Thursday, July 23, 2015

Walk the Talk


It is said that no teacher is a good teacher until he has a good student. Therefore, it goes without saying that our faculty has been inculcating the required skills in young minds of our students to raise the banner of ITM University, Gurgaon high.

Mr Anmol Raheja, BTech (IT) 2015 batch has got an offer from an esteemed hiring partner of our University, Gemini Solutions.  Anmol was excited to receive the offer with immediate joining date and expresses his gratitude in following words:

“I am feeling very glad for my placement with Gemini Solutions. I want to thank ITMU and its Placement Department for always helping and supporting me without which I couldn't have achieved this milestone.”

Hearties Congratulation to Mr Anmol Raheja and we wish him all the very best for his future endeavor. 

One day Conference on “Emerging Trends in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering (ICETMIE-2015)”

A one day conference on ‘Emerging Trends in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering (ICETMIE-2015)’ was organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, ITM University, Gurgaon, on July 18, 2015. The conference successfully hosted a large gathering of researchers, academicians and industry representatives from different parts of India. It witnessed a confluence of experts from the diverse areas of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering. The objective of this conference was to provide a platform for academicians and practitioners to explore the emergent technologies in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and to disseminate their important work.  
In total, 97 full length papers were received from across India. After a peer-review process, 67 research papers were accepted for publications. Forty research papers were presented in the conference. About a fifth of the research papers were received from premier institutions, including IIT’s and NIT’s. 

The keynote address was given by Prof. Prem Vrat who sensitized the audience towards pursuing research which are multi-disciplinary in nature and are meant for a social cause. Chief Guest, Mr. Sudam Maitra put forward the automobile industry perspective on the importance of focused research on issues which can solve problems relevant to industry. He also shared some valuable inputs from his vast experience in the industry.

Technical sessions were held with two invited talks from Dr. C.R. Prasad and Prof. L.M. Das. Dr. C.R. Prasad addressed the audience on ‘Energy and Environment’ while Prof. LM Das spoke on ‘Hydrogen engine: Emerging technology towards a sustainable environment’. Both the talks were informative and were appreciated by the audience. The conference ended with a valedictory session, which was chaired by Prof. Prem Vrat and Dr. C.R. Prasad, who distributed certificates to the participants of the conference. The conference concluded after a vote of thanks given by the Director-SOET, Prof. Ravindra Ojha.

The conference was supported by M/s Inter-Alliance Werardt Pvt. Ltd.  and M/s. Dragonfly Education Pvt. Ltd.  American Society for Quality (ASQ) served as the knowledge partner of the conference. International Journal of Advances in Applied Engineering Research (IJAER) and International Journal of Advances in Operations Management (IJAOM) were the publishing partners of the conference.

The event was successfuly  conducted due to efforts of core team of the conference, which comprised of Conference Convener: Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan, Conference Secretaries: Mr. Lalit Upadhayay & Dr. Feras Hakkak, Joint Secretaries- Dr. Ritwik Basu and Mr. Deevesh Sharma and faculty members and technical staff of Mechanical Engineering Department.


Tuesday, July 21, 2015

MENTORS GET RECOGNISED


Faculty guides play a very major role in providing substance and value to the B.Tech. Student Major projects. They are the driving force behind innovation and creativity in projects. The guides of the Top Six finalists of the Best B. Tech. projects were recognized for their contribution to the projects of 2014-15. Prof. Prem Vrat and Brig. S.K. Sharma appreciated their work and gave away the certificates to the following faculties:-

Guide Name
Project Title
Position
Ms. Charu Rana
Suraksha - a woman safety device
1st Position
Mr. Sidharth Bhatia
Dexto: eka - the humanoid robot
2nd Position
Ms. Prachi Sohoni
Development of mix design and Study the strength and durability of Self Compacting Concrete
3rd Position
Ms. Vaishali Sahu
Utilization of WTP sludge and tea waste in brick manufacturing
In top six projects
Mr. Anmol Bhatia
Energy harvesting through Foot-steps
In top six projects
Mr. Gaurav Aggarwal
MARTIN - Sign Language to Alphabet Converter for Speech and Hearing Disabled Persons
In top six projects

