August 2014

A Newsletter from

Visit of Dan Hancock, SAE Intl. President

AWIM- Jet toy demonstration by school children

COLT Hyderabad

KRT launch at Mahindra Research Valley

And more inside… August 2014 Lap NO: SAEISS/14/02 August 2014

Chairman’s Message…4 Contents Professional members Space…… 5 5 7 Lecture KRT meeting launch 10

Top Tech Student members Space..... 13 13 14

Student’s COLT Hyderabad convention 15 17

SAE Trek AWIM

2 August 2014

About … SAEINDIA Southern Section is a premier society that serves the cause of mobility engineering. It is a unique society that includes professional engineers who serve different OEMS and Suppliers, academia as well as budding engineers (students) who aspire to be part of the professionally attractive field of mobility engineers. We believe that Mobility Engineering is a knowledge rich field and that learning and sharing can be fun and rewarding. To this end, SAEISS organizes several events throughout the year, runs programmes that enrich and engage and conducts lectures and symposia. It is a part of SAEINDIA. SAEINDIA is an affiliate society of SAE International which is head quartered in USA and has a glorious record of over 100 years of service to the mobility community. This newsletter is brought for Information Cascading among SAEINDIA members Editorial Team: Patron: Balasubramanian N Editor : Mr. Vijayaragavan N- RNTBCI SAEISS office: M/s,Hari prasan dash , S. Ilangovan, Mukesh, Panneerselvam, Vasanth Raj Industry members: M/s Padmesh sewda (RNTBCI), Vinothkumar B (RNTBCI), Sivashankar S (RNTBCI), Sanjeev Bhushan (Daimler), Venkatesan (Royal Enfield), Sreevalsan (UCAL fuel) Student executive council members (SEC):, M/s Shankara narayanan P, Pulkit goel, Venkata raghav , Md. Sibghathullah,Ms. Sanjana

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Did you know??? SAE – Society of Automotive Engineers is founded on 1905 by Andrew L.Riker Founder of Riker electric vehicle company as its first President and Henry ford as Vice president in New York.

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Chairman’s Message Dear SAE INDIA Southern Section Members, Greetings from our Management Committee, We had a very exciting days with visit of Mr Dan Hancock, SAE INTERNATIONAL President in Chennai with various events attended by him and COLT(Club Officers Leadership Training) organized by Re-inforced Hyderabad Division in action. The interactions with Mr. Dan Hancock has been inspiring and his 30+ years association with SAE has been amazing. His interest always goes about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) education and enriching the knowledge of school children. When he could see the demonstration of School Children in Maharishi Vidhya Mandhir School, He felt satisfied as his initiatives deliver fruits across the globe. We had the SAE INDIA Knowledge Round Table (KRT) inauguration at Mahindra Research Valley. It was a unique event as SAE International President inaugurated the KRT and handed over the KRT Shield to Dr. Aravind S Bharadwaj, SAE India President as Chief Technology Officer in Mahindra Research Valley. As requests are flowing from different corners for the starting of New KRT’s, we have big opportunity to make SAE as a learning and Knowledge sharing tool across our Section and SAE India. COLT and Student Convention have been one of the biggest Student Events. COLT was conducted for the first time in Hyderabad division. It was a mega event organized by our Hyderabad Division. The Chief Guest for COLT was Mr. C.H. Malla Reddy Member of Parliament, India.75 SAEINDIA Collegiate club Office bearers from 22 Colleges & 7 Faculty Advisors attended the event. It was well organized by Hyderabad division members Dr. G.Padmanabham, Chairman , Mr. Srinivasa Rao Y, COLT champion , Dr.Gururaj T, Joint secretary, Mr. Venkateshwar R, Dr. M.PawanKumar Y, Scientist RCI. We request continuous support from SAEISS Members to participate in all events of SAE India and strengthen Mobility community for knowledge sharing & Learning.

Best Regards,

Balasubramanian N SAEISS Chairman

4 August 2014 Professional member Page

SAEINDIA Knowledge Round Table (KRT) Initiative

KRT : A group of SAE members working in a company forms an environment where they can interact with each other to deliver their knowledge and conduct activities within the company, such as Technical seminars, Guest lectures, Competitions,& Treks, etc. through which they can also contribute to the society by sharing their output from KRT.

