Report of
activities of Physics department during 2017-2018
Summer Internship Programme
Arranged
an internship programme of six weeks duration from April 15th 2015
to May 31st 2015 at Efftronics Systems Pvt.Ltd, Vijayawada and sent two
students Ms.K.Bhagya
Rekha (III MPCS), Ms.Sravya (III MPC).
Faculty Industrial training
programme
Dr.G.Little Flower
(Physics), Miss.T.Bhagya Lakshmi(Physics) and Mrs.Niraja (Electronics)
underwent Faculty Industrial training programme from 15th May, 2017
to 6th June, 2017 at Efftronics Systems Pvt Ltd. and got traninned
in “Number systems & Conversions, basic programming in C language, Embedded
C,Practice on ARM Controller”.
Activity of ‘Inspire Club’
on 04.07.2017
The departments of Physics and Electronics
organized a guest lecture on “Internet of Things and future career
possibilities” as an activity of ‘Inspire Club’ on 04.07.2017 at auditorium
between 10 a.m and 12 noon. I, II and III B.Sc Physics and Electronics students
participated in it. Mr.S Bhavani Shankar, Executive manager, R&D department
of the Efftronics Systems Pvt., Ltd., addressed the students.
In his address he explained about the latest
technology “Internet of Things (IOT) which is connecting various things using
internet and sensors. He described how IOT has disrupted many fields and help
things to become autonomous and smart so as to self-propel, self-drive and
self-maintain without human intervention. IOT is working towards a world where
physical objects contain embedded technology that can Sense, Communicate, Act
and Interact. This brings in the need for new skills and capabilities such as Algorithms,
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, UX, Data Science and so on. He
suggested that the teaching and training methods need to get updated to suit
the skills in demand.
The government and industries are very curiously
looking at it after knowing the unlimited possibilities with this technology.
The Central government’s initiatives like smart cities, Digital India are going
to depend on a part of this technology. The technology is going to bring
revolutionary changes in the aviation, automobile, telecom, health and
medicine, transport, agriculture and media fields. He advised the students to
learn about this latest technology, which is going to be the promise of the
future and will influence the future careers.” IOT brings in a great demand for
Algorithm building skills along with the need to be multi-disciplinary. Three
hundred students got enlightened by his talk.
An educational tour to
Sriharikota on 17.08.2017
The department of Physics, Maris Stella
College had arranged an educational tour to Sriharikota Higher Altitude Range (SHAR),
Andhra Pradesh on 17.08.2017. After
series of security checks, we were taken to Mission Control Centre (MCC) where
the entire launching process from preliminary checks on operational systems
onboard to the countdown and tracking of the rocket till it places the
satellite in orbit is monitored. This huge room thus brought a revered hush to
the excited students. Then we visited the first Launch Pad FLP, called IOP –
Integration on pad facilitates where the vertical integration of the stages of
the PSLV and GSLV are assembled, the Second Launch pad (SLP) and Vehicle
Assembly Building (VAB) which then moved in vertical position to the Launch Pad,
working platforms that provide access to the vehicle at various levels and Mobile
Service Tower (MST) that acts as a shelter to the vehicle and personnel during
integration. This educational tour provided additional knowledge to what
students had studied in the course “Mechanics and properties of Matter” during
I semester about variable mass systems, multistage rocket launching techniques,
types of fuels enclosed in various stages of rockets, the need of heat sink
coverage of the rocket, tracking techniques of launched rockets using RADARS. Students
learnt about job opportunities in Indian space programme at Sriharikota.
A
DOME Structure Mission Control Centre (MCC)
A twin rail tracks of a kilo meter length First Launch Pad FLP, called
IOP
connecting
the VAB with Launch Pad
(Integration on pad facilitates)
