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Volume : 8 Issue : 2 February 2011 Price : Rs. 3.00
Chairman’s Message
Dr. T. [email protected]
From The Editor’s Desk
H.R. [email protected]
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Editorial Team
Mr. H.R. Mohan, Dr. T. Thyagarajan, Dr. S. Salivahanan,
Dr. P. Suresh Chander Pal, Mr. T.S. Rangarajan, Mrs. M. Ramalatha
Esteemed Members,
On behalf of the Executive committee ofIEEE Madras Section, I express my deep senseof gratitude to all the members for your esteemedpresence and active participation in the AGMheld on 14th February 2011.
In my January 2011 message, I presentedsome useful tips to face the interview, FAQ and
the expectations of the interview board members for the benefit of thefinal year and pre-final year students. I am aware that the final yearstudents will be busy in finalizing the project work. Let me sharesome of my views pertaining to the UG project work.
Step 1: Identify a broad area, compatible team members.Some of the suggested broad areas in the circuit branches include thefollowing:
EEE: Power Systems, Power Electronics & Drives, MeasuringInstruments, High Voltage Engineering, µ P/ µC based Control andAutomation, Embedded Systems.
ECE: Electronic Circuit Design, µP/ µC, DSP/ADSP, VLSI,Communication (Digital, Wireless, Fiber Optic, Mobile, Satellite,Radar), Adhoc Networks, Image Processing, Speech Processing,RF System Design, GPS, WSN, Remote Sensing, Nano Electronics.
CSE/IT: Network Security, Cryptography, Grid Computing,Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Soft Computing,Distributed Computing, Pervasive Computing, Natural LanguageProcessing, Machine Vision, Multimedia Compression, RoutingAlgorithms, Protocols, ASIC Design, Web Design, SoftwareTesting, Quality Management Assurance and Reliability, DataMining / Date Warehousing, Software Metrics.
E&I/ICE: Process Modeling & Control, ElectronicInstrumentation, Industrial Instrumentation, Bio-medicalInstrumentation, Smart Sensors, Soft Sensors, Advanced Control(MPC, Plant wide Control, Auto-Tuning, Robust Control, OptimalControl), Performance Monitoring.
Inter Disciplinary Topics: MEMS, Nano-Technology, Robotics,Virtual Instrumentation, Renewable Energy, Application of SoftComputing Techniques (Neural, Fuzzy, Genetic, PSO, SVM),Intelligent Control, Medical Eelectronics, Bio-informatics,Avionics, Data Fusion.
Dear Friends,
The AGM of the Madras Section for the year2010 held on 14th Feb 2011 was well attended witha participation of over 80 members of whom manycame from various student branches across the state.LINK congratulates the following student branchesand society chapters for receiving the certificate ofappreciation and cash awards for organizing maximumno. of events (based on the reporting in LINK).
Student Branches:
Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology Kongu Engineering College Coimbatore Institute of Engineering Technology K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology
Society Chapters:
IEEE Computer Society IEEE Communications Society IEEE Women In Engineering Affinity Group
LINK congratulates Prof. H.R. Vishwakarma, Sr. Prof. at VITUniv., for being elected as the President – Engineering Sciences Section ofIndian Science Congress Association.
In this issue of LINK, we have published a photo feature ofAGM, contact details of the Madras Section Execom Members for theyear 2011. The Secretary’s report and the Treasurer’s report are availableat the Section website.
Brief reports relating to the Project Expo at Vivekanandha Collegeof Engg for Women, DEC-Tech Fest & Tech Talk on “Space Technology”at Jeppiaar, Leadership Meet, Guest Lecture on “Research Issues in WirelessSensor Networks” & Workshop on “Telecommunication in Healthcare”at KSRCT, Workshop on “3D System Design Issues and DeviceModeling” at TCE, Awareness Programme on “Paper Presentation Skills”at Sri Muthukumaran Inst. of Tech, Guest lecture on “Cyber Crime” atKEC, Seminar on “Visual Effects and Computer Graphics Animator” atAmrita, National Conf. on “Innovations in Electrical & Electronics Engg”at MPNMJ Engg College, Student Robotics Competition held at DRDOUnit CVRDE, Avadi and the FDP on “Advanced Controllers for ElectricDrive” have also been published in this issue of LINK.
We are sure that the topics outlined for the projects in theChairman’s Message will be very useful to the students.
Reader’s attention is drawn to the call for papers in the forthcomingevents - National Conf. on “Design and Manufacturing” and ResearchSymposium on “Pervasive Computing and its Underlying Technologies”.
Pl. note that membership in IEEE is available at half yearly ratesfrom March, for the rest of the year. Students may pl. avail the combinedmembership in IEEE, IEEE CS plus digital library access at USD 20/-.
Pl. send the matter for publishing in LINK by 8th of every monthas per the guidelines available at http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/guidelines-matter-for-ieee-mas-link.pdf
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Step 2: Go ahead with comprehensiveliterature survey. By referring the old UG/PGProject reports/ Ph.D theses, Technicalmagazines, Relevant journals, E-resourcesbrowsing relevant websites: ieeeexplore,proquest, sciencedirect, jstor, openj-gate.springerlink. jccc-ugcinfonet etc., and attendingpre-conference tutorials, conferences/workshops/seminars, special technical lectures.
