Name of Centre: Date: 29.02.2016 NATIONAL SCIENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS MM Venue: IEIVLC, Railway Station Road, Visakhapatnam-16 Prof Dr M.Purnachandra Rao delivering lecture Dr ORM Rao, Hon.Secy.IEIVLC, Prof Dr M. Purnachandra Rao, Chief Guest & Prof Dr I. Satyanarayana, Past Chairman, IEIVLC The Institution of Engineers (India), Visakhapatnam Local Centre celebrated the National Science Day on 29 th Feb 2016 and recollected the services rendered by Bharat Ratna Sir C.V. Raman, with the theme Aim to raise public appreciation on Scientific Issues for the Development of the Nation. The Celebrations attended by many Engineers, Professionals and Technocrats, were presided by its Past Chairman Pro Dr. I. Satyanarayana, and conduced by Honorary Secretary Dr. O. Rama Mohana Rao in its own premises at Visvesvaraya Bhavan, Railway Station Road, Visakhapatnam. The Chief Guest, on the occasion, Prof. Dr. M. Purnachandra Rao, FIE Former Professor of Physics and HOD department of Systems Design, Andhra University, spoke at length on the life and achievements of Dr. CV Raman whose publication in the Journal Nature (London) on 16 th February 1928 on the subject A New Type of Secondary Radiation was instrumental for conferring Noble Prize on him in 1930. Incidentally he was the first Indian to receive prestigious Noble Prize in the field of science. The scientific discovery generally referred to as Raman Effect mainly refers to the phenomenon blue molecules scatter more than other colours due to lower wavelength and that is the reason a non-cloudy appears blue. The theory when applied to liquids when a laser beam is incident on liquid the angle of refraction differs with the chemical composition of the liquid. Conversely, we can detect the chemical composition of the liquid by measuring the angle refraction. Identification of chemical composition of paints, and other paramedical substances. This principle is being made use of also in many modern applications in identifying the biochemical effects including detection of cancer etc. Raman Scan, in Lidar (Light Intensity Detection) are in the offing. Towards the end Dr Purnachandra Rao was honoured wrapping a shawl and with a memento from IEI VLC. The vote of thanks was proposed by Er. D.V. Rama Krishna an Executive Committee Member, IEIVLC.
Name of Centre : WORLD WATER DAY CELEBRATIONS CV Date: 22.03.2016 Venue: IEIVLC, Railway Station Road, Visakhapatnam-16 Dr. O.Rama Mohana Rao,FIE, Hon.Secretary,IEIVLC, Chief Guest, Dr. Prakasam Tata, Ph.D., BCES, QEP,(Emeritus) Executive Director, Center for the Transformation of Waste Technology, USA Prof Dr I.Satyanarayana,FIE, Past Chairman,IEIVLC and Keynote Speaker,Er. S.Satyanarayana,FIE, CE Retd. Irrigation, Govt. of A.P.& Past Chairman,IEIVLC. PRESENTATION OF MEMENTO CHIEF GUEST, Shri PRAKASAM TATA, Ph.D., BCES, QEP (Emeritus) Executive Director, Center for the Transformation of Waste Technology, USA, said in his address that average consumption of water percapita shallbe reduced from present 50 liters a day to 30 liters a day. Conserving Water is very important and in this House Wives play a very important role. Water regulations by local authorities including payment of bill shall be strictly implementing. Global water sharing can be proposed. Make Wealth From Filth is the today s slogan for water conservation. KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Er.S.SATYANARAYANA, FIE, Former Chief Engineer, Irrigation. Govt. of A.P. while giving Power Point Presentation on OPTIMUM UTILIZATION OF AVAILABLE WATER IN AN SCIENTIFIC WAY briefed that out of available water in earth 97.3% is salt water and the remaining 2.7% us sweet water. Out of 2.7% available sweet water, 75.2% is in the form of snow and ice, 22.6% as ground water and remaining 2.2% is in the rivers and tanks. It may be imagined how much meager water available for our needs. Sector wise utilization of water: Irrigation 83%, Domestic 7%, Industries 3%.The water to irrigation purposes is very indiscriminately used. It is very much necessary to conserve the water demand for irrigation by Scientific methods. Prof. Dr. I. Satyanarayana,FIE, Past Chairman,IEIVLC, presided over the Meeting. Earlier, Dr. O. Rama Mohana Rao,FIE, Honorary Secretary given welcome address. Er. D.V.Ramakrishna,FIE, Committee Member,IEIVLC, proposed Vote of Thanks.
