Synapse 2011 Issue 3

“Engineering Sustainable Solutions”, INDICON 2011, the 2011 IEEE India conference in the making.

 

 

 

December 16 – 18, 2011

BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad

 

 

 

 

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world’s largest scientific and technical society with a membership of around 400,000 members located in over 160 countries.  IEEE celebrated its 125^th year couple of years back all over the world. Outside United States, India is having the largest membership in IEEE. IEEE INDICON is a prestigious annual conference of the IEEE India Council that is being held since 2004. This year IEEE INDICON will be held in BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus from Dec 16-18, 2011, organized by IEEE Hyderabad Section which has more than 4000 members in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

INDICON covers the fields of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Life Sciences, Technology Management among other areas of discipline of the IEEE. The conference brings together researchers, academicians and professionals in the fields of engineering from all over India to share their original research work and contributions. The proceedings of the conference are published through the IEEE Xplore after the conference.

Communication through conversations is the current trend. When in August IEEE INDICON 2011 Face Book page was launched,  the response from FB users was instantaneous and some of the comments that read on the page are

“awaiting to submitting my abstract” and “eagerly waiting for the conf.”.

 INDICON 2011 released the call for papers on June 1 2011 and the news spread like wild fire and the INDICON 2011 FB page when launched saw comments like

 “Is there any extension for the last date of submission?  Please be informed earlier. I am keen about Indicon-2011.Thank you in advance.”

 People started to get involved in submitting abstracts and asking questions on extension of deadlines. Soon after the deadline had expired few of the INDICON 2011 enthusiast commented

 “Eagerly waiting for results” and “When will be the review results out??”

 Soon INDICON 2011 released a teaser video on August 24.. On October 18 the results were released and the comments started flowing like

 “I am so happy that my paper got selected in IEEE INDICON 2011 ….. I am so much eager to meet you all…. Congratulation to others whose paper got selected” and “Congrats to each and every one whose papers got selected for INDICON2011.. we will meet soon….. thanks to BITS Hyderabad.”

 With the feedback results announced the participants were having a pleasant surprise to see a new look of the INDICON 2011 website which mirrored its theme “Engineering Sustainable Solutions”. October 26 INDICON site was opened for registrations for “authors only” and the users got more curious and the FB page was engaged with such discussions like

 “ this is the 1st time am presenting a paper somewhere. Can someone please tell me the difference between a presentation session and a dialogue session.  also if my paper is selected for a dialog session does it still get published??  ”- Keshad D.Malegam

 for which  an organizing committee member replied,

 “Papers from BOTH sessions are accepted and will get the same space in the  proceedings and IEEE Xplore. Generally what happens in a typical presentation session is that an author presents and the audience listens and session chair allows one or two questions at the end. Actually in dialogue session the presenter and the audience can initiate more dialogue based on mutual interest and it is not limited by the (artificial) time limit set by session chair”.

The activity continues on the FB page as the users were introduced to an innovative Social Engagement and Promotions Platform known as CubuuZZ, customised for Indicon and powered by Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., in late October.

Apart from conference presentations INDICON 2011 also has poster sessions and tutorials & workshops. The conference will also witness some of the eminent speakers for key note and plenary sessions and invited talks. Dr. Gordon Day, IEEE President-Elect, 2011 and 2012 IEEE Computer Society President, Mr. John Walz have consented to attend and participate in this program.

This conference is all set to be a place for networking platform for researchers as well as practioners in India. The conference also has a few cultural programs planned during its 3-day schedule.

To get the students more involved, the conference has launched a Video Contest. The theme of the video should match the Indicon 2011 conference theme “Engineering Sustainable Solutions”. The winners will be announced during Indicon 2011.
For more details please follow the link http://bit.ly/oDufiU

INDICON Website: http://indicon2011.org/

Face Book:  IEEE INDICON 2011

Linked In:  IEEE INDICON 2011

Twitter: IEEEINDICON11

 

Everyone thinks Social Net is for fun and sharing to private groups or public, but also helps in spreading the important messages around. It also helps the organisers to sense the pulse of the netizens to design the programs, suitably.

Awards/ Laurels:

1.  Prof. B L Deekshatulu, Life Fellow IEEE Hyderabad Section received the CHEN Shupeng Award from the Asian Association on Remote Sensing (AARS) at the 32^nd Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS), Taipei on 3^rd October, 2011 for his outstanding contributions to the field of Remote Sensing. He was also the recipient of the National Award for Ocean Science and Technology presented by the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India. The press release and citation for the same can be found on http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=73513.
2.  The IEEE Hyderabad WIE Affinity Group bagged the 2011 IEEE Region 10 Women In Engineering Affinity Group of the year Award.
3.  The Synapse Editorial Board Congratulates the IEEE HITAM SB, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad whose entry for the IEEE Day Photo Contest was voted as one of the best 10 photographs from among a numerous entries received.

