Volume VII Issue I JANUARY – DECEMBER 2012

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featured07 IWECC07 ICACC & ICECCS08 Five Day Social Work08 Founders Day Celebration 12 Talks, Seminars & Lectures12 Workshops & training14 Snippets & Accomplishments15 Forthcoming events

regular Samavarthanam 03 Deeksharambam 2012 04

Distinguished Lecture Seris 05 M.Tech & B.Tech Rank Holders 06 Abhiyanthriki 09

Bharatham 10 End Note 16

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Samavarthanam 2012, the course completion ceremony of the first batch of M. Tech and eighth batch of B.Tech students was held on May 25, 2012. Twenty seven

M.Tech students from two disciplines and four hundred and fourteen B.Tech students from five disciplines received their course completion certificates on the occasion.

Prof. Dr. M. S. Ananth, former Director, IIT Madras, and presently visiting Professor, IISc, Bangalore was the Chief Guest of Samavarthanam 2012. Through the Samavarthanam Address, Dr. Ananth shared his thoughts on education with the audience. In his address, Dr. Ananth expounded on the components of education, namely knowledge, know-how and character; and laid emphasis on the need to build character through education. He also elucidated Aurobindo’s principles of education; the connection between learning and creativity; and emphasized the use of intuition in learning. Discussing the history of education in India, from the gurukula system to the ‘shikshyakula’ system wherein the student may learn from gurus distributed on the internet, he pointed out that character formation through education has suffered down the ages. Character is built through education in values. This was achieved through the social structures like the joint families, discourses and panchayaths in earlier times.

Dr. Ananth underlined the need for

innovation and entrepreneurship in the globalised scenario. He also urged the students to take pride in their country, and added that non-violence, truthfulness and fearlessness were the most important requirements of a good character.

Rev. Fr. Jose Alex CMI, Provincial and Manager presided over the function. Delivering the Presidential Address, Rev. Fr. Jose Alex CMI exhorted the students to lead a meaningful life, inspiring others.Rev. Dr. Antony Kariyil CMI, Director, welcomed the gathering; while Dr. J. Isaac, Principal, administered the oath to the graduands. Prof. Kuttyamma A.J., Convener, Samavarthanam 2012 proposed the Vote of Thanks.

University rank holders of M.Tech (2010-2012), and B.Tech (2007-2011) were felicitated during the ceremony.

SAMAVARTHANAM 2012

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DEEKSHARAMBHAM 2012

The Deeksharambham ceremony of the twelfth batch of B.Tech and fourth batch of M.Tech students was held on August

6, 2012. Dr. J. Letha, Director of Technical Education, Government of Kerala was the Chief Guest on the occasion.

Delivering the Deeksharambham address, Dr. J. Letha mentioned that RSET is well equipped to meet the constantly changing trends in technical education, and has secured for itself a distinguished place amongst the self-financing engineering colleges in the state. Rev. Fr. Jose Alex CMI, Manager of RSET and the Provincial of the Sacred Heart Province of the CMI congregation, presided over the function. He congratulated the staff and the students for maintaining the highest pass percentage amongst the various engineering colleges under the M. G. university. Rev. Dr. Antony Kariyil CMI, Director and Dr. J. Issac, Principal wished the new students all success in their chosen field of study.

A two day orientation programme for the B.Tech students was held on August 9 & 10, 2012.

RAJAGIRI DISTINGUISHED LECTURE

Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, delivered a lecture as part of the Rajagiri Distinguished Series

on September 13, 2012. In his lecture, Dr. Tharoor stated that engineers were known to find simplistic solutions to complicated problems, but their narrow focused approach and tendency to view life as strictly black and white needed to be changed. Expanded thinking and exploring other possibilities are essential to be successful in life.

Drawing on his own experience, he pointed out that failures and setbacks are a part of life, and the opposite of success should not be seen as failure, but not trying. It is our ability to bounce back after a failure which is important, and just as the waves in the sea have crests and troughs life should be understood as a series of ups and downs.

He also exhorted the students to be the best they could be, thereby contributing to the betterment of the nation and the world. He pointed out that the younger generation could do a lot to improve India’s social and economic conditions, enabling the nation to move on from being Super poor to Super power.

