A report on guest lecture held in the department of ECE.

As part of the activity of Innovation / Project lab, the department of E&C Engineering organised a guest lecture by Mr. Sunil Shambhatnavar of Advanced Electronic Systems, Bengaluru on 12 Feb 2015 at ECE seminar hall. All the students of second year ECE attended the lecture. In his address, Mr. Sunil stressed the need for doing mini projects in lower semesters before attempting to do a major project in the final semester, so that they can gain experience. He said that project work is a way of applying the skills and knowledge acquired during the academics in solving or analysing real life problems and drawing conclusions. In addition, during the project work, the students learn how to cooperate with others who have different skill sets than their own. Mr. Sunil suggested that at the end of every semester, the students should be encouraged to do a mini project work based on the laboratory experiments, so that they could achieve something really good when they come to the final semester. He advised the students to learn relevant theory before conducting an experiment in the lab, so that he/she can appreciate the need for doing each experiment. He also advised the students to ask and know from the faculty, the relevance of doing each experiment in the lab. During his lecture, Mr. Sunil displayed the quotations of several renowned scientists such as Einstein, to bring out the importance of gaining practical knowhow along with theoretical knowledge.

At the end of the guest lecture, two students gave their feedback, and explained how they were benefited by the industrial training at ALS during vacation. Earlier, (Dr.) Nagaraja Rao, Senior Assistant Professor of ECE department introduced the speaker to the students and welcomed him. Prof. Dr. Balachandra Achar, HOD of ECE department, proposed the vote of thanks.