their lands for construction of industries. We use harmful fertilizers for plant growth and invite different types of health diseases like cancer. We have to improve organic foods in our India. India once exported lot of food products to Japan; but now, we are importing natural resources from other countries. It is our responsibility to safeguard farming in our country. Several graduates, especially, engineers, go back to agriculture quitting their job realizing the need of it, let us held our helping hand too.

Importance of Agriculture in India

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Mr. Ch. Pavan Sai Reddy 4th B.Tech. Aeronautical Engg.

Hyper Focus

Focus is the key to success, your energy flow where your attention is. By choosing an important object of attention, one eliminates distractions which will inevitably arise, and focus on just a task. Hyper focus is deliberate, undistracted and quick to refocus, leading us to become completely immersed in our work. “Attentional space” is the term which plays a vital role in hyper focus mode and also to describe the amount of mental energy we have to focus on and process things in the moment. Our success does not depend on our goals, it all depends on the day to day task starting from the to-do list that we plan on work time.

Therefore, executing any task requires attention with intention. Intention is the bouncer of one’s attentional space. The key principle to enter the hyper focus mode is to engage both your external environment and direct them towards a focused target/thing intentionally.

Life Maker When you have something, you don’t mind it.

When you lost something, you don’t make it.

Do act when you have it in your hands.

Don’t act when you lost it in some hands.

Think life is teaching you for something.

But never ditching you for nothing.

Angriness can lead to lose self-control.

Loveliness can lead to lose self-respect.

Sadness can lead to lose self-confidence.

Only the delight in you gains it all!

Mr. U. Siva Vigneshwaran 4th B.Tech. Aeronautical Engg.

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4th B.Tech. Aeronautical Engg.

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At some point we get this feeling that this Universe is something beyond our understanding. No matter how far we get there's always a vast space yet to be explored. When this world offers us curiosity, we make a system to gain knowledge. In this system there are 2 groups: first one being 'tutors' and the second, 'learners'. Tutors are the ones who have already gained knowledge about the subject. However, it's important to understand that there's no possibility of total knowledge gain being a human. Experts of a subject only know whatever they've come across while studying it. Today, the education system is focused more on teaching than emphasizing on the newcomer to explore it themselves. Once a person is capable enough to read and understand things, he/she should be guided to explore about the stream they are interested in. Snapchat's CEO quoted, "India has lost creativity in their education system". There's a syllabus with any subject today. After completion there's a test which gives us a number. That number is taken as the end result. This ends the learning curve. Shouldn't the idea behind education system be generating curiosities and giving a path??

If you can dream, and Not make dreams your master; If you can think-and Not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster Treat these two imposters as same; If u can bear to hear the truth, you’re a speaker Twisted by knaves to make a top to fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to: broken, And stop and build’em up with worn-out fool.

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Mr. K.M. Abhinash

4th B.Tech. Automobile Engg.

Performance Appraisal

Defining Defining both both the term separately would give aa clear clear idea about the topic. Talking about the word word ‘Performance’, ‘Performance’, it is an action of performing or or doing doing a task given. ‘Appraisal’ is assessment or or judgement judgement established over a task done.

Both Both together together is a process of examining or evaluating evaluating an an employee or a person’s work behaviour behaviour by by comparing it with the present calibre calibre or or also can be said as the ramification to provide provide feedback feedback to show their performance, where a where the the improvements improvementsare areneeded. needed.It Itbeing being Psychological term, I would stress more on the a Psychological term, I would stress more on defined version of theof Psychologist Edwin Flippo; the defined version the Psychologist Edwin “Performance appraisalappraisal is the systematic, periodic, Flippo; “Performance is the systematic, and impartial of an employee’s excellence periodic, and rating impartial rating of an employee’s in matters pertaining his present his excellence in matters to pertaining to job his and present potential forpotential a better job”. job and his for a better job”.

For For some, some, the route to appraisal is easy; and for for many many it’s the toughest they could ever face however however hard hard they try. While some plan for polish polish investments, investments, many still try to figure out ways ways to to manage manage monthly monthly expenditures. expenditures.

Under Under such such circumstances, it’s a tough call to hold hold motivation motivation & & enthusiasm; enthusiasm; and and still still work work on! on!

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Just Another Concerned Person’s Rant……

The rains have been rather late and erratic. Just like me in college. It’s really weird and scary. From the 10 years of consciousness in my 22 years of living on this planet, it’s pretty obvious that something’s up. The seasons I knew were on time and not too intense. Summers were a time where I could go out and play for the whole day and come home to some nice ice-cream. Now I can’t stay for more than 3 hours without getting a heat stroke. Monsoon were a time were sipping hot tea on the balcony while enjoying the smell of wet earth. Not to mention having a piping hot grilled corn by your side. Now I have to waddle in the waters that collected. Winter was the time for Christmas and nice cold morning walks. Now it’s a battle for retaining heat. Every. Single. Day. As I said, Seasons have become like me. Tardy and irregular. Now I wouldn’t want anyone to be like me. Much less the weather. Well maybe it’s just my perspective on the “timing” of the seasons. Some older than me might have different claims. But there’s one thing we agree though. That these days, it’s too intense. It’s like the weather is trying to overachieve in everything. Like that kid in class who overdramatizes with crave for attention. Well, maybe this is a way of Mother Nature trying to get our attention. To be honest, we messed up big time. Summer heat so hot that the forest catches on fire. Winters so that water freezes in the flush tanks of the toilets. You might not be bothered much about forest fires, but I bet you’ll be really concerned when your toilet doesn’t flush cause the water is frozen. Although this is for those northerners. Us south, are more irritated by the heat that we just don’t want to come out.

