Dr. C N Ashwathnarayan the Minister of Higher Education, Information Technology & Biotechnology and Science & Technology, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, and Livelihood in the Government of Karnataka had visited the VVCE campus on 07-09-2021. During his visit, he addresses the faculty members of VVCE and praises the new initiatives of VVCE. He suggests the institutions have a strong bond with alumni to grow better and motivate the students to participate in start-ups and elevate India programs.

Industrial visit to RKB Build Pro Industry of Er. Gagandeep by all faculty members of the department.

A four-week student internship program on 'Data Analytics with Python' and ' Automation Testing using Selenium’ is conducted by Information Science and Engineering Department. The faculty members handling the program are Prof. Prema N S, Dr. Prashanth M V, Prof. Vidyashree K P, and Prof Naveen Kumar M R.

Full Stack Development, a 4-week internship program for students is conducted by Information Science & Engineering Department. Prof. Yashpal Gupta S and Prof. R Kasturi Rangan are the resource persons for the internship.

Department of Information Science & Engineering in association with Tequed Labs, Bengaluru conducted one week IoT internship for Vidyavardhaka Polytechnic college students from 13/09/2021 to 18/09/2021. Prof. Gowrishankar B S, Prof. Megha V and Prof. Aishwarya T were the resource persons for the event.

A 4-week student internship program on "Big Data & Related Technologies" was started on 13th Sept 2021 by Dr. D Khasim Vali, Prof. Mohammed Mudassir, Prof. Aishwarya, Prof. Megha V, and Prof. Gagana S, Dept. of ISE.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering in association with WiNG conducted a two-day National Workshop on “Research Paper Writing Skills” from 13th September 2021 to 14th September 2021. Resource personal to the events were Dr. Sandip Chakraborty Associate Professor, CS&E, IIT, Kharagpur, Dr. T S Pradeep Kumar Professor, CS&E, VIT, Chennai, Dr. Varun G Menon Associate Professor and HOD, CS&E, SCMS School of Engineering and Technology, Kerala and Dr. Ravikumar V Professor and HOD, CS&E, VVCE, Mysuru. Participants were given insights on how to read a research paper methodologically, write a different section in paper for a conference, journal, and Techniques to choose Research Topics.

The inauguration of two ability enhancement programs was organized on 15/09/21. PLC and Automation (one week program from 13/09/21 to 18/09/21) In-house Resource Persons and Coordinators: Prof. Raghunath M J, Prof. Reshma V.P., Prof. Chaitra Ganesh Energy auditing and energy-efficient buildings (two weeks program from 16/09/21 to 30/09/21) Resource Person: Anil Kumar, Director, and Energy Specialist at Rachana Ener Care Coordinated by: Prof. D Babu Rajendra Prasad These two programs are organized to motor skill development amongst the students. The occasion was graced by Principal Dr. B Sadashive Gowda, Head of the department, Dr. Shobha Shankar, Resource persons, faculty members, and participating students.

Department of Mechanical Engineering has successfully conducted two days of skill development training on “Internet of Things (IoT)” from 07/09/2021 to 08/09/2021 under the aegis of VVCE-ME Skill Development Centre (VSDC) in association with Tequed Labs, Dept. of IS& E. Targeted students were 4th and 6th-semester students of Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. 21 students have participated in the training program.

ISHRAE Chapter of VVCE organized an industry visit to Deepanjan Cables and C5 Cold Storage on 16th September 2021.

ISHRAE Students Chapter of Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering (VVCE) was installed on On September 6, 2021. The acronym of ISHRAE is the Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating & Air conditioning Engineers. ISHRAE Mysore Chapter in association with the Department of Mechanical Engineering of VVCE took the initiative. On this occasion, Mr. Shankar Prasad, Senior Head, Educational Services, Excelsoft Technologies, Mysuru was the chief guest. He spoke about the importance of professional bodies and the significance of entrepreneurship.

The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Vidyavardhaka College of engineering conducted a Five day Online Faculty Development program on Graphical System Design in Engineering & Research Applications from 06th to 11th September 2021 in association with VI Solutions, which is a LabVIEW hands-on workshop. The total number of participants registered to this training program is 153, the participants were from different regions of India. The coordinator of this faculty development program is Dr.Shilpa R, Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE.

Department of CSE(Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning), Conducting Skill Enhancement Program for the students from 2-sept to 1st Oct 2021, Dr.Vinutha D C and Prof.Vijay C.P are the resource persons.

The webinar was conducted on 15th September. Professor and Head of the department Dr.Shobha Shankar threw light on research opportunities and collaborations possible with the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Discipline.