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IEEE PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY

Name of the Society IEEE

Society inauguration date 31.12.2013

PIT IEEE SB Inaugral function.


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ABOUT IEEE

IEEE is the world’s largest leading professional association for the advancement of technology.

IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE’s highly cited publications,

conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities. IEEE offers a wide

range of learning, career enhancement, and employment opportunities within the engineering

sciences, research, and other technology areas.

IEEE’s core purpose is to promote technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of

humanity. IEEE will be essential to the global technical community and to technical professionals

everywhere, and be universally recognized for the contributions of technology and of technical

professionals in improving global conditions. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional

society. It is designed to serve professionals involved in all aspects of the electrical, electronic and

computing fields and related areas of science and technology that underlie modern civilization.

STUDENT BRANCH AT PIT

IEEE Student branch at Panimalar Institute of Technology was established in the year 2013 and is

one of the vibrant Sections in R10,Madras Sction. Over the years the strength of the section has

grown steadily and currently the Section membership stands close to 100. Student Branch aims at

helping students recognize real world challenges and Nurture innovative ideas of students by

mentoring their implementation approach.The Chapters carry out focused activities in the

respective area by way of conducting technical talks under DLT, Conference, Seminars, Tutorials,

Short term Couses, workshops,Paper contest, Technical Colloquium ,Project contest etc,.

The Student Branch has student chapters of IEEE Communication Society ,Signal Processing

Society & Robotics & Automation Society & One affinity group called IEEE Women in

Engineering is running under this Student Branch.

Dedicated volunteers, as part of the Executive Committee of the Society as well as Chapters

continuously strive to bring more activities under the Socity.


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BRANCH VISION

The primary purpose of IEEE student branch is to Inspire, Enable, Empower and Energize our

student members to enhance their technical interests by providing them a platform to show case

their skills.

BRANCH MISSION

To arrange for regular events in the campus specifically dealing with latest technologies.

To work towards inspiring more students to become members.

To increase the Membership Retention, though the benefits of IEEE.

To organize technical awareness programs for young professionals.

To form more Special Interest Groups to encourage project activity among the student

members.

To kindle students interest in making new papers and projects.

To strive towards achieving more IEEE-sponsored awards and aim at representing papers in

international conferences.


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MEMBERSHIP STATISTICS

Year Total Membership No. of Member Renewals No. of New Members Retention %

2013 67

2014 63 12 51 17.91

2015 90 22 68 34.92


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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP STATISTICS

Year Total Membership No. of Member Renewals No. of New Members Retention %

2013 3

2014 4 3 1 100 %

2015 17 4 13 100 %


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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

BRANCH MENTOR Dr.T.JAYANTHY PRINCIPAL

BRANCH ADVISOR Dr.M.P.CHITRA HOD/ECE

BRANCH COUNSELOR Mr.M.ARUN AP/ECE

CHAIRPERSON Mr.SARAVANAN M S IV ECE

VICE-CHAIRPERSON Ms.PREMIHAA R M IV ECE

TREASURER Ms.DIVYA M IV EEE

SECRETARY Ms.THANEMOZHI S IV ECE

JOINT SECRETARY Ms.RAMA PRIYA V IV EEE

IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR Mr.KHADAR SHAREEF IV ECE

ACTIVITY CO-ORDINATOR Ms.NANDHINI D IV ECE

EVENT MANAGING TEAM Ms.SARANYA S R IV ECE

Ms.ANTONY VERONICA M IV ECE

TECHNICAL TEAM Ms.RAJASUMUPRIYA M IV ECE

Ms.DEVI P IV ECE

PUBLICATIONS TEAM Ms.HIMA BINDU G IV ECE

Ms.GERLYN T III EEE

WEB DESIGNING TEAM Ms.SHAMI SELES.M III ECE

Ms.NIVEDA B III ECE


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IEEE COMMUNICATION SOCIETY

CHAIRPERSON Ms.PAVITHRAA S IV ECE

VICE-CHAIRPERSON Ms.INDIRA E III ECE

TREASURER Ms.DEEPA T IV ECE

SECRETARY Ms.AISHWARYA .K IV ECE

JOINT SECRETARY Ms.GAYATHRI B III ECE

IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION SOCIETY

CHAIRPERSON Ms.SANDHYA BHARGAVI H IV ECE

VICE-CHAIRPERSON Ms.PRIYA THARSSHINI S III ECE

TREASURER Ms.MONICA G III ECE

SECRETARY Ms.SRI HARSHITHA M K IV ECE

JOINT SECRETARY Ms.AISHWARYA S III ECE

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY

CHAIRPERSON Mr.SARAVANAN M S IV ECE

VICE-CHAIRPERSON Mr.VINOTH K III ECE

SECRETARY Mr.LOKESH KUMAR R IV ECE

JOINT SECRETARY Mr.VARUN KUMARAN S III ECE

WOMEN IN ENGINEERING

CHAIRPERSON Ms.RIA N P IV ECE

VICE-CHAIRPERSON Ms.MAHA LAKSHMI S III EEE

SECRETARY Ms.ROJA A III EEE

JOINT SECRETARY Ms.ABILASHA R III ECE


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AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Dr. M.P.Chitra receives the Best Student Branch award of the year 2014 from Dr. Kumarappan, Secretary, IEEE Madras Section

Mr. M.Arun receives the Best Student Branch award of the year 2015 from Dr. N.R.Alamelu, Chair IEEE Madras Section


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Mr. M.Arun receives the Student Branch Counselor award of the year 2015 from Dr. Atmanand,Chair Elect., IEEE Madras Section

Mr. M.Arun, Assistant professor ECE is designated as Editor of IEEE News Letter,

Madras Section.

M.S.Saravanan, of ECE 2012- 2016 Batch received IEEE Best Student Branch Chair

Award for the year 2015 from IEEE Madras Section.

A Khadar Shareef, J Ranjith Kumar, C Arvind and P Vivek Anand of ECE 2011- 2015

Batch Won the Third Prize at All IEEE Young Engineers Humanitarian Challenge

(AIYEHUM) 2014 for their project “Accident Prevention Using Intelligent Breaking”.

S.G.Niranjan Ramanan, S.Manish of ECE 2010- 2014 Batch Won student project award

at IEEE Student Project funding 2013-2014 for their Project titled “Full Home

Automation Using Arduino And Ethernet”.


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FUNDS RECEIVED

IEEE Madras section Best student Branch award with cash prize of Rs.10,000/- for the

year 2015.

IEEE Madras section sanctioned a sum of Rs.10,000/- as a grant for the event Workshop

on National Level Network Security Championship during the year 2015.

IEEE Madras section sanctioned a sum of Rs.3,000/- as a grant for the event Workshop

on Network Simulation Tools NS2 & NS3 during the year 2015.

IEEE Madras section Best student Branch award with cash prize of Rs. 1,000/- for the

year 2014.


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ACTIVITIES

JANUARY 2014

SHORT TERM COURSE ON DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

USING MATLAB – SIMULATION SOFTWARE

Short term course on “DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING USING MATLAB –

SIMULATION SOFTWARE” for Third Year ECE students during 06th

to 10th

JANUARY

2014. The topics covered included: Basics of Image Processing, Image Enhancement,

Compression, Restoration & Segmentation Techniques and Image Processing using MATLAB. In

addition, the participants were given hands-on training using MATLAB. The Short Term Course

attracted 148 participants who felt it extremely beneficial and gained knowledge on image

processing and to write programs for various Image processing applications using MATLAB.

PIT- IEEE Student Branch in association with department of ECE & EEE Organized a series of

Events for the development of students and to bring out their talents.

TECH QUIZ

About 50 students attended the quiz prelims held on 8th January 2014 from which 6 teams were

short listed for the second round & among which two teams were selected for the Final. The

finalist underwent through three levels of quizzing which covered almost all the possible fields in

engineering. The winners of the contest were: N.P.Ria, H.Sandhya Bhargavi, R.M Premihaa of

II Year ECE.