Step 3: Prepare an extended abstractfor about 2 to 3 pages with details containing:Title, Objective, Motivation/ Need, Generalblock diagram, Proposed methodology,Expected results, List of references, Action plan/Time schedule.
Chairman’s Message continued.... Step 4: Identify a suitable guide/supervisor/advisor/mentor and finalize theproposed work.
Step 5: Learn relevant applicationsoftware package (tool box)/hardwarerequired for executing the proposed work.
Step 6: Plan periodic meetings withthe guide to review the progress.
Step 7: Parallely accumulate variousdocuments and start the documentationwork for report writing as well as for the reviewmeeting presentations.
Step 8: Present your findings inrelevant conferences and get more inputs tofine tune the work.
Step 9: Prepare power point slides(Slide1-Title of the project, team members,guide; 2-Contents of presentation; 3-Objective;4-Need/ Motivation; 5-Methodology; 6-Briefintroduction with block diagram; 7-Discussionon methodology; 8-Equations/Derivation;9-Simulation results; 10-Graphs; 11-Tables;12-Qualitative & Quantitative comparison;13-Comprehensive Summary; 14-Conclusion;15-Direction of future work and 16-Importantreferences.
Step 10: Complete the project report wellin advance by following the university guidelines.
With best wishes
Affectionate Office BearerDr. T.Thyagarajan
Project Expo at Vivekanandha College of Engineering for Women
The PROJECT EXPO’11 wasconducted on 6th Jan 2011 at VivekanandhaCollege of Engineering For Women,Tiruchengode for B.E / B.Tech / ASD & Schoolstreams. At the inaugural session, Dr. R. K.Gnanamurthy Principal, VCEW welcomed thegathering. Mr. R.M.D. Sundaram, TechnicalLeader, Texas Instruments, Bangalore deliveredthe inaugural address. Dr. R. Nalini Principal /
VIETW, Dr. S. Suresh Kumar Principal / VCTW
and Dr. Subhasini Principal / Pharmacy
felicitated the gathering.
Engineering students from various
branches participated in this project expo and
displayed 118 projects. Apart from this, about
12 neighboring schools also participated in the
contest and about 46 projects were displayed.
In this expo, the projects weredisplayed in CSE, IT, EEE, ECE, ASD, BT Labs.The projects were examined by the professorsfrom the sister institutions. After evaluation,three best projects were selected for eachdepartment and school.
In the valedictory function, Mr. B.Gopinath, HOD/EEE presented the report ofthe Project Expo’11 and Dr. M.Vadhapureeswaran Prof & Head / Englishdelivered the valedictory address.
For the best projects our HonorableChairman Vidya Rathna, Rashtriya Rattan, HindRattan Prof. Dr. M. Karunanithi, Chairman andSecretary Vivekanandha Educational Institutionsdistributed the prizes. The Function ended withthe vote of thanks by Mrs. V. Sujatha, HOD/ECE and followed by National Anthem.
Report by: Mr. B. Gopinath, AP/HOD,EEE, IEEE Student Branch Mentor,
The IEEE student branch of JeppiaarEngineering College is fostering the appreciableactivity of conducting monthly events for theIEEE students in a view to keep them intactand to involve the members into various activities.
The event DEC-TECH FEST was heldon 22nd Dec 2010. A tech film on 3G and 4Gtechnology was screened during the first half ofthe event. The video began with a briefintroduction on CISCO, and its role innetworking that transforms how people connect,communicate and collaborate, and dealt with3G and 4G technology, technical opportunities
DEC-TECH FEST at Jeppiaar Engineering Collegeand challenge of 3G and 4G wirelesses,comparison of 2G with 3G and 4G.
The post video session of the event wasan interactive and interesting one. It was a teambuilding activity and its laudable objective wasto develop the student’s creative thinking andnot merely to stuff their minds with loads offacts and information. Nearly 25 girls and 25 boysparticipated. They were separated into teamsand given a scenario for survival simulationsafter a shipwreck for team building and thealternate team members were asked to give anadvertisement for IEEE. The students were
found to be very active and performed withzeal. Such events were aimed to create anawareness that it is rather difficult for an individualto get through a crisis situation, but for a teamworking together; nothing is impossible. At theend of the event, goodies and pamphlets wereissued to the most challenging team who createdthe most inspirational team building.
We would like to express our gratitude toour Chairman Dr. Jeppiaar, our branchcounselor, Mr. S. Sellakumar and all the studentvolunteers, without whose endeavor the eventwould have not turned out to be a success.
Report by: Divya.S
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Technical Talk on “Space Technology” at Jeppiaar Engineering College
A technical talk on “Space Technology”by Prof. N. Sundararajan (Retd.), and AssociateEditor for IEEE Trans on Control SystemsTechnology, was organized by the IEEE StudentBranch of Jeppiaar Engineering on 5th Jan 2011.
