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Chairman’s MessageDr. T. Thyagarajan

thyagu_vel@yahoo.co.in

From The Editor’s DeskH.R. Mohan

hrmohan.ieee@gmail.comBlog: http://infoforuse.blogspot.com

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Esteemed members,

You will be happy to note that, in thepast two years, more than 25 new studentbranches (SBs) were established under the IEEEMadras Section. Also, there is a healthycompetition among the SBs to showcasetheir activities in the IEEE news letter (thanksto the yeoman service being rendered by

Mr H.R. Mohan, Editor). It is needless to highlight the efforts taken bythe IEEE Madras Section to facilitate the above said activities. In spiteof that, there are many mails being received by the undersigned, requestingfor the procedures for the above. I am once again briefly presentingthe general requirements for the starting a new SB and theguidelines for sending articles/reports for publication in the IEEEMAS LINK (Monthly newsletter of IEEE Madras Section) for thebenefit of the office bearers.

General Requirements for starting new Student Branch

1. Signature of minimum 12 student members and 3 faculty members2. Designating interim Chairman of the Branch3. Designating of one faculty member as counselor of the Branch4. Approval by the HOD and two faculty members5. Constitution of Branch signed by interim chair6. Copy of university affiliation letter7. Copy of AICTE approval8. List of recognized education programs offered.9. Copy of information brochure of institute / prospectus with faculty

list10. Certification from the Principal/ Head of the Institute

Note: Student membership fee: US $27, Professional membershipfee US $ 70.50 and the Web link is: www.ieee.org/join It is advisable,that two sets of all the above documents be submitted to the IEEE MadrasSection for scrutiny by the Student Activities Chair for completenessand accuracy, before submitting the petition t to IEEE Head Quarters

Guidelines for submitting articles/reports for consideration forpublication in IEEE MAS LINK ( Pl. refer http://goo.gl/8KFdM )

1. The report/article/ photos should be sent by e-mail to theieeemaslink@gmail.com with a copy to ieeemas@gmail.com, mailids only, before 8th of every month.

2. The “subject” of the e-mail should include: College Name-EventName-Date_month_Year (For eg, MIT-SB Officer’s Meet-01.10.2011).

Dear Friends,

The messages of our Section Chairman, in someform represent FAQs – Frequently AskedQuestions – clarifying things many keep asking.In this month, he has written about starting astudent branch in an institution – a process whichappear quite tedious but actually a simple one. He

has also elaborated on submitting matter for publishing in the newsletterLINK and ma the editor’s life simple.

In this issue of LINK, we have published the slate for the year 2012for the Offices of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Madras Section,finalized by the nominations committee along with election related information.

LINK congratulates Dr. Suresh Chander Pal, past chairman of IEEEMadras Section for having received the MGA Achievement Award forthe year 2011.

It is the year end and time to renew the membership. We wish toremind our readers about the combined membership in IEEE & IEEE CS withaccess to Computer Society Digital library which is available at a concessionalrate of USD 40/= for the students. Pl. take advantage of this offer.

In this issue, we have published the reports on events organized bythe SBs of the following institutions — ranging from guest lectures,seminars, workshops, symposiums, paper presentations, etc.,;

Coimbatore Institute of Engineering and Technology – 4 events; JayaramCollege of Engineering & Technology; Kongu Engineering College – 2 events;Amrita School of Engineering – 3 events; Latha Madhavan EngineeringCollege; Kalasalingam University – 2 events; K.S. Rangasamy College ofTechnology – 2 events; Valliammai Engineering College; St. Xaviers CatholicCollege of Engineering – 5 events; EGS Pillay Engineering College – 2 events;Dr. NGP institute of Technology – 2 events; Francis Xavier EngineeringCollege – 2 events; Akshaya College of Engineering and Technology.

The other items published include: reports on Young Leaders Meetorganized by GOLD & WIE at Coimbatore & Chennai, FacultyDevelopment Programme on Wavelets and Its Applications and summaryof activities by the Section & society chapters – CS, TMC, PES & PCS.

IEEE CS is happy to announce the financial support to RMDEngineering College for organizing the conference & workshop.

We draw the attention of our readers to the list of forthcomingevents and request them to participate and also contribute papers andbenefit professionally.

Pl. refer to our announcement published in the Nov issue of LINKregarding the hosting of the IEEE CS & PCS supported free in-houseorientation programme on “Employability & Soft Skills” and request theSBs to send their registrations to host, at the earliest to plan the schedules.

LINK wishes its readers A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.

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Placement Seminar

Activities at Coimbatore Institute of Engineering and Technology

A Placement Seminar for the benefit ofthe final year students was organized on 17th

Sep 2011 with an objective to train the finalyear students of BE in CSE, ECE, EEE andBTech in IT in various activities of placements.Experts from external sources provided thistraining. After the training in Aptitude testing,Verbal reasoning, the students were trained ingroup discussion. They were told about theDO’s and DON’Ts in group discussion. Further,training was also given on technical interviewand HR interview. The students interacted withthe resource persons and clarified their doubts.

Membership Drive

A membership drive event for the 1st yearBE / BTech students of the academic year 2011-2012 was organized on 20th Sep 2011. Prof. B.Saravanan, IEEE student branch counselorwelcomed the participants. The IEEE studentcoordinators from III year BE / BTech addressedthe students about IEEE. They explained whatis IEEE? What are all the benefits when a studentjoins as a member in IEEE? How to become

Concepts, Programming and Testing, ProblemSolving Techniques and Relational DatabaseManagement Systems. At the end of the seminar,students raised their doubts and got themclarified.

Resume Contest

A Resume Contest was organized on 31st

Oct 2011 for benefit of the IEEE studentsmembers. 52 students from B.E / B.Techsubmitted their resume. The submitted resumeswere evaluated by the faculty members

IEEE student member? They also explainedabout the IEEE - Women In Engineering and itsbenefits, information about IEEE newsletter andIEEE publications etc.,

Seminar on Computers

A seminar on Computers was organizedon 22nd Oct 2011 for the IEEE student members.Mr. N. Boopal, Lecturer, Dept of CSEaddressed the student participants on varioustechnical topics such as Introduction toComputer Systems, Operating Systems

considering various parameters like careerobjective, educational qualification, percentageof marks, coherence of items placed in theresume, paper and project presentation made,industrial training and workshops attended,achievements made during their career, etc. Atthe end of the evaluation, three best resumeswere chosen and given prizes. The prize winnerswere, Debasmita Kundu – III year EEE –Rs.500, Navin Kumar V – II Year Mechanical –Rs.300 and Pavithra G – II Year CSE – Rs.300.

Report by: B. Saravanan

3. The report/article should be typed in singlecolumn, in “doc/rtf/txt” format. Other formatssuch as “pdf” or “jpg” will be ignored.

