The Department of Mechanical Engineering was established in the year 2002 with the vision of nurturing technically competent and socially responsible Engineering Professionals. Alma mater to more than 1500 Graduate Engineers over the past 16 glorious years; the Mechanical Engineering Department, SJEC, strives to prepare students for careers across a broad range of industries such as automotive, manufacturing, materials and metallurgy, oil and gas, aeronautical and marine. Mechanical Engineering encompasses learning the application of physical principles of heat, force, conservation of mass and energy, design of mechanisms and machine elements, system design, manufacturing and maintenance of industrial machinery, etc. Thrust is laid on teaching CAD/CAM tools along with the latest design tools to keep the students abreast with modern technologies in the discipline of Mechanical Engineering. The Department offers Undergraduate (B.E.), Post Graduate (M.Sc. in Engineering by Research), and Doctoral (Ph.D.) programme; with an annual intake of 120 candidates for the B.E. Course. The Department proudly announces the re-accreditation of its B.E. Mechanical Engineering programme by the NBA New Delhi for the third time, valid until June 2022. The Department has also obtained the Permanent Affiliation status from VTU Belagavi from 2019-20 to 2024-25.
Dr. Shreeranga Bhat is Professor & Head of
the Mechanical Engineering Department at St Joseph Engineering College,
Vamanjoor
"To be a value based department committed to excellence in teaching and research, nurturing technically competent and socially responsible engineering professionals."
Graduates of the Mechanical Engineering program are able to:
Graduates of the Mechanical Engineering program are able to
Designation | Name | Qualifications |
---|---|---|
Lab. Instructor | Mr Christopher Cutinha | Diploma ME |
Junior Technician | Mr Bhaskar | PUC, Diesel Mechanic & Automobile servicing |
Mechanic | Mr Praveen George D'Souza | ITI (Mechanic) |
Lab. Instructor | Mr Harshith | PUC, Diploma-ME |
Lab Instructor | Ms Jayashree | Diploma - ME |
Lab Technician | Mr Gunakara | ITI |
Lab Technician | Mr Preethesh | ITI |
Lab Instructor | Mr Rajesh | Diploma - ME |
Lab Instructor | Mr Rajesha | Diploma - ME |
Lab Assistant | Mr Immanuel Jayakar Amanna | Diploma |
Foreman | Mr James Manoj Mascarenhas | B.E. in Mechanical Engineering |
Lab Technician | Mr Vathan Kumar | Diploma |
Attender | Mr Franklin D'souza | - |
There are twelve well-equipped state-of-the-art laboratories to give hands-on experience to the students for extensive expertise.
The following research facilities are installed to promote innovative academic projects and facilitate state-of-the-art research by the faculty and students.
Sl No. | Name of the Company | No. of Placed Students |
---|---|---|
1 | Codeyoung | 2 |
2 | Stellium Consulting | 1 |
3 | Upskillz | 62 |
4 | InMovidu Tech | 6 |
5 | Unschool | 2 |
6 | Intellipaat | 6 |
7 | Actalent | 6 |
8 | bitLabs | 2 |
9 | Acmegrade Pvt Ltd | 8 |
10 | Rinex Technologies | 12 |
11 | Sterlite Technologies | 3 |
12 | Difacto Robotics & Automation Pvt Ltd | 2 |
13 | Micromatic Machine Tools | 3 |
14 | QSpider | 2 |
15 | Ace Designers | 1 |
16 | Anglo Eastern | 2 |
17 | TAP Academy | 1 |
18 | Flowserve India Controls Pvt Limited | 2 |
19 | Indo MIM | 8 |
20 | Toyota Industries Engine India Pvt. Ltd | 12 |
21 | Manipal Technologies | 3 |
22 | Autoliv | 2 |
23 | Araymond India Pvt. Ltd. | 1 |
24 | SEG Automotive India | 2 |
25 | Bosch Ltd | 1 |
26 | Rittal Private Limited | 1 |
27 | Airbus Group | 1 |
28 | Synnova Gears | 3 |
Total | 157 |
Sl No. | Name of the Company | No. of Placed Students |
---|---|---|
1 | Accenture | 1 |
2 | Anglo Eastern | 3 |
3 | Bosch Ltd | 1 |
4 | Cognizant | 3 |
5 | Infosys | 3 |
6 | LTI | 1 |
7 | Qspiders | 3 |
8 | SIMS | 1 |
9 | TCS | 5 |
10 | Technologics Global | 1 |
11 | Verisk | 1 |
12 | ZoloStay | 1 |
13 | Lixil Windows | 6 |
Total | 30 |
Sl No. | Name of the Company | No. of Placed Students |
---|---|---|
1 | Decathalon | 1 |
2 | L&T Infotech | 2 |
3 | Analytics Quotient | 1 |
4 | The Manipal Group | 1 |
5 | Adani Power | 3 |
6 | 24/7 | 1 |
7 | Anand Automotive Private Ltd | 1 |
8 | Sunrise Biztech | 1 |
9 | Infosys | 11 |
10 | IBM | 2 |
11 | Amazon - VCSA | 2 |
12 | Qspider | 2 |
13 | Keihin Fie | 3 |
14 | Arnold Consulting | 1 |
15 | Steer Engineering | 1 |
16 | Diya Systems | 2 |
17 | Toyota Kirloskar | 1 |
18 | Anglo Eastern Shipping | 4 |
19 | Berry Plastics | 1 |
Total | 41 |
Sl No. | Name of the Company | No. of Placed Students | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | L&T Infotech | 1 | |
2 | TCS | 1 | |
3 | Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd | 1 | |
4 | Decathlon | 2 | |
5 | Indo MIM | 2 | |
6 | Anglo Eastern | 2 | |
7 | IBM | 2> | |
8 | Mphasis | 4 | |
9 | The Manipal Group | 4 | |
10 | QSpiders | 5 | |
11 | EDS Technology | 6 | |
12 | Hinduja Global Solutions | 13 | |
13 | Tech Mahindra | 17 | |
TOTAL | 61 |
Sl No. | Name of the Company | No. of Placed Students |
---|---|---|
1 | POLYCAB WIRES | 1 |
2 | SEVENTH SENSE | 1 |
3 | MPHASIS | 1 |
4 | ADITYA BIRLA CHEMICALS | 1 |
5 | BOSCH | 1 |
6 | SEW Eurodrive | 1 |
7 | THE MANIPAL GROUP | 3 |
8 | UST GLOBAL | 4 |
9 | EDS TECHNOLOGIES | 4 |
10 | IBM | 6 |
11 | TECH MAHINDRA | 7 |
12 | SIMS | 7 |
13 | VDART SOFTWARE SERVICES | 7 |
14 | VDART SOFTWARE SERVICES | 7 |
15 | ANGLO EASTERN | 13 |
16 | TCS | 14 |
TOTAL | 71 |
Sl No. | Name of the Company | No. of Placed Students |
---|---|---|
1 | Amada | 1 |
2 | TCS | 1 |
3 | Total Gas | 2 |
4 | PRAVRUTHI JOB FAIR | 3 |
5 | TVS Iyengar & Sons | 2 |
6 | Kirloskar Toyota | 2 |
7 | Mitsubishi Elevators | 2 |
8 | Kaynes Technologies | 2 |
8 | ITC Infotech | 4 |
9 | Indo Us MIM | 4 |
10 | Bosch Ltd | 5 |
11 | Samundra | 6 |
11 | Tech Mahindra | 7 |
TOTAL | 39 |
InnoVenture: SJEC Innovation Platform at St Joseph Engineering College - Mangaluru, in association with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and SJEC AICTE IDEA Lab conducted an Ideation Camp from 13 - 15 July 2023. The ideation camp was organized for a multidisciplinary batch of 84 students. Dr Nitin Kulkai, Former Director of CTIE - KLE Tech Hubli and currently, the Program Manager of InnoVenture and an Adjunct Faculty at the Department of Business Department at SJEC, was the key facilitator for the Camp. Dr Kulkai was supported by a team of Faculty from SJEC as Co-Facilitators and Mentors.
The Ideation Camp focussed on Four Verticals: 1) Healthcare 2) Increasing the income of Small Scale Farmers 3) Cybersecurity for Women and Children in India and 4) Solid Waste Management. Students worked in teams of five for 2.5 Days as Dr Kulkai and Team led them through a proven template based approach of Ideation. Dr Madhukar S M., CEO of Innaumation Medical Devices Pvt. Ltd., Mr Pradeep Raj, Operations Manager at CEOL Incubation Center - Mangalore, and Mr Jishnu Mulachan, Technical Director and Co-Founder of Zilliot Technologies Pvt Ltd., were the members of the Jury that assessed the Business Pitch developed by the student teams.
An
Awareness Program on "Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)" was organised by the
Office of the Dean - R&D and Industry & Innovation Group (IIG) in
association with the Department of Mechanical Engineering for the staff and
students of SJEC in Kalam Auditorium at 12:00 Noon on 28 April 2022.
The
awareness program was conducted to mark the celebration of World IP Day and Mr.
Ramashish Paul, Examiner of Patents and Design, Intellectual Property Office
(IPO), Chennai, delivered the presentation.
