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About IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is the world’s largest technical professional society. This association is dedicated to advancing innovation and technological excellence for the benefit of humanity. It is designed to serve professionals involved in all aspects of the electrical, electronic and computing fields and related areas of science and technology that underlie modern civilization.

IEEE- SJEC student branch is one of the most active associations in St. Joseph Engineering College. This association was started in the year 2005. There are more than 400 registered student members and 6 staff co-ordinators from ECE, EEE, CSE, ISE and MCA Departments. Many events are conducted under student activities such as technical talks, student paper presentations, project exhibitions and techncial fests.

Aim

"Is to ensure the growth of skill and knowledge in technical profession"

Objective

"To provide learning opportunities in engineering sciences, research and technology and also to foster individual commitment to continuing education among engineering and scientific communities."

Activities

Technical Talk on Introduction to Machine Learning

Department of MCA in association with IEEE SJEC Student Branch, organized a Technical Talk on the topic "Introduction to Machine Leaing on Saturday, 22nd July 2023 at 2.00 pm to 4:00pm in Webinar Hall 6th floor CSE Department, Academic Block - II.

Resource Person: Dr S Kanchana, Assistant Professor, SRM University Chennai

Event Outcomes:

The Audience were able to realize on the Machine Leaing concepts, its importance and the

usage. The session started with the brief insights on Machine Leaing with the basic terminologies and the applications of Machine leaing.

Then the speaker discussed on different models of Machine Leaing techniques like logistic regression, KNN, Decision tree etc. She elaborated how the ML model is being built using the said techniques. She concluded the talk by explaining the dataset and the tools used to collect the dataset. The technical talk emphasized on the Machine Leaing algorithms to recognize pattes using training sets. The students are actively participated in the session including question and answer session and discussed the machine leaing applications.

 

Three days workshop on Programming on RISC V Processor

The Department of Electronics and Communications Department in association with IEEE SJEC student branch has organized a Three days workshop on Programming on RISC V Processor for the Students of SJEC from 20-22 June 2023 in Fr Fred Memorial Hall. This workshop was open to all the students of SJEC.  There were 19 participants in this workshop. Mr VijayGanesh PC and Ms Rupal M D DSouza were the resource persons. The objective of the workshop was to give the students insight on the current trends in the processor and have hands -on experience in programming using RISC V assembly language. The participants were new to the assembly language programming the workshop started with simple programs like moving the data, processing, branching, subroutine and upto designing of library. The workshop started with an inaugural function. Ms Rupal DSouza welcomed the gathering. Dr Dayakshini, HOD ECE explained the importance of processor design and encouraged students to make best use of the workshop. Mr VijayGanesh PC briefed about the workshop. 

Day 01: Introduction to RISC-V instruction set architecture- Need of assembly language compared to High level language - Install the required simulation software.  - First assembly program of data movement to and from memory  - completed arithmetic, logical and shift operation along with simple branch example. In the afteoon a simple game based activity was conducted to write a program for finding the slope and finding line values between two points. 

Day 02: Introduced to the loop, For, do-while and while equivalent in assembly code - compare statements in RISC V ISA.  The afteoon session  was focused on understanding the loop, comparing statements with a gamified activity of solving a FIR filter without using the Multiplier instruction. This enhanced the communication skill within the team.

Day 03: Advanced concepts - use of  subroutines, global variables and access to it. A group activity was carried out with three members - each member needed to create a separate file for a subroutine and merge with others to complete the task. A similar event was conducted to work the divide and conquer algorithm as the group and top two teams were selected for final competition. In the final round participants were able to solve matrix multiplication and winners were announced based on their performance.

 

INNOVATE 2023.0 -Turn Your Ideas to Reality

The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering along with IEEE SJEC Student Branch and IEEE Mangalore Subsection organized a three days' workshop titled "Innovate-2023.0: Tu Your Ideas to Reality'' from 12-14 June 2023 for the pre final year students of SJEC. 133 students participated in the workshop. The main objective of the workshop was to provide the participants an insight into ideation that would aid in selecting apt industry/ socially relevant projects, plan its implementation, document the work and also introduce the ethical aspects to be considered. 


Day 1: The workshop commenced with the inauguration at 9:30AM at Kalam Hall. Chief Guest for the inauguration was Dr Subramanya Bhat, Associate Professor from the Department of ECE at NMAMIT, Nitte and was presided over by Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D'Souza, Director, SJEC and Guests of Honor were Rev. Fr Kenneth Crasta , Assistant Director, SJEC, Dr Rio D'Souza, Principal, SJEC and Dr Purushothama Chippar, Vice Principal & Dean R & D, SJEC.

Session 1: IDEATION : Dr Subramanya Bhat served as the resource person for this session. The focus was on ideation and tuing ideas into reality. Dr Bhat provided insights into the process of ideation and facilitated two activities. The first activity involved working on new ideas, while the second activity revolved around project ideas in various domains. Dr. Bhat emphasized the importance of team formation, problem analysis, design, and having a project coordinator. He highlighted how individual and collaborative efforts can uplift not only the participants but also their institutions and the country as a whole. Additionally, the session underscored the significance of MATLAB in project development.

Session 2: LITERATURE REVIEW: Conducted by Dr. Roshan Naik, Assistant Professor from the Department of ECE at SJEC, this session focused on building a career around one's area of interest (AOI) and conducting literature reviews for academic projects. Dr Naik explained the research process, emphasizing the importance of establishing long-term and short-term goals and choosing specific areas of interest such as signal processing, communication, electromagnetics, and VLSI. Participants were encouraged to explore relevant resources to identify their AOI and were guided on how to narrow down their focus by identifying application areas and specific problems. Dr Naik also emphasized the role of mentors and the importance of literature reviews, including the desired outcomes and the format for writing reports.

Session 3: EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION AND DOCUMENTATION: Mr Aldrin Vaz, Assistant Professor from the Department of ECE at SJEC, conducted this session, which focused on effective presentation and documentation. Participants were provided handson on documentation and guided on the best practices to be followed while documenting.


Day 2: Session 1: CONVERTING IDEAS TO BLOCK DIAGRAMS : Dr  Mohith P Thahiliani, Asst Professor from the Department of CSE at NITK Surathkal was the resource person. This session aimed to help participants focus on their ideas and convert                          them into block diagrams. Mr Mohith shared two project ideas and encouraged participants to think about the pros and cons of these ideas. The session emphasized the importance of planning projects, analyzing them thoroughly, and understanding how projects fails due to a lack of planning. Participants were introduced to the concept of architecture (block diagrams) for their ideas, with a focus on using engineering terminology and conducting feasibility analyses that consider the actors involved, project benefits, and services offered.

Session 2: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (IPR): Dr. Arjun Rao, Asst Professor from the Department of ECE at SJEC, conducted this session on IPR. He provided an overview of different aspects of intellectual property, including copyrights, designs, trademarks, geographical indicators, and patents. The importance of patents was emphasized, and the procedures for applying for patents were explained.

