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IEEE PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY
Name of the Society IEEE
Society inauguration date 31.12.2013
PIT IEEE SB Inaugral function.
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ABOUT IEEE
IEEE is the world’s largest leading professional association for the advancement of technology.
IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE’s highly cited publications,
conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities. IEEE offers a wide
range of learning, career enhancement, and employment opportunities within the engineering
sciences, research, and other technology areas.
IEEE’s core purpose is to promote technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of
humanity. IEEE will be essential to the global technical community and to technical professionals
everywhere, and be universally recognized for the contributions of technology and of technical
professionals in improving global conditions. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional
society. It is designed to serve professionals involved in all aspects of the electrical, electronic and
computing fields and related areas of science and technology that underlie modern civilization.
STUDENT BRANCH AT PIT
IEEE Student branch at Panimalar Institute of Technology was established in the year 2013 and is
one of the vibrant Sections in R10,Madras Sction. Over the years the strength of the section has
grown steadily and currently the Section membership stands close to 100. Student Branch aims at
helping students recognize real world challenges and Nurture innovative ideas of students by
mentoring their implementation approach.The Chapters carry out focused activities in the
respective area by way of conducting technical talks under DLT, Conference, Seminars, Tutorials,
Short term Couses, workshops,Paper contest, Technical Colloquium ,Project contest etc,.
The Student Branch has student chapters of IEEE Communication Society ,Signal Processing
Society & Robotics & Automation Society & One affinity group called IEEE Women in
Engineering is running under this Student Branch.
Dedicated volunteers, as part of the Executive Committee of the Society as well as Chapters
continuously strive to bring more activities under the Socity.
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BRANCH VISION
The primary purpose of IEEE student branch is to Inspire, Enable, Empower and Energize our
student members to enhance their technical interests by providing them a platform to show case
their skills.
BRANCH MISSION
To arrange for regular events in the campus specifically dealing with latest technologies.
To work towards inspiring more students to become members.
To increase the Membership Retention, though the benefits of IEEE.
To organize technical awareness programs for young professionals.
To form more Special Interest Groups to encourage project activity among the student
members.
To kindle students interest in making new papers and projects.
To strive towards achieving more IEEE-sponsored awards and aim at representing papers in
international conferences.
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MEMBERSHIP STATISTICS
Year Total Membership No. of Member Renewals No. of New Members Retention %
2013 67
2014 63 12 51 17.91
2015 90 22 68 34.92
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP STATISTICS
Year Total Membership No. of Member Renewals No. of New Members Retention %
2013 3
2014 4 3 1 100 %
2015 17 4 13 100 %
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
BRANCH MENTOR Dr.T.JAYANTHY PRINCIPAL
BRANCH ADVISOR Dr.M.P.CHITRA HOD/ECE
BRANCH COUNSELOR Mr.M.ARUN AP/ECE
CHAIRPERSON Mr.SARAVANAN M S IV ECE
VICE-CHAIRPERSON Ms.PREMIHAA R M IV ECE
TREASURER Ms.DIVYA M IV EEE
SECRETARY Ms.THANEMOZHI S IV ECE
JOINT SECRETARY Ms.RAMA PRIYA V IV EEE
IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR Mr.KHADAR SHAREEF IV ECE
ACTIVITY CO-ORDINATOR Ms.NANDHINI D IV ECE
EVENT MANAGING TEAM Ms.SARANYA S R IV ECE
Ms.ANTONY VERONICA M IV ECE
TECHNICAL TEAM Ms.RAJASUMUPRIYA M IV ECE
Ms.DEVI P IV ECE
PUBLICATIONS TEAM Ms.HIMA BINDU G IV ECE
Ms.GERLYN T III EEE
WEB DESIGNING TEAM Ms.SHAMI SELES.M III ECE
Ms.NIVEDA B III ECE
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IEEE COMMUNICATION SOCIETY
CHAIRPERSON Ms.PAVITHRAA S IV ECE
VICE-CHAIRPERSON Ms.INDIRA E III ECE
TREASURER Ms.DEEPA T IV ECE
SECRETARY Ms.AISHWARYA .K IV ECE
JOINT SECRETARY Ms.GAYATHRI B III ECE
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION SOCIETY
CHAIRPERSON Ms.SANDHYA BHARGAVI H IV ECE
VICE-CHAIRPERSON Ms.PRIYA THARSSHINI S III ECE
TREASURER Ms.MONICA G III ECE
SECRETARY Ms.SRI HARSHITHA M K IV ECE
JOINT SECRETARY Ms.AISHWARYA S III ECE
IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY
CHAIRPERSON Mr.SARAVANAN M S IV ECE
VICE-CHAIRPERSON Mr.VINOTH K III ECE
SECRETARY Mr.LOKESH KUMAR R IV ECE
JOINT SECRETARY Mr.VARUN KUMARAN S III ECE
WOMEN IN ENGINEERING
CHAIRPERSON Ms.RIA N P IV ECE
VICE-CHAIRPERSON Ms.MAHA LAKSHMI S III EEE
SECRETARY Ms.ROJA A III EEE
JOINT SECRETARY Ms.ABILASHA R III ECE
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AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Dr. M.P.Chitra receives the Best Student Branch award of the year 2014 from Dr. Kumarappan, Secretary, IEEE Madras Section
Mr. M.Arun receives the Best Student Branch award of the year 2015 from Dr. N.R.Alamelu, Chair IEEE Madras Section
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Mr. M.Arun receives the Student Branch Counselor award of the year 2015 from Dr. Atmanand,Chair Elect., IEEE Madras Section
Mr. M.Arun, Assistant professor ECE is designated as Editor of IEEE News Letter,
Madras Section.
M.S.Saravanan, of ECE 2012- 2016 Batch received IEEE Best Student Branch Chair
Award for the year 2015 from IEEE Madras Section.
A Khadar Shareef, J Ranjith Kumar, C Arvind and P Vivek Anand of ECE 2011- 2015
Batch Won the Third Prize at All IEEE Young Engineers Humanitarian Challenge
(AIYEHUM) 2014 for their project “Accident Prevention Using Intelligent Breaking”.
S.G.Niranjan Ramanan, S.Manish of ECE 2010- 2014 Batch Won student project award
at IEEE Student Project funding 2013-2014 for their Project titled “Full Home
Automation Using Arduino And Ethernet”.
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FUNDS RECEIVED
IEEE Madras section Best student Branch award with cash prize of Rs.10,000/- for the
year 2015.
IEEE Madras section sanctioned a sum of Rs.10,000/- as a grant for the event Workshop
on National Level Network Security Championship during the year 2015.
IEEE Madras section sanctioned a sum of Rs.3,000/- as a grant for the event Workshop
on Network Simulation Tools NS2 & NS3 during the year 2015.
IEEE Madras section Best student Branch award with cash prize of Rs. 1,000/- for the
year 2014.
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ACTIVITIES
JANUARY 2014
SHORT TERM COURSE ON DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
USING MATLAB – SIMULATION SOFTWARE
Short term course on “DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING USING MATLAB –
SIMULATION SOFTWARE” for Third Year ECE students during 06th
to 10th
JANUARY
2014. The topics covered included: Basics of Image Processing, Image Enhancement,
Compression, Restoration & Segmentation Techniques and Image Processing using MATLAB. In
addition, the participants were given hands-on training using MATLAB. The Short Term Course
attracted 148 participants who felt it extremely beneficial and gained knowledge on image
processing and to write programs for various Image processing applications using MATLAB.
PIT- IEEE Student Branch in association with department of ECE & EEE Organized a series of
Events for the development of students and to bring out their talents.
TECH QUIZ
About 50 students attended the quiz prelims held on 8th January 2014 from which 6 teams were
short listed for the second round & among which two teams were selected for the Final. The
finalist underwent through three levels of quizzing which covered almost all the possible fields in
engineering. The winners of the contest were: N.P.Ria, H.Sandhya Bhargavi, R.M Premihaa of
II Year ECE.
