Bangalore Section Report

PART A - SECTION SUMMARY

A.1 Executive Summary

Section Executive Committee Member List 2018

Sudeendra Koushik Chair

Keshav Bapat Chair-Elect

Puneet Mishra Vice-Chair

Rajashekhar S. Secretary

Sadhana A Treasurer

Deepa Shenoy SAC-Chair

Shrikanth Tangade SAC-Co-Chair

KA Radhakrishna Rao BC Co-ordinator

Rudra Pratap General Chair-CONECCT

Bindhu Madhava Conference Tech Co-Sponsorship

Chandrakanta Kumar Conference IEEE Explore

S.K. Niranjan Conference IEEE Explore

YVS Lakshmi Sponsorship Co-Lead

CP Ravikumar Membership Dev- Industry

Divya M.G. Membership Dev- WiE

Raghu Krishnapuram FINE

KrishnaKumar Industry relations & Standards

Prasant Misra Industry relations

Dileep Paruchuri Industry relations-PR

S.Suraj Website & Student Tech Upgrade

G.S.Javed Education & DLT

Dr T Srinivas Chapters Coordination

Siva Reddy IEEE BLR office Co-ordinator

Suresh JangamShetti North Karnataka Co-Ordinator

Annapurna WiE

Abhishek Appaji YP

Gurumahesh Student Representative

Lavanya Student Representative

Shivani Nayak Student Representative

KVS Hari Chair-2016

D. Das Chair-2017

Bangalore Section has organized many workshops, conferences and seminars, Technology awards, standards activities, innovation related workshops etc. Major events of 2018 include Smart Tech workshop, 5G workshop, AISYWC 18, Smart-Cities workshop and many more with IEEE Chapters/Societies. The chapters and student branches have reported more than 1050 events this year. Membership has been steady and we have good conversion from students to professional

members this year. Section has been working on a strategy to improve the numbers in

coming years. Section has increased number of awards this year to recognize efforts of

many dedicated contributors across different segments. Also, we have initiated travel

grants to students and also supporting project works.

Many of section members have been globally recognized and received quite a few awards.

We have MGA awards to Prof Hari and Mr Abhishek. Ms Divya M G received medal for

first position in student members promoted to Young Professionals.

Three of our members have been elevated to IEEE Fellows, Prof Navakanta Bhat, Prof

Srinivas Ramani and Dr Neelesh Mehta. Prof Navakanta Bhat received prestigious

Infosys Prize 2018 in Engineering and Computer science.

A.2 Financial Report

IEEE Bangalore Section is society of Electrical and Electronics Engineers registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act,1960 with the registration number BLU-S707-2006-07.

The financial statements are drawn up based on historical costs.

Sponsorship, registration fee for events are recognised on the basis of receipts and as per the bank advice available. The funds received from GIEEE are accounted as and when received.

The registration fees, sponsorship, awards and support funds received with a specific instruction and understanding that are to be paid to other Chapters/Society and earmarked. Events/Conference/Projects are recognised when received by the section and when the disbursements are made, it is booked as expense.

PART B - ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES

B.1 Membership Development Activities The Membership Development team of Bangalore Section for the year were Dr C. P.

Ravikumar and Ms Divya M.G, who were supported by other members of the Execom.

The goals of the team included recruiting new members, retaining current members,

grade promotion for existing members, and providing timely updates about membership

to stakeholders. We conducted a number of programs to create awareness of

membership benefits and conducted membership drives. The growth of membership in

IEEE Bangalore Section from the below table.

Year Fellow Senior

Members Members Associate

Members Graduate Student

Members

Student Members

Total

2008 10 177 1512 0 302 2087 4194

2017 18 618 1775 77 672 4025 7185

2018 19 685 1883 176 644 4505 7912

Membership Promotional events:

1. Technical talk y Divya M.G. on the topic of “Trends in Supercomputers” and “e-

Science activities in India” followed by a mock interview organized by IEEE-

WIE affinity group of Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore (Feb 10,

2018)

2. Membership drive at IEEE booth at IEEE CONECCT 18: 16th & 17th March 2018

3. Membership drive at the IEEE CAS Workshop on Verilog and System Verilog

(March 24).

4. Brainstorming event on how to improve membership held at Texas Instruments,

Bangalore (March 24).

5. Talk on “University-Industry Interaction” by C.P. Ravikumar at an event

organized by IEEE PES Society at Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering.

Dr Ravikumar spoke about the role of IEEE in bridging the gap between industry and

academia. Dr Rajashekhar, secretary of IEEE PES, and the Vice-chairman of IEEE

PES Bangalore Chapter also spoke about the benefits of IEEE membership.

6. Brainstorming event on how to increase membership at different levels

(August 18, 2018)

7. Membership drive at IEEE booth at Texas Instruments. 18th April 2018,

Texas Instruments. Dr. Sudeendra Koushik gave an invited talk on the topic of

Innovation.

8. Membership drive at IEEE booth at TEMS conference, 28th April 2018

9. Membership Drive at IEEE booth at Digital Transactions Blockchain

workshop (Philips campus) 18th May

10. Membership drive at the IEEE Booth held at the IDIYE 2018 organized by IEEE

CAS Bangalore Chapter (May 25, 2018).

11. IEEE Student Branch Inauguration at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,

Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Mysuru (25 May 2018). M.G. Divya spoke on the

topic of Trends in Super computers.

12. Workshop on IEEE Senior Membership at Texas Instruments, campus (9th June).

Invited speakers included Mr Puneeth Mishra (ISRO), Mr Sudeendra Kaushik (IEEE

Bangalore Section Chair) Mr Keshav Bapat (Keysight), Dr Deepa Kaliyaperumal

(Amrita University), Prof. Chetan Singh Thakur (IISc), Mr Manav Mediratta (TI)

13. Inauguration of IEEE Student Section at Christ University, Bangalore (28th June

2018) Dr C. P. Ravikumar delivered a talk on “Technology Trends” and

conducted a Q&A session.

14. Membership Drive at the IEEE Booth held at 5G Workshop (29th & 30th June

2018)

15. Membership Drive at the IEEE Booth held at Deep Learning Bootcamp: (7th

July 2018, BMS college of Engineering)

16. Awareness program on Internet Protocols and standards held on 20th July

2018 at Nagarjuna college (NCET), Devana Halli

17. Membership Drive @ Test conference: 22nd to 24th July 2018, ITC India,

Bangalore

18. Membership Drive @ International Wireless Certification Conference:

23rd July 2018

19. Membership Drive @ IEEE Workshop on Intrapreneurship: 28th & 29th

July 2018

20. Workshop on IEEE Senior Membership on (28 July, 2018) at IISc, Bangalore

21. Membership Drive @ Smart Tech: 3rd & 4th August 2018

22. Membership drive planned at Smart Tech conference (Aug 3-4, 2018).

23. Membership Drive at WinTechCon-2018: 28 September 2018

24. Title: IEEE Senior Membership through remote meeting (6th October 2018) hosted

at UVCE, KR Circle, Bangalore)

25. Membership Drive in the Hackathon event at PES University ( planned on

November 4, 2018)

Senior Member Elevated in 2018:

In 2018, 98 Members have been elevated to IEEE senior grade membership. Among those who became senior members in 2018, 67% were men and 33% were women. 36% of the new senior members were from industry and 64% were from academia. The complete list of senior members (2018) is available from IEEE Bangalore Section’s website.

B.2 Chapter Activities

Total number of Chapters in the Section: 20

Number of Chapters formed in the current year: 1 (IES)

Number of active Chapters (Chapters who have reported required number of meetings during the year): 15

Summary of Chapter activities

IEEE CAS Society, Bangalore Section during 2018

January: Two Seminars on 10 January 2018

Two seminars were organized by PragaTI (TI India Technical University) in association

with IEEE CAS Bangalore Chapter and IEEE Bangalore Section on 10 January 2018 at

TI India, Bangalore Campus, Bagmane Techpark, CV Raman Nagar.

The first was a Seminar on BIST for High-Quality and Low-Cost Testing, 10AM -

11AM. The invited speaker was Sule Ozev (Asc.Prof, Arizona State University). An

overview for analog/RF BIST were presented along with an emphasis on BIST

approaches for static and dynamic testing of power converters.

We had around 20 participants including some IEEE members. The event was also

available as a webinar via the TI WebEx portal and was attended by 15 participants

remotely.

Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#bist-jan18

The second Seminar was on Assertions for Analog and Mixed-Signal

Verification. 11.15AM - 12.15PM. The invited speaker was Dr Pallab Dasgupta (Dept

of CSE, IIT Kharagpur). The talk outlined the emerging nuances of AMS assertions,

focusing on a wide variety of questions.

We had around 20 participants including some IEEE members. The event was also

available as a webinar via the TI WebEx portal and was attended by 20 participants

remotely.

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http://ti.webex.com/

Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#analog-msv-jan18

January: Seminar ON “GaN Power Devices: Characteristics, Design

Considerations and Applications”

A Seminar on GaN Power Devices: Characteristics, Design Considerations

and Applications was jointly organized by IEEE PELS and IEEE CAS Bangalore

Chapter on January 18, 2018, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM at IISc, Bangalore, Department of

Electrical Engineering. The invited speaker was Salil Chellappan (Systems Manager –

Power Delivery, Industrial Systems, Texas Instruments).

The characteristics, design considerations and a typical application of GaN power

devices were discussed. We had around 36 participants including some IEEE members.

Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#gan-jan18

February: Technical sponsorship of ICAECC 2018 ICAECC 2018 – Second International Conference on Advances in Electronics,

Computers and Communications was held during February 9-10, 2018 at School of ECE,

REVA University, Rukmini Knowledge Park, Yelahanka, Bengaluru – 560064, India

The conference was organized by REVA University, Bengaluru, India, and the Technical

Sponsors were IEEE Bangalore Section, IEEE ComSoc (IEEE Communications Society)

Bangalore Section, IETE (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering) and

IEEE-CAS Society, Bangalore Chapter.

The Theme of the conference was Fostering Information Technology Through Electronics,

Computers and Communications.

Conference website: http://www.reva.edu.in/icaecc2018/

February: Two Seminars on 20 February 2018

Two seminars were organized by PragaTI (TI India Technical University) in association

with IEEE CAS Bangalore Chapter and IEEE Bangalore Section on 20 February 2018 at

TI India, Bangalore Campus, Bagmane Techpark, CV Raman Nagar. Both the seminars

were also broadcast remotely through the TI Webex portal.

The first was a Seminar on Accurate Cell Characterization in the era of

Variability, 10.30 AM to 11.30 AM. The invited speaker was Bulusu Anand (Dept of

ECE, IIT Roorkee)

The talk touched upon device-circuit linkages, which can be used in circuit/layout

design and in standard cell characterization. We had a full house including some IEEE

members.

Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#cellchar-feb18

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The second Seminar was on Recent Research in Semiconductor Area at IIT

Roorkee. 11.30 AM to 12.30 PM. The invited speaker was Sudeb Dasgupta (Dept of

ECE, IIT Roorkee)

The talk focused on research activities carried out in our group at IIT Roorkee.

Primarily this will deal with device circuit co-design issues for devices such as bulk

MOSFET, FinFETs, Tunnel FETs as well as reconfigurable FETs. We had a full house

including some IEEE members.

Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#iitr-feb18

March: Tutorial on Introduction to VLSI Design - An Industry Perspective

A Tutorial on “Introduction to VLSI Design - An Industry Perspective” was

organized by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, GSSS,

Mysore, In cooperation with IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Bangalore Chapter on 3

March 2018, 10.00 AM to 4.00 PM at GSSS Institute Of Engineering And Technology

For Women, Mysore. Dr. C.P.Ravikumar (Texas Instruments, India) was the invited

speaker.

We had around 200 participants including some IEEE members.

Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#vlsi-mar18

March: Panel Discussion (3 March 2018) during Cyberia'18 (26 February to 4

March 2018)

A Panel Discussion entitled “How to effectively embed skill development into

Educational Program so that the graduates are rendered industry ready?”

was conducted on 3 March 2018 as a part of Cyberia'18 an IEEE Student conference (26

February to 4 March 2018). The event was organized by IEEE-SJCE, Mysuru at Sri

Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysuru - 570 006.

The panel was moderated by B. Ramkumar (former Tektronix) and the panelists

included Varun Shastri, Working at Applied Materials, Dr. Narasimha Kaulgad,

Professor NIE, Mysuru, Dr. Bindu Thomas, Professor VVIET, Arun Pradeep, CEO

of Neutrinos Solutions, Ramesh Agrahar, Vice President Kaynes, Srikantaswamy

Bisilavaadi, Robert Bosch, and C.P. Ravikumar, Hon. Sec, IEEE-CAS Bangalore

and Director of Technical talent development, TI India.

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We had around 150 participants including some IEEE members. A number of faculty

and students from Mysuru were present at the inauguration of Cyberia-2018.

Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#cyberia18-sjce

March: Hands-on Introduction to Design and Verification through Verilog and

System Verilog

A Hands-on Introduction to “Design and Verification through Verilog and

System Verilog” was organized by IEEE CAS Bangalore Chapter and Supported by:

Texas Instruments, India and IEEE Bangalore Section on 24 March 2018 (Saturday),

Time: 9.00 AM to 5.00 PM, Venue: Texas Instruments India, Bangalore Campus,

Bagmane Techpark, CV Raman Nagar. Dr. C.P. Ravikumar (Texas Instruments, India)

was the invited speaker.

We had around 28 participants including some IEEE members. The event gathered

much positive responses with requests to repeat the event with longer duration.

Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#verilog-mar18

April: Hands-on Introduction to Design and Verification through Verilog and

System Verilog

A Hands-on Introduction to Design and Verification through Verilog and

System Verilog was organized by Jointly Organized by: IEEE Student Branch CEC

Mangalore and IEEE CAS Bangalore Chapter on 22 April 2018 at Canara Engineering

College, Mangalore. Dr. C.P. Ravikumar (Texas Instruments, India) was the invited

speaker.

We had around 29 participants including 9 IEEE members.

Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#verilog-apr18

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Focusing on verification of the design which being one of the most resource and time-

intensive steps in the SoC Design Flow, the hands-on workshop gave an introduction to

the topic of digital design verification.

May: Seminar on Variable speed drives

A Seminar on Variable speed drives was organized by IEEE CAS Bangalore

Chapter and IEEE Bangalore Section on 31 May 2018, 3.00pm - 4.00pm at Dept of

Electrical Engineering, IISc, Bangalore. Navaneeth Kumar N (MGTS, Systems manager

- Motor drives, Texas Instruments Incorporated) was the invited speaker.

We had around 32 participants including many IEEE members.

Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#varspdrv-may18

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The talk's main intent was to provide a better perspective to the students on how OEM's

design and what factors influence the architecture.

June: One-day hands-on tutorial on Problem Solving with Python

A One-day hands-on tutorial on Problem Solving with Python was organized

by IEEE-CAS Bangalore Chapter on 2 June 2018, 9.00 AM to 5.00 PM at Texas

Instruments India, Bangalore Campus, Bagmane Techpark, CV Raman Nagar 560093.

Dr. C.P. Ravikumar (Texas Instruments India) was the invited speaker.

We had around 5 participants including 1 IEEE member.

Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#python-june18

June: IEEE Bangalore Section holds a workshop to help members aspiring for

Senior Grade Elevation

IEEE Bangalore Section held a workshop to help members aspiring for

Senior Grade Elevation which was organized by IEEE CAS Bangalore Chapter and

IEEE Bangalore Section on 9 June 2018, 9.00 AM to 1.00 PM at Texas Instruments

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India, Bangalore Campus, Bagmane Techpark, CV Raman Nagar 560093. Puneet

Mishra (Vice Chair, IEEE Bangalore Section), Keshav Bapat (Chair-Elect, IEEE

Bangalore Section), Dr.Chetan Thakur (Electonic Systems Engineering, IISc

Bangalore) and Manav Mediratta (Texas Instruments, India) was the invited

speaker.

Around 70 IEEE members participated.

Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#ieee-smep-june18

Photos: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/pics/ieee-smep-june18.html

The workshop was for the members who are aspiring to get elevated to senior grade

membership. IEEE offers memberships of different types, starting with student

membership, moving on to professional membership, senior membership, fellow

membership, and life membership. Senior membership is offered to a very small

number of members who have done noteworthy work in their chosen fields.

June: IDIYE 2018 - One-day Conference on INNOVATION & DO-IT-

YOURSELF ELECTRONICS

IDIYE 2018 - One-day Conference on INNOVATION & DO-IT-YOURSELF

ELECTRONICS was organized by IEEE CAS Bangalore Chapter and Supported by

IEEE Bangalore Section & Texas Instruments India on 16 June 2018, 9.00 AM - 5.00

PM at Texas Instruments India, Bagmane Techpark, C.V.Raman Nagar Bangalore

Campus, 560093. C.P.Ravikumar (Texas Instruments India) was the Conference

General Chair.


Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#idiye2018

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Keynote Talk on Innovation or Illusion was delivered by N.Kavitha (STEPS

Knowledge Services Pvt Ltd, Coimbatore).During the panel discussion on "DIY

Electronics – What will take us to the next level?", N.Kavitha (STEPS

Knowledge Services Pvt Ltd, Coimbatore)

spoke on “Is the curriculum driving students towards or away from

Electronics DIY?”, Prof.Dhananjay V. Gadre (CEDT, NSIT Delhi) spoke on "Is

the curriculum driving students towards or away from Electronics

DIY?" and Navratan Katariya (Director-Startups with the Govt. funded NASSCOM)

spoke on "Are Governmental initiatives helping in expanding DIY?". C.P.

Ravikumar (TI India) moderated the panel discussion.

17 projects were presented at the conference in six sessions, in areas such as

Automotive Electronics, Assistive Technologies, Infotainment, Security and Safety,

Monitoring, and Instrumentation. In the valedictory session, prizes were awarded to

the "best" projects.

June: Two-day workshop on Electronics DIY - A Hands-on Approach

A Two-day workshop on Electronics DIY - A Hands-on Approach was

organized by IEEE CAS Bangalore Chapter and Supported by IEEE Bangalore Section

& Texas Instruments India on 17-18 June 2018, 9.00 AM - 5.00 PM at Texas

Instruments India, Bagmane Techpark, C.V.Raman Nagar Bangalore Campus, 560093.

Prof. Dhananjay V. Gadre (NSIT, New Delhi, India) conducted the workshop along

with Prof.Arun Kumar.


Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#ediy-june18

Photos: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/pics/ediy-june18.html

The workshop was intended for those interested in Electronics DIY projects, and

interested in designing products. This two-day workshop introduced the participants

into the world of DIY, embedded processors, hardware, and embedded software.

July: Seminar on Disciplined Entrepreneurship: The Framework for Innovation

Driven Ventures

A Seminar on Disciplined Entrepreneurship: The Framework for

Innovation Driven Ventures was organized by PragaTI (TI India Technical

University) in cooperation with IEEE-CAS Bangalore Chapter on 27 July 2018, 11.00

AM to 12.00 PM at Texas Instruments India, Bagmane Techpark, C.V.Raman Nagar

Bangalore Campus, 560093. Nidhi Sharma (MIT) was the invited speaker.


Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#ent-framework-

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Photos: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/pics/ent-framework-july18.html

July: Workshop on Using Software Development Kits and Plug-ins for

Seamlessly Prototyping IOT based end applications

A Workshop on Using Software Development Kits and Plug-ins for

Seamlessly Prototyping IOT based end applications was organized by IEEE

CAS Bangalore Chapter and Supported by IEEE Bangalore Section on 28 July 2018,

9.00 AM - 1.00 PM at Texas Instruments India, Bagmane Techpark, C.V.Raman Nagar

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Bangalore Campus, 560093. Osheen Nayak and Manoj R. (Texas Instruments

India) were the invited speakers.


Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#sdkiot-july18

Photos: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/pics/sdkiot-july18.html

September: Technical Session on "Mixed Signal Design and Compact Modeling

and the Launch of CFP of IEEE MOS AK India 2019"

A Technical Session on "Mixed Signal Design and Compact Modeling and

the Launch of CFP of IEEE MOS AK India 2019" was organized by IEEE

Bangalore Section, IEEE Bangalore Chapter and IEEE CAS/EDS Hyderabad Section In

collaboration with Swissnex India (Connecting Dots between Switzerland and India) on

14 September 2018, 4.30 PM to 6.00 PM at Seminar Hall, 26 Rest House Crescent

Road, Bangalore 560001. Dr. P.V. Ananda Mohan (Fellow IEEE) and Dr. Santanu

Mahapatra (IISc Bangalore) were the invited speakers.

We had around 50 participants with most of them being IEEE members.

Event details:

http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/activities/events/mixsig-swiss-sep18.html

September: Seminar on Advanced Biometric Technologies

A Seminar on Advanced Biometric Technologies was organized by IEEE CAS Bangalore

Chapter in association with IEEE Bangalore Section and Texas Instruments on 20

September 2018, 11.00am - 12.00 noon at Texas Instruments India, Bagmane

Techpark, C.V.Raman Nagar Bangalore Campus, 560093. Prof. Vincenzo Piuri

(Department of Computer Science, Universiti degli Studi di Milano) was the invited

speaker.


Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#biometric-sep18

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September: IEEE WINTECHCON - 2018: Women's Technical Conference

IEEE WINTECHCON - 2018: Women's Technical Conference was organized

by IEEE CAS Bangalore Chapter; In cooperation with IEEE Bangalore Section and

IEEE WiE Council (IEEE Women in Engineering), Bangalore on 28 September 2018,

9.00 AM - 5.00 PM at Royal Orchid Hotels, Old Airport Road, Bangalore.

Objective: To provide opportunities to women technology leaders from India to

present their work in an external forum

Theme: Designing the Future Semiconductor and Electronic Systems

Industry sposors: Texas Instruments India, Qualcomm, Samsung, Analog Devices

India, Cadence Design Systems and Intel.

Shalili Kapoor (IBM) and Susmita Sur-Kolay (ISI, Kolkata) were the keynote speakers.

The event attracted 115 submissions, of which 12 papers were selected for presentation,

with 4 demo proposals and 10 poster paper presentations. There were two embedded

tutorials and one invited talk.


Event details:

http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/activities/event/wintechcon2018.html

Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/pics/wintechcon2018-

report.html

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November: The Seventh Edition of PES University's Open Hackathon on

#CODE 2K18

A The Seventh Edition of PES University's Open Hackathon on #CODE 2K18 was

organized by Presented by: Microsoft Innovation Lab and Sponsored by IEEE CAS

Bangalore Chapter and Amper AXP on 3-4 November, 2018.

We had around 200 participants from various colleges, including 10 IEEE members.

Report: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/rep2018.html#code18-pes

Photos: http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/pics/code18-pes.html

November: Hands-on Introduction to Digital Design and Verification through

Verilog and System Verilog

A Hands-on Introduction to Digital Design and Verification through

Verilog and System Verilog was jointly Organized by IEEE Student Branch KLEIT,

Hubli and IEEE CAS Bangalore Chapter on 25 November 2018 (Sunday). Dr. C.P.

Ravikumar (Texas Instruments India) was the instructor. The full-day hands-on

workshop was restricted to 30 seats, and there were participants from various colleges

and industry, including 5 IEEE professionals, students and faculty members.

Event details:

http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/activities/events/verilog-kle-nov18.html

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Consumer Electronics Chapter Bangalore

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society - SRM Institute - Student Branch Inauguration and Guest Lecture “Machine Learning”

On the 2nd of April, the IEEE Student Branch, SRM Institute of Technology, Chennai had one of its most awaited events. This day marked the beginning of its two milestones, launch of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, SRM and the Workshop Marathon’18. With good support from IEEE, Consumer Electronics Society Bangalore section and IEEE CE Headquarters, and the faculty at SRM Institute, the launch event was well coordinated, and various departments from the institute were part of the sessions. The inauguration ceremony started at 0900 hrs. The event was chaired by Mr. Prabindh Sundareson, founder chairman IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, Bangalore (Chief Guest), Dr. K. Vijayakumar, Head of Department, Department of EEE, SRM University (Guest of Honour) and Dr. Vivek Maik, Faculty Advisor, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, SRM. Around 100 students from various departments attended the event.

The event started with the introduction of the chairpersons of IEEE Student Branch, WIE, AG and CE society, SRM. This was followed by highlighting the purpose and importance of the Consumer Electronics Society and the role played by IEEE in the growth of an Engineer – from a student to a career professional, and the various opportunities provided by IEEE CE Society to participate in standardization activities. After the felicitation ceremony, the inauguration of CE society was done. The presentation is archived at, https://www.slideshare.net/prabindh/ieee-consumer-electronics-society-presentation-2018 After the launch of the CE Society, an in-depth guest lecture was delivered by Mr. Prabindh Sundareson on Machine Learning. This provided a great platform to the young brains to increase their knowledge, and this was demonstrated by the active question and answer session at the end.

