Vol. 13 No. 7 Aug 2016 - IEEE Madras Section

IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 13 No.7 Aug 2016

Vol. 13 No. 7 Aug 2016

Message from Chairman

Dear Members,

Season’s Greetings

Welcome to the August edition of the newsletter. A review of the student branches has

been taken up by Dr. Elangovan and Mr. Mohan, which I request you all to pay

attention. Students are the pillars of IEEE. It is necessary for all members to support

student activities in some form or the other.

While every effort is taken up by Dr. Elangovan to revive student branches which are

not active, it is not his responsibility alone. It is the collective duty of all of us to support him to rejuvenate

student branches. My request to all of you is to identify dormant student branches near your work place and

take up supporting them in their activities. Student activities are unlimited. Sky is the limit. This may sound as

a repetition but I really would like to emphasize this once again.

Instead of conducting routine student activities like workshops, seminars and conferences, try some innovation

– say take up developing apps where in one could collect info on the weddings taking place in a locality and

identifying the amount food that is going unused, which could be linked with poor homes for distribution

among the needy.

One could also take up volunteering activity among youngsters who may like to spend their birthdays or

wedding anniversaries with the needy and downtrodden at old age homes and orphanages. Please understand

that many of us are living in real luxury and it is not due to ones brains or ability. It is due to providence and

for those who are believers due to grace of God. Hence it is our responsibility to give back to those who are not

so well bestowed like us. Hence my suggestion is to identify some projects which are of social relevance.

Many households have aged couple living alone without children abroad or far away. Some apps could be

developed to support in terms of daily chores and also support in case of emergency. Simple apps developed

could be made active and taught to them with simple operations so that they can use it on emergency. The app

being set so that a nearby hospital attached could assist in taking them to hospital. These are only some tips.

Please innovate and come up with new programs.

As you are aware the IEEE Day will be celebrated in our Section during Oct 2016. While we will be coming

with a programme schedule, to make it more relevant to your needs, please send us your suggestions and

events to be included in the IEEE Day celebrations.

Wish you all the best

Till next time,

Yours voluntarily

M A Atmanand

Chairman, IEEE Madras Section


Prashant R Nair

Editor

[email protected]

Message from the Editors

H.R. Mohan

Chief Editor [email protected]

Dear Readers,

This issue is abuzz with multifarious professional activities on account of the resuming of academic session in all

colleges and universities. We have included 32 college-level reports on activities which were held at Bannari

Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam; Dr. NGP Institute of Technology, Coimbatore; Dr. Sivanthi

Aditanar College of Engineering, Tiruchendur; Erode Sengunthar Engineering College, Erode; IFET College of

Engineering, Villupuram;Jansons Institute of Technology, Coimbatore; Jeppiar Engineering College,

Chennai; Jeppiar Institute of Technology, Chennai; Kalasalingam University, Krishnakoil; Karpagam College of

Engineering, Coimbatore; Karunya University, Coimbatore; Kings College of Engineering, Pudukottai; Knowledge

Institute of Technology, Salem; Kongu Engineering College, Erode; KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology,

Coimbatore; KSR College of Technology, Tiruchengode; M. Kumarasamy College of Engineering, Karur; National

Engineering College, Kovilpatti; Panimalar Institute of Technology, Chennai; Rajalakshmi Engineering College,

Chennai; RMK Engineering College, Chennai; SA Engineering College, Chennai; Sri Sairam Engineering College,

Chennai; Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore; Sona College of Technology, Salem; Sri

Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore; SSN College of Engineering, Chennai; St Joseph Institute of

Technology, Chennai; St Joseph College of Engineering, Chennai;St. Xavier’s Catholic College of Engineering,

Kanyakumari; SVS College of Engineering, Coimbatore and Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai.

While this is an encouraging trend that IEEE Student Branches (SBs) are reporting their activities regularly, we note

that most of the above-mentioned institutions are 'regulars' in terms of sending reports. We reiterate the need to all

IEEE SBs to project and showcase their activities. As mentioned earlier, reporting in MAS LINK is tied to various

awards, incentives and benefits.

At this juncture, we need to spread the word among the academic community of the benefits of IEEE membership

and IEEE SB membership. Over 550 institutions are running engineering programmes in Tamil Nadu and the

number of active IEEE SBs is perhaps less than 100. This number has to change and we need to embark on a

membership drive and sign-up all colleges without IEEE SBs as also revive the dormant and inactive ones. With

many institutions finding the going tough to attract students and more than one lakh engineering seats lying vacant

in the state, IEEE SB activities, achievements and awards are yet another avenue to improve visibility and reputation

of the institution and get 'brownie' points for accreditation, ranking or affiliation.

The newsletter also carries brief reports on activities of chapters and affinity groups such as SIGHT, Control System

Society, Computational Intelligence Society, Information Society and Young Professionals.

We had compiled and presented a number of announcements which would interest the members and SBs to gain

maximum from IEEE and its offerings We are sure that members will find the references included in our regular column ”Information Resources” useful.

We look for contributions from all to make the MAS LINK a sought after publication from the Section.

The membership rates for the year 2017 have been announced. The new membership and renewals are open now.

September is the right time for enrolling as new member since by paying for 12 months one can enjoy the member

benefits for 16 months – till Dec 2017. SBCs are requested to encourage students to enrol as members and get

benefited. Professional members, pl. enrol your peers and friends and get “recruiter awards” under the Member-Get-

a-Member programme. Pl. refer https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/join/mgm.html

mailto:[email protected]


https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/join/mgm.html


Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam Workshop on MATLAB and its Application in Engineering

IEEE SB organized MATLAB workshop on 23rd

Jul, 2016

with Dr. B. Indu Rani and Ms. K. Rajalakshmi of EEE

department as coordinators. 110 students got benefitted by this

workshop.

Training on Electronics System Design & Manufacturing

(ESDM)

IEEE SB organized ESDM training byMr. Kamlash Kumar,

Applications Engineer from Entuple technologies, Bangalore on

25th

and 26th

Jul, 2016. . This programme was organized by

Dr. S. Valarmathy and Mr. S. Elango from ECE department.

ESDM tools used included Or CAD Pspice & PCB Suite

software.

Training on Energy Audit

IEEE SB organized energy audit training by Mr. Sampath

Kumar, Energy auditor and Consulting Engineer at PSG College

of Technology on 28th

Jul, 2016. Dr. S. Senthilumar,

Mr. S. Elangovan and Mr. K. Senthil Raja from EEE department

organized the programme in which 41 students and faculty

members attended.

Report by: Mr. R. Ashok Kumar, [email protected]

The seventh edition of IEEE Day with the theme “Leveraging Technology for a

Better Tomorrow” will be celebrated globally on 4th Oct 2016 or any other date

closer to 4th

Oct 2016 and convenient to IEEE OUs. Members pl. await for formal

communication from the Section on the date and IEEE Day progrmme schedule.

Dr. N. G. P. Institute of Technology, Coimbatore

Report on career day programme

IEEE SBC, EEE and ECE departments organized career day

programme on 24th

June, 2016. Ms. M.Suganthini Sree,

Executive –HR briefed the qualities that an engineer should

have to get placed in a core industry. Mr. S.Jeganathan, Head-

Learning &Branding briefed the requirement of an industry and

how to become an industry ready professional. Secretary Dr.

Thavamani D Palaniswami, presided over the function. Mr. O.

T. Bhuvaneshwaran, CEO, KMCRET (Kovai Medical Center

for Research and Educational Trust), Dr. K. Porkumaran,

Principal and Dr.S. Jaganathan, Head/EEE offered feliciations.



Report on Industrial visit to Roots India Horns Division

IEEE SB and Industry Institute partnership cell organized a

one-day industrial visit on 6th

July 2016 to Roots India Horns

Division, Thoppampatti, Coimbatore. Mr.N.Sampathkumar,

AGM,Training and Development, Roots elaborated on the

benefits that UG and PG students could gain on acquiring the

knowledge on PLC and SCADA. He demonstrated variuos

stage for making different types of horns with various decibel

ranges.

Industrial Lecture series on “Antilock Braking System

Development Process and Demonstration”

IEEE SB and EEE department organized Industrial Lecture

series on “Antilock Braking System Development Process and

Demonstration” on 16th

July 2016 in collaboration with

MELZCOSYS & KPN Systems, Coimbatore 100 students

benefited out of this lecture series.

Association Inaugural Function & Seminar on Industrial

Automation

IEEE SB organized its activites inauguration by Dr.P.Rajkumar,

Project Manager,Robert Bosch Engineering & Business

Solutions Ltd, Coimbatore on 30th

July 2016. He also delivered

a talk on “Industrial Automation ”.

Report by: Dr. K. Porkumaran, [email protected]

Dr. Sivanthi Aditanar College of Engineering, Tiruchendur

Report on Techno Quiz Contest

IEEE SB organized a Techno Quiz on 20th

Jul 2016. More than

50 students participated with following students emerging as

winners:

Prize Name Section

I A.Muthu Gomathi,K.Mounika II ECE A, B

II P.Arun,K.Sudalai Vadivoo II ECE A, B

Report on Group Discussion Event

IEEE SB organized a Group Discussion on 20th

Jul 2016.

Mrs.U. Lenin Marksia, AP/ECE judged the performance of the

participants, with following students securing prizes:

Prize Name Section

I M.Rajeshwari III ECE B

II N.Nagarani III ECE A

III V.Vino Shilfa III ECE B



Report on Electro Quiz Contest

IEEE SB organized an Electro Quiz on 26th

Jul 2016. 28

students participated with following students securing prizes:

Prize Name Section

I K.Rathika III ECE B

II M.Maharaja III ECE A

Report on General Aptitude Contest

IEEE SB organized a General Aptitude contest on 29th

Jul 2016.

90 students participated with following students securing

prizes:

Prize Name Section

I J.Roselin Ramya IV ECE B

Report on Electro Games Contest

IEEE SB organized an Electro Games contest on 2nd

Aug, 2016.

28 students participated with following students securing

prizes:

Prize Name Section

I Karpaga Raja Setharaman II ECE A

II C.Shenbhaga Priya III ECE A

Report on C Twist Contest

IEEE SB organized an C Twist contest on 4th

Aug, 2016. 45

students participated with following students securing prizes:

Prize Name Section

I I.Ahamed Faize, M.Lininta IV ECE A

II S.Janaki,N.Sabrin Ramziya IV ECE A,B

Report by: Dr.R.Manjith, [email protected]

Erode Sengunthar Engineering College, Erode

IEEE SB activities inauguration and Guest lecture

The activities of IEEE SB were launched by Mr. K. Shankar,

Bala Gas Agencies, Bhavani on 12th

Jul 2016. He also spoke

on “Identification of Opportunities”, where he explained the

process by which an individual come up with an opportunities

for a new venture and how to make use of it. Mr. B.

Ragavendra, IEEE SBC introduced the office bearers for the

academic year 2016-17 in which; Mr. Sivaprakasam,

President; Mr. S. Sivananthan, Secretary; Mr. R.Mohanraj,

Correspondent; Dr. L. Boopathi, Principal and Dr. P.Selvan,

Professor participated.

Report by: B.Ragavendra, [email protected]




IFET College of Engineering, Villupuram

IEEE Student Chapter Inaugural Function

The inauguration of the IEEE SB was done by Dr. N.Vijayan,

Senior Scientist, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research

(CSIR). He also delivered an enlightening keynote address on

“How to write an innovative project proposal” and highlighted

the contributions of IEEE to all technical activities. Principal,

Dr. G. Mahendran; Vice Principal, Dr. S. Matilda; Dean

Placement/Students Affairs, Prof. J. Asha, and Head of Funded

Project Cell, Prof. P. Pugazhendiran graced the ceremony. The

event was coordinated by Mr. S.Jaisiva SBC and supported by

SB Chairman Mr. K.V.Raja & VC Mr. A.Mohamed Ilyas.

Lecture on Renewable Energy Sources and Grid

Integration

Mr. V Suresh Babu, Assistant Director, NPTI (PSTI) Ministry

of Power, Govt. of India – Bangalore gave a lecture on

“Renewable Energy Sources and Grid Integration” on 18th

July,

2016. He gave insights on the fundamentals of Grid integration,

its operations and to maintain frequency in Grid. He also

demonstrated how to generate power by using renewable

energy sources with various parameters & explained their

outputs, which helped the students to gain in-depth knowledge

about it. Event was coordinated by Mr.A.Mahendran, AP/EEE.

Report by: Jaisiva. S, [email protected]

Jansons Institute of Technology, Karumathampatti

IEEE SB Activity Inauguration

IEEE SB activities were inaugurated on 14th

July 2016 by Dr.S. Elangovan, IEEE SBC. Manish Chellamala Reddy,

SB Chair and Mr. Nandhakumar, Programme Committee chair proposed a list of activities planned for this academic

year. The list of activities planned for the odd semester of academic year 2016 – 2017 is as follows:

IEEE Leadership training workshop

IEEE Coimbatore Hub Congress cum India Strategic Initiative 2016

Spectrum Discussion ,Technical Workshop

IEEE Women In Engineering Inauguration

IEEE SIGHT workshop,Faculty Development Programme

Seminar cum workshop of Efficient Energy Usage

Awareness seminar on “IEEE membership benefits” to First year students etc.

