Vidyuth_Report

REPORT 2014-15

1) VIDYUTH had a flat start in focusing on helping the students academically.

The first event “Demonstration of the integration of TMS420” was

conducted on 25th July 2014 to meet the unspoken needs of 1st year M-tech

Power Electronics students to help students to get prerequisite knowledge of

programming and implementation of TMS420. The event was headed by

Ishwarya Reddy (2nd year M-Tech, Power Electronics) in the M-Tech

classrooms. The event was a big success as a self-help workshop in helping

the 50 participants academically.

2) On the track in helping students stand strong in enhancing technical skill-sets

VIDYUTH conducts its second event “MPLAB IDE” to assist the III year

students on MPLAB IDE. This software is a ground tool for all the IV year

projects performed using any control application. The goals of the workshop

were to help the students to have an idea on the functioning of the software,

learn the importance of the applications of a microcontroller in our day to day

life. The one day event was conducted on 12th August, 2014 from 2pm to 4pm

in Krishna Hall. The sessions were handled by V. Sai Praveen, Kavya, Madan,

Balaji, Sneha, Srilekha (VII sem EEE). The feedback from the 50 participants

was positive and this motivated the forum members to conduct similar events

frequently.

3) On 21st August 2014 VIDYUTH has taken its third step towards making the

students enjoy learning of basic electrical concepts. The one day event

“Technical Dhumsharaz” was organized to help the students in improving

their basics through a gaming session. The event includes acting out the

electrical term given to the team followed by a technical quiz. This session

was led by the secretary of VIDYUTH, Shubdheep, Office Bearer Ekaditya,

Chaitanya, Prince Gupta (V Sem EEE), in E-Learning Hall. The feedback

from the 53 participants was positive and all the participants were energized

with the concept of Fun Learning, which motivated VIDYUTH for its next

event.

4) “Technical Extempore” aimed to bring out the students on stage to speak.

30 students with fear of public speaking utilized this platform brought by

VIDYUTH to speak out. The event took place 19th September in Rama hall

from 3:30-4:30. The event was organized and introduced by Spoorthi, Antara

and Ekaditya (V sem EEE). The event fixed technical topics on which the

students had to speak. Faculty coordinators for the event who marked and

judged the students are Ms. Kirthika Devi (Assistant professor EEE), Ms. K

Deepa (Assistant professor EEE) and Ms. Syama (Assistant professor EEE).

5) Inspired by the event conducted in the last academic year. VIDYUTH takes

an initiative to teach Basic Electrical Engineering concepts to the first year

students. “Know your basics” is a one day teaching session of EEE-100

course. It was made easy through a fun learning session with the EEE students

teaching the juniors. The event was coordinated and organized by Shubdheep,

Tejaswini, Chaitanya and Ekaditya (V sem EEE) on 23rd September in the 1st

year classrooms. We received a positive feedback from all the 10 students

who attended these classes.

6) “Evolution of Embedded Systems in Digital Control” a seminar by Mr.

Hariram started in the early hours (8.30am to 9.30am) of 20th September, 2014

in Krishna hall in the presence of our faculty members Ms. Mini Sujith, Ms.

Deepa K, Dr. Rashmi MR and Ms. Shailaja V. He provided the crowd with

valuable information and updates on the evolution of embedded systems in

digital control. The seminar was attended by M-Tech students (2013-15 batch)

from Power Electronics branch. The first phase of his presentation contained

his introduction, the different sections of electrical divisions under ABB and

some futuristic concepts in the electrical and electronics field. The concepts

of power grid and presumer in the field of solar energy were explained.

Students and teachers admired the fact that communication between two ends

within time to the range of microseconds, played a major role in electrical

systems as well. The latter half was on the various stages in the evolution of

embedded systems in digital control. The microprocessor is the basic model

students study during their course. This has been improvised through the

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and field-programmable gate array (FPGA).

The speed of FPGA is faster than the former two.

