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4. SBL, SAINTGITS Badminton League was organized by the Department of Physical Education, for the staff of SAINTGITS. 18 teams took part in the tournament and the winners of the tournament were Anjeev M. G. and Rajesh Kumar P. U.
1. The 2nd All Kerala Inter Collegiate Volleyball Tournament ‘MINTONETTE 2013’ was conducted during the month of February. A total of 14 teams from different engineering colleges participated in the Tournament. Musaliar College of Engineering, Pathanamthitta emerged the winners.
5. SPL (SAINTGITS Premier League) Cricket Tournament A total of 40 (32 student teams and 8 staff teams) teams took part in the tournament with a total of 360 players. Total matches played: 52. The teams were from SAINTGITS Institute of Management, SAINTGITS College of Applied Sciences, B. Tech., M. Tech., Project, Office and teams from almost all departments. Winners of the Tournament: Student – SPYKERS, Staff - GITSIAN BOUNCERS, Tournament Champions - GITSIAN BOUNCERS
2. The 1st All Kerala Inter Collegiate Chess Tournament ‘CHATHURANG 2013’ was conducted on 18th February 2013. A total of 12 teams participated in the Tournament. Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, Kanjirappally bagged the first prize. 3. The College Cricket Team (Men) was the runners-up of the Tournament conducted by Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kottayam.
6. SSBL (SAINTGITS Singles Badminton League) Badminton singles tournament for the SAINTGITS staff. A total of 16 teams took part in the tournament. Total number of matches played: 31.
IEEE STUDENTS CHAPTER IEEE has now become an integral part of most of the students in Saintgits. They have now realised that becoming a part of IEEE is fruitful for their academic life for becoming an engineer. This is known from the fact that, for the first time in Saintgits, IEEE students branch has crossed the 300 student membership line. The students branch coordinated and conducted many technical and humanitarian activities. The events were: WORKSHOP ON MATLAB AND SIMULINK
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Technical talk on ‘Green Engineering’ by the Deputy General Manager of Keltron, Shri. C.R. NEELAKANDAN NAMBOODHIRI. The talk was conducted on 17th August 2012. He shared the ideas of upcoming green technologies which will revolutionise the electronics world. He reminded the importance of green engineering as electronic waste is a major concern now. The talk ended on a positive note, hoping for a greener world. The talk urged the budding engineers to work towards a greener world.
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A technical talk by Smt. MINI ULLANAT, Student Activity Chair, Kerala section on the topic ‘CLOUD COMPUTING’ was organized on September 18th 2012. Her talk gave the inside details about the architecture and the working of cloud computing. Her talk updated the knowledge of the students as cloud computing is revolutionizing the computer world. Our students’ branch also took part in technical events and competitions conducted by the LINK and KOCHIN hub. Our students participated in the All Kerala Students Congress (AKSC) hosted at FISAT on August 17th 2012. Major achievements of these events were Cathy George of S8 EC won first in INDUSTRYUS and in the surprise recruitment held by UST Global; Anjaly Rani of S8 EC was selected among the 500 who attended the congress.
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On 21st December 2012, the IEEE-IAS student branch at Saintgits College of Engineering arranged a technical talk by Dr. Peter Magyar, IEEE-IAS CMD chair, for the students of M. Tech. Power System. After the meeting we had an expert talk given by Dr. Peter Magyar from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the topic ‘The Electric Car and the Renewable Energy Sources – Hype or Solution?’. The WIE affinity group was also started in the same year for women empowerment. This was all made possible because of the support from the executive board, students and staff.
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The MATLAB and Simulink Workshop organized by Saintgits College of Engineering was inaugurated on 2nd of July 2012. Sessions were handled by Prof. Shajimon (EC Dept., Saintgits), Prof. Arun Varghese (ECE Dept., RIT), Prof. Anish Babu (ECE Dept., RIT). Teachers from the department of EEE taught the students the basics of Simulink. It was a two day programme with a head count of 40 of which 20 were reserved for our students’ branch and the remaining 20 slots for external participants. The programme included a brief introduction to MATLAB and Simulink, familiarization of different toolboxes and exercised programming. Classes were taken by faculty from RIT. Certificates were issued to the participants.
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