NNSS SAMALKHA GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS AN ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED INSTITUTE (Approved by AICTE & Affiliated to Kurukshetra University) SGI NEWSLETTER October, 2012 Samalkha Faculty of Engineering B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering Mechanical Engineering Electronics & Comm. Engineering Electrical & Electronics Engineering Civil Engineering Mechanical (Automobile) Engineering Aeronautical Engineering M.Tech Electronics & Comm. Engineering Computer Science & Engineering Mechanical Engineering Samalkha Faculty of Management BBA MBA Samalkha Faculty of PGDM PGDM Guest Lecture on Financial Planning for Young Investors Samalkha Group of Institutions, SGI organized a Guest lecture on Financial Planning for Young Investors on 1 st October, 2012 delivered by Dr. Sharad Ranjan, Associate Professor in Economics (Zakir Hussain Post Guaduate Evening College, New Delhi). The programme started with welcome speech by Daljeet Kaur, a student of MBA 1 st year at SGI. During the inaugural session, a memento was presented to Dr. Sharad Ranjan by Dr. Rajesh Goel (Director, SGI) and Dr. M.K.Kulshreshtha (Dean, Faculty of Management). Then, Dr. Rajesh Goel (Director, SGI) shared his great experience and knowledge regarding equity and share market. Dr. Sonia Sardana (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management) was the overall coordinator of this event. Dr. Sharad Ranjan is having 17 years of rich experience in the areas of Teaching, Educational Assessment, Classroom Presentation, Student Relations and General Administration. He has done his Ph.D from Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, M.Phil (Applied Economics) from Centre for Development Studies, Jawarlal Nehru University, M.A (Economics) from Punjab University, Chandigarh, B.A (Hons.) from Meerut University, Meerut. Continue on Page 2 1
PAGE 2 SGI N EWSL ETTER In this interactive session, Dr. Sharad Ranjan shared his knowledge regarding Financial Planning and threw light on the importance of financial planning, steps involved in financial planning, how to gather financial data, how to achieve goals, what is the relation b/w risk & return, how the inflation effects the investments, savings & investment related products, investment philosophies, projection related products : Life Insurance, Insurance Policies, Health Insurance, Borrowing Related products: Personal Loan, housing Loan, Re-verse Mortgage, Loan against Securities, Credit Card Debt etc. Finally, he concluded his session by describing some investment strategies. He symbolized SGIans as Young Investors and guided them to go for long term investment if they want to earn better profit. He also mentioned that while making any investment, profit pattern is not the only matter of concern but the investors should go through other details also and should concentrate on each and every aspect of investment alternatives. Students of BBA and MBA were very excited after the session and were contented as they got crucial knowledge from this lecture on Financial Planning. In the end of the session, Dr. M. K. Kulshreshtha expressed his gratitude by vote of thanks to Dr. Sharad Ranjan. All students of Management and all the faculty members were present during the session. SGI become talent hunting ground for GOOGLE Samalkha Group of Institutions (SGI) took initiative to invite GOOGLE INDIA Pvt. Ltd. for campus placement on 5 th October, 2012. The company targeted CSE/IT and MCA students only. Participants had to fill up the online registration form till 4 th October, 2012 through SGI web portal. Till the date, 600 students from different engineering colleges got registered for the placement drive at SGI. At the inaugural session, Dr. Rajesh Goel (Director, SGI) welcomed all the applicants and gave his best wishes to them who came from different colleges to attend the test conducted by GOOGLE. He mentioned that placement of the students has always been the utmost priority at SGI. It always invites top companies for placement and render students with a pool of opportunities. SGI has achieved an excellent record in placements. This is because of rigorous training of students, which helps them to develop strong foundation for core academic competencies along with high Continue on Page 3 2