Session 3: PLAGIARISM AND ETHICAL ISSUES: The session was conducted by Ms Jennifer Saldana, Asst Professor from the Department of ECE at SJEC, this session covered plagiarism and research ethics. Participants gained insights into the different types of plagiarism. the seven successful techniques for paraphrasing and quoting were discussed. Participants also leaed about tools and methods for checking plagiarism. The session further explored research ethics, including the procedure for obtaining ethical clearance and

 

Workshop on PCB Design and Fabrication using KiCad Software

One day hands on training session on "PCB Design and Fabrication using KiCad Software” was organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering & Department of Civil Engineering in association with SJEC AICTE Idea Lab & IEEE SJEC student Chapter- PES for the III year students of EEE and Civil Engineering Department on 5 June 8, 2023.  The final year studentsMr Rajath Kumar & Mr ManojKulal from the dept. of EEE were the resource persons. The motive of training was to enhance knowledge of students on PCB design skills. A brief introduction was given on a schematic capture tool to create PCB layout, understanding the electrical parameters and creating the schematic. The resource team also explained to define design rules and requirements,placing of the components, route the traces and generating design/layout files. Participants were given hands on exercise to create the schematic of op-amp tester circuit, PCB etching, drilling and soldering. The outcome of the training has enabled the students to gain an in-depth practical knowledge on using KiCad software for building mini projects andmain project. The training session provided a great opportunity for interested students inelectronic projects to lea new skills. The program was coordinated by Ms MadhaviGatty and Mr Rohith Veigas - Assistant Professors from Dept. of EEE and Civil Engineering.

 

EEE: Industrial Visit to Traction Power Substation

 EEE dept. in association with EELS and IEEE organized an Industrial Visit to Traction Power Substation, Konkan Railways, Mulky for 7th  semester EEE students on 19.12.2022 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  Mr Narayan Nair, Senior Section Engineer, KRCL-Udupi addressed the students on the 25KV substation layout, equipment in the substation, remote and manual control and maintenance of the Substation, the difference between Conventional substation and traction substation etc. The students could relate their theory content on the traction leat in  UEP with practical visualization and clarification from industry personnel

 

EEE: Technical Talk on "Awareness on TPSDI Internship courses"

 EEE dept. in association with EELS and IEEE organized a Technical talk on Awareness on TPSDI Inteship courses for 5th  semester EEE students on 14.12.2022 from 3:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Mr. Sateesh Mahajan addressed the students on various inteship courses for EE students on solar , Cable Laying and power systems. He explained to the students the need of employability skills leaing during student life. He stated that renewable energy, especially in solar system design, would be creating lot of job opportunities and hence he stressed that the students should undergo such training courses at TPSDI -shahad.

 

MCA: Technical Talk on “Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)”

Department of MCA in association with IEEE SJEC Student Branch, organized a Technical Talk on the topic "Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) " on Thursday, 13th October 2022 at 10.00 am to 12:00 noon in Fr Fred Memorial Hall, Basement, Academic Block - I.

Target Audience:

II Semester MCA Students. 

Resource Person: Dr Purushothama Chippar, Vice Principal, SJEC Mangaluru

Event Outcomes:

The Audience were able to realize on the Intellectual Property Rights, its importance and protection.

The session started with the brief insights on Intellectual Property Rights(IPR). Then the speaker discussed on different aspects of Intellectual Properties like Patent, Patent Rights, Trademarks, Industrial Design, Geographical Indication. He concluded the talk by explaining the rationale of protection and the nature of IPR . IPR are monopoly rights. The technical talk emphasized that IPR have to be renewed from time to time for keeping them enforced except in case of copyright and trade secrets.

 

ECE: Innovate 2022

Projects are a major milestones, adds immense value and imbibes in graduates' the essential skills that would aid them carve successful careers. The Department of ECE in association with SJEC IEEE Student Branch organized a two days workshop 'Innovate 2022' on 6th and 7th of October. The workshop aimed at providing students with an insight on Ideation, selection of projects that has social and industry relevance, provide a birds eye view on project management, help document and present their work, and pursue research in their area of interest

 

EEE: Follow your Robotic lines

The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering is association with SJEC IEEE Student branch organized Follow Your Robotic Lines- A Hands on Session on "Design & Building of Robotic Bots” for the Ist & IInd year students of B.E on 22nd & 23rd July 2022 in Fr. Fred Memorial Hall from 9:00 - 5:00 P.M. A total of 45 students registered for the session making 14 teams.

Day 1: 22-7-2022

The moing session was started by explaining participates the working principle and schematic diagram of the components used in building the Robotic Bots & the key features of the Arduino. Later an introduction to the basics of Arduino programming was demonstrated by taking some examples. Moing session was concluded by demonstrating Thinker Caed.

Afteoon session was started by demonstrating the participates on how to fix the wheels to chassis and then program the same to move forward and reverse, program IR sensors to differentiate between black and white region. First day session was ended by informing the teams to build the bot and program it by varying the parameters.

Day 2: 23-7-2022

On day 2 teams were asked build their bots & demonstrate the program developed. Once the bot was developed by the teams, it was tested on the track and if required troubleshooting of the same was done by the volunteers to rectify the problem & corrections was told to the teams.

Feedback was collected from participants through the Google Form & the session was well appreciated by the teams.

 

Training conducted for outreach Program

IEEE SJEC Student branch in association with IEEE TEMS conducted a training program for IEEE students on Science related experiment on 27 June 2022 at 2.00 PM in the Physics Lab. Dr Rajesh PC, HOD-Physics Department SJEC was the resource person.

Dr Rajesh PC demonstrated the calibration process of spectrometer to get a narrow beam of light. This light was made to fall on a prism and using the other end of spectrometer the dispersion of white light was observed. He also demonstrated the effect of light on concave and convex lenses. Laser light was passed through the prism to demonstrate the diffraction and reflection process.

 

EEE: QUIZ COMPETITION

The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering is association with SJEC IEEE Student branch organized a QUIZ Competition for the Ist & IInd year students of B.E on 2nd June 2022 in Bishop Aloysius Paul Hall from 2:00 - 5:00 P.M.

The session was addressed by Dr Sheryl Grace Colaco, Professor-Department of Electrical & Electronics to create an awareness on the importance of IEEE in student life.

A total of 265 students registered for the event making 78 teams. The QUIZ competition consisted of 4 rounds. First Three rounds were elimination rounds in which 50 teams qualified to the second round, then 30 teams qualified to the third round and 8 teams qualified to the final round.  The first 3 rounds were conducted in quizziz.com.

Final round comprised of 2 sub rounds. First round consisted of 8 questions with one question to each team, each right answer would give team a score of 3 marks if they secure a goal or the team could grab a score of 2 mark from the neighboring team. Second round was a buzzer round. Correct Answers to question would give the teams a score of 10 points & a wrong answer would give them a negative 5 marks.

The Entire competition was well planned and executed without any hassle.

 Following teams were declared as winners of the Competition:

Sl.No

Team Name

USN

Name of the Student

Place Secured

1.

Challengers

4SO20CS 105

Pramathesh Prasanna Bhakta

Winners

2.

4SO20CS 089

Mohammed Abdul Mannan

3.

4SO20CS069

Jithin Johny

4.

4SO20CS071

Johnson Dsouza

1.

Intellisense

4SO20AI002

Adith K V

Runner's Up

2.

4SO20AI012

Ashwija Mayya

3.

4SO20AI059

Vineeth Shenoy P

4.

