Amrita School of Engineering

Bengaluru

KritiThe E-Newsletter

September’11

Optimism is the light of God. It is a form

of grace which allows you to be much more

perceptive and to look at life with greater

clarity.

-Amma

Kriti

“Love sustains everything. Love is the foundation of the Universe.” - Amma

‘Kriti’, the monthly e-magazine of Amrita School of Engineering,

Bengaluru, has completed two years since its first issue, which was published in July

2009. This e-magazine was started with the aim of collecting news from all the

departments and placing it before the faculty & staff members to help them know the

activities that are happening in the other departments. This has immensely helped

faculty and staff members not only to know the activities that have happened in other

departments, but also to prepare various reports pertaining to the activities of the

entire school, as the complete information is available in one place.

Many constructive suggestions have been received from various quarters

to make ‘Kriti’- a more informative magazine and few of them have been incorporated.

Recently, there was one suggestion to include the ‘abstracts’ of international journal

papers published by our faculty. This suggestion has been well received and a decision

taken to include the ‘abstracts’ of technical papers from this issue onwards.

This e-magazine is also read by administrators and faculty members of

other campuses and are highly appreciative of this concept. On many occasions they

have also appreciated the news items reported in the e-magazine.

The Editorial Team of ‘Kriti’ thanks everyone for their help and support

extended for the last two years and looks forward to receiving suggestions and

cooperation from one and all in making this a truly top class e-magazine.

Dr. Rakesh S.G.

From Associate Dean’s Desk

September’11

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Just as a person needs air to breathe, the soul needs to be nurtured with love and care.” - Amma

The college celebrated Teachers’ Day on 14th September, 2011. The

ceremony was unique in itself as for the first time the teachers took the main

stage.

The event began with an invocation by a group of teachers. After an

introduction to Teachers’ Day by Ms. Sarada Jayan from the Department of

Mathematics, an array of cultural programmes began. There were performances

by the faculty members of all the departments.

Some of the highlights of the day were a melodious solo song by

Dr. Manjula Nair; a soul-stirring performance of Rabindra Nritya by Ms. Paromita

Ganguly; ‘Thiruvathirakali’, a traditional dance form of Kerala, presented by faculty

of Department of EEE; and a foot tapping group dance by Mr. Veeresh Kumar,

Mr. Shashi Kumar and Mr. Pramod of Department of ME.

With huge applause from the audience which comprised of both

students and teachers, the Teachers’ Day celebration was a big success, and more

importantly, it provided the teachers with an opportunity to stage their artistic

talents.

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Teachers’ Day Celebration at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Realize that the real problem is not what is happening, but how you are reacting to it.” - Amma

September’11

Teachers’ Day Celebration at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Whenever a heart beats with compassion : God is there.” - Amma

Amritadhara, the Students’ Council, organized Pookalam competition

for the students on 21st September, 2011 as a part of Onam celebrations.

Mask Making competition was conducted by Abhinaya, the Drama

Club, on 28th September, 2011. The event received a huge response from the

students. The ingenious minds came together to put forth a display of colorful and

exclusive masks.

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Pookalam and Mask Making Competition at Amrita Bengaluru

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Develop selflessness and reduce your personal comforts as far as possible.” - Amma

“Joy of Giving” week celebrated at Amrita School of Engineering,

Bengaluru, on 30th September, 2011, brought together the faculty and the

students for the humble gesture of ‘Giving’.

In the true spirit of the event, a lunch was hosted for the workers in

housekeeping, transport & gardening; and blankets were distributed to all of

them.

The money for this was raised through contributions made by the

faculty and students. The Secretaries and the Student Volunteers of the social

outreach club, Prerana, under the mentorship of Ms. Sarada Jayan, were

instrumental in conducting the event successfully .

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Joy of Giving- A Prerana Club Initiative

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SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

“Why be anxious thinking about tomorrow? What happened even a moment ago is like a cancelled cheque.” -Amma

The annual visit of the first year students to Amritapuri happened in

the month of September, starting on 13th and culminating on Amma’s birthday.

