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Chairman’s MessageT.S. Rangarajan

ts.rangarajan@gmail.com

From The Editor’s DeskH.R. Mohan

hrmohan.ieee@gmail.comBlog: http://infoforuse.blogspot.comDear Members

This month has been a rather eventfulmonth for all of us. Four awards were won bystudents and student branches for paperpresentation, website design and outstanding SB.An Indian IEEE member Mr. RamakrishnaKappagantu won the election for R10 Director-elect – 14 years after the last Indian Dr. Harbans

Lal Bajaj. Prof Roberto De Marca of Brazil won the election for President-Elect, IEEE and IEEE day was celebrated on Oct 2, 2012 by organizingan online symposium by students of Jeppiar Engineering College whichattracted over 400 participants globally.

It is heartening to note that many student branches are enthusiasticallyorganizing events for students. I have also been invited to many of theseevents. With the experience of participating in these events, I wish toshare a few thoughts on best practices for organizing such events.

a. Every IEEE event should in some way relate to the mission of IEEEviz. Advancing Technology for Humanity. This will bring focus tothe mission and continuously emphasize the need to ‘give’ to thecommunity. It can be done by innovating events around the themeof the mission and thus help the participants to be creative. Onegood practice that I have seen in some events is to begin by administeringa survey on expectations from the event or information on relevantissues of the event using vTools or survey monkey.

b. All events must be extensively and creatively marketed. Eachsociety chapter, affinity group and student branch must createand maintain databases of prospective participants within IEEEand outside relevant to their area of specialization and focus. Forexample, if we are conducting an FDP – which is exclusively meantfor faculty – we must target our program only to faculty IEEEmembers and non-members because it is not meant for others.Creative use of social media – Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, MadrasSection website etc. are very good contemporary methods. Tobegin with the society chapters, affinity groups and studentbranches can mine SAMIEEE (the IEEE member database) tocreate their own exclusive databases.

c. Every event must begin by creating a website and using the varioustools available such as Google Forms or Madras Section websiteWeb forms, survey tools etc. to share event details and updates.Rapporteurs must be appointed very early on for the event. Theymust focus on documenting, recording, photographing, keepingthe event website updated and in general ensuring that enoughcollateral of the event is created for publications and posterity. Allthis collateral can be uploaded / linked to Section Website so thatfuture organizers can view and learn from past events.

I hope you find these best practices useful.

Yours voluntarilyts.rangarajan@gmail.com

Dear Friends,

Our chairman, in his message has sharedsome best practices in organizing events at the SBswhich I hope will be followed by the SB counselorsand OBs.

LINK congratulates Mr. RamakrishnaKappagantu from India for winning in the election for R10 Director-Elect for 2013-14. We are sure that it will be easier for us now to take upand address our country specific issues with IEEE R10 and HQ.

LINK congratulates Dr. V. Vaidehi of MIT, Anna UniversityChennai & Prof. Dr. V. Yegnanarayanan of Velammal Engineering Collegefor having elevated to IEEE Senior Member grade.

LINK is pleased to welcome the new Society Chapters and StudentBranches (some of them have already started their activities and alsoreported). It may be of interest to note that MOP Vasihnav Collge forWomen, Chennai has become the 1st non-engineering college student branchof IEEE Madras Section. They are also waiting for the approval for IEEECS student branch chapter.

The SBs were quite active in Aug & Sep and it is evident from thefact that this issue of LINK is of 12 pages even after condensing thereports published from the following institutions: Kongu Engg. College;St. Xavier Catholic College of Engg.; National Engg. College;M. Kumarasamy College of Engg.; KCG College of Tech.; ThangaveluEngg. College; Prathyusha Inst. Of Tech and Mgmt.; Easwari Engg.College; Saveetha School of Engg., Saveetha Univ.,; Nandha College ofTech.; VMKV Engg. College; Sri Ramakrishna Engg. College; MPNMJEngg. College; Sri Muthukumaran Inst. of Tech.; Knowlede Inst. of Tech.;Coimbatore Inst. Of Engg. and Tech.; SA Engg. College; Jeppiaar Engg.College; Dr. NGP Inst. of Tech.; Infant Jesus College of Engg. And Tech;VIT Univ. Chennai; Thiagarajar College of Engg.

The other items published in the LINK include: Report on the 1st

Student Skill Development Programme on “Computational IntelligenceTechniques in Engineering” and IEEE GINI Madras Section (IEEE MadrasSection Student Network) activities.

Announcements relating to the national workshop on “EnterpriseSolutions and their Challenges in Storage, Cloud Services and Security”at VSB Engg. College at Karur and the International conf. on “Communication,Computing and Information Technology” at MOP Vaishnav College forWomen at Chennai. Readers are encouraged to participate and benefit.

We wish to remind that the membership fee details for the IEEE &Societies for the year 2013 have been announced and the readers may joinnow and enjoy the membership benefits till Dec 2013 – for 14 months.Students are advised to avail the combined membership in IEEE, IEEECS with access to IEEE CS digital library at just USD 40. Members maylike to avail the offers for early renewals of the dues for 2013.

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SPAVE ZETA

Kongu Engineering College

The SPAVE ZETA, an inter-departmentaltechnical function was organized on 1st Sep 2012.The function was declared open by Mrs. V. R.Saraswathy, IEEE staff-coordinator. The eventsfor the day included: “Paper whiz” to presentideas and views about the various technicalaspects in their domain; “Project expo” helpingin enhancing the participants’ awareness aboutthe research and ongoing projects in their stream;“Code debugging” to show their command overthe programming languages; “Predefineddefinido” to frame a technical question over theworst pollution problem; “Poster Presentation”to exhibit the innovative ideas of the students;“Autobots” to induce a silver of the student’sintelligence in bots; and “Digitrix” to gear upand sharpen quizzing skills for the battle ofknowledge on technology. Prof. K. Narayananstaff co-ordinator of IEEE/WIE student branchdistributed the prizes and certificates for variousevents.

STAR Programme

enjoyed the programme and participated withcomplete enthusiasm. In an interaction session,valuable feedback was obtained from thestudents and the teachers.

