Quarterly Newsletter January 2019 Vol # 47

Editorial Board:

Prof. S. Salivahanan Principal

Prof. B. Srinivasan Director - SoM

Prof. P. Ramasamy Dean - Research

Prof. Sunita Nair Dept. of Chemistry

Prof. S. Thiruvenkataswami Dept. of English

Dr. Divya John Dept. of English

3 From the President’s Desk

From the Principal’s Desk

4 Publications in Journals

8 Glimpses of Scholarship Day 2018

9 SSN OPEN 2018 National Level Tennis Tournament

National Roller Skating Championship

11 Searching for Me

12 The Meadow of Eyes

13 Starlit Horizon

14. Articles in Tamil

15 . Increasing the Shelf Life of Liquid Food

Biodegradable grocery bags from shrimp shells

VIBRATIONs

available online at

www.ssn.edu.in/vibrations.html

3VIBRATIONS available online at www.ssn.edu.in

January 2019 Vol #47

I am very happy that the year 2018 was a memorable year for SSN. I am very happy that we are realizing our long cherished dream of becoming an autonomous college. The Minister of Human Resource Development, Shri. Prakash Javadekar, announced this news, at a media briefing in New Delhi on 20th March . I deem it a significant milestone in the history of SSN College of Engineering and my sincere thanks to all the faculty, staff and students who have played a major role in this achievement. SSN is now geared to do its best under the new system which offers greater academic autonomy and scale new heights in academic and research output.

It is indeed a matter of pride that an eminent person like Dr.Raj Reddy, Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, and Moza Bint Nasser Chair at Carnegie Mellon University(CMU), USA and winner of prestigious awards such as Turing, Padma Bhushan, the Honda Prize and Vannevar Bush Award visited SSN in July and delivered a public lecture on Artificial Intelligence.

WE also witnessed the second edition of the Smart India Hackathon 2018 organised by Government of India (MHRD,AICTE, i4C, and Persistent Systems), a unique initiative

of our PM to promote digital literacy in India. SSN's participation in this event is significant and commendable.

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, the founder of the World WidevWeb (WWW), and the Turing Award Winner and currently a professor of Computer Science at Oxford University visited our campus on 18th May 2018 and delivered a lecture to students, faculty, alumni and representatives from Industry. This is a part of SSN's endeavour to inspire and enlighten SSNites. Lee talked about the history of Internet and the future of Artificial Intelligence.

I am happy that we have done very well in Sports. S. Arun, our student has grabbed 2 Gold medals in the National Roller Skating Championship, a significant achievement. Many others have done extremely well as well. Our research activities are growing at a steady pace and I am happy to socially meaningful research carried out by our faculty and students has attracted the attention of media.

My best wishes to all of you to grow further in the field of technical education.

“From the Principal’s Desk...” Dr. S. Salivahanan

“Life is like riding a bicycle; to keep your balance, you must keep moving,” says Albert Einstein. Stay focused, and keep moving forward so that you succeed in maintaining your academic and personal balance. There is another career advice I wish to convey: Keep moving forward in your search for knowledge.

As you all know, this quarter was busy with a lot of enriching programmes :

The Dept of EEE organized a workshop, “PIC Programming” under the banner of IEEE student branch on 10&11 Oct 2018, and a two-day national seminar on “Energy Storage & Conversion Technologies”on 15&16 Nov 2018.

The Dept of ECE conducted a two-day workshop and hands-on training on “CADENCE Tools” on 12&13 Oct 2018; a workshop on “Comprehensive Hands on Training in Mems Design Tools” on 4& 5 Dec 2018; a three-day international workshop on “Smart Materials Sensors and Energy Devices (SMSED- 2018)” on 6& 7 Dec 2018; and a 6-day FDP on “Antenna Design and Measurement Techniques” from 10 to 16 Dec 2018.

“The IEEEXtreme 12.0 24-Hour Programming Competition” was hosted by the Department of IT and SSN IEEE SB in association with IEEE Madras Section on 20 Oct 2018. The IT department also organized a five-day FDP on “Data Analytics - A Bootcamp with Hands-on using Python” from 26 to 30 Nov 2018; and a 3-day short term training program on “Cyber Security with Special Focus on IoT Security, Blockchain Technology, and Privacy and Security in Social Media” from 11 to 13 Dec 2018.

The Department of Chemical Engineering organized an FDP on “Recent Advances in Pollution Abatement” from 26 to 30 Nov 2018.

The Department of Civil Engineering conducted a Faculty Development & Training Programme on CE6603 “Design of Steel Structures” from 3 to 7 Dec 2018.

The Department of English organized an international conference on “Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education in ELT” in association with the Department of English, Anna University, Chennai,on 26 & 27 Oct 2018.

The Department of Mathematics conducted an international conference on “Theoretical Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics (ICTCSDM 2018)” sponsored by SSN Trust, SERB & CSIR on 3-5 Dec 2018; anational conference on “Mathematical Analysis and Computing (NCMAC 2018)” sponsored by SSNCE on 13& 14 Dec 2018; and an international symposium on “Geometric Function Theory (ISGFT 2018)” on 14 Dec 2018.The Department of Mathematics and the Department of Chemical Engineering jointly conducted aninternational conference on “Mathematical Methods, Modelling and Simulation in Chemical Sciences” sponsored by BRNS, AERB, CSIR, SACSE, SHEENLAC on 6& 7 Dec 2018.The Department and SSN Math Club celebrated the “National Mathematics Day” on 22 Dec 2018.

SSN organized a workshop on “Effective leadership” on 24 Oct 2018 and a workshop on “Positive Mentoring” for the faculty of SSN on 29&30 Nov 2018.

