August 2014

August 2014 Lap NO: SAEISS/14/02

A Newsletter from

Visit of Dan Hancock, SAE Intl. President

KRT launch at Mahindra Research Valley

And more inside…

COLT Hyderabad

AWIM- Jet toy demonstration by school children

August 2014

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5 KRT launch

Lecture meeting

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Top Tech

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Professional members Space…… 5

Contents

Student members Space..... 13

Student’s convention

SAE Trek

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AWIM

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Chairman’s Message…4

COLT Hyderabad

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August 2014

Editorial Team:

Patron: Balasubramanian N

Editor : Mr. Vijayaragavan N- RNTBCI

SAEISS office: M/s,Hari prasan dash , S. Ilangovan, Mukesh, Panneerselvam, Vasanth Raj

Industry members: M/s Padmesh sewda (RNTBCI), Vinothkumar B (RNTBCI), Sivashankar

S (RNTBCI), Sanjeev Bhushan (Daimler), Venkatesan (Royal Enfield), Sreevalsan (UCAL

fuel)

Student executive council members (SEC):, M/s Shankara narayanan P, Pulkit goel,

Venkata raghav , Md. Sibghathullah,Ms. Sanjana

This newsletter is brought for Information Cascading among SAEINDIA members

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SAEINDIA Southern Section is a premier society that serves the cause of mobility

engineering. It is a unique society that includes professional engineers who serve different

OEMS and Suppliers, academia as well as budding engineers (students) who aspire to be

part of the professionally attractive field of mobility engineers. We believe that Mobility

Engineering is a knowledge rich field and that learning and sharing can be fun and

rewarding. To this end, SAEISS organizes several events throughout the year, runs

programmes that enrich and engage and conducts lectures and symposia. It is a part of

SAEINDIA.

SAEINDIA is an affiliate society of SAE International which is head quartered in USA

and has a glorious record of over 100 years of service to the mobility community.

Did you know??? SAE – Society of Automotive Engineers is

founded on 1905 by Andrew L.Riker Founder of Riker electric

vehicle company as its first President and Henry ford as Vice

president in New York.

About …

Your Feedback & Queries are welcome at admin@saeiss.org

August 2014

Dear SAE INDIA Southern Section Members,

Greetings from our Management Committee,

The interactions with Mr. Dan Hancock has been inspiring and his 30+ years

association with SAE has been amazing. His interest always goes about STEM (Science,

Technology, Engineering & Maths) education and enriching the knowledge of school

children. When he could see the demonstration of School Children in Maharishi Vidhya

Mandhir School, He felt satisfied as his initiatives deliver fruits across the globe.

We had the SAE INDIA Knowledge Round Table (KRT) inauguration at Mahindra

Research Valley. It was a unique event as SAE International President inaugurated the

KRT and handed over the KRT Shield to Dr. Aravind S Bharadwaj, SAE India President as

Chief Technology Officer in Mahindra Research Valley. As requests are flowing from

different corners for the starting of New KRT’s, we have big opportunity to make SAE as a

learning and Knowledge sharing tool across our Section and SAE India.

COLT and Student Convention have been one of the biggest Student Events. COLT was

conducted for the first time in Hyderabad division. It was a mega event organized by our

Hyderabad Division. The Chief Guest for COLT was Mr. C.H. Malla Reddy Member of

Parliament, India.75 SAEINDIA Collegiate club Office bearers from 22 Colleges & 7

Faculty Advisors attended the event. It was well organized by Hyderabad division

members Dr. G.Padmanabham, Chairman , Mr. Srinivasa Rao Y, COLT champion ,

Dr.Gururaj T, Joint secretary, Mr. Venkateshwar R, Dr. M.PawanKumar Y, Scientist RCI.

We request continuous support from SAEISS Members to participate in all events of

SAE India and strengthen Mobility community for knowledge sharing & Learning.

Best Regards,

Balasubramanian N

SAEISS Chairman

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Chairman’s Message

We had a very exciting days with visit of Mr Dan

Hancock, SAE INTERNATIONAL President in Chennai with

various events attended by him and COLT(Club Officers

Leadership Training) organized by Re-inforced Hyderabad

Division in action.

August 2014

Would you like to start KRT in your company??? - Mail to memberservices@saeiss.org

Professional member Page

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SAEINDIA Knowledge Round Table (KRT) Initiative

SAE KRT Initiative was successfully Launched at Mahindra & Mahindra

The Chief Guest Of the Program was Mr. Dan Hancock.

