ANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT OF ISTE STUDENTS’ CHAPTER

GEC, THRISSUR

2014-2015

The Indian Society for Technical Education’s student’s chapter of Government Engineering

College, Thrissur holds immense pride in being a part of the prestigious institution that ISTE has

always been. The way this pride reflects in GEC is what sets our students’ chapter a class apart;

it manifests in the form of the persistent hard work and a perennial desire to excel and

consequently make ISTE, in turn, proud of us.

The students’ chapter rising to be the champions of the past 7 student conventions in a row,

being chosen the best students’ chapter in the last student convention Querentia, hosted by Mar

Baselios College of Engineering and Technology, Trivandrum are facts that speak for themselves

and bolster the reputation of the students’ chapter as the front-runner.

The chapter aims to consistently guard the aforesaid reputation by honing the skills of its large

and passionate member-base through organizing events, workshops and industrial visits to effect

overall development of the members. The organisational history of the students’ chapter over the

past year has been described in the following section.

Manilal A. M. Binoy B. B.

Secretary Faculty Advisor

1. SEMINAR ON “A SIMPLE INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING”

The ISTE students’ chapter of GEC, Thrissur organized a seminar talk for the first year students

on the topic – A SIMPLE INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING .The seminar was conducted

on 14th August 2014 at GEC Thrissur. Intended as a simple orientation for the first year students

who were getting ready to step into the beginning of their engineering education days with

anxieties far outweighing hopes, the seminar turned out to be much more, taking on the likes of a

very serious discussion in essence, rather than the casual, lighthearted talk that it was.

The session was handled by Najeeb Kuzhiyil, an alumnus of GEC Thrissur and presently

working at the highly prestigious GE transportations, USA as senior lubricant and fuel

technologist. The seminar was aimed at making the students aware about what engineering is and

its growing importance in the future.

The seminar discussed about the everyday uses of engineering in each person’s life. Deriving

heavily from the valuable engineering experience he acquired over his successful career, he

briefed to the students the qualities and skills a good engineer must possess. Mr. Najeeb, during

the session, conveyed to the attendees information about some of the famous engineers including

M Visweswaraya and E Sreedharan of our nation.

At the end of the two hour session, the students stepped out of the hall with high spirits and wide

smiles on their faces that evidently emerged from the refreshing knowledge that they, as

upcoming engineers have a challenging, but bright and healthy future ahead of them.

2. ISTE STATE CONVENTION- QUERENTIA:

The 13th Annual Student’s Convention of ISTE Kerala Section, named Querentia was held at

Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology, Trivandrum during the month of

September. It was a rostrum for young engineers to bring out the innate flair residing in them. It

provided a platform for students to get together and explore the vast realms of science and

technology. The event consisted of various technology-oriented competitions. At the culmination

of the convention, the ISTE GECT chapter was chosen as the ‘Best Students Chapter’, a result of

the consistent effort put up by the active member base. Our college saw several prize winners

and Arun Devadas (S8EEE) was chosen as the “Student of the Year” for his hard work and

unwavering commitment towards organizing various activities conducted by ISTE.

Around 200 students participated in the events of Querentia and made our college live up to its

legacy of being the front-runners.

Adhvaid J, Nithin P George, Rahul MS and Sibi TS of our college upheld the name of GECT by

being the 1st prize winners in the most exiciting event ‘Real Engineer’. Sivapriya, Sooraj P,

Vishnu Prasad and Shahabas NKP of our college bagged the 2nd place in the same event which

adds to the victory of GECT. The technical talent of GECT was again promoted when Appu P

Devdas and team and Shyamdas KP and team showcased their skills in robotics and being the

2nd and 3rd prize winners respectively of the most thrilling event of querencia'14, the Robowar.

Coding skills of our students was once again proved in the event ‘D-code’ by Abhilash T by

winning the third prize. Adhvaid J, Nithin P George, Sibi TS bagged the 3rd prize in the

electrical event “Electrician of the year”. Anand krishnan, Deepak joy, Dan David Alex, Srinath

proved it possible to be the winner of the event “Mission Impossible” by bagging the 2nd prize.

Amal Geevarghese, Saranniya Chembilath, Sreelaxmi Ch got the 2nd and 3rd prizes in the events

'Twist” and “Electrobricks”. Sharafudeen, Anupama, Akshay, Athira Sabu got the 2nd prize in

the junkart event “Mark 1”.

