Securing PITSiNET

If you are inside the PITS Intranet and would like to use SSL encrypted websites, please use the following key as a valid certification authority within your browser.

The key is found here: http://pitsi.net/pitsi.net.der

Please download the key and use the above key as a Valid Certification Authority and give complete Trust. This is PITSiNET's Valid certificate.

This is required for accessing all websites which use https: - example https://www.facebook.com/ or https://mail.google.com or https://encrypted.google.com

This is just to extend the URL filter and disallow unauthorized clients from breaching the network by forcing SSL or TLS.

Feel Employable - Day 3 (Rocketeers?)

Day 3

A Visitor ...
for Day 3

Hope Day 3 keeps the momentum!




(A look back at Day 2 when the students had multiple learning experiences.)

Students were taught at an amazing pace; these games are what the students need to stimulate learning.

The World's Most Dangerous Airports

World's Most Dangerous Airports The most dangerous airports in the world, from offshore airports in japan to ice covered ones in Antarctica to an airport which has a road that runs through it in Gibraltar!

Lukla Airport Nepal

Since Lukla Nepal is the place most people start their Mount Everest trek, this Himalayan strip gets quite a bit of traffic--mostly to and from Kathmandu. Sirens inform folks for miles when an airplane is landing here, and as you would suspect, only helicopters and Twin Otter type planes can handle the 2,000 foot, uphill runway that is fenced off at the end, to protect you from the edge of a mountain cliff.

Read on further, to see more of these airports ...

Chart Designing : Part Deux

Students of the First year (2011-2015 batch) participated in the Chart Designing Competition today on Monday 13-Dec-2011 successfully designing Charts relevant to their disciplines for the specific Laboratories, some of them designing over 5 charts.

These Charts will now be shortlisted for Printing. We congratulate the students who were able to perform beyond expectations to reach this milestone.

The event was conducted during the afternoon session at the 'Tech Lab'.

Mr. Dinesh, supervising the competition and instructing volunteers

The Volunteers who assisted in the session were Mr.Kalven Jerald, Mr. Naveen S, Ms. Marina Pavithra.

Feel Employable - Instructions for Day 2 (Instructions)

Students who have already registered for the program and have attended the session for Monday, December 12, 2011 are only eligible to participate in the events on Day 2.

Students participating may wear

1. RILA T-Shirts (or)
2. Sportiva T-Shirts (or)
3. Other PITS Institution T-Shirts

This is required for those who will be taking part on Day 2.

Feel Employable - Day 1

Students had a wonderful session interacting with Prof.A.R and team for 'Feel Employable.'

They had interactive sessions and games.

 The sessions were timed from 9:00am in the morning and began with Registrations. Students who were participating had assembled in the Tech Lab and were then directed to start registration. As soon as the students had registered, the sessions started with them seated in order.

First Year Students Receive Prizes for Snooker

Students of PITS received their prizes for playing Snooker. Let's congratulate the winners and runners-up of the Snooker Tournaments conducted by our Chairman.

Siranjivi Kapilan of the 1st year, batch of 2011 won the Singles Tournament.

Snooker - Winner (Singles)

Snooker Doubles - Runners up

PITSiNET Network Rules and Regulations for Securing IT Infrastructure

The following six(6) rules are being framed to tighten the security of our PITS network (PITSiNET). These rules are expected to be followed by everyone in the campus .

1.    (1) Those who want to bring their personal laptops for use inside the campus have to register their MAC addresses with the Tech-Cell . Only after doing so they will be granted entry in to the network .

2.    (2) No one is permitted to bring their own hardware and plug it to PC/Systems inside the Campus. This includes external USB sticks, USB Drives, external Hard Disks, external CD-ROM Drives and  USB Broadband Devices. Anyone attempting to use additional network cards without registering the MAC address to the Tech-Cell  will have their network access disabled and blacklisted automatically .

(Please read further for all security rules which are applicable to both members of the staff and students.)

Feel Employable at PITS, Dec 2011

Here are instructions for those who are attending 'Feel Employable' at PITS Campus on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (12, 13, 14 December 2011.)