CIRCUIT DEBUGGING

“Circuit debugging” contest was held on 22nd

January 2014 to tap the hidden talent of IEEE

students. 10 teams responded to the call of the event. The contestants who won in the contest were:

N.P.Ria, H.Sandhya Bhargavi, R.M Premihaa of II Year ECE.


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PAPER PRESENTATION

Paper Presentation contest held on 23rd

January 2014 to unleash the potential of the IEEE

student members. Out of seven papers presented, the paper presented by P. Vivek Anand,

C.Arvind, J.Ranjith Kumar and A.Khadar Shareef of third year ECE on “Accident Prevention

Using Intelligent Breaking” won the best innovative paper award.

BASIC C, C++ & APTITUDE QUIZ

Basic C, C++ & Aptitude Quiz contest for IEEE students on 29/01/2014 to provide the students

an opportunity to showcase their skills & assess how strong they are in aptitude, C and C++. A

total of 20 teams participated in this quiz and P.Sangeetha, P.Lavanya of third year ECE along

with G.Hima Bindu , M.Rajasumapriya of second year ECE bagged the first prize.

WORKSHOP ON MSP 430 & ARDUINO MICROCONTROLLER

Workshop on “MSP 430 & ARDUINO MICROCONTROLLER” was conducted for Third

Year ECE students during 20th

to 24th

JANUARY 2014. Workshop gave an in-depth introduction

into MSP430 basics. The hands-on workshop provided lab exercises how to program any MSP430

device. Also the workshop helped students learn the principles associated with Arduino hardware

and software. Emphasis is given to applied knowledge of the principles by exposing the students

to live working projects.

SHORT TERM COURSE ON ANALOG SYSTEM DESIGN USING

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS ASLKV 2010 STARTER KIT

Short term course (STC) on “Analog system Design Using Texas Instruments ASLKV 2010

STARTER KIT” for second Year ECE students during 20th

to 24th

JANUARY 2014.

STC exposed the students to the world of analog from system design perspective. The course

enabled the student to understand and address the challenges as a system designer. Course helped

the students learn that as a system designer how they would reason out the right integrated circuit

for the right application and also take decisions on how the system level cost or power or

performance can be optimized and perform tradeoffs of various design parameters.


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FEBRUARY 2014

WORKSHOP ON ROBOTRYST

National level Robotics Workshop and competition (ROBOTRYST – 2014) with IIT Delhi

during 14th

& 15th

February 2014 , to provide knowledge about robotics among students and

make them develop robots on their own. During the workshop ‘Robo Kits’ were provided by

sponsors free of cost.

Inaugural Function ROBOTRYST – 2014

Session at ROBOTRYST – 2014


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NOBICOM ’14 –ECE & VYUHA’14 – EEE TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM

National level technical symposium of ECE & EEE department “NOBICOM ’14 & VYUHA’14”

held on 15th

February 2014. Dr.M.P. Chitra, HOD/ECE welcomed the gathering and introduced

the Chief Guest, T. Jayanthy, Principal Panimalar Institute of Technology delivered the

presidential Address.

Mr.P.Subramanian, Secretary, IEEE Communication Society Chennai,

Inaugurated the symposium and released the souvenir. During his inaugural address he highlighted

the importance of innovative thinking and the power of novel ideas. He also stressed on how IEEE

forum empowers the student community.

The symposium, which witnessed a participation of over 200 students from various

engineering colleges, included the following events: Paper Presentation, Project Exhibition, Circuit

Debugging, Quiz and Spot Events. The program ended with distribution of certificates to the

winners and vote of thanks was rendered by Dr.S.Sankar, HOD/EEE.

SEMINAR ON POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND MODULATION

OF SIGNALS IN POWER SYSTEM

A Seminar on “Power Quality Improvement and Modulation of Signals in Power

System” held on 25/02/2014. Dr. T. Jayanthy, Principal Panimalar Institute of Technology

delivered the Presidential Address and explained about the importance of Power Quality

Improvement.Dr. S.Sankar, HOD/EEE, Panimalar Institute of Technology delivered the seminar

and spoke on the crux of the seminar. He also explained different ways by which power is

generated and various demand for Power Quality Improvement and Modulation of Signals in

Power System.About 100 students attended the seminar. Mr.M.Arun,Assistant Professor ECE /

Student Branch Counselor IEEE delivered the Vote of thanks.

SEMINAR ON 4G TECHNOLOGIES

A Seminar on “4G Technologies” held on 26/02/2014. Dr. T. Jayanthy, Principal Panimalar

Institute of Technology rendered the Presidential Address and explained about Recent Trends and

development in the field of Mobile communication and scope in that field. Dr.M.P. Chitra

, HOD/ECE, Panimalar Institute of technology delivered the seminar and briefed about various

terminologies in 4G Technologies and its working. About 100 students with ceaseless curiosity

attended the seminar. Mr.M.Arun, Student Branch Counselor IEEE thanked the gathering.


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MARCH 2014

EXTEMPORE & GROUP DISCUSSION

PIT- IEEE Student Branch in association with department of ECE & EEE Organized a

“Extempore & Group Discussion ” contest for IEEE students held on 18th

March 2014.

About 50 students participated in Extempore talked on various topics like Advantages of Co-

education , Examinations - has it killed education , Privatization of Higher Education , Films are corrupting

the Indian Youth & Is Leaders Born or are they made in Business Schools?

Group Discussion on Nuclear Power Plant (Kudankulam) In India Boon or Bane was

conducted and students debated both pros & cons of it. Finally they concluded that rather than

Nuclear Power plants we can go for alternate sources like Renewable Energy.

PROJECT CONTEST’ 14

IEEE student branch conducted Project Contest the function on 22nd

of March 2014.

10 projects from various fields of VLSI, Image Processing, Embedded System and Robotics were

exhibited. The project titled “Brain Computer Interface(Processing of Bio Neural Signals)” by

B.Lavakumar, T.Arulmani of Final year ECE won the First Prize.

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MAY 2014

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIVE & EMERGING

TRENDS IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

National Conference on Innovative & Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology was

organized by Dept. of ECE ,EEE,CSE,IT& MECH on 6th

May 2014.

The conference focused on research frontiers in various domains & provided vibrant opportunities

for the delegates to exchange new ideas,application experiences, the practical challenges

encountered and to establish research relations thereby enabling to find global partners for future

collaboration.

Principal Dr. T.Jayanthy, welcomed the gathering. Director Mr.Sakthi Kumar,PIT felicitated the

Chief Guest and delivered the presidential address with a brief introduction about the conference &

pointed out that such conferences would ignite a spark in the minds of budding engineers and they

would be triggered to explore more in the areas of their interest

The conf. was inaugurated by Shri.P.Kanagavel, Scientist and Unit Chief I/C, Information

Training and Commercial Services, Center for Wind Energy Technology, Chennai.& Dr. P A

Manoharan, Robotics & Automation (Chair),IEEE student Project (Chair).,EEE Madras section.

The conference sessions had a series of invited presentations.

Shri.P.Kanagavel, Dr. P A Manoharan, Mr.Sakthi Kumar, Dr. T.Jayanthy


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JULY 2014

SHORT TERM COURSE ON LABVIEW & ITS APPLICATION

IEEE student branch in association with department of ECE conducted the Short term course

(STC) on “LABVIEW & ITS APPLICATION” from 07.07.2014 -11.07.2014 for Third year

students of ECE Department. The STC focused on how to use LABVIEW software for various

applications. Demonstration of the Real Time applications & Image processing concepts using

LABVIEW was conducted.

SHORT TERM COURSE ON PCB DESIGN

Short term course on “PCB DESIGN” was conducted from 07.07.2014 -11.07.2014 for Second

year students of ECE Department. The STC focused on designing a circuit in a PCB. The

information imparted by them will be useful for the students to progress with the ideas rendered by

them in their projects.

WORKSHOP ON EMBEDDED SYSTEM

Workshop on Embedded System was conducted by Department of ECE in association with IEEE

student branch and EPR labs, Chennai for third year ECE students during 23.7.2014 - 25.07.2014.

Mr. Khadar Shareef A, Student Branch Chairman welcomed the gathering. Our H.O.D.

