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Chairman’s MessageT.S. Rangarajan

ts.rangarajan@gmail.com

From The Editor’s DeskH.R. Mohan

hrmohan.ieee@gmail.comBlog: http://infoforuse.blogspot.comDear Members,

It is heartening to note that our financialsupport for Student Branches to organizeConferences has evinced continuous and increasedinterest. While reviewing the present norms offinancial support during the last executivecommittee meeting, it was felt that in order toserve the increased number of student branchesseeking financial support for organizing

conferences there is a need to revise the norms as follows:

Strength of Financial supportStudent Branch eligibility in INR

Up to 50 5,00051 to 100 7,500

101 to 150 10,000151 to 200 12,500201 to 250 15,000251 to 300 17,500Above 300 20,000

Further, following guidelines havealso been adopteda. Only one conference per student

branch will be supported as perabove new norms

b. Student branches are requestedto submit the application forsponsorship by the section inthe prescribed format(preferably softcopy), through

proper channel, at least 30 days before the schedule of the programwith the following enclosures:i. IEEE members list – both students and staff with membership number

for the current year.ii. A draft Copy of the Brochure or first call letter of the Conference

/ Seminar. (the soft copy can be mailed before 8thof the month toieeemaslink@gmail.com for publicity through the IEEE –MASLINK (monthly bulletin)

c. Once the sponsorship is approved by the execom, the student branchwill receive intimation from the section office, Chennai.

d. After receiving the approval, the student branch counselors are requestedto include the IEEE logo in all the related communications – conferencewebsite, brochure, invitation, certificate, proceedings hard copy andsoft copy, by mentioning the word “Sponsored by IEEE Madras Section”.

e. The student branch counselors are also requested to submit the followingwithin 15 days of conduct of the program:i. Advance Stamped receipt signed by the branch counselor/Head of theinstitution; ii. Bill(s) copy signed by the branch counselor and Head ofthe institute, for the amount sanctioned; iii. Copies of the proceedings/souvenir (hard/soft copy), Certificate, Brochure, Invitation card; iv.Soft copy of a brief report with photos for publication in our newsletterIEEE MAS LINK

f. The sponsorship amount will be sent within one month from the dateof receipt of above documents, in the form of cheque drawn in favour ofthe respective student branch account, as reimbursement.

g. Kindly acknowledge the receipt of the chequeI am sure that you will find the new norms more equitable and the

guidelines very simple. I look forward to many more high quality conferencesbeing organized by our student branches.

Yours voluntarilyts.rangarajan@gmail.com

Dear Friends,

Our chairman, in his message has detailed outthe new norms (which are more equitable and theguidelines) for the financial support from the Sectionfor the activities being carried out by the StudentBranches. While he has appreciated the increased levelof activities, looks forward to high quality conferences.

The SBs may pl. note that IEEE Computer Society also extends financialsupport to a limited extent for the workshops, seminars and conferencesorganized by the IEEE CS student chapter of the respective SBs.

LINK congratulates Dr. T. Thyagarajan for receiving a Certificateof Appreciation from IEEE HQ for the leadership and service renderedby him as an IEEE Volunteer Section Chair 2010-2012.

Again, we have been flooded with the reports on the activitiesfrom SBs. It may be noted that the reports have been edited for spaceconstraints. Trivial items have been excluded. Even with these, we couldnot accommodate all the reports. We strongly advice the SB counselorsand chairpersons to start using the CMS based Section website forpublishing their detailed reports. While doing so, pl. make sure that thereports are edited suitably for clarity and style of presentation as ourexperience has been that except for a small number of reports submitted,most of them need extensive editing. Also, the pictures to be suitablycropped and resized to represent the vital aspects of the event andfacilitate quick downloads. We look forward to hear from you on yourviews through email to the Section office at ieeemas@airtelmail.in /ieeemas@gmail.com with a copy to ieeemaslink@gmail.com

In this issue, we have published the reports on events organizedby the following institutions: Valliammai Engg College; Aarupadai VeeduInst. of Tech; SSN College of Engg; Periyar maniammai Univ.,; JeppiaarEngg College; Velammal Engg College; Jayaram College of Engg & Tech;St. Xavier’s Catholic College of Engg; Sri Ramakrishna Engg College;Thiagarajar College of Engg; Sri Venkateswara College of Engg; Sonacollege of Tech; Mahendra Engg College; Kongu Engg College;M P Nachimuthu M Jagantahan Engg College; Sethu Inst. of Tech;M. Kumarasamy College of Engg; Asan Memorial College of Engg &Tech; Amrita School of Engg; IEEE GINI Madras Section; PSNA Collegeof Engg & Tech; Coimbatore Inst. of Engg & Tech.

The other items published in the LINK include: Activities of IEEEComputer Society during the period Jan-Apr 2012, IEEE COMSOC lectureseries meeting and the ICECT-2012 Conference. An interesting articletitled “Is LTE-Advanced really 5G?”, contributed by a professional memberalso appears in this issue. We look forward to more articles from members.

Once again, we remind the existing student members of IEEE to jointhe IEEE Computer Society by just paying USD 6.50 (about Rs. 325) andenjoy the membership & full digital library access for the remaining sevenmonths period of 2012. It is an excellent offer. Also, please suggest yourfriends to take up the joint membership in IEEE & IEEE CS by payingjust USD 20 (about Rs. 1000/=) for the period May-Dec 2012.

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27 & 28, Jan 2012: A two days NationalWorkshop on “Research Methodology” withan aim to provide an overview of theories, andpractices on Research Methodology, a vitalaspect and requirement for the researchers wasorganized at the Dept. of CSE, R.M.D.Engineering College by IEEE CS in associationwith IEEE PCS, CSI Div IV & Chennai Chapterand ISTE Local Chapter

4th Feb 2012: A technical talk on“Multicore enablement of legacy programs”by Prof. Krishna Nandivada, CS Dept, IITMadras was organized along with ACM ChennaiChapter & CSI Chennai. The talk covered theimpact on Software by the shift towardshomogeneous and heterogeneous many-corecomputing and highlighted the problems in thisarea and possible directions in which legacy codecan be multicore enabled.

9th Feb 2012: a one day conference on“Internet/Social Media Networks” wasorganized along with FICCI TNSC and CSIChennai to highlight the Opportunities andChallenges in Social Media. Also, the conferencetried to address the following objectives: Sharingthe best practices of Cyber Insurance policiesand its benefits; Enhancing the framework ofInformation Security within organizations andsociety at large with specific thrust on SocialMedia; and Familiarizing the importance ofsecurity function and its contribution in theoverall business ecosystem of an organization.Mr. Mohan, Chairman, IEEE CS participatedin the panel which detailed on the best practicesto be followed in the Internet/Social MediaNetworks.

