Volume : 7 Issue : 10 : April 2016

AMRITA SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Bengaluru

NEWS LETTER

CONTENTS

Visit to ‘The Hindu’ Facility

4th April, 2016

Annual Athletics Meet

3rd April, 2016

PRABIDHI 2016

5th April 2016

Rama Navami Celebrations

15th April, 2016

Blood Donation Campaign

16th April, 2016

Amrita Civil Services Academy

11th April, 2016

MADNITE 2016

19th April, 2016

Amritotsava 2016

21st April, 2016

Amritakalanjali 2016

21st & 22

nd April, 2016

M.Tech. Farewell

29th April, 2016

April 2016 PAGE 1

School Highlights

The Annual Athletics Meet is an important event in a

student’s life. It gets all the sporting talent of the School into

limelight. They fiercely compete against each other for

glory, honor and the prizes awarded. This results in a very

entertaining and high-octane display of talent.

Great was the zeal and enthusiasm seen as the School’s

Annual Athletics Meet was conducted on the 3rd of April

2016 at St John’s Sports Complex. A considerable amount

of planning, practice and hard work went into making the

event appreciated by all present.

The event began with the flag hoisting by the Chief Guest,

who then declared the Athletics Meet open. The Guest of

Honour addressed the students and encouraged them to

work hard and play hard with determination.

The Athletics Meet witnessed enthusiastic participation of

all the students. They actively participated in both track and

field events. Track events included running- 100m, 200m,

400m, 800m and 1500m for both boys and girls. Field

events included shot-put, discuss throw, long jump and high

jump.

The Athletics Day was truly a marvel; a unique blend of

sportsmanship, strength, agility and teamwork with each

race culminating in a battle against time.

Annual Athletics Meet

‘Lekhani’, the Press Club, organised an industrial visit to

the facility of the renowned daily ‘The Hindu’ on 4th April,

2016 located in Bommasandra, The Hindu printing facility

holds the finest and vivid newspaper printing process. 50

students, accompanied by Ms. Deepakumari S., the Mentor

of the club learned about the intricate steps involved in

printing a newspaper.

The day of 5th April, 2016,

dawned bright as students of

Amrita set out to enlighten

themselves about the ever

evolving field of technology. A

plethora of events was

organised by the technical

forums to gauge levels of theoretical understanding and

practical implementation of concepts taught in the class-

room. All events welcomed participants in teams of five and

promoted sportsmanship, teamwork and lateral thinking.

Events like ‘Final Destination’, ‘Kismet Konnection’, ‘Link

It’, ‘Robox’ and ‘Point It’ tested the mettle of students as

they leaped through the massive compilations of creativity to

complete the given task in record time. Other events like

‘Live-on-The-Edge, ‘Paani-Pong’ and ‘Black Hole’ received

immense appreciation due to the complex mix of plotting

and enjoyment. ‘Minute-to-Win-It’, the flagship event of

Prabidhi’16, was open to winners of other events and

witnessed participants completing mundane tasks with

interesting twists in less than a minute.

Record-setters were awarded prizes for their excellent

performance in all events. The overall championship trophy

of Prabidhi’16 was awarded to ‘Titans’ from III year.

April 2016 PAGE 2

Visit to ‘The Hindu’ Facility PRABIDHI 2016

School Highlights

Amrita University has started a new institute - Amrita Civil

Services Academy - in Trivandrum for coaching Civil

Services aspirants to write UPSC Exams.

Based on the coaching model that is existent in IITs and

other professional colleges, Amrita is also planning to offer a

one-month long Civil Service Prelims Coaching in Ettimadai

Campus for students of all the campuses, during summer

vacation (June 2016) with the support of experienced faculty

from Delhi.

To create awareness amongst our students about UPSC

Examination and the one-month coaching programme,

Mr. Neeraj Nachiketha, Advocate & Solicitor (Delhi High

Court), IAS Officer Mr. Ritesh Kumar Singh (Secretary to

Government, Finance Department) and Br. Biju Kumar were

in Bengaluru campus to give an orientation seminar on

Monday, the 11th April 2016. Around 130 students attended

the seminar.

Rama Navami, an important day in the Hindu calendar,

was celebrated in the campus on 15th April 2016 with great

pomp and grandeur. The day comprised of bhajans and

poojas which was followed by a flash-mob organised by

volunteers. Various mythological characters were cosplayed

by students who invited teachers to partake in the campus

celebrations.

