IEEE Awareness Programme at AMRITA

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam IEEE SB conducted an IEEE awareness program for the first year Electronics and Communication Engineering student’s on 4th August 2010. The program was conducted at CIR Learning Room ‐2, at the University Main Building between 2
and 4 pm. 140 students attended the program. PowerPoint presentation included Introduction, History, Values and Benefits of IEEE. It was followed by the Student branch presentation. The presentation was prepared and presented by Ramesh N Nair, LINK Representative, IEEE SB and Vineeth Mohan, Webmaster & PRO, IEEE SB. The program was presided by Mr. Rajesh Kannan, IEEE SB Counselor. The students were explained the value and benefits of being IEEE members. IEEE pamphlets were distributed to the students, which contained information about the various benefits of IEEE membership. The sessions were made interactive by having a quiz in between the presentation. The students who answered correctly were given IEEE complements. The students were encouraged to ask their doubts about IEEE after the presentation. The overall feedback of the students was that they were given awareness to the IEEE activities, and they showed their willingness to come up and participate in the various SB and LINK events.

3 Teams from Amrita IEEE heading to SINGAPORE

 
Amrita IEEE is pleased to announce that 3 of its student research teams have been selected at ICMET 2010 (International Conference on Mechanical and Electrical Technology) in Singapore. The 3 teams will represent Amrita IEEE at ICMET this September. The selected papers are:

1) “Wireless Sensor Network for Vehicle Speed Monitoring and Traffic Routing System (VSMTRS)” by Rajesh Kannan, Vineeth Mohan, Ajay M, Paul Leons and Rizwin S (S5 ECE A)
2)” Wireless Vehicular Accident Detection and Reporting System” by Rajesh Kannan, Ramesh Nair (S5 ECE B) and Sai Manoj (S5 ECE A) 
3)” Autonomous Safe Server Guard for Advanced Safety Measures using Wireless Mobile Technology” by Rajesh Kannan, Vineeth R, Deepak K, Akhil K S and Denny Jacob (S5 ECE B)

Amrita IEEE students get 3 Intel recognitions

Amrita IEEE is proud to announce that our team of 4 boys ( Arun Kumar, Arjun Ashok, Daniel C J and Nived Krishnan , 2010 ECE passout batch) have won the 3rd prize in the prestigious Intel Embedded Challenge 2010 in Bangalore. Their Final year  project “Gesture Based Wheelchair Control System for Physically Challenged” was the only project that won in all the three categories and emerged 3rd overall. They were awarded:

1) Intel Embedded Challenge : 3rd Prize, Rs.25,000.
2) Special Intel Employees Award for the BEST PROJECT (Gold Medal)
3)Project selected for case study by the Intel Research Centre.

          The team was provided an Intel Atom processor kit for the project.  The first phase of the contest saw 2170 competants from all over India. 455 of them were shortlisted for the 2nd phase. 36 finalists were called to demonstrate their project at the Intel Campus at Bangalore. The project is guided by the Amrita IEEE SB counsellor Br. Rajesh Kannan.

PIC Ex’el ’10 : a success saga

IEEE SB of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kollam conducted a 2 day national level microcontroller workshop on PIC 16F877A on March 27-28 2010. There was a great response from the students as 60 participants turned up from all over India which included 2 faculties from NIT Calicut anda  faculty-student pair from Military College Of Electronics And Mechanical Engineering, Secunderabad. Each of the participants was provided with an ‘Amrita PIC microcontroller Kit’ which consisted of PIC base, PIC burner unit, PIC 16F877A, breadboard and other essential components needed for both workshop and future development of projects. The classes were taken by Mr. Rajesh Kannan, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of ECE, who is also the SB counselor. The classes were between 9 am to 5 pm on both days. The workshop was inaugurated by Dr.Sankaran, Principal, Amrita School of Engineering.

Dr.Sankaran, Principal, ASE

Prof. Sriram Ananthanarayanan, HOD, Dept. of ECE also spoke on the occasion. The seminar was held at the E-learning center and the Lab sessions were held in the VLSI Lab & Digital Lab. Day 1 morning session consisted of 3 seminars – Introduction to Microcontrollers and PIC microcontroller, Introduction to PIC I/O ports & Introduction to PIC assembly programming.

Rajesh sir engaging a theory class

afternoons were dedicated for hardware sessions

The afternoon session were dedicated for practical sessions. The students were given introduction to MPLAB software for programming PIC and they could also try out the hardware part of it. Day 2’s morning session also consisted of 3 seminars – PIC Interrupts, PIC Analog to Digital Converter & PIC Pulse Width Modulator. There was a photograph session after this. The afternoon session consisted of hardware experiments

and also a mini-project. Most of the participants completed all the experiments. All were enthusiastic to learn the various aspects of PIC. Amrita IEEE SB members served as teaching assistants during the lab. All the participants were given certificate of participation. Feedback forms were distributed among the participants in which they were asked to rate the workshop out of 10. The average score given by the participants was 9, which is a remarkable success to our IEEE SB.

PIC Ex'el 2010 : a grand success

Amrita SB students sweep HTC 2010

We are extremely happy to inform that, by Amma’s grace, IEEE student members of our institution have brought laurels to our institution by bagging the top two prizes at the “Humanitarian Technology Challenge Student Poster Competition”, conducted by IEEE GOLD KERALA SECTION & R10 as part of “International Conference on Humanitarian Technology Challenges of the 21st Century” which was held during 20th and 21st February, 2010 at Trivandrum.
 
There were 83 entries in total from all over Kerala from different student branches. 17 entries were shortlisted and was sent to the judges for final evaluation. 10 entries were selected for the final round.
Among the eminent personalities were Dr. Richard J Gowen, President, IEEE Foundation, Dr. John Vig, 2009 IEEE President, Dr. Janina Mazierska, IEEE Region 10, Ms. Helene Hoi-Ying Fung – IEEE R10 GOLD.

Yet another winner in paper presentation

Congratulations to Arjun (S8 ECE ) who won the 1st prize at Xplore 2010, a tech fest at Govt College of Engg, Kannur, in the paper presentation contest. He presented the paper on the title, “Highly Power Efficient, Uncompromised Performance Cache Design Using Dual-Edged Clock”.

The POSTER for PICex’el 10

PICex’el 2010

IEEE Students Branch of Amrita is conducting a 2 day National Workshop on PIC Microcontrollers on Mar 27th and 28th, 2010.

This hands-on PIC Workshop covers the fundamentals of the PIC microcontroller family’s architecture (specifically PIC 16F87XA) and instruction set. Basic concepts are reinforced through the writing of simple assembly language programs. The knowledge gained from this class forms a solid base from which the attendee can explore more advanced concepts with the PIC microcontrollers. This Workshop also covers the basics of getting started with Microchip development tools. Hands-on exercises are conducted using the MPLAB® IDE. Attendees go through a step-by-step creation of a project, editing and compiling a program, running a program and using the MPLAB IDE. Also they learn step-by-step process of programming the PIC, debugging and verifying their assembly code in real time.

For more details please visit www.amrita.edu/picexel

Hello to everyone out there :)

Welcome to the official blog of the IEEE student branch at Amrita School Of Engineering, Kollam. The blog will keep you updated about all the latest buzz going on in and around the campus. IEEE special events, contests, workshops and all such activities will be posted here. Wish you all a great time out there   🙂

Regards
Vineeth