Rs. 2/- Institution of Engineers ((() T.N. STATE CENTRE Er. R. Ramdoss, FIE Chairman

Er. P. Gomathi Nayagam, MIE Honorary Secretary Vol. 18 : No. 10 January 2020

From the Chairman’s Desk.... IMPORTANT NOTICE Dear Engineers, It has been observed that there are many Corporate Members It is my pleasure indeed to meet all of of IEI whose mobile number/email id is not registered with IEI till date. Non availability of the mobile numbers and email IDs you through our News Bulletin. precludes us not only from providing our full range of services I wish each and every members a but also from participation in the Online Election Process. happy and prosperous New Year The Corporate Members whose mobile number/email id is 2020. I pray the almighty to shower not registered with IEI are therefore requested to kindly its blessings on all of us for prosperity, communicate their mobile no. and email id along with success and good health whole of the membership number to [email protected] by Feb. 2020. year. Maj Gen (Dr) S Bhattacharya, VSM (Retd) The 34th Indian Engineering Congress on the theme Secretary and Director General ‘Societal Engineering-Imperatives for Nation Building’ was inaugurated by Hon'ble of , NOTICE Dr (Smt.) Tamilisai Soundararajan in a glittering Respected Corporate Members of State Centre, function at HICC, Hyderabad on 27 December 2019. kindly fill the proforma for membership updation and send it Shri V Prashanth Reddy, Honble Minister for Roads & to: email: [email protected] / [email protected] Buildings, Legislative Affairs and Housing, Government of Telangana and Dr T M Gunaraja, President, IEI were THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS (INDIA) graced the occasion. Tamilnadu State Centre At the 100th Annual General Meeting Mr Narendra Singh PROFORMA has took over as President of the IEI for the session CORPORATE MEMBERS 2019-2020. I on behalf of IEI, Tamilnadu State Centre NAME (IN BLOCK LETTERS) …………………………………………… congratulate Mr Narendra Singh, President of IEI and wish him very best for future endeavors. MEMBERSHIP GRADE…………………………NO……………………… IEI election for the year 2020 will be held only through DIVISION TO WHICH ATTACHED……………………………………… online, so I request all the corporate members to update DATE OF BIRTH …………………………………………………………… the email id and mobile number for membership updation. ADDRESS ….…………………………………………………………......

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IEI–TSC–News Bulletin, January 2020 1 President Visit to Tamil Nadu Local Centres

Neyveli Local Centre

Ranipet Local Centre Thanjavur Local Centre

Kanyakumari Local Centre

Tirunelveli Local Centre

Erode Local Centre

2 IEI–TSC–News Bulletin, January 2020 Talk on “D.G. Shipping Rules for Conducting Examination for Shipping Crew” 25.11.2019