April 2016 PAGE 3

Amrita Civil Services Academy

School Highlights

Rama Navami Celebrations

As part of ‘Prerana' (Community Outreach Club) activity,

the second Blood Donation Campaign was organized in

coordination with Rashtrothana Blood Bank on 16th April

2016. The event was inaugurated by Director Br. Dhanraj &

Associate Dean Dr. Rakesh S.G. The event turned out to

be successful by the active participation & support of

student volunteers and teachers. Around 300 units of blood

were collected.

As always, Associate Dean Dr. Rakesh S.G. was the first

donor.

April 2016 PAGE 4

Blood Donation Campaign

School Highlights

It’s an irony that we do not remember days but only

remember moments

‘MADNITE’, the musical

and dance extravaganza,

was held on 19th April from

6.30 PM to 8.30 PM. It

was a precursor to

Amritakalanjali 2016.

There were a lot of

entertaining performances

from students of all years

which kept an audience of nearly 700 enthralled and

interested throughout the evening.

We saw splendid performances by the outgoing

Amritadhara’16 team, and it was rightly taglined

#ekakhridhamaka. Madnite was opened by a band

performance by the first years and culminated with a dance

performance by the college team.

April 2016 PAGE 5

MADNITE 2016

School Highlights

‘Amritotsava’-the Institution Day and ‘AmritaKalanjali’ - the

Annual Cultural Fest are

celebrated towards the end of

each academic year. The

Department of ECE was at

the helm of this year’s

‘Amritotsava’ which was held

on 21st April 2016.

Campus Director Br. Dhanraj

spoke about the necessity of

student-teacher decorum and

the need for 'service to others'.

The Institution Day saw

Prof. K..J. Rao, Professor,

Dept. of Chemical Sciences,

IISc,, Bengaluru as the Chief

G ue s t , wh o g i ve a n

inspirational talk on the

importance of synergistic

relation between various departments for research purposes.

He illuminated on the relation between science and

spirituality. He also illustrated how students of Amrita will

achieve magnanimous goals in the whole world.

Associate Dean & Head

Dr. Rakesh S.G. gave a bird’s-

eye-view on the activities of the

School during the current

academic year through a

concise annual report.

This was followed by the prize distribution schedule. The

first in the category being the

‘Academic Excellence Award’

which was intended to

recognize & encourage

students who have excellent

pedagogic records.

The next category was the

‘Kartik Kalaichelvan Memorial

Award’, in association with

Mr. & Mrs. Kalaichelvan to

memorialize the loss of their

son - Karthik Kalaichelvan,

who was the student of the

Department of Electrical &

Electronics Engineering of our School.

Certificates & trophies were handed over to members of the

magazine committee, various cultural & technical clubs,

Amritadhara office bearers and sports events.

The 7th edition of ‘Sanchita’ the School Magazine was also

released by the Chief Guest along with the others present on

the dais on this occasion.

The programme concluded on

a very happy note with a

felicitation ceremony of the

Chief Guest Prof. K.J. Rao by

Director Br. Dhanraj and

Associtate Dean & Head

Dr. Rakesh S.G.

April 2016 PAGE 6

Amritotsava 2016

School Highlights

AmritaKalanjali 2016, the

Annual Cultural Fest of the

school was organised on 21st

and 22nd of April, 2016. With

the tagline #itallcomestothis,

AK16 had a diverse list of

events lined up for all

students. The main stage

provided a platform for the three forms of art - dance,

music & drama. The energy and enthusiasm of the

participants were matched by that of the audience.

Simultaneously, many off-stage events were held throughout

the School. Franchise Mania, QuizUp Duels, Face Painting,

Cooking without flames, Shortcut and Sherlocked were

some of the events organized by the various clubs of

Amritadhara.

The quadrangle in the New Block was decorated with

beautiful paintings and sketches themed on superheroes.

Each year, gamers the school patiently wait to battle against

their opponents on Counter-Strike and this year saw a huge

number of participants. The second day witnessed Solo

Dance and Group Dance performances on the main stage

along with stage plays. Solo Singing- Indian and Western

Solo were followed by Group Singing. Amidst all of these

events, Tiki Taka was held on the sports field. Tension rose

as the defending champions took a stance against their

opponents. Prerana did an amazing job of providing a

delicious menu - rolls, fried rice, ice-gola and ice cream

were the student favourites.

At the end of the second day, winners of events conducted

over the span of 2 days were awarded with certificates and

medals. It was indeed an emotional closing ceremony as

Cultural Vice-President Mr. Chitrank Kaul appreciated the

efforts put forth by the students and thanked the teachers

for their never-ending support. The event ended on a happy

note.

April 2016 PAGE 7

AmritaKalanjali 2016

School Highlights

‘Farewell’ marks significant departures.