The convention was concluded by the valedictory function later in September. Winners of

various competitions were honoured during the function. It would be no exaggeration to state

that students of GEC Thrissur performed exceptionally well in the medley of competitions

conducted. As the result of the combined effort of the active and talented students of GEC, the

college bagged the overall champions’ trophy at QUERENTIA.

QUERENTIA

3. MATLAB WORKSHOP

Apart from these activities, several other classes and seminars were conducted. One such

seminar session was a MATLAB workshop, for which several students appeared and a thorough

and detailed class on the MATLAB was conducted. This workshop was conducted by Dr.

Jayanand B, HOD EEE The workshop was intended for the final years of EC and EEE

departments. The workshop was conducted on the 18th of October from 10am to 1pm.

The workshop was able to impart knowledge on MATLAB very deep into the minds of the

students and incited in them the desire to learn more about it, which was exactly the intention

behind the session.

4. ESPACIO – QUIZ

Celebrating the ISRO’s sensational success of the space mission Mangalyaan, ISTE conducted a

space quiz for the first year students on 24th October 2014. The written preliminary round

witnessed the participation of about 40 teams consisting of two members each, a figure that

illustrates the promising future member-base of the ISTE students’ chapter of GEC. ISTE, along

with the Gyanartha quiz club, prepared the questions for the 7 teams that had entered into the

finals. It was predominantly based on Indian space researches. This quiz competition ended

successfully with a single winning team of Venkat Subramanyam and Rohit Sunil of 1st year

Computer Science Department. The prize distribution ceremony was honored by the esteemed

presence of M Chandradhathan, Director of VSSC.

ESPACIO- Prelims

ESPACIO- Finals

ESPACIO- Finals

5. SRMC QUIZ:

The students’ chapter of ISTE, GEC Thrissur conducted the SREE RAMANUJA

MATHEMATICS COMPETITION of 2015. The syllabus of the exam included higher

secondary and B.Tech level mathematics. There was also a separate syllabus for students and

teachers of polytechnic colleges in order to flawlessly incorporate them into the esteemed

competition.

The chapter level examination was conducted on 1st November 2014 with more than 100

students and 20 teachers as participants, most of whom belonged to GEC, Thrissur and a few

from other colleges also.

It was truly an honour to GEC, Thrissur that it was selected as the venue for the zonal level

examination and an irrefutable proof that the ISTE students’ chapter of the Government

Engineering College, Thrissur unarguably leads in organizational skills and excels in execution.

A total of 30 students and 15 teachers were selected for the zonal level from GEC, Thrissur,

TocH Institute of Science and Technology, Ernakulam and Vidya Academy of Science and

Technology, Thrissur by conducting chapter level exams in their respective colleges. The 3 hour

exam began at 2 PM on 9th January 2015. Faculty advisor Prof. Binoy B B was in charge of the

invigilation duty.

SRMC-Zonal Level

The national level exam held on 25th February 2015 in our College. Three students belonging to

GEC, Thrissur were selected for the national level exam:

1. Sanjay Pradeep 2. Hariram kammath 3. Anju S

SRMC- National Level

6. ISTE GEC CHAPTER WEBSITE:

Finally, the ISTE GEC chapter set itself available on the internet. A very concise, yet totally

informative and immensely reliable webpage was designed by Abhilash Balan (3rd year

Computer Science). The web-page was launched by the director of VSSC, M Chandradhathan in

the 1st week of January. The ceremony was conducted to celebrate the success of ISRO’s space

mission, Mangalyaan and to congratulate Sri M Chandradhathan and Dr. Radhakrishnan for their

immeasurably valuable contribution to the mission. GECT grabbed this opportunity with great

pleasure to honour its prestigious alumni.

7. KURUKSHETRA’15 – THE DEBATE COMPETITION

ISTE Students’ Chapter of GEC Thrissur organized yet another interesting event,

KURUKSHETRA’15, a debate competition on 9th January 2015. The competition was carried

out in three levels. A preliminary round was conducted in which students from every department

participated, the number of partakers totaling to well above one hundred. Two topics, one

technical and another general, were given in each class and participants were asked to present

their views in writing within a time limit of ten minutes. The best presented views were selected

and those students earned a chance to participate in the next round, in which they had to debate

on the topic – MIXED HOSTELS- GOOD OR BAD?