The concept of 3C

SAE KRT Initiative was successfully Launched at Mahindra & Mahindra The Chief Guest Of the Program was Mr. Dan Hancock.

Snaps from KRT at Mahindra & Mahindra

This KRT is launched on 25th July

Would you like to start KRT in your company??? - Mail to [email protected]

5 August 2014 Professional member Page

PMI conference

Third Project Management Tamilnadu State Conference 2014 , was successfully conducted on the 26th July 2014 at The Gateway Hotel IT Expressway, Chennai, India. This program was supported by SAEINDIA Southern Section, Management Committee Members from SAEINDIA Southern Section who are the leaders of the Industry Mr. N Balasubramanian, Dr. P. Sivakumar, Mr. K. Srikanth, Mr. S. Arun, Mr. Parvez Alam M are present in the conference & their Address on Project Management has enlighten the Industrial Participants . Highlights of PMI:  350 Professionals from across the States attended The Project Management Conference.  Over 250 Students from Prestigious Universities & Colleges.  Exclusive "FIRST TIME" student conference on Project Management.  Dynamic panel discussion on a typical subject.  Visionary speakers sharing their wealth of knowledge.  Multiple knowledge formats including Panel discussions, Debates, Case studies etc.

Snapshots from the PMI conference

6 August 2014 Professional member Page

Lecture meeting - OBD for Commercial Vehicles

SAEISS Conducted lecture meeting on “OBD for Commercial Vehicles” on 16th August’14 at SAEISS office by Mr. Arun Sivasubramaniyan, Head- Regulations & Homologation , Ashok Leyland and Joint secretary SAEISS. An overview from this lecture meeting: • A monitoring and detection system which can alert the driver for component or system failures that can affect emissions. • On Board Diagnostic System (OBD) is a system on a vehicle or engine which has capability of Detecting Malfunctions • Indicating their occurrence by means of a Malfunction Indicator Lamp (MIL) • Identifying the area of these malfunctions by means of diagnostic elements • Storing the information in computer memory • Communicating that information off-board This lecture meeting was Inaugurated & presided by Mr. T. R Sathyanarayanan, Treasurer & Lecture meeting Champion

“Lecture meeting is focused to amplify the thought process of Engineers on their particular fields. This brief session has proved to satisfy the participants to a higher degree in a given time frame”

Did you know???On board Diagnostic System is first introduced in 1969 by Volkswagen

7 August 2014 Professional member Page

Lecture meeting - Friction Stir Welding In Chassis

SAEISS Conducted lecture meeting on “Friction Stir Welding In Chassis” on 23rd August’14, at SAEISS Office by Dr. D. Muruganandam, Professor ,Production Engineering, Sri Sai Ram Engineering college. An overview from the lecture meeting: • The FSW process was conducted on varying the welding process parameters such as tool rotation speed (RPM), welding speed (mm/min) and tool pin profile by keeping downward force (kN) constant. • The properties such as defects, macro and microstructure, micro hardness, tensile and bend behavior on welded plates were studied. • A specially shaped tool pin, made from material that have a hard and wear resistant relative to the material being welded. • Tests have been conducted on the welded specimen for defects, microstructure, tensile hardness, and bend behavior on welded plates.

This lecture meeting was Inaugurated & Presided by Mr. N Balasubramanian , Chairman SAEISS and Mr. T. R. Sathyanarayanan, Treasurer, SAEISS.

Did you know???The luxury carmaker Rolls Royce Motor Cars Limited is derived from its parent company Rolls Royce which makes Aircraft Engines

8 August 2014 Professional member Page

Hyderabad Lecture meeting

Topic : The Mobility Industry from the Eyes of an Organization Development Consultant Speaker : Mr. Amar Chegu, Managing Director, Cosmic Management Services Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad Date : 22nd August 2014 Venue : Engineering Staff College of India. Hyderabad. Abstract of the event:  Each industry configures itself into a model of operations, most conducive for addressing the challenges it faces.  Drawing on Organization Development subject, the terrain of the mobility industry has been explained with insights into what contributes to success, excellence and sustainability

SAEINDIA Hyderabad Division has been conducting many guest lectures for the benefit of Student & Professional members. The Lecture meeting on “Laser micromachining for Engineering Applications” provided knowledge on Laser precision machining which is the key technology to realize miniaturized products which provides a foundation for machining parts with high accuracy & Distinctly tiny functional features

