IntraNet January 2016 Volume 7 Annual News letter of the Model Institute of Engineering & Technology MIET Saajan Sridhar a 2014 CSE passout from MIET posing with Marissa Mayer CEO of Yahoo, USA during his internship from Georgia Tech, USA. INSIDE Innovation Showcase Linkages Events & Activities Faculty Development Programme Student Skill Development MBA Roundup Training & Placement Research & Development Student Activities Holistic Development Student Achievements Sports Corner IQAC Review Alumni Updates...
INNOVATION SHOWCASE VC JU Launches Mobile App & PI-360 Analytics Suite In a significant innovation MIET became one of the first institutions in India to deploy a hi-tech, indigenously developed analytics framework for institutional quality and strategic management, filing two patents in the process. Prof. R.D Sharma, Hon'ble Vice Chancellor, University of Jammu formally launched the MIET Mobile Application and the in-house developed Performance Insight 360 analytics framework in February 2015. PI 360 relies on deep statistical analysis and visualization techniques to uncover insights into institutional outcomes and performance. Data and Business Analytics is an emerging branch of IT which is widely prevalent in the industry. This is the first instance of the application of this domain to academia in India. Two patents have been filed at the Indian Patents office to protect the intellectual property related to the PI 360 framework. The Vice Chancellor also inaugurated the MIET Mobile Application for both ios and Android platforms which has been developed in-house at the Center for Mobile Application Development at MIET. The MIET Mobile Application provides students up to date information on all aspects of the institute's functioning including access to social media handles for MIET, Learning Management System and Performance Insight 360 besides push notifications. In his address, Prof. R.D Sharma greatly appreciated the significant innovations showcased by MIET and also congratulated the MIET management and leadership team for their focus on R&D and Innovation. 2 IntraNet - The MIET News Letter
LINKAGES MoU with University of Arad, Romania 31st Aug., 2015 MIET signed an MoU with Aurcel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania in August, 2015. The MoU was signed by Dr. Ankur Gupta from MIET and Prof. Ramona Lile, Rector UAV. Prof. Valentina E. Balas from UAV and Prof. Vinod Madan from MIET shall be responsible for the operationalising the MoU. The MoU covers joint research, faculty/student exchange and promoting international understanding between India and Romania. This is MIETs second international MoU following the one with UMKC, USA making MIET the only technical institution in J&K to have two operational MoUs with international Universities. MoU with AIRCEL 24 Feb., 2015 MIET and Aircel signed a unique MoU to take industry-academia engagement to the next level. The MoU was exchanged between Dr. Ankur Gupta, Director, MIET and Mr. Anupam Verma, AVP, J&K Aircel at the MIET campus on 24th Feb. 2015. On the occasion, a mobile tower of Aircel was specially commissioned at MIET to provide 3G internet access and free call facility among all MIET students and faculty. This is a novel industry-academia collaborative model which has been operationalised between MIET and Aircel. Under the MoU, Aircel shall support MIET in building competencies and domain expertise among students and faculty by providing technical know-how and knowledge sharing in the telecom domain. Aircel has agreed to organise trainings, visits, summer internships, guest lectures and undertake collaborative CSR activities with MIET under the ambit of this MoU. At the event, it was announed that 40 students of ECE shall be provided special telecom related technical training at Aircel. IntraNet - The MIET News Letter 3
EVENTS & ACTIVITIES Prof. Amitabh Mattoo Visits MIET 14th Dec., 2015 Prof. Amitabh Mattoo, Advisor to Hon'ble Chief Minister, J&K and former Vice Chancellor, University of Jammu visited MIET on 14th December, 2015. He was felicitated for his immense contributions to the State and the Nation in diverse domains. He was accompanied by Mr. Masood Malik, Senior Domain Architect at Telstra Australia and an expert in Information Technology who reviewed the various IT and R&D initiatives undertaken at MIET. Prof. Mattoo was provided an overview of the achievements of MIET and the significant developments which took place since he last visited MIET over 8 years ago. The quality analytics framework Performance Insight 360 was also demonstrated to him. Prof. Mattoo lauded the vision of the leadership team at MIET and expressed pleasure in the rapid strides made by MIET in the last few years. He was impressed by demonstrated excellence in research and development and by MIET's evolution into a practicing engineering college. He specially mentioned the software for quality analytics framework designed and implemented by MIET. He spelled out three key takeaways for succeeding in the ever-changing global scenario ask the right questions, place emphasis on teams over individuals and cultivate ability to work across cultures and geographic boundaries. 4 IntraNet - The MIET News Letter