10th Feb 2012: A presentation by on “IBMGlobal Technology Outlook” by Dr. C.Mohan, IBM Fellow and Former IBM IndiaChief Scientist, IBM Almaden Research Center,USA was organized by IEEE CS along withIEEE Madras Section, IEEE GOLD AG, IEEETMC and CSI Chennai. The talk was on IBM

Activities of IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter during Jan – Apr 2012

Research’s vision (The Global TechnologyOutlook (GTO)) of the future for informationtechnology (IT) and its impact on industriesthat use IT. The talk presentation the five topics:Socially Synergistic Enterprise Solutions, PetascaleAnalytics Appliance and Ecosystem, NaturalResources Transformation and Management,Internet of Things, and Frontiers of IT.

10 & 11, Feb 2012: A two days NationalWorkshop on “SMART PhD Planning” toprovide the researchers, the essential skills forthe successful research right from identifyingthe problem and completing the project anddefending the same was organized at the Dept.of CSE, R.M.D. Engineering College by IEEECS in association with IEEE PCS, CSI Div IV& Chennai chapter and ISTE Local Chapter.

15th Feb 2012: A presentation on “TheImpact of Digitization” by Mr. VikramMehra, Chief Marketing Officer, Tata SkyLimited was organized by IEEE CS along withthe Hindustan Chamber of Commerce, IEEEPCS ad CSI Chennai. This programme was afollow-up on the approval of the CentralGovernment of the Cable TV Networks(Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2011 which isproposing to make it mandatory for everyhousehold in Meters to have a set-up box.

24th Feb 2012: A presentation by Dr. P.S.Lalitha, Alternative Medical & DruglessTherapy Practitioner, Reiki Grandmaster and

Acupuncturist, Associate Prof. of MadrasVeterinary College (retd.) on “Holistic Health& Drugless Therapy: An introduction toReiki and Sujok Acupressure” was arrangedto discuss on the drugless therapies like Reiki,Acupuncture, Acupressure, Crystal Therapyand Magnetotherapy. Diseases like Allergy,Diabetes, Asthma, Arthritis, Blood pressure,Back pain, Cervical spondylitis, Disc prolapse,Fibroid, Gastric acidity, Ulcer, Headache,Menstrual problems, Migraine, Sinusitis,Vertigo can be healed without any medicine

through these therapies. The audience learntabout what they need to do to address theircurrent problems and how to learn and practicethese therapies. A short demonstration andpractice session was also a part of thispresentation.

9 &10 Mar 2012: IEEE CS, IEEE CSBranch Chapter-AVIT and Dept of IT,Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technologyjointly organized the 4th National Conferenceon “Information and Software Engineering”.Mr. Rajaram Venkataraman, Principal ResearchAnalyst, Infosys Labs, Chennai was the ChiefGuest at the inaugural session. He delivered theinaugural address highlighting the importanceof innovative ideas regarding SoftwareEngineering and also released the Souvenir.Following the inauguration, Mr. ChandrasekharMadala , Center Head, Birlasoft (India) Limited,Chennai released the conf. proceedings anddelivered the keynote address. About 100delegates including research scholars, facultymembers and students from all over the country

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attended the conf. 40 technical papers werepresented during the conf. The invited talk sessionscovered presentations on wide range of topicssuch as “Cloud Computing, Mobile and GreenComputing”; “Software Reliability Engineering”;“Agile Application Development”; and “SoftwareRequirement Engineering”. Mrs. P.Geetha,Process Consultant, Ford Technology Services,addressed the delegates during the valedictoryfunction and distributed the certificates.

21 &22, Mar 2012: The Dept. of ECE,Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology,Vinayaka Missions University organized the5th National Conference on VLSI, EmbeddedSystems, Signal Processing and CommunicationTechnologies (NCVESCOM’12) at AVIT,Chennai. The Conference was co-sponsored by:IEEE CS, IEEE COMSOC, DRDO, CSIR,IETE, CSI Div IV (Communications) &Broadcast Engineering Society (India). Adetailed report appears elsewhere in this issue.

21st Mar 2012: IEEE CS joined withOperational Research Society of India, ChennaiChapter and CSI Chennai, IEEE TMC inorganizing the Seventh Prof. T. R. NatesanEndowment Lecture by Dr. Rainer Leisten,Professor & Chair of Business Administrationand Operations Management, IndustrialEngineering, University Duisburg-Essen,Germany on the topic “Uniformity in(Flowshop) Machine Scheduling: AnAlternative Objective Function”

31st Mar 2012: A one day Workshop on“Writing Technical Paper” to provide anoverview of theories, and practices on writingtechnical paper to get it published in aninternationally reputed journals andsubsequently make it up as PhD thesis, whichis supposed to be a vital aspect and requirementfor the researchers was organized at the Dept.of CSE, R.M.D. Engineering College by IEEECS in association with IEEE PCS, CSI Div IV& Chennai Chapter and ISTE Local Chapter

12th Apr 2012: IEEE CS along with theHindustan Chamber of Commerce, IEEE PCSand CSI Chennai arranged a programme on“Intellectual Property Rights” in which twopresentations were made. Ms. Swapna Sunder,CEO, IP Dome, Chennai spoke on “IPRCreation & Monetization” and Mr. K.Vaitheeswaran, Advocate & Tax Consultant,elaborated on “Drafting of contracts relatingto IPR & Tax issues”

25-27, Apr 2012: IEEE CS was atechnical sponsor along with IEEE MadrasSection, IEEE Computer Society, MadrasChapter and Div IV and Chennai Chapter ofComputer Society of India in the three dayinternational conference on “Recent Advancesin Computing and Software Systems 2012”(RACSS 2012) organized by the Dept. of CSE,SSN College. A detailed report appearselsewhere in this issue of LINK.

IEEE Communications Society organizedits Third Lecture Series of the year on 10th

Mar 2012.

The first lecture was on “Recent Trendsin Embedded Systems” by Mr. M. Rajeswaran,Project Manager-Technical, Beacon TechnosoftSolutions, Chennai. The lecture included demoof latest microcontrollers and their applications.

IEEE Communications SocietyThe second lecture was on the topic

“Introduction to Image EnhancementTechniques” by Mr. D. Vijendra Babu, HOD,ECE Dept., Aarupadai Veedu Institute ofTechnology. The lecture started withintroduction to image processing and imageprocessing techniques. The image enhancementtechniques in spatial domain like Histogram

processing, Point processing, Spatial filtering,Neighbourhood operations, Image smoothingand sharpening filters were dealt followed byfrequency domain techniques.

Both the lectures were followed by livelyinteractions between the speakers and theparticipants. Mr. P. Subramanian, Secretary,IEEE Communications Society, MadrasChapter introduced the speakers and presentedmementos.