Guest Lecture

The WIE Students’ Chapter conducted aSTAR Programme for a team of studentsbelonging to the 10th and 12th grades of RamarajMunicipal School, Erode on the 1st of Sep 2012to spread a word of awareness about the latesttechnologies and the various career opportunitiesopen up for them once they terminate theirschooling. A team of 4-0 students and threeteachers participated. The session was initiatedby a career guidance presentation to the studentsby Prof. K. Narayanan, staff co-ordinator ofIEEE. This was followed by a field visit, inwhich the students were given hands on exposureto a few of the sophisticated laboratories in thecollege. The students were exposed to theinfrastructure of the college as well. After thelunch, a lot of team building and brain trainingactivities such as newspaper reading, puzzlesolving, a general knowledge quiz wereconducted. Certificates were given to the winnersof various events. The students thoroughly

A guest lecture on “Current Trends inAutomotive Electronics Using EmbeddedSystem” by Mr. D. Ramesh Chief TechnicalOfficer, Chip Crafts - The School of EmbeddedSystems, Coimbatore was organised on 15th Sep2012. After the welcome by Mr. V. ManibharathiSecretary IEEE SB and the presidential addressby Mrs. V. R. Sarasvathy, IEEE staffcoordinator, Mr. Ramesh, in his lecture provideda general overview about embedded systemsand what makes them unique. He also explainedabout the practical applications of embeddedSystems in various fields and also about thechallenges in embedded computing systemsdesign. He then briefed on the automotiveelectronic systems that are employed in vehiclesthat controls and monitors the mechanical partsof the vehicle and followed on the trends ofautomotive electronic systems and spoke onthe emerging In-Vehicle networks.

Inauguration of the activities

St. Xavier’s Catholic College of Engineering

Fr. A. Jesumarian, the principal Dr. S. JosephSekhar delivered the inaugural address. TheChief Guest, Mr. Goldwin Sugirtha Dhas, aformer IEEE student member and alumnus inhis special address shared his experiences as anIEEE member of SXCCE. He gave the studentssome ideas about the emerging techniques thatcould reach our hands through IEEE. The voteof thanks was given by Ms. Ann AgnettaChandru, WIE Chairperson. To provide anawareness about IEEE among our students, aninteractive session and a presentation wereconducted with great enthusiasm by Ms. Ann

On 13th Jul 2012, the SB inaugurated itsactivities for the year 2012-13. After the readingout of the Code of Ethics Ms. M. Vanitha, finalEEE, Ms. S. Jainey of final CSE welcomed thegathering. The SB Office Bearers for the year2012-13 were introduced by Prof. A. DarwinJose Raju, the SB coordinator. Prof. A. Subitha,WIE Faculty Advisor introduced the OfficeBearers for IEEE WIE Affinity Group. Afterthe OBs taking oath, the annual plans of SB &WIE were presented by Mr. L. Arun, SBSecretary & Ms. R. Bavithra, WIE. After thepresidential address by the correspondent Rev.

Agnetta Chandru, Ms. B. Rubika and Ms. Simi.

Report by: L. Arun,lupercal.flame@gmail.com

Technical Meetings

10-07-12: Technical talk on “ArtificialLeaf” by Ms. V. S. Ajay Priya of final EEE.Along with a memento to her, Ms. Lakshmi offinal ECE was also presented with a mementofor handling aptitude session the previous week.WIE Chairperson gave some ideas in improvingthe carrier of students and about someinteractive games.

24-07-12: Mr. Jeffrin Rex, SB Chairmaninformed the members about the global awardfor our IEEE WIE Affinity group for the year2011-12 in which they won about a US$100.Ms. K. G. Simi of Final EEE informed aboutthe various awards and nominations to be donefor several awards and encouraged to participatein it. Ms. Ann Agnetta Chandru, WIEchairperson informed about the SangamamProject and to look for an orphanage visit forthe coming year. Ms. A. Chettiyar AarthiArunkumar of III year IT handled the technical

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session on “5 Pen PC Technology”. The SBCounselor presented a memento to her and toMs. C. V. Chaitra of Final EEE for conductingan aptitude session, the previous Thursday.

31-07-12: Technical presentation on“Sniffers” by Ms. Jeni Christy of 3rd CSE.Memento was awarded to her and Ms. S. Divyaof Final EEE for her aptitude session theprevious week.

07-08-12: Ms. Amala Lidhya Raj gave atechnical talk on “Birth of Bionic Eyes” andshe was presented with a memento along withMs. M. Vanitha for handling aptitude class.WIE Chairman Ms. Ann Angentta Chandru,explained about the women empowerment andgave some ideas to get involved in it Also sheinvited all IEEE members to participate in it.

Orphanage Visit

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The wheels of orphanage visit began twoweeks before Independence Day and on Aug15th 2012 our IEEE SB Affinity Group WIEhad the well preplanned orphanage visit to“Sirumalar Kaapagam” near Kulasekaram whichhouses about 60 abandoned children. By theguidance of Prof. A. Subitha, WIE faculty advisorand IEEE faculty advisors Prof.A.Darwin JoseRaju and Prof.C.John Moses about 40 IEEE

members took part in the same.

After a prayer song by Ms. Rheema offinal CSE and then Ms. Ann Agnetta Chandru,WIE Chairman gave a brief description aboutthe events that were going to be conducted.Following that the events such as filling up thebottles, musical chair, lemon & spoon race,singing competition, drawing competition,potato race were conducted for the children in 2levels – from 1st std to 5th std and from 6th stdto 10th std. Lunch was provided for the childrenand authorities of that orphanage. It was nice tosee the children having fun to the core with ourIEEE members and roaming around. The childrenwere very much attached with us and narrated afew touching stories.

Around 3 p.m. the competitions came toan end. We distributed ice-cream and sweets for

the children there. A formal meeting wasarranged then after. Many cultural events weregiven by our IEEE members. In return thechildren too encouraged us with theirsurprisingly terrific performances and we wereawe stuck. The authorities over there gave theirfull support to make the same a grand successfulone. Prizes were distributed for the winners.The SB counselor Prof. C. John Moses gave an

inspirational Independence Day message. Themother superior (Head) thanked our membersand faculty.

