Students Affairs

AERO EXPO 2019 | Event Date: Monday, 15th, April 2019. Aero Club of School of Aeronautical Sciences conducted Aero Expo 2019, exclusively for first year Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering students on 15 April 2019. Around 170 students participated and displayed their static models. Models were reviewed and best models were appreciated for their creativity and idea. Dr. Dilip A Shah, Dean-Aero and Dr. R. Asokan, HoD-Aero presided over the function and encouraged young minds for their interest in the expo.

ALBEDO

JUNOCAM IMAGE OF NEBULA ASTRO CLUB | Event Date: Monday, 7th, November 2022. The Junocam Community is an initiative by NASA where amateur astronomers can actively participate and upload their telescopic images of the Planet Jupiter. The Students of Nebula Astro Club have submitted the processed raw image of Jupiter which was approved by NASA and image is uploaded in the JunoCam Community Website. The approved image shown below projects the PJ46 South Pole at Minimum Emission Angle. To view the image go to link: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=14500

National association of student of architecture

INVESTITURE CEREMONY OF ATHENA LITERARY CLUB | Event Date: Friday, 16th, August 2019. The department of Languages conducted the Investiture Ceremony of the Students Literary Club Athena for the current academic year on 16 August 2019. Dr. Akkara Sherine, Head Languages & Rankings apprised the audience regarding the importance of the literary club to promote the language skills, theatrical skills and competitive spirit. She appreciated the Staff coordinators Ms. Sonu Joseph and Ms. Beulah Catherine, Assistant Professors, Dept of Languages and Athena Club students who coordinated for the events in the previous academic year. The students were applauded for their performance in theater plays during the World Theater Day celebration and also their efforts to coordinate for the literary events. She also thanked Dr. Ramesh Babu, Head School of Science and Humanities for rendering his support to English department in all its endeavors. Later, Dr. Ramesh Babu addressed the audience and encouraged students to participate in the club activities and external events. During the investiture ceremony, the office bearers were assigned specific posts and took oaths to implement activities throughout the year.

Athena Club Members

Vice President - Lauxley G R Pandiyan, CSE 3rd Year.

Secretary - Niranjana Seshadri, CSE 4th Year. Deputy Secretary - Harsha Vardhan, Mehcanical 2nd Year.
Treasurer - Sai Inesh N L, EEE 2nd Year.
Student Liaison - Arjumand Ayishah, CSE 4th Year.
Student Liaison - Bhanu Ravi, CSE 1st Year.
Director of Media - S Sai Jagadeeshwar, Aeronautics 2nd Year.

MATHEMATICS DEPT 

NAMMA MADRASAPATTINAM 2021 | Event Date: Wednesday, 18th, August 2021 - Friday, 20th, August 2021 

The students of final year MBA Hotel & Tourism Management and the UG - BBA Tourism &Travel Management and Aviationhosted the Madras Week – Namma Madrasapattinam 2021 as a part of club activity. The main objective of celebrating the Madras week was to share the glorious history and vibrant past of our city that came into existence on August 22nd 1639. What began as a half day celebration 13 years ago has now become a week-long event from August 22 – 28 every year as Madras week. Madras week commemorates the beginning and expansion of Chennai, making it possible for the present generation to look back and see how it all begun. Hence, the Pranaam – Hindustan Hospitality Club decided to celebrate the 382nd Madras week celebration with the entire campus of Hindustan Institute of Science and Technology from 18 to 20 August 2021.

DAY 01 (18 August 2021) The inauguration witnessed around 200 spectators through 2 google meet links including faculties and students of MBA, BBA, Engineering, Fashion Designing, Arts and others. The MC was done by the MBA final year students Mr. Andrew Benjamin and Ms. Muskan Dubey. With the tradition, the celebration begun with the Tamilthai Valthu followed by the Welcome address by the Head of Department, M. K. Badrinarayanan.Dr. Pon Ramalingam, Registrar, HITS congratulated and appreciated the initiative taken by the club. He also encouraged all the clubs to bring up more activities and events.

TalkShow 1–Infrastructure The first Talk Show of the day was by Ms. Thirupurasundari Sevvel on “Singara Chennai”. Ms. Thirupurasundari is a renowned Architect as well as an Urban Planner trained in UK and France. Apart from that she is also the initiator of “Nam Veedu Nam Oor Nam Kadhai” an initiativethat stems from her passion for storytelling, heritage, history and education. She gave aninsightful talk on the History and Ancient Infrastructure of Anna Nagar, Aminjikarai & Shenoy Nagar.

