Events

Report on Hackathon hosted by Mozilla Campus Club of KCG College of Technology A 24 hour coding contest (Hackathon) was organized by the Mozilla Campus Club of our college on 18^th and 19^th March 2017. The event started on 18^th March by 9.00 am with an inauguration in the presence of the Principal and Vice Principal of the College. Mr.Karthikeyan, Full Stack Developer, Zarget Tech, Chennai, Campus Advisory Committee board member for Mozilla Campus club programme, Localization Head of FSA & Firefox add-ons feature board member was the main guest. The Principal greeted the participants and thanked the participants from other institutions for the efforts taken in taking part in the event. The Vice-Principal spoke encouraging words and appreciated that a hackathon of this kind is a new initiative in the KCG campus. Earlier, one of the student members of the club Ms. Srinithi gave the welcome address and Head of the Department, Dr. M. Krishnamurthy facilitated and wished the participants a fruitful stay during the event. Finally Mr. Praveen Joe, Faculty advisor explained the need for such a programme and presented the objectives and agenda for the 2 days. The event started with an orientation for about three hours. Vishwaprasad, Software Engineering, Zoho Corporation, Chennai & Khaleel Jageer, Chennai, FSA (Firefox Student Ambassador) Spokes person gave the training in the forenoon session. The contest stated by 1. 00 pm and three technical events namely Localization, Web VR and Web Extensions were conducted in parallel in 3 labs respectively. Localization is the process of translating software user interfaces from one language to another and adapting it to suit a foreign culture. They are for developers and all contributors. WebVR provides support for exposing virtual reality to web apps, enabling developers to translate position and movement information from the display into movement around a 3D scene. Web Extensions event deals with developing browser add-ons for cross-browser systems. Participants intend to extend the APIs which are compatible with Google Chrome and Opera and make it compatible with Mozilla also.   The event continued over night and came to an end by the next day afternoon (19^th March 2017) around 1.00 pm. 68 students from our college and other institutions took part in the event and 14 students of the FSA Club from CSE department coordinated the programme, 2 faculty mentors Mr. Praveen Joe and Ms Hema and 3 trainers facilitated the programme. The HoD distributed the prizes and certificates to the winners and other participants. Students and participants were found very active and highly motivated and had a thrilling experience to learn in a homely ambience staying round the clock in KCG Campus. Congratulations to all Winners!!!  

Report on Mini Project Challenge 2017

An Intradepartmental Mini Project competition was organized on 18^th March 2017. Mr. Rahul Khaitan, Business Analyst, Wipro Technologies Ltd and Dr. Ramya, Professor – CSE, Hindustan University were the judges. The event was organized at Charles Babbage Laboratory. 27 projects were exhibited. 83 students from the department participated in the event out of which 44 students are from 3^rd year and 39 students are from 2^nd year. 3 best projects were rewarded with prizes and certificates and all the participants received a participation certificate. The event was coordinated by Mr. Praveen Joe, Assoc. Prof and Ms.Soumya S, Asst.Prof of the department. The valedictory function was arranged in KMC auditorium at 2.30 pm. One of the Judges, Mr. Rahul Khaitan, Dr.M. Krishnamurthy, HoD and Dean Student Affairs Dr Anita Manuel distributed the prizes and certificates.

Following are the details of the winners.

Smart India Hackathon’17 – ‘be a part of India’s Digital Evolution’, Grand Finale was conducted on April 1st and 2nd 2017. Our team called D’arc participated in this Grand Finale under the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change. The venue was in Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore. Our college team emerged as the winner in the two-day “Smart India Hackathon”. The team got a cash prize of Rs.1 lakh for their project titled “Water Surveillance System”. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed and interacted with aspiring innovators in Smart India Hackathon 2017 on Saturday. The team details are as follows: Team Members are Prasad K Jose, Prathik Bhosle, Prasanth Kumar, Siddarth Sharma, Saicharan, Radheyan and Mentors are Dr.C.Emilin Shyni, CSE and Mr.Elanthamizhan, Project associate. The brief explanation about the project is as follows: IOT Based Water Surveillance System offers a viable solution that provides automated supervision over the content of the chemicals in the water. It calculates the chemical content of the water inlets and will allow the water to add to the water bodies. The device works on the solar energy for power source. Device will be operated by the concerned authority using application (Mobile or Web Page) which is networked to the Cloud Server. The detailed data about the chemical contents present in the water bodies or the wetlands will be gathered with the use of different kinds of sensors installed in the water bodies or wetlands and will be sent to the cloud server. The water bodies will be divided into different regions for better surveillance system. The system will also provide suggestion on how to reduce the water pollution. Fresh data will be uploaded to the server daily and the user will be able to see the data in his UI (mobile or website) by selecting the region of which he wants to see the data.

