LCD MONITORS

BY S. Raghavendra,II IT

Liquid Crystal Display technology works by blocking light. Specifically, an LCD is made of two pieces of polarized glass (also called substrate) that contain a liquid crystal material between them, A backlight creates light that passes through the first substrate. At the same time, electrical currents cause the liquid crystal molecules to align to allow varying levels of light to pass through to the second substrate and create the colours and images that you see.

Active and Passive Matrix Displays

Most LCD displays use active matrix technology. A thin film transistor (TFT) arranges tiny transistors and capacitors in a matrix on the glass of the display. To address a particular pixel, the proper row is switched on, and then a charge is sent down the correct column. Since all of the other tows that the column intersects are turned off, only the capacitor at the designated pixel receives a charge. The capacitor is able to hold the charge until the next refresh cycle.                                         

The other type of LCD technology is passive matrix. This type of LCD display uses a grid of conductive metal to charge each pixel. Although they are less expensive to produce, passive matrix monitors are rarely used today due to the technology’s slow response time and imprecise voltage control compared to active matrix technology.

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                                                    S. Raghavendra,

                                                        II year IT                     

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J.SARANYA

I  IT 

 VICKRAM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING – ENATHI

Annual Report  for 2008 – 2009     

Respected Chief Guest

Respected Guest of honour

                              Our Honourable Chairman Sri M.K.S.Sreenivasan, our young and dynamic Director Sri S.R.VijayShrenivas , our Secretary Sri. M.S.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 2008 – 2009, 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 are 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  existing three . In 2004, two   more basic branches of study Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering were started. At present 1220   students are studying in our college.

 BUS SERVICES:

           Sixteen college buses are plying from different parts of Madurai city. Two vans are also operated, one from Madurai and another from Sivaganagi. In the above buses, two buses are exclusively used for girls hostel.

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 78 Teaching Staff,  41 non –teaching staff  and   4 guest lecturers working in our college.

LIBRARY:

           At present College Library is functioning in the Main building. It is going to be shifted to the new building shortly. There are 17000 volumes of books available in the library.   Many numbers 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 of ”Hindu” are purchased for the hostel alone .Lending and returning of books are done through library Automation Software System. Library working   hours are extended up to 6.00 pm in all working days.

SPORTS ACTIVITIES

Tournaments participated:

1. Our college participated in zone IX sports and obtained the following places:

a. Third place in R.L. Institute Foot ball  trophy

b. Third place in  4^th  division Madurai  foot ball league tournament

c. Fourth place in Cricket, Foot ball, Kabaddi and Volley ball.

2. Y.D. Raul Yogadev  scored  the  highest goals in A division  Madurai district foot ball championship.

3.Following foot ball  players were selected  to represent combined IX zone  foot ball  team , cricket team and Kabaddi  team:Y.D.Raul Yogadev,Suman D,Antony Michael Raj,Arun Kunjumon,Sundarapandi,Jeyasingam and Muthuvalivitan

Tournaments organized:

1. Vickram inter school championship (foot ball fives) at our college Foot ball field.

              Winner :St.Mary’s  Hr Sec School , Madurai

              Runner : Dindigul Hr Sec School.

2. At zonal level, Table tennis tournament for men was conducted.

 ACADEMIC COUNCIL NOMINEE:

 Principal was nominated as member of academic council for three years by his Excellency the  Governor  and  Chancellor  Anna University Tiruchirappalli. He attended the first Academic Council meeting in August 2008.

 RAOC’09:

        On 23.01.09 one day national seminar on “Recent advances in

optical  communication “ was  conducted in this college by the  Electronics  and Communication   Engineering Department. 

Dr. S.Mohan, Vice chancellor, PRIST University was the Chief guest and delivered the key note address. During his address he narrated the development of the optical communication systems in the past.

Dr.Balaji Srinivas a distinguished scientist from IIT Chennai addressed about the application of fiber optics in the field of communication.

Dr. Thomas Lee, Senior   Design Engineer, Fiber optika  Technologies, Bangaluru , who has recently launched a  new  product “Light Runner” explained the  developments  in the  field of optical  Communication.