Mrs. Sreedevi, HOD of EEE Dept,felicitated the speaker. Anand. B (3rd yr EEE),Student Chairman, IEEE-SB, took the privilegein having the pleasant task of welcoming andintroducing the speaker who has traveled a verylong journey of achievements. He has also
worked as the Project Engineer for the firstIndian Satellite Launch Vehicle Project directlyunder Dr.Kalam.
Prof. Sundararajan addressed theparticipants an ‘Overview of SpaceTechnology’. In his talk, he briefly outlined thepast, present and the future status of the SpaceTechnology. He related the past case byexplaining the history of some basic orbitaldynamics, and the present with the introductionof Satellites and the future with a brief overview
of Launch Vehicles (Rockets). He gave an insightof the power generation in Space and theprocess of launching of Satellites. He alsopresented minute details about the various firstlaunched Satellites in various Nations and alsothe “First ideas of man” regarding Solar System.
Animations of Satellite launching, tip oficeberg and Navigation-GPS illustration wereprojected and explained by him along with hispresentation.
He shared his own personal experience withDr. Kalam and made the entire session interactiveby giving additional information along with thetechnical aspects. Around 400 participantsattended and interacted with the speaker raisinga number of questions seeking clarifications.
The technical talk came to a formalclosure with the vote of thanks proposed byAnish, (3rd yr EEE), Secretary, and IEEE-SB. Inthis endeavor, we would like to thank OurBranch Counselor Mr. Sellakumar, and thestudent organizers and volunteers, under whosehard work, we had been able to make the programa grand success.
Report by: Divya.S
IEEE Leadership Meet at K.S. Rangasamy College of Technology
The IEEE student branch ofK.S.Rangasamy College of Technology,Tiruchengode organized the inter college IEEE
Leadership Meet 2011 on 18th Jan 2011. Afterthe ceremonial prayer to the Almighty, Mr. S.Saravanan, IEEE Student Branch Counselorwelcomed the gathering. Dr. K.B. Jayanthi,HOD, Department of ECE addressed thegathering. Dr. K. Thyagarajh, Principal deliveredthe principal address.
Mr. V. Navaneetha Krishnan, IEEEgraduate student member introduced the chiefguest, Dr. N. Kumarappan, FDP Coordinator,IEEE Madras Section. He briefly describedabout the IEEE and the benefits of IEEE
membership. The IEEE student branch leaders
of various colleges attended the meet and shared
their experiences on the activities conducted in
their colleges.
The function came to a formal closure
with Ms. Sudha Subburaj, IEEE graduate student
member thanking everyone who made the event
a grand success. Certificates were presented to
all the participants of the meet.
Report by: Mr.S.Saravanan, Student
Branch Counselor, [email protected]
Workshop on “3D System Design Issues and Device Modeling” at ThiagarajarCollege of Engineering
The IEEE student branch of ThiagarajarCollege of Engineering, Madurai conducted atwo days workshop on “3D system DesignIssues and Device Modeling” during Dec 29 &30, 2010. The course was organized andconducted by Dr. S. Rajaram (BOYSCASTFellow @ Georgia Tech, USA) and Dr N. B.Balamurugan.
The workshop was organized to providean insight into the Fabrication of 3D Technologyand principles of MOSFET operation and
modeling, thereby improving the participant’sdesign skills which can be used for the studentdesign projects in the field of 3D System Design,Analog Integrated Circuits and Radio Frequency
Integrated Circuits. This workshop was attendedby faculty members and research scholars ofvarious engineering colleges who work in thearea of VLSI Technology
The workshop was very interactive,with the active participation of thedelegates. Further, at the end of the sessions,participants asked queries and got their doubtscleared. Indeed they had two days of valuablelearning.
Report by: K. Kalyani, BranchCounselor, [email protected]
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Seminar on “Visual Effects and Computer Graphics Animation” at AmritaSchool of Engineering
Amrita School of Engineering,Coimbatore IEEE student branch organized aone day seminar on 4 th Jan 2011 on“Perspectives on the Visual Effects (VFX) and
Computer Graphics (CG) Animation industryin the US with examples from the latestcomputer graphics film ‘Tangled’ from the WaltDisney Animation Studios”. The talk wasdelivered by Mr. Rajesh Sharma - a ComputerGraphics expert from the Walt Disney AnimationStudios.
Budding engineers, scientists, managersand journalists attended his talk in addition tothe IEEE members of Amrita University,Coimbatore. The students learned how artists,animators, painters and engineers workedtogether to create the storyline, finalize thecharacters, use appropriate lighting and renderframes, to create the film.
“I have been with Disney since 1998,”Mr. Rajesh shared with his audience. “I feel
proud to be part of a team that has created so
many classics.” Indeed. During his twelve years
at the organization, Mr. Rajesh has helped with
software development for many animated films
including Atlantis, Treasure Planet, Chicken
Little, Meet the Robinsons, Bolt, Princess and
the Frog.“At Disney, we try to use technology
such that we can meet artistic demands,” he
stated. Explaining how the Napier-Stokes
equation or the Lattice Boltzmann method is
used in the process of animation, he highlighted
opportunities in the animation industry for
engineers. “The animated waterfalls one admires
are created using the concept of fluid dynamics,”
he shared.
