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IEEE-SJCE Student Branch Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering

Mysuru

Annual Report 2017

AFFILIATED TO

IEEE-SJCE STUDENT BRANCH

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Table of Contents

1. Robotics 8.X ...................................................................................................................................... 1

1.1 Highlights of the workshop ........................................................................................................... 1

2. Tech-know-logic ................................................................................................................................. 2

3 . Cyberia’17.......................................................................................................................................... 3

3.1 Panel discussion ............................................................................................................................ 3

3.2 Wolf of cyberia ............................................................................................................................. 3

3.3 Jugaad ........................................................................................................................................... 4

3.4 E-innovation .................................................................................................................................. 4

3.5 Junkyard wars ............................................................................................................................... 5

3.6 El-Dorado ...................................................................................................................................... 5

3.7 Mock placements .......................................................................................................................... 5

3.8 Code your way .............................................................................................................................. 6

3.9 Just google it ................................................................................................................................. 6

3.10 Matholympic ............................................................................................................................... 6

3.11 Fury road ..................................................................................................................................... 6

3.12 Amaze ......................................................................................................................................... 7

4.VPM 8.0 ............................................................................................................................................... 7

4.1 Phase 1 .......................................................................................................................................... 8

4.2 Phase 2 .......................................................................................................................................... 8

4.3 Phase 3 .......................................................................................................................................... 8

4.4 VPM 8.0 talk-1 .............................................................................................................................. 8

A guest lecture on COMPUMUSIC TECHNOLOGY ....................................................................... 8

4.5 VPM 8.0 talk-2 .............................................................................................................................. 9

4.6 Valedictory function ..................................................................................................................... 9

5.Orientation day’17 ............................................................................................................................... 9

7. Python bootcamp ............................................................................................................................. 10

8. WIE activities.................................................................................................................................... 10

8.1 Social initiative (Prayas) ............................................................................................................. 10

9. Snap circuits’17 ................................................................................................................................ 11

10. Soldering and etching’17 ................................................................................................................ 11

10.1 Day 1 ......................................................................................................................................... 11

10.2 Day 2 ......................................................................................................................................... 12

10.3 Day 3 ......................................................................................................................................... 12

11. IEEE day 2017 celebrations ............................................................................................................ 12

12. TUXEDO ‘17 .................................................................................................................................. 13

Pre-events:......................................................................................................................................... 13

12.1 Inaugural function ..................................................................................................................... 13

12.2 Open debate .............................................................................................................................. 14

12.3 Brainchase ................................................................................................................................. 14

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12.4 An interactive lecture on ADA (Analysis and design algorithm) ............................................ 14

12.5 Cognito ...................................................................................................................................... 15

12.6 Networking and server scripting workshop .............................................................................. 15

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13. Industrial visit ................................................................................................................................. 15

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ANNUAL REPORT

1. Robotics 8.X

ROBOTICS 8.X workshop was hosted by EDS chapter of IEEE SJCE student branch. It was

the most awaited workshop in SJCE. Every year the workshop has seen exponential improvements

both in terms of organization and technical knowledge imparted in the workshop.

This workshop was primarily targeted at students who wish to discover the new technology by

hands on training session. The participants were introduced to practical and designed oriented

approach. At the end of the workshop we ensure that the participants get better understanding on

automation technology. The workshop is so patterned that it is best suited for beginners taking their

initial steps towards robotics, embedded systems and microcontroller technology and also for the

intermediates who keen to know more about it. A total of 142 students among which 16 were from

different colleges attended the workshop which had a volunteer strength of 40 and the workshop

started on 15th February 2017 at 5:30pm.

1.1 Highlights of the workshop

Participants learnt to

Build an all-terrain robot.

Control the robot using an android cell phone or a PC through Bluetooth

Obstacle avoiding robot using ultrasonic sensor.

Bot using DTMF module.

A demo on building line following bot.

The software’s for microcontroller programming- Energia and Code Composer studio CCS

were installed on the first day. On the next day, session focused on introduction to MSP430G2553

architecture, MSP430 Launch pad and also about the usage of the installed software’s. Also,

participants programmed a simple code to blink an LED on the board in CCS software. On day 3 the

participants blinked the led by using bit addressing technique. Since the workshop had participants

even from first year BE as well, we started the workshop by briefing them about basic digital

electronics and number representation in binary and hexa decimal. Also, they were taught to read input

to the microcontroller from push button. On day 4 the concept of interrupt was introduced to the

participants and programming was done in CCS

software.

