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Freshers Day at Sahyadri

29-Aug-2015
Freshers Day at Sahyadri

The Freshers Day was celebrated at Sahyadri with Ms. Ankita Vashistha as the chief guest and Mr. Nachappa K.U. as the guest of honour. The Chairman, Mr. Manjunath Bhandary addressed the gathering and stated that this is the day where we should take up goals; achieve them by doing our best and attain success in the coming years. He welcomed both the guests and advised the students to take the guests as role models. He said that ‘engineers are visionaries; they create jobs for others’. He also added that one needs to be enrolled in project based learning along with academics.


Mr. Nachappa delivered his address and spoke about goals and empirical research. He said that having a goal is important to be successful in life and added that it is a right time for students to develop a specific goal in life. He said that identifying the problem is a driving skill that every engineer must have. At the end he advised students to make use of the facilities provided by the college.


Mr. Nachappa K.U. is the Finance Lead, APAC Accenture Operations. His key skills are business analytics, project management, business strategy and programme management. He has a MBA from IIM Bangalore and BE from Bangalore University. He started his career as Financial Analyst, India - grew to Business Operations Manager, ASEAN. He has supported many of the business units in providing financial, sales and decision support & analysis.


Ms. Ankita Vashistha was very impressed with the vision of our chairman. She spoke about what is engineering and what students learn from it. She spoke about various skills that an engineer should have like logical skills, reasoning skills, analytical skills, problem solving skills and creativity.


She stated that engineers have transferrable skills. She highlighted the student’s life at college which includes learning, team work, leadership, discussions, networking, extracurricular activities, and self discovery. She said that networking is very important to learn new things. She also spoke about entrepreneurship which involves being a risk taker, team work, believer, leader and hard worker. She encouraged the students to be entrepreneurs.


Dr. U. M. Bhushi, Principal, remarked that the College expects every moment of students to be fresh throughout the year. He also spoke about perfections which will make the students highly professional.

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