AKS University celebrated the completion of its 5^th glorious year at the auditorium of University on 31/12/2016. During the course of its journey, AKS University, the pride of Vindhya region has left no stone unturned to make people realize its unfathomable potential in terms of energy, creation and innovation. On this occasion, Professor P.K.Banik, Vice-Chancellor resolved to give new dimension to University in field of research and development. Er. Anant Soni, Chairman-AKSU expressed his pertinent views on the main objective of establishing AKS University and sustaining its high level educational parameters. Varun Chamadiya, the “Motivational Speaker” shared his views on inculcation of excellent teaching skills within teachers. Dr. Pradeep Chaurasiya, Chahna Desai and Pramod Sharma sparked the occasion through their cultural presentations. On this occasion, Dean, Directors, HoDs and faculty members of all the departments were present.

Dr. G.K. Pradhan, Engineering Dean of AKS University visited the Shyam Cement Company situated in Java, a sub-continent of Indonesia. Sharing the information about the lime stone mines, Dr. Pradhan told that one of the special characteristics of the lime stone is that it follows the mechanical procedures in mining process rather than the explosives. Dr. Pradhan told that during the visit he met the director of Shyam Cement and discussed various technical aspects of mining.

Surface Miner is very useful and significant: Sharing his experiences of abroad visit Dr. Pradhan said that the surface minor used in lime stones of Indonesia can be used in Indian mines as well. This technique will be advantageous for the students of AKS University also as it will lead them to achieve higher positions in mining career. As it is well known that Dr. Pradhan had visited the Indonesian cement plant on the invitation of American Tranker. On his maiden visit, Dr. Pradhan was congratulated by Chancellor-B.P. Soni, Vice Chancellor-P.K. Banik, Chairman-Anant Kumar Soni, Dean, Directors and HoDs of all the departments.

Practical training is one of the vital aspects of the syllabus framed by the AKS University and so the University keeps on organizing the practical training of students in reputed organizations in regular time intervals. In this series, 26 students of AKS University belonging to different streams like B.Sc and B.Tech participated in two days workshop organized in National Academy of Science Institute, Allahabad from 22/12/2016 to 23/12/16 on the topic Foundation of Mathematics. During the workshop, students received the knowledge of basic principles of mathematics such as real numbers, countable and uncountable numbers, ordinal and cordinal number sets, mathematical logic and various theorems. During the visit, students were guided by Sudha Agrawal-HOD Mathematics and faculty members named Bharat Jaiswal, NeelKanth Napit, Radhekrishna Shukla, Hrishikesh Chaurasiya and Ramesh Singh.

Seventh semester students of AKS University made an industrial visit to Hutty Gold Mines situated in Karnataka state. 12 students of B.Tech Mining were selected for the visit where they received the practical training of all those topics of syllabus which they had studied in classes. During the training programme students learnt the inspection of mines surface, they also learnt the metallurgical infrastructure, hydrolic stowing arrangement, training center, resque station and training gallery. Students also received the practical knowledge of gold mining. As it is well known this mines produces the 5 K.G. gold/day. The understanding of the functioning of the gold mine enhanced the knowledge of students and boosted their confidence level.

Maintaining its record of providing placement to students through campus drives, AKS University organized yet another drive to help in realizing the dreams of students. Amazon, a reputed online shopping company came for a placement drive in campus of AKS University. During the campus drive approximately 50 students of B.Com, B.Sc IT and BCA got the opportunity to participate. Speaking about the drive M.K.Pandey told that two students namely Rishabh Pandey and Madhuresh Sen were selected by the company HRs on the salary package of 2.24 lacs/annum.