Chairman's Message from the Editor's Desk

Volume : 9 Issue : 2 February 2012 Price : Rs. 3.00 Chairman’s Message From The Editor’s Desk T.S. Rangarajan H.R. Mohan [email protected] [email protected] My dear members Blog: http://infoforuse.blogspot.com I am delighted to serve you as the volunteer Dear Friends, Chair for 2012. My predecessors and all the other LINK welcomes the new Execom of the IEEE volunteers have done wonderful service to the Madras Section for the year 2012. Mr. T.S. cause of IEEE Madras Section so far and have set Rangarajan, Chairman, in his message urges all our a tough benchmark for us to achieve and excel. I members to come together to achieve the mission count upon your continued support, encouragement and vision of IEEE – “Advancing Technology for and guidance to help the new team to set new Humanity”. benchmarks in the performance of our section. The AGM for the year 2011 was held on 11th Feb 2012 with good Few years ago, while deliberating on the theme for the old website, participation. A brief report on AGM with a few select photos and the Dr Krishna Prasad and I came upon ‘engaging members’ as the key to contact details of the Madras Section Execom Members for the year providing direction and motivation to the executive committee to 2012 have been published in this issue of the newsletter. Detailed Annual undertake volunteer service and initiatives. I am glad to report that the Report and the photo gallery can be viewed at the Section website. metrics presented at the AGM on Feb 11, 2012 amply demonstrated LINK congratulates the following student branches and society that we have surpassed those expectations. chapters for receiving the certificate of appreciation and cash awards for Having achieved a certain scale of horizontal growth – crossed organizing maximum no. of events (based on the reporting in LINK). 10,000 members mark, awarded distinguished large section award for Student Branches 2010, maximum number of student branches and so on, I believe it is time Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology; Jeppiaar Engineering for us to look towards vertical growth – meaning improving the ‘quality’ College; Kongu Engineering College; Amrita School of Engineering of our engagement as a community. Society Chapters Today each one of us has packed calendars – whether you are a student, a working professional, a retired person or a housewife. There IEEE Computer Society; IEEE Women In Engineering Affinity are many options, for you to choose from, to keep yourselves occupied Group; IEEE Professional Communication Society or engaged. Each of these options is competing with each other fiercely Further, LINK congratulates the following student branches having to attract your attention and gain your mindshare. Needless to say, either the maximum no. of members in their branch. Sathyabama University; these options have to be immensely entertaining or add immense value to Velammal Engineering College; Kongu Engineering College. yourself and your professional career in order to gain your attention. LINK also congratulates our members – Dr. G.V. Rao, Dr. M.A. With a history of 125 years of yeoman service in Advancing Technology Atmanand, Dr. A. Nagappan and Dr. R.M. Suresh for recognitions for Humanity, IEEE has to use its ingenuity and technological prowess received from various agencies for their significant contributions. to be head and shoulders above the rest of the options to attract, engage and retain its members who are by their very membership, interested in In this issue, we have published the reports on events organized technology. As volunteers of IEEE Madras Section we wish to put by the following institutions: awareness of IEEE offerings, leveraging the benefits of membership and Kongu Engineering College; MIT, Anna University; Jeppiaar contributions of members towards Advancing Technology for Humanity Engineering College; M.P. Nachimuthu M. Jeganathan Engineering College; to be the number one choice of its members when compared to other Kumaraguru College of Technology; St. Xaviers Catholic College of options that they already have. Engineering; Coimbatore Institute of Engineering and Technology; Mahendra Engineering College; Jayaram College of Engineering & Technology. I would therefore like to propose that we focus our energies on ‘value adding engagement’ as the theme for this year – for your kind consideration. The other items published include: National Workshop on Research Methodology held at RMD Engineering College along with IEEE CS, To begin with, I propose to put this message as a blogpost on in Inauguration of the IEEE CS Student Chapter at Vel Tech Univ., our new CMS based website at http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras/ Distinguished Lecture Program (DLP) Organised by IEEE - IAS Madras ?q=content/chairs-message-feb-2012, which will facilitate an interactive Chapter and the Lecture Series by IEEE COMSOC. dialogue between us. Please feel free to post your valuable comments, suggestions, feedback and value adding observations so that we can We draw the attention of our