Mr.Thyan Thimmaiah of VII Semester Mechanical Engineering led the VTU Hockey Team in the South Zone Inter-University Championship 2019-20 held at Bengaluru.

Mr.BhuvanNanaiah , VII Semester Mechanical Engineering represented VTU Hockey Team in the south zone inter university championship 2019-20 held at Bengaluru

Selected for KSCST 2018-19

Selected for KSCST 2018-19

Selected for KSCST 2018-19

Gilan Karumbaiah, student of First Year Mechanical Engineering Department successfully converted a Petrol run motorcycle to a Electric bike.

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A session on adoption of technologies for sustainable farming was organized by the Mechanical Engineers Royal Association (MechERA) on 3rd March, 2020 by the resource person, Biddanda Bopaya Thimaya, Retired CEO – Metal Crowns Ltd, Nairobi.
Mr. Bopaya Thimaya currently being a coffee planter, is passionate towards agriculture. He has many innovative ideas to automate agriculture. He shared his ideas to build projects on coffee drying, coffee de- husking. He motivated the students with his own project on coffee drying which dries coffee in six hours. He also shared his views on farmers who are facing labourer problems so as to help them with projects on agriculture.

One day Workshop on “Machine tool and Maintenance“ was organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering under the banner of MechERA for Cauvery polytechnic ,Gonikoppal on 13th March 2020 by the resource persons Prof. Kishen Karumbaiah B J and Prof Aravind Appanna K E,Asst Professors,Department of Mechanical Engineering Coorg Institute of Technology
Prof Thimmaiah A G, HOD Dept of Mechanical Engineering welcomed the gathering and handed over the session to the Prof Kishen Karumbaiah B J. He started with different machine tools and educated students about the current tools and their applications. Further Prof Aravind Appanna K E explained the different maintenance approach to keep the machine healthy
A practical maintenance of lathe was conducted by Mr. Chandan, Instructor Dept of Mechanical Engineering, continued with a valedictory session in the evening

An Industrial visit to Sharavathi Hydro Power Plant was organised on 8th November 2019. Sharavathi Hydro Power Plant in Karnataka is commissioned in 1964. It has an approved and installed capacity of 1035 Megawatt.Students were given a brief explanation about blue print of the plant and different aspects of the turbine. 82 students of Mechanical Engg. Department participated in this event.

Industries visited: An industrial visit was organised for students of Mechanical Engineering Department from 02-12-2021 to 05-12-2021 to provide an insight on the real working environment of industries. The following industries were visited.

1. Industrial visit to Vijaya Technocrafts Pvt. Ltd, Bhadravathi, Shivamogga.

2. Bellary Thermal Power Station, Kudithini, Bellary.

3. TB Dam Power House, Hosapete

A workshop on Lathe Maintenance was organised for students of Cauvery Polytechnic Gonikoppal on 01-10-2021 .A hands-on session on machine tool maintenance was conducted which involved active participation of all the 25 students.

This webinar was organized with a moto of educating the young minds the importance of being physically and mentally fit and healthy naturally. The resource person for the session was Dr. Hitesh A V, Sri Ramakrishna Ashram Hospital, Ponnampet, Kodagu. He inspired our students to stay healthy through proper food habits, diet, and regular exercises. He also emphasized on stress and anxiety management and its effects on health. The program was concluded with an interactive session between the speaker and the participants followed by vote of thanks.

An Awareness Course on “Overview of Aircraft Design & Development was organized from department of mechanical engineering in association with K-tech COE, Aerospace & Defence on 08/06/2021.

A workshop on “CAD & CAM” was organized on 16^th November 2021. This session was designed with the view of educate the students about recent trends in the field of computer aided design and manufacturing. The resource persons for the session were Mr. Rakshith & Ms. Ramya, CAD Desk, Mysore. The resource persons emphasized the importance of CAD & CAM in the present scenario, Future scope and career opportunities. The session included creation of a basic model using Catia & analysing the stress factors.

A seminar on “Entrepreneurship and start-ups” was organized on 30^th December 2021. This session was designed with the view of motivating the young minds to be an Entrepreneur. The resource person for the session was Mr. Aditya M D & Mr.Shreyas, Co-Founders EXEtronics. The speakers emphasized the importance of being an entrepreneur by sharing their own journey to become an entrepreneur and start a company called EXEtronics.

A Technical talk was organized for final & pre-final year students of mechanical engineering department on the topic “Applications in cryogenics Engineering-A research perspective”. Talk was delivered by Dr.Nagendra H N, research associate in Center for Cryogenic Technology IISc Bengaluru. Dr.Nagendra’s talk focused on application areas of cryogenics such as superconductivity, cryogenics transfer line in space applications and scope for research in the respective areas. He also highlighted on the facilities available in IISc to take up research work.