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Volume : 9 Issue : 9 September 2012 Price : Rs. 3.00

Chairman’s MessageT.S. Rangarajan

[email protected]

From The Editor’s DeskH.R. Mohan

[email protected]: http://infoforuse.blogspot.comDear Members

As the largest section in R10, MadrasSection has considerable resources andopportunities to engage its members in a numberof activities that can continuously enhance ourawareness and application of knowledge toadvance the interests of our society.

I believe that several organizational units under Madras Section –student branches, affinity groups and society chapters are doing yeomanservice by organizing events, conferences and workshops. In the pastmonth I have participated in many such events and I am very encouragedby the volunteer efforts of so many of you who take time out from yourprecious and busy schedules to work for IEEE. Many of us do so out ofgratitude for an institution which has provided us such a wonderfulforum.

IEEE has several ways to recognize such volunteer effort and I feelit is the duty of each one of us to identify and recognize our colleaguesfrom IEEE for their selfless service. There are awards for a number ofcategories which are periodically announced and circulated. Some of themallow self-nominations, some of them can be done online and othersrequire endorsements and recommendations.

There is no greater joy and pride than when a member getsrecognized by his / her peers for the contributions made by him / her. Itis similar to your paper being accepted by very discerning and skepticalpeers after a tough scrutiny. Such recognitions in my view are the greatestmotivators and a motivated and enthusiastic colleague is likely tocontribute even better quality service while upholding the high ethicalstandards that IEEE is so very well known for, in its over 125 years ofexistence.

My colleagues in the executive committee have shown exemplarysupport for painstakingly suggesting, nominating, doing the paper workand follow up for such recognitions in this year. At the section level I canassure you that we are committed to encourage creation of new studentbranches, new society chapters, new affinity groups and many suchactivities. But we need your help and support to identify members whotake these initiatives and continue to serve IEEE’s activities in our section.Personally I feel the best job that the executive committee memberscould do is to spot volunteers who deserve recognition and provide themwhat they deserve.

I believe if we do that continuously, Madras Section can scale itsactivities to greater heights on the shoulders of these tireless volunteers.

Yours [email protected]

Dear Friends,

Our chairman, in his message has briefedabout IEEE awards recognizing the services by ourmembers. On a regular basis, communications aresent from the Section regarding nominations forsuch awards — R10 Outstanding Volunteer Award,

MGA Awards etc., Pl. refer to box items published in this issue of LINK.Members are encouraged to apply for awards.

Revised guidelines relating to the “Student Project FinancialAssistance Scheme” has been announced with the last date for submissionof proposals as 31st Oct 2012. Members are advised to refer to theguidelines at http://bit.ly/RYW0b9

The election process for the volunteer positions in the IEEE MadrasSection Execom has started with the communication on the appointmentof nominations committee with Dr. T. Thyagarajan as the Chairman.Members may pl. look forward to further announcements through emailsand postings at the Section website.

Similarly, for volunteer positions in society chapters and affinitygroups, announcement has been made and the details are available athttp://goo.gl/hMVbc You may also, get in touch with the Section officefor additional information or clarifications.

The membership fee details for the IEEE & Societies for the year2013 have been announced. Readers may join now and enjoy themembership benefits till Dec 2013 – for 15 months. Students are advisedto avail the combined membership in IEEE, IEEE CS with access to IEEECS digital library at just USD 40.

In this issue, we have published the reports on events organizedby the following institutions: Bannari Amman Inst. of Tech.; MagnaCollege of Engg.; MRK Inst. of Tech.; Infant Jesus Engg. College;M. Kumarasamy College of Engg.; Sri Ramakrishna Engg. College;Sri Muthukumaran Inst. of Tech.; Thangavelu Engg. College; ThiagarajarCollege of Engg.; Sengunthar Engg. College; Sathyabama Univ.,; AmritaSchool of Engg.; Knowledge Inst. of Tech.; Aarupadai Veedu Inst. ofTech.; Easwari Engg. College; MPNMJ Engg. College; Coimbatore Inst.of Engg & tech.; Ranganathan Engg. College; Kongu Engg. College

The other items published in the LINK include: Report on theTeachers In-Service Programme (TISP), IEEE Technical Workshop on“Smart Grid” Activities of IEEE Computer Society held during May-Aug 2012, and short articles on “Battery Electric Vehicle” and “Cycling”.

The Section, along with the Society Chapters and Affinity groupshas plans to organize a no. of Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs)and Skill Development Programmes (SDPs). Institutions interested inhosting FDPs & SDPs may pl. get in touch with the Section office.

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IEEE-MAS Link Volume : 9 Issue : 9 September 2012

19, 20, 26, 27, May 2012 & 02, 03, Jun2012: A 36 hours Professional DevelopmentTraining Course on “Software EngineeringEssentials” spread over 6 days in 3 weekendsin May & Jun 2012 was organized by IEEE CSin association with CSI, SSN School of AdvancedSoftware Engineering and Amitysoft. The coursecoverage included the modules such as: Process:Discussion on process frameworks and life cyclemethodologies; Requirements: Understandingthe user needs, eliciting the requirements, anddocumenting the same using use case basedmethodology; Architecture and Design:Exposure to designing the software architectureand detailed design of subsystems using OObased techniques; Quality Assurance:Fundamentals of software testing; softwaretesting process and continuous qualityimprovement; techniques to ensure coverage ofrequirements; test plan, management andimplementation activities; Software ProjectManagement: Introduction to basic conceptsand practices of software project management;work breakdown structure; planning; effort andschedule estimation; project tracking; andAdvanced concepts: Business ProcessModeling, Service Oriented Architecture &Cloud Computing. The course attracted about35 participants from both academia and industryand received a good feedback from all. The

Activities of IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter during May – Aug 2012participants desired to have a detailed workshopon each of the modules.

26th Jun 2012: IEEE CS supported the“Surge 2012”, a unique conclave designed tohelp aspiring enterprises particularly small andmedium businesses to grow faster and moveahead of competition. In this NASSCOMorganized programme, case studies and expertanalysis on specific business issues faced bythe enterprise were presented by experts fromthe industry. About 150 participants attendedthis programme.

27th Jun 2012: Along with the IEEECOMSOC & IEEE PCS, IEEE ComputerSociety promoted the book launch eventorgansed by Landmark in which the book “IAM STILL COMMITTED …. as hopes areyet to die” authored by Mr. SoumitroChatterjee, Software Engineer, SaskenCommunication Technologies and the PastChairman, IEEE COMSOC SB of AVIT,Chennai was released. Dr. CR Sasi, PastChairman, IEEE Madras, Mrs. Thara Ganesan,Placement Officer, AVIT and Mr. HR Mohan,Chairman, IEEE CS spoke at the launch.

