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KOLKATA SECTION‐ GEO CODE R0 01 37
2012
PART A – SECTION SUMMARY
A.1 Executive Summary
In the year 2012 IEEE Kolkata Section has conducted several important programs. Among these the notable are:
R‐10 Meeting: The most important event of this year, the hosting of IEEE Region 10 Meeting by the IEEE Kolkata Section at Swissotel, New town, during 3‐4 March 2012, which was held first time in Kolkata. It was well appreciated by the stakeholders.
IEEE Milestone Plaque dedication ceremonies: The most prestigious and colourful events are two IEEE Milestone Plaque dedication ceremonies held on Sept 15, 2012. It was indeed a matter of great honour and prestige for our section that the first two IEEE Milestones in India were dedicated to the works of Prof. J.C. Bose and Prof. C.V. Raman at Presidency University and Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, respectively, by Dr. Peter Staecker, IEEE President‐Elect. Detailed report on the milestone ceremonies is available on our website.
Visit of IEEE President‐Elect: 2012 is indeed a momentous year for our section as IEEE President‐Elect visited our section twice in the same year.
Advancing Technology for Humanity: Present focus of IEEE is Advancing Technology for Humanity. IEEE's Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) has also been formed first time in our section in this year and successfully completed the project on “Low Cost Low Bandwidth Remote Virtual Educational Platform” within stipulated time.
Section By‐Laws: By‐Laws for the management and operations of the section as per MGA guidelines have been introduced. The details are given in the website.
Membership Development Activity: As a part of the Membership Development Activity of the section, Workshop on Membership Development was organized by IEEE Kolkata Section on May 11, 2012 in the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, Kolkata. The workshop was organized to conduct Section SWOT analysis of local membership.
Public Affairs activity of the Section: As a part of the Public Affairs activity of the section, Industry Day has been organized by IEEE Kolkata Section for the first time with the theme 'Fostering synergy between industry and academia for technological innovation'. The section is thankful to M/s Tata Consultancy Services for hosting this event at their premises in Kolkata.
Growth of the Section: Two new technical society chapters have been formed under IEEE Kolkata Section in 2012, namely Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS) Chapter (formed on 14 May 2012) and Geo‐science and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Chapter (formed on 19 September 2012) respectively.
DEIS Chapter within this short period has organized many technical programs under the Chairmanship of Prof. Sivaji Chakravorti including an International Conference collaborating with North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), and one Distinguished Lecturer Program.
GRSS Chapter also conducted meeting and technical programs under the chairmanship of Prof. Animesh Maitra.
New Student Branch: Two new student branches have been formed in 2012. One in the Swami Vivekananda Institute of Science & Technology (Geo Code STB 11851) and the second one in the St Anthony’s College at Shilong (Geo Code STB12041).
Winning the First prize: One of our student members, Somdip Dey (92313728) of St Xavier’s College, Kolkata, has won the first prize in 'Engineering Ethics Skit' at the IEEE All India Student Congress‐2012 held on September 28‐30, 2012 in Bangalore on behalf of our section.
Mr. B. Ashish Kumar (S 92119978) has won the second prize in the MV Chauhan Student paper Contest organized by IEEE India Council in 2012. Mr. Kumar is a student of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Silicon Institute of Technology, Silicon Hills, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
Educational activity of the Section: The one‐day professional development program on “Recent Advances in Computer Vision and its Applications” was held on August 27, 2012 as a part of the Educational activity of the section, which was supported by Region 10 Educational Activity Committee.
International Conference: As an event co‐sponsored by our section the 3rd International Conference on Technical and Managerial Innovation in Computing and Communications in Industry and Academia was held on August 18‐19, 2012 in Kolkata.
Indian Antenna Week 2012: AP‐MTT Kolkata Chapter in association with UGC‐NRCPS University of Kolkata organized Indian Antenna Week (IAW) during May 27‐31, 2012 at Hotel Royal Plaza, Gangtok, Sikkim. This Chapter also organized Young Scientist Colloquium 2012 on 14 Sep at Pearl Hotel, Kolkata where Dr. Peter Staecker, IEEE President Elect had grace the occasion.
IEEE CAS Chapter organized a Distinguished Lecturer Programme (DLP) held on February 6, 2012 at Future Institute of Engineering & Management, Sonarpur. The DLP was delivered by Dr. P. K. Meher, Senior Scientist, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore on the topic “Algorithm‐Architecture Co‐
Design for DSP Applications”. There was a huge gathering in the auditorium and the students were overwhelmed with the presentation from Dr. Meher.
The IEEE ComSoc Chapter of Kolkata Section in collaboration with ETCE Department, Jadavpur University organized 2012 International Conference on Communications, Devices and Intelligent Systems (CODIS) during Dec 28‐29.
ComSoc Chapter also organized the the First International Conference RAIT2012 in collaboration with Dept. of CSE, ISM Dhanbad, during 15‐16 March 2012.
Computer Chapter organized Distinguished Visitor’s Lecturer Programme in Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata on June 29, 2012 on "Testing and Design‐for‐Testability for 3D Integrated Circuits", delivered by Prof. Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke University, USA.
IEEE EDS Chapter, Kolkata Section organized distinguished lecturer programme at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata. Prof. R. Jindal, University of Lousiana, USA and Dr. M. K. Radhakrishnan, NanoRel Corporation have delivered wonderful lectures.
IEEE EDS Chapter organizes Mini Colloquium: A MC has been organized by EDS Chapter during April 30 to May 01, 2012 on the topic of Nano‐electronics, At NIT Imphal, Manipur, India. IEEE EDS Chapter also organized Distinguished Lecturer Programme on 28 th May, 2012, at IEM, Kolkata
Outreach activity of CIS Chapter: CIS chapter organized seminar on “Foundations and Advances in Computational Intelligence” jointly with Orissa Engineering College on 12th October, 2012 at Orissa Engineering College and a seminar and Workshop on Cognitive Science‐An Emerging Paradigm jointly by IEEE CIS Kolkata Chapter and Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College on 12th November at the college itself.
WIE/AG organized a Summer School on Algorithms, Data Structures and Programming held on 11 – 15 June, 2012 at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in collaboration with Computer Society Chapter of the Section. This event was a major activity for the small yet motivated group of women engineers. It was designed to serve as a career booster program.
The PES Chapter of Kolkata section has organized three technical lecture meetings and one national seminar in the year 2012. The speakers of the meeting were invited form various academic institutions including University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg, Germany, to represent broad spectrum of academic activities which are happening across the world. One day National seminar on “Sensors and their Networking” on 25 the Feb 2012, at CRNN Auditorium of Salt lake Campus of Kolkata University. The chapter has organized an IEEE video show on 21st August, 2012.
The chapter has nominated Sri. Jiban K. Chaudhury (M4156741), for Outstanding Chapter Engineer Award, in recognition to his outstanding contribution in electrical power engineering.
The Industry Applications (IA) Kolkata Chapter has organized a short‐term course on ‘Power Electronics Applications in Industry’ jointly with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Bengal Engineering & Science University (B.E.S.U), Shibpur, Howrah, India‐711103 during June 19‐23, 2012. The course included lecture sessions and hands on demonstration sessions including
experimentation and simulations. The Chapter was selected as the ‘Continuing Outstanding Performance IAS Small Chapter’ (selected by the CMD Awards Committee) for 2011 performance. The chapter has now received this award three times in a row.