IEEE Hyderabad Section News:

1.   Com/SP Chapter:

25^th July, 2011:

A Half-day tutorial on Network Coding by Dr. Bikash Kumar Dey, IIT-Bombay was organized on 25^th July, 2011 at the CR Rao AIMSCS Conference Hall, UoH. The tutorial focused on the basic principles and results of network coding touching upon the applications and theoretical connections with other areas.

 

22^nd October, 2011:

A distinguished lecture on Fundamentals and Advances in MIMO Communication by Prof. Marco Chaini, University of Bologna, Italy was organized on 22^nd October, 2011 at the OU College of Engineering. Prof. Chaini in due course of the lecture spoke about multiple antenna systems and how they can exploit the spatial resources to mitigate multipath and reduce multiuser interface thus increasing the spectral efficiency. The lecture also focused on the basic principles and applications of multiple antenna systems including MIMO and distributed MIMO and their analysis based on random matrix theory.

 

2.   CS Chapter: 

6^th August, 2011:

The IEEE Hyderabad CS Chapter in association with Padmasri B V Raju Institute of Technology, Narsapur organized a one day workshop on Behaviour Driven Development with Ruby on Rails on 6^th October, 2011 at the BVRIT Campus, Narsapur by Mr. Arun Vydianathan and Mr. Suresh Iyer. The prime objectives of the workshop were to introduce the concept of Ruby on Rails with a brief introduction to the Ruby Language followed by a hands-on session for the participants to build a simple Rails Application.

The post-lunch session of the workshop comprised of an introduction to Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) mentioning its advantages over the Test Driven Development (TDD). BDD with Rails using Cucumber and RSpec were also touched upon. To support the lecture further, another hands-on session on to build Rail Applications with BDD were also held.

 

16^th October, 2011:

IEEE Hyderabad Computer Society Chapter held an IEEE Computer Society Student Officer Meet 2011 on 16^th October, 2011 at TCS, KLK Building, Basheerbagh. This session was based on the All India CS officers meet held last year at the same venue, but with a focus on student leadership and specifically so for the CS Chapters. The event was extremely well received with Padmaprabodh Ambale, Madhav Negi and Aditya Rao being the trainers. Mr. Narayana gave the inaugural address.

The event was attended by about 21 student leaders from 4 different colleges (ATRI, SNIST, MJCET & VBIT); unfortunately students from Vizag and Warangal could not attend due to agitations. Also in the participants were the IEEE CS Student Chapter faculty mentors.

 

3.   PES/IAS/PLES Chapter 

30^th July, 2011:

IEEE Hyderabad PES/ IAS/ PELS Joint Chapter in association with the Muffakham Jha College of Engineering and Technology organised half-day tutorial on Applications of Modern Adjustable Speed Drive Systems and Advanced Converters for Renewable Energy Systems by Dr. Prasad Enijeti, Texas A&M University, Texas on 30^th July, 2011 at MJCET Campus, Hyderabad. The tutorial aimed to provide to participants an insight into the applications of the adjustable speed drives and their control strategies. Dr. Prasad stated that process control and energy conservation are the two primary reasons to opt for adjustable speed drives.

Dr. Prasad also spoke about the global energy scenario specially mentioning the renewable energy resources detailing on Solar, Wind and Fuel Cells and the power converters such as micro-inverters, MPPT algorithms and their applications.

18^th August, 2011:

IEEE Hyderabad PES/IAS/PELS Joint Chapter in association with the International Society for Automation, Hyderabad Chapter organized a technical lecture on ISA Standards for Industrial Security (ISA 99) and Wireless Networks in Industrial Automation (ISA 100) by Mr. Sharad Karve, Sr. Manager – Projects, Cognizant Technology Solutions. The lecture covered various aspects of the ISA 99 & ISA 100 with a brief overview of the specifics of the NERC – CIP standards for infrastructure protection.

 

26^th – 27^th August, 2011:

The IEEE Hyderabad PES/IAS/PELS Joint Chapter in association with Mahindra Satyam organized Two Day National Seminar on “Nanotechnology – its future and applications in Energy sector”. The event was partially funded by DRDO HQ, Delhi. The event witnessed an overwhelming participation of around 270 delegates from Academia, Industries, Governmental organizations, R&D Institutions and NGOs.  It was an opportunity for all to learn about this emerging area by gathering expertise from diverse backgrounds – researchers, academicians and practicing engineers brought together. The event also served as an ideal platform for dissemination of ideas, discussions, latest industry technology trends, networking and exchange challenges in Nanotechnology pertinent to Energy arena.