So, all these things that are happening points to really obvious thing. Climate change. Now ignore what that guy in the white house says about this. Honestly, when did we start taking scientific advice from the guy who has the weirdest twitter account. Anyways, climate changes have been pretty common when taking into consideration the evolution we’ve witnessed. These were times when the surface was inhabitable. Now, looking at how things are going, it’s going to happen again.

We’re actually in a position where we cannot return. We can try and figure out a way to fix it. But we don’t know if we can make it in time. My suggestion and prediction to the solution for this problem is interplanetary migration. The major problem on this planet is population. I know, we just can’t control ourselves, am I right? So, the concept is to shift a reasonable amount population to a planet which either has a habitable surface or somewhere we could build one.

So, our current choice is Mars. Moon seems nice, but I’m rooting for Mars. The shifting will happen provided that there are resources for sustainability, obviously. So, after a part of the population is shifted, the rate at which resources are consumed will be decreased drastically. This might be the solution to bring back Earth to its regular self. I bet all the rich people will be the first ones to bail from this planet. Vijay Mallaya has got another place to run now. Anyways jokes aside, so our next goal is to improve space travel. I’m counting on you Elon. Worst case scenario, its apocalypse, either the human race is extinct or it’s Mad Max everywhere.

I’m not saying that there’s no use in trying to help now. You should do what you can. If everyone can just join forces, we might be able to turn this around. But there will always be this kind of people who would rather let one of the largest rainforests burn so that they can develop that land. And there will be times more money will be donated to restoring a religious construction than helping save a rainforest. We can’t do much about these people. We can do our best and hope we get through this. It’s high time we take this seriously. Honestly in my opinion it’s more important than our grades. I might be a lazy guy, but I for sure am not going to give up.

“I will never give up. Believe it” – Naruto Uzumaki

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4th B.Tech. Mechatronics Engg.

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I like having things to do, but I hate having to do things You have that alluring project you've chosen to work for this semester, one with the deadline that's growing uncomfortably close because of your procrastination. A TV Show that you started watching with a brisk pace, now that you've disengaged because of workload. The predominant cause for this phenomenon is biding time for that one elusive moment to pull off an endeavour.

Word is a powerful four-letter combination.

Words are the magical powers gifted to living beings.

Words and actions are responsible for all existing good and bad.

Words can be as beautiful as roses; but at the same time tear your skin as cactus.

Words break you at times and in a different way help to heal too.

Words can make you sad, but when spoken well, make you happy.

Words can motivate you to achieve great heights; at times can demotivate you and deviate your path which lead to failure.

Words are the means in which our feelings, concerns and thoughts reach the world.

Words fetch you respect. If spoken heartless and in haste, you will get no respect, but sometimes a bonus—hatred.

Words have the power to build any relationship and even break it depending upon the usage.

In technical language, if your words are input to a source then your character will be the output.

Words have powers to heal a person better than any medicine. With increased dosage, it may lead to death.

Once you leave this world, you’ll be fondly remembered for the words spoken by you or deeply hated for the same.

Remember: words can either stop a war or create it; They may get you fame or defame you as well.

Words are the weapons gifted to human beings.

It’s up to us to whether use it for good or bad.

THINK THRICE BEFORE YOU UTTER YOUR WORDS!” Mr. Naveen Kumar

3rd B.Tech. Aeronautical Engg.

Ever and again we connive extrinsic tasks to take-up a bigger chunk of your sumptuous time which you settle upon in view of preference. At times picking an equitable preference is of paramount importance. In an effort to draw time effectively, try to prioritize exigent chores first and then impose the inferior succeeding. In this fashion, we can assort prime tasks with more headroom and approach them in a leeway manner.

Procrastination manifests itself within every aspect of your life. You put off seeing the doctor while you are ill. Don't you forget to complete your assignment? Perhaps the stakes are higher than choosing to play PUBG instead of wrapping up the article that you're composing. Procrastination is such a pervasive element of the human experience, so commit to the task. Focus on doing, not avoiding. Tackle tasks as soon as they arise, rather than letting them build-up for another day.

Mr. P. Tarun Simon Gnaniah 4th B.Tech. CSE

Voices

Am I my real self?

There's a lot of voices squeaking in my head.

One says what I have to do, Another says what I don't want to do, But I always wonder which one is mine.

Among these voices, There's always that one: higher, than all the others.

Keeps on pouring a hundred million questions.

Don't know who answers them!

But I'm piled up with answers.

Of both the kind.

Ms. Nithyasree 4th B.Tech. CSE

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Every Drop Counts

It was a pleasant evening; I was walking along with my pet dog.

Nearing sea, suddenly I heard a voice "Please help me, my son, I was waiting for a long time to feel the footprints of my sons!”

I heard the voice, but none was around. The voice spoke again, “I am your "Mother Nature of the Sea". "You are the son of mine, Human. I felt a huge face with tinkles sand thickness shining like a sun in sea, and asked Mother Nature, “I have been living because you gave me everything to live on this earth. You are my mother; you are powerful than any other". Mother Nature of the Sea wept, “Every drop in me are your brothers and sisters: dying day by day because of you...

I might be powerful and engulf all in one giant wave, but would any mother kill her own blood? How can I kill you?”

