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Volume : 8 Issue : 3 March 2011 Price : Rs. 3.00

Chairman’s Message

Dr. T. [email protected]

From The Editor’s Desk

H.R. [email protected]

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Esteemed Members,

You are aware that, with the approval ofAGM, the new office bearers and the executivecommittee for the year 2011, took charge on 14th

February 2011. On behalf of the executivecommittee members, I express my sincere thanksfor giving me one more opportunity to serve theIEEE Madras Section. Last year, by the Graceof God; with the direction & dedicated

involvement of the executive committee; encouragement from all theIEEE members of Madras Section and with the support from the sectionoffice staff & all the other well wishers, we could carryout severalactivities. The highlights are briefed here.

The highlights of the year 2010 include:

Guiding in the formation of 14 new student branches

Encouraging in the formation of 3 new Society Chapters (MTTS,PSE and RAS)

Revival of the Professional Communications Society Chapter

2 new WIE Affinity Groups

Enhancing the membership by 1500

Elevation of 3 members to Senior Members

Establishing norms for giving financial assistance to conductconferences

Streamlining the procedure for sponsoring FDPs

Giving financial assistance to 33 conferences – Rs 4,05,000

Recommending financial assistance to 10 UG Projects @ Rs15,000

93 technical lectures by various societies and affinity groups

Organizing 9 technical lectures by the section

Organizing 11 Execom meetings to carryout activities with collectivewisdom in a transparent manner

Organizing 4 FDPs for the benefit of faculty members

Securing PAN number for the Section from the Income Tax Dept.

Bringing out comprehensive monthly newsletter IEEE MAS LINKevery month

Conducting 3 special events (Conclave 10, IEEE Day Celebrationand SPAC)

Receiving US$ 1800/- (Rs 80,000/-) from HQ as special assistancefor SPAC, EAC, WIE activities and distributing them to SSN,Kumaraswamy, St. Xavier, Cape Institute)

Improving infrastructure in the Section office

Dear Friends,

In continuation to the publishing of thecontact information of the Execom members in theFeb 2011 issue of LINK, in the current issue, wehave published the chairperson’s details of thesociety chapters which are active in our Section forreference and use by the members and the studentbranches to facilitate interaction with them inorganizing useful events during the year.

Our Section Chairman, in his message has provided the highlightsof the AGM held on 14th Feb 2011 — one of the very well attendedAGM in the recent past.

IEEE Computer Society has come forward to extend financialsupport for the events being organized by the student chapters of IEEECS and the student branches over and above the support from the Section.Student branches may utilize this opportunity. We have published a listof events for which section has extended financial assistants for the year2011.

Proceedings of the two national conferences – NCISE’11 onInformation and Software Engineering held at AVIT, NCOIET’11 onInnovative and Emerging Technology held at Kongu appear in this issueof LINK along with brief reports on the various student branches activatessuch as seminar on “Soft Skills”, the workshop on “Smart Grid” and themembership drive at Kumaaguru, guest lecture on “Holistic HealthAwareness” at Kongu, orientation programme and a talk on “RecentTrends in Engineering Education” at Dr NGPIT, guidance programme forpreparing for the exams relating to civil and banking services held atFrancis Xavier, seminar on “issues in Mobile Communication” at Jayaram,guest lectures on “Nanotech and applications in Aerospace” and “Benefitsof IEEE for PG students” at KSRCT, workshop on “Matlabfundamentals” at NEC, coding competition and the workshop in pythonprogramming at Amrita, student professional awareness programme,seminar on “Web Designing” and another seminar on “PIC Microcontrollerand Programming” all held at Sri Ramakrishna, IEEE Executive day atBIT, workshop on “Neural Network Approach for Image Processing” atKalasalingam Univ., and Microsoft student partner seminar at CIET.

LINK congratulates Mr. V. Sampathkumar for being a recipient ofthe 2011 New faces of Engineering honor and Mr. J. Gouthaman,undergraduate student of M Kumarasamy College of Engineering for hispaper presentation at IIT Kharagpur.

We remind the faculty members to encourage the students to becomethe members of IEEE & IEEE CS along with the access rights to the IEEECS Digital Library at a combined discounted rate of USD 20 for themembership till Dec 2011. Best opportunity one can get to be associatedwith the largest professional body in the world. Let us make use of it.

We are constrained not to accept the activity reports from thestudent branches and others for publication in LINK if they do not adhereto the guidelines available at at http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/guidelines-matter-for-ieee-mas-link.pdf Pl. send them by 8th of everymonth for inclusion in the issue of the month of publication.

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IEEE-MAS Link Volume : 8 Issue : 3 March 2011

Procuring new IEEE lapel pins and IEEEties and distributing them to the members

Introducing vehicle loan facility to thesection staff

Conferring motivational awards to thefollowing members:

o Dr. D. P. Kothari for becoming theFellow of IEEE

o Prof. M. Ramlatha, for becomingWIE Global Chair & for conductingmax activities

o Counselors of the student branches(AVIT, KEC, CIET, KSRCT) forcarrying out maximum number ofactivities

o Dr. Salivahanan and Dr G.V. Rao,Chairs of newly started societies-MTT, RAS

o Mr. H.R. Mohan, Chief Editor of theIEEE MAS LINK & Chair-IEEE-CSfor conducting maximum activities

o Mr S.Rajavel for making maximumindustrial membership

o Dr N. Kumarappan ChairEducation Activities for conductingmaximum FDPs

o Top three Student branches withhighest student membership(Sathyabama, Velammal, Kongu)

I take this opportunity to express mysincere admiration and special encomiums to allthe members of the executive committee, fortheir guidance, support encouragement andfreedom given to me fr carrying out the aboveactivities. The chairpersons of the WIE, GOLDand various society chairs, student branch

counselors, members of IEEE Madras section

and office staff deserve very special mentionfor their excellent co-operation. Let me stophere, by assuring you that the new office bearers

will serve the section to the satisfaction of allthe members concerned.