4SO20AI019

Edita Feandes

 

 

CSE: Hands-on Workshop on Machine Learning

The Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SJEC Student branch organised a hands-on workshop on ‘Machine Leaing and its Applications by Mr. Mohammed Ameer, founder of Diazonic Labs, Bengaluru - a leading educational company which delivers workshops on various upcoming technologies.

The workshop was conducted for three days from 10th February, 2020 to 12th February, 2020. The session was attended by 39 final year students of SJEC. The session was aimed at helping the final year students achieve a deeper and application level understanding in Machine Leaing. The session involved pre-processing, choosing the right algorithm based on each problem statement, model fitting, how over fitting can be avoided, image processing and mini project. 

Ms Pramila M, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, welcomed the students to the workshop and introduced Mr Mohammed Ameer who was the trainer for the workshop.

Day 1 was a theory and an introductory session on python and various python libraries used for Machine leaing. In the moing session the trainer explained the theoretical aspects of Machine Leaing and how it is different from the usual method of processing the data.  An hour was spent on understanding the basics of python and the various data structures that were going to be used for writing the programs for Machine Leaing. The afteoon session involved working with Numpy, Matplotlib and Pandas libraries. The session ended with the trainer giving brief introduction on Machine leaing model and the 9 essential steps to design any model.

Day 2 focussed on how various types of data have to be pre-processed and converted into Data Frame. This involved Web Scraping of statistics of a batsman to derive insights on the batsman’s overall performance. Scikit Lea libraries were used to build the regressors and classifiers. Linear Regression, Decision tree, Support Vector Machine, K-Nearest Neighbours were some of the algorithms whose working and application was taught using the various use cases given by the trainer.

Day 3 involved working with images and video datasets. First half of the day was devoted to leaing the various functions in the OpenCV library which was used to process the image and creating a model from image and video dataset. Latter half involved a mini project where a face recognition application was developed and deploying OCR by Google tesseract on Web by using the Flask framework.

Half an hour was allotted for a Q&A session where students clarified doubts and issues related to their final year projects. The workshop ended with the trainer giving tips on getting better skills and how networking was beneficial for fresher’s in the industry.

 

EEE: Technical talk on Electrical Distribution Systems

IEEE in association with EELS conducted a Beyond Syllabus activity for the course Transmission & Distribution for fourth Semester Students in E&E Seminar Hall. This activity was a guest lecture on the topic “Electrical Distribution System” delivered by Alumni of Batch 2016 Ms Prarthana Rao, Engineer at MESCOM –Kavoor, Mangalore. The lecture was delivered on 15th April 2019 from 11.15 am to 12.30 pm followed by a discussion session with students from 12.30 pm to 1.00 pm. The lecture aimed at providing recent knowledge on Distribution Systems It constituted the following content: Primary AC distribution systems – Radial feeders, parallel feeders, loop feeders and interconnected network system. Secondary AC distribution systems, Effect of disconnection of neutral in a 3-phase four-wire system, reliability, and quality of Distribution system. The students also exhibited their clay Models on Electrical Machines, Generation, Transmission & Distribution. The resource person judged the event and the prizes were distributed to the winners:

I Prize: Akash Bhat, Rajath, Vignesh,Dhanush Kumar

II Prize: Siddesh, Shreyas Sharma,Shrinidhi, Adarsh Kumar

Dr Sheryl Grace Colaco, Mr Franco Menezes and Mr Rolen Rodrigues coordinated the programme

 

CSE: Technical Talk on Recent Trends in Image Processing

A technical talk on “Recent Trends in Image Processing” organized by IEEE SJEC student branch in association with Department of Computer Science and Engineering for the students of Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering of St Joseph Engineering College on 6th  March, 2019.

Ms Sujatha M., Asst. Professor, CSE and IEEE student Branch coordinator-CSE welcomed speaker Dr Jidesh P. and the gathering and introduced the speaker Dr Jidesh P., Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, NITK, Surathkal to the audience.  Dr Rachana P., Associate Professor of CSE Department florally welcomed the speaker with a baguette.

The speaker spoke about image processing techniques in current research perspective. He gave an insight on enhancement of image, denoising, restoration, morphological processing, segmentation, compression techniques. He also gave insight to projects and research in the area of image processing, tools and open access database available to carry out research.

There was an enthusiastic response from the students. The registration was limited and 30 students took part in this talk. This talk helped the students gain knowledge on research in the area of image processing in this technological world. The interaction with the speaker also helped few students to get different project ideas.

Ms Sujatha M. Asst. professor, CSE thanked the Speaker and staff coordinators Dr Rachana P, Ms Soumya and all the participants. Dr Rachana P, Associate Professor, CSE Dept felicitated the speaker with a memento.

 

CSE: Technical Talk on "Cryptography and its Applications"

A technical talk on “Cryptography and its Applications” organized by IEEE SJEC student branch in association with Department of Computer Science and Engineering for the students of Computer Science and Engineering and Electronics and Communication Engineering of St. Joseph Engineering College on 29th  October, 2018.

Mr Aronstun Ralph D'Souza, student of third semester, CSE was the master of ceremony.

Mr  Aronstun Ralph D'Souza welcomed speaker Dr M R Arulalan, his student Mr Vibor, Dr Sridevi Saralaya, HOD- CSE Dept, Mr Shreyas, President of IEEE Student Branch, SJEC and the gathering. He also introduced the speaker Dr M R Arulalan, Assistant Professr, NITK, Surathkal to the audience.  Dr Sridevi Saralaya, Associate Professor & HOD of CSE Department florally welcomed the speaker with a baguette.

The speaker spoke about importance of mathamatics in cryptography, different types of cryptographic attacks, working of different cryptographic algorithms including public key cryptosystem.

There was an enthusiastic response from the students of CSE and E&C branches. The registration was limited and 40 students took part in this talk. This talk helped the students gain knowledge on applications of cryptography in this technological world. The interaction with the speaker also helped few students to get different project ideas.

Mr Aronstun Ralph D'Souza, student of third semester, CSE thanked the Speaker, organizer of the talk Ms Sujatha M. and staff coordinators Dr Rachana P, Ms Soumya and all the participants. Dr Rachana P, Associate Professor, CSE Dept felicitated the speaker with a memento.

 

CSE: IEEE Day Events held on 3rd October, 2018 and 5th October, 2018

DigiHunt, a semi-technical event hosted by IEEE SJEC CSE Chapter was conducted on October 3rd, 2018 at St. Joseph Engineering College, Mangalore. It was conducted on the occasion of IEEE day, and was open to the students of all branches and all semesters. It was a team event; wherein a single team can consist of a maximum of three members. The event received a good response, as 81 teams registered by the deadline. The event began at 1.30 PM in the designated classrooms.

The event consisted of two rounds. The first round was a semi-technical quiz consisting of basic trivia. The 40 highest scoring teams were selected to play the second round. The second round started with a technical crossword puzzle, on completion of which, a website URL would have been given to them. The URL would lead them to a game which consisted of 7 rounds, a few of them being: guessing the output of code, solving a tower of Hanoi problem and riddles of guessing numbers based on clues.

Ms Anvitha, Mr Calvin and Mr Alston of 4th year won 1st place. Mr Rayan Smith Lewis, Mr Shane Misquith and Mr Mohammed Ridhun of 2nd year won 2nd place in this contest. Based on the participants’ feedback, the event was unique and extremely enjoyable; and they hope to partake in similar events in the future. 

