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International Women's Day – 2017

HighlightsInternational Women’s

Day - 2017

Page - 1 & 2

All India Seminars :

- Aerostats and Airships

- Methods of Computations in Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer Problems

- Emerging Research Areas in Mechanical

Engg.

Page - 3 & 4

- Lecture Meetings on "Urban Governance in

Bengaluru”

and

“City Bus Services in Bengaluru”

- Meeting of the Committee of IEI KSC at Kalaburgi Local Centre

Page - 4 & 5

- SDG - IEI visits Karnataka State Centre

and Mysore Local Centre

- Information from Local Centres

Page - 6

thInternational Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural

and political achievements of women. IWD has been observed since in the early 1900's - a time of

great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth

and the rise of radical ideologies. International Women's Day is a collective day of global

celebration and a call for gender parity.

This year's International Women's Day celebrated by the Karnataka State Centre on the theme

“Be Bold for Change” was a spectacular event with several Educational Institutions coming

together at a single platform for celebrating the event. Nagarjuna College of Engineering &

Technology, Bengaluru ; SJC Institute of Technology, Chickballapur and Visvesvaraya Technological

University, Belagavi (VIAT, Muddenahalli, Bengaluru) extended their valuable support to IEI,

Karnataka State Centre in celebrating the event which was held at SJCIT, Chickballapur on

8th March 2017.

Dr. S. Bhargavi, Professor & Head, Dept. of TCE, SJCIT welcomed the guests and the invitees and

Er. S. Sakamma, Convener & Former Member, Women Engineers' Committee, IEI, KSC spoke on the

significance of IWD.

Ms. Chaitra N, IPS, Superintendent of Police, Chickballapur District and Prof. Bharati V. Chiniwalar,

Head, Department of Civil Engineering, KLE Dr. MSSCET and Chairperson, Belagavi Local Centre, IEI

inaugurated the event by lighting the lamp.

Prof. P. Raghothama Rao, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, SJCIT ; Dr. S.G Gopala

Krishna, Principal, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology and Dr. G.S. Venkatesh, PG

Co-ordinator, VIAT, Muddenahalli graced the occasion as Guests of Honour and also addressed the

gathering.

Date of Publication : 28 March 2017

Karnataka State CentreREGD. NEWS PAPER

Karnataka State Centre

Chairman

Dr. N. Chikkanna, FIEEditor & Honorory Secretary

Er. Jasmail Singh, FIE

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As part of the celebration, the following Women Achievers were felicitated by the dignitaries in recognition of their achievements.

* Er. Suvarna S. Dhaded, Executive Engineer, Elecl, KPTCL, Kalaburgi

* Dr. B. Surekha, Professor, Dept of ECE, K S Institute of Technology, Bengaluru

* Dr. Rajeshwari M. Banakar, Dean, Post-graduate Studies, BVB College of Engineering & Technology, Hubli

* Dr. Shantala C P, Professor & Head, Dept. of CSE, CIT, Tumakuru

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* Dr. B.R. Jayalekshmi, Associate P ro fe s s o r, D e p t . o f C i v i l Engineering, NITK, Surathkal

In addition, students from the above Engineering Colleges; Ms. Sneha Shah & Ms Veena Lahari of SJCIT; Ms Sharanya & Ms Krishika Ponnamma C R of Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology and Ms Afra Mehreen, VTU-VIAT also spoke on the occasion.

Dr. N. Chikkanna, Chairman, IEI, Karnataka State Centre, presided over the function.

The event was well attended by large gathering of faculty, students from

Ms. Chaitra N. IPS speaking on the occasion

the Engineering Colleges who supported the event, members of IEI, KSC and women engineers.

At the end, Er. Jasmail Singh, Hon. Secretary proposed vote of thanks. In his address, he immensely thanked all the above Engineering Colleges for extending their valuable support in organising the event in a befitting manner.

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All India Seminars

Karnataka State Centre organised many All India Seminars during March 2017 in association with Engineering Colleges under the aegis of respective Division Boards of IEI.

This two-day All India Seminar under the aegis of Aerospace

Engineering Division Board, IEI was organised in association with East

West College of Engineering and NDRF-IEI at EWCE, Bengaluru on 4-5

March 2017.

Dr. K. Ramachandra, Director, NDRF inaugurated the Seminar and

Dr. N. Chikkanna, Chairman presided over the function. The

other dignitaries who graced the function were Prof.

Rajkumar S Pant, Professor, IIT Bombay; Dr. B. Purushotham,

Director, East West Group of Institutions; Dr. Ramesh B R,

Principal, EWCE and Prof. Channakeshava A, Principal, EWIP.

Eminent speakers who shared their expertise at the Seminar

were: Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant; Dr. S. Selvarajan, Chief

Scientist & Co-ordinator, DSIR, CSIR NAL and Dr.

Dineshkumar Harursampath, Professor. Dept. of Aerospace

Engineering, IISc.

