1 Volume : 10 Issue : 4 April 2013 Price : Rs. 3.00 Chairman’s Message T.S. Rangarajan [email protected]From The Editor’s Desk H.R. Mohan [email protected]Blog: http://infoforuse.blogspot.com Dear Members I want to devote this message entirely to ‘Social Media’ and how IEEE Madras Section members can and should leverage these tools both for their personal and professional benefit. In my interactions with members during conferences, events and other meetings I find the use of social media to be vastly stratified. Let me list some of the categories as I perceive them a. Active IEEE Organizational Units on Social Media – R10, many sections, many societies, many society chapters, many affinity and special interest groups who are using Facebook, Twitter, Google + and LinkedIn to remain actively engaged with their members b. Very active ‘professionally’ – almost 99% of whom are student members. They have created Facebook pages for their respective OUs in IEEE across the globe. They have liked, followed and joined the pages created by their contemporaries. They post updates on whatever news regarding IEEE they get. They are active in Twitter, Google + and LinkedIn too. c. Extremely active ‘personally’ – I would say almost ‘all’ students and some members are definitely addicted to Facebook if not Twitter, Google + and LinkedIn. d. Not present in Social Media at all – I bet there are quite a few, at least seniors who are yet to open their social media account. A few years ago your section had coined a tag as its mission ‘engaging members’. There cannot be a better way to realize that mission than engaging and interacting with all the members through these social media tools. Last week we had sent out a circular to you urging you to visit your section’s page on Facebook. What we wish to achieve through that circular is to persuade the members who are not in social media, to join it upon seeing the circular and for those of you who use social media for personal networking to also consider it for professional networking. The IEEE member ‘friends’ in my Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn accounts have the advantage of messaging me for whatever clarifications or help they need and get a quick response or a smileyJ at least. We can surely extend this advantage to other more resourceful members if we can connect with them. By leveraging these social media, I also hope to enhance the visibility and use of our section website which already has links to these. Today we are only scratching the surface of the enormous possibilities of networking, engagement, enhanced awareness, and mutual assistance that we can render to each other using this media. Let us aim to connect each member of our section into a giant resource pool of shared interests, availability and competence to travel to the next level of maturity Till next time, Yours voluntarily [email protected]Dear Friends, Our Section chairman, in his message has highlighted the impact of Social Media (SM) such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and Twitter, in the context of professional and personal networking and mutual development. While the student members are quite active with SM, it is the professionals and seniors who may soon to get in to SM. May be, the Section/Society Chapters will soon organise programmes on this. The outcome of the recent R10 meeting appears to be very positive with the proposed “MGA Plan for India” to be steered by the IEEE Strategic Direction and Environmental Assessment (SD&EA) committee and assisted by our volunteers including Mr. T.S. Rangarajan, our Section Chairman. We hope the impact of this activity will be beneficial to us. The vibrancy of the SBs are quite evident from the fact that we had accumulated backlogs in terms of activity reports to be published for want of space in our regular 12 page monthly newsltter LINK. Those SBs who have reported just in time (7th Apr) or later may find their activities are not published. They are reserved for the next issue. Be first to report the events as soon as you complete them. Our Section activities, which are major in nature, are now being included in the India Council newsletter. This will be providing additional visibility to the SBs and OUs across the country. So, to get the benefits, report in time. This month LINK has reports on events held at the following SBs along with the reports on Student Skill Development Programme on “Artificial Intelligence Methods in Engineering”, Workshop on “Women in Electro Magnetics” organized by WIE, Madras, Solar Lamp Workshop organized by the IEEE SIGHT Madras Section and the Seminar on Signal and Image Processing organized by IEEE COMSOC Madras Chapter. Kongu Engg College; Jayaram College of Engg & Tech.; Muthayammal Engg College; Jeppiaar Engg College; Easwari Engg College; S.A Engg College; Velammal Engg College; KCG College of Tech.; Mahendra Engg College; Amrita School of Engg; Sri Ramakrishna Engg College; SRM Univ.,; Saveetha School of Engg; Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of Engg & Tech; Sri Muthukumaran Inst. of Tech; Coimbatore Inst. of Engg and Tech.; Knowledge Inst. of Tech; MPNMJ Engg College; Infant Jesus College of Engg and Tech.; St. Xavier’s Catholic College of Engig; Hindustan Univ.,; Kingston Engg College We draw the attention of our readers to the forthcoming events list, at http://goo.gl/UaSa4 which is quite impressive with a wide range of workshops, seminars, FDPs, national and international conferences, to derive maximum benefit by contributing papers and sharing their research findings and update their knowledge by registering as delegates. It is time to start new membership at 50% fee but with 8 months benefits. Pl. encourage your colleagues and co students to join IEEE and get benefited.
I want to devote this message entirely to‘Social Media’ and how IEEE Madras Sectionmembers can and should leverage these tools bothfor their personal and professional benefit.
In my interactions with members duringconferences, events and other meetings I find theuse of social media to be vastly stratified. Let me
list some of the categories as I perceive them
a. Active IEEE Organizational Units on Social Media – R10, manysections, many societies, many society chapters, many affinity andspecial interest groups who are using Facebook, Twitter, Google +and LinkedIn to remain actively engaged with their members
b. Very active ‘professionally’ – almost 99% of whom are studentmembers. They have created Facebook pages for their respectiveOUs in IEEE across the globe. They have liked, followed and joinedthe pages created by their contemporaries. They post updates onwhatever news regarding IEEE they get. They are active in Twitter,Google + and LinkedIn too.
c. Extremely active ‘personally’ – I would say almost ‘all’ students andsome members are definitely addicted to Facebook if not Twitter,Google + and LinkedIn.
d. Not present in Social Media at all – I bet there are quite a few, at leastseniors who are yet to open their social media account.
A few years ago your section had coined a tag as its mission ‘engagingmembers’. There cannot be a better way to realize that mission thanengaging and interacting with all the members through these social mediatools. Last week we had sent out a circular to you urging you to visit yoursection’s page on Facebook. What we wish to achieve through that circularis to persuade the members who are not in social media, to join it uponseeing the circular and for those of you who use social media for personalnetworking to also consider it for professional networking.
The IEEE member ‘friends’ in my Facebook, Google + and LinkedInaccounts have the advantage of messaging me for whatever clarificationsor help they need and get a quick response or a smileyJ at least. We cansurely extend this advantage to other more resourceful members if we canconnect with them.
By leveraging these social media, I also hope to enhance the visibilityand use of our section website which already has links to these.
Today we are only scratching the surface of the enormous possibilitiesof networking, engagement, enhanced awareness, and mutual assistancethat we can render to each other using this media. Let us aim to connecteach member of our section into a giant resource pool of shared interests,availability and competence to travel to the next level of maturity
Our Section chairman, in his message hashighlighted the impact of Social Media (SM) suchas Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and Twitter, inthe context of professional and personal networkingand mutual development. While the studentmembers are quite active with SM, it is the
professionals and seniors who may soon to get in to SM. May be, theSection/Society Chapters will soon organise programmes on this.