National Conference

Valliammai Engineering College

The second National Conference on“Emerging Technologies in ElectricalEngineering” was organized by the Dept. ofEEE, during 11th and 12th April 2012. Dr. T. P.Ganesan, Pro Vice Chancellor, SRM Universitypresided over the function. Dr. S. Salivahanan,Principal, SSN College of Engineering was theChief Gust and delivered the inaugural addresselaborating on the history of research in Indiaand highlighted the importance of promoting

Communication, Tamilnadu TransmissionCorporation, TNEB Ltd, presided over anddelivered the address highlighting the currentpower scenario in Tamilnadu and in India and theambitious power projects that have been plannedfor meeting energy needs in the future. Dr. D.Padma Subramanian presented the conference.

Dr. D. Padma Subramanian,subramanianpads@gmail.com

research in India. Smt. Namagiri Ramesh,Delivery Manager, Tech Mahindra was theGuest of Honour and in her address, she pointedout the three stages of learning viz., awareness,appreciation and applicability. There were twokeynote addresses on the first day. On the 32nd

day, 30 papers selected by a panel of reviewersout of 100 received were presented in parallelsession. At the Valedictory function, Mr. V.G.Manoharan, Chief Engineer, Protection and

LINK congratulates our immediate pastchairman, Dr. T. Thyagrajan, Professor,Dept. of Instrumentation Engineering, MIT

Campus, Anna Univ.,Chennai for havingr e c e i v e d t h e“ C e r t i f i c a t e o fAppreciation” fromIEEE HQ for theleadership and servicerendered by him as an

IEEE Volunteer Section Chair 2010-2012.

Congratulations

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NCVESCOM-2012: National Conference

Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology

The Dept. of ECE, Aarupadai VeeduInstitute of Technology,Vinayaka MissionsUniversity organized the 5th NationalConference on VLSI, Embedded Systems, SignalProcessing and Communication Technologies(NCVESCOM’12) during 21-22, Mar 2012 atAVIT, Chennai. The Conference was co-sponsored by: DRDO, CSIR, IEEE COMSOC,IEEE CS, IETE, CSI Div IV (Communications)& Broadcast Engineering Society (India). Theconf. attracted over 250 participants comprising

COMSOC delivered the presidential address.Shri.A.K. Dixit, Additional Director General(Engineering), All India Radio & Doordarshan,Chennai was the Chief Guest at the Conferenceand delivered the Inaugural Address and releasedthe Conference Proceedings. Dr. Ashok Rao,Former Head, Network Project, CEDT, IISc,Bangalore delivered the Key Note Address.Prof. P Subramanian, Organising Secretary,proposed the vote of thanks.

This two day conference, apart from thepaper presentations, had the following invitedtalks:

• “What is Good Electronics &Communication Engineering andTechnology?” by Dr. Ashok Rao, IISc.

• “Data Flow through Mobile Networks”by Shri. K.Rajasekar, Divisional Engineer(Training Management), BSNL

• “Blind Source Separation” byDr.P.Ramesh Babu, Professor,Pondicherry Engineering College

Report by: Prof. D. Vijendra Babu

of Industry Professionals, Academic Faculty,Researchers and Students.

At the inauguration on 21st Prof.D.Vijendra Babu, Convener & HoD/ECEwelcomed the gathering & briefed them aboutthe theme of the Conference. He added that outof 210 papers received, 60 were selected forpresentation and included in the proceedings.Dr. N. R. Alamelu, Principal & ConferenceChair, VC, IEEE MS & Chairperson, IEEE

RACSS – 2012: International Conference

SSN College of Engineeringfor the researchers in the areas of MachineLearning, Computer Networks, SoftwareEngineering, and Distributed Computing, toshare their research findings and to interact withtheir peers.

Out of 370 technical papers received, 81papers were short listed for presentation aftercareful review by a panel and 56 papers werepresented in three parallel tracks namely,Software Engineering and DistributedComputing, Machine Learning, and Networks.These papers will be indexed in IEEE Xplore.

On 26th by Mr. VeeraraghavanNarayanaswamy, Sr. VP and Global PracticeHead, Cognizant Technology Solutions,inaugurated the conf. In his speech, he stressedthe importance of innovation and the bestpractices in Software Engineering. The Guestof Honor, Mr. Ramasamy, CSI Regional VP –Region VII mentioned that such internationalconferences are the catalysts for futureinnovations. The Patron of the Conference, MsKala Vijayakumar, President of the College, said,“…this conference will provide knowledge incutting edge technologies and stimulate livelydiscussions…”. Dr. S. Salivahanan, GeneralChair and Principal, SSN, welcomed thegathering. The Conference Chair Dr. ChitraBabu, HoD/CSE outlined the conf. details andexplained the process rigor behind the paperselection.

In the conf. keynote address on “CloudComputing” delivered by Dr. Rajkumar Buyya,Professor, the University of Melbourne,Australia, he had elaborated some of thechallenges faced by companies that want toadopt Cloud Computing. Dr. P. Anandan, MD,Microsoft Research India gave a spellbindingtalk on “Excitement of Research”, providingcompelling examples from his own organizationon how research as a career can be highlyrewarding. Dr. Sriram Rajamani, Asst. MD,Microsoft Research India spoke about thesynergy between Software Engineering andMachine Learning. Dr. Manish Gupta, Director,IBM Research India talked about projects suchas spoken web which help Rural India reap thebenefits of the Internet.

Dr. Madhavan Mukund, Professor andDean of Studies, Chennai MathematicalInstitute, shared the challenges on local testingof communicating distributed systems. Dr.Ranjani Parthasarathy, Professor, College ofEngineering, Anna Univ., Guindy, presented aninteractive session on Opportunistic Networks.Other speakers included Dr. S. Selvakumar,Professor, NIT, Trichy; Dr. DineshRamegowda, HCL Technologies; Mr. SrihariSrinivasan, Thoughtworks and speakers fromeBay India, Sba Infosystems Ltd, Tech PassionTechnologies and Stratus Technologies.

Report by: Dr. Chitra Babu

The Dept. of CSE organized a three dayinternational conference on “Recent Advancesin Computing and Software Systems 2012”(RACSS 2012) from April 25 – 27, 2012 at thecollege campus. Pre-conference tutorials wereconducted on 25th in the topics of “DemystifyingCloud Service Models” and “Machine Learningwith Image Processing Applications”.

The conf. was technically co-sponsoredby IEEE Madras Section, IEEE ComputerSociety, Madras Chapter and Div IV andChennai Chapter of Computer Society of India.Financial support was extended by CSI SIG onSoftware Engineering (SIGSE). Corporatesponsors included: Cognizant, HCL Technologies,Redington India, Sba Infosolutions, StratusTechnologies. The conf. kit was sponsored byeBay India Product Center at Chennai.