In keeping with the vision of providing holistic education, fourteen new clubs were launched on 29 July 2016. The clubs such as Aero Modeling Club, Programming club, Mobile Apps Club, Robotics Club, IOT club, Music Club, Dance Club, Photography Club, KCGMUN Club, Quiz Club, Civil Services Aspirants Club, Sports Club, & Fitness Club offer a mixture of technical and nontechnical, indoor and outdoor activities. Later a horse riding club was also inaugurated on 30 September 2016, which saw a thrilling polo match being played on the KCG grounds.

These clubs offer a vibrant space for students to pursue their interests beyond the confines of the classroom. In these clubs the first years are mentored not only by faculty but also by seniors creating healthy interaction between seniors and juniors. It is to be noted that by gaining exposure through these clubs, many students have made the college proud by standing first in intercollegiate curricular and extracurricular competitions.

To name a few prizes- first year students of the IOT club have won multiple awards for coding and mini-project at intercollegiate competitions held in Anna University. The college dance team has struck gold at PSG and SRM as well as winning one lakh at the Radio Mirchi dance finale; the music team too has notched up a number of wins. This year alone the KCG MUN team has won more than 40 prizes including two Best Delegation Awards at the MUNs conducted by ICFAI in Hyderabad and WCC in Chennai.

Further, as an educational outreach initiative, clubs like Robotics club and Mobile App clubs have conducted workshops for students from various government and private schools in the city.

MATLAB Programming (An Ubiquitous Tool for Practicing Engineers)

Coordinators:

Dr. P.S. Mayurappriyan, Professor, Department of EEE

Dr. S. Solai Manohar, Professor, Department of EEE

The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of KCG College of Technology has organized a Three Day Workshop on “MATLAB Programming (An Ubiquitous Tool for Practicing Engineers)” during 16-18, May 2017 (Tuesday – Wednesday) for the Officials of Solar Radiation Resource Assessment, National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE) at their Conference Hall.  About 15 Engineers with Electrical, Electronics and Mechanical Engineering backgrounds attended the programme and got benefited. The Workshop is aimed to create awareness on the basics and fundamentals of MATLAB Programming. Being the first of its kind in this Workshop series, a wholesome lecture with hands on training to familiarise the MATLAB software techniques in the analysis of basic problems is provided.

Dr. G. Giridhar, Deputy Director General / Head (SRRA), GoI, MNRE, NIWE welcomed and inaugurated the workshop at 9.30 am. Dr. G. Sambandan / Advisor / Electrical Sciences and Dr. P. DeivaSundari, HOD / EEE of KCG College of Technology rendered their felicitations.

Dr. P. S. Mayurappriyan, Professor / EEE started his session after stating the objectives and significance of the programme. The contents of the programme are as follows:

• Introduction to MATLAB Programming
• Basic MATLAB Concepts
• Variables, Expressions and Statements
• Strings and File I/O
• Numbers and Arithmetic Operations
• Mathematical Built-in Functions
• Matrix Operations

The above session gave an outline about the fundamentals of MATLAB programming and the participants started working with the basic commands on command prompt.

The second session was handled by Mr. S. Balaji, Assistant Professor, Department of EEE with the following topics:

• M-Files and Workspace
• Path Browser
• User Defined function
• Array Operators
• Vector and Matrix Manipulations

After lunch break, the session was shared by Ms. J. Annes and Ms. M. AmmalDhanalakshmi, Assistant Professors of EEE Department to highlight the following topics:

• Relational and Logical Operations
• Control Flow (For Loops, While Loops, If-Else-End Construction)
• Solving Systems of Linear Equations
• Mathematical and Statistical Operations

Parallel Tutorials on selective topics with examples were conducted so that the participants gained hands on experience in programming techniques.

The second day (17.05.2017) started with a session on Plots and Graphics by Mr. S. Subash Chandra Bharathi, Assistant Professor of EEE Department with following topics:

• Plotting of Graphs
• 2 Dimensional Plotting
• Time Series Plotting
• Plotting a Function
• Plotting Tools
• GUI Development Environment
• 3D Graphics

The post lunch session handled by Dr. P.S. Mayurappriyan, Professor of EEE Department dealt with Importing / Exporting Data to / from Text files, EXCEL files, Clip Board Images, CSV files with examples.  He also explained the Techniques of Debugging with functions and examples.

