NIST e-NEWS Vol 8, November 15, 2002

The launch of the NIST Center of Excellence has won NIST a place of pride among the top institutes of the country. We have now taken our technological and research prowess to a national audience through our center at Bhubaneswar. The GATE Preparatory Course and the Diploma course in VLSI Design & Engineering have been well received. I congratulate all faculty who have working untiringly to make this center a success.

We have a beautiful campus with lots of greenery and well maintained buildings. I want to urge all students and staff to help us maintain the ambience. I was appalled at the state of buildings in some of the colleges I recently visited - overflowing dustbins, pan stains, cigarette stubs, garbage, stinking toilets, etc. We are launching a campaign to KEEP NIST CLEAN AND GREEN. As you are already aware NIST is a no-smoking and no-pan, no-panmasala campus. Do cooperate with us in maintaining the pristine beauty of our campus. If you have any suggestions in this regard, please do let me know.

Message From the Editor

It is a great pleasure to see the happy faces of our new batch. They are now acquainted with the quality and disciplined education of NIST. They are recipients of the various unique services of NIST. In this issue, I would like to share their feelings about NIST.

At the same time I am feeling nostalgic while bidding farewell to our outgoing students of 1998 batch. Life is full of ups and downs or one can say that variety is the spice of life. So unless and until one goes through a basket of experiences one can never learn the way to success. I hope our students have learnt the best things by filtering out the bad ones which is essential to be successful in life. We recollect the good memories of the past four years we were together. Each and every moment of my EMT, EMS, HFE and T&T classes, various interactions related to academics and other activities will remain with me for ever. Wish you good luck in just everything you do.

Last but not the least, we welcome our students at the NIST Center of Excellence, Bhubaneswar who have taken the challenge for a good percentile in GATE - 2003. We wish them all success, we are always with them.

Letters to the Editor

Sir, The National institute of Science and Technology (NIST), Pallur Hills, Berhampur has stood the test of a decade. From humble beginnings it has risen, through the years to appreciable heights multiplying its departments to cater for an increasing number of students. The head of the Institution and its entire staff has very reason to be a part of its contribution in the growth and development of the college. I hope that in the coming years the institution will reach out to new vista’s and horizons and augment its efforts towards educational progress. I have great pleasure in sharing the joy of NIST e_News especially Mr.Sanjeev Mishra (IAS), Ganjam district Collector in favorably comparing NIST with IIT Delhi and his hope that NIST will soon become a deemed University, which it rightly deserves as compared to other Engineering Colleges in Orissa.

I look forward for an admission in your prestigious institution and am extremely proud that my elder brother D.Anil Reddy (4^th Semester, IT) is a bonafide student of your institution.

Dear Partha: I have received your reprints. Thanks also for your informative Newsletter. I was thinking of doing some work on Monte Carlo Simulation Technique, if you/your college could help me. If you are willing to work with me, we may take joint Ph.D student either from Jadavpur University or from your college. You have to decide it. I require MC program if you can help me. I am coming to UCP Engineering College, Bermampur for ISTE Workshop during November 16 -18, 2002 to deliver talks. I hope that you are keeping fine.

Sir, I am Tushar Kanti Nag of Kharagpur in the State of West Bengal My Daughter Ku. Banasree Nag is a Student of your Institution of 2001 Batch in Electronics and Instrumentation category. I am regularly receiving your e-NEWS. In every month I am eagerly waiting for the same as the magazine is very useful for the guardian. We are getting all activities of NIST at home which is rarely found from any other institutions in India. My another daughter is studying B.Pharm at Bangalore for the last 4 Years but I have never seen the information about the activities of the college and students. Really I am very grateful to the Management of NIST. I wish and pray to god that NIST should reach to the highest point in Technical Education in India and its name and fame should be spread in every corner of Indian Educational centers. Lastly I am to say that I am very happy to know that the Berhampur University has taken a bold step to conduct and complete the semester Examination in time and period. Namasker to Sri S. Mudali, Director and all respected faculty members and staff of NIST.

Special News

This is a unique idea of our Director to accelerate the research activities of NIST. NIST students have already shown their quality research work in various National and International conferences, Journals etc. In the next CIT-2002, two student papers out of six, were accepted from NIST students only. Many research papers have been published in various journals from the previous BE projects. Keeping those in mind, our Director has decided to award those students who will show their originality, creativity and innovation in their research work. Rs. 5000, 4000 and 2000 will be given to the first, second and third prize owners respectively. BE project advisors will nominate the projects and a panel of experts will evaluate them. Finally the best three projects will be awarded.

