IET Annual technical Conference-Best Papers

Annual technical Conference of IET YMS was held on 23^rd August 2008 at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa with the participation of Students and Lecturers from Moratuwa, Peradeniya and Ruhuna Engineering faculties and also there were some industrial professionals as well. About 30 papers were presented at the conference and best paper was selected under two Engineering fields by the Evaluation Panel.

The paper “Multi Channel Access Zigbee Gateway with Plug and Play Smart Office/Home Device Interface (SmartBee)” from university of Ruhuna was selected as the Best Paper from the field of ICT (Information and Communication Technology).

The paper “Dynamic Thermal Model for Toroidal Transformers” from university of Moratuwa was selected as the best paper from the field of Electrical Power.

Both those projects will have the opportunity to present those papers at IET Main conference and One of those papers will be selected to present at the South Asia Technical Conference which will be held in China.

Congratulations All the winners.

Technical Community Open Day – 2008

Last Saturday we had Microsoft Communities Open Day 2008 at Mermaid hotel and Club, Kalutara with the participation of MVPs, Student Ambassadors and some other key contributors. The event started with a discussion on the progress of the last year and also on the plans for the next year.
Then we had some fun events such as beach volley and water polo. The day was very funny and that was a good opportunity for me to get know new set of student ambassadors and MVPs. We spent whole day together and get know each other well.
Thanks wela for arranging such a day for all of us.

Artificial Neural Networks

Artificial Neural Networks are one of the well developed technologies in past few years. The basic concept behind this technology is the technology used in our brain and body. The most important thing we have with neural networks is we can train the system by doing some examples. So we don’t need to put advance logic to solve the problems it will solved the problem by using things it learnt previously.
This can be used to solve some complex problems like travelling salesmen Problem. This technology is used in Signal Processing, Control Systems, Robotics, Pattern Recognition, and Medicine and so on.

For the technical background and for more details you can visit following links.

http://www.willamette.edu/~gorr/classes/cs449/intro.html

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise_96/journal/vol4/cs11/report.html

http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stneunet.html

New Microsoft Student Ambassadors for Microsoft Student Champs

New set of Microsoft student ambassadors has selected by the Microsoft Champ Community. Especially we must thank our previous set of ambassadors for their great contribution. Also we expect their support for the future as well.

These are the new set of ambassadors:

Ransara Wijethunga

Girisha Durral

Bashitha Jayawardhana

Charith Upendra

Uditha Bandara

Senaka Fernando

Akila Mendis
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Note: I also very happy because my name also there... :) . And also hope to do my best for our champs community.

The IET Annual Technical Conference 2008

The Annual Technical Conference 2008 of the IET Younger Members’ Section (YMS) Sri Lanka Network will be holding on 23rd August 2008, at Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Moratuwa.
This conference is intended to provide a forum for the presentation of papers, and to foster interaction between persons from industry and from the universities. 32 papers related to Telecommunication Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering and Information Technology have been selected for the presentation in the conference.
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Younger member’s Section is annually organizing the IET Annual Technical Conference with the participation of students, Lecturers and some industrial expertise. Any student who are specializing an Engineering Degree ( B.Sc. Eng.) can submit papers to this annual technical conference. The papers can be submitted under several categories such as Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications, Information technology and Manufacturing Technology.
The paper evaluation process is consists of several steps. The Preliminary evaluation process is conducted by a senior lecturer panel from University of Moratuwa, Ruhuna and Peradeniya Engineering faculties. The Final evaluation is done based on Author’s presentations at the annual technical conference.

Should we addict to “OPEN SOURCE”?

Open Source software development is one of the trends in modern world and also it is a good trend. Here I’m expressing my own idea. In my point of view as an Engineering student, Open source must be there as well as other stuff also we need. The requirement of the industry depends on their applications. As an example, if people expect only open source stuff, how Microsoft became popular?
As future Engineers we must be able to provide customer needs whether it is open source stuff or not. We have to open our mind and made our talent to contribute some better thing to the future world.

IET Field Visit to Pelwatta Suger Factory

I had a wonderful journey to visit Pelwatta Sugar factory. That was a really wonderful journey. All the things were beyond the level we expected. The factory has spread over huge area. Also the factory consists of all the facilities. Play grounds, Gymnasiums, Swimming pools and luxury rooms. These facilities are really amazing compared to the rural development of that area.
The factory also well designed and there were lot of things (Almost all) which are related to mechanical engineering field. I think every Mechanical and also Electrical engineer must study this Factory. They have optimized this factory well, all the resources are used almost 100%. The main products of the factory are sugar and alcohol sprit.
Also had a funny trip with moratuwa and pera guys. Had a lot of fun and played some cricket, swim. Special thank to our IET YMS for arranging such event for all of us.