The outcome of the recent R10 meeting appears to be very positivewith the proposed “MGA Plan for India” to be steered by the IEEE StrategicDirection and Environmental Assessment (SD&EA) committee andassisted by our volunteers including Mr. T.S. Rangarajan, our SectionChairman. We hope the impact of this activity will be beneficial to us.
The vibrancy of the SBs are quite evident from the fact that we hadaccumulated backlogs in terms of activity reports to be published forwant of space in our regular 12 page monthly newsltter LINK. ThoseSBs who have reported just in time (7th Apr) or later may find theiractivities are not published. They are reserved for the next issue. Be firstto report the events as soon as you complete them.
Our Section activities, which are major in nature, are now beingincluded in the India Council newsletter. This will be providing additionalvisibility to the SBs and OUs across the country. So, to get the benefits,report in time.
This month LINK has reports on events held at the following SBsalong with the reports on Student Skill Development Programme on“Artificial Intelligence Methods in Engineering”, Workshop on “Womenin Electro Magnetics” organized by WIE, Madras, Solar Lamp Workshoporganized by the IEEE SIGHT Madras Section and the Seminar on Signaland Image Processing organized by IEEE COMSOC Madras Chapter.
Kongu Engg College; Jayaram College of Engg & Tech.;Muthayammal Engg College; Jeppiaar Engg College; Easwari Engg College;S.A Engg College; Velammal Engg College; KCG College of Tech.;Mahendra Engg College; Amrita School of Engg; Sri Ramakrishna EnggCollege; SRM Univ.,; Saveetha School of Engg; Dhanalakshmi SrinivasanCollege of Engg & Tech; Sri Muthukumaran Inst. of Tech; CoimbatoreInst. of Engg and Tech.; Knowledge Inst. of Tech; MPNMJ Engg College;Infant Jesus College of Engg and Tech.; St. Xavier’s Catholic College ofEngig; Hindustan Univ.,; Kingston Engg College
We draw the attention of our readers to the forthcoming eventslist, at http://goo.gl/UaSa4 which is quite impressive with a wide range ofworkshops, seminars, FDPs, national and international conferences, toderive maximum benefit by contributing papers and sharing their researchfindings and update their knowledge by registering as delegates.
It is time to start new membership at 50% fee but with 8 monthsbenefits. Pl. encourage your colleagues and co students to join IEEE andget benefited.
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AVANZARE’13
Kongu Engineering CollegeGYANDYAN’13
The WIE SB conducted GYANDYAN’13,an interdepartmental function with variousevents for the IEEE members on 22nd Feb 2013.The function was inaugurated by Mrs.V.R.Saraswathy, SB Staff Coordinator. The eventsconducted include: Paper Presentation, ProjectPresentation, Quiz, Debate on ‘Value of educationin Government Colleges and Private Colleges’,Google War and Visual Hunt. Prizes andcertificates were distributed for various events.
TAP ProgrammeAVANZARE’13, a two-day national level
technical symposium was organized on 13th and14th Feb 2013. After the welcome address byProf. K. Narayanan, SB coordinator, Prof. S.Kuppuswami, SB Counselor and Principal, inhis presidential address, extolled SB on receivingvarious awards from IEEE Madras Section. Mr.N. Gokulsankar, Chairman, SB summarized theagenda of the symposium. Mr. Tata Sudhakar,Senior Scientist, National Institute of OceanTechnology, Chennai inaugurated thesymposium and in his address, explained aboutthe on-going projects at NIOT such as deep-sea mining, gas hydrates, submersibles, oceanobservation systems and coastal buoydeployment. The various events conductedinclude:Paper Presentation, Techno Exhibit,Idea Presentation, Visual Hunt, DexterousDesigner, Line Follower, Snap Shot, Quiz Whiz,Best Manager. Prizes were presented by Mr. S.Balamurugan, DEAN, Science ofCommunication and Computer Sciences to thewinners.
On the second day of the symposium, aworkshop on LABVIEW was conducted byMr G. Sriram, Application Engineer, NationalInstruments. At the valedictory, Mr. G. Sriramhighlighted the role of an engineer in the society.Then, the certificates were distributed to theparticipants.
The WIE SB conducted a TrainingProgram for school students in rural areas on12th Mar 2013 at Lalitha Kalvi Nilayam School,Erode. A group of 40 students from 8th standardwere provided the training on the educationalstream by briefing on the courses of study thatthey could choose after the school education.Videos and presentations kindled the studentsinterest in Engineering. Events such as Minuteto win it, Word finding and Proverb finding werealso conducted along with a Quiz and aninnovative Multitasking event to test themultitasking skills of the students. Theprogramme, came to an end with the discussionabout the importance and focus towards theirforthcoming studies. Students were alsoprovided with tips to face the Board examinations.Certificates and prizes were distributed tostudents who were actively participate in theevents and interacted well with the trainers.
STAR Programmes
The WIE SB conducted a STARProgramme for a team of about 40 studentsbelonging to the 10th grade of Municipal HighSchool, Edaiyankattuvalasu, Erode on 2nd Feb2013. The programme was inaugurated with acareer guidance talk by Prof. K .Narayanan,staff coordinator.
‘The WIE SB conducted a STARProgramme for the students of 8th grade ofPanchayat Union Middle School,Manickampalayam, Erode on the 16th Mar2013. The aim of the programme was to createan awareness on the latest technologies and thecareer opportunities available. A squad of 40students, accompanied by two teachers,participated in the programme which startedwith a career guidance presentation by Ms.V.R.Saraswathy, SB staff coordinator.
In both these programmes, a lot of teambuilding and brain training activities such asmultitasking, a general knowledge quiz, proverbfinding, tongue Twister and other team eventsto improve their concentration and performancewere also conducted. The students wereencouraged to come up to the stage boldly andface the audience. After the lunch, the studentswere taken around sophisticated laboratories inthe college and were exposed to theinfrastructure of the college as well.
Workshop on “Security Assessment andEnhancement using FACTS devices”
The SB organized a one day workshopon “Security Assessment and Enhancementusing FACTS devices” on 22nd Feb, 2013. Thechief guest and resource person was Dr. S. SuthaHOD/EEE, Anna University, Panruti Campus.Her areas of interest are Power System SecurityAssessment, Power System EnhancementTechnique and Power System Optimization. Inher presentation, she explained the NeuralSchema of Power System and based on the
Jayaram College of Engineering and Technology
FACTS devices she also explained the powersystem assessment and power systemenhancement techniques and provided a detailed
explanation about wavelet transform of neuralnetworks, PSO optimization. In the afternoonsession Algorithms with coding also had beenexecuted in Matlab.
