Events

i-CELL

Intel Mou Signing ceremony

MoU between Intel Corporation and KCG College of Technology was signed on 7.2.17 to train our students and faculty on IoT product development.

Intel  workhop on Intel Galileo

A workshop on Intel Galileo Gen 2 board, held between 07.02.17 to 10.02.17. There was a brief explanation about Intel Gallileo Gen 2 board. The explanation included hardware construction and procedure for connecting it. The basics of Arduino and simple programs were taught as apart of the programme.  The following day was a class on sensors in IOT.  In 3^rd day program in python to enable Wifi was taught. The last day was evaluation day and the students were asked to pitch the ideas.

The workshop was attended by 10 faculty members and 60 students . Fourteen projects were presented and they will be developed by the teams and presented.

The project presentation was reviewed every week.

Consultancy Work

Discussion on Consultancy work in software development with MELSS is in Progress. Mr.Sankar, Associate Professor, CSE Dept., is identified to take up this work.

e-CELL

An awareness programme cum workshop on social entrepreneurship – start a business and change lives on  28.03.17 with the support of Canara Bank under women empowerment. Practicing /teaching Social entrepreneurship were the resource persons for this programme.

Space Odessey International Seminar

Workshop  On Non Destructive Testing

On 13 th February 2017 our beloved Founder chairman Late. Dr. K.C.G. Verghese memorial day ceremony was conducted at HIET, Padappai campus in a grand way. This function was inaugurated with opening prayer by Rev. Thomas C. Alexander, Vicar, St. Pauls Marthoma Church, Adyar. Staff members and students from our group of Institutions were participated. Dr. Mrs. Elizabath Verghese, Chairperson, HGI has given a wonderful memories of our late chairman in her presidential address. Followed by Dr. Annie Jacob, Director, KCG college of Technology has read out a wonderful message from wheels and wings, auto biography of Dr.K.C.G. Verghese. Further Dr. S. Varadharajan, Former Director DOTE and Chief guest Dr.Sunil Chandy, Director, Christian Medical college, Vellore have given their meaningful speech, which includes sweet memories of our chairman. Students from our group of Institutions presented no of Choir songs. Meeting came to end with vote of thanks by

Mr.Nayan Kumar Mishra, Chief Instructor, AME.

Certificate Course in Robotics & Embedded Systems

Even Semester 2016-17 – Batch I & II

Report

Project e-Yantra is an initiative to spread education in embedded systems and Robotics by IIT Bombay sponsored by Ministry of Human Resource Development through the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT). The objective of e-Yantra is to provide hands-on learning to engineering students, creating the next generation of engineers in India with a practical outlook to take on challenging problems and provide solutions.

KCG College of Technology is a member of e-Yantra and has set up a state of the art laboratory under the e-Yantra Lab Set-up Initiative (eLSI). The KCG e-Yantra Robotics Lab trains students in embedded systems and micro-controller programming by engaging them through the Project Based Learning (PBL) mode.

The KCG e-Yantra Robotics Lab is offering a Certificate Course in Robotics & Embedded Systems. The course is of 12 hours duration (2 days). The registration fee is Rs 1650 per person. Each batch can accommodate up to 35 students.

The course for the first batch of 34 students from the ECE Department was conducted on 17 and 18 February, 2017. The course was conducted by Ms Aida Jones (Asst. Professor, ECE), Ms. Renganayaki G (Assoc. Professor, ECE), Ms. Feba Sosa Abraham (Asst. Professor, ECE), Mr. Subhash Chandra Bharathi (Asst. Professor, EEE), Ms. Bhavani (Asst. Professor, EIE) and Mr. Manoj (Asst. Professor, Mechanical Engg). The students were introduced to Embedded Systems and Robotics using the Firebird V robot which uses the Atmega 2560 as the master microcontroller and Atmel 8 as the slave. Programming the robot using Embedded C via the Atmel Studio 4 programming environment, compiling the program using WinAVR and downloading the program using AVR Bootloader were taught to the students.

• eYantra Report

About IET

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET-UK) is the largest multidisciplinary professional engineering institution in the world, headquartered in United Kingdom. The mission of IET is to inspire, inform and influence the global engineering community, supporting technology innovation to meet the needs of society with integrity, excellence, and teamwork. The IET has a journal publishing program that contains both original and review-oriented papers relating to various disciplines in electrical, electronics, computing, control, biomedical and communication technologies.  This is made possible through a number of networks for engineers established by the IET including the Professional Networks: a worldwide group of engineers sharing common technical and professional interests.

About IET ACADEMIC AFFILIATE

Partnering with a global professional organisation like the IET (UK) gives an added professional streak to both students and staff as it caters to additional cutting edge knowledge in advanced technologies that are consistently and continuously developed. The benefits of an IET Academic Affiliation are that Universities and colleges benefit from a rich portfolio of offerings from IET and it provides unique opportunities to network with IET’s international partners from both academia and industry.

