Inauguration of “Center of Excellence” at Sri Ramakrishna College

Center of Excellence was inaugurated in Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, on 7th July 2017 by P. Gopalakrishnan, Urban Infrastructure Expert (PMC) Coimbatore Smart City Limited, D.Lakshminarayanaswamy, Joint Managing Trustee presided over the function, and V. Ramakrishna, COO of the Trust was also present. As part of inauguration of the center, Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College in collaboration with SAKURA – GSR organized a one day workshop on Survey Grade UAV Revolution.

As a pioneer in this domain SAKURA – GSR, Director, Dr. B. BabuMadhavan, said that this workshop will benefit the students in the application of UAV Technology.  The workshop sessions were addressed by the resource persons, Christopher Thomson and Andrea Blindenbacherfrom Sensefly, Switzerland, a collaborator of SAKURA –GSR. Dr. Krishna Mohan Buddiraju, Institute Chair Professor, Head, Center of Studies in Resources Engineering and Convener, ISRO – IIT (B) Space Technology Cell, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay delivered the special address. TheUAV drones will revolutionize, Cadastral application, application in agricultural domain, Mine monitoring sector and forest applications as well.

The sessions were attended by scientists from Tamilnadu Agricultural University ,Salim Ali Center of Ornithology, the faculty members, research scholars and student of SREC  Dr. N. R. Alamelu, Principal, Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College welcomed the gathering  and  M .Ganesh, Chief Officer, Industry Interface, proposed  vote of thanks.