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1 Industry Academia Interface 3

2 Conferences and Seminars 7

3 In the News 11

4 Collaboration 17

5 Student Achievements 19

6 Industry Exposure 26

7 Campus Buzz 28

8 Marketing Communication 36

9 Media Coverage 41

10 More Updates from the College 46

Industry Academia Interface

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UPES in association with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) organized 3rd Aerospace HR Roundtable at Dr. V.M. Ghatage Convention Centre, HAL, Bangalore, 6th June, 2016.

Retd. Wing Commander Shri Rakesh

Sharma, the first Indian to travel in space, was the chief guest of the event.

The annual Round Table was attended by

senior members of leading organizations like Boeing International Corp, NAL, TCS, L&T, Mahindra Aero Structures Ltd, Airbus & Airbus Group, India, Bharat Electronics Ltd and Safran.

3rd HR Round Table congregates Eminent Aerospace Professionals

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Maiden Round Table for Law on Skilling Legal Talent for Emerging Areas

The Maiden Round Table for Law was organized on 7th May 2016 in Delhi.

The conference witnessed a galaxy of

luminaries like Mr. Pavan Duggal – authority on Cyber Laws, Mr. Jyoti Sagar himself and his partner Mr. Amit Kapur, Mr. Lalit Bhasin President, Society of Indian Law Firms, Mr. Rupinder Suri Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Justice Manju Goel former Judge – High Court of Delhi, Mr. Venkataramani Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India & Member Planning Commission

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The Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs

(IICA) Training Program on Insolvency and Bankruptcy Law for the Officers of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs concluded on 23rd and 24th June, 2016.

The program was focused on a newly

enacted law and included interesting discussions on the transition phase, especially from the point of enforcement.

Training Program on Insolvency and Bankruptcy

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Conferences and Seminars…

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First International Conference on Intelligent Communication, Control and Devices-2016

The first international conference on Intelligent Communication, Control and Devices-2016 was organized by the department of Electronics, Instrumentation and Control Engineering.

Prof. O.P.N Calla, Dr. Pieter Jonker, Dr.

Ragunathan, Dr. E.G.Rajan and Prof. D.V.Gadre and many more delivered the resourceful lectures.

136 papers | 14 posters were selected

and presented

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National Conference on “Water Resources & Hydro Power”

Department of Civil Engineering and Electrical Engineering organized a national conference on ‘Water Resources & Hydro Power’ from June 17-18, 2016.

The Chief Guest was Mr. Bhajan Singh,

Managing Director, Pey Jal Nigam limited, Dehradun. The key note was delivered by Padamshree Dr. Avdhash Kaushal.

The main objective of the conference was

to spread awareness about management of water resources & optimal hydro-electric generation

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Conference of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers R10 Mini POCO

A day conference on “Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)” R10 Mini “Panel Of Conference Organizers (POCO)” was organized on 11th June 2016 in collaboration with Next Generation Computing Technology Society (NGCT) and co-sponsored by IEEE R10 (Asia Pacific Region) & IEEE UP Section (India).

The objective was to create awareness

among the different universities and fellow faculty members, the intricacies of organizing an international conference.

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In the News…

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14th Convocation Ceremony

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UPES hosted the stately 14th Convocation at the Campus

The ceremony was held at University’s Bidholi, Dehradun campus and was presided over by Honourable Dr. K K Paul, Governor, Uttarakhand, who also delivered the convocation address.

Shri KD Tripathi, Secretary,

Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas was the Chief Guest of the event.

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Mr Utpal Ghosh President, UPES interaction on Petroleum Engineer published in HT

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UPES Films 2016 1 Overall UPES Virtual Tour Film & 3 College specific Films are available on the website under Virtual Tour section Click here to view tour & films http://www.upes.ac.in/campustour/virtual-tour.aspx

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UPES conducts B. Tech

Centralized Counseling The Centralized Counselling for B Tech Aspirants through UPESEAT was organized in Delhi from 21st June to 30th June 2016 Highlights include: Audio Visual presentations of various

sectors Presentations by faculty followed by

Question & Answers session Opportunity to meet IBM executives Transparent and Systematic selection

process Branch allotment displayed live on

screen.

