PCB workshop at AVCE

A three days workshop on Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design was organized by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering jointly with IEEE student branch of AVCE from 18th July 2019 to 20th July 2019. Fourty Seven students from ECE department got benefitted out of this workshop. The workshop enabled the participants to learn PCB designing basics using Eagle software. Resource persons from Sparrows Innovation, a company registered under MSME, Tirunelveli, guided the students throughout the workshop. 

On first day the attendees were introduced to PCB boards, PCB design tools and the manufacturing process. They also learned about part design in Eagle software. Symbols, components and footprints were taught to the participants. On the second day schematic design was taught. The participants practiced schematic design using default library in the Eagle software and later learned to design using custom defined library. They also practiced single layer throughhole and double layer through hole methods of designing PCBs. SMD design and gerber file generation were also taught in the workshop. 

On third day the students were given assignments and the participants came up with their

own designs for the proposed problems. The assignments were verified by the resource persons. The participants who completed the workshop successfully were awarded certificates. 

Annai Vailankanni College Of Engineering bags the Anna University Patent Award

Anna University honors few colleges in Tamil Nadu for their contribution to the society and technology through patented projects. AVCE is proud to say that it is one among the top three engineering colleges in the southern region in terms of patent rights. Honoring this achievement, Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, Anna University awarded the Intellectual Property award-2019 on technology day to AVCE. The award was received by Mr. Gaswin Kastro, Professor of AVCE, and Dr. D. Peter Jesudhas, Chairman of AVCE from A. Sivathanu Pillai, Founder-CEO and Managing Director of BrahMos Aerospace Pvt. Ltd, in the presence of Prof. M.K. Surappa, Vice-Chancellor of Anna University.

The first patent right was for the Solar Tricycle for fish vending women. This project was the fruit of joint collaboration of AVCE and IEEE California, USA. This socio-economic project involves designing and developing a solar tricycle which can be operated by fish vending women themselves, thereby helping in the transportation of their commodities at less cost. The second patent right was for coir pith drying machine, which was funded by an industry as part of industry-institute collaboration.

AVCE is a growing institution in terms of technology oriented development carrying out various socially relevant projects. AVCE fervently hopes that with the right blend of creativity and technology, engineering can be used to serve the common man at affordable cost.

MOU signed between AVCE and Precision Equipment chennai

The Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Precision group of companies and Annai Vailankanni College of Engineering (AVCE) on 28th January 2019. Precision Equipments, which is headquartered in Chennai was established in 1981 and they specialise in manufacturing Process equipment and automobile components especially for the US market. Some of their major clients include KONE, ABB, Ashok Leyland etc. They have recently achieved the unique milestone of manufacturing/exporting 400 tons Shell Tube Exchanger for North America Petro-Chemical complex.

Mr. K. Balasubramanian, Chairman of Precision group of companies, participated in the program and provided a good exposure about the current employment opportunities along with the state of the art techniques followed in equipment design and development at the international level. He also recognised the contributions of the AVCE students who completed their internship at precision equipment.


The function was attended by Dr. D. Peter Jesudhas, Chairman AVCE, Dr. Chellakumar Rose, Correspondent. Mr. T. Valan Arasu, Principal, Mr. J Prabhu, Head of Department, Mechanical Engineering, Placement Officer Mrs. Shobana M. Kumar along with the other professors and students. This agreement has been established on behalf of the college administration to enable students studying at Annai Vailankanni college of engineering to enrich their knowledge in equipment design and development by associating with Precision Equipment.

AVCE student racing team "Luminary" won the first prize for the Best cost & Business Plan at Kings Karting Championship

The racing team of AVCE "Team Luminary" have successfully built a kart racing car and have participated in the National level Kings Karting championship held at the Madras Race Track, Irungattukottai, Chennai. Among the 23 final participants, our team have been successful in winning the first prize in the Best cost and Business Plan category.

