NEWSLETTER
A House  Journal of
IEEE Kerala Section
Volume 14 Number 4
October - December 2005

Contents

Chairman's Message
Dairy of Events
Fourthcoming Events
Students Activities
WIE Award News
Link Camp 2005
Human Hands Emit Light
PES Activities
Editorial
Genetic algorithms
Global News -News Around IEEE

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Chairman’s Message

Dear Fellow Professionals:

Greetings of the season! Very soon we would be ushering in a New Year and would also be welcoming a new Chairman for our Section. I would be demitting my office on Jan 7, 2006 soon after receiving the concurrence of the General Body on the election of new office bearers in the AGM to be held on that day.

It is customary for anyone to make promises at the time being elected to an office. I too made some promises to you, when I was elected as your Chairman in January, 2004 for the first time, and again in January, 2005 when I was re-elected. I was reviewing myself to see how we had performed during the last two years. Overall we have indeed succeeded to a large extent in our vision and plan to invigorate our Section. But still, we have many miles to go!

We revamped our Section website for better communication with our members. We set our hearts in starting up and sustaining IEEE activities in and around Kochi region. This has become a reality now, with a “Trends” seminar focusing on technology trends, becoming a popular mid-year annual activity there. This apart, talks on contemporary topics and other events are also being organized throughout the year. A small focus group formed from among IEEE members residing in Kochi is doing its best to sustain this tempo. We were successful in reviving the IA and IE combined Chapter and also in forming a new and very active Communications chapter. Overall our membership has doubled and the number of our student branches has trebled. We encouraged a unique experiment named LINK, for networking all our student branches in Kerala, so that best practices of one could quickly propagate to the rest. A mentoring network for student members is also under implementation. The quality of our National seminars has been maintained at a high level. Most important now, we have IEEE activities spread throughout the Kerala state and not confined to the capital city only.

The Region 10 awards committee recognized our performance, when we were elected for the 2004 Distinguished Large Section award. This is the very first time in the history of our Section, we are winning this commendable recognition. This was made possible not only by the excellent teamwork of the present Executive Committee but also by the foundation prepared during the past years. We hope to repeat this feat in 2005 as well.

Having said all this, do I have any regrets? Yes, if I may say so, that I have failed to elicit any response whatsoever, positive or otherwise from many members. Possibly these members are just too busy, or they think that those in the Exe-com are self-motivated and self-driven requiring no inputs. We would never know. I wish we all would realize that the strength of IEEE is, in building communities that nurture each other for the well being of the society at large. As a professional community we indeed have much to learn from each other. With advances in communication technologies, anyone could connect to any one and every one and also stay connected. Should we not, who invented these technologies, make the first and best use of it ourselves?

Obviously, I could not take to completion every one of the activities initiated during my tenure. I am confident, my successor would take all those programs to completion. While I lay down my office, I would certainly be around for any help and advice the incoming team may require. I wish the new team every success as they carry the torch forward.

May God bless you and your families richly in 2006.

