chairman’s message from the editor’s desk...special reference to 634m high tokyo sky tree ”....

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Volume : 10 Issue : 2 February 2013 Price : Rs. 3.00

Chairman’s MessageT.S. Rangarajan

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From The Editor’s DeskH.R. Mohan

[email protected]: http://infoforuse.blogspot.comDear Members

Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) wasconducted successfully on Feb 9, 2013 at theAnna University Alumni Center. We wereoverwhelmed by the attendance – which was over130 people (more than twice the averageattendance each year).

Recently, an IEEE Students Workshop on “Get Wired to theWireless World” was successfully conducted on 6th Feb 2013 by DrSabitha Ramakrishnan (execom member) and Prof T Thyagarajan(immediate past chair) which attracted over 333 participants which wasa record of sorts.

Going by this overwhelming attendance, I suppose, your executivecommittee can infer, that, IEEE Madras Section, with your support andgood wishes, is hopefully responding positively to the members’expectations. While such responses and expectations from you motivateand encourage us enormously, we are also conscious of our increasedresponsibilities to meet your changing expectations and moving goal posts.

A new executive committee with a mix of old and new members hastaken charge at the AGM and on their behalf I promise you that we willdo our best to meet your demands this year.

The highlight of this AGM was the large number of members andstudents who were recognized and awarded with cash, certificates ofappreciation and plaques received from HQ, R10 and your section. Basedon our experience in IEEE volunteer work, we have learnt that it isextremely important to identify, recognize and award volunteers who areselflessly toiling for the benefit of our members. IEEE itself has a largenumber of awards at HQ, R10 and other OUs. What is required is for usto nominate and support the nominations of our members for such awards.We have to become aware of such awards and recognition opportunitiesand ensure that we send in the nominations on time. Your executivecommittee will only be too happy to support your valid nominationsand submissions by their endorsements.

I request each one of you to kindly review these opportunities,prepare to apply for them and provide sufficient notice to us if ourendorsements are required. We will ensure that we help you win theserecognitions and awards. After all who does not appreciate when oursection members win these accolades? It is a great way to increase yourand the section’s visibility in the IEEE community at large.

I have a dream. Our future AGMs should largely become ‘Awardsand Recognitions Night’ like the Oscar, Bafta, Pulitzer, Booker, Nobel,Grammy and Film fare awards. Our volunteers are the real Stars!!

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Dear Friends,

We note the AGM 2012 held on 9th feb2013 was a grand success with a record no. ofmembers (around 130) participating and making itlargest no. attended in the recent past. A brief reportand few pictures taken at the AGM appear in thisissue. We have also pubkshed the details of IEEE

Execom Members for the year 2013, for reference and interaction. In thenext isue of LINK, we will publish the details of the Society & AffinityGroup Chairs.

As stated by the Section chairman, in his message, the AGM wasan event of joy for all us with recognitions, awards, honours, appreciationsto our SBs, Society Chapter and members & volunteers. Let us aim tohave more awards in the years to come.

LINK congratulates Mr. Samapthkumar Veeraraghavan for receivingthe Young Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award of Tufts Universityand Mr. H.R. Mohan for being inducted as Golden Core Member in theelite group of IEEE Computer Society for his dedicated leadership andservice which have made the IEEE CS the world’s preeminent associationof computing professionals.

While we could publish the abridged reports on the events held atthe following institutions, in this issue of LINK, we were constrained tocarry forward many event reports to the next month due space limitations.

JJ College of Engg; M. Kumarasamy College of Engg; AarupadaiVeedu Inst. of Tech.; Kingston Engg. College; Dr. NGP Inst. of Tech;Periar Maniammi Univ.,; Kongu Engg. College; Thiagarajar College ofEngg; Ranganathan Engg. College; Sri Muthukumaran Inst. of Tech.; PSRRangasamy College of Engg. for Women; Easwari Engg. College;Kalasakingam Univ.,; Jeppiaar Engg. College; Sri Ramakrishna Engg.College.

It was a great opportunity for the members to witness thepresentation of Dr. Vint Cert, considered as one of the fathers of Internet.It was organized by IEEE CS along with ACM, CSI & IITMAA. Adetailed report on this presentation is published in this issue of LINK.

Reader’s attention is drawn to the long list of forthcoming eventswhich comprises of a no. of national and international conferencessupported by the Section and Society Chapters such as IEEE CS. Readersmay make use of the opportunity to share their research findings bysubmitting papers and benefit by participating in the conferences.

While many SBs submit their event reports adhering to the guidelinesprovided at http://goo.gl/8KFdM we note, still a no. of SBs are notfollowing the guidelines. In these cases, it is becoming difficult for us toconsolidate information to publish in the newsletter. We once again requestall to follow the guidelines.

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IEEE-MAS Link Volume : 10 Issue : 2 February 2013

INCOSET-2012

J.J. College of Engineering and Technology

An International Conference on EmergingTrends in Science, Engineering and Technology(INCOSET-2012) was conducted during 13th &14th Dec 2012 covering 5 themes — IntegratedInformation, Communication and ComputingTechnology; Engineering disciplines ofProduction, Aeronautical, Mechanical, MaterialScience and Energy; Environmental and CivilEngineering; Electrical Power Drives andControls, Instrumentation, Automation andRobotics; and Science and Management. TheINCOSET-2012 conference papers arepublished in IEEE and Springer proceedings.