12th Jul 2012: A presentation by Dr.Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman, Hitachi Chair inComputer Science, University of Oklahoma,Norman, USA & Distinguished Alumnus of IIT

Madras & Fellow of IEEE on “Trends inNetworks and Distributed Systems: GraphModels and Algorithms” was organized byIEEE CS along with COMSOC, CSI & IITMAlumni Assn. A detailed report on this waspublished in the July issue of LINK.

14th Jul 2012: IEEE CS joined with ACMChennai Chapter in organizing a technical talkon “Recent Trends in SemiconductorManufacturing and ComputationalComplexity” by Dr Raman Krishnan Nurani,Executive Director, DFMSim India. The talkaddressed the problems of shrinking devicedimensions from microns to nano,manufacturing and the computational challengesthat have increased manifold in the manufactureof semiconductor, at the basic level and presentedthe issues through examples and opened thedoor for new research areas.

18th Jul 2012: IEEE CS along withHindustan Chamber of Commerce, CSI & IEEEPCS had organized a programme on “SecurityConcerns in Social Networking Sites” inwhich Mr. V. Rajendran, Sr. Vice-President,Cyber Society of India and Mr. S. N.Ravichandran, Joint Secretary, Cyber Societyof India deliberated on “Legal Issues and DataPrivacy in Social Networking and Sites” and“Investigation of Crimes on Social Networking

The IEEE Madras Section organized theIEEE R10 sponsored technical workshop on“Smart Grid” on 25th & 26th Aug 2012 atChennai. This program aimed at creating theway for solving the power crisis using smartgrid technology by kindling the interest of theresearchers, academic and industrial participantsto convert the project at the research level forthe real time implementations.

At the inaugural session, Dr. N.Kumarappan, EAC Chair, IEEE Madras Section& workshop coordinator welcomed thegathering. Dr. P. Suresh Chander Pal, Board

IEEE Technical Workshop on “Smart Grid”

Member Distribution (Retd.) TNEB andOmbudsman IEEE Madras Section deliveredthe inaugural address and Mr. T.S. RangarajanChairman IEEE Madras Section and PrincipalConsultant TCS Chennai delivered thepresidential address.

The workshop included six theorysessions and two demos and covered: Energymanagement approach to smart grid, Distributedgeneration based smart grid, Smart grid –installation practices, Communications aspectsfor smart grid implementation – an overview,HVDC in smart grid, FACTS in smart grid. The

resource persons for the workshop included:Dr. N. Kumarappan, Professor of EE,Annamalai Univ.,; Er. Gopichand Bopparaju,Manager Grid System R&D, ABB; Dr. PinakiMitra, Associate Scientist, ABB; Er. S. AngelsonRajeshkumar, L&T; Er. G..ChandrasekaraReddy, L&T; and Dr. K. Shanti SwarupProfessor of EE, IIT Madras.

At the valedictory session, Dr. S.Gomathinayagam Executive Director, Centre forWind Energy Technology delivered thevaledictory address, Dr. T. Thyagarajan Imm.Past Chairman IEEE Madras Section and Prof.of Instrumentation, MIT Anna Universitydelivered the presidential address, Prof. NKumarappan Annamalai University deliveredthe vote of thanks.

The workshop was attended by about60 participants from both academia & industryand received an excellent feedback. It had helpedthe researchers, academic and industrialparticipants to update their technological skills.

Report by: Dr. N. Kumarappan,[email protected]

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Sites”, after a brief introduction on “Relevanceof Social Media in the Indian Context”

21st & 22nd Jul 2012: IEEE CS supportedthe “Drupal Training Programme – Rule theWeb with your Creativity” organized by IEEEGOLD, IEEE GINI, Drupal DeveloperCommunity, IEEE Madras Section and IEEEPCS in association with VIT University,Chennai Campus. For a detailed report on thisevent, pl. refer the Aug 2012 issue of LINK.

6th Aug 2012: A presentation on“Personality Profiling Using TransactionalAnalysis Model” by Mr. P. Vijayan, CorporateTrainer in Organizational Change and PersonalImprovement, Transactional Analysis (TA) &Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) wasorganized by IEEE CS in association with IEEEMadras Section, IEEE PCS, CSI & IITMAlumni Assn. A detailed report on this waspublished in the 2012 Aug issue of LINK.

organized by IEEE CS in association with IEEETMC, CSi & IITM Alumni Assn. The speakersaid that industry has realized that a strongBusiness-IT alignment is required to addressthe challenges such as Businesses becomingincreasingly complex with frequent changes instrategies and processes due to stiff competition;Mergers & Acquisitions; Introduction of newproducts with reduced time to market; Revisingmarketing practices; and Changing pricingpolicies etc., He added that techniques such asService Oriented Architecture (SOA), ModelDriven Architecture and Business Innovation& Optimization have been proposed as meansto achieve the much needed Business-ITAlignment and opinioned that however, therestill exists some misunderstanding of the conceptof Business-IT alignment and several ITsolutions still fall short of the industry’s visionsin this regard. In this presentation, the speakerprovided an overview of Business-IT alignmentand the ideas with some case study examples.In addition, the speaker also highlighted the toolsand techniques used in the implementation ofSOA which is a key step towards instrumentingbusiness agility. Mr. Mohan, Chairman, IEEECS welcomed the gathering and introduced therelevance of the topic of the presentation. Mr.K.V. Rupchand, Chairman, IEEE TMCintroduced the speaker. At the end, mementoeswere presented to the speaker by Mr. A.Chandrasekaran, Chairman, CSI & Mr.Bhaskaran, President, IITMAA.

24th Aug 2012: Mr. Joshua J Romero,Associate Editor, IEEE Spectrum Online gave abrief presentation on the Online initiativesof the IEEE’s flagship magazine Spectrum.The website of the magazine Spectrum which

was redesigned few years back is undergoing amajor revision and the current projectcodenamed “Spectrum 4.0” will have newfeatures such as: Full HTML5 support for latestbrowsers and optimized for iPads 1, 2, and 3;Pages that dynamically present more content;Contextual sponsor-generated content; Improvedperformance and search functions; Users canexplore content by sorting modules accordingto recency, trending, and social; Responsivedesign that uses “Tetris”-like dynamic layouttechnology; and more sponsor-generatedcontent via rich navigation including microsites,product library and Buyer’s Guide. Mr. Joshuaalso presented some screenshots of the revampedsite which is due for release to the members inJan 2013. He also spoke about and demonstratedthe ROBOTS - IEEE Spectrum’s first standaloneiPad App, a fun and interactive catalog of realworld robots which is being planned for releasein Oct 2012. Along with the members, it isexpected that this app will be used by STEM(science, technology, engineering, mathematics)educators and students. Mr. Mohan, Chairman,IEEE CS thanked the speaker who at a veryshort notice had agreed to address the membersand Mr. A. Chandrasekaran, Chairman, CSI &Mr. Bhaskaran, President, IITMAA.

