The activities conducted by the IEEE VVCE STUDENT Branch Vidya Vardhaka College of Engineering, Mysore for the ODD Semester 2004.

• July 2004: Received the Student branch recognition letter from IEEE USA. Student branch code – 63251.

• September 2004:

• 11^th September: Student Branch Activities inaugurals by Wg. Cdr. Parthasarathy, Treasurer IEEE Bangalore section and Sri PM Chikkaboraiah, Former MLA and president VV Sangha Mysore. Dr. C R Venugopal, Professor, SJCE Mysore presided.

• Followed by talk on emerging trends in Communication by Wg. Cdr Parthasarathy.

• 18^th September: Technical Talk1: Bharath V Kumar Land T Infotech Bangalore

• 29^th September: Aptitude tests henceforth conducted every Tuesday,

• October 2004

• 4^th and 5^th October: IMPULSE 2004 First Annual Fest of VVCE IEEE SB

• Appointment of Mr. Harish Kashyap, Delphi Automotive systems and Student Branch Mentor.

The technical extravaganza at VVCE Mysore presented by the IEEE VVCE Student Branch coming under the IEEE Bangalore section of Region 10 was held on the 4^th and 5^th of October 2004. Press releases were given in the leading news papers like Times of India, Star of Mysore and The Hindu. With lots of publicity also with support form the Bangalore section the fest had participants from several colleges in Karnataka.

This being the first edition of the event the event was held at state level. Technical Papers from students of various colleges were presented in four different sections in the event, namely in Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, VLSI and Communication and Networking. Also events like IT Quiz, Software debugging, Software Designing and Online Gaming were held.

The event was inaugurated on 4^th October by Wg. Cdr. Parthasarathy, Treasurer IEEE Bangalore Section and Prof. P M Chikkaboraiah, President VV Sangha Mysore. Mr. P Vishwanath Secretary VV Sangha, Prof. B L S Murthy, Plincpal VVCE and Prof. Basavaraj L, Counselor of the IEEE Student branch in the college were present on the occasion. The event began with the lighting of the lamp from the chief guest.

The day also witnessed the appointment of Harish K Kashyap of Delphi automotive systems as the Mentor of the VVCE IEEE Student Branch.

The inaugural was followed by paper presentation contest in the arena of Communication and Networking which had twelve papers to be presented. The following prizes were awarded in this category

• Amith Roy and Mir Mansur Ali - MIT, Manipal – I Prize

• Shweta Jha and Vani S – VVCE, Mysore – II Prize

• Harish B S – SJCE, Mysore – Special Prize

The Project presentation contest was held in parallel to the Networking paper presentation contest and had fifteen selected entries. The following prizes were awarded in the category

• Prashanth S and Harish K L – VVCE – I prize

• Manoj G R Vedanthy – VVIET, Mysore – II Prize

The afternoon session had the signal processing paper presentation contest with four selected papers being presented. Naveen A and Naveen K Bhansali of VVCE won the prize in the section.

The General Quiz prelims and finals were held soon after and Quiz master K Thanuj Kumar conducted the finals online. Mr. Vikas and Prabhakar Kudaava of SJCE won the first prize and Mr. Siddarth and Karthik of VVCE won the second.

The second day started with a technical talk on Artificial Intelligence by Dr. Bansi Lal of NIE, Mysore. The students were enlightened regarding the Applications of AI in the technological world.

The session also had the Artificial Intelligence paper presentation contest with four selected papers being presented. Gautham B of SJCE won the prize in the section.

The afternoon session had the VLSI paper presentation contest with four selected papers being presented. Ajay U K and Somana K P of VVCE won the prize in the section.

The Software design and debugging talks were held in the afternoon session and the following prizes were awarded:

Software Design:

• Prasanna Jeevan – VVCE – I Prize

• Vinayaka B L – VVCE – I Prize

Software Debugging

• Devi Prasad – NIE – I prize

• Sunil Urs R – VVCE – II Prize.

Dr. Srinivas. T, Prof., Dept of ECE. IISc Bangalore and Prof. P S Bhojakumar, HOD E&C NIE Mysore gave away the prizes.

Wg. Cdr. Parthasarathy gave the vote of thanks to the audience and encouraged more students to join the IEEE- the world’s largest technical organization.

• November 2004.

• November 2nd: Talk on Fiber Optic Technology by Mr. Srikantaiah S, Divisional Engineer ODC and Microwave Maintenance, BSNL, Mysore.

• Followed by Demonstration of OF Splicing.

• November 7^th: Open Frame – Speak your heart – Open technical Discussions for Student members of VVCEIEEE SB and also for non members.

• December 2004:

• December 4^th: Group Discussion Session – organized in co-operation with TIME, Mysore. 6 students selected for state level GD contests.

• December 14^th: Closing of activities for odd semester. Closing ceremony by Dr. M Mahadevappa, Principal VVCE and Prof. Basavaraj L, Counselor.

Other activities:

• Based on performance in aptitude tests and GD’s two students offered Membership expenses from the branch.

• Sponsored for students attending technical talks in Bangalore – recently the one on Mobile Communication at IISc.

• II Place in BRV Vardhan memorial student paper presentation contest for student members of the branch.

• Students from college participated in Avishkaar tech fest at MSRIT bangalore.(1 Project /1 Paper Presented)

• Students participated and won prize in NIECE fest NIE Mysore.(1 Prize – 2 papers presented from the College IEEE Members)

• Student Members won prizes in E-Congregation 2004 at Sullia DK.(1 prize- 2 papers presented from College IEEE Members)

• Three papers presented at IMPULSE – two of them won the prize in different sections.

VVCE IEEE Student Branch

Dept. of E&C

Vidya Vardhaka College of Engineering

III Stg Gokulam Mysore – 02

Karnataka

IN

SB code: 63251