Communiqué

AUGUST 2017

Team Corporate Communication

UPES ranks Globally among Best

Engineering Universities The CEO World Magazine ranking of the World’s Best Universities for Oil, Gas & Petroleum Engineering in 2017 is out.

UPES is ranked 28th with a score of 88.5 /100.

The CEO World Magazine ranking is based on six major indicators of quality, overall Score (100%). The listing can be viewed on this link

http://ceoworld.biz/2017/07/20/worlds-best-universitiesfor-oil-gas-and-petroleum-engineering-in-2017/

College of Engineering Studies

UPES Welcomes Dr. Deependra Kumar

Jha Dr. Deependra Kumar Jha joined UPES as Vice Chancellor on

8th August, 2017. An astute professional with experience in research, teaching & academic administration, Dr. Jha has pursued the philosophy of outcome-based education and accreditation throughout his career. Being a thorough educator his expertise lies in development of academic programs, curricula and regulations.

Dr. Jha is recipient of several awards & honors in his career. He was awarded the Excellent Researcher Award at Hiroshima University, Japan for his outstanding academic

achievements for two consecutive years in 2008 & 2009; besides, receiving the prestigious Japanese Government Scholarship, Monbukagakusho, to pursue his postgraduate research from 2006 to 2010.

University of Petroleum and Energy Studies

Placements Feat

Dell R&D

Preetbala Kaur Bhatia,

Cloud Computing & Virtualization Technology

Arpit Aggarwal, Telecom Informatics

Indian Navy

under UES - entry scheme 2017

Mayur, B Tech

Aerospace Engineering

Anshuman Preenza,

B Tech Mechatronics Engineering

Manvi Kathuria ,

B Tech CSE with Spl in

OSS

Simran Dhamija ,

B Tech CSE with Spl in

OSS

UPES is pleased to share select outstanding placements feats of this month

which includes selection of a few students in prestigious companies.

Microsoft India Global

Delivery

Rachit

Singhal –

B.Tech CSE with Spl . In

Cloud Computing

and Virtualization Technology

Rishabh Upreti –

B.Tech CSE Cyber

Security & Forensics

Study

Shubhankar

Nath – B.Tech

CSE Cyber Security & Forensics

Study

GVK MIAL

( Mumbai International Airport)

Ashish Panwar , MBA Aviation

Team Career Services

College of Engineering Studies

Newsflash…

UPES Students win Rs. 20 Lakhs to

Develop Prototypes UPES teams participated in the University

Challenge of India Innovation Growth Programme 2.0 (IIGP), are amongst the top finalists. As winners each team has received funding of Rs. 10 lakhs to build prototypes of a submersible unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and space debris management system.

A six member team of UPES students will now be working to develop a prototype of low-cost Submersible Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The other winning team from UPES will be developing a prototype of symmetrical hyperloop for the management of space debris in low earth orbit.

IIGP 2.0. is a joint initiative of the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India; Lockheed

Martin Corporation; TATA Trusts; Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSTF); Federation of

Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI); MIT Energy institute; IIT Bombay; IIM

Ahmedabad to accelerate innovative Indian technologies into the global markets using world class

commercialization strategies and business development assistance.

Department of Aerospace Engineering & School of Design Studies

Research & Development

Research Grants for Collaborative

Projects

Mr. Anil Kumar, Faculty CIT Dr. Praveen K. Ghodke, Faculty

Received grant from ISRO to develop a tool for NISAR- a collaborative project by ISRO & NASA.

Title of the Proposal: Implementation of Evolutionary Computing Algorithm for polarimetric SAR data processing and classification

Description: UPES will be developing a tool that will read the data available by NISAR and

implement the optimized algorithm to classification purpose.

• Electrical Department faculty received grant under SERB-Early Career Research Award for the following research project.

• Title of the Proposal: Development of a novel technology for production of hydrocarbon fuels from mixed Plastic waste

Research & Development

• Description: To address the need of energy in the hilly area such as Dehradun and increasing the plastic in municipal solid waste taken as challenge to utilize the plastic waste to produce fuel oil simultaneously generate the heat and power.

Research Grants

….

Dr. Sravendra Rana, Research Faculty

Dr. Jitendra k Pandey, VP-

Research

has been sanctioned grant with DST-SERB Project.

• Title of the proposal: Self-healing nanocomposites based on functionalized nanofillers.

• The main goal of the research is to develop practically applicable self-healing graphene nanocomposites based on capsule based network formation via Click Chemistry. Results of this research can stimulate the application of self-healing in broad industries

Research & Development

including reducing the risks of failure in multifunctional composite materials.

• Associate Prof., Research & Development

Department, UPES became Chief Editor of Theme Issue on “Polymer Nano-Composites for Water Treatment”in Current Organic Chemistry (COC), 5 year Impact Factor-2.088

Dr. Sukhendu Ghosh-Scientific Officer(F), works in the Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, BARC, India.

