Volume : 6 Issue : 12 December 2009 Price : Rs. 3.00 Chairman’s Message From The Editor’s Desk Dr. S. Salivahanan H.R. Mohan [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mobile: 94441 89433 Dear Friends, Dear Friends, The current issue of LINK, the last in the Wish you all a very happy and year 2009 is in your hands with regular features prosperous new year 2010. and few interesting items such as “Effects of Climate Change Today”, “Common Myths about It gives me immense pleasure to mention Ubiquitous Computing”, “Emerging Technology in that IEEE Madras Section organized a 2009” and “Kaizen” to provide points to ponder. Workshop on “RF & Microwave Circuits & An article by the student member Mr. S. Bala Systems” on Dec 14, 2009 at SAMEER-Centre for Electromagnetics, Ragavendran on “The Navigator GPS Receiver” is a timely one. Chennai in which more than 125 delegates participated. The following resource persons delivered lectures on different topics in microwaves: The “Climate Change” issues are attracting greater attention globally and our country is being targeted by the developed nations. Dr. Barry S. Perlman, Life Fellow of IEEE, Associate Director, While every one agrees that there is a definite need to reduce the emission U.S. Army Communications-Electronics RD & E Center of Greenhouse Gases, the industrialized nations should lead the way and Dr. Samir El-Ghazaly, Fellow of IEEE, President, Distinguished also support the other countries in achieving the goal. Cleaner and Prof. and HOD of Electrical Engineering at Univ. of Arkansas: renewable energy will help us in the long run. Miniaturized RF Components LINK draws the attention of the staff members of various Dr. Madhu S. Gupta, Fellow of IEEE, Prof. and RF Systems institutions to inform the students to utilize the new combined and cost Industrial Chair, Director, Communication Systems and Signal effective membership offer for the year 2010 in IEEE & IEEE CS with Processing Institute: Phase Noise in Oscillators-Characterization, access rights to the IEEE CS Digital Library at just USD 40 per year. It Simulation and Optimization is right time to increase the membership strength. Dr. Vijay Nair, Fellow of IEEE, Member IEEE MTT-S ADOM, LINK is pleased to report the student branch activities of Jeppiaar Principal Research Scientist at Intel Corporation, Phoenix, AZ: Engineering College which includes a technical awareness programme, Heterogenous Network Communication devices Website launch and the induction programme along with the inauguration Dr. Shiban Kishen Koul, Prof., CARE, IIT Delhi: Millimeter wave of the student branch at Sri Eshwar College of Engineering. Integrated Circuit Techniques& Technology Brief reports of the events organized by the IEEE Computer Dr. P. Hanumantha Rao, Scientist – SAMEER: Electromagnetic Society such as CIO Meet on “Openbravo – an open source, Web based Bandgap Structures (EBG) ERP”, Talk on “Web 2.0 / Web 3.0 – Hype or Hope” and a Presentation Dr. Amitava Das Gupta, Prof., IITM, Chennai: RF MEMS on “Data Integration Technology and Tools” appear in this issue of applications and components LINK. With the increase in the use of Internet, there is an increase in the Ms. S. Vidya, the final year student of B.E. (ECE) in NIT, Trichy cyber crimes. Deliberations of the day long workshop organized by the presented their web based software developed under the guidance of Cyber Society of India and supported by the IEEE Computer Society Prof. Dr. S. Raghavan for Smith Chart calculations and design of array are also published in this issue. multiplication and radiation patterns of antennas. LINK congratulates Mr. C.A. Sanjiv Kumar of M.N.M. Jain A Faculty Development Programme on “Graphical Systems Engineering College and Mr. M.N. Gokul of Mahindra Satyam, the Design Concepts (Using Labview)” was conducted by IEEE Madras winners of Info Contest - 0911 who will receive a prize of Rs. 500/= Section on 18 & 19 Dec 2009 in association with Dept. of ECE, Aarupadai each sponsored by SRA Systems. Veedu Institute of Technology. The resource persons include Prof. K. LINK draws the attention of readers to the Intl. Conf. on Wireless Jayaraman, School of Electrical Sciences, VIT, Vellore and experts from Communications and Sensor Computing to be held at Chennai in Jan Trident Techlabs Pvt Ltd, Banglaore. 