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January 2013 Notice for the Annual General Body Meeting of the IEEE Delhi Section From the desk of ECC (repeated from the circulation of January 20, 2013) My dear esteemed Members, The Annual General Body Meeting of the Welcoming new year first of all let me IEEE Delhi Section is scheduled to be held at remind you of the IEEE Delhi Section Annual 09 AM on February 03, 2013 (Sunday) at General Meeting (AGM) that is scheduled Seminar Hall 1, 2 & 3 after clubbed together with assembling of Members at 9 am on in Kamla Devi Block, India International next Sunday, February 03, 2013 at the Center (Lodhi Estate). All the members are Seminar Hall 1, 2 and 3 clubbed together invited to attend the AGM with their (1st floor), Kamladevi Block (Entry Gate 1), spouses. You are requested to confirm your India International Centre, 40 Max Mueller participation. Marg, New Delhi-110003. The details of notification originally dated January 20, 2013 High Tea: 9.00 AM to 9.30 AM would be repeated elsewhere in this issue of Part A: 9.30 AM to 11.00 AM the e-newsletter itself again. To the best my knowledge and belief, after the slate of Section Agenda for AGM: Executive Committee for the year 2013 was circulated in the last issue on December 29, 2012 there has not been any petition 1. Welcome by the Section chair submitted for which the last date has been in 2. Confirmation of minutes of previous fact January 26, 2013 as per Section Bylaws. AGM. Hope we will have a nice get together too on 3. Secretary's report the occasion of our Section AGM. 4. Report by the Treasurer 5. Appointment of auditor Rest of the e-newsletter contains other 6. Appointment of Nomination Committee important news and views as usual. 7. Felicitation of Recently Appointed IEEE Fellows With best regards, 8. Distribution of prizes/awards. 9. Vote of thanks ------B. Guest Lecture: 11.00 AM to 12.00 hrs (Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay) ------IEEE Delhi Section C. Meetings of individual Chapters: 12.00 January 29, 2013 (Tuesday) hrs to 1.00 P.M.* E-mail: [email protected] ------Web-site: www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi D. LUNCH: 1.00 P.M. ------Schedule of Lecture(s) Dr Sukumar Mishra
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Nomination Standing Committee: Prof. Ph No- 01126591074, 01126596908 Suhash C. Dutta Roy, Mr. Harbans L. Bajaj, Mobile No. +919810429715 Prof. R. Shevgaonkar, Prof. Ranjan Mallick, FAX-01126591074 Dr. V. R. Singh (Chair) India From Dr. Sudip K. Mazumder *as per the information made available till Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering now following IEEE Organizational Units are Director, Laboratory for Energy and going to have their respective AGM Switching-Electronics Systems University of Illinois, Chicago accordingly as per agenda 851 South Morgan Street, Mail Code: 154 1. IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter 1020 Science and Engineering Offices Chicago, IL: 60607-7053 2. IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapter Ph: 312-355-1315 3. IEEE WIE Delhi Affinity Group Fax: 312-996-6465 Email: [email protected] 4. IEEE Consultants Network Delhi URL: ece.uic.edu/~mazumder Affinity Group ======5. IEEE IMS-EMBS Delhi Chapter Dear Colleagues:
Reference: IEEE Transactions on Power IEEE Delhi section: EC-Slate for 2013 Electronics Special Issue on High-Frequency- (repeated from the circulation of Link Power-Conversion Systems December 29, 2012) Happy New Year! Position Name Affiliation 1. Chairperson Prof. Bhim Singh, IIT-D Please feel free to distribute the Special 2. Exec Vice Chairperson Prof. Mini S. Issue notice for IEEE Transactions on Power Thomas, JMI Electronics with a scheduled publication time 3. Vice Chairperson Dr. K. Subramanian, February 2014. ex-NIC http://www.ieee- 4. Secretary Dr. Prerna Gaur, NSIT pels.org/images/documents/CFP/special%20 5. Jt. Secretary Mr. Ravindra Joshi. Tata issue%20on%20high-frequency- Power Delhi Distribution Ltd. link%20power-conversion%20systems.pdf 6. Treasurer Dr. Rachana Garg, DTU The topics are embedded in the (linked) pdf 7. Past Chairperson Prof. Siban K. Koul, file. IIT-D 8 Member Dr. Ajay Agarwal, CSIR I also hope you will consider submitting 9. Member Dr. Deepak Garg, Thapar Univ., paper(s) for review in the above-referenced Patiala Special Issue. 10. Member Mr. Vijay Dutt, ex-Rlys. 11. Member Dr. Vipin Kakkar, ex-Philips The deadline for submission is June 30, 12 Member Prof. Abdul Q. Ansari, JMI 2014. 13. Member Prof M N Hoda, BVICAM 14. Member Dr. Shabana Urooj, GBU-G.Noida FYI, 15. Member Mr. Rajendra K. Asthana, ex-BHEL IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics is 16. Member (GOLD)Mr. Imran Ali, ex-JMI currently ranked #7 (in Electrical and Electronic Engineering) by impact factor. 2
