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Volume: 21 #4 October-December 2012

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Kerala Section October-December 2012

“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”

How to discover this in the New Year 2013?

Really the Old Year has gone. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. When we look back, yesterday was a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But we can make every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope if we live well today. To attain success in our endeavour, ‘we must first improve, to improve we must first practice, to practice we must first learn, and to learn we must first fail’. It is a basic statement. We have to accept finite disappointment without losing infinite hope. It is because, for a majority of people, failure is an opportunity to begin again more wisely and sensibly. Anyhow, we all have to do our duties during the coming twelve months of the year promptly without fail. For this we are supposed to live each day as we would climb a mountain with an occasional glance toward the summit keeping the goal in our mind, observing panoramic views around us thus diminishing the exhaustion of climbing.

New Year is a time for new beginnings and learning experiences for all of us. We have to begin with doing great things by impulse bringing together a series of small things. That we don’t have enough time is a lame excuse. As, we have exactly the same number of hours per day as availed by those who had done wonders in their lifetime. ‘Time has no divisions to mark its passage. There is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year’. In this juncture, what we always require at the start of a new adventure is not to wait for time but initiate with motivations and boosting our morale. Many occasions become more precious when we have things to ponder upon. Our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. Along with this, the stories of the past courage can offer hope and provide inspiration in us.

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Kerala SectionOctober-December 2012

Contents

IEEE Kerala Section, Thiruvananthapuram Office: ‘Harmonieee’, 2695-5, Ambujavilasom Road, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 001

Chairman Vice Chairman Secretary Treasurer Satish Babu Srinivasan R K.B. Senthilkumar Sarada Jayakrishnan [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Home page: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/kerala | e-mail: [email protected] e-group: [email protected] | Phone: +91-471-2473515

IEEE India Office: Prestige Meridian-11, Unit No. S-306, Block-2, Level-3, MG Road, Bangalore - 560 001

International Headquarters: The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York - 10016-5997, USA.

Volume: 21 #4October-December 2012

A House Journal of IEEE Kerala Section

42 Amrita, Kollam

46 TKMCE, Kollam54 Mohandas, Anad

56 SIST, Vellanad

59 Diary of Events62 Forthcoming Events

02 Editorial04 Chairman’s Message07 Malabar News

10 IEEE Annual Report 201216, 23 Society Reports

22 NT’s Column

Ultra-stretchable Fibers34 GOLD - CEC2 Report Student Branch Activities38 MES, Kuttippuram41 CE, Kidangoor42 CE, Chengannur

Dear Members

It is the end of another eventful year for IEEE Kerala Section. The year 2012 has brought a significant amount of recognition to the Section, and has ended with one of the largest events that IEEE Kerala Section has organized so far, INDICON 2012.

INDICON 2012 was a resounding success not just from the number of papers presented--which was significant enough, at about 900 submissions and close to 240 final presentations - but also from several other perspectives. First, it brought together a set of senior IEEE Dignitaries, including the 2013 President, Peter Staecker and a past IEEE President, Michael Lightner, the IEEE CS 2012 & 2013 Presidents, and senior IEEE staff as well as global and R10 leaders in different domains to Kerala Section. Second, it provided a rich set of ancillary events including the first-ever IEEE CS All-India Student Congress, GOLD Entrepreneurship Summit, the WiE track, the E4C/SIGHT track, and the Educational Symposium. Thirdly, several India Council events took place during the Conference, with participation from several Sections from around the country.

It is gratifying to note that these set of events were managed by volunteers from the Section without any external event manager on behalf of the Section, I thank the Advisory Committee members, Track Chairs, Reviewers, Chairs of different Committees, and volunteers from IEEE and other institutions, who were instrumental in planning, organizing and conducting this excellent event. We are also thankful to the excellent co-operation and support from the Director, Principal, faculty members and volunteers of Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, which hosted the event.

Kerala Section has also made its impact in terms of most metrics of activity within IEEE, including membership growth, size, activity profile, affinity groups (such as WIE and GOLD), student activities, technical society activities, and humanitarian activities. Some areas where Kerala Section can make improvements are enhancement of share of professional members, increasing the number of technical societies and affinity groups, increasing Senior Members & Fellows, ensuring even more awards & recognitions, and finding roles for Section members in higher-level IEEE structures. We have to focus on these areas for the

Chairman’s MessageChairman’s Message

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future, while continuing the current vibrancy of activities.

It is with a profound sense of satisfaction that I step down from two years of chairing IEEE Kerala Section. I thank all members for the co-operation extended to me and my team. I request members to continue their contributions to the Section and help the incoming leaders to take the Section to even greater heights.

Wishing all members a very productive 2013!

Satish Babu Chair, Kerala Section

Moreover, when we think about life it is not easy for any one of us to encounter. Challenges are more than what we expect in general. Throughout our journey in life we have to face numerous challenges, problems and setbacks. Sometimes new challenges need a whole new set of strategies to survive and prosper in the venture. For this, we must have perseverance and above all, confidence in ourselves. Knowing how to solve problems, how to get by, how to identify an advantage and seize it are all qualities we inherited, hidden skills we have to rediscover. But to enhance this, functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy. If we accept that we are persistent, strong and resilient we will keep trying until we prove our beliefs are true. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that thing, at whatever cost, must have to be gained to craft every tomorrow a vision of hope.

I hope we are prepared for the fabulous and dedicated volunteerism through our professional body in the New Year. Wish you all a very happy and prosperous new beginning for more innovations and achievements in the current year too, especially in the global arena.

‘To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe’.

- K. Gopalan Nair

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Awards & Achievements - 2012� S Gopakumar- Chair, EAB was nominated in MGA IT coordination

overseeing committee.� VK Damodaran- was awarded R10 Historical Achievement Award.

Congratulations!

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IEEE members can stay current in their chosen

technology profession and keep connected to peers

by joining an IEEE Society in their

area of interest.

IEEE Kerala Section Slate for 2013The Nomination Committee of the IEEE Kerala Section has finalized the slate of office bearers for 2013.Chairman: Srinivasan R, Director, CellApp Technologies, 115

Nila, Technopark, Tvpm 695581.Vice Chairman: Unni Sankar, Associated General Manager, NeST,

A-3, Periyar, Technopark, Tvpm - 695581.Secretary: Sabarinath Pillai, Asst Professor, Dept of ECE, School

of Electronics, SJCET, Palai.Treasurer: Sameer S M, Asst Professor, Dept of Electronics and

Communication Engg, NIT, Calicut.If there are any additional nominations by petition, it may be

submitted to Nomination Committee, IEEE Kerala Section, P.O. Box 77, GPO, (Harmonieee, Ambujavilasom Road), Thiruvananthapuram – 695 001. Kindly note that five or more voting members or 2% of Section membership, whichever is fewer, must sign the petition. If additional nominations are made, election will be held during the Annual General Meeting on Saturday, 05 January 2013.Important Dates: Close nominations by petition : 31 December 2012

Sasi PM, Amarnath Raja, AK Unnikrishnan (Nomination Committee Members)

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Malabar Subsection News

Road Map to Success in Engineering Studies

As an outreach programme of IEEE, a one day programme on “Road map to Success in Engineering Studies” was organized jointly by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Malabar Subsection and Institution of Engineers Kozhikode Centre on 16th June 2012. It was inaugurated by A Achuthan, Civil Engineer and Environmentalist at 10.00 hrs at Sports Council Conference Hall, Mananchira, Kozhikode. In his inaugural address, he highlighted the need for social commitment on the part of the engineers. The

commitment to profession has two sides, one to oneself and the other to the society at large. Only those who keep both in their professional activities will be respected by all.

In the morning session, S Gopa-kumar, Former Deputy Director VSSC Thiruvananthapuram gave a presentation for the need for good communication and interpersonal skills for engineers. Even if you are technically knowledgeable, unless you have good communication skills, you are not going to be a successful professional, he stated. K P Mohandas, former Dean, N I T

Inaugural function: Achuthan speaking

A section of the audience

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Annual General Meeting - 2012

Calicut and now at M E S College of Engg gave a detailed talk on how to study engineering. He emphasized the need for regularity in studies, importance of learning things by doing and using the internet to overcome the inadequacies of the institution and faculty by extensive use of learning materials avail-able free of cost. Saji Kuriakose, Professor M E S College of Engg talked about the need for integrat-ing managerial skills such as time management and leadership initia-tives in the engineering studies. Regular updating of information is absolutely essential in this era of information explosion.

After noon sessions were on “Career Paths and Prospects”. M P Sebastian, Professor IIM Kozhikode presented discussed the prospects for Computer Science, Information Technology, and Electrical Engg and Electronics Engg branches.

T K Suresh Babu, Professor & Head, Training and Placement, NIT Calicut spoke at length on the career and placement opportuni-ties of Mechanical and Production Engg branches. The third presenta-tion by Anilkumar PP, Associate Professor Architecture N I T Calicut was on Civil Engg and Architecture Engg. He said there will soon be an acute shortage of qualified civil engineers and architects in the near future. Musfir from M E S College of Engg and Yasir from NITC, both student members shared their views and experience with their younger friends knocking at the doors of Engineering colleges. Both the sessions were followed by active question answers from aspir-ing students and parents. More than 150 aspiring engineering students attended the sessions.

Reported by K P Mohandas, Chair, IEEE Malabar Subsection

Dear Member,It is proposed to hold the Annual General Meeting of IEEE Kerala Section on Saturday, 05 January 2013 at The Mascot Hotel, Tvpm. You are cordially invited, along with your spouse, to attend the Annual General Meeting and the Dinner thereafter.

AGenDA17.30 hrs to 19.30 hrs

1. Annual General Meeting2. Welcome – Vice Chair3. Pledge – Code of ethics4. Annual Report - Secretary5. Financial Report - Treasurer6. Student Branch Reports - SAC7. Address by Chairman

8. Election of Officers for 20139. Address by the Newly Elected Chair10. Felicitations11. Future Activities12. General Discussion13. Vote of Thanks14. Dinner

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Malabar Subsection News

Annual General MeetingThe Annual General Meeting of

the Institution of Electrical and Elec-tronics Engineers (IEEE) was held at National Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC) today 29th Dec. K P Mohandas, Chair presided over the function. Sameer, Secretary presented the annual report which highlighted the major activities of the subsection such as “Roadmap to Success in Engineering Studies’, an awareness programme for engi-neering aspirants held at Calicut, one day seminar on “Cyber Crimes Detection and Prevention” held at Govt College of Engineering Kannur and Teacher In Service Programme held at five different centres in Malabar etc. Mohammed Rajeef, Malabar Hub student Executive presented the major activities of the different student branches in Malabar. The hub initiatives were a vibrant student branch challenge initiative, news letters such as Malabar Chronicle and projects for humanitarian

help to villages without electri-city in the tribal areas of Wynad. The student chairpersons of IEEE student branches in NIT Calicut (Yasir K), Govt Engineering College Kozhikode (Jijin), MEA College on Engg (Bobi Mathew), KMCTE Engineering College (Nikhil) NSS College of Engg Palakkad (Sunder R) and College of Engg Thrikkaripur (Nikhil Ganesan) presented their major activities and plans of action for next year. Jyothis M Thomas presented a report on the activities of the Women in Engg (WIE) affinity group. The new officers of the subsection were elected unanimously, Abraham T Mathew (Chair), Lillykutty Jacob (Vice Chair) both of NITC, Nadaku-mar R of National Institute of Elec-tronics and Information Techno- logy (NIELIT) (Secretary) and Gilesh MP - Treasurer (Wynad Govt Engg College) are the new office bearers.

Reported by K P Mohandas, Chair, IEEE Malabar Subsection

Awards & Achievements - 2012� Ranjith C of KMCT College of Engineering has bagged 2012 IEEE

Outstanding Branch Counsellor and Advisor Award.� Ranjith Nair & Jaison Abey Sabu has bagged the prestigious 2012

MGA GOLD Achievement Award.Congratulations!

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Highlights 2012Conference Activities • Organised INDICON 2012 • Four other International Conferences with Papers in IEEE Explore.

• Upcoming: 8 International Conferences in 2013 (papers in IEEE Xplore).

High Impact Initiatives • Conference Activity Board formed to oversee the conference activities.

• Guidelines framed by CAB to approve conference sponsorship request.