Prominent speakers Dr. Muraleedharan (DRDO), Prof. Ramgopal Rao (IITB), Dr. Kulvir Singh (BHEL R&D) Dr. Pratyay Basak (IICT), Dr. Raghunandan Seelaboyina (BHEL), Dr. Shanmugasundaram Sakthivel (ARCI), Dr. Sukumar Roy (BHEL), Mr. Puneet Mehrotra (NSTC), Dr. Manoj Kumar (BHEL), Dr. Lingamallu Giribabu (IICT), Dr. Ravula Vijay (ARCI), Dr. Amit Kumar (DNA BioAxis) unfurled the intricacies of Nanotechnology. The event also showcased exhibits such as nano-bulletproof armor cloth, wireless thwarting materials, carbon nano-tubes etc., from leading Industries. The exhibits came handy in experiencing the matter being explained in the sessions.  Two best ideas from students were recognized and appreciated during the ‘Idea Box’ campaign in the event.

Industry Leaders such as A S Murthy (CTO-MSat), Dr. Murleedharan & Dr. D B S Seti (Directors of Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO)), Sista Subrahmaniyum (CTM-MSat), Venkat Gajjala (Head-PEG, MSat) of Mahindra Satyam, Sh. V. Shekhar (Executive Director – Power Grid) participated in the inaugural session.

 

22^nd – 23^rd September, 2011:

The IEEE Hyderabad PES/IAS/PELS Joint Chapter organized a two day workshop on Recent Trends in Power Electronics and its Applications on 22^nd and 23^rd September, 2011 at the BVRIT Campus, Narsapur. The workshop focused on various topologies of multilevel inverters, control of multilevel inverters using various PWM methods like Sinusoidal PWM, Selective Harmonic Elimination, 60 degrees PWM, Space Vector Modulation etc., and their simulation in MATLAB/ SIMULINK.

 

4.   MTT/ AP/ EMC Chapter 

10^th September, 2011:

The IEEE Hyderabad MTT/ AP/ EMC Joint chapter in association with the Centre for Excellence in Microwave Engineering, Osmania University organized a one-day workshop on Antenna and Phased Array Design & Simulation on 10^th September, 2011 at the Dept. of ECE, University College of Engineering, OU Hyderabad. The workshop dealt with fundamentals of antenna design and phase array design also covering advanced topics such as the T/R modules and the Agilent Advanced Design Systems (ADS).

The morning session comprised of various lectures on Antenna Design fundamentals by Dr. M. Lakshminarayana, Sc-G, DLRL, Chairman, IEEE Hyd MTT/ AP/ EMC Joint Chapter, Phased Array Antenna fundamentals by Dr. D. R. Jahagirdar, Sc-F RCI, Overview on ADS software for Antenna Applications by M/s Agilent Technologies and Design & Simulation of phased array using ADS by Mr. Muthu Kumar, Astra Microwave Products Ltd. The post-lunch session comprised of two hands-on sessions for the participants to expertise on design and simulation of microstrip antennas and phased array antennas using ADS.

 

5.   CIS Chapter 

6^th August, 2011:

The IEEE Hyderabad Computational Intelligence Society Chapter organized an Inaugural Lecture on Computational Intelligence in Computational Biology by Prof. Allam Appa Rao, VC, JNTU-Kakinada on 6^th August, 2011 at the C V Raman Auditorium, UoH. The talk focused on basics of CI, its various divisions such as the neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, swarm and memetic computing etc. and their applications to the fields of Biology and Bioinformatics.

 

6^th August, 2011:

The IEEE Hyderabad Computational Intelligence Society Chapter organized a Distinguished Lecture on Making Fuzzy Rule Based System a Little more Comprehensible by Prof. Nikhil Pal, DL-CI, ISI-Kolkata on 6^th August, 2011 at UoH. The lecture primarily focused on presenting a methodology to deal with problems arising due to large number of attributes and dimensionality of conventional rule based system resulting in loss of comprehensibility of the fuzzy logic system. This mechanism can identify the attributes required to solve a problem discarding those redundant, derogatory and indifferent thereby enhancing the comprehensibility and performance of a fuzzy logic system.

 

6^th August, 2011:

The IEEE Hyderabad Computational Intelligence Society Chapter organized an expert lecture series comprising of two lectures on 6^th August, 2011 at the UoH. The first lecture on Sensory Systems in Natural World by Dr. Joby Joseph, CNCS, UoH focused on biology of sensory systems with two perspectives viz. electrophysiological investigation of functioning olfactory pathways and implementation of artificial binaural hearing.

The second lecture was on Introduction to Computational Intelligence and Applications in Bioinformatics by Dr. S. Bapi Raju, DCIS, UoH. In this talk, a brief introduction to various computational intelligence (CI) techniques such as Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, Genetic Algorithms and Rough sets are given. And application of CI techniques in enzyme class classification, promoter recognition and protein structure prediction are covered.

 

11^th August, 2011:

The Hyderabad ACM Chapter in association with the IEEE Hyderabad Computational Intelligence Society Chapter and Google R&D Research Centre organized a talk on Personal Genome Networks In Cancer Biology And Relationship To Page Rank Algorithm by Prof. Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, Cecil & Ida Green Chair in Systems Biology Science, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas (USA) on 11^th August, 2011 at the Google Campus, Hi-Tech City. The talk covered various aspects of page rank algorithm and gene regulatory networks in cancer biology, its progress in research and its relation with the page rank algorithm.

