Coorg Institute of Technology

SPACE ON WHEEL BUS SCIENCE EXHIBITION
2023-04-18 10:30 - 16:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India

Industrial visit
2023-03-27 10:00 - 2023-03-28 16:00 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
To provide an insight into the real working environment of the industry and also to bridge the gap between classroom training and practical learning in a real-life environment, Industrial visit was organized on 27th and 28th March 2023.

Industries visited

1. Varahi Hydro Electric Project, Varaahi, Kundapura Tq.

2. Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited (KIOCL), Mangalore

3. Gurucharan Industries, Baikampady, Mangalore 4. Kalbavi Cashews Manufactures and Exporters, Mangalore

Green Initiative and Awareness
2023-03-23 09:00 - 17:00 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering has taken initiative to organize an event on green initiative on Tuesday, 7th March 2023. The final year students of all departments visited various schools around the college to create awareness on Green Initiative. And the plants were distributed and planted in all the schools to create awareness in the children and also to maintain those plants.

The schools identified for the different departments are:

GMP school, Gonikoppal – Mechanical Engineering department

GMP school, Ponnampet – Civil Engineering department

GMP High school, Gonikoppal – Electronics & Communication department

Athur school, Athur – Computer Science and Engineering department

GMP school, Polibetta – Computer Science and Engineering department

The different activities identified were:

Planting trees

Removing trash

A talk on deforestation

A talk on segregation of wet and dry waste.

A talk on Introducing compostable options to replace plastic.

The students of different department were divided into different groups to perform the above mentioned activities:

A talk on deforestation was delivered by Neha V V (CS&E), Shwetha M(CSE), Jhanvi Uthappa (CSE), Disha Somaiah (CSE), Supreeth (CSE), Sowmya (EC), Chethan (EC), Inchara Nayaka B V(CV), Gowtham Gappanna A M(ME), K A Tharang (ME).

A talk on segregation of wet and dry waste was delivered by Supriya M(CS&E), Unnatha S(CS&E), Sinchana (EC), Hemanth (EC), Ashwini C Nayak (CV), Pranam B R(ME), Puneeth Kumar H S(ME).

A talk on Introducing compostable options to replace plastic was delivered by Gangamma B P (CS&E), Hemashree (CS&E), Amshika M S(CS&E), Nirup N (CS&E), Sinchana (EC), Hemanth (EC), Anjali M R(CV).

Apart from the activities assigned, the students also interacted with the school students about various things, played some games, shared stories and made it a memorable and successful event. Refreshment was given to all students.

Photographs

Planting tree by Computer Science and Engineering department

Planting tree by Electronics & Communication department

A talk by the student of Civil Engineering department

A talk by the student of Mechanical Engineering department

Food Walk
2023-03-21 10:00 - 16:00 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
To explore the culinary practices, food lore, and indigenous materials of the region used in cooking an Outdoor Cooking Activity was arranged on 21st March 2023. The event provided the opportunity for community to come together to enjoy the preparation, cooking and consumption of a healthy meal for all and also gave an opportunity to strengthen community engagement in the activity.

Guest talk on “Research Avenues in Agriculture & Organic Farming”
2023-03-21 09:30 - 16:00 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
Department of AI & ML conducted a guest talk on “Research Avenues in Agriculture & Organic Farming” on 21st March 2023 for 1st and 2nd year students of AI & ML. The resource persons for this event were Dr. Harish M.N[ SMS Agrometeorolgy), & Mr. Changappa S. K [Agromet Observer], from Krishi Vignyana Kendra, Gonikoppal.

The main objective of this event was to gain information about the organic farming, its benefits, and how it differs from conventional farming practices. The resource person also briefed about the different project ideas of agriculture to the students that they can implement for the betterment of the society.

Expert Talk on Electric Mobility
2023-03-20 10:00 - 16:00 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
An Expert talk on Electric Mobility was arranged on 20th March 2023. Mr. Sushil Reddy, IIT Bombay alumnus & Guinness World Record Holder was the resource person for the event. In his session, he gave an insight on renewable energy resources and highlighted the importance of sustainability. Speaker shared his experience of travel from Kanyakumari to Kashmir on Mahindra XUV400 electric vehicle journey with Zero tailpipe emissions as a part of the sustainability outreach initiative.