Mother Sea screamed in a painful voice.

I realized that with dumping waste and chemicals into the sea, we’re destroying the abundant natural beauty of the sea and suffocate them to death. “You are destroying the home where I jumped and hopped in the glorious shinning sun and the mighty moon,” continued Mother Sea. She concluded, “I bear everything and I am giving my life to all of you my son, so that everyone can livelong”.

I begged Mother Sear for forgiveness and assured to look after her until the last breath of my life. “Please, believe me!”

“Oh mother, please don’t leave meeee.……...” I desperately cried. But she slowly disappeared into tiny drop with the feeble voice, “Each and every drop counts in this nature of Me!" and lost her life in the hands of mine. She probably knew she cannot be saved; and believe human words. How would she after all, when we perfectly repeat misdeeds?

Mother sacrifices her life to the children, and so is Mother Nature of the Sea—both give their life to make their kith and kin live. It's our responsibility to save our Marine brothers and sisters. Every drop counts with the life so, let’s resolve not to waste the life of the water.

By, Mr. R. Arun Kumar A son of Mother Nature of the Sea. 4th B.Tech. Aeronautical Engg.

The Great Depression No, I'm not talking about the economy, but our generation. Wars have been won and lost, economy dipped to the lowest depths, people were oppressed. Despite all of this, our ancestors seemed to have lived a "happy" life. Every generation has a special feature about them. Now, I'm not an expert on generations and their culture, but from my observations, at least of the people I'm surrounded with, I have noticed that we are the “saddest” generation! All the kids are depressed. Sure, some of it comes from the social media and need for constant attention, but a conversation with my father changed my views on the topic a little. "Life had a simpler meaning back then." He told me. It was then I realized that as time passed, the competition to win and succeed has increased too. Kids are told "bada naam karega"(translates to, you'll bring the family respect in the society) and brainwashed them into thinking that everyone can make it big. This is the fault with our generation, everyone wants to make it big without talent or hard work. Maybe if we were told right from the beginning that it was okay to be normal, then we'd just accept everything as it is and take the highs and lows of life as they are. There’s certainly nothing wrong in having a bad day and failing at times—life is a roller coaster: we do need the ups and downs to enjoy the complete ride!

Ms. S. Lekhya Reddy 4th B.Arch.

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Yes!!!

You’re a Beautiful Bud to be Blossomed Tomorrow...

According to the Sanskrit phrase “matha, pitha, guru, deivam” ( i.e. mother, father, teacher, god ), people believed that was the order in which reverence should be given and were duly respected and treated by their children.

Every parent has a unique role to play in this world. The mother should pour unconditional love to their children and teach good values to them. The father should protect and take care of the whole family. On the whole, both have the responsibility of molding their child to be a better human being in future. “You always have something in abundance even when you think you have nothing. what is it ?” ….Your Love…..

We now live in a society where everyone is running towards the trap called money. So ultimately, the primary responsibility of the parents is failed here. Father, who is supposed to be the hero and an inspiration to their wards is now busy in search of money and hardly spares his time for family. Mother, the best caretaker once, now fails to give her full care to the ward. “Do you know what they really expect from you?”

…..Your Time…..

Since, the little bud is missing parental care now. The kid will eventually try to seek a new companion to share feelings and overcome loneliness. But this doesn’t guarantee to be a good company all the time. Sometimes you will get led to a wrong company and end up doing bad deeds as we know from the famous phrase “An idle mind is the devil’s workshop”. Moreover, it is proven that two fifth of the idle people get addicted to alcohol, drugs and ruin their career.

14% of the people get into illegal activities and the remaining 14% sadly end up their life. From this study, only 20% percent of people are able to stand out of the box and emerge as winners. “Even a tree needs support to guide it’s path; so do you know what your kid needs from you?” ….Your Support….

I would like to refer a real incident which happened a few years back. A minor boy from the outskirts of South Delhi was looked after by his working sister, as his parents were working in different parts of the state. He rarely met his parents and later dropped out of the school at 11 and at 17 was arrested for involving in a gang rape of Jyoti Singh Pandey in a private bus in Delhi. This scenario not only affected his family but also created a great commotion among the country.

Due to the dereliction of his parents, that boy failed to understand the real value of relationship and family bonding. “Do you know what is the vital factor in moulding a kid to be a good person?” ….Your Guidance….

Parenting is a tedious task. But in future, when you see your kids resembling you and turn out to be a gem to society, I assure you that there is nothing equivalent to that feeling in this world. Indeed, you will be completely effed. Every parent should never forget that God has blessed you with a beautiful child for a greater purpose. Realize that money is just a paper not a being to get attached. And pay attention to your best gift in this world: ...Your Beautiful Little Bud...

Mr. G. Sooraj

4th B.Tech. Aerospace Engg.

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How to Banish Boredom?

Only boring people get bored.

Grown-ups love saying this, but funny enough it is true. Fill your free time with fun activities, and you will find that you never need to hear those infuriating word “bored” again.

Change Your Attitude: The first thing to do is adopt a 'PMA'meeting 'positive mental attitude'. Look at free time as a fabulous opportunity to do something fun and enjoy some quality 'you' time.

Get Up: Don’t laze around in bed or on the sofa. Sitting around doing nothing will only make you feel miserable and even more bored.