During his interaction with the students, Dr. Tharoor remarked that it was unfortunate that the educated middle class did not enter politics, when there was so

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much they could do. The disillusionment which has set in with regard to politics can be wiped out only if more committed people were ready to enter the field – just as we elect the government we deserve, we deserve the government we elect. He opined that the hartal culture of Kerala is its biggest obstacle in development, but unfortunately the political leaders in the state were not willing to consider alternatives to mark their dissent.

Dr. Shashi Tharoor also formally inaugurated the technical extravaganza Abhiyanthiriki 2012. Rev. Dr. Antony Kariyil CMI presided over the function. Dr. Vinod Kumar P.B., Principal-in-charge welcomed the gathering, while Mr. Bedwin Taitus, Student Coordinator of Abhiyanthriki 2012 proposed the vote of thanks.

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Ms. Diya Thomas Ms. Deepa Mary Thomas Ms. Nisha P

Ms. Anju Suresh

Mr. Abin Jacob Mathew

Ms. Arathi S.G.

Mr. Mohammed Nizwan

M.TECH & B. TECH RANK HOLDERS IN M.G. UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2012

The first M. Tech batch of RSET has secured five university ranks in the university examinations conducted in

March 2012. Ms. Diya Thomas, Ms. Nisha P. and Ms. Deepa Mary Thomas secured the first, second and third ranks respectively in the discipline of Computer Sciences with specialization in Computer Science & Information Systems; while Ms. Arathi S.G. and Ms. Anju Suresh are the second and third rank holders in the discipline of Electronics & Communication Engineering with specialization in VLSI & Embedded Systems.

In the B.Tech final year examinations conducted in April-May 2012, RSET has bagged two ranks. Mr. Mohammed

Nizwan secured the first rank in Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, and Mr.Abin Jacob Mathew secured the third rank in Computer Science & Engineering.

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ICECCS & ICACC-2012

An International Workshop on Embedded Computing and Communication Systems (IWECC) was conducted on December 22 & 23, 2011. The main objective of the

workshop was to pursue the progression from communication and information theory through the implementation, evaluation and performance improvement of practical communication systems. The areas covered were Communication Systems, Embedded Systems Hardware and Software Design, Communication QoS and System Modeling, and Architectures for Adaptable Networks. The workshop was technically supported by International Symposium on Electronic System Design (ISED).

The two day workshop comprising invited papers, invited talks and paper presentations was inaugurated by Dr. Priyadarshan Patra, Intel USA. The inaugural function was presided over

by Dr. Fr. Antony Kariyil CMI, Director, RSET, Dr. J. Issac, Principal, RSET, Dr. Jimson Mathew University of Bristol, UK, and Prof.(Mrs.) Asha Panicker, then HoD Electronics and Communication.

The International Conference on Eco-friendly Computing & Communication Systems

(ICECCS) and the second International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communications (ICACC-2012) were held from August 9 to 11, 2012. The conference was inaugurated by Minister for Food & Civil Supplies, Mr. Anoop Jacob. In the inaugural address he talked on the strength of untapped power of will and knowledge in youth.

The Commissioner of the Civil Services Department, Dr. Raju Narayana Swamy IAS

offered felicitations and released the conference proceedings published by IEEE. Rev. Fr. Jose Alex, CMI, Provincial and Manager, RSET presided over the inaugural ceremony. In his address, he

stressed on the importance of gaining knowledge about new technologies and producing results by exchange and development of new ideas. Rev. Dr. Antony Kariyil CMI, Director, RSET, addressed the gathering and talked about the importance of specialization in each area in the present era. Shri. K.S.Jamestin, Director of HR and Business Development, ONGC was also present on the occasion and released the conference proceedings published by Springer. Prof. Jimson Mathew, University of Bristol, UK, released the proceedings of the workshop.

