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Vol. 11 No. 01 April 2014 Message from Chairman Dr. N.R.ALAMELU Esteemed Members, I bring greetings to all the IEEE members of the Section on behalf of the incoming Execom committee members of the year 2014. I congratulate all the active student branches for their dynamic activities throughout the year 2013 and for receiving the dynamic chapter awards during the AGM. I am also happy to share with you at this juncture that 6 student projects have been selected for receiving the financial support from the IEEE Madras Section. The section is looking for more number of proposals for project funding in the years to come with an intention to encourage innovation and creativity of their ideas and technological applications. It is time that the student teams work along with their guides for innovative ideas to be presented. I am happy inform all members that IEEE Madras Section is hosting the R10 International Conference on Humanitarian Technology during the 6 th August to 9 th August 2014 at Hotel Hiton, Chennai. During May the IEEE Madras Section along with Computational Intelligent Society is conducting the Faculty Development Programme on Soft Computing and Simulation for Power Engineering during 8 th May to 9 th May 2014 at SA College of Engineering, Chennai The section is always thriving for enhancement of technical competence and motivation of students and enhancement of Industry interaction. I seek the cooperation of all the student branches, its office bearers the branch counselors, chair persons of technical society chapters, Affinity groups and volunteers for another eventful year ahead. Yours Affectionate Office Bearer, IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 1

Message from the Editor Dr. S.ARUMUGAM arumugamdote@yahoo.co.in +919965099900 The September issue of MAS LINK was published in October 2013. Due to the heavy official work, Thiru H.R.MOHAN, Editor of the magazine could not be able to continue the Editor of MAS LINK magazine. The new office bearers of the Madras section assumed the office for the Madras section in the Annual General Body Meeting held on 22.02.2014. The Executive Committee meeting held on 15 th March 2014 had given the responsibility to publish the MAS LINK to a team consisting of Dr. S.Arumugam, Thiru. H.R.Mohan and Prof. T,Micheal N Kumar. The team started the work of publishing the MAS LINK Magazine and the first issue is being released for the month of April 2014. We have received reports from various student chapters and we have taken the reports received in the month of April 2014 only. The other reports will be published in the subsequent issues. In this connection, I wish to express my sincere thanks to Mr. H.R.Mohan for his untiring effort to publish the news for all these years. I am taking all my efforts to publish the MAS LINK with new look and more features. I request all the members to contribute to MAS LINK. comments about the issue. Members are requested to give their Dr.S.ARUMUGAM IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 2

IEEE Madras Section Annual General Body Meeting Annual General Body meeting was held 0n 22.02.2014 at Chennai. The following Office bears have taken charge for the year 2014. CHAIRMAN : Dr, N.R.Alamelu IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIRMAN: Mr.T.S.Rangarajan VICE CHAIRMAN: Dr. S.Arumugam Dr.M.A. Atmanand SECRETARY: Dr.N.Kumarappan TREASURER: Mr.A. Darwin Jose Raju EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Prof.T.Michael N. Kumar Dr. Vinodkumar Dhakshnamurthy Mr. S.Elangovan Dr. T. Rama Rao Dr.T. Vijayakumar Dr.B. Paramasivan Dr.R.Hariprakash Prof. Prashant R.Nair Mr.M.Barnabas Mr.B. Anand IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 3

