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CONTENTS

Editorial 02

Corporate News 04

Announcements 05

Convocation 07

Conferences, Workshops and Lecturers 07

Seminars and Publications 12

Gram Tarang 16

Cultural, Sports and Responsibility 19

Other News 20

Obituary 24

EDITORIAL

Greetings from the Editorial Team!

This issue (October-December 2014) of the CUTM Newsletter coveres a host of events,

including the 2nd Convocation of the University with Dr. M.S. Swaminathan as the Chief Guest.

During this quarter, CUTM hosted two major conferences – Meaningful Education for the

Excluded and the 38th Indian Folklore Congress (IFC), both at the Paralakhemundi Campus.

These events made us realise the importance of revisiting and revising our initiatives in

education and development activities for the marginalised sections of the society, particularly the

tribal communities of the state. One major outcome was a decision to set up a Centre for Folklore

Studies at the Paralakhemundi Campus. A model village 'Abjangsing' was created and set up

inside the campus as a living museum to show case tribal art and artefacts.

President Dr. Mukti K. Mishra brought laurels to the University by being awarded the Quimpro

Education Award, making Centurion University to strive for newer benchmarks.

Gram Tarang, the innovative social entrepreneurship outfit of the University, has moved from

strength to strength with its newer training programmes and placement activities. It has signed

MOUs with some of the industry leaders such as GAP and Yamaha to carry forward industry-

integrated activities for enhancing employability of youth. This activity is in line with the

University’s endeavour in integrating skills with higher education.

Snapshots of activities under Culture, Sports and Responsibility, Faculty Development

Programs, Workshops and Visits of dignitaries to the University are also covered in this edition.

Smita Mishra Panda

(Chief Editor)


EDITORIAL BOARD

Smita Mishra Panda Chief Editor

Abhinav Madan Member

Chinmoy Mohapatra Member

Prajna Pani Member

Sangram Kesari Swain Member

Sibakripa Bose Member

Shiv Sankar Das Member and Designer

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS

Dr. Arul Selvan, Director, NTTF, Bangalore.

Sri Uday Mukherjee and Sri Partha Sarkar from Cutting Systems India Pvt. Ltd.

Sri Sumit Ganguly, Larsen & Turbo

Mr. Ashok K. Gadiya, Chairman, Mewar University, Chittorgarh

Mr. Zulfiquar Haider, CEO, BRLF, New Delhi

Sri Basudev Mishra, Regional Manager, BEML, Sambalpur

Prof. Sehdev Kumar, University of Toronto, Canada

Sri Harinderpal Singh, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.

Prof. Hari Mohan Srivastava and Prof. Rekha Srivastava, University of Victoria, Canada

Prof. Chitha Baral, Arizona State University, USA


CORPORATE NEWS

Centurion University's Urban Micro

Business Centre has received Rs 6, 24,000

towards its lab project by the Australian

High Commission Direct Aid Program

(DAP).

Gram Tarang Employability and Training

Services (GTETs), a constituent of

Centurion University has signed a MoU with

GAP Foundation (an international retail

brand) to implement life skills courses for

Gram Tarang trainees with a special focus

on young women being trained and

employed as Sewing Machine Operators in

the Garment export industry.

Gram Tarang has signed a MoU with

National Skills Development Corporation

(NSDC) in Nov 2014 for launching skill

courses in the University

A MoU was signed on 9 Oct 2014, by

GTETs and Yamaha Motors India Sales Pvt.

Ltd. to setup a ‘Yamaha Training School’ at

Jatni Campus. Under the terms of agreement

a 2000 sq ft workshop with 5 Yamaha bikes,

hand tools, equipment and aggregate for

running one year placement linked

certificate course for 10th class drop-out

students will be trained as ‘Two wheeler

service technicians’, Yamaha will provide

the equipment, training of trainers and

placement assurance.


ANNOUNCEMENTS

National Conference on ‘Recent Advances

and Future Prospects in Civil Engineering

(RAFPCE – 2015)’, 28 February - 1 March

2015, to be organised by the Civil

Engineering Department.

Second International Conference on

‘Emergent Trends in Computing and

Communication (ETCC-2015)’, 2 May

2015, to be organised by the Computer

Science and Engineering Department.