Name of Centre : Date: 31.05.2016 Technical Lecture on LIGHTENING PROTECTION & EARTHING SYSTEMS EL Venue: IEIVLC, Visvesvaraya Bhavan, Station Road, Vskp. Dr.O. Ramamohana Rao,FIE,Hon. Secretary, IEI, VLC; Sri Jai Sai Sankar S.H,Assitant Manager, OBO(Speaker); Sri B. Madhu,President, ISHRAE, Visakhapatnam Chapter; Prof. Dr. K. Venkatasubbaiah, FIE,Chairman, IEI, APSC & President-Elect, ISHRAE, Visakhapatnam Chapter; Shri K.M. Sundareswaran,Secretary, ISHRAE, Visakhapatnam Chapter. Sri Jai Sai Sankar S.H,Assitant Manager, OBO, Speaker delivering lecture. The Institution of Engineers (India), Visakhapatnam Local Centre and ISHRAE, Visakhapatnam Chapter organized Technical Lecture on LIGHTENING PROTECTION & EARTHING SYSTEMS at Seminar Hall, Visvesvaraya Bhavan, IEIVLC, Station Road, Visakhapatnam on 31 st May 2016. Speaker, Sri JAI SAI SANKAR S.H, Assitant Manager, OBO,(Second from left) while delivering lecture said that incidence of lightening may damage buildings directly and electrical and electronic systems housed with in the buildings. Lightening will effect and damage buildings and there is a risk of fire may generate and there could be loss of life and production losses in industries, loss of large data in computers. At times if transmission lines are effected, the communication system will be effected. Hence, protection against lightening to the structures is very important. The protection can be both from external lightening protection and internal lightening protection also. There are different types of lightening protections available at different cost level. The type of protection to be given as to be determined from the lightening data and damage and risk data available. There are also protective devices for Aeroplanes and Ships against lightening. There are different types of earthing to protect electrical appliances from sudden voltage changes, which should be adopted for each house depending upon the degree of anticipated damage. Earlier, Prof. Dr. K.Venkatasubbaiah, FIE, Chairman, IEIAPSC and President-Elect, ISHRAE, Visakhapatam Chapter narrated about the activities of IEI and ISHRAE. Shri Sri B. Madhu, President, ISHRAE, Visakhapatnam Chapter presided over the function. Shri K.M. Sudareswaran, Secretary, ISHRAE, Visakhapatnam Chapter addressed the gathering on this occasion. Dr. O. Rama Mohana Rao, FIE, Hon.Secretary, IEIVLC proposed vote of thanks.
Name of Centre: Lecture on Distortion Mitigation using TMT and Heat Sink and its Effect on Hardness and Micro-structural Aspects MR Date: 18.06.2016 Venue: Hotel Rockdale, Visakhapatnam Er. Amit Bhatnagar,FIE, Chairman,IMEI & Committee Member of IEIVLC delivering speech and view of Dais Speaker, Mr.P.Mohan Ravikumar, Surveyor, IRS, Visakhapatnam The technical meeting for the month of June was jointly conducted by the Institution of Engineers (India), Visakhapatnam Local Centre, with Institute of Marine Engineers (India) at Hotel Rockdale, Visakhapatnam on 18 th June 2016. A paper titled Distortion Mitigation using TMT and Heat Sink and Its Effect on Hardness and Micro-structural Aspects was presented by Mr. P Mohan Ravi Kumar, Surveyor, IRCLASS. At the outset Chairman, Er. Amit Bhatnagar, FIE Vizag branch IMEI and Committee Member (MR),IEIVLC, welcomed all the member for the joint meeting and introduced the topic and it s relevance to the shipyards involved in Navy & Coast Guard ship construction and the fabrication industry in particular. Mr Ravi Kumar deliberated that due to the usage of thinner structural components making them more vulnerable to buckling, to obtain optimising the power and speed of the ship.in order to eliminate or mitigate these distortions during design and fabrication stages various distortion mitigation techniques can be applied which can save time, repair cost and avoid post remedial measures. The paper covered two distortion mitigation techniques Thermo Mechanical tensioning (TMT) and Heat sink is applied in thin plate panels and its effect on distortion is studied. TMT is a method of distortion mitigation by counteracting the compressive forces developed due to welding of stiffeners.tmt has been applied by positioning lugs in line with stiffeners. Whereas, Heat sink is applied by sprinkling water through a pipe beneath the plate surface during welding. Before applying heat sink, optimum position of heat sink is finalized by analyzing its quenching effect on microstructure changes, Hardness, and distortion. A large number of members from both organizations attended the technical presentation. The paper was well appreciated and an intense question answer session was meticulously responded by Mr. Ravi Kumar. Dr O Rama Mohana Rao, Honorary Secretory, IEI, Vizag Branch was also present during the presentation. The author was presented with Branch memento at the end of the presentation.