The 29th of April 2016 ended with nostalgia as there was

a common farewell organized for the Outgoing M.Tech.

students of all the departments. The event saw the 1st year

M.Tech. students joining hands to bid farewell to the 2016

graduating batch with heart-warming speeches which

crystallized the moment of leaving and cultural programmes

filled with vibrancy, colour and fun.

April 2016 PAGE 8

Farewell for Outgoing M.Tech. Students

School Highlights

Papers Presented

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE

CONFERENCE

Presented by:

Tripty Singh

(Single Author)

“Modeling Architecture for

Telecomm services and

computing the Improvement

Attained on Key Performance

Indicators”

29th-30

th April

2016

International Conference on Compu-

ting, Communication and Automation

(ICCCA2016) held at

Galgotia University, Noida

Presented by:

Bhargavi Upadhyay

Authors:

Bhargavi Upadhyay

T.S.B. Sudarshan

“Design Space Exploration of

Cache Memory: A survey”

3rd- 5

th March

2016

International Conference on Electrical,

Electronics, and Optimization

Techniques (ICEEOT) - 2016,

Department of Electrical and

Electronics Engineering,

DMI College of Engineering, Chennai.

(paper will be published in IEEE

explorer)

Scopus Indexed

Presented by:

Parvathy N.

Authors:

Parvathy N.

Bhargavi Upadhyay

T.S.B. Sudarshan

“Cache Coherence: A

Walkthrough of Mechanisms

and Challenges”

Presented by:

Shruthi Tharol

Authors:

Shruthi Tharol

Bhargavi Upadhyay

T.S.B. Sudarshan

“Performance Improvement

and Energy Efficiency Through

Cache Partitioning Techniques”

17th- 18

th

March 2016

3rd International Conference on

innovation in information embedded

and communication systems (ICIIECS-

16), Coimbatore.

(paper will be published in IEEE

explorer)

Scopus indexed

Presented by:

Nithin B.

Authors:

Nithin B.

Sreebha Bhaskaran

Ullas S.

“Advanced Metering

Infrastructure (AMI) with

combination of Peak Load

Management System (PLMS)

and Theft Protection”

17th- 18

th

March 2016

IEEE International Conference on

Innovations in Information Embedded

& Communication Systems (IEEE

ICIIECS’16), Karapagam College of

Engineering, Coimbatore.

Presented by:

M. Sai Mounica

Authors:

Amudha J.

M. Sai Mounica

C. Jyotsna

M. Manvita

“Low Cost Eye Gaze Tracker

Using Web Camera”

10th-11

th March

2016

IEEE- 2nd International Conference on

Human Computer Interactions

[ICHCI’16],

Saveetha University, Chennai.

Presented by:

R Ramya Sai

Authors:

Amudha J.

R. Ramya Sai

M. Vani Shree

T. Shravani

“Assistive Communication

Application for ALS Patients”

Department of CSE

April 2016 PAGE 9

April 2016 PAGE 10

Department of CSE

NAME TITLE DATE VENUE

Dr. Sangeeta K.

Dr. Amudha J.

Ms. Radha D.

Ms. Santhanalakshmi S.

Ms. Supriya M.

Ms. Chandrika K.R.

(Research Scholar)

Ms. Sasmita Sahoo

(M.Tech. Student)

Ms. Sandhya, Vishwakarma

(M.Tech. Student)

Pre Conference Workshop of IEEE

–“Cloud Computing for Emerging

Markets (IEEE CCEM-2016)”

2nd April

2016

Crown Plaza, Bengaluru

Workshops / Conferences / Seminars Attended

1. Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan:

Has been invited to be a ‘Technical Program

Committee Member’ for:

International Conference on ‘Technology

Innovations’ to be held during 11th- 13th August

2016 at New York, USA

3rd International Conference on ‘Electronic

Design (ICED 2016)’ to be held during 11th-

13th August 2016 in Phuket, Thailand.

3rd International Workshop on ‘Design and

Performance of Networks on Chip (DPNoC

2016)’ to be held during 15th-18

th August 2016

at Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Was the reviewer for the International Journal of

Computing and Digital Systems, Scientific

Publishing Center.

2. Karnataka Science and Technology Promotion Society

(KSTePS) Meeting: Dr. Honne Gowda, Special

Director (Technical) and Managing Director of

Karnataka Science & Technology Promotion Society

(KSTePS) under the Department of Science and

Technology (DST), Government of Karnataka had

invited Amrita University to participate in a meeting

related to setting up of ‘Virtual Labs’ for School

Students of Karnataka. The meeting was held on 13th

April 2016 at their office premises in Bengaluru.

Dr. Shyam Diwakar from Amritapuri Campus and

Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan from Bengaluru Campus

represented Amrita University in the meeting.

