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SREYAS INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

QUARTERLY NEWS LETTER: APRIL-JUNE:2017

Vision and Mission of the Institu- Eminent Persons Visit to the Depart-
tion ment
He expressed satisfaction about the quality of projects
Vision of the Institute: "It fosters ethical social and done by IV B.Tech students. He made round in the de-
moral values through holistic learning to groom partment, visited the labs, R&D center, etc and advised
young minds into responsible and successful global for improving the quality of teaching trough live exam-
citizens". ples, more use of PPTs and video lectures.
Mission of the Institute:"To strive relentlessly and Dr. Udai Kumar, Assoc. Professor, Mahatma Gandhi In-
vigorously to realize the vision by making the best stitute of Technology, Gandipet, Hyderabad visited the
use of quality infrastructure, resources and experi- Department of Mechanical Engineering on 29th April. He
enced, talented and committed faculty" visited the department as external examiner for conduct-
ing viva-voce for final year main Projects for awarding
marks as per the guidelines from the University. He felt
Vision and Mission of the Department very happy about the quality of the projects and models
presented by the students. He appreciated the guides for
bringing the quality projects, announced the best three
projects and advised the department to give certificate
of appreciation for best projects both faculty and stu-
VISION : Striving for global recognition for excel- dents.
lence in Mechanical Engineering Education and Re-
search for the advancement of the industry and so-
ciety.
Mission:
Providing quality education to the students
and enhancing their skills to make them glob-
ally sustainable Mechanical Engineers.
Providing state of the art laboratory and re-
search facilities to the students and faculty
with opportunities to create, interpret, apply
and disseminate practical knowledge.
Interact with industry to integrate R&D activi-
ties along with academic learning to engineer
in response to the change requirement,needs
of the society and industry.
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Establishment of Additional Labs

He expressed satisfaction about the quality of projects

done by IV B.Tech students. He also visited all labs, R&D
center, etc and advised for improving the quality of teach-
ing trough live examples, effective usage of PPTs and
video lectures.
As per the revised syllabus R16 from JNTUHyderabad ,
two new labs; Thermodynamics lab and Kinematics and
Dynamics of Machinery are established for the depart-
ment. The main objective of Thermodynamics lab is to
understand the source of automotive fuels and lubricants,
their basic properties, determination of air requirement
for the combustion of fuels and basic theory of lubrica-
tion.

Dr. K. Palani swami, HOD-Mechanical Engineering, VIT-

Vellore visited the department on April 7th and expressed
happiness towards the progress in research works taken
up by the Department for developing R&D activities in the
department. He advised all faculty must publish papers in The lab is equipped with Bomb calorimeter apparatus,
scopus indexed journals for improving API score. Junkers calorimeter, Saybolt Viscometer, Redwood Vis-
cometer and flash and fire point apparatus. Kinematics
Dr. D. Ravishanker, Principal, TKR college of Engineering and Dynamics of Machines introduces the Mechanical En-
& Technology visited the department on April 28th as a gineering student to the motion and interaction of ma-
part of Project examiner. He congratulated the project co- chine elements. Fundamental concepts of statics, kine-
ordinator and guides for their efforts in bringing quality matics, and dynamics will be applied to the determina-
projects. tion of the motion and interaction of machine elements,

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as well as forces acting on machines and mechanisms.

Specific applications will be made to mechanisms such as
rotating machinery, cams, gears, flywheels, and balanc-
ing.

Outgoing Students Expression of Re-

gards to the Department
Life is a journey and reaching high, dont mean to for-
get the roots. The alumni students at SREYAS will always
have good association with the Department and college.
The final year students having associated with the depart-
ment for four years is difficult to miss the college envi-
ronment all of a sudden. The 2013-2017 outgoing batch
expressed their wholehearted regards to the department
and faculty. They conveyed special thanks to final year
staff especially Mr K.Sainadh - project co-ordinator for
his support in completion of project in time. They also
conveyed thanks to HOD and presented a wall frame;a
collection of past memories with faculty.