CIRCUIT DEBUGGING
“Circuit debugging” contest was held on 22nd
January 2014 to tap the hidden talent of IEEE
students. 10 teams responded to the call of the event. The contestants who won in the contest were:
N.P.Ria, H.Sandhya Bhargavi, R.M Premihaa of II Year ECE.
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PAPER PRESENTATION
Paper Presentation contest held on 23rd
January 2014 to unleash the potential of the IEEE
student members. Out of seven papers presented, the paper presented by P. Vivek Anand,
C.Arvind, J.Ranjith Kumar and A.Khadar Shareef of third year ECE on “Accident Prevention
Using Intelligent Breaking” won the best innovative paper award.
BASIC C, C++ & APTITUDE QUIZ
Basic C, C++ & Aptitude Quiz contest for IEEE students on 29/01/2014 to provide the students
an opportunity to showcase their skills & assess how strong they are in aptitude, C and C++. A
total of 20 teams participated in this quiz and P.Sangeetha, P.Lavanya of third year ECE along
with G.Hima Bindu , M.Rajasumapriya of second year ECE bagged the first prize.
WORKSHOP ON MSP 430 & ARDUINO MICROCONTROLLER
Workshop on “MSP 430 & ARDUINO MICROCONTROLLER” was conducted for Third
Year ECE students during 20th
to 24th
JANUARY 2014. Workshop gave an in-depth introduction
into MSP430 basics. The hands-on workshop provided lab exercises how to program any MSP430
device. Also the workshop helped students learn the principles associated with Arduino hardware
and software. Emphasis is given to applied knowledge of the principles by exposing the students
to live working projects.
SHORT TERM COURSE ON ANALOG SYSTEM DESIGN USING
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS ASLKV 2010 STARTER KIT
Short term course (STC) on “Analog system Design Using Texas Instruments ASLKV 2010
STARTER KIT” for second Year ECE students during 20th
to 24th
JANUARY 2014.
STC exposed the students to the world of analog from system design perspective. The course
enabled the student to understand and address the challenges as a system designer. Course helped
the students learn that as a system designer how they would reason out the right integrated circuit
for the right application and also take decisions on how the system level cost or power or
performance can be optimized and perform tradeoffs of various design parameters.
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FEBRUARY 2014
WORKSHOP ON ROBOTRYST
National level Robotics Workshop and competition (ROBOTRYST – 2014) with IIT Delhi
during 14th
& 15th
February 2014 , to provide knowledge about robotics among students and
make them develop robots on their own. During the workshop ‘Robo Kits’ were provided by
sponsors free of cost.
Inaugural Function ROBOTRYST – 2014
Session at ROBOTRYST – 2014
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NOBICOM ’14 –ECE & VYUHA’14 – EEE TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM
National level technical symposium of ECE & EEE department “NOBICOM ’14 & VYUHA’14”
held on 15th
February 2014. Dr.M.P. Chitra, HOD/ECE welcomed the gathering and introduced
the Chief Guest, T. Jayanthy, Principal Panimalar Institute of Technology delivered the
presidential Address.
Mr.P.Subramanian, Secretary, IEEE Communication Society Chennai,
Inaugurated the symposium and released the souvenir. During his inaugural address he highlighted
the importance of innovative thinking and the power of novel ideas. He also stressed on how IEEE
forum empowers the student community.
The symposium, which witnessed a participation of over 200 students from various
engineering colleges, included the following events: Paper Presentation, Project Exhibition, Circuit
Debugging, Quiz and Spot Events. The program ended with distribution of certificates to the
winners and vote of thanks was rendered by Dr.S.Sankar, HOD/EEE.
SEMINAR ON POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND MODULATION
OF SIGNALS IN POWER SYSTEM
A Seminar on “Power Quality Improvement and Modulation of Signals in Power
System” held on 25/02/2014. Dr. T. Jayanthy, Principal Panimalar Institute of Technology
delivered the Presidential Address and explained about the importance of Power Quality
Improvement.Dr. S.Sankar, HOD/EEE, Panimalar Institute of Technology delivered the seminar
and spoke on the crux of the seminar. He also explained different ways by which power is
generated and various demand for Power Quality Improvement and Modulation of Signals in
Power System.About 100 students attended the seminar. Mr.M.Arun,Assistant Professor ECE /
Student Branch Counselor IEEE delivered the Vote of thanks.
SEMINAR ON 4G TECHNOLOGIES
A Seminar on “4G Technologies” held on 26/02/2014. Dr. T. Jayanthy, Principal Panimalar
Institute of Technology rendered the Presidential Address and explained about Recent Trends and
development in the field of Mobile communication and scope in that field. Dr.M.P. Chitra
, HOD/ECE, Panimalar Institute of technology delivered the seminar and briefed about various
terminologies in 4G Technologies and its working. About 100 students with ceaseless curiosity
attended the seminar. Mr.M.Arun, Student Branch Counselor IEEE thanked the gathering.
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MARCH 2014
EXTEMPORE & GROUP DISCUSSION
PIT- IEEE Student Branch in association with department of ECE & EEE Organized a
“Extempore & Group Discussion ” contest for IEEE students held on 18th
March 2014.
About 50 students participated in Extempore talked on various topics like Advantages of Co-
education , Examinations - has it killed education , Privatization of Higher Education , Films are corrupting
the Indian Youth & Is Leaders Born or are they made in Business Schools?
Group Discussion on Nuclear Power Plant (Kudankulam) In India Boon or Bane was
conducted and students debated both pros & cons of it. Finally they concluded that rather than
Nuclear Power plants we can go for alternate sources like Renewable Energy.
PROJECT CONTEST’ 14
IEEE student branch conducted Project Contest the function on 22nd
of March 2014.
10 projects from various fields of VLSI, Image Processing, Embedded System and Robotics were
exhibited. The project titled “Brain Computer Interface(Processing of Bio Neural Signals)” by
B.Lavakumar, T.Arulmani of Final year ECE won the First Prize.
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MAY 2014
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIVE & EMERGING
TRENDS IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
National Conference on Innovative & Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology was
organized by Dept. of ECE ,EEE,CSE,IT& MECH on 6th
May 2014.
The conference focused on research frontiers in various domains & provided vibrant opportunities
for the delegates to exchange new ideas,application experiences, the practical challenges
encountered and to establish research relations thereby enabling to find global partners for future
collaboration.
Principal Dr. T.Jayanthy, welcomed the gathering. Director Mr.Sakthi Kumar,PIT felicitated the
Chief Guest and delivered the presidential address with a brief introduction about the conference &
pointed out that such conferences would ignite a spark in the minds of budding engineers and they
would be triggered to explore more in the areas of their interest
The conf. was inaugurated by Shri.P.Kanagavel, Scientist and Unit Chief I/C, Information
Training and Commercial Services, Center for Wind Energy Technology, Chennai.& Dr. P A
Manoharan, Robotics & Automation (Chair),IEEE student Project (Chair).,EEE Madras section.
The conference sessions had a series of invited presentations.
Shri.P.Kanagavel, Dr. P A Manoharan, Mr.Sakthi Kumar, Dr. T.Jayanthy
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JULY 2014
SHORT TERM COURSE ON LABVIEW & ITS APPLICATION
IEEE student branch in association with department of ECE conducted the Short term course
(STC) on “LABVIEW & ITS APPLICATION” from 07.07.2014 -11.07.2014 for Third year
students of ECE Department. The STC focused on how to use LABVIEW software for various
applications. Demonstration of the Real Time applications & Image processing concepts using
LABVIEW was conducted.
SHORT TERM COURSE ON PCB DESIGN
Short term course on “PCB DESIGN” was conducted from 07.07.2014 -11.07.2014 for Second
year students of ECE Department. The STC focused on designing a circuit in a PCB. The
information imparted by them will be useful for the students to progress with the ideas rendered by
them in their projects.