Students were sent in batches to Amritapuri for Amma’s darshan. A set of

students were fortunate enough to be in Amritapuri on Amma’s birthday.

During the trip, students were also taken to various institutions of

Amrita University.

Amritapuri Trip of First Year Students

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“Children should be brought up with an understanding of their culture.” - Amma

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

September’11

International Journal

NAME PAPER PUBLISHED DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

Pratibha P.

(M.Tech. Student),

Kirti S. Pande

“Implementation of

GALS Chip

Multiprocessor with

Flexibly Configurable

Low Latency

Interconnect”

30th September,

2011

International Forum of

Researchers, Students and

Academicians (IFRSA’s),

International Journal of

Computing (IIJC)

PAPER PUBLISHED

NAME TITLE NAME OF THE ORGANIZER

DATE VENUE

T.K. Ramesh Seminar on

“Optical

Communication

Networks”

Department of

Electronics and

Communication

Engineering, Mepco

Schlenk Engineering

College, Sponsored by

CSIR.

16th - 17th

September,

2011

Mepco Schlenk

Engineering

College, Sivakasi,

Tamil Nadu

Ganapathi Hegde Quality

Improvement

Programme (QIP)

– on “VLSI

Architectures for

Image and Video

Processing

Systems”

Department of

Electrical & Electronics

Engineering, IIT,

Guwahati. Sponsored

by AICTE.

19th - 23rd

September,

2011

IIT, Guwahati

WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS / CONFERENCES ATTENDED

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“Spirituality is the life’s greatest secret.. It enables us to awaken unlimited but dormant inner power.” - Amma

September’11

OTHER NEWS

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Cranes

Software International Ltd., Bengaluru and Amrita School of Engineering,

Bengaluru on 23rd August, 2011. The MoU is signed for setting up an “Analog

Systems Lab” equipped with Analog Design Kits from Texas Instruments. The

kits will be sponsored by Cranes Software. Cranes will also conduct

Workshops & FDPs in the area of Analog Systems Design.

Prof. S. Ravishankar visited R.V. College of Engineering, Bengaluru, as an

External Examiner to conduct M.Tech. viva-voce practical examinations on

9th September, 2011.

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“Although the world has become closer through technology, we have not drawn closer in our hearts.” - Amma

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

September’11

NAME TITLE CONFERENCE DATE VENUE

Rajesh M.,

A. A. Nippun Kumaar

“Robotics and

Haptics” by Prof.

Kenneth

Sallisberry

Amrita School of

Bio-Technology,

Amritapuri.

21st

September,

2011

Amritapuri Campus

WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS / CONFERENCES ATTENDED

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS / PARTICIPATION /RECOGNITION

Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan has been invited to be a member of the Technical

Programme Committee for International Conference on “Pervasive and

Embedded Computing & Communication Systems” (PECCS -2012) to be held

between 24th and 26th February, 2012 at Rome, Italy.

Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan has also been invited to be a member of Technical

Programme Committee for the Research Symposium at International

Conference on “High Performance Computing” to be held in Bengaluru from

18th to 20th December, 2011.

OTHER NEWS

65 students from across different semesters and branches attended

“Aspirations- 2020”, a programming contest conducted by Infosys. This event

was coordinated by FACE, the CSE forum.

20 students from CSE and IT participated in the preliminary round of ICPC-

2011 Programming contest. Four teams, each with three members from CSE

V and VII semesters, have registered for the ICPC online contest to be held

next month.

