Technology” on 27th March 2010 Mr.C.P.K.Kashyap, Executive Vice President, Sunmar Shipping Company addressed the Marine department students and gave a talk on 'International Safety Management (ISM) code'. Faculty Growth / Recognition Dr. Susan Elias Prof. & Head, Department of Computer Science & Engineering was a special invitee for the workshop on “Commercialization th Strategies for Entrepreneurs” held on March 29 and 30th, 2010 at the FICCI campus, New Delhi. The event was organized by FICCI, DST, Indo-US Science & Technology Forum, IC2 Institute USA and Lockheed Martin Corporation USA. Dr.Susan Elias has been recognized as a Supervisor for guiding Ph.D and M.S (By Research) scholars of Anna University, Chennai under the faculty of Information and Communication Engineering, in the area of Multimedia Communication. Dr R Muthucumaraswamy, has been recognized as a supervisor for guiding PhD scholars of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Thirunelveli. He is a reviewer for several journals like International Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Energy Heat and Mass Transfer, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Indian Journal of Science and Technology, and Non-linear AnalysisModeling and Control. SVCE News Letter Dr.N.Muthukrishnan, Professor & HOD of Automobile Engineering department has been listed in the 'Top 100 engineers of 2010' by the International Biographic Centre, Cambridge, England. He is a reviewer for Springer, Elsevier and Inderscience journals. He is also in the Editorial board of 'Journal of Modern Manufacturing Engineering' and 'International Journal of Manufacturing, Materials and Mechanical Engineering (IJMMME). SRI VENKATESWARA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SRIPERUMBUDUR-602105. TAMIL NADU. INDIA (Affiliated to Anna University Chennai & Accredited by AICTE, New Delhi) An ISO 9001:2000 Certified Institution Mr. K.E.Sathappan of Applied Mathematics department successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Heat and Mass transfer effects on exponentially accelerated vertical plate”, at Alagappa University, Karaikudi. Vol.3 No.1, MAY2010 Mr.M.Krishnamurthy of Computer Applications department delivered a talk on 'Implementation th techniques of DBMS' on 15 Feb 2010 at Velammal Institute of Technology. Dr.B.Thilaka, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics department has been nominated as member of syllabi sub-committee of Academic council,Anna University, Chennai. Events / News Inside Events / News Publications by Faculty Sponsorship for conferences Conferences / Workshops / FDPs Students’ Achievements Guest Lectures by invited experts Editorial Board: The Graduation Day was celebrated on 29th March 2010 at Rajah Annamalai Madram. Dr. T. Ramaswamy, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DST) was the chief guest and gave away the awards and certificates to the 2009 batch students. Dr.A.C.Muthiah, Chairman, Governing Council presided over the function. Faculty Growth / Recognition Patron: Dr.R.Ramachandran, Principal Members: Sundararaman K, AP/EE Badrinathan K S, AP/ME Samuel Dawson, SL/HSS Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering ,Pennalur, Sriperumbudur -602105. Tamil Nadu, India. Ph: +91-44-27152000 (20Lines) Fax: +91-44-27152111. website : www.svce.ac.in SRI VENKATESWARA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, SRIPERUMBUDUR 08 01 The IIChE Student's chapter of SVCE was bestowed with the Ambuja's Best Student's Chapter Award 2009. The award constitutes a certificate, trophy and a cash prize of Rs.15000/-. The Department of Chemical Engineering bags the Best Student's ChapterAward for the fourth time. 