KRT : A group of SAE members working in a company forms an environment where they

can interact with each other to deliver their knowledge and conduct activities within the

company, such as Technical seminars, Guest lectures, Competitions,& Treks, etc. through

which they can also contribute to the society by sharing their output from KRT.

The concept of 3C

Snaps from KRT at Mahindra & Mahindra

This KRT is launched on 25th July

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PMI conference

Third Project Management Tamilnadu State Conference 2014 , was successfully conducted

on the 26th July 2014 at The Gateway Hotel IT Expressway, Chennai, India.

This program was supported by SAEINDIA Southern Section, Management Committee

Members from SAEINDIA Southern Section who are the leaders of the Industry

Mr. N Balasubramanian, Dr. P. Sivakumar, Mr. K. Srikanth, Mr. S. Arun, Mr. Parvez Alam M

are present in the conference & their Address on Project Management has enlighten the

Industrial Participants .

Highlights of PMI:

350 Professionals from across the States attended The Project Management Conference.

Over 250 Students from Prestigious Universities & Colleges.

Exclusive "FIRST TIME" student conference on Project Management.

Dynamic panel discussion on a typical subject.

Visionary speakers sharing their wealth of knowledge.

Multiple knowledge formats including Panel discussions, Debates, Case studies etc.

Snapshots from the PMI conference

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Professional member Page

This lecture meeting was Inaugurated & presided by Mr. T. R Sathyanarayanan, Treasurer &

Lecture meeting Champion

An overview from this lecture meeting:

• A monitoring and detection system which can alert the driver for component or system

failures that can affect emissions.

• On Board Diagnostic System (OBD) is a system on a vehicle or engine which has capability

of Detecting Malfunctions

• Indicating their occurrence by means of a Malfunction Indicator Lamp (MIL)

• Identifying the area of these malfunctions by means of diagnostic elements

• Storing the information in computer memory

• Communicating that information off-board

Lecture meeting - OBD for Commercial Vehicles

SAEISS Conducted lecture meeting on “OBD for Commercial Vehicles” on 16th August’14 at

SAEISS office by Mr. Arun Sivasubramaniyan, Head- Regulations & Homologation ,

Ashok Leyland and Joint secretary SAEISS.

“Lecture meeting is focused to amplify the thought process of Engineers on their

particular fields. This brief session has proved to satisfy the participants to a higher

degree in a given time frame”

Did you know???On board Diagnostic System is first introduced

in 1969 by Volkswagen

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Professional member Page

SAEISS Conducted lecture meeting on “Friction Stir Welding In Chassis” on 23rd August’14,

at SAEISS Office by Dr. D. Muruganandam, Professor ,Production Engineering, Sri Sai Ram

Engineering college.

An overview from the lecture meeting:

• The FSW process was conducted on varying the welding process parameters such as

tool rotation speed (RPM), welding speed (mm/min) and tool pin profile by keeping

downward force (kN) constant.

• The properties such as defects, macro and microstructure, micro hardness, tensile and

bend behavior on welded plates were studied.

• A specially shaped tool pin, made from material that have a hard and wear resistant

relative to the material being welded.

• Tests have been conducted on the welded specimen for defects, microstructure, tensile

hardness, and bend behavior on welded plates.

Lecture meeting - Friction Stir Welding In Chassis

This lecture meeting was Inaugurated & Presided by Mr. N Balasubramanian , Chairman

SAEISS and Mr. T. R. Sathyanarayanan, Treasurer, SAEISS.

Did you know???The luxury carmaker Rolls Royce Motor

Cars Limited is derived from its parent company Rolls Royce which makes Aircraft Engines

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Hyderabad Lecture meeting

Topic : The Mobility Industry from the Eyes of an Organization Development

Consultant

Speaker : Mr. Amar Chegu, Managing Director,

Cosmic Management Services Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad

Date : 22nd August 2014

Venue : Engineering Staff College of India. Hyderabad.

Abstract of the event:

Each industry configures itself into a model of operations, most conducive for

addressing the challenges it faces.