Dr. Shyam Diwakar explained the details regarding

Open Lab and Virtual Lab initiative and their

implementation by Amrita University. Members of

KSTePS and other participants appreciated the

expertise and societal impact of Open Lab and Virtual

Lab developed by Amrita University.

3. Dr. Tripty Singh

Reviewed a manuscript (No.: TELS-D-16-00058)

for Springer Journals on Telecommunication

Systems titled “Information transmission based on

Network Coding over wireless networks: Survey”.

Served as a ‘Technical Program Committee

Member' for:

2016 Internat ional Conference on

Education (ICOED) - Jakarta, Indonesia

2016 2nd Advanced Research in Material

Sciences, Manufacturing Mechanical and

Mechatronics Engineering Technology

International Conference (AR4MET'2016) -

Batam, Indonesia

2016 International Conference on Electrical,

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

(ICEMIE2016) - Phuket Thailand

Facutly Achievements/

Participation/Recognition

Life is all about creating yourself

April 2016 PAGE 11

Department of CSE

SLAC 2016 ‘FACE’- the CSE departmental forum organized its flagship

event ‘Stay Late and Code (SLAC) 2016’ on 2nd April 2016.

SLAC is a 24-hour coding

hackathon that brings

together developers, designers

and coders to create, innovate

and put forward their unique

ideas into action. Besides the

three engineering campuses

under Amrita Vishwa

Vidyapeetham, FACE also expanded its reach to the top

fifteen colleges of Bengaluru and had a good amount of

participation from the same. There were 105 teams that

registered with 372 participants.

The formal inauguration of the event began at 10:30 AM on

2nd April 2016 at Amriteswari Hall in the presence of

esteemed judges and chief

guests Dr. Satya Gupta, Co-

founder of Concept2Silicon

Systems, Mr. Sreekanth Moni,

Director at Mobilistic

Innovative Business Solution

Pvt. Ltd. & Mr. Arun

Balasubramaniam an Alumnus

of ASE-Bengaluru who also

holds a startup called Circuls

Social. Also present were

Director Br. Dhanraj and

Chair-CSE Dr. T.S.B.

Sudarshan. The event started at

11:00 AM in the ‘E’ block

CSE Lab. Multiple coding

platforms were seen on the

background of every screen.

FACE also conducted a mini

challenge on ‘hackerrank.com’. SLAC stickers and stamps

imprinted on the hands of all allowed easy access and

identification of those involved in the contest. All the

coordinators and volunteers managed to pull off the event

efficiently. The presentation began at 10:30 AM the next day

i.e., 3rd April 2016 and went on till 3:30 PM in the afternoon.

All the participants had to go through a panel of judges

encountering multiple levels of scrutiny. The six shortlisted

teams then presented their work before the entire panel. The

session witnessed many innovative and remarkable

applications and the judges had a tough time deciding the

one that stood out from the rest. The judging panel included

many prominent members like Mr. Bharath Karur from

Intelileap, Dr. Satya Gupta from Concept2Silicon, Mr. Arun,

an Alumnus of Amrita, Mr. Lalit Kumar &, Mr. Shantanu

from IPInfusion, Mr. Prasad Joshi from IBM, Mr. Neeraj

Gupta from Head Excubator & Angel Investor, Mr. Dhawan

from Nikkos and Mr. Parth Patel from Study Owl.

The first place was secured by Team Semaphores from ASE-

Amritapuri, who developed a game which could run on

Android phones as well as on desktops. They were awarded

a cash prize of Rs. 30,000/-. Second place was grabbed by

Team Cyborgs from PESIT-South Campus. Their Android

Application for deaf people using the voice recognition

sensor to convert to a textual background was found to be

very appealing and fetched them a cash prize of Rs. 20,000/-.

Team We3 from ASE-Bengaluru secured the third place

with a cash prize of Rs. 10,000/- for their impressive creation

of a system using Matlab for abdominal and foetal scanning

for the pregnant ladies. In fourth place was Team Coestiens

from PESIT-South Campus, who made a model on Data

Analysis. The event Prize money was sponsored by IP-

Infusion and Nikkos. The event was a huge success ably

supported and assisted by ICTS Department. The event was

coordinated by Mr. H.N. Vishwas, faculty from the Dept. of

CSE.

SLAC-2016 proved to be a platform not only to learn and

develop applications but also a stage where many like-

minded people met and exchanged thoughts & ideas.

Departmental Forum Activities

April 2016 PAGE 12

Department of CSE

Research Talk As a part of ACM Chapter activity, the department of

CSE had arranged for a research talk on ‘Computer Aided

Diagnosis (CADx)’ for the students and faculty. The event

was held at Krishna Hall on 20th April 2016 and was attended

by enthusiastic audience.

