Samalkha Group of Institutions Celebrated Engineers Day

The birthday of legendry engineer Sir Mokshagundam Visvesrayya is celebrated as Engineers Day on 15th September every year in India. Engineers Day was celebrated at SGI Campus on 15th September 2014 with great solemnity and show. On this occasion (Prof.) Dr. Rajesh Goel, Director, SGI, Dr. Mrs. Puja Walia Mann, Dean FOM, all HODs, faculty members and Engineering students were present.

The event started with the lamp lighting for paying a vow to Goddess Saraswati. Manisha(CSE, 1^st Year) hosted the event and explained the relevance and importance of Engineers Day. 47^th theme of engineering day “Making Indian Engineering World Class” was introduced to the audience. He presented life profile and achievements of Bharat Ratna, Sir M. Visvesrayya in addition to stating his achievements in the field of “Binding of Water Resources” and Economic planning in India.

Prof. (Dr.) Rajesh Goel, Director SGI then gave an excellent talk on “Role of Engineers in Nation Building” and inspired the budding engineers. He also guided the students how to become a good engineer i.e by transformation &discipline which are the most important keys to success. He also motivated students for being a proud Indian and professional of high quality in their respective fields. The presentation drew applause from the audience.

Three events were organized- the first was Collage Making, second Quiz & third was Presentation competition.  Firstly, Quiz competition was started with the announcement of panel of judges. There were three rounds in total such as Questionnaire round, Face recognition round and Rapid fire round. Total six teams were shortlisted after a written test held on 12^th September 2014.

Team A including Devesh(CSE, 1^st Year), Amit (CSE, 1^st Year), Abhishek (ECE, 1^st Year) was the winner of the competition. Rehana Mandal (Civil, 1^st Year) won first prize for presentation. Team B including Vipul (ECE, 1^st Year), Kamal (ECE, 1^st Year), Aman(Aero, 1^st Year) was the winner who made collage on ‘The Latest Technologies in Field of Engineering’. Avinash (ECE, 7^th Sem), Devesh Aggarwal (CSE, 1^st Year), Gyanesh (ECE, 1^st Year), Rehana Mandal (Civil, 1^st Year) etc gave presentation on the theme ‘How to Make Indian Engineering World Class’. Prizes were distributed to the winners at the end of the event. The whole event was coordinated by Dr. Shyam Singh Saini (AP, ASH), Ms. Anupam Mann (AP, ASH) and student coordinators under the guidance of Dr Praveen Bhatt (HOD, ASH).