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VIDYAVARDHAKA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Accredited by NAAC with ‘A’ Grade

Department of Electrical and Electronics Accredited by NBA, New Delhi (Validity: 01.07.2017 – 30.06.2020)

VVCE

E-Spark Newsletter

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The students of the department bagged 4 VTU ranks during the academic year 2017-18, Jeevitha S secured 1

st rank, Poornima B S secured 4

th rank, Brunda M

N secured 8th rank, Soundarya Lahari P secured 10

th rank in VTU exam.

IEEE-PES day was celebrated in the college by IEEE-PES student chapter on 24th

April 2019 during which Dr. Kannan Tinnium delivered talk on “ Energy storage for future grids”, Barcamp on “Gender Equality and more power for future” was also organized

Student projects are funded by KSCST (Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology).

V-INNOVATE lab has been setup for First year students, to have practical expo-sure on fundamentals of Electrical engineering.

The Department has an exclusive students’ technical club VEEE-SPARC (Vidyavardhaka Electrical and Electronics Engineering Students’ Project And Research Club).

Department has dedicated staff members with recognized VTU research center Equipped with state of art laboratory with licensed version of MATLAB R2018b TAH and MIPOWER-25 Users.

Industrial visits, Workshops, Distinguished Lectures, FDPs and Barcamps are organized to expose students to the real world of Electrical Technology.

Mini Project exhibition - platform for students to explore and exhibit their technical abilities.

PCB Prototyping Machine, Solar PV, PLC & SCADA Modules have been setup in project lab to carry out projects.

Industry Academia board meeting is conducted every year to get suggestions for the overall development.

VOLUME : 5 ISSUE : AUGUST 2019

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MESSAGE FROM HOD’s DESK

We are happy to bring out our 5th volume of department newsletter E-Spark, which showcases all the activities of the department. I congratulate the team for their continuous effort .

MESSAGE FROM PRINCIPAL’s DESK

E-Spark is truly sparkling with a lot of achievements. EEE Department has created a history by bagging four VTU ranks including the first rank, which is a laudable achievement. The Department has conducted innumerable activities both at the faculty level and student level including outreach activities. All these activities make engineering education meaningful. I congratulate the faculty and students for their outstanding performance. In future, the engineering professions will be dominated by the Electrical Engineers! I wish the Department all the best and continued success.

Our Vision

The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering shall create competent professionals through quality

education and research for benefit of the society

Our Mission Impart technical competency in Electrical and Electronics Engineering through competent staff, effective

teaching learning process and good infrastructure. Strengthen industry institute interaction for knowledge sharing and innovative projects. Inculcate professional ethics, self-learning capability, entrepreneurial skills and leadership qualities for overall

professional success. Foster research and development activities for academic excellence.

Facilities and Infrastructure The department has ten individual laboratories and each lab is equipped with latest technology computers, soft-

ware’s, devices, instruments. Laboratories are provided with modern and latest equipments to provide rich

hands on experience to students in all areas of their curriculum, such as Electrical Machines, High Voltage,

Control System, Power System, Electronics, Microcontroller etc.

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering (VVCE) signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Wuerth Elektronik India Pvt. Ltd. and Mentor Graphics on 16, Aug 2018 during the inaugural function of “Product Development Training Centre (PDTC)” at VVCE. The objective of this initiative is to train the students and make them industry ready soon after their graduation, thereby improving their employability in core domains. The Department ECE and the Department EEE have jointly ventured into this initiative. Mr. Harsha Adya, Managing Director, Wuerth Elektronik India Pvt. Ltd. addressing the students mentioned the importance of commit-

ment in achieving anything in life. Sri. Gundappa Gowda –Hon. President, Sri. P Vishwanath –Hon. Secretary, Sri. S N Lakshmina-rayana –Hon. Treasurer, Sri. Shrishaila Ra-mannavar –Member of board of management, VVS, Dr. B Sadashive Gowda –Principal, Dr. D J Ravi –Dean Academics, Dr. Shobha Shan-kar –Prof. & Head Dept. of EEE, Dr. Chan-drashekar M Patil –Prof. & Head Dept. of ECE, Sri. Harsha Adya -Managing Director, Sri. S L N Murthy –Principal Consultant, Mr. Go-palkrishna Sastry – General Manager, Mr. Na-gabhushan Shastri -Manager and Mr. Venkatesh Murthy -Manager from Wuerth Elektronik India Pvt. Ltd. Mr. Sreedath L -Application Engineer

Manager, Mr. Ravi Boonapalli –Manager Business Development HEP and Mr. Rohit N Prasad from Mentor Graphics, Sri. S L Ramachandra,-Director-NIE, Mr. Savyasachi G K and Mr. Alfred Vivek D’Souza – Assistant Professors, VVCE were present during the function.