The session was inaugurated by Dr. Kumar Rajamani,

Architect of Robert Bosch and Business Solution Ltd.,

Bengaluru. His talk was a beacon light which imparted

knowledge on the application of Weak Supervision in CADx

and in medical application. The steps for Multiple Instance

Learning was then presented. The main focus of the

presentation was miGraph Algorithm, which is currently the

best performing MIL algorithm for medical applications.

Finally the performance of miGraph on a couple of medical

applications was shared. The event witnessed a participation

of around 75 members, which included students and faculty

members.

Behavior Drive Development

The Amrita CSI (Computer Society of India) Chapter

The Amrita CSI (Computer Society of India) Chapter orga-

nized a talk on “Behavior Drive Development” on 27th April

2016. The speaker was Mr. Supraja Rakesh D., IT Analyst,

TCS Company Pvt. Ltd. Mr. Supraja has over 8 years of

experience with leading IT firms in the Software

Development and Testing domain. The speaker spoke about

how traditional SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)

has evolved into TDD (Test Driven Development), its

advantages and disadvantages. The talk also involved discus-

sion on Behavior Drive Development (BDD). This was

followed by talk on Domain Specific Language (DSL) and

Behavior Driven Testing. The talk concluded with

discussions on Job avenues in BDD.

The program witnessed an audience of around 50 in number

involving few faculty members and students of both B.Tech.

and M.Tech. The event was coordinated by its Mentor

Dr. Rakesh N.

Farewell for the Outgoing

B.Tech. Students The department organized a farewell for the 2012-2016

batch of B.Tech students. The programme witnessed a

traditional beginning with the lighting of lamp and invocation

song. This was followed by a farewell message by Prof. Raj

Sreedharan to the outgoing students. Dr. T.S.B Sudarshan,

Chairman addressed the students and wished them success

in their endeavors and also administered the Engineer’s

Hippocratic Oath to the budding Engineers. The Class

Advisors of the outgoing batch Ms. Nalini Sampath and

Ms. C. Jyotsna also wished their batch of students the best in

their lives. The passing out students- Ms. Ashika,

Ms. Supraja and Mr. Gadadhara Raja representing their

entire batch expressed their gratitude towards Teachers,

Department and Management of the School. Followed were

cultural programmes including dance and music by the final

year and pre final year students. The programme was

coordinated by the Class Advisors of the Batch- Ms.Nalini

Sampath and Ms.C. Jyotsna with the help of the pre final

year students.

Other News

Papers Presented

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE

CONFERENCE

Presented By:

Sanjika Devi

Authors:

R. Yeshaswy

Pratheik

Sai Karteek

Sanjika Devi

Dhanesh G. Kurup

“Design and Analysis of a 6 Watt

GaN Based X-Band Power

Amplifier”

6th to 8

th April

2016

IEEE International Conference on

Communication and Signal Processing

ICCSP 2016, organized by

Adhiparasakthi Engineering College,

Melmaravathur

Proceedings will be published by IEEE

Xplore.

Scopus Indexed

Presented By:

Bhavana V.

Authors:

Bhavana V.

Krishnappa H.

“Fusion of MRI and PET Images

using DWT and Adaptive Histogram

Equalization”

Dr. Shikha Tripathi has been included as the

‘International Program Committee Member’ for the 7th

International Workshop on Soft Computing

Applications (SOFA 2016) to be held in Romania

during 24th to 26

th August 2016.