4. Relevant photo in digital form, notexceeding 1024 pixels, should besubmitted, separately (pl. avoidembedding the photo in the report) in“jpg” format only. Other formats suchas “bmp” or “png” will be ignored.

5. Sender’s name, membership number,full affiliation and email ID should beprovided at the end of the report /article

YOUR COOPERATOIN IS VERYPRECIOUS IN THIS REGARD. HELP USTO HELP YOU.

Affectionate ColleagueDr. T. Thyagarajan

Chairman’s Message continued.... Workshop on “Software Testing & QualityManagement” at Jayaram College of Engineeringand Technology

The IEEE Student Branch of JCETorganized a workshop on “Software Testing &Quality Management” during 23-26, Nov 2011.Dr N. Kannan , Principal & SB Mentor deliveredpresidential address. Dr. S. A. Sahaaya ArulMary, Dean & SB Counselor in her welcomeaddress highlighted the benefits of software

testing and importance of quality managementfor IT professional. She introduced GirishChandra, Senior Software Engineer, MicroGenesis, and the resource person whohighlighted the importance of software testingfor IT professionals and elaborated on thepractical problems of testing associated withreal time projects with demonstrations. About30 faculty members from various departmentsattended the workshop and learnt aboutfunctional testing, quality testing and hadexposure to functional testing using RFT(Rational Functional Tester), and quality testingusing Test Manager.

Report by: Dr. S. A. Sahaaya Arul Mary,samjessi@gmail.com

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IEEE DAY Celebrations

Activities at Kongu Engineering College

The IEEE DAY was celebrated on 6th Oct2011 in a grand style. Research scholars fromvarious departments, HODs, and all PG studentsparticipated in the celebrations. Prof. K.Narayanan, Staff coordinator, IEEE SB in hiswelcome address, highlighted the variousresources available to the research scholars inIEEE. Prof. S. Kuppuswami, Principal & SBcounsellor, spoke on “Empowering Membersto Create the Future”. A CD containing theresearch papers pertaining to differentdepartments which would be of help to theparticipants in their research activity wasreleased. Principal appreciated the OBs for theireffort in preparing the CD with informativepapers. Mr. S. P. Shanmuganathan, Chairman,SB in his presentation highlighted variousmembership benefits. Ms. S. Harini,Chairperson, WIE, proposed the Vote of Thanks.A party was then organized in which IEEE cakewas cut. The party was full of joy andexcitement. The IEEE SB felt proud incelebrating the IEEE DAY.

Orientation Programme on “EmpoweringYourself through Employability and SoftSkills”

The college SB hosted an orientationprogramme on “Empowering Yourself throughEmployability and Soft Skills”, an initiative of

IEEE Computer Society & ProfessionalCommunication Society chapters of IEEEMadras Section on 3rd Nov 2011.

The resource persons were: Dr.VishalTalwar, Department of Management at LondonSchool of Economics, UK and Mr. ChayyaBallav Sahoo, CEO VictoryMind EducareServices, a Chennai based educational start up.Prof. K. Narayanan, SB coordinator welcomedthe guests and the student participants. Prof. S.Kuppuswami, SB counsellor and the principalpresided over the event delivered the presidentialaddress.

Mr.Sahoo started the session with a smallexercise to grab the attention of the audienceand prove to them, the importance ofcommunication. He then carried on with hispresentation, enthusiastically involving theparticipation of the audience. He gave a conciseintroduction on skills, making a comparisonbetween the 20th and 21st century classrooms.He then moved on to the information on thetypes of learning styles and employability skillswith an apt and interesting example for each.Mr.Sahoo also gave a reminder on thedimensions under which companies evaluate the

employees they recruit, what the industrieslook at in their employees, how the candidatesget rated in interviews and so on.

Dr. Talwar started his session withstatistical figures and comparison graphs aboutpopulation, monetary growth and culture in theeastern and western countries. He then spokeabout globalization, the merits that build anefficient speaker and gave the audience, virtuesto make a successful presentation. He providedkey points on keeping the attention andinfluencing a crowd of people being addressedto in a presentation. He highlighted the pointsto conquer nervousness and acquire the qualitiesof a good presenter. He screened the video clipshighlighting good and bad presentations.

The audience listened to both thespeakers said that they had thoroughly enjoyedthe programme. They have all resolved tobecome effective and successful presenters. Theprogramme facilitated the students to shed offtheir stage fright and aspire to become eloquentand effective speakers. Prof. K. Narayanan,presented memento to the guests andMr.Ashwin Deep, SB Treasurer proposed thevote of thanks.

BIDTE-12: International Conferenceon “Biomaterials, Implant Devices andTissue Engineering. 6-8, Jan 2012 atRajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai,India. Contact: Dr. T. M. Sridhar, E-mail:s r i d h a r . t m @ r a j a l a k s h m i . e d u . i n tmsridhar@gmail.com, Phone: 044-2715670 /37181595, Fax: 044-27156640 / 41, Mobile:9444407615, Web: www.rajalakshmi.org

NCISE-2012: National Conference onInformation and Software Engineering.9-10, Mar 2012 at Chennai. Organised by Dept.of IT, Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technologyin association with IEEE Madras Section, IEEE

Forthcoming Events Computer Society. Last date for papersubmission: 20th Dec 2011. Contact:Dr. Anthony Irudhayaraj, Phone:+91-9443884732, +91-9962735582 Email:ncise2012@gmail.com, Web: www.ieeecs-ncise.com

ICAESM 2012: InternationalConference on Advances in Engineering,Science and Management. 30-31, Mar 2012at Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India. Organisedby EGS Pillay Engineering College last date forreceiving the paper is30th Nov 2011. Contact:Prof. G. Giftson Samuel / Dr. K. Kavitha, IEEE-ICAESM 2012, EGS Pillay Engineering College,Nagapattinam-611 002. Phone: +91 4365251112, +91 4365 251114 mobile: +91 94431

20840 Emai: icaesm2012@gmail.com Website:http://icaesm.egspec.org/

RACSS-2012: InternationalConference on Recent Advances inComputing and Software Systems. 25–27,Apr 2012 at Chennai. Organized by the Dept.of CSE, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai inassociation with IEEE Madras Section, IEEEComputer Society, Chennai Chapter andComputer Society of India, Chennai Chapter &Div IV – Communications. Last date for papersubmission : 9th Dec 2011. Contact: Dr. ChitraBabu. Phone: +91-44-27469700, Email:racss2012[at]cse.ssn.edu.in Web: http://www.racss2012.com

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In-house orientation program on“Employability and Soft Skills”

Activities at Amrita School of Engineering

A one day in-house orientation programon “Employability and Soft Skills” wasorganized on 4th Nov 2011. This event wasfacilitated by the IEEE CS, IEEE PCS and CSI.The Guests for the event were Dr. Vishal Talwar,Professor, London School of Economics (LSE)and Mr. Sahoo, CEO of VictoryMind Educare,Chennai. The event started with lighting of theholy lamp and prayer. The official corporatebrochure of “ANOKHA 2012”, an All IndiaTech Fest being conducted at Amrita every yearwas released on the occasion. Dr. S.Krishnamoorthy, Registrar of the Universityreleased the brochure and the first copy wasreceived by Prof. Talwar. Prof. Vishal Talwarand Mr. Sahoo delivered the most inspiring,interactive and impressive lectures to our IEEEand CSI student members which were wellreceived. Some of the feedbacks include:

“This is one of the most inspiring,interesting and interactive lectures I have everattended. Prof. Talwar and Mr. Sahoo along withtheir group have come up with an excellentmodel that is the first of its kind in India wherethe focus is right from the first year. The firstyear students would be put into a psychologicaltest and based on their needs, they would beimparted training” commented Mr. C.Arunkumar, Assit. Prof. - IT and IEEE SBC.