The IEEE Photonics Society (IPS) ‐ Kolkata Chapter has been identified as the Most Improved Chapter for the Year 2012.
Celebration of National Science Day: Kolkata University Student Branch celebrated the “Indian National Science Day” on (June 28, 2012) as a joint organizer with the IEEE Photonics Society Kolkata Chapter at Ashokenagar Banipith Girls’ H.S. School, 24 Parganas North, West Bengal). Such outreach programs in schools help to spread the knowledge on science and technology to students residing in remote villages.
IEEE Student Branch of Jadavpur University in collaboration with CAS Chapter organized National Student Paper and Circuit Design Contest (NSPCDC‐2012) at Jadavpur University on October 4, 2012 at Department of ETCE, Jadavpur University.
IEEE Student Branch of Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, organized Quizzard 2012, IEEE student branch of IIIT Bhubaneswar organized the IOTA fest in 2012 and IEEE student branch of BIT Patna organized Inter‐institutional event on the occasion of IEEE Day on October 6‐7, 2012 in Bihar.
Student Branch of BIT Patna conducted a technical event ‘ABHIVYAKTI’ on April 1st 2012 with the theme inspired by the tagline of IEEE “ADVANCING TECHNOLOGY FOR HUMANITY”.
Annual Social Event was organized on 22nd Jan 2012 at Srihari Kanan Bagan Bari, Badu.
A.2 Financial Report
Opening Balance: Rs. 33,54,885.69
Income: Rs. . 20,44,776 Expenses: Rs. 18,29,407.45
Closing Balance: Rs. 35,70,254.24
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A.3 List of Section Officer and Executive Committee Members
Prof. Sivaji Chakravorti – Chair and Chair of DEIS
Prof. Debotosh Guha ‐ Vice‐ Chair
Prof. Sujit Kumar Biswas ‐ Vice Chair and Chair of IA Chapter
Prof. (Mrs) Iti Saha Misra ‐ Secretary
Prof. (Mrs) Suparna Kar Chowdhury ‐ Treasurer
Prof. Kalyan Kumar Mallik ‐ Immediate Past Chair
Prof. Aloke Kumar Das ‐ Member
Prof. Ashok Kumar Tripathi ‐ Member
Prof. Bhaskar Gupta ‐ Member
Prof. Chandan Kumar Sarkar ‐ Member & Chair EDS Chapter
Dr. Debangshu Dey ‐ Member & Chair Student Activities Committee
Prof. Dipak Kumar Basu ‐ Member and Chair of Award Committee
Dr. Gargi Keeni ‐ Member & Chairperson Professional Activities
Dr. Jamuna K. Sing ‐ Member
Mr. Kalyan Kumar Das Gupta ‐ Member
Prof. Kesab Bhattacharya ‐ Member
Dr. Koushik Mukherjee ‐ Member
Prof. Mita Nasipuri ‐ Member
Prof. Niladri Chakraborty ‐ Member
Prof. Nirmalendu Chatterjee ‐ Member
Prof. Prasanta Kumar Basu ‐ Member & Chair Membership Development
Prof. Rabindranath Nandi ‐ Member and Chair of ComSoc Chapter
Prof. Rana Dutta Gupta ‐ Member
Prof. Salil Kumar Sanyal ‐ Member and Chair of CAS Chapter
Mr. Sanjay Kar Chowdhury ‐ Member
Prof. Sujoy Basu ‐ Member
Prof. Susmita Sur Kolay ‐ Member & Chair WIE/AG
Prof. Amit Konar ‐ Ex‐Officio Member & Chair CIS
Prof. Animesh Maitra ‐ Ex‐ officio Member & Chair GRSS
Prof. J.B. Roy ‐ Ex‐officio Member & Chair Photonics Society
Prof. Rabindra K Mishra ‐ Ex –Officio Member & Chair AP‐MTT
Mr. Sandip Rakshit ‐ Ex‐officio Member & GOLD/AG Chair
Dr. Sarmistha Neogy ‐ Ex –Officio Member & Chair Comp. Soc
Prof. Srikumar Mallik ‐ Ex‐officio Member & Chair PES
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PART B – ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES
B.1 MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
TOTAL MEMBER: 1969
Effort in membership development: As a part of the Membership Development Activity of the section, Workshop on Membership Development was organized by IEEE Kolkata Section on May 11, 2012 in Kolkata. The workshop was organized to conduct Section SWOT analysis of local membership, set membership targets and come up with Section's own membership retention and recruitment activities. As a result of such concerted efforts by the section, our section is having a steady growth of its membership. The complete list of new members joining Kolkata Section in 2012 is now available on our website.
Besides that as a part of membership development program, award is given to the Chapter/AG with highest membership growth and the Chapter with highest percentage of member in the industry.
Kolkata Section has registered 10. 56% rise in membership‐ up from 1761 to 1969 in 2012.
Student membership at different branches is also growing. Out of 1969 members there are Total Active Student Member: 509 and Total Active Graduate Student Member: 235
Evidence of retention of members: Each default member is contacted through email/mobile phone and persuaded to renew his/her membership. Attrition rate has come down corresponding to last year. There is a steady growth of membership observed.
B.2 Professional and Continuing Educational Activities Continuing Educational activities including conferences, technical event, training courses:
Technical Lecture Meeting organized by the Section
IEEE Kolkata Section has organized the following lecture meetings in various fields in the year 2012. The lectures were well attended and organized at various institutes with very good interactions among the members of industry and academia including students.
a. Technical Lecture
Sl. No.
Speaker & Affiliation
Topic Venue Atten‐dees
Date
1 Dr. Anirban Basu IBM Research, New York, USA
Frontiers and crossroads of advanced research: role of electrical engineers.
Seminar Room, Electrical Engineering Department Jadavpur
50 06 Jan 2012
University, Kolkata 700032
2 Dr. Sayan Mitra Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engg University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, USA
Automatic Verification of Region Stability of Embedded Systems
Seminar Room, Electrical Engineering Department Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032
45 10 Jan 2012
3 Prof. Dr. Michael Finkel Professor of Electrical Engineering University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg, Germany.
Renewable Energies ‐ Impacts on the Grid
Seminar Room, Electrical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University
60 21 Feb 2012
4 Dr. Amit K Roy Chowdhury Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Cooperating Faculty in Computer Science University of California, Riverside, USA.
Distributed Camera Networks – The Integration of Computer Vision and Control Theory
Seminar Room, Electrical Engineering Department Jadavpur University Campus, Kolkata 700032
50 11 Dec 2012
5 Mr. Abhijit Chakraborty, Research Fellow, Production Engg. Dept., Jadavpur University
Total Quality Management in Health Sector
Science City 100 17 Jan 2012
6 B. Basu Mallik, Department of Basic Science & Humanities , IEM
A mathematical Analysis of Blood Flow Through Stenosed Arteries: A Newtonian Model
Science City 100 17 Jan 2012
7 Prof. Dr. Franz Raps
Head Electrical Engineering, University of Applied Science, Augsburg, Germany
Inter‐University Collaboration‐ the Future Perspective
Seminar Room, EE, BESUS
27 17 Feb 2012
8 Prof. Nikhil R. Pal
Indian Statistical Institute
203 B T Road , Kolkata 700 108
Dimensionality reduction in a connectionist framework
Seminar Room
Asam Don Bosco University
80 02 Mar 2012
9 Kandarpa Kumar Sarma
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering
IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India.