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“Wherever you are, you have to adapt to the circumstances. Patience is needed for every matter.” - Amma

September’11

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

International Journal

NAME PAPER PUBLISHED DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

Co-authored by

K. Deepa

“Design of PI

Controller for Multi

Output Boost

Converter”

August 2011 International Journal –CIIT

International Journal of

Programmable Device Circuits and

Systems, No. 9, Volume 3, pp: 461-

465

PAPER PUBLISHED

WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS / CONFERENCES ATTENDEDNAME TITLE NAME OF THE

ORGANIZERDATE VENUE

K. Deepa National Workshop

on “Hardware

Implementation of

Power Electronics

and Drives”

SRM University,

Chennai

15th - 16th

September,

2011

SRM University,

Chennai

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS / PARTICIPATION /RECOGNITION

Dr. Rashmi M.R. was invited to address the participants of a workshop on

“Soft Computing Techniques” organized by Karpaga Vinayaga College of

Engineering and Technology, Chennai on 23rd September, 2011.

Ms. Mamatha I. has registered for Ph.D. in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

under the guidance of Dr. Shikha Tripathi, Chair, Department of ECE.

A paper titled “Production of Hydrogen to Provide Energy Carrier to Address

the Intermittency Problem in Renewable Energy Sources” presented by the

students Ms. Arpita Nandhi, Mr. Harsha Deepak R.V.S., Mr. Saket Agarval and

Mr. P. Yashwanth, under the guidance of Mr. K. Ilango, won the first prize at

the National Level Technical Symposium-Thunder 2011 held at Roever

Engineering College, Perambalur, Tamilnadu on 14th September, 2011.

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“Always keep a positive attitude towards life. Optimism is a great tool to eliminate agony from life.” - Amma

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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS / CONFERENCES ATTENDED

NAME TITLE NAME OF THE ORGANIZER

DATE VENUE

Raghavendra

Ravi Kiran K.

“Micro Fabrication and

Nano Technology”

Shirdi Sai

Engineering College

23rd - 25th

September,

2010

Shirdi Sai

Engineering College,

Anekal, Bengaluru.

International Journal

NAME PAPER PUBLISHED DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

Veeresh Kumar G.B. “Studies on Mechanical

and Dry Sliding Wear of

A16061-SiC Composites”

August 2011

Issue

Science Direct- Composites

Part B: Engineering

PAPER PUBLISHED

OTHER NEWS

Ms. Mrudula Prashanth resigned and was relieved from duty on 30th

September, 2011. She is now pursuing her M.Tech. at MSRIT, Bengaluru.

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“Each kind word, each smiling face, each good action benefits our neighbors, our community and the world.”- Amma

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

September’11

International Journal

NAME PAPER PUBLISHED DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

K.N. Meera

B. Sooryanarayana

“Optimal Outer Sum

Number of Graphs”

January - June 2011

Issue

International Journal of

Combinatorial Graph

Theory and Applications

– Vol. 4, No.1 pp. 23-35

PAPER PUBLISHED

OTHER NEWS

Aavishkara, the Science Forum, organized a talk by Prof. Ramkrishna Damle,

Department of Physics, Bengaluru on the topic “Global Climate Changes:

Problems and Challenges” on 21st September, 2011 as a part of the forum

activities. The talk was attended by the students of first semester.

CISCO NETWORKING ACADEMY

Cisco Academy at Amrita organized an industrial visit for the CCNA

students to Cisco Systems on 16th September, 2011. The event consisted of

technical presentations and demonstrations on different technologies like

Telepresence, Smart Buildings, etc.

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“If we are not ready to willingly change, Nature or God will take up the task in His own way.” - Amma

September’11

CORPORATE RELATIONS AND LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CELL

Excellent Performance by Bengaluru students in this year’s CampusRecruitment Process

Cognizant Technologies & Infosys held their recruitment process at

Ettimadai between 8th and 11th September, 2011. The students from

Bengaluru campus faired well with 118 students opting to join Infosys,

and 214 students opting to join CTS. Wipro selected 8, and Accenture

selected 37 of our students. Finally in the first phase of this year’s

placement process, Bengaluru campus has attained 96.3% placement

record.

Progress of Bengaluru Campus with Core Companies

So far 28 students have been selected in the core companies likeMicrosoft, SAP Labs, Caterpillar, M&M, Soliton, Sourcebits, MU sigma, IPInfusion etc.

M. Tech. Placements

Out of 55 eligible students, 31 M.Tech. students have already secured

placements.