Prof. Mukti Mishra, President of Centurion

University was awarded the "Quimpro Gold

Standard Award” (Education) at a function

held in Mumbai on 20 November, 2014

during its silver jubilee celebration.

Prof. Sangram Kehari Swain received

"Dadhichi Samman" award from the

Department of Health, Govt. of Odisha on

21st Dec 2014, at Jaydev Bhavan,

Bhubaneswar for whole body donation and

contribution in social service.

A Gazette Notification issued by the

Government of Odisha (Dept of Higher

Education) on 16 Dec 2014 permitted

Centurion University to open campuses and

centres in other parts of the country.


B. Sravya (MBA, 2nd Year Student) was

awarded for the Best HR Article at ZENITH

during the 4th Rewards and Recognition

Programme ZENITH 2014, organised by

National HRD Network, Bhubaneswar

Chapter on 19 Dec 2014 at Infosys,

Bhubaneswar Centre.

NEW FACULTY JOINED IN CENTURION UNIVERSITY IN OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2014

Sl.

No.

Name of Faculty Designation

Dept. of Civil

1 Ms. Laxmipriya Samantaray Asst. Professor

Dept. of Chemistry

2 Mr. Rabinarayan Panigrahi Lecturer

Dept. of Physics

3 Dr. Padmaja Patnaik Asst. Professor

Dept. of English

4 Mr. Ajit Kumar Pradhan Lecturer

Dept. of T& P

5 Ms. Shraddha Dhal Lecturer

FACULTY RELIEVED FROM THE CENTURION UNIVERSITY IN OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2014

Sl.

No.

Name of Faculty Designation

Dept. of EEE

1 Ms. Minakhi Behera Asst. Professor

Dept. of Mechanical

2 Mr. Ajit Kumar Pattanaik Asst. Professor

Dept. of Civil

3 Ms. Pramodini Sahu Asst. Professor

Dept. of English

4 Dr. Nilamadhab Panda Asst. Professor


CONVOCATION

The University held its second Convocation

on 17 November 2014 with great enthusiasm

and excitement at its Jatni Campus. The

convocation was presided by His Excellency

Dr. S.C. Jamir, the Hon’ble Governor of

Odisha and Visitor of the Centurion

University. Padma Vibhusan Prof. (Dr) M.S.

Swaminathan, Founder and Chairman of

M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation

was the Chief Guest. Ms. V. R. Iyer,

Chairperson cum Managing Director, Bank

of India was the Guest of Honour. B.Tech

degree was awarded to 614 students, M.

Tech to 50 students and MBA to 71

students. 10 medals of academic excellence

were awarded to meritorious students of B.

Tech, M. Tech and MBA. During the

Convocation, to carry forward the legacy of

the father of Green Revolution, the School

of Agriculture, located in the

Paralakhemundi campus of the University

was named as M.S Swaminathan School of

Agriculture Sciences.

CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES

National Conference on Meaningful

Education for the Excluded: Strategies for

Higher Educational Institutions in India

A two day (12th - 13th Dec 2014) Conference

on ‘Meaningful Education for the Excluded’

was organised by Centurion University in its

Paralakhemundi campus. The conference

was aimed at providing a forum for sharing

experience in creating innovative and

enabling learning, teaching, research and


outreach environments for meaningful

higher education in the 21st Century India.

The broad objective of the conference was

to identify implementable strategic

interventions in higher education that can

support development with dignity in India.

The Conference was inaugurated by Dr.

Badri Seshadri, Managing Director of New

Horizon Media Private Ltd of Chennai, the

largest Tamil Language Publishing House.

Apart from several faculty members from

Centurion University, other scholars who

contributed to the conference, include Mr.

C.K Dwarakanath, Dr. Malcolm Harper,

Prof. Sehdev Kumar, Mr. K B Jinan and

professors from the Government College at

Paralakhemundi. Two panel discussions

(one each by students and faculty) were held

on the theme “Whether our Education

System Promotes Learning?”

