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Chairman’s Message

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Esteemed members,

At the outset, on the eve of IEEE Day on8.10.2011, I wish all the members of IEEEMadras Section, a prosperous professional lifeahead.

I am happy to inform you that theCommemoration Function of R10 DistinguishedLarge Section Award for IEEE Madras

Section for the year 2010, Student Branch Office Bearers’ Meet -2011 & Launching of IEEE Madras Section Website, organized bythe IEEE Madras Section on 1st Oct 2011 was a great success with activeparticipation of over 200 members from various parts of Tamil Nadu andPondicherry (Section Execom Members / Society Chairs-30, SBCounselors-42, SB Chairpersons-40, Professional Members-78).

The function was inaugurated by Dr. M. Ponnavaikko, ViceChairman, IEEE India Council & Vice Chancellor, SRM University. Hegave many suggestions to enhance the professional as well as studentmembership.

The new website of IEEE Madras Section was formally launchedby Dr. S. Tamaraiselvi, Dean MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai.She said, that the new website built using web 2.0 architecture, providinga host of features including search, discussion forums and blogs can beused by all members for better networking with the Section, societychapters, student branches and other members.

During their address both the guests lauded the IEEE MadrasSection for the overall activities carried out by it and congratulated all themembers who are instrumental in receiving the prestigious R10Distinguished Large Section Award for IEEE Madras Section, for thefirst time, since its formation in 1978.

Prof. T. Thyagarajan, Section Chair, welcomed the gathering,highlighted the activities of the Section and introduced the Office Bearersand Execom Members. Mr. T.S. Rangarajan and Mr. S.Rajavel, Vice Chairsintroduced the Guest of Honor, Dr. S. Tamraiselvi and the Chief Guest,Dr. M. Ponnavaikko, respectively. Dr P. Suresh Chander Pal, former ViceChair India Council offered felicitations. Dr. N. R. Alamelu, Secretaryproposed the vote of thanks.

The inauguration was followed by the special lectures with“Empowering Members to Create the Future.” as the theme and on topicssuch as:

What IEEE membership means to you ? - Dr. T. Thyagarajan

Role of Student Branch Office Bearers – Major. V.V. Chandrasekar

IEEE Educational Activities - Dr. N. Kumarappan

Dear Friends,

The function organized to celebrate the “R10Distinguished Large Section Award” along with theSB Officers Meet-2011 & the launch of re-designedWebsite of IEEE Madras Section held on 1st Oct 2011was a grand success. Our chairman, in his messagehas provided an excellent summary of the day longevent. While a select no. of photos have been

published in this issue of the newsletter, all the photos have been hostedat the Section website.

As outlined in the talk on “Updates on the IEEE MAS LINK” duringthe SB Office Bearers Meet, we are having challenges in reporting theevents being held in our student branches. The print edition is costing us afortune. We need to really look at alternatives. As the issue is limited to 12pages, this time, we are forced to carry forward almost 20 events (receivedin time for publishing) which include the section technical meetings. Inthis issue, we have published the reports on various events organized bythe student branches of the following institutions — ranging from guestlectures, seminars, workshops, conferences, membership drive meetings,inaugural functions, interaction meetings and, launching of society chapters:

SRM University – 2 events; Kongu Engineering College – 2 events;Thiagarajar College of Engineering – 3 eventsPSNA College of Engineering& TechnologyVelammal Engineering College; Dr. NGP Institute ofTechnology – 2 events;Jayaram College of Engineering – 3 events; SonaCollege of EngineeringSudhrashan Engineering College; Amrita Schoolof EngineeringJeppiaar Engineering College; Sri Muthukumaran Instituteof Technology; Rajalakshmi Engineering College; Latha MadhavanEngineering CollegeEGS Pillay Engineering College; Aarupadai VeeduInstitute of Technology – 3 events

Reader’s attention is drawn to the following announcemnents:

Call for papers for the conferences on “Information and SoftwareEngineering” and “Recent Advances in Computing and Software Systems”

Call for participation in the workshop on “Empowering yourselfthrough communicative skills”.

Video contest for student members on the theme “EngineeringSustainable Solutions”.

Volunteer Positions in Society Chapters and Affinity Groups.

IEEE MAS LINK Congratulates

Mr. R. Chellappan, Chairman, IEEE PELS, for receiving an award asan Outstanding Entrepreneurs in the field of IT and ITES fromGovernor of TN.

Mr. D. Maheswaran, IEEE Madras Section Execom member forhaving elevated as a Senior Member.

We remind the SB Councilors to send their registrations to host thefree in-house orientation programme on “Employability & Soft Skills”being organized by IEEE CS & PCS along with CSI.

