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.