Dr. P.K. Palanisamy, Professor in   Physics, Anna University Chennai, explained about the achievements in the field of optical communication.

As many as 40 delegates from various engineering colleges and arts colleges attended the seminar. I take this opportunity  to thank HOD, Staff and students of ECE department for the good show.

 MADITSSIA PROGRAMME:

                                    Our college has tie up with MADITSSIA for mutual

benefits. Periodical meetings conducted at   MADITSSIA were attended by the staff

coordinator, Mr.R.Chandrasekaran and other staff members.

NSS UNIT NSS unit  No : 1  was sanctioned in this year. Mr. A.Poornachandran, English Department  was nominated  as the NSS programme  officer. A special camp in the near by village Enathi was  conducted for  7  days   starting  from 1.02.09 to 7.02.09 . During the special camp, NSS volunteers have shown keen interest in the   cleaning, development of village roads and schools. Special lectures and programmes were arranged by the NSS team to the villagers. Some of them are eye camp, blood donation camp, Aids awareness, agricultural development, cattle development, guidelines for loan procurement from banks and Insurance Corporation. In addition to the above, social Economic survey was also conducted in the village

BLOOD DONATION CAMPS:

            It is a usual practice to conduct at least 3 to 4 blood donation

camps every year. Our students are  second to none in showing greater interest and  donating blood for life  saving to  Government  Rajaji Hospital -Madurai, Primary health centre -Poovanthi , Government  hospital -Sivagangai and Meenakshi  Mission  hospital. One special blood donation camp was conducted on 20.02.09 in collaboration with  Anna University, Trichirappallli, Chennai and Bharathidhasan University. About 315 students donated the blood during  the camp. Students with  rare blood group have given  their blood to the  needy patients in Government  Rajaji hospital.

RED RIBBON CLUB:

           Peer Education orientation programme conducted by the Anna

University was attended by Mr.  A.Poornachandran, Programme officer and three volunteers. Competition in the theme of “Evils or Abolition of Aids” is to be conducted shortly.

STAFF UNDERGOING HIGHER STUDIES:

Four staff members are pursuing their doctoral research and Six Staff members are deputed for their P.G studies.

INPLANT TRAINING& INDUSTRIAL VISITS:

In order to enhance the practical knowledge and gain hands on experience, various IPT and IV were arranged for our students to the following places:

Our students attended Inplant Training at:

1.      Tamilnadu cement corporation

2.      Tamil nadu Electricity Board.

3.      Communication Systems     AIR  Madurai

4.      Rail Net  Madurai

Our students underwent Industrial Visit to:

1. Pamban bridge

2. Tamilnadu Minerals, Sivagangai Graphite plant

3 Vishal bricks and Nippan furniture

4. T N E B   Ellis nagar ,  Madurai

5. Sakthi Sugars, Padamathur

6. Tamilnadu Minerals, Sivagangai Graphite plant

7. Vysal bricks and Sun pressing

Faculty Development programme:

For enriching subject knowledge, and to get exposure to new subjects, staff members are encouraged to attend Faculty Development programmes and present research papers at various conferences. The details are as given in the table 1 & 2:

Table 2: Staff Paper presentation at conferences

Co Curricular and Extra Curricular Activities:

Ample opportunities and guidelines were given for students' participation in the various competitions held at different colleges. I am very proud to say many of our students, not only won prizes, but also brought laurels to the institution in the inter-collegiate programmes. The students who participated in the State-level Paper Presentation and other Competitions are listed in following table.

Training and Placements:

Training Programmes:

1) For Students:

a) Conducted by Outsource Agencies:

Six Day Training programme by Innovative  Services, Chennai & Four Day Training programme by Academy of  Creative Excellence ,Chennai were organized for Pre Final Year Students.

b)  Conducted by local resources  :

5 Day Orientation  Programme for  First year  students,  2 Day  Programme on ‘Listening comprehension’ for  Second year  students,  2 Day programme on ‘Verbal and Quantitative Aptitude ‘ for Third year  students  were conducted by the faculty of Training and placement.