CodeRunner, a 4 hours online coding contest was organized by the IEEE Computer Society Chapter, SJEC and the Department of Computer Science, SJEC on 5th of October, 2018. It was conducted on the occasion of IEEE day and was open to the students of all branches and all semesters. It was a team event; wherein a single team consisted of a maximum of three members.

There were 31 teams with 80 participants in total. The event began at 9:00 AM in the designated laboratories.

The contest was conducted on HackerEarth as the coding platform. The teams were given 4 hours to solve 4 problems with varying difficulties. Participants had to solve these problems by writing efficient code in any programming languages of their choice. The judging criteria included the efficiency of the code and the number of test cases passed. Students were allowed to access the inteet and implement the concepts. To familiarize with the coding platform, the participants were also provided with a mock test one day before the event. Ms Vaishnavi Naik, Mr Pranav Bhat and Mr Nihal Palled of 4th year won 1st place. Ms Fiona Saldanha, Mr Calvin Clint Dsouza and Mr Abhinandan Ghosh of 4th year won 2nd place in this contest. This event helped the students gain insight into Competitive Programming and also enabled them to lea new concepts of programming.

 

IEEE: MATLAB Day

SJEC MATLAB and IEEE SJEC Student Branch is association with MATHWORKS conducted the MATLAB day for faculty on Sept 6, 2018 at CAED Lab, Academic Block III. The resource person for the hands-on session on MATLAB was Mr. Pramod Naik, Senior Application Engineer for Mathworks products at CoreEL Technologies, Bengaluru. 15 faculty members participated in the workshop. Ms Rashmi H, SJEC MATLAB coordinator, welcomed the gathering. Mr Ajeeth B, Assistant Professor, Dept of Civil Engg, introduced the speaker to the audience. Dr Sridevi Saralaya, HOD , CSE, florally welcomed the speaker. The main topics covered by the resource person were Control System Design & Analysis, Mathematical modelling of DC motor, Inteet of Things Overview, Creating writing and reading data from ThingSpeak Channel, Writing to ThinkgSpeak Channel, Hands on Interfacing Arduino with DC motor, LED & Speed Control of DC Motor with help of MATLAB, constructing Simulink Models The session began at 10:00 am and ended at 4:45 pm. Dr Savitha H M presented a memento to the resource person. "MATLAB DAY" for students was conducted on Sept 7, 2018 at Bishop Aloysius Paul Hall. The Resource person was Ms Naini Dawar, an Educational Technical Evangelist at MathWorks India The hands-on session provided the participants an experience about the new capabilities of MATLAB and Simulink in the past few releases. The new features in MATLAB include an Interactive Live Editor, App Designer, data acquisition from mobile devices and capabilities for Data Analytics, Machine Leaing and Deep Leaing. The new features in Simulink include the connectivity with hardware like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, LEGO MINDSTORM and Android and iOS devices. The session started at 10:00 am. Ms Rashmi H, SJEC MATLAB coordinator, welcomed the gathering. Mr Ajeeth B, Assistant Professor, Dept of Civil Engg, introduced the speaker to the audience. Mr Sunil Kamath, Assoc. Professor, CSE florally welcomed the resourse person. Mr Pramod Naik also joined the session and assisted the main resource person. The handson session included sessions on Live Editor, Building UIs using MATLAB, Simulink Hands-on Session, Introduction to System Modeling using Simulink and Simscape, Introduction to System Modeling using Simulink and Simscape, Hardware Connectivity with Simulink, Coding Competition, Q & A and Discussion. The session ended at 5:00 pm, with Ms Rashmi H handing over a memento to the resource person.

 

CSE-IEEE: ART OF WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER

IEEE SJEC Student Branch & Department of Computer Science and Engineering in association with Research and Consultancy (R&C), M.I.T, Manipal, organized a one-day Workshop on Art of Writing a Research Paper, for the B.E Students of SJEC, on 28 March 2018.

The Workshop included a Hands-on session and expert lectures by Dr Manohara Pai M M, Associate Director (R&C), MIT - Manipal, Dr Manjunath K N, Assistant Professor Sr Scale - Dept. of CSE, MIT - Manipal, and Dr Ujjwal Verma, Assistant Professor - Dept. of ECE, MIT - Manipal.

The formal inaugural was held at 10:30 AM, in the Spoorthi Hall of Academic Block 3. Welcoming the Chief Guest and other dignitaries, Dr Sridevi Saralaya, HOD Department of Computer Science and Engineering, explained the need for proper guidance to carry out effective research. Dr Rio D’Souza, Vice Principal, SJEC addressed the gathering and pointed out the need for quality and perfection in research papers. The Chief Guest Dr Manohara Pai M M delivered his address by stating the relevance of writing a research paper with high technical qualities. He also spoke about his love for students and how they can achieve milestones with a little encouragement. In his presidential address, Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director, SJEC, congratulated Dr Pai, for his career and research achievements. He also appreciated the IEEE Student Branch for organizing this workshop. Mr Keith Raymond Feandes, Asst. Professor Department of ECE, SJEC and IEEE SJEC Student Branch Counsellor extended the Vote of Thanks.

The first session in the moing  was conducted by  Dr Manohara Pai on the topics ‘Research Familiarization and its Necessity’, and ‘Technical Paper Organization Know How’. Dr Pai  was generous and expressive with his ideas, and made sure that the session was interactive. Through his knowledge and life experiences Dr Pai conveyed the importance of research in personal and professional development. Participants were also introduced to the format of writing and publishing a research paper.

In the second session at 12:45 PM, Dr Manjunath K N introduced the audience to the topic ‘Publication Process of a Research Paper’. Various review processes required for scientific quality management of a paper were described in this session. While explaining the publication process, Dr Manjunath shed light on numerous areas, including - What to publish, Where to publish, When to publish and How to publish. This Session was interesting as it involved the technicality behind the paper publication.

Dr Ujjwal Verma, in his session at 1:35 PM, dealt with the ‘Ethical Issues Faced by Researchers’ including fabrication, falsification and plagiarism. This information was new to the participants as it had more relevance in producing an appreciable high quality paper. Students were given enough opportunities to interact with the resource persons and clarify their doubts.

The afteoon session of the workshop was held at 2:40 PM in Sophia Chamber Academic Block 3. Initially the students were given a quiz which included topics covered in the moing sessions. The students with similar field of interests were then paired up to proceed with the hands-on session. The hands-on session involved writing a review paper on few research papers based previosulg shared with the participants based on their topics of interest. All the teams could actively participate in the hands-on, as they were introduced to the research papers in advance. Within 2 hours the teams could completed their review papers which were as per IEEE standards. The last session of the day was taken by Dr Manohara Pai and was focussed on the Intellectual Property Rights.

Mr Klevin from CSE dept. and Ms Shradha from ECE dept. shared their experiences in the feedback session. Dr Manohara Pai also shared his experience with the students and encouraged them to achieve more. Dr Sridevi Saralaya, HOD, from CSE honoured the invitees with memento. The Workshop was ended at 5:45 PM, preceded by the photo session.    

