Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private university located in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India. Founded in 1984, as Vellore Engineering College, the institution offers 20 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate, four integrated and four research programs. It has campuses in Vellore, Amravati, Bhopal and Chennai.

VIT is one of the top ranked private universities in India according to NIRF, THE and QS Rankings.&nbsp;Govt. of India has recognized&nbsp;VIT, Vellore as an&nbsp;Institution of Eminence. This has allowed VIT to take independent quality initiatives and move up in world ranking.

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This empirical research article asserts that the outbound andragogical experiments focusing on the acquisition of soft skills prove to achieve better outcomes as they are exercised in better learning environments. The study reports the findings of the research conducted on the practice of Outbound Training (OBT) in soft skills learning for university level Indian students. With an aim to project the perks of the lateral thinking application of outdoor education in soft skills learning, the study investigated whether the mode of outbound classes comfortably achieves acquiring all the fundamental skills targeted. The participants were 176 undergraduate students and two professors from a university. Both questionnaires and interviews were employed to collect the data. The results revealed that the outdoor training (1) could greatly contribute to the social, physical and academic skill development; (2) could help the learners escape the dullness of routine in-class training; (3) could achieve the key skills through certain types of activities; and (4) could identify its distinctive features. © 2020 by Advance Scientific Research. This is an open-access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Department of English

School of Social Sciences & Languages

Vellore Campus

Journal of Critical Reviews

An empirical study on the lateral thinking application of transforming traditional classroom-based teaching into outbound activities in soft skills learning

Abundant availability of fly ash due to the combustion of coal in thermal power plants presents a major threat to rising environmental pollution. To preserve the environment, fly ash was explored as the starting material for cordierite synthesis. Cordierite ceramics are widely used in the production of microelectronic components, catalyst substrate material for internal combustion engine. Hence, this research was pursued to fabricate the cordierite in a cost effective manner using fly ash containing the major constituent’s silica (SiO2) and alumina (Al2O3). Cordierite synthesis is carried out using raw materials fly ash, magnesia and dopants such as ZrO2, CeO2 and TiO2 at different composition (5–20 wt%). The properties and the microstructure of prepared samples were evaluated using X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis (TG/DTA), and scanning electron microscopy. Their mechanical and thermal properties such as the hardness, the fracture toughness, the flexural strength and the thermal expansion coefficient (CTE) were studied and compared with their morphology. It was found that the hardness, the fracture toughness, and the flexural strength were improved on the addition of the dopant in the cordierite matrix. The cordierite-ZrO2 ceramics (CZr20) exhibited a Vickers hardness value of 7.04 GPa, the fracture toughness of 3.47 MPa m½, and flexural strength of 196.72 MPa. The results confirm the cordierite synthesized with fly ash along with dopants is found suitable for use as catalytic substrate materials with improved mechanical properties. © 2018, Springer Nature B.V.

Department of Software and Systems Engineering

School of Information Technology and Engineering

Mechanical

School of Mechanical Engineering

Chennai Campus

Department of Automotive Engineering

Silicon

Fly Ash Constituent-Silica and Alumina Role in the Synthesis and Characterization of Cordierite Based Ceramics

Joyce is notably one of the preeminent proponents of high modernism. His ground breaking avant garde writing style is an admirable quality that has redefined the exercise of prose writing. Of all his excellent traits, his mastery of twinning deserves a very big place in his prolific scholarship. Joyce, to a large extent, has applied this practice of linking in diverse areas like modernity with mythology, past with present, history with modernity, subjectivity with objectivity, etc. Nevertheless, there are certain domains that undoubtedly require an observation from new perspectives. In this connection, it can also be noted that in this 21 st century the character of novels is studied and lauded for their inclusiveness of all types of characteristics regardless of their acceptability in conventional forms. This essay possibly identifies and evaluates the novelist on the grounds that his magical quality of mixing was another perceptible affair that served for his profundity. © BEIESP.

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering

Joyce‘s wizardry of twinning – A 21 st century appraisal on his virtuosic quality

It is a known fact that, like T.S. Eliot, James Joyce's intentions to cleanse the absurdities of his native country have greatly echoed in his writings. He resolutely believed that the refinement could be possible only through his departure. However, taking the rationale behind his exit to settle in European soil into account, we can as well detect that it is the result of his bitterness towards his country because he felt many times that he was not given due attention by his contemporary writer community and religious society. Even though he had visited his hometown a few times, he stayed as an escaped artist until his last breath. It is interesting that in his works we find his idea of making an artistic escape as a consequence of his love or hate liaison with his country and its people. This article bases its argument in these research grounds and possibly explores how the writer ultimately builds up a great liking for an alienation which he believed to fetch him prominence and recognition of his very own existence in the physical and artistic world.