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The newspaper of SRM University For private circulation only Volume 8 Number 5 The Chancellor of SRM University with an award winning student on Research Day. Looking on are Dr. T.K. Chandrashekar, Secretary, Science and Engineering Research Board of the Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India and Dr. R.P. Sathyanarayanan, President of SRM University. Butterflies’ 2015.... Pg.5 Spirits Soar... Pg.10 Promoting Tamil ... Pg.13 2 2015 | Spectrum | Volume 8 Number 5 MoU with Alumni Staff Reporter ‘PiQube’ Chennai and Fellow in the Startup Leadership Mr. Jayadev Mahalingam Program in Chennai. an alumni and his brainchild ‘PiQube’ has established “Big This Research Centre will Data Analytics Research Centre primarily focus on research (BDARC)” in collaboration in the areas of Big Data, with SRM at Department of Analytics, Machine Learning Software Engineering for the and Natural Language advancement of teaching, Processing. Students selected research and graduate to be part of this elite research education. An MoU was group will be subjected to signed recently at PayPal, comprehensive real world Chennai. problems involving all the above technologies. They Mr. Jayadev Mahalingam will be trained and guided studied Bachelor of by industry experts who Participants at the workshop Engineering in the Mechanical are employees at PiQube to Engineering during the year give them the exposure and 2004 from SRM. Now he is edge that employers crave Trouble Shooting and Repair the Founder and CEO of the for today. of Electrical Appliances A Staff Reporter schools, colleges attended the session was conducted post programme and got benefited. lunch to demonstrate the The Department of EEE and The participants were from causes of fault in the home IET, YPS Chennai network various places like Potheri, appliances. The session ended jointly conducted the community Kattankulathur, Guduvancheri, with certificate distribution by service programme on ‘Trouble Maraimalainagar, Kelambakkam Dr. K.Vijayakumar, Professor Shooting and Repair of Electrical and Sholinganalur. and Head, Dept of EEE. Appliances” recently. Dr. The workshop’s main objective Feedback from the participants K.Vijayakumar, Professor and was to educate the participants was overwhelming and they Head, Dept of EEE, welcomed about the trouble shooting of requested the coordinators the gathering. Dr. A.Rathinam the home appliances like food Ms. J.Divyanavamani and gave the inaugural address. About mixer, ceiling fan, iron box Ms.A.Lavanya to conduct many Mr. Jayadev Mahalingam with the Director of Engineering and 35 participants from various and air conditioner. Practical such programmes in the future. Technology and other participants at the MoU ceremony A peek at the outside industry A Staff Writer Mr S. Vinod, Assistant Professor, Engineering, Kongu Engineering K.Vijayakumar, Professor and and they requested the Department of EEE, Jerusalem College Erode. Head, department of Electrical coordinators Mr. C.Bhartiraja The Department of College of Engineering who gave and Electronics Engineering. and Mr.S.Raghu to conduct Mr C Bharatiraja, Assisstant Electrical and Electronics a lecture on Matrix converter Professor, Department of The worthy feedback from the sequence workshop in the Engineering along with the and its control techniques. Electricals and Electronics participants was overwhelming future. support from SRM University After which Mr S. Kumaravel, Engineering, SRM University conducted a two day intense Assistant Professor, Department lectured on PWM Implementation workshop on the subject of EEE, NIT – Calicut gave a for Z Source Inverters followed Advanced Power Electronic presentation on Integration of by Mr G Rajaganesan, Director- Converters and it’s Control Res with Micro grid. Technical Operations, Solar Techniques for Renewable Division, VATIO Energy India Energy Systems. Mr Nivas, Associative Director, Steinbeis Solar Research Center Pvt, Ltd., successfully captured The workshop was attended on Practical Integration of the attention of the participants by over 120 participants Solar Inverter to the Grid gave on RES’s of Micro Grids. from various colleges across a informative session. The successful workshop the state. Day Two saw a practical ended with Mr H S Sagar and The workshop was session on Power Converters Mr Hariharan, Applications inaugurated by Mr Johnson Controllers Design and Various Engineer, Tektronix India Pvt, Varghese, Managing Director MPPT Implementation using Ltd., by giving a live real time – Wind operations, Asia- D-Space under the professional demo on Results Measurement Pacific, Sun Edition India guidance of Mr M S Kamelesh, using DSO and Power Analyser. Pvt, Ltd. Assistant Professor, Department The session was