Yours Truly,

E.E.Rajakumar
Chairman,
Kerala IEEE Section

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Diary of Events

22,23,& 29 -09-2005	‘SUMMIT 2005’ – a technical and cultural festival organized by Student Branch of IEEE and Chengannur Engineering College at Mammen Mappilai Hall, Kottayam.
30-19-2005 1-10-2005	S-PAC (Student Professional Awareness Conference) of IEEE Student Branches of Kerala conducted by Student Branch of SN Gurukulam College of Engg, Kolenchery.
1,2-10-2005	All Kerala IEEE LINK Camp at AWH Engineering College, Calicut.
2,3-10-2005	National Seminar on ‘Information Security” (i-SEC) organized by IEEE Kerala Section at Thiruvananthapuram.
05-10-2005	‘Management Concepts in Ancient India – Specific reference to Kalidasa’s Reghuvamsam’ – talk by N.S. Madhavan, Scientist/Engineer, VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram.
17-10-2005	‘Recent developments in FACTS Technology’- distinguished lecture program by Kalyan K. Sen at Thiruvananthapuram organized by PES, IEEE Kerala.
19-10-2005	‘Recent developments in FACTS Technology’- distinguished lecture program by Kalyan K. Sen at Kochi, organized by PES, IEEE Kerala.
19-10-2005	19-10-2005 Talk by N.T. Nair on ‘Attention Economy’ and ‘Semiconductor Economy’ at IE Hall, Thiruvananthapuram.
22-10-2005	‘INSIGHT 2005’ – a seminar/student paper contest for students of Electronics and Electrical Engineering organized by IEEE Student Branch of National Institute of Technology, Calicut.
24,25-10-2005	‘Hardware Familiarisation Workshop’ at Chengannur Engineering College organized by IEEE Student branch of CEC.
25-10-2005	25-10-2005 ‘Cardiac Chaos’ – a lecture Thajudeen Ahamed V.I, Asst Prof, EE Dept, NIT, Calicut, organized by IA&IE with EE Association – NIT, Calicut, ISTE NITC Chapter and IE(I) Calicut local centre at EED P.G Seminar Hall, NIT, Calicut.
26-10-2005	‘Media Streaming Based on Multiple Senders’ – talk by Uma Priyadarsini P.S, Dept of CSE, JJCET, Trichi.
27-10-2005	‘Genetic Algorithms & Applications’- presentation by R. Sreeramkumar, Prof. EE, NIT, Calicut at Citadel Hall, Renaissance Hotel, Ram Mohan Road, Chinthavalappu, Calicut.
02-11-2005	‘The Energy Conservation Act, 2001 – No. 52 of 2001’ – talk by R. Harikumar, General Secretary, Society of Energy Engineers and Managers, Thiruvananthapuram.
16-11-2005	‘Un-manned Aerial Vehicles’ – talk arranged by IEEE IA & IE Society with IE(I) Kerala Section Calicut local centre and ISTE-NIT Calicut Chapter at MED Seminar Hall, NIT, Calicut.
19-11-2005	Executive meeting of IEEE Kerala Section at 17.30 – 18.30 Hrs at Harmonieee, Thiruvananthapuram.
05-12-2005	Lecture by Vijay Verma, Project Management evangelist at Travancore Hall at 15.00 Hrs and at Mascot Hotel at 19.30 Hrs organized by IEEE Kerala Section and PMI Kerala Chapter..
10,11-12-2005	Kerala Education Grid – Workshop on ‘XML Databases’ organized by Education Grid Resource Centre, IIITM-K and IEEE Computer Society of Kerala Section at Travancore Hall, Park Centre, Technopark. Speaker: P.Sreenivasa Kumar, Associate Professor, C.S Department, IIT Madras.
13,14-12-2005	‘Kerala in the Global Economy: Opportunities and Challenges’- an International Seminar organized by Asian School of Business and SCID,KGSN and TiE, Kerala at Travancore Hall, Technopark.
15-12-2005	,, ,, at Muthoot Plaza, Thiruvananthapuram.
17-12-2005	‘TRENDS-2005’ organized by IEEE Kerala Section and VSAT at Vidya Academy of Science and Technology, Trichur.
23-12-2005	Executive meeting of IEEE Kerala Section at 17.30 – 18.30 Hrs at Harmonieee, Thiruvananthapuram.

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Forthcoming Events
07-01-2005	Workshop on ‘System Thinking – Traffic management as Case Study’, by R. Narayanan and S. Neethi, TCS Ltd, Technopark, at Muthoot Plaza Hotel, Thiruvananthapuram. 10.30 – 12.30 Hrs
07-01-2005	Annual General Meeting (AGM-2005) of IEEE Kerala Section. 13.30 – 17.00 Hrs.

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Students Activities

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, CHENGANNUR - IEEE STUDENT BRANCH (60451)

Major events of the year are:

August 15 th , 16 th : Attended IEEE All Kerala Student Congress

August 10 th, 21 st : Attended IEEE All India Student Congress

September 22,23 &25 : Conducted South-India level SPAC

October 24 th and 25 th : Conducted Hardware Familiarization Workshop

SUMMIT 05 – Final Report

Summit 05, a technical cum cultural festival conducted by College of Engineering Chengannur, co-organized by the IEEE Student Branch was conducted on 22nd, 23rd and 25th September 2005 at Mammen Mappilai Hall, Kottayam. The curtain for the event was raised with the inauguration of the event at 9.30 hrs on 22nd September 2005. The members on the dice for the inauguration were, the chief guest, NPOL Director, V. Chander, Aju Thomas, Secretary, IEEE Kerala Section, V. P. Devassia, Principal, College of Engineering, Chengannur, Jyothiraj, Head of Electronics Department, College of Engineering, Chengannur, Rejani V.R., Senior Lecturer, College of Engineering Chengannur and Sooraj C. George, Convener, Summit 05. Summit 05 was inaugurated by the traditional lighting of the lamp by all the members on the dice.

A series of seminars were conducted as IEEE Student Professional Awareness Conference (SPAC) in Summit 05. The first talk of the SPAC was on Naval Engineering by NPOL Director, V. Chander. In the afternoon session of the first day, G. Balachandran, who is an international trainer of Junior Chamber, conducted a management-training workshop. At 16.30 hrs Best Manager Contest was held in the main venue and a total of 16 teams participated in the event. Eight teams qualified for the finals. This was followed by The Brand Wars contest with a participation of seven teams.