PAGE 3 quality professional skills. Students at SGI get a wide professional exposure due to a vibrant schedule of academic conferences and seminars which are conducted by top academicians, scientists and industry leaders. Excellent performance of SGI students also motivates companies to revisit. SGI will continue these type of efforts in the upcoming future also. Corporate people from GOOGLE, Mr. Indrajeet Roy, Mr. Sumit Gupta, Mr. Parveen and Mr. Alok took the initiative for the bright future of students and gave all the required instructions to the applicants. Recruitment process started with an on-line test that included English Comprehension, Mathematical Aptitude, Logical Puzzles, Engineering Technical and Personality Test (Situational Judgment Test). More than 400 students appeared in the online test conducted by GOOGLE India Pvt. Ltd. The test started at 9 AM and continued up to 5 PM in a number of batches. At last, Mr. Indrajeet Roy expressed thanks to SGI for providing best facilities, infrastructure, man power and student coordinators. The Event would have not been successful without the dedicated efforts of Training & Placement Department at SGI: Mr. Muneesh Marwaha (Manager-Corporate Relations), Mr. Vishal Dora (Training & Placement Officer), Dr. Sonia Sardana (Training & Placement Coordinator & Assistant Professor, FOM). Today Excellence is the buzzword at SGI. GOOGLE test was conducted with the coordination of SGI students - Sudhir, Devender Singh, Amit, Saurabh, Atul, Suraj, Salman, Rahul. SGI become talent hunting ground for Target Group Samalkha Group of Institutions (SGI) took initiative to invite Target Group Inc. for campus placement on 12 th October, 2012. The company targeted B.Tech (CSE/IT) and MBA/ PGDM students only. Students had to register themselves online through SGI web portal till 14 th October, 2012. More than 600 students got registered for the drive from different engineering colleges. Corporate people from Target Group, Mr. Aashish, Manager, HR and Ms. Divya Chabra, Head, HR & Admin along with their team took all the initiatives for bright future of students and gave all the required instructions to the applicants. In last, Ms. Divya Chabra, Head, HR & Admin thanked SGI for providing best facilities, infrastructure, manpower and students coordinators. The Event was a great success due to the dedicated efforts of SGI s Training & Placement Department: Mr. Muneesh Marwaha (Manager-Corporate Relations), Mr. Vishal Dora (Training & Placement Officer), and Dr. Sonia Sardana (Training & Placement Coordinator & Assistant Professor, Continue on Page 4 3
FOM). Placement Drive for Target Group was successfully conducted by the coordination of SGI students- Sudhir, Devender Singh, Amit, surabh, Atul, Suraj, Salman, Rahul. Today Excellence is the buzzword at SGI. ERDC organized Pi-Workshop at SGI A Two-day Preliminary Introductory Workshop named Pi-Workshop was organized by Embedded Research and Development Centre (ERDC) at Samalkha Group of Institutions on 18 th & 19 th October, 2012. Mr. Ashwani Dhiman and Mr. Pawan Garg headed the workshop. SGI students- Ishant, Vicky Goel, Sarthak, Prince, Mohit Chhabra and Lalit Sharma were the coordinators of the workshop. It was a two-day Hands on training session. The chief focus of this workshop was at the practical aspects in the field of engineering. On the first day there were two sessions. In the first session, Mr. Ashwani Dhiman and Mr. Pawan Garg covered all the basic tools and components used by Mechanical and Electronics Engineers. Programming fundamentals and electrical power supply parameters were also the spotlight of this session. Students learned how to identify a component, measuring their various parameter values and how to choose a component for a particular project. In the second session, the students learned about various types of software like Multisim, Matlab, multi-board & PCB designing software like Dip trace, express PCB etc. Students have also learnt the process of fabricating a PCB (Printed Circuit Board). Students also learned the use of various instruments like multimeter, Cathode ray oscilloscope (CRO), Digital storage oscilloscope (DSO) & function generator etc. On the second day on 19 th October, kits and components were given to all the participants by ERDC. They learned soldering technique and practiced it by soldering various components on PCB. After that all of them made a project named Variable Power Supply. They were guided how to make various other projects for their academic purposes as well as from industrial point of view. This workshop aimed at developing the project building skills. It was oriented towards the goal of project implementation process and completed hands on practice on project. These types of workshops are necessary from time to time for students because industries are demanding skilled engineers and SGI fulfills this gap by organizing such type of workshops. 4
POOL CAMPUS DRIVE FOR Process Global at SGI Samalkha Group of Institutions (SGI) became Talent Hub to PROCESS GLOBAL Inc. for placement drive on 19 th & 20 th October, 2012. The company was seeking students of CSE/IT and MCA. Students had to register online till 18 th October, 2012 through SGI web portal. From different engineering colleges, 450 students got registered through online registration.. These students participated in Recruitment process of PROCESS GLOBAL Inc. through Aptitude Test, Technical Interview and HR round. Students were very excited for their results. The process completed at 7PM. The result was displayed on SGI website. The Event was a great success with the help of dedicated coordinators of Training & Placement Department of SGI: Mr. Muneesh Marwaha (Manager- Corporate Relations), Mr. Vishal