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Annual report 2014-2015

School of Technology (DBCET), ADBU

“Inauguration of autumn semester 2014”

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Ju ly , YEAR 2014

School of Technology (DBCET) , ADBU

The first day of the new academic year 2014-15

started off on 14th July, 2014 with a special hour-

long assembly for second, third and fourth year

students. Like previous years this year’s inaugural

session was an event where the newcomers were

acquainted with the philosophy that forms the

foundation of our institute. The official inauguration

of the academic year is scheduled two weeks later on

31st July when the fresher’s would be present.

Welcoming the students and the faculty, Principal of

DBCET, Dr Manoranjan Kalita complimented the

students who were engaged in several learning

workshops as well as internships during their

holidays. Besides encouraging them to make us of the

new opportunities offered during the autumn

semester, he insisted that students participate

wholeheartedly in both co-curricular and extra-

curricular activities as well as get involved in the

various clubs. A group of faculty members presented

the 1972 chart buster song by the Swedish band

ABBA entitled - ‚I have a dream.‛ Though the song

was totally new to the young faculty members, they

learned it and sang it with expression and gusto. One

of the singers said, ‚It was indeed an inspirational

learning experience for all of us.‛ Following up on

the song’s theme, ADBU Vice Chancellor Dr

Stephen Mavely presented the theme for the year as:

‚Build your dreams, or someone else will hire you to

build theirs.‛ He insisted on students to have a dream

which would make them ‚push through darkness still

another mile‛ of difficulties.



“Professional Development Programme”

15th – 16

th July, YEAR 2014


I - ‚Mentoring‛

The one-day programme was devoted on the topic ‚Mentoring‛ which is one of the prime

responsibilities of every faculty here in ADBU. She spoke on the importance of mentoring in one’s

life especially for students. She laid emphasis on the aspect that mentor in an educational setting, is

multi-faceted starting from being a teacher, counselor, guide to a challenger. Throughout the

programme, she showed many sides of being a true mentor. A number of activities were also

conducted during the course of the day-long programme.

II - ‚Transformation through Reflection and Critical Thinking‛

Keeping this into mind, the 2-day programme was designed with the following objectives:

1. Exploring strategies to become aware of and minimize the unconscious bias and common

assumptions so that we can help create for the students an environment that supports risk

taking and engagement with the curriculum.

2. Training in the use of appropriate dialogue in the classroom to create a context of collaboration

and mutual support between teachers and the students.

3. Training in the art of being goal oriented - this will help create instructional goals for the

students.

The idea of conducting the second 2-day PDP

on ‚Transformation through Reflection and

Critical Thinking‛ had been sourced from the

student feedback which is given the maximum

weightage of 35% in faculty performance

feedback system. A theme of student feedback is

"clarity of concepts" – something which is most

sought and appreciated for. Another

recommendation from student feedback is to

"understand students better and that not all

students are able to learn in the same manner".

With the beginning of the new academic year

(Autumn 2014), Assam Don Bosco University

conducted a series of Professional

Development Programmes with the objective

of fulfilling the University’s continuous

endeavor to deliver on the commitment of

Professional Development for the faculty and

staff. The first professional development

programme was conducted on 10th July, 2014

and Mrs. Loya Agarwal, a renowned

counselor of the city was the resource person.



4. The necessity of ‘getting into a state of being stressed enough to be successful’ – involving

effective harnessing of goals, assignments and time to be successful.

5. Awakening to ‘Keeping the Big Picture’ in mind - reinforce and clarify core concepts.

6. Training in the art of critically reflecting on the teaching profession, its culture and ethos –

thereby helping the students to get into the habit of being given to reflecting on their own lives.

Mr. Neville Lobo, Global Head of Training & Development, Larsen & Toubro and Mr. Rohan

Athalye, Training & Development, Larsen & Toubro, conducted and facilitated this programme

which was held on the 15th

– 16th

July, 2014.

During the same day, Mr. Lobo introduced to all the importance of ‚Experiential Learning‛ which

he said is one of the best methodology to be used for adult learning as it focuses both on content and

process and combines cognitive, affective involvement, theoretical and conceptual material. He also

discussed as to how the process of experiential learning cycle works. During the process of

introducing experiential learning (ELM) cycle, he also introduced a famous model of ELM, known as

Kolb’s Learning Cycle. The model he said is composed of four elements namely; Concrete

Experience (CE), Reflective Observation (RO), Abstract Conceptualization (AC) and Active

Experimentation (AE). The essence of introducing these concepts were to make the faculty members

understand the various teaching styles that they adopt over time depending upon the learning ability

of the students. To further simplify on the things and make one understand their own teaching styles,

Mr. Rohan introduced a small game to test and find out the same. By the end of the day, each

department was asked to prepare a presentation on any topic of their subject-matter by applying all

the four styles of teaching and learning adopting Kolb’s Learning Cycle.

The second day began with the presentations given by each department by applying all the four styles

of teaching as was reflected upon the previous day. This was followed by a short movie named as

‚The Fish Story‛. The idea behind showing the movie was to make everyone reflect upon the

importance of enjoying one’s work and changing the outlook of seeing and doing things. The second

half of the day was devoted on making every department outline and document some key factors,

principles and practices that they would ‘start doing’, ‘stop doing’ and ‘keep doing’ as a department

of the university.

The first day programme began with some real

fun-filled ice-breakers and group activities.

After the group activities were over, each

group was asked to reflect on the core of the

essence of group tasks and critical analysis of

the same. Groups were again reshuffled and

were asked to jot down on ‚what should be an

ideal teacher like‛. Each group came out with

different viewpoints and these were further

documented to be used as a reference later.



“Students Development Programme”

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Ju ly , YEAR 2014


The 15th saw third semester students of the civil and mechanical engineering enthusiastically

participating in the student development program whose principal theme was ‚Together towards

excellence‛. After an introductory session of fellowship and joy, they were introduced to the topic

‚Manage stress before stress manages you‛, through an interactive session conducted by Ms.

Sahiba and Neelam, faculty of the Psychology department of ADBU. In the second session of the

day, Fr. Abhilash, former associate director of Don Bosco Institute, Guwahati, led the students

through a journey that will lead them to excellence, the attitudes and behaviour patterns that can

assure the students of excellence in their student and professional life.

The session was conducted by Victor Narzary of the MSW department, well versed and experienced

in social commitment.Ms. Sontara then briefed the students on the correct understanding of the

meaning, purpose and process of mentoring. This was very appropriate since the faculty of DBCET

had an enriching day-long session on the topic in the week prior to this development programme. The

third semester students of CSE, EEE and ECE had a similar programme on the 16th

. On the 15th

July, the seventh semester students of the civil and computer science engineering had a full day

programme on the theme ‚First steps towards the Corporate‛, a very practical training session on

the theoretical and practical aspects of resume preparation, group discussion, personal interview

and aptitude test. The sessions were conducted by Mr. Shahnowaz Hussain, the very well

experienced head of the Training and placement cell of DBCET, with the assistance of other faculty

members.

15th and 16

th of July, 2014 will remain

indelible in the minds of quite a no. of

students of DBCET, for it was during these

two days that nearly 500 of them, in two

batches had the opportunity of spending an

entire day, being guided and supported in

their efforts to develop themselves as

dependable individuals, as they begin their

technical and professional training for the

academic year 2014-15.

The first session in the afternoon was devoted

to the topic of social commitment, most

relevant for the students especially in the

context of their being more focussed on

technology and related topics; besides, it

served them as an introduction to the

practical social involvement of DBCET in

favour of the neighbourhood and the students

of the villages in the vicinity of the college.



“Inauguration of the Academic year 2014-15”

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Ju ly , YEAR 2014


Dr. Monmoyuri Baruah, Faculty in-charge, Students Affairs, DBCET.

1. Welcomed the students, with millions of dreams and ADBU being the right place to achieve their

dreams.

2. Students are trained to become intellectually competent, morally upright, socially committed and

spiritually inspired persons.

3. Encouraged the students to seize the day, grab every opportunity and active participation in all

co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.

Dr. Riju Sharma, Director, School of Humanities & Social Sciences.

1. Shared the vision of the University, the vision to excel. Defined ADBU to be a place where Dream

turns to reality.

2. Asked students to take challenges and responsibility and emphasized on not letting failures rule

one rather accepting it and becoming stronger.

3. Concluded her speech with the quote:

4. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think.

Fr. Stephen Mavely, Vice-Chancellor, Assam Don Bosco University.

1. Welcomed the 7th batch of students joining Assam Don Bosco University, to the Bosconian family

spreading worldwide over 134 countries.

2. Thanked Chief Guest, Mr. H.S. Das, additional chief secretary, principal secretary Finance and

Tourism Departments and Principal resident commissioner, Govt. of Assam.

3. Mentioned about dream, background almost disappearing, unless you keep it alive. Dream should

be built otherwise it will disappear in the sky. Laid stress on the following:

Talked about the meaning of the song and theme of the year 2014-15, ‚I have a Dream‛.

‚Having a dream for yourself, you can see the world in a different way‛.

‚Having a dream for yourself, gives you a coping mechanism‛.

‚Having a dream for yourself, gives you capacities and strength to pursue the dream‛.

‚Without a dream, you will not explore the god gifted dynasty‛.

The inauguration of the new academic year 2014-

15 started with a welcome speech by Ms.

Parismita A. Kashyap, Asst. Professor, Dept. of

ECE, DBCET who anchored the session. A series

of events took place in the occasion, where the very

first being the traditional lighting of the lamp and

reading of scriptures, singing of hymn and a

prayer by the students of the university. The event

was attended by a number of dignitaries among

and outside the university.



3. In reference to what Fr. Mavley said, he emphasized on having a dream for yourself. He gave the

reference of current P.M of India, the way he achieved his dream.

4. His mentioned about three stories about three people with different dreams and pointed out that

merely having a dream is not enough. It has to be in the proper direction. A good teacher brings

the best in the student.

5. Greatthinking of spreading knowledge in north eastern part of the region, dreaming to be a centre

of excellence not merely a place to get trained for a job.

6. Mentioned about ‚Look-East policy‛ and the possibilities come with it. Requested Fr. to explore

the possibility with ‚Myanmar Study‛ as a subject in the course.

7. University can take a lead in surveying the Environmental and ecological and geological changes.

Ms. Juhi Baruah, HR Director, Assam Don Bosco University.

A Presentation to introduce faculty members of the university.

Dr. Basil Koikara, Registrar, Assam Don Bosco University.

Delivered the rules and norms of the university and college on the following:

1. Important dates for different activities.

2. Evaluation procedure.

3. Attendance

4. Feedback system

5. Mentoring System

Mr. Shahnawaz Hussain, TPO, Assam Don Bosco University.

1. Discussed Current Scenario of the Job Market and Reasons for this job status

2. Industry Academia Interaction

3. PLACEMENT ACTIVITIES

Creazone Committee

A presentation on the ‚different activities and clubs‛, of School of Engineering and Technology, by

7th semester student.

Mr. H.S. Das, IAS, Addl. Chief Secretary, Principal

Secretary, Finance & Tourism Depts. and Principal

Resident commissioner (addl) Govt. Of Assam,

Chief Guest.

1. He appreciated for the great infrastructure and

space for studentsallowing them to interact with

each other.

2. He appreciated ADBU for its initiative towards

entrepreneurship.



“Code- Uncode 2014 Competition”

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August, YEAR 2014


The top 10% of the students from the preliminary round will be selected to appear for the national

level competition.

Code-Uncode competition 2014 was held

on 9th August at the School of

Engineering and Technology, ADBU,

Azara. Students from CSE & IT

department attended the ‚Code Uncode

2014‛ competition organized by

International Council of E-Commerce

Consultants in collaboration with Coding

Club of the School of Engineering and

Technology. Thirty-eight students from the

department appeared in the preliminary

round of the ‚Code Uncode 2014‛

competition.



“Independence Day Celebration 2014”

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August, YEAR 2014


At 8.45 am both staff and students staying on campus and hostels gather in front of the college for the

flag hoisting ceremony under Commander Jiss and campus minister Dr Francis Fernandez when

the Vice Chancellor hoisted the flag.

After singing of the national anthem, the VC administered the oath of allegiance to the nation.

BTech student Debashish Barman gave a patriotic speech in Assamese followed by a second speech

in English by Tabassum, another BTech student.

Every one joined in the signing of Rabindranath Tagore’s prayer for the country ‚Into that heaven

of freedom my Father, let my country awake.‛

After a stirring speech by the vice chancellor in which he challenged the smart and brighter students

to consider taking up politics as profession, to bring ethics and governance in the country.

The program ended with vote of thanks by warden Fr VJ Abhilash, and distribution of sweets.

While several parts of northeast India experienced

bandhs and unrest the feast of the Assumption of

Our Blessed Mother and 68th Independence Day

celebrations were solemnly celebrated at Assam

Don Bosco University, Azara campus.

Beginning with morning prayer Vice Chancellor,

Dr Stephen Mavely presiding along with 11

priests and some 80 students. Prayers were

offered for the prosperity of the country, as well

as the well being of its leaders and citizens.



“DBCET Celebrates Fresher‟s Social”

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August, YEAR 2014


Don Bosco College of Engineering and Technology, Azara, Guwahati finally marked the beginning

of the autumn semester 2014 for the first year students as they celebrated the Fresher’s Social on

20th of August 2014. This celebration projects a traditional way of welcoming the newest members to

the Bosconian family. The function was put into play under the leadership of the college association

and the 3rd

semester students of both B.Tech and MCA under the guidance of principal Dr.

Manoranjan Kalita, faculty in-charge (Student Affairs) Dr. Monmoyuri Baruah , Asst faculty

incharge Mr. Bikash Agarwal , Faculty coordinator Mr. Mriganka Gogoi and Asst. faculty

coordinator Ms. Pushpanjali Konwar. The 3rd

semester class representatives made their step in this

function celebration with everyone’s hard work and dedication. The celebration began sharp at 1pm

in the college quadrangle.

Young budding talents overflowed the stage and mesmerised everyone. Manzil (EEE-7), Sukanya

(CSE-1), Rintu & Shreyakshi, Pranjal(CVE-3) sang melodiously and Arijit (CSE-1), Sonny (EEE-3)

performed outstanding solo performances. Students from 7th semester, 5

th semester as well as MCA

won the hearts of the audience with their group dances followed by instrumental by Arnab (CVE-3)

and his group and Hiranmoy (CVE-3). There were speeches by the Student coordinator, Principal,

Vice Chancellor, Asst. faculty coordinator and Asst. student coordinator.

In the speech presented by the student coordinator, Tenzin Chonzom she formally welcomed the 1st

semester students with beautiful memoirs of her own fresher’s day. Dr. Manoranjan Kalita, Principal,

DBCET delivered a wonderful speech not only for the first semester students but also in the common

interest of all the students present. He gave certain mantras to the new comers which will help them

cope up with their daily activities in the college. Fr. Stephen Mavely, VC, Assam Don Bosco

University, delivered a strong and powerful speech on motivation and words of wisdom. He gave

beautiful examples of our daily life and motivated everyone. His speech bestowed as an envelope of

wisdom and enriched positive thoughts and aspirations on one’s mind. Ms. Pushpanjali Konwar, Asst.

faculty coordinator also spoke brilliantly and touched everyone’s heart with her powerful words of

The function was being graced by the presence of the

Vice Chancellor, Fr. Steven Mavely along with the

high dignitaries of the college. Students of all the

semesters took an active participation in the event.

Abhijeet Baruah (MNE-3), Subhankar Dey (MNE-

3), Phirashisha Syiemlieh (MCA-3) and Tabassum

Ullah (CSE-3) opened the function as the hosts of

the show. The function marked the beginning with a

song by Dabiang and his group of 1st semester.



inspiration for a bright career and better future. The event was made more interesting by the most

awaited programme of the afternoon.