24th Aug 2012: A technical presentationon “Business - IT Alignment Using SOA”by Dr. Venkat Ramanathan, Evangelist -Advanced Technology Applications Practice,Institute of Systems Science, NationalUniversity of Singapore, Singapore was

The IEEE Madras Section organized theIEEE R10 sponsored Teachers In-ServiceProgramme (FDP) on 11th Aug 2012 atChidambaram. This program aimed at impartingthe ability of technical literacy among teachersand students. At the inaugural session, Dr. N.Kumarappan, EAC Chair, IEEE Madras Sectionwelcomed the gathering. Prof. Dr. MRamanathan, VC, Annamalai Univ., deliveredthe inaugural address. Mr. A Sambandam

Teachers In-Service ProgrammeAdvocate and Member Syndicate, AnnamalaiUniv., and Dr. B Rajamannan Prof. and WingHead, Engineering Physics, Annamalai Univ.,delivered the special address and Mrs. MeenalKumarappan Teacher Edison G. AgoramMemorial School delivered the vote of thanks.

The resource persons & co-ordinators forthis program were Dr. N. Kumarappan, Professor,Annamalai Univ., and Er. M. Venkatesh KumarSecretary, IEEE Gold affinity group, IEEEMadras Section. The program included twotheory sessions: ‘Understanding the IEEE’ and‘Engineer your classroom!’. In the afternoon,the participants were divided into ten groupsand were given hands-on activity. First theybuilt their own solar toy car then wind mill.The participants actively participated andenjoyed doing these activities. There was also a

panel discussion for one hour. At the valedictoryfunction, Er. R Ketharnathan of Saradha-RamBuilders delivered the valedictory address.

This program was attended by about 50teachers and students. It received an excellentfeedback from all the participants. Chidambarambeing a rural area was highly suitable for thistype of program as the people over here neededawareness about engineering. The TISPprovided an excellent opportunity to enhancethe level of technological literacy of pre-university students. It provided guidance to pre-university educators on professional developmentareas that students need. The theory sessionsmotivated the students while the hands-ontraining using basic engineering principlesinspired and built an interest on engineering.

Report by Dr. N. Kumarappan,[email protected]

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National Conference

Magna College of Engineeringpresentation. Mr. T. S. Rangarajan, IEEE MadrasSection Chairman, Principal Consultant, TCS,inaugurated the conference and delivered aninteresting and informative keynote address tothe gathering regarding Renewable Energy. Mrs.R. Suguna HOD/EEE welcomed the gatheringand Mrs. R. Mythily, Lecturer/EEE & SBcounselor briefed about the conference. CollegeFounder & Chairman Prof. J. Devadas Nayagamdelivered the inaugural address. Citation of chiefguest was given by Dr. T. Ashok Kumar,Principal and the Dr. A. Senthil Kumar, Professor/EEE, Velammal Engg. College chaired thesessions and judged the presentations. Certificatesand conference proceedings were distributed tothe all the participants. The EEE Dept. staffmembers and students of Magna College ofEngineering rendered all assistance for thesuccessful conduct of this conference. Theparticipants provided positive feedback and alsooffered few suggestions for future guidance.

The second national conference onElectrical Science and Technology(NCONAEST2K12) was conducted on 22nd

Aug 2012 with an aim to provide a forum toexchange views and research findings in the fieldof Electrical and Electronics Engineering amongthe students, research scholars, and professionalfrom industries. Out of 61 papers received, afterscreening by experts in the respective fields ofPower Electronics and Drives, Renewableenergy resources, Control Systems and PowerSystem Analysis, 30 papers were selected for

Workshop on Modeling of Wind EnergyConversion Systems

The second national level one dayworkshop on “Modeling of Wind EnergyConversion Systems” was conducted on 27th

Aug 2012. The main focus was on recent trendsin wind energy conversion systems and theirtechnological process along with the potentialfuture trends. Mr. G. Ravi, Assistant VicePresident, Win Wind Power Energy Pvt. Ltd.,inaugurated the workshop and delivered theinaugural address on Wind Energy. Dr. N. P.Subramaniam, Asst. Prof., Pondicherry Engg.College as a resource person handled a sessionand explained about the importance of windenergy and conversion systems. Dr. V. Jamuna,Professor, Jerusalem College of Engg. in hersession explained about the simulation resultsof wind energy conversion systems.

Report by: Mrs. R. Mythily,[email protected]

STAC’12

Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

The “Student Technical AwarenessConference (STAC’12)” attended by about 1900students from all over the state of Tamilnaduwas conducted on 10th and 11th of August 2012.

Mr. G. Ravichandran, General Manager,Control Panel Division, Lakshmi ElectricalControl Systems, Coimbatore was the chief

guest and inaugurated the conf. on 10th Aug.Mr. R. Yogesh Aravind, chairman, SB welcomedthe gathering. Dr. A. Shanmugam, principal, BITgave special address and lit a spark in the young-minds of all the students about the significantrole of IEEE in enhancing the technicalknowledge of a professional. Dr. S. U. Prabha,SB counselor felicitated the chief guest andemphasized the influence of technology in thecurrent scenario thereby the role of STAC inbringing out the inbuilt talents of the studentthrough various events. Chief Guest in hisinaugural address gave an idea about the efficientusage of energy to resolve the power crisis inthe current scenario and further explained theoverall concept of “Efficient Energy Management”and the means by which it can be implemented.

An exclusive workshop to train theparticipants in PCB designing and events likeTech Quiz, Circuit Debugging, Treasure Hunt,etc. that bring out the talents and also to enter-tain the students were conducted on the 1st day.

On the 2nd day, hands-on training onEmbedded Systems, PLC & SCADA and Re-cent Trends in Bio-Signal & Image Processingand paper presentation on various topics wereconducted. Project and poster presentation weremade on both the days and winners were givenprizes at the valedictory session. Mr. S.Nandakumar, Chairman, STAC’12 expressedhis hearty gratitude to the dignitaries and par-ticipants with his vote of thanks.

