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D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 1 V O L U M E 3 , I S S U E 7 The E-Newsletter

Spiritual Life The opportunity to love and serve others should be considered a rare gift, a blessing from God.

-Amma

Amrita School of Engineering

Bengaluru

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School Highlights

ISTE Workshop on Solar Energy

A two weeks workshop on ‘Solar Photovoltaic-Fundamentals, Technologies and Application’ was held at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru from 12th to 22nd December, 2011. This online workshop was coordinated by IIT, Bombay. This MHRD and MNRE recognized workshop has benefitted over 1200 faculty members across India. This was a 40 hour course which helped the faculty to understand different areas in solar research. The guests of the workshop included honorable Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Mr. G. B. Pradhan, Secretary, MNRE, Ms. Vibha P. Das, Secretary MHRD and Prof. Devang Khakhar, Director IIT, Mumbai. The organizing committee had scheduled an entertainment program that showcased the various social, political and cultural aspects of Karnataka, which was highly appreciated by the audience.

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School Highlights

Workshop organized for neighbouring school under ‘Amrita Sankalp’

Under the banner of ‘Amrita

Sankalp’, Amrita School of

Engineering Bengaluru conducts

workshops every year to support

the educational requirements of

the primary, middle and high

schools in the neighbouring

region benefitting several

students.

As in the past, this academic year

also we have organized a two-day

workshop on 13th and 14th

December, 2011 at Amrita School

of Engineering, Bengaluru

campus. The students of Renuka

High School, Kaikondrahalli,

were the beneficiaries of the

program. The college provided

them training sessions on

Computer Education, Cultural

Education, Yoga and Sports.

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School Highlights

Library Shifted to the new premises

The library section of Amrita

School of Engineering,

Bengaluru was shifted to its new

premises in the ‘E’ Block, fourth

floor on 22nd December, 2011.

The library was formally

inaugurated on 28th December,

2011 by the Correspondent,

Dhanraj Swamiji. The event was

graced by Associate Dean, Dr.

Rakesh S. G., and other staffs.

The current location of the

library is well planned and is

very spacious with a total area

of 16,550 sq ft. The well stacked

racks are user friendly. The huge

reading halls of reference &

periodicals section are very

inviting. A special zone has been

singled out for the digital library.

The well furnished and

illuminated ambience is very

serene and encourages the

students to pursue their

academic and research

activities.

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Department of CSE

Papers Presented

International Conference

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE EVENT

A. A. Nippun Kumaar

“Sensor Counter Approach for a Mobile Robot to Navigate a Path Using Programming by Demonstration”

7th - 9th December, 2011

International Conference on

Communication Technology and

System Design – ICCTSD ’11 held

at Amrita School of Engineering ,

Ettimadai

NAME TITLE NAME OF THE ORGANIZER

DATE VENUE

Mr. A. A. Nippun Kumaar Mr. M. Rajesh Ms. Vineetha Jain

International Conference on “Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief” (ACWR2011)

Amrita Centre for Wireless Networks and Applications (WNA), ASE, Amritapuri

18th - 21st December, 2011

Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri

Workshops / Seminars / Conferences Attended

Other News

Two teams ‘Syntax Terror’ and ‘Tamals’ participated in the ICPC regional contest held at

Amritapuri in the 2nd week of December, 2011. The students who were part of this contest were as

follows.

Siddharth Mani (VIII Semester)

Gautham T. (VI Semester)

Sreehari (VIII Semester)

Rohan Prabhu (VIII Semester)

Nikhil Nandagopal (VIII Semester)

Aaditya Sriram (VIII Semester)

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Department of ECE

Papers Presented



Author(s): L. M. Rajeswari (M.Tech. Student) Satish Kumar Manocha Presented by: L. M. Rajeswari (M.Tech. Student)

“Design of Data Adaptive IFFT/FFT Block for OFDM System”. Will be published by IEEE as Proceedings of the Conference


INDICON 2011, IEEE Annual Conference held at Hyderabad

Author(s): Sandeep Kumar Konda (B.Tech. Student) T. K. Ramesh P.R. Vaya Presented by: T. K. Ramesh

“Advanced Centralized RWA Protocol for WDM Networks”. Will be published by IEEE as Proceedings of the Conference