Dora (Training & Placement Officer), & Dr. Sonia Sardana (Training & Placement Coordinator & Assistant Professor, FOM). At last, MD Mr. Rajshekar Krishnan expressed his gratitude to SGI for providing best facilities, infrastructure, man power and students coordinators. He also appreciated the best efforts of SGI in every sense. Placement Drive for Process Global Inc. was successfully conducted with the help of student coordinators of SGI i.e Sudhir, Salman, Vikas, Devender Singh, Amit, Suraj, Rahul, Satya, Pulkit, Monish, Saddam. Dr. Rajesh Goel (Director, SGI) promised the students for this type of activities in the upcoming days also. Today Excellence is the buzzword at SGI. National Level AUTOTRIX Workshop organized at SGI A National Level Workshop named AUTOTRIX was organized by Mechanical Engineering Department at Samalkha Group of Institutions on 20 th October, 2012.This workshop was organized by Mr. Kapil Chopra (HOD, ME), Mr. Dinesh Jain and Ms. Savita Singh (Faculty in ME Department). SGI students Manu Dipesh, Sachin Taneja, Mikhilesh, Samarth Sikka, Vicky Goel, Sarthak, Ritu Dhawaj, Ashish Beniwal, Amit, Neeraj Rathi and Ankit also coordinated in conducting the workshop. It was a one day National level workshop in which more than 300 students from different institutions participated from all over India. The main focus of this workshop was at the practical aspect of combustion engineering. The key Speakers were Dr. Naveen Kumar (Professor, Delhi College of Engineering) and Dr. Avdhesh Sharma (Senior Faculty, NIT Kurukshetra). The highlights of the workshop were Practical Explanation, Recent Developments and internal theory of IC Engines. Continue on Page 6 5
The contents of the workshop were the basic principles of internal combustion engine, alternative fuels used in IC Engines; various design aspects of IC engines live visualization & demonstration of the components & assembly of the entire engine. Students learnt about the basic principles of Internal Combustion Engine and how it works. They also got knowledge about all different parts of IC engine and recent developments in the field of IC Engines. They also gained knowledge about alternative fuels used in IC engine. These types of workshops are necessary for students because industries are demanding skilled engineers and SGI fulfills this gap by organizing these types of workshops. All the participants found this workshop to be very much useful and beneficial. All the participants were awarded with certificates by Director Dr. Rajesh Goel. He also motivated them for participating in these kinds of workshops in the future. Expert Lecture on Role of UNIX in IT industries organized at SGI SGI is committed to provide best and quality professionals to the global market. Therefore, besides academics SGI has taken a step ahead to improve the technical skills and personality of students. Technical skills & Personality is the key point taken into consideration before making any selection by the recruiters. Therefore, Department of CSE, SGI invited Eminent Personality Mr. Nitin Kansal, Sr. System Administrator from TECH MAHINDRA on 22 nd October, 2012 for his special lecture on Role of Unix in IT Industry. The event started with a speech by Dr. Rajesh Goel, Director of SGI. During his comprehensive and excellent talk, he explained the benefits of expert lecture for improving the technical skills of the students and also told about the great demand of UNIX in IT industry. Mr. Nitin Kansal made a very inspiring and excellent presentation on various aspects of UNIX technologies followed by interactive session of commands and shell scripting. The lecture was very interactive and beneficial for the students. The students showed keen interest in the importance of the training and knowing about UNIX from the speaker. The lecture was ended with question-answer session in which different types of queries of the students regarding the future prospective of the job were sorted out by the speaker. This lecture was organized and coordinated by energetic students of SGI Prerna Bhasin(CSE), Anuj jain(cse), leaded by Mr. Manoj Sharma (HOD, CSE), Ms. Shweta Juneja, Mr. Gaurav Bhatia (Faculty in CSE Department). Students of SGI were very enthusiastic to be enrolled for the lecture as there were limited seats available for the lecture. The students who attended the lecture were also provided with certificates by the Guest and Director of the Institute. The Lecture was also attended by many dignitaries of the institute i.e., Dean Management, All HODs in addition to other teachers and staff. 6