The conference was attended by over 200participants from academia, industry andresearch labs and provided an excellent platform

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National Level Technical Fest

Periyar Maniammai University

A national level Technical Fest wasorganized from 21st to 23rd Mar 2012 whichcomprised of 4 events namely NationalConference (NCICT 2012), NationalSymposium (SPECTECH 2012), NationalShowcase and Faculty Development Program.During the inauguration function Ms. R.Poonguzhali AP(SS), CSE welcomed thegathering. Prof. G. Thiruchelvi Asst. Dean

(SCSE) gave her presidential address. TechnicalFest was inaugurated by Prof. N. Ramachandran,Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, Periyar ManiammaiUniversity and Keynote address was deliveredby Prof. K. R. Srivathsan, Senior Professor,Indus World School of Business, New Delhi.

In NCICT 2012, 54 papers selected outof 124 papers received were presented in threepaper presentation sessions. Keynote addresseswere delivered in these sessions by Dr. D.Kumar, Dean Research, PMU on the topic“Communication”, Dr. S. P. Kulandaivel Babu,HOD, ECE, PMU on “3G, 4G and 5G” and Dr.G. Jegajothi, HOD, IT, PMU on “How to doprojects and how to present the work”.

The SPECTECH 2012, consisted of 4

events — Paper Presentation (103 papers werepresentwed out of 200 received), Quiz,Debugging and Multimedia.

In the National Showcase, studentsshowcased their talents through Projectpresentation, Multimedia and Animation andPoster presentations. Altogether 60 teams haveparticipated in those events. Winners of all theevents were awarded with a cash prize worthof Rs.2500/- (First Prize) and Rs.1500/- (SecondPrize).

In the Faculty development program,organized on “Applications of ICT in Eduction”,on 21st Mar, Prof. K. R. Srivathsan, SeniorProfessor, Indus World School of Business,New Delhi addressed the faculty members.

Report by: P. Monica, ieeepmu@gmail.com

Student Branch Leadership Training

Jeppiaar Engineering College

The Leadership Training Program wasconducted on March 22nd, 2012 in order toinculcate leadership qualities and team spiritamong the minds of the emerging JeppiaarEngineering College IEEE SB team members.The SB student Chairman Mr. Manoj Reddyexplained the gathering how they have beenrunning the student branch effectively with teamwork of the execom and the support of theCounselor Mr. S. Sellakumar, since 2005. Heexpounded the efficient role of each execommember in organizing the events and governingother activities. Mr. Anand Balu, GINI MASNetworking Lead, immediate past Chair, JECSB, elucidated us how we can richly engage inIEEE to enjoy the benefits, explained the visionand mission of JEC IEEE team, briefed howIEEE works in hierarchical manner and illustratedhow the R10 SAC and GINI INDIA encouragethe student branch activities. He enumeratedthe requisite characteristics that a team playershould possess to achieve the vision of the team.

Report by: Fathima Hathoon Nargis A,fathima93@ieee.org

Participation in R10-WIECON’12

Students from JEC SB attended “R10-WIECON’12” at Shri Vishnu Engineering College

for Women, Bhimavaram from 5th Mar to 7thMar. On the Pre-Congress Day, the Ice Breakingsession encouraged many participants toactively volunteer. Our college studentsparticipated in this session. There werepresentations on ‘Open Source Technology’,‘Genomic Signal Processing for DNA sequenceanalysis and Women scientists program inIndia’, ‘Hierarchical Memory architecture’. Thetalk on ‘IEEE Student Membership Benefits’by Prof. Srihari Students Activity Chair, VizagBay Subsection was useful to many newmembers. There was a panel discussion on thetheme ‘Aptitudes, Attitudes and Altitudes: ACall for Change’, that brought about differentaspects of life for women. There were also non-technical events like painting, paper- cut artcompetition, short film making contest. Fourstudents of JEC participated in the Short FilmMaking contest. cultural activities gave a lot ofenthusiasm for all the participants.

On the Inauguration Day, 6th Mar, afterthe Video Message by Prof. Howard Michel,2012 IEEE VP, MGA, Dr. Lawrence Wong,IEEE R10 Director spoke with lot of statisticaldata about R10. Mr. Rayees Amar Nishad, SouthAsia GOLD Coordinator spoke about Activitiesof R10 GOLD Affinity Group. Dr. Ramalatha,International chair, IEEE WIE presented on WIE

Membership Development & Retention whichwas wonderful event with lot of ideas regardingmembership development & retention. Dr.Toshio Fukuda, IEEE R10 Direct Elect presenteda Video Talk on Robotics. Dr. Atul Negi, Chair,IEEE Hyd Sec gave talk on ‘Applications ofFeature Extraction in Image processing’. Dr.Takako Hashimoto, IEEE R10-WIE coordinatordetailed about WIE Regional & global activities.Dr. Tarique S Durrani, IEEE President Elect(2013) presented a video talk. Dr. Shanti, ChairIEEE WIE AG, Kerala section gave a brief ideaabout ‘Image processing as a Diagnostic Toolfor Alzhemeir’s Disease in Brain MRI’.

WIECON’12 Valedictory Daycomprised of a panel discussion on “IEEEStudent Leaders”. Dr. Koduri Srinivas, Vice–chair (MD), IEEE India Council gave a talk on‘Satellite Pushbroom Imaging’.

Report by: Harini Vasu,harinivasu82@gmail.com

Section Membership as on15th May 2012

Life Fellow - 2Fellow - 2Life Senior - 7Senior Member - 100Life Member - 4Member - 1205Associate - 57Graduate Student Member - 831Student Member - 4514Total - 6,722

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Workshop on Power Quality Issues &Challenges (PQIC-12)

Velammal Engineering College

A two days national workshop on ‘PowerQuality Issues & Challenges’ was organized onFeb 08-09, 2012. The Guest of Honor, Dr.Sukumar Mishra, Professor, Dept of ElectricalEngg, IIT, Delhi inaugurated the workshop.Principal Dr. R.S. Kumar, lDr. SheilaaHaran,HOD/EEE and Mrs.S.Premalatha,Coordinator, spoke at the inaugural session. Dr.Sukumar Mishra, Dr. S. S. Dash, Professor &HoD/EEE, SRM University, Er. K. Arputharaj,AD (Electricals), Basin Bridge Gas TurbinePower Station & Dr. D. Thuckaram, Professor,Dept. of EE, IISC, Bangalore handled varioussessions in the two days’ workshop. At thevaledictory, Dr. Paul Rodrigues, Dean (R&D)delivered the valedictory address & Dr. D.Thuckaram, of IISc distributed the certificatesto the Participants

Seminar on Power System DisturbanceMonitoring and Control

A one day seminar was organized on 10th

Feb 2012 on the theme “Power systemdisturbance monitoring and control using timefrequency and machine intelligence technique”.Dr. B. K Panigrahi, Professor, IIT Delhi wasthe key resource person. He started the sessionwith explaining the various power quality issuesand its effects. Then, he added “profit shouldonly be measured by means of social welfaremaximization”. The various factors includedwith power quality are competition, deregulationand restructuring. It was a surprise to many toknow that the power losses are costing us 20billion a year. After a scintillating introduction,he moved on to transformation techniquesrelated to DAS (Data Acquisition System).Transformations separate fundamental andharmonic components. He elaborated on FourierTransforms, Short Time Fourier Transforms andWavelet Transforms. We understood that theresolution was better with a smaller windowsize. The conundrum transformation part waseasy as he made us understand the physicsbehind mathematics.

