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CONTENTS
Foreword by the Director
Foreword by the Principal
About the Department & Symposium
Abstract of Selected Technical Papers
Major activities and Achievements
o By Staff
o By Student
Articles by the Staff and Students
Alumni activities
Editorial Board
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FOREWORDBY THE PRINCIPAL
In LICET, Education not only lies in the quantification of knowledge but to form
Competent, Committed, Creative and Compassionate engineers who are socially
responsible. True to this motto, the budding engineers of ECE department have come
out with the second edition of the e-Magazine. Keeping abreast with latest technology is
very vital for professional growth. This magazine will serve as an instrument to expose
the students to the latest technologies in the field of Electronics and communication. I
am sure that these budding engineers are going to shine in their profession. I
congratulate the HOD, faculty members and all the students of ECE department for this
good effort.
With kind regards
Dr. Jose Swaminathan
Principal
Loyola ICAM College of Engineering and Technology,
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ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT
Right from the founding of the Society of Jesus (known as the Jesuit Order), Jesuits
pioneered in the field of innovative education keeping the needs of the society in focus.
The Jesuits have come forward to found a professional institution to train the youth in
skill-based capacity building in order to meet the needs and challenges of the ever
evolving world of science and technology. It is in this context that Loyola-ICAM College
of Engineering and Technology (LICET) has taken shape in Loyola College Campus
(Chennai) which is located in the heart of Chennai cosmopolitan city in South India. For
us, education does not lie in the quantification of knowledge. But it lies in the quality of
knowledge that helps form the character of students. We Form them as Competent,
Committed, Creative and Compassionate men and women for others. We believe in this
philosophy. This is what has made Loyola climb to the top in the league of colleges in
India.
The department of Electronics and Communication Engineering has well qualified staff
members and the department is equipped with five laboratories. The state of art in the
laboratories facilitates the students to excel not only in the syllabus prescribed by the
affiliated University and also in latest technologies in the field of Electronics and
Communication Engineering.
Students of the department are encouraged to attend symposium, workshops,
internships in India and abroad Universities during their course of study. With the high
meritorious students at the entry level, the students excel in various curricular and co-
curricular activities. In order to update the knowledge on latest trends, various value
added courses including system analysis and system discovery are being conducted
from I year onwards.
The alumni of the department are depicting glorious performance in various industries
and also continuing their higher studies in reputed institutions in India and abroad.
The department is consistently striving to achieve their vision that become a globally
recognized institution of higher learning, center of providing quality education with
social responsibility expending enriched knowledge and technologies in the field of
Electronics and Communication engineering
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
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“I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy”
- Jack Canfield
The 4th national level technical symposium “Slice v15” was held at Loyola-ICAM College
of Engineering and Technology (LICET) by the Department of ECE on 25th July 2015
(Saturday).
The National Level Symposium brought forth hundreds of participants (Engineering
Students) all over Tamil Nadu to exhibit their Engineering personas and professional
talents.
It was the very first event of the academic year (2015-2016) and it brought forth a lot
of excitement as well as an undeniable concentration from all the Engineering students
at LICET.
The events conducted on Symposium were a combination of Technical and non-
Technical programs and events. The list is as follows,
1) Technoscript (Paper presentation)
2) Debug If You Dare (Circuit Debugging)
3) Robotrix (Robotics)
4) E-Witz (Technical/Non-Technical English Quiz)
5) Word War Z (Technical/Non-Technical event)
6) செருக்களம் (Non-Technical Tamil Quiz)
7) Expedition on the run (Treasure Hunt)
8) Surprise Events
The students went through almost 3 weeks of rigorous effort to accomplish a grand
success. A number of committees were appointed and work was done from all the
corners to all the corners, changing every wall of education to walls of fun, challenge,
competition and success.
All of these events would not have been accomplished if it wasn‟t for the support and
advice given by the Faculty. They helped us with ideas and also, approved and
improved them. They have been a pillar in our times of need and also, a base on which
our foundation is placed.
We, students, take this opportunity to thank our Director, Rev. Dr. Francis P Xavier SJ,
Dean of Studies, Rev. Dr. John Pragasam S.J. and our Principal, Dr. Jose Swaminathan
for providing us with a platform to work on.
We thank our respected HOD, Dr. Saraswathi S., for providing us with the time,
support, ideas and permission to carry out the national level symposium successfully.