Pl. send the matter for publishing as per guidelines available athttp://goo.gl/8KFdM

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IEEE-MAS Link Volume : 8 Issue : 10 October 2011

IEEE Madras Section Website: AnOverview - Mr. T. S. Rangarajan

Role of Industries in IEEE Activities -Mr. P. Maheswaran

Presentations by Society Chapter Chairs(Dr. N.R. Alamelu, Mr. K.V. Rupchand,Mr. Nachiappan, Mr. H.R. Mohan)

Humanitarian Technology Projects - Prof.Ramalatha

GOLD Activities - Mr. Elangovan

Updates on the Section Newsletter MAS

LINK – Mr. H.R. Mohan

GINI Activities - Mr. Barnabas

IEEE Student Branch Activities

Presentation - Selected Student Branch

Counselors

Expectations of Student Branches from

IEEE Madras Section - Selected Student

Branch Chairpersons.

The day ended with a cultural program

and distribution of Souvenirs in the form of T

shirts, Pen drives, Key chains to all the registered

participants.

On behalf of the Executive Committee, I

express my sincere thanks and special

encomiums to all the members for their gracious

presence and participation in the event. We look

forward to your continuous support and

encouragement in all our endeavors.

Affectionate colleague,

Prof. T. Thyagarajan

Chairman’s Message continued....

Inauguration of IEEE Communication SocietyStudent Branch at SRM University

The inaugural function of the IEEECommunication Society Student Branch atSRM University, Chennai underTelecommunications Engineers’ Association(TEA) was held on 29th Aug 2011. The ChiefGuests for the evening were Dr. N. R Alamelu,Principal- AVIT, Chennai and Secretary, IEEE

Madras Section and Chairperson of the IEEECommunication Society, Madras Chapter andMr. Saaminathan of Acharya Robotix, Chennai.Dr. T. Rama Rao, HoD, Dept. of TCE waspresided the event.

Mrs. M. S. Vasanthi, Asst. Prof. (SG) ofDept. of TCE has introduced the chief gueststo the gathering. Then the Chief-Guest, Dr. N.R. Alamelu gave a talk on the salient aspects ofthe IEEE society and the benefits of having anIEEE membership. Furthermore, she alsoexplained the various sub divisions under IEEEand about IEEE funding for student projects,which inspired the students to become an IEEEMember.

This was followed by an engaging

technical presentation on Mobile Robotics,where Mr. Saaminathan laid special emphasison communications perspective of mobilerobotics. His talk was supplemented byinteresting videos which illustrated the differentkinds of robots used in several fields. He alsostressed on the importance of robotics as anemerging technology and various opportunitiesfor students who wish to pursue robotics as acareer.

Mrs. C. T. Manimegalai, Asst. Prof. (SG)has introduced the IEEE members & officebearers to the audience. All the participants felt& wished that the IEEE COMSOC StudentBranch will play vital role in molding the careersof all Telecommunication Engineering Studentsat SRM University. Mr. Varadaraj Shastry,student secretary proposed the vote of thanks.

Report by: Dr.T. Rama Rao

Activities at Kongu Engineering College

Guest Lecture on “Overview: Departmentof Atomic Energy”

The IEEE/WIE Student Branch of KonguEngineering College organized a guest lectureon 10th Sep 2011 on the theme “Overview:Department of Atomic Energy”. Shri. D.Rajagopalan, Assistant Administrative Officer,Indra Gandhi Atomic Research Centre,Kalpakkam, Chennai was the chief guest. Hereleased the IEEE SB newsletter“RESONANCE”. Shri. D. Rajagopalan startedhis lecture with a brief introduction on the basicactivities of the Dept. of Atomic Energy & IndraGandhi Atomic Research Centre. He then brieflyexplained about the scope for the engineeringstudents in the field of atomic energy andresearch. Moving on to the milestones of atomicenergy development in India, he explicated aboutthe various nuclear power stations in India. Headded that nuclear power is eco- friendly. Hefurther spoke on developing the student’sattitude towards both life and career. The

students had a purposeful interaction with thechief guest.

STAR - (STUDENTS TEACHERS ANDRESEARCH) PROGRAM

The WIE affinity group of IEEE studentbranch of Kongu Engineering College has plannedto conduct eight STAR programmes in this yearfor the benefit of rural students in Erode district.The first program was conducted on 10th Sep2011 for the students of Government HigherSecondary School, Kumalankuttai. 50 boysalong with two of their faculty members weretaken from the school to the KEC campus. After

the introductory talk the Branch Coordinator,Prof. K. Narayanan, various events like ‘Debate’,English language competition, were conducted.In a lecture by Ms. Meena Kumari HOD/EEE,the students were made aware about their futureand the courses of study that they could chooseafter the school education. Also, awareness wasprovided about various branches of engineeringand other higher education facilities. Videoswere played to kindle their interest inEngineering and to highlight the benefits of beingan engineer. Events such as General Quiz, VisualHunt were also conducted. After the lunch thestudents were taken around the campus andwere shown the various department facilitiesand were explained with field of study andscope of each and every department. Thestudents came up with a no. of queries whichwere all answered by the student members. Atthe end, prizes and certificates were given tothe winners of various events took place. Afterthe feedback, they were taken back to theirschool. Thus, this STAR programme, providedan excellent opportunity for the rural studentsto inculcate awareness on studies in engineering.