Report by: Dr. S. U. Prabha,[email protected]

Inauguration of IEEE Student Branch

The inaugural function of the IEEE SB atMRK Institute of Technology took place on16th Aug 2012. Er. P. Kathiravan, Chairman ofMRKIT presided over the function. The SBwas formally inaugurated by the Chief GuestsDr. A. Nagappan, Chairman, IEEE AerospaceSociety and Chairman, IEEE MembershipDevelopment Committee and Dr. S. A. SagaayaArul Mary, Dean/Academics, Jayaram Collegeof Engineering and Technology. Dr. A. Nagappan, in his address, briefed on the importance andthe benefits of IEEE student membership andalso explained the roles and responsibilities of

MRK Institute of Technology

SB Counselor & OBs. He motivated thestudents to develop their technical andcommunication skills. Dr. S. A. Sagaaya ArulMary, in her address, encouraged the SB toconduct various technical events such as

workshop, seminars, FDPs. She also motivatedthe students to develop their own innovativeprojects. Prof. K. Anandavelu, Principalhonored the guests and addressed the gathering.The programme ended with the vote of thanksby Mr. J. Poocholamannan, Chairman, SB.

Report by: P. Uma,[email protected]

IEEE/IEEE-USA seeks nominations for2013 ‘New Faces of Engineering’ Recognitionfor Engineers under 30 and College Students.The last date is 19th Oct 2012. Pl. refer http://goo.gl/RzrKy for details.

New Faces of Engineering

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Infant Jesus Engineering CollegeGuest Lecture on Digital Signal Processing

by Mr. T. D. Subash, SB councellor. PrincipalDr. V. Velmurugan addressed the gathering andProf. Subash Chandra Ghosh, dean gave thefelicitation address. In the morning session, morethan 400 IEEE and non-IEEE membersparticipated. Major Chandrasekharan gavedetails about the importance of IEEE and ArjunR. Pillai discussed the benefits of IEEE and whystudents should join in IEEE and also explainedwhy he joined in IEEE. In the afternoon session,the guests explained the importance of IEEEand interacted with the students. At thevaledictory session, Dr. S. Allwin, Director ofInfant Jesus Group of Engineering addressedthe gathering. Felicitation address was given bythe principal, Dr. L. R. D. Suresh. The programmecame to the formal closure with the vote ofthanks by Prof. Sakthi Arumugam, SB councellor.

Guest Lecture on “Transmission andDistribution

A guest lecture on “Transmission and

Distribution” was held on 4th Aug 2012. Afterthe welcome address by Dr. Velmurugan,principal, Prof. S. C. Ghosh, Dean addressed thegathering and introduced the Chief Guest Er. T.Thamotharan, Executive Engineer TANGEDCO.Er. S. Vengatesan, Asst. Executive Engineer andEr. E. Saravanan, Asst. Engineer were alsoinvited for this guest lecture. After a briefintroduction about Transmission andDistribution of power, the speaker highlightedthe features of TANTRANSCO and loaddispatch. The lecture covered the topics suchas technical & commercial losses, energyconservation and energy auditing. The speakerconcluded his lecture by explaining about theTANGEDCO scenario, Grid and RenewableEnergy. The guest lecture was thought provokingand it received excellent feedback from thestudents and they queried about the privatepower generation, power theft etc. Theprogramme concluded with the vote of thanksby Ms. M. Kala Muthumari HOD/ EEE.

Report by T. D. Subash,[email protected]

A guest lecture on “Digital SignalProcessing” by Dr. B. Priestly Shan from St.Joseph College of Engineering and Technology,Kottayam was organised on 28th Jul 2012. Mr.T. D. Subash, SB councillor, after welcoming thegathering and introduced the speaker. Around 85IEEE members and non IEEE members attendedthe programme. Dr. B. Priestly Shan began hispresentation with a brief introduction of DSPand explaining its architecture. He then explainedits applications, advantages, implementationsand trends. The programme ended with the voteof thanks by Ms. Akila, HOD/ECE.

Student Awareness Programme

On 2nd August 2012, the IEEE SB hadorganized the IEEE student awarenessprogramme. The chief guests were MajorChandrasekharan V.V, Secretary, IEEE MadrasSection and Arjun R. Pillai, IEEE R10 GINIcoordinator. After the welcome address by S.Sumitha, SB treasurer, the guests were introduced

Inter college paper presentation “YUVA-2012”

M. Kumarasamy College of Engineeringconducted among the students from variousdepartments. Among the 72 submitted papers,22 papers were selected for presentation. Onthe basis of the presentation, communicationand innovations, the best presentations wereselected by the panel of juries. The first placewas accomplished by Ms. T. R. Lavanya andMs. E. Nandhiny of pre-final ECE and thesecond place was secured by Mr. S. Sibiraj ofpre-final E&I.

Report by: Ms. S. M. Bhuvani,[email protected]

Lecture on Professional Skills Developmentand Social Issues

About 150 pre-final year students hadattended the lecture on “Professional SkillsDevelopment and Social Issues” held on28th Aug 2012. The SB co-ordinatorProf. K. Sundararaju, SB staff coordinator Mr.S. Kannan, and SB chairperson Mr. R. Kannanparticipated in the event which had three talks/sessions.

The event started with a session on “TIPSFOR INTERVIEW” by the SB vice-chairmanMr. Harish, ECE (pre-final) in which he hadshared his views such as self-confident, positiveattitude, smiling presence, truth, properpreparation, and professional presence areessential in an interview. Following this in aninteractive session on “EXPECT YOUREXPECTANCY” by Mr. T. Karthick, treasurerof SB the creativeness of the students and funnyand interesting ideas acme out. Mr. ObuliVenkatesh, secretary, SB gave a technicalpresentation on “Prevention and effects of E-waste” answering about what is e-waste?, whye-waste?, and how it happens?.

Report by R. Kannan, [email protected]

IEEE COMSOC SB chapter conductedthe inter college paper presentation “YUVA-2012” on “The Emerging Trends in the Field ofEngineering” on 9th Aug 2012. After the welcomeaddress by Mr. R. Nagarajan of pre-final ECE,Mrs. L. Malliga, AHOD/ECE, addressed thegathering and highlighted the importance to haveknowledge on the emerging trends in the variousfields of engineering and encouraged the youngpillars of IEEE COMSOC to come out withinnovative ideas in future. The panel ofadjudicators for YUVA-2012 was introducedby Ms. R. Pradeepa of pre-final ECE.

YUVA-2012, a paper presentation was

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National Level WorkshopSri Ramakrishna Engineering College

technical resource persons from CoreELTechnologies.

Report by J. Fredrick Johnson,[email protected]

National workshop ‘Stromnetz – 12’

A two day national workshop on “Hands-on training in ASIC/FPGA design flow usingMentor Graphics EDA tool” in association withCoreEL Technologies India Private Limited,Bangalore was held during 9th & 10th Aug 2012.The workshop was inaugurated by the ChiefGuest Mr. Damodara M.S, Product Manager,CoreEL Technologies on 9th Aug 2012. Dr. N.R. Alamelu, principal delivered the presidentialaddress and Dr. M. Jagadeeswari, HOD/ECEwelcomed the gathering. Around 60 participants(including research scholars, PG students andprofessionals from R&D organizations)attended the workshop which was coordinatedby Prof. C. S. Manikandababu, Asst. Prof (SG).

