RSET,

RSET,

RSET,

RSET, Kakkanad

Kakkanad

Kakkanad

Kakkanad

Jan-April 2010, Volume 10

ELECTROVISION

From The H.O.D.’s

Desk….

Building Your House

An elderly carpenter was ready to

retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to

leave the house-building business to live a more

leisurely life with his wife and enjoy his extended

family.

The contractor was sorry to see his

good worker go and asked if he could build just one

more house as a personal favour. The carpenter

agreed , but over time it was easy to see that his

heart was not in his work. He used inferior materials

and his work was shoddy. It was an unfortunate way

to end a dedicated career.

So it is with us. We build our

lives, a day at a time, often putting less than our best

into the building. Then, with a shock, we realize we

have to live in the house we have built. If we could

do it over, we would do it much differently.

But, you cannot go back. You

are the carpenter, and every day you hammer a nail,

place a board, or erect a wall. Someone once said,

"Life is a do-it-yourself project." Your attitude, and

the choices you make today, help build the "house"

you will live in tomorrow. Therefore, build wisely!

Your career….

Your future………!

.

When the

carpenter finished his

work, his employer

came to inspect the

house. He handed the

front-door key to the

carpenter and said,

"This is your house...

my gift to you." The

carpenter was

shocked!

What a shame! If he

had only known he

was building his own

house, he would have

done it all so

differently!

CCoouurrsseess && WWoorrkksshhooppss::

OOnnee ddaayy wwoorrkksshhoopp oonn ‘‘LLaabb SSaaffeettyy

MMeeaassuurreess’’..

The Department of Electronics &

Communication Engineering, Rajagiri School

of Engineering & Technology organized a one

day workshop on ‘Lab Safety Measures’ on

16th

Jan 2010.

The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. C.A

Babu (Reader, Electrical & Electronics

Division, and CUSAT). Sessions were handled

by Mr. V.R Renjith (Reader, Fire & Safety

Engineering, and CUSAT) and Dr. C.A Babu

(Reader, Electrical & Electronics Division, and

CUSAT).

Morning session started with a talk on

‘General safety measures’ by Dr.C.A.Babu.

This was followed by a session on ‘Fire

safety’ by Mr. V.R.Renjith. The demonstration

session in the afternoon was handled by

Mr.V.R.Renjith. The talks and demonstration

on fire fighting were attended by all the staff of

Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology.

Short-Term Course on LaTeX

Document Preparation System.

LaTeX is a document preparation system for

high-quality typesetting, suitable for medium

or large technical or scientific documents such

as project reports, journal articles, technical

reports, books etc. It helps authors to

concentrate on the content rather than on the

appearance of the documents. It is a freeware.

Department of Electronics & Communication

decided to conduct a short term course on

LaTeX and its use for our students who have to

generate project reports, journal papers etc. as

part of their curriculum.

The course was held in Advanced Resource

Centre Lab of Rajagiri School of Engineering

& Technology from 4.30 p. m. to 6 p. m. on

18th

19th

& 20th

January 2010.

DEC faculty members Ms. Rithu James, Mr.

Sreeraj K. P. and Ms. Harsha A. were the

resource persons for the course.

50 students registered for the course - 18 from

M. Tech ECE Department, 16 from M. Tech

CS Department and remaining from S6 EC and

S8 EC classes. The course was also attended by

Prof. K. S. Mathew of CS Department.

On Day1, the students were introduced to the

LaTeX system and its advantages, followed by

practical session on Day 2 and 3. Students

showed very good enthusiasm to learn about

this new documentation system.

At the end of the session, CDs containing the

course material and the LaTeX freeware were

distributed to the participants. A course fee of

Rs 50/- per student was collected.

The course was co-ordinated by Ms. K Rama

Varma and Ms. Jisa David.

Workshop on VLSI Methodology and

Tools Sponsored by Trident Techlabs

Pvt. Ltd. 06-Feb-2010.

M/s Trident Techlabs, authorized partners of

Mentor Graphics Corporation, USA for the

promotion of their software and hardware

solutions in India, conducted a workshop on

VLSI Design Methodology and Tools in the

Dark Room (3rd

floor) of RSET from 09:30 am

to 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 6, 2010.

The course covered:

a) the use of Mentor Graphics tool for

verification;

b) The front-end and back-end design of

National Instruments Multisim for

analog circuit design and simulation.

The resource persons were:

i) Mr. B. Srinivas, Marketing

Engineer – EDA, Trident

Techlabs

ii) Mr. Vidya Prakash, Application

Engineer – EDA, Trident

Techlabs

DEC faculty members Mr. K. Rama Varma

and Mr. Pramod Govindan coordinated the

workshop with the assistance of Mr. Rooha

Razmid Ahamed (DEC).