Finally the traditional folk dance of Assam Bihu was performed by some 3rd

and 1st semester students;

Sanjay and his group. The traditional music of Assam changed the whole environment and touched

everyone’s heart.

At the end, the Asst. student coordinator, Namrata Borgohain gave away the vote of thanks and

marked the end of a successful event of the day. Before departing, refreshments were provided after

which everyone moved back to their respective places of hospitality. With this a special day closed its

eyes leaving away imprints of beautiful memoirs in everyone’s heart.

The Mr & Ms Fresher Contest by the first year

students. The show was hosted by last year’s

winners Savio(CVE-3) and Chandramita(CSE-3).

26 students both boys and girls participated in this

event that was judged by Mr. Bikash Agarwal, Ms.

Rashmita Barua , Ms. Subra Mukherjee and Mr.

Kuldeep Kalita.

Prasun Deb and Roshni Konwar were declared as

Mr. Fresher & Miss Fresher respectively.



“Guest Lecture by Dr. Manjuri Hazarika”

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Ju ly , 2014


Dr. Manjuri Hazarika, Associate Professor,

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Assam

Engineering College had delivered a Guest lecture

on 20th August 2014 between 10 am to 11.30 am. The

topic of lecture was ‚COMPUTER AIDED

PROCESS PLANNING (CAPP)‛. Around all

student of 3rd

semester Mechanical Engineering and

faculty members of Mechanical Engineering

Department were present during the lecture session.

Dr. Manjuri delivered lecture on basic of CAPP and

gave useful example with pictorial diagram in the

presentation. It was indeed very useful and

informative. Substantial knowledge transfer took

place between the resource person and the student.

Mrs. Barnali Choudhury introduced the Resource

Person to the students and staff member of Don

Bosco College of Engineering & Technology. At the

end, a thank note was delivered by Mr. Kalidasan R

and felicitation was done by Mrs. Leena Namade, in

charge of Mechanical department of DBCET. The

event was cooperatively supported by Mr. Pallav

Gogoi.



“National Conference on Emerging Trends in

Entrepreneurship Development in North East

India”

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– 23r d

August, YEAR 2014


Welcoming all the eminent guests, researchers, participants and students, Fr. Stephen Mavely, the

Vice Chancellor of the university said that, ‚The contribution of each and every participant is very

important for the development of the region and the nation‛. Prof. Manoranjan Kalita, Principal

DBCET welcomed the guests and participants and re-iterated the meaning of entrepreneurship as

given in the Oxford Dictionary. He said ‚Employment Situation is very grim in Rural North-East

India‛. In his speech, Prof. Kalita also gave a clear picture of the grim situation of the North-East

rural India which is grappling with the burning problem of unemployment of the youth population.

He also mentioned that the government should support the youth in their ventures and that the

academic institutions should provide the necessary training. He appealed to the youth to take up risks

and see their future from a different angle.

Dr. Biju Mani Das, the Convener of the Conference shared his thoughts and hoped that the

Conference would be an interesting learning experience for all present. He said that entrepreneurship

is critical for economic success of the region and also for developing the potential of today's youth.

He further emphasised the need of the present generation to change their mindset from being job-

seekers to job-providers. He also articulated that entrepreneurship is the single most important driver

which can boost new avenues leading to the expediting the process of development. The Co-Convener

of the Conference, Porf. Narayan Baruah from Dept of Commerce GU presented the overview of the

The two day 'National Conference on

Emerging Trends in Entrepreneurship

Development in North East India' organised

by Assam Don Bosco University (ADBU) in

collaboration with Department of Commerce,

Gauhati University started with an inaugural

function held in the Conference hall of Assam

Don Bosco University on 22 August 2014.

Mrs. Gypsy Nandi, Assistant Professor CSE &

IT (ADBU), welcomed the august gathering on

this auspicious occasion. This was followed by

a prayer with a few pious words by Fr. Joseph

Nellanatt, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Assam Don

Bosco University and the ceremonial lighting

of the lamp by the Chief Guest along with

other dignitaries from both Assam Don Bosco

University and Gauhati University. After this,

the students of Don Bosco College of

Engineering and Technology (DBCET)

rendered a beautiful heart-touching song,

which was followed by the felicitation of

Guests and other dignitaries present.



Conference in his address. He mentioned that the boosting up of the manufacturing sector is utmost

necessary for the productive growth of North-East India. In his speech, he also mentioned the

importance of private universities in the development of entrepreneurial activities through the youth

of the nation.

Dr. CJ Thomas, Deputy Director ICSSR NERC and the Chief Guest of the inaugural function

extended his good wishes both for the Conference and the University. He mentioned that 'an

entrepreneur is an innovator, an aggressive catalyst, a deep thinker and an agent of change.' Dr.

Thomas emphasised that entrepreneurship not only requires capital investment, but also needs

constant motivation.

The Key Note address was delivered by Prof. Aparajeeta Borkakoty, Department of Commerce GU.

She mentioned that stimulating innovative and growth-oriented entrepreneurship is a key economic

and societal challenge to which universities and colleges have much to contribute. She further

emphasised the need for effective entrepreneurial education in North East region, awareness and

motivation campaigns among youth, training and skill development of the youth, market and labour

efficiency, financial market sophistication, technological readiness and development of existing

entrepreneurs. She finally concluded by mentioning the importance of industry-university research

collaboration which could lead to thriving world class small enterprises.

The Inauguration function concluded by presenting the schedule of the Technical Sessions and Vote

of Thanks by Ms. Rashmita Barua, Asst. Professor (Humanities and Social Sciences) and the

Coordinator of the Conference.

A total of 8 technical sessions were held which were followed by a panel discussion.

Total No. of papers accepted: 45

Total No. of papers presented: 36

The panel discussion of the conference started with brief welcome address by Ms. Subra Mukherjee,

Asst. prof. DBCET. That was followed by introduction and facilitation of the panellist to the forum.

The panellist were Mr. K. Ahmed , Retired Director of Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship; Dr.

Prasanna Kr. Mozumdar, renowned management consultant and Mr. Dulal Choudhury, OSD to

the governor of Assam. The panel discussion was facilitated by Dr. Prasanna Kr. Mozumdar.

Valedictory session was started at 23rd

August at 4 pm in the conference hall. The session began by

felicitating the dignitaries by the student of Assam Don Bosco University. Prof. Dhruva Jyoti Saikia

in his lecture discussed the meaning of entrepreneur. ‚Rather than searching job they can create

job by starting entrepreneurship‛ Prof. H.C. Gautam mention this most important point in his

lecture. Prof J.N. Vishwakarma in his lecture mentioned about the role of conference for developing

the region. He also congratulates Assam Don Bosco University for organizing conference on

Entrepreneurship which is the 1st one in NE India. Prof. Basil Koikara said that we have to

implement the things practically. He addressed the gathering by saying that ‚Let us hope what we

say, what we prepare can come down to reality to help the poor‛. The session was concluded by the

vote of thanks given by the Convenor Dr. Biju Mani Das.



“Teacher‟s Day Celebrations”

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September, YEAR 2014


On 5th Sept. 2014, Teachers' Day was

celebrated in Assam Don Bosco University,

Azara Campus. Prof. Ashoke Dutta, eminent

educationist and member of the North Eastern

Council graced the occassion as the chief

guest. University VC Fr.(Dr.) Stephen Mavely

in his in inaugural address appreciated all the

University faculties for their constant

hardwork, dedicated service and co operation.

Prof. Dutta highlighted the role of a teacher

in a person's life and acknowledged DB

society for their service to the society. He

expressed his sadness for not being able to be

a part of the DB society. A series of cultural

performances like dancing and singing were

performed by the students. The programme

ended with the vote of thanks by Dr.

Manoranjan Kalita, Principal DBCET and

the cutting of the cake by the faculty members.



“Third Convocation of ADBU”

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He also commemorated the fact that this year three journals ‚Journal of Northeast Indian

Cultures‛, ‚ADBU Journal of Engineering‛ and ‚The Journal of Development Practice‛ were

published by the university both in print and online version which was also the university’s first

journals. The Vice Chancellor also gave a detailed report on the research orientation of the

university emphasizing the fact that 48.1% of the faculty has completed their doctorate and 29.2%

are pursuing the same and that the university itself has 161 research scholars pursuing doctoral

studies across 17 disciplines. Expressing his views on academics the Vice Chancellor mentioned the

faculty to student ratio of the university is in his own words ‚very healthy at 1:9.4‛. He further

mentioned that in 2014 alone the university held 9 seminars, conferences and workshops. Mentioning

the advancement in infrastructure the Vice Chancellor mentioned a brand new Nanotechnology lab,

a lab-cum-classroom for Mass Communication, an office for DBU Global, an office-cum-explanatory

center for Entrepreneurship Development and Incubation Cell etc. He also mentioned the

commencement of the Tapesia campus by June, 2015 which will be a state-of-art campus with its

own 3-5 Megawatt solar farm to ensure self-sufficiency for the university campus and to feed the

surplus to the national grip with assistance from NEEPC. According to the Vice Chancellor the

Tapesia campus in near future will prove itself to be a nerve center for development of the entire

region around it. In pursuance of MOUs signed with the National Board for Rubber, Tea, Cashew,

The Third Convocation of Assam Don Bosco

University underwent on 12th

September,

2014 conferring UG and PG degrees to 328

students in various disciplines. This year’s

convocation set with a theme ‚Dare to

dream““make a difference““.God be with

you!‛

Shri J.B. Patnaik (Governor of Assam, visitor

to the university) along with Fr. Francis

Fernandez (the controller of Examinations),

Fr. Joseph Nellanatt (the Pro Vice

Chancellor), Fr. Stephen Mavely (the Vice

Chancellor) and Fr. V.M. Thomas (the

chancellor) lighted the ceremonial lamp

following which Fr. V.M. Thomas formally

declared the opening of the third convocation.

In his welcome address the Vice Chancellor

cited significant developments made by the

university during this year and mentioned two

new post graduate departments MA in Mass

Communication and MSc in Physics.



Of the 73 students under the distance learning program 8 are in MBA (General), 12 in MBA

(Executive), 15 in MBA (Technology Management), 3 in MBA (Entrepreneurship), 7 in MS

(Information Technology) and 28 in MSW.

He also presented the statistics of the working community of the university consisting of 110 faculty,

59 administrative staff, 44 research guides and 19 auxiliary staff.

In the end the Vice Chancellor ended his speech emphasizing on the theme of this year’s convocation

and urging the students to make their education worthwhile and stirve for perfection and bring

betterment to the society.

Following the Vice Chancellor’s speech, Fr. V.M. Thomas delivering his Chancellor’s address asked

the students to thrive not for fame or riches but for perfection. For he said with perfection comes

both. He cited several examples of youth icons and rich people around the world who were born in

poverty but became ‚successful icons for the world because of their dreams and passions‛. He

made specific reference to the life of Don Bosco expressing the priest’s eternal desire to bring

development to the society by spreading education to the youth – ‚a revolution‛ the Chancellor said

‚of which every student of this university is a part of‛. Quoting Don Bosco’s word Fr. V.M. Thomas

said ‚We do not need magic to change the world, we carry the power we need inside ourselves

already: we have the power to imagine and do better.‛

Coconut and Spices, 2000 rubber saplings

and 800 coconut seedlings have been

planted and a tea nursery is under

development.

A total of 328 students graduating in the

year 2013-2014 and a total of 1381 students

on campus and 73 students are pursuing

their PG degrees under the distance learning

program of the university – DBU Global in

the current academic year and a good 232

number of faculty and staff.

Of the 328 students graduating 166 students

graduated with B Tech, 34 with M Tech, 36

with MBA, 30 with MCA, 50 with MSW, 4

with MSc – Psychology (Psychological

Counseling), 6 with MA – Human Rights

(Child Rights and Development) and 2 with

PG Diploma in Child Rights and

Development.

Of the 1381 students on campus 784 are

pursuing B Tech, 65 in M Tech, 109 in

MBA, 73 in MCA, 101 in MSW, 23 in MSc –

Psychology (Psychological Counseling), 16

in MSc – Physics (Electronics and Nano

Science), 23 in MA – Human Rights (Child

Rights and Development), 14 in MA –

Education (Educational Leadership), 12 in

MA – Mass Communication (Convergent

Media and Technologies) and 161 in

Doctoral Studies.



This was followed by conferment of Master’s Degree by the Controller of Examinations, Fr. Francis

Fernandez, and conferment of Bachelor’s Degree by the Director of the School of Technology, Prof.

Manoranjan Kalita and candidates who received their degrees in absentia by the Director of

Research, Prof. J.N. Viswakarma and presented them to the Vice Chancellor. Shri Subimal

Bhattacharjee, member of Governing Body initiated the pledge taking by the graduates, which was

read out by Gitimoni Talukdar on behalf of the graduates. Following this the Director of the School

of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dr. Riju Sharma presented the Gold Medal recipients of Post

Graduate Degree Program for highest CGPA (course wise) to the Vice Chancellor.

The Vice Chancellor conferred the Gold medals upon Gitimoni Talukdar (Highest CGPA in M

Tech (CSE)), Sandhyabanti Dutta Barua (Highest CGPA in M Tech (ECE)), Ankur Jyoti Das

(Highest CGPA in MCA), Nang Trishna N Kulsreshtha (Highest CGPA in MBA), Elpius

Lynghkhoi (Highest CGPA in MSW), Marbanylla Lyngdoh (Highest CGPA in MSc (Psychology)),

Neelakshi Dutta (Highest CGPA in MA (Human Rights)). The Gold Medal recipients of the

Bachelor’s Degree Program were presented to the Vice Chancellor by the head of the dept. of

Electrical and Electronics, Dr. Shakuntala Laskar. The Vice Chancellor conferred the Gold medals

upon Soureen Das (Highest CGPA in B Tech (CSE)), Plabita Kalita (Highest CGPA in B Tech

(EEE)), and Bhaswati Kalita (Highest CGPA in B Tech (ECE). The Head of the Department of

Computer Science and Engineering, Dr. Y Jayanta Singh presented the recipients to the Chief Guest

for receiving their medals.

In his convocation address the Hon’ble

Governor of Assam and visitor to the university

Shri Janaki Ballav Patnaik expresses his

heartfelt gratitude in being a part of the

ceremony. Shri J.B. Patnaik expressed his

notion on the global family of Don Bosco and

appreciated its timeless effort extending over

132 countries and catering to the educational

needs of over 15 million youth worldwide. He

cited a quote by Sri Ramakrishna, ‚Javat

banchi, tavat shikhi; As long as I live so do I

Learn‛ expressing his wish that if students can

‚grasp this, you’ll make a difference.‛ He

explained that in a globally connected world

today ‚earlier so called super power nation no

longer hold a monopoly on job creation,

innovation and political power.‛ Hence he

addressed the students saying, ‚at Assam Don

Bosco university, you have been immersed in a

broad spectrum of activities ranging from

youth festivals, community development work,

workshops and seminars on emerging

technology trends and entrepreneurship to

placement activities.‛

Thus the students have much to offer to the

society. The hon’ble governor also appreciated

the efforts of the Don Bosco community in

initiating and creating the awareness campaign

‚Save our Pride – The One-horned

Rhinoceros of Assam‛



The Director of Finance, Shri Vijaya

Bawri presented Gitimoni Talukdar

recieptant of Chancellor’s Gold Medal

(for highest CGPA oiverall) and the

Director of Human Resources, Ms. Juhi

Baruah presented Lijo George in UG

category and Achinta Sharma in PG

category recieptant of the Vice

Chancellor’s Gold Medal for

outstanding graduate to the Chief

Guest for receiving their medals. This

soon followed two valedictory speeches

by Achinta Sharma and Pushpanjalee

Konwar representing the Bachelor’s

Degree graduates and Master’s Degree

graduates respectively.

The Third Convocation of Assam Don

Bosco University was formally

declared closed by the Chancellor of

Assam Don Bosco University.