• Restructuring of Student activities to align with newly formed

IEEE Kerala Section

Annual Report 2012GOLDen Year of Achievements & Activities

Reported by: KB Senthilkumar, Secretary

Subsections.Vibrant GOLD activities • Continuing Education Congress • Teacher-In Service Program. • SAIGOM

Awards & RecognitionsNumerous awards & representation in IEEE HQ/ MGA/ RIO EXECOM • Pane has completed 50 years in IEEE.

• RIO Historical Achievement Award - VK Damodaran.

• 2012 MGA IEEE GOLD Hall of Fame Award - Kerala GOLD.

• 2012 MGA GOLD Achievement Award - Ranjith Nair & Jaison Abey Sabu.

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• 2012 IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award- Ranjith, KMCT College of Engineering.

• RIO GOLD Individual Achievement Award - Ranjith Nair.

• Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award - Akshay M, KMCT College of Engineering.

• IAS Chapters and Membership Development Student Master Thesis Contest 2012 - III Place- Aathira KV RIT, Kottayam.

2012 Richard e Merwin Student Scholarship • Rahul Raveendranath, College of Engineering Trivandrum.

• Pavin Prasad Abraham, RIT Kottayam.

• Akshay M, KMCT College of Engineering, Kozhikode.

• Farish C V, KMCT College of Engineering , Kozhikode.

• Ajay Mohan M, RIT, Kottayam. • Ramesh N Nair, Amrita, Kollam

Ieee Student enterprise Award • St. Joseph College of Engineering & Technology, Palai.

• Government Engg. College, Thrissur.

• Amrita Vishwa Vidhyapeetham, Kollam.

• Vimal Jyothi Engineering College, Kannur.

Section Representation in Ieee International Forums • IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Humanitarian Technologies

- Amarnath Raja, Chair

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• IEEE SIGHT - Satish Babu, Chair, Steering Committee • IEEE Communication Society

- Sasi PM, Member, Strategic Planning Committee, & Vice Chair, Technical Activities, Asia Pacific • MGA EXECOM

- Gopakumar, IT Coordination and Overseeing Committee - Jaison Abey Sabu, Vtools Committee • RIO EXECOM

- Rayees Amar Nishad, GOLD Coordinator - Ajin Baby, GOLD WebmasterInternational Conference on Innovations in Social and Humanitarian engineeringHighlights • 07-09 December 2012/Rajagiri School of Engg & Technology/ Kochi.

• Organised by Kerala Section in association with support Kochi Subsection.

• 211 oral and 99 poster presen-tations were accepted from 875 presentations.

• The event was graced by the presence of Peter Staecker IEEE President 2013.

• John Walz/ President/ IEEE Computer Society.

• David Alan Grier/ President -

2013 IEEE Computer Society. • Matt Loeb/ Staff Executive/ IEEE. • Conference was inaugurated by Peter Staecker and Keynote address was delivered by Gangan Prathap/ Director/ CSIR.

• Conference had 5 tutorials and 4 plenary talks.

• Conference was concluded with Valedictory address by John Walz/ President/ IEEE Computer Society.

Associated events • Entrepreneurship Meet by IEEE Kerala GOLD.

• All India IEEE Computer Society Student Congress

• Education Symposium - Crisis in Engineering education in Kerala - causes and solutions.

• WIE Congress • IEEE Standards Association Track. • E4C/SIGHT Track

ICGT12 - International Conference on Green TechnologiesHighlights18-20 Dec 2012, MBCET/ Trivandrum

Organised by Kerala Section in association with MBCET/ Trivandrum Out of 179 papers submitted 74 selected for presentation Keynote address was delivered by R Unnikrishnan/ California State University/ USA.

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Conference had 7 tutorials and 13 invited talks.ICDSe - International Conference on Data Science & engineeringHighlights • 18-20 July 2012, CUSAT/ Kochi. • Organised by IEEE Computer Society Kerala Chapter in association with CUSAT.

• Out of 179 papers submitted 42 selected for presentation.

• Conference was inaugurated by Ramachandran Thekkedath/ Vice Chancellor/ CUSAT.

• A pre conference tutorial on "Managing Bigdata with Apache/ Hadoop and MapReduce " was handled by Vijay Nair.

• Conference also had 5 Invited talks from Industry and Academics.

AICeRA - International Conference on engineering education: Innovative Practices & Future TrendsHighlights • 19-21 July 2012, Amal Jyothi Engineering College/ Kottayam.

• Organised by Kerala Section in association with Amal Jyothi Engineering College.

• Among 208 papers received/ 60 papers were selected for oral presentation and 40 for poster presentations.

• Conference was inaugurated by Rob Reilly/ President/ IEEE

Education Society. • Panel discussions on the Current Status of Engineering Education Issues and Solutions and Scope of International Co-operation in Engineering Education was also held.

• Conference had 13 keynote addresses and 48 contributory presentations.

ICTee - International Conference on Technology enhanced educationHighlights • 03-05 January 2012, Amrita Vishwa Vidhyapeetham/ Kollam.

• Organised by Kerala Section in association with Amritha Vishwa Vidhyapeetham.

• Out of 400 papers submitted 62 selected for oral and 67 for poster presentation.

• Conference was inaugurated by Prof Muhammad Yunus/ Grameen Bank/ Nobel Laureate.

• Conference had 18 Invited talks/3 Keynote addresses and 6 workshops.

Upcoming International Conferences

International Conference on Microelectronics / Communications and Renewable Energy (MiCR 2013)-20-22 March 2013/ Amal Jyothi College Of Engineering/ Kanjirappally.

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International Multi-Confer-ence on Automation/ Computing/Communications/ Control and Compressed Sensing (IMAC4S)- 22-23 March 2013/ sjcet/ Kottayam.

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT-2013) 11-12 April 2013/ N.I. Centre for Higher Education/ Thuckalay.

International Conference on Power Electronics Application to Power Systems (PEAPS 2013) 07-09 August 2013/ ToCH/ Arakunnam.

Global Humanitarian Techno-logy Conference - Satellite Series (GHTC-SAS-2013). August 2013/ The Mascot Hotel/ Trivandrum.

International Conference on Advances in Computing & Communications (ICACC-2013) 29-31 August 2013/ Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology.

International Conference on Control/ Communication & Computing (ICCC 2013) 13-15 Dec 2013/ College of Engineering/ Trivandrum.

International Conference on Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems (RAICS 2013) - 19-21 December 2013/ The Mascot Hotel/ Trivandrum (Association with IIST/ Trivandrum)national Seminar on electricity Management & RegulationHighlights- 17-18 March 2012, TKMIT/

Karuvelil & TKMCE/ Kollam.- Organised in association with

Dept. of EEE/ TKMIT & Institution of Engineers (India)/ Kollam Local Centre.

- Seminar was Inaugurated by Alexander Varghese/ former UNIDO representative for Kenya & Eritrea.

- Keynote Address was delivered by Prof V K Damodaran/ Director General/ INGCORE.

- Seminar had 7 invited technical talks and 2 panel discussions chaired by experts from power & energy sector.

Continuing education Congress 208-12 Oct 2012, SJCeT PalaiHighlights- a five day technical training

workshop series targeting the academia.

- Conducted by IEEE Kerala GOLD/ Educational Activities Committee/ Professional Activi-ties Committee and St.Joseph's College of Engineering and Technology with the support of IEEE RIO Educational Activities Committee.

- 57 participants including 27 faculty from different Engineering colleges and 30 post graduate students from various streams of Electronics engineering attended the congress.

Participation in Global eventsRIO WIE Congress 2012,

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Bhimavaram, 05-07 March 2012.- Shanthi & RayeesAmar Nishad IEEE Symposium on Pre University

Teacher Training, Tampa, Florida , USA , 18th - 20th May, 2012

- Ranjith & Namith Najeeb IEEE Computer Society Annual

Meetings, Seattle, June 2012- Satish Babu IEEE Global Humanitarian

Technology Conference (GHTC 2012)

- Satish Babu & Ramesh N Nair IEEE ANTS 2012 December 16-19, Bangalore

- B S ManojMember RelationsSection Newsletter- Four quarterly issues of the IEEE

Kerala Newsletter have been published.

Section website- http://www.ieee.ora/keralaLINK website- htttp://www.ieee-link.orqGOLD website- http://sites.ieee.ora/kerala-qold/Email- Email Group of IEEE Kerala members at [email protected] E-Notice facility of HQ utilized to broadcast messagesSocial Media- IEEE Kerala Section Group in Linkedin

Inter Societal RelationsIEEE Kerala Section is continuing its unique relationship with other sister professional Society chapters • Institution of Engineers India (Kerala State Centre)/ Computer Society of India (Trivandrum and Cochin Chapters) Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (Trivandrum Centre)

• Aeronautical Society of India (Trivandrum and Cochin Chapters).

• System Society of India • Project Management Institute ( Kerala Chapter)

• The section actively participated in organising several joint activities with the sister societies, in the year.

Governmental RelationsKerala State IT Mission- Chairman, IEEE Kerala section

is ex-officio member in the Governing Council and Executive Committee of H Mission

IT Department- In talks with IT Department on a

possible engagement to promote FOSS in Engineering College Projects

ICFOSS- An autonomous institution of the

Government of Kerala mandated with the promotion of Free and Open Source Software.

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Society Reports

IEEE Industry Applications Society, SBC, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam

The Industry Applications Society (IAS) Student Branch Chapter of Amrita Vishwa Vid-yapeetham, Kollam, was formed on 9th November 2012. Ever since the formation, the chapter is active and conducts various activities that bridge the gap between theory and practice. The first meeting of IEEE-IAS was presided by Srikanth V, Advi-sor, IAS chapter, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. The main objec-tive was to select the committee members. Currently the chapter is having 16 student members with Murali Krishnan K as Chair-man and Aryamol Sudhakaran as Vice Chair. The patron of the

chapter is P.S. Chandramohanan Nair, SMIEEE, Chair- Professional Activities Committee - Kerala Section. Within this short period our students could manage to organize few talks which cover the today’s most relevant topics like Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency Considerations, etc.

On 16th October 2012 an invited talk by Jayakumar Nair, Principal Consultant of Sustenergy Foundation was organized in the campus with a participation of 60 graduate and undergraduate students. The talk is based on “Integrated Energy Management Methodology”. Decades of experience of Jayakumar in the

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field of electrical engineering, energy management systems and methodologies for corporate, technical training on energy conservation and management to business analysis, problem solving and manufacturing cost optimization were presented before the engineer’s of future.

Jayakumar Nair is the founder member – SEEM, Executive Committee Member – SEEM (Society of Energy Engineers & Managers – TN Chapter), recipient of Kerala State Energy Conserva-tion Commendation Certificate 2008 in the category of Certified Energy Managers and recipient of Kerala State Energy Conservation Commendation Certificate 2010 in the category of Research & Innovation.

Elaborating on a mathematical tool, Sustenergy Pyramid, he dis-cussed how an integrated energy management methodology could help with energy conservation. Energy audits, Reengineering and in-house management, can all be supported through this tool. “Through proper energy

management, we can save nearly 25%-30% of energy per day’’, remarked Jayakumar. Implement-ing a systematic approach for energy conservation is not just for reduction in cost, but also for deriving the most out of conven-tional sources of energy, which most people currently use.

On 14th November 2012, the chapter in association with the IEEE- Professional Activities Committee, Kerala Section could organize an invited talk on “Safe Switching for Operation and Maintenance” by Erling Hesla, LSMIEE, Power System Consult-ant, Seattle, USA. Hesla’s indus-trial and consultancy experience in power system covers five decades.

The seminar provides a practical approach specifying details of switching procedures for operating power system and for maintenance. Impact on system reliability due to changes in switching configuration is covered in depth as is the requirement for maintaining power to essential loads. The seminar addresses how to utilize rigorous calculation of system performance with or without computer programmes as well as how to maintain documentation and control of switching procedures. The feedback from all the 70 attendees, were an inspiration for the chapter to do more successful events.Addressing by Jayakumar Nair

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Event Brochure

Addressing by K.Sankaran, Principal, Amrita School of Engineering

Inaugural Ceremony & Seminars on “Power and energy”

Date: 20th DEC 2012.Venue: Amrita School of Engi-

neering, KollamHost: IAS SBC, Amrita Vishwa

VidyapeethamAttendees: 80The official inauguration of

IEEE IAS SBC Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham(AVV), was held on 20th December 2012 and the guest of honour was Peter Magyar,

Fellow IEEE, IEEE IAS Chapters and Membership Development Chair. The chapter was inaugurated by Bijukumar, Head Corporate and Industry Relations, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Magyar officially launched the IEEE IAS SBC AVV website. The inauguration is followed by series of technical talks by Narayanan A.M, Divisional Head, Energy Management Centre, Dept. of Power, Govt. of Kerala and by Magyar. Unnikrishnan A.K, Associate Director, Power Electronics Group, CDAC Tvpm was also present during the function. Other invitees include Balakrishnan Sankar, Associate Dean, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, K.Sankaran, Principal, Amrita School of Engineering and PS Chandramohanan Nair,

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Chairman, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering.