'College Day' was celebrated on 31.3.2010 at the college campus. The Registrar of Anna University Dr.S.Shanmugavel, the chief guest, gave away the awards and prizes. The Secretary Mr.T.G.Balachandran presided over the function. The Principal Dr.R.Ramachandran presented the Annual report. Dr R Muthucumaraswamy, Professor & Head, Applied Mathematics department obtained the second DRDO sponsored funded project for the department under an extramural research grant for a sum of Rs. 2.14 lakhs. The Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEE) department obtained a MODROB project from AICTE for Modernisation of Power Electronics Laboratory for a sum of Rs. 9 lakhs. The proposal was sent by Mr.K.Sundararaman and Ms.D.Kavitha of EEE department with their Professor and Head, Dr.K.R.Santha as the project coordinator. Dr.Sankaran, Director, DRDO headquarters, New Delhi visited the college on 19.1.2010 and had a useful discussion with the senior faculty members. A presentation was made on the research work being done in the college and the status of the on going DRDO funded projects was explained. He also visited the laboratories of some departments. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been recognized as a Research Centre by Anna University vide its 14th Research Board Meeting. Women's day was celebrated on the 9th of March, 2010. The theme was 'Celebration of Women Excellence'. The Chief Guest was Dr. Srinidhi Chidambaram and Mrs. Devaki Muthiah was the Guest of Honour. The IEEE Student branch of SVCE organized a two th day intra-college event titled “Aura 2010” on the 9 th and 10 of March 2010. Guest lectures Dr. Geetha Priya, Assistant Professor, Institute of Technology (SUNY IT), Newyork gave a talk on 'Research -Academic Collaboration' on 22 nd December 2009. Dr. G.S. Palani, Scientist and Senior Assistant Director, SERC, CSIR, Taramani, Chennai, gave a lecture on 'Computer Applications in Civil Engineering' on 4th March 2010. Dr. Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Professor, Pennsylvania State University and an alumnus of this college gave a talk on 'Motivated ideas on Research areas' on 31st December 2009. He also gave another lecture on the same day on 'Emerging Technologies in Chip Design'. Mr. Siddharth Jonathan of Stanford University, a CoFounder of 'Infoaxe' and an alumnus of this college gave a lecture on 'Search Engine Optimization' on 5th January 2010. The Department of Automobile Engineering and Entrepreneurship Development Cell of our college jointly organized a 6 weeks training program on “Repair and Maintenance of Automotive Vehicles (Two and Three Wheelers)” for ITI/ Diploma holders from 24. 11.2009 to 06.01.2010. The program was sponsored by National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board, Department of Science and Technology. Mr.Venkatesh Krishnamurthy, a SAP Consultant and an alumnus of this college gave a talk on 'Enterprise Resource Planning' on 19th March 2010. An awareness programme on 'Student Counseling and Guidance' was held on 30.1.2010 in the college. Dr.B.Mukhopadyay and and Dr.B.G.Baski, Professors in NITTR, Taramani were the main resource persons. Around 40 faculty members participated. 02 Mr.A.Balasubramanian, Lead Executive (Technical Services), Manali Petrochemicals Ltd, Chennai, delivered a lecture on “Role of Chemical Engineers in Chemical Industries” on 30th March 2010. Mr.P.Anand Rajakumar, Regional Service Execution Manager, Customer Service division Yokogawa India Ltd, Chennai delivered a lecture on “Overview of DCS and its importance in Process Industries on 24th March 2010. Mr.N.Muthukrishnan, Director, GerindTech Pvt limited, AnnaNagar, Chennai delivered a lecture on “Decentralized Solar based Desalination Systems” on 8th March 2010. Mr.Manivannan Elumalai, Engineer - Modeling and Simulation (PSD Division), India Soft Technologies (P) Ltd., Chennai, delivered a lecture on “Process Modeling, Simulation and Optimization” on 9th February 2010 and also gave a demonstration of their 'gPROMS' software. Mr. Elangovan, M.E , Executive Engineer, PWD, WRD, (I/C), Environmental Cell Division, I.W.S Campus, Taramani, Chennai delivered a lecture on “Environmental Management in Adyar and Coovum Rivers” on 3rd February 2010. Mr.K.Sathyanarayana, Jt.Secretary, Energy and Fuel Users Association of India delivered a lecture on th “Energy Conservation in Process Industries” on 19 January 2010. Mr. Ezhil Mayil Vahanan, Test Architect, Sony Ericsson, Sweden, delivered a lecture on 'Recent Trends in Mobile Communication and Handset Development' on 8th January 2010. Ms. Meera Menon, Solution Consultant, TCS Ltd gave a lecture on 'Software