TECH’ GNOSIS

The IEEE SB conducted its first technicalmeet “TECH’ GNOSIS” for the academic year2012-13 on 17th Aug 2012. Various technicalcompetitions viz, Technical talk, Idea’s please,Word play, Hardware/Software contest wereconducted. In the technical talk event, about 13papers were selected and the prize winners ofthis event were Livya Lawrence of final ECE(first place), Ann Agnetta Chandru of final EEE(second place) and Aarthi Arunkumar of thirdIT (third place). In the Idea’s please event,around 90 student members participated andthe prize winners were L. Arun & J.H Fevin offinal EEE (first place), R. Rash Barastick &Edwin Mathew of final ECE (second place). Inthe Hardware/ Software contest around 50members participated and the winners wereReshma. D. Benedict of third ECE (first place),Taniya Dash of final ECE and Osbert Joel ofthird EEE (second place), L. Prabha of finalECE and A. Aarthi Arunkumar of third IT (thirdplace). In the Wordplay contest around 80members participated and the winners were J.Sheridian Machado of final ECE, Steffi Janet offinal ECE and Leo Sekar of third EEE (firstplace), A. V. Monika Azhageswari of final ECE,G. Nisha Princy of final EEE and Vivek of thirdEEE (second place).

Monthly events in Aug

The following events were held in themonth of Aug 2012 for the benefit of studentsin which students actively took part.

• 06-08-12: Talk on “Initiation of projectsand how to prepare for paper presentation”by R. Shylin Babu, Chairman, IEEE SB andM. L. Padmesh, Vice Chairman, IEEE SB

• 14-08-12: A lecture on “Piezoelectric car”by S. M. S.Annamalai Samy, JointSecretary, IEEE SB.

• 21-08-12: Session on “Puzzle solvingand aptitude tips” with solutions wasgiven by Ms. Barkavi of final year.

National Engineering College• 28-08-12: A presentation on “Green

Chemistry” by Veera Senthil and VenkatSubramaniam of second year.

Workshop on PLC

gave the gist on programmable logic controllerand introduced Mr. V. Suresh, Asst. Prof. (Sr.Gr.) of EIE Dept., who handled the entiresession. In the morning session, Mr. V. Sureshstarted with the description about thecontrollers and then explained in detail aboutthe requirements of the controller & theevolution of controllers, different componentsof PLC & their types, programmable devices,and different gates. During the afternoonsession, students were taken to the PLCLaboratory. Under the guidance of Mr. V. Sureshfew students executed the programs taughtbefore and obtained the outputs. Finally, heelucidated the working projects like automaticwater level controller, traffic light controllerpractically using PLC.

A one day workshop on “ProgrammableLogic Controller” was organized on 1st Sep 2012.Dr. Willjuice Iruthayarajan, IEEE SB counselor

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Student Professional Awareness Conference- SPAC’12

The IEEE SB organized the SPAC-12 -Student Professional Awareness Conference on25th Sep 2012. After the keynote address bythe SB co-ordinator Prof., K. Sundararaju, therewere lectures by three speakers who were theformer chairs of IEEE SB of the college.

Mr. Meyyappan Natarajan fromCognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai spokeon the expectations of the companies and thetechnical skills which are important in selectionof candidates. Mr. Arun Kumar, Placement Co-ordinator, PMMC Tech Institution gave a briefexposure to soft skills. Mr. R. Gouthaman,working on projects in Videocon gave apresentation on “SIX SIGMA” which is playing

M. Kumarasamy College of Engineering

a vital role in industries. He explained it with anexample of Dabba Walas of Mumbai.

In the afternoon, Dr. S. Bakthavatsalam,Research Scientist, University of Georgia,

Athens, Georgia, USA addressed theparticipants on “REACH FOR THE STARS”and shared his abroad experience, and tips tohold up the life to stars. He then distributed thecertificates to the participants.

Arduino Workshop

KCG College of Technology

put forth in a precise manner to solve differentproblems in order to develop the reasoning andproblem solving skills. Handouts were providedwith suitable circuit connections and detailsabout Arduino. All sessions were madeinteractive to clear doubts.

The workshop focussed on the followingIntroduction to Embedded Systems

• Introduction to Microcontrollers & theArduino Platform / Software Installation

• InduinoX Board Overview

• Getting started With Programming –Simple Programs

• Working with Digital I/O’s & SerialCommunication

• Building a Simple Project - LED BinaryCounter

• Working with Analog Outputs -Controlling RGB LEDS

• Working with Analog Inputs - Sensors -LDR [Light Sensing]

• Working with a LCD Display• Building a Simple Project - Automatic

Lighting Level Controller• Working with Simple Wireless

Communications - Working of IR RemoteControls

• Intermediate Project - Interfacing an IRRemote to control - Controlling theBinary Counter

• Advanced Project - Controlling the RGBLED’s Colour with the IR Remote Control

• Fine Tuning the Project• Overview of IEEE and its benefits.

A two day intra-college workshop“Arduino” was conducted on 23rd and 24th Aug,2012. The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. T.Rengaraja, Principal. The organisers of theworkshop consisted of a group of 7 IEEEmembers of the SB headed by the SB ScretaryMr. Ramesh Subbu. The workshop was attendedby about 65 students.

The workshop mainly focussed onproviding a solid platform for the participantsto work with Arduino and to build innovativeprojects. The contents of the workshop were

IEEE Awareness Programme

Thangavelu Engineering CollegeThe programme was conducted in a

span of one week between 3rd Sep 2012 and 7th

Sep 2012 with an aim to educate the studentson the various benefits of an IEEE membership.The sessions were conducted for the studentsof ECE, EEE, CSE, IT and EIE. About 150students from each of these departmentsattended the sessions highlighting thebenefits of IEEE, steps to join IEEE etc., wereconducted by Mr. Lokesh Bharani, Ms. C.

Divya, Mr. Shanthakumar and Mr. S. Saravanawith the help from fellow student branchmembers. Post the sessions, there has been agood turnout of students who have enrolled forthe IEEE membership. The student branch isslowly and steadily growing in number. SBCounsellor, Mr. Pandian, supported the ideaand guided the programme.

