Volume : 8
Issue : 10
October 2011
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From The Editor’s Desk
Chairman’s Message
Dr. T. Thyagarajan
thyagu_vel@yahoo.co.in
H.R. Mohan
hrmohan.ieee@gmail.com
Blog: http://infoforuse.blogspot.com
Dear Friends,
At the outset, on the eve of IEEE Day on
8.10.2011, I wish all the members of IEEE
Madras Section, a prosperous professional life
ahead.
The function organized to celebrate the “R10
Distinguished Large Section Award” along with the
SB Officers Meet-2011 & the launch of re-designed
Website of IEEE Madras Section held on 1st Oct 2011
was a grand success. Our chairman, in his message
has provided an excellent summary of the day long
event. While a select no. of photos have been
published in this issue of the newsletter, all the photos have been hosted
at the Section website.
Esteemed members,
I am happy to inform you that the
Commemoration Function of R10 Distinguished
Large Section Award for IEEE Madras
Section for the year 2010, Student Branch Office Bearers’ Meet 2011 & Launching of IEEE Madras Section Website, organized by
the IEEE Madras Section on 1st Oct 2011 was a great success with active
participation of over 200 members from various parts of Tamil Nadu and
Pondicherry (Section Execom Members / Society Chairs-30, SB
Counselors-42, SB Chairpersons-40, Professional Members-78).
The function was inaugurated by Dr. M. Ponnavaikko, Vice
Chairman, IEEE India Council & Vice Chancellor, SRM University. He
gave many suggestions to enhance the professional as well as student
membership.
The new website of IEEE Madras Section was formally launched
by Dr. S. Tamaraiselvi, Dean MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai.
She said, that the new website built using web 2.0 architecture, providing
a host of features including search, discussion forums and blogs can be
used by all members for better networking with the Section, society
chapters, student branches and other members.
During their address both the guests lauded the IEEE Madras
Section for the overall activities carried out by it and congratulated all the
members who are instrumental in receiving the prestigious R10
Distinguished Large Section Award for IEEE Madras Section, for the
first time, since its formation in 1978.
Prof. T. Thyagarajan, Section Chair, welcomed the gathering,
highlighted the activities of the Section and introduced the Office Bearers
and Execom Members. Mr. T.S. Rangarajan and Mr. S.Rajavel, Vice Chairs
introduced the Guest of Honor, Dr. S. Tamraiselvi and the Chief Guest,
Dr. M. Ponnavaikko, respectively. Dr P. Suresh Chander Pal, former Vice
Chair India Council offered felicitations. Dr. N. R. Alamelu, Secretary
proposed the vote of thanks.
The inauguration was followed by the special lectures with
“Empowering Members to Create the Future.” as the theme and on topics
such 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
contd..... page 2
As outlined in the talk on “Updates on the IEEE MAS LINK” during
the SB Office Bearers Meet, we are having challenges in reporting the
events being held in our student branches. The print edition is costing us a
fortune. We need to really look at alternatives. As the issue is limited to 12
pages, this time, we are forced to carry forward almost 20 events (received
in time for publishing) which include the section technical meetings. In
this issue, we have published the reports on various events organized by
the student branches of the following institutions — ranging from guest
lectures, 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 eventsPSNA College of Engineering
& Technology Velammal Engineering College; Dr. NGP Institute of
Technology – 2 events;Jayaram College of Engineering – 3 events; Sona
College of EngineeringSudhrashan Engineering College; Amrita School
of EngineeringJeppiaar Engineering College; Sri Muthukumaran Institute
of Technology; Rajalakshmi Engineering College; Latha Madhavan
Engineering CollegeEGS Pillay Engineering College; Aarupadai Veedu
Institute of Technology – 3 events
Reader’s attention is drawn to the following announcemnents:
 Call for papers for the conferences on “Information and Software
Engineering” and “Recent Advances in Computing and Software Systems”
 Call for participation in the workshop on “Empowering yourself
through communicative skills”.
 Video contest for student members on the theme “Engineering
Sustainable Solutions”.
 Volunteer Positions in Society Chapters and Affinity Groups.
IEEE MAS LINK Congratulates
 Mr. R. Chellappan, Chairman, IEEE PELS, for receiving an award as
an Outstanding Entrepreneurs in the field of IT and ITES from
Governor of TN.
 Mr. D. Maheswaran, IEEE Madras Section Execom member for
having elevated as a Senior Member.
We remind the SB Councilors to send their registrations to host the
free 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 at
http://goo.gl/8KFdM
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Issue : 10
October 2011
Inauguration of IEEE Communication Society
Student Branch at SRM University
Madras Section and Chairperson of the IEEE
Communication Society, Madras Chapter and
Mr. Saaminathan of Acharya Robotix, Chennai.
Dr. T. Rama Rao, HoD, Dept. of TCE was
presided the event.
The inaugural function of the IEEE
Communication Society Student Branch at
SRM
University,
Chennai
under
Telecommunications Engineers’ Association
(TEA) was held on 29th Aug 2011. The Chief
Guests for the evening were Dr. N. R Alamelu,
Principal- AVIT, Chennai and Secretary, IEEE
Mrs. M. S. Vasanthi, Asst. Prof. (SG) of
Dept. of TCE has introduced the chief guests
to the gathering. Then the Chief-Guest, Dr. N.
R. Alamelu gave a talk on the salient aspects of
the IEEE society and the benefits of having an
IEEE membership. Furthermore, she also
explained the various sub divisions under IEEE
and about IEEE funding for student projects,
which inspired the students to become an IEEE
Member.
This was followed by an engaging
Activities at Kongu Engineering College
Guest Lecture on “Overview: Department
of Atomic Energy”
students had a purposeful interaction with the
chief guest.
The IEEE/WIE Student Branch of Kongu
Engineering College organized a guest lecture
on 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. He
released the IEEE SB newsletter
“RESONANCE”. Shri. D. Rajagopalan started
his lecture with a brief introduction on the basic
activities of the Dept. of Atomic Energy & Indra
Gandhi Atomic Research Centre. He then briefly
explained about the scope for the engineering
students in the field of atomic energy and
research. Moving on to the milestones of atomic
energy development in India, he explicated about
the various nuclear power stations in India. He
added that nuclear power is eco- friendly. He
further spoke on developing the student’s
attitude towards both life and career. The
STAR - (STUDENTS TEACHERS AND
RESEARCH) PROGRAM
The WIE affinity group of IEEE student
branch of Kongu Engineering College has planned
to conduct eight STAR programmes in this year
for the benefit of rural students in Erode district.
The first program was conducted on 10th Sep
2011 for the students of Government Higher
Secondary School, Kumalankuttai. 50 boys
along with two of their faculty members were
taken from the school to the KEC campus. After
Chairman’s Message continued....