 

6.  Non Chapter Related Events:

13^th – 14^th August, 2011

The IEEE Hyderabad Section Student Congress is an annual flagship event of the IEEE Hyderabad section that encourages and brings the student community of the section under one roof. The SSC is an amalgam of technical talks, office bearers meet, brain storming sessions, training and networking sessions. The idea behind this congress is to bring together the student branch leaders, members and volunteers into one platform to share, interact and learn about student branch activities across the section. The congress has focused sessions on Student Branch Operations for the Student Branch officers and counselors.

This year, the SSC 2011 was held on 13th and 14th August, 2011 at Muffakham Jha College of Engineering, Hyderabad. The congress saw a participation of over 300 engineering students across Andhra Pradesh. The SSC 2011 commenced with an inaugural talk by Mr. M. G. P. L. Narayana, Chairman IEEE-Hyderabad Section on “Leadership Skills”. The first technical talk of the SSC 2011 was on Wi-Fi Direct – the New Protocol for Quick and Easy Wireless Connections by Mr. N. Venkatesh, Vice President of Advanced Technologies at Redpine Signals which provided a lot of insight on the technology. Following the talk by Mr. N. Venkatesh, Dr. Ramalatha Marriamuthu, Chair, IEEE-WIE addressed the gathering on opportunities for women in engineering and inspired the lady students to take up more challenging roles in the fields of engineering and technology. This was followed by a talk on Data Analytics by Mr. Ashfaq Shaik, TL, Information Management, Deloitte and an alumnus of MJCET giving insights on the different businesses that various organization run on.

It had been a tradition to nominate a few Student Branches for the “Vibrant Student Branch Award” and present the award during the SSC based on the stalls put up by the SBs detailing their achievements and laurels. The judging criteria is based on various aspects such as the IEEE member count, member retention rate, number and quality of events organized, effectiveness in reporting, technical contributions, etc. The Student Branches that were nominated this year are OU College Engineering, Hyderabad, IEEE ATRI SB, ATRI, Hyderabad, IEEE SNIST SB, SNIST, Hyderabad, IEEE MJCET SB, MJCET, Hyderabad, IEEE NIT-W SB, NIT-W, Warangal, IEEE Avanthi SB, Avanti College of Engineering, Warangal, IEEE SREC SB, SREC, Warangal, Jayamukhi College of Engineering, Warangal, ANITS, Vizag and Pydah College of Engineering, Vizag. These student branches were asked to present a case study on the activities in their student branches. Based on the stalls and the case study presentation displayed by the SBs, the review panel presented the IEEE Hyderabad Section Most Vibrant Student Branch Award jointly to IEEE NIT-W SB and IEEE MJCET SB. The IEEE ATRI SB was highly commended for their active participation in section events and the number of members associated with the IEEE ATRI SB volunteering at the section level.

Day 2 of the SSC 2011 started with a talk on “Introspecting Smart Grid – An India Perspective” by Mr. Mithun Bhaskar, Mahindra Satyam and GOLD Liaison to IEEE Hyderabad PES/ IAS/ PELS Joint Chapter. Following Mr. Mithun Bhaskar’s talk was a lecture on “Internet of Things” by Mr. Thaddeus Paul Kochanski, President and Chief Scientist Vital Electronics Institute, Inc., MIT and Dr. Andrzej Rucinskiv Prof. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Hampshire. The speakers spoke on bringing together the virtual world and the real world and how the interaction can take place between both these things. The third session of the day was by Mr. Ravikanth Reddy, Special Correspondent from THE HINDU, Education Plus. It was an interactive session where the students were given glimpse of the world or Journalism. Later, Mr. Prasanna Venkatesan, IEEE R10 GINI Coordinator and member, IEEE EAB spoke on the benefits and opportunities on becoming an IEEE member.

The pre-valedictory session consisted of a panel discussion on “What an Undergraduate Student must choose after his/her graduation – a job or higher education”. The session went on for about 45 minutes with students expressing their doubts and the panel giving their views.

During the valedictory ceremony, the IEEE NIT-W and IEEE MJCET SBs, the joint recipients of the IEEE Hyderabad Section Vibrant Student Branch Award were presented with the award and certificates followed by appreciating 15 Outstanding Student Volunteers in the section by presenting them with the Certificates of Appreciation. The vote of thanks was delivered by Mr. Karthik Siddavaram, the Section Student Representative. The congress concluded in high spirits as the participant had a lot of knowledge to gain and experiences to remember and share. The participants and dignitaries congratulated the organizing committee of Section Student Congress 2011 lead by Prof. P. Srihari, Student Activities Chair, IEEE Hyderabad Section and Mr. Karthik Siddavaram.