The next session was handled by Dr. S. Solai Manohar, Professor of EEE Department on the Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and its applications. He gave a brief presentation on the various architectures of ANN.

The entire forenoon session of Day 3 (18.05.2017) was dedicated to ANN application with MATLAB alongwith tutorials which was handled by Dr. S. Solai Manohar, Professor of EEE Department. The various doubts raised by the delegates have been cleared by him and some coding exercises were given to enhance their knowledge in this domain.

The afternoon session dealt with Tutorials and hands on experience in all the topics covered during the workshop and was handled by Dr. P.S. Mayurappriyan, Professor of EEE Department. The entire session was very interactive and the delegates have been demonstrated with various programs related to mathematical, logical, relational and statistical operations. The tutorial session created an interested in learning this software and they have been given an assignment that comprises of a set of creative questions for continuous learning process.

The workshop was ended with a feedback session by the delegates. In that they have expressed their interest and willingness in attending the next workshop of this series on SIMULINK and Model Based Design. They also stated that this Workshop gave them the basic knowledge and confidence in starting and programming MATLAB with script files for various operations. Dr. G. Giridhar thanked the KCG team for organising such a useful work in short intimation and expressed his interest in further academic and research collaborations. A group photo session has been arranged at the end before bidding farewell.

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

Venue: NIWE Conference Room                                                                                 16^thMay, 2017

Venue: NIWE Conference Room                                                                         17^th May, 2017

Venue: NIWE Conference Room                                                                                18^th May, 2017

TamilNadu dance fest a professional western dance competition was held at Grand mall,velachery. It was a three weeks event.The first week was the auditions. In the second week the semi finals was conducted. And the last week was the finals.Mr.Nagendra Prasad a kollywood cine artiste who acts and choreographs for films was the chief guest for the evening.Top teams from all over tamilnadu participated in various categories like solo, dual, and group dance.Our college team The Immortalz went through to the finals and won the first prize in the group dance category.Cash prize of Rs.25000 was awarded with a trophy.It is to be noted that this is the seventh victory for our college dance team in this year.

The Department of Electrical and Electronics, KCG College of Technology organized an IET sponsored TWO-DAY FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME ON “GREEN AND ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS WITH EMPHASIS ON POWER MANAGEMENT” on June 15 & 16, 2017. The inaugural function commenced at 9.30 am in Seminar Hall-I. The meeting was presided by Dr.G.Prabhakaran – Principal, Dr.P.Deiva Sundari – Head of the Department/EEE, Dr.G.Sambandan – Advisor/Electrical Sciences. The FDP began with an invocation and the invited guests were welcomed by Head of the Department/EEE. The Principal and the Advisor gave the felicitation address. Around 42 external participants from industries like CDM Smith Global Services, L&T, CMRL etc, Research Scholars and faculty from other Institutions attended the programme. All the faculty from EEE Department also attended the programme. The programme was inaugurated by the Chief Guest, Mr Babu Radhakrishnan, Director – Business Development, Johnson Electric Private Limited, Chennai. He shared his views regarding concepts on Green Building citing its importance in future. He also enlightened the gathering with information regarding Engine cooling fan motors, Window lift motors, Door lock motors and Head lamp levelling motors to Indian customers manufactured by Johnson Electric Private Limited.

Day 1 – Session 1
Ms. Gayatri Chauhan, Regional Manager – Market Development (Asia Pacific and Middle East), Green Business Certification Inc.(GBCI), Bengaluru
She introduced us to the architectural concepts of Green Building. She made us aware of LEED certification. LEED certification provides independent verification of a building or neighbourhood’s green features, allowing for the design, construction, operations and maintenance of resource-efficient, high-performing, healthy, cost-effective buildings. LEED is the triple bottom line in action, benefiting people, planet and profit. She stressed on the importance of LEED certification, which leads to healthier more productive places and reduced stress on the environment by encouraging energy and resource-efficient buildings. The certification also emphasised on the savings from increased building value, higher lease rates and decreased utility costs. With ARC, LEED-certified buildings can benchmark against themselves and other similar buildings locally and globally. Spaces without certification can use ARC to make improvements in sustainability and human health and take steps toward earning LEED certification. Ultimately, ARC will eliminate complexities and barriers and enables us to make smarter decisions.

Session II
Mr. S.S. Ali, Consultant – Energy Conservation and Project Management, Chennai.

