TECHNOVISION 9.0
A Technical Event organized by IEEE-RCOEM Student branch
The IEEE RCOEM Student Branch organized a 2-day technical festival, Technovision 9.0, on 11th and 12th February 2015 at Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management (RCOEM), Nagpur. Over the years, Technovision has succeeded in keeping students abreast with the constant technological developments that often fail to feature in the regular textbooks. The ninth version of this technical fair offered something for everyone, in the form of 5 workshops and 7 events.
The pre-event workshops started on 6th February 2015. The 2-day Workshop on Mobile Making, conducted on 6th and 7th February 2015, was a golden opportunity for the technocrats to explore the world of mobiles. It covered the basics of microcontroller, GSM modem interfacing, and Arduino based mobile. Also conducted on 6th and 7th February was the Workshop on Automobile Design. This workshop proved to be a great learning experience for students as they were given an opportunity to work on dis-assembled engine parts and components and learned about the design of chassis and fabrication of automobiles. Workshop on AutoCAD on 7th February 2015 helped the participants to understand the concepts of 2D and 3D designing in the fields of mechanical, civil and electrical engineering. In an attempt to keep up with the latest happenings in the industry, Technovision 9.0 included a Workshop on Big Data and Hadoop and another one on Gesture Controlled Robot. Both these workshops were 2-day affairs conducted on 9th and 10th February 2015. Big Data – Hadoop workshop provided fundamental knowledge and hands-on experience of Hadoop Distributed File System, map-reduce framework and data analytics using Hive. The Gesture Control Robotics Workshop was dealt with Arduino based gesture controlled robot with the accelerometer.
The main event kicked off with the Inaugural Function which was graced by Shri Rajiv Mishra, Chairman-cum-Chief Managing Director, Western Coal Fields Ltd, who consented to be the Chief Guest for the occasion. Shri Banwarilal Purohit, Chairman, RCOEM was the president of the function. Shri Govindlal Agrawal, General Secretary, RCOEM, Dr. R. S. Pande, Principal, RCOEM and Mr. M. K. Singh, General Manager, HR, WCL, were also present. The dignitaries unveiled the Technovision 9.0 Souvenir and felicitated the Central Monitoring Committee of IEEE RCOEM Student Branch. This was followed by a fascinating line-up of events ranging from the scholarly Paper Fest, which provided a platform for budding engineers, researchers, and designers to present and discuss innovative ideas to the fun-filled TechQuest where participating teams had to unravel a hidden treasure with the help of clues encrypted using famous ciphers. For the staunch programmers, Code-O-Mania, a multi-language coding event, proved to be a treat. The techno-savvy had a roll in the quiz competition, TechWiz. The roboticists put their line-follower robots to test in the racing event Mind-D-Line and in the ‘best-out-of-waste’ experiment, Junkyard Wars, participants faced an on-spot design and fabrication challenge using junk materials. An extremely sensational event, Impulse, required participants to design an RC vehicle with IC engines which could cut across the hurdles and complete the laps while maintaining speed.
The event concluded with the valedictory function and was a great learning experience for all those who were involved.
Workshops at Technovision 9.0
Competitions at Technovision 9.0
Training Program (part-time basis) for the non-teaching staff
The IEEE RCOEM Student Branch, in association with the MCA (Master of Computer Applications) department of RCOEM, organized a six-day training program (Part-Time basis) for the non-teaching staff of the college from 1st to 6th December 2014
We received motivation and encouragement for the program from Prof. R. S. Dhiran, Prof. M. Tiwari, and Dr. K. N. Agrawal. The initiative was taken up in order to make the nonteaching staff of the college aware of basic computer technologies so as to ensure the smooth functioning of daily activities in the respective offices. Day one dealt with the introduction of computer systems and the basics of hardware and software. Days two, three and four acquainted the staff with the tools used in Word Processing, Electronic Spread Sheets and Presentations respectively. On each of these days, the staff worked on an assignment based on the previous day’s teachings. On day five, they experimented with popular web browsing software and learned about the various available search engines and e-mails. On day six, they had to work on a composite assignment which helped them revise the entire contents of the program. It served as a good way to boost their confidence in the technologies they had learned so far.