9 August 2014 Professional member Page

Top tech – Fuel cell technology Topic - Fuel Cell Technology - Power Source For Automobile Application, 18th & 19th July. Faculty: Dr. P. Karthikeyan, Professor at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore An overview from this top tech: • Dissemination of knowledge gained on fuel cells through a new course “Fuel Cell Technology”. • This course bestows a disclosure to the participants towards the up to date state of play in international research and development in fuel cell energy technology. • The course takes in hand the issues of environment and energy resources using fuel cell for small and portable applications. • Serves as an imminent avenue of improving energy efficiency in fuel cells to enable designers to develop better designs. • Enhances in-depth understanding of Proton exchange membrane Fuel cells (PEMFC) for energy efficiency, performance, safety and economics. • This underpinning course will follow a line of investigation and progress in Scaling up & Stacking up of Fuel Cells.

This Toptech was Inaugurated by Mr. Parvez Alam M, MC Member & Presided by Mr. T. R Sathyanarayanan, Treasurer,SAEISS

“A TopTech program is an intensive session of two days which is anchored by a eminent subject matter expert. It deals with one technical problem or process and the participants get to understand and discuss the subject threadbare. The expert also brings up the best practices on this subject with relevant examples.”

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Top tech – Automotive acoustics Topic : Automotive Acoustics, 1st & 2nd August 2014 at SAEISS office Faculty : Dr. M. Subramanian / Professor, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore The objective of this top tech program: • To learn the fundamentals of sound, measurements and characterization. • To learn noise reduction strategies. • To learn design for noise control. • To learn noise control techniques through simple case studies. • To learn design of automotive panels for noise control • Domain knowledge on automotive noise control. • To understand fundamentals of engineering acoustics. Vehicle and component design for noise control

This Toptech was Inaugurated by Mr.S. Selvamani, EC member-SAEISS and Mr.S. Shanmugam, Secretary-SAEISS. The program was presided by Mr. T. R Sathyanarayanan, Treasurer., SAEISS

Did you know??? The idea for the people’s car VW beetle and its functional objectives were formulated by Adlof Hitler

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Top tech - Surface Engineering for Automotive Applications Topic : Surface Engineering for Automotive Applications, 22nd & 23rd August 2014 Faculty : Dr. R. Rajendran - Professor of BSA University, Mr. S. Shanmugham - Material Expert at WABCO INDIA LTD And Mr. S. Srinivasan - Ashok Leyland, Hosur.

Objective of this top tech program: • Have an understanding of the concepts of surface engineering as part of the manufacturing process. • Have a good knowledge of the principles of failure modes like corrosion, friction and wear, including abrasive, erosive and sliding wear, including the selection of suitable coating systems. • Have a detailed knowledge of new coating concepts, including multilayered structures and functionally gradient materials, together with examples of their major applications. • Have an appreciation of the microstructural characteristics used to describe materials and the techniques used to characterize the surface.

This Toptech was Inaugurated By Mr. T. Kasiraja, MC Member. The program was presided by Mr. N Balasubramanian , Chairman SAEISS

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COLT – Club Officers Leadership Training Program SAEINDIA Hyderabad – Division successfully conducted the 2 Days COLT on the 30th & 31st Of August – 2014 at MLR Institute Of Technology – Hyderabad, Telengana. 75 SAEINDIA Collegiate club Office bearers from 22 Colleges & 7 Faculty Advisors attended

The Chief Guest for COLT was Mr. C.H. Malla Reddy Member of Parliament, India.

Snaps from Day1 events Day1 from Snaps

The Key players of COLT event: Dr. G.Padmanabham, Chairman , Mr.. Srinivasa Rao Y, COLT champion , Dr.Gururaj T, Joint secretary, Mr. Venkateshwar Reddy, M,PawanKumar Y, Sceintist RCI.