“Inter College Quiz competition”

15t h



An Inter College Quiz competition was conducted by the Electrical and Electronics Department on

15th September 2014 (12:00 PM-1:30 PM) in the quadrangle coordinated by Mr. Papul Changmai

and Mr. Hironmay Deb. Students from different departments were participated. Preliminary round

was conducted on 9th September 2014 and out of fifteen groups eight groups were shortlisted. The

shortlisted groups were:

1. Frequency

2. Three Phase Power

3. Lightning Arresters

4. Gharkhan

5. Charge

6. Mecha-electronic Transformer

7. Vidyuit

8. Fusion Spark

The final quiz was comprises of four rounds. First and second rounds were based on Basics/

Inventions and Personalities/ Quotes and third & fourth rounds were fully Electrical and Electronics

Engineering based. After third round three groups were selected for the final round.

The final scores were:

1st- Gharkhan (Shajubin Rahman, Reza Masoom, Manash Chetri)-25

2nd

- Vidyuit( Aditya upadhay, Bidisha Gogoi, Trishna Das)-15

3rd

- Charge (Partha Deka, Diapnkar acharjee, Subinay Dutta)-10

They were declared as the winners of the quiz and given prizes for securing 1st, 2nd and 3

rd position.

Mecha-electronic Transformer was selected as the best group.



“PRAJYUKTTAM‟14”

18t h



Prajyukttam is the annual techfest organised by the students of the Don Bosco College of

Engineering and Tecnology (DBCET). It promotes the development of technological skills among

the young minds of this region. The annual inter-college technical fest organized core committee

members of Prajyukttam and the different co-curricular clubs of DBCET. It aims at achieving new

horizons of intellect and excellence through medium of technology. ‚Prajyukttam‛ is the

amalgamation of two Sanskrit words Prajyukti and Uttam. The Tagline for Prajyukttam 2014 is

‚TECHNOLOGY FOR HUMANITY‛

Prajyukttam has seen an exponential rise in terms of both quality and magnitude with each passing

year showcasing an array of events ranging from Robotics, Civil Engineering, Circuitronics,

Coding, Gaming, Fun activities, Quizzing and Innovative construction along with an enthralling

cultural night, Prajyukttam attracts a multitude of people and personalities from in and around the

state. This year’s events were no exception with multitude of talents being showcased by students

from the state.

Prajyukttam’14 was inaugurated on 18th September, 2014 after a mini marathon called the

TechnoDash where Mr. Mahadev Deka, former Mr. Universe was the chief guest and 6 colleges and

universities participated including Gauhati university and Delhi University. Inaugural session of

Prajyukttam’14 was conducted at 11:00 am with the presence of two prominent personalities Mr. R. L

Baruah (Managing Director, APDCL) as Chief Guest and Mr. Shyamkanu Mahanta as Guest of

Honour. The theme of Technodash was ‚ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN

NORTHEAST INDIA‛ with the motive of spreading a message of necessity and requirement of

Entrepreneurship development in northeast India which can play a vital role to eradicate the

employment problem in this region.

Advisor from ADBU:

1. Dr. Basil Koikara, Registrar, ADBU

2. Ms. Juhi Baruah, Director H.R, ADBU

Members from Management of DBCET

1. Fr. Joseph Nellanatt, Pro VC, ADBU

2. Fr. Francis Fernandez SDB,Campus Ministry, ADBU

3. Dr. Peter Paul Hauhnar,A.O

4. Prof. Manoranjan Kalita, Principal, DBCET.

Faculty Members from DBCET

1. Faculty In Charge, Student Affairs – Dr. Monmayuri Baruah



2. Assistant Faculty In Charge, Student Affairs – Mr. Bikash Agarwal

3. Faculty Co-ordinator – Mr. Mirganka Gogoi

4. Asst. faculty Co-ordinator – Ms. Puspanjali Konwar

Co-curricular Faculty Advisor

1. Robotics Mr. Dipjyoti Sarma

2. Circuitronics Mr. Jyoti K. Barman

3. Coding Ms. Manasi Hazarika

4. Web Designing Ms. Sonia Sharma

5. Basic Science Ms. Banshri Sinha

6. Civil Engineering Mr. Kuldeep Kalita

7. Mechanical Engineering Mr. Pallav Gogoi

Student Members of Core Committee

1. Ajayananda Chetia President

2. Rituja Saikia Vice President

3. Debodipto Roy Secretary

4. Janardan Laskar Asst. Secretary

5. Biswajyoti Barman Publicity Secretary

6. Nazbeen Sultana Asst. Publicity Secretary

7. Himangshu Borgohain Treasurer

8. Tina Gogoi Asst. Treasurer

9. Rimmi Konwar Convener

Club Coordinators:

1. Dimanta Bharali Robotics

2. Rintu Tamuli Circuitronics

3. Chandra gupta Web Designing

4. Coding Joydeep Sonar

5. Civil Saurabh Sarma

6. Basic Sciences Sneha Barjo.

Events in Prajyukttam 2014 and Number of Participants

1. TechnoDash

No of participants: 303



No. of Colleges participated: 10

Winners awarded: 22

College: GIMT,L.C.B College, G.U. , D.U. ,DON BOSCO TECHNICAL SCHOOL, DBCET

2. Presentation


Winners awarded:3

Winners: 1st-Munmi Thakuria & Aansu Giri

2nd

-SwapnaBhuyan

3rd

- Ashok Kumar Gogoi & Arindam Majumdar

3. Bosquiz

No of participants: 76 (38 Groups)

No of college participated: 10

Winners: 1st- Kumar Shivam (Guwahati University), Jyotish Kalita (Guwahati University)

2nd

- BiswajitSarma (Nalbari College), Sudarshan Goswami (Shrimanta Academy)

3rd

- Rishav Dewan (ISM Dhanbad), Sumit Das (AEC)

4. Extempore Speech

Club: BASIC SCIENCE


Winners awarded: 3

College: 1 (DBCET)

Winners: 1st- Sarbani Das

2nd

- SwetaKumari

3rd

- NabajitKalita

5. Geek’s Arena


Winners awarded: 3

Winners: 1st- Debodipto Roy, Jayanta Kumar Das

2nd

- Debashis Barman, Francis Narzary

3rd

- Sikhar Kumar Bhuyan, Abhilash Singh



6. Creator Pienio


Winners awarded:2

Winners: 1st- Debashish Barman, Priyank Baruah

2nd

- Wansoi Kharsong, Lovely June Sanglyne

3rd

- Abhash Deka, Mulugeta W. Meskel

7. Web D Page

No of participants:12

Winners awarded:3

Winners: 1st- Sonnet DebBarma, Sarat Chetri

2nd

- Debashis Barman, Dirshant Patodia

8. Collision Grid


Winners awarded: 2

Colleges: NITS MIRZA,DBCET,AEC

Winners: 1st- Davis Dairmari, Richard Gaurav Choudhury, Jerin Jose

2nd

- Amandip Singh, Sanjeeb Das, Pritam Choudhury, Mahadyuti Dutta Choudhury

9. Circuit Debugging


No of college participated:2

Winners awarded: 3

Colleges: GIMT,DBCET

Winners: 1st- Nabojeet Deb, Dipankar Acharjee

2nd

- Ritul Gogoi, Santanu Nath

3rd

- Reza Masoom, Shahjubin Rahman

10. Labryinth


No of college participated:1

Winners awarded:2



11. Subway Surfer

Winners: 1st- Azel Harbhih

2nd

- Merina Englengpi

12. FIFA 2011

Winners: 1st- Himanshu Deori

2nd

- Himangku Saikia

13. NFS MW

Winners: 1st- Reza Masoom

14. MADCAD


No of college participated: 3

Winners awarded:3

Colleges: CAD CENTRE,AEC,DBCET

Winners: 1st- Bidipta Bikash Das, Anubha Baruah

2nd

- Jiss Joseph, Ngater Tato

3rd

- Leping Manak, Poulomi Hojai

SPONSORSHIP & PARTNERS

1. Dyna Roof (Major Sponsor)

2. Cost 2 Cost (Associate Sponsor)

3. Topcem (Technodash Partner)

4. ABG Heights (Fun Activities Organiser)

5. Focus NE (Media Partner)

6. Eclectic (Magazine Partner)

The concluding program took place on 20th Sept, 2014 evening in presence of Rev. Fr. (Dr.) Stephen

Mavely, Vice chancellor, Assam Don Bosco University, Fr. Joseph Nellanatt Pro- Vice Chancellor

, ADBU, Prof. Manornjan Kalita, Principal, DBCET, Fr. Francis Fernandez SDB, Campus

Ministry, ADBU, Dr. Basil Koikara, Registrar, ADBU , Dr. Peter Paul Hauhnar,A.O,

Guests,Faculty members. There were cultural programs followed by prize distributions and speeches

of dignitaries.



“Workshop on Cloud Computing & IBM Bluemix”

25t h



Mr. Mani Madhurkar, Technical Lead, IBM was the chief resource person of the workshop. Mr. Mani

delivered talks on various topics like Cloud Computing, NoSQL, Big data and IBM Bluemix. A total of

127 students from BTech CSE 5 & 7 semester, MCA 5 & 3 sem, M.Tech, Ph.D scholars and faculty

members attended the workshop. The workshop was inaugurated by Fr. Stephen Mavely (Vice

Chancellor), Prof. Basil Koikara (Registrar), Prof. Manoranjan Kalita (Principal, School of

Technology) and Dr. Y. Jayanta Singh (Head of Dept). Department extended special thanks Ms. Juhi

Baruah, HR Director for her initiatives and support. The Workshop was coordinated by Mr. Vijay

Prasad and Mr. Th. Johnson, with support of all members of the department and participants found

the Bluemix experience to be interesting and enriching for their academic development.

The Department of Computer Science &

Engineering and Information Technology

organized a one day workshop on Cloud

Computing and IBM Bluemix on 25th

September, 2014 in association with

IBM Academic Initiative. Bluemix is an

implementation of IBM’s Open Cloud

Architecture, based on Cloud Foundry, that

enables you to rapidly create, deploy, and

manage your cloud applications. Because

Bluemix is based on Cloud Foundry, you

can tap into a growing ecosystem of runtime

frameworks and services. In addition to

providing additional frameworks and

services, Bluemix provides a dashboard for

you to create, view, and manage your

applications and services as well as monitor

your application’s resource usage. The

Bluemix dashboard also provides the ability

to manage organizations, spaces, and user

access. Last year, the University had signed

MoU with IBM for Rational Software

Engineering for Educational Development

(SEED) programs which facilitates the

Software Designing.



“CURTAIN CALL-2014: Inter College Drama

Competition”

11t h

October, YEAR 2014

School of Technolog y (DBCET) , ADBU

The 3rd

annual Inter-College Drama

Competition ‘CURTAIN CALL-2014’, was

organized by the Rangayan Club, the

Dramatics Club of Don Bosco College of

Engineering and Technology, on 11th

October, 2014 started with the inauguration

of the event by College Principal, Dr.

Manoranjan Kalita, and Chief Guests Mr.

Brajen Bora and Dr. Hemen Barman and

the Judges of the competition Mr. Babul

Thakuria and Mr. Surendra Medhi. It was

followed by the floral tributes paid to

Srimanta Shankardev, Rupkonwar Jyoti

Prasad Agrawala, Kalaguru Bishnu Prasad

Rabha and Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, by all the

presented dignitaries. The competition was

declared open by popular Assamese actor

Mr. Hiranya Deka.

Eminent personalities like Mrs. Bijoya

Chakravarty, Hon’ble M.P, Guwahati, Dr.

Joy Prakash Das, singing sensation and

youth icon Zubeen Garg also graced the

occasion with their august presence.

Cultural Affairs Minister of Assam, Mrs.

Pranatee Phukan couldn’t make out for the

function but sent her best wishes with

message-‚Drama plays an important role in

one’s life. It can lift someone’s morale,

change their mood and motivate them to do

well. I am sure the drama competition

organized by Don Bosco College of

Engineering and Technology will provide the

much needed impetus to those who nurture a

passion for drama‛ which was read out by

College Principal, Dr. Manoranjan Kalita.



Mrs. Bijoya Chakravarty appreciating the University and college said that for a student both health

and mind should be in good condition to excel in academics as well as in other spheres.

Among all the participating teams, the team of Don Bosco College of Engineering and Technology

won the ‘best play’ award for the play titled ‚Mora xutir jiya xaaku‛ followed by Assam

Engineering College with the First runners-up award for their play titled ‚Bor bapur ghorot pati

dhulor xobdo‛ while Tihu College bagged the Second runners-up award for their play titled

‚Okole‛.

The other awards were as follows

Best actor-Jintu Das, Tihu College

Best actress - Panchita Saikia , D.B.C.E.T.

Best Director- Manas Jyoti Chetri, D.B.C.E.T.

Faculty-in-charge of the club, assistant professor Mr. Jesif Ahmed added that organizing team had

been blessed to be able to hold the event without any single disorder, but next year they would have

to focus on having more participating colleges from all around Assam.

The programme ended with the formal prize distribution after which Zubeen Garg presented his

message before the gathering saying that ‚I feel honoured to be a part of Don Bosco University. It

is a lovely institute and producing brilliant students all these years. Don Bosco will make better

personalities.‛ He further mesmerized the audience with his melodious voice.



“Parent Teacher Meeting‟

11t h

October, YEAR 2014


The following were the sessions of Parents Interaction meet

1. Registration

2. Welcome session

3. Interaction of parents with the mentors and faculty members

4. Interaction with the management body.

5. Lunch

The Parents Interaction meeting began

with a welcome session at approx. 11.00

am on 11th October 2014 after the

registration process. The session started

with the prayer and lightening of lamps by

Fr. Francis Fernandez and others in the

quadrangle. There were around 30 parents

present. One of the student of DBCET,

Rinky Gurmayun sang a song to welcome

the parents with her sweet voice. On the

very day , simultaneously a drama

competition was going on . The Principal,

DBCET introduced the chief guests of

Drama competition -Honble MP of

Guwahati , Mrs. Bijoya Chakravarty and

the eminent artists Mr.Brajen Bora, Dr.

Hemen Barman and Mr. Hiranya Deka

to the parents. Mrs. Bijoya Chakravarty in

her address to the parents spoke about her

interest and the importance of sports in

student life. Mr. Brajen Bora talked about

the quality education of Don Bosco

Institutions .The Principal then welcomed

the parents. Following that Dr.

Monmayuri Baruah, Prof. In-charge,

Student Affairs gave the information

regarding the whole day programme. She

also gave the way to the faculty cabins to

the parents.

In the next session, parents went to the

cabins of the mentors and teachers of their

ward and interacted with them.



Following that Training Placement officer Mr. Shahnawaj Hussain gave a presentation and throw a

light on Training and placement activities held in DBCET. Dr. Basil S. Koikara, Registrar, ADBU

in his address to parents talked about the importance of Mentoring system. The Principal urged the

parents to motivate their wards to take part in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. He also

informed parents about the Techno fest on 1st Nov 2014 and asked parents to inform their local

Schools and colleges to take part in the occasion if possible. After that the session was concluded by

open discussion where parents expressed their queries and the Management body replied to them.

Finally lunch were served at the quadrangle for all the members and the whole programme

came to an end after the lunch.

The parent Interaction with the Management

body began at about 12.30 in the Conference

Hall. It started with introductory speech by

Fr. Stephen Mavely, SDB, ADBU, VC

(Rector). In his speech, Father talked about

the upcoming visit of NAAC peer team and

the importance of the visit to the parents. Mr.

Mriganka Gogoi, Faculty Coordinator gave

a presentation on activities and various roles

of different clubs in DBCET.



“Refresher Course on Programming Basics

using C & C++”

13t h

October, YEAR 2014


One Hundred and twenty number of final year students from various engineering disciplines has

registered for the course. The course was inaugurated by Fr. Stephen Mavely (Vice Chancellor),

Prof. Basil Koikara (Registrar), Prof. Manoranjan Kalita (Principal, School of Technology), Dr.