2) For Staff:

a) Conducted by Outsource Agencies:

Chennai based company named BIOSLAB conducted a one day FDP programme on ‘Winning Habits’ for all staff members.  

b)  Conducted by local resources:

Staff Orientation program for newly recruited staff and 2 Day Enhancement programme were conducted for faculty members.

Placement   programmes : This year  6 placement  campaigns were  conducted in our college by the following companies:

Department wise, the number of placed students is: ECE- 23, CSE- 11, IT- 9, EEE-7, MECH- 4. Thus, 54 students have been placed in this academic year.

Finally I thank the administration  of our  college particularly our beloved chairman, Director and 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

Kseniya Simonova's Amazing Sand Drawing

The moment we step into school we are asked to do our homework. But most of us do it without realising the importance of it. We are most of the time either trying to kill time or do something so that we dont get bored, fact being we can sit still and time is going to continue because it is continous and nothing can stop it!

Great leaders and front runners in all fields, usually complain about not having time to do more. Home work is something that helps you revisit what was taught in class that day and also guides you to go the next level the next day. No one is ever going to ask you or remind you to do your homework in college. 

For instance, Sachin Tendulkar is arguably the worlds best batsman of all time. Does any one tell him this is your homework and please complete it? The answer is "NO". We assume that he can walk into any cricket match without practice and still score a century. But the truth is he is best at what he does, simply because he does his homework and he does them everyday. That is the reason he has been playing at the highest level for 20 odd years. Of course he is naturally gifted and talented but that does not stop him from preparing and learning on his own.The same applies to leaders in all fields. If you are not going to prepare yourself and learn new things you will not remain at the top for a long time.

Let us all try travelling that extra mile....

Friends,

Greetings… I received a feedback from an erudite personality after going through couple of articles on the blog to write something that is of huge importance to know, insights to be gained and has questions to shoot. Basically, the intention was to create enthusiasm and interaction so that we together evolve what I would like to call us “Amebous Knowledge” – a knowledge that has got No Shape; Divide and rapidly multiply easily by sharing; Fuse with other sources easily. (Inspired from Amoeba – an unicellular organism)

Let me take the initiative to start a new series: “Know About This – KAT Series”

To start with let me open the forum for the discussion, on a topic “Sub Prime Crisis”.

The crisis of 2008-09 that saw the world’s biggest and many of the Oldest Financial Institutions to tumble down. The world’s powerful countries saw highest unemployment rates. Stock market crashed down and the Bear Market is failing to raise up and in deep slumber still. There are many things that have happened in recent times that gave more nasty surprises in the economic world.

You can know something has gone wrong only when you make an odd number of mistakes – so goes the Murphy’s Uncertainty Principle. In the context of the sub-prime crisis that has taken the wind out of the sails of the financial markets the world over, one can’t argue, but agree. The crisis was a long series of wrong assumptions covered up by more assumptions with the hope that they even out. Lending to borrowers who can’t afford to repay with the assumption that the housing market will only go north, assumption that higher interest rates compensate for credit quality, securitization of such assets backed by under writings by insurance companies with the assumption that these loans carry little or no risk . . .

It was a long chain of complex transactions with increasingly larger stakes, higher risks and lesser clarity. But any chain is only as strong as the weakest link and that link snapped at some point as it should have. The story that is unwinding today looks as scandalous as it is unbelievable.

Let me open this forum to invite your thoughts on your understanding and learning on the anatomy of what is arguably the biggest financial blunder in history – the sub-prime crisis. Let us know from each other to demystify the business of mortgage.

I shall participate as and when it is required, when the thoughts are discussed enough, let us find for ourselves the huge repository of information to turn back to for reference.

Happy reading and writing….

Venkat

   " Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man."  ... Swami Vivekananda

Who is better than a teacher to enhance or manifest the perfection we already have. One many forget one's acquaintance in the journey of life. But one's teacher...no...

On this Teacher's Day, let us pay rich tribute to our moulders..

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has Genius, Power and Magic in it.”  

