The 8^th Graduation Day of PEPs was held on 18^th April 2008 at Chowdaiah Memorial Hall.  Shri. P S Subramanyam, Distinguished Scientist, Program Director (CA) & Director – ADA Bangalore was the Chief Guest.  Shri. S Janakiraman, Chairman ISA and Vice President & CEO (R&D) services Mind Tree Consulting Ltd., addressed the outgoing students.  Prof. Ian Marshall – Pro Vice Chancellor (Research) Coventry University, UK conferred the degrees to the outgoing students.  Shri. B R Prabhakara, Chief Executive – GEF(M) presided and gave away the Gold & Silver medals to outstanding students.  Welcome Address by Dr S R Shankapal – Director MSRSAS.

Inauguration of PEPs-Part time was held on 11th April 2008 at MSRHM auditorium  Shri. C P Ravikumar – Technical Director, University Relation & Dean, TI India Technical University  inaugurated the function, Shri. Shankar Sadasivam – Department Head, Robert Bosh Engineering & Business Solutions Ltd., was the Chief Guest and welcome address by Dr. S R Shankapal Director MSRSAS.

Dr. Leburn Rose – External Examiner South Bank London University,  Dr. J. Ramachandran – Coventry University, Dr. Gurmail Singh – Coventry University visited the School for the Annual PAB/SBA meeting on 28^th March 2008.

AICTE Committee members visited the School on 22^nd & 23^rd March 2008.  The committee was chaired by Prof. M U Deshpande – Former Deputy Director – IIT Mumbai.  Other Members were

• Prof. B Pradhan – IIT Kharagpur

• Prof. P V Rao – IIT Delhi

• Prof. S Bhattacharya – IIT Kharagpur

• Prof. D Kundhu – IIT Kharagpur

• Prof. J V Subramanyam – Former Professor, Osmania University

• Prof. Wadhwa – IIT Delhi

• Prof. Ajay Chakravarthy – IIT Kharagpur

• Prof. T Ramesh – NIT Warangal

M/S General Motors is conducting a Campus recruitments to our Automotive Engineering & Real Time Embedded System  postgraduate full time students at our campus on 13^th March 2008.

M/S General Motors is conducting a Campus recruitments to our product design postgraduate full time students at our campus on 5^th March 2008.

Unveiling done by Dr. S R Shankapal, Director of MSRSAS on 18th February 2008 at 11 AM. Kainos is unmanned ground vehicle developed by MSRSAS, it operates electrically with steering controlled by a microprocessor.

Visitors from Coventry University, UK for the CARP meeting on 13^th Feb 2008.

1. Prof. Donald Pennington – Chair
2. Dr. Michael West
3. Prof. Ray Farmer
4. Dr. Gurmail Singh
5. Prof. Neil Forbes
6. Prof. Karren Harrison
7. Ms. Julie Keane

Visitors from Coventry University, UK visited the school  on 12^th Feb 2008.

1. Dr. Michael West
2. Prof. Ray Farmer
3. Dr. Gurmail Singh

Visitors from MOOG Inc, USA visited the school on 7^th Feb 2008.

(01) Dave Ranson - Product Development Manager (Torrance USA)
(02) Gonzalo Rey - Manager Software Design and Development  (Saltlake city USA)
(03) James Silliman - Manager Outsourcing (East arrora USA)
(04) Anupam Baruah - Director India Operations

Alumni Day:

M S Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies Alumni Association organized "Alumni Day celebration"  on  2nd  February 2008, Saturday at MSRSAS Campus.

Prof. Ashraf Jawaid – Pro Vice chancellor, &  Prof. Paul Ivey – Dean of the Faculty of Engineering & Computing, Coventry University – UK  visited the School on 24^th January 2008.

Prof. Paul Ivey – Dean of the Faculty of Engineering & Computing. Coventry University – UK  visited the School on 23^rd January 2008.

Visitors News:

Prof. Gordon Blount - Chairman of the Council, Ms. Libby Brodhurst – Secretary & Chief Executive, Mr. Geoff E Kirk – President from The Institute of Engineering Designers, Westbury, UK visited the School on 16^th January 2008.

The School is conducting a Two day intensive course on “Wireless, Ad hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networks” on 7^th & 8^th January 2008. Dr. Dharma P Agarwal, Department of Computer Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA. will be delivering the lecture.