This symposium wouldn‟t have been a success if it wasn‟t for our beloved Faculty
members who have been with us day and night, helping us and also, enabling us to
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become our better selves. It has been a great pleasure to work with a great team like
ours.
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ABSTRACT OF THE SELECTED
TECHNICAL PAPERS
1. Auto Sensing Traffic Timer
Mayuri Bhatia, H.Geethalakshmi and Fiona Don Bosco Electronics and Communication Engineering
Loyola- ICAM College of Engineering and Technology, Chennai
Urban traffic is increasing all over the world. Conventionally, in India, traffic control
system is fixed and uses synchronized manual interface. Due to human ambiguity, the
traffic flow is flawed many a time. Hence to make the traffic control system more
effective and flawless, a completely automated system “Auto Sensing Traffic Timer” is
proposed. The system uses the Dynamic counting ability of traffic level based timer
(TLBT) which is also capable of sensing the traffic on major lane intersections. The
density of traffic is sensed and is sent to the hub (microcontroller) that works on priority
queuing system. It processes the signals received from several sensors and assigns
different timer levels to each of them. Thus, this system not just automates the whole
of traffic control process but also monitors the lanes with heavy traffic and by allocating
appropriate timing signal; it greatly reduces the traffic congestion.
2. Amplifier Stability in the Case of
Non-linear Inductive Loads
Anto Nivin.M, Azhagan A V R and Godwin Sylvester Electronics and Communication Engineering
Loyola-ICAM College of Engineering and Technology, Chennai
In an amplifier when the load is inductive and non-linear, there will be a non-linear
inductance on the loop of the amplifier. This effect can generate high-frequency
oscillations in the circuit near specific points in the B-H curve. The objective of the
research is to identify the causes which lead to oscillations. For the given problem the
paper provide reasons for oscillations such as, Negative impedance, Inductive load
saturation, geo-magnetically induced current and remedies to avoid early oscillations.
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3. Wind Powered Mobile Charger
V. Hari Krishnan Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Velammal Engineering College, Chennai
In this world of busy hours, the usage of smart phones is increasing day by day. The
battery of the smart phone is sometimes not able to cope with the usage of its user.
There is a need for a power source during such situations. Sometimes the power
source may not available for charging the phone battery, especially during long travels.
During such occasions, this device, “WIND POWERED MOBILE CHARGER “comes to the
rescue of the mobile users. Those who use GPS services & other wireless services such
as 3G while traveling will be benefited more by this device. Such services can be used
seamless without worrying about the battery charge as this device is providing
continuous backup for the smart phones. This device contains a small dc generator
coupled to a propeller and electric power is generated. This is again processed to get
specified value of current and voltage using an electronic circuit. It is fed to the dump
load (battery) and charge from here is regulated to the USB port, which matches the
specifications of a smart phone charger. Thus the smart phone battery is charged with
backup power.
4. Adaptive traffic signal using
parallel plate capacitor
Rahul.R, Prasanth.G Madras institute of technology, Chennai
The most prevalent traffic signaling system in developing countries is the timer based
system. This system involves a predefined time setting for each road at an intersection.
While this might prove effective for light traffic, heavy traffic requires an adaptive
system that will work based on the density of traffic on each road. In this paper, we
propose an adaptive traffic intersection system where the traffic monitoring is done with
the help of a parallel plate capacitor and the traffic density of all the intersections are
compared and traffic clearance will be prioritized based on the density of traffic.
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5. Smart Irrigation System through
Wireless Sensor Networks
P. C. Hemanth Kumar Electrical and Electronics Engineering
KCG College of Technology, Chennai
Y M Jagadeesh Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Panimalar Engineering College, Chennai
Irrigation has been a central feature of agriculture in India but it is hard for an
individual person to monitor it continuously and regularly. In order to make this
irrigation easier our system introduces some changes in the usual irrigation system. The
newly developed project controls water supply automatically in water crisis areas
through moisture sensor. This paper covers the application of Sensor based Irrigation
system through wireless sensor networks, which uses a renewable energy as a source.
In this system Wireless Sensor Networks plays a major role in environment monitoring
system and provides unmanned irrigation. WSN consists of moisture sensors, energy
harvesting systems and embedded controllers and uses super capacitors as storage
device.
