KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

By P. Rajapardesh,II year IT

CTRL+ESC                                        Display the start menu.

CTRL+W                                          Close the current window.

Windows logo +E                               Open My computer.

Windows logo+L                                 Lock the keyboard.

Windows logo+R                                Open the Run dialog box.

Windows logo+U                                Open the Utility Manager.

NUM LOCK +Asterisk sign                Display all of the subfolders that are

                                                           under the selected folder.

NUM LOCK + (+)                              Display the contents of the selected folder.

NUM LOCK + (-)                               Collapse the selected folder area on the

                                                           Terminal server clipboard and provide the

                                                            same functionality as pressing

                                                           ALT + PRINT SCREEN on local computer.   

 JAVA INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

     By,K. Tendul Shiva Kumar,II year IT.

1.    What is UNICODE?

       A Unicode is used for internal representation of characters

        and strings and it uses 16 bits to represent each other.

2.    What is an abstract class?

An abstract class designed with implementation gaps for subclasses to fill in and is deliberately incomplete.

3.     What is daemon thread? Which method is used to create the daemon thread?

Daemon thread is a low priority thread which runs intermittently in the back ground doing the garbage collection operation for the java runtime system. Set Daemon method is used to create a daemon method.

4.     What are the wrapper classes?

The Wrapper classes are classes that allow primitive types to be accessed as objects.

5.     What is the difference between applet and a servlet?

Servlets are to servers what applets are to browsers. Applets must have graphical user interfaces (GUI) whereas Servlets have no GUI.

6.     What is Java Bean?

Java Bean is a software component that has been designed to be reusable in a variety of different environments.

 How Infrared Technology Works

By G. Shankar, II  year IT.

            Transmitting binary ones and zeros via IR (infrared) light is not as complicated as it may appear at first glance. Just as radio stations transmit information using radio waves, infrared devices transmit data using the infrared frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum. Also, just as you need a compatible device to listen to a radio broadcast, you must have a device capable of understanding and translating incoming infrared signals. All sending and receiving IR devices contain small, dark windows called IR ports. Inside these ports, transceivers (a combination of transmitter and receiver) send and receive data using the IR frequency.

            After a device’s CPU (central processing unit) sends the binary ones and zeros to the software controlling the IR transmission process, that information is converted into pulses of IR light. The software then forwards the data to the device’s transceiver, which transmits the IR signals to another IR port. The receiving device’s IR software converts the infrared transmission back into binary digits. IR devices transmit the binary ones and zeros according to a protocol set by the IrDA (Infrared Data Association; http://www.irda.org). For high-data transmissions, such as from a laptop to printer, both devices must be within a few feet of each other and the IR ports must be within each other’s line of site. The data is sent in a 30-degree wide cone from one IR port to another. Depending on the IR software, a pulse of light could represent a digital one, while the absence of a pulse of light could represent a digital zero. High-speed IR devices don’t actually transmit data in a serial string of ones and zeros. Rather, bits of data are sent in groups to speed up the transmission process.

SPECTRUM

            The electromagnetic spectrum organizes all forms of radiation depending on the frequency of each. The higher the frequency, the farther to the right of the spectrum a particular form of radiation will fall. The lower a radiation’s frequency, the farther to the left of the spectrum it will appear. The part of the spectrum known as infrared light resonates at a frequency just below visible light and just above microwaves and radar, hence its placement on the electromagnetic spectrum. All infrared devices transmit data at this frequency. We cannot actually see the pulses of data travelling through the air, but if the transmission for these devices were more powerful, we could feel the infrared signals as heat on our skin.

FUNCTIONALITY

            All IR devices basically work the same. Whether you’re using a remote to change channel on your TV or a wireless keyboard to input data into a computer, you’re still transmitting in the same IR frequencies from one IR port to another. Until recently, most high-speed IR transmissions first had to go through a computer, which you would then use to manipulate and send data to other devices. However, with the increasing capabilities and power of PDAs (Personal Data Assistants), cell phones, digital cameras, and other devices, the computer “middle man” is no longer a necessary component for exchanging data. For example, using IR technology, you can send pictures on your digital camera directly to a printer for printing or download address-book information on your cell phone right into your PDA. Microsoft’s Windows 2000 also makes installing multiple wireless IR devices on a single computer or laptop easier, though you can still only use one IR device at a time. The new OS (Operating System) comes with IR capabilities pre-installed and automatically configures a number of wireless devices easily and quickly. For example, you won’t have to configure a wireless keyboard, mouse, and gaming device on a Win2000 system to ensure that each transmits data correctly to a single port. Just install each device, and Win2000 will ensure that the IR devices operate properly.