NSS Unit of SSN organized a workshop --“Can Do” -- for 9th grade students on 26th Nov 2018; participated in a “Wall Painting” event organized by Environmentalist Foundation of India on 17th Nov. 2018; took part in a “Forest Walk” event organized by the Forest Department on 18th Nov. 2018; and also joined in “Plantation Maintenance and Bird Watching” at Sholinganallur Lake on 18th Nov 2018.

The only way forward for us as a technological institution is by doing research.Let us move forward and keep up our progress, and again proceed further forward to make this institution an enviable researchfocal point by indulging in quality research.

“From the President’s Desk...” Mrs. Kala Vijayakumar

V I B R A T I O N S

VIBRATIONS available online at www.ssn.edu.in4

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALSOctober

1. Kavitha U, Ramaprabha R, Malathy S, “Switched Capacitor Inverter for PV System”, International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research (IJSER) (ISSN: 2229-5518), Vol. 9, No. 10, pp. 74-76, Oct 2018.

2. Saradha Devi R, Mrudhulaa PV, Priyadharshini K, Seyezhai R, MrudulaVempati, “Development of Solar DC Home System using Modified Luo Converter”, International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Vol.8 Issue-1, Oct 2018.

3. Rajesh R, Annadurai C, Nirmaladevi K, “Low power device coordination in internet of things environment using analytic hierarchy process model”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, Oct, 2018.

4. Nirmala Paramanandham, Kishore Rajendiran, “Multi - focus image fusion using self - resemblance measure”, Computer & Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, vol.71, pp.13-27, Oct.2018.

5. Sampath SS, Sivasamy R, Kumar KJJ, “A Novel Miniaturized Polarization Independent Band-Stop Frequency Selective Surface”, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Oct 2018.

6. Ponuma R, Amutha R, “Encryption of image data using compressive sensing and chaotic system”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, pp.1-25, Oct 2018.

7. Manikandan E, Sreeja BS, Radha S, Ravi Nathuram Bathe, “Direct Laser Fabrication of Five-Band Symmetric Terahertz Metamaterial with Fano Resonance”, Materials letters, Elsevier, vol.229, pp.320-323, Oct 2018.

8. Manikandan E, Sreeja BS, Radha S, Padmalaya G, “Numerical Studies on Effect of Superconducting thin films on Radiation Performance of Multiband Mid-Infrared Nano Patch Antenna”, Journal of Electronic Materials, Springer, vol.47, No.10, pp.6272–6281, Oct 2018.

9. Manikandan E, Sreeja BS, Radha S, Ravi Nathuram Bathe, Ravikumar Jain, Prabhu SS, “A Rapid Fabrication of Novel Dual Band Terahertz Metamaterial by Femtosecond Laser Ablation”, Journal of Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, Springer, Oct 2018.

10. Manikandan E, Sakkimuthu, Sreeja BS, Radha S, Duraiselvam Muthukannan, Abhishek Gupta, Prabhu Shriganesh, “Microfabrication of Terahertz Frequency Selective Surface by Short and Ultrashort Laser Ablation”, Optical Engineering-SPIE, vol.58, No.1, pp.011007, Oct 2018.

11. Ashwini K, Amutha R, “Compressive Sensing Based Simultaneous Fusion and Compression of Multi-Focus Images Using Learned Dictionary”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol.77, No.19, pp.25889–25904, Oct 2018.

12. Senthil Kumar K, Amutha R, “Receive Diversity based Transmission Data Rate Optimization for Improved Network Lifetime and Delay Efficiency of Wireless Body Area Networks”, PLOS ONE Journal, vol.13, No.11, pp.1-20, Oct 2018.

13. Padmalaya G, Sreeja BS, Dinesh Kumar P, Radha S, Poornima V, Arivanandan M, Sujan Shrestha, Uma TS, “A Facile Synthesis of Cellulose Acetate Functionalized Zinc Oxide Nanocomposite for Electrochemical Sensing of Cadmium ion”, Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Material, Springer, pp.1-11, Oct 2018.

14. Padmalaya G, Sreeja BS, Arivanandan M, Selvakumar, Rajakumar G, “A sensitive electrochemical sensor for Cd (II) detection using cellulose acetate functionalized Zinc oxide nanocomposite modified on Glassy Carbon Electrode” Materials Letters, Elsevier, Oct 2018.

15. Elakkiya A, Radha S, Sreeja BS, Manikandan E, “Optically Transparent efficient Terahertz Patch antenna for space applications”, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, vol.20, No.9-10, pp.474-478, Oct 2018.

16. Sathya Madhusudhanan, Suresh Jaganathan and Jayashree LS, “Incremental Learning for Classification of Unstructured Data Using Extreme Learning Machine,” Algorithms Journal, Vol.11(158), pp.1-19, Oct 2018.

17. Kavitha S, Thyagharajan KK, “Fuzzy Qualitative Reasoning Model for Astrocytoma Brain Tumor Grade Diagnosis”, Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol.11(38), pp.1-13, Oct 2018.

18. Beulah, Sree Sharmila T, Pramod VK, “Disc Bulge Diagnostic Model in Axial Lumbar MR Images Using Intervertebral Disc Descriptor (Idd), Multimedia Tools and Applications, 77(20), 27215-27230, Oct 2018.

19. Priyadharsini R, Sree Sharmila T, Rajendran T, “A Wavelet Transform Based Contrast Enhancement Method for Underwater Acoustic Images”, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing - Springer, 29(4), 1845-1859, Oct. 2018.

20. Ramana AS, Hemanth Kumar, Suresh Kumar, Logesh Perumal, Manigandan.R, Methun T, “A Review on the Process Intensification Principles Applied to Solar Stills”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD),8(7), 550-559, Oct 2018.

