December 2009 exams rescheduled.

VTU has rescheduled some of the subjects of exams being held in December 2009. The circular can be found on official VTU website at : http://www.vtu.ac.in/pdf/results/circular.pdf

The circular says:

Many representations have been received from various colleges that some of the subjects are overlapping in the examinations due to the change-over of some students from 2002-Scheme to 2006-Scheme. Hence the day/timings of some subjects in the time table of Examinations, Dec.09/Jan.10, have been rescheduled. The details are as here below:

 

Sl. No.	Scheme	As per existing Time Table	Rescheduled as
1	2006 Scheme	-	31.12.2009/Thursday 2.00 – 5.00 PM 06EVL77/06EVR77 Design and Drawing of Environmental Systems – II
2	2006 Scheme	24.12.2009/ Thursday 2.00 – 5.00PM [06**75*] All branches, All electives, with code 75* series	2.1.2010/Saturday 2.00 – 5.00 PM [06**75*] All branches, All electives, with code 75* series
3	2002 Scheme	4.1.2010/Monday 2.00 – 5.00 PM [**53] All branches: Subjects with code 53	16.1.2010/Saturday 2.00 – 5.00 PM [**53] All branches: Subjects with code 53
4	1998 Scheme	-	4.1.2010/Monday 1.30 -5.30 PM [CV7R4] Structural drawing and detailing (4 hrs)
5	2002 Scheme	5.1.2010/Tuesday 2.00 – 5.00 PM [MAT31] Engineering Mathematics-III	18.1.2010/Monday 2.00 – 5.00 PM [MAT31] Engineering Mathematics-III

The above details may please be brought to the notice of all the concerned.

 

Team VTUresults.info wishes all the best to everyone.

City engg student invents artificial kidney

BANGALORE: Good news for those suffering from renal failure.

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, a medical electronic engineering student from Dr Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Bangalore, has come up with transplantable artificial kidney (TAK), likely to be launched in the country by 2012.

The research carried out under the guidance of Dr Abhijat Taraphder, HoD, Nephrology department of SSKM Hospital, Kolkata, Dr A K Mukhopadhyay, AIIMS, New Delhi, Dr A G Ramakrishnan, IISc and Dr H P Khincha, Vice Chancellor of VTU, proved successful. The product was tested by a multinational company on animal models recently and results showed 98.6 per cent efficiency compared to the natural kidney’s metabolic waste clearance.

Once people reach the end stage of renal failure, frequent dialysis and kidney transplantation is the only way out.

But, the non-availability of matching donors and the complexity involved with regular dialysis have left patients with less chances of survival chances. The quality of life of patients has also been affected.

The pains of his cousin, who succumbed to renal failure, inspired Chattopadhyay to come up with an idea for TAK.

The number of kidney requirements itself bears testimony. As per the records of Zonal Coordination Committee of Karnataka (ZCKK), as many as 263 patients with life support of dialysis are waiting for kidney transplants. There are several others cases which have gone unrecorded across the state.

Budhaditya said about the product, “The product is devised using biocompatible polymer material, dialysing membrane and biocompatible tubing.

Irrespective of the blood group and all other corresponding parameters, TAK can efficiently perform all the functions like original kidneys in respect to its excretory and homeostatic functions with lasting effect for about 18 years. A battery to support the TAK has to be worn around the waist supported by a kind of belt.” The product will be launched in several phases like basic cost effective haemodialysis, home dialysis, pocket dialysis and implantable transplantable artificial kidney.

“TAK is slightly larger than natural human kidney and patients with either both or single mal-functioning kidneys can undergo the transplantation,” he added.

“Many commercial medical equipment producing companies, both from India and abroad, have been approaching me for producing TAK commercially.

I have applied for patent. After receiving it and getting ethical permission from the Central government, we can go ahead with production” Budhaditya adds.

WONDER DEVICE

● A multinational company has tested the device

on animal models

● Achieves 98.6 per cent efficiency compared to

metabolic waste clearance of natural kidney

● 263 patients on dialysis, waiting for kidney

transplants in Karnataka

● A battery support has to be worn around the

waist, with the help of a belt for the device to

work

● Production to start after patent and government

permission is granted

VTU athletic meet begins on Wednesday

DHARWAD: The SDM College of Engineering and Technology in Dharwad will host the four-day 12th Vishweshwaraiah Technological University

The SDMCET is organizing the event for the second time. Over 1,200 sports persons from various engineering colleges across the state will participate in 22 events. Three special events will be held for the physically challenged students.

SDMCET principal director M N Sudheendra Rao and chief coordinator Kiran Shindhe said the events will be held at Shri Ratnavarma Heggade stadium on the SDMCET campus.

Indian cricketer B K Venkatesh Prasad will inaugurate the meet on Wednesday at 10.30 am. Cricketer Vijay Bharadwaj, DC Darpan Jain and SDMCET vice-president Surendra Kumar will be the chief guests.