6. Non-invasive glucose monitoring
using NIR spectroscopy technique
J.Krishnakumar, D.Ajithkumar and V.Ashwinvasudevan Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering
Easwari Engineering College, Chennai
Diabetes has emerged as a major healthcare problem in India. Today approximately 8.3
% of global adult population is suffering from Diabetes. Today the technologies
available in the market for monitoring blood glucose levels are invasive methods. Since
invasive methods cause pain, time consuming and expensive. Also there is a potential
risk of catching infectious diseases like Hepatitis & HIV. In recent times there is a
tremendous increase in the use of electrical and electronic equipment in the medical
field for clinical and research purposes. Thus biomedical equipment has a greater role in
solving medical problems and enhances the quality of life. Hence there is a great
demand to have a reliable, instantaneous, cost effective and comfortable measurement
system for the detection of blood glucose concentration. Non-invasive blood glucose
measurement device is one such which can be used for continuous monitoring of
glucose levels in human body.
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7. Border security system for Indian
fishermen using antenna and wave
propagation
K.Aruljegadesh Pandian and B.Sharmeli Electronics and Communication Engineering
Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, Chennai
The proposed security system uses a microwave antenna operating at the frequency
band which has been specially allocated for this security purpose. The base station will
be located at Indian soil. The mobile station or receiving antenna will be fixed at the
boats on which the fishermen travel to acquire fishes. The received signal strength
decreases as the distance between the transmitter and receiver increases. Beyond a
certain distance the receiver becomes out of line-of- sight or is outside the cell site for
establishing communication. Transmitting signal is produced and radiated by the
parabolic reflector antenna. Antenna at the receiver side is interfaced with the
microcontroller circuit. The output of the microcontroller is fed to the loudspeaker.
Microcontroller is programmed in such a way that when receiving antenna is no longer
receiving the particular frequency radiations, an alarm is triggered on. This alarm is to
make fishermen aware that they are about to cross the maritime borders. Since, the
alarm is triggered when fishermen‟s boat is one or two kilometers less than fixed border
line, it will be easy for him to take a detour. Further, the microcontroller when switching
on the alarm, makes use of GPS (global positioning system) to send the location of the
fishermen‟s boat which has reached the specified warning line to the nearest coastal
guard with a GSM module. For this GSM module, the operating frequency range is
different from the previously generated one.
8. Terror Prevention by Embedded System
B. Suganya Computer Science Engineering
R.M.D Engineering College, Chennai
R. Pravin Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
R.M.K Engineering College, Chennai
What is the major weapon of terrorists? It is explosives. An explosive can be taken even
in a small bottle and can be effectively used for killing thousands within few seconds.
Explosives are of two kinds namely, metal explosives and liquid explosives. Metal
explosives can be detected by metal detectors and for liquid explosives no efficient
detecting system is available. So we developed a strategy that would not only detect
liquid explosives but also for catching the terrorist red handedly. By our wide research
over the web we found out that the 99% of TERRORISTS used very few amounts of
highly destructive liquid explosives like glyceryl trinitrate, ammonium nitrate etc.
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Nitroglycerin (glyceryltrinitrate famously known as GTN) is the most convenient and the
frequently used liquid explosive. A UV spectrometer tests the component and gives its
absorption spectra. A band pass filter selects the required frequency range and sends it
to a converter that converts the frequency signal to voltage or current signal. Even
after identifying the existence of explosives, terrorists may escape. Hence we use a data
acquisition system that helps in catching the terrorists.
9. Sensing and Detection of Brake
failure and Auto braking Using Motor
Karthick.R & Rajkumar.D Electronics and Communication Engineering
Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Erode
Nowadays, vehicles are rapidly increasing; people tend to move from place to place
through vehicles especially in cars and in two wheelers. The rapid growth in vehicles
also increases the accidents. Most of the accidents are due to Brake failures and these
brake failure accidents leads to serious consequences, sometimes it leads to fatal one.
Many lives were lost because of Brake failures in vehicles. To avoid these Brake failures,
we came through a solution. In our project we made an alternate Braking system totally
different than the Normal Braking System, with simple motors to control and stop the
vehicle.
10. EEG –ZigBee based Brain Controlled
Robotic Arm
Shivakumar Damodaran Information Technology
Jerusalem College of Engineering, Chennai
A brain machine interface (BMI) facilitates the control of machines through the analysis
and classification of signals directly from the human brain. Using an
Electroencephalograph (EEG) to detect neurological activity permits the collection of
data representing brain signals without the need for invasive technology or procedures.
A 14-electrode headset is used to capture live data, which can then be classified and
encoded into control signals for a 7-degree -of-freedom robotic arm. The collected EEG
data is classified into one of four control signals: lift, lower, rotate clockwise, and rotate
counter -clockwise. Additionally, the system watches the collected data for
electromyography (EMG) signals indicative of movement of the facial muscles.