EVENTS & ACTIVITIES World Telecommunication & Information Society Day Celebrated - 18th May, 2015 On the occasion of the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day a two-day long Inter- College Project Competition was organised by the Departmenrt of Electronics and Communication in association with ISTE and IETE student chapters. In the competition, students of all the engineering colleges including MIET, MBSCET, GCET and HP Technical University participated and made presentation on the topic related to the theme of the day ICT for Road Safety. Mr. Rakesh Vaid, Chairman, IETE J&K Chapter was the chief guest, who while speaking highlighted the future and latest trends of telecommunication. Final-year engineering students presented innovative projects showcasing latest technologies during the event. A team of experts evaluated the teams on various parameters. The projects Real Time Locking System using GPS and Biometric Security System developed by MIET students were adjudged as joint first. Awareness Programme on Sexual Harassment 13 Feb., 2015 An Awareness Programme on Sexual Harassment at the workplace was organized by Sexual Harassment Committe for the staff members and students of MIET. Dr Poonam Dhawan, Director, Department of Life Long Learning, University of Jammu was the chief resource person for the programme. In her address Dr Dhawan dwelt upon the concept of Sexual Harassment at the Workplace. She threw light on the landmark Vishaka Judgment and opined that rooting out sexual harassment is imperative for society requiring sensitization, awareness and a culture of zero-tolerance to be created and sustained. IntraNet - The MIET News Letter 5
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME Virtual FDP on B Sciences 19th Aug. 2015 Worksop on Cybersecurity by Prof. Vijay Kumar, UMKC, USA 21st -23rd Dec. 2015 The CSE Department organized a 5-day virtual FDP on Big Data and Data Science in association with EMC2. The FDP was attended by 25 faculty members from CSE, IT and MCA departments followed by online certification. Data Science and big data analytics is an 'open' course that provides an introduction to big data and the Data Analytics Lifecycle to address business challenges that leverage big data. The course provides grounding in basic and advanced analytic methods and an introduction to big data analytics technology and tools, including MapReduce and Hadoop. The A three-day Advanced Workshop on Cybersecurity by Prof. Vijay Kumar, Curator's Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), USA was organized at MIET from 21st to 23rd December, 2015. The workshop was organized under the auspices of the Memorandum-of-Understanding signed between UMKC and MIET which includes joint research and development. It covered in-depth technical discussion on topics such as authentication, access control, threats and attacks, information/data integrity. Four research-oriented projects were also assigned to the participants during the rigorous schedule of the workshop. Prof. R.D Sharma, Hon'ble Vice Chancellor, University of Jammu was the Chief Guest during the valedictory function and presented certificates to over 35 participants from various institutions across J&K including SMVDU, Central University, Jammu, BGBSU, Rajouri and MIET. Prof. Vijay Kumar expressed pleasure at the enthusiastic response of the workshop participants and encouraged them to embrace research which he described as a challenging yet immensely rewarding journey. He hoped that MIET produces quality research output through sustained efforts and offered unconditional support. 6 IntraNet - The MIET News Letter