The second flagship event of the IEEE Hyderabad Section is the Faraday Memorial Lecture (FML) organized in September every year to commemorate the father of engineering, Michael Faraday’s birth anniversary. The first FML was held in the year 1991 and has been an integral part of the IEEE Hyderabad Section’s annual calendar ever since. It comprises of a lecture of duration 90 to 120mins by an expert in the fields of electrical engineering, electromagnetic field theory and compatibility, control and automation systems, etc.

The 21^st FML on Smart Grids by the Father of Indian Software Industry, Dr. Fakir Chand Kohli, FIEEE, Fellow IET, Fellow IE (India) was organized on 22^nd September, 2011 at the Bhaskara Auditorium, B M Birla Science Centre, Khairtabad.

The talk commenced with Dr. Kohli explaining what a Smart Grid means and its basic principles and requirements. He mentioning smart metering as one of the prime requirements of a smart grid explaining that it is a two way operation where the meter not only relays the consumer’s energy usage to the supply points but also, it interacts with the utility information on how the consumer is using electricity allowing the consumers to take advantage of the time-of-use tariffs. He also explained how the use of smart metering and sensors leads to a high degree of substations and distribution automation and the possibility of feeding the excess and surplus power back to the grid hence reducing the power wastage.

Dr. Kohli also mentioned that currently IBM and other companies are developing a Smart Grid Cloud which corresponds to the Cloud Computing in the field of Information Technology which will enable renewable energy resources to be connected to the grid with increased feasibility and performance.

He spoke of various alternative energy sources such as the Gasifiers, Biogas, Biofuels, Non-edible Oil Seeds, Solar, Solar Thermal and Wind energy. He then mentioned the priorities in India to establish a smart grid which includes redesigning the complete distribution and substation systems and the use of smart metering systems for automation of the distribution systems.

Dr. Kohli concluded his talk mentioning the various research opportunities on smart grids in India.

 

26^th September, 2011:

A Distinguished Lecture Programme on Biometrics: The Technology behind India’s Unique ID Project by Dr. Rangachar Kasturi, University of South Florida was organized on 26^th September, 2011 at TCS, Deccan Park. During the talk, Dr. Kasturi outlined the motive and process behind the India’s UID Aadhaar card. He presented a brief overview of the pattern recognition technologies focusing on the three prime modalities the Aadhaar card is based on: Face, Iris and Fingerprint recognition.

 

7^th October, 2011:

The 2^nd IEEE Day lecture on Technological Aids to Improve Quality of Teaching delivered by Prof. Kesav Nori, IIIT Hyderabad was organized on 7^th October, 2011 at TCS, Basheerbagh. During his talk, Prof. Nori outlined the problems arising in the Indian Education system with respect to educating adult illiterates and solutions devised to overcome these issues. Few of the solutions he described were the use of information and communication technologies, use of multimedia and visual aid. He also explained how the use of these technologies increased the productivity of teachers by fourfold and the reduced necessity of qualified and experienced teachers for delivering better than average instructions.

 

IEEE Hyderabad Section AG Activities

 

1.     IEEE Hyderabad GOLD AG: 

13^th August, 2011:

The IEEE Hyderabad GOLD AG organized a Student Transition and Elevation Partnership (STEP) programme 2011 on 13^th August, 2011 at Hotel Skyway Banjara, Banjara Hills. The event comprised of a series of talks titled “Campus to Corporate Life – The Transition” by Mr. Ranganath Jois, Professor, Acharya School of Management, “Career Challenges and Success Factors in Multinational Company” by Mr. Veshaal Singh, Sr. Director, Oracle India and “Technology Entrepreneurship – Opportunities and Challenges” by Mr. Satyam B., CEO, NeoSilica Technologies. A networking dinner was also arranged after the talks where the participants got to meet industry experts and share thoughts amongst themselves.

 

2.    IEEE Hyderabad WIE AG: 

13^th -14^th August, 2011:

Malla Reddy  Engineering  College & Malla Reddy  College of  Engineering  for Women in association with the IEEE WIE society, Hyderabad Section organized a two day  Seminar  on  “Women  In Engineering  & Research Opportunities” on 13th – 14th August, 2011 at  MREC Campus 1.  Six technical talks were arranged for the benefit of the participants. The event saw participation from more than 75 young women engineers and research scholars from various engineering colleges in and around Hyderabad and Secunderabad.

Prof. Mrs. Ramalatha Marimuthu, President, IEEE Women In Engineering AG inaugurated the seminar and delivered a key note address. Following the talk by Prof. Ramalatha, Mrs. Madhumita Chakravarty, Chairperson, IEEE Hyd WIE AG gave a talk on benefits of WIE. The post-lunch session comprised of a talk by Dr. Sushmita Mishra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata on “BIOINFORMATICS”.

