The Freshers Day was celebrated at the campus with Mr. Chetan Krishnaswamy, Country Head- Public Policy of Google India as the chief guest. Principal, Dr. U. M. Bhushi welcomed the gathering and Chairman, Mr. Manjunath Bhandary in his opening remarks stated that this is the day where we should take up goals; achieve them by doing our best and attain success in the coming years. He advised the students to take the guests as role models. He said that ‘engineers are visionaries; they create jobs for others’. He also added that one needs to be enrolled in project based learning along with academics.

Mr. Chetan Krishnaswamy delivered his address and stated as to how Google looks at product development and also said that User privacy is of utmost importance to Google. It focuses more on light weight offline version of product. He advised the new entrants to be extremely open, transparent as information flows from all the directions and also emphasized on being result oriented/outcome driven. He mentioned that having good writing and verbal skills is essential along with building one’s own strength. He concluded saying that one should be dynamically collaborative and have key attributes with essential abilities to face the challenges in the World outside.