TEDx speaker inspires students

Jalandhar: DAV University organised the badge and investiture ceremony for department representatives and class representatives of different departments. The ceremony started with the lighting of the lamp by the officiating Vice-Chancellor Dr Jasbir Rishi, officiating Registrar Dr K N Kaul, officiating dean, academics Dr R K Seth and department coordinators. Dr Rishi congratulated the students who received the badges. She expressed happiness that students were inculcating leadership quality. The highlight of the ceremony was an inspirational talk by TEDx speaker Maninder Singh, who delivered a motivational lecture on ‘The Significance of Hope’. The talk was based on a real-life story. Maninder Singh has many achievements to his credit. While interacting with students, he emphasised the significance of hope in life. Dr Seth welcomed the keynote speaker and said that failures were the stepping stones to success.

Student gets job

Phagwara: Sourav Kumar, a students of Civil Engineering of GNA University added another feather to his cap by getting placed with Ultra Tech via university placement. Sourav Kumar, the student of BTech (Civil Engineering) got selected in Ultra Tech. Sourav Kumar said “The university gave me courage, technical skills, team management skills and how to handle things at difficult times”. Dr Vikrant Sharma, Dean Faculty of Engineering, congratulated Sourav and the whole department for this wonderful achievement. Gurdeep Singh Sihra, Pro-Chancellor, GNA University applauded the efforts of the department and also congratulated the student on his success.

Writing research paper

Jalandhar: Pyramid College of Business and Technology conducted a session on ‘How to write research paper’ for the students and teaching faculty. The session was conducted by Dr Tajinder and Dr Reena. The objective of session is to explain the objectives and process of conducting research and its application in business and academics, and analysing the different types of research design and experimental errors. The session was attended by 48 final semester students from MBA, BBA and BCom. Speakers shared various examples to find the research problem to conduct the study on those problems. The students were encouraged to write research papers to improve the chances of employability. On this event Dr Sanjay Bahl, director, Pyramid College of Business and Technology, lauded the efforts of students and staff. Promoting such events Prof Jatinder Singh Bedi, chairman, Pyramid College of Business and Technology, said it is with such session that students can get insight of the skills required for bright future of students. Prof Bedi encouraged students and staff for greater planning and learning process.

Refresher programme

The Department of Mechanical Engineering, DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology, is organising a week-long refresher programme sponsored by All India Council for Technical Education and Indian Society for Technical Education for faculty members of technical education institutes. Titled as ‘Advance Materials and Processes for Sustainable Intelligent Manufacturing’, the programme has been conceived to provide the knowhow on current state of research and development in the field of materials and manufacturing processes especially with focus on sustainability, to be conducted in completely online mode. More than 100 faculty members from different states of the country including Karnatka, Andhra Pradesh, Manipur, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Delhi-NCR, Punjab etc. have registered for participation. The event was inaugurated with the august presence of Prof. Rajeev S Mishra, Director, Advance Materials and Manufacturing Processes Institute, University of Texas, who joined from United States and also delivered a keynote address on ‘Alloy design and disruptive manufacturing technologies’.

Online Competition Fiesta-Spinning

Delhi Public School bagged positions in online competitions ‘Fiesta–Spinning Challenges’ organised by Delhi Public School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, and ‘IGNIS-Ignite the Fire Within’ organised by Delhi Public School, Bengaluru. In Fiesta, Hridhan Aggarwal from Class IV stood third in dance competition ‘’Nritya Srijan’’. The theme was ‘’Khairiyat’’ and was presented beautifully by the student. Pranshu Gupta from Class V bagged consolation prize in ‘Creative Brush’. On the theme ‘’Eco Vs Ego’’, he made a colourful painting which was a delight to see. The children came up with flying colours in IGNIS competition too. Namandeep Kaur from Class II bagged the first position and Aayat Anis Mirza from Class I bagged the third position in ‘Shudh Desi’ story telling with puppets. Sharon Ahluwalia of Class I got second position in Scavenger Hunt (Recycling). She made beautiful caterpillar puppet out of used and waste material available at home. Principal Ritu Kaul congratulated the achievers.

Online Innovative Session held

The Institutional Innovation cell of Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya organised another virtual innovative session on ‘Responsible Innovation and Frugality’ under the aegis of MHRD to acquaint the students of our social, environmental and economic responsibility towards innovation. Dr Anjana Bhatia, Incharge, Institutional Innovation Cell, presented a warm welcome to the resource person and highlighted the features of innovative policies issued by Government of India. Dr Swati Mehta, Post Graduate Doctorate from Panjab University, Chandigarh, member of Board of Control Punjab School of Economics, GNDU, and an awardee of Korean Foundation of Advanced studies Inter-Scholar Exchange Fellowships, highlighted the historical perspective of innovation. In the end, she highlighted the concepts like social harmony, degradation, depletion of natural resources and inequalities on income while innovating any new concept or product. TNS