WORKSHOP ON EMBEDDED SYSTEM
Workshop on Embedded System was conducted by Department of ECE in association with IEEE
student branch and EPR labs, Chennai for third year ECE students during 23.7.2014 - 25.07.2014.
Mr. Khadar Shareef A, Student Branch Chairman welcomed the gathering. Our H.O.D.
Dr.M.P.Chitra, delivered the inaugural address & elucidated the importance of organizing a skill
development program.
The Workshop included importance of learning Embedded System, basics on Microprocessors and
Microcontrollers, Programming on Assembly level and C language, Practical sessions on Traffic
Light Controller , Sensors, Matrix & Scrolling displays, GSM & GPS modules for doing a project.
Mr. M.Arun, Student Branch Counselor delivered the vote of thanks.
WORKSHOP ON BASIC ELECTRONICS
Workshop on Basic Electronics have been organized for II year ECE students from July 31 to
August 5, 2014. Mr. Rajamanikam, from Shri Gemni Kits & Spare, has highlighted the
application of Electronics in industrial sectors and hands on sessions were also conducted to equip
the students practically.
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AUGUST 2014
SHORT TERM COURSE ON APPLICATION OF POWER ELECTRONICS
USING MAT LAB (SIMULINK)
IEEE student branch PIT in association with department of EEE conducted the Short term course
(STC) on “Application of Power Electronics using MAT LAB (Simulink)” from 04.08.2014 -
08.08.2014 for Third year EEE students. The STC focused on how to use MATLAB software for
various applications of Power Electronics was conducted.
SEPTEMBER 2014
GROUP DISCUSSION & EXTEMPORE
On behalf of our Entrepreneurship Cell, in association with IIT-Bombay & IEEE –PIT SB, we
have conducted the following events so far.
A Group Discussion & Extempore on Entrepreneurship have been conducted on September 5,
2014.
Group Discussion 5.9.2014
Seminar on Entrepreneurship - September 10,2014.
Ms.Indira and Ms. PriyaTharsshini, of 2nd
year ECE, presented a seminar on
“Entrepreneurship”. In their presentation, they explained about the Entrepreneurship,
Characteristics & Planning of an entrepreneur, life history of various entrepreneurs etc. Our
Principal Dr.T.Jayanthy and our H.O.D Dr. M.P.Chitra, has appreciated the presenters, for their
efficient way of describing the entrepreneurship.
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OCTOBER 2014
QUIZ CONTEST
A Quiz contest have been organized and cash awards have been distributed to the winners on
October 8,2014.
Quiz contest 8.10.2014
CLEAN INDIA CAMPAIGN
4.As a part of SWACHH BHARAT campaign , which was initiated by our Honorable Prime
Minister Mr.Narendra Modi , our college conducted ‘Clean India Campaign’ under the
guidance of our Director Mr.C.Sakthi Kumar on October 20, 2014.
Clean India Campaign 20.10.2014
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ICT TALK
PIT - IEEE Communication Society have organized “ICT TALK” for Faculty members of ECE
department on 20th
Octeber 2014.
The event was conducted to emphasize the importance of Information and Communication
Technological development in the field of Medicine. Dr.M.P.Chitra, HOD welcomed the
gathering. There were presentations on various topics like Mobile Phone in Medicine, Tele
Medicine , Lasik Surgery, Bionic Eye etc,.
NOVEMBER 2014
INAUGURATION OF IEEE-COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY
STUDENT BRANCH CHAPTER -PIT
Inauguration of IEEE-Communications Society Student Branch Chapter -PIT was held on the 06th
of November 2014 at the Conference Hall, Panimalar Institute of Technology by Er. S. Balaji,
Sr. Engineer, BSNL, Chennai
Welcome address was delivered by Dr.M.P.Chitra, Head of department of ECE. Dr. T.Jayanthy,
Principal ,PIT felicitated the function with a brief introduction about of the chief guests.
Mr. M.Arun, AP/ECE, Student branch chapter advisor introduced Communications Society
Chapter with the list of office bearers.
Er. S. Balaji, Sr. Engineer, BSNL inaugurated the PIT IEEE Communications Society chapter
and addressed the gathering. During his speech, he briefly explained about student benefits and
exposed the student resources available at platform of IEEE. He also mentioned importance of
being part of any IEEE society and how it may help us in our future endearments.
Dr.t.Janthy, Sr.Balaji, Dr.MP.Chitra and Dr.M.Prem Kumar
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FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ON
RECENT TRENDS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Panimalar Institute of
Technology in association with PIT- IEEE Communication Society- SB chapter organized a
Faculty Development Program on “Recent Trends in Wireless Communication
Technologies” during November 6-7, 2014 .
Dr.M.P.Chitra, Head, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering welcomed the
gathering. Dr. T.Jayanthy, Principal, felicitated the Chief Guest and delivered the presidential
address with a brief introduction about the FDP, the Speakers and the topics. Er. S. Balaji,
Sr. Engineer, BSNL, Chennai, Inaugurated the programme & delivered a lecture on Recent
Trends in Wireless Communication. Dr.M.Premkumar, Associate Professor, ECE Department
and Coordinator Faculty Development Programme, delivered the vote of Thanks.
The program had lectures by Er. S. Balaji, Sr. Engineer, BSNL, Chennai, Dr.R.S.Ponmagal,
Professor CSE Dept, Dr.M.G.R Educational and Research Institute University,
Dr.M.Premkumar, Associate Professor , Mr.S.Ganesh, Associate Professor, Mrs.V.Jeya
Ramya, Assistant Professor, Mrs.R.Prathipa, Assistant Professor, Mr.J.Venkatesan, Assistant
Professor, Mr.J.Navarajan, Assistant Professor from ECE Dept ,Panimalar Institute of
Technology.
The topics covered during FDP were Recent trends in Wireless Communication Technologies
overview , Wireless products-Transceivers ,Smart phones, Smart Antennas Tablets,iPads , Big
Data Analytics in Wireless, Modulation Schemes, Spread Spectrum Systems, RF for Wireless
Technologies .
Hand on session - MATLAB - Simulation of Wireless channels, Modulation schemes MIMO
Technology were conducted by Dr.M.Premkumar, Associate Professor, Mrs.S.Sathyapriya,
Associate Professor & Mr. M.Arun, Assistant Professor ECE Dept, Panimalar Institute of
Technology.
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Er. S. Balaji delivering a lecture to the Gathering
DECEMBER 2014
PITCHING WORKSHOP
IEEE –SB in association with Department of ECE conducted a pitching workshop for the young
interested person who longs to be an entrepreneur. Ms.Indira, Vice Chairman IEEE
Communication Society SB and Ms. PriyaTharsshini ,Vice Chairman IEEE Robotics and
Automation Society SB PIT delivered the talk on needs for pitching workshop and to develop their
inherit talent to become a successful entrepreneur. Mr. M.Arun, IEEE Student Branch Counselor
delivered the Vote of thanks and appreciated the presenters, for their efficient way of describing
the Pitching Workshop.
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Ms.Indira and Ms. PriyaTharsshini delivers the talk on pitching.
CAMPAIGN ON HUMAN RIGHTS
IEEE –SB & Entrepreneurship Development Cell of Panimalar Institute of Technology in
Collaboration with NGO NALVIDHAIGAL organized a Campaign on Human Rights on
International Human Rights day DEC 10, 2014. All IEEE students actively participated and
insisted the Rights of Human. Mr.VIVEKANAND, IEEE –SB Vice Chair Headed the Rally.
Mr.Vivekanand , IEEE –SB Vice Chair Addresses During the Rally.