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME ig Data & Data Virtual FDP was an innovative means for capacity and. capability building for the faculty which comprised live sessions and recorded lectures. MIET is in the process of upgrading the already existing EMC Storage Academy to a full-fledged EMC Center of Academic Excellence under which value-added courses on Storage, Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Big Data shall be offered to all MIET students. MIET has an operational MoU with EMC since 2006 and the is the only technical institution in the State to offer state-of-the-art EMC curriculum to its students Workshop on Quality Assurance 5th Nov., 2015 A workshop on Quality Assurance in Higher Education was organized by the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) at MIET. Dr. Minakshi Kilam, Director, Directorate of Internal Quality Assurance (DIQA), University of Jammu was the Chief Guest and the key resource person for the workshop. The workshop covered important aspects such as institutionalizing quality, creating learning organizations, creating a high-performance culture through incentivising achievement and technological interventions for quality assurance. Over 100 faculty members at MIET attended the workshop and benefitted from the experience and exposure of Dr. Kilam. One of the key learnings from the workshop was to align all stakeholders with institutional quality objectives and to achieve common understanding. The second was to create quality champions within the organization who incessantly drive quality initiatives. Earlier Dr. Kilam was given an overview of the totally automated Quality Management Framework implemented at MIET through the Performance Insight 360 analytics software. Dr. Kilam described the software as a significant innovation and one of the best use of IT for managing institutional quality. She also proposed greater collaboration between MIET IQAC cell and the DIQA on evolving new models of quality management going forward. IntraNet - The MIET News Letter 7
STUDENT SKILL DEVELOPMENT J&K's First 24 Hour Codathon 31st Oct. to 1st Nov., 2015 MIET organized J&K's first codathon in association with IBM which spanned a record 28 hours. 35 students from across semesters and departments comprising 8 teams took on 8 challenging software projects on cutting-edge SMAC (Social, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud) technologies in a marathon effort. The event was sponsored by IBM making it the first and only industry-backed Codathon in the State of J&K. All the participants used the industry-leading IBM Bluemix development and deployment platform for developing advanced software projects. Mani Madhukar, Manager, IBM Ecosystem Development Team, inaugurated the Codathon and expressed delight at the quality of projects undertaken by the students. MIET is also operating the IBM Center of Excellence since 2009. Workshop on Sixth-Sense Technology 2nd April, 2015 A 2-day workshop on sixth-sense technology was organized for the students in association with Technophilia, which provided handson overview of developing virtual reality and augmented reality applications using MATLAB, sensors and wearable input devices. The project developed by the students was the virtual mouse which operates based on hand gesture recognition. 8 IntraNet - The MIET News Letter
STUDENT SKILL DEVELOPMENT Programming-1O1 EMC Certification 23rd Sept., 2015 22nd Dec., 2015 A unique programme was launched under the direct guidance and mentorship of Director Dr Ankur Gupta for the students of first and third semester to provide hands on approach to learning programming. The idea is to demystify the art of programming through hands-on learning approach via a flipped classroom model. About 120 students of CSE and IT departments successfully cleared the EMC STF certification exam in 2015 session. The certification is the culmination of the 6 months value-added programme on Storage Technology Foundations and Cloud Computing offered to all students of CSE and IT under the EMC Academy. HERE Maps Training Arduino Workshop 10th Mar., 2015 8th Nov., 2015 MIET and HERE Maps (formerly Nokia-Here Maps) signed an MoU to collaborate towards creating and enriching HERE Maps in the state of J&K. Rajat Veshin a final year student of IT branch finished in the top 10 students in India who provided the most inputs in the creation of the maps. A workshop on Arduino, an open-source prototyping platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software was conducted by Robosapiens technology private limited in association with IIT Delhi. The 3-day workshop was attended by over more than 150 students from Electronics and Computer Science Engineering. IntraNet - The MIET News Letter 9