The speaker has highlighted the importance of IPR in the current day
scenario. The different types of
Intellectual Property such as Patents, Designs, Copyrights, Trademarks,
Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout - Designs, Geographical Indications, Trade
Secrets were elaborated with examples by the resource person. The procedure for
the patent registration was also explained by the speaker. The session held was
very interactive with the quizzes by the speaker and prizes for the students
for giving the right answer.
During
the session awareness was also given on the KAPILA (Kalam Program for IP
Literacy and Awareness) scheme which provides financial assistance to the
institutions that are part of the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) for
filing patent. Students were advised to submit their entries by last date 18
May 2022.
About
420 students and 18 faculty from MBA, MCA, E&C, CSE, E&E, Civil and
Mechanical Engineering have attended the awareness session. Dr Sudheer M and Mr Yathish Kumar have anchored
the Program.
The
Student Welfare Group of SJEC organized a talk for final year students of ME
and CSE branches on the topic 'Managing Personal Finance' by resource person
Mr. Anston Cleevan Pais, alumnus of 2017 (ME) batch, on 25th April 2022.
The
resource person highlighted on the types of investments and finding better
retus and value for money through right investments. It was an interactive
session with students having worksheets to answer based on the presentation. He
stressed on the importance of diversifying investments, preferably 50% in Debts
and 50% in Equities and also spoke of the various types of investments based on
the term plans like Short term mutual funds, Hybrid Equity Fund as a medium
goal and a Diversified Equity Fund as a long term investment option. He further
highlighted with actual statistics and case scenarios of how it is normal
behaviour of the markets to show fluctuations in values in short term but the
optimum retus of the same in a long term investment, beating inflation. The
talk was a beneficial one, well received by the students who found it very
interactive with video presentations.
The
programme was compered by Ms. Venita Monteiro, Asst. Prof - Dept. of Physics.
Mr. Rolvin Sunil D'Silva, Asst. Prof - Dept, of Mechanical Engineering welcomed
the gathering and introduced the guest speaker. Chairperson of the SW Group,
Dr. Shakila B. gave a floral welcome to the guest. Other members of the SW
Group facilitated in the smooth functioning of the programme.
The Five-Days Faculty Development Program (FDP) on "Advanced Industrial Automation Leaing with Real-Time Projects" was successfully conducted from 18.04.2022 to 22.04.2022. The FDP was conducted by the Department
of Mechanical Engineering in association with INDWELL Automation Mangaluru.
There were about 45 registrations for the FDP and all are actively
participated.
Day 1, 18-04-2022, Session 1, 9:30am - 12:30pm:
The Inauguration
of the FDP was held in Fr Fred Memorial Hall Academic Block - 1 at 9.30am. Rev Fr Wilfred Prakash D'Souza presided the
inaugural function. Mr Himanshu Kumar, Director,
INDWELL Automation, Mangaluru was the Chief Guest. Dr Rio D'Souza, Principal,
SJEC and Rev Fr Alwyn Richard D'Souza, Asst Director, SJEC were Guest of
Honours. After the inaugural function the session was conducted in the venue:
CAMD Lab, Academic block-3.
Topics Covered: Introduction to Automation, introduction
to controller, micro controller vs. PLC, PLC block diagram, Ladder Diagram
programming language, basic instructions NO, NC, and Coil. Basic programming
tricks, basic programs based on truth table, Latch, Flag. Timer, timer-based
examples and programming trick.
Day 1, 18-04-2022, Session 2, 1:30pm - 04:30pm:
Topics Covered: Practice of programs in Codesys software. Ladder
simulation, Visualization.
Day 2, 19-04-2022, Session 1, 9:30am - 12:30pm :
Topics Covered: Timer-based examples, Pulse instruction, Pulse based
examples, counter, counter based examples.
Day 2, 19-04-2022, Session 2, 1:30pm - 04:30pm:
Topics Covered: Practice of programs in Codesys software.
Ladder simulation, Visualization.
Programming in GX Developer, communication, program
upload/ download, troubleshooting, program modification, Online edit. Project
development.
Day 3, 20-04-2022, Session 1, 9:30am - 12:30pm:
Topics Covered: Introduction to digital inputs/ outputs,
wiring concept, SINK/ SOURCE, real time wiring of PLC. Introduction to PLC
hardware and software, MITSUBISHI PLC, GX Developer software.
Day 3, 20-04-2022, Session 2, 1:30pm - 04:30pm:
Topics Covered: Practice of programs in Codesys software.
Ladder simulation, Visualization.
Programming in GX Developer, communication, program
upload/ download, troubleshooting, program modification, Online edit. Project
development.
Day 4, 21-04-2022, Session 1, 9:30am - 12:30pm:
Topics Covered: Introduction to HMI, interface with PLC, screen
development, digital & analog data configuration, analog data scaling,
password level, screen display & Industrial project development.
Day 4, 21-04-2022, Session 2, 1:30pm - 04:30pm:
Topics Covered: Introduction to SCADA, interfacing with PLC, screen
development, digital & analog data configuration, analog data scaling,
driver selection and configuration, tag creation and configuration &
Industrial project development.
Day 5, 22-04-2022, Session 1, 9:30am - 12:30pm:
Topics Covered: Introduction to AC Drive, hardware,
parameter setting, speed, direction, acceleration and deceleration time control
of induction motor, interfacing with PLC, multispeed & multidirectional
control project.
Introduction to Analog system, hardware, block diagram
of ADC and DAC application, standard signal, channel selection, AD- DA start,
scaling, TO FROM instruction, real time application. Monitored and controlled
on SCADA.
Day 5, 22-04-2022, Session 2, 1:30pm - 04:00pm:
Topics Covered: Inteet of Things (IoT): Arduino ide installation,
preference link selection, board manager & ASP8266 Wi-Fi driver installation, library manager and library
installation, board selection, communication, different IoT platforms,
webserver with local area inteet connection, BLYNK phone application for
global inteet connection, LED operation through different IoT platforms,
Relay operation through different IoT platforms, operation and connection of
single phase appliances using IoT, room Temperature and Humidity reading
through IoT.
After the session
2, Feedback and quiz was conducted in the online mode. Valedictory of the FDP
was held at the venue at 4.15pm. The HOD - ME and Dean R&D distributed the
certificates for the participants.
A very good feedback and appreciation about the FDP
was obtained from the participants and the FDP has served its purpose.
A National Level Five-Days FREE Online Faculty
Development Program (FDP) on "Academic
Writing" was successfully
conducted from 04 April 2022 to 08 April 2022. The FDP was conducted by the Office
of Dean (R&D) in association with the Research and Facilities Group and Department
of Mechanical Engineering. There were about 380 registrations for the FDP and
225 participants have attended the virtual FDP and received the participation certificate.
The certified participants were from about 60 different institutions (other
than SJEC) and among them, about 10 institutions were from outside Kaataka.
Inauguration: The FDP was virtually inaugurated with Dr Ajay Semalty H.N.B.
Garhwal University,
Uttarakhand as Chief Guest, Dr Rio D'Souza and Rev Fr Alwyn D'Souza as Guest of
Honours, Rev Fr Wilfred Prakash D'Souza as President in the presence of Dean
R&D Dr Sudheer M, HOD-ME Dr Purushothama Chippar, Convener Dr Harivinod and
the FDP participants.
Sessions
Day 1:
Dr
Ajay Semalty from H.N.B. Garhwal University, Uttarakhand spoke on topic "Academic Writing". Professor highlighted on Nine Characters of
Guru, Basic Traits of Academic Writing, Leaing Academic Writing, Focus on
Quality not Quantity, Importance of English, Plagiarism, Major Types of
Academic Writing, Basic Rules Focusing Every Component of the Article etc.
Dr
Arun M Isloor from NITK Surathkal gave virtual presentation on "Ethics
in Research" and enlightened participants on Ethics Principles, Research
Integrity, Code of Practice, Retraction watch, Data Fabrication, Research Misconduct,
Plagiarism etc.
Sessions Day 2:
Mr
Akshay Prasanna from Tuitin, Bengaluru spoke on "Academic
Integrity, Plagiarism and Best Practises" covering the topics such as Plagiarism and Text Similarity,
Factors Affecting Similarity, Utilizing Tuitin as a Formative Tool etc.
Dr
Rajasekharan Pillai K, MIM-MAHE Manipal presented on the topic "Literature Review" covering the different related topics such as What is not a Literature Review,
Purpose of Literature Review, Critical Questions and Conces, Coopers
Taxonomy, Steps to Conduct Literature Review, Literature Map, Common Mistakes,
Quality Check etc.
Sessions Day 3:
Dr P. Pal Pandian,
CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru
gave a very detailed presentation on "Writing
Review Papers" covering the topics such as Why/What/Where to publish,
Importance of Language, Structure of the Review Paper, Abstract, Methods and
Materials, Discussions, Conclusion etc.
Dr
Anitha D, Thyagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai presented on topic "Research Article Writing" covering
the different topics such as Initial Steps,
Deciding on the Completeness of the Work, Drafting the Title, Abstract, Construction
of the Results, Writing the Main Body of the Article, Writing Introduction, Literature
Review, Methods and Materials, Writing Discussion, Conclusion, References, Joual
Selection etc.
Sessions Day 4:
Dr
Ligy Philip, IIT Chennai spoke
on "Research Proposal Writing" and
enlightened the FDP participants on various topics such as What is a research
proposal? Structure of Proposal, Essential Ingredients, Identify the Funding
Agency, Identify the Area of Research, Criteria Used for Selection, Questions and
Answers on Research Proposal Preparation, How to Write Each Components of the
Research Proposal for Funding with Example, Common Mistakes, Building Team,
Budget, Do's and Don't's etc.