The Indian Society for Technical Education(ISTE) and All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE) sponsored a training programme on Modern trends in Opto-electronics from November 11, 2002 to November 22, 2002 at UCP engineering college, Berhampur, Orissa. NIST faculty Dr Partha S Mallick, Mr Ranjan Mishra and Dr Ajit K Panda were invited to present seminar on Optical fiber communication Systems, Optical fiber cables, measurement and dispersion, Solar cell respectively. Dr Partha S Mallick presented his seminar on November 11, 2002 on Optical fiber communication systems and Mr Ranjan Mishra on November 12, 2002 on Optical fiber cables, measurement and dispersion. Dr Ajit K Panda's talk is on November 15, 2002 on Solar cells. The participants also did lab classes in our Fiber-Optics laboratory. Dr Partha S Mallick and Mr Siba Prasad Samantaroy gave the theoretical concepts based on the experiments and demonstrated the experiments. The participants have also seen our optical fiber link between Lecture Hall and Octagon building.

Meet against ragging

All the NIST Faculty and staff gathered at lecture hall building on September 24, 2002 to share their views and to take future steps against ragging at NIST. Our Director, Deputy Director and Dean discussed against Ragging and finally the Director gave some important notes on "How to make a college completely ragging free" and some important decisions were taken to ban Ragging.

Dr. Arun Kr. Padhy - our MCA Course Coordinator

Dr Arun Kr. Padhy has taken the responsibility to co-ordinate the NIST-MCA course. It was already mentioned in the July issue of NIST-eNews that the NIST -MCA degree has the vision to be one of the best in India. Our students, Faculty are doing their best towards that goal. Dr Padhy is leading the whole team.

Dr Amalendu Patnaik - our BE course coordinator

Dr Amalendu Patnaik is now our BE Course Co-ordinator. He was working as acting Dean in the absence of Dr Ajit K Panda who was in Trieste, Italy for three months. Dr. Patnaik is a PhD from Berhampur University. He has visited France and different parts of India for various research workshops, seminar, etc. He has to his credit pioneering research work in the area of Microwave Engineering.

It was held on September 18, 2002. It was an interaction between the Parents/Guardians and new students with NIST faculty, staff and management. Every year we welcome the students and their parents/guardians in our NIST campus to share our views with them on this day. This year also we did this in a friendlier manner. Our Director, Deputy Director, Placement Director, Dean and Course Coordinator inspired the future students and advised them to be a quality engineer and to dedicate themselves for the upliftment of the country. They explained clearly the philosophy of our mission "Our dream is to create engineering minds capable of mastering the global challenges of tomorrow's technology". Students got their study material, etc and also got acquainted with the various buildings, classrooms, Labs, Library, Cafeteria etc.

GATE coaching 2003 - successfully started by NIST Center of Excellence at Bhubaneswar. Most of the students took admission from different parts of Orissa. Under the able leadership of Professor S K Upadhyay, the GATE coaching 2003 is introducing NIST's quality of education to the rest of the engineering students in Orissa. The GATE aspirants have appreciated the teaching methodology of NIST's faculty in their feedback and have also given some valuable suggestions. The students are getting computer facility as well as library books from the library of NIST center of excellence. We wish their success in GATE!!

The NIST Center of Excellence, Bhubaneswar, organized a workshop on "Advances and Career Prospects in VLSI Design and Engineering" on November 3^rd, 2002 at Hotel Meghdoot, Sahid Nagar, Bhubaneswar. The workshop was inaugurated by Shri K.V.Singh Deo

Honourable Minister of Industries, Govt. of Orissa. The workshop also launched a four month "Diploma Course in VLSI Design and Engineering" which includes.

NIST's VLSI group comprising of Dr Ajit K Panda(PhD, SU), Mr M Suresh(ME, JU), Mr Susant K Das(MTech, IIT-Delhi), Mr Sumit Chatterjee(MTech, IT, BHU), Mr Santosh Panigrahi(BE, NIST) and Mr Rajesh K Dash will take the classes.