MBA ROUNDUP Netritva 2k15 - The MIET Business Fest 27th Feb., 2015 Netritva the MIET Business Fest was organized on 27th Feb. 2015 by the Department of Management Studies. The highlights of the Netritva-2K15 were two innovative forums organized for the first time i.e. the HR Forum and Entrepreneurship Forum, which involved panel discussions by experts on current issues and future directions. Over 250 management graduates from The Business School, University of Jammu, Central University of Jammu, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, IMS and MIET participated in the day-long event. The event was sponsored by J&K Bank, Royal Yamaha, ITC, Lava International, State Times, Jammu Links, 92.7 BIG FM, Bajaj Auto, NIIT, etc. The HR Forum saw Prof. B.C Sharma, Dean Placements, University of Jammu, Tamal K. Sarangi, Circle Head, HR, Aircel, Brig. B.K Chauhan, HR Manager, Cadilla Pharma, Kumar Sahil, HR Manager, Coca-Cola engaged in meaningful dialogue over pertinent human resources issues such as addressing the skill gap and attitude development in graduating students etc. The students had a detailed interaction with the panelists on a wide-range of issues. Interaction with Pro VC, NMIMS, Mumbai Prof. M.N Welling, Pro Vice Chancellor, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai visited MIET and interacted with the leadership team. Prof. Welling discussed about the best-practices adopted at NMIMS and the results achieved. Challenges in management and engineering education were also deliberated upon and some strategies discussed. It was a great learning experience for the leadership team. 10 IntraNet - The MIET News Letter
MBA ROUNDUP Bulls & Bears Stock Market Forum 20th Oct., 2015 The MIET School of Management organized an innovative Financial Markets Forum - Bulls & Bears involving panel discussions with industry experts on 20th October 2015. A galaxy of market experts interacted with the students and shared valuable knowledge, experience and insights pertaining to financial markets. The broad areas covered included stock market functioning, growth opportunities for investment, sectoral- analysis fundamentals, risk identification and management, regulatory frameworks & policies, micro and macro economic indicators,equity vs. debt options etc. Mr. Ankit Sharma, Chief Manager & Vice President UTI, Mr. Bharat Bahl, Cluster Manager Amritsar for ICICI Mutual Fund, Mr. Rishi Gupta Proprietor Rishi Gupta Advisory and Mr. Minesh Kumar Raina, Area Manager Swastika InvestMart were the resource persons on the occasion. Mr. Akhil Mahajan, Asst. Professor, MIET School of Management moderated the Forum. Record Placement Season for MBA Department MBA graduates of the 2015 pass-out batch at MIET achieved record 100 per cent placements in top corporate houses in the recently concluded placement season. A total of 65 placement offers were made to the eligible MBA students at MIET resulting in bulk of the students having two to three job offers.top recruiters included Accenture, Axis Bank, Adroit Financial, ICICI Pru & Mount Consulting. Freshers Party 24th Oct., 2015 MBA 3rd Semester students organised Freshers Party for the MBA 1st Semester students at the Inferno Hall of KC Residency, Jammu. A skit on Beti Bachao and other impressive & entertaining activities were organised. All MBA Faculty attended the function. Mr Rakesh Jamwal and Ms Supreet Kour were selected as Mr Fresher & Ms Fresher 2015. IntraNet - The MIET News Letter 11
TRAINING & PLACEMENT Aircel-Harvard Campus to Corporate Program 1st Sept., 2015 Aircel in collaboration with Harvard Publishing limited brought its Campus to Corporate Connect programme to MIET Students. Seven students - Rajat, Nausheen, Asishdeep, Arshina, Shubham, Siya and Rachit got an unique opportunity to be part of his innovative program under which students are made to go through 6 month training on Leadership module designed by Harvard in addition to one month on-the-job training at Aircel corporate office. The students will be awarded a co-branded certificate from Aircel and Harvard on the completion of the training. A team lead by Head HR J&K circle Mr Jasvinder Singh and Pallavi Vaid, HR Executive visited the campus for the selection of the candidates for the programme. Automated resume generated for placements PDP and Training Sessions A comprehensive PDP including group discussions, personal interviews and confidence building sessions was launched to cover 500 students across the final and pre-final year students at MIET. The sessions were conducted by Mr. Sahil Sawhney and Mr. Hitesh Gupta from MBA department. The sessions started with a video lecture on the art of attending interviews, sessions on body language, demonstrations on group discussion etiquettes with an emphasis on being assertive without being aggressive. Each student was evaluated on several parameters and on-spot feedback with a detailed report provided for improvements. In a major innovation, all student resumes to be submitted to companies during placement drives, have been automatically generated through PI 360 software. This is the first instance in India when completely veified and auto-generated resumes have been used. The HR professionals from various companies have greatly appreciated this initiative at MIET. 12 IntraNet - The MIET News Letter