A technical guest lecture meeting was held on 25th November 2019 at 6.00 pm in IE(I), Tamilnadu State Centre auditorium. The topic of the day was “D.G. Shipping Rules for Conducting Examination for Shipping Crew”. Er S Kannan, Committee member of Marine Division, IEI TNSC was the chief guest for the day. There is more than 15 D.G shipping approved Marine Institutes conducting training for General Purpose ratings in southern region who will join as Deck crew or Engine crew on board merchant ships. The training period is for 6 months. After end of the training D.G Shipping conducts Practical, Oral and online Examination through Board of Examination for Sea farers Trust (BES). The Examiners are those sailed as Chief Engineers and Captains on board ships. Er.S.Kannan, Marine Engineer, Committee Member of TNSC is the BES coordinator to conduct the examination for southern region. He explained the procedure to conduct the examination as per the rules and regulations of D.G Shipping and following the guidelines of BES. He informed the Examiners the method of assessment and awarding marks in the format given for Practical, Oral and online Examination for two subjects General Shipping Knowledge (GSK) by the Captains and Marine Engineering Knowledge (MEK) by the Chief Engineers. The Examiners were asked to assess and give a report on the condition of Equipment, facilities for conducting the examination and Safety and Hygiene aspects. The questions and quires by the participants were clarified by the speaker. And the meeting ended with the vote of thanks. Report on Energy Conservation Day 20.12.2019 living being is able to find out his uniqueness, eternally energy efficient system is possible. When any individual try to express his uniqueness, it becomes, natural, effortless, seamless, efficient, spontaneous, free. The agricultural engineer explained his independent research for 12 years on this subject, when one is able to find out uniqueness, in that particular uniqueness, no one can match him, he can make competition irrelevant and eternal energy efficient is possible. He explained ancient systems are based on these uniqueness models and now everyone is connected with everyone always, still we feel insecure, inefficient, because we forget our uniqueness. The speaker gently took the participants that, In Australia and some other countries, 1000 acre will be managed by just 10 people. Here in India 1000 acre will be managed by 1000 farmers or more. Every year because of hereditary ownership divide, small farmers are increasing every day. Large machineries etc., cannot be operated in small land The Energy Conservation day was celebrated at the Institution of Engineers holdings. We have to find out India Specific solutions. If we are able to merge (India), Tamilnadu State Centre on 20th December 2019 at 6.00 pm in IE Uniqueness and Oneness, we can able to create many energy efficient unique (I),Tamilnadu State Centre auditorium. business models to consumers. The consumers are looking for different kind of experiences . From lab to land itself a Engineer/ Retired engineer / any qualified Er P R Seshadri, FIE Past Chairman of IE(I), TNSC welcomed the engineer can help many farmers by sitting his office through the technology . The gathering. technology, experience etc., can be transferred to Indian Farmer, where he knows The guest lecture was started by Er P Gomathi Nayagam, Honorary “on & off” switch only to speak. Still many farmers does not know how to read Secretary, IEI TNSC on the theme “Energy Efficient Collective Farming or send SMS or other smart phone features. Techniques & Models for Engineers”. From farm planning, budgeting, crop choice, variety, market oriented Agricultural Engineer started with fundamentals of Energy, energy is strength production planning, land preparation, planting, crop development, crop protection, or vitality required to sustain physical or mental activity. And energy is property harvesting, post harvesting, supply chain management, primary processing, of matter and radiation which manifest as capacity to perform work. Energy can processing, packing, etc., simply farm to fork, because of diversity of people, area, be neither created or destroyed but changed one formed to another from. Energy climate, soil, water etc., our farming efficiency is very low. Here forcing, coming exits in many different forms. Question of energy conservation or energy efficient up with western models of scale of economy & efficient models will not work. why comes, We don't know how to tap energy within in us and in our environment, Models based on Uniqueness with infusion of technology can work. Where each as energy is not readily available or in unavailable forms. Energy conservation engineer being a Mining Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Chemical Engineer or or Energy efficient etc., normally we, engineers used to think Mechanical energy, any Engineer can create Win Win for all energy efficient solutions to farming Grid power, Solar energy, Wind energy, Hydel source, Atomic Energy etc. We are community. Speaker explained about various models based land based, crop based, not thinking energy available within us, as we are made of the 5 elements Earth, equipment based, product based and concept based, product based, category based Water, Fire, Air, Space. As an Engineer, each one has to think, whether I am and other innovative energy efficient collective farming models. independently energy efficient, what amount of energy I consume, what amount The Consultant Engineer also touched upon the 5x 5 fold expansion, of energy produce, whether we are energy neutral or not? Here the speaker Panchamukha Pentagon Artificial Intelligence energy efficient strategy, where encouraged the participants to take entirely different paradigm of energy energy efficiency of system can be measured in more scientific way, which is conservation, energy efficient methods. integrated and simultaneous function of 5 things 1. Field of action, 2. people, 3. By creating such aenergy environment in the hall, he asked the participants equipments, 4. maximum from minimum efforts and 5. X factor. The Agricultural whether scale of economy (western) models which we are adopting in the name Engineer dedicated the presentation to the multidiscipline engineering organization, of energy efficient, cost effective, is good or bad to India, where we have 129 Agro IEI, there are different fields of study in agriculture, that is study of living things, Climatic Zones. Such models are being mainly built on money power and Many discipline of Engineering, that is study of nonliving things. Agricultural technology which are not taking consideration of people uniqueness, unknown Engineering is merger of both. Multidisciplinary approach, the relevant of IEI, effects . Over a period, this models will create monopoly and individuals, MSME learning from other disciplines, are very important in present scenario. He predicted will become digital colony of big corporate . Can any system or anything can be that this generation will find out, theory of everything, the Universal Filed theory, eternally energy efficient? Self-sustainable at all times? Is it possible or not? which will show the way for eternally self-sufficient and energy efficient system. Consultant Agricultural Engineer explained any living being is unique one, each The programme ended with Vote of Thanks.

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TECHNICAL PROGRAMME FOR JANUARY 2020 Lecture: 6.00 p.m. Venue: IE (I) Auditorium (Unless mentioned otherwise) Tea: 5.45 p.m.

29th Jan. 2020 Lecture Meeting

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