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FACULTY DEVELOPMENT TRAINING PROGRAMME ON EC 6402 -
COMMUNICATION THEORY
The Department of ECE & IEEE SB, Panimalar Institute of Technology has conducted seven days
Faculty Development Training Programme (FDTP) in “EC 6402 - Communication Theory” for
faculty members of Engineering colleges during December 4-12, 2014. This FDTP has been
approved by center for faculty Development, Anna University, Chennai. There were about 21
Participants all over Tamil Nadu attended and Gained Knowledge about the subject with practical
Examples. Dr.M.P.Chitra,HOD/ECE delivered the vote of thanks.
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INAUGURATION OF IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING,
ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION SOCIETY – SB
Inaugural function of IEEE Signal Processing & Robotics and Automation Society – SB PIT was
held on December 15, 2014 at the Conference Hall, Panimalar Institute of Technology by
Mr.C.Sakthi Kumar, Director Panimalar Institute of Technology & Dr. Lakshmi Narasimhan
,Professor Computer Science Department, East Carolina University, USA . He is invited through
ACM Distinguished Speaker Program.
Dr.M.P.Chitra, Head ECE delivered the Welcome address. Dr. T.Jayanthy, Principal, PIT
delivered the Presidential address with a brief introduction about the chief guest.
Mr. M.Arun, AP/ECE, Student branch chapter advisor introduced the office bearers of IEEE
Signal Processing & Robotics & Automation Society – SB and concluded with the vote of thanks
by Mrs. H.Sandhya Bhargavi Chairman Signal Processing society.
Mr.C.Sakthi Kumar, Director Panimalar Institute of Technology & Dr. Lakshmi Narasimhan ,Professor Computer Science Department, East
Carolina University, USA Inaugurates the Society.
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GUEST LECTURE ON EMBEDDED COMPUTING SYSTEMS
The Department of ECE & EEE, Panimalar Institute of Technology in association with ACM,
IEEE-SB, IEEE-RSA,IEEE-CS has conducted a guest lecture on Embedded Computing Systems
on December 15,2014 which was delivered by Dr.Lakshmi Narasimhan , Professor ,
Computer Science Department , East Carolina University, USA.
Professor Dr. Lakshmi Narasimhan first enquired students regarding various real time
applications of embedded systems before proceeding with Embedded Computing Systems. During
his expert lecture he shared about the advantage of using electronic toothbrush operated with small
motor. Then he discussed about the various applications of the embedded systems in which a brief
explanation on its applications in automobile industry was explained. Many interesting facts made
students to feel the impact of embedded systems which has created in the present scenario. Mr.
M.Arun, Student Branch Counselor delivered the vote of thanks.
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SEMINAR ON BUSINESS ENGLISH CERTIFICATE COURSE
Department of ECE & ENGLISH in association with IEEE-SB Panimalar Institute of Technology organized
a one day seminar on BUSINESS ENGLISH CERTIFICATION COURSE. Dr.M.P.Chitra HOD/ ECE
welcomed the gathering. Principal Dr. T.Jayanthy felicitated and introduced the Chief Guest
Mr.JOSHUA, from University of Cambridge to the gathering. The Seminar focused on creating
awareness about the significance of Business English in workplace. Mr. Joshua, University of Cambridge
interacted with the students focusing on the need and significance of Business English in today’s Global
scenario. The specialty of this course not only ends with the dream job, but also acts as a helping hand to
crack all the competitive exams like GATE, GMAT, TOEFL, GRE etc. on the whole. Mr. Joshua made
students to realize how BEC could play a vital role in every graduate’s life to make a way for their
successful career.
ICTACT YOUTH TECHKNOW SUMMIT 2015
IEEE SB, Panimalar Institute of Technology & Panimalar Engineering College in association with
ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu academy organized a ICTACT YOUTH TECHKNOW SUMMIT
2015 on January 9 – 2015.
ICTACT Youth Technology Summit 2015 brought together graduating students in the state of Tamil Nadu
who are aspiring to become the next generation IT Professionals and Innovators. ICTACT Youth
Technology Summit is a part of this initiative that reaches out to the students of the ICT streams on creating
awareness on the new technology development, innovation and opportunities for students in the ICT Sector.
ICTACT Youth Technology Summit 2015 is supported by Oracle.
This one day conference brought together 2000 students from Engineering colleges and Science Colleges
across the state. The conference was power packed with technical sessions which provided inputs to
graduating students on various new technology topics, advanced technology skills required by students,
technology development in Industry, future technology and many more. The conference focused on the next
generation ICT technologies and newer ICT methodologies including the following: Internet of Things,
Industrial Internet, The Smart digital world, Big Data Analytics,Mobility,The Future of Cloud,Power of
Social Media,Newer Business Models with SMAC,Skills for Future, and Entrepreneurship by Various
Speakers from Oracle Academy.
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GUEST LECTURE ON 6 MYTHS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
IEEE- SB, Department of ECE Panimalar Institute of Technology in association with Entrepreneurship
Cell, IIT Bombay organized Pre- E Summit 15 on January 10-2015. In a best way of getting geared up for
the E-SUMMIT ’15, we had this pre E-Summit on the 10th January, 2015in our college premises. It was
indeed a source of pride for all of us to have a successful entrepreneur Mr.Venkatesan, Oosur Vinayagam
chief technologist and the co-founder of Hexolabs Private Limited, to grace the occasion with his inspiring
thoughts. He delivered a lecture on “6 MYTHS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP”. It had been a very stirring
speech and all of us had the spark of becoming a successful Entrepreneur one day. “Entrepreneurs are
THINKERS!!”… This was the statement quoted by Mr.Venkat which proved to be very appealing for all
who were present during the meet.
Mr.VenkatesanOosurVinayagam Delivers the Lecture
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SHORT TERM COURSE ON IMAGE PROCESSING & ITS
APPLICATIONS USING MATLAB – SIMULATION SOFTWARE
PIT IEEE SB & IEEE Signal Processing Society in association with Department of ECE conducted the
Short term course on “DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING & ITS APPLICATIONS USING MATLAB
& LABVIEW” for Third Year ECE students during 19th
to 23rd
January 2015. The topics covered
included: Basics of Image Processing, Image Enhancement, Compression, Restoration & Segmentation
Techniques and Image Processing. In addition, the participants were given hands-on training using
MATLAB & LABVIEW. The Short Term Course attracted about more than 200 participants who felt it
extremely beneficial and gained knowledge on image processing and to write programs for various Image
processing applications.
WORKSHOP ON EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Workshop on “Embedded Systems” was conducted for Third Year ECE students during 22.1.15 &
23.1.15. Mr.Parthipan, Manager EPR labs conducted the workshop. The workshop focused on
programming Embedded System processor with few real Time applications. About 215 Students
participated enthusiastically and gained the knowledge.
STUDENTS EVENTS
PIT- IEEE Student Branch, SP, RAS & Communication Society, in association with department of
ECE & EEE organized a series of Events for the development of students and to bring out their talents.
EVENT
Chart Making event on 21st Jan 2015. Out of 50 charts received 10 were selected for final round
Presentation. The winners of the event were:
Prize Name of the Students Year & Branch
I MONICA G II ECE
II SHAFEEKHA FATHIMA S II ECE
III NIVEDA B II ECE
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MODEL MAKING
Model making event on 21/01/2015. There were about 20 Models received. Models designed on various
aspects of technology like MINI Robot, IC, Satellite, etc., became inspiration for many.