Around 13 Colleges and Jayaram Groupof Institutions had participated in the workshopand acquired knowledge. Over 160 UG and PGstudents, faculty members, 91 participants ofother colleges and 73 participants in our groupof institutions had utilized the workshop. Atthe valedictory function, certificates were issuedto the participants. The workshop wascoordinated by the SB coordinator by M.Bhoopathi AP/EEE.
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Guest Lecture
A guest lecture on “Recent Trends inCommunication, Networking and EmbeddedSystem” was held on 7th Jan 2013. The guestwas N. Sathi Saravanan, from ECIL Chennai,delivered the lecture and explained about softcomputing techniques, Embedded System,Networking. In this programme, 200 studentsof ECE Dept. participated.
Technical Seminar on “4G networks” andWorkshop on “MTLC Learning Framework”
In association with Wipro Technologies,Bangalore, a two days technical seminar on “4G
Muthayammal Engineering College
networks” and workshop on “MTLC LearningFramework” was organized during 28th Feb2013 and 1st Mar 2013. Dr. S. Nirmala, HoDwelcomed the participants and Prof. T. R.Suresh Kumar inaugurated the programme andintroduced the chief guest.
The chief guest, Dr. M. S. Sricharan,Architect, Wipro Technologies, in his lectureoutlined the developments taking place in thefield of wireless communication and thenexplained the data flow in the existing and thefast growing 4G networks. He elaborated onthe effective leadership by the project managerin handling the team in the various criticalcircumstances of the project execution. He alsotouched upon various aspects like TimeManagement, Stress Handling, Team Work,Technical and Behavioral Development etc., inthe workshop. About 40 students of ECEparticipated in the programme.
The IEEE SB conducted a Quiz Contest“QUIZ QUEST” on 22nd Feb 2013. Thestudents in teams were provided with a set ofquestions taken from various fields. The eventwas hosted by Mr. Santhosh Kumar and Ms.Chris Sahana. Followed by the Quiz there wasa Puzzle game which proved to be engrossingone.
Jeppiaar Engineering CollegeThe IEEE Madras Student Network
organized a one day Technical Tour to InfosysLimited, Mysore Campus on 23rd Feb 2013, inorder to expose the student members to thecurrent trends in the IT industry. The technicaltour agenda comprised of attending the nation-wide program, Spark organized by Infosys anda tour throughout the Infosys, Mysore Campus.There were 45 students from various engineeringcolleges of Chennai hub including JeppiaarEngineering College, Sri Muthukumaran Instituteof Technology, AMS College of Engineering,KCG College of Technology, SathyabamaUniversity, RMD College of Engineering, SreeSastha Institute of Engineering and Technology,Thangavelu Engineering College, Asan MemorialCollege of Engineering and Technology.
The students attended the Spark Programtill noon, which focused on the advancesInformation technology has made, Infosys’ rolein the growth of IT and how students can learnfrom it all. The Campus tour around the InfosysMysore Campus visiting the Largest CorporateUniversity, Multiplex, etc. made the students
much excited. It was a fun filled yet aninformative trip that boosted up the studentmembers to gather with a larger community oftechnical world and get inspired.
IEEE COMSOC SB conducted aworkshop on ‘Basic Electronics and Circuitdesigning’ on 13th Mar 2013, to enhance thestudent’s knowledge on the basic electroniccomponents, their working and application andhow the basic circuits are designed. Theworkshop was well handled by Mr.RameshSubbu and Mr.Pawan Gnanaraj from KCGCollege of Engineering and was attended by 30members from ECE Dept. The workshopstarted with a presentation on variouscomponents and later turned on to hands-onsession where the students were given circuitcomponent kit along with the soldering kit tobuild a circuit on a PCB board on their own.
Easwari Engineering College2013. The event was the initiative of IIT-BHUin association with Proactive-InfoSoft.Mr.Raghu and Mr.Tanzeel of Proactive-InfoSoftwere the conveners. The participants mainlycomprised of students belonging to ECE Dept.and from other colleges.
The workshop had four sessions. Thefirst session dealt with the basic introductionto Android and its features and dealt the know-how required to effectively design the application.The second session introduced the participantsto the software and provided a chance to explore
the various features covered in the first sessionby means of some simple programs.
The second day saw some rigorous codingand designing and the software was thoroughlyexplored by the students. Some apps like mediaplayer, SMS message app were developed. Thefinal session was a competition in which theparticipants were asked to design an app foremail sign in confirmation. The winners of thecompetition will have the opportunity to go toIIT-BHU and participate in the next level of thecontest.
A workshop on designing androidapplications was held on 22nd and 23rd of Feb
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ICICES - 2013: International Conferenceon Information, Communication &Embedded Systems
The third International Conference on“Information, Communication and EmbeddedSystems organized by the Dept. of PG Studiesin Engineering and supported by IEEE MadrasSection was held on 21st & 22nd Feb 2013. Atthe inaugural, following the welcome addressby Shri. P. Venkatesh Raja, Director, SAEC,Mr. Adam Kotkin, Vice Consulate General ofUSA, Chennai inaugurated and addressed theparticipants. Dr. Yi Pan, Georgia State University,Atlanta, USA, released the conferenceproceedings and addressed the participantshighlighting the technological developmenthappening around the globe including in Indiaand the need for doing more research.
In this two days conference, 238contributed papers were presented in foursessions in parallel at eight different venues inthe areas such as Network Security, PervasiveComputing, Cloud Computing and AdvancedComputing Technologies, Mobile Computingand Wireless Communications, Data Miningand Knowledge Discovery, Advanced
S.A Engineering College
Networking and Applications, InformationSecurity & Information Retrieval, ArtificialIntelligence & Soft Computing, ComputerApplications in Web services, Bioinformatics,Global Optimization Problems, MultimediaTechnologies, Grid Computing, 3G/4G WirelessTechnologies, Advanced CommunicationSystems, Optical Communication &Networking, Sensor / Adhoc Networks, MedicalElectronics, RF Antennas - Design, Modelingand Measurement, ComputationalElectromagnetics, Image and Speech Processing,Real Time Embedded Systems, MEMs andNEMs, Electrical Drives and Embedded Control,
Computers in Embedded Systems, Nano-Photonics, Fuzzy Logic and Neural NetworkTechnologies, Embedded Networking, Designof Embedded System with VLSI, Automation& Distributed Control Systems, RemoteSensing.
At the valedictory, Dr. S. Suyambazhahan,Principal, SAEC delivered keynote address. Theparticipation certificates were presented byChief Guest Dr. Yi Pan.