B. S. ABDUR RAHMAN UNIVERSITY 3 rd National Conference on Recent Trends In Information Technology (NCRTIT-2014) (12.03.2014) The Madras Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society and the Chennai chapter of Computer Society of India the supported this conference. The conference was inaugurated by Dr. Anirban Basu, Consultant- PQR Software & Quality and Research Professor, Department of CSE, East Point College of Engineering & Technology, Bangalore and Chairman, Division on Education & Research, CSI. Dr. Latha Tamilselvan, Professor and Head Department of Information Technology welcomed the gathering. Dr. V. M. Periasamy, Pro-Vice Chancellor delivered the presidential address and Dr. K. M. Mehata, Professor and Dean, School of Computer, Information and Mathematical Sciences discussed about the scope of the conference. The felicitations was given by Mr. H. R. Mohan, Associate Vice President (Systems), The Hindu and Chairman-IEEE-CS, Madras President-CSI. Mr. H. R. Mohan suggested the participants to work in the area of 3D printing which is an upcoming technology and gave an overview of ethics in research. He also highlighted the on the support of CSI to student branches and researchers. Dr. Anirban Basu in his keynote address on The emerging technologies as Cloud Computing, Big Data and Internet of Things highlighted the recent advancements in these technologies and motivated the participants to undertake research in these areas. Dr. Ranjani Parthasarathy, Professor, Department of Information Science and Technology, Anna University, in her keynote address on Internet of Things (IoT) Trends and Opportunities introduced the concepts of IoT and the possible projects that can be done in IoT. There was a discussion about IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 4

Wearable Computing and development of Apps for connecting things over Internet. Mr. S. Kannan, Application Architect, Wisen Soft Technologies Pvt. Ltd., had delivered a lecture on Big Data and the related software available for use in Big Data and Cloud. The paper presentation session was chaired by Prof. S. Kayalvizhi, Prof & Head, Department of Computer Science, Easwari Engineering College, Chennai. Reported by : Dr. Latha Tamilselvan KUMARAGURU COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, COIMBATORE-641 049 Workshop on Embedded system and its Applications using Programmable system on chip (31.03.2014) The IEEE Education society and IEEE Madras section along with the IEEE KCT student branch organized a one day Workshop. The workshop had a theoretical exploration about embedded systems and its applications and modeling software & hardware.. The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. Ramalatha Marimuthu, Chair of IEEE WIE Affinity Group Madras section and HoD/IT, KCT, Dr. P A Manoharan, Chairman (RAS),IEEE Madras Chapter and Mr.Karthick Mahaligam, Design Partner Program Manager, CSC, Bangalore. Mr.Karthick Mahaligam who discussed on the designs of embedded systems and its real time applications. He provided informative Hands on training by dividing them into groups. 85 participants attended the workshop. Reported by: Dr.Hemalatha S N Email: hemalatha.sn.it@kct.ac.in IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 5

SONA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY Seminar on How to crack GATE (10.03.2014) The seminar was conducted by the professionals from the Gate Forum Institution. Mr.Reginald Lourd Raj Phd(IISC) Bangalore hosted the seminar accompanied by Mr.Anbalagan.M, Director of Gateforum-Salem. The seminar started with a small introduction about how to approach the exams and handle the questions within the given time limit. References and the detailed syllabus were explained to the students. Mr.Gautham KumarArya Manager of Gate forum-salem made the session more interactive by solving examples on aptitude and quantitative questions. 250 students participated in the seminar. IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 6

RANGANATHAN ENGINEERING COLL3EGE Guest Lecture on Applications of MATLAB (14.02.2014) Mr. Praveen, MATCOM system, Coimbatore, was the Chief Guest. He explained the basics of MATLAB tools (simulation tools and programming tools) in various platforms like power electronics, control system, power system, etc. He explains the various applications of MATLAB. Faculty members of EEE department and about 60 students participated in this function. Mrs.Mahalakshmisridhar, Head of the Department, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, presided over the function. Mr J.Mohan, IEEE Staff Co-Ordinator, felicitated the gathering.. IEEE CIS Madras Chapter Inauguration and Seminar on Soft and Cloud Computing (15.02.2014) The co-ordinator of the program was Dr.N.Kumarappan, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Annamalai University and Chair IEEE CIS Madras Chapter delivered the welcome address. Dr.M.A.Atmanand, Director, National Institute of Ocean Technology Chennai has delivered the inaugural address. Felicitation address was given by Dr P.Ganeshkumar, IEEE CIS Madras Chapter Treasurer and Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Anna IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 7

