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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

A B O U T D E PA R T M E N T
Recent Events 2

Present Scenario 3
The department of Industrial
Mother Earth 4 & production engineering
was started in the year 1984
Innovations 5 with Lt.Col. B. Papanna as
the first professor and HOD.
Initiatives 6 The 4 years BE degree in IPE
was run under Bangalore
Placement 7
University. Lt. Col. Papanna
headed the department till
Team 8
1996. In the year 1992, Ban-
galore university initiated a
Chief Editor: BE course in Industrial engi-
neering & management on a
• Dr. H. Ramakrishna, Prof. & semester scheme. From
Head, IEM 1996 to 2002 , the professor
and HOD of the department
Editors-Staff: of mechanical engineering
was also given the portfolio
 S.A.Vasantha Kumara, Asso- Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at DSCE
ciate Prof. of heading the department of
IEM.
 R.V.Praveena Gowda, Asst. In the year 1998, the college
Prof. was affiliated to Visweswarai- Many faculty members are grams. Currently, we have
ah Technological University award-wining teachers. on-campus graduate pro-
Editors-Student: (VTU) with some modifica- Students, undergraduate grams, ME IE.
 Ankit Prakash, VIIth sem tions in the syllabus and and graduate alike, enjoy Lastly, the strong commit-
scheme. the personal attention of ment of our faculty to re-
 Mayur Patel, VIIth sem The department has 13 fac- faculty. search is reflected in their
ulty members, over 200 un- The department has pio- ability to attract funding in
 Niveditha Sunderraj, VIIth dergraduate students and neered the on-campus their areas of expertise.
sem over 30 graduate students. offering of graduate pro-
Dear friends,