readers to the list of forthcoming events together discuss, complement and continuously enhance the value of our and request them to contribute papers and also participate and benefit membership of IEEE. professionally. I wish you all a very happy, prosperous and ‘value adding With the Content Management System based website in place, we wish to empower the SBs and Society Chapters to post their activities in engagement’ with IEEE in 2012. detail online. This will result in optimizing our spending on the print Yours volunteer-ily edition of the newsletter and the inclusion of additional reference value T.S. Rangarajan contents. More details on this will be announced soon. 1 IEEE-MAS Link Volume : 9 Issue : 2 February 2012 Activities at Kongu Engineering College IEEE members on 21st Jan 2012. It was a feast for the technically thirsty and creatively tasteful facts of electronics and satellite communication minds of KEC. Preliminary rounds were to the studnets. They were also made to conducted for Quiz, Code Debugging, Circuit understand the importance of keeping Debugging competitions and the selected themselves updated regarding the growing students were short listed for the final round. technology. Most important of all, the students The event was declared open by Mrs.V.R. were encouraged to interact and clear their doubts Saraswathy, Staff-Coordinator IEEE SB, KEC. regarding higher studies and engineering. In the The first technical session started with Paper afternoon session, events such as Type Master, Presentation. The students came up with Visual Hunt, Quiz, Debate and Memory Game innovative ideas in technologies like Robotics, which exposed the talents of the rural students Stampede control using image processing, Technical Awareness Program were conducted and prizes were distributed to Spintronics in medical field etc. The Project Presentation was conducted simultaneously and The IEEE SB of Kongu Engineering students who performed well in these events. many students implemented their ideas as College takes active participation in various We received encouraging feedback both from projects. The afternoon session started with activities. One such activity is the Awareness students and Head Mistress of the School. Thus Multimedia Presentation which helped the Program for school students in rural areas. The TAP provided an excellent platform for the rural students in incorporating their knowledge in program was held on 18th Jan 2012 for the students to inculcate awareness on technical software. Code Debugging and Circuit Government High School, Nattuvampalayam, grounds. Debugging were conducted simultaneously. Sankari, Salem and around 24 office bearers and SPAVe’12 Following this was the Poster Presentation students volunteered for this event. The which showcased the artistic and design skills program focussed on the 9th std. students of the students. The last event was Quiz, which commenced in the morning by enlightening was a test to the student’s spontaneity, general about the objective of the event. We had around knowledge and shrewdness. Staff-Coordinator 75 students totally. The students were made of IEEE, Mrs. V.R.Saraswathy thanked the juries aware about the various streams and new for the various contests and presented branches of engineering study. The volunteers mementos to them. On the whole SPAVE-12 shared details regarding the latest engineering was a blast with loads of innovation and finds and revolutionary designs with the aid of creativity. many videos and presentations and kindled the IEEE student branch of Kongu student’s interest in engineering. Mr. M. T. Engineering College conducted SPAVe’12, an Report by: Harini. S, Sakthivel, Jt. Secy of the SB imparted the basic interdepartmental technical symposium for the [email protected] National Workshop on Research Methodology at RMD Engineering College their originality in research work. He appreciated the interests of delegates come from both academic and industry streams. Dr. R. M. Suresh, Associate Dean for Research at RMD Engineering College was the key resource person on both the days of the workshop. The 10 workshop sessions were well planned and covered major topics in Research Methodology such as: How to choose a research problem; How to write papers, Tools available A two day, National Workshop on an overview of the progarmme. Dr. K. Dinakaran for the research, Data sets, Journals to publish Research Methodology was held during 27-28, proposed vote of thanks after the formal the research papers, How to organize thesis, Jan 2012. It was organized by the Dept. of inauguration of the workshop. Funding Agencies, and How to control plagiarism Computer Science & Engineering, RMD etc., The workshop attracted 75 delegates from Dr. Chandrasekaran, in his Inaugural various parts of South India including from NIT Engineering College in association with the IEEE address said that the Research Methodology is Computer Society, IEEE Professional Surathkal, JNTU Hyderabad and Pondicherry the subject of interest as on date to everyone.

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