INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY,

DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING, KURNOOL

(An Institute of National Importance under MHRD Govt. of India)

Issue: January – May, 2020.

 FROM THE EDITORIAL
"From the hilltop" has successfully entered into its second year of existence
and I heartily congratulate all who have been nurturing it so hard from the
last year. The new team promises to keep up the good work, to keep bringing
to you the latest happenings in the campus and the development therein.
This past year has seen a lot of development for us here at IIITDM. We had a
plethora of our enthusiastic pursuits. The students have done commendable
work with numerous initiatives being taken up for the advancement of the
student community. Students have played definitive roles in the
development of the campus and all of its activities that enhance their holistic
development. Be it active participation in sports or even cultural and
technical activities, we have seen our students prove their mettle in a
multitude of spheres and all of this points to the fact that IIITDM provides an
environment which is hugely conducive to the overall growth of its student
fraternity. Academic development as always has been a priority for us and
with the best interests of our students in mind. This has already proven to be
a remarkably promising endeavour. Events like 3D printing workshop and IOT
Lectures have elicited terrific responses from the students who participated
in these events with a lot of zest. All of this just goes on to show that our
student community is very open to change, innovation, and subscribes to a
very progressive form of thinking. In the latest issue of “From the hilltop”, we
take you with us on a walk down the memory lane revisiting all the
endeavours in the previous semester.
We thank you all for your support and co-operation and hope that you would
continue to support us in future through your views and constructive
criticism. We wish you to continue the incredible levels of commitment and
dedication towards successful organization of all such activities in campus.

Best Regards,

Team Newsletter.

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 WORKSHOPS
NATIONAL SCIENCE DAY
National Science day 2020 was celebrated ebulliently at IIITDM Kurnool. The
institute organized the first open day to stimulate scientific temperament in young
minds. Open day at IIITDM Kurnool has attracted around 800 students from various
educational institutes. Expert talks, Project demonstration, Workshops,
Astrophotography, Quizzes and telescope sky gazing were organized as a part of
the event. The theme for the science day was “WOMEN IN SCIENCE” . The director
of the institute, Prof. DVLN Somayajulu has addressed the gathering. in science. Dr.
B Ramakrishna, Sr. Scientist at DRDO delivered a lecture on Armour technology.
Shri P. Chandrasekhar, Sr. Scientist from ISRO gave an insight into “Remote Sensing
Technology”. Dr Jayakumar Venkatesan, CEO of Valles Marineris delivered a lecture
on “Human spaceflight programme”. Mr. Kalai Selvan conducted workshops on
Tesla coil, Magnetic levitation, walking robot and 3D printing technology.The event
could successfully forge an interest in the field of science among the young minds.

WORKSHOP ON DRONE TECHNOLOGY

A two-day workshop on drone technology was conducted by
Centillion Networks Private Limited from 29th February –
1st March. The workshop was organized in three segments. The
first session was an introductory session to drone technology in
which different models and configuration of drones, components
of drones were discussed. The following session was about principles
involved in working of drones. In the concluding segment the construction
of drones was demonstrated and participants were given an
opportunity to get hands-on experience in operating the drones.

CYBER SECURITY WORKSHOP

A workshop on CYBER SECURITY was organized in association

with The Adiroha Solutions Pvt Ltd, a company in the
domain of cyber security and ethical hacking.The workshop was
conducted in two sessions. The first session encompassed the
networking basics, Introduction to ethical hacking and information
gathering whereas in the second session topics like system hacking,
hacking wireless networks, website hacking, various security standards,
hackingmobile platforms were discussed. It was a very interactive session and
students participated with great zeal and gained a ton of cognizance through it.

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 FESTIVITIES
ANNUAL TECHNO-CULTURAL FEST
The second edition of SOLASTA-the annual techno-
cultural fest of IIITDM, Kurnool was held between 13th –
15th March, 2020. With the theme “CONSTELLATIONS”
the three-day event was packed with tech-competitions,
exuberance and entertainment. SOLASTA is a perfect
podium for the prodigies to promulgate their prowess in
programming, robotics, literature, art and is an arena for
loads of fun and memories.

WOMEN’S DAY CELEBRATIONS

International women’s day was celebrated on 8th

March, 2020 at IIITDM Kurnool with great
enthusiasm. The engineering first year students
have organized this event. The theme of the
international women’s day #EACH FOR EQUAL was
acknowledged in the speeches and poems recited
by the participants. Placards and decors with
women empowerment quotes have accentuated
the vibes of the event.

REPUBLIC DAY CELEBRATIONS

The 71st Republic day of India was

celebrated at IIITDM Kurnool with great
patriotism. Director of the institute,
Professor DVLN Somayajulu hoisted the
national flag and addressed the
gathering. A tree plantation drive was
conducted and a mass walk was
organized from the institute to KC Hall of
residence to commemorate the event.