MIMO Channel Modelling: Suitability between Neuro‐Fuzzy and Fuzzy‐Neural Approaches
Seminar Room 80 02 Mar 2012
10 Prof. D.P Kothari
DG, Raisoni Group of Institutions, Nagpur‐ 440016 Maharashtra
Power System Optimization
Seminar Room 80 02 Mar 2012
11 Prof. C A Murthy
Indian Statistical Institute
203 B T Road
Kolkata , 700 108
Genetic Algorithms: Basic principles and applications
Seminar Room 80 02 Mar 2012
12 Prof. Probin Bora,
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati‐ Assam, India.
Time series Analysis and Signal Processing by Prof. Prabin Bora
Seminar Room 70 03 Mar 2012
13 Dr. Aditya B. Kandali
Jorhat engineering college, Jorhat‐
Pin 785007
Vocal Emotion Recognition in Five Native Languages of Assam Using Prosodic Features in Presence of White Noise.
Seminar Room 70 03 Mar 2012
14 Prof. Shyamanta Moni Hazarika, Tezpur University, Napam, Tezpur, Assam
Bispectrum Analysis of EEG for Motor Imagery based BCI
Seminar Room 70 03 Mar 2012
15 Prof Krishnamachar Sreenivasan,
Visiting Professor CSE Department. IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, 781014 Assam
On a Framework for Analyzing Cloud System Performance
Seminar Room 70 03 Mar 2012
b. Technical Co‐Sponsorship
IEEE Kolkata Section extended technical Co‐Sponsorships to the following conferences falling under the jurisdiction of Kolkata Section.
IIT Patna, Bihar, organized International Conference on Signal, Image and Video Processing (ICSIVP‐ 2012), Technically Co‐Sponsored by IEEE Kolkata Section on 13‐15 Jan 2012. Many scientists from organization such as CDAC, DRDO, academicians from premiere institutions such as ISI Kolkata, IITs, NITs, IIITs and engineers from industries such as National instruments, Edgate Technologies participated in the conference. There were many good quality papers and plenary speeches related to research area in Biometrics, Medical Image Processing, Information Coding, Pattern Recognition, and Video Surveillance.
International Conference on Innovative Techno Management Solutions for Social Sectors (IEMCON‐2012), Technically Co‐Sponsored by IEEE Kolkata Section organized by Institute of Engineering and Management (IEM), on 17‐18 Jan 2012, Kolkata. Around 200 participants including faculties, researchers and engineering students have attended the program and the conference was a great success.
2012 2nd National Conference on Computational Intelligence and Signal Processing (CISP), held on 2nd ‐ 3rd March, 2012, organized by Don Bosco College of Engineering and Technology (DBCET), Guwahati, Assam and Technically Co‐sponsored by IEEE Kolkata Section.
The objective of the conference was to create awareness about the developments in the interdisciplinary fields that combine signal processing with computational technologies and promotes research and developmental activities for real life applications.
National Conference on "Paradigm Shift in Education Technology & Content Management, E‐TCM 2012" organized by Department of Information Technology & Masters of Computer Application, Techno India & Technically Co‐sponsored by IEEE Kolkata Section on 2nd –3rd March 2012.
The conference had several industry partners as well like Royal Fortune (I) Pvt. Ltd, HP, Ideation Technology Solutions etc along with academic Collaboration with C‐DAC, Kolkata.
2012 3rd National Conference on Emerging Trends and Applications in Computer Science‐ (NCETACS ‐ 2012) organized by St. Anthony's College, Shillong, Meghalaya Technically Sponsored by IEEE Kolkata Section on , 30th ‐ 31st March, 2012.
As an event co‐sponsored by our section the 3rd International Conference on Technical and Managerial Innovation in Computing and Communications in Industry and Academia was held on August 18‐19, 2012 in Kolkata, organized by Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM) and Technically Cosponsored by IEEE Kolkata Section.
6th International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST'12) with Special focus on Sensors for Agriculture and Environmental Monitoring held on 18th ‐ 21st December, 2012, in collaboration of CDAC, Kolkata, India and Massey University, New Zealand,
1st International Conference on Power and Energy in NERIST‐2012’ organized by NERIST in technical co‐sponsorship from IEEE Kolkata section, Kolkata Chapters of DEIS and PES and financial co‐sponsorship from NEC, CSIR, PGCIL and Schneider Electric Corporation. It was the first IEEE sponsored conference in NERIST and Arunachal Pradesh.
National Conference on Computing and Communication Systems (NCCCS ‐2012) held on 21‐22 Nov 2012 at B.C.Roy Engineering College, Jemua Road, Fuljhore, Durgapur, WB.
The ComSoc Chapter of Kolkata Section co‐sponsored 2012 International Conference on Communications, Devices and Intelligent Systems (CODIS) during Dec 28‐29 organized by ETCE Department, Jadavpur University.
Educational Activities:
One‐day Professional Development Program on Recent Advances in Computer Vision and its Applications Jointly Organized By IEEE Kolkata Section & GOLD Affinity Group of IEEE Kolkata Section held at the K P Bose Memorial Hall of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, on August 27, 2012 (Monday). 17 IEEE Members and 61 guests including students and 6 volunteers participated the program. IEEE R1 supported the program as an Educational Activity of the Section.
IPS Kolkata Chapter has been celebrating the National Science Day on 28 June 2012 at Ashokenagar Banipith Girls’(H.S) School Ashokenagar, 24 Parganas (N), West Bengal. 74 students have attended the programs along with 15 IEEE members. Students are encouraged for taking the science as the subject of interest and this type of program helps them to increase the awareness.
Outreach Activities: This year section has organized many technically sponsored programs outside Kolkata to spread outreach activities of IEEE and increase awareness regarding the IEEE activities in various fields. Apart from many Chapters have also organized technical seminars, Distinguished Lecturer Programs outside of Kolkata. These are given under.
IIT Patna, Bihar, organized International Conference on Signal, Image and Video Processing (ICSIVP‐ 2012), Technically Co‐Sponsored by IEEE Kolkata Section on 13‐15 Jan 2012.
2012 2nd National Conference on Computational Intelligence and Signal Processing (CISP), held on 2nd ‐ 3rd March, 2012, organized by Don Bosco College of Engineering and Technology (DBCET), Guwahati, Assam and Technically Co‐sponsored by IEEE Kolkata Section.
2012 3rd National Conference on Emerging Trends and Applications in Computer Science‐(NCETACS ‐ 2012) organized by St. Anthony's College, Shillong, Meghalaya Technically Sponsored by IEEE Kolkata Section on , 30th ‐ 31st March, 2012.
1st IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy collaborating with North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), held on December 28‐29, 2012 at Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh in Collaboration with the Section and DIES Chapter.
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), Kolkata Chapter and Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur jointly organized a one‐day workshop on Cognitive Science: An Emerging Paradigm, on 20th November 2012. The workshop was inaugurated by Prof. Amit Konar, Chair, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Kolkata Chapter. The workshop was attended by 105 participants consisting of academicians, industry delegates and students from different organizations across the nation.
