Vol : 10

No : 6

September 2014

A Monthly Newsletter of SCMS Group of Educational Institutions, Cochin

Co-ordinating Editor - Mr. Sanal Potty

Editorial Advisory Council: Dr. D. Radhakrishnan Nair, Prof. R. Sahadevan

Edited and published by Prof. B. Unnikrishnan for and on behalf of SCMS Group of Educational Institutions, Prathap Nagar,

Muttom, Cochin - 683 106 and printed at Maptho Printings, Cochin - 683 104.

www.scmsgroup.org Email: scms@scmsgroup.org

SCMS School o f Archi tecture

Dr. G.P.C. Nayar

Founder & Chairman

SCMS Group of

Educational Institutions

Dr. GPC Nayar, Chairman, SCMS Group hoisting the National Flag

on the 68th Independence Day at SCMS Campus, Prathap Nagar at

Kalamassery. Board of Directors, Faculty Members, Students and

Staff participated on the occasion.

Vande Mataram

Dr. Pradeep P. Thevannoor, Vice Chairman, SCMS Group explaining the Water

Policy Project to Mr. Oommen Chandy, Chief Minister of Kerala. Mr.Tony

Chammany, Mayor, Kochi Municipal Corporation, Ms. Bhadra, Deputy Mayor,

Kochi Municipal Corporation, Mr. Benny Bahanan MLA, Mr. Hibi Eden MLA and

Dr. Sunny George, Director, CSWTM also seen .

SCMS joins hands with Kochi Corporation for Water PolicyAs part of the Mission Kochi 2015, an

initiative of the Corporation, the Centre

for Sustainable Water Technology and

Management (CSWTM) at SCMS School

of Engineering and Technology (SSET)

has been selected by the Kochi Municipal

Corporation for developing a water

policy for the city. This is the first time

ever in India that a local self government

is developing its own local water policy

under the purview of the National and State water policies. This

water policy project is one among the few projects that Kochi

Corporation has enlisted under fast track projects category and

was inaugurated by Chief Minister Mr. Oommen Chandy on 25

August, 2014. The water policy will act as guidelines for the

effective utilization of water resource in the city and will help the

corporation to plan and implement projects providing sustainable

solutions to unique water issues in the city. News SSET

M.Tech 5th batch inauguration

IPR Awareness Programme

Staff Achievements

Mr. Manoj Kumar B., Asst Professor - Automobile Department

and Mr. Vinoj P.G., Asst Professor - Electronics and

Communication Department attended one day Awareness

Programme on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) at Hotel Dream,

Cochin Organized By FISME, Intellectual Property India & rd

Government of Kerala on 23 August 2014.

SSET Final Year Students

who were engaged in

v a r i o u s I n n o v a t i v e

Projects Mr. Rakesh R

Na ik , Mr. Vip in P

S u b r a m o n i a m , M r.

Naveen Joseph, Mr. Saeed Rahman, Mr. Jabir Haneef, Mr. Abijith

Menon, Mr. Neal R Chhabani, Mr. Paul Zacharia, Mr. Adithya

also joined the Programme as student delegates.

The 5th batch M.Tech programme was inaugurated by Prof. M.

Madhavan, Director, SSET on 20th August.

Ms. Diana P. G. Percy, Assistant Professor -CSE Dept secured first

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Mr. Vinu Verghese the Chief Operating Officer of

Kerala at Idea Cellular Limited and the Senior Vice

President of Operations Kerala, interacting with

students at SCMS campus in the programme

Industry Institute Interaction on Monday, 18th August, 2014.

Dr.C.Sengottuvelu, Professor and Consultancy, SCMS Cochin

School of Business has attended a one day workshop on Cost and

Profitability Management on 05-07-2014 conducted by MSME

Development Institute Chennai under the Ministry of Micro,

Small & Medium Enterprises, Government of India. A paper titled

on " Measuring supply chain performance in selected Engineering

Industry" has been published in International Journal of Business

and Administration Research Review (IJBARR), Volume 2, Issue

5, April-June 2014".

The students attended a

personality development

programme during the

period from August 11 to

31. The resource persons

were Mr.Mahesh Nazare

and Prakash Almeda from

Red. India Limited, Mumbai.

