The department of ECE and IETE organized technical paper presentation contest for the welfare of ECE students on 31 August 2017 at LIC lab. Students from 2nd year, 3rd year and final year ECE participated in the contest.
For 2nd year, First Prize was bagged by Shreya S., & Shubham Kumar with paper title – Low Cost LPG Leakage Detector, Second Prize was bagged by two batches (1) Arun Kumar S., & Hemant Kumar with tilte – CAMTRACER & (2) Kothaai R., & S. K. Hareshaa with title – Reinforcement Learning. Third Prize was bagged by two batches (1) S. Niranjana & B. Sujitha Arasi with title – C-PEN, & (2) M. Manoj Kumar & R. Muthuram Pandian with title – CRDI Technology.
For 3rd year, First Prize was bagged by D. Joel Andrews & A. Ajay Naraynan with title – Wireless Fencing, Second Prize was bagged by two batches (1) M. Jaishree, A. Hemavathy, and M. Elakkiya with title – Bio Battery, & (2) D. Poornima, M. M. Pooja Prasan, & K. Poonkuzhali with title – Automatic Accident Detection and Rescue with Ambulance. Third Prize was bagged by M. Kansul Sabira, S. Emerald Shirley Brighta, A. Andal, & Hritusree Bhowuik with title – Flexible Nano Structure base Paper Battery
For final year, First Prize was bagged by V. Ramanan & M. Someshwaran with title – Renewable Energy Band Wireless Communication for Military Application, Second Prize was bagged by Adithya S. with title – H-Watch, and Third Prize was bagged by N. Vinitha & B. Kiruthika with title – Transparent Electronics.
Mr. T. Thomas Leonid, Assistant Professor/ECE, acted as the session judge for the event. Dr. Jose Anand, Associate Professor/ECE, & IETE Student Forum (ISF) Co-ordinator, and Ms. K. Nirmala Devi, Assistant Professor/ECE, co-ordinated the event.
Internatioal F-9 (Go Karting) Championship(IF9GKC), conducted by KK Motors& Koshi Motors at RPM racing circuit, Bhopal from 06-09-2017 to 09-09-2017. Totally 45 colleges and universities all over India actively participated in this event.
The event comprises of both static and dynamic tests in which teams have to equally concentrate on all these tests in order to perform well in the event.
Static Tests:-
Technical inspection:
It consists of a safety scrutiny that declares the vehicle to be safe for racing. Around 22 teams cleared technical inspection this year. Team FRICTION V 2.0 was the first team from south india and overall to clear Technical inspection.
Design, Cost and Business presentations:
Our team presented their design, cost and business reports at the event successfully.
Dynamic Events:-
Acceleration & Brake test:-
For participating in further events it is mandatory to clear the brake and acceleration tests. In this teams they have to run their vehicles for a flat run of 35 metres with a minimum speed of 25 km/hr. Friction V2.0 was the first team to clear both acceleration and break test from south India and all over India.
Skid pad test:-
The skidpad tests the turning radius and cornering stability of the vehicle.Our vehicle completed the course in 38 seconds without knocking any cones.
Autocross test:
The autocross test tests the handling and cornering capability of the vehicle
Endurance test:
The endurance race tests the durability and reliability of the vehicle. The vehicle has to cover 25kM continuously without any malfunction. This is done by running 12 laps in RPM kart racing trackwhere each driver covers 6 laps. The lap times of the vehicles are noted and points are allotted according to the vehicle’s performance. Only 17 vehicles participated in endurance after the pre-scrutiny of which only 10 cars completed the full 25 kms. Our vehicle is one of the 10 to successfully complete the race.
Team FRICTION V 2.0 completed all the static and dynamic events successfully and expect a good overall position in the team rankings. We are confident that with our college’s support and the experience we have gained this year, we can reach much greater heights in the next event.
Report on Project Club – Day 1
The inauguration of the project club was held on 16 September 2017 at the EDC Lab, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. Dr. V. Subbaroyan, Professor & Head/ECE, inaugurated the club. Nine students participated in the first class. The participants learnt the basics of electronic devices and its practical specifications, details of tools, and practiced soldering and de-soldering on the Printed Circuit Board.
Nineteen faculty members from various disciplines of KCG College of Technology, Karapakkam, Chennai visited Nokia Solutions & Network Systems, Oragadam, on 18th September 2017.
