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Volume 3, Issue 19
April 2010
From the Editor’s…
Stress at the workplace…
In all likelihood, stress will be the potential killer-ailment afflicting working class in the time to come. When
the demand we perceive exceeds the resources we think we have, the body and mind are aroused and all
systems are geared up either to fight, often successfully, the challenge (to our pride, self image, prestige,
position at work, place in the family and society) or to flee from the situation to avoid them. People find it
harder than ever to balance work life and home life. People will “burn out’ much earlier than they used to a
decade back as the stress we take with us when we go to work and the stress that awaits us on the job are on
the rise. The ability to manage stress in the workplace can make the difference between success or failure on
the job. While some stress is a normal part of life and productive, excessive stress interferes with physical and
emotional health. So it’s important to find ways to keep it under control.
Increasing stress at the workplace is taking a toll in one’s life. People lose confidence and become irritable
or withdrawn, making them less productive and ineffective and their work less rewarding. If the warning signs
of work stress go unattended, they can lead to bigger problems. Beyond interfering with job performance and
satisfaction, chronic or intense stress can also lead to physical and emotional health problems. Some of the
symptoms of excessive stress at the workplace are: apathy-loss of interest in work, depression, loss of
confidence, stomach problems, social withdrawal, and addiction to smoking, drugs and liquor. Common
causes of excessive workplace stress are Lack of necessary skills; Uncooperative co-workers; Boring,
monotonous, and unstimulating work; Unclear goals; Trouble with Boss; Fear of loss of job; Increased
demands for overtime work affecting family life; Pressure to perform to meet rising expectations but with no
increase in job satisfaction; and Pressure to work at optimum levels – all the time!
Even if one is in a job where the environment has grown increasingly stressful, one can retain a large
measure of self-control and self-confidence by understanding and practicing emotional intelligence (EI) - the
ability to manage and use emotions in positive and constructive ways. It's about communicating with others
in ways that draw people to you, overcome differences, repair wounded feelings, and defuse tension and stress.
A certain amount of stress occurs all the time in all work. Some stress is essential for our very existence as
well as for our continued growth and achievements in life. A completely unstressed person might as well be
dead. Stress under control and endurance limits (differ from person-to-person) gives us a zest for life and
releases our creativity. Too few challenges at work place make our lives boring and frustrating. This can be
unproductive and just as stressful as too many challenges. It is stress that forces one to come out of comfort
zone, take risks in new challenges and pursue new challenges and accomplishments in life. Any new challenge
taken in good faith, with good thoughts, and firm believe in God will help to overcome accompanying stresses
and achieve success in life. We have only one life and so much to achieve!!!. What is required is a positive
thinking. Ultimately, what make people successful is not bad luck or good luck or intelligence, but what we
think.
It is rightly said that: what we are is, of course, what we think.
Dr. N L Hiregoudar
Editor Newsletter, Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
College News
“Pleiades…cluster of stars”, a National Level Students Technical Festival with 36 events
spanning all disciplines of engineering was organized from 25-27 March, 2010. The event
was successfully conducted under the stewardship of Convener A B Raju, Professor, E&E
Engg., Co-ordinator Vivek Komalapur of Mech.Engg., Student General Secretary Karan
Kothari, and Secretary, Co-curricular activities, Manjunath I Angadi.
Chief Guest Shri. Basavaraj S Bommai, (alumni of Mech. Engg.), Minister for Major and
Medium Irrigation, GoK, and Guest of Honor Shri. H.U.Talawar, (alumni of E&C Engg.),
Director of Technical education, GoK, Bangalore, were present for the inauguration of
Pleiades on March 25.
During the release of the PLEIADES ‘10 Brochure
Shri. H.U.Talawar being felicitated by the college.
Two musical ‘gala’ nights events - Sa Re Ga Ma Pa by Zee TV Network on 26 March 2010 was
conducted followed by Musical Night by Raghu Dixit - a self-taught guitarist-singercomposer-song writer-musician from Mysore and who has made a mark in both
Sandalwood and Bollywood as Music Director and Singer, enthralled the audience on 27th
March evening.
Raghu Dixit in action
Department / Cell News
Department of Physics and Association of Instrumentation Engineers and Students (AIES)
conducted PHYSMASTER-the final event of “BRAINWAVE” and “COLLOQUIUM” on 13,
March, 2010.
CAMPUS CONNECT – a project to align engineering education with the industry, organized a
WEBINAR titled Introduction to Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing, on 26th March,
2010.for students and faculty in partnership with the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME.)
Faculty News
Manojkumar V Chitawadagi, Asst. Prof. in Civil Engineering, was awarded the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy by NITK, Surathkal, for his thesis titled Structural Performance of
Concrete Filled Steel Tubes subjected to axial compression and flexure, on 2nd April 2010.
The doctoral study was undertaken under the Supervision of Prof. Mathur C Narasimhan,
Civil Engg. at NITK.
Sanjay V.Kotabagi, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering, successfully defended his
Ph.D. thesis titled An Investigation to Identify Barriers to Knowledge Creation and
Development of a Conceptual Model for Sustained Performance of Small and Medium Sized
Engineering Industries under the supervision of Prof. N L Hiregoudar, in the public Ph.D viva
voce examination held on Sat. 20 March 2010.