 

CSE – IGNITE: An Introduction to Computer Science Tools and Techniques

‘CSE-Ignite’, a one-day workshop on ‘Introduction to Computer Science Tools and Techniques’ was organized by the Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SJEC student branch  for  the first year students of St Joseph Engineering College on 24th of March, 2018. The workshop was conducted keeping in mind the current state of the professional world and the various technologies that are prevalent. The talk aimed to enable the entire attendees gauge what disciplines they should be proficient in to pursue any particular field in the industry.

The workshop comprised of two sessions. Students from 3rd year CSE, SJEC shed light on the concepts of different Computer Science tools and techniques in the first session, followed by a hands-on session on Arduino programming.

The attendees were welcomed by Ms Michelle Rosario, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at SJEC. She also introduced the speakers of the initial session of the workshop; followed by a brief introduction to IEEE and Computer Society, SJEC chapter by Ms Joslin D’cunha.

The first session brought to light the various facets of Computer Science and the associated concepts that students might require to be acquainted with to cultivate an active interest in their respective fields of study. Various topics such as Web technologies and databases by Ms Jyothy Miranda, Machine leaing by Mr Raghavendra Bhat S., Cloud Computing by Ms Joslin D’Cunha, Artificial Intelligence by Mr Carlton Rodrigues and Mr Alston D’souza, and Inteet of Things by Mr Prajwal D’Cunha were covered during the first session. The student participants were extremely responsive and participated in the session actively.

The hands-on training session on Arduino programming was included so as to allow attendees to obtain the basic knowledge and cultivate interest in IOT, a field that has been gaining traction due to recent technological advancements.The second session was conducted by Ms Pramila M., Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SJEC and Ms Supreetha R, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SJEC. The hands-on session included various experiments using Arduino and sensors.

There was an enthusiastic response from the first year students of all branches, from which 78 students took part. This workshop helped the students gain knowledge of different technologies that are causing a revolution in the present technological world. It also helped students to get different project ideas, widen their horizons and introduced them to various fields present in the industry.

 

CSE - IEEE : Hands-on Workshop on Android Application Development

The IEEE SJEC Student Branch, Computer Society Chapter organised a hands-on workshop on ‘Android Application Development’ by Mr. Royden Rego and his team of 3rd year CSE students which included Prajwal D'Cunha, Rigel Rego, Arun Patil, Sachin Poojary, Siddesha, Pranav, Abhinandan Ghosh and Jyothy Miranda.

The workshop was conducted in two phases. Phase 1 was conducted on 24th March 2018 from 9:15 AM to 5:00 PM for the 4th semester students of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SJEC which involved 110 participants. Phase 2 of the workshop was conducted on 28th March 2018 for all branches of our college and exteal participants from neighboring colleges which included students from Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management and Srivinas Institute of Technology forming a total of 60 participants.

A brief report of the proceedings during both these days is as follows:
Dr. Sridevi Saralya, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, welcomed the students to the workshop and introduced the team of 3rd year CSE Students who were organizing the workshop. Mr. Royden Rego is a founder of two software companies, Softrixz and TechShaadi. He and his team designed the official app for the Tiara 2018. Dr. Sridevi Saralaya encouraged the participants to utilize the opportunity to the fullest and congratulated the 3rd year student on their initiative to organise this workshop.

The entire workshop was divided into three session. Session 1 was a theory session conducted from 9:30 AM to 10:30AM. Mr. Royden and Mr. Rigel introduced the audience to the basics of Application Development using Android Studio. They also demonstrated how to install Android Studio for Windows and gave a tour of the Interface. The participants were also familiarized with concepts of Activities and Lifecycle of Activities.

Session 2 was a practical session conducted from 10:45 AM to 1:00 PM. In the Computer Science Laboratories, the team of third years helped the participants set up Android Studio on the devices. They taught the participants how to use and manipulate the properties of the Widgets such as text view, buttons, edit text, image view, progress bar using XML code. Layouts for the user interface were discussed. A java code for creating references, setting background color and text to buttons etc. were explained. With this as the base, a basic login page was designed and the application run on android phones.

Session 3 was a practical session conducted from 1:45 PM to 5:00 PM. During the afteoon session, more functionality was added to the basic login page by using ClickListener and Toast functions. After this, a new Activity was created, and the participants were introduced to the Basics of Intent and passing messages from one Activity to another. The concept of log and lists were introduced.Using the concepts leaed throughout the day the participants designed a simple to-do list application. 


The team of 3rd years were engaging, eager to help, quick to answer questions and clarify doubts. At the end of the workshop the organisers announced that a competition on designing a better to-do list application would be held and participants can submit their apps to them for valuation. The participants were also informed about IEEE MAD-C competition and were encouraged to participate in it. . The workshop concluded at 5:00 PM.


 

Two-day workshop on ‘Machine Learning and Big data Analytics’ by IEEE SJEC Student Branch and Department of CSE

A two-day workshop on ‘Machine Leaing and Big data Analytics’ was organized by the IEEE SJEC student branch and Department of Computer Science, SJEC for the students of St. Joseph Engineering College on 8th & 9th of February, 2018. Dr. Radhika M. Pai, Professor, Department of Information and Communication Technology, MIT Manipal and Mrs. Girija Attigeri, Assistant Professor - Senior Scale, MIT Manipal were the resource persons of the workshop.

Dr. Radhika M. Pai with 25 years of teaching experience and expertise in patte recognition, Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing along with Mrs.Girija Attigeri, who has teaching experience of 12 years and skills of data science, data analytics, machine leaing helped students gain knowledge on the most trending topics in Computer Science.

The workshop was inaugurated in the Spoorthi Hall of Academic Block 3 at 9:00 AM. The inaugural function commenced with a prayer song and lighting of the lamp by the dignitaries.  Dr.Sridevi Saralaya, HOD, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SJEC welcomed the gathering and introduced the resource persons.  Dr. Joseph Gonsalvis, Principal, SJEC briefed about the application of machine leaing and big data analytics and how it has gained its popularity in the recent times. The Chief Guest, Dr. Radhika M. Pai delivered her address by stating that machine leaing and AI concepts have been in existence since the 1960’s but has only recently gained popularity due to advancements in computing and hardware technologies. Rev. Fr Wilfred Prakash D’Souza, Director, SJEC addressed the gathering and inspired students to keep leaing and gaining knowledge. He also appreciated the work of IEEE in conducting these kinds of workshops which helps the students to gain practical knowledge of current technologies. Mr. Keith Raymond Feandes, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication, SJEC and IEEE SJEC Student Branch Counsellor proposed the vote of thanks.

The two day workshop comprised of two sessions on both the days. The resource persons shed lights on the concepts of Machine leaing and its types on the first session followed by a hands-on session on R programming during the second session of first day.Various topics pertaining to machine leaing were also covered, the different algorithms like K-means, regression analysis helped the students to gain better understanding about the topic. The students were challenged with a set of practical exercises based on R programming at the end of the first day. Mr Raghavendra from 3rd year CSE was the winner of the competition.

On the second day, the first session focussed on understanding “Big Data” and its types and the second session enabled the students to lea about Hadoop, a software framework for distributed processing of large datasets across large clusters of computers. Dr.Radhika M. Pai also discussed about Apache Pig, Apache Hive and RHadoop.