Also, the participants were introduced to

programming in Energia software. Blinking the

led and button reading was done using energia.

The last day which was the most awaited day of

the workshop started at 9 am. Concepts of ADC

(analog to digital convertor), LCD (liquid crystal

display), DTMF and ultrasonic sensor were

introduced to the participants. And the most

anticipated hands on session of bot building were

started by noon.

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2. Tech-know-logic

National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February each year to mark the discovery of

the Raman Effect by Indian physicist Sir Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman on 28 February 1928.

National Science Day is being celebrated every year to widely spread a message about the most

Importance of science used in the daily life of the people and to display all the activities, efforts and

achievements in the field of science for human welfare. The theme of the year 2017 is “Science and

Technology for specially abled persons”. IEEE-SJCE celebrated the National Science Day by

conducting a workshop on basics of MSP430 for the students of PDA, JSS-STU. The workshop was

conducted for 2 days, i.e. on 1st March 2017 and 2nd March 2017. About 50 students from PDA

attended the workshop which was organized and conducted completely by volunteers of IEEE-SJCE

student branch.

In the workshop, we aimed at educating the students with a practical and design oriented

approach. The workshop is so designed that it is best suited to beginners who are taking their first step

towards robotics, embedded systems and microcontroller technology and also intermediates who are

enthusiastic to know more about it. We had mainly focused on introducing the new integrated

development board titled MSP430 by Texas Instruments.

The workshop started on 1st March, 2017 at 2.30 P.M. Since the workshop had participants

from 1st year BE we started the workshop by briefing them about basic digital electronics and

followed by software installation session for all the PCs in the PDA laboratory. About 15 volunteers

helped the students to install Energia successfully in their systems. Sample codes, hardware

(development boards, LDR sensors) debugging, software installation, teaching of basic concepts,

debugging the user code were all carried by the volunteers themselves.

Next day, the workshop began at 4:30pm and continues till 8:30pm. The workshop started

with the introducing the students to Energia IDE. The students were taught how to declare input and

output modes and use the analog and digital pins of MSP430 to take inputs and also display the

outputs to LEDs present on the board. They were taught to create a new project, change necessary

settings, link necessary files and to write code for the target MSP430G2553 development board. A

brief introduction of the analog to digital conversion of input data was given and the students were

also taught how to use LDR to create automatic street light project and were provided with the

necessary hardware. At the end of the day students learnt to code LED array (Output) and take analog

data from the input pins and use the data to glow the LEDs.

The objective of the workshop was met as the volunteers were able to teach the students, how

to use MSP430 using Energia IDE. The volunteers and the organizer proved themselves by

communicating with the specially abled students which indeed was a challenge for the successful

completion of the workshop. The participants were provided with the participation certificates and

were encouraged by the volunteers to take up Engineering after the successful completion of their

diploma.

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3 . Cyberia’17

IEEE-SJCE conducts its annual

technical festival ‘Cyberia’ every year, in the

even semester. The motto of the festival is to

promote the industry-academia balance, by

bringing together professionals from all

streams and rewarding talented ones. Every

year there are many pre-festival events

heralding the arrival of Cyberia, lining up to

the grand inauguration. The pre-Cyberia events

started with Wolf of Cyberia. The inauguration

of ‘Bosch Cyberia-2017’, was held on the 31st

of March, 2017. The three-day festival drew students and professionals from across the state.

All workshops and sessions were handled or judged by experts in the industry, had hundreds

of participants and were witnessed by students from all streams. The festival successfully culminated

on its third day, with the winners from every event, being awarded with great prizes.

3.1 Panel discussion

The inauguration function was succeeded by the panel discussion in which the panelists

discussed on the topic ‘The student resource of India is being spent abroad with missions like make in

India, digital India, rural India, should the students continue doing this? If this continues what can be

the consequences? What measures can be taken to make the students not leave their country and

contribute to nation building.’ The chief guest was Kiran Bettadapur. The guest of honour was

Srikantaswamy Bisilawadi of Robert Bosch India.

The panel included

Mr. M J Sampath Kumar

Mr. B S Narayan

Mr. Chethan M

Mr. Ram Kumar

Mr. Adarsh Ramesh

Mr. Sudheendra Koushik

3.2 Wolf of cyberia

Wolf of Cyberia is a competition that tests the business aptitude of the contestants. The event

is unique and challenging as it not only helps bring out the technical aspects but also requires

marketing skills to make it to the end. The competition was built in such a way that it tests the

participants' introspection and flexibility of mind. The competition required teams of two, and

consisted of three rounds.