The faculty of the MCA department under the guidance of Dr. P. Voditel worked tirelessly towards making the training program a success through interactive teaching and efficient doubt-solving. The event was highly appreciated by the participants. Prof. Anand Padwalkar, Prof. Anupam Kher, Prof.Deepali Bhende, Prof.Deoyani Shirkhedkar, Prof. Prajakta Pande, Prof.Pranali Dandekar, Prof.Shruti Rakhunde were the trainers for the event.
Workshop on Legged iCellBotix
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)-RCOEM branch and EESA (Electrical Engineering Students Association) jointly organized a two days workshop Legged iCellBotix on 10th and 11th of September 2014. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Amey Bhopi of the Technophilia Systems, Mumbai in association with Robotics and Computer Applications Institute of USA.
In this workshop, students learned the basics of the working of six-legged Robot part using Atmel’s AVR series and successfully interfaced the Bot with DTMF module using a cell phone. Total 130 students attended the workshop and got hands-on experience of controlling robots using their Mobile phones. A group of 5 students received a kit to be interfaced to PC for future development. The workshop concluded with a competition amongst the participating teams. Three teams were selected as the winners of the first level of the competition of which further National round will be conducted at Mumbai. Winners of the National round will represent India at ROBOGAMES, California, USA, which is the world’s largest Robotic competition.
Dr. R. S. Pande, Principal, RCOEM appreciated student’s enthusiasm in attending technical workshops. Prof. V. T. Barhate, HOD, Electrical Department & Chief Coordinator of the workshop, Prof. G. Goyal of EESA and Prof. Mrs. Richa R. Khadelwal, IEEE student Branch coordinator along with student representatives of EESA and IEEE Student Branch worked hard to make this workshop a grand success.
Robotics Workshop
The members of IEEE- RCOEM Student Branch organized a Robotics workshop on 27th and 28th of August 2014. The workshop was exclusively for the second year students of all engineering disciplines. The two-day workshop was attended by more than 50 participants. This workshop is a Flagship event of IEEE RCOEM Student Branch with the unique feature that it is organized by the students, for their peers. All preliminary requisites of robotics were taught in these two days, along with the development of a “Line Follower Robot”.
The workshop began with a talk on ‘Introduction to Robotics’ by Prof. P. Shewalkar of Mechanical Engineering Department, RCOEM, in which the basics of robotics were explained with the help of visual aids. Teaching committee included Sneha Bharwesh, Sahil Dalvi, Disha Ghoshal, Smital Kamdi, Nazib Sorathiya, Saima Ahmed and Akanksha Singh.
This event took place under the guidance of IEEE Student Branch Counselor, Prof. Richa Khandelwal, Chair, Mr. Rachit Varma, and Vice-Chair, Mr. Prasanna Hambarde. The students learned the basics of developing a robot and the workshop was a grand success.
IEEE –RCOEM Student Branch INDUSTRIAL VISIT
IEEE members of RCOEM-student branch visited the central railways governed electrical loco shed situated at, Ajni, Nagpur on 8 of July.
The visit began with a lecture by the section engineer of the shed Mr. R. K. Mishra, who provided the details about various departments of the loco maintenance and management of the engines in the shed. He further explained the components, supply properties, circuit diagrams and various aspects of the locomotive shed. The visit went further with the members gaining practical knowledge about the working of the loco and various components of the locomotives were explained by the display of transformers, pantographs and miniatures brakes.
The students enquired about many technicalities of the machinery used in the shed. They also got acquainted with the functioning and maintenance of the shed. They also wanted to know the details about the job prospects in the railways and the criteria for selection as well. The industrial tour was supervised by IEEE Branch Counselor Prof. (Mrs.) R. R. Khandelwal. The further queries were guided by Chair Rachit Verma and Vice Chair Prasanna Humabarde. Students had a good learning experience.