Dr.
Paresh Tanna, R K university, Gujarath gave presentation on the title "Thesis Writing" and covered the related contents like What is Thesis? When to start?
Components of Thesis, Explanation of Writing each Components of Thesis with
Examples.
Sessions
Day 5:
Dr
Shivaram B S, NAL Bengaluru gave
interesting lecture on "Understanding
Publication Metrics & Ethics" briefing on different topics such as Importance of the Academic Metrics,
Data Points of the Scholarly Publications, Sources of Publication Metrics, Understanding
Publication Metrics: Joual, Article, Author / Researcher / Institution, Publication
Ethics etc.
Dr
Anil Kumar Agarwal, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi gave presentation on "Framing the Research Problem" and covered topics such as, What is a Problem? Right Research
Problem, Judging the Strength, Literature Review, Research Questions, Types of Research
Etc.
A very good feedback and appreciation
about the FDP was obtained from the participants and the FDP has served its
purpose.
In
an attempt to foster translational research and communication for advances in
multi-disciplinary fields, St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC), Mangaluru, entered
into a Memorandum of Understanding with NITTE University Technology Enabling
Centre (NUTEC), a unit under NITTE (Deemed to be
University), Mangaluru.
The MoU was signed by Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D'Souza, Director of SJEC and Dr Alka Kulkai, Registrar of NITTE (Deemed to be University) on 5 April 2021 in the presence of the team from NITTE that included Dr Satheesh Kumar Bhandary, Vice-Chancellor, Dr M S Moodithaya, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Dr Iddya Karunasagar, Adviser for Research, Patents & IPR, Dr Indrani Karunasagar, Director of Projects and DST-NUTEC, Dr Sudheer M, HOD of Mechanical Engineering at SJEC, Dr Dayakshini, HOD of Electronics & Communication Engineering at SJEC and Dr Mamatha Girish, Associate Professor-ECE at SJEC.
The main aim of the MoU is to develop an appropriate scientific relationship between both parties to enhance collaboration and cooperation towards knowledge enhancement by providing support and advice for developing multidisciplinary research in the field of Bio-Medical, Agri- Biotech, Environment and Technology while jointly organizing conferences, webinars, symposia on research, projects and patents etc.
The Department of Mechanical
Engineering organized a webinar on the topic "Finite Element
Analysis/application in Virtual Design process" for the benefit of pre-final
and final year students on 14th October 2020 from 3 pm to 4 pm using
Cisco webex platform. Total 144 participants registered and 64 of them
participated actively during the webinar day. Mr. Suresh Shenoy, Managing
Director, Pride Engineering Bristol, UK presented the topic and enlightened the
students on various real time projects he worked during his 18 years of
industrial experience on virtual design/analysis using the FEA method. Some of
the projects discussed included
1.
Introduction to Finite Element Simulation
2. Aircraft
wing in-service issue/design modification.
3.
In-service issue or failure RC study.
4. Aerospace
virtual pre-test simulation.
5. Seating
system FE analysis.
6. ODB-
Frontal Crash test analysis.
7. Rear
suspension upright analysis.
8. Topology and topography optimization.
His
area of expertise included CAE related projects in the automobile domain for
customers like Mahindra, Ferrari, McLaren, Maseratti, GM etc and technical
consultant for Airbus projects like A380/A400/A320 programs. He worked for
companies like Designtech systems Pune, Altair Engineering India Bangalore/UK
and Infosys Bangalore/UK. A detailed attendance report is attached herewith.
A four-day training on the Pneumatic and Electro-Pneumatic systems in the FESTO Center for Industrial Automation was held on 21 - 24 September 2020. The training was conducted by the Faculty who had participated in the training provided by the FESTO representative Mr Ugesh, during the installation of the systems. Eleven faculty, who are a part of the FESTO - SJEC Team, participated in this training. Mr. Rahul Kumar and Mr. Ravikantha Prabhu, Assistant Professors in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with Mr Harshith G, Mr Gunakara, and Mr Immanuel, Technical Staff in the Department of Mechanical Engineering conducted the training program.
Mr Rakshith Kotian, Mr Aldin Sequeira and Mr Rajath C Kotekar, Founders, Avishkar Engineering Solutions, NITK-STEP, Mangaluru, delivered a webinar on the topic
'TORQUE'-Mechanical Department
Association, SJEC oraganized a Webinar on "Career opportunities in
Aerospace and Defence Sector" in association with Centre of Excellence in
Aerospace and Defence (COEAD), Bengaluru on 11th June 2020 from
10.00 AM to 12.00 PM for third year engineering students in an online mode
using Google Meet platform. Total 55 students attended the program including
students from neighboring engineering colleges like Canara Engineering College,
VCET and VMIT, Pune.Dr K Badari Narayan, Industry Expert, COEAD and Scientist
(Retired), ISRO explained briefly about training structure in COEAD and gave a
bird eye view of Aerodynamics, Aircraft structures and propulsion system. Mr
Nicky Harris and Mr Chethan, Trainers in simulation and system engineering,
COEAD enlightened the participants about the 3D Experience platform and Digital
Manufacturing system respectively. Participants gave positive feedback and many
students showed interest in pursuing an inteship or foundation course in the
Aircraft system by COEAD Bengaluru in future.
The Industry and Innovation Cell of Mechanical
Engineering organized one-day Industrial visit for Second year students to “Kudremukh
Iron Ore Company Limited” on 29/02/2020. Total of 26 students along with two
staff took part in the visit.
The main objective of this visit is to
Inculcating the basic knowledge about steps involved
in Processing of Iron ore.
Experience and understand real life situation in an
industrial organization and related environment.
KIOCL Limited (Formerly known as Kudremukh Iron Ore
Company Limited), a Flagship Company under the Ministry of Steel, Govt. of
India was formed on 2 April 1976 for mining and beneficiation of low grade iron
ore at Kudremukh, Kaataka, India. KIOCL has been a pioneer with over four
decades of experience in operating Iron Ore Mining, Beneficiation and
Iron–Oxide Pelletisation in the Country. KIOCL is having facilities to
operate 3.5 MTPA Iron-oxide Pellet Plant, Blast Fuace Unit to manufacture
2.16 lakh tons per annum Pig iron at Mangaluru, Kaataka. KIOCL is an EoU and
a profit making, continuous dividend paying company with a positive net worth
and Mini Ratna Category I PSU is also an ISO9001:2015,
ISO14001:2015 and ISO45001:2018 certified Company.
Mr. Shiva raja, Head of training division welcomed
and briefed us about the company. He showed us videos which gave us lots of
information about the company and described the safety measures implemented by
the company for reducing the accidents in the working area very efficiently. We
then visited the ore collecting center. A stream of pellets discharged by the
conveyor and pellets were stored in heaps on the ground. And finally visited
the Ball mill where the ore gets crushed into fine particles. We also saw the
filtration unit where vacuum filters were used to separate water and Iron Ore.
This visit enhanced students’ knowledge on
● Idea on the
working environment of the company.
Different steps involved in processing of Iron ore.
Different types of conveyors used to handle ore.
● Implemented
safety practices in the industry.
Mr Santhosh H
and Mr Raghavendra Prasad, Faculty of Department of Mechanical Engineering
coordinated the visit.
Over 40 students of second year Mechanical Engineering along with the Department faculty Mr Ashwin Shetty participated in the clean-up drive at Panambur Beach, Mangaluru on 21st Feb 2020. The activity was conducted as an outreach program under the banner of TORQUE- Mechanical Engineering Students
Over 40 students of second year Mechanical Engineering along with the Department faculty Mr Ashwin Shetty participated in the clean-up drive at Panambur Beach, Mangaluru on 21st Feb 2020. The activity was conducted as an outreach program under the banner of TORQUE- Mechanical Engineering Students
TORQUE - Mechanical Engineering
Students' Association in association with Student Welfare and Alumni Group
(SWAG) conducted a technical talk and alumni interaction for the IV Sem
Mechanical Engineering students on 20 February 2020 at 11:00 am in Bishop Aloysius
Paul Hall, AB-IV. The guest speaker and the alumnus of 2013 batch, Mr Aston
D'Souza, Product Development Engineer, Ford - US delivered a talk on "A Jouey
into the Real World". During presentation, speaker mentioned about the design
evolution, mode manufacturing, automation and the future. Mr Aston D'Souza
gave a glimpse of the projects where he used microcontroller like Arduino Uno
to perform simple task when he was studying in 2nd year engineering. Speaker also
briefed about the simple automation projects taken up at his research lab like
tiny weather forecast for his aunt and manufacturing of components for tiny
weather forecast by additive manufacturing at his lab. As our proud alumni, Mr
Aston D'Souza interacted with the students and shared sweet memories of his
student life at SJEC during 2009-2013. He requested the students to attend the
classes regularly and have the strong foundation in subjects. Mr Vinoothan
Kaliveer, Coordinator, TORQUE 2020 thanked the speaker and team and asked Mr
Nitheesh D Nayak, Assistant Professor, Dept of ME to present a memento as a
gesture of gratitude.