Report by: Divya.C,divya.chandrashekaran@gmail.com

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Inauguration of Research Centres forBiomedical and Green Energy

The Research centres for Biomedical andGreen Energy equipped with all requiredfacilities, were inaugurated by Mr.B.W.Ryu,Executive Director, Hyundai Motors Ltd.,Chennai followed by Smt. Hema Gopal, VicePresident, TCS, Dr. G. Giridhar, Director,Ministry for New and Renewable Energy andDr. K.S. Dhathathreyan, Associate Director,Centre for Fuel Cell Technology, Chennai.These R&D centres would facilitate researchwork on various areas like Telemedicine,Embedded Systems using Lab VIEW and otherresearch tools. The events of the day included:

• Mr. B. W. Ryu handed over a HyundaiCar as Research Aid to the Centre forResearch in Green Energy and in hiskeynote address, encouraged the studentcommunity to develop products thatwould preserve our environment. He alsomotivated the students to perform wellin their academics.

Prathyusha Institute of Technology and Management

• Shri. A. K. Pattabiraman of TCS handedover the IIT Alumni Club Membershipto the Chairman Mr. P. Raja Rao, PITMand elaborated on the significance of theIIT lecture series in the students’ skilldevelopment.

• Smt. Hema Gopal presented a specialaddress emphasizing on the importanceof research in educational institutions. Shealso released the College Newsletter.

• Dr. G.Giridhar ignited the spark ofachieving goals during their course at thecampus.

• Dr. K.S. Dhathathreyan presented thekeynote address highlighting the importanceof conservation of non-renewable resourcesand also demanded projects towards greenenergy from the younger generations.

• The Chief guests distributed the cashmerit awards to the academicallyexcellent students of all the departmentsand the first year students were inductedinto their respective academic streamson that day.

Report by: Mr.M.Moorthi,moorthidh@gmail.com

EYE - DIOTS (ARDUINO) RoboticsWorkshop

Easwari Engineering College

A two day Robotics workshop wasconducted on 14th & 15th Sep 2012. Dr. S.

Saraswathy Janaki, SB counsellor & HOD/ECEorganised this event and Mrs. D. Vydeki andMrs. K. S. Sujatha were the faculty co-ordinators. Mr. Pavan Shaw was the resourceperson on the first day. He introduced thebasics of robotics (different types of robots)and explained about vision controlled machine(VCM), spectrum of white light and aboutprimary colours, covered the basics ofMATLAB, functions of different windows andother related topics, coding format of MATLABand image processing tools. Basics of how to

assemble a robot was also demonstrated.

The trainer for the second day was Mr.Varun Thakur who dealt with image processingconcepts and enriched the participants with theknowledge of functioning and making of robots.The focus was on, how, we engineers, of presentgeneration can create our own machines to dovarious activities. These sessions inspired manyof the participants made them to gain interestin this field and do more research work on thesetopics.

Report by: Meenakshi,meenu.archana@gmail.com

Inauguration of EEE Dept Association(“Techpulse”)

Saveetha School of Engineering, Saveetha UniversityIEEE PES Madras. Prof G. AnanadhkumarHOD/EEE welcomed the gathering. Dr. T. S.Balasubramaniyan, Dean/ Research addressedabout EEE Dept Association activities. Er. K.V. Rupchand, in his presentation explained theimportance of renewable energy needs in future,overview on different types of renewable energysources and its real time application. Hehighlighted the scope and benefits of IEEEMembership for students and professionalmembers and motivated them to join IEEE.Mr. M. Venkateshkumar AP/EEE & SecretaryIEEE PES Madras proposed the vote ofthanks.

Report by Mr. M. Venkateshkumar

On 23rd Aug 2012, at the inauguration ofthe EEE Dept. Assn, an informative guestlecturer on ‘Future of Renewable Energy’ wasdelivered by Er. K. V. Rupchand, Chairman –

Section Membership as on15th October 2012

Life Fellow - 2Fellow - 2Life Senior - 10Senior Member - 107Life Member - 4Member - 2292Associate - 252Affliate - 23Graduate Student Member - 667Student Member - 7733Total - 11092

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Inauguration of SB Activities

Nandha College of Technology

The IEEE SB activity for the year2012-13 was inaugurated by Dr. A. NagappanPrincipal, Vinayaka Missions KirupanandaVariyar Engineering College of Technology,Salem and IEEE Executive Committee Memberon 3rd Sep 2012. Dr. S. Arumugam, Principalpresided over the function and briefed theimportance of IEEE student chapter.A. Chandrasekar, HOD introduced the chiefguest Dr. A. Nagappan. Dr. A. Nagappanreleased IEEE authorization letters to the usersand in his inaugural address, briefed on theimportance and the benefits of IEEE studentmembership. He also elaborated on how toaccess IEEE, tips to do projects. The vote ofthanks was proposed by Mr. V.S. Suresh Kumar,Chairman, SB.

A one day workshop on “ResearchDirections in Biometrics” was organized on 15th

Sep 2012. Dr. S. Arumugam, Principal, inauguratedthe workshop. A presentation on “BiometricsIntroduction” was made by Dr. S. Arumugam,CEO, Nandha Educational Institutions and apresentation on “Ear Biometrics-Face Biometrics”was made by Dr. S. Valarmathy, Professor and HoD/ECE, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology.

The topic “Palmprint AuthenticationSystem” was dealt by K. Krishneswari AsstProfessor, Tamil Nadu College of Engineering,Kovai. Introduction to “MorphologicalProcessing and its role in Iris Recognition” waspresented by R. Ramkumar, Research Scholar,

Mahendra Institute of Technology, Namakkal.“Multiple dimensionality reduction based onFLP with PCA and pass band DCT for Shoeprint recognition” was presented by S.Rathinavel, Research Scholar, Excel EngineeringCollege. “High-Resolution Fingerprint Matchingusing level 3 incipient ridges and scars” waspresented by V. Latha Jothi, Research Scholar,Velalar College of Engineering and Technology.

This workshop has provided a basic ideafor carrying out research projects in the area ofBiometrics among the students.