Prize Name of the Students
Year &
Branch MODEL
I
ARUL PANDI R,MAGESHAA G, SANJEEV
B III ECE MINI ROBOT
SRINIVASAN L,HARISH KUMAR A ,BEN
SHERWIN N,MOHAN RAJ M S III ECE
SPACE
SATELLITE
II
SHALINI V II ECE IC 555 TIMER
SHYLI M,LAKSHMI R,DEEPA T III ECE SATELLITE
GENERAL QUIZ
General Quiz Contest on 22nd
Jan 2015. There were about 75 students took part in the prelims among them
12 were selected for the second round and 3 for the finals. Round 1 questions were on India’s History
greatness and rich culture; Round 2 an audio video round; “Gadget Guru” — questions based on science
and technology; Mixed bag – on personality or a concept hidden behind the Hangman puzzle; and Rapid-
fire round — a set of questions to be answered in 45 seconds.The winners of the event were:
Prize Name of the Students Year & Branch
I SHARMILA II EEE
II ARUTCHELVI P III ECE
III SHAMI SELES.M II ECE
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CIRCUIT DEBUGGING
Circuit debugging contest was held on 27th
January 2015 to tap the hidden talent of IEEE students. 14
teams responded to the call of the event. The contestants who won in the contest were:
Prize Name of the Students Year & Branch
I NAVEENKUMAR V,JAYARAM
R,PRADEEPKUMAR V II ECE
II INDIRA E , NAVEENA PREETHA.M ,
JERLIN
II ECE &
II EEE
III SHALINI V,NIVEDA B,SUJITHA.S II ECE
TECHNICAL QUIZ CONTEST
Technical Quiz contest on 29th
January 2015.About 25 students attended the quiz prelims from which
4 teams were short listed for the Final round. The finalist underwent through three levels of quizzing
which covered almost all the possible fields in engineering. The winners of the contest were
Prize Name of the Students Year & Branch
I REDDIVARI SAI SARAN, VELAGAPUDI
DEEPAK II ECE
II
SHALINI V , NIVEDA B II ECE
AISHWARYA S , NAVEENA
PREETHA.M II ECE
III PRADEEPKUMAR V, SUNDARJI A II ECE
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FEBRAURY 2015
SHORT TERM COURSE ON ANALOG SYSTEM DESIGN USING TEXAS
INSTRUMENTS ASLKV 2010 STARTER KIT
PIT IEEE SB & IEEE Signal Processing Society in association with Department of ECE conducted the
Short term course (STC) on “Analog system Design Using Texas Instruments ASLKV 2010 STARTER
KIT” for second Year ECE students during 02nd
to 06th
February 2015.STC exposed the students to the
world of analog from system design perspective. The course enabled the student to understand and address
the challenges as a system designer. Course helped the students learn that as a system designer how they
would reason out the right integrated circuit for the right application and also take decisions on how the
system level cost or power or performance can be optimized and perform tradeoffs of various design
parameters.
WORKSHOP ON NATIONAL LEVEL NETWORK
SECURITY CHAMPIONSHIP-2015
PIT IEEE SB, PIT IEEE Communication Society & Department of ECE organized a National
LevelNetwork Security Championship-2015 in coordination with IIT-Bombay & IEEE Madras Section
on February 6&7, 2015. Event was founded with Rs. 10,000 by IEEE Madras section. Dr.M.P.Chitra,
HOD ECE delivered the Welcome address. Dr.T.Jayanthy, Principal, PIT delivered the Presidential
address. Mr.M.S.Saravanan, Chairman IEEE Student Branch PIT introduced the chief guest Mr.Manish
Kumar TyagiSenior Network Design and Support Engineer in Network Bulls Pvt. Ltd. to the gathering.
Event started with the lectures on all the basics of Networking, creating networks, configuring CISCO
routers and switches. Followed by hands on session using software’s like Packet Tracer,GNS and Wire
shark. There were about 125 participants in and around Tamil Nadu Attended the event.
Ms.K.Priyadharshni of Sri ManakulaVinayagar Engineering College emerged as the Winner and will
participate in Round II at IIT BOBMBAY. Ms.R.M.Premihaa, Vice Chairman IEEE Student Branch PIT
delivered the Vote of Thanks.
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Mr.Manish Kumar Tyagi delivers the Lecture
ORIENTATION PROGRAM
As a part of membership drive for the year 2015, our SB conducted an Orientation program for the newly
joined IEEE students. It was organized by the IEEE SB counselor Mr. M. Arun and was conducted by
Mr.M.S. Saravanan, SB Chairman.
About 80 students attended the programme. Mr.M.S. Saravanan briefed about IEEE and its structure —R10,
India Council, Madras Section in general and about IEEE student branch in particular. The benefits of
having an IEEE membership were highlighted. The activities of IEEE SB , IEEE CS, RAS, SP Society and
WIE SB affinity groups were explained to the members. The awards and contests within our SB, regional
and IEEE HQ level were briefed to the members.
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NOBICOM ’15 –ECE TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM
National level technical symposium of ECE department NOBICOM ’15 held on 07th
February 2015.
Dr.M.P. Chitra, HOD/ECE welcomed the gathering and introduced the Chief Guest. Dr. T. Jayanthy,
Principal PIT delivered the presidential Address. Er.S.Ramaswamy, Chairman, IETE Chennai Center,
Inaugurated the symposium and released the souvenir. During his inaugural address he highlighted the
importance of innovative thinking and the power of novel ideas. He also stressed on how IEEE forum
empowers the student community.
Er.S.Ramaswamy, Chairman, IETE Chennai Center. Releases Magazine.
SEMINAR ON BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
A Seminar on “Broadband Wireless Communication” held on 19/02/2015.Dr. T. Jayanthy, Principal
rendered the Presidential Address and explained about Recent Trends and development in the field of
communication and scope in that field.
Dr. M.PremKumar, Professor ECE delivered the seminar and discussed the recent technological
developments in the field of Wireless Communication. During his Talk he also insisted students to use the
technology for good cause. About 100 students attended the seminar.
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SEMINAR ON SYSTEM STABILITY IMPROVEMENT
USING FACTS DEVICES IN POWER SYSTEM
A Seminar on “System Stability Improvement Using Facts Devices in Power System” held on
20/02/2015. Mr.M.Padmarasan, Assistant Prof., EEE delivered the seminar and spoke on the Concept,
History / Background - Origin of FACTS, Opportunities, Trends System Architectures and Limitations &
Power Flow Control on AC Systems with Application Studies and Implementation. Basic Switching
Devices, Conditioners, Specification, Cost Considerations and Technology Trends& Impact of FACTS in
interconnected networks .About 100 students attended the seminar.
SEMINAR ON COGNITIVE RADIO
A Seminar on “Cognitive Radio” held on 26/02/2015. .Dr.M.P. Chitra , HOD/ECE, delivered the
seminar and briefed about various terminologies in Cognitive Radio that includes History ,Terminology &
Technology ,its Functions, Cognitive radio (CR) versus intelligent antenna (IA) Applications, Simulation of
CR Networks & Future plans and its working. About 100 students with ceaseless curiosity attended the
seminar. Mr.M.Arun, Student Branch Counselor IEEE thanked the gathering.
STUDENTS EVENTS
PIT- IEEE Student Branch, SP, RAS & Communication Society, in association with department of
ECE & EEE Organized a series of Events for the development of students and to bring out their talents.
PAPER PRESENTATION
Paper Presentation contest held on 17th
& 18th
February 2015 to unleash the potential of the student. Out
of 28 papers presented, the paper presented by P.Dhatchineswari & T.Deepa of third year ECE on
“Wireless Sensor Networks” won the best paper award.
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GROUP DISCUSSION
Group Discussion on 26th
February 2015. Students were divided into two groups & the topic for the
discussion was Education system in India. Students debated both pros & cons of it. Finally they concluded
that there should be drastic change in Education system to make Students highly competitive to Real time
Industry ready.
Prize Name of the Students Year & Branch
I
USHA T II ECE
NAVEENA PREETHA.M II ECE
II
AATHIRAI.P II ECE
ANMOL A MEHRA II ECE
AISHWARYA S II ECE
III UMA MAHESWARI P II ECE
EXTEMPORE
About 50 students participated in Extempore talked on various topics like Swachh Bharat, Advantages of
Co-education ,Land Acquisition Bill, Examinations - has it killed education , Privatization of Higher
Education , Films are corrupting the Indian Youth & Is Leaders Born or are they made in Business Schools?