Get Moving: As soon as you start to feel bored, try and do some exercise. Exercise is a great way to lift your spirits and get yourself in the mood to find something fabulous to do. Why not create your own dance routine in your room or learn how to cook? If you don’t want to do something that adventurous, take a brisk walk around the park for some fresh air.

Get Fabulous: Consider this free time as an opportunity to make yourself even more fabulous than you already are. Reading and listening to new music are great ways to relax and pass the time and will give you something interesting to talk about the next time you see your friends.

Ms. Sujitha Sunder Singh 4th B.Tech. IT

“Oh, if someone writes a song, with a simple rhyme, Just a song, Where his feeling show…”

The above lines are from the song “Let the music heal the soul” by Bruno Mars. If you ever listened to this song it poetically explains how music could manipulate our feelings and emotions. Often, we come across various situations that put us into varied emotions. Sometimes we could be depressed, left out, troubled or extremely happy or in the mood to dance. Even a sleep or your favorite activity could not change your mood, music could make a spin in the brain and its spontaneous that you don’t even feel that you were earlier in a different mood.

There are lot of claims today saying that music could boost performance and productivity. Music can take the form of an old friend and comfort you through a loss or prepare you for a night out that you’re not sure you want to attend. From upbeat tunes to slow melodies, music’s impact on the mind is always positive whether the music you’re listening to is sad or happy. Music not only plays a part in moods and mentality; music always helps in physical aspects.

Music can help in ways that some could not see as possible. It refreshes the body, mind and soul. Let’s see how it works.

Body: For a study, researches took twenty-two patients of fibromyalgia and exposed them to relaxing pleasant music and to a control auditory condition. Through the study, researchers were able to see a reduction of pain and an increase in functional mobility. It portrays the power that music holds over the human body.

Mind: Melodic Intonation Therapy, developed in 1973 uses music as a way to bring speech back into the Stroke victims through singing.

Researchers came up with this method when they found that singing and speech are found in different parts of the brain. The melodic phrases helped to form the connection on the right side of their brains. Apart from this few studies, also shows that some genres of music could bring back memories or feelings that was once forgotten. This was very true since I myself have faced this. Some songs could take you back to those childhood memories.

Soul: In life we all come across various experiences that could leave a lasting after effect on us, regardless the experience was a good or bad one. Sad music has shown positive impact on a person’s mood when they’re feeling down which sounds like making the person more depressed, but in reality, it can be comforting in a time of need.

Music impacts on human beings has been larger than what we know. And, while music will always be entertaining, it also heals the soul.

Mr. S. Naveen 4th B.Tech. IT

Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science

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Creative Corner What Stays?

Win Your Will

Start to live Instead of Existing.

Start to love your daily eve Instead of hating your past insisting.

Start to trust your valuable ability Instead of entrusting someone.

Start to give-up your fragility Instead of listing plus one.

Start to think about your noble quality Instead of blinking like frivolity.

Start to run towards your intent Instead of being reluctant.

Start to tackle opposition Instead of getting buried in depression.

Start to leave an impression Instead of making your confession.

One day you will win your will.

Royalty stays where there is loyalty.

Loyalty stays where there is quality.

Quality stays where there is simplicity.

Simplicity stays where there is reality.

Reality works when there is opportunity.

Opportunity works when there is creativity.

Creativity works when you have the ability.

Ability works when there is deep positivity.

Positivity works when you overcome negativity.

Negativity fades when you have strong viability.

Ms. Danica Rayen

4th B.Tech. Aeronautical Engg.

Coffee Naps

A bad day with coffee is better than a good day without it. Coffee is world's most popular beverage and drug. The amount of people who consume and are addicted to coffee is over 80%,and over 2.25 billion cups of coffee is consumed globally every day.

The interesting fact about coffee is that each person reacts differently to the caffeine in coffee. Some have slow metabolism and hence the effect last longer while others can sleep through after a cup of coffee without any effects. We often use coffee as a fuel to push ourselves through a sleepless night. Think of the times that we had to pull an all-nighter to get our work done, it may be an assignment or a project that needed to be meet with its deadline, we always trusted coffee for help.

Coffee is always associated as a stimulant that gives us energy. But that's not how it works. It blocks a receptor in our brain. A chemical called adenosine which signals the body that its tired and molecules in coffee mirrors the chemical and blocks the receptor from sending signal of tiredness. Hence coffee helps us feel less tired but not give us energy. It takes 15 to 20 minutes to get absorbed and 20 minutes is the recommended time for a power nap. Naps are amazing because it is proved to improve memory, boost's mood and creativity; and people who nap are shown to have longer life and less signs of aging.The effective way to boost up the body is to mix the power tools like coffee and nap together. Consuming a cup of coffee and immediately taking power nap for 20 minutes is highly recommended; by the time we wake up, the caffeine has kicked in and we are all set to conquer the rest of the day. It's a good way to hit the ground running as soon as we wake up. Instead of waking up grumpy and sleepy, we wake up caffeinated. This simple habit of coffee nap can transform the afternoon siesta. May the force of coffee nap be with us to get us through the sleepy times.

Ms. N. Varshini 4th B.Arch.

Dear Monday, You are just another day in a week.

I am another loser & I am weak.

You arrive first; every 4 times in a month.

I arrive late forever.... every month.

If you are a first working day.... I am at fault.

Because I stumble and fumble to work on any given day......

You have 24 hours.... To let me Live, Love & Enjoy.

But What can I do ?.......

My mind is sinking, and even My salary is shrinking.

Dear Monday, You don’t do the blame and the wrong...