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On 22nd September, paper presentation contest was conducted in the second venue from 12.30 to 16.00 hrs. A total of 9 teams participated in the contest. Parvathy Bhaskar from College of Engineering Trivandrum bagged the first prize for the paper “Retinal blood vessel extraction for hypertensive retinopathy” and second prize was given to Linoy Joseph from Mangalam Engineering College for the paper “Open Network Project”. Circuit debugging contest was conducted in the second venue at 16.30 hrs. Sixteen teams participated in the event. A project presentation contest was also conducted in which five teams demonstrated their projects for the whole day. At 19.30 hrs, a movie was screened to entertain the delegates, after which they were escorted to their accommodation.

The second day started off with a live video conferencing with Sreela Sasi from Ganon University, USA at 9.00 hrs, which was conducted as part of IEEE SPAC. This was followed by a talk on Python/GNU by Bashyamp Ghose. Quiz prelims was conducted in the main venue at 12.30 hrs in which 74 people participated. Four teams, each consisting of two members qualified for the finals held after that. At. 15.00 hrs a seminar was conducted by C. Radhakrishnan who is a visiting scientist at VSSC on the topic “Applications of Space Technology”. The valedictory function of Summit 05 was held at 17.30 hrs on 23rd September 2005. The prizes for the technical and management events were distributed at the function.

At the second venue, the first event on 23rd was the code-debugging contest, which had a participation of 37 teams. This was followed by the Hacking contest in which 10 teams contested. Gaming contest was conducted in the 2nd venue at 6.30 hrs on 23rd September.
An entertainment night was organized for the delegates at 19.00 hrs at the main venue on the second day. It included dance numbers by “Foot losers” from Thiruvananthapuram and Bangalore, and songs by students from CEC.

Thirty-seven colleges and three schools participated in the technical and management events of Summit 05. Nearly 250 people participated in the IEEE SPAC including staff and students of College of Engineering Chengannur. The ‘cultural events’ of Summit 05 was inaugurated at 9.30 hrs on 25th September 2005 by Cicily who is a playback singer. This was followed by rock band contest, which saw participation from three colleges. In the afternoon session, a voice hunt was conducted in which the best singers were given prizes. Ten students participated in the event. This was followed by choreography and synchronous dance. Thirteen colleges participated in the choreography and three colleges in synchronous dance.

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Summit 05 came to an end with a talent display by students of College of Engineering, Chengannur. Summit also included an exhibition, which included a wide range of technical and commercial stalls. The technical stalls included project presentation by CEC students, hardware stalls etc. and commercial stalls included stalls like BSNL, Reliance and many firms from Kottayam. There were also two food stalls arranged for those present in the venue. The registration process of Summit was carried out using a database and barcode system. Three barcode readers were used at entry to the three venues to prevent multiple entries. Summit 2005 was a grand success and received an excellent feedback from the guests, speakers, judges and delegates.

Institutions Participated:
(* Cultural Events Only and other colleges Technical Events also)

1. GOVT.ENG. COLLEGE, PALAKKAD
2. TKM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
3. FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
4. MAR ATHANASIUS COLLEGE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
5. SCMS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
6. SCT COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
7. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING TRIVANDRUM
8. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, ADOOR
9. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, KIDANGOOR
10. ST JOSEPH'S, COLL. OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY PALAI
11. ST. BERCHMANS COLLEGE, CHENGANNASERRY
12. MODEL ENGINEERING COLLEGE
13. SREE BUDHA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
14. BERCHMANS INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES.
15. SAINTGITS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING KOTTAYAM
16. KRISTHU JYTYHI COLLEGE, CHANGANNASSERY
17. SCHOOL OF TECH. AND APPLIED SCIENCES, PULLARIKKUNNU
18. DEVAMATHA COLLEGE, KURAVILANGAD
19. YOUNIS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
20. AMRITA SCOOL OF ENGINEERING
21. MARIAN COLLEGE, KUTTIKKANAM
22. KURIAKOSE ELIAS COLLEGE
23. RAJAGIRI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
24. COLLEGE OF APPLIED SCIENCES VADKANCHERY
25. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TRICHY
26. AMAL JYOTHI COLLEGE
27. KERALA LAW ACADEMY
28. MAR ATHANASIUS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
29. S.A. ENGINEERING COLLEGE, CHENNAI
30. COLLEGE OF.ENGINEERING POONJAR
31. MES ENGINEERING COLLEGE, KUTTIPURAM
32. MEPCO SLENK ENGINEERING COLLEGE, SIVAKASI
33. ST JOSEPHS COLLEGE, MOOLAMATTOM
34. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, TODUPUZHA
35. BASELIUS COLLEGE
36. GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, TRIVANDRUM
37. RAJIV GANDHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KOTTTAYAM
38. MERIAN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
39. PALLIKOODAM SCHOOL
40. LOURDES PUBLIC SCHOOL
41. FATHIMA MATHA COLLEGE, KOLLAM*
42. HINDUSTHAN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE*
43. SACRED HEARTS COLLEGE*