Around 250 scientific researchers andacademicians attended the conf. in which 160papers, carefully selected from 700 receivedwere presented in 20 technical sessions. Videoconferencing facilitated the keynote speakersand few registered authors who could not attendin person to present their ideas and methods ina lively and accessible way.

Dr. Yukio Tamura, Director, GlobalCenter of Excellence Program, TokyoPolytechnic University, Japan inaugurated theconference and addressed on “Recent topics in

wind engineering and building aerodynamicsspecial reference to 634m high Tokyo Sky Tree”.The keynotes include the following:

• Dr. Mohd Zaid Bin Abdullah, USM’sSchool of EEE, Malaysia on “MicrowaveTechnology”.

• Dr. S. G. Ponnambalam, MonashUniversity, Malaysia on “EvolutionaryAlgorithm for Flexible Assembly LineScheduling”

• Dr. Shen-En-Chen, Associate Professor,University of North Carolina, Charlotte,USA on “Network-Wide TransportationInfrastructure Monitoring Strategies andEnabling Technologies”.

• Dr. Samavedham Lakshmi Narayanan,National University of Singapore,Singapore on Mathematical Modeling andits Relevance to the Management ofEpidemics/ Infectious Disease.

• Dr. S. R. S. Prabaharan, ManipalInternational University, Malaysia on“Will NANO Technology Dominate21Century and Beyond?”

Dr. M. Ponnavaikko, Vice-Chancellor,SRM University, Chennai, was the Chief Guestand delivered the Valedictory Address on thesecond day of the conference.

Guest Lecture on “Software Developmentand its Future”

M. Kumarasamy College of Engineering

The student branch chapter of the IEEECommunication Society organized a guest

important role in solving the problems faced byhumans in the life.

She advised the participants to updatethemselves with the current advancements inthe field of software development. The recenttrends such as cloud computing was also a partof the talk. She concluded that enhancing theknowledge on various software and theirapplications will pave the way to start off agood career in the field of software. The studentmembers clarified their queries relating to thedevelopment of the software, and its futureprospects from the speaker.

Report by: Ms. S. M. Bhuvani,[email protected]

lecture on “Software Development and itsFuture” by Ms .C. Porkodi for the benefit ofECE Dept. students on 12th Jan 2013.

The speaker, in her talk, explained theconcepts in creation of software with hands-onexamples from her work place. She emphasizedon the need for learning the computer languagessuch as C, C++, JAVA, etc. The softwaredevelopment life cycles was also dealt coveringthe different types such as the waterfall model,spiral model and the agile mode. DataWarehousing and its importance was alsoexplained with examples from day to day life.She pointed out that software plays an

Workshop on Software Project Basics forYoung Engineers

IEEE CS Branch Chapter of AVIT andDept. of CSE & IT organized a one day nationallevel workshop on “Software Project Basics forYoung Engineers” on 5th Jan 2013. Mr. KannanNarasimhan, Asst. Vice President – Quality,Mahindra Satyam, Chennai was the resourceperson at the workshop. Dr. J. Shanmugam,

Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology principal delivered the presidential address. Dr.M. A. Dorai Rangaswamy, Dean (CSE)welcomed the gathering briefed about the themeof the workshop. Prof R. Kalavathy, viceprincipal proposed the vote of thanks. MrsVijila, Ms Hemaprabha, Mr Vijayaragavan, MrSelvakumarasamy, faculty members of CSEorganized the workshop and conducted itsuccessfully. About 50 participants includingthe faculty members and students attended theprogramme and benefited.

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On 24th Jan 2013, at a joint public lectureprogramme organized by IIT Madras AlumniAssociation along with the ACM ChennaiChapter, IEEE Computer Society MadrasChapter and Computer Society of India ChennaiChapter at IIT Madras, Dr. Vinton G Cerfaddressed a gathering of over 400 ITprofessionals and academic and studentcommunity on the Future of Internet.

Mr. H.R. Mohan, Chairman of IEEE CS,in his welcome address stated that the TCP/IPprotocol co-developed by Dr. Vint Cerf pavedthe way for the modern Internet on 1st Jan 1983and it had revolutionized our day-to-day life.He added that it is a great opportunity for us tolearn about the future of the Internet from oneof the fathers of Internet Vint Cerf.

Dr. Janakiram, Chairman, ACM ChennaiChapter, in his formal introduction stated thatDr. Vint Cerf, the current president ofAssociation for Computing Machinery is a greatvisionary and has been working on Internet rightfrom its early days when it was a project ofDARPA. Dr. Cerf, apart from being a TuringAward (considered as Nobel Prize in Computing)winner has received the U.S. National Medal ofTechnology and Presidential Medal of Freedom,the country’s highest civilian award. Dr. Cerfhas received several awards and has served andserving in the boards of many organizationsassociated with the Internet. Dr. Cerf, a doctoratein Computer Science from UCLA, has beenawarded honorary doctorate by over 30universities all over the world and is also a fellowof major computer and technical societies andassociations such as ACM, IEEE, BCS,American Association for the Advancement ofScience, International Engineering Consortium,Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering andmany more. He also serves as the Vice Presidentand Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, USA.