We at AVCE, give importance to enhance the engineering skill-sets of the students apart from their regular engineering curriculum and encourage them in their co-curricular projects and activities. This year our students applied for the National Level Kings Karting championship held at the Madras Race track, Chennai. 

Our students built their own racing car from scratch based on the competition specifications and the racing car they built has been selected to participate in the Karting championship. The competition was held on the 9th of January, 2019 at the Madras Race track, Chennai. Our students successfully passed the various tests of the event namely : Technical inspection, Acceleration test, Brake test, skid pad test, auto cross test, rain test and Endurance test. 

We went on to win the 5th prize in the Endurance category and the first prize in the Best cost and business plan category. The captain of our team Mr. Abilash received the cash prize and shield from the chief guest Mirchi Shiva. 

A grand welcome was given to the racing team members. The chairman of the college Dr. D. Peter Jesudhas handed out a cash prize of 50,000 rupees congratulating the students and faculty. The TV channel coverage has been included below:

Women empowerment programme held at AVCE

The Women Empowerment Cell of Annai Vailankanni College of Engineering conducted a guidance programme - “Women – On her way” for all the girl students of the college. The gathering was welcomed by Mrs. Shobhana M Kumar, HOD/S & H. The Principal stressed the importance of such programmes for women and honoured the chief guest Dr. Adalin George, Ph.D., Rtd. Associate Professor of English, Women's Christian College, Nagercoil, Accredited Counsellor, Certified from University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. 

The chief guest spoke of identifying the beauty and uniquesness of each and every individual women. She also guided the students to overcome various inhibitions, become more confident and courageous and be more focused. The Women Empowerment Cell Coordinator Ms. V. Vidhya proposed the vote of thanks.

Two days faculty development program on Remote Sensing & GIS held at AVCE

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering of Annai Vailankanni College of Engineering in association with AVCE student branch of IEEE and IEEE ADSF SIGHT conducted two days faculty development programme/ workshop on remote sensing and GIS on 14th and 15th of September 2018.  Dr. Alaguraja, Assistant professor, Department of ECE, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai was the resource person for  the  program.

This program aimed at exposing remote sensing methodologies, tools and GIS software to the faculties, research scholars and students. It enabled them to understand the close relation between remote sensing projects and social development. More than sixty participants including faculty and students from various departments got benefited from the program.

There were totally six sessions such as remote sensing concepts, satellite image processing, remote sensing projects, GIS concepts and case studies, Demo on ENVI software and hands on session on QGIS software.

The program was convened by Mr. G. Gaswin Kastro HOD, ECE and coordinated by Mr. J. Arockia Prince, AP, ECE and other faculties of ECE department of AVCE.

Blood donation camp held at AVCE

Youth red cross of Annai Vailankanni college of Engineering organised a one day blood donation camp on 07.09.2018 combined with Upgraded Primary Health centre, Agasteeswaram. Dr. Caroline Geetha, MBBS, DCP, MHA, Govt medical college Kanyakumari was the chief guest of the camp and she addressed the needs of blood donation and created awareness to the students.

Students participated eagerly and about 31 members donated blood in this camp and 31 units of blood were collected successfully. 

Arrangements were made by principal Dr. Senthilkumar and Coordinated by Asst. prof. C. M. Sunil, YRC of AVCE.

Python Workshop at AVCE

A one day workshop was organised by the Computer Science and engineering department on 13th August 2018. The workshop was based on “Python Programming” which was conducted by Mr. D. Nagarajan.

This program focused on basics and uses of python programming, career opportunities and current market trends. A three paper cheat sheet was provided to the participants to work out the syntax.

Topics covered on workshop:

• IDE Available
• Variables & Numbers
• Casting
• String Functions & Math Functions
• Conditional & Looping Statements
• List, Tuple and Dictionaries
• Classes and Objects
• File Handling
• Modules
• Python in Raspberry Pi

The beneficiary of the workshop were 43 students from various institutions in and around the district.

