Faculty members are the life members of the various professional bodies like ISTE, IPA, IARP, ISRP, INS, etc.

The department provides a platform to first year (I and II sem) BE students to organize many activities under RVCE Science Forum. The activities include invited lectures, student seminars, quiz, debates and lecture competitions etc.

The following topics have been organized by the science forum.

• A talk on “Making of Nobel Laureate – Madam Curie” was delivered by Prof. B A Patil, Founder President-Think and Ink Science Foundation, Bangalore on Nov 11th 2011

• Department conducted one day National Science Fest "Genesis 2011" comprising of Science quiz, Science Paper Presentation, Science Debate,..etc., in association with department of mathematics, department of chemistry on April 24th 2011.

• A Technical Talk on "New Materials and Oppurtunities for Innovation" by Dr.B.S.Satyanarayana, Principal, RVCE, Bangalore-59 on 15th March 2011.

• A talk on “Albert Einstein…..Some Glimpses” was delivered by Prof. C R Rangaswamy, Prof. of Physics (Retd) Bangalore University.

• A talk on “Awakening Earth” was delivered by Sri Sudheindra Shidleepur , Environmental consultant.

• A talk on “Mobile Phone and its health effects” was delivered by Dr. Sanjay S Supe from Kidwai Institute of Oncology.

•  A talk on “Studies, characterization and single crystal X-ray of new chalcon derivatives for their use as possible NLO materials” by Dr. B K Sarojini, Prof. & Head,Dept. of Chemistry, P A College of Engineering, Nadupadav.

Innovative Club:

Team dhRuVa is a student club which focuses on topics related to astronomy and astrophysics. The club was established on 15^th of October 2018 with Ravi Rajan as the Team representative and Dr. Karthik Shastry as the Faculty Advisor. The team is currently undertaking two projects, The Optical Telescope and The Radio Telescope.

ICT Initiative:

Department of Physics has taken inititave to adopt ICT tools in teaching curriculum.