PES University (PESU): News & Events

Take your Startup from cradle to adulthood

January 31, 2020: PES University organised a five day workshop on “An Exciting Journey of Building a $20 Million Startup” from January 27-31, 2020. The workshop was inaugurated by Master, BV Jagadeesh (BVJ), one of the most prominent entrepreneur of Silicon Valley. He is known for his success stories such as taking Exodus, the first Data Center in the world to IPO in 1998, scaled Nutanix, a $1.2 billion company, to go public. At PESU, he shared his experiences through his journey of building a startup and scaling it to $20 million. The workshop was open to all the students, working professionals and entrepreneurs. Participants also presented their business ideas, seeking BVJ’s advice to frame their own success stories Certificates were given to all the participants.

Workshop on diverse approaches to Engineering Research

January 6, 2020: PES University invited Director-Research College, Swansea University, UK to facilitate two-day workshop on diverse approaches to engineering. The event was organised on January 4 and 5, 2020. The workshop contained eight lectures distributed across two days and included two tutorial sessions which were witnessed by academicians from different engineering disciplines. Several topics were discussed such as common challenges faced by inexperienced research scholars, visionary vs incremental research & their importance and importance of planning in research. The day concluded with a conversation about the role of mentors in Ph.D research, and also finding the correct research group for establishing industrial links for collaborative research. The workshop was unparalleled since it contained a fine balance between students and supervisors and enriched the audience with an integrated view on engineering research.

PESU students win Rajagiri National Business Quiz

November 25, 2019: PESU seventh semester students Preetham Upadhya and Akhil Siddharth from Computer Science Engineering and Electrical Engineering domain participated and secured the first position at Rajagiri National Business Quiz held in Kochi. Over 2,000 teams participate every year and students have won this award for the second time in row. Rajagiri National Business Quiz is a quiz conclave of Rajagiri Center for Business Studies, Cochin, and is popularly known as RajagiriNBQ. The quiz conclave started with a small event in the college’s management fest, Inflore and has continued to grow over the years. The RajagiriNBQ is a competition based involving teams comprising two participants each and takes place in two stages. Participants who qualify the prelim round make to the second lap which is held separately for students and corporates.