Dear Engineers,

The pleasant evening of 31st October 2016 is a most

memorable moment for me, when I took charge as

Chairman of Tamilnadu State Centre of The

Institution of Engineers (India) for the sessions 2016-

2017 & 2017-2018 amidst the Engineering stalwarts

present during the occasion.

I am very honoured for having been installed as

Chairman of the Tamilnadu State Centre of IEI by

my immediate predecessor Er. K.P. Ramanathan. I have been associated

with Tamilnadu State Centre of IEI for more than a decade and actively

involved in the State Centre activities as a Committee Member representing

Mechanical Engineering Division and Elected member of the State Centre

Committee by virtue of Chairman of Salem Local Centre and ad-hoc

Chairman of Hosur Local Centre.

It is beyond doubt to boast ourselves that the Institution of Engineers (India)

is the oldest professional body in India established in the year 1920 and

Registered under the British Royal Charter in the year 1935, a unique pride

for our Institution.

It aims to effectively promote general advancement of Engineering;

Engineering Science and Technology and their application in India, to

facilitate dissemination and exchange of Information and ideas amongst the

members of the professional bodies and the persons attached to the Institution

and to extend value based services to the Nation at desired levels.

During my tenure of office, under my leadership, with the active cooperation

and involvement of the Committee Members, I will take all out efforts in

the following areas to build the image of the Tamilnadu State Centre.

• Organizing National Conventions; All India Seminars; Workshops and

Other Interactive Activities.

• The Industry - Institute Interaction

Vol. 15 : No. 8 November 2016

Dr. G. Ranganath, FIE

Chairman

Er. R. Ramdoss, MIE

Honorary Secretary

T.N. STATE CENTRE

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From the Chairman’s Desk.... • Placement of Engineers

• Technicians’ Chapter

• Students’ Chapters

• Membership Drive

I am sure that my team will focus in organizing more technical events as

possible to keep the flag of Tamilnadu State Centre fly high for the benefit

of engineering fraternity and society. I appeal to my colleagues to help the

Centre by in involving more and more industries to have a healthy interaction

on the real demand of the industries from academic side, to make the

Industry- Institute interaction meaningful.

I understand the importance of IEI's role on the placement. I assure you

that Tamilnadu State Centre will play a vital role on training the engineering

graduates for their placement in industries. I am keen in launching tuition

centres to guide the Technicians’ Chapter candidates to perform well in the

Institution's examinations and to explore the ways and means to start tuition

centres at Tamilnadu State Centre will be evaluated by the present committee.

To promulgate the importance of establishing Students' Chapters at all

Engineering Colleges and Polytechnic Colleges under the jurisdiction of

Tamilnadu State Centre.

As a foremost dutymy team will strive hard to increase the membership

strength of the Institution, for which a separate committee will be formed

to give impetus for a massive membership drive in Engineering Colleges

and Industries requesting their faculties and engineers to enroll themselves

as the members of IEI.

At this point of time, I request my member friends to bring in more and

more new members into the fold of IEI with a slogan 'EVERY MEMBER

INDUCT A NEW MEMBER' to double the strength. When there is a wish

there is a go! Let us join hands to strengthen our Institution.

Before I conclude, I request all of your cooperation in our future endeavors.

Dr. G Ranganath

Chairman

94th Annual Session

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The 94th Annual Session of Tamilnadu State Centre of the Institution of

Engineers (India) was held in the Institution's Auditorium at 6.30 p.m. The

event was commenced by revering the Invocation 'Thamizh Thai Vaazhthu' by

all members.

Er. K.P. Ramanathan, Chairman, IEI, Tamilnadu State Centre welcomed the

Chief Guest Er. P. Raveendran; the Guest of Honour Er. K.R.S.R. Krishna and

the gathering. He cherished his association with Er. P. Raveendran when he

was at Chennai Port Trust and his continued relationship with him until then.