Sunandan Baruah (HoD,ECE) and Dr. Y. Jayanta Singh (HoD, CSE and IT) Experts from the

departments are going to share their expertise with Final year students.The course has been

coordinated by Mr. Chandan Jyoti Kumar, Asst. Professor and Mr. Sarat Kumar Chettri, Asst.

Professor with support of all members of the department.

Refresher Course on Programming Basics

Using C and C++ was inaugurated on 13th

October at the Azara campus of Assam Don

Bosco University. The event is organized by

the Department of Computer Science &

Engineering and IT of School of

Technology, with an objective to polish the

basic programming skills of all the final

year students so as to enable them to

perform better in any recruitment drive and

have a successful career.



“Training program on computer literacy”

18t h

October, YEAR 2014


The University team consisting of two

faculty members and five third semester

students of Master of Computer

Applications (MCA) organized a Computer

Literacy Program for Assamese schools

under the banner ‚Training Program on

Computer Literacy‛. ‚Our students

benefited very much from the program.

Your students presented in a very interesting

manner,‛ says Head Master of Gotanagar

Nambari High School, Mr. Achyut Sarma,

who had words of high appreciation for the

initiative.



“Boscotech Fest-2014”

1s t

November, YEAR 2014


Chief Guest, the Vice Chancellor of Cotton College State University Guwahati, Prof Dhrubajyoti

Saikia, himself an eminent academician and research scientist in physics, encouraged the students to

have ‚a querying mind to apply science for society and common good.‛ He cited the example of

student research group at St John Hopkin’s University which came up with a low cost instrument kit

which could identify anemic cases of malnourished mothers. He also challenged the students to come

up with a solar powered system that could keep cow’s milk cool during transportation to the diary.

Vice Chancellor of ADBU Dr Stephen Mavely complimented the efforts of the faculty and students

of the School of Technology who put together the fest. Ten schools from Guwahati and neighboring

districts took part at the five events.

The scifair (science fair) had 9 teams, debate on the topic: In the opinion of the house ‚without

Internet, is life possible,‛ (15 teams), science quiz (13 teams), and a science exhibition (9 teams) to

showcase science and technology projects.

The day ended with a fun fulfilled event in which nine schools took part in the group dance

competition. During the day, participants visited the labs of all five departments of the school of

technology.

Day long Science and Technology fest

christened Bosco Tech Fest 2014, the first

of its kind organized in the state.

‚We would like to promote science and

technology to ensure entrepreneurship in

northeast India. To achieve this aim the

ADBU School of Technology and its five

departments will help institutions who wish

to collaborate both academically and

technically,‛ said Prof Kalita pledging the

university’s commitment.

Some 130 of senior students of 10 Higher

Secondary schools participated at the five

events held at its Azara campus in

Guwahati. Addressing the inaugural

gathering of the first Bosco Tech Fest 2014

on Saturday Prof. Kalita said, ‚We have

come up with this fest with day long

activities both academic and fun filled,

geared to Higher Secondary students to

promote Science and Technology.‛



“Live Talk on Data Warehouse and Career

Planning”

6t h

November, YEAR 2014


In his message to Don Bosco University students of Information Technology, Mr. Ahmad said, ‚It has

been an honor sharing my knowledge with bright students of Don Bosco University. It’s time for the

new generation to come forward and lead. In the vast field of Information Technology (IT) and

Computer Science I suggest students to plan their career based on their area of interest and market

demands. In today’s’ market fields of data warehouse, data mining, programming and networking

provides good career. Doing certification in relevant field always provides competitive advantages

to get a better job. Those interested in the field of data warehouse and data mining can consider their

career start as role of ETL developer, data base administration, database analyst, and Business

Intelligence (BI) Analyst by using tools e.g., Microsoft SQL including SQL Server Integration

Services (SSIS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS),

Microsoft Power BI, Crystal Reports, Macro strategy etc. For those interested in programming can

consider web (using .Net, PHP, Java) and mobile programming. Another dimension is to consider

help desk related jobs and considering certifications like Information Technology Infrastructure

Library (ITIL). By stating all of this, I am just scratching the surface as there are lot more options.

Finally, I wish you all the best for your career‛.

In the LIVE talk Mr. Admad shared practical knowledge and LIVE demos about ETL (Data

Warehousing) with current M.Tech students of Computer Science and Engineering.

As per part of regular refresher program, this live talk was arranged by the Department of Computer

Science & Engineering and Information Technology, School of Technology of Assam Don Bosco

University. The HOD, Dr. Jayanta Singh said that more LIVE talks with experts from ORACLE,

IBM and other companies are being scheduled and planned.

Mr. Waqar Ahmad, Solution Manager,

(Sanipex Group-DUBAI) had an

interaction with the students of M Tech,

Computer Science and Engineering as a

part of a refresher course through SKYPE

from Dubai, on 6th November, 2014. Mr.

Ahmad is a Master of Science and

Information Technology and an

experienced IT professional having 9 years

of working experience in UAE. His talk

focused on explaining students on current

prospects and challenges.



“Live Talk on „Prospects of Electrical

Engineers in Telecom Industry‟”

6t h

November , YEAR 2014


All the faculty members of the department were also present during the talk. The students were

especially benefitted by the interaction that they had with the resource person after the talk. The

resource person also emphasized upon the practical aspects of the Electrical installations and the

maintenance activities in the Telecom industry. He also encouraged students to learn the basics of

power supply, generation and distribution beyond the syllabus or text book. During his talk he

mentioned about the skills required to be developed by the electrical engineers to become industry

ready. The students were also given some hand outs consisting of the guidelines for any electrical

installation in the Telecom industry. The resource person later met the Training and Placement

officer of the university and discussed about various requirements of the Telecom industry and the

industry expectations from a fresher.

On 6th of November 2014, a talk on

'Prospects of Electrical Engineers in

Telecom Industry' was delivered by Mr.

Angshooman Baroowa, Manager, Alcatel

Lucent Managed Solutions Pvt. Ltd. at the

conference of hall of the School of

Technology, Assam Don Bosco University.

The talk was attended by the final and pre-

final year B. Tech. students of the

department of Electrical and Electronics

Engineering of the university.



“One day symposium on „Advancements in

Electronics and Communication Technology:

Issues and Challenges 2014 (SAECT2014)‟”

8t h

November, YEAR 2014


The department of ECE, School of Technology,

Assam Don Bosco University ADBU

successfully organized a one day symposium on

‚Advancements in Electronics and

Communication Technology: Issues and

Challenges 2014 (SAECT2014).‛ There were

more than hundred participants from various

organizations of Guwahati. The symposium was

welcomed by Ms. Parismita A. Kashyap,

Assistant Professor, Dept. of ECE, School of

Technology, ADBU. The inaugural session

started by lighting of the auspicious lamp.

Prof. Manoranjan Kalita, patron, SAECT2014,

gave the welcome address. Dr. Sunandan

Baruah, convenor, SAECT2014 gave the

introductory speech on the theme of symposium.

Then word of motivation was delivered by Rev.

Fr. Joseph Nellanatt, Pro Vice Chancellor,

ADBU and also by Prof. Basil Koikara,

Registrar, ADBU. The inaugural session was

concluded with an inspiring speech by Prof. P.

K. Brahma, former Director, GIMT & GIPS,

Former Principal, AEC. Prof. Brahma gave the

practical insight into the electronic industries.

The first Session started with the invited talk by

Prof. Ratnajit Bhattacharjee, Head, Dept. of

EEE, IIT Guwahati titled ‚Potential biological

and environmental impacts of EM radiation

from wireless cellular telephone systems: An

Overview‛. He stated that EM waves and living

cells interact with each other which may lead to

health problems.



Prof. Bhattacharjee showed some

statistics which could be matters of great

concern. A video was shown, where it

was seen that water molecules oscillate

in presence of EM wave. He advised to

acquire knowledge about the SAR of

mobile phones before buying it. He said

that organs like eyes can be very much

affected by EM radiation. The effect of

EM radiation on birds and bees was also

addressed. The speaker stated that the

electric parameters of substances of

brain get affected by EM radiation which

might result in disorder of our brains.

Prof. Samarendra Dandapat, Professor,

Dept. of EEE, IIT Guwahati, delivered

the second invited talk of the first session

titled ‚Cardiac information from ECG

signal‛. He talked about the electric

signals that carry information in our

body. The speaker discussed about the

generation process of ECG signals by

heart. Prof. Dandapat also talked about

the amount of voltages produced by the

biological cells present in the heart and

their importance. The conduction system

of the heart was also discussed. The 12

lead electrocardiographic systems were

discussed. He also showed various

videos on simulations of heart operation

and ECG signals both in healthy and

unhealthy conditions. Some recent

research issues in ECG were also

discussed and gave insight into analysis

and synthesis of spatial information of

electrocardiogram.

Session 2 started with the talk by Dr.

Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, Associate

Professor, Dept. of ECT, Gauhati

University. The title of the talk was

‚Environment and Health Hazards of

Electronics and Communication

Technology: An Impending Challenge‛.

He started his talk by focussing on the

developmental benefits in

communication. He also stressed on

growth of electronic systems since 18th

century till date.



Two basic hazards were discussed namely RF generation and e-waste disposal. He also discussed

various health issues caused due to electronic gadgets. He also emphasized on e-waste by quoting that

‚Today’s electronic gadgets are tomorrow’s electronic wastes‛ and the impact of this in the

environment. He concluded by emphasizing on the cycle of three R’s that is reuse, recycle and recover

and prospects of future use of green computing.

Dr. Navajit Saikia, Asstant Professor, Dept. of E&TE, Assam Engineering College delivered the

second invited talk of the second session titled ‚E waste issues and challenges‛. In his talk, he focussed

on e-waste and management. He gave some facts and figures which if we look at carefully can make us

aware about some of the e-waste and waste management issues. He mentioned that, globally 50 million

tons of e-wastes are produced per year with an average growth rate of 8.8% and that mobile phones’

waste will increase by 7% to 10 % till 2020. He concluded his talk by urging the participants to help

decrease e-waste as far as possible as a contribution to the society.

The Panel discussion was facilitated by Prof. Manoranjan Kalita, Director, School of Technology,

ADBU. The theme of the panel discussion was same as that of the symposium. The other panellist were

Dr. Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, Associate Professor, Gauhati University, Dr. Navajit Saikia, Associate

Professor, AEC, Dr. Sunandan Baruah, Convener, HOD, Dept. of ECE, ADBU. Dr. Navajit Saikia

requested the gathering to love the society and suggested to make some possible contributions to our

society. For example, by curbing the unnecessary use of e-gadgets, we can reduce e-waste from the

ground level. Facilitator Prof. Manoranjan Kalita gave suggestions to develop some non invasive

medical diagnostic devices which will be less painful for the patients. Dr. Sunandan Baruah suggested

creating a facebook page dedicated to bring the awareness among the youth about the health and

environmental hazards due to the use of electronic systems. Some suggestions also came up from the

participants’ side which were appreciated and encouraged.

The valedictory session started with a summary of the symposium talk by Mr. Karen Das, coordinator,

SAECT2014. In the valedictory sessions, Fr. Francis Fernandez, Controller of examinations, ADBU

addressed the gathering with his pious words. Prof. Manoranjan Kalita and Prof. J. N. Viswakarma,

Director of Research, ADBU also addressed the gathering with their valuable speeches. After the vote

of thanks by Mrs. Subra Mukherejee, Coordinator, SAECT2014 the symposium was declared

concluded.



“SWASTYAYAN”

20t h

November, YEAR 2014


Swastyayan is an initiative by the B.Tech and MSW Departments of ADBU under taken by over 100

student volunteers and faculty. They dedicate their time, Monday to Friday, mainly to help the

children in their studies and motivate them to be good citizens through various animation

programmes.

The subjects taught include: Science, Social Studies, Mathematics, and English.

The Pro Vice-chancellor Fr. Joseph Nellanatt in his speech congratulated the volunteers for giving

their valuable time in the service of the children, and encouraged tuition kids to study well.

The students were given prizes for different activities such as attendance for the classes, poetry

writing, and other competitions organized during the course of the year. Besides these there were

songs and dances performed by the students. The students were also given the opportunity to show

off their talents in singing and dancing.

Earlier in the day, two senior girls addressed the ADBU morning assembly of some 1,000 students

on the occasion of the Child Rights Day winning thunderous applause from engineering students.

The students and faculty from the

School of Technology and the School

of Humanities and Social Sciences

organised Second Annual Day

programme for children of the locality

on 20th November in the college

Auditorium.

The auditorium was packed with some

200 children from the neighbourhood,

their parents and the volunteers to mark

the second annual day of Swastyayan, a

daily coaching class for senior students

of High School and HigherSecondary

Schools.

Among the guests present were the Pro

Vice-chancellor Fr. Joseph Nellanatt,

Dr. Manoranjan Kalita Principal,

Registrar Dr. Basil Koikara,

Administrator Dr. Peter Paul and

Director of the School of Social

Sciences Dr Riju Sharma.



“APPRECIATION DAY”

29t h

November, YEAR 2014

School of Technology (DBCET) , AD BU

The University says “Thank You” to Faculty and Staff

The Annual Appreciation Day brought together

over 200 faculty and staff along with their family

members for a daylong program at its permanent

campus at Tapesia Garden about one –hour drive

from Azara campus. A 500-acre tea garden retreat

to start off the day with a short thanksgiving service

followed by breakfast in a tastefully decorated tea

collection point.

For the games session the entire group went on a

trek to a flat area in the garden some 600 meters

away walking along a babbling brook flanked by tea

covered hills for a free for all tug-o-war where

winners got a jar of toffee.

Several party games followed dragging in young

and old. Besides ball games and music, there was a

hunt for smiley’s competition where four teams of 20

members each scampered up two hills covered with

tea bushes to recover hidden yellow rubber balls.

Winners got individual prizes, while runners up got

group prizes.

The faculty and staff surprised the Vice Chancellor

Dr Stephen Mavely celebrating his belated

birthday, 20 November, as he was away in visiting

Europe and America. Besides a huge cake, they also

gifted him with books and other memorabilia.

After a sumptuous lunch at the breakfast spot, the

group went to the University Camp Office for

‚Jashan-e-Shaam Don Bosco ke naam‛ a unique

program first of its kind at appreciation day. It

included songs and carols to hail the Christmas

season in the backdrop of a winter’s setting sun.

The HR Director Ms Juhi Baruah and her team of

young faculty and staff members executed the day’s

program.



“Swabalamban-2014”

1s t

– 12t h

December , YEAR 2014


Assam Don Bosco University, apart from its

state of the art teaching and training

programs, envisages building strong and

resilient communities where social justice

and dignity of all prevails. With this objective,

the university is engaging in wide-ranging

social commitment programs in the country.

Presently, it has been observed that several

youths of the Azara Gaon Panchayat are

facing crises in securing suitable livelihood

options. Traditionally dependent on fishing in

the Deepor Beel for subsistence, the

communities’ youths are unable to sustain on

it due to lower returns and changing

ecological conditions. In this connection, the

ADBU faculty, staff and students seek to

address this need of the unemployed youths

of the area by training them in Electrical

house wiring, inverter making and

installation. The Department of Electronics

& Communication Engineering (ECE) along

with Electrical & Electronics Engineering

(EEE) and Social Work of Assam Don Bosco

University had organized a two week free

training program ‚Swabalamban-2014‛ on

house wiring, inverter making and installation

for the unemployed youths of fringe villages in

and around Azara.

The training program was held from 1st to

12th Dec, 2014 sponsored by Shailabala

Biswas Education Foundation, Kolkata and

the Azara Gaon Panchayat played an

instrumental role in disseminating

information and selecting suitable candidates.