Report by: Mr. A. Chandrasekar,chandru.as76@gmail.com

Seminar on “Android ApplicationDevelopment”

A one day seminar on “AndroidApplication Development” by Dr. J. G.Sheshasaayee, Director-TalenTree EducationPvt. Ltd, Chennai was organized on 25th Aug2012. Dr. P. Senguttuvan, Dean of ElectronicSciences welcomed the gathering and Dr. A.

VMKV Engineering CollegeNagappan, Principal delivered the presidentialaddress. About 100 students had attended theseminar. The Chief Guest Dr. J. G. Sheshasaayeedelivered the keynote address and a lecture onthe applications and recent development ofAndroid in mobile applications, and motivatedthe students to build a positive approachtowards developing new android applications.The programme concluded with the vote of

thanks by Prof. T. Muthumanickam, HOD/ECE.

M. Kumarasamy College of EngineeringGuest Lecture of Geography, Government Arts and Science

College (Autonomous), Karur.

After the welcome address by Ms. A.Nandhini, Pre-Final ECE, Ms. M. Maheshwari,Asst HoD/ECE addressed the gathering andbriefed about the importance of the remotesensing in the various fields. The speaker wasintroduced by Mr. J. Nowfal Hussain of Pre-Final ECE.

Dr. Sundaraj, started his lecture with anintroduction to remote sensing and went onexplaining the importance of remote sensing inthe various fields and briefed on the types ofthe remote sensing. With the help of variousimages, he explained how the details could beextracted from those images taken in various

On 18th Sep, 2012, IEEE COMSOC, astudent branch chapter has organized a guestlecture on “Remote sensing and its application”by Dr. P. Sundaraj, Asst Professor, Department

places. The participants were informed aboutits applications in resource identification,agriculture, weather forecasting, engineeringetc.., He had concluded the lecture with inputson the research and future scope in remotesensing.

Report by: S. M. Bhuvani,smrbhuvani001@gmail.com

CongratulationLINK congratulates Dr. V. Vaidehi,

HoD/IT, Madras Institute of Technology,Anna University Chennai & Prof. Dr. V.Yegnanarayanan, Sr. Professor, MathematicsR&D & Research Coordinator, VelammalEngineering College for having elevated toIEEE Senior Member grade.

Workshop on Research Directions in Biometrics

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Placement Training Workshop

IEEE GINI Madras Section A technical tour to Microsoft R&D.Global Technical Support Centre, Bangalore wasorganized on 27th Aug 2012. A team of 55students from various engineering colleges joinedand made this trip a memorable one. We wereheaded to listen to a two hour presentation on‘Microsoft’s Vision of future by 2021’ and alsoabout the latest Windows 8 operating system.Also, the complete development andarchitecture of windows 8 was presented.Thanks to Ms. Maria, Mr. Nickil and Mr. AmarNityananda, team from Microsoft, for extendingand sharing their time and resources to ourmembers. Following an interactive session onvarious career opportunities by Mr. Sridar, inthe query session, students clarified theirdoubts.

Report by: V. Charanya,charanyasv.91@gmail.com

IEEE GINI Madras Section organized a3 day Placement Training Workshop from 12thJuly 2012 to 14th July, 2012 at SathyabamaUniversity. This initiative aimed at making theparticipants ready for Jobs and to face theinterview. The guest trainers who handledvarious sessions were: Mr. Barnabas Muthu,Mentor of IEEE R10 GINI Madras Section,Mr. R Arjun Pillai, R10 GINI Coordinator, Mr.Felix Fedalis, System Engineer, InfosysChennai, Ms. Prathibha Pandyakumar, WiproTechnologies and Mr. Anand B, Coordinator ofIEEE GINI Madras Section.

The students were provided with studymaterials. Mock Aptitude test and MockInterview marked the final day of the workshopin order to test the level of awareness and

exposure of a particular candidate. Studentswere benefitted as they were introduced to aProfessional Environment. During the entire

programme, the trainers were immenselyinteractive and kept the participants effectivelyoccupied. The workshop ensured the smoothtransition from a Fresher’s life to a professional’sCareer head start.

Technical Tour

The IEEE Madras Section in associationwith the Dept. of EEE, Valliammai EngineeringCollege (VEC) organized a Student SkillDevelopment Programme (SSDP) on the topic“Computational Intelligence Techniques inEngineering” on 7th & 8th Sep 2012. This firstSSDP was attended by 64 students from variouscolleges and universities all over Tamilnadu.

After a brief inaugural session in whichDr. Dr. N. Kumarappan, Chiar, IEEE EACdelivered the inaugural address, the varioustechnical lectures were delivered by the eminentresource persons such as Dr. N. Kumarappan,

Student Skill Development Programme on“Computational Intelligence Techniques in Engineering”

Prof., Dept. of EE, Annamalai University; Dr.T. Thiyagarajan, Prof., of Instrumentation,MIT, Anna University; Dr. C. Christopher AsirRajan, Associate Prof., of EE, PondicherryEngineering College, and Er. S. Anbazhagan,Asst. Prof., Dept. of EEE, AnnamalaiUniversity.

The topics covered included: Introductionto Artificial Neural Networks, Artificial NeuralNetwork, Fuzzy Logic, EvolutionaryProgramming, Hybrid Neural Networks inengineering problem domain. The participantswere also given hands-on training in single andhybrid neural networks, evolutionaryprogramming and fuzzy logic using Matlab.

The program ended with a valedictoryfunction in which Dr. T. Thiyagarajan, ImmediatePast Chair, IEEE Madras Section delivered thevaledictory address. The program received anexcellent feedback from all the participants. Theco-ordinators of the program were Dr. N.

Kumarappan, Prof., Annamalai University andChair, IEEE Madras Section EAC and Dr. D.Padma Subramanian, Prof., HoD/EEE, VEC.

