MAHE gets ''A'' grade from NAAC

Manipal Academy of Higher Education( MAHE), Manipal (A Deemed to be University) has been accorded the highest rank "A" by the National Assessment & Accreditation Council (NAAC) Bangalore recently. This accreditation is valid for five years. A NAAC team consisting of 17  academicians, including Vice-Chancellors, pro Vice-Chancellors, directors and professors had visited the university campuses in Manipal, Mangalore and Bangalore in May 2016 and assessed the university and its constituent units on the basis of pre-defined criteria like curricular aspects, teaching-learning and evaluation, research, consultancy and extension, Infrastructure and learning resources, student support and progression, governance, leadership and management and innovations and best practices. 

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Commenting on the news, Dr H.Vinod Bhat, the Vice Chancellor said; "To be categorized "A" by NAAC is a fitting recognition of the university's relentless quest for excellence. We have now set our targets firmly on global ranking and international accreditations".   

Manipal University has done well in the rankings the year with top rank among private universities in the country by Higher Education Review and The Week. The University broke into the 200 best universities list QS University Asia Ranking. Manipal College of Phamaceutical Sciences was top-ranked by MHRD's National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF),.Manipal College of Dental Sciences and Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration were ranked number one in the country by The Week among private colleges.

Smart glove

Students of Amrita School of Engineering’s Amrita Robotics Research Lab (ARRL) have developed a ‘smart glove’ called MUDRA which converts hand gestures based on Indian sign language into spoken English, potentially paving the way for speech-impaired individuals to communicate more effectively with others. The feat was achieved by a team of four BTech students — Abhijith Bhaskaran, Anoop G Nair, Deepak Ram and Krishnan Ananthanarayanan — mentored by HR Nandi Vardhan, Asst. Professor, Dept. of ECE.

The lightweight MUDRA glove can be worn comfortably like a riding glove. It recognises hand gestures in all possible directions and angles using flex resistors, accelerometer and gyroscope. The corresponding output is transmitted as speech through inbuilt speakers. The unique feature of the glove is cost effectiveness without compromising on quality and efficiency.

Giving details Abhijith Bhaskaran, a team member, said, “The glove is much cheaper as compared to similar gesture-sensing products available today. The prototype took us 16 weeks to build and costs Rs 7,500. The glove can currently recognise numbers from 1 to 10, and Indian sign language gestures corresponding to words such as morning, night, goodbye, thank you, etc. It can detect four different states of each finger, and as many as 70 gestures can be configured. The glove is now in advanced stage of the production cycle. We have begun validating its social feasibility.”  — TNS