The workshop was very informative. Wecame to know about many techniques toovercome our nervousness. The workshopwas clear, the context was very interesting andthe method in which the workshop was heldwas worth the experience commentedMr.Sanjay, a III Year IT Student and incomingChairperson of IEEE SB at Amrita.

“Seminar on RSA-1024”

A seminar on “RSA-1024” was organizedon 17th Nov 2011. Senior faculty and researchscholars participated in the seminar. The guestspeaker for the lecture was Dr. T. R.Padmanabhan, Former Dean-Engineering ofAmrita University and Professor-Emeritus ofthe Dept. of IT. He gave some interesting factsabout RSA-1024 which is to be used to factorizea 1024 bit number and also some insight intothe previous versions of RSA-512 and othercategories. He also provided some facts aboutthe method in which the previous versions havebeen cracked and the security issues that existin those versions. Each of the initial versionswere broken in a span of five years’ time. In2010, a group of stalwarts in Cryptographyfrom 6 different countries and their team workedclosely to break the previous version. Accordingto him, with a combined effort of about 250persons and about a thousand computersworking round the clock, the RSA-1024 couldbe broken in about 5 years’ time. The first step

is to find the polynomials for the 1024 bitnumber and then feed the polynomials intodifferent computers, find the factors of thenumber and build the matrix for the same. Thefinal operations would consume only a fewweeks’ time. The program was mentored byProf. K. Gangadharan, Chairman-IT andorganized by Mr. C. Arunkumar, SB Counsellor.

“One Day Workshop on Research Issues inImage Processing”

A one day workshop on “Research Issuesin Image Processing” was held on 18th Nov 2011.The workshop was conducted by Dr. Md.Mansoor Roomi, Asst. Prof. – Department ofECE, Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai and has been involved in sponsoredresearch projects with Honeywell, DRDO andBrahmos. The workshop was conducted in twosessions. The forenoon session was conductedas a classroom activity where some insight intothe basics of Image Processing, optimizationtechniques in Image Processing and case studieswere presented. In the afternoon session, ImageProcessing toolbox and some basic classifierswere discussed in the laboratory where thestudents had first-hand practice on some of theprograms. The workshop was organized by Mr.C. Arunkumar, SB Counsellor and Mr. K.Raghesh Krishnan, Asst. Prof (S.G).

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

The IEEE SB & Dept. of ComputerScience at Latha Mathavan Engineering Collegeconducted a two day workshop during 10-11,Nov 2011 to enable the students to have an ideaabout PHP & MySQL. About 60 studentsattended the workshop and benefited. The

Workshop at Latha Mathavan Engineering Collegeplatforms powering the Web today are theenterprise infrastructure of tomorrow. What welearn from those platforms is the enormouspower of open source, open standards, and userinvolvement and one more thing that the futurebelongs to data. Every killer app on the Internetis a database application. And that makesMySQL the most important for the next-generation of computer applications.

Mr. Kumaragurubaran, AP/CSE provideda brief introduction to HTML. Then Mr.Sivabalan, HOD/CSE dealt with queriesinvolving MYSQL and also described about

open source stack known as WAMP —Windows Apache MySQL PHP. Majority ofthe current web applications use PHP+ MySQL as the platform. The workshopenlightened the young minds to knowabout its usage. The students foundthe workshop sessions very useful and arelooking forward for more such programs. Atthe end of the workshop, Dr. S. Marimuthu,Principal and IEEE SB Coordinator Mr. NChellapandi distributed the certificates to theparticipants.

Report by: Mr. N. Chellapandi,chella.cp@gmail.com

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Guest Lecture on “SPACE TRIBOLOGY”

Activities at Kalasalingam University

A guest lecture on “SPACETRIBOLOGY” by Dr. B. Subramaniam,Scientist/Principal Investigator, ISRO InertialSystems Unit, Thiruvananthapuram wasorganized on 29th Sep 2011. Dr. D. Devaraj, SBcounselor welcomed the gathering and Mr. R.Radeep Krishna, Asst. Prof. ECE introducedthe resource person. Around 100 under graduatestudents from Mechanical and Instrumentationand Control Engineering Depts. attended theguest lecture. Dr. B. Subramaniam, in his lectureexplained about various classifications of ballbearings and its applications; variouslubrications available to reduce friction. Heexplained in detail about frication, classificationof frication in earth and space related equipment.He also provided various charts and technical

details from NASA catalogs. He advised thestudents to learn more about this technologywhich will help them in their research work. Atthe end of the lecture the students interactedwith the resource person.

Workshop on “EMBEDDED SYSTEMS”

A two day workshop on “EMBEDDEDSYSTEMS” was organized on 3rd and 4th Oct2011. Dr. D. Devaraj, SB counselor welcomedthe gathering. Mr. Venkatesh provided anoverview of the workshop. The technicalsessions of this workshop were handled by Mr.Arun Kumar and Mr. Satheesh from Silvergreen

Technologies. The participants were explainedabout the fundamentals of embedded systemsand the applications. The resource personsdemonstrated how to use the software like“Keil” and “flash magic”. They also gave hands-on training on 8051 microcontroller. Teworkshop was interactive with the activeparticipation from the students. It gave the

students a right perspective about the embeddedsystems and the real time applications of them.Around 75 students and staff from CSE, IT,ECE, EEE, EIE departments attended theworkshop. Certificates were distributed to allthe participants.

Report by: Dr. D. Devaraj

IEEE Madras Section GOLD and WomenIn Engineering (WIE) affinity Groups jointlyorganized a seminar “IEEE Young Leaders Meet– 11” on 23rd Nov 2011. The faculty membersfrom various engineering colleges, includingCollege of Engineering, Guindy, KrishnaEngineering College, AVIT, Crescent EngineeringCollege, VIT Chennai Campus, TCE, Madurai,SXCCE, Nagercoil and many others along withresearch scholars and graduate studentsparticipated in the seminar.