TRAINING & PLACEMENT MIET Students placed in TechAspect at Rs 4.2 Lakh package Eight students of MIET including six from Computer Science and Engineering and two from Information Technology Engineering got placed in TechAspect Solutions Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad at an annual package of 3.70 lakhs per annum. The drive was conducted at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU), Katra. The selected students were Rajet Veshin and Aditi Dutta (IT) and Arshina Singh, Nitin Bhandari, Anam Malik, Aditi Gupta, Nausheen Saraf and Priya Nargotra (CSE). Placement 2015 MIET delivered a stellar placement season in 2015 despite industry-wide recession and overcoming significant locational disadvantage. Around 100 placement offers were received by MIET students across all departments with a maximum salary of 4.2 lakhs per annum at the Hyderabad-based Techaspect Solutions pvt. ltd. 2 students were also selected in the Indian Army at a package of 8 lakhs per annum through the UES. The placement success can be attributed to student quality, strong industry connect and stuednt skill and personality development initiatives at MIET. IntraNet - The MIET News Letter 13
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Institute Research Citations 800 Institute Citations: 1027 Institute h_index: 59 Institute i_10index: 23 670 Sum of Citation/h_index/i10_index 600 400 209 200 121 8 14 7 0 20 31 3 5 2 4 0 15 0 ECE CSE IT EE AS Citations Cumulative h_index Cumulative i10_index (Source: Google Scholar) Citations reflect number of times research papers by MIET faculty are referenced by other researchers Education IJNGC International Journal of Next-Generation Computing New in PI-360 Ÿ Alumni Dashboard - provides global map of alumni presence, sector/industry/company-wise distribution of alumni via Linkedin. Ÿ Research Reports - provides citations, h-index, i10-index data via Google Scholar to track impact of research Ÿ Student Dashboard - provides overall view of student enrollment, performance, achievements across all department at MIET. Ÿ Automated Guidance & Counseling - provides quaterly performance assessment of students via email. UGC Major Project UGC sanctioned 6.3 Lakhs grant for the project titled Education Facebook which was a joint project with the MIER College of Education. Prof. Ankur Gupta, was the coinvestigator while Chairman MIER Dr. Arun K. Gupta was the Principal Investigator. The project included setting up of a closed and open social network for education and aimed at studying the interactions facilitated through social media between various stakeholders. User feedback indicated that social media is good for building student engagement. IJNGC Indexed in ESCI In a major achievement the International Journal of Next- Generation Computing (IJNGC) published jointly by Prof. Ankur Gupta from MIET and Prof. Vijay Kumar from UMKC, USA was selected for indexing in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) by Thomson Reuters under the Web of Science offering. IJNGC is one of the few computer science journals from India to be selected for indexing in ESCI. MIET is the only technical institution in J&K to publish a high-quality international research journal. 14 IntraNet - The MIET News Letter
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Patents Filed Dr. Ankur Gupta, Mr. Shafqat Shamim and Mr. Lohit Kapoor filed MIET's ninth patent on 5th February, 2015. The patent titled, "A Method of Application Profiling for Detecting DoS/DDoS Attack Launching Applications in cloud Computing" provides a novel mechanism for detecting and neutralizing malicious hosted applications in a cloud environment based on the concept of application profiling. A joint patent was filed by the faculty and students at MIET on 26th May, 2015 at the Indian Patents Office. The patent titled, "A Method of Controlled Sharing of Personal Digital Content on Mobile Devices" was filed by Dr. Ankur Gupta, Joint Director, MIET, Mr. Rohit Raina, Manager, Center for Software Development and Ms. Taranmeet Kour, AP, CSE along with students Sumbal Jahan, Rajat Sharma, Falak Mushtaq and Rishav Gupta from 8th semester, CSE. Research Statistics Department-wise Research Papers Published 8.5% 34.5% 35% 22.2% National Conference International Conference International Journal Others 75 71 63 50 51 25 36 40 40 39 0 ECE CSE IT EE MCA MBA AS IntraNet - The MIET News Letter 15
