@ Vol.2 No.3 @ November 2014 MAMAN COMI OF MEATCRNS RANES On 23rd September, 2014 Marian Collee of Architecture and Planning MA,CAP was inaugurated by Sri. Goriniven Chandy, Chit Minister of Kerala and Shri, Abdu Rabb, Minister for Education. On this occassion, Education Minister Sri, Abdu Rabb envatna/ EX 0 ane canos inte teed arrecr tae shed ents und wopista he Sonction Shei Abdu Robb, Minister for Education a = (PTA meeting conducted on 30” August, 2018 forthe parents af $3.85 and $70 Bishop Beraiger Holt Blessing of “Fechnology Business iacubation Centre” by His Grace Dr. Soosa Pokiam on 26% February 2014 Malayala Manorama has organized a class on Organ donation on 24% Feb, 2014, The Don'tfake Your function was inaugurated by Dr, Bennet Abraham (Director, Karakonam Medical Onan To Feaen ete), and welcomed by the Manager Rev. Msgr. A. George Paul. Mr. CA, Thomas (Walayala Lining lip ‘Manetama Senior circulation Manager), MrT. Santhosh (Malayala Manorama Senior circulation Inspector] and college co-ordinator Or. 14, Christal Flory (Professor, Head of Need Them Down Here Mathematics Department) shared their valuable ideas.(ee AND PLANNING INAUSRATED ON 29° SEPTEMBER. 2014 ‘The dream of Marian as “Edu. City, where we have.a cluster of Educational institutions, a new star was barn on 29°" September, 2014 as M. CAP - Marian College of Architecture and Planning. New born star is light to the new generation professionals... Opens new: ‘avenues to bring out the best talents of our students and create professionals, ‘Worldwide, tts Indeed a new feather to the Marlan management team. Fully packed audience from all walks of life witnessed the lighting the lamp ceremony and inauguration ofthe new professional college. Sr, Oommen Chandy, Chef Minister, Mast Rev. Or Soosa Pakiam, Archbishop of Trivandrum and Sri, Abdu Rabe, Hon'ble Minister for Education, Gov. of Kerala were the guests of honour. While the members of Marian family led their hearts for God's Blessings and our college choir chanted the divine melodies, chief guests lighted lamps and dedicated the Institution to the nation, Mag, A, George Paul, our respected Manager, welcomed the gathering. Prot. Baby Paul, Principal Uneing heFoundicion tone af MCA by of the newiy established Architecture College, introduced 8. Arch course tothe audience 5 Oomeien Cho, Che attr Rerss ‘and this was followed by the presidential address by His Grace, Most Rev. Dr. M. Sosa Pokiam, Chief Minister, Srl. Gommen Chandy delivered the inaugural address and Lnuelled the foundation stone, to be laid for the new college. Shri, Addu Rabb, Minister for Education, Govt. of Kerala was the Chief Guest of the day. The Education Ministar distributed awards to University toppers of MEC. Shri, V. Sasi, MLA of Chirayinkeezhu Constituency, Shr. M.A, Vaheed MLA of Kazhkuttom Constituency and Shri Sunny lose, Syndicate Member, Cochin University of Science and Technology felicitated the audience. PPL LL ann ern Cue cients Marian Engineering College conducted the second voluntary blood donation eamp on August 26th 2014, Tuesday, The camp was conducted as a part of social service by the students. The inaugural function was conducted at Bishop Bentinger hall. The chief auests were Sri Rishiraj Singh IPS, ADGP, $5 87, Kerala Police and film actor Se Indrans, ‘The inaugural ceremany’ commenced with @ prayer song. The student coundll chairman Harikrishnan K § delivered the welcome speech. The college Manager Rev, Msgr. A George Paul gave the presidential address, The chief guests inaugurated the function by lighting the lamp. $1 Rishiraj Singh inspired the students by giving a wonderful speech. He conveyed the message that a #-Tech degree alone will not make a person a good engineer but practical experiences make him perfect. Sr indrans shared his day to day experience with the students and shared good moments with Sri Rishiraj Singh, Felicitation speeches were given by Sri Be by Prabhakaran, Programme Manger, HLFPI Kerala and OF, Jaicy Mathal, Head, Blood transfusion, SCTIMST, Programme convenot Asst Prof Valsakh t gave vote of thanks. The chief guests were