MAKE IN INDIA’ BRAINSTORMING SESSION – ASQ & ITMU

On the 15 Jul 2015 a session on ‘Make in India’ which is a topical issue for India, was conducted. The session was held in ITM University, led by our knowledge partner – ASQ India, with twenty two participants from industry (majorly the esteemed suppliers of Maruti) and academia. It was chaired by Prof. Prem Vrat. A white-paper based on the recommendations of the participants is under preparation by ASQ. During the brain storming process the growing importance of Industry-Academia engagement was also emphasized by the leaders. One useful take-away for ITM University was the willingness of the industry leaders to support our University in the form of curriculum modification, special expert sessions and internship.

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

BEST B.TECH. PROJECT AWARD 2014-15

1ST POSITION
SURAKSHA: CONSTRUCTION & WORKING OF SURAKSHA 
(EECE)

Students Participants: Nitish Aggarwal (11ECU094), 
                       Nishant Bharadwaj (11ECU 90) & 
                         Nishant Ahlawat (11ECU 98)
Project guides: Ms. Charu Rana

As Socrates said- 
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new”

SURAKSHA- A security system for women. This is a security device specially designed for women that will help them in situations of distress. It can be initiated either by a switch or voice or by applying force such as throwing the device and transmitting distress signals to Police Control Rooms in the vicinity and also to a phone number of a guardian registered with the device. It uses technical concepts based on GPS, GSM, Piezoelectric sensors voice recognition and 8051 family’s AT89C52 microcontroller. This work manifested into a patent application which has already been submitted, and is pending approval (patent number 2678/DEL/2013). In addition, SURAKSHA was awarded a young Thinkers Award by Department Of Science and Technology (Govt. of Haryana) and Research paper in international journal of information and computation technology-ISSN 0974-2239.

 The device can be actuated by three ways namely, voice, switch and force. Therefore, even if the device is thrown with force, it will start functioning, using force sensors, and same will be achieved by a voice command in case the device is not near the user. A mere press of a switch will send location as well as distress message, via the transmitter module to the police control room and to the other registered mobile numbers, via GSM module. 'Suraksha' is a unique, low cost, sleek, user friendly, real time and all weather devices in the hands of the women or any victim which can help protect them from anti-social elements and criminals to give them the freedom and confidence to live their lives, without any fear or insecurity.

It can play a major role in the upcoming projects such as CCTNS (crime and criminal tracking network and system) in which all the police records all over India are digitised and all the police station throughout the country will be integrated. This would help reduce crime against women flashing a warning giving an instant location of the distressed victim to the police. 

Since it can be miniaturized (started working) and it can be embedded in watches, bands, jewellery, work places and automobile etc. Thus it is a user friendly, easy to carry device. 

2ND POSITION

DEXTO: EKA: THE HUMANOID ROBOT
(EECE)

Students Participants: Himanshu Vaswani (11ECU061), 
                       Yash Gupta, (11ECU178) & 
                         Sumit Gupta (11ECU157)
Project guides: Mr. Sidharth bhatia


ABOUT DEXTO: EKA:
Dexto: Eka: is a tele-operated anthropomorphic robot with three modes of operation: dependent, semi-sovereign and sovereign. In the dependent mode, the tele-operator has complete control over the robot. In the semi-sovereign mode, the tele-operator has partial control but the robot is able to make decisions of its own should a situation prove detrimental to its well-being. In the sovereign mode, the robot has complete autonomy over its actions.

Dexto: Eka: has two robotic arms of 6 Degrees of freedom each and an omnidirectional Mecanum wheel drive.  The Mecanum wheel drive is quite unique as it provides motion with no directional restraint and can easily navigate though congested spaces. It also gets 10 Degrees of freedom from its locomotion drive. Such a system combining 12 DOF arms and a Mecanum wheel drive is unique to Dexto: Eka:. The communication between the robot and the tele-operator takes place via a Wi-Fi channel. Latest Wi-Fi module called RN-XV module is being used to achieve wireless communication. The tele-operator is able to see the environment the robot is in via a live feed provided by an IP Camera mounted on the robot.