TalkShow 2 – Media and Cinema The second Talk Show was by our Alumnus Mr. Suraj Singh on “Tamil Thiraipadam”. He is an Asst. Manager at Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. He had pursued his MBA in Media and Entertainment from Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science where he has also been the Cultural Secretary. He also shared us his experience in the media industry in which he was a part of past 5 years. He explained how Cinema emerged in Madras through his presentation and videos.

Competition 01

Debate 

The first competition on 18 August was the Debate judged by Dr. M Rajeswari and Dr. Loganatha Prasanna. We had around 6 teams competing with each other on the topic “Madras v/s Chennai”. The 1-hour long event came to an end with a note by saying - past or present our city has always been the best.

Competition 02

Photography

The second competition was Photography with the theme “Vintage Madras”. The participants had the choice of submitting multiple photos and were declared winners through likes and relativity to the theme. All the photos were posted in the Travelogs Instagram page. The club members had a hard time selecting the winners as every photo had 200+ likes and were the best shots of Chennai.

DAY 02 (19 August 2021)

Competition 03

Connection 

The third competition was the “Connection”judged by Mr. Saravana Kumar. We had a total of 8 teams with 2 participants each. The competition had 4 rounds of connections and ended with a tie breaker round.

Competition 04 

Just a minute 

The last competition was “Just a Minute”judged by Ms. Catherene and Dr. Madhumitha. The event had around 5 participants given a place 2 minutes prior the competition to prepare and 1 minute to speak about the given destination.

DAY 03 (20 August 2021) 

The valedictory ceremony gathered over 120 spectators using 2 google meet links. Pro Vice Chancellor, Dr. Alexander Jesudasan begun the valedictory address with the slogan of Namma Madrasapattinam 2021 – “Chennai is a Word, Madras is an Emotion.” He shared his experience being in Chennai and also the emotional connect with city. He appreciated the entire team and the School of Management for bringing up the initiative and also including the entire campus for the event.

TalkShow 3 

Cuisines The first “Talk Show”for the valedictory was by Chef Saravanan on “Parampariya Samayal”. He heads the Culinary Operation of Marigold Hotels by Green Park Hyderabad. Chef Saravanan is a person of varied experience gleaned from years spent at tenures ranging from luxury cruise liners to years spent in USA promoting Indian cuisine. He shared his experience and knowledgeable perception of the cuisine in Chennai. He started a mouthwatering session beginning with the non veg stalls in marina beach in the evening, sundal for couples and idli shops for bachelors.

Talk Show 4

 Culture The last “Talk Show”for the day was by our Alumnus Mr. Rj Riyas on “Vazhviyal and Kalacharam”. Rj Riyas was the recipient of the University Rank Holder Award for the year 2015. Other than being a radio jokey with radio mirchi, he has also hosted several stage shows for various occasions, participated in Vijay TVs shows, is a spokesperson for rotary club madras and was recently awarded with the Public Image Award for being active during this pandemic situation.We experienced a fulltime entertainment live radio session from our alumni making it interesting with music videos and memes.

Bytes The surprise bytes of all professors made the entire viewers emotional. The technical team has put a wonderful work by asking the heads and the professors to express their views on Chennai is a Word, Madras is an Emotion. It was a 4-minute-long video covering most of the departments of HITS. The video was compiled and edited by Mr. Lalith Kumar,Mr. Andrews P.and Mr. Ajay Benny of MBA Media.The valedictory session came to an end with the instrumental performance of Ms. Auro Pradeepa of BBA and a classical performance by Ms. Varshini of MBA.

Results

Event 1:Debate I - K. Aparajethaa II - A.Gokula Krishnan

Event 2: Quiz I – Ramachandran & Shruthi II – Geethaaney Shegaw & Nithyashree III - Gokul Krishnan & C Vishwanath

Event 3:Just a Min I- Sanjeet II- Abhiram Ajith Kumar
I – Taher Aliasgar Hameed II – Arun Kumar III– Aparajethaa K