Report by: R.Arun Seshadri

Conference on Innovative Techniques inPower Engineering and Drives (ITPED’12)

The fifth national conference onInnovative Techniques in Power Engineering andDrives took place on March 22nd, 2012. It wascoordinated by Mr. Suresh Kumar and Mrs.Geetha, Student Branch Counselor, IEEE, EEEDept. and sponsored by IEEE Madras Sectionand Regen Powertech. The conference with thewelcome address by Dr. Sheilaa Haran, HOD/EEE, followed by the presidential address byDr. R.S.Kumar, Principal. After a briefintroduction about the conference by Dr. P.Chidambaram, the conference was inauguratedby Ms. Jayalakshmi Thirugnanam, Director,Ascenders Technologies. She gave thoughtprovoking speech on ‘The role of engineers inthe society” and also released the proceedingsof ITPED’12. The conference was a rich mix ofPower System, Power Electronics and Machines& Embedded Systems featuring highlyinteractive sessions. Out of 148 technicalpresentations registered, 66 were presented inthe conference and facilitated the exchanging oftechnological ideas among participants. At thevaledictory session, D. Prakash Kumar, DGM,Thermal Training Institute, TANGEDCOdelivered the valedictory address and distributedthe certificates to the participants. The vote ofthanks was proposed by Mr. Suresh Kumar,Coordinator ITPED’12.

Report by: Amarnath. S

IEEE SB Activities Inauguration

The IEEE SB activities were inauguratedon 28th of Mar 2012 by the chief guest, Er. D.

Maheswaran, Head– Engg, L&T Limited,Chennai. After the welcome address and a briefon the history of the VEC IEEE SB and theachievements over the years by Dr. Sheilaa

Haran, Hod/EEE, Mrs. R. Geetha the SBCounselor introduced the chief guest andhighlighted about the SB activities. The annualreport of the activities of the previous year waspresented by the secretary Mr. Venkatesh. Thechairman Mr. J. Yaswanth elaborated upon theproposed activities of the SB for the year 2012.The chief guest Er. D. Maheswaran, spokeabout the need for students to pursue a careerin the core industry and threw light on thevarious opportunities available. He alsomentioned about the role of IEEE as aprofessional society in facilitating the growthand exchange of technology. The dignitariesalong with audience then viewed a short video(created by the students of SB) presentationabout IEEE. The programme ended with thevote of thanks was proposed by the vice-chairman Mr. Arvind.

Report by: J. Yashwanth

Seminar on “Information Security”

A one day seminar on “InformationSecurity” was organized on 21st Apr 2012to provide an overview on security and itsimpact. The seminar was presided over bythe IEEE SB mentor Dr. N. Kannan andfelicitated by the SB counselor Dr. S. A.Sahaaya Arul Mary. The resource personMr. N. Sivakumar, Assistant Professor,Pondicherry University explained about thecomputer security in various perspectivesand shared his experiences in real timesecurity problems. The seminar providedan exposure to the basic concept, currentand future trends of security.

Jayaram College ofEngineering &Technology

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Technical Symposium - YUGA’12

St. Xaviers Catholic College of Engineering

The technical symposium YUGA’12(Youth United for Global Awareness) wasconducted on 21st Mar 2012, which had a paperpresentation contest and project presentationcontest. The contest was judged by Asst.Professors, Merry Geisa, of EEE, Mary HeltaDaisy of ECE and A.G.X. Agnel Livingston ofIT. Osbert Joel.C, Razeen Ahmed.R of 2nd EEEand S.Abisha, I.Jenila of final ECE were declaredas the first and second prize winners. In thepaper presentation contest, out of nine differentinnovative ideas were presented, J. Janila offirst ME, CSE stood 1st and J.H. Archana andA.Anit Jorin of final EEE stood 2nd. Asst.Professors, D.Hevin Rajesh of IT, D. Judson ofECE and M. John Moses of EEE were the judgesand they provided useful ideas and suggestionsto the participants for improvement of theirproject.

At the valedictory IEEE SB ChairmanMr. C .Jinesh presented the annual report forthe academic year 2011-12. WIE chairpersonMs. V. Tresa Mary George presented the annualreport of WIE. Rev.Fr.A.Jesu Marian deliveredthe presidential address Mr. C.J. Godfrey Rajan,Technical Manager, Institutional Alliance, HCLInfosystem, was the chief guest and addressedthe gathering. The SB E-Magazine was releasedby the correspondent Rev.Fr.A.Jesu Marian andthe SB website was launched by the PrincipalDr.S.Joseph Sekhar. The SB Logo was revealedby Mr.P.Ramesh Kumar, Technical Manager,HCL Infosystem, Chennai, and addressed thegathering. Prizes were awarded to the winnersof the paper and project contest. Mementoswere given to outgoing students by our principal.The best IEEE volunteer award was given toMr. Arun S Felix, Final EEE by IEEE SB

Coordinator & Chair, GOLD AG of MadrasSection Er. A. Darwin Jose Raju. Mr. C. Jineshthe SB chair was honored with a memento forwinning the IEEE Day Photo Contest 2011.The programme ended with the vote of thanksby Er. C.John Moses, SB Counselor.

Report by: Arathy Jose

National Workshop - WAMS’12

A national level one day workshop on“Application of Wide Area Measurements inSmart grids(WAMS’12)” was conducted on31st Mar, 2012 by the Dept. of EEE along withIET SC, IEEE SB and IEEE GOLD AG. Shri.P.Kaliappan, Engineering Officer Grade 4, CPRI,Bangalore was the lead resource person at theworkshop. In three sessions, he had coveredthe topics “Protection and switchgears”,“Introduction to Smart Grids” and “Wide areameasurements and PMU”. Around 75 participantsfrom SXCCE and 17 from other colleges tookpart in the workshop. At the valedictory function,the participants were presented with thecertificate of participation by the college principalDr. S. Joseph Sekhar and the chief guest Mr.Periasamy from National College of Engineering.

Report by: A. Bebinsha Daniel

Student Professional Awareness Program(SPAC) — Techkosmos’12

Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College

A two day national level StudentProfessional Awareness Program (SPAC)Techkosmos’12” was organized on 13th & 14th

Mar 2012. The chief guest Mr. C.Arun Kumar,Execom Member, IEEE Madras Section, Asst.Prof. Amrita School of Engineering, inauguratedthe program. Prof. R. Shanmugasundram, IEEE

SB Faculty Coordinator welcomed the gathering,Dr. R. Radhakrishnan, SB Branch Counselor &

spoke about the benefits of becoming memberof professional societies in particular about IEEEprofessional society. All the first year studentsand outside participants have attended thisinaugural function. Events such as PaperPresentation, Quiz, Ad-Zap, and CircuitDebugging were part of this two day program.