Updates on the Section Newsletter MAS
LINK – Mr. H.R. Mohan

GINI Activities - Mr. Barnabas

IEEE Student Branch Activities
Presentation - Selected Student Branch
Counselors


IEEE Madras Section Website: An
Overview - 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
Expectations of Student Branches from
IEEE Madras Section - Selected Student
Branch Chairpersons.

GOLD Activities - Mr. Elangovan
The day ended with a cultural program
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technical presentation on Mobile Robotics,
where Mr. Saaminathan laid special emphasis
on communications perspective of mobile
robotics. His talk was supplemented by
interesting videos which illustrated the different
kinds of robots used in several fields. He also
stressed on the importance of robotics as an
emerging technology and various opportunities
for students who wish to pursue robotics as a
career.
Mrs. C. T. Manimegalai, Asst. Prof. (SG)
has introduced the IEEE members & office
bearers to the audience. All the participants felt
& wished that the IEEE COMSOC Student
Branch will play vital role in molding the careers
of all Telecommunication Engineering Students
at SRM University. Mr. Varadaraj Shastry,
student secretary proposed the vote of thanks.
Report by: Dr.T. Rama Rao
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 future
and the courses of study that they could choose
after the school education. Also, awareness was
provided about various branches of engineering
and other higher education facilities. Videos
were played to kindle their interest in
Engineering and to highlight the benefits of being
an engineer. Events such as General Quiz, Visual
Hunt were also conducted. After the lunch the
students were taken around the campus and
were shown the various department facilities
and were explained with field of study and
scope of each and every department. The
students came up with a no. of queries which
were all answered by the student members. At
the end, prizes and certificates were given to
the winners of various events took place. After
the feedback, they were taken back to their
school. Thus, this STAR programme, provided
an excellent opportunity for the rural students
to inculcate awareness on studies in engineering.
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
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Issue : 10
October 2011
Activities at Thiagarajar College of Engineering
Discussion Forum
Discussion Forum is a visionary initiative
by the branch to impart latest technology to
the members and keep them updated with the
same. At initial stage, all senior student branch
officers took their turn to teach their new
members. A wide range of topics of topic were
covered ranging from “issues and challenge to
4G” to “cloud computing”. The monthly
updates from the reliable IEEE spectrum
magazine were used often to give insights of
technological developments in various fields.
After its success from the members, they were
made to participate intensively by allowing
them to present on these latest developments.
This move was made by the branch as a part of
development of soft and communication skills
of its members. The vision of giving insight to
the rapid technological development and
creating self awareness and equipping
themselves to the future challenges of its
members doesn’t seem to be a myth. Discussion
Forum is platform purely created for its
members by the senior members. This initiative
has still long way to go to attain its vision.
Some of the forum discussions during Jul-Aug
2011 include:

Duplexer and its applications by
A.Sakthi , final year

Electronic notice board using Zigbee
module by Senthil, 2nd year

Dynamic charging: new electric race cars
by I.Thanga Kathiresh, 2nd year

Power line communication
V.Sukhadha, 2nd year

Zigbee and applications by Sahana and
Vaishnavi , 2nd year
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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 and
