Events

The Hindustan Group of Institutions observed Founder (late) Dr KCG Verghese Memorial Day on February 14, 2018 at KCG College of Technology. All members of the Hindustan fraternity were present on this solemn occasion. The chief guest Mr. Charles Money, Founder Young Generation Leadership Ministries, combined humour and serious advice to deliver a stirring message in which he asked everyone to follow the three Ps of Passion, Purpose and Prayer. He gave examples of how youngsters had overcome various disadvantages to become figures of inspiration to all around the world. Dr Elizabeth Verghese, Chairperson of the Hindustan Group, in her presidential address, shared vivid glimpses of the late Founder Chairman and emphasized the need for ethical values in our lives.

A cheque for a dialysis machine was presented to the Tanker Foundation by Dr Anand Jacob Verghese, Director and CEO, HGI. Receiving the cheque, Ms Latha Kumarasawmi thanked the Hindustan management and mentioned the many times Dr KCG’s family had helped the foundation in their services to patients affected with kidney disorders.

A video presentation on the life of Dr KC G Verghese was shown for the edification of the gathering. Bible Readings and excerpts from the late founders autobiography ‘Wheels and Wings’ by students of the various Hindustan International Schools, hymns by staff choir of KCG, HCAS, and HITS were some of the other events that marked the solemn programme. The ceremony ended with a closing prayer and benediction by Rev. Thomas Alexander, Vicar of St Paul’s Mar Thoma Church, Adyar.

Engineering materials and metallurgy is one of the main courses for Mechanical engineering students in their fourth semester syllabus and part of giving more clarity and understanding in this subject a guest lecture is arranged on “Advances in materials and metallurgy” Mr. Kesapillai, senior metallurgist gave a lecture on the topic.

The following topics were taught during the lecture hours:

1. Basics of Metals
2. Micro Structures of metals
3. Iron carbon diagram
4. Applications of light weight metals
5. Power metallurgy and applications
6. Recent trends and advances in the field metallurgy

And also hands on training were given to the students for study the micro structure of different metals by using mechanical metallurgical microscope.

An interaction section was conducted after the lecture. The section was very interesting and informative.

The KCG MUN club organized a communication skill workshop “Thinking on Your feet” on 24^th February 2018. The resource person was DTM Gautam Sharma, Founder of Sanskaar Acafemy, and an award winning speaker and trainer.

The session opened with Dr Anita Manuel, Dean (SA) welcoming the gathering and explaining the objective of the workshop. It was to equip students with simple techniques that would help them overcome their fear of public speaking and also to help them think quickly and respond clearly during an interview.

The speaker began by recounting his personal experiences as to how he developed his own communication skills, which helped the students to relate to the speaker. First he pointed out that one needed content to be able to speak. Though this only counted for 7% of the impact without content, there could be no delivery. Body Language and voice modulation were the other two components that comprised the effectiveness of our communication.

He spoke about different communication styles like passive, aggressive, passive aggressive, manipulative and assertive. He also had relevant activities for the students to participate and understand the communication styles and for the student to understand how the knowledge of the content and familiarity will lead to better communication. He also enriched the students with some tips as how to face an interview – before the interview, during the interview and after the interview. He ended with a Q & A session, where he clearned many doubts raised by students.

One of the club members delivered the Vote of Thanks. Written feedback was collected, which was very positive. Participation certificates were issued to the students who attended.

Sports and athletics have been an integral part of KCG for years and its im memorial.

Its my pleasure to present Annual Sports report 2018. Keeping up the tradition, this year too, KCG College of Technology  organized its 9^th  Dr KCG Memorial Tamil nadu State level inter school  Touranament in Football,Basketball &Volleyball with the same flamboyant spirit, on the 14th of Febuary 2018 saw 600 participants from 49 schools across Tamil nadu.  Dr.Elizabeth Verghese Chair person, Hindustan group of Institutions was the Chief guest and distributed the prizes to the winners.