He gave an insight about the Efficient Management of Electrical Energy. He explained on power quality, harmonic mitigation, energy conservation, energy efficient lighting and maintenance management systems.

Session III
Dr. L. Ramesh, Founder and Chairman, Energy Efficiency Research Group (Green9), Chennai, Director – MGR Vision 100MW.
He introduced the concepts of energy efficiency and emphasised on how to manage energy efficiently in residential buildings. He gave an overview of the methodology and different opportunities for reducing energy use in buildings without sacrificing comfort levels. He explained the various mechanisms for financing energy efficiency measures in buildings. He explained about his Energy Conservation Initiative – Vision 100 MW. He also demonstrated various case studies on Power Management in Residential Feeder and Residential Flats.

DAY II – Session IV
Dr. S. Raj Kumar, In charge – Centre for Excellence and Futuristic Development, Larsen & Toubro Limited, Chennai.
He explained that the concept of Green Building concentrates mainly on two points: Increasing the efficiency with which buildings use energy, water and materials and Reducing building impacts on human health and the environment, through better site selection, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal throughout the complete life cycle. The key concepts in designing a Green Building lies in its Sustainable Site Selection, Material Resources and Water Efficiency. Green Building standards also contain certain guidelines for the waste management. First of all, it seeks to generate minimum amount of waste possible during construction. Generally during construction, a large amount of waste material generated is dumped to landfills; this waste needs to be reduced. A building constructed with proper designing and following Green architecture standards produce less amount of waste as compared to other buildings. Indoor Environment Quality is a very important parameter to be considered for Green Buildings. It directly affects the health of occupants, which says that in buildings with good environmental quality, proper heating and cooling system ensures adequate ventilation, fresh air with in duct filtration system should be installed to improve the quality of indoor environment.
He also emphasized on the fact that Ventilation is a very important factor in maintaining healthy indoor air quality as it is responsible for air exchange which supports the health and comfort of building occupants. Effective design and planning for ventilation is necessary to reduce the requirement of artificial ventilation. Automated Building System techniques like HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) systems regulates the heating equipment and air conditioners on the basis of their sensor based network. The sensors control the equipments on the basis of indoor environmental conditions. Similar to this, sensor controlled lighting system which monitors the lighting appliances based on the availability of natural light are also used.
Session V
Mr. Vignesh Sundaram, Head – Construction, SolarTown Energy Solutions Private Ltd.

He explained the design and installation of the solar plant at KCG campus. A visit was arranged for the participants to the 100kW Solar plant at KCG College of Technology.
Session VI
Mr. M. Krishna Manoharan, Head – Business Manager (Solar), ReGen Powertech Pvt. Ltd., Chennai.

He emphasized on concepts of Rooftop Solar Generation. He explained the installation methods of the solar rooftop panels. He showed a case study of the comparison of electricity bills before and after installation of panels. He explained about the Solar -Wind Hybrid projects of Regen Powertech at Vagarai. He mentioned about the advantages of a True Hybrid System – two largely independent generation systems located in close-proximity to each other in order to share larger transmission equipment and broader transmission infrastructure.
The programme concluded with feedback from the participants and certificate distribution by the invited speaker Mr. Krishna Manoharan.

FDP On ME 6505- DYNAMICS OF MACHINES

A two day faculty development programme on “ME 6505-DYNAMICS OF MACHINES”
was held at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, of KCG College of Technology,
under the patronage of KCG Management from 16th June to 17th June, 2017.The FDP aims to
provide opportunities to faculty members, & research scholars to enrich their teaching skill and research in the field of Dynamic of Machine and Vibration. The Programme also intends to develop the knowledge of participants for with advanced software in the relevant field for inculcating learning values in students and guiding and monitoring their progress.
The FDP was attended by 30 participants from faculty members of MECH from External Colleges and Internal Faculty Included.
INAUGURAL SESSION:
The esteemed personalities present on the inauguration of the programme:
• Dr. G.Prabhakaran, Principal of KCG College of Technology
• Dr.S.Ramesh, FDP Convener, Head of Mechanical Engineering, KCG College of Technology
• Dr. C.Jebaraj, Chief Guest senior Professor, VIT University, Chennai
• Dr .S.Balaguru, Associate Professor, FDP Co-ordinator, KCG College of Technology
• Mr.K.Mahesh Kumar, Assistant Professor, KCG College of Technology