Plenary sessions were given by Dr. Raju Narayana Swamy, IAS, Dr. Florian Schatz, Christian-

Albrechts-university, Germany,

Dr. Rakesh Kumar Bajaj, Jaypee University of Information And Technology, Dr. Tuhina Samanta, BECS, Calcutta, Dr. Vijay Kumar CTO, ASSYST, Dr. S K Sinha, IISc, Dr. K. P. Ray, SAMEER, Bombay, and Prof. Govindan Rangarajan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

While ICECCS brought together experts from the green computing and communication systems community

to discuss the timely issue of green computing and low energy system design, ICACC provided a forum for sharing insights and experience, and interaction on various facets of evolving technologies and patterns related to Computer Science, Information Technology and Electronics. Collocated workshops held include International Workshop on Green Energy Technologies (I-WGET 2012), National Workshop on Software Defined Radio in Signal Processing - by Amritha Viswa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, International Workshop on Advances in Wireless and Microwave Technology (I-AWMT 2012), International Workshop on Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing (I-MMSC 2012) by IISER, Trivandrum, and International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing (I-WASP 2012).

Of the total 600 plus received papers for ICACC conference, 360 papers were reviewed, and 116 papers were finally

accepted. 90 research papers were presented in the conferences by researchers.

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The third semester undergraduate students of RSET undertook a five day social work programme under

the guidance of Rajagiri Outreach, an NGO with more than three decades experience in the social service sector, and RSET NSS Unit, from June 25 to 29, 2012 as a part of their B. Tech course requirement. The 480 students lend a helping hand in day-care homes for the elderly and anganwadis, spoke about Childline services to school children, and created awareness about the need for sexual health and hygiene amongst migrant laborers by becoming a part of the Suraksha Migrant Project. They also surveyed the beneficiaries of the Reproductive Child Health Programme of the Social Welfare Department, and spread the message of the Shuchitwa Mission. This is the first time that such a large scale social work operation has been carried out in the state.

Renowned academician, critic and biographer, and winner of the Kendra Sahitya Academy Award Prof. M.K. Sanoo delivered a talk on

the Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara, as part of the Founder’s Day Celebrations on January 3, 2012. Prof. Sanoo stated that Bl. Kuriakose Elias Chavara was an ‘avatarapurushan’ who revolutionized the social and educational spheres of the state.

5 DAY SOCIAL WORK PROGRAMME

FOUNDER’S DAY CELEBRATION

INSTRUMENT SOCIETY OF INDIA KERALA CHAPTER

INAUGURATED

RSET AWARDED CONSUMER

PROTECTION AWARD

RSET was awarded the Consumer Protection Award for the year 2011-12, for creating consumer rights awareness

amongst students. Shri K. Babu, Hon’ble Minister for Excise, presented the award to Dr. J. Isaac, Principal, RSET on March 26, 2012, in the function organized to celebrate World Consumer Rights Day at the Panchayath Community Hall, Kakkanad.

The Kochi chapter of the Instrument Society of India was inaugurated

by Cmde. K. Subramaniam on July 14, 2012. Dr. N. Vedachalam, ISRO, delivered the keynote address. Rev. Dr. Antony Kariyil CMI, Director, RSET presided over the function. Dr. J. Isaac, Principal, RSET, and dignitaries from the industry offered felicitations.

Earlier in the day, Prof. Nagaraju Jampana, Hon. Secretary of ISOI interacted with the members.

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ABHIYANTHRIKI 2012

Abhiyanthriki 2012, RSET’s national level techfest, was held on

September 14 & 16, 2012. Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, inaugurated the event on September 13, 2012. The two day event witnessed a large turnout from colleges across the country.

The website of the techfest was inaugurated by cine artiste Nivin Pauly on August 10, 2012.

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BHARATHAM 2011-12

Bharatham 2011-12 was

inaugurated by Mr.

Ramesh Pisharody, cine artist

on February 1, 2012. In the arts

festival spread over the next

three days, and which drew to

a colorful close on February 4,

Rajputs won the top honours,

followed by Vikings. Mrudula

K. of S6 ECE was adjudged the

Kalathilakam, and Amal Shaju

Joseph of S4 ECE was declared

the Kalapratibha.

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PLACEMENTS FOR 2013 BATCH

Placements at RSET

continue to be on a high

with 234 of the final year

students getting offers

after the first round of

campus recruitments

conducted in early October

2012. Companies who

visited the campus in the

first phase include Infosys,

Wipro, HCL, CTS, Subex

& Poornam. The total

number of offers received

is 488.