The program had overwhelming response

from the youths. A total of 113 local youths

(both boys and girls) applied for the training.



The objective of the training program was to give training to local unemployed youth with basic

education, on electrical house wiring, inverter making and installation so that they will be able to

earn a livelihood. The program was started with an inaugural function of one hour. The function was

started with a warm welcome by Prof. Manoranjan Kalita, Director, School of Technology, ADBU.

The other chief guests present in the function are Fr. Stephen Mavely (VC, ADBU), Prof. Basil S

Koikara (Registrar, ADBU), Dr. Balendra Kr. Das (Principal Pachim Guwahati Mahavidyalaya)

and Sri Prabin Medhi (President, Gaon Panchayat, Azara). After the inaugural function the

technical session were started.

In the morning half of day1 the basic concepts current, voltage, electricity were discussed with

various electrical symbols. In the afternoon half, details on house wiring were discussed with hands

on different tools on of house wiring.

On day 2 the concepts on resistance conductor, insulator etc were discussed with hands on

practical. The participants did wiring practice.

Day 3 started with discussion on electrical power and unit. In the afternoon, participants carried out

house wiring on demo boards.

On day 4 different safety precautions were discussed and practice on house wiring continued.

Day 5 started with introduction to the basic components in electronic circuits (Transformer, Diode,

Resistance, Capacitor, and Inductor) and designing small circuits in bread boards.

In day 6 there was a brief discussion PCBs and their types, uses and advantages. Soldering

techniques were also discussed with the familiarization of various instruments used in soldering and

de-soldering.

Day 7 started with a brief introduction on inverter, how inverter works and each of the participants

had designed an inverter in zero PCB individually.

On day 8 the introduction on relay was discussed and the inverter was assembled.

On day 9 the inverter was installed on the main ac line.

Day 10 morning half started with practice on house wiring and installation of the inverter together

with troubleshooting.

The valedictory function was held in the afternoon. The valedictory marked a new beginning and a

new hope in the eyes of those unemployed youth who are now trained in inverter making and

household wiring.

In this two week training program each of the participants made an inverter and one of them also

demonstrated functioning of the inverter during the valedictory function. Along with the certificates a

kit containing the tools required for house wiring and the inverter made by them during the course

was also presented to each participant for starting their work in the locality as soon as possible. All

the participants’ eyes expressed a sense of happiness and hope and these indeed marked the success

of the social commitment program ‚SWABALAMBAN 2014‛.



“Two-week ISTE Workshop on Control Systems”

2n d

- 12t h



The workshop was held as a part of an important initiative taken by IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur

to work with engineering colleges of India to enhance teaching skills of the faculty colleagues in

core Engineering and Science subjects under Train Ten Thousand Teachers programme. The

participating teachers attended the live lectures at 254 centres across the country including our

centre, and also attended the tutorial sessions conducted in the same centre. The resource persons for

the workshop were Prof. Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay from the department of Electrical Engineering,

IIT Kharagpur and Prof. Tapan Kumar Ghosal from the department of Electrical Engineering,

Jadavpur University. The lecture transmission and live interaction took place in distance mode using

AVIEW technology through internet at the remote centre. The course content included the basic

concepts of control system, models, responses, system analysis control design, implementation and

validation.

The School of Technology of Assam Don

Bosco University hosted the ‚Two-week

ISTE Workshop on Control Systems‛ as a

remote centre, at its campus from 2nd

to 12th

December 2014. The workshop was

organised by IIT Kharagpur under the

National Mission on Education through

ICT (MHRD). The workshop was attended

by participants from Assam Don Bosco

University, Jorhat Institute of Science and

Technology, Dibrugarh University etc.



“imagineNANO – A One Week National Workshop

on NANOTECHNOLOGY”

15t h

– 20t h



‚imagineNANO 2014‛, the one-week National Workshop will provide a unique platform to the

young and enthusiastic researchers specially from the north eastern part of India to get initiated into

the latest in Nano Technology expanding around the world through natural analogies, theoretical

concepts, practical sessions and logical analysis.

The workshop had twenty participants from students, research scholars and faculty members who are

enthusiastic about working with nanomaterials.

The six days long workshop started with an inauguration in which we all seeked God’s blessings for

success completion of the workshop. Prayer was led by Rev. Fr. Joseph Nellanatt, Pro-VC, Assam

Don Bosco University. After that the Convenor Dr. Sunandan Baruah, Hod & Associate Professor,

Dept. of ECE, School of Technology, Assam Don Bosco University, the overview of the workshop.

Rev. Fr. (Dr.) Stephen Mavely welcomed all the participants and asked thjem to take full advantage

of the workshop in all terms. After that Chief Guest of the function Dr. Devashish Chowdhury,

Associate Professor, Institute of Advance Study in Science & Technology, gave a keynote address

on Nanotechnology. Followed by that Dr. Basil Koikara, Registrar, Assam Don Bosco University,

shared his thoughts to inspire the participants. The inaugural function was ended by Prof.

Manoranjan Kalita, Director, School of Technology, Assam Don Bosco University by declaring

‚imagineNANO-2014‛ open.

After that the first technical session was taken by Dr. P. Deb, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics,

Tezpur University. His deliberation was on ‚Introduction to Nanotechnology and its applications‛.

On the same day the post lunch sessions were taken by Dr. Indrani Dakua, Associate Professor,

Dept. of ECE, School of Technology, Assam Don Bosco University and Dr. Sunandan Baruah. The

topics covered were about Nanoscience and Synthesis of nanomaterials.



On day-2 (16th

December, 2014) the first morning session was taken by Dr. D. Mohanta, Associate

Professor, Dept. of Physics, Tezpur University in which the manifestation of physical properties of

nanomaterials and also a part of synthesis of nanomaterials were discussed.

The post lunch session of the day was taken by Dr. Sunandan Baruah which continued on synthesis

of nanomaterials and their growth into different structures.

Towards the last hour of the day Mr. Karen Das and Mr. Dipjyoti Sarma, Assistant Professors, Dept.

of ECE, School of Technology, Assam Don Bosco University gave brief idea about the lab sessions

those would be conducted and mentioned about different Do’s and Don’t’s of the lab. The

participants also visited two nanotechnology lab in ADBU campus.

Day-3 (17th

December, 2104) started with the first lab session in which the participants were divided

into two groups and they did hands on for synthesizing different nanomaterials such as ZnS, Gold,

ZnO etc. Also they performed growth of nano rods and nano wires. Thin film coating was also carried

out by the participants using Dip Coating machine which was designed and implemented by one of

our dynamic member of the department Mr. Arup Borah.

On the same day before lunch Prof. Louis Hornyak, Director, Nanotechnolopgy Center, Asian

Institute of Technology, Bangkok enlightened the participants on Poor Man’s Nanotechnology

(PMNT). He layed stress on how labs with limited resources can also contribute significantly in

research in nanotechnology. The session was through skype.

After lunch Dr. Indrani Dakua took over and extended the discussion on the change in properties of

materials at nano dimension. After that Dr. Sunandan Baruah carried the discussion on synthesis

of nanomaterials.

Day-4 (18th

December, 2014) again started with the lab session in which the participants continued

with synthesis and growth of nanomaterials and nano rods.

Before lunch Prof. Pranoyee Dutta, Dept. of ECT, Gauhati University, delivered a talk on

‚Transportation of Electrons in Nanostructured devices‛.

Post lunch Dr. Sunandan Baruah gave participants a depth know how on different characterization

techniques to study and understand different properties of nanomaterials.

Day-5 (19th

December, 2014) was a trip to Tezpur University where we visited the different

sophisticated labs in the department of physics. Instruments like Scanning Electron Microscope

(SEM), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) Spectroscope, UV-VIS Spectrometer etc. were introduced to the

participants.



We also visited the Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) lab in the department of Electronics

and Communication Engineering.

Post lunch we were given introduction to the different instruments like Transmission Electron

Microscope (TEM), Raman Spectrometer, Single Crystal XRD etc. in the Sophisticated Analytical

Instrument Center (SAIC), Tezpur University. We also visited the innovation center of Tezpur

University.

Day-6 (20th

December, 2014) started with a talk by Dr. Achintya Bezbaruah, Associate Professor,

North Dakota University, USA, on ‚Environmental implication of nanotechnology‛. It was also a

skype session.

Before lunch Dr. Sunandan Baruah discussed with the participants on analysis of results obtained

from different characterization tools and also updated the participants on different research activities

going in ADBU Nano labs and urged the everyone to collaborate and contribute towards the

development of Nanotechnology activities and research in the north-eastern part of the country.

Post lunch was the valedictory function. The certificates were given out by Fr. Dr. Stephen Mavely,

Vice Chancellor of Assam Don Bosco University and Prof. Amarjyoti Chaudhury, Pro–VC

of Tezpur University.

In his valedictory speech, Prof. Chaudhury mentioned that the workshop is one of its kinds in the

north–eastern part of India and encourages more groups to come up with such workshop programs.



“Inauguration of spring semester 2015”

5t h

January , YEAR 2015


The spring semester 2015 commenced with the inaugural function that was held at the university

campus on 5th January 2015. The hour long programme began with a beautiful welcome song

presented by the faculty and staff, SoT , ADBU. This was followed by the much awaited welcome

and motivational speech delivered by Rev Father Stephen Mavely, VC, ADBU. Father praised the

students, faculty and all the staff for their effort in bringing laurels to the University. Further

continuing with the tradition of acknowledging and appreciating our students, the next event was the

presentation of rewards to the toppers. After the award distribution ceremony, Prof. Manoronjan

Kalita , Director, SoT, ADBU gave his welcome speech where he appealed to the students to remain

well informed and sincere towards their duties. He also presented an idea of the upcoming events to

be held at the University during the session. This was followed by a beautiful group dance presented

by the 8th

semester students, SoT, ADBU. After this beautiful dance, Dr. Riju Sharma, Director,

School of Humanities and Social Sciences shared with the audience her thoughts about University

and the education system in general. After this enriching talk by Dr. Sharma , Mr. Mriganka Gogoi,

Faculty Coordinator, SoT, ADBU gave the concluding speech where he gave the vote of thanks to

all the entities of the University who worked hard in making the event a grand success. Finally the

inaugural function was concluded with a prayer session led by Mrs. Nabamita Das, Faculty, SoT,

ADBU.



“ISTE Short Term Training Programme on

Pedagogy”

5t h

– 31s t

January , YEAR 2015


A two-week ISTE Short Term Training Programme on Pedagogy for effective use of ICT in

Engineering Education, January 5th

– January 31st 2015 was conducted at Don Bosco College of

Engineering & Technology, Guwahati which is one of the remote centres under the same project.

Educational technology is now ubiquitous; however, the potential of these technologies is lost

without appropriate pedagogical strategies. Teachers not only need to have a knowledge of which

ICT tools are relevant for education, but more importantly how to use them effectively. This training

programme focuses on which pedagogical strategies are effective while using ICT tools in a given

teaching-learning situation. In this training programme, participants will begin by articulating the

objectives for their course, and explore tools appropriate for some pedagogical goals of engineering

courses. Participants will learn effective strategies for teaching with these tools. The training

programme will give participants several opportunities to apply these strategies to design materials

and activities for their courses.

The STTP was conducted in the blended-MOOC model. It consisted of the following parts:

1] Synchronous-remote-centre component, (SRC)-Part1:3 days + SRC-Part2: 3 days.

Participants assembled in their college. Sessions were conducted from IIT Bombay via A-view. The

sessions were conducted in a workshop mode with extensive interaction. Participants worked in

groups to explore educational technology tools and design strategies for their courses.

2] Online component, ‚1-week equivalent‛.

Resources such as videos were posted on Moodle, and homework was assigned based on the

resources. Participants were required to complete the assignments and submit them on Moodle by the

due-dates. Feedback and help were provided via Moodle chat.

Throughout the training programme, participants worked on individual and group activities,

participate in peer-reviews and were involved in creating resources for the engineering teaching

community.

Around 11 participants from various institutions attended the workshop.



“Industrial visit at 400/220/132KV

Kukurmara,Mirza Substation (AEGCL)”

23r d

& 27t h

January , YEAR 2015


Industrial visit was organised on 23rd

& 27th

January 2015 at 400/220/132 kV Mirza

Substation for final year and M.Tech

students. The entire group of students were

divided into two slots:

Slot 1 : 27 students

Slot 2 : 22 students

Step down occurs from 400kv voltage level to

220kv to 132kv to 66kv to 33kv voltage level

through Transformers of required ratings. It

is linked to Sarusajai and synchronized with

5 zones. Various power system control,

switch gear and protection equipments are

installed, such as circuit breaker, relay,

insulator, isolator, lightening arrestors etc.

Bus reactor and line reactors are of 63

MVAR each is used for compensation

purpose. 400/220 kV, 315 MVA and 220/132

kV 50 MVA transformers are used to step

down the voltage and ONAN cooling is used

for the transformers. Moose type ACSR

conductors are used there for power transfer.

The Schemes are one and half scheme (400

kV), main 1 & 2, transfer scheme (220 kV),

main & transfer scheme (132kV).

As there is huge scarcity of electricity in

Assam, the existence of this substation

reduces the congestion in the power system

network in lower Assam and meets the load

demands.



“Staff Enrichment Program”

24t h

January , YEAR 2015


The HR Director coordinated ADBU’s Spring

Semester Staff Enrichment Programme with two

resource persons from Bangalore offering

academia-industry input and practical skills for

purposive living.

Mr. Lawrence Mohanraj, IBM Academic

Initiative, conducted the morning session on

Professional Growth: Understanding and

Augmenting Industry-Academia link.

Speaking on the changing scenario in higher

education he stated ‚work requirements are

directing the type of education‛. He noted that

Gen D (digital generation) students to excel need

to move from technology to innovation. His talk

was really enriching and informative. He had

also explained about the basics of cloud

computing with some real time examples, which

will help the participants to further gain an

interest in this research area. He elaborated

about the goal of IBM and the current scenario of

IT industry. He further stressed on knowledge

sharing as key element for professional growth

saying, ‚I see the days are coming soon when

we will get measured on what we shared and

not what we knew.‛

‚The session was very informative and will help

me to mould myself as a professional in the days

to come‛ one of the faculty members said.

‚Excellent orator, good knowledge on the topic

of discussion, kept me engrossed, was able to

create a very positive atmosphere. I would love

to interact with him again.‛ another faculty

member mentioned.



In the afternoon session, Swami

Purnachaitanyaji of the Art of Living

Foundation (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar) Bangalore

spoke on Personal Growth: Getting Attuned to

Purposive Living.

Besides giving a very informative session with

practical exercises for relieving tension and

focusing the mind, Swamiji from Harlem, in The

Netherlands insisted on ‘Service’ as a way of

living. Service, he says, is responding to another

person’s need on our own and it does not matter

how big or small it is. He explained how Learning about the self through fun and practicing simple

techniques could change our perception about our lives and look at it in a positive way. He even

demonstrated some of the simple tips to overcome stress. His lecture has made the participants to

understand the deep insights of a pure and healthy living together with carrying out all the

responsibilities of life.

‚Swami Purnachaitanyaji, had been able to set up a very lively and interactive session for us. He has

made us realize the necessity to love and take care of ourselves so that we could balance between

work, health and stress.‛ said by one of the participants.

‚The lecture of this kind will have high positive impact on the faculty members and will enhance their

efficiency.‛ another faculty has mentioned.

‚What he spoke and demonstrated to us were very simple things which are infact quite necessary to

the professionals like us where we need to learn to manage our stress and get rejuvenated to perform

better day by day.‛ said by another participants.



“Student Development Program”

9t h

January , YEAR 2015


2nd Semester

The SDP program for the students of

B.Tech second semester of CSE and

MNE branches was held on Jan 09,

2015. The program started at around

9:00 am and consisted of three sessions

held by different faculty members and

each was based on different topics.