21. Nallusamy N, Senthamilselvan M, “A Review on Combustion, Performance and Emission Characteristics of Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition (RCCI) Engine”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD),8(7), 1-8, Oct 2018.

22. Arun Prakash C, Naveen Raj P, Praveen Jerish K, Sachin Abhishek S, “Machine Vision Based Drilling Process”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD), Vol 8, pp 611-616, Oct 2018.

23. Arun S, Suresh M, “Numerical Investigations on Single Effect Absorption and Combined Ejector-Absorption Refrigeration Systems”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development,Vol. 8, PP 505 – 514, Oct 2018.

24. Gowthama Krishnan M, Rajkumar S, “Modeling of Soot Characteristics of Biodiesel Fuelled Diesel Engines”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD), 8(8), pp. 515-521, Oct 2018.

25. Rajkumar S, “A Review of Zoning Patterns in Multi-Zone Phenomenological Modeling of Diesel Engines”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD), 8(8), pp 1391-1395, Oct 2018.

26. Rajkumar S, “Comparisons of Two Zone and Multi-Zone Phenomenological Modeling of Split Injection Diesel Engines”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD), 8(8), pp. 1396-1400, Oct 2018.

27. Rajkumar K, Gnanavel Babu A, Rajagopalan K, Solai Venkatesan M, “A study on Machining and Quality Response of Wire Cut EDM Machined Tribo-Composites”, International journal of Mechanical and production Engineering Research and development,Vol.8, issue 8, pp 277-282, Oct 2018.

28. Vimalsamsingh R, Jayakumar KS, Shyamraman, Praveen M, Manickavel M, “Design and Development of Flexible Based Valve Using Shape Memory Alloy for Industrial Engineering Applications”, International Journal of Mechanical and production Engineering Research and Development,Vol. 8, Special Issue 7, 546-549, Oct 2018.

29. Sakthi Vigneshwaran, Vishnuvardhan. K, Arun Prakash C, Anand Ronald B, “Sorting and Inspection Using Machine Vision - A Review”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production, Engineering Research and Development, Vol. 8, Special Issue 7, pp.611-616, Oct 2018.



30. Rajkumar K, Gnanavelbabu A, Solai Venkatesan M, Rajagopalan K, “Cooperating Function of Graphite in Reducing Frictional Wear of Aluminium Boron Carbide Composite”, Materials Today: Proceedings,5, 27801–27809, Oct 2018.

31. Aarthi R, Subbaiah K, “Effect of Al-Mg Filler Rods on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of TIG welded thick AA5083-F Alloys”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering and Research,Vol. 8, Spl. Issue. 7, pp.603-606, Oct 2018.

32. Nafeez Ahmed L, Subbaiah K, “TIG welding of AA5052-H32 Aluminum Alloy Plates”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering and Research,Vol. 8, Spl. Issue.7, Oct 2018.

33. Balamurugan S, Subbaiah K, “Friction Stir Welding of Dissimilar Aluminum Alloys AA5052-H32 and AA6061-T6”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering and Research, Vol. 8, Spl. Issue. 7, pp.599-602, Oct 2018.

34. Arun Kumar D, Subbaiah K, “Characterization of Vacuum Induction Melted Cast Al-Mg-Sc Alloys”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering and Research, Vol.8, Spl. Issue.7, pp.607-610, Oct 2018.

35. Antony Prabu D, Subbaiah K, “TIG welding of Aluminum Alloys of AA5083-H111 and AA5052-H32”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering and Research, Vol.8, Spl. Issue.7, pp.522-525, Oct 2018.

36. Crushan R, Subbaiah K, “Friction Stir Welding of AA5083-H111 and AA5052-H32 Alloys with Flat and Non-Flat Pins”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering and Research,Vol.8, Spl. Issue.7, Oct 2018.

37. Jayakishan B, Prakash R, Karthikeyan R, “The Performance and Emission Characteristics of Al2o3-Tio2 Coated Piston Di Diesel Engine Fueled With Poultry Waste Biodiesel”, International Journal of Mechanical and ProductionEngineering Research and Development (IJMPERD),Vol. 8, Special Issue.7, 585-591, Oct 2018.

38. Vijayan S, Sundareswaran R, Jayakaranamalraj I, Sujatha, “Graph Theoretical Approach for the Selection of Welding Process”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD),Vol.8, Spl Issue.7, pp.532-541, Oct 2018.

39. Vijayan S, Prasath S, “The Weld Formation Study on Friction Stir Welding of Dissimilar Magnesium Alloys Az31b and Zm21”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD),Vol.8, Spl. Issue.7, pp.560-567, Oct 2018.

40. Nithiya Sandhiya YJ, Thamizharasan MM, Ajay Subramanyam BV, Vijay Sekar KS, Suresh Kumar S, “Finite Element Analysis of Tool Particle Interaction, Particle Volume Fraction, Size, Shape and Distribution in Machining of A356/SiCp”, Materials Today: Proceedings, 5, 16800 - 16806, Oct 2018.

41. Jijo James, Kasinatha Pandian “Chemical, Mineral and Microstructural Characterization of Solid Wastes for Use as Auxiliary Additives in Soil Stabilization”, Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management, Vol.44, No. 3, ISSN 1088-1697, pp.270-280, Oct 2018.

42. Vijayalakshmi R, Sangeetha P, Mohammed Kaamal, Gokul V, “Effective Utilization of Rice Husk Ash and Copper Slag as partial replacement for Cement and Fine Aggregate in SCC” Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences”, Vol.9, No.5, ISSN 0975-8585, pp. 1956-1967, Oct 2018.