Magyar has been IEEE volunteer in various positions. In the Germany Section, he was Secretary (1998-2000), Vice Chair (2001-2002) and Chair (2003-2004) of the IAS/PELS/IES German Chapter, Chapter Coordinator (2005-2010) and Nominations and Appointments Officer (2007-2010) of the Section’s Executive Committee. In the R8 Committee, he was Division II Representative (2007-2008) and Chair (2009-2010) of the R8 Chapter Coordination Subcommittee. In the IA-Society,

he was IAS Chapters area Chair R8 East & South (2005-2008), member of the IAS Executive Board as Member-at-large (2005) and Chair of the Inter Society Cooperation Committee (2006-2008). At IEEE TAB, he was member (2010) of the IEEE TAB Nominations & Appointments Committee. Currently, he is Chair 2009-2012 of the IEEE IAS Chapters and Membership Development Department and IAS Liaison 2011-2012 of the R8 Chapter Coordination Subcommittee.

The talk by Magyar was based on “The Electric Car and the Renewable Energy Sources - Hype or Solution?” Magyar asked does the electric car really save energy, decrease the carbon dioxide emission and the environmental pollution? What kind of technical, economical, political and customer aspects affect that the recent development does not obtain broad acceptance? Is it possible to change this trend by using renewable energy sources? The lecture gives an overview

Erling Hesla during his presentation

Audience

Magyar during the function

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about the automotive structure, energy and electricity generation issues and the impact of the increasing use of renewable energy sources in Germany. Attributes of some newly developed electric cars was demonstrated and the political and economical issues of the conventional and renewable energy sources was critically discussed from the point of view of an electrical engine.

The development of transpo- rtation vehicles is one of the greatest achievements of modern

technology. Especially the automobile has become an important part of everyday life because of providing individual mobility for the public. However, the large number of automobiles in use has caused serious problems for the society and has been considered responsible for air pollution, global warming and intensive use of the limited oil resources. The interaction of developers, manufacturers, energy authorities, politics, media and customers is increasing the

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interest and the pressure on the development of new, green solutions, among others electric cars hoping to solve all of the above listed problems by using electrical drive train technologies.

The talk by Narayanan A.M is based on “Energy Efficiency Con-siderations in Power Systems”. Narayanan A.M. is the Divisional Head of Energy management Centre, Dept. of Power, Govt. of Kerala, also he is a Certified Energy Manager and Auditor by BEE, Govt. of India. He has about twenty eight years of techno-managerial and business admin-istration experience in regulatory, energy management and large EPC energy projects.

The seminar mainly focused on improving the energy ef-ficiency in generation, transmis-sion and distribution. As power density in modern data centers increases, more focus has been placed on improving efficiency in

the power distribution infrastruc-ture. Dramatic changes, such as switching to 400V or DC distribu-tion systems, have been explored, but there are some practical and affordable options to significantly improve efficiency without mak-ing major changes to the existing power delivery infrastructure.

The start of activities of this new IAS SBC is marked by these events. A new initiative, the Facebook page of “Industry Application Society SB Chapter AVV” was also launched. These activities clearly indicate the en-thusiasm of the IAS members of this budding chapter Those who are interested in sharing the ac-tivities, comments and other kind of information are encouraged to contact the chapter.

EDITORS: Kiran P, Secretary Murali Krishnan, Chair, Srikanth V,

Advisor, IAS SBC Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

IEEE IAS SBC [email protected]

[email protected]

Addressing by P.S.Chandramohanan Nair, Chairman, Dept. of EEE, ASE

Magyar with guests and IEEE IAS members

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NT’s Column

Ultra-stretchable Fibers

With Electrical Conductivity in-tact

Compiled by: n T nair, Life Senior Member, IEEE and Chief Editor, Executive Knowledge Lines monthly

Electronic textiles (e-textiles or smart textiles) are fast emerging as a major area in textile industry. These fabrics will have electronic sensors, digital circuits with computing and/ or communication capabilities etc. embedded in them to do specific functions - say, for example, monitoring body’s vital parameters like temperature, blood pressure etc. The field of embedding advanced electronic components onto textile fibers is also called fibertronics. One of the fundamental requirements in such fabrics is to have the ability to stretch some of the interwoven fibers that are required to conduct electrical signals among the digital components.

Now researchers led by Michael Dickey, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at North Carolina State University, have created a wire that retains its electrical conductivity even when stretched eight times its length. The fibers consist of a liquid metal alloy, eutectic

gallium indium (EGaIn), injected into the core of stretchable hollow fibers composed of a triblock copolymer, poly[styrene-b- (e thylene-co-butylene) -b-styrene] (SEBS) resin. The hollow fibers are easy to mass-produce with controlled size by using commercially available melt processing methods. The fibers are similar to conventional metallic wires (metal core, surrounded by polymeric insulation), but can be stretched orders of magnitude further while retaining electrical conductivity. Dickey said: “Our approach keeps the materials separate, so you have maximum conductivity without impairing elasticity.” For example,users of headphones may never again

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have to run the risk of the wires breaking, thanks to these stretchy cables.

While making the stretchy wires is relatively easy, Dickey says, solving the problem of the liquid metal leaking out of the polymer if the wires are damaged

will have to be address before they find their way into popular electronics like headphones or phone chargers or used to make electronic textiles.

[Source: www.ncsu.edu, www.ccm.ece.vt.edu,

http://en.wikipedia.org]

Society Reports

Summary of Chapter ActivitiesDistinguished Lecture by Xavier Fernando at Calicut 13th July 2012

Distinguished Lecture tour by Xavier Fernando to Kerala was hosted by IEEE ComSoc, Kerala Chapter and was conducted as a Pan-Kerala lecture series organi-zed at three different regions of Kerala. The session proceedings followed an action plan, charted and executed under the supervi-sion of Sasi P.M, Chairperson,

ComSoc, Kerala Chapter and immediate Past Chairperson of IEEE, Kerala Section and B.S Manoj, Vice-Chairperson, ComSoc, Kerala chapter. The first lecture was arranged by IEEE Malabar Subsection and held at National Institute of Techno-logy Calicut, Kerala on 13th July 2012. The topic chosen for the talk was “Communication and Signal Processing in Smart Grid”. K.P. Mohandas, Chair, IEEE

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Malabar Subsection welcomed the speaker and Abraham T. Mathew introduced the speaker to the audience.

Xavier Fernando initially gave an overview on smart grid tech-nology and the various aspects of implementing it in the con-ventional power lines. Specific case of integration of renewable energy generated at distributed sources to the core network was discussed in detail. Special em-phasis was given on the operation and use of smart meters. The four layered architecture of smart-grid and the associated signal processing and communication challenges were presented. Also the specific case of prospects and possibilities of the use of smart grid technology for solving India’s power crisis was presented. About 75 participants, mostly Masters and Ph.D scholars, attended the lecture. More than 25% of them were either student/graduate/full members. Many questions were posed by the audience and Prox. Fernando could trigger a good level of discussion. It is hoped that the lecture would help some of them to find possible research level proble Awareness was given on the activities of IEEE and Communication Society. Sameer, Secretary, IEEE Malabar subsec-tion thanked the speaker and the audience.

Distinguished Lecture by Xavier Fernando at Kochi 14th July 2012

Distinguished Lecture tour by Xavier Fernando to Kerala was hosted and organized by IEEE ComSoc, Kerala Chapter under the mentor-ship of the steering committee headed by Sasi P.M, Chairperson, ComSoc, Kerala Chapter.

The lecture was held at Rene-wal Centre, Kochi on the topic “Wireless Sensor Networks for Green Buildings” under the auspices of IEEE Kochi sub section. Suresh Nair, Vice Chair, IEEE Kochi Subsection rendered the Welcome Address.

An overview on the concept of Green buildings was given by the speaker, followed by the mention on the potential need and the various technologies used in the realization of such syste The talk mainly focused on the applica-tion of Wireless Sensor Networks for green buildings. The speaker shared his research experience working with Wireless sensor networks and briefed about the project work done on similar areas at Ryerson University, Canada. He also discussed about various wireless communication technologies like Wi-Fi, Zig-Bee, Bluetooth, RFID, EnOcean, etc and made a comparative evalu-ation among the peer technolo-gies. Sub topics such as modern

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techniques for cooling, Felt Air Temperature, Power line com-munication and wireless heart beat detection were also touched upon briefly by the speak

There was excellent and enthusiastic response from the audience side during the Question and Answer session. There were 35 participants of whom 15 were from Industry and 20 from academia. 28 IEEE members and 7 non members constituted the audience group. The event concluded with the Vote of Thanks proposed by Shahim Baker, Secretary, IEEE Kochi Subsection.Distinguished Lecture by Xavier Fernando at Thiruvananthapuram 15th July 2012

The talk was held at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Tvpm on 15th July 2012 and the topic of the talk was “Low Interference Wireless Communications for Biomedical Applications“. A pre talk networking session was arranged to facilitate interaction between the speaker and the IEEE member community. The speaker was then formally introduced to the audience by Pradeep Balachandran, Secretary, ComSoc, Kerala chapter.

Speaker set the premise of the talk with a background survey on the potential impact that wireless communications technologies

have been able to make in the existing Socio-Economic world ord A broad spectrum of aspects ranging from basic principles of wireless sensors, corresponding control and command networks, protocols and standards, resource management and performance evaluation, all applied to the Bio-Medical Systems, formed the outline of the talk. Speaker mentioned that since medical sensors are destined to play a major role in the real time monitoring of vital physiological parameters for patient care, there is a definite need for a robust, reliable, and energy efficient communication system to be realized within the framework of a Body Area Network (BAN). He discussed the merits and demerits of existing technology standards with respect to their operational feasibility in Bio-Medical appli-cations and emphasized the relative advantages of prospective technologies like ‘60 GHz’ and ‘Magnetic Coupling’ over the

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peer ones like Zig-Bee, Blue Tooth, etc. Speaker remarked that power and size of the device are major constraints restricting the widespread deployment of body area sensor networks and hence special focus should be given to incorporate bio-compatible energy harvesting designs in the system. The significance of robust signal processing algorithms to deal with noise and motion artifacts were also explained during the talk.

Post-talk discussion forum was moderated by Prem Krishnan, Treasurer, ComSoc, Kerala Chapter, during which speaker specifically addressed the queries of the audience. The speaker mo-tivated the audience in forming affinity groups pertaining to the various sub-domains in Bio-Med-ical engineering. The event had a participation of about 30 people including engineering college faculty members and students. The feedback from the audience highlighted the trend of growing interest among the engineering community to pursue active re-search in the field of Bio-Medical engineering and allied fields.

In the closing ceremony, a memento was presented to the speaker by Koruthu P. Varughese, Past-Chair, IEEE Kerala Section. Prem Krishnan, Treasurer, Com-Soc, Kerala Chapter, proposed the Vote of Thanks.

Technical Talk on “Fleet Management System” 25th July 2012

Technical talk on the topic ‘Fleet Management System’ de-livered by Rohit Raveendranth, Chief Technology Officer, ‘Ideas and Innovation squared tech-nologies held on 25th July at IE hall, Thiruvanathapuram.

Speaker gave introduction to Fleet Management Systems and explained the basic functionality of sensing, tracking and controlling ordered groups or fleets of interest from remote locations. He briefed upon wireless and cellular technologies such as GPS, GPRS, CDMA, RFID and highlighted the significance of sensor arrays in relaying real time data and alerts to decision support syste Applications in verticals such as educational institutions, fishing fleets, logistics providers, bus and truck operators, etc were also discussed.Technical Talk on “Programmable Digital Hearing Aid”- 8th August 2012

Technical talk on the topic “Programmable Digital Hearing Aid” delivered by Biju C. Ommen of C-DAC(T), was held on 8th August at IE Hall, Thiruvananthapuram.

Speaker discussed the issues concerned with conventional analog hearing aids in terms of their functional deficiencies.