The IEEE Computer Society MadrasChapter supported ACM Distinguished Lectureon “An Overview of Issues in NanoComputing” by Dr. V. Lakshmi Narasimhan (Dr.VLN), Professor, Computer Science, EastCarolina University, USA was held on 8th Jan2013. Dr V. Yegnanarayanan, Sr. Prof. and Sr.Member of IEEE welcomed the gathering.
Velammal Engineering CollegeDr. V. Lakshmi Narasimhan, after a
briefing on ACM, in his lecture covered thevarious aspects of Nanotechnology and NanoComputing such as: Nano Scale, Nano Material,Brief history, Nano Technology for Nature,Broad areas of Nano Technology, Challengesand Opportunities in Nano Computing,Technical Issues in Nano Computing, NanoComputing through Molecular Computing,How Nano Technology is applied in IT, Energy,
Medicine, Consumer Goods, NASA MissionNeeds, Semiconductor Nanomaterials,Significance of Nanowires, Carbon Nanotubes,Nano Technology in Sports, MilitaryApplications of Nano Technology, NanoMemory, Health and Environmental Concernsof Nano Technology, Potential human hazardsof Nano Scale particulates, Nano Software,Atomistix Toolkit, etc., His talk appropriatelyeducated all the audience about the niceties andissues in Nano Technology and NanoComputing.
Section Membership as on1st March 2013
Life Fellow - 3Fellow - 2Life Senior - 10Senior Member - 104Life Member - 3Member - 975Associate - 46Affliate - 6Graduate Student Member - 730Student Member - 2227
Total - 4106
Workshop on MATLAB and Simulink
KCG College of Technology
The IEEE SB conducted the workshopon MATLAB and Simulink during 15 – 16, Feb2013 in collaboration with the IEEE MadrasStudent Network. The resource persons at theworkshop were Dr. Vivek Rao and Mr.Venkatsubramaniyan Kuppusamy. The
workshop was attended by enthusiastic studentsfrom Jeppiar Engineering College, ThangaveluEngineering College, Sri Muthukumaran Instituteof Technology, AMET, Jeimathaji EngineeringCollege and KCG College of Technology.
On the first day Mr. Venkatsubramaniyanand Dr. Vivek Rao explained the concepts ofMATLAB and followed it with a hands-on sessionin the afternoon. On the second day, theyexplained the concepts of Simulink and followedit with a hands-on session in the afternoon.
A two day National Level TechnicalSymposium and 7th National Conference onInnovations in Computing Techniques(Innovfest - 2013 & NCICT - 2013), inassociation with IEEE was organized by theDept. of CSE on 14th & 15th Mar 2013. Itprovided a forum for industry professionals andresearchers to deliberate explore and contributetheir research to discuss the latest advancements& future directions in the emerging areas ofEngineering & Technology.
Innovfest – 2013 was organized for thebenefit of Under Graduate students to enhancetheir technical knowledge and provideinnovative ideas. The Invited Guest Mr.Kalidass Subramani, Senior Specialist (PeopleSoft Architecting), Wipro Technologies advisedthe students to find opportunity in eachobstacle, which they face in their life. He alsogave some valuable points to the participantsto succeed in their life, which had motivated theyoung minds.
Mahendra Engineering College
NCICT – 2103, was organized for thebenefit of Post Graduate Students, ResearchScholars and Faulty members. The InvitedGuest, Padmashri. R.M. Vasagam, former ViceChancellor of Anna University Chennai spokeabout the recent computational model, which isbecoming essential in storing and analyzing thedata in the modern era, which has witnessedinformation revolution and explosion. He alsoshared about his working experience in Indian
Space Program since early 60’s and various visitsto abroad Avionics centers.
About 300 technical and research paperscontributed by by the students, faculty membersand research scholars from various collegesacross the nation were presented in 20 differentdomains of Computer Science and InformationTechnology.
Special Lecture on Empowering the Nationthrough YOU
Amrita School of Engineeringsocial activities in addition to their academicexcellence. The student and faculty communityparticipated in large numbers for the program.
Women’s Day Celebrations
A special lecture on “Empowering theNation through YOU” was organized on 4th Mar2013 in association with the Lions Club ofPollachi, CSI and ACM student. A specialaddress was delivered by Mr. Paramasivam,Lions District Governor of 324B1. In thespecial lecture, Dr. Adhilakshmi Gurumurthy,Gynecologist and Former District Governor ofthe Lions Club emphasized the importance ofHard Work, Time Management, Working as agroup (Team Effort) and other importantqualities required by an individual to empowerthe Nation. As a part of this program, the LionsClub of Pollachi honored Mrs. S. Padmavathi,Asst. Porf., Dept. of IT, Amrita School ofEngineering and Mrs.Thavamani, Pro-ViceChancellor of Periyar Maniammai University,Tanjore, who have done exemplary service in
The IEEE SB organized a special lectureon “Women – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” on7th Mar 2013 in association with the Lions Clubof Pollachi, CSI and ACM student Chapters.
Kalaimamani. Andal Priyadarshini, ProgramDirector of Doordarshan Kendra, Coimbatorewas the Chief Guest. She spoke about how womencan contribute to the society and also how womenare suppressed in the society. Lion. MurugeshaPandian, PRO of Park Group of Institutions,Lion.S.S.Shanmugham, Vice District Governorand Lion. M.Shanmugham also graced the occasion.Dr.M.P.Chandrasekharan, Dean – Engineering,Amrita School of Engineering graced theoccasion and presented memento to the ChiefGuest. The student and faculty communityparticipated in large numbers for the program.
These programmes were mentored byProf.K.Gangadharan, Chairman-IT andorganized by Mr.C.Arunkumar, SB Counsellorand Ms.K.R.Bindu, Faculty Coordinator of theACM Chapter.
International Women’s Day Celebration
The IEEE & WIE SB celebrated theInternational Women’s Day on 8th Mar 2013with a series of intra-college events such as PaperPresentation, Quiz and Debate. Around 110students participated in these events. In a speciallecture on “Women of today – The Balance Act”by Mrs.Nandhini Padmanabhan, Manager - HR,Payoda Technologies Pvt Ltd., Coimbatore, thespeaker expressed her views about balancing
Sri Ramakrishna Engineering Collegethe role of women in society and encouragedthe students to identify the passion for life, toenhance the skill set and to improve theconfidence level towards the career. Thecertificates were distributed to the participantsand to the winner of various events.
For the list of forthcoming eventsorganized or supported by IEEE OUs,
pl. visit http://goo.gl/s7ua8
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Symposium: TeleTech’13
SRM University
A two days symposium - TELETECH’13,on “Recent Advancements in TelecommunicationTechnologies” was organized during 11-12, Feb2013 by the Dept. of TelecommunicationEngineering (TCE) in association with IEEECOMSOC SB and the TelecommunicationEngineers Association (TEA) with sponsorshipfrom DRDO, Govt. of India.