○ Lecture series - basic to hands on : Topic will be on IoT/Machine earning/Automotive on Sept 29, 2018

IEEE Power & Energy Society Bangalore Chapter (PE31) Short Report on 2018 activities

1. Annual General Meeting (AGM 2018) (January 21, 2018, Hotel

Fern Citadel):

AGM 2018 was held to present the report of activities held in the year 2017and to formalize the

ExCOM for the year 2018. The newly elected ExCOM took charge from this day. Around 75

members participated.

2. International Conference - PESTSE 2018

This is a biennial conference hosted by Amrita School of Engineering and technically sponsored

by IEEE PES Bangalore Chapter held between 18th and 20th January 2018.

3. Young Researchers Meet 2018 YRM is a flagship event from chapter and this year it was held at Christ University on 25th Aug

2018 and around 53 scholars were benefited.

4. Women in Power Engineering 2018

WiPE is another flagship event from PES Bangalore chapter and this year it was held at Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore on 28th July 2018. There were 78 registrants who got benefited.

5. Technical Talks 2018

There are few Tech Talks organized by chapter as follows:

7th April 2018 at Amrita School of Engineering on “Energy Industry Transformation”

14th March 2018 at Dayanananda Sagar College of Engineering on “Microgrids and Renewables”

4th September 2018 at Global Academy of Technology on “HVDC Transmission”

13th April 2018 at MSRIT on “Smart Grid and Micro Grid”

22nd March 2018 at RVCE on “Earthing and Grounding”

6. Student Branch Inauguration (NIE Mysore, 17th March 2018)

7. Industry Academia Conclave (18th Aug 2018, Dayananda Sagar College of Engg) The conventional education system has been primarily driven by technology needs than market requirements. Gradually, colleges are being motivated to evolve into research oriented from teaching-based focus, which can be gauged from the change in emphasis from learning to skill building. This necessitated close interaction with industry and the government and this event was targeted for the same.

8. Industrial Visit 2018 ISRO Bangalore

Report of AP/MTT Chapter

AP/MTT Chapter, Bangalore Section has conducted following Activities in the year

2018.

1. AGM 2018:

2018 AGM of AP/MTT Joint Chapter was arranged on 24th February, 2018 (Saturday) at

16.00hours at Golden Jubli Hall, ECE Department, IISC, Bengaluru. Nearly 20 members

attended the AGM. Following office bearers were unanimously selected as office bearers for

the year 2018:

1. Prof. V Mahadevan, Chair

2. Shri. Senthil Kumar V., Vice Chair

3. Shri. Puneet Kumar Mishra, Treasurer

4. Dr. Deepanjan Gope, Secretary

2. 5G Technology Workshop:

AP/MTT Joint Chapter Technically Co-Sponsored the 5G Technology Workshop Bangalore.

5G Technology Workshop was organized on June 29-30 at Hotel Sterlings Mac, Bangalore.

Nearly 250 delegates attended the workshop. Workshop was technically supported by DoT,

GoI, TSDSI, ComSoc Bangalore Chapter, Bangalore Section, IEEE 5G Initiative and IEEE

India Council. Nearly 30 speakers shared their knowledge and vision towards 5G Technology.

A panel discussion on “Is India 5G Ready” was also organized. Excellent feedback was

received from the delegates and they requested to organize few more workshop on 5G

Technology. Workshop was Inaugurated by Dr. Vipin Tyagi, ED, C-DoT and Mr. Rajesh

Pathak, DDG(IC), DoT, Govt of India.

5G Technology Workshop Attendees

3. Distinguished Lecture on “Are We Alone? NASA’s Search for Life

Beyond Earth”

AP/MTT Joint Chapter in association with IEEE Bangalore section has organized a

Distinguished Lecture on “Are we Alone? NASA’s Search for Life Beyond Earth” on July 17,

2018 at VITM Conference Hall Bangalore. Dr. Goutam Chattopadhyay from JPL/NASA

delivered the lecture and mesmerized the audience with his excellent presentation.

More than 150 delegates attended the Lecture. Dr. Goutam Chattopadhyay

delivering the DL

4. Technical Talk on Space Antenna Systems

A technical Talk on “Space Antenna System” was delivered by Shri. Puneet Kumar Mishra at

MVJCE Bangalore on September 15, 2018. Nearly 200 students and faculty members

attended the Talk. Students gave excellent feedback about the talk and actively participated

in the Q&A session.

5. Hands-On Workshop on RF & Microwave Design

A hands-On Workshop on RF & Microwave using HFSS was organized on the side lines on

All India Students-Young Professional-Women in Engineering Congress 2018 on September

28 and 29, 2018. Total 120 students (30 students/batch) and faculty members in 4 batches

attended the workshop. Workshop was supported by IEEE MTT-S Young Professionals and

M/s Entuple Technology.

Hands on Workshop on RF and Microwave Design

Report of TEMS Chapter

TEMS Chapter, Bangalore Section has conducted following Activities in the year 2018. Chapter was re-

activated in June 2018 and following office bearers took charge:

1 Mr. Puneet Kumar Mishra, Chair

2 Dr Y V S Lakshmi, Vice Chair

3 Mr. Arun Tanskeli, Trasurer

4 Mr. Mallikarjun C., Secreatry

1. Intrapreneurship Workshop:

TEMS Bangalore Chapter in association with IEEE Bangalore Section and IEEE India

Council has organized an Intrapreneurship workshop on July 28-29,2018 at Hotel Sterlings

Mac, Bangalore. Total 15 delegates attended the workshop. Workshop was conducted by Mr.

Tathagat Varma, Country Head, Chinasoft. He covered following topics:

i. What is Intrapreneurship?

ii. What is Creative Process?

iii. How does Innovation Happen in organization

iv. How to measure Intrapreneurship Initiatives

v. Design Thinking

Mr. Anuj Magazine, Director Citrix shared his story of Intrapreneurship in his organization.

Program Concluded with Fireside Chat with Mr. Sunder Ramakrishnan, Founder & CEO

Sharanga Technologies. A live webcast using Facebook live was also experimented and nearly

200 viewers benefitted from the same. Feedback received from the participants was excellent.

Attendees of IEEE Workshop on Intrapreneurship

Mr. Anuja Magazine, Director Citrix Mr. Tathagat Varma, Country Head Chinasoft

2. TEMS Mini workshop in AISYWC:

TEMS Bangalore chapter in association with IEEE Bangalore Section and IEEE India Council has

organized a TEMS Mini Workshop on the sidelines of 2018 All India Students-Young Professionals

and Women in Engineering Congress. Nearly 450 delegates attended this mini workshop and it was

huge success among the participants of AISYWC. Following Topics were covered:

1. Skills for Employability: Dr. Sudeendra Kaushik, Chief Innovator, Prashu

2. Creativity and IPR: Dr. YVS Lakshmi, C-DoT

3. Entrepreneurship: Mr. Ravikiran Annaswamy, CEO, Innohabit Technologies

4. Design Thinking: Mr. Tathagat Varma, Country Head Chinasoft

5. Building Technical Communities Through Entrepreneurship: Dr. Amit Kumar, Bioaxis

6. Human Centred Hustle: How Story Telling, Design Thinking and Radical Innovation can help

build sustainable communities, products and business: Rohan Goswami, COO & Director, Y centre

Mr. Sudeendra Kaushik, Mr. Ravikiran, Mr. Tathagat Varma Delivering their Talks

Attendees during TEMS Mini workshop in AISYWC 2018

3.0 IPR Workshop

IEEE TEMS Bangalore chapter in association with IEEE Bangalore Section has

organized an Innovation and IPR workshop on Dec 05, 2018.

Total 20 delegates attended the workshop. Mr. Puneet Kumar Mishra, welcomed the

delegates and delivered a talk on IEEE TEMS and invited delegates to become TEMS

Members. Dr. Sudeendra Kaushik and Ms. Pragya Dixit, Prasu, covered following topics

on Innovation:

1. Introduction and importance of innovation

2. Innovation-opportunity identification and qualification

3. Innovation-Solution Generation and assessment

4. Pitching and selling the Innovation

Dr. YVS Lakshmi, C-DoT covered the various aspects of IPR. Overall workshop was

huge success with excellent feedback from participants.

Computational Intelligent Society Chapter – 2018

Office Bearers: Chair: Anandi Giridharan, PRS, ECE, IISc

Vice Chair: Prof. Vijaya Kumar BP, MSRIT

Treasurer: Dr. Anandhi R J, New Horizon College Engg

Secretary: Gayathri Devi B R, Unilever

1. Winter School on emerging research trends in Computational Intelligence – Theory

& Applications

Date: 6 Jan 2018

Venue: ECE, IISc, Bangalore

No. of Attendees: ~100

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Suresh Sundaram

Summary:

The objective of the winter school is

to provide a platform for the young

researchers and research students to

experience the recent developments

in Computational Intelligence

methods and its applications in

diverse areas. The ultimate goal is to

provide an opportunity for the young

researchers to interact with eminent

experts in CI and exchange ideas.

This provides a mechanism for them to pursue their own research with full of

confidence and produce outstanding contributions.

2. Computational Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence: Enabling

cutting edge skills to build the future

Date: 18th Jan – 23rd Jan 2018

Venue: MSRIT, Bangalore


Keynote Speaker: Prof. Alan Edelman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator, MIT Computer Science & AI

Summary:

The event was organised by CSE department, MSRIT in association with IEEE CIS,

Bangalore Chapter. The event was organised at MSRIT campus.

3. One day technical event on Big Data Analytics and IEEE CIS Bangalore chapter,

Student Chapter formation

Date: 19th March 2018

Venue: MSRIT Bangalore


Keynote Speaker : Anandi Giridharan, Dr. Vijaya Kumar, Dr Megha Arakeri

Summary:

CIS Bangalore chapter student group

formation. Department in association with

IEEE CIS Bangalore Chapter conducted IEEE

CIS Student event which was CIS orientation

for the current year as well as membership

drive. Prof. Anandi Giridharan, Chair, IEEE CIS

Bangalore Chapter gave key note address, Dr. B

P Vijaya Kumar, Professor and Head of the

Department talked on Computational

Intelligence and Ms. Bhawna Manchanda, Architect, Big data analytics addressed

students and faculty on Analytics of Things followed by Student Project Exhibition.

4. Workshop on “Exciting World of Engineering and Cyber Systems”

Date: 12th – 13th Oct 2018

Venue: MSRIT, Bangalore


Keynote Speakers: Mrs. Anandi Giridharan, IISc, Dr. Vijaya Kumar B P, Ms. Bhawna

Manchanda,

Summary:

The event was supported and co-organised

by IEEE CIS, Bangalore Chapter.

Department in association with IEEE CIS

Bangalore Chapter conducted IEEE CIS

Student event which was CIS orientation

for the current year as well as membership

drive. Prof. Anandi Giridharan, Chair,

IEEE CIS Bangalore Chapter gave key note

address, Dr. B P Vijaya Kumar, Professor

and Head of the Department talked on Computational Intelligence and Ms. Bhawna

Manchanda, Architect, Big data analytics addressed students and faculty on Analytics

of Things followed by Student Project Exhibition

5. Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning using Julia language

Date: May 2nd-4th, 2018

Venue: MSRIT Bangalore

Time: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Keynote Speaker: Deepak Vinchhi, Julia Computing

Summary:

The event was supported and co-

organised by IEEE CIS, Bangalore

Chapter.

6. SVCE Faculty Development program on Machine learning

Date: 25th to 27th July 2018

Venue: SVCE


Keynote Speaker: Anandi Giridharan

Summary:


by IEEE CIS, Bangalore Chapter. Various

advanced topics on Machine learning were

discussed by experts

7. Two Days Workshop on Research Methodologies and Scientific writing in LaTex

Date: 21st - 22nd Sep 2018

Venue: Golden Jubilee Hall, ECE Dept, IISc

No. of Attendees: 75

Keynote Speaker: Lead Speaker: Prof. N. Sundararajan, IEEE Fellow, NTU

Singapore LaTeX: Dr. Udayasree Gorantla, CDOT, Bangalore

Summary:


by IEEE CIS, Bangalore Chapter. Research

Methodologies and Scientific writing details

very helpful to students and researchers.

8. IEEE CIS Symposium - SSCI 2018

Date: 18th - 21st Nov 2018

Venue: Sheraton Bangalore


Keynote Speaker: 2018 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational

Intelligence

Summary:

On behalf of the IEEE SSCI 2018 Organizing Committee, it is our great pleasure to

invite you to the flagship annual IEEE Symposium Series of Computational Intelligence

(IEEE SSCI), which is promoting all aspects of computational intelligence to be held at

Bengaluru, India. The IEEE SSCI 2018 co-locates several symposia under one roof,

each dedicated to a specific topic in the computational intelligence domain, thereby

encouraging cross-fertilization of ideas and providing a unique platform for top

researchers, professionals and students from all around the world to discuss and

present their findings. Initiation of SSCI conference activities like bank account

opening and other administrative tasks was supported by IEEE CIS Bangalore Chapter.

9. IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecture Program - Rise of Multi-criterion Evolutionary

Optimization: A 25 year perspective

Date: 20th Nov 2018

Venue: IISc, Bangalore


Keynote Speaker: Dr Kalyanmoy Deb

Summary:

IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecture Program - Rise of Multi-criterion Evolutionary

Optimization: A 25 year perspective

IEEE GRSS Chapter 2018

Chairman: Prof. Saroj Kumar Meher (Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore)

Vice-Chair: Prof. Raju Garudachar (Jain University, Bangalore)

Vice-Chair: Prof. G. Viswanathan (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational

Sciences, Bangalore)

Secretary: Prof. B. S. Daya Sagar (Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore)

Treasurer: Prof. B. S. Daya Sagar (Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore)

Bangalore Section IEEE GRSS Chapter organized a Distinguished Lecture (DL)

talk by the IEEE GRSS DL Prof. Alejandro C. Frery, Universidade Federal de

Alagoas, Maceió, BRAZIL on “Statistical Information Theory and Geometry

for SAR Image Analysis” on 12th Feb. 2018. The event was organized at Systems

Science and Informatics Unit (SSIU), Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore

Centre, India, in association with Documentation Research and Training

Centre, Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore Centre, India. About 80

participants (including around 40 IEEE members) from different parts of

Bangalore attended the talk.

One more DL talk was organized by the Bangalore Section IEEE GRSS Chapter

on “Data Expansion: Using Analogues to Improve Remote Sensing and

Climate Datasets” on 1st June, at Systems Science and Informatics Unit (SSIU),

Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore Centre, India. The talk was delivered by

Prof. Gregoire Mariethoz, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics (IDYST),

University of Lausanne, Switzerland, who is the DL for 2018 International

Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG). About 60 participants

(including around 25 IEEE members) from different parts of Bangalore

attended the talk.

One paper was presented by Mr. Sampreet Soor at the IGARSS-2018 held at

Valencia, Spain, during 22-37 June 2018. This member of Bangalore Section

IEEE GRSS received Travel Grant Awards from the IGARSS-2018 to present his

paper at the IGARSS-2018. The Chapter coordinators are deeply thankful to the

support provided by the GRSS Society.

Founding Chairs of Bangalore and Bombay Sections IEEE GRSS Chapters, Prof.

B. S. Daya Sagar and Prof. Avik Bhattacharya Guest Edited a Special Issue on

“Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing in India” for IEEE Journal of

Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, which was

published in 2018. Other two Guest Editors involved in releasing this special

issue exclusively to showcase the activities related to the Earth Observation and

Remote Sensing in India include Prof. Lorenzo Bruzzone, FIEEE, and Dr. Paul

Rosen, FIEEE.

IEEE GRSS India Chapter Chairs Meet was held on 9th June 2018 at the IEEE

India Office, Bangalore. This meet was attended by Chapter Chairs and/or

Secretaries that include Munir Mohammed, Daya Sagar, Harish Mysore,

Shivmohan, Rajan, Ramakrishnan, Avik Bhattacharya, and Saurabh Das.

Several issues involved in organizing potential events under the umberella of

IEEE GRSS India Chapters were discussed during this one-day long meeting.

Bangalore Section IEEE GRSS Chapter organized THREE-day workshop on

“Foundations of Linear Algebra and Machine Learning” at PES University,

Bangalore South Campus. Around 60 participants attended the workshop. Prof.

Daya Sagar, Dr. Saroj Meher and Dr. S. Saha were the speakers among others.

Prof. Alejandro C. Frery, from BRAZIL, delivering IEEE DL

talk at the Bangalore Section IEEE GRSS Chapter during

12th Feb. 2018

Prof. Gregoire Mariethoz, from Switzerland, delivering the IAMG

DL talk at the Bangalore Section IEEE GRSS Chapter during 1st

June 2018

IEEE IES Bangalore Chapter

IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Inaugural Meeting Date: 14/04/2018 (Saturday) Venue: Indian Institute of Science, Department of Electrical Engineering. Welcome note by Professor Debabrata Das - IEEE Bangalore Section past Chair. Dr. Kaushik Basu presented a brief report on the formation of the IES Bangalore Chapter. Professor Gopakumar gave the keynote speech. He emphasised on the importance of IES Chapter both for academia and industry.

There

was team of 28 participants with mix of students, faculty and working professionals from industry. The function was of great success with active involvement by all the team members with interactive session along with mentoring and inspirational key note address by Prof. Gopakumar.

Title: "Optimal Energy Extraction from a Flywheel”

Speaker: Dr. S R Gurumurthy - Scientific Officer-H+, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mysuru. Date: 18th July, 2018 Time: 4.00pm - 5.00pm Venue: MMCR Dept of Electrical Engineering, IISc, Bangalore.

Abstract: Concern of increasing energy demand, exhausting fossil fuel reserves and consequences of climate change,

urges us to design energy efficient systems to conserve the existing energy resources. Energy storage is one

of the area where there is a scope to improve the efficiency. One of the devices which can store energy is

flywheel and this has the merits of less maintenance, higher energy density, environmental friendly, longer

life and unlimited charge and discharge cycles. Flywheel energy storage is now considered a viable

technology for stationary applications like UPS, solar and wind power systems particularly when short

time back up is required. This talk covers the discussion on the design methodology of an efficient Flywheel

Energy Storage (FES) system which includes Bidirectional power Converter (BDC), Brushless DC (BLDC)

and a flywheel. The energy extracted from an FESS is limited by various factors like gain of the boost

converter, source resistance of the generator and losses in the system. A brief discussion on these factors

including a method for source-wise apportioning of the losses, techniques of reducing these losses, factors

which influence the extractions of energy harvested will be covered in the talk. A novel scheme of using a

multi-armature winding PM-BLDC generator and a buck converter for the enhancement of the harvested

energy will also be discussed. The presentation also covers the applications of FESS in the Battery less UPS.

Title: Industry Trends in Variable Speed Drives Speaker: Navaneeth Kumar N (MGTS, Systems manager - Motor drives, Texas Instruments Incorporated) Date: 31 May 2018 Time: 3.00pm - 4.00pm Venue: MMCR Dept of Electrical Engineering, IISc, Bangalore.

Abstract: The talk is intended to provide a better perspective to the students on how OEM's design and

what factors influence the architecture. Variable speed drives have been in the market for long and has

been undergoing constant changes to meet up with the market requirements, IEC standards and

technological advancements in power, computational devices, diagnostics and communication interfaces.

This session will focus on Market trends, different power stage architecture (Current sensing, Gate driver

and Isolation) used in drive, functional safety in drives, EMC standards and application of WBG devices in

drives.

Title: Soft Magnetic Thin Film Applications for integrated electronics Speaker: Prof. Masahiro Yamaguchi,Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,

Tohoku Unviersity Date: 16th July, 2018 Time: 3.00pm - 5.00pm Venue: MMCR Dept of Electrical Engineering, IISc, Bangalore.

Abstract: Ferromagnetic thin film materials, having high permeability at radio frequencies and above are

candidate materials for use in inductive passive components in power electronics. This lecture begins

with a review of new soft magnetic thin film materials, followed by discussions that include:

Development of international cross measurements of RF permeameters to evaluate RF permeability and

related FMR profiles of magnetic films; Small signal lossy application to CMOS integrated

electromagnetic nose suppressor; Large current permeable application to Point-of-Load type one-chip

DC-DC converters. The lecture will conclude with an outlook that provides a perspective on the future of

on-chip RF magnetics.

Title: Practical Electric Energy Storage & Motor Drives Solutions for Modern Aerospace Electrification Speaker: Dr. Sheldon S. Williamson - Professor and Canada Research Chair in Electric Energy Storage Systems for Transportation Electrification Date: 16th Aug, 2018 Time: 2.00 pm – 4:00 pm Venue: UTC AEROSPACE SYSTEMS Netra Tech Park, Bangalore 560 066

Abstract:

This presentation will highlight the current status and future opportunities within UOIT’s research

program on transportation electrification and electric energy storage systems. UOIT’s research initiatives within the Smart Transportation Electrification and Energy Research (STEER) group has the potential of providing a significant link for future progress with regards to efficiency and performance improvement of electric transportation and autonomous e-mobility.

Title: Practical challenges in the design of power

electronics devices for plasma cutting applications

Speaker: Dr. Girish Kamath - Hypertherm, Inc., Hanover NH, USA Date: 24 September 2018 Time: 2.30 pm – 3:30 pm Venue: MMCR Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IISc, Bangalore. Abstract:

The speaker has a background in power electronics design and has been designing power supplies for

plasma cutting applications for the past 17 years. Plasma cutting in a nutshell, is a popular technology

that converts gas such as air or oxygen into the plasma state to cut metal. In this two-part talk, the

speaker will begin with an overview of a typical plasma cutting system. The ignition circuit, which is

a usually a Tesla coil based High-Voltage High- Frequency circuit is used to initiate the conversion of

gas to plasma at the beginning of the cut cycle. This circuit arguably makes Plasma cutting unique

among the list of industrial electronics applications. The speaker will present details of a typical gas

ignition circuit and the role it plays in the metal cutting process. The application of this circuit brings

with it certain practical challenges, mainly related to radiated emissions. This will be the subject

matter for the second part of the talk. Here, the speaker will describe briefly the mechanics of radiated

emissions due to its operation. It is seen that cables play an important role in EM noise radiation. To

address this problem, a low-cost diagnostic tool to measure the antenna effects of cables is being

developed. The proposed method is being formulated with a simple test cable case and verified with

its 3D RF physics model. Details of the investigation along with experimental and modeling results

will be presented.

Few Photographs of the Events:

IEEE Nanotechnology Council Annual Report -2018

IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) Bangalore is Chapter headed by Mr. Kumar Munipalli, Vice President,

Aquantia Semiconductor India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru.

IEEE Nanotechnology Council-Sensors Council Joint Student Chapter organized a “IEEE

Nanotechnology Summer School 2018” in cooperation with CeNSE, IISc Bangalore from 16 - 20 July

2018. This has provided a platform for introduction to various specializations in the field of

nanotechnology and hands-on experience of the state-of-the art nano-fabrication and characterization

facilities at CeNSE. Following are covered. Nanophotonics, Nanomaterials, Nanoelectronics,

Nanobiotechnology & Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (NEMS)

The talks were designed to provide the participants with a flavor of the recent advancements and

ongoing research in each of these areas and to motivate them to pursue research as a career.

Furthermore, with an aim to bridge the research-industry gap, the program schedule will be

interspersed with talks delivered by industry professionals, so that their expertise can complement the

research at academic institutions and ultimately lead to a holistic development from Science to Systems

and beyond.

There were a total of 92 participants (25 faculty members + 67 Students (Graduate and Undergraduate

level)) with speakers from all over the India and a few from abroad (4). We had to refuse registrations

due to limited ability to give exposure to hands-on sessions. We had 24 talk sessions, 5 hands-on

modules and 10 Poster Presentations.

Mr. Kumar Munipalli, Vice President- Aquantia, Bengaluru. Delivered a talk on “Limitation of the Moore’s

Law” & discussed the problem associated in scaled down technology. Sir also discussed about the challenges

designers and researchers has to deal with near future. At the end Sir conducted quiz, in which all the

attendees were participated actively.

IEEE Nanotechnology Summer School 2018” in cooperation with CeNSE, IISc Bangalore from 16 - 20 July 2018.

Invited speaker Dr. Veena S Chakravarthi, CTO and Co-founder SenseSemi Technologies Pvt. Ltd. With Dean, HOD-ECE, faculty coordinators and students.