I Do‌ We Do...

All of us Do...

Scooby Dooby Doo!!!

Mr. Vinesh Sangani

4th B.Tech. Automobile Engg.

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Time Travel Moving between different points in time—has been a popular topic for science fiction for decades. Franchises ranging from "Doctor Who" to "Star Trek" to "Back to the Future" have seen humans get in a vehicle of some sort and arrive in the past or future, ready to take on new adventures. Each comes with their own time travel theories.

Is it possible to travel through time? To answer this question, we must be a bit more specific about what we mean by traveling through time. Discounting the everyday progression of time, the question can be divided into two parts: Is it possible, within a short time (less than a human life span), to travel into the distant future? And is it possible to travel into the past?

Our current understanding of fundamental physics tells us that the answer to the first question is a definite yes, and to the second, maybe.

"The mechanism for traveling into the distant future is to use the time-dilation effect of Special Relativity, which states that a moving clock appears to tick more slowly the closer it approaches the speed of light. This effect, which has been overwhelmingly supported by experimental tests, applies to all types of clocks, including biological aging.

Ms. Aakriti Mugrai

4th B.Tech. Aersospace Engg.

Will the Law of Physics Ever Allow Food Teleportation be Possible?

Gone are those days where Uber Eats, Swiggy, Zomato and Food Panda deliver our favorite food stuff to our doorsteps. In the recent years, due to the rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation; food delivery robots have already started to deliver foods. What will be the future revolution in food delivery system? Can you visualize a world where you prepare a drink or dish and then send the flavor to your friend or dear ones through internet? Imagine if we could taste food or beverages on the internet or in a virtual reality environment‌ We can now teletransport food! In this mode, instead of sending the food, we send its data using broadband connection.

Dr. Nimesha Ranasinghe and his team of scientists at National University of Singapore have developed

a protocol for teleporting lemonade: digitally sharing the flavour experience of lemonade among remote individuals which is unbelievable. For teleporting of Lemonade, scientists created a sensor which captures key information about the lemonade, such as colour and flavour. The person who wants to send the drink virtually dips the sensor into the beverage to capture colour and pH values. Later, the sensor sends the information via. simulator to a person who takes a sip of water from customized tumbler.

This customized electronic tumbler electrically stimulates and delivers controlled electrical pulses on the user's taste buds in order to replicate the sour taste and flavour as the original lemonade in the mouth. It is also fitted with RGB LED lights to simulate the colour of the lemonade. This fantastic innovation has proven no significant difference between the real and virtual lemonades with regards to perception of sourness when both the pre-taste and actual taste feedbacks are combined. Future experiments in this field could revolutionize the domain of digital platforms in food teleportation. Developing social food and beverage sharing platforms with multisensory experiences in future will enable cross-disciplinary, novel and innovative application possibilities in future.

Ms. S. Priyanka

2nd B.Sc. Food Technology

Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science

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Creative Corner Genuinely caring about somebody a lot, does not guarantee they care about you equally (or at all) in return. Some people will never care about you regardless of what you do or say. So, don't assume somebody appreciates you just because you do nice things for them.

This is something that I unfortunately didn't learn, until well into adulthood—it may sound obvious when its spelled out, but when you're in the actual situation its not always so clear. Most of my life, I thought if I really cared about somebody a lot, then they must care about me to some degree in return. It always felt like that connection was so strong it had to be mutual, even if the obvious signs showed otherwise. Despite certain people treating me like dirt and rarely reciprocating, I would do everything I could to make them happy. I would go out of my way to help them, say & do nice things for them, encourage them, etc. With the assumption they'd eventually show their appreciation for me being in their lives. I'd think "how could they not care about me when I make it so obvious how much I care about them? What I've learned over the years is that a lot of times that reciprocal connection is imagined. The amount you love somebody does not always affect how much they love you back. People can and will use you and your emotions. And just because somebody may have once cared about you in the past, doesn't mean they still do now or ever will again in the future. There’s often nothing you can do to change their feelings through any good deeds or kind words. I’m not talking about classic "nice guy" syndrome. Not the crush who friend-zoned you that you're desperately trying to win over by being nice when there should have never been any expectation of feelings to begin with...I'm talking about people who you genuinely feel a meaningful connection with. Whether that be friends, family, or romantic partners.

I wasted a lot of time on people expecting them to start reciprocating my feelings and actions. I'd be convinced I could win people over (or back over), including bad friends and former relationships...if I was just nice enough to them and let my feelings be known.

Looking back, I should have cut my loses far sooner. I should have focused more on finding people who not only cared about me, but wanted to make me happy in return.

I should note, I don't mean to say you should only do good things for people if you expect something in return. There is nothing wrong with being nice to people just because it makes you happy (even if they don't appreciate it). But you can't expect them to some day change their minds. And you shouldn't let your desire to please people who don't care about you distract you from finding people who do. Hope you learn from these mistakes and probably have better relationships in your life

Ms. Raman Deep Kaur

4th B.Tech. Aerospace Engg.

Patience

While waiting for the Word file to open, my fingers involuntarily began tapping all around the touchpad. The more time the file took, the more restless I got and my frustration with the “lousy and old laptop” could directly be measured with the quickness of my tapping to the point when I loudly complained about the delay in a room with no other human being beside me. That’s when I realized how impatient I have become.

The internet stops working for a few minutes and I start banging on the modem desperately to bring back the signal.