43. Sangeetha P, Ashwin Muthuraman RM, Dachina G, Dhiya M, Janani S, Sai Madhumathi, “Behaviour of Concrete Filled Steel Tubes”, Journal of Informatics and Mathematical Sciences, Vol.10, No. 1-2, ISSN 0974-875X, pp. 297-304, Oct 2018.

44. Shanmugapriya M, Sangeetha P, “Entropy Generation Analysis of Cu-water Nano Fluid Flow over A Moving Wedge”, Desalination and Water Treatment, Vol.121, pp.14-21, Oct 2018.

45. Jijo James, Ebenezer Paul Billy. Graham D, Mahalakshmi N, Mohan Kumar T, Jayapal M, “Pozzolanic Benefit of Fly Ash and Steel Slag Blends in the Development of Uniaxial Compressive Strength of Lime Stabilized Soil” Revista Facultad de Ingenieria, Vol.27, Issue.49, ISSN 23578-5328, pp. 7-21, Oct 2018.

46. Sivapriya SV, Muttharam M, “Behaviour of Cyclic Laterally Loaded Pile Group in soft Clay” Indian Geotechnical Journal, 0971-9555, Oct 2018.

47. Sivapriya SV, Ridhuvaran S, Karthick V, Gopikrishna R, “Flexural and Compressional behaviour of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete”, Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences”, Vol.9, Issue.6, ISSN 0975-8585, pp. 405-412, Oct 2018.

48. John Divya, “Vanished in a Vampire World” and “The Covets of the Seasons”, The Literary Yard, Oct 2018.

49. Praba B, Deepa G, Chandrasekaran VM, “Lower and Upper Bound of the Laplacian Energy with Real and Complex Roots of An Intuition istic Fuzzy Directed Graph”, International Journals of Applied Systemic Studies, Vol.8, No.3, Oct 2018.

50. Praba B, Benazir Obilia XA, “Rainbow Connection Number and Chromatic Index of Rough Ideal based Rough Edge Cayley Graph”, International Journal of Engineering & Technology, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp.1926-1930, Oct 2018.

51. Praba B, Gomathi G, Vijaya Mani and Vaagesh M, “An Application of Multi-layered Fuzzy Attributed Rough Set in Studying Organisational Culture System, Int. Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research, Vol.13, No.3, Oct 2018.

52. Vijayan S, Sundareswaran R, Jayakaranamalraj I, Sujatha R, “Graph Theoretical Approach for the Selection of Welding Process”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development, Vol.8, Special Issue.7, 532-541, Oct 2018.

53. Revathi S, Padmapriya N, Padmanabhan R, “A Design Analysis of Piezoelectric-Polymer Composite Based Valvelessmicropump”, International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Oct. 2018.

54. Shanmugapriya M, “Analysis of Heat Transfer of Cu-water Nanofluid Flow Past A Moving Wedge”, Journal of Informatics and Mathematical sciences, Vol.10, Nos.1-2 , pp.287-296, Oct 2018.

55. Sangeetha P, Shanmugapriya M, Shrinidhi A, Vaishnavi K, “Analytical Study on the Bond Behaviour Between Steel and Concrete Using Comsol, Research Journal of Pharmaceutical , Biological and Chemical Sciences, Vol.9, Issue 4, pp.1522-1528, Oct 2018.

56. Shanmugapriya M, Elayarani M, “MHD Stagnation Point Flow Over A Stretching Sheet in A Porous Medium with Heat Generation”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD), Vol. 8, pp.568-576, Oct 2018.

57. Shanmugapriya M, “Heat and Mass Transfer Analysis of MHD Stagnation Point Flow Past An Unsteady Stretching Sheet”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD), Vol.8, pp.577-584, Oct 2018.

58. Harikrishnan N, Ravisankar R, Chandrasekaran A, Suresh Gandhi M, Vijayagopal P, Rohit Mehra, “Assessment of Gamma Radiation and Associated Radiation Hazards in Coastal Sediments of South East Coast of Tamilnadu, India with Statistical Approach”, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Vol.162, pp.521-528, Oct. 2018.

V I B R A T I O N S


59. Kannadasan S, Muthu Senthil Pandian, Ramasamy P, “Improvement in Power Conversion Efficiencies of Benzoguanamine-Doped Solid State Polymer Electrolytes for Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Applications”, Materials Science - Poland, Article in Press, Oct. 2018.

November

60. Padmalaya G, Radha S, Arivanandan Mukannan, “Production, Characterization and Effectiveness of Cellulose Acetate Functionalized Znonanocomposite Adsorbent for the Removal of Se (VI) Ions From Aqueous Media”, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Springer, pp.1-16, Nov 2018.

61. Kaythry P, Kishore R, Praveena V, “Energy Efficient Raptor Codes for Error Control in Wireless Body Area Networks,” Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, vol.103, No.2, pp.1133-1151, Nov 2018.

62. Velmurugan Nagarajan, Annadurai C, “A New Error Analysis Technique for Cooperative 5G Systems”, Computers and Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, vol.72, pp.577-588, Nov 2018.

63. Indhu R, Radha S, Manikandan E, Sreeja BS, Ravi B, “Fabrication of Silicon Microstructure for Cell Separation Using Ultrashort Laser Ablation”, Microsystem Technologies, Springer, pp. 1-6, Nov 2018.

64. Kalidoss R, Saravanan M, Manikannan K, “Analytic Hierarchy Processes for Spectrum Sharing in 5G New Radio Standard”, Wireless Personal Communication, Springer, vol.103, No.1, pp.639-655, Nov. 2018.

65. Radha N, Shahina A, Prabha P, Preethi Sri BT, Nayeemulla Khan A, “An Analysis of the Effect of Combining Standard and Alternate Sensor Signals on Recognition of Syllabic Units for Multimodal Speech Recognition”, Pattern Recognition Letters, 115(1), 39-49, Nov 2018.