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These include fixed frequency and I/O response, lack of flexibility, inability to distinguish speech from noise, etc. He explained the need for DSP based programmable hearing aids having functionalities like. Programmable Hearing Profile, Wide Dynamic Range Compression, Feedback Suppression and Adaptive Noise Cancellation. Speaker explained the architecture diagram of digital programmable hearing aid system. The special roles of Digital Signal Processing techniques and Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) technology for product development to realize cost effective, reliable and less power hungry applications were emphasized during the talk.ComSoc - Startup Village Student Project Scheme: Progress Review Meet August-December 2012

In the month of August 2012, the steering committee of Com-Soc, Kerala Chapter & Start Up Village (India’s first Telecom Incubator) partnership forum, headed by Sasi P.M, Chair, IEEE ComSoc Kerala Chapter, con-ducted project proposal review of themes belonging to com-munication technologies and applications from by engineering students in Kerala.

Six innovative project ideas were selected for development in the preliminary talent hunt.

They include: • Intelligent Wheelchair, cre-

ated by five students of Sahr-daya College of Engineering Technology in Thrissur.

• Smartmotive, a wheelchair developed by students of Gov-ernment Engineering College in Thrissur.

• SMS Vehicle Locating Solu-tion by a team from College of Engineering in Thiruvanan-thapuram allows commuters to send text message alerts to auto drivers pinpointing their locations.

• Haritha (Hybrid Automated Remote Irrigation Technique for Agriculture) by students of Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering in Thiruvanan-thapuram.

• Tarang project by students of SCMS School of Engineering and Technology in Ernakulam.Project Progress review meet-

ings for selected projects were held on 29th September, 2012 and on 12th December 2012 at IEEE Office, Tvpm. The review panel included Sasi P.M., Chair, IEEE ComSoc, Kerala Chapter, B.S.Manoj, Vice-Chair, IEEE Com-Soc, Kerala Chapter, Srinivasan, Vice-Chair, IEEE Kerala Section, Krishna Warrier, Scientist and domain expert in Environmental technologies and Shone Jose, Technology expert. About 15 student project members partici-pated in the meeting.

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An Ieee awareness ProgrammeAn IEEE awareness session was

conducted by Muhammed Kasim S, Chair, IEEE PES Chapter, Kerala at the KSEB Engineer's meet held at Kollam on April 01, 2012. In the meet, Kadavoor Sivadasan, former Electricity Minister, Govt. of Kerala was the Chief guest. The State level paper presentation Contest on "Save Energy, Save Environment" for Engineering College students (district level winners) was also conducted dur-ing the meet.

Society Reports

PES Chapter, IEEE Kerala SectionReport of Activities April-June 2012

Oorja Samrakshana Seminar- How to reduce electricity bills in homes

A seminar on Energy Con-servation was organized at TKM Institute of Technology jointly with Energy Management Centre, Govt. of Kerala on May 11, 2012 to give an awareness among the faculty and local people around TKMIT. The Seminar was Inaugurated by Somarajan, Panchayat President, Ezhukone. K K Abdul Rasheed, Princi-pal, TKMIT presided over the

The meeting agenda included Presentation on the projects, detailed evaluation of project deliverables with respect to time frames, Overall progress status re-view and critical analysis of tech-nology areas and plan of action for the project completion. The expert panel observed the need for the recruitment of cross-do-main experts to help the student understand the multi disciplinary aspects of the project themes and assured the students of con-sultancy from domain experts. Detailed road map for project implementation was discussed and evaluations of design vari-ables also were discussed during

the meeting. A follow-up meeting was tentatively scheduled for first week of January 2013. ComSoc HTC Student Project Program (2011 to 2012): Project Closure Meeting 7th October 2012

Project Closure and consolida-tion meeting for projects executed under IEEE ComSoc_HTC student projects for the period 2011-2012 was held on 7th October 2012. Out of the total eight projects executed, six groups could successfully meet the project objectives. The prototype demonstrations were made and project reports were submitted as part of the closure procedure.

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Welcome address by Muhammed Kasim S Presidential address by KK Abdul Rasheed

meeting. Welcome address was given by PES Chapter Chair Mu-hammed Kasim S. Johnson Dan-iel, Energy Technologist, Energy Management Centre, Govt. of Kerala & Beena Pious, Executive Engineer, Kerala State Electricity Board lead the sessions. There were nearly 100 participants. Bro-chures & Booklets were distrib-uted among the participants high lighting the different methods of Energy conservation & its impact on the Society.Higher education: Opportunities and Challenges (June 22, 2012)

A talk on "Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges" by Imthias Ahamed, Asst. Professor, King Saud University, Riyadh was held at TKM Institute

of Technology, Karuvelil. Post-Graduate students & faculty members were invited for the talk. Imthias narrated the impo-rtant points to be cared from start to finish for a Research work. He highlighted the importance of Paper presentations in national & International Conferences and advised to use e-resources like IEEE Xplore, Science Direct, etc. Number of participants was nearly 75.Talk on more about Thesis writing (July 27, 2012)

C Usha Devi, Associate Profe-ssor in the Dept of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, TKM College of Engineering, Kollam presented a session for PG Students and teachers about Thesis writing for P G Programs and research

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works. She high lighted the points to be cared while preparing papers for national & international conferences and peer reviewed journals. An eminent teacher and author of number of publications in national and international publications, was very special & worth to the attendees.Technical visit to VSSC Museum, Thiruvananthapuram (August 11, 2012)

A batch of 42 students of TKM Institute of Technology, Kollam accompanied by 3 faculty mem-bers visited the V S S C museum. They started from Kollam by 7.30

hrs in the morning and reached the museum by 9.30 hrs. A highly knowledgeable trip that helped to understand more about the space programs going on in India. Two officials of the museum accompa-nied the students giving detailed explanation of the history and growth of Indian Space Research Organization. After the visit, the team spend an hour at the tourist spot of Veli Tourist Village. Ieee Day 2012 (October 02, 2012)

As part of the world wide celebration of IEEE Day 2012 on October 2nd this year, IEEE Power & Energy Society Chapter

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of Kerala Section jointly with the IEEE Student Branches of TKMCE & TKMIT celebrated the IEEE Day at TKMCE, Kollam. Muhammed Kasim, Chair, Power and Energy Society Chapter presided over the function. Janab Shahal Hassan Musaliar, President, TKM Trust delivered the inaugural address. S S Firoz, Supdt. of Police, Vigi-lance & Anti-corruption Bureau, Southern Range was the key note speaker. In his address he highlighted the significance of the IEEE Code of Ethics, stressing on the importance being honest and rejecting bribery in all its form. He shared his experience as a psy-chologist by stating that ‘Happi- ness is a state of mind’. He said that ‘a small child smiles’ 700 times a day and advised everyone to smile at least 17 times in a day to be healthy. He reminded the audience on the importance of the eight point pledge of APJ Abdul Kalam former President of

Republic of India to Engineering Students Community during the Valedictory function of the Gold-en Jubilee Celebration of TKMCE.

S Parameswaran, Principal, TKMCE and K K Abdul Rasheed, Principal, TKMIT offered felici-tations. Sunitha Beevi, Student Branch Counselor gave the welcome address and Freddy Thomas, TKMCE Student Branch Chair proposed the vote of thanks. IEEE Code of Ethics was read out by Swathy K S, S B Chair of TKMIT at the opening of the ceremony. After the inauguration, a motivational session by Rayees Amarunnishad, South Asia Gold Cordinator and a Quiz competi-tion by B Premlet (TKMCE) were conducted.

Pranav Jayachandran & Sony K Jose (both TKMCE) were the win-ners and runners up for the Quiz.PeS Quiz Preliminary (november 09, 2012)

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organized a state level Quiz for first year Engineering students. Letters highlighting this event were forwarded to 100 Engineering Colleges in the state in addition to the e-mail notice sent to all the IEEE Student Branch Counselors in the Kerala Section. Follow up was also made by personally calling the Student Branch Counsellors. By repeated effort made, We were able to conduct the first round of Quiz (a written test) in 26 Engineering Colleges on November 9th between 12.30 & 13.00 hrs. The preliminary round for a duration of 15 minutes consisted of 30 questions. The test was conducted at the respective Colleges. List of the 4 top scorers were forwarded to us as requested. In 20 Engineering Colleges, the preliminary round was jointly organized by the IEEE Student Branch & the PES Chapter. More than 725 students participated in the preliminary round. 104 students were called for the next round. TA was offered to the top 26 students.

PeS MeeT & Seminar on Power & energy Management (november 10, 2012)

PES MEET 2012- Power & Energy Specialist Meet, a Seminar organized to bring a group of Specialists in the field of Power & Energy at a common place to discuss the recent trends in Power & Energy Management. A meeting of the PES Members of the Chapter is also held. Mohammed Ali Rawther took a session on "Current Power Scenario in Kerala". Dharesan Unnithan handled a session on "Recent Trends in Energy Management". Benefits of joining IEEE was also highlighted for the non-members present. The Seminar was inaugurated by N T Nair, former India Council Chairman and Chief Editor, Executive Knowledge Lines. V K Damodaran, Director, INGCORE presided over the meeting. Muhammed Kasim, Chair-PES Chapter offered welcome address and Bijuna Kunju gave vote of Thanks.

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PeS QUIZ 2012 Finals & Ieee Awareness Session (november 17, 2012)

Second, third and final round was conducted at TKM College of Engineering, Kollam on November 17th. 59 students from 18 Engineering Colleges participated in the second round. It was a written test of 25 minutes duration with a total of 45 questions. After the second round, an IEEE awareness session was given to all the participants by Muhammed Kasim, Chair of the PES Chapter. Following the IEEE session, the 16 toppers of the second round eligible to the third round were announced. While the third round (written test) was going on, an Ice breaking session was conducted for the remaining persons by Afsal Najeeb, a fifth semester IEEE student volunteer of TKMCE. 8 toppers were selected

for the finals.The final was conducted by

Bijuna Kunju, Vice Chair, PES Chapter & Ashik M Nazar, a fifth semester IEEE student volunteer of TKMCE.Winners of the Quiz CompetitionsI-Prize Ameer Suhail V, College of Engineering, TVM (Rs 5,000/- + trophy + Certificate)II-Prize Jani Biju Babjan, Govt. Engg College, Barton Hill (Rs 3,000/-+ trophy +certificate) III-Prize Jayaprasad T J, RIT, Pam-baddy, Kottayam (Rs 1,500/- + certificate)IV-Prize Aravind Anil, NSS College of Engineering, Palghat (Rs 500/- + certificate).

Prizes were distributed by Mary John, Executive Engineer, KSEB, S Parameswaran, Principal, TKMCE and Muhammed Kasim S, Chair, PES Chapter. 40

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A detailed report of Continuing Education Congress 2 – A five day program focused on boosting Technical & IEEE awareness held at SJCET, Palai organized by IEEE Kerala GOLD, IEEE Kerala Educational Activities Committee, IEEE Kerala Professional Activities Committee & School of Electronics, St. Joseph’s College of Engineering & Technology, Palai from 8th to 12th Oct 2012, supported by IEEE Region 10 Educational Activities Committee.

After the successful conduct of Continuing Education Congress 1 in 2011, here comes CEC 2. Continuing Education Congress 2 (CEC 2) is being organized for the academicians from Engineering Colleges across Kerala to boost their technological awareness and IEEE awareness.

The Congress is intended to provide a wide perspective about the current technical scenario and upcoming potential research areas and to equip the participants with awareness about latest software. The program also aimed to spread awareness and benefits of IEEE and memberships among young professionals in Kerala. About

57 participants including 27 faculty from different Engineering Colleges and 30 post graduate students from various streams of Electronics Engineering attended the Congress.

With so many Engineering Colleges being established in Kerala during the last decade, academia is in acute shortage of faculty. The current scenario forces young professionals to take up teaching as a profession, many turn up without passion for the job.

Continuing Education Congress aims to tap the potential in young professionals and train them to be better teachers and thus engineer the future. With a high outreach, CEC2 could achieve its goal of reaching into the young and future academicians of Kerala.CeC - Day 1

With a modest inaugural ceremony, CEC2 was inaugurated by Philip Njarlakkattu Chairman of St. Joseph’s College of Engineering and Technology, Palai. P. J. George, Project Director, SJCET and former Director of Technical Education, Kerala gave the felicitation address.