38th Indian Folklore Congress (International Conference)

The Congress was hosted by the University

at its Paralakhemundi Campus, 19 to 21

December 2014. The three day long

International Conference comprising more

than 60 scholars from different parts of the

country and abroad participated in the event.

The conference with the main theme

“Folklores and the status of knowledge

systems among Tribal communities in

India”, had four symposia:

- Vanishing material culture and green cover

among Tribal communities

- The value of collecting and archiving

folklores in Tribal zones

- Folk medicines in the Tribal communities

of Odisha

- Tribal studies and Odia

The subthemes of the conference were:

1. Folk narrative and oral history

2. Belief narratives: form and meaning


3. Oral poetry, ballads and folk performers in

Orissa

4. Material culture and world view

5. Folklore and discourse of pain and suffering

6. Post modernism, oral discourse and literary

theory

7. Endangered Tribal languages and folklore

genres

Prof. Sehdev Kumar’s book “Matters of life

and Death” was released (launched) during

the conference. Apart from faculty of

CUTM, senior scholars such as Dr. J. L.

Handoo (Chair, Indian Folklore Congress),

Dr Margaret Kumar, Professor Estelle

Barrett, Jennifer Murray-Jones from

Institute of Koorie Education, Deakin

University, Australia, Dr. Sehdev Kumar,

Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo,

Canada, Prof. Binod C Agrawal, Taleem

Research foundation, Ahmedabad, Dr.

Anjali Capila, Delhi University, Prof. L.

Rama Moorthy, CIIL Bangalore, Prof. B.

Ramakrishna Reddy, Hyderabad, Dr.

Supriya Pattanayak, State Representative

DFID, Odisha contributed to the conference.

The programme was inaugurated by

Padmashree Dr. Debi Prasanna Pattanayak,

founder Director of CIIL, Mysore. As part

of this event, the Institute of Knowledge

Societies of CUTM organized a Tribal food

and cultural festival in which performances

by tribal communities were also organized

during these three days. A model tribal

village named Abjangsing was inaugurated

during the conference in the Paralakhemundi

campus. Students of the M.S Swaminathan

School of Agriculture Sciences exhibited

posters on indigenous cultivation systems

and natural resource management.


Workshop on Awakening Sensitivity to Nature

The workshop was conducted by Mr. K. B.

Jinan, a freelance Artist and Educationist

from Kerala, for the first year students of

Architecture of CUTM. It was a very

stimulating experience, in which the

students were asked to draw inspiration from

nature regarding the various design elements

like POINT, LINE, SHAPE, SIZE,

COLOUR, and TEXTURE and represent the

same in their drawings.

Meditation Workshop held on 29 October 2015

Prof. Torbjorn Hobbel and Dr. Are Hollen,

two internationally renowned behavioural

experts from Norway have visited Centurion

University and conducted a series of

workshops on stress management. Dr.

Hollen is the Founder Chairman of ACEM

Meditation International based in Norway

and Prof. Hobbel is one of the Preceptors

and Chairman of ACEM Mediation, India

Chapter.


Workshop on Tally on 19 December 2014 in School of Management, Jatni

A workshop on Tally was conducted by one

of the students of MBA, Mr. Mithun Swain

of MBA semester -II. It was held in Lecturer

Hall No. 2 in School of Management on 19

December 2014, in which around 60

students and few faculty members

participated.

Visit to Toshali Crafts Mela on 25 December 2014 by School of Management, Jatni

A visit was conducted to Toshali Crafts

Mela for the students of MBA 2nd Year

students to get an exposure to Rural

Marketing.

Centurion University Research Colloquium Lecture Series

Ms. Ragnhild Maehre (Master’s Student in

Globalisation – Culture and Politics) of the

Norwegian University of Science and

Technology delivered a lecture on “A Study

of Gram Tarang in Odisha: Training and

Placement of Young Women”, 20

November 2014, based on her three month

internship study.

Prof. Hari Mohan Srivastava, Emeritus

Professor of the University of Victoria

(Deptt of Mathematics and Statistics),

Canada delivered a lecture on “Developing

Interest in Mathematics and Areas of

Advanced Research” on 26 Dec, 2014. He

was accompanied by Prof. Rekha Srivastava

of the same University.