While passing on his responsibility to his successor Dr. G. Ranganath, he felt

pleasure in introducing Dr. G. Ranganath to the august gathering. He readout

the brief resume of Dr. G. Ranganath.

After the introduction Er. K.P.

Ramanathan, FIE, as a mark of

installation passed on the

medallion to Dr. G. Ranganath,

FIE., the incoming Chairman of

Tamilnadu State Centre of The

Institution of Engineers (India)

informing that he was transferring

the burden to his successor Dr. G.

Ranganath, amidst the thunderous

applause from the corporate

members gathered to décor the atmosphere. With the plump adoration showered

on him, Dr. G. Ranganath very gently acknowledged themassive responsibility

shouldered on him and thanked Er. K.P. Ramanathan his predecessor for

installing him as Chairman of Tamilnadu State Centre of the Institution of

Engineers (India) for the sessions 2016 - 2017 and 2017 - 2018.

Duly accepting the new mission, Dr. G. Ranganath delivered the Chairman's

Address. He reminisced his close association with the Tamilnadu State Centre

for the past two decades in its sustained growth. During his tenure of office,

he assured that under his leadership, with the active cooperation and

involvement of the new Committee members, they had to initiate and take all

out efforts in the following major thrust areas for the development of Tamilnadu

State Centre:

• Organizing National Conventions; All India Seminars; Workshops and

Other Interactive Activities.

* Disseminating the engineering knowledge among the professional

engineers is the main motto of IEI. To achieve this watchword the

National Conventions; All India Seminars; Workshops etc. should be

conducted regularly correlating the Central and State Government

programmes as well as considering the needs of the Industries and

social sectors so that the professional competence of IEI engineers

could be utilized to productive usage.

He assured that his team was committed to organize as much technical

events as possible to keep the flag of Tamilnadu State Centre fly high, for the

benefit of engineering fraternity and society.

• The Industry - Institute Interaction

* Industrialization is the back bone for speedy growth of an economy

and engineering plays an important role. The IEI - Industry interaction

should form an important functional area for future activities.

Tamilnadu State Centre will play a main hub for Industry - Institute

Interaction.

At this juncture, he requested the Guest of Honour Er. K.R.S.R. Krishna

to help him in involving more and more industries to have a healthy interaction

on the real demand of the industries from academic side.

• Placement of Engineers

* Finding a placement for engineering graduates in a suitable job

becomes the order of the day, since a good number of engineering

graduates flourishes out of the Engineering Colleges every year.

Dr. G. Ranganath emphasized the importance of IEI role on the placement.

He assured that Tamilnadu State Centre would play a vital role on training the

engineering graduates for their placement in industries.

• Technicians' Chapter

* IEI, Headquarters is emphasizing to increase the membership of

Technicians' Chapters which is a major source of income to IEI,

providing opportunity for the Diploma Students and Higher Secondary

passed students with Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry as their main

subjects or equivalent. This opens the doors for the candidates who

are job goers and low income groups who are not afford to pay the

regular Engineering degree fees.

Dr. G. Ranganath told that launching tuition centres to guide the Technicians'

Chapter candidates to fare well in the Institution's examinations and exploring

the ways and means to start tuition centres at Tamilnadu State Centre would

be evaluated by the present committee.

• Students’ Chapters

* Budding Engineers are going to be the future sculptors of the modern

society. If they aspired to become professional engineers in future,

the Institution is always there to guide them to the right path. IEI

has opened the threshold of professionalism in engineering by

establishing Student Chapters at Engineering Colleges and Polytechnic

Colleges.

He said that a separate Committee would be formed to promulgate the

importance of establishing Students' Chapters at all Engineering Colleges and

Polytechnic Colleges under the jurisdiction of Tamilnadu State Centre.

• Membership Drive

* ‘Membership growth’ is one of the foremost and primary objective of

IEI. It is the duty of the Centres all over India to help our Institution

to grow through its membership drive. Tamilnadu State Centre plays

a main role by increasing its membership there by adding strength to

IEI, Headquarters.