ROTARY CLUB OF CHENNAI HINDUSTAN (RCCH) | Event Date: Saturday, 10th, June 2023. The Rotary Club of Chennai Hindustan (RCCH) celebrated its charter installation ceremony at the Presidency Club, Chennai on 10 June 2023. The event was organized by the Rotary Club of Chennai Capital (RCCC). Rtn. Dr. N. Nandakumar, the District Governor of Rotary District 3232 and Rtn. I. Z. A. K. Nazar, District Councillor were the Chief Guest and Guest of Honor respectively. The occasion was graced by Rtn. Dr. Ashok G. Verghese, Pro Chancellor of HITS, Rtn. Dr. C. M. Kishore, President of RCCC, and RCCC Board members. During the ceremony, Rtn. Dr. Pon Ramalingam was honored as the Charter President of RCCH. He received the charter certificate and the gavel, symbolizing his leadership and authority, from the District Governor and other District officials. Along with him, a total of 22 charter members were installed during the ceremony. These individuals, who were among the founding members of RCCH, played a crucial role in establishing the club. As charter members, they received the Rotary kit which includes informational materials, guidelines, and Rotary insignia, which help members understand and represent Rotary's values and mission. With the establishment of RCCH, a new family of Rotary has been formed, further expanding the network of service-oriented individuals in the Chennai area.

"There is something about outside of a horse that is good for the Inside of a Man". - Winston Churchill HITS, is the only university in India to offer a full fledged Stable of Horses on its sprawling campus. Students get to learn this unique and otherwise expensive sport of Horse Riding during their study. The club horse well maintained stable with professional trainers. Students also participate in different equestrian competitions and many have won prizes too. Basic Riding Classes are conducted early morning and in the evening. Students are taught dressage, show jumping and basic polo lessons. 

The Team ASTRA Participated in the SAE Aero Design west 2014 at Texas,USA. The team consists of Mr. Goutham Govindarajan (Team Captain), Mr. Dharun Krishnan, Ms. Anusha V, Mr. Nishanth Shankaran, Mr. Azarudeen A, Mr. Shanmuganathan Saravanan, Mr. Vikram Kiran, Mr. Anupama, Mr. Ashwin Sunderraj, Mr. Nazeershah, Mr. Aasim Mohammed, Mr. Gopikrishnan Santosh.

Participation of HITS in various motorsports events

• Baja sae (e&m)
• Supra sae
• Formula sae
• Fmae ffs
• Fmae baja
• Esvc championship
• Fmsci national racing championship
• Formula bharat
• Indo asian solar championship
• Ebike challenge
• Champions of champions
• National kart racing championship
• And many more…

BREAKSEC V4.0 2022 | Event Date: Thursday, 1st, September 2022 - Friday, 2nd, September 2022. The BreakSec workshop on “Ethical Hacking” was conducted by Kruptos Security Club (KSC), Center for Networking and Cyber Defense (CNCD) and the Department of Information Technology, on 1 and 2 September 2022. Mr. T. Vinod Senthil, Founder, Managing Director & Chief Technical Officer, InfySec Chennai presided over the event as the Chief Guest which was attended by over 110 students. In his special address Mr. T. Vinod Senthil spoke on the New-age cyber threats and its prevention. He provided a brief overview on cybercrime trending events, and dealt with topics such as Generations of Attacks and Protections, Evolution of Attacker Techniques and Defensive Technologies, Cloud-based attacks. In the next session, Mr. Thowbick, Security Engineer, Freshworks Private Limited spoke on the Practice Session of CTF and Security Tools. In the afternoon session, Mr. Ankit S. Bagal, Manager, Cyber Security Activist, Baker Tilly Business Advisory Services India shared his thoughts on the topic: “Introduction to Red Team & Burp Suite in Action.” He briefed on the general concepts of Red Teaming, Red Team Exercise Coverage, Red Team Exercise Deliverable, and some tips for the New Red Teamers. The day concluded with Mr. Aswin, Core Member, KSCs explaining the Importance of Capture the Flag (CTF) Challenges and Introducing the platform that had been created for the CTF contest which would commence on 2 September 2022. Dr. V. Ceronmani Sharmila, HOD-IT and Head-CNCD delivered the Welcome Address emphasizing the future of Cyber Training and its innovation. Ms. Mercysha Princy, Core member, KSC, introduced the Kruptos Security Club. etc. The vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. Shaik Javed, Asst. Professor, Department of IT. Mr. Sankarraj Subramanian, Network Security Consultant, and Certified Ethical commenced the day-2 session briefing on the Google Dorks-based attacks and their mitigations. He also covered Robots.txt, Gmail-based attacks, and Advanced Phishing and concluded the session with a Message for budding Cybersecurity professionals. Later, Mr. Aswin asked the top five attendees on the scoreboard of the Capture the Flag contest to submit a write-up on how they cracked the challenges. And accordingly, the top 2 write-ups were determined for the rewards.

1st Place, Model Making

Mr. V. S. Sri vishnu 

Shrishti, 

HITS 

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