All left the institution by 9.15 am and reached the factory by 10.30 a.m. All were welcomed by Mr. G Agni, Team Leader, Filter Production, and he gave a brief idea on what is happening at the factory. He also explained the activities that are carried out for the students, through university/institute collaboration, internships, summer camp, hackethon, etc., Then Mr. Ramachandra Rao, Faculty Trainer, discussed the safety and precautions to be taken inside the factory, while visiting the shop floor. All the participants were given a static voltage protection garment to wear, to safe guard the components/devices that are manufactured. Then Mr. P Karthikeyan, Manager – Industrial Engineering and Automation, discussed the business/products that is happening/developed in the factory, through a video presentation. To clarify everyone’s doubts Nokia is still developing cell phones which are marketed through HMD Global. The other products developed and manufactured by Nokia are Base station controllers, Base station transceivers, etc. Globally Nokia without mobile manufacturing has nearly 1 lakh employees. Most of the design and developments were carried out at Nokia Bell Labs at Shanghai, which is China’s biggest city and the global financial hub. Nokia is currently doing its research on 5G technology in mobile communication. Its quality for customers is based on I Own Quality. He explained about the various processes going on in the Oragadam factory, which is 8 years old now.
The participants were then taken to visit the shop floor where the production and warehouse is made. The stock are been carried through Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs). The staff at Nokia should be SMT certified only then they’ll be allowed to entry into the shop floor for working. They are also given Kaizen awards for their performance. They also have 5 S team awards for housekeeping. KPI charts are displayed for indicating the performance indications.
Different sections such as assembling, moulding, packaging, picking & placing, etc. were shown. Initially the designed PCB weighing nearly 250 grams were inserted into a stencil printing machine to scoop the solder over the PCB uniformly. In this machine the solder will be in the semi-liquid stage. Then the PCB is given to a solder thickness measuring machine, which measures the thickness over the PCB, which is also manually checked for any empty pads. Now the components are inserted using the SMT Component Populating machine, which can populate 75,000 components per hour. The SMT components are placed in feeders which are automatically fed into the populating machine for component insertion. The population is automatically made by the programs that are fed based on the PCB. Next the populated PCB are inserted into a PCB counting machine to count the populated PCB, where the components are semi-soldered. Now pre-soldering inspection is made manually to verify all the components are inserted or not. Then the PCB is inserted into a Reflow Oven, which is approximately 10 meters long, where the temperature is raised to nearly 250 degree for doing the soldering. Then the PCB is send to a blower for cooling. After the PCB comes to the normal room temperature, the PCB is arranged in the PCB stack. Then the PCB is given for testing one by one to check the soldering manually, and then by inserting into to Automatic Optical Inspection (AOI) machine. Then the tested PCBs are given to a PCB depaneling machine, to remove the unwanted PCB. Then by using in-circuit tester the unwanted solders are removed. Then the unit is tested for modular function test, where each and every modules in the PCB is tested separately. The failure rate at this stage is less than 0.6 %. Next is the unit level assembling for filters and RF sections. Most of the filters and resonators are fixed manually. Then tuning is made for the required frequency. Agilent test machines are used for this purpose. Again fine tuning is made at the second stage of tuning. Finally RF assembling and heat sinks are fixed. Screws are fixed both manually and using robots. The completed device is given for Ingress Protection testing. The final device weights about 50 Kg. The tested unit is send for packing, where the required accessories and manuals are kept along with the device. The packed unit is placed in the warehouse for delivery based on client’s requirement.
Then we visited the warehouse section we were able to witness both manual working and automated working in this section. Automatic Guided Vehicle with object detector is used to carry the components and materials from the warehouse to the manufacturing unit. The stack section was huge. Based on the material, they classify the bay into three. Bay A has materials with very expensive, bay B with medium expensive and bay C with less expensive such as screws, washer, etc.,
Then visited the training section, where AKS (awareness, knowledge, skill) model is adopted to train the new joining staffs. They also demonstrated the signal transmission in GSM architecture with a model. The Oragadam factory manufactures the BTS part in the GSM architecture.
The factory visit comes to an end by 1.30 p.m.
After the lunch Mr. Ramkrishna Patra, Head – Manufacturing Solutions & IoT Cluster joined with us along with Mr. G Agni and Mr. P Karthikeyan for a detailed discussion. Faculty members interacted with the officials of Nokia about establishing relationship between KCG College of Technology and Nokia in view of R&D, student projects, internships and product developments. They have happily agreed to extend their hands to associate with us for the benefit of the student community. Finally, we left the factory by 4:30 pm after the fruitful discussion.
