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IEEE Kerala Section 2015 IEEE Kerala Section ANNUAL REPORT SECRETARY, IEEE KERALA SECTION, 2015 1 Contents PART A - SECTION SUMMARY ......................................................................... 3 A.1 Executive Summary ................................................................................. 3 Section Executive Committee Member List ........................................................ 3 Section Highlights .......................................................................................... 4 Major Events (International, National) .............................................................. 7 Major Chapter Activities ................................................................................. 8 Major Student and Affinity Group Activities ....................................................... 9 Awards ......................................................................................................... 9 A.2 Financial Report ...................................................................................... 11 PART B - ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES ......................................................... 12 B.1 Membership Development Activities .......................................................... 12 Total number of active members in the past 3 years. ........................................ 12 Summary and evidence of work done to improve the value of membership, which leads to retention and growth of members ....................................................... 12 B.2 Chapter Activities .................................................................................... 13 Total number of Chapters in the Section : ....................................................... 13 Number of Chapters formed in the current year ............................................... 13 Number of active Chapters ............................................................................ 13 Summary of Chapter activities ....................................................................... 13 Power and Energy Society ............................................................................. 13 IA/IE/PEL Joint Chapter ................................................................................. 14 Computer Society ......................................................................................... 15 Communication Society ................................................................................. 15 Antenna & Propagation Society ..................................................................... .16 Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Chapter……………………………………………..16 Robotics and Automation Society Chapter ........................................................ 17 Signal Processing Society Chapter…………………………………………………………………………… 18 Society for Social Implications in Technology Chapter.……………………………………………18 Circuity & Systems Society Chapter………………………………………………………………………….19 B.3 Professional and Continuing Education Activities ......................................... 20 Industry Relations Activity………………………………………………………………………………………..20 Technical Activities…………………………………………………………………………………………………….22 Distinguished Lecture Programs……………………………………………………………………………….24 Conferences: ............................................................................................... 25 Technically Cosponsored International Conferences .......................................... 26 B.4 Students Activities .................................................................................. 26 Total number of Student Branches in the Section: ............................................ 27 Number of Student Branches formed in the current year : ................................. 28 Section level student activities ....................................................................... 29 Face 2 Face : ............................................................................................... 29 Branch Councilors Congress: .......................................................................... 30 Kerala IEEE Technical Symposium (KITeS) : .................................................... 31 All Kerala Student Congress (AKSC) : ............................................................. 31 IEEE Day Quiz…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….32 Section Level PES Quiz .................................................................................. 32 IEEE LINK CAMP : ............................................................................................ AIYSC………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….33 HUB Events………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..34 HUB/LINK Events……………………………………………………………………………………………………….35 Number of active Student Branches ................................................................ 36 Summary of Student Branch activities ............................................................. 36 One Student Enterprise awards ...................................................................... 36 Two Darrel Chong Award in Silver Category ..................................................... 36 2 One Richard E Merwin Scholarship .................................................................. 36 Outstanding Branch Councillor Award .............................................................. 36 Student Branch Events .................................................................................. 36 B.5 Affinity Group Activities ........................................................................... 37 Young Professional (YP) ................................................................................. 37 Women In Engineering (WIE) ......................................................................... 38 Life Member ................................................................................................. 41 Consultant Networks ..................................................................................... 41 B.6 Awards & Recognition Activities ................................................................ 41 Award constituted by the Section ................................................................... 42 Section Outstanding Volunteer Award ............................................................. 42 Section Outstanding WIE Volunteer Award ....................................................... 42 Outstanding Young Professional Volunteer ....................................................... 42 Section Outstanding Student WIE Volunteer Award ........................................... 43 Section Outstanding Student Volunteer Award ................................................. 43 Section Outstanding Branch Councilor Award ................................................... 43 Award(s) received from R10 .......................................................................... 44 Award(s) received from IEEE HQ .................................................................... 44 B.7 Communication Activities (Newsletter, Home Page, E-mail etc.) .................... 44 Newsletter (name and number of issues in the year) ........................................ 44 Home Page of the Section .............................................................................. 45 Other means of contacts with Section members ............................................... 45 B.8 Industry Relations ................................................................................... 45 Membership growth and retention .................................................................. 45 Activities for/with industrial members ............................................................. 45 B.9 Humanitarian Technology Activities ........................................................... 45 Shasthra Vismaya ......................................................................................... 45 JyothIEEE .................................................................................................... 45 Eyes Free Camp ........................................................................................... 46 B.10 Community Activities ............................................................................. 47 IEEE Day ..................................................................................................... 47 PART C - OTHERS ........................................................................................ 47 C.1 Special Events ........................................................................................ 47 C.2 Relationship with National Societies .......................................................... 47 C3. Collaboration with other IEEE Sections ...................................................... 48 Support extended to neighboring Sections ....................................................... 48 Joint activities with any other Section ............................................................. 48 C.4 Support extended to Sub-sections & Society Chapters within the Section ....... 48 C.5Best Practices of your Section (which you would like to share with other Sections for the benefits of members) ......................................................................... 48 C.6 Problems anticipated and suggestions for solutions, if any ........................... 48 PART D - GOALS AND PLANS ............................................................................ 48 D.1 Continuation of project/activity in progress and their implementation plans ... 48 D.2 Goals and Future Plans ...........................................................................
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