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E.G. Rajan, Director, Pentagram Research Centre, Hyderabad inaugurated the Congress and delivered the Keynote address.

Technical sessions of the day were handled by E.G. Rajan where-in he delivered an inspiring session on Electronic System Design and the importance of research in academia.

E.G. Rajan motivated academicians to take up research as teaching involves knowledge sharing and knowledge generation. He also opened new frontiers of technology for academicians to

take up research. Principles of Cellular Logic Array Processing (CLAP), Symbolic Computing using Rajan-Sinha Principle (RSP), specific applications on image processing using Cellular Automation concept, Linear Algebra and Symbolic Computing where deliberated in detail for interested participants to take up their careers in research.CeC - Day 2

The second day of CEC 2 aimed at enlightening participants with the research possibilities of embedded systems and its

E.G. Rajan delivering the Keynote address

P. J. George, Project Director, SJCET giving the felicitation address

Group Picture of CEC 2 Delegates with Speakers

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applications.Bhooshan lyer, Manager R&D-

DSP of Cranes Software, Bangalore created an awareness of the wide research possibilities in embedded DSP.

Various software platforms provided by Cranes Software were introduced during the day. DSP applications using C & TMS320C6xx DSK was explained. C6000 DSP module- architecture and Instruction set of the DSP module was explained. CeC - Day 3

The third day of technical sessions began with Sabarinath G Pillai, Assistant Professor, St. Joseph’s College of Engineering and Technology, Palai introducing participants to Compressive sensing.

B. Priestly Shan, Professor, PG studies, St. Joseph’s College of Engineering and Technology, Palai, shared his experience in compressive sensing in which Bayer Image Enhancement was implemented using compressive sensing techniques.

Kushal K.S, technical engineer,

Techlabs, Bangalore, talked about FPGA design flow and ASIC designing in the afternoon first session.

Afternoon second session was handled by Ravikumar Reddy, N1 LabView trainer, on the topic Virtual Instrumentation with National Instruments LabView.CeC - Day 4

Mohankumar, Manager - R&D, Grey Technolab, introduced participants with the concept of programming in MATLAB.

The afternoon session was handled by M.V Rajesh, Principal ISSAT, Muvattupuzha. His lecture involved fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing and various transforms used there-in.CeC - Day 5

In the first session Ranjith R Nair, Chairman, IEEE GOLD, spread awareness about IEEE and its activities worldwide, with emphasis on Kerala Sections initiatives and activities.

P.S. Chandramohan delivered an inspiring session on ‘Third Dimension of an Engineering Teacher’. Chandramohan

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enlightened participants that academicians should not just ‘covering the syllabus’ as per curriculum laid by the University, but should inspire students in learning, understanding and creating knowledge and that success would follow such students and academicians. Panel Discussion

With the current scenario of higher technical education of Kerala state in mind, CEC2 organized a panel discussion on Quality of Technical Education in the State with the pioneers in higher technical education and the industry involved.

The panel consisted of PJ George, Project Director, SJCET, and Former Director of Technical Education, Kerala State, VK Damodaran, Director General, INGCORE, Amarnath Raja, CEO, Inapp, S Gopakumar, Dy. Director (Rtd.). ISRO & Head R&D, CDIT, PS Chandramohan, Amrita University, BV Mathew, Head, Dept. of Civil Engineering, SJCET and Ignatius Korah, PRO, SJCET. The panel was chaired by PJ George.The minutes of the panel discussion are as follows:• Pre-learning helps students to

grasp the concepts quickly.• PG & UG courses need to

emphasize on publishing papers for which some amount of credits to be given as incentive.

• Innovative thinking to be encouraged in students.

• Assignments to be practical oriented rather than “written assignments” which is quite common.

• If online sessions of teaching is introduced students can get a break from the usual “classroom teaching”.

• The fact that imagination is more important than knowledge needs to be stressed upon so that scope of production of new innovative products expands.

• Vacation for students is an essential and integral part of student life and such breaks are quite necessary to improve their performance.

• In the process of gaining knowledge, emphasis of spiritual, social and moral values must not be lost, hence care to be taken to organize such programs along with the curriculum.

• Residential form of Professional Study and its importance.

• Examination questions must test the knowledge of that student at application level rather than theoretical level.

• Autonomous status of a college can help in improving its quality of study.CEC2, achieved its goal in

introducing and spreading the word and possibilities if IEEE and its benefits to young and future academicians of the State.

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Student Branch Activities

Ieee Day CelebrationIEEE SB, MESCE in association

with the IEEE Malabar Subsection celebrated this year’s IEEE Day in a grand manner. The major events conducted included - a session on “Continuing Education: What after B.Tech?” followed by a session on “Skill Development for Engineering students: The management orientation”.

The program began with a silent prayer. The IEEE code of ethics followed it. Sarath KS, the chairperson for the SB delivered the welcome speech. The event was inaugurated by KP Mohan das, Chairperson, Malabar Subsection. He enlightened the gathering with the history of IEEE and the benefits of being an IEEE member Further Namith Najeeb, the SB’s former counselor and also the winner of Global Outstanding Branch counselor award 2011, was presented with a memento for the outstanding contributions to the Student Branch. The SB made sure that IEEE was celebrated with all its glory and vigor by cutting a cake, pouring out joyous waves into the gathering. Thus began the first session.

The session titled “Continuing Education: What after B.Tech?”

MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuramwas handled by Nishanth from IIM-K. The talk basically focused on different educational opportunities abroad. He explained about foreign universities, admission procedures, fee structure and ways to apply to the respective universities. He was quick to give an insight about different courses which are exclusively offered in particular universities. It turned out to be an active interactive session rather than a boring monologue with students turning up with their doubts without any hesitation. On the whole the session turned out to be quiet informative and instilled motivation and inspiration to the young budding engineers. The second session, “Skill Development for Engineering Students: The Management Orientation” was handled by Saji Kuriakose, Head, School of Management Studies, MESCE. The talk revolved around importance of soft skills and applying managerial ideas in life. He gave tips to the students on how to be a good professional with all the skills that matters in today’s world. The stress was on time management which is pretty important considering the hectic life man is leading now. He also expressed upon other simple

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things which we often overlook but if followed would make a lot of difference. The students were on the edge of their seats enthralled by the talk. It surely was one of the finest occasions for them to decide the path of their life. The event pulled out more than 30 participants and no doubt is one among the top events that the SB has organized.Two-Day Workshop on Recent Trends in embedded Systems

A two-day intensive workshop on ‘Recent Trends in Embedded Systems’ sponsored by IEEE Malabar Subsection, Kerala Section was organized by the Department

of Electronics and Communication Engineering, AWH Engineering College, Kuttikkattoor, Calicut on December 11&12, 2012. The workshop intended for faculty members of Engineering Colleges in Kerala focused on recent important developments in embedded systems technology and related areas. The Workshop was inaugu-rated by SM Sameer, Secretary, IEEE Malabar Subsection. In his inaugural speech, SM Sameer emphasized the relevance of participation of the engineering teaching community in IEEE activities. After the inaugural session, Lekha

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Pankaj, Associate Professor, AWH Engineering College gave an overview on Embedded Syste There were three special sessions on ‘ARM Processor Architecture and Programming‘, ‘PSoC Architecture and Programming‘ and ‘Real-time Operating Systems (RTOS)’. Lyla B. Das, Associate Professor, National Institute of Technology – Calicut addressed the participants in these sessions. In her lectures, Das, a well-known author and resource person in embedded systems technology, gave a comprehensive and enlightening overview of the fundamental concepts, programming and system

development methodologies in the three domains.

The highlight of the second day was a hands-on training session on ‘Arduino Programming’ led by Abdul Rahman, Assistant Professor, Government Engineering College, Calicut. Through this session, Abdul Rahman, a leading authority on open source microcontrollers, imparted a thorough practical knowhow on Arduino-based design. There was also a lecture on ‘Linux in Embedded Systems’ by Sankar Bhavan, Radisys, Canada. Forty teachers from various engineering colleges in Kerala participated in the Workshop.

Ieee Awareness Program for Graduate students (December 13, 2012)

An IEEE awareness campaign was given to the Post graduate students of Computer Science & Engineering Department of TKM Institute of Technology. The bene-fit of joining IEEE & The Computer Society Chapter was highlighted in the session. They are highly impressed and expressed their interest in joining IEEE. national energy Conservation Day 2012 (December 14, 2012)

As part of the National Energy Conservation Day 2012, IEEE Power & Energy Society Chapter organized a seminar on Energy Conservation at TKM Institute

of Technology, Karuvelil. The seminar focused on the need for energy conservation and methods for the same. S Rajendran, Dy C E, Electrical Circle, Kollam inaugurated the seminar.

K K Abdul Rasheed, Principal presided over the function. K Radhakrishnan, former member, KSEB gave the key note address. Muhammed Kasim S, Chair, IEEE Power & Energy Society Chapter welcomed the gathering. Felicitations were offered by SK Yesosadharan and Edwin Callistus. Sharatraj, IEEE S B Counsellor proposed vote of thanks.

Reported by Muhammed Kasim, (Professor TKMIT), Chair, PES Chapter

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College of Engineering, KidangoorThe year 2012 was an

eventful year for the IEEE student branch of College of Engineering, Kidangoor. We had to bid goodbye to our seniors who imparted the thirst in us for the IEEE and its activities, but before leaving they were able to strengthen our SB under the guidance of our then Chairman Allwin Alex and more than 50 members joined the SB this year. We conducted a variety of programs throughout the calendar year. At first an orientation session about the IEEE was given to the new members. We put up a stall in the annual tech-fest of our college (LUMIERE 2012), with a view to impart

knowledge to the students on the history and innovations of IEEE. Later we conducted the annual quiz competition of our SB, which is conducted as a part of celebrating the Engineer’s day, SAMASYA 2012, was a great success with more than 175 teams participating in it. Furthermore a seminar on Digital Image Processing was conducted for the enthusiastic students of the College and it also was a huge success with the students demanding for follow up classes in relevant topics. Apart from all these we often carry out Spectrum Talk and holds regular meeting for the office bearers.

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College of Engineering, Chengannur

The IEEE Student Branch, College of Engineering, Chengannur conducted a variety of technical, non-technical and managerial events over the year 2012. With a total of 32 events which had 15 major events as a part of its Crystal Jubilee Celebrations, IEEE provided a blend of valuable knowledge and experience for its members. The most prominent events were:elle’12

All Kerala WIE day ‘Elle’ was a Technical Colloquium organized by IEEE Student Branch, Women In Engineering Affinity Group, College of Engineering, Chengannur to increase technical competence among women. The main aim of the event was to provide the participants, exposure

and experience in technical and entrepreneurial field. It consisted of two technical, two managerial competitions and two interactive sessions. The dignitaries, speakers and judging panel included a number of eminent personalities including Mini Ulanat, Student Activities Chair, Kerala Section; Christin Emmanuel George, CEO, MindHelix Technologies and Mini Vasudevan, General Manager in Standardization, Ericsson. With an attendance of more than 280 members the Elle was a huge success and helped in spreading WIE awareness and empowerment.Summit’12

Summit’12 was the annual technical fest of College of Enginee-ring, Chengannur. The three day

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event was co-organized by IEEE and consisted of several technical competitions, hands on workshops, seminars and exhibitions. The workshops namely Ruby on Rails, Windows 8 app development and Sixth Sense Robotics were extremely well received. The competitions including circuit debugging, line tracer, c-debugging, contraptions and robo-wars included participa-tion from several colleges. The event also included several exhibitions, a blood donation camp by NSS and several fun events. Cultural competitions were also

a part of the event. The event was signed off by an awe-inspiring concert by the violin maestro Balabhaskar. Ignite

IGNITE - Integrated Guidance Network of IEEE for Technical Education was yet another event organized in panache by the Student Branch of IEEE at the college. IGNITE is an endeavor to encourage and enhance technical awareness and ameliorate the dilemma of choosing a professional stream, at the school level. The closing cere-mony of IGNITE was conducted on

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IGNITE Address by APJ

26th November 2012. The chief guest of the event was APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India and the other dignitaries included Jyothiraj VP, the Principal, College of Engineering, Chengannur, SayyedRasheed, Director, IHRD, V P Devassia, Additional Director and former Principal, College of

Engineering, Chengannur, P C Vishnunath, MLA Chengannur and Satish Babu, Chairman IEEE Kerala Section. Following the inauguration APJ Abdul Kalam addressed the crowd and won their hearts with his eloquent delivery-an amalgam of experiences and his vision for India. He emphasized on the need to have a dream and urged the students to set a great aim before the age of 20 and work towards achieving them. Later there was an interactive session with the IGNITE-ans where the students spent time with the Missile Man. With a participation of over 800 IGNITE was a spontaneous start for those students aspiring to do worthy research and it envisaged to provide knowledge that transcends its conventional boundary.