honoured by the Manager and Bursar by giving mementos in the form of pencil sketches drawn by Govind Krishna kumar of $7 Mechanical Engineering. Rev .r. A R John inaugurated the blood camp by Being the first donor. The eamp started at 10:00am. itwas conducted in association with HLL Life Care Ltd, HLFPPT and Kerala State Aids Control Society, Five blood bank units From various Government hospitals inclucing RCC, Trivandrum Medical College, Thycaud WAC Hospital, General Hospital and SCIMST participated in the camp, Medical team comprising of Doctors, nurses and lab assistants from these hospitals supported in collecting biood. 25 beds were arranged in the hall, Each hospital took five beds each, 60 student volunteers from 71h semester ciasses whole heartedly supported the camp by doing various activities. The camp endied at 1:30pm. 237 donors gave blood, This Includes 60 Female student donars, 14 Staff donors, and 163 Male student donors. A total of 85 itres of blood were collected. Units of blood token by various hospitals are General hospital (60), RCC (40), SCTIMST (a0), Thyeaud WELC hospital (50), Medical College (47), The donors were provided certificates by KSACS, SCTIMST and RCC. SS + 10% of road accidents are due to drunken driving. Doesn’t this make a logical statement that $0% of accidents are due to driving without drinking? * Aman threw his wife in a pond of crocodiles. He's now being harassed by the Animal Rights Activists for being cruel to the crocodiles! ‘+ He was a good man. He never smoked, drank, and had no affair. When he died, the insurance company refused the claim. They said,” he whe never lived, cannot die”. + There are so many options for suicide: Poison, sleeping pills, hanging, jumping ‘form a ulding, lying on train tracks, but we chase marriage, slow & sure! All de- sirable things afe either illegal, banned, expensive or married to someone else! * If time does'nt walt for you , don't worry I Just remove the damn battery from ‘the clock and enjoy life | | Novem The fist donor af the comin Rew fA. hnSean Sener le sen His Grace, Most Rev. Dr, Soota Paklam M, Patron of the College, blessed the “Technology Business Incubation Centre” at SH. Block, MMEC-on26% February 2014 and dedicated the Centre tothe ‘Young innovators of Marian family. Our Honorable Chief’ Minister Sri. Commen Chandi, had inaugurated the Technology Business Incubation Centre on 14 June, 2013 along with the opening ceremony of newly built Administrative Block: Marian Engineering College hes already incubated four companies (Marian TBI Units) namely Moto PI, Techskyre, Finure Technology tnd One by Zeor innovations affiiated to Technopark TBI. The handing over of application and continual procedures for the above was done by Dr: KxG Chandrasekhar in a meeting with the College Management, On 26* February, 2014 the Tal cells were formally handed over to four groups of student entrepreneurs, by His Grace, Most Rev. Dr. Soosa Pakiam M, Women Entrepreneurship Development Program was organized by Technopark on March 8*,2014. Twenty female students along ‘with 2 staff members namely Ms. Lekshmi V.S and Me. Glastin 4M attended the program in regard with the Technopark TBI ve up. A seminar on Financial assistance to new entrepreneurs was organized by Techopark TBI, at Asian School of Business Management (Pallipuram, TVM). Experts from various funding agencies shared thelr minds on this occasion. Fifteen students along with staff co-ordinators namely Ms. Shiji €, G, Ms. Lekshait VS and Mr. Glastin ¥.V attended the program. ee kena Eo 2014 Dept of EE BALI A Very sul Cari for Yeats Day rive bees) pepacod oy the Sliders of 57 AB wal win ‘ ‘ps for all the Sta? amber im have taught them. The S7 tk have oan ans for were hosted by the MTech Geotechnical Tepneeringstiasents nthe meng ei ‘ernooe sen ibe to the ‘eocherson 5" beperber 2044 at Seminar Na Keversy Bich The sale Nomoured thai techy an prego lave and affection ‘Our Class toppers wiih Are! On February Cy ee, Sig An MoU had been signed between AICTE and BSNL under the Employ- ability Enhancement Training Programme , that gives the