Presentation on “The Future of the Internet”

Dr. Vint Cerf, started his talk, outliningthe global & regional statistics on Internet andthen highlighted the status in India and briefedon the steps to be taken to increase the accessin India. While speaking on the recent changesin the Internet scenario, he briefed on IPv6 toco-exist with the current IPV4, InternationalDomain Naming, new gTLDs, Domain NameSystem Security, Digitally Signed AddressRegistration, Sensor Networks, Smart Grid,Mobile Devices and Internet enabled devices.He added that the following are some of thetechnology challenges the Internet is facing:Scaling issues to avoid centralization andinformation latency, Border gateway protocolfor Openflow networks, issues beyondaddressing, Configuration management andaccess control in the Internet of Things, issuesin certificates and Certification, Role of trustedcomputing modules in hardware and softwaredesign, paranoid browsers and sandboxes, Interclod protocols and architecture, and Delay anddisruption tolerant networking and public safetyNets. He said that Smart Grid is the way tolook into the future by highlighting Smart GridInteroperability Panel, Smart Energy Profile,Configuration, Control & Reporting, Safety and

Security, Production vs Consumption, Anaylticsand Loosely Coupled Power Grids.

In the area of Internet Policy Challenges,Dr. Cerf spoke about the Internet Governance,Role of ITU, Privacy, Safety and Security,Digital Signatures, Intellectual Property andDigital Vellum focusing on preservation of dataand software. He concluded his talk outliningon The Inter Planetary Networking SpecialInterest Group (IPNSIG) which seeks topromote effective data communications overinterplanetary distances. He said thatcommunicating over those vast distances and inthe challenging (for data communications)environment of space requires a really differentapproach to networking than that ubiquitousnetworking environment we are most used to.His one hour 20 minutes uninterruptedstreaming like talk was enjoyed by everyone.He spared his time to answer a no. of queriesfrom the audience.

At the time of vote of thanks, standingovation was given to Dr. Cerf. Mementos werepresented to him by. Mr. A. Chandrasekaran,Chairman of CSI Chennai and Mr. K. Bhaskaran,President of IITMAA.

Inauguration of the Student Branch

The inauguration ceremony of the IEEESB took place on 29th Jan 2013. Prof. G.Baskar,Principal of Kingston Engineering College,welcomed the gathering and introduced the chiefguest Mr.T.S. Rangarajan, Chairman, IEEEMadras Section. In his address, the chief guestbriefly highlighted the significance of IEEE,need of becoming member of IEEE and themember benefits. He advised all the students tobecome member of IEEE as it will help them in

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their future career. The program ended up withthe vote of thanks by Ms. S. Jayachitra,coordinator of SB.

Report by: Jayachitra Selvaraj,[email protected]

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DLP on “Embedded Computing Systems”

The IEEE Computer Society MadrasChapter supported ACM Distinguished LectureProgramme by Dr. V. Lakshmi Narasimhan,Professor, Computer Science, East CarolinaUniversity, USA on the topic “EmbeddedComputing Systems” was held on 30th Jan 2013.

Dr. S. Suresh Kumar, Director (Research)welcomed the gathering. Dr. S. Dhandapani,Advisor, delivered the presidential address andDr. K. Porkumaran, Principal felicitated.

The distinguished speaker, Dr. LakshmiNarasimhan gave a brief insight on ACM andenumerated the importance of “Fitness forPurpose” as key criteria in Embedded Systemsciting real-time examples. He enlightened thegathering with his knowledge on EmbeddedComputers and Embedded Automotive Systemsdrawing attention to embedded systemshardware, process management, threads control,mutual exclusion & synchronization, issues inscheduling, pre-emption& priorities, micro

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kernel design, deadlock detection & prevention,interrupts handling, communication andmultiprocessing. The lecture covered theapplication of emerging trends in the field ofEmbedded Computing and BiomedicalEngineering with discussion on real case studies.

The program received overwhelmingresponse and was attended and appreciated byover 300 participants with representation from

17 academic institutions all over TamilNadu.The lecture had appropriately educated all theaudience about various aspects and attributesof embedded computing and included factorscontributing to building a great career. Mr. P.Mahesh Kumar, faculty member proposed thevote of thanks.

Report by: Dr. S. Suresh Kumar,[email protected]

DLP on “ Genderization issues in SoftwareDevelopment Life Cycle”

Periyar Maniammai UniversityUniversity, USA on the topic “Genderizationissues in Software Development Life Cycle”.

Dr. V. Lakshmi Narasimhan began his talkmentoring about ACM and pointed out thebenefits of ACM membership. He focused onthe issue of organisational genderization andimpact of genderization in software developmentlife cycle, how genderization is used to improveeffectiveness of the task and activity of eachand every phase of the SDLC. He also statedthe importance of genderization in work placeand personnel life for the young technocrats. Healso gave a real structure of the software engineeringwork culture. Participants from variousinstitutions were benefited with his lecture andthe observations would be useful in addressingissues that arise in increasing the number oftechnocrats in computing, software educationand other related areas. The lecture ended withthe vote of thanks by Mr. A. Haja Alaudeen,Asst. Professor, Dept. of Software Engineering.

Report by: Satheesh Abimannan,[email protected]

On 25th Jan 2013, the Dept. of SoftwareEngineering, Periyar Maniammai Universityorganized the IEEE Computer Society MadrasChapter supported ACM Distinguished Lectureby Dr V.Lakshmi Narasimhan, Professor,Department of Computer Science, East Carolina

Mr. A. Satheesh, HoD/SoftwareEngineering welcomed the gathering. Dr. K.Lakshmi, Asst. Dean, School of CSE deliveredthe inaugural address. Dr. N. Ramachandran,VC, Periyar Maniammai University presidedover the function.