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), Kolkata Chapter and Orsissa Engineering College, (OEC) jointly organized a One‐day Workshop on Foundations and Advances in Computational Intelligence on 12th October, 2012. Prof. Nayan Ranjan Samal from OEC was the coordinator of the program. The main speakers were Prof Prakash Kumar Hota and Prof. Amit Konar, Chair CIS Chapter of Kolkata section.
IEEE EDS Chapter of Kolkata Section has organized Mini Colloquium Program (WIMNACT –33) at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Imphal, Manipur on 30 April –01 May 2012 on the theme of “Future of Nano‐electronics”. Several notable speakers were:
Prof. H. Iwai, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Prof C. K. Sarkar, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, Prof. Edward Y Chang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan and Prof. N. Mohankumar, SKP engg College, Thiruvannamalai, India.
IEEE Communications Society Kolkata Chapter and Department of Computer Sc. & Engg. of Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad organized the 1st Int’l Conf. on “Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT–2012)” at ISM, Dhanbad during 15‐17 March 2012.
IEEE Communications Society Kolkata Chapter and Department of Electronics & Communication Engg. of Bengal Institute of Technology and Management (BITM), Santiniketan organized technical lecture program on 12 May 2012 on “Revisiting ABCD Matrix in Microwave Circuit Analysis Paradigm”.
IEEE Communications Society Kolkata Chapter and Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering Birbhum Institute of Engineering & Technology Suri, Birbhum organized Two Day National Workshop on Recent Trends in Communication Systems – NWRTCS 2012 during Aug. 11 & 12, 2012.
AP‐MTT Kolkata Chapter in association with UGC‐NRCPS University of Kolkata organized Indian Antenna Week 2012 during May 27‐31, 2012 at Hotel Royal Plaza, Gangtok, Sikkim.
AP‐MTT Kolkata Chapter organized technical lecture meeting at Siliguri Institute of Technology (SIT) on 20 th Jan 2012. This program was a result of the policy adopted by the Chapter regarding decentralization of the activities under geographical coverage of IEEE Kolkata Section. 70 participants were there.
AP‐MTT Kolkata Chapter organized Workshop on Microwave Circuits on 8‐9 Sep 2012 at NSHM Knowledge Campus, Durgapur. There were 40 participants.
IEEE Kolkata Section and DEIS Chapter in collaboration with NERIST, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh organized 1st IEEE International Program on Power and Energy on Dec 28‐29 2012. Prof. M. Zahn of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA delivered the DLP talk on “Multiphysics Modeling of Streamer Discharge in Transformer Oil – Pressboard Systems”.
National Science Day: IPS Kolkata Chapter has been celebrating the National Science Day uninterruptedly since its
inception and has become a yearly event (and integral part). This year it is celebrated on 28 June
2012 at Ashokenagar Banipith Girls’(H.S) School , Ashokenagar, 24 Parganas (N), West Bengal. 74 students have attended the programs along with 15 IEEE members.
The importance of studying Science and the role of students in community are explained. Basic models are demonstrated and some hands‐on experience of students on Science topics are arranged. Demos were mainly based on the basic Sciences the students learn in books/schools, which would help students learning Science faster. Program started at 11 a.m. with inaugural function followed by two lectures delivered by Prof. P. K. Basu and Prof. N. R. Das respectively. After the lunch break models were demonstrated and the program was ended at 4 p.m. The following models (name of the demonstrator) were shown: 1. Sound activated Flip Flop (Sankhabrata Bandyopadhyay); 2. Optical link set up (Himadri Dutta); 3. Rain water conductivity measurement (Piu Ghosh); 4. Magnetic needle in E‐field (Tania Das); 5. Electronic quiz (Suchismita Mitra); Seven segment display (Shampa Guin). All students enjoyed the event very much, showing immense enthusiasm. Requests are made by teachers of schools to hold more similar events.
Summer/Winter Workshop if any: IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity Group, Kolkata Section and Computer Chapter Jointly organized a Summer School on Algorithms, Data Structures and Programming during June 11‐15, 2012. The participants were primarily first and second year undergraduate students (with preference to motivated women students from weaker socio‐economic background) of computer science, electronics and information technology in the local engineering colleges. The goal was to reinforce their confidence in fundamental concepts of computing and to build a solid foundation in programming skills at the level of top engineering institutions of the world. This would increase their career prospects immensely. This event was held at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), internationally famous for its high quality teaching and research in the areas of mathematics, statistics, computer science, natural and social sciences. The event began with a test to assess the level of programming competence of the participating students. While the test was being graded, a brief formal inauguration was held where the students had the opportunity to learn about IEEE and were strongly recommended to become student members of IEEE as well as WIE so that they could enjoy many other benefits. Professor Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, IEEE Fellow and Head of Advanced Computing & Microelectronics Unit, Professor Subhas C. Nandy, the Professor‐in Charge of the Computer and Communication Sciences Division, Professor Nabanita Das, Immediate Past‐Chair of IEEE WIE AG and Professor Susmita Sur‐Kolay, WIE AG Chair addressed the gathering.
International/National Conference / Seminar The most important event this year that Kolkata Section had is the hosting of R‐10 Seminar on 2nd March 2012 first time.
R10 Seminar 2012:
IEEE Region 10 Technical Seminar 2012 on “Green Technology” held on 2nd March 2012 on the theme “Green Technology”, at H.L. Roy Seminar Hall, Jadavpur University (Main Campus) , Kolkata, West Bengal. The Seminar organized by Region 10 in collaboration with IEEE Kolkata Section. Welcome Address was delivered by Lawrence Wong, Director, IEEE Region 10. There were four lectures on the seminar with the following topics.
(1) Barriers to the Adoption of Green Technology: Greg Adamson, Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology and Chair, IEEE Victorian Section.
(2) Advances in Power Electronics and its impact on Clean Energy Technology: Ajit K Chattopadhyay, IEEE Fellow, Former Professor of IIT Kharagpur and Emeritus Professor, Bengal Science and Engineering University Shibpur.
(3) Purulia Pumped Storage Station ‐ Delivering quality power from a technically and socially relevant power project: Asish K Ghosal, Director Projects, West Bengal Power Development Corporation Ltd.
(4) ICTs and Climate Change: An Action Plan: Satish Babu, Chair, IEEE Kerala Section and Global DVP Co‐ordinator, IEEE Computer Society.
B.3 Students Activities
Number of Active Student Branches: 24
Number of Student Branches Formed in the year: 02
Total Active Student Member: 509
Total Active Graduate Student Member: 235
Active Student Branch Activity:
SB BIT Patna:
IEEE BIT Patna students Chapter has continuously put efforts to provide platform and training to the budding technocrats of BIT Patna and other regional colleges including IIT Patna and NIT Patna by organizing events like paper presentation, guest lectures and workshops time to time. BIT Patna SB conducted a technical event ‘ABHIVYAKTI’ on April 1st 2012 with the theme inspired by the tagline of IEEE “ADVANCING TECHNOLOGY FOR HUMANITY”. The participants were given an opportunity to present their innovative and ground ‐ breaking technical ideas with present and future prospective. It was a 1‐day intra‐college event comprising of sessions on paper‐presentation; technical‐quiz; poster presentation & an on‐spot remedy for real life technical issues. Organized a workshop on “Ethical hacking and cyber forensics” in collaboration with AIESEC IIT Kharagpur and TechBharat Consulting on 13th and 14th October,2012. 82 eager learners from NIT Patna, BIT Patna and NSIT Bhita, knowing very well that cyber security is our shared responsibility, attended the workshop.