Report by Dr N Kumarappan,kumarappan_n@hotmail.com

National Workshop onEnterprise Solutions and theirChallenges in Storage, Cloud

Services and Security23–24 November, 2012

Organised byDept. of Computer Science & Engineering

andDept. of Information Technology

V.S.B. Engineering College, Karur – 639 111Conveners

Dr. N. K. SakthivelProfessor & Hod/CSE, +91 9443302399

andDr. S. Subasree

Professor & HoD/IT, +91 9486646623Website: www.vsbec.com/cloud2012

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IEEE and IEEE-WIE SB activitiesinauguration

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The IEEE & IEEE/WIE SB activities forthe year 2012-13 were inaugurated on 27th ofAug 2012 by Dr. Ramalatha Marimuthu, GlobalChair WIE & HoD/ IT at Kumaraguru Collegeof Technology, Coimbatore. In her talk, shemotivated the students to join IEEE- WIE andtake part in the upcoming project at Paalamalaihills which aims at providing basic training touneducated women to make a living of theirown. A special lecture was given by Mrs. J. R.E. Rajula, Cost Accountant, Paramount QualitySystems, Coimbatore on “Role of women inquality maintenance and sustainability inindustries.” She insisted on the characteristicsthat a woman must possess in order to prevailin the industry and gave a rough idea about qualitymanagement systems followed in industries.

A one day session of intra collegiate events“PHOTON?12” which attracted 280 participantswas held on 4th Sep 2012. Dr. N. R. Alamelu,principal, welcomed the gathering and highlightedthe importance of joining IEEE and participationin the activities. The SB counselor Mr. K.Balamurugan highlighted the importance andsalient features of IEEE and the benefits forengineering student community to increase theirknowledge and networking with the globalengineering community. He also encouraged morestudents to join IEEE. The events (technical andnon-technical) took place as two phases in

parallel. Technocracy (Technical Quiz) wasfollowed by Cliptiquette (Clip-O-Mania), Vox Populi(Technical Debate), Magnum Opus (Just a Minute.

Guest Lecture

A Guest Lecture on “Needs forInnovation from Engineers” by Shri. KannanNarasimhan Assistant Vice President MahindraSatyam Limited, Chennai was organized on 15th

Sep 2012. He dealt with the trends inengineering and on real-time applications in aninteractive way. About 300 students of variousstreams were benefitted by this lecture.Dr. N. R. Alamelu, principal presided over thesession.

Report by: J Fredrick Johnson

National Level Technical Symposium

M. P. Nachimuthu M. Jaganathan Engineering College

TRENTECH’12 – A national levelTechnical Symposia was organised on 29th Sep2012. At the inaugural function, thecorrespondent Tmt.Vasantha Sudhanandhen

presided over and the principal Dr. S. Muthuoffered felicitation. Mr. ChandrasekharChenniappan, Country HR Manager, HewlettPackard Global Soft Pvt Ltd, Chennai was the

chief guest and in his address, he explained aboutthe skills expectations by the corporatecompanies. He advised the students to updatethe knowledge in the field of hardware andsoftware technologies. Students from variousEngineering and polytechnic collegesparticipated in the paper presentation. Out of400 papers received, 40 papers from engineeringcollege and 3 papers from polytechnic collegewere selected for the presentation. Events likecircuit debugging and technical quiz wereconducted to make the participants to exhibittheir talents in technical aspects. The prizesand certificates were distributed to the winnersby our correspondent.

Report by: D. Sabapathi

IEEE Day Celebration

Sri Muthukumaran Institute of TechnologyThe IEEE Day was celebrated on 3rd Oct.

The Chief Guest of the event was Mr. R.Bhaskaran, Chief Communication Engineer,Southern Railways. He delivered a presentationon ‘Communication Systems in IndianRailways. A brief discussion on ‘Etiquettes’concluded the hour-long lecture. The otherevents held include: Face, Just A Minute (JAM),Debate, Video contest, Photographic contest

and an online Aptitude test. About 300participated in these events. SB counselor Mrs.Kalaiselvi was a strong force behind the entireprogramme. The vounteers included: M. S.Balaji, G. Pradeep, Suraj Jain, Zakir Hussain,Prabhu Azar, Hamsa S. B, Pooja Vijayaraj, K.Geetha, P. Deepiga, Maheshwaran,JayaPrakash.

Report by: P. Maheshwaran &Pooja Vijayaraj

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Guest Lecture

Knowledge Institute of Technology

A guest lecture on “Mixed Signal and ItsApplications “by Mr. Murugan Ramasamy,Lead System Designed, GE Health care,Bangalore was conducted in Sep 2012. Dr. N.Santhiyakumari SB counselor introduced thechief guest and addressed the gathering. About125 students actively participated in the lectureand gained knowledge in the field of signals.Mr. Murugan continued his lecture on “SignalSensing, Processing, Control and ItsApplications” in afternoon session for pre-finalyear ECE students. He lectured with practicalexamples and application of signals in variousfields. The lecture was highly interactive andwith a no. of questions rose by the participantsto sharpen their knowledge.

Discussion on IEEE Spectrum

A discussion session on IEEE Spectrumfor SB members was held on 21st Sep 2012.

Mrs. M. Shenbagapriya, SB in-charge explainedthe importance of IEEE spectrum. Everymembers of SB voluntarily shared their ideason different topics and they updated theirknowledge on various fields and current trends.Prof K. Rajesh, SB in-charge motivated themembers for their active participation and thesession ended as great inspiration to gain theirknowledge.

Report by: M. Mathiarasi, S. Saranya& M. Tamilarsi, msece@kiot.ac.in

Guest Lecture

On October 6th 2012, along with the Dept.of ECE a guest lecture on “Introduction to VLSIdesign techniques” by Dr. Raja Paul Perinbam,Ex Prof Anna University Chennai wasorganized. Prof/ECE Karpagavinayaga Collegeof Engineering Chennai was the chief guest. Theprogram started with the formal welcomeaddress by Dr.N.Santhiyakumari, Prof & HeadDept of ECE presided over by and the chiefguest introduction was done by Mr. T.Aravindhan final year ECE. PrincipalDr.PSS.Srinivasan honored the chief guest witha memento. The lecture started covered: theemergence of VLSI design techniques, severaldevelopments took place over decades, growth,usage of VLSI in various fields and recentdevelopments in VLSI and growing use of VLSI.The lecture also covered the domain idea forpursuing the projects, tips for doing researchand for publishing papers in national andinternational reputed journals.