Prof. Sehdev Kumar, Professor Emeritus of

Bioethics in the University of Waterloo,

Canada delivered a lecture on “Ethical

Consideration in Research” on 29

December 2014.


Faculty Development Programmes (FDP)

CUTM has institutionalised its FDP and

continues to conduct the programmes on a

regular basis. During this quarter, a number

of programmes were conducted, namely

Research Proposal Writing, Communication,

Student Engagement – Inside and Outside

Class Room, Professionalism, Gender

Sensitisation, Patent Filing and

Understanding How Learning takes Place:

Moving from Teaching to Learning

Paradigm.

SEMINARS AND PUBLICATIONS

Engineering and Basic Sciences

Publications

K. Vivekananda, G.N. Arka & S.K. Sahoo,

“Design and Analysis of Ultrasonic

Vibratory Tool (UVT) Using FEM and

Experimental Study on Ultrasonic

Vibration-assisted Turning (UAT)” in

Procedia Engineering, Volume 97, 2014,

Pages 1178–1186 as part of “12th Global

Congress on Manufacturing and

Management” GCMM – 2014.

K. Dhananjay Rao & Shambhu Kumar.

“Modelling and Simulation of Quarter Car

Semi Active Suspension System Using LQR

Controller” Proceedings of the 3rd

International Conference on Frontiers of

Intelligent Computing: Theory and

Applications (FICTA) 2014. Springer

International Publishing, 2015.

Kabita Sahoo “Redundancy Protocols for

Campus Network” in IJSIT, Vol 3, No.6 -3,

Dec 2014.

Prafulla K. Panda, “Vulnerability of Flood

in India: A Remote Sensing and GIS

Approach for Warning. Mitigation and

Management”, in Asian Journal of Science

and Technology, Vol.5, No. 12, pp 843-

846, Dec 2014.

Sangram Kehari Swain "Collision

Avoidance System using Android Device

via Bluetooth”, IJAESR, Oct 2014.

T.V.S. Divakar, “Training Back Propagation

Algorithm to Design Micro strip Patch

Antenna” in IJAESR, Dec 2014.


T.V.S. Divakar, “Finding Optimal Feed

Location of a Micro strip Patch Antenna

using HFSS” in IJIREEICE, Dec 2014.

STUDENTS AND FACULTY JOINT PUBLICATION

Four papers were published in

International Journal of Computing and

Technology (IJCAT), in October 2014

Volume 1, Issue 9, ISSN: 2348-6090

‘Improvising Security Issues Using

Quantum Cryptography’

Abhishek Pradhan (B.Tech, CSE, 8th sem),

Sushree Soujanya Padhi (B. Tech, CSE, 8th

sem), B.Giridhar (Asst. Prof, CSE),

Chandan Kumar Giri (Asst. Prof, CSE)

‘A New Approach of Data Aggregation in

Wireless Sensor Networks’

D.Bhargav Reddy (B.Tech, CSE, 8th sem),

Bitu Kumar (B.Tech, IT, 8th sem),

B.Giridhar (Asst. Prof, CSE) and Chandan

Kumar Giri (Asst. Prof, CSE)

‘Deep Web Technologies’

Sagar Kumar Choudhury (B.Tech, CSE, 8th

sem), Rajesh Kumar Padhi (B.Tech, CSE,

8th sem), B.Giridhar (Asst. Prof, CSE) and

Chandan Kumar Giri (Asst. Prof, CSE)

‘Integration of Quantum Cryptography’

Santosh Kumar Das (B.Tech, CSE, 8th sem),

Hari Ram Swamy (B.Tech, CSE, 8th sem),

B.Giridhar (Asst. Prof, CSE), Chandan

Kumar Giri (Asst. Prof, CSE)

Two papers have been published in the

November 2014 Volume 1, Issue 10, ISSN:

2348-6090

‘Object Recognition for Video Retrieval’

Ch.S.S.Sravya (B. Tech, CSE, 8th sem),

D.Mounisa (B.Tech, IT, 8th sem) B.S.Panda

(Asst.Prof, CSE) and B. Giridhar (Asst.