Snaps from from Snaps Day2 events Day2

• Various leadership, Communication & motivational sessions are conducted on the Day 1 of COLT program by eminent speakers after the Inauguration. The club officers are also trained on how to manage the Collegiate Club regular activities in order keep the Club active throughout the year. • The Day 2 session was focused on Team Building Activities like Ice Breaking, coin passing, Traffic jam, etc., to enable the Leadership quality among the young engineers. “COLT mainly focuses on enhancing leadership, to indulge networking skills, importance of effective communication & co-ordination, etc., to purse all the activities of SAEISS effectively in their collegiate club”

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CLUB Inaugurations and Guest lectures

Dr.D.Muruganandham Dr. D. Muruganandam th @St.Joseph Institute of Tech. – 5th August @Hindustan University on 13 August Lecture on "Welding Trends and Technology"

Dr. M. Uthayakumar Prof & Head Mr. K.Kamalakkannan th @Amal Jyothi College Of Engineering, @APEC, Melmaruvathur on 14 August Kottayam 11th August Awareness program on SAEINDIA and BAJA.

Mr.R.M.Thirupathi, VP,Rane TRW Dr. D. Muruganandam @K.Ramakrishnan College of Engineering, @Sri ranga boopathi Engineering college Trichy-12th August Tindivanam, on 28th August.

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Student Convention

SAEINDIA Southern Section Annual Student Convention is an opportunity for students to showcase their skills & ideas to the industry and to the student community as well as to share, compete and learn in the process. It is the festival of technology for students and all different forms of technical skill and knowledge pertaining to basic concepts of mobility engineering, engineering design challenges, and technical theatres are all present in one roof during these two days. It is SAEINDIA Southern Section's flagship event for students. Tier1 The tier 1 event is successfully being conducted in all Clubs from Tamilnadu, Andhrapradesh & Kerala. All the Clubs are geared up for the Tier 2 Competitions.

Tier2 The tier 2, Regional Level Convention will be conducted at 6 divisions. College name Division Date J.B Inst. Engg & Tech, Hyderabad Hyderabad - Division 12th Sept - 2014 SSMIET , Dindigul South Tamilnadu 16th Sept - 2014 SRM University, Chennai East Tamilnadu 21st Sept - 2014 Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, Kerala Division 19th Sept- 2014 Kerala EASWARI ENGINEERING COLLEGE North Tamilnadu 6th Sept - 2014 Chennai Jansons Institute of Technology West Tamilnadu 13th Sept - 2014 Coimbatore

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SAE Trek SAEISS KRT Trek August 2014: SAEISS trek conducted on 2nd & 3rd August 2014 by SSM Institute Of Engineering & Technology, Dindigul. The trek Program as subdivided in to groups • For the Student members • For Professional Members of KRT Club from Industries. A special session was designed for the interaction of Student members with Industry members. The resource person for this trek program was Mr. S. Shanmugam (Secretary-SAEISS) & Mr. S. Selvamani(EC Member-SAEISS) Glimpses of SAE Trek August 2014

Participants fabricating the toy in session 1 Mr. S. Shanmugam explaining participants about engineering design Process

Interaction between SAEISS MC, Industry Participants on the way to Trek members with trek participants

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AWIM – A World In Motion - KICK OFF 2014 The Inaugural function of “A World In Motion” for the year 2014 was successfully held on 28th July 2014 in Maharishi Vidhya Mandir school, Chetpet, Chennai. The Chief Guest for this Program was SAE International President Mr. Dan Hancock and Mr. Murli Iyer. Glimpses from the event

(L to R)Mr. Ramalingam, Mr. Namsivayam, Mr. Murli Iyer, Mr. Daniel M Hancock. Mr. N. Balasubramanian, Mr. Govindarajan, Mr. T. Kasiraja Award Ceremony: SAEINDIA Southern Section recognized the immense contribution of Industry members, Teachers for bringing AWIM to such level. Also not forgetting the main Subject “School Students” are also awarded for their achievements in AWIM nationals 2013. About Mr.Daniel Hancock… Born in Indiana, He received his Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering- from General Motors Institute, Michigan, in 1974 and Master's degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. After joining General Motors in 1968 he held various engineering positions Daniel M Hancock within Allison Transmission Division, which later became Detroit Diesel Allison President, DMH Strategic Consulting Division in 1994, he was appointed director, transmission engineering, GM LLC Powertrain and in 1997, he returned to Indianapolis where he was named President, Allison Transmission Division. Hancock served as chairman of the Society of Automotive Engineers Foundation Board of Trustees from 1998 to 2008. He served as president of FISITA, the International Federation of Automotive Engineering Societies, from 2004 to 2006. His last position with GM was Vice President Global Strategic Product Alliances, General Motors Company

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AWIM MTTP - Master Teacher Training Program. MTTP was conducted to train the teachers from participating Schools in AWIM 2014, So that they will learn how to build the Jet Toy. This will help them to Train the student in their School. Trainer- Mr. C. Shanmugam 16 Teachers participated in the event.

