Section leadership will be having added responsibility to serve the need of large member-force possibly decentralizing activities in the entire northern part of India vol 11 no 01 coming under the jurisdiction of Delhi Section. January 2011 Best regards. From the desk of ECC
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(Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay) Greetings from IEEE Delhi Section to all its IEEE Delhi Section Members for the new year 2011. Due to January 27, 2011 (Thursday) some hitch we are encountering delay in E-mail: [email protected] holding the Section AGM and consequently Web-site: www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi change over in leadership as per slate announced in the last issue of e-newsletter Schedule of Lecture(s) and also repeated in this edition. Notwithstanding the fact, Computer Society Please look at the web-page with URL Chapter has gone ahead in announcing its http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi/lec.html AGM on Feb 19, 2011 (Saturday) through a from time to time for the announcement of notice also included in this issue. Further in lectures. this week-end we have the India International Conference on Power (already held) Electronics (IICPE-2010) on January 28 - 30, On January 14, 2011 (Friday) at 11:45 am a 2011 at Netaji Subhas Institute Technology, seminar on “Advanced Design Techniques New Delhi. It’ll be inaugurated at 11:30 AM for Integrated Voltage Controlled LC on 28th. Then Annual TechFest of Jamia Oscillators” by IEEE Solid State Circuits Millia Islamia Student Branch ENCOMIUM Society Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Peter inauguration is on January 29 at 11 am with Kinget, FIEEE, Department of Electrical a competition entitled "GreenTech Engineering, Columbia University, New York, innovation 2011" at 2 pm, WIE meet on Feb USA in the Committee Room, 1st Floor, EE 04, 2011 in DTU at 10 am. Besides these Department, IIT Delhi (organized by IEEE events Section is also hosting three CASS - CSS Delhi Chapter with the support workshops on Feb 07 & 10, 2011 with the of IEEE Solid State Circuits Society) support of IEEE Standard Association, for which based on circular issued there has On January 14, 2011 (Friday) from 11:00 been overwhelming response on web-base am to 5:00 pm daylong workshop on registration. For further query concerned “Analog Tool of Cadence tool Bundle" in the contact persons may be approached, VLSI CAD LAB, DTU, Delhi (organized by referring to the circular, placed again in this WIE Affinity Group in association with DTU) issue. Slate for 2011 IEEE Delhi Section Exec Another good news, I wish to share with Com reported you all. As you may see at the end of the e- newsletter we have crossed now four Section Standing Committee on Nomination, thousand mark in strength, of course with chaired by Dr Ram Gopal Gupta and having more than 62% on the basis of student Mr Harbans L Bajaj, FIEEE, and Prof Suhash members. Let us not only maintain it, but Dutta Roy, FIEEE as Members formed the also keep growing. At the same time I hope following slate for 2011 IEEE Delhi Section 1
Executive Committee (besides Past February 2011 at New Delhi 14:00 to 17:00 Chairperson) as reported in the Section Jamia Millia Islamia University, Jamia Exec Com Meeting held at IIC, New Delhi on Nagar, New Delhi-110025, India Dec 23, 2010. (to register FREE by 24 January 2011, please copy and paste URL given by: Sr.No. Position Name Organization https://web.memberclicks.com/mc/quickFor 1. Chairperson Prof . Siban K. Koul, IIT-Delhi m/viewForm.do?orgId=ieee&formId=94220) 2. Exec Vice Chairperson Prof. Bhim Singh Contact person: Prof. Mini S. Thomas
From Daman’s Desk selection will be purely on random basis.
CS Chapter’s 3 Is Seminar, 19th Feb SCOOP 2011, 3:30pm-5:30pm, EFY Expo (extract from January 2011 issue) Pragati Maidan, New Delhi
2010 Annual Reporting and Rebate The Computer Society Chapter is organising a 3 Is (Industry Institution Requirements Interaction) Seminar at the EFY Expo on 19th February 2011 to be held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. CS Chapter has created The 2010 Annual Reporting and Rebate this platform to bring the Academic cycle has begun. All Section Officers and Institutions and the Industry closer, to sit across a table and thrash out some Chapter/Affinity Group Chairs have been important issues. The senior members of contacted with a reminder that the following the CS Chapter, also representing the industry will be present and the seniors of annual reports are required to be eligible for the Academic Institutions along with a rebate: students will be present. There will be debates to explore possibilities. One major outcome for the students will be to seek • Meeting Report guidance on the spot from the seniors. Role of IEEE in building careers will be discussed • Officer Report at length. Live examples of those who have o If you have new Officers built their careers through/ with IEEE will be seen on stage. within your Section or Chapter, please Please see tentative program at http://www.efyexpo.com/programmesactivit remember to update your ies/industry-institution-interaction-an-ieee- unit Web pages as event/industry-institution-interaction-by- ieee/ appropriate. When
publishing this While the seminar is open to all and FREE, I request huge participation from all Institutes information, please under Delhi Section. Also, those seniors from the academia and the industry willing remember that you to share their IEEE experiences may get in should never post an touch with the convener/ organiser (Daman [email protected] individual’s IEEE member m). number.
If you wish to raise issue pertaining to the • 2010 Financial Report (L50) seminar or if you have some ideas and o Additionally, units that solutions in mind, please submit to the convener by 31/01/2011. This will help to maintain a local bank create a common questionnaire to present account (i.e., not an IEEE to the IEEE/ Industry experts and seek their views. Also, the suggested solutions will be Concentration Bank consolidated for circulation during the seminar. Few selected faculty/ students will Account) must also be allowed to speak at the seminar – this 3
submit the Bank Account • vTools.Meetings provides volunteers Disclosure Form. with online tools to assist with such administrative tasks as Reports should be completed and submitted planning a meeting, creating a as soon as possible, but no later than 31 calendar of events, posting blogs, March 2011. A 10% rebate bonus will be and accepting small payments made to units that complete the reporting online for local requirements by 18 February 2011. events. vTools.WebInABox helps Additional information on the 2011 Rebate volunteers easily create and Schedule is available. Please e-mail MGA maintain their Section’s Web Staff with questions. pages. • The Rupee Project pilot program, Sections Congress Recommendations launched last year, allows student members in India to pay their Sections Congress traditionally serves as a membership dues in local forum for members to discuss their ideas currency. Similar programs for about the direction of IEEE and vote on a students in other countries are list of recommendations for the IEEE Board under consideration. of Directors to act on. Recommendations • The Loyalty Program, launched in made at the 2008 Sections Congress (SC08) March, provides free access to spurred several initiatives: five eLearning online tutorials to
• The Member Digital Library Basic, first-year, full-grade members, to launched in September, offers encourage student members to three full-text article downloads become full-grade IEEE members. per month for a monthly fee of This year, beginning in October, US$15. IEEE plans to extend the program • The IEEE Center for Leadership to first-year full-grade renewing Excellence (CLE), established in members and offer them free 2009, contains training materials access to 10 tutorials. to build professional skills and • In an effort to implement similar acquaint newly elected leaders benefits across all Regions, with the basic goals and tasks of the IEEE Job Site has been their positions. expanded to include postings for 4
jobs in Australia, India, and As a reminder, plans are being made to Singapore, and several IEEE exhibit posters at Sections Congress 2011 discount programs have become (SC2011). Each Section and Chapter is available to more IEEE members. invited to submit abstracts of posters on The IEEE Financial Advantage topics that are related to an IEEE goal, with Program includes a range of particular emphasis on benefits to IEEE discounts on products and members and the theme of SC2011, services for the home, school, “Empowering Members to Create the and office. Future.” Examples of possible topics include, but are not limited to: how to make IEEE a Each Regional Sections Congress value benefit to the general members, Coordinator has received information on the successful implementation of humanitarian 2011 Sections Congress (SC2011) initiatives, and collaboration between Recommendation process. All Sections and Chapters. recommendations are to be submitted prior Please e-mail all abstracts to the SC2011 to 15 May 2011 and should focus on how Program Committee. Notification of the the member experience can be enhanced. successful posters will be announced in Additional information will be posted on the March 2011. Individuals who are presenting SC2011 Web page. a poster at SC2011 will be responsible for their travel expenses. More information on Required Geographic Unit Compliance the poster session is available on the SC2011 Web page. It is important that every Geographic Unit is compliant with IEEE policy. As a reminder, Seeking Nominees for 2012 IEEE your Geographic Unit should not hire staff or Leadership Positions independent contractors and shall not lease or purchase real estate without proper IEEE is looking for people with the skills, authorization. Additionally, separate passion, and perspective to volunteer and incorporation of IEEE Organizational Units is serve in 2012 as IEEE officers or on not normally permitted. Please e-mail MGA committees of the IEEE Board of Directors. Staff with questions or comments related to View the list of positions and/or nominate general compliance or these IEEE Policies. yourself or a colleague. Reminder - Poster Session at SC2011 Deadlines:
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• 1 March: Standing Committee are 22 April and 12 September. Submit Chairs, Women in Engineering grant applications online. Committee Student Member The IEEE Foundation / IEEE Life Members • 1 July: Standing Committee Committee consider projects that: Members, IEEE officers (Vice President Educational Activities, • benefit humanity through the use of Vice President Publications technology Services & Products, IEEE • improve primary and secondary Secretary, IEEE Treasurer, 2013 math and science learning IEEE-President Elect) • increase active interest in engineering and science Call for Grant Applications: IEEE • preserve the history of IEEE Foundation / IEEE Life Members Fund associated technologies • tap the technological expertise of The IEEE Foundation cultivates relationships IEEE members and resources to advance IEEE’s core • demonstrate ability to be duplicated purpose to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. Before submitting an application, please To fulfill its role, the IEEE Foundation review the IEEE Foundation grant awards grants to new and innovative guidelines. E-mail questions to the IEEE projects and administers more than 130 Foundation. funds that support a variety of educational, humanitarian, historical preservation, and IEEE GOLD to Host Mentoring peer recognition programs of IEEE units. Connection and Networking Webinars
The IEEE Life Members Committee seeks to IEEE Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) support programs that promote engineering invites IEEE members to attend upcoming to the pre-college community, the webinars: professional development of young • The IEEE Mentoring Connection electrical/computer engineers, the history of program, sponsored by IEEE electrical/computer engineering, and the Graduates of the Last Decade interest of Life members. (GOLD), is hosting a webinar on The next two deadlines for grant mentoring. This webinar is applications for new and innovative projects 6
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being mentored or of being a Graduate Student Member Active 363 mentor. This webinar will discuss Honorary Member Active 3 the concept of mentoring and Life Fellow Active 1 Life Member Active 4 how the IEEE Mentoring Program Life Senior Active 12 works. In addition, participants Member Active 930
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mentoring partner and clarify Student Member Active 2652 roles, responsibilities, and expectations. This webinar will be recorded and made available for
on-demand viewing for those vol 11 no 02 members who are not able to February 2011 view it live. This event will be From the desk of ECC held on Friday, 21 January 2011, at 13:00 EST. Register Now. My dear esteemed Members,
• "Fearless Networking for Engineers" Oh no; again we have slipped to 2424 from will provide insight into why 4248 in membership strength. I am not changing the circulation list, except adding networking is important and new faces. Therefore, my intention is clear provide tips on how to integrate indicating to those members who are in arrear. Please, please,… renew without networking into your professional wasting anymore time so that quickly we reach or rather pass over 5K figure. development activity.This event Our Section AGM is slated to be held at will be held on Wednesday, 23 India International Center, New Delhi on April 03, 2011 (Sunday) at 10 am. You are February 2011, at 9:00 EST. invited to attend and be a party to the get together of IEEE Delhi Section Members, Information about these Webinars and other besides participating in the ‘Business as Usual’. We’ll be eagerly waiting. future and archived Webinars can be found on the IEEE GOLD Webinars Web page. Best regards.