Report by: C. Arunkumar, AP/IT,
Guest Lecture at K.S. Rangasamy College of Technology
The IEEE student branch ofK.S.Rangasamy College of Technology,Tiruchengode organized a guest lecture on“Research Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks”
mobile communication and research issues in
wireless sensor networks. The lecture was
attended by faculty members, PG students and
the talk was highly interactive and thought
provoking with questions rose by the participants
and clarified as the presentation progressed.
The function came to a formal closure
with Mr. P. Kumar, CWIN Coordinator thanking
everyone who made the event a grand success.
Report by: Mr.S.Saravanan, Student Branch
Counselor, [email protected]
on 21st Jan 2011. The programme began with
the ceremonial tribute to the Almighty. Mr. S.Saravanan, IEEE Student Branch Counselorwelcomed the gathering. Dr. K.B. Jayanthi,
HOD, Department of ECE addressed thegathering. Dr.K.Thyagarajh, Principal deliveredthe principal address.
Mr. N.K. Shankar, IEEE graduate studentmember introduced the chief guest, Dr. R.Gunasundari, Associate Professor, Departmentof ECE, Pondicherry University, Puducherry.In her lecture, she explained the concepts of
Awareness Program on “Paper Presentation Skills”at Sri Muthukumaran Institute of Technology
The WIE Affinity wing of IEEE studentbranch at Sri Muthukumaran Institute ofTechnology, Chennai organized an awarenessprogram on “Paper Presentation Skills” toinspire the students to take up innovative andcompetitive research challenges in the field ofengineering. The program was organized on the20th of January 2011.
The session started with an inauguralspeech by Ms. P. Yamuna Devi, Secretary, WIE.
She emphasized the need for research work inengineering and the purpose it serves. Ms. P.Ramya Kumari, Student Chairman, WIE, withthe help of a model research paper, explainedon how a paper reflects the entire professionallife of an engineer. She also spoke on howresearch work and consequently, paper has tobe done. Mr. Hari Krishnan, Student Chairman,in an interactive session motivated the studentsto take up the field of engineering as anopportunity to prove their skills as an engineer.
These sessions which saw an overwhelmingresponse from the students, concluded with voteof thanks delivered by Ms. Kanagavalli, studentmember. The student branch expresses it sincerethanks to Prof. A. Murugesan, HOD. EEEDept. for making the event a success.
Report by: Ms. P. Ramya Kumarihttp://ewh.ieee.org/sb/madras/smit/
LINK congratulates Prof. H.R.
Vishwakarma, IEEE/IEEECS Member and
Senior Professor of VIT University, Vellore
for having been elected as the President-
Engineering Sciences
Section, Indian Science
Congress Association
for the term 2011-12.
In this crucial role, his
p r i m a r y
responsibilities will
include the promoting
the objectives/programmes of Indian
Science Congress Association and
particularly organizing the Engineering
Sciences Sectional Programmes during the
99th Indian Science Congress,
Bhubaneswar on the theme “Science and
Technology for Inclusive Innovation: Role
of Women”
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IEEE-11: National Conference on “Innovations in Electrical and ElectronicsEngineering” at M.P. Nachimuthu M. Jaganathan Engineering College
Association of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineering & Institute of Electrical andElectronics Engineers Inc. Student Branch ofM.P.Nachimuthu M.Jaganathan EngineeringCollege jointly organized the 3rd One DayNational Conference on “Innovations inElectrical and Electronics Engineering” on 21st
January 2011 in the college premises. PGstudents, Academic persons, and ResearchScholars all over India participated in theconference.
The Correspondent Thirumathi VasanthaSudhanandhen presided over the function anddelivered the presidential address. Shri S.Rajavel, Executive Vice President and Head –Power Transmission and Distribution(Domestic), Larsen and Toubro Ltd., Chennaiwas the Chief Guest. In his inaugural address,Shri S. Rajavel, emphasized on the needs ofreducing the transmission losses. He said thatdue to urbanization the power demand hasincreased as a result of which transmissionsystems are choked. He told the students thatthey have lot of opportunities in the coresegment. The Prof.P.Selvan HoD/EEE
welcomed the gathering. The Principal (i/c) Prof.S.Shanmugasundaram offered the felicitation.
Out of over 120 research papers receivedfrom all over India including Andra Pradesh,Kerala, Maharastra etc…, 40 were selected andpresented during the conference.
At the valedictory function certificateswere distributed to the participants by theCorrespondent Thirumathi VasanthaSudhanandhen and the Principal (i/c) Prof. S.Shanmugasundaram. Mr. G. Mahendran Lect/EEE proposed the vote of thanks. Thearrangements for the grand conference weremade by IEEE coordinator Mr. D. Sabapathiand the association coordinator Mr. P.Manikandan with the support of the staffmembers and students.