EXECOM meeting on 12-03-2018 to plan and execute the events for the upcoming year

Mr. Kumar Munipalli, Vice President- Aquantia, Bengaluru. Delivered a talk on “Limitation of the Moore’s Law” on 06-10-2018

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, Bangalore Chapter

Activity Report of 2018

Date Name of Activity Duration No of attendees

16th & 18th February, 2018

Robodium @ Amrita School of Engineering (RASE’18)

3 Days Non IEEE - 236 IEEE - 36

28th April, 2-18 Robotics and Automation Symposium

1 Day Non IEEE - 30 IEEE - 25

16th-27th July 2018

10-Days Hands-On Certification Course on Robotics Engineering


19th-22nd September, 2018

7th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-18)


RASE’18 (National Level Robotics Competition)

ACROM and IEEE RAS in association with IEEE RAS Bangalore Chapter joined hands to organize

RASE’18 (Robodium@ASE), ASE-B’s annual national level robotics competition during 16th, to

18th of February, 2018. The event was conducted with an aim to lay a platform for young college

students to compete in lively battles ranging from mind puzzling, algorithm testing and design

improvement seeking competitions through the robots they built to showcase in the competition.

RASE’18 had a total of 68 teams form 25 Engineering Colleges, participating across five different

competitions, namely Lifo, RoboWars, Robo Soccer, Death Race and Maze Runner.

Event saw the best 3 teams in each of the five events winning a total whooping amount of

Rs.1,17,000/-. The three day event came to a close after the distribution of certificates and prizes

for all the events in their respective arenas.

Symposium on Robotics

The IEEE PESIT Bangalore South Campus Student Branch and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Bangalore Chapter, have jointly organized a symposium that pivoted around the central theme of robotics and automation. Boasting of noteworthy speakers, there was much to take away for the attendees from this educational conference. Topics like Computer vision in Robotics, Robotics simulation, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles and Space Robotics were discussed by the esteemed speakers, Dr. Jharna Mazumdar (NITTE Bangalore), Rajeevalochana (IIT Delhi), Dr. P Murli Krishna (DRDO-CAIR), Mr. Mithun (IIIT Hyderabad) and Mr. Muthukumaraswamy( CEO, KrutiBimb). Attendees from across the state attended the Symposium, and it was a very rich experience for all.

10-Days Hands-On Certification Course on Robotics Engineering

The higher education system, especially professional courses such as Engineering in our country has been more or less discipline oriented, this model of conventional hierarchical based engineering education system is a serious impediment for the students to study & research subjects which are basically interdisciplinary in nature. We have to take step in the direction of establishing an interdisciplinary research culture in academia by introducing more practical/hands-on based open elective interdisciplinary courses in our existing framework of engineering education. One such Initiative by NMIT is the Introduction of the course “ROBOTICS ENGINEERING - LEGO MINDSTORM & TETRIX”. There were 40 registrations for the workshop. The workshop was conducted by Dr. Jahrna Majumdar and her team for NMIT.

7th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-18)

The Seventh International Conference on Computing, Communication and Informatics was hosted by PESIT- Bangalore South Campus during 19-22, September 2018. The 6 previous ICACCI conferences were held in Chennai, Mysore, Noida, Kochi, Jaipur and Manipal starting from 2012.

ICACCI'18 was technically co-sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) and IEEE Robotics & Automation Society (RAS). Other Technical sponsors of ICACCI 2018 are, Photonics Society, Women in Computing and ACM. All accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

The four day schedule had keynote talks by domain experts in the morning sessions and research

paper presentations in the afternoon sessions. This edition of ICACCI had 28 invited talks by

eminent researchers from across the globe. These included Austria, France, Brazil, Spain,

Switzerland, Italy, UK, Bangladesh, USA and India. 575 papers highlighting the research findings

of delegates were presented in the conference. There were paper contributions from around 40

countries.

The papers were scheduled for presentations in different sessions namely regular paper sessions, short paper sessions, industry track, poster paper sessions, workshops, and symposiums. Other sessions included tutorials, plenary/keynote sessions, lightning talks and panel discussion.

The partnership with Industries like CISCO, Lam Research will result into a long term research association. This is the first time ICACCI had such Industry support.

On the whole, the experience of conducting ICACCI’18 has been very satisfying and outcomes have been manifold. The positive feedbacks received from authors, invited speakers and delegates are

very encouraging and gratifying.

IEEE Sensors Council Bangalore Chapter

IEEE Sensors council is an active chapter trying to promote technical activities in The domain of Sensors. The current officer bearers are

Chair: Dr. S L Pinjare, Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore

Secretary: Dr.Shobha K R, MSRIT, Bangalore

Treasurer: Cyril Prasanna Raj P, MS Engineering College, Bangalore

List of activities conducted in 2018

Date Name of Activity Number of Participants

16/1/2018 - 21/1/2018

One-week workshop on IOT System Design using RPI and Data Analytics

70

14/2/12018 – 15/2/2018

Six different Two day hands on workshop on the following topics were conducted 1. Linux OS & IP Networking, 2. Development of Embedded Applications and IoT, 3. Multimedia, 4. Android, Application Development & LabVIEW, 5. Analog Circuit Design using Cadence and 6. Digital Design using Xilinx Vivado Tool

268

8/3/2018 TekTalk on Analog Layout 60

7/4/2018 Technical talk on Linux Kernel Programming and Device Drivers 50

17/5/2018 Technical talk millimetre waves and information security 60

18/5/2018 – 19/5/2018

Two-day workshop smart systems, UAVs and its applications 70

23/7/18 to 28/7/18

One week workshop on RF Circuits and Systems” 60

One-week workshop on IOT System Design using RPI and Data Analytics head at MSRIT

IEEE Sensor Council in collaboration with Department of TCE , NSRIT organized a one week FDP on “IOT System Design using RPI and Data Analytics” during 16th to 21st

January 2018. The workshop had 70 participants from both industry and academia. Mr. Sashinder (resource-person, Director, Paradigm Learning and Consulting and team from Nihon communication introduced the RaspberyPi3 with a strong emphasis on hands on sessions – focusing on

programming in Python for Node MCU, RPI, and Data analytics. Programming Node MCU using Micro python was also introduced so that the complete system design could be achieved using python. The response and feedback from the participants were very good.

Two day hands on workshop on Linux OS & IP Networking, Development of Embedded Applications and IoT, Multimedia, Android Application Development & LabVIEW, Analog Circuit Design using Cadence and Digital Design using Xilinx Vivado Tool Technical talk on Linux Kernel Programming and Device Drivers Two-day workshop smart systems, UAVs and its applications

Six parallel tracks were conducted in this workshop. The

participants practiced the commands using computers. Installation

of OS on Raspberry pi and basic IOT related experiments were

covered. Full hands on exercises were done using Cadence,

VIVADO and LabView. Participants also develop simple android

app using app developer. This workshop series were handled by

domain experts from NMITT This workshop saw a huge

participation of 268 participants

A technical talk on “Linux Kernel Programming and Device

Drivers” was held at NCET on 7th April 2018. The event was

organized by IEEE student branch of NCET in association with

IEEE Sensors Council Bangalore Chapter. Mr. Radhakrishnan, a

senior corporate trainer with more than 34 years of experience and

founder of Advanced Training and Research Labs, Bangalore, was

the resource person of this event. He gave an insight into the

concepts of Linux programming and demonstrated the techniques

of programming in a simple way. He also demonstrated the

concepts of device drivers using some sample kits

The program was jointly organized at Jain University in

collaboration with IEEE Sensor Council and KSCST. The

workshop covered current technologies in UAV and student

competitions to design and fabricate a VTOL Drone and to

design an aircraft based on two different factors – aircraft that has

that least possible empty weight but at the same time can lift the

maximum possible payload fraction. The workshop had eminent

speakers like Dr.V.K.Aatre- Former SA to RM, DG-DRDO,

Dr.C.M.Anand-NAL-MAV, Prof.Omkar-Professor, IISc -

Aerospace, Mrs Nemichandramma -HAL, GM etc

One-week workshop on RF Circuits and Systems

IEEE PELS Bangalore Chapter

Date Name of Activity Number of

Participants

17th Jan 2018 Distinguished Lecture Program (DLP) – WBG Semiconductor Power Electronic Devices

94

18th Jan 2018 GaN Power Devices” Characteristics, Design Considerations and Applications

38

14th April 2018 Annual General body Meeting 65

31st May 2018 Industry Trends in Variable Speed Drives 40

16th July 2018 Soft Magnetic Thin Film Applications for integrated electronics 30

18th July 2018 Optimal Energy Extraction from a Flywheel 50

24th September 2018 Practical challenges in the design of power electronics devices for plasma cutting applications

40

Title: IEEE Distinguished Lecture Program – Wide Bandgap (WBG) Semiconductor Power Electronics Switching Devices Date and Time: 17th January 2018 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Venue: Multi-media Conference Room, Dept of EE, IISc Speaker: Dr. Krishna Shenai Abstract: Power electronics switching devices made on wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) have the potential to make transformative impact in future energy systems because of higher electrical and thermal conductivities, enhanced breakdown voltage capability, and improved field-reliability compared to the industry workhorse silicon. This talk will discuss the

The program was jointly organized by Ramaiah Institute of

Technology in collaboration with IEEE Sensor Council,

Bangalore chapter IETE Bangalore Centre and IMAPS India.

The workshop covered current technologies in the domain and

had hands on session as well. The sessions were handled by

eminent speakers like Dr. Surendra Pal who was the former Vice

Chancellor of Defence Institute of Advanced Technology,

DIAT-Pune and the Past president of IETE Dr. Prasad Shastry

Professor, Bradley University, USA and Dr. M H Kori,

Technology Consultant, Former Technical Director Alcatel

Lucent Technologies, Chairman, IMAPS INDIA.

current state-of-the-art and future R&D opportunities in WBG power devices for a wide range of commercial and strategic power electronics switching applications.

Number of Participants: IEEE Members Attended – 60 Guests Attended – 34 Title: GaN Power Devices: Characteristics, Design Considerations and Applications Date and Time: 18th January 2018 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Venue: Multi-media Conference Room, Dept of EE, IISc Speaker: Mr. Salil Chellapan Abstract: In this presentation, the characteristics, design considerations and a typical application of GaN power devices will be discussed. The first half of the presentation will focus on the application related characteristics of GaN power devices. A comparafve study of available device architectures (like enhancement and deplefon mode), specificafons and packaging vis-à-vis power conversion applications will be presented. The second half will focus more on a practical implementation using GaN devices – a “Zero Voltage Switched Interleaved Critical Conduction Mode Totem pole Bridgeless PFC”, that extends the switching frequency range to the MHz region. The background, implementation aspects and results will be presented.

IEEE Photonics Society, Bangalore Chapter 2018.

Title: IEEE Day Celebration

Date: 27th October 2018

Venue: The Oxford College of Engineering (TOCE), Bangalore, Karnataka

Brief abstract: IEEE Photonics Society student branch, TOCE, celebrated IEEE day on 27th October 2018

followed by a technical talk by the chair of IEEE Photonics Society Bangalore Chapter.

No. of participants:150

Title:International Day of Light 2018

Date: 16th May 2018

Venue: IISc, Bangalore, Karnataka

Brief abstract: Recognizing the importance of light and light-based technologies in the lives of

the citizens of the world and the future development of the global society on many levels. UNO

General Assembly at its 71st plenary meeting decided to proclaim 2015 as the International Year

of Light and Light based technologies. Due to its huge global success, UNESCO subsequently

declared May 16th as the International Day of Light as the global initiative that provides an annual

focal point for the continued appreciation of light and the role it plays in science, culture and art,

education and sustainable development and in fields as diverse as medicine, communication and

energy. On this event, IEEE Photonics Society, Bangalore Chapter has initiated to appreciate

suitable eminent professor for their contribution in the field of Photonics by awarding in the name

of Dr. A. Selvarajan.

No. of participants: 100

Title: Summer School on Optics and Applied Photonics, SOAP 2018

Date: 25-28 July 2018

Venue: IISc, Bangalore, Karnataka

Brief abstract: The Summer School in Optics And Photonics is organized by Applied Photonics

Initiative, Indian institute of Science. This summer school is for graduate students, research

scholars, post docs and faculty members currently pursuing research or planning to pursue

research in the area of optics and photonics. The school will bring together the experts in the field

from India and abroad and provide a platform for interaction and networking. This program

includes Lectures, Lab Visits, Industry Interaction and Demos, Student Poster session and Open

invited talks.


Title: National Level One Day Workshop on Recent Trends in Photonics

Date: 07th September 2018

Venue: Mahendra College of Engineering, Salem, Tamil Nadu

Brief abstract: Towards development of IEEE Photonics activities with other states has been initiated

by organising National Level One Day Workshop on Recent Trends in Photonicsat Mahendra College of

Engineering, Salem, Tamil Nadu on 07th September 2018. Resource persons from the society have

delivered technical talks on various topics of photonics and motivated all participants to involve in

research activities.


Title: Technical Lecture on Quantum Communications and Computing using Photonics

Date: 22nd August 2018

Venue: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

Brief abstract: Dr. T. Srinivas, IISc delivered a talk on Quantum Communications and Computing using

Photonics on 22nd August 2018 at Hyderabad in collaboration with NITTTR, under the banner of IEEE

Hyderabad section and IEEE Photonics Society Bangalore Chapter.


Title:One Week FDP on MEMS and MOEMS

Date:30th April to 04th May 2018

Venue:Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan, Karnataka

Brief abstract: MEMS and MOEMS have become important components for wide range of applications.

The FDP mainly consists on lectures on Principles of MEMS and Optical MEMS and practical sessions on

Modeling and Simulation tools for the better understanding of course contents like designing,

construction, using various numerical methods such as FDTD, FDM. This FDP sponsored under TEQIP-

III.


Title: Technical Talk on Quantum Computing and Nano Photonics

Date: 10th April 2018

Venue: PESIT, South Campus, Bangalore, Karnataka

Brief abstract: Dr. T. Srinivas, Professor at IISc, delivered the talk on Quantum Computing through

Photonics. The key topics covered are Introduction to Photonics, Optical fibers, Different methods of

encoding through OFC, Church Turing thesis, Quantum bits and their physical representation, Few-mode

communication system, Different types of modes and their corresponding vector space.

In the later half of the session Dr. Koustav Bowmick, Professor at Amrutha University delivered the talk

on Introduction to Photonics, Photonic glass materials, Photonic band gap, Fabrication of photonic

materials, Fiber technology, Advances in photonics, Pros and cons of SVMs and Electronic design and

automation.


Title: Workshop on Nanotechnology and Photonics


Venue: SaiVidya Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka

Brief abstract: This workshop is organised in association with IEEE-IISc students’ branch. Prof. T

Srinivas Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE, IISc along with two PhD students from CeNSE IISc will be

speakers. This workshop is exclusively for Students with aim to encourage them towards research

activities.


IEEE ComSoc, Bangalore Chapter 2018 ComSoc has been doing exceptionally well with the members from both industry and

academia. ExCom agreed to take some new initiatives apart from doing things which are

necessary and required. Some of the new initiatives like organizing events outside

Bangalore (completed two this year), Research methodology workshop series,

nomination for distinguished award worldwide etc. are taken by the team. Some of these

exercises are not only expensive but time consuming as well. But the team agreed to do

and did very well in the first year.

ComSoc account was in a very healthy state. We are using Netsuite to report our

operations. NetSuite is now operative and well balanced.

T-Time Charcha -Tea/Coffee - Technology Innovation, Management and

Entrepreneurship Charcha (discussion) is yet another initiative started from June 2018

and is being conducted every alternate month in industry corridor. This is a half day FREE

event sponsored by ComSoc Bangalore. We arrange talks on some innovations,

management, and entrepreneurship related stuffs. It is found to be very useful for start-

ups, youngsters and innovators who listens to the experienced people.

Reaching out to student branch (SB) to start student branch ComSoc chapters and

offering support for this resulted in two new student branch chapters (SBCs); St Joseph

College of Engineering, Mangalore and RVCE, Bangalore. The coming year, we have set a

target of at least 2-3 new SBCs.

Industry collaboration, visibility to global level is another milestone on ComSoc this year.

Many new industry partners have joined after attending our events. They had lot of

appreciations for the initiatives taken by ComSoc. Wipro Ltd, Arricent Ltd, Accenture

(have contacted and are taking lead for the first event in 2019). Nokia is continuing and

enjoying our collaborative works.

ComSoc starting its Bi-annual Newsletter is yet another new initiative and the first edition

was circulated on 1st May. The newsletter is very rich in contents starting from our events,

achievements, future events, informative invited articles, job information - both national

and international were included. In addition, we also got advertisement page on paid

basis. Mathworks requested to print half a page advertisement inside the newsletter.

In one other initiative and measure to enhance the quality of conference being conducted

and the papers being accepted, ComSoc decided to screen properly the application for

technical sponsorship for the conference and support them to get skilled by taking active

part as TPC Co-Chairs and Publication Co-Chairs. We did this with 3 conference requests

from 3 different colleges.

With advancements to social media, chapter has invested time and resources to keep its

website updated and started Facebook feeds which is active now. This has enabled many

of our members to stay connected.

New Initiatives

1. ISCAT (IEEE Smart City Advisory Team) comprising many experts from Industry

and Academia who would like to work with Govt. and City head to successfully design and

develop ambitious projects of Indian govt of 100 cities in next 5-7 yrs. We organize and

conduct smart city workshop to give wide popularity of our expertise. We conducted one

such workshop on 16-17 Nov 2018. -

5G Workshop Series - Started in 2014, ComSoc Bangalore is conducting and

organizing at least 2 events per year on 5G Technology. This year, we did this jointly with

India Council, Bangalore section on 29-30 June which attracted over 200 delegates.

Research Methodology and IEEE AuthorshipLab workshop Series - We organize

at least 3 events per year starting from 2017. We ensure to organize one outside Bangalore

and two in Bangalore. The objective of this 2-day workshop is to improve the quality of

research and create awareness of R&D.

T-TIME Charcha - Tea/Coffee - Technology Innovation, Management and

Entrepreneurship Charcha (discussion) is yet another initiative started from June 2018

and being conducted every alternate month in industry corridor. This is half day FREE

event sponsored by ComSoc Bangalore. We arrange talks on innovation that has been

done, becoming an entrepreneurs and necessary management skills related talks. The

third in series completed on 20th Oct at Reliance Jio office at Brigade road, Bangalore

Intelligent Transportation Workshop Series - This one day workshop is the

initiative which will be conducted every year to address the traffic problem in Bangalore

and find solution for improving it. The first event was organized at Wipro Electronic City

Bangalore on 23 Nov 2018.

Graduate Congress - GraTE-7" that is Graduate Congress - Thesis Evaluation in 7

minutes". Any student graduated in the year 2018 (Master and PhD) can submit a

synopsis and other details and present during the congress. 7-best thesis will be awarded.

4 Master and 3 PhD. They will be given cash prize of 25K INR each for PhD and 15-20K

INR for Master and a certificate of best thesis work. Corresponding supervisor will be also

given appreciation certificate for the best supervisor.

7. Expert Data Base (Local Distinguish Experts) -We are compiling data base of

experts, (we call them Local Distinguish Experts DE). They have agreed to deliver talk,

evaluate project, mentor interested students etc. You can find the details on RESOURCE

MENU above. We are making this data base richer day by day. Find them here:

ComSoc Bangalore/India Newsletter - Started from last year, we released six

monthly newsletters. In this, you find articles from students, latest innovation, technology

trend, job/internship and many more.

IEEE EPS, Bangalore Chapter 2018

The year 2018 commenced with the chapter chair Mr. Suresh V. Subramanyam

and chapter Secretary Dr. Arkaprovo Das attending the IEEE Bangalore Section Annual

General Body Meeting on 25th February 2018 and presenting the report for 2017,

proposing the timeline of events for 2018 and sharing relevant points and concerns

pertaining to the chapter in particular.

The first exe-com meeting was organized by the chapter on 23rd April 2018. The

meeting was convened by the chapter secretary and was attended by all 4 office bearers.

The meeting was held to discuss the plan and timeline of events for 2018 with emphasis

on IEEE EPS flagship event (IEEE Electrical Design of Advanced Packaging and Systems

Symposium (EDAPS), Chandigarh, India) coming back to India for the first time since

2014.

On 7th June 2018, a technical talk on Flexible Hybrid Electronics was organized by

the chapter. Prof. Madhavan Swaminathan, an IEEE fellow and Distinguished Lecturer

for IEEE EMC society was roped in as the speaker for the event. The title of the talk was

“Multi-physics Modeling for Flexible Hybrid Electronics”. The event was attended by 27

attendees, 10 of whom were IEEE members (pictures below).

On the same day an executive committee meeting was held with 6 IEEE members

in attendance. Driving EDAPS 2018 was the main agenda for the meeting. The conference

general co-chair for EDAPS 2018 – Dr. Rohit Sharma, IIT Ropar was also present in

person for the event. Other points that were discussed include ways to increase

membership base, tapping youth potential from EDAPS 2018, several operational details,

etc. (pictures below)

A general body meeting with the chapter members in attendance was organized on

15th November 2018. The event was attended by 6 IEEE members. This was to have an

update on the progress of EDAPS 2018, clearance of funds for a tech. event to be jointly

sponsored with IIT Madras on Feb 2019, discussion on next set of office bearers,

discussion on expenses for 2018, feedback and suggestions from members, etc.

Most of the efforts for the year 2018 had been channeled towards jointly

hosting IEEE EDAPS 2018 which has been IEEE EPS society sponsored flagship event for

quite sometime. IEEE EPS Bangalore chapter has the experience of hosting the event

twice - in 2005 and 2014. Although scheduled to be held in Chandigarh this time from 16-

18th December 2018, IEEE EPS Bangalore is playing an important role with its previous

experience of hosting the event. Most of the office bearers are members of organizing

committee for EDAPS 2018. The office bearers and the chapter members are also a part

of Technical Program Committee for the event. The chapter is putting efforts in driving

registrations, publications, publicity, sponsorship from different organizations etc.

Special attention is being given by the chapter for representation of Bangalore eco-system

at the summit across industry and academia.

B.3 Professional and Continuing Education Activities Summary of continuing Educational activities including conferences, technical activities, training courses, and distinguished lecture programs with attachment table / information

Educational activities 2018

Conducting Research to Solve a problem

Date: 02-May-2018

Venue: Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore

Number of participants: 140+

Topics covered:

1. Problem Identifying and Solving Session

2. Research Methodology

3. Research for UG, PG and PhD

Key speakers: Dr G S Javed

Event summary:

The full day workshop had 2 sessions. Dr Javed was the resource person for the second

session. He introduced the methodology of conducting research and ways to define a

problem. Dr Javed explained about problem identification and the various methods of

problem solving to the students. He also gave examples of identifying a problem of a

DSCE research student and brain stormed with the audience to show the thought

process of identifying a problem worth being solved. He took some time to explain the

scope of research applicable to the UG PG & PhD students. It enlightened the students

to take up more research problems at UG level.

One day workshop on Literature Survey and Technical Writing

Date: 11-Aug-2018

Venue: Vidya Vardhaka College of Engineering, Mysore

Number of participants: 140+

Topics covered:

1. Literature Survey for research

2. Design Thinking

3. Problem formulation and solution

4. Technical Writing

5. Ethics of research


Event summary:

As part of the Educational Activities of IEEE Bangalore Section, a one day workshop on

Literature Survey and Technical Writing was conducted to the benefit of the final year

students of EE, EC and CS depts at Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysore on

11-Aug-2018. 140+ students attended the workshop.

The workshop had multiple case-study based learning sessions on Literature Survey

techniques, Design thinking, problem formulation and solution, technical writing and

ethics of research. They learnt how to do a broad topic search and then narrow down the

search to converge on the closest example.

https://sites.google.com/view/tech-workshops/blogs-and-articles/technical-writing-

and-latex/literature-survey-and-technical-writing

Interaction with the Entrepreneurship Cell of VVCE, Mysore

Date: 11-Aug-2018

Venue: Vidya Vardhaka College of Engineering, Mysore

Number of participants: 12

Topics covered:

1. E-Cell operations

2. Ideation competition

3. Business feasibility workshops

4. Product prototype development


Event summary:

The E-Cell of a college acts as a first stop for students desiring to start a company or

prepare to start a company. There are many aspects of starting up viz. product

conceptualization, viable product creation, sales plan, business plan, etc. During the

visit, the office bearers of the student E-Cell group had a fireside chat with Dr G S Javed

and spoke about the experiences of EntIISc, the student run entrepreneurship group

started by him and his consultancy, King Consultants - Education. They also discussed

about the events conducted by the E-Cell at VVCE.

https://sites.google.com/view/tech-workshops/blogs-and-articles/technical-writing-and-latex/literature-survey-and-technical-writing

https://sites.google.com/view/tech-workshops/blogs-and-articles/technical-writing-and-latex/literature-survey-and-technical-writing

https://sites.google.com/view/tech-workshops/entrepreneurial-learning/e-cell-of-vvce-

mysore

The following programs were held for school and pre university students at VITM in

collaboration with IEEE Bangalore Section during 2018.