Detections are used to incorporate two additional control signals: open and close. A
personal set of EEG data patterns is trained for each individual, with each control signal
requiring only a few minutes to train initially. EMG signal detections are measured
against a generic threshold for all users. Once a user has trained their personal data
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into the system any positive detection trigger a signal to the interfaced robotic arm to
perform a corresponding, discrete action.
11. Cardiac Arrest Detection using
Memristor Technology
S.Ramakrishnan and J. BrittoAmarnath Information Technology
St. Joseph‟s college of engineering, Chennai
In this work, we use a piezoelectric crystal which gives variable voltage output
depending upon the vibrations given on the crystal surface. This voltage is converted to
current using suitable converter. Now the current is passed through a memristor, which
has a corresponding resistance value. Whenever the current increases, the resistance
value increases and the change in resistance is detected using a microwave generator
connected at the end. Using the microwave level, an external device (similar to a watch)
has been programmed to detect cardiac arrest and it will inform the patient or his
neighbors about the condition, so that the patient can be taken to the hospital before
anaerobic respiration starts. So by making use of this kind of detection technologies we
could save many lives.
12. Improved Hand Tracking and
Isolation from Face by Condensation
Multi Clue Algorithm for continuous
Indian Sign Language Recognition
Meejuri Lokesh and Dinesh kumar.M Electronics and Communication Engineering
T.J.S.Engineering College, Chennai
This paper proposes a robust approach to recognize hand gesture which involves face
parts like chin, cheeks, eyes and head in the context of sign language recognition and
also attacks the problem of interference between face and hand. Condensation
algorithm is used to track the face, skin color. Segmentation is applied on face image to
eliminate eyes, and simple four quadrant multiplier clue information of face is obtained.
Simultaneously two hands are tracked by another Condensation module and BRIEF
feature descriptors are extracted from hand. The multi-clue information from four
quadrants of face is identified whenever intersection of two tracking modules occurs.
This intersection information provides which part of the face is being referred by the
hand. Along with BRIEF feature descriptor, face position is used as feature for gesture
recognition. Multi-class SVM classifier is used for continuous hand gestures
classification. Experimentation is carried out with Indian Sign Language and found that
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the proposed approach outperforms the other existing methods with the recognition
rate of 93.21%.
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MAJOR ACTIVITIES AND
ACHIEVEMENTS
Students of the ECE department have attended many workshops, In-Plant Training and
symposiums in the following companies/ institutions in the year 2014-15:
• Combat Vehicle Research and Development Establishment(CVRDE)
• Ford India Pvt. Ltd
• Doordarshan Kendra
• CSIR
• Airports Authority of India
• ONGC
• BSNL, Meenambakkam, Maraimalai Nagar, Nandambakkam
• Prasar Bharati
• SALCOMP
• IIT Madras
• MIT, Chrompet
• Panimalar Engineering College
• B.S. Abdur Rahman University
• TAFE
• SRM
• CEG
• Sri Sairam College of Engineering
• Velammal College of Engineering and Technology
• Government College of Technology(GST)
• Easwari College of Engineering
• ICF
• Hindustan Computers Limited(HCL)
• CSIR-CEERI
• Thermal plant
• MIL India Ltd.
• All India Radio
• Radio Astronomy Centre- Tata Institute of fundamental research
• Samsung Electronics
• Kashiv Infotech
Industrial visits have been organized to éolane Industries in Bangalore, BHEL in Ranipet,
NARL in Thirupathi, BSNL, Doordharshan Kendra and A.I.R in Chennai was acquainted
with the activities in industries.
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Guest lectures were arranged regularly to the students so as to prepare themselves for
the industry. Mr. Ganesan, Global Head, Finance explained about the expectations of IT
industries to our students. Mr. Gopi, Research fellow in RISE lab, IIT Madras explained
about the activities of their laboratory in the field of VLSI technologies.
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM
• Arnold, Manoj M., Mohammed Ghouse Parvez, Ridhi Shashangi N.,Saranya
Venkatesan of 2013-2014 batch done a project on “Solar Car” in ICAM, Lille, France in
the month of June 2015.
• Sheeba Mary, Subhalakshmi, Veronica Jayashree Raj of 2013-2014 batch done a
project on 3D PRINTER in ICAM, Toulouse, France in the month of June 2015.