On 1^st September  we organized Anna University Zone III Handball Tournament at our college campus around 400  Students from 26 Colleges participated.

On 27^th January Department of Physical Education organised an one day Yoga Work shop on the topic “Yoga Today”( Empowering Youth for Tomorrow) for our First year  Sports club & Fittness club members more than 200 club members learned Yoga

This year our management has given us 40 new cycles for the department of Physical Education for the purpose of cycling club and  We have almost completed the MOU with OFO largest cycle sharing company in the  world .

Sports activities is an integral part of student’s career. Our students are enthusiastic sportsmen with zeal and ambition to give their best performance.

2017. Nagajothi III year Aero participated for India in TFF Minime Series & All Thailand Fencing Championship organised by Thailand Fencing Association at Bangkok from 9 to 17 September 2017.

Praveen raj of I year Civil selected for under 21 Indian camp in Judo at Sonipat Haryana from 5^th August to 15^th September organised by Judo federation of India

B.Sabrish  of I year  EIE won the Anna University Inter zonal Tournament and qualified to represented Anna University in All India Inter University Tournament at Punjabi University from 15^th – 28^th November 2017

M.Manoj IV year Mech represented Anna University in All India Inter University Swimming Championship at Punjabi University Chandigarh from 26-30 October2017

R.Surya of  I year Aero represented our     state in 28^th Juniour National Throwball Championship at Mandya, Karnataka organised by Throwball Association of India from 24-27^th August 2017

Pragadeeswaran  III year ECE Represented Pondichery in Senior Nationals Handball Championship  organised by Handball Association of India  at Kaddapa .

Our students have participated in various Games and Athletics events conducted by Anna University at  Zonal and Inter-Zonal level. The following are some of the sports achievements by our students during the academic year 2017-18.   During the month of October 2016 (from 19th to 21^st ) our College Athletic team has participated in Anna University Inter Collegiate Athletic Meet at MNM Jain College campus and Ms.Little Prasanna Soundari of  I  year ME Mech won the Silver medal in 1500 mts run.

It gives me an immense pleasure to inform you that our College Handball team won the Anna University Zonal Hand ball Championship  organised by KCG College of Technology

The college has an appreciative team of volleyball, which has won Runners up in Anna University Zonal Tournament  and VIT Trophy.

Another asset of our college is sparkling players of Football Which won third place in  Anna University Zonal Tournament at MD Sathak College on 12 -15 October 2017 and they also bagged the Third place in Buck Memorial Tournament at YMCA College of Physical Education .

Rajeswari  IV EEE won the silver medal & Kaviraj II EEE  won the bronze medal at 36^th Tamil nadu State karate Championship held at Chennai on 5^th December

B.Sabarish I EIE won the gold medal at Chennai District Boxing Championship on 9^th & 10^th September 2018 organised by Tamil nadu boxing Association at Nehru stadium

Happy to inform you all that Accountant General ( AG an central govt enterprise) have signed Allan Raul of I year CSE and Richard of I year EEE  to play for their football club in upcoming First division league to be held at Nehru stadium. we wish them to get Appointment in the same)

Thank you

“Drone Technologies and Applications”

