Date: 11th -16th February, 2019 | Venue: V J Jani Seminar Hall, Mechanical Department, L D College of Engineering, Ahmedabad. The one week FDP programme provided participants a comprehensive understanding of ‘Research Methodology: Tools & Techniques’ and conducting scientific experiments for collecting data, and analyzing the data to have fruitful conclusions. The programme was designed to be generic in nature for satisfying the needs of faculty pursuing their M.Tech and Ph.D from academic institutions and industry personnel carrying out research in any field. Various sessions were delivered on the basic principles of scientific research, design of experiments, data collection, statistical tools for analyzing data, oral/written communication of research and dissemination of research outcome.
•Dhruv Trivedi, Sugam Thakkar & Dashrath Mistri, the students of B.E. Civil VIIIth Sem (Batch 2016) bagged 2nd prize and were awarded cheque of Rs.7000/- for their SSIP project carried out under the mentorship of Prof. Poonam I. Modi. These students were felicitated in the event entitled “Innovathon Boot Camp” organized by I.C department on 14.6.2019. On the same day, Dr.Manish V.Shah ( SSIP Co-ordinator of AMD) was also conferred trophy.
Students of B.E. Sem (VIIIth), Abhijeet Panchal, Drashti Shah, Het Modi & Kina Shah were conferred the Second Runner Up prize with a cash prize of Rs.21,000, in the National Level Competiton INSDAG held at Kolkatta for designing “ A remarkable Steel Intensive Innovative Car Service Station”. The competition was scheduled on 15-16th Feb’2019. 83 colleges had participated on PAN India level, out of which 18 temas were shortlisted for final round. The team from our department, who was mentored by Prof. C.D.Patel, ranked third amongst the top 18 teams.
Report on Events of ISTE by Computer Engineering Department on 29-30 January-2019
A visit was organized for second year students of Chemical Engineering at Facilitation Centre for Industrial Plasma Technologies (FCIPT). FCIPT was setup in 1997 to promote the commercial exploitation of plasma technologies through development, incubation, demonstration, manufacturing and transfer. The centre has process development and instrumentation laboratories, job shop, material characterization and manufacturing facilities. The visit helped the students to understand plasma science and the various applications of plasma technology. One of the interesting area was plasma pyrolysis which is used in biomedical waste disposal, safe disposal of organic wastes like plastic, cotton and paper and energy recovery from disposal of high calorific wastes. The visit gave an insight about the contributions chemical engineers can make in this technology. Prof. S. M. Dutta oordinated the visit. Prof. Ruperi Rupal and Prof. Vandana Gojiya accompanied the students for the visit.
A visit was organized for second year students of Chemical Engineering at Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), Bhatt, Gandhinagar. IPR is an autonomous institute under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Govt. of India. It is exclusively devoted to basic research in plasma sciences and development of technological applications. This institute is largely involved in theoretical and experimental studies in plasma science including basic plasma physics, magnetically confined hot plasmas and plasma technologies for industrial application. The major thrust is in magnetic confinement fusion and plasma assisted material processing. The institute owns two operational tokamaks (a machine for controlling thermonuclear fusion) - ADITYA and Steady State Tokamak (SST) - 1. Dr. K. K. Mohandas showed the various facilities in the campus alongwith the working of tokamaks. Prof. S. M. Dutta oordinated the visit. Prof. Ruperi Rupal and Prof. Vandana Gojiya accompanied the students for the visit.
An expert talk on “Innovations in Concrete” was arranged on 7.2.19, for the students of B.E. Civil (Sem IV). The talk was delivered Mr.Birjeet Kumar (Marketing Manager of RMC Pvt Ltd) – a division of Prism Cement. The lecture was informative as it helped the students to know about all the latest types of innovation in material of concrete along with its relevant applications.
A Brief Report on WORKSHOP ON “Arduino – Raspberry PI” Held on 2nd February, 2019 organized by Computer Engineering Department,LDCE
Under GIDM-LDCE MoU, a training program via virtual classroom on “Orientation to the Principles of Disaster Risk Management-Understanding Risks” for Faculties, Staff and Students of LDCE was organized by Applied Mechanics Department on 1st February 2019. More than 100 students and faculty members have attended the programme.