We were waiting for that… Our Course Co-ordinator, Dr Amalendu Pattnaik inaugurated the Gymnasium on September 17, 2002. We already have some well equipped Gymnasium in our Hostels. The YOGA classes for 2001 batch and General YOGA class for all staff and faculty has already started since a couple of weeks. From now on we will be getting a modern GYM for the development of physical and mental health.

After three months of a successful academic mission in Italy and France, our Dean Dr Ajit K Panda has returned to India and joined on September 18, 2002. He worked in the area of microelectronics at ICTP, Trieste, Italy and interacted with various Scientists and Engineers. Now he will lead the VLSI team of NIST who are conducting the course on "Diploma in VLSI Design and Engg." at Center of Excellence.

A grand party was given by our Director on November 9, 2002 evening for the farewell of our outgoing batch of 1998 at Rock garden, NIST. The Rock garden was abuzz with lights and music. All the faculty, staff and students interacted and shared their feelings. They fondly recollected the memories of past four years and in fact, the 3 hours from 6 to 9PM was full of enjoyment as well as nostalgic. Faculty were seen to be interested to know about their students future career plan and advised accordingly. Last but not the least, who will forget the delicious dishes of that memorable party?

NIST Welcomes…..

We welcome Mr Sumit Kumar Chatterjee to our NIST family. He has a long working experience at IIT, Kharagpur and BHU, Benaras in the area of VLSI design, Transmultiplexing etc. After completing M.Sc in Electronics and Telecommunication from Benaras Hindu University and M. Tech in Microwaves Engineering from the University of Burdwan, he joined IIT, Kharagpur as a Project officer and worked there from September 1999 to April 2001 on transmultiplexing. But his research interest in the area of VLSI again brought him to work with the project "Special man power development in VLSI design and related software" at IT, BHU as a Project Engineer. He has worked there in VHDL design Simulation and Synthesis on SYNOPSIS TOOL, XILINX Schematic and VHDL Design and Implementation on XILINX 4003EPC 84 chip. He also taught B. Tech and M. Tech students of IT, BHU in NMOS, CMOS SOI based design and verification on TANNER tools. He has worked in the environment of SOLARIS and UNIX, MS-DOS, WIN 95/98, NT operating systems. We are proud of getting such an expert like Mr Chaterjee in the area of VLSI design. We wish him all success here in NIST…

We welcome our ex-students who joined with us on November 13, 2002 in various departments. Congratulations!! Mr Tushar Mishra, Mr Abijit Chowdhury, Mr Naveen T Vergeese, Mr Debashis Mishra, Mr M Monoj Kumar, Mr Duti Krusna Panda, Mr Anupam Das, Mr Subrat Satpathy, Mr Subhasree Behera, Ms Sarita Patra, Mr Ram Chandra Padhi, Mr Bapu Mahapatra for joining us. They are all of 1998 batch and completed their BE degree from NIST. Wish you all success.

We welcome Mr Saroj Kumar Mishra who joined in our VLSI Lab on October 31, 2002. Mr Mishra is an M.Sc in Electronic Science from Berhampur University. He worked on "Different types of adder architecture on Xilinx FPGA" for his MSc Project. He also worked on Artificial Neural Network and its Applications with Prof. Ganapati Panda at REC, Rourkela.

Welcome!! Mr Kartik Chandra Sahoo, joined as a "Project Assistant" under Dr. Ajit K Panda for his UGC sponsored project titled "Effect of Interface properties as the high frequency behavior of GaN based MODFET. He is an M.Sc (Electronic Science) from Berhampur University.

IST team has become the Semifinalist in the inter-college Table Tennis tournament of Berhampur University this year. Our team members are Akash Kamal Swain(6^th Semester), Rajesh Kumar Panda(4^th Semester) and Murlidhar(6^th Semester). Akash Kamal Swain and Rajesh Kumar Panda represented Berhampur University Table Tennis Team this year.

Our students Utkal Ketan Pattnaik(6^th Semester) and Kailash Pradhan(6^th Semester) represented Berhampur University for Volley Ball team this year.

Our Cricket Team has become the quarter finalist in the inter-college Cricket tournament of Berhampur University this year. Soumyajit Rath(6^th Semester) and Sudeep Mishra (2^nd Semester) were selected to represent the Berhampur University team this year. They were also selected to represent the University team in the last year.

