Students of Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management ace in innovation bagging the
‘Young Indians’ Award 2015
A mong top 76 innovations showcased at i3 National Fair
at IIT Delhi on December 2015, 9 projects were considered
the best of the lot and FREEDOM project team
consisting of Navajith P Karkera and Jagath H B from
Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management were
awarded as ‘Young Indians’ for ‘Best Young Innovators’ in the 7th India Innovation
Initiatives 2015. Their project FREEDOM is a Smart Electronic
Helmet designed and developed intended to revolutionize use of helmets
in the country. The helmet has been designed to provide optimum safety
to the motorcyclists through futuristic features. The smart helmet is said
to have some revolutionary features such as intelligent hands free communication
i.e. in case of an incoming call, the call
can be received if the rider comes to rest thus complying
with the law; Accident location alert to Health
response unit, Wireless music and most importantly
alcohol sensor. With such advantages brought under
one innovation, the institute has proved its role as the
backbone facilitating such innovations.
Sahyadri’s objective is to
generate real practicing
engineers and good citizens
for the society. The institute
is research driven and with
a vision to be on the global
map by 2020. We aim to
produce entrepreneurs
in diversified areas to
generate employment. We
have 8 startups by now
and we envision to expand
their horizons and the
institute should be self
sustaining and run by these
entrepreneurs assuring
professionalism in all walks
of life from our Alumnus.
CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE
-Dr. Manjunath Bhandary
Known for their creativity setting several
milestones in just 8 years, SCEM has achieved
milestones winning accolades from all engineering
institutes in project exhibitions and gaining popularity
having talented minds. Nevertheless, Sahyadri has
equal concern for the academics of their students and
focuses in enabling a self learning environment. The
faculty members consist of some finest experts equally
from academics and industries. Among 174 full-time
and 26 visiting faculties, every faculty members enable
students to cope up with the knowledge factor and
transform into innovation. Hari Prasad K, Alumnus
and Junior Manager, JSW Steel shares, “Sahyadri has
given me ample opportunities both in academics and
sports enabling a holistic education.” He points out the
environment of Sahyadri which provides education
and sports together which helped him secure
distinction in his graduation and a campus placement
immediately in the reputed organization. Sahyadri is
still one of the top colleges to attain a name top in the
list at sports and cultural competitions having the best
of the students.
The institute was established with a mission to
create an academic ambience to realize student’s
full potential by imparting quality technical
education fostering research, innovation & creativity
through competent human
resources with state of the art
infrastructure. With substantial
effort Sahyadri has set their
campus as a new base of R&D.
Sahyadri is honored with the
only Government Research
Center, Incubation Centre and
Placement & Training Centre
in the state. There are many
research projects aided by
the institute as well as from
external funding agencies
such as AICTE, Vision Group
on Science and Technology,
Institution of Engineers and
many more. Development of
Organic Solar Cells for rooftop
Applications, Bimolecular
Detection using cw-Terahertz
Radiation and Gas Sensor
Devices are some of the areas of
research carried on currently.
To enhance these projects further, Sahyadri has collaborated both with institutions and
industry such as Intel, SAP University Alliance, Reliance Jio,
IFTR Bombay, iWave Systems and many more.
The institute has been able to conduct strong placement
drives inviting 141 organizations and recruiting students into
top MNC’s such as HP, Infosys, IBM and many more. Sahyadri
has secured 70 percent placement record in 2015 increasing
10 percent in comparison to the previous year.
The Placement and Training Development
Cell ensures that the students are placed in
reputed organizations and so undergo various
skill development programs time to time.
Attending Inter college events, seminars and
workshops adds a new perspective and exposure
to both students and faculty members towards
better learning.
Some of the very recent proposed plans
to upgrade innovation are some state-of-theart
labs such as structural characterization lab,
simulation lab, device structure lab to enhance in
research projects. Facilitating these Sahyadri has set example of
how a change could be brought in less than a decade. Moreover,
the institute has an active Entrepreneurship Cell having tie-up
with National Entrepreneurship Network which fosters new
innovations into products in the market for which the required
assistance in its formative years is born by the same. One who
has already passed out and one who is still enjoying the campus
would only relate Sahyadri as the place where their professional
life started.