At the Valedictory Session which was held on 5 March 2017,

Prof. R.M. Vasagam, FIE, Member, Aerospace Engineering

Division Board, IEI was the Chief Guest. Er. Jasmail Singh,

Hon. Secretary, Er. V Reddy, Committee Member, IEI, KSC,

Dr. Ramesh B R, Principal, EWCE and Er. Vijay Krishna of

NDRF also graced the occasion.

The Seminar was co-ordinated by Prof. Nishanth P, Head,

Dept. of Aeronautical Engineering, EWCE.

All India Seminar on “Aerostats and Airships”

All India Seminar on “Methods of Computations in Fluid Flow,

Heat and Mass Transfer Problems”

This two-day All India Seminar under the aegis of Aerospace

Engineering Division Board, IEI was organised in association with

Acharya Institute of Technology at AIT, Bengaluru on 14-15 March 2017.

At the Inaugural Function held on 14 March 2017, Dr. Suresh

Madhusudan Deshpande, Engineering Mechanics Unit,

JNCASR, Bengaluru was the Chief Guest. Dr. H.D. Maheshappa,

Principal, Acharya Institute of Technology was the Guest of

Honour. Dr. S. K. Maharana, Dean (R&D), Head (Dept. of

Aeronautical Engineering), Acharya Institute of Technology

and Convener of the Seminar was also present.

The Key-note Speakers who shared their expertise were Dr. V.

Ramesh, National Aerospace Laboratories ; Dr. Narasimhan,

Indian Institute of Science ; Dr. Madhukar M. Rao,

ACRiInfotech Pvt. Ltd. (ACRi India) ; Dr. N Balakrishnan, Indian

Institute of Science and Dr. Sekhar Majumdar, Nitte

Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru.

Dr. S.K. Maharana and Mrs Swetha S, Assistant Professor,

Department of Aeronautical Engineering, AIT extended

valuable co-operation in organising the Seminar as Conveners.

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A two-day All India Seminar on “Industrial Flow Measurement” under the aegis of Chemical Engineering Division Board, IEI was organised in association with Siddaganga Institute of Technology on 10-11 March 2017 at SIT, Tumakuru. Report will be published in the forth coming issue.

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All India Seminar on “Emerging Research Areas in Mechanical Engineering”

This two-day All India Seminar under the aegis of Mechanical

Engineering Division Board, IEI was organised in association with

REVA University on 17-18 March 2017.

Dr. Ramalinga Reddy, Associate Dean, School of Mechanical

Engineering, Reva University inaugurated the Seminar. Other

dignitaries who graced the occasion were : Dr. K.S.

Narayanaswamy, Professor & Director, School of Mechanical

Engineering, Reva University ; Dr. Thirtha Prasad H.P, Associate

Professor, Dept. of Computer Aided Engineering, VIAT,

Muddenahalli and Sri Vijaya Babu, Sr. Engineer, Hewlett

Packard, Bangalore.

Dr. N. Chikkanna, Chairman presided.

Prof. S.N. Anand, Associate Professor, School of Mechanical

Engineering, Reva University co-ordinated in organising the

Seminr as Convener.

Lecture program on “Urban Governance in Bengaluru”

A talk on “Urban Governance in Bengaluru” was arranged by the thArchitectural Engineering Division of IEI, KSC on 9 March, 2017 by Sri

Sridhar Pabbisetty, CEO, Namma Bengaluru Foundation, Bengaluru .

Er. Jasmail Singh, Hon. Secretary welcomed the invitees and also

introduced the speaker.

Dr. A. S. Kodanda Pani, Convener introduced the subject. It was thmentioned that Bengaluru ranks 16 among the Cities in India.

Trivandrum, Pune and Kolkatta are in the first, second and third

positions. The city is facing acute problems like heavy traffic congestion

due to late introduction of Metro Rail, inconvenient City bus service,

garbage and potholes everywhere, sewage flow to the lakes, too many

unauthorized constructions without control by BBMP, etc.

Sri Sridhar Pabbisetty, a well known citizen activist in his lecture

mentioned about the good work done by Sir. M. Visvesvaraya during

Maharajas rule with good urban governance. At that time before

independence, they suggested introduction of Suburban Railway for

Bengaluru. He insisted that Government and the public agencies

should involve citizens for new projects and improvement of the City.

Environment degradation due to pollution of lakes,

atmospheric pollution due to too many vehicles, not

delegating required powers to local bodies for quick

implementation of projects, etc were mentioned. Finally, he

requested the citizens for active participation in improving

the City.

During the interaction, suggestions were made like

introduction of only small BMTC buses instead of large buses

which are not able to move about in the congested roads.

Dr. N. Chikkanna, in his concluding opinion felt that Suburban

Railway should have been introduced in the City 30 years

back. Commuters should be attracted to use buses with lower

ticket rates, cleanliness of buses, etc. He suggested

under/over bridges at convenient points on the Outer Ring

Roads for convenience of commuters between the Suburbs.