IEEE Leadership Training Workshop

IEEE SB organized a leader training workshop on 18th

July

2016. Dr.S. Elangovan, IEEE SBC explained various roles and

responsibilities of student branch officers like Student Branch

Counselor, Student Branch joint counselor, Student Branch

Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer and chairs of various

standing committees of the branch. He explained the various

opportunities available at IEEE and awards & recognitions at

branch level, hub level, section level, Regional level and MGA

level. He also shared the volunteering experience at section

level to motivate the student members.

Report by: Dr.S. Elangovan, [email protected]




Jeppiaar Engineering College, Chennai

Design Hunt 2K16 The IEEE SB organized “Design Hunt 2K16”, on

1st July, 2016 as an avenue for student members to

pitch in their ideas and to create the awareness to

save our planet Earth. The theme for the poster

making competition was “Save water save earth”.

The best poster was designed by Aravind Raj of IV

BE CSE.

Arise and Shine

IEEE SB organized, “Arise and Shine”, a motivational talk by Ms. Sheetal Mary on 5th

July, 2016. She opened their

minds and gave valuable directions to find their own paths to success. The event also helped the student members to

interact with professionals and to know more about their lives and careers. IEEE SBC, Mr.Sella Kumar participated

in th event

Tech Write-Up 2k16

IEEE SB organized “Tech Write-up 2K16” on 10th

July, 2016. The theme for the write up was “Go Green” and

Danton Jesuraja emerged as the victor.

Wiz Quiz:

IEEE SB on association with IEEE Madras Section organized an online event "Wiz Quiz – An Online Aptitude

Contest" on 17th

July 2016 to test the student’s skills in solving the aptitude problems and logical reasoning. The

motto of this event was “Knowledge and Intelligence are of no use unless efficiently to solve the problem”.

Report by: Eugene Kingsley, [email protected]

Jeppiaar Institute of Technology, Chennai

Online Event – Aptitude Contest

IEEE SB organized an online aptitude contest series with events on Aptitude, Verbal and Reasoning for students

using their in-house developed website, Questbase.com from 5th

to 16th

July, 2016. The contest was tailored to

placement process of Wipro, Infosys and TCS. Another website (ewh.ieee.org/sb/madras/jit/onlinequiz.html) was

developed for the contest on 24th

June, 2016 using the bootstrap and Web program such that participants will

immediately receive the result analysis of their test.

WIE event – Women Entrepreneur Talk

WIE Student Branch organized a distinguished women

entrepreneur talk on 21st July ‘2016 by Dr. Srimathy

Kesan, Director and Educational Travel Evangelist of

Space kidz India. The speaker had won awards like

National Entrepreneurs Network, Women Entrepreneur of

the year etc. She inspired the students by saying "Life Is

Too Short, Make the most of it and also motivate the

Future Generation and Make India a Better Place to Live ".

Workshop on “Basics of Photoshop And Graphics

Design”

IEEE SB organized one-day workshop “Basics of

Photoshop and Graphics Design” on 2nd

August, 2016 by

Mr. Silambrasan.N, Webmaster; Mr. Susheel, Event

Organiser and Mr. Jamal Mohammad, Chairman of SB.


file:///G:/ewh.ieee.org/sb/madras/jit/contest.html


R10 WIE Day Celebration

R10 WIE day was celebrated on 4th

August, 2016 with Ms.

Harini Vasu, Developer on Oracle - Siebel Customer

Relationship Management Technology. An active IEEE

volunteer, she had been part of the organizing team of IEEE

Women in Engineering International Leadership Summit at

Chennai and IEEE Women in Engineering International

Leadership Conference at San Francisco. In addition to benefits

of IEEE Membership and effective usage of social media

groups and communities, she gave a brief idea about

grasshopper Scholarship.

Inauguration of CS and RAS Chapter

IEEE CS and RAS chapters were inaugurated on 8th

August, 2016 by Director, Dr. N.Marie Wilson and

Dr. P.A.Manoharan, Chairman, RAS Madras Section. Newly elected chairpersons of RAS and CS, Mr. Benin Vijo

David S and Ms. Chandraleka also spoke. All members took an oath to uphold the IEEE Code of Ethics.

Report by: Mr.S.Selvin Pradeep Kumar, [email protected]

Kalasalingam University, Virudhunagar

Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Solar PV system

Using MATLAB

IEEE SB organized a two days Workshop on “Modeling and

Simulation of Solar PV system Using MATLAB” on 21st and

22nd

July, 2016. Dr. V. Saravanan, Prof/EEE, Thiyagaraja

college of Engineering, inaugurated the workshop. Other

resource persons included Dr. K. G. Punitha, HOD/EEE, PSRR

college of Engineering for Women and Mr. Sheik Mohammed,

AP, Dofhar University, Omen. The topics covered included:

Introduction to Solar PV system, Modeling Of Solar PV

cell/module, Simulation of Solar Cell and Module Using

MATLAB/Simulink, Power Converters for Solar PV Using MATLAB, Simulation of Power Converter, MPPT

Algorithm for Solar Energy System. In addition the participants were given hands-on training using MATLAB. Dr.

S. Shashi Anand, Director; Dr. D. Devaraj, Dean-Academics and Mr. S. Venkatesh, SB Secretary also addressed the

participants.

Workshop on Enjoyable Coding Tools

IEEE SB organized a one-day workshop on “Enjoyable coding

tools” on 4th

August, 2016 by Dr. Jeyakeseva Veerasamy,

Director, Centre of Computer Education And Outreach,

Computer Science Department, University of Texas at Dallas.

Dr. S.Saravana Sankar, Vice-Chancellor presided over the

workshop organized by Dr. D. Devaraj, IEEE SBC and team.

Dr. Jey explained about various tools developed by MIT

University to help the students to study programming languages

by creating games, stories and animations.

Report by Dr. D. Devaraj, [email protected]




Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore

Seminar on AUTO-CAD

IEEE SB and Karpagam Innovation Centre (KIC) organized a seminar on AUTO-CAD by Mr. Pandi Elavarasan M,

AP/Mech on 3rd

July, 2016. 50 students from various colleges participated in this seminar, organized by

Dr. B.Nagaraj.

Look @ Yourself

Dr. B. Nagaraj, Head/KIC & ECE conducted, “Look at Yourself”, a motivational event for the benefit of the

students on 5th

July, 2016.

CAD/CAM in Intelligent Engineering

Perspective

IEEE SB and Karpagam Innovation Centre

(KIC) organized skill development programme

on computer aided designing by

Mr. Pandi Elavarasan.M, AP/Mech on 11th

July, 2016. 100 students from various colleges

participated

Lecture on Influencing People

Dr. B. Nagaraj, Head/KIC & ECE delivered a

lecture, “How to Influence People”, for the

benefit of the students on 13th

July, 2016. The

session mainly dealt with three topics namely,

building up of healthy relationships,

establishing a good reputation and how to

actively guide other’s actions.

Seminar on Medical Image Processing

IEEE SB and ECE department organized a

Seminar on medical image processing using

hardware on 15th

July, 2016 by Dr.S. Natarajan

& Ms. V. Mithya, AP/ ECE. This session was

useful for the students to understand the

“Hardware interface with MATLAB”.


Perfect Way To Write A Research Manuscript

IEEE SB organized a lecture on “Perfect way to write a Research

Manuscript” by Dr. Vimalathitian, Prof/ ECE on 17th July, 2016.

The lecture dealt with the various steps in writing a research

paper like, Getting ready with data, First draft, Structure of a

scientific paper, Selecting a journal, Submission, and Revision

and galley proof.

A Workshop on Raspberry Pi Utilization on IoT

IEEE SB and ECE department organized a workshop

on “Raspberry Pi Utilization for IoT by Mr.

R.Arunkumar, AP/ECE on 19th

July, 2016. 50 students

from various colleges participated in the program.

Skill Development Programme on Mobile Service

IEEE SB and KIC organized a skill development

programme on web designing by Mr. Ebin Ephrem

Elavthingal, AP on 20th


participated in this programme. As an outcome the

students created their own website to complete the task

of creating business website and their own profile.

Meet up With Young Entrepreneur

IEEE SB and KIC organized a Meet up with Young

Entrepreneur, Mr. Naveen Krishnamoorthy on 22nd

July, 2016.

By offering exposure to a diverse set of skill and perspective-

building liberal arts courses along with hands-on learning

through a range of Experiential Learning Module (ELM)

projects, the meet up helped students to realize their leadership

and entrepreneurial potential.

Design, Elaborate, Talks (DET TALKS)

Dr. B. Nagaraj, Head, KIC organized a DET Talk on 23rd

July,

2016. An experimental design was utilized to examine the

effects of elaborative talk during and/or after an event on

student’s event memory reports. Twenty Members were

assigned randomly to one of four conditions that varied

according to a researcher’s use of high or low elaborative

during- and/or post-event talk about a camping event. To be

able to structure such behaviour, different kinds of techniques

have been proposed, such as patterns, reflection and open

implementations, generative programming, model-driven

engineering and aspect-oriented programming (AOP). This talk will elaborate on these approaches and identify their

problems. The talk will further focus on the desired first-class abstractions of the languages and argue that the

concept of "Design", "Elaborate" and "Talks" should outline the boundaries of computational units of languages.

Finally, these three concepts will be illustrated by a set of examples.


Technical Computing in MATLAB for Future


on “Technical computing in MATLAB” by Mr.


July, 2016.

Skill Development Programme on Computer

Networking

IEEE SB and KIC organized Skill development

programme on Computer Networking Mr.



participated in this programme.

Workshop on Advanced Signal & Image Processing


on Advanced Image Processing by Dr. B. Nagaraj on

26th

July, 2016.

Skill Development Programme on CAM

IEEE SB and KIC organized Skill development

programme on Computer-Aided Designing by Mr.

M.Pandi Elavarasan, AP/Mech on 30th

July, 2016. 50

students participated in this programme.

Report by: Dr.B.Nagaraj, [email protected]

Karunya University, Coimbatore

General Quiz

IEEE SB organized a general quiz competition on 28th

Jul,

2016. 104 students participated in the event, which was

coordinated by Dr.D.Nirmal and Mr.K.Vinoth Kumar

Report by: Dominic Mathew A.,

[email protected].

Kings College of Engineering, Pudukkottai

Guest Lecture on “Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility”

IEEE SB branch organized a Lecture on “Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility” Dr. P.S. Kannan,

Visiting Faculty/ECE on 15th

Jul 2016, where he covered basic theory of electromagnetic interference, History of

Electromagnetic Interference and Coupling mechanism of Electromagnetic Interference.. Dr. J. Arputha Vijaya

Selvi, HOD/ECE welcomed the gathering.




Installation of New Office Bearers

The installation of Electing new office bearers for the academic year 2016 – 17 was held on 30th

Jul 2016 by

Dr. J. Arputha Vijaya Selvi, IEEE SBC. The elected officer bearers are Mr. B. Madhavan, Chairman;

Mr. N. Sanjeev, Vice Chairman; Ms.R.Manimozhi, Secretary and Ms. V. Meena, Treasurer.

Report by: Dr. J. Arputha Vijaya Selvi, [email protected]

Knowledge Institute of Technology, Salem

Seminar on Networking – Top down approach

IEEE SB and WIN Club organized Seminar on “Networking –

Top down Approach” on 6th

July, 2016. Ms.C.Gomathi,

AP/ECE was the resource-person and she explained about the

role of Networking in day-to-day life.

SBC Interaction

IEEE SB organized IEEE Awareness Meet-2016 for

second year students by Dr.N.Santhiyakumari, SBC on

8th

July 2016.

Seminar on Introduction to Signals and Its

application

IEEE SB and SPARK Club organized a seminar on

“Introduction to Signals and Its application” by Mr. R.

Shanmugasundaram, AP/ECE on 11th

July, 2016.

Awareness program

IEEE WIE organized an awareness program for girl

students titled as “Promote Women in Leadership Role”

on 9th

July, 2016. Dr. N. Santhiyakumari, SBC

highlighted the importance of leadership skill in their

life. This event was coordinated by IEEE student

volunteers Ms.M.Divya, Ms.B.Gowsitha, Ms.R.Archana,

Ms.S.Priya and Ms.P.Vijayalakshmi.

IEEE Awareness Meet’2016

IEEE SB organized an awareness meet on “What and

Why IEEE” on 12th

July, 2016 by Mr. M.Bharanidharan,

IEEE SB Faculty Incharge and Ms.R.Hemalatha, IEEE

WIE Incharge. IEEE student volunteers

Mr.A.Gowthaman, Ms.S.Priya, Ms.P.Vijayalakshmi and

Mr.P.Nethaji shared their experience on the IEEE

Summer camp held at Thoothur, Kaniyakumari.



IEEE BLP Feedback Session

IEEE SB organized a feedback session for the students

who attended the IEEE Blended Learning in VLSI

program on 13th

July, 2016. Mr. G B Venkatesh, IEEE

India Manager, Head – IEEE Blended Learning Program

in VLSI, interacted with students

Seminar on “Introduction to VLSI Design”

IEEE SB and PACIFIC Club organized a seminar on

“Introduction to VLSI Design” on 14th

July, 2016 by

Ms. M. Shenbagapriya, AP/ECE.