Dr. Ghosh in his talk elucidated on BARC’s NISURG-RUNA biogas plants which can handle any kind of biomass with no significant emissions. This technology consists of two stage reactor for efficient

Research & Development

biomass conversion with minimal retention time. Further he highlighted the works on Bio fuel-cell.

Research & Development

The Process Design Expert in India popularly

Learning with Leaders

Research & Development

known as the Aspen Man Shri M. K. Joshi visited UPES to share his hands on experiences and produce actionable strategies to create the next generation of young Process Designers. Learning With Leaders program by Mr. Joshi, Former Director (Technical) Engineers India Limited provided influential impact on the students. The five day long lecture by Shri. M K

Joshi elucidated participants about spectrum of techniques involved in Oil and Gas Industry.

UPES Faculty earns

International Certification Mr. Ajay Rawat, Faculty, UPES cleared DataBrick Developer

Certification for Apache Spark.

It's an international industry oriented certification in the field of Big Data. Databricks was founded by the team who created Apache® Spark™, and works with the open source community to continue to expand the project and make it easily accessible for enterprises and users alike.

The certificate has earned him in-to-out knowledge about developing, distributed applications on the Spark platform. He has gained knowledge about troubleshooting and fine tuning Big Data applications to get maximum performance on the distributed computing platform.

College of Engineering Studies

International Workshop to Synergize

Local Energy Resources

7 th – 11

th August, 2017 Department of Electrical Power & Energy

UPES migrates to

SAP HANA and

Analytics UPES has recently migrated to SAP

HANA and Analytics. With the migration to SAP HANA on the AWS cloud UPES has moved into the next level of computing in the enterprise application space.

SAP HANA is a in memory database providing high performance transaction with enhanced real-time analytics capabilities.

The project involved meticulous planning ensuring zero production downtime without disruption to business.

TeamIT

UPES launches Gen Next Tool

With an objective to provide a single window

clearance for all kinds of student grievances and

support requests, the Gen Next Tool was launched in

UPES.

The tool functions in real time and in time bound

mode for each grievance and support request. The

tool has a facility for the grievance being escalated to

the next level by the applicant in case of

dissatisfaction. It also has facility of automatic

escalation to the next level in case of non - receipt of

redressal in time at any level.

Any complaint/grievance would have a maximum of

3 levels to be seeked /redressed.

Directorate of Student Affairs 11 th August

Student Discipline Committee initiates

The student DC is an important component of the DSA, comprising of student volunteers to support activities.

More than 700 applications across University were received for Initiation Ceremony of DC. After rigorous

process, 205 DC members of the team were shortlisted.

The Student DC Team provides DC cover to major events of the University including Fresher’s Party, UURJA,

Ignite and chapter events. The team checks students on Dress Code, Public Display of Affection, Conduct Issues,

Eve teasing issues etc. Their support to Team DSA and Proctorial Board helps in maintaining discipline in the

Campus and is worth appreciating.

Directorate of Student Affairs 25 th August 2017

ISIE-HVC-18 Virtual Round (North Zone)

UPES collaboration with Dale Carnegie

on PEP training

Centre for Professional Communication

1st Business Associates Fair

College of Management

& Economics Studies

Newsflash…

CoMES-CIMA presents

Best Researcher Award and Best Teacher

Award

Mr. Ajay Lalwani, Country head of CIMA graced the occasion of award ceremony. 1st Position of Best Researcher award with a cash prize of Rs 25,000/- was awarded to Dr T.Joji.Rao. The 2nd position with a cash prize of Rs 15,000/- was secured by Dr Binod Kumar Singh whereas the 3rd Position with a cash prize of Rs 10,000/- was earned by Dr Tarun Dhingra. Dr Anshuman Gupta was awarded the special mention prize in the category of Articles. The special mention for Best Researcher was awarded to Dr Neeraj Anand and Dr Sumeet Gupta for their exemplary research contribution.

The Best Researcher Award was followed by the Best Teacher award

2017. The 1st Position of Best Teacher award with a cash prize of Rs 25,000/- was awarded to. Dr D.P. Singh. The 2nd position with a cash prize of Rs 15,000/- was secured by Dr Anil Kumar whereas the

3rd Position with a cash prize of Rs 10,000/- was awarded to Mr Avishek Ghosal. The special mention prize was awarded to Maj Gen. Dr S.P.S Narang and Dr Mohammed Yaqoot.

The Best Research Award and the Best Teacher Award was funded

College of Management and Economics Studies by CIMA, London.

Bridge Course

College of Management and Economics Studies

Workshop Enhances Understanding

Financial Market

A two day workshop on

Financial Market, Depository,

Mutual Funds, Equity Market,

Derivatives was successfully

completed under joint initiative

of departments of the college.

The motive of the Workshop

on was to provide students indepth understanding of financial markets and mutual funds. The deliberations covered career opportunities available for them in the BFSI sector.

Setting a platform for constructive discussion and deliberations, Dr Dayanand

Pandey, Director, College of Management and Economics Studies welcomed the

initiative and explained the changing facets of Financial Markets. The motivating

and eye-opening talk was delivered by well-renowned, highly esteemed and

richly experienced Expert Mr. Parvez Shaikh, AGM Training, and Mr.