The instructor Mr. Christy Philip Mathew, a Computer Security Researcher and Instructor for TechBharat Consulting, mesmerized the audience with the intriguing life stories of ethical hackers such as Kevin Mitnick and Julian Assange, and the Hactivist group Anonymous. In addition, how spoofing, email hacking, session
hijacking, Google hacking etc. are done was demonstrated in order to elucidate how such activities can be prevented. The workshop introduced the students to basic information technology terminologies and left them with an urge to understand more and more about the world of hacking so that they may be able to contribute towards securing the world’s data!
Organized two‐day INTER‐COLLEGE event ‘ABHIVYAKTI’ on 8th and 9th Dec 2012. There were a total of 6 events namely, Posteresis (poster making to bring out the creativity of its participants in form of innovation and expressed in form of posters.), De Novo (paper presentation ‐ to present research work and innovative ideas related to different technical domains), Technomania (technical Quiz ‐ to test the technical knowledge of students will be organized), Anuprayog (an event which was all about innovation in the application of a pre‐existing technology). D Modello Soluzoni – (contestants were to implement their creativity and technical skills to solve some real world problems in the form of a design model constructed with the help of items present in our ‘Techie Virtual Shop’.
Tech Summit ‐The event aimed to enlighten the people about the “technical problems” prevailing in different sections of the country that has been proved to be a hurdle in the path of their progress and expects the participants to propose practical yet feasible idea to combat the same.
SB of University of Calcutta:
IEEE Calcutta University student Branch has been involved in several activities by organizing lectures, meeting including some big events.
The Branch celebrated the “Indian National Science Day” on (June 28, 2012) as a joint organiser with the IEEE Photonics Society Kolkata Chapter. 28th February is celebrated as the National Science Day in India every year. Such outreach programs in schools help to spread the knowledge on science and technology to students residing in remote villages.
After a formal inauguration, two lectures were delivered by Branch Councelor Prof N. R. Das and Prof. P. K. Bose on some basics of Electronics and Photonics in the present scenario.
The student members/volunteers demonstrated different simple experiments illustrating the topics which the students study in school. They got opportunity for handling electrical components (resistors, diodes, capacitors), LEDs, lasers, optical fibers and understanding their properties and applications.
Some advanced projects were shown to develop curiosity among them. These include rain alarm and propagation of sound through optical fiber, quiz circuit etc. The interest, participation and enthusiasm of the students were noteworthy. The branch is encouraged to reach out and hold more events in other schools.
IEEE EDS HIT Student Chapter:
Organized Tech Fest" Symphony", on 03 March, 2012, at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata in collaboration with IEEE EDS Chapter, Kolkata Section. Organized Two day workshop on “Sixth Sense Botz”—Vision and Gesture Control Robotics Workshop, 18th‐19th. April, 2012 at HIT, Kolkata, This program was sponsored by ARK Techno Solutions, IEEE EDS Chapter, Kolkata Section. HIT SB organized one DLP on 8th April at HIT, Kolkata, two eminent speakers, 1. Prof R. Jindal, University of Lousiana, USA, 2. Dr. M. K. Radhakrishnan, NanoRel Corporation have delivered the lectures. The program was sponsored by EDS Kolkata Chapter.
SB of IIIT Bhubaneswar:
IIIT Bhubaneswar hosted the most anticipated technical festival “The IOTA fest” with pomp and gaiety. The amalgamation of the surfeit of students and various technical events added the motive of bringing the lot from inspired people. The certifications and sponsorship from various renowned organizations such as IEEE, The Gadgetic World, Emtech, Kyrion technologies Pvt Ltd and Indian Linux group brought towering success to the festival. That was a very levelheaded opportunity for the tech‐nauts and to enhance their docility.
SB of Jadavpur University:
SB Jadavpur University organized National Student Paper and Circuit Design Contest 2012 (NSPCDC 2012 in Collaboration with IEEE CAS Chapter on 04 Oct 2012. There were contest for paper presentation and Design model contest.
Awards were given to two best paper presentations, one according to best presentation and expression and the other according the work content. There were awards for two best design models. The first prize was for Very Innovative Design Using Microcontroller given to 4th year engineering students and the second prize was given to a second year engineering student based on originality in view of Semester and Simplicity of the Circuit that has used new concept using timer and decade counter only to design a traffic light controller.
A very interesting technical lecture was delivered by Prof.M.K. Naskar, ETCE Dept, Jadavpur University on the topic of “Custom Processor Design for Embedded Systems”. About 60 student participants enjoyed the lecture.
SB NIT Durgapur:
SB NIT Durgapur organized the International Conference on Emerging Trends, ICET 2012 on 11 April 2012.
SB of SIT:
SB SIT organized 2nd Annual Tech ‐ Quizzard 2012, an intra college technical quiz competition on 11 April in its campus. About 100 teams were joined among which six teams have been selected for the final. Best three team are awarded by P.K. Routray, Ex‐Director, Nalco.
B.4 E‐mail and Newsletter Activities, Home Page
Number of hard print newsletter: None, it is discontinued.
Number of electronic Newsletter: 01. It is circulated to all members in December and also posted in the Section website.
Section, Chapters and Student Branches Web Pages:
IEEE Kolkata Section website has been actively updated throughout the year. Its URL is – www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/kolkata.
All the Chapters and Affinity Groups website are linked to the Section.
All e‐notices and activity reports are regularly updated in the website.
B.5 Awards & Accolades: PES Chapter received “High Performance Chapter award for 2011” from IEEE PES
headquarters.
IAS Chapter received “Continuing Outstanding Small Chapter award for 2011” from IEEE IAS headquarters. This chapter have got consecutive three years award.
B.6 Chapter Activities Total Active Chapter: 11
Total Affinity Groups: 02
AP‐MTT Chapter organized the following programs:
Outreach Program on 20 Jan 2012 at Siliguri Institute of Technology, Prof D. Guha delivered the 1st lecture on “125 years of Antenna”. Prof. Guha coveredinteresting fundamental concepts of antenna and itschronology to the modern day smart antennain his talk. Mr. Chinmoy Saha, Swami Vivekananda Institute of Science and Technology andchapter secretary delivered a lecture on an emerging topic entitled “Engineered Materials:Concepts and Studies ”. The lecture meeting was attended by around 40 students participants of the host Institute.
India Antenna Week on May 27‐31’ 2012 at Hotel Royal Plaza, Gangtok, Sikkim, India, during May
27‐31, 2012. This was a strategic location for attracting bright young antenna researchers from the North Eastern part of India. IAW 2012 was organized by the IEEE APMTT Kolkata Chapter, in association with UGC‐NRCPS, University of Kolkata. About 70 participants, including young researchers, technical experts, and IEEE delegates, attended this five‐day workshop.
A two day workshop on Microwave Circuits was held at NSHM Knowledge campus Durgapur on 8th
and 9th September 2012 in an effort to expand IEEE activities in the places beyond metropolis.
