Presidency University, Bangalore: News & Events

Founder’s Day celebrations at University Campus

February 3, 2020: Presidency University, Bangalore celebrated Founder’s day in the university campus today, which also happens to be birthday of the Hon’ble Chancellor and Founder of the university, Sri Nissar Ahmed. The theme for the day was Ethnic that turned the celebrations into a colourful festival. In the presence of all faculty and staff members, Vice chancellor took an oath of commitment to work and take the university to greater heights. The event started with screening of a short film created by staff members, Arun and Krishna, on the life journey of Hon’ble Chancellor, which was followed by some wonderful musical and dance performances, by faculty and students.

Presidency University becomes a Nodal Center of Virtual Labs

January 26, 2020: MHRD has designated Presidency University as a ‘Nodal Center of Virtual labs’, under its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology. All activities related to the centre will be taken care of by NIT Karnataka (Surathkal), which will be also responsible for training of the faculty and students of Presidency University to operate these labs.

The project is designed to grant remote access to Laboratories in various science and engineering disciplines. The students can use the various tools that are part of a larger Learning Management System (LMS), including external web resources, video tutorials, interactive presentations and self-evaluation. Some costly equipment and resources are also shared through a component. The participating institutes in the project include seven IITs (Delhi, Bombay, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Roorkee and Guwahati), IIIT Hyderabad, Amrita University, Dayalbagh University, NIT Karnataka and College of Engineering, Pune.

Dr Shilpa Mehta receives “Best Professor in Communication Engineering Studies” Award

December 9, 2019: Dr Shilpa Mehta, the Head of Department (HOD) of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Presidency University, Bangalore received the award for “Best Professor in Communication Engineering Studies” by Dewang Mehta National Education Awards, under the ‘individual category’. It is India’s largest Education Awards Contest and is organised as a part of World Marketing Congress.

The Dewang Mehta National Education Awards includes several contests with cash Award Trophies, Citations & Certificate of Merit judged by an independent jury comprising three CEO’s, three HR Heads, three Marketing Heads and professionals with experience in etiquette and personality development. Each jury member independently rates the participant, after which the winner is announced collectively.