conducted by Dr. S. Kanthamani, Asst. Prof.
ECE.
Tecuthsav 2011
To celebrate the enthusiasm and
epitomize students’quest for knowledge,
Thiagarajar College of Engineering organized the
Tecuthsav 2011 on 14th Sep 2011. TCE SB of
IEEE joined hands with Dept of ECE to organize
its part in the technical extravaganza named as
TELETEC. Around 300 participants attended
and took part in various competitions. Mrs.
Sundar Rayasam, the Senior Manger,
QualComm, Hyderabad inaugurated the event.
The event kicked off with technical paper
presentation contest in which ten shortlisted
papers were presented out of 150 received
covering different areas of EE. The topics of
the presentation ranged from Remote Patient
Monitoring Systems Using Android Phones to
the Nano Structure Developments for Solar
Cells. The other events included: techatlon,
hackatrix, line follower, Mr & Mrs.Teletec.
Tecathlon was a three-round event that tested
participants’ technical aptitude, simulation skills
and knowledge in fundamentals. Hackatrix
intended to bring out the programming skills of
young minds. As a part of automation, a robotic
contest named line follower was inducted to
the event. Techutsav of the ECE department
saw a grand finish with Mr & Mrs.Teletec, a
managerial event. Tecuthsav 2011 lived up to
the expectations of students trying to carve a
niche in their own extra ordinary way.
Report by: K. Kalyani, k_kalyani@tce.edu
POWER GALE 2011: National Level Technical Symposium at PSNA College of
Engineering and Technology
his rich experience in the field of power and
energy engineering highlighted importance of
energy conservation in his inaugural address.
Participants from nearly, 45 colleges had
presented their technological research papers
in the symposium in parallel sessions. A quiz
competition and circuit debugging competition
was also conducted to explore the potential of
the students.
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
23 rd Sep 2011. In the inauguration, Mr. V.
Sundarrajan, Joint Secretary of SEEE welcomed
the gathering. Prof Mr. M.P.Ragavan, Vice
Principal, delivered the presidential address.
The chief guest of the day, Er.C.Kannan
Senior Manager T & D, Training and
Development Institute, TNEB Madurai with
In the valedictory session, Prof Mr.
M.P.Ragavan, Vice Principal, PSNA CET and
Dr. V. Rajasekaran, Prof. and HOD/EEE
distributed the certificates to the participants
and the prizes to the winners of various
competitions. Mr.K.Hari Prasanth Final EEE,
Secretary of SEEE proposed the vote of thanks.
Report by: Mr. M. Kaliamoorthy,
kalias_ifet@yahoo.com
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Volume : 8
Issue : 10
October 2011
ReSYM-2011: Research Symposium on Pervasive Computing at Velammal
Engineering College, Chennai
Balaji Ganesh, Professor, Velammal
Engineering College, Chennai
A two days research symposium
(ReSYM-11) on Pervasive Computing was
organized by TIFAC-CORE & Department of
Computer Science and Engineering, Velammal
Engineering College with the support of IEEE
Madras Section, IEEE Computer Society and
Div IV – Communications, Computer Society
of India, Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research, Defence Research and Development
Organization and ICTACT Tamilnadu during
15-16, Sep 2011.
Mr. H. R. Mohan, Chairman, IEEE CS &
Div IV, CSI inaugurated the symposium and
released the proceedings. In his inaugural
address, he had provided a brief overview on
research going on in the area of pervasive
computing globally and in India. He spoke about
the role of professional bodies such as IEEE,
IEEE CS & CSI in providing forums for sharing
research findings with peers and suggested
the participants to join as members in
these professional associations and derive
benefits.
In the symposium, about 15 papers short
listed out of 65 received were presented in four
sessions apart from the following invited talks.