We are happy that the M ESSAGE FROM T HE HOD

fourth Issue of our depart-
ment‟s Newsletter, IEpistle
is brought out. We seek
your cooperation, sugges-
tion and support to improve
our work.
Thanks
Editors
Industrial Engineers are
mainly concerned with the
design, implementation,
and improvement of inte-
grated systems of people,
materials, equipment and
energy. It is often called
the people-oriented engg.
discipline, and its applica-
tions are widely expected
in industrial, manufactur-
ing, service, commercial
and governmental activi-
ties.
It is good that department
is coming out with the
fourth issue of newsletter
in this semester. The issue
contains stimulating and
interesting articles from
students and staff. This is
a welcome sign and needs
all encouragement.
- Dr. H. Ramakrishna
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TECHNICAL TALK ON CONTINUOUS
I M P R OV E M E N T
October 9, A talk on CONTINU-
OUS IMPROVEMENT in Indus-
tries was held for the 7th and
5th semesters and the 3rd
Semester M.Tech students,
held on 9th October. The
guest speaker was Mr. KASHI
VISHWANATH. We were intro-
duced to the company ENPHI-
NITI SOLUTIONS by Dr. Kiran.
Mr. Vishwanath mainly
stressed on the continuous
improvement in any company
should follow for its upbring-
ing. He gave an insight into
the word KAIZEN. And how
the JAPANESE use it and the
sources it has been derived
from. Kaizen is used currently
I N D I A M A N U FA C T U R I N G S H O W 2 0 1 0 V I S I T
"Genius is one per cent October 11, A team of 40
inspiration and ninety- students from VII semester
BE, along with PG students
nine percent attended technical seminar
on “IT for competitive ad-
perspiration." vantage for MSME's “ by Prof.
Sadagopal, IIITB , “Energy &
Environment for MSME's” by
- Thomas Edison Energy & Environment for
MSME's and “Operations
Strategy for MSME's “ by Prof.
T E AC H E R S D AY C E L E B R AT I O N
September 5th, to commemo- words from our HOD. We were told
rate the Birthday of
about how special they felt to teach
Dr.S.Radhakrishnan is cele-
brated all over the country as
teachers‟day. The dept. of
IEM also was not behind on
celebrations.
The students of the depart-
ment, from the final year and
the pre-final year put up a
grand show for all the teach-
ers. It began with an invoca-
tion and proceeded with
by TOYOTA. There are 3 rules:
MUDA, MURA, MURI which are
unproductive activities, just in
time inventory and over bur-
den respectively. Light was
thrown onto
Shah, IIMB at India Manufac-
turing Show 2010 .
It was an inspiring afternoon
with heads of prestigious
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why continuous improvement
is necessary in an industry.
Enphiniti solutions basically
deals with CAE-computer aid-
ed engineering and its appli-
cation in the fields of Industri-
al and Mechanical Engineer-
ing. They train students with
prior PRO-E and CATIA
knowledge. We were guided
on how to chose our preferred
career paths. The session was
concluded with Mr. Vasantha
Kumar giving the vote of
thanks.
- Lakshmipriya, VIIth sem
institutions. They talked
about startups and young
entrepreneurial programs for
students.
Thereafter all students visited
the Manufacturing Show
where more than 100 compa-
nies showcased their prod-
ucts. It was an informative
visit.
-Rajesh, VIIth sem
us and their pleasures of teach-
ing. All the senior staff shared a
few words with the students.
There were musical perfor-
mances by the pre-final year
students.
A cake was cut, before we dis-
persed for lunch which was
organized by the students. Eve-
ryone seemed to enjoy them-
selves.
-Kavya, VIIth sem
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T E C H T A L K O N P RO D U C T L I F E
C Y C L E M A N AG E M E N T
September 22, JSS Academy
for Technical education has
come in collaboration with the
Product life cycle manage-
ment Competency Centre and
the French ministry of Educa-
tion and Research to educate
mechanical engineers and
industrial engineers, to help
students make better use of
cutting edge CAD software for
development.
A professor working with the
French government came to
address us: Prof. Nicolas Fer-
rand. He was introduced by
the respected principal of
Dayananda Sagar College of
Engineering Dr.Netaji Gane-
shan. He gave us a small pep
POOR LOGISTICS COSTS INDIA $65 BILLION
A N N UA L LY
Despite the Indian retail sec-
tor being in the high-growth
mode, the country is losing
$65 billion every year due to
inefficient supply chain sys-
tems. The supply chain costs
in India are about 12 percent
to 13 percent of the gross
domestic product (GDP) com-
pared with 7 percent to 8
percent of GDP in developed
countries, according to a re-
port titled, „Global competi-
tiveness of retail supply chain-
Challenges, Strategies and
Recommendations‟ published
by industry body Confedera-
tion of Indian Industry (CII)
and Amarthi Consulting.
The report says that India is at
47th position on logistics and
is behind countries such as
Japan, U.S., Germany and
China. The supply chain costs
in India deal with the procure-
ment, manufacture and distri-
bution of products and ser-
vices, and drive the success
of the retail sector.
The retail industry in India,
talk as to what could be learnt
from this talk and what its bene-
fits would be.
Then the stage was handed over
to Prof. Nicolas, who introduced
us to the work that they were do-
ing with the French govern-
ment. He gave us an insight into
the different software made by
which is expected to grow
over $879 billion by 2018, is
a $410 billion market. Food
and groceries account for 70
percent of the retailed items
followed by textile and appar-
el at seven percent. The tex-
tiles and apparel segment
represents about 40 percent
of the organized sector, which
account 95 percent of the
retail sector.
The retail industry in India
faces supply chain challenges
like inadequate supply chain
infrastructure, complex taxa-
tion laws, high levels of inter-
mediaries, product prolifera-
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Dassault systems like “CATIA-
V5″ “DELMIA-V5″ “SIMULIA-V5″
and “SMARTEAM” These soft-
ware are used for different
purposes during the various
design stages.
He showed us some examples
too. It was a very good experi-
ence for the students and this
rapturing orator was liked by
all.
He even clarified our doubts
and asked him to call us if we
had any further queries. The
students were grateful to the
department for conducting this
very educative technical talk.
- Md. Raeef, VIIth sem
“If you cannot measure
it, you cannot improve
it”
-Lord Kelvin
tion and lack of supply chain
visibility. Some of the key
recommendations of the re-
port are improving supply
chain infrastructure, imple-
mentation of goods and ser-
vices tax (GST), reducing in-
termediaries, and adopting
green supply chain practices.
Green supply chains involve
integrating environmental
thinking into the core opera-
tions of a company, starting
from material sourcing to
delivery to end-of-life recy-
cling.
- Chandrasekhar, VIIth sem
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MOTHER EARTH
Conserve:
Planet Earth.
This is our home, every
single thing here belongs
to us. And by ruining it
we‟re only causing harm to
ourselves. Mother Nature
has created a perfect bal-
ance of things in all the
cycles. Pollution, cutting
down of trees, carbon
emissions etc are leading
to the Green house effect
And this is only
the beginning of destruc-
tion.
The consequences of glob-
al warming are unimagina-
ble.
It all starts from cutting of
trees combined with exces-
sive carbon dioxide emis-
sion. The CO2 that is left
behind in the atmosphere
"... do something. creates a layer around it-
self which prevents heat
Pay your rent for the from escaping the planet.
The heating of the planet
privilege of living melts the glaciers and the
on this beautiful, blue- ice caps. And we‟ve al-
ready almost reached that
green, living Earth." stage. Soon we‟ll be sur-
rounded only by water. All
- Dave Foreman
the land will drown.
Recycle:
Trees.
And everything that comes
from trees. Instead of
throwing all your paper, get
it recycled (give it to the
raddiwala) or if you can
then do it at home.
Did you know: If everybody
in the world recycles just
their Sunday Newspaper
then half a million trees
can be saved from destruc-
tion every week. That‟s
how important recycling is.
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Plant a tree:
In the name of develop-
ment, for metro work, for
flyover/road constructions
thousands and thousands
of trees are cut in Urban
India every year. And trees
are the only absorbents of
CO2. So plant as many as
possible. Every tree plant-
ed makes a difference.
You plant 1 tree, it absorbs
the CO2 produced by your
car, so this way neutraliza-
tion can be achieved.
Not only that, trees give us
shade, trees provide food
for animals and even hu-
man beings. They provide
you with shade, cools the
temperature around and
plant a nice mango tree
outside your house and in
a few years you‟ll be cher-
ishing sweet mangoes!
As far as possible, try to
STOP the cutting down of
trees.
Trees NEED to be recycled.
They‟re the only way we
can save our planet.
Also STOP using plastic
bags, use cloth bags in-
stead. Even though the
plastic bags claim they are
bio degradable, they do
not decompose fully…
- Niveditha, VIIth sem
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TEENS D E V E L O P WA S H I N G M A C H I N E
WITH JUNK, RUNS WITHOUT ELECTRICITY
In a drive towards raising In another such showcase underground is moving at
awareness about environ- of innovation four students a faster rate, an indication
mental issues, two teens, of from a school in Banga- of the likelihood of an
Sourabh Siyal and Tushar lore, under the guidance of earthquake. The fast
Agarwal, have developed a their Physics teacher de- movement of lava will
washing machine made veloped an „Earthquake force the water level to
out of junk material. The predictor‟. “The earth- increase, which in turn will
machine, named „Eco quake predictor is nothing make the buzzer give out
wash‟, runs on mechanical but a borewell. The bore- signals,” said Subramani-
and kinetic energy, without well is attached to a buzz- an K, one of the students.
the use of electricity. er. The buzzer makes
“The main washtub is built sound if the underground
water level increases, - Gaurav, Vth sem
with junk materials like
discarded plastic bottles which means that the
and a pulley is attached to movement of lava in the
the plastic bottle to run the
machine. The pulley moves
with the help of kinetic
energy and helps to wash
clothes,” explains Agarwal,
who wants to be a scien-
tific innovator.
“Our idea is to do away
with electricity and come
up with an alternative. The “The Industrial
washing machine can be
useful in big textile indus-
Engineer looks at chaos,
tries. We‟re planning to and has a vision of
give our idea to one of In-
dia‟s leading garment order”
manufacturing units,” says
Siyal, who too wants to
pursue research work in - Edward White
the field of science.