• Jiztom Francis did a project at Heilbronn Hochschule, Heilbronn, Germany in the
month of June. The project was based on „CAN bus communication interface‟ for a
bigger robot, based on Linux, fully pre-emptive patch enabled Real-Time OS.
• Anto Nivin M., AVR Azhagan, Godwin S. of 2012-2015 batch done a project on
“Amplifier Stability In Case Of Non Linear Inductive Loads“ in Comillas University in the
month of June 2015.
INTERNSHIPS
ECE department students have attended Internships in the following companies:
• KONE Elevators
• Tech Mahindra
• HCL Embedded systems
• UNIQ Technologies
• Sree Sai Aerotech Pvt. Ltd.
• Compex Microcore, Mumbai.
VALUE ADDED COURSES
• A Three-month Value Added Certification (VAC) Courses on „Robotics‟ and
„Communication Skills” was held for the 1st year (ECE) students from January 2015 to
March 2015.
• The course on “communication skills” was certified by Shane Jordan, Head of
Department-Learning and Development In Sync Learning and Development
• The course on “Robotics” was certified by Mr. Rajamanickam, Bits 'n' Watts
Embedded Solution, Chennai.
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FEW OF THE MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS BY THE
STUDENTS
The academic toppers of the academic year 2014 – 2015 are
Sahaya Raj D. Batch of 2011-2015
Rina Daline T. Batch of 2012-2016
Saranya V. Batch of 2013-2017
Thara Roselinn J. Batch of 2014-2018
Out of nine teams who have submitted their project proposal to Texas
Instruments Analog contest, six teams got selected in the 1st round and they
received all the components to execute their projects. Also they received
appreciation award from the Texas Instruments for the same.
Project demonstrated by Sahayaraj of final year ECE and his team members has
been awarded as the best project under the title “Social Impact” for the year
2014-15 by „TAFE‟.
Sahayaraj of final year ECE received the best valedictorian award for his
academic excellence among the students of all the disciplines during farewell
2014-15.
Anto Nivin M. of III year ECE has been selected as an „Under graduate Project
assistant‟ at Sollarillion Foundation, Chennai for a period of 1 year from March
2nd, 2015.
The March Past performed by the students of ECE bagged the 1st prize in the
college during the annual sports day meet 2014-2015.
Eugene Deborah P. secured 1stprize in Paper Presentation at CONVERGENCE held
at Sairam Engineering College.
Fiona Donbosco and Antoinette Abhinaya secured 1st place in Arduino Workshop
held at Loyola-ICAM College of Engineering and Technology.
Peter Sharun Woodson M. and Rajkumar Rajavel secured 1st prize in BOTRUN
held at SHASTRA University.
Eleven students undergone one month of summer internship in ICAM, France,
one student in Heilbronn University, Germany and three students in Comillas
University, Spain during summer 2014-15.
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As a part of student‟s initiative, workshop on “Arduino” was conducted by the
following students of 3rd year
o AntoNivin .M
o Azhagan .AVR
o Jones Vinoth Joseph
o Godwin .S
o Merbin J. Anselm
o Venkatesh Sai
FEW OF THE MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS BY THE
STAFF
• Dr.Kunaraj, AP/ECE has been awarded the Ph.D degree by Anna University
during 2014-15 and the title of his thesis is „Synthesis and Implementation of Evolvable
arithmetic IP cores for reconfigurable hardware‟
• Mr.Ajikumar, Lab instructor, Electronic circuits Laboratory has successfully
completed his Bachelor‟s degree in MIT, Anna University and excelled with a second
rank in the University.
• Ms.Surya, Lab instructor, DSP/VLSI Laboratory has successfully completed her
master‟s degree in Embedded system Technologies in SRM university
• Dr.S.Saraswathi Janaki, Prof. and HOD, ECE has been awarded as an outstanding
faculty in the field of Electronics Engineering for the year 2014-15 by Venus
International foundation, Chennai.
• Dr.S.Saraswathi, Dr.Kunaraj, Mr.Mahimai Don Bosco and Mr.Balaji received
appreciation awards from Texas Instruments for mentoring their team of students to
excel in the Texas Analog Contest 2014-15.
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ARTICLES BY THE STAFF
Are We Insensitive?
Monica I.
Assistant Professor, ECE
“We don't live; we just focus so much on tomorrow, career, future, money and all these
things and we don't realize how fragile life is and maybe there is no tomorrow"
True indeed!!! I would like to share a true incident which proves how selfish people
have become.