Guest Lecture on “Cyber Crime” at Kongu Engineering College
The IEEE Student Branch of KonguEngineering College organized a guest lectureon 8th January 2011 on the topic “CyberCrime” by Dr. S. Muttan, Professor and Head,Department of ECE, Anna University, Chennai.
The Session started with a prayer song. TheIEEE student’s Branch coordinator, Prof. K.Narayanan welcomed the chief guest and theparticipants of the programme. It was followedby the release of IEEE newsletter “IEEERESONANCE”.
Dr. S. Muttan started his lecture withstatistics on Indians using computer, Internet andthe statistics of people who suffer even for theirbasic needs. He pointed out the characteristicsof cyber crimes and examples of cyber crimeswith real time examples which made his lecturemuch more interesting. He also gave informationabout cyber terrorism. He highlighted variousmeasures and steps to control cyber crime and
concluded his lecture by quoting that“Computer is a Tickling Bomb”. The studentsenthusiastically attended the lecture.
To express the gratitude of IEEE-KEC,Mrs. V. R. Saraswathy, Staff Advisor of IEEEstudent branch, presented a memento to theguest. Then Dr. S. Muttan distributed the prizesfor the event SPAVE’10. Ms. T. Aishwarya,Additional Secretary, WIE-KEC proposed thevote of thanks on behalf of student volunteers.The event came to an end by extending gratitudeto the motherland through national anthem.
Report By: Neha Gupta, Secretary,WIE-KEC, [email protected]
Workshop on “Telecommunication in Health Care”at K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology
The IEEE student branch ofK.S.Rangasamy College of Technology,Tiruchengode in association with IEEE-EMBSMadras chapter organized a workshop on“Telecommunication in Health Care” on 5th Feb2011. Mr. S. Saravanan, IEEE Student BranchCounselor welcomed the gathering. Dr. K. B.Jayanthi, HOD, Department of ECE addressedthe gathering. Dr. K. Thyagarajh, Principaldelivered the principal address.
Ms. Merlin Sheeba, IEEE graduatestudent member introduced the chief guest, Mr.T. S. Rangarajan who explained briefly aboutthe “Sensing and Actuation” era that is next tofollow the internet era. He then explained aboutvarious RFID tags, their operating range and
their applications in the healthcare. The speakeralso briefed about dealing with the RFID dataand the future trends in RFID. After a briefdiscussion on genetic coding technology, thespeaker concluded his talk by highlighting thedemerits of using the RFID tags and the researchrelating to biocompatibility of using these tags.
Mr. K. S. Suresh explained about theconcept of Telecommunication in Medicine. Hespoke about the advantages such as cost saving,ease of communication in using thetelecommunication technology. The types ofservices like the Telecardiology, Teleradiology,Telepathology and Telepsychiatry were brieflydescribed. The modern trends like the Bluetoothpills, mobile health clinics and the real-time
remote medical diagnosis system were also
discussed. Finally the talk concluded withdescribing the barriers and the future trends of
this technology.
The workshop came to a formal closure
with Mr. Y.Vivekananth, IEEE Graduate student
member thanking everyone who made the event
a grand success.
Report by: Mr.S.Saravanan, Student Branch
Counselor, [email protected]
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Faculty Development Programme on “Advanced Controllers for Electric Drives”
The IEEE Madras Section in associationwith Department of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineering, Sona College of Technology, Salemorganized a Faculty Development Programme(FDP) on the topic “Advanced Controllers forElectric Drives” on 18th and 19th January 2011.This was the 16th FDP in a series of programsaimed at improving the quality of teaching inEngineering Colleges in Tamilnadu. Theprogramme was attended by 62 facultymembers of colleges and universities fromall over Tamilnadu. The co-ordinators ofthe program were Dr. N. Kumarappan,Professor, Annamalai University and IEEEMadras Section Educational Activity Chair &
Excom Member, Prof. C. Easwarlal, Professor
and Head of EEE, Sona College of Technology,Salem and Mrs. R. Arulmozhiyal, SeniorLecturer of EEE, Sona College of Technology,
Salem.
The programme was started with aninaugural function. Prof C.Easwarlal, IEEEbranch counselor, EEE department, SCTwelcomed the gathering. Dr. P. Govindarajan,Principal, Sona College of Engineering, presidedover the function. Dr. N. Kumarappan deliveredthe inaugural address.
The Resource Persons for the programwere Dr. S.P. Natrarajan, Annamalai University,
Dr. S. Jeevananthan, Pondicherry Engg. College,
Dr. B. Hariram, Moog India Technology Centre,
Dr. B. Vinod, PSG College of Technology
and Prof. M. Sundaram, PSG College of
Technology.
The topics covered included: Micro
Controllers based Electric Drives; Embedded
Controller; DSP Controller in AC & DC Drives;
ASIC for Control of Power Electronics Systems;
PLC in Electric Drives and dSPACE Simulator.