Dr. Ramalatha Marimuthu, Chair, IEEEInternational WIE Committee welcomed thegathering and explained about the purpose ofthe meeting. The chief guest at the event wasProf Rajaram, a renowned HR specialist with awide experience of 35 years in various industries

Young Leaders Meet ’11 organised by IEEE Madras GOLD & WIEand currently holding the post of CorporateAdvisor, Safety Research Institute, LLC,Atlanta, USA. A brief introduction of the ChiefGuest was given by Dr. Darwin Jose Raju,faculty SXCCE.

Prof Rajaram, started his guest lecturewith a brief description of different professionalskills required for the young leaders of todayand tomorrow and went on to explain aboutone important skill – time management. Hishumorous stories and eloquent speech held theaudience in thrall and the feedback was excellent.

Dr. Ramalatha gave a brief descriptionabout WIE, the management of affinity groups,funding available for the activities, types ofactivities under Sangamam Project, awards underWIE , upcoming events etc. Dr. DoraiRangaswamy, AVIT thanked the participantsand honoured the speaker. The interactionsduring the dinner revealed much more concernsabout research career and publication of papers.The program acted as a motivational trigger tothe young graduates and faculty in learningabout bonding with IEEE and reaping thebenefits of networking with the peers and itsimpact on their careers. Dr. Ramalatha explainedhow IEEE can enhance the life of an engineer

technically, professionally and socially. Thesocial projects the IEEE and WIE support wereeye openers for them. Various questions onstarting the student branch and sustaining it,activities, funding and awards were raised anddiscussed. On the whole, the program motivatedand energized the 72 young leaders who, afterthe lecture, promised to keep the bonding aliveand benefit from it.

Section Membership as on15th December 2011

Life Fellow - 2Fellow - 1Life Senior - 9Senior Member - 102Life Member - 5Member - 2210Associate - 147Affliate - 38Graduate Student Member - 984Student Member - 7026Total - 10,524

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Guest lecture on “Image Processing and itsApplications”

Activities at K. S. Rangasamy College of Technology

presentation. While the delegates were veryenthusiastic, the judges had a tough time inchoosing the winner in the presentation as eachpaper was unique and worth for the trophy.The winners of the Paper presentation include:1. Senthil Kumar and Karthikeyan (II-M.Tech,Nano) “Evanescent wave excited optical fiberamplifier using ZnS quantum DOT”; 2.Gayathri Sivaram (III ECE) “Brain ControlledCar for disabled using Artificial Intelligence”;and 3. R. Saravanakumar and K.Sundhar (III-EEE) “Non-conventional energy sources (solarpower stilling engine)”. This event was co—ordinated by Mr.C.Rajasekaran, Asso. Prof/ECE.

A “QUIZ” was organized as a part ofEXCITION 11 in which 62 membersparticipated. 5 teams of 10 members shortlistedwere quizzed in the following four modules:General Knowledge, Logies & Manias and Trueor False; Eye teaser, Personality Identification(who Am I) and Taglines; Fun world - Movies,Word in Word and Dumb-C; and Rapid Firewhere the questions are based on Sports,Science, History, Inventions and Technologyand Current Affairs. The following weredeclared as winners by the SB chairman Mr. Y.Vivekananth. 1. Arun Mathew and Dhanush (II

A guest lecture on “Image Processing andits Applications” by Dr. K. A. Naranayanankutty,Professor, Amrita University, Coimbatore wasorganized on 17th Aug 2011. Mr. C. Rajasekaran,SB counsellor welcomed the gathering and Dr.K. Thyagarajah, principal, delivered thepresidential address. Dr. K. B. Jayanthi,professor and HOD/ECE, in her felicitation,briefed about the importance of IEEE and imageprocessing. The guest speaker, Dr. K. A.Narayanankutty, delivered an interactive andinformative lecture on image processing. Thelecture covered: Face recognisation techniques,Linear programming, Compressed sensing, andLasso algorithm. The lecture was found to bevery useful and explained interesting and usefultechniques which will be useful in studentproject works. Ms. R. Ramya, student memberproposed the vote of thanks. Mr. Y. Vivekananth,chairman, SB co-ordinated the event.

EXCITION ‘11 – Intra College technicalSymposium

A two days intra college symposium(EXCITON-11), along with various activitieswere organized on 5th and 6th Sep 2011. Thepaper presentation, a part of the EXCITIONwas held on 6th Sep. Out of 47 papers receivedfrom various departments. 14 were selected for

MCT); 2. C. Sibivel and M.Ranjithkumar (IIECE); and 3. N.Subhashree and S. Indumathi(II EIE).

Various other events like TechnicalMarketing where the students have to proveand show their managerial skills, EventPresentation in which the participants presentedslides about a current activity/issues around theworld happenings, Cartoon Drawing where thecreative skills were explored, and CircuitDebugging in which program error checking &logical reasoning abilities were tested were alsoconducted during this two day symposium.

The event came to an end with avaledictory function which was presided by Dr.K. B. Jayanthi, HOD/ECE. Ms. J. Saranya, SBmember welcomed the gathering and thankedthe HOD, Co-ordinator Mr. C. Rajasekaran,jury member’s, organizers, participants of theevents and staffs for having made the event agrand success. Prizes and shields for the winnersand runners were presented and all the finalistswere given certificates of participation. Ms. X.Merlin Sheeba, SB member proposed the voteof thanks.

Report by: Mr.C.Rajasekaran,raja7ksrct@gmail.com

IEEE Madras Section GOLD and WomenIn Engineering (WIE) Affinity Groups jointlyorganized a seminar “ IEEE Young LeadersMeet–11” on 5th Nov 2011 at KumaraguruCollege of Technology, Coimbatore. Membersfrom the various colleges such as AkshayaCollege of Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of

Young Leaders Meet ’11 by IEEE Madras GOLD and WIE at CoimbatoreEngineering and Information Technology,Kumaraguru College of Technology, SriRamakrishna Engineering College etcparticipated in the seminar. Prof.V. SharmilaDeve, IEEE Staff in Charge, IEEE,KCT SBwelcomed the gathering.

Dr. Ramalatha Marimuthu, Chair, IEEEInternational Women in Engineering Committeestarted with a brief introduction of IEEE andwent on to explain the benefits of IEEE. Theprogram was designed to give a motivationaltrigger to the young graduates and faculty infurthering their career with the help of IEEE.Dr. Ramalatha explained how IEEE can enhancethe life of an engineer technically, professionally

and socially. The social projects the IEEE andWIE support were eye openers for them.Various questions on starting the student branchand sustaining it, activities, funding and awardswere raised and discussed. On the whole, theprogram motivated and energized the 70 youngleaders who, after the lecture, raised manyquestions on projects, membership etc.