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MARCH 2015
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
The WIE Affinity Group of IEEE PIT Student Branch in collaboration with ECE department celebrated
International Women’s Day on 9th March, 2015. The event saw more than hundred women staff and girl
students of the college participating in the event.
Dr.M.P.Chitra, Prof & Head ECE & Branch Adviser WIE PIT delivered the presidential Address. In Her
address she contrasted the women of present times to the women of earlier times and analyzed how the
present day women have managed to overcome so many barriers by making a constant effort to follow their
heart and manage their restrictions. Dr. T. Jayanthy, Principal was the chief guest. She preceded the
function and shared some of her experiences with the audience. She emphasized the difficulties faced by the
women in today’s world and motivated the women staff and students to believe in themselves. This was
then followed by various competitions like Quiz, Connections, Gaming for the Students who took part.
Ms.N.P.Ria, III ECE & WIE SB Chairman, Handed over the Memento to all the participants &delivered
the Vote of Thanks.
APTITUDE & C CONTEST
Aptitude & C Contest on 17th
March 2015. About 25 students attended the quiz prelims from which 6
teams were short listed for the Final round. The finalist underwent through two rounds which included
Rapid fire round and Error detection round. The winners of the contest were
Prize Name of the Students
Year &
Branch
I GAYATHRI B II ECE
DHURGA PRIYA S II ECE
II JAYARAM R II ECE
NAVEENKUMAR V II ECE
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PROJECT CONTEST’ 15
IEEE student branch conducted Project Contest the function on 21st of March 2015. 10 projects from
various fields of VLSI, Image Processing, Embedded System and Robotics were exhibited. The project
titled “Safety and rescue assist technology” by A.KHADARSHAREEF, YUVARAJ and RANJITH
KUMAR of Final year ECE won the First Prize.
WORKSHOP ON CIRCUIT SIMULATION
Workshop on “CIRCUIT SIMULATION” was organized on 23.2.15 for II Year IEEE Members.
Mr.M.S.Saravanan Chairman IEEE Student branch Panimalar institute of Technology conducted the
workshop. About 50 students participated. Students learnt how to use the circuit maker & they designed few
real time circuits using the software. Emphasis is given to applied knowledge of the principles by exposing
the students to live working projects.
WORKSHOP ON ARDUINO
Workshop on “ARDUINO” was organized on 29.3.15 for IEEE Members. Mr.Khader Shariff Student
branch Advisor conducted the workshop. About 80 students participated. Also the workshop helped
students learn the principles associated with Arduino hardware and software. Students had hands on training
session and were trained to program how to control things like lights or motors along with listening to
components like motion detection sensors.
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APRIL 2015
GUEST LECTURE ON HIGHER STUDIES AT ABROAD
Guest lecture on “HIGHER STUDIES AT ABROAD” for final year students held on 29th
April 2015.
Ms. PersisNauman & Kripa of Canam Group Chennai conducted the programme and briefed about
various exams for doing higher studies at abroad. They also discussed about Universities, Scholarships
available and Part Time Jobs.
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MAY 2015
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIVE & EMERGING
TRENDS IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
National Conference on Innovative &Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology was organized
by Dept. of ECE, EEE, CSE, IT& MECH on 14th, May 2015. The conference focused on research frontiers
in various domains & provided vibrant opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas, application
experiences, the practical challenges encountered and to establish research relations thereby enabling to find
global partners for future collaboration.
Principal Dr. T.Jayanthy, welcomed the gathering &felicitated the Chief Guest. Shri H.R .Mohan Chair
IEEE Computer Society inaugurated the conference and delivered the key note address.
The conference sessions had a series of invited presentations.
ShriH.R.Mohan Released the Conference Proceedings
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NETWORK SIMULATION TOOLS NS2 & NS3
PIT IEEE SB & IEEE Signal Processing Society in association with Department of ECE conducted the
WORKSHOP ON NETWORK SIMULATION TOOLS NS2 & NS3 on 21st and 22
nd MAY 2015. The
topics covered included NETWORK SIMULATORS-A EAGLE VIEW FOR DIFFERENT
APPLICATIONS. The use of Network Simulators-2, Installation of NS2, Working with Front End Tools
for NS-2, Protocols for Network simulators, and Analysis for the Different Files formats and taking the
outputs, Application development-By participants.
The analysis of output traces file and tools to draw the output graph from the trace file. Introduction OS
Network Simulator 3, the comparison of NS2 and NS3. Installation of NS3, benefits of NS3. The
participants were given hands-on training on NS2 and NS3.
All the participants felt it extremely beneficial and gained knowledge on NS2 and to write scripts for
various Network applications.
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JUNE 2015
GUEST LECTURE ON COMMUNICATION SKILLS
IEEE student branch organized a guest lecture on Communication Skills. The session was
presided over by Mrs. Sofia Vincent, Assistant Professor, M.B.A., Panimalar Engineering
College on 30th
June 2015. The session covered points on how communication plays a major role
in any sector, the various delicacies in the language and the methods by which our communication
skills can be improved. About 75 students actively participated in this.
APTITUDE TRAINING PROGRAMME
To enhance the aptitude skills of Final year students and make them ready for placements -
Career Development Cell and IEEE-SB of Panimalar institute of technology in association with
Productivity Reach, Bangalore organized a one week Aptitude Training Programme during
22.6.2015-30.6.2015. Training Sessions are supported by elitist experts from Premier Business
Schools.
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JULY 2015
GUEST LECTURE ON HIGHER STUDIES IN ABROAD
IEEE student branch PIT in association with PIT alumni cell arranged a guest lecture on Higher
Studies in Abroad to the students of ECE department on 1st July 2015 for which the speakers
were Mr.Arun Kumar, Perusing MS in Kyungpook National University, South Korea and
Mr.Prem Kumar, Perusing MS in New Jersey Institute of Technology, US. The session gave the
students various insights on how to prepare for doing MS or MBA in abroad and the application
process. This event attracted around 650 students.
GUEST LECTURE ON EXPECTATION OF INDUSTRIES FROM YOUNG
ENGINEERS On 1
st July 2015 a Guest Lecture was conducted on Expectation of Industries from Young
Engineers, by Mr.Ram Prashanth, Embedded Developer, Bosch Automotive Steering,
Coimbatore. The session involved talks on how to prepare to get into the core companies, what
type of skills they need, the prerequisites and other expectations of the industry. This event
attracted around 650 students.
SHORT TERM COURSE ON MATLAB & ITS APPLICATION IN POWER
ELECTRONICS
IEEE student branch in association with department of EEE conducted a Short term course (STC)
on “MATLAB & ITS APPLICATION IN POWER ELECTRONICS” from 02.07.2015 -
24.09.2015 for Third year students of EEE Department. The STC focused on how to use
MATLAB software for various applications. Demonstration of the simulation of converter circuits
using MATLAB was demonstrated.
SHORT TERM COURSE ON ANTENNA DESIGN
Short term course for the final year ECE department students on Antenna Design from 6th
July
2015 to 31st July 2015 was organized by IEEE-SB. The short term course was aimed at students
who are about to do their final year project in the antenna domain. The course discussed on the
design and construction of various antennas.
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SHORT TERM COURSE ON PSPICE
Short term course on “PSPICE” was conducted from 07.07.2015 -22.09.2014 for Second year
students of EEE Department. The STC focused on designing a circuit in a PSPICE. The
information imparted to the students will be useful for them to progress with the ideas rendered by
them in implementing basic circuits using PSPICE.
GUEST LECTURE ON LEARN BY DOING
IEEE Student Branch in association with the Entrepreneurship Development Cell of PIT
organized a guest lecture on LEARN BY DOING on 11th
July 2015. The speaker of the meet was
Mr.Sunilraj Sudhakar, Finance manager FORD Global Business Services on the management
methods. The audience of the session were the EDC members.