66. Loganathan P, Gnanavelbabu A, Rajkumar K, “Analysis and Characterization of Friction Behavior on AA7075/Zrb2 Composite Under Dry Sliding Condition”, Journal of IOP Conf. Series: Materials Research Express, 6(2), Nov 2018.

67. Saranarayanan, Lakshminarayanan AK, Venkatraman B, “A Combined Full-Field Imaging and Metallography Approach to Assess the Local Properties of Gas Tungsten Arc Welded Copper-Stainless Steel Joints”, Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Elsevier, 19(1) 251-267, Nov 2018.

68. Dhananchezian M, Sharan Srinivasan, Suraj Jacob Chandy, Rohan R Paul, Vinaya Krishna, Saran Prasanth, “Beneficial Effect of Liquid Nitrogen Cooling on Tool Wear and Surface Roughness During Turning Nimonic 90 Alloy”, International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD), Vol. 8, No. 8, pp. 249 – 253, Nov 2018.

69. Rajkumar S, Thangaraja J, “Effect of Biodiesel, Biodiesel Binary Blends, Hydrogenated Biodiesel and Injection Parameters on Nox and Soot Emissions in A Turbocharged Diesel Engine”, Fuel,240, pp. 101-118, Nov 2018.

70. Sumathi R, Sujatha R, Sundareswaran R, Sankar Sahoo, Madhumangal Paland Anita Pal, “Nodes in Fuzzy Block with Application”, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems,Vol.35, pp.4785–4793, Nov. 2018.

71. Yugesh S, Devaraj P, “Generalized Average Sampling and Reconstruction for Wavelet Subspaces, The Journal of Analysis, Nov. 2018.

72. Santhosh N, Govindaraj R, Pounraj P, Sitaraman R, Muthu Senthil Pandian, Ramasamy P, “Fabrication of Hole-Transport-Free Perovskite Solar Cells Using 5-Ammonium Valeric Acid Iodide as Additive and Carbon as Counter Electrode”, Materials Letters, Article in Press, Nov. 2018.

73. Karuppasamy P, Kamalesh T, Muthu Senthil Pandian, Ramasamy P, “Growth, Structural, Optical, Thermal, Laser Damage Threshold and Theoretical Investigations of Organic

Nonlinear Optical 2-Aminopyridinium 4-Nitrophenolate 4-Nitrophenol (2AP4N) Single Crystal”, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, pp.1-18, Nov. 2018.

74. Kannadasan S, Muthu Senthil Pandian, Ramasamy P, “Enhanced performance of 4,4´-Bipyridine-doped PVDF/KI/I2 Based Solid State Polymer Electrolyte for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Applications”, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Vol.29, pp.18074-18081, Nov. 2018.

December

75. Lakshmi S, Ramaprabha R, “Design and Analysis of an Improved High Gain Non Isolated Interleaved Boost Converter for Solar Photovoltaic Applications” Journal of Electrical Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 119-130, Dec 2018.

76. Malathy S, Ramaprabha R, “A two-stage tracking algorithm for PV systems subjected to partial shading conditions”, International Journal of Renewable Energy Research (ISSN 1309-0127), Vol.8, No.4, pp. 2249-2256, Dec 2018.

77. Kripalakshmi T, Ramaprabha R, “Implementation of EV Battery Charging by Wireless Power Transfer”, International Journal of Darshan Institute on Engineering Research & Emerging Technologies (IJDI – ERET), Vol.7, No.2, pp.17-21, Dec 2018.

78. Aishwarya V, Kavitha C, Kaviya R, Seyezhai R, Harika S, published a paper titled, “Design and Implementation of Inductive Power Transfer For EV Battery Charging”, International Journal of Innovative Technology and Creative Engineering , Vol.8 No.12 Dec 2018.

79. Hanis S, Amutha R, “A Fast Double-Keyed Authenticated Image Encryption Scheme Using an Improved Chaotic Map and A Butterfly-Like Structure”, Nonlinear Dynamics, vol.95, No.1, pp.421-432, Dec 2018.

80. Ashwini K, Amutha R, “Fast and Secured Cloud Assisted Recovery Scheme for Compressively Sensed Signals Using New Chaotic System”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, Vol. 77, No.24, pp.31581-31606, Dec 2018.

81. Mrinalini K, Nagarajan T, Vijayalakshmi P, “Pause-Based Phrase Extraction and Effective OOV Handling for Low-Resource Machine Translation Systems”, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low Resource Language Information Processing, vol.18, No.2, pp.12:1 - 12:33, Dec 2018.

82. Jansi R, Amutha R, “A Novel Chaotic Map Based Compressive Classification Scheme for Human Activity Recognition Using A Tri-Axial Accelerometer”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol.77, No.23, pp.1-20, Dec 2018.

83. Monika R, Hemalatha R, Radha S, “Energy efficient surveillance system using WVSN with reweighted sampling in modified fast Haar wavelet transform domain”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol.77, No.23, pp.30187–30203, Dec 2018.

84. Nirmala P, Kishore R, “Swarm Intelligence Based Image Fusion for Noisy Images Using Consecutive Pixel Intensity” Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol.77, No.24, pp.32133–32151, Dec 2018.

85. Vinu Ramadhas, Varghese Paul, Kishore R, “Harmony Search-Fractional Order Based Controller for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell powered Vehicles”, Studies in Informatics and Control, vol.27, No.4, pp.469-480, Dec 2018.

86. Melvin C Jose, Chithra Devi R, Sreeja BS, Meraline S, Radha S, “A Novel Wideband Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna Using Switchable Parasitic Stubs”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letter, Wiley, https://doi.org/10.1002/mop.31698, pp.1-7, Dec 2018.