The objective of the program is to trainengineers in Design Verification and Test (andprovide them complete solutions for HDLdesign, Verification, Synthesis and Test ofASICs) and FPGAs and IC Nanometer DesignModule using Mentor Graphics EDA tool.Intensive hands-on training in Mentor GraphicsEDA Tool was given to the participants by the

Chapter who subsequently gave a lecture on‘Hydro Power for Smart Grid Reliability’. Theinaugural function was presided by Dr. N.R.Alamelu, Principal. Dr. A. Ebenezer Jeyakumar,Director (Academics) and Dr. C. S. Ravichandran,Dean EEE felicitated. Prof. S. P. Rajkumar, HODEEE welcomed the gathering. Prof. S.Allirani,AP EEE summarized the session details.

A national workshop ‘Stromnetz – 12’on “Smart Grid and Energy Management” washeld during 30-31 Aug, 2012 at Sri RamakrishnaEngineering College, Coimbatore. Theworkshop conceived and conducted by theDept. of EEE was sponsored by IEEE MadrasSection and IEEE PES Madras Chapter andanchored by the pre-final year students of thedept. It was inaugurated by Prof. R. Sarathi ofIIT-Madras, who delivered the keynote on“Smart Grid Ensures Power Quality”. It wasattended by 300 participants.

The inaugural function was also gracedby Mr. K. V. Rupchand, Chair IEEE PES Madras

The workshop had interactive lecturesby Mr. I. Nedumaran, NLC, Neyveli on‘Notions on grid level energy management’; Mr.C. K. Ravi, Assoc. VP, BGR Energy on‘Availability based tariff on energy demand’;Mr. G.M. Pradeep Kumar, EM&RBG, VoltasLtd., on ‘Energy conservation and relatedissues’; Mr. M.M. Babu Narayanan, ChiefTechnical Advisor, Power Research &Development Consultants, Bangalore on his‘Experiences in the field of energy managementand smart grids’.

Report by: Prof. Allirani & K.V.Rupchand

in computer science & engineering. Mr. Vishnuof Yuva Shakthi started his talk with aconversant speech motivating the audience. ThenMs. Janani of Yuva Shakthi briefed us aboutthe Stage India is and giving a glimpse of ancientIndia and comparing it with the current scenario.Then Prof., Balagurusamy gave a jaw droppingspeech about our India and exclaiming what islagging and what the possible solutions areamicable. He then interacted with the studentsand answered their curious minds.

Report by: Pradeep. G,[email protected]

Independance Day Contest

The IEEE SMIT SB organised onlineevents for the student community on theIndependence Day, 15th Aug 2012. The eventsorganised included: Photography contest on thetheme “INDIA you see today”, Paragraphwriting on the theme “INDIA 2020 still adream?” and General Quiz. These events had agood participation from the students of variousdepartments. The winners and runners in eachof these events were declared.

Report by: M. Prasanth,[email protected]

Youth Motivator Program

The IEEE SB in collaboration with YuvaShakthi — an Organization is known for itsYouth Motivating Programs at various placesin and around Chennai, conducted a YouthMotivator Program on 18th Aug 2012. TheGuest of Honor was Dr. E. Balagurusamy,former Vice Chancellor of Anna University,Chennai and a well-known author of many books

Sri Muthukumaran Institute of Technology Online Aptitude Contest

Talent of the budding fresher’s isidentified by the industrial streams initiallythrough their aptitude performance. Aptitudequestions that include verbal, logical reasoning,problem solving, serve as the victuals for thebrains. The IEEE CS branch took an initiativeand conducted the online aptitude contest forthe benefit of both IEEE members and non-members over a period of a month between 16thJul to 13th Aug 2012, with a series of weeklytests. The students could take the test of 30min duration on any day, anytime during thecorresponding week and answer 25 multiplechoice questions that included 10 verbalquestions, 10-math questions, and 5 non-verbal/probability questions. At the end of the weekafter the closure of the test, the questions withsolutions were forwarded to the participants.At the end of 4th test, K.Geetha (3rd year EEE)and Suraj Jain (3rd year ECE) declared as thewinner & runner.

Report by: S. Divya, [email protected]

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Aptitude Training Workshop

On the 28th of July, 2012, the SB held itsfirst activity — an “APTITUDE TRAININGWORKSHOP” conducted by GINI reps Mr.Nivas Ravichandran & Mr. Arun Noel Victo,and a seasoned aptitude trainer Mr. NareshKumar. After the address by Dr. DuraiArulneyam, principal and the welcome note bythe SB Chair Mr. Lokesh Bharani, the eventfocussed on enlightening the students on theimportance of aptitude in both job interviewsand further studies. The participants wereengrossed in solving the problems with thematerials provided to them on the variousproblem-solving techniques. While Mr. Nivaskept the participants engaged by supplyingthem with superfluous knowledge on aptitude

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questions, Mr. Naresh was the silent guide,helping all those who experienced difficulty ingrasping the concepts. Mr. Arun exhibited hisadeptness by technically enriching the entirelearning process, thus making it a fun-ride. Witha detailed description of the various benefits of

being an IEEE member, the event drew to aclose. Mr.A.Pandian, Staff Co-ordinator was ahuge source of support in organising the event.

Report by: C. Divya,[email protected]

National Workshop

Thiagarajar College of Engineering“GPS and navigation systems” by Er. Srisailam,Agilent Technology; and demo of Signal StudioSoftware of Agilent Technology.

The second day sessions included:“Satellite Navigation Systems” by Dr.V.Jayaraman, ISTRAC; “Antennas forNavigation Systems” by Dr. A. K. Shrivatsav,SAMEER; “Base band system for Navigation”by Dr. S. J. Thiruvengadam, Prof., ECE, TCE;and “GPS Navigation System Measurements”by Er. A. Senthil, VigVen Tech Test andMeasurements.

The valedictory function was presidedover by Dr. V. Abhaikumar, Principal, TCE. Thecourse was organized and conducted by Dr. B.Manimegalai and Er. S. Deepak Ram Prasath.

Inauguration of activities for the year 2012-13

The inaugural function of the activitiesof the SB for the year 2012-13 was presided

A two days’ workshop on “NavigationSystem & Technologies” sponsored by DRDOwas organized on 14th & 15th Jul 2012.