Amrita School of Engineering, Kollam

Awards & AchivementsTwo teams from Amrita IEEE

SB qualified for the final round of Yahoo Accenture Innovation Jock-eys contest won the Prizes. Amrita won two prizes in final round, held on April 24th, 2012, in which six teams were invited all over India. Vineeth Mohan, Paul Leons, Rizwin Shooja and Ajay Mohanan (All S8 ECE IEEE Student Members) won the Accenture Tech Vision Special Winner award for the entry ‘Smart Traffic Controller’

Ramesh Nair, Sai Manoj, Mithun Mohan (All S8 ECE IEEE Student Members) won the First Prize under the Home Category for the entry ‘Gest-BOT - A gesture based wheelchair control system’, which was blessed by Amma who sat on the Wheelchair and graced it.

Prize: Each of the seven students got one Apple goodies bag which had one Apple iPad and one Apple iPod. The Special category winner was invited to the Accenture Research Labs to present their work

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and tour Accenture Research Labs.Both the teams were provided

with round trip Flight tickets to travel to Bangalore and present their work at Hotel Leela Palace, Bangalore.

In partnership with Yahoo!, India’s leading Online Publisher, Accenture set forth to launch Innovation Jockeys - The Hunt for India’s Most Innovative Minds across Campuses. 3000 students from all over India have sent 1082 entries in the first round under three categories - Home, City and College. In the second round five entries from each of the categories got selected. In the final round, two entries out of five of each of the category have got selected and are invited to Bangalore to present their work before the judges.Other Achivements

Amrita IEEE student branch is proud of its students members who made significant achievement in this year’s GRE and GATE exa These students have brought many laurels to IEEE Kerala Section by winning various national / international awards, publishing papers(twenty) at various IEEE conferences, publishing book chapters, getting project funding etc., in the recent two years.GRe Scores and Admissions:1. Ramesh Nair, S8 EC Admit1: University of Cinci-

nnatti, USA, 87% Tuition Fee as UGS;

GRE - 296/340, TOEFL - 98/1202. Rizwin, S8 EC

Admit1: Chalmer’s Univ. of Tech.,Sweden, 75% Tuition Fee;

Admit2: Utah State University, USA,

GRE - 314/340, TOEFL - 97/1203. Vineeth Mohan, S8 EC Admit1: University of Cinci-

nnatti, USA 87% Tuition Fee as UGS;

GRE - 322/340, TOEFL - 120/1204. Vineeth R, S8 EC Admit1: University of Texas at

Dallas, USA; Scholarship results awaited;

GRE - 308/340, TOEFL - 95/1205. Sai Manoj, S8 EC Admit1: University of Texas,

Arlington, USA; Scholarship results awaited

Admit2: TU Delft, The Nether-lands,

Admit3: Eindhovan Univ. of Tech., Netherlands;

GRE - 316/340, TOEFL - 98/1206. Paul Leons, S8 EC Admit1: Linkoping University,

Sweden; Scholarship results awaited;

TOEFL - 87/120GATe Achievements1. Sreenivas, S8 EC, Rank: 158,

Percentile: 99.92. Anantha Padmanabhan, S8 EC,

Rank: 882, Percentile: 99.53. Paul Leons, S8 EC, Rank: 4100,

Percentile: 97.74. Ajay M, S8 EC, Rank: 4200,

Percentile: 97.65. Mithun M, S8 EC, Rank: 5000,

Percentile: 97.2Reported by Rajesh Kannan

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APARACTIZA soft skill personality

development and job orientation workshop APARACTIZ was organized by IEEE SB TKMCE, WIE SB TKMCE and Department of EEE of TKM College of Engineering.The event was conducted in two sessions:1st batch- May 30, 31 and June 1, 20122nd batch- June 15, 16, 17 of 2012Venue: TKM College of Engg, KollamNo of participants: 1st batch – 75, 2nd batch – 50Session taken by: TRANS-YOUTH best and beyondevent Objectives• To improve the soft skills of the

students.• To provide an insight for the

preparation of Resume and CV.• To familiarize the pattern of the

aptitude test.• To enhance the public address-

TKM College of Engineering, Kollaming skills of the students.

• To provide a detailed knowl-edge on how to perform in an interview.

• To understand the benefits of team work and to develop the leadership skills.The workshop was conducted

by Sindhu an alumnus of TKMCE; she is an acclaimed corporate trainer, with several years of ex-perience, working with MNCs and educational institutions.

The event concluded with Freddy M Thomas (Chairman, IEEE, TKMCE), delivering the vote of thanks. event Outcomes• The event helped in Improving

the confidence levels of the stu-dents.

• It helped to develop the soft skills and enhanced the leader-ship skills.

• It familiarized the techniques to tackle the interview and the aptitude test.

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• The participants were able to participate in the various group activities.

• The event was immensely helpful in the overall development of a personality and honing the soft skills necessary for an engineer/professional.

event FeedbackIndustrial Training The Industrial Training Program was an initiative taken up by the Student Branch of TKMCE in collaboration with WIE SB TKMCE and was backed up by IEEE- Kerala Section. The interested students were grouped into three and were sent to the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) 220kv and 110kv substations at Kundara, Kottiyam and Ayathil.Group 1:Date: 14-19th of June, 2012 (5 days)Substation: Kottiyam (110kv) No of Students: 7Group 2:Date: 14-19th of June, 2012 (5 days)Substation: Ayathil (110kv)No of Students: 7Group 3:Date: 13-20th of June, 2012(7 days)Substation: Kundara (220kv)No of Students: 10event Objectives• To imbibe technical

knowledge, a firm technical back up and industrial exposure to the members that would aid their curriculum.

• To educate the students in the current technologies employed

in the power management sector in their own home state.

• to provide an in-depth view about the practical aspects regarding the power manage-ment sector.

• To provide a platform for the members to meet engineers from industry and interact with them.On the initial day of the

training, the students were given a broad view about the feeders that feed power to the substation and about the various locations to which the substation transmits power.

Students at Kundara Substation

The final day, consisted of a brief presentation on the National grid and the under frequency mechanism involved in the transfer of power between the various states in India were given to the students by The AE of the station.

event Outcomes• Students got a trial view of the

industry and a possible avenue for their future.

• Strong technical knowledge beyond the books and experiencing a relaxation from the stressful academic environment.

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• The members could interact with experts from the industry and clear all the doubts and major issues they are facing.

Students at Kottiyam Substation

Industrial Training At Terumo Penpole

A three day industrial training program was organised by the IEEE Student Branch at Terumo Penpole, Tvpm from 11th to 13th June, 2012. Terumo Penpole is a company which is strongly committed to its corporate social responsibility through activities related to promotion of Voluntary Blood Donation, support to local govt schools for better learning and identifying hidden talent in less privileged children and nurturing themDate: 11-13th June 2012 (3 days)Venue: Terumo Penpole, TvpmNo of participants: 5

Volunteer Training Workshop A volunteer training workshop

was organised by the IEEE Student Branch on 25th June 2012 that helped in contributing young and new passionate volunteers not large in numbers but strong in faith. Date: 25-June 2012

Main objective: A training session to activate the volunteers of SBVenue: TKM College of Engg. KollamNo of participants: 75

During the session the students were given a brief description about the history and the hierarchy of IEEE organisation. event Outcomes• The programme mainly helped

to develop a better coordination between all the volunteers of the student branch.

• The action plan for the upcoming events was prepared and volunteers were given the duties.

• The session provided aware-ness to the junior volunteers regarding the levels of IEEE hierarchy and also a clear picture about the IEEE history.

• The event helped in contributing young and new passionate volunteers to the Student Branch.

• The freshers got highly motivated and were able to get a better idea about the value and benefits of being an IEEE member.

• The event was overall a great success and had an excellent response from the participants.

SMILe- WIe WORKSHOPAs a part of the sustainability action of WIE Affinity Group, a training workshop was organised on 25th June 2012 for the WIE members. Date: 25-June 2012

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Venue: TKM College of Engg.No of participants: 80event Outcomes• The event focussed to refresh

the activities of the Affinity Group after a long Semester break.

• The WIE action plan- WIE FOCUS was prepared and the duties were assigned to the volunteers.

• The session gave the students insight regarding the impor-tance of volunteering in IEEE and its various aspects.

• The session resulted in a better communication and coordina-tion between the members.

• The session developed a spirit of passion amongst the students and encouraged them to perform well in the activities.

• The participants were actively involved to turn the session to a great experience.

STAR WIe-IeeeAn Exclusive, Efficient and Effective awareness program “WIE Star-2012” mainly aimed at creating basic and solid technical awareness about the current trends in the various fields of

engineering through discussions and hands on workshops was conducted: Date: 29th of June 2012 By: 18 Volunteers of WIE SB TKMCEVenue: Government Higher Secondary School, Vallikkeezhu, KollamParticipants: 120 Girl Studentsevent ObjectivesTo promote interaction of IEEE

members with junior and high school girl students, inspiring them about the positives and scope of pursuing engineering career.

To create a technical support network for teachers and a mentoring scheme for the girl students.

To attract more girls to engineering care.

To provide a platform for the SB volunteers to mingle with students thereby improving their own technical analytical and soft skills.

To enhance the organizing leadership and volunteering skills of IEEE volunteers of the SB.

To uphold the spirit of IEEE among the members and to enlighten the non members about the value of IEEE membership.

To inspire the volunteers to take up further innovative and creative initiatives.

To involve mass participation and mass team building environments.

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To inculcate a technical, humanitarian and team building values among the female school children.

event HighlightsIntroduction to the technical

worldOpen discussion Hands on WorkshopThe program mainly involved

two sessions, a descriptive presentation on the core branches of engineering and a highly interactive workshop.

event OutcomesThe program was valuable for

the students as it gave them a clear image about engineering and its prospects.

We were able to channel the interest of girl students towards the developing technical field.

The team of volunteers received an immense morale booster with the event.

The presentation, soft skills and spirit of IEEE volunteerism and organizational concepts were easily improved.

The teachers of the school got a better idea and feedback about where their students stand, what the status of current technical stream is and about updating their own solid industry knowledge.

event FeedbackQuote of the dayA Teacher “I want my child to be an engineer“

On the whole WIE Star-2012 was a good experience for both the students as well as for the IEEE volunteers. It was one of the most remarkable ventures from the perspective of IEEE student branch of TKMCE as it was able to pursue the noble goal of promoting the world of engineering to the next generation of brilliant minds.A Workshop on Industrial Appli-cations of Power electronics

IEEE Student Branch TKMCE in association with Industrial

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A p p l i c a t i o n s / I n d u s t r i a l Electronics / Power Electronics Society, Kerala Section organized a two day workshop on the Industrial Applications of Power Electronics.Date: on 29th and 30th of June 2012. Venue: TKM College of Engg. KollamNo of Participants: 80The workshop saw a total participation of about 80, constituting of final year under graduate students, post graduate students and faculty members from various colleges.event Objectives• To know the industrial applica-

tions of power electronics in the emerging field of various engineering and technology.

• To provide a platform to study and handle major power elec-tronic components and devices.

• To give a good understanding of the power electronic com-ponents and clarify the doubts regarding the same.

• To inspire the youth to think on their own foot and to develop a spirit of passion towards the technology.

• To urge the youth to continue higher studies in the power electronic field to generate in-novative solutions to aid the power energy sector.

• To encourage and promote the upcoming generation to con-tribute to science and technol-

ogy.• To promote IEEE and PEL and

to provide the members the benefits of being an IEEE mem-ber.

Day 1- 29/06/2012-FridayThe inaugural ceremony

began at 9:30 hrs with a silent pray Chief Guest of the ceremony was P. Prathapachandran Pillai, HOD, Dept. Of Electrical and Electronics, TKMCE and the ceremony was presided over B Premlet, Staff Adviser, IEEE TKMCE. The welcome speech was delivered by Sunitha Beevi. The workshop was inaugurated by P. Prathapachandran Pillai. In his inaugural address he spoke about IEEE and also about the im-portance of power electronics.