10 days’ workshop on CATIA V6.0
2023-03-13 10:00 - 2023-03-23 16:00 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
A certificate course on 3D modelling Software CATIA V6.0 was organised for students of final & prefinal year students from 13th to 23rd March 2023 in association with The Climbb, Thichy, Tamil Nadu, an ISO 9001:2015 organisation.

Mr. Ramkumar Nagalingam was the resource person for the event. During the 60hours training program participants gathered knowledge about of CATIA interface and application of commands, Part Design, Assembly Design & Drafting.

Extensive Survey Camp
2023-03-13 08:00 - 2023-03-18 16:30 | Melukote, Karnataka, India
An Extensive Survey Camp was conducted as a part of curriculum from 13th March to 18th March 2023 at Melukote, Karnataka for 5th Semester Students.

Surveying Practices in Highway Construction
2023-03-10 08:00 - 2023-03-11 16:30 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
A two-day hands-on workshop on “Surveying Practices in Highway Construction” was organized on 10th and 11th March 2023. Mr. Karthik K N, Site Supervisor, Madikeri Construction Pvt. Ltd, Madikeri was the resource person for the program.

Significance of Honors Degree
2023-02-25 10:30 - 17:00 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
The Department had organized a Talk on Honor’s Degree on Saturday, 25thFebruary 2023 at 3rdfloor seminar hall in the college at 10:30am.All the third semester students of all the branches were present for the event. The main purpose of the talk was to give the students a knowledge on how the honor’s degree would benefit them in their future.

Resource person Prof. Yogesha T, Department of CS&E, VTU, P.G. Center, Mysuru, spoke to students about Honor’s degree, its significance. The criteria to obtain Honor’s Degree by setting minimum CGPA and credit points that they need to achieve/ maintain to be eligible to apply for it.

He briefed about the different online courses like NPTEL, MOOC, Swayam and AICTE etc. and about the assignment, fees and exam pattern conducted by these online courses.

He also updated about the normal B.E degree and B.E Honor’s degree and calculation of SGPA and CGPA according to their credits offered to particular subject. The students got an idea about the opportunities that they would get in research field and also the higher packages that would be offered to them. By 5th semester if the students are not having any backlogs and meet all these criteria would be eligible to register for Honor’s degree. Vote of thanks was given by Mahitha -3rd semester CSE student. Hod thanked the resource person for educating our students regarding the Honor’s degree and for his precious time.

Painting Competition Under Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam
2023-02-20 14:00 - 16:00 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
With respect to the India’s G20 presidency AICTE proposed to conduct various events under “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” or One Earth One Family One Future closely lies with LIFE (Life style for Environment) with a focus on sustainable and environment friendly life styles, harmony within the human family and honest conversations about climate change and global security.

Eco Club and Health & Hygiene Maintenance Committee organized “Painting Competition” on 20/02/2023. The themes of the competition were “Sustainable and Environment Friendly Life Styles” & “Honest Conversations About Climate Change”.

There were 23 participants for the event. Participants were instructed to choose any one of the themes mentioned above. The paintings done by the participants were judged by Prof. Pramukh Ganapathy, HOD Civil Dept. Prof. Kirthan, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Prof. Dechakka M P, Dept. of Electronics and Communication, Prof. Anjali, Dept of Basic Science, Mr. Chittiappa A U, Foreman Dept of Mechanical Engineering.

The paintings done by the participants were creative and expressive. Ideas executed by the participants were highly appreciated.

The decision regarding the winners was made on the basis of the following criteria:

Relevant to theme

Clarity

Uniqueness

Composition of colors

The winners of the painting competition were:

First Place: Sadhu J – AI&ML.

Second Place: Chondamma K T – Mechanical Engineering.

Third Place: Deepika Nachappa N – AI&ML.

Guest talk on “Water Conservation & Waste Management”
2023-02-14 09:30 - 16:00 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
The department of AI & ML conducted the Guest talks to the 2nd year students on the topic “Water Coonservation & Waste Management” on 14th February 2023. The resource person for this event was Ms. Ramya H.N, Asst. Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, CIT, Ponnampet.

During this event the students were taken to a campus tour, where they were explored the incinerator, ground water reacharge point and rain water harvesting plant available in the campus. The resource person briefed about the different water conservation and waste man agement techniques.

Non-Destructive Testing
2023-02-08 08:00 - 2023-02-10 16:30 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
A three-day hands-on workshop on “Non-Destructive Testing” was organized from 08th to 10th February 2023. Mr. Akash, Site Engineer, Karnataka Test House Pvt. Ltd was the resource person for the workshop.

