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“The only thing that remains constant is change”. Yes, this has become our attitude, and will remain our legacy to pass down. There has been more development in the past hundred years than the entire span of time since human-origin. Moore’s Law still holds strong. We are in an age where our passion and abilities are our hammer and sickle. Competition is round every nook and corner; name any domain. To keep up to this scurry change we need to regularly equip ourselves in our areas of interest and domains of development. The Department of Computer Science gave students this chance to upgrade ourselves. We had Revelations 2015, our intra-departmental fest this February. An annual fest which lasted for about half a month. Three teams were made of the entire lot of students, who went all out to show their expertise and abilities to change.  Yes, Transmute was the theme for this year and each team was represented by the three robots Asimo, Kirobo and Aibo, depicting how change is in...

The Electronics Club had organized its Annual Project Exhibition on Friday, 20 Feb 2015. The students of VI SEM BSc PME and CME participated with their working projects. It was arranged in the Electronics Lab, I Floor, Block I between 12 and 2 pm, with 27 teams participating in the exhibition. As a part of their lab work for ELE 652, students completed the projects under the guidance of faculty members of the department. They demonstrated the working of their projects using charts and models to the visitors. The exhibition covered various Electronic Projects like War field spy robot, Home automation using Bluetooth, Aurdino based Door lock system, Human detection Robot, Wireless message Display system, Temperature monitoring system, RFID based attendance, Density based traffic control system, Automatic street light controller, Smart energy meter, Digital Clock, Gesture Translator, Bidirectional visitor counter and Smart stick for visually disabled persons etc to name a few. The...

Electronics Club organizes one awareness program every year and this year an Awareness campaign on Renewable and Non-conventional Energy Sources was organized by the II year BSc (PME and CME) students on Friday, 31 January 2015 as a part of Electronics Club activities. There were about 28 teams from both PME and CME classes taking part in this campaign which was held in the Christ University Campus. The students explained the significance of understanding the need for alternate energy sources. They also showed the charts and power point presentations with a lot of statistics to highlight the need and requirement of renewable energy sources. Some groups also collected information about the recent developments in the field of alternate and eco friendly methods of generating energy. The participating teams were very happy after the event that, they could sensitize their fellow friends, Christies with regard to the renewable and alternate energy sources. The faculty members of ot...

The annual undergraduate departmental non-technical fest, Techleons 2015 was inaugurated in a beautiful joint ceremony with the postgraduate fest Revelations 2015 on 5-2-2015 at 9:30 am. Mr. Edvin Varghese, Founder & CEO Appface Technologies Pvt Ltd was the Chief Guest at the function and delivered an interesting and motivating welcome speech. A new and improved edition of the Department of Computer Science internal e-newsletter, Tricky Techies was released at this function in a very unique and interesting manner. The Techleons video was then released which was created and visualized by Tharun and team of BSc (CME). The video was in keeping with the theme of the fest- Super heroes vs Super villians and drew a lot of appreciation and cheers from the audience. Overall, it was a triumph that did the department proud. The events began at 11:00 am. The fest had 10 events- five technical and five non-technical. The technical events were Strykers Lab (Coding and debugging), Sling it ...

Institute of Management, Christ University organised National Conference on Contemporary Business Challenges and Strategies on Friday, 6 February, 2015, Timings: 9am – 5pm. The national conference theme revolved around General management, Financial management, Marketing management, Lean Operations and Systems management, and Human resource management. The conference started at 9am with the registration process. Introductory note was presented by Prof. Sirish V., Institute of management. Welcome address speech was given by Dr. Suniti Phadke, Dean, Institute of Management. This was followed by key note speech by Ms. Shoma Bakre on conference the theme “Contemporary Business Challenges and Strategies”.  In the plenary session, four presentations were done by Yogish Shanbag, CEO- Pupleframe Technologies Ltd., Bangalore, Dr. Hari Krishna Maram, CEO- Imperial Group of Institutions, Bangalore, Ramesh Kumar V. CEO- Biztoons Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, and Dr. Sharda S Nandram, Associate Prof...

Education for Sustainable Development develops competencies. In order to ensure a sustainable future, we need to assume responsibility for our actions and dedicate ourselves to build positive social and environmental change to promote well-being and improve quality of life now and into the future. It is a significant task; education is the channel through which it can be realised. The aim of the one day National Seminar on Research in Education for Sustainable Development was to provide a platform for presentation and discussion of ideas, to help transform the way the world views education and sustainable development, ensuring that sustainable development can be incorporated into the curricula at all levels of education and in all levels of society. The National Seminar was designed to provide a platform to enable research scholars, students, teachers and experts in the field of Education to present perceptions, debate, discuss and design new projects, programmes and initiatives ...

