The Centre for University Industry Collaboration (CUIC), Anna University, Chennai in collaboration with BSNL, Tamil Nadu Circle offered a seven-day Certificate Course in Mobile Communication for the final year students of various disciplines of Vickram College of Engineering and Kamarajar College of Engineering from 30th November 2009 to 6th December 2009 in Vickram College of Engineering, Enathi.

The BSNL, Tamil Nadu Circle, has evolved the course content in consultation with the CUIC ( Centre for University Industry Collaboration) of the Anna University, Chennai. This course, which is specially designed for the benefit of students studying in various Engineering Colleges affiliated to Anna University across the state, gave tremendous insight into the latest trends in mobile technologies.

The course which addressed advanced theory on mobile communication, practical demonstration and technical presentation comprised three days awareness program in the form of lectures and a two-day training program in competence development followed by two days for the practical exposure at the telecom-installation sites of BSNL Madurai. They were also trained in personality development and interview techniques.

Inauguration
The Vice Chancellor of Anna University Chennai, Dr. P. Mannar Jawahar and Mr. D. Varadarajan, Chief General Manager, Tamilnadu Circle inaugurated the Certificate course through video conferencing from the e-studio of Rajiv Gandhi Memorial Telecom Training centre, BSNL, Meenambakkam, Chennai.

In the inauguration function that took place in Vickram College of Engineering, Shri. V. K. Sanjeevi, General Manager, BSNL, Madurai was the chief guest. In his inaugural address, he mentioned how this course was materialized and the purpose of the course- to enhance the employability of the engineering graduates. In his special address, the Chairman of Vickram Group of institutions Mr. M.K.S. Sreenivasan remarked that, continuous technical innovation is happening in the field of communication technology and this course would help the students to update their knowledge about the new technology. The Principal, Prof. M. Palanikumar welcomed. Dr. Suja Ravi Isaac, Course Coordinator proposed the vote of thanks.

30.11.09 - Monday
Presentations of MJS. Chelladurai & A. Vetrivel from Rajiv Gandhi Training centre, BSNL, Chennai

Radio, Cellular and CDMA Concepts

01.12.09 - Tuesday

Technical presentati by Dr. S. Selvam/Director- CUIC - AU on Value added Engineer

02.12.09 - Wednesday

GSM technology by MJS. Chelladurai & A. Vetrivel

03.12.09 - Thursday

CDMA technology by Latha Rajaraman & Sakthivel

04.12.09 - Friday

Technical presentation by Dr. S. Selvam/Director- CUIC - AU on Personality Development &Interview Skills

05.12.09 - Saturday

Field Visit CDMA Practical: (in East Masi Street-BSNL & in Anupanadi-BSNL)

06.12.09- Sunday

Field Visit GSM Practical: (in Ellis Nagar-BSNL & in Anupanadi-BSNL)

After the field visits, students were taken to the Vickram College campus where they had to undergo an online post-assessment test.

Valedictory function
Principal of the college Prof. M. Palanikumar welcomed the gathering. He appreciated the step taken by Anna-University Chennai in collaboration with BSNL-Tamilnadu for updating the students with the knowledge of Mobile Communication which is the ‘talk of the day’.

Dr. S. Selvam, Director CUIC-Anna University Chennai delivered the Valedictory address. In his address he stressed upon the importance on getting hands on training of the latest technology and also said that this course acts as a platform for the students to make themselves updated about the expectations of the industry.

There was an interactive session after the valedictory address. The students enthusiastically participated in this session and clarified their doubts.

The Resource Person from BSNL Ms. Latha Raja Raman thanked Anna University Chennai for joining hands with BSNL in organizing this mega event. She also thanked various colleges for their co-operation and support in organizing such a value added programme.

Dr. Suja Ravi Isaac, the Course Coordinator proposed the vote of thanks.

One Day National Seminar was conducted in the college campus on 23rd January 2009 by the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
 

Chair Person: Dr. Suja Ravi Isaac, Professor & Head, Department of ECE 

Fiber optics is an area of technology, which has gained a new level of significance over the last one and a half decades, because of its wide application in the field of communication. Communication networks have made the whole world a global village, making accessibility over the world a viable reality in our day-to-day life. The national seminar covered fundamental areas of Fiber Optic Communication, ranging from Fiber Optics to Fiber Amplifiers & Fiber Bragg Grating. 
 