June 3
9pm
Bangalore
A 32 year old, newly married man was found dead in his office. Bit more than a
fortnight of his marriage and he was dead. Yes, life is strange, so is death! He had went
down to have his lunch, there he had got heart attack and was dead after some time.
People are so insensitive! Nobody came to help him for some time. People don't help
until and unless it is their family. The ambulance came 15-20 minutes late, somebody
could have dropped him in his car, and maybe he could have been saved. Those were
the early days of his marriage and he was so happy and excited, in the morning he had
been discussing about taking leave the next day for Pooja (a ritual post marriage), and
was bit scared to ask for leave from his boss as he had just joined the office.
People got to know about him after 2 hours when his chair was empty. How
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people can be so insensitive? Everybody was online working as if nothing had ever
happened. Nobody went to hospital with him; few went to see him later though. His
seat; the same table; the computer and all those notes stuck on the wall, only the chair
was empty.
His phone was locked so they informed his parents so late. When they were
putting him on the ambulance, doctor said that may be he is no more, same time his
newlywed wife called him over the phone. May be she called to know if he got leave for
tomorrow or to call him home early that day.
Many dreams died along with him! I pity on the poor girl (his newlywed wife).
Now society will eat her like vulture blaming this all on her. She will be cursed, hated,
judged and blamed for this thing. She will be shattered to the core. Her dreams washed
away; her happiness is gone, on top of that society will not let her to be in peace. Just
18 days back there was grand celebration, the best day of her life! Everything was like
fairy tale for her. But now society will not leave any place for her. Her own will become
her enemy.
I have seen only men dying of heart attack and in such age it is unthinkable.
Girls cry, fight but let it come out with tears. Men don‟t! They keep the emotions so
much inside, may be that causes it. On the top, society expects you to be tough „Men
don‟t cry‟. Why don‟t you tell what is bothering you, why don‟t you cry?
People have become insensitive! We don‟t look around. All are running behind
money. We are on earth to love, care, forgive, share and spread joy. Are we doing that?
Are we bothered about people around us? Are we sensitive? Let was take this to heart
and analyze ourselves!
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I am Chitti… Memory 1 Gigabyte... Speed
1 Terabyte…!
Vidhya R.
Assistant Professor, ECE
Early man in the Stone Age utilized the various natural
sources around him and gave birth to technology that
helped him to survive. As days went by, when he felt
that he has done enough for survival he started
concentrating on leaving his mark even after his existence. For instance, The
Brihadeeswarar Temple in Thanjavur, built by the Cholas which has become the
UNESCO‟s World Heritage Site depicts the technology used by man, where Man power
and Mind power were the foundation. Whatever is happening today in the world which
every Country boasts about themselves are only advancements of technology but not
new technologies. Albert Einstein said, “I fear the day that technology will surpass our
human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots”. We are creating newer
versions of ancient and old inventions and convincing ourselves that we are successful.
Inventions What we call inventions today
Telephone Smart Phone, Mobile
Cycle Two wheeler / Four wheeler
Wheeled wells Bore wells
Abacus Calculators
Fire by striking two stones – Fuel Bio Gas, LPG, Petroleum products
Radio I-Pod
Hut All Civil constructions
Bulb LED, Plasma light
Hand Fan Air Conditioners
Steam Engine Bullet Train, Mono Rail
These are live examples to justify that we are not inventing anything these days. We
have switched off our powerful minds and have allowed technology to drive our daily
life. Imagination leads to Learning, Learning gives Creativity, Creativity is the fuel for
Inventions. Are we trying to prove that Einstein‟s words were true? Start Imagining and
Start Inventing.
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ARTICLES BY THE STUDENTS
Get back on your Feet!!!
Anjali Mariam Benjamin
3rd Year, ECE
(1st place in Article Contest)
BABY giraffes never go to school. But they learn a very important lesson very early in
life. A lesson that is very much needed for us. The birth of a baby giraffe is quite an
earth-shaking event. The baby falls from its mother‟s womb, which is almost eight feet
above the ground. The baby curls up and lies still because it is too weak to
move. Meanwhile,the mother giraffe lovingly lowers her neck to smooch the baby
giraffe. And then something incredible happens. She lifts her long leg and kicks the
baby giraffe, sending it flying up in the air and tumbling down on the ground. As the
baby lies curled up, the mother kicks the baby again, and again until the baby giraffe,
still trembling and tired, pushes its limbs and for the first time learns to stand on its
feet. The mother keeps kicking the baby till it learns to recover and stand up
quickly.The mother Giraffe is delighted when it is done because she knows that her
baby has learnt an important lesson: Never mind how hard you fall, always remember
to pick yourself up and get back on your feet.