Dr.M.P.Chitra, delivered the inaugural address & elucidated the importance of organizing a skill

development program.

The Workshop included importance of learning Embedded System, basics on Microprocessors and

Microcontrollers, Programming on Assembly level and C language, Practical sessions on Traffic

Light Controller , Sensors, Matrix & Scrolling displays, GSM & GPS modules for doing a project.

Mr. M.Arun, Student Branch Counselor delivered the vote of thanks.

WORKSHOP ON BASIC ELECTRONICS

Workshop on Basic Electronics have been organized for II year ECE students from July 31 to

August 5, 2014. Mr. Rajamanikam, from Shri Gemni Kits & Spare, has highlighted the

application of Electronics in industrial sectors and hands on sessions were also conducted to equip

the students practically.


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AUGUST 2014

SHORT TERM COURSE ON APPLICATION OF POWER ELECTRONICS

USING MAT LAB (SIMULINK)

IEEE student branch PIT in association with department of EEE conducted the Short term course

(STC) on “Application of Power Electronics using MAT LAB (Simulink)” from 04.08.2014 -

08.08.2014 for Third year EEE students. The STC focused on how to use MATLAB software for

various applications of Power Electronics was conducted.

SEPTEMBER 2014

GROUP DISCUSSION & EXTEMPORE

On behalf of our Entrepreneurship Cell, in association with IIT-Bombay & IEEE –PIT SB, we

have conducted the following events so far.

A Group Discussion & Extempore on Entrepreneurship have been conducted on September 5,

2014.

Group Discussion 5.9.2014

Seminar on Entrepreneurship - September 10,2014.

Ms.Indira and Ms. PriyaTharsshini, of 2nd

year ECE, presented a seminar on

“Entrepreneurship”. In their presentation, they explained about the Entrepreneurship,

Characteristics & Planning of an entrepreneur, life history of various entrepreneurs etc. Our

Principal Dr.T.Jayanthy and our H.O.D Dr. M.P.Chitra, has appreciated the presenters, for their

efficient way of describing the entrepreneurship.


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OCTOBER 2014

QUIZ CONTEST

A Quiz contest have been organized and cash awards have been distributed to the winners on

October 8,2014.

Quiz contest 8.10.2014

CLEAN INDIA CAMPAIGN

4.As a part of SWACHH BHARAT campaign , which was initiated by our Honorable Prime

Minister Mr.Narendra Modi , our college conducted ‘Clean India Campaign’ under the

guidance of our Director Mr.C.Sakthi Kumar on October 20, 2014.

Clean India Campaign 20.10.2014


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ICT TALK

PIT - IEEE Communication Society have organized “ICT TALK” for Faculty members of ECE

department on 20th

Octeber 2014.

The event was conducted to emphasize the importance of Information and Communication

Technological development in the field of Medicine. Dr.M.P.Chitra, HOD welcomed the

gathering. There were presentations on various topics like Mobile Phone in Medicine, Tele

Medicine , Lasik Surgery, Bionic Eye etc,.

NOVEMBER 2014

INAUGURATION OF IEEE-COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY

STUDENT BRANCH CHAPTER -PIT

Inauguration of IEEE-Communications Society Student Branch Chapter -PIT was held on the 06th

of November 2014 at the Conference Hall, Panimalar Institute of Technology by Er. S. Balaji,

Sr. Engineer, BSNL, Chennai

Welcome address was delivered by Dr.M.P.Chitra, Head of department of ECE. Dr. T.Jayanthy,

Principal ,PIT felicitated the function with a brief introduction about of the chief guests.

Mr. M.Arun, AP/ECE, Student branch chapter advisor introduced Communications Society

Chapter with the list of office bearers.

Er. S. Balaji, Sr. Engineer, BSNL inaugurated the PIT IEEE Communications Society chapter

and addressed the gathering. During his speech, he briefly explained about student benefits and

exposed the student resources available at platform of IEEE. He also mentioned importance of

being part of any IEEE society and how it may help us in our future endearments.

Dr.t.Janthy, Sr.Balaji, Dr.MP.Chitra and Dr.M.Prem Kumar


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FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ON

RECENT TRENDS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Panimalar Institute of

Technology in association with PIT- IEEE Communication Society- SB chapter organized a

Faculty Development Program on “Recent Trends in Wireless Communication

Technologies” during November 6-7, 2014 .

Dr.M.P.Chitra, Head, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering welcomed the

gathering. Dr. T.Jayanthy, Principal, felicitated the Chief Guest and delivered the presidential

address with a brief introduction about the FDP, the Speakers and the topics. Er. S. Balaji,

Sr. Engineer, BSNL, Chennai, Inaugurated the programme & delivered a lecture on Recent

Trends in Wireless Communication. Dr.M.Premkumar, Associate Professor, ECE Department

and Coordinator Faculty Development Programme, delivered the vote of Thanks.

The program had lectures by Er. S. Balaji, Sr. Engineer, BSNL, Chennai, Dr.R.S.Ponmagal,

Professor CSE Dept, Dr.M.G.R Educational and Research Institute University,

Dr.M.Premkumar, Associate Professor , Mr.S.Ganesh, Associate Professor, Mrs.V.Jeya

Ramya, Assistant Professor, Mrs.R.Prathipa, Assistant Professor, Mr.J.Venkatesan, Assistant

Professor, Mr.J.Navarajan, Assistant Professor from ECE Dept ,Panimalar Institute of

Technology.

The topics covered during FDP were Recent trends in Wireless Communication Technologies

overview , Wireless products-Transceivers ,Smart phones, Smart Antennas Tablets,iPads , Big

Data Analytics in Wireless, Modulation Schemes, Spread Spectrum Systems, RF for Wireless

Technologies .

Hand on session - MATLAB - Simulation of Wireless channels, Modulation schemes MIMO

Technology were conducted by Dr.M.Premkumar, Associate Professor, Mrs.S.Sathyapriya,

Associate Professor & Mr. M.Arun, Assistant Professor ECE Dept, Panimalar Institute of

Technology.


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Er. S. Balaji delivering a lecture to the Gathering

DECEMBER 2014

PITCHING WORKSHOP

IEEE –SB in association with Department of ECE conducted a pitching workshop for the young

interested person who longs to be an entrepreneur. Ms.Indira, Vice Chairman IEEE

Communication Society SB and Ms. PriyaTharsshini ,Vice Chairman IEEE Robotics and

Automation Society SB PIT delivered the talk on needs for pitching workshop and to develop their

inherit talent to become a successful entrepreneur. Mr. M.Arun, IEEE Student Branch Counselor

delivered the Vote of thanks and appreciated the presenters, for their efficient way of describing

the Pitching Workshop.


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Ms.Indira and Ms. PriyaTharsshini delivers the talk on pitching.

CAMPAIGN ON HUMAN RIGHTS

IEEE –SB & Entrepreneurship Development Cell of Panimalar Institute of Technology in

Collaboration with NGO NALVIDHAIGAL organized a Campaign on Human Rights on

International Human Rights day DEC 10, 2014. All IEEE students actively participated and

insisted the Rights of Human. Mr.VIVEKANAND, IEEE –SB Vice Chair Headed the Rally.

Mr.Vivekanand , IEEE –SB Vice Chair Addresses During the Rally.


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FACULTY DEVELOPMENT TRAINING PROGRAMME ON EC 6402 -

COMMUNICATION THEORY

The Department of ECE & IEEE SB, Panimalar Institute of Technology has conducted seven days

Faculty Development Training Programme (FDTP) in “EC 6402 - Communication Theory” for

faculty members of Engineering colleges during December 4-12, 2014. This FDTP has been

approved by center for faculty Development, Anna University, Chennai. There were about 21

Participants all over Tamil Nadu attended and Gained Knowledge about the subject with practical

Examples. Dr.M.P.Chitra,HOD/ECE delivered the vote of thanks.