On day 2, Mr. Raja Manickam, TheFounder and CEO of Tessolve, Bangaloredelivered a technical talk on “SemiconductorIndustry and Employability Skills”. Studentshad a useful interaction with the speaker. Afterlunch, photography contest was conducted andstudents actively participated in it byshowcasing beautiful snaps. The two dayprogram concluded with a Valedictory functionin which Dr. A. Soundarrajan, Asst Prof., IT,PSG College of Technology was the chief guest.He delivered valedictory address, distributedcertificates and prizes to the prize winners ofvarious events. D. Pradheep, StudentChairperson of IEEE Student Branch deliveredthe vote of thanks.

Principal in his presidential address,emphasized that this kind of programs will helpthe students to acquire additional skills likeleadership, communicative and interpersonalskills. Prof. S.P. Rajkumar, Convenor and HoD/EEE felicitated the gathering. Mr. C.ArunKumar, Chief Guest, in his inaugural address

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C Contest

IEEE SB of TCE, organized a C conteston 15th Feb 2012 exclusively for the freshers ofIEEE SB. Around 45 students activelyparticipated in the prelims which tested theirbasic knowledge in C programming. The best10 students, in the second round relating tocoding, were tested on their ability to writeprograms for the given application. This round,mainly focused on the students’ capability towrite more optimized programs in terms of codedensity and simplicity. They were also testedon the usage of more powerful commands of Csuch as pointers, structures and unions. Finallythe best 3 programmers among the IEEE fresherswere selected. Mr. Pradeep of 1st year CSE wascrowned as the C-King among the participants.

Best Manager (IEEE)

The event Best Manager was conductedon 7th March 2012 to pick the students capableof managing any kind of scenario. In the firstround, the winners were selected based on theway of presentation and vocabulary; capacity

Thiagarajar College of Engineeringto generate ideas; and understanding amongstthe team members. In the final round, the winnerswere selected based on their ability to impressthe judges be it music, dance or any of theirspecial talents. It brought out the participant’sability to present themselves efficiently beforea mob. The best manager of IEEE SB, TCE wasMr. Selvaram of 1st year CSE.

PRAHAR-2012

Prahar is an interdepartmental managerialcontest, which was conducted, to find out thebest spontaneous minds of the college. Theevent did fetch the college brilliant out of thebox individuals, but only after huge number ofscreening elimination but just to find the mosteligible out of 300 participants based on effectivecommunication skills, leadership skills andtalents. Mr. Prahaar-Kasturi Rangan (3rd yearECE) was crowned as the Best Manager ofTCE

Valedictory Function

The Valedictory function held on 16th

Mar 2012 included the distribution of prizes

recognizing the talents of the IEEE members.Initially, prizes for the Best IEEE fellow (girls)and the Best IEEE fellow (boys) was given. Itwas followed by the distribution of prizes forthe outstanding members of IEEE recognizingtheir contribution for the society. Following thatwas the recognition of the IEEE students whogave their best and made the ISCT 2012 a grandsuccess. All the third year IEEE students and IIyear IEEE students were recognized for theirworks. Finally, 3 prizes were given for the CCoding contest and Management eventsconducted among the first year studentsvalidating their coding capabilities andmanagement expertise.

AURA 2012 – The Annual IEEE Symposium

Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering

The one day symposium held on 7th Mar2012 had a host of events and was a treat forthose technically innovative and knowledgehungry minds of students from several

institutions in and around Chennai. Thesymposium started with a brilliant and eye-opening talk by the Chief Guest Mr. SubramaniRamakrishnan, Vice President, IBM, an alumnusof SVCE, on the topic “Crowd Sourcing”.

The events held include: Robo Mania –which featured a robotic war where hand builtmachines were put to the test of strength andmetal; AURA Quiz – which covered a wide rangeof fields from Technology, Sports, Environmentetc.,; Solution X – where students were givensimple materials such as wooden sticks, glueand rubber bands followed by a problem

statement to build a model satisfying a givencriteria; Eco Tech – where students were givena practical environmental problem that had tobe overcome with the implementation ofinnovative thinking and ideas.

The Chairman Mr. K. Sowmyan and theVice Chairman Mr. A. Siddharth gave a briefsummary on the day’s events and the vote ofthanks respectively. A special IEEE RecruitmentDesk was installed where students were briefedon the benefits of being an IEEE Member andthe various ways in which IEEE could help onegrow technically sound by the Secretary Mr.Ramesh Rajesh.

National Conference

The national conference — IPESC2012,on the theme “Innovations in Power Engineeringand Soft Computing” was conducted on 29th

Mar 2012 by the IEEE SB & WIE AG at SonaCollege of Technology, Salem-5. In the inauguralfunction Dr. C. Easwarlal, IEEE student branchcounselor welcomed the gathering, Presidentialaddress was given by Dr. C.V. Koushik, Principaland the proceedings were released by the chiefguest Dr. S. Chandrasekar. Key note addresseswere given by Dr. S. Chandrasekar, Prinicipal,Gnanamani College of Technology, Namakkalon “Partial Discharge Measurement in

Sona College of Technology

presented in four technical sessions.Participation certificates were distributed in thevaledictory function and vote of thanks wasgiven by Dr. S. Padma, IEEE SB coordinator.

Transformers and Cables” and by Dr. P.Parthiban, Asst. Prof. NITK, Surathkal on “AnOverview of Power Electronics Drives”. 47papers selected after a peer review, were

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International Conference

Mahendra Engineering College

A three day international conference on“Innovative Computing and InformationProcessing” was organized during 29th to 31st

Mar 2012. At the inaugural session, the ChiefGuest Dr. Chee Peng Lim, Professor, Dept. ofCSE, University of Science, Malaysia, in hisaddress, said that the computation is becomingessential in storing, mining and analyzing datain the modern era which has witnessed

information revolution. The keynote speakerDr. V. Prithviraj, Principal – PondicheryEngineering College, Pondichery highlighted thecurrent scenario and trends.

On day two, there were two invited talks— Computational Intelligence: Architectures,Algorithms and Applications by Dr. Chee PengLin and Engineering Aspects in Current

Information Technology Era by Prof. Dr. P.Naghabushan, University of Mysore. About290 research papers were presented in the 18difference domains of Artificial Intelligence,Biometric Techniques, Cloud & GridComputing, Computer & Network Security,Data Base Management & InformationSystems, Data Mining, Distributed & ParallelApplications, Image Processing, IntegritySecurity & Fault Tolerance, Mobile Computing,Neural Networks, Real Time Systems, SemanticWeb, Software Engineering, VLSI, Web Servicesand Wireless Communications.