Affectionate Office bearerDr. T. Thyagarajan

Guest Lecture on “Holistic Health Awareness” at Kongu Engineering College

The WIE affinity group of IEEE StudentBranch of Kongu Engineering Collegeorganized a guest lecture on 5th Feb 2011 on the

topic “Holistic Health Awareness” byDr. Marudharaj, BNYS, MSc (Psy).

The Session started with ceremonialtribute to the almighty. Ms. V .R. Saraswathy,Staff coordinator, IEEE-KEC welcomed thegathering and introduced the Chief Guest.

Dr Marudharaj enlightened the studentsabout the holistic health and its concept that allpotential contributing factors which may affecta person’s well-being, are taken intoconsideration when assessing a person’s overallhealth. The lecture began by throwing light onthe holistic view on treatment in ancient history.He stated that the spiritual aspect is notassociated with any religious ideology but rather,

refers to the essence or “core self” of a person.Gradually the focus was drawn towards holistichealing and the general principle of holism. Hethen pointed out certain tips to evaluate thebalance of mind-body-spirit. He ended his talkexplaining the Chakras and Aura Colors forhealth alignment.

The guest lecture was thought provokingand it received excellent feedback from thestudents. To express the gratitude, the vote ofthanks was proposed by Ms. M. Sindhu,Treasurer, WIE- KEC and the event came to anend with the recitation of national anthem.

Report By: Neha Gupta, Secretary,WIE-KEC, [email protected]

Orientation Seminar on Soft Skils at Kumaraguru College of Technology

A Orientation seminar on soft skills wasorganized by IEEE-KCT Student Chapter andthe English division of S&H, KumaraguruCollege of Technology on 5th February 2011.Mr Ralf and Ms. Georgina from the Universityof Cambridge ESOL Examinations were the

resource persons. They highlighted throughinteractive session on

Negotiation Skills

Business Etiquette

Resume Writing and InterviewTechniques

The importance of negotiation and its aidin resolving conflicts to achieve the win-winsolution by both parties were highlighted byMs. Georgina. She also insisted that etiquette isa key factor in business and career success. Manypotentially worthwhile and profitable allianceshave been lost and many with good academicrecord failed in career just because of anunintentional breach of manners. She concludedsaying Etiquette, manners, and cross cultural,

or intercultural communication have become

critical elements required for all International

and Global Business executives, managers, and

employees.

Mr Ralf’s session was on Resume Writing

and Interview Techniques; he started saying

that an employer will take only 15 to 20 seconds

to go through your resume so it’s more

important to give the best in it. He also detailed

on Types of Interviews, Evaluation of

candidates, Interview preparation, interview

attire and overall interview process.

The workshop gave a good idea about all

the above mentioned factors for our students

and they had enjoyed the sessions and felt that

the workshop was informative and useful.

Correction: In the Feb 2011 issue of LINK,

in page no. 6, in the report on a student

member from MIT presenting a paper, the

conference name in the title has been wrongly

mentioned as ICSLIP-2000 instead of

ICALIP-2010. The error is regretted.

– Editor, MAS LINK

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NCOIET’11: National conference on “Innovative and Emerging Technology” atKongu Engineering College

IEEE student chapter of KonguEngineering College had organised a 2 daysNational conference on Innovative and EmergingTechnology, NCOIET’11 on 17th and 18th ofFebruary 2011.The goal of this NationalConference was to bring together researchers,academicians, students and other ignited mindsto stage their ideas.

The inaugural function geared up withPrayer song which was followed by thelightening of kuthuvilaku. The welcome addresswas given by Prof. K.Narayanan, staff advisorof IEEE student branch. While appreciating theoffice bearers for successfully organising theconference, he pointed out the achievement andthe seriousness of the conference by mentioningthat NCOIET received above 200 papers outof which only 30 papers were selected basedon their originality, source and content. Prof. S.Kuppuswami, Principal, Kongu EngineeringCollege, delivered the presidential address. Hehighlighted the fact that various topics that wereselected for paper presentation coincided withthe logo of IEEE “Advancing Technologies forHumanity”. While mentioning the need ofinnovative technologies for securing the ITinfrastructure, he pointed out the threat ofmankind being overruled by its own creation.

The inaugural address was given by thechief guest of the day Mr H.R Mohan,Chairman, IEEE Computer Society, MadrasChapter and AVP-Systems at The Hindu. Hecongratulated the KEC IEEE branch for beingawarded for high number of members as well asfor being the second most active branch ofMadras Section. He formally presented the

Certificate of Appreciation from the MadrasSection to the Principal. He highlighted thebenefits of IEEE CS which includes 27publications and a very good digital library. Hementioned the various subsidies and dualmembership packages offered by IEEE. Therelease of proceedings of the conference wasfollowed. Mr R. Narendar, Chairman, IEEE-KEC proposed the vote of thanks.

The inaugural function was followed bya Plenary Talk on “Green ICT –Impact andChallenges” by Mr H.R. Mohan. Green ICTincludes use of ICT to cut down the carbonemissions and practising green computing. Hestated 3R: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle as thebasic mantra for going green. He emphasised onGreen IT which includes computer e-wasterecycling and the impact of changes in businesspractices and human behaviour. The greencomputing goals and its approaches wereeffectively explained by him. He also mentionedthe government and industry initiatives toimplement green computing. Finally he pointedout the CO

2 emission by gadgets like cell

phones, computers etc and the corporatemeasures for better environment. It was trulyan engrossing and lively talk.

The day geared up with technical sessionswhich included areas of Image & SignalProcessing and Biomedical Technologies. Itincluded papers like “Biometrics using headgearto scan brainwaves” and “Use of motion printin sign language” which were quite amazing andthought provoking. The afternoon session wasengrossed with areas of Fuzzy technology,Network security and computer and Web

technology. Papers likes “Graphical passwordauthentication” provided a new paradigm fornetwork security. Thus the first day ended withlots of fanaticism and zeal.