At the inaugural, Dr. C. Muthamizhchelvan,Director of E&T, SRM University, in his presidentialaddress spoke about the past, present and futureof telecommunication sector and provided manyinstances of how the industry played a key rolein developing the social and economic level forprogress of the country & the world.
Prof. D. Narayana Rao, the Director ofResearch, SRM University, emphasized on thedigital aspect of today’s technology in his specialaddress. Dr. T. Rama Rao, HOD/TCE introducedthe chief guest, Dr. Surendra Pal, President,IETE who presented the inaugural address on“Perspective in communication – Indian SpaceParadigm”. With his very informative andenlightening words, he said that a radical changehas taken place in the communication arena ofIndia and the world.
The afternoon session had an invited talkby Mr. Sobhan Babu, VP, Tata Communicationson “Managing Telecom Networks”, a guest
lecture by Mr. Swapnil Kulkarni on “3D EMsoftware FEKO - dealt with the real world E-Mproblems on field electromagnetic computationand a lecture by Dr. S.S. Karthikeyan, IIITD&M, Kancheepuram on “Product Design forEMC Compliance”.
The paper presentation session wasbeneficial to a large group of faculties andstudents from various colleges and universitieswho attended the symposium.
The 2nd day of the events included: an invitedtalk by Mr. P. Kishore, SC ‘D’, ISRO, Bangaloreon “Challenge for system design in Q/V band”and another invited talk on “TelecommunicationTechnologies” by Mr. M. Ravindra Kumar,Scientist, DLRL, Hyderabad. The two-day festalso played a host to other technical and non-technical events such as Technoquest, Telepathy,Technolodean, Technoasis, Cross-O-Hola.
Inauguration of IEEE Robotics andAutomation Society
Saveetha School of Engineering
The Dept of EEE organized theinauguration of IEEE Robotics and AutomationSociety chapter and an informative technicallecture 27th Feb 2013. Mr. P. A. Manoharan,Chairman IEEE Robotics and AutomationSociety, Madras Section formally inauguratedthe RAS chapter and selected the volunteers. Inhis technical presentation highlighted therobotics and its various applications.
Inauguration of IEEE Power and EnergySociety
The Dept of EEE organized theinauguration of IEEE Power and Energy Society
chapter along with an informative technicallecture 4th Mar 2013 by Er. K. V. Rupchand
Chairman, IEEE-Power and Energy SocietyMadras Section. After the formal inaugurationof the PES chapter, Er. K. V. Rupchand, selectedvolunteers. In his presentation on “FutureTechnologies & PES”, he outlined the scopeand benefits of IEEE PES Membership forstudents as well as a professional members. Hehighlighted the future technologies in powersystem then the important role of renewableenergy sources in India and the role power andenergy society in the development of newtechnologies.
Dhanalakshmi SrinivasanCollege of Engineering& Technology
The IEEE SB and the Dept. of EEEorganized a one day national level workshop on“Soft Computing Techniques Applied toElectrical Engineering” on 6th March, 2013. Theresource persons for this workshop were Dr. P.Sanjeevikumar, Associate Prof., VIT University,Chennai campus, Dr. V. Jamuna, Prof., JerusalemCollege of Engineering, Chennai and Dr. R.Rengaraj, Associate Prof., SSN College ofEngineering, Chennai.
The workshop covered the topics suchas the conversional PI and PID controllers,importance of soft computing techniques, fuzzylogic controllers, neural network controllers withsimple case studies and GA optimizationtechniques applied to design of above controllers.
The workshop was attended by 33participants including faculty members and PG/Research scholars from various colleges. Dr. R.Ponraj, Principal distributed the certificates tothe participants.
The invention of light in world is anirreplaceable contribution given to us by Edison.Honouring him on his birthday, the IEEE CSSB organized the event “Elicit Edison” on 11th
Feb 2013, which emphasized on bringing outsolutions for technical problems. The studentscame out with interest in providing solutions toa no. of real time technical problems such aspreventing corrosion current, decreasing theCarbon Di-oxide content resulting in reducedeffect of global warming with the help of nanoparticles using nanotechnology. Solutionsprovided by the students Brajesh Bharti (CSE),S.Nalini (CSE), Pooja Vijayaraj (EEE), AyeshaNilofar (CSE), Suganya (EEE) were appreciated.They were motivated to enhance their ideas into technical research applications.
Sri Muthukumaran Institute of TechnologyFeb 2013 with a motive to create an awarenessof IEEE among the first year students. The ChiefGuest Dr. C. Srinivasan, HOD, Science andHumanities gave an inspiring speech with severalreal life examples on the value of being a memberof a professional society. A presentation on“What is engineering” by Balaji. M.S, SBChairman provided the basic knowledge to knowabout engineering and was followed by apresentation on the benefits of IEEE by SurajJain. M, Chairman, IEEE COMSOC SB.Jayashree of 2nd year ECE shared her experienceof being an IEEE member.
National Conference on Advanced ComputingTechnologies & Applications
A one day National Conference onAdvanced Computing Technologies &Applications (NCACTA) on Friday the 8th Mar2013. A the inaugural, the chief guest Mr. H.R.Mohan, Chairman, IEEE Computer Society andthe Associate Vice President (Systems), The
The IEEE COMSOC SB Chapterorganized a workshop on ‘How to do a Project’on 16th Feb 2013. About 70 IEEE members fromvarious departments attended and benefitedfrom this workshop. Ms. Kamala Tamilvanan,Executive Verbal Trainer, Smart TrainingResources was the main resource person. Theparticipants were made aware of the variouscriteria for selecting a project, fields/areas inwhich to do a project, steps in doing a project.She then then elaborated the 9 steps to be keptin mind whenever a project is done. Mr. G.Kottiswaran, Mentor, SB, presented on ‘Benefitsof IEEE’. Then Mr. M. M. Harikrishnan,Coordinator, Madras Section Student Network,in his address, highlighted on various resourcesof IEEE available to the students. Studentvolunteers Balaji. M.S and Suraj Jain. M explainedthe various steps for organising an event.
Explore the World of Engineering –Membership Drive
The IEEE COMSOC SB conducted theevent Explore the World of Engineering on 27th
The conference attracted over 180 contributedpapers of which about 90 were shortlisted forinclusion in the conf. proceedings and presentationsin four parallel tracks covering various aspectsof ICT such as Artificial Intelligence, BioMetrics, Computing Methods, Data Mining,Image Processing, Network Security, NaturalLanguage Processing, Software Engineering, andWireless Networks. About 200 participantscomprising of faculty, students and industryprofessionals attended the conf. and benefited.
Women Empowerment Contest
In the IEEE CS SB event conducted on10th Mar 2013, as a part of Women’s Daycelebrations, the students participated activelyand shared their pioneering and new-fangledideas featuring women empowerment. Theonline event had contests such as Anagram,Guess the personality, phrase and essay contestand the winners were awarded.