Faculty Awareness Program on NBA

in the Department

Faculty awareness program on "How to prepare for

NBA?" was organized in the department on 4th April
2017.

As a token of respect, all students met personally

with Prof.Y.Krishna, Dr.PM Diaz, Mr.V.Ramakrishna,
Mr.Krishna Chaithanya, Mr. K Rajasekhar, Mr.Bhasker
and other faculty for seeking advices to succeed in fu-
ture.

Workshop on NBA
A workshop on how to prepare for NBA inspection?, was
given by Dr Shaik Syed Basha on 3rd April 2017 at audi-
torium in the college, attended by the faculty from all de-
partments. Faculty from Mechanical Engineering includ-
ing Dr Suresh Akella Director(R&D), Prof. A C S Reddy
HOD also attended the program. The workshop was suc-
cessful and felt beneficial in our documentation work
preparation for NBA as our Department is also going for
NBA accreditation.
Prof. Y.Krishna, Assoc. Professor from the department
given valuable information and procedure in documen-
tation work for NBA. Dr.Suresh Akella - Director(R&D),
Prof.A C S Reddy - HOD and all faculty from the de-
partment attended and benefited from the program. Dr.
Suresh Akella also given valuable input to the faculty par-
ticularly the doubts raised by the HOD in mapping of
course outcomes with program outcomes.

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supervision of Mr D.V.Paleswer, domain head for pro-

duction, Mr KLN murthy, Asst. Professor and Mr Nithin,
Asst.Professor gave their presentations. Faculty attended
expressed their satisfaction and given some tips for im-
proving the teaching practice.

Faculty Participation in workshop or-

ganized by Indian Institute of Weld-
ing
The greatest benefits of attending an academic or profes-
sional conference are the opportunities to build network
and increase awareness of new trends happening in the
area of interest. One day workshop on " Challenges in
Joining of Advanced Materials" organized on 26th May
2017 at NFC, Hyderabad by Indian Institute of Welding
were attended the faculty from Mechanical Engineering.
Mr D V Paleswar, Mr. Krishna Chaitanya, Mr. Y.Krishna
and Mr.B.Sandeep are the participants from the depart-
ment. All these faculty doing Ph.D got opportunity to
exchange ideas, share resources build relationships with
people from their domain of interest.

Special Review Class for Engineering

Graphics
Special review class took by Prof. K V R S Sairam on
31.05.2017, just one day before the University exami-
nation for CSE students for score more marks. He give
important tips for effective presentation in Engineering
Graphics. He given review lecture on Engineering curves,
scales, lines, planes and solids. He emphasized for use of
quality instruments for saving time. More than 60 stu-
dents from CSE all sections were attended the program
and all students expressed their satisfaction about the
program and confident for scoring good marks in the
coming examination for Engineering Graphics.

Faculty screening test before Subject

allotment is a custom in the depart-
ment for maintaining higher levels of
teaching.
The subjects of Mechanical Engineering are classified into
three groups such as Design group, Thermal group and
Production group headed by Prof. Y. Krishna, Prof. K.
Sainath and Prof. D. V. Paleswer respectively. The Junior
as well as middle level faculty are screened thoroughly
for subject knowledge, teaching practices and communi-
cation skills. The domain head, department head and se-
nior faculty evaluates for presentation and preparation
levels. After satisfactory level of presentation only the
subject will be alloted to the concerned faculty.
On 12th May, faculty from Production domain, under the

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From Editors Desk cate itself to the cause of quality learning and set higher
goals for itself in the field of Mechanical education. ......
The news of all activities of the department are essential Editor
to circulate to bring awareness among the faculty to im- EDITORIAL BOARD
prove interest in department and R&D activities. The de- 1. Mr. V. Ramakrishna, Asst.Prof.
partment is growing in terms of infrastructure, resources
and talent pool and has come to be recognized as a de- 2. Mr. K. Rajasekhar, Asst.Prof.
partment of choice by Mechanical Engineering student 3. Mr. T. Krishna Chaitanya
community. Now it is the time the department to dedi- 4. II,III and IV B.Tech CRs.

"Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world".............. Ramana Maharshi

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