The young scientist colloquium of the chapter was organized on September 14’ 2012 at the Pearl Hotel, Kolkata. The colloquium coincided with the visit of Dr. Peter Staecker, IEEE President Elect to India who graced the occasion to the delight of the young participants.
A Two days Workshop on PLANAR ANTENNA was organized by IEEE AP MTT Joint Chapter Kolkata
Section, as a part of its outreach program, in National Institute of Science & Technology, Palur Hills, Berhampur from 22nd to 23rd September 2012. In the inauguration, Prof. N. Das and Prof. A. K. Panda addressed the participants as the Honorary Chair and Chair of the Workshop respectively. Besides them, Prof. R. K. Mishra, the Chairman of IEEE AP‐MTT Kolkata Chapter introduced various activities of the Chapter and highlighted the benefits of being a member of the Chapter. The total no of delegates who participated in the workshop was 48.
The Circuits and Systems (CAS) Chapter is probably the smallest Chapter under IEEE Kolkata Section. This Chapter organizes several activities like:
Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) at Future Institute of Engineering & Management, Sonarpur, on 06 Feb 2012. Dr. P. K. Meher, Senior Scientist, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore on the topic “Algorithm‐Architecture Co‐Design for DSP Applications”. There were about 80 participants and the students were overwhelmed with the presentation from Dr. Meher.
CAS organized 14 Technical Lecture Meetings in different areas such as Wikipedia, Information Theory, Testing of Semiconductor Devices, Cloud Computing, Statistical Communication, Photonic Crystal Fiber, Unified Communications, Dielectric Resonator Antenna, Approximation Algorithm, OP‐AMP Circuits, Broadband Wireless Networks, and Window based FIR Filter Design, Pulse‐Shaping Filters and CORDIC based FIR Filter Design throughout the year 2012.
CIS Chapter organized the following programs:
Technical Meetings:
The first IEEE CIS Chapter meeting was held in May 28, 2012 to approve a seminar presentation by Debraj De, a Ph.D. student of Georgia State University, USA in ETCE dept., JU.
The second CIS Chapter meeting was held on June 20, 2012 to approve the proposal of presentation in a seminar by Dr. Basabdatta Sen Bhattacharya of University of Lincoln, UK in ETCE dept., JU.
The third chapter meeting was organized on 22nd June to finalize the seminar presentation by Prof. Joydeep Ghosh of University of Texas at Austin, USA in ETCE dept., JU.
The fourth meeting of the IEEE CIS Kolkata Chapter was held on 2nd July to discuss the modality of organizing a two days’ seminar in St. Thomas’ college of Engineering and Technology (STCET) jointly by the IEEE CIS Kolkata Chapter and STCET.
The fifth meeting of IEEE CIS Kolkata Chapter was held on August 16, 2012 to consider the feasibility of organizing a seminar at Orissa Engineering College in October, 2012 and B. C. Roy College of Engineering at Durgapur in November, 2012.
Seminar and Workshops: The first seminar of the CIS Chapter of IEEE Kolkata Section by Mr. Debraj De, a Ph.D. candidate of
Georgia State University, USA was held in ETCE dept., Jadavpur University on 3rd July, 2012. The topic of the presentation was on Knowledge Mining from Wireless Sensor Networks.
The second seminar of the CIS Chapter of IEEE Kolkata Section by Dr. Basabdatta Sen Bhattacharya of University of Lincoln, UK was organized at Amitava Dey Memorial Hall of CSE dept., JU. The title of the seminar was Neural Mass Computational Model to Mimic Electroencephalogram in Neurological Disorders.
The third seminar of the CIS Chapter of IEEE Kolkata Section by Prof. Joydeep Ghosh of University of Texas, Austin, USA was organized at Amitava Dey Memorial Hall of CSE dept., JU. The topic of the presentation was Actionable Mining of Large Multi‐relational Data Using Localized Predictive Models.
The fourth seminar on Computational Intelligence in Information Systems, Imaging and Security (CIISIS’ 2012) was jointly organized by IEEE CIS Kolkata Chapter and St. Thomas’ College of Engineering and Technology on 3‐4 August, 2012.
The fifth seminar on Foundations and Advances in Computational Intelligence was organized jointly by IEEE CIS Chapter and Orissa Engineering College on 12th October, 2012 at Orissa Engineering College.
The last seminar and Workshop on Cognitive Science‐An Emerging Paradigm was organized jointly by IEEE CIS Kolkata Chapter and Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College on 12th November at the college itself.
ComSoc Chapter Organized several types of Programs throughout 2012 as given under:
Technical Co‐Sponsored: Department of Computer Sc. & Engg. of Indian School of Mines,, Dhanbad organized the 1st Int’l Conf. on “Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT–2012)” at ISM, Dhanbad during 15‐17 March 2012. Two tutorials were organized on 15th March 2012. A total of 44 and 89 Participants were attended Tutorial I and II respectively. 174 papers were presented during 22 technical sessions on March 16 & 17, 2012. A total of 308 participants registered for the Conference of which 45 are IEEE Members, and 263 are non‐IEEE Members.
One‐Day Tutorial Lecture: IEEE RACOMS 2012 in Collaboration with: Dept. of Electronics & Tele‐Comm. Engg., Jadavpur University – JU on the theme of Recent Advances on Communication Systems on March 17, 2012 at Dr. K. P. Basu Memorial Hall, JU Main Campus, No. of Participants: IEEE Members – 23, Non‐IEEE Members – 33; Total = 56.
Technical Lecture Programs: on Revisiting ABCD Matrix in Microwave Circuit Analysis Paradigm, by Rowdra Ghatak, and Manimala Pal, at Bengal Institute of Technology and Management (BITM), Santiniketan, on 12 May 2012.
Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Designing Microstrip Antenna and Filter by Partha Pratim Sarkarat BITM on 12 May 2012.
Second Lecture Meeting on the topic “ Some studies on the design and FPGA implementation of HF RFID Transponder, by S. S. Pahari, on 14 June 2012 at Jadavpur University.
Two Day National Workshop on Recent Trends in Communication Systems – NWRTCS 2012 Aug. 11
& 12, 2012 at of Dept. Electronics & Communication Engineering Birbhum Institute of Engineering & Technology Suri, Birbhum.
Student’s Paper Contest: “Ethical Hacking : Issues & Challenges (EHIC 2012) ” on November 20, 2012
at Dr. B.C Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India.
Technical co‐sponsored with Computer Society of India (CSI)‐2012: 47 th Annual Convention : CSI Kolkata Chapter , Dec.1‐2, 2012, Sc. City, Kolkata , Convention Event : Int’l Conf. on Intelligent Infrastructure.
2012 International Conference on Communications, Devices and Intelligent Systems (CODIS) in
collaboration with ETCE Dept. Jadavpur University, on December 28 & 29, 2012. Computer Chapter Organized several Programs throughout 2012 as given under:
Technical Lectures:
On the topics, “VLSI Research Scopes” by Prof. Dipankar Nag Chaudhury, DAIIT, Ahmedabad, India, on21 Feb 2012
“P vs NP”, by Malay Chakraborty of Dept. of C.S.E., Jadavpur University, India, on 27 Feb 2012.
“Distributed Consensus” by Prof. Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA, on 15 Mar 2012.
“Distributed Systems”, by Prof. Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA, on 19 Mar 2012.