University, Coimbatore and Dr.C.ChristoberAsirRajan, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry. The Resource Persons for the program were Dr.N.Kumarappan, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Annamalai University, Annamalai nagar; Mr. Sankar Nagarajan, Principal Consultant, DISYS Corporation (A Global IT MNC) Chennai and Consulting Vice President, Cloud Kinetics Technologies; Mr.R.Ramanan, Senior manager, inautix Technologies, Chennai. The topics covered included Hopfield Network, Kohonen Self Organizing Map, Introduction to Cloud Computing, Quick Hands on Cloud Demonstration, Global Cloud Landscaping, Cloud Economics. 53 participants participated in the program. Reported by: Dr N Kumarappan,Chair, IEEE CIS Madras Chapter kumarappan_n@hotmail.com Dr. N.G.P. INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IEEE International Conference on Green Computing, Communication and Electrical Engineering ICGCCEE 14. ( 6 th to 8 th March 2014) The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in association with Wayne State University USA, IEEE Madras Section and Kovai Medical Center Research and Educational Trust organized the International Conference. Dr.K.Porkumaran, Conference Chair, Principal, welcomed the gathering and motivated the students to pursue Research oriented activities in their respective domains and focus on inventions & developments. Dr.V.Kumar Chinnaiyan, Organizing chair, Professor and Head, presented the report about the conference ICGCCEE 14. Dr.Nalla. G. Palanisami, Chairman, Kovai Medical center and Hospital delivered the Presidential address.the Conference was inaugurated by Shri S. Senthil Kumar, Environmental Manager, Asia Pacific, FORD Motor Company, India. In his inaugural address he highlighted the technological development that is happening in India and the need for doing more research and provided many instances of how the industry played a key role in developing the social and economic level for progress of the country and the world. IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 8

The Guest of Honour Dr.Y. Gene Liao, Director, Electric Transportation Technology program, Wayne State University, USA delivered a special address on Green Car and Energy Storage Technology. Dr.Thavamani D Palanisami, Secretary, Dr.O.T. Buvaneswaran, CEO, felicitated the gathering. Keynote and Tutorial sessions were delivered by eminent academicians and industry professionals as follows: Dr. Y. Gene Liao, Director, Electric Transportation Technology, Wayne State University, USA, handled tutorial session on Future of Electric Vehicles Advanced Energy Storage Systems. Mr. J. Visweswaran, Sr. Academic Technical Consultant, National Instruments, Bangalore, dealt with 21st Century with Graphical System Design. Mr.R.Karthikeyan, CTO, Teclever Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore Resource Person, handled hands-on tutorial session about Real Time Data Acquisition System for Engineering Applications.Dr. Y. Gene Liao, Director, Electric Transportation Technology, Wayne State University, USA, delivered keynote address on Series Hybrid Powertrain Simulation and Hardware in loop for Light Duty Vehicle.Dr. Mathew Cherian, Consultant Radiology, KMCH, Coimbatore, delivered keynote Speech on Green Computing Solution for Filmless Imaging.Dr. G. Sai Narayanan, Senior Consultant, HCL Technologies, Chennai, delivered special address on Research Direction Issues in Digital Image Processing.Dr.N.Selva Ganesan, Head, Department of Avionics, IIST, Trivandrum, handled a IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 9

keynote session on Application of Fractional Control to PMS setup for Limit Cycle Suppression. Out of 900 papers received, 350 were selected after a doubly blind peer review process. The selected papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Dr.S.N.Sivanandham, Emeritus Professor, Karpagam University delivered the valedictory address explaining how the computing and communication grew over the years have now merged and become pervasive in real time world and discussed about the realities in the dependence of technology for the future years. The Guest of Honour Dr. G. Sai Narayanan, Senior Consultant, HCL Technologies, Chennai, discussed about the Research Direction Issues in Digital Image Processing. Reported by: Dr.K.Porkumaran, porkumaran@gmail.com KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1. Guest Lecture on Research in VLSI Design (12.03.2014) Dr.PSS.Srinivasan, Principal, presided over the function. Dr.N.Santhiyakumari, HOD/ECE welcomed the gathering.the chief guest of the function Prof..M.Bhaskar, Associate professor/nit, Trichy explained the basics of VLSI design and VLSI related applications, IC manufacturing technology, digital microelectronics through this guest lecture program and also highlighted about the various technologies involved in VLSI Design and recent research oriented topics. IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 10