The first round was a quiz wherein the questions varied from perspective based to multiple

choice questions on recent and popular happenings as well as some questions on the stock market. It

was held on the 23rd of March.

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There were thirty-seven teams that

participated, which over shot our estimate.

Twenty-six teams were chosen for the second

round which required the contestants to come

up with an idea to build their startup. The idea

was judged based on its originality, feasibility

as well as the clarity with which the plan was

thought of and explained. The final round was

conducted on the last day of Cyberia.

The teams have to come up with a

market plan that ensured the success of their

business. They then presented their idea to the judges who had years of experience in the field. The

teams were judged based on various parameters such as segmentation: the demographic that the teams

aimed for the improvements that could be incorporated, positioning etc. Also, the overall market plan

had to be feasible and the exact steps to reach the final goal was evaluated. Teams were required to

have a clear step by step plan to build the company and generate revenue enough to sustain it. After

some very interesting presentations the contestants showcased that their ideas fit the judges’ criteria.

The two teams that could prove that their plan would ensure success and convince the judges that it

was almost complete in every aspect earned the highest score and won the competition.

3.3 Jugaad

Jugaad is a fun literary event conducted by the Editorial Board of IEEE-SJCE during the even

semester technical fest Cyberia. This time, it was held on the 24th of March, 2017. The topics were

given before hand to the participants to prepare. The topics were absurd and amusing, however, had no

relation to one another whatsoever. The idea of the event was to pick any, some or all of the given

topics and come up with a fun, crazy or even a silly logic to prove them right.

The participants were allowed to do so using any medium such as drawings, skits, power point

presentations and so on. The participants were judged based on criteria such as creativity, exposition,

presentation, relevance, etc. Based on these scores, a winner and a runner-up were chosen. All in all,

the event was a grand success that not only opened up channels of imagination and creativity but also

gave the audience a good dose of laughter.

3.4 E-innovation

As part of Cyberia 2017, a technical event Ennovation was held. The motto of the event was to

test the practical problem-solving ability of engineers and reward the most innovative minds.

Participants were required to be in a team of two. The event had a total of two rounds. In the first

round, the participants were tested on a theoretical, aptitude-driven and innovative basis. The first

round was held on the 25th of March, 2017.

There were 26 participating teams. Of these 26 teams, 13 teams from first second and third

years, put together, were selected to the second round. The second round had two stages, both of

which were held on Sunday, the 2nd of April.

The first stage was an interview. The selected team members were interviewed individually

and were evaluated for a total of 25 points. The interviewers were the event leads themselves. The

interview tested the innovativeness, creativity, knowledge of intellectual property and practical

exposure of the participants. The second stage, the most important stage of the event, demanded a

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futuristic idea from the teams. They were not required to provide the nitty-gritty technical details, but

had to substantiate their ideas with sufficient, technological necessities. They were free to present a

PPT, as per their will. A total of seven ideas were presented. The stage was judged by students of 8th

semester, department of ECE, SJCE. In the end two teams were declared winners.

3.5 Junkyard wars

Junkyard wars was one of the pre-fest events of CYBERIA'17 which tests participants'

creativity, technical skills, time management and the ability to present their models. The event was

open for both circuit and noncircuit branches. The event got good response from both IEEE and non-

IEEE members and also from the non-circuit branch members. Participants worked in teams and came

up with extra-ordinary models. These models were

built using the junk materials that were provided to

them. The teams were asked to pick any 10 materials

from the displayed junk materials that included scrap

bottles, scrap metal wires, newspapers, straws,

chopsticks, thermocol, plastic balls, bottle caps along

with some useful materials like scissors, glue,

balloons, chart/colour papers, ice cream sticks, cello

tapes, rubber bands.

Every team was provided with batteries and dc

motors so that they could come with a working model

which satisfied the theme of the event. Teams were given 15 mins to select the junk materials and an

hour to build their working model where in they put all their creative ideas to make the best out of the

junk. Teams presented pretty impressive models like mary go round, giant wheel, vacuum cleaner,

powered cars, powered boats, powered air plane, balanced dual motor car and these models put judges

in tough situation. The models were judged by Vivek keshava, Joint Secretary of IEEE-SJCE and

H.Anusha,General Secretary of IEEE-SJCE on the basis of creative elements, unique techniques and

extent of working of the model.