IEEE DELHI SECTION MEMBERSHIP STATISTICS AT A GLANCE (January 27, 2011) (Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay) Total: 4248 IEEE Delhi Section 7
February 28, 2011 (Monday) 7. Any other item with the permission of E-mail: [email protected] Chair Web-site: www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi 8. Vote of thanks ------Schedule of Lecture(s) B. Guest Lecture: 11.30 AM to 12.30 hrs by Dr B. Sengupta, Former Member Secretary, Please look at the web-page with URL CPCB http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi/lec.html from ------time to time for the announcement of C. LUNCH : 12.30 to 13.30 lectures. ------D. Meetings of individual Chapters: 13.30 to (already held) 14.30 ------On Feb 16, 2011 (Wednesday) at 11 AM a talk on "Nano-teaching in Education" by Dr. for and on behalf of IEEE Delhi Section V. R. Singh, NPL, New Delhi at PDM College Subrata Mukhopadhyay of Education, Bahadurgarh, Haryana Electronic Communications Coordinator (organized by IMS-EMBS Chapter) On Feb 19, 2011 (Saturday) at 4 PM a talk Annexure-I on "New Thrust Areas in Engineering and Role of IEEE" by Dr. V. R. Singh, NPL, New Minutes of Section AGM held on Delhi at SBIT, Sonepat, Haryana (organized 31/01/2010 by IMS-EMBS Chapter) Time: 10:30 AM IEEE Delhi section AGM on April 3, Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Block 2011 (Sunday) at 10 AM at IIC 6, IIT Delhi, New Delhi ------NOTICE 1. Dr. VR Singh, Section Chair opened the meeting with a welcome note and his address Dear Members, focusing on main achievements of the year 2009.r The AGM of IEEE Delhi Section is scheduled 2. The Minutes of the last AGM held on 19th to be held at 10 AM on April 3, 2011 April 2009 were proposed accepted by Mr. M (Sunday) at India International Centre M S Puri and seconded by Mr. R K Asthana. Annexe Auditorium (Lodhi Estate). 3. Mr. Daman Dev Sood, Section Secretary All the members are invited to attend the presented the Activity Report – this was AGM with their spouses. proposed accepted by Dr. RG Gupta and Please confirm your participation. seconded by Mr. V K Dutt. 4. Mr. P K Gupta, Section Treasurer presented Part A: 10 AM to 11.30 AM the Financial Report – this was proposed accepted by Prof. Bhim Singh and seconded Agenda for AGM: by Mr. Ravindra Joshi. 1. Welcome address by Section Chair 5. Dr. R G Gupta announced the Section 2. Confirmation of minutes of previous AGM Executive Committee for the year 2010 as (Annexure-I) 3. Secretary's Report Sr.No. Position Name Organization 4. Finance Report by Treasurer 1. Chairman Dr .V. R. Singh Ex-NPL 5. Election of 2011 Executive Committee 2. Ex. Vice Chairman Prof. Bhim Singh IIT- (Annexure-II) Delhi 6. Distribution of prizes/awards 3. Vice Chairperson Prof. (Mrs.) Mini S. Thomas JMI Uni. 4. Secretary Mr. Daman Dev Sood Steria 8
(India) Ltd. Gupta as petition candidate for the position 5. Jt. Secretary Dr. Prerna Gaur NSIT of Chair. 6. Treasurer Mr. P. K. Gupta C-DOT c. Dr. V R Singh made a special mention of 7. Past Chairman Dr. R. G. Gupta Min. of HQ Recognitions received by Dr. R G Gupta CIT d. GINI project members ran a survey to take 8 Member Dr R. G. S. Asthana Max the activities forward. HealthCare 11. Mr. Prabhjot S Sodhi, National Coordinator for 9. Member Dr. Deepak Garg Thapar the Global Environment Facility (GEF) United University Nations Development Program (UNDP) Small 10. Member Ms. Sharbani Bhattacharya IEC- Grants Programme (SGP) delivered the talk on College of Engg. & Tech. “Education for Environmental Sustainability”. 11. Member Mrs. Rachana Garg DTU 12. The meeting came to close with Vote of 12 Member Prof. A. Q. Ansari JMI Uni. Thanks by Mr. Daman Dev Sood. 13. Member Prof. Asok Bhattacharya DTU 13. Various Chapters and Affinity Groups held 14. Member Mr. Ravindra Joshi NDPL their AGMs after lunch. 15. Member Dr. Sukumar Mishra IIT Delhi 16. Member Dr. Govind, DIT Govt of India It is recorded with great pleasure that this was the best attended AGM in many years (134 members were present). Daman Dev Sood Secretary, IEEE Delhi Section 2 February 2010
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IEEE Delhi Section Exec Com 2010 (present Slate for 2011 IEEE Delhi Section Executive during AGM) Committee and notice concerning submission of petition 6. Amendment to Section Bye-laws (to incorporate HTC Standing Committee) was No. IEEE/Delhi-11/04 proposed accepted by Dr. S Mukhopadhyay February 11, 2011 (Friday) and seconded by Prof. B P Singh. 7. Dr. R G S Asthana, Chair PR&C Standing My dear Members of IEEE Delhi Section, Committee released the electronic version of BEACON – this is now available 24X7 at Quoting January 2011 edition of Section e- www.ieeebeacon.com. newsletter following is reproduced – 8. The new Fellow members of the Section were Section Standing Committee on Nomination, recognized. chaired by Dr Ram Gopal Gupta and having Mr 9. Various awards were distributed. Harbans L Bajaj, FIEEE, and Prof Suhash Dutta 10. Any other item with the permission of the Roy, FIEEE as Members formed the following Chair: slate for 2011 IEEE Delhi Section Executive a. Dr. Mini S. Thomas talked about the facility Committee (besides Past Chairperson) as allowing INR payment of IEEE dues and reported in the Section Exec Com Meeting held at requesting people (whoever receives IIC, New Delhi on Dec 23, 2010. invitation) to participate in the pilot running Sr.No. Position Name Organization currently. She also mentioned that the HQ 1. Chairperson Prof . Siban K. Koul, IIT- had decided to open an office in India Delhi (targeted for the current year). 2. Exec Vice Chairperson Prof. Bhim Singh b. Mr. R K Asthana talked about IEEE India IIT-Delhi Council and requested support for Dr. R G 3. Vice Chairperson Prof. Mini S. Thomas JMI Uni. 9
4. Secretary Dr. Sukumar Mishra, IIT-Delhi Thanking you and with regards, 5. Jt. Secretary Mr. Piyush K. Gupta C- DOT Sincerely yours 6. Treasurer Dr. Prerna Gaur NSIT Subrata 7. Past Chairperson Dr. V R Singh, ex-NPL ______8 Member Mr. Daman Dev Sood Prof. (Dr.) Subrata Mukhopadhyay, valued IEEE 9. Member Mrs. Rachana Garg DTU Member for 42 years 10. Member Mr. Ravindra Joshi NDPL (Lingaya's University, Faridabad, Delhi NCR, India) IEEE TAB Conference Committee Member 11. Member Prof. Abdul Q. Ansari JMI Uni. Chair STDCOM on 'History' & ECC of IEEE Delhi Section 12 Member Ms Shabana Urooj Chair Consultants Network Affinity Group 13. Member Dr R. G. S. Asthana Max B-802 Appu Enclave CGHS Ltd HealthCare Plot No. 3D, Sector - 11, Dwarka Ph-I 14. Member Prof M N Hoda New Delhi - 110 075, INDIA Tel: 129-3064550 (W), Fax: 129-2202615 (W) 15. Member Mr Narendra Rajput 11-43098372, 28035802 (H), Mo: 9811477956 16. Member Mr. Ayush Jain Now today, February 11, 2011, your Notice for AGM of Consultants’ Network attention is being drawn to the following Affinity Group Bylaws of the IEEE Delhi Section (http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi/bylaw.html). The AGM of IEEE Delhi Section Consultants’ Network Affinity Group is scheduled to be “Article-VI: Nomination and Election of held at 13:30 hours on April 3, 2011 Section Executive Committee (Sunday) at India International 6.1 A nomination Committee consisting of Centre Annexe Auditorium (Lodhi Estate), in three members other than present office the post-Lunch session. bearers shall be appointed by the Section Executive Committee. Immediate past SCOOP Chairperson of the Section (if available) failing which any past Chairperson shall be (extract from February 2011 issue) Committee Chairperson. The Nomination Committee shall not nominate any of its Call for Nominations: VP-MGA/MGA members as officer in the slate. 6.2 The nominations of the Nomination Board Chair, Vice Chairs, Treasurer, Committee will be announced to the Section Committee Chairs Membership and, following this, a minimum of 28 days allowed for additional nominations by petition. To be valid, the The MGA Nominations and Appointments petition must be signed by 25 or more voting members. (N&A) Committee is soliciting nominations 6.3 If only one nomination is made for each for the 2012 VP-MGA/MGA Board Chair, office, the election will be made at the Annual Meeting. If additional nominations 2012 MGA Treasurer, 2012 MGA Vice Chair, are made, election will be made by ballot mailed to the voting membership and the and 2012 MGA Committee Chair positions. vote counted by a Committee appointed by To give the MGA N&A Committee an the Section Chairperson. Members other than Students shall be the voting members.” opportunity to prepare and distribute the
Based on above 28 days are being allowed slate of candidates, the deadline for these (i.e., up to March 11, 2011) for the positions is 1 April. submission of additional nomination(s) by petition. Accordingly, Annual General In accordance with the IEEE globalization Meeting would be scheduled and notified to initiative and in an attempt to ensure that you. MGA is globally balanced, each Region is 10
requested to submit nominations. The passion, and perspective to volunteer and Region nominating committee might serve in 2012 as IEEE officers or on consider members or past members who are committees of the IEEE Board of familiar with Region affairs and gave Directors. Visit the IEEE Nominations and excellent service. A complete list of available Appointments Committee Web page to view MGA positions, the MGA online nomination the list of positions and to nominate yourself form, and information on the MGA or a colleague. Nominations and Appointments process are available. As a reminder, self-nominations • 1 March deadline: select Standing are encouraged. An individual does not need Committee Chairs and Women in to be nominated by a colleague in order to Engineering Committee Student be considered. Member • 1 July deadline: select Standing Committee Members, IEEE Call for Nominations: MGA William W. officers (Vice President Middleton Distinguished Service Award Educational Activities; Vice President Publications Services & Every three years, the MGA William W. Products, IEEE Secretary, IEEE Middleton Distinguished Service Award is Treasurer, 2013 IEEE-President presented to an individual, who over a long Elect) and sustained period of leadership, contributed in an exemplary manner to the Call for Nominations: IEEE Educational IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Activities Board Awards (MGA) Board, its activities and achievements, and the attainment of its The IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) goals and objectives. Selection criteria, the is requesting your assistance in making nomination form, and more information on the 2011 IEEE EAB Awards the most the MGA awards process are available. The successful year ever. Presently, the IEEE deadline for nominations is 16 May. EAB is seeking nominations for 2011 awards in the following categories: Call for Nominations: 2012 IEEE • Meritorious Achievement Award in Leadership Positions Accreditation Activities IEEE is looking for people with the skills,