Inaguration:

Principal Prof. M. Palanikumar welcomed the gathering. Then Dr. Suji Ravi Isaac, the Head of the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, explained the purpose of the seminar.

The Chairman Er. M.K.S. Sreenivasan, Chairman, Vickram Group of Institutions presided over the function and, in his presidential address, he remarked that fibre optics has broken new grounds in the field of communication – a domain which we all have to feel proud of. He advised the participating faculties to observe the presentations of the eminent luminaries and to learn much about the developments and to feel inspired to make innovations in this new field of optical communication. He reiterated the fact that the vision of the college is to produce technical innovators. He sought the students to interact with the seminar speakers and learn much and to make new in-roads in this domain of technology.

Dr. S. Mohan, the Vice Chancellor of Prist University, Tanjore, who has captured the award of Best Scientist of the Year over a period of 3 years, and who has to his credit 598 publications in reputed scientific journals, addressed the gathering about the field of fiber optics. He stated that laser and fiber optics are twin developments in the realm of science and technology, which are going to bring major breakthroughs in medical surgeries in the years to come.  He advised the participants that fibre optics is a promising domain with a lot of scope for research and development. Specifically, his focus was on the use of optical fiber amplifiers – a new technology which has come to stay in recent times.

Dr. Balaji Srinivas, a distinguished scientist from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, addressed the delegates about the applications of fibre optics in the field of communication.  He further elaborated on Optical Components, such as Semi-conductor Detectors, Wavelength Division Multiplexing, Optical Amplifiers. Towards the end of his presentation, he touched on the recent trends in optical communication.

Dr. Thomas Lee, Senior Design Engineer, Fiber Optika Technologies, Bangalore,  traced the chronological developments in the field of Optical Communication over the past 15 years - copper cables are replaced by fiber optics. The recent developments are in enhancing the bandwidth, and ensuring lower signal attenuation, immunity to electromagnetic and RF interference, small size and weight, low cost, etc. The advent of lasers in the 1960s, and the invention of low loss optical materials in the 1970s paved the way for fiber optic revolution. The first generation FOC used Multimode Fibers (MMF), which was subsequently replaced by Singlemode Fibers. Most of today’s FOC link runs on the third generation version with SMF powered by 1510 nm laser. Fourth Generation Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) has been recently introduced to further the data transfer capability of OFC link. The advent of each higher generation FOC was driven by the need for faster data communication. Today, FOC acts as a carrier for various services such as voice signals, video on demand, cable TV, remote education, home shopping, telemedicine, video conferencing etc.

Dr. P.K. Palanisamy, Professor of Physics, Anna University, Chennai, talked to the delegates about the achievements in the field of optical communication. Optical fibers and semiconductor lasers have brought about major changes in the field of communication, giving rise to a new discipline called fiber optic communication. He stated that a single optical fibre is able to carry the equivalent of 300 million simultaneousve, multimedia, internet services. From late 1970's, low signal-loss optical fibres are used for telephone calls. This new photonics technology enables, for the first time, sufficient capacity to meet the forecast demand for fully interactiaul undersea and terrestrial communications. By replacing copper cables with glass, new photonic networks span the globe with light highways that link cities, countries and continents and are capable of transmitting information via multiple channels of different wavelengths – just as broadcasting uses multiple TV and radio channels to transmit audio and visual information. Now-a-days it is possible to transmit the light signal for very long distances with out change in shape or loss of energy by a nonlinear phenomenon called “Soliton”. Now a days we use a number of photonic devices. Optical fibre is going to be one such device which is going to cater our day-to-day need. In a single hair-thin fibre we are going to get our telephone and fax connectivity, internet connectivity television connectivity, etc. Fibre optic sensors are going to replace conventional sensors shortly. In the much emerging field of photonics optical fibres play a very important role.

After the completion of each of the four presentations by the eminent authorities in the field of optical communication, there were question and answer sessions and the delegates  interacted with the resource persons and sought various clarifications.

At the close of the technical presentations, there was a valedictory function, and Mr. V.K. Sanjeevi, General Manager, BSNL, Madurai addressed the audience. He reiterated the importance of fiber optics in enhancing the efficiency of networks in communication technology.