Mr
Krishnamoorthy K, the Director of Training at Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers
Association – IMTMA conducted an Interactive Meet on Future Trends in
Manufacturing on 30 January 2020. The event was hosted by the Department of
Mechanical Engineering at St Joseph Engineering College under the aegis of its
Industry Interaction Cell in association with IMTMA – Bengaluru.
Heads
of Departments and Senior Faculty from various Engineering Colleges
participated in this interactive meet. A total of 24 Faculty members
participated in the Interactive Meet, out of which, 11 members were from
various engineering colleges of the region. The event commenced with the
welcoming of the participants and introduction to Mr Krishnamoorthy M. For over
30 years of his continued engineering practice in the industry, Mr
Krishnamoorthy M has acquired astute expertise in the application and use of
GD&T principles in CAD/CAM, high precision CNC machining as well as
conducting Technical Trainings. Prior to working at IMTMA, Mr. Krishnamoorthy
has worked at ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore in the field of Precision
Machining of satellite on –board components. After ISRO, he was with Perfect
Moulds and UMS technologies as a specialist in Tool Planning and Production and
Technical Training in CAD/CAM/CAE, respectively.
The
interactive meet was conducted over two sections. The first section that
commenced at 10:30am was on the Future trends in manufacturing - Automation, Robotics
and Industry 4.0. Mr Krishnamoorthy spoke about the changing landscape of
manufacturing from the point of view of Industrial 4.0. Through a set of
interesting videos, he was able to point out the dynamic growth and development
in the field of Robotics and Automation. The interaction was active and a lot
of enthusiasm was reserved for Collaborative Robotics that merges the human –
robot workspaces. Mr Krishnamoorthy also spoke about the challenges going
forward and the need for skilled workforce to meet the changing needs of the
manufacturing sector.
The
second session was focused on Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers Association and
about its training modules. IMTMA has been conducting Finishing School and
related training programs in modelling and manufacturing aimed to bridge the
gap in practical knowledge of fresh graduates. A well-established training
center at Bangalore is also a hub for inteships and training programs. The
association has also set up online training services through their online
portals that are beneficial for faculty, students and industry personnel.
The
event concluded at 1:30 pm. The interaction reveals the urgent need to train
our students on advanced manufacturing technologies and contribute the
workforce towards Industry 4.0. Post lunch at 3:30 pm, a discussion was held
with My Krishnamoorthy in the Board Room that was attended by Dr Rio D’Souza,
Principal – SJEC, Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa, Assistant Director – SJEC, Rev. Fr
Alwyn D’Souza, Assistant Director, Prof Sureshnath M L, Head – TPC, Ms Sangeeta
Ferrao, Placement Officer – SJEC, Mr Chiranth B P, Coordinator – IIC, and Mr
Sathyendra Bhat, Chairperson of Industry Interaction - SJEC. Mr Krishnamoorthy
delivered a presentation on the functioning of IMTMA and its multitude of
training programs. The members agreed on the need to pursue an MOU between SJEC
and IMTMA that works for the benefit of student community of the region. The
meeting concluded with the promise of collaborations and an intent of visit to
IMTMA.
A
team comprising of alumni and students of St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC) brought
laurels to the college by winning the Overall Championship at Inteational
Robowars event held at IIT Bombay. Robowars at IIT Bombay’s annual Techfest is
India's Largest Robot Combat Competition where participants from around the
globe battle it out for the coveted Robowars Champion Title.
This
year, at Techfest 2020, a new weight category of 8kg was introduced in Robowars
for the first time in India. SOLIC, a start-up company based out of SJEC, which
mainly deals with Electronic and Robotic projects, in association with Team
Terrorbull Robotics, a collegiate club at SJEC, built a combat Bot named ‘Raptor’
and competed in 8kg category at Robowars 2020. On the way to the podium finish,
the team had to face the challenge of 32 teams that took part in the
competition.
The
Bot that was praised for its stability, looks, aggression and the unique weapon
design was designed by Joyson M D’Souza, Mechanical Designing Engineer at SOLIC.
Though building the bot with a weight limit 8kgs was a challenging task, the
team managed to implement the full-fledged Electronics setup thereby making the
bot completely ready for the combat. The Electronics design was done by
Christon Kenneth D’Souza and Sujan Shetty, Co-Founders of SOLIC. The Bot was
controlled by Veekshith Shetty, a student of SJEC and a member of Team Terrorbull
Robotics.
The
management of St Joseph Engineering College is proud of the team and congratulates
them on their outstanding efforts.
The
Department of Mechanical Engineering of St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC),
Mangaluru, organized TEQIP 1.3 Sponsored Five-Day Faculty Development Program
(FDP) on Outcome Based Education
(OBE) and NBA Accreditation for faculty members of engineering institutes from
30 December 2019 to 3 January 2020. The FDP was organized in association with Visvesvaraya
Technological University (VTU)-Belagavi, Aryabhatta Knowledge University-Patna,
Biju Patnaik University of Technology-Rourkela.
The
five-day FDP included sessions on effective implementation of OBE from several perspectives.
More specifically, it was intended to address the implementation of the OBE
system at affiliated institutions. Specific responsibilities of institution-level
administrators, heads of individual programs and individual faculty were addressed
through specially designed interactive sessions.
The
FDP was inaugurated on the first day by the Chief Guest, Dr Umakanth P Kulkai,
Professor & Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at SDM
College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad. Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa, Incharge
Director of SJEC, Rev. Fr Alwyn Richard D’Souza, Assistant Director of SJEC, Dr
Rio D’Souza, Principal of SJEC, Dr Shreeranga Bhat, Inteal Quality Assurance
Cell (IQAC) Coordinator at SJEC, Mr Rakesh Lobo, HR Manager at SJEC were also
present on the occasion.
Dr
Rio D’Souza spoke about the importance of OBE and described the necessity of
imbibing it at engineering colleges. He briefly spoke about the accreditation
process and remarked that practicing OBE at grassroots levels does assist in
getting accredited by statutory bodies like the NBA.
Dr
Umakanth Kulkai, speaking about the implementation of OBE mentioned that it
is directly proportional to the leaing that takes place inside the classroom.
He urged the participants to embrace mode teaching pedagogies which eventually
enhances the overall teaching-leaing process.
Fr
Rohith D’Costa in his presidential address mentioned that the implementation of
OBE has helped SJEC in maintaining the quality standards and getting accredited
by NBA for 3 cycles. He assured that the participants of the workshop will have
a lot to take back to their respective institutions and called upon them to
take an active part in the five-day program.
Dr
Shreeranga Bhat welcomed the gathering. Mr Joel D’Mello, compeered the
inaugural.
Several
sessions on OBE and NBA accreditation were scheduled on all five days of the
program. The resource persons for the FDP were Dr Umakanth P Kulkai, Professor
& Head, Department of CSE at SDM College of Engineering and Technology-Dharwad,
Dr ESM Suresh, Professor & Head, Department of Civil Engineering at NITTTR-Chennai,
Dr Rio D’Souza, Principal of SJEC, Dr Shreeranga Bhat, Inteal Quality Assurance
Cell (IQAC) Coordinator at SJEC, Mr Sathyendra Bhat J and Mr Ragesh Raju, Assistant
Professors-MCA at SJEC and Dr Claire Komives, Professor, Department of Chemical
Engineering at San Jose State University USA and Secretary of Indo Universal
Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE).
The
Industry and Innovation Cell of Mechanical Engineering organized one day
Industrial visit for Second year students to “Mangalore Refinery and
Petrochemicals Limited “on 18/11/2019. Total of 35 students along with
three staff took part in the visit.
The
main objective of this visit is to
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL), is an oil refinery at Mangalore and is a subsidiary of ONGC, set up in 1988. The refinery is located at Katipalla, north from center
of Mangalore city.
The refinery was established after displacing five villages of Bala, Kalavar,
Kuthetoor, Katipalla, and Adyapadi.
The refinery has a versatile design with high flexibility to
process crudes of various API
gravity and with high degree of
automation. MRPL has a design capacity to process 15 million metric tonnes per
annum and is the only refinery in India to have two hydrocrackers producing
premium diesel (high cetane).It also has a
Polypropylene unit with a capacity of 4,40,000 MT/annum. It is also the only
refinery in India to have two CCRs producing unleaded
petrol of high octane. Currently, the refinery is processing about 14.65 million tons of crude per
year and had a tuover of US$9 billion during last year.
Mr
Satish, Chief Manager of Materials welcomed the students. During the visit he
showed various sections of the plant. He briefed about the history, operations
occurring at various sections, reactors, crude oil storage, products that are
produced in MRPL and showed us how control of the entire plant is done.
This visit
enhanced students’ knowledge on
● Idea
of the working environment of the refinery plant.
● Knowledge
gained on Byproducts of crude oil.
Mr
Chiranth, Mr Santhosh H and Mr Akshay N H, Faculty of Department of Mechanical
Engineering coordinated the visit.
The Industry and Innovation Cell of Mechanical
Engineering had organized one day Industrial visit for Third year Mechanical
Engineering students to “New Mangalore Port Trust, Panambur” on
25/10/2019. Total of 48 students along with staff took part in the visit.
The main objective of this visit is to
NMPT was officially opened in 1975. In the
year 1962, projects that were associated with the port were initiated. It is
the only major port in Kaataka and ninth biggest port of India.