On 14th August, 2011 Prof. N. Srinivasa Rao, Convener, WIE 2011 gave a talk on “Challenges for Engineers”, followed by talk on Various Research Methodologies by Dr. M. Madhavi Latha, Prof. & Head, Dept. of ECE, JNTU-H. Dr. Arnik Swarna Bai, Scientist-RCI, spoke on “Genomic Signal Processing and Artificial Neural Networks for DNA Sequence Analysis”. Later, Prof. Y. Vijaya Latha, Professor in Dept. of CSE, GRIET & Vice –Chair, IEEE Hyd AF gave a talk on “Open Source Software and Its Applications”. Concluding the event, Dr. Arnik Swarna Bai, presided over valedictory function.

 

IEEE Student Branch Activities

 

15^th – 16^th July, 2011:

Dr. N. V. Rao spoke on Digital Water Marking. He elaborated on the fundamental concepts and explained how to perform water marking. These will be of help to the students in their project work and are useful in advanced technology followed by a technical talk on Advanced Technology on Power System related Electrical Engineering was given by Sri R. Khannan. The speaker elaborated on the fundamental concepts of Power Electronics and Machines and related these topics to the advanced technology in Power Systems. He said that these will be of help to students in their further studies and project work.

Day 2 of the event comprised of a full day technical seminar on Fundamentals of EM waves and Applications; Transmission Lines Concepts and the applications of E M Waves to Biological Medium by the IEEE Hyderabad MTT/ AP/ EMC Joint Chapter presented by Prof. Nookala Srinivasa Rao, Vice-chair IEEE Hyd MTT/ AP/ EMC Joint Chapter. Prof. Nookala enlightened the students on the fundamental concepts related to types of medium, free space impedance, permittivity, permeability and dielectrics behaviour and electrical and magnetic fields in terms of polarization and electric fields intensity. He also discussed the fundamentals Radio and its invention and went into the details of Maxwell’s equations and their significance followed by a discussion on the types of Transmission Lines and their related electrical characteristics of various transmission lines (coaxial cable, two wired transmission line, stub matching, parallel plate wave guide etc.) including their behaviour at various frequencies. During the talk on EM Waves applications to Bio Medical Engineering, Prof. N. Srinivasa Rao briefed on the effect of Mobile Phone Radiation on biological tissue and also how EM energy is used to detect tumour at microwave frequencies. He laid emphasis on SAR and its characteristics. Following Prof. Nookala’s talk was a talk on outlines and principles of Antenna and Radiation by Dr. M. Lakshminarayana, Chairman IEEE Hyd MTT/ AP/ EMC Joint Chapter, Sc-G DLRL.Mrs. Madhumita Chakravarty, Chairperson WIE, delivered a talk on applications of Microwave Engineering. She covered various types of radars and their utilization, military applications of radars, communication engineering applications, civilian radar, aircraft landing system and other applications too. The talk by Mrs. Madhumita Chakravarty was followed by the Valedictory function presided over by Dr. M. Lakshminarayana.

 

16^th July, 2011:

The IEEE VBIT Student Branch CS Chapter was inaugurated on 16^th July, 2011 by Mr. Aditya Rao, Chairman, IEEE Hyd CS Chapter and Mr. Rahul Dronamraju, Tachyon Communications was the guest of honour. As part of the inauguration session, two technical talks were organized. The first was by Mr. Aditya Rao on Contemporary Computing Disciplines a Computing Graduate must know during which he enlightened the students about the basicity and differences of various computing streams such as Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, etc. and their significance in advancing technological scenario.

The second talk was by Mr. Rahul Dronamraju on Introduction to Project Management where he focused on basics of project management taking real-life examples and case studies.

 

 

23^rd July, 2011:

The IEEE MJCET CS Chapter was inaugurated on 23^rd July, 2011 by Mr. Aditya Rao, Chairman IEEE Hyd CS Chapter who later spoke on the benefits of CS membership followed by the monthly magazine of IEEE MJCET CS Chapter I-ZINE being released. Two technical lectures were organized following the inaugural session. The first talk was on Cloud Computing by Mr. Sanjay Kumar Singh, VP Rofous India.

The second talk was on Game Development using Android Technology by Mr. Naseer Ahmed, Sr. Engineer QUALCOMM and also an alumnus of MJCET. Over 120 students participated in the event.

 

29^th – 30^th July, 2011:

IEEE Computer Society Chapter, Hyderabad section in association with IEEE ATRI Computer Society Student Chapter conducted “2nd IEEE Computing Colloquium” on 29th-30th of July, 2011 at ATRI, Hyderabad. It was presided by Dr. Prabhu G Benekop, Director ATRI, Mr. Aditya Rao Chair, IEEE Hyd Computer Society, Dr. Gunasekhar Reddy, Membership Development Chair, IEEE Hyd Section and Mr. B. Rakesh, Chapter Advisor.

The event started with the inauguration of IEEE ATRI Computer Society Student Chapter by the esteemed chief guests of the event Mr. Aditya Rao and Dr. Gunasekhar Reddy.  It’s the 1st Computer Society Student Chapter in Hyderabad Section to be approved by IEEE HQ. The mission of this chapter is to produce a perfect Computer Science individual through IEEE by disseminating knowledge, encouraging ideas, respecting values, fostering professionalism, providing resources and recognizing   excellence.