2010. Readers may pl. respond to the call for papers for the conferences It was a memorable day, the 21st Nov 2009, when the IEEE on “Information and Software Engineering”, and “Advances and Emerging Execom meeting was conducted at Numeric Power Systems Ltd., Trends in Computing Technologies”. Semmancherry, Chennai which was founded by one of our Execom LINK still gets contributions for publishing without following the members Mr. R. Chellappan. The members got an opportunity to visit recommended guidelines. May we request the contributors to adhere to the solar power plant and other facilities available there. On behalf of the guidelines (available Section website at www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras) IEEE Madras Section, we thank Mr. R. Chellapan for the hospitality while submitting the materials for publication, failing which, they may extended during our visit. get ignored. All the IEEE members are requested to renew their memberships LINK wishes all its readers A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS for the year 2010. For further details, please visit www.ieee.org. NEW YEAR 2010. 1 IEEE-MAS Link Volume : 6 Issue : 12 December 2009 Technical Awareness Program by Jeppiaar Engineering College a new experience for them, as it was a concept of fun with learning. The vision and mission of this program is to reach as many students as possible. Specially, those students who are less fortunate in terms of quality education and infrastructure, we try to reach these masses through this program and help them discover the numerous opportunities available for them in the global phenomenon. We consider this as a process of giving back something to the society that we live in. If we, a team of 60 can reach up 500 students within a span of 6 months through two programs, consider a no. of these unfortunate students who can benefited if the same program is propagated from all the 137 student branches of Madras Section and what if it is extended to all the 400 odd colleges in the Tamil Nadu. It will lead to an education revolution, which would not only improve the quality of education, but The 2nd Technical Awareness Program recognition system, animal communication, also the possibility of creating the awareness (TAP) under the “We Can Bring The Change” submarine, RNAI, large hadron collider, about the varied fields and their consequential campaign was held on 6th Aug, 2009 at St. Microsoft surfacing, OLED, flying cars. Raphael’s girls school in Santhome, Chennai. possibilities. The program was inaugurated by the The program was organized by the IEEE student So our aim as a student branch is to reach principal of the school. There were two sessions branch of Jeppiaar Engineering College. these children and enlighten through these fun on 1.5 hours — pre and post lunch. The group consisted of 60 members from learning programs coupled with activities and the various departments like EEE, ECE, E&I, Most of the videos presented were edited attractive prizes for grabbing their attention. In CSE & IT and from various years like 2nd, 3rd and formatted in such a way that it would lead this endeavor, we have the able support of our & 4th was split into 16 teams and they made to a better and simpler way of understanding chairman Dr. Jeppiaar, our dynamic directors more than 20 presentations to the students. The the latest technologies. The presenters were Mr. Marie Wilson, Mrs. Regena Wilson and gropup was lead by staff coordinator Mr. T. eloquent and interactive when it was their turn. our branch counselor Mr. Sellakumar. We are thankful to all the above mentioned generous Arun Srinivas and Miss. Reena Joshi. The students on the other side were very hearts, as it is only because of their continuous active and enthusiastic with this new way of The topics presented include: nanobots, support we are able to reach such great heights. vision mars, nxg fuels, biometrics, face approaching education. This was a completely IEEE Computer Society System Competition Prizes of $1,000 will be awarded to the winning team in each of these categories: The purpose of the competition is to However, not all judges, evaluators, and users o Originality of the architecture designed promote excellence in the design of a system will have alternative operating systems on their by a team of students. The IEEE Computer home computers. o Functionality, quality, and versatility of Society has constructed a realistic and non- the simulator Each team must certify that their reports trivial task that requires a group of students to o The use of software engineering in the and software are their own work and have not solve a real-world problem. design of the simulator been derived (with or without permission) from Judging will be carried out according to other sources. The deadline for registration is 11 the following criteria: January 2010 & for the submission is 9 April A team may consist of three to five 2010. o Originality of the architecture designed students at an institution of higher education. o Functionality, quality, and versatility of All members of the team must be on a course For more details, pl. visit: http:// the simulator leading to a first degree. Note that team members www.computer.org/portal/web/competition/ do not necessarily have to be on a computer home o The use of software engineering in the science degree course – the only restriction is design of the simulator that they are students.