NMPT imports and exports iron ore concentrates
and pellets, iron ore fines, LPG, fertilizers, phosphoric acid, crude and
petroleum products and liquid chemicals
Ms Sushma, Safety Engineer of NMPT welcomed
the students. During the visit she showed various sections of the port. She
briefed about the history, operations occurs at various terminal, loading,
unloading and tracking systems of the container and disaster management system
established at the port . She also explained the working of stackers, offshore
cranes and Excavators systems.
The visit has enhanced the students’ knowledge
on shipping, loading, customs formalities, and storage facilities in the port.
Also, they understood different machinery used in the port to handle the
materials. Overall the visit was educative and informative.
Mr Chiranth and Mr Sushanth, Faculty of Department
of Mechanical Engineering coordinated the visit.
The Industry and Innovation Cell of Mechanical
Engineering had organized one day Industrial visit for all Second years on four
different days to “GWASF - Quality
Casting, Baikampady”. Total of 154 students along with staff took part in
the visit.
The main objective of this visit is to
GWASF manufactures a range of castings in a
large variety of alloys from a weight range of 10 kg to 450 kg. The castings
are designed and manufactured to meet inteational safety standards such as
the European PED for pressure vessel castings and Lloyds/DNV for marine
applications. They manufacture a product like pumps casing and safety valves.
GWASF has a large base on sub-contractors and in-house machining facilities.
The company has high end machining capabilities to meet tight tolerance
components. Components are surface finished, painted and pressure tested
according to our customers’ requirements.
The visit has enhanced the students’ knowledge
on Metal casting manufacturing process. Mr Rudolf D’Souza, Mr Chiranth, Mr Sushanth, Mr Rolvin
D’Silva, Mr Akshay, M Rahul, Ms Ramya, Mr Jinu, Mr Santhosh, Mr Nitheesh
Faculty of Mechanical engineering coordinated the visit.
TORQUE – Mechanical Engineering Students’ Association
in association with Student Welfare and Alumni Group (SWAG) conducted a
technical talk and alumni interaction for the III Sem Mechanical Engineering
students on 17th Oct 2019 at 3:00pm in Prerana Hall. The guest
speaker and the alumnus of 2007 batch, Dr Vijeesh Vijayan, presently working as
Asst. Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NMAMIT Nitte
delivered a talk on “Challenges and advances in resistance spot welding of
advanced high strength steels and aluminium alloys for future electric car
vehicles”. During presentation, speaker mentioned about the basics of
resistance spot welding, influencing factors and challenges in welding advanced
high strength steels and aluminum alloys. Dr Vijeesh Vijayan gave a glimpse of
the Welding research lab set up by him at NITTE and various research activities
going on as on date. Speaker also briefed about the industrial consultancy
projects taken up at his welding research lab.
As our proud alumni, Dr Vijeesh Vijayan interacted
with the students and shared sweet memories of his student life at SJEC during
2003-2007. He requested the students to attend the classes regularly and have
the strong foundation in subjects. Dr Vijeesh appreciated the infrastructure
and the growth the SJEC has shown in the last one decade.
SAE-SJEC team members have also interacted with
speaker to get the solution to their specific problems which they used to
encounter during the welding of ATV vehicles for BAJA competition. Dr Vijeesh
Vijayan invited all to visit his research lab at NMAMIT Nitte. SJEC wishes him
all the best in all his future endeavors.
The Industry and Innovation Cell of
Mechanical Engineering organized one day Industrial visit for Pre final year
students to “Varahi hydro power plant,
Hosaangadi and Mani dam, Yadur”. Total of 49+49 students along with five
staff took part in the visit. Visit was scheduled on two slots, First visit was
on 17/09/2019 & second visit was on 05/10/2019. Mr. Chiranth B.P, Mr
Santhosh, Mr Vijay V.S, Mr Sushanth & Mr Prashanth Kumar, Assistant
professor, Dept of ME coordinated the visit.
The main objective of this visit is to
Varahi
Hydro Electric Project is a four Units x 115MW = 460 MW hydro power plant. The
river Varahi takes its birth at a height of 730 m in the Weste Ghats at
Hebbagilu, near Agumbe in Shimoga District. Varahi is Kaataka's first
underground powerhouse – a key milestone in the corporation history of KPCL.
Varahi Hydro Electric Project initially
conceived as a surface powerhouse at the blueprint stage. Later converted into
an underground Powerhouse due to Economical and Conce for environment
protection. Varahi was started with two
different stages. Stage I of the Varahi Hydro Electric Project has a total
installed capacity of 230 MW and Stage II of the Varahi Hydro Electric Project
has a total installed capacity of 230 MW contributing 1100 MU annually. This
consists of 4 x 115 MW generating Units at Varahi underground Powerhouse. We
also visited Mani Dam (Dam attached power plant) where two 4.5 MW units are set
up.
This
visit enhanced students’ knowledge on
●
Idea of the working environment of the hydro power station.
●
Parameters considered for the selection of turbine in the
plant.
●
Working principle of Pelton and Kaplan turbine.
A team consisting of Alumni's and a Student of St
Joseph Engineering College, Vamanjoor Mangaluru led by Mr Noel Deepak Shiri,
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SJEC had
participated in the program titled "Swachhata He Seva" and Workshop
and Exhibition on "Plastic Waste Management" organized by Central
Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology (CIPET), a Govement of
India Undertaking in the Department of Chemicals, Petrochemicals and
Fertilizer. The Workshop was conducted in KASSIA Auditorium in KASSIA Udyog
Bhavan, Bengaluru with the support of Kaataka State Polymer Association
(KSPA) and Kaataka Small Scale Industries Association (KASSIA) on the 2nd
October 2019. The program was inaugurated by Honorable Union Minister for
Chemicals, Petrochemicals & Fertilizers Shri Sadananda Gowda along with
Director General CIPET Dr S.K Nayak, Joint Secretary Mr Kailashnath Jha, Department
of Chemicals, Petrochemicals & Fertilizers and KSPA President Mr Vijaya
Kumar and KASSIA President Mr R Raju.
The Workshop was attended by more than 200 people
represented by Polymer Industries captains, recycling entrepreneurs and
supporting technicians along with students of CIPET, Mysore and Central
Pollution Control Board (CPCB) officials. The workshop covered topics of
Recycling, Plastic Waste Management, Single Use Packaging products,
Entrepreneurship in Recycling. In the same workshop, Mr Noel Deepak Shiri
presented a invited guest talk on the topic "Development of Waste Plastic
Lumber and Bricks using Commingled (Mixed) Waste Plastics and Single Use Waste
Plastics". The Honorable Union Minister Shri Sadananda Gowda and
dignitaries appreciated the efforts of the team led by Mr Noel D Shiri and
encouraged them after visiting the display stall and wished the team success
for their innovation to get into reality by helping the nation in recycling
single use products for alteatives to sustainable development. The project
collaborator Mr Wolfram Thurm from the German Funding Agency who has supported
the Project Work was present in the workshop and the stall and was specially
thanked by the Honorable Union Minister for supporting and funding the project.
The teams members participated in this Exhibition are:
Mr Noel D Shiri, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
along with the Alumni's Mr Glen Pinto and Ms Vishikha Keshav and a student
named Mr Mohammed Sinan along with Mr Wolfram Thurm, Project Collaborator from
the German Funding Agency from Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Dresden, Germany.
On Thursday, 05th Sept 2019, Mr Prathap
Rai, visiting faculty from Mangalore Marine College and Technology, Kuppepadav,
Mangaluru delivered a presentation on “Opportunities in Merchant Navy for
Mechanical Engineers” for the final year Mechanical Engineering students
in Prerana Hall from 12:00 Noon to 01:00 PM.
During presentation, Mr Prathap demonstrated a video
on types of ships and the various jobs handled by engineers in the ship. Mr Rai
mentioned about various advantages of career at sea. Less competition, high
salary, tax free income, high rate of savings, free world trips, inteational
job, versatile practical engineer, no migration from birthplace were some of
the advantages of becoming marine engineer.
Speaker gave idea about career profile at sea ranging from 5/E to 2/E
and the necessary training and the experience required at all levels. He shared
his marine experience of 15 years and his exposure as a Chief Engineer of the
ship. Mr Prathap also mentioned about the post-marine opportunities to take up
shore jobs as tech superintendent with shipping companies, surveyors with
classification societies, insurance surveyors, port logistics, shipyards and at
teaching institutes. The presentation has given students a good idea about
career prospectus in merchant navy.
The
faculty members, alumni and students from the Department of Mechanical
Engineering and Civil Engineering of St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC), Mangaluru,
were invited and given a chance to display their recycling projects at 10th
Edition of Inteational Plastics Exposition 2019 (IPLEX 2019) held in
Bengaluru Inteational Exhibition Centre (BIEC), from 23rd to 25th August
2019.
The
following projects were exhibited during the event:
1)
Development of Waste Plastic Lumber & Bricks using Commingled (Mixed) Waste
Plastics and Single-Use Waste Plastics
2)
Development of Low-cost building materials using composite made from Demolished
Building Material (DBM) Waste and Waste Plastic
The
exhibits drew a very good response from the audience that included participants
from Govement, Industry, Investors, general public and foreign delegates from
Nepal, Sri Lanka, China, Canada, Germany, etc. who very much appreciated and
commended the efforts of the college in developing the systems in upcycling of
waste plastics.