opportunity tatrain the students of Engineering Collegeson various telecom speck alities , which in turn is expected to enhance the employment poss bilities of these students. Department of Electronics have nominated 12 students fram Sth semester itself to participate in their traning ‘sessions during week days and week ends. The first batch (2011-2015 Jol students who have undergone the training programs are Ms. Fain iNujum, Ms. Parvathy B.S, Me. Al Ameen LM, Mr. Alex Joseph, Ms.Par- vvalhy RAMs. Geethu mol A. G, Mr, Manish K. Mathew , Ms, Ligin Al phonsa , Mc Nanda Kumar, Ms. Meera M,, Mr, Midhun V.M and Ms. [Eveena Ediaon (present $7 ECE students). They have completed their BSNL Silver Certified Engineer Course (Sth Semester) and BSNL Gokt- CCeriled Engineer Course (Sth Semester) Presently they have com pleted BSNL Platinum Certified Engineer Course {7th Semester}, The next batch of students[ 2012-2016) have already started their BSNL Siver Certified Engineer Course (Sth Semester). EEGs ne ae 1.A training programme by Insight Job Guru was conducted for $7 students. The students having upto one backlog were included for {the training. The training was seheduied from 14* to: 15* of August 2014, This session concentrated on soft skills. :2.Afive day preplacernent training programme was organized for $7 ‘students by TIME, The first session was from 21* to 23 July 2018 land the second session fram 29° to 30” September 2014. 3.A mock placement drive was arranged for seventh semester B.Tech students on 27/8/14. This session covered all the aspects of Placements (Aptitude, GD and Interview). 4.As part of the MOU signed with ICT Academy of kerala an ‘Orientation programme was arrange for $152 students on 2/9/14. 1.CGPU organized 3 consecutive FDP’s on ‘Communicative English, ‘The session was handled by Fr. Benny Chiramel 5 J, Manager, 51. Mavier's College. The programme was conducted from 27° to 30° ‘October, 6* to 8! November and 26° to 28" November, 2014, 2.Another FDP was organized for staff from 16* to 18" October, 2014, Thesession was conducted by ICT Academy of eral, Technopar. Infosys came for Campus recruitmeat to Mecirn Engineering College Ga Gt" of Octaber 2014. They selected 34 students in the dive Le aa shop Sovsapatian, Padmasree Mad 1d for “Concordia = ihe College Fest" . |Department I Civil Engineering Association inauguration was followed by a technical session by Shri. P fnyakumrar I, RS. E, General Manager (Metro) on “Mtg Rall, September 18, 2014 at Bishop Bentiger Hall, The technical aspects of the upcoming megs project “The Kochi Metro” land the cutting edge technology which is being practiced were explained to the students, Session was followed by brain storming discussions. The main alm of organizing such seminars was to bring distinguished professionals ta the institute to present their work in areas. of ational importance, The session served as a platform for budding the civil engineers to Interact with experts and to get inspired from their works. Most Rew Dr. M. Soosa Paklar, Archbishop of Trivandrum Latin Archdlacese inaugurated the ‘on 18" August 2014 at Bishop 2 Avelumare 2 56, cena Mange ie Bentiger Hall. nougural session was followed by an introductory seminar by Prof, Rani¥, on the topic "An Overview to the course of Geotechnical Engineering” at CPU seminar hal. distinguished practitioner and af expert consultant inthe field of Geotechnical Engineering jelivered » technical talk on Geotechnical field ivesieaions and cave studies, 4 10 ¥ Civil Engineering Association organized a technical sesion by Dt. Sinumsl Tom, Head of the 2 Department (Architecture), RET, Kottayam on September 24, 2014 at Bishop Holl The session enlightened the stidents on tractional Kerala Architecture, its evolution, effects on the social and religious systems, concept of vasthupurusha and thachushasthre + AswathyJogannoghn Dogged rat prise and 9 cash awerd of Rs, 10,000 for the event Mr Ms ReignSCE. + Bennette Sunny Cherian secured frst prize and a cash award of Rs. 4,000 for the event Master Builder. * Arya A swon second prite and a cath award of Rs 2,000 for the Concrete