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CONTEST	WINNERS
Paper Presentation	First Place: Parvathi Bhaskar (Coll. Of Engg., Thiruvananthapuram) Second Place: Linoy Joseph (Mangalam College Of Engg.)
Code Debugging	First Place: Kristu Jyothi College Second Place: FISAT
Circuit Designing	First Place: Mepco Schlenk Engineering College Second Place: Mar Athanasius College of Engineering.
Project Presentation	First Place (software): Amal Jyothi Engg. College First Place (electronics) : Amal Jyothi Engg. College
Hacking Contest	First Place: Mar Athanasius College Of Engineering Second Place: Model Engineering College
Gaming Contest	First Place: A. B. Suraj (Rajagiri School of Engg & Tech.) Second Place: Govind Dutt (SCT College Of Engineering)
Quiz	First Place: Model Engineering College Second Place: College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram.
Best Manager	First Place: Navneeth (SB College) Second Place: Jobin Baby Varghese (Coll. of Engg., Adoor)
Brand Wars	First Place: St. Josephs College of Engineering Second Place: Saint Gits College of Engineering
Debate	First Place: St. Josephs Coll. Of Engineering.
Extempore	First Place: Chintha Jerome (Fathima Matha College)
Rock Band	First Place: St. Josephs College Of Engineering Second Place: FISAT
Voice Hunt	First Place: Vivekanand V. (FISAT) Second Place: Yatheen Dradas (FISAT)
Choreography	First Place: Amal Jyothi College of Engineering Second Place: FISAT
Synchronous Dance	First Place: St. Josephs College Of Engineering Second Place: Rajeev Gandhi Institute of Technology

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LINK Activities

Report of fourth LINK face to face Meeting

LINK face-to-face meeting was held at AWH Engineering College on 2nd October 2005 in which all the LINK 2005 Officials attended. In these fourth face-to-face meeting representatives from 17 student branches from all over kerala participated. Major decisions taken by LINK 2006.

1. LINK 2006 decided to conduct IEEE awareness sections in four different engineering
colleges in four different districts.
2. Planned to create a database, which provides all resources available in kerala.
3. Discussed about the LINK National event and its programs.
4. LINK 2006 asked all the student branches to submit the audited report of their 6 months
plan of events
5. LINK 2006 decided to meet online on every alternate Fridays at 6.30pm

HARDWARE FAMILIARIZATION WORSHOP – a report

The IEEE Student Branch of College of Engineering Chenganuur conducted a hardware familiarization workshop for the first year students on 24th and 25th of October 2005. The workshop was conducted by Anoop K.J and Pramod.P - third year student members of the branch. The session on the first day included component familiarization I with the help of an open CPU. All internal components were shown and assembling procedure was demonstrated to the students.

The session on the second day saw a detailed explanation of computer hardware using a power point presentation. Nearly 64 students attended the workshop. The event had an excellent feedback and all participants benefited from the event.

MENTORS OF KERALA

“BUILDING THE BRIDGE”

Vision:
To promote and to enhance the engineering spirit of young members of IEEE under Kerala Section by paving a way for effective communication with the section and utilization of educational resources.

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Mission:
To play an advisory role to the student branches under Kerala Section and make each of them vibrant with activities and helping them pursue resources and awards.

After the establishment of LINK, Mentors of Kerala is the next step towards the advancement of the IEEE Student Community of Kerala. LINK is successfully performing the duty of integrating the student community and maintaining the interaction between the students from various branches. The student community still remains unaware of the various resources available to them and at times fail in their proper coordination with the section and frequently fail to maintain the continuity in itself.

Mentors of Kerala will be a group to compliment the efforts of the Student Activities Committee by providing a professional member to every student branch to help and mentor student branch activities. This venture will also help in retention of recent graduates in IEEE. The mentor will meet with the student branch regularly and will ensure section involvement in the activities of the branch and ensure the continuity of it even with changes in branch office bearers. The group will also assist the branch in developing programs through IEEE which will be beneficial to the students.

This venture has received a warm welcome from all the branches as well as executive committee members of Kerala Section. With the coordination and valuable suggestions from everyone, Mentors of Kerala hopes to be a long lasting and successful group helping the student community.

REPORT OF FIRST MEET OF MENTORS OF KERALA

The first meet of mentors of Kerala is conducted at Model Engineering College, Ernakulam on 23rd December 2005 in which 6 colleges participated. Prijoe Philips student representative of IEEE Kerala Section addressed and conducted an awareness section on Mentors of Kerala.

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Mentors of Kerala, the professional mentoring body started its life long journey with founders of LINK onboard.
Mentors of Kerala

Prijoe Philips (Student Representative, IEEE Kerala Section)
Fahad Ali
Eric John
Visan Koshy Varghese - Student Coordinators
Nithin Sha A.S (M E S College of Engineering, Kuttipuram)
Kuriakose Rajan (UCE, Thodupuzha)
Namit Najeeb (TKI, Karuvely)

Annual General Meeting – IEEE Kerala Section

It is proposed to hold the Annual General Meeting IEEE Kerala Section on Saturday, 7th January 2006 at Muthoot Plaza Hotel, Thiruvananthapuram.
Members are invited to attend all events of the day along with your spouse. There may be separate events for spouses

Agenda

10.30 am to 12.30 pm -
Workshop on Systems Thinking – Traffic Management as
Case Study by R.Narayanan, S.Neethi, Tata Consultancy
Service Ltd.