An excellent Trekking expedition was held on November 10, 2002, Sunday for 2002 batch from ‘RAMAIHA PATNAM’ to ‘GOPALPUR SEA BEACH’ along the beach (around 15 KM). It was flagged off by our honorable Director Mr Sangram Mudali. About 120 students participated in the expedition. Our faculty and staff, Mr. I. Bhattacharyya, Mr. Anisur Rehman, Mr Subhas Padhy, Mr Sudhir, Mr Vinay Kr Das and some other staff members accompanied them. They started at 9:15AM and the last batch reached Gopalpur-on-sea at 2.45PM. Our Deputy Director Dr. Ravi P Reddy and other staff welcomed the students at Gopalpur. It was a great Trek!!

A grand party was thrown on October 6, 2002 by our Placement Director to celebrate the 1^st birth anniversary of her daughter Neha. The kids were seen enjoying the ice-cream to their utmost!!! It was the active participation of all the members of the NIST family that made NEHA’S 1^st BIRTHDAY PARTY a memorable one. Last but not the least, who will forget the delicious dishes.

Career corner

A lecturer can not control the class. The students were talking without giving any attention to his lecture. So he is very much annoyed with them and wanted to send one of them out from the class. But he does not know how to put it in English.

He went near the student and shouted "follow me". The guy followed him till he went out of the class. Now the lecturer turned back and again shouted "Don't follow me" and went inside the class.....

Sir had once gone to a film with his wife. By chance, he happened to see one of our boys at the theatre, though the boy did not see them. So the next day at school... ( to that boy ) - " Yesterday I saw you WITH MY WIFE at the Cinema Theatre."

There is a story about four men named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, and Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody, when actually Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Friday Seminar Series

"A mile from P-N junction to VLSI: An experience at ICTP, Trieste" - presented by our Dean Dr Ajit K Panda on September 27, 2002. Recently he returned from ICTP, Trieste, Italy after a successful academic assignment on VLSI circuits. In this seminar he shared his experience at ICTP, Trieste to NIST Faculty, Students and staff.

The UGC suggested that, colleges and Universities should recruit teachers on contract basis. Should it be acceptable?

Send your answers with a short reason to the editor at niste_news@yahoo.com. Result will be published in the next issue.

The Question of the last month was "Dowry is a known concept of Indian matrimony. Should Dowry be acceptable? Response is encouraging. We have received 20 mails. Out of them, 18 replied "NO", and the rest went for "YES". Here are some of them…

No, dowry is not acceptable in any form. It is a vice of our society. Though it is illegal and unethical, still it is continuing without any objection from any source. The attitude of the intellectuals and educated mass of our country towards dowry is very casual; in some cases they support it. I hope that a strong step will be taken to stop this unethical dealing.

No, not at all. The basic concept of dowry is related to the structural inequalities in our society generated by capitalism, particularly in its neo-liberal form. Dowry is a social evil, causing problem in every sphere of the society hampering the empowerment of women in India. People from all sphere and all the strata of society should give a proper consensus for the elimination of this social virus. Person taking or giving dowry should be penalized under the penal code of India.

No, it is the system that lowers the dignity of women. Today girls are educated and employed and are economically independent. Giving of dowry is no problem for the rich, in order to enhance their false social prestige. The poor try to imitate the rich and in the process ruin themselves. It was thought to be sort of help to the young couple to set up their new home. The custom became an evil as the greed of the bridegroom's parents mounted. Thus from a grace it has become a shame to our society. But this most heinous of the social evils can be tackled by young ones instead the old ones who lack constructive vision.

Yes, Why not? It is all the good wishes blessings, which the bride get from her parent. If it is in the form of so-called "Dowry", then so what. This dowry is not a very new term. This system is being followed from very old days. It is a cultural and social activity. Parents always like to take care and to see smile on the face of their children. Dowry is, in fact, not demanded by anybody, only it is given as a gift pack of blessings and affection.

No, as dowry is the biggest evil of our society. The sacred institution of marriage is becoming as a business transaction due to that and today the custom has become an evil because of greedy parents. It is shame for our society. This inhuman practice must be put to an end. It is the duty of today's civilized young to come forward and revolt for not giving consent to such marriage which demands dowry.