3.6 El-Dorado

An Online fun event subtly testing the logical thinking and creative extrapolation of given

data. It was held from 25th of March to the 28th of March. Eldorado is largely a nontechnical, much

enjoyable, online picture connect event A set of images is shown to the user and the user has to input

the right keyword in order to advance to the higher levels. The questions are mostly miscellaneous

with no particular field or agenda to it. The question set will include picture connects concerning

recent events, popular folklore, entertainment, sports, corporate giants, showbiz and well-known

English phrases. More than 200 peoples from several parts of the world participated in the event.

3.7 Mock placements

Mock Placement is the one of the main events of CYBERIA. It was held on 27th of March.

Participants go through different rounds of placement selection procedure for self-evaluation.

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It mainly consists of 3 rounds

1. Written Test

2. Group Discussion

3. Technical and Personal Interview

Winners were selected separately from each year. One from first and second year, two from third year.

3.8 Code your way

Code Your Way was a Coding event where geeks from different remote places participated.

The event had no registration fee and was hosted on a well-known platform called “Hackerrank”. It

was conducted on 28/03/2017 from 10p.m. to 4a.m. on the next day. Participants were given with

coding challenges in popular and most important computer science domains – Data Structures,

Algorithms, etc. There were questions that required the contestants to code a puzzle given, trace back

the problem (code a problem, given the output) and debug a code with errors. The event saw a

participation of 114 students across the nation.

3.9 Just google it

This pre-Cyberia event was held on 28th March at 6 PM. The event tests a participant’s

capability to find answers to the questions, provided they have an internet connection. The event drew

a good crowd, who were surprised to find the questions interesting and educative at the same time.

The contest consisted of two rounds, the first one being a paper-pen round, in which the participants

were given a set of questions to be solved in limited time. The top ten participants from the first round,

made it to the second, where they had to battle each other for the two prizes. All the people who

witnessed the event were enthusiastically waiting to find answers to the brilliant questions.

3.10 Matholympic

Matholympic was conducted on 1st April at 5:30 pm, as one of the pre-Cyberia events.

Participants from various branches took part in the competition which included students from other

institutes as well. The event required meticulous thinking and smart work from the students and

mainly focused on logical thinking.

3.11 Fury road

Fury Road was the Robo race competition conducted by IEEE-SJCE as a part of Cyberia’17.

Fury road was a part of robotic competition.

where we created a mud, track Consisting

of various obstacles and terrain. Participants

with their bots attended the competition.

There were around 12 teams each

consisiting 4 members. There were three

rounds finally 4 teams entered into finals,1st

and 2nd place Was announced and prizes

was distributed.

Exquizzite was a quizzing event held on the

last day of Cyberia. It was the last event of

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the fest. It was a general quiz consisting of a few technical questions also. Though it was a Sunday, the

event saw good participation.

3.12 Amaze

Amaze, a line follower robotics competition was conducted by IEEE-SJCE EDS as a part of

Cyberia 2017. Its objective was to make the participants of ROBOTICS 8.1 workshop, to get

acquainted to the competitive robotics environment.

In this competition, the robots built by the

participants, with the digital sensors given to them,

were supposed to follow a black track provided.

Out of 17 teams that look part, every team was

good and completed the track but best 9 were

selected for round2.In the final round, the fastest

team to complete the track was declared as the

winner. The time taken by the winning team was

1:17 minutes.

4.VPM 8.0

Vacation Project Mania (VPM) is one of the events organized by the EDS community at IEEE

SJCE in coordination with the Department of Electronics and Communication.

VPM is basically a complete training program which makes students think outside the box.

From the past six years, it has earned the reputation of bridging the gap between “What an engineer

studies as a part of academics” and “How he has to apply what he has learnt”. VPM has proven toe

successful in inducing this drive in the minds of students, thus making them industry-ready. It is

because of this very reason that students decide to stay for VPM even during vacations. It is an annual

workshop aimed at enhancing the practical skills of students and encouraging them to take up real

time projects that bring out the problem solvers’ trait in the budding engineers. The increasing number

of students every year is by itself a measure of the growing popularity of VPM. VPM 8.0 was

conducted during the vacations from 1st June to 12th June 2017.

