Name:   BASIC SCIENCES & HUMANITIES Code:      BSH Type:   -- Strength:    -- Head:   Prof G.S. Bhaskara Rao Head Contact #: Department of BSH, Gudlavalleru Engineering College,Gudlavalleru. Phone: 08674-273737 Ext.272 Fax:   08674-273957

Basic Sciences and Humanities Department Comprises Mathematics, Physics. Chemistry, English,Environmental studies and the Physical Education.

The State-of-the-art CDCS Lab is a wing of the Basic Sciences and Humanities Department.
 

PHYSICS

   The Basic Sciences and Humanities Department has an Engineering Physics laboratory, which was established in the year 1998 with a cost of 2,76,000/- and it fulfils the needs of IB.Tech Mechanical engineering students. Ten experiments are offered to the students in the fields of Waves & Oscillations, Magnetism, Optics and Optical fibres. For smooth progress of light experiments, this laboratory is provided with dark room facility.

   The following are the List of Experiments offered in the Engineering Physics lab.

1. Determination of Rigidity modulus of a given material - Torsional Pendulum.
2. Sonometer - Verification of laws of vibrations of Stretched strings.
3. Refractive Index of the given prism.
4. Vibrations in Rods - Melde's Experiment.
5. Magnetic field along the axis of a circular coil -Stewart & Gee's Experiment.
6. Frequency of A.C Supply.
7. Newton's Rings.
8. Parallel Fringes.
9. Dispersive power of a material of the Prism (Prism -Spectrometer method)
10. Diffraction Grating -Normal Incidence 
    Apart from the above experiments this laboratory is provided with Rs 14000/-worth models for Crystal structures Demonstration ,optical fibre demonstration kit and Demonstration of thermo electric genaration effect,Peltier effects.

List of some of the important equipment in this lab

ENGLISH LANGUAGE  COMMUNICATION SKILLS LAB(ELCS)

The College, realizing that students should have good communication skills, has started "Centre for Development of Communication Skills(CDCS)" in the year 2001.CDCS aims at making students speak and write simple and correct English confidently initially and training them in soft skills later.

CDCS provides GRE,TOEFL training to students.Now it is known as ENGLISH LANGUAGE COMMUNICTION SKILLS LAB

The Centre is provided with a library of about 350 books and adequate number of CDROMS and audio cassettes related to Engilsh language,70 Computers with multimedia facility and internet connectivity, a OHP, TV, VCR and an Interactive Communication Lab.

Our college is an Authorized Learning Centre(ALC) for Modular Certificate Courses of Osmania University's PGRR Centre for Distance Education. First year students are trained for Osmania University Modular Certificate Course(Communicating For Success) followed by a workshop on the same.

So far 800 students have taken this Modular Certificate Course Examination and received certificates. Presently about 500 students have enrolled for this programme and they are about to take it in the last week of Aug’05.

Periodically workshop on communication skills and counselling on Group Discussions, Interview and Personality Development are being organized.

GRE and TOEFL training classes by experienced people from “JAVA ACADEMY”, Hyderabad are arranged.

Software from Globanena is also being provided. Digital Mentor Consisting of eight units is installed and it is of great use to the students who intend to improve their Knowledge Grammar, Reasoning etc.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION 

A Healthy Mind resides in a Healthy Body. Keeping this maxim in mind, our college has provided a Shuttle court, Two Volley ball courts, One Ball Badminton court ,Cricket field. Students are also encouraged to play other Indoor games like T.T, Carroms and Chess.

 Students had participated in various National, Inter-University, State Level, District Level Competitions

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