2. National Conference on Recent Trends in Communication & Information Technology (15.03.2014) Dr.N.SanthiyaKumari, Head of ECE, welcomed the gathering. Dr.PSS.Srinivasan, Principal stressed the need of recent innovations which made the Communication and Information technology as much effective and he gave the importance in gaining knowledge in recent trends of our platform. Dr.V.R.Vijay Kumar, Professor & Head /ECE, Anna university Regional Centre, Coimbatore presented a detailed talk on signal processing and the advanced signal processing techniques which make the system as efficient and more effective. He also explained about the applications of signal processing. Dr.M.Suganthi, Professor & Head /ECE, Mahendra College of Engineering highlighted the importance of conference and encouraged the students to participate in both National & International conferences. Dr.K.Rajagopal, Director/MBA presented the job scenario in the industries and also he gave a detailed information regarding recent trends in technologies has made the effective communication. Out of 120 papers received from various institutions for the conference, 45 were selected for presentation. 3. Value Added Course on Embedded Robotics Design ( 17 th to 22 nd Dec. 2013) The guest of honour wasmr.m.e.rajamanikam, Director of Shri Gemini Kits and Spares, Chennai. He started his session with an importance of Robotics in the present world and also highlighted the various problems that have been faced by the research scholars in this field. The students were also encouraged to come up with new ideas which could be implemented through robotics design. IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 11

4. IEEE Student Activities (21.01.2014) The IEEE SB conducted an awareness program on benefits of IEEE for 2 nd year ECE students.the chairperson and secretary of IEEE student branch, gave a brief introduction about IEEE and its benefits. They also highlighted the functioning and importance of women in Engineering in IEEE. They motivated the students to get involved in all activities and improve their volunteering skills. 5. Inauguration of WEC & Guest lecture on Role of Women in society (23.01.2014) The IEEE SB in association with Women Empowerment Cell organized a guest lecture on Role of women in society. The program director Mrs.K.Kalpana from Life Line Trust, Salem was the key resource person. She started her talk with a conversant speech motivating the audience and also explained about the various activities involved in her adoption center. She appreciated the new office bearers to perform well in this year. She also explained about the awareness meeting which are all conducted by them on road safety, stress management to bus drivers and conductors, various trainings given to school students and college students on personality development, communication, time management, child rights and protection and added that in the present day situation of women who are participating in all the fields. The program was found to be useful and informative for the all students. 6. Make a Product Exhibition (22.02.2014) The department of ECE organized a one day exhibition on MAKE A PRODUCT.014. Dr.PSS.Srinivasan, Principal emphasized the recent trends undertaking in ECE department. In this exhibition, the various technical concepts and innovative works done by the 2 nd and 3 rd year U.G students were presented. After the evaluation of the products developed by the students from ECE departments, they were presented and prizes were awarded to the best products. The function was presided by Dr.N.SanthiyaKumari, HOD/ECE. 7. IEEE Spectrum Analysis The IEEE SB in association with Department of ECE organized a SPECTRUM MAGAZINE ANALYSIS on 22 nd and 24 th Feb 2014 on PCELL TECHNOLOGY for UG IEEE student members and NANO MOTORS INSIDE CANCER CELLS for PG IEEE student members. The resource persons are Prof..M.Shenbagapriya, Asst prof/ece and Prof..S.SaranyaBharathy, Asst prof/ece. IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 12