87. Selvan KT, “Energy conservation and Poynting Theorem in electromagnetics: A conceptual perspective”, Forum for Electromagnetic Research Methods and Application Technologies (FERMAT), Dec 2018.



88. Sayi Soundariya S, Ramprabhu S, “A Single-Layer UWB Frequency-Selective Surface With Band-Stop Response”, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, pp.1-4. Dec 2018.

89. Ramprabhu S, Malathi K, “A Novel Miniaturized Frequency Selective Surface”, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer Aided Engineering, Wiley Publications, ISSN: 1099-047X, Dec 2018.

90. Deepa Nivethika S, Sreeja BS, Manikandan E, Radha S, Senthil Pandian M, “Lycra Fabric as An Effective Stretchable Substrate for A Compact Highly Efficient Reversible Deformable Broadband Patch Antenna”, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, Vol. 20, No.11-12, pp.634 – 641, Dec 2018.

91. Indhu R, Radha S, Sathiesh Kumar V, Manikandan E, Sreeja BS, Sumathi J, “Study on Cholesterol Contents Using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy”, Sensor Letters, vol.16, 1–4, Dec 2018.

92. Shoba S, Rajavel R, “Improving Speech Intelligibility in Monaural Segregation System by Fusing Voiced and Unvoiced Speech Segments”, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, Springer, doi.org/10.1007/s00034-018-1005-3, Dec 2018.

93. Jaisakthi SM, Mirunalini P, Aravindan C, “Automated skin lesion segmentation of Dermoscopic Images Using Grab Cut and K-Means Algorithms”, IET Computer Vision Vol.12 (8), pp.1088-1095, Dec 2018.

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Tennis Tournament

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SEARCHING FOR MECoffee machines horrify me, apparently. This is a new discovery, triggered by my need to venture into the pantry for a wake-me-up cup at the ungodly hour of 4 a.m. As the espresso splashes into the matte black ceramic mug, the drip-drip sound of the caffeine reminds me of the ruby droplets hitting the shattered windshield after escaping my head wound in a low velocity rivulet. I shake my head violently to clear the memories which popped up, unannounced and unwelcome, and switch off the pantry lights before making my way back to my office with my precious coffee fix. As the door swings open after a retinal scan, I am greeted by the (now regular) sight of Catherine Turnbull swiveling on my extremely expensive ergonomic chair.

Introductions are in order, I suppose. Catherine Turnbull is my twin sister, head of PR at Sincorp, pain-in-the-behind extraordinaire and is currently doubling as my drillmaster, tutor and tormenter. Which explains her presence in my territory and her dominating, yet worried, aura. I, of course, am the much more superior twin in every way possible, the founder and CEO of Sincorp, Caleb Turnbull. To tell you the truth, this is all that I know about myself. Amnesia does that to a person – it erases your identity, like the foamy waves gently sucking the sand away from underneath your toes. You find yourself losing your footing in this world, with no memories, no substance, and no you to speak of. I would walk through this universe naked every day, for isn’t that better than a naked brain?

The only memories I retain from my 33 year existence could probably only fill up a few months. The accident alone is vivid in my now useless mind – the phone call with Michael Lee, the Volvo crashing through a thicket after veering off on a turn, overturning twice for good measure, leaving me suspended upside down in the driver’s seat. The blinding pain seemed to envelop my broken physical being. The popping of broken bones, the tearing of muscles and the silent ripping of flesh is all that I remember from the last 15 years. My early childhood is fuzzy, my formative years a blur – when I woke up at Nanyang University Hospital, I could recognize myself, my family, and photos of my childhood pets. Although, their aged appearances and distressed faces, and the fact that Doggy the dog was gone, were like an electric shock. Everything beyond the age 18 had upped and left my brain leaving a blank void. Neurosurgeons, psychologists, and even shamans (due to my hysterical grandmother) had taken a look, and advised me to rest until the body and mind healed. The shaman had this to say: The chirping of the gold bird will signal the new beginning. Maybe she had gone cuckoo.

Caty, having been my shadow (she claims the opposite) was assigned to help me renegotiate my way through life, and fill in the massive gaps in my memory. I took a sabbatical for a year– and I now have a month left before I have to get back to work. Sincorp stocks are on a downward spiral with sinking investor confidence. A plummeting of employee morale and lack of direction with the interim CEO has led the board of directors to hound my family for information, not to mention the rapid media interest.

CNN ran an article, ‘Microchip Moghul or Houdini? Sincorp Turnbull vanishes after accident’.Ah, the sweet sound of the sinking standards of journalism.

In the dogged pursuit of my memory, Caty has been dragging me to places of note through our lives. Caty kept me breathing

through this - she has been an angel through this whole ordeal. She met the world two minutes before me. A spitfire by nature, and gifted with words, she made friends with the majority of our acquaintances and protected supreme child nerd Caleb from bullies.

She is strong, my sister. But our ‘twindar’ allows me to see the brittleness in her eyes, like she will fragment if she doesn’t cry soon. It breaks my heart. My extreme PTSD episodes, mood swings and the sheer frustration at having lost an entire chunk of my life has alienated most except my parents and Caty, who has stuck to me like chewing gum on a shoe, (s)mothering me with affection and optimism. In her own way, of course.

‘Get a move on, dumbass, the world won’t wait because Caleb Turnbull got a boo-boo!’ she calls, as I settle down on the leather couch.

‘If you were any louder, Eskimos can hear you. My head is splitting, and also, can you get off MY chair?’

‘Lay off the Johnnie Walker, brother mine, he is not going to magically help you remember who your exes are. And no, I am not telling you, have fun figuring it out.’ She smirks at me, clearly enjoying being Satan’s reincarnation. ‘We are going somewhere important,’ and with that, she proceeds to drag me, coffee and all, to the Audi, and I took the driver’s seat.

