One of the most coveted events of IEEE Kerala Section, Kochi
Hub Meet 2015, was hosted by the Federal Institute of Science and Technology on
24th and 25th of July, 2015. 255 students from 17 colleges attended the event.
Day One (24th July 2015, Friday)
The First day kick started with the Ice Breaking session led
by Sanju Sony Kurian, Technical Lead at Kings Learning, where the whole of
crowd were provided with immense opportunities of getting to know each other
through innovative yet entertaining activities. This was followed by a session
headed by Sunil Paul, from TechGeeva, which gave a new insight for the students
on robotics as he spoke about robotics and demonstrated the working of his own
robot. The inaugural Ceremony of KHM2015 was the next event which was done by
Hon. Ernakulam District Collector, in the presence of FISAT Management and the
entire crowd. There were instances where the audience got to laugh and think as
the collector turned to an old engineering student.
The evening sessions were held in parallel. The first
parallel events were by Mohammed Ramees, President of Microsoft developers
community, Kerala, who held a session on the benefits of being an IEEE member
and various offers from Microsoft for a student and a very interesting session
by Jennifer Kumar, CEO of, on interview training. The next two parallel events
were entertaining as well as technical in nature. The first was the prelims of
Best Manager where finalists were filtered by filling the questionnaire that
had mind boggling queries set to find out the most eligible candidates. On day
2 group discussion and a stress interview were held where emerged as the best
managers. The second was scrapyard contraption, an event which aims at
brainstorming the participants and channeling their innovative thoughts to
create wonders from scrap the bidding was done on the day 1 with 4 teams having
10 participants each while the day 2 witnessed the 3 hour long construction.
Day Two (24th July 2015, Friday)
VLSI Workshop
The workshop was intended to enlighten the participants about
VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) and more about Electronic System Design and
was headed by Dr. S Krishna Kumar at the VLSI lab in FISAT, attended by
approximately 50 participants. The main topics covered during the session
included the designing of ICs using Computer Aided Design tools or PC,
Introduction to VLSI design flow etc. The workshop was reflected by the
participants to be a most interesting and informative one.
OCTAVE Workshop
The workshop was based on GNU Octave, a high-level
programming language providing a command line interface for solving linear and
nonlinear problems and performing other numerical experiments and was conducted
by Mr.Srijith at Lab 5 in FISAT, attended by approximately 40 participants. The
topics discussed included its Technical Details, Developments, Notable
Features, MATLAB compatibility and so on. The workshop hit a high note among
the participants and was perceived to have great depth.
LABVIEW Workshop
The workshop aimed at training in the graphical programming
language by which applications using basic design templates and architectures
to acquire, process, display and store real world data can be created and was
handled by Mr. Edwin Devassykutty at the Virtual Instrumentation Lab, attended
by an approximate count of 40 participants. Various topics such as data
acquisition, instrument control, data logging, measurement analysis etc were
discussed. The participants found the workshop to be highly informative.
MANAGERIAL Workshop
Handled by Krishna Bhaskar Mangalassery, the workshop
provided an interactive environment for the participants with an important
aspect of imbibing in students confidence, passion and enthusiasm, and was held
at the MBA seminar hall with a participation of around 50 students. The
workshop equipped the participants with effective management tools to motivate
themselves and prime areas of focus included Management functions, Coaching and
Leadership, Motivation and Time Management. The participants considered it a
wonderful lesson learnt and an unforgettable experience.
INNOVACT Workshop
To train and upgrade proficiency of the students in various
skills and leadership qualities, volunteer training and so on were few among
the main objectives of this workshop handled by Mr.Bibin Mathew Joseph, held at
the conference hall and attended by an approximate count of 40 students.
Various tactics to develop aptitude, verbal and soft skills were discussed
during the workshop enabling the students to achieve an overall development
scheme. The workshop was rated to be highly interesting inspiring.
LaTeX Workshop
LaTeX is a free program for making scientific and technical
documents serving its purpose to make it easy to write elegant technical
documents , and this workshop was handled by Mr.Unni Kartha at L5(Lab 5) of
FISAT attended by around 55 students. The topics discussed ranged from
introductory to advanced, the excellent representations of mathematical
formulae and also about its high stability for large documents. The students
found themselves acquainted with LaTeX and the sessions were considered very
much instructive, engaging and interactive.