The VPM 8.0 event was flagged off by lighting the lamp by the principal of SJCE

Dr.T.N.Nagabhushan, Prof. C R Natraj (Branch Counselor of IEEE-SJCE), Dr. S B Rudraswamy

(EDS Advisor of IEEE-SJCE EDS Chapter), Dr. M.G.Veena, IEEE-SJCE WIE advisor. The new

ExCom team was introduced to the crowd, there was a speech from our chief guest who spoke about

what it means to be an IEEE member and also insisted that we have to conduct HUB level events this

year to take IEEE to its next level. This was

followed up with notes from all of our mentors. The

vote of thanks was delivered by Vivek Keshava to

mark the end of the formal programme. This was

followed by felicitation of Prof. C.R. Nataraj,

Branch Counsellor of IEEE-SJCE and a brief

introduction of the newly appointed core executive

committee members was given by H S Anusha and

a talk by the execom members about benefits of

being an IEEE member.

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4.1 Phase 1

In the first phase, students were exposed to the design aspects involved in projects. The first

phase dealt with analog electronics and was intended to make students aware of practical aspects of

circuit design, their analysis and trouble shooting. All the sessions included both Theory and practical

exercises of the corresponding principle.

During these sessions the students were taught about the soldering techniques in brief. Then,

they were made to design circuits that make up important components like regulated and variable

power supplies. Sessions on transistors, IR pairs, LDR, op- amps and 555 Timer were conducted for a

week.

4.2 Phase 2

The Second phase of VPM was dedicated to microcontrollers, which is an essential concept

for automation and robotics. During this phase, students were introduced to programs that can blink

LEDs, analog to digital converters (ADC) and interfacing of LCD (liquid crystal display) with the

atmega16. A detailed description of ‘SERIAL COMMUNICATION’ was given so that the participants

could learn interfacing of different devices in their upcoming projects. The session was also extended

to make the participants know about USBasp programming. Students were taught to use an Atmega16

custom-made development board. Coding was explained from the scratch. ‘Atmel Studio 7.0’ was

used as workbench.

Hackathon was held on 12th June. It was a surprise contest arranged to test what the

participants had learnt during the two-week program. A set of questions with each question carrying

some weightage was given to them. The team that got the highest number of points was declared

winner. And the winning team was awarded a cash prize of Rs.1000/- during the valedictory function,

on the same day.

4.3 Phase 3

Phase 3 is the last phase of VPM 8.0. And it’s

all about students exhibiting their innovation through

their projects and reports. It is a platform to encourage

and appreciate the efforts put up by the students in

building their projects. This phase will be conducted

after a gap of one month. During this period, the

students will have time to think, explore and move

ahead with their project ideas.

4.4 VPM 8.0 talk-1

A guest lecture on COMPUMUSIC TECHNOLOGY

A guest lecture by a very renowned Professor Chidambara Kalamaji from PESIT university

was witnessed on 6th June during VPM 8.0 workshop on the topic "COMPOSITION OF MUSIC

USING COMPUTER SOFTWARE “.

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A brief introduction to this was given, which elaborated how an engineer can make use of their

singing talent using software or even a non-composer can compose music using this particular

software. A software called comp music is used for this unique blend of music and technology by

making use of an audio processing language called Chuck.

4.5 VPM 8.0 talk-2

VPM 8.0 talk 2 presents an exposure on MOBILE ROBOTICS by Madhura and IOT by Arun

from Nihon communication solutions Pvt.Ltd. Bangalore on 8'june'17.

The talk included the following aspects-introduction to NCS, Main focus of mobile robotics,

Network security, Network simulation for wired and wireless network, Wireless senor network, about

the three main branches of Robotics: Education robotics, K junior robot, Research robotics, WSN and

IoT. The talk was followed by VPM phase 2. Phase 2 began with microcontroller software

installation- ATMEL STUDIO.

4.6 Valedictory function

VPM 8.0, the successful two-week program of IEEE-SJCE concluded with a valedictory

function on the 12 th June. The valedictory function was presided by Dr. S.B Rudraswamy. This was

followed by distribution of prizes and certificates for the ‘hackathon’ event winners. Certificates were

distributed to all the participants and also the volunteers. The two-week program came to an end with

the dignitaries giving their feedback about the program.

5.Orientation day’17

The Orientation day of IEEE-SJCE was held on 21 August 2017 at 05:30PM. Dr. Ajish K

Abraham was the Chief guest, Prof. C R Natraj, branch counselor of IEEE-SJCE, Dr. S. B Rudra

Swamy, EDS advisor of IEEE-SJCE, Dr.N. Shankaraiah, HOD of Department of Electronics and

Communication, Dr. M G Veena, WIE advisor of IEEE-SJCE, Mr. Pradeep, placement officer, were

the other dignitaries on the dais.