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12.30 pm to 02.00 pm -
Lunch

02.00 pm to 4.30 pm -
Annual General Meeting
Silent prayer
Welcome – Vice Chair
Pledge – Code of ethics
Annual Report – Secretary
Financial Report – Treasurer
Chapter Reports – Chapter Chairs
Student Branch Reports – SAC
Address by Chairman
Election of Officers for 2006
Assumption of office and address by the
newly elected chairperson
Felicitations
Future activities
General discussions
Vote of Thanks

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WIE Award News-IEEE Women in Engineering Newsletter

Number 5. June/July 2005

Winnipeg & Chengannur College of Engineering Student Branch win WIE award

The Women in Engineering Committee (WIEC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the first annual WIE Affinity Group of the Year Award. There were two categories: Affinity Group and Student Branch Affinity Group.

For the Affinity Group category, first place was awarded to the IEEE Winnipeg WIE Affinity Group. WIE Winnipeg has demonstrated strong leadership, organized events, positive membership growth, effective communications, a well designed website including availability of meeting minutes and quality programs and activities.

For the Student Branch Affinity Group category, first place was awarded to the IEEE Chengannur College of Engineering WIE Student Branch Affinity Group in India. WIE Chengannur was well organized and established a three-point plan with associated activities. They also demonstrated tremendous membership growth and quality outreach programs including the IEEE-STAR program.

Honorable mention was awarded to the IEEE United Arab Emirates WIE Affinity Group and runners-up were the WIE Affinity Groups in Milwaukee and Toronto.

Runners up for the Student Branch Affinity Group were Universidad Ricardo Palma (Peru), University Distrital Franciso Jose de Caldas (Colombia), Red River College (Canad) and Cyril and Methodius University (Macedonia)

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First place recipients receive US$250 to support future activities and Certificate of Recognition.

This is the first year for the award established by the IEEE Women in Engineering Committee recognizing affinity groups based on:

• Quality programs
• Outreach programs to young women
• Communication to affinity group members
• Membership growth and
• Website (if available)

For more information on the award visit the WIE website at www.ieee.org/women.

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IEEE LINK Camp 2005

The All Kerala IEEE link camp for the year 2005 was held in the premises of AWH engineering college, Calicut on the 1st and second of October. Three student representatives including the Student Branch chairman, a link representative and a junior member(prospective execom member) from about nineteen engineering colleges from all over Kerala participated in the event. An awareness program also was conducted as a part of the event with the idea of spreading the various incentives and benefits rendered by the IEEE the worlds largest technical society with more than 4,00,000 members all over the world. Five new engineering colleges with an intention of commencing an IEEE student branch in their college attended the event.

The chief guest for the day S.Gopakumar, Ex-SAC, IEEE Kerala Section inaugurated the camp. Principal of AWH engineering college U.C.Ahamed Kutty presided over the inaugural ceremony. Mubaraq, the branch counselor of IEEE student branch in University College (Thiruvananthapuram), Jayaffer of AWH engineering college and Prijoe Philips Komattu, Student representative IEEE Kerela Section decorated the inaugural ceremony with their esteemed presence. C.N. Swaminathan, Chairman of the IEEE student branch in AWH engineering college delivered the welcome speech. Sona Alex, Secretary of the student branch gave the vote of thanks. Felicitations were given by the representatives from the link including Prijoe Philips Komatu, Vishan Koshy and Eric John.

The inaugural ceremony was followed by a photo session followed by the awareness program conducted by student representatives to the Kerela chapter Prijoe Philips from Chengannur engineering college and Vishan Koshy of FISAT. Gopakumar in his inaugural speech also asked the IEEE members to take the code of ethics dictated by him. He pointed out the necessary qualities and standards needed for an IEEE member and also mentioned the various benefits enjoyed by an IEEE member. He throughout in his speech laid emphasis on the need for becoming an IEEE member and also the challenges faced by the engineers to keep in pace with this fast growing world.

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A seminar also was taken by Gopakumar ,sharing his thoughts and views with the novices in the field. Fahad Ali, the link secretary gave a class on IEEE and Engineers. The afternoon session commenced with a discussion on the planning of national event to be held in next year. This was followed by an outing to the Calicut beach. The discussion and planning of the national event was carried over to the evening session as well and various engineering colleges took over the various responsibilities for conducting the event. The chief guest for the day Gopakumar also took part in the discussion and supervised it. The first days events were winded up after a class on "Organising the Organisers" by Prijoe.