COLLEGE ROUNDUP Faculty Achievers Dr. Ankur Gupta received the prestigious "Academic Game Changer" award at the EMC Academic Summit, held at Chennai on 12th February, 2015. He received the award from Alok Srivastava, Sr. Director, EMC and Mr. Lakshmi Narayanan, Vice Chairman of Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS). The award recognizes individuals from academia/industry and educational partners, who have made significant contributions in 2014 towards bridging industryacademia gap. Dr. Gupta was instrumental in setting up the EMC Storage Academy at MIET in 2006 besides setting up the Industry-Institute Partnership Cell at MIET under which linkages with HP, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft and Aircel were established in later years. Prof. Vinod K. Madan Dr. Nitin Langer Mr. Lohit Kapoor & Mr. Sahil Sawhney was bestowed with the Excellence Award as a speaker in Healthy World Conference which was held in Kakinada, A.P from Sept 5-7, 2015. Prof. Madan presented his research work as an invited speaker. Faculty Enrolled for P.hD Dr Nitin Langer received the prestigious ISTE Best Teacher Award-2015 during ISTE North Section Annual Prize Distribution Ceremony at Rayat-Bahra Institute Punjab. became the first faculty members at MIET to successfully complete the online course of study offered by EMC Education Services on Data Lakes for Big Data, which is the latest trend in the domain. Mr. Sahil Sawhney Management Chitkara University Ms. Mekhla Sharma Computer Science Chitkara University Ms. Chaahat Gupta Computer Science SMVDU Mr. Lohit Kapoor Computer Science Thapar University Ms. Neha Gupta Electronics GND University Ms. Ankita Gupta Electronics GND University 16 IntraNet - The MIET News Letter
COLLEGE ROUNDUP Distinguished Lectures Distinguished Guest Lecture was delivered by Prof. S.K.Jain, Vice Chancellor SMVDU on "Intellectual Property Rights for Competitive Advantage in WTO ERA" - 26th May, 2015 Distinguished Guest Lecture on Speech recognition and challenges and solutions hearing aid designs by Prof P. C. Pandey from IIT Bombay - 15th Sept., 2015 Guest Lectures Dr. Susheel Sharma from Cavium incorporation, San Francisco, U S was invited to deliver lecture on Chip designing Industrial Visits Lecture on 'Leading through Emotional Intelligence' was delivered by Mr Raj K Nehru, HR Leader, Synex Corporation (IBM) Awareness Lecture on IIT Spoken Tutorial Activities by Ms. Madhukriti Srivastva Project Coordinator of IIT Bombay. MBA students visited Cadila Pharmaceutical Ltd, Samba, on 15th Sep 2015, accompanied by Asst Prof Akhil Mahajan. NSS Activities Students of EE 6th sem visited Salal Power Station accompanied by Asst. Prof. Monika Balgotra on 14th May 2015 Students of 7th sem IT visited OCB kachi Chawni/Gandhi Nagar and WLL unit Kachi Chawni on 7th Oct 2015. 80-90 students donated blood in the blood donation camp organized by SMGS held at MIET campus on 11th May 2015. Students of EE visited Science exhibition organized by Indian railways on 23rd Nov 2015 under the banner of NSS Unit. MIET NSS Unit in association with HelpAge India organised an awareness cum signature campaign at MIET campus on 1st Oct 2015 IntraNet - The MIET News Letter 17
STUDENT ACTIVITIES Sammilan 2K15 J&Ks Largest Techno-Cultural Fest Organized Sunburn Campus rocks with world-class EDM performance Sammilan-2015, the 7th edition of the largest student festival in J&K was inaugurated at MIET campus by Dr Nirmal Kumar Singh, Dy. Chief Minister, Jammu and Kashmir. Prof Keshav Sharma, Controller of Examinations, University of Jammu was the Guest of Honour at the event. The function was presided over by Dr Arun K. Gupta, Chairman MIER group of institutions. The inaugural ceremony was kick-started by a rocking performance by the MIET music club. A special play The Dumb Wife in association with Natrang was staged on the occasion. Later more than 2500 students participated in varied technical, literary and management related events throughout the day. The highlight of Sammilan 2K15 was the Sunburn Campus which was organized for the first time in J&K. Sunburn is a legendary Electronic Dance Music festival which originated in Goa and is now going across the country through the Sunburn Campus events. The second day of Sammilan was devoted to cultural items with inter-college song and dance competitions and the Fashion Show which emerged as a big draw for the audience. 18 IntraNet - The MIET News Letter
HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT I Survive Adventure Boot Camp Twenty five I-Survive camps across three levels were rolled out from April to May 2015 for all the 1500+ students of MIET. The camps were received very well by the students who described it as a unique experience. For a majority of the students it was a first time exposure to camping and adventure activities and they appreciated the efforts put in by the college authorities in creating this experience for them. The special draw among the adventure activities was the 100 ft. climb and free-fall using a special climbing net which all students found very challenging yet thrilling. Professional trainers put the students through grueling activities designed at imparting life-skills to the students. Apart from providing an adrenalin-rush these activities also imparted key learnings pertaining to overcoming individual fear and mental-blocks, pushing yourself and testing your limits and finally trusting others and working as a team. The camps have been conceived and executed to create world-class student experiences at MIET. IntraNet - The MIET News Letter 19
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS Bushra Hassan and Deepika Pandita brought laurels to the Institute by winning Young Women Achiever award 2015 on the occasion of international women's day in March. MIET won the Overall Champions Trophy for the third consecutive year at the ISTE North Zone Convention and Annual Festival held at Rayat- Bahra Institute in Ropar, Punjab. Nitin Bhandari CSE and Vikas Chib ECE, of 7th sem. received the Best Student Award at the ISTE North- Zone Convention 6th Nov 2015 at the Rayat Bahra Group in Punjab. Ankur Mahajan and Sanjay Kumar from MIET Jammu created history by winning the North Zonal finals of the 2015 edition of Tata Crucible Quiz which is one of the most prestigious quiz competitions in the country. Ankur and Sanjay trumped eight teams from top institutions across north India at the finals after emerging J&K champions. International Admissions Students of the MCA Department Priya, Mehak, Navika and Simeran along with faculty members Mr. Nipun Kumar and Mr. Bhanu Pratap attended the four day India International Science Festival 2015 held at IIT-D from 4th to 8th Dec where they were exposed to latest technical trends. Mr. Rajat Sharma, 2014 passout from EE at MIET, has got admission at the prestigious Rostock University, Germany in the Masters Programme. Ms. Sargam Sharma, 2014 passout from ECE at MIET, has got admission at the prestigious Technical University, Munich, Germany in the MS programme. Mr. Raghav Sharma, 2014 passout from CSE at MIET, has got admission at the prestigious University of Central Missouri, UCM Summit Center,USA in the MS programme. 20 IntraNet - The MIET News Letter
SPORTS CORNER MIET PREMIER LEAGUE Defending Champions ECE Electron Strikers blasted their way to another Championship Title in the third MPL during Nov.-Dec. 2015. They defeated the challengers EE Power Rangers by 7 wickets in the largely one-sided finals which was played at MIET sports ground. Power rangers won the toss and elected to bat first under excellent batting conditions posting 137 in 12 overs which was below par. The team from ECE successfully chased the target with over 30 balls to spare losing 3 wickets in the process. Harpreet Singh from ECE was declared Man of the Finals. TVS Apache Stunt Show at MIET MIET Crowned JU Fencing Champs MIET Open Table Tennis MIET Open Chess Championship Dushyant Magotra, 8th CSE won two bronze medals at All India Inter-University Fencing Championship- 2015 Vidur Sudan posing with the certificate and the medal which he recently won in the North India Body Lifting Championship Rupali Sharma BE 3rd sem, got 5th Ranking in 22nd Junior National Fencing Championship - 2015 IntraNet - The MIET News Letter 21
IQAC REVIEW ISO Audit & Training The annual ISO surveillance audit of MIET was conducted by Dr. Sunil Thaman, CEO ST Servicio on 8th October, 2015. The audit covered all aspects of institutional functioning with a special emphasis on strategic management and risk management. Dr. Thaman oriented the participants on ISO 9001:2015, the latest standard. Town Hall Meet In a unique initiative undertaken by IQAC to enhance better communication between employer and employees, town hall meet was organised on 2nd Sep. 2015. During this open forum insights on institutional growth, environmental concerns, future policies and challenges were discussed and ideas sought. Tea with Director The programme offers a unique platform for students and faculty to interact with the Director in an informal set up to discuss various initiatives and achievements of the institution. The programme has covered around 300 students and 80 faulty members so far and been effective in aligning everyone with institutional objectives. Induction Programme Induction programme for the fresh batch of B.E students was organized on 16th August, 2015 to apprise the students of the institute policies, share student-specific services and opportunities available to the students to broaden their horizons. Video messages from prominent alumni were also played. PI-360 Training Sessions IQAC Cell conducted over 20 training sessions for PI-360 in 2015 in which over 600 students from across departments participated. The sessions were intended to make the students proficient in using PI-360 and make it the defacto tool to track and benchmark their performance on a multitude of parameters. Google for Education MIET became the first institute in J&K to adopt the Google for Education suite of software applications. Under this all students and faculty have got official mietjammu email ids and access to 10TB storage for each individual. The acclaimed classroom app is also part of the package along with several others. 