The second day of NCOIET’11 beganwith technical session which covered the widerange of areas like Wireless networks, Datamining and Networking. Various promisingtechnologies like “Pervasive computing invehicles” and “Automated testing of Silverlightand Moonlight application” were highlyappreciated. Focus was shifted towardsElectronics and areas like Antennae and VLSIdesign, PowersSystems were the limelight ofafternoon session.

Next was the Experts Talk by Mr. C TSambandam Scientist, HAL, Bangalore. Thewelcome speech was given by Prof. K.Narayanan, Staff advisor of IEEE studentbranch. Mr. Sambandam gave an appealing talkon “Trends of R&D-The Scope andperspectives”. He initiated by mentioning thatin 21st century and beyond, we live in aglobalised, competitive world and it is drivenby the technology. India has a robust R&Dinfrastructure as every industry has investedlot of money for the technology. He pointedout India’s value proportions and the R&Dclusters which are located at Bangalore,Mumbai, NCR, Hydrabad and Pune. Hescreened the video of “Wind beneath the wings”which was very enthralling. Robust researchinfrastructure and centres for high technologyresearch were discussed. Further he threwhighlights on Light Combat Aircrafts –supersonic fighters and other upcoming aircraftslike HANSA and SARAS. RADAR and itsimplementation in world wars were mentioned.He explained about various types of RADARSand their advantages. Finally he told variousapplications of RADAR and scope of jobopportunities for Electronics andCommunication in this field.

Valedictory function began with prayersong. Certificates were distributed to the bestpaper winners and other participants. Feedbackwas given by the delegates about theconference. Ms. P. Sandhya, Vice-Chairperson,WIE-KEC proposed the vote of thanks. Finallythe function came to an end by extending thegratitude to the mother land through NationalAnthem. Thus NCOIET’11 was a bang and anexcellent platform for technical and innovativeemergence.

Report by: Neha Gupta, Secretary,WIE-KEC, [email protected]

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“THE JOURNEY BEGINS” – Orientation Programme at Dr. N.G.P.I.T

The IEEE student branch chapter andWIE of Dr.N.G.P.I.T had its first gathering on20th Jan 2011 for the calendar year 2011 in theform of an orientation programme. It was headedby the esteemed branch counselor Dr. K.Porkumaran, Vice Principal, Dr. N.G.P.I.T. About60 new members had joined IEEE this year.

The welcome address was given by Mr.Prabhakaran, staff coordinator of Dr. N.G.P.IT

IEEE student branch. He also presented the

highlights of the last year IEEE activities. The

students were inspired and motivated by the

enthusiastic talk on “IEEE etiquettes” by Dr.

K. Porkumaran. Following his talk, Mr. R.

Karthik, Staff Coordinator IEEE, briefed about

the various IEEE societies and their benefits

related to academic activities. Ms.V.

Priyadarshini, WIE Coordinator explained about

the various technical aspects of Women inEngineering Affinity Group. Then the studentmembers were individually introduced bythemselves specifying their skills and areas ofinterests.

The members were made aware of thedifferent IEEE student committees at thebranch. Based on their areas of interests, thestudents were included in various committeeslike newsletter committee; web designingcommittee; technical committee etc., For eachcommittee, chairman and a vice chairman, wereselected to coordinate with the activities for thecalendar year. Once the committees wereformed, future activities of these committeesand the IEEE branch as a whole were planned.As a highlighting part of this programme, thechairman Mr. N. Jijentharanath, Vice- chairman,Ms. Hebziba Beula, Secretary and the Treasurerwere also selected for the successful progressof this year’s activities at Dr.N.G.P.I.T.

Mr. R. Karthik, staff coordinator IEEEdelivered the vote of thanks. The other IEEEstaff coordinators Mr.S. Krishna Prabhu, Mrs.Manjari were also present during the function.

Report by: Dr.K.Porkumaran,Branch Counselor, [email protected]

Smart and Effective Preparation for Civil Service Examination and BankingServices

The IEEE student branch of FrancisXavier Engineering organized an empowermentprogram for students on 21th February, 2011,which received great applause and appreciatingresponse. Mr. A. Britto, One of the PrestigiousAlumni of Department of ECE, Francis XavierEngineering College was the resource person.

About 25 IEEE members and around 60final year students of FX Engineering Collegeparticipated in the seminar. R.Parthiban,chairman of IEEE student Branch welcomedthe gathering. The presidential address wasgiven by Prof. M. Selvi, HOD/ECE, StudentBranch Counselor and we were also glad tohave, Mr. G. Rajakumar as a coordinator forthe program.

The Program included

Details regarding the efficient preparationfor Union Public Service Commission Exams,

Prerequisites for entering the public sectorfield.

Opportunities in banking sector and howto take hold of those opportunities.

The program conducted was veryinteractive and it explored many interestingmethods and concepts essential for attendingpublic sector examinations. The mind-blowingspeech of the resource person inspired all thestudents. Various opportunities available inthe Public Sector, time of call, duration for thepreparation etc. were briefed. In the feedbacksession, the participants told that all theinformation about various competitiveexaminations, various best book materials andalso some books relevant to the subjects was

very “profit gaining”. The participants foundthat the session was very interesting andbeneficiary.

To express gratitude, all students and staffmembers who attended the program thankedthe resource person whole heartedly at the endof the program. The information aboutexaminations was very beneficial for thestudent’s life and career.

Report by: S.Irish Jeyapaul, Secretary,IEEE Student Branch.

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Seminar on “Issues in Mobile Communication” atJayaram College of Engineering and Technology

IEEE Student Branch of Jayaram Collegeof Engg & Tech organized a seminar on “Issuesin Mobile Communication” for the benefits ofstudents on 17th Feb 2011. Dr. D. SriramKumar, Associate Professor, Department of

Electronics and Communication Engineering,National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli,presided over the programme. IEEE Studentmembers of the college attended the seminarsession.