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Collaboration…

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Inked MoU with L&T UPES entered into an academia-industry collaboration in the area of Civil Engineering with the industry giants-Larsen & Toubro.

The MOU was signed on behalf of L&T’s

Heavy Civil Engineering business vertical by their Head Mr. S.V. Desai in Chennai.

This tie-up is for B. Tech Civil Engineering

with specialization in Infrastructure Development program. It covers curriculum Inputs, teaching by Subject Matter Experts(SMEs) from L&T and internship opportunities

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Student Achievements…

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Team Astral stood 1st in Europe and Asia and secured 4th position in the world at the Cansat Competition

Team Astral, UPES stood 1st in Europe and Asia and secured 4th position in the world at the Cansat Competition held at Burkett, Texas from June 10 - 12, 2016.

The team outperformed all the other teams

by showing a perfect demonstration of the working system and meet all the required compliance.

Team Astral was appreciated by all the

other teams and by officials of American Astronautical Society, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and NASA (JPL and GSFC).

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Ravishankar R, student of M.Des Transportation Design from 1st year won the 3rd Prize in the Front Fascia Design Contest by KPIT with a Cash Prize of Rs. 25000/- on 4th of May at KPIT Pune.

KPIT invited students to participate in

KPIT electric bus front fascia design contest and create innovative designs for the front fascia of the bus.

Out of 160 entries received by KPIT

only 15 Teams were invited to Pune. Two of these 15 teams were from UPES School of Design Studies.

M Des Student Wins 3rd Prize in Design Contest

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The UPES ACM Student Chapter won the 2015-2016 Student Chapter Excellence Award for Outstanding Recruitment Program worldwide, with prize money of $500.

This Chapter has represented UPES

internationally and recognized as winners from almost 1000+ ACM student chapters across the world.

Student Chapter Excellence Award to UPES ACM Chapter

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Bharath Arunachalam, student of M Des Industrial Design bagged a 6 month paid internship with the Autodesk.

He will be working with Autodesk

Pune team on Autodesk Fusion 360 and Product Design Workflow.

M. Des Student earns paid Internship

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4 students of M.Tech Nuclear Science and Technology and Dr. Prashant Shambhudayal Rawat, faculty COES have been selected for a summer training/internship to be held in the month of July 2016 at the United States of America.

They are participating in the 2016

Nuclear Security Training Series. The U.S. Department of State under its

Partnership for Nuclear Security (PNS) program would hold this training series on Nuclear Security for University students and faculty from July 3 – July 29, 2016.

This is the second time successively that

this training opportunity is being provided to UPES.

M Tech Nuclear Science Students and a faculty to intern in USA

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Pramati Upadhaya, student of B Tech

Mechatronics is selected for the MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp Program , August 7 -12 2016.

Pramati is developing a social enterprise

called SOCH under guidance of the UPES Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Mechatronics student selected for MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp Program

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This industrial tour included visit to the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) and Institute for Plasma Research IPR), respectively at Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

Students of Nuclear Science engineering

visited labs where they got exposure of practical application of Nuclear Science, basically radioactivity, in fields ranging from earth sciences to astrophysics.

They also visited ITER (the international

thermonuclear program), Centre for Industrial Plasma Technologies (FCIPT)

Industrial Visit to Gujarat

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Campus Buzz…

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All India Artists at UPES Campus

UPES collaborated with Wisdom Society of Creative Arts to organize a three day All India Art Camp (Painting) on the Campus from 2nd June to 04th June, 2016.

The objective was to inspire students and

faculty to horn such skills and enjoy creativity. 25 Artists displayed their painting talent and created some wonderful aesthetic and modern art painting to adorn the galleries of the University.

The camp was inaugurated by the

prominent journalist Kushal Kothiyal.

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Inauguration Ceremony of ISSA Student Chapter, Dehradun

Center for Information Technology and Information Systems Security Association, USA jointly launched a new student chapter to provide more opportunities for interaction and knowledge exchange in the areas of cyber security on 21st May 2016.

This is the only chapter under ISSA in

India. The Chapter aims to facilitate more areas of exploration, research, innovation, and knowledge sharing in form of year round activities by the students all over the country.