http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards Daman Dev Sood, FBCS, MBCI, SMIEEE, /publications/journmag/journalcitations.html MAIMA, ISO 22301 Expert IEEE Ambassador The current impact factor of IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics is 4.65 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.js p?punumber=63
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Registration for the 2013 Presidents' Change the World Competition is now open! The President letter for Beacon Newsletter Presidents' Change the World Competition recognizes students or teams of students Dear Members and Leaders of the IEEE who, through the identification of Delhi Section: humanitarian needs and the development of 2013 will beanother year of dynamic growth projects, meet those needs, and and increased opportunities—and demonstrate the capacity to improve the achievements—for the Delhi Section. The lives of many people by applying energy of your members, the passion you engineering, science, and computing skills. bring to your work, the dedication the Tell us how you have made a positive Section has demonstrated in advancing impact in the world and you could win technology for the benefit of the people of US$10,000 plus a free trip to the 2013 IEEE India, Region 10, and the world—great Honors Ceremony. Applicants are things lie in store for the technologists of encouraged to submit their project the Delhi Section for 2013, and for many information at years to come. http://ieeechangetheworld.myreviewroom.c But this is not a difficult prediction to make, om/ for I have witnessed firsthand the efforts of the thousands of dedicated professionals in Full details are available at the Section. Your focus on engaging young http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/ members, developing and reinforcing India’s membership/students/competitions/change_ educational infrastructure, and never the_world/index.html forgetting the significance of the individual technologist and their profession has been Further…. and continues to be a key factor in the Delhi Date: Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:41 PM Section’s success. Subject: FW: President's Letter for the The hard work of your membership and Beacon leadership has already produced results. Throughout the Delhi Section and all of Dear All India, students are furthering their education in ever-increasing numbers. Most I was in touch with the President for this importantly, however, those students are year’s BEACON also like last few years, am often going directly into positions within not sure whether BEACON is being business and industry, swiftly adding their published or not, hence sharing this with talents and skills to the existing engineering you all directly. Perhaps Dr. Mukhopadhyay workforce. Similarly, the Delhi Section’s can include in the next newsletter. commitment to driving initiatives such as EPICS, SIGHT and GINI, among others, has Warm Regards provided Sections throughout the Region 3
and the world with an outstanding example approximately member strength as of a Section that has taken the IEEE tagline more than 800. “Advancing Technology to Benefit 4. 2-3 events are organized by the Humanity”, and let it be a key driver of its section every month. There is a commitment and effort. The friendships and professional good mix of members from relationships within the Delhi Section that I Academics as well as Industry. have made, both old and new, are of great 5. Visit to installations of Perth Metro value to me. I look forward to a continued which is Operated by Perth constructive, robust collaboration within the Transport Authority and meetings Delhi community and throughout India in with Engineers Connected with 2013. Electric Traction was explained.