The Orientation day began with an invocation song and lighting of the lamp by the dignitaries.

The function started with a welcome speech by Vivek Keshava, Chairperson of IEEE SJCE, and it was

followed by the Annual Report 2015-16 of IEEE-SJCE which was presented by Sriram, Vice-

chairperson of IEEE SJCE to the audience.

IEEE-SJCE has been releasing its technical

magazine, Interface whose mantle is handled by the

IEEE SJCE editorial board. Interface magazine was

released by the dignitaries. It was followed by

words of experiences from all the dignitaries. The

audience was made aware of benefits of being the

member of IEEE, personality development from

active participation in all technical activities that

plays major role during placements, how to make

use of this international organization to showcase

student’s talent on a big platform and Social

activities conducted and new ideas introduced by WIE team of IEEE-SJCE by the dignitaries.

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A video showcasing the activities of IEEE-SJCE was presented to the dignitaries and the

crowd at the end of the function. The vote of thanks was delivered by Vinutha Pawale, WIE

Chairperson of IEEE-SJCE to mark the end of the formal programme. Refreshments was provided to

all the students assembled.

6. Scholarship test

To bring out the talent of the new IEEE members and encourage them to join IEEE, a

scholarship test was conducted on 23rd of August 2017. The procedure to procure the benefits from

the test, was divided into two rounds. The first round consisted of a written round, wherein students

were tested with the basic questions related to electronics, computer science, verbal, logical and

analytical questions. Top 11 students out of 150, were selected for the second round. In second round,

students were interviewed on basic technical knowledge and skills. Among 11 students 8 students

were shortlisted. Five of them were given 50% off on their basic IEEE membership fees. And four of

them were given one free entry to IEEE workshop.

7. Python bootcamp

For the first time this year, IEEE SJCE took up an initiative which has been in much demand

for the last few years. To start a community that tackles current world programming problems. Python,

being the world fastest growing programming language, is used in a wide range of applications – from

data analysis to signal processing research. To form a community of programmers in python, IEEE

launched in Python Bootcamp in August 2017. With around 100 IEEE members registering to the

community, it was off to a flying start. The Python bootcamp comprises a series of sessions to get the

members exposed to the basics of python programming. So far, sessions have been on Basic I/O,

functions, loops, conditional statements, and file handling. These sessions are supplemented by

assignments and questions on a Google Classroom. The sessions are being handled by third and final

year IEEE-Execom members with significant experience at coding with python. With more sessions

and hackathons lined up, SJCE students are bound for a great exposure in the field of Python.

8. WIE activities

The WIE chapter of IEEE-SJCE Student Branch had taken the following initiatives during the

academic year 2017-18.

8.1 Social initiative (Prayas)

Our major social initiative event is to help

the underprivileged kids. About 50-60 volunteers

visited Divya Deepa Trust, a school for the needed

in Mysuru, twice in a week regularly. Starting from

August 13th, we set out on a mission to help students

excel in their studies. Our volunteers visited this

trust, interacted with the young minds and helped

them with their studies.

Apart with helping with their academics, we

also celebrated Independence Day with them and donated books to the trust on 15th August

2017, simple science experiments were also demonstrated to the tiny tots of Divya Deepa Trust by the

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volunteers and a exertion to Regional Museum of Natural History, Mysore was held on 16th September

2017.

9. Snap circuits’17

Snap Circuits Workshop was conducted on 9th and 10th of September. Electronics plays an

important and increasing role in everyday lives, and so some basic knowledge of it is good for all of

them. In this workshop the students had hands-on session of basic electrical and electronic circuit

components.

The workshop was conducted for first and second year exclusively. Initially a brief

introduction about the kits and a demo was giving using the FM circuit to the participants. The

workshop was broken into two parts. The participants were asked to make a group of ten and visit

each circuit in succession where the seniors at each

circuit explained them in detail which comprised of

the working of each circuit and their applications. The

circuits dealing with Relays, SCR, transistors, seven

segments and much more were taught.

After this the students got the opportunity to

rig up the circuits explained to them. A total of 120

students attended the workshop among which 87 were

IEEE member and 33 were non-IEEE members.

10. Soldering and etching’17

IEEE-SJCE is an active student branch under IEEE Bangalore Section. It provides practical

exposure to students by conducting many hands-on workshops. Soldering and etching is one of

workshops organized by the EDS community at IEEE SJCE in coordination with the Department of

Electronics and Communication.