Mix Design event. * Anand Kumar won second prize and a cash award of Rs, 2,000 for the Concrete Mix Design event. * Seventh semester Civil engineering students visited the international stadium site at Karyavartom an 2 Aupust 2014, Visit turned ovt t-be a great learning experience for the students as ther could witness recasting techniques, instruments used for precasting, concrete mixing, pumping, isolated and combined footing construction and lifting and installation of precast seating elements. ieee ‘ea sesuon by Be Biase Foe MOD ANA ‘The Computer Sener Department organised » two day Ratloralzonfrence on 28% and 29° of August 2014 nan Theconlerence sims at UG, PG students and researchers to exchange and share thelr research experiences new Ideaz.and resesten results stout al pects of network engineering eld. About 30 parilpanse presente theit ‘echnical paper and exchanged ideas, The conference gave acear picture about how to presenta paper and de tals of current reseatch tothe faculty and students. The conference proceedings inchided 37 technical paper fram paricisants from various instutions, The Conference stated at 9.15 am in presence of College Manager Maar. A. Geaegs Paul, Principal Pot, Tory Michal, Head of the Dspartment Pel Sk. Mahan, PG dan De KS, Ramakrishnan and f & 0 Dean Prof, Ohanjaven. The Conference was inaugurates by DrAchuthsankar', Nat, OF rector af Bainformatics Centre, University of Kerala, Dx Achuthsankar presented an excliert talk on the rok vance af laterdicotinary research and nature oriented research in interdisciplnary Reid. After this session technical paper aeesentaton was started Tintiaetnantiaaireen fee tear wnees had Tce ErE Writes catemnier Networking” at Mar Baselios College of Engineering. uly 2014. etaan amr nac es sane eitiopactes Response say tsi, EETOT dca i cr Par uepialagp ebony chilli data bresateribamtehporcibprrcinie| Shnocey rita fear hs ans” or ee one cadascboc eLneie mcbetaies ees = and Technology, Trhandrum, attended by Mis. Remya:U.l.and Ms. Simi Margaret, 4 1LMs. Stee Aguite, Ast. Profeter,Pubahed a paper ted “Thyra Segmentation sna Csiiaton wing ANS" nImernmdanal Journal of artical nteigence" on Ny 2038 2.Ms, Preethu George, Mech stadent, presented the paper titled "h Review on Lop-Gabor Fiters for itaage-insed Vehicle Verieation, in the Nabonal Conference on Cofaputer Coripetence (NCCE: 2014) flan 29° and 30" Api 2034, 3.Ms. Aswathy $. Nair, IdTech student presented the paper titled “A Review on Medical Image Fusion Technologies", in the National Conference on Computer Competence (NCCC-2014) held on 23° and 30° April 2014, Ms Sentisishna MS, MTech Hud preserted the paper tiled "Review on Classitcation of Tyra 5M. Treesa connie iert publshed the ‘Uiled “ECG Stegan rela teas orniel seeatias ? “ oseph, MTech udert published th paper oor cE maa aman of medical ate for inleredine apleriec” at 058 journal in 2014, Ao HOD IS 5.Mr Vishnu R, M.Tech student published the paper titled “Dynamie Query Form with NeSQL” at interattonal Journal of Research in Engineering & Teta In 2014, Zhu Avinash Vir MTech student publahed the paper tied Mubtsary Access Contra Mechanisms for Online Seta Network, a nterationl [sural Research in Engineering 8 Technology in 2034.Date ea aed Desc, Seaeneaa ns SEMINARS / WORKSHOPS ‘= Faculty Development Programme was given toall teaching staffs of the Department by Prof Drk § Ramakrishnan on “Kinematict and Dynamics of Machinery on 21st DEC 2014. * Dr. Sreekanth Ramakrishnan, Research Officer, IBM, New York, USA delivered a seminar to SB. MEstudents on "Measurement tools for ascertaining and influencing performance parameters of large concerns” on March 2014, ‘Assistant Professors Anoopirishna C, Vaisakh%, Maneesh T and Madhavan f participated In a two-week ISTE workshop an Fluid Mechanics conducted by |/T-Kharagpur on May 2014 at Mohandas College of Engineering. + Vaisakh’¥ attended a TEGIP sponsored workshop on" Laser Microprocessing for Biomedical Applications” organized by Department of Production Technology, NIT-Trichy om Apell 3rd + Hareesh R, AP, ME attended a 3-Day TEQIP sponsored