Mr Noel
D Shiri, Assistant Professor-Mechanical Engineering, along with alumni of
Mechanical Engineering, Mr Darryl D’Souza and Mr Keegan Dion Santhmayor and
current students namely Mr Mohammed Sinan and Mr Grenvil Noronha participated
in the exhibition. From the Department of Civil Engineering Mr Prashant
Kurdekar, Assistant Professor and alumni Ms Vishikha Keshav were also present.
Important
delegates who visited SJEC stall included Shri D V Sadananda Gowda, Honourable
Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizer, Govement of India, Convenors and
Organizers of IPLEX 2019, KSPA President Mr Vijaya Kumar and KASSIA President
Mr R Raju among others.
The
Department of Mechanical Engineering at St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC),
Mangaluru, organized its Second Inteational Conference under the banner of
Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering eTIME-2019, on 9th and 10th
August 2019. The conference was organized in association with AIP Conference
Proceedings as Publishing Partner.
The
inteational conference was inaugurated by the Chief Guest Ir.
Dr Haji Kamarul Arifin Bin Ahmad, Head, Aerospace Malaysia Research Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia
in the august presence of Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director of SJEC,
Rev Fr Rohith D’Costa & Rev. Fr Alwyn Richard D’Souza, Assistant Directors
of SJEC and Dr Rio D’Souza, Principal of SJEC. Dr Sudheer M, Head of Mechanical
Engineering & Organizing Chair of eTIME-2019 and Dr Purushothama Chippar,
Organizing Secretary of eTIME-2019 were also present.
Dr
Sudheer M welcomed the gathering and presented a brief report about the
achievements of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Delivering
the inaugural address, Ir. Dr Haji Kamarul Arifin Bin Ahmad briefed
about the need for more collaborative research. He requested the delegates to take
active part in the proceedings and go back enriched.
Dr
Rio D’Souza spoke about the need for collaborative research on any discipline
of engineering. He called upon all the participants to have a productive time
at discussing the emerging trends in Mechanical Engineering.
In
his presidential address, Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza put forward the
challenges posed by emerging technologies and the need to identify
technological interventions to address these issues. He wished all the
participants a happy time at SJEC.
Dr Purushothama Chippar offered the vote
of thanks.
Apart from exciting pre-conference
workshops, the conference is scheduled to witness 40 papers presented across
all tracks.
St Joseph
Engineering college has signed Memorandum of Understanding with CHRIST (Deemed
to be University) Bangalore, on 11 June 2019, under the leadership of Dr Purushothama
Chippar, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, SJEC and Rev. Fr Joseph Varghese
Kureethara, Associate Professor, CU. The MoU was signed by Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash
D’souza, Director, SJEC Mangaluru and Dr Anil Joseph Pinto, Registrar, CU Bengaluru.
The Purpose of this covenant is to build friendship, goodwill and foster a relationship
that will promote mutual intellectual exchanges between students, faculty members
and administrators of SJEC and CU. This agreement is anchored and monitored by the
Mechanical Department and also is open to all the departments to work under on exchange
program that seeks to promote an academic exchange and to provide collaboration
in research efforts.
The Industry Interaction Cell of
Mechanical Engineering organized one-day Industrial visit for final year
students to “Varahi hydro power plant, Hosaagadi
and Mani dam, Yadur”. Total of 21 students along with
one staff took part in the visit. Visit was scheduled on 25/02/2019 at 6.30 A.M
- 7.00 P.M. Mr. Chiranth B.P Assistant professor, Dept of ME coordinated the
visit.
The main objective of this visit is
to
Varahi
Hydro Electric Project is a 4 Units x 115MW = 460 MW hydro power plant. The
river Varahi takes its birth at a height of 730 m in the Weste Ghats at
Hebbagilu, near Agumbe in Shimoga District. Varahi is Kaataka's first
underground powerhouse – a key milestone in the corporation history of KPCL.
Varahi Hydro Electric Project initially
conceived as a surface power house at the blueprint stage. Later converted into
an underground Powerhouse due to Economical and Conce for environment
protection. Varahi was started with two
different stages. Stage I of the Varahi Hydro Electric Project has a total
installed capacity of 230 MW and Stage II of the Varahi Hydro Electric Project
has a total installed capacity of 230 MW contributing 1100 MU annually. This
consists of 4 X 115 MW generating Units at Varahi underground Powerhouse. We
also visited Mani Dam (Dam attached power plant) where two 4.5 MW units are set
up.
This visit enhanced students’
knowledge on
● Idea of the working environment of
the hydro power station.
● Parameters considered for the
selection of turbine in the plant.
● Working principle of Pelton and Kaplan turbine.
St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC), Vamanjoor,
Mangaluru, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kaataka German
Technical Training Institute (KGTTI) on Monday, 25th February 2019.
The MoU was signed in the presence of Mr Giridhar Salian, Director of KGTTI,
Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director of SJEC, Dr. Rio D’Souza, Principal
of SJEC, Rev. Fr Rohith D’Costa, Assistant Director of SJEC, Mr. Amar Saxena,
GIZ Expert at KGTTI and Dr Sudheer M, Professor & Head of Mechanical
Engineering at SJEC. The two organizations expressed their intention to
cooperate within the scope of their mandates and sphere of competences to work
with youth and for youth, towards skill development of engineering students.
The MoU is made for imparting skill development training under different
training programs organized by KGTTI at SJEC for its students and staff.
According to MoU, the overall objective of the KGTTI
is to provide skill development, hands-on-training in advanced technology and
to enhance employment opportunities of engineering students.
Mr Allen Joel Feandes passed out during 2017,
presently serving as sub-lieutenant in Indian Navy gave presentation on
“Opportunities and Life in Indian Navy”. Mr Allen briefed about procedures in
SSB interview and he shared his experience in qualifying different rounds
during the interview process. He also shared about his stage 1 flying training
in Air Force Academy, Hyderabad from June 2018-Dec 2018. Currently Mr Allen is
undergoing Stage 2 flying training in Air Force Station, Yelahanka and is
expected to complete by June 2019.
During interactions, Mr Allen shared few interesting
points like, he applied though online applications to SSB interview, with no
family background in defense he could get selected purely based on merit and
performance in selection process. He gave tips to students not to miss a single
class and keep their teachers as role models in their life. Mr Allen also
shared that the discipline and the attitude towards studies has helped him to
achieve his position and he is happy with this
and his family also got lot of respect and recognition after he joined
Indian Navy.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering organised a two day Faculty Development Programme INTEGRA-2019 on the 22nd & 23rd of January, 2019. It was held in Spoorthi Conference Hall. DAY 1: Session 1: Curriculum Gap Analysis, Modalities for DAB & PAC Meetings, Framing Effective Action Items. Dr Shreeranga Bhat, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering was the resource person. Dr Shreeranga Bhat shed light on Gap Analysis and its relevance to SAR. He mentioned the key steps to follow regarding gaps in syllabus as: Identify the Gap, Create the syllabus, Get approval from the HOD and Stakeholders, Implementation and finally Assessment. Session 2: Question Paper Review using Bloom's Taxonomy. Mr Keith R Feandes, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication was the resource person. He stressed upon student centric leaing cycle and urged us to spend more than an hour’s time to prepare a question paper having the first four levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. Session 3: CO-PO Mapping and TLOs. Mr Rolen Rodrigues, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics was the resource person. He clarified the various doubts that arise in the mind of the course instructor while preparing a course plan. Furthermore, he provided guidelines that a course instructor could follow to formulate assessable and measurable Course Outcomes. Session 4: Effective Lecture Delivery, Design Thinking for OBE, Quality Circles. Dr Rio D’Souza, Principal, was the resource person. He said that course planning includes the study of course goals and objectives, to identify specific sections that can be used for independent study and collaborative projects, to identify textbooks and multimedia resources for the course and to recognize class projects that will be relevant to the industry. Tips on how to introduce the course to the students on the first day of class were highlighted. The session concluded with a brief discussion on the implementation of ‘Quality Circles’ and its importance in institutional growth. Session 5: Performing Impact Analysis. Ms Supriya Salian, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering was the resource person. She highlighted the importance of obtaining impact analysis for any of the events/workshops being conducted by the departments. She also stressed upon the importance of conducting impact analysis for industrial training and technical talks. Session 6: Collaborative Activity in Class. Mr Vijay V S, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering was the resource person. The basic element of collaborative leaing which is accountability of individuals working in a project team was touched upon. The advantages of adopting collaborative leaing in a classroom were highlighted and the audience was also informed that it helps in attaining higher order PO’s. DAY 2: Dr R.C. Hiremath, Former Principal at K L E Society’s S.Nijalingappa College, Bangalore conducted a half day session on NAAC Accreditation. The Session started with the resource person comparing the NAAC with NBA and the functioning of NAAC. He also mentioned that before applying for NAAC, it is very important to understand NAAC’s vision and relate our institute vision with theirs. He listed the various benefits of NAAC Accreditation and also the NAAC marks distribution patte, the seven main criteria’s and their sub criterions were presented. The Department of Master of Computer Applications organised a two day Faculty Development Programme “CORNEA-2019” on the 23rd and 24th of January, 2019. It was held in Spoorthi Conference Hall. DAY 1: Session 1: Useful Apps for Education/Profession. Mr Akshay N H, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering was the resource person. The recent teaching methodology called as gamification was highlighted upon. Various fields in which gamification are presently being used were explained such as such as business, education, recruitment, marketing. Gamification is using game dynamics in non-game applications. A hands on session was conducted as to how to create a mobile app using the MIT App Inventor. Session 2: Emotional Intelligence. Dr Anjali Ganesh, Professor, Department of Master of Business Application was the resource person. She said that EI is a gateway to better leaing, friendships, academic success and employment. One technique to impart EI in the classroom could be the use of techniques such as Design Thinking, Flipped Classroom, Self Leaing, Gamification and Story Telling. Session 3: Customizing Google Apps with App script. Ms Vijetha U, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering was the resource person. The hands on session started by the resource person highlighting the importance of knowing scripting using google apps since it makes our work much more effective and time efficient. She showed how app script can reduce the work in searching multiple documents for a specific task. Session 4: Effective Use of Social Media. Mr Ajeeth B, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering was the resource person. A hands on session was conducted where in the audience had to create theri own Twitter and Instagram accounts. The resource person shared the effectiveness of using hashtags and how these can be used for the upcoming events being held at our college for publicity. DAY 2: Dr Manohar Pai M M, Professor, Department of Information and Communication Technology, and Dr Manjunath K N, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Engineering, MIT, Manipal, conducted a full day session on “Writing Good Research Papers”. The moing session started with Dr Manohar Pai enlightening the audience on the difference between invention and innovation and how to apply for patents. He gave us an idea about where to publish research paper and how to make research visible. The session was then continued by Dr Manjunath who briefed the audience on the structure of a technical paper. A hands on session was held in the afteoon where the audience were taught how to edit the IEEE format paper template
The
Industry Interaction Cell of Mechanical Engineering organized one day
Industrial visit for second year
students to “Udupi Power Corporation Ltd, Padubidri ”. Total of 45 students
along with two staffs took part in the visit. Visit was scheduled on 12/11/2018
at 10.30 A.M. Mr. Chiranth BP-Assistant Professor,
ME and Mr Akshay-Assistant Professor, ME coordinated the visit.