Worried by this discovery, I dived deep into self-retrospection to distinguish incidences when I had been impatient and when not. As the list under the heading impatient continued to grow and overpower the other side of the line, I realized that yes indeed, over the years I have become impatient. Still, in order to save my conscience, I asked my mother what she thought about this discovery. Along with a clear answer to my question, she said, “Yes!” much to my disappointment. My mother went on to calmly state that impatience is a problem with not just me but my entire generation and in all the youth. I realized that no matter how much I wanted to disagree, what she said is true. As time is moving forward, so are we. And in such a fast-paced world, waiting patiently is something that we seem to have forgotten.

At one point, I almost blamed this whole situation on the term ‘youth’, when one is young, dumb and broke. However, upon closer analysis I figured out at least one accused-technology. Modern technology has increased the bar of efficiency in an inconceivable manner and continues to do so. With just a tap or click, we have all the information that we need. When such precision is served on a plate in one field, one is expected to wish for the same in other spheres too. Apart from the tagline “everything at our fingertips”, speed is the main bait used by technology to lure us towards it. A recent advertisement launched by Apple features a girl being able to unlock her phone with just a look in a split second. Even advertisements for net banking and other such online facilities use “long waiting lines” as their main tagline. When an object or propaganda is all around us, one cannot be blamed to actually start being its audience involuntarily. Technology, in the form of mobile phones, laptops, tablets and so on, has no doubt encircled humans. With its reach to the far corners of the world, from laboratories in Antarctica to every office on Wall Street, it surely has been successful in at least grabbing our attention.

But can our increasing impatience be called only technology’s fault? If not, then what other reasons are there? Is the age-old saying, ‘the older the wiser’ still true? Will the ‘youth’ grow out of this bad habit? Or do we in general need to decrease the expected patience level? If yes, then I believe that we have given too much to technology. Whatever the reason, this problem is the root cause of many other social as well as personal issues like road rage, damaged communication skills and so on. In the end, the question remains the same as it is for other technology related worries: ‘Where does one draw the line?’

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Humanity is at its peak stages of destruction due lack of awareness about the way they are being the major cause for it. Climate change has been the major concern in the present world. As many are ignoring it and is being cause for it without their knowledge. Even the educated are not showing keen interest on it. As people of present generation we have to create a better world for the next generations.

But this is not happening in the major cases. Using natural resources more than required, creating pollution by burning fossil fuels these are paving way to the destruction of the climatic conditions. Using water more than required, as we have seen so much of water being wasted on roads by public or private taps or water systems. By all these means of pollution the temperature has been increasing drastically every year, which in turn effecting the climate change.

Melting of polar glaciers of Antarctica, increase in sea level, decrease in the ground water, increase in the temperature every summer etc. are some of the effects of the climate

change. If this is going to continue further, there is a chance of war between countries for water and natural resources. Earthquakes, tsunamis, cyclones, volcano eruptions are also due to this climate change and more usage of natural resources. By all these I would like tell that humanity can only survive if they are going to take major step about this. It is our primary job to save the nature, only then it will save us from massive destructions. Using more natural resources, recycling wastage, reducing pollution by using limited vehicles, creating awareness among people are some of the ways to stop climate change and save ourselves from the extinction. Not only animals even human have to accept their fate of extinction if they continue the same scenario further.

Mr. T. Murali Krishna

4th B.Tech. Aerospace Engg.

Beaches in Chennai Glow Blue?

In the midst of chrysanthemums, On the other side of blue, Found I you, Waiting like a puddle, After summer rain, Tears.

I had followed the limping child, Thin through not enough, In the tall grass, Half a day walking, Clutching curiosity, Years.

You were sitting wrapped in desperation, Unwashed yet cleansed, Hungry yet full, A blind cobra, Empty of dignity, Fears.

People passed you by in their oblivion, I looked and saw your flame, Almost extinguished, Barely flickering, Took your hand, In mine.

How could I pass you by?

How could I............??

Mr. P. Prudhvi

4th B.Tech. Automobile Engg.

Yes, you heard it true. People near beaches in Chennai saw blue glow from the ocean which truly amazed them and it went on YouTube video. These glowing patches were witnessed in Thiruvanmiyur, Injambakkam and Palavakkam beaches. I saw this video in the morning the other day. The night of the same day I was at a beach somewhere near Mahabalipuram and I witnessed these blue glows that comes up from the ocean

along with the wave. Later I found out that the glow comes from bioluminescence algae which are emissions, known as phytoplanktons (microscopic marine plants), that marine creatures produce. They are a part of the dinoflagellates species and the one causing all the chatter in Chennai is the Noctiluca scintillans bioluminescence algae.

These organisms are known to be voracious predators that lead to the disruption of the marine food chain. They excrete large amounts of ammonia that cause fish mortality.

These algae patches can be linked to coastal pollution and runoff from agricultural areas.

People in Chennai took to Twitter to share pictures of the bioluminescence and the hashtag #ChennaiSeaSparkle.

It was peculiar, yet beautiful sight to be seen!

Mr. Lavani yaseen

4th B.Tech. Aeronautical Engg.

Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science

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REFINING OUR MORAL COMPASS – FAITH & BELIEFS

A man can be defined with just three instances of his life – the time of birth, existence and death. By time, I don’t literally mean “time”, of course. I’m mostly concerned about the people he is born into, the life he chooses to live, the mark he leaves behind, post death.