Osho Krishnan Deputy Manager, Technical Research, Karvy Stock Broking Ltd.

Department of International Business & Department of Accounting and Finance 30th & 31st August 2017

Student Presents Paper in Japan

A joint research paper titled,

“Impact of Digitalization on

Automotive Industry: Challenges &

Opportunities” was presented in the

International Conference on

Business, Internet, and Social Media

BISM 2017) held on August 16 ( - , 18

at Tokyo, Japan. The paper was 2017

co - authored by Shubh Mehta,

Student of BBA - Auto Marketing

course , and Dr. Ankur Kumar

Rastogi, Faculty, UPES. Besides

UPES India, IITs, Indian Institute of

Science, NITs etc. from India, there

were around 39 countries that

participated in the conference.

College of Management and Economics Studies

FDP on GST

UPES and Center for Management Development

with Institute of Company Secretaries of India

( ICSI ) has successfully organized a TEACHER’S

CONGRUENCE and FDP Program at Management

Auditorium , Knowledge Acres, Kandoli Campus

on “GST and Corporate Law”.

The FDP was attended by academicians and

Scholars from institutions such as IIT Roorkee,

Doon Business School, IMS Unison University, DIT,

Quantum Business School, IHM, IEUPS , MITM,

Gurukul kangri vishwa vidhayalaya , Institute of

Chartered Accountants of India , Doon University

and so on.

5 th August, 2017 Department of Accounting and Finance

Bright Idea gets Investors

Suyash Jain & Kritika Navetia , students of BBA - Retail

Management course are always enthusiastic about creating

a business plan which deliver value and also solve problem

of the consumers. This team participated in many B - Plan

competitions and won many a times. The recent addition is

from E - Summit of IIT Kanpur to Delhi Management Fest to

i5Summit in IIM Indore.

The team participated in i5Summit 2017 in IIM Indore on

19 th - 20

th August 2017 (Central India's Largest

Entrepreneurship Summit at IIM Indore) to present their

ideas in front of investors. Their venture name is “Foodie

Indian” and this B - Plan was successful and got a positive

response from the investor from Edelweiss. They got funds

for their startup business plan for operations.

College of Management and Economics Studies

Run For Life 31st August

Mini Marathon was organized across colleges of UPES under Road Safety and Anti-Substance Abuse initiative. The motto of “Run for Life” was to spread awareness among the young students and the residents of nearby villages including School Students about “Road Traffic Safety” and against “Drug-Abuse”.

350 active participants including Students, Faculty and Staff came forward for active participation. Besides, 64 students from Senior Cambridge School participated as the guest participants. The participants were received at finish line which was in the Bidholi Sports Ground.

The event was organized majorly under four categories including students male & female and staff male & female categories. There

were few special categories also for external participants for marathon.

Directorate of Students Welfare

College of Legal Studies

Newsflash…

E - Newsletter

Publishes

College of Legal Studies

National Awards to UPES Law

Students The College takes pride in announcing that UPES Law course

students won awards under various categories of National Moot Court Competitions at different cities.

The students earned Best Delegation Award at Bhopal and Delhi and Best Speaker and Runner Up Trophy at Amity

University. This included Vaidehi Parek, B.A.LL.B., Akrati

Goswami, B.Com.LL.B., Sarika Rai, B.A.LL.B, who represented UPES at the Amity Madhya Pradesh’s National Moot Court Competition 2017.

Another team stood as Runner up of the competition. The team also won Best speaker award.

The student delegation from second year of law, won the Best Delegation Award along with individual awards in Bhojpal Youth Parliament, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh and Chanakya Neeti National Youth Parliament, New Delhi.

College of Legal Studies

UPES Celebrates 70 years of India’

Independence UPES took this initiative with full zeal and enthusiasm and

organized various activities.

All students, faculty and non-teaching staff at UPES took a pledge to make our nation free from Terrorism, Caste, Corruption, Uncleanliness and Poverty on 28th August 2017 as per the initiative taken by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

A talk by eminent educationist on Freedom Struggle was delivered by Dr. Pooja Gupta who is an eminent

educationist and did her research on National Freedom Struggle.

UPES Celebrates its 15th UPES celebrated its ‘15th Foundation Day’ at its Bidholi

Campus. The celebrations began with a ‘Hawan of the Day’ conducted by Acharya Dr. Dhannanjay (Principal, Gurukul Paundha) and his disciples. Senior members of UPES fraternity, which also included the existing members serving the University since its formative years, participated in the Hawan.

Architect of India’s Light Combat Aircraft ‘Tejas’ - Dr Kota Harinarayana was invited to deliver a talk on the ‘Foundation Day.’

51 adopted “Daughters of UPES” were also invited on this occasion and were gifted a formal Indo-western dress each of their choice. Each of the senior

Foundation Day

8 th August 2017

daughters were also given a wrist watch while the younger daughters were presented with a colorful school backpack.

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