IEEE MAS Sponsored National Seminar

IEEE SB organized IEEE MAS-sponsored national

level seminar on “Emerging technologies for smart

nation” on 15th

July 2016. Speakers included Dr. N.

Santhiyakumari, Ms. M. Shenbagapriya, Ms.

Elakkiyapriya, Assistant Systems Engineer, Jasmin

Infotech Ltd, Chennai and Mr.PSS. Vignessh,

Organizing Head, Internet of Things Lab, NIT, Trichy.

Principal, Dr.PSS.Srinivasan offered felicitations.

Seminar on “Introduction to Analog Electronics”

IEEE SB – KIOT and FORCE Club organized a

seminar on “Introduction to Analog Electronics” and

Hands on training with 8051 Microcontroller

Mr.P.Shanmugasundaram, AP/ECE on 16th

July, 2016.

Pedagogy Program

IEEE SB organized a Pedagogy program for new

faculty members those who are having less than one

year experience on 18th

and 19th

July, 2016.

Dr.PSS.Srinivasan, Principal; Dr.K.Visagavel, Vice-

Principal; Dr.M.Thangavel, Director-Training;

Dr.P.Rajendran, Director-Placement;

Dr.N.Santhiyakumari, SBC; Dr. N.Suthanthira

Vanitha, Head/EEE; Dr.P.M.Shanmugavadivu,

Head/Civil; Dr.V.Kumar, Head/CSE and

Prof.M.Sathyanathan, Head/Mechanical addressed the

faculty members.

Awareness Program

IEEE SB and WIE along with Women Empowerment Cell organized an awareness program for women under the

title “Diet & Nutrition Demand to Adolescent and Hidden health profile of Millets” on 20th

July 2016. This program

was felicitated by Mrs.Vijaya Srinivasan, Executive Member, KIOT trust. Dr. Saraswathy Eswaran, Secretary,

Ramasamy Chinnamal Trust, Coimbatore was the resource person.


Hands-on Training on “Introduction to Graphical

Programming”

IEEE SB along with VIDART Club organized hands-on

Training on “Introduction to Graphical Programming” by

Mr.V.Saravanan, Assoc Prof/ECE on 23rd

July, 2016.

Outreach Program

IEEE SB organized an outreach program titled “Current

trends in Engineering” on 27th

July, 2016. The IEEE

volunteers Mr.A.Gowthaman, Chairman, Ms.R.Archana, Mr.

K. Kowshick Sriram, Ms. S. Gowthama Priya interacted with

school students at Government Higher Secondary School,

Kullapanayakanur, Salem about upcoming technologies .

Technical Seminar on “Exploring Innovative Ideas”

IEEE SB along with Centre for Innovation and Product

Development (CiPD) organized a seminar on the title

“Exploring Innovative Ideas” by Mr.PSS.Srivignessh, who is

an MS in Computer Science Engineering, Arizona State

University on 2nd

August, 2016. Dr.N.Santhiyakumari, SBC

presided over the seminar.

Report by: Dr.N.Santhiyakumari, [email protected]

Kongu Engineering College, Erode

Inaugural Report

The Inaugural function of the IEEE SB and WIE

affinity group were held on 12th

July, 2016. Mr.

Anand Balu was the chief guest and he gave a talk on

volunteerism in IEEE. Thiru.V.K.Muthusamy,

Correspondent of the college gave the presidential

address. Others who spoke included Prof.

K.Narayanan, SBC; Prof.K.Krishnaswamy, Vice-

Principal and student office bearers, Mr. C. Kiran

Chander, SB Chair; Ms. G.VijayaRagavi, WIE chair

and Mr. S. Sanjay Kannan, Treasurer.



Photoshop and design tools Workshop

A one day Workshop on “Photoshop and design

tools” was organized by the IEEE SB on 16th

July

2016. 45 students attebded the workshop conducted

by Mr. R.Raj Kumar and Mr. Srinath

Inaugural Function of IEEE CS, IEEE PES & IEEE RAS Chapters

The inaugural function of IEEE CS, PES and RAS Chapters was held on 20

th July, 2016. Mr.H.R.Mohan, Vice-

Chairman, IEEE Madras Section was the chief guest. He presented a glimpse of all the Societies under the ambit of

IEEE, their potential role in the community, the extent to which the Societies can function at the Section as well as

the regional level. He also gave the gathering an insight on keeping technically current with the changing world and

technical advancement. Thiru.V.K.Muthusamy, Correspondent of the college gave the presidential address.

Mr.Joseph Auxilius Jude, Faculty Advisor, IEEE CS; Mr.Bobby Chakravarthy.B, IEEE CS Chair; Mr.Srinath, RAS

Chair; Mr.Rithubaran, PES Chair and Mr.Rakesh, Additional Treasurer, IEEE SB also addressed the gathering.

Canopus’16

IEEE CANOPUS 2K16 techfest was held on 30th

July, 2016. Various events were CANO-QUIZ,

CONNECTRONICZ, Debate and Informative tech

talk on Wireless Sensor Networks – Father of IoT by

Mr. Joseph Auxillius Jude, IEEE CS chapter Advisor

and Mr.V.C.Dinesh, IEEE Professional Member.

Report by: R.Rahul, [email protected]

KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore

Report on Research Opportunities and Challenges in Solar PV Systems Workshop

IEEE SB and EEE department organized a National Level

Workshop on “Research Opportunities and Challenges in Solar

PV Systems” on 16th

July, 2016. HOD/EEE and IEEE SBC,

Dr.V. Kumar Chinnaiyan welcomed the gathering and

Dr. K. Bommanna Raja, Principal, presided over the function.

The resource person for the workshop was Er. D. Devarajan

M.E., FIE, Managing Director, Dev Solar, Coimbatore

inaugurated the session and explained the importance of

renewable energy sources particularly about solar PV systems.

Dr. Albert Alexander, AP, Kongu Engineering College,

Perundurai briefed on PV technology, its types, overview of PV

power plant, inverter, cables and charger controller unit. Er. Ranjith Kumar, Electrical Engineer, Kavin Engineering

services, Coimbatore spoke about load list preparation, design sizing & calculation on various system, Solar



Tracking & MPPT, Maintenance of Solar Panel and Battery, P.V Modules Standards & Losses in PV Plant, Site

Selection - Installation and Commissioning. 60 participants from various colleges attended the workshop. The co-

ordinators of the program were Dr. R. Uthirasamy, Assoc Prof and APs, Mr. S. Vivekanandan, Ms. B. Lalitha, Ms..

R. Revathi and Ms R. Jeevitha.

Association Inaugural and Guest Lecture on Energy Management

IEEE SB and EEE department inaugurated its Association and

Renewable Energy Club activities on 28th

Jul 2016.

Dr.S.Ramkumar, Dean (Academics & Administrative) presided

over the function in which the chief guest was

Er.B.Somasundaram, Manager - Plant Engineering &

Maintenance, ZF Wind Power Coimbatore Limited. The guest

spoke on Energy Management and conservation. The

association coordinator Prof.G.Saravanan introduced the

association office bearers and Renewable energy club members

for the academic year 2016-2017. The student secretary Mr. Ritesh G. Kothari presented the activity plan and Mr.

V.Gohul proposed the vote of thanks.

Report on PV Solar Power Plant Design and Optimization Workshop

IEEE SB organized a National Workshop on “PV

Solar Power Plant Design and Optimization” on 30th

Jul, 2016. The resource persons for the workshop

were Mr.S.Selva Kumar, Project Specialist Engineer,

ABB, Chennai & Mr. K. Ezhil Aniruthan, Senior

Engineer, Power Projects, Chennai. 130 participants

from various colleges attended the workshop. The

coordinators of the program were Dr.C.Krishna

Kumar, Prof/EEE and Ms.V.J.Vijayalakshmi,

Mr.P.Kamalakannan, Mr. A.Mohamed Ibrahim &

Mr.P.Varun Raj, APs/EEE.

Report by: Dr.V.Kumar Chinnaiyan, [email protected]

K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology, Tiruchengode

Training on Proposal writing

IEEE EMBS Student chapter conducted a training

programme on proposal writing on 21st Jul, 2016. 45

students attended the programme, which was an

encouragement for students to apply for grants,

internships and fellowships. One session was

focused on IEEE funded projects such as funding

opportunities of Madras section and IEEE foundation

grant.

National Workshop on "Modern Tools and Techniques in Biotechnology"

IEEE-EMBS Student chapter organized a National Workshop on "Modern Tools and Techniques in Biotechnology"

during 25th

and 26th

Jul 2016. The workshop covered topics such as analysis and applications of HPLC, Animal

handling and ethical clearance, Career opportunities in biotechnology, Project design and hands on training on

biochemical analyzer, Lyophillizer and ELISA reader. A total of 50 students from various institutions attended the

programme.

Report by: Dr.P.Ponmurugan, [email protected]




M.Kumarasamy College of Engineering, Karur Inaugural Function

IEEE SB inaugural function was held on 9th

Jul 2016. The chief

guest was Dr.R.Gnanadass, Prof/EEE, Pondicherry Engineering

College, who gave talk on Smart Grid. Mr. M.Yuvaraj,

Head/EEE introduced the office bearers of which Chairman,

Mr.K.S.Ganesh and Treasurer, Mr.P.Sai Ram addressed the

gathering.

Intra College Meet CSESTA’16

IEEE SB organized intra college meet which consisted of two

events namely Non Profit and Fun Cinema. 100 students

participated in the meet which was organized by

Mr.M.S.Vinoth Kumar and Mr.M.Vasanth Kumar of III year

EEE. Mr. G.N.Sachin Amreiss, AP/EEE presided over the

meet.

Report by: P.Sai Ram, [email protected]

National Engineering College, Kovilpatti

National Level Project Expo for School Students

IEEE ITS-sponsored National Level Project Exhibition for school students was organized on 29 and 30 June, 2016.

Mr. B.Pradeep Nair, Head – Engineering Services, Sterlite Copper and Mr.B.Murali Head/CSE, PSG College of

graced the inaugural ceremony. 200 students from 40 schools exhibited their innovative projects related to science

and technology. The exhibition was visited by over 2200 students. Dr.S.Shanmugavel, Principal and

Ms.M.Bhuvaneswari, AP addressed the students.

Tech Talk

On behalf of IEEE ITS Madras Chapter, a technical talk on

“Embedded Engineers for Industries” by Mr.T.Devakumar,

AP/ECE was organized on 21st July, 2016. In his talk, he gave a

brief introduction to econ systems and logic blocks. He gave

insights on embedded companies and skill set needed for facing

recruitment in such companies. 25 students benefitted from the

talk.

Report by: Dr.B.Paramasivan, [email protected]

Panimalar Institute of Technology, Chennai

Faculty Development Training Programme on EC6703-Embedded and Real Time Systems

IEEE SB and department of ECE organized Faculty Development Training Programme on EC 6703-Embedded and

Real Time Systems in association with ISTE, IETE and IEEE RAS during 1st to 7

thJune 2016. Dr.M.P.Chitra,

Head/ECE delivered the presidential address. FDP was as per the Anna university Embedded Real Time Systems

syllabus. Hands on session was given in association with Advantech Private Limited, Chennai.




Seminar on Fundamentals of MATLAB Simulink

Software

IEEE SB & Dept. of EEE organized a Seminar on

“Fundamentals of MATLAB Simulink Software” on 2nd

Jun

2016 by Mr.P.Elangovan, AP/EEE. Seminar mainly focused

on Control Strategies for Power Electronics Converters

Mathematical tools and functions in MATLAB for Power

Electronic System Electrical Sources and Power Electronic

Components for Power Electronic Circuit Modeling

Measurement tools for Power Electronic Circuit Analysis

Development of Closed Loop Control System Modeling for

Basic Power Electronic Converter Demonstration of PWM

generation in Real time Hardware (TMS320F28335) using MATLAB.

Two Days Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on

“C# & ADO.Net Programming”

Two days FDP on C# & ADO.NET Programming, in

association with ICTACT, CSI, IEEE SB & IEEE Computer

Society was inaugurated on 2nd

Jun 2016 by Mr. V. Benhar

Charles, Deputy Manager, ICTACT. Topics covered

included Introduction to C# covering topics of Overview of

.NET Framework, CLR, FCL, JIT, Visual studio integrated

development environment and implementing OOP in C#,

Events & Delegates in C#, Introduction to Windows Forms,

advanced Features in Windows Forms and Data Access

Using ADO.NET & Database Connectivity.

Workshop on “Grid and Cloud Computing”

Workshop on “Grid and Cloud computing”, in association

with IEEE Computer Society, ICTACT, CSI and

LinuXperts Chennai, was inaugurated on 6th

June, 2016 by

Mr. S. Baskar, Chief Executive Officer, LinuXpert Systems,

Chennai. 20 Staff members participated in the workshop.

IEEE Control System Society Inauguration Function

IEEE SB and EEE dept. jointly organized the

inauguration of Control System Society Student Chapter

on 23rd

June, 2016 by Dr. T.Jayanthy, Principal.

Lecture on Energy Conservation & Auditing

IEEE SB, IEEE CS and EEE dept. jointly organized a

Lecture on “Energy Conservation & Auditing” by

Mr.V.Sankara Narayanan Former Addi.Chief Engineer /

TNEB, Energy Auditor on 23rd

June, 2016.