Student's Corner

They have proved it once again!! The International Conference on Information Technology (CIT - 2002) has accepted six student papers. Out of these six, 2 papers are from NIST students. The two papers are titled "DNA Computing" by Bijoy Sekhar Shroff and Antariksh Kar of 4^th semester and "Flash memory" by Chandra Sekhar Das of the same semester. We, the NISTians are proud of your achievement.

Congratulations to all of you who have got 80 out 80 in Discrete Mathematics in the recently published 4th Semester(1999 batch) result. They are Subhasis Panda, Debasis Patra, BanabasRout, Ashish Ranjan Sahay, Rajesh Samantaray, Arya Kumar Vedabrata. NISTians are proud of your brilliant result. Congratulations!! Keep it up!! Thanks to Mr I Bhattacharyya, our mathematics faculty, for his dedicated service to the students.

He is Mukesh Patnaik of 2000 batch, 4^th Semester, ELE, scored 2190 in GRE. This is the second highest GRE score in this year The highest score is 2270 of Sagar Sahu, 1998 batch. Mukesh has shown that, one has to work hard towards one's ambition from very beginning. Mukesh has proved it in 4^th semester. He is also a good badminton player of our college team. Congrats!! Mukesh, for your brilliant job. Keep it up!!

Purnendu Sekhar Mohanty and Koushik Panda of 6^th semester, IT have presented a paper on CLUSTER COMPUTING in the National level technical symposium named KANINI FEST organized by Computer Science & Engineering department on September 5-6, 2002 at Erode Sengunthar Engineering College, Chennai. NISTians congratulate you once again!! Keep it up!!!

They say that God lives very high;
But if you look above the sky,
You cannot see your God; and why?

And if you dig down in the mines,
You never see him in the gold;
Through him all that’s glory shines.

God is so good, he wears a fold
Of heaven and earth across his face,
Like secrets kept for love untold.

But still I feel that his embrace
Slides down by thrills, all things made,
Through light and sound of every place.

The most damaging one-letter word: I , avoid it
The most satisfying two-letter word: We, use it
The most poisonous three-letter word: EGO, kill it.
The most used four-letter word: LOVE, value it.
The most pleasing five-letter word: SMILE, keep it.
The fastest spreading six-letter word: RUMOUR, ignore it.
The most enviable seven-letter word: SUCCESS, achieve it.
The most nefarious eight-letter word: JEALOUSY, leave it.
The most powerful nine-letter word: KNOWLEDGE, acquire it.
The most essential ten-letter word: CONFIDENCE, trust it.

Very Large Scale Integrated circuits is what VLSI is all about. And there is virtually no area of our daily life that is untouched by this emerging area of technology. Whether it is the wristwatch on your hand or the cell phone in your pocket or the television in your home – everything depends on VLSI Engineering. Whether in consumer electronics, or in automotive technology or in aerospace technology, VLSI engineering represents one of the leading edges of technologies in today’s world and to be left behind in this area means you will be left behind in the technological race. In fact, during the recent widespread slump in the IT sector, the only sector which remained unaffected and continued to grow at a healthy pace was the VLSI sector. Most of the bluechip companies in the VLSI area are located in Bangalore and the NOIDA area. Some of the top VLSI companies already working in India are Intel, Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, Mentor Graphics, Cadence, S T Microelectronics, Controlnet, etc.

One of the major requirements of any VLSI company is trained manpower. The Indian engineering colleges produce only about 200 to 300 VLSI engineers per year but the industry requirement is much higher to the order of 4000-5000 chip designers per year. NIST aims to fulfill this requirement through its course in VLSI Design. NIST also has an ongoing

collaboration with XILINX, USA which is a top 100 IT company. Also NIST has a recent agreement with Texas Instruments for work in Digital Signal Processing and VLSI Design. Alumni of NIST are already working in the field of VLSI and Embedded Systems in Tata Consultancy Services, WIPRO, CG-CoreEL, Dexcell, etc.

The four month VLSI design course is a culmination of two one-month summer programs conducted by NIST in the year 2001 and 2002. The faculty involved in this course are experienced in industry standard tools in the area of VLSI. The course is available in four modules and starts on December 10, 2002. Contact Dr. Ajit K Panda for details.

New name of NTCS
Now it is NIST Technology Consulting Services(NTCS). So, it is Technology not Training. We welcome this idea!!