We extend our sincere thanks to the Management and Principal for providing us the opportunity to get an industry exposure by arranging this factory visit. Also we extend our heartfelt thanks to the officials of Nokia for permitting us to visit their factory operations and for their acceptance for further collaborations.
Following are the faculty members participated in the visit.
- R Dhanalakshmi, Professor, CSE
- Poonkavithai, Professor, CSE
- R Anandh, Associate Professor, IT
- Jose Anand, Associate Professor, ECE
- S Cloudin, Associate Professor, CSE
- Sreekantha Kumar V P, Associate Professor, IT
- N Sivakama Sundari, Associate Professor, EIE
- V Hema, Assistant Professor, CSE
- S Soumya, Assistant Professor, CSE
- Minu Thomas, Assistant Professor, CSE
- A Anju, Assistant Professor, IT
- Krithikaa Venkat, Assistant Professor, IT
- Presanna Prabhu, Assistant Professor, Mechanical
- A Arvin Tony, Assistant Professor, EEE
- N Loganathan, Assistant Professor, EEE
- Aida Jones, Assistant Professor, ECE
- Feba Sosa Abraham, Assistant Professor, ECE
- M. Lavanya, Assistant Professor, EIE
- M Ramya, Teaching Assistant, EEE
Cloud10, E-cell of KCG college of technology conducted the E-cell orientation for the first year students on 26/09/2017 starting from 10.30am.
Dr Sumathi Poobal, Vice Principal, IEDC Coordinator and Dr.Ramanathan, HoD of S&H department addressed the students. They gave the insight of Cloud10, and its various activities at campus. They also shared the success stories of alumni entrepreneurs.
All the freshers attended the orientation programme from 10.30am. After the address , the E-Leaders of Cloud-10, E-Cell KCG college of technology , explained the students about the Learnwise app, National Entrepreneurship Network(NEN) Foundation and the activity “Idea Box”. Idea Box is an ideation competition for students. Following which the E-leaders and the Vice principal of KCG College of Technology conducted the event Idea Box.
The students were divided into small groups and were asked to elect a leader to communicate with. This gave them team spirit, to work as a team. The students were asked to come up with an idea that will have a positive impact on environment. The students showed active participation with enthusiasm. Students came up with product ideas and all teams explained about their product and the impact on the environment. The ideas were evaluated and best ideas won prizes. The orientation programme came to a close at 4.00 pm.
“The purpose of education is to instil confidence in students and enable them to think innovatively and motivate them to become innovators and job creators rather than job seekers,” said Dr Elizabeth Verghese, Chairperson, Hindustan Group of Institutions, while delivering the presidential address at the inauguration of the KCG Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship Centre (IIEC) and the Office of Student Affairs and International Student Services (OASIS) at KCG College of Technology.
Stressing the need to collaborate with leading universities across the globe in the area of research and highlighting the importance of staff and student exchange programmes, Dr Anand Jacob Verghese, CEO, Hindustan Group of Institutions, listed the various initiatives taken by the institution to sign MOUs with globally well-known universities and bring visiting professors to interact with faculty and students.
Speaking on the activities of the Office of the International Student Services, Dr Subbaroyan, Head, International Affairs, highlighted the visits of academics and representatives from various universities to the institute and the signing of MOUs with the universities. He also added that eight students had been selected to attend the World Festival of Youth organized by the Moscow Aviation Institute at Sochi, Russia and they would participate in “Aviation of the Future – Perspective Directions for the Development of the Aircraft Building Industry” programme from 15th to 21st October.
Dr Anita Manuel, Dean, Student Affairs, said that the Office of Student Affairs had been set up with manifold objectives with the primary focus on the welfare of students on campus. Stating that inculcating in students the habit of lifelong learning is the need of the hour and stressing the need to facilitate learning beyond curriculum, she listed the various flagship events, co-curricular activities and contests organized by her office. She added that the annual Hindustan Young Leaders Conference attracted delegates from different parts of India and offered a platform for delegates to discuss global challenges, in the process developing a high degree of communication skills as well as leadership abilities. She also mentioned how the twenty different clubs offered a vibrant space for students to have constructive fun as well as hone their talents.
Presenting the activities of the Higher Education Cell (HEC), Dr Albert P’Rayan, said that the Cell organized a number of events to create awareness among students about the importance of pursuing higher studies, scholarship opportunities to study abroad, education system in different countries, and preparing for Civil Services. He stressed the need for giving career counselling to the students and conducting regular training sessions and workshops on preparing students for examinations such as TOEFL, IELTS, CAT, GMAT and GATE.