Soldering & Etching are the two important methods by which one can produce their own

circuit boards. For the benefit of the students, these two techniques are taught from scratch in the

soldering and etching workshop. The motto of workshop is to improve soldering skills and also help

design circuits in a software and realize the same on a PCB. The workshop for the academic year 2017

was conducted by the EDS branch from 22nd to 24th of September, 2017. This year was a big success

to the SB as more than 55 teams registered for the event which comprised of more than 110

enthusiastic participants. The increasing number of students every year is by itself a measure of the

growing popularity of the workshop.

10.1 Day 1

The day started with a brief theoretical session. Here the participants were made to understand

the working of the circuit that was to be soldered.

Dos and don'ts of the soldering techniques were emphasized. Also, demonstrations and videos were

shown to give the participants a better idea of soldering process.

The circuit soldered was that of a touch sensing water level detector circuit. It required the soldering

of components like 555 timer, resistors, transistors, capacitors and LED on to dot board.

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10.2 Day 2

The design of the circuit was given and participants were asked to solder the components onto

a dot board to check its working. The volunteers helped the participants solder the components onto

the copper dot board. Errors were debugged and outputs were successfully obtained.

10.3 Day 3

It was a big day. First the participants were given an introductory session on Eagle CAD

software used to design PCB. Eagle CAD is a good CAD and layout Editor solution for students.

Participants designed Light sensing circuit using the software. Print out of the same was taken on a

laser sheet and tracks were obtained using toner transfer method. Designed boards were put in a tray

which contained FeCl3(Ferry Chloride) solution. It took 10 to 20 minutes to etch the boards. After the

circuit board was cleaned, the tone on the circuit board was removed by using scrubber. The boards

were then drilled and components like op-amp, resistors, LDR, potentiometer, LEDs were soldered.

Participants tested and checked output with respect to the particular hardware circuits which

was built by themselves.

Be software and hardware sessions were

successfully hosted and managed by the IEEE

SJCE volunteers and the EXECOM. The turnout

for the workshop was huge and the enthusiasm of

the volunteers and the participants added to the

success of the event. Summing it all up, the

students were introduced to the basic electronic

components and its working was explained. Thus,

by the end of two days workshop, all the students

had learnt and had hands-on experience in

designing, Soldering, Etching and Testing a PCB.

11. IEEE day 2017 celebrations

IEEE day is celebrated worldwide to mark the anniversary of the technical organisation. IEEE

SJCE has also been celebrating IEEE day at the college and the hub level.

"IEEE" - For some its just a word, for some its a world - A world of opportunities, a platform

for innovation, a stage for creativity.

Technology has made it possible to realize what human brain is capable of thinking. And

IEEE plays one of the biggest roles in advancing this technology, pushing the humanity to greater

heights, making this world a better place to live in by bringing together great minds that have an urge

to change the world.

It is our honour to be a part of such an elite community and as a gratitude, we the student

members of IEEE Mysore Hub are gathering at JSS STU (formerly SJCE) Mysuru to celebrate IEEE

DAY on 7th and 8th October 2017. This year, the IEEE day celebrations at the college level were

marked by two events – Talk on Women responsible for advancement in Technology. Followed by

cultural events on 7th October and Networking Trek to Chamundi Betta with a motive to create Digital

Payments Awareness in Mysore.

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12. TUXEDO ‘17

Tuxedo is the odd sem tech fest of IEEE-SJCE. The motto of the festival is to publicise the

vision of open source and other trending and ground-breaking software’s. It features many workshops

and contests that test the 'software quotient' in emerging professionals. The workshops are handled by

experts equipped with lot of experience and skill set in dealing with open source software. Students

and professionals from many colleges took part in the festival, spreading the message of 'Open Source'

far and wide.

Pre-events:

ADA lovelace day

Ada Lovelace Day is celebrated every year to mark the birth anniversary of Ada

Lovelace, the first women coder. IEEE-SJCE celebrated this on 10th of October 2017.

ABI talk

The talk on empowering women through technology by Anita Borg Institute was held

on 6 October 2017. Shruti Karmakar, Associate Network Engineer, Thomson Reuters,

spokesperson for Anita Borg Institute was with us.

She spoke about some technologies like Load Balancer, Firewall and Nexus and also gave

information regarding internship opportunities and career options in the networking domain.

She also encouraged the women candidates to continue their education in networking domain.