IEEE ComSoc Student Chapter

The inauguration of IEEE ComSoc (Communication

Society) Student Branch Chapter at ASE-B was held on 30th

April 2016. It was inaugurated by Associate Dean

Dr. Rakesh S. G. and witnessed & supported by IEEE

Bangalore Section representative IBM & IEEE ComSoc

Chapter Chair Dr. Dilip Krishnaswamy, CEO - Shristi

ESDM Mr. B.N. Pal and Secretary ComSoc Bangalore

Chapter and Advisor at ASE, Bangalore ComSoc Student

Branch Chapter Dr. Navin Kumar,. The event coincided

with the 100th Birth Anniversary of “Father of Information

Theory”, ‘Claude Shannon’. To honour the Scientist, the

inaugural talk by Dr. Dilip Krishnaswamy focused on

Communication History, Shannons Contribution and Basics

of Information Theory. Dr. Ramesh from Raman Research

Institute spoke about "Viewing the Cosmos". Mr. Anand

from C-DoT, EXCOM ComSoc, Bangalore spoke about

"Moore Law vs Shannon Law". The event was coordinated

by Dr. Navin Kumar and assisted by Ms. Priya B.K. &

Mr. Sagar B. along with IEEE ComSoc Student Chapter’s

office bearers and representatives. On this occasion, there

was a poster competition organized titled “Portrait Shannon’s

Life in A1 Poster and Win prize”. Mr. Kiran S.L. from I

Year M.Tech. (Embedded Systems) was the Winner of this

competition

Facutly Achievements/

Participation/Recognition

Department of ECE

April 2016 PAGE 13

Other News

Dr. N. S. Murty arranged a talk by Mr. Anantha Bhat on

‘Low Power VLSI’ on 15th April 2016. This talk was

arranged for faculty and M.Tech. (VLSI Design)

students. Mr. Anatha Bhat holds 25+ years’ experience

in VLSI Design and EDA including Synopsys in

Singapore.

Farewell for the Outgoing

B.Tech. Students

The ECI Forum organized farewell to the outgoing

B.Tech. (ECE & EIE) batch 2012-2016. The event was

coordinated by Ms. Ponni M. and Ms. Bhavana V.

All the faculty members and students attended the event.

Department of ECE

April 2016 PAGE 14

Other News

April 2016 PAGE 15

Department of EEE

NAME TITLE DATE VENUE

Dr. K. Deepa Workshop on “Real Time

Simulation For Modern Industrial

Applications”

2nd April 2016 Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru

Workshops / Conferences / Seminars Organized

NAME TITLE DATE VENUE

Ms. Mini Sujith,

Dr. K. Deepa,

Ms. V.S. Kirthika Devi,

Ms. Anjana Jain,

Ms. V. Sailaja,

Ms. Sireesha K.

Ms. Mahalakshmi R.

Ms. Syama S.

Workshop on “Real Time Simula-

tion For Modern Industrial Applica-

tions”

2nd April 2016 Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru

Workshops / Conferences / Seminars Attended

Ms. Mini Sujith reviewed a manuscript entitled

“Modeling and Hardware Implementation on the FPGA

of a Variable Structure Control Associated with a DTC-

SVM of an Induction Motor” for “Electric Power

Components and Systems Journal” of Taylor & Francis

publisher group.

Dr. Shankar S. reviewed the following papers for “First

International Conference on Reliable Technologies in

Power and Energy Systems (RTPES-2016)” held at

AMC Engineering Collage, Bengaluru on 4th -5

th April

2016.

Development of Toolbox for National Power

Exchange Limited Transactions using Artificial

Neural Networks

Remote Control of Motor-Generator Set up

Fault Identification for HVDC Transmission Line

Based on Reactive Energy Using Directional

Protection Scheme

Dr. Kishore Naik Mude is appointed as Editorial

Board member of IJIDEAS - International Journal of

Innovative Developments in Engineering and Applied

Sciences.

Ms. V.S. Kirthika Devi reviewed the following papers

for “First International Conference on Reliable

Technologies in Power and Energy Systems (RTPES-

2016)” held at AMC Engineering Collage, Bengaluru on

4th -5

th April 2016.

Load Sharing and Circulate Current Minimization

of DC Microgrid using PI Controller.

Simulink Based Design of Fuzzy Controller for

Main Series Elementary Switched Capacitor

Negative Output Push Pull Luo Converter.

Wide Area Protection of Transmission Lines by

P h a so r M e a s u r e m e nt Tec h n i q u e i n

Matlab/Simulink

KISMATH CONNECTION - PRABIDHI 2016 The event “Kismath Connection” was conducted by

Vidyuth-the departmental forum for Prabidhi, the tech day

on 5th April 2016. Prabidhi had around 7 events, so a team

which cleared all the rounds qualified for the flagship event.

“Kismath Connection” was one of the seven events the teams

had to clear in order to qualify for the final one.

“Kismath Connection” was a daylong event and had around

60 teams (5 participants per team) registered for the event.

The event was a technical one, where the participants had to

solve technical multiple choice questions (6 questions) within

10 minutes and map the order of the answers to the circuit

(simulated with Proteus software). Two teams who cleared

the round in the minimum time were qualified. The

feedback from the students was overwhelming with a large

number of registrations. The participants who attended the

event expressed that “Kismath Connection” is fun filled

technical event.