This was followed by an inspiring presidential address by B Premlet.

The next session was by B Premlet who discussed the basics in electrical engineering. The seldom asked reasons of well known phenomena in the field of electrical and electronics were explained to the participants. The session was highly interactive and gave the students a stronger base in the subject.

After lunch, the much awaited session on MATLAB and SEQUEL was taken by Sheeba R., Dept. of EEE, and TKMCE. She talked about the importance of these softwares in the engineering context.

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The day’s events concluded with a hands-on session on simul-ation using MATLAB and SEQUEL. The session on SEQUEL was guided by Sheeba R. and the session on MATLAB by Abhijith VS, Technical Coordinator, IEEE SB TKMCE. This session was received well because of the dedicated efforts of both the tutor and the WIE volunteers.Day 2-30/06/2012-Saturday

The second day of the work-shop began with the session by Aby Joseph, Joint Director, CDAC.

After a short break, the second session commenced. It was handled by Sharavanakumar, Sr. Engineer, CDAC.

The session with Dinesh Gopinath from College of Engine-ering, Tvpm began at 14.00 hrs. event outcomes• The workshop benefited the

participants by imparting enough knowledge on power electronic field.

• The members could interact with experts and clear all the issues they faced in the industry.

• Students got a trial view of the power electronic industry and a possible avenue for their future.

• The students got a sound base in SEQUEL, upcoming freeware simulation software that is being employed by engineers which is not included in our curriculum.

• The hand on session on

MATLAB trained the participants to implement the procured knowledge as an effective mathematical and programming tool.

• The event turned to be a grand success and it proved to be a real asset to the Student Branch of TKMCE.

event FeedbackThe workshop concluded

with the Valedictory function. The certificates of participation were handed over to various participants by Dinesh Gopinath.Industrial Visit (Kallada GS)

The student branch organized an industrial visit to Kallada Generating Station and Thenmala Ecoforest on 18th July 2012. Date: 18th July 2012No of participants: 50event Objectives• To give a firm technical backup

that would aid their curriculum. • To experience the industry and

its working. • To cultivate a love towards

nature and provide adventure that would enlighten them.

Details of the Generating station: • It has 2 low head Kaplan

turbine with an installed capacity of 7.5 MW.

• It is the oldest generating stations in Kerala where manual control is practiced.

• The students were familiarized with each and every part of the station and were detailed all its mechanisms like

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• Cooling system • Governing system • Synchronization procedure • Transmission of power • Later on they were taken to

yard and were shown different transformers- current and potential transformers, lightning arresters, circuit breakers etc.

event Outcomes• Students got a trial view of the

industry and a possible avenue for their future.

• Strong technical knowledge beyond the books and experien-cing a relaxation from the stressful academic environment.

• Through this IV, the students got an insight on how enormous is the task of generating electricity.

Medical CampAdvancing technology for

humanity is the motto of IEEE & the IEEE Student Branch TKMCE has chosen this as the first step, IEEE PES Student Chapter of TKMCE in association with Lions club Mayyanad conducted a free medical camp portraying the social commitment of the IEEE volunteers.Date: 11th August, 2012.Time: 9.30 – 14.30 hrs.

Venue: KP Pillai Memorial Community Hall, Erattakulangara.No of volunteers: 50event Objectives• To promote a humanitarian

mindset in today’s generation.• To give importance to the

health conditions of today’s society especially for the eco-nomically backward.

• To enhance the organizing skills of IEEE volunteers of SB.

• To uphold the spirit of IEEE among the members and to en-lighten the non members about the value of IEEE membership.

event outcomes• The rough the interactive ses-

sion with the locals it become possible to gain access to their woes and were able to assess their problems through a tech-nical perspective.

• Introduced IEEE as a technical organization which gave great significance to humanitarian activities.

• Great care, efficient check up and free medicines were pro-vided to the patients.

• Providing service to the large number of people made possible.

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Mohandas College of Engineering & Technology Anand

1. The Official inauguration of MCET IEEE SB activities, 2012-13, ‘SAHASRA 12’was conducted on 21st July 2012 at MCET CGPC Hall. S. Gopa Kumar, IEEE Educational activities Chair, Kerala Section inaugurated the Ceremony. The official webpage of IEEE MCET SB was launched by Srinivasan R, Vice Chair, IEEE Kerala Section. The web page was designed by Danith Krishna (Student S4 CS).

2. IEEE MCETSB in association with ISTE chapter MCET convened a talk on ‘Robotics- Steps towards

successful realization’. by Sam K Zachariah, Dept of Avionics, Tvpm on 26th of July 2012 at MCET.

3. IEEE spectrum talk on Palm Vein Technology was done by G. Meenakshy S7 CS (IEEE member) on 27-09-2012 as a part of Weekly colloquium of MCET. The talk was attended by all IEEE students and students of S5 ECE. It was followed by active interaction by the students.

4. Subin, (Student Chair IEEE SB,) attended the All India IEEE student congress held at Bangalore.

Inaugural function ‘SAHASRA 12’

Taking the oath by IEEE members

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5. Subin, (Student Chair IEEE SB,) secured First prize for the ‘Ethical Skit’ contest at All India student congress IEEE held at Bangalore.

6. Subin, (Student Chair IEEE SB,) was selected as editorial member for the IEEE GOLD news letter for the next calendar year.

7. The official inauguration of WIE Affinity Group, IEEE Student Branch was held on 05-10-2012. The inauguration was done by R Gayathri Nair, Chief Engineer, KSEB, Tvpm, following the function she gave a talk on ‘Challenges and Opportunities faced by Women in Engineering Profession.’ This was followed by an interactive session with students.

8. Ashish.S.Kumar S3CS, Karthik G S3CS, Dhannith Krishnan S3CS, participated for 24 hour on line programming contest IEEE X-treme on 20th & 21st October 2012 and secured 96th rank on National level and 4th place on state level.

9. A lecture on ‘Research Methodo-logies in Computer Science and Software Engineering’ was delivered by Neelakanta, Chairman Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems, College of Business, Iowa State University, on 29th November 2011.

10. Students from MCET participated for the state level quiz for the first year engineering students organized by IEEE Power and

Energy Society and EEE Dept. of TKM College on 17th November 2012.

11. A lecture on Power Quality Problems & New solutions to mitigate was delivered by Francis, faculty EEE Dept., CET Tvpm on 7th December 2012.

12. An idea presentation competi-tion was held for the first year students of MCET on 19th December 2012. Fourteen teams from various branches of B. Tech courses participated for the same.

Forth coming events planned for the year 2013:Colloquium 13 - National level student congress on January 23rd & 24th at Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology will be technically sponsored by IEEESB, MCET. The program will be officially inaugurated by V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai Executive Vice President, KSCSTE and Soorya Krishnamoorthy will be delivering the keynote address.

Keeping abreast of the developments in the area of Engineering & Technology, the two day national level technical fest is to witness competitions on Technical Paper Presentation, Posture Presentations, Project Presentation, Network Games, and Problem Solving thus ensuring a thoughtful mix of learning and entertainment to which a vast continuum of undergraduate and postgraduate students within the state and outside are expected.

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Sarabhai Institute of Science & Technology Vellanad

02-01-2012 to 06-01-2012: ÉPSICON’, International Conference on Power, Signals and Computations at VAST, Thrissur. Harisankar UK and Sriram S. Ayyar participated.03-01-2012 to 05-01-2012: ICTEE (International Conference on Technology Enhanced Education) at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam, Kerala. Aravind S. Nair got selected to volunteer at the conference.13-01-2012: ‘Friday Talk’ by Capt. A.K. Pillai on Personality Department at seminar hall in association with CGPU, SIST from 13.30 to 14.30 hrs.13-01-2012: 1st Execom Meeting

at Seminar hall from 14.30 to 15.00 hrs. Discussed about the events to be conducted on 2012 and January. Decided to conduct a soldering practice workshop on the upcoming week.14-01-2012: IEEE Kerala Section AGM at Classic Avenue, Tvpm. Parvathy S. R., Bhagyalakshmi V.S., Aravind S. Nair and Sriram S. Ayyar attended. K. Gopalan Nair received the Best SB Counsellor award for the year 2011.20-01-2012: ‘Friday Talk’ by Aditya Nair from IMS, Tvpm on ‘Career options for Engineering Students’ in association with CGPU, SIST at Seminar Hall from 13.30 to 14.30 hrs.

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21-01-2012: Soldering Practice Workshop at EC Lab, EC Dept. for SIST Students. 29 students parti-cipated. Session taken by Vinod Kumar BG of EC Department.21-01-2012: Recruitment training by Jayesh, Career Launcher, Tvpm, exclusively for S8 Students.31.01.2012 to 01.02.2012: Workshop on ‘Satellite based Robotics’ at RIT, Kottayam. Two student members Jithin Jayakumar and Rahul Raveendran participated in the event.03-02-2012: ‘Papyrus Vitae’, Paper presentation competition at LBSITW. Two teams participated.• Aravind S. Nair of S6 EI presented

paper on ‘Quantum dots in Real World Applications’.

• Menaka S. and Sriram S. Ayyar, both from S6 EE, presented a paper on ‘Energy Surveillance System’.

03.02.2012: ‘Friday talk’. Talk on ‘Android App Developement’ by personalities professionals from

Nest, Tvpm.09-02-2012: Paper presentation competition at College of Engineering, Kallopara. Aravind S. Nair of S6 EI participated.23.02.2012: Paper Presentation Competiton at ‘Conjura ‘12’ Fest of TKMCE. Aravind S. Nair participated.

24, 25, 26.2.2012: Robotics Competition “Lanka reloaded” in connection with PRAGYAN 2012- tech-fest, at NIT Trichy. Sriram, Jithin Jayakumar attended.25.02.2012: AKYS (All Kerala Young Scientist) at MBCET. 5 members participated: Simon Thomas, Adarsh, Nithin Raj, Lakshman SP from S1S2.29.02.2012: ‘zHrAdHa ‘12’, a day with Takako Hashimoto, R10 WIE Coordinator at LBSITW. 3 members, Menaka S, Arunima S N and Nikhil K Narayanan.29.02.2012, 01, 02.03.2012:Workshop on ‘Sixth Sense bots’ at SCTCE as part of ‘Cult away’. A team of 5, Sapna, Sriram, Jithin, Rahul and Sudeep participated.

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02,03.03.2012: ‘Brainee’, Engi-neering Solutions competition at TKMIT. 5 teams (10 members) participated. Won 1st and 2nd prizes.05-10.03.2012: TARANG ’12. As part of Women’s day celebrations; organized by WIE. Conducted online competitions on essay writing, photography, poster designing and short film making. Got 9 entries.17.03.2012: IEEE LINK F2F at GEC Thrissur. Aravind Nair, Nikhil Narayanan and Adarsh attended.24.03.2012: Participated in ‘Micro soft Dreamspark Yatra 2012’ organized by IEEE MZC SB at

Tiruvalla. 23-24.06.12 : KITeS, 4 Partici-pants participated for Embedded Systems and Robotics. Aravind Nair was part of Sponsorship Committee.30.07.2012: Travancore Hub F2F at GEC, Barton Hill. 15 Students participated in the event including the PCB workshop. 01.07.2012: TISP Week Op-Comm Meeting at Ernakulam. Aravind Nair attended the meeting07.07.2012: First Anniversary Celebrations of IEEE SB SIST. Chief Guest S. Gopakumar, from IEEE Kerala Section.14.07.2012: Travancore Hub

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and WIE Congress at MZC, Pathanamthitta. Students partici-pated in technical workshop and students participated in the managerial workshop.23.07.2012: Organised the Inaugural function and First Workshop of TISP Week 2012. Conducted Follow Up workshops on 6 different schools.28, 29 & 30. 09.2012: Organised ‘’AARAMBH’’ 3 day PIC work-shop along with Student Branch of LBSITW.14.12.2012: Organised IEEE

Awareness session for First year Students. Received very positive response.Selected representatives to at-tend the following forthcoming events:12-13.01.2013: ‘Treadtone’ National Level Techno Managerial event organised by IEEE Travancore Hub at TKMCE Kollam.19-20.01.2013: ‘Novista’ IEEE LINK Camp and IEEE LINK F2F at MEA Engineering College, Perunthalmanna.

Diary of Events

Professor & Head, Dept of Ag-ricultural Engineering, College of Agriculture, Tvpm & Special Officer (Kuttanad Package), Alappuzha.

