28 Sep 2017|Gurgaon (Manesar) | Amity University Gurgaon
Celebrating Innovation and Creativity “Innovation Day 2017”
The Amity University Gurgaon takes immense pride in celebrating “Innovation Day” under the theme “Celebrating Innovation and Creativity” to mark the celebration of the birthday of our Hon’ble Chancellor Dr Aseem Chauhan on 28 September.This day marks the celebrations of innovations, inventions, projects and presentations by the Amity-ians spread over various campuses around the world because all the institutes, centres and schools of higher learning under AUG organize activities, events and programs at the institution level in the preceding week.
The function was graced by the august presence of Hon’ble Founder President Dr Ashok Chauhan, Hon’ble Chancellor Dr.Aseem Chauhan, Mrs Divya Chauhan, Mr Amol Chauhan, and Mr Abhay Chauhan. Also, on this occasion, Distinguished Guests Dr W. Selvamurthy, Dr Saran, and other senior functionaries and researchers from the teams of Founder President and the Chancellor were also present.
The Innovation day began with the Vedic Hawan at the entrance of the D-block to offer our prayers to divinity for peace and harmony on the university campus. The exhibition in D-block foyer was full of enigmatic display of various innovative products, high-impact research projects, and working models prepared by students and faculty of various schools of AUG and of Amity University campuses at Lucknow, and Gwalior. Further displays of institutional innovations, published research papers, patents, innovative and creative arts were also displayed by the students. Crime Scene Investigation, Sakun Shirodhara, Solar air conditioner, Hydrokinetic turbine, solenoid DC engine, Gesture-based wheelchair, mobile ECG device, voice control car, ambulatory Quadcopter (drone used to provide first aid), radio controlled aircraft, raspberry eye (spy camera), robotic arm (Tetrix), AgroBot (agriculture based 3-in-1 device for ploughing, pesticide spraying and harvesting) etc.
The program started with recitation of Saraswati Vandana followed by Haryanvi folk dance, fusion dance (Jazz, Mexican and Arabic dance forms), Innovative Fashion Show and the first book released was on the biodiversity in the AUG campus, aptly called 'Flying Colors' as it showcased the diversity of butterflies and birds in our beautiful campus set up in the foothills of Aravali range. The book was authored and designed by our Pro Vice-chancellor Prof. Padmakali Banerjee. And the next release was the newsletter of Centre for BRICS studies. The chief editor of the newsletter was Pro Vice-chancellor, Prof. Padmakali Banerjee. The third release on the occasion was the newsletter of Amity School of Languages edited by Prof. Ashok Tiku."
Mr Ojasvi Babber briefed the gathering about the growth of Amity Innovation Incubator, and the future goals with regard to expansion and adopting the multifold approach to enhance and improve the on-going researches and innovations. Next session was by Dr Vikas Madhukar, Amity Innovation Incubator E-cell, Gurgaon. He highlighted the progress and read out the report on projects undertaken by Amity Entrepreneurship cell in the past one year.
On his arrival in the AUG Campus, the Chief Guest Dr Ashok K Chauhan, Founder President RBEF, was accorded a ceremonial welcome by Guard of Honor given by the Cadets of Amity Indian Military College. Hon’ble Founder President, RBEF Dr Ashok K Chauhan inaugurated the newly setup BIONNOVA Research Labs in A-block. This facility is world-class with high-end instruments for carrying out research in multiple areas of bio-science. All the dignitaries, guests and AUH functionaries were present on the occasion.
A brief presentation was made by Dr Padmakali Banerjee (Pro Vice-Chancellor) on Academic Innovation at AUG, Platinum LEED certification, LEED Lab inauguration and a video-clip on Platinum LEED Lab at AUG. On the occasion, we witnessed enlightening words of wisdom delivered by Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor Prof. P.B. Sharma, on “Innovation Infinite for accelerating Entrepreneurship and startups”. Followed by a panel Discussion-I was moderated by Dr Vikas Madhukar on the topic “Glimpses of Innovation at AUG”. Panel Discussion-II was moderated by Dr A.K. Yadav on the topic “Driving Innovation through funded projects, patents and publications”.
The panel discussion led Hon’ble Founder President to interact with some stalwarts of Amity University Gurgaon and shared some anecdotes from his extraordinary brilliant journey and rich experiences. The philosophy of Amity University Gurgaon, of achieving academic excellence focusing on leveraging the talent and innovative genius of the budding professionals to meet the needs of the contemporary technology intensive dynamic business environment and making them industry ready.
A special show on Science behind Magic was organized by Mr Dinesh Malik from National Science Centre, Delhi. The presenter Mr Malik demonstrated several magic tricks and then interacted with the audience to get the scientific reason behind the tricks. Hon’ble Chancellor felicitating the Experts from National Science Center, Delhi and visit the Exhibition of Projects, Working Models, and Posters.Founder President complimented the great work being done by the Chancellor in providing excellent leadership to take the Amity universities to global heights.
The function in the auditorium concluded with a vote of thanks by the Dy Vice-Chancellor Maj. Gen. B.S. Suhag. Thereafter, the dignitaries and guests visited all the exhibitions and display of posters and projects spread over the Innovation and Art Galleries, and Foyers of all the four academic blocks. At the conclusion of the day’s program, a power-packed excellent show was put up by the students in the form of street plays on themes of current social relevance. One was on domestic violence and the other was on women security.