In the inaugural session, Dr. Mrs. S. Raju,HODECE, TCE gave broad overview ofNavigation Systems. The first day technicalsessions included: Building Top ClassCommunication Systems for Navigation by Dr.K. Gridhar, IITM; “RF modules for NavigationSystems” by Er. Deepak Ram Prasath, TTSL;

over by the chief guest Selvi. S. Ajitha, Director(Engineering), All India Radio, Madurai. Theoffice bearers introduced the guest whohappened to be the 1989 batch alumnus of TCE.After the address by Dr. S. G. Thiruvengadam,Prof., ECE, the chief guest, Selvi. S. Ajithaaddressed on the future of engineers stressingupon selecting a job in an area where it ispossible to apply the learning as a criterion.Suresh Balaji, SB Chair introduced the otheroffice bearers — Vice chair B. Lohini Priyanka,Secretary N..Shamsudeen and, Treasurer R.Krithika and also provided the agenda of thelist of events planned for this year and put forthan invitation to the non-members to join IEEE.

Guest Lecture

A guest lecture on “Applications ofElectrical Engineering in Manufacturing Sector”was organized on 18th Aug 2012 by Er. R. VikramPandiyan, Executive Engineer, CarborundumUniversal Limited, Murugappa Group, Hosur.This lecture was informative to the studentsand in the interactive session, they learnt abouthow the concept of electrical engineering isapplied to the manufacturing sector. At the startof the lecture, Mr. A. Anbarasan, HOD/EEEwelcomed the gathering. Thiru. M. Balusamy,President delivered the presidential address,Thiru. S. Sivananthan Secretary, Er. R.

Sengunthar Engineering College

Mohanraj Correspondent and Dr.A.T.Ravichandran Principal offered theirfelicitations. At the end, W. Vijay Richard, SBchairman delivered the vote of thanks.

Report by: Mr. Anbarasan,[email protected]

Section Membership as on15th September 2012

Life Fellow - 2Fellow - 2Life Senior - 10Senior Member - 106Life Member - 4Member - 2259Associate - 252Affliate - 25Graduate Student Member - 667Student Member - 7537Total - 10864

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IEEE Leadership Training Programme

Sathyabama University IEEE GINI Madras Section organized aLeadership Training Programme for the OBs ofSathyabhama SB on July 28th 2012. This event,

being a joint SB activity, saw the activeparticipation of GINI volunteers from SriMuthukumaran Institute Of Technology,Jeppiaar Engineering College and EaswariEngineering College and execom members ofSathyabama University.

The presentations in the programmeincluded: ‘IEEE-The Big Picture’ by Ms.PoojaVijayaraj; ‘Roles and Responsibilities of OfficeBearers’ by Ms. Pragnya Srinivasan; ‘StudentBranch Life Cycle’ by Ms. Madhuri Narayanan;Brainstorming session on various ideas; sessionon problems faced by the current execom anddiscussion on solutions; session on ‘GINI’ byMr. Sharon Roy; and a final round up sessionby Mr. Anand.

Report by: Pooja Vijayaraj,[email protected]

Coding Competition – TIME TO CODE2012

Amrita School of Engineering

A coding competition called “Time toCode 2012” was held on 8th and 9th Aug 2012.In the first round, the 80 teams took part had tosolve 30 questions in 30 minutes and base onthe performance, 30 teams were selected for

the second round which was a coding round inwhich the teams had to solve a problem using C/ C++ in one hour. The first three winning teamswere awarded with cash prizes in addition tothe certificates for all the participants.

Guest Lecture on “Latest Advancements inComputer Science and Engineering – AResearch Perspective”

A guest lecture on the above topic byProf. Huzur Saran, HoD/CSE, IIT, Delhiwas organized on 10th Aug 2012. Prof. K.Gangadharan welcomed the gathering. Mr. C.Arunkumar, SB Counsellor introduced the Chief

Guest and Dr. P. Venkat Rangan, ViceChancellor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeethampresided over the program. During the lecture,he gave a bird’s eye view of the recentadvancements in the area of Computer Scienceand Engineering on the research perspective.

Report by: C. Arunkumar,[email protected]

Workshop on “Research Challenges inSignal Processing”

The ECE Dept, SB in association withIEEE Madras Section organized a two daysworkshop on “Research Challenges in SignalProcessing” on August 3rd and 4th. About 65participants from various institutions along with49 IEEE student members of KIOT participated.The workshop started with the welcomeaddress by Mr. K. Vivek, SB Chairman andfelicitation was given by Dr. K. Rajagopal,Director of Knowledge Business School.Principal Dr.P.S.S. Srinivasan honored the chiefguest Dr. B. Ramadoss, Prof., Dept. of ComputerApplications, NIT, Trichy. Dr. N. Santhiyakumari,SB counselor, Professor and HoD/ECEintroduced the chief guest. Dr. Ramadoss gave apresentation on “Research in Digital ImageProcessing” which was very useful for the PGstudents and research scholars on August 3rd.In the afternoon session, Dr. N. Santhiyakumari

Knowledge Institute of Technology

presented on “Analysis and OptimizationTechniques in Image Processing”. On 4th August,Dr. D. Ebenezer, Prof., Dept. of ECE, R.M.KEngineering College, Chennai shared his valuableideas on “Anisotropic Diffusion Method in ImageProcessing - a case study on modern researchmethodology in signal processing”. During theafternoon session, Dr. N. Santhiyakumaridiscussed on “Analysis and OptimizationTechniques in Image Processing - a case studyon medical image classification system”, whichwas very useful for those who are doing research

at present and also discussed the challenges thatshe faced during her research. Finally, overviewof research was presented by Dr.P.S.S.Srinivasan,Principal of KIOT and he also shared hisresearch experience. Dr. K. Visagavel, VicePrincipal, gave the concluding remarks for theworkshop in the valedictory function. FinallyMs.R.Karthika, Secretary of IEEE SB, KIOTconcluded the function with her vote of thanks.

Report by: Ms. K. Sahithiya,[email protected]

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Seminar on “Exposure towards CareerPlanning & Higher Education”

Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology

IEEE CS SB chapter and the Assn. of ITEngineers, Dept of IT jointly organized a oneday seminar on “Exposure towards CareerPlanning & Higher Education” on 3rd Jul 2012.The resource person, Mr. H.Abdul Navas,Assistant Manager, TIME, Chennai briefed theimportance of career planning opportunities andcreated an awareness and also providedinformation on sponsorships for highereducation. Prof. R. Kalavathy, Vice Principal,

delivered the presidential address and Dr. A.Anthony Irudhayaraj, Dean (IT) welcomed thegathering.Seminar on “IT Industry Overview”

IEEE CS SB chapter and the Assn. of ITEngineers, Dept of IT jointly organized a oneday seminar on “IT Industry Overview” on27th Jul 2012 with Mr. K. Manoj, HeadOperations (TTA), Talhunt Training Academy,Chennai as the resource person. He had briefedthe participants on the internal process goingon in IT industries and guided the students onupdating themselves to suit the IT industry.Dr. Shanmugam, principal presided over the

programme and Dr. A. Anthony Irudhayaraj,Dean (IT) welcomed the gathering.