8. Intra College Technical Symposium (01.03.2014) Dr.N.SanthiyaKumari, HOD/ECE welcomed the gathering. 200 papers received from ECE department. After the evaluation, 130 papers were selected and presented in four sessions. For each session, three best papers were selected and rewarded. Report by: Hemalatha.R, IEEE Student member, ssbece@kiot.ac.in KONGU ENGINEERING COLLEGE AVANZARE 14 National Level Technical Symposium A seminar in the topic of Recent Trends and Employment In Nuclear Power Plant was given by Mr.S.Bala sundar, senior scientific officer, Indra Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, kalpakkam. The paper presentation and project presentation event was conducted. In the event circuit and c debugging, the participants of circuit and software branches were given typical problems in their respective domain and they were focused on solving the issue which reveals their technical skills. Events such as robotic soccer, line follower and mine sweeper were conducted. Events related to management oriented skills and some technical events which unleash the talents of upcoming engineers. Session started with quiz where general scientific questions that are related to engineering where thrown and the participants actively answered those questions by bringing back their early stuffs. The next event was best manager where IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 13

they are asked to market a product with certain criteria and this event surely kindle the managerial skills of emerging engineers which is highly important in this competitive world. KARPAGAM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING 1. Workshop on MATLAB for Signal Processing Applications (20.02.2014) Dr.B.Nagaraj, Professor and Head/ETE welcomed the gathering and gave an overview of the workshop. The resource persons for the workshop were Mr.C.Arul Murugan, Assistant Professor and Mr.S.Manikandan, Assistant Professor of Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore. About 53 students of second year ETE participated in the workshop. 2. Quiz contest MIND BOGGLER (28.02 2014). 74 students from various departments attended the quiz prelims.from which 6 teams were selected for the finals. Depending on their knowledge in current issues and latest technologies, 2 teams were selected as the winners. Dr.B.Nagaraj,HOD/ETE distributed the prizes and certificates to the winners. 3. Workshop on Networking and NS-2 Simulator (24.01.2014) IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 14

Dr.B.Nagaraj, Professor and Head/ETE welcomed the gathering and gave an overview of the workshop. The resource persons for the workshop were Dr.Shankara Malliga, Professor, Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering and Dr.Uma Parvathy, Professor,RVS College of Engineering and Technology,Coimbatore. 70 students of third year ECE and CSE participated in the workshop. 4. Paper Presentation (3.01.2014) Prof,C.Arul Murugan Assistant Professor/ETE welcomed the gathering. The chair persons for the presentaion were Prof.B.Annapoorani, Prof.T.Manoj Kumar, Prof.S.Manikandan, Prof.Y.Camy Joshya, Assistant Professors, Department of ETE. 100 students from various colleges were participated. 5. Project presentation contest ( 7.01.2014) 10 teams from various colleges participated. The winners were chosen by the judges based on their presentation. The winners of the event were: I prize - Knowledge Institute of Technology, II prize - Sri Eshwar College of Engineering. 6. Technical Puzzle (24.02.2014) 50 students of various departments participated in the puzzle contest. The winners of the puzzle contest were Nivya Philip and Hemalatha.R of II year ECE. 7. Tech Quiz (06.01.2014) In association with Electronics Club of Electronics and Telecommunication Department a Tech Quiz contest for second and third year students was conducted. 140 students from various departments attended the quiz prelims from which 6 teams were selected for the finals. Three teams emerged as winners. 8. Technical JAM (09.01.2014) Prof.S.Manikandan Assistant Professor/ETE welcomed the gathering. The main aim of the event was to make the students deliver what they knew within a minute. Winners are: I prize R.K.Sharanya (II year ECE), II prize-j.yeshwanthraj (II year ECE) and III prize Thanujvashan (II year EEE). 9. TELEZEN 14 (15.02.2014) Prof..U.Aswathy Menon Assistant Professor/ETE welcomed the gathering. The event was felicitated by Prof.M.Gowrishankar, Vice Principal. 425 students from various colleges IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 15