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Activities at Thiagarajar College of Engineering

Discussion Forum

Discussion Forum is a visionary initiativeby the branch to impart latest technology tothe members and keep them updated with thesame. At initial stage, all senior student branchofficers took their turn to teach their newmembers. A wide range of topics of topic werecovered ranging from “issues and challenge to4G” to “cloud computing”. The monthlyupdates from the reliable IEEE spectrummagazine were used often to give insights oftechnological developments in various fields.After its success from the members, they weremade to participate intensively by allowingthem to present on these latest developments.This move was made by the branch as a part ofdevelopment of soft and communication skillsof its members. The vision of giving insight tothe rapid technological development andcreating self awareness and equippingthemselves to the future challenges of itsmembers doesn’t seem to be a myth. DiscussionForum is platform purely created for itsmembers by the senior members. This initiativehas still long way to go to attain its vision.Some of the forum discussions during Jul-Aug2011 include:

Duplexer and its applications byA.Sakthi , final year

Electronic notice board using Zigbeemodule by Senthil, 2nd year

Dynamic charging: new electric race carsby I.Thanga Kathiresh, 2nd year

Power line communication byV.Sukhadha, 2nd year

Zigbee and applications by Sahana andVaishnavi , 2nd year

Cadence RF Spectra

A two day work shop on Cadence RF

Spectra was conducted during 6-7, Sep 2011 to

enable the students to have an idea of design

methodology of radio frequency Integrated

Circuits. Mr. Shreyas of Cadence explained

about the fully Customized Cadence Virtuoso.

He gave brief introduction about cadence usage

flow in a comprehensive manner. The Cadence

IC flow embraces Schematic Entry, Simulation,

layout, physical verification of Design Rule

Check and Layout Vs Schematic Check, RC

Extraction, GDSII Binary file Generation. The

students were put into groups and were made

to design Low Noise Amplifier, a critical part

of receiver front end of any wireless system. At

the end of the programme, the students were

happy to have learnt a industry specific

software. This workshop was organized andconducted by Dr. S. Kanthamani, Asst. Prof.ECE.

Tecuthsav 2011

To celebrate the enthusiasm andepitomize students’quest for knowledge,Thiagarajar College of Engineering organized theTecuthsav 2011 on 14th Sep 2011. TCE SB ofIEEE joined hands with Dept of ECE to organizeits part in the technical extravaganza named asTELETEC. Around 300 participants attendedand took part in various competitions. Mrs.Sundar Rayasam, the Senior Manger,QualComm, Hyderabad inaugurated the event.The event kicked off with technical paperpresentation contest in which ten shortlistedpapers were presented out of 150 receivedcovering different areas of EE. The topics ofthe presentation ranged from Remote PatientMonitoring Systems Using Android Phones tothe Nano Structure Developments for SolarCells. The other events included: techatlon,hackatrix, line follower, Mr & Mrs.Teletec.Tecathlon was a three-round event that testedparticipants’ technical aptitude, simulation skillsand knowledge in fundamentals. Hackatrixintended to bring out the programming skills ofyoung minds. As a part of automation, a roboticcontest named line follower was inducted tothe event. Techutsav of the ECE departmentsaw a grand finish with Mr & Mrs.Teletec, amanagerial event. Tecuthsav 2011 lived up tothe expectations of students trying to carve aniche in their own extra ordinary way.

Report by: K. Kalyani, [email protected]

POWER GALE 2011: National Level Technical Symposium at PSNA College ofEngineering and Technology

The Society of Electrical and Electronics

Engineering of PSNA College of Engineering and

Technology, Dindigul and IEEE student branch

had jointly organized a one day National Level

Technical Symposium POWER GALE 2011 on

23rd Sep 2011. In the inauguration, Mr. V.

Sundarrajan, Joint Secretary of SEEE welcomedthe gathering. Prof Mr. M.P.Ragavan, VicePrincipal, delivered the presidential address.

The chief guest of the day, Er.C.KannanSenior Manager T & D, Training andDevelopment Institute, TNEB Madurai with

his rich experience in the field of power andenergy engineering highlighted importance ofenergy conservation in his inaugural address.

Participants from nearly, 45 colleges hadpresented their technological research papersin the symposium in parallel sessions. A quizcompetition and circuit debugging competitionwas also conducted to explore the potential ofthe students.

In the valedictory session, Prof Mr.M.P.Ragavan, Vice Principal, PSNA CET andDr. V. Rajasekaran, Prof. and HOD/EEEdistributed the certificates to the participantsand the prizes to the winners of variouscompetitions. Mr.K.Hari Prasanth Final EEE,Secretary of SEEE proposed the vote of thanks.