FOP caurse on “Open source software for research purpose” at RIT, Kottayam on March 2034. PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS # On 6th August, 2014 Mr. Rajaneesh R Chandran , AP, Mechanical Dept. prepared and pub- lished two work books on (1} Theory of Machines and (2) Engineering Graphics for S182 stu- ents in @ official meeting at Bishop Bendiger Hall, = Manu Mohan, AP, ME presented a paper "Heat Transfer studies in thermally conducting and. electrically Insulating Nano-cilr in natural clreulation loop"-IMECE 2013-64285 at ASME con- ference, San Diego, California, USA. ® Assistant Professor ajith C Menon published Papers |}*Matheratical madelling of electro- osmosis flew through a siit micro channel under the Influence of time varying electric field” ‘and il} * Numerical simulation on the performance evaluation af a solar updraft tower” of Ine ternational Journal of Mechanical Engg & Reb Research (UIMERR) Vol:3, 4 Oct 2014. ‘= Assistant Professors Arun | and Hareesh A took classes for S3 and S7 students on “MS-Office” fon June 2034. ‘ Assistant Profesior Arun J conducted 3 teminar to S7 students on "How to present a Semi ar" on June 2014, © Department of Mechanical Engineering conducted its frst “Online assignment test” for $7 student at the CAD Lab Facility en Sept 2014, STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS ‘Vishnu Sasihumar of $8 Mechanical secured the Third rank in seventh semester Kerala Uni= versity B-Tech (9.38 GPA) Degree Examination, © P Abhingy Shiv of $8 Mechanical got first rankin $6 B-Tech Degree Examinstion and scored & GPA of 9.65, Bsa he keh ener ean) NATIONAL CONFERENCE -NCRTCII4 The Department has conducted a one day National Conference in ‘Recent trends in Communication and Instrumentation-NCRTCI-L4" on 15" March 2014. The main events of the conference were paper presentation for PG students and invited talks by eminent scbentists for UGstudents of the: ‘The invited speakers were Dr, N.Selvaganesan, Head, Avionics,indian institute of Space Science & Technology, IST, Trivandrum, bar. S¥. Mohan Kumar, Mead, ATD, SPL & Dy. Project Director, CHACE 2 of Chandrayan I! & MENCA of Indian Mars Mission V.S.S.C. PROJECT EXPO 2014 ‘The Department conducted a Project Exhibition on 20% August 2014, The First Price was given to ‘team lead by Manish K. Mathew of 57 ECE for the project ‘Automatic Pll Dispensor’ The second prize was given to team lead by Vishnu M. af S7 AEl for the project ‘Gesture Controlied Robot with Wireless Surveilaice’. The third prize was shared among two teams for topics "Mini Landrover with Artificial intelligence’ and "Powerline Communications’ lead by Tilson Joji of S7 ECE and Alex Joseph Gregory of S7 ECE respectively. SEMINAR Marian Engineering College Alumni Accociation (MECAA} conducted a technical lacture-on 28° August 2014. Mr. Abin N A, Senior Lead Engineer, NeST, Technopark, class topper of 2005 batch Electronics and Communication handled the session. 8% £CE students attended the program. Mudbin discussed about: 1,The technical skils needed for the industry, 2.How to develop these skis during the study period? 3.the importance of higher studies and Now to-choose areas of higher studies. STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS Mu, Alex Joseph Gregary and team had won the first position in Satelite Designing and Launching \Woekshop held at GEC, Barton Hill, Trivandrum on 30 to 31° August, 2014 tir or Seren aarti ferres IME Weveyek, oF the Degst af the AE fe Pre Ltn awe onan hte {nom of 57 re pa tame a gover _F prin vars ttc eo iy Vise Mo TAL the rat Gestre Conrad nb with sees Survie 7 pra ovat arty Me ofS | epnine Canoe Wk Af maniganceMarian family has celebrated 13" year of Gnam on Sept S*. The biggest festival of the state of Kerala which marks the homecoming and coronation of ancient mythical Emperor Mahabali, showcases the rich culture and heritage of Kerala. The programme started with 8 prayer followed by the welcome speech by Sajl Jahas, Arts Club Secretary at 8.45am, The inaugural address was given by Manager ‘and the nam message was delivered by Principal and Bursar: This ‘was followed by the felicitation of Senior stat members and the vote of thanks war delivered by Hari Krishnan KS, Chairman, Stutfents Council. The Management ,Staff and Students ef Marian ‘eaually enjoyed the day by participating in various events ike Thiruvathira, Onapattu, Athapookalam, Musical Chair, Kalam Udiakal, Pillow fight, Univadi, Vadarnval. Programme was concluded by a Onam sadhya. The curtainraiser event of the College Day was the Blessing of “Technology Gusiness Incubation Centre” at S.H. Block, MEC, His Grace, Mest ev. . Soosa Paklam M, Patron ofthe Colege, offered prayers to God, Almighty and dedicated the Centre to the Young innovators of Marian family, Al 10.00 a.m, Archbishop movedon ta the "Blzhop Vincent Dereere Hall” and the jubilant crowd welcomed the Chief guests, Gur Patron together with Padmashree M. Chandradathan and Padmasree Madhu. Sweet and melodious prayer song led by the college choir gave divine flash to the Eathering. ‘The Manager Msgr A. George Paul welcomed the distinguished gathering. Prot. Tomy Michael, Principal, in his annual report, unfolded the events of the year and when he mentioned ‘bout the high number of pass percentage nS? University results, julia students recognized the service of the Marian Faculty with loud applause. in his Benedictory address, Archbishop appreciated the sincere service of the staff members. He enlightened God's manifold gifts, showered on new generation professionals and encouraged them to comeout with new innovations. In his presidential address, Padmashree M.Chancradathan, Director, LPSC, Valiamala, shed light on the different levels of personality formation and presented character formation as 4 road way to success. He released the fst copy of the “Marian Journal of Engineering Research” and congratulated Or. K. 5, Ramakrishnan, Editor in Chief of Marian Journal and all who have contributed to the frst issue. Rev Fr.A.R. John, Bursar, congratulated the students for their wholehearted cooperation and thanked one and all for crediting name and fame to the Marian farnily. This was followed by ‘am exking prize-ghing ceremony. Academic toppers, 100% attendance winners and the best outgoing students of various ‘departments who made significant contributions tothe insttution ascended the stage to receive the prizes. Students’ photo. session 24 with the dignitaries marked appreciation and reorganization of | thelr perseverance and hard work. As the inaugural programme was winding up, our Archbishop presented menventes te the Chief ‘Guests a: sign of our gratitude ond love. Dr. A.V. George, President, PTA, presented Mementos to the best outgoing students. The {formal meeting came to a close with the Vote of Thanks proposed by the college Senate Chairman, Mr. Sarath §. 8. Santhwanam Marian has organized 8 program where study kits ond books were distiibuted: to the fast grade office stall members on July 21,2014 On 30* August 2014, the team of Santhwanam — Marian visited Sadhana Renewal Centre, Monvila The Centre inhabitates mentally challenged as weil as Drug addicts, A total of 58 students of Jesus Youth ‘and 5 stalf members participated.College life brings with it’s own share of experiences ~ unique and spe- cial, one that can't be found elsewhere. And no, we den’t just mean exams or the usual college day functions, but more, The practice ses- sions before the youth festival, the lunch breaks where we catch up on the usual gossip, the pranks we play in class, well, the list is endless. Thanksto the teachers and the management, two weeks back, we were given the privilege of enjoying all these various experiences, at one go and in one special package. After two whole months of heated discus- sions and endless hours of meticulous planning, the dy of the class-trip, finally dawned on the students, bright and full. Students and the teach- ers boarded the bus on 8th September, 2014, to visit a few of the country’s best tourist destinations, The journey on the bus wes great fun, Students danced to their hearts content, watched a few monies and pulled pranks on each other till they were completely