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An interesting Workshop on "Design and
Benchmark of Power Converters" with Power
Forge was conducted on 2/8/19 by the faculty of
SELECT for the students to understand the
present day trends in the field of power systems.
It was a one day hands on workshop organized
by Mr. Sampath Kumar and Mr. Viswanath from
Power System Solutions. The one day hands on
workshop was based on PSIM, Power Electronics,
Power Forge Software. In addition, a demo and
hands on was also provided on medium voltage
drive.

A two day Workshop on "Brainwave Robotics"
was held from 9.8.19 to 10.8.19. It is organized
by Dr Krithiga S and Prof. Angalaeswari S,
SELECT, VIT, Chennai . The workshop was focused
on Brainwave Robotics. Training kits were
provided to the participants and hands on
training on various projects related to robotics
were given. The topics that were discussed were
Introduction to Robotics, Arduino and
Programming fundamentals, EEG
(Electroencephalography), Brainwaves & its
types, development and testing on Arduino
board and Robot assembling were also
discussed. Some of the projects discussed are
listed as follows: LED program, Blink Program,
Voice controlled Robot, Designing own Android
App for controlling Robot, Blink controlled Robot,
Mind controlled Robot. Finally competition was
conducted and the two winner teams are
selected for participation in Technex’20, annual
techno - management festival of IIT, Varanasi.
Moreover a demo and hands on was also
provided on medium voltage drive.