INTUIT’2013

The INTUIT’2013, one day function onnon-technical events was organized by WIE on19th Jan 2013. The events conducted in INTUITwere Quiz Whiz, Visua Ratia, Adv-Marks andThink Wise. INTUIT’2013 started with the event“Quiz Whiz” in which the general knowledge

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was the basic need to participate which wasfollowed by the event “Infinite Intelligence”which tested student’s knowledge of presentscenario. The next event “Visua Ratia” was a

test for the time management and recognitionand memory of the students which was followedby “Adv-Marks” in which the platform wasprovided to exhibit the students’ marketingskills. The event “Think Wise” tested the reasoningand logical thinking ability of the participants.Consummately, the INTUIT’2013 was ablowout for the creative minds of our college.

Report by: S. Nilus Nidharshana,[email protected]

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Guest Lecture

Ranganathan Engineering CollegeThe students of EEE Dept. R. Ranjith

Kumar, N. Madheswaran, D. Aravinth, P.Ramar, and N. Tamilmaran participated inELECTROTEK’13 held from 23/01/2013 to 26/01/2013 at CODISSIA in association withTANGEDCO, Coimbatore and presented theirproject “Micro Hydel Power Plant”. The mainaim of the project is to produce power from acheap and reliable system which can beimplemented in homes, offices, hospitals,institutions etc., where the usage of water isfrequent. A small size pelton wheel turbine isfixed inside a four inch pipe. It is coupled to ashaft which in turn is connected to a DCgenerator. Electrical energy thus obtained isstored in a battery. There was a good responsefrom industrialists for this project tocommercialize.

Guest Lecture

A guest lecture on “Recent Trends inElectronic Design” was conducted on 9th Jan2013 with Er. R. Sundar, Chief Engineer(Design), Interlogicx Embedded Solutions Pvt.Ltd, Pondicherry as the guest speaker. Whilespeaking on the subject, he talked about theEmbedded Systems technology and itsapplications in the day to day life. Hispresentation was interactive with a no. ofanimated video clips. He was also accompaniedby Er. M. Vijaya Kumar, Senior Manager. Thelecture was helpful to understand the EmbeddedSystem applications beyond the theoreticalknowledge.

Report by: Mr. J. Mohan

Project Presentation

A guest lecture on “Career Opportunitiesin Technology and Media” was organized on 1st

Feb 2013 which was attended by the final yearstudents and third year students. Mrs.Mahalakshmi Sridhar, HoD/EEE welcomed thegathering and Dr. S. Nithiyanandam, Principalpresided over the function. The chief guest Mr.S. Seetha Raman, Executive Director, CampusImages briefed about the career opportunities

in the media and infused confidence in everyonestating that anyone can reach greater heights ifhe has the real talent. He also gave the jobopportunities to the final years and pre-finalstudents. He then explained about theadvertisement technologies being used in hiscompany. The students had a chance of gettingintroduced to the world of animation andmultimedia beyond the regular exposure totechnical and professional engineering.

Report by: A.P. Anila

TELETEC

TECHUTSAV, one of the grand technicaljunctures of the south was organized on 22nd

Jan, 2013 jointly by the Dept. of ECE and theSB. Mr. Aloknath De, Chief of R&D, Samsungwas the chief guest who in his address discussedabout ten ways of doing ‘Smart Engineering’which was the theme of this year’s Teletech.

After the inaugural, a series of tech eventsfirst being the paper presentation followed byproject display, crossword puzzles, quiz onmicroprocessors and controllers were held. Inall these events, the participants were expectedto exercise their smart engineering brains andeffectively display their wisdom. There were

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also a few fun events namely the Casino Royale-a gaming event and Mr. And Ms. Teletech-atechnical cum managerial event which knockedout the wit and humour inside every daringcontestants. Apart from these on-the-day

events there were also a few online events likephotography and treasure hunt. Over 300 youngengineers participated with zeal in this one dayprogramme.

Report by: K. Kalyani

Career Guidance Programme

Coimbatore Institute ofEngineering andTechnology

A career guidance programme for the finalyear students was organized on 26th Jan 2013.About 400 students from CSE, ECE, EEE, ITand Mechanical participated in the programmewhich was conducted by Mr. S. Vijayakrishnan,Placement Officer, CIET. He highlighted onthe current recruitment scenarios, IT/ITES andcore company openings, bridging the skill gapbetween industry and the institutions, highereducation, importance of soft skills and otherlanguages to communicate with different set ofstakeholders in the IT/ITES industry.

Report by: Saravanan.B

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Inauguration of IEEE CommunicationsSociety Student Branch Chapter

The inauguration of the IEEECommunications Society Student BranchChapter was organized by the members of theCommunications Society on 24th Jan 2013.About 150 members attended the function.

The Chief Guest of the ceremony wasDr.N.R.Alamelu, Chairman, IEEECommunications Society, Madras Section andthe Guest of Honor was Mr. M. BarnabasMuthu, Mentor, Madras Section StudentNetwork. After the formal inauguration of thechapter, the Chief Guest spoke on theopportunities available to maintain and developa successful professional branch chapter. A

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motivational talk on “The leadership skills andquality of a good leader” followed the inauguration.

