Workshop on Microwave Antenna and Filters-Research Focus- A report

Department of ECE organized DRDO sponsored Two-Day National workshop on “Microwave Antenna and Filters-Research Focus” on 7^th and 8^th Feb 2013. Programme was inaugurated with welcome Address by Dr.T.Arivoli, Prof & Head, Dept. of ECE followed by keynote address by Principal Dr.S.Kathirrvelu.There were totally 42 participants - comprising of  Under Graduate and Post Graduate students, and Faculty Members from various colleges .

On the first day, Dr.S.Raghavan, NIT-Trichy was the lead resource person for a detailed session on planar antennas. Dr.S.Raghavan, true to his winning the best teacher award,  provided an excellent overview on Microwaves. He appreciated DRDO and Vickram College of Engineering for undertaking such a  rare venture. He displayed sample pieces of most of the microwave integrated circuits substrates. This session was followed by Dr. R. Rajaram, Dean, Dept of CSE who gave an insight to fundamentals of microwave parameters and  explained it in  a lucid matter. On day two, Dr. A. Thenmozhi of Thiagarajar College of Engineering delivered lecture on Microwave filters. In a short span of 2 hours, she almost brefied the whole spectrum of microwave filter including design of all active filters with many examples. The next session was initiated  by Prof.MS.Krishnan who covered special application antennas in microwave domain. He also explained the scope and issues available for realistic research in Microwave. Later,  Mr.B.S.Madhan  of Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai gave a hands-on training in the design of Patch and Horn antenna using RF simulation tool.