This training event is to help you become employable by breaking any hesitation and inhibitions that you may have in communicating freely. You also need to know how to communicate professionally while you are sending your CVs to multiple companies. Your transformation from being an academic student to a professional corporate engineers requires you to improve your attitude. All the skills which you have been imbibing throughout your stay in this institution have to put to use for your own benefit and to further your development in conjunction with your friends.

The event itself is co-ordinated by our Senior Placement Director Prof. A Ramaswamy (former Dean - Training and Placement of SASTRA University)

Please ensure that you bring your receipts for payment of Rs.250 to reconfirm in case of any doubts. The list of students is already with Ms.Margret Jemy of the Placement Cell.

It is good that 121 students registered within the time of intimating the information and the next morning. We are very pleased at your speedy response  Please read further for instructions for the day.

Please do not forget to wear your blazers on Monday!

Experiencing Engineering ... Students and a special Experience

On Friday, 9 Dec 2011, a few gentlemen belonging to the Final year batch arrived late to their classes. They were in a hurry as is everyone else to enter their classrooms. In this rush, they forgot to ensure that there were no flaws in their dress code. A few had trouble wearing the ties in a rush, while a few forgot to wear a collar button, or their sleeve buttons. They were stopped and asked to set these right before they moved to their classes. Having been late, the bell rang and they were detained - as they were deemed late to the classes. At this point I decided to make them work inside the campus and experience engineering.

Instead of observing standard operating procedure in dealing with latecomers and grooming defaulters to classes, they were requested to report to the "Estate Manager" for performing duties. All five Gentlemen, who, by now were neatly dressed, were reluctant to report. They were instructed that they would be performing Engineering work - related to maintenance.

They reported to the estate manager Mr.Ambrose and received their work detail with instructions to hold firm the rules of the college, and not let go of the grooming whilst they performed the work. By the end of the day, all of them, as a team, had worked on servicing two Electrical Motors within the campus -- which they later confessed was a wonderful learning experience. They had also worked on preparing mild steel for their junior batch's practical examinations.

Feel Employable: Circular - Please Read

Do you "Feel Employable"?

All students studying in Final Year as part of the Primrose batch, "eligible for placement" must PAY Rs.250 to attend the "Feel Employable" program that will be conducted in our College premises on 12, 13 and 14 Dec 2011. (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.)

Students who are mentioned in the Shortlist for Placement Batch I must compulsorily remit the payment today 09-Dec-2011, or latest by tomorrow 10-Dec-2011.

Please read the next page for the full text of the CIRCULAR dated 9-Dec-2011.

Tech Visit: Versatile - Information & Software Applications

Mr. D Ramakrishnan, Versatile Info & Software

We had the pleasure of being host to Mr. D Ramakrishnan, Executive Director - Technical, Versatile Info, addressing our students today in the afternoon. With immense experience of over fifteen (15) years from Sun Microsystems, He has founded a new company "Versatile India Pvt Ltd."

He was accompanied by their Director, Dr Natarajan who was kind enough to spend his time, and watch responses of our students.

To Learn more about their vision, there is no better place than their website (Versatile) which everyone who attended the session must at least visit. They also took interested students and enrolled them for free Oracle programs including educational newsletters, as a starting point.

Technology Session from SamCys Pvt Ltd.

Today, we had the pleasure of having visitors from SamCys who wanted to have an interactive session with the students. The interested students took part in the talk, which was part motivational and part technical, its whole incomparable.

Students interacted with professionals from SamCys for over 2:30hrs from 10:35am in the morning and also found a nice learning experience. About 118 students opted to participate in the event from the batch graduating in 2012, spanning ECE, CSE, IT and EEE.

Placement Cell: Dynamic Calendar

Here's the Placement Cell's Dynamic Calendar. You may use it and incorporate it into your calendars to keep yourself updated on events related to Placement and Training Initiatives.


Those who are in their final year must check the project calendar at all times.

Helping Lecturers and Professors reach students better ...

Continually, attempting to leave no stone unturned to help students get the best from their Professors and lecturers, PITS now has adopted a daily feedback system for the students.

Heads of various Departments continually use feedback from the students to help guide Professor and Lecturers reporting to them to improve themselves.