Prof S.Elangoven, Vice Chair, IEEE MadrasGOLD Affinity Group then addressed thegathering and highlighted the importance of IEEEGOLD Affinity Group. The dinner and distributionof certificates were times of great interactionand goodwill which created a new networkingcommunity and which is sure to expand.

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EMERGE’11: National Level Technical Symposiumat Valliammai Engineering College

Dept. of EEE of Valliammai EngineeringCollege (VEC) in association with IEEE SBconducted a national level technical symposium“Emerge 11” on 9th and 10th of Aug 2011.

The symposium started with theinaugural function presided by Dr. T.P. Ganesan,Pro Vice Chancellor (P&D) SRM Univ. Thechief guest at the inaugural was Mr. R.VijayaRajeswaram, Managing Director, VI –Microsystems, Chennai and the guest of honourwas Mr. T.K. Gopinath, Assistant Manager,Numerical Products, Areva T&D India, Chennai.

Dr. D. Padma Subramanian, Prof. HoD/EEE welcomed the gathering. After thepresidential address by Dr. T.P. Ganesan ProVC, Dr. M. Balasubramanian, Principal, VECspoke a few words about the department andalso mentioned about the R&D work that hasbeen carried out. Introduction of the guests wasdone by student members N.Lokeshwaran andD.S.Divya. Dr. S. Thiruvengadam- Prof. ofEminence shared his thoughts and also

mentioned how this symposium would formthe platform in bridging the gap between theoryand industrial practice.

Mr. R. Vijaya Rajeswaram, in his addressthrew light on cloud computing concepts. Inthe key note address, Mr. T.K. Gopinath briefedabout the relays that are being manufactured byAreva unit. Both the guests described aboutneed and importance of EEE graduates in fieldof power industry. Souvenir of the magazineand CD were released by the guests. The inauguralfunction concluded with the vote of thanks byMr. S. Rajan Babu, Asst. prof., VEC EEE.

On the first day of the symposium, thepreliminary rounds for various events thatconstituted the symposium were conducted.Paper presentation had an overwhelmingresponse with more than 50 papers frompremier institutes across the country. Thepapers covered the areas such as renewableenergy, embedded systems, bio-medicalengineering, trends in power systems and power

electronics and drives. Gaming was the counterstrike event which needs speed, concentrationand gaming skills. The second day is when thereal heat of the show started building up. Devil’sAdvocate formed the platform for those witharguing abilities, acting parallel with sarcasm,witty and humor. This happened to be thehilarious event. Sci – Fi, electronic debate,technical quiz, adzap were events with voice,thoughts, and technology blended together.These events brought astonishment to thegathering that amused how well the events havebeen organized and conducted smoothly.

At the valedictory function, Mr. R.K.Shukla, Director, ON Load Gears, Chennai andMr. M.S. Balaji Managing Director, KasaAnlagen India Pvt. Ltd were the guests. Mr. A.Gopi, Asst Prof., EEE, VEC welcomed thegathering and spoke how the symposium hasbeen done well as planned. Symposium reportwas presented by Dr. D. Padma Subramanian,HOD, EEE and she thanked the staff andstudents members for their hard work and effortwhich have made the event a grand success. Mr.R.K. Shukla, in his address spoke about designsand development and innovation in ON – Loadtap changers, switchgears and control paneltechnology used in transmission control andprotection. Mr. M.S. Balaji mentioned howbright the future is for engineering graduates asentrepreneurs and also emphasized on the point,how students should be involved in co–curricular activities like Symposium. Brainstorming session was followed by prizedistribution. Finally K. Syed Fazel, Secretary,Emerge’ 11 proposed the vote of thanks.

Report by: Dr. Padmasubramanian,subramanianpads@gmail.com

Inaugural Function

Activities at St. Xaviers Catholic College of EngineeringDarwin Jose Raju, SB Coordinator briefed aboutthe IEEE SB and the achievements in the pastyears. SB Secretary Ms. A. Anit Jorin presentedthe annual plan for the academic year 2011-12.IEEE WIE Secretary Ms. J. Stephy Angelinpresented the annual plan of IEEE WIE affinitygroup. The special address was given by Er.Jisha John, former IEEE WIE chairman. Sheshared about her experience while she workedas a WIE chairman and highlighted on thebenefits of IEEE student membership. Dr. S.Joseph Sekhar, Principal released the 1st newsletter “IEEE SXCCE LINK”, and congratulatedthe SB for their achievements and wished allthe best in the future activites. Bursar Rev.Dr.A.S.Michael Raj presented his felicitation tothe gathering. IEEE WIE Chairman Ms.V.TresaMary George delivered the vote of thanks to

the gathering. 96 IEEE members attended thefunction.

Tech Meet

The SB activities for the academic year2011-12 were inaugurated on 13th Aug 2011.The function started with the IEEE code ofethics read by WIE Joint Secretary Ms. R.Bavithra. IEEE SB chairman Mr. C.Jineshadorned the gathering with his welcome speech.IEEE SB counselor Prof. C. John Mosesintroduced the office bearers of the SB. SimilarlyIEEE WIE Faculty Advisor Prof. A. Subithaintroduced the office bearers of WIE. Prof. A.

The Tech Meet -1 was organized on 13th

Aug following the inaugural function held in themorning. Technical presentation competitionwas held for the IEEE student members fromvarious departments. 60 IEEE membersattended the meet and 8 papers were presented.

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The 1st prize was bagged by J.H. Archana offinal EEE. She made a presentation on the topic“Ultrasonic Extraction of Algae fuel”. The 2nd

prize were shared by K. Manikandan of finalEEE who made a presentation on the topic“Pelamis Wave Energy Converter” and Arun S.Felix of final EEE who made a presentation onthe topic “Remote Detection of IllegalElectricity usage Via PLC”.

Orphanage Visit

distributed to all the children. The WIE facultyadvisor Prof. A. Subitha felicitated the gathering.Prizes were distributed to the outstandingperformers in various competitions by the SBCoordinator Prof. A. Darwin Jose Raju, SBCounselor Mr. John Moses and WIE Facultyadvisor Prof. A. Subitha. Prizes were alsodistributed to all the children to encourage them.Ms. V. Tresa Mary George, WIE chairmanthanked everyone and the meeting was endedwith National Anthem. Lunch was provided toall the children present.