Hindu traced the developments in the area ofInformation and Communication Technologyand highlighted the current trends which includeSocial, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC).He added that with the agility and innovationare the major forces in retaining our lead role inthe global scene. One of the distinguishedkeynote lectures was delivered by Dr. NalliKuppuswami Chetti, Chairman, Nalli BusinessHouse who explained the importance of educationto the women to empower them. Dr. RekhaShetty, Managing Director, Farstar DistributionNetwork Ltd., in her address touched upon thesignificance of International Women’s Day andthe contributions of women in development.She also stressed the need for innovativeapproaches to excel in all our activities.
Chief guest and special guests werehonored by Managing Trustee Thiru A.N.Radhakrishnan, Chairperson Tmt GomathiRadhakrishnan, Director Dr. A. Kalyani andPrincipal Dr. G. Sankaranarayanan.
Workshop on “How to Code?”
The IEEE CS SB took an initiative toequip the engineers with full-fledge codingtechniques and organized an workshop on “Howto Code?” on 14th Mar 2013. Mr. Kumaran A.E.,Program Lead, Drona Technology Solutionsbriefed the students of II year CSE with theprogramming techniques, algorithm designing,coding methods and a step by step approach tosolve the problems and design. The workshopnot only included the explanation of conceptsbut also practical implementation. Theworkshop had two sessions. The first,theoretical session covered SDLC, differencebetween LPDC and SDLC, algorithm designing,construction of program and the second, thehands-on session, equipped participants withthe technique rendered where they could designtheir own code.
• Process Management: Process StateTransition; Process Control Block;Scheduling
Coimbatore Institute of Engineering and Technology members and each batch was asked to select aproject and perform the following steps relatedto the project.
• Design: System Design; Detailed Design;UML; Software Design Document
• Coding: Selection of appropriate languages;CASE
• Testing: Test Plan; Test Cases; Test Report• Implementation
At the end of the contest, each batch hadalso shown the demo to the audience.
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• Inter process Communication:Concurrency; Critical Section Problem;Mutual Exclusion; Semaphore
Project Contest
The IEEE SB conducted a Project Contestfor the selective students of III Year B.E / B.TechStudents on 2nd Mar 2013. About 80 studentsparticipated in the contest. In the contest,students were divided into batches of 3 to 4
The IEEE Madras Section in associationwith IEEE SB of M P Nachimuthu M JaganathanEngineering College, Chennimalai, Erodeorganized a Student Skill DevelopmentProgramme (SSDP) on “Artificial IntelligenceMethods in Engineering” on 27th and 28th March2013. This, third SSDP was attended by 52
Student Skill Development Programme on“Artificial Intelligence Methods in Engineering”
students from various colleges and universitiesall over Tamilnadu.
After a brief inaugural session in whichDr.N.Kumarappan, IEEE Madras SectionEducational Activity Chair & Treasurer deliveredthe inaugural address, various technical lectureswere delivered by the eminent resource persons
such as Dr.N.Kumarappan, Professor of ElectricalEngg., Annamalai University; Er.S.Anbazhagan,Asst. Professor of Electrical Engg., AnnamalaiUniversity; Er.S. Saravanamutthukumaran, Asst.Professor of Electrical Engg., VRS EngineeringCollege, Villupuram.
The topics covered in SSDP includeArtificial Neural Network – Introduction andBPN, Fuzzy Logic, Load Frequency Control -Simulation, Hybrid Intelligence Approach. Theparticipants were also given hands-on training.
The program received an excellentfeedback from all the participants. The co-ordinators of the program were Dr.N.Kumarappan,IEEE Madras Section Educational ActivityChair, Prof.D.Sabapathi, Associate Professorand Head of EEE department, M P NachimuthuM Jaganathan Engineering College.
On 16th Feb 2013, the IEEE SB organized“Spectrum Analysis” - Discussion on IEEESpectrum Magazine in which student membersdiscussed about different topics from recentIEEE Spectrum Magazine. Around 40 IEEEstudent members participated in the discussion,
which was started by Mrs. M. Shenbagapriya,IEEE In-charge.
National Level Technical Symposium
On 22nd Feb 2013, IEEE SB and the ECEorganized “ELECTRIX 2K13”, 3rd Nationallevel Technical Symposium. During the inauguralfunction, the chief guest Mr. Sridhar Rajendran,
General Manager-Human Resources in SimbusTechnologies Pvt.Ltd., Bangalore addressed theparticipants from various colleges and KIOTstudents about career growth which was veryhelpful for their placements. Around sixtystudents have participated from various colleges.
After the inauguration, the studentspresented their papers in different areas likeImage Processing, VLSI, Embedded System etc.,parallel, spot events were conducted in technicaland non-technical areas like Technical Quiz,Circuit Debugging, Google the world, and LANGaming. The winners of events were awardedwith cash prizes.
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Workshop on “Women in ElectroMagnetics”
The International Workshop on “Womenin Electro Magnetics” WiEM’13, sponsored byIEEE-Antenna Propagation Society, IEEEWomen in Engineering, and cosponsored byCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research(CSIR), New Delhi, Agilent Technologies andNi Logic Pvt Ltd Pune was held on 1st & 2nd
March 2013 at Kumaraguru College ofTechnology, Coimbatore. With 205 (84 men and121 women) registered participants consistingof researchers from academia and industry andenthusiastic students contributing to bring outa lively two day interaction, the program turnedout to be a success beyond expectation.
Dr. Parveen Wahid, Professor, EECSDepartment, University of Central Florida,Orlando, USA and Dr. Magdalena Salazar Palma,President of IEEE-Antenna Propagation Societyand Professor, Dept. of Signal Theory &Communication, Universidad Carlos III DeMadrid, Spain, were the international speakerssponsored by IEEE Antenna Propagation Society.
The program consisted of keynoteaddresses on technology and applications byAcademia and Industry on interdisciplinarytopics like “Computational Approach onnumerical solvers used in CADFEKO”,“Biomedical Applications of Electromagnetics”
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etc. Experts from Agilent Technologies, AmritaUniversity, Thyagaraja College of Engineering,PSG College of Technology and Ni Logic PvtLtd gave their best efforts to educate andentertain the delegates.
The poster presentation on “History ofEM inventions” was a delight to the youngstudent participants. The highlights of the eventwere, the video presentation on women rolemodels (Dr. Bharati Bhat and Dr. Chatterjee) inElectromagnetics and the panel discussion on“After the Break” which was focused on thedifficulties experienced by women returning toprofession after taking a break for family orhealth reasons. It was moderated by Dr.
Raghavan, NIT, Trichy and the panelists were:Dr. S. Raju, Thyagaraja College of Engineering,Dr. Subharani, HOD/ECE, PSG College ofTechnology, Dr. N. R. Alamelu, Principal, SriRamaKrishna Engineering College, Dr.Magdalena & Dr. Parveen Wahid.