An academic retreat of two days was held on June 23 & 24, 2012 at the college, in order to draw up a development plan

for the improvement and growth of the institution. The retreat comprised department-wise sessions, wherein the faculty members discussed and debated on various aspects pertaining to the enhancement of teaching-learning, evaluation, mentoring, discipline, student activities, accreditation etc; which was then followed by presentations and discussions on these in the larger community. All the members of the teaching faculty actively participated in the sessions, and steps have been taken to ensure that the recommendations and suggestions generated are followed up.

The technical and office staff were given training by the Christ University faculty from October 23-25, 2012 at Bangalore. Their

suggestions and ideas were presented to members of the college management and administration on November 3, 2012.

ACADEMIC RETREAT

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TALKS, SEMINARS & LECTURES• A seminar on ‘Industrial Drives and Control’ was delivered by Mr. Binu Augustine and his team of M/s ARK Electronics, Palarivattom on November 14, 2011. There was a product exhibition also.• Prof. Mark Sanderson, School of Computer Science & Information Technology, RMIT University addressed the faculty members on December 14, 2011.• On January 21, 2012, Shri. T.K.A. Nair, Advisor to the Prime Minister of India delivered the Excellence in Leadership Lecture. He stated that education should lead to character formation and should not be viewed as just a means to employment.• Talk on ‘Process Safety & Industrial Automation: An Introduction’ was delivered by Mr Sujith Panicker from Silverra Consultants, Singapore on January 30, 2012.• M.Tech IDAC students attended a talk on Entrepreneurship by Mr. Javed Hussain, NeST on February 24, 2012.• Shri K M Chandrasekhar, Vice-Chairman, Kerala State Planning Board delivered the Rajagiri in Pursuit of Excellence Lecture-2012 on March 2, 2012. Shri Rajmohan Unnithan, AICC member offered felicitations on the

• i-Trax, in association with Technovia Info Solutions organized a 2 day workshop on ‘Adobe Photoshop’ for students on March 6 & 7, 2012.• Abin George, Rahul Babu, Roy Mathew, Pratheeka Paulose, Mariya George and Swetha D. Malia of S6 AEI attended a workshop on ‘Robotics’ organized by Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology, Trivandrum from March 2 to 4, 2012. • A 5-day workshop on ‘Modern Trends in Industrial Automation’ was organized by the Department of Applied Electronics & Instrumentation from April 23 to 27, 2012.• Department of Applied Electronics & Instrumentation conducted a one day workshop for the revised syllabus of the course ‘Data Acquisition

occasion.• Department of Applied Electronics & Instrumentation organized a seminar for students, by Mr. Sebin Joe, from Logic Software Solutions (P) Ltd. Kochi, on ‘Advanced Networking’ on March 5, 2012.• Department of Information Technology organized a talk for M.Tech. students, by Dr.Ei Ando, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, SOJO University, Japan, on ‘Research areas in Network Engineering’ on March 8, 2012.• Sri Mani Shankar Aiyar, Former Union Minister and Member of Parliament delivered a lecture on ‘Youth and Nation Development’ as part of the Rajagiri in Pursuit of Excellence Lecture 2012, on March 17, 2012.• Mr. John Jose, Research Associate, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT, Madras, delivered a talk on ‘The Heart of Multicare Design – Network on Chips’ on July 12, 2012.• Dr. Radhakrishna Prabhu, School of Engineering, Robert Gordon University, UK, delivered a talk on ‘Environmental Sensing and Monitoring’ on July 24, 2012.

System’ (AI010 504) for teachers from other colleges of MG University on July 6, 2012.• Mr. Unnikrishnan L. and Mr. Joseph Peter, DEE attended a one day workshop at Albertian Institute of Science and Technology, Cochin on July 7, 2012 on the topic ‘Power Quality Management’. •Dr. Jobin K. Antony, DEC attended the fourth SERC (Science and Engineering Research Council) School on ‘Laser Produced Plasmas: Physics and Applications’ on July 9-21, 2012 at RRCAT, Indore, MP. • Dr. Deepthy Das Krishna, DEC attended a workshop on ‘Recent trends in RF and Microwave technology and measurement’ from July 18-20, 2012 at IIST, Trivandrum.• Department of Electronics and

• Shri A R Krishnan, Adviser to Director, VSSC, ISRO delivered a presentation on ‘Data Acquisition and Telemetry Systems’ on August 21, 2012.• ED club organized talk and interactive session with the CEO of the Start Up Village, Kochi on September 24, 2012.• Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering organized an interactive seminar session with five professionals from WIPRO for M.Tech students on September 12, 2012.• Department of Applied Electronics & Instrumentation organized a talk on ‘Embedded and Real time embedded systems: Current trends’ by Prof. K Rajan, Department of Physics, IISc Bangalore, on October 5, 2012.• Mr. Karimpuzha Raman, MD of CARe Keralam gave a talk about the initiatives of National Innovation Council to promote innovation and entrepreneurship among the student community on October 29, 2012.• Mr. Nirmaljith from IISc Bangalore gave a talk on ‘Applications of Signal Processing’ on October 29, 2012.

Communication Engineering organized a half day workshop on the topic ‘Electricity crisis in Kerala and possible solutions’ on September 18, 2012.• Aptitude training for final year students by Konfidence was conducted on October 25 & 26, 2012.• A German delegation led by Prof. Dr. -Ing. Markus Brautsch, Institut furEnergietechnik IfE GmbHan der Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Germany visited RSET on October 31, 2012. An International Workshop on Recent Trends in Engineering & Technology was held as part of their visit.• A three day workshop on ‘LabVIEW’ was conducted by Department of Applied Electronics & Instrumentation in association with Trident Tech Labs, Bangalore from November 5 to 7, 2012.

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• A course on ‘MATLAB’ was organized by Department of Applied Electronics & Instrumentation for S4 AEI students from December 5 to7, 2011. • A Video Lecture course on ‘Linear Algebra’ by Mr.Gilbert Strang, Professor, MIT, of 32 hours duration was conducted by the Department of Electronics & Communication for RSET faculty from December 7, 2011 onwards. • A course on ‘PLC and Industrial Automation’ was organized by Department of Applied Electronics & Instrumentation for S8 AEI students from January 17 to 20, 2012.

• Mathematics Club Day was held on February 8, 2012.

• All Kerala Inter Collegiate Invitational Basketball Tournament for Rajagiri Trophy 2012 was inaugurated by Dr. Joy Joseph Puthussery, Principal, Bharata Mata College on February 21, 2012. FISAT, Angamaly won the trophy.

• Accenture conducted ‘Diversity Connect’ event for third year B.Tech girl students on February 24, 2012.

• Infosys’ ‘Infy 3.0 Roadshow’ for third year B.Tech students was held on March 21, 2012.

• Spiritual programme ‘Elation’ was held from March 23 to 25, 2012.

• A 5-day course on ‘PIC Microcontroller’ was organized by Department of Applied Electronics & Instrumentation for S6 AEI students in March-April 2012. • A bridge course on ‘Logic Development and Introduction to Programming’ for S3 CS, IT, EC and AE students with Biology background was conducted by the Computer Science & Engineering, and Information Technology departments from June 18 to 22, 2012. • Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering conducted short term courses on OrCAD for S5 ECE students on July 6 and 7, 2012; PSpice for S3 ECE on July

• Accenture Career Day for S6 students was held on March 31, 2012.

• RSET College Day, Dreamz 2012, was held on April 3, 2012. Mr. M.D. Jose, Managing Director Eddy Current Controls (India) Ltd., Chalakudy was the Chief Guest on the occasion.

• The Annual Athletic Meet was held on April 4, 2012. Dr. J. Isaac, Principal, gave away the prizes to the winners in the various events. Aryans emerged the overall champions.

• Farewell for final year students, ‘Confluence’ was held on April 9, 2012.• Faculty Induction Programme was held on July 21, 2012.

• Mr. Gopalakrishnan Prakash, Senior HR Manager of UST Global Technologies, Kochi, inaugurated the

26, 2012; and LaTeX course for S7 ECE students on July 19 and 20, 2012.• The third batch classes of the intensive training programme in “Process Control and Instrumentation”, conducted by the Department of Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, began on June 21, 2012. The course concluded on September 18, 2012.• A Preparatory Course for B.Tech admissions 2012 was held from July 9 to 21, 2012. • Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering conducted a two day course in ‘PSpice Simulation and OrCAD’ for lab staff on November 8 & 9, 2012.

activities of i-TRAX for 2012-’13 on August 13, 2012.

• Mr. Anil Menon, Account Manager, UST Global, inaugurated the activities of CYBERBLITZ for the year 2012- ’13 on September 5, 2012.

• i-TRAX organized a technical video presentation on latest trends and events in IT industry on September 10, 2012.

• Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering organized a talk on ‘Emerging Trends in the industry of VLSI Design and Embedded Systems’ on September 10, 2012.

• Project exhibition by second semester M.Tech Signal Processing students was held on October 15, 2012.

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•Mr. Rajeev K., Principal Engineer of NEST, Trivandrum interacted with M.Tech students regarding

research proposals on November 16, 2011.

•The Annual Staff Get Together was held at Hinterland Village, Mulanthuruthy on December 4, 2011.

•The M.Tech Network Engineering course started on December 19, 2011.

•Suchitwa Vaaram was inaugurated on January 10, 2012.

•S8 EEE students visited Wayanad from January 21 to 23, 2012.

•NSS distributed bags at the Home of Faith on February 21, 2012.

•The inaugural ceremony of ‘International Leadership Skills Workshop’ for students of Sojo University,

Japan was conducted on February 27, 2012.

•Feast Day celebrations of Rev. Fr. Jose Alex CMI, Manager was held on March 19, 2012.

•Feast Day celebrations of Rev. Dr. Antony Kariyil CMI, Director was held on June 13, 2012.

•An orientation programme for B.Tech aspirants was held on June 21, 2012.

•B.Tech admissions to College Merit seats were held on June 27, 2012.

•B.Tech admissions to Government Merit Seats were held on August 6, 7 & 8, 2012.

•The Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering conducted an industrial visit for the M.Tech IDAC

students to M/s Eddy Currents Limited, Chalakkudy in September 2012.

•RSET Staff games were held in November-December 2012.

•Our teams won the football tournament, and became the runners-up in the basketball and table

tennis tournaments in the All Kerala Inter-Engineering Tournaments organized by St. Joseph’s College, Pala. Sreeram N. of S4 IT got the Best Player trophy in Football and Abhilash V. of S1&S2 B got the Best Player trophy in Basketball in the events held in January 2012.

•Regil Tom C.J. and M. Sankar of S1S2 D won the first prize in the All Kerala Quiz Competition in

Mathematics conducted by St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulam on January 25, 2012. Sijin Sebastian (S1S2 B) and Sophia George (S1S2 E) secured the third prize.

•Astro Chacko Vayalil won the First Prize in the National Essay Competition in Malayalam conducted by the

Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA) as part of their Oil and Gas Conservation Fortnight – 2012 on January 30, 2012.

•Ms. Prathibha P.K., Asst Professor, DEE, presented a paper on ‘Multilevel Control of Variable Speed Wind

Turbine Generator and MPPT using Fuzzy Logic Controller’ at Manipal Institute of Technology on February 2, 2012.

•Sijin Sebastian and Sophia George of S1S2 won the second prize in the All Kerala Quiz Competition in

General Mathematics conducted by CUSAT on February 4, 2012.

•A paper by Mr. Anish T., Asst Professor, DEI, titled ‘A Novel and Computationally Efficient SVPWM

Algorithm for a General Multilevel Inverter’ was accepted for presentation at ‘The Applied Power Electronic Conference and Exposition’ at Orlando, Florida held from February 5 to 9, 2012.

•RSET won the 4th Chavara Cup Inter-Rajagiri Basketball Tournament held from February 14 to 16, 2012.

•Krishnanand V. Shenoy (S6EEE) and Febin Philip (S6 ECEα ) won the third prize in the All Kerala

Intercollegiate Encon Club Quiz conducted by BPCL, Kochi Refinery on February 17, 2012.

•RSET basketball team won the Inter Collegiate Basketball Tournament organized by Toc H Institute

of Science & Technology, Arakkunnam from February 29 to March 1, 2012.

•Prof. Dominic Mathew, DEI, published a paper titled ‘Compression of Pseudo-periodic signals using

2D Wavelet Transform’ in the American Journal of Signal Processing. (Published by Scientific and Academic Publishing USA) in March 2012.

•Mr. Sudheesh.P.G., DEC presented a paper ‘All Digital Ultra Wideband Transmitter Design’ in the National

conference on Current Trends in Computing (NCCTC 2012) held at Musaliar College Of Engineering & Technology, Pathanamthitta on March 1-2, 2012.

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

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•Mr. G. Raman, DEI has designed a book ‘RSET Process Control Lab Modernisation Documentation’ based on

various control loops in Process Control Laboratory, which is available in the college library.

•Fourth Semester M. Tech IDAC students attended the National conference on Computational Intelligence

in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, organized by DEE, Satyabhama University, Chennai in March 2012. Two papers were declared as best papers in the conference: (1) Ms. K. Vinida’s ‘Circuit design & simulation of Low voltage energy harvesting using switching vonverters’, and (2) Ms. Anumol George’s ‘High Power Factor offline Power supply for wide input ranges using Integrated Buck Flyback Converter’.

•Dr. Jobin K. Antony, DEC received the best technical paper award (academics) in the global conference

conducted at Fluid Control Research Institute (FCRI) Palakkad.

•Mr. Jaison Jacob, DEC presented a paper ‘Cellular Automata Approach for Spectrum Sensing in Energy

Efficient Sensor Network Aided Cognitive Radio’ in the International conference on Eco-friendly computing and communication systems(ICECCS-2012),RSET in August 2012.

•Dr. Jobin K. Antony, DEC published a paper titled ‘Single laser based dual-wavelength ablation technique for

emission enhancement during LIBS’ in the International Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. (DOI:10.1088/0022-3727/45/36/365401).August 2012.

•Dr. Jobin K. Antony, DEC published a paper titled ‘Dual-wavelength laser induced breakdown spectroscopic

technique for emission enhancement in vacuum’, in the International Journal of Applied Physics A. (DOI:10.1007/s00339-012-7282-y).August 2012.

•Manu Paul (S7 EEE) secured the 2nd position for paper presentation contest at FISAT on August 10, 2012.

•Mr. Anoop Thomas, DEC presented a paper titled ‘New Approach for Fingerprint Detection Based on

Singular Points’ at an International conference - ARTCOM (Advances in Recent Technologies in Communication & Computing) 2012, held from October 19 to 20,2012, at Bangalore, and published the same in the International Journal of Signal &Image Processing.

•Mr. Delson.T.R, DEC presented a paper titled ‘Development of a simple Fingerprint Pattern

verification method and construction of fake fingerprint image models’ in a National conference at Santhigiri College, Thodupuzha, on November 15, 2012.

•Ms. Anisha Natarajan, DEC presented a paper titled ‘Implementation of Time Domain Beamformer

for a Circular Array on FPGA using System Generator’ at CISCON-2012 organized by Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal on November17, 2012. It was awarded the Best Paper for the session Communication & Networks –II.

•Ms. Deepa Prabhu, DEC presented a paper titled ‘Real time sign language recognition system on

embedded platform’ at CISCON-2012 organized by Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal on November 17, 2012.

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS

•ISTE Workshop on Recent Trends in

Computing, organized by Department of

Computer Science & Engineering, and sponsored

by ISTE from November 26 to 28, 2012.

•Faculty Development Programme on

Applications of Mathematics, organized

by Department of Basic Sciences & Humanities,

RSET from December 3 to 15, 2012.

•7-day course on Processor Design (using

HDL) and Arm Boards for students,

offered by the Department of Electronics &

Communication Engineering, during the first half

of January 2013.

•International Conference on Advances in

Computing and Communications (ACC-

2013), from August 29 to 31, 2013.

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ENDNOTE:

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the

components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to

forgive.

- Albert Schweitzer

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