On the third day, Dr. T. Ravi, HoD/CSE,KCG College of Technology, Chennai delivereda lecture on Emotional Intelligence in ArtificialIntelligence. At the Valedictory function, Prof.Dr. P. Naghabushan advised the students andfaculty to find opportunity in each and everyobstacle which they face in their life. Dr. VincentAroulmoji, Research Coordinator, AdvancedResearch Centre for Health, Environment andSpace (ARCHES), Italy gave the special addressand distributed the certificates to the participants.

Report by: Dr. P. Raviram,drpraviram@gmail.com

National Level Technical Symposium

Kongu Engineering College

Avanzare’zeta – a two day National LevelTechnical Symposium — an amalgamation oftechnical events, was conducted by the IEEESB on 15th and 16th of Feb 2012. After thewelcome address by Prof. K. Narayanan, Staff

Coordinator of SB, Prof. S. Kuppuswami, SBCounselor and Principal, delivered presidentialaddress. Mr. S. P. Shanmuganathan, Chairman,SB summarized the agenda for the two days ofthe Symposium. Mr. T. S. Rangarajan, PrincipalConsultant, TCS, Chennai and Chairman – IEEEMadras Section, in his inaugural address,highlighted on the benefits of IEEE membershipand various other services by IEEE. The eventsheld on the first day included: DissertationSupremo — the Paper Presentation event, GenVenture — the Project Presentation event,Adroit Instigator — the Poster Presentationevent, Enigma Elucidation — the idea

Presentation event and Geek Squad — theTechnical Quiz. On the second day, eventssuch as Techno Refurbrish (Debugging),Contraption Combat, Opulence String — theTreasure Hunt event were held. At thevaledictory, Prof. K. Krishnaswamy, Dean –Curriculum and Student Affairs, presided overand the Chief Guest Dr. M. K. Radhakrishnan,Director, Nano Rel, Singapore addressed thestudents and distributed the prizes to thewinners. The symposium ended with the Voteof Thanks by Ms.Gayathri Rajasekar, ViceChairperson – WIE.

Report By: M.S.Vardini,Vardi.Sukumar@Gmail.Com

Project on Generating Electricity throughHybrid Renewable Energy Sources

The final year EEE & IEEE studentmembers, Deepa, Siva Shankari, Keerthika,Nathiya, Sathya, Jayabharathi, Vijayadevi,Chitra and Kalaiselvi of the college have takenup a project on “Generating Electricity throughHybrid Renewable Energy Sources”. In thisproject, the students succeeded in generatingelectricity using solar and wind power. Theenergy generated is put in use for domesticpurpose in women’s hostel.

The college correspondent Thirumathi.Vasantha Sudhanandhen congratulated the

M P Nachimuthu M Jaganathan Engineering College

students and the staff on the success of theproject which is the need of the hour. ThePrincipal Dr. K. Palaiswamy, Prof. D.

Sabapathi, IEEE SB counsellor and HoD/EEEand other staff members have complimentedthe students for their achievement.

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V. P. Sampath Consultant, Ram Innovation Labs, Chennai

ramsampath78@rediffmail.com

Emerging wireless standards such as3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project),LTE (Long Term Evolution) and LTEAdvanced present significant challenges forbaseband processing. While LTE-Advancedwill ultimately have a huge impact on themobile networks and the devices that usethem, don’t expect 1 Gbps speeds to suddenlypop on your phones next year. LTE-Advanced won’t come out as a single newnetwork like plain-old LTE did, but rather, inwaves. It’s more like a menu of technologies.Operators will select whatever technology ortechnique that looks tastiest at the time,implement it in their current LTE networks,and when they get hungry for more speed,capacity or efficiency, they will return to theirvendors for another meal. Sure, if you want itto be. 3G, 4G and 5G have all becomemeaningless marketing terms. A 4G networkmust be theoretically capable of supporting adownlink of 1 Gbps in a fixed environment,which will be impossible for most of theworld’s operators to achieve. So the technicaldefinitions are just as useless as the marketingones for distinguishing between the generationsof network technology unless we want toremain in a world of perpetual 3G.

Is LTE-Advanced really 5G?two basic trends in wireless channel design.Wider frequency bands are allocated to cellularcommunications, significantly increasing datarates and computation requirements and thenmuch more aggressive modulation and encodingschemes are used to squeeze maximum spectralefficiency out of that bandwidth. As a result,the operation rates for wireless systems areincreasing much more rapidly than theoperating frequencies of digital silicon,especially for the available power. TheBaseband Engine features an optimizedinstruction set, high memory bandwidth,scalable clustering, and efficient compilersupport with an easy programming model forSIMD vectorization and other DSP functions.This high performance core is also an effectivesolution for multi-standard fixed and mobileDTV broadcast demodulators.

Drivers for LTE Advanced designers

The challenge for LTE-Advanceddesigners is how to increase performance by3X from today’s Category 3 LTE devices,without increasing power dissipation tounacceptable levels. The ConnX BBE32UEBaseband Engine is a high-performance DSPdesigned for use in the next-generationcommunication baseband processors in LTE-Advanced and multi-standard User EquipmentPHY (Layer 1) systems. System redefinitionis needed to scale down clock rates and offloadthe main DSP core. The combination of C-

Fig 1: LTE Advanced

Baseband engines

The wireless subsystem must beefficient in both energy usage and silicon arearequirements. The subsystem must implementall modes of one or more basebandcommunications standard. Existing DSParchitectures cannot meet these demands, andvendors are scrambling to develop new, moreefficient and powerful architectures. The drivefor higher data rates in wireless systems drives

Performance requirements for LTE Advanced

The performance requirements for LTEAdvanced require at least five times moreprocessing power than LTE. The newarchitecture delivers 120 GigaMACsperformance in 28nm high-performanceprocess technology. ConnX BBE64-UE isoptimised for the low power and small arearequirements of LTE Advanced handsets.ConnX BBE64-128 DSP-IP (intellectual-property), the next generation architecture forDSP CORES for SOC (system-on-chip)design extend the BBE (baseband-engine)family to more than 100 billion MAC(multiply/accumulate)-operations-per-secperformance to meet requirements for theemerging LTE (long-term evolution)-Advanced standard. They have rich featuressuch as high-performance “soft bit” vector datatypes and operations including arbitrary fieldinsertion and extraction for complex transmitoperations, resulting in over 250 general 10-bit operations per cycle., Parallel register filesfor 10/20-bit and 40-bit data types for easiercompilation and higher performance at lowerpower, large register files for performance oncomplex code, reduced memory bandwidthrequirements, reduced power and easiercompilation.

Sethu Institute ofTechnology

programmable BBE32UE DSP, with thespecialized DSP task engines for functionssuch as Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) anddigital filters, provides a more flexible solutionthan Register Transfer Level (RTL) approacheswhile consuming less power than generalpurpose DSPs. Innovative, hard-wired signalprocessing data paths may be more efficient,but may not be flexible enough for changingstandards and workloads.