Awarded

Dr. RASHMI S from the department of Electrical and Electronics was felicitated by the management of VVCE on Teacher’s cum Engineers day celebration on 15, Sept 2018 for her award of Ph.D. degree in 05, May 2018 from University of Mysuru for her thesis entitled “An investigation of Safety Parameters of AC Line using wireless sensor networks” under the guidance of Dr. Shankaraiah, Prof. & Head of ECE department, SJCE, Mysuru.

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Activities at Department

A National Level Technical Symposium on Power and Energy was organized by the Department of EEE, VVCE, Mysuru in associa-tion with IEEE PES Student chapter 28, Sept 2018 . The symposium was inaugurated by Dr. K R Padiyar, Former Professor, IISc, Bengaluru. Dr. B Sadashive Gowda, Principal, Dr. Shobha Shan-kar, Prof. and Head, Dept. of EEE, Mr. Rajashekar, Vice-chair, IEEE PES Bangalore chapter were present. Major Events of the symposium were Paper and Poster presentations, Project Demo contest and Stack and Avoid. Students across different engineering colleges from Karnataka participated in the event. Winners were awarded with cash prizes.

An outreach Activity was conducted by the students of Electrical and Electronics Department , VVCE, Mysuru in asso-ciation with NSS & Red cross youth wing at Kumbar Koppal School Mysuru on 20, November 2018. The students of EEE department conducted a skit to demonstrate the hazards of electricity, then explained students on how to save a person when he/she has got an electric shock. Some life saving procedures like cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), inducing artificial breathing were demonstrated Prof. Gopal Reddy K, Dr. Rashmi S, Prof. Rakshith P & Prof Pooja H K were the coordinator of this event.

Outreach Activity was conducted by the students of Electrical and Electronics Department, Vidyavardhaka College of Engi-neering, Mysuru in association with IEEE PES under the guid-ance of Prof. Rakshith P & Prof. Gowtham N on 9th Febru-ary. The students of Brindavan Govt. High School were brought to the campus and the entire event was carried out in the CAED lab of Electrical and Electronics Department. The event mainly focused on providing knowledge regarding the basics of computer. The entire outreach programme was divided into four sub events. The first part focused on making the students aware of the basics of computer, the second part was to teach them how to use MS Word, the third part was to teach them PowerPoint and the final part was to teach them how to create a Gmail account.

IEEE PES Student Chapter

National Level Technical Symposium on ‘Power and Energy’

Second IEEE PES DAY ON 24 April 2019

Second IEEE PES DAY was organized by VVCE IEEE-PES student

chapter on 24 April 2019.

The following events were organised namely Technical Talk on ‘Energy Storage for Future Grids’

Waterfall,

Robo-Iris & Barcamp.

Outreach Activity Conducted

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FDP Organised

Five-Day faculty development program on “Personality Development and Neuro-Linguistic Programming” scheduled from 4th to 8th February 2019, is organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering (VVCE), Mysuru. This workshop was conducted in association with National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research (NITTTR), Chennai. The workshop was inaugurated by the chief guest Dr. S. Renukadevi, Professor & Head, Department of Engineering Education, NITTTR, Chennai

Workshop’s Organized

A two-day workshop on “Design and Development of AVR Using PCB CNC Machine” was organized by the department of EEE for the technical staff of VVCE. The workshop was inaugu-rated by Dr. B. Sadashive Gowda, Principal and Dr. Shobha Shankar, Prof. & Head, Department of E&EE, VVCE, Mysuru. Principal Dr. B Sadashive Gowda advised technical staff to actively participate and make use of this workshop to update their skill during the inauguration. Prof. Ravishankar .M.B was the resource person of this work-shop. Prof. D Babu Rajendra Prasad was the coordinator of this workshop.

A Five-Day students workshop on “Engineering Solutions using NI LabVIEW” was organised from 6-10 August 2017 for 5th semester students in association with VI Solutions, Bengaluru and sponsored by VVCE ISTE Students chapter. The Resource person for the above workshop is Mr. SUNIL KUMAR V, Managing Director, VI Solutions, Bengaluru. The workshop m ainly focus on a graphical programming approach that helps to visualize every aspect of your application, including measurement of data and debugging.