AVCE NSS unit efforts towards Kerala flood relief

Heavy rains and the subsequent flooding in Kerala have wreaked havoc in several parts of the state. As houses have been completely waterlogged and destroyed, many have become homeless and taken refuge in relief camps. Several people have even been marooned in their own houses, without food, water, electricity and other basic supplies.

The NSS (National Service Scheme) and other volunteers of AVCE started special campaigns in all platforms to encourage people to donate for the flood relief measures. We received good support from people of Kanyakumari district, as a result  of which we were able to donate Rs. 1 Lakh to our District Collector Mr. Prashant M Wadnere, IAS for the flood relief measures. Our District collector congratulated our efforts and we also received a thank you letter from the Chief minister of Kerala office.

Following this, our students and Staff members have also come forward to donate additional funds and collect supplies such as water cans, rice, Noodles, Mosquito coils, Toothbrush, Toothpastes, Sarees, kids wear, Pants, Shirts, Towels, Soap, candles and sanitary napkins.

I would like to thank our Correspondent, Principal, Vice Principal, Student representative Mr. Philip Danie and other volunteers in this initiative.

Prof. Prabhu,

NSS Coordinator, AVCE

One Day Workshop - Website Design, Development & Hosting

An  one day national – level workshop was organised by the Computer Science and engineering department on 18th July 2018. The workshop was based on the topic of Website Design, Development and Hosting which was conducted by Mr. Mohammed Shaheer & his teammates, from MATT Engineering Equipments, Nagercoil.

This program focused on web development, the skills and education needed for an web developer, career opportunities, current market trends, and skills for web development professional. As it was a part of their curriculum it was an added benefit to the student community.

Topics covered on workshop:

• HTML5
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Scripting languages
• Registering web domains and Workspace

The beneficiary of the workshop includes not only 17 intra college students but also 40 inter college students along with their faculty members.

NCC Camp Organized at AVCE

As many of us may already know, NCC (National Cadets Corps) is an end in itself. But, fortunately it has so many great things within it. It benefits the Cadets as well as the society in so many ways. It is note worthy to mention some of them here. First, NCC training helps the cadets to grow in their discipline and virtues and to become good citizens of India. Secondly, when they go for higher studies, appear for entrance exams and search for a government job, NCC “C” certificate holder gets 15 bonus marks, “B” certificate holder gets 10 bonus marks, “A” certificate holder gets 5 bonus marks.  When a “C” certificate holder wants to join Indian Army, he or she gets a special exception to appear for SSB (Services Selection Board) interview straight away without going through a written exam. Added to this, a “C” certificate holder with an Engineering degree (B.E-Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics and Computer Science and Engineering) can join Indian Army and become a technical Officer in Indian Army through Technical Entry which is organized twice a year by Indian Army, both for Permanent Commission and short service Commission as well.

As one might have heard very often, Annai Vailankanni College of Engineering strives not just to make Engineers but to make Engineering Experts. As part of this goal, the institute always strives to educate and train it’s students keeping in mind their future carriers. Being aware of the above-mentioned benefits of NCC, the institute has established NCC for the students in the Campus. And every year the institute invites NCC Battalions to organize camps in association with the institute. This year, the institute invited the 11 (TN) Battalions of Nager Coil to organize and train our young people with the help of Indian Army Officers which was headed by the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel, Mr. PP Pramod.

They organized the camp in association with Annai Vailankanni College of Engineering from May 22, 2018 through May 31, 2018. Some five hundred students from several Colleges (Arts and Science and Engineering as well) and schools participated in the camp. Several activities like firing practices, weapon drills, yoga, Karate, theory classes on “the first aids during natural disasters” and a theory class on “the importance of English Communication for the betterment of the students’ future” were organized during these ten days of camp. And also, during this camp, sports and cultural events were organized, in order to facilitate the cadets to exhibit their talents and to help them come out of their stage fear and to help them to gain self-esteem and self-confidence. In the sports events, AVCE students won second prize in Volley ball, secured first place in Karate. In other events, four cadets from AVCE were selected for RDC (Republic Day Camp) to be held at New Delhi and one of them was selected for next level firing. 