NISTe-News is giving you here the feedback of our students of at NIST Center of Excellence, Bhubaneswar. Our reporter talked to all GATE students and took some written feedback. Let us see…

Alivarani Mohapatra(ELE), Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology(IGIT), Sarang : NIST center of excellence is the only Institute in Orissa who has stepped forward to give students a very good coaching for GATE. The teaching style is excellent. They always ready to give their helping hands for students.

Pradyumna Ojha(ECE), Inst. of Tech.& Educational Research(ITER), Bhubaneswar :The management of NIST has done an excellent thing in opening the NIST Center of Excellence in Bhubaneswar here. The faculty are highly experienced and encouraging. The NIST people have made a difference in providing a quality technical education in Orissa.

Niharika Sarangi(IE),Ghanshyam Hemlata Inst. of Tech.&Management(GHITM), Puri : Actually success depends on guided and systematic preparation to reach at the desired goal. NIST helping us in our way to reach the goal. The faculty are really experienced and skilled with a very good motivative power.

Sonali Panda(EIE), Ghanshyam Hemlata Inst. of Tech. & Management(GHITM), Puri :I find the Institute and its faculty are very cooperative. The faculty are quite competent and excellent in teaching. They are guiding us in each and every step how to tackle the problems and all that. I thank the Director of NIST for taking such a wonderful step of opening the centre at Bhubaneswar for which we are able to take the coaching here itself.

Abhipsa Sahu(EIE), Ghanshyam Hemlata Inst. of Tech. & Management(GHITM), Puri :The faculty are quite good. They are very friendly with us. They help us understanding the things properly. We hope and pray for the prosperity of this institute.

Vandana Agarwal(EIE), Inst. of Tech.& Educational Research(ITER), Bhubaneswar : NIST Center of Excellence has taken a very good step to provide GATE coaching classes for the students willing to go for higher study. The faculty are very cooperative and encouraging. All are working very hard for us. They have taken it as a big challenge.

Mousumi Mohanty(CSE),Kalinga Inst. of Industrial Tech. &Sc.(KIITS), Bhubaneswar : I am proud to be a part of this institution. I am getting not only the knowledge but also some good qualities like how to build up character and personality better. The discipline, punctuality and regularity of the teachers will definitely take us to our goal.

Reshmi Prava Das(CSE), Seemant Engineering College(SEC) : Though there are so many merits and demerits with the NIST faculty, still they are very friendly with their students. The library facility over here should be improved a lot. All the members over here are very friendly as well as of helping nature. Hope more improvement in the faculty will be taken.

Sandipta Tripathy(CSE), Seemant Engineering College(SEC) : It is a very nice step taken by NIST to provide GATE coaching for the first time. I hope the combined efforts made by the faculty and student will really make this step fruitful. I hope the syllabus will be completed in time and doubts will be cleared in a better way. Library facilities should be improved.

Manmath Ray(CSE), Utkal University, Bhubaneswar : I am proud of to be a NISTian. I have seen for the first time such a methodical teaching and deterministic approach. Though there are some problems in this center as it is controlled from Berhampur, but still it gives a lot of pleasure to share knowledge with NIST experts.

Dilip Kumar Swain(CSE), College of Engineering and Technology(CET), Bhubaneswar : The NIST faculty and their teaching methodology is really good enough for the students. All the faculty are steedy, laborious and hardworking.

Sabitri Mohanty(CSE), Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology(IGIT), Sarang : We are glad to have a centre for GATE and VLSI designing in Bhubaneswar as per the demand of students. We are very much thankful to NIST.

Subhasini Nayak(CSE), Kalinga Inst. of Industrial Tech. &Sc.(KIITS), Bhubaneswar : This is the most excellent center to guide the people for making the bright future. The faculty members and their teaching methodology is excellent and they are cordial to the students.

Priya Ranjan Swain(CSE), Inst. of Tech.& Educational Research(ITER), Bhubaneswar : Truly, I am writing from my heart that I got the right way and right institute to build up my career. I cleared a lot of doubts here. The teachers and the staffs of NIST center of excellence are very good and cooperative. Hope this will continue later also. At last I thank all the teachers of NIST center of excellence.

HemChandra Patnaik(CSE),Inst. of Tech.&Educational Research,ITER, Bhubaneswar : Your article on "SIMPUTER" in the last issue of eNews was great. This is inspiring for all.

