The students and faculty mentors of Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering have actively participated in the IETE Zonal Seminar on "SMART ENGINEERING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT" and ISF Congress organized by IETE Chennai Centre hosted by Sri Sairam Engineering College, on 20th and 21st September 2019. Project on “Intelligent drainage cleaning using robot arm”, by Shruthi Sharada, Raksha and Saranya of III Year ECE was awarded first prize in Paper Presentation and project “First Response Drone” by S.Prem Raj and S.Lokesh of III year ECE,SVCE was awarded first place in Innovative Project Competition. The winners of Innovative Project Competition Mr.S.Prem Raj and Mr.S.Lokesh are requested to represent IETE Chennai Centre at the All India Innovative Project contest to be held at Venue: Shah & Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College, W T Patil Marg, Next to Duke’s Company, Deonar, Mumbai-400088, on 22nd October 2019.

The ISF Valedictory function was conducted in the afternoon of 1st April , 2019 and a technical talk on “Evolution in Telecommunication” was delivered by Shri A. Sadagopan, F-IETE and AGM (Retd.), BSNL.

SVCE ISF organised a seminar on Computer & Communication Networks and Securityon 1st April, 2019. Three speakers, all alumni of SVCE, were invited for the seminar. Mr. V. Vignesh, an engineer from Qualcomm gave a talk on Layering concepts of TCP/IP, followed by a talk on “Web Applications and Security” by Ms. Reshma, Senior Systems Engineer, Infosys. It was followed by an interactive session by Mr. Shyam Lal Lakshminarayana Sridhar, Senior SystemsEngineer, Infosys, on the topic “Placement preparation for Communication and Networking”.

A National level Conference on Signal processing, Communication and Networking (NCSPCN-19) was conducted on 15th March , 2019. The conference concluded with a guest lecture by Mr. RPB Sundaram, EC member of IETE Chennai, who spoke about Industry 4.0. Shri.Sridharan, Treasurer of IETE gave a brief talk on communication systems and technologies of the future.

Initiation of activities of the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Club as an event under ISF was conducted on 2nd March ,2019.

Inauguration of IETE Students Forum (ISF) at SVCE on 1st March, 2019, in presence of Shri.RPB Sundaram, EC member, IETE, Chennai.