7) Transportation Sector is the backbone of any country’s economy. The

effective movement of our country is carried by railways. Hence we took an

initiative to introduce traction and the scope for electrical engineers in the

field of traction. On 20th September 2014 the event “Traction” took place in

(9:30am- 11:15am) Rama hall. The event was headed by Mr. Saravanan.B,

Senior R&D Engineer, ABB India Ltd, Bangalore. The event focused on the

importance of all kinds of engineers irrespective of branches for the traction

application. The event started with an introductory talk to describe what

traction is. Videos of fast bullet train operation were shown. The importance

of electrical engineers was proved describing the power electronic

components used in this application. The components included IGBT

(Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor), SCR (silicon controlled rectifier) and

IGCT (Insulated Gate Commutated Thyristor).The main transportation and

communicating system can be developed by having more knowledge

regarding the traction and improvements can be made by implementing

innovative ideas. This essential knowledge helped to know the opportunities

for Power Electronics students in the field of transportation.

8) The seminar topic “Space Vector based PWM Techniques for voltage

source converters” was presented by Mr. Amit Kumar, Associate scientist,

ABB Ltd, Chennai, an alumnus of Amrita school of engineering, gold

medalist in 2010. He started with an introduction on the different algorithms

for the control of pulse width modulation (PWM) techniques. Space vector

based PWM methods benefits over the other methods and the application was

explained in detail, this would be very useful in future for the final year

students while implementing their projects. The questioning session and

personal interaction with him had lot of industry interface among the final

year B.Tech and M.Tech students. On the whole, this was a proud moment for

the faculty of the entire Electrical Department. The talk was organised in

Krishna Hall from 11.30am – 1.00pm on 20th September 2014 for final year

B.Tech and M.Tech students.

9) On 22nd September 2014 VIDYUTH introduces “Circuit Debugging” an

event to challenge students to solve and debug some of the challenging and

toughest electrical and electronic circuits. The event focused on analyzing the

simple circuits in logical way and to identify the mistakes in the complicated

circuits to solve them. The event was hosted by Tejaswini Vijay (V Sem EEE)

and coordinated by co-secretary of VIDYUTH, Spoorthi (V Sem EEE). The

event was a success with more than the expected participants with 75

contestants for the competition that filled the Rama Hall.

10) Industrial Visits:

I) Industry amends constantly. This is where the students were

activated, when they were taken for an Industrial Visit. To set the

gap between the industry and students VIDYUTH conducted an

“Industrial Visit to Schneider Electric” on for VII sem EEE and

2nd year Power Electronics M-Tech students. Group of 54 students

and faculty Ms. Deepa and Mr. Shankar, visited Schneider Electric

in Electronic city on 4th September 2014.The students were

explained about a Solar Inverter in the Galaxy Series of Inverters.

This is an inverter which would work only if it senses that the Grid

voltage is as rated and that there is no fault in the transmitted power

or when there is sufficient amount of sunlight to produce a DC

voltage within its operating range, else it remains dormant. When it

is operating, it synchronizes its output with the grid frequency and

feeds it. Overall, this was a highly informative Industrial visit, where

students learnt about the company as a global leader in its various

fields of specialization, various safety practices, a visual and

practical insight into the various power electronic devices used in

the products assembled, and their testing in the shopfloor of IDF –

8.

II) On 13th October 2014 the IV sem EEE students got an opportunity

to visit one of the premier companies of India, BHEL along with

faculty member Mr. Shankar and Mrs. Shirisha. The team was

guided by Mr. Shiv Shankar (Engineer BHEL). In the industry

students were given an insight of what BHEL is all about and the

various projects that BHEL is under taken. BHEL covers power

generation, transmission, and distribution and utilization

equipment. The investments in R&D by the electrical industry are

amongst the largest in the corporate sector in India. Bharat Heavy

Electrical Ltd.(BHEL) is the largest manufacturer of boilers in the

country (with more than 60% share). The students concluded that it

was a whole some experience with lot of insight about various

activities that are carried in BHEL and how management is

effectively joining hands in order make things happen in time.

11) AAROHAN-14

VIDYUTH earns the credit of organizing gaming events for AAROHAN-14. The

events took a new face with the school students as the participants. Fun with gaming

and exciting prizes sponsored by the forum marked the events to be a success.

I) “Treasure Hunt” took place on 30th of October. 270 students were

registered for the event and 54 teams consisting of 5 members were

formed. The event consisted of two levels and the level of difficulty and

complexity of the clues on hidden treasure increased by level. The event

was organized by Antara, Spoorthi, Ekaditya and Tejaswini (V Sem EEE).