For the first time in India KCG college has brought in National level Drone    Racing to Chennai on March 2nd and 3rd.  KCG Drone PitStop 2018 happened to be the most exciting event for the Drone lovers of this country where flying drone has become a passion for most of the youngsters. This event was planned in such a way that young minds have to design their own drone not just flying the off the shelf commercial one. This was a spectacular event for the audience witnessing the several drones competing with each other and flying through challenging obstacles. Department of Aeronautical Engineering, KCG college of Technology in association with, Aeronautical Society of India (AeSI) and Aerospace Industry Development Association of Tamilnadu (AIDAT) has conducted the Mega event KCG Drone Pit Stop 2018. On 2nd March 2018 eminent speakers from Drone Industry have delivered the lectures in the Seminar “Drone Technology and Applications” at Mirza Seminar Theatre of KCG college of Technology. The seminar program was started with welcome address by Dr. K. Vijayaraja, HoD Aero followed by the Lightning of Lamp by the Dignitaries. The Special address was given by Dr. G. Prabhakaran, Principal KCG College of Technology. The Chief Guest and the Guest of Honour for the event were Dr. S. R. Chakravarthy, Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IITM and Coordinator National Centre for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD) and Mr. Subbian Seetharaman, Asst Vice President, Siemens-Gamesa. More than 270 students from KCG College of Technology and 38 students from various Colleges and professionals from Industries have attended the seminar. Chief Guest spoke on the different engineering principles and shared his vision how the engineering should be. His key note address covered various topics including grounding of CONCORDE, air taxis in future, VTOL, comparison of US GDP and Indian GDP growth and the possibility of India becoming the second biggest economy in the world within twenty years and necessity of our younger generation commitment. Guest of Honour shared his experiences in the industry, usage of drones in wind turbines and solar power plant and his current projects at the outset. He spoke on various drone applications in the current market and its future prospects. The Dignitaries unveiled the Logo of Critical Thinkers club and its Year Magazine followed by the prize distribution to the achievers in the club. After the tea break the Seminar started with the first session given by the Resource Person Mr. Syed Mubashar Ali, Director, D-EPSAT Pvt Ltd. He spoke on DFMA (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly). He stressed on the importance of manufacturing machine components with less parts which would reduce the weight and leading to additional benefits. He introduced a new term EVIATION which deals with electric planes. Finally he wished to be a partner of Hindustan group in innovating new technologies in air travel  Second session was handled by Mr. Bhaskar Raghunathan, Director and CEO, Takvaviya Tech Pvt Ltd. He shared his passion towards the drones and hisexperiences in the industry. In the interactive session about the out of the box applications of Drones and he explained about his companies involvement in developing drones for specific applications in agriculture NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), studying the tide waves and collecting the data for safety precautions on Tsunami. His work was highly application/task oriented and inspired the students to take up a career on drone technology.After Lunch Break the third session was conducted by Mr. Sai Patabiraman, Founder, Sree Sai Aerotech Innovations. He introduced the regulations of Drones in India and said it was one of the best in the world and how the regulations will create more opportunity in the future. He said every registered drone will get a Unique Identification Number. He stressed the importance of autopilot in the drones and the requirement of four data points to develop an AI (Artificial Intelligence). Final session was handled by Mr. Rakend Dubba, CFD Engineer, Sukra Helitek. He spoke on various application of CFD with drones and their company’s contribution towards the development of drones. 18 teams participated in the event. On the first day, the teams were involved in assembling their drones as per the specifications provided by the organising team of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, KCG College of Technology. Points were awarded for their assembling skills and for the innovation. On the second day, in front of drone lovers of various colleges and public, racing event have started with loud cheering. Professional flyers have flown their UAVs and demonstrated their various aerobatic skills of flying. MMC_UAV and SKYPORT Innovations, an Indo-Chinese MNC, have flown their UAV showing its capability of crowd monitoring and patrolling, which was well appreciated by the knowledgeable crowd. This is the first ever college event in India for drone racing which will become a         yearly event.

Student Category:

First prize – Agni College of Technology, Chennai

Second Prize – RV College of Engineering, Bangalore

Third Prize – Sri Krishna College of Engineering, Coimbatore

Consolation prizes:

1. Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science
2. Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research

Open Category:

Winner: Mr.Mohammed Riyaz

Consolations Prize: Mr. Janarthan

Judges for the Event:

Mr. Vinoth Kumar, Engineer, Boeing India Pvt Ltd

Mr. Manoj Kumar, Technical Engineer, Boeing India Pvt Ltd

Mr. Bhanu Praveen, R&D Head, SKYPORT Innovations

Mr. Suresh, Assistant Professor, HITS, Padur

Mr. Dinesh, Project Lead,  UCAL

Mr. Parvez Alam, Head Corporate Marketing, UCAL, India and Mr. Justin Kwok, Overseas Manager, MMCUAV, China were invited for the valedictory function as Chief Guest and Guest of Honour respectively. Mr. Parvez Alam has appreciated KCG College of Technology for conducting such events. He also spoke to the students insisting the importance of drones in future. Mr. Justin Kwok explained the need for drones in present and future, he also detailed the type of drones used for various applications. The dais was decorated by the presence our Principal Dr. G. Prabhakaran and Vice-Principal Dr. Sumathi Poobal. The prizes  under various categories were awarded to the winners by eminent personalities on the   dias. The participants and winners have appreciated the way in which the event was planned, organised and executed.

KCG WOMEN’S CODING CLUB is an exclusive club for women to learn Coding and Associated Skills. It is a platform to create an awareness and interest among girl students on programming. As an initiative, we have conducted a Bulid2Learn session for the girl students on 2^nd March 2018 at Watts Humphrey Lab. The session was handled by Ms. Bhavani an alumnus of our college, presently working as a Product Developer at Focus InfoTech and Ms. Krthika also from Focus Infotech. On the first session, students were introduced to the concept of turtle in python. Using turtle they were taught to draw lines, shapes and eventually various sceneries. The students were made to apply their mathematical knowledge and they were also enabled to think in a logical manner. After learning session, the students were asked to prepare a scenery as the theme for the competition Creative Colors that was conducted on 8^th March at Steve Jobs Lab. Around 60 students had registered for the competition and participated with much dedication and enthusiasm. All the students applied their knowledge in creating beautiful scenarios with several themes for the competition. They also explained the hidden meaning behind the scenes and proved their technical abilities. Mr.Dorai Thodla and Dr. Sumathi Poobal Vice principal had judged the demonstration. All the competitors presented their work with much excitement. This, in turn, channelized their knowledge and energy towards becoming active participator.

The main objectives of KCG Women’s Coding Club are to improve computational power, logical thinking of students and motivate the students to participate in various events in and outside the college. We also want to help girls fearlessly explore their idea and create the next generation applications. The long-term goal of our Club is we want this club to become a movement to empower more and more girl students.

Dr. Sumathi Poobal Vice-Principal inaugurated KCG Women’s Coding Club by launching club’s official website during Women’s Day Celebration. Faculty and students from various departments had attended the session and made this event fruitful. . We have prepared an AV by collaging all activities related to our club and presented to the audience. Top 5 coders of Creative Colors event had recognized during the function with cash prizes and certificates. Overall the celebration and functions went well.

Anju.A

Coordinator- KCG Women’s Coding Club

A session on Psycho sexual well-being was held for students of First year on 6th March, 2018. Dr. T. Santhanam Ph.D., Director of SDS Institute of behavioural Sciences and his team members – Ms. Shruthi & Ms. Divya, conducted the session for boys and Dr. Anitha Manuel, Dean of Student Affairs, KCG College of Technology, conducted the session for girls.
The session gave an insight about characteristics of adolescents, adolescent behaviour patterns, life goal and its purpose. It also helped them to learn to handle their emotions, to improve their self-esteem and self-confidence and to bring in a change in their behaviour and attitude. The focus was also on stress management and SWOT analysis. It also focussed on as how to have a healthy relationship with opposite gender and how girls can cope with increasing gender violence.
The response from the participants was positive.

8^th March, 2018: KCG College of technology organised the Women’s Day Celebration at the seminar hall at 2 pm on the 8^th of March, 2018.The Speaker for the day was Mr Hafiz Khan from EZone India. All heads of departments as well as students were part of the program.

Ms. Aida Jones preceded over the program, which began with the launch of the website for Women’s Coding Club by our Vice Principal, Dr. Sumathi Poobal with the help of Ms. Anju, the coordinator of the club. The WCC club is a new initiative taken to encourage and strengthen girls in the field of programming.