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INAUGURATION OF IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING,

ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION SOCIETY – SB

Inaugural function of IEEE Signal Processing & Robotics and Automation Society – SB PIT was

held on December 15, 2014 at the Conference Hall, Panimalar Institute of Technology by

Mr.C.Sakthi Kumar, Director Panimalar Institute of Technology & Dr. Lakshmi Narasimhan

,Professor Computer Science Department, East Carolina University, USA . He is invited through

ACM Distinguished Speaker Program.

Dr.M.P.Chitra, Head ECE delivered the Welcome address. Dr. T.Jayanthy, Principal, PIT

delivered the Presidential address with a brief introduction about the chief guest.

Mr. M.Arun, AP/ECE, Student branch chapter advisor introduced the office bearers of IEEE

Signal Processing & Robotics & Automation Society – SB and concluded with the vote of thanks

by Mrs. H.Sandhya Bhargavi Chairman Signal Processing society.

Mr.C.Sakthi Kumar, Director Panimalar Institute of Technology & Dr. Lakshmi Narasimhan ,Professor Computer Science Department, East

Carolina University, USA Inaugurates the Society.


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GUEST LECTURE ON EMBEDDED COMPUTING SYSTEMS

The Department of ECE & EEE, Panimalar Institute of Technology in association with ACM,

IEEE-SB, IEEE-RSA,IEEE-CS has conducted a guest lecture on Embedded Computing Systems

on December 15,2014 which was delivered by Dr.Lakshmi Narasimhan , Professor ,

Computer Science Department , East Carolina University, USA.

Professor Dr. Lakshmi Narasimhan first enquired students regarding various real time

applications of embedded systems before proceeding with Embedded Computing Systems. During

his expert lecture he shared about the advantage of using electronic toothbrush operated with small

motor. Then he discussed about the various applications of the embedded systems in which a brief

explanation on its applications in automobile industry was explained. Many interesting facts made

students to feel the impact of embedded systems which has created in the present scenario. Mr.

M.Arun, Student Branch Counselor delivered the vote of thanks.

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Dr. Lakshmi Narasimhan, Professor Computer Science Department, East Carolina University, USA Delivers the Lecture.


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JANUARY 2015

SEMINAR ON BUSINESS ENGLISH CERTIFICATE COURSE

Department of ECE & ENGLISH in association with IEEE-SB Panimalar Institute of Technology organized

a one day seminar on BUSINESS ENGLISH CERTIFICATION COURSE. Dr.M.P.Chitra HOD/ ECE

welcomed the gathering. Principal Dr. T.Jayanthy felicitated and introduced the Chief Guest

Mr.JOSHUA, from University of Cambridge to the gathering. The Seminar focused on creating

awareness about the significance of Business English in workplace. Mr. Joshua, University of Cambridge

interacted with the students focusing on the need and significance of Business English in today’s Global

scenario. The specialty of this course not only ends with the dream job, but also acts as a helping hand to

crack all the competitive exams like GATE, GMAT, TOEFL, GRE etc. on the whole. Mr. Joshua made

students to realize how BEC could play a vital role in every graduate’s life to make a way for their

successful career.

ICTACT YOUTH TECHKNOW SUMMIT 2015

IEEE SB, Panimalar Institute of Technology & Panimalar Engineering College in association with

ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu academy organized a ICTACT YOUTH TECHKNOW SUMMIT

2015 on January 9 – 2015.

ICTACT Youth Technology Summit 2015 brought together graduating students in the state of Tamil Nadu

who are aspiring to become the next generation IT Professionals and Innovators. ICTACT Youth

Technology Summit is a part of this initiative that reaches out to the students of the ICT streams on creating

awareness on the new technology development, innovation and opportunities for students in the ICT Sector.

ICTACT Youth Technology Summit 2015 is supported by Oracle.

This one day conference brought together 2000 students from Engineering colleges and Science Colleges

across the state. The conference was power packed with technical sessions which provided inputs to

graduating students on various new technology topics, advanced technology skills required by students,

technology development in Industry, future technology and many more. The conference focused on the next

generation ICT technologies and newer ICT methodologies including the following: Internet of Things,

Industrial Internet, The Smart digital world, Big Data Analytics,Mobility,The Future of Cloud,Power of

Social Media,Newer Business Models with SMAC,Skills for Future, and Entrepreneurship by Various

Speakers from Oracle Academy.


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GUEST LECTURE ON 6 MYTHS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

IEEE- SB, Department of ECE Panimalar Institute of Technology in association with Entrepreneurship

Cell, IIT Bombay organized Pre- E Summit 15 on January 10-2015. In a best way of getting geared up for

the E-SUMMIT ’15, we had this pre E-Summit on the 10th January, 2015in our college premises. It was

indeed a source of pride for all of us to have a successful entrepreneur Mr.Venkatesan, Oosur Vinayagam

chief technologist and the co-founder of Hexolabs Private Limited, to grace the occasion with his inspiring

thoughts. He delivered a lecture on “6 MYTHS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP”. It had been a very stirring

speech and all of us had the spark of becoming a successful Entrepreneur one day. “Entrepreneurs are

THINKERS!!”… This was the statement quoted by Mr.Venkat which proved to be very appealing for all

who were present during the meet.

Mr.VenkatesanOosurVinayagam Delivers the Lecture


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SHORT TERM COURSE ON IMAGE PROCESSING & ITS

APPLICATIONS USING MATLAB – SIMULATION SOFTWARE

PIT IEEE SB & IEEE Signal Processing Society in association with Department of ECE conducted the

Short term course on “DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING & ITS APPLICATIONS USING MATLAB

& LABVIEW” for Third Year ECE students during 19th

to 23rd

January 2015. The topics covered

included: Basics of Image Processing, Image Enhancement, Compression, Restoration & Segmentation

Techniques and Image Processing. In addition, the participants were given hands-on training using

MATLAB & LABVIEW. The Short Term Course attracted about more than 200 participants who felt it

extremely beneficial and gained knowledge on image processing and to write programs for various Image

processing applications.

WORKSHOP ON EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Workshop on “Embedded Systems” was conducted for Third Year ECE students during 22.1.15 &

23.1.15. Mr.Parthipan, Manager EPR labs conducted the workshop. The workshop focused on

programming Embedded System processor with few real Time applications. About 215 Students

participated enthusiastically and gained the knowledge.

STUDENTS EVENTS

PIT- IEEE Student Branch, SP, RAS & Communication Society, in association with department of

ECE & EEE organized a series of Events for the development of students and to bring out their talents.

EVENT

Chart Making event on 21st Jan 2015. Out of 50 charts received 10 were selected for final round

Presentation. The winners of the event were:

Prize Name of the Students Year & Branch

I MONICA G II ECE

II SHAFEEKHA FATHIMA S II ECE

III NIVEDA B II ECE


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MODEL MAKING

Model making event on 21/01/2015. There were about 20 Models received. Models designed on various

aspects of technology like MINI Robot, IC, Satellite, etc., became inspiration for many.

Prize Name of the Students

Year &

Branch MODEL

I

ARUL PANDI R,MAGESHAA G, SANJEEV

B III ECE MINI ROBOT

SRINIVASAN L,HARISH KUMAR A ,BEN

SHERWIN N,MOHAN RAJ M S III ECE

SPACE

SATELLITE

II

SHALINI V II ECE IC 555 TIMER

SHYLI M,LAKSHMI R,DEEPA T III ECE SATELLITE

GENERAL QUIZ

General Quiz Contest on 22nd

Jan 2015. There were about 75 students took part in the prelims among them

12 were selected for the second round and 3 for the finals. Round 1 questions were on India’s History

greatness and rich culture; Round 2 an audio video round; “Gadget Guru” — questions based on science

and technology; Mixed bag – on personality or a concept hidden behind the Hangman puzzle; and Rapid-

fire round — a set of questions to be answered in 45 seconds.The winners of the event were:


I SHARMILA II EEE

II ARUTCHELVI P III ECE

III SHAMI SELES.M II ECE


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CIRCUIT DEBUGGING

Circuit debugging contest was held on 27th

January 2015 to tap the hidden talent of IEEE students. 14

teams responded to the call of the event. The contestants who won in the contest were:


I NAVEENKUMAR V,JAYARAM

R,PRADEEPKUMAR V II ECE

II INDIRA E , NAVEENA PREETHA.M ,

JERLIN

II ECE &

II EEE

III SHALINI V,NIVEDA B,SUJITHA.S II ECE

TECHNICAL QUIZ CONTEST

Technical Quiz contest on 29th

January 2015.About 25 students attended the quiz prelims from which

4 teams were short listed for the Final round. The finalist underwent through three levels of quizzing

which covered almost all the possible fields in engineering. The winners of the contest were


I REDDIVARI SAI SARAN, VELAGAPUDI

DEEPAK II ECE

II

SHALINI V , NIVEDA B II ECE

AISHWARYA S , NAVEENA

PREETHA.M II ECE

III PRADEEPKUMAR V, SUNDARJI A II ECE


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FEBRAURY 2015

SHORT TERM COURSE ON ANALOG SYSTEM DESIGN USING TEXAS

INSTRUMENTS ASLKV 2010 STARTER KIT


Short term course (STC) on “Analog system Design Using Texas Instruments ASLKV 2010 STARTER

KIT” for second Year ECE students during 02nd

to 06th

February 2015.STC exposed the students to the

world of analog from system design perspective. The course enabled the student to understand and address

the challenges as a system designer. Course helped the students learn that as a system designer how they

would reason out the right integrated circuit for the right application and also take decisions on how the

system level cost or power or performance can be optimized and perform tradeoffs of various design

parameters.

WORKSHOP ON NATIONAL LEVEL NETWORK

SECURITY CHAMPIONSHIP-2015

PIT IEEE SB, PIT IEEE Communication Society & Department of ECE organized a National

LevelNetwork Security Championship-2015 in coordination with IIT-Bombay & IEEE Madras Section

on February 6&7, 2015. Event was founded with Rs. 10,000 by IEEE Madras section. Dr.M.P.Chitra,

HOD ECE delivered the Welcome address. Dr.T.Jayanthy, Principal, PIT delivered the Presidential

address. Mr.M.S.Saravanan, Chairman IEEE Student Branch PIT introduced the chief guest Mr.Manish

Kumar TyagiSenior Network Design and Support Engineer in Network Bulls Pvt. Ltd. to the gathering.

Event started with the lectures on all the basics of Networking, creating networks, configuring CISCO

routers and switches. Followed by hands on session using software’s like Packet Tracer,GNS and Wire

shark. There were about 125 participants in and around Tamil Nadu Attended the event.

Ms.K.Priyadharshni of Sri ManakulaVinayagar Engineering College emerged as the Winner and will

participate in Round II at IIT BOBMBAY. Ms.R.M.Premihaa, Vice Chairman IEEE Student Branch PIT

delivered the Vote of Thanks.


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Mr.Manish Kumar Tyagi delivers the Lecture

ORIENTATION PROGRAM

As a part of membership drive for the year 2015, our SB conducted an Orientation program for the newly

joined IEEE students. It was organized by the IEEE SB counselor Mr. M. Arun and was conducted by

Mr.M.S. Saravanan, SB Chairman.

About 80 students attended the programme. Mr.M.S. Saravanan briefed about IEEE and its structure —R10,

India Council, Madras Section in general and about IEEE student branch in particular. The benefits of

having an IEEE membership were highlighted. The activities of IEEE SB , IEEE CS, RAS, SP Society and

WIE SB affinity groups were explained to the members. The awards and contests within our SB, regional

and IEEE HQ level were briefed to the members.


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NOBICOM ’15 –ECE TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM

National level technical symposium of ECE department NOBICOM ’15 held on 07th

February 2015.

Dr.M.P. Chitra, HOD/ECE welcomed the gathering and introduced the Chief Guest. Dr. T. Jayanthy,

Principal PIT delivered the presidential Address. Er.S.Ramaswamy, Chairman, IETE Chennai Center,

Inaugurated the symposium and released the souvenir. During his inaugural address he highlighted the

importance of innovative thinking and the power of novel ideas. He also stressed on how IEEE forum

empowers the student community.

Er.S.Ramaswamy, Chairman, IETE Chennai Center. Releases Magazine.

SEMINAR ON BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

A Seminar on “Broadband Wireless Communication” held on 19/02/2015.Dr. T. Jayanthy, Principal

rendered the Presidential Address and explained about Recent Trends and development in the field of

communication and scope in that field.

Dr. M.PremKumar, Professor ECE delivered the seminar and discussed the recent technological

developments in the field of Wireless Communication. During his Talk he also insisted students to use the

technology for good cause. About 100 students attended the seminar.


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SEMINAR ON SYSTEM STABILITY IMPROVEMENT

USING FACTS DEVICES IN POWER SYSTEM

A Seminar on “System Stability Improvement Using Facts Devices in Power System” held on

20/02/2015. Mr.M.Padmarasan, Assistant Prof., EEE delivered the seminar and spoke on the Concept,

History / Background - Origin of FACTS, Opportunities, Trends System Architectures and Limitations &

Power Flow Control on AC Systems with Application Studies and Implementation. Basic Switching

Devices, Conditioners, Specification, Cost Considerations and Technology Trends& Impact of FACTS in

interconnected networks .About 100 students attended the seminar.

SEMINAR ON COGNITIVE RADIO

A Seminar on “Cognitive Radio” held on 26/02/2015. .Dr.M.P. Chitra , HOD/ECE, delivered the

seminar and briefed about various terminologies in Cognitive Radio that includes History ,Terminology &

Technology ,its Functions, Cognitive radio (CR) versus intelligent antenna (IA) Applications, Simulation of

CR Networks & Future plans and its working. About 100 students with ceaseless curiosity attended the

seminar. Mr.M.Arun, Student Branch Counselor IEEE thanked the gathering.

STUDENTS EVENTS

PIT- IEEE Student Branch, SP, RAS & Communication Society, in association with department of

ECE & EEE Organized a series of Events for the development of students and to bring out their talents.

PAPER PRESENTATION

Paper Presentation contest held on 17th

& 18th

February 2015 to unleash the potential of the student. Out

of 28 papers presented, the paper presented by P.Dhatchineswari & T.Deepa of third year ECE on

“Wireless Sensor Networks” won the best paper award.


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GROUP DISCUSSION

Group Discussion on 26th

February 2015. Students were divided into two groups & the topic for the

discussion was Education system in India. Students debated both pros & cons of it. Finally they concluded

that there should be drastic change in Education system to make Students highly competitive to Real time

Industry ready.


I

USHA T II ECE

NAVEENA PREETHA.M II ECE

II

AATHIRAI.P II ECE

ANMOL A MEHRA II ECE

AISHWARYA S II ECE

III UMA MAHESWARI P II ECE

EXTEMPORE

About 50 students participated in Extempore talked on various topics like Swachh Bharat, Advantages of

Co-education ,Land Acquisition Bill, Examinations - has it killed education , Privatization of Higher

Education , Films are corrupting the Indian Youth & Is Leaders Born or are they made in Business Schools?


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MARCH 2015

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

The WIE Affinity Group of IEEE PIT Student Branch in collaboration with ECE department celebrated

International Women’s Day on 9th March, 2015. The event saw more than hundred women staff and girl

students of the college participating in the event.

Dr.M.P.Chitra, Prof & Head ECE & Branch Adviser WIE PIT delivered the presidential Address. In Her

address she contrasted the women of present times to the women of earlier times and analyzed how the

present day women have managed to overcome so many barriers by making a constant effort to follow their

heart and manage their restrictions. Dr. T. Jayanthy, Principal was the chief guest. She preceded the

function and shared some of her experiences with the audience. She emphasized the difficulties faced by the

women in today’s world and motivated the women staff and students to believe in themselves. This was

then followed by various competitions like Quiz, Connections, Gaming for the Students who took part.

Ms.N.P.Ria, III ECE & WIE SB Chairman, Handed over the Memento to all the participants &delivered

the Vote of Thanks.