The second day commenced with an open forum on "Problems in IEEE" in which all the student branches expressed their ideas. The camp came to an end with this event. The main idea of the event was to promote the IEEE student branches and to inculcate them. All the student branches participated 'lively' in the event and rendered their valuable suggestions and thoughts and made the event a grant success. Witnessing the immense cooperation to the camp it was decided to conduct such a camp annually. LINK thanked all the members for rendering their cooperation and services for making the venture a reality.

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Human Hands Emit Light

Spiritual healers have long been claiming that they experience light emanating from their hands and can also feel (and even see) energy from the hands, feet and heads of other people. Scientific community, however, have been brushing aside these statements so far as baseless. But the new research conducted at the Central Research Laboratory (Hamamatsu Photonics) in Japan, by scientists led by Dr. Mitsuo Hiramatsu, appears to be giving some credence to these claims. All parts of the human hand emit detectable levels of light, according to them. In other words, our hands glow, with fingernails releasing most light.

The fact now being established that certain parts of the body emit measurable numbers of photons may open up new diagnostic techniques. The levels of light coming from different people may indicate not only health, but perhaps alertness, stress levels, or state of mind.

The findings support prior research that suggested most living things, including plants, release light. Since disease and illness appear to affect the strength and pattern of the glow, the discovery might lead to less-invasive ways of diagnosing patients. The hands are not the only parts of the body producing light all of the time by releasing photons, or tiny, energized increments of light, but the forehead and bottoms of the feet also emit photons.

Since the light is invisible to the naked eye, the researchers used a powerful photon counter to detect them. The detector found that fingernails release 60 photons, fingers release 40 and the palms are the dimmest of all, with 20 photons to their account.

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The reasons for fingernails lighting up more than the other parts of the hand are yet to be learnt. The scientists say, “It may be because of the optical window property of fingernails," meaning that the fingernail works somewhat like a prism to scatter light.

To find out what might be creating the light in the first place, they had test subjects hold plastic bottles full of hot or cold water before their hand photons were measured. The researchers also pumped nitrogen or oxygen gas into the dark box where the individuals placed their hands as they were being analyzed.

Warm temperatures increased the release of photons, as did the introduction of oxygen. Rubbing mineral oil over the hands also heightened light levels.

Based on those results, the scientists theorize the light "is a kind of chemiluminescence," a luminescence based on chemical reactions, such as those that make fireflies glow. The researchers believe 40 percent of the light results from the chemical reaction that constantly occurs as our hand skin reacts with oxygen.

Since mineral oil, which permeates into the skin, heightens the light, they also now think 60 percent of the glow may result from chemical reactions that take place inside the skin.

Fritz-Albert Popp, a leading world expert on biologically related photons at The International Institute of Biophysics in Germany, agrees with the findings and was not surprised by them. Popp says, "One may find clear correlations to kind and degree (type and severity) of diseases."

Popp and his team believe the light from the forehead and the hands pulses out with the same basic rhythms, but that these pulses become irregular in unhealthy people. A study he conducted on a muscular sclerosis patient seemed to validate the theory.

Both he and Hiramatsu hope future studies will reveal more about human photon emissions, which could lead to major medical diagnosis applications

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PES Chapter Activities

We have much news to share as there are exciting new developments in the current year, created as a result of our professional activities not only responsive to our needs, but also integrating solutions of day-to-day problems in association with other professional bodies forming an umbrella consortium. Our systematic activities and the changes therein made greater global exposure to our Section. The curiosity of the student community in offering new ideas and programs is more interesting and informative and ideal to others, lending a hand to us to go farther in the challenging professional practice. These outstanding contributions would be continued in the next tenure and for years to come also, as we have reasons to be optimistic about the future.

In this context, not surprisingly to note the ‘insignificant’ rather ‘nominal’ performance of some societies of our Section, especially GOLD and WIE, while assessing the current year’s performance. It is true that once the office bearers of these societies were very vibrant and reflected their voice to spark in various platforms showed superb credentials and brought reputation to our Section. But now, be frank, they are not with our expectations in their deliberations and involvements towards creative depictions. It is insightful and thought-provoking to us. There is no easy solution here. They have to give chance to awake and improve in the coming year to accept responsibilities and take up challenges by exercising their capabilities and intelligence to prove themselves professionals in the field. They must be motivated consistent with efforts to share throughout the year and gear up deeper in reaping the achievements.

However, regarding our Newsletter we have great hopes to circulate among us far and wide in the State, which gained wonderful exposure among our professionals for a better professional environment and interaction. I thank our volunteers for having rendered their immense support in bringing out this printed matter in its current form. Also, it has been a pleasure and privilege to me to work with a challenging team aimed at to upgrade and explore more innovative approaches among students and professionals. The success of the Newsletter is mainly depending on your judicious contributions and is inevitable. Experience from your activities are invited in documented form and warmly welcomed in the coming years to achieve global prosperity through technical novelties irrespective of the person in-charge or the members in the ongoing forefront team.
It is imperative to quote the lines of a famous poet (T.S. Eliot) in this context:

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     “For last year’s words belong to
      last year’s language
      And next year’s words await
      another voice.
      And to make an end is to make
      a beginning.”

