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IEEE STUDENT BRANCH PEC ACTIVITIES
EVENTS AND MEETINGS:

1.	10th- 12th August 2011, Wednesday-Friday IEEE STUDENT BRANCH PEC conducted its annual recruitments. A presentation on the activities of the branch last year was given in the college auditorium during the Orientation program. The fresh batch of students showed real interest in the activities and events organized by IEEE. Afterwards forms were distributed. Not only the new batch, but the second yearites too came to grab their form, after having witnessed the IEEE activities last year. Accordingly people were shortlisted to be part of IEEE, PEC.

2.	16th August 2011, Tuesday IEEE STUDENT BRANCH PEC conducted an expert lecture on ‘POWER & GRID STABLIZATION’ by Dr. Ravi Seghal, Lead Centre of Excellence, General Electric, Bangalore. The lecture highlighted the various power generation techniques and a brief comparison was made between them by outlining the pros and cons of each type. About 100 students attended the lecture.

3.	18th August 2011,Thursday IEEE STUDENT BRANCH PEC organized an expert lecture on ‘WHY ENGINEERS ARE BETTER MANAGERS?’ by Mr. Amit Hans (IIM- Alumni), Director, Educorp Consultancy Services, Chandigarh. A real enthusiasm was shown by the students and an overwhelming response made the event a huge success. Students clarified their doubts regarding MBA and CAT and also they got to question “Why is it that so many engineering graduates clear off the CAT exam?” And “Does this really mean that engineers are better managers?” A healthy discussion and expert advice on the topic by Mr. Amit Hans was refreshing for the students.

4.	24th August 2011, Wednesday IEEE STUDENT BRANCH PEC organized a workshop on ‘MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIES’ by Vipul Taneja, IEEE member. It really worked good. The real world applications of Microsoft technologies were demonstrated to the students.

5.	25th August 2011, Thursday IEEE STUDENT BRANCH PEC organized an Information Sharing Meeting (ISM) on Amphibionics-Biologically Inspired Robots. Students were made familiar with the idea behind biologically inspired robotics. The hourly meeting provided the students with brief elementary knowledge- a prerequisite to explore the world of slithering, jumping, swimming, and walking robots, and the artificial intelligence needed with these platforms. The meeting turned out to be informative and interesting as well. The efforts were appreciated by one and all.

6.	30th August 2011, Tuesday IEEE STUDENT BRANCH PEC conducted an Information Sharing Meeting (ISM) on Telecommunications and Networking and Hands-on-Workshop on Adobe Photoshop. An approximate footfall of more than 80 students was seen. The workshop was a great success. Students learnt a lot about Photoshop and telecommunications. Different features of Adobe Photoshop were introduced to the students and all the queries were clarified very clearly with the help of different pictures.

7.	6th September 2011, Tuesday General Body Meeting – Agenda of the meeting was discussion on projects for the current semester and formation of teams for the same. The projects initiated are – i.	Magazine ii. Website iii. C++/Java application game- Search Worth iv. .net application project – Time Table v.	Inverter vi. Magneto-IIT –Bombay Techfest—an event based on RF Communication Each of these projects was introduced to the students and interested people were asked to register themselves for the project of their choice and start working for the same. Teams were divided accordingly and jobs were assigned. People talked over to their team mates and work was initiated. 8.	20th September 2011, Tuesday General Body Meeting was conducted with the agenda- IEEE Innovation Challenge and IEEE Extreme 5.0 The members were briefed about the above two and were given the names and contacts of the respective heads to contact with, in case a student wanted to participate.

9.	23rd September 2011, Friday IEEE STUDENT BRANCH PEC organized a workshop on ‘BASIC ELECTRONICS -I’. Students of not only electronics but from all the streams attended the workshop and got to know about the basic concepts of electronics. During the workshop, in addition to imparting theoretical knowledge, the basic electronic components’ samples were also shown to students. More than 60 students attended the workshop.

10.	 29th September 2011,Thursday General Body Meeting was conducted with the agenda –

i.	Aranya- Techfest – Thappar University, Patiala ii. Progress of Projects iii. Introduction of upcoming two day event – IMSOMNIA

The students were briefed about Aranya- the technical fest of Thappar University, Patiala. Names were invited from all the members who wished to witness this fest. A regular progress report of projects was shared. A brief description was given about the event “INSOMNIA” as planned by then and suggestions were invited for its betterment. Moreover, work was allotted to the members for respective rounds of the event.