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 HOLI

Holi, the festival of colours was celebrated by the IIITDM Kurnool

fraternity with utmost fervour and enthusiasm. On the eve of Holi, the
students gathered to perform the ritual of “Holika Dahan” by lighting
up a pyre and danced around the fire in happiness. The next day the
students splashed colours on each other, danced to the groovy music
and immersed themselves in lots of joy and laughter.

SANKRANTI CELEBRATIONS

The student community of IIITDM kurnool celebrated the harvest

festival Makar Sankranti ardently . A bonfire was lit up before the dawn
on Bhogi and students danced around the fire joyously. The day of
Sankranthi saw diverse colours in the sky with students flying the kites
to great heights. On this occasion, students prepared the Pongal by
themselves using wooden fire and distributed it among the staff and
students.

MATRIBHASHA DIWAS
Matribhasha Diwas was celebrated in our Institute IIITDM Kurnool on 21st February to
promote myriad languages and diverse cultures of our nation. As an initiative to
encourage the students to gain proficiency in their respective mother tongues, the
students were given an opportunity to give speeches and recite poems in their native
languages. Students zealously participated in the event to accentuate the features of
literature in their mother tongue. Thus the event enhanced linguistic and cultural
awareness among the participants.

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 TECHNORAH
Electrophiles CLUB
The Electrophiles club this semester conducted Arduino sessions for the beginners.
The sessions were interactive and enthusiastic making it easy for the students to
learn. It provided an exposure to mini projects with an all round hands on sessions.
Events like "RoboRace" and "IoT Hackathon" were organized as part of the
Techno-cultural fest SOLASTA 2020 which saw enormous participation from the
student community and stood as a highlight of the event.

DATA SCIENCE CLUB

The Data Science club this semester conducted hands on sessions for the data
science enthusiasts and received an overwhelmingly good response from the
students. The students showed great zeal to explore the world of data and it's
analysis which made these sessions more interesting and interactive. An image
classification competition, "Are you there?" was conducted as part of the techno-
cultural fest SOLASTA-2020 which saw a surfeit of the participants create and train
a machine learning model with the best accuracy.

Mech-an-idea
Mech-an-Idea organized various events this semester. An introductory quiz was
conducted exclusively for 1st years which was a blend of fun and competitiveness
and a lot of insights were given on the current trends in the subject. Also F dot S, a
two-tier event was organised as part of Solasta 2k20. The 1st round consisted of a
mechanical engineering crossword and for the 2nd round, the teams were given the
requisite materials and were asked to build a glider with specific dimensions within
3 hours. They made prototypes that were tested. A CAD contest was also
conducted which consisted of two divisions having 3 rounds each, with the final
round being an online submission event. Also Contruss was an event conducted by
Mech-an-idea which amalgamated Mechanical and civil engineering principles.
Participating teams were asked to build a truss bridge of specified dimensions
using a limited number of ice-cream sticks. The prototypes were analysed by
suspending loads from the bridge.

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 Codigo club

The CODIGO club this semester conducted various activities to help students hone
their problem solving skills. Several interactive sessions on basics in various
programming languages were conducted which saw an enthusiastic audience. The
Codigo Club has created the branch website, forum and the website for
SOLASTA2K20. During the SOLASTA 2K20, the club conducted a Hands-on workshop
on CYBER SECURITY in association with Adiroha Solutions Pvt Ltd and coding
competitions namely App-a-thon, Code on and Reverse coding on hackerrank
platform. The events saw a plethora of young coders exhibiting their splendid coding
skills.

SSG - Social Service Group

The Social Service Group of IIITDM Kurnool has

enthusiastically organized the tree plantation drive
and the campus cleaning activity. They made
Charity box to gather old clothes and miscellaneous
goods and donated them to the indigent. SSG has
collected the health database of student and staff
and has helped the authorities of local temple to
clean the temple premises for ShivRatri. The group
has helped in organizing the open day at IIITDM
Kurnool.

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 SPORTS
INTER IIIT

Inter IIIT sports meet, GUSTO 2020, was hosted by IIITDM Jabalpur this year
and our institute IIITDM Kurnool bagged 3 shields and 17 medals which
includes 1 Gold, 6 Silver and 10 Bronze at the event. The 3 day- long event
which was held between 29th February and 3rd March 2020 witnessed
tremendous talent and exuberance of the students in sports. 18 IIITs across the
country competed in the event. 80 students from IIITDM Kurnool took part in
various sports like badminton, cricket, volleyball, table tennis, hurdles, sprint
and won gold medal in sprint, silver medals in badminton, hurdles. The event
also saw active participation of girls, who won medals in sports like hurdles
affirming the empowerment of women in sports. The students were
appreciated for their commendable on field performance, for their strenuous
efforts and were applauded for bringing laurels and accolades to the budding
institute.