On 14th February 2015, around 2:30PM the faculty Dept. Computer Science & Engineering, CUFE visited Holistic Care (HIV/ AIDS) Centre, Sumannahalli, Bengaluru as a part of CSA activity. Faculty along with a few CSA volunteers spent a quality time interacting with the patients over there. Provisions/ groceries, 34 fibre chairs and a cheque of Rs4000 was given as a contribution to the care centre. Prof. K Pradeep Kumar as the dept.’s CSA in charge coordinated with the overall activity. The head of care centre introduced the HIV/ AIDS patients to faculty and there was an interaction session happened for half an hour. After which care centre head Fr. Jojy gave a presentation on the history of care centre, about the CMF congregation as well as information on HIV/AIDS and foster families. Prof. Glady added to the same and explained his relationship with Fr. Jojy and other service activities. Prof. Balachandran, HOD, dept. of CSE gave his talk on the experience he had visiting the holi...

The third Alumni Meet of the department of Biotechnology of Christ  University was conducted on January 26, 2015 in Room No.13, Block I of the main campus.   The event was jointly organized by the Alumni Association under the leadership of Mr Jugnu Oberoi and the Department of Biotechnology. Since its inception in 2007, five batches have passed out from the department of Biotechnology.    Around 35 alumni members came for the meet. The event kick started with a welcome by Dr Suma S, faculty in charge of  Biotech Alumni Association and address by Dr Louis George, HOD. Celebrations included cake cutting, various games like Quiz and Dumb Charades and sharing of the experience and feedback by the alumni members.  The faculty and the students had a photosession. The day ended with a happy bunch of people – both the alumni  and the faculty - going back home with a contended heart.

Christ University Kannada Sangha (before Christ College Kannada Sangha) has great reputation among its counterpart organizations and outside for being unique, productive and active. Christ University Kannada Sangha has a big name in Kannada publication field. It is one of the powerhouses in the field of publication. Christ University Kannada Sangha brought out its unique recent publication "Matte bantu Shravana", on the occasion of "Kavidina" which celebrates the birthday of gifted Kannada poet D.R. Bendre.  "Matte bantu Shravana" is a collection of 131 best poems written by 96 poets. These were prize winning poems of "Dr. D.R Bendre kavitaa sparde", a state level poetry competition conducted for students by the Kannada Sangha of Christ University since 1982. The book was released by famous Kannada writer, critic, Devanoora Mahadeva.  During his speech  after releasing the book he said, new generation writers should follow the paths laid by old...

The Department of Psychology, Christ University, organized a two-day seminar on Culture and Psyche: Sudhir Kakar’s Contribution to Indian Cultural Psychology and Psychoanalysis on 9 and 10 January 2015. The seminar was both a meeting ground for academicians, students and scholars and an occasion to honour Dr.Sudhir Kakar who has made immense contributions to cultural psychology in India. The inauguration ceremony began with an invocation dance which set the auspicious tone for the programme. This was followed by the lighting of the lamp by the dignitaries and the welcome address by Dr. Tony Sam George - Head, Department of Psychology-  in which he astutely observed that the two days ahead would be a truly ‘intellectual experience’. Dr. Fr. Thomas C. Mathew, Vice Chancellor, Christ University, in his inaugural speech, highlighted the uniqueness of the Indian family system with its wide support networks. This was followed by a fitting tribute to Dr.Sudhir Kakar by Dr. Baiju Gop...

The hoi polloi of Christ University, especially the MBA students had a whale of a time on 23 and 24 January, USHUS 2015 the annual national level management festival of Institute of Management.  The theme of USHUS 2015 was Circumpunct, the origin of all symbols. The corporate sponsors for USHUS included South Indian Bank, JBL, and Zoom Cars.  Analyttica and en Paradigm associated with USHUS 2015 as knowledge partners. The online promotions of the event started months in advance and the selfie contest for the students made the social media presence of USHUS 2015 a celebration. Students were encouraged to post a selfie taken inside the campus with the hashtags #nammachristuniversity and #ushus15 and the selfies won a prize every day. The winners of the contest were given away prizes on the last day of USHUS 2015. The inaugural ceremony was presided over by Honourable Vice Chancellor of Christ University, Rev. Fr. (Dr.) Thomas C Mathew. Vice President of ITC Hotels, Mr. Ranvir ...