Event Details
ndustrial Visit @ Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) -October-2016
TIMSCDR’s continuous focus on research activities and placement of students in the right organization with right position is the main motivator to expose the students to multiple arenas and keep them abreast with latest innovations in the industry. On 5-6 October, 2016 TIMSCDR organized yet another Industrial Visit to Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for third semester students.
Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay is a multidisciplinary organization with world class facilities and a national laboratory with the prime motive to support the nuclear program in the country. Here the students got a chance to see India’s largest nuclear research reactor Dhruva. The students were given a demonstration of how the entire functioning of the reactor is automated and how IT plays a role in it. The students were also instructed about environment monitoring around nuclear reactors and radioactive waste management.
The students visited the laboratory of Nuclear Agriculture Facility in BARC. They were given an idea about how use of radioactive materials helps in increasing in agriculture output, food preservation, and strengthened post harvest technology.
But what excited the students most was the visit to the SUPERCOMPUTING facility, where they were introduced to ANUPAM -XENON/128 bit supercomputer which was developed by BARC in July, 2002.This supercomputer is being used for solving very large computational problems in the fields of Electronics Structures and Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Radiation Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry and Computational Fluid Dynamics. The students were awestruck by the mammoth supercomputer and its incredible operations.
The visit definitely taught students what they would have never gained from their traditional academic curriculum.
Industrial Visit @ Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) -October-2016
Industrial visit was organized for the fifth Semester students on 19th October, 2016. The venue was MTNL (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.) – India’s most reputed telecom company located at Powai, Mumbai. The goal of the industrial visit was to achieve better understanding and practical exposure to Mobile Communications Systems.
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) is a state-owned telecommunications service provider in the metro cities of Mumbai and New Delhi in India.
Students visited the following three sites which form the main part of any telephone exchange:
- Antenna site.
- Base Transreceiver station(BTS).
- Base Station Controller(BSC).
At the BSC (Base Station Subsystem) centre the equipments were manufactured by Motorola. The GSM mobile station (or mobile phone) communicates with other parts of the system through the base station system. The base transceiver station (BTS) handles the radio interface to the mobile station. The base transceiver station is the radio equipment (transceivers and antennas).
The students got the opportunity to practically observe the alarm conditions of BSC when the trainer disengaged the cooling system that resulted in a warning.
Next students were taken up to the terrace to have a breathtaking view of the city and observe the various antennas used at MTNL. The Antennas were mounted on the top of the MTNL building. A metal rod or dish was used to transmit as well as receive signal.
At the Main Switching Centre, the switching mechanism and design of antennas were explained. These switching equipments are monitored by a server which takes care of all the modulation and demodulation operation. The switching equipments were of ‘Siemens’ and ‘Himachal Electronics Ltd.’
The Industrial Visit to MTNL definitely improved the students’ understanding of Mobile Communications systems and widened their scope of thinking.