worn out. The hours seemed to fly by, and before long, they reached thelr first destina- tion — Coorg The team reached Coorg by noon, after an entice day of travelling. After a quick lunch and a few minutes of washing up, they left the hotel for the Bamboo forest. Over there, they had a brief commu- rion with nature, and enjoyed the serenity it brought. But they were in fora rather exhilaratingexperience, soon after. They went rafting an the river which flows through the middle of the Dobara forest, The experl- ence left our adrenalines pumping sa hard and for some of them it fatt like a near-death encounter. Yet, it was so thoraughly enjoyable that a few of them even opted fora secand round of rafting! This was followed bya visitto the Golden Temple in Coorg, The entire surrounding ended such peace and beauty, that it overwhelmed them. Looking Into the faces of those monks, one couldn't help but wish for such quiet assur- ance and calm. When they got back to the hotel, ot night, they were worn out and tired. But that didn't stop them from dancing away to glory, to the tunes of our in-house DI, around the campfire. They slept somewhere around the wee hours af the morning. The next day, by around nine inv the morning, they were on their wayto Mysore, The first stop was the Chamundy hills, where they loitered around a bit. Then they visited the Chamundy temple, did some quick shopping from the nearby streets and left for the Mysore palace. The Mysore palace was rather enchanting. It gave them a quick glimpse into the aristocratic world of the past, Leaving behind the world of Tipu Sultan and his many wives, they had another round of shopping and a quick dinner, before retiring for the night, NG: Anusree Venugopal, Aswathy Jagannadhan, Goplia G, Kiran S, Linu Ann Wilson, Nauta Nazar, Nidhi-C Mohan of S7 CE wt ice foie. (Orive held on Oxt'6& 7, 2014) Alsh J Lal, Aju K Rol, Dheeraj P 8, Gladson Mathew, Moria Francis, 5 Gokul Rame, Seethal M George, Vrinda ™ nd Antony Thomas placed in infosys and Gin! igratious, Suneesh AS at SCS got placed in Cognizant Technology Solutans. Gokul J Mais, Harikrishnan ICS, Irshad AK S., Madhav JS and Sarath R.S of S7 Mi and Shaul Hameed S.. Vishnis aas7 Na hve been placed no id IEERING:- Alex Joseph Gregory, Faina Nujum, Geethumol AG, isha Manuel, Marish.X. Mathew, Michun ViM, Mic Rafees, Nanda Kumar S., Nanditha LL and Veena Verkeyot 7 T have been placed in infosys td AlswaryaS.Das,Ansein Das, Parvathy B.S.of S77T and Meera G.R, Surafi PS of $7 AE] have brea placed in Cognizant Technology Solutions,‘O.Ris the abbreviation for Operations Research. Operations Research isthe new science which came into existence iva miltary-context, During World War If mllary management in England called upon Sclentists from various disciplines to discuss and suggest ways and means to improve the execution of various military projects. By their jin effortthey could suggest certain approaches which could bring forth remarkable progress. This new approach to-systeratic,slentfic operations ofthe military system was called Operations Resaprch of Operational Research or ‘OR. The term Operational Research was fst coined in 1940. The emerging results obtained by British O.8 team’s 5 ‘motivated U.S miftary management to start similar activites. By the end of the Second World Wer, the success of mulltary teams attracted the attention of industrial manager. in india, 0.8 came Into existence In 1949. During the year 1950 0.R achieved recognition asa subject worthy of academic study in the Universities. ‘Models (Quantitative Techniques! of 0.8: 1, Distrbution Models: These models are concerned with the allotment of available resources to as to minimize cost or maximise profit, "Meethods for sohing this type of problarr are called Mathematical Programming Techniques. These are near and nonlinear prograrneing problems. LUnear Programming Problems is called LPP. In short, “programming” means planning, The word linear indicates that ail relationshins Invelved are linear, Simplex method of LPs the first mathematical technique developed (in 1947) in this field. Transportation problem fs a particular type of LRP. where we find quantities to be transported from m sources to n destinations, in such » way that the total transportation cost is mininiined. Assignment problems alse a special type of LPP. in which the objective isto find the optimum allocation of a number of jobs to an equal number of persons. 