Continuous Improvement, being one of the chief methods to achieve Total Quality Management, is what we hope to achieve by our present feedback initiatives.

Self-Discipline: PITS Students show us how ...

As the members of the Faculty members contribute their best with the motivation of management, it is wondrous to see results of their arduous efforts. It is in the behavior of students, as they mature, that the contribution of the teaching community is best realized.

Today, I witnessed an event, not singular, but exemplary of students (of PITS) enforcing self-discipline. During the Project Coordination Hour allotted during the morning session, it was found that a few students ended up creating a bit of a mess on the floor after having had biscuits inside the Tech Lab.

This was immediately noticed, and we asked the students as to who was responsible. Two gentlemen, who had signed up for the terminals near which the biscuit crumbs had fallen took up responsibility, skipped their Lunch, went to the Housekeeping Department, got Mops and cleaning equipment, and gave the lab a thorough clean. In the process, the lunch-break being short, they lost their own opportunity to have Lunch.

e-mail Issues and Solutions (Advisory)

This advisory is specifically for the student generation of today. Everyone uses multiple online identities for e-mail and social networking. Many of you do not use multiple sign-in nor use multiple browsers to manage your various accounts simultaneously, thereby missing e-mails sent to other accounts or sending professional emails from accounts you did not originally intend to use.

 Remember to use your "Firstname Lastname" (e.g. "Sunil Baskar" in my case) and the actual email address specifically the name part of 'name@domain.ext' should be professional and not a pet name or nickname by which professional conversations cannot be addressed to you in future. I use firstname.lastname@domain.ext as sunil.beta@parisuthamtech.co.in to make access easier.

Read on for the Twelve Commandments of using e-mail effectively.

Project Updates (Important)

IEEE Transaction Paper

All final year students who have registered their project must have received a confirmation e-mail now. In case the team members have been repeated, only the first registration is considered valid. All attempts to change the registration (team members or add additional members) will incur a penalty. This will be of 5 credits. Those who have given non-working e-mail ids or incorrect email ids must send the corrected version through the tentative project lead or a team member who has successfully received the project team confirmation e-mail.

You need not send e-mail for future registrations. Use this Registration Page to register your project if you have not done so already. Please do not send e-mail for registration hereafter, but directly use this form. Those who have completed this process can read further.

PITS Aeronautical Modeling Club - Activity

As a start to the PITS Aeronautical Modeling club, we will be having a 'Kite Flying Competition' on Monday, 5 Dec 2012. All first year and second year Aeronautical students will be participating compulsorily along with other enthusiasts.

Prototyping and Test flights will be conducted on Sunday, 4 Dec 2012 as part of the activity. This is the very first step that any Aeronautical engineer will take towards creating 'flying machines.' The spirit of Engineering is in creativity and in making things work. It is not merely in understanding the science behind things - which is why engineering transcends scientific method, prototyping and delves into actual 'execution.'

PITS Shines at Anna University Zonal Athletics

Sports has been one of the focus areas of PITS, in our process of creating the complete human being - sound in both body and mind, following the motto of our Institution 'Towards Excellence.'

We congratulate the Ladies and Gentlemen who are pursuing their Engineering Courses in PITS and have been spending hours of practice on the field working day after day, to improve their own 'Personal Best.'

These achievements have not been from a single day's effort, but from perseverance of the athletes to which we owe all these results.

Among the Gentlemen at PITS, the following have scored accolades in Athletics.

S Saravanan (1 Yr)                    1st Place    High Jump
P Karthick (4th Yr ECE)            3rd Place     100m Sprint
M Santhosh (3rd Yr EEE)          3rd Place     Long Jump

Aeromodeling : Special Session Today!

Students belonging to the Department of Aeronautical Engineering will be attending a special session by the Chairman on Aeronautical Engineering at the Tech Lab. This will be followed by the screening of an old classic British Movie on Aircraft Flying and Pioneers filled with a sense of Humor.

They will receive explanations of how Airframes and Engines work, the history of their inventions and development and their present commercial deployment. This is to give them a quick overview on how, and where aeronautical engineering is immediately applied.

A few students belonging to the Department of Mechanical Engineering will also be attending the session.