The hard work of the members of theSMIT SB with extra-ordinary support from

Prof. D. Shanthi Cheliah, HoD/ ECE, SBCounselor and Chapter Advisor made the eventa successful one.

Report by: Maheswaran.P

Inauguration of IEEE SB activities

P. S. R. Rengasamy College of Engineering for WomenThe IEEE SB activities for the year 2013-

14 was inaugurated on 21st Jan 2013. The ChiefGuest, Major V.V.Chandrasekharan (Retd.),Hony. Secretary of IEEE Madras Sectionaddressed the gathering and highlighted thebenefits and importance of IEEE SBs. He addedthat IEEE will be a right platform for the studentsfor their overall development. He advised thatthe students should update themselvesaccording the competing environment. Dr. K.Ramasamy, principal, delivered the presidential

address. The function was felicitated by Thiru.Sundar Ramdoss, Director, P.S.R. Group ofInstitutions and it was organized by Mrs. S.Saranya, HoD/EEE. SB counselor Mr. S.Gunasekaran, Dept. of EEE welcomed thegathering. IEEE student member Miss. T. V.Rajeswari of EEE introduced the Chief Guestand Student Chair Miss. A. Vinothini of EEEpropose the vote of thanks.

Report by: Gunasekaran S,[email protected]

Swami Vivekananda’s 150th BirthAnniversary Celebrations

On 9th Jan 2013, a guest lecture wasorganized as a part of Swami Vivekananda’s150th birth anniversary celebrations. The guestof honor was Mr. S. Vishwanathan, Head ofVidhyabharathi, an educational institutionserving all over India through more than 26,000schools and nearly 500 colleges.

The programme started with the welcomeaddress by Dr Saraswathi Janaki, HoD/ECEfollowed by introductory speeches by theprincipal, vice principal and the IEEEcoordinator, Mrs. Meenakshi Vidhya.

The guest speaker, Mr. Vishwanathan inhis inspirational and motivating speech, citedexamples from the life of Swami Vivekanandaon his mission to empower the youth of thecountry in order to uplift Indian culture, heritageand religion and make India a utopian societyfor other nations to emulate. He emphasized

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that in order for the country to tide over allpredicaments that it is facing, the youth of thecountry must evoke in themselves the qualitiesof bravery, sheer determination and must alsopossess the motivation to sacrifice everythingfor the sake of their motherland, by drawinginspiration from great leaders and martyrs whowillingly forfeited their lives for the sake of thecountry. He insisted on the need to inculcatethe principle of “Desha Bhakti” amongstyoungsters for improving the quality of life ledby all Indian citizens.

The program was successful in stirringup patriotic feelings among the audience for itwas definitely the need of the hour as the currentgeneration has to realize its responsibilitytowards the nation and must take steps toreform and revolutionize the society in order torealize the visions of charismatic and greatleaders and aspire to build a nation which ischerished and honored by all.

Guest Seminar on Empowering SoftwareEngineers

On 17th Jan 2013 a guest seminar on thetopic “Empowering Software Engineers” was

organized with Mr. Dhian Singh and Mr. MuraliKumaraswamy from Purna Solutions as guestspeakers. The audience comprised of 2ndand 3rd year IEEE members. The session beganwith a brief introduction about IEEE and theway it has influenced the various fields ofengineering. The speakers explained the genesisof software and traced its development overthe years. They enlightened the audienceregarding the current scenario of the softwareindustry and emphasized on the need tobridge the gap between Institutions andIndustry. Mr. Dhian Singh highlighted on theopportunities and the current trends of softwareengineering in areas such as mobile payments,social commerce, cloud computing and alsothe scope to implement software in electronicssuch as in the case of yield management.Mr. Murali then explained about the SWEBOK(SoftWare Engineering Body of Knowledge)program and the CSDA examination and itsbenefits.

Report by: Dheeptha. M,[email protected]

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Prof., Dept. of EEE, Kalasalingam Univ., DrR.Narmatha Banu, Prof., Velammal EngineeringCollege, Madurai.

The topics covered included: EvolutionaryAlgorithms for optimization problem; Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm; DifferentialEvolution Algorithm; Particle SwarmOptimization algorithm; Case studies on Multiobjective GA for Security enhancement and realcoded GA for PID Controller tuning. In additionto the technical presentations the participants

Kalasalingam UniversityWorkshop on “Multi Objective Optimizationusing Evolutionary Algorithms”

The IEEE SB organized a one dayworkshop on “Multi objective optimizationusing Evolutionary Algorithms” on 2nd Feb 2013.Dr S. Radhakrishnan, Dean, InternationalRelations was the chief guest at the inauguralfunction. Dr D. Devaraj, Dean, Planning andDevelopment and SB Counselor welcomed thegathering and gave an overview of the workshop.In his inaugural address Dr S. Radhakrishnanoutlined the importance of optimization inengineering field and the power of theevolutionary algorithms in solving the real-lifeoptimization problems.

The resource persons for this workshopwere Dr D. Devaraj, Dean, Planning andDevelopment, Kalasalingam Univ.; Dr T.Aruldoss Albert Victoire, Associate Prof., Dept.of EEE, Anna University, Coimbatore; Dr P.Ganesh Kumar, Asst. Prof., Dept. of IT, AnnaUniversity, Coimbatore; Dr K. Valarmathi,

were given the hands-on training to develop theMatlab code for Evolutionary Algorithms.