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• post challenges and problems to Belmans of the Katholieke gain insight, perspectives, and Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, experience from other E4C where he teaches electric power community members; and energy systems; • work collaboratively and virtually on • Guaranteeing the Security of an project teams; Increasingly Stressed Grid by • utilize a growing, open-source Massoud Amin, director of the archive of catalogued solutions Technological Leadership and related information submitted Institute, professor of electrical by organizations from around the and computer engineering, and world; distinguished teaching professor • keep updated with news and in the College of Science and information related to the nexus Engineering, University of of engineering and global Minnesota; development; • Slicing and Dicing Smart Grid Data • learn from expert practitioners on by Dr. Christos A. Polyzois, applying engineering in former Director of Technology developing communities; Strategy at Honeywell Automation • track projects of interest. and Control Solutions, and independent consultant; To learn more or get involved, visit • South Korea and Illinois Join Forces the Engineering for Change Web to Advance Smart Grid by Melvin site, Facebook page or Twitter feed. I. Olken, editor-in-chief of the IEEE Power & Energy Magazine IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter and previous manager of electrical generation at American The latest edition of the recently launched Electric Power Service Corp. IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter is now available. This month's issue features articles by Register online for a subscription to read international experts on these important these articles in full. Smart Grid topics:
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(February 28, 2011) IEEE Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Total: 2424 invites IEEE members to attend an upcoming webinar: Affiliate Active 17 Associate Member Active 28
• “High Performance Fellow Active 7 Graduate Student Member Active 251 Computing: Thinking Big!”: Honorary Member Active 3 Scientific computing often Life Fellow Active 1
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beyond a single processor. Life Senior Active 12 Multiple processor systems are Member Active 518 used in many applications today. Senior Member Active 150 Student Member Active 1434 The step from single and
sequential scientific computing applications to multiple processor applications can be daunting. This webinar will address the issue of vol 11 no 03 how scientific problems can be March 2011
solved on supercomputers and From the desk of ECC will encourage big thoughts as it My dear esteemed Members, relates to moving scientific This is being issued with a request again for computing applications to a new attending IEEE Delhi Section Annual General level of computation and science. Meeting (AGM) scheduled at 10 am on April 03, 2011 (Sunday) at India International This event will be held on Center (Annexe), Max Mueller Marg, New Tuesday, 22 March 2011, at Delhi. Further details are appearing elsewhere in this edition of e-newsletter. 20:00 UTC. Register now. Please confirm your participation positively by March 30, 2011 at [email protected] to Information about these Webinars and other enable us to make proper arrangement. future and archived Webinars can be found Best regards. on the IEEE GOLD Webinars Web page.
Officer Training is available at the IEEE Center for Leadership Excellence. (Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay) IEEE Delhi Section March 26, 2011 (Saturday) IEEE DELHI SECTION MEMBERSHIP E-mail: [email protected] STATISTICS AT A GLANCE Web-site: www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi
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Schedule of Lecture(s) Even self nominations are allowed by March 30, 2011, mainly from EC members. Please Please look at the web-page with URL highlight your IEEE contributions. http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi/lec.html 2. Young Engineer Award (for 2008, 2009 from time to time for the announcement of and 2010) lectures. Nominations may be sent before March 30, 2011 for a full member below 35 years of (already held) age having outstanding engineering/ On Mar 09, 2011 (Wednesday) at 2:30 pm technical contributions with at least two Talk on 'Intellectual Property Awareness' by papers in SCI journals. Mr Abhishek Malhotra, Advocate at Bharati 3. Honor to all past Chairs of IEEE Delhi School, IIT Delhi, New Delhi - 110016 Section (organized by MTT-S Delhi Chapter) As planned in 2010 at the time of 125th anniversary, all the past chairs would be On Mar 18, 2011 (Friday) at 2:30 pm DLP honored during AGM (may be with shawl Seminar on "Neurodynamic Optimization and general gift, open for suggestions, if Approaches to Model Predictive Control" by any, again by March 30, 2011). Prof. Jun Wang, Director, Computational Intelligence Laboratory, Chinese University With regards, of Hong Kong in the Committee Room of the V. R. Singh Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Chair- Fellow Nomination and Awards Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi – 110025 Committee and Chair-IEEE Delhi Section (organized by IEEE-CIS Delhi Chapter) (Email: [email protected]) Contact: Prof. A Q Ansari, Chairman, IEEE- March 16, 2011 CIS Delhi Chapter ([email protected]) Schedule of AGMs of Section & its IEEE Beacon [Delhi Section] March Chapters / Affinity Group so far 2011 issue launched IEEE Delhi section AGM on April 3, 2011 Quoting Dr R G S Asthana, Chair, Standing (Sunday) from 10 AM to 11:30 AM at IIC, Committee on ‘Public Relations and followed by Guest Lecture from 11:30 to Publication’ of IEEE Delhi Section 12:30 and lunch from 12:30 to 1:30 pm ([email protected]), Beacon March 2011 issue is now available on Website AGM of IEEE-WIE Affinity group, Delhi (www.ieeebeacon.com). The site has section is scheduled on 3rd April at 1.00pm archive of 2010 issue. Later to this may be at India International Centre Annexe added / linked archives of older issues of Auditorium (Lodhi Estate). Beacon too, which are primarily available now from July 1999 to June 2006 at The Annual General Meeting 2011 of IEEE http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi/news.html. Consultants Affinity Group will be held on 3rd April, 2011 (Sunday) at 1330 Hours in On Delhi Section Awards and Honors IIC, after the Section AGM. from Dr V R Singh AGM of IMS/EMBS Chapter on April 3, 2011 Many members have approached, by at 1.30 PM after main AGM of Delhi Section following the previous tradition, to finalize at IIC Annexe Auditorium. the awards / honors which can be planned to be disbursed during the forthcoming AGM The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of IEEE on April 3, 2011: CIS Delhi Chapter will be held on 10th April
2011 (Sunday) at 03.30 Hrs in the Office of 1. Delhi Section Outstanding Volunteer the HOD, Department of Electrical Award (s) 17
Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 3. Presentation of Activity by the – 110025 Secretary
Minutes of IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter Dr. S. Mishra, Secretary, IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Annual General Meeting joint chapter presented the Secretary’s (Held on 27th Feb 2011) report. He made a detailed presentation of The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of IEEE the activities of the chapter during the year PES-IAS Delhi Chapter was held at 10-30 2010. The outstanding Chapter Engineer th Hours on 27 Feb 2011 (Sunday) in the was conferred upon Mr. Ravindra Joshi for committee Room of the Department of 2010. PEDES-2010-POWER India conference Electrical Engg, IIT Delhi. It was attended was held successfully at Delhi in Dec-2010. by 14 members. The chapter received under PES The minutes of the meeting are as follows: Outstanding Chapter Awards as Large 1. Address by the Chapter Chairman Chapter Runner Up for year 2010 .The In his address, Prof. Bhim Singh, Chairman report was approved as proposed by Mr. of IEEE PES-IAS Chapter, welcoming the M.M.S.Puri and seconded by Dr. Rachana members present in the AGM informed that Garg. the year 2010 had been an eventful year 4. Presentation of Financial Report by with as many as 36 activities. the Treasurer 2. Confirmation of minutes of the AGM In the absence of Dr. B. K. Panigrahi, held on February 7th 2010 Treasurer of the chapter, Prof. Bhim Singh, Though there were no written comments, Chair of the chapter, presented the financial some verbal discussions took place and the report. For year 2009, the financial report general body resolved the following. has to be corrected and for year 2010 it still i. The white paper given by Prof. S. S. has to be prepared. He assured the general Murthy on the award to be given to body that he would send the report as soon the best B.Tech project in the field as possible. The statement of accounts was of power accepted in principle. More accepted as proposed by Dr. R. Saha and deliberation would be carried out in seconded by Mr. M.M.S.Puri. the forthcoming Exec Com meeting. 5. Election of Executive Committee for ii. The detail about the “Best Volunteer the year 2010 Award” would be decided in the The Nomination Committee consisting of Dr forthcoming Exec Com meeting. S. Mukhopadhyay as Chairman, Prof. B. P. The report was approved as proposed by Singh and Dr. G. Bhubaneswari as members Mr. Ravindra Joshi and seconded by Dr. recommended the following slate of IEEE Prerna Gaur. PES-IAS Delhi Chapter Executive Committee 18
for the year 2011. v. Meetings to be conducted on Friday 1. Chairperson, Prof. Mini S. Thomas, JMI evenings so that outstation 2. Secretary, Dr. Rachana Garg, DTU members can easily attend the 3. Treasurer, Dr. V.K.Chandna, JMI meetings. 4. Past-Chairman, Prof. Bhim Singh, IIT-D Meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the 5. Member , Dr. Sukumar Mishra, IIT-D Chair.