   VICKRAM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING – ENATHI

ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2007 – 2008     

Respected Chief Guest

Respected Guest of Honor

                              Our Honorable Chairman Sri M.K.S.Sreenivasan, our young and dynamic Director Sri S.R.Vijayshrenivas, our Secretary Sri. M.S.R.Rajsanthosh, our Joint Secretary Sri M.S. Vikram, Respectful members of our College Chairman’s family, Principals of sister institutions -Vickram College of Education, Vickram  School of  Teacher Training and Vickram Polytechnic  College , Guests & Head of Departments, Dear staff , budding engineers, good evening to all .I feel elated in presenting the annual report for the year 2007 – 2008, It is an year of enviable achievement for our College.

ABOUT THE COLLEGE:

            Vickram College of Engineering is a premier professional college founded and managed by a family of engineers. It is an ISO 9001 certified institution. This College is located on Madurai – Sivagangai road and spreads over 40 acres. The built up area measures 2, 00,000 sq.ft.In the year 2001, this College was started with the following branches of studies:

1. Computer Science and Engineering
2. Electronics and Communication Engineering
3. Information Technology.

                        In 2002, one more branch Electrical and Electronics Engineering was added to the exciting three. In 2004, two   more basic branches of study Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering were started. At present 941students are studying in our college.

BUS SERVICES:

          Nine college buses are plying from different parts of Madurai city. Two vans are also operated, one from Madurai and another from Sivagangai. Of the above buses,  one  bus is  exclusively used  for  girls hostel.

HOSTEL FACILITIES:

         Hostel facilities are provided for both boys and girls. Boys Hostel is in the main campus and girls hostel is functioning temporarily at Anna Nagar. Student’s strength in boys hostel is 224 and 64 in the girls hostel. Deputy   warden has been posted for each hostel .Study hour is allotted in the hostel .Mineral water is being supplied in both the hostels.

LIBRARY :

           At present College Library is functioning in the Main building. It is going to be shifted to the new building shortly. There are 16000 volume of books available in the library.   Many number of magazines and journals have been subscribed for the  benefit of the  students and staff. Internet and Intranet facilities are available in the library. The ‘New Indian Express’ and ‘Hindu’ are purchased .50 copies”Hindu” are purchased for the hostel alone .Lending and returning of books are done through computers. Library working   hours are extended up to 6.00 pm in all working days.

STAFF :

            Each department is managed by a senior staff and well supported by experienced   and qualified staff. Enough  supporting  staff are also available   for  manning laboratories and others.   Necessary  lab facilities  are  available as per the  suggestion of Anna  University, Chennai  and Anna University ,Trichy .At present  there  are 74 Teaching and  35 non –teaching staff    working in our college.

TRAINING PROGRAMMES FOR STAFF:

             Our College administration believes in the empowerment of the members of staff to be well – equipped and well trained.  Hence teachers are sent to Universities and other colleges for faculty development programmes.  The entire expenses for the above training programmes were met by the management.  In addition to the above special training programmes are conducted for staff in the campus.

1. Induction programmes for the newly recruited staff.
2. Special lecture by Er.S.S. Manian , Human Resources Consultant.

NATIONAL LEVEL SYMPOSIA:

            This year National level symposium INTELECTIUM – 08 was conducted in our College, for two days on 28.03.08 and 29.03.08.  On 28.03.08 Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Electronics and Communication Engineering departments conducted the symposium.  The Chief Guest and Chairperson of symposium conducted by Electronics and Communication department were Er.Sanjeevi ,General manager -BSNL Madurai and Er.Krishnamoorthy, former Scientist ISRO and now Professor EEE, SACS, MAVMM Engineering College.  Students from different colleges presented 13 papers.  For Electrical and Electronics Engineering department ,Er.Venkataraman Balaji ,Deputy general manager -TVS Cherry pvt Ltd, Madurai was the Chief Guest and Er.S.Venkatesan ,Asst. Prof.K.L.N.C.E,Maduraiwas the Chairperson for the symposium .10 technical papers were presented by students from different colleges.

            On 29.03.08, symposium for Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering and Information Technology departments were conducted.  While Er.S.P.S. Srinivasan, Consulting Engineer and valuer was the Chief Guest and Prof.  S.Nagan, Thiagarajar College of Engineering acted as Chairperson for Civil Engineering Department.  12 Technical papers were presented.