The second part of the program was the highlight of the celebration. Mr Khan conducted a highly interactive and enjoyable session. He conducted a challenge called Glass Walk. This challenge required a volunteer to walk a few steps on broken glass pieces. The students hesitated initially as the presumption of hurting oneself prevented them from volunteering. Ms. Aishwarya of second year was however ready to take the initiative and she was the first to complete the challenge successfully. After watching her fearless performance, each and everyone in the hall, including our staff performed the challenge. It was a thrilling experience for everyone.

One of the several questions thrown at us were, “Would you be the first one to take initiative to try something new and walk on a path less trodden?” Mr Khan gave us great insight on taking up new challenges. He spoke about being open to new ideas. He went on to explain why none of us got hurt when we walked on broken glass. He therefore gave us a perfect illustration as to solving a problem by complete analysis. He encouraged us to think differently and be an initiator instead of following the band wagon.

The program ended with a vote of thanks and the singing of the national anthem. The session was a thorough learning experience.

The 2nd International Conference on Knowledge based Computing Technologies was organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Information Technology at KCG College of Technology, Chennai on 06.04.2018 and 07.04.2018.

The inauguration of the conference ICKCT-2018 commenced with the invocation. After invocation, the dignitaries lighted the kuthuvilakku and the august gathering was welcomed by Dr. M Krishnamurthy, Head of CSE Department. The Conference convener Dr. P. Selvi Rajendran explained the purpose of the conference and the process of the conference. The presidential address was given by Dr. G. Prabhakaran, Principal, KCG College of Technology. Mr. V.P. Sreekantha Kumar, Associate Professor, IT Department gave the introduction of the chief guest and the Inaugural address was given by the chief guest Prof. Dr. T.P. Kothari, Former Director of IIT Delhi. Dr. C. Emilin Shyni, Professor, CSE Department gave the introduction about the Guest of honour. The special address was given by Guest of Honour Dr. Surya R. Asai. Dr. J. Frank Vijay, Head of IT Department gave the vote of thanks.

After tea break, the session started with paper presentation for Day-I (06.04.18) forenoon. Then after lunch the session also had a keynote address followed by paper presentation. Later the panel discussion was held. In the panel discussion, research coordinators from all the departments have participated. Each session was awarded with best paper award.

On Day-II (07.04.17) paper presentation took place in both the forenoon and afternoon sessions. Keynote address was presented in the afternoon session. Best paper award is awarded in both the sessions. Later in the closing ceremony of 2 day international conference was held with the valedictory address by Dr. G. Prbakaran, Principal, KCG College of Technology. Welcome address was given by Dr. R. Anand, Associate professor, Department of IT and vote of thanks was given by Dr. P Selvi Rajendran, Convenor, ICKCT-2018. The conference report was presented by Mr. V.P. Sreekantha Kumar, Associate Professor and the Co-Convener, ICKCT-2018. All the sessions of the paper presentation was held parallel in two venues of F14 and Digital library. On an average of 10 papers were presented in both the venues.

Overall 133 papers were received from national and international institutes. Out of which 105 papers were selected and intimated. 63 papers were registered and 42 papers were presented.

The details of the session for 2 days are given below:

SESSION I: SOCIAL COMPUTING

Date                     : 6/4/2018

Venue                  : F14

Time                    : 11.00 AM To 12.30PM

Session Chairs   :

Mr. Satish Menon                                                   Dr. John Aravindar

Vice President – New Initiatives,                      Professor – CSE,

Thirdware Solutions Ltd, Chennai                     HITS, Chennai

SESSION II: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

Date          : 6/4/2018

Venue       :  Mirza Seminar Theatre

Time         : 11.00 AM To 12.30PM

Session Chairs   :

Dr. K M Mehata                                                        Mr. Krithivasan Rajagopalan