SHORT TERM COURSE ON LABVIEW AND ITS APPLICATIONS
A short term course was conducted by IEEE -SB for the Third year ECE department students on
LABVIEW and its applications from 06th
to 31st July 2015.This course introduced the students
to various features of LABVIEW and focused on how to use LABVIEW software for various
applications. Image processing concepts with Real Time applications using LABVIEW was
demonstrated. Around 210 students from ECE attended the short term course.
GUEST LECTURE ON AWARENESS ON CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATIONS IEEE student branch in association with the PIT-CDC organized a guest lecture by Mr.Shankar,
Director of Shankar IAS academy on Awareness on Civil Service Examinations on 14th
July
2015. The session gave the students information about the preparation and pattern of the IAS
examination. The session acted as an eye opener for students who were unsure about their career
path. Around 1350 students attended the event.
SHORT TERM COURSE ON PCB DESIGN
IEEE Student Branch organized a short term course for the Second year ECE department students
on PCB design. This course was conducted from 06th
July 2015 to 31st July 2015. The course
introduced the students to various aspects of PCB design. Around 200 students from ECE attended
the short term course. The information imparted by them will be useful for the students to progress
with the ideas rendered by them in their projects.
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ONLINE APTITTUDE TEST
To bring out the talents from students of final year and to make them practice more aptitude
problems IEEE SB in association with CDC PIT conducts online Aptitude test every Wednesday.
AUGUST 2015
MOCK INTERVIEW
Mock interview was conducted to students to test their interview skills. All the eligible final year
students underwent this programme. At the end of the interview students were provided with
constructive feedback in a low-stress environment.
CAMPUS RECRUITMENT TRAINING WORKSHOP
The Campus Recruitment Training Workshop 2015 in association with PIT CDC, IEEE SB & SEED was
held on 22nd
to 30th
August to give an entropic exposure about the campus interview. During the Training
session the participants were made cognizant about how exactly the interview process goes on. The group
discussions held were enlightening. The participants were taught to prepare resume. A live interview was
conducted to observe and learn a lot. This event helped the students to overcome the fear of facing
interviews and got a right view and spirit towards campus recruitments.
WORKSHOP ON ROBOTICS
Workshop on Robotics was conducted by IEEE Student Branch in two phases for ECE & EEE
students on 12th
August 2015 to 14th
August 2015 and 19th
August 2015 to 21st August 2015. The
workshops involved around 300 students. The students were given the basic knowledge about the
design and construction of the bots, Line follower robots, etc.,.
EnActUs ORIENTATION PROGRAMME
IEEE Student Branch in association with the Entrepreneurship Development Cell of PIT
organized the EnActUs Orientation Programme on 19th
August 2015. The session was presided
over by Ms.Anitha Nallasekaran, Program Manager EnActUs, South, India. The lecture was
aimed at instilling entrepreneurial instincts into young minds.
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WORKSHOP ON RFID-2015
Department of ECE in association with IEEE SB of Panimalar Institute of Technology organized a
Two days workshop on RFID-2015 in coordination with IIT-Madras & Codex Design during
20th
- 21st , August 2015. This workshop mainly focused on RFID Applications. The workshop
covered topics like Features of RFID Systems ,Security of RFID System, Applications &
assembling RFID developing kit , Interfacing card with Reader, Writing a program for RFID based
access and security system, Testing and debugging the RFID based access and security system
program. Around 125 students in and around Tamil Nadu participated and gained knowledge.
SEMINAR ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
IEEE Student Branch in association with the PIT-EDC organized a seminar on Entrepreneurship
Development on 26th
August 2015. The session was handled by Mr.Harish and Mr.Arul
Prabhahar Asst.Managers, from National Small Industries Corporation, Guindy. During their
talk they focused on how to start up a business, run it and to improve it. They also explained
students how NSIC Chennai helps students to become an Entrepreneur.
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SEPTEMBER 2015
ROBOTRON - ROBO RACE
PIT -IEEE Robotics & Automation Society organized Robo-Race competition for students of
second & third year ECE & EEE. It was conducted on 9th
September 2015. The total numbers of
Participants were around 25. Participants were instructed to make Robot and they have to run the
Robot in the racing field.
ROBORACE
DEBATE ON JOB VS ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Debate on Job vs Entrepreneurship was conducted on 11.09.2015. About 30 students participated
in the debate. The students debated the pros & cons of having a job &Entrepreneurship &
highlighted the general psychology of people towards Job and Entrepreneurship.
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DHONI’15 – INVITED TALK ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP
An Invited talk was organized as a part of DHONI’15 Prize distribution ceremony on 19th
September 2015, on Entrepreneurship. The event was presided over by Dr.G.Ravikumar,
Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED), Anna University, Chennai. During his
speech he highlighted how entrepreneurship helps students .The session attracted around 150
students from various departments.
MINI PROJECT CONTEST
IEEE student branch conducted MINI Project Contest on 30th
September 2015. 10 projects
from various fields of VLSI, Image Processing, Embedded System and Robotics were exhibited.
The following students won the prizes in the event.
PROJECT TITLE STUDENTS NAME POSITION YEAR
STUDENTS RECORD USING
C++ AND GRAPHIC
DESIGNS
SAINATH K,MOHAMMED
FARIZ K
GOPINATH K
I
III
FOUR TONE ALISHA CELESTINE.X ,
KAUSALYA.T
NANDHINI PRIYA.M.N ,
INDHUMATHI.J
II
BALL FOLLOWING ROBOT BALAJI T, ARAVIND B,
SUNDARJI A
MANOJKUMAR B,NAVEEN V
II
III
WATER LEVEL INDICATOR
ALARM USING
TRANSISTOR
HARISHBABU T,SHRIRAM S
VAMSI KRISHNA M.
S,JOSEPH MARCIAN M
II
DATA HIDING USING
STEGNOGRAPHY
TECHNIQUE
NAVEEN
KUMAR.V,YOKESH.T
MURUGESAN S
III
III
SOLAR CAR WITH SOLAR
CHARGER
HARINI R , HEMALATHA S
PRIYADARSHINI S III
AUTOMATIC STREET LIGHT
CONTROL SYSTEM
RAMANAN R , SUDHAKARAN
K
VETRIVEL V , RAMESH A
II
BLOW SWITCH AKSHAYA ANAND,
N.CHANDRIKA
S.PRIYANKA
II
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Dr.M.P.Chitra,HOD/ECE & Reviewer of Project contest Reviews the Project
MATLAB CODING CONTEST
PIT -IEEE Signal Processing Society organized MATLAB coding contest for third year students.
It was conducted on 23rd
September 2015. The total numbers of Participants were around 15.
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OCTOBER 2015
IEEE day is special for IEEE members over the world and hence the members of our branch
started to celebrate this day with a lot of zeal and energy. Our activities for IEEE Day aim to make
all of us feel like we belong to a larger community, not just technically, but socially and culturally.
SHARING BENEFITS OF IEEE
Stall has been arranged to explain the benefits of IEEE. Student branch members explained various
ways in which IEEE membership can be used to develop their skills.
INAUGRATION OF IEEE DAY CELEBRATION
IEEE DAY Celebrations was inaugurated by Dr.T.Jayanthy, Principal Panimalar Institute
of Technology. During her Inaugural speech she briefed on the importance and the benefits of
IEEE student membership. She also elaborated on how to access IEEE & tips to do projects.
Dr.M.P.Chitra, IEEE Branch Adviser, HOD /ECE explained in brief about the activities and
awards received by PIT IEEE Student branch. Mr.M.Arun Student Branch counselor briefed about
the activities to be held during IEEE day celebrations. Student and professional members of SB
gathered and shared their achievements among the members.
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Dr.T.Jayanthy, Principal, PIT ,Dr.M.P.Chitra, HOD/ECE, Mr.M.Arun, SB Counselor, during Inaugural function
LECTURE ON IEEE & ITS BENEFITS TO STUDENTS
Mr. S. Ganesh, Professional Member IEEE & Associate Prof. ECE delivered the lecture on
IEEE & Its Benefits to students and society. During his speech he stated how IEEE differs from
other professional societies. How IEEE brings various departments like CSE, EEE, AERO, etc,.