Hello Mobile Workshop organized at SGI A Cellular World Workshop named Hello Mobile was organized by Embedded Research and Development Centre (ERDC) at Samalkha Group of Institutions on 26 th October, 2012. All the students of Electronics & Communication Engineering participated in the workshop. This workshop was organized to deliver the basic knowledge about the various technologies used in mobile phones and various parts of mobile phones both hardware as well as software. Mr. Ashwani Dhiman started the workshop with the description of GSM technology and the CDMA technology. He also discussed about the switching systems used in past times and in today s world. Students also learned the working and uses of various instruments like hot air gun and IR Rework station etc. The workshop also covered the working of different IC s used in mobile phones, their fault diagnosing & troubleshooting. Students also learned how to install various softwares in Symbian mobile phones and Java mobile phones. Students were also guided how they can build a career in mobile or wireless communication industry and their future scopes. Students got idea about journey of analog phones to 4G digital phones. Mr. Pawan Garg, Research Associate at ERDC and Arun, Mohit Jain, Kapil Khanchi, Manisha students of ECE final year coordinated the workshop. POOL CAMPUS DRIVE FOR Lakshay Technology Solutions at SGI Samalkha Group of Institutions (SGI) became Talent Hub to Lakshay Technology Solutions for placement drive on 26 th October, 2012. The company was seeking B.tech (CSE/IT), MCA, BCA (2012-13), Polytechnic Diploma Holders(CSE/IT), B.Sc.(IT) and BBA/MBA/BCA students. Students have to complete an online registration till 25 th October, 2012 through SGI web portal. 670 students from different engineering colleges got registered through SGI. Corporate people from Lakshay Technology Solutions Mr. Dinesh Kalra & Mr. Abhishek took all the initiatives for the bright future of students and gave all the required instructions to the applicants. 390 students participated in Recruitment process of Lakshay Technology Solutions which involved Aptitude Test, Technical Interview and HR round. Students were very excited for their results. Process was completed on 5:30 PM. The Training & Placement Department of SGI made this program a success which involved: Mr. Muneesh Marwaha (Manager-Corporate Relations), Mr. Vishal Dora (Training & Placement Officer), & Dr. Sonia Sardana (Training & Placement Coordinator & Assistant Professor, FOM). Today Excellence is the buzzword at SGI. Continue on Page 8 7
At last, Lakshay Technology Solutions Mr. Dinesh Kalra paid vote of thanks to SGI for providing best facilities, infrastructure, man power and students coordinators. He also appreciated the best efforts of SGI in every respect. Placement Drive for Lakshay Technology Solutions was successfully conducted by the coordination of SGI students i.e Sudhir, Salman, Vikas, Devender Singh, Amit, Suraj, Rahul, Satya, Pulkit, Monish, Saddam. Dr. Rajesh Goel (Director, SGI) promised the students for this type of activities in the upcoming days and also motivated the students for participating in such type of events. Students of SGI Participated in well Known show Privacy Laws Vs. Right to Information recorded on NDTV Students of Samalkha Group of Institutions participated in the well known show Privacy Laws Vs. Right to Information recorded on NDTV on 26 th October, 2012 at Archana Complex, GK Part-1, New Delhi. The event was hosted by NDTV's Tech Guru Vikram Chandra. SGI provides such a platform to the students where they get exposure and vision to the things happening in the corporate world. SGI provides knowledge and understanding of culture, language, geography and global perspectives to its students. SGI Students are trained to access and evaluate corporate information resources. SGI curriculum enables students to understand the world by attending various National award shows where they get experience & exposure. SGI always takes initiative to participate in various academic and cultural programmes. At the closing of the Program, NDTV Team celebrated Diwali Eve. The Program was coordinated by enthusiastic students of SGI, Mohit Yadav, Manjeet Kumar & Sahiba under the guidance of Mr. Amit Bansal, Faculty in Management Department. SGI organized SciLab Workshop for M.Tech. Students Samalkha Group of Institutions is the Resource Centre of IIT Bombay for Spoken Tutorial Project. This project is funded by National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD and Govt. of India with the thrust area being "Adaptation and Deployment of open source simulation packages equivalent to MAT-LAB, ORCAD etc." Under the Spoken Tutorial project a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) workshop on SciLab has been organized at Samalkha Group of Institutions for the students of M.Tech 2 nd year on 27 th October, 2012 and for B.Tech. ECE 7 th Semester on 29 th October, 2012. The course material was provided by the Talk to a Teacher project at IIT Bombay. This workshop was organized by Er. Ashwani Dhiman. Mr. Vikas Uttraja (HOD-ECE) 8 Continue on Page 9