Seminar on “Cyber Security and EthicalHacking”

IEEE CS SB chapter and the Assn. of ITEngineers, Dept of IT jointly organized a oneday seminar on “Cyber Security and EthicalHacking” on 27th Aug 2012. Mr. PiyushPatnayak, Sr. Security Engineer, eBay, Chennaiwas the resource person and in his presentation,he had focused on the importance of networkingand explained the essential aspects of Hacking.Prof. R. Kalavathy, Vice Principal, delivered thepresidential address and Dr. A. AnthonyIrudhayaraj, Dean (IT) welcomed the gatheringand briefed on the importance of networksecurity.

Faculty members and students fromvarious departments attended the aboveprogrammes and benefited. Mr. C. Karthikeyan,HOD/IT) delivered the vote of thanks at theend of the programme.

Youth Motivation CampaignEaswari Engineering College

INDIA and organised a guest lecture on “BetterIndia through Better Youth” on 14th Aug 2012with the support of Mrs.Vydeki SB coordinatorand Dr. S. Saraswathy Janaki, SB counsellorand HOD/ECE. ‘YuvaShakthi’, a youth welfareassociation gave their helping hands in organisingthe whole programme. Dr. M. Victor LouisAnthuvan, Chairperson-Research Programmes,LIBA was the chief guest and delivered aninspiring talk. About 400 students of ECEdepartment participated in this programme.The programme began with a patriotic prayersong by our college choir followed by welcome

address by SB counsellor and presidentialspeech by the principal, Dr. JothimohanBalasubramanian. A very motivational speechby the president of YuvaShakthi, Ms. Dharani,on “Status of India and the present scenario ofour nation” inspired many young minds.Followed by this, the chief guest, in his speech,touching from the history of India to the presentday India, he motivated the youths. The focuswas on how the youths of present generationcan make India reach the top of the world bythe end of 2050.

Report by: S.V.Charanya,[email protected]

The IEEE SB of Easwari EngineeringCollege celebrated India’s 65th IndependenceDay with a show of patriotism to Mother

Dr. S. ThiruvengadamLife Member IEEE

Former Professor and DeanNIT, Calicut and SVCE, Chennai.

A mobile phone was built almost entirelyout of thrown away aluminium cans, plasticbottles and old car tyres. This process is called‘upcycling’. By this process a product ofsuperior value or quality is obtained from inferiorgrade resources. These raw materials are knownas ‘technical nutrients’. Typical recycling begsthe name ‘downcycling’, as the quality of thematerial deteriorates with each life cycle.

E.g. Recycled paper is more fragile thanoriginal paper. A permanent discolouration(yellowish colour) can be found in recycledpaper. Also, on recycled paper, ink blots formextensively, often rendering the paper unusable.

Thus to maintain the quality throughout,

a process called ‘closed loop recycling’ isadopted.

E-waste / e-scrap like discarded computers,monitors and other electronic gadgets aresubjected to e-cycling. These Waste Electricaland Electronic Equipment (WEEE) contain toxicheavy metals such as Lead (Pb), Cadmium (Cd)and Mercury (Hg) that leach into the eco-system.

Advancement of today’s technology hasrendered devices such as radio and televisionreceivers, etc. obsolete. These items are classifiedas ‘brown goods’. They fall under the categoriesof ‘historic scrap’ or ‘orphan scrap’. Historicscrap alludes to electronics which are outdated,but still in production by their manufacturers.Accordingly ‘orphan scrap’ denotes electronicsout of the market, the manufacturers out ofbusiness altogether.

Those that attempt to recycle theseproducts can claim millions of rupees worth ofCopper (Cu), Gold (Au), Silver (Ag) and other

Cycling valuable materials like Vanadium (V) and such.These recovered minerals are called ‘green gold’as they go a long way to promote recycling.

The above matter goes to implore thatconsumers should embrace the concept of‘precycling’ – that is, they should purchase aconsumer product after evaluating its recyclablepotential. Manufacturers too, should plan aproduct’s life cycle to entertain the possibilityof recycling. Such manufacturers, known as‘extended producers’, offer the option ofreturning the product if dissatisfied.

In an interesting new development, theconcept of recycling is being extended the realmof medicinal biology, specifically in the field ofhuman organ transplants. Recently, in an Illinoishospital, an already transplanted kidney wasbeing ravaged by the disease that had maimedthe original donor of the kidney. Before it wasirrevocably damaged, it was grafted onto a newrecipient without the failure of rejection.

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Inauguration of SB activities

The inauguration of the IEEE SBactivities was held on 13th Jul 2012 by thedistinguished guest Dr. W. Rajmohan, ChiefMentor, Man2succeed, Hosur. Tmt. VasanthaSudhanandhen, correspondent in her presidentialaddress, advised the members and the emergingengineers to enthusiastically participate in allthe association activities and show up their multitalents. Dr. S. Muthu, principal offeredfelicitation. Dr. W. Rajmohan, in his addressmotivated the students to be energetic and

M. P. Nachimuthu M. Jaganathan Engineering College

creative in their ideas and work and requestedthem to serve and support the country in its

path of success, instead of going abroad.Report by: D. Sabapthi

Soft Skill Seminar

Coimbatore Institute of Engineering and Technology

A Soft Skills Seminar for II and III Yearstudents was organized on 18th Augt 2012.About 120 students participated in the seminar.Mr. S. Vijayakrishnan, Placement Officer, CIETaddressed the students covering BusinessCommunication Skills, Group Discussion (Team

Player, Reasoning Ability, Leadership,Flexibility, Assertiveness, Initiative, Creativity,Inspiring Ability, Listening, and Awareness),Presentations, Interpersonal (Communicating,Team Building, Supervising and Counseling) andIntrapersonal (Self Esteem, Self Confidence,Assertiveness, and Dealing with negativeemotions) Relationship Skills andEntrepreneurial Skills.

Programming Contest

A programming contest for all the II andIII Year B.E / B.Tech students was organised on25th August 2012 in which about 200 studentsparticipated in groups of 2/3 Each group wasgiven three problems to solve. The students

had to study the problems clearly and write thecode either in C or C++ in a time span of 90minutes. In this online contest, the output andthe score could be tested on real time mode.The batches with maximum points wereshortlisted for the next level of contest to beheld in the subsequent week.