The robot is able to mimic the motions of the tele-operator with great accuracy. Every joint of the robotic arms can be controlled using the wearable exo-frame. The GUI besides monitoring the robot can also act as an alternative to the exo-frame and control column. The robot can be completely controlled from anywhere in the world using the software that has been exclusively developed for it.  Some of the important uses of the robot are the ability to work in hazardous conditions which are too dangerous for the humans, Cutting-edge advertisement and advanced prosthetics to name a few. 


3RD POSITION

DEVELOPMENT OF MIX DESIGN & STUDY OF STRENGTH & DURABILITY OF SELF-COMPACTING CONCRETE USING WASTE MATERIALS
(C&EE)

Students Participants: Shwetang Kundu (11CVU040)), 
                       Sumit Ahlawat (11CVU042) & 
                         Utsav Jain (11CVU044)
Project guides: Ms. Prachi Sohoni


Self-compacting Concrete (SCC) is a concrete, which has the usual components along with Super-Plasticizer that can flow around reinforcement and consolidate within formwork under its own weight that exhibits no defects due to segregation or bleeding. SCC reduces labor efforts and allows faster construction with no bleeding and segregation and hence better strength and aesthetics. The work on SCC initially started in Japan but it could rarely be adopted in India due to the limitations as the codes practised in India are different from that of Japan. There is very little research work done on SCC in India and no fixed mix design procedures are stated in IS codes. Hence we chose to compute a design procedure by conducting trial mixes referring European and Japanese standards and keeping parameters from Indian standards. It was proposed to study the strength and durability of SCC. We performed 21 trial mixes for development of mix design, keeping workability (Slump cone test, V-Funnel Test and L- Box Test) and strength (Compressive & flexural) as parameters. Out of which 16 trials were found to be acceptable in terms of workability. Of these 16 trial mixes, 7 trial mixes gave us strength results conforming to IS 456:2000.

The cost of SCC was found to be higher due to addition of Super-Plasticiser (S.P.) as compared to conventional Concrete. Therefore we decided to go for partial replacement of cement. Cement was partially replaced with a combination of Rice Husk Ash (RHA), Micro Silica (MS) and Fly Ash (FA).  Number of cubes and beams were casted and tested to check for compressive and flexural strength respectively. Further the trial mix was chosen giving optimum replacement. The same mix was then tested for compressive strength considering variation in curing temperature as 70C, 280C and 400C at 7 Day, 28 Day and 48 Day. The trial mix by replacing cement partially with 5% Rice Husk Ash and 15% Fly Ash had achieved optimum strength and workability. Cost analysis was carried out for a batching plant to produce SCC with a combination of Cement, FA (15% of Cement), RHA (5% of Cement) and Super plasticiser (as 1.2% replacement of cement) with a defined proportion of fine aggregate, coarse aggregate and water.

A proposed batching plant gives 28.68% rate of return by reducing on site construction cost which includes labour and application cost (10%), demolition cost and reduction in rework. The estimated production cost gives a reduction of INR334.46 per cubic meter.

This project offered great prospects in terms of its usefulness to society including Employment of unskilled labour rather than skilled labour. Construction sites with SCC may have less noise pollution & reduce the construction waste due to honeycombing. The trial mixes not only showed industrial application but also displayed an impressive reduction in production cost and application cost.