Workshop Attended and Paper Published

Personality Development Programme ( PDP)

National Conference on Knowledge Management at SCMS

A two-day national conference on Knowledge Management

was held at SCMS COCHIN School of Business campus at th th

Kalamassery on 29 and 30 of August, 2014. The event was

supported under Building Capacities for Consultancy

Development & Knowledge Management with Partner Institution

(KMPI) Programme of Consultancy Development Centre

(CDC), an autonomous Institution of the Department of Scientific

and Industrial Research (DSIR) of Ministry of Science and

Technology, Government of India. SCMS is the Knowledge

Management Partner Institute of CDC. The conference was

designed for academicians, researchers, IT professionals,

consultants and participants from the corporate to discuss the

emerging practices in Knowledge Management domain.

Mr. Manoj K. Das, Resident Editor, The Times of India

inaugurating the conference.

On Friday morning, Mr. Manoj K. Das, Resident Editor, The

Times of India inaugurated the conference. Dr.V.Raman Nair,

Contd. on page 2

rank in Embedded Systems during

the Cochin University M.Tech

examinations conducted in June 2014.

Ms. Asha S., Assistant Professor -CSE

Dept secured first rank in Information

Systems during the Mahatma Gandhi

University M.Tech examinations conducted in March 2014.

L&T Ramboll conducted campus recruitment for 2014 batch M.Tech

students on August 13. 2 students have been shortlisted for final

interview.

FCI OEN India conducted campus recruitment for 2014 batch B.Tech

students on August 23, Final results are awaited.

Bloomberg Aptitude Test was attended by our 2015 batch B.Tech

students on August 10. Infosys Limited will conduct their campus

recruitment drive for 2015 batch final year students during the first

week of October 2014.

Placement News

Diana P. G. Percy Asha S.

Mr. Ralf Heilmann and Mr. Marius Dietmann from Germany are

visiting SSET for 4 months as part of the student exchange

programme between University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-

Weingarten and SSET. During their stay at SSET they will actively

participate in the ongoing projects of CSWTM like development of

Water policy for Cochin Corporation, electro dialysis desalination,

Green Audit, German Water Partnership Programme etc.

Meanwhile the students of M.Tech Environmental Engineering

Department from SCMS Engineering College has reached at

University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany as

part of the Students Exchange Programme for a duration of two

months.

Students Exchange Programme

German Solutions to Indian Challenges

The 2nd Indian German Water Partnership summit will be held on th

6 October 2014 at the Taj Gateway Hotel Kochi in association with

SCMS School of Engineering and Technology and Kochi

Corporation. Mr. Oommen Chandy, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Kerala

will inaugurate the summit. GWP is a consortium of 350 German

companies working on various aspects of water technologies. The

water related activities of SCMS under the Centre for Sustainable

Water Technology and Management (CSWTM) was caught the

attention several companies who are members of GWP. They have

decided to collaborate with CSWTM in order to fine tune the

outstanding German technology on water to be ideally standardized

for Indian local conditions for solving the water related problems in

the Country.

Dr. G P C Nayar, Chairman, SCMS Group will preside over the

meeting. H.E. Jrn Rohde, Consul General of Germany in Bangalore

will deliver the key note address. Mr Tony Chammany, Mayor, Kochi

Corporation, Friedrich Barth, Managing Director GWP, Mr Hibi

Eden, M.L.A., Prof. M. Madhavan, Principal SSET and Dr.Sunny

George, Director, CSWTM will participate in the inaugural

ceremony. German and Indian water experts will deliberate on the

theme German Solutions to Indian Challenges. It will also identify

the challenges and opportunities of the Indian water sector, paying

special attention to sustainable water resource management.

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Indian German Water Partnership Summit 2014 on October 6

Dr. Pradeep P. Thevanoor, Vice Chairman, SCMS Group and Dr. Sunny

George, Director, CSWTM with the Indo German Sub Committee of German

Water Partnership.