Report by: T. Sandhiya, msece@kiot.ac.in

IEEE Students Seminar

A seminar for all the IEEE studentmembers was held on 8th Sep 2012. In thisseminar, the interested students could comeforward to the stage and present on any recenttechnical topic. Each participant was given 15minutes of time for the presentation. At the endof the presentation, questions were asked bythe audience. The main objective of this seminarcum contest was to help the students toimprove their confidence level, update the recenttechnology, and improve their presentation

skill, time management and the stage mannerism.About 30 students participated in theprogramme and presented their ideas. At theend of the seminar, the best performed studentwas given a prize.

IEEE – Online Aptitude Contest

An online Aptitude Contest for the IEEEstudent members was organized on 22nd Sep2012. Nearly 52 students in groups of 2/3participated in the contest and answered a setof objective type questions (totally 25 questions

Coimbatore Institute of Engineering and Technology

and 25 minutes to solve). The questions couldvary from team to team. Once the test got over,the system itself evaluated the answers andawarded the marks. The team scored themaximum awarded with a book as a prize.

Report by: Saravanan.B

Guest Lecture

On 1st Sep 2012, a guest lecture on“Wireless Sensor Network” was delivered byDr. Jawahar Sentil Kumar, Asst. Prof., Dept. ofECE, Anna University, Chennai, which provideda general idea about the basicsand signification of sensor network with real

S.A Engineering College time examples. He also discussed about therouting protocols such as flooding (a basic typeof routing), gossiping (pertaining to sensors),geographical routing (pertaining to sensors), andproactive, reactive, hybrid. Then theapplications of the sensor networks and theirimportance were also discussed.

Report by: N. Mahendran,maheatr@gmail.com

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Campus Recruitment Training Workshop

The Campus Recruitment TrainingWorkshop was held on 19th and 20th of July2012 to give an entropic exposure about thecampus interviews, the recruitment process heldin colleges during the time of placements etc.,This event was possible because of our studentchairman Mr. Manoj Reddy, who introducedus to Mr. Bhaskar, head, Princeton Review,Tambaram. On the first day the participantswere made cognizant about how exactly theinterview process goes on. The group discussionsheld were enlightening. And on the second day,the participants were thought how to go aboutpreparing a resume. A live interview sessionwas conducted to observe and learn a lot. Thisevent helped to overcome the fear of facinginterviews and got the right view and spirittowards campus recruitments.

Lecture on Web Development and EasyMaintenance Using CMS

The lecture was held on 2nd Aug 2012. TheSB Chairman Mr. Manoj Reddy addressed thegathering and introduced the speaker and aprofessional from CMTES Informatics Ltd, Mr.Mohammed Rizwan AR. The lecture was on CMS(Content Management System) for Web designing.After a briefing on the languages used in webdesigning, there was a practical demonstration.Participants were taught how to build websitesusing Joomla, an open source CMS software.

Report by: Wafa Waheeda. S,wafawaheeda@ieee.org

Jeppiaar EngineeringCollege

IEEE WIE FORUM ‘12

IEEE WIE Forum ’12, a section level forumfor the empowerment of Women Engineersevent was held on 7th & 8th Sep, 2012. Around300 participants participated from variousstudent branches across the section. The forumis based on the theme “Empower, Energize andEmerge for Growth” and it emphasized on theaspect of entrepreneurship.

The WIE Forum was inaugurated by Mr.T.S. Rangarajan, Chairman, IEEE MadrasSection, Mrs. Vydeki Vijayakumar, Vice Chair,IEEE WIE Madras Section, Mr Alexei CEO –TGCi, Dr. Sushil Lal Das, Principal, Dr.Thangavel, Vice Principal, Jeppiaar EngineeringCollege. Our Branch Counselor, Mr. S.Sellakumar felicitated the guests for the day.Mr. Rangarajan addressed the gathering andmentioned to encourage such forums to resolvea real time issues through technology andinnovation. Then Mrs. Vydeki presented WIEMission and Vision and role of WIE Volunteers.It was followed by Mr. Alexei’s talk onentrepreneurship.

The second day started with a videopresentation on “Women Empowerment”followed by the SB video and presentation. Mr.Arjun R Pillai, CEO – CEO Profoundis LabsPvt. Ltd., delivered a talk on Leadership, Mr.Sijo Kuruvilla George, CEO of Start Up Villagegave a talk on Entrepreneurship. Mrs. Preethi,Senior HR Manager, HCL technologiesconducted a session on team building. Therewere parallel sessions like Short Film Contest,Poster Designing, Sketch’12 (designing)Contest, Just a Minute. The post lunch sessionincluded a Panel Discussion on the theme withpanelists — Mr. Tharun Bhascker, Director,Vinoothna Geetha Media, Mr. Sankeerth Reddy,Visual Effects and Motion Graphics Artist,Vinoothna Geetha Media, Mr. Anand B, SBNetworking Lead, R10 SAC and Mr. Arjun RPillai, CEO Profoundis Labs Pvt. Ltd. At thevaledictory function, the winners and runners-up of the parallel contests were rewarded withgoodies, cash prizes and the correspondingcertificates.

Report by: Apoorva P Naidu

Blood Grouping Camp

Dr. NGP Institute ofTechnology

grouping for the school students. The studentbranch Counselor / Principal Dr.K.Porkumaraninitiated the activity by convening a meetingwith the Head Mistress and faculty of the

Dr. NGPIT IEEE SB & WIE AffinityGroup organized a Blood Grouping Camp atKalapatti Higher Secondary School on 21 Sep,2012. Serving the society for a valuable cause isnoteworthy. With this objective our studentbranch planned to organize a camp on blood

school. The keen interest taken by the IEEEcoordinators Ms.V.Priyadarshini, Ms.P.Pradeepa,and Mr.Karthik & student volunteers of EEE &ECE Departments was acknowledged by themand the response was overwhelming. The schoolstudents were initially briefed about the

importance of grouping the blood based on theRh factor and the benefits of blood donation.They were taught with the good habits andcleanliness, intake of balanced diet andimportance of exercises to keep themselveshealthy & fit. The vitality of meditation, yogain purifying the blood cells and increasing theoxygen intake of cells were instructed to themass. The Blood Group identification was donefor about 150 students.