Guest talk on “Significance of Programming Skills”
2023-02-02 09:30 - 16:30 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
Guest talk on “Significance of Programming Skills” conducted on February 2nd 2023

The department of AI & ML conducted the Guest talks to the 2nd year students on the topic “Significance of Programming Skills” on February 2nd 2023. The resource persons for this event was Dr. J.B.Gorabal, BOE of VTU & Head of CS & E, ATME, Mysuru & Dr. Deepu R, Head of Computer Design, ATME, Mysuru. The agenda of this guest talk was to enlight the students about the importance of learning different programming languages and their scope in the future.

Advanced LabVIEW
2023-01-30 09:30 - 2023-02-01 16:30 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
Three days Workshop on “Advanced LabVIEW”:

A three-day workshop titled “Advance LabVIEW” was conducted by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering for third-semester students from 30/01/2022 to 01/02/ 2023, with the goal of bridging the knowledge gap between the academic curriculum and industrial practice. The resource person was Mr. Manjunatha V.R, Embedded Software Specialist, CS Group, Montreal, Canada and this practical session was attended by 49 students in total.

LabVIEW is a graphical programming language used for simulation as well as building real-world systems in association with NI modules. LabVIEW software is very much relevant to Communication, Electronics, Data Acquisition, Signal Processing, Instrumentation, Control and Industrial Automation. The objective of this hands-on training is to get advanced experience in handling and developing LabVIEW based applications to solve core engineering problems.

The resource person, Mr. Manjunatha also gave an overview of how industrial challenges are solved using LabVIEW by referencing actual difficulties from real-world applications toward the end of the workshop.

Heritage Tour & “Swachch Bharath Abhiyan”
2023-01-27 09:30 - 16:00 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
Department of AI & ML organized one day heritage tour for 2nd year students to Nalknad Palace and Igguthappa Temple to know the history and culture of the local places, connecting to people around through their history on 27th January 2023. On this occasion, the 2nd year students of AI & ML promoted the “Swachch Bharat Abhiyaan” by cleaning the surrounding areas of Nalknad Palace & Igguthappa Temple. The students also facilitated the Parapathegara of Igguthappa Temple, Mr. Paradanda Princy by who explained the mytholgoies surrounding and pertaining to the origin of the temple. The students also planted a sapling of coconut tree in the premises of the temple

Study Visit to Heritage site in Madikeri
2023-01-25 10:00 - 16:00 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
To create awareness about the history and culture of the city, a Heritage Tour was organised on 25th January 2023. The students visited heritage site located in and around Madikeri. The architecture and the socio-cultural stories behind heritage site enlightened the students and the descriptive notes in that place made the students gain more knowledge about the heritage site.

Ground Water Detection
2023-01-23 10:00 - 17:00 | pollibetta
A one-day workshop on “Ground Water Detection” was organized on 23rd January 2023. Mr. Palaniswamy, Rajarajeshwari Borewells and Consultants, Pollibetta, was the resource person for the program.

Guest Lecture on Identification of plant species and carbon footprint in trees
2023-01-21 10:00 - 16:00 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
A guest lecture on Identification of plant species and carbon footprint in trees was organised on 21st January 2023. Resource person Dr. Jadegowda, Professor College of Forestry, Ponnampet spoke about the importance of plants for the conservation of nature and also highlighted the role of plants in reducing carbon footprints.

Visit To Krishi Vignyana Kendra (Kvk), Gonikoppal
2023-01-20 09:30 - 17:00 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
The Department of AI & ML organized a one day visit to “Krishi Vignyana Kendra, Gonikoppal for 2nd year students. The main objective of this visit was to know about the different ways that are implemented for soil testing, organic farming, weather forecasting, mushroom cultivation & food preservaton as a part of student currciulum.

Visit to College of Forestry, Ponnampet
2023-01-18 10:00 - 16:00 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
As a part of Social Connect & responsibility course, second year students were taken to College of Forestry, Ponnampet on 18th January 2023. The main objective of the visit was to create awareness among the students on plantation of trees and its importance. Dr. Jadegowda, Professor, College of Forestry, addressed the students and gave an insight on environment and its phenomena, planting the trees and its protection. He also emphasized to enrich the sacred forest. After the talk, students visited the Botanical Garden and Apiculture Center in the college campus.