Dr. G. Ranganath desired that to increase the membership strength of the

Institution, a separate committee would be formed to give impetusfor a massive

membership drive in Engineering Colleges and Industries requesting their

faculties and engineers to enroll themselves as the members of IEI.

At this juncture, he requested the Chief Guest Er. P. Raveendran, an IRTS

Officer in Chennai Port Trust and the Guest of Honour Er. K.R.S.R. Krishna,

an Industrialist to make their colleagues and subordinates to become members

of IEI thereby increasing the membership strength of our Institution.

While concluding his address, Dr. G. Ranganath assured that his committee

would strive hard to achieve the set goals and boost the Centre to the greatest

magnitude possible.

Dr. G. Ranganath, as a formality, introduced his new Committee Members

elected from various Divisions.

The printed booklets on ‘Chairman’s Address’ were distributed to the

corporate members present.

Dr. J. Arivudainambi, Elected member, Aerospace Engineering Division

gave an introduction to Dr.

K.R.S.R. Krishna, Vice President,

Head (Engineering), Petrofac

Engineering and Production

Services(PEPS), Chennai with its

Headquarters at Sharjah, UAE.

Speaking on the importance of

practicing safety in all walks of life

in public or in home, Er. K.R.S.R.

Krishna, Vice President, Head

(Engineering), Petrofac Engineering and Production Services(PEPS), Chennai,

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said that life of every human being was at risk and it was the duty of every

individual should follow the safety measures set by the Government

organizations. He said that while driving a car no one should forget fastening

their seat belts to ensure safe driving and protection in case of any untoward

incidents. He quoted the sayings of the Actor Rajnikanth ‘To lead a happy-

go-lucky life instead of leading an aggravated living’. He advised not to

approach any job in the angle of burden instead to approach the same with

passion. Passion towards anything would bring success in life rather than a

pessimistic approach which would doom the entire career of a person.

He emphasized punctuality in the entire lifetime of human being which

would bring perfectness in the job they did. He quoted various humourous

happening for not being punctual and the impact. He said that Engineers'

responsibility was to ensure a safe world to the humanities.

His extempore speech fascinated the audience from the beginning to the

end. In the beginning of his speech, he lauded upon the engineers from different

branches of Engineering who had attended the meeting in large numbers.

Earlier Dr. G. Ranganath, Chairman and Er. K.P. Ramanathan, Immediate

Past Chairman adorned Er.

K.R.S.R. Krishna with a shawl and

presented him a memento and

plaque as a remembrance for

gracing the occasion.

Er. K.P. Sathyamurthy, Elected

Member, Civil Engineering

Division introduced Er. P.

Raveendran, an IRTS Officer and

Chairman, Chennai Port Trust,

Chennai.

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World Habitat Day is celebrated on first Monday in the month of October

every year, to pay attention towards the need for better, affordable shelter

all over the world. It is the birth right of every citizen to have a shelter with

basic amenities to live on. It is very unfortunate to state that while birds,

animals and other species have their own shelters, the six sensed human

beings are not fully provided with shelters. Even though the Government is

taking serious efforts in providing 100% shelter through various policies like

PPP (Private Public Partnership), to safeguard the interest of the society, it

is the responsibility of every Civil Engineer to contribute their ideas in

providing a comfortable and affordable shelter to all. Taking all these into

consideration the theme for World Habitat Day 2016 has been selected as

“Housing at the Centre”.

In this connection , the Tamilnadu State Centre of the Institution of Engineers

(India) observed the World Habitat Day on Wednesday the 5th October 2016

at the IE(I) Auditorium, Chennai. Er P R Seshadri FIE, Past Chairman, IE(I),

TNSC welcomed the gathering and introduced the Chief Guest Er M Kumar,

Chief Engineer, Tamilnadu Police Housing Corporation Ltd., Chennai.