APTITUDE & C CONTEST

Aptitude & C Contest on 17th

March 2015. About 25 students attended the quiz prelims from which 6

teams were short listed for the Final round. The finalist underwent through two rounds which included

Rapid fire round and Error detection round. The winners of the contest were

Prize Name of the Students

Year &

Branch

I GAYATHRI B II ECE

DHURGA PRIYA S II ECE

II JAYARAM R II ECE

NAVEENKUMAR V II ECE


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PROJECT CONTEST’ 15

IEEE student branch conducted Project Contest the function on 21st of March 2015. 10 projects from

various fields of VLSI, Image Processing, Embedded System and Robotics were exhibited. The project

titled “Safety and rescue assist technology” by A.KHADARSHAREEF, YUVARAJ and RANJITH

KUMAR of Final year ECE won the First Prize.

WORKSHOP ON CIRCUIT SIMULATION

Workshop on “CIRCUIT SIMULATION” was organized on 23.2.15 for II Year IEEE Members.

Mr.M.S.Saravanan Chairman IEEE Student branch Panimalar institute of Technology conducted the

workshop. About 50 students participated. Students learnt how to use the circuit maker & they designed few

real time circuits using the software. Emphasis is given to applied knowledge of the principles by exposing

the students to live working projects.

WORKSHOP ON ARDUINO

Workshop on “ARDUINO” was organized on 29.3.15 for IEEE Members. Mr.Khader Shariff Student

branch Advisor conducted the workshop. About 80 students participated. Also the workshop helped

students learn the principles associated with Arduino hardware and software. Students had hands on training

session and were trained to program how to control things like lights or motors along with listening to

components like motion detection sensors.


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APRIL 2015

GUEST LECTURE ON HIGHER STUDIES AT ABROAD

Guest lecture on “HIGHER STUDIES AT ABROAD” for final year students held on 29th

April 2015.

Ms. PersisNauman & Kripa of Canam Group Chennai conducted the programme and briefed about

various exams for doing higher studies at abroad. They also discussed about Universities, Scholarships

available and Part Time Jobs.


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MAY 2015

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIVE & EMERGING

TRENDS IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

National Conference on Innovative &Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology was organized

by Dept. of ECE, EEE, CSE, IT& MECH on 14th, May 2015. The conference focused on research frontiers

in various domains & provided vibrant opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas, application

experiences, the practical challenges encountered and to establish research relations thereby enabling to find

global partners for future collaboration.

Principal Dr. T.Jayanthy, welcomed the gathering &felicitated the Chief Guest. Shri H.R .Mohan Chair

IEEE Computer Society inaugurated the conference and delivered the key note address.

The conference sessions had a series of invited presentations.

ShriH.R.Mohan Released the Conference Proceedings


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NETWORK SIMULATION TOOLS NS2 & NS3


WORKSHOP ON NETWORK SIMULATION TOOLS NS2 & NS3 on 21st and 22

nd MAY 2015. The

topics covered included NETWORK SIMULATORS-A EAGLE VIEW FOR DIFFERENT

APPLICATIONS. The use of Network Simulators-2, Installation of NS2, Working with ‏Front End Tools

for NS-2, Protocols for Network simulators, and Analysis for the Different Files formats and taking the

outputs, Application development-By participants.

The analysis of output traces file and tools to draw the output graph from the trace file. Introduction OS

Network Simulator 3, the comparison of NS2 and NS3. Installation of NS3, benefits of NS3. The

participants were given hands-on training on NS2 and NS3.

All the participants felt it extremely beneficial and gained knowledge on NS2 and to write scripts for

various Network applications.


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JUNE 2015

GUEST LECTURE ON COMMUNICATION SKILLS

IEEE student branch organized a guest lecture on Communication Skills. The session was

presided over by Mrs. Sofia Vincent, Assistant Professor, M.B.A., Panimalar Engineering

College on 30th

June 2015. The session covered points on how communication plays a major role

in any sector, the various delicacies in the language and the methods by which our communication

skills can be improved. About 75 students actively participated in this.

APTITUDE TRAINING PROGRAMME

To enhance the aptitude skills of Final year students and make them ready for placements -

Career Development Cell and IEEE-SB of Panimalar institute of technology in association with

Productivity Reach, Bangalore organized a one week Aptitude Training Programme during

22.6.2015-30.6.2015. Training Sessions are supported by elitist experts from Premier Business

Schools.


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JULY 2015

GUEST LECTURE ON HIGHER STUDIES IN ABROAD

IEEE student branch PIT in association with PIT alumni cell arranged a guest lecture on Higher

Studies in Abroad to the students of ECE department on 1st July 2015 for which the speakers

were Mr.Arun Kumar, Perusing MS in Kyungpook National University, South Korea and

Mr.Prem Kumar, Perusing MS in New Jersey Institute of Technology, US. The session gave the

students various insights on how to prepare for doing MS or MBA in abroad and the application

process. This event attracted around 650 students.

GUEST LECTURE ON EXPECTATION OF INDUSTRIES FROM YOUNG

ENGINEERS On 1

st July 2015 a Guest Lecture was conducted on Expectation of Industries from Young

Engineers, by Mr.Ram Prashanth, Embedded Developer, Bosch Automotive Steering,

Coimbatore. The session involved talks on how to prepare to get into the core companies, what

type of skills they need, the prerequisites and other expectations of the industry. This event

attracted around 650 students.

SHORT TERM COURSE ON MATLAB & ITS APPLICATION IN POWER

ELECTRONICS

IEEE student branch in association with department of EEE conducted a Short term course (STC)

on “MATLAB & ITS APPLICATION IN POWER ELECTRONICS” from 02.07.2015 -

24.09.2015 for Third year students of EEE Department. The STC focused on how to use

MATLAB software for various applications. Demonstration of the simulation of converter circuits

using MATLAB was demonstrated.

SHORT TERM COURSE ON ANTENNA DESIGN

Short term course for the final year ECE department students on Antenna Design from 6th

July

2015 to 31st July 2015 was organized by IEEE-SB. The short term course was aimed at students

who are about to do their final year project in the antenna domain. The course discussed on the

design and construction of various antennas.


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SHORT TERM COURSE ON PSPICE

Short term course on “PSPICE” was conducted from 07.07.2015 -22.09.2014 for Second year

students of EEE Department. The STC focused on designing a circuit in a PSPICE. The

information imparted to the students will be useful for them to progress with the ideas rendered by

them in implementing basic circuits using PSPICE.

GUEST LECTURE ON LEARN BY DOING

IEEE Student Branch in association with the Entrepreneurship Development Cell of PIT

organized a guest lecture on LEARN BY DOING on 11th

July 2015. The speaker of the meet was

Mr.Sunilraj Sudhakar, Finance manager FORD Global Business Services on the management

methods. The audience of the session were the EDC members.

SHORT TERM COURSE ON LABVIEW AND ITS APPLICATIONS

A short term course was conducted by IEEE -SB for the Third year ECE department students on

LABVIEW and its applications from 06th

to 31st July 2015.This course introduced the students

to various features of LABVIEW and focused on how to use LABVIEW software for various

applications. Image processing concepts with Real Time applications using LABVIEW was

demonstrated. Around 210 students from ECE attended the short term course.

GUEST LECTURE ON AWARENESS ON CIVIL SERVICE

EXAMINATIONS IEEE student branch in association with the PIT-CDC organized a guest lecture by Mr.Shankar,

Director of Shankar IAS academy on Awareness on Civil Service Examinations on 14th

July

2015. The session gave the students information about the preparation and pattern of the IAS

examination. The session acted as an eye opener for students who were unsure about their career

path. Around 1350 students attended the event.

SHORT TERM COURSE ON PCB DESIGN

IEEE Student Branch organized a short term course for the Second year ECE department students

on PCB design. This course was conducted from 06th

July 2015 to 31st July 2015. The course

introduced the students to various aspects of PCB design. Around 200 students from ECE attended

the short term course. The information imparted by them will be useful for the students to progress

with the ideas rendered by them in their projects.


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ONLINE APTITTUDE TEST

To bring out the talents from students of final year and to make them practice more aptitude

problems IEEE SB in association with CDC PIT conducts online Aptitude test every Wednesday.

