SFERICS '09
Website: www.sferics.info
Email:sferics@saintgits.org

The remarkable growth of Electronics & Instrumentation technologies has been spurred by the advantages of smart-intelligent sensors and controllers with mobility, convenience, cost effectiveness & productivity. This symposium aims to provide a platform for upcoming engineers to express their ideas innovatively.

Instrumentation Engineers Techno Innovative Association
This association was started by the students of Applied Electronics and Instrumentation of SAINTGITS College of Engineering on the motto of providing a forum for pooling the knowledge and experience of Budding Engineers from various organizations interested in promoting development of Engineering & technology. It also act as an exchange bureau for dissemination of technical information by way of conducting National level Symposiums, workshops, Guest lectures, Seminars, Industrial visits, etc.

Student coordinators
Bibin B.Thomas+91 9895860481
Isan George Samuel+91 9995237339
Aswin narayanan +91 9495830559

Staff coordinator
Ms. R. Krishna Priya+91 9495679995

Registration will start @ 8:30 am

BRICOLAGE (Paper Presentation) TOTAL PRIZE MONEY-5,500/-
*  Each team can have a maximum of two members.
* Duration of each presentation is 12 minutes and 3 minutes is allotted for interaction
* The paper should be based on any of the following topics:                       
o Robotics
o DCS and PLC
o MEMS and Nano Technology
o Virtual Instrumentation
o VLSI and Embedded Systems
o Image and Signal Processing
o Bio-Medical Instrumentation
o Neural networks and Fuzzy Control

* The paper should be sent to sferics@saintgits.org  on or before September 10th with contact number
* Selected teams will be informed personally
* Each team should bring 2 hard copies and 1 soft copy at the event.
* Judges decision will be final.
* Selected papers will be published in the technical magazine SFERICS

Registration fee-Rs.50/-per team
Contact: Bibin B.Thomas+91 9895860481

MENTOZ (Quiz)     TOTAL PRIZE MONEY-4,000/-
If you can trigger your faculties of intelligence and shoot your memories to lighting speed, then you are the Mentoz champion.......here, your worst enemy is yourself,-every part of you dominated by confusion, competition and the ensuing chaos,..........you can thrive only if your mind can emerge victorious against these malignant forces.
Ladies and gentle man! Welcome to the ultimate race of the intellects where from emerges the real brain master
* A team can have two participants /can be 1 also
* Preliminary round will be there -contains written test-30 objective questions-time 30 minutes
* No negative marks will be there for the preliminary rounds                    
* 4 teams will contest in the final round.
* The decision of the judges will be final

Registration fee-Rs.50/-per team
Contact: Vinu S +91 9447780247

CUL-DE.-SAC (Circuit Debugging) TOTAL PRIZE MONEY-4,000/-
Circuit Debugging unleashes one's knowledge and intellect in the world of circuits. Its not only about the knowledge but also the time one takes to undo the implanted bugs and bring out the right circuit. Thus in this timely arena the timely correction and precise knowledge will crown you the master of circuits, so guys churn the wheels of knowledge and let the power of intellect be unleashed.

* A maximum of 2 students per team.
* Prelims will be an objective round of 30 minutes duration.
* Finals would be conducted in a time span of 1 hour.
* The decision of the judges will be final
* Team that clears all errors first will be declared winner otherwise the percentage of         
Completion will be checked

Registration fee-Rs.50/-per team
Contact: Nidhin +91 9496465384

MAELSTROM (Tech Hunt) TOTAL PRIZE MONEY-4,000/-

* Each team should consist of three members
* A preliminary round will be conducted for all teams out of which 5 teams will be on to the final round
* Each round will be a knock-out round, i.e. the last team to complete a round is eliminated
* The finalists are bound to obey the rules and regulations which will be conveyed to them at the start of each task
* The decision of the judges will be final

Registration fee-Rs.75/-per team
Contact: Paul Thampy +91 9895174890

STRATAGEM (Network Gaming)   TOTAL PRIZE MONEY-4,000/-
By now most FPS (First Person Shooter) fans at least know that counter strike is and have likely played it or have seen it. For those of you who have recently been paroled from a lengthy incarceration or have awakened from a coma, counter strike is a team based tactical shooter that pits terrorists versus counter terrorists in round based match play.

In the games current incarnation, there are two game types -bombing and hostage rescue. Bombing map requires the terrorist team to plant and detonate a time bomb in one of two bombing areas. While the counter terrorists guard these sites.
In STRATAGEM the game type is bombing.
RELOAD YOUR GUNS AND BRING OUT YOUR TEAM WORK……
 MAY THE BEST WIN!!!!
* Each team consists of 4 players.
* Console operations and cheats are not allowed.
* External hardware's or accessories like mouse, keyboard and headphones are not allowed.
* Auto snipers are not allowed.
* Any violation in above will lead to disqualification.
* Maps will be decided by the event heads.
* Any decision taken by event heads will be final.

Registration fee-Rs.100/-per team
Contact: Sam Varghese +91 9633483435