Pervasive Devices by Dr. Paul Rodriques,
Dean (R&D), Velammal Engineering
College, Chennai

Security Issues in Wireless Sensor
Networks by Mr. R. Kishore, Asst. Prof.,
SSN College of Engineering, Chennai

Information Processing and Embedded
Wireless Sensor Networks by Dr. A.

IP Video Survelliance Solution by Mr.
M. Vinayagam, Director, VeNMSOL
Technologies, Chennai

Open Source Support for VLSI Design
and Test Practices by Dr. K. Najeeb,
Prof., & Head, CSE, Government
Engineering College, Palakkadu

Architecture of RFID Systems & its
Applications by Prof. B. Venkatalakshmi,
Velammal Engineering College, Chennai

Fault Tolerant Reconfigurable Systems
by Dr. S. K. Noor Mohamed, Asst. Prof.,
CSE, Indian Institute of Information
Technology Design & Manufacturing,
Kanchpuram
Mr. E. Iniya Nehru, Senior Technical
Director, National Informatics Center, Chennai
delivered the valedictory address and distributed
certificates to the participants.
This research symposium was attended
by over 50 participants including 21 from other
institutions from all over the country. It created
the opportunity for the interaction with the
experts and facilitated the participants to
understand the latest technologies and
deliverables in this fast developing research area.
Further, this event served as an appropriate
platform and evoked meaningful discussions
among the research community. Prof. B.
Venkatalakshmi and Prof. Dr. N. Sankar Ram
were the organizing secretaries of the
symposium and Dr. A. Balaji Ganesh and Dr.
R. Manimegalai were the conveners.
Health Awareness and Preventive Measures for Women at Dr NGPIT
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.
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
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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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October 2011
Activities at Jayaram College of Engineering & Technology
Inauguration of IEEE Student Branch
Secretary
: B. Prasanna, III CSE
Treasurer
: K. S. Priyanka, IV EIE
Seminar on “Electronics Product Design &
Radar Systems”
IEEE Student Branch chapter activities
for the academic year 2011- 2012 was
inaugurated on 10th Aug 2011. About 80
students participated in the inaugural function,
of which 27 were IEEE members. IEEE Member
Ms. S. Jayashree welcomed the gathering. The
Academic Dean & IEEE Branch Counselor Dr.
S.A. Sahaaya Arul Mary, briefed about activities
of IEEE Student Chapter and announced new
office bearers for the academic year 2011and
wished them all success. Proposal for various
activities to be held on during academic year
was announced by the Branch Counselor of
IEEE. The IEEE Branch Mentor Dr. N. Kannan
delivered the presidential address. He spoke on
opportunities available for students through
IEEE and the necessary skills required for the
students to succeed and meet the challenges.
Few students were awarded the cash prizes for
their active participation and were encouraged.
This was followed by a short presentation titled
“IEEE & IEEE Student Member Benefits” by
Ms. S. Sakana, Chairman of the IEEE Student
Branch. She also addressed the students on the
importance and benefits of IEEE and invited
the students to join IEEE. Mr. B. Prasanna,
Secretary of IEEE, delivered a presentation on
“IEEE Projects” which enlightened the students
on how to do the project work. The session
ended with vote of thanks by Ms. S. Vihosini,
IEEE member.
Office Bearers:
Student Chairman : S. Sakana, IV EIE
Vice Chairman
: P. Vijay, III ECE
A one day seminar on “Electronics
Product Design & Radar Systems” was
organized on 12th Aug 2011, with an aim of
providing 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 student
branch 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 they
shared their experiences in real time projects
with the students. The sessions were interesting
and 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”
A paper presentation competition for the
young tech buddies was held on 23rd Aug 2011.
Out of 40 papers submitted, 23 were selected
for the final presentation. Dr. N. Kannan,
Mentor, IEEE student branch, JCET, was the
chairperson at the presentation and Dr. S. A.
Sahaaya Arul Mary, IEEE student branch
counselor, JCET welcomed the gathering.
Students from various departments actively
took part in the contest and presented their
views to the gathering which made the