There were nearly 60 delegates from 28 engineering colleges from Tamilnadu.  Greetings and congratulatory messages were received from eminent personalities, such as Prof. Sukhadeo Thorat, Chairman of the UGC, Dr. V. Ramachandran, Vice Chancellor, Anna University, Tiruchy, & Shri V.K. Sanjeevi, General Manager, BSNL, Madurai.

The organizer of this seminar Dr. Suja Ravi Isaac, Head of the Department of Electronics and Communication said that seminars of this kind help the students and staff update themselves in the latest developments of technology, and inspire them towards research.
 

ECE SYMPOSIUM:INTELECTIUM'09-EVENTS REPORT

Chief Guest : Dr. Subir Saha, Former GM, Motorola, 
                                              CEO, I App. Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Chair Person: Dr. A. Sivanandaraja, Professor of ECE, Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering, Karaikudi.

PRIZE WINNERS

Paper Presentation

I PRIZE : S. Kalaimathi and A. Poovizhiavudainachiar, KLN College of Engineering, Madurai
               Title : “Rural Electrification using SPV system”
II PRIZE: S. Santhosh and S. Shyam Prasad, Gojan School of Business and Technology, Chennai
               Title: “Efficient mechanism for error tolerance”
 

Techno Manager Contest

I PRIZE
S. Kalaimathi, KLN College of Engineering, Madurai

II PRIZE
M.S. Niranjana of Saranathan College of Engineering, Trichy

AdZap

I PRIZE
Jemima Ruth Christina and Sivasankari, KLN College of Engineering, Madurai
 

II PRIZE
C. Arunkumar and T. Thamilarasan, RVS College of Engineering, Dindigul

QUIZ

I PRIZE
Jemima Ruth Christina and Sivasankari, KLN College of Engineering, Madurai
 

II PRIZE
S. Thilak Pandian and J. Sivakumar, Sethu Institute of Technology, Madurai
 

CIRCUIT DEBUGGING
I PRIZE
V. Arun, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai
 

NATIONAL LEVEL TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM ORGANISED BY DEPT OF ECE: INTELECTIUM'08
 

DATE: 28th March 2008
 

CHIEF GUEST: Er. V.K. Sanjeevi, General Manager, BSNL, Madurai
 

Chair Person: Prof. Krishnamurthi, Former Scientist/ Engineer, ISRO
                       Head, Department of Electronics and Communication, SACS MAVMM, Madurai

EVENTS CONDUCTED: 1. Paper Presentation         2. Quiz .

PRIZE WINNERS

Paper presentation
I Prize- M. Subramanian and M. Paramacharaniyan, Sethu Institute of Technology.
Title: “Digital Image Warping”

II Prize - B. Dinesh and V. Rihithaa, KSR college of Engineering, Tiruchangode.
Title: “Accident prevention wireless communication"

Quiz

I PRIZE: Preethi Kumar S. Maitreyi, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore
II PRIZE:A. Arunkumar and D. Suresh Kumar, Arunai Engineering College.

Tech-Talk
I PRIZE : B. Dinesh, KSR college of Engineering, Tiruchangode

NATIONAL LEVEL TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM ORGANISED BY DEPT OF ECE: Electro Communica’07
 

DATE: 16th March 2007
 

CHIEF GUEST & CHAIR PERSON: Ms.Waheeda Banu, HOD / ECE, Government College of Engineering, Salem.

EVENTS CONDUCTED: 1. Paper Presentation 2. Quiz .

PRIZE WINNERS

Paper presentation
I Prize- V. Arun and T. Senthil, Syed Ammal College of Engineering
Topic: “Automated biological motor control”

II Prize - M. R. Sundar and E. Vijay Ganesh, PSG college of Engineering & Technology, Coimbatore.
Topic: “A novel method to transmit high bit rate signals-implemented using Lab View”

QUIZ

I PRIZE: M. R. Sundar and E. Vijay Ganesh, PSG college of Engineering & Technology, Coimbatore.
II PRIZE: M. Meena and R. Sudha, MEPCO, Sivakasi

NATIONAL LEVEL TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM ORGANISED BY DEPT OF ECE: Electro Communica’06

DATE: 17th February 2006

CHIEF GUEST: Mr. A. M. Michael Raj, District Information Officer, Madurai.

CHAIR PERSON: S. Md. Mansoor Roomi, AP / ECE, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai.