Development Process' on 17th March 2010. IBM has set up a "Centre of Excellence" in the Marine Block, IT Lab of our college as part of the MoU between IBM & SVCE. Mr. Himanshu Goyal, Country Manager, IBM India Ltd., inaugurated the th "Centre of Excellence" on 30 December 2009. SRI VENKATESWARA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, SRIPERUMBUDUR Ms.Varsha Kumar a student of third year chemical engineering performed a dance ballet, titled “Arutperumjothi” at 'Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana Classical Music and Dance Festival' held in Cleveland, Ohio, USA between 1st and 12th April 2010. Mr.Subramani Ramakrishnan , Delivery project Executive, IBM, Chennai, delivered a lecture on 'Opportunities in a Smarter Planet' on 30th December 2009. Mr.Badri Seshadri, MD, New Horizon Media delivered a talk on “What innovation electronics engineering students should be focusing on now?” on 6th January 2010. Mr.Sivakumar Narayanaswamy, Senior Architect from CTS Ltd gave a lecture on 'Middleware Softwares' on the 22nd December 2009. Mr. Saravanan Thambusamy, Vice President – Technology, M/s. Allsec Technologies Ltd., Chennai delivered a lecture on “Information Security in th BPOs” on 6 January 2010. Mr.Krishna Pera , CEO, Laser Words Pvt Ltd gave a th lecture on 'Enterprise Resource Planning' on 25 March 2010. Mr.Jeyaprabhu, Managing Director, FLSWAIR delivered a lecture on “Future Computing SRI VENKATESWARA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, SRIPERUMBUDUR 07 Young Innovator Program', held in IIT-Madras on th th 19 and 20 March 2010. Around 60 teams from various engineering colleges participated in the competition which carried a cash prize of Rs.10,000/-. Their idea “Continuously Variable Transmission System for Farm Equipments and Pumps” aims to design a step less transmission mechanism with a simple design, completely eliminating the application of gears. The organizers, Villgro, have extended their support to convert the concept into a commercial application and to secure a patent for the idea. Sarath Chandar, Arun Balaji and G Venkatesh of II year CSE won the second place in the paper presentation contest organized by IIT, Madras as part of the National Level Technical Symposium EXEBIT-2010. Their paper was titled “CDPN : Communicating Dynamic Petri Nets for Adaptive Multimedia Presentation”. They were guided by Dr. Susan Elias, Professor & Head, CSE. The students received a cash prize of Rs.5,000/- and certificates. st 1 December 2009 were placed and the department achieved 100% placement record. Mr.Michael Angelo Miranda from Chemical Engineering department presented a paper on “Chemically Activated Ipomea Carnea as an absorbent for the Copper Sorption from Synthetic solution”, which has been published in the 'Adsorption' Journal. It has also been published online on 2nd March 2010. Mr.R.Shashank, of third year Chemical Engineering department, presented a paper on “Indoor Environment Quality in Green Buildings” in the International conference on Chemical Engineering and Application (CCEA), Singapore during February 26th - 28th, 2010. This paper has been indexed by the World Academic Press and he was the only UG student who presented a paper in this conference. Mr. C.Mathew Cherian, a third year student of ECE department presented a paper titled 'Artificially th Intelligent Tsunami Early Warning system' in the 12 International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation, UKSIM 2010, Cambridge, Emanuel College, London. rd Sports Day was celebrated on the 23 of March 2010. Mr.C.R.Viswanathan, Executive committee member, All India football federation and ChairmanArbitration Tribunal, Tamilnadu Olympic Association, was the chief guest and gave away the prizes and medals to the winners. The NCC division of the college conducted a cycle expedition to Sathanur Dam near Tiruvannamalai th th between the 12 and the 14 of Feb 2010 to create an "Awareness about Global Warming". About 40 NCC cadets of SVCE from the Army, Navy and Airforce and 10 NCC officers and civilians participated in the 250 km expedition. A NSS special camp was conducted at Aayakulathur village in Sriperumbudur