Mrs. Nirmala Subramaniam Founder,GRD Educational Trust, Er.M.SubramaniamChairman, JCET ordained the seminar session.

IEEE Branch mentor and the principal ofthe college Dr. N. Kannan delivered thepresidential address. IEEE Student branch vicechairperson Mr. S. Dinesh Kumar delivered thewelcome address and IEEE student branch

treasurer Mr. M. Manoj Prabhakar intoducedthe chief guest.

Dr. D. Sriram Kumar presented a broadoverview on the issues of cell phones, cell towersand their qualitative issues. He also stressed onthe point about RF radiation pollution and theeffective control using radiation shields. Heemphasized that IEEE will be the best propellingplatform for the young aspiring engineers intheir real life projects.

Vote of thanks was given by IEEE studentmember Mr.T.Jayakumar The entire programmewas formulated by the branch mentor and

Principal, Dr. N. Kannan and branch counselorMrs. A. Kavitha, Associate. Professor,Department of ECE.

Guest Lecture at K. S. Rangasamy College of Technology

The IEEE student branch ofK.S.Rangasamy College of Technology,Tiruchengode organized a guest lecture onNanotechnology and its Aerospace Applicationon 4th Feb 2011. The day began with theceremonial tribute to the Almighty. Mr.S.Saravanan, IEEE Student Branch Counselor

welcomed the gathering. Dr.K.B.Jayanthi,HOD, Department of ECE addressed thegathering. Dr.K.Thyagarajh, Principal deliveredthe principal address.

Mr.Y.Vivekananth, IEEE graduatestudent member introduced the chief guest,

Dr. Sreelal.S.Pillai, ISRO, Trivandrum. The chiefguest gave a brief lecture about the emergingMEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems)technology. He also described about thecomponents, fabrication process, features andthe application of MEMS. The guestfurthermore described about the buddingnanotechnology fields, its various applicationsand the uses of the nanoparticles such as thenanotubes. A concise description about howthese nanotechnologies finds its application inaerospace was also explained. The guest finallyconcluded the lecture by explaining about theresearch made in India on nanotechnology.

The function came to a formal closurewith Mr. P.K.Srikanth, IEEE graduate studentmember thanking everyone who made the eventa grand success.

Report by: Mr.S. Saravanan, Student BranchCounselor, [email protected]

Talk on “Recent Trends in Engineering Education”held at Dr. N. G. P. Institute Of Technology

IEEE - Dr. NGPIT student branch, WIEand Dr. N.G.P.Institute of Technology wasglorified by a visit paid by Prof. Dr. NilandriChakraborty, Dean (Enginnering andTechnology), Jadavpur University, Kolkatta fora talk on Recent Trends in EngineeringEducation.

The event took place on the 1st February2011. The programme began with a welcomeaddress given by Dr. K. Porkumaran, VicePrincipal and branch counselor of IEEE studentbranch. The presidential address was deliveredby the Secretary, Dr.Dhavamani D Palaniswamywho advised the students to know about the

upcoming trends and update themselves with

latest technologies.

Prof. Dr. Nilandri Chakraborty, gave an

inspiring speech on the reforms in education

and the revision of the academic curriculum as

per the needs of the present. He stressed on the

importance of practical knowledge and simulation

classes over regular classroom lectures.

The function was concluded by vote of

thanks given by N. Jijenthiranath, the chairman

of IEEE student branch who emphasized on

the importance of renewable energy and its need.

600 students from various disciplines,

professors, faculty coordinators of IEEE –Dr.NGPIT student branch Mr. S. Prabakar, EEEMs. V. Priyadarshini, ECE, Mr. R. Karthick,ECE, Mr. S. Krishnaprabhu ECE participatedand interacted with the chief guest

Report by: Dr. K. Porkumaran,IEEE student branch counselor,

[email protected]

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Workshop on “MATLAB Fundamentals” at National Engineering College

On 29th January 2011, the IEEE StudentBranch of National Engineering College,Kovilpatti, had organized a one day workshopon “MATLAB Fundamentals” for the IEEE studentmembers in order to initiate them into the field.

Dr. M. Willjuice Iruthayarajan, AssociateProfessor, EEE Dept, and the IEEE StudentBranch counselor of National EngineeringCollege tutored the students. In this workshop,the participants were given an introduction tovarious MATLAB programming concepts suchas creation of scalar variable and scalar functions,creating vectors and matrix, matrix and vectorfunctions, plotting and graphics, programmingin MATLAB and creating the scripts files andfunction files. All the participants wereprovided the hands on experience in writing theMATLAB programming for solving simpleproblems using MATLAB in personal computerindependently.

At the end of the workshop, studentsinteracted enthusiastically and clarified their

doubts. Participation certificates were givento all the student members who had attended

the workshop. Mr. Arul Edwin Raj and

Mr. S. Rajagopal organized the one day

workshop under the able guidance ofthe Principal Dr. N.S. Marimuthu and the

Director Dr. Kn. K.S.K. Chockalingam, Dr. M.Willjuice Iruthayarajan, IEEE student branch

counselor.

Report by: M. Willjuice Iruthayarajan,Student Branch Counselor,

[email protected]

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Student Seminar at CoimbatoreInstitute of Engineering and Technology

IEEE Students Branch of CIET had organized a one day student seminarfor the benefit of IEEE student members and non-members on 18th Jan2011. About 75 students participated in the seminar.

Mr.B.Saravanan, IEEE Student Branch Counselor inaugurated the

programme by highlighting the activities planned for this academic year

under the IEEE banner.

Two MSPs (Microsoft Student Partners) selected by Microsoft

Corporation, Ms.R. Janani, III year, CSE and Mr. R. Krishna Kumar, III

Year, CSE addressed the participants. During their presentations, theyconcentrated on new emerging areas like windows phone 7 (silver light),

web matrix. At the end of the presentation, the participants had interactionwith the speakers and clarified their doubts.