The last seven months, I have been with Caty to: The Tampines Protestant church, where I was baptized. The candles threw familiar shadows of the cross on the floor. Anglo Chinese Secondary, where I topped the school and grew my first beard. The final school bell immediately stirred my need to leave the campus. Old Kar Fung Tai’s xiaolongbao store in China town, best dumpling smell in town. Nanyang University, where I got my Ph.D. in electronic engineering through an accelerated programme, and had my start up idea for Sincorp incubated. The temporary markets during the lantern festival where we stuffed ourselves with cheap food, their aroma stirring a familiar hunger. The 7-eleven near our laboratory where we picked up Pepsis, my body gravitating to the outside seat on autopilot. Caty sighed wistfully at each place, enjoying the luxury of her memories, marinating in the sepia glory of the past.

Despite the muscle memory, all of these places and stories felt disassociated from me, like I was peering at someone else’s life through a looking glass. Like I didn’t know who I had become now, because I didn’t know who I had been earlier. Without the past to anchor me, I was adrift, lonely and lost. Questions were all I had: How am I going to function normally again? How do I lead the company when I can’t remember why I started it? How am I going to re-enter society when everyone is now a stranger?

By the time I run through my existential crisis again, I pull up at a condominium. I follow her mindlessly, for it is still the crack of dawn and my mental faculties haven’t kicked in. We have never visited an acquaintance yet for the fear of the truth getting out, and the door we’re standing in front of now is that of a residence. Weird.

An unfamiliar face appears at the door, round, Chinese, tyres around the neck, sunken eyes. Clothed in silk pajamas that do nothing to hide his pot belly, he looks like the fat uncle version of Chow Yun Fat – not in a good way either. A cuckoo clock rings at 5 a.m. with a chirping noise.The vague stirring of

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something that might be a memory for the first time in a year strikes me, and I stand rooted in place, fervently digging through my blurry mind. Think, Caleb, where have you seen this man before? I try to remain calm, but my subconscious screams: This is it! This is the start of the recovery! My memories, my identity, my nostalgia are finally returning to where they belong!

I search for Caty’s forearm, squeezing my brain. It feels like digging through layers of rock and mud, boring a tunnel through mist and fog to reach what might be a memory. I crouch down,

barely registering my sister’s concern and the man’s offer to call an ambulance when his baritone voice strikes a bell: Michael Lee. Mike Lee, who I fought with before the accident. Mike Lee, who hated my guts right from school. Mike Lee, my sister’s husband. Mike Lee, who one year ago, caused my lack of focus and eventually, my accident, due to his sudden announcement: my sister, Caty, had passed away after a bus hit her.

Meena Kannan IV B.E. (Civil)

THE MEADOW OF EYESSometimes I think it will change, my identity, the things I believe in, the thingsthey believe in, but I know it won’t. We are stuck. All of us are stuck. Likedominoes we continue to fall in the same path … in the same place.

I stand at the precipice gazing down the valley, deep inside my chest I feel a flutter as the meadow fills my gaze. The heart which I know is my own feels burdened like a dog’s whimpering,I wish it would stop but the feeling won’t subside. Every step I take makes it more and more like a reflection, a ripple could distort it and I would find myself a different person.

“Go” they say to me. I look to them, they smile as they always do. They tell me they are family, people who raised me, people who love me but to me they are as alien as myself. If I pass through the meadows, they will be the same as me, or rather I will be the same as them. Suddenly they seem repulsive, all of them deformed like they don’t belong under the sky. Reject. Reject. REJECT THEM.

“Go”they say again, a little more assertive as if sensing my hesitation. I bite my lip, giving them one final look, feeling myself drawn to their eyes but I stop myself. I don’t want to see what I will become. What we will all become.

The steps pass underfoot as I descend and I remember the sounds I make and feel the gravel rolling under my bare feet. It reminds me of the time I was a child, playing and singing, the horizon seemed endless back then. Instead of this box. This wretched box that threatens to eat me. I clench my fists and remind myself, there is still time. I can stop but my feet continue to move.

One step. Then another. Until the meadow comes within view. Initially I close my eyes, I do not want to see. There is still hope to stop. To remember. A chance to dream. But slowly the meadow charms me, and I open.

Endless fringes of yellow, red and violet glisten in the light swaying like mermaids in the wind. Then I see the eyes embedded in their centres, twisting out to see me. I scream at the flowers as they dance around me. I feel them watch me, wondering whether I would be the same as all the others that have come before me. I feel them gnaw at me, searching for the uniqueness, for the strength I always thought I had but never have when I need it most. They search for me when I have already lost myself.

The meadows are disappointed. They cease their dance. They cease their judgements. The eyes bulge out from their centre and stare in disgust. I glance at it, the fear rising when I see the veins throbbing out and in near the iris. Their stares are angry, burning and red.

I sob under their weight and beg for their forgiveness. My throat hardens and wails crack my voice, but they do not relent. They continue to burn me with their gaze even as I beg. Soon all they leave me with is guilt and despondence. I lay on the grass, and cry under my palms. I wait for them to kill me. To slowly take me and burrow my bones.To make me feel the pain I know they want me to feel.

Blood drips down my forehead and I am glad because it is finally over. Then I realize it is not my own. The flowers bleed, one by one trails of crimson descend down their macabre eyes until the soil is red. A sound like tearing wounds and rending flesh erupted from their coiling and shaking stems. I realize with a horror that the flowers are in painand from the depths of their blood sprouts a flower.