The event has given the women studentsthe confidence and interest to pursue research inthe field of Electromagnetics which is a less womenpopulated field. This is an achievement in itselfsince the field is considered tough and with theincreased interest in computing and otherautomation related fields which are consideredto be suitable for women the field of electromagneticsis facing the crisis of low interest.
National Conference
The Association of Electrical andElectronics Engineering and the IEEE SB jointlyorganized the 5th One Day National Conferenceon 31st Jan 2013. In his keynote address, thechief guest, Dr. A. Nagappan, Execom MemberIEEE Madras Section and Chairman IEEEAerospace and Electronics Society, spoke onthe exploitation of non renewable sources whichcauses depletion of precious resources such asfossil fuel, coal etc. and about the researches to
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be routed in harnessing the renewable energyresources for sustaining the green environment.In addition, he explained the importance of
renewable energy sources such as solar, wind,geothermal and tide etc.,
In the conference, 20 papers selected outof the 180 papers received from variousengineering colleges all over India, werepresented. In the valedictory function held inthe evening, certificates were distributed to theparticipants by the Correspondent and thePrincipal.
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Infant Jesus College of Engineering and TechnologyInternational Conference
The Dept. of ECE and the SB organizedthe International Conference on EmergingTrends in Computing, Communication andNanotechnology (ICECCN2013) during 25th and26th of March 2013 which attracted about 400participants from all over the country andabroad. At the Inaugural, on 25th Dr.V.Velmurugan,principal, welcomed the gathering, Shri. T. S.Rangarajan, Chairman IEEE Madras Sectioninaugurated the conference and released theproceedings and spoke about plagiarism. Dr. S.Allwin, conference general chair and Directorof Infant Jesus group of Engineering Colleges,in his presidential address advised theparticipants to be innovative in the highlycompetitive global environment.
Out of 713 papers received, after a peerreview, 149 were selected for presentation andinclusion in IEEE Explore. The papers werepresented in parallel tracks in the areas ofWireless Sensor Networks, Communication,VLSI, Power and Energy, Computing, ImageProcessing, Ad-hoc, MANET.
The following invited talks were deliveredduring the conf
• Dr. D. Nirmal, Professor, KarunyaUniversity on “MOSFET Architecturein Nano regime”.
• Dr. B. Ramadoss Professor, NIT Trichydelivered a talk on “Emerging Trends inComputing”.
• Dr. P. Bomanna Raja, Professor, PSNACollege of Engineering & TechnologyMadurai highlighted the New Trends inImage Processing.
• Dr. P. Sanjeevikumar, Professor, VIT,Chennai delivered a talk on “AsymmetricalMultiphase AC Motor Drives”.
The conference had a panel discussionon the theme by the panelists Dr. B. Priestly Shan,Prof. Sabarinath, IEEE Kerala Section, Prof.Arun and Prof. Deepu, St. Joseph College ofEngineering and Technology, Kottayam, Kerala.
At the valedictory, Dr. V. Sundareswaran,Regional Director, Anna University, spoke aboutthe importance of conducting conference andthe importance of paper publication. The guestof honour, Major.V.V. Chandrasekaran, Hon.Secretary IEEE Madras Section highlighted therole of IEEE in academics. Dr. Prof. Sabarinathfrom IEEE Kerala Section highlighted theimportance of the technical associations inkeeping abreast with the ever changinginformation and communication technologiesDr. B. Priestly Shan, conference publicationchair finalized and announced the awards forthe best paper and the best presentation. T. D.Subash conference organizing secretary deliveredthe vote of thanks.
The following technical gathering discussionmeetings were held during Jan & Feb 2013.
• On 8th Jan, 2013, Ms. Arya, of 3rd CSE gavea presentation on new technologies of theworld. After the presentation, the details ofthe Grass Hopper Conference on Womenin Computing India held at Bangalore werediscussed and the members were encouragedto attend the same.
St. Xavier’s Catholic College of Engineering• On 22nd Jan 2013, Ms. Annie Mary
Varghese, of 2nd EEE, delivered a talk on“Solar Space Collector”.
• A technical presentation on “RadioFrequency Identification-RFID” was madeby Ms. Dhrisya, of 2nd EEE on 5th Feb 2013.Discussions were held on the forthcomingmagazine of the IEEE SXCCE (10th issue).The proposal to conduct the soft skillprogram was worked out.
• A technical presentation on “Nano HummingBird or Nano Air Vehicle (NAV)” was madeby J. Girish Gowtham of 3rd EEE on 19th Feb2013. Discussions were held on NationalEngineers Week and the Rainbow Project.
• On 26th Feb 2013, Mr. Janaki Raman of 3rd
CSE gave a technical talk on “Ways toImprove Securities in order to avoid OnlineHacking”. WIE chair Ms. Ann AgnettaChandru informed the members about thevarious competitionsto be held during theICON’13 Symposium and encouraged themembers to participate in them.
Sri Muthukumaran Institute of TechnologyWorkshop on Self-Defence
On 15th March 2013, as a part of Women’sDay celebrations, a workshop on Self-defencefor women was organized by the IEEECOMSOC Society Chapter. Prof. D. ShanthiChellaih, HoD/ECE welcomed the gathering andDr. G. Sankaranarayanan, Principal, deliveredthe Inaugural address. The chief guest Dr.Kalyani, Director, Meenakshi group ofinstitutions, enlightened the participants withher vision on women’s active participation inevery sphere of life.
by coordinators Koteeswari, Hamsa of 3rd yearECE along with the teammates Shilpa, Aleena,Jayashree, and Padmapriya of 2nd year ECE.The workshop ended up with the prizedistribution for the winners.
Mr. Anoop Madhavan, lead trainer andfounder of Survival Instincts, explained thegathering on self-defence with the help ofdemonstration by volunteers. He elucidated onthe instantaneous measures that women mustimpose in critical situations such as harassmentand violence against them.
In the afternoon, after a talk on womenempowerment by Prof. S. Sangeetha, Hod/MBA,150 students from various departmentsparticipated in events such as ‘Minute to winit’, ‘Addcraz’ and ‘Queen of the Quest’ organized
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National Conference on Energy, Systemsand Control
Hindustan University
A two days national conference on Energy,Systems and Control - NCESC’13 was organizedby the Dept. of EEE in association with the IEEEMadras Section on 14th & 15th of March 2013.
Dr. K. Sarukesi, Vice-Chancellor,presided over the inaugural function. Dr. R. S.Shivakumara Aradhya, Additional Director,PSD, CPRI, Bangalore inaugurated the conf. and
delivered the address on “Issues in gridintegration of renewable energy sources like largewind farms”. Dr. R. Devanathan, Dean, Schoolof Electrical Sciences emphasized the
importance of the conferences in the presentday context. Prof. K. Shanthi Swarup, IITMadras delivered a keynote address on “SmartGrid”. The conference proceedings was alsoreleased at the inaugural session.