Out of these stages of life, people seem to put so much thought into controlling the way they live and the transcendent place they reach after death (most people at least) but we completely forget about the fact that our Birth, which brings us into existence, is absolutely beyond our control. Or more specifically, the beliefs we are born into. I was named Rahul Jacob because my dad was a fan of Rahul Dravid and Jacob was my family name. I’m not a fan of my name but nor do I hate it entirely. But luckily for me, I guess my name has been the only thing that I never could have chosen. Unlike most other children, I was fortunate enough to have parents who never forced into any particular religion or beliefs or faith. As far as familial background goes, my father was born into a Christian family in Bangalore, spent his adolescence in Agra and moved to Chennai when he was 20, after which he met my mom and married her. My mother, on the other hand, was born into a Hindu family in Chennai with her maternal side being Christian. So naturally when my parents got married, religion was never an influencing factor. My elder sister and I chose to be the people we wanted to be – the values we upheld, the beliefs we put our faith in and the moral code we followed.

There is this one lesson that my dad taught me when I was a kid which I will never forget. I must have been around 10 when I found my cousin praying out loud in the Pooja room asking for good marks in her exams. I was young and stupid and made fun of her for doing so; because back then I thought it was cool to tell my friends that I was an atheist, in fact, not a lot of 10-year-old knew what “atheist” meant. It was then that my father who taught me how wrong it is to make fun of someone else’s beliefs, especially when it concerns their religion. Don’t get me wrong, I haven’t figured it all out either, actually not even close when it comes to finding my faith in a Greater Being. But I have grown into a person who respects others’ beliefs and never have I forced my beliefs or lack thereof, onto someone else. Back then I wasn’t aware that there was a term for the people who were skeptical about the existence of God. As it turned out, I wasn’t actually an atheist, they called people like me who were trying to find faith as “Agnostic”. Honestly, it sounded like tomato-tomato to me.

My younger self was convinced that finding and putting faith in a Greater Being will solve all my problems. So, in 5th grade, when asked to choose between scriptures or ethics classes, I chose scriptures, in hope that I would find faith through the stories of the Bible.

But guess what; even my 10-year-old self, found those stories to be a little too fictious to be true, because honestly, the story of the Big Bang Theory made more sense than that of Adam and Eve. That was also right around the time when Krishna: Makhan Chor was playing on Pogo. As amusing as I had found the show and Lord Krishna to be, I never could picture him as a Godly figure. You know what the worst part of it all was – when hit by hard times you have utterly no idea whom to blame. When other kids cursed at God for taking away their pet dogs, I had to tell myself, “that’s just how it is”.

Right now, at 21, I’ve come to understand that “that’s just how it is” isn’t so bad after all. I’ve come to realize that you don’t need to believe God to indulge yourself to be kind or to not push a guy down a flight of stairs because you felt it would be funny. Isn’t that why people put their faith in God? Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Isn’t that what Christians literally pray for? What if one has developed a moral compass built upon his conscience to let him judge what is right and what is wrong and makes him act accordingly. Others take to God as a support system when in need of emotional support. Well, I believe that a friend or two, honest and non-judgmental, can be all the support-system one might ever need. Look around us, there are meth-heads and pedophiles who go to church, terrorists who kill thousands in the name of God, schools being burned down even though there’s a Goddess for wisdom and knowledge. At the end of the day, it must be our beliefs that must be questioned rather than our faith. So rather than tuning our beliefs based on our faith, we must tune our faith based on our beliefs. The result might seem oddly familiar – it’s our conscience fabricating a moral compass.

Mr. J. Rahul Jacob 4th B.Tech. CSE

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How Could We Create a Second Earth?

As we blow through the resources on Earth, it’s clear we’re going to need a new planet soon. Is it possible we could make one through terraforming? And a possible place where this could happen is Mars. Well, Mars’ atmosphere is really thin; and its carbon dioxide, so toxic to humans.

Mars is also further from the Sun and that coupled with its thin atmosphere means it’s about -63 degrees Celsius.

So, sorry folks, your winter coats won’t quite cut it. We’d have to make atmosphere thicker and change its

composition. One way to do this would be to trigger a greenhouse effect, making it so any heat from the Sun is trapped, heating the planet all over. We could do this a bunch of different ways, like using methane mined from the rocks on Mars, carbon dioxide—if we could get enough of it, or even with ammonia! But wait! Remember the whole “Mars has no magnetosphere” thing? Mars’ global magnetic field got shut down around 4.2 billion years ago, and from there the solar wind and powerful sun explosions stripped away most the atmosphere, sending it off into space. And that’s not good, as there isn’t a trove of carbon dioxide in the Mars rocks to release in order to trigger a greenhouse effect. And also, any atmosphere we add to Mars won’t last. Eventually, it’ll be stripped away by radiation and solar wind, too. So, Mars is out of the question.

Instead, let’s check our other nearest neighbour: Venus who has a super-thick atmosphere and temperature around 460 degrees Celsius; so, we’d have to change a lot of that, too. One option is to bombard Venus with hydrogen from gas giants, creating graphite and water that would turn into global oceans. These would dissolve produced nitrogen and lower the atmospheric pressure to something more Earth-like.

We could also terraform parts of Mercury.

There’s water and organic molecules in the northern polar region, so heating the bottoms of big craters with mirrors could melt the ice. And adding a dome on top could create a little life-bubble on a hostile planet.

The same thing could be done on the Moon, too.

Hopefully that life-bubble has Wi-Fi. We could maybe terraform Europa … well, sort of.