The valedictory function started with Ms Maria Vaz of third year E&C and Mr Siddharth of third year CSE sharing their experiences of the two-day workshop and how they benefitted from it. Dr. Radhika M. Pai addressed the students congratulating them on their active participation and she hoped that the sessions had given them useful insights on the topics of machine leaing and big data analytics and hoped that they would now be interested to carry out projects in these fields.

 

 

EEE - IEEE: Workshop on PLC & SCADA

As a part of VACT, the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering in association with IEEE-SJEC Student Chapter organized a One-Week Student Training Programme on Programmable Logic Controllers & SCADA for the Final Year EEE students from 14th August to 19th August 2017 in Electrical Seminar Hall. Mr Himanshu Kumar & Mr Amith Kumar Singh of Indwell Institute of Technology, Pune were the resource persons. The objective of the training programme was to create awareness on the practical aspects of PLC & SCADA in industrial automation and also to enhance the knowledge and skills of the students in the PLC domain. The training sessions focused mainly on providing theoretical knowledge and hands-on training on the PLC software. Every theory session was followed by a related hands-on session. Students had an opportunity to use Mitsubishi & Siemens PLC hardware during the practical sessions. Mini projects were demonstrated to the students and few modifications to these projects were done by the students during the hands-on sessions. The students were also given an overview of the development of SCADA & HMI for control applications. The theory & practical session were appreciated by the students. 

 

EEE – IEEE: Technical Talk on Switchgear and Protection

The Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering in association with IEEE - SJEC Student Branch, organized a technical talk on Switchgear and Protection by the resource person, Mr Santhosh J, Additional Director of CPRI - Bengaluru on 13th May 2017 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am in Fr Fred Seminar Hall.

This talk was organised for 3rd year EEE Students as a beyond syllabus activity for the theory subject Switchgear & Protection. The main aim of the talk was to strengthen the knowledge on switchgear and protection. The resource person started with the basics of switchgears. He also provided detailed insights on the practical aspects of various circuit breakers, contactors, relays and insulators.

Resource person also presented a video on various techniques used for arc quenching in circuit breakers.

This lecture session was well appreciated by all students. Dr Sheryl Grace Colaco, Professor and Head of EEE Department, along with Mr Subramanya K, & Ms Chaithra Shetty, Assistant Professors in the Department of EEE, coordinated the programme.

 

EEE – IEEE SJEC: Lecture on Applications of Fourier and Z transforms

The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in association with IEEE-SJEC Students Chapter organized a guest lecture on Applications of Fourier and Z transforms for second and third year EEE students on 8th May 2017 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. This event was part of the IEEE Lecture Series 2017. The resource person for this guest lecture was Dr Arulalan, Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication at NITK, Surathkal. This lecture aimed at introducing the fundamental concepts of transform theory, providing valuable information on related mathematical concept and applications of Laplace, Z, and Fourier transforms in engineering.

The sessions were made very interesting and interactive by Dr Arulalan be providing case studies and practical examples for signal processing applications of various transforms. This lecture session was well appreciated by all students and faculty members present on the occasion.

Mr Deepesh S K and Ms Mayuri R, Assistant. Professors in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering coordinated the programme.

 

EEE: Lecture on Professional Etiquette

The Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at SJEC in association with IEEE SJEC Student Branch organized a talk on Professional Etiquette by the resource person, Mr Clinton Herbert Lobo, Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Business Administration at SJEC on 5th May 2017 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am in Fr Fred Hall. This talk was conducted for 2nd year & 4th year EEE students and IEEE student Members.

The objective of the talk was to make students aware of the concepts of business etiquette, professional traits, and knowledge on applying business etiquette rules in a wide variety of typical business situations. This program was mainly focused on graduating students of final year students to enhance their knowledge on professional etiquette which would help them to be a better engineer in their professional career.

The resource person covered topics such as teamwork, effective communication skills & fundamental techniques in handling people.

The session was interactive & appreciated by the students. Ms Denita D Souza, Assistant Professor, Department of E&E Coordinated the programme.

 

EEE: Training programme on Industrial Automation with PLC & SCADA

The Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering in association with IEEE-SJEC Student Chapter organized a one-week student training programme on Industrial Automation with PLC & SCADA for the final year B.E. students from 30th January to 4th February 2017. The resource persons were Mr Himanshu Kumar & Mr Amith Kumar of Indwell Institute of Technology, Pune. The objective of the training programme was to create awareness of practical aspects of PLC & SCADA in industrial applications and also to enhance the knowledge and skills of the students in the PLC domain.

The training session consisted of both theory & hands-on sessions. Every theory session was followed by a related hands-on session. Students had an opportunity to use Mitsubishi & Siemens PLC hardware as a part of their practical sessions. Resource persons demonstrated various mini projects to students and few modifications to these projects were done by the students during the hands-on sessions.

The theory & practical session were appreciated by the students. Dr Sheryl Grace Colaco, HOD & Professor, Department of E&E felicitated the Resource Persons. Ms Denita D Souza, Mr Subramnaya K & Mr Rahul V A were the programme Coordinators.

 

ECE – IEEE: Talk on Embedded System with ARM

IEEE in association with ECE Department organised a talk on Embedded System with ARM on 12th May 2016 at Fr Fred Memorial Hall for 4th semester ECE students.

The resource person was Ms Apaa P, Assistant Professor at ECE Department of NITK, Surathkal. The Talk included discussions on various embedded systems used in real time and the various processors involved in the design of the systems. Dr Apaa explained the different architectural details of the processor families, the processor life cycle and the evolution of the ARM. Finally, Dr Apaa briefed on how ARM processor can be used for student projects. A total of 100 students belonging to ECE Department participated in the programme.

The session ended with Ms Prajwal D’Souza, Associate Professor - ECE Department handing over a memento to the speaker. Ms Veena Desai on behalf of the SJEC - Management and the Department of ECE, thanked Dr Apaa. Final year IEEE student members from the Department of ECE, Ms Rubina Nivya Cutinha, coordinated the event, and Mr Anuj Virgil D'Souza, Mr Adarsh V Saliyan, and Mr Hithesh K, helped in organizing the event.

 

EEE – IEEE: Technical talk on Switchgear and Protection

IEEE SJEC Chapter in association with Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department organized a Technical talk on Switchgear and Protection for the pre-final year students of Electrical and Electronics Engineering on 7th May, 2016 at 10:00 AM. The Talk was delivered by Mr Santhosh J, Joint Director - High Power Lab, Central Power Research Institute, Bengaluru. The resource person explained to the students the basics of transformers, generation of power, use of alteators and transformers in transmission and distribution of power, the limitations of low voltage transmission and advantages of high voltage transmission, advantages and limitations of HVDC transmission, use of switchgear in power transmission and distribution, various faults, and its solutions. He also provided information to students on facilities available at CPRI and showed videos of transformer and switchgear testing, how the electric arcs are formed when fault occurs, and various parameters on which the transformers and switchgears are certified for use by CPRI.

Dr Sheryl Grace Colaco, Professor - EEE thanked the Resource Person on behalf of SJEC Management, EEE Department and Students. Around 50 students, from pre final year EEE, attended the talk. The technical talk was Coordinated by Dr Sheryl Grace Colaco and Co-coordinated by Mr Rolen Rodrigues. 