1. IEEE VITM Distinguished Lecture Series

The IEEE VITM distinguished lecture on “Are We Alone? NASA's Search for

Life Beyond Earth “ was delivered by Dr. Goutam Chattopadhyay, Senior

Research Scientist at the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California

Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA on 17th July 2018 4.30 pm at the

museum auditorium. Dr. Goutam Chattopadhyay is also a visiting Associate at the

Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy at the California Institute of

Technology, Pasadena, USA. The lecture was organised in collaboration with IEEE

AP/MTT Bangalore Joint Chapter. It was attended by about 250particiapnts.

https://sites.google.com/view/tech-workshops/entrepreneurial-learning/e-cell-of-vvce-mysore

https://sites.google.com/view/tech-workshops/entrepreneurial-learning/e-cell-of-vvce-mysore

2. App Development Course on Android

App Development Course on Android was held at Visvesvaraya Industrial &

Technological Museum in collaboration with IEEE & IEEE Bangalore Section for

high school students during May 18-20, 2018.

About 20 students from different schools in Bangalore attended the course. The

students developed the following apps.

Converter

E-Care

Swachh Bharat - Lakes

E-Bill

Safety First

B.4 Students Activities

Total number of Student Branches in the Section: 97

Number of Student Branches formed in the current year: 2

Section level student activities (student congress, paper and other contests, awards etc)

AISYWC 2018 2018 version of IEEE India Council’s flagship event-All India Students-Young

Professional-Women in Engineering Congress was hosted by IEEE Bangalore Section at

Vidya Vikas Institue of Engineering and Technology, Mysore on Sep 28-30. Nearly 450+

delegates attended the congress including speakers, India Council Execom members,

Bangalore Section Execom Members. This year theme of the AISYWC was “Aspire, Ideate,

Sychronize, Widen Thpught, Capture the Goal”. This was the largest AISYWC till date.

IEEE UP, Kerala, Gujrat, Hyderabad, Madras, Pune and Kolkata sections supported the

congress. AISYWC 2018 was financially supported by IEEE HAC, IEEE GRSS, IEEE MTT-

S, IEEE PES, IEEE ComSoc, IEEE TEMS, IEEE YP, IEEE WIE, Entuple & Intel. 60

Speakers from Industry, Academia, Startups, Legal, IEEE Societies and Committees gave

talks on various topics and mesmerized the delegates. AISYWC 2018 has introduced 2

new tracks namely Branch Counselors track and Hands on Track in addition to Students,

YP and WIE Tracks. In another first AISYWC 2018 delegates were accommodated in 3

star hotels & cultural program were conducted on both days.

Attendees in AISYWC 2018

Day 0 (27 September’18) The day before the conference started with all delegates checking in to their hotels at

12.PM and then there was a half a day trip arranged for the delegates by the AISYWC team

to show the culture and heritage of Mysuru. At 2:00 PM, buses were arranged from all the

respective hotels to the

Mysore Palace, where the

delegates from all around

India visited the culture rich

palace of Karnataka. Followed

by the palace visit was YP

Meet up arranged at the

palace premises, where all the

delegates had an ice breaking

session to get to know each

other and bond with people

from different sections. After the palace, the delegates were taken to Chamundi hills,

where they relaxed and saw the amazing view of the entire Mysore city and the sunset.

The delegates were then taken to the famous shopping street of Mysuru called Devraj Urs

road where they were provided with the famous Mysuru Pak and Samosas. After shopping

they were picked up and then dropped to their respective hotels to gear up for the amazing

3 days.

Day 1 (28 September ’18)

Inauguration The Annual Flagship event of IEEE India council and IEEE Bangalore for the year 2018-

19 that is All India Student - Young Professionals-

Women in Engineering Congress (AISYWC)

inauguration ceremony began after the

registration process where the kits were

distributed to the participants. The dignitaries

were escorted to the dais with the state anthem.

The program began with a significant notion of

watering the plant and an invocation song. Mr.

Puneet Kumar Mishra, General Chair,

AISYWC’18 briefed out the AISYWC’18 statistics

and explained how tremendously unique is this

year’s AISYWC and welcomed all the delegates to this amazing event. Ankita Ks, Secretary

of AISYWC’18 introduced the honorable chief guests Dr. M Annadurai and Dr. Justice N

Kumar and they were felicitated with great honor.

The plenary talk on Engineering Nature and Inside Story of Chandrayaan-1 and Mars

Orbiter Mission by Dr. M Annadurai, Distinguished Scientist & Former Director, U R Rao

Satellite Centre, ISRO explained briefly from the basics of the space to the stories of

Chandrayaan covering the various technical aspects of the space vehicles another one by

"Mental Competence for Self and National Development" was given By Hon’ble Justice

N Kumar, Ret. Justice, High Court of Karnataka. The next keynote was by Daniel Lottis,

SIGHT Chair, and later was an interesting session on Chasing your dreams and passion

by a renowned Actor and an entrepreneur Miss. Padmaja Rao. Followed by which was a

talk on Workshop on Skills for Employability by Sudeendra Koushik, Founder, Prasu. The

session concluded with the talk on RF, Microwave Industry Trends and Road Map:

Opportunities for Students, Young Professionals and Women in Engineering by Damodar

M S, Entuple.

Student track

The tracks kicked off with talk by Anupama Gowda, the co-founder of workbench projects,

the very first makerspace in Bangalore, continued to an informative session on

introduction of societies PES, ComSoc, MTT-S and TEMS. Continued with inspiring

sessions on Creativity & IPR by Dr. YVS Lakshmi,Stay Competent and Connected with

IEEE by Kristen MacCartney, IEEE UPP, the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, Your Source of

Emerging Technology by Dhanukumar Pattanashetti, IEEE Client Service. Remote

Sensing - Opportunities by Munir Mohammed, Sr Program Manager, IEEE.IEEE BLP for

Students by Malay Harsha, Sr Manager Blended Learning Program, HAM Introduction

and Hands-On Workshop on Disaster Management.

Young Professionals Track

The power packed session started with “Introduction to IoT and its Challenges" by Nihal

Kashinath Founder and CEO, Applied Singularity

followed by TISP functions essentially as a

professional development workshop aimed at

helping teachers bring exciting hands-on

engineering lessons into their classrooms

continued How Storytelling, Design Thinking

and Radical Innovation can help build

sustainable communities, products and business

by Rohan Goswami, COO & Director, Ycentre

India. Then we had a talk on Understanding the

Blockchain and its Use Case by Abhinav

Ramesh, Founder & CEO WandX. The session on Building a Community of Young

Professionals by Nivas Ravichandran, IEEE R10 Coordinator seemed extremely useful

which lead to another wonderful talk on Best Practices of IEEE Bangalore Young

Professionals by Abhishek Appaji from BMSCE. Then the last one on Building Technical

Communities Through Entrepreneurship Activities in India by Dr Amit Kumar, Bio Axis

DNA Research Centre.

Women in Engineering Track

Ms. Chaya from Necter Fresh gave an inspiring

session, her journey as a women entrepreneur,

challenges and techniques which helped in

creating an impactful brand in the society.

Building Your Personal Brand by Vijaya K Matt,

Workforce Diversity Program Manager, HR, IBM

then “Truly Essential, yours truly” - Akshara

Kumar, Founder, Truly Essential sharing her

journey and experiences from design to product

and the customer satisfaction. Women in Computing by Lakshmi Subramanian, TCS.

WAPSI initiative of Thoughtworks, Gunjan Shukla, Thoughtworks on initiating and

directing women in technology with career breaks. Opportunities and Excellence

Recognition for Women in Science and Technology was a short discussion which helped

participants to divulge into multiple perspectives of creating an inclusive atmosphere for

women in science and technology. WIE Poster Session had an interactive participation

sharing the research and information in their presentation.

Branch Counsellors Track

IOT Ecosystem and IEEE Standards by Sri

Chandra, Sr. Director Standards & Technology

IEEE discussed smart cities,Embedded

Perspective by Gautham Sriprakash,

Embedded/IOT Specialist, IEEE ,IEEE BLP for

Student Branches by Malay Harsha, Sr Manager

Blended Learning Program, IEEE ,TISP Workshop

helped participants in understanding the functions

essential for a professional development,BC

Training by Shrikant Tangade Reva University discussed on influencing and shaping the

minds of young, bright and energetic professionals around the world.

MTT-S hands on Workshop

Modeling and Simulation of Microwave Antennas & Devices has been conducted only for

selected set of people and the workshop was hands on with four set of batches comprising

of 30 attendees per batch.

Professional Night Day 1 of AISYWC ’18 ended with a professional night where it was a night for all to suit

up. The professional Night started with a Standup Comedy by Dr. Jagdish Chaturvedi,

who is a dentist turned Standup Comedian. With roars of laughter everyone enjoyed the

humor and fun being generated there. After that were few dance performances from

Bangalore section which included fusion of Bharatanatyam and Kathak and various other

dance forms which also included the famous fisherman’s dance from Mangalore

Subsection. Everyone enjoyed the performances as they did bring color to the

atmosphere.

Day 1 one ended with Dinner and the delegates being dropped to their respective hotels.

Day 2 (29 September’18)

Day 2 of AISYWC started with a keynote by Puneet Kumar Mishra, General Chair,

AISYWC’18 and from ISRO on “Antennas for Satellite Communication”. Followed by this

were few other notable sessions by Ravikiran Annaswamy, Founder and Director of

Innohobit Technologies on Entrepreurship and a design thinking workshop by Tathagat

Varma, Country Head, Chinasoft. After the session by Prof. Debabrata Das, IIIT-B on

How Wi-Fi Works, the morning sessions of Day 2 ended. The afternoon sessions after the

lunch were again divided into multiple tracks like Day 1, like Student track, Young

Professionals Track, Women in Engineering Track, Branch Councilors Track and MTS

Hands on Workshop.

Cultural Night After a full packed day with much learnings, the evening of Day 2 was dedicated just for

enjoyment. It was the cultural night where all the delegates were requested to represent

their respective states and culture from where they come from. Everyone was dresses in

beautiful attires and the performances were too by each section, representing their dance

forms, songs and videos exhibiting their culture. The best cultural performance was

bagged by Delhi Section and the best Video contest went to Bangalore and Bombay

Section.

It was a night of enjoyment fun and

photoshoots, Day 2 ended with dinner and dropping all attendees back to their respective

hotels.

Day 3 (30 September’18)

Day 3 and the last day of the AISYWC’18 started with a Session on Project Management

– A Life Skill By Lt Col L Shri Harsha followed by which a session on Role of Microwave

Remote Sensing in Quantifying and Managing Subsurface Water Resources: Mahta

Moghaddam, IEEE GRSS. After this was an interesting session by Dr. Balakrishna Shetty,

VC, SAHE on Spirituality, Science and Ethics. Followed by this was a session on AI and

ML in Healthcare by Dr Preeti Bajaj, Director, GHRCE & Secretary, IEEE India Council

and How to Orgainize an IEEE Technical Conference and its Best Practices: Prof. S N

Singh, Technical Conference Coordinator, IEEE Region 10, and VC, MMMTU.

Valedictory

The valedictory function began by inviting the dignitaries Prof. SN Singh, Dr. Sivaji

Chakravorti, Mr. Kaveesh, Mr Sudeendra Koushik and Puneet Kumar Mishra on the

stage. Mr Kaveesh was invited to speak a few words about the event. After this there were

multiple awards given for the various contests conducted during the span of 3 days, which

included Video contests, poster presentation contests, logo contest and Mysuru foodie

activity contest for which a Fitbit was given as the prize. Following this was the felicitation

of Prof SN Singh and Dr. Sivaji Chakravorti by IEEE Bangalore Section. Mr. Kaveesh was

felicitated by the AISYWC team and then Mr Sudeendra Koushik and Puneet K Mishra

was felicitated by Chair and Chair-Elect of IEEE India Council. The session ended with a

vote of thanks and calling up all the volunteers who has tirelessly worked for months onto

the stage for a photo.

Valedictory Session of AISYWC

India Council Meeting: On the sidelines of AISYWC, section hosted India Council Execom meeting at Mysore.

Number of active Student Branches (Student Branches who have reported required number of meetings during the year): 63

Summary of Student Branch activities (Student Branch wise with attachment table/information)

IEEE Student Branch BMS College Of Engineering (STB04431)

Various technical and non-technical events were organized during the year 2018. The most popular events

were: Google Android App Development Program, MTA Security Fundamentals, IEEE Xtreme

programming competition, IEEE Membership development activities, IEEE Day Celebration, Rescue

Mission Hackathon, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency discussion, Treasure Hunt, SIGs and other cultural

activities.

IEEE STUDENT BRANCH ORIENTATION 2018: BMSCE IEEE Student Branch conducted its Orientation on 8th September, 2018. About 280 students

attended the orientation, mainly comprising freshers belonging to all departments. The gathering was

addressed by the Branch Counselor and Mentor. The members of the Executive Committee of BMSCE IEEE

Student Branch gave an overall review about the events and workshops held in the past and also an insight

into the future events the students could expect.

The Flagship events such as IEEE Xtreme, the Microsoft Technology Associate program and Workshops in

collaboration with Google were highlighted. There was brief introduction regarding all SIG’s (Special

Interest Groups) including Python, AVR, Aero, Cyber Security, Machine learning and 3D printing. The

students informed about how IEEE caters to every branch and helps in the overall development of an

individual. This was followed by a technical quiz. A large number of students showed interest in becoming

members of the organization.

IEEE DAY CELEBRATION 2018:

BMSCE IEEE Student Branch, in association with the various college student clubs, hosted IEEE Day on

9th October, 2018. The medley of events and performances were inaugurated by Dr.Raviskankar Deekshit,

Dean (Student Affairs) and the festivities were sponsored by Stories.

Over 150 students took part in the flagship event, The Science of Deduction, an enjoyable murder mystery.

Other events included: ‘On the go, It's Bingo’ (a math-based competition), a gaming tournament, ‘Devil's

Advocate’ (a debating event), a Photography Contest and a General Quiz. The celebration also featured an

open mic.

These were followed by a medley of performances by Ninaad (Eastern music club) and The Groove house

(Western music club), Pravrutthi (Theatre team), Paramvah (Eastern Dance Team) and Danz Addix

(Western Dance Team). Students from various departments of the college volunteered and made it a grand

success.

List of Activities Organized in 2018:

Sr. No. Date Name of Activity Type Of Activity

No. of Participants

1

26/12/2017 to

04/01/ 2018

Google Android App Development

Program Technical 58

2

15/01/2018 to

16/01/ 2018 Docker and Containerisation Workshop Technical 20

3

23/01/2018 to

24/01/ 2018 PCB Designing Workshop Technical 72

4

30/01/2018 to

31/01/2018 Git and Heroku Workshop Technical 50

5 01/02/2018, Game Development Workshop Technical 30

6 02/02/2018 Arduino Workshop Technical 69

7 08/02/2018

Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

Discussion Technical 40

8 28/02/2018 Science Exhibition in NIMHANS Non-Technical 52

9 09/03/2018 AR VR Session 1 Technical 30

10 10/03/2018 AR VR Session 2 Technical 30

11

20/01/2018 to

10/03/2018 Linux From Scratch (Weekly sessions) Technical 30

12 19/03/2018 Neuro Linguistic Programming Talk Non-Technical 56

13

18/04/2018 to

20/04/2018 Control System Workshop Technical 56

14 05/05/2018 Telecombat Technical 70

15

04/06/2018 to

14/06/2018 MTA Security Fundamentals Technical 48

16

09/07/2018 to

14/07/2018 Workshop on Applications of IoT Technical 90

17 23/08/2018 Orientation (Indoor Stadium) Non-Technical 600

18 05/09/2018 Treasure Hunt Non-Technical 480

19 08/09/2018 Orientation (Library Auditorium) Non-Technical 275

20

10/09/2018 to

16/09/2018 Membership Drive Non-Technical 315

21 16/09/2018 Rescue Mission Hackathon - PhaseShift Technical 44

22 16/09/2018 Raspberry Rover Workshop - PhaseShift Technical 52

23 16/09/2018

Technical Paper Writing Workshop -

PhaseShift Technical 42

24

15/09/2018 to

16/09/2018 BMSCE IEEE Stall - PhaseShift Non-Technical 400

25 25/09/2018 Python SIG Technical 120

26 26/09/2018 Photoshop SIG Technical 50

27 28/09/2018 AVR SIG Technical 35

28 29/09/2018 Aerodynamics in Automobiles SIG Technical 50

29 02/10/2018 Social Event on account of IEEE Day Non-Technical 19

30 09/10/2018 IEEE Day Non-Technical 600

31 20/10/2018 IEEE Xtreme 12.0 Technical 95

EPCET IEEE STUDENT BRANCH (STB03253)

We have organized a total of 6 events during the year 2018. It was the first year for the EPCET IEEE Student Branch.

The Events were IoT Tech Workshop, Workshops on matrix LED Display, Robotics, Line Follower Robot, etc. and even

organized a day for paper presentation and project presentations.

AIKYA’18

This event was conducted as a Technical Day Event. It consisted of multiple events i.e; Kaagad, a paper

presentation event, Insight, a project presentation competition and finally TechTantra, a technical quiz and

also a tech-talk. The event successfully saw about 145 participants including both IEEE Student Members

and also Non-IEEE Students. The Day was innovatively inaugurated with a drone welcoming the guests.

The tech-talk was led by Mr. Ananth Mallaya, CEO, Quantech Origin and Ms. Shilpa on Machine Learning

and various technologies. The event provided a platform for the students to showcase their knowledge and

encouraged a healthy competition.

IOT TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP

IOT TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP was the first big event hosted since the establishment of the branch. It

was hosted on 23rd of March 2018. The tech talk was led by Dr. Vijaya Kumar B.P (HoD and Prof., ISE Dept.

MSRIT), Mrs. Anandi Giridharan (Dept. of Electrical Communication,IISc), Ms. Gayathri Devi B R (Royal

Bank of Scotland, Secretary IEEE CIS Bangalore chapter) and T D Sai Keerthi(Research Scholar, ECE Dept.,

IISc). The session concentrated on Cognitive computing of IoT, IoT and AI and other subjects on IoT. The

event was concluded with demonstrations of IoT applied project prototypes. The event was a huge hit with

about 175 participants including both the IEEE student members and Non-IEEE Members.

Sr.

No. Date Name of Activity Type of Activity

No. of

Participants

1 23/03/2018 IOT WORKSHOP WORKSHOP 173

2. 08/06/2018 WORKSHOP ON LINE

FOLLOWER ROBOT

WORKSHOP 30

3. 08/07/2018 WORKSHOP ON LED MATRIX

DISPLAY

WORKSHOP 30

4. 27/09/2018 ROBOTIC TECHNOLOGY

DEMOSTRATION

WORKSHOP 30

5. 10/10/2018 INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO ISRO INDUSTRIAL

VISIT

30

6. 02/11/2018 AIKYA’18 TECHNICAL DAY 143

AMCEC IEEE Student Branch (STB10076)

Summary of IEEE activities carried out by your IEEE Student Branch in 2018.

Inauguration of AMCEC Student Branch

The IEEE Student branch of AMC Engineering College was approved by IEEE on 13.11.2017. In this regard,

the IEEE student branch was inaugurated on 05.03.2018. The Chief Guest for the function was Dr. D. S.

Suresh, Principal, CIT, Tumkur. The Guest of Honor were Dr. P. Deepa Shenoy, Chair, SAC – IEEE

Bangalore Section and Prof. Shreekanth Thangade, Co- Chair, SAC – IEEE Bangalore Section. The function

started with lighting of lamp. Dr. N. V. Uma Reddy, HOD/ ECE, AMCEC delivered welcome address.

Dr. Deepa Shenoy, delivered a speech which focused on IEEE student activities and the importance of

affiliation to a professional body. Dr. J. Jenitta, IEEE Student branch counselor gave an overview of IEEE

and the journey of AMCEC IEEE student branch. Dr. D. S. Suresh, delivered the felicitation address. Dr.

T. N. Sreenivasa, Principal, AMCEC delivered the presidential address. Dr. A. K. Murthy, Dean-

Academics delivered the felicitation address. The talk about the importance and benefits of IEEE was given

by Prof. Shreekanth Thangade. Finally, Ms. Amulya, Chair- AMCEC, IEEE student branch delivered

Vote of thanks.

TECHNICAL TALK - IoT AND ITS APPLICATIONS

The IEEE Student branch of AMC Engineering College organized the technical talk on 07.05.2018 for the

IV year students of Department of ECE. The key speaker was Mr.Natesh, TECH Mahindra, Bengaluru. It

was held in the Room No. 222 of main building. The speaker gave an overview about the IoT and gave

innovative ideas for their final year project and mini Projects. Approximately 100 students and 15 faculty

members attended the technical talk. Dr. J.Jenitta, IEEE Branch counsellor made all the arrangements.


Sr. No. Date Name of Activity

Type of Activity

No .of Participants

1 03/05/2018 Inauguration of Student Branch Technical 200

2 04/27/2018 Technical Talk on 'PIC Microcontroller' Technical 114

3 05/07/2018 Technical Talk on ' IoT & its Application' Technical 94

IEEE Student Branch BITM (STB10169)

The year 2018 marked the beginning of the journey of the IEEE Student branch of BITM with the

tireless and selfless efforts of our Branch Counsellor Dr Manjula R, faculty in the dept. of ECE, BITM. In

the year of inception itself, we have organized various technical, non-technical and humanitarian events,

around 13 events in a span of three months (Aug to Oct 2018). To name some of them, the list goes as

follows: Orientation Programs to introduce IEEE Student Branch to various branches of Engineering

stream, Logo competition for IEEE Student Branch of BITM, Tech Talk by Mr. Srikanth Tangade, Quiz

competition and Orientation on “Mathematics for Machine Learning” on IEEE Day, IEEE Xtreme

Programming Competition, Workshop on Arduino-open source embedded platform and Python

Programming and Kodagu Flood Relief Program. The most notable event of our branch even before its

inception is the interaction with Prof Raja Datta, IIT Kharagpur, IEEE Senior Member, which helped our

team to plan and execute the things effectively and helped us to be at par with the other old student

branches.

IEEE DAY CELEBRATION-1st October 2018:

This event was celebrated to mark the IEEE day. This event was coordinated by our Branch Counsellor Dr.

Manjula R, Senior Member IEEE, and Ms. Nilam Chheda, Interim Chair WIE BITM 2018, presently the

Chair WIE affinity group BITM. We conducted two events on this day. In the first half, we organized the

Quiz competition named ‘MIND O PEDIA’ in which students from different departments: IEEE members

and Non-IEEE members, and also students from neighbouring college had participated. The total number

of members participated in this event were 291. It was an interactive session with the audience which made

them feel more active and interested which made them win awards. During the second half, we conducted

an orientation program on “Mathematics for Machine Learning”. The same strength (number of

participants) continued in the second event, where they learnt the basics of Machine Learning and how

Mathematics is used in Machine Learning. The event became a grand success and more than 30 people

were interested to join IEEE and were recruited later as IEEE members. This event was successful with the

lively and interactive speaker Mr Juber Moulvi, Abdul, Tech Lead in Opteamix India Pvt. Ltd.

THREE DAY WORKSHOP ON ARDUINO-OPEN SOURCE EMBEDDED

PLATFORM AND PYTHON PROGRAMMING:

This event was conducted to introduce the learners to Arduino and Python Programming of undergraduates

students. The resource person of this event was Ms. Renuka Sagar, faculty in the dept. Of ECE BITM who

was assisted by Ms Anasuya, technical superintendent. The total number of participants enrolled in this

event were 110. The event aimed at facilitating with hands-on sessions on Arduino programming board,

Python coding language and its usage in developing Real-time applications. The workshop was very

successful and the effect was seen immediately when these students started developing working models for

an event organized by our institution. These working models were exhibited during ISRO’s World Space

Week - an event which was organized by BITM in association with ISRO to mark the contributions made

my space engineers and technicians.


Sl.

No.