Drawing on Organization Development subject, the terrain of the mobility industry has

been explained with insights into what contributes to success, excellence and

sustainability

SAEINDIA Hyderabad Division has been conducting many guest lectures for the benefit of

Student & Professional members. The Lecture meeting on “Laser micromachining for

Engineering Applications” provided knowledge on Laser precision machining which is the

key technology to realize miniaturized products which provides a foundation for

machining parts with high accuracy & Distinctly tiny functional features

Professional member Page

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Professional member Page

Top tech – Fuel cell technology

“A TopTech program is an intensive session of two days which is anchored by a eminent

subject matter expert. It deals with one technical problem or process and the participants

get to understand and discuss the subject threadbare. The expert also brings up the best

practices on this subject with relevant examples.”

Topic - Fuel Cell Technology - Power Source For Automobile Application, 18th & 19th July.

Faculty: Dr. P. Karthikeyan, Professor at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

This Toptech was Inaugurated by Mr. Parvez Alam M, MC Member & Presided by Mr. T. R Sathyanarayanan, Treasurer,SAEISS

An overview from this top tech:

• Dissemination of knowledge gained on fuel cells through a new course “Fuel Cell

Technology”.

• This course bestows a disclosure to the participants towards the up to date state of play

in international research and development in fuel cell energy technology.

• The course takes in hand the issues of environment and energy resources using fuel cell

for small and portable applications.

• Serves as an imminent avenue of improving energy efficiency in fuel cells to enable

designers to develop better designs.

• Enhances in-depth understanding of Proton exchange membrane Fuel cells (PEMFC) for

energy efficiency, performance, safety and economics.

• This underpinning course will follow a line of investigation and progress in Scaling up &

Stacking up of Fuel Cells.

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Topic : Automotive Acoustics, 1st & 2nd August 2014 at SAEISS office

Faculty : Dr. M. Subramanian / Professor, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

This Toptech was Inaugurated by Mr.S. Selvamani, EC member-SAEISS and Mr.S. Shanmugam, Secretary-SAEISS. The program was presided by Mr. T. R

Sathyanarayanan, Treasurer., SAEISS

The objective of this top tech program:

• To learn the fundamentals of sound, measurements and characterization.

• To learn noise reduction strategies.

• To learn design for noise control.

• To learn noise control techniques through simple case studies.

• To learn design of automotive panels for noise control

• Domain knowledge on automotive noise control.

• To understand fundamentals of engineering acoustics. Vehicle and component design

for noise control

Top tech – Automotive acoustics

Did you know??? The idea for the people’s car VW beetle and its functional objectives were formulated by Adlof

Hitler

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Professional member Page

Topic : Surface Engineering for Automotive Applications, 22nd & 23rd August 2014

Faculty : Dr. R. Rajendran - Professor of BSA University, Mr. S. Shanmugham - Material

Expert at WABCO INDIA LTD And Mr. S. Srinivasan - Ashok Leyland, Hosur.

This Toptech was Inaugurated By Mr. T. Kasiraja, MC Member. The program was presided by Mr. N Balasubramanian , Chairman SAEISS

Objective of this top tech program:

• Have an understanding of the concepts of surface engineering as part of the

manufacturing process.

• Have a good knowledge of the principles of failure modes like corrosion, friction and

wear, including abrasive, erosive and sliding wear, including the selection of suitable

coating systems.

• Have a detailed knowledge of new coating concepts, including multilayered structures

and functionally gradient materials, together with examples of their major applications.

• Have an appreciation of the microstructural characteristics used to describe materials

and the techniques used to characterize the surface.

Top tech - Surface Engineering for Automotive Applications

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Student’s Activities

“COLT mainly focuses on enhancing leadership, to indulge networking skills, importance of

effective communication & co-ordination, etc., to purse all the activities of SAEISS

effectively in their collegiate club”

• Various leadership, Communication & motivational sessions are conducted on the Day 1

of COLT program by eminent speakers after the Inauguration. The club officers are also

trained on how to manage the Collegiate Club regular activities in order keep the Club

active throughout the year.

• The Day 2 session was focused on Team Building Activities like Ice Breaking, coin

passing, Traffic jam, etc., to enable the Leadership quality among the young engineers.

SAEINDIA Hyderabad – Division successfully conducted the 2 Days COLT on the 30th & 31st

Of August – 2014 at MLR Institute Of Technology – Hyderabad, Telengana.

75 SAEINDIA Collegiate club Office bearers from 22 Colleges & 7 Faculty Advisors attended

The Chief Guest for COLT was Mr. C.H. Malla Reddy Member of Parliament, India.