2. Queuing Models (Weighting Line Models): These models attempt to predict how much timeon average will be spent by # customer in a {ews what will be the average length of a queue, what will be tho traffic intensity etc. 3. Network Models: Project Evaluation and Review Techniques (PERT) and Critical Path Method (CPt) are used for planning, scheduling and controlling compiex projects which can be characterized by networks. ‘Other important models are Inventory Models useful in tho field of economics, Markovian Models which can be used whete the systern ‘moves from one slate ta another on a probability basis, Game Theory which can be used to determine the behavior of decision making under competition, Job Sequencing Models which are concerned with sucha prablem in which efficiency measure depends on order or sequence of performing series of jobs and simulation models Which is & Very powerful tachnique for solving vary complex robles. ‘Seppe of O.R, Techniques of O:R. can be used in agriculture for optimum allocation of land to various crops in accordance with the climatic cenditions. in Finance OR, is used to make profit plans. Its used in the field of marketing to distribute products for sale 40 that the total cost of transportation is minimum. in industry O.R. is used to find out the optimum allocation of various limited resources to orrive at the optimum decision. O.R. is also used for forecasting man power requirement, selection of personnel, determination of optimum number of persons for Ithelps a personal manager to appoint the most suitable person on minimum sary. My mother used to ask me what the most important part of the body is. Through the years | wauld take @ guess at what | thought was ‘the correct answer. ‘When | was younger. | thought sound wes very important to us @s humans, so | said,” My ears Mummy.” ‘She said ."No.Many people ate deat. But you keep thinking about land | will 3k you soon.” Several years passed before she asked ime again Since making my ist attempt, | had contemplated the correct answer _Sa'this time I told har. Mummy sight i very impar- tant to everybody. 60 it rust be our eyes." She looked at me and said.” You are earning very fast , BUT the answer is Mot correct Because there-are many people Who 276 Dlind,” ‘Stumped again , | continued my quest for knowledge and aver the years, Mother asked me @ couple more times and always her answet was,"No, But you are getting smarter every year, my child” ‘Than ane year, my father died. Everybody was crying. My Mom tooked at me when it wars Our turn to-say final good-bye to my father. She ‘asked me,” Do you know the most important body part yet, my dear? | was shocked when che asked me this now. | aivays thought this was a game between her and me . She-saw the confusion on my face ‘and told me,” This question is very important. it shows that you have really Iived in your Ife. For every body part you gave me in the pst, | have told you were wrong and | have given you an example why. But today Is the day you need to learn this important lesson.” ‘She looked at me and twrew her head to my shoulder and hugged me. saw her eves well up with tears , Shesaid, “My dear, the most Important body part is your shoulder.” | asked,” is it becouse it holds up the head?"No , itis because it can Noid the head of a friend or a loved ane when they ery. nesdS & Shoulder to cry on sometime in life, my dear. | only hope thst you have enough love and frends that you will ways have 6 ‘Shoulder to¢ry on when you need it." ‘Then and there | knew the moet important part is not.a selfish one. is made for others and not for jourselt. It is sympathetic tothe pain of others. * PEOPLE WILL FORBET WHAT Yau S410, PEOPLE WiLL FORGET WHAT YOU DID. BUT PEOPLE WIL NEVER FORGET WOW YUU MADE THEW FEEL.”