coordinated the whole workshop.many students of M.Tech-Anuj Gupta, Vikas Kumar and Reena Antil, Gaytari, Sompal, Poonam and other students of B.Tech final year-ece participated in the workshop. Fresher Party for New Comers of CSE Department Fresher Party of CSE Department was organized for welcoming new comers by their seniors in Samalkha Group of Institutions, Samalkha on 27 th October, 2012. This is a custom in SGI to make new comers feel at home & get familiar with the new environment of college. The Management of SGI is very keen in avoiding the Evils like Ragging in the campus and therefore organizes such events. The event started with lightning of lamp by respected Director, Assoc. Director, HOD CSE, and Dean-Management. The Director of the institute Dr. Rajesh Goel and Prof. H.L Chhatwal motivated and congratulated all the Faculty, staff & students involved in organizing the event. Dr. Rajesh Goel, Director of the SGI congratulated and appealed the students to keep the institute free from Ragging and enjoy their studies in a secure and joyful environment at SGI. All the Heads of various departments, faculty and staff were present to witness the events. The event was aimed at introducing students and making them aware about campus environment and their senior mates. The main curtains of the event were ramp walk, dance performance by Deepti, song by Younis, Games performed by fresher students and enjoyed fun games. Judges selected Himanshu Negi as Mr. Fresher and Thongam Jayaluxmi Devi as Miss Fresher and Avinesh Arora as Mr. Personality and Shilpa Shetty as Miss Personality on the basis of their performances and talent. Student coordinators for the programme were Prerna Bhasin, Deepti, Rohit Kansal, Yogesh, Pankaj, Hardeep, Ankita Saini, Deepakshi. The event was fully enjoyed by everyone. 9
One day Industrial Visit organized to Hydro Power Plant in Chamera - I Power Station Samalkha Group of Institutions strives hard to improve the practical knowledge of its students by providing best and quality education to make them best professionals to the global market. For fulfilling this commitment, an industrial visit was organized to Hydro Power Plant in Chamera-I Power Station on 28 th October, 2012. Four Faculty members from ECE Department Mr. Sagar Bhosle, Mr. Hemant Chugh, Ms. Sakshi Jain and Ms. Ritu Pahal along with 45 students visited the place. Faculty and students were provided knowledge about Hydro Power Plant and various methods of generation of electricity. This scheme has been executed by NHPC Ltd. in collaboration with SNC/ACRES of Canada. The Power Station is located near Chaurah Village in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh. The Power Station is conceptualized for the utilization of the hydro power potential of Ravi River available between a point upstream of the confluence of river Siul and Ravi and above the reservoir of Ranjit Sagar Dam in Punjab. The Power Station has been designed to generate 1664 Million Units of energy in a 90% dependable year. Beneficiaries are Himachal Pradesh, J&K, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Rajasthan and Union Territory of Chandigarh. Faculty and students expanded their knowledge and experience by this industrial visit and thanked Samalkha Group of Institutions for providing them such an event. Motivational Lecture by Mr. Akshay Tomar To inspire students to achieve their dreams, Samalkha Group of Institutions organized a motivational lecture delivered by Mr. Akshay Tomar on 30 th October, 2012. This lecture focused on hitting the hearts of the students with a right message & grooming their personality by deciding their burning desires. Mr. Akshay Tomar is a motivational speaker/ corporate trainer in PRERNA Engineering Educational Group. PRERNA Group continuously strives to inspire & motivate its audience with some tested principles of life and by sharing the rich harvest of personal experiences & life transforming events. PRERNA Group is Continue on Page 11 10
driven by a deep desire to contribute to the society with its message and in due course to realize its own potential. It is continuously endeavoring to test the mental barrier & the obstacles that block the path to success and greatness. During his presentation, Mr. Akshay Tomar talked about motivation, leadership, breakthrough attitude, building effective relationships, spiritual leadership, stress management, success, change, self esteem, team building, goal setting etc. He informed the students about the results of a survey which determined that 64% people don t have any dream, 33% have dreams & just 3% catch their dreams successful. And those who are successful follow a PATH-Punctuality, Attention towards their goal, Training & Humbleness. In the end, he gave some tips to the students to get success- think seriously about yourself, your profession, then your goal & your priorities. The lecture was very interactive, innovative & powerful. All the faculty members of Faculty of Management & all the students of BBA & MBA attended the lecture. Mr. Muneesh Marwaha (Manager Corporate Relation), Dr. M.K.Kulshreshtha (Dean, FOM) and Dr. Sonia Sardana (Asstt. Professor, FOM) were the overall coordinators of the event. NNSS Samalkha Group of Institutions 01, SGI Campus, Hathwala Road Samalkha (Distt Panipat)Haryana 132115 Phone: 098734-40268, 099966-40268 E-mail: info@sgi.ac.in Website: www.sgi.ac.in 11