            For Mechanical Engineering Department Er.M.Kumarasamy, Manager Excel Container was the Chief Guest and Er.A.M.Nagarajan Asst.  Professor, K.L.N.CE., acted as a chairperson.  8 papers were presented.  Er.Ramamurthy Prabharan CISA, Raman tech acted as chief Guest and Er.Dr.P.Venkatakrishnan ME., Ph.D., Thiagarajar College of Engineering was the Chairperson for the symposium conducted by CSE & IT Departments.  6 Technical papers were discussed.  The feedback from participants was excellent.

Co Curricular & Extra Curricular Competitions:

The students  who participated in the State-level Paper Presentation and other Competitions is as listed in the table1 &2:

Table 1: Student Participation in Technical Competitions

Table 2: Student Participation in Paper presentations

INPLANT TRAINING FOR STUDENTS:

            As part of the curriculum and also to get industrial exposure students are permitted to under go inplant training in the various industries pertained to the course of study for 7 to 10 days.  Almost all the students of final year and many of the third & second year students have under gone inplant training in the following technical companies.

Department of CSE

·         Sign-in- sign Technologies private Ltd,Pattukottai.

Department of ECE

·          Airport ,Madurai

·          All India Radio, Madurai

·          Rail Net Soft ware solutions, Madurai.            

Department of IT

·          Penta soft Technologists, Ltd, Chennai.

·          BSNL office ,Coimbatore

·          Southern Railway, Railnet ,Madurai.

·          BSNL Andaman Nicobar Telecom circle.

·          Megasoft Ltd ,Chennai.    

           Department of EEE

·         Tuticorin Thermal power station

·         Pasumalai substation, Madurai .

·         Wipro Industrial Pvt at Pudhucherry.

·         Southern Railway, Madurai.

·         Kyocera Wireless Pvt Ltd

GUEST LECTURES:

            Guest lectures from eminent persons from various fields are arranged for the students to enhance their understanding level.

The list of such guest lectures are

For Civil Engineering students:

1. Valuations and report presentation – Dr.Shanmuga sundram College of Engineering, Guindy on 18.10.07.
2. Software in Civil Engineering Er. Bala Subramanian CADD Centre, 10.12.07.
3. Sustainable Energy and environmental impact Dr.Suresh, Mysore University on 18.12.07.
4. Rain water harvesting – Dr.Sivaraman, Hydrologist on 23.01.08.

Mechanical Engineering Department:

1. Dynamics of Machinery – Er.N.Ramasubbu 14.09.07
2. Kinematics of Machinery – Er.N.Ramasubbu 18.03.08

PLACEMENT ACTIVITIES:

We are proud to have made major landmarks in the placement of our students in the course of this academic year 2007 – 2008.We have so far conducted 9 state level placement Drives in our campus for the benefit of students.  The following companies Oracle, Advent Net, Infosys Life Business Projects, Cambridge Solutions Ltd., Sutherland, Energy Infratech Pvt. Ltd & Executive ship – visited our campus.Our students attended nearly 25 recruitment campaigns held in other colleges and in Anna University.  Trichy and Chennai.

We are proud to say that 50 of our students have been placed in prominent companies in India and abroad. The main reason for a good record of our achievements in placement of our students is that we have conducted a series of intensive training programmes at regular intervals for improving the employability of our students. Our dedicated staffs have done their best in improving the Aptitude and Communicative skills of our students.

Several Training Organizations such as RIPE, Radian Academy, SMART, IIHT, CMC, J.Tech, NIIT ,HCL ,MA Foi etc had conducted short term programmes promoting the skills of our students.Our staff in the department of Training and Placement had Participated in FDP conducted by MNCs like Wipro, Infosys and in Teacher Enhancement programmes held in VIT University, Vellore, Loyola College and Anna University,  Chennai & Trichy.

Among the 50 placed students a few names are worth – mentioning:

1)      M. Bhuvanesh of ECE Dept., is placed in three MNCs – Infosys, L & T Info Tech & Torry Harris Business solutions.

2)      D. Rekha of CSE Dept is placed in Infosys.

3)      T.L.Vijayakumar, S.Saravanan & K.Subramanian of Civil Engineering department are placed in Gulf Construction Companies- Eversendi & Proscope.

4)      N.Hmang Chauhan, P.T.Deepak, Ajay Cherian and D.Tharun kumar – all of them are from Mechanical Engineering Department are placed in a Singapore – Best shipping Company called Executive Ships.