Prof, CSE)

‘Data Mining Techniques for Online

Social Network Analysis’

Aditya Kumar Agrawal (B.Tech, CSE, 8th

sem) and Sikha Kumari(B.Tech, CSE, 8th

sem) B.S. Panda (Asst. Prof, CSE) and B.

Giridhar (Asst. Prof, CSE)


ENGINEERING AND BASIC SCIENCE

Participation in Conferences/Seminars/Workshops

G.S. Sethi, N. Mahto, G.K. Mahato

participated in the 59th Congress

(International Conference) of the Indian

Society of Theoretical & Applied

Mechanics (ISTAM), organised by IIT

Kharagpur and jointly presented a paper

titled “Unsteady Oscillatory

Hydromagnetic Flow in a Rotating

Channel with Hall Effects in the Presence

of an Inclined Magnetic Field”, Dec 17-20,

2014.

Kabita Sahoo participated in a National

Seminar on Information and

Communication Technology, in DRIEMS,

Cuttack, 20 Dec 2014.

K. D. Rao, J.Patnaik ,S. Prasad, B.P

Maharana participated in the National

Conference on Contemporary Control

and presented a paper titled “A Solar

Panels Automatic Maximum Power

Tracking System Based on SIEMENS

PLC”, Deptt of Electrical Engineering. AU

College of Engineering, Andhra University,

Vishakhapatnam, Nov 20-21, 2014.

K. D. Rao, S. Choubey, D. Kumar &

G.Rajesh participated in the National

Conference on Contemporary Control

and presented a paper titled “State Space

Model design for Active Suspension

System of full car Model” Deptt of

Electrical Engineering. AU College of

Engineering, Andhra University,

Vishakhapatnam, Nov 20-21, 2014.

R. Panigrahi, R.K Jena, Sweta Das &

Minati Mohanty, participated in a one day

workshop on Challenges in Advanced

Civil Engineering, organized by Deptt. of

Civil Engineering, Orissa Engineering

College, Bhubaneswar, Dec 17, 2014.

Sangram Keshari Swain participated in the

Programming Excursion with 30 students on

Java Programming and Android

Application Development conducted by

Centurion University of Technology and

Management, Odisha at CARD,

Badapokharia, Khurda from Nov 24 to Dec

1, 2014 and Pegasus Institute of Excellence,

Puducherry from Dec 2-11, 2014.


Management and Humanities

Pramod Pattjoshi, attended the 35th Annual

Conference, organized by Kendrapara

College (Autonomous), Kendrapara on 30

Nov to 1 Dec 2014 and presented a paper on

“Stock Market Volatility”. The themes of

the 35th Annual Conference were on Food

Security and Inclusive Growth, which

involve Companies Act 2013: Impact and

Implications and Emerging Dimensions of

Indian Financial Markets.

Pramod Pattjoshi, Rabindra Mohanty,

Somabhusan Mishra participated in 67th All

India Commerce Conference held at KIIT

University, 27-29 Dec 2014.

Shiv Sankar Das and Umakanta Nayak

attended a Faculty Development

Programme on Entrepreneurship

Development organized by EDI,

Ahmedabad held at Hotel Dreamland, Puri,

2-13 Dec 2014.

The following faculty participated in the

National Conference on ‘Meaningful

Education for the Excluded: Strategies

for Higher Educational Institutions in

India’, organised by Centurion University

in Paralakhemundi 12-13 Dec 2014. The

papers presented were:

Abinash Gaya-‘Effectiveness of Project

Based Approach: A Case Study on Learner

Centered Approach’

Chandrabhanu Pattanayak – ‘Creation of

Enabling Teaching and Learning

Environment in the University’.