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 Inter-IIIT

Roll No Name Sport Medal

117ME0020 VADITHYA VISHAL NAYAK Badminton Silver

117ME0037 ANANDAN SELVARAJ Badminton Silver

SANTOSH KUMAR
117ME0022 Badminton Silver
SONKAR

117ME0039 ROHIT KUMAR Badminton Silver

319ME0003 AKULA SHIVA BHASKAR Badminton Silver

NAGESWAR RAO
117EC0021 Volleyball Bronze
GUGULOTHU

117EC0029 TADDE SANDEEP Volleyball Bronze

117ME0036 GIRISH J P Volleyball Bronze

117ME0007 KINDODLA VENU GOPAL Volleyball Bronze

118ME0003 DADALA RANJITH KUMAR Volleyball Bronze

118ME0004 BANOTHU VARUN TEJ Volleyball Bronze

119ME0035 GEDELA AKHIL Volleyball Bronze

119EC0034 MADAGANI GIRIDHAR Volleyball Bronze

THANGULA SAI
119EC0040 Volleyball Bronze
SANTHOSH

119ME0035 GEDELA AKHIL Athletics Hurdles 100m Gold

119CS0013 KAMMILA SWATHI Athletics Hurdles 100m Silver

Bronze
117CS0017 SUDHA M Athletics 200m

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 ACHIEVEMENTS
Virtusa Neural Hack 3
Anoushka Mada won Virtusa Neural Hack
3 in the Full Stack Development category.
Neural Hack is the annual challenge
organised by the American information
technology services company Neural Hack.

HackBout
Paras Varshney, Devi Sai Prashanthi participated in
HackBout organized by NMIT Bangalore and built a
deep pricing analysing engine for generation and
prediction of various pricing models to analyse the
dynamic price of Airbnb rooms rental system in the
US.
DevHack 2.0
Sahil Mishra, Abhishek Singh, Jayanta Das and
Shubham Negi participated in DevHack 2.0 -
PARSEC organized by IIT Dharwad software
category and developed a Prescription Generator
for Doctors, a mobile application prototype that
records the conversation between patient and
doctor and generates a prescription which is later
stored in databases for future references.
Surya Teja, Ashutosh Sharma, Priyanshu Srivastava participated in DevHack 2.0 - PARSEC organized
by IIT Dharwad in the hardware category and developed Smart Dustbin 2.0 which automatically
segregates the waste into various categories to ensure a smooth flow of recycling and waste
management.
MIT India Initiative

Ashutosh Sharma got accepted into MIT India Initiative

- 2019. The MIT India Initiative is a not-for-profit effort
of students and alumni from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology to delve into pressing problems
in novel, challenging contexts, and tackle these with
technology and design.

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Student’s
PUBLICATIONS

▪ Hariveer Inumarty and Dr. Mohamed Asan Basiri M, "Reconfigurable Hardware Design for
Polynomial Galois Field Arithmetic Operations", 24th IEEE International Symposium on VLSI
Design and Test, July 2020, IIT Bhubaneswar.

▪ A. Sai Kaushik, Dr. Pulla Rao Muvvala, and Dr. Satya Sekhar Bhogilla, “Solar
Photovoltaic/Thermal System (PVT) with Thermal Energy Storage for Air-conditioning
Applications”, International Conference on Innovations in Thermal-Fluid Engineering and
Sciences, Feb. 2020, NIT Rourkela.

▪ A. Sai Kaushik, R.Sanjay Kumar, and Dr. R.Srilakshmi, “Fracture analysis of Gear drive using
FEA”, Proceedings of ICMPT 2019, July 11-13, IIT Madras, Chennai.

▪ Vedant Mate, Dr.R.Srilakshmi , received best paper award at the “International conference for
emerging research in Civil, Aeronautical and Mechanical engineering” held in Bangalore from
25th -26th, July 2019 .

▪ Sahil Mishra and Sanjaya Kumar Panda, “Cyber Security: Applications in Digital World”, CSI
Communications, Volume 43, Issue 8, pp.16-17-2019.

▪ Sahil Mishra and Sanjaya Kumar Panda, “Cloud Computing: Applications, challenges and Open
issues”, CSI Communications, Volume 43, Issue 7, pp.9-10-2019.

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Placement Statistics 0
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S.no. Details Statistics
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1 No of students registered for 30
placements

2 No. of offers received 20

3 % of offers received 66.6%

Anoushka Mada Paras Varshney Ashutosh Hathidara Devisai prashanthi

Amazon Illumnus Legato Health Technologies Legato Health Technologies

30 LPA(off campus) 16.4 LPA(off campus) 12 LPA 12 LPA

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Recruiters Statistics
2016 - 20

Offered
Participating Gross No. Of
S. No Status
Companies Offers
Package

Total No. Of Offers Received 32

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Editorial Team :
Leads : Faculty In-charge:
Sai Surya Pragada Dr. Akhtar Khan

Tejaswi Choppa
Preetisha Mandavi

Members :
D V Harsha Teja
V Sruthi
Nagulapalli Uttam
Elika Ramakishore

Email : [email protected]

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