Day 1: On day 1, the Trainer explained the teachers about AWIM, various teams are formed along with Engg. Students as volunteers. Day 2. On Day 2, Every team is given with a challenge to Design & build the Jet Toy & test it to achieve the specified performance. Glimpses from the event

MTTP Inauguration by Mr. S. Karthikayan, MTTP Valediction by Mr. T. Kasiraja , MC Member - SAEISS AWIM Champion , MC Member - SAEISS

Teachers demonstrating the Jet toy on the track

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MC Member Introduction.

Mr. Sanjay Nibandhe, Dr.Kannan Rajendran Deputy General Manager Professor in Mechanical Mahindra & Mahindra Engineering, P.S.N.A.College Chennai. of Engineering & Technology, Dindigul.

Qualification: -MS In Manufacturing Qualification: M.E.,-Thiagarajar College of Management. (BITs Pilani) Engg., Madurai, Ph.D.,-Anna University, Experience – 30 years Chennai High level of experience from 2wheeler to 6 Professional Experience: wheeler Development & Manufacturing. Professor at P.S.N.A. College of Engineering, Certified Lead auditor for Quality System & Associate Lecturer at M/S. P.S.N.A.College OHSAH. of Engineering & Technology, Experts in Vehicle packaging & Integration. Engineer (Maintenance) in M/S.RajNarayan Expert in 3D printing and Rapid Prototype Textiles, developments. Professional Highlights:- SAP & Stores Management expert. Published papers in international journals & Highlights: conferences. Design & developed miniature production Best supportive faculty advisor award line for complete vehicle building. Successful Acted as Chairman of various sessions of handling of BAJA SAEINDA 2014 event as a conferences & delivered keynote address. Convener. Keynote speaker on Additive Acted as Organizing secretary for National Manufacturing Technology. level technical symposium. National Vocational Training for Automobile Established various labs in PSNACET. stream – design syllabus & structure. Member in various bodies like ISTE, Competency building for BAJA teams– Interests:- Workshops on “Vehicle Quality”. Interested in automotive field. Interested in Leadership for various activity & new areas philately & numismatics exploring. Did many projects related to automotive Interest in Adventure drives of vehicle rallies field and Long drives

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Governance committee

Mr. Balasubramanian N Dr. P. Sivakumar Mr. S. Shanmugam Mr. T. R. Sathyanarayanan Chairman Vice - Chairman Secretary Treasurer (RNTBCI) (CVRDE) (DDIPL) (WABCO INDIA LTD)

Member and Vice chair

Dr. Kannan Rajendran Mr. Arun Sivasubramaniyan Mr. Parvez Alam M Mr. Rajesh Kumar Joint Treasurer Joint Secretary, Professional Society Contribution & Communication & Branding Engg Education Committee –Head Development Committee - Head New Initiatives Committee – Head Committee – Head (PSNA College of Engineering) (Ashok Leyland) (UCAL FUEL) (Defiance Technologies)

Mr. R R Sankarasubramanian Mr. K. Kamalakkannan Mr. Meenakshi Sundaram (Retired - Exe. Director SAEINDIA) Mr. T. Kasiraja (Visteon Technical& Services Cetre) (Hindustan University) (Defiance Technologies)

Mr. Sanjay Nibandhe Dr. M. Uthayakumar Mr. R. Armstrong Mr. S. Karthikayan Dr. A. Ramesh

(Mahindra & Mahindra) (Kalasalingam University) (TAFE ) (Sri Muthukumaran Inst. Of Tech.) (SKCET)

Mr. K Srikanth Dr. D Muruganandam Mr. N. Yogesh Mr. Aiyappan Ramamurthy (Alfa Rubber & Springs Pvt. Ltd. ) (Sri Sai Ram Engineering College.) (RNTBCI) (Siemens Industry)

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