IETKCTECH ACADEMIC AFFILIATE CERTIFICATION PROGRAMME

KCG College of Technology, Chennai, renewed the IET Academic Affiliate Certificate awarded by the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), United Kingdom on 21^st February, 2017. IET is one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community, and provides a global knowledge network to facilitate the exchange of ideas and promote the positive role of science, engineering and technology around the world. This will enable the knowledge transformation and their aim is to support Institutions by providing training in advanced technology areas, and also to support and conduct different events while simultaneously providing access to an international network of like-minded people. This will enable the Institutions to maintain the most up to date knowledge and skills in the dedicated sector. IET offers support to staff and students by providing project internships, funding assistance to attend national and international conferences, and to motivate the students to explore their innovative project ideas.

A meeting was held at KCG College of Technology for signing the Academic Affiliate Certificate Renewal. Mr. S. Raghavan, Regional Head (South & West) from IET India’s Bangalore office, represented IET India and handed over the Academic Affiliate Renewal Certificate to Dr. G. Prabhakaran, the Principal of KCG College of Technology who signed the contract. Dr. Sumathi Poobal (Vice-Principal), Dr. M. Krishnamurthy (HOD/CSE), Dr. J. Frank Vijay (HOD/IT), Mr. S. Cloudin (IETKCTECH Faculty Advisor), Mr. V.P. Sreekantha Kumar, (IETKCTECH Coordinator), Dr. V. Thulasi Bai (HOD/ECE), Dr. P. Deiva Sundari (HOD/EEE), Dr. N. Bharathi (HOD/EIE), Dr. J. Raja Paul Perinbam (Prof/ECE), Dr. Dhanalakshmi R (Prof/CSE), Dr. C. Emilin Shyni (Prof/CSE), Dr. K. Poonkavithai (Prof/CSE), and Mr. Jose Anand (Associate Prof/ECE) were  the dignitaries present during the function.

REPORT  ON THE FIRST STUDENT CHAPTER MEETING OF EWB-KCG

 Held on 23^rd February ,2017

The meeting commenced at 11:30 am in the IOT lab. The chief guest for the day was the CEO of EWB-INDIA ,Mr.T.Anantharajan .All the student members were present. The meeting began with a prayer song sung by two of the students. Our Vice-Principal, Dr.Sumathi  Poobal welcomed the gathering .

Mr.T.Anatharajan, shared the information about the functioning of an EWB chapter . He mentioned , that the members were a privileged lot as they have a strong platform to give back to the society .

The following are the highlights of his presentation:

• Chapter operation – It includes training for members on project management ,completion of project and monitoring it till the execution.
• Fund raising – This includes the correct approach to the various corporate sectors through the college or some other known source.
• Reporting – *quarterly activities

*Annual general body meeting

*Networking with the other student chapter

• Website updates

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“Seminar on Nanomaterials by Dr. TaeWon Kang, Dongguk University”

“Hackathon”

QUAD-COPTER WORKSHOP BY i3indya

The Department of Mechanical engineering conducted a two-day workshop on Quad-copter from March 15-16, 2017. An inaugural meeting was arranged on the first day at 10:30am. It began with a prayer song by the Department Choir. Later, the Head of the Department, Dr.S Ramesh gave the welcome speech inviting the Vice-principal, i3indiya resource person Mr. Gaurav Singh, faculty and participants to the workshop. He concluded by conveying the necessity of such workshops and how students will be benefit from them by acquiring practical knowledge that is not covered in course syllabuses. Later he welcomed Dr.Sumathi Poobal to address the students and inaugurate the two-day workshop.

She inspired students with an informative speech, in which she talked about the various applications of drones and unmanned aerial vehicles. She also mentioned how workshops can prove useful for the students while conducting projects, and participating in various competitions.

She also advised the students to always have the endeavour to learn new things, and urged them to work more in the field of quad-copter. She concluded her speech by officially inaugurating the workshop. And welcomed the trainer to address the student and start the first session.

In the first session, Mr. Gaurav Singh from i3indya introduced the major topics that were to be covered in the two-day workshop. This was followed by a question-answer session in which the students opened up about their ideas and thoughts on quad-copter. Later, the trainer explained the basic parts that make a robot and illustrated a few modern robots currently used in nations around the world for different purposes. He also gave a brief introduction to the embedded system in robots and its vast application in the modern world. The first session concluded by 12:50pm.

The second session of the workshop, on programming and BLDC motor interfacing started at 1:50 pm. In this session, Mr.Gaurav talked about how the programming behind robotics could be applied in quad-copters. He spoke about the various types of processors used in robotics and how BLDC motor interfacing can be done in quad-copters.