Report by: Mr. M. Kaliamoorthy,[email protected]

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ReSYM-2011: Research Symposium on Pervasive Computing at VelammalEngineering College, Chennai

A two days research symposium(ReSYM-11) on Pervasive Computing wasorganized by TIFAC-CORE & Department ofComputer Science and Engineering, VelammalEngineering College with the support of IEEEMadras Section, IEEE Computer Society andDiv IV – Communications, Computer Societyof India, Council for Scientific and IndustrialResearch, Defence Research and DevelopmentOrganization and ICTACT Tamilnadu during15-16, Sep 2011.

Mr. H. R. Mohan, Chairman, IEEE CS &Div IV, CSI inaugurated the symposium andreleased the proceedings. In his inauguraladdress, he had provided a brief overview onresearch going on in the area of pervasivecomputing globally and in India. He spoke aboutthe role of professional bodies such as IEEE,

IEEE CS & CSI in providing forums for sharingresearch findings with peers and suggestedthe participants to join as members inthese professional associations and derivebenefits.

In the symposium, about 15 papers shortlisted out of 65 received were presented in foursessions apart from the following invited talks.

Pervasive Devices by Dr. Paul Rodriques,Dean (R&D), Velammal EngineeringCollege, Chennai

Security Issues in Wireless SensorNetworks by Mr. R. Kishore, Asst. Prof.,SSN College of Engineering, Chennai

Information Processing and EmbeddedWireless Sensor Networks by Dr. A.

Balaji Ganesh, Professor, VelammalEngineering College, Chennai

IP Video Survelliance Solution by Mr.M. Vinayagam, Director, VeNMSOLTechnologies, Chennai

Open Source Support for VLSI Designand Test Practices by Dr. K. Najeeb,Prof., & Head, CSE, GovernmentEngineering College, Palakkadu

Architecture of RFID Systems & itsApplications by Prof. B. Venkatalakshmi,Velammal Engineering College, Chennai

Fault Tolerant Reconfigurable Systemsby Dr. S. K. Noor Mohamed, Asst. Prof.,CSE, Indian Institute of InformationTechnology Design & Manufacturing,Kanchpuram

Mr. E. Iniya Nehru, Senior TechnicalDirector, National Informatics Center, Chennaidelivered the valedictory address and distributedcertificates to the participants.

This research symposium was attendedby over 50 participants including 21 from otherinstitutions from all over the country. It createdthe opportunity for the interaction with theexperts and facilitated the participants tounderstand the latest technologies anddeliverables in this fast developing research area.Further, this event served as an appropriateplatform and evoked meaningful discussionsamong the research community. Prof. B.Venkatalakshmi and Prof. Dr. N. Sankar Ramwere the organizing secretaries of thesymposium and Dr. A. Balaji Ganesh and Dr.R. Manimegalai were the conveners.

Health Awareness and Preventive Measures for Women at Dr NGPIT

The WIE affinity group of Dr. NGP

Institute of Technology organized a camp on

“Health Awareness and Preventive Measures

for Women” on 29th Aug 2011 for the women

students & faculty in the campus. Mrs P.

Pradeepa, WIE staff coordinator warmly

welcomed the gathering. Dr. Thavamani D.

Palaniswamy, Secretary in her presidential

address stressed on the benefits of healthy mind

through a healthy body and the importance of

health conscious for the working women &

students. She introduced Dr. Rupa, Consultant

Radiologist, KMCH, the chief guest.

Dr. Rupa elucidated the high possibility

of cancer among women. She said that while

one percent of women in India are prone to

cancer, compared 30% in US, the mortality rate

in India is much greater than in US. This is

because of the lack of awareness among the

Indian population about cancer and its

preventive measures. She elaborated on the

prominent types of cancer seen in women such

as cervical and breast cancer etc. She briefed

about the self-examination procedure for breast

cancer - a method which can help in diagnosing

and treating cancer at an early stage. When

practiced on a regular basis it can reduce the

mortality rate. She also explained about the

medical procedures such as Mammography,

MRI scans etc. which help in the early diagnosis

of breast cancer. Furthermore she highlighted

the age groups that are most prone to this type

of cancer. She concluded the lecture highlighting

the importance of a healthy diet and healthy

habits in keeping women protected from such

fatal illnesses.

About 300 students & faculty, including

those from Dr. NGP Arts & Science College,

Dr. NGP Institute of Technology attended the

programme and benefited.