EMC2 International Certification Course on Data Science and Big Data Analytics

IEEE SB, CSI, Dept. of CSE & IT in association with

ICTACT organized a Six days EMC2

International

Certification Course 23rd

to 30th

June, 2016 on Data

Science & Big Data Analytics. Dr. T. Jayanthy Principal,

delivered the presidential address and motivated the

participants to do research in developing fields likeData

Science and Big Data Analytics. Course was handled by

the experts from ICTACT Academy. Mr.M.Karthik

Deputy Manager- T&D Department, ICT Academy of

Tamil Nadu, gave a brief discuss about Hadoop Eco

System, Hadoop Architecture and File system. 102

Students participated in the event.

Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on IP, Networking and Cyber Security

Dept. of ECE in association with BSNL Chennai, IEEE,

ISTE, IETE organized Short Term Training Programme

(STTP) on IP, Networking and Cyber Security during Jun

2016. Dr.T.Jayanthy, Principal inaugurated the STTP.

The sessions were handled by Experts from RTTC,

BSNL. Hands-on sessions were provided at RTTC,

BSNL. The topics covered included Networking

Concepts, TCP/IP &MPLS ,Router Architecture &

Routing Principles, Information & Cyber Security.

Training Programme

Career Development Cell, IEEE SB, ISTE, IETE in

association with Productivity Reach, Chennai organized a

Training Programme on:

Resume Writing Skill on 23rd

Jun 2016.

Communication Skill on 24th

Jun 2016.

Quantitative aptitude on 27th

Jun 2016.

Verbal and Vocabulary Skills on 28th

Jun 2016.

Logical and Reasoning on 29th

Jun 2106.

Group Discussion on 30th

Jun 2106.

HR Interview on 1st

Jul 2016

Volunteers at IEEE SIGHT Camp

Mr.R.S.Ezhilarasan, Mr.M.Saravanan, Mr.V.Lokesh, Mr.G.Pradeep Kumar, Mr.R.Roopan Raj, Mr.Ashok Kumar,

Mr.Manikandaprabu from III Year EEE, participated in the 5 days IEEE SIGHT Camp held at Eraviputhenthurai,

Thoothoor, Kanyakumari District from 26th

to 30th

June 2016. The students also received the “Best Volunteer”

award for this camp.


Lecture Series & Industry Internship Training Programme

Dept. of EEE, IEEE SB in Association with Voltech Engineers Private Ltd as a part of Industry Internship Training

Programme organized:

Lecture on “Energy and its optimal usage in the recent

modern world with an eye opening session of Energy audit

and its importance” by Mr.V.Sankaranarayanan Former

Addi.Chief Engineer / TNEB, Energy Auditor on 23rd

June,

2016.

Lecture on “Harmonics Study Analysis & along with

Mitigation Technics” by Mr. M.R. Bharanidharan, AGM,

ATT & RLA, VEPL on 24th

June, 2016

Lecture on “History of Relays, Relays usage and how

Special Protection Devices Plays a Major role in the

Substations”. By Er.Sitaraman Relay Division, VEPL,

Manager, VEPL on 27th

June, 2016

Lecture on “Healthiness of Transformer” by Er.Bala.N,

Manager, ATT & RLA, VEPL on 27th

June, 2016.

Lecture on “Energy Auditing” by Dr.L.Ramesh, Addl

Dean, E&T, Dr.M.G.R Educational & Research Institute

on 28th

June, 2016.

Industrial Training at Voltech Solar & Relay Division on

29th

– 30thJune, 2016.Participants of the training programme

visited the transformer unit of Voltech Engineers Pvt.Ltd.

located at Pillaipakam, Sriperumbudur on 29th

June 2016

and Relay Division at kovur on 30th

June 2016. Mr.Prabhu,

Chief Trainer from Voltech Engineers Pvt.Ltd. explained

the process involved in manufacturing the transformers and

the maintenance requirements.

Seminar on various RF Antennas

Dept. of ECE in association with IEEE SB conducted seminar programme on “Design of various RF antennas”

Dr.S.Sathyamurthy, Prof./ECE on 1st Jul 2016.

Seminar on Role of PLC & SCADA in Industrial

Automation

IEEE SB and EEE dept. jointly organized the Seminar on “Role

of PLC & SCADA in Industrial Automation” by Mr.S.Arun

Kumar, Application Engineer, Technocrat on 12th

July, 2016.

He interacted with the students about conceptual as well as

practical knowledge of the Industrial Automation & latest

technologies being used to achieve industrial automation.

Seminar on Robotics Concept and its Prototypes Projects

Dept. of ECE in association with IEEE SB & IEEE RAS conducted seminar programme on “Robotics Concept and

Its Prototypes Projects” Dr.S.Sathyamurthy, Prof held on 13th

July 2016. He listed out the robotics project ideas

along with self learning robotics kits to help students in robotics research and motivate robotics development.


Lecture on Recent trends in Digital Signal

Processing

Dept. of ECE in association with IEEE SB, IEEE SP,

IETE, ISTE organized a Guest Lecture Programme

on Recent trends in Digital Signal Processing By

Mr.A.Senthil, Director, Jasmine InfoTech, Chennai

on 20th

July, 2016. Mr.A.Senthil, highlighted the

Importance of signal processing in our Day today

Life. He also created an awareness about job

opportunities that are available in this field. The

session concluded with the Demo session on Audio

Compression.

Lecture on Programming & Data structures-II

A lecture on "Programming & Data structures-II" in

association with IEEE-SB, ICTACT and CSI

Department of Information Technology was

organized on 18th

July, 2016. 132 Students

participated in the Lecture by Dr. Michael Arock,

from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Trichy.

This session enabled students to get practical

exposure in various concepts of OOPS and also to

write their own programs.

Aptitude Quiz contest

Dept. of ECE, IEEE-SB in association with IETE & ISTE organized an Aptitude Quiz contest on 18th

July, 2016.

Ms.Swathi of Third Year ECE Won the first Prize, Ms. Sravani Sushruta P of Second year ECE won the second

prize.

Lecture on Shaping your Future

Lecture on "Shaping Your Future" in association

with ICTACT and CSI was organized on 27th

July

2016 in which 123 Students participated. Mr.

Premkumar Narayanaswamy, Technical Consultant,

Cigna Health Insurance, USA was the resource

person. He shared the "10 Best Tech Jobs based on

current Trends "and inspired the students to pursue

career in different Technologies.

CSE Technical Quiz’16

Technical quiz contest held on 27th

July, 2016 in

association with IEEE Computer Society. The

coordinators for the quiz were Dr. Kalai Chelvi and

Mr. Mohana Prakash along with student coordinators

K.Vinitha, P.V.Suchitra, G.Kavitha. 40 students

participated in this event.

Seminar on the overview of Ultra Wide Band Technology

Dept. of ECE in association with IEEE, IEEE COMSOC conducted seminar programme on “UWB Technology” by

Dr.S.Sathyamurthy on 27th

July, 2016.


Workshop on Enjoyable Coding

IEEE SB ,Young Professional, CSI organized a three days workshop on “Enjoyable Coding” by Dr.JeyVeerasamy,

Director, Center for Computer Science Education & Outreach, The University of Texas, Dallas, USA from 28 to 30

July, 2016. Dr.Jey introduced the students to the world of coding and explained how one can take it as a child play

rather than a tedious task. He explained how to code with a prototype model which raised the student interest. He

also talked on “Life as Software Engineer” spoke on the differences in the software projects before and now. The

workshop started with Scratch tool on day one followed by C++ &Java Concepts.

Workshop on FOSS

Dept. of ECE & CSE in association with IEEE

Computer Society, IETE & ISTE organized a one

day Workshop on FOSS by Sidharth Magesh and

Jebaraj,Santhosh,Chandrasekar of final year CSE.

on 30th

July 2016. Dr.M.P.Chitra, HOD ECE

delivered the welcome address and motivated the

students to develop interdisciplinary skills.

Dr.V.Subedha, HOD CSE distributed the

mementos to the students. The workshop covered

topics such as FOSS philosophy, Basic Shell

Scripting, EMACS ,RUBY ,Etc.,

Report by: Mr.M.Arun, [email protected]

Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai

Workshop on GNU RADIO

IEEE SB organized a two-day Hands-on Training

Programme on GNU RADIO on 22nd

and 23rd

July,

2016. Dr.M.Palanivelan, IEEE SBC highlighted the

necessities of Software Defined Radio. And also

touched upon topics such as basic concepts of Scientific

Python (SciPy) Programming, implementation of

algorithms, modulation/demodulation schemes and

protocols using GNU RADIO. Dr.Baghya Lakshmi,

distributed certificates to 50 participants.

Report by: Dr.M.Palanivelan,

[email protected]




R.M.K.Engineering College, Chennai Mock Interview

IEEE SB organized a mock interview activity for its

members on 2nd

July, 2016. The alumni of the college

were invited to conduct the mock interview for the

students.

IEEE SB Activities Inauguration

IEEE SB activities for the academic year 2016-2017

was formally inaugurated on 27th

July, 2016 by Mr.

K.Balasubramanian, Global Head of Tax at Wipro

Technologies and Mr.Swaminathan Seetharaman,

DMTS – Senior member at Wipro. Both the speakers

briefed about industry and its current trends.

Report by: SuriyaThilipan S, [email protected]

S.A. Engineering College, Chennai

Lecture on Control Systems

The Department of EEE and IEEE SB jointly organized a

Lecture by Dr. J.Prakash, Head/Instrumentation Engg,

MIT Campus, Anna University on “Control systems” on

14th

July 2016. Around 120 students attended the

programme. Dr.S.Priya, HOD/EEE also spoke during the

seminar wherein the students were able to understand the

systems’ behavior specified to control systems and how to

apply control theory to solve real world problems.

Lecture on Digital Logic Circuits

IEEE SB organized a Lecture on “Digital Logic Circuits”

by Dr. S. Ganesh Kumar, Prof/EEE, College of

Engineering, Guindy, Chennai on 22nd

July 2016.

Around 120 students attended the programme.



Lecture on Power Systems Analysis

IEEE SB organized a Lecture on “Power Systems Analysis”

Dr.P.Somasundaram, Assoc Prof/EEE, Anna University,on 25th

July 2016. Through the lecture, the students were able to

understand the behavior of the basic components of power

systems, compute power flow in transmission systems and

compute fault quantities, such as voltage, current and power in

transmission systems under normal and fault conditions.

Report by: R.Mahendran, [email protected]

Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, Chennai

Technical Lecture on “Technological

Challenge in Solar System”.

IEEE PES SB Chapter organised a Technical

Lecture on “Technological Challenge in Solar

System” on 4th

July, 2016 by Mr. R.S.S.

Manian, Max Solar Pvt.Ltd. The lecture

covered topics such as Solar Panel Types, Solar

Inverter and Charge Controller for Battery and

was attended by 120 Students.

One Day Industrial Visit to Ennore Thermal

Power Station

IEEE PES SB Chapter organised a one-day

Industrial Visit to Ennore Thermal Power

Station on 12th

July, 2016. 80 Students went for

the visit where they were educated about

Boilers, Coal Storage, Super Critical Heater etc.

One Day Industrial Visit to Tambaram

Railway Traction Sub-Station

IEEE PES SB Chapter organised a one-day

Industrial Visit to Tambaram Railway Traction

Sub-Station on 19th

July, 2016 for about 50

Students .The Students were introduced to

Traction Motor, Electrical Drives, Pantograph,

Power Converters etc.,

IEEE-PES Student Outreach Program

IEEE PES SB Chapter conducted Student

Outreach Programme on 25th

July 2016 at

SBIOA Model Matric Higher Secondary

School, Mogappair, Chennai. The program was

aimed at providing the students of grades 8 & 9

with the knowledge of the latest technological

developments in the field of Robotics, Internet

Of Things, Electric and Hybrid Vehicles and on



Harnessing Solar/wind energy: Principle and its applications. A team of 19 IEEE students were led by Prof. A. L.

Kumarappan, HOD/EEE, Prof. Porselvi and Mr. Azhagu Murugan. R. Presentations, Working Models, Interactive

sessions, simulations, crossword puzzles etc were showcased to the students.

Technical Lecture on “Rocket

Technology and its Challenges”

IEEE PES Student Branch Chapter

organised a Technical Lecture on

“Rocket Technology and its

Challenges” by Mr .G.Meghanath,

Scientist/Engineer-SC, Satish Dhawan

Space Centre, Sriharikota. The Lecture

was attended by 120 Students.

IEEE-PES Student Outreach

Program

IEEE PES Student Branch Chapter

organized Student Outreach Program

on 4th

August 2016 at Sairam

Matriculation Higher Secondary

School, Poonthandalam, Kanchipuram.

The program was aimed at providing

the students of grade 8 with the

knowledge of the latest technological

developments in the field of Robotics,

Internet of Things, Electric and Hybrid

Vehicles and on Harnessing Solar/wind

energy:. A team of 19 IEEE students

led by Prof. A. L. Kumarappan,

HOD/EEE, and Mr. Azhagu Murugan. R, IEEE-PES accompanied the students.