6. Member, Mr. Ravindra Joshi, NDPL Mini S. Thomas Rachana Garg 7. Member, (GOLD), Mr. S Jeevanand, IIT- (Chair) (Secretary) D 8. Member, Mr. Prakash V. Ekande, Ex-NTPC SCOOP 9. Member, Dr. Bharat Singh Rajpurohit, (extract from March 2011 issue)
IIT-HP-Mandi IEEE Activities in the Aftermath of the The slate was accepted as proposed by Dr. Natural Disaster in Japan Prerana Gaur and seconded by Dr. G.
Bhubneswari. IEEE President Moshe Kam recently sent a It was also suggested to co opt some message to the IEEE Board of Directors members from the industry. Some names providing information on what IEEE has were also suggested - Dr. R.Saha, Dr. Sushil done to address the disaster affecting Agarwal . 13,000 members and nine Sections in 6. Any other Item: Japan. Below is a summary of the actions: i. A hearty congratulation was given
to Prof. D.P. Kothari for becoming • Placed notices of sympathy and Fellow of IEEE. condolence on the IEEE.org Web ii. Thomas Alva Edison memorial site lecture to be arranged for the year • Sent communiqués to IEEE 2011. members in Japan iii. Membership drive to increase the • Sent a separate communiqué to members. It was suggested that IEEE volunteers in Japan, asking each member will make at least 10 for advice on how IEEE can be of new members. assistance to their organizational iv. Industrial visits for the student units members of various colleges. Mr. • Worked with IEEE experts on Ravindra Joshi suggested a visit to 1 nuclear energy and explored MW solar plant of NDPL. media opportunities to 19
disseminate correct and protection of the quality of IEEE comprehensive information on publications the events in Japan • Develop collaborative strategic • Created a special section on the alliances with other associations disaster in Japan in the online and publishers (including version of IEEE Spectrum; this exploration of new joint special section went live on membership agreements and Monday, 14 March incorporation of new publications in Xplore®) All IEEE members also were urged to • Ensure all members are engaged support recovery and rebuilding efforts in and find a professional home in Japan through reputable public charities. At IEEE; create a global strategic this time, a separate IEEE fund-raising member development plan, campaign is not planned. particularly emphasizing IEEE Board of Directors Approves Five practicing engineers/technologists Priorities for 2011 and young professionals, especially where IEEE At the 20-21 February IEEE Meeting Series, membership is declining the IEEE Board of Directors approved five priorities for 2011: Reminder: 2010 Annual Reporting and Rebate Requirements - due 31 March • Ensure sustainable progress toward
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Total: 2640 for the Upcoming Meetings in respect of IEEE Delhi Section and its Society Affiliate Active 18 Chapters / Affinity Groups. Associate Member Active 32 Invitation For IEEE Delhi Section Fellow Active 8 XIIIth Quarterly Meet Graduate Student Member Active 285 Dear Students and Branch Counselors, Honorary Member Active 3 Life Fellow Active 1 It’s an opportunity to all of you to Life Member Active 3 attend 13th IEEE Delhi Section Quarterly meet at Graphic Era University , Dehradun. Life Senior Active 12 Quarterly meets are organized for exchage Member Active 580 of new ideas, networking among the Senior Member Active 154 branches and to know the branch functioning. Hope you will not miss this Student Member Active 1544 opportunity.
Sincerely Yours With Best Regards Dr.Prerna Gaur Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology vol 11 no 04 Apr 22, 2011 ------April 2011 Senior member IEEE, Treasurer, IEEE Delhi Section From the desk of ECC Secretary, IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapter SAC-IEEE Delhi Section{Chair, Standing My dear esteemed Members, Com.-Students & Educational activity} Secretary,WIE, IEEE Delhi Section Here goes this month’s e-newsletter with Branch Counselor, usual features plus minutes of Annual NSIT Students Branch, Branch Code: General Meeting of Section and that of some 2534811 Society Chapter(s) / Affinity Group(s). ----- Forwarded Message ---- Best regards. From: KUMAR GOVIND
Thank you so much for expressing interest in 13th IEEE Delhi Section Quarterly meet at Sincerely Yours Graphic Era University, Dehradun! We have With Best Regards accepted your registration form. We will Dr.Prerna Gaur provide accommodation according to your Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology need(free of cost) starting from 22nd April,2011 to 24th April,2011. Minutes of AGM of IEEE Delhi Section held on April 3, 2011 Please note that you have to bring following things: Time: 10:30 pm Venue: India International Centre Annexe 1. COLLEGE I-CARD Auditorium (Lodhi Estate)
2. IEEE MEMBERSHIP PROOF 1. Dr V.R. Singh, Chair-IEEE Section welcomed the members and opened the 3. PASSPORT SIZE PHOTO GRAPH meeting. He delivered his address and highlighted the main achievements of the Our volunteers will go to receive you from Section during 2010. The membership ISBT Dehradun Bus Stop/ Dehradun has grown to over 3500, Many Railway station. Please contact for any conferences/Seminars and technical query related to accommodation and activities (134 in number) have been Transport Director (Accommodation & organized. A dozen of new student Transport Division): branches have been launched while 5-6 petitions are under consideration. One 1. Kapil Bhardwaj (+91-9997817002) Member, Prof. D. P. Kothari, has been elevated to Fellow grade membership. 2. Ankit Singh (+919557832594) .He congratulated the members who have been elected in IEEE H/Q and r 10 Looking forward for your enthusiastic positions as well as who have received participation! honors and awards. He appreciated the sincere efforts of the EC Members, Thanking You specially Vice Chairs, Secretary and With Regards Treasurer, and student chairs of SBs and Kumar Govind Chairs of Chapters and Standing Founder Chairperson Committees. IEEE GEU 2. The Minutes of the last AGM held on 31st +91-8126644876 January, 2010 were presented and [email protected] approved (proposed by Mr. M. M. S. Puri and seconded by Col. Rakesh Sharma). 3. In the absence of Mr. Daman Dev Sood, IEEE Student Branch activity report Secretary of the Section (due to being is due before 1st May out of station), the Joint Secretary, Dr. Prerna Gaur, read the Secretary’s report, Dear Students and Branch Counselors, which was approved by AGM (proposed by Mr. V. K. Gupta and seconded by Mr. In order to get financial grant regularly from M. M. S. Puri). Head quarters and Delhi Section, every 4. The treasurer of the Section, Mr. P. K. branch has to report the activities held in Gupta, presented the accounts for 2010. the branch in previous year. Now this report The following observations were made: has to be uploaded using V-tools at the i) The annual payment to Societies, following link. Kindly send the same on or Affinity Groups and Students’ before 1st May'2011. Branches should be made, in 27
time to enable them to Mukhopadhyay. The text is available in undertake technical activities table 24X7 at www.ieeebeacon.com. during the year, bu of course 8. Dr. R. G. Gupta, Chair, Nomination after getting the previous reports. Committee (with Members, Prof. ii) Details of payment received for S.C.Dutta Roy and Mr H. L. Bajaj) societies should be shown announced the slate for Section society-wise. Executive Committee for the year 2011 iii) There should be no ‘Negative as follows: Balance’ in the report and in L-50 form. Sr. No. Position Name Organization iv) Break up of travel expenses by 1. Chairperson Prof. Siban K. Koul, chair, Gold chair, etc should be IIT-Delhi shown separately. 2. Exec Vice Chairperson Prof. Bhim v) ‘Profit’ word should be changed to Singh, IIT-Delhi ‘surplus’. 3. Vice Chairperson Prof. Mini S. vi) Fund generated by chapters like CS Thomas, JMI Uni. chapter should be shown clearly 4. Secretary Dr. Sukumar Mishra, so that the amount can be IIT-Delhi released to them in future for 5. Jt. Secretary Mr. Piyush K. Gupta, technical activities. C-DOT vii) Rebate to chapters may be shown 6. Treasurer Dr. Prerna Gaur, NSIT clearly. 7. Past Chairperson Dr. V. R. Singh, viii) The report may be audited again by Ex-NPL the internal auditor as well as by 8. Member Mr. Daman Dev Sood, external auditor, if possible. C & R ix) The treasurer may revise the details 9. Member Dr. Rachana Garg, DTU of accounts and may submit 10. Member Mr. Ravindra Joshi, NDPL within 20 days. 11. Member Prof. Abdul Q. Ansari, 5. Dr. B Sengupta, Former Member JMI Uni. Secretary, CPCB, Ministry of Forest and 12 Member Ms. Shabana Urooj, Environment, Govt of India, was the Galgotia chief guest, who delivered a talk on 13. Member Dr. R. G. S. Asthana, Max HealthCare “Current Environmental Issues and 14. Member Prof. M. N. Hoda, BVICAM Possible Technological Solutions”, Prof. 15. Member Mr. Nitendra Rajput, IBM Bhim Singh chaired the Session. He was 16. Member Mr. Ayush Jain, then felicitated by Mr H. L. Bajaj, Prof. Grail Research Bhim Singh and Dr. V. R. Singh, on 9. The prizes and awards were distributed behalf of IEEE Delhi Section. to student volunteers, branch 6. All the past Chairs of IEEE Delhi Section counsellors, EC members, Chairs of were felicitated/ honored in the AGM by Standing Committees and Chairs of presenting a shawl and a certificate of Society Chapters for the outstanding appreciation for their contributions. contributions / services to IEEE. 7. Electronic version of BEACON, prepared 10. The medal received by Mr. M. M. S. Puri by PR & C Standing Committee chaired from IEEE HQ. in recognition of his life by Dr. R. G. S. Asthana, was released by membership, was applauded.. the Chair-Delhi Section, along with Dr. S. 11. The Joint Secretary, Dr. Prerna Gaur, proposed a ‘vote of thanks’ and the
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meeting ended with the thanks to the 3. Dr K Subramanian (IGNOU) – Chair. Member The attendance showed that 117 4. Mr. Man Mohan S Puri (ex- members (Members=55, Student Desein) – Member Members=55 and invitees=7) attended 5. Dr Bhim Singh (IITD) – Member AGM. 6. Mr. Daman Dev Sood (Steria) – Member 12. Various Chapters and Affinity Groups 7. Dr. Sukumar Mishra (IITD)- held their AGMs after Lunch. Member
Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay IV. For the calendar year 2010, it was ECFC, IEEE Delhi Section decided to carry out a number of round- April 18, 2011 table discussions and a major Conference.