The Colloquium consisted of 5 technical talks:

• Introduction to Computing & Advances by Mr. Aditya Rao, Chair, IEEE Computer Society Hyderabad Section.
• Get Inspired! Learn Ruby by Mr. Arun Vydianathan, Founder, Ostriya Labs.
• Advanced Wireless Networks by Dr. Atul Negi, Associate Professor, University of Hyderabad.
• Introduction to Web Services by Mr. Sabyasachi Ghosh, Senior Engineer, Oracle India.
• Introduction to Project Management by Mr. Rahul Dronamraju, Project Coordinator, Tachyon Communications Inc.

Thus the Colloquium ended on a high which saw the participation of nearly 220 students from various colleges. The feedback received from the participants and the various speakers was overwhelming and they praised the whole team for organizing it in a very efficient manner.

 

6^th August, 2011:

The IEEE VBIT PES Chapter was inaugurated on 6^th August, 2011. The inaugural function commenced with a briefing about the IEEE VBIT SB and its PES Student chapter, its goals and memberships to the audience followed by Speech by Mr. N. Goutham Rao, Chairman VBIT, Dr. C. R. N. Sarma, IEEE VBIT Branch Counsellor, T. R. Rajagopalan, Chairman IEEE Hyd PES/ IAS/ PELS Joint Chapter, Mr. S. Apparao, Secretary IEEE Hyd PES/ IAS/ PELS Joint Chapter, Mr. Mithun Bhaskar, Nominated Member IEEE Hyd Section. Mr. R. Kannan, SMIEEE was the Chief Guest of the occasion. Following the inauguration of IEEE VBIT PES Student Chapter, the first among 120 colleges in Hyderabad section and a windmill prototype model was presented designed by the students of VBIT under guidance of Mr. K. V. Rao. Mr. T. R. Rajagopalan delivered the Inaugural address on IEEE membership and its benefits, process of enrolments and support and resources available for members at student level and in member grade level.

Two tutorial sessions were organized as a part of the Inauguration. The first Tutorial Entitled Challenges in Electrical Engineering presented Mr. R. Kannan which took out the entire student’s attention with the most recently developed technologies explained at simplest manner by the speaker. Second Lecture was on Smart Grid Technologies by Mr. Mithun Bhaskar. The lecture was completely student oriented and gave a clear picture of what the smart grid is all about and its trend of working, scope of research on Smart grid in industries and MNC’s, Areas where rapid growth and development of this technology are taking place and is utility in our day to day life.

The Program concluded with distribution of momentous to the dignitaries followed by Vote of thanks and live feedback sessions successively.  With such immense response from students belonging to other colleges (Apart from VBIT ) the students interest of students into core industries, zeal to learn and their interest to explore the benefits out of IEEE Membership and its societies can be rated with  the top grades. Our primary aim of energy harvesting was passed into the students as a message with our self-explanatory stalls arranged by our students on usage of hydro energy, comparison charts on usage of CFL, Incandescent, LED bulb Energy and Cost graphs, our windmill project. The feedback from participants lists out that many more such technical talks at student levels will help them a lot for electing the domain of study in their later stages of study and even their thirst to learn new technologies and to explore the industrial world with experiences shared by guests and speakers.

 

 

15^th – 16^th October, 2011:

The IEEE SREC SB, Warangal organized the Regional Student Professional Awareness Congress (RSPAC) for the 7^th consecutive year and the Warangal Zonal Congress for the 2^nd time on 15^th – 16^th October, 2011. The two day event comprised of 7 lecture sessions and an IEEE SB Office Bearers Meet as parallel session.

Day 1 had four lecture sessions. The first talk was by Dr. Ganapati Panda, IIT-Bhubaneswar on Soft Computing and Networks Applications and Applications of Electronics. The second talk on IEEE and Humanitarian Technology and the third talk on Introduction to Digital Watermarking and its Applications were delivered by Dr. N. V. Rao, Past Chair, IEEE Hyd Section and Chair Nominations and Awards Committee IEEE Hyd Section. An IEEE Office Bearers Meet was held in parallel to Dr. N. V. Rao’s talk presided over by Dr. Amit Kumar, Secretary, IEEE Hyd Section where the student officers of various SBs from around Warangal shared thoughts and ideas on how to contribute towards enhancement of technology as a student branch at the same time helping its student members get the maximum of their IEEE memberships. An initiative was taken to establish student branches in a couple of colleges. The last talk for the day was by Dr. Amit Kumar on Nano Biotechnology.