Later in January, the final round of debate was conducted in the college Millennium Auditorium

from 2 to 5 pm. Topic of debate was the heated topic of the time - KISS OF LOVE. The

participants were divided into two groups and the debate was on fire.

Adwaith M Kuttikatt (S6EEE) moderated the final session which had 12 contestants. The debate

ended with Thejus Hari (3rd year Chemical), bagging the first prize and Abhijith Narayanan (2nd

year Chemical) coming second. The total prize money summed up to Rs.2000. Prof. C. P. Sunil

Kumar, Chairman ISTE GEC Chapter distributed the cash prizes and felicitated the occasion

8. INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO ‘SIFL, ATHANI’

Our Students Chapter organized an informational experience for the third year students of

Production Engineering; a one day visit to Steel and Industrial Forgings Ltd. (SIFL), Athani,

Thrissur on the 9th of February 2015. A total of 28 students, along with a faculty member Smt.

Jayasree N visited the industry. The team started off from college at 12.15pm in the college bus.

Students, on reaching the industry, were taken to various sections and the routine processes,

sequence of parts production and the methods employed for the same were explained in detail to

them by the factory personnel. There were a total of eleven sections and the students got a

chance to keenly observe and study the processes under each section.

The ISTE GEC Students’ Chapter was able to provide the students a platform that helped them to

develop their technical knowledge and skills, with regards to understanding the real concepts

beyond the boundary of definition.

9. LUMINO’15

The ISTE Students’ Chapter of GEC, Thrissur conducted another colourful event LUMINO ’15-

THREE HURDLES, ONE RIDE TO GLORY, on 8th March 2015. Receiving 40 plus

registrations, the event turned out to be a roaring success.

LUMINO ’15 consisted of three rounds in which students were to participate in teams of 2 to 4.

The first round was TREASURE HUNT and the attractive part of it was that the teams entered

the hunt directly without any aptitude test. Ten teams qualified the first round and reached the

second. The second round, MEGAMIND, tested the creative and multi-disciplinary technical

skills of the participants. They had to complete a series of tasks, which included C program error

correction, circuit debugging, and machine assembly, in the minimum possible time. The final

round was designed for four teams. And in the final round, AD-ZAP, the teams had to prepare

and present an advertisement for a given product. Thus the three rounds tested and in the process,

honed the technical, innovative and managerial skills of the participants.

The team of Fazil Muhammedkutty, Colin V Ignatious, Sharafudheen K.Y, and Kiran Baburaj T

won the first prize.

The valedictory function of LUMINO’15 also became a dais where the core committee members

were honored for their monumental hard work and steadfast dedication. Professor C.P. Sunil

Kumar, Chairman, ISTE GEC Chapter, read out the annual report. Binoy B B, Faculty Advisor

of ISTE GEC Chapter felicitated the occasion. The new core committee members of the

students’ chapter for the academic year 2015-2016 were selected.

10. CAREER GUIDANCE CLASS

Pre-final year engineering students have always faced the dilemma, “what after engineering?”

and are always presented with two answers; either get placed in a good IT company or pursue

higher studies such as M.Tech/MS. But ISTE Chapter of GECT organized a two hour talk on

20th March 2015, which was helpful in broadening the students’ field of thought about their

career.

A team from Petrocil Engineers and Consultants Pvt Ltd came to our campus to effect exactly

this. A professionally managed multi-dimensional Engineering consultancy with specialists in

Process, Instrumentation, Mechanical, Pipeline, Civil and Electrical disciplines, they were the

obvious choice for such an event. Assistant Professor Jiji K S presided over the programme. The

talk was very informative and it enlightened our students on the plethora of opportunities for

Electrical engineers in the field of Refineries/Petrochemical and other chemical industries.

Electrical engineers always have an important role to play in all stages of an oil refinery plant,

both on shore and off shore. Also, this company offers crash courses for students to bridge the

gap between what they learn inside the campus and how they are expected to apply that in real

time during a job. It can be assured that this two hour talk made the students ponder about their

careers and view the opportunities offered to them in a different perspective.

11. EARTH HOUR IN GEC

Earth Hour is a worldwide event organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF),

encouraging households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour to raise

awareness about the need to take action on climate change. Earth Hour 2015 was celebrated in

March 23, 2015 by ISTE Students Chapter of GEC, Thrissur. Prof. C.P Sunil Kumar addressed

the students about the need to save electricity and the role of each individual in the same. The

Staff Advisor of the Students chapter of ISTE Prof. Binoy B.B felicitated the function. The

Student Coordinator of the event Navneet Vijay gave the valedictory address.

12. INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO MADAKKATHARA-SUBSTATION

As a part of an industrial visit organised by the ISTE GEC Thrissur Students’ Chapter, students

of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department were taken to the 400 kV

Madakkathara substation, one of the largest in Kerala.

Around 45 students of the EEE department, accompanied by the Group Tutor, Prof. Jose

Sebastian (EEE Dept.) made this visit, on 24th April, 2015, (Friday).

The group left the college in the afternoon by the college bus and was received by an Official of

the substation. Students were split into groups and each group, guided by an Engineer was taken

to the various sections in the substation. Students were given a brief tour of the substation’s 400

kV, 220 kV, 110kV and 11kV yards. Students familiarized themselves with the various devices

and machines such as circuit breakers, isolators and transformers and the theory and working of

the same were explained to the students. Significance of transformer oil, causes of its

contamination during operation and methods of its testing and purification were also explained

and an apparatus for purification of transformer oil was observed by the students.

Students also learned about the power distribution system and about the connected loads of

Kerala and India as well as the flow of electric power through the state. Students also learned

about maintenance of electric power lines and factors and limitations in line maintenance and

installation of transmission poles. Students also had the opportunity to interact with KSEB

personnel and to clear any doubts regarding power distribution.

Transformers, their construction for each application, the distribution area, the metering and

testing unit and other related sections were covered precisely in 2 hours. Frequently occurring

faults in the lines and in the machines were also discussed. Mainly the overall power flow,

voltage availability and distribution process, apart from the different type of transformers used

were explained by the officials. The students were also shown the construction of a few electrical

parts of the transformers. The students were allowed to study in detail, about the transformer and

its various parts as well.

After a brief session over the overall layout of the substation, students rode the bus back to

college with a clearer understanding of electric power distribution and far greater practical

knowledge in electrical engineering than they could have hoped to attain from classrooms. The

ISTE GEC chapter’s initiative to organize this industrial visit is sure to have been thanked many

a time by each student who took part in this industrial visit.

13. BOOK BANK

The idea was incepted out of the realization that every student would benefit tremendously by

possessing access to apt, concise, study material and that no teacher or library would be better

fitting to source the material than students who have already delved the subjects. Thus study

materials and notes for the students were collected and preserved. Text and note books were

collected from pass outs and seniors and made available to the students via the college office.

This, we believe, was really helpful to them at the very basic level.

14. MiPOWER WORKSHOP

MiPower is a highly interactive, user-friendly windows based Power System Analysis package.

It includes a set of modules for performing a wide range of power system design and analysis

study. MiPower features include a top notch Windows GUI with centralised database.

The attributes of Mi Power include :

1. Power system network editor - Icons of all power system components.

2. Database Manager - Enhanced database creation including detailed modelling of power

system components.

3. Graph utility - Multiple X and Y columns can be plotted in the same view

4. Free Programmable blocks - Designed for Simulation and testing of Control Blocks and

Customized Design of Governors, AVR’S, SVC’S, HVDC/FACTS/STATCOM

controllers are possible.

Some of the important applications of Mi Power include load flow analysis, short circuit

analysis, transient stability study, relay coordination, voltage instability analysis, harmonic

analysis, dynamic stability analysis, network reduction and Electro Magnetic Transient

Analysis. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Basil M T, Engineer-Core, Power Research

and Development Consultancy for final year electrical students on 21st July 2015. The

workshop was able to impart the indented knowledge among its attendees.

15. INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO PORINGALKUTHU GENERATING STATION

On 8th August 2015, S5 EEE students went on an industrial visit to Poringalkuthu Power

Station . The 55 students were accompanied by Prof: Haryhar and Prof: Lalji Gopi.The journey

commenced at 9.00am, and the destination was reached by 11.30am. After having lunch, the

students ventured into the power plant.The generators were smooth cylindrical core type with 10

poles, running at approximately 600 rpm. Both the poringalkuthu and PLBE power station is

being operated as a peak load station during monsoon period and base load station during off

monsoon period.