University Faculty Wins Accolades at IET PATW 2015

The University shares this with pride that Ms Jyotika Pruthi, Asst Professor, Dept of CSE&IT has been declared Winner from Northern Zone in IET PATW Competition 2015. She has achieved this feat successively in two years. About 100 participants from different engineering colleges and universities spread across Northern Region of India had participated in this competition. Ms Pruthi will now be competing at the National Level and finally at the Global level in the UK. 
The Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Present around the World (PATW) is a well-established competition with several heats designed to encourage young engineers and technicians to develop their presentation skills.
Ms Jyotika Pruthi shares his feelings:

“My heartfelt thanks go to the entire ITMU Family. I thank the Honourable Governing Body, Brig SK Sharma, Col Bikram Mohanty, Prof Ravindra Ojha and my colleagues and students for their words of motivation, opportunities and constant support. Warm thanks are due to Dr Latika Singh and my guide Dr Gaurav Gupta for their regular encouraging words. They have always been encouraging me to participate in the event and not to bother about the results. I am thankful to Dr Latika Singh for letting me know about this competition. I feel proud to represent our University at such a great stage. I take this opportunity to express thanks for nurturing my passion towards writing as well presenting on the stage.”

Thursday, July 9, 2015

QUALITY ENHANCEMENT IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION (QEEE) PROGRAMME

The Committee for Reforms in Technical Education under the chairmanship of Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala, IIT Madras, was constituted by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) with a mandate to bring about comprehensive reforms in technical education. The committee has come up with a programme wherein real time and synchronous technology is used to allow for an integration of superior external scholastic inputs into current pedagogical practices. EECE deptt. has registered itself  for the courses offered from Aug to Nov 2015 .

Live Class
IIT faculty  will deliver live lecture classes to participating colleges. The schedule of lectures is sent to colleges earlier and notifications are provided before start of each session.

Coursepack
A supplement study material with lecture notes, live class videos, discussion forums, assessment and evaluation tools to serve as a reference material for QEEE courses.

Live Labs
To provide virtual hands-on experience to students on experiments undertaken remotely. It creates an opportunity to work on a real lab experiment tailored to suit their syllabus and curriculum.

Bridge Programmes
To bridge the gap between the initial skills of individuals and what they need to enter and succeed in postsecondary education and career-path employment. 


Summer Internship










Aparajita Sinha
Student of BTech (IT) 
ITM University, Gurgaon

“The Summers of 2015 proved to be a fruitful period for me. Being an IT engineer, my keen interest lies in the field of IT Security. My interest found a platform when I got the opportunity to intern in TechLeaders Consulting LLC, one of the leading IT Security firms in healthcare located at New York (USA). I was fortunate to pursue my internship at TechLeaders Consulting for a six-week duration. As a security professional, my profile in TechLeaders Consulting comprised of:

  • Overseeing the planning, implementation, and tracking of IT Security projects in the field of Healthcare with a focus on HIPAA, MU, Clinical and New York State Liaisons Compliances.
  • Providing weekly investigative study of the objective dashboards of EHR to our clients.
  • Project coordination/organization for MSP initiatives
  • Providing a weekly status report on project objectives to the NY eHealth Collaborative.
  • Leading multiple initiatives with a focus on business development and on-boarding of new clients.


During my internship, I also got an opportunity to visit the Harvard Business School which was an exhilarating experience.

Living in the United States for over a month was a learning experience for me. I now no longer aim to just get a job or a degree. The experience at TechLeaders helped me redefine my aim and goals. It has helped me to set higher goals and expectations for myself and start preparing to be a global citizen.”

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Enactus ITMU shows pottery skills at Raahgiri

Enactus ITMU organized a pottery workshop under ‘Project Kumhaar’ at Raahgiri on 28 June 2015, to promote pottery as well as to reconnect pottery with people and make them understand how it is a perfect combination of learning with fun. Enactus ITMU received Rs. 20,000 as a grant to complete their project ‘Kumhaar’ under Walmart Women’s Economic Empowerment project partnership. The aim of the project is to employ the conventional potters as teachers of pottery in various schools of Delhi NCR, to revive the dying art this is a cultural heritage by passing it to the next generation, and introduce new products, to bridge the gap between the consumers and producers, hence empowering the Kumhaar community. The student project leader for the event was Ayush Gautam and faculty coordinators were Dr Dipti Vaya and Ms Sagarika Goswami.