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Talk on “City Bus services in Bengaluru”

This talk by the Architectural Engineering Division of IEI, KSC was held

on 21 March, 2017 to discuss about the problems faced by commuters

using City bus services. The speaker was Sri K. R. Viswanath, Chief

Traffic Manager (Operation), Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport

Corporation.

Er. Jasmial Singh, Hon. Secretary welcomed the members and

introduced the speaker. Dr. A. S. Kodanda Pani, Committee member

introduced the subject.

Sri K. R. Viswanath in his presentation informed that it is a

challenging job to manage City bus services. BMTC has 6,240

schedules covering 3181 kms managed by 36,000 staff. The

jurisdiction is BDA area and 25 kms all-round to cover the

transport needs of suburban areas. Intelligent Transport

System (ITS) was introduced one year back to monitor the

performance of 10,000 drivers of buses. Details are available

in the Control Room about movement of buses in different

routes, breakdown of buses to arrange spare buses, mistakes

of drivers, etc. It was informed that BMTC has plans to provide

12,000 buses. Consultants are entrusted by BMTC to work out

proposals to improve City bus services.

There were many comments/suggestions made by the

members present.

Dr. N. Chikkanna, in his concluding remarks appreciated the

efforts of BMTC by introducing ITS to provide convenient bus

services. He suggested to introduce direct bus services from

points attracting lot of employees/commuters to avoid

changing of buses to reach their destinations.

Kalaburgi Local Centre hosts Third Meeting of the Committee of IEI KSC

The Third Meeting of the

Committee of Karnataka

State Centre was held at

Kalaburgi Local Centre on

26 February 2017.

T h e C h a i r m a n , H o n .

Secretary and Members of

the Committee of IEI, KSC

convey their heartfelt thanks

to the Chairman, Hon.

Secretary and Members of

the Committee of Kalaburgi

L o c a l C e n t r e f o r t h e

courtesies and hospitality

extended during their visit to

the Local Centre.

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A two-day All India Seminar on “Recent Trends of IOT - Internet of Things” under the aegis of Computer Engineering Division Board, IEI was organised in association with Sri Krishna Institute of Technology on 16 March 2017 at SKIT, Bengaluru. Report will be published in the forth coming issue.

IEI, KSC celebrates World Water Day

IEI, Karnataka State Centre organised World Water Day and Sri S.G. Balekundri Memorial Lecture on 22 March 2017 on the theme “Wastewater”. Dr. P.N. Ravindra, Addl. Chief Engineer, BWSSB was the Speaker. Smt Kamala Balekudri, President, Shiva Kamala Balekundri Trust, was the Chief Guest. Dr. N. Chikkanna, Er. Jasmail Singh, Er M. Nagaraj, Convener were also present.

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Information from Local CentresndThe Local Centres in Karnataka celebrated World Water Day on 22 March 2017 on the theme “Wastewater”.

Er. Krishna Kulkarni, Director, Nichrome Testing Lab & Research Pvt Ltd, Dharwad delivered the theme speech. Prof. Bharati V. Chiniwalar, Chairperson, presided.

Belagavi Local Centre :

Dr. Amba Shetty, Professor, Dept. of Applied Mechanics, NITK was

the Guest Speaker. Dr. Panduranga Vittal K, Chairman presided.

Mangaluru Local Centre :

Sri Vijaya Kumar, Professor of Civil Engineering, RVM Engineering College, Bellary spoke on the theme. Er. Bhoja Naik K, Chairman of the Centre presided.

Munirabad Local Centre :

SDG IEI visits Karnataka State Centre and Mysore Local Centre

Maj Gen S. Bhattacharya, VSM (retd), Secretary & Director General, The Institution of Engineers (India), Kolkata visited

Karnataka State Centre and Mysore Local Centre and held discussions with the office-bearers. Mysore Local Centre felicitated

Maj Gen S. Bhattacharya and Er. Jasmail Singh, Hon. Secretary, IEI KSC during their visit.

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Er. C.D. Kumar, Senior Environmental Officer, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, Dharwad was the Key-note Speaker. Er. M. V. Narayana, Chairman, presided.

Dharwad Local Centre :

Dr. Shashikant R. Mise, Professor of Civil Engineering, PDA College of Engineering, Kalaburgi delivered a talk on the theme. Er.M.M. Kadadi, Chairman, presided

Kalaburgi Local Centre :

Revised Tariff of Guest Rooms at KSC

The IEI, Karnataka State Centre has well furnished guest rooms

for the use of members. The service charges have been revised

as follows.

Particulars Members Non-Members

Double Room(Non-AC) Rs.600/- Rs.800/-

Single Room Rs. 400/- Rs.500/-

Double Room (AC) Rs.700/-

Members may kindly write to The Honorary Secretary, IEI, KSC

office for availing guest room facility : e-mail :

ieiksc@dataone.in; karnatakasc@ieindia.org