Diversity

NSS
National Service Scheme (NSS) is a permanent Youth Programme under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India. At Oxford, NSS organizes Blood Donation Camp in association with local Blood Bank and Dental Camp in Government schools in association with The Oxford Dental College every year.

KANNADA RAJYOTSAVA:
It's our firm belief at OXFORD that to enhance the skills of our students, they must be provided with opportunities to explore their creativity. Cultural programs are organized several times during the year to encourage creative pursuits and nurture talent. Students form teams and share responsibility in organizing the events. Kannada patriotism is displayed in high spirits as students of The Oxford Dental College come together to stage a medlay of cultural programs. Colourful procession is accompanied by stunning performances in fields of drama, dance and classical music.

SLIMCA
To honour ideas and to give a tangling platform for their future growth the Department Master of Computer Applications and the purpose was to showcase the country’s young talent. The event was conducted under the flag of Student Learning Integrated Module for Computer Applications.

WIKIMEDIA
The aim of Wikimedia Commons is to provide a media file repository "that makes available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content to all, and that acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation." The expression "educational" is to be understood according to its broad meaning of "providing knowledge; instructional or informative. Wikimedia is the collective name for the Wikimedia movement, revolving around a group of inter-related projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wiki quote and others, which aim to use the collaborative power of the Internet, and the wiki concept, to create and share free knowledge of all kinds.

MILANA
Milana is a cultural fest that showcases the culture adopted by the college organizing it. Every year, a OXFORD college adopts a theme and organizes various events related to it. The OXFORD college premises are also usually decorated accordingly, thus giving it a “cultural” look. Milana is the flagship event of the college and is open to students from all colleges irrespective of their fields/specializations, thus providing a great opportunity to mingle and network with others from various walks of life. At Oxford College, a cultural fest provides the broadest scope to organize a myriad types of events. Some of them include performing arts like Group/Solo Singing, Dancing, Dramatics, Beatboxing, etc.; Literary Events like Word Games, Poetry, Creative Writing, etc.; Artistic events like pottery, painting, t-shirt painting, etc.; Gaming Events like football, tennis, tug-of-war, FIFA, foosball, etc.; Pro-Shows like DJ Nights, Fashion Shows, etc.; and many more. The scope for creativity in organizing events is virtually limitless.

OXFOIGNITE
Inter College Competition was conducted at HSR campus with the students of other colleges and many students participated in the competition and they shared their experience with our students.

OXYTECH - IMPULSE – MECH FIESTA
One of the most reputed National Level Techno Cultural and pride of OXFORD campus Organised at Bommanahalli Campus. It is a means for students to showcase their practical talent in the field they’re learning, and not just limit themselves to bookish knowledge. Each branch – Mechanical, Computers, Electronics, etc can have its own version of technical events/fests testing the participants on the knowledge and applications of that field. It is appreciated by IEEE World-Wide & CSI in their respective Journals & Magazines.

PROJECTS
Exhibition refers to projects, presentations, or products through which students “exhibit” what they have learned, of demonstrating whether and to what degree they have achieved expected learning standards or learning objectives. The main purpose of the exhibition is to exchange information and negotiate a trade. These types of exhibitions basically display our student’s theoretical learning.

ART & CRAFT CLUB
Oxford Art Club sparks students’ creativity by exploring two-dimensional and three-dimensional art, photography, and graphic design. Students are exposed to the nuances of each medium and can create and share their own creative designs. Crafts Club is a fun way for students to learn about making household objects into works of art. The activities are easy, thought-provoking, and educational. Crafts explore themes such as culture, science, and math. Through these crafts, students learn background information about each of the themes. Upon completion of an activity, students are encouraged to share their artwork with their peers, friends, and family.

GANESH MAHOTSAVA
India celebrate 11-day long Ganesh Mohotsav with fervour and gaiety. At Oxford students across Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and other parts of the country mark the beginning of the festival by bringing Ganesha Idol and have continuous celebrations throughout the festival period.

TOGGLE CLUB
At Oxford College, TOGGLE, the Students Chapter of FSMK (Free Software Movement of Karnataka), provide unique opportunities for networking, mentoring and bonding over common interests. They provide support both within the student community and to local communities outside the institution and work actively with students and encourage them to use free software.

ETHNIC DAY CELEBRATIONS
In the era of modernization and westernization when most of the people are moving away from their own culture and history, events like Ethnic day enable the young generation to revive love and respect for their own culture and history. A colourful week in college “RAINBOW WEEK” is celebrated along with Ethnic day.

KELI (KERALITES) CLUB
Keli Club organizes social, cultural and literary events and celebrate ‘ONAM” festival for the students and employees of OXFORD communities. We promote literacy, educational and cultural events of Kerala. Keli club events have proven to be a great forum to display and develop their talents and abilities. 

IEEE STUDENT BRANCH
The IEEE Student Branch of OXFORD is a technical community of doctoral, masters, and undergraduate students dedicated to organize social and technical activities that promotes sharing of knowledge in science, technology, and engineering. The focus of this association is to create awareness and encourage students to utilize the benefits of IEEE membership, including scholarships, competitions and conference grants. The Student Branch also intends to provide opportunities for students to network with peers in other institutes, academicians, professionals, engineers, and scientists through the on campus. IEEE community of The Oxford College of Engineering, Bengaluru is one of the most vibrant and active IEEE student Branch in IEEE Region 10. The Oxford College of Engineering has conducted many IEEE Conferences and has various IEEE events to its credit. MCA Department organized for the first time in history of VTU, IEEE International Conference on “Emerging Trends in Communication, Control, Signal Processing and Computing Applications” (C2SPCA 2013). The registered institution id is STB08641.