Report by: Siva Subramaniyam C N, [email protected]

Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore

A Short term Course on “Electronic Product Design”

IEEE SB in association with National Institute of Electronics and

Information Technology, Chennai conducted a one-month short

term course on “Electronic Product Design” from 6th

June 2016 to

1st July 2016. Dr.M.Karpagam, Professor /ECE inaugurated the

Programme. Dr.V.Nandalal, Assoc Prof /ECE and SBC conducted

the course, which was attended by 362 students.

IEEE Membership Initiation Programme

IEEE SB conducted “IEEE Membership Initiation Programme” on

21st July, 2016. Dr.S.Sophia, HOD/ECE inaugurated the

programme and delivered a lecture about the benefits in availing

IEEE Membership. The event was attended by 240 students from

various departments. The IEEE student members did various

presentations about the IEEE societies, trends and advancements.

Report by: Nandalal V, [email protected]




Sona College of Technology, Salem

Technical Talk on “System Design Technology”

IEEE SB organized a technical talk on “System Design Technology” by Mr. S. Janarthanam, Scientist and Group

Head, VLSI and Embedded Systems, NIELIT, Chennai on 24th

June, 2016. An idea of how to design a real-time

system with embedded technology starting from the selection of elements, selection of micro controllers and

peripheral devices was clearly explained. 120 participants from various colleges near Salem participated in the

technical talk.

Report by: Dr. S.Padma, [email protected]

Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore

2015 WIE Student Branch Affinity Group of the Year Award.

IEEE WIE affinity group was a recipient of an Honorable Mention for the 2015 WIE Student Branch Affinity Group

of the Year Award. IEEE WIE honored for demonstrated dedication and service to women in engineering with this

award with the following benefits:

Subsidy in the amount of $250 USD for future WIE Affinity Group activities.

One (1) complimentary pass to attend the 2017 WIE International Leadership Conference

Financial support of up to $1000 USD to attend the 2017 WIE International Leadership Conference

Certificate of recognition.

Announcement of Office Bearer’s and the Ice-

Breaker Session

The IEEE SB activities meeting were held on 02nd

July 2016 to announce the office bearers for the

academic year 2016-17 and to welcome the new

members. Mr.K.Balamurugan, Counselor, IEEE

Student Branch welcomed the gathering.

Dr.S.U.Prabha, Head/EEE announced the Office

Bearers of both the IEEE and WIE for the academic

year 2016-17. Mr. N.Mohanraj Student chair gave a

plan of action followed by an ice-breaking session.

Annual Activities Meeting for the Academic Year

2016-2017

IEEE SB annual activities meeting were held on 1st

August 2016 with the IEEE & WIE office Bearers.

Dr. N.R.Alamelu, Immediate past Chair, IEEE MAS

and Principal interacted with members and discussed

the annual plan of activities. She highlighted the

benefits of being a member of professional body and

funding opportunities and opportunity to conduct

events like projects, seminars, workshops and

program developing skills like hackathon, and Code

rush.

Report by: K. Balamurugan, [email protected].




SSN College of Engineering, Chennai

Talk on Acquiring independent learning skills through dissertation / research course

IEEE Comsoc Student Chapter and ECE dept. organized a talk

on "Acquiring independent learning skills through dissertation /

research course" by Dr. K.T.Selvan, Professor / ECE on 18th

July, 2016. PG students, Research scholars and faculty

members attended the event. Dr. Selvan encouraged students to

go the extra mile to discover what they really wanted and

challenge themselves to a higher standard of work. He

presented an evaluation tool “Rubrics”, which is a set of

guidelines used to promote the consistent application of

learning expectations, learning objectives, learning standards in

the classroom, to measure one’s attainment against a consistent set of criteria. The event was coordinated by Dr. S.

Radha and supported by student coordinator, Mr. N. Vivek Sivaraman

Seminar on Shannon Centennial Seminar on Information Coding Techniques

ECE dept., IEEE Information Theory Society and IEEE

Comsoc Student Chapter organized a seminar on "Shannon

Centennial Seminar on Information Coding Techniques " on

22nd

July, 2016. The aim of this seminar was to increase

awareness and improve the technical knowledge on basic

coding theory among secondary school students. In total 110

higher secondary school students from BVM Mat HSS, SVM

Mat HSS, BKM Mat HSS and faculty members attended the

event, coordinated by Dr. B. S. Sreeja and supported by student

coordinator, Mr. N. Vivek Sivaraman. Speakers for the seminar

were Dr. K. T. Selvan, Dr. K. Muthumeenakshi, Dr. R. Kishore

and Dr. R. Amutha.

Workshop on TelosB ,cMote Wireless Sensor Nodes

ECE dept., IEEE Information Theory Society and IEEE

Communication Society Student Chapter organized a workshop

on TelosB & cMote Wireless Sensor Nodes on 27th

July 2016.

92 members participated in the workshop conducted by Ms.

Aasha Nandini, a Research Scholar and IEEE ComSoc Student

member of Sri SivasubramaniyaNadar College of Engineering.

The event was coordinated by Dr. S. Radha and supported by

student coordinator, Mr. N. Vivek Sivaraman

Report by: Dr.R.Ramaprabha, [email protected]

St. Josephs Institute of Technology, Chennai

IEEE WIE Affinity Group event

IEEE WIE organized Public speaking contest on Women

empowerment on 7th

July, 2016.

19 students participated in the event. The winners were Snigdha K

of IV A and Gayathri P of IV B



IEEE RAS CHAPTER event

Technical seminar was conducted on 29

th June, 9

th and 20

th July,

2016.

39 students participated & Priyanka K of IV B and Kavya of II

B emerged as winners

INAGURATION OF IEEE RAS

IEEE RAS chapter was inaugurated by Dr.P.A.Manoharan, RAS

Chair, IEEE MAS on 28th

July, 2016 in the presence of

Dr.B.Babu Manoharan, Managing Director, St.Joseph's Group

of Institutions; Mr.B. Sashi Sekar, Chief Executive Officer and

Dr.P.Ravichandran, Principal. Mr.G.S.Uthyakumar, Secretary,

Mr.John Maria Vivian, Student Chair and Ms. N.S.Madhura,

Vice Chair of RAS also participated. Dr. Manoharan also gave

a talk on “Basic on Robotics” The student chapter has 90

members. INAGURATION OF IEEE WIE

IEEE WIE chapter was inaugurated by Dr. Vydeki Vijakumar,

Chair-WIE Chapter, IEE MAS on 28th

July, 2016 in the

presence of Dr.B.Babu Manoharan, Managing Director,

St.Joseph's Group of Institutions; Mr.B. Sashi Sekar, Chief

Executive Officer and Dr.P.Ravichandran, Principal. Ms.

M.Snigdha , Student Chair of RAS and Ms. Neerja , WIE

member also addressed the gathering

Report by: Dr. Gnana Kousalya C, [email protected]

St.Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai

Basic concepts of Robotics

IEEE RAS chapter conducted a workshop on, “Basics concepts

of Robotics” on 29th

June, 2016 by an Alumni Mr. Harish Ram

Mohan who is a Robotic Engineer at LEMA labs. 50 students

participated in the workshop. The students had a hands-on

training on how to make a line follower robot using simple

L293D driver IC and IR sensor.

Lecture on Interview Skills

IEEE SB organized a guest lecture on “Interview Skills” on 23rd

July 2016 by Mr. R. Rajasekar, corporate trainer in HTC Global

Solutions, 150 students attended the interactive lecture.

Report by: Jannath Nisha, [email protected]




St. Xavier’s Catholic College of Engineering, Kanyakumari

Talk on ‘Google Applications for Education’

The first IEEE weekly meeting of the academic year 2016-2017 was organized on 5th

July, 2016. Ms.Panchami of III

CSE gave a talk on ‘Google Applications for Education’. The IEEE SBC, Prof. Bright Jose presided over the

meeting.

Talk on ‘Women Empowerment’

IEEE WIE SB Affinity Group organized a technical gathering on 12th

July, 2016. Ms.A.S.Karthiga of III CSE gave

a talk on ‘Women Empowerment’ followed by a talk on WIE activities by Ms. N. AsiyaBeevi of IV ECE.

Talk on ‘Success’

The Education Society chapter organized a weekly meeting on 19th

July, 2016, Ms. Beautlin Jenisha of IV EEE gave

a thought provoking talk on ‘Success’. A quiz was conducted to the student members by Ms.Shiney of IV EEE and

prizes were awarded to the winners.

Talk on IEEE

Mr. A. Arunkumar of IV EEE delivered a detailed talk on IEEE on 26th July, 2016, wherein he explained the student

members about the vision and mission of IEEE, benefits of IEEE membership and the various awards and

scholarships from IEEE

Report by: Ivana Bhagya, [email protected]

SVS College of Engineering, Coimbatore

Lecture on “Recent Trends in Electrical & Electronics –

Industrial Automation”

IEEE SB and EEE department organized a Lecture on “Recent

Trends in Electrical & Electronics – Industrial Automation” by

Mr. B.Dinesh, Project Engineer and PLC programmer, Electro

Blitz Embedded Solutions, Coimbatore on 28th

July 2016.

Dr.T.Kannan, Principal, and. Dr.S.Thangaprakash, HoD/EEE

participated in the programme.

Report by: Dr.S.Thangaprakash, [email protected]

Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai

Inauguration of IEEE System Man and Cybernetics (SMC)

Society

The IEEE SB in association with IT department organized the

Inauguration of its IEEE-SMC Society on 15th July, 2016 by

Mr. R.Arul Jothi, Senior Treasury analyst, Ford PvtLtd,

Chennai. The office bearers of 2016-2017 (Mr.KesavRajan

and Ms.Sharmilie), IEEE SMC SB Faculty Advisor

Ms.S.Karthiga, Faculty members of IT Dept and IEEE student

members attended the function.

IEEE Faculty Development Program on “Hands on Training on Hadoop”

IEEE SB organized IEEE FDP on “Hands on Training on Hadoop” on 15th and 16th July, 2016. Students and

Faculty members from various engineering colleges have attended the FDP organized by Dr.R.Suganya and

Ms.S.Karthiga,, AP/IT.




Lecture on “Big data and Financial Modeling”

The IEEE SB organized a Lecture on “Big data and Financial

Modeling” on 15th July, 2016.

Report by: S Karthiga , [email protected]

IEEE Madras Section Young Professionals

Skill Development Training Programme (SDTP) on “Share Trading”

IEEE Madras Section Young Professionals in association

with Government College of Technology (GCT) IEEE SB

organized a Skill Development Training Programme

(SDTP) on “Share Trading” from 23rd

July 2016 to 25th

July 2016 at GCT, Coimbatore. This programme was

financially supported by IEEE Region10 Young

Professionals. The participants were exposed to meaningful

equity, economic and technical research along with

financial modeling from a perspective of a trader, exposure

to live trading in equity, derivative, currency and

commodity. Various topics covered in this course included

Foundation of Capital Markets, Wealth Management,

Fundamental Analysis of stocks, Company Valuation using Financial Modelling, Fixed Income, Advanced

Technical Analysis: Art and Science of Trading, Options: Advanced Options Trader, Derivative Analytics, Currency

and Commodity Markets. The Programme was organized by Dr.S. Elangovan, Chair, IEEE MAS YP Affinity

Group. The photos are available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B26IGq38stVHd2RMSHVYdjZxYnc.

Coimbatore Hub Congress

IEEE Coimbatore Hub Congress cum India Strategic Initiative (2nd

edition)

IEEE MAS Students Activities Committee along with IEEE Madras Section Young Professionals, IEEE SB of

Jansons Institute of Technology and IEEE Women In Engineering conducted a two-day Coimbatore Hub Congress

2016 (CBEHC – 2016) on 30th

and 31st July 2016. Jansons Institute of Technology, Coimbatore hosted this

congress. The congress was a meetup of all the student and professional IEEE members to share their experience

and volunteerism with each other. This congress included the second edition of India Strategic Initiative of IEEE

MGA, with sessions on Internship preparedness and Entrepreneurship awareness. This congress was professionally


https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B26IGq38stVHd2RMSHVYdjZxYnc


and financially supported by IEEE Region 10, IEEE Madras Section, IEEE MAS YP and IEEE WIE. 102 students

participated. Dr. N.R. Alamelu, Immediate Past Chair, IEEE Madras Section was the chief guest for this event.

Other speakers included Mr. H.R. Mohan, Vice Chair & Chair, SAC, IEEE Madras Section; Dr. Amit Kumar, Lead-

MGA Internship & Entrepreneurship Subcommittee and Vice Chair (TA), IEEE India Council; Mr. Nivas

Ravichandran, IEEE Region 10 YP Coordinator; Dr. S. Elangovan, Chair, IEEE MAS YP and Dr. M. Ramalatha,

Past Chair, WIE Global Committee and Mr. Prasanth Mohan, Execom Member, IEEE MAS.

Various topics of discussion included benefits, opportunities, funding availability and awards and recognitions due

to IEEE membership; newsletter; internship opportunities and portal, Resume preparation; Roles and

Responsibilities of IEEE SBs; Student Project Funding by IEEE; Role of Women In Engineering and IEEE Xtreme

Competitions. IEEE MAS volunteers Ms. Alina Benny, Mr. Solomon Sagar, Mr. Vijay Srinivas and Mr.Vinod

Sharma shared their volunteering experience at various levels at IEEE.