were participated in the event. Various events like Brain Simulator, Wiry Routes, Fact and Furious and Technical jam were conducted. JEPPIAAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Tech TALK ( 11.01 2014) Many members actively participated in the event and spoke about diverse technical topics discussed in Spectrum magazine. Many new emerging trends in technology were also put forward by students and they answered the queries of the audience. Mr. V.Viswanathan of 3 rd year ECE was declared as the winner of the event. Branch counselor Prof. A. Madhusudhanan delivered the vote of thanks. Reported by: A.Sheetal Mary,12ecasheetalmary@jeppiaarinstitute.org SONA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY National Technical Symposium IRCUITRIX 14 (04.03.2014) The symposium was inaugurated by The Principal Dr.V.Jayaprakash and IEEE Branch Counsellor Dr.C.Easwarlal. Paper presentation, Multimedia presentation, Poster presentation, C debugging, Circuit Debugging, Google and 8085 events were conducted. 250 students participated in the events. For paper presentation 15 teams from each department were selected for finals. For multimedia presentation 10 teams were selected for finals. For poster presentation 7 teams were selected for finals. JEPPIAAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Career Guidance (1.02, 2014) The sole objective was to motivate students to face all the challenges that they're going to encounter and what they can take up for their career. KEZIAH.S (ECE) reaped their attention by her topic "How to create your own self confidence?", and made them do some exercises inorder to keep them mentally fit to tackle all their problems. Reported by : Ms.S.Keziah, 12ecskeziah@jeppiaarinstitute.org IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 16

NANDHA COLLGE OF TECHNOLOGY Guest Lecture on VLSI DESIGN (27.02.2014) Dr.S.Arumugam, Chief Executive Officer of Nandha Educational Institutions and Dr.R.Nallusamy, Principal participated. The resource person Dr.C.Govindaraju, Assistant Professor, Government College of Engineering, Salem stressed on the importance of VLSI design. EASWARI ENGINEERING COLLEGE Workshop on SPARK- Fun with Engineering ( 1/03/2014 & 15/03/2014) Seniors students experience with robotics were the resource persons. They were from two different departments and have won many robotic competitions as a team.they first gave us an introduction, covering the fundamentals of every component followed by a detailed explanation on how to handle the various testing equipments. We then had a soldering practice session where we were taught on the importance of doing it right. After a short lunch break we gathered again at the lab waiting eagerly to grow our knowledge. In the afternoon session, the most anticipated part of the workshop arrived and each of us got the opportunity to build our very own Sunflower Robots. The second session started with exuberance as we displayed our working robots with a sense of accomplishment. An insight into the various mechanical concepts that are required to build a successful robot without any structural failures was given. A brief introduction to the various types of motors where terms like traction, speed and torque was explained. We were also IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 17

given a clear idea on the various criteria to be considered while building a water-based robot. Then we assembled into groups to build our next bot. Engrossed in our work, we barely realised the time fly by. After the lunch break we completed our second wired robot with which we battled other groups. This robot was purely mechanical. We mounted another circuit on it and were able to operate it wirelessly via a Radio Frequency module.they then shared with us the different types of robots they built along with its success stories.since the resource people were our own seniors we did not have any inhibitions while we asked doubts. The seniors were prompt in clearing our dilemma about the right choice of components for the respective specifications, with problem statements. As we solved the problem statements we were able to understand the logic to a greater extent. It was a fun filled learning session. The day concluded with distribution of certificates and the seniors sharing their experience as first time teachers. We were congratulated for our efforts and also encouraged to take part in symposiums to put to use the valuable skills we were taught in the two days. We are grateful to the management and IEEE student branch for providing us with the opportunity to gain firsthand experience and knowledge on robotics. The sessions brought in us a renewed confidence to build robots and it has made us realize our passion. IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 18