Date Name of Activity Type of

Activity

No. of

Participants

1 20/04/2018 NIE, Mysore Visit Non-Technical 8

2 21/04/2018 Interaction with Prof Raja Datta, IIT

Kharagpur

Non-Technical 19

3 16/08/2018 IEEE Orientation Programme on 16th Aug.

(for 3rd-year undergraduate students)

Technical 250-300

4 16/08/2018 Logo Competition during the first IEEE

orientation program, 16th Aug, 2018

Technical 40

5 06/09/2018 A day@ Nokia: Tanveer and Rangaswami Technical 2

6 15/09/2018 Invited technical talk on "Intelligent

Transport System" by Mr. Shrikanth

Tangade.

Technical 100

7 15/09/2018 IEEE Orientation Programme. Resource

Person: Mr Shrikanth Tangade (for 2nd-

year undergraduate students.

Technical 250

8 22/09/2018 Humanitarian activities: Kodagu flood relief

collection.

Humanitarian 11

9 01/10/2018 IEEE day: Quiz Competition Technical 291

10 01/10/2018 IEEE day: Orientation on "Mathematics for

Machine Learning"

Technical 99

11 01/10/2018 IEEE day: Arduino - open source embedded

platform and Python programming

Technical 110

12 Recruitment Drives: Three Non-Technical 60+

13 28 -

30/09/2018

Sponsored five members to attend AISYCW

2018 at Mysore.

Tech and non-

Tech

5

14 20/10/2018 IEEE Xtreme coding competition Technical 9

IEEE STUDENT BRANCH BMS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

AND MANAGEMENT (STB14611)

Summary of activities by IEEE Student Branch (BMSIT&M) in the year 2018

SYMPHONY ARDUINO WORKSHOP

The Symphony Arduino workshop and Hackathon was held in the APJ Abdul Kalam seminar hall, on the

27th of September 2018 from 8:30AM to 4:30PM. The purpose of the event was to teach the students the

basics of Arduino programming and also teach them interfacing of LEDs and Buzzers. The second half of

the session was designed to test the knowledge the students had gained and to evaluate them for the same.

The speaker of this workshop was Mr.Gautama Bharadwaj,Chair of IEEE Student Branch BMSIT.

PROJECT EXHIBITION-IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY

Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an

extended period to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex questioning, problem,

or challenge. Department of Computer Science & Engineering in association with IEEE student chapter and

Computer Society of India proudly hosted 2018-19 Odd semesters Project Based Learning encompassing

187 projects in various fields of Computer Science.


Sl. no Date Name of Activity Type of Activity No.of participants

1 18/09/2018 IEEE Membership drive Non-Technical 80

2 27/09/2018 Symphony Arduino Workshop

Technical 100

3 06/10/2018 Circuit Debugging Technical 18

4 06/10/2018 Technically Right-Quiz Technical 16

5 04/11/2018 Project Exhibition -IEEE CS Technical 182

IEEE Student Branch Canara Engineering College IEEECan

(STB65001)

Though IEEECan has organized about 50 events in 2018, only few are jotted down here: the observance

days as Radio Day, National Science Day, Teacher’s day, Engineers Day, Ada Lovelace Day and of course

IEEE Day were celebrated with competitions. IEEE Day was spread over a week with PCB Design

Workshop, Workshop on IOT, 2 unique competitions and visits to 2 shelter homes - Inchara Foundation

and Samvedana Foundation. There were more competitions and workshops than talks this year. Can Tech

Summer of Codes – a tech fest with 7 workshops and 19 technical competitions and project expo with

paper presentation competitions is the flagship event of the SB however it is better known for the WiE

activities - Womens week- arranged this year were Special Lectures by Dr.Supriya Hegde and Dr. Soma

Pandey, followed by Women’s week activities as Workshop and 7 competitions. Outreach and

humanitarian activities were also taken up - organized in Association with Dept of Forests – tree planting

and Vanamahotsava and 2 Talks that more than 350 students participated in and a few more The most

appreciated program in the year however was IEEE Xtreme 12.0 which was participated by 102 students.

Hands on introduction to design and verification through Verilog and System

Verilog

The workshop was organized by the zealous secretary of CAS Bangalore Chapter Dr. C P Ravikumar under

the aegis of IEEE Bangalore Section and MSS for all students of IEEE MSS at CEC by IEEECan on 22-04-

2018, Sunday. Morning Session: A brief description on the VLSI design flow was given and the

differences in the VLSI design methods employed in earlier times and current practices were pointed out.

The participants got an overall picture of how a VLSI chip is fabricated from scratch i.e. from the system

specification step to the generation of the GDS II file to be sent to the foundry for fabrication. Additionally

the importance of Verification and Testing was discussed which is in par with the VLSI design itself but

not very well known to all. The next session was a rigorous hands-on session of developing Verilog code

for a system specification of a combinational block and writing the test-bench for system verification. For

this purpose, the Icarus® tool was used for simulating the design. Afternoon Session: started with the

design of a finite state machine model for a sequential system. The hands on included rigorous testing of

this block using Icarus®. In the later part, a brief introduction to System Verilog was given in which

various constructs used were dealt with. Also the power of System Verilog over Verilog was discussed. All

in all, the participants got a flavor of how the industry functions with regard to VLSI design and in more

the later part that is Testing and Verification. The applications of system Verilog and how it is used in

industry, importance of verification and testing and the roles and job profiles in the industry that a

student can look forward to in the industry were described in detail. The participants were treated to a

very entertaining Sunday that kept them on their toes all day long. Dr Ravikumar gave away very useful

books on to the 4 winners of the MCQ test at the end of the day. Coordinator: Prof Sreerama Samartha,

Prof Vinay H S. and the Branch Councillor Participants: 30 IEEE registrants from the 89 registrants

were selected on a first come first serve basis . Participants were from 5 different institutes.

One day Summit on Technology trends and advancement in Health Care :

The event was organized with support of EMBS Bangalore Chapter, in association with IEEE Bangalore

Section and IEEE Mangalore Sub Section and Standards Association on 17-11-2018. The organizing panel

comprised of Dr. Niranjan U C SMIEEE - Director R&T Manipal Dot Net, program Convenor, Dr.

Annappa, Chair IEEE MSS and Dr. Ganesh V Bhat Principal CEC and Mr Munir Mohammed. The keynote

address was given by Dr.N Sriram, Chair EMBS Bangalore, Professor and Head Medical Electronics RIT.

Mr. Raghu S - Ph.D. Scholar at Maastricht University, Netherlands, Dr Rajini - VP Corporate affairs -

Skanray Technologies, Mr Rama Reddy, Department of Biotechnology Project Lab, Department of

Medical electronics, Mr Sanjay Kimbahune-Senior Scientist TCS, and Dr Shabana Urooj Head EEE dept.

Gautam Buddha University Noida, a special invitee were the speakers in the morning session. Afternoon

session post lunch was mostly on medical image processing with speakers Prof. Nandish SOIS Manipal

(PhD) and Dr Sampath Kumar Bhagwath MD Kumuda HeathCare, as well as Mr. Sandeep Patil (PhD),

Executive Director, Applied Cognition Systems. Mr. Munir M Mohammed senior program officer, IEEE

India office Bangalore was the last speaker who spoke about standards in healthcare. Dr Ganesh Bhat,

Principal, appreciated the support from all the resource people from the Healthcare Industry.

Participants: total registratioon of 159 members from 5 institutes - 4 people from the startup

community.


Sl No

Date Name of Activity Type of Activity

No .of Participants

1. 12/2/2018 Radio Day and meet Professional 123

2. 16/2/2018 Tech Talks – symposia by students Technical 138

3. 17/2/2018 Project exhibition Technical 120

4. 28/2/2018 National Science day Project Exhibition Technical 72

5. 8/3/2018 Womens week inaugural Dr.Supriya Hegde Professional 202

6. 9/3/2018 Womens week- Talk by Dr. Soma Pandey Technical 112

7. 10/3/2018 Womens week- Business model Workshop Technical 59

8. 10/3/2018 Womens week- Short film competition Other 65

9. 10/3/2018 Womens week- Movie Day Other 65

10. 10/3/2018 Womens week- Street Play Other 218

11. 10/3/2018 Womens week- Portrait Sketch competition Other 16

12. 10/3/2018 Womens week- Paper presentation Technical 67

13. 10/3/2018 Womens week- CanTalk competition Professional 30

14. 24/3/2018 Android App Development Competition Technical 173

15. 24/03/2018 to

25/03/2018

Mobile and IOT Workshop Technical 85

16. 3/4/2018 Training on Electrical Maintenance Technical 45

17. 22/4/2018 Workshop on Sytem Verilog by Dr C P Ravikumar Secretary CAS Bangalore Chapter.

Technical 30

18. 25/4/2018 Industrial Visit to MCF Mangaluru Technical 50

19. 14/5/2018 Can Tech Summer of Codes tech fest with 7 workshops, 19 technical competitions and project expos.

Technical 1683

20. 23/6/18 Talk on career in a Start Up, Dr Niranjan U C Professional 125

21. 8/7/2018 Vanamahotsava and Talk Other 151

22. 16/8/2018 Vanamahotsava and Talk Other 181

23. 18/08/2018 Talk on IEEE Code of Ethics with Questionnaire Professional 105

24. 19/8/2018 IEEE Membership Drive Administrative 392

25. 1/9/2018 Engineer’s Day - E'Voke Technical 48

26. 5/9/2018 Teachers Day-Gift Card Contest Other 13

27. 5/9/2018 Teachers Day-selfie contest Other 31

28. 14/9/2018 Training on Electrical Maintenance Technical 110

29. 29/9/2018 to 02/10/18

PCB Designing Workshop Technical 30

30. 2/10/2018 IEEE Day- Visit to Inchara Foundation Other 11

31. 7/10/2018 IEEE Day- Visit to Samvedana Foundation Other 8

32. 9/10/2018 IEEE Day and Ada Lovelace Day competition Professional 48

33. 11/10/2018 to

12/10/2018

Workshop on IOT Technical 41

34. 13/10/2018 IEEE Day Tech Tallks Technical 22

35. 15/10/2018 Student Welfare Program Professional 105

36. 20/10/2018 to

21/10/2018

IEEE Xtreme 12.0 Technical 102

37. 29/10/2018 IEEE Day CanTalk 2.0 Advancing Technology by the Great Indian Jugaad Logic

Professional 11

38. 17/11/2018 Summit on Recent Trends and advancements in Healthcare technology

Technical 207

IEEE STUDENT BRANCH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF

KARNATAKA (CODE: STB14017)

IEEE Student branch of CUK was inaugurated on 30th August 2018. It has actively hosted 21 events in a

span of just two months. It also has shown exponential growth in the IEEE student memberships, the

student branch which was started with 17 IEEE student members now has a strength of 63 student members

and 3 professional members. The branch also has its own monthly magazine namely ‘TARANG’ which had

its digital launch on 15th Oct, which is available in our website.

DR. APJ ABDUL KALAM MEMORIAL LECTURE BY DR. R R SONDE:

Birth anniversary of Dr. Abdul Kalam was organized at Central University of Karnataka by IEEE Student

Branch Central University of Karnataka in collaboration with School of Engineering. Chief guest of the event

was Dr. R R Sonde, Fellow of National Academy of Engineers (FNAE) and Executive Vice-President of

THERMAX Ltd. Dr. R R Sonde delivered his inspiring Dr. Abdul Kalam Memorial lecture. University vice-

chancellor of CUK , H.M. Maheshwaraiah also presided over the event. We had our release of magazine

‘Tarang’ on the same day.

ONLINE QUIZ ON WORLD STANDARDS DAY:

IEEE Standards Day was celebrated by IEEE Student Branch of Central University of Karnataka on 14th of

October 2018 where the student branch organized and online quiz for all the students from India. The quiz

was open for both IEEE and non-IEEE members with zero registration fee. The topic of the quiz was IEEE

standards on a total score of 200 marks where each question where assigned a definite make with no

negative marking system. The quiz timing was from IST 5 pm to 6:45 pm of 14th October 2018.The online

quiz was a grand success where we received 458 submissions from all over India

.


SR

no Date Name of Activity

Type of

Activity

Number of

Participants

1 20/08/2018 Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Surender Reddy,

Woosang University, South Korea Technical 51

2 29/08/2018 Awareness Program on IEEE and its activities Technical 21

3 30/08/2018 Distinguished Lecture by Prof. S S Murthy,

Life Fellow, IEEE Technical 160

4 30/08/2018 Distinguished lecture by Dr. B

Satyanarayanan, TIFR, Mumbai Technical 150

5 05/09/2018 Teacher's Day Celebration Celebration 110

6 05/09/2018 Poster Presentation Competition on 'Digital

Transformation' Technical 17

7 17/09/2018 Engineer's Day Celebration and Talk by Mr.

Mahagaonkar, Executive- Engineer, PWD Technical 61

8 18/09/2018 Essay Writing Competition on 'Pros and Cons

of Digitalization' Technical 29

9 18/09/2018 Oral Presentation Competition on

'Digitalization' Technical 7

10 19/09/2018 Blink'- LED Blinking Competition with

Arduino Technical 22

11 20/09/2018 Smart Quiz on Technology Technical 22

12 02/10/2018 IEEE Day Celebration Technical 53

13 02/10/2018 Distinguished Lecture By Dr. Rajeev Joshi,

CUK Technical 42

14 03/10/2018 Brainstorming session on IEEE Conference /

Symposium Technical 60

15 09/10/2018

Distinguished lecture by Dr. Rahul

Mandaknalli on account of World Mental

Health day

Technical 55

16 11/10/2018 Industrial Visit to NTPC, Kudgi Technical 54

17 14/10/2018 Online Quiz on account of World Standards

Day Technical 458

18 15/10/2018 Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Memorial Lecture by

Dr. R R Sonde, THERMAX, Pune Technical 200

19 15/10/2018 Interactive session with Industry, THERMAX

Ltd Professional 55

20 20/10/2018 IEEEXtreme Programming Competition 12.0

(24 hours coding) Technical 20

21 29/10/2018 Distinguished lecture by Prof. N R Shetty Technical 58

22 30/10/2018 Workshop on LabVIEW software Technical 46

23 03/11/2018 Seminar on Reconfigurable Computing by

Prof. Nanda Kulkarni Technical 40

24 08/11/2018 Workshop on Creative Arts Creative 47

25 05/12/2018 Innovative Projects Exhibition Technical 47

IEEE Student Branch GIT Belgaum (STB28191)

This year the IEEE Student Branch GIT Belgaum conducted SIX major events namely: PAANCHAJANA,

TRIGARTI, APPLOYD, SLP, IEEE DAY Celebrations and GREEN DAY by WIE. We received overwhelming

response throughout the year. Also our membership strength increased compared to the previous year.

PAANCHAJANYA 2K18:

IDEA PRESENTATION: Idea presentation event was an event to bring out the new ideas and projects of

the participants. We received more than 30 abstracts. The event was carried out in three parallel sessions.

From each session two winners were selected depending on the idea and the presentation skills. The Idea

presentation was a new event included in Paanchajanya 2k18 to bring out the new ideas. Few selected in-

house ideas will be given support and mentoring to present it to National Level Schemes for funding and

business proposal submission. Final objective is to make them convert the idea into a product which can be

either patented or commercialised. TECHNO QUIZ: Techno quiz event intended to test the technological

knowledge of the participants. It had three rounds. MICROMATICS: Embedded is the word!!! The world

we live in is now being controlled by microcontrollers. To keep in pace with this embedded world, this is

the competition to all the microcontroller coding enthusiasts.

LAZER MAZER: Around 75 teams participated in this. Each team consisted of two people. First round

required them to hit the laser to a specific destination in a black box with the use of 3 mirrors which had to

remain grounded at all times and by avoiding two obstacles. The judging involved the time taken to reach

the target. 17 teams were selected for the second round. It consisted of them having to make the given

shaped using mirrors under water in an aquarium in the stipulated time. SHORT CIRCUIT: Short circuit

event was conducted to test the electronic skills of participants. PROJECT MANIA: The event was divided

into two categories namely Hardware Projects and Software Projects we had a good response for the event.

There were about 18 groups who had registered. HACKATHON: This year it was the highlight event. Out of

25 and more teams only 15 got selected for the final round where they had to undergo a marathon

competition for straight 7 hours and giving solution to 3 different problem statements. Solutions in all

domains were accepted.

TRIGARTI- Celebrating Spirit of Womanhood:

Women’s Day Celebrations: IEEE-GIT Student branch, WIE Affinity Group, celebrated

“TRIGARTI – Celebrating the Spirit of Womanhood” as a part of Women’s Day celebration on 8th

March 2018. It was a great success as we had fantastic crowd. It was a whole day event. The main events

conducted were GIT MARKET (make it and sell it), felicitation of 35 lady staff , Guest lecture by Ms. Sapna(

Finance officer, VTU) and a camera capture of lady faculty and staff who were placed forming bands of

colors.



Type of Activity

No .of Participants

1 24/02/2018 to 25/02/2018

PAANCHAJANYA 2K18 – annual flagship technical symposium Technical 400

2 08/03/2018 TRIGARTI – Women’s Day Celebration Non-Technical 300

3 20/08/2018 APPLOYD – Learning APP Competition Technical 75

4 28/08/2018 STUDENT LEADERSHIP PROGRAM (SLP-2018)

Non-Technical 150

5 06/10/2018 IEEE DAY CELEBRATIONS Non-Technical 45

6 13/10/2018 GREEN DAY by WIE Affinity Group Non-Technical 15

KLEIT IEEE Student Branch (STB15221)

KLEIT IEEE Student Branch had organized various technical and non technical events some of the popular

events in the year 2018 were - Workshop on “Robotics Jarvis – 1 , Workshop on digital design using system

verilog ” National Science Day celebration(NSD-18), A Technical Report writing ” Awareness program

Higher studies, IEEE Membership development activities and brainstorming and networking activities

Digital Design and Verification through Verilog and System Verilog

This one day workshop “Hands-on Introduction to Digital Design and Verification through Verilog

and System Verilog” was jointly organized by IEEE Student Branch KLEIT , IEEE CAS Bangalore Chapter

and IEEE Bangalore section. The chief guest and the speaker was Dr. C.P. Ravikumar (Texas Instruments

India), voice Chair IEEE Bangalore section this event was made open to all student IEEE members & faculty

from engineering colleges. Functional Verification is one of the most effort-intensive steps in VLSI design.

The participants of this workshop got an introduction to digital design verification. In particular, Verilog

and System Verilog was discussed and RTL coding and development of test benches were discussed with

more than 30 participants on 25 November 2018.

https://kleit.ac.in/new/ieee.html

National Science day Celebration 2018

On the eve of National Science Day ,collage making competition was conducted on The theme for this

year “science and technology for sustainable future”, which is given by Govt. of India. The event was

organized to showcase their creativity and team work of IEEE and Non-IEEE members. Each team

consisted of 2 members. Good number of IEEE and NON IEEE student member were participated. Collages

made by the participants were very much informative such as Renewable Energy, Technology for

Humanitarian and also impact of technology on the Nature. The poster are exhibited for those students.

After the exhibition of collage Poster best three poster were awarded.


Event no

Date Name of Activity Type of Activity Subcategory Number of

Participants

1 18/09/2018 Engineers Day Celebration "Importance of Research in

Engineering institutes" Technical Talks 140

2 10/02/2018 Innovative Project Exhibition

(Prakalpa Pradarshana-18) Technical Mini Project 147

3 31/01/2018 A Talk on “How to write

Technical Reports” Professional Soft Skill 110

4 13/04/18 to

15/04/18 Workshop on “Robotics Jarvis

- 1” Technical Workshop 65

5 20/03/2018 National Science Day celebration(NSD-18)

Technical Poster

Presentation 45

IEEE Student Branch MVJ COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

(STB39481)

We have organized around ten various technical and non-technical events during the year 2018.Some of

the events included are: Two day Workshop on Real Time Computer Vision- open cv -ieee day celebration,

speed o track,One Day Workshop on Microwave -Antenna and Machine Learning,,2 days Workshop on

Advanced Raspberry PI ,Labview based Project Expo.

Advanced Raspberry PI workshop

The worsksop was conducted for 2 days:3rd march and 4th march 2018.The workshop started with

introduction of guests Mr. Chethan Adhikary .The introduction was delivered by the treasurer (Mr.

Nandkishore) of MVJCE IEEE Student Branch. The Branch Counselor and Vice Principal Prof. M Brindha

felicitated the guest with a bouquet.

The Guest started by explaining the basics of python, further he moved during the day to discuss sensor

interface and graphical user interface using Raspberry Pi. There was an hands on demo to each and every

concept that he explained. .

Day 2: 04th March 2018

The guest explained about remote control of Raspberry Pi using Zigbee and then Wifi control of Raspberry

Pi where the sensors value attached to Raspberry Pi, display values taken by Pi to a website and app.

Students performed hands on work with Pi where it acted as a web server. This brought an end to the

Advanced Raspberry Pi Workshop.

The Workshop was concluded by a remark by the guest speaker and a validatory speech by chair of IEEE

Mr. Prakhar Vighnesh who presented a vote of thanks. Finally HOD of ECE, Dr. Hameem Shanavas thanked

everybody and encouraged to students to participate in national level Vertechx 8.0. Around 70 students

from various departments like ECE, EEE and Computer Science attended workshop and 9 coordinators

coordinated the event successfully

SPEED-O-TRACK

The IEEE STUDENT BRANCH and Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, MVJ

college of Engineering in association with IEEE Bangalore Section organized an event “SPEED-O-TRACK”,

on 2nd April. In the Speed O track event the wireless robot is designed to follow a predetermined path.

Sensing a line and maneuvering the robot to stay on course, while constantly correcting wrong moves using

feedback mechanism forms a simple yet effective closed loop system. As a programmer one can get an

opportunity to ‘teach’ the robot how to follow the line thus giving it a human-like property of responding to

stimuli. Participants built a wireless controlled robot capable of following a line on an arena specially

designed for the event. The event was arranged in Double lobby arena of the college.

The participants built an autonomous or wireless controlled robot where a bot followed a black line against

a white background. A maximum of 4 participants and a minimum of 2 participants took part in the

competition which consisted of 3 rounds. Teams started the game by following the black line. The bot taking

the shortest time to complete was qualified to the next round till the end of all 3 rounds. All the bots followed

the rules and regulations mentioned in the rule book for VertechX 8.0. The event ended with declaration of

winners, distribution of participation certificates and cash prize to winners.

Cash prize of Rs.7500, Rs.5000 and Rs.2500 were given to the 1st 2nd and 3rd place winners accordingly.



Type of Activity

No .of Participants

1 22/09/ 2018 One Day Workshop on Microwave, Antenna and Machine Learning

Technical 200

2 13/10/2018 to 14/10/2018

Two days Workshop on Real Time Computer Vision- OPEN CV - IEEE DAY CELEBRATION

Technical 60

3 8/10/2018 OPEN MIC TECHNICAL TALK - IEEE DAY CELEBRATION

Technical 13

4 17/03/2018 Guest lecture on IOT and NETWORK SECURITY

Technical 230

5 17/03/2018 IEEE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Non-Technical 30

6 3/03/2018 to 04/03/2018

2 days Workshop on Advanced Raspberry PI Technical 17

7 10/05/2018 Labview based Project Expo Technical 20

8 06/09/2018 IEEE Awareness programme for Ist years Administrative 510

9 2/04/2018 Competition on Advanced Raspberry PI using IOT

Technical 24

10 02/4/2018 SPEED O Track Technical 162

National Institute of Technology Karnataka IEEE Student Branch

(STB98631)

NITK IEEE Student Branch conducts numerous technical and non-technical events throughout the year.

Being one of the large student branches in R10 with over 400 members and a good retention rate, we have

IEEE meets and conduct events almost every week and we conduct offline mentoring programs even during

vacations. Overall 100+ events and meetings were conducted in the year 2018 out of which the important

ones are mentioned here - Envision, Enlighten Talk Series, Edify Workshop Series, Annual Project Expo,

innumerous Knowledge Sharing Sessions, collaborative events with other Student Branches, 24 hour

coding contest, Praelium, IEEE Day events, a number of hackathons and first edition of Women in

Technology Summit along with General Body Meetings and membership drives.