Coding Competition at Amrita School of EngineeringAmrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore IEEE student branch in

association with ACM chapter, Amrita organized a three hour codingcompetition on “Programming with C/C++” on February 24, 2011. Thecompetition was conducted by Third year B.Tech students who are membersof the IEEE and ACM of the Department of Information Technology,Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore. The coding competition wasconducted using “SPOJ”, the Sphere Online Judge which is a third partytool available on the Internet. The tool would evaluate the ocde written bythe contestants automatically based on a predefined set of test cases. Theworkshop was mentored by Prof. K. Gangadharan, Chairman-IT andorganized by Mr. C. Arunkumar, Student Branch Counsellor of IEEE,Amrita and Ms. K. R. Bindu, Coordinator of ACM Chapter at Amrita.

Report by: C. Arunkumar, [email protected]

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IEEE Executive Day at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

The IEEE Student Branch of BannariAmman Institute of Technology came out withan idea of giving exposure to the students onExecutive Development and EntrepreneurialSkills. It initiated to celebrate one full day forentrepreneurial development through expertlecture, workshop, technical games and projectson the topic. Thus the programme wassnowballed into ‘IEEE Executive Day’ and wasconducted on Saturday, 19th Feb 2011.

Dr. G. Gurusamy Sr.MIEEE and theStudent Branch Counselor in his presidentialaddress gave a briefing on the topic. Amongthousands of engineering colleges in India lakhsof engineers are churned out to seekemployment. All cannot get immediateemployment. Our nation is growing as thetechnical hub of the world. Our technical

acumen is now recognized by every country.This is the golden opportunity for nativeengineers to become entrepreneurs for that firstwe should become good and talented executives.The executive training and entrepreneur skillshould go hand in hand. Many countries turntowards our nation for finishing their products.This opportunity should be tactfully utilizedby domestic engineers to become entrepreneurs,he said.

Dr R.Venkatapathy, Director, School ofManagement Studies and EntrepreneurDevelopment, Bharathiyar University,Coimbatore was the chief guest and inauguratedthe function. In his opening remarks, he saidthat there are more than 400 engineering collegesin our state and half of our engineering graduatesget some Software and Information Technologyjobs. The graduates should develop theirattitude as primary goal, while qualification issecondary. Attitude must be nurtured as thatonly leads to growth of revel nature to developentrepreneurship. Attitude means to thinkdifferently. Core engineering was lacking in allthese years while IT industries and jobopportunities are not consistent. Our countryhas the best of best in many things. We havegood natural resources, vegetation, climate andother facilities. We have to come out of the

mindset and ride on creativity and innovation.

We have to think differently to become

entrepreneur. Practice when coupled withconfidence will give us success.

In the afternoon one expert Dr. S.

Karthikeyan, Director, Coimbatore Capitals Ltd

conducted an intensive workshop on

Entrepreneurship Development. He saidacquiring entrepreneurial skill is the only

solution for India to reach prosperity becausewe have adequate man power.

The one day programme was interwoven

with technical games to keep the participantsin good spirit. In the morning after inauguration

Robomania games was conducted. Theparticipants used the technical skill to win the

robo war. There were paper presentations in 4

sessions conducted in different seminar halls.

The programme was fine turned with technicalquiz where prelims were conducted to churn

out 6 competent teams and finals wereconducted to select the best teams. At the end

of the day long programme, Mr. J. Abishak,

Students Branch Secretary, proposed vote of

thanks.

Report by Dr.G.Gurusamy,[email protected]

Student Professional Awareness Programme atSri Ramakrishna Engineering College

IEEE Student Branch of Sri RamakrishnaEngineering College organised a National LevelStudent Professional Awareness Programme“TechKosmos’11” on 7th Feb 2011. Followingthe Invocation by a prayer song, Prof.R.Shanmugasundram, IEEE Facultycoordinator welcomed the gathering. Dr. R.Radhakrishnan, Principal and Branch Counsellorof Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College presidedover the function. Felicitations were offered by

the Chief Guest Dr.A.Ebenezer Jeyakumar,Director (Academics), SNR Sons Charitable

Trust and Prof. S.P Rajkumar, Head of the

department, Electrical and ElectronicsEngineering. Ms. Sunitha Sundaram,

Chairperson, IEEE Student Branch, briefed the

gathering on TechKosmos’11.

Dr. A. Ramasubbu, Assistant Professor

of Govt. Arts and Science College, Coimbatore

was the resource person. In his talk hehighlighted about “Nanotechnology and itsapplications” which was very useful andinformative for all the participants.

After the seminar session, events such asPaper presentation, Poster presentation, Projectpresentation, Quiz, In-Out, Debugger,Photography were conducted to the interest ofthe students with catch of the day event beingcommunication-oriented one “In-Out” thatexposed the students to technical and generalaspects of everyday life.

The presence of nearly 250 studentsmade the event memorable. The event came to aclose with the Valediction function, marked bythe presence of Dr. M. Rangasamy, HOD,Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering asthe chief guest. He appreciated the efforts of allparticipants and gave an inspirational talk.Winners were awarded with cash prizes.Siddharth Nair, Activities Co-ordinator, IEEEStudent Branch delivered the vote of thanks.

For organising this Student ProfessionalAwareness Programme, IEEE headquarters hadsanctioned $200.00 for the IEEE StudentBranch.

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Smart Grid Workshop at Kumaraguru College of Technology

IEEE KCT student branch andDepartment of EEE jointly conducted a twoday national level workshop on “Insight intoSmart Grid and its Applications” during 4-5,Feb 2011. The workshop was inaugurated bythe Chief Guest Mr. N.V. Balakrishnan, SE/

TNEB. The function was felicitated by Dr. S.

Ramachandram, Principal of KCT. Dr. Rani

Thotungal, HoD/ EEE welcomed the gathering.

Prof. D. Rajalakshmi briefed about the

workshop and Prof. T. Shanthi delivered the

vote of thanks.

On the 1st day of the workshop, Dr.

Aruldoss Albert Victor delivered a talk on

distribution generation system and added the

research area in distribution generation. Dr. P.N.