Minutes of AGM of Consultants Tentative topics are as given below: Network Affinity Group of IEEE Delhi Section 1. Green Power 2. Engineering Education in The Annual General Meeting (AGM) was Development held at IIC, New Delhi, at 1400 Hours on 3. Green IT – E-waste April 03, 2011 (Sunday) in presence of the 4. Mega Power Projects following Members of IEEE Delhi Section: 5. Sustainability 6. Disaster Management – BS 1. Dr Subrata Mukhopadhyay 25999 2. Dr Bhim Singh V. The meeting concluded with Vote of 3. Mr Ravi K Aggarwal Thanks proposed by Ravi K. Aggarwal, 4. Mr Man Mohan S Puri Secretary-cum-Treasurer. 5. Dr V.R. Singh 6. Dr. K. Subramanian Ravi K. Aggarwal 7. Mr. P.V. Ekande Secretary-cum-Treasurer, 8. Dr. Sukumar Mishra Consultants Network Affinity Group 9. Mr. H.L. Bajaj IEEE Delhi Section April 08, 2011 The following points were discussed / resolved: I. Chairperson Dr. Mukhopadhyay Minutes of the AGM of WIE affinity welcomed the members present and group, Delhi Section held on initiated the meeting as per items on 3-Apr-2011 agenda ad seriatim. II. Minutes of last AGM held on January An AGM of WIE affinity group, Delhi Section 31, 2010 were confirmed as proposed by Dr was held on 3rd April 2011 at 1.00 pm at Bhim Singh and seconded by Mr. Man IIC, Delhi. Following members were present: Mohan S Puri. III. New Exec Com of the Affinity Group 1. Dr. Rachana Garg for the year 2011 was constituted with the 2. Dr. Prerna Gaur following in position: The following new slate has been discussed 1. Dr Subrata Mukhopadhyay and approved unanimously. (Lingaya’s University) – Chairperson 2. Mr. Ravi K Aggarwal (Doosan) – 1. Dr. Rachana Garg, Chairperson Secretary-cum-Treasurer 2. Dr. Prerna Gaur, Secretary 3. Ms. Rajeshwari Pandey, Treasurer 29
4. Prof. Mini S. Thomas, Member The reports are being reviewed, and we will 5. Ms. S. Indu, Member 6. Dr. Neeta Pandey, Member begin distributing rebates to the geographic 7. Ms. Mehwish Khan, Student Member The meeting came to an end with vote of units by the end of April 2011, to those thanks to the chair. Sections whose officer, financial, and
Dr. Rachana Garg, meeting activity reporting was received Chairperson, complete and subsequently approved. WIE affinity group, Delhi Section April 14, 2011 SCOOP As a reminder, the rebate is paid to the (extract from April 2011 issue as Section. The funds provided are intended for received on 21st) the support of not only the Section’s IEEE Sections Congress 2011 activities, but also the activities of its Registration Open subunits, including Subsections, Chapters, Affinity Groups, and IEEE Student IEEE Sections Congress 2011 (SC2011) will organizations. Section officers are be held 19 - 22 August 2011, at the San encouraged to use rebate funds to support Francisco Marriott Marquis, in San Francisco, the activities of existing units and to form California, USA. The primary audience for new units. For questions regarding officer IEEE Sections Congress is IEEE members reporting, please e-mail MGA Staff. who are volunteering within the MGA structure (Region, Geographic Councils, Call for Nominations: MGA William W. Section, Subsection, Chapter, and Affinity Middleton Distinguished Service Group), but volunteers from other IEEE Award: Deadline 15 May units are encouraged to attend as well. Registration for SC2011 is now open. Every three years, the MGA William W. Information on time-specific breakout Middleton Distinguished Service Award is sessions, program details, and travel presented to an individual, who over a long logistics is also available. and sustained period of leadership,
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Total: 3068 Section and its Society Chapters / Affinity Groups. Affiliate Active 19 Associate Member Active 34 Global losses due to s/w piracy is $59 Fellow Active 8 bn in 2010 India sold pirated s/w worth $2.7 bn in Graduate Student Member Active 310 2010 Honorary Member Active 3 A study by BSA finds that users value Life Fellow Active 1 legitimate software, but lack awareness around what constitutes legal software and Life Member Active 3 security risks from piracy Life Senior Active 12 Thursday, May 12, 2011 Member Active 639 NEW DELHI, INDIA: With rising awareness Senior Member Active 158 of the problems of software piracy, India Student Member Active 1881 witnessed a slight drop in the use of pirated software in 2010, said a study on Thursday. According to the findings of the 8th Annual IDC-Business Software Alliance (BSA) 2010 Global Software Piracy Study, India vol 11 no 05 witnessed a single percentage drop in piracy rate for PC software in 2010 down to May 2011 64 per cent, as compared to 2009.