The first session was taken by Father

Francis. This session was basically about

the importance of SDP and how one can

overcome fear which is common for

many upcoming students.

The second session was taken by two

faculty members of the psychology

department. It was an interactive session

and various exercises were done. The

session was based upon what is stress,

common causes of stress in students and

different types of stress. Tips were also

given on how to control stress.

The third and final session was conducted

by Sontara maam. She explained to us

the importance of mentoring and

counselling for students. She also

explained how the mentoring system of our college works. Suggestions were also taken from the

students on how to develop the mentoring system of our college.

Overall the student development program was quite helpful for all the students. It motivated the

students to some extent by helping them to overcome different forms of fear we face and how to

handle stress.



4th Semester

Student Development Programme (SDP), is considered to be a crucial part and parcel of all the

students residing in this college. This programme is being conducted each semester as the mark of the

beginning of every new semester. The main objective of this programme is to mainly motivate the

students and bring the correct flow of energy in them for a better beginning of a new season out

here in the campus. Students are highly given importance in building up one’s inner potentials and

boost confidence in them by making them visualize their real capabilities through this programme.

Well, now, coming to the main theme, we, the 4th semester students, have been a part of this

programme. We got divided into two batches. The first batch, consisting of students from departments

of EEE, ECE and CSE and the second batch of students were mainly from departments of MNE and

CVE. So, for the first batch, the SDP was scheduled on 23rd January,’15 and for the second batch, it

was on 27th January,’15. The SDP was organized by a joint team of faculties, under the guidance of

Father Francis Fernandez.

The SDP was a complete package of motivation and self development skills. Few sessions were

included in this programme for the upliftment of the students’ morale and inner potentials. We had

few lecture sessions in this programme by few of our faculty members- Neelam ma’am, Nabamita

ma’am, Joseph sir and Father Francis Fernandez himself, who gave their valuable time for us in

giving away their thoughts on various important life skills and qualities that we do need to realise in

one’s life for creating and establishing ourselves in a better state of our lives. Sessions on personality

development skills, leadership, etc. were being presented to us by them and we got the opportunity to

visualize ourselves in what scenario do we stand in our lives. Few paper works on some of the

sessions were also given to us which helped us to rate ourselves in few of our important qualities that

we need to posses in a better way.

The sessions were very interactive and open for all of us. We got to learn and know many things

related which are very crucial and important to all of us, though we don’t feel their importance in our

daily lives. We do come across many things in our lives but only few of the things gets notified while a

majority of them gets skipped before our eyes. We also had a group discussion within ourselves where

we got divided into small groups and were made to discuss on some of the burning issues of our

country. At the end of the discussion, chosen leaders of each group were being called to present their

respective group and to read out their discussion made in brief. This session was a complete

interactive and knowledgeable for all of us as we came to know some important facts and painful

issues that our country suffers till date. It was really amazing to see everyone’s interests and

realization to such issues in our country. This, I would say, was the most interesting and fun-filled

session of the day, with a huge and whole hearted participation from all the students together.

The whole programme was a whole day long schedule but it was really good to be a part of it for all

of us. We do earned lots of new experiences and important things from our guides, who all had been

very generous to us throughout the whole programme. At the end, the programme was also graced by

our Vice- Chancellor, Father Stephen Mavely, who was very happy to see the way the programme

was being conducted by them, for us and appreciated all of us for a better way of conduct and

learning environment that we were a part of it throughout the sessions.

At the end, before concluding, I would like to add that though the sessions were conducted the whole

day long but at the end of the day, no one of us went back home empty ended. The whole day was

full of new things to learn, a day full of opportunities and realizations for us. This had been

successful only because of our guides who left no stone unturned in making all the sessions’

interactive and best way of learning for us. And even all the students, who had been taking active

participation in all the activities of this programme throughout the day. Finally, it ended as a very



crucial and important day of this semester for all of us with a vision of good hopes and enthusiasm to

be carried out throughout the semester and even more than that.

6th Semester

This year the student development program for we 6th semester students was not like the ones we had

earlier, we had an experience that we would never forget. The 6th semester students were taken to

Shanti Daan, Lankeswar for our SDP program. Every year SDP for each batches of our college are

conducted. But this time it was a very different kind of SDP where the students got the chance to get

involved in helping the sisters of Shanti Daan in doing the works for the less privileged ones in the

society.

The students of the four branches of third year, engineering course not only interacted with them but

also helped the elderly people to do some of their daily works like washing the clothes, cleaning the

surroundings, cooking and some more. We also conducted various entertaining programs for them,

even though none of us were prepared. Every student willingly entertained them in their own ways,

some danced while the other sang, it was truly a moment where we enjoyed performing. The best part

was they not only watched us performing but also joined us, holding our hands and dancing to every

song that was played. We students contributed some amount and brought refreshments, fruits and

biscuits for them. Finally at the end we had a short interaction with the sisters and also thanked them

for the wonderful service to humanity.

This SDP has helped us understanding the value of humanity and to have a good realization of the

situations of abandon parents, wives and homeless ones. All they needed was someone to listen to,

someone to hold their hands, so we were very happy and fortunate that we got the opportunity to be

the one and also that we experienced such a wonderful moment. Many of us also decided to visit them

in our later semesters. It would not be right on our part if we don’t thank our institution for

organizing such a wonderful SDP program and we would also like to thank Fr. Francis and the

teachers who accompanied us in our program.

8th Semester

It was on these three days of March( from the evening of 29th March to 31st March 2015), we, the

combined students of ECE and EEE branch had this wonderful opportunity to have our SDP or the

Social Development program in Don Bosco Institute of Management, Kharguli. It was led by

Father Francis Fernandez,the controller of examinations of ADBU, and two of the faculties of

ADBU, Samarjyoti Saikia Sir of ECE Branch and Pushpanjali Konwar Madam of EEE Branch

respectively.

A bus was arranged for the journey from ADBU, Azara to DBIM, Kharguli and we reached Kharguli

at about 5 PM in the evening where we were given a warm welcome by the faculty in charge of the

orientation program, Miss Pinky Sarkar. All the students were allotted rooms and after short

refreshment, the sessions started soon and it ended with a wonderful movie. The next morning, i.e on

30th March sessions began with exercises including jogging and aerobics from 5:45AM .And after

breakfast, we had a wonderful session taken by the faculties of DBIM. And soon after lunch, there

were group activities for all the students and it really helped us freshen our minds and learn a lot

many things and soon the day ended with a cultural night in which all the students of ADBU and

DBIM interacted with each other and everybody participated wholeheartedly.

Finally on the last day, i.e the 31st of March, after breakfast we had this wonderful session by the

Director of DBIM in which each and every students were presented a very important presentation

that helped them to learn a lot many moral values. And thus with the vote of thanks from the students

of ADBU, the SDP session ended. So, we can conclude by saying that in these 3 days, we did learn a

lot many things, and it was so memorable for us that all the students were full with heavy hearts as

the sessions came to an end.



“Republic Day celebrations”

26t h

January , YEAR 2015


After the Eucharistic celebration the staff and students gathered for the flag hoisting ceremony. The

Assam Don Bosco University Vice Chancellor Dr Stephen Mavely hoisted the flag and

administered the pledge of allegiance to the nation.

Two students delivered patriotic speeches; Aktar spoke in Assamese and Hazel in English.

The assembly joined in singing Tagore’s hymn, a prayer for the country ‚Into that heaven of

freedom my father, let my country awake.‛

The Administrative Officer of ADBU Dr Peter Paul delivered the republic day message highlighting

President’s address to the nation.

The ceremony concluded with a vote of thanks by the Controller of Examinations Dr Francis

Fernandez.

MSW student Jose Cheriatt was the compare.



“Industrial visit at 2X50 MW Karbi Langpi

Hydroelectric Project”

13t h

February , YEAR 2015


An industrial visit was organized by

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

department on 13th February 2015 at

KarbiLangpi Hydroelectric Project

(KLHEP) for the 6th semester students.

The dam (Hatidubi dam) has seven radial

gates which are hydraulically operated at

200 HP. The normal water level is 313.8

metres and it risesupto 330.5 m. The

danger level is 316 m, when the danger

level is reached the gate must be operated

for the safety of the dam. On the other side

of the dam there is a non-overflow section

and it is not operated by gate. The Hatidubi

dam also has a stop log gate for the

repairing the radial gates. Water is taken

from the dam through a low pressure

tunnel of length 4.5 km and diameter of 4.2

metres to the penstock. There are two

penstocks of diameter 2.60 m and the

lengths are 526.70m and 514.20 m. Two

salient Pole Synchronous Generator of

capacity50 MW each are used to generate

power and the turbine was francis turbine.

The generators in the power house require

excitation for which the power house has

four 420V dc static excitation systems. The

generators are self excited by AVR. The

excitors consist of Thyristor Bridge

Rectifiers which convert the ac to dc and

this dc is given as excitation through slip

rings. The AVR is also used as compensator

for reactive power. The power generated in

armature is carried through bus duct. Air,

water and oil cooling system are used in the

power plant.



“Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Campaign”

18t h



The Vice Chancellor Dr Stephen Mavely

launched the nationwide Swachh Bharat

Abhiyan campaign (Clean India Mission) on

Wednesday 18th February at the morning

assembly. He took a broom and swept the stage

along with Pro Vice Chancellor and Director of

the School of Technology. ‚Let this not be a

mere tokenism,‛ said Dr Mavely encouraging all

to make it an attitude of keeping common areas

and work place clean.

The students and faculty panned out to some 20

locations in both campuses of the Schools of

Technology and Social Sciences. The hour long

program saw the entire university community

cleaning areas of their campus (classrooms,

faculty cabins, labs, and open spaces) which do

not get detailed cleaning attention in routine

maintenance chores. Civil Engineering students

wearing gloves and face masks were seen

attending to clogged drainage system, while

students in the lab cleaned ceiling and exhaust

fans“ girls and boys moved into parking lots to

weed out grass growing between the interlocked

tiles.

The program coordinated by Dr Biju Mani Das

and ADBU Administrator Dr Peter Paul will be a

monthly event. The Clean India Mission is a

national campaign by the Govt of India covering

4,041 statutory towns, to clean the streets, roads

and infrastructure of the country.

This campaign was officially launched, 2

October 2014 at Rajghat (Gandhi’s tomb) New

Delhi, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi

himself cleaned the road. The campaign aims to

accomplish the vision of a ‘Clean India’ by 2nd

October 2019, the 150th birthday of Mahatma

Gandhi.



“Industrial visit to MSME Tool Room”

26t h



On 26th February 2015, our 4th semester Mechanical students

along with Pallav Gogoi and Kalidasan R from Mechanical

Engineering Department of School of Technology, Assam Don

Bosco University visited MSME Tool Room Centre in

Amingaon Industrial Area, as part of Industrial visit.

During visit resource person from MSME gave brief

introduction to welding and welding cutter. Our students

observed and made note on different welding equipments and

welding machines. They demonstrated MIG welding machine,

TIG welding machine, Plasma Cutter and welding Fame

Extraction. We visited machine section where we were

demonstrated machine like Horizontal Milling machine, Radial

Drilling machine, Shaper machine, universal Cylindrical

grinding machine, Surface grinding machine, Universal tool &

cutter grinding machine and along with different types of

conventional Lathe machine.

In the CNC (computer numerically control) section, resource

person and his associates from MSME gave introduction to CNC

programming and specification of CNC machine. They

demonstrated CNC Electro Discharge machine, CNC Vertical

Milling machine, CNC Lathe machine. At last we went to

CAD/CAM section where the resource person from MSME gave

brief introduction to CAD/ CAM and their importance to

industry. They gave introductory lecture on software such as

Auto CAD, CATIA, CREO, Solid Works, DELCAM and

ANSYS. They demonstrated one Robotic Arm Model in

Computer which was basically made by using CATIA software.



“National Conference on New Approaches of

Basic Sciences towards the Development of

Engineering and Technology”

27t h

– 28t h



The School of Technology, Assam Don

Bosco University, with assured financial

assistance from Bhabha Atomic Research

Centre has organised the a grand national

conference ‚New Approaches of Basic

Sciences towards the Development of

Engineering and Technology-2015‛

(NABSET 2015) on 27-28 February, 2015,

with Dr. Samrat Dey from the department

of Physics and Dr. Nibedita Kapil from the

department of Chemistry as the convener

and the joint convener, respectively.

More than 150 participants from different

parts of the country attended the

conference. The conference drew enormous

interest from many central and state

universities, IIT and research institutes of

Northeast India, as well as, from other

parts of the country and also countries

from Middle East, Africa, Europe and

USA. Ultimately, the technical committee

accepted around 50 high quality papers for

the conference. Besides, a large number of

invited speakers form premier research

institutes of the country (e.g., Bhabha

Atomic Research Centre, AMD, Department

of Atomic Energy, Indian Association for

Cultivation of Science, etc,), a number of

universities, IIT and other institutes have

contributed to the conference.

The dignitaries who chaired the inaugural

session were – Fr. Stephen Mavely, Vice

Chancellor, Assam Don Bosco University;

Prof. Gautam Biswas, FNA, Director, IIT

Guwahati; Sr. Prof. Soumitra Sengupta,

IACS; Dr. R. K. Bajpai, Scientist G,

BARC; Shri K. M. Kumar, Regional

Director, North Eastern Region, AMD,

DAE;



Prof. Manoranjan Kalita, Director of School

of Technology, Assam Don Bosco

University; Dr. Monmoyuri Baruah, HOD of

Basic Sciences, Assam Don Bosco

University; Dr. Samrat Dey, Convener,

NABSET 2015; and Dr. Nibedita Kapil,

Joint-Convener, NABSET 2015.

The chief guest of the session Prof. Gautam

Biswas, Director IITG, appreciated the theme

of the conference. He emphasized in his talk

that there cannot be engineering without

science. Key Note Lecture on GOD

PARTICLE was delivered Sr. Prof. S.

Sengupta, IACS, he gave a wonderful

presentation of the story of Higgs Boson – the

origin of life.

Apart from 11 invited talks, 15 oral and 31

poster presentations were done. The

conference was divided into 5 sessions.

Among those 4 sessions for oral presentation

and 1 session for poster presentation.

The first session was chaired by Sr. Prof. S.

Sengupta, IACS. Four invited talks by Prof.

A. Khare, Dept. of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Dr.

R. K. Bajpai, Scientist G, BARC, Shri K. M.

Kumar, Regional Director, North Eastern

Region, AMD, DAE, Prof. B. M. Jyrwa, Dean,

School of Physical Sciences, NEHU and four

oral paper presentations were delivered in

this session. Session 2 was chaired by Prof.

ShakuntalaLaskar, ADBU and Invited Talks

by Prof. D. Hazarika, Electrical Engineering

Department, AEC and Prof. P. Alagarsamy,

Dept. of Physics, IIT Guwahati. Three oral

presentations were done in this session.

On the second day the session 3 started by

two invited talks by Prof. K. G.

Bhattacharyya, Dept of Chemistry, Gauhati

University, Prof. K. Ismail, Dept. of

Chemistry, NEHU. Four oral presentations

were done in this session. The session was

chaired by the Research Director ADBU,

Prof. J. N. Vishwakarma. Session 4 was

chaired by Prof. K. Ismail, Dept. of

Chemistry, NEHU.



“Youth Councillor – Fr. Fabio Attard‟s

Visit”

4t h

March , YEAR 2015


He invited the students to work not only for their future but also for the future of others and the

community they live in. Father Fabio also presented his book titled ‚Salesian Youth Ministry in the

Frame of Reference,‛ to the University.

The University welcomed Fr. Dr. Fabio Attard

SDB, General Councillor for Youth Ministry,

Salesians of Don Bosco International

Headquarters, Rome on Wednesday 4th March

2015.

Fr. Fabio Attard was accompanied by the

Chancellor, Fr. VM Thomas who introduced

him to the Under Graduate (UG) students at the

morning assembly and later to the Post

Graduate students in the Conference Hall.