Neelakandan discussed about SCADA in detail.

Dr. S.Vasantha Rathna started from the Basics

of Power System and covered the research

opportunities in Smart Grid.

The day2, started with a lecture on

deregulation of power system by Dr. Sishaj P

Simon. He delivered market strategy of Smart

Grid. Mr. A.D. Thirumoorthy, SE/TNEB

discussed about smart meters and had an

interaction about research opportunities in

Smart Gird. Mr. K.P. Jatin demonstrated the

role of FPGA in grid applications. Nearly 50

research scholars from various engineering college

participated in this workshop. The function

came to formal closure with Prof. T. Shanthi

and Prof. M. Nirmala, organizers of this work

shop, thanking the participants and the

speakers.

Workshop on “Programming with Python” atAmrita School of Engineering

Amrita School of Engineering,Coimbatore IEEE student branch organized atwo day workshop on “Programming withPython” on March 3 rd and 4 th,2011. Theworkshop was conducted by Mr. Krace Kumar- a B.Tech final year student of the Departmentof Information Technology, Amrita School ofEngineering, Coimbatore. Budding engineersattended his workshop in addition to the IEEEmembers of Amrita University, Coimbatore. Thestudents learned how to effectively programusing python.

The topics covered include “whypython”, “advantages of python”, “companiesusing python”, “realtime applications ofpython”, “basics of python”, “functionalprogramming”, “database programming” and soon. Programming Languages like COBOL, Cwere developed to effectively use the expensivehardware. In contrast a programming languagelike Python was developed to effectively usethe expensive programmer’s talent. Theworkshop was mentored by Prof. K.Gangadharan, Chairman-IT and organized by

Mr. C. Arunkumar, Student Branch Counsellorof IEEE, Amrita.

Report by: C. Arunkumar,[email protected]

Workshop on “NeuralNetwork Approach forImage Processing” atKalasalingam University

The Student Branch of KalasalingamUniversity had organized a two day workshopon “Neural Network Approach for ImageProcessing” during 4-5, Feb 2011. Mr. S.Arunkumar, IEEE Student Branch President,welcomed the participants and Guests. Theworkshop was inaugurated by Dr. V. K. Mathan,Senior Professor, Electronics andCommunication Engineering, KalasalingamUniversity. In his inaugural address heappreciated the activities of IEEE StudentBranch at the University. He stressed theimportance of being a member of IEEE andmotivated the students to get involved in IEEEactivities.

Dr. D. Devaraj, IEEE Student BranchCounselor and co-ordinator of the workshop,

gave an overview on the two days workshop.Around 110 students from CSE, ECE, EEE andE&I participated in this workshop. Theparticipants were explained about thefundamentals of Artificial Neural Network,Image Processing and development of NeuralNetwork model for various engineeringapplications including Image Processing. Thesessions were handled by Dr. D. Devaraj, Dean,R&D, Kalasalingam University, Dr. S. Palanivel,Professor of Computer Science Engineering,Annamalai University and Mrs. P. Rathika,Associate Professor, Electronics andCommunication Engineering, Cape Institute ofTechnology. In addition, participants were givenhands on training on working with Matlab andthe usage of Neural Network Toolbox.

During the valedictory function on 5th Febevening, Dr. S. Selvakumar, Professor,Department of Computer Science, NIT Trichy,was the chief guest and in his address, he hadstressed the importance of doing qualityresearch and motivated the students to getinvolved in research activities. Miss. AnjuYoga,

IEEE Student Branch Secretary, proposed thevote of thanks.

Report by: Dr.D.Devaraj,IEEE Student Branch Counselor

Section Membership as on15th March 2011

Life Fellow - 2

Fellow - 1

Life Senior - 7

Senior Member - 81

Life Member - 4

Member - 2017

Associate - 132

Affliate - 38

Graduate Student Member - 1228

Student Member - 6637

Total - 10,147

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National Conference on “Information and Software Engineering” held at AVIT

IEEE Computer Society MadrasChapter, IEEE Computer Society BranchChapter-AVIT and Dept of InformationTechnology, Aarupadai Veedu Institute ofTechnology jointly organized the 3rd NationalConference on Information and SoftwareEngineering during 18-19, Feb 2011.

The inauguration of the conference washeld on 18th Feb, 2011 morning in theAuditorium of Aarupadai Veedu Institute ofTechnology, Paiyanoor. Mr. K. PurushothamanRegional Director, NASSCOM, Tamilnadu andKerala delivered the inaugural address onSoftware Engineering and released the Souvenir.Following the inauguration, Sri H. R. Mohan,Chairman, IEEE Computer Society MadrasChapter, Associate VP (Systems) – The Hindu,released the Conference Proceedings. Ms. J.Sabita Associate Vice President-HR, Steria,

Chennai delivered the key note address to the

delegates highlighting the importance of

innovative ideas to students regarding Software

Engineering.

Dr. (Mrs.) N.R. Alamelu presided over

the function and delivered the PresidentialAddress. Dr. A. Anthony Irudhayaraj Dean (IT),

AVIT delivered the welcomed the gathering and

briefed about the importance of SoftwareEngineering and the highlights of the conf. Shri.

S. Basker, General Manager (Operations), Vinayaka

Missions University felicitated the function.

The Invited talk sessions covered wide

range of topics in the field of Software and

Information Engineering. Specialists and domainexperts from industry delivered lectures and

shared their experiences. The following are theinvited lectures delivered during the conf.

“Knowledge Engineering” by Mr. Jesu

Valiant, Solutions Architect, Enterprises

Services, CSS Corp, Chennai.

“Software Process and Project

Management” by Mr. A. Sargunan, Senior

Project Manager, UST-Global, Chennai.

“Software Risk Management” by Ms. J.

Gowri Sundari, Sr. Project SQA, Oracle

Financial Services Software Ltd,

Chennai.

“People Issues in Software Engineering”

by Mr. Balasundaram Subramanian,

Program Manager, UST-Global, Chennai.