“Cloud Computing: The Next Revolution in Information Technology” by Prof. Rajkumar Buyya, Director, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab, The University of Melbourne, Australia and CEO, Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne, Australia, on 28 Nov 2012.
The DVLP was organized in Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata on June 29, 2012. The lecture on “"Testing and Design‐for‐Testability for 3D Integrated Circuits" was delivered by Prof. Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke University, USA.
The Summer School in collaboration with WIE/AG on Algorithms, Data Structures and Programming was held during 11 – 15 June, 2012 at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. This event was designed to serve as a career booster program for undergraduate engineering students (with preference to motivated women students from weaker socio‐economic background) of computer science, electronics and information technology.
DEIS Kolkata Chapter organized the following programs in 2012: Technical Lecture Meeting:
On the topic “Gas Insulated Substations” delivered by Prof. Sivaji Chakravorti, Jadavpur University , on 11 Aug 2012 at Pailan College of Management and Technology. There were 84 participants in this lecture meeting, out of which 13 were IEEE members.
Educational Activity: Lecture was delivered on “Testing of Insulation Integrity of High Voltage Equipment” by Mr. Ashoke Chakraborty , Sr. Manager, Kolkata Electric Supply Corporation Ltd, 18 Aug 2012, at Academy of Technology, Adiaptagram. There were 113 participants in this lecture meeting, comprising large number of students. There were 26 IEEE members present in this educational meeting.
Student Activity: “ Gas Insulated Transmission Lines” by Prof. Sivaji Chakravorti, Jadavpur University, on 25 Aug 2012, at Budge Budge Institute of Technology. There were 81 participants in this lecture meeting, comprising 64 students.
Seminar: IEEE DEIS Kolkata Chapter is a collaborator of the 1st IEEE International Conference on
Power and Energy in NERIST, 2012 held on December 28‐29, 2012 at North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh.
Distinguished Lecturer Programme: Prof. Markus Zahn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA, delivered a talk on “Multiphysics Modeling of Streamer Discharges in Transformer Oil‐Pressboard Systems” at ICPEN‐2012 at NERIST in Dec 2012.
EDS Chapter organized:
Technical talk on “ Advances in Eelectronics seen through interdisciplinary research in Microelectronics and Micro‐electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)” on 1st. august by Mr. Souvik Das Gupta (Technical Consultant, ESL) and Mr. Abhishek Mallik (partner, ESL and Director, Radha Krishna Controls)
Technical Talk on “VLSI Design and Memory” by Dibyendu Kayal, (SM Silicon India Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad) on 7th. November, 2012
Technical Talk on “ Exploration of Two Dimensional Channel Materials for Next Generation CMOS Technology” on 23rd November, 2012 by Amretashis Sengupta, Nano Scale Device Research laboratory, IISc. Bangalore
Technical talk on “ Current Trends in MOS Non‐Volatile Memories: Nanoscale Engineering & Emerging Devices” on by 23rd November, 2012 by Amretashis Sengupta, Nano Scale Device Research laboratory, IISc. Bangalore.
DL Talk on : “ Past and Future of Micro/Nano‐Electronic Devices” by H. Iwai, Japan, on 28 May 2012, at IEM Salt Lake.
EDS South Asia Chapter Chairs meeting on 08 April 2012 (Sunday) at BhubaTwo day workshop on SixthSense Botz”—Vision and Gesture Control Robotics Workshop, 18th‐19th. April, 2012.
Mini Colloquium, WIMNACT 33, NIT, Imphal, Manipur, India on 30th. April an 1st. May 2012, Topic: Future of Nano‐ electronics.
Seminar on “ MOSFET and Interconnect Inductor Modeling for CMOS VLSI Design” by Prof. A. B. Bhattacharya on 16th. October, 2012 at HIT, Kolkata.
The First Meeting of GRSS held on 4 December 2012 at the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, Kolkata 700009. Prof. Animesh Maitra, Organizing Chair, delivered a talk on “GRSS Activities: Perspectives and Prospects in the Indian Scenario”.
Lecture Meeting of GRSS on "Critical Assessment of the Historical Development of Radar Polarization Technology towards Radar Polarimetry culminating in Fully Polarimetric & Polarimetric‐
Interferometric SAR" held at Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics on 20 December 2012, delivered by Professor W.M. Boerner, Professor Emeritus and Director , UIC‐ECE Comm, Sensing & Navigation Laboratory.
Two‐days Workshop on " POLSAR Remote sensing & Multi‐modal Radar” organized by GRSS in collaboration with Electronics and Communication Technology Department, Gauhati University, Guwahati , during 21‐22 December 2012.
IA Chapter organized the following technical lecture meetings on:
11th January, 2012 on the topic of “Nuclear Power Plants” Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Bengal Engg. & Sc. University, Shibpur, Howrah. Talk was delivered by Mr. Nihar (Neil) Ray, Leader, Advanced Reactor Program, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
28th March, 2012, on the topic of “Three Phase Induction Motors & Variable Frequency Drives : Genesis & Present Status” at Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Bengal Engg. & Sc. University, Shibpur, Howrah., delivered by Mr. Ananda Majumdar, GM Business Development & Technical Services, Marathon Electric Motors (India) Ltd., Kolkata. 48 participants were there.
30th August, 2012, Power Quality Issues In IT / Data Centre Loads And Harmonic Management Using Shunt Active Filters, delivered by Mr. R. Chellappan, Managing Director, Swelect Energy Systems Ltd. (formerly Numeric Power Systems Ltd), Chennai.
IA Kolkata Chapter has also organized a short‐term course on ‘Power Electronics Applications in
Industry’ jointly with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Bengal Engineering & Science University (B.E.S.U), Shibpur, Howrah, India‐711103 during June 19‐23, 2012.
The PES Chapter of Kolkata section has organized three technical lecture meetings and onenational seminar in the year 2012. Technical Meeting:
First lecture meeting was organized in collaboration with Electrical Engineering Department of Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU), Shibpur, Kolkata, on 17th February, 2012, at Electrical Engineering Department seminar room of BESU. Prof. Michael Finkel of University of
Applied Sciences of Augsburg, Germany, had delivered his lecture on “Renewable Energies – Impacts on the Grid”. The program was attended by 46 student participants along with 08 faculty members.
On 03rd October 2012, the second lecture meeting was organized at the seminar room of Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Garia, Kolkata. Prof. Sugata Munshi, Electrical Engineering Department of Jadavpur University delivered a lecture on “Programmable Logic Controllers”. This lecture meeting was organized in collaboration with Electrical Engineering Department of Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Garia, Kolkata. Altogether 62 participants including 4 IEEE professional members were attended the lecture meeting.
On 29 th November, 2012 at the Seminar Room of High Tension Laboratory of Jadavpur University.
Dr. Biswendu Chatterjee, of Jadavpur University had shared some of his experiences on “Some Practical Methods of Implementing Circuit Design”. Along with 4 IEEE member, 11 participants were attended the program.
National Seminar:
In technical collaboration with Department of Applied Physics of Kolkata University of Kolkata, a one day National seminar on “Sensors and their Networking” was organized on 25th February, 2012. The program was held at CRNN Auditorium of Salt lake Campus of Kolkata University. In total 89 participants from academia and industry made the technical seminar as grant success.