Contd. from page 1

The students of SCMS welcoming Mr. Rajesh Parpyani, Head Knowledge

Management & Publications, CDC, Government of India., Mr. Manoj K.Das,

Resident Editor, The Times of India, Mr. Rajesh Nair, Associate Director (Markets),

Ernst & Young LLP, Kochi accompanied by Dr.V.Raman Nair, Director, SCMS

COCHIN School of Business.

Introduction of the seminar

Sai Narayanan & Shivin

(PGDM Batch 23)

Prayer

Amjatha & Karthika

(PGDM Batch 23)

View of the audience

Mr.Tobby Simon, Founder,

Synergia Foundation delivering

the key note address

Mr. Rajeev Mukundan, TCS, Kochi

with Dr.Indu Nair, Director, SCMS

Dr.Praveen Kammath,

Global Head -

Talent Transformation,

Wipro BPO, Bangalore

Mr. Tushar Dekate,

DGM, HCL Bangalore

Mr. Jack Eapen,

Sun Tec Business Solutions,

Techno Park, Thiruvananthapuram

Dr.K.Jayakumar, IAS,

Principal Secretary, Dept. of Sports &

Youth Affairs, Govt. of Sikkim

Dr. Beena K.S.,

Chief Librarian

CUSAT

Prof. Muralidharan K.B.,

Dept. of Computer Science,

CUSAT

SCMS Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Research and

Development (SIBB R&D) and Kaipuzha Coconut Producer

Company Limited, Kollam has signed a one year MOA. As per

this, Neera products Neera drink, Neera honey and Neera sugar

developed by SCMS will be marketed by the company in the State.

Dr.Pradip P.Thevannoor, Vice President, SCMS Group and

Mr.Jayamohan, M.D, Kaipuzha Coconut Producer Company

jointly signed the agreement at SCMS campus, Kalamassery. Prof.

P.C.Pillai, Group Director, SCMS, Dr.C.Mohankumar, Director,

SIBB R&D and Mr. Shajahan, Chairman, Kaipuzha Coconut

Producer Company were present on the occasion.

T h e f i r s t N e e r a

processing pilot plant

in the private sector in

the country will be

c o m m i s s i o n e d i n

September, 2014. It is a

successful initiative of

SCMS Institute of

Bioscience and Bio-

technology Research

and Development (SIBB R&D), a member of SCMS Group of

Educational Institutions. The State Government has granted

permission for one year for the production of Neera in association

with Coconut Development Board, Government of India. The

project has successfully full-filled its objectives using financial

aid from the C.D.B. The State Excise Department has also

released NOC to tap Neera from 250 coconut trees in Ernakulam

District. SCMS research institute is the first institution in the

private sector in the country in developing Coconut Neera drink

and its add-on products like Neera honey, Neera sugar, and

Kera Nutri Vita, a highly nutritious protein powder for the

infant and the old. The plant is located at Vidya Nagar near Cusat,

South Kalamasery at Ernakalum District. The production

capacity of the plant will be 1000 liters per day of Neera drink and

bi-products. The latest technology well ensures that the functions

of the machineries will be highly hygienic.

The drink can be preserved for 3 months at normal temperature.

Dr.C.MohanKumar, Senior Scientist and Director of SCMS

research Institute (SIBB R&D) is the leader of the SCMS research

SCMS Neera plant to be commissioned this month

team. Earlier, Mr.Oommen Chandy, Chief Minister of Kerala

officially had launched the Neera Products developed by SCMS at nd

a function in Kottayam on March 2 2014.

Signs MoA for Neera products

Dr. Pradeep P.Thevannoor and Mr.Jayamohan exchanging the MoU for marketing

the Neera products developed by SCMS. Prof. P.C.Pillai, Group Director, SCMS,

Dr.C.Mohankumar and Mr. Shajahan also seen in the picture.

Are you ready for the corner office book release

Mr. Shyam Sreenivasan, Chairman and CEO, Federal Bank,

releasing the book titled "Are you ready for the corner office"

written by Mr. Pradipta K. Mohapatra IAS, Co founder and

Chairman, Coaching Foundation India Limited in a function

organized by Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) at SCMS

COCHIN School of Business campus, Kalamassery in association

with TiE.

This network is not just to foster the

relationships you have built in your

campus life. It enables you to benefit

from the strength of this alumni

network and benefit from the alumni

you may not even know personally.