An Orphanage Visit as part of SangamamProject was organized on 15th Aug 2011. 26IEEE members went to the orphanage VimalaBala Bhavan in Marthandam in the meoning.The program started with an introductoryspeech by WIE chairman Ms. V. Tresa MaryGeorge. Around 70 children were present at theevent. They were categorized into 4 groupsnamely Intermediates, Juniors, Seniors andSuper Seniors respectively. Then the followingcompetitions in Singing, Elocution, Drawing andQuiz were conducted to each group. Thevaledictory session was held around noon. Rev.Sr. Savio, in-charge of the Vimala Bala Bhavanbriefed about the orphanage. Independence Daytalk was given by IEEE student branch memberMs. A. Anit Jorin. As a mark of celebration ofIndependence Day, national flags were

Engineer’s day celebrations

Moses briefed about Engineers day and gavea motivational talk. Former IEEE vice-chairperson Ms. Aarathi Jose given a specialtalk about the main theme of Engineers forthis year “Disaster Management”. The SBcoordinator Mr. Darwin Jose Raju distributedthe prizes to the winners of he variouscompetitions. Mr. Infant Ignus from finalECE won the first prize in slogan contestand gave a talk about the slogan. Around 55IEEE members attened the function.

IEEE Day Photo Contest

The IEEE SB of St. Xaviers CatholicCollege of Engineering won the IEEE DayPhoto Contest conducted by IEEE HQ.The photo of their student branch is oneamong the top 10 photos which wonglobally. Congrats to Mr. C. Jinesh, SB Chairfor his persistent efforts in winning thecontest to bring laurels to the SB and to thesection.

Ref: http://www.ieeeday.org/photo-contest/2011-winners/ and Photo no:-8

Engineer’s day was celebrated on 22nd

Sep 2011. IEEE SB Counselor Mr. John

CHAKRAVYUHA’ 11: Symposium at

Activities at EGS Pillay Engineering College

CHAKRAVYUHA’ 11, a one daysymposium was organized on 25th Aug, 2011.Dr. R. Rangarajan, Director, presided over thefunction and Mr. V. Ganesh Kumar, ProductManager, Heidelberg India Pvt Ltd, Chennai wasthe Chief Guest. Dr. S. Ramabalan, Principaland IEEE Mentor, Prof. S. Mahalakshmi, HOD/IT participated and briefed about the activities

of department association. Prof P. Vennilabriefed about the events in Symposium. ProfS. Imavathy introduced the Chief Guest. Mr. V.Ganesh Kumar inaugurated the symposium andenlightened the students on the need to inculcatethe essential knowledge in the currenttechnology. Out of the 67 student papersreceived, 42 were presented describing theirresearch. Events such as TechnoHunt,Multimedia Design, Networking Games,Debugging and AddZap were also conducted toexplore the potential of the students. In thevaledictory function Dr. R. Rangarajan, Directordistributed the certificates to the participantsand the prizes to the winners in variouscompetitions.

Intra College Technical and Non-TechnicalMeet

The Dept of IT and IEEE SB jointlyorganized an “Intra College Technical and Non-Technical Meet” on 26th Aug 2011. Mr. M. S.Pradeep Kumar, Telecom Engineer, BSNL, wasthe Chief Guest at the event and delivered theinauguration address and spoke on opportunitiesavailable for the students and how to meet thechallenges. Dr. S. Ramabalan, Principal and IEEEMentor, Prof S.Mahalakshmi, HOD/ITparticipated in the inaugural function. Around120 students from CSE, EEE, ECE, MCA,MBA and Mechanical participated in PaperPresentation, TechnoHunt, Multimedia Design,Networking Games, Debugging, AddZap, StoryTelling and Sparkvuha. In the valedictoryfunction Dr. J. E. L. Piriya Kumar, Director/MCA and Prof S. Krishna Mohan distributedthe certificates to the participants and the prizesto the winners in various competitions.

Report by: Prof G. Giftson Samuel

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Seminar on “Know Your Teeth”

Activities at Dr. NGP Institute of Technology

A seminar on “Know Your Teeth” wasorganized on 19th Sep 2011 for the students &faculty. Dr. S. Dhandapani, Principal welcomedthe gathering. Dr. Thavamani D. Palaniswamyin her presidential address, stressed upon thebenefits of healthy teeth and the importance ofdental care among young students. Sheintroduced Dr. Ramani Vedanayagam,Consultant Dental Surgeon, KMCH, the chiefguest of the occasion. Dr. Ramani Vedanayagamin her seminar talk, spoke about the structureand nature of teeth and gums. She highlightedthat teeth are concerned with the health of otherorgans too and hence caring for teeth is veryimportant. She suggested some preventivemeasures & food habits to prevent tooth cariesand gum bleeding. She pictorially demonstratedthe methods of brushing the teeth effectively.The session concluded with the vote of thanksby Dr. K. Porkumaran, Vice Principal & Branch

Counselor. Around 300 participants attendedthe programme and get benefited.

“TECH TRIVIA” – Technical Quiz

A quiz programme “TECH TRIVIA”was organized on 20th Aug 2011.Following thewelcome address by Dr. K. Porkumaran, VicePrincipal Dr. S. Dhandapani, Principal deliveredthe presidential address. The event receivedoverwhelming response. Over 250 students tookpart in the quiz competition. This one dayprogramme was interwoven with technicalgames such as dumb charades, just a minuteetc., to keep the participants active. Thetechnical quiz started with prelims which had24 teams competing from which 12 teams wereselected for the next level of visual round which

comprised of interesting facts related to variousaspects of engineering. Out of this round, 6 bestteams were qualified for the finals. The finalwas a rapid fire round and it really tested andexcited the student participants. The events were

organized by Mr. A. Vijayashankar, III ECE,Ms. Sheerin Sithara, III ECE, Mr. JijendiranathIV EEE & SB chairman, and Ms. Hebziba BeulaIV EEE, SB secretary. The winners and therunners-up were awarded prizes and all thefinalists were given certificates. The programmecame to an end with the vote of thanks by Mr.Prabakar, Staff Coordinator. Mr. S. Prabakar,Mr. S.Krishnaprabu, Mr. R. Karthik, Ms.V.Priyadharshini, and Ms. P. Pradeepacoordinated the events.

Report by: Dr. K. Porkumaran,porkumaran@ieee.org

The IEEE Madras Section in associationwith Department of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineering, Anna University of Technology,Madurai organized a Faculty DevelopmentProgramme (FDP) on the topic “Wavelets andIts Applications” on 5th and 6th Nov 2011. Thiswas the 19th FDP in a series of programs aimedat improving the quality of teaching inEngineering Colleges in Tamilnadu. Theprogramme was attended by 35 facultymembers of colleges and universities from allover Tamilnadu. The co-ordinators of theprogram were Dr. N. Kumarappan, Professor,

Faculty Development Programme on “Wavelets and Its Applications”

Annamalai University and IEEE MadrasSection Educational Activity Chair, ExcomMember, Mrs. M. Bhavani Assistant Professor,and Mr. R. M. Sasiraja Visiting Faculty, AnnaUniversity of Technology, Madurai.