The
main objective of this visit is to
Udupi
Power Corporation Limited is a 2 X 600 MW imported coal based power project in
the Udupi District of Kaataka. Situated in the weste coastal region of India,
the plant is situated in the village of Yellur, between Mangalore and Udupi.
UPCL
is the first independent power project (IPP) using 100% imported coal as fuel
in the country and was awarded the Gold Shield award for early completion of
Thermal power project Unit-1 from Ministry of power, Govement of India in FY
2010-11 and also the prestigious Golden Peacock Environment Management Award in
FY 2014-15.
The
Udupi Power Project supplies 90% of the power it generates to the State of
Kaataka and 10% to the State of Punjab.
Mr.
Vineeth, UPCL welcomed and explained main parts of the UPCL. Following were the
sections which he briefed.
1.
Coal Handling Plant (CHP)
2.
Water handling plant (DM)
3.
Ash handling plant (AHP)
4.
Switch yard
5.
Cooling house
6.
Flu gas De-Sulphurisation (FGD)
7.
Effluent treatment plant (ETP)
This
visit enhanced students knowledge on the architecture of the power plant, the
way various units in which they are linked and the way how whole power plant is
controlled. It has allowed an opportunity to get an exposure of the practical
implementation to theoretical fundamentals.
The
inauguration of First Year BE classes for the academic year 2018-19 was held at
Kalam Auditorium on Monday, 6 August 2018.
Fr
Dionysius Vas SJ, Rector, St Aloysius College and Educational Institutions was
the Chief Guest. Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director - SJEC, Rev. Fr
Rohith D’Costa, Assistant Director-SJEC, Dr Rio D’Souza, Principal-SJEC, Dr
Ramananda HS, Coordinator for First Year BE, Dr Vincent Crasta, Coordinator of
the Induction programme, and Ms Pramila D’Souza, Convener of the programme, were
present on the dais.
Dr
Vincent Crasta, Coordinator of the Induction programme 2018-2019, welcomed the
gathering.
Addressing
the newcomers, Dr Rio D’Souza said, "We, the Management of SJEC are happy
to welcome this new batch and their parents. We are thankful to you for
selecting our campus for your studies. Definitely we will provide you a
wonderful study atmosphere. SJEC not only focuses on the studies, but the
academic curriculum also gives value-based education, which is helpful for
every student’s personal growth. We want the students to grow with
responsibility and with human values. It is a great campus to lea and make a
successful career."
Rev. Fr Dionysius
Vas SJ inaugurated the ceremony and felicitated the students for their PUC and
CET achievements. In his inaugural speech, Fr Dionysius said, "Leaing to
do, leaing to lea, leaing to become person of character and leaing to
live is called education. Today’s world gives three main challenges to students
or the young generation. Firstly, it says do not lose your identity. Be
original without losing the identity. Secondly, it calls you to be responsible.
You are responsible for your own life, family, society and the nation. Thirdly,
you need to sacrifice. Without scarifies you cannot achieve milestones in your
life.” He further added, “As per my knowledge, SJEC is mainly concentrating on
this type of education. That is why every year it succeeds to get talented
batches. This college is giving complete freedom to explore, flourish, and
extend”.
In his
presidential address, Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, said, "It is my
pleasure to welcome you all newcomers to this beautiful campus. Our College
understands the challenges of the present students and helps them face it and
be successful. With an experienced and professional module, SJEC will help the
students to meet their educational needs. I invite students to use the mode
infrastructure and green surrounding and do well in their studies. If you are
not determined to lea, no one will help you and if you are determined to
lea, no one will stop you,”
Ms
Pramila D’Souza rendered the vote of thanks. Ms Salma Shabnam from the
Department of Chemistry and Ms Smitha D’Souza compered the programme.
SAEINDIA SJEC
Collegiate Club in association with Centre of Excellence in Aerospace and
Defence (COEAD), Bengaluru organized a 5-Day orientation programme for students
of third and final year engineering disciplines. The orientation programme
began on 9 July 2018, Monday at 9:30 AM with the welcome of resource person Mr Ramesh,
Advisor and Chief Trainer, COEAD - Bengaluru by Dr Sudheer M, Head, Department
of ME.
Mr. Ramesh, with 44
years of experience in the field of Aerospace field from reputed institutions
like NAL, HAL and Jet Airways, handled the entire first day on the topic Aircraft Mechanical Systems. On the
second day, Mr Ramesh continued his session till afteoon and later the workshop
was taken forward by Mr Gautham, an expert in the field of 3D experience
platform of Dassault Systems.
On the third day, Mr Prasanna
Venkatesh, Technical expert in the field of Aerospace Simulation demonstrated
the modelling and analysis software Delmia. Experts like Mr Movin Furtado, Mr.
Taranisen and Mr Debashish dedicated the 4th and 5th day of the orientation
program to the lab trainings on latest topics like Electrical Haess, Design
value stream, and Landing gear design from COEAD. Total of 28 students
participated from third and final year of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
Department. Mr Yathish Kumar and Mr Vijay V.S, Faculty Advisors and Mr Darryl
D’Souza, Student Coordinator organized the program successfully. SE
The College-Level Final Year BE Project Exhibition Cum
Competition, held on 18 May 2018 to evaluate the final year B.E Projects, began
by welcoming the judges in the boardroom at 9:00 am. There were 30 judges, 15
exteal and 15 inteal. The members of the Management, HOD’s of various Engineering
Departments and the Coordinators were present.
Mr Joel Antony D'Mello, Coordinator, TECHNOVA- 2018 welcomed
the gathering and discussed the evaluation criteria for the projects. The HOD’s
of various departments along with the Department coordinators escorted the
judges to their respective Departments. A brief inaugural program conducted in
the respective departments, where the judges were introduced to the students by
the coordinators and welcomed florally, after which the evaluation of the
projects were carried out in the various labs. Eight judges evaluated Computer
Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering projects. Four judges evaluated
Civil Engineering and Electrical & Electronics projects. Six judges
evaluated the projects of Electronics and Communication Engineering.
A cash prize of Rs 5,000/ for the First prize, Rs 3,000/ for
Second Prize and Rs 3,000 for Innovative Project were distributed in their
respective Departments.
Total of 143 projects were exhibited and evaluated. The
exhibition was kept open for parents and visitors till 5:00 pm.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering organised ALOHA 2018 - Farewell to the Class of 2018 on 15th May 2018, at 02:00 PM in Bishop Aloysius Paul Conference Hall. Dr Joseph Gonsalvis, Principal, SJEC was the Chief Guest for the programme. Dr Sudheer M, Dean-Student Welfare and HOD of the Mechanical Engineering Department was the Guest of Honour, and Dr Raju K., Research Head, Mechanical Engineering at SJEC presided over the function. Mr. Pavana Kumara B, Assistant Professor in the Department convened the function. Mr Jokshith D’souza, Student of VI semester (ME) and Master of Ceremony, formally welcomed the gathering. Dr Shreeranga Bhat, Associate Professor, Mechanical Department raised the toast where he spoke many aspects which will help students to excel in their life. In reply to the toast, Mr Aman Magwin D’Souza from VIII semester M1 section, Ms Nileema Blanch Pereira from VIII semester M2, section and Mr Akash Rai from VIII semester M4 section, evinced their experiences at SJEC during the past four years.