For welcoming the New Year and “new voices” we look to create a “new beginning” for us as members of the IEEE having rare insight in the development through volunteer involvement.

Warm regards with a most wonderful festive season and Happy New Year.

K.Gopalan Nair

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Generic Algorithms

DR. R. SREERAM KUMAR, SMIEEE
Professor of Electrical Engineering
National Institute of Technology Calicut

Genetic Algorithms are recent mathematical tools useful for system optimization, and these are rooted in the mechanics of evolution and natural genetics. We know that in this world, there exists competition among individuals for scanty resources such as food, shelter and mate. In this competition, fitter individuals will be dominating over the weaker ones. We can observe that only the fittest individuals can survive and reproduce. This is a natural phenomenon, called the survival of the fittest’. The survival capacity of each individual is determined by various features. Each such feature is controlled by a basic unit called ‘gene’. The set of genes controlling various features of an individual is called ‘chromosome’. Chromosomes are the keys to the survival of the individuals in a competitive environment.

Genetic Algorithms are essentially a class of computational models that stimulates natural evolution to solve problems. It is a powerful search mechanism, and consists of the following major steps:

i. Creation of “population strings” called chromosomes
ii. Evaluation of the fitness of each chromosome
iii. Natural selection of the best chromosomes
iv. Genetic manipulation of the selected chromosomes to create new population of chromosomes
v. If the number of generations is less than the specified, go to step (ii) and repeat the procedure Otherwise the solution to the problem is given by the most fit individual in the latest generation.

Generation of Population Strings: For a given problem, a solution space is created by assuming a large number of possible solutions. Each such solution set will be encoded into binary strings. These are called population strings. Most of the optimization problems have real-valued variables, as their solutions. To obtain a binary string corresponding to these real- valued variables, first each such variable is linearly mapped to an integer in a specified range. These integers are then encoded using a fixed number of binary bits. Finally the binary codes of all the variables are to be concatenated to obtain a binary string.

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F itness Evaluation: The objective function to be optimized can be used for the evaluation of each string. As the range of values of the objective function varies from problem to problem, the values of the objective function, normalized to the range [0,1], is usually used for the evaluation of the fitness of the string.

Natural Selection: The natural selection process should be unbiased and also should ensure the fitter string to have better chances of having higher number of off-springs. One approach is to utilize roulette wheel selection method which involves spinning a roulette wheel. Each string occupies an area of the wheel, the area share of each string being proportional to its fitness value. The number of spins required is equal to the number of individuals in the initial population. Therefore, population size remains constant, but will contain better solutions.

Genetic manipulations: Evolution is initiated when genetic materials from two parents recombine during reproduction. A new gene pool is created from previous one through the genetic manipulations. Two commonly used operators used for genetic manipulators are cross-over and mutation operators. Application of cross-over operator involves the following steps:

• Picking up pairs of strings at random from the population
• Randomly choose a cross-over point.
• Exchange the portions of the two strings beyond the cross-over point.

The cross-over operator creates the possibility of the right combination of genes for better individuals. Repeated selection and cross-over cause the continuous evolution of the gene pool and the generation of individuals that survive better in a competitive environment, Mutation of a bit in a string involves changing a 0 to 1 or vice-versa. The application of mutation operator helps to restore the lost genetic material.

Genetic algorithms have been used in a large number of scientific and engineering problems. Some typical examples are (i) optimization problems such as circuit layout and job-shop scheduling (ii) automatic programming (iii) classification and prediction tasks such as forecasting of weather and protein structure, development of bidding strategies in stock markets etc.

References

1. Goldberg. O.E; “Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning”, Addison- Wesely, 1989.
2. Melanice Mitchel, “ An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms”, Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd; New Delhi, 1998.

 

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1. Adding Ethics to Engineering Education: Universities no longer assume that the new engineer will learn ethical practices on the job and are now offering instruction on the subject. The IEEE is also playing a role in highlighting ethical practices by promoting students' awareness of their professional responsibilities as engineers. Find out more at http://boldfish.ieee.org:80/u/1353/01224104

2. IEEE Press Counts on New Strategic Plan: Stepping up efforts to acquire books on more popular subjects and to encourage more involvement by IEEE volunteers, the IEEE Press has launched a three-year strategic plan in hopes of bringing new life to its business. The plan calls for Press operations to break even in 2008, after years of operating at a financial loss, and ends almost a year of uncertainty about its survival. Read more at http://boldfish.ieee.org:80/u/1354/01224104