At the inaugural session presided by Dr.E. B. Perumal Pillai, Registrar, Anna Universityof Technology, Madurai in the presence of Dr.V. Malathi, Director Academic & Dean, Dr. N.Kumarappan delivered the inaugural address.

The resource persons for the FDP wereDr. N. Malmurugan, Director-Research,

Mahendra Engineering College, Dr. P.Venkatakrishnan, Asst. Prof., Thiagaraja Collegeof Engineering, Madurai. The topics coveredincluded: Introduction to Wavelet, Fundamentalsof linear algebra and vector spaces, Wavelettheory, Time frequency representation, Multi-Resolution Analysis and implementation issuesof Wavelet realization; Application of Waveletsto Image Compression, Denoising, ImageSegmentation, Statistical Clustering, FeatureExtraction. The participants were also givenhands-on training in Wavelet Toolbox.

At the valedictory function, Dr. E. B.Perumal Pillai, Registrar delivered thevaledictory address and Dr. N. Malmurugan,presided over the function. Certificates ofparticipation were given to all the participantsof the FDP. The program received an excellentfeedback from all the participants. The FDPprovided an excellent opportunity to listen tothe experts and also to discuss various Wavletsand its application issues.

Report by: Dr. N. Kumarappan,kumarappan_n@hotmail.com

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29-30, Apr 2011: IEEE CS supported theannual conference of the SPIN Chennai ChapterSPICON-2011 on the theme “Innovation in ITProcesses - the engine for growth”. A one fullday tutorial on “TRIZ for Software Innovation”and a half day tutorial on “Innovation Management& Seven Core Skills of Innovators” were heldon 28th Apr 2011 as pre-conf. tutorials.

7th May 2011: A talk by Mr. P. H. Ravishankar,Practice Head - Business Intelligence, CoromandelInfotech India Limited, Chennai on “Portal andContent Management” was orgaised by IEEE CSin association with CSI Chennai and IEEE PCS.

27-28, May 2011: IEEE CS supported atwo days conference NaConDM2011: NationalConference on Design and Manufacturingorganized by Indian Institute of InformationTechnology Design and Manufacturing(IIITD&M) Kancheepuram at IIT Madras.

Activities of IEEE CS, TMC, PES, PCS & Madras Section during Apr – Sep 2011Perspective by Shri A. Sivasankaran, SrManager (IT) Central Bank of India. The legalperspective was presented by Shri Naavi,Techno Legal Consultant on Cyber Crimes. ShriS.N. Ravichandran, CEO, NCS, Coimbatoredescribed the problems faced by an Investigatorin cyber crimes and the problems faced by aninternet banking user were presented by Shri C.Mohan Manager (Faculty) Canara Bank. Thepanel discussion concluded with the participantsraising questions on the steps to be taken byusers when they become victims in cyber crimes,the modalities in lodging a complaint, jurisdictionissues in cyber crime etc. Dr Priya from CyberSociety of India, Hyderabad Chapter spokebriefly on cyber terrorism and bio terrorism andhow the nation should be geared to face suchchallenges in the near future. There was againmuch interaction and many participants raisedqueries on cyber crime related issues until the

11th June 2011: IEEE CS supported theone day workshop on “Cyber Crimes: Safeand Secur-e-banking” organized by CyberSociety of India. At the inaugural session, LifeTime Achievement award was presented to ShriN. Vittal former Central Vigilance Commissionerand was given Life Time Achievement Awardand CySI Fellowship Award was presented toShri P.W.C. Davidar, IAS, former Principal I.T.Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu.Shri N.S. Vishwanathan Regional DirectorReserve Bank of India touched upon the variousinitiatives taken by RBI in enhancing the levelof security in electronic banking. Shri M.S.Sundararajan, former CMD Indian Bank andShri S. Kannan General Manager, Central Bankof India offered their felicitations. The sessionon the Regulatory Aspects of Combating CyberCrime in Banks was handled by Shri N.Suganandh, Asst Genl Manager, DBS, RBI,Chennai.and the session on the vulnerabilities inan e-Banking transaction was addressed by ShriK. S. Yash, CTO, Red Force Labs, Bengaluru.The Panel Discussion focussing on “Differentperspectives of cyber crime in Banks” wasmoderated by Shri. H.R. Mohan, Chairman,CSI Div IV & IEEE CS, AVP (Systems), TheHindu. Experts from different fields presentedtheir view points on one particular aspect ofcyber crime with Bank Management Perspectivebeing presented by Shri S. Venkataraman,D.G.M. (Retd) IOB, I.T. Dept and Bank Employees’

workshop concluded with a formal vote ofthanks by the CySI Secretary Shri Rajendran.

17th Aug 2011: A presentation by Mr.Narendra Rana, Executive Consultant, Advisor,Coach, and Trainer for “Leadership andExecutive Coaching Programmes” PreviouslyManaging Director, Knight Ridder InformationOn “Leadership Transformation & How toBecome a Versatile Learner” was organizedby IEEE CS in association with CSI Chennai,IEEE TMC & IEEE PCS.

(GFDL), Princeton University, USA gave apresentation on “The Role of ComputerModeling and Simulation in the Understandingof Climate Change”. This programme wasjointly organized by IEEE CS, CSI, IEEE PES& IEEE Madras Section.

7-9, Sep 2011: IAMA-2011: An InternationalConference on Intelligent Agent & Multi-AgentSystems supported by IEEE CS, CSI, ArtificialIntelligence Association of India and IEEE MadrasSection was held at Rajalakshmi EngineeringCollege. The conference had pre-conferencetutorials, invited talks and paper presentationsin the broad areas of Agent and MAS technologiesand provided an opportunity for knowledgesharing on agent design, modeling and engineeringof Agent and MAS technologies. Paperspresented dealt with research in the areasrelating to agent models, architectures, languages,theories & design techniques, applications etc.

9th Sep 2011: Dr. San Murugesan, AdjunctProfessor, University of Western Sydney,Director, BRITE Professional Services, Australiadelivered a talk on “Green IT for EnvironmentalSustainability” in the monthly technical meetingjointly organized by IEEE Madras Section alongwith IEEE CS, IEEE PES ad CSI Chennai.

15-16, Sep 2011: A two days researchsymposium ReSYM-11 on PervasiveComputing was organized by TIFAC-CORE& Department of Computer Science andEngineering, Velammal Engineering College withthe support of IEEE Madras Section, IEEEComputer Society and Div IV – Communications,Computer Society of India, Council forScientific and Industrial Research, DefenceResearch and Development Organization andICTACT Tamilnadu. A detailed report on thiswas published in Oct issue of LINK.

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29th Aug 2011: Dr. V. Balaji, Head, ModelingSystems Group, Cooperative Institute forClimate Science, National Oceanographic andAtmospheric Administration’s (NOAA),Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

29th Sep 2011: IEEE CS in association withCSI Chennai, IEEE TMC and IEEE PCSorganized a presentation by Mr. CheenuSrinivasan, Director, Ganges Consulting, Sydney,Australia on “Business Model Generation”.

