TCS Best Student Award function was held on 22nd April in the Muralikrishna Auditorium of CIR. Mr. K Gopakumar, Consultant from the Banking and Financial Services unit of TCS was the chief guest. The function started with the welcome address by Mr. N R Mohanan Sr. GM, Career Development CIR, who also briefed on the selection procedure to choose the best student. Prof C Parameswaran, Director CIR, delivered the keynote address highlighting the similarity in the ultimate objectives of Tata Group and Amrita namely services to the humanity. Dr. S Thirumalini, Chairperson Mechanical Engineering, mentioned that this award is very important to the Department and stressed up on the importance of success in our endeavors and one should be striving to achieve it. This was followed by the address by the chief guest who discussed that information technology has its footprint in all fields of engineering, boundaries between the departments are vanishing and problems are solved in an inter disciplinary manner. He also discussed about IoT, the challenges in card business of banking and financial services and how critical is security in the world of Information Technology. He answered a few questions from faculty and students.
Prashanth Mohanasundaram of Mechanical Engineering Department was declared as the TCS Best Student 2016 and he secured this prize beating 11 other nominations. He was awarded with a Gold Medal, a Certificate and Cash prize. In his speech Prashanth thanked his parents, teachers and friends and also mentioned about the need for being positive and patient in life. The function was attended by nearly hundred students, senior faculty members of Mechanical Engineering Department and faculty members of CIR Department. Wing Commander A Balachandran, Sr.GM Corporate Relations CIR, thanked the chief guest and others.