Kalyani Devi(CSE), Ravenshaw college, Cuttack : Till now, I have never faced such an excellent institute like NIST where everyone behaves so friendly and co-operatively. I think this is the key to success for NIST. At last, I am proud to be a NISTian.

Sunita Rani Pradhan(CSE), Ghanshyam Hemlata Inst. of Tech. & Management(GHITM), Puri : I am lucky like other NIST students to get at NIST's respected and co-operative teachers.

NISTe_News reporters have talked with the students of new batch(2002) to give a report about their feelings at NIST. All of them have been found happy with NIST Faculty, staff and management. We are giving here some of the Feedback.

Bhabani Sankar Prusty, 1^st Semester, BE First, I was little bit worried about Ragging, but gradually it has disappeared and now I am completely tension free.

Sarita Panda, 1^st Semester, BE NIST has changed my attitude towards life. The faculty are very friendly, seniors rag a bit but then they becomes friendly and all these are making this environment very lively.

Saswati S Mahapatra, 1^ST Semester, BE Sanjeevanibuti for 1^st year students - Read English novels, Watch English Movies, Respect your seniors and study, study and study ------

Prathi Silpa, 1^st Semester, BE I was really nervous on the first day of NIST. I did not know what to do. I found my classroom and I found myself comfortable in it. We had the terror of ragging in our mind. We were ragged by some of the seniors but it was manageable. First day of our college life is really memorable with a good experience.

Debadarsana Mishra, 1^ST Semester, MCA Really I am very lucky that I got a seat at NIST. It is the best Engineering College in Orissa, which offers MCA. It is the right institute and it is showing me the right path for my career. The teachers are really good.

I realise that it is the best technical institute among many others. NIST is the right place where a student will be able to reach their destination. All faculty members take responsibility for each and every student.

I think I am really lucky to get the opportunity to join here. It is the proper place where I am getting all the things what I want. The teacher, staffs are very cooperative with us.

Dear Sir, I feel great writing to you after a long time. I wish you (and of course, all the Nistians) would be in good health and very enthusiastic, as usual. The memories of the last educational institute remains fresh in everyone's mind and same is with me. I really miss everything that NIST (was, is, and will be) offering to its 'value-added products' (read as students). Sir, the news is that after waiting at home for some time with the hope that Satyam will call back, I came down to Delhi to do a course on MCSE. Now that I am MCSE certified and got a job as a Technical Support Executive in VCustomer Ltd., an International call centre in Delhi. It's always good to hear that at least one NISTian is comfortably placed in each of the major cities of India and I'm sure that it won't take long before this phenomenon will take an International dimension. May God shower prosperity on NIST till eternity. I would love to study in the new Library and browse in the Internet centre whenever I visit NIST next. Please convey my regards to Panda Sir, Geetika Maam and my heartiest congratulation to Nahak Sir. With regards, Dhrutiman Mishra

Here all is going fine for us. The IT industry is really booming again. A lot of projects and tight schedules. We do rarely get time to do anything. The recruitment is also on, but its the turn of experienced guys this time. U must have heard of the good news that the two CS friend of us, Suprabhat and Siddharth Panda were called up by Wipro. Its really nice to here. I hope the industry too going to recover very soon to recruit the fresher. Sir plz keep on communicating the good news. Wish u a good day. My regards to Suresh sir. Regards, Ashu.

Today computer chip manufacturers are furiously racing to make the next microprocessor that will topple speed records. But microprocessors made of silicon will eventually reach their limits of speed and miniaturization. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) molecules have been identified as the platform on which the next generation of microprocessors will be built. DNA’s key advantage is that it will make computers smaller than ever. More than 10 trillion DNA molecules can fit into an area no larger than 1 cubic centimeter, and a computer harnessing the power of this much DNA only, would be able to hold 10 terabytes of data and perform 10 trillion calculations at a time. DNA computers also require less energy. While existing supercomputers do 10⁹ operations per joule, DNA computer could perform 2� 10¹⁹ operations per joule (10¹⁰ times more efficient). We already have some companies making DNA chips, where DNA strands are attached to a silicon substrate in large arrays (for example, the Affvmetrix’s genechip). The potential areas for the application for DNA computing are in the study of logic, encryption, genetic programming and algorithms, automata, language systems, and lots of other interesting things that haven’t even been invented yet.