A Five-Day students workshop on “ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION” scheduled from 20th to 25th August 2018, was organized in association with INDWELL AUTOMA-TION, PUNE and sponsored by VVCE ISTE Students chapter for 7th semester students. The resource person for the above workshop was Mr. HIMANSHU KUMAR Managing Director, INDWELL Automation, Pune. The workshop main-ly focuses on programming for PLC, ADC, DAC, wiring and installation of projects.

Literature review and Technical writing workshop was organised for 7th semester students on 11, Aug 2018 in association with VVCE IEEE PES Student chapter. The chief guest and resource person of the workshop was Dr. G S Javed, SMTS - High Speed Circuits, Terminus Circuits Pvt Ltd. A literature review discusses published information in a particular subject area, and sometimes information in a particular subject area within a certain time period. The speaker also highlighted that a literature review can be just a simple summary of the sources, but it usually has an organizational pattern and combines both summary and synthesis. 4

Two-Day students workshop on “INTERNET OF THINGS ” from 02-03, November 2018 was organized for 3rd semester students in association with IQUEST, MYSORE and sponsored by VVCE ISTE Students chapter. The recourse person for the above workshop was Mr. M.S. Manjunath CEO, IQUEST MYSORE. The work-shop mainly focus on the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday object embedded with electronics (such as sensors) over the Internet and they can be remotely monitored and controlled

Two day workshop for 6th semester students on “MATLAB/Simulink” was organised during 22nd and 23rd February 2019. The topics covered during the workshop was Digital

System Design, Power Electronics Converters, Fuzzy Logic toolbox , Power System Analysis & Design of renewable energy system and renewable energy integra-tion The resource persons for the above workshop are Dr Shobha Shankar, Prof Mohammed Jalaluddin , Prof. Raghunath M J, & Prof Savyasachi GK

Two-Day students workshop on “INTERNET OF THINGS” was organised in association with Lema Labs during 26

th and 27

th Feb-

ruary 2019. The workshop mainly focus on the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects embedded with electronics (such as sensors) over the Internet and they can be remotely monitored and

Two-day workshop on “Mathematical Analytics and Numerical Methods using MATLAB” held on 11th & 12th April 2019, was organized for the pre-final year students of the department. The resource persons were - Mr. Pramod Kumar Naik, Senior Application Engineer, and Mr. Manishankar, Application Engineer, CoreEL Technologies, Banga-lore.

BEST STUDENT ACHIVER BEST OUTGOING STUDENT

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INDUSTRIAL VISITS FOR STUDENTS

Industrial visit to Varahi Underground Power house near Hosangadi in Udupi district

for 5th sem students on 01, Oct 2018

Industrial visit to Kaiga Atomic Power Station for 7th sem students on 20, Oct 2018

Industrial visit to Atria Brundavan Power Ltd. KRS for 3rd sem students on 03.10.2018

Industrial visit to Solar PV Plant Shimsha for 4th sem students on 27.02.2019

Industrial visit to “Infosys Limited” Mysuru for 4th sem students on 06.03.2019

VEEE-SPARC Activities PARALEARN activity on " DEVEL0PMENT BOARD AND SOLDERING"

A two day PARALEARN activity for the students of IV SEM on " Development Board and Soldering" was organised during on 19th and 20th February 2019 by VEEE-SPARC (Vidyavardhaka Electrical and Electronics Engineering Students’ Project and Research Club). .The activity was coordinated by Prof Rakshith P and Prof. Raghunath M

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DISTINGUISHED LECTURES

“Orientation program on Various Opportunities in Indus-tries and How to get prepared for the interviews” by Ja-

yadeep & Jayaprashanth

“IPR” by Dr. G B Krishnappa

"Industrial Automation" by Mr. Himanshu Kumar “Career Guidance” by Bhushith M K

“Edison to Smart Grids" by Dr. K R Padiyar "High Voltage Engineering" by Dr. A D Srinivasan

“Concepts of Electromagnetic Field Theory” by Dr. A D Srinivasan 7

Chairperson : Dr. SHOBHA SHANKAR Chief Editor : Prof. Rakshith P

Jeevitha S has secured 5 Gold medal with 1st rank

VTU Rank Holders 2017-18

Poornima B S 4th rank

Brunda M N 8th Rank

Soundarya Lahari P 10th Rank

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