Student Activities on IEEE Video Show on 21st August, 2012. Industrial Visit: To learn the practical aspects of power engineering profession, a technical visit to the
True‐Volt Engg. Co. (P) Ltd, a transformer manufacturing company situated at Rajpunja, 24 Pgs(S) at the outskirts of Kolkata, was organized by the chapter for benefit Research Scholars and Post Graduate students on 4th September, 2012. Altogether 23 participants took part in this visit.
Educational Activities: Applied Physics Department of Kolkata University, in technical collaboration with Chapter had organized a Two‐days National workshop on “Advanced Control” on 2‐3 July 2012.
To utilize the freely available useful softwares, a half day workshop was conducted on 04th
December 2012 at Computational Laboratory of High Tension Laboratory, Jadavpur University. In continuation with Technical Lecture – III, Dr. Biswendu Chatterjee, had demonstrated and given hands on training on “Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor (EAGLE)” software, which may be used for making Printed Circuit Board.
Photonics Society has organized 07 technical lecture meetings on different topics those are given under in which the last two lectures were collaborated with CUSB:
“Nanoprobe antenna: Nano‐Photonics to Optical Tweezers” by – Dr. Samir K. Mondal, CSIR, Chandigarh‐30, India, Participants: 96
“Photonics in Technical Education and Activities of Nation Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research (NITTTR), Kolkata” – Prof. Anuradha De, Dept. of Science, NITTTR, Kolkata, India, 42.
“Self‐assembled Quantum Dot based devices for Biomedical imaging” – Prof. Richard Hogg, Univ. Of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK., 38.
“Fabrication of Integrated Bragg Gratings for CWDM” – Prof. Utpal Das, Dept. of Elec. Engg., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, UP, India.18.
“Optahlmic use of LASERs” – Dr. Manish Singh and Dr. Krishnendu Nandy, Aditya Birla Shankra Netralaya, Kolkata, India.50
“Towards spatial control of Surface Plasmons excited by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy “ – Mr. Samik Mukherjee, Ecole Polytechnique, France.13
“Silicon Nanowire based radial junction Solar Cell“ – Mr. Soumyadeep Misra, Ecole Polytechnique, France.
GOLD AG organized two lecture meetings as given:
“Program on Strategic decision making for effectively managing an enterprise : An Engineers Task”, by Mr. A . K . PANI Ex‐ Deputy General Manager & Regional Head (EAST), Agricultural Finance Corporation, on 5 Mar 2012, at CSE Jadavpur University.
“ Distributed Consensus” by Prof. Sukumar Ghosh University of IOWA on 19 March 2012, at Amitava Dey Memorial Hall , Dept. of CSE, Jadavpur University.
"Application Of Sensor in Mining Industry", Prof.(Dr.) S. Jayanthu , Mining Engg. Dept., NIT Rourkela, Purushottam Institute of Engineering and Technology, Rourkela, Odisha. This program was in in association with International conference on CCSN_2012.
One Day Seminar on Cloud Computing, by Dr. Sourav Dutta , IBM Pvt Ltd, India, on 31 March 2012. At Techno India College Of Technology , New Town , Kolkata.
One‐day Professional Development Program on Recent Advances in Computer Vision and its Applications on August 27, 2012 at K P Bose Memorial Hall of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Dr. P. Mitra, Dept. of Computer Sc. & Engg., IIT Kharagpur and Prof. D. P. Mukherjee of Electronics and Comm. Sc. Unit, Indian Statistical Institute have delivered two wonderful lectures.
WIE AG organized a Summer School on Algorithms, Data Structures and Programming held on 11 – 15 June, 2012 at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in collaboration with Computer Society Chapter of the Section. This event was a major activity for the small yet motivated group of women engineers. It was designed to serve as a career booster program.
WIE AG sponsored awards for the Best Poster in the PhD Forum of the 16th International
Symposium on VLSI Design and Test held at Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, India.
WIE AG sponsored award for the Best Poster by a student at the 5th International Conference on Computers and Devices for Communication. On December 17 and 18, a panel of experts evaluated the 41 short oral presentation and the poster demonstration by fulltime student authors to select candidate for the best poster paper award and two for certificate of appreciation.
Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) is formed first time in Kolkata Section
with 7 members and Prof. Iti Saha Misra is the Chairperson for this group.
The first program of SIGHT on Low Cost Low Bandwidth Remote Virtual Educational Platform for underserved, under IEEE Kolkata Section has been practically demonstrated in front of 20 IEEE members on 30 Nov 2012 at Broadband Wireless Communication Laboratory, involving 3 rooms and one sitting room of the coordinator, Prof. Iti Saha Misra, in a separate building acted as the Server Room.
The objective of the project is to provide remote classroom teaching where at a time considerable number of students can be served for the primary level of education and/or to a higher level of
teaching assistance where availability of resources is the problem. An Internet based solution that assumes computer facilities at the end points is the main concept. Simultaneous use of more than one educational centre is possible in this platform.
Audio visual advancing controls are maintained from the central Server node (Teacher’s Room) from where only voice is broadcast, reducing the requirement of the communication bandwidth considerably. The voice will be streamed and the keystrokes controlling the presentation will be communicated along with the voice, feeling real time effect of the presentation.
The technology can assist the physically challenged people and empower them to be part of the mainstream life with the facility of remote class room teaching. The second program of SIGHT was demonstrated on a workshop on “Dignity in Disability: Women In Focus”, jointly organized by Jadavpur University and National Institute for the Orthopaedically Handicapped, on 10 th Dec 2012.
PART C – GOALS and PLANS
C.1 Goals Retention of existing members through membership development programs like elevation to Senior Member grade, recognizing the efforts of active members by awarding them citations or personalized plaques.
Increasing activities of section by arranging more lecture meetings, not necessarily technical but also on public affairs, professional activities, and educational trips for students to nearby industries.
To spread the message of IEEE within the geographical area under the jurisdiction of Kolkata Section.
To increase the involvement of more women members for the office bearers for the Section.
C.2 Implementation Plans Institution of awards in the following category:
a) Best Chapter Award based on yearly activity.
b) Organizing frequent one day program involving branch counselors from all student branches.
c) Involving more and more young members in interactive sessions.
d) More programs on the practical aspects of IEEE technology for day‐to‐day use.
e) Increasing the student activities through the collaborative work of Student Branches along with the Section, Chapters and AGs.
PART D – OTHERS
D.1 Relationship with National Societies The relationship with National Societies like The Institution of Engineers (India), The Institute of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers India, Computer Society of India is cordial.
D.2 Special Events Milestone Programs: Two IEEE Milestone Plaque dedication ceremonies held on Sept 15, 2012. It was indeed a matter of great honour and prestige for our section that the first two IEEE Milestones in India were dedicated to the works of Prof. J.C.Bose and Prof. C.V.Raman at Presidency University and Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, respectively, by Dr. Peter Staecker, IEEE President‐Elect.
R10 Seminar and Meeting during 2‐4 March 2012.
D.3 Concern Areas and Suggestions Number of members from industry is low Student member retention is low Involvement of members in section activities not as per expectation Quantum of student activity is low Recognition of outstanding achievement of student members Social and outreach activities involving student members Mentoring and activating student branches Increased participation of section volunteers in national and international committees Nominating
deserving volunteers of the section for IEEE awards and recognitions