Report by: Saravanan B

Guest lecture

Ranganathan Engineering Collegeexplained the benefits such as myIEEE, IEEETV, The Institute, IEEE Spectrum, membernet.He also brought the awareness among the studentsto do projects and asked them to present theirresearch findings in the international forums suchas MV Chauhan paper contest, IEEE Extreme24 hours programming contest, etc. He briefedabout the IEEE awards available for both thestudent members and professional members.Both the student members and non-memberswere excited as they could know the opportunitiesavailable for them to do their final year projectsand funding from IEEE Madras Section. He hadalso explained about the leadership award andwished that the IEEE SB to do a series of IEEEactivities in the near future. Mr. J. Mohan, SBcounselor proposed the vote of thanks.

Workshop

A two day workshop on “RECENTTRENDS IN VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTATIONUSING LabVIEW” was held on 23-24, Aug2012. About 70 students of ECE & EEEparticipated. The chief Guest Prof. Jayaraman,

A guest lecture on “Role of IEEE inEmerging Trends of Engineering Field” by Prof.S. Elangovan, Vice Chair – IEEE Madras GoldAG was organized on 21st Aug 2012. About150 students and faculty members of EEE andECE department attended. Mrs. MahalakshmiSridhar, HOD/ EEE College presided over theprogramme and addressed the participantshighlighting the importance of IEEE membershipand motivated the students to make use of suchprogrammes to its full extent.

Prof. S. Elangovan presented an overviewof IEEE organization and highlighted theadvantages of being an IEEE member and

ICET Competency addressed the students anddiscussed about the concepts, importance,application of Virtual Instrumentation, softwareused in virtual Instrumentation, and how theconnections are done using a virtualInstrumentation in any automation systems. Onthe 2nd day, Mr. Kamalakannan, AcademicTrainer from National instruments, Bangaloretaught the basic concepts in “LabVIEW”software by explaining the components usedin the input & output devices and how to usethem in a practical application. He also madethe students to do logical & arithmeticprogramming using LabVIEW and made thestudents to construct /develop virtualInstruments by the end of the workshop.

Report by: Prof. S. Elangovan,[email protected]

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V. P. Sampath, Consultant, Ram InnovationLabs, [email protected]

R. J. Vijayasaraswathi, SMK FomraInstitute of Technology,

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P. Vinothkumar, SMK Fomra Institute ofTechnology, [email protected]

Electric cars are less practical todaybecause huge batteries are required to providethe power for acceleration and because it takesa long time to charge up the batteries. A growingdemand for mobility and energy in emergingregions makes these problems even moresevere.The automotive industry has to find andrealize sustainable solutions for the mobilityand transport systems in the nearby futurewhich will be exposed to even stricterrequirements than those of today.

The major advantage of electric vehicle isregenerative braking and suspension, their abilityto recover energy normally lost during brakingas electricity is restored to the on-board batteryElectrification of both the mobility andtransport system is one possible answer. Newconcepts and new technologies needs to bedeveloped to realize efficient electric vehiclessuited for both individual and public mobilityand for goods distribution in urban areas usingultra capacitors to augment acceleration-powerreduces the required size of the battery andincreases the power to weight ratio of thevehicle. Graphene, the thinnest material in theworld, could be used to improve electric vehiclecharging capacity and reduce the dischargelimitations of low-density batteries currentlybeing used by the automotive industry.Introducing blemishes to grapheme can producea hybrid material that can discharge energysignificantly faster than standard lithiumbatteries. This discovery is ripe forcommercialization, and can make a significantimpact on the development of new batteriesand electrical systems for electric automobilesand portable electronics applications.

The holy grail of electric vehicles is todevelop a lightweight battery that can storeenough energy to complete long journeyswithout the need for engine hybridization. Carmanufacturers have used engineering resourcesto push the boundaries of battery optimizationand the robust nature of graphene may hold theanswer. The next step for the researchers is topair the graphene anode material with a high-power cathode material to construct a fullbattery. The process of making these new

Battery Electric Vehicle-A new horizongraphene paper anodes for Li-ion batteries caneasily be scaled up to suit the needs of industry.The graphene paper can be made in essentiallyany size and shape, and the photo-thermalexposure by laser or camera flashes is an easyand inexpensive process to replicate.

6 for passenger cars and Euro 3 and Euro 4. Inthe last few years the pollution problems andthe increase of the cost of fossil energy (oil,gas) have become planetary problems. Since anawareness has been created on conservation ofnatural resources and importance is given todevelopment of alternate energy vehicles , moreand more car manufacturers are turning to low-

As capacitors can charge almost instantly,compared to batteries, charge times are greatlyreduced. Ultra capacitors can charge anddischarge almost instantly unlike batteries whichtake a lot of time to charge and are limited byinternal resistance during discharge. Ultracapacitor has many advantages over traditionalelectrochemical batteries like it can completelyabsorb and release a charge at high rates and in avirtually endless cycle with little degradation.This ability, allows an ultra capacitor to recoverall of the energy during hard braking, while abattery would allow the energy to be wasted infrictional braking due to its inability to quicklyharvest energy issue more in the future. BEVsbenefit from the high levels of torque found inelectrical motors as well as smooth gearlessacceleration and deceleration. However, this isoften more than sufficient for urban and citycentre drivers.The objective role is optimal forultra capacitor, which has very good chargingefficiency and can store the energy from brakingto the next acceleration with high power in veryshort time.

Driving developments in advanced enginemanagement has the latest environmentprotection agency standards – Euro 5 and Euro

cost, energy efficient vehicles..The batteriesmust provide energy and peaks power duringthe transient states. Significant progress insemiconductor technology has facilitated higherswitching frequency of PWM-based voltagesource inverters—the workhorse of the modern-day AC motor drive. Carrier or switchingfrequencies in the range of 10-kHz to 15-kHzare quite common. This significantly contributesto improved controllability of voltage, currentand torque. It also helps in the reduction ofacoustic noise. Environmental issues create ademand for more energy efficient vehicles.However increased demand and correspondingactivities of major OEMs to develop correspondingvehicles can be already observed.

Electric and full electric delivery vehiclesare under development and tested in severalpilot schemes. The primary task of batterymanagement system (BMS) electronics is toquickly and accurately measure each batterycell’s voltage. This requires extracting relativelysmall differential voltages from very highcommon mode voltages. This is accomplishedby placing high-quality, high common-modedifference amplifiers at each cell to providetranslated signals, ready to be digitized by ananalogue-to-digital converter (ADC).

Fig1: Electric Vehicle Transmission path

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