Faculty Achievements 

• Best Research Publication Award 2018, Vision Group, Government of Karnataka, Department of IT, BT and Science & Technology, Prof. Subhash C. Yaragal.
• Prof. Subhash C. Yaragal was appointed as a Nominee of VTU Belagavi to the “IQAC Member” of PDACE, Kalaburagi (Autonomous) from 31st January 2022 to 30th January 2025.
• Prof. Subhash C. Yaragal was invited as an Expert Member for Faculty selection at KLE Technological University, Hubballi on 11th February 2022.
• Dr. Bibhuti Bhusan Das has been nominated as a Member of the Board of Studies in Civil Engineering for a period of 3 years for NMAMIT, NITTE (Deemed to be University).
• Dr. Bibhuti Bhusan Das has been nominated as a BOS Member for a period of one year for Mangalore Institute of Technology and Engineering (MITE), Mangalore.
• Dr. Raviraj H Mulangi has been nominated as a BOS Member KLE Technological University, Hubli.
• Dr. Raviraj H Mulangi has been nominated as a BOS Member G.I.T., Belgaum.
• Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar was inducted as an Expert member of the Working Group (WG) on developing a new Indian Standard IS 13920 (Part 11) on "Earthquake Resistant Design and Detailing of Coastal Structures”.
• Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar was inducted as an Expert member of the Working Group on developing a new Indian Standard IS 15988 (Part 11) “Earthquake Safety Assessment and Retrofitting - Coastal Structures”.
• Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar was re-elected as TC Member of “Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics”, Technical Committee of Geo-Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar was nominated as Executive Committee Member, Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET), IIT Roorkee.
• Dr. Rajasekaran, C has been nominated as a BOS Academic Council Nominee for Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Tamil Nadu.
• Dr. Rajasekaran, C has been nominated as a BOS Member for Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Kumaracoil, Tamilnadu.
• Dr. T. Palanisamy has been nominated as a BOS Member for Annapoorna Engineering college, Salem, India.
• Dr. T. Palanisamy has been nominated as a BOS Member for Dr. N. G. P College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Dr. T. Palanisamy has been nominated as a BOS Member for Government College of Engineering (GCE), Salem, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Dr. Babloo Chaudhary has been nominated as the Secretary of Asian Regional Technical Committees 1 (AsRTC1): Geotechnical Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change-induced Geo-disasters in Asia-Pacific Regions of ISSMGE. 
• Dr T Palanisamy was granted a patent, “Microbialcerat composite”, Patent No: 399619, on 21.06.2022. 
• Prof. Narasimhan M.C received the “Concrete Teacher of Karnataka - 2021 award instituted by ICI (Bengaluru)- UltraTech on 25th February 2022.
• Dr. Babloo Chaudhary nominated as the Secretary of Asian Regional Technical Committees 1 (AsRTC1) of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.
• Dr. Mithun Mohan was invited as a Session Chair for the 2nd International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Conception to Execution (TIPCE 2022) at IIT Roorkee on 14th September 2022.
• Dr. Rajasekaran, C. was invited as a Session Chair for the National Conference on Structural and Geotechnical Engineering (NCSGE-2022) held at NIT Jamshedpur, November 2022.
• Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar was nominated as a member of the Estate & Works Committee of Chanakya University (2022).
• Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar serves as Associate Editor, International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (IJGEE), IGI Global, USA.
• Dr. Sreekumar M. was invited as a Session Chair for the 14th International Conference on Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries (TPMDC) at IIT Bombay during 19-21 December 2022.
• Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar participated as a panellist in Panel Discussion on Government, Industries, Non-profits in MHEWs. What is next? on 26th October 2022 at International Symposium on Multi-hazards Warning & Community Resilience (MWCR 2022), 25-26 October 2022 .

Student Achievemnts

• Nalla Sudeepthi, DAAD Fellowship, University of Stuttgart, Germany 2021 (300 EUR monthly fellowship).