Dr. S. Ravichandran, CEO, Trimentus

Tech, Chennai addressed the delegates during

the valedictory function on 19th evening and

distributed the certificates. Mr. C. Karthikeyan

HOD, Dept. of Information Technology

proposed the Vote of Thanks.

Out of 185 technical papers received,

after peer review, 65 were short listed for oral

presentation during the conference sessions.

Around 200 delegates comprising of

Industry Professionals, Research Scholars,

Faculty Members and Students from all over

the country participated. The students of IT

department and faculty from various

departments of AVIT also attended the sessions.

Guest Lecture at K.S. Rangasamy College of Technology

The IEEE student branch of

K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology,

Tiruchengode organized a guest lecture on the

Benefits of IEEE for Post Graduate Students

on 18th Feb 2011. The day began with the

ceremonial tribute to the Almighty.

Mr.S.Saravanan, IEEE Student Branch

Counselor welcomed the gathering.

Dr.K.B.Jayanthi, HOD, Department of ECE

addressed the gathering. Dr.K.Thyagarajh,

Principal delivered the principal address.

Mr. G. Sreenath, IEEE graduate student

member introduced the chief guest Mr.C.R.Sasi

(Lifetime IEEE member). The chief guest gave a

lecture on the importance of joining IEEE. The

various benefits that are obtained as a result of

joining and contributing to IEEE were explained

by the chief guest. Mr.C.R.Sasi explained about

the importance of the conferences that are

organized across the globe by IEEE and how

the IEEE membership helps in knowing about

the current trend and the essence of the variousconferences that are being held.

The chief guest also spoke about howthe technology advancement of the today’sworld helps in knowing things better than it

was earlier. The speaker also mentioned aboutone of the most useful features of the IEEE, theIEEE Spectrum magazine. He explained about

how this magazine helps in furthering theknowing.

Finally the chief guest concluded hisspeech by explaining about the qualities,

attitude and the capability that we need todevelop for getting ourselves placed in anorganization. The lecture came to a formal

closure with Mr. G. Premanathan, IEEEGraduate student member thanking everyonewho made the event a grand success.

Report by: Mr.S.Saravanan, StudentBranch Counselor, [email protected]

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Call for ParticipationIEEE Robotics and Automation Society Study Groups

The IEEE Robotics and AutomationSociety’s Standing Committee for StandardsActivities is seeking participants for two studygroups that have been formed.

Map Data Representation andFundamental Data Types: This Study Groupaims to develop a consensus on the needs forcommon representation for robot map data,including metric, topological, and semanticmaps. The Study Group will investigate thepotential for standardizing fundamental datatypes for mapping and study existing map datarepresentations from other SDOs including theOGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) and theISO. As part of its work, it will determine howdetailed the standardized data types used in maprepresentation need to be. The study group willset up a long-term roadmap for developingspecifications for map data representation anddiscuss how to represent, encode, and exchangemap data for robot navigation. The leads forthis Study Group are Wonpil Yu (Electronicsand Telecommunications Research Institute,Korea) and Geoffrey Biggs (National Instituteof Advanced Industrial Science and Technology,Japan).

Glossary/Ontology for Robotics andAutomation: The objective of this Study Groupis to identify, develop, and document salientterms and their definition so that they canserve as a common reference for the robotics

and automation community. A core issue thatwill be addressed as part of this effort is how to represent the definition of the terms. Unlikeprevious efforts which have attempted toperform similar activities in more specificdomains, this study group will take a more all-encompassing approach, focusing on terms thatrelate not only to the more traditionalmobile robotics domain (e.g., service robotics,healthcare robotics, military robotics) butextending it into the automation fieldwhich could include terms related to domainssuch as automated manufacturing shop floor.The exact scope of this effort and thedomains that will be addressed will be one ofthe first orders of business of this study group.The leads for this Study Group are CraigSchlenoff and Hui-Min Huang (NationalInstitute of Standards and Technology, USA).

The outcome of these two study groupswill lead to a project authorization request (PAR)which will initiate a standardization processwithin the IEEE Standards Association.

For more information about these studygroups or to express interest in joining, pleasecontact:

Raj Madhavan, Ph.D, Chair, StandingCommittee for Standards Activities (SCSA),IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. http://i e e e - r a s . o r g / i n d u s t r i a l / s t a n d a r d s ;[email protected] +1-301-975-2865

ETCIT-2011

National Conference onEmerging Trends inCommunication and

Information Technology

1-2, Apr 2011

Organized byDepartment of ECE

K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology

Topics Covered

Wireless communicationSignal and Image Processing

VLSI Design and Embedded SystemsNano Technology

Computer NetworksMultimedia & Network Security

Mobile Computing

Registration

Industry Participants: Rs. 1500/-Academic Institute Participants: Rs. 1000/-Research Scholar and PG students: Rs. 600/-

Address for Communication

The Co-ordinatorFifth National Conference on ETCIT – 11

Department of ECE

K.S.Rangasamy College of TechnologyTiruchengode – 637 215

Namakkal District, Tamilnadu.

Mobile No. : 9443095035Email: [email protected]

Congrats toMr. J. Gouthaman of

MKCE

LINK congratulates Mr. Gouthaman,

Student Member of M. Kumarasamy

College of Engineering for presenting the

paper “Automated urban drinking water

supply control and water theft

identification system” and winning the

BEST TRACK AWARD in

“Communication Systems” in IEEE 2011

Student’s Technology Symposium held on

14 – 16 Jan 2011 at Indian Institute of

Technology, Kharagpur.

He is the only UG Student to take

part in this event from IEEE Madras

Section among four papers from Tamilnadu.

Membership Drive atKumaraguru College ofTechnology

IEEE KCT Student Branch had organisedthe IEEE Membership Ddrive on 19th Feb2011. The IEEE staff in-charge Prof. V.Sharmila Deve and Prof. R. Kavithahighlighted the benefits of joining in IEEE andcreated awareness among the students. Theyalso explained about the various activities suchas workshops, mini project contests, socialawareness programmes, seminars, etc beingorganized under IEEE and the variousscholarships awarded by IEEE.