TECHNICAL SESSIONS:
1st Day (16/06/17) Session I:
Prof. (Dr.) C.Jebaraj, Former Director,AU-FRG Institute for CAD/CAM, Anna University & senior Professor, VIT University, Chennai, has delivered keynote address on “Overview of Dynamics of Machines”. In this session participants were learned the application of effective Teaching Methodology in order to get the best results of this critical Course from the students.
1st Day (16/06/17) Session II:
Dr.D. Sathia Narayanan, Scientist-E Grade, NIOT, Chennai, has delivered an interactive lecture on
“Chatter Vibrations and Its Suppression”. In this session participants were learned the Vibration Topic in different Perspective from the Viewpoint of Ocean & Offshore Technology. He dwelt on the significance of the parametrically excited vibration and Catastrophic effects of self excited vibrations.
1st Day (16/06/17) Session III:
An informative lecture on “Free Vibration & Forced Vibration” was discussed by Dr.K.Malar Mohan, Deputy Director, Centre for Academic Courses, Anna University. In this session, participants were learned the Course from Engineering point of view and from practical standpoint. He discussed on the some real-time Case studies related to Vibration and how to interpret the numerical values obtained from Vibration analysis. He also explained about how to choose appropriate measurement unit of Vibration like displacement, Velocity and acceleration depending upon the application and severity.
1st Day (16/06/17) Session IV:
Mr.K.Mahesh Kumar, Assistant Professor, KCG Tech has illuminated on “Turning Moment Diagram & Flywheel”. In this session participants were gained with the knowledge of the real time Mechanical system and its power requirement demand.. He inspired the participants to work on Problems related to TMD and Flywheel and its design and its impact on the overall efficiency of the machine dynamics. He elaborated on the two different commonly encountered situation in Mechanical Engineering for Flywheel application and it use. He also solved numerical problems in Turning moment diagram and Flywheel Design..
2nd Day (17/06/17) Session I:
Prof. S.Kannan, Assistant Professor, VIT University, Chennai, has focused on “BALANCING OF MASSES”. In this session participants were familiar with theoretical and practical aspect of finding out the unbalance in a machine component and machinery. He enlightened on single plane balancing and Double plane balancing with real time examples. He solved numerical problems in balancing of rotating masses with both graphical and analytical approach and narrated about dynamic balancing machine used in Industry.
2nd Day (17/06/17) Session II:
Dr.S.Balaguru has explained “GYROCOPIC COUPLE AND ITS EFFECT ”.In this session participants realized the significance of understanding the concept of Gyroscopic effect in design.
2nd Day (17/06/17) session III:
Prof G.Maikandan, Adjunct Professor, KCG College of TECHNOLOGY stressed upon the importance of taking notice of some critical design elements and hidden facts.
VALEDICTORY SESSION:
The honorable personalities present in this occasion were Dr.S.Ramesh, Prof G.Maikandan, Dr.S.Balaguru, Mr.K.Mahesh Kumar summarized the program. All the personalities appreciated the department for organising the FDP. The program was ended with vote of thanks by Mr. K.Mahesh Kumar, Asst. Prof., MECH Dept., KCTech & Coordinator of the FDP.
OUTCOME :
All the sessions were very much informative. The discussed areas are of great benefit for the participants as the topics match with the current working domain. Participants were enlightened with the most widely used advance technologies in this domain. This in turn will help in research activity and placement opportunity.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering has Organised a “One Day Skill Development Program in Gas Welding” exclusively for Final Year Mech./Automobile Engg., Polytechnic students at our campus. The Welding Simulator Facility, available in our Department enabled students to rapidly refine basic welding skills, learn proper welding technique and explore welding career paths in a safe, virtual environment. This Program provided an opportunity for the polytechnic students to receive both theoretical and practical knowledge and skill in Welding. The Program was conducted for twenty meritorious final year Mech./Automobile Engg., students per day from Polytechnic Colleges from 19/06/2017 to 21/06/2017.

Power Point Presentation about our College and about our Department was given by Dr.D.Easu, Associate Professor & Mr. S.Jesudass Thomas, Associate Professor. Power Point Presentation on Basic Theory related to Gas Welding was presented by Mr. Rajesh Kannan, Asst. Prof. & Mr. M. Vignesh Kumaar, Asst. Prof. Welding Simulator Training was given by Mr. Rajesh Kannan, Asst. Prof., Mr. M. Vignesh Kumaar, Asst. Prof. along with Mr.Sajji Kuriakose, Workshop Supdt., Mr.Santhosh Kumar, Instructor, Mr. Y .Anand, Instructor & Mr. A.Jayakumar, Instructor. Gas Welding Practices were also given to the students by the other Lab Instructors of Department of Mechanical Engineering.