If we could melt the surface ice, some of the released oxygen could populate the atmosphere and we could have a water world on our hands.

And it’s even possible to terraform Titan, too, but we’d also have to create oxygen and make the moon less toxic to humans.

But all this is really hard and really far off in the future. While I’d love to call another place in this universe my home, we should probably just protect the Earth we have now.

What do you think? Should we be terraforming other planets?

Mr. Sivaram Munagala

4th B.Tech. Aeronautical Engg.

Intricate Colours of Life

If I had to lose myself, I'd rather do to an Autumn tree.

In a yard so full of leaves, Swirling to the howling tune of the wind.

Or in the midst of an open,deep, blue sea; With a few wispy clouds, a bashful moon, And wild waves crashing the rocks.

The myriad colours of art are ambiguous — Sometimes calming, and Sometimes firing.

Yet, way too hard to part when you paint.

Courtesy: Vero

Ms. G.B. Hemadarshini Asst. Professor, Languages.

Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science

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The Pandemic Times

When distress creeps in and you are on house arrest, You realize the value of home rest.

Days and Nights pass by, We only have to standby, Hoping to say all is well, But nothing to tell.

Homes become schools, We see the world through the Windows.

My little son regrets for not seeing the dashing flights, But happy to see the flying kites.

Mothers complain of being in the kitchen, Always cooking chicken.

Neighbours are now our friends, Our friends and relatives are at unreachable ends.

Let us pass through the way, And tell ourselves, this too will pass away.

Ms. R. Beulah Catherine

Assistant Professor, Languages

Any Body Can Do Eco Fashion

I strongly believe that everything of our past is going to come back as a future. What made me to say so? Let me explain. Talking general, the motorcycle ROYAL ENFIELD was an old fashion in automobile industry during second WORLD WAR; but now it became trend in current generation. Floral print design which was trending in 1940’s became trend again in present fashion. People

around the world look back of our history and culture to bring its essence as our forthcoming. The same sense is applicable to current Fashion Industry. Evolution in Fashion takes place tremendously since ages and now the concept of ECO came into existence. We heard the word ECO in many sectors and now we also hear this in Fashion Industry too. ECO FASHION is the sound which gets multiple in all commercial sectors and people adopting the flavor of it. Let’s get back to our roots of fashion where we began our journey of evolution in Fashion. The concept of ECO FASHION was initially influenced by the early tribes who used ECO friendly material as their ornaments and embellishment on their attires. Slowly it evolved into Fashion industrial experiment where people started adopting the change and got the so-called SUSTAINABLE ECO-FRIENDLY FASHION into existence. Fashion is not something that only designers can do. Who has the sense of fashion with added flavor of sustainable thoughts can create unique attire which can lead the fashion industry towards the Sustainable Eco Fashion world—which in turn results in economical profits as well as establishing a healthy environment.

Hence, A B C D E F - Any Body Can Do Eco Fashion.

Mr. Obulam Vidya Sagar Assistant Professor, FDA. We are going to have a FRIENDLY FASHION FUTURE …..STAY TUNED!

COVID – 19: SOCIAL IMPACT

In mid-January 2020, I was on a 4-day pleasure trip, a cruise from Singapore to Penang and back – an enjoyable trip on board a cruise ship where we were totally shut off from news from the outside. As we got off the ship at Singapore by the third week of January 2020, we began to hear about the Corona Virus spreading across China. Before we realised anything, the next thing it had spread to Iran, S.Korea, Malaysia, moving on to Europe and the Americas. Since then it has spread to India, Russia, Brazil and many other countries. Very soon the whole world was engulfed with this little-known disease, later christened by WHO as Covid – 19.

The last time a similar disaster struck the human race was about 100 years ago. No country was prepared to deal with such a pandemic in this day and age. Humanity is now forced to battle this unknown, invisible and unexplained virus; and this is what makes the disease risky which makes no distinction between nations, religions, beliefs, languages, geographical and political boundaries. Human race has been made to realise that forces of nature are more

powerful than their aspirations and actions. While political leaders scramble to protect themselves and their countries, religious leaders pray for divine intervention. Industry has ground to a halt, agricultural activities have been suspended, services sector is not a priority. When these economic activities come to a halt, what is forecast is days of scarcity and insufficiency in food and economic goods and services.

What does the Future Hold in Store? Social and religious leaders have offered various explanations and words of consolation. Pope Francis tries to explain this pandemonium as result of conflict between man and nature. So, the solution lies in man learning to live with nature. Some historians and philosophers like Mr. Yuval Noah Harari, feel that it is the result of wrong policies of political leaders. Self-centred Policies like “America First”, suppression of minority rights across the world, fight for economic and military supremacy between the super powers, lack of cooperation among countries are the root cause for spread of the virus. What can bring about mitigation of the problem on a permanent basis is cooperation–between countries, religions, states, and cultures. Knowledge and experience about the disease must be shared, costs must be shared with weaker economies, expertise and equipment like test kits, masks, ventilators and medicines must be shared. No country can claim that they are completely out of the crisis; such a narrow outlook will only result in resurgence of the disease. The post pandemic world may be different from what it is today. What lies ahead is a long way forward: to solve the health crisis, lay the foundation for the new world order, increase cooperation among countries and instil democratic values. World is one large country consisting of diverse communities and all have a right to enjoy what the world has to offer.

Mr. P. Mariadoss

Assistant Professor, SOM

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