WHAT IS SIX SIGMA?

Six Sigma is a business

methods, and creates a spe-
management strategy orig-
cial infrastructure of people
inally developed by
within the organization
Motorola, USA in 1981.As
("Black Belts", "Green Belts",
of 2010, it enjoys wide-
etc.) who are experts in the-
spread application in many
and removing the causes se methods. Each Six Sigma
sectors of industry, alt-
of defects (errors) and min- project carried out within an
hough its application is not
imizing variability in manu- organization follows a de-
without controversy.
facturing and business fined sequence of steps and
Six Sigma seeks to im- has quantified financial tar-
processes. It uses a set of
prove the quality of pro- gets (cost reduction or profit
quality management meth-
cess outputs by identifying increase).
ods, including statistical
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S A E I N D I A – D S C E C O L L E G I AT E
CLUB
SAE is a US based interna-
tional organization which
has collegiate educational
technical clubs in premier
institutions like MIT, Stan-
ford, UC Berkeley etc. In
India, SAEINDIA has over
22500 student members
in more than 190 Colle-
giate clubs including varsi-
ties like the IIT‟s, NIT‟s,
BITS etc.
In our college, the same
was established in May
2010, by few students of
Industrial Engineering &
Management. Now, in its
second academic year, our
SAEINDIA-DCSE collegiate
club has around 200 stu-
dent members from all
branches of engineering.
Being not deceived by the
"Success seems to be name, it is an academic
connected with action. forum which has large
scale benefits for every
Successful people keep student irrespective of his/
her branch or stream of
moving. They make engineering.
mistakes, but they don't MOTIVE OF SAE CLUB
quit."
- Conrad Hilton S I X S I G M A A N D L E A N M A N U FAC T U R I N G C L U B
The primary goal of the Six
Sigma & Lean Manufactur-
ing Club is to bring togeth-
er Students of Mechanical,
Industrial & Management
sciences broadly studying
in the area of TQM, Six
Sigma, Lean Manufactur-
ing and related Quality
fields to promote commu-
nity-wide discussion on
ideas that will influence
and foster continued re-
search in this field. The
club will provide a platform
to coordinate among par-
Collegiate clubs provide
practical exposure to a
professional engineering
society as well as focal
point for campus engineer-
ing programs and projects.
It provides technical talks,
seminars, pre-placement
activities, events, industrial
trips, national level quizzes
etc. to benefit students.
SCHOLARSHIP SCHEMES
There are many scholar-
ships to be won both at
section level and national
level. Student members
are eligible to apply for
some of the SAE Interna-
ticipants from industry and
academia to identify the
problem for students and
researchers to get new
ideas, practical knowledge
and novel applications.
Core Concentration:
 Total Quality Manage-
ment
 Six Sigma
 Lean Manufacturing
 Quality Function De-
ployment
 Failure Mode & Effect
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tional scholarship also.
COMPETETION UNDER SAE
Competitions as follows
are held every year by SAE.
Baja (currently in our col-
lege)
 Formula-I
 Hybrid Car
 Aero-Modelling
MEMBERSHIP ELIGIBILITY
All Engineering / Architec-
tures students (Year 1–
Year 4) are eligible
Membership fee =
Rs.300/- only.
More information available
at:
saeindia.org (Indian web-
site)
sae.org (International-USA)
- Anand Bhate, Vth Sem
Analysis
 Application and future
trends in Six Sigma &
Lean Manufacturing
- Nitesh Maruthi, Vth Sem
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ACADEMIC FORUM