technocrats to expose their vision. The papers
were on various topics such as Cloud
Computing, Network Security, Radiation
Hazards, Artificial Intelligence etc,. Dr. Anand
Manivannan, Dean R&D, JCET and Dr. P.D.
Sheba Kezia Malarchelvi HOD, JCET were
invited as judges. The judges and the organizing
committee selected the paper titled “Stain
Removing Nano Robots” as the best paper and
awarded a cash prize Rs. 1000/-.
Report by: Dr. S. A. Sahaaya Arul Mary
TECHGRILL 2011: Intra-College Technical Symposium at Sona College of
The Intra-College Technical Symposium
Technology
received, after scrutiny, 10 papers from each
Techgrill 2011 conducted on 23rd Sep 2011 was
a great success. It comprised of two events –
Paper Presentation and Multimedia
Presentation. The programme was presided over
by Prof. C. Easwarlal, IEEE Branch Counselor.
department were selected for presentation in
three parallel sessions. Prizes were presented
to three winners from each dept.
We had active participants from
departments ECE, EEE, IT and CSE. Out of 88
papers and 14 multimedia presentations
Visit our Website
www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras
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October 2011
SCOPERTA’2k11: Technical competition on ‘ Engineering Innovations’ at
Sudharsan Engineering College
account of the historical background
of
various engineering innovations of the past.
Dr. M. Prabhakar, Dean Academics spoke about
recent trends in engineering innovations.
The IEEE student chapter, Sudharsan
Engineering College, organized a technical
competition on Engineering Innovations
(SCOPERTA 2k11) on 25th Aug 2011. Mr. P.
Mahidhar, President, IEEE students chapter
welcomed the gathering. Prof. A. Ravi, HOD/
EEE spoke on the objective of organizing such
a technical competition this year in which over
110 Engineering Innovations were implemented
by about 300 students. Dr. M. Radhakrishnan,
Principal, said engineers are creators, engineering
is creation and all the students while leaving the
institution 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 and
gave valuable suggestions.
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
Dr. S.Palani, Dean PG studies, gave an
Workshop on “Soft Computing” at Amrita School of Engineering
Amrita School of Engineering,
Coimbatore IEEE student branch in association
with 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.
Neural Networks was given in the morning
sessions. In the afternoon, hands-on lab sessions
were held for the students in Image Processing
Toolbox and Neural Network Toolbox.
The Workshop was conducted in four
sessions. Introduction to Soft Computing and
Report by: C. Arunkumar,
arunkumarc@ieee.org
IEEE GOLD Meet at Jeppiaar Engineering College
Mr. Felix, Test engineer, Infosys,
Chennai, who had served as the chairman of the
IEEE SB shared his experience of his tenure in
the college SB. He outlined his strategy to
develop the SB which was a team effort. He
added that sharing his knowledge with students,
understanding their thought process and to help
them in their course of development through
his interactions with them was his passion.
The IEEE Student Branch of Jeppiaar
Engineering College organized an IEEE GOLD
MEET on 2nd Sep 2011. The guest speakers
Mr. Felix, Mr. Bertin, Mr. Hemanth who were
Gold members passed out from the college.
They interacted with the student members of
2nd and 3rd year. Madhuri Kala, III year, EEE,
presented the achievements of the student
branch in 2010-2011.
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Mr. Hemanth, Project Engineer, Wipro
Technologies, Hyderabad who had represented
the IEEE SB as the Former Leadership Advisor
during 2009-2010 spoke on dealing with
criticism referring to many motivating books,
such as Stephen R. Covey’s, “The Seven Habits
of Highly Effective People”.
Mr. Bertin, Project Engineer, Wipro
The workshop was mentored by Prof.
K. Gangadharan, Chairman-IT and organized by
Mr. C. Arunkumar, IEEE SB Counsellor, and
Ms. S. Padmavathi, Asst. Prof. (S.G), Dept. of
IT, was the Chief Coordinator of the Workshop.
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,
apoorva_7191@hotmail.com
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Activitiies at Sri Muthukumaran Institute of Technology
Lecture on “Digital Image Processing”
processing techniques and research avenues. He
also spoke on the various tools available for