However, this rate is slightly higher than From the desk of ECC the Asia Pacific rate of 60 per cent, it said. My dear esteemed Members, With that rate, the commercial value of unlicensed software installed on personal Here goes this month’s e-newsletter with computers in India touched $2.739 billion usual features including strength of in 2010, whereas the global losses stood at membership. $58.8 billion, said BSA. Best regards. India’s piracy rate has dropped 10 p.c since 2004 In total, India’s piracy rate has dropped 10 per cent since 2004, where it stood at 74 (Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay) IEEE Delhi Section per cent, and thus, a continuous drop but a May 31, 2011 (Tuesday) very slow one, the study added. E-mail: [email protected] BSA said businesses and consumers around Web-site: www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi the world bought $95 billion worth of legal
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“These findings show that there has been a especially in developing economies to gradual progress in reducing the software promote more technology advances. piracy rate in India, but what is needed is a Majority of the respondents from speedier drop as India’s PC market grows developing markets say inventors should be in size,” said Keshav S Dhakad, Chair - BSA rewarded and intellectual property India. development benefits the local economy. “The further we reduce software piracy and Also read: The story of Indias grow the legitimate software product computer piracy hub market, the greater the benefits to the The survey also found widespread Indian economy in terms of added new recognition that licensed software is better jobs, increase in Government’s legitimate than pirated software, because it is tax collections, contribution to GDP, respect understood to be more secure and more for intellectual property, growth of the reliable. domestic IT product industry and PC/IT security to the nation as a whole,” he said. “Software Piracy has broader implications which transcends beyond the realm of India requires an accelerated and software industry and it impacts the health focused programmes of nation’s economy, Business risks for According to him, “Although government industry, opportunity losses for small and industry must be commended for the business/service firms/ consumers, reduces efforts that are underway to tackle this government tax revenues,”said Anjan Das, menace, India requires an accelerated and executive director – technology, focused programmes and initiatives to Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). educate PC users and companies on the The study said that half of the 116 benefits of legal and licensed software and geographies studied in 2010 had piracy how it causes economic losses to the local rates of 62 per cent or higher, with the industry and creates serious cyber security global average piracy rate at 42 per cent. vulnerabilities.” Emerging economies driving force Major gap between PC shipments and behind piracy paid software licenses Emerging economies have become a The study also indicates that while the driving force behind PC software piracy. number of PCs shipped to emerging Piracy rates in the developing world are 2.5 economies like India in 2010 accounted to times higher than those in the developed more than 50 per cent of the world total, world, and the commercial value of pirated paid software licenses accounted for less software ($31.9 billion) accounts for more than 20 per cent of global sales in 2010. than half of the world total, it added. This Piracy Study, conducted by BSA in “Today’s study shows that while piracy partnership with IDC, also includes a new continues to threaten the global economy, dimension this time: a public-opinion people clearly understand and appreciate survey of PC users on key social attitudes the value of intellectual property, especially and behaviors related to software piracy, its role in driving economic growth,” said conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs. Robert Holleyman, BSA president and CEO. BSA said the opinion survey found strong He said software theft continues to stifle IT support for intellectual property rights innovation, job creation, and economic 35
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With the academic institutes gradually re- ELECTRICAL MACHINES & POWER opening after summer vacation, this issue SYSTEMS for July 2011 is being released with the (Problems with Solutions) (229 Pages) updated info and expecting more and more by C. S. Indulkar* activities in the remaining part of the (S. Chand Publishers, 7361, Ram Nagar, calendar year. Our Past Section Chair (1991- New Delhi-110055) 92) Prof C S Indulkar’s book on ELECTRICAL Price: Rs 150/- MACHINES & POWER SYSTEMS (Problems with Solutions) has been published and a ABOUT THE BOOK write-up on the same has been included in the text to follow. The textbook on “Electrical Machines and Power Systems” has been written to serve Best regards. the needs of a wide-cross-section of readership including the students of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and allied scientific disciplines at the undergraduate level, practising professional engineers, (Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay) technologists and all those related to the IEEE Delhi Section courses on Electrical Machines and Power July 20, 2011 (Wednesday) Systems. E-mail: [email protected] Web-site: www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi PREFACE The recently published book contains Schedule of Lecture(s) problems in Electrical Machines & Power Surf IEEE vTools Meeting System, then Systems with solutions. I have used these login with User Name and Password, and other problems in the class - room for and View Existing Meetings / View many years. In most of the solutions I have Published Meetings for the Upcoming deliberately avoided giving theoretical Meetings in respect of IEEE Delhi explanations, because an average student Section and its Society Chapters / should know the theory well before Affinity Groups. attempting to solve any problem. However, in each chapter, I have provided a brief introduction related to 2011 First IEEE Circuits and Systems the chapter so that the students are made Society Region 10 Summer School aware of the contents of the chapter before Date: Aug 29 – Sep 2, 2011 reading the problems and their solutions. The introduction contains objective type Location: F6019, Dept. of EE, National Sun questions and their answers. The Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan introductions contain brief notes on the Registration Fee: 100 USD or 3000 NTD (It topics of the chapters and also include will be fully refunded if the registered Indian standards for testing and attendee sits in all 8 lectures.) maintenance of substation equipments, Registration website: transformers, overhead lines, underground http://vlsi.ee.nsysu.edu.tw/sschool_2011/ cables and materials. The introductions also Deadline: Aug. 20, 2011 contain thehttp://www addresses of the Contact Information: websites which include electrical machines Ms. Kai-Han Chuang / Ms. Shu-Fen Huang and power systems topics related to the 42
chapter. After presenting the brief Group). Volunteers from other IEEE units introductory notes on the topic of each chapter, problems with detailed solutions are encouraged to attend as well. Attendees are included in each chapter. will save $ US50 off the registration fee The book contains about 160 objective if registered by Friday, 22 type questions and an equal number of solved problems. The contents of the book July. Information on time-specific breakout are also available on the author’s sessions, program details, and travel website: http://cindulkar.tripod.com/index.h tm. The solutions to the problems have been logistics is also available. developed on Excel spreadsheets. Therefore, educators can use the problems for examination or tutorial purposes, MGA Middleton Award Recipient because it is easy to change the problem Announced data on the spreadsheet. Ready availability of the solutions for the new data is an advantage of using the spreadsheet. Every three years, the MGA William W. Middleton Distinguished Service Award is *Dr. C. S. Indulkar, B. Tech (Hons.) (IIT Kharagpur), M. Sc (Tech) (Manch.), Ph. D presented to an individual, who over a long (Manch.), Life Senior Member, IEEE Formerly, Professor & Head, Electrical and sustained period of leadership, Engineering Department, IIT Delhi contributed in an exemplary manner to the
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which practitioners can build • The role of the Smart Grid upon to improve future project Information Clearinghouse Web performance to achieve a smarter portal is described by IEEE Fellow grid; Saifur Rahman, who directs the • China’s Approach to the Smart Grid Center for Energy and the Global is discussed by IEEE members Environment, and is editor-in- Jinyu Wen, who leads the Smart chief of the IEEE Transactions on Grid Operation & Control Sustainable Energy. His co-author Research Group in the China is IEEE member Manisa State Key Laboratory of Advanced Pipattanasomporn, an assistant Electromagnetic Engineering and professor at the Advanced Technology, and Haibo He, who Research Institute working on is a member of the Department multiple research grants from the of Electrical, Computer, and U.S. National Science Foundation, Biomedical Engineering at the the U.S. Department of Defense University of Rhode Island; and the U.S. Department of • In the article, What the Smart Grid Energy on topics related to smart Means—and Doesn’t Mean—for grid and microgrids. India, Rahul Tongia, IEEE member and principal research Stay current on Smart Grid scientist at the Center for Study developments. Access July and earlier issues of Science, Technology, and of the IEEE Smart Grid Newsletteror Policy in, Bangalore, notes the subscribe to the RSS feed.
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A talk on Sept 30, 2011 (Friday) at 18:30 From: [email protected] hours on ‘Green IT-What, Why and How?’ Sent: 27 September 2011 16:38PM by Mr. Daman Dev Sood in the Committee To: [email protected] Room, EE Dept, IIT Delhi Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] WIE affinity group, Delhi section in association with WIE, DTU organizing Dear Shiban, - a week long computer training program for I am pleased to inform you that your the girls of weaker section starting from exceptional recruiting efforts in the IEEE Sept 30, 2011 (3 to 5 pm) at Child Home, Member-Get-a-Member (MGM) program Badli, Delhi during 2011 have earned the Delhi Section - a half day workshop on "Maths made an additional award of $1000. Easy" for girl students to develop their You were the first place recruiter in the Asia interest in mathematics on Oct 01, 2011 and Pacific Region, and the top overall (Saturday) from 9 to 11 am at Govt. Girls recruiter across all IEEE (for the second year School, Shahabad Daulatpur, Delhi in a row I might add - very impressive). The Section awards were created as a way IEEE Jamia Student Branch is hosting the to further encourage participation in the IEEE All India Student Congress AISC 2011 MGM program, and to help underwrite the from Sept 29 to Oct 01, 2011 with the Sections’ local programs and activities. As sponsorship of PES-IAS Chapter for the such, the top five MGM recruiters in each benefit of student/GOLD members in this Region earn an additional award for their event that includes also the following talks local Section. Your Section will receive these at M A Ansari Auditorium, Jamia Millia funds within 2-3 weeks. Islamia, New Delhi: On behalf of IEEE Member and Geographic 1. "Purpose of IEEE-The larger picture as to Activities, I extend a warm thank you and why IEEE exists and conducts a spectrum of congratulations, and encourage your activities for members" Mini S. Thomas, continued participation in the IEEE Member- IEEE MGA Vice Chair at 12.30 pm on Sept Get-a-Member program. 29, 2011 2. "The 7 Myths of Leadership" Kshitij Regards, Saxena, Agilent Technologies, Delhi at11.45 Elyn Perez pm on Sept 30, 2011 ************************************ Elyn Perez 53
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If you think you know someone in the Delhi “For advancing electronic Section who may be eligible for an IEEE manufacturing, technology and Technical Field Award (TFA), please visit packaging worldwide through technical www.ieee.org/awards for more information innovation and cooperative leadership in on eligibility and general award criteria. The industry, government, academia, and nomination deadline for the 2013 IEEE professional organizations.” Technical Field Awards is 31 January 2012. In this context given below is the list of IEEE 3. IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS AWARD — TFA along with the names of recipients for recognizes outstanding contributions to 2012. control systems engineering, science or technology — sponsored by the IEEE 1. IEEE CLEDO BRUNETTI AWARD— Control Systems Society recognizes outstanding contributions to miniaturization and nanotechnology in ALBERTO ISIDORI – Professor of the electronic arts—sponsored by Systems and Control, University of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Rome, Sapienza, Rome, Italy Company Limited and the Brunetti Bequest “For pioneering contributions to nonlinear control theory.” CO-RECIPIENTS YAN BORODOVSKY – Intel Senior 4. IEEE ELECTROMAGNETICS Fellow, Director of Advanced AWARD—recognizes outstanding Lithography, Intel Corporation, contributions to electromagnetics in Hillsboro, OR, USA theory, application, or education — sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and AND Propagation, IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility, IEEE Microwave Theory SAM SIVAKUMAR – Intel Fellow, and Techniques, and IEEE Geoscience Director of Lithography, Intel and Remote Sensing Societies Corporation, Hillsboro, OR, USA NADER ENGHETA – H. Nedwill Ramsey “For contributions to developing and Professor of Electrical and Systems implementing innovative lithographic Engineering and Professor of and patterning equipment and Bioengineering, University of processes to enable cost-effective Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA scaling for logic technologies.” “For contributions to electromagnetic 54
theory and applications of metamaterials Scientist, Hydro Quebec Institute of and nanoscale optics.” Research (IREQ), Quebec, Canada
5. IEEE JAMES L. FLANAGAN SPEECH “For development and leadership in the AND AUDIO PROCESSING condition monitoring of high-voltage AWARD—recognizes outstanding power transformers and related contribution to the advancement of equipment.” speech and/or audio signal processing — sponsored by the IEEE Signal 8. IEEE MASARU IBUKA CONSUMER Processing Society ELECTRONICS AWARD—recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of CO-RECIPIENTS consumer electronics technology— JAMES BAKER – Distinguished Career sponsored by Sony Corporation Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Entrepreneur and Consultant, Maitland, CO-RECIPIENTS FL, USA GISLE BJØNTEGAARD – Chief Scientist, AND Tandberg Telecom, Lysaker Norway
JANET BAKER – President, Chair of GARY J. SULLIVAN – Video and Image Saras Institute, Independent Technology Architect, Microsoft Researcher, Guest Lecturer in Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA Entrepreneurship, Maitland, FL, USA THOMAS WIEGAND – Chair Image Communication, Fraunhofer Institute for “For fundamental contributions to the Telecommunications – Heinrich Hertz theory and practice of automatic speech Institute, Head Image Processing recognition.” Department & Berlin University of Technology, Berlin, Germany 6. IEEE ANDREW S. GROVE AWARD— recognizes outstanding contributions to “For leadership and technical solid-state devices and technology — contributions to the development of the sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices globally deployed video coding standard Society H.264/MPEG4-AVC.”