IETE STUDENT BRANCH
The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) founded in 1953 is one of the leading Professional Society in India. The founder and subsequent forefathers and stalwarts who were leading light of the Institution IETE, have been devoting and contributing for the advancement of Science and Technology in the fields of Electronics, Communication Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology and other related subjects. The major focus of IETE is to provide engineering education i.e. Degree and Diploma level certifications to younger generation at affordable cost who cannot afford it through regular & private engineering institutions. IETE has got two streams of Student base. First wing is the students of alma-mater , IETE , viz, the pass outs of DIPIETE , AMIETE andALCCS students .

ISTE STUDENT BRANCH
The major objective of the ISTE is to assist and contribute in the production and development of top-quality professional engineers and technicians needed by the industries and other organizations. Being the only national organization of educators in the field of Engineering and Technology, ISTE effectively contributes in various missions of the Union Government. The Ministry of Human Resource Development, CTE/DST/MIT/State Govts. are well associated with the ISTE for programs relating to technical education. The registered institution id is 1476.

CSI STUDENT BRANCH
The Computer Society of India (CSI) Student Branch of The Oxford College of Engineering, Bangalore is one of the most active student organizations in the OXFORD campus Hosted and run by the department of Computer Science and Engineering> The student branch has been adjudged as the best student branch in OXFORD. Computer Society of India (CSI) has set up Special Interest Groups (SIG) to promote activities and research in few focused areas like e-governance, Cyber Security, Green IT, FOSS, Artificial Intelligence etc. Various initiatives for the academic and research community include publishing of a world-class computer science journal, CSI Transactions on ICT published by Springer. The registered institution id is100666

ACM(ID:119150) STUDENT BRANCH
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. At OXFORD College, ACM’s Professional and Student chapters worldwide serve as hubs of activity for ACM members and the computing community at large. They provide seminars, lectures, learning forums and networking opportunities with peers and experts across the computing spectrum

QEEE STUDENT BRANCH
Qual­ity Enhance­ment in Engi­neer­ing Edu­ca­tion (QEEE)” is a com­mit­tee set up by the Depart­ment of Higher Quality Enhancement in Engineering Education (QEEE) education, Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) with an objec­tive of enhanc­ing the qual­ity of techni­cal edu­ca­tion in Under Grad­u­ate courses (Bach­e­lors) of Engi­neer­ing Col­leges all over India (out­side the IITs and the NITs).  The Oxford College of Engineering, Bengaluru is one among the 100 colleges in the country to be chosen to be a part Pilot program. In this programme, selected courses lectures would be delivered live from the IIT classroom to all participating colleges. The schedule of lectures will be predetermined and made available in advance to all participating colleges. At the scheduled time, the lecture will be brought live to the classroom, with the local lecturer playing the role of moderator. The session will mimic a live session as much as possible, with opportunities for sharing and interaction between students and instructor.

LIVE CLASSES
Live online classes are synchronous events organized in a live virtual meeting room where students and teachers meet to communicate with voice, video, whiteboard.  During such live classes the students can meet their IIT Faculty live over the internet to discuss different topics or problems.

TUTORIALS
Tutorial by faculties are an important supplemental e-learning program built on the idea of peer learning through pre-planned informal study circles. The educational platform enables previously delivered as well as new academic content to be viewed and reviewed by students amongst their peer group with or without the virtual presence of the instructor. It is a multi-award-winning educational content portal. Here students can learn various Free and Open Source Software all by themselves. At OXFORD College self-paced, multi-lingual courses ensure that anybody with a computer and a desire for learning, can learn from any place, at any time and in a language of their choice.

VIRTUAL LABS
OXFORD provides remote access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering. These Virtual Labs would cater to students at the undergraduate level, post graduate level as well as to research scholars. And enthuse students to conduct experiments by arousing their curiosity. This would help them in learning basic and advanced concepts through remote experimentation. Oxford campus provides a complete Learning Management System around the Virtual Labs where the students can avail the various tools for learning, including additional web-resources, video-lectures, animated demonstrations and self-evaluation.

BRIDGE PROGRAMS
A Bridge program is a formal partnership between two post-secondary institutions that provides students with advanced standing in a degree program at a OXFORD as recognition of previous academic experience in a similar field of study at another institution. Courses for students to bridge the gaps and enhance their all-round development towards employability.

MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses)
At Oxford, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free online courses available for any student to enrol. MOOCs provide an affordable and flexible way to learn new skills, advance your career and deliver quality educational experiences at scale. Subject wise recommended MOOCs from multiple providers QEEE.

WEBINARS & WEBCAST
A Webinar (recorded) or a webcastis the broadcast of a recorded presentation over the Internet. The transmission of information is one-way only, from speaker to audience. Webcasts are not time-constrained so they can be viewed at any time, day or night. The Oxford College of Engineering have given this facility of Live Webinar interface with our students and share their imminent knowledge to students.

SPOKEN TUTOTIAL
A Spoken Tutorial is a screencast with running commentary, a recording of computer session created for self-learning. The Spoken Tutorial project is an initiative of the "Talk to a Teacher" project under the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology, launched by MHRD, Govt of India.
The Oxford College of Engineering has collaborated with Spoken Tutorial Project of IIT Bombay (reg-KAR- 00042), an initiative of National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt. of India. The Oxford College of Engineering Spoken Tutorial Resource Centre conducted workshops on Linux, LaTeX, Scilab, PHP & MySQL, Python, Java, C/C++, Open FOAM, Blender, K-Turtle. MCA department has conducted many FOSS-Free open source software training workshops hosted by IIT Bombay through web telecast for the benefits of our students.