3. Herz Award to Honor Outstanding IEEE Employee: Do you work with an IEEE staff member who continually demonstrates leadership and makes outstanding contributions to the IEEE's success? Then consider nominating that person for the newly established Eric Herz Outstanding Staff Member Award. Only full-time past or present staff members of the IEEE with at least 10 years of service are eligible for the award, which is to be presented every two years. Learn how to submit a nomination at http://boldfish.ieee.org:80/u/1355/01224104

4. Pina Makes Chip Fabrication Affordable: The year 2005 marks the 25th anniversary of a groundbreaking program that has introduced tens of thousands of engineering students to the real world of integrated circuit design. The program, run by a not-for-profit organization called MOSIS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service), manufactures working prototypes of the students' IC designs free of charge. IEEE Member Cesar Pina, the program's director, explains that MOSIS also gives businesses, universities, and government labs a means of inexpensively producing prototypes of new chips. Find out more at http://boldfish.ieee.org:80/u/1357/01224104

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32. IEEE Cosponsors Standards Paper Contest: The International Electro technical Commission (IEC), in partnership with the IEEE, other societies, and The Economist magazine, have launched the IEC Centenary Challenge, a competition for papers on the economic and social impact of international standards on business. The top prize is US $15 000. Anyone affiliated with an academic institution, including faculty members, heads of faculty, and teaching or research staff, may enter a paper. Registration to enter the contest opens today and runs until 3 March 2006. For registration forms, rules, and further information visit http://boldfish.ieee.org:80/u/1060/01224104

33. Nomination Deadline Nears for EE Times ACE Awards : EE Times is looking for a few great people, companies, and products for its Second Annual ACE Awards. The awards, cosponsored by IEEE Spectrum, honor the people, the companies, and the products that demonstrate leadership and make positive contributions to society. The deadline for entries is 31 October 2005. To complete a nomination or for more details go to http://boldfish.ieee.org:80/u/1061/01224104

34. Simulation Conference Deals With Many Realities: An accurate simulation is a rehearsal for reality, all conceivable realities, and maybe a few you might not have conceived without a simulator's help. The Winter Simulation Conference, to be held from 4 to 7 December in Orlando, Fla., aims to help technologists predict the operation, and inherent pitfalls, of all manner of systems. Read more at http://boldfish.ieee. org: 80/u/1063/01224104

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35. New Proceedings Addresses Circuits and Systems: The Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems is now available. Held in Kobe, Japan, in May, the symposium focused on circuits and systems that have improved the quality of life and consumer technology, including mobile communications, multimedia systems, sensor interfaces, and biosystems. To purchase the complete conference proceedings from ShopIEEE, visit http://boldfish.ieee.org:80/u/1064/ 01224104

36. Personal Fabrication Pioneer: Personal Fabrication Pioneer Neil Gershenfeld Addressed the 2005 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting : Neil Gershenfeld, Director of the Center for Bits and Atoms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the luncheon speaker at the 51st annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) on Tuesday 6 December in Washington, D.C.  Gershenfeld is the world's leading thinker on how the content of digital information relates to its physical representation, a perspective which spans the reach from quantum computing, to devices and processes that communicate and interact with each other, to global networks.

37. IEDM 2005: IEDMtook place at the Hilton Washington from December 5-7, 2005, and Gershenfeld talked about two concepts that provide insight into the relationship between the digital world of bits and the physical world of atoms on Tuesday, Dec. 6. "Building With Logic" is the fabrication of perfect macroscopic structures from imperfect microscopic components, and "Programming With Math" is the translation and mapping of mathematical computer programs onto the distributed dynamics of the physical world. His work has resulted in not just mechanical structures, but fully functioning systems in the areas of analog logic, interdevice internetworking, paintable computing and personal fabrication systems in use in developed and in developing countries. For 51 years IEDM has been the world’s premier forum for the presentation of advances in microelectronic and now nanoelectronic devices. Scientists and engineers present leading work in silicon and non-silicon device technology, optoelectronics, MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems), displays and nanotechnology for electronics applications. More information is available at http://www.his.com/~iedm/.

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38.   Jeffry Raynes: IEEE Welcomed New Executive Director Jeffry Raynes on 17th Nov. IEEE Jeffry W. Raynes, CAE, as its new executive director. He will serve as chief operating officer and will manage the IEEE staff organization of nearly 900 employees in several U.S. and overseas locations.

39.   Additional IEEE Board Members : At its 9 Nov. 2005 meeting in Orlando, Fla., the IEEE Assembly elected the following individuals to serve one-year terms on the IEEE Board of Directors beginning 1 January 2006:

1. Moshe Kam – Vice President, Educational Activities Board
2. Saifur Rahman – Vice President, Publications Services and
3. Pedro Ray – Vice President, Regional Activities Products Board
4. J. Roberto de Marca – IEEE Secretary
5. Joseph Lillie – IEEE Treasurer

These individuals will join their colleagues on the Board who were elected previously by the eligible voting members of the IEEE.

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