Next, mementos were distributed to students of M1 and M2 section students by Dr Shreeranga Bhat and Dr Binu KG, Associate Professors of Mechanical Department.
Dr Sudheer M, Dean - Student Welfare and HOD of the Mechanical Engineering Department addressed the gathering. He advised students to be grateful to all the faculties who taught them in their entire engineering studies. He also gave a presentation related to eight rules which must be incorporated in life to be a successful person. He advised the students to take up responsibilities to create a better environment in our society.
This
was followed by distribution of mementos to students of M3 and M4 section by
Mr. Rudolf Dsouza and Mr. Sushanth Gowda, Assistant Professors of Mechanical
Engineering Department.
The President of the function Dr Raju K, delivered the presidential address, congratulated the students for completing their graduation, and wished them all the best for all their future endeavours.
After the presidential address, the office bearers and the association members of SAEINDIA SJEC Collegiate Club, ARC-SJEC, and Torque association received their certificates. The mementos to Turtle-3.0 were also presented during this occasion.
The
chief guest for the day, Dr Joseph Gonsalvis, addressed the gathering where he
expressed his experiences teaching the outgoing batch and advised students not
to forget the teachers who taught them and also wished them good wishes.
In conclusion, Mr Pavana Kumara, Convener proposed the vote of thanks.
After
the formal program the refreshments were served, and the informal program
started at 3:45PM. Students of second and third year had organised various
games and activities where all the outgoing students actively took part. The
program ended at 5:00PM.
The Department of
Mechanical Engineering conducted a one-day workshop on Computational Fluid
Dynamics – Hands-on Training using ANSYS-FLUENT at CAED Laboratory on April
14, 2018. The resource person was Dr Purushothama Chippar, Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering. 50 students participated in the workshop.
The objective of the workshop was to impart basic knowledge of CFD Modelling
using ANSYS FLUENT.
The
Automation and Robotics Club (ARC-SJEC) of SJEC conducted a workshop on PCB
Design and Fabrication on 7 April 2018 for its members. Mr Vijay Ganesh,
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication
Engineering at SJEC and a Faculty Coordinator of the Club, conducted the Workshop
as Resource Person.
The
workshop commenced at 9:15 am in the CAMD Lab on third Floor of Academic Block
III. Students received a brief introduction about the benefits of PCB design,
its applications and detailed insights into the options available for PCB
design software in the market.
The
session also included discussions on various parameters considered while
designing a robot including battery selection, power consumption, size of
robot, component placement etc. This formed the basis for the design of the PCB
at this workshop.
Students
also received a hands-on walkthrough session on Fritzing v0.8.7b - an
open-source software for designing PCBs – where they were taught in detail, the
various aspects involved in designing a PCB, including placement of component
slots, connections between components, wiring thickness, good grounding practices,
do’s and don’ts etc.
A
brief introduction to double-sided PCBs, its advantages over single-sided PCBs
and disadvantages were also dealt with. The workshop concluded at 3:30 pm.
Mr
Santhosh H.., Faculty Coordinator of the Club, Mr Uttam Bangera – President and
Mr Mohammed Hussainer – Secretary, were also present for the Workshop.
A Safety Awareness Program for III year Mechanical Engineering Students was conducted section-wise at MCF Mangaluru in the first and last week of April 2018 under the guidance of Prof Somashekaran S., Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at SJEC. This visit to a chemical industry was arranged as a part of the new CBCS syllabus of elective subject - Industrial Safety, for III year students.
The program started with an overview of the industry delivered at the the Leaing and Development Cell at MCF Mangalore. This was done under the supervision of Mrs Jacintha from MCF Mnagalore. Mr Somashekaran then elaborated on the various departments, the layout, possible hazards and the safety measures present in the industrial setup. This also included several safety measures taken by MCF for the well-being of the general public in the vicinity of the industry. After this brief introduction, Mr Ravichandran explained about how the facility operates during emergency. Students were then taken to the fire safety and control section and the medical facility which was well equipped to overcome fatal incidents. Towards the end, students were taken to the incident safety room where a demonstration about the various tools like oxygen masks, fire resistant suits, alkali resistant safety wear, boots and helmets was given to the students.
The Safety awareness program provided
students a good insight into the safety aspects that followed in a processing
industry.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering has set up a committee to organize and arrange various activities to strengthen the Institute-Industry relationship and to expose our students to organizational, functional, and technical aspects of the industry. Industry-Academia partnership is vital in promoting the employability readiness of graduate engineers.
“We will strive to excel as the best Industry Interaction Cell in the academic system of this region by promoting constant interaction and co-operation between Academia and Industry.”
Work towards strengthening the Department’s relationship with Industry through constant interaction and developing a mutually beneficial partnership.
Sl.No. | Name of the Member | Designation |
---|---|---|
1 | Dr. Purushothama Chippar, Prof. & HOD – Mechanical Engineering | Convener |
2 | Mr Prashanth Kumar, Asst. Prof., Mechanical Engineering | Faculty Coordinator |
5 | Mr Clyde Tellis, 3rd Year M1 | Student Coordinators |
6 | Mr Varun Kajava, 3rd Year M2 | Student Coordinators |
7 | Mr Suhail Clinton, 3rd Year M3 | Student Coordinators |
The Department of Mechanical Engineering is a University (VTU) recognized Research Center involved in state-of-the-art research in various multidisciplinary fields of study, focusing on Materials Science and Thermal Engineering. Currently, the Research Center houses six Doctoral projects and four projects towards M.Sc Engineering by Research.
Details of the research projects are given below:
Sl No | Name of Student | Affiliation | Area / Topic of Research | Research Guide | Status |
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1 | Dr Sudheer M | SJEC – Mangaluru | Wear studies on Polymer Matrix Composites | Dr Thirumaleshwar Bhat | Awarded |
2 | Mr Prashanth Kumar | SJEC – Mangalore | Soap nut oil based hybrid biodiesel studies on CI engine | Dr Raju K | On-going |
3 | Mr Suresha KV | AIET – Moodbidri | Cardanol based hybrid biodiesel Studies on CI engine | Dr Raju K | On-going |
4 | Mr Harish K | AIET – Moodbidri | Wear studies on spray formed Al-Si alloys | Dr Raju K | On-going |
5 | Mr Sushanth H G | SJEC – Mangaluru | Alternate fuels-Vateria Indica Biodiesel | Dr Raju K | Awarded |
6 | Mr Rolvin Sunil D’Silva | SJEC – Mangaluru | Study on Nanoadditive in Alternate fuel | Dr Thirumaleshwara Bhat | On-going |
7 | Mr Ravikantha Prabhu | SJEC – Mangaluru | Natural fibre reinforced polymer composite. | Dr Thirumaleshwara Bhat | Awarded |
8 | Mr Sharun Mendonca | SJEC – Mangaluru | Natural fibre reinforced polymer composite. | Dr Thirumaleshwara Bhat | Awarded |
9 | Mr Vijay V S | SJEC – Mangaluru | Performance of Diesel engine with Pre heated fuel. | Dr Joseph Gonsalvis | On-going |
10 | Mr Pavana Kumara B | SJEC – Mangaluru | Natural fiber reinforced polymer nanocomposite. | Dr Shreeranga Bhat | On-going |
11 | Mr Anil Melwyn Rego (Ext) | Christ University, Bangalore | A study of Implementation of design for lean six sigma strategy for production development. | Dr Shreeranga Bhat | On-going |
12 | Mr Vikas G (Ext) | SJEC – Mangaluru | Mechanical and Tribological properties of ceramic whisker modified natural fiber reinforced polymer composite | Dr Sudheer M | On-going |
13 | Mr Swaraj Dominic Lewis | SJEC – Mangaluru | Metal hydride beds for Hydrogen Isotope storage. | Dr Purushothama Chippar | On-going |
14 | Mr Yatish Kumar K | SJEC – Mangaluru | Tribological study of piston-cylinder tribo pair operating with Nanolubricants | Dr Binu K G | On-going |
15 | Mr Vinoothan Kaliveer | SJEC – Mangaluru | Effect of process parametes of spray formed Al-Si ternary alloys. | Dr Raju K | On-going |
16 | Mr Poornesh M | SJEC – Mangaluru | Experimental and Stastical analysis of Aluminium based functionally graded composites | Dr Shreeranga Bhat | On-going |
17 | Mr Ravikiran Kamath B (Ext) | NMAMIT Nitte | Processing and characterization of synthetic fiber and whisker reinforced polymer matrix composite | Dr Sudheer M | On-going |
Sl No | Name of Student | Affiliation | Area / Topic of Research | Research Guide | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mr Vijay VS | VCET – Puttur | Studies on design modification of 2 stroke SI engine | Dr Joseph Gonsalvis | Awarded |
2 | Mr Udaya Shankar KB | SIT – Mangalore | Wear studies on 6061 Al-SiO2 composites | Dr Thirumaleshwar Bhat | Awarded |
3 | Mr Rudolf C D’Souza | SJEC – Mangalore | Creep studies on lead free solders | Dr Thirumaleshwar Bhat | Awarded |
4 | Mr Vani R | MVSIT – Moodbidri | Corrosion studies on lead based and lead free solders | Dr. Girish K | Awarded |
5 | Mr Anil Sequeira | SJEC Mangaluru | Modified approach for cutting force measurement for face milling. | Dr Thirumaleshwara Bhat | Awarded |