During the closing ceremony of the camp, the winners of sports and cultural events were awarded by the Commanding Officer and two guests speakers from AVCE. These two guest speakers from AVCE, explained the benefits of NCC camps and the benefits of NCC certificates with an engineering degree and encouraged them to grow as good citizens of India and to serve the Nation in whatever way possible. This closing ceremony was well represented by the Army officers, NCC battalions and AVCE staff. In the future, AVCE will continue to train young people to become a good and responsible Indian Citizens by making engineering experts. 

Success story of an Entrepreneur - Seminar at AVCE

The Entrepreneurship Developement Cell of Annai Vailankanni College of Engineering organised a motivational speech “Success story of an Entrepreneur” on 16/02/2018. Mr. S Jeya Cruz, Coconut Shell master craftsman and a national Awadee was the chief guest for the program. The program was convened by Mr. J. Pearlson David, Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Entrepreneurship Development Cell.

Mr. S Jeya Cruz talked about the personal qualities required for a person to excel in business such as punctuality, dedication and hardwork. He mentioned about the importance of producing high quality products and the importance of coconut in day to day life and the business associated with it.

Finally he concluded the session by explaining about the different schemes of government such as Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY), Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY), Atal Pension Yojana (APY), Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana, Stand Up India Scheme, Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana that a budding Entrepreneur can avail.

Computer Science Symposium Netzah2K18 conducted at AVCE

The  Department of Computer Science Engineering at AVCE conducted a National Level Technical Symposium “NETZAH 2K18” on January 25 2018. The Convener of the event was Ms. V. Vidhya, HOD/CSE and  the Coordinator of the  event  was  Mr.S.Rajesh Kumar, AP/CSE. Various events such as Paper Presentation, Code Debugging, Web Designing, and Quiz were organised by the department.

Totally, 78 students participated in Paper Presentation event, 47 in Code Debugging, 7 in Web Designing and 28 students participated in Quiz competitions. 

The Event started at about 9.30 am with an inaugural ceremony with Tamil Thai Vaalthu, followed by Lighting of kuthuvillaku. The Welcome address was given by Ms. P. Suman Yadav, Final Year CSE. The Presidential address was given by Dr. S. ChellaKumar Rose, Correspondent AVCE. Dr. P. Senthil Kumar, Principal AVCE gave the felicitation address. 

The Guest of Honour for NETZAH 2K18  was Mr. N. Pradeep Chandru, CEO and Founder, Mafiree. He gave a wonderful Inspirational and Knowledgeable speech to the student community about how to channelise their dreams and achieve them.

The Session was continued with various events. In the Valedictory function, the winners were awarded with Trophies, certificates and medals by the chief guest Dr. S. Palani Kumar, Associate professor, Nooral Islam centre for Higher Education. The Vote of Thanks was given by the student Coordinator P. Aravinth, Final CSE and the event was concluded with National Anthem.

National Level Drone Competition Sky Challenge conducted at AVCE

Sky Challenge is a national level Drone competition held at AVCE on the 1st and 2nd February 2018. This national level event is conducted to bring out the modeling and analytical skills of students in designing and developing a Quadcopter, Hexacopter model or simply drones. 

The event was inaugurated by Fr. Anbu Selvan and Mr. Samson, Inspector of Naxal division,  Kanyakumari district. More than 80 participants from Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka have participated in the national level event.

On the first day, technical inspection of the drones were completed and teams were shortlisted. On the second day track events such as Hurdle clearing test, Skip the beam test, Pole Hurdle test and Weight lift test were conducted. The participants presented and aired their self made drones with full enthusiasm. On both days, the events were judged by the technical committee under Shield Copters, Chennai.