The power house is having Francis vertical turbine with an average head of 173.3 m , coupled

with a 16 MW synchronous generator of 11 KV generation voltage and rated power factor of 0.9

lag. The power generated is stepped up to 110 KV and is connected to the chalakudy 110 KV

grid substation through two feeders. A third feeder is connected to the sholayar power station at

110 KV. Then the students moved to the yard where they saw transformers, lightning arrester,

bus bars, steel towers, suspension insulaton.

The Poringalkuthu dam was also visited, which was located in the deeper forest. Built on the

Chalakudi River, the dam was 23 meters high and length 290.25 meters along with 8 spill way

gates.On the way back, the students popped in to visit Athirapilly which was a pleasing

experience.

16. C PROGRAMMING CLASSES

ISTE GEC chapter has been organizing several workshops and seminars for the students for

many years. One of such workshops is C programming which is mainly aimed for first year and

second year students who find difficulty with C programming subject included in their syllabus.

ISTE has conducted C programming classes for the second year students of all the departments,

on 25th and 26th August 2015.The programme mainly dealt with the basics of C programming

language, thus it was very helpful to the students from biology background.The workshops was

scheduled between 9.30am to 4.00pm. More than 50 students attended the workshop. Classes

were organized on the first day and practical sessions on the next day at Central Computing

Facility. The classes were coordinated by Abhay Krishnan(S7 CSE), Neel Alex(S5 CSE),

Antony(S5 CSE), Shijina(S5 CSE), Sidharth(S3 CSE), and Akshay(S3 CSE). Dr. K. P.

Indiradevi, Principal, GEC distributed the certificates and felicitated the occasion

Through this workshop ISTE GEC chapter was able to create an opportunity for

developing skills of students than they could attain from the classrooms.

UPCOMING EVENTS

VIVIKTHA’15 –

The 14th Annual State Convention of ISTE, the Indian Society for Technical Education, is to be

held in Government Engineering College, Thrissur on September 18 and 19, 2015. This grand

inter-college fest is built upon the theme “bridging the gap between rural and urban India

through technology”, which was inspired by the innovation strategy called PURA put forth by

our former President, Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam.

Viviktha’15 which draws its name from the Sanskrit word for purity, has much in store for the

excitement of students, including workshops, seminars and a multitude of events. With more

than 20 technical events and other general events, Viviktha’15 is holding the expectation high in

the name of GECT. The highlight of this fest is a special event named “The Real Engineer”. For

those who dream of changing the world, here is the chance to prove your skills. With a looming

prize worth Rs. 15000, The Real Engineer tests your ability to identify and solve the problems

faced in the society by evolving innovative techniques. This event is an alumni initiative and the

winners are promised mentorship and financial support from experienced professionals.

Viviktha’15 is chaired by Dr. K P Indiradevi, Principal of GECT. General convenor is Prof. C P

Sunil Kumar and Navneet Vijay is the Student Convenor. Prof.Binoy B B is the Organising

Secretary; Anees Rahman, AdhvaidJanardhanan, Oormila Krishnan, Anjana are the other student

representatives. For further details on the events, visit www.viviktha.in

NATIONAL SEMINAR –

As part of Viviktha’15, a national seminar is to be held at Government Engineering College,

Thrissur, on September 11 2015, by Dr. RUPALI KHANOLKAR, Project Manager, RUTAG,

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. The seminar, co-sponsored by KSCSTE, will be based

on the theme of the event “Bridging the gap between rural and urban India using technology”.

The eminent professional will speak on the widening distance between the urban and rural parts

of the country and how technological efforts can make betterments to the scenario.

ROBOVERSITY WORKSHOP –

Affiliating to Viviktha’15, Roboversity by Skyfi Labs, is holding a workshop on “Solar and

Smart Energy Systems” in Government Engineering College, Thrissur, on 12th and 13 th of

September 2015. The workshop includes courses on :

1. Designing and developing smart traffic signal control systems and solar-powered mobile

charger

2. Understanding renewable energy and smart systems

3. Introduction to embedded systems, microcontroller programming and digital sensors

4. Providing practical experience working with live projects on smart systems and solar

panels.

The workshop to be conducted, co-sponsored by KSCSTE, has a fee of Rs.6000 per team (each

time can have 5 members). For more details on the same, visit the website www.viviktha.in

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

VIVIKTHA’15- Annual State Students Convention

Energy auditing workshop

Yukthi’15

--Signed--

Binoy B B,

Faculty Advisor,

ISTE Students’ Chapter,

GEC, Thrissur