IEEE Day Celebration 2018:

IEEE Day was celebrated on October 2, 2018 and a membership drive was held on the same day to spread

awareness about IEEE and make everyone in NITK campus aware of the benefits of taking up student

membership and how they can benefit technically as well as network with link minded members as well as

motivate them to join various professional societies in IEEE. Lot of new members joined IEEE after the

drive. The entire week was celebrated as IEEE Week at NITK with many events on every day. A weeklong

event, Eureka was held during the same week which was a series of fun events both technical as well as non-

technical which comprised of quizzes, bridge building competition, technical workshops, etc. A meetup of

Hacktoberfest, a global initiative by Github and Digital Ocean to promote open source contributions was

organised in collaboration with NITK IEEE for Mangalore region. The week ended with a 24 hour coding

contest, Praelium which saw massive participation from IEEE student branches present from Bangalore

section. The event saw good participation on all days - 200 members on every day along with 15 to 20

organising committee volunteers from student branch. Since this event was to increase awareness of IEEE

in college, a good number of participants were non-IEEE members, who eventually joined IEEE in the 2019

Renewal cycle.

Women in Technology Summit 2018:

The first edition of Women in Technology Summit was held at NITK during December 21-23, 2018 in

association with IEEE Bangalore Section, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Mangalore Subsection. The

event was split into 3 tracks - Computing, Entrepreneurship and Electronics and Automation along with a

few common track events. Representatives from top companies such as Texas Instruments, SAP Labs, Intel,

DELL, TCS, etc and academia conducted workshops and talks during the Summit under different tracks.

The event was well received and we got a positive feedback from all the delegates who attended the Summit.

Since this event was an All India event, we saw participants from 8 different IEEE sections in India -

Bangalore, Madras, Kerala, Hyderabad, Bombay, Kolkata, Gujarat and Delhi with a count of 140 delegates

along with 25 volunteers from NITK IEEE Student Branch. Out of the 165 delegates and volunteers, 130

were IEEE members and 35 were non-IEEE members. IEEE membership development stall was setup

during the event.



Type of Activity

No .of Participants

1 01/01/2018 ENVISION Project Presentation Technical 100

2 19/02/2018 ENLIGHTEN Talk Series Technical 250

3 20/02/2018 to

24/02/2018 EDIFY Workshop Series

Technical 200

4 24/03/2018 IEEE Project Expo Technical 400

5 29/07/2018 Image Processing Knowledge Sharing

Session Technical 30

6 13/08/2018 DLP Speaker: Prof Tulika Mitra, NUS

Singapore Technical 400

7 18/08/2018 IEEE NITK + IEEE MITE Collaboration

Event Technical 120

8 24/08/2018 INSIGHT Technical 400

9 02/10/2018 IEEE Student Membership Drive Non-Technical 250

10 03/10/2018 to

06/10/2018 NITK IEEE First Fest: EUREKA

Technical 300

11 06/10/2018 IEEE Praelium Coding Contest Technical 264

12 07/10/2018 Hacktober Fest Meetup @ NITK Technical 100

13 03/11/2018 Athena - Women’s Hackathon Technical 70

14 21/12/2018 to

23/12/2018 Women in Technology Summit

Technical 150

IEEE Student Branch - The Oxford College of Engineering - 08641

We have conducted several of activities during 2018 under IEEE student branch. Many number of students

actively participated during the events and shown more enthusiasm towards different areas of electronics.

Below are the highlights of activity carried in 2018.

TECHNICAL TALK ON AVIONICS:

The Electronics and Communication Engineering Department organized technical talk on “AVIONICS” by

Prabu M, Manager (Design), HAL, Bangalore, in The Oxford College of Engineering on 31st August

2018.Welcome Address & Introduction about Speaker by Ms. Ashwini S, 7th sem Student, ECE Technical

Talk by Mr. Prabu Mano, Manager (Design), HAL, Bangalore. The technical talk is anchored by Ms. Ashwini

S, 7th semester Student, Electronics and Communication Engineering. The event started by welcoming the

Speaker to the Dias. She also welcomed respected principal Dr.R.V.Praveena Gowda, HOD’s, staff and

students for the technical talk.Mr. Prabu M started the technical talk on “Avionics” with the help of power

point presentation. His Topic covered the following aspects.

Introduction to Helicopters.

Helicopter configurations.

Mission systems.

Difference between Aircraft and Helicopters.

Importance of avionics which includes communication system, Navigation system, Identification

system and miscellaneous system.

Light weight Helicopters.

NVG- Night Vision Goggles.

Rotor working, Takeoff, landing.

Internship openings for student projects.

.

TECHNICAL TALK ON MICROWAVE PHOTONICS

The Electronics and Communication Engineering Department organized technical talk on “Microwave

Photonics” by Dr.K.R. Yogesh Prasad in The Oxford College of Engineering on 24th March 2018.

The schedule of this event is as follows.

Welcome Address & Introduction about Speaker by Ms.Varhsa, Final Year Student ,ECE

Technical Talk by Dr. Dr.K.R. Yogesh Prasad, Scientist “SG”, ISRO

Vote of thanks by Dr. Manju Devi, HOD,ECE

The technical talk is anchored by Varhsa, 8th semester Student, Electronics and Communication

Engineering. The event started by welcoming the Speaker to the Dias. She also welcomed respected

principal Dr.R.V.Praveena Gowda, HOD’s, staff and students for the technical talk.

IEEE DAY CELEBRATION

IEEE DAY is celebrated in the month of October worldwide. It was celebrated for the first time in the year

1884 by engineers. The day’s theme is “LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY FOR A BETTER TOMORROW”. The

IEEE day team is made up of student volunteers, young professionals and staff. The principle task of the

IEEE day team is to initiate, motivate and coordinate events and efforts to celebrate this day worldwide.

The Oxford College of Engineering celebrated this day on 27th of October 2018. The function was graced by

Dr. Indumati T S, professor in the department of digital electronics and communication systems in

Visveswaraya technological university, Centre for post-graduation studies, Bangalore region Muddenhalli

since 2014 and now serving as special officer in Karnataka state higher education council, Bangalore, Govt

of Karnataka on deputation since 2017. Principal Dr. Praveena Gowda, HOD’s of various departments,

teaching and non-teaching faculty and students together a total of 400-500 people attended and made the

day a grand success. The day started off with an invocation song followed by lighting of lamp, a talk by

the chief guest, the principal, and then the annual report by the IEEE coordinator Preeta Sharan. The guests

were given saplings as welcome gesture instead of bouquets. The program was completely handled by the

students starting from organizing, compering and vote of thanks. The students also gave a talk on the aim

of celebrating the day. Then the day was ended by cake cutting and vote of thanks.



Type of Activity

No .of Participants

1 31-8-2018 Technical talk on Avionics Technical 50

2 24-3-2018 Technical talk on Microwave Photonics Technical 50

3 27-102018 IEEE DAY Non-Technical 400

IEEE-PESCE MANDYA (SBA96251)

We have organized total thirty two technical and non-technical events during the year 2018.The most

popular events are: Awareness about menstrual hygiene, Women’s day, CRESCO18.0, Orientation day,

PATRIKA, fight for flood, AI workshop, AUCTUS18.0 and also cultural and sports activities.

AI Workshop

A workshop on making chatbot using AI was organized on 7th and 8th of september 2018, from 9:00 am to

5:00 pm. It was a two days event, installation of softwares and basics of python and AI were taught by the

resource person. The chatbot was made on the second day and it ended with a chatbot challenge.

Menstrual Awareness

Women In Engineering team of IEEE PESCE, took up the responsibility to educate young teenage girls of

Government Highschool, Indwal on 12/02/18

They covered aspects from menstrual health and hygiene to detecting signs of child abuse and

molestation. The best part was even the men of the team voluntarily agreed to be a part of this beautiful

venture. Knowing about menstrual health and hygiene is a privilege. Share this privilege with others and

with this motto we continue with more activities that look forward to women empowerment.


Sr no. Date Name of the activity Type of activity No of

participants

1 12/02/2018 Awareness about menstrual hygiene Other 62

2 10/03/2018 Women’s day Technical 286

3 23/03/2018 Debatathon-CRESCO 18.0 professional 32

4 23/03/2018 Code quest-CRESCO 18.0 Technical 25

5 24/03/2018 Riddle me-CRESCO 18.0 Other 46

6 24/03/2018 Impressario-CRESCO 18.0 Professional 28

7 24/03/2018 Snapster-CRESCO 18.0 Professional 25

8 24/03/2018 Quizzine-CRESCO 18.0 Technical 20

9 24/03/2018 Maidaan Other 45

10 24/03/2018 Byte the bits-CRESCO 18.0 Technical 30

11 03/08/2018 WIE-CKET Other 42

12 24/03/2018 Virtual Tressure Hunt Technical 36

13 24/08/2018 Orientation Day Professional 365

14 15/08/2018 Independence Day Other 47

15 11/04/2018 Patrika-national level paper presentation Paper

presentation

50

16 17/07/2018 Fight for flood Other 120

17 25/07/2018 Farewell to senior execoms Administrative

18 05/09/2018 Teacher’s Day Administrative 40

19 07/09/2018

To

08/09/2018

AI workshop Technical 56

20 20/09/2018 Tech-Savvy Technical 40

21 28/09/2018 Group discussion Professional 30

22 09/10/2018 Article presentation Technical 28

23 23/10/2018 Python Technical 25

24 24/10/2018 PUBG Other 46

25 15/10/2018 IEEE Day Professional 45

26 09/11/2018 Techinar-AUCTUS 18.0 Technical 20

27 09/11/2018 Amul quiz-AUCTUS 18.0 Professional 40

28 10/11/2018 Electronics Salad-AUCTUS 18.0 Technical 50

29 10/11/2018 Mads-Ads-AUCTUS 18.0 Other 30

30 10/11/2018 Movie day-AUCTUS 18.0 Other 30

31 09/11/2018 Fall out-AUCTUS 18.0 Other 50

32 14/11/2018 Children’s day Cultural 150

IEEE STUDENT BRANCH RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF

TECHNOLOGY (STB62841)

We have organized a total of 12 various technical and non-technical events during the year 2018.

The most popular events were: AAVISHKAAR, the technical fest of our college, WIE Symposium, to

celebrate Women’s Day and recognize the technological advances made by women in today’s generation,

Computer Awareness Program, to educate school kids about the basics of computer software,

CODENIGHT, to create awareness about IEEEXtreme, HAM Awareness Program, Breast Cancer

Awareness program to raise awareness about breast cancer myths and facts, along with IEEE

Membership Drive, which brought in a lot of tech- enthusiasts into IEEE RITB.

AAVISHKAAR - TECH FEST 2018:

The annual flagship event of IEEE, Ramaiah Institute of Technology was held on the 6th and 7th of October

2018, sponsored by AMD. AAVISHKAAR had a total of 12 intercollegiate events with exciting cash prizes,

conducted from 9am to 5pm spread across the two days. In addition to this, there were Fun event stalls set

up which was a major crowd attraction.

Various events like Open Sourcing, Line Follower, I Spy, Limbo and Code Wars were conducted

on the first day to encourage the involvement of tech savvy students. On the Second day of Aavishkaar,

events like Shark Tank, Heads or Tails, Int main(), hackatronics, Gettin’ Quizzie and Dota 2

were organised. Various students from different colleges from all over Bangalore had come together to be

a part of this technical extravaganza. It was a very successful event with participations in large numbers!

WIE SYMPOSIUM 2018:

The IEEE Student Chapter of Ramaiah Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Women In

Engineering, was proud to organize a two-day Symposium to celebrate Women’s Day and recognize the

technological advances made by women in today’s generation. The theme for this year was “Women in

technology and community outreach”. The two day event celebrated the achievements of present day

women from all walks of life. The event was conducted on the 8th and 9th of March, 2018 on

International Women’s Day.

We had 6 major talks by eminent women which were very enriching and enlightening, along with many

technical events like Simon Says, Bridge Modelling, etc to include students from all branches. The two-day

WIE Symposium ended with a cultural event, around 540 members attended to witness the programme.

We got a good response and the event was a great success.


Sr.

No.


Activity

No. of

Participa

nts

1

16/01/2018 –

19/01/2018 COMPUTER AWARENESS PROGRAM Professional 50

2 02/03/2018 HAM AWARENESS PROGRAM Technical 170

3

08/03/2018 –

09/03/2018 WIE SYMPOSIUM Technical 300

4 19/03/2018 IEEE CIS ORIENTATION

Non –

Technical 140

5 17/07/2018

SECURITY ISSUES IN WIRELESS AD-HOC

NETWORKS Technical 90

6 13/08/2018 BREAST CANCER AWARENESS PROGRAM

Non –

Technical 100

7

13/08/2018 –

20/08/2018 COMPUTER AWARENESS PROGRAM Professional 40

8 08/09/2018 TECHNORION Technical 150

9 22/09/2018 IoT AND SECURITY WORKSHOP Technical 110

10

22/09/2018 –

23/09/2018 CODE NIGHT Technical 200

11

06/10/2018 –

07/10/2018 AAVISHKAAR - TECH FEST Technical 500

12 12/10/2018

EXCITING WORLD OF ENGINEERING AND

CYBER SYSTEMS WORKSHOP Technical 90

RRCE- Student Branch of the IEEE (STB20210)

RRCE- Student Branch of the IEEE (STB20210) has been in function since May, 2017. There are 70 IEEE

student members including UG and Ph.D students in our branch. We have organized three Technical events

during the year 2018.

IEEE SPONSORED EXPERT TALK:

In association with IEEE Power and Energy Society Bangalore Chapter, we conducted Expert Talk on

“Internet of Energy and Standards” on 9th May, 2018. The eminent resource person Dr. Priya Ranjan

Mishra, Senior IEEE member, Principal Scientist, Philips Lighting Research India shared his deep

knowledge on “Internet of Energy and Standards”. The concept is defined as a network infrastructure based

on standards that allow a real time balance between the local and global generation with the energy demand.

He discussed about Vision smart Grid – 2050, Importance of smart Grid, Foundational pillars of Energy

Internet, Energy Swapping, and Architecture of energy router. He also gave brief introduction about the

Standards for Smart grids - IEEE 2030.5. The session was very interactive and the knowledge shared by the

speaker uplifted our students to a level forward.

Expert Talk on “Effective Utilization of IEEE Xplore”:

The eminent resource person Mr. M.S. Srinivasa, Training Manager KA & TL (IEEE Training Partner),

EBSCO Information Services India Pvt Ltd., delivered a talk on “Effective Utilization of IEEE Xplore on 29th

August, 2018. The knowledge shared by the speaker about IEEE Xplore was very informative and helpful

for the students for their project works and advanced searches in future. A group of 70 IEEE students and

around 40 non IEEE students attended the session.



Type of Activity

No .of Participants

1 09/05/2018 IEEE Sponsored Expert Talk on "Internet of Energy and Standards" Technical 80

2 29/08/2018 IEEE Sponsored Expert Talk on " Effective Utilization of IEEE Xplore Technical 110

3 29/08/2018 Awareness program on IEEE - BLP (IEEE Blended Learning Programs) Technical 110

IEEE Student Branch: Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of

Engineering (STB11651)

We have organized a total of 15 technical and non-technical events during the year 2018. The most popular

events are: Student Elevation and Transition Partnership (STEP), IBM IoT Hackathon, HAM Workshop,

Ideathon on Sustainable water Management System and workshop on Recent trends in LTE.

Student Elevation and Transition Partnership (STEP)

The IEEE Student Transition and Elevation Partnership (STEP) was conducted on 11th August 2018 to

provide a dynamic program for facilitating the transition from student members to young professionals by

introducing opportunities during the onset of a STEM career. IEEE STEP is a flagship event of IEEE ‘Young

Professionals’ Chapter. The various speakers at the event were, Mr. Sudeendra Koushik, Chair, IEEE

Bangalore section briefed on the Benefits of IEEE and present trends in the global technical outfit, Mr.

Abhishek Appaji, Chair, IEEE Young Professionals Bangalore, spoke on IPR and Entrepreneurship, Prof.

Srinivas Talabattula, Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc Bangalore, detailed on Opportunities for a

carrier in Research, Mr. Giridhar Baliga , M.D., Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, emphasized on Innovation

and Leadership and Mr. Akash Pushkar Charan , Data Scientist, HP, gave insight on Skills for the Corporate

World. It was well received by students.

Workshop on Fundamentals of LTE-4G

A Five Day Workshop on “Fundamentals of LTE-4G”, was conducted at R V College of Engineering,

Bengaluru during 26th to 30th September 2018. The objective of the workshop was to facilitate

undergraduate and postgraduate students on advance topics of LTE-4G. The workshop witnessed technical

presentations on all aspects of LTE-4G followed by hands-on training by eminent experts from industry

and academia in LTE-4G. The technical resource persons at the workshop were, Dr. S. Ravishankar,

Professor, Department of E&C, R.V.C.E who covered the basics of OFDM, OFDMA and SC-FDMA, Mr.

Sudeesh from Nokia India covered topics exposition of call set up and resources handling of radio access

portion of LTE-4G. The workshop was attended by 25 participants including faculty and students from

various engineering colleges across Karnataka. The course was well received by the participants.


Sl.

No


Activity

No. of

Participants

1 19/01/2018 Higher studies on opportunities in IITs Non-

Technical

75

2 29/01/2018 to

02/02/2018

Recent trends in LTE Technical 40

3 01/02/2018 Embedded systems for solar PV

Applications

Technical 30

5 27/02/2018 Robotics for industrial automation Technical 128

6 12/03/2018 Future of E-mobility Technical 94

SHRI MADHWA VADIRAJA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

AND MANAGEMENT, BANTAKAL IEEE STUDENT BRANCH

(STB10147)

IIOT-2K18, Intercollegiate Project Exhibition on Industrial Internet of Things IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) 2018 event was organized by the IEEE student branch of SMVITM

which included the National level student convention and project exhibition held on 27th of October that is

Saturday. The event was inaugurated by Mr. Rathan Rao Pathur, the chief technical officer at Tayana

software, Bengaluru. Mr. Krishnaraja, director at Infosys technologies, Mangaluru was the guest of honor.

More than 150 students of our college and the different colleges from the nearby technological institutions

enthusiastically participated in the Project Exhibition and the National Student Convention. Students

showcased their technical as well as their presentation skills in the best possible way they could. Each and

every project was innovative and unique in its own, judged by the well experienced entities who came up

with a fair decision in awarding the deserved candidate. The day ended with the Valedictory ceremony

which was graced by the presence of Dr. Prashanth Bhat, chief technical officer at Manipal Dot net, Manipal

who awarded the prizes to the winners.

7 19/03/2018 to

20/03/2018

Ideathon on Water management and

sustainability

Technical 200

8 22/03/2018 Earthing and Grounding Non-

Technical

80

9 23/03/2018 to

24/03/2018

IBM IOT Hackathon Technical 100

10 27/03/2018 HAM Workshop 1 Technical 200

11 26/05/2018 HAM Workshop 2 Technical 22

12 02/07/2018 to

06/07/2018

Emerging Technologies in Short range

wireless communication

Technical 52

13 11/08/2018 Student Elevation and Transition

Partnership

Non-

Technical

100

14 27/08/2018 Journey from idea to a product stage Non-

Technical

80

15 26/09/2018 to

30/09/2018

Fundamentals of LTE-4G Technical 25

Workshop on “Embark your journey of Python programming” Shri Madhwa Vadiraja Institute of Technology and Management (SMVITM), Bantakal, Udupi, under the

aegis of the IEEE Student Branch and ISTE Student Chapter jointly organized a two-day hands-on

workshop on “Embark your journey of Python Programming” for the students of SMVITM on campus from

22nd to 23rd October 2018. Mr. Manoj T, Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE and Ms. Tejaswini H, Assistant

Professor, Dept. of CSE were the resource persons for the workshop. Totally 41 students from across

branches and semesters attended the workshop, where they were trained problem solving using Python

Programming. The key topics covered in the workshop were, Installation of Python interpreter and

Anaconda software, Elementary programming in Python, Conditionals and iterations, Defining functions

and usage of built-in functions in Python, Strings and files, Data structures in Python (Lists, Tuples and

Dictionaries), Regular expressions and modules, Object oriented programming in Python and Introduction

to NumPy and Pandas.

Technical Activities of the Branch: Sl. No

Date Details of Activity Number of participants

1 19-09-2018

IEEE Membership Drive with Technical quiz and other technical games

100

2 06-09-2018 Half day workshop on Computer Networks 30

3 29-09-2018 Talk on IEEE Xplore 120

4 06-09-2018 Clash of Codes - IEEE Day celebration 30

5 09-10-2018 to 11-10-2018

Hands-on workshop to High School Students at Government P U College, Bailuru - Atal Tinkering Lab Mentoring

50

6 20-10-2018

Hands-on workshop to High School Students at Government P U College, Hiriadka - Atal Tinkering Lab Mentoring

25

7 24-10-2018

Hands-on workshop to High School Students at Government P U College, Brahmavara - Atal Tinkering Lab Mentoring

50

8 27-10-2018

IIOT-2K18, Intercollegiate Project Exhibition on Industrial Internet of Things

150

9 22-10-2018 to 23-10-2018

Embark your journey of Python programming

41

10 12-11-2018 Industrial Visit to Infosys Campus 85

IEEE Student Branch Sai Vidya Institute of Technology STB11371

The event was mainly organized to give awareness about the internship opportunities available for Photonic

student members and also about the studies in abroad. Dr. Narayan K, IEEE SVIT Student Branch Advisor

addressed the gathering about the benefits of IEEE membership and on the activities to be conducted under

the IEEE student branch chapters. Dr. Narayan K also highlighted about the 5 students of Sai Vidya

Institute of Technology, Bengaluru attending the IEEE IPC 2018 Conference to be held at Reston, Virginia,

USA.


Sr. No.

Date Name of Activity Type of Activity No .of

Participants

1 05-09-2018 Workshop on Nanotechnology and

Photonics Technical and Professional

133

IEEE Student Branch University Visvesvaraya College of

Engineering (STB34411)

We have organized total fifty three various technical and non-technical events during the year 2018. The

most popular events are: Impetus 18.0(The technical fest of UVCE conducted by IEEE UVCE), Kagada 18.0,

Codefury 1.0, IITB Techfest South Zonals, Branch Counselor Meet(Bangalore Section), Disaster

Management Workshop(Bangalore Section), Project Run Showdown, Tech Roadies, WIE week events(

Code Femme, Crossword, Udaan, Pankh, Doodle It up).

.

IMPETUS 18.0:

IMPETUS 18.0 was the Annual National Level Technical Fest conducted by IEEE UVCE with the theme

‘Automation-The Next Dimension’ on the 23rd and 24th of March, 2018. It comprised of 13 curtain raiser

events, 22 Technical events and one exclusive online technical treasure hunt event named Epsilon. The Fest

was inaugurated on the 23rd of March, 2018 by the Chief Guests Mr.Bhaktha Keshavachar, founder and

CTO of Ezetap, Dr. Kumudhini Ravindra from Innomantra consulting Pvt. Ltd., IEEE Bangalore Section

Chairperson- Sudeendra Koushik. Student Parliament (Summit), Quiz on IT Technologies- ITWiz 2.0,

Summit, Steal Jobs, Laser Tag, VR and X-Box Kinect, Robosoccer, Mech or Break, Sumo Wars, Code Storm,

Tech Charades, Automania, Enigma, Neutral Oxide, Spektrom, So You Think Its Over, Electrophilia,

Cyborg, Tech Mark, Appathon were the events organised with different fields of technology.

Kagada 18.0:

The fifteenth National Level Student Conference KAGADA was held in University Visvesvaraya College of

Engineering on Saturday, 6th October 2018. KAGADA was inaugurated by the chief guest Dr. Shyam

Vasudeva Rao, Founder and Director Forus Health, Renalyx and Rx DHP. Mr.Abhishek Appaji, Young

Professional Chair person IEEE Bangalore Section also joined as one of our chief guest along with Ms. Divya

M, joint director CDAC, co-chair, WIE Bangalore Section. The conference comprised of Paper Presentation,

Project and Poster Presentation with more than 200 participants from various engineering colleges across

the state. Also in this event, WIE in collaboration with TISP and STAR of IEEE UVCE conducted "Ottige

Kaliyona" invited 63 students from “Labourier Fellowship Upgraded Primary School" to UVCE at 9:30 AM.

The students were of 5th, 6th and 7th grades. 6th and 7th grade students were taught MS paint and MS

word in the computer lab. Later even 5th grade students were taken to computer lab and were taught MS

paint. The main aim of this session was to teach students how to operate the computer and they learnt some

basics. Along with this the 5th grade students were asked to sing rhymes and make posters. Later the

students were engaged by making them play many games where all the students participated

enthusiastically.