Two papers: 1). Overall Worker Effectiveness (OWE) Towards Six Sigma Level Output in
Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises: A Micro Analysis of Factors Affecting,
co-authored by N L Hiregoudar, Professor of Mechanical Engg. and Bhimsen Soragaon,
Research Scholar from Bellary Engg. College, is accepted for presentation and publication in
the forthcoming Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and
Technology (PICMET ’10) to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 18-22 July, 2010. 2). A
survey of TQM practices in north Karnataka manufacturing SMEs: an Empirical Evaluation,
co-authored by N L Hiregoudar and S B Mallur, Research Scholar from STJ Instt. Of Tech.,
Ranebennur, in the World Congress on Engineering 2010 at London, U.K., from 30 June - 2
July, 2010.
Students News
In the “BRAINWAVE” and “COLLOQUIUM” conducted by Department of Physics and
Association of Instrumentation Engineers and Students (AIES) on Saturday, 13 March 2010,
Jahnavi Kulkarni & Divya N Kustagi of L Div. won the 1st position, Nikil Ranade & Manoj
Kulkarni of M Div. won 2nd position, Sanket V.Nadgir & Shrinivas Deshpande of K Div. and
Sunny M Jain and Umesh Singh of F Div. won 3rd position in Physics Quiz “BRAINWAVE”.
Vidyalaxmi S R of N Div. & Ruchika R Jain of A Div. won 1st and 2nd rank respectively.
Sriranjini A. S. of IV sem, Biotechnology, secured first prize for the paper titled Regulatory
Genome and Computer, under the guidance of Dr. Basavaraj B. Udapudi, at Annual
International Technical Festival organized by BITS, Pilani during March 10-14, 2010.
Nehakumari, Raulikumari, Sumangala Havanagi, and Usha Wali of VI sem Biotechnology
secured first place in paper presentation contest for their paper titled Extraction of caster
oil and production of synthetic detergent and biodiesel, done under the guidance of
Prof. A. R. Shed, in SYMBIOT, a national biotechnology symposium, held at Manipal Institute
of Technology, Manipal during 29-31 March, 2010.
Kirti Phadke, Varuni Ginigeri, Sonam Vantamuri, and Rita Metrani, final semester students
of Biotechnology got KSCST project sanctioned for their proposal entitled Secondary
metabolites of endophytic fungi from medicinal plants: A new hope for antitumor property.
The project is being guided by Savitha S. Desai.
A research paper entitled Role of illumination and dissolved oxygen concentration on purple
membrane production by Halobacterium halobium, co-authored by Prasanna B. D., Shivaraj
Ghatge, Dinesh Goudar, Gurunath Katagi, and Chetan Shetty (2002-06 batch), has been
published in March 2010 issue of ICFAI Journal of Chemical Engineering
Food for thought
The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to
keep busy at.
- Don Maquis
Alumni News
Profile of a Distinguished Alumni:
Dilip M Kembhavi, an alumnus of Mechanical Engg. (1964-70), did his
M.Eng. (1972-73) and MBA (1977-79) from University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Canada. He is the founder, President & CEO of ShivaSoft
Consulting Inc. In his career spanning several decades, he did several stints
in various capacities in several organizations in India and Canada, namely,
Matrikon Inc., Tigroft Inc., Taylor Industrial Software, The Coopers and
Lybrand Consulting Group, Systemhouse Ltd. – all at Edmonton, Montreal
Joint Hospital Instt., Alberta Systems Development Group, and Ainsworth
Balances at Mumbai, and Mysore Kirloskar at Hubli. His work has included
an intimate knowledge of manufacturing practices and production planning and scheduling
in a wide variety of manufacturing environments, business process redesign, product and
services,
marketing, and strategic planning.
Dilip has been a speaker at numerous conferences. His professional affiliations include
P.Eng. and CMC (Certified Management Consultant). He is a recipient E&Y Entrepreneur of
the Year 1998 Award, and Omand Solandt Award by the Canadian Operational Research
Society. Dilip can be reached at dilip@shivasoft.com.
During his recent visit to the college, Dilip M Kembhavi has been kind enough to donate
Rs.5.0 lakhs as endowment to Alumni Association.
Future events
SRISHTI 2010 Exhibition/competition will be held from 7-10 May 2010 at Sri Siddartha
Institute of Tech.(SSIT), Tumkur.
Fourth International Conference on Information Processing (ICIP-2010) will be held on 6-8
August 2010 at Bangalore.
International Journal of Information Processing invites papers for publication in the areas of
communication involving computational aspects-computer networks, wireless networks,
sensor networks, autonomic computation-pervasive computing, cloud computing. For
details visit www.ijipbangalore.org.
Call for papers from researchers, learners, and practitioners in the XIV Annual International
Conference of Society of Operations Management – SOM 2010, at NITIE, Mumbai, being
organized from 17-19 Dec. 2010 (Doctoral Consortium on 17th and Main Conf. on 18 & 19
Dec. 2010). For details, contact:som2010nitie@gmail.com; Sambandam.n@gmail.com
Published by Co-Curricular Activities Cell, B V Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology,
HUBLI-580031, Karnataka, India, For information & feedback contact: N L Hiregoudar, Editor.
E-mail: nlh@bvb.edu; Phone: +91 9448337385