 

EEE – IEEE: Hands-On Workshop on High Frequency Transformer Design

A hands-on workshop on High Frequency Transformer Design was organized by IEEE in association with EEE Department for 4th semester students on 2nd May 2016. The resource person for this workshop was Prof. Suryanarayana K, Associate Professor from NMAMIT-Nitte. The workshop was organized with an intention to train the students on transformer design aspects and winding. Prof. Suryanarayana stressed on the importance of transformers, application of transformers, and how to design a transformer. In his interactive session, he made clear the basics concepts and terminologies of transformers. He taught the students the step-by-step design procedure of high frequency transformer used for power electronics. Hands-on training was provided to the students on winding the core of the transformer used in power electronics applications.

In his concluding message he advised the students to test their design in lab and find out the inductance of their developed practical inductor. Around 60 students participated in the programme. Coordinators: Mr Subramanya K, Assistant Professor - EEE and Ms Glaina Michelle Miranda, Assistant Professor – EEE.

 

EEE – IEEE: Hands -on Training Programme on JAVA

IEEE SJEC Chapter in association with Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department had organized a half-day Hands-On training programme on JAVA for the final and pre-final year students of EEE on 14th April, 2016.

The training was conducted by Mr Sampath Kini, Assistant Professor from Computer Science Engineering Department of NMAMIT, Nitte. The resource person in the first half of his talk explained the various advantages of Java over C and C++, which includes platform independent programming, ease of maintenance, and graceful error handling. Mr Kini demonstrated a basic Java program to output some text and find the average of three numbers. He then explained the concept of classes and objects and the differences between them. A program which read and printed the details of several students using multiple objects as well as an array of objects was explained. The concepts of inheritance and abstraction were also explained using a program.

The students imbibed the practical use of JAVA and cleared various doubts and were able to understand the code efficiently. Around 46 students of UG EEE gained a first-hand experience on JAVA.

Coordinator: Ms Divya K Pai; Co- Coordinator: Mr Girisha Joshi 

 

IEEE – EEE: Seminar on Ham Radio

IEEE in association with EEE Department organized a Seminar on Ham Radio in Present Communication Technologies on 4th April 2016 at 12:00 pm in the EEE seminar hall for SJEC students. The lecture was delivered by Mr Sathyapal, Director - Indian Institute of HAMs (IIH). Mr Sathyapal said the objective of IIH is Empowering Youth with skill and HAM – Communication Technology. He opined that HAM Radio is a scientific activity in Information Technology, adventurous sport, & a second line of communication when all other means of communication fails. HAM has become a unique tool in promoting global friendship. Ham radio is self leaing, inter-communication, technical investigation. Ham family consists of students, educationists, scientists, engineers, doctors, lawyers, technicians, retired persons from various fields, house-wives, film stars, top –officials, Ministers, MPs, Kings, etc. He encouraged the students to make their own receiver and transmitter, Software Defined Radio (SDR) and antennas etc. Conduct scientific experiments in radio techniques, digital communication, Satellites, propagation studies. Tu your computer or smart phone into transceiver and communicate to Hams across globe. Communicate with other Hams located in any part of the 300+ countries to develop global friendship. Provide Ham communication network during Natural Calamities like Earth-quake, floods, cyclones, major accidents. Provide communication for major events like National Festivals and Motor Sports (Car Rallies). Conduct and participate in the adventurous Radio Direction Finding (RDF – for hunting) Sports by making your own directional antenna. Participate in various Radio Contests for numerous achievement awards and honors. Few students were given a opportunity to use Ham Radio.

Mr Rolen Rodrigues on behalf of the SJEC Management, HOD, Staff and Students of EEE thanked Mr Sathyapal and his Team and presented a memento. The event was coordinated by Dr Sheryl Grace Colaco and co-coordinated by Mr Rolen Rodrigues, Mr Franco Menezes and Ms Glaina Miranda.

A total of 50 students belonging to EEE and Mechanical Engineering Department participated in the programme. 

 

EEE – IEEE: Technical talk on Flexible AC Transmission System

IEEE Student Chapter of SJEC in association with Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department organized a technical talk on Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) on 30th March 2016 for the students of M.Tech in Power Electronics and Pre-final year BE students. Dr Nagesh Prabhu, HOD, EEE Department at NMAMIT-Nitte was the resource person. Dr Prabhu started off his interactive session by presenting the current power scenario in India. He stated that as per Feb 2016 statistics, despite installed generation of 288 GW, India continues to be power deficit. The major reasons for this kind of situations are generation outages, inadequate transmission capacity, mismatch in generation capacity and load requirements. To prevent under-utilization of AC transmission network and to improve the power flow, FACTS controllers are the best solution. Dr Prabhu touched upon different types of FACTS controllers and their benefits. In his concluding message he stated that FACTS controllers will revolutionize electrical power transmission systems making them more reliable, optimally utilized and better controlled. A total of 57 EEE pre-final year students participated in the programme Mr Deepesh K. compeered the programme.

Coordinators: Dr Sheryl Grace Colaco, Professor, EEE Dept., Co-coordinator: Ms Denita D’Souza & Mr Subramanya, Assistant Professor, EEE Department.

 

Jagruthi - IEEE: Talk on Women in Engineering

To commemorate Inteational Women’s Day, Jagruthi cell & IEEE Student Chapter of SJEC organized a motivational talk on 10th March 2016 on the topic Women in Engineering by Ms Malini G. Nayak, Manager (BFU), Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited - Mangaluru.

Ms. Nayak began her talk by asking a series of question to the audience such as, what is engineering and what are the qualities an engineer should possess to suite Industry requirements. Ms Nayak stated that Engineering is an essence of solving problems, team work and taking quick decisions to overcome a problem. In her speech she reflected on how gradual transition has taken place over the years on women pursuing engineering education. She opined that though there are large number of women with engineering degrees, still Women Engineers working in Public Sectors; particularly in manufacturing industry is very less and still male dominated due to the wrong perception that women are weak and less competent. However, of late notions are changing as women have proved their competency and capabilities in terms of technical skills and managerial roles. She advised that Women should have inner confidence and take bold decisions regarding their professional lives without compromising on ethical and moral values. She said that success mantra for a woman to become a leader in any field of her choice lies in taking her male counterparts into confidence and ability to work as a team. Ms Nayak also presented PPT slides on the manufacturing process of pig iron at KIOCL Company. She also discussed the operation of the Blast Fuace Unit (BFU) through pictures. A total of 100 female students and faculty of all the branches of SJEC attended the programme. Ms Malini Nayak was felicitated with a college memento as a token of appreciation. Dr Sheryl Grace Colaco, IEEE coordinator and Ms. Bharathi Rao, Jagruthi Cell coordinator convened the programme. Ms Ashra & Ms Rithika B, Student of III yr E&E compered the programme.

 

NCACSP-2015: Valedictory

The Valedictory ceremony of the National Conference on Advances in Communication and Signal Processing, NCACSP-2015, organized by the Department of ECE in association with IEEE Communications Society, Bangalore Chapter, was held on August 14th, 2015 at 3.30 PM in the Spoorthi Conference Hall, Academic Block 3.

The function began by invoking God’s Blessings with a prayer song by Jess Corda & Team. Dr Veena Devi welcomed the dignitaries and the gathering for the function. Ms Veena Desai, Convener - NCACSP 2015, briefed the gathering about the Two-Day Conference.