Report by: Dr. K. Porkumaran,porkumaran@ieee.org

Free IEEE-USA eBook“Writing for Success — An Engineer’s

Guide, Volume 1: Designing for Success” isthe first of a four-book series and availablefree to IEEE members in October 2012 fromhttp://goo.gl/nIVNu.

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Guest Lecture on Wireless Communication

Infant Jesus College of Engineering and Technology

The Dept. of ECE in association withIEEE SB organized a guest lecture on “WirelessCommunication” on 8th Sep 2012. Chief GuestProf. C. Arunachalaperumal from S.A.Engineering College, Chennai was introducedby Mr. T. D. Subash, SB counsellor. About 200students comprising of both members and non-members of IEEE attended the lecture.. Thelecture began with a basic introduction onwireless communication followed by propertiesof wireless channel. The speaker also explainedthe cellular concepts of 1st Generation, 2nd

Generation and 3rd Generation and briefed aboutWLAN and their standards. He, then spoke onthe future of wireless networking and wirelessmultimedia networks. The programme concludedwith vote of thanks by Ms. Akila, HOD/ECE.

Report by T. D. Subash,tdsubash2007@gmail.com

National Level Technical Symposium

Sofwizz2k12 – A One day National LevelTechnical Symposium was held on 26th Sep,2012 with the following events.

• Techno speak – Students presented paperon recent trends in various research areas.

certificates and prizes to the winners &participants. The symposium attracted over150 student participants.

Report by: K. M. Annammal,jmjannie7@gmail.com

Workshop on ARM Processor BasedEmbedded System Design

A two day workshop on “ARMProcessor Based Embedded System Design”was held on 29th Sep & 1st Oct 2012. Prof. N.Arumugam, Associate Professor, and Prof. T.Devakumar, Assistant Professor, senior grade,Department Of ECE from National EngineeringCollege, Kovilpatti were the resource personsat the workshop. Mr. T. D. Subash, welcomedthe gathering and introduced the resourcepersons. Prof. T. Devakumar explained aboutthe LPC2148 ARM processor architecture, theprogramming concepts in micro vision and flashmagic, Keil software and its benefits. Prof.Arumugam explained about LED, Doorlocksecurity system, ADC, UART based system,ANDROID applications and project ideas.

Report by T. D. Subash,tdsubash2007@gmail.com

• Web crapple – Students were allowed toexhibit their creativity & technicalknowledge by building web pages.

• Bugzz – Students were allowed to findthe wrong instructions in theprogramming language C & C++.

• QuizMoz –Technical & GeneralKnowledge Quiz.

• Min to win – A spot topic given to thestudents and were asked to give a brieftalk.

The symposium started withan addressby the chief guest, Mr. R. Anand Ramachandran,Senior Software Engineer, EMC on “RecentTrends in Software Industry”. Dean, Mr. S.C.Ghosh highlighted the need for discipline in thisage of technology dependence. He furtheremphasized the need of discipline in the presentday stream of education.

In the valedictory session, Director Dr.S. Allwin highlighted the benefits of IEEEmembership and various other services offeredby IEEE society and then distributed the

ICCCMIT - 2012The International Conference onCommunication, Computing and

Information Technology21-22, Dec 2012 at Chennai

Organized byDepartment of Computer Science,

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LINK welcomes the following SocietyChapter and Student Branches to the IEEEMadras Section.

Society Chapters

• Aerospace & Electronics SystemsSociety

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Student Branches

• P B College of Engineering

• MOP Vaishnav College for Women

• Velammal Institute of Technology

• Jeppiaar Institute of Technology

• MRK Institute of Technology

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• Vivekanandha Engineering College forWomen

• Saveetha Engineering College

• Nandha Engineering College

• Thangavelu Engineering College

• Manakula Vinayagar Institute ofTechnology

• St Xavier ’s Catholic College ofEngineering Education Society Chapter

• Thyagarajar College of EngineeringComputer Society Chapter

• Vellore Institute of Technology Engineeringin Medicine & Biology Society.

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WINGS - Workshop on Aero Modeling &Aircraft Designing

A two day workshop on Aero Modelingand Aircraft Designing was organized on 22nd

and 23rd of September, 2012 with an aim toeducate the technology behind making ofaircrafts and encouraging the participants tosolve real time problem involved in making ofglider aircraft. A live demonstration of RC(Radio Controlled) plane stimulated theparticipant’s theoretical knowledge in topractical. The workshop had seven sessions

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including hands-on practical session for theconstruction of the 40cm Balsa Glider alongwith live demonstration of RC flying. Horizon,an unit of MBS group conducted the workshop.About 70 students of different engineering

disciplines participated in the workshop andgot benefited.

Report by: Prof. P. Augusta Sophy,sophyguna@gmail.com

Training Programme

Thiagarajar College of EngineeringThe programme was centered on the

Analog System Lab kit ASLKv2010 Starter Kitdeveloped by Texas Instruments. The kit usedbuilding blocks such as OP?Amp, AnalogMultiplier, DAC, DC?DC converter, and LDOand technical people illustrated how to use themto construct larger systems such as integrators,differentiators, filters and many more. The goalof the course was to learn to use macro-modelsand simulation tool(s) and understanding theimpact of gain-bandwidth product, tolerance ofpassive components, etc. on circuit performance.

Dr. N. B. Balamurugan, Mr. V. R.Venkatasubraman were the coordinators for this

A two days training programme, during29-30, Sep 2012 on “Analog System Designusing ASLKv2010 Starter Kit” was organisedwith the support of Texas Instruments IndiaUniversity Program initative.

interactive programme which had an activeparticipation of students from electronics andcommunication department.

Report by: K. Kalyani, k_kalyani@tce.edu

Video chat on IEEE public visibilityProf. Ramalatha Marimuthu has recently

given a one hour video chat on IEEE public visibilityprogram through WIE. It was a community chatprogram moderated by IEEE public visibilitypeople. She answered the questions came fromall over the world, as the IEEE technicalexpert. You can watch the video record of thechat on at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ramalatha-marimuthu