JEAN-PIERRE COLINGE – Professor and 9. IEEE INTERNET AWARD—recognizes Head of the Microelectronics Centre, exceptional contributions to the University of Cork, Cork, Ireland advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility and/or “For contributions to silicon-on-insulator end-use- applications—sponsored by devices and technology.” Nokia Corporation
7. IEEE HERMAN HALPERIN ELECTRIC MARK HANDLEY – Professor of TRANSMISSION AND Networked Systems, Department of DISTRIBUTION AWARD—recognizes Computer Science, University College outstanding contributions to electric London, London, United Kingdom transmission and distribution — sponsored by the Robert and Ruth “For contributions to Internet multicast, Halperin Foundation, in memory of telephony, congestion control, and the Herman and Edna Halperin, and the shaping of open Internet standards and IEEE Power & Energy Society open-source systems in all these areas.”
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10. IEEE REYNOLD B. JOHNSON that has a long-term significance or INFORMATION STORAGE SYSTEMS impact — sponsored by the IEEE Circuits AWARD - for outstanding contributions and Systems Society to information storage systems with emphasis on computer storage systems RONALD A. ROHRER - Vice President, – sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems Advanced R&D (Retired), Cadence Design Systems, Bend, OR, USA NAOYA TAKAHASHI – Representative Executive Officer, Executive Vice “For fundamental contributions to President, Executive Officer, Hitachi Ltd, circuit simulation, circuit design Tokyo, Japan optimizations and electronic design automation.” “For leadership in the development of innovative storage systems for 14. IEEE KOJI KOBAYASHI heterogeneous open and mainframe COMPUTERS AND servers, business continuity solutions, COMMUNICATIONS AWARD — and virtualization of heterogeneous recognizes outstanding contributions to storage systems.” the integration of computers and communications — sponsored by NEC 11. IEEE RICHARD HAROLD Corporation KAUFMANN AWARD—recognizes outstanding contributions in industrial JEAN WALRAND - Professor of Electrical systems engineering—sponsored by the Engineering and Computer Sciences, IEEE Industry Applications Society University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA JOHN P. NELSON – Chief Executive Officer, NEI Electric Power Engineering, “For contributions to the theory and Inc., Arvada, CO, USA algorithms for high-speed switching and network resource allocation.” “For leadership in grounding and protection design and the advancement 15. IEEE WILLIAM E. NEWELL POWER of the electrical safety culture.” ELECTRONICS AWARD — recognizes outstanding contribution(s) to the 12. IEEE JOSEPH F. KEITHLEY AWARD advancement of power electronics — IN INSTRUMENTATION AND sponsored by the IEEE Power MEASUREMENT — recognizes Electronics Society outstanding contributions in electrical measurements — sponsored by Keithley LEO LORENZ – Senior Principal, Infineon Instruments, Inc. Technologies, Neubiberg, Germany
RIK PINTELON - Professor, Vrije “For contributions to the development of Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium power semiconductor devices and integrated power modules.” “For the development of innovative system identification methods for 16. IEEE DANIEL E. NOBLE AWARD FOR measurement applications.” EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES — recognizes outstanding contributions to emerging technologies recognized within 13. IEEE GUSTAV ROBERT KIRCHHOFF recent years — sponsored by Motorola AWARD — recognizes outstanding Foundation contributions to the fundamentals of any aspect of electronic circuits and systems SUBRAMANIAN S. IYER – Distinguished 56
Engineer & Chief Technologist, 20. IEEE EMANUEL R. PIORE AWARD — Semiconductor Research & Development recognizes outstanding contributions in Center, IBM Systems & Technology the field of information processing in Group relation to computer science — sponsored by the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore “For the development and Award Fund implementation of embedded DRAM technologies.” FRED B. SCHNEIDER – Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science, Cornell 17. IEEE DONALD O. PEDERSON University, Ithaca, NY, USA AWARD IN SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS — recognizes outstanding contributions “For contributions to trustworthy to solid-state circuits — sponsored by computing through novel approaches to the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society security, fault tolerance, and formal methods for concurrent and distributed BEHZAD RAZAVI – Professor, University systems.” of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 21. IEEE JUDITH A. RESNIK AWARD — “For pioneering contributions to the recognizes outstanding contributions to design of high-speed CMOS space engineering, within the fields of communication circuits.” interest of the IEEE — sponsored by the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 18. IEEE FREDERIK PHILIPS AWARD — IEEE Control Systems, and IEEE recognizes outstanding Engineering in Medicine and Biology accomplishments in the management of Societies research and development resulting in effective innovation in the electrical and PRAMOD KUMAR VARSHNEY – electronics industry —sponsored by Distinguished Professor, Syracuse Philips Electronics NV University, Syracuse, NY, USA
CHIH-YUAN (C.Y.) LU – President, “For contributions to and leadership in Macronix International Co., Ltd., Hsin- the theory and practice of multisensor Chu, Taiwan data fusion for aerospace and bioengineering applications.” “For leadership and contributions to research , development, and industrial 22. IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION alliances in semiconductor technology.” AWARD — recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of robotics and 19. IEEE PHOTONICS AWARD — automation — sponsored by the IEEE recognizes outstanding achievements in Robotics and Automation Society photonics — sponsored by the IEEE Photonics Society BERNARD ROTH - Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA ELI YABLONOVITCH - Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer "For fundamental contributions to robot Sciences Department, University of kinematics, manipulation, and design." California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA 23. IEEE FRANK ROSENBLATT AWARD “For pioneering contributions to — recognizes outstanding contributions photonic crystals, the photonic bandgap, to the advancement of the design, and photonic bandgap engineering.” practice, techniques, or theory in biologically and linguistically motivated 57
computational paradigms, including but 26. IEEE CHARLES PROTEUS not limited to neural networks, STEINMETZ AWARD — recognizes connectionist systems, evolutionary exceptional contributions to the computation, fuzzy systems, and hybrid development and/or advancement of intelligent systems in which these standards in electrical and electronics paradigms are contained — sponsored engineering — sponsored by the IEEE by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Standards Association Society DALEEP C. MOHLA - Principal VLADIMIR VAPNIK – Professor, Consultant, DCM Electrical Consulting Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Services, Inc., Missouri City, TX, USA
“For development of support vector “For contributions to the preparation, machines and statistical learning theory dissemination, and advocacy of as a foundation of biologically inspired consensus safety standards for learning.” operation and maintenance of industrial and commercial power systems.” 24. IEEE DAVID SARNOFF AWARD — recognizes exceptional contributions to 27. IEEE ERIC E. SUMNER AWARD — electronics — sponsored by SRI recognizes outstanding contributions to International communications technology – sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs HIDEO OHNO - Professor at Laboratory CO-RECIPIENTS for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, JACK H. WINTERS – Managing Member, Research Institute of Electrical Jack Winters Communications, LLC, Communication and Director of Center Middletown, NJ, USA for Spintronics Integrated Systems, and Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan ANDREAS F. MOLISCH - Full Professor, “For seminal contributions and University of Southern California, Dept. leadership in bridging semiconductor of Electrical Engineering, Los Angeles, electronics with magnetism and CA, USA spintronics.” “For contributions to the theory and 25. IEEE MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE application of multiple-antenna systems AWARD — recognizes outstanding in wireless communications.” contributions to the field of nuclear and plasma sciences and engineering – 28. IEEE NIKOLA TESLA AWARD — sponsored by IEEE Nuclear and Plasma recognizes outstanding contributions to Sciences Society the generation and utilization of electric power — sponsored by The Grainger GENNADY ANDREEVICH MESYATS – Foundation and the IEEE Power & Director, Lebedev Physics Institute, Energy Society Russian Academy of Sciences and Vice President, Russian Academy of Sciences, MANOJ R. SHAH – Senior Engineer, Moscow, Russia General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY, USA “For founding the field of nanosecond pulsed power and for seminal “For advancements in electromagnetic contributions to the physics of vacuum design and analysis of electrical breakdown at high power levels.” machines.”