The workshop was attended by 65faculty members and students from variouscolleges and received excellent feedback. Dr V.Vasudevan, Registrar, Kalasalingam Univ., andDr T. Aruldoss Albert Victoire, distributed thecertificates to the participants. Mr R. Arunkumar,SB chairman proposed the vote of thanks.

Report by: Dr. D. Devaraj.

TRIUMPH’12

Jeppiaar Engineering College

The IEEE SB organized “TRIUMPH’12", in order to reward those minds who walkedfrom failure to failure with no loss ofenthusiasm, thus paving the road to success.The guests of the day were Dr. Sushil Lal Das,Principal of Engineering & Technology; Dr. N.Thangavel, Principal of Management & Science;Dr. J.Helen Chandra on behalf of HoD/Biotechnology; Mrs. Sridevi, HoD/EEE; Mrs.Sudha, HoD/E&I; Dr. Sabitha Raj, HoD/IT andDr. Jyothi, HoD/CSE. SB counsellor Mr.Sellakumar felicitated the chief guests.

The event was hosted by Ms. PragnyaSrinivasan, Dept. of IT. After the warm welcomeby Mr. Krishna.V.S, Dept. of EIE, a video releasewas done by Mr. Joseph Peter, Dept. of CSE

which depicted the journey of the SB in 2012.After this, magazine designed by Mr. Arun Noel

Victor, Secretary, SB, documented by Ms.Apoorva P Naidu, Secretary of WIE, and designassisted by Mr. Joseph Peter was launched byDr. Sushil Lal Das. A summary on the list ofevents and achievements that took place in 2012was presented by Ms. Sree Rakshaa, Dept. ofECE. It was a proud moment for all of us toactually know that there were a number ofachievements. It also inspired us to be awarethat we should be responsible for making ourSB even bigger and better in the following yearsto come.

Dr. N. Thangavel rewarded the 2011 SBEXECOM members for their extra-ordinaryperformance which was followed by rewardingthe 2012 SB EXECOM. The HODs of various

departments distributed the prizes to thewinners and the participants of TRIVIA TIME,TAP-4, TECH FILM and DEBATEcompetitions. Finally, the reward function cameto an end when the 2012 SB were bestowedwith a memento for their great efforts to formand lead the IEEE team of JEC. Mr. ManojReddy G, chairman, SB who has always beenthe inspirational source along with his teamselected the core members of SB for 2013. Thefunction finally ended with a vote of thanks byMr. R. Surendar, Dept. of EEE expressingimmense gratitude to the Chairman, Col. Jeppiaarfor the opportunity to establish the SB andenhancing our passion towards engineering andthe SB Counselor Mr. S Sellakumar for hissupport and guidance throughout the year

Report by: Santhosh Kumar. S,[email protected]

Inauguration of IEEE CommunicationsSociety

Jeppiaar Engineering College inauguratedthe IEEE Communications Society chapter on21st Jan 2013 with a great zeal. The event wasgraced by the presence of Colonel Dr. Jeppiaar,principals Dr. Sushil Lal Das, Dr. N. Thangavel,and Mr. T.S. Rangarajan Chairman IEEE MadrasSection. The inaugural event started off withthe welcome note by Dr. Sushil Lal das followedby the inaugural speech of Colonel Dr. Jeppiaar.He mentioned the benefits of the formation of

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various societies and appreciated the staffs andstudents in inaugurating a society which aimsat inculcating several qualities needed in anengineering student which teaches him to lead,network and inspire. Mr. T.S. Rangarajanenthralled the audience by sharing his experiencewith IEEE. Having done several assignmentsand projects on RFID, he mentioned about the

technological developments on RFID. Then theevent was carried on with the list ofachievements of the students of the college. Thechair of the society chapter Mr. NivasRavichandran answered several queries fromstudents and the faculties. Mr. Anand,coordinator, IEEE Madras Student Networkaddressed the students on carrier planning. The

inaugural event also witnessed the launch of thechapter’s e-newsletter “COMCAST”. Wewould like to thank our chapter advisor andHoD Dr J. Venugopala Krishnan and all the staffcoordinators who encouraged us.

Report by: K.S. Anupama,[email protected]

IEEE SB & WIE Activity

A group of 33 students and six facultymembers from Government Higher SecondarySchool of Munalur, Tirupur District had visitedthe institution on 19th Jan 2013 as a part oftheir educational tour. They were taken aroundvarious department laboratories and the centrallibrary and were explained about theequipments and computing facilities available.After the tour, the students and the facultymembers of the school attended a special talkon “Career Opportunities for School Students”by Prof. S. P. Rajkumar, Professor and HoD/EEE who provided an insight into the variouscareer opportunities available to the students.He explained briefly about the career planningand decision making. Dr. M. Senthamil Selvi,Professor, Dept. of IT concluded the sessionby rendering the vote of thanks.