KALASALINGA UNIVERSITY National conference on Intelligent Techniques in Control, Optimization and Signal Processing ( 28 th & 29 th March, 2014) Dr D. Devaraj, IEEE Branch Counselor and the convenor of the conference welcomed the gathering. The conference was inaugurated by Mr Suresh Babu, Senior Officer Grade (SOG) / Instrumentation, Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. Mr Suresh Babu highlighted the significance of Intelligent systems in the area of control. Dr S.Saravana Sankar, Vice-Chancellor of Kalasalingam University presided over the function. In his presidential address, Dr S.Saravana Sankar encouraged the Student Branches to organize various events for the benefit of students. The proceeding of the conference was released by Dr P.S. Kannan, Professor, TCE, Madurai and received by Ms B.A. Lathika, IEEE Student President. The following invited lectures were also delivered in the conference: Role of Instrumentation system in Nuclear Plants by Mr Suresh Babu, Senior Officer Grade (SOG) / Instrumentation, Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. Virtual Reality Emerging Technologies by Dr. J. Sheeba Rani, Assistant Professor, Avionics, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram. Fuzzy Logic based Temperature Control by Dr.Kumarappan, Professor, Annamalai University. Application of Intelligent Controller in Power Plants by Dr. Dharmalingam,BHEL,Trichy. Identify Management in MANET by Mr.S.Prasanna, Assistant Professor, Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai. The best IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 19

paper award was grabbed by Mrs A.Radhika, Dept of CSE, Kalasalingam University for her paper on Robust Faced Recognition System Using BPNN. Workshop on Data Mining Techniques (14 th & 15 th March 2014) Dr. S. Saravana Sankar, Vice-Chancellor, Kalasalingam University, inaugurated the workshop. Dr D.Devaraj, Dean, Planning and Development and IEEE Student Branch Counselor welcomed the gathering. The resource persons for the program were Dr D.Devaraj, Dean, Planning and Development, Kalasalingam University, Dr. P.Ganesh Kumar, Anna University, Coimbatore, Mrs. Vanitha, S.F.R.College,Sivakasi, Mrs.Gayathri,MK University, Madurai, Mrs.Baamini, S.F.R.College, Sivakasi, Mrs.V.T.Meenatchi,Thiagarajar College,Madurai, Mrs.Gnanambal, RDMCollege, Sivagangai, Dr.Rajaram, Professor, Kalasalingam University. KNOW THE PERSON H.R. Mohan, Associate Vice President (Systems) of The Hindu, takes over as the President of Computer Society of India (CSI) for 2014-15. He succeeds Prof. S.V. Raghavan, Scientific Secretary in the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India as the new President.Mr. Mohan has been a member of IEEE since mid 1980s and served IEEE Madras Section as Vice President & apart from editing the IEEE MAS LINK. & India Council newsletter. He is also the chair of IEE CS & IEEEPCS/CSI is the largest IT professionals association in India with over 100,000 members and represents India in International bodies such as IFIP, SEARCC, IEEE CS, ICANN. Started in 1965, CSI is in its Golden Jubilee year and has played a major role in the introduction of Computers in Indian Industries and Academia. CSI facilitates research, knowledge sharing, learning and career enhancement among all categories of IT professionals and also inspires and nurtures the interests of the student members and help them to integrate into the IT community. For Private Circulation IEEE MAS LINK Newsletter of the IEEE Madras Section Vol. 10 No. 10 :: April 2014 Editorial Team Dr.S.ARUMUGAM Mr. H.R.MOHAN, Prof. T.MICHAEL N KUMR IEEE Madras Section, Room No. 3, ISTE Professional Center, Gandhi Mandapam Rd., Chennai 600 025. Tel: +91 44 24423939, Mobile: 9382328776, Email: ieeeimas@gmail.com Website: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras/ IEEE MAS LINK Vol. 11 No. 1 April 2014 Page 20