digital image processing. The program came to
an end with Dr. Sathya Narayanan, HOD, EEE
presenting a memento to the speaker. Mr. S.
Bala Ragavendraa, Secretary delivered the vote
of thanks.
Report by Ms. Jeno Helcy
A technical lecture on “Digital Image
Processing” was organised 27th Aug 2011. Mr.
S. Mahesh Anand, Asst. Prof. (Sr), School of
Electronics Engineering, VIT, Chennai Campus
delivered the lecture. Mr. M.M. Hari Krishnan,
Chairman, IEEE SMIT SB welcomed the
gathering and introduced the speaker. The lecture
started with a brief introduction to Digital Signal
Processing. The speaker then explained the
concept of Digital Image Processing and spoke
on its industrial applications, various image
Membership Drive
The IEEE SB of SMIT organised a
Membership Drive on 3rd Sep 2011 to educate
students on the importance of IEEE, its
membership and services. A team comprising
of IEEE members and office bearers interacted
with the students who attended the drive.
The event started with a quick interactive
activity in which Mr. Hari Krishnan, chairman
of the SB gave an introduction to IEEE. He
spoke about IEEE’s evolution, mission, vision,
how IEEE helps and shapes the career and
the role of IEEE in an engineer’s life. He
also highlighted the benefits of membership.
Mr. S. Bala Ragavendraa, Secretary explaining
the values of membership. Ms. Kamala,
advisor WIE affinity group introduced WIE to
the students and spoke about the benefits of
being a part of it. The session received a good
feedback from the students. It had enlightened
them on the role of IEEE in their career as an
engineer.
Report by Mr. G. Pradeep
Workshop on Green IT at Rajalakshmi Engineering College
University of Western Sydney, Australia
conducted the workshop. During the workshop,
he outlined the current scenario where the
world’s climate heats up and our environment
deteriorates causing potentially disastrous
consequences. The individuals and organisations
that use IT and the IT industry have now a new
role to play – helping to create a greener, more
sustainable environment.
A Workshop on “Green IT: How You and
IT Can Help to Create a Sustainable Environment”
was organized on 7th Sep 2011 by the IEEE
Student Branch and CSI Student Chapter of
Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai.
Professor San Murugesan, Director of
BRITE Professional Services, and Adjunct Prof.,
He highlighted that IT is both a problem
and a solution to environmental sustainability.
IT affects our environment in many ways; each
stage of a computer’s life – production, use,
and disposal presents environmental challenges.
So, we need to make IT systems and their use
greener. In addition, we can leverage IT in
innovative ways to reduce environmental
problems. Green IT, aka green computing, is an
umbrella term referring to environmentally
sound IT systems, applications, and practices.
There is a growing interest in Green IT as it has
both economic and environmental imperatives.
In this workshop, participants learnt
about the causes and effects of global warming
and environmental degradation, IT’s
environmental impact, what Green IT means,
and approaches to greening IT and how IT can
be used to improve environmental sustainability.
They were also introduced to a range of topics
such as computer power management, green
software, e-waste, data waste, green computers,
eco-labelling of computers, greening of IT and
greening by IT. The workshop had a
presentation, video illustrations and interactive
discussions.
Report by: Dr. Sheila Anand &
P.Kumar, hod.it@rajalakshmi.edu.in
Activities at Latha Madhavan Engineering College
Quiz Competition
On 3rd Sep 2011, a quiz competition was
organized by the IEEE Communication Society
student branch. About 130 students from
various departments participated in the
competition. This event activated the students’
nerve centers, reverberated their brain and
multiplexed their efforts. Students stunned the
judges with their astute answers. The quiz was
conducted by Ms V.D Devi (Final IT) and Ms
M Manjari (Final IT). The first prize was
bagged by Mr P. Sampath Kumar (3rd EEE) &
Mr S.Anandselva Kumar (3rd EEE). The second
prize 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 innovative
ideas. These events were conducted by Ms
Hasina Parveen (Pre-Final CSE) and Ms Ananthi
(2nd CSE). The prizes were given to Ms. Ashrik
Fareetha (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
