COLLEGE SENATE
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he College Senate of Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology for the aca-
demic year 2013-14 was formed at the general body meeting which comprised of student representatives and senate members. The meeting was inaugurated by Rev. Fr. Wilson Thattaruthundil, Bursar of MBCET. The elections for the Senate Members were held by the student representatives. The following students were elected. Shahanaz Haidar as Chairman, Prithvilal M. as Vice-Chairman, Remil Mathew Alex as Arts Secretary, Vivek Thomas as General Secretary, Reshma S. as Joint Secretary, Joel Jose Paul as Sports Secretary, Juby Mathew as Social Secretary, Rahul P. as Treasurer and Remit Chennithala as Media Secretary. Mr. Shibu V. S. of Dept. of Computer Science Engineering and Ms. Jinu M. John of Dept. of Science and Humanities were nominated as Staff Co-ordinators.
the title. The Christmas celebration was held
Photography, Networking and Entrepreneur-
on December 19, 2013. Various competitions
ship,Signal Processing,Indusrial Engineering
included Carol Singing, Crib Making and inter-
and Robotics and Automation.
action with Christmas Father. Next we had the
The IEEE student branch of MBCET celebrated
Baselian Fest. Various cultural Competitions were conducted and the best performers were chosen for the Kerala University Youth Festival.
event was conducted in our College. It was inaugurated by our Bursar. On that day the first hour was taken by the students. The next event was the fresher’s day. It was a branch wise competition for the first year students.
started by hoisting the IEEE flag in the College Campus. Prof. K.M. Raju, H.O.D. Mechanical
As a part of observing the ‘Year of Renewed
Engineering Dept. Prof.Viswanatha Rao,MS,
Social Commitment, we organized competi-
M.J Jayashree,Branch Counsellor Mr.Sajan
tions amongst the branches and decided to
Jose were present. The IEEE code of ethics
award the Branches. Dept. of Electronics and
was read out by Ms. Gopika M.S,Secretary of
Communication and Dept. of Civil Engineering
the Student Branch .Shine Nelson,LINK Repre-
emerged the winners. Our cultural and sports
sentative gave a brief speech on the benefits of
teams brought home several laurels this year
IEEE membership. The day was concluded by
from Kerala University Fests. As the Senate we
cutting a special ‘IEEE cake’.
were given the huge responsibility of managing
The IEEE Student Branch, MBCET in association
the students and providing them with all aids.
with Microsoft, hosted a one-day app develop-
As a whole the activities of the Student Sen-
ment boot camp for interested students from
ate for this academic year were appreciable,
across the State. The sessions were presented
successful and also achieved remarkable
by two experts from the Microsoft Evangelist
milestone in MBCET history. We would like to
team, Mr. Harish Ranganathan and Mr. Sagar
thank the support and encouragement from the
Bhanudas Joshi. The event saw the participa-
College Staff and Management. We would also
tion of students from colleges in Trivandrum
like to mention our special thanks to Mr. Joji
and outside.
Varghese, Ms. Sunitha Krishnan, Ms. Jinu M.
4 Members from IEEE MBCET got the unique
John, Dr. Neethu Roy, Ms. Savitha M.T. and Mr. Shibu V. S. who have been with us throughout all our ventures.
opportunity to attend the All India Students’ Congress 2013 which was held in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore from October 3-5, 2013.
The first event conducted by this senate was Teacher’ Day: this was the first time such an
the IEEE day on October 3, 2013. The day was
K
IEEE ITeS 2013 was held at the Government Engineering College, Thrissur on 6 and 7 of
July 2013. A 27 member team from the IEEE
shrIEEEk for the Fresher Batch of 2013 was organized by the IEEE Student Branch of MBCET, on February 01, 2014. ShrIEEEk is a fun filled event which initiated by the SB, is the only event of its kind in the whole of IEEE Kerala Section exclusively for first years. One participant from a team was chosen randomly and given a scene
S1S2 Mechanical was the overall champions.
MBCET participated in the event. Out of the
Then came the Onam Celebrations. The vari-
4 workshops we had students participating in
ous competitions conducted were Onapattu,
the raspberry pi and sixth sense robotics work-
Athapookallam, Vadamvalli and Mahabeli.
shops.
The Youth Excellence Award was our next ven-
IEEE 2013 was held at Amrita Vishwa Vidyap-
ture. It was a solemn event inaugurated by
member shared their experiences about volun-
eetham, Kollam on 27 July 2013.More than a
Shri. Ramesh Chennithata, Hon. Minister for
teering in IEEE and how it had benefitted them.
100 member team from the MBCET participat-
Home, Govt. of Kerala. The event was conduct-
The main highlight of the event - “We Are Cre-
ed in the event. Everyone actively participated
ed on 20 January 2014 and Rahul R. of Col-
ators” was conducted. The session was an idea
in various workshops, mainly Cloud Computing,
to bring out the true creativity and innovative
lege of Engineering, Trivandrum was awarded
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to enact. The other team members were expected to deduce the scene and join in the act. Miss Achala JS, Former Chairperson of IEEE MBCET and Mr Anand VR, Former executive committee