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 28, August 1749 – 22, March 1832

This great German who had quoted is one of the few who apparently mastered diverse fields. His fields of achievements range from Literature to Science to Humanism and Philosophy. If you check his profile in Wikipedia, his vocation is Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Natural Philosopher, Diplomat and Civil servant.  I wonder how such people are able leave a stamp of Glory in whatever they do. I wonder how they are able to bring in path breaking ideas, those that we see implications in our day to day life centuries later.

In these day a man starting a career in Mechanical Engineering or Civil Engineering ends up doing the same rest of his life and leaves behind nothing for the generations.  Leave the glory part of the actions behind. Rarely do we find people shift their career directions and even if they do, there are hardly few who do out of choices and not chances. It will be very hypocritical, if I say none of others deserved to be or worth enough. There are breeds even today that we see in Newspapers/magazines who challenge the ridicules, who scale up the stumbling blocks, who achieve what they wanted to in the span of time that is measurable, traceable and above all comparable with rest of the lot.

In my attempt to think as what differentiates them from others, I could find various thoughts like:

•  they would followed their heart
• the entire universe (family/friends/ situation) conspired them to win
•  they were in right time of opportunities
• they travelled the road less travelled
• they were compelled to do so to survive
• they were just lucky

None of them could be wrong, and 3 out of these 6 will definitely feature in any of the success stories. But, that is not exactly it. There has to be a trait that only some have and others don’t.

Does that mean world where we live has a majority of people who have bitten the dust or crawling in nemesis left away by very few torch bearers or successful people. That is raising an interesting point of debate: What is success or Failure? Success in Academics does not guarantee a phenomenal success in the world of business. Phenomenal Success in Professional Arena does not guarantee a healthy family life. We are so obsessed with only the extremes, because objective is always easy to teach and understand. But the world we live in is always in subjective medium. Let me write about this “Theory of Between” in near future.

I continued my search in nebulous world of thoughts and experiences and I guess, there is something in the limits we impose ourselves into. The daring limits that is required to try out, struggle in the odds that which requires greater degree of obsession to perfect the act of decision making and executing. Yes, the key is Real Limits and Self- imposed Limits.

Immediately, as I write this my thoughts go to a real life character called James J. Braddock a professional Boxer, portrayed in a movie called Cinderella Man by Ron Howard. He fought inflicting injuries that are irreparable, enduring the pain and continued to win and surprised the world by a determined win over the high rated opponent. Hence, even now he stands a metaphor to represent the hopes and aspirations of the millions of Americans in the depression times in 1930s.

Most of us never get even anywhere near testing the real limits. We stop far short, well within our self imposed limits. This applies to those in studies, those in profession, those in business or those in the skill based employment.

Another oft-repeated example would be of a Pole vaulter called Sergei Bubka, and he was probably very sincere when had said,” I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.”

With my reading experience of the book Business Maharajahs by Gita Piramal, there is something unwritten but very loudly sounded across various successful business histories. It was the assessment made by those Dhirubhais, Goenkas, Birlas and Tatas on the Gaps between ‘What it is like’ and ‘What they would ideally want it to be’. They strived in their respective fields to find answers to, ‘Why it exists?’; ‘How and How fast can they be bridged?’

Their success today as bench-markers radically helps us conclude that they were not prevailing within the Self imposed limits but challenged the Real limits.

Often, limits are self-imposed by posing very limiting questions. If you only ask "small" questions, you can never get "big" answers!

Art of Questioning and Act of Questioning is very interesting and is Wise thing. It is as complicated as Atomic Physics. Reason I say it is Atomic Physics is that because, though atom is the basic element it is very complicated as well as dubbed by the educationists.

Anything that is basic is very complicated and anything that is actually complicated does not exist at all. (No self Imposed LimitsJ)

It is with the questions you tried to ask and the level of cleverness in the answers you got that your intellectual foundation is built. You would be familiar about the little tiny tots and their inquisitiveness to learn and imitate/ emulate you and of course, the way the adults curb the questioning process in their minds.

I was interacting with someone who was trying to express what he wanted to be/ create in life, and that was not as simple as sounded like. He refined it endlessly and we both felt the exercise to determine and be certain what we think we want, is it exactly what we wanted? Sounds, Crazy? Check out for yourself…!

