WORKSHOP ON SOLAR ENERGY 6th April, 2017

BMSCE IEEE Student Branch conducted a workshop on solar energy on April 6,

2017. This workshop was open everyone. Information about the workshop was

circulated through email and WhatsApp messages. This event was free for all the

IEEE members and ₹150/- was charged as registration from all the non-IEEE

members.

This workshop was organized keeping in mind the energy shortages the world is

facing. The equipment costed around ₹300 per person but they were given away

for free by BMSCE IEEE to those students as a small move to encourage use of

non-conventional sources of energy.

The event was held in classroom 6001 PG block, BMS College of Engineering,

Bangalore from 2:00 P.M. to 5:30 PM. Everything proceeded as per schedule. A

total of 25 students participated in the Workshop. The host for the workshop was

Mr. Yashunandan Sureka. He is doing his 8th semester in Electronic and

Communication Engineering in BMS College of Engineering.

Participants were introduced to various concepts of solar radiation and

intricacies of photon and about how Solar Energy is harvested. Solar Panels were

provided for the participants. The participants were informed in detail about the

material used to construct solar panel and its working was also explained. They

were also introduced to various concept of networks and electrical systems. They

were further introduced to the topic of voltage regulation.

Objective:

● To enlighten the students about the development of Solar energy, its

basics and its future.

● To introduce the participants to various components and their assembly to

form a complete product.

Outcomes:

● Anxiousness among the students to know more about Solar Energy.

● Increased awareness and usage of non-conventional sources of energy.

Date: 08-04-2017

REPORT BY:

Sayali Patil

Secretary

BMSCE IEEE

3-D PRINTING WORKSHOP

27th April, 2017

BMSCE IEEE Student Branch conducted a workshop on 3D Printing on April

27, 2017. This workshop was open for everyone. Information about the workshop

was circulated through email, WhatsApp messages, Facebook posts and posters.

This event was free for all the IEEE members and a sum of ₹50/- was charged as

registration fee from all the non-IEEE members.

The event was held at the BSN Hall, BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore

from 2:00 P.M. to 5:00PM. Everything proceeded as per schedule. A total of 28

students participated in the Workshop. The host of the workshop was Mr.

Yashunandan Sureka, an 8th semester student in Electronics and

Communication Engineering in BMS College of Engineering.

Objective:

● To enlighten the students about the development of 3D Printing, its basics

and its future.

● To introduce the participants to various software that are used

○ for designing (Solid works and Catia v5)

○ For obtaining the G-code for the particular model that would guide

the machine to process (Kisslicer)

Outcomes:

● Anxiousness among the students to know more about 3D Printing.

● Student/participate approached the 3-D Printing R&D lab for the practical

session of the same.

Date: 29-04-2017

REPORT BY:

Sayali Patil

Secretary

BMSCE IEEE

 Microsoft Training Program 

29th May to 8th June 2017

  

 

 

BMSCE IEEE Student Branch conducted a training program in collaboration with the                       Mathitis Society, India on Cloud Computing during 29th May and 8th June. This                         workshop was open for everyone. Information about the workshop was circulated                     through email, WhatsApp messages, Facebook posts and posters.  

It was a 10-day certified training program by Microsoft, the certificates of which were                           signed by the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella. Mr. Syed Abide, the trainer brought in                             was also certified by Microsoft to teach. 

The event was being held at the BSN Hall, BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore                             from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00PM. Everything proceeded as per schedule. A total of 85                           students participated in the Workshop. All IEEE members were charged a sum of Rs.                           5000/-, all BMSCE non-IEEE members were charged Rs. 5500/- and all non-BMSCE                       students were charged Rs. 8500/-. 

Participants were introduced to various concept of virtual machine network and its                         working and briefed about Cloud Computing using Microsoft Azure software.                   Participants were told about 4 mini projects and asked them to do one major project.                             The workshop ended with the conduction of test required to be eligible for the                           

certification.  

 

Objective:  

● To enlighten the students about the development in Cloud Computing, its                     basics and its future. 

● To introduce the participants to various current technologies being used                   by Microsoft now 

Outcomes: 

● Anxiousness among the students to know more about Cloud Computing. ● Student/participate approached the BMSCE IEEE to hold more advanced                 

workshops like these.

  

 

Date: 15-06-2017 

REPORT BY: 

Sayali Patil 

Secretary 

BMSCE IEEE 

 

IEEE XTREME 11.0

14th October, 2017

BMSCE IEEE conducted IEEE Xtreme a 24 hour long coding

competition on the 14th of October 2017.

IEEE Xtreme is a global IEEE tradition, exclusively for IEEE

members, where programmers and coders around the globe compete

for the top spot on the leaderboard.

Xtreme 11.0 began at 5:30 am on the 14th in the BS Narayan Hall

and went on till 5:30 am, 15th. There was a total of 70 participants.

Participants were required to form groups of up to 3 members.

The 3 winning teams were given IEEE Xtreme T-shirts and

participation certificate was given by IEEE Bangalore Section.

Tshirts were also given to volunteers.