Mr. Adhi Selvam and Mr. Giridharistudent members of IEEE discussed thehistory of IEEE and its values and rolethroughout the Engineering career. They alsointeracted with the students to develop futureplan of activities. About 50 students fromvarious departments attended this programme.

Congrats

LINK congratulates Mr. SampathkumarVeeraraghavan for having been selected as the IEEE/IEEE USA 2011 New faces of Engineeringand one of the National Engineers WeekFoundation’s “2011 New Faces of Engineeringhonor recipient”. Pl. see the official announcementat http://www.eweek.org/Site/Engineers/newfaces2011/index.shtml

Sampathkumar VeeraraghavanRecent Graduate, Tufts University

Nominated by IEEE/ IEEE-USAVeeraraghavan, 27, an electrical engineer,develops technological solutions to global

humanitarian issues for disabled andimpoverished women and children.

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IEEE Society Chapter Chairpersons

Dr. N.R. AlameluChairperson

Communications Society

Tel : +91 44 2744 3803 (O)+91 44 2461 6510 (R)

Cell : +91 98413 53400Email : [email protected]

[email protected]

Dr. B. SanthanarajChairman

Engineering in Medicine andBiology Society


Mr. H.R. MohanChairman

Computer Society &Professional Communication Society

Tel : +91 44 2857 6411 (O)+91 44 2231 3738 (R)


Er. K.V. RupchandChairman

Power Engineering Society &Technology Management Council

Tel : +91 44 2495 3339 (R)Cell : +91 94440 10339Email : [email protected]

Mrs. M. RamalathaChairperson

Woman in EngineeringAffinity Group

Tel : +91 44 2249 5350, (O)+91 44 2376 4928 (R)


Dr. N. KrishnanChairman

IEEE Podhigai Subsection ofMadras Section & IEEE SIPCICOM

Tel : +91 462 2323 650 (O)+91 462 2333 212 (R)


[email protected]

Mr. R. ChellappanChairman

Power Electronic Society

Tel : +91 44 2467 9732 (O)+91 44 2499 3266

Email : [email protected]

Seminar on Web Designing andHosting: The IEEE Student Branch hadorganised a seminar on the topic “Web Designingand Hosting” on 20th Jan 2011. The mainobjective of this seminar was to enlighten onfundamentals of web designing and to encouragestudents to involve themselves in creation ofwebsites. Mr. Nair Siddharth Shivakumar, anIEEE Student member presented on the web

Seminars at Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College

design and hosting aspects. The students

benefited from his presentation which included

a dynamic demonstration of website creation

and hosting on a web server.

Seminar on PIC Microcontroller and

programming: The IEEE Student Branch had

organised a seminar on “PIC Microcontroller

and programming” on 21st Feb 2011. The main

objective of this seminar was to shed light onthe fundamentals of PIC Microcontroller andits basics. Prof. R. Shanmugasundaram, IEEEfaculty co-ordinator of SREC student Branchhandled this session. He demonstrated theworking of microcontroller in real time applications.This seminar helped the students to know theprogramming aspects of PIC microcontroller.This seminar would benefit the final yearstudents to carry out their projects with ease.All the IEEE members attended this seminar.

Tel : +91 44 2747 4844 (O)

+91 44 2749 7393 (R)


[email protected]

Dr.G.V. RaoChairman

Product Safety

Tel : +91 44 2499 0802 (O)Cell : +91 99401 19770Email : [email protected]

Dr. S. SalivahananPast-Chairman

Micro Theory Technology Society

Mr. S. RajavelVice-Chairman

Industrial Applications

Tel : +91 44 2252 6304 (O)+91 44 2252 6305 (O)

Email : [email protected]

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Financial Assistance to Student Branches from Madras Section

1 Bannari Amman Institute of 20,000.00 Sixth National Conference on “ Cutting Edge Technologies in 16-17 Mar 2011Technology Power Conversion & Industrial Drives - PCID ‘11

2 KGiSL Institute of Information 15,000.00 National Conference of Advanced Computing and 18th Feb 2011Management IT Applications - NCACITA 2011

3 St. Xavier’s Catholic College of 20,000.00 Technical sysmposium - ELITE ’11 25th Mar 2011Engineering

4 Mepco Schlenk Engineering 5,000.00 International Conference on “Recent Advancements in Electrical, 15-17 Dec 2011College Electronics and Control Engineering” - ICONRAEeCE-2011

5 K.S.R College of Technology 15,000.00 National Conference on “ Power Electronics and Controllers 18-19 Mar 2011for Renewable Energy Systems” PECRES-2011

6 Kongu Engineering College 20,000.00 National Conference on Innovations in Emerging Technology - NCOIET 17-18 Feb 2011

7 K.S.R. College of Engineering 10,000.00 National Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical and 18-19 Mar 2011Electronics Engineering.

8 Madras Institute of Technology 5,000.00 International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Technology 3-5 Jun 2011ICRTIT-2011

9 RMK Engineering College 10,000.00 Fourth National Conference on Digital Convergence - FNCDC-2011 16-17 Apr 2011

10 Sudharsan Engineering College 5,000.00 National Conference on Energy, Power and Intelligent Systems 5-6 Apr 2011

11 Velammal Engineering College 20,000.00 National Conference on ‘ Innovative Techniques in Power Engineering 24-25 Mar 2011and Drives - ITPED’11

12 VRS College of Engineering and 5,000.00 National Level Conference on “Recent Trends in Wireless 2nd Mar 2011Technology Communication”

13 Aarupadai Veedu Institute of 10,000.00 National Conference on Information and Software Engineering 18-19 Feb 2011Technology

14 Kumaraguru College of 10,000.00 Natioanl Conference on Communication, Information & Telematics 3-4 Mar 2011Technology - CITEL-2011

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