D. N. Rao - ‘Language as a Tool of

Exclusion’

Haribandhu Panda – ‘Meaningful Education

for Excluded: Concepts and Strategies’

Kalyan K. Banerjee – ‘Experiments in

Creating Learning Outcomes- Student

Performance and Learning Outcomes’

Mir Sadat Ali – ‘Integrating Skill with

Higher Education’

Prajna Pani – ‘Project Think Approach to

Undo Silence and Enhance Communication

Skills’


The following faculty participated in the 38th Indian Folklore Congress, organised by

Centurion University in Parlakhemundi, 19-21 Dec 2014. The papers presented were:

Ambika Shankar Mishra – ‘A Study of

Snake Charmers of Padmasekharpur

Village of Odisha’

Chandrabhnau Pattanayak – ‘Indigenous

Knowledge Systems: A Project for Cultural

Mapping’

K.K. Behera, B.K. Jena, S.P. Nanda,

V.Singh, A.K. Rai & J. Meher –

‘Indigenous Physiotherapy for

Gynecological Disease used by the Santal

Tribes of Odisha’

Prajna Pani – ‘Useful Ignorance: Plant to

Planchet’

Smita Mishra Panda - ‘Neo-Liberalist

Policies, Tribal Material and Non-Material

Culture: Mismatched Domains in Odisha’

GRAM TARANG

Industrial Visits Organised by Gram Tarang for HP Students

Gram Tarang Employability Training

Services organized industrial visits for 1200

students of Himachal from 31 Schools from

5 districts including 2 winter closing

Schools (Chamba & Kinnaur). The visit was

organized at International Cars & Motors

Limited (A Sonalika group Company)

renowned for its brand Sonalika Tractor.

The students were exposed to the process of

manufacturing of multi-utility passenger car

body, painting, assembly of the aggregates

and inspection procedures. ICML plant head

Mr. Praveen Satija asked his experienced

engineers to guide students during the visits.

For Tourism and Hospitality, Gram Tarang

has organized industry visit for 200 students

at different Tourist spots in the Himachal

Tourism map.


GAP and GTET MOU

Gram Tarang has signed a MoU with GAP

Foundation (an international retail brand) to

implement life skill courses for students

primarily focusing on young women being

trained and appointed as Sewing Machine

Operators in the Gram Tarang Export

Industry. The curriculum developed by GAP

is internationally acclaimed and is currently

being used at hundreds of factories in the

developing world (Bangladesh, Cambodia,

Vietnam, China, India etc) which will help

our trainees in getting appropriate

employment.

Godrej TOT at GTET

Godrej organized a TOT in GTET, Jatni.

From 8-27 Dec, 2014. Technicians from all

over India and Godrej Forklift dealership

participated in the programme.

Gurudev Hansda- He serves to work hard, Win Hearts.


Gram Tarang have signed a Charter of Commitment with Nettur Technical Training

Foundation (NTTF)

Centurion University and Gram Tarang have signed a charter of commitment with Nettur

Technical Training Foundation (NTTF) on 3rd Dec 2014. The partnership will explore new

geographies, share curriculum and improve training quality and help NTTF with certification of

their diploma programmes.

Gram Tarang Employability Training Services declared as Testing Centres


CULTURE, SPORTS AND RESPONSIBILITY

Mega Blood Donation Camp held on 30

October 2014

A Mega Blood Donation Camp was held

on 30 October 2014 in the Jatni campus with

the help of Atha Group. A total of 200

units of blood were collected at

the 7th blood drive of University which was

inaugurated by Prof. Jagannath Padhi,

Director-CIT.

‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ held in Jatni and Paralakhemundi Campus on 24 October 2014


Centurion University of Technology and

Management was abuzz with activity in the

spirit of cleaning inside the campus. This

was in compliance with the clarion call

made by the Hon’ble Prime Minister, Mr

Narendra Modi. In adherence to his call,

Centurion University launched ‘Swachh

Bharat Abhiyan’ in the campus on 24th

October 2014. More than 400 students

participated in the drive. The students went

to the nearby village and conducted

cleanliness drive. The rally was led by Dr.

Anita Patra, Dean-SoET, Dr. Susant Kumar

Patnaik, Dean-Student Affairs, Mr.Durga

Prasad Padhi, Deputy Registrar, Mr.

S.Kameswar Rao, Deputy Registrar (T&P),

Dr. Tapas Panda, CSR Coordinator, Mr.

M.Sudarsan Rao, Chief Convener-

Responsibilities, Mr. Binod Padhi, Asst.

Prof. ECE.

The cleanliness drive was also held in the

Jatni Campus as part of nationwide initiative

‘Swachh Bharat & Swasth Bharat’.