Vice-Principal Dr Sumathi Poobal who also heads the KCG Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship Centre (KCGIIEC) said that the Centre would support students and alumni of KCG and other colleges in Tamilnadu, local community entrepreneurs and startups from idea stage to market ready business. She added that KCGIIEC would strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in the region by providing shared resources within local ecosystems and identifying and addressing unexpected market inefficiencies faced by the SMEs. The KCGIIEC would focus on thrust areas such as manufacturing, renewable energy and sensor technology.
Director Dr Annie Jacob and Principal Dr G Prabhakaran were among other dignitaries who were present on the occasion.
The department of ECE organized “Department Award Function” programme on 11th October 2017 for the welfare of ECE students at KMC auditorium by 11.00 a.m. under the following.
- Class Toppers (first, second & third in the April/May 2017 University Examinations)
- 100 % Attendance
- EFY Workshop Participation Certificate
- IETE Events Certificate
The award function started at 11.00 a.m. with the welcome address by Dr. V. Subbaroyan, Prof. & Head/ECE. Then special address was given by Dr. G. Prabhakaran, Principal, followed by the distribution of various awards and certificates. The felicitation address was given by Dr. Sumathi Poobal, Vice Principal & Prof./ECE. Finally Vote of Thanks was given by Ms. Kavitha Balamurugan, Associate Prof./ECE. The programme was co-ordinated by Dr. Jose Anand, Associate Professor/ECE.
MAKERDEMY has conducted Internship Campus Drive for final year EEE students on 12th October 2017 at KCG College of Technology, Chennai.
MAKERDEMY is a senior IIM alumni venture started with a vision of bringing world class MAKER EDUCATION to India. The tag lines LEARN, EXPLORE and MAKE reflect their approach to learning and creating. The dream of the company is to mentor a generation of makers who will go on to build world class products for the world, right out of India.
The programme was coordinated by Dr. R. Murugan Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering with valuable support and guidance of Dr. P Deiva Sundari, Professor & Head, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
The drive started with welcome address by Dr.P Deiva Sundari,. This was followed by small presentation by Mr. Venkatesh Varadachari, Founder, Makerdemy, which gave detailed knowledge of the company. The importance of internship and its key aspects in the industry was discussed in detail. He insisted that internships are a proven way to gain relevant knowledge, skills and experience while establishing important connections in the field. He further emphasized on the fact that electrical and electronics engineers should pursue their career in their core field and to develop products for India and grow in India. Their ongoing projects such as Voice Controlled Light System and Voice Controlled Car using Raspberry Pi were demonstrated by the alumnus of EEE Department, Mr. Vigneshwar which gave the students a wide insight of wireless and remote monitoring systems in the industry.
After that, aptitude test was conducted on technical and logical questions background. The shortlisted students have been informed to appear for a personal interview on a later date. The company assured a stipend of Rs.5500/- to the selected students during the period of internship.
Makerdemy has conducted Internship Campus drive for final students on 12th October 2017 in K.C.G College of Technology, Chennai.
MAKERDEMY is a senior IIM alumni venture started with a vision of bringing world class MAKER EDUCATION to India. The tag lines LEARN, EXPLORE, and MAKE reflect their approach to learning and creating. The dream of the company is to mentor a generation of makers who will go on to build world class products for the world, right out of India.
The programme was coordinated by Dr.R.Murugan Associate professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering with valuable support and guidance of Dr.P Deivasundari, Professor & Head of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
The drive started with warm welcome by Dr.P Deivasundari, Professor & Head. This was followed by small presentation by Mr.Venkatesh Varadachari, Founder Makerdemy, which gave detailed knowledge of the company. The importance of internship and its key aspects in the industry was discussed in detail. Take away from MrVenkatesh address was that Internships are a proven way to gain relevant knowledge, skills, and experience while establishing important connections in the field.He further emphasized on the fact that electrical and electronics engineers should pursue their career in their Core field and to develop products for India and grow in India. Their ongoing projects such as Voice controlled Light System and Voice controlled Car using Raspberry Pi were demonstrated by our alumni Mr.Vigneshware which gave us a wide insight of wireless and remote monitoring systems in the Industry.
After that, aptitude test was conducted which included technical questions as well as logical questions in them.Students qualifying the aptitude test were informed that they would be interviewed personally later. The company assured a stipend of 5.5k to the students, who get selected, during the period of internship.
We are very happy to be a part of the drive, to make use of the wonderful opportunity and be a part of Makerdemy.