11.	30th September 2011,Friday IEEE STUDENT BRANCH PEC organized a workshop on ‘BASIC ELECTRONICS –II’. It was in continuation of the electronics workshop held last week. The re-arrival of students after 1st workshop and with even more enthusiasm, testified the efforts made by IEEE. The students were introduced with basics of microprocessors and micro-controllers.

12.	3rd October 2011,Monday Information sharing meeting on ‘HUMANOIDS’. Presentation was prepared by member Nidhi Hasija. Because of the vast applications of the topic and particular interest of certain students, the meeting got a very encouraging response. The presentation was really informative and provided an insight into the latest stuff going on in the field. Apart from the statistics and general information on the topic, a video was being presented which showed each and every stage of development of a humanoid and its various features. Students felt it like a real view of the humanoid.

13.	4th October 2011, Tuesday Information Sharing Meeting on ‘WEB 2.0’ by members Swati Gupta, Nidhi Singla, Nitesh Goyal and Sandeep Joshi. The basic purpose of the meeting was to make the member students aware of the new technology and its applications. WiMax is increasingly becoming popular basically because of the speed advantages and the fact that there is no need for wiring or routers. The towers set up work as routers for large areas. Very few members were aware of such a technology and the way it is being worked on. It was a very interesting and knowledgeable session.

14.	8th October 2011, Saturday A team from IEEE Student Brach PEC went to attend the ‘IEEE Quarterly Meet’ held at Thapar University, Patiala. The team narrated their experience on reaching back as very refreshing and knowledgeable. They say first they were all introduced to each other in a very innovative way in the form of a game. Then workshop on Parallel Programming was presented by one of the professors of the institute which introduced many a new subjects and topics of research for the students. Then the projects and activities going on in all the colleges from the region were discussed and it was very informative and we came to know a lot of improvements that can be done in our student branch. Similarly by pooling knowledge all the student branches tried to help each other. All in all it was a very informative and healthy experience.

15.	24th and 25th November 2011, Thursday and Friday Presentations allotted to the students were delivered. Some of the major attractions were ‘Google Self-driving Car’, ‘Should ISRO be privatized?’ and ‘Aakash tablet’. The facts presented left everyone awestruck and were in some cases eye-openers to the technology so many people are unaware of. It was followed by some short Technical Debates and some fun filled quizzes. The two day event saw huge turnout from all the branches. Even under-graduates from non-circuital branches showed interest in the event and took part in the same.

16.	2nd December 2011, Friday GBM was held with the major agenda of the upcoming annual technical fest and the events the society would undertake during the fest. The events were explained to one and all and everyone was allotted various teams and events. Since the exams were due in a few days so everyone was introduced to the work well beforehand so that after the exams the work starts at full pace. The ID cards for the team had to be finalized as well as the t-shirt design for the student branch. Also everyone was told to start working in for IBM’s The Great Mind Challenge which is supposed to be a long project and a team from college was to be prepared for the competition.

17.	16th January 2011, Monday ISM was held with the main agenda of informing the members about WIECON (a 3-day conference to be held by IEEE Hyderabad Section) and inviting names of the people for the same. Also a mention of the various events planned to be held there was made and interested entries invited. Also, members were informed of the annual technical fest conducted by NSIT Delhi. Students were given weblinks of the fest for further reference. Ideas were invited for events to be held in approaching PEC technical fest-VYOM and work divided for the same.

18.	27th January 2011, Friday ISM was held in continuation of the previous one to finalize the names of the students who wanted to go for NSIT Delhi technical fest. Tentative ideas proposed for VYOM events were discussed in detail and work done up to now was reviewed. Designing team was given an idea of the number and kind of posters required for the event and the publicity team about the way in which the publicity for the events would proceed. All other event organizers discussed the questions and problems regarding their event.