ended with The session was followed by of Electrical and Electronics certificate distribution by Dr. Participants at the two day intense seminar 2015 | Spectrum | Volume 8 Number 5 3 Dr. Chandrashekar addressing the gathering on Research Day and a snapshot faculty members, research scholars, under-graduate and post graduate students receiving awards from the Chief Guest, Chancellor and President. SRM University Celebrates Research Day Research is not Just for Professors; It is for Everyone... Chancellor A Staff Writer point that the Government of India all pervasive in an institution”, has set apart substantial money he said. “ Always question what, Maintaining that Research for Research and Development why and how”, the President “Research and has an important career with that includes funding and setting of SRM University said. incentives, the Secretary of up new research institutes. Dr. “Without Research no country the Science and Engineering Chandrashekar complimented development activities can develop” the Chancellor Research Board of the Dept. SRM University for coming up of SRM University, Dr. Paari of Science and Technology, with the unique “Research Day”. may not yield results Vendhar, said while announcing Dr. T.K. Chandrashekar, “Inter-disciplinary research is that SRM University is setting argued that research and the mantra of the day. SRM is up a separate laboratory for the next day but over a development efforts over the the right place. You have the Research in association with last two decades are paying diversity” Dr. Chandrashekar SIEMENS where researchers and dividends, especially in the said. period of time it offers realm of the health sector students will be encouraged to Picking on the theme of in India. work in diverse areas. “Research hope… the quality of life quality versus quantity, the sharpens your knowledge and “Research and development President of SRM University we have a long way to go” the has gone up” activities may not yield Dr. P. Sathyanarayanan said that Chancellor said. “Research results the next day but over research should be all pervasive is not just for the Professor. a period of time it offers with a definite accent on quality Everyone must have the habit -Dr. Chandrashekar hope… the quality of life has and quality publications in high of doing Research” he added. gone up” Dr. Chandrashekar impact factor journals. “It is not “Research is about asking said while delivering the the quantity that matters” the questions. At SRM University, As many as 121 projects with a Chief Guest Address at SRM President said making the point aside from granting degrees, we total outlay of about Rs 53 crores as a “limitless ladder” with University’s Research Day SRM University has a separate bring out the skills and talents from various funding agencies science and technology being celebrations. “No country can Research Directorate with a of the student community” he are being currently implemented the “driving force” of India. survive without research and concentration on Research. said making the point that one at SRM University; in the last Arguing that SRM provided development. Things have “Research should become would have to get away from few years nearly 4400 papers limitless opportunities in changed. The gap between a habit be it in school or in the mindset of memorizing, have been published in national the realm of research, Dr. the developed and developing higher education. It should writing examinations, getting and international journals with Rao called on the teaching countries is shrinking. And be inculcated in you”, the degrees and still struggling for a nearly 1050 research scholars and research community to this is because of Research”. President remarked stressing that job. The Chancellor held out the pursuing their Ph.D program “come out with a challenging “In India we have reached SRM University has created a expectation that the University in the University. project”. the stage when we have enough platform for faculty and students can contribute 10,000 researched Earlier welcoming the gathering Dr. Kasmir Raja, Dean money for Research” the top in the promotion of research publications in scholarly journals the Director of Research, Dr. of Research, proposed the DST official said making the activities. “Research should be in the next two years. Narayana Rao talked of science vote of thanks. 4 2015 | Spectrum | Volume 8 Number 5 Mathematical Techniques and their Applications A Staff Reporter Roy, Scientist, Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC), A two-day National Conference Mumbai. Those invited talks on Mathematical Techniques and were thought provoking, their Applications (NCMTA-2015) illustrative and a fusion to the was organized by the Department minds of researchers. About of Mathematics,