If you want to buy a car, say at the age of 25, you can. But the question is why 25 years, why not 22, 23 or 24 years? The reasons can be job market conditions, chances of good placements etc.  But if your effort from the age of 17 to 21 years is outstanding, and a job with the top notch company can help you realize your dream by 22 years or 23 years. If you feel that is not possible, it is the self imposed limit and not the real limit.

It is always our actions and reactions that get translated as opportunities or threats.

If you are really serious about moving forward in your life and being the person to be admired for the various achievements you plan, there are two essential questions, you need to ask yourself.

Let me tip that to you:

v  What do you want?

v  How will you know when you've got it?

Answer these first before you take any steps to move in the direction you desire to go.

After this you would face challenges more from you than from the external world. It is the inherent weaknesses that are more dangerous to conquer than the External Threat. (SWOT)

A tip to handle the same is “Power of 4”:

1. To question your Die Hard habits
2. To question your Age old assumptions
3. To question your Beliefs on the people and purpose
4. To question your Boundaries of comfort zones

Die hard Old habits have to get definitely ridden off, before anything.  In one of my international exposures, I was zapped to find the chief executives and middle level managers start their day in the office by 6:30AM. I was also forced to do that to meet the schedules. They wind up as early as 5 PM on ordinary days. In stressful days, no excuses – work prevails. The point that should not be missed is that starting the day early and closing it sooner. Though I was forced on this new habit, I am feeling lot better and feel an amazing change in life. It has made the start of my days much more exciting, positive, active and fulfilling. I have time to read, write or simply do the contemplation in serenity of chirping of birds. And all of this before the "normal" day has begun. I love it! I especially notice the difference when I decide to skip this routine for whatever reason. A certain confidence and air of excitement is just not there. Also let me say that - this is not for everyone, but if you are looking for a way that might make a big difference in your growth process - give this one a try.

Age old assumptions are ruining our imaginations, our appetite to learn and deprive the opportunity to help us gain interest in new things. How many of us assume to do the exams sufficiently well, only if we open the books just a day before and overnight read and finish? How many of us feel certain topics to be really boring and discard it once for all not to read anytime later? How many of us felt that quantitative methods are fine, but the theory part is difficult to take?  I say, raise up to challenge these assumptions. Assumptions give a predetermined boring color to the view, and we miss the vibrant colors what nature has in store probably hidden, but it is there. I heard, few school going students say, Maths is very difficult and boring but not science. But what at that age they miss is that mathematics rule the world of science in its highest order. Fear of that prohibits them from scaling. It is never that Maths is boring or science is interesting, they have been faculties of knowledge as ever and it our assumptions that is costing one a fabulous future.

Whom do you think, you are liable to respond to live in a society of order? You are expected to respond to your Parents, siblings, Teachers, Friends or the society at large. I am careful in not using the word enemies here. But, they do exist in today’s world of chaos and pandemonium. 

Are there any actions that you can just leave and go without taking the responsibility? Even when you munch a chewing gum, spit out on the corridor there will be someone who would get affected with the gum getting stuck on the shoes.  If you just leave a drinking water tap open to drain, then again you might not be punished immediately, but your own generations a decade later will suffer and curse the generation decades before. SO every action has a purpose and the responsibility.

It is basically the beliefs that we have for our purposes differentiate as noble or common; Patriots or Terrorists. It is the beliefs that we have on people that will enable or disable us. The beliefs in people are very important as you can find opportunities of collaboration, co creation and cooperation with each of the interactions you make with people. In the new social order, there are least chances of one to be alone and successful.

Step out of your comfort zone once more each week and create over 50 additional opportunities for excitement, challenge and possibility each year. This is what life's about, quoted Sam Parker. He is absolutely right.  It’s easy to slip into a rut when there are no problems. Sometimes an unwelcome trip to “the dark side” can reveal new horizons, horizons that were unknown until forced upon us. Finding what is not expected, opening new vistas on the reality of your life can reveal something completely unanticipated about yourself; something that you didn’t know was there. Something GOOD!

SO, let us Dream, Dare but wisely and not confined to Self Imposed Limits...

Good Luck!

Venkat