22 IntraNet - The MIET News Letter
ALUMNI UPDATE Alumni Meet 2015 75 alumni from all batches and working in top multi-nationals participated in the Alumni Meet at Hotel Ritz Manor, Jammu on 8th November, 2015. The highlight of the event was the Distinguished Alumni Awards presented to select alumni who have set benchmarks in professional achievement. Seven alumni were carefully selected by a selection committee comprising industry and academic experts and were recognized under various categories. Dr Zakir Hussain Rather, BE, Electrical Engineering, 2002 Batch was recognized under Academics and Research category. Vasu Dewan, 2000 batch, BE Electronics and Communication and Sonam Kour Reen, BE Electronics, 2000 batch, were honoured under Entrepreneurship category. Danish Basharat Dhar, BE Electronics and Communication, 1999 batch, Vishay Gupta, BE Information Technology, 2001 batch, Minakshi Sharma, BE Information Technology, 2001 batch and Yogesh Malhotra, BE Information Technology, 2005 batch, were awarded under the Corporate category. Alumni Meet at Bangalore Principal, MIET Prof. S.K Sharma inaugurated the Bengaluru Chapter of the MIET Alumni Association at Bengaluru in June, 2015 in the presence of 30 alumni. Office bearers of the chapter include Minakshi Sharma, Yogesh Malhotra and Gaurav Sharma. There are over 150+ alumni of MIET at Bengaluru alone working at top corporate houses and multi-nationals in senior positions. The local chapter shall organize regular alumni meets and networking events at Bengaluru. IntraNet - The MIET News Letter 23
ALUMNI IN FOCUS Dr. Zakir H Rather EE - 2002 Batch Zakir graduated from MIET in Electrical Engineering in 2006 and remained a topper throughout his studies. He obtained an all-india rank of 190 in GATE and secured admission to the M.Tech programme at IIT- Delhi, specializing in Power Systems. After graduating from IIT he joined NTPC Ltd. as Electrical Engineer and worked there for 3 years. He subsequently enrolled for his PhD in Power Systems from the prestigious Aalborg University, Denmark in 2011 on full scholarship while being simultaneously employed with KK Wind Solutions, Denmark. He completed his PhD in a record time in the domain of smart grids. He is currently working at IIT- Guwahati as Assistant Professor in Electronics and Communication. Vishay Gupta IT - 2002 Batch Vishay graduated in the first batch of Information Technology at MIET in 2006. He currently heads the India Technology Division of Semantifi, a USbased company which pioneered semantic search. Vishay has over 9 years of software development experience, is a hard-core techie and as an Enterprise Architect has filed 15 patents on various aspects of semantic search. His is working towards revolutionizing web search and taking it to the next level with semantic search on structured and unstructured data upto multi-terabytes. He envisions that semantic search would replace keyword-based web search in the years to come. Prior to joining Semantifi, Vishay worked for two years at Satyam Computer Services as Software Engineer. MIET Alumni - Global Footprint US Australia Middle East Africa Europe Southeast Asia Others 17% 10% 29% 20% 6% 12% 6% * Distribution of 200 alumni working overseas (Source: Linkedin) Dear Alumni We take this opportunity to invite all our ex-students to join the MIET Alumni group (http://pi360.net/oauth/?id=mietjammu) and get connected to the MIET community. You can also send us details of your current whereabouts, professional status and other achievements at alumni@mietjammu.in. Follow us on Facebook too at https://www.facebook.com/pages/miet1998 and keep up to date with the latest at MIET. Best of Luck! - Manager, Alumni Relations. Printed & Published by MODEL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY Kot Bhalwal, Jammu-181122 Ph. 0191-2623116, 2623180 Fax : 0191-2623181 Website : www.mietjammu.in MIET Patron : Dr. Arun K. Gupta Editor-in-chief : Dr. Ankur Gupta Design & Layout : Sheetal Verma For Limited Circulation Only