5)      R.Nithya, Surajith Nath and N.Vidhushini of ECE are recruited in L & T Infotech and R.Sandhya and N.V.Vaishnavi of ECE are appointed in Satyam Computers Ltd.               

STUDY CENTRE:

            Study centre for “IGNOU”is functioning in this college for Diploma holders from this academic year.

YOUTH RED CROSS (YRC):

Blood Donation Camps:

Three Blood donation camps have been conducted during this year:

1.      On 9.08.07, 103 students from II, III & IV year donated the blood, in the camp organized by Govt. Rajaji Hospital, Madurai.

2.      On 31.10.07 one more blood donation camp was conducted by the Govt. Rajaji Hospital, Madurai 86 students donated the blood.

3.      On 27/02/08,one more camp was organized by Govt. Primary health centre, Poovanthi.  40 Students donated the blood.

In addition to the above ,students are sent to donate blood for the needy people as requested by Govt. Hospitals Madurai District Collector honored our support to the above noble cause by awarding a shield to the YRC coordinator.

Support to the Blind:

A sum of Rs.2000/- was collected from students and donated for Indian Association for the blind.  .

Vaccination Programme:

            Students are exposed to 3 injections one in each month as a preventive measure against Jaundice.  Preventive injection towards typhoid was also organized for staff and students.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION:

1. A state level five football tournament was organized at High School level.
2. Table tennis tournament was conducted at Zonal level for both boys and girls.
3. In the three – consecutive, years, our cricket team reached semi final berth at the Zonal level.
4. Our football team secured IV place in the Zonal level football tournament.
5. Following students were selected to represent Zone – 9 team for Anna University sports tournament.

a)      J.Premkumar – Football

b)      K. Pompadian – Kabaddi

c)      Y.D.Mohan yogadev – Football

      6. In the Madurai district foot ball tournament our team secured III place.

 Every year new courts are added for the welfare of boys and girls.

ACTIVITIES THROUGH MADITSSIA:

1. ‘Safety and Saving of Electricity’ programme was attended on 23 Nov 2007 and the copy of the booklet is kept at our library.
2. ‘Encouraging Entrepreneurs’ programme was attended which was critically started for the Industry and it was to be extended for the benefit of the students in due course.

STAFF PURSUING HIGHER STUDIES:

            Three of the Staff members belonging to Mechanical Engineering Department are doing their research work under Anna University, Trichy.

1. Mr.S.Nagarajan
2. Mr. P.Sivakumar
3. Mr. R.A.Malairajan

            I take this opportunity to convey that two of the books titled ‘Prose for Communication’ and ‘Romeo & Juliet’ complied by Dr.A.Shanmughakani, HOD English have been recommended for colleges under Madurai Kamaraj University.

            Finally I thank the administration of our college – particularly our beloved Chairman, Director, Secretary and Joint secretary, who offered their guidance and encouragements time to time for smooth running of the institute, and for their support for conducting various programmes in the college.  The contribution of all HODs, Teaching and Non – Teaching is no less great for the attainment of our educational objectives.  I take this occasion to thank all of you for your whole hearted co-operation and team spirit exhibited by you in the performance of our responsibilities in the field of Technical Education.

Thank you one and all.

Prof. M. Palanikumar 

Principal

Greetings!!!

Here are few quotes and proverbs that I treasure to chase my goal. I hope you would appreciate the depth of these quotes.

1) "Defeat the defeat before the defeat defeats you"

2) "Winners don't do different things, but they do things differently"

3) "A leader is the one who create leaders"

4) "I would rather be blind than having sight without vision"

Do enjoy the essence of these quotes which will lead you to smell success.

Cheers!!!!

Vaidya

The Butterfly Story - Coaching, Teaching, Enabling, Facilitating, Interventions

A man found a cocoon for a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through the little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared stuck.

The man decided to help the butterfly and with a pair of scissors he cut open the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. Something was strange. The butterfly had a swollen body and shrivelled wings. The man watched the butterfly expecting it to take on its correct proportions. But nothing changed.

The butterfly stayed the same. It was never able to fly. In his kindness and haste the man did not realise that the butterfly's struggle to get through the small opening of the cocoon is nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight.

Like the sapling which grows strong from being buffeted by the wind, in life we all need to struggle sometimes to make us strong.

When we coach and teach others it is helpful to recognize when people need to do things for themselves.

(Ack Paul Matthews, www.businessballs.com)

I like this pencil sketch