EVENTS CONDUCTED: 1. Paper Presentation    2. Technical Quiz

PRIZE WINNERS

1. Paper presentation
                I Prize : Haris Babu. V.K.I and Vishnu Kumar K. R, KLN College of Engineering 
                                         Topic: Radio Frequency identification
                II Prize : V. Ganesh and M. Mari Sankar, NEC, Kovilpatti
                                         Topic: Automated path sensing vehicle – an embedded approach
2. Technical Quiz
                I Prize : Haris Babu. V.K.I and Vishnu Kumar K. R, KLN College of Engineering, Madurai
                II Prize: S. Ilangkumaran and R. Madhumohan, TCE, Madurai
 

One of the first to advocate a future for NANOTECHNOLOGY (NT) was Sir Richard Feynman, a physics Nobel laureate who died in 1988. In late 1959 at the California institute of Technology, he presented what has become one of the 20^th century science’s classic lectures entitled “There is plenty of room at the bottom”. Feynman got his motivation from biology since biological systems are exceedingly small scale with high storage capacity. Consider the possibility that we too can make a thing very small which does what we want.

Feynman talked about nanotechnology before the word existed. Feynman dreamed with a technological vision of extreme miniaturization in 1959, several years before the word ‘chip” became a part of our every day life. Extrapolating from known physical laws, Feynman argued it was possible to write all 25,000 pages of the 1959 edition of the encyclopedia Britannic in an area the size of a pin head. He calculated that a million such pinheads would amount to an area of about a 35 pages pamphlet. Feynman further added “All of the information which all of man kind has ever recorded in books can be carried in a pamphlet in your hand and not written in code, but a simple reproduction of the original pictures, engravings and every thing else on a small scale without loss of resolution”.

And that’s just how his talk began. He out outlined how, with proper coding, all the world’s books at the time actually could be stored in something the size of a dust speck, with each of the billions of bits in those books requiring a mere 100 atoms to store. How about building computer using wires, transistors and other components discussed about using big tools to make smaller tools suitable for yet making smaller tools and so on, until researches had tools sized just right for directly manipulating atoms in the molecules Feynman further predicted that we will be able to literally place atoms one by one in exactly the arrangement that we want. “Up to now” he added again “we have been content to dig in the ground to find minerals. We heat them and we do things on large scales with them and we hope to get a pure substance with just so much impurity and so on. But we must always accept some atomic arrangements that nature gives us… I can hardly doubt that when we have some control of the arrangement of things on a small scale we enormously come across greater range of possible properties that substances have and of different things that we can do.

Repeatedly, during this famous lecture Feynman reminded his audience that he was not joking. “I am not inventing anti-gravity, which is possible some day only if the laws are not what we talk and what we think.” I am telling you what could be done if the laws are what we think, we are not doing it simply because we have not yet gotten around to it.

“Nano Technology is the way of ingeniously controlling the building of small and large structures, with intricate properties; it is the way of the future, a way of precise, controlled building, with incidentally, environmental benignness built in by design” This technology brought us to a situation where we ask "'To boldly go where no man has gone before' ... but should we go beyond the natural limits of our humanness?" 

S R Hariharan Babu and N. Vidhushini of Electronics and Communication Engineering of 2005-2009 batch got selected in Cognizant Technology Solution (CTS), Chennai.  This accomplishment is reaped through long and hard work. We congratulate both of them for their success.

 

Bincy S. James, J. Mercy Anbarasi and G. Janani of third year electronics and communication engineering win first prize for project display in a national level technical symposium MINNANIAL '10  in Mohamed Sathak Engineering College. |
Their Project was on "Device Control Using Mobile phones" . 

Congratulations to the winners!!!

G. Vaidyanathan of final year of Electronics and Communication bagged the BEST PAPER AWARD in Tryst 2010, the Annual Technical Fest of IIT -Delhi. 92 papers were presented under different disciplines and he got the prize in Computer Engineering branch.Twenty papers were presented under Computer Engineering category. The title of the paper is iMOUSE and is based on his final year project. The papers were reviewed by CSIR and three post doctorals of IIT. The paper won wide appreciation like good innovation, technicality depth etc. The participants were from IITs, BITS Pilani and other top ranked colleges.

"It was my long term dream to present a paper in IIT, Delhi and I failed in my earlier attempts. Now my happiness doubles as I was able to present my paper in IIT Delhi platform and also won the best paper award" says Vaidyanathan.

 "nobody succeeds all the time ... nobody is destined to remain a failure either"