Sincerely, Following salient points which make Peter W. Staecker Perth Metro as a unique system 2013 IEEE President were touched upon: Perth Rail Based Urban Transport News on Meeting with Chair of IEEE, system (Operated by Perth Western Australia Section Transport Authority)-installations (as reported by Vijay K. Dutt on visited-EMU Maintenance Shed, OHE January 21, 2013) Depot, Control centre, Traction sub- stations and OHE Maintenance Date: 13-Nov-2012 Depots. Excellent points of Perth Rail Based Present: Urban Transport system 5.1 Built on Surface: Bulk of the Dr Kevin Wong, Associate Professor alignment has been planned on Surface thereby greatly saving on Murdoch University &Chair, IEEE, Western Project cost. Taking system length Australia Section, as 200 KM for 5 lines and assuming per Kilometer additional cost of Dr Lance Fung, Associate Professor Murdoch Viaduct/ underground as $ 15 University &Vice Chair, IEEE, Western Million (a Conservative estimate) Australia Section, they have saved approximately $ 3 Billion from the Project Cost. Since Vijay Kumar Dutt, Ex Additional Member in Urban transport fare box recovery Railway Board & Past President & Member is a Challenge in order to provide Execom, TMC, IEEE Delhi Section. commuters a low cost option this 1. At the outset sincere thanks to Dr saving is valuable for long term Kevin Wong and Dr Lance Fung was viability and further expansion of conveyed for sparing time out of the project. their busy schedule. 5.2 Selection of 25 KV AC systems as system of Electric 2. Dr Kevin Wong is the Chair of Traction. Delhi Metro Railway IEEE, Western Australia Section for (DMRC) was one of the first systems 2012. Dr Lance Fung is also a Senior in the world to have selected 25 KV Member of IEEE. AC system in preference to 750 Volt 3. Dr Kevin Wong explained about DC Third Rail system. This has activities of IEEE in Western provided further economy by saving Australia. The Section is vibrant with cost of about 40 additional DC Traction Systems .Also being above
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ground the maintenance is easier. 7. Dr Wong explained that at present While DMRC 25 kV line was opened IEEE members are not there from in 2002, Perth metro on 25 KV AC Electric Traction. The potential system started working about a members may be from operators decade earlier in 1993. 5.3 Selection Of 1057 MM like Perth Rail Based urban Gauge: Along with Japan and Transport system and Western Malaysia, Perth Rail Based Urban Australia Railways and Industry like Trans port system is the only Bombardier and ABB who have system to have adopted 25 KV AC significant presence in Electric system on 1057 MM Meter Gauge. Traction in Western Australia. Also Since bulk of the alignment of Trans given sufficient notice they would Perth is on the Central Verge a narrower gauge has given the like to organise a Lecture on Electric advantage of requirement of lesser Traction with emphasis on India and space. Western Australia. 5.4Building along central Verge of 8. Cooperation from New Delhi Freeways: Since bulk of the system Chapter from TMC and other has come along Central Verge of societies was offered. Also in case Freeways it has given convenience members from Perth chapter visit in Land Accusition, easy access in case of accidents and emergencies India, we would like to organise and easy transfer to Bus systems. events for them. It was observed that by using this experience other systems elsewhere The meeting ended with thanks to Dr Wong in the world can benefit. and Dr Fung and appreciation of their work 6. Dr Wong was informed of significant in popularizing IEEE in Western Australia. work done in Electromagnetic Interference by 25 KV AC system IEEE DELHI SECTION MEMBERSHIP provided on Thornlie line of Perth STATISTICS AT A GLANCE (2012/12) Rail Based urban Transport system. Total: 4834* In this regard a paper on ‘Longitudinal induction voltage Associate Member Active 75 measurement on communication cables running parallel to overhead Fellow Active 7 lines’ by Dean Sharafi of ,Western Graduate Student Member Active 369 Power Corporation is relevant to Honorary Member Active 3 Metro systems in India as Delhi Metro Railway (DMRC) was one of Life Fellow Active 3 the first systems in the world to Life Member Active 4 have selected 25 KV