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Activities at Jayaram College of Engineering & Technology

Inauguration of IEEE Student Branch

IEEE Student Branch chapter activitiesfor the academic year 2011- 2012 wasinaugurated on 10th Aug 2011. About 80students participated in the inaugural function,of which 27 were IEEE members. IEEE MemberMs. S. Jayashree welcomed the gathering. TheAcademic Dean & IEEE Branch Counselor Dr.S.A. Sahaaya Arul Mary, briefed about activitiesof IEEE Student Chapter and announced newoffice bearers for the academic year 2011andwished them all success. Proposal for variousactivities to be held on during academic yearwas announced by the Branch Counselor ofIEEE. The IEEE Branch Mentor Dr. N. Kannandelivered the presidential address. He spoke onopportunities available for students throughIEEE and the necessary skills required for thestudents to succeed and meet the challenges.Few students were awarded the cash prizes fortheir active participation and were encouraged.This was followed by a short presentation titled“IEEE & IEEE Student Member Benefits” byMs. S. Sakana, Chairman of the IEEE StudentBranch. She also addressed the students on theimportance and benefits of IEEE and invitedthe students to join IEEE. Mr. B. Prasanna,Secretary of IEEE, delivered a presentation on“IEEE Projects” which enlightened the studentson how to do the project work. The sessionended with vote of thanks by Ms. S. Vihosini,IEEE member.

Office Bearers:

Student Chairman : S. Sakana, IV EIE

Vice Chairman : P. Vijay, III ECE

Secretary : B. Prasanna, III CSE

Treasurer : K. S. Priyanka, IV EIE

Seminar on “Electronics Product Design &Radar Systems”

A paper presentation competition for theyoung tech buddies was held on 23rd Aug 2011.Out of 40 papers submitted, 23 were selectedfor the final presentation. Dr. N. Kannan,Mentor, IEEE student branch, JCET, was the

A one day seminar on “ElectronicsProduct Design & Radar Systems” was

organized on 12th Aug 2011, with an aim ofproviding an overview of about Radar Systems

and its future trends as well as to introduce the

students towards research in this field. The

seminar was presided over by the IEEE studentbranch mentor Dr. N. Kannan and felicitated by

the IEEE student branch counselor Dr. S. A.Sahaaya Arul Mary. The resource persons were

Dr. Sithu D.Sudharshan, scientist from United

States, Department of Health and Human

Resources and Dr. Sithu D. Suresh from DRDO,Bengaluru. The resource persons were warmly

welcomed and honored by Professor A.Venkatasubramaniam, Head of Information and

Technology. During the seminar the speakers

explained about the working principle of Radar

Systems in various perspectives and also theyshared their experiences in real time projects

with the students. The sessions were interestingand useful to all the participants as they were

exposed to the basic concept, current and future

trends of radar system. The seminar ended with

vote of thanks by B. Prasanna, IEEE Secretary.

Paper Presentation Contest on “Emerging

Trends in Computing”

chairperson at the presentation and Dr. S. A.Sahaaya Arul Mary, IEEE student branchcounselor, JCET welcomed the gathering.Students from various departments activelytook part in the contest and presented theirviews to the gathering which made thetechnocrats to expose their vision. The paperswere on various topics such as CloudComputing, Network Security, RadiationHazards, Artificial Intelligence etc,. Dr. AnandManivannan, Dean R&D, JCET and Dr. P.D.Sheba Kezia Malarchelvi HOD, JCET wereinvited as judges. The judges and the organizingcommittee selected the paper titled “StainRemoving Nano Robots” as the best paper andawarded a cash prize Rs. 1000/-.

Report by: Dr. S. A. Sahaaya Arul Mary

TECHGRILL 2011: Intra-College Technical Symposium at Sona College ofTechnology The Intra-College Technical Symposium

Techgrill 2011 conducted on 23rd Sep 2011 wasa great success. It comprised of two events –Paper Presentation and MultimediaPresentation. The programme was presided overby Prof. C. Easwarlal, IEEE Branch Counselor.

We had active participants fromdepartments ECE, EEE, IT and CSE. Out of 88papers and 14 multimedia presentations

received, after scrutiny, 10 papers from eachdepartment were selected for presentation inthree parallel sessions. Prizes were presentedto three winners from each dept.

Visit our Websitewww.ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras

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SCOPERTA’2k11: Technical competition on ‘ Engineering Innovations’ atSudharsan Engineering College

The IEEE student chapter, SudharsanEngineering College, organized a technicalcompetition on Engineering Innovations(SCOPERTA 2k11) on 25th Aug 2011. Mr. P.Mahidhar, President, IEEE students chapterwelcomed the gathering. Prof. A. Ravi, HOD/EEE spoke on the objective of organizing sucha technical competition this year in which over110 Engineering Innovations were implemented

by about 300 students. Dr. M. Radhakrishnan,Principal, said engineers are creators, engineeringis creation and all the students while leaving theinstitution should be creators and not destroyers.Shri. V.K. Sundaram, Chairman, Shri Ajay.K. Sundaram and Shri Vijay K. Sundaram,Vice- Chairman, presided over the function andgave valuable suggestions.

Dr. S.Palani, Dean PG studies, gave an

account of the historical background of

various engineering innovations of the past.

Dr. M. Prabhakar, Dean Academics spoke about

recent trends in engineering innovations.

While inaugurating the event Mr. P.A.

Manoharan, technical officer DRDO spoke on

the need of innovations in engineering sector

for the betterment of the society and also urged

the students to work on projects related to basic

needs by hinting the innovations made by great

scientist Thomas Alva Edison.