Guest Lecture on ‘Awareness onTechnical Society’

A Guest Lecture on “Awareness onTechnical Society” was organized on 20th

Mar 2012. Dr. M. Santhi, HOD/EEEwelcomed the gathering. Mr. S. MohamedJaleel, Founder & Chairman, Sethu Instituteof Technology presided over the functionand Dr. A. Senthil Kumar, Principal,felicitated the gathering. Dr. K. Mala Prof./CSE Dept., Mepco Schlenk EngineeringCollege, Sivakasi was the chief guest. Sheaddressed the gathering about IEEE, itssocieties, activities, advantages and alsoexplained about the importance of otherprofessional societies such as IEI, CSI, etc.,

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Industrial Visit to Chettinad Cements

M. Kumarasamy College of Engineering IEEE Communication Society SBchapter, arranged an industrial visit for 70students accommodated by three staffmembers to “Chettinad Cements, Puliyur” on9th Mar 2012. It was a great experience for thestudents to have a look at the processesrelating to cement production. After a briefintroduction about the company’s history andits developments, Mr. Shankar, ISODepartment, Quality Assurance of ChettinadCements guided the tour of the plant andexplained the processes.

Report by: Ms. M. Saambavi,saambu28@gmail.com

Microsoft Yatra 2012

The IEEE GINI Madras Section inassociation with Microsoft Student Partnersconducted the Microsoft Dream YATRA2012 at Asan Memorial College of Engineeringand Technology on 17th Mar 2012 as a jointactivity in collaboration with the four SBsAsan, Jeppiaar, SSNCE, and SMKIT.

The program covered the major areas likeWindows Mobile Phone 7 Application,Microsoft Web Matrix & Windows 7,Windows 8 Features and Imagine CupOverview. Mr. Sivakumar, regional lead and aMicrosoft certified technology specialistconducted the session dealing with web matrix.Mr. Ragu Nandhan S, a Microsoft certified

Asan Memorial College of Engineering and Technology

windows phone app developer conductedhands on lab and sessions on windows phone 7.

Mr Piyush Mital, who runs a studentassociation called YATRA, conducted INSPIREfellowship program and many sessions on

Microsoft technologies conducted sessions onwindows 8. The Yatra witnessed the participationof two hundred and eight students from variouscolleges.

Report by: Uthrapriya Sureshbabu &Apoorva P Naidu

Workshop on Python Programming

Amrita School of EngineeringWorkshop on Network Security

A one day workshop on “NetworkSecurity” was held on May 4th, 2012. Theworkshop was conducted by the faculty ofTIFAC-CORE in Cyber Security headed byDr. M. Sethumadhavan. The Workshop wasconducted in two sessions. The Forenoonsession was a classroom activity where someinsight into the basics of Network Security,Firewalls, SET/TLS/SSL, Digital Signatures,Proxy Servers were presented. In the afternoonsession, a demo of the firewall configurationand ethical hacking demos were discussed inthe laboratory where the students had first-hand practice on some of the techniques.

Both these workshops were mentoredby Prof. K. Gangadharan, Chairman-IT. Theworkshop was organized by Mr. C.Arunkumar, SB Counsellor and EXECOMMember of the IEEE Madras Section.

Report by: C. Arunkumar, arunkumarc@ieee.org

A three day workshop called “A Byteof Python” was held during 19-21, Apr 2012.The students learned how to effectivelyprogram using python. The topics coveredinclude “why python”, “advantages ofpython”, “companies using python”, “realtime applications of python”, “basics ofpython”, “functional programming”, “databaseprogramming” and so on. ProgrammingLanguages like COBOL, C were developed toeffectively use the expensive hardware. Incontrast a programming language like Pythonwas developed to effectively use theexpensive programmers talent.

Online Aptitude ContestAn Online Aptitude Contest was

organised on 24th Mar 2012 between 7:30p.m. and 8:15 p. m. The test comprised of50 questions under logical reasoning,quantitative aptitude, and verbal ability. Itprovided a real time ambience of an aptitudeexam, thereby enabling participants to learntime management, and develop theircapability to think, analyse and solve problemsfaster and simpler. Around 20 contestantssuccessfully completed the test. The winnerof the contest was Vivek A. from JeppiaarEngineering College with a score of 24.

A team of GINI volunteers, NivasRavichandran, Sharon Roy, Joseph Peter,Harini Vasu, Sanchit Ahirrao and WebMaster Siva Ganesh ventured for contestingthe online exam. Aptitude contests will beconducted by GINI at regular intervals, infuture.

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Seminar on “Electromagnetic Interference& Harmonic Reduction Techniques”

The Society of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineering and IEEE SB had jointly organizeda one day seminar on “ElectromagneticInterference & Harmonic ReductionTechniques” on 21st April 2012. Prof. Dr. S.Sakthivel, principal, presided over the functionand delivered presidential address. The chiefguest of the day, Dr. V. Suresh Kumar, Associate

PSNA College of Engineering and Technology of power quality and harmonic reductiontechniques in his session lectures. Participantsfrom 15 colleges had attended the seminarsessions. In the valedictory session, Dr. K.Mahadevan Prof/EEE and Dr.V.Suresh kumar,Associate Professor, Thiagarajar College ofEngineering, Madurai distributed the certificatesto the participants. Dr. K. Mahadevan Prof/EEE coordinator of the seminar proposed thevote of thanks.

Report by: Mr.M.Kaliamoorthy,kalias_ifet@yahoo.com

Coimbatore Institute ofEngineering and Technology

Professor, Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai shared his rich experience in the field

Seminar on “Web Technology”

CIET - IEEE SB organized a half a dayseminar on “Web Technology” for the finalyear students of B.E / B.Tech students on31st Mar 2012. Mr. B. Saravanan, IEEE SBCounselor & Asst. Prof., CSE addressed theparticipants and covered the following topicsin the seminar: Web Essentials, Client / ServerCommunication, HTML, HTML Forms,DHTML, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), andJava Script Basics.

Report by: B. Saravanan

On 6th Apr 2012, at the inaugural functionof ICECT 2012, a three days conf. onElectronics Computer Technologies, held atKanyakumari, the conf. Chair Dr. S. ArumugaPerumal welcomed the guests and the gathering.

ICECT 2012 — IEEE ConferenceIn the conf., keynote addresses were deliveredby Dr. Touzene, Associate Professor,Department of CS, Sultan Qaboos University,Oman, Dr. Gopinatha Ganapathy, Head andDirector, Bharathidasan University, Dr. S.Arumuga Perumal, Associate Prof. & HoD/CSE,S.T. Hindu College and Dr. N. Krishnan,Professor and Head, Center for IT, M.S.University and Chair, IEEE Pothigai SubSession. Paper presentation sessions, in parallel,were held in the afternoon and on 7th &8th Apr. The conf. attracted more than 225participants.

Report by: Dr. S. Arumuga Perumal