The participants were also given Demo on DSP,
FPGA & dsPIC by Vi Micro Systems Pvt. Ltd.,
Chennai. IEEE Madras Section thanks Vi Micro
Systems for the sponsorship.
The program ended with a valedictory
function. Dr. P. Govindarajan, Principal, Sona
College of Technology delivered the valedictory
address and Mrs. R. Arulmozhiyal, Senior
Lecturer of EEE, Sona College of Engineering
proposed the vote of thanks.
The program received an excellent
feedback from all the participants. The FDP
provided an excellent opportunity to listen to
the experts and also to discuss various Electric
Drives issues.
IEEE Student Member from MIT, Anna Universitypresents paper in ICSLIP-2000 at Shanghai, China
Gaurav Rajasekar, a graduate student ofthe Department of Instrumentation Engineering,Madras Institute of Technology Campus, AnnaUniversity, Chennai and an IEEE memberauthored a paper on “Three Dimensional OLEDDisplays with Depth-Sensitive Multi-Touch”along with Vigneshwaran Shanmugam of the sameuniversity.
This paper was selected for publicationand for presentation at the IEEE/IET 2010International Conference on Audio, Languageand Image Processing (ICALIP-2010) held inShanghai, China during November 23 to 25,2010.
Gaurav Rajasekar traveled to theultramodern city of Shanghai, China for thisevent, where he presented his paper on thesecond day of the conference. Sponsored bythe IEEE and IET, ICALIP-2010 drewresearchers, engineers, scientists and educatorsinterested in audio, language and imageprocessing. ICALIP-2010, conducted at theHua-Ting Hotel & Towers, Shanghai, featuredsix world-class plenary lectures and 48 well-organized sessions (oral and poster) in sixtracks, namely Audio and Music Processing,Language and Speech Processing, ImageProcessing and Virtual Reality, 3DTV andComputer Graphics, Remote Sensing and GIS,Multimedia SoC Design and Bioinformatics.
Though there were negligibly few fromthe Indian subcontinent, with experts from farand wide – Australia, Belgium, Canada, China,France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran,Japan, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland,Taiwan, Tunisia, USA, UK – the conferenceoffered opportunities to network, socialize andget to know the latest developments in thesefields.
The presentation, by Gaurav, was
received very well and there were offers from a
few researchers and professors from differentnations to help further this work in the near
future. The paper has also been included in the
conference proceedings and published in theIEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Section Membership as on15th February 2011
Life Fellow - 2
Fellow - 1
Life Senior - 7
Senior Member - 81
Life Member - 4
Member - 2087
Associate - 149
Affliate - 39
Graduate Student Member - 1404
Student Member - 7102
Total - 10,876
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Defence Research & Development Organisation Student Robotic Competition2010 held at CVRDE, Avadi, Chennai
Robotic competition among IndianUniversities organised by DRDO at CombatVehicle Research & Development Establishment(CVRDE), Avadi, during October 2010 to motivatestudent’s innovative ideas and to create awarenessamong the student community for the emergingtechnology developments. This competition hasthe impact on the real time engineering designchallenges to meet the ruggedised productrealization. Robotic system of automated groundvehicle is focused in the domains of vehicledynamics, sensors interface, embedded systemdesign, image processing, data communicationand global positioning system.
Two hundred and forty nominations werereceived with technical proposal for thecompetition. A committee experts from CVRDE,Research & Development Engineers(R&DE(E)), Vehicle Research DevelopmentEstablishment (VRDE), Centre for ArtificialIntelligence Research(CAIR) of DRDO,academic institutions and industrial expertsvalidated the technical proposals. Top fourteenproposals were selected and awarded Rupeesone lakh for each to fabricate their proposedmodel.
The performance of model’s autonomousnavigation was evaluated and judged by a panelof senior scientists from CVRDE, CAIR,R&DE(E) & VRDE in the 500m test trackcreated at CVRDE. The navigation comprisesof lane detection and navigation of sand, gravel,ramp, ‘S’ turn for the first 350m. Navigation of thenext 150 m for the given GPS waypoints andstaircase.
The competition was tough and theprototype models demonstrated by theparticipants could not navigate the test tracksin total. Based on the performance of vehiclenavigation at different terrains, five consolationprizes of Rs. 60,000/- were awarded toencourage the participants. Four teams were
awarded for theme prizes of Rs. 25,000/- basedon the design review and technical paperpresentation skills.
Consolation Prize of five teams for theRobotic navigation: Indian School of Mines,Dhanbad; IIT Madras, Chennai; IIT Bombay,Mumbai and Thapar University, Punjab
Theme prize of four teams for theTechnical Paper presentation: INNOVATION:SRM University, Chennai; VEHICLEDYNAMICS: IIT Kharagpur; ENGINEERINGDESIGN: IIT Kharagpur; ALGORITHM:Malaviya National Institute of Technology,Jaipur
Padmashri. M. Natarajan, Chairman,governing council IIT Mandi, former SA to PMdelivered key note address and pointed out theimportance students team work and team spiritto manufacture for the project management. Healso pointed out that this elementary technologywill emerge for creativity, development andengineering to bring out a best model by thestudents community.