19.	13th February 2012, Monday Workshop on Ethical Hacking by Mr. Preet Kanwal Singh saw a huge interest of budding hackers wherein firstly sir threw some limelight on the difference between hacking and ethical hacking. The need for ethical hacking, he said, arose from the indispensable times wherein one needs to protect himself from data losses and thefts. He said if one knows the disease properly only then can he unravel himself from the clutches of that disease. So he says learn hearing to stop hacking. Sessions on the operating system Backtrack followed the suite, wherein sir told that this OS comes inbuilt with a lot many hacking applications and softwares. He told ways to send emails using someone else’s email ID, online shopping without making payments to the sites and cracking some else’s WIFI password. The IEEE volunteers as well as other attendees were amazed with all such things. Later on the question answer session lasted for more than 45 minutes and had to be ended there only because of time constraints. ☺ 20.	18th February 2012, Saturday A team of 6 from Student Branch PEC went on to attend the annual technical fest of Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology (NSIT), Delhi and took part in competitions such as B-Plan competition, technical quiz, C++ quiz, etc. The team won the technical quiz over there and interacted with a lot many students from various colleges. It was a pleasant learning experience and helped the team jot down points to be incorporated in our own technical festival. A fun-filled and learning experience with a lot to gain from. 21.	5th – 7th March 2012, Monday to Wednesday A team of 6 from IEEE Student Branch PEC went on to attend the Women in Engineering Congress 2012 at Shri Vishu Engineering College for Women, Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh, where R10 representatives from various countries had arrived. Delegates from various parts of the region came together to discuss the current status of activities and the benefits offered by IEEE as a world leader in advancing technology for humanity. Also latest technologies including open source technologies like linux, genetic processing, etc. were introduced. Competitions like paper-cut art competiteion, painting competition, poster presentation competition, etc. were conducted and the team took active part in all these. Apart from these the team was escorted for local sight-seeing by the volunteers from the college and it was very hospitable of them for taking the team to Godavari river and Paripallam Beach. The conference saw the dawn of Lawrence Wong (R10 Director), and all the participants in the conference took acute interest in his talk and later panel discussion. Meeting people of such stature was really heart-whelming for the team.

Projects undertaken:

1.	INVERTER IEEE Student Branch PEC is working on a study project ‘Fabrication of Power Inverter’ in the current semester of this Academic Session. The project will be a useful and learning endeavor for the first and second year students who will understand the basics of Electrical engineering along with simulation techniques in Multisim.

With the push in the past ten years to improve methods of energy generation, there has been an increasing need to optimize energy management. Our project was to create a DC to AC load-balanced inverter. The function would be to take in a DC voltage input, something like a battery or a solar cell, and output an AC voltage, resembling that which comes out of a wall outlet. The basic aim of the project is to generate an ac voltage in the range of (190-200) voltage with a frequency of 60HZ using POWER MOSFETS. So in order to trigger Mosfet at right time first we need a central oscillator with a proper frequency and pulse width. So in the project this is achieved by 555 TIMER. And in order that continuous frequency is generated we are using a stable mode of 555 TIMER which provides us the basic clock pulse. Secondly this clock pulse are continuous and also their width i.e. Ton and Toff time are not according to the triggering of Mosfet that is required for our project. So in order to modify that we are using another IC named 4017 5 stage Johnson Counter which generates the required pulse for triggering which is fed to the gate of gate of Mosfet. So here we are using fast Mosfet named IRFZ44N which is further connected to transformer for step up of voltage.

2.	Turtletron: (Recently completed) A biologically inspired robot which works wirelessly and is capable of transmitting any kind of information, the turtletron, is a recent achievement of the student branch. The robot turtle is a part of practical research in Amphibionics which is aimed at developing a new class of biologically inspired mobile robots that exhibit much greater robustness of performance in unstructured environments than a lot of today’s robots.

It will have a circular base and achieves locomotion using two wheels, each one powered by direct current (DC) motors and gearboxes. The robot will operate in autonomous mode or under remote control by a human operator. Turtletron will use an ultrasonic range finder and a linear shaft encoder to map its surrounding area during autonomous mode, and will also use the sonar to inhibit movement if an operator is directing the robot into an obstacle during remote control. The robot will also be equipped with a linear shaft encoder that will give it the ability to keep track of the distance that it has travelled and to create maps of its surroundings.