The event was conducted online and the competition was hosted on

CS Academy.

Important aspects like food and safety were ensured and thus, the

event went on in a smooth fashion.

At the end of the stipulated 24 hours, all the participants went home

sleep deprived and yet, fresh from an incredible experience.

Report By

K Sneha Priya

Secretary

BMSCE IEEE SB

BMSCE IEEE Student Branch BMSCE, Bull Temple Road, Bengaluru - 19, Karnataka

Email : contact@bmsceieee.com

REPORT ON SIGs – 2017

In a world of innovation and ever-expanding technology, the Silicon market has taken a

steep rise, paving the way for newer software, digital revolution, artificial intelligence, more

sophisticated circuits, and smarter machines. The presence of technology in our everydays

lives is undeniable, and growing at a rapid pace. With this, we also witness a challenge posed

on professionals working in the technology industy.

In the current global scenario, there is ever growing competition in the IT world. To meet

this challenge head on, it is necessary to equip our budding engineers with a unique skill-set

in a wide range of technologies. In view of this, professional educational institutes encourage

workshops and seminars to be conducted. Often, these workshops have limited effect due to

the constraint of time and, as a result, most workshops only cover the basics and essentials of

the topic.

Consequently, it is seen that most of the attendees of workshops do not get enough exposure

of the subject covered and they tend to lose interest and do not pursue further research and

experimentation on the subject.

In this context, it would be right to recollect the meaningful words of the great Chinese

philosopher Confucius-” I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

Keeping this in mind, BMSCE IEEE Student Branch came forward with an idea of forming a

Special Interest Group (SIG) within the Student Branch in 2014. The aim was to start a

learning group, where everybody interested could join and learn what they wanted to learn,

and the learning process would be more effective than a workshop as it would be spread over

a few months. There would be significant emphasis on practical knowledge apart from pure

technical knowledge to make the learning process complete.

With the advent of SIG in the year 2014, AVR SIG became the first SIG to be conducted by

Yashunandan Sureka, Ex-Chairman of BMSCE IEEE, which was a great success and it

turned out to be a motivation take up a new series of AVR sessions in the year 2015 with the

knowledge that we acquired being the participants of AVR SIG 2014.

In 2015, BMSCE IEEE Student Branch started Python SIG, which has been the most

successful SIG till date. BMSCE IEEE has received the Darrel Chong award for this

initiative.

In 2017, BMSCE IEEE conducted 4 SIGs and introduced the Cyber Security SIG. AVR SIG,

Python SIG and AERO SIG were continued as well.

AVR SIG is a learning group which aims to introduce the participants to the family of

Microcontrollers that are built on AVR architecture. The members are given the opportunity

to learn(theoretically and practically) about a powerful set of concepts and techniques using

which they can implement a wide range of embedded systems applications.

Python SIG was also continued from the previous years as it was extremely sought after and

popular among students. It aims at teaching the foundation of the powerful Python

programming language with hands-on experience. Due to the large number of registrations,

two sections, PYA and PYB were maintained for students with prior programming

knowledge and students new to programming.

Also this year, a new approach was taken, where students were taught individual concepts in

steps and used these concepts to gradually build a project by the end of their course. The

practise programs can be found on the official GitHub repository of BMSCE IEEE:

https://github.com/BMSCE-IEEE

The idea of starting an Aerospace SIG was conceived in 2015 as the subject received a lot of

interest from Mechanical students and enthusiasts of Aerospace. Various topics covered

included the principles of aerospace engineering, making drones / quadcopters and how to

design flightworthy objects.

Finally, the Cyber Security was introduced in 2017 due to the huge market demand and

popular request from student in the field of internet and system security. This SIG is being

taught to students who are expected to use this knowledge ethically and for educational

purposes. Students learn the essentials of how to safely secure their system, and how to hack

using vulnerabilities, among other things.

Registrations for the SIGs saw a great response. Due to the large number of students who

had registered for attending the SIG, preliminary screening tests and interviews were

conducted to select members. During selections, preference was given to IEEE Student

Members. In the end, a total of 50 members were shortlisted for AVR SIG, 100 members for

Python SIG (50 members for the group of students without prior programming experience

and 40 for the group with prior programming experience) and 30 members for AERO SIG

and 50 members for Cyber Security.

In conclusion, SIGs are a great way for the BMSCE IEEE student branch to interact with and

get people together on topics of common interest. Since students do not have to be IEEE

members to join, it helps to foster a community in college of technically minded people.

In the even semester, we are planning to implement Phase 2 of the SIGs which will include

3D Printing and Modelling, Machine Learning, Arm Cortex, and possibly game development

as well. We hope that these tentative plans will become a reality. As of the current situation,

we are tremendously with the interest in these SIGs and the incredible response from

students.

We believe these SIGs improve their learning curve and knowledge base, and gives an

opportunity for students to explore inter-disciplinary technologies. Also we hope that the

SIGs give the students the right kind of peer community for them to grow as engineers and

professionals. Finally, we believe that SIGs are an adept and effective step at equipping the

students with the knowledge they require for the growing demand in the market.