between the 11th and the th 17 of February 2010.The volunteers established a 'model street' in the village, carried out tree plantations, provided medical assistance and gave away uniforms to school students Archana Shree V.S, Bharanidharan S, Gurupragaash A M, Sathish Kumar P and Shriram G K of III year CSE won the second prize at 'CII Innovator 2009', a competition organized by the Confederation of Indian Industries South Zone. The project was titled 'Adaptive e-learning for 3G Mobile Multimedia Systems'. They were guided by Dr. Susan Elias, Professor & Head of CSE. The team received a trophy and a cash prize of Rs. 30,000/-. Mr. Harish Chandhra of final year ECE (2006-2010 batch) has been admitted into the Phd program in Medical Research Council-Laboratory of Molecular Biology at University of Cambridge with full funding and scholarship. D. Roshni of 3rd Year Mechanical Engineering, secured a Gold Medal in the Javelin Throw event at Tamil Nadu Inter Engineering Sports (TIES) held at PSNACollege of Engineering, Dindigul. The departments of Computer Science, Information Technology and Computer Applications jointly formed an Industry Institution Interaction Cell with the IT Industry. The inaugural meeting was held on th the 11 of March 2010. Mr.Himanshu Goyal, Country head, IBM, M r. S i v a k u m a r a n Narayanasamy, Senior Architect, CTS, and Mr.Ramanathan, Managing Director, Wesgrow systems were the experts from the industry. The department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering organized a two day robotics workshop on image processing using MATLAB software titled 'Vision Robotricks' conducted by Robo Sapiens, th India (an organization attached to IIT) on the 17 and the 18th of Feb 2010. Publications by faculty Dr Susan Elias, Jasmin C.B, K. S. Easwarakumar, Dr Lisa Mathew, and Richard Chbeir,'CAFSM: A Communicating Adaptive Finite State Machine for Personalised Multimedia Streaming', International All the students of the Bio Technology department who appeared for the campus recruitment by CTS on SRI VENKATESWARA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, SRIPERUMBUDUR 06 Dr Muthucumaraswamy R and Muralidharan M., 'Radioactive Heat transfer effects on linearly accelerated isothermal vertical plate with mass diffusion', Journal of Engineering Annals of Faculty of Engineering Hunedoara, Vol. 7, pp.167-172, 2010. Dheeban S.G, Deepak V, Dhamodharan L, Dr Susan Elias, 'Improved personalised e-course composition approach using modified particle swarm optimization with inertia coefficient', International Journal of Computer Applications (0975-8887), 1(6): 109-114, 2010. Ms.R.Dhanalakshmi, Ms.Thaiyalnayaki, 'Dual watermarking scheme with encryption' in the International journal of Computer Science and Information Security. (IJCSIS) Vol. 7, Jan 2010 Dr Susan Elias, V. Palaniappan, K. S. Easwarakumar, Dr Lisa Mathew, and Richard Chbeir. 'Automatic Orc Code Generation for Complex Workflow Patterns' International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research, 5(1): 52–62, 2009. Arockia Selvakumar A, Sivaramakrishnan. R.Anant, Lakshmi Narayanan and Dhandapani, “Simulation and Kinematic analysis of Tri-Glide Parallel Manipulator”, International Journal of Mechanics and Solids, Vol.4, 2009, Pp 127-135. M r. D e e p a k K u m a r. A . K , M r. M o h a n a n . R , Ms.Sandhya Kiran.G, and Mr.Yogesh.M, final year students of MCA department were awarded projects with a stipend of Rs.10,000/- by Fidelity Business Services. Ms.Shankari.A.L , final year student of MCA department was awarded a project with a stipend of Rs.10,000/- by CTS Ltd. Journal of Computer Applications (0975-8887), 1(26): 95-102, 2010. SRI VENKATESWARA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, SRIPERUMBUDUR V.Vidhya, P.Ezhumalai, “A memory efficient morphological level very low bit rate speech coder”, International Journal of Intelligent information processing, Vol.3, No.2, July-December 2009, pp.491-499. S.Ganesh Vaidyanathan, 'An approach for resolving occluded data based on stochastic optimization techniques' in the Journal of Multiple valued Logic and Soft Computing, Vol-15, Issue No-5-6, pages 569-579, 2009. Dr R.Amutha, Dr N.Venkateswaran, 'Design and Performance Analysis of 16-ary Triangular Quadrature Amplitude modulation' in the Journal of Hybrid Computing Research, 2009. Ramachandraprasad V, Bhaskar Reddy N and Dr Muthucumaraswamy R, 'Radiation effects on MHD unsteady free convection flow with mass transfer past a vertical plate with variable surface temperature and concentration', Journal of Energy Heat and Mass transfer, Vol.31, pp.239-260, 2009. 