Events

“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.

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 Inauguration of Institution of Engineers (India) Students’ Chapter

Institution of Engineers (India) is a renowned professional body headquartered at Kolkata.  The Institution of Engineers (India) functions amongst professional engineers, academicians and research scientists and provides a vast array of technical, professional and supporting services to government, industry, academia as well as to the engineering fraternity.

The Inauguration began with the invocation of the god at 11.00 am. The Head of the Department Dr. S Ramesh, presented the Welcome Address. He welcomed all the dignitaries on and off the dais. The dignitaries were honored by the Association Members by presenting bouquet and the Principal presented the Memento. Dr. G. Ranganath, Chairman – IEI, Tamilnadu State Centre, was the chief guest and delivered the presidential address.He focused on the importance of IEI Students Chapter and the benefits for its members. He stressed that the students’ chapter must be also extended to the whole Institute. Mr. Sundara Sekaran, Immediate Past Hon’ Secretary IEI, Tamilnadu State Centre gave a special talk on “Role of Industry in Institution of Engineers”.

The Student Membership card of IEI was distributed to the students by the Chief Guest. Mr. M Arul Inigo Raja, Adviser, IEI Students’ Chapter presented the vote of thanks. About 399 students of Mechanical Engineering Department enrolled as members of the IEI Students’ Chapter of KCG College of Technology.

Mr. M. Arul Inigo Raja,

Assistant Professor,

Department of Mechanical Engineering.

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.