Mr. Rakshit Tondon, Director - A&R Info

Security Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and Advisor – Cyber Crime Cell - Haryana Police was the Chief Guest

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An induction program was conducted on 17th May for the incoming French students under exchange program to introduce them about Indian culture.

These students will stay for 3 months.

Dr. Veena Krishna, Psychologist delivered sessions during the induction program.

French students on Campus under Exchange program

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International Day of Yoga was organized on 21st June, 2016 at UPES for generating awareness among our Students, Faculty and Staff about the benefits of Yoga.

International Yoga Day Celebrated

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COMES hosted the Opening Ceremony of 4th consecutive Orientation Program for MBA - ‘Monsoon Management Magic (M3)

on June 20th 2016. This 4 week program (split into II phases)

is to provide a foretaste of academic & non-academic engagements & challenges that lie ahead of students over the next two years in college.

Students actively participated in various

sessions and participated in ‘MANTHAN - The Marketing Club’ and sports events like Volleyball (Boys) and Basketball (Girls)

Monsoon Management Magic- M3

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Survey Camp Organised The Survey Camp was organized by the Dept. of Civil Engineering and Electrical Engineering during 30th May to 7th June 2016 The entire program of each day for 7 groups was covered around the following: • Station Establishment • Levelling by Autollevel & Triangullation by

Theodollite & Base line measurement • Levelling by Autollevel & Triangullation by

Theodollite & Base line measurement • Intersection, Radiation & Theodollite by Plane

Table • All the above experiments checked by Total

Station • Trip to Khajjiar • Contouring

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Industry leaders share success mantras with new batch of MBA students at UPES

Mr. Dharmender Kapoor , Chief Operating

Officer, Birlasoft (India) Ltd, and Mr. Vivek Setia - Sr. Vice President and Managing Director (Asia Pacific) - HRS Capability, Xerox Business Services India Private Ltd. interacted with the students and shared insights on how they can make themselves industry-ready.

Experts for the new MBA Batch (session 2016-18)

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BBA GDPI Scheduled in Dehradun on 4th July 2016

Master of Design (M.Des) Online Entrance Exam: UPES Design Aptitude Test (UPESDAT) – 12 July, 2016 Last Date to Register: 9 July 2016 Bachelor of Design (B.Des) Online Entrance Exam: UPES Design Aptitude Test (UPESDAT) – 12 July, 2016 Last Date to Register: 9 July 2016 Bachelor of Design (B.FA) Online Entrance Exam: UPES Design Aptitude Test (UPESDAT) – 12 July, 2016 Last Date to Register: 9 July 2016

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Glimpse of B Tech Centralized Counselling in Delhi Click here to view more https://www.facebook.com/upescounsellingforbtechaspirants/

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Glimpse of UPES B. Tech Uttarakhand Domicile Counselling in Dehradun

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Watch here the interview of few aspirants and parents at the B Tech centralized counselling held in Delhi . Click below link https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjRB5hBljH6Qr0_Lrr3EQ9SAndGNx-VeJ

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Media Coverage …

Asian Age

Times of India Rajasthan Patrika

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Glimpse of select Coverage

Pioneer

Indian Express

Business Standard

India Today

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More Updates… From the College…

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Krishna Pallavi V. , student of B.A., LL.B. won 2nd position for book review in the of RGNUL 1st National Book Review and Case Comment Competition, 2016.

This competition was organized by

Literary and Debating Committee, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (RGNUL), Punjab.

2nd position for Book Review to Law student

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“Best Training Institute Award” for Port & Shipping Course

UPES was awarded “Best Training Institute Award,” for the Port and Shipping Management program at the international SHIPTEK conference held at Dubai on 29th May 2016.

On behalf of UPES, Ms.

Leena Wanganoo, Research Scholar, UPES based in Dubai has received the award.

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Students Projects encouraged under Incubation and Research Initiative

The College of Engineering Studies launched RISE initiative with a corpus of Rs. 15,00,000, to provide financial and technical support to the innovative ideas of the students from UG and PG courses.

Some of the ambitious projects

developed under this include development of UAV for campus surveillance, Ecofriendly solar tree, Robotic system for inspection of pipelines, Smart shoe, Dynamic encryption engine, Scour monitoring device etc.

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