OTHER NEWS

‘Abjangsing’- A Tribal Village in

Paralakhemundi Campus

A model Tribal Village ‘Abjangsing’ is

conceived as our living museum where tribal

people will live and showcase their skills

and artifacts. This will also be a site where

modern technology will interface traditional

knowledge without any contradiction and

conflict. The village is created in the

Paralakhemundi Campus and was

inaugurated on 19 December 2014, during

the 38th Indian Folklore Congress.


Budding Entrepreneur – Swayamjeet Das, Alumni

Swayamjeet Das, Graduate of Centurion

University, Mechanical Engineering in

2013, has set up Federal Informatics Pvt.

Ltd an ISO 90001 (2008) certified company

in Bhubaneswar. He had set up the company

in 2012 when he was still a student and

started to freelance since then.

He deals with Management Systems, ERP

and installation of CCTVs. His clients,

besides Centurion University, include

companies from Bangalore, Jamshedpur and

New Delhi. He has employed 15 people,

including 4 Engineering graduates from

Centurion University, in his Bhubaneswar

office with plans to expand to Bangalore.

His company’s USP is low cost EMIs and

good service delivery. He also has plans to

create a platform with the help of companies

in Bangalore to sell hand-made textile

products from Odisha on-line both within

the country and outside.

Centurion Alumni Meet at Hotel Royal Orchid Central Bangalore on 2 Oct 2014

An informal meet of Centurion Alumni at

Bangalore was organized on 2nd October

2014 by Prof. Kalyan K. Banerjee, Pro VC-

Learning, Centurion University in which 20

Alumni participated.


A Bangalore Chapter of Centurion Alumni

was set up. It was decided to extend such

Chapters to other cities as well.

The Android Excursion – by Prof. Kalyan K. Banerjee

Thirty students of third year CSE students

from Jatni campus got together last quarter

to learn how to write Android applications.

Since knowledge of Java is a pre-requisite to

writing applications on Android, the

students first got together at a cosy, little

place, the CARD training centre, on the

lush, green foothills of the Eastern Ghats,

about 40 km from the Jatni campus. They

were mentored on Java applications by CSE

faculty, Prof. Rakesh Ray and Prof.

Sangram Swain, accompanied by Brahmani

of TPC and two industry practitioners from

Innovators’ Lab. It was an exciting learning

journey from breakfast till midnight, with

breaks for videos, cricket, football, quizzes

and panel discussions in between. And

bonding time, too, with 20 male students

along with “Arup, Sir” huddled in one room

and the ten girls in another. All this for

seven days from November 24th till

December 1st, with students creating Entity

Relationships and User Interface diagrams

in quick time, before running into the rough

and tough moments of writing real programs

that work.

The students divided themselves into eight

teams, and worked on eight projects. The

highlight of the event was the surprising

level of engagement of students who are

seldom seen in class. All progressed in the

learning journey, and were ready for the

next phase where Mr. Amit Sharma from

Edureka flew down from Delhi to teach

them programming on Android.


The students and their faculty caught the

train to Pondicherry on 2nd December, and

spent the next week at Pegasus’ Learning

Centre doing their Android project with

Amit. The schedules remained the same, but

for the outbound programs that led to

inspiration and introspection, and some

cricket by the sea just before dusk every

day. And the days began with the wellness

sessions from Colonel Suresh that everyone

welcomed, despite many students struggling

to wake up early. Students returned

energized, not just with knowledge of

Android but with self-awareness and the

search for Purpose. The video on Vision led

them to the quest for their own Starfish

(metaphor for Purpose) – and coincidentally,

they found a real Starfish in the Bay of

Bengal.

And like the actor in the starfish video, they

threw it back into the sea! Back in campus,

students continue in their Android journey,

have created their learning plans, and are

learning to manage their time, so they can

focus on what matters.

The model of intense engagement and

customized mentoring leads to accelerated

learning and sustained inspiration – this

pedagogy is being proved repeatedly, in

different circumstances – with different

learning objectives, with students across the

spectrum, at different venues with diverse

topics and multiple faculty with diverse

styles – there’s something in these pilots that

can project Centurion as the pioneer of the

sustainable, affordable, and effective

education of the future.


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