While addressing the UG students Fr Attard

shared his mission experiences in the different

parts of the world and Salesian missions in

132 countries.

‚Education is the key to open today the door

of tomorrow, the future is yours, if you allow

it, it will flourish,‛ he said highlighting the role

of education in life.

Stressing the need of reaching out and working

towards the betterment of not only ourselves but

of the people around us, he said ‚Education

should help us to reach out to others with

empathy and stand in solidarity; open our

hearts and reach out to the poor.‛

He also added, ‚Education should not be

treated only as a means of intellectual growth

and finding jobs, but as an effective tool for

character formation.‛



“Workshop on Android Application

Development‟”

10t h

March , YEAR 2015


A one day workshop on ‚Android

Application Development‛ was organized by

the Web Designing Club, School of

Technology, Assam Don Bosco University on

10th March, 2015. The Workshop was co-

ordinated by Ms. Sonia Sarmah, Advisor,

Web Designing Club and Dr. Uzzal Sharma,

Mentor, Web Designing Club. A total of 86

students from various branches of School of

Technology participated in the workshop.

Android is currently the most popular mobile

technology. With its growing popularity,

there is a high demand for the android

application developers. Hence, the main

objective of the workshop was to give the

participants basic knowledge and hands on

experience in this area.

The resource person for the workshop was

Mr. Binod Deka. He is currently working as

a System Analyst in Krishna Kanta

Handiqui State Open University, Assam.

Mr. Deka is vastly experienced in this field

and has developed numerous Android

Applications. Some of the notable

application developed by him are-

SmartKKHSOU, ShortCutIndia,

SingaporeLive, DY365, JONAKK,

LOCALSEWA etc. All the applications are

available in Google Playstore.



“One Day Workshop on Electronic System

Design and Manufacturing (ESDM)”

15t h

March , YEAR 2015


On 15th of March 2015, a one day workshop on Electronic System Design and Manufacturing

(ESDM) was held at the School of Technology campus of Assam Don Bosco University (ADBU). The

workshop was supported by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology,

Government of India, under the aegis of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication

Engineers. The workshop was attended by the B.Tech. and M.Tech. students as well as the faculty

members of the departments of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ECE) and Electronics and

Communication Engineering (ECE) of ADBU.

In the workshop, Prof. Manoranjan Kalita, Director, School of Technology delivered the introductory

lecture on ESDM. In the technical session Dr. Gaurav Trivedi, Assistant Professor, department of

EEE, IIT Guwahati, delivered an interactive speech on VLSI Power Grid Analysis. The other

resource person of the workshop, Dr. Vijay Nath, Assistant Professor, VLSI Design Group,

Department of ECE, BIT, Mesra, Ranchi, spoke on the theme of Custom IC Design using ESDM

techniques. Mr. Bikramjit Goswami, Assistant Professor, department of EEE, ADBU, acted as the

coordinator at the institute level. All the participants were awarded their certificates of participation

at the end of the workshop.



“D‟Verve 2015 – Go! Glow! Grow!”

16t h

- 21s t

March , YEAR 2015


The sixth edition of D’verve – the School of Technology’s annual event came to an end on 21st March

with a day-long concluding ceremony consisting of 30 events. The program lasted over 8 hours with a

pre-noon start.

Highlight of the day was ‚Creating Future – Fashion Show‛ with six groups participating in the

event. Each team of eight participants had its designer and coordinator. After the first round

showcasing 48 individual talents in their respective groups, 10 male and female each were

shortlisted for 2nd

and 3rd

rounds which tested their attitude and intelligence.

Commenting on participation of students, Director of the School of Technology, Prof. Manoranjan

Kalita said, ‚this year the participation of students was remarkable‛. Over 800 students

participated in the events claiming their stakes of 25,000 points.

Besides certificates, the winners carried away exquisitely crafted medals or cups.

New event introduced this year included a SmartFilm Competition by Mass Communication

Department on livelihood theme ‚Roti, kapda aur makkan.‛ It had six submissions of short films shot

entirely on smart-phones and edited with Free Open Source-Software.

Besides a dance segment by young lady faculty members, there was also a special joint dance

performance by final year students and faculty.

The Extracurricular Clubs – Sports, Music & Singing, Drama, Debate & Quiz, Arts & Craft,

Literary, and Dance – coordinated the competition events.

The opening ceremony of week-long D’Verve events with the theme : Go! Glow! Grow! was held on

16th March with the hoisting of the D’Verve flag and lighting of the torch of ‚The Torch of the

Spirit‛ and taking of the pledge.

The sports events, both indoor and outdoor, under the leadership of Sports Club started on Saturday

14 February. It was spread out over one month with separate events for men and women in Football,

Cricket, Basketball and Volleyball.

The University congratulates student volunteers who organized the event, designed and decorated

stages at different venues, prepared necessary arrangements for all the events.



The different events and the winners list of D’Verve 2015 is given below:

ART & CRAFT CLUB

1.Face Painting 1st Prize: Jerin Jose George, SufiyaNoori

Consolation Prize: Abhijit Das, Upasana Das

2. T-Shirt Painting

1st Prize: Pooja Dutta, Noel Rittick Bar

2nd Prize: Pritam Choudhury, Ritul Gogoi

3rd Prize : Kakoli Acharjee, Sweta Bhadra

3. Painting

1st Prize : Ankita Patowary

2nd Prize: Sagarika Nath

4. Mehandi

1st Prize : Anubha Baruah

2nd Prize : Arpita Bhattacharjee

3rd Prize : Swati Agarwal

5. Photography

1st Prize : Kasturi Borah

Consolation Prize: HirakJyotiSarma

6. Best Out Of Waste

1st Prize : Bikash Dhal, Barsha Das, Rakesh Kumar Prasad

2nd Prize :Arpita Bhattacharjee, Shaswati Bhattacharjee, Piyali Purkayastha

3rd Prize : Susan Sinha, Kabita Brahma, Prabha Talukdar

7. Rangoli

1st Prize : Shahjubin Rahman, Prerana Das, Ananya Borah, Pubalee Kashyap

2nd Prize : Imlirenla Longkumer, Tongchin Drema, Ankita Patowary, Christina

3rd Prize : Rachael George, Tabassum F. Ullah, MebaRodborne, Jerin Jose George

8. Bouquet Making

1st Prize : Christina Mayengbam, Tongchin Drema, Imlirenla Longkumer, Ankita

2nd Prize : Jorisa Chyne, Aarti Khyriemmujat, Ilasiewder Marwein, Rousalin Jyrwa

3rd Prize :Angel Saharia, Suprianka Paul, Arpita Dutta, Sweta Kumari

9. Wall Painting

1st Prize : Kukil Das, Arnab Baishya, Nabonita Saikia, Arpita Baruah, Sagarika Nath,

Kasturi Borah

2nd Prize : Upasana Das, Abhijit Das, Anubha Baruah, Chandrima Das, NiturajGogoi



LITERARY CLUB

1. On The Spot Presentation 1st Prize: Ankita Patowary, Jiss Joseph, Anbarasan B

2nd Prize: Deepjyoti Kalita,Shaheen Akhtar Wahab

3rd Prize: Barnam Parashar, Niloy Bhandar Kayastha

2. Memory Game

1st Prize: Jacob Malkias, Jakaria Jafri

2nd Prize: Piyali Purkayastha, Supriyanka Paul

3rd Prize: Bhargav Saikia, Barnam Parashar

3. Spell Bee

1st Prize: Rachael George, Bijaya Lakshmi Sharma

2nd Prize: Barnam Parsahar, Amir Ali Hazarika

4. Sudoku

1st Prize: VizayieThapo

2nd Prize: MurchanaGogoi

3rd Prize: Max AanchungGonmei

5. Crossword

Assamese:

Consolation Prize : Shaswati Bhattacharyya

English:

1st Prize: MunmiThakuria

2nd Prize: Rachael George

3rd Prize: PrasunDev

6. Perceptual Story Telling

1st Prize: Amir Ali Hazarika

2nd Prize: AansuGiri

3rd Prize: Shaheen Akhtar Wahab, Swapna Bhuyan

7. Spin A Yarn 1st Prize: Tenzin ChonzomKhom

2nd Prize: Aansu Giri, Deepjyoti Kalita

3rd Prize: IraniMahanta

8. Word Scrabble

1st Prize: Jiss Joseph

2nd Prize: RissnalinSyiemlieh

3rd Prize: GeroldMarbaniang



9. Four Pics One Word 1st Prize: Zuchumlo Ngullie, Shimdakerlin Fancon

2nd Prize: Abhineet Gupta, Archith Bhat

3rd Prize: Regina Nongkynrin, gerald Marbaniang

10. Poetry Writing (Assamese) 1st Prize: Prabal Barman

2nd Prize: UditRanjanKalita

3rd Prize: ArnabBaishya

11. Poetry Writing (Hindi)

Consolation Prizes: Sweta Kumari, Seema Ghisingh

12. Poetry Writing (English) 1st Prize: Rinky Gurumayum

2nd Prize: Sukanya Bhattacharjee, Arnab Baishya

3rd Prize: Sarbani Das

13. Short Story Writing

(Assamese)

1st Prize: Anubha Baruah

2nd Prize: Prabal Barman

3rd Prize: ParashJyotiDutta

14. Short Story Writing

(English)

1st Prize: MebanteiskhemPyngrope

2nd Prize: BarnamParshar

3rd Prize: Tenzin ChonzomKhom

15. Science Fiction Story

Writing

1st Prize: SukanyaBhattacharjee

2nd Prize: DiyaBhattacharjee

DRAMA CLUB

1. Minute To Win It 1st Prize: Vijay Pathak

2nd

Prize: Biswajyoti Barman

3rd

Prize:Jeshmin Sultana

2. Mono Act 1st Prize: Lively Hazarika

2nd

Prize:ManasChettri

3rd

Prize:SwapnaBhuyan



3. Theatrix

4. Best Actress

Winner: Ashraful Islam, Arnab Baishya, Saiky Patwary, Anubha

Baruah, Hirok Jyoti Kalita, Kukil Das, Sourov Kalita

Anubha Baruah

MUSIC AND SINGING CLUB

1. Battle Of The Bands

Best Vocalist: J. TemjenyangerJamir

Best Drummer: Henry Zote

Best Guitarist: James Hagjer

Best Bassist: AmanTokbi

Best Band: ‚Young Hearts‛

J. TemjenyangerJamir(Vocalist)

Mansel R. Marak(Bassist)

TheophilusRengma(Guitarist)

James Samuel(Drummer)

DebrajBordoloi(Keyboardist)

2. Solo Singing Competition

(Hindi Category)

(English Category)

(Assamese & Bengali Category)

1st Prize: AnkitaChakraborty

2nd Prize: Md. Imdad Ahmed

3rd Prize: BhaskarSarma

1st Prize: J. TemjenYangerJamir

2nd Prize: MebanteiskhemPynrope

3rd Prize: RinkyGurumayum

1st Prize: Pranjal P. Das

2nd Prize: Satyajit Das

3rd Prize: Lively Hazarika

3. Duet Singing Competition:

(English Category)

1st Prize: James Samuel

ShimdakerlinFancon

2nd Prize: MebanteiskhemPyngrope

MintionethFancon

4. Rap Battle

Best Rapper: KhrawbokSavioMarbaniang

5. Group Singing Competition:

(Hindi &English Category)

Winner: ‚Savio& Group‛:

Khrawbok Savio Marbaniang, Mintioneth Fancon,

Shimdakerlin Fancon, Azel M. J. Kharbhih, Mansel R. Marak,

Nehemiah M. Kharpuri



DANCE CLUB

1. Classical Dance Shreyashi Das

2. Group Dance

1st Prize: Sneha Barjo,Pallabi Das, Rimmi Konwar, Darshana

Neog, Surabhi Borah, RitujaSaikia

2nd

Prize: Saiky Patowary, Runjun Das, Nazmeen Sultana,

Meenakshi Kalita, Khaleda Anam, Tajmin Ahmed, Anubha

Baruah, Arijita Dutta

3rd

Prize: Jorali Lonmailai, Nilakshi Gogoi, Niky Kalita,

Dhananjali Boro, Poulomi Hojai, Sophia Debbarma

3. Duet Dance 1st Prize: Jeshmin Sultana, Kukil Das

2nd

Prize: Rituja Saikia, Roshni Konwar

3rd

Prize: Runjun Das, Nazmeen Sultana

4. Solo Dance 1st Prize: ArijitSinha

2nd

Prize: Daisy Sharma

3rd

Prize: Kukil Das

5. On The Spot Dance 1st Prize: Kukil Das

2nd

Prize: ArijitSinha

3rd

Prize: Jeshmin Sultana,Pallabi Das

DEBATING CLUB

Debate 1st Prize : DirakshRahman

2nd

Prize : ShaheenAkhtarWahab

3rd

Prize : Rachael George

Consolation Prizes : Tenzin Chonzon Khom,Barnam Parashar



GAMES

01. Chess (Boys) Winner: SavioTwinkyMaring

Runner Up: Leping S Marak

02. Chess (Girls) Winner: Swati Singh

Runner Up: Ananya Bhattacharyya

03. Arm Wrestling (Boys) Winner: KaushikKaustavKalita

Runner Up: RajdipKataki

04. Arm Wrestling (Girls) Winner: BanditaDeka

Runner Up: HimadriNath

05. Carrom (Boys) Winner: Rubul Das, Sazzad Ahmed

Runner Up: Akash Patgiri, MrigankaSarma

06. Carrom (Girls) Winner: Kashmiri Hazarika, Oshin Chetri

Runner Up: Upasana Das, Pratyasha Dutta

07. Table Tennis (Boys) Winner: Prakash Koiri, Angshuman Choudhury

Runner Up: Aditya Upadhaya,Nituraj Gogoi

08. Table Tennis (Girls) Winner: ManishaParrajuly

Runner Up: Tenzin Chonzom

09. Badminton (Boys) Winner: HimangkhuSaikia, JakiPegu

Runner Up: Biraj Baruah, Nitul Islam

10. Badminton (Girls) Winner: Chimkila S Yimchunger, Irene Solo

Runner Up: Nazbeen Sultana, Sushma Das

11. 100m Race (Boys) 1st Prize: KhoiromLuckyson Singh

2nd

Prize: Ronnie Ferdinand Suting

3rd

Prize: SingwaSingpho

12. 100m Race (Girls) 1st Prize: P. C Lalhlimpuii

2nd

Prize: Tenzin Chonzom

3rd

Prize: Rashmi Brahma


2nd

Prize: SingwaSingpho

3rd


14. 200m Race (Girls) 1st Prize: P. C Lalhlimpuii

2nd


3rd

Prize: Rashmi Brahma


2nd


3rd

Prize: Taw Johny

16. Relay Race (4*100 M) 1st Prize: Wang Lowang, Ganesh Kumar Thapa, Khoirom Luckyson



(Boys) Singh, Telum Matey

2nd

Prize: Ronnie Ferdinand Suting, Taw Johny, Mainong Maio, Techi

Gumshi Tara

3rd

Prize: Liken Kamki, Suraj Sarmah, Biraj Baruah, Jiss Joseph

17. Relay Race (4*100 M)

(Girls)