May02-05-2012 Talk on ‘Video Surveil-

lance – Challenges and Oppor-tunities in ICT’, R. Srinivasan, Director, Cell App Technolo-giesm, Technopark, Tvpm.

23-05-2012 ‘God’s Own Number’ talk by A.K. Ashraf, Head, Struc-tural Dynamics and Analysis Division, LPSC, ISRO, Valiya-mala, Tvpm

30-05-2012 Talk on ‘Large Scale Failure of Students in Engineering Colleges’ by P.K.Sivanandan, IAS (Retd.), Advisor, Institute of Societal Advancement.

April04-04-2012 Talk on ‘Ultra High

Capacity Optical Transmission and Enabling Technologies’ by V.P. Sudeepkumar, Senior Sub Divisional Engineer, RTTC, BSNL, Tvpm.

11-04-2012 Talk on ‘Indian Stan-dard for Quality in Public Ser-vice Delivery’ by R. C. Mathew, Director, Bureau of Indian Stan-dards Kerala.

18-04-2012 ‘Energy for Sustainable Development’ talk by Padma-nabha S. Pillai, Director (Tech-nology), MTI Associates, Ohio, USA.

25-04-3012 Talk on ‘Applications of Decision Support System Softwares (Expert System) in Agriculture’ talk by V. Ganesan,

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June 13-06-2012 Communication Skills

– For Students Manu Madha-vankutty, Managing Partner, Lantern Academy, Vellayam-balam, Tvpm.

20-06-2012 ‘Provocation – An In-novation Technique’ talk by E.J. Francis, Retd. Scientist, VSSC, ISRO, Tvpm.

27-06-2012 ‘Research and Devel-opment Creating Value Through Innovation’ talk by N.T. Nair, Chief Editor, Executive Knowl-edge Lines (monthly), Tvpm.

July4-7-2012 The Role of IEI in the De-

velopment of Appropriate Tech-nology K.K.Vasu Director, ICIC, Tvpm.

11-7-2012 Self Development Pro-grammes V.Sankar, Toastmas-ters International, Tvpm.

18-7-2012 Safe Hospitals V.S.S. Nair, Consultant, Hospital Engi-neering Services, Tvpm.

25-7-2012 Fleet Management Sys-tem. Rohit, Ravindranath, Chief Technology Officer, Innova-tions Squared Technologies, Tvpm.

August1-8-2012 Importance of Renew-

able Energy and Solar Energy Johannes Fishbeck Formerly of Micro Energy International Ber-lin, Germany & N.Ram Special Advisor, Radiant Solar.

8-8-2012 Digital Programmable Hearing Aid Biju. C. Oommen, Associate Director, CDAC, Tvpm

15-8-2012 Career Buildup of Student as Future Engineers S.V.Bhanu, Senior Manager, (Material Testing Laboratory), HLL Lifecare Limited, Tvpm.

22-8-2012 ‘Mass Transport Sys-tems’ talk by B.G.Sreedevi, Di-rector, NATPAC, Tvpm

September5-9-2012 Hydrogen, Solar or Al-

gae? Talk by V K Damodaran, Director General, INGCORE, Tvpm & Hangzhou, UNIDO In-ternational Energy Consultant & Chairman, Centre for Environ-ment & Development.

18 Seminar on ‘Cyber crimes-detection and prevention’ was jointly hosted by the IEEE, Stu-dent branch of GCEK & the IEEE Malabar subsection on at Gov-ernment College of Engineer-ing, Kannur.

20 Seminar on Digital Image pro-cessing - Speaker: Mohanku-mar, Director (R&D), Grey Technolab(India)Pvt.Ltd, or-ganised in association with: IEEE SB, College of Engineering Kidangoor.

20 Recent Tends in computing - Speaker: Mini Ulanat organised in association with, IEEE SB Col-lege of Engineering Poonjar.

29 IEEE ComSoc - StartUp Village student project review at IEEE office.

October 02 IEEE Day Celebration at MES

College of Engineering. IEEE Day 2012 was celebrated by

IEEE Power & Energy Society Chapter of Kerala Section in

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association with the IEEE Stu-dent Branches of TKMCE & TK-MIT at TKMCE, Kollam.

03-04 Two Day Workshop on La-TeX” at RIT Kottayam

03 World Habitat Day Celebration - talk on the theme ‘Changing Cities, Building Opportunities’, G Shankar, Founder Chairman & Chief Architect, Habitat Tech-nology Group, Tvpm.

04 Technical talk on E-Waste Man-agement, by G.Pramod, ,Senior liaison officer of Earthsense re-cycle (P) Ltd.

07 ‘Project Closure and Consolida-tion’ meeting for projects exe-cuted under IEEE ComSoc_HTC student projects 2011-2012 at IEEE office.

10 Talk n ‘Radiation Hazards from Cell Phones / Cell Towers’ by V.S.S.Nair, Consultant, Hospi-tal Engineering Services, Tvpm.

13-14 Educational Outreach Pro-gramme on Safe and secure usage of Web Resources for Socially and economically dis-advantaged girl Students - a Computer & web awareness programme conducted for the inmates of Prathyasha Bhavan Orphanage, Palluruthy, Cochin.

17 ‘Relevance of Standards – Pres-ent Scenario’ talk by C Athi Pagavan, Head, Quality & Reli-ability, IISU, VSSC, Tvpm.

24 Talk on ‘Omni Intelligent Sys-tems - A Transformational Phase of Engineering’, by T.R. Gopal-akrishnan Nair, Saudi Aramco Endowed Chair of Technology.

31 “Body Electrics and Correct

Thinking” talk by K K Vasu, Di-rector, ICIC, Tvpm.

november7 A talk on ‘Total Productive Main-

tenance’ by S Venugopal, Se-nior Manager (Production) HLL Lifecare Limited, Tvpm.

10 PES members MEET and Semi-nar on Power & Energy Man-agement held at Kollam.

14 ‘Space Debris: Issues & Chal-lenges’ talk by A K Anilkumar, Scientist/Engineer SG, Head, APMD, VSSC, Tvpm.

15 IAS DL program at CDAC Tvpm on “Safe Switching for Opera-tions and Maintenance”.

21 ‘Precision Farming’ talk by Abdul Hakkim, Associate Pro-fessor, Kelappaji College of Agriculture Engineering and Technology (KCAET), Tavanur PO, Malappuram District.

28 Talk on ‘Fertigation to Enhance Crop Production’ by E K Kurien, Associate Professor, Kelappaji College of Agriculture Engineer-ing and Technology (KCAET), Tavanur PO, Malappuram Dis-trict.

December05-12-2012 Talk on ‘Satellite Types

and Uses’ by E.J.Francis, Retd. Scientist, VSSC, ISRO, Tvpm.

07 Entrepreneurship Meet in asso-ciation with GOLD on 07 Dec 2012 organized by EAB RSET, Kochi.

08 Education symposium as part of INDICON 2012 at RSET, Kochi.

07-12-2013 Execom Meeting of IEEE Kerala Section at 16:00 hrs.

11-12 Two-day Workshop on ‘Re-

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02-01-2013 Road Safety in Kerala Requires Radical Changes in Approach’ talk by M N Prasad, Chairman (Retd) Indian Railway Board at IE Hall, at 17:30 hrs.

05-01-2013 Execom Meeting of IEEE Kerala Section at 16:00 hrs at Melody Hall, The Mascot Ho-tel, Thiruvanathapuram.

05-01-2013 AGM of IEEE Kerala Section at 17:30 hrs at Melody Hall, The Mascot Hotel, Tvpm.

09-01-2013 Technical talk on ‘Strength of Cooperative Re-lationship in Dairy Sector’ by Prayar Gopalakrishnan at IE Hall Tvpm at 17:30 hrs.

12-13, 01-2013 ‘Treadstone’ – two days technical programme orga-nized by IEEE Travancore Hub at TKM College of Engineering, Kollam.

23-01-2013 Technical talk on ‘Technology based Emergen-cy Systems and Solutions’ by PA Paul, Ex. Vice President, Siemens, at IE Hall.

June 9-13, 2013 International Con-ference on Communications at Budapest, Hungary.

August 23-24, 2013- Kerala Sec-tion organize the GHTC - South Asian Satellite Conference in Kerala at Tvpm.

August 2013 ICACC-2013 Rajagiri School of Engineering & Tech-nology.

20-23, October 2013 – IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Con-ference (GHTC) at San Jose Airport Garden Hostel, Silicon Valley, California, USA.

TENCON 2014 scheduled during Oct-Nov 2014 at Kochi.

Forthcoming Events

cent Trends in Embedded Sys-tems’ at AWH College of Engi-neering, Kozhikode.

08 All India IEEE Computer Society student congress - Top execu-tives of IEEE and Computer So-ciety Peter Staecker (President, IEEE 2013), John Walz (Presi-dent, IEEE CS), David Alan Grier (President, IEEE CS 2013), Angela Burgess (Executive Di-rector, IEEE CS), S.V. Sankaran (Vice President, MGAB IEEE CS) participated in the student con-gress.

12-12-2012 ‘Energy Conserva-tion’ talk by K.M. Dharesan

Unnithan, Director, Energy Management Centre, Kerala.

13 IEEE Awareness program for stu-dents at TKMIT, Kollam.

14 National Energy Conservation Day celebration at TKMIT, Kol-lam.

19-12-2012 A talk on ‘Introduction to Autonomous Under Water Vehicles’ by M. Ajith Kumar C Project Director, NPOL, Kochi.

26-12-2012 ‘Poka Yoke: Japanese Route Map for Students’ – talk by P.M.C.Nair, DGM (Safety, Environment and Security), HLL Lifecare Limited, Tvpm.

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Sudoku

9 2 8 3 6 7 4 5 1

4 5 6 2 9 1 3 7 8

1 7 3 4 8 5 2 6 9

8 4 5 1 3 9 6 2 7

3 6 2 7 5 8 1 9 4

7 9 1 6 4 2 5 8 3

6 8 7 5 1 3 9 4 2

2 3 4 9 7 6 8 1 5

5 1 9 8 2 4 7 3 6

8 9

5 2

1 3 6 4

1 7 3

2 4

9 5 8

7 3 6 1

5 4

8 2

Solution to Sudoku in the last issue (Vol - 21 #1)

Use reasoning and fill each grid with digits from 1 to 9 without repeating the digits in the same row or column.

IEEE ELECTION 2012 RESULTSIeee President-elect 2013

J. Roberta, B. de Marca and Tariq Durrani were nominated by IEEE Board of Directors as candidate for the position of IEEE President-Elect 2013. Professor de Marca is the successful candidate and elected as IEEE President-Elect 2013.

Region 10 Director-elect 2013-14There were three candidates for RIO Director-Elect 2013-14: Kukjin Chun and Ramakrishna Kappagantu are the candidates nominated by IEEE Region 10 and Nim K. Cheung, nominated by petition. Ramakrishna Kappagantu received the highest number of votes and elected as the Region 10 Director-Elect for 2013-14.

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Editor: K. Gopalan Nair, E-mail: [email protected], Ph: 2363232, 9446323230

Copy to Member: M.No:

Awards & Achievements� Rayees has been nominated as R10 GOLD coordinator.� Akshay M of KMCT College of Engineering, Kozhikode,

has bagged Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award.� IEEE Student Enterprise Award Winners from Kerala Section SJCET, Palai w GEC, Thrissur w Amrita, Kollam w VJEC, Kannur

Congratulations!

state level paper presentation contest

IEEE Power & Energy Society Kerala Chapter jointly with KSEB Engineers Association is organizing a state level paper presentation contest during Jan - Mar 2013. The Contest has 3 rounds.

Topic of the Contest:

"Grid Connectivity of Renewable energy-Issues and Solutions”

First round at College levels to be completed before Jan 24th.First round is a joint activity of IEEE Student Branch & PES Kerala Chapter where an IEEE S B exists.Dist. level Second round from winners of the first round to be completed before Feb 24th. State level finals from dist. level winners before March 15th. For the first 2 selected papers in the finals, PES is offering a chance for presentation at the PES Chapter International Seminar on Smart Grid Technology scheduled in June.

PRIZeS:College level - Certificates to the first three places.Dist. level - Cash Prize & Certificates to the first three places.State level - Cash Prize & Certificates to the first three places.

All participants in the District level & State level will be given to and fro travel allowance.

Muhammed Kasim S, Chair, PES Chapter

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