Code hack

IEEE WIE SJCE conducted a hackathon “CODEHACK”, as part of ADA

LOVELACE DAY, the birth anniversary of ADA LOVELACE, the first women coder. It was

a 12-hour online hackathon held on 15th October. Around 140 students participated in this

event.

12.1 Inaugural function

On 23rd October 2017, IEEE-SJCE flagged off the year’s Tuxedo with a ceremonial

inauguration. The students were educated about the importance and benefits of Open Source platforms

by the Chief Guest, Dr. Bindu A Thomas, HoD, Dept. of Electronics and communication, Vidya Vikas

Institute of Engineering and Technology, Mysore. Guest of honour, Dr N Shankaraiah, from SJCE

Mysore, graced the occasion with a talk on the

benefits gained by a student member of IEEE and

how this provides a platform to a better and brighter

academic future. We received an overwhelming

response, with over 80 students attending the

programme.

The inaugural function also featured the

launch of the Tuxedo edition of IEEE SJCE’s

official magazine, Interface, featuring technical

articles on various topics by professionals and

student members.

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12.2 Open debate

As part of Tuxedo 17, The IEEE SJCE Editorial board organised a debate competition 'Open

Debates', on the 23rd October 2017, 7:30 PM. The event was held at the IS Seminar Hall 1, SJCE. The

event featured discussions among participants on recent technological topics.

The topics were:

With the advent of the new era, companies like Google, Facebook (not to forget National

Governments!) have access to our personal data. Is automation and personalization at the cost

of this loss of privacy, worth it?

Two options for pursuing higher studies: Research institutions in India and the ones abroad.

Which one should an Indian student prefer?

Windows or Linux: The better OS?

Automating human labour: where do we draw a line? Should we let technology go on and

automate every job?

Should academic institutions move towards online courses? Which one is more productive:

online courses or classroom teaching?

A total of seven teams participated, with three members in each team. The healthy debate

among the participants presented the audience with informative and critical notions regarding the

different topics.

The event was judged by Dr .T Shreekanth, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electronics and

Communication Engineering, SJCE, Mr Yashwanth S D, Assistant Professor, Department of

Electronics and Communication Engineering, SJCE and Dr S B Rudraswamy, Associate Professor,

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SJCE. Out of the seven teams, two were

declared winners.

12.3 Brainchase

Brainchase, an online treasure hunt, went live on 24th October 2017 at 9 pm and continued up

to 25th Oct 2016 9 pm. The event was basically a picture connect, find the common string that brings

all the pictures together. The event saw 272 members chasing after a treasure. The treasure was kept

30 levels away from the starting point. To clear a level, the participant had to come up with the exact

word associated. This was free event and open for all. The prize for this game was a 1K cash prize.

12.4 An interactive lecture on ADA (Analysis and design algorithm)

A session by Dr C S Yogananda, HoD,

Department of Mathematics, SJCE, Mysore on

analysis and design the right algorithm which is

the key to solve any problem.

It made all the participants understand

the mathematics of programming. It was a free

event. A total count of 139 participants attended

this session.

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12.5 Cognito

The Tech Quiz, Questionario was a kick starter for the events to follow. The theme for the

quiz was Technology and Open Source. The participants were quizzed with interesting and

informative questions on the modern-day computer technology and open source domain. 35 teams

from various colleges of Mysore, attended the preliminary round out of which 6 qualified for the final

round. The final round consisted 3 more rounds, were participants were tried and tested for their depth

in modern-day technology.

12.6 Networking and server scripting workshop

A workshop on both basic and practical concepts of networking, which was the main

attraction of this year’s TUXEDO, right from building a simple network to real server-side scripting

was held for four days from 27th October 2017 to 30th October 2017, in IS Seminar hall 2. The

participants were taught various concepts like building their own apache server, local host, IP

Addressing, also the use of packet tracer to simulate many communication networks.

An enthusiastic crowd of 101 participants attended the workshop.

13. Industrial visit

Knowledge is incomplete without practical exposure. Keeping this in mind, IEEE-SJCE

planned for an industrial visit on November 4th 2017 and on November 18th 2017 to AT&s, which is

a PCB manufacturing company. This visit was preceded by a soldering and etching workshop. This

again helped the students improve their soldering and etching skills and help them get to know about

the advanced technologies used for the same.

Around 80 students took part in the industrial visit in a batch of 2 each with 40 students. This

industrial visit has helped bridge the transition towards professionals.