Agni college of Technology, Chennai bagged the First prize and a cash Award of Rs 12,000/-, Mount Zion college of Engineering, Kerala bagged the Second Prize and a Cash award of Rs 9000/-, and ACS college of Engineering, Banglore bagged the third prize and a cash award of Rs 7000/-. Four Teams from Annai Vailankanni college of Engineering have participated in the National level drone competition and a team received appreciation award for best innovative drone . Further awards under best flying drone was provided to Sri krishna college of Engineering, Coimbatore and Best pilot award was presented to the drone pilot from Panimalar Engineering college, Chennai. The students have participated with full enthusiasm, Audience from various schools and general public were gathered in numbers to view the event. The event highlights could be viewed here :

Drones are expected to be indispensable in next generation servicing, Delivery, monitoring  and various other applications. We believe this event will provide the required exposure to the students and also motivate them to be value added employable engineers. 

AVCE students win 3 awards at TAFE, Innovista Project competition

Innovista is a Project competition for engineering students organised by TAFE ( Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited ) to promote a scientific and creative attitude among young engineering minds. TAFE is an Indian tractor major incorporated in 1960 at Chennai, with an annual turnover of INR 93 billion (2014-15). The third-largest tractor manufacturer in the world and the second largest in India by volumes, TAFE wields about 25% market share of the Indian tractor industry with a sale of over 150,000 tractors (domestic and international) annually.

TAFE conducted the 3rd edition of its Annual Flagship innovation event “ Innovista” on 5th January 2017 at its factory premises in Chennai. The project contest was basically in 3 major streams Agriculture, Engineering and Automobile. About 100+ team projects were exhibited for the contest from all over from Tamil Nadu and puducherry. Students from eminent colleges such as PSG tech, SSN college of engineering and Thiagarajar College of Engineering participated in the event. 3 student teams from Annai Vailankanni college of Engineering have participated and contested in all three categories. IOT based Smart Garbage collector in Engineering category, IOT based Smart Agricultural monitoring system in agriculture category and Sporty E bike under Automobile category.

As a reward for the hardwork and determination shown by our students, all the three projects have got awards. The IOT based Smart Agricultural monitoring system won the "Best Agro based project award". The “Outstanding Project Award” was bagged by IOT based Smart Garbage collector and the “Best Auto Solution Award” was bagged by the sporty E Bike.

AVCE is proud of the achievements of its students and staff members and it congratulates them for future success in their endeavours.

Ozone layer preservation Rally by AVCE RRC club

 

The Red Ribbon Club (RRC) of Annai Vailankanni College of Engineering  conducted an Ozone layer preservation Rally in Chettikulam Junction on 11th October 2017.With the motive of protecting the Ozone Layer more than 50 students of our college participated in this unique programme.

Mrs. G. Indra (Panchayat secretary), Mrs. A. Shanthi, Mr. Nadasen two prominent members of A.D.M.K, attended the program as chief guests. Avoiding the usage of plastics and growing more trees are the two aspects which are very stressed among the public. Our students issued pamphlets related to the noble cause. They also mingled with the crowd and interacted with them on the significance of protecting the Ozone Layer. Thus our college students created awareness among public for the need of growing trees and Banning plastics. The program ended successfully with the slogan that “Healthy environment brings in healthy life".

Arduino workshop conducted at AVCE

The EEE depatment of Annai Vailankanni College of Engineering in association with Agape techno solutions conducted a certified one day workshop on 19th  September 2017, on “ARDUINO”. The main objective of the workshop is to make the students have basic knowledge on Arduino and use it to create useful projects.

The participating students were provided with Arduino boards and related kits to create projects in IOT (Internet of Things) areas. Students from II,III & IV year EEE took part in the workshop and they designed about 4 projects using the devices.