In the valedictory function, Dr. A.

Gopinathapai, Senior Scientist, ISRO,

Trivandrum, distributed the prizes to winners

of technical events. Ms. N. Sangeetha , Vice

Chairperson, IEEE Student Branch proposed

the vote of thanks.

Report by P.Mahidhar

Workshop on “Soft Computing” at Amrita School of Engineering

Amrita School of Engineering,Coimbatore IEEE student branch in associationwith ACM, CSI Student Chapter, Amrita and

IETE Coimbatore Centre organized a one day

Workshop on “Soft Computing” on 21st Sep

2011. The workshop was conducted by Dr.

S.Ramakrishnan, Prof. and HoD, Dept. of IT,

Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and

Technology, Pollachi. Budding engineers, post

graduate students and researchers attended his

seminar in addition to the IEEE members of

Amrita University, Coimbatore.

The Workshop was conducted in four

sessions. Introduction to Soft Computing and

Neural Networks was given in the morningsessions. In the afternoon, hands-on lab sessionswere held for the students in Image ProcessingToolbox and Neural Network Toolbox.

The workshop was mentored by Prof.

K. Gangadharan, Chairman-IT and organized byMr. C. Arunkumar, IEEE SB Counsellor, andMs. S. Padmavathi, Asst. Prof. (S.G), Dept. of

IT, was the Chief Coordinator of the Workshop.

Report by: C. Arunkumar,

[email protected]

IEEE GOLD Meet at Jeppiaar Engineering College

The IEEE Student Branch of JeppiaarEngineering College organized an IEEE GOLDMEET on 2nd Sep 2011. The guest speakersMr. Felix, Mr. Bertin, Mr. Hemanth who wereGold members passed out from the college.They interacted with the student members of2nd and 3rd year. Madhuri Kala, III year, EEE,presented the achievements of the studentbranch in 2010-2011.

Mr. Felix, Test engineer, Infosys,Chennai, who had served as the chairman of theIEEE SB shared his experience of his tenure inthe college SB. He outlined his strategy todevelop the SB which was a team effort. Headded that sharing his knowledge with students,understanding their thought process and to helpthem in their course of development throughhis interactions with them was his passion.

Mr. Hemanth, Project Engineer, WiproTechnologies, Hyderabad who had representedthe IEEE SB as the Former Leadership Advisorduring 2009-2010 spoke on dealing withcriticism referring to many motivating books,such as Stephen R. Covey’s, “The Seven Habitsof Highly Effective People”.

Mr. Bertin, Project Engineer, Wipro

Technologies, Banglore, who had won the 13th

place in IEEE International web designing

contest 2009 representing Madras Section,

invoked a spirit of self- confidence among the

students by making them to volunteer in public

speaking. They were made to answer to the

basic interview question “Tell About Yourself”.

He.

All the speakers complemented the

volunteers with a gift in order to boost up their

skills. The overall programme was a great

success. We express our gratitude to our

speakers, our Branch counselor, Mr. Sellakumar

and also to the organizers of the event with

whose endeavors this event has been a grand

success.

Report by: Apoorva P Naidu,

[email protected]

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Activitiies at Sri Muthukumaran Institute of Technology

Lecture on “Digital Image Processing”

A technical lecture on “Digital ImageProcessing” was organised 27th Aug 2011. Mr.S. Mahesh Anand, Asst. Prof. (Sr), School ofElectronics Engineering, VIT, Chennai Campusdelivered the lecture. Mr. M.M. Hari Krishnan,Chairman, IEEE SMIT SB welcomed thegathering and introduced the speaker. The lecturestarted with a brief introduction to Digital SignalProcessing. The speaker then explained theconcept of Digital Image Processing and spokeon its industrial applications, various image

processing techniques and research avenues. Healso spoke on the various tools available fordigital image processing. The program came toan end with Dr. Sathya Narayanan, HOD, EEEpresenting a memento to the speaker. Mr. S.Bala Ragavendraa, Secretary delivered the voteof thanks.

Report by Ms. Jeno Helcy

Membership Drive

The IEEE SB of SMIT organised aMembership Drive on 3rd Sep 2011 to educate

students on the importance of IEEE, itsmembership and services. A team comprisingof IEEE members and office bearers interacted

with the students who attended the drive.The event started with a quick interactiveactivity in which Mr. Hari Krishnan, chairman

of the SB gave an introduction to IEEE. Hespoke about IEEE’s evolution, mission, vision,how IEEE helps and shapes the career and

the role of IEEE in an engineer’s life. Healso highlighted the benefits of membership.Mr. S. Bala Ragavendraa, Secretary explaining

the values of membership. Ms. Kamala,advisor WIE affinity group introduced WIE tothe students and spoke about the benefits of

being a part of it. The session received a goodfeedback from the students. It had enlightenedthem on the role of IEEE in their career as an

engineer.