Sri Ramakrishna Engineering CollegeWIE: Special talk on “Women Empowermentand You”

A special talk on “Women Empowermentand You” was delivered by Mrs. Sreejaya, aleading and successful lawyer in Coimbatore on19th Jan 2013. She provided an insight into thetransition of the roles of women two generationsearlier and the current scenario. In her talk, sheemphasized that empowerment truly comeswhen both men and women have a level playingfield. When women are denied opportunities,roles, responsibilities we deny them the base

for empowerment. Stress was given on the minuteencounters that women face in workplace, homewhere change of attitude has to take place.Change starts at home, after all the men on theearth are brothers, sons and fathers of variousfamilies she pointed out. Citing various examplesof how women should be cautious regarding thepersonal information divulged to fellow workersthat could be misused, she gave us the precautionarypush. Giving her example as a lawyer, and someonewhose work takes her to different parts of theworld, she states that women of this generationare capable of doing things alone withoutexpecting aid from husbands or fathers. Withregard to punishments awarded to defaulters, herperspective is that prevention is better than cure.The crime rate doesn’t come down despite beinggiven a life imprisonment or a capital punishment,she said. The criminal only makes use of theopportunities and we shouldn’t we giving themone. One should be alert and awake during alltimes of public travel or during the night time.

National Symposium and TechnologyExhibition 2013. Micro-Grids: Laboratoriesto Real Markets. February 22-23, 2013 atHyderabad. Website: http://pes.ieeehyd.org/nste13

NCICSAT-2013: National Conferenceon Intelligent Control Systems and Automation.February 28, 2013 at SRI SairamEngineering College, Chennai. Contact:[email protected]

NSATSE-13: National Seminar onArchitectural Thinking for Software Engineers.March 4-5, 2013 at SRM University, Chennai.Contact: [email protected]

NCISE-2013:5th National Conference onInformation and Software Engineering. March22-23, 2013 at Aarupadai Veedu Institute ofTechnology, Chennai. Contact: Dr. A. AnthonyIrudhayaraj, [email protected] Website:www.ieeecs-ncise.com

INCOS’13: 4th National Conference on“Intelligent Techniques in Control, Optimizationand Signal Processing”. March 22-23, 2013 atKalasalingam University, Krishnankoil,Tamilnadu, India. Contact: Dr D. Devaraj,[email protected] Website:www.kalasalingam.ac.in

Skill Development Programme on “Artificial

Forthcoming Events Intelligence Methods in Engineering”. March27-28, 2013 at M. P. Nachimuthu M. JaganathanEngineering College, Chennimalai, Erode,India. Contact: [email protected] /[email protected]

NCVESCOM 2013 : 6 th Na t iona lConference on VLSI, Embedded Systems, SignalProcessing & Communication Technologies.April 3, 2013 at Aarupadai Veedu Institute ofTechnology, Chennai. Last Date for PaperSubmission : 23/02/2013. Contact: Prof. D.Vijendra Babu, [email protected] Website:www.avit.ac.in

Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing. April4, 2013 at Velammal Engineering College, Chennai.Contact: [email protected] [email protected] Website:http://tifac.velammal.org/

ICT-2013: IEEE Conf. on Information andCommunication Technologies. April 11-12, 2013at Noorul Islam University, Kumaracoil, Thuckalay,Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India. Contact:[email protected] Website: www.icict.in

ICCPEIC-2013: International Conferenceon Computation of Power, Energy, Informationand Communication. April 17-18, 2013 atAdhiparasakthi Engineering College,Melmaruvathur, Tamilnadu, India. Website:http://adhiparasakthi.in/sites/eee/iccpeic/

ICHCI’13: IEEE International Conferenceon Human Computer Interactions. August 23-24, 2013 at Saveetha University, Chennai, India.Website: http://www.ichci.in/

R10-HTC2013: IEEE Region10Humanitarian Technology Conference 2013.August 26-29, 2013, at Tohoku UniversityKawauchi-North Campus, Sendai, Japan.Website: http://www.r10-htc2013.org/

LCN-2013: The 38th Annual IEEEConference on Local Computer Networks(LCN). October 21-24, 2013 at Citigate Central,Sydney, Australia. Paper registration: April 5,2013. Website: http://www.ieeelcn.org

CCEM-2013: IEEE InternationalConference on Cloud Computing for EmergingMarkets. October 16-18, 2013 at Bangalore,India. Website: https://ewh.ieee.org/ieee/ccem/

ICGCE-2013: International Conference onGreen Computing, Communication andConservation of Energy. December 12-14, 2013at Chennai, India. Website: http://www.rmd.ac.in/icgce2013/

ANTS-2013: 2013 IEEE InternationalConference on Advanced Networks andTelecommuncations Systems. December 15-18,2013 at SRM University, Chennai, India.Contact: [email protected]


Report on IEEE Madras Section AGM for the year 2012The IEEE Madras Section AGM for the year 2012 was held on 9th

Feb 2012 at the Conf. hall at the Alumni Centre, College of Engineering,Anna University. About 100 members attended the AGM.

Mr. T.S. Rangarajan, Section Chairman, welcomed the gatheringand provided an overview and the highlights of the Section activitiesduring the year 2012. He thanked all the members and the execom forextending their support in carrying out the activities of the Section. Headded that during this year, our Section members received a no. of awardsfrom the HQ and then presented those awards to the recipients. He thenpresented certificates of appreciation to the Section and studentvolunteers.

Mr. H. R. Mohan, Vice Chairman and the Editor of IEEE MASLINK, then announced and presented the cash awards & certificates ofappreciation to the best performing Student Branches (St. Xavier’sCatholic stood first, followed by Kongu & Jeppiaar), Technical SocietyChapters (IEEE CS topped, followed by WIE & PCS) and the StudentBranches with largest no. of members (Satyabama Univ. topped, followedby Velammal & Kongu).