COLT – Club Officers Leadership Training Program

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The Key players of COLT event:

Dr. G.Padmanabham, Chairman , Mr.. Srinivasa Rao Y, COLT champion , Dr.Gururaj T, Joint

secretary, Mr. Venkateshwar Reddy, M,PawanKumar Y, Sceintist RCI.

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CLUB Inaugurations and Guest lectures

Dr. M. Uthayakumar Prof & Head @Amal Jyothi College Of Engineering,

Kottayam 11th August

Dr. D. Muruganandam @Hindustan University on 13th August

Lecture on "Welding Trends and Technology"

Mr. K.Kamalakkannan @APEC, Melmaruvathur on 14th August

Awareness program on SAEINDIA and BAJA.

Dr. D. Muruganandam @Sri ranga boopathi Engineering college

Tindivanam, on 28th August.

Dr.D.Muruganandham @St.Joseph Institute of Tech. – 5th August

Mr.R.M.Thirupathi, VP,Rane TRW @K.Ramakrishnan College of Engineering,

Trichy-12th August

Student’s Activities

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Student Convention

The tier 1 event is successfully being conducted in all Clubs from Tamilnadu, Andhrapradesh & Kerala. All the Clubs are geared up for the Tier 2 Competitions.

The tier 2, Regional Level Convention will be conducted at 6 divisions.

College name Division Date J.B Inst. Engg & Tech, Hyderabad Hyderabad - Division 12th Sept - 2014

SSMIET , Dindigul South Tamilnadu 16th Sept - 2014

SRM University, Chennai East Tamilnadu 21st Sept - 2014

Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, Kerala

Kerala Division 19th Sept- 2014

EASWARI ENGINEERING COLLEGE Chennai

North Tamilnadu 6th Sept - 2014

Jansons Institute of Technology Coimbatore

West Tamilnadu 13th Sept - 2014

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SAEINDIA Southern Section Annual Student Convention is an opportunity for students to

showcase their skills & ideas to the industry and to the student community as well as to

share, compete and learn in the process. It is the festival of technology for students and all

different forms of technical skill and knowledge pertaining to basic concepts of mobility

engineering, engineering design challenges, and technical theatres are all present in one roof

during these two days. It is SAEINDIA Southern Section's flagship event for students.

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Student’s Activities

SAEISS KRT Trek August 2014:

SAEISS trek conducted on 2nd & 3rd August 2014 by SSM Institute Of Engineering &

Technology, Dindigul.

The trek Program as subdivided in to groups

• For the Student members

• For Professional Members of KRT Club from Industries.

A special session was designed for the interaction of Student members with Industry

members.

The resource person for this trek program was Mr. S. Shanmugam (Secretary-SAEISS) & Mr.

S. Selvamani(EC Member-SAEISS)

SAE Trek

Glimpses of SAE Trek August 2014

Participants fabricating the toy in session 1 Mr. S. Shanmugam explaining participants about engineering design Process

Interaction between SAEISS MC, Industry members with trek participants

Participants on the way to Trek

August 2014 Other events

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AWIM – A World In Motion - KICK OFF 2014

The Inaugural function of “A World In Motion” for the year 2014 was successfully held on

28th July 2014 in Maharishi Vidhya Mandir school, Chetpet, Chennai.

The Chief Guest for this Program was SAE International President Mr. Dan Hancock and

Mr. Murli Iyer.

Award Ceremony: SAEINDIA Southern Section recognized the immense contribution of

Industry members, Teachers for bringing AWIM to such level. Also not forgetting the main

Subject “School Students” are also awarded for their achievements in AWIM nationals 2013.

Glimpses from the event

Born in Indiana, He received his Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering-

from General Motors Institute, Michigan, in 1974 and Master's degree in

mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973.

After joining General Motors in 1968 he held various engineering positions

within Allison Transmission Division, which later became Detroit Diesel Allison

Division in 1994, he was appointed director, transmission engineering, GM

Powertrain and in 1997, he returned to Indianapolis where he was named

President, Allison Transmission Division. Hancock served as chairman of the Society of Automotive

Engineers Foundation Board of Trustees from 1998 to 2008. He served as president of FISITA, the

International Federation of Automotive Engineering Societies, from 2004 to 2006. His last position with

GM was Vice President Global Strategic Product Alliances, General Motors Company

About Mr.Daniel Hancock…

Daniel M Hancock President, DMH Strategic Consulting LLC

(L to R)Mr. Ramalingam, Mr. Namsivayam, Mr. Murli Iyer,

Mr. Daniel M Hancock. Mr. N. Balasubramanian,

Mr. Govindarajan, Mr. T. Kasiraja

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MTTP was conducted to train the teachers from participating Schools in AWIM 2014, So that

they will learn how to build the Jet Toy. This will help them to Train the student in their

School.