INDICON 2011, IEEE Annual

Conference held at

Hyderabad

Author(s): Sandeep Kumar Konda (B.Tech. Student) T. K. Ramesh P.R. Vaya Presented by: T. K. Ramesh

“Survival Traffic Grooming RWA Protocol for WDM Networks”


International Conference on Communication Technology & System Design (ICCTSD 2011), organized by Department of ECE, ASE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. Sponsored by Ministry of

Defence, ISRO, CSI Coimbatore

Chapter, IETE Coimbatore

Centre

Author(s): Ganapathi Hegde R. Bhaskar (M.Tech. Student) P.R. Vaya Presented by: Ganapathi Hegde

“An Efficient Hardware Model for RSA Encryption System Using Vedic Mathematics”


International Conference on Communication Technology & System Design (ICCTSD 2011), organized by Department of ECE, ASE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. Sponsored by Ministry of

Defence, ISRO, CSI Coimbatore

Chapter, IETE Coimbatore

Centre

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Department of ECE



DATE VENUE

Prof. S. Ravishankar Ms. Sumathi S. Ms. Sunitha R.

National Workshop on “Sparse Image & Signal Processing” (SISP 2011)

Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking, ASE, Ettimadai

23rd - 26th December, 2011

Amrita School of Engineering, Ettimadai

Mr. Mahesh Kumar R.

International Conference on “Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief” (ACWR2011)

Amrita Centre for Wireless Networks and Applications (WNA), ASE, Amritapuri

18th - 21st December, 2011

Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri

Ms. Jeeva Priya K. National Workshop on “Signal Processing for Biomedical Applications”

Department of ECE, ASE, Ettimadai


Amrita School

of Engineering,

Ettimadai

Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Dr. Shikha Tripathi evaluated the final year projects at Department of ECE, PESIT, Bengaluru on 20th

December, 2011.

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Department of EEE

NAME TITLE DATE VENUE

Dr. K. Manickavasagam Two weeks ISTE workshop on “Solar Photovoltaic - Fundamentals, Technologies and Application”

12th - 22nd December, 2011

E-learning Centre, Amrita School of

Engineering,

Bengaluru

Workshops / Seminars / Conferences Organized

Other News

Dr. K. Manickavasagam was relieved from his duties on 23rd December, 2011.

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Department of ME

Papers Published

International Journal

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

G.B. Veeresh Kumar A.R.K. Swamy A. Ramesh

“Studies on Properties of as-cast Al6061-WC-Gr Hybrid MMC”

December, 2011

Journal of Composite Materials of

SAGE Publications



Author(s): G.B. Veeresh Kumar C.S.P. Rao Nagamuthu Selvaraj Presented by: G.B. Veeresh Kumar

“Prediction on Wear of Al7075-Al2O3 MMCs using Artificial Neural Networks”


2nd International Conference on

Simulation, Modeling and

Analysis (COSMA-2011)

Papers Presented



DATE VENUE

Ms. Smita Singh Technical Lecture on “Planning, Design and Seismic Shake Table Testing of a Six Storeyed Full Scale Building”

Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India), Bengaluru Center

6th December, 2011

Bangalore

Institute of

Technology,

Bangalore


G.B. Veeresh Kumar won the Best Paper Award for the paper “Prediction on Wear of Al7075-Al2O3

MMCs using Artificial Neural Networks” presented at the 2nd International Conference on

“Simulation, Modeling and Analysis” (COSMA-2011) during 14th - 16th December, 2011.

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Department of Mathematics

Dr. K. V. Nagaraja reviewed a paper for an international journal named “Journal of Computational

and Applied Mathematics” (Elsevier Publication).

Other News



Author(s): K. Murali K.V. Nagaraja Presented by: K. Murali

“Finite Element Solution for a Boundary Value Problem over a Triangular Region”

19th - 21st

December, 2011 56th Congress of The Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, SVNIT, Surat

Author(s): Sarada Jayan K.V. Nagaraja Presented by: K. V. Nagaraja

“Numerical Improvement on the Solution of a Two-Dimensional Heat Flow Problem in an L-shaped Body”

19th - 21st


Author(s): V. Kesavulu Naidu K.V. Nagaraja Presented by: V. Kesavulu Naidu

“Finite Element Solution of a Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation Using Isoparametric Coordinate Transformations for Curved Triangular Elements”

19th - 21st


Papers Presented

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Department of Physics

Mr. Praveen D. has reviewed following papers for the IONICS (Springer) Journal:

“A Novel PEO-Based Composite Polymer Electrolyte with NaAlOSiO Molecular Sieves

Powders”.