1st Prize: Relly Khyriemmujai, Wanroi Kharrhong, P.C Lahllimpuii

Murchana Gogoi

2nd

Prize: Upasana Das , Oshin Chetri, Rashmi Brahma, Pragati

Bhattacharyya

3rd

Prize: Tenzin Chonzom, Merina Englengpi, Anamika Nath, Bandita

Deka

18. Shot-Put (Boys) 1st Prize: Michael Andrew Doia

2nd

Prize: PragyanGogoi

3rd

Prize: BhargavDeka

19. Shot-Put (Girls) 1st Prize:Sarbani Das

2nd

Prize: RellyKhyriemmujai

3rd

Prize: MerinaEnglengpi

20. Discuss Throw (Boys) 1st Prize: RanujTaye

2nd

Prize: Liken Kamki

3rd

Prize: PragyanGogoi

21. Discuss Throw (Girls) 1st Prize: Sarbani Das

2nd


3rd

Prize: LalvenKimi

22. High Jump (Boys) 1st Prize: ParthajeetSaikia

2nd

Prize: Ganesh Kumar Thapa

3rd

Prize: Liken Kamki

23. High Jump (Girls) 1st Prize:P. C Lalhlimpuii

2nd

Prize: RellyKhyriemmujai

3rd

Prize PoibhalinMysticaMasharing

24. Long Jump (Boys)

1st Prize:Ronnie Ferdinand Suting

2nd

Prize: NadimHaque

3rd

Prize: TeylamMatey

25. Long Jump (Girls) 1st Prize:Tenzin Chonzom

2nd

Prize: PoibhalinMysticaMasharing

3rd

Prize: BanditaDeka

26. Three Legged Race (Girls) 1st Prize: Ranjana Brahma, Rashmi Brahma

2nd Prize: Upasana Das, Kashmiri Hazarika

3rd Prize: Deepsikha Gayon, Nandini Vijay Saikia



TOURNAMENTS

1. Cricket Champions (Boys)

Man Of The Match

Highest Scorer

Man Of The Tournament

JagjitSingha

SaurabhSarma

MridulHaloi

Mrinal Das

IttehadulHaque

Sunny Peter Dhanwar

NilutpalMuchahary

HimangkuSaikia

HimangshuBuragohain

PradyutPrakash Das

ManashJyotiChetri

AkashJyotiPatgiri

Mriganka Sharma

SaurangaSaikia

RanujTaye

MridulHaloi

RanujTaye

AkashJyotiPatgiri

2.Cricket Runners Up (Boys)

Jitul Das

Saurav Das

KaushikKalita

PrakashKoiri

AmanulMustaq

TamsonPadu

Abhijit Das

SumanDev

RajdeepKataki

MirajulKarim

SubhajitMazumder

SurjeetSingha

KumarjitChakraborty

DigvijayBhattacharjee

SubratBaishya

NiturajGogoi

27. Marble And Spoon Race

(Girls)

1st Prize:Ranjana Brahma

2nd Prize: DeepsikhaGayon

3rd Prize: Kashmiri Hazarika

28. Best Athlete (Boy)

KhoiromLuckyson Singh (4 Gold &1 Bronze)

29. Best Athlete (Girl)

P. C Lalhlimpuii (4 Gold)



Highest Wicket Taker

KaushikKalita

3. Cricket Champions (Girls)

Player Of The Match

Player Of The Tournament

Garcia PynkmenlangFancon

ShimdaKerlinFancon

MintionethFancon

DristyNangsalGurung

EyilobeniYanthan

AzelMesha M. J. Kharbhih

Nancy Nabam

Tabassum Farhana Ullah

DipanditaSaikia

Jessica Kharnior

MurchanaGogoi

N. ZuchumloNgullie

Rachael George

Ananya Bhattacharyya

MebadaaihunRodborne

Ankita Roy


Garcia Fancon

4. Cricket Runners Up (Girls)

RitujaSaikia

HimadriNath

Tina Gogoi

RimmiKonwar

PoulomiHojai

RellyKhyriemmujat

PratyashaDutta

Sarbani Das

PoojaPranamiSaikia

Surabhi Bora

Rima

Sophia Debbarma

JebaAkhtar

5. Volleyball Winners (Boys)

Best Player

RanujTaye

AkashJyotiPatgiri

Sunny Peter Dhanwar

NilotpalMuchahary

SourangaSaikia

DhananjayBasumatary

MrigankaSarma

ParthaPratimGogoi

RanujTaye



6.Volleyball Runners-Up (Boys)

7. Volleyball Winners

(Girls)

Francis Narzary

Jerome Sudeep

Suraj Kumar Sharma

Nitunjit Brahma

AnmolKerketta

SiddharthSauravGogoi

GauravChaubey

ParthaPratimSingha

WangmaoKonyak

NarendraTirkey

Regina Hookip

NodiveJyrwa

CherilyneWahlang

Lalvenkini

Chimkila S. Yinchunger Ambrosia

Lyngdoh

ApunTayung

Rikmatchi Ch. Sangm

LakyntiewNongbri

8. Volleyball Runners Up (Girls)

Tenzin ChonzomKhom

TongchinDrema

MerinaEnglengoi

ImlirenlaLongkumer

AnamikaNath

Mousami Das

AartiKhyriemmujat

Christina Mayangbam

AnkitaPatowary

9. Football Winners (Girls)

Highest Scorer

Best Player


ShimdaKerlinFancon

MintionethFancon

DristyNangsalGurung

EyilobeniYanthan

AzelMesha J. Kharbhih


Nancy Nabam


DipanditaSaikia

Jessica Kharnior

MurchanaGogoi

N. ZuchumloNgullie

Rachael George

DristyNangsalGurung

Garcia Fancon



10. Football Winners (Boys)

Highest Scorer

PynsukjaiHujon

DonkuparMrsharing

DhananjayBasumatary

RegonNaji

AkashJyotiPatgiri

HiranyaSaikia

Mriganka Sharma

ParthaPratimGogoi

SourangaSaikia

RanujTaye

Md. RashidulHoque

NilotpalMuchahary

Leping M. Marak

Sunny Peter Dhanwar

ManashJyotiChetri

BapuraKharthangmaw

Biswajyoti Barman

AkashJyotiPatgiri

11. Football Runners-Up(Boys)

Jitul Das

RajdeepKataki

SumanDev

TamchiWadie

DeibanbokNongdhar

KaushikKalita

PrakashKoiri

HirakTalukdar

KimeTayu

TamsonPadu

ReunoldPasi

Bandalang Blah

MigangMili

RupankarGogoi

RungshingShimray

12. Basketball Winners (Girls)

Best Player


ShimdaKerlinFancon

MintionethFancon

DristyNangsalGurung

EyilobeniYanthan

AzelMesha J. Kharbhih

Nancy Nabam



DristyNangsalGurung

13. Basketball Runners-Up (Girls)

Golden Mary Khongsit

PoibhalinMysticaMasharing



PhirasishaSyiemlieh

Esther Ramdinmawii

SeemaGhisingh

Rashmi Brahma

Ranjana Brahma

JugamiBargoyary

14. Basketball Winners (Boys)

KhrawbokSavioMarbaniang

VizayieThapo

Mansel R. Marak

PonathungHumtsoe

ZapuvizoKhroistu

Hirokjan J. Barman

Fairly Joy Pakma

BanteinamMassar

Ronnie Ferdinand Suting

15. Basketball Runners-Up (Boys)

Francis Narzary

D. Jerome Sudeep

Nitunjit Brahma

AnmolKerketta

NarendraLakra

WangmaoKonyak

SiddharthSauravGogoi

GauravChaubey

ParthaPratimSinha

Suraj Kumar Sarmah

16. Tug Of War Winners (Girls)

LakyntiewNongbri

CherilyneWahlang

Lalvenkini

LanaikaPassoh

ManribhaLaloo

Kangkana Barman

NodiveJyrwa

ApunTayung

Chimkila S. Yinchunge

Alma Lungalang

SanjuktaBhuyan

Mridu Borah

17. Tug Of War Runners-Up

(Girls)

RitujaSaikia

HimadriNath

Tina Gogoi

RimmiKonwar

PoulomiHojai

KarizaSabri

Tajmin Ahmed

Ananya Bora

ChandraniBeypi

Hifrin Sultana

NitumoniDeka



18. Tug Of War Winners (Boys)

JyotirmoyRabha

Tom Baby

DinbandhuTorang

AngshumanChowdhary

IshanuDutta

DipankarGogoi

Rohit Kumar Singh

ManojDeka

JanardanLaskar

SazidurRahman

NirupamDeka

19. Tug Of War Runners-Up

(Boys)

DeepjyotiThakuria

RanujTaye

Biswajyoti Barman

Jahangir AlamBasir

Pradyut Das

Sunny Peter Dhanwar

AbhijitDebbarma

RegonNaji

NilotpalMuchahary

HimangkuSaikia

JagjitSingha



“Workshop on Virtual Lab”

18t h

March , YEAR 2015


A half day workshop on ‚Virtual Lab‛ was

conducted by IIT Guwahati on 18th March

2015. Seven experts from IITG came as

resource persons and conducted the workshop

from 12:30 PM to 4:00PM.

The experts who came to the University

expressed their desire to set Don Bosco

University as a remote center for this virtual

lab project.

In addition, Virtual Labs will be made more

effective and realistic by providing additional

inputs to the students like accompanying audio

and video streaming of an actual lab

experiment and equipment.

For the ‘touch and feel’ part, the students will

also be get opportunity to visit an actual

laboratory for a short duration.

This virtual lab project is an IIT Delhi

initiative funded by MHRD, Govt. of India.

Virtual Labs will provide to the students the result of an experiment by one of the following methods

(or possibly a combination)

Modeling the physical phenomenon by a set of equations and carrying out simulations to

yield the result of the particular experiment. This can, at-the-best, provide an approximate

version of the ‘real-world’ experiment.

Providing measured data for virtual lab experiments corresponding to the data previously

obtained by measurements on an actual system.

Remotely triggering an experiment in an actual lab and providing the student the result of the

experiment through the computer interface. This would entail carrying out the actual lab

experiment remotely.



“The University hosted Bengal & Northeast

VCs Meet”

27t h

March , YEAR 2015


For the first time Assam Don Bosco University

(ADBU) hosted a meeting of Vice Chancellors

and/or their representatives on Friday 27

March. Over 70 Vice Chancellors or

representatives from West Bengal and

Northeast India participated in the meeting

organised by NEHU (North Eastern Hill

University) at ADBU Azara campus.

Joining the meeting at the same venue are also

some 100 Directors of AICTE approved

technical institutions with experts from

University Grants Commission and AICTE.

The participants deliberated upon issues

related to the implementation of Choice Based

Credit System and credit framework for skill-

based vocational courses to be implemented in

the upcoming academic year 2015-2016.

Commenting on the august gathering, the

Registrar, Dr Basil Koikara said, ‚This is a

singular privilege and honour for our

university to welcome heads of higher

education from this region.‛

Directors of Schools of Technology and Social

Sciences as well as Heads of Departments

welcomed the VCs, their representatives and

Directors of Technical Institutions and assist

the delegates for the smooth running of the

meetings.

Also the University student volunteers along

with faculty members were available at

designated locations to take care of

registration and facilitation at meeting venues.



“5-Day Workshop on „Big Data Developer‟”

1s t

– 5t h

May, YEAR 2015


The University’s Department of Computer Science Engineering & Information Technology held a 5-

Day Workshop on ‘Big Data Developer’ on Wrox Certified Big Data Developer at its Azara campus

from 1-5 May 2015.

The Pro-Vice Chancellor, Fr Joseph Nellanatt inaugurated the workshop, the first workshop of its

kind in Northeast India. The workshop wass facilitated by resource persons Dr. Subkarajyoti and

Biswajyoti Kar of Data Brio Academy, Kolkata.

Twelve participants of the workshop include eight faculty members of Dept of CSE &IT of ADBU,

one from Scholar Institute of Technology, Guwahati, as well as 3 MTech students from the

University.

The workshop was designed to introduce professionals aspiring to make a career in Big Data

Analytics to Hadoop Framework. After Hadoop was installed in the IBM Design Lab of the

University on the first day, the workshop focused on the components of Hadoop like MapReduce,

PIG and ETL Process, HBASE, HIVE, SQOOP and R etc.

Expressing his happiness about Hadoop, Dr.Y. Jayanta, HoD of the Department of Computer Science

Engineering & Information Technology said, ‚Now, our department is equipped with HADOOP,

Datasets for ETL and DATA Mining etc., and I invite our students to start doing BIGDATA

projects using HADOOP‛.



“Two weeks Workshop on „Introduction to

Design of Algorithms”‟”

25t h

– 30t h

May, YEAR 2015


The two week workshop ‚Introduction to Design of Algorithms‛ was conducted by IIT

Kharagpur along with the Department of CSE and IT, from 25th May, 2015 to 30th May, 2015 at the

School of Technology, ADBU. It was conducted under the National Mission on Education through

ICT, MHRD, Govt. of India. The initiative has been taken by IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur to work

with Engineering Colleges of India to enhance the teaching skills of the faculty colleagues in core

Engineering and Science subjects under Train Ten Thousand Teachers programme.

Design and analysis of algorithms is fundamental to correct and efficient design of software

programs. Every graduate in Computer Science or Computer Science and Engineering needs to have

a detailed exposure to (a) Elements of algorithm analysis, (b) Basic techniques of design of

sequential algorithms and (c) Important algorithms that are widely used in applications. The

workshop was coordinated by Mr. Sarat Kr. Chettri, Asst. Professor, Dept. of CSE and IT, Assam

Don Bosco University.



“Workshop on „Free and Open-Source Software

(FOSS)‟”

29t h

– 30t h

May, YEAR 2015


Working as a Resource Centre and Knowledge Partner of IIT Bombay for the state of Assam, two

workshops on Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) with the support from IIT Bombay were

conducted. Both the workshops were coordinated by Mr. Vijay Prasad, Assistant Professor, Dept. Of

CSE and IT. First one was conducted on 29-30 May 2015, where 22 participants, mostly teachers of

various schools from Assam took part. Second workshop was conducted on 2 Dec 2015, with the

collaboration of the Directorate of Higher Education, Assam, where 47 participants representing

27 districts of Assam took part. This second workshop has now been adopted as a model by the

Spoken Tutorial Project team for the rest of the states of India, for obtaining a multiplier effect in

the adoption of FOSS and use of Spoken Tutorials as a valuable eResource by the higher

education institutions under the Directorate of Higher Education of each state in India.



“National Level Workshop cum Summer

Internship on Web Applications Development”

1s t

– 13t h

June , YEAR 2015


The Department of CSE and IT, ADBU has

organized a two week National Level

Workshop cum Summer Internship on Web

Applications Development. The primary

objective of this workshop was to expose and

acquaint the participants with state-of-the-art

tools and technologies involved in designing

and developing professional web

applications. The workshop was conducted in

a full-time mode from 1st June to 13th June

2015, involving lectures, practical sessions,

demos and hands-on practices on different

topics related to Web Applications

Development using latest technologies such

as Java, JavaScript, jQuery, JSP, PHP,

MySQL etc. It was coordinated by Dr. Bobby

Sharma (Assistant Professor, CSE & IT) and

Mr. Rupam Sharma (Assistant Professor,

CSE & IT).



“ISTE Workshop on Environmental Studies”

2n d

– 12t h

June , YEAR 2015


The University played host as a Remote

Centre of IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur for

a Two Week Short Term Training

programme called ‘Empowerment of

Students and Teachers through Synchronous

and Asynchronous Instruction’, on

‚Environmental Studies‛ held on 2-12 June

2015. This initiative is a part of the ‘National

Mission on Education through ICT,’

supported by MHRD. Faculty from Assam

Don Bosco University, Assam Engineering

College, Royal Group of Institutions, Tezpur

University and Rangia College were the

participants at this Course that attracted more

than 4000 participants from across the

country through various remote centers.

Topics covered during this short term training

included Sustainable Development, Ecology,

Biodiversity, Natural Resources (food, water,

energy, forest), Environmental Pollution,

Social issues and Environment, Ethics, Economics and Global Climate Change.



“World Environment Day at ABDU campus”

5t h

June , YEAR 2015


In commemoration of the World Environment Day, the faculty and students planted Neem Trees on

the grounds of the School of Technology. The day also saw plantation of 1000 Kg of Ginger and

1200 Kg of Turmeric at the Tapesia Campus of the University.

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