Senior Professor – CSE,                                         Principal Consultant,

HITS, Chennai                                                            Infosys Limited, Chennai

SESSION III: SMART COMPUTING

Date                    : 7/4/2018

Venue                 : F14

Time                    : 9.30 AM To 11.00 AM

Session Chairs

Dr. V. Vijayakumar                                                  Mr. Deenadayalan P

Professor&Associate Dean – CSE,                     Group Technical Manager,

VIT University, Chennai                                         HCL Technologies, Chennai

SESSION IV: INTELLIGENT COMPUTING

Date                     : 7/4/2018

Venue                  : Digital Library

Time                    : 9.30 AM To 11.00 AM

Session Chairs   :

Dr. Rajeswari Mukesh                                            Dr. C Emilyn Shyni

Professor& Head – CSE                                         Professor – CSE

HITS, Chennai                                                            KCG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, Chennai

SESSION V: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

Date                    : 7/4/2018

Venue                 : Digital Library

Time                    : 11.15 AM – 12.45 AM

Session Chairs   :

Dr Poonkavithai K                                                    Mr. Prabhu Chakrapani

Professor – CSE                                                        Team Leader – Development

KCG College of Technology, Chennai                               Uniphore Software Systems Pvt.Ltd,

IITM Research Park,   Chennai

SESSION VI: SOCIAL COMPUTING

Date                    : 7/4/2018

Venue                 : F14

Time                   : 11.15 AM – 12.45 AM

Session Chairs   :

Dr. L. Kavisankar                                                       Dr S. Sankar

Associate Professor – CSE,                                   Associate Professor – CSE

HITS, Chennai                                                            KCG College of Technology, Chennai

The best paper award was given in each session and following are the details:

Invited Talk:

Day 1 (06.04.18): AN session: The invited talk was given by Dr. Surya R Asai, Software Engineering & Design, Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore on “Cloud Native Platform and Micro Services”. She Highlighted the Cloud Services such as Software as a Service, Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service and how Micro services can be related to all Services in her speech. She insisted upon Micro services related to Billing, Video Streaming and Trend Analysis related to Scalability issues of Software. Among the three, Video Streaming finds more suitability towards scalability due to vast usage & need and how Micro services find its application.

The Participants from the following Colleges were participated in the conference.

1. Vel Tech RangarajanDr.Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Avadi,Chennai,India
2. Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai
3. SRM Institute of Science and Technology Chennai,Tamilnadu
4. Agni College of Technology,
5. IFET College of Engineering, Villupuram
6. JBAS College for Women,CEG Campus, Anna University
7. Anand Institute of higher Technology,Chennai
8. M.K.Engineering College
9. Sri Sairam Engineering College
10. Swami Vivekanada Institute of Technology, Secunderabad,
11. Meenakshi College of Engineering
12. PSNA College of Engineering and Technology, Tamil nadu
13. Jeppiaar Engineering college
14. R.J.College of Engineering and Technology,Mannargudi
15. Valliammai Engineering College
16. Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tamilnadu
17. Loyola – Icam College of Engineering and Technology, Chennai
18. S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology
19. SRM-TRP engineering college, irungalur
20. Joseph’s College of Engineering,Chennai, India
21. Sri Muthukumaran Institute of Technology,Chennai, India
22. Adhiparasakthi Engineering college,Melmaruvathur
23. Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering & Technology
24. Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering college, Chennai

The Workshop on Photoshop started with the introduction of the resources person by the HoD and continued with the explanation of basic tools, menus and options in the Photoshop CS4. The session continued with an interactive hands-on session of Photoshop software with an example of preparing a brochure, creating logo, preparing a ‘png’ image, etc. Also the participants where trained to prepare texts using masking, and different picture masking techniques. The workshop concluded with different ways of exporting the Photoshop documents like ‘PSD’, ‘PDF’, ‘PNG’, ‘JPEG’, ‘GIF’ etc.