Why does the mother giraffe do this? She knows that lions and leopards love giraffe
meat. So unless the baby giraffe quickly learns to stand and run with the pack it will
have no chance of survival. Unlike us, no one teaches us to stand up every time we fall.
When we fail, when we are down, we just give up. No one kicks us out of our comfort
zone to remind us that to survive and succeed, we need to learn to get back on our
feet.
Haven‟t you heard about the 1000 times Edison failed only to win the 1001th time, and
he said rightly that it was never a waste of time because he learnt 1000 ways of not
doing a particular experiment. Being Positive is very much needed in life because only
we can decide if we want to succeed or just stay behind where we fell. Once a young
sales executive from Kolkata dreamt about becoming an announcer on radio. He
auditioned with All India Radio for a job but was rejected. He refused to accept defeat
and continued to chase his dream. He tried for a role in the movies. He got rejected.
Nevertheless he kept trying finally he played an angry young man in a movie that
became a super hit. And the failed radio announcer went on to become the country‟s
biggest superstar widely admired for his baritone voice! And it‟s none other than
Amitabh Bachan!
The road to success is never an easy one but always remember that “A paper flying the
sky is because of your luck, but a kite flying in the sky is always because of your
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efforts”. A genuine effort will never go waste and one more thing just remember one
more thing. Next time you find a friend or a parent kicking you, don‟t get upset with
them. Like the mother giraffe, they may only be trying to teach you one of life‟s most
important lessons. It doesn‟t matter how many times you fall. What matters is your
ability to pick yourself up and stand on your feet once again.
Future of Agriculture in India
N. Swathi Alamelu
1st year, ECE
(2nd place in Article Contest)
Our earth which has rich sources of flora and fauna, has a massive human
population. The entire population depends upon the food and water. The driving force
for our human beings is food. We eat different kinds of fruits and vegetables.
Agriculture is the main source for all our needs. Agriculture has contributed to the
economy of India. Eighty five percent of Indian population depends upon agriculture
and we have vast cultivating lands.
What is the plight of Agriculture today? Today no one is ready to do agriculture
and farming because of the setbacks in farming and the impact of natural calamities.
From the day of Independence proper protection is not given to the farmers. Even
successive Governments did not give much importance to agriculture, farming and
related activities.
All agricultural lands has been sold and industrial buildings has been established
in those areas and there is massive exodus of people to industrial area. There are so
many projects and companies which always intrude agriculture. The methane gas
project which extends into most of the agricultural lands in southern India will ruin the
fields in future. It is a major problem for the farmers. They have to repay their loans
and get sufficient water for irrigation.
Suicidal death by the farmers has become order of the day. So they sell their
lands for meagre rate and at some places for attractive offer. In such cases we should
take certain steps to improve agriculture. Our former Prime Minister Mr. Jawaharlal
Nehru brought green revolution to upgrade agriculture. Acharya Vinobhave brought
Bhoodan movement to give agricultural lands to farmers from their respective landlords.
In today‟s scenario, the government has brought land acquisition bill to take
away the agricultural land of the farmer. Most of the rivers in Tamil Nadu are dried up
and the neighbouring states also had constructed dams across river and it became
difficult for the lower riparian state to get water. Therefore the Government has to look
into the national interest than the regional interest. The neighbouring state government
failed to realize that natural resource such as water should not be confined to their area
to fulfil their regional politics.
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Interlinking of rivers is important and the same has to be achieved in war footing
manner. The Government should take steps to save rain water and prevent it from
flowing into the sea. Farmers have to be given confidence that their life will improve
and economic status will get a facelift and they should be advised not to sell their lands.
We cannot forget our country faced severe drought in late 60‟s and 70‟s.
Our country is marching towards 130 crores population in 2020. We should take
steps towards reaching self-reliance in agriculture. While the nation is marching towards
industrialization there should not be any second thought in addressing the grievance of
farmers to take a leap forward in the area of agriculture.