 

29^th November, 2011:

IEEE Hyd PES/IAS/PELS Joint Chapter is organizing a half day tutorial on Power System Reliablity – Concepts and Techniques by Dr. Lalit Kumar Goel, IEEE R10 PES Representative on 29th November, 2011 at Powergrid Conference Hall, MCH Complex, Secunderabad. For further queries contact, Mr. Sampangi  Appa Rao (sampangi.apparao@aptransco.gov.in) and Mr. Mithun Bhaskar (mithun.bm@ieee.org)

 

30^th November, 2011:

IEEE Hyd MTT/ AP/ EMC Joint Chapter is organizing a Sir J. C. Bose Memorial Lecture on “Microwaves in Airborne Surveillance” on 30^th November, 2011 at the IETE Conference hall, OU Campus.

 

16^th – 18^th December, 2011:

IEEE India Council association with the IEEE Hyderabad Section and BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus is organizing a National Level Conference INDICON 2011 from 16^th – 18^th December, 2011 at the BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Shameerpet. The theme of the conference is Engineering Sustainable Solutions. For further details visit http://indicon2011.org or contact indicon2011@ieeehyd.org.

 

22^nd – 24^th December, 2011:

NITW in collaboration with the IEEE Hyderabad PES/IAS/PELS Joint Chapter is organizing a National Workshop on Smart Grid and Integration of Renewable Energy Resources on 22^nd – 24^th December, 2011 at NIT, Warangal. Registration limited to 40 participants. For further queries contact Dr. M. Sailaja Kumari, Dept. of EE, NITW at matam.sailaja@gmail.com.

 

2^nd – 4^th January, 2012:

IEEE Hyderabad PES/IAS/PELS Joint Chapter is organizing an IAS Distinguished Lecture Programme, a three day Intensive Workshop on Design of Industrial Power Systems: Shortcut methods, Quick Estimation and Application Guidelines by Dr. P. K. Sen, PE, Fellow IEEE, NEI Electric Power Engineering Inc., USA and Dr. R. K. Rajamani, Chief Consultant, Reliance Infrastructure, Mumbai on 2^nd – 4^th January, 2012. Register at www.bit.ly/dlppksen by 15^th December, 2011. For further queries contact Mr. C. Satish, Life SMIEEE at c.satish@ieee.org.

 

INDICON 2011:

 

HURRY UP!! Last Two Days for Tutorial and Workshop Registrations!! Deadline: 30^th November, 2011.

The Day 1 of INDICON 2011 (16^th December, 2011) comprises of a variety of Tutorials and Workshops schedules all day long. The details are:

Tutorials:

• Power Electronic Systems – Digital Control Solutions – Prof. M. Veerachary, IIT- Delhi.
• Big Data Management – Dr. Santosh Kumar Mohanty, Mr. Jayant Dani, Mr. Srikar Chilakamarri, TCS.
• Smart Grid Smart Grids for transmission Systems – Prof. S.A. Soman, IIT-Bombay.
• Adaptive Software Engineering Design – Mr. Hari Prasad Devarapalli, Mrs. Padmalata Nistala, TCS.
• Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software: Myths and Reality – Mr.Sitaram Chamarty, Mr. Ganapathy Narayanan, TCS, and Ms. Mishi Choudhary, SFLC India.
• Nanotechnology – Dr. V. Ramgopal Rao, IIT-Bombay.
• Designing a Virtualized Real-Time IT System harnessing Cloud Technologies, Mr. Chandra Mohan Malladi, TCS.

 

Workshops:

• Achieving Product Success in Electronic Product Development – Dr. S. Ghosal, National Institute of Design (NID), Mr. Gopi Bulusu, Sankhya Technologies.
• Dispelling the myths of Innovation, Dr. Prasad Vemuri, Former Advisor to the Center for leadership, Innovation and Change (CLIC) at the Indian School of Business (ISB), at Hyderabad.

Please refer to http://indicon2011.org/html/program-tutorials.htm  for more details.

Special Session: Information & Opportunities for Global & Local Industry and Academia by IEEE Standard Association.
Please refer to http://indicon2011.org/html/program-special-sessions.htm

Please refer to complete program (tentative now, being updated) refer to http://indicon2011.org/html/program-conference-program.htm

Registrations can be done either only for Tutorials/ Workshop/ Special Session or for the full conference (or conference only)
Please refer to http://indicon2011.org/html/registration-details.htm for fee structure.
Distinguished guests from IEEE HQs would be participating and distinguished speakers from India & abroad are schedule to give invited talks, plenary talks and keynotes. There will be a special session being conducted by IEEE Standards Association on Day 1, the Inaugural Day. Delegates who register for Tutorials can also attend the special session in the afternoon.
A  panel discussion (“Engineering for Global Development“) has been scheduled on the last day, 18^th December, 2011 being coordinated by Engineering for Change (E4C).
There will be paper presentation (oral & dialogue) sessions on 17 & 18th December, 2011 to covering the accepted papers.

The registration is open till 30^th November, 2011 but may close early depending on the early registrations.
For online registration access at:  http://indicon2011.org/html/registration-online.htm
For registration form access at:    http://indicon2011.org/html/registration-details.htm

Please visit http://www.indicon2011.org

 

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