A premier technical institute like NIST has been providing all the regular sports games like Lawn Tennis, Basket Ball, Volley Ball, Carrom, Table Tennis, Chess, Chinese Checker, Scrable, Cricket and other games. But this time we are going to start some thrilling activities in adventure sports like paragliding, parasailing, canoeing, kayaking and windsurfing. I want to share some exciting moments of my Paragliding training at Pune(NDA). I met Mr Rajeev Soni, who is the national champion in Paragliding 2001 and other people, those who came from different parts of the country. Regarding Paragliding, you can take a bag full of wonders weighing only a few pounds to a suitable mountain ridge and experience the exhalation of walking on air. Regarding parasailing, you will be attached to a jeep, then you will be gradually towed to heights from 50ft to 300ft. All you do is get strapped in the harness and enjoy the sky ride. Regarding water sports, I visited SAI, Cuttack and met some coaches who assured me training in canoeing, kayaking and windsurfing at Sports Authority Institute. The Student Activities Center has organized adventures like 18km treks from Ramaiya Patnam to Gopalpur for 2001 & 2002 batches. We are planning a mountaineering trip to Mahendra Giri. I welcome ideas and suggestions for adventure sports.

Our Institute has been providing various services to all NISTians since its inception. NIST Transport Services - is one of them. It is now can compete with any Transport Service of Berhampur. Already we have now 11 buses to provide services to all NIST students, Faculty and staff. All these 52 seater buses and their 11 drivers, 11 helpers and one mechanic are giving their dedicated service from morning 6:00AM to 9:30PM. We are pleased and thankful to the drivers Mr Subhas Sethy, Mr Y Sahoo, Mr Krushna Sethy, Mr B Cheneya Patro, Mr A Gopal Reddy, Mr D Narasinula, Mr Pramod Chowdhury, Mr Chakrapani Sahu, Mr Simadry Sethy, Mr Ghanashyama Sahoo, Mr Niranjana Sethy and the helpers Mr P Mohan Reddy, Mr Raghunath Patra, Mr Susanta Chowdhury, Mr Hari Behera, Mr Radha Krushna Das, Mr Bijaya Behera, Mr Rabi Narayan Panda, Mr Monoranjan Das, Mr Dilip Swain, Mr Duryodhan Rao, Mr Bajragi Reddy and the mechanic Mr K U Rao for their dedicated service.

Today, NISTe_News will focus on one of those NISTians who has been giving dedicated service since its inception. He is our Facility Manager Mr Suvendu Das. He is originally from the village of Naugaonhat, Jagatsinghpur, of Cuttack. He is the only son of Mr Sidhaswar Das and Mrs Pramila Kumari Das. After completing the secondary education from B. B. High School, Dhenkanal and higher secondary education from Talchar College, Talchar, he took admission in Kalinga Institute of Mining engineering and technology for his Diploma degree. After the successful completion of Diploma in 1995, he joined Konark Oxygen, Rourkela and was there till August 1996. He then joined NIST in September, 1996. Since then he has been showing his skills and effectiveness to facilitate all NIST activities. He got married to Mrs Snigdha Mohanty in May 2001 and his only son Master Sahil is our youngest NISTian. He is popular in the campus as a cool person and a man for ready to help. NISTians wish him all success and a happy life!!

NIST- Center of Excellence - inaugurated by the Honourable Minister of Industries, Mr K.V.Singh Deo

Mr K. V. Singh Deo, the Minister of Industries, inaugurated the NIST center of excellence at Sahidnagar(Near Hotel Megdoot), Bhubaneswar on November 3, 2002. He also inaugurated a workshop on "Advances and Career Prospects in VLSI Design and Engineering". Heemphasized the importance of private institutions for quality education. He also appreciated NIST's effort for quality education and hoped that NIST will take the responsibility to lead the quality education in Orissa. Our Director Mr Sangram Mudali explained clearly the present scenario of job market for VLSI field in India and abroad. He encouraged the students to face the challenges of future. Dr Ajit Kr Panda, Dean and the leader of VLSI group, NIST discussed about the engineering and technology of VLSI circuits.

The next issue will be published on December 15, 2002. Send your message on or before December 10, 2002 to NISTe_News@yahoo.com. Thanks.

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