Under a single IEEE roof. He also briefed about IEEE Student project funding, IEEE Extreme,
IEEE SIGHT , IEEE GOLD, IEEE WIE , etc,. Mr.M.S. Saravanan IEEE SB chairman delivered
the vote of thanks.
Mr.Ganesh, Associate Professor ECE delivers a lecture on IEEE
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WALK-A-THON
PIT IEEE student Branch Members as a part of IEEE DAY 15 conducted a walk-a-thon for the
cause of children ailing under child labor, child Marriage & Harassment against Women. The
march consisted of around 40 people and attracted significant attention. The march was flagged by
M.Arun,Student branch counselor, at around 10 A.M.
Walk-a-Thon
IEEE DAY 15 HUMAN FORMATION
As a part of IEEE DAY celebration IEEE students formed themselves in letters of IEEE DAY
15.This grasped the eyes of many first year students and triggered them to ask us what IEEE is?
Office bearers of IEEE SB briefed them about IEEE and Benefits of Joining IEEE.
IEEE ROBOTICS CONTEST
Robotics and automation society PIT conducted IEEE Robotics Contest. Contest was held to
bring in the talents of young engineers. 14 different robots were designed by participants and
exhibited in the contest. The humanoid ROBO hand by Mr. M.S.Saravanan won the first prize.
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ROBO HAND
QUIZ CONTEST
Quiz contest was held to bring out the hidden talent among IEEE student members. About 35
students attended the quiz prelims from which 3 teams were short listed for the Final round. The
finalist underwent through two levels of quizzing which covered almost all the possible fields in
engineering.
Participants during Quiz contest
EXTEMPORE
About 50 students participated in Extempore spoke on various topics like What can you do as an
IEEEian? , Role of Engineers in Developing Society, Digital India, Clean India etc,.
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Mr. Vinoth Student member during extempore
GUEST LECTURE ON IDEA GENERATION
“A man may die, even nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance
without death”, to make it much evident, a Guest Lecture on Idea Generation on 19th
October
2015 was organized by PIT E-Cell in association with IEEE SB & Purple Squirrel. Mr.
V. Ramachandran, Senior Associate, Purple Squirrel,Chennai delivered the lecture. During the
Lecture he explained students about the conventional and unconventional career and how they
counteract with each other. Moreover, how we can make our career unconventional just by
becoming a blogger. He also extended it to other fields like film; photography etc. by that he
showed how even a small start-up can make big entrepreneurs.
Mr. V. Ramachandran, Senior Associate, Purple Squirrel, Chennai delivers the lecture
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GUEST LECTURE ON FINANCE & MARKETING ASPECTS OF
STARTUPS
Guest Lecture on Finance & Marketing Aspects of Startups was organized on October 19 – 2015
by PIT E-ECELL & IEEE SB. “Start where you are, use what you have and do what you can”,
with reference to the above context, our journey started successfully with an eminent speaker Mr.
S Varadarajan, CEO ,V empower Academy. The session begun by the question “what is meant by
the start” which aroused our enthusiasm and made us feel comfortable. Then, the speaker gave us
his piece of information about the entrepreneurship and made us aware of how to eradicate the
myths that prevent a person from becoming an entrepreneur. Next, the speaker gave us an idea of
how thinking out of box will help build a good entrepreneur. He also made us visualize how even
small start-ups have reaped fruitful results. He asked us to first master the tricks of the concerned
field and then become an entrepreneur which gave us confidence to wake up the entrepreneurs in
us. The speaker even said, how communication plays an important role in an entrepreneur’s career.
To conclude with, this journey ended up in carving a endless and successful career towards the
path of the entrepreneurship.
Mr. S Varadarajan, CEO ,V empower Academy delivers the lecture
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NOVEMBER 2015
WORKSHOP ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & COGNITION
Department of ECE of Panimalar Institute of Technology in association with IFANDFOR
ENDEAVOURS Chennai, IEEE-SB, IEEE Robotics & Automation Society organized a Workshop
on “Artificial Intelligence & Cognition” organized during 4th
to 5th
NOVEMBER 2015.
Mr.S.Kalidas founder IFANDFOR ENDEAVOURS Chennai conducted the workshop. The course
focused on the basics of modern AI as well as some of the representative applications of AI. Along
the way, participants learnt about the numerous applications and huge possibilities in the field of
AI, which continues to expand human capability beyond imagination. There were about 50
participants who felt it extremely beneficial and gained knowledge on applications.
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IEEE STUDENT BRANCH AWARDS
http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/awards/student_branch_awards.html
1. IEEE Student Enterprise Award
2. Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award
3. IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award
4. IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Branch Chapter Advisor Award
5. The Darrel Chong Student Activity Award
AWARD CONSTITUTED BY THE SECTION
To encourage the student branches & societies to conduct more activities, the following awards
(certificate of appreciation & cash awards) were given at the AGM. The basis for the selection was
published in the MAS-LINK.
Cash awards & certificates of appreciation are being distributed every year at the AGM. For
1. The Student Branch having maximum number of members.
2. Award given to top three colleges.
3. Student Branches conducting good number of activities.
4. Society Chapter and affinity groups were also awarded with cash and certificate of appreciation
during the AGM.
IEEE STUDENT BRANCH FUNDING
Yearly Rebate
1. IEEE Annual Student Branch Rebate:
More details: http://www.ieee.org/societies_communities/geo_activities/required_reporting/
rebate_schedule.html
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ACTIVITY FUNDING
1. Student professional awareness Conference Funding (SPAC) More details:
http://www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committees/spac/general_info.html
2. IEEE Foundation Grant More details:
http://www.ieeefoundation.org/grants
3. IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity Group Formation Grant More details:
http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/women/affinity_funding.html
4. IEEE women in Engineering Special Funding Request form More details:
http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/women/affinity/forum_funding.html
5. IEEE Madras Section Activity Funding: More details:
https://ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras/content/doc/applicationforfinancialsupport.doc
6. IEEE Region10 Education Activities Funding: More details:
http://www.ieeer10.org/2014/03/11/ea-support-fund-2014/
7. IEEE Region 10 Professional Activities Funding: More details:
http://www.ieeer10.org/2014/07/15/result-of-2014-ieee-r10-professional-activity-funding/
Student Project Funding
1. IEEE Standards Education Grant: More details:
http://www.ieee.org/education_careers/education/stamdards/applications.html
2. IEEE President I change the world: More details:
http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/competitions/ change_the
world/index.html
3. IEEE / IBM Smarter Planet Challenge: More details:
http://www.ieee.org/education_careers/education/university_programs/
smarterplanetchallenge.html
4. IEEE Student Enterprise Award: More details:
http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/awards/enterprise.html
5. IEEE R10 Young Engineering Humanitarian Challenge: More details:
http://ieeehumanitarian.com/
6. IEEE Madras Section Project funding: More details:
http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras/content/pdf/project_funding_schedule_2013_14.pdf
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IEEEXtreme 9.0:
IEEE’s Flagship Programming Competition—Important Information for Student Members &
Faculty Advisers IEEEXtreme (often abbreviated as Xtreme) is an annual competitive
programming challenge in which teams of IEEE Student members, supported by an IEEE Student
Branch, advised and proctored by an IEEE member, compete in a 24-hour time span against each
other to solve a set of programming problems. The competition is underwritten and coordinated by
IEEE's Membership and Geographic Activities department, and is often supported by partnering
sponsors, like IEEE Computer Society. The
IEEEXtreme is open to all who would be interested in hosting, proctoring, or competing in
IEEEXtreme 9.0—IEEE’s flagship computer programming competition beginning on 24 October,
2014 at 00:00 UTC.
http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/competitions/xtreme/index.html
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