Sl. No Date Name of Activity Type

Num of Participants

1 23-24 th

March 2018

IMPETUS-2018

Technical 2000

2 06th March

2018

KAGADA 2018

Technical 300

3 22nd Sept

2018 CODEFURY 1.0

Technical 203

4 30th Sept

2018 IIT-B TECHFEST South Zonals

Technical 500

5

23-03-2018 24-03-2018

Laser Tag (IMPETUS-2018) Other

450

6 21-08-2018 Orientation Day Technical 400

7 18-09-2018 Blood Donation and Medical Camp Other 400

8 01-02-2018 01-06-2018

C Programming Semester Long Course Technical

6

9 20-09-2018

Biometrics Talk by Dr.Piuri- Banagalore Section Technical

120

10 25-02-2018 Branch Counselor Meet - Bangalore Section Administrative 250

11 14-10-2018 Disaster Management - Bangalore Section

Other 80

12 26-02-2018 04-03-2018

Tech Roadies-Codesense

Technical 230

13

05-03-2018 11-03-2018

Tech Roadies-Elektra Technical

230

14

12-03-2018 18-03-2018

Tech Roadies-Web Geeks Technical

230

15

19-03-2018 22-03-2018

Tech Rodies-Mechmerize Technical

230

16 19-03-2018 Epsilon Reloaded Technical 220

17 31-08-2018 Bhaag Uvce Bhaag Other 200

18 30-09-2018 CodeDeCode(TechFest-IITB) Technical 200

19 15-09-2018 Kagathon Technical 170

20 09-09-2018 Robotics Workshop Technical 150

21 30-09-2018 Meshmerise (TechFest-IITB) Technical 150

22 30-09-2018 Cozmo Clench (TechFest-IITB) Technical 150

23 10-10-2018 Computer Society Orientation Technical 150

24 11-04-2018 Annual General Meet IEEE UVCE Administrative 120

25 06-10-2018 Poster Presentation (KAGADA-2018)

Technical 120

26 25-10-2018 DELL Storage Technologies Talk Technical 90

27 05-09-2018 Poster Presentation Workshop Technical 89

28 27-10-2018 Python Workshop Technical 80

29 09-03-2018

Udaan: Techno-Managerial and Marketing event Technical

70

30 25-09-2018 Wie Orientation Technical 70

31 29-09-2018 Ottige Kalyona Other 60

32 04-10-2018 IEEE Day Technical 60

33 06-03-2018 Pankh:Tech Talk Technical 50

34

10-03-2018 11-03-2018

Android Studio Workshop Technical

50

35 06-09-2018 Le Maison De Art Other 50

36 07-03-2018 Code Femme Technical 45

37 08-03-2018 CrossWord Technical 45

38 12-03-2018 Doodle-It-Up Technical 40

39 23-03-2018 Mech or Break (IMPETUS-2018) Technical 40

40 06-04-2018 Brahma Kumaris Talk Other 40

41 12-10-2018 Million Minds- Start Up Talk Technical 40

42 09-03-2018 Tech Talk: Big-Data Technical 35

43 20-02-2018 Project Run Showdown Technical 30

44 21-03-2018 Blind Coding Technical 30

45 29-04-2018 Game Development Workshop Technical 30

46 06-10-2018

Ug/Pg Paper Presentation (KAGADA-2018) Technical

30

47

23-03-2018 24-03-2018

Ucypher: NFS (IMPETUS-2018) Other

26

48 24-03-2018 Vaaksamara (IMPETUS-2018) Technical 25

49 06-10-2018 Wie Paper Presentation (KAGADA-2018)

Technical 25

50 14-03-2018 Pic-O-Vc Other 20

51 23-08-2018 Spektrom (IMPETUS-2018) Technical 18

52

23-03-2018 24-03-2018

Ucypher: FIFA (IMPETUS-2018) Other

14

53

23-03-2018 24-03-2018

Ucypher: Counter Strik (IMPETUS-2018) Other

8

IEEE Student Branch Vivekananda Institute of Technology

(12911)

We have conducted three events in the IEEE Student Branch in 2018.

The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering under VKIT-IEEE Student Branch, has

organized Three day Workshop on “RF Antenna Designing using ADS and Imaging RADAR using

System Vue” from 29th -31st October 2018. The main objective of this workshop was Provide an overview

of Keysight EDA Tools and ADS Tool. To design Pulse Doppler RADAR using System Vue and to

design System Level on Imaging RADAR.

The VKIT-IEEE Student Branch conducted “Technical Hunt” on 22nd March 2018 (Thursday) for the

students of Electronics and Communication Engineering department.

Technical Hunt event comprised of 2 rounds. Round 1 was on treasure hunt and Round 2 was on circuit

debugging. Leading 5 teams were qualified for round 2. Best teams were

awarded as winners and runners.

Winners: Sharath Kumar S S, Likitha, Rachana A, Bhavyashree G Runners: Shwetha M, Santhosh Kumar, Sahana, Tanuja



Type of Activity

No .of Participants

1 10/29/2018 to 10/31/2018

Three day Workshop on “RF Antenna Designing using ADS and Imaging RADAR using System Vue” Technical 35

2 04/17/2018 Technical Quiz” Technical 100

3 03/22/2018 “Technical Hunt” Technical 80

VVIET IEEE Student Branch (STB08181)

We have organized seven technical, Non technical and humanitarian activities in our Student Branch in the

year 2018 which includes AISYWC-18(All India Student Young Professional Women in Engineering

Congress), New Member Orientation, FIEEESTA-Workshop on IOT using Texas Instruments Boards, IEEE

Day Celebration, Colourfull, Swatchateye seve campaign and IEEE Xtreme Programming.

All India IEEE Student –Young Professionals- Women in Engineering Congress

(AISYWC)

Inaugural Program of ALL India IEEE Student –Young Professionals- Women in Engineering Congress

(AISYWC), one of the Largest Annual Flagship Three Days event of IEEE India Council hosted by IEEE

Bangalore Section and Vidya Vikas Institute of Engineering and Technology was held on 28th September

2018 at Vidya Vikas campus. Awide platform with 30 plus speakers, 121 Sessions more than 450 delegates

including Professionals,Entrepreneurs and Visionaries across the globe actively participated in the event.

Dr.M.AnnaduraiDistinguished Scientist from ISRO was invited as Chief Guest who enlightened the minds

of the youth in understanding the difference between expectations,assumption,learning with the reality in

today’s world, also shared the success story of one Indian created mission (Chandrayana-I) and real

challenges faced to carry the instruments to moon.Hon’ble Justice N Kumar, Guest of Honor , interacted

about the Mental Competence for Self and National Development and also shared a view on how

Knowledge is power and wealth.Dr.RamakrishnaKappagantu,Immediate past Director,IEEE R10, Invited

Guest for the day interacted with the IEEEians the Role of IEEE for Professional development.

Dr.SudeendraKoushik,Chairman,IEEE Bangalore Section, Daniel Lottis, IEEE SIGHT chair and Principal

Engineer, Western Digital was invited as Keynote Speaker for the Day 1 Event.Puneet K Mishra General

Chair, AISYWC briefed about the overview of the 3 Days All India Student – Young Professional- Women

In Engineering Congress event.Sri.KaveeshGowda V, Secretary VVET(R) presided over the event and spoke

about advancement in Technology in the Current Industry.Dr. M Ravishankar Principal VVIET, and trust

Members of VVET® was present during the event. Dr. Bindu A Thomas, Chair Local organising committee

delivered the vote of thanks The Inauguration Event was followed by Discussions,Workshop and Hands on

Sessions in Student Track, Young Professional Track,Women in engineering Track and Branch Councillor

Track.

SWATCHATEYE SEVE CAMPAIGN

IEEE day is a global event to be held on first Tuesday of October, annually. In 2018, this occasion has

beautifully merged with Gandhi Jayanthi. Mahatma Gandhi is considered as the “FATHER OF OUR

NATION”. His principles of non-violence are widely followed throughout the world. His vision of INDIA

as a superpower is remarkable. Our beloved Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi has launched the

“SWACCH BHARATH” campaign in view of attaining this vision. It aims to clean up the streets, roads

and infrastructure of India’s cities, smaller towns and rural areas.

As responsible citizens, it becomes our duty to join hands and bring transformation for such initiatives.

That’s when the idea of “SWACCH VVIET” blossomed. Our campus is designed in a very eco-friendly way.

But it was all messed due to a series of events. So, it was decided to go around and clean the campus in

groups to collect and segregate as much waste as possible.

All the enthusiasts gathered up for a meeting. Each person greeted everyone else present and introduced

themselves in a formal manner.

The plans for the day were:

Divide into groups of 3-4 members

Each group went out in search of waste in different areas in the campus

o Group 1 - Canteen area

o Group 2 - Auditorium area

o Group 3 - Lobby area

o Group 4 – Back stage area

All teams carried out this work and gathered at a place. Each area looked far better than it previously was.

Later on, an activity was conducted.


Event

no


Activity

Number of

Participants

1 28-09-2018

to

30-09-2018

AISYWC-18(All India Student Young

Professional Women in Engineering

Congress)

Technical 450

2 07-09-2018 New Member Orientation Administrative 75

3 03-03-2018 FIEEESTA-Workshop on IOT using Texas

Instruments Boards

Technical 60

4 15-10-2018 IEEE Day Celebration Others 40

5 06-10-2018 Colourfull Others 30

6 02-10-2018 Swatchateye seve campaign Others 14

7 19-10-2018 IEEE Xtreme Programming Technical 14

IEEE SIT Student Branch (STB29521)

We have organized total of twenty technical and non-technical events during the year 2018. The most

successful events are: IdEEEas-18, Develop project workshop, IdEEEas, Orientation to freshers about IEEE

student branch, Workshop on C#, TechExpo-2018, IEEE day, WIE Hackathon for girls, school visit,

Orphanage visit.

IdEEEas 2018:

IdEEEas-18 ,the national level technical symposium , held on April 7th,2018 ,was the largest platform that

IEEE SIT student branch gave to the students to participate and show their talents in nine different sub

events that include – line follower robot, roborace, technical quiz, talent hunt, coding event etc . The chief

guest for the day was Dr.P.C.Srikanth , secretary IEEE Photonic society , Karnataka chapter. We had

organized a lecture talk from the chief guest, through which the IEEE student members were motivated

towards photonics field. The event was a grand success where 45 IEEE members and 750+ non IEEE

members participated.

IdEEEas:

This was one of the successful events of the academic year 2018-19. which was organized second time in the

year 2018 and consisted of nine sub events both technical and non-technical. The chief guests for the day

were the alumni of our IEEE student branch who gave insight about perks of being an IEEE member and

about the IT industry after the UG course. The event was successful with 70 IEEE members along with 700+

participants.



Type of Activity

No .of Participants

1 20/01/2018 to 21/01/2018 Develop project Technical 80

2 23/03/2018 Recruitment of freshers Administrative 65

3 07/04/2018 IdEEEas-18 Technical 800

4 06/08/2018 Orientation about IEEE student Branch Technical 130

5 13/08/2018 Orientation about ECE branch Technical 100

6 24/08/2018 to 25/08/2018 Workshop on C# Technical 150

7 04/10/2018 IEEE Day Technical 50

8 06/10/2018 TechExpo-2018 Technical 50

9 08/10/2018 Orphanage visit Non-technical 85

10 13/10/2018 IdEEEas Technical 700

11 15/10/2018 School visit Non-technical 30

12 26/10/2018 Arduino projects (IEEE members only) Technical 50

13 5/11/2018 RaspberryPi projects(IEEE members only) Technical 55

14 12/11/2018 Webpage designing Technical 60

15 18/11/2018 Photoshop Technical 65

16 25/11/2018 Android app development Technical 40

17 30/11/2018 General aptitude test series Technical 100

18 5/12/2018 Coding hackathon for girls Technical 35

19 13/12/2018 Seminar on paper presentation Technical 45

20 21/12/2018 Seminar on upcoming technologies Technical 75

JCE IEEE Student Branch Belagavi (STB-17291)

We have organized total fourteen various technical and non-technical events during the year 2018. The

most popular events are: Robotics Workshop, Women’s day, Printed circuit board(PCB), Robo Soccer,

Project exhibition, Hands on IOT Workshop, School Drive(UDAAN).

Robotics Workshop

A workshop on Robotics was scheduled on 13th and 14th October 2017 by IEEE JCE SB especially for 3rd

Semester Students to get basic knowledge of robotics and to start designing and assembling a level 1 wired

robot. A total of 19 teams (76 students) had participated in the workshop. The workshop was conducted by

resource person Prof. Ganesh Awati and Prof.Sushma Kamat. The session started with the presentation on

Robotics and the kit components followed by assembling the kit procedure wise. The resource person

provided information regarding the compatibility of the various components and how the components can

be reused. The participants thoroughly enjoyed the session. He also encouraged the students to be at par

with the latest treads and key technologies used in robotics domain. The event was followed by ROBO RACE

and winners were awarded with the prize. The students were felicitated on the end of second day. We

express our sincere thanks to our branch counselor for permitting and encouraging us to participate in such

an event and the team to put in efforts and make it a success and looking forward to participate in such

various other events.

Women’s day

JCE IEEE and Women in Engineering (WIE) Student Branch in association with the Departmental Staff

and Student Association ECHO of Electronics and Communication Engineering department of Jain college

of Engineering, Belagavi celebrated International Women’s day on March 10th 2018. On this day the new

office bearers for IEEE student branch for 2018 were also inducted. The chief guest Dr. Kirti Shivakumar,

Professor, KLS IMER , Belagavi, spoke on how young women can pursue her career through her passion

and perseverance. She asked to be grateful to the parents and imbibe good qualities in the society. Dr. K G

Vishwanath, Principal, JCE, gave the presidential remarks. Head of ECE department and IEEE branch

counselor Dr. Krupa R Rasane, addressed the gathering and said that man and women complement each

other in all walks of life. She stressed the importance of role of women in engineering. IEEE student

chairperson Mr. Prashant Patil shared his plans of events to be conducted in the current academic year

2018. The event was compered by Miss. Umme Shifa and Miss. Kalyani Karegar. IEEE student member

Miss. Rutuja Kelkar introduced the chief guest and WIE student chairperson Miss. Jayashree Patil

concluded with the vote of thanks. The event was coordinated by WIE staff coordinator Prof. Sushma U

Kamat, IEEE staff coordinator Prof. Girish Sankannavar, staff and students of E&C department. Staff and

students of various departments of Jain college of Engineering participated and made the event successful.


Sr.

No. Date Name of Activity

Type of

Activity

No .of

Participants

1 15/10/2018 to

16/10/2018

Robotics Workshop

Technical

55

2 21 /02/2018 Matribhasha divas Non-

Technical

45

3 10/03/2018 Women’s day Non-

Technical

102

4 23/03/2018 to

24/03/2018

Printed circuit board(PCB)

workshop Technical

121

5 5/04/2018 to

6/04/2018

Robo Soccer

Technical

93

6 7/04/2018 Hobby project exhibition Technical 120

7 24/04/2018 to

26/04/2018

Electronics Premier League Non-

Technical

96

8 07/05/2018 to

09/05/2018

AVISHKAR 2018 Final Year Project

Exhibition Technical

180

9 29/08/2018 School Drive(UDAAN) Non-

Technical

30

10 4/10/2018 IEEE Day Non-

Technical

45

11 15/10/2018 to

17/10/2018

Hands on IOT Workshop

Technical

70

12 20/10/2018 IEEEXtreme 12.0 Technical 24

13 13/11/2018 LYX workshop Technical 170

14 16/11/2018 Innogration of Centre for experiential

learning and prototyping Technical

BEC-IEEE (STB-35261)

We have organized total fifty five various technical and non-technical events during the year 2018. The most

popular events are: NOVUS 2018, BLACK HAWK, Workshop on Website Design and Hosting, Parent

awareness program, Student Leadership Program(SLP), IEEE Orientation day, Seminar on IoT and Esim,

Ignite, TECH NIGHTS, Execom Meet, INNOVISION, Entrevista and BEC-TALKS.

BEC-IEEE NOVUS’18:

One of the most successful events of BEC-IEEE is the “NOVUS”, a National Level Technical Symposium.

The participants were from our college and also from various colleges around the region. We organized

various technical and non-technical events for two days. The event was conducted by our Student Branch

for both IEEE members and Non-IEEE members. In this event there were around 500 participants.

STUDENT LEADERSHIP PROGRAM (SLP):

This event is one of the signature events of BEC-IEEE for encouraging the students of our college to join

IEEE. In this event, we conducted a two day leadership program for the students in which they were exposed

to various soft skills, personality development activities and technical advancements around the globe. The

participants got a chance to interact with students from other discipline and hence expand their network.

The whole event is overlooked and handled by our IEEE members. Even the mentors to the participants are

our IEEE members. There were a total of 300 participants in the event. The motive of this event is to

encourage the students to join IEEE and help in contributing for the technical inventions and humanitarian

work for the global community.


Event Title

Event Date

Type of Activity

Number of

Participants

INNOVISION 18 10-29-2018 Technical 270

Entrevista 10-29-2018 Technical 70

Entrevista 3rd meeting 10-26-2018 Technical 70

INNOVISION18 3rd meeting 10-26-2018 Technical 60

SLP 3rd meeting" 10-20-2018 Technical 60

Entrevista 2nd meeting 10-16-2018 Technical 60

INNOVISION18 2nd meeting 10-16-2018 Technical 300

Entrevista 1st meeting 10-15-2018 Technical 60

INNOVISION18 1st meeting 10-15-2018 Technical 260

Celebration of Gandhi Jayanthi and Lal Bahaddur Shastri Jayanthi 10-02-2018 Nontechnical 350

IEEE Orientation day 09-09-2018 Nontechnical 270

SLP- day 2 08-26-2018 Nontechnical 330

Intraction with Lt.gen Ramesh Halagali. 08-11-2018 Nontechnical 70

SLP 2nd meeting 08-10-2018 Nontechnical 60

Interaction with Dr.Suresh Raju 08-10-2018 Nontechnical 55

SLP- meeting 1" 08-06-2018 Technical 60

"SLP- day 1" 08-06-2018 Nontechnical 300

BCE-IEEE"Parent awareness programme" 07-30-2018 Nontechnical 60

Photoshop Workshop• (2nd day) 04-15-2018 Nontechnical 45

Photoshop workshop 04-13-2018 Nontechnical 15

"Ignite" 04-08-2018 Technical 70

"MIND MAPPING" 04-05-2018 Technical 70

"The PCB and Fabrication workshop" 04-03-2018 Technical 55

"Ignite-2018• 2nd meeting 04-02-2018 Technical 35

BEC-IEE"Seminar on IoT and Esim" 03-27-2018 Technical 70

"Ignite-2018 1st meeting 03-26-2018 Technical 32

Execom meet 03-15-2018 Nontechnical 60

"MOON LIGHT DINNER" 03-13-2018 Nontechnical 85

"Women's day celebration" 03-08-2018 Nontechnical 25

"BRANCH COUNSELOR'S MEET" 02-26-2018 Nontechnical 70

BEC-TALKS 02-25-2018 Nontechnical 121

AARAMBH 02-25-2018 Technical 100

1 TWO KA 4" 02-25-2018 Technical 155

Movie Making 02-25-2018 Nontechnical 45

TECH NIGHTS 02-24-2018 Nontechnical 280

Overhaul 02-24-2018 Technical 35

LINE-X 02-24-2018 Technical 19

CITY OF CRIMES 02-24-2018 Nontechnical 121

Youth Parliament 02-24-2018 Nontechnical 140

Vid youth 02-24-2018 Technical 140

SRUJANA 02-24-2018 Technical 25

Robust 02-24-2018 Technical 70

Nirvahana 02-24-2018 Technical 101

Pathang 02-24-2018 Nontechnical 26

Robust Workshop 02-19-2018 Technical 47

LINE-X workshop 02-15-2018 Technical 55

Novus• - 3rd meeting 02-14-2018 Nontechnical 60

Writing a Quality Technical Paper in IEEE 02-02-2018 Technical 108

BLACK HAWK 01-25-2018 Nontechnical 140

Blackhawk (2nd meeting) 01-23-2018 Nontechnical 30

Novus•(2nd meeting) 01-18-2018 Nontechnical 60

E-week presentation on DNA 01-17-2018 Technical 20

Black Hawk (1st meeting) 01-17-2018 Nontechnical 20

Workshop on Website Design and Hosting" 01-13-2018 Technical 30

Novus - 1st meeting" 01-08-2018 Nontechnical 15

IEEE Student Branch Sambhram Institute of Technology

(STB06681)

We have organized around 30+ various technical and non-technical events during the year 2018. The most

popular events are: IEEE Training on Disaster management and CPR, PRATIRA- National level student

project competition and exhibition, Surgical Strike Day, IEEE DAY CELEBRATION, and also cultural and

sports activities.

IEEE Training on Disaster Management and CPR:

IEEE training on “Disaster Management and CPR” was conducted on 23rd November 2018 organised by

IEEE in association with IEEE Student Chapter, SaIT with great enthusiasm and zeal. Sambhram Institute

of Technology was the second hosting institution for this training. This is first of its kind of initiative from

the IEEE Bangalore Section where the participants will learn the skill to safeguard and care a casualty.

There were around 40 IEEE members who participated in this event.

Session 1: ‘Civil Defence, Citizen Army Citizen for Self Help during Emergency’ by Dr.Rajesh M S,Divisional

Warden, Karnataka Civil Defence & Global Customer Support Manager, SAP Labs.

Session 2: Basic First Aid by Mr.Sunand Sampath, Post Warden, Karnataka Civil Defence, Karnataka Civil

Defence and Management Consultant/Soft Skill Trainer.

Session 3: Golden Hour and CPR by Mrs.Sunitha Rajesh M, Warden, Karnataka Civil Defence.

PRATIRA-2018 - National Level Inter Collegiate Project Exhibition and

Competition:

Total Number of Participants: 300 Students

Targeted Audience: Engineering students, High school students

Resource Persons:

1. The Chief Guest of the event was Dr. K Balaveera Reddy, Former Vice-Chancellor, VTU.

2. The Guest of Honor was Prof. H S Bhatia, Secretary, IETE, Bangalore.

3. The Jury panel included Manisha Majumdar from IISc, Dr. Chitra Kiran, HOD, Dept. of ECE, SVIT,

Bangalore.

About The Event:

PRATIRA-2018 is a national level student project competition and exhibition organized by Sambhram

Institute of Technology, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE). The

inauguration of the event began at 10:00am. This is the 11th year for the event.

The Chief guest Dr. K Balaveera Reddy addressed the gathering about the practical learning and

development of the projects to support the innovations to happen in India. The students who are a job

seekers how can they build their career and job opportunities in the present scenario. He also said how our

students should involve in doing mini-projects since from their lower semesters so that they get the practical

exposure.

The Guest of Honor, Prof. H S Bhatia addressed the gathering about the oppportunities IETE is providing

for the knowledge based learning and how students can bring out their creativity in their projects. He also

said they are conducting skill development programs to school students so that they get exposure for the

technologies.



Type of Activity

No .of Participants

1 29/01/2018 to 02/02/2018

Five-days Faculty Development Program on “NS2 AND ARM CORTEX M3” Technical 40

2 05/04/2018 PRATIRA-2018 - National Level Inter Collegiate Project Exhibition and Competition Technical 300

3 26/07/2018 to 28/07/2018

Three Days Hands on Faculty Development Program on FPGA Design Using Xilinx Vivado Technical 40

4 07/08/2018 to 09/08/2018

Three days Orientation ProgramOn “Aerospace & Defence Domain” Technical 100

4 03/10/2018 to 05/10/2018

Three Days workshop on Advanced Embedded System using ARM-7- IEEE Day celebration Technical 100

5 23/11/2018 IEEE Training on Disaster Management and CPR

Non-Technical 40

RNS Institute of Technology (STB05041)

Summary of IEEE activities carried out by your IEEE Student Branch in 2018.

Robotics Hackathon

Date: 12th Oct 2018

Timings: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Place: ECE Block, RNSIT

Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and science that includes mechanical engineering,

electrical engineering, computer science, and others. Robotics deals with the design, construction,

operation, and use of robots, as well as computer systems for their control, sensory feedback, and

information processing. A sensor is an electronic component, module, or subsystem whose purpose is to

detect events or changes in its environment and send the information to other electronics, frequently a

computer processor. A sensor is always used with other electronics, whether as simple as a light or as

complex as a computer. We all know as the world is moving towards a new era of the automation how much

a robot can make a difference in one’s life style.

The students were given a fixed time along with components such as robot chases, motors, IR sensors. They

had to build a line follower robot in given time. First and second prizes were given away.