Other distinguished speakers included Mrs. Hemalatha Annamalai, Founder, Ampere Vehicles, Coimbatore, who

gave an excellent presentation on ‘E-bike Revolution in Ampere Vehicles’; Mr.Vignesh Rengasamy, Founder,

Helper.in who shared his experiences as an entrepreneur and Mr.K.S. Divakar, Student Entrepreneur, SportWalk,

who spoke on ‘start up as a student’.

The Congress was coordinated by Dr.S. Elangovan and Mr.M. Mylsamy of Jansons Institute of Technology IEEE

SB and Mr. Bobby Chakravarthy Balakrishnan of IEEE Kongu Engg College SB. All the sessions were well

received by the participants.

.


Some of the presentations made at the congress are available at

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B26IGq38stVHZEJKSlpIbExIVGc and the select photos are available at

http://goo.gl/b5a4MY

Report by: Dr. S. Elangovan, [email protected]

IEEE Control System Society, Madras Section Chapter

Technical Lecture on “Controller Tuning for Non Linear

Systems”

The IEEE Control System Society- Madras Section, IEEE SB,

IIChE and Dept of Chemical Engineering of Arulmigu

Meenakshi Amman College of Engineering jointly organized a

Technical Lecture on “Controller Tuning for Non Linear

Systems” by Dr. I.Thirunavukarasu, Dept. of Instrumentation

& Control Engg, Manipal University on 12th

July, 2016. He

emphasized the need to know the safety and environment

cautious in handling Instruments as well as job opportunities.

Dr.R.Hariprakash, Chairman IEEE Control System Society-

Madras Section welcomed the gathering and explained the

importance of the Control Systems and its applications in

SCADA, Smart grid, RFID power control for automated

manufacturing industries. Dr. P. Palanisamy, Principal; Prof. S. Rajappa, Director and Prof .Prince Immanuel,

Prof/Chem Engg also addressed the gathering which consisted of 90 participants from various institutions.

Report by: Dr.R.Hariprakash, [email protected]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B26IGq38stVHZEJKSlpIbExIVGc

http://goo.gl/b5a4MY




IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Madras Section Chapter

IEEE WCCI - CIS Canada Visit

The 2016 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEEWCCI2016) is the largest technical event in

the field of computational intelligence. It hosted three conferences: the 2016 International Joint Conference on

Neural Networks (IJCNN 2016), the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2016), and

the 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2016). 2016 IEEEWCCI was sponsored by the

IEEE-CIS. It was held at Vancouver, a magnificent city located in a privileged position on the northern American

coast of Canada, during 24 to 29 July, 2016. Some highlights of the event were 24 tutorials, 4 workshops, 15 plenary

speeches, 175 special sessions and 6 poster presentations. Nearly 1800 papers were presented. Dr. N Kumarappan,

Vice Chair, Chair IEEE CIS Madras Chapter , Madras Section organized and chaired special sessions on

“Computational Intelligence in Power System”. He also presented a paper titled “Optimal installation of multiple

DG units using competitive swarm optimizer algorithm”. He also attended the IEEE CIS Forum Meeting held on

25th July 2016 and presented an invited case study of IEEE CIS Madras Chapter, which was well received by the

CIS Chapter members

Report by: Dr. N.Kumarappan, [email protected]

IEEE SIGHT – Madras Section

Science Carnival 2016

IEEE SIGHT and the Research and Development Cell of Annai

Vailankanni College of Engineering organized a Science

Carnival 2016, at the on 15th and 16

th June, 2016. Students

from various schools attended the carnival with their model

projects. IEEE ADSF SIGHT used this opportunity for

showcasing the second Solar Powered Tricycle. Mr.

RubertJothy, Deputy Director, Fisheries, Government of Tamil

Nadu introduced the vehicle on 15th

June 2016 in the presence

of the Principal and Dean of the college.

Report by: Mr.Vincent Jain, [email protected]

IEEE Information Theory Society, Madras Section Chapter

A technical talk on “Embedded Engineers for Industries” by Mr.T.Devakumar, Assistant Professor (Senior

Grade)/ECE, National Engineering College Kovilpatti was organized on 21st July 2016.

Report by: Paramasivan Balasubramanian , [email protected]





Student Technology Awareness Program (STAP) by IEEE PSES, PCS & COMSOC

IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society, IEEE Professional Communication Society and IEEE Communications

Society of Madras Chapter joint organized a “Students Technology Awareness Program (STAP)” at Government

Girls Higher Secondary School, K.V.Kuppam, Vellore District on 9th

August 2016.

Smt. P. Dhanalakshmi, Head Mistress presided over the inaugural session and emphasized the need for the students

to update their knowledge in the developments in technology. She further motivated the students to participate

actively in technical events organized by professional societies to enhance the basic engineering knowledge.

Dr. S. Vijayakumar, Treasurer, IEEE PSES delivered a talk on “Path Towards a Green Earth – Eco Solutions to Find

the Way”. In this talk, he had explained how the air, water and environment get polluted as a result of adverse effect

from the technology usage and provided solutions to overcome these problems as well as make the earth pollution

free. He had motivated the students to utilize the technological advancements for an eco-friendly earth.

Shri. H.R.Moahn, Vice Chairman, IEEE Madras Section and Chair, IEEE PCS delivered a presentation on

“Communication Skills and Body Language highlighting the importance of oral communication with proper body

language. He had given examples and illustrations on what to do and what needed to be avoided in personality

aspects. He also briefly explained how the Information and Communications Technology are changing the way of

life through a video clip on Internet of Things.

About 100 students of plus two attended this STAP and benefited. The organizing societies – IEEE PSES, PCS &

COMSOC presented to the school, a ceiling fan, books for adding in to the library and a memento as a token of

appreciation to organizing the event beneficial to the students.

For select photos taken at the event, pl. visit http://goo.gl/7YRGnk

Report by: Dr. S. Vijayakumar, [email protected] & H.R. Mohan, [email protected]

Australian town to get its own solar power supply

The 300 residents of the Australian village of Tyalgum have backed a plan to switch off the national power lines and

set up their own solar power supply. If successful, the village will become the country's first community to have

24/7 electricity powered by 100% renewable energy.

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Information Resources Compiled by

H.R. Mohan

Vice Chairman, IEEE Madras Section

Chief Editor, IEEE MAS LINK

ICT Consultant & Former AVP (Systems), The Hindu, Chennai

[email protected]

Computing gives us tools to preserve disappearing languages: In 100 years, many of the world’s 7,000 languages

could be extinct. Hundreds of years of oral storytelling will disappear in the space of a couple of generations. The

knowledge and beauty locked up in these languages is irreplaceable. It goes beyond useful dot points about seasons

and cultivation and local medicines to untranslatable words and to an entire cosmology. Every language is a multi-

generational creative act. But the sounds, words and stories of all these languages are being captured online, for

example on community websites and on YouTube. Cyberlinguists of the future will have to devise algorithms to

decipher the recordings that were made before this mass extinction event.My collaborators and I want to determine

what language data must be uploaded to ensure that the world’s unwritten linguistic heritage is preserved and made

intelligible to all future generations. https://goo.gl/GKeOqJ

Apple is taking its first steps towards a more comprehensive post-PC world: Hands up if you’ve heard of Swift

Playgrounds? No, it’s not some new start-up providing quick playdates for bedraggled parents, although that might

be interesting. Swift Playgrounds is the new programming tool, introduced by Apple in June at its annual Worldwide

Developer Conference, based on the Swift programming language the company introduced a few years ago.What

makes Swift Playgrounds interesting is that it provides a first-party computer programming platform that can be run

entirely on an iPad, no computer required.While Apple has been slowly adding features to the iPad over the past few

years, this represents a pretty significant step change for Apple. https://goo.gl/klv28N

Study of top business innovators shows more is needed than being tech savvy: A lot of stress is placed on the

importance of science and technology skills for innovation in Australian enterprise and education. Innovation

actually demands a cross-range of technical and non-technical skills, even more so in an age where the value of tech

skills are diminished by the sheer number of people who posses them, a new report has found. The Skills and

Capabilities for Australian Enterprise Innovation report from the Australian Council of Learned Academies

(ACOLA), focused on human dimensions of innovation across every major sector of Australian economy and

society. The study interviewed 19 senior executives in organisations that were identified either by being recipients of

recent innovation awards or by their peers as leading innovators in particular sectors. The report emphasises that

innovation can play a greater role in tackling shared challenges of the Australian economy in the post-commodities

boom. https://goo.gl/hYT3MF

What makes Chinese maths lessons so good?: Chinese students begin learning their maths facts at a very early

age: maths textbooks begin with multiplication in the first semester of second grade, when children are seven years

old. In order to understand multiplication, pupils have to memorise the multiplication rhyme: “four times eight is 32,

five times eight is 40” and so on, which was invented by ancient Chinese scholars 2,200 years ago.Stemming from

this tradition, most classrooms have few concrete teaching materials for maths lessons. The cultural traditions of

Chinese maths education lead people to believe that routine practice is the most efficient way to learn. https://goo.gl/OAZAAT

Do students lose depth in digital reading?: Do students learn as much when they read digitally as they do in print?

For both parents and teachers, knowing whether computer-based media are improving or compromising education is

a question of concern. With the surge in popularity of e-books, online learning and open educational resources,

investigators have been trying to determine whether students do as well when reading an assigned text on a digital

screen as on paper.The answer to the question, however, needs far more than a yes-no response. https://goo.gl/1G1M2r

Eight amazing things you can do with the Android: Don't be satisfied with what you have on Android. You can

change, push, pull, rip apart and tweak almost anything to your heart's content. http://goo.gl/zm5aFm

Cyberwar: The smart person's guide: Armies around the world are gearing up for cyberwarfare: here's what it is

and what you need to know. http://goo.gl/tHB6dd


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Data backups: The smart person's guide: This guide is an entry-level summary of enterprise backup software. http://goo.gl/Ubk4jG

Data lakes: The smart person's guide: A data lake is a set of unstructured information that you assemble for

analysis. Deciding which information to put in the lake, how to store it, and what to make of it are the hard parts. http://goo.gl/zI0KN9

Far from bust: five ways MOOCs are helping people get on in life: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) –

free, short courses made available to everybody online – were expected to herald the end of higher education as we

knew it when they began. But the hype soon died away and critics bemoaned the fact that learners quickly lost

enthusiasm and dropped out in large numbers. After promising free education to those who couldn’t afford soaring

tuition fees, most people signing up to do free online courses were also already highly educated – 80% already held

a degree according to one study. And there were concerns that employers would not trust certificates from MOOCs

on CVs. https://goo.gl/Fl9rZv

An innovative form of cheating emerges in MOOCs: What if Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) aren’t

actually courses at all? Our research teams at Harvard and MIT have shown over and over again that MOOC

students look and act nothing like conventional students of either residential universities or online programs. With a

broader age distribution, a more diverse and international student body, wide variation in commitment, and a

surprising number of teachers, the MOOC “classroom” looks like no physical classroom on earth. Now, I and my

colleagues, Curtis Northcutt and Ike Chuang of MIT, have discovered a different novel behavior on the MOOC

frontier: a new form of cheating, that only MOOCs can enable. https://goo.gl/FY99OX

7 tools to help your company get started with big data: Across virtually every industry, businesses are

transitioning to a data-driven approach. But while many are good at collecting data, understanding it is tougher.

These seven tools can help. http://goo.gl/tOsNNO

Is social media messing with children’s morals?: We have all heard complaints that young people are spending

too much time online and not enough time in the “real world” – with studies showing that nearly three quarters of 12

to 15-year-olds in the UK have a social media profile and spend an average of 19 hours a week online. More

worrying, perhaps, than the amount of time spent online, are the findings that suggest social media use can actually

influence users' personality and character. Recent research, for example, shown that there is a link between social

media use and narcissism, and that the use of social networking websites may have an adverse effect on social

decision making and reduce levels of empathy. https://goo.gl/rkcj5N

Google DeepMind: The smart person's guide: Bought by Google in 2014 for 400 million pounds, DeepMind is an

AI platform best known for beating the world champion in the game Go. TechRepublic's comprehensive guide

explains how it works. http://goo.gl/JSQ9Mg

Tesla's Autopilot: The smart person's guide: Autopilot, Tesla's autonomous driving feature, aims to assist drivers

on highways through a system of cameras, sensors, and GPS. This comprehensive guide explains what the concept

really means. http://goo.gl/PYjnbD

New IBM lab-on-a-chip uses nanotechnology to detect cancer, Zika virus faster: A tiny chip can separate

bioparticles and diagnose diseases before symptoms emerge, which could revolutionize the treatment of ailments

from the flu to cancer. http://goo.gl/yve2tw

The future of wearables and their role in the workplace: Wearable technology has ceased to be a novelty and has

now become part of everyday life for many users, and expanding its use into the enterprise is the next logical step. http://goo.gl/gvKvTh

Executive’s guide to the business possibilities of 3D printing (free ebook): 3D printing may hold both promise

and peril, according to industry experts. This latest guide from ZDNet and TechRepublic looks at how this evolving

technology is being used, the benefits it offers, and the concerns it raises. http://goo.gl/Qh5qWJ

6 ways the robot revolution will transform the future of work: TechRepublic spoke to Alec Ross, author of The

Industries of the Future, about the global impact AI and robotics will have on the future of work. http://goo.gl/KxHYPX

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Forthcoming Events

Events Technically Sponsored by Madras Section and Madras Section Societies

2016 International Conference On Renewable Energy And Materials For Sustainability (ICREMS); 20 - 21 Oct

2016 at Noorul Islam University, Nagercoil.