Each one of us needs to spread this

other SCMS alumni too.

We have taken the first step towards

bringing all our alumni under one

roof.

An exclusive alumni

network for

SCMS COCHIN

SCMS Cochin School of Business has its own exclusive

alumni network which can be accessed at https://

scmscochin.fourthambit.com/ I request all the alumni to register

here: https://scmscochin.fourthambit.com/ says Prof. Pramod P.

Thevannoor, Sr.Group Director, SCMS.

The dual Degree MCA (BCA+MCA) Programme affiliated to the

MG University and offered by SCMS School of Technology and th

Management (SSTM), has begun on 25 Monday, August, 2014 at

the SCMS campus at Kalamasery.

MBA

A freshers welcoming party was organized by the MBA seniors to

the juniors on August 7 at the campus.

BCom

Senior students of BCom programme organised a marvelous

welcome party to the freshers on 14th August, 2014 at the Campus

auditorium.

Dual MCA pogramme launche at SSTM

Freshers gathering at SSTM

Director, SCMS Cochin School of Business accorded welcome

and Mr. Rajesh Parpyani, Head- Knowledge Management &

Publications, CDC, Government of India presided over the

meeting. Mr.Tobby Simon, founder, Synergia Foundation

delivered the key note address and Prof. MariakuttyVarkey, Head-

Systems & Operations, SCMS expressed vote of thanks.

Mr. Praveen Kamath, Global Head- Talent Transformation, Wipro

BPO, Bangalore, Mr. Rajesh Nair, Associate Director (Markets),

Ernst & Young LLP, Kochi, Mr. Rajeev Mukundan (TCS, Kochi),

Mr. Jack Eapen (Sun Tec Business Solutions, Techno Park,

Thiruvananthapuram), Dr.K.Jayakumar, IAS (Principal

Secretary, Dept. of Sports & Youth Affairs, Govt. of Sikkim),

Prof. Muralidharan KB (Dept. of Computer Science, CUSAT),

Dr.Beena, KS (CUSAT), Mr. Tushar Dekate (DGM, HCL

Bangalore), Dr.C.Sengottuvelu (Professor and Head-

Consultancy, SCMS) and Prof. Srikrishnan S. (Systems and

Operations Area, SCMS) were the speakers in the two-day

national conference.

A one day seminar on Novel exposures of Biotechnology and its th

allied areas has been conducted on August 8 2014 at SCMS

south Kalamassery campus. The objective of the programme was

to provide a clear awareness to graduate students and parents about

the need for studying M.Sc Biotechnology and its job

opportunities in the areas of clinical and molecular diagnosis of

diseases, designing and production of drugs, new tissue implants

and tissue engineering, production of nutraceuticals, transgenic

crops, recombinant therapeutic proteins, biofuels and other novel

biotech products.

Dr. AnilKumar P.R., Sr. Scientist, Tissue Engineering Department,

The Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences &

Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, inaugurated the seminar. Dr. C.

Mohankumar, Director, SIBB R&D presided over the inaugural

ceremony. Mr. Jacob Thomas, Manager, SIBB R&D, Dr. Jithesh

Narayanan, scientist and faculty, SIBB R&D delivered the

felicitation speeches. Mr. Sanal Potty, Manager, Public Relations

welcomed the seminar and Dr. Shalini Bhaskar, Research

Coordinator, SIBB R&D expressed vote of thanks. The seminar

w a s c o n c l u d e d w i t h a n i n t e r a c t i v e s e s s i o n b y

Dr. Shiny Velayudhan, Scientist, Biometerial Dept., Sree Chitra

Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology,

Thiruvananthapuram.

Seminar on Biotechnology at SCMS

Dr. AnilKumar P.R., Sr. Scientist, Tissue Engineering Department, The Sree Chitra

Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram,

inaugurating the seminar. Dr. C. Mohankumar, Director, SIBB R&D (extremely

right), and Mr. Sanal Potty, Manager, Public Relations are also seen in the picture.

Dr. Jithesh Narayanan Mr. Jacob Thomas Dr. Shalini BhaskarDr. C. Mohankumar

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