Shri S Sundaresh, Distinguished Scientist,CCR&D (Armament Combat vehicle andEngineering) expressed that organizing this typecompetition will generate lot of innovative ideasfrom the fresh unbiased minds.
Shri. P.Sivakumar, Director, CVRDEaddressed that vision and mission of this modeldevelopment has the technology focusing forland mine detection, surveillance, under watervehicle, unmanned aerial vehicle and unmannedground vehicle.
Dr. Prahlada Distinguished Scientist &Chief Controller R&D (Aeronautics & ServiceIntegration) in his validation address shared hisview that organising this program in DRDO toupdate the emerging science and technologyreaching the University level.
During the validation session Dr JenniferC. Byrne, Vice President, Technology Strategyand Jyotsna Iyer, Material Engineer, SeniorStaff from M/s Lockheed Martin India Pvt.Ltd., witnessed the students projects modeldemonstration.
This program received an excellentfeedback from the students and they thankedDRDO’s motivation and hospitality providedto them. They also suggested to organise similarevents in DRDO periodically.
RTPEPS’ 11
National Conference on
Recent Trends in PowerElectronics and Power Systems
3rd March 2011 at Tiruvannamalai
Organized by
Dept. of Electrical andElectronics Engineering
S.K.P Engineering CollegeTiruvannamalai
Supported by
IEEE Madras Section
Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturer’s Assn
Indian Society for Technical Education
Institution of Engineers (India)
Registration
Industry Participants: Rs. 1000/=Research Scholars & Faculty : Rs. 750/=
Full Time Students (UG & PG): Rs. 500/=
For details, please contact
Mrs. N. Chitra / Mr. M. Annamalai
Dept. of EEE, S.K.P Engg. College
Ph: 04175-253153 Extn.215
Mobile: 9994674586
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Basic Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Author: Dr. T.Thyagarajan, Chairman IEEE Madras Section. Publisher: SCITECHPublications (India) Pvt. Ltd (www.scitechpublications.com).
This book is aimed at catering to the needs ofthe students pursuing engineering program atunder graduate level. The content coverage isas per the latest syllabus prescribed for theCivil, Mechanical Engineering students of AnnaUniversity of Technology (Chennai,Coimbatore, Tiruchy, Tirunelveli and Madurai).The contents are presented in an easilyunderstandable manner, particularly to suit non-electrical branch students. It introduces to the
students, the basics of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Pictorialrepresentations, numerical illustrations, revision formulae, reviewquestions, 2-marks questions and answers are adequately covered.Exercise problems with answers are also given at the end of eachchapter.
NaConDM2011
National Conference on
DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING
27-28, May 2011
Organized by
Indian Institute of Information Technology
Design and Manufacturing (IIITD&M) Kancheepuram
IIT Madras Campus, Chennai - 600 036
Supported by
IIEEE Madras Section
IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, Madras Chapter
IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts ontopics related to Design, Manufacturing, Robotics and Automation.
Important Dates
Submission of Full Paper: 15-03-2011
Intimation of Review Results: 30-03-2011
Submission of Final Manuscript: 15-04-2011
Conference Dates: 27 & 28-05-2011
All papers accepted for presentation in theconference will be published in the
International Journal of Applied Engineering Research (IJAER)
as a special issue. Conference also includes “Best Paper Awards”
For further information, Pl. contact
Dr M Sreekumar(Conference Chair-NaConDM2011)
Phone: 044-22578555 Ext. 26
Fax: 044-22574691
E mail: [email protected]
Conf. URL: www.iiitdm.ac.in/nacondm2011.html
Inst. URL: www.iiitdm.ac.in
ReSYM – 11Research Symposium on
Pervasive Computing and its Underlying Technologies15-16, Sep 2011, Chennai, India
Organized by
TIFAC - CORE and Department of Computer ScienceVelammal Engineering College
Supported by
IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter
Computer Society of India, Div IV & Chennai Chapter
THEME: The research symposium would focus on the challenges andissues to design and build the new spectrum of human-computerinterfaces prevalent in Mobile, Ubiquitous & Pervasive Computingand its various underlying technologies. The symposium will serve as aforum for the presentation and exchange of ideas among research scholarsand practitioners. The main aim of this symposium is to bring experts, researchfaculty and research scholars together to discuss about the technologicaladvancements. It envisages a diverse audience of influential attendeesfrom academia, government, and industry who are well placed to shapeand promote future research in pervasive computing.
PROGRAM
Day 1: Keynote Address and Paper Presentations along with projectdemonstrations.Day 2: Keynote Address, Paper presentations alongwith project demonstrations and a Panel Discussion.