2016 International Conference on Communication and Electronics Systems (ICCES); 21-22 Oct 2016 at PPG

Institute of Technology, Coimbatore. confyy.com/events/icces.php#

2016 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET); 16-17 Dec 2016 at karpagam college of

Engineering, Coimbatore. www.oicget.com

2016 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Research (ICCIC); 15-17 Dec

2016 at Agni College of Technology, Chnannai. http://itfrindia.org/2016ICCIC/

2016 International Conference on Design and Manufacturing (IConDM); 16-17 Dec 2016 at Indian Institute of

Information Technology, Chennai. www.iiitdm.ac.in/icondm16/callfor

2017 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISCO); 5-6 Jan 2017 at Karpagam College

of Engineering, Coimbatore. www.kceisco.com

2017 International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics (ICCCI); 5-7 Jan 2017 at Sri Shakthi

Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore. http://www.iccci.in/

2017 International Conference on Computer, Communication and Signal Processing (ICCCSP); 10 – 11 Jan 2017 at

SSN College of Engineering. icccsp.com/

2017 International Conference on I-SMAC (IoT in Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud); 10-11 Feb 2017 at SCAD

Institute of Technology, Palladam. http://ismac2017.com/venue.html

2017 International Conference on Algorithms, Methodology, Models and Applications in Emerging Technologies

(ICAMMAET); 16 - 18 Feb 2017 at Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai.

2017 Second International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (ICECCT); 22-24

Feb 2017 at SVS College of Engineering, Coimbatore. www.icecct.com

2017 International Conference on Information Communication and Embedded Systems (ICICES); 23-24 Feb 2017

at S.A. Engineering College, Chennai. www.saec.ac.in/icices2017

2017 2nd International Conference on Computing and Communications Technologies (ICCCT); 23-24 Feb 2017

at Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, Chennai. www.sairam.edu.in/iccct17

2017 4th International Conference on Electronics and Communication Systems; 24-25 Feb 2017 at Karpagam

college of Engineering, Coimbatore. www.icecs.in

2017 International Conference on Inventive Communication and Computational Technologies (ICICCT); 10-11 Mar

2017 at Ranganathan Engineering College, Coimbatore. http://icct2017.com/index.html

2017 4th International Conference on Innovations in Information, Embedded and Communication Systems; 16-17

Mar 2017 at Karpagam college of Engineering, Coimbatore. http://iciiecs.in/contact.html

2017 International Conference on Computation of Power, Energy Information and Communication (ICCPEIC);22-

23 Mar 2017 at Adhiparasakthi Engineering College. http://iccpeic.weebly.com

2017 International Conference on Telecommunication, Power Analysis and Computing Techniques (ICTPACT); 6-8

Apr 2017 at Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai.

http://confyy.com/events/icces.php

http://www.oicget.com/

http://itfrindia.org/2016ICCIC/

http://www.iiitdm.ac.in/icondm16/callfor

http://www.kceisco.com/

http://www.iccci.in/

https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=39701

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http://www.saec.ac.in/icices2017

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2017 International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Informatics (ICEI); 11-12 May 2017 at SCAD College

of Engineering and Technology, Tirunelveli. http://icoei.com/index.html

Other Events

ADCOM-2016: 22nd

annual International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications at Bangalore

during 8-10 Sep 2016. http://accsindia.org/category/adcom-2016/

ISC2-2016: 2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference. The flagship conference of the IEEE Smart Cities

Initiative, ISC2 will be held in Trento, Italy, 12-15 Sep 2016. http://events.unitn.it/en/isc2-2016 .

IEEE ProComm during 2-5 Oct 2016 at Austin, Texas. Theme: Communicating Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

http://sites.ieee.org/pcs/procomm2016/

All India Student-Young Professionals-WIE Congress 2016 (AISYWC), 7-9 Oct 2016 at LNM Institute of

Information Technology, Jaipur Rajasthan. Kindly register on or before 7th August, 2016. www.aisywc.in

The 5th IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2016) ; October 11-14, 2016 at Kyoto, Japan

http://www.ieee-gcce.org/2016/index.html

IEEE International Forum on Smart Grids for Smart Cities (SG4SC) that will be held October 16-18, 2016 at Paris,

France. http://www.ieeesg4sc.org/

2016 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 2016) on the theme Disruptive

Technologies, Ethics and Global Development. 21-22 Oct 2016, Trivandrum, Kerala, India http://istas2016.org/

7th International Conference on Transforming Healthcare with IT 2016 is being held on 21-22 Oct 2016, ITC

Chola, Chennai along with 21st annual conference of ISfTeH (International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth).

As the IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter is a supporting organisations of this conference, a discount of 15%

is applicable on the registration fee to the members of IEEE. While registering for the event pl. enter the discount

code as DISCIEEE. http://www.transformhealth-it.org/

BIBE-2016: The 16th annual IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering. Oct 31-Nov 2,

2016, in Taichung, Taiwan http://bibe2016.asia.edu.tw

IEEE India Council is Organizing 4th National Workshop on Cyber Security at Mumbai on 12th and 13th of

November 2016. http://events.hubilo.com/CyberSecurityWorkshop2016

TENCON-2016: The theme for TENCON 2016 is Technologies for Smart Nation and it will be held in Singapore

from 22-25 Nov 2016. Last date for paper submission: 30 May 2016. http://www.tencon2016.org

PEDES 2016: IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems, 14-17 Dec 2016,

Trivandrum, Kerala, India. www.pedes2016.org

International Conference on Smart Cities (ICSC'16) at RGM College of Engineering and Technology, Nandyal,

Andhra Pradesh, India during 15-17 Dec 2016. Last date for paper submission: 15th Sep 2016

http://rgitnandyal.com/ICSC16/

INDICON-2016: 16-18 Dec 2016 at Bangalore. http://www.indicon2016.in

IEEE Bombay Section Symposium-2016 (IBSS-2016). 21-22 Dec 2016 at Vidya Pratishthan's Kamalnayan Bajaj

Institute of Engineering & Technology, Baramati. http://ibss2016.ieeebombay.org/

HTC-2016: Humanitarian Technology Conference. Date: December 21-23, 2016, Venue: Agra, India

http://www.ieeehtc2016.com

9th International Conference on Trends in Industrial Measurements and Automation -TIMA 2017 during 6th,7th &

8th - January, 2017. Last date for paper submission is 15th Nov 2016. http://tima2017.org/

http://icoei.com/index.html

http://accsindia.org/category/adcom-2016/

http://events.unitn.it/en/isc2-2016

http://sites.ieee.org/pcs/procomm2016/

http://www.aisywc.in/

http://www.ieee-gcce.org/2016/index.html

http://www.ieeesg4sc.org/

http://istas2016.org/

http://www.transformhealth-it.org/

http://bibe2016.asia.edu.tw/

http://events.hubilo.com/CyberSecurityWorkshop2016

http://www.tencon2016.org/

http://www.pedes2016.org/

http://rgitnandyal.com/ICSC16/

http://www.indicon2016.in/

http://ibss2016.ieeebombay.org/

http://www.ieeehtc2016.com/

http://tima2017.org/


Announcements

IEEE MAS LINK congratulates IEEE Computer Society, Madras Section Chapter

for receiving the Outstanding Chapter Award for the year 2015 across the globe under the chairmanship of H.R.

Mohan. The nomination entry (for this award) sent in Nov 2015 can be seen at

http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/nomination-entry-for-outstanding-chapter-award-2015.pdf

The Outstanding Chapter Award (OCA) received from IEEE CS HQ was presented by Dr. M. Atmanand, Chairman,

IEEE Madras Section at the AGM of the Section held on 20th

Jul 2016

IEEE MAS LINK Congratulates Mr. Aravindhan Anbazhagan,

Computer Science & Engineering Graduate from Sri Muthukumaran

Institute of Technology (SMIT) for Winning the Prestigious "Larry K.

Wilson Regional Student Activities Award" for the year 2016.

Aravindhan currently serves as Fellow for Teach For India where he

mentors Pre-University students. He is an active volunteer of IEEE &

IEEE Computer Society. He serves as Chair for Student Ambassadors

Program of IEEEmadC. He is also a recipient of Richard E Merwin

Scholarship from IEEE Computer Society.

Larry K Wilson Award is awarded yearly to one Outstanding Volunteer in

Asia Pacific Region. Aravindhan is the first student volunteer from IEEE

Madras Section to win this award.

This annual award given in each Region of IEEE recognises the student

member most responsible for an extraordinary accomplishment associated

with student activities. This Award consists of a customized award

plaque, a digital certificate, and three years of complimentary

membership in IEEE.

IEEEXtreme Programming Competition

IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of IEEE Student members—advised and proctored by an IEEE

member, and often supported by an IEEE Student Branch—compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to

solve a set of programming problems.

For more info on IEEEXtreme: www.ieee.org/xtreme

IEEEXtreme 10.0 will be held on 22 October 2016. Save the date.

Registration for IEEEXtreme 10.0 is now open!. Register your team now..

Registration link: http://xtreme.vtools.ieee.org

http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/nomination-entry-for-outstanding-chapter-award-2015.pdf

http://www.ieee.org/xtreme

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IEEE Computer Society Awards 2016 – Call For Nominations

Featuring Two Education Awards:

The Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Education Award is presented for outstanding

contributions to undergraduate education through teaching and service.

The Taylor L. Booth Education Award is presented for an outstanding record in computer science and

engineering education as evidenced by achieving recognition as a teacher, writing an influential text, and

inspiring others to a career in computer science and engineering education.

Nominations for the Computer Entrepreneur Award and Computer Pioneer Award:

The Computer Entrepreneur Award honors the technical and entrepreneurial leaders who are responsible

for the growth of the computer industry.

The Computer Pioneer Award honors individuals whose contributions to the development of the computer

field occur at least 15 years earlier.

The Society is also seeking nominations for its achievement awards in Standards, Service, Computer Science

& Engineering:

The Harry H. Goode Award recognizes achievements in the information processing field, either a single

contribution of theory, design or technique, or the accumulation of important contributions.

The W. Wallace McDowell Award honors outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical,

innovative contributions within the computing field.

The Technical Achievement Award is presented for outstanding and innovative contributions to computer

and information science and engineering or computer technology, usually within the past 10, and not more

than 15 years.

The Hans Karlsson Award is presented in recognition of outstanding skills and dedication to diplomacy,

team facilitation and joint achievement, in the development or promotion of standards in the computer

industry where individual aspirations, corporate competition, and organizational rivalry could otherwise be

counter to the benefit of society.

The Richard E. Merwin Award for Distinguished Service is presented for outstanding service to the

profession at large, including significant service to the IEEE Computer Society or its predecessor

organizations.

The Harlan D. Mills Award recognizes researchers and practitioners who have demonstrated long-standing,

sustained, and impactful contributions to software engineering practice and research through the application

of sound theory.

The IEEE-CS/Software Engineering Institute Watts S. Humphrey Software Process Achievement

Award (Joint Award by CS/SEI) recognizes software professionals or teams responsible for an

improvement to their organization’s ability to create and evolve software-dependent systems.

Full Awards List at https://awards.computer.org/ana/award/viewAwards.action

Nomination Deadline: 15th

Oct 2016

To nominate, pl. visit https://awards.computer.org/ana/award/viewHomepage.action

Details of Funds transferred from IEEE HQ to IEEE Student Branches through Madras Section

in Aug 2016

Sl. No College Name Amount (Rs) Remarks

1 St. Joseph's Institute of Technology 33,640 Fund for RAS chapter Inauguration &

Technical events

2 Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College 16,820 IEEE WIE student branch Affinity Group

Award

http://www.computer.org/web/awards/cse-undergrad-teaching?t=1

http://www.computer.org/web/awards/booth?t=1

http://www.computer.org/web/awards/entrepreneur?t=1

http://www.computer.org/web/awards/pioneer?t=1

http://www.computer.org/web/awards/goode?t=1

http://www.computer.org/web/awards/mcdowell?t=1

http://www.computer.org/web/awards/technical-achievement?t=1

http://www.computer.org/web/awards/karlsson?t=1

https://www.computer.org/web/awards/merwin?t=1

http://www.computer.org/web/awards/mills?t=1

http://www.computer.org/web/awards/humphrey-spa?t=1

http://www.computer.org/web/awards/humphrey-spa?t=1

https://awards.computer.org/ana/award/viewAwards.action

https://awards.computer.org/ana/award/viewHomepage.action


Financial Assistance extended by IEEE Madras Section to SBs to organize events

SB College Name Event Date Topic Amount (Rs) Madras Inst. of Technology 15-17, Dec 2015 Seventh International Conference on

Advanced Computing - (ICoAC2015) 5000.00

Dr. M.G.R. Educational &

Research Institute 21-22, Apr 2016 Crossroads 2016, Innovations starts here

(National Level) 5000.00

IEEE Email Security Alert: Beware of Phishing Attempts Targeting IEEE Leadership Positions

Recently, IEEE has become aware of email scams or phishing attempts where IEEE volunteers are requested to send

money or to provide access to sensitive information which the attackers may then use to conduct fraudulent or

malicious activities.