AUGUST 2015

MOCK INTERVIEW

Mock interview was conducted to students to test their interview skills. All the eligible final year

students underwent this programme. At the end of the interview students were provided with

constructive feedback in a low-stress environment.

CAMPUS RECRUITMENT TRAINING WORKSHOP

The Campus Recruitment Training Workshop 2015 in association with PIT CDC, IEEE SB & SEED was

held on 22nd

to 30th

August to give an entropic exposure about the campus interview. During the Training

session the participants were made cognizant about how exactly the interview process goes on. The group

discussions held were enlightening. The participants were taught to prepare resume. A live interview was

conducted to observe and learn a lot. This event helped the students to overcome the fear of facing

interviews and got a right view and spirit towards campus recruitments.

WORKSHOP ON ROBOTICS

Workshop on Robotics was conducted by IEEE Student Branch in two phases for ECE & EEE

students on 12th

August 2015 to 14th

August 2015 and 19th

August 2015 to 21st August 2015. The

workshops involved around 300 students. The students were given the basic knowledge about the

design and construction of the bots, Line follower robots, etc.,.

EnActUs ORIENTATION PROGRAMME

IEEE Student Branch in association with the Entrepreneurship Development Cell of PIT

organized the EnActUs Orientation Programme on 19th

August 2015. The session was presided

over by Ms.Anitha Nallasekaran, Program Manager EnActUs, South, India. The lecture was

aimed at instilling entrepreneurial instincts into young minds.


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WORKSHOP ON RFID-2015

Department of ECE in association with IEEE SB of Panimalar Institute of Technology organized a

Two days workshop on RFID-2015 in coordination with IIT-Madras & Codex Design during

20th

- 21st , August 2015. This workshop mainly focused on RFID Applications. The workshop

covered topics like Features of RFID Systems ,Security of RFID System, Applications &

assembling RFID developing kit , Interfacing card with Reader, Writing a program for RFID based

access and security system, Testing and debugging the RFID based access and security system

program. Around 125 students in and around Tamil Nadu participated and gained knowledge.

SEMINAR ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT

IEEE Student Branch in association with the PIT-EDC organized a seminar on Entrepreneurship

Development on 26th

August 2015. The session was handled by Mr.Harish and Mr.Arul

Prabhahar Asst.Managers, from National Small Industries Corporation, Guindy. During their

talk they focused on how to start up a business, run it and to improve it. They also explained

students how NSIC Chennai helps students to become an Entrepreneur.


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SEPTEMBER 2015

ROBOTRON - ROBO RACE

PIT -IEEE Robotics & Automation Society organized Robo-Race competition for students of

second & third year ECE & EEE. It was conducted on 9th

September 2015. The total numbers of

Participants were around 25. Participants were instructed to make Robot and they have to run the

Robot in the racing field.

ROBORACE

DEBATE ON JOB VS ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Debate on Job vs Entrepreneurship was conducted on 11.09.2015. About 30 students participated

in the debate. The students debated the pros & cons of having a job &Entrepreneurship &

highlighted the general psychology of people towards Job and Entrepreneurship.


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DHONI’15 – INVITED TALK ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP

An Invited talk was organized as a part of DHONI’15 Prize distribution ceremony on 19th

September 2015, on Entrepreneurship. The event was presided over by Dr.G.Ravikumar,

Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED), Anna University, Chennai. During his

speech he highlighted how entrepreneurship helps students .The session attracted around 150

students from various departments.

MINI PROJECT CONTEST

IEEE student branch conducted MINI Project Contest on 30th

September 2015. 10 projects

from various fields of VLSI, Image Processing, Embedded System and Robotics were exhibited.

The following students won the prizes in the event.

PROJECT TITLE STUDENTS NAME POSITION YEAR

STUDENTS RECORD USING

C++ AND GRAPHIC

DESIGNS

SAINATH K,MOHAMMED

FARIZ K

GOPINATH K

I

III

FOUR TONE ALISHA CELESTINE.X ,

KAUSALYA.T

NANDHINI PRIYA.M.N ,

INDHUMATHI.J

II

BALL FOLLOWING ROBOT BALAJI T, ARAVIND B,

SUNDARJI A

MANOJKUMAR B,NAVEEN V

II

III

WATER LEVEL INDICATOR

ALARM USING

TRANSISTOR

HARISHBABU T,SHRIRAM S

VAMSI KRISHNA M.

S,JOSEPH MARCIAN M

II

DATA HIDING USING

STEGNOGRAPHY

TECHNIQUE

NAVEEN

KUMAR.V,YOKESH.T

MURUGESAN S

III

III

SOLAR CAR WITH SOLAR

CHARGER

HARINI R , HEMALATHA S

PRIYADARSHINI S III

AUTOMATIC STREET LIGHT

CONTROL SYSTEM

RAMANAN R , SUDHAKARAN

K

VETRIVEL V , RAMESH A

II

BLOW SWITCH AKSHAYA ANAND,

N.CHANDRIKA

S.PRIYANKA

II


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Dr.M.P.Chitra,HOD/ECE & Reviewer of Project contest Reviews the Project

MATLAB CODING CONTEST

PIT -IEEE Signal Processing Society organized MATLAB coding contest for third year students.

It was conducted on 23rd

September 2015. The total numbers of Participants were around 15.


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OCTOBER 2015

IEEE day is special for IEEE members over the world and hence the members of our branch

started to celebrate this day with a lot of zeal and energy. Our activities for IEEE Day aim to make

all of us feel like we belong to a larger community, not just technically, but socially and culturally.

SHARING BENEFITS OF IEEE

Stall has been arranged to explain the benefits of IEEE. Student branch members explained various

ways in which IEEE membership can be used to develop their skills.

INAUGRATION OF IEEE DAY CELEBRATION

IEEE DAY Celebrations was inaugurated by Dr.T.Jayanthy, Principal Panimalar Institute

of Technology. During her Inaugural speech she briefed on the importance and the benefits of

IEEE student membership. She also elaborated on how to access IEEE & tips to do projects.

Dr.M.P.Chitra, IEEE Branch Adviser, HOD /ECE explained in brief about the activities and

awards received by PIT IEEE Student branch. Mr.M.Arun Student Branch counselor briefed about

the activities to be held during IEEE day celebrations. Student and professional members of SB

gathered and shared their achievements among the members.


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Dr.T.Jayanthy, Principal, PIT ,Dr.M.P.Chitra, HOD/ECE, Mr.M.Arun, SB Counselor, during Inaugural function

LECTURE ON IEEE & ITS BENEFITS TO STUDENTS

Mr. S. Ganesh, Professional Member IEEE & Associate Prof. ECE delivered the lecture on

IEEE & Its Benefits to students and society. During his speech he stated how IEEE differs from

other professional societies. How IEEE brings various departments like CSE, EEE, AERO, etc,.

Under a single IEEE roof. He also briefed about IEEE Student project funding, IEEE Extreme,

IEEE SIGHT , IEEE GOLD, IEEE WIE , etc,. Mr.M.S. Saravanan IEEE SB chairman delivered

the vote of thanks.

Mr.Ganesh, Associate Professor ECE delivers a lecture on IEEE


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WALK-A-THON

PIT IEEE student Branch Members as a part of IEEE DAY 15 conducted a walk-a-thon for the

cause of children ailing under child labor, child Marriage & Harassment against Women. The

march consisted of around 40 people and attracted significant attention. The march was flagged by

M.Arun,Student branch counselor, at around 10 A.M.

Walk-a-Thon

IEEE DAY 15 HUMAN FORMATION

As a part of IEEE DAY celebration IEEE students formed themselves in letters of IEEE DAY

15.This grasped the eyes of many first year students and triggered them to ask us what IEEE is?

Office bearers of IEEE SB briefed them about IEEE and Benefits of Joining IEEE.

IEEE ROBOTICS CONTEST

Robotics and automation society PIT conducted IEEE Robotics Contest. Contest was held to

bring in the talents of young engineers. 14 different robots were designed by participants and

exhibited in the contest. The humanoid ROBO hand by Mr. M.S.Saravanan won the first prize.