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A minimum period of 28 days is allowedfrom this date for the members to makeadditional nominations by petition, if any,supported by at least 15 voting members. If no

The nominations list from theNomination Committee for the offices of the

No Member Name Designation Member Grade Member No.

1 Mr.T.S.Rangarajan, Global Consultant, TCS, Chennai. (Industry) Chairman M 01109545

2 Mr. H.R.Mohan, AVP Systems, THE HINDU, Chennai (Industry) Vice Chairman SM 04142691

3 Dr.N.R.Alamelu, Principal AVIT, Chennai. Vice Chair person M 90361485

4 Major.V.V.Chandrasekharan, Chennai Secretary M 41302471

5 Dr. Hemamalini .S, Associate Prof, School of Electrical Engineering, Treasurer M 91237392VIT University Chennai

6 Dr. T.Thyagarajan,Prof. & Director, Univ. Library, Anna University, Chennai Immediate SM 80335631Past Chairman

7 Mr. D. Maheswaran, Head-EDRC & EIC, L & T, Chennai (Industry) Member SM 90921221

8 Mr. A. Darwin Jose Raju, Professor, EEE Dept, St, Member SM 80362015Xavier Catholic Ccollege of Engg., Nagercoil

9. Dr N. Kumarappan, Professor, Annamalai University, Chidamabaram Member SM 41385764

10 Mr. Arunkumar Chinnaswamy,Asst. Prof, Dept IT, Member M 90939588Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore

11 Dr. Atmanand M.A., Director, National Institute of Ocean Technology, Velachery Member SM 40112920

12 Dr. Murali Krishna Nadigama, Group Head, Ebay India Pvt Ltd, Chennai Member SM 40165514

13 Mr. Raja Valiveti, GM, Wipro Ltd., Member M 90865275

14 Dr. Venkatesh.P, Prof. Thaigarajar Engineering College, Madurai Member SM 90736519

The Slate for the year 2012for the Offices of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Madras Section

Executive Committee for the year 2012 has beenreceived. The recommended slate for the year

2012 is announced today, the 14th December2011, as detailed below:

petitions are received, results will be announcedat the Annual Meeting. If additionalnominations are made, election will be by ballotmailed to the members by 10th January 2011,

with the vote counted by a Tellers Committeeappointed by the Section Chairman.

Dr. T. ThyagarajanChair, IEEE Madras Section

Mini Project Exhibition at Francis XavierEngineering College

A mini project exhibition was held on 18th

Aug 2011. 53 student batches exhibited andpresented the real time projects in the domain ofembedded and signal processing. Dr. R.Narayanamoorthy, Prof & Head Mechanical,and Dr. Subbaraj Prof of MBA Dept. were thejuries for the competition. Mr. P. Dani Immanuel ofIII ECE who presented the Dragon Runnerproject was awarded first place. Mr. P. Ponmudiof IV ECE received the second prize for hisproject on Electronic Loan watcher. The projecton Dim and Bright control for automobiles byMs. T. Kartheeswari was selected for the third prize.Mr. G. Rajakumar Associate Professor, Departmentof ECE was the coordinator of the event.

National Level Technical Symposium-ECSTASY-11

ECSTASY-11, the 9th National LevelTechnical Symposium was conducted on 22nd

Events at Francis Xavier Engineering CollegeSep 2011. The symposium received 260 papersfrom all over the country and 50 papers wereselected for presentation in the technical

felicitated the gathering and briefed theimportance of co-curricular activities in thecurriculum. Mrs. M. Selvi IEEE student branchcounselor & HOD/ECE felicitated the function

and stressed on the “Team Intelligence” that isan essential need of the hour. Along with thetechnical session in the morning, various eventssuch as circuit debugging, technical quiz andspot events were organized. At the valedictoryfunction certificates were distributed for thewinners of various events by the chairpersons.

Report by: S. Irish Jeyapaul

sessions on VLSI, Embedded Systems andCommunication System. The papers focusedon the innovations in the respective discipline.Dr. S. Muruganad, HOD, E&I, BharathiyarUniversity, Coimbatore adorned the functionas the chief guest and presented a lecture onopportunities for students, Dr. K. Rajagopal,Principal Francis Xavier Engineering College

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Programme on “Employability and Soft Skills” atAkshaya College of Engineering and Technology

An in-house orientation programme on“Employability and Soft SkillS” was oragnisedon 31st Oct 2011. This event was facilitated bythe IEEE CS, IEEE PCS & CSI.

Dr. N. Krishna Moorthy, HOD, ME-CSE, welcomed the guests. The principal in-charge, Prof. J Jaya, HOD, ECE and Prof. K.Samidurai, HOD, EEE introduced the guests.

Mr. Chayaa Ballav Sahoo, CEO, Victorymind EduCare, Chennai emphasized that youngengineering students should adopt and followinnovative methods and approach towardslearning. He further said that notes-taking,effective planning and goal-setting exercises areof paramount importance to bring aboutphenomenal growth in their career. He addedthat students must assess their learning styleand overcome problems in the learning process.

He also briefly spoke about the 21st centuryskills and said that the students should be ableto think and act independently to face the globalchallenges ahead of them.

Dr. Vishal Talwar, Professor, LondonSchool of Economics, UK devoted an inspiringsession on presentation skills. It is known factthat great speakers and world leaders with greatoratorical skill had changed the mind of themillions. A good presentation requires content,quality and a great deal of communicative skillwith force, belief and spirit. He spoke on howto structure an effective presentation in anelaborative manner. He said that a presentershould have a positive posture, attitude, goodeye contact, good content matter, interestingvoice, thorough knowledge of the subject. He

added that the presenter should be enthusiasticand should also have a good idea of the audienceso as to deliver an effective presentation. Heconcluded that in order to become an effectivepresenter one must avoid Halophobia ie. stagefear and nervousness which are considered tobe quite common among our students.

Prof. Elangovan IEEE, SB Counselorproposed the vote of thanks. The programmewas well attended by the students and facultymembers along with the HODs and the principal.

Report by: Prof. S. Elangovan,akshayaieee@yahoo.com

The names of the students from PrathyushaInstitute of Technology and Management,whose project “Automated CommodityDelivery System for Fair Price Shop”selected for the funding from IEEE MadrasSection should read as P. Sowmya &R. Subha and not as published in page 6 inthe MAS LINK of Nov 2011.

CongratulationsLINK congratulates Dr.Suresh Chander Pal,past chairman of IEEEMadras Section forhaving received theMGA AchievementAward for the year2011. The citation reads

as follows: “For sustained excellence andinspirational guidance in promoting IEEEamong students and mentoring youngprofessionals to address humanitarian needsthrough technology.”

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