I am fascinated by its beauty. Awestruck, I look open mouthed as it unfurled its petals into the light. It is pure unlike the abominations around it. “A sunflower” I whisper. I move closer and feel its scent, it is sweet... almost sanguine. My stomach churns and twists, and I clutch my abdomen and puke. I know what is happening.

My body trembles, “No, I don’t want this” I cry out in vain but I know there is no going back. I have already failed. Soon I will be like them, like all of them. Around me, the meadow cries. The eyes in the flowers widen and the blood continues to drip. The eyes of my friends, my parents, my children, their grandchildren. All of them were failures.

“I won’t do it” I shake my head, I won’t be like them butmyeyelids are already stretched wide and my hands reach in, one after the other I pull them out. They roll in my hands, quivering and slimy. I want to feel pain, to cry out that it is a mistake but instead there is nothing. Nothing. The sunflower has no hesitation, it bends readily and accepts my eyes with a slight bend of its petals. Ready to bleed instead of me. Ready to cry with the rest of its brethren.

Suddenly I am happy, a relief washing over me you could say. Someone else will see, I realize. Someone else will save the world. The meadows continue to sob behind me as I walk away. I am lighternow, my gait is chirping. This is freedom, I laugh.

Up on the precipice they wait. I smile at them and they smile back as they always did.I run a hand over my eyes and feel only the slits, just like all of them. I chuckle, before turning my gaze to meadow once again and am greeted by a sight of pure endless black, “the world is a beautiful place” I say with a smile.

K.Raghasudhan B.E. (Mechanical)



The breeze cuts through to my bones,

Sharp, small, prickly needles kissing my pale skin-

-it tingles. And I think I feel something.

People here don’t like the cold,

Though cold comes seldom and fleeting than warmth in this city,

Numbs them, feels like ice running through veins they say,

Yet, through the numbing chill, I think I feel something, once familiar.

I sit on the small rooftop under an inky black sky,

But there are no stars tonight, there haven’t been in a while.

The last time I counted them-

-was during a rainy drive in June, the night I turned 12.

It poured and poured, as we drove along a small, lonely country road,

And all I could see were raindrops hitting against the bright yellow headlights-

-flickering,then fading away, like small fireflies.

Then slowly as the skies stopped weeping,

And all I could hear was the car wheels crunching wet gravel,

I rolled down the windows and put my head out,

A quiet stillness blanketed the air,

-andit smelt like spring, of flowers blooming to beginning,

I looked up and there they were-

-brilliant and stunning in the small sliver of time before dawn would stretch awake from slumber,

Stars.

Countless and spread over for as far as my eyes could see,

Many clusters, some lonely, many small yet bright, some twinkling in yellows and reds,

Overwhelming yet welcoming, like I was always meant to watch them, like I belonged,

And in that moment, a child learnt what it meant to feel invincible,

What it meant for a sense akin to wonder and restless joyto simmer under pale skin,

What it meant to hope, to wish upon those stars, to dream.

And as faint notes of soft piano keys floated from the car radio, carrying a familiar tune with an underlying static,

I put my head in and looked ahead through the windshield, road empty and still long,

And all the stars aligned in front of me, I thought if we drove enough I’d be able to reach them, reach another home,

It was a starlit horizon.

I remember that it was numbingly cold in the wake of rain,

And yet, I was smiling.

I felt something then too.

It has been years since then,

I stopped looking at the sky; it always seemstoo bright,

Squinting eyes only found the sun that shrouded everything else in its fiery power,

They said growing up, you’d see the world –

-for what it truly was; vile and green,icy and blue,

But to me, the world turned outwarm, too warm,

Humid and suffocating, of clashing reds and blazing oranges,

Loud voices, clammy hands, anxious hearts and sweaty skin,

I found my way to the city chasing dreams that I’d wished upon those stars as a naïve child,

Yet I lost my way somehow, lost my way from home in the chaos,

Now, too many wishes are only remembered as syllables left behind on my tongue,

Fate keeps twisting its strings far away from ever reaching my hearts’ desires, constellations never align,

Disappointment and regret linger behind, bitter behind my teeth,

And I’ve learnt to become friends with my sadness- less lonely that way,

Every passing day, the air in this city smells more of burnt hope and charred dreams,

And some days, I can’t breathe.

Yet some days, when I gather the courage at nights,

I climb onto rooftops, to see this city below me,

Flashy sparks in the distance, masking all that’s rotten and dying.

But this night, there are no clouds above;it’s colder that it has been in a few months,

The air feels different, electric,

And a breeze from a far- away sea cuts through to my bones,

Like sharp, prickly needles, like somephantom reminder,

And though my lungs burn a little,

I take in and puff out the cold-whirls of smoke without ashes,

And I think I might remember what feeling somethingwould feel like if I try hard enough.

The wind carelessly whispers in my ear and I look up-

-and there I see it- a lonely star in the middle of the empty pale blue desert above,

It flickers, then burns and then vanishes like it never existed- and I spot a few twinkles in its wake,

And suddenly, what my eyes just witnessed clicks all at once- A Nebula.

Maybe this was my other home calling out to me again-

-telling me that in life you have to break in order to know your strength, to be sad in order to find happiness,

I always did feel special; felt like a bit of stardust was always left behind in my own veins,

And maybe I will have to get lost first, to find my way back home,

The wind carries cark honks in the distance with an underlying sleepy murmur of the city at night,

The neon signs on top of the skyscrapers flicker in the distance, flashing lights of blues and reds, almost twinkling,

It is still numbingly cold, and buried nostalgia pays a visit,

It almost looks like a starlit horizon, I finally smile.

I think I will remember how to feel something again.

Srivasupradha Ramesh V B.E (Mechanical)

STARLIT HORIZON

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Increasing the Shelf Life of Liquid Food

Biodegradable grocery bags from shrimp shells

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