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ALUMNI ACTIVITIES
Balaji, Ashwin of 2010-14 batch briefed about their internship and project during their
M.S study in France to our students
THE EMPLOYMENT DETAILS OF OUR STUDENTS
S.NO NAME OF THE STUDENT BATCH COMPANY
1 Jyotsna Angeline S 2010-2014 SAP Labs
2 Portia P 2010-2014 CTS
3 Monica Kennedy 2010-2014 CTS
4 Jaganath S 2010-2014 Aircel
5 Jeyaganesh S 2010-2014 Aircel
6 Sathya Priya K 2010-2014 KONE Elevators
7 Joe Rubanya Pramatha P 2010-2014 TCS
8 Nancy Priya L 2010-2014 HCL
9 Divya R 2010-2014 HCL
10 Swathi Priya M 2010-2014 HCL-BPO
11 Manimaran B 2010-2014 Southern Railways
12 Madana Gopal P 2010-2014 HCL
13 Jeffrey Peter Roy D 2010-2014 IBM
14 Sahana Fiona Money 2010-2014 Flextronics
15 Thirumalai S 2010-2014 Southern Railways
16 Soorya V 2010-2014 Mindtree
17 Preethi Jemi Ganaga C S 2010-2014 TATA Communications
18 Jason Andrew A 2010-2014 Amazon
19 Chrishanth Mathew Rogers 2010-2014 Sword Global
20 David Raj M 2010-2014 HCL-BPO
21 Srinivasan D 2010-2014 AIRCEL
22 Infanto Kevin Edward 2010-2014 IBM
23 Mano Preethi J 2010-2014 BNP Paribas
24 Priya L N K 2010-2014 Flextronics
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25 Saravana Kumar R 2010-2014 Polaris-Networking
26 Praveen Karthic A 2010-2014 Chemito Technologies Pvt Ltd
27 Aravindan S 2010-2014 METTLER TOLEDO
28 Anirudh K 2011-2015 TechMahindra
29 Arul Mozhie G A 2011-2015 TechMahindra
30 Aruna H A. 2011-2015 TechMahindra
31 Asmanisha A. 2011-2015 TechMahindra
32 Azraa Raihan A A. 2011-2015 TechMahindra
33 Jason Tychicus Wesley 2011-2015 TechMahindra
34 Jennifer Fathima A. 2011-2015 TechMahindra
35 Monisha Fatima B. 2011-2015 TechMahindra
36 Rekha Arockia Mary S. 2011-2015 TechMahindra
37 Sahaya Raj D. 2011-2015 TechMahindra
38 Sanjana Katherine S. 2011-2015 TechMahindra
39 Sundara Deepan N. 2011-2015 Techmahindra
40 Rini Sharon Rathnaraj 2011-2015 NTT DATA
41 Rosita George 2011-2015 NTT DATA
42 Joe Ann Marita 2011-2015 CNSI
43 Monica Josipha F. 2011-2015 CNSI
44 Josene Reshma S. 2011-2015 Maveric Systems
45 Jerome Raj 2011-2015 Accenture
46 Sherly Linda F. 2011-2015 American Megatrends India Pvt Ltd
47 Gokul Raj N. 2011-2015 Mphasis
48 Aishwarya R 2011-2015 Sanmina/TATA Business Services Ltd
49 Solomon Joel Samson S. 2011-2015 PUPA CLIC
50 Renuga 2011-2015 IXPOE
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Our students are pursuing higher
studies in various Universities and the
details are
S.NO NAME OF THE STUDENT BATCH UNIVERSITY/PLACE DEGREE/MO
DE
1
Asha Mary T 2010-2014 St.Joseph‟s University,
Philedelphia, USA
M.S/GRE
2 Balaji W S 2010-2014 ICAM/France M.S/LICET
3 Ashwin Joe Noel A 2010-2014 ICAM/France M.S/LICET
4 Muthuchidambaram M 2010-2014 Anna University,
Chennai
M.E/TANCET
5 Ajay Emmanuel A 2010-2014 Anna University,
Chennai
MBA/TANCE
T
6 Bon Anto Pradeep D 2010-2014 Thiyagaraja, Madurai MBA
7 Shiny Cabrin D 2010-2014 LIBA MBA
8 Anto Jenson A 2010-2014 SRM University MBA
9 Josene Reshma S. 2011-2015 LIBA MBA
10 Sanjana Katherine S. 2011-2015 University Of
Texas,Dallas
M.S/GRE
11 Shercey K. 2011-2015 SRM University MBA
EDITORIAL BOARD
Anto Nivin M.
Ramya V. S.
Manoj Marshal
Jovita I.
Cynthia Stephen
Manju Bhagavathy J.
Patricia Sharon
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