International athlete R Natarajan will give away the prizes on the concluding day.

Vtu december 2009 time table

Hi-tech CET coaching for rural students

 

Common Entrance Test toppers are more often than not from the state's remote districts. But that does not necessarily mean all have

access to such opportunities. To ensure students do not miss taking advantage of CET, chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on Tuesday inaugurated Karnataka Examinations Authority and Department of Higher Education CET training programme for PU science students of rural areas for CET 2010.
The CM was at the VHD Institute of Home Science to inaugurate its pre-university block and also the new programme. He also unveiled the interactive VTU via EduSat for CET coaching.
Higher Education Minister Aravind Limbavali, Medical education minister Ramchandra Gowda and MLA Dinesh Gundu Rao were present.
Satellite CET coaching
The CET training programme is organized to provide 13,000 science students from rural areas free training to prepare for the Common Entrance Test CET 2010. The programme is divided into four rural zones with 100 training centres to provide free training throughout Karnataka.
Satellite-based CET training will be provided at these centres. Studios will be set up at Bangalore, Mangalore and Hubli. Eminent and experienced experts and faculty members will deliver the programme. Rural students have to come to the training centres to attend classes, and sessions will be telecast from these studios.
Students' doubts will be cleared via satellite. The solution of these queries will be telecast to all centres at the same time. About 60 students will be accommodated in every classroom.
The training will especially be helpful for economically backward students and those who lack specialized faculty by way of competitive capability and increased mental ability. Free study material will be provided for those who participate in the training.
Periodic tests in the subjects and their evaluation will be conducted so as to increase students' competitive capabilities.
Keonics Bangalore is the implementing agency of the training programme.

Cheat in VTU exam, miss out on next 3 attempts

Visvesvaraya Technological University students beware: if you are caught cheating in an exam, you will be barred from appearing in the subsequent three examinations. Not only that, scores in other subjects will also be annulled.

The harsh deterrent is just one of the many measures that have been approved by the university’s Executive Council at a meeting held on Saturday. The new rules are the result of the recommendations made a committee headed by former vice chancellor of Goa University Prof B S Sonde who was asked to amend the procedures concerning examination malpractice.

VTU Registrar Dr K V A Balaji told Express that earlier regulations, which were prepared in 2000, had to be amended to keep up with the changing technology.

Examination malpractices will now be categorised into four types: I, II, III and IV. Transgressions under Type I will be punished with a minimum fine of Rs 2000, annulment of performance in all subjects in current examination and debarment from upto 3 subsequent exams. Type II and Type III transgressions will be punished by annulment of performance in all subjects and debarment from upto 3 subsequent exams.

IMPERSONATION

If you are caught impersonating, or threatening the invigilators with a weapon, both of which constitute a Type IV offence, the student will be debarred from appearing in the subsequent five examinations. In case of impersonation, the students will be handed over to the police.

Balaji said the new regulations were extremely potent. “Being out for five semesters is as good as leaving the university. By the time he is eligible to get back into the system, the syllabus would have transformed completely.”

VTU withholds ‘controversial’ text

After getting into a controversy for dropping former vice-chancellor Prof K Balaveera Reddy’s name from a textbook, Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has now decided to stop distribution of the textbook to colleges until further notification.

The second edition of the textbook titled ‘A Primer on Computer Aided Engineering Drawing,’ for students of first year engineering, has been withdrawn from distribution by the university’s four regional offices in Bangalore, Mysore, Gulbarga, and Belgaum.

VTU’s regional office in Bangalore had issued a circular on October 1 to principals of engineering colleges to pick up copies of the textbooks paying money through demand draft at the rate of Rs 75 per copy.

However, following the announcement by Reddy that he was preparing to go to court over his name being dropped from the textbook, it appears that VTU has backtracked.

On October 6, the Bangalore regional office issued a new circular, undersigned by the special officer on the distribution of the new textbooks saying, “Due to unavoidable reasons, the Computer Aided Engineering Drawing (CAED) textbooks cannot be distributed.

The distribution of the textbooks will be announced later.” When Express contacted the Bangalore regional office, an official said that the order had been issued from VTU’s office in Belgaum.

TNIE had first reported on October 2 that the name of former vice-chancellor Reddy had been dropped from the second edition of the textbook, and had been replaced with that of current vice-chancellor Prof H P Khincha.

A comparison of the two editions by Express showed that the material in the two textbooks were virtually identical.

Shortage

Principals of engineering colleges said that the non-availability of the said textbook had hampered teaching of the subject.

The principal of an engineering college in Bangalore said, “It has been more than a month since the classes began and students have not received the textbook.

We are currently making do with copies of the older edition. ” When contacted Khincha, he said he had no comments to make on the matter.