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ROBO HAND

QUIZ CONTEST

Quiz contest was held to bring out the hidden talent among IEEE student members. About 35

students attended the quiz prelims from which 3 teams were short listed for the Final round. The

finalist underwent through two levels of quizzing which covered almost all the possible fields in

engineering.

Participants during Quiz contest

EXTEMPORE

About 50 students participated in Extempore spoke on various topics like What can you do as an

IEEEian? , Role of Engineers in Developing Society, Digital India, Clean India etc,.


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Mr. Vinoth Student member during extempore

GUEST LECTURE ON IDEA GENERATION

“A man may die, even nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance

without death”, to make it much evident, a Guest Lecture on Idea Generation on 19th

October

2015 was organized by PIT E-Cell in association with IEEE SB & Purple Squirrel. Mr.

V. Ramachandran, Senior Associate, Purple Squirrel,Chennai delivered the lecture. During the

Lecture he explained students about the conventional and unconventional career and how they

counteract with each other. Moreover, how we can make our career unconventional just by

becoming a blogger. He also extended it to other fields like film; photography etc. by that he

showed how even a small start-up can make big entrepreneurs.

Mr. V. Ramachandran, Senior Associate, Purple Squirrel, Chennai delivers the lecture


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GUEST LECTURE ON FINANCE & MARKETING ASPECTS OF

STARTUPS

Guest Lecture on Finance & Marketing Aspects of Startups was organized on October 19 – 2015

by PIT E-ECELL & IEEE SB. “Start where you are, use what you have and do what you can”,

with reference to the above context, our journey started successfully with an eminent speaker Mr.

S Varadarajan, CEO ,V empower Academy. The session begun by the question “what is meant by

the start” which aroused our enthusiasm and made us feel comfortable. Then, the speaker gave us

his piece of information about the entrepreneurship and made us aware of how to eradicate the

myths that prevent a person from becoming an entrepreneur. Next, the speaker gave us an idea of

how thinking out of box will help build a good entrepreneur. He also made us visualize how even

small start-ups have reaped fruitful results. He asked us to first master the tricks of the concerned

field and then become an entrepreneur which gave us confidence to wake up the entrepreneurs in

us. The speaker even said, how communication plays an important role in an entrepreneur’s career.

To conclude with, this journey ended up in carving a endless and successful career towards the

path of the entrepreneurship.

Mr. S Varadarajan, CEO ,V empower Academy delivers the lecture


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NOVEMBER 2015

WORKSHOP ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & COGNITION

Department of ECE of Panimalar Institute of Technology in association with IFANDFOR

ENDEAVOURS Chennai, IEEE-SB, IEEE Robotics & Automation Society organized a Workshop

on “Artificial Intelligence & Cognition” organized during 4th

to 5th

NOVEMBER 2015.

Mr.S.Kalidas founder IFANDFOR ENDEAVOURS Chennai conducted the workshop. The course

focused on the basics of modern AI as well as some of the representative applications of AI. Along

the way, participants learnt about the numerous applications and huge possibilities in the field of

AI, which continues to expand human capability beyond imagination. There were about 50

participants who felt it extremely beneficial and gained knowledge on applications.


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IEEE STUDENT BRANCH AWARDS

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/awards/student_branch_awards.html

1. IEEE Student Enterprise Award

2. Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award

3. IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award

4. IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Branch Chapter Advisor Award

5. The Darrel Chong Student Activity Award

AWARD CONSTITUTED BY THE SECTION

To encourage the student branches & societies to conduct more activities, the following awards

(certificate of appreciation & cash awards) were given at the AGM. The basis for the selection was

published in the MAS-LINK.

Cash awards & certificates of appreciation are being distributed every year at the AGM. For

1. The Student Branch having maximum number of members.

2. Award given to top three colleges.

3. Student Branches conducting good number of activities.

4. Society Chapter and affinity groups were also awarded with cash and certificate of appreciation

during the AGM.

IEEE STUDENT BRANCH FUNDING

Yearly Rebate

1. IEEE Annual Student Branch Rebate:

More details: http://www.ieee.org/societies_communities/geo_activities/required_reporting/

rebate_schedule.html

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/awards/student_branch_awards.html

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ACTIVITY FUNDING

1. Student professional awareness Conference Funding (SPAC) More details:

http://www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committees/spac/general_info.html

2. IEEE Foundation Grant More details:

http://www.ieeefoundation.org/grants

3. IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity Group Formation Grant More details:

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/women/affinity_funding.html

4. IEEE women in Engineering Special Funding Request form More details:

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/women/affinity/forum_funding.html

5. IEEE Madras Section Activity Funding: More details:

https://ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras/content/doc/applicationforfinancialsupport.doc

6. IEEE Region10 Education Activities Funding: More details:

http://www.ieeer10.org/2014/03/11/ea-support-fund-2014/

7. IEEE Region 10 Professional Activities Funding: More details:

http://www.ieeer10.org/2014/07/15/result-of-2014-ieee-r10-professional-activity-funding/

Student Project Funding

1. IEEE Standards Education Grant: More details:

http://www.ieee.org/education_careers/education/stamdards/applications.html

2. IEEE President I change the world: More details:

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/competitions/ change_the

world/index.html

3. IEEE / IBM Smarter Planet Challenge: More details:

http://www.ieee.org/education_careers/education/university_programs/

smarterplanetchallenge.html

4. IEEE Student Enterprise Award: More details:

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/awards/enterprise.html

5. IEEE R10 Young Engineering Humanitarian Challenge: More details:

http://ieeehumanitarian.com/

6. IEEE Madras Section Project funding: More details:

http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras/content/pdf/project_funding_schedule_2013_14.pdf

http://www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committees/spac/general_info.html

http://www.ieeefoundation.org/grants

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/women/affinity_funding.html

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/women/affinity/forum_funding.html

https://ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras/content/doc/applicationforfinancialsupport.doc

http://www.ieeer10.org/2014/03/11/ea-support-fund-2014/

http://www.ieeer10.org/2014/07/15/result-of-2014-ieee-r10-professional-activity-funding/

http://www.ieee.org/education_careers/education/stamdards/applications.html

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/competitions/%20change_the%20world/index.html

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/competitions/%20change_the%20world/index.html

http://www.ieee.org/education_careers/education/university_programs/%20smarterplanetchallenge.html

http://www.ieee.org/education_careers/education/university_programs/%20smarterplanetchallenge.html

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/awards/enterprise.html

http://ieeehumanitarian.com/

http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras/content/pdf/project_funding_schedule_2013_14.pdf


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IEEEXtreme 9.0:

IEEE’s Flagship Programming Competition—Important Information for Student Members &

Faculty Advisers IEEEXtreme (often abbreviated as Xtreme) is an annual competitive

programming challenge in which teams of IEEE Student members, supported by an IEEE Student

Branch, advised and proctored by an IEEE member, compete in a 24-hour time span against each

other to solve a set of programming problems. The competition is underwritten and coordinated by

IEEE's Membership and Geographic Activities department, and is often supported by partnering

sponsors, like IEEE Computer Society. The

IEEEXtreme is open to all who would be interested in hosting, proctoring, or competing in

IEEEXtreme 9.0—IEEE’s flagship computer programming competition beginning on 24 October,

2014 at 00:00 UTC.

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/competitions/xtreme/index.html

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/competitions/xtreme/index.html%0c


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MEMBER RESOURCES

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networking opportunities, and exclusive member benefits. IEEE memberships support IEEE's

mission to advance technology for humanity and the profession. At the same time, memberships

build a platform to introduce technology careers to students around the world.

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profession, keep in touch with your peers, and invest in your career advancement.

Benefits of membership

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opportunities, career development tools, and many other exclusive benefits to its members.

>View all membership benefits

Student Branch Resources

WIE Affinity Group Resources

Volunteer Resources

Student Benefits

Student Discounts

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http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/benefits/index.html

http://www.r10sac.org/resources/sb.html

http://www.r10sac.org/resources/wie.html

http://www.r10sac.org/resources/volunteers.html

http://www.r10sac.org/resources/student/benefits.html

http://www.r10sac.org/resources/student/discounts.html

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