Campus Connect Initiative of Infosys

Two Webinars under Campus Connect were conducted in the domain of“Enterprise Resource Planning Technologies” and “Introduction to Robotics”

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“The smile that lights up a face brimming with love is the most beautiful in the entire world.” - Amma

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PAPERS PUBLISHED - ABSTRACTS

“Implementation of GALS Chip Multiprocessor with Flexibly Configurable LowLatency Interconnect” – Prathibha P. (M.Tech. student) and Kirti S. Pande(Assistant Professor) ; International Journal of Computing

Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering

“Design of PI Controller for Multi Output Boost Converter” – K. Deepa, AbhayGopi, Jyothis Sebastian, Arjun M. Sathyan, K. Sarad Manaswin and M.Shivapramod ; CiiT International Journal of Programmable Device Circuits andSystems

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Chip Multiprocessors with flexible configuration capability and with reduced latency isimplemented in FPGA with reduced area utilization. Globally Asynchronous LocallySynchronous (GALS) design style helps to reduce the power consumption and improve thenumber of logic realization by having multiple ports for the processor core. Low latency isachieved through asymmetrically buffered static routing mechanism that allocates larger bufferfor the processing core and smaller buffer for the output ports of the processor in theimplemented chip multiprocessor. Compared to the traditional dynamically routedarchitecture, it is occupying less area and maintained the flexibility in routing by assigningdouble link between nearest neighbor processor pairs. Latency and area comparison is donewith the design and implementation of nine processors in a 2-D mesh arrangement withdifferent architectures.

The main objective of this paper is to achieve a feedback enabled multi output boost converter(MOBC) by combining power electronics and process control concepts. A multi output boostconverter produces multiple outputs from a single input. It provides two or more outputvoltages from a single input voltage. The implementation of feedback enabled MOBCcomprises of basic MOBC unit, two comparators and a PI Controller. The PI (Proportional-Integral) controller here as such controls MOBC output based on its error input obtained as aresult of comparison of MOBC output and set point. The use of electronic PI controllercontributes to better stability of output and acts as a corrective mechanism to the MOBC.

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“We need the innocence and humility of a child because only a child can grow.” - Amma

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“Studies on Mechanical and Dry Sliding Wear of A16061-SiC Composites” –Veeresh Kumar G.B. ; Journal of Composites : Part B

Department of Mechanical Engineering

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PAPERS PUBLISHED - ABSTRACTS

“Optimal Outer Sum Number of Graphs” – Meera K.N. and B. Sooryanarayana ;International Journal of Combinatorial Graph and Applications

Department of Mathematics

Particulate reinforced Al-MMCs exhibits better mechanical properties and improved wearresistance over other conventional alloys. In the present paper, the experimental results of themechanical and tribological properties of Al6061–SiC composites are presented. Thecomposites of Al6061 containing 2–6 wt% SiC were prepared using liquid metallurgy route. Theexperimental results showed that the density of the composites increase with increased SiCcontent and agrees with the values obtained through the rule of mixtures. The hardness andultimate tensile strength of Al6061–SiC composites were found to increase with increased SiCcontent in the matrix at the cost of reduced ductility. The wear properties of the compositescontaining SiC were superior to that `of the matrix material.

Kriti – Board Members

Ms. Paromita Ganguly

Department of English

Ms. Kirti S. Pande

Department of ECE

Ms. K.V. Vidya

Department of CSE

Ms. Janaki R.

Department of ME

Ms. Amrita Thakur

Department of Chemistry

Ms. Sarada Jayan

Department of Mathematics

Mr. ShruthidevICTS

Mr. Shiju

ICTS

Mr. Anil Nair

ICTS

Ms. Soma Mukherjee

CIR

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Dr. Rakesh S. G.Associate Dean & Head

Patron

Ms. Smita SailAssistant Professor

Department of English

Editor

Mr. Rajesh M.Assistant Professor

Department of CSE

Editor

Ms. VasanthiES to Associate Dean

Editor