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Certificate Course in Robotics & Embedded Systems

Even Semester 2016-17 – Batch I & II

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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.

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.