Name of Centre : 49 th ENGINEERS DAY CELEBRATIONS CV Date: 15.09.2016 Venue: IEIVLC,Station Road, Visakhapatnam Chief Guest,Prof Dr G. Nageswara Rao delivering speech Keynote Speaker, Shri Wilson David delivering Address The Institution of Engineers (India), Visakhapatnam Local Centre had organized 49 th Engineers Day Celebrations in commemoration of 156 th Birthday of Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya on 15 th September, 2016 at 0500 PM in the Seminar Hall, Visvesvaraya Bhavan, Railway Bhavan, Visakhapatnam 530 016. Speaking on the occasion the chief guest Prof. Dr. G. Nageswara Rao, Vice-Chancellor, Andhra University, said that it is quite a proud moment that all the three Bharat Ratna Awardees since its inception are someway or the other associated with the city of Visakhapatnam. Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan former Vice president of India was once the Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University. Sir CV Raman was a student of Andhra University from Mrs. AVN College. Dr. Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was instrumental in coming up with a novel idea of sinking two ships in the outer Harbour of Visakhapatnam to prevent off shore waves inundating the harbour. Dr Visvesvarayya who served all the southern states and the Bombay presidency in some capacity or the other conceived many projects and completed them as per time schedule for the benefit of the nation. The present generation of engineers should take him as a role model and emulate his service and discipline in serving the nation. Chief Guest has been felicitated during the Celebrations. Keynote Speaker, Shri Wilson David, Executive Director (Projects), Vizag Steel, RINL, said that Skill building or Skill development is the need of the hour and as Senior Engineers it becomes our collective responsibility to work towards it. The Indian Economy: Industries received much priority soon after Independence, and Industrial production has come a long way in being the backbone of the Indian economy. India is classified as a newly industrialized country and is one of the G-20 major economies. The Indian Economy is the seventh largest economy in the world and has the potential to become the third largest in another ten years. Our economy rests on various industries, revenues coming in from various sectors. The Indian economy has identified the core sectors from among the many industries and the core sectors are Coal, Cement, Gas, Refinery, Fertilizers, Steel and Power. The definition of core sector differs from country to country and from time to time. For example, for a country like Norway, Fishing Industry is a core sector. India is currently a major exporter of IT, BPO and Software services and the IT industry continues to be the largest private sector employer in India. The software industry may also find itself among Core Sectors, in the future.
Vision 2025: India Vision 2025 gives guidelines for changes in the field of industry to make India a strong economy by 2025. Well skilled Young Engineers are required to meet the demands of our rapidly growing economy. Our Prime Minister has set target of creating 500 million globally employable workforce before 2025.The five sectors, which are identified with the expectation to create majority of employment are infrastructure, auto, building and construction, textiles and transportation. Er. S.Satyanarayana, FIE, Technical Expert on Irrigation Projects, Government of Andhra Pradesh spoken on Life and Achievements of Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya elaborately and said that One of the most eminent engineers ever produced by India, Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, better known as M Visvesvaraya, was a man of high principles and discipline. An engineer par excellence, he was the chief architect behind the construction of the Krishna Raja Samara Dam in Mandy which helped to convert the surrounding barren lands into fertile grounds for farming. An idealistic person, he believed in simple living and high thinking. His father was a Sanskrit scholar who believed in providing quality education to his son. Even though his parents were not financially rich, the young boy was exposed to a richness of culture and tradition at home. Tragedy struck the loving family when his father died when Visvesvaraya was just a teenager. After the death of his beloved father, he struggled hard to get ahead in life. As a student he was poverty stricken, and earned his livelihood by tutoring smaller kids. Through his hard work and dedication he eventually became an engineer and went on to play a pivotal role in designing the flood protection system in Hyderabad. He was decorated with numerous awards and honors for his relentless contributions to the country. During Celebrations, IEIVLC honoured Prof. Dr. Ch. Ayyanna, Former Professor, Chemical Engineering, Andhra University and Shri. L. Bhaskar, General Manager (Technical) & TA to CMD, RINL, Vizag Steel, with Eminent Engineer of the Year Award for 2016. Students from various Engineering and Polytechnic Colleges have been presented certificates for best essay awards by Guests. Earlier, Dr O. Rama Mohana Rao, FIE, Hon.Secretary, IEIVLC, welcomed the gathering and proposed the vote of thanks. Dr G. Padmavathi, FIE, Chairman, IEIVLC, presided over the function.