Attackers may send you email that looks like it is coming from legitimate sources, using actual names and email

addresses of high-level IEEE leaders like Society Presidents, Section Chairs, and Conference Organizers. For

example, the attacker may pose as an IEEE volunteer and ask you to transfer money or to reply with bank account

information. In these situations, the email address used by the attacker may even look like it is coming from a

legitimate @ieee.org address or an address you may be familiar with.

To protect yourself against these types of attacks the IEEE IT Security and Legal and Compliance Departments

would like to offer the following tips and best practices:

Do not click on links or attachments received from unknown senders. Keep in mind that you could compromise

your computer system and any personal or business information stored in it.

Be familiar with and follow IEEE payment processes. If someone asks you to do something inconsistent with

these processes, do not do it.

Be careful of emails asking you to act immediately, especially if something sounds too good to be true. Think

before taking any action.

When verifying the sender, do not use the information in the suspicious email.

Trust your instincts. If a request appears to be coming from someone you know, but just doesn’t feel right,

contact that person using a different method (e.g. if the unusual request comes through email, call them on the

phone). Use the IEEE Online Roster for contact information. http://www.ieee.org/roster.

Be careful how much information you share on social media sites and do not share personally identifiable

information or passwords through non-secure communication platforms.

If you receive an email, call or text requesting that you take an action, even if it is consistent with the responsibilities

of your current IEEE leadership role, but you are unsure if it is legitimate, please notify your supporting IEEE

business unit and make them aware of the situation.

For additional information about targeted email scams: please refer to the following Spectrum article: Fighting

Today’s Targeted Email Scams.

If you have questions about this mailing or need assistance, please visit our https://supportcenter.ieee.org to view

the FAQs on Phishing Attempts ~ or ~ reach out to the Contact Center where a service professional can assist you.

Jonathan Wiggins

Intellectual Property Attorney

IEEE Legal and Compliance Department

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Senior Director Security & Network Management

IEEE Information Technology

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2016 IEEE Annual Elections

The Elections process for the year 2016 is on and last date to vote is 3rd

Oct 2016. This time, along with the elections

for various positions in IEEE, a new item relating to constitutional amendments is included for voting by members.

This particular item appears to have opinions among a large cross section of IEEE members and society chapter

members. Members are getting emails from various IEEE OUs. As a specimen, we have included one such email

received from IEEE Communications Society to its member. We request our members to have a closer look at the

points and act judicially and vote without fail.

Mail from President-Elect, IEEE Communications Society to the members of IEEE COMSOC

Dear IEEE ComSoc Members,

First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude for your trust in electing me as your

future President. I can assure you that as your next President, I will do my very best to serve you while bringing the

most value to members.

Second and as you are likely aware by now, voting in the annual IEEE election has begun. Members are asked to

vote on a constitutional amendment that would fundamentally change IEEE. The matter has become quite

contentious within the IEEE leadership.

The overwhelming majority of IEEE's technical societies, 26 of them, including the Communications Society, plus

many sections, have expressed opposition to the constitutional amendment at the level of their leadership. Six past

IEEE presidents, among other leaders (see the signatories below) have also expressed their opposition.

During its 26 May 2016 meeting, the Communications Society's Board of Governors (BoG) carefully reviewed and

considered the proposed IEEE Constitutional Amendment change. As a result, the BoG unanimously passed this

motion:

"The BoG of the IEEE Communications Society opposes the proposed constitutional amendment and modified

board structure."

The reasons behind the position include the following:

1. The problem statement that the proposed amendment is attempting to solve is not well-defined and the

proposed solution adds complexity;

2. The existing IEEE Constitution offers alternative, less complex ways of accomplishing the intended

improvements;

3. The risk associated with a major constitutional change is not clearly outweighed by its possible benefits;

4. There are serious risks that the Bylaws changes induced by the Constitutional Amendments will reduce

the visibility and control of IEEE societies and geographical regions on key strategic decisions made by

the IEEE Board of Directors for the future of the IEEE.

5. There is a risk that the proposed changes, like the Constitutional Amendment, will shift too much power

from IEEE members to IEEE Corporate Staff.

Additional reasons for opposing the constitutional amendment and the proposed restructuring may be found at the

"Loyal Opposition's" website and at the Washington, DC Section's website. It is important that you are informed

about the possible consequences if this Amendment were to pass. The possible benefits of the amendment are

discussed at the amendment website.

We urge each one of you to read about the proposed changes, make up your own mind about them, and dutifully

exercise your right to vote to influence IEEE's future.

You can access the ballot here.

Best Regards,

Dr. Khaled B. Letaief

President-Elect, IEEE Communications Society

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IEEE R10 Awards – Call for nominations

You are aware that the IEEE Region 10 has a strong Awards and Recognition Program, which has evolved over the

years.

Nominations for 2016 R10 awards were invited in March 2016. Selections were completed for 14 of these awards,

and the awards were presented on 25th

August 2016 in Bengaluru during the inauguration of R10 Golden Jubilee

Celebration.

You can still submit Nominations for the NINE awards, which includes three Student Activities Awards, listed

below.

In case you have already submitted a nomination for any of these awards in response to the earlier Call For

Nominations issued on 22 March 2016, please note that you need not submit nomination again; and your earlier

sent Nomination will be considered.

You are invited to submit completed nomination forms for these nine awards before 15th October 2016

1. R10 Outstanding Small Section Award Plaque & US$ 1000

2. R10 Outstanding Sub-Section Award Plaque & US$ 500

Submission Guideline for the above awards:

Nomination form can be found at: http://www.ieeer10.org/activities/awards.html to be submitted directly to

R10 Awards & Recognition Committee Chair, Dr. Prasad Kodali, [email protected] and cc. Ewell Tan at

[email protected]

Note: For the Outstanding Sub-Section Award, use the nomination form which is used for Outstanding

Section Award; but clearly identify that the nomination is for Outstanding Sub-Section Award

3, 4, 5. R10 Student Activities Awards

- R10 SA Student Branch Award Plaque

- R10 SA Outstanding Student Volunteer Award Certificate

- R10 SA Outstanding Volunteer Award Certificate

Nomination form can be found at: http://www.ieeer10.org/activities/awards/sac-awards.html , to be submitted

directly to R10 Student Activities Coordinator, Dr. Rajesh Ingle, [email protected] and R10 Student

Representative, Ms. Mehvish Zahoor, [email protected], and cc. Ewell Tan at [email protected]

6. R10 LM Affinity Group Award Plaque

Nomination form can be found at: http://www.ieeer10.org/activities/awards/life-member-awards.html , to be

submitted directly to R10 Life Member Coordinator, Prof. V. K. Damodaran , [email protected] and cc. Ewell Tan at

[email protected]

7. R10 EA Section Affinity Group Award Plaque

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Nomination form can be found at: http://www.ieeer10.org/activities/awards/ea-awards.html , to be submitted

directly to R10 EA Coordinator, Dr. Supavadee Aramvith, [email protected] , and cc. Ewell Tan at

[email protected]

8. R10 Outstanding Section for Industry Relations Plaque

9. R10 Industry Relations Outstanding Volunteer Award Certificate

Nomination form can be found at: http://www.ieeer10.org/activities/industry-relation.html, to be submitted

directly to R10 Industry Relations Coordinator, Mrs. Pamela Kumar , [email protected], and cc. Ewell Tan at

[email protected]

Selections for the above nine awards will be made during the last week of October 2016. Please submit completed

Nominations by the deadline date of 15th October 2016.

Warm regards

Dr V Prasad Kodali

2016 R10 Awards & Recognition Committee Chair

ICT Quiz

The IEEE Computer Society Madras Chapter along with IEEE PCS will be organising a ICT Quiz completion as a

part of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of IEEE Computer Society. The Quiz will be held in six regional

centers namely: Chennai, Tiruchengode, Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, Madurai, Trichy depending on the registrations.

While the top three regional winners will get cash prizes, the toppers (1st position) will participate in the finals which

will be held at Chennai. Attractive prizes for the winners and Certificate of participation to all team members are

planned. We are looking for SBs in the proposed regional centers to come forward to host the Quiz. The host SB

will be suitably recognized by IEEE CS & IEEE PCS. While the formal announcement regarding the Quiz will be

made in the first week of Sep 2016. The SBs interested to host the regional center quiz may pl. email to

[email protected] OR [email protected]

IEEE PCS Workshops

IEEE PCS Madras Chapter proposes to organize a series of workshops covering Career and Communication Skills,

Employability, Interviewing techniques, Resume Preparation, SOPs for Higher Studies at various student branches.

These workshops will be for duration of about four hours in two sessions of two hours each. The SBs interested in

organising these workshops may pl. email their interest to [email protected] plan the series.

IEEE Day 2016 Celebrations

The IEEE Day 2016 at Madras Section will be celebrated in Oct 2016. In this connection, all the student branches

are requested to organize events/activities to popularize the vision and mission of IEEE in localities in and around

their SBs and send us a detailed report. The SBs organized the best activity will be recognized at the IEEE Day. All

members are requested to send their suggestions if any with regard to the celebrations and events to be organized

during the one day IEEE Day Celebrations to be held at Chennai. Please send them by email to

[email protected] with subject “IEEE Day 2016 suggestions”.

Further, IEEE Madras Section will recognize the members elevated to higher grades, SBs started the Society

Chapters and Affinity Groups, members received awards/recognitions from R10/HQ during the IEEE Day. Pl.

communicate about your elevation, SC/AG starting and awards/recognitions to IEEE Madras Section office by email

to [email protected] with subject “IEEE Day 2016 Recognitions”

Workshop on 'The Art of Persuasion'

IEEE Region 10 Young Professionals along with IEEE Madras Section and IEEE PCS Madras will be organising

the above workshop with Mr. Anson Ben, Founder – WinnersOrbit as resource person. The participants will learn

the Secrets to Persuasive Conversations, Powerful Presentations and Cracking any Interview in this workshop. The

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key elements the workshop will cover: 1. Persuasive Conversations and Presentations; Answering the Most

Common Questions in an Interview; and 3. Research About Interviewing Companies. Pl. await for the formal

communication.

Forthcoming IEEE Madras Section Events

IEEE MAS Student Paper Contest

IEEE MAS Student Branch Officers Meet

IEEE MAS Entrepreneurship Summit

Please await for the formal communications relating to these events in Sep 2016

IEEE India Initiative for Entrepreneurship Activities Funding

The IEEE India Initiative for Entrepreneurship Activities will fund the following student branches with INR 4000

each for organizing entrepreneurship activities.

Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai

S A College of Engineering, Chennai

B S Abdur Rahman University, Chennai

Sona College of Technology, Salem

Contacting IEEE MAS LINK

Pl. send all your contributions, feedback and communications relating to the newsletter IEEE MAS LINK by email

to [email protected]

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IEEE Geographic Unit Formation Policies and Petitions

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Student Branch Officer Responsibilities and Administration

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/officers.html

IEEE Student Branch Manual and Counselor Guide (PDF, 285 KB)

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IEEE Member-Get-a-Member (MGM) Program


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Guidelines for submitting reports and articles to get published in the IEEE MAS LINK newsletter Submit the matter for each activity separately. Do not include more than one activity in a single report.

Reports on activities to be sent within a max of six weeks of the activity. Reports received late may not be

considered.

The matter may be in doc / rtf / txt format. Other formats including in pdf, jpg, zip will not be considered.

Use SINGLE column format.

DO NOT embed the photograph in the document relating to reports. However, images referred in articles

may be embedded at appropriate places in the article document.

Send ONE photo per activity. Send the photo separately even if the photo is embedded in the report.

Preferred format is “jpg”. Pl. avoid sending the photos in “bmp”,“png” formats.

Photographs in digital form SHOULD NOT exceed 1024 pixels in width and size restriction is about 300

KB. Larger than this size will not be considered. You may use the Picture Menu in the Microsoft Office

Picture Manager to crop and re-size the pictures.

Provide the sender’s name, full affiliation, membership no. and email id at the end of the document and in

the email.

Send the matter by email with the subject “Report on <Event Name> held on <date of the event> at

<College name in short>” For Example: Report on Symposium held on 6th

Feb 2016 at KSRCT. Another

Example: Report on TAP held on 9th

Feb 2016 at Kongu. One more Example: Report on Tech Talk held

on 5th

Feb at NEC.

Send the matter to the email at [email protected] Pl. note that the matters sent to other email ids

may not be considered.

Submit the matter by 10th of the month to facilitate inclusion in that month’s issue of LINK.

We may ignore the submitted materials, if they do not follow the above guidelines.

IEEE Madras Section membership status as on 1st August 2016

Affiliate 15

Associate Member 54

Fellow 4

Graduate Student Member 687

Life Member 5

Life Senior 11

Member 2009

Senior Member 177

Student Member 4029

Total 6991

For Private Circulation

IEEE MAS LINK Newsletter of the IEEE Madras Section

Vol. 13 No.7 :: Aug 2016

Editorial Team

Mr. H.R. Mohan, Chief Editor

Mr. Prashant R. Nair, Editor

Mr. M. Arun, Dr. M.A. Atmanand, Dr. N.R. Alamelu, Dr. P.A. Manoharan, Mr. A. Ashok Vardhan

IEEE Madras Section

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