Technologically value added Handicrafts - Exhibition and Workshop

Tamilnadu has rich history of culture and tradition. The handicrafts of Tamilnadu reflect the creativity and skills of Tamil Artisans. It also manifests the grace and beauty of Tamil culture. The various handicrafts of Tamilnadu are created in remote villages and some of these art forms are being diminished. With the noble aims of keeping the rich art forms alive IEEE Student branch and Entrepreneurship Development Cell of Annai Vailankannicollege of Engineering along with IEEE Madras Section SIGHT organised an one day consultation, workshop and exhibition on Technologically Value Added Handicrafts on 6th September 2017. Mr. L. Balu, Assistant Director, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, was the chief guest for the program.

Mrs. S. Sathiyavalli, District Curator, Government museum of Kanyakumari and Tirunelveli districts was the special guest. The program was convened by Mr. G. Gaswin Kastro, IEEE SB Counsellor and Mr. J. Pearlson David, Entrepreneurship Development Cell Coordinator. The program was organised to create awareness about handicrafts among engineering students and also to bring out value added products by incorporating technology in handi craft products. Doing value addition will attract more buyers and also make the artisans earn more thereby improving their living. The purpose of consultation with artisans was to identify the difficulties they face in making and selling crafts and to find technological solutions for them.

As a part of the program, Artisan IDs recognised by Government of India, were distributed to twenty five budding artisans who recently completed their training under office of the development commissioner (Handicrafts), Ministry ONE DAY CONSULTATION, WORKSHOP AND EXHIBITION ON TECHNOLOGICALLY VALUE ADDED HANDICRAFTS of Textiles, Government of India. The IDs were distributed by Dr. P. SenthilKumar, Principal of Annai Vailankanni college of Engineering. Mr. Balu, AD, Govt. of India talked about the role of handicrafts in rural economy. Followed by this Mrs. S. Sathiyavalli, District Curator, talked about preservation of Tamil tradition and culture and importance of handicrafts.

A consultation was arranged where several artisans knowledgeable in different crafts discussed with the IEEE members of AVCE. Several ways for the value addition of handicrafts were identified in the consultation. Some of the artisans demonstrated crafts using sea shell, coconut shell, palm leaves and other such materials. The artisans also expressed their need of technology in various stages of making craft items. The engineering students of AVCE displayed few handicraft products fitted with LED and audio circuits. During the meeting it was proposed that Annai Vailankanni College of Engineering will act as a consultation centre for creating technologically value added handicrafts. An exhibition was arranged where several handicraft art forms were displayed and kept for sale. Mr. T. Valan Arasu, Vice Principal, AVCE, inaugurated the exhibition. Hundreds of visitors took part in the exhibition.

NSS camp activity at Sahaya Matha Nagar, Kanyakumari

On 29.08.2017, the N.S.S volunteers of Our College Went To Sahaya Matha Nagar, A Small Village Near Kanyakumari to carry out cleaning activities for the benefit of the society. Our volunteers observed that there was plastic and other unwanted materials littered on the streets. The drainage was also not proper in the locality resulting in unhygenic and unpleasant environment. The volunteers cleaned the drainage neatly and ensured that there is no stagnation of water anywhere. 

The streets of the village were cleaned of the unwanted plastics and other

materials and they were properly disposed. These activities have made the village more habitable and hygienic for its residents. I would like to thank all the

student volunteers for coming forward and utilizing their time in socially beneficial activities. We also acknowleadge the valuable support provided by Prof. Muthu Erullapan, Prof. Jenihar Prabu, the Physical Director and Prof. Manikandan. We also thank Dr. P. Senthilkumar, The Principal for his valuable support and encouragement.

J. Prabu,
NSS Programme Officer,
AVCE.

Seminar on Advances in Manufacturing techniques

The Mechanical Engineering Department of Annai Vailankanni college of Engineering conducted a Guest Lecture on August 17 2017 on the topic : "Advances in Manufacturing techniques". Prof. Y. Balto of St. Xaviers Catholic college of Engineering gave the guest lecture. 

He provided clear insights on the recent advancements in Manufacturing technology and how it has impacted the modern production technology. 

Students were benefited by the program and it has developed an enthusiasm among students to research more on Manufacturing technology.