After the confirmation of the minutes of the AGM 2011, Secretary

Major V.V. Chandrasekharan, presented the Secretary’s Report for theyear 2012 detailing out the section, society, student branch activities,membership status and development etc., The report was approved bythe general body. The full report is available at the Section website forreference.

Ms. S. Hemamalini, Treasurer, then presented the AuditedAccounts for the year 2012 which was also approved by the GB. Thecurrent auditors Kumar & Raj were re-appointed for one more year bythe approval of AGM.

Dr. T. Thyagarajan, on behalf of the Nominations Committee,presented the report on the Execom slate of the Madras Section for theyear 2013 and inducted the new Execom with Mr. T.S. Rangarajan as thechairman. The other newly elected members of the execom wereintroduced to the general body. The List of Office Bearers, ExecomMembers and their contact details are provided for reference elsewherein this month newsletter.

After the outgoing and the incoming execom members & seniormembers of the Section were honoured, Secretary, Major. V.V.Chandrasekharan proposed the vote of thanks.

Chairman Address Secretary Presenting the Annual Report

Treasurer Presenting the Audited Accounts Vishnu, the Inductor of maximum no. of IEEE Members

MGA Award to Mr. A. Darwin Jose Raju MGA Award to Mr. Barnabas Muthu

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R10 Best Student Branch – St. Xavier’s Catholic IEEE Day – 2012 – Genios Team from Jeppiaar

St. Xavier’s Catholic — Topper in the Student Branch Activities IEEE CS – Topper in Society Chapter Activities

Velammal Engg – Second Largest Student Branch Announcement of new Execom by the Nominations Committee

IEEE Computer SocietyGolden Core Member

Presented toH.R. Mohan

As one of the distinguishedcore of dedicated volunteerand staff whose leadership

and service have made the IEEE ComputerSociety the world’s preeminent associationof computing professionals.

2013 Young AlumniDistinguished

Achievement AwardTufts University

“ S a m p a t h k u m a rVeeraraghavan, EG10, is anoutstanding young engineerdeveloping technological

solutions based on large scale computingsystems to address global issues in the areas ofeducation, healthcare, disabilities and welfareprograms for women and students belowpoverty lines in India.”

Section of Audience Section of Audience

Congratulations Congratulations Section Membership as on1st February 2013

Life Fellow - 3Fellow - 2Life Senior - 10Senior Member - 109Life Member - 4Member - 2442Associate - 270Affliate - 23Graduate Student Member - 1120Student Member - 8641Total - 12624

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IEEE Madras Section Execom Officer Bearers - 2013

Mr. T.S. RangarajanChairmanTel : +91 44 6616 8205 (O)

+91 44 2245 0736 (R)Cell : +91 92810 57017Email : [email protected]

Dr. S. ArumugamVice-ChairmanTel : +91 04294 223434 (O)

+91 96290 99900 (R)Cell : +91 99650 99900Email : [email protected]

Mr. H.R. MohanVice-ChairmanTel : +91 44 2857 6411 (O)


Major V.V. ChandrasekharanSecretaryTel : +91 44 2224 7914 (R)Cell : +91 98410 14969Email : [email protected]

[email protected]

Dr. T. ThyagarajanPast-ChairmanTel : +91 44 2235 8080 (O)Cell : +91 94441 04850Email : [email protected]

Dr. S. HemamaliniTel : +91 44 3993 1317 (O)Cell : +91 94431 86924Email : [email protected]

[email protected]

Mr. A. Darwin Jose RajuTel : +91 04652 232560 (O)Cell : +91 98437 76224Email : [email protected]

Dr. R.M. SureshTel : +91 44 2246 1904 (O)


Execom Members - 2013

Dr. N. KumarappanTreasurerTel : +91 04144 239904 (R)Cell : + 91 99420 55263Email : [email protected]

[email protected]

Mr. T. MuthumanickamTel : +91 0427 2337700 (O) (E) 704

+91 0427 2401140 (R)Cell : +91 94432 90138Email : [email protected]

[email protected]

Dr. M.A. AtmanandTel : +91 44 6678 3303 (O)Email : [email protected]

[email protected]

For the detailed Annual Reportand the AGM photo gallery,pl. visit the Section website.

Dr. A.P. KabilanTel : +91 04288 234259 (O)Cell : +91 94435 24366Email : [email protected]

Prof. T. Michael N KumarTel : +91 4222 614444 (O)

+91 4222 615789 (R)Cell : +91 94430 33707 / 98948 33707Email : [email protected]

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Editorial TeamMr. H.R. Mohan, Mr. T.S. Rangarajan,

Dr. T. Thyagarajan, Dr. P. Suresh Chander Pal,Major. V.V. Chandrasekaran, Dr. Krishna V. Prasad

Posted on: 25th February 2013Posted at: Egmore RMS (Patrika)

IEEE Madras Section Execom Members - 2013

Sitting (L-R) : Dr. S. Arumugam (Vice Chair), Dr. T. Thyagarajan (Past Chair), Mr. T.S. Rangarajan (Chair),Mr. H.R. Mohan (Vice Chair), Dr. N. Kumarappan (Treasurer)

Standing (L-R) : Execom Members: Dr. S. Hemamalini, Mr. Muthumanickam, Mr. A. Darwin Jose Raju,Dr. Kabilan, Major V.V. Chandrasekharan (Secretary), Dr. M.A. Atmanand, and Dr. Micheal

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