The Chief Guest for the function, Sri CVS Sastry gave away the Best Paper award for the four sessions of the Conference. The Best Paper award for the Afteoon Session - 1 on August 13, 2015, was won by the paper titled “Person Authentication using Iris Recognition”, authored by Ms Mranila P and Ms Reshma K J of SJEC. Best Paper for the Afteoon Session-2 on August 13, 2015, was won by the paper titled “Design of 8T SRAM for low power sensor application”, authored by Mr Colin David Karat and Dr Soorya Krishna K of SIT - Valachil.

The Best paper for Forenoon session-1 on August 14, 2015 was won by the paper titled “An efficient Image fusion Algorithm based on Directional Discrete Cosine Transform and Principal Component Analysis”, authored by Ms Pavithra S G and Ms Preetha D’Souza of SJEC. Best paper for Forenoon Session-2 on August 14, 2015, was won by the paper titled “An Efficient Steganography with Mosaic Image for secure Communication”, authored by Ms Vimitha A and Ms Shama B N of SJEC.

Participation Certificates were distributed to the participants by the President of the function Rev. Fr Joseph Lobo, Director - SJEC. The Chief Guest Sri CVS Sastry in his address pointed out that that the current generation is more capable than the older generations. He opined that the conferences like NCACSP play an important role in bridging technical gaps. He concluded by requesting the students to work beyond the syllabus. He insisted the students to publish their work in reputed jouals.

The Guest of Honor Dr Rio D’Souza, Vice Principal-SJEC in his address pointed out the tremendous scope and opportunities in the field of Nanotechnology. Rev. Fr Joseph Lobo in his presidential address congratulated the entire Faculty and Students involved in NCACSP-2015. He asked the students to initiate ideas and take it to its logical conclusion. Rev Fr also spoke about the 4G – God, Google, GPS and Growth.

Dr Roshan Joy Martis, Convener-NCACSP-2015 proposed the vote of thanks. The function concluded with the rendering of The National Anthem. 

 

ECE: Technical Talk on “Latest Trends in Information and Communication”

A technical talk was organized by the ECE Students Association, PRODIGI, and IEEE, on 18 October 2014 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, in Fr Fred Memorial Hall, as a part of the Institute Industry Interaction Program. The talk on Latest Trends in Information and Communication was delivered by Mr Vijay S, Senior Project Manager, Kshipra Solutions, Bangalore. The talk was attended by VII and V Semester BE, and I and III Semester M Tech students, of the ECE Department.

Mr Vijay introduced the gathering to the CAMS phenomenon consisting of Cloud, Analytics, Mobile and Social Media Explosion. He began with the Big Data concept which is playing a major role in today's inteet age where data is being dumped and accessed in large volume.

He described how data had evolved from the early 90's where the maximum portable data was only 1.2 Megabytes on a floppy drive to the present when 2 Terabytes of data areportable in a hard disk. He also covered the three factors: Volume, Velocity and Variety and talked about the increase in storage capacities, increase in processing speed, faster availability and analysis of data by technical companies such as Google and e-retail sites such as Flipkart. He linked this to the mobile revolution and social media explosion that have become mediums for collecting and spreading information, and have also become the focal point of work in mode enterprises. The speaker also covered the topic of Cloud Computing - the umbrella term for Inteet based Development and Services – in great detail.

In conclusion, he advised students to explore multiple fields like Finance, Application Development Information and Communication where the industry is growing rapidly and may well make way for more than 1 million jobs per year in India alone. He stated that in the present scenario engineering is all about adapting yourself to the latest technology. The talk ended with a Q&A session which was very interactive.

Prof B V Nityananda, HOD ECE, presented the speaker with a memento and certificate of appreciation. IEEE Department Coordinator Mr Rohan Pinto, Assistant Professor ECE, and PRODIGI Coordinators Ms Chaitra U R and Mr Keith Feandes, Assistant Professors ECE, were present during the talk. Ms Rhea Feandes proposed the vote of thanks.

 

IEEE: Technical talk on Switch Gears & Applications

A technical talk on Switch Gears & Applications was organized by the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering for V Semester students under the aegis of IEEE, on 25 August 2014, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, in the Seminar Hall.

The talk was delivered by Mr Shivanada, Director, dbson Universal Power Control, Tumkur, to provide students an overview of the importance of training in Electrical Switch Gears. After a discussion of the fundamental concepts of Electrical Engineering the speaker proceeded with the theory of electrical measuring instruments, switch gear and protection. He stressed on the need for putting theory into practice, without compromising on safety, for the progress of mankind and technology. In his concluding address, he motivated the students to think of the significance of acquiring technical skills during student life in order to become a successful electrical engineer or entrepreneur.

The talk was convened by Dr Pius Pinto A J, Professor and HOD, E&E, and Coordinator IEEE, Dr Sheryl Grace Colaco, Associate Professor, E&E.

 

TECHNOVISION-2014: Academic Project Exhibition

An Engineering Academic Project Exhibition contest TECHNOVISION-2014 was held on 16th and 17th May 2014 in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at St Joseph Engineering College, Mangalore. The exhibition was jointly organized by the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering and SJEC Students Chapter of IEEE and ISTE. The main objective of the exhibition was to motivate the interests of students in the fields of Science, Mathematics, Technology and Engineering and to provide a valuable educational experience for students. Here, students got an opportunity to showcase their engineering talents and their outstanding efforts and achievements were recognized.

On 16th May, 2014 the contest was held for the final year students of Electronics and Communications Engineering of St Joseph Engineering College, Mangalore. A total of 33 teams participated in the contest and the contest was held in the Logic Design Laboratory, Analog Electronics laboratory, and Advance Communication Laboratory. Six Judges were invited to judge the projects; three from the Department of Electrical and Electronics and three from the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering. Two best projects were rewarded and selected for inter college project exhibition held on 17th May, 2014. Projects were Smart Street Light Monitoring Control System and I-Series Smart Kitchen. Another nine best projects were selected for College level project exhibition.

On 17th May, 2014 inter college project exhibition was held in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering. A total of 21 teams from neighboring Colleges registered for the event and among those the best 10 projects were selected for the event. The contest was held in Logic Design Laboratory and Analog Electronics Laboratory. Two judges were called for the event. The Exteal judge was from NMAMIT, Nitte, Prof Sunitha Lasrado, Department of E&C and the inteal judge from SJEC, Prof Satisha K from the Department of E&E.

The valedictory program was held in Logic Design Laboratory with MC being 3rd year E&C student Ms. Raksha Jathanna. Principal-SJEC, Dr Joseph Gonsalvis was the Chief Guest of the function and Head of the Department of E&C, Prof. B.V. Nityananda was the Guest of Honor. Best Project prize was won by students of Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management for the project titled “Image Transparency Computer Vision for Effective Content Delivery”. Second place was shared by students of N.M.A.M.I.T, Nitte, for their project titled “Semi-Automatic Electronic Gear Control for Automobiles”, and students of St Joseph Engineering College, for their project titled “Smart Street Light Monitoring Control System”. The exhibition was convened by Mr Rohan Pinto, Assistant Professor, IEEE Branch Counselor - SJEC, and Mr Gandhimathinathan, Assistant Professor, ISTE-ECE Branch Coordinator – SJEC.

 

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