Talk by Kristen MacKartney


Timing: 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm; Place: ECE block, RNSIT

Kristen MacKartney IEEE Senior University Partnership Program (UPP) Manager, IEEE Operations

Center, New Jersey had visited RNSIT to deliver a talk on the topic “Rock Your Career with IEEE”. Kristen

directly supports unique programs with students, librarians and faculty at 18 schools in the US, India, and

China. She focuses on universities in UPP: the Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Technology

(Kharagpur), Peking University, Tsinghua University, Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech, MIT, Columbia,

Dartmouth, UCSD, UCLA, Michigan, Texas A&M, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Drexel and WPI; but

embraces outreach to any student/groups interested in learning more about the IEEE.

B.5 Affinity Group Activities

Young Professionals Report – 2018

Title: YP Ice Breaking and Networking Event Date: 3 Feb 2018 Venue: IEEE India Office Brief abstract: The YP team created a strong network through ice breaking sessions. No. of participants: 16

Title: IoT Workshop on How to Build your Own IoT Applications Date: 19/5/2018 Venue: DERBI Bangalore Brief abstract: The workshop started with the introduction and of Mr. Syam Madanappali and the session started with very basic concepts, with instructor’s assumption of all being 8th graders, which gradually became intensive with the discussions and the instructor’s growingly deeper approach. Real day examples familiarized the concepts and comparative analysis of different protocols was easy to pick up. The instructor, Mr. Syam Madanapalli was a knowledge and cheerful person. The professionals ranging from software, electrical to mechanical engineering fields participated actively and paid close attention to every detail of the session. Few, who were already working in this field shared their experience and expertise with all. After lunch, teams of 5 were formed and were given a task of devising a solution for any one real-time problem, using IoT. Every team had best possible exchange of gathered knowledge, solidifying the workshop. The opinion that- this approach of starting with a card sheet and a group discussion is the best approach- was general. No. of participants: 30

Title: Startup week Date: 18th to 23rd June 2018 Venue:B M S College of Engineering, Bangalore Brief abstract: Startup Week was organised by Startup Cell of BMSCE and IEEE Young Professionals Bangalore Section. It is an attempt to energies the entrepreneurial bent of mind of both students and faculty.

The composition of the event with Motivational talk, workshops on unmet need analysis, Design thinking, Patent filing and in whole ideation to Productization is conducive to enable the student to pitch in their proposal with business plan. It was 6 day workshop. Workshop was delivered by renowned industry experts. No. of participants: 40

Title: IEEE IDEATION TO PRODUCTIZATION I2P Date: 20 June 2018 Venue: BMSCE, Bangalore Brief abstract: The event was sponsored by IEEE Young Professionals Bangalore Section and IEEE YP MGA. The event had around 50 participants from different disciplines. They were provided with an education based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) framework of Disciplined Entrepreneurship that combined rigorous academic study with the excitement of discovery, support and intellectual stimulation in an intense immersive experience. During the bootcamp, they were pushed to the limits, inspired, challenged by the faculties, Speakers, MIT GEB Alumni and Mentors from all over world. The participants were trained in analyzing 24 steps framework of Disciplined Entrepreneurship discovered by Prof Bill Aulet of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The participants were made to work on the deliverables on the concepts taught in the sessions and had to submit at the end of the day. They had to pitch their venture in front of the jury consisting of mentors, real investors, VCs, Angels, Rotary club, OCEO labs, etc. There were five teams which were announced as winners who won Seed money of ₹50K. The participants had overall good feedback about the bootcamp and were motivated to start a venture or to nurture their startup into seeing the path of success. No. of participants: 40

Title: IEEE DEEP LEARNING BOOTCAMP STEP 2018 Date: 7 July 2018 Venue: B M S college of Engineering Brief abstract: The Student Transition Elevation Partnership 2018 of Bangalore Section was the event with up to 100 participants attending the event. The focus was on the career opportunities in Deep Learning and Machine Learning. Abhishek Appaji, Chair of IEEE Young Professionals of Bangalore Section, spoke about importance of Young Professional and IEEE contribution to keep the Young Professionals achieve the target in their career. The Deep Learning session started with understand the general terms and background of deep learning by Rahul from IBM. Shreya Khakre from IBM told about the latest technologies related to Deep Learning in world of research. Then it was followed by a tutorial on Machine Learning using Python to

classify the numerical and characters by Anush and Senthil from IBM Watson. The lunch was followed by using Neural Network modeller in Watson studio on implementing easier way of Deep Learning with the motto of democratization of Deep Learning by Naveen Panwar from IBM. The latest trend and Future directions of the Deep Learning along with career opportunities was dealt by Srikanth Tamilsevan. This was concluded with lot of discussion and brainstorming with speakers and participants. The event was successful and was appreciated by individuals and requested for few more events of this kind. No. of participants: 100

Title: Student Transition Elevation Partnership (STEP) Date: 11 Aug 2018 Venue: RVCE Brief abstract: The first talk of the day was given by Mr. Sundhendra Koushik on “Skills for future employability”. Mr Koushik is the Chairman of IEEE , Bangalore and also chief innovator at PRASU. The second talk of the day was given by Mr. Akash Pushkar on “The Greatest Pursuit in Life-Purpose”. The Third talk was given by Dr. Srinivas Talabaluta from IISC on “Opportunities for Career and Research”, Giridhar Baliga , Managing Director , Beckman Coulter Diagnostics The final talk of the day was given by Abhishek Appaji (GE MIT Bootcamp) , chair of IEEE Young Professionals Bangalore Section. The talk was about the importance of entrepreneurship and scenario in India. He also shared his experience in Casino’s with the aim of motivating to take risk. He shared the important traits required for entrepreneurship. His talk also included various activities. No. of participants: 100

Title: Teachers in Service Program Date: 28 sep 2018 Venue: VVIET, Mysore Brief abstract: Activity 1: Team building and problem solving The participants were divided into groups of their interest. The participants discussed about the problems which they faced during teaching. Team building. Problem solving. Brainstorming. Activity 2: Parachute The basics of physics were explained such as gravity, air resistance and Newton’s laws of motion, application of these concepts in working of different types of parachute. Then, a booklet containing of information about parachutes and other important concepts was distributed to each one of them. Based on these concepts, the teachers were made to build a parachute using the things that were provided. Each group was given two plastic bags, scissors, threads, and a paper cup with some weight. One volunteers was assigned to each group to help and support the teachers in completing the activity. The time limit was 45 minutes. No. of participants: 30

Title: Teachers in Service Program Date: 29 sep 2018 Venue: VVIET, Mysore Brief abstract: The program started with registrations which included teachers from various schools and institutes. The inauguration was witnessed by 32 teachers from various institutes. The session created awareness of bridging the gap between the high schools and professional colleges. Dr. Ashwini AM, Secretary of IEEE Young Professionals Bangalore Section introduced various activities to the participants lines for the day she also gave an introduction about the aim and purpose behind the program and also introduced about IEEE, IEEE Young professionals and TISP Program. The hands on workshop was conducted in making Windmill for the participants in which they were made into team and allowed to discuss to make a windmill whose wings will rotate with the help of hair drier and also carry a tea bag. The participants enjoyed the session as it was team building concept and also No. of participants: 32 Title: Medical Device Testing and Calibration Date: 11 Oct 2018 Venue:B M S College of Engineering Brief abstract: This training was organized for students and faculties working in Electronics and related domain. This focused on Medical Device Testing and Calibration. This was organized in collaboration with Fluke Health Solutions and Helix Pvt Ltd. The event was supported by IEEE Young Professionals Bangalore section and IEEE EMB BMSCE Chapter. The event started with Introduction about the event and opportunities for employment for budding engineers in the field of testing. The next session on Electrical Safety Analyser (Importance) by Ravi .M.A - Fluke India who spoke about how this equipment will help in testing and safety. Later this was followed by importance of testing Ventilators and criticality of its functioning in emergencies by J. Purushothaman - Helix Pvt Ltd. The Basics of Electro-Surgery Unit and Testing Standards was discussed by Sudarshan - Helix Pvt Ltd followed by Testing Defibrillators & pacers by Meghana - Helix Pvt Ltd. After the lunch there were four groups who in rotation had hands on experience on Electrical Safety analyser, Ventilator, Electrosurgery unit and defibrillator and related testing equipments. Finally the organizers thanked the speakers and participation after Certificate Distribution and the feedback was positive on all sessions. No. of participants: 66

Women in Engineering Report – 2018 WiE has organized many events in its SBs across Karnataka. The number of events is more than 100.

Women’s Day Celebration at C-DAC Bangalore Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Bangalore celebrated International Women’s Day on 2nd April 2018, at its Knowledge Park location. This event was jointly organized by C-DAC, Women in Engineering group of IEEE Bangalore section and Institution of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (IETE) Bangalore. Women achievers who excelled in their fields were invited to share their experiences and learnings with the participants. The speakers of this event were Ms Sudha Raju, Technical Advisor and Independent Consultant of Three Selected Companies and Ms Akshara, Senior Director of C-DAC Bangalore. They spoke about work-life balance and delivered a motivational talk. Ms Sudha Raju shared her perspective about Women Professionals with the gathering. She brought out the importance of negotiation, delegation, networking, prioritizing and knowing self for becoming an achiever. Ms Akshara Kaginalkar talked about her personal as well as professional experiences and beliefs. She also expressed how they helped her and group to build technology gateways for the benefit of citizens, society and country in general. Shri Ganga Prasad GL, Centre Head, Bangalore proposed the Vote of Thanks. The event was attended by more than 75 participants from IETE, IEEE WIE and both KP and EC locations of C-DAC Bangalore. This month’s get-together covered cake-cutting by the members who were born in the month of March. As a part of Women's day celebrations at C-DAC Bengaluru, some events took place such as written general knowledge quiz, badminton game (Women Singles and Mixed Doubles), Identification of famous women personality in Video/Picture and On spot questions to women's during Morning and evening Tea break. Beautiful Hand bags were distributed to all the women members of C-DAC Bengaluru on the occasion of Women’s Day.

Life Member: Bangalore section does not have LMAG. It is being planned to be started in 2019.

B.6 Awards & Recognition Activities Award constituted by the Section

IEEE Medal of Honor: Prof. B S Sonde

Most Promising Student Branch - Central University of Karnataka-IEEE Student

Branch

Outstanding Large Chapter-Computer Society Chapter

Outstanding Large Student Branch-NIE, Mysore

Outstanding Large Students Branch Counselor: Ashwini Holla of CEC, Mangalore

Outstanding Medium Chapter-CAS (Circuit and Systems) Chapter

Outstanding Medium Student Branch-Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru

Outstanding Medium Student Branch Counselor- Dr. Kiran Gupta of DSCE,

Bengaluru

Outstanding Small Chapter-EPS Chapter

Outstanding Small Student Branch- MVJE, Bengaluru

Outstanding Small Student Branch Counselor- Dr. Bindu Thomas of VVIET

Mysore

Outstanding Best Student Branch Website: PESCE Mandya & UVCE Bangalore (2

Nos)

Outstanding Sudent Volunteers: Samrath Bonthala, NITK, Karthik Kolle, UVCE,

Shivani Nayak, PESCE and Surabhi Dixit, VVIET

Outstanding WIE Volunteer Award-Dr. Deepa Shenoy

Outstanding YP Volunteer Award-Ankita S.

IEEE Bangalore Outstanding Volunteer- DIVYA M G

Women Technologist 2018- Ms Tanuja Ganu

Startup of the year- Stellapps

Prof. Anurag Kumar receives 2017 IEI-IEEE Engineering Excellence Award

Awards and Recognitions received by the Section, and members in the

Section, from R 10 and IEEE HQ during the year 2018

MGA Leadership Award to Prof. KVS Hari

MGA Young Professionals Achievement Award to Mr Abhishek Appaji

Bangalore section received medal for first position in student members

promoted to Young Professionals.

Bangalore Section received “SILVER MEDAL” of recognition for meeting its recruitment goal for the 2018 membership year in August 2018. Section received letter of recommendation.

Prof KVS Hari is in Board of Governors, SPS;

Dr Anasuya Devi in BoG of SSIT;

Mr Ravikiran is VP of TEMS;

Sri Sankaran is in R10 Execom (LM Committee Chair)

Mr Puneet is Operations Chair, IEEE SIGHT and many more..

Three of our members have been elevated to IEEE Fellows, Prof Navakanta Bhat, Prof

Srinivas Ramani and Dr Neelesh Mehta.

Navakanta Bhat: For contributions to electrochemical biosensors in

nanoelectronic devices

Neelesh Mehta: For contributions to opportunistic selection in wireless

communication systems

Srinivasan Ramani: For contributions to computer networks for developing

countries

Prof Navakanta Bhat received prestigious Infosys Prize 2018 in Engineering and

Computer science.

B.7 Communication Activities (Newsletter, Home Page, E-mail etc.)

Newsletter (name and number of issues in the year): No formal newsletter is used for communications. However, section website is updated with all past events and upcoming ones.

Home Page of the Section (give the URL and how often it is updated) www.ieeebangalore.org Its updated based events and has an active blog.

Other means of contacts with Section members including social media Section uses Facebook page, Twitter, LinkedIn and eNotices to keep members informed about events.

http://www.ieeebangalore.org/

B.8 Industry Relations

Membership growth and retention: It grew from 1775 to 1883.

Activities for/with industrial members

IEEE Bangalore Section’s Industry Activities team had taken one new initiative towards

enabling active participation from Industry in IEEE Bangalore Section Activities apart

from continuing the existing programs.

Highlights of 2018 in Industry relations activities:

In-Industry membership drives in campus

In the campuses of Continental, Texas Instruments, etc

Focused technical events on 5G, Block chain, Automotive

Philips, HP, etc

Specific awards to strengthen the links with industry

Technologist of the year award (Mr Vipin Tyagi, CDoT)

Women Technologist of the year award (New)

Tech Start-up of the year award (New)

Tie up with automotive industries through SAE Bangalore

TTDC/ITC as partner for IC design and test related industry

New Initiative: IEEE Bangalore Section - Technology Awards for Women and

Startups

In our effort to recognize women technologists and startups who have made an impact on

society as a whole with their innovations, IEEE Bangalore Section is embarking a

new initiative of Technology Awards for Women and Startups.

Digital Transactions with Blockchain :

IEEE Bangalore Section organized a workshop on Digital Transactions with Blockchain

on 18 May 2018 in Philips Innovation Campus, Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore.

The focus of the one day workshop was to take a deep dive into Blockchain principles,

challenges and implementation complexity; and understand its applications in real world

scenarios.

The workshop was inaugurated by Gaurav Gupta, IAS (Principal Secretary IT&BT, Govt

of Karnataka). There were around 15 speakers (leaders and technical subject experts)

from 10 companies and startups (Philips, VeraCT Systems, MarkEffy Technologies, IBM,

Oracle, Deloitte, SAP, Huawei, etc.,) who participated shared their views and experiences

on the various topics. Around 100 delegates attended the workshop.

IEEE SmartTech 2018:

IEEE Bangalore Section, with support from NASSCOM CoE IoT, IEEE Computer Society

(Bangalore Section), IEEE Power & Energy Society (Bangalore Section) and TiE

Bangalore, organized the 5th edition of IEEE SmartTech on 3-4 August 2018 in

Hotel Sterling MAC (Bangalore), with a focus on the theme of "Digital

Transformation with Cognitive Minds and Machines: The Future of

Manufacturing and Mobility".

This workshop brought together technology leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and

thought provokers who were passionate about addressing impactful problems by turning

ideas into solutions. Industry stalwarts and technology practitioners shared their vision

on future technologies and how they would disrupt/impact our way of working and living.

This edition of the workshop had two major segments: Digital Transformation &

Cutting Edge Technology.

The “Digital Transformation” segment deep dived into two important verticals (from an

Indian context): Manufacturing and Mobility. Experts provided specific actionable details

on the current trends and future expectations in both these verticals, and shared their

experiences on existing implementations and their challenges/opportunities.

In the “Cutting Edge Technology” segment, experts and industry leaders discussed future

technologies and trends in: Robotics, AI & Cognition, AR/VR/MR, ADAS, 5G, Blockchain,

Additive Manufacturing, newer computing paradigms such as Nueromorphic, etc.

The workshop was inaugurated by Stephen Welby (Executive Director and Chief

Operating Officer, IEEE). Dheemanth Nagaraj (Intel Fellow, Silicon Engineering

Group, Intel Corporation) and Pamela Kumar (Director General, Telecommunications

Standards Development Society, India) delivered keynote addresses. Vipin Tyagi

(Executive Director, Center for Development of Telematics) was felicitated with the

inaugural IEEE Bangalore – “Technologist of the Year 2018” award.

In total, 25 speakers (leaders and technical subject experts) from 20 companies,

academia, startups, and standardization bodies (Intel, TSDSI, IISc, Robert Bosch India,

Asquared IoT, L&T Infotech, IBM, TCS, Wipro, CDOT, Meher Energy, Ather Energy ,

Prasu, Samsung, Innohabit, Sun Mobility) participated and shared their views and

experiences on the various topics. Around 150 delegates attended the workshop over 2

days.

Smart Cities Workshop 2018

Bangalore section, PES Bangalore Chapter & ComSoc Bangalore chapter jointly organized 2-day workshop on “Smart Cities” on 16-17, 2018 at Hotel Sterlings Mac, Bangalore. The focus of the workshop is on Green Energy, Smart Governance & Sustainable health. We had speakers talk on diverse topics and different fields of applications. We also had a track from Startups in healthcare domain.

B.9 Humanitarian Technology Activities

Humanitarian Technology related activities supported by the Section including collaboration with other OUs. WE have organized “IVE”: – IEEE Volunteers for Emergencies. Here participants and IEEE volunteers are trained in Disaster management, traffic & CPR training. In 2018, Two sessions are held, covering about 150 people Section has a MoU HAM Institute to develop engineers for communication in cases of emergencies, this will be very useful. Section has been financially supporting Society oriented Innovation projects by the way of a competition and winners being funded by section. This year 12 projects have been funded. Some of the projects financial supported include; "Vend-Med" Care of All Team: Ksheeraja K.S., Aakash Singh Rajput, Nigar Sultana M Guide: Prof Swetha P College: Rajarajeshwari College of Engineering, Bangalore IoT Based Smart Garbage Monitoring System Team: Sneha Chandran, Adwaith S Guide: Dr V Sandeep College: Central University of Karnataka, Kalburgi Smart Dustbin using IoT Team: Jayash Kaushal, Akansha Sharma Guide: Prof Prema V College: R V College of Engineering, Bangalore

SIGHT Activities

All the events organized by section have a parallel or separate track for Humanitarian/SIGHT activities.

SMART TECH had a session on startups for healthcare and society contribution.

Disaster Management and CPR

Date: 14 Oct 2018

Venue: University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore

IEEE Bangalore Section, YP and SAC in association with IEEE UVCE conducted a half day workshop at UVCE, Bangalore to train volunteers for emergency situations. The aim of the workshop was to identify IEEE Volunteers of Emergency (IVE). The entire session was divided into 3 sub sessions. The first session was about Civil Defence, conducted by Dr. Rajesh M S, Division Warden, Div -14, Bengaluru North zone. He highlighted the various types of disasters which can

happen and how can it be tackled smoothly by trained people. His experiences of various disasters which have happened in Bangalore in past 7-8 years and how he was able to help the people with his Civil Defence training he has had was very informative. He encouraged the participants to join the Civil Defence as a volunteer and become more prepared for any untoward incidents.

The second session was taken by Mr. Sunand Sampath on the Golden Hour. It also consisted of demonstration of various life saving techniques like CPR, emergency first aid etc. He highlighted and demonstrated the steps to be followed to attend the victims of different types of accidents. A hands-on session on CPR – Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation was the key take-away for the participants. All the participants learnt the proper way of administering CPR for the needy. The final session was taken by the Traffic Warden Association. They emphasised the need of road safety and precautions to take while driving or walking on roads. They also gave a brief introduction about their organisation, its goals and vision. The speakers shared their rich experiences of their work and gave valuable suggestions to be safe on the roads.


B.10 Community Activities

IEEE Social activities (Family day, IEEE day, Engineers Week)”

Bangalore section last Execom meeting is always with Family members. All the SB and society chapters celebrate IEEE day and related programs. In most of the SB and WiE IEEE day and International women’s day are celebrated. They are covered as part of respective SB events.

PART C - OTHERS C.1 Special Events

Please briefly describe the importance of special events and the outcomes achieved We had SB Branch councilors meet, to appraise them about working with IEEE, reporting systems, finance support etc. BCs from across the state attended the event. Similarly we have periodic chapter chairs meet for better coordination between chapters and financial support.

Funding secured from the IEEE and external sources including sponsorships

Local industry supports IEEE by sponsoring for technical events. Some of the supporters include GE, PHphilips, Intel, ISRO etc.

C.2 Relationship with National and International Societies and Non-

Government Organizations (NGO)

Nature of relationship and details of any formal agreement signed We have MoUs with other societies like IEI, TIE, PMI, ITAC, ITC, HAM etc.

Details of joint activities TEMS Industry forum is jointly supported by TIE & NASSCOM

Benefit to IEEE members (for example discounts, access to technical information etc.) IEEE members get 20% discount on registration fee for all TiE and ITAC events.

C3. Collaboration with other IEEE Sections

Support extended to neighboring Sections We have supported India Council financially with COW events. Shared revenue with India Council from 5G program. Also, section hosted India Council Execom meeting at Mysore.

Joint activities with any other Section

C.4 Support extended to Sub-sections & Society Chapters within the Section

Support extended for organising technical, educational and professional activities Mangalore sub-section is financially and technically supported in all their events. DISCOVER their flagship event is financially supported by Section. All SBs of Mangalore sub-section are given financial incentives based on their activities to the tune of 1.5 Lakh INR. Outstanding volunteers of the sub-section are recognized by awards. All the local society chapters are financially supported by Section for their actitvities.

Joint activities for membership development MD is a continuous activity, carried out along with all activities of societies and sub-sections.

Support extended for the formation of a Sub-section or transition of a Sub-section into a full Section

A new sub-section petition by North Karnataka is approved by section.

C.5 Best Practices of your Section (which you would like to share with other

Sections for the benefits of members)

C.6 Problems anticipated and suggestions for solutions.

Challenges ahead • Technology, Industry structure & employability are changing • Alternatives to IEEE • Conferences quality & focus • Engagement with stake holders

Solution proposed and being implemented: Need a multi-pronged strategy

• Section strategy 25x25

PART D - GOALS AND PLANS

D.1 Continuation of project/activity in progress and their implementation plans We will build upon the excellent work done by previous committee. Specifically in the areas of Membership Development and Industry focus. Our membership drive is planned to reach the potential members in Industry and Academia. We will conduct major Section events - CONNECT, SmartTech Workshop and WinTech. Bangalore section has successfully conducted events in industry hubs to reach out to potential members. Student travel grant is a new initiative started in 2018. We will continue these initiatives this year as well. D.2 Goals and Future Plans Bangalore section has a strategic long term goal 25 by 25, that is 25000 members by 2025. Bangalore offers a large potential for IEEE membership. For 2019, we have a goal to achieve 10,000 members. As part of Bangalore Section Strategic plan, we have identified the areas to work on to get new members and retain current members. Our plans are to build around these areas and be aligned with the end objective. We have to deliver sufficient value to IEEE members. 1. We plan to conduct high quality technical events on current / new technology topics like AI, Machine Learning, 5G, IoT, Autonomous Vehicle and EV. 2. Provide a platform for Industry and Academia to come together to work on Technology projects 3. Take up one major initiative in Humanitarian Technology that will address a major problem in the larger society D.3 Any innovative ideas to make IEEE more creative and value added for sustaining the membership retention and recruitment goals. Membership retention -

a) Conduct Senior Member Grade elevation (SIMPLE) program to facilitate members to apply for SM grade. This is a very successful program run by Bangalore Section. SMs have a higher retention rate b) Medical Insurance for members. Helps in retention. c) Member discounts for Technical Seminars and Conferences d) Internship opportunities for IEEE student members e) Strengthen the connect between final year students and Working professionals with active collaboration between YP and SAC teams New Members - a) Leverage on member get a member b) Drive events in industry hubs to bring in new members from industry c) Encourage Branch Councilors to run membership drive in their institutions d) Get SMs to promote IEEE in their respective organizations and connect potential members to MD team D.4. Business Plan for Sustainable Growth and Financial Stability. Bangalore Section has a healthy financial status. We will ensure that funds are applied prudently to drive activities and events. Large events will be managed on a break even basis. Accounts are maintained and audited periodically. We have implemented sound accounting practices to track our income and expenses. Our approach for sustainable growth is to focus on membership growth to increase our base and run flagship events with sponsorship to build reserves. We will need some additional funding this year to support two sub sections - Mangalore Sub section and upcoming North Karnataka sub section.

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