The event was all about hunting for the treasure hidden in the campus. The

event comprised of exciting cash prizes for the school students that

attracted a huge crowd and made the event a grand success.

II) “FEFA” the mini football fever abbreviated as Fantastic Electrical

Football Amazement stood as the most exciting gaming event conducted

by VIDYUTH. The two day gaming session was on 30th and 31st of October

in Sudhamani hall. The game has 2 levels as any other football game,

Semi’s and Final’s.

III) “Glow me not” The event was organized by Sravani Setty (V Sem EEE)

and Harini (III Sem EEE). 120 people registered for the event in

Sudhamani hall. The event was all about passing a ring through a twisted

wire without touching wire and if it the wire was touched the LED glows,

indicating you are out. Each player was given 3 chances to move the key

from one end to another. The game required good concentration and

smartness. School students, teachers and college students irrespective of

age and experience tried out this tricky track by VIDYUTH.

IV) “Snakes and Frogs” snakes and ladders game is loved by everyone, a

similar game with an aptitude question was our moto. Out of the 90

students who registered for the game, all had to play in chances. All the

players has to solve a math puzzle to earn a chance to throw the electronic

die. The event was introduced and organized by Sailesh (V Sem EEE) and

Bhargav (III Sem EEE) that took place in Sudhamani hall on both the days

of the science fest. The game of luck and chance with exciting prizes was

enjoyed by all the players.

12) EKATVA-14

I) “Purely electrical” an electrical based technical quiz targeted to enlist the

brighter minds amongst the electrical engineers participating in the

competition. 38 students got registered in groups to take up this quiz. The

event was organized and hosted by M. Shireesha and Manohar (V Sem

EEE). The event consisted of 4 rounds. Round 1 comprised of technical

multiple choice questions, Round 2 of solving mode questions that were to

be cracked with the help inter-relation of electrical concepts of various

subjects, Round 3 (day two ) of a Technical Extempore and Round 4 of a

hands-on workshop for the making of a DC Exciter. All the rounds had

effective tie-breakers with elimination. The first 2 rounds on day one were

conducted in Vyasa hall .Top 5 teams reached the machines lab on day two

for the final war for the top 3 cash prizes.

II) “Fox Hunt” the same as treasure hunt but, to give a technical touch, the

treasure is replaced by a transmitter which has to be hunted with the help

of a receiver. The event was introduced and organized by Sailesh and

Sashidhar (V Sem EEE).The game had three levels. All the levels were

conducted on day one of Ekatva. In the first level, the teams were divided

into two pools and each group was given a series of clues to reach to the

final point. The teams which solve 5 clues, in the given pattern, in the

minimum amount of time compared to the other teams in their pool was

selected for the next level. The second level was played for the receiver,

which should be used to find the transmitter in the next level. The third

level was played for the transmitter which changes its position every

fifteen minutes. The transmitter should be found and get paired with the

correct password given in the clue. The team that paired first was

considered as the winner. The event got the maximum number of

participants with a huge number of 135 and was a big hit.

13) “Introduction to Power Electronics Simulation” an event conducted

by 2nd year M-Tech Power Electronics students introduced MATLAB and

PSim to the VI Sem EEE students. The one day seminar was introduced and

organized by Ms. K. Deepa (Assistant professor EEE) on 21st January 2015 in

Rama hall to introduce MATLAB Simulink tool for the power electronics

simulation. The aim was to teach MATLAB that would be a tool used in any

final year project. All the 53 participants who attended this session were given

small assignments in groups to get familiarized with the tool. The assignments

enabled self-help and learning with the help of M-Tech students.

14) “Know your labs” a workshop to help students perform well in labs took

place on 22nd January 2015 from 3:30 to 4:30 in Rama hall. Problem arises in

lab circuits when the circuit does not work as expected or has to be debugged

to obtain the output. This needs the knowledge about the equipment and

electronic devices used in the labs. We aimed at helping the 20 students who

attended know their equipment and components well, that they use in the labs

for better conduction of the experiments through a one day seminar/workshop.

The workshop was organized by Sashwath, Savitha and Bhargav (IV Sem

EEE) with the support of Ekaditya and Divya (VI Sem EEE).