• Nalla Sudeepthi, OP Jindal Engineering and Management Scholarship 2020 OPJEM Scholar for year 2020.

• Nalla Sudeepthi, Best Cadet Award 2021 2 KAR ENGR COY NCC, NITK Surathkal.

• Sarthak Chaturvedi, LOTUS-HR program 2019 Research support from Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.

• Savin K N, NCC Certification 2019 NCC A, B and C Certificates.

• Shashank S R, Science Journalism online Competition, IISc, Bangalore 20.01.2019 Second Prize.

• Kalava Sumanth, Nandan Patgar, and Ujjwal Shukla, All India Inter NIT hockey tournament 10.03.2019 First Runner up

• Swaraj U Rao, All India Inter NIT Volleyball 2019 Second Runner up and Team Captain

• Manu K Sajan received Best Presentation Award at the 1st International Symposium on Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies, 9-11 March, 2021, Fukuoka, Japan.

• Divyashree was selected for the NITK football team to represent the institute in various football competitions.

• Nirajan P and Vaibhav Pratap completed their summer internship at Evoke De-Polytechnic University Montreal and Ryerson University, Canada, respectively. They were selected through the MITACS Global Research Internship program.

• Akasnsha won 1st position in the “Safe drive, Save life” science competition.

• Kartikey Tiwari won the second position in a quiz competition organized by the Hindi avem Sanskrit club of NITK.

• Kartikey Tiwari received 3rd position along with his group in IEEE mistify.

• Kamishetty Abhiram and his team won the silver medal in basketball sport during the fresher’s cup 2022.

• Akash Kori was selected for the United Nations Millenium Fellowship program 2022-23. The fellowship is a semester-long leadership development program that allows students to take their social impact initiatives to the next level.

• S. Sai Teja Reddy won various medals in district-level badminton tournaments.

• Abhay Kumar won the VOIS for Tech Innovation Marathon 2022, a prestigious competition that invites students to build tech solutions using data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, and cyber security.

• Aditiya Joshi was selected for the Internship Programme of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, for the Summer Session 2022, which will last for three months from October to December.

• Amit Kumar was selected for the final interview round of the prestigious OPJEMS academicbased scholarship.

• Faheema Valiyatt won 3rd place in the Independence Day Celebrations Art Competition and 1st place in the Photo Caption Contest.

• Kashish Prajapati won 3rd place in the Finance event during ENGINEER.

• Raghav Bajpai was a delegate (representing Sweden) at the NITK-MUN 22 event organized by the Debate Society on 5-6th November 2022, where they achieved 5th place.

• Yashas RS, Vibhanshu Vishal, and Tarun S Hegde have participated in the Smart India Hackathon (SIH) under the team name 404 NOT Found.

• Vandana Kamal V and Kaveri N significantly contributed to her team's success in earning a bronze medal in the Inter-NIT Women's basketball competition.

• Priyanka Narayan earned a gold medal at the All India inter-NIT Chess tournament, and her team reached the quarter-finals of the All India inter-NIT badminton tournament.

• Andem Shiva Akshay, Mayur K Nair, Aryan Yadav and Asheesh Kumar earned the 1st place finish in the Chess tournament.

•  Hari Sharan earned an overall 3rd place in the Freshers Cup tournament.

• Aakasnsha was the runner-up in the Badminton Girls' tournament.

• Siddhi Parkar was the runner-up in the Badminton Girls' Tournament.

• Debia Lollin was the runner-up in the Badminton tournament.

• Digvijay Singh, Lukeshwar, Yashas R, Kartikey Tiwari, Hishamuddin, Neha Agarwal, and Tanuja M participated in the street play “Nukkad Natak”, which was the inter-branch competition held on campus on the eve of the 75th anniversary of independence and was organized by DDFC NITK. They received the third position in the incredible storyline and performance. DSW singled out Digvijay Singh and Lukeshwar for their exceptional performances in the play.