The District Collector Shri T.Munusamy
inaugurated the symposium and enlightened the
students on importance of computer
applications in official, business and day-today activities and the need for innovations in
the field of computer science.
Out of the 50 papers received, best 15
were selected for presentation by the students.
Online Technicl Quiz, and Debugging events
were also conducted to explore the potential of
the students.
IEEE SB & Dept. of MCA of E. G. S.
Pillay Engineering College organized
TECHKNOW-11, a one day National
Symposium on 9 th Sep 2011. Shri S.
Paramesvaran, Secretary presided over the
function. Shri T. Munusamy, IAS, District
Collector, Nagapattinam, was the Chief Guest
and 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.
In the valedictory function Dr. R.
Rangarajan, Director distributed the certificates
to the participants and the prizes to the winners
in various events. The function ended with the
Vote of thanks by Mrs C. Mallika, Senior
Lecturer.
Report by: Prof G. Giftson Samuel
Activities at Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology
Lecture on “PLC & SCADA”
A Guest Lecture on “PLC & SCADA”
was organized under the auspices of IEEEPower and Energy Society Students Chapter,
AVIT on 30 th Aug 2011. Mr. Rahul
Chakraborthy, Chairman-IEEE-PES, Final year
EEE-AVIT, welcomed the gathering and
introduced the Chief Guest. Dr. N. Veerappan,
HOD/EEE, in his presidential address, provided
a brief introduction on the applications of PLC
& SCADA in the field of Power Systems
Engineering.
Mr. G. Kishan, Application Engineer,
Technocrat Automation, Chennai, in his talk
explained in detail about PLC and SCADA. He
dealt in detail, the applications in the process
control industries and automation. About 250
students of 1st, 2nd & 3rd year EEE who attended
the lecture were immensely benefited.
Workshop on “Programming Techniques
and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)”
IEEE Computer Society Branch Chapter
- AVIT and Association of Information
Technology Engineers, Dept of Information
Technology, Aarupadai Veedu Institute of
Guest Lectures at SRM University
lectures by Ms. Angela Burgess, Executive
Director, IEEE Computer Society, USA and
Mr. Harish, Mysore, IEEE India Director.
The IEEE-Computer Society and SRM
University, on 30th Aug 2011, organized guest
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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
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.
and the two levels of certifications — novice
and professional level which could be completed
during their graduation programme. She
added that these certifications would be
beneficial as they are being recognized by
many leading software companies all over the
world.
Mr. Harish, spoke on “Relevance of
software engineering knowledge in Indian IT
industry”. Both of them had an interactive
session with students for about an hour. After
the programme, they had a meeting with the
Vice-Chancellor, SRM University, Dr.
M.Ponnavaikko, who is the Current Vice-Chair
of IEEE-India Council.
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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
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 guest of honor
Honoring the chief guest
Participants at the function
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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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Student branch chairpersons providing their views
Cultural performance by members & chairman
Forthcoming Events
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: sakthi_velp@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.csi-chennai.org/ws-cs/
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Dept. of IT, Aarupadai Veedu Institute of
Technology in association with IEEE Madras
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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
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RACSS-2012: International
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.
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Web: http://www.racss2012.com
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
IEEE MAS LINK congratulates
Mr. D Maheswaran, IEEE Madras Section
Execom member for having elevated as a
Senior Member.
Section Membership as on
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