SSeemmiinnaarrss && TTaallkkss::

HOUSE:

No Topic Delivered by Date Additional information

1 SONAR

SYSTEMS

SIJUMON,

SCIENTIST, NPOL

28/01/2010 ORGANIZED BY ELECTRONAUTS

EXTERNAL:

No Topic Organized by Place Date Attended by

1

CONFERENCE ON

‘EMBEDDED

SYSTEMS’

MES,

MARAMBILLY MARAMPILLY 22/01/2010

Chaired by Ms. SHEEBA

KUMARI M.& was resource

person for one session

2

Paper presentation

on “Analysis of

Successive

interference

cancellation in

CDMA systems”

ICCC 2010

(International

conference)

CET,Trivandrum

18,19 &

20th

February

2010

Ms.Deepthy.G.S

3

Paper presentation

on “a low power

reconfigurable

architecture for 2

dimensional digital

rank ordef filter”

ICCC 2010

(International

conference)

CET,Trivandrum

18,19 &

20th

February

2010

Mr.Sreeraj.K.P

4 “Digital System

design using

AICTE

Sponsored FDP

DOEACC,

Calicut

20/4/2010-

30/4/2010 Mr.ANOOP THOMAS

VerilogHDL”

5

Paper presentation

on ‘Video

surveillance –a

hardware approach’

National

conference held

in

FISAT

ANGAMALY 25/03/10 to

27/03/10 Ms.RITHU JAMES

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No Name of the student & semester

/faculty member Accomplishment

Details: Date, event organized by /

held at

1 Amulya Tom and Antony Jose of

S6ECE

Won THIRD

position

For western music, M.G University

Youth festival, KOTTAYAM

2 Aswathi Menon of S6ECE

Won South zone

Badminton

Championship

Mangalore

3

Priya V., Rachel Alexander, Nikhil

John and Mabin U. Varghese of

S8ECE

INNOVATOR’09

(National Level

Project Competition-

South zone)

Selected by CII (Confederation of

Indian Industries) held on 12th

February 2010.

4

Thomas Joseph, Tharun Mathew,

Subin Mathew, Muhammed Siddique

and Syamkumar P.G. of S8ECE

INNOVATOR’09

(National level

Project Competition-

South zone)

Selected by CII (Confederation of

Indian Industries) held on 12th

February 2010.

5 Umnikrishnan.V Pilot Air force

6 Muhammed Siddique SSB Cleared

IInnnnoovvaattoorr 22000099::

Innovator 2009 aims at bringing out innovative

technical, business and social ideas from

students and provides an opportunity for the

industry to study these ideas and encourage and

nurture the best ideas for implementation.

Two teams from Rajagiri School of

Engineering & Technology, Kakkanad

bagged third prizes in the business stream

and the technical stream in the coveted CII-

Cognizant Innovator 2009 awards held on

12th February 2010 at Le Meridian,

Chennai.

The

selection

involved

three levels

of screening

process. The

first level

comprised

more than

200 entries

from 150

colleges of South India. The prize includes

certificates, Trophy and a cash cheque of

Rs.20, 000/- per team.

The theme that bagged the prizes is,

.Under Technical Stream- an innovative

shopping cart that follows the shopper with an

electronic billing system, which makes the

process of shopping easy for the customer. It

also helps the shopkeeper with its unique

features.

Team Members - THARUN MATHEW,

THOMAS JOSEPH, SUBIN MATHEW,

MUHAMMED SIDDIQUE, SYAMKUMAR

P.G (Final Year Electronics &Communication)

Forthcoming Events

SDP on Signal Processing in Biomedical applications

The Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology, Kakkanad will be hosting a two

week staff development programme on “Signal Processing in Biomedical Application”. The

event, organized by the Department of Electronics & Communication is scheduled from 3rd to

14th May 2010.This course will immensely help the faculty members, researchers and

industrialists to expose themselves to the recent developments in the field of signal

processing for biomedical applications.

.

ON DESK : Prof..Asha Panicker, Tressa Michael ,Deepthy.G.S & Parvathy Nandakumar

COURSES CONDUCTED BY

EFY TECH CENTER, DELHI/BANGALORE

ROBOTICS

JUNE 7-18, 2010

10 DAYS (60 HOURS)

FOR S6/S7 (ALL BRANCHES)

COURSE FEE : Rs. 5500/-

PCB DESIGNING USING KiCAD

JUNE 14-18, 2010

5 DAYS (30 HOURS)

FOR S4/S5 (ALL BRANCHES)

COURSE FEE : Rs. 4000/-

COURSES CONDUCTED BY

RSET FACULTY

VLSI DESIGN CONCEPTS

JUNE 14-18, 2010

5 DAYS (30 HOURS)

FOR S6/S7 (ALL BRANCHES) COURSE FEE : Rs. 4000/-

PIC MICROCONTROLLER

JUNE 7-11, 2010

5 DAYS (30 HOURS)

FOR S4/S5 (ALL BRANCHES)

COURSE FEE : Rs. 3000/-

Limited seats: 30 per course

Registration on “first-come-first-served”

basis!