Program on “IEEE Xplore Digital Library”
2023-01-12 10:30 - 16:30 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering organized a one-day workshop on “IEEE Xplore-Digital Library” on the 12th of January 2023. The programme was organized on the occasion of National Youth Day celebrating the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda in association with Library committee and VTU Consortium. The programme was organized for the students of the pre-final year of the Department in the third floor seminar hall. The resource person of the event was Mr. M S Srinivas, EBSCO Training manager, Bengaluru. The Honorable Secretary of Kodava Education Society, Sri C P Rakesh Poovaiah was the Guest of Honour. Students of 5th semester Ms. Disha welcomed the gathering, Ms. Thasmiya Naghma introduced the resource person , Ms. Thangamma delivered vote of thanks, Ms. Chondamma was the Master of Ceremony. Prof. Daina K K, the Head of the Department was also present in the programme.

As it was the special occasion of National Youth Day, the programme began by offering a floral tribute to Swami Vivekananda. Ms. Vivina and Ms. Prarthana M R threw light on the importance of National Youth Day and spoke in length about the principles followed by Swami Vivekananda.

Morning Session 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

The resource person started the session by stating that IEEE Xplore is a digital library which provides global access to millions of research papers. He explained about the different features of IEEE Xplore. The resource person also mentioned that the digital library provides access to code of the implementation carried out in the papers. This will be extremely useful for the students for implementing the base paper as projects in their final year. There will be a separate section focusing on the different equations that is used in the paper. The resource person also informed that the reference section of the paper is very important as it reflects how many people have referred to the work of a particular author.

Afternoon Session 2:00PM-4:00PM

In the afternoon session hands on session about how to use the different features of IEEE Xplore was conducted. The students were taught how to download papers from IEEE Xplore. The resource person also informed the students that our institute has free access to many papers as it has association with VTU Consortium. All the students were able to create an account in IEEE Xplore. The resource person also educated students about the types of papers to refer to implement their projects. At the end the resource person conducted a quiz on the aspects of IEEE Digital Xplore discussed with the students in the workshop. Mr. Darshan B R, Mr. Preetham and Mr. Srujan emerged as the first, second and third winners respectively.

Prof. Daina K K, Head of the Department presented a memento to the resource person during the valedictory programme.

Dignitaries on the dais during the Inaugural Programme, Group photo of the students with resource person

Advanced Surveying Techniques and its Implementation in Construction Practices
2022-11-28 09:30 - 2022-11-30 16:30 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
Three day workshop on “Advanced Surveying Techniques and its Implementation in Construction Practices” was organized from 28th to 30th November 2022. The resource person was Mr. Suresh Devaiah, CEO, Acre 2 Hectare (A2H), Bangalore.

Scope for higher studies and competitive exams after engineering
2022-11-25 09:30 - 16:30 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
One day guest talk on “Scope for higher studies and competitive exams after engineering” was organized on 25th November 2022. The resource person was Dr. Shriram Marathe, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, NITTE University.

Advancements in Transportation Engineering
2022-11-24 09:30 - 16:30 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
One day guest talk on “Advancements in Transportation Engineering” was organized on 24th November 2022. The resource person was Dr. Shriram Marathe, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, NITTE University.

One day Workshop on 3D Printing
2022-10-10 09:30 - 16:00 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
One day Workshop on 3D Printingwas organised for students of Cauvery Polytechnic, Gonikoppa on 10th October 2022. The outreach program was conducted with a motto of imparting knowledge on modern manufacturing techniques and exposure to 3D printing technology. Prof. Kishen Karumbaiah B J, Spoke on evolution of Additive Manufacturing Technology (AMT), Application areas, career potential, current developments in the technology. The session was followed by preparing CAD Models for demonstration by Prof. Aravind Appanna K E using Autodesk Inventor. Machine part created using CAD model was printed using 3-D printer and students were educated on the printing process during operation.

Information Search & Presentation (ISAP)
2022-01-12 09:30 - 16:30 | CIT Ponnampet,kodagu, halligattu village and post, ponnampet, karnataka, 571216, India
ISAP is a program where student has to search a technical topic and present it. So this enhances student confidence, stage presentation, subject knowledge, innovative thinking, interaction with audience, presentation skills. This program was conducted for 2nd year students of AI &ML where all 46 students presented their topic. The best 3 presentation were awarded.

Mr.Mohith Machaiah – ( I Prize)

Mr. Chinnappa N C – (II Prize )

Mr. Nikhil Thimmaiah K G – (III Prize)