03 Dr Muthucumaraswamy R, Dr Manivannan K. and Thangaraj V, 'Effects of chemical reaction on isothermal vertical oscillating plate in the presence of thermal radiation', International Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol.8, pp.55-65, 2009. Dr Muthucumaraswamy R, Sathappan KE and Natarajan R, 'Unsteady Flow past an exponentially accelerated infinite isothermal vertical plate with uniform mass flux', International Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol.8, pp.67-73, 2009. Dr Satheesh Kumar G, 'On bi-ideals and gs ideals of subtraction semi groups', Bulletin of Allahabad Mathematical Society”, Vol.24, pp. 371-380, 2009. Dr Muthucumaraswamy R. and Muralidharan M.,' Thermal radiation effects on linearly accelerated isothermal vertical plate with uniform mass flux', International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research &Applications, Vol.3, pp 241-244, 2009. Dr Vijayalakshmi A.R, 'Free convection flow past a vertical plate with radioactive heat transfer in a rotating medium', Journal of Intelligent System Research, Vol. 3, pp. 213-221, 2009. Shanthi V.G., Sruthakeerthi B. and Adolf Stephan B, 'Some properties of certain analytical systems' Journal of Intelligent systems Research', Vol.3, pp.229-234, 2009. Dr Muthucumaraswamy R. and Visalakshi V. 'Thermal radiation on exponentially accelerated vertical plate with variable temperature and mass flux', International Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol.1, pp.159-166, 2009. Dr.N.Nallusamy, 'Numerical and experimental investigation on a combined sensible & latent heat storage unit integrated with solar water heating system', Journal of solar energy engineering, Vol 131, Nov 2009. Dr.G.Sumathi, 'An improved ID based entitled verifier cryptography for grid system', International journal of recent trends in engineering, Vol 2 No 1 Nov 2009. D. Jayanthi, 'Automatic Diagnosis of retinal diseases from color retinal images', International Journal of computer science & information security, Vol 7 No 1 2010. T.K.Thivakaran, 'Non linear filter based imageDenoising using AMF approach International Journal of Computer science & Information security, SRI VENKATESWARA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, SRIPERUMBUDUR Vol 7,No2.,2010. V.Vidhya, 'A memory efficient morphological level very low bit rate speech coder', International Journal of intelligent information processing, Vol 3(2),Jul –Dec2009 Pp 491-499. N.Senthil murugan, 'A simple on – chip multi – level logic minimization technique with essential implicants', International Journal of computer science, systems Engineering & Information technology, Vol 2 No 2 July- Dec 2009. M.Prabhakar, 'Implementation of a soft switched resonant DC-DC converters for automotive applications', International Journal of electrical Engineering & embedded systems, Vol 2(1) Jan -Jun 2010. Dr.T.N.Srikantha Dath, 'An empirical study on supply chain management in India : The perspective of original equipment manufacturers & suppliers', European Journal on industrial Engineering, Vol 4 No 1 2010. Dr.T.N.Srikantha Dath, 'An empirical study on supply chain management: The perspective of logistics service providers', International Journal on logistics systems & management, Vol 6 No 1 2010. S.Saravanan, 'Investigation on a non edible vegetable oil in sustaining the nergym & environment as a Cl engine fuel', Journal of renewable & sustainable energy, Vol 2 No 1 2010. Sponsorship for Conferences by SVCE paper titled 'Non-linear analysis of eccentrically loaded slender CHS columns filled with fibre reinforced concrete' at the 9th International conference on Steel Concrete Composite and Hybrid Structures (ASCCS2009), Leeds, U.K, 08-10, July 2009 (pp299-304). Conferences / Workshops / FDPs organised The department of Electronics & Communication Engineering organised a 'National Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and th st Networking (NCSCN 2010) on the 30 and the 31 of March 2010.The conference was sponsored by the Madras section f IEEE.Shri.G.Ramasubramanian, Head-Technical, IBM-India inaugurated the conference and gave a talk on 'Exploiting Emerging Trends in Telecom Industry'. A workshop on 'Python for Scientific Computing (WPSC)' was organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in collaboration with IIT Bombay on the 22nd and the 23rd of April 2010.The workshop was funded by the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD). There were about 76 participants (40 faculty members and 36 students) and the resource persons were from IIT Bombay. The department of Information Technology organized a 4 day workshop on IBM-RAD (Rational Application Developer) in association with IBM th th from the 13 to 16 of February 2010.Mr.Manjit from IBM-Delhi was the main resource person. An online test was conducted on the 17th of March 2010 and 59 students passed the test and obtained IBM International Certification on RAD. The department of EEE organized a National conference on 'Advances in Electrical & Electronics Engineering (NCAEEE 2010)' on 21st and 22nd January 2010. Mr.A.Dayalan, Manager-Sales and Marketing from Vestas Wind Technology India Pvt Ltd inaugurated the conference and gave a key note address on 'Introduction to latest technology in wind power generators'. Dr.Krishna Vasudevan, Professor, IIT-Madras, delivered a lecture on 'Recent trends in Active Power Filters'. The department of Computer Applications organized a three day Faculty Development Program on “A st Practical Approach to System Software” from 21 to 23rd January 2010. The department of Bio Technology organized a 'National workshop on Real-time PCR for the diagnosis of diseases and molecular evaluation' on 16th and 17th February 2010. The workshop was sponsored by Eppendorf India Pvt Ltd. Dr.R.Boopathy, Professor and Head, Department of Bio technology, Bharathiar Universitry, Coimbatore inaugurated the workshop. Students' achievements Vinodh Kumar N.S. of 2005-2009 batch of EEE department was awarded a gold medal during the convocation of Anna University held on 19.02.2010 for having secured the highest marks in the B.E degree program under the Faculty of Electrical Engineering on the basis of his performance in all the examinations held during 2005-2009. Dr.Susan Elias, Professor & Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering was sponsored to present a paper at the IEEE International Conference on Computer, Communication and Networks, at San Francisco, USA, in August, 2009. The paper was Titled “Automatic Temporal Formatting of Multimedia Presentations using Dynamic Petri Nets”. Ms.S.Pushpa, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering was sponsored to present a paper at the International Conference on ACM Compute processing at Bangalore, India in January, 2010. The paper was titled “A referral based expertise search system in a time evolving social networks”. Dr.S.Ramanagopal, Professor & Head, Department of Civil Engineering, was sponsored to present a 04 The department of Information Technology organized a two day National Conference on 'Communication and Informatics (NCCI 2010)' on 9th and 10th April 2010. The conference was sponsored by CTS.Mr. Krishnan Shivasubramanian, Director – Projects, CTSdelivered the keynote address. Resource persons from HCL Ltd and SVCE chaired the various sessions. SRI VENKATESWARA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, SRIPERUMBUDUR Durairasa.M of 2005-2009 batch, B.E Automobile engineering was awarded a gold medal during the convocation of Anna University held on 19.02.2010 for having secured the highest marks in the B.E degree program under the Faculty of Automobile Engineering on the basis of his performance in all the examinations held during 2005-2009. Mr.R.Arjun, Mr.Dinesh Kumar, Mr.Abhishek Srinivas from sixth semester BE (Mech) won the first prize in the inter-collegiate level competition 'Villgro 05