In his speech, Tamil Nadu Police Housing Corporation has implemented some

important techniques in giving comfortable and cost effective housing to the

personnel of Uniformed Services Department. Originally the Policemen were

provided with line huts, having single multipurpose room, front and rear

verandah, and very basic amenities with tiled roof. After formulation of Tamil

Nadu Police Housing Corporation, various improvements were made in the

housing for personnel of Uniformed Services Department. The residential

quarters now being constructed have two bedrooms with common and

attached toilets, drawing cum dining room, kitchen and work area and

balconies. Modern and updated materials are being used for flooring,

plumbing, sanitation, electrical works, wood works, painting, etc.

Tamil Nadu Police Housing has also ventured in converting the waste into

usable materials. In the universe no material is considered as a waste, since

a waste is a raw material for a new material. The following are the efforts

taken by Tamil Nadu Police Housing in converting the waste into usable

material.

• The paver blocks and concrete tiles are manufactured from copper slag,

a waste product of Sterlite Industry at Thoothukudi in the Central Prison

Palayamkottai

• Graphite bricks are manufactured from graphite, a waste product at the

Central Prison Madurai.

• Fly ash bricks are manufactured from fly ash, a waste product of Thermal

Power Station at Ennore in the Central Prison Puzhal.

For manufacturing the above products the inmates of Prison are used. These

products are also used in Tamil Nadu Police Housing schemes.

Similarly the waste water is recycled in Sewer Treatment Plant functioning

at Avadi Police Quarters campus, Tamil Nadu Police Academy, Central Prison

at Madurai. The treated water is used for cultivation and fish culturing. The

surplus treated water stacked at ponds for fish culturing is also serving as

a source for raising the ground water level. The Corporation has planned to

implement this recycling in all Central Prisons and major quarters' campus.

For providing affordable housing and to encourage fast track construction,

Tamil Nadu Police Housing Corporation has proposed to construct individual

houses with sandwich panels for walls and roofs in moffusil areas and precast

techniques for multistoried construction at urban areas.

Er P R Seshadri, FIE, Past Chairman, IE(I), TNSC presented the memento

to the Chief Guest Er M Kumar and Er D Sundarasekaran FIE, Honorary

Secretary proposed the vote of thanks.

World Habitat Day 2016 - “Housing at the Centre” – 05.10.2016

Addressing the august audience Er. P. Raveendran, said that Engineers were

the architects of any society to design machines, maintenance, emerging

infrastructure etc. Apart from all professional Engineers brought value addition

to life, he said.

After crossing Industrial revolution, the human being were living in IT

revolution encompassing the mobile revolution and communication. It was a

proud moment to say that 80% of Indian engineers were dominating the U.K

and U.S.A's IT field. In India 15lakhs of fresh engineers were coming out every

year and they should be molded to the requirements of Industries which would

lead to enormous infrastructure development.

He desired that IEI had got a role to polish the engineering knowledge of

the fresh engineering graduates through conduct of more Seminars, Symposia,

Workshops etc. at their Institution itself which would propagate the real mission

of IEI to the society at large.

Earlier Dr. G. Ranganath, Chairman and Er. K.P. Ramanathan, Immediate

Past Chairman adorned Er. P. Raveendran with a shawl and presented him a

memento and plaque as a

remembrance for gracing the

occasion.

Er. R. Ramdoss, Hon.

Secretary of Tamilnadu State

Centre of IEI proposed the vote of

thanks.

The 94th Annual Session

concluded by revering the National

Anthem. Corporate members

participated in the dinner arranged by IEI, Tamilnadu State Centre.

A movie on history of IEI and Tamilnadu State Centre's evolution was

displayed with excerpts of events, prepared by IEI, Students' Chapter of

Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, Hosur.

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19th Nov. 2016 Talk on “Technological disruptive ideas in farming - opportunities for all engineers”5.00 p.m. by Er P Gomathinayagam MIE, Committee Member, Agricultural Engineering Division, IE(I), TNSC, Chennai.

21st Nov. 2016 Talk on “Lean Manufacturing” by Er D Krishnamachari, MIE, Manufacturing Consultant, Chennai.

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