“Effect of Different Anions of Lithium Salt and MMT Nanofiller on Ion Conduction in Melt

Compounded PEO–LiX–MMT Electrolytes”


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Abstracts of International Journal Papers Published

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

“Design of Data Adaptive IFFT/FFT Block for OFDM System” – Rajeswari L.M. and

Satish Kumar Manocha; INDICON 2011, IEEE Annual Conference, This paper will be

published by IEEE as Proceedings of the Conference.

Inverse Fast Fourier Transform / Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT/FF) processors are crucial blocks for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transceiver system. However, in the current OFDM systems, the system complexity and processing rate do not vary adaptively with the input data. In this paper, we propose a novel IFFT/FFT architecture for the OFDM Transceiver system that exploits the correlation between bytes of incoming information to adaptively choose between the Radix-2 and Radix- 4 algorithm. Using this architecture, we have achieved additional free data slots per frame. The transceiver system has been tested end-to-end and implemented on FPGA Board.

“Advanced Centralized RWA Protocol for WDM Networks” – Sandeep Kumar Konda,

T.K. Ramesh, P.R. Vaya; INDICON 2011, IEEE Annual Conference, This paper will be

published by IEEE as Proceedings of the Conference.

In this paper we present the design of an Advanced Centralized RWA Protocol (ACRP) in which the cost of a lightpath is computed based on its number of available free wavelengths and number of wavelength conversions. Centralized Management System (CMS I) assigns optimal primary and backup lightpaths. CMS II updates the optimal primary and backup lightpaths as and when the number of free wavelengths of primary lightpath reaches the threshold value ‘N≤ 4’. In case of failure the data will be rerouted through the backup lightpath and very next lightpath with best cost is assigned as backup lightpath. The advantage of this protocol is that the tasks are shared using two CMS which improves the computation bottleneck and also if one fails the other will take over the entire process. By simulation results, we showed that our proposed protocol has minimal request rejection and set-up time.

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Abstracts of International Journal Papers Published

Department of Mechanical Engineering

“Studies on Properties of as-cast Al6061-WC-Gr Hybrid MMC” – G.B. Veeresh Kumar;

Journal of Composite Materials of SAGE Publications, 2011.

Al-MMCs are widely used in aerospace, marine and automotive industries for several different applications. Wear is a complex phenomenon and the most important reason for the damage and consequent failure of machine parts. A lot of experiments have to be conducted in order to study the wear behavior resulting in wastage of both man power and money. Artificial Neural Networks help in reducing the cost of experimentation when implemented with care and enough data. In the present paper, the liquid metallurgy route was used to prepare Al7075- Al2O3 composites containing 2-6wt % Al2O3 particulates in the steps of 2. Wear tests were conducted using computerized pin on disc wear testing machine. It was found that the wear properties of the composites containing Al2O3 were better than that of the matrix material and further, the composite containing highest Al2O3 content exhibited superior wear resistance. An ANN model was developed to predict the tribological properties of the Al7075-Al2O3 composites. The predicted values of tribological properties using a well-trained ANN were found in good agreement with experimental values.

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Amma’s teachings on Spiritual practices

AMRITA

Dr. Rakesh S.G. Associate Dean & Head

Patron

Ms. Smita Sail Assistant Professor

Department of English

Editor

Mr. Rajesh M. Assistant Professor

Department of CSE

Editor

Ms. Vasanthi ES to Associate Dean

Editor

Board Members Ms. Paromita Ganguly

(Department of English)

Ms. Kirti S. Pande (Department of ECE)

Ms. Vidya K.V. (Department of CSE)

Ms. Janaki R. (Department of ME)

Dr. Amrita Thakur (Department of Chemistry)

Ms. Sarada Jayan (Department of Mathematics)

Mr. Shruthidev (ICTS)

Mr. Shiju Kumar (ICTS)

Ms. Soma Mukherjee (CIR)

Whenever you are doing

something, try to be aware.

Watchfulness helps you to

drop all your burdens and to

be free.

Contentment and happiness

depend solely on the mind.

Both heaven and hell are

created by the mind.

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