The second day of the conference startedwith the keynote address on “Energy Security - Aneed for future” by Mr. K. K. Rajan, Director, FastReactor Technology Group, IGCAR, Kalpakkam .
The conf. received over 200 papers fromall over the country on various topics such as:Embedded Systems, Wind Energy Conversion,Energy Conservation and Nuclear Power,Electrical Drives and Control, Power Electronics& Power Quality and Solar Power Conversion.41 papers including 4 industry papers wereselected by an expert panel for presentation inthe conf. in six technical sessions which werechaired by senior academicians.
IEEE SIGHT Madras Section has takeninitiative to spread humanitarian technologyamong students by conducting a Solar LampWorkshop on 15th March 2013 in SRM EaswariEngineering College. The Workshop wasconducted in collaboration with IEEE Power
Solar Initiative: Solar Lamp Workshopand Energy Society and an NGO: The SolarillionInitiative.
The workshop was organized by Anand(Chairman), Antony Venus A.J (Vice Chairman),Arun Noel Victor (Secretary) along withMukundan, Madhuri Narayanan, SalmaSaithoon A, Nivedhitha R. Mr. VinithVijayaraghavan, CEO Panchabhutha andRamesh Rajesh, Co-founder Solarillion, renderedimmense support to the event as the NGOpartners.
There were 115 participants from 10institutions across Tamil Nadu. The objective
of the workshop is to take the knowledge onsolar power to the students and kindle theirinterest towards developing renewable energyprojects. Ramesh Rajesh, Solarillion Co-Founder explained the mission of their initiativeas to reach a million people to get benefittedwith SOLAR Energy. The workshop was heldin four batches. The session started with anintroduction about SIGHT and Solarillion Team,need for the solar energy. Mr. Arun Noel Victorand Mr. Mukundhan provided hands-on trainingto the participants on basic electronics and solarcircuit design. Following the workshop theteams are in the process of designing their ownsolar lamp to compete in the Solar Lamp DesignContest which is to be held on 13th April 2013.
illustrated in his talk on “Mobile ApplicationReusability – SaaS in Mobile CloudComputing”, a wide variety of usefulapplications currently implemented by NIC inthe government sector and also gave a detailedreport on its efficiency in our daily affairs.
The next session on “OpenStack usecases in Educational Institutes” by Mr. A.R.Rathinasabapathy, Co-founder. SolutionsArchitect, Cloudenablers, Chennai, gaveelaborate information on the models of cloudarchitecture currently available. The session wasalso followed by an exciting Demo.
In the final session, IT expert, Mr. T.S.Rangarajan, Principal Consultant, TataConsultancy Services, in his talk on “Challengesand Issues in Mobile Cloud Computing -Research Perspective”, explained in detail thecurrent research areas where one could applythe emerging technology.
Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing
Velammal Engineering College
The TIFAC-CORE in PervasiveComputing Technologies, in association withIEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter &CSI Div IV conducted a one day workshop on4th Apr, 2013 on “Mobile Cloud Computing”.The event was organized by Prof. B.Venkatalakshmi, Chief Coordinator, TIFAC-CORE and coordinated by Asst. Profs. Mrs.Anitha Julian and Mr. R. Ganesan with the aimto provide a wide spectrum of knowledgeby choice of apt resource persons in thefield. Around 50 external participants from
educational institutions across South India,and 20 internal participants attended theprogramme.
Dean, Dr. S. Chandrasekaran welcomedthe gathering. Principal, Dr. R.S. Kumardelivered the presidential address byencouraging the participants to aspire in gainingadditional knowledge in the emergingtechnologies such as Cloud Computing and BigData. The inaugural address was given by Mr.Yogesh Girikumar, Application Specialist, CSSCorp., who also delivered the first session titled,“Mobile Cloud – Implementation withApplication Development” elaborating theconcept of Mobile Computing, CloudComputing and the integration of both to realworld applications.
Mr. V.S. Raghunathan, Senior TechnicalDirector, National Informatics Centre, Chennai
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Seminar on Signal and Image Processing
IEEE COMSOC Madras Chapter, whichhas been organizing lectures, lecture series andseminars in Chennai, organized for the first timein Coimbatore a one-day seminar on Signal andImage Processing on 9th March 2013 at SriRamakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore.
Dr M Jagadeeswari, HOD/VLSI Designwelcomed the gathering. Dr N R Alamelu,Principal, SREC and Chairperson, IEEECOMSOC Madras Chapter gave a briefintroduction on the activities of IEEE COMSOCMadras Chapter and on the Seminar. Dr RPrabhakar, Secretary, Coimbatore Institute ofTechnology, Coimbatore inaugurated theConference. Dr A Ebenezer Jeyakumar, Director(Academics), SNR Sons Charitable Trust,Coimbatore presided. Mr P Subramanian,Secretary, IEEE COMSOC Madras Chapter &Assoc Prof, Aarupadai Veedu Institute ofTechnology delivered the vote of thanks.
The seminar had the following lectures.
• Dr. KA Narayankutty, Professor, ECEDept, Amrita School of Engineering,Coimbatore spoke on the topic ofCompressed Sensing.
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• Dr. S Manigandan, Scientist-C, DRDO,Bangalore spoke on the topic Video SignalProcessing.
• Dr. K Porkumaran, Principal, Dr N G PInstitute of Technology, Coimbatore gavea lecture on Biomedical Signal Processing.
• Dr. PT Vanathi, Professor, ECE Dept,PSG College of Technology, Coimbatoregave a lecture on Speech SignalProcessing.
• Er. Chioranth Patil, Field ApplicationEngineer, CoreEl Technologies, Bangaloregave a presentation on the Challenges inMultimedia Processing-Solution in Xilinx.
Mr K Balamurugan, IEEE Student BranchCounselor, SREC, Coimbatore concluded theproceedings with a report on the seminar. Theseminar was well attended by about 86 students,faculty and research scholars.
Guest Lecture
Kingston EngineeringCollege
The IEEE SB organized a guest lectureon “Present Scenario in Power System” on 6th
Mar, 2013. The guest speaker, Mr. C. Nallasivan,System Studies Engineer, Tamil Nadu Generation& Distribution Corporation (TNEB Ltd) Chennai,in his lecture provided a brief insight of powergeneration and power requirement across India.He highlighted how to reduce power losses inthe transmission line. He encouraged,production of electricity using renewable energysources (Solar and Wind energy) for domesticand commercial purpose. He also focused on“smart grid” advantages and its existence acrossthe world. He had also screened few videoclipping and made the lecture interesting.