The academic forum which These issues are then pon-

is headed by our Dean, Dr dered over & solutions to
Lakshmi Kantha, is a stu- various problems are ar-
dent‟s forum, where all rived at. The Dean also di-
issues related to academ- rects future plans that need
ics are deal with. to be carried out in every
class. The sessions held are
The meetings are held interactive & emphasize on
once every month where 2 betterment & progress in
class representatives from
academics.
each class of all depart-
ments participate. The CRs
get together & report to -Pavan.B.Prakash, VIIth sem
the Dean, the progress of - Sonal.R.Mutha, VIIth sem
their respective class ses-
sions, student problems,
suggestions etc.

P LAC EMENTS

Placement office headed by

“Optimist: The glass is
Our Senior Industrial Engi-
Guruvenkatesh conducts
neers are already placed in half full.
meetings regularly and
Infosys, IBM, Volvo, Amada,
keeps students updated
Tyco Electronics, Gati Logis-
about the placements. tics, Tesco, Mahindra British
Pessimist: The glass is
Database of students are Telecom, Dakshini Apparels half empty.
collected in a systematic and so on.
manner according to the
Updated information regard-
requirements forwarded by
ing the placement activities Industrial Engineer: The
the companies. Companies
can be availed from glass is twice as large as
like Infosys, Accenture, HCL
technologies, Yukogawa, dsceiem.com/placement
Volvo, Volkswagen, Toyota
it needs to be.”
Oracle, Amada and so on - Aravinda Aithal, VIIth sem
are interested for campus - Rashmi.B.S., VIIth sem
recruitment.
D e p a r t m en t o f
I n d u s tr i a l
Engineering &
Management
Dayananda Sagar College of
Engineering,
Kumara Swami Layout,
BANGALORE-78.
Phone: 080-26662226(Office)
e-mail: info@dsceiem.com
We are online now @
www.dsceiem.com
OUR STRENGTH
ABOUT COLLEGE
The Dayananda Sagar College
of Engineering was estab-
lished under MGVP Trust dur-
ing 1979 – 1980, offering
courses under Civil, Mechani-
cal, Electrical and Electronics
Engineering catering to the
demands of industries, and
today offers eleven under-
graduate programs leading to
award of Bachelors degree of
the VTU.
The Dayananda Sagar College
of Engineering spread over in
an area of 27 acres, is affiliat-
ed to VISVESVARAYA TECHNO-
LOGICAL UNIVERSITY (VTU)
has been approved by the
Government bodies and
AICTE. The college is situated
in the heart of Garden City
Bangalore, also known as the
Silicon Valley of India. Banga-
lore is one of the most im-
portant cities in India enjoying
a salubrious weather, is at
902 m altitude, 120 57′ N,
and 770 38′ E, is well con-
nected with all principal cities
of India by road, rail, and air.
The college enjoys the reputa-
tion and takes advantage of
the fact that the city is the
nerve centre for Information
Technology, Aerospace Tech-
nology, many electronic indus-
tries of repute, and defence
establishments which have
helped the institute in both
professional and academic
growth.
Today, the DSCE campus,
which is WiFi enabled is high
on technology with e-
classrooms, 2000 Comput-
ers , 500 Laptops and several
large computer labs.
The central libraries have
thousands of collections cov-
ering all needs and are sup-
ported by several department
libraries within each college.
The labs, workshops, hostels,
restaurants, messes, facilities
for play, recreation, theatre,
art and culture, and the clubs
serve as good forums for an
integrated development of an
individual.
Thousands of our alumni are
presiding over large corpora-
tions, running their own enter-
prises, or are in research labs.