Trainer- Mr. C. Shanmugam

16 Teachers participated in the event.

Day 1: On day 1, the Trainer explained the teachers about AWIM, various teams are formed

along with Engg. Students as volunteers.

Day 2. On Day 2, Every team is given with a challenge to Design & build the Jet Toy & test it

to achieve the specified performance.

AWIM MTTP - Master Teacher Training Program.

Glimpses from the event

MTTP Inauguration by Mr. S. Karthikayan, MC Member - SAEISS

MTTP Valediction by Mr. T. Kasiraja , AWIM Champion , MC Member - SAEISS

Teachers demonstrating the Jet toy on the track

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Qualification: -MS In Manufacturing

Management. (BITs Pilani)

Experience – 30 years

High level of experience from 2wheeler to 6

wheeler Development & Manufacturing.

Certified Lead auditor for Quality System &

OHSAH.

Experts in Vehicle packaging & Integration.

Expert in 3D printing and Rapid Prototype

developments.

SAP & Stores Management expert.

Highlights:

Design & developed miniature production

line for complete vehicle building. Successful

handling of BAJA SAEINDA 2014 event as a

Convener. Keynote speaker on Additive

Manufacturing Technology.

National Vocational Training for Automobile

stream – design syllabus & structure.

Competency building for BAJA teams–

Workshops on “Vehicle Quality”.

Leadership for various activity & new areas

exploring.

Interest in Adventure drives of vehicle rallies

and Long drives

Mr. Sanjay Nibandhe,

Deputy General Manager

Mahindra & Mahindra

Chennai.

Qualification: M.E.,-Thiagarajar College of

Engg., Madurai, Ph.D.,-Anna University,

Chennai

Professional Experience:

Professor at P.S.N.A. College of Engineering,

Associate Lecturer at M/S. P.S.N.A.College

of Engineering & Technology,

Engineer (Maintenance) in M/S.RajNarayan

Textiles,

Professional Highlights:-

Published papers in international journals &

conferences.

Best supportive faculty advisor award

Acted as Chairman of various sessions of

conferences & delivered keynote address.

Acted as Organizing secretary for National

level technical symposium.

Established various labs in PSNACET.

Member in various bodies like ISTE,

Interests:-

Interested in automotive field. Interested in

philately & numismatics

Did many projects related to automotive

field

Dr.Kannan Rajendran

Professor in Mechanical

Engineering, P.S.N.A.College

of Engineering & Technology,

Dindigul.

MC Member Introduction.

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MC Column

August 2014

Mr. Balasubramanian N Chairman

(RNTBCI)

Dr. P. Sivakumar Vice - Chairman

(CVRDE)

Mr. S. Shanmugam Secretary

(DDIPL)

Mr. T. R. Sathyanarayanan Treasurer

(WABCO INDIA LTD)

Dr. Kannan Rajendran Joint Treasurer

Engg Education Committee –Head

(PSNA College of Engineering)

Mr. Arun Sivasubramaniyan Joint Secretary, Professional

Development Committee - Head

(Ashok Leyland)

Mr. Parvez Alam M Society Contribution &

New Initiatives Committee – Head

(UCAL FUEL)

Mr. Rajesh Kumar Communication & Branding

Committee – Head

(Defiance Technologies)

Mr. Sanjay Nibandhe

(Mahindra & Mahindra)

Mr. R. Armstrong (TAFE )

Mr. Meenakshi Sundaram (Defiance Technologies)

Mr. K Srikanth (Alfa Rubber & Springs Pvt. Ltd. )

Mr. K. Kamalakkannan (Hindustan University)

Dr. M. Uthayakumar (Kalasalingam University)

Mr. S. Karthikayan (Sri Muthukumaran Inst. Of Tech.)

Dr. D Muruganandam (Sri Sai Ram Engineering College.)

Mr. N. Yogesh (RNTBCI)

Mr. T. Kasiraja (Visteon Technical& Services Cetre)

Mr. R R Sankarasubramanian (Retired - Exe. Director SAEINDIA)

Mr. Aiyappan Ramamurthy (Siemens Industry)

Member and Vice chair

MC Column

Dr. A. Ramesh (SKCET)

Governance committee

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