Report by Mr. G. Pradeep

Workshop on Green IT at Rajalakshmi Engineering College

A Workshop on “Green IT: How You andIT Can Help to Create a Sustainable Environment”was organized on 7th Sep 2011 by the IEEEStudent Branch and CSI Student Chapter ofRajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai.

Professor San Murugesan, Director ofBRITE Professional Services, and Adjunct Prof.,

University of Western Sydney, Australiaconducted the workshop. During the workshop,he outlined the current scenario where theworld’s climate heats up and our environmentdeteriorates causing potentially disastrousconsequences. The individuals and organisationsthat use IT and the IT industry have now a newrole to play – helping to create a greener, moresustainable environment.

He highlighted that IT is both a problemand a solution to environmental sustainability. IT affects our environment in many ways; eachstage of a computer’s life – production, use,and disposal presents environmental challenges.So, we need to make IT systems and their usegreener. In addition, we can leverage IT ininnovative ways to reduce environmentalproblems. Green IT, aka green computing, is anumbrella term referring to environmentally

sound IT systems, applications, and practices.There is a growing interest in Green IT as it hasboth economic and environmental imperatives.

In this workshop, participants learntabout the causes and effects of global warmingand environmental degradation, IT’senvironmental impact, what Green IT means,and approaches to greening IT and how IT canbe used to improve environmental sustainability.They were also introduced to a range of topicssuch as computer power management, greensoftware, e-waste, data waste, green computers,eco-labelling of computers, greening of IT andgreening by IT. The workshop had apresentation, video illustrations and interactivediscussions.

Report by: Dr. Sheila Anand &P.Kumar, [email protected]

Activities at Latha Madhavan Engineering CollegeQuiz Competition

On 3rd Sep 2011, a quiz competition wasorganized by the IEEE Communication Societystudent branch. About 130 students fromvarious departments participated in thecompetition. This event activated the students’nerve centers, reverberated their brain andmultiplexed their efforts. Students stunned thejudges with their astute answers. The quiz wasconducted by Ms V.D Devi (Final IT) and MsM Manjari (Final IT). The first prize wasbagged by Mr P. Sampath Kumar (3rd EEE) &

Mr S.Anandselva Kumar (3rd EEE). The secondprize went to Ms C.Viji (4th CSE) & Ms T.

Angel (3rd EEE) and the third prize was given to

Mr R.Aravind (3rd IT) & Mr. K Saravana Kumar

(3rd EEE)

Chip Chap

The 2nd event for the academic year was

the “Chip Chap”. This is an all round fun event

focused on the control of the mind over the

mouth. The students made it through sixty

seconds of non-stop talking without hesitation,

repetition, or deviation about their innovativeideas. These events were conducted by MsHasina Parveen (Pre-Final CSE) and Ms Ananthi(2nd CSE). The prizes were given to Ms. AshrikFareetha (2nd ECE), Ms R.Divya (3rd CSE) &Mr. S kart hick (2nd IT)

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TECHKNOW- 11: Symposium at E. G. S. Pillay Engineering College

IEEE SB & Dept. of MCA of E. G. S.Pillay Engineering College organizedTECHKNOW-11, a one day NationalSymposium on 9 th Sep 2011. Shri S.Paramesvaran, Secretary presided over thefunction. Shri T. Munusamy, IAS, District

Collector, Nagapattinam, was the Chief Guestand Dr. T. Ramkumar, Professor/MCA,AVCCE, was the special Guest at the function.Dr. R. Rangarajan, Director, Dr. S. Ramabalan,Principal and IEEE Mentor, Prof. J. Vanitha,HOD participated in the inaugural function.

The District Collector Shri T.Munusamy

inaugurated the symposium and enlightened thestudents on importance of computer

applications in official, business and day-to-

day activities and the need for innovations inthe field of computer science.

Out of the 50 papers received, best 15were selected for presentation by the students.

Online Technicl Quiz, and Debugging events

were also conducted to explore the potential of

the students.

In the valedictory function Dr. R.

Rangarajan, Director distributed the certificatesto the participants and the prizes to the winners

in various events. The function ended with the

Vote of thanks by Mrs C. Mallika, SeniorLecturer.

Report by: Prof G. Giftson Samuel

Lecture on “PLC & SCADA”

Activities at Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology

a brief introduction on the applications of PLC& SCADA in the field of Power SystemsEngineering.

Mr. G. Kishan, Application Engineer,Technocrat Automation, Chennai, in his talkexplained in detail about PLC and SCADA. Hedealt in detail, the applications in the processcontrol industries and automation. About 250students of 1st, 2nd & 3rd year EEE who attendedthe lecture were immensely benefited.