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29. IEEE KIYO TOMIYASU AWARD — IEEE DELHI SECTION MEMBERSHIP recognizes outstanding early to mid- STATISTICS AT A GLANCE career contributions to technologies (September 28, 2011) holding the promise of innovative Total: 3850 applications — sponsored by Dr. Kiyo
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accurate on what we report here but there IMPORTANT DATES: are probably a few errors! Deadline for submitting an on-line application for participation in TECS Week: Keynote December 18 2011 Marje Markarow, the director of the Notification of acceptance: December, 21 European Science foundation, gave a 2011 keynote which left us with some startling
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TECS Week is brought to you by the TCS’ Co Marie Curie was awarded 2 Nobel Innovation Network (CoIN)™ and TCS Prizes and they would not let her Innovation Lab – TRDDC. into the French Academie of Sciences!! Also, she managed all We look forward to active participation from that with two kids!! your team in TECS Week 2012 Of 813 Nobels, only 25 were women. With best wishes, In 2010 only 9% of EU Advanced Yours sincerely, Grants for research were to Prof. Harrick Vin women. TECS Week 2012 Committee Today, greater than 50% of PHDs in the EU are women Finland insists on quotas, and As reported by Daman on Nov 30, 2011 they achieve a handsome 20% (extract from BCSWomen report on the EU publicly funded research going to women with 23% female Gender Summit) professors The GENSET conference in Brussels last If the EU is to see 50% female week was the first to be held on an professors, it is estimated it will European basis and looked at all aspects of take 400 years to get there at the support for women in the STEM (Science, rate we are going Technology, Engineering and Maths) Women make up 59% of professions, both in academia and in graduates in the EU, 78% in business, although the focus was clearly on Poland, and 56% in Norway the careers and prospects of women The Dutch are trialling courses in working in Universities and research self esteem for school children institutions. 45% of EU PhD Grads are women, but only 30% of those in The quality and intellect of the women a research career.1 delegates and speakers was clear to see, Gender should cut across and it was really a pleasure to be amongst a research, not be “in a box in the group of people who have the same aims corner” and aspirations for women as we do. We include here some of the key statistics and facts that struck us as new or meaningful, 1 Turns out the most recent stats on PhD and a short writeup of the breakout sessions grads say 47.5% are women so the two that we attended. Please bear in mind that keynotes disagreed but we can put it down our notes were rushed, so we hope to be to a rounding error! 72
Breakout: Collaborative Strength – Working university unless it has reached Silver level Better as Teams [GA] on the Athena Swan standard – which is great news. I think I am going to have to go The session had three speakers, the first an and see the Technology Strategy Board exec from Unilever, the second two being about this!!! academics. http://www.athenaswan.org.uk/html/athena The woman from Unilever talked about how -swan/ the company was convinced that there was better productivity and creativity from Breakout: Leveraging Policies and diverse teams and said that in Latin America Legislation – The Norwegian Experience where there was a far better gender mix on [GA] the research teams, they found that they were more creative and more able to give This session included lots on the 40% target what the customer wanted. In fact, it was for women’s participation on publicly listed stressed that since 83% of purchasing company’s boards. They are now starting a decisions were from women, it was debate about whether privately owned imperative to have women on the teams to limited companies should come under the ensure that they could reflect the customer same target. Fathers in Norway are entitled requirements. Unilever were clear that they to 12 weeks paid leave when a child is born. lost professional women between the ages Because they lose it if they do not take it, of 30-39 and therefore before they reach lots of men are taking the leave. The Director level. The reasons they gave were outcome of this is that employers are no Family and Social Pressures longer worried about whether a woman will Work Pressures take time off for having a baby, because Poor Career Support men do too! This means that employers are Isolation and lack of role models more inclined to look at both sexes more They have therefore worked hard over the equally for recruitment purposes. last decade to remedy this situation adding career support at the critical ages to stop Norway has a charter which ensures that all ‘self selection out’. They have initiatives to; institutions which receive research funding gather insight on women, mentor women, must lay out how they meet the code (on support neworking, help women to own diversity) and there are targets to meet on their own career, and make sure that all this before funding is given. Finland has a employees understand the importance of new program called VINMER which aims to diversity. increase the competition and engagement and support for senior positions for under- Of the two academics, the last one, was, for represented genders (that is for both sides – me – the best of the pair. He covered the but will depend on the subject). Individuals economic benefits of having women in the on the scheme are supported throughout workplace. He had a figure which suggested their research career on a given project and that the drop off of highly trained women in the aim is to get them to the higher career the labour market resulted in the loss of levels. between 1.3-2% of GDP for a country! He was also an advocate of ‘Hard Edged The bit I really liked was the Norwegian Targets’ and suggested that we need to Minister saying that you couldn’t just start agitate strongly and make sure we have and stop on these programmes – that they tight targets and quotas because things are had to be funded whatever the just taking too long! One of the bright spots administration or no progress would be of his talk was the fact that one of the UK’s made. medical research bodies (one which awards grants for research) has agreed that they Breakout: Scientific Leadership – equally will not award research funding to a valuing the talent of women and men 73
[HD] appropriate styles. What you used to have to do was to be a lean mean and aggressive Anders Flodström from European Institute of leader, but now things are more relaxed, Innovation and Technology and KTH, and there are opportunities for women to Sweden talked about collective leadership lead without aping the style of men. One development and how we could move from question that is key (and that we returned fairness to excellence. What we ask of to time and time again over the course of students today is not what we asked for 15- the conference) is who decides what 20 years ago – now we want skills, constitutes excellence in science? Rees knowledge, creativity and entrepreneurship, describes interdisciplinary research as being but before we just wanted knowledge. This a good place for breaking down hierarchies is a big change. Can we be fair to new and existing structures; if the various researchers coming out of this new regime? discipline representatives have to listen to Can we be fair to women and to other “non- and respect each other then this can really traditional” (i.e. not white male) groups? help. Don't concentrate on what you can do There has been a change, turning to the women to make them better suited universities from hotels for researchers into for science, concentrate instead on changing “Knowledge hubs”. This seems to be making the situation. a difference, in Sweden at least. Next up was Kevin Dunbar from the Breakout: Excellence and responsibility of University of Maryland who gave a Science: gender as a scientific quality fascinating talk about problem solving value [HD] strategies in research teams; what Prof Dunbar's team have done is to look at real Dr Ingrid Wünning Tschol, Senior Vice teams of real scientists doing real science; President and Head of Department “Health videoing their weekly meetings, and working and Science”, Robert Bosch Foundation out how scientific discovery actually comes spoke about academia-net. Academia-net is about in the real world. The kinds of a new website in Germany that maps reasoning that scientists do fall into three successful women in research, and is set up broad types – causal, analogical, and to challenge the low percentage of women collaborative. It's the collaborative reasoning in top research positions. Right now, there that's interesting, as this is where scientific are 13% in unis and 9% in research discovery happens and is distributed over institutions. Whilst Ingrid did not directly individuals. Dunbar's team found no support the idea of a quota, she did support difference in women's' and men's' the idea of “corridors” of (say) 40-60% reasoning when it came to analogical and [editorial note: I am not sure about the distributed reasoning. In particular, they'd semantic distinction here, surely that's the expected to find that in discussions women same as a 40% quota?]. Academia-net is might be less likely to challenge, but this only available in Germany now but it is was not the case in the teams under expanding in the new year across Europe. investigation. They did find that there were differences in the way the genders Next up was Prof Ineke Klinge, Associate handled unexpected findings, however. The Professor of Gender Medicine, Maastricht best performing teams? Well, they were the University - Gender, Biomedicine and diverse teams. Health. The question here is about making the gender question central to all scientific Prof. Teresa Rees of Cardiff university was research – particularly health. If all of your up next, who's a social scientist studying lab-rats are male, and your human testers... women in science and who's been PVC She talked about the issues surrounding sex (director) of research at Cardiff. She talked & gender actually in research, as between about diverse leadership styles and the way 1997 and 2000 10 drugs were withdrawn, 8 in which situations can change the of which showed more severity in women. 74
It's not enough to just identify bias, we Conclusions actually have to work differently. These are some sentiments that came out
again and again throughout the conference, Prof Elke Anklam, Director, JRC (Joint and that we think are take-home messages Research Centre), IHCP (Institute for Health • Diverse teams perform better than and Consumer Protection) - Gender Equality teams of all men. This is true in in customer driven research based policy business, in innovation, in science, support. Elke described the gender position and in management. The gender in the JRC, which is a cross-Europe research question affects not only equality centre with many organisations, providing but excellence. technical support to the European commission. • It would have been good to see more men there; the event was Prof Martina Schraudner, Fraunhofer & about 20% male, and if the gender Technical University Berlin talked about question is only ever addressed by Involving Industry and markets in the women-dominated groups we're research we do and involving gender at all going to stay marginalised in levels. Many typologies of innovation have science. “young men” in their enthusiast/early- • There are a lack of women at the adopter categories, and women, particularly top: on boards, in committees, in older women, are seen as being anti- parliament, in decision making roles. innovation and resistant to change. Investigation of what people actually want • The serious question is who defines shows that women are not resistant to excellence. There's a serious risk change and innovation – we need to insure right now of producing a fantastic that they're involved in the process. Perhaps piece of research within the gender unsurprisingly, young men are strongly domain and having it dismissed attached to things made by young men. because it's all about the women – we need to change the structures Other bits about the conference and get on the boards and committees so we can influence The poster session was fascinating – there this. were over 50 posters, describing interventions and policies and all sorts of • There are tons of initiatives to stuff. You can find the full list with abstracts support women in male-dominated here http://www.gender- fields, but finding them all is really summit.eu/index.php?option=com_content& hard! view=category&layout=blog&id=17&Itemid • The power to change things in the =30 Universities comes from the funders There was also a “Tweetup” enabling those (like the research councils) who can who'd been contributing to the twitter feed grant or deny research funding to during the conference to put some names to universities who do not exhibit faces; this really helped with networking and gender equal policy adherence (for it's something I'd like to see more example – not signing up to Athena conferences do. Swan would suggest a certain [GA] Hannah did a poster about the reluctance). Lovelace Colloquium and its objectives, history and successes. She seemed pretty (Gillian Arnold & Hannah Dee, November busy chatting with all and sundry, and had 2011) to be fetched a beer from time to time! SCOOP (extract from November 2011 issue as received on 1st December) 75
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