TOPICS OF INTEREST: The symposium Program Committee solicitsproposals for panel and papers from academicians, practitioners, researchscholars and other with interests in the area of pervasive computingand its underlying technologies. The technical sessions of the eventwill consist of original papers reporting on theoretical and experimentalresearch, development etc., Original contribution are solicited in allpervasive computing & services research and applications.Contributions of original articles and case studies on industrialapplications of pervasive computing are also invited. The followinglist of topics is provided to indicate the range of potential researchareas of interest for this symposium: RFID Technologies, Embeddedand Applied Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks, VLSI SystemDesign, Algorithms, Testing and Validation and Mobile Computing.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission : May 20, 2011Notification of acceptance : June 30,2011Camera-ready version due : July 15, 2011The Symposium :September 15 - 16, 2011
REGISTRATION DETAILS: Industry Delegates: Rs. 1500/-
Academic Staff/R&D Personnel: Rs. 1000/-
Research Scholars (Full Time): Rs. 750/-
Please visit http://tifac.velammal.org/REsym_11.html for the detailedbrochure and to download registration form.
Participants are requested to send the duly filled registration formalong with Demand Draft in favor of ‘Velammal Engineering College’payable at Chennai to Dr. A. Balaji Ganesh, Convener – ReSYM-11 atthe communication address given below.
ADDRESS FOR COMMUNICATION
Dr. A. Balaji Ganesh, Convenor - ReSYM-11, TIFAC-CORE,Velammal Engineering College, Ambattur-Redhills Road,Chenai-600 066. Ph: +91-44-26591860, Mobile: 098427 91925E-Mail: [email protected] & [email protected]
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IEEE Madras Section AGM held on 14th February 2011at Hotel Palmgrove, Chennai.
Presentation of Secretary ReportWelcome Address by Chairman
Presentation of Treasurer Report
Section of Audience Section of Audience
Presentation ofIEEE WIE Activities
Presentation ofIEEE Computer Society Activities
Presentation ofIEEE Communication Society Activities
Presentation ofIEEE TMC & PES Activities
Presentation ofIEEE Industrial Application Society Activities
Presentation ofIEEE Robotics & Automation Society Activities
Memebership Awards toSathyabama University
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IEEE Madras Section AGM held on 14th February 2011at Hotel Palmgrove, Chennai.
Memebership Awards toKongu Engineering College
Memebership Awards toVelammal Engineering College
Society Activities Awards to IEEE Computer Society
Society Activities Awards to IEEE Communication Society
Society Activities Awards to IEEE Women in Engineering
Vote of Thanks by Vice Chairman
IEEE Student Branch Activities Awards toKongu Engineering College
IEEE Student Branch Activities Awards toCoimbatore Institute of Engineering & Technology
IEEE Student Branch Activities Awards toAarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology
IEEE Student Branch Activities Awards toK.S. Rangasamy College of Technology
Feedback from a member Chairman presentingIEEE lapel pins to members
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IEEE Madras Section Execom Officer Bearers - 2011
Dr. T. Thyagarajan
ChairmanTel : +91 44 2235 8080 (O)
+91 44 2231 4065 (R)
Cell : +91 94441 04850Email : [email protected]
Mr. S. RajavelVice-Chairman
Tel : +91 44 2252 6304 (O)+91 44 2252 6305 (O)
Email : [email protected]
Dr. P. Suresh Chander PalTel : +91 44 2652 6923 (O)
+91 44 2671 0222 (R)
Cell : +91 94440 16608Email : [email protected]
Mr. T.S. RangarajanVice-Chairman
Tel : +91 44 6616 6255 (O)
+91 44 2245 0736 (R)
Cell : +91 98410 02643Email : [email protected]
Dr. N.R. AlameluSecretaryTel : +91 44 2744 3803 (O)
+91 44 2461 6510 (R)Cell : +91 98413 53400Email : [email protected]
Major V.V. ChandrasekharanTreasurerTel : +91 44 2234 7914 (R)Cell : +91 98410 14969Email : [email protected]
Dr. S. Salivahanan
Past-ChairmanTel : +91 44 2747 4844 (O)
+91 44 2749 7393 (R)
Cell : +91 94441 89433
Email : [email protected]@ssn.edu.in
Dr. N. KumarappanTel : +91 04144 - 239904(R)
Cell : + 91 99420 55263Email : [email protected]
Dr. Sheila AnandTel : +91 44 2715 6750 (O)
+91 44 2499 1779 (R)
Cell : +91 92821 12694Email : [email protected]
Er. H.R. MohanTel : +91 44 285 76411 (O)
+91 44 223 13738 (R)Cell : +91 98414 32179Email : [email protected]
Prof. M.Ramalatha
Tel : +91 44 2249 5350 (O)
+91 44 2376 4928 (R)
Cell : +91 94438 56444Email : [email protected]
Mr. P. A. ManoharanTel : +91 44 2636 4044 (O)
+91 44 2231 6736 (R)Cell : +91 94441 13736Email : [email protected]
Execom Members - 2011
The Society Chapter Chairpersons details
will be published in the
March 2011 issue of IEEE MAS LINK
Dr. P. Venkatesh
Tel : +91 452 2482 240 (O)+91 4549 282 257 (R)
Cell : +91 98431 47926
Email : [email protected]
Mr. D. MaheshwaranCell : +91 94443 98604Email : [email protected]
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