Workshop on “Programming Techniquesand Search Engine Optimization (SEO)”

IEEE Computer Society Branch Chapter- AVIT and Association of InformationTechnology Engineers, Dept of InformationTechnology, Aarupadai Veedu Institute of

A Guest Lecture on “PLC & SCADA”was organized under the auspices of IEEE-Power and Energy Society Students Chapter,AVIT on 30 th Aug 2011. Mr. RahulChakraborthy, Chairman-IEEE-PES, Final yearEEE-AVIT, welcomed the gathering andintroduced the Chief Guest. Dr. N. Veerappan,HOD/EEE, in his presidential address, provided

Technology organized a one day workshop on

“Programming Techniques and Search Engine

Optimization (SEO)” on 15th Sep 2011 as a

part of Engineers Day Celebrations.

Mr.Palani Ramadass, CEO, Daspal

InfoTech Pvt Ltd, Chennai, discussed about the

programming techniques and search engine

optimization. This lecture provided insights on

how the optimization of search engines are

implemented.

Guest Lectures at SRM University

The IEEE-Computer Society and SRMUniversity, on 30th Aug 2011, organized guest

and the two levels of certifications — novice

and professional level which could be completedduring their graduation programme. Sheadded that these certifications would be

beneficial as they are being recognized bymany leading software companies all over theworld.

Mr. Harish, spoke on “Relevance ofsoftware engineering knowledge in Indian IT

industry”. Both of them had an interactivesession with students for about an hour. Afterthe programme, they had a meeting with the

Vice-Chancellor, SRM University, Dr.M.Ponnavaikko, who is the Current Vice-Chairof IEEE-India Council.

lectures by Ms. Angela Burgess, Executive

Director, IEEE Computer Society, USA and

Mr. Harish, Mysore, IEEE India Director.

Ms. Angela, in her talk on “Software

Challenges in International Scenario”, discussed

about the solution to bridge the knowledge gap

between academia and industry and then spoke

about SWEBOK (Software Engineering Body

of Knowledge), certification program that helps

the students to perform better in any

organization across the world. The students

were made aware of the Certification

Programmes related to software development

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Chief guest Dr. M. Ponnavaiko lighting the lamp Guest of honor Dr. Thamaraiselvi launching the re-designed website

Speakers at the inaugural session

Honoring the chief guest Honoring the guest of honor

Participants at the function

Commemoration Function of R10 Distinguished Large Section Award for IEEE Madras Section,Office Bearers’ Meet-2011 & Launching of IEEE Madras Section Website held on 1st Oct 2011

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Memento to sponsors

Memento to website re-design team Memento to IEEE office staff

Presentations by society & affinity group chairpersons

Student branch councilors providing their views

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Cultural performance by members & chairman


Student branch chairpersons providing their views

Section Membership as on15th October 2011

Life Fellow - 2

Fellow - 1

Life Senior - 9

Senior Member - 91

Life Member - 5

Member - 2144

Associate - 143

Affliate - 36

Graduate Student Member - 919

Student Member - 6698

Total - 10,048

Workshop on “Empowering yourself

through communicative skills”. 29-30, Oct

2011 at Chennai. Organized by CSI, Chennai,

IEEE CS, Madras & IEEE PCS, Madras.

Contact: Dr. P. Sakthivel, Mobile: +91 94444

12789:: Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.csi-chennai.org/ws-cs/

index.html

INDICON 2011 Video Contest. Open

for student members. The theme of the video

( of ONE minute) is “Engineering Sustainable

Solutions”. Last date: 20th Nov. 2011. Details

at http://bit.ly/oDufiU

INDICON-2011: Annual conference

of the IEEE India Council. 16-18, Dec 2011

at Hyderabad. Theme: “Engineering

Sustainable Solutions”. Details at http://

indicon2011.org/

NCISE-2012: National Conference

on Information and Software Engineering.

9-10, Mar 2012 at Chennai. Organised by

Dept. of IT, Aarupadai Veedu Institute of

Technology in association with IEEE Madras

Section, IEEE Computer Society. Last date

for paper submission: 20 th Dec 2011.

Contact: Dr. Anthony Irudhayaraj, Phone:

+91-9443884732 , +91-9962735582

Email: [email protected], Web:

www.ieeecs-ncise.com

RACSS-2012: Internat ional

Conference on Recent Advances in

Computing and Software Systems: 25 –

27, Apr 2012 at Chennai. Organized by the

Dept. of CSE, SSN College of Engineering,

Chennai in association with IEEE Madras

Section, IEEE Computer Society, Chennai

Chapter and Computer Society of India,

Chennai Chapter & Div IV – Communications.

Last date for paper submission : 9th Dec 2011.

Contact: Dr. Chitra Babu. Phone: +91-44-

27469700, Email: racss2012[at]cse.ssn.edu.in

Web: http://www.racss2012.com

Forthcoming Events

IEEE MAS LINK congratulatesMr. D Maheswaran, IEEE Madras Section

Execom member for having elevated as aSenior Member.

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IEEE MAS LINK congratulatesMr.R Chellappan, Chairman, IEEE PELS,for receiving an award as an OutstandingEntrepreneur in the field of IT and ITES.

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