Facutly Achievements/

Participation/Recognition

Departmental Forum

April 2016 PAGE 16

Department of EEE

IEEE PES & IAS Chapter organized:

An hour long seminar on “Interfacing PV modules and

staircase modulation technique with implementation of

LC filters” was given by Mr. Roland Henron Patrao,

Associate Software Engineer, Embedded division,

BOSCH & alumnus of Amrita School of Engineering,

Bengaluru. He was accompanied by Mr. Roy Samuel,

Technical Lead from BOSCH, who ha10 years of

experience and vast knowledge in the area. Mr. Roland

provided the attendees with valuable information on PV

converters along with future project scopes and also

enlightened the concepts of cascaded H-bridge, multilevel

inverters, staircase modulation and LC filters. Further

emphasis on the importance of hardware projects by him

helped students realize its importance. The latter half was

on placement guidance and work life in BOSCH which

had a great impact on the students. The seminar was

immensely informative and appreciated by all the 50

participants.

A One day Workshop on “Real Time Simulation For

Modern Industrial Applications” on 2nd April, 2016.

Dr. Ilamparithi, EMS Specialist - OPAL-RT

Technologies and IEEE-PES EXECOM member and his

team conducted the workshop. The workshop was

attended by 34 IEEE-PES student members, 6 non-IEEE

students and 4 faculty members from ASE-B, one

academician from OXFORD Engineering College and

one participant from PRDC as well. The workshop was

conducted in two sessions; the first session included the

introduction to the real time simulation and its USP over

the conventional simulation, the features, requirements

and applications (control prototyping and hardware in-the

-loop) of real time simulation along with the challenges

and solutions from OPAL-RT technologies. In the

second session, hands on training was provided as a part

of which, a PWM generator was modeled in Matlab-

2011b and was configured with the RT lab opcomm, a

communication link, to interface with the simulator. A

comprehensive design of real time digital simulator (RTS)

was furnished and a Hardware In-the-Loop (HIL)

simulation was justified with a demonstration of control

of three phase induction motor using HIL testing

equipment. This workshop will be definitely helpful in

taking up projects, internships and choosing career

opportunities.

A special talk on ‘Internet of Energy: Implication on

infrastructure and Democratization of Energy Use’ by

Dr. Priya Ranjan Mishra (Principal Scientist, Philips India)

was organized by the student branch of IEEE Power

Electronics Society, Amrita School of Engineering in RAMA

hall at 03:00 PM on 15th April 2016.

The talk was basically aimed at imparting the students the

knowledge of advances and integration of distributed energy

and how it will lead to generation and consumption on

common bus. Further it would encourage more participation

and thus say of consumer in generation, transmission and

consumptions of energy. Democratization in entire chain of

energy flow will need new, smart and advance infrastructure.

Dr. Mishra dealt with the Quality of Electricity, Importance of

Solar PV, Micro & Nano grid, Smart grid, Integrated grid and

Big Data involved in the energy market.

The talk was arranged for one hour and it was attended by

UG and PG students, in total around 30 students. The talk

was very informative to the students, which was basically

about the future of Power market.

IEEE PES & IAS CHAPTER

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PELS Student CHAPTER

April 2016 PAGE 17

Department of EEE

IEEE WIE, Student Branch Chapter of ASE-B conducted

an elocution contest on the burning topic “Why fewer women

in boardrooms” on April 16th, 2016 in Rama Hall. Dr. J.

Ramprabhakar was the adjudicator for the contest.

The participants were very enthusiastic and passionate in the

comprehension of the issue. They came forward to speak out

their opinions with clear diction and shared ideas to fix it.

This helped the students to network and threw some light on

the necessity of women at higher positions.

The judgment will be based on the attributes: introduction,

content, citation, diction and justice to theme.

Farewell for the Outgoing B.Tech.

Students

The department organized a farewell function for the

graduating students of 2012-2016, batch on 26th of April 2016

to bid adieu. The event commenced at 1:30pm in brightly

and colourfully adorned Sudhamani hall. The graduating

batch of students were welcomed with a rose as a symbol of

love and mortarboard as a mark of felicitation.

The function began at 1:45 PM with the traditional lightning

of the lamp, by the Chairman- Dr. S. Ravishankhar, Vice

Chairperson- Ms. Mini Sujith and Ms. Sudha Yadav, Class

Advisor (B.Tech. 2012 batch), along with Ms. Antara

Chakraborthy & Mr V. Nirmith Sudev, student representatives

of the outgoing batch. This was followed by an invocation

song by Ms. U. Sri Savitha Krishna of third year EEE, to

invoke the divine’s blessings for a bright future.

After the invocation song, the Chairman, Dr. S Ravishankar

addressed the gathering and administered the pledge to

embibe the ethics of a true engineer in ones life. It was

followed by a heart whelming speech by Ms. Sudha Yadav,

faculty advisor of 2012 EEE batch. A video clip depicting all

the teachers sharing their memories and wishing the students a

great success was played soon after.

In a nostalgic speech after the inspiring video, Ms. C.

Tejaswini Vijay and Mr. Ramesh. M.G., students of 2012

batch reminisced their journey in Amrita, the various ups and

down, failures and success all through their 4 years. They also

stressed on the importance of college life in shaping one’s

destiny. They thanked all the teachers for their endearing

efforts in shaping up the destiny of a student and for being

there when it mattered. The formal session thus ended with

cake cutting as a token of sweet memories that never fades

with time.

A colourful and entertaining cultural programme was

presented by students, which enthralled the crowd. The

various dances, songs and skit were cheered loudly and

greeted with thunderous applause. The occasion was indeed

convivial. The fun and frolic concluded by a vote of thanks

given by Ms. V. Kavya of third year EEE. Everyone

assembled for refreshments at around 5:15pm and cherished

the moments.

IEEE WIE Chapter

Other News

April 2016 PAGE 18

Department of ME

Dr. Veeresh Kumar G.B. reviewed 15 technical papers

for the International Conference on ‘Mechanical, Civil,

Electronics and Communication and Computer Science

Engineering’ organized by Bangalore Technological

Institute, Kodathi, Bengaluru held on 23rd April 2016. He

chaired two technical sessions in the conference. He also

delivered a Key Note lecture on “Research Methodology

for Beginners”.

Dr. Debjyoti Sahu, reviewed 15 technical papers for the

International Conference on ‘Mechanical, Civil,

Electronics and Communication and Computer Science

Engineering’ organized by Bangalore Technological

Institute, Kodathi, Bengaluru held on 23rd April 2016. He

chaired two technical sessions in the conference.

SAEINDIA Collegiate Club of ASE-B organized an

industrial visit to Ashok-Leyland plant on 15th April 2016

for the SAEINDIA student members. The plant is

located in Hosur, Tamil Nadu. 39 students of S6 along

with two faculty members Mr. Vinod Kotebavi and Mr. V.

Ravikumar visited the plant. The manufacturing plant is

completely dedicated for engine manufacturing. From the

manufacturing of engine head to the final assembly, all the

processes were completely shown and explained to

students by the engineers present in the plant. This

industrial visit to Ashok-Leyland has given students a

practical experience of what they have learned about IC-

Engines in the theory course.

Farewell for the Outgoing B.Tech.

Students The department arranged a Farewell function on 28

th April

2016 for the 2012-2016 batch students. The programme

started with the lighting of lamp by Chairman-ME

Dr. Nagaraja S.R, Class Advisor Mr. S. Bhanu Prakash and

Class representatives of outgoing batch students. The event

was followed by an invocation song by Mr. Basavaraj Noolvi.

The welcome note was delivered by Mr. R. Pramod. The

Engineer’s oath was administered by Dr. Nagaraja S.R.,

followed by his address to the students wishing them good

luck. The students of S6 raised the toast for their seniors and

few S8 students gave their feedback. The programme ended

with a vote of thanks proposed by Mr. Raghavendra

Ravikiran. This was followed by a high tea and cultural

program from S8 & S6 students.

Facutly Achievements/

Participation/Recognition

Other News

SAE Club

Papers Published

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

NAME TITLE MONTH

& YEAR

NAME OF THE

PUBLICATION

Ms. Deepa K. Narayan “Influence of Print, Visual and Social

Media in Teaching English”

April 2016 Samyoga, Vol: 11,No.1, ISSN: 22313362,

Pages: 1-10

Papers Presented

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE

CONFERENCE

Ms. Smita Sail

(Single Author)

“Empowering Students with Cross

Cultural Sensitivity through Mass

Media”

15th -16

th April,

2016

2-Day International Conference on

Pluralism and Multiculturalism in

Teaching and Research of English

Language and Literature, at

Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore Ms. Deepthi Janardhan

(Single Author)

“Teaching Language and Cyber

Space”

Ms. Jyotsna G.S.

(Single Author)

“Teaching Language and Literature

for Universal Citizenship”

Department of English

April 2016 PAGE 19

Ms. Sreevidya B. Dept. of CSE

Ms. Kirti S. P ande

Dept. of ECE

Ms. Lekshmi S. Dept. of EEE

Ms. Mrudula Prashanth

Dept. of ME

Mr. H. Manjunath Dept. of Sciences

Dr. Neetu Srivastava Dept. of Mathematics

Ms. Deepa K. Narayan

Dept. of English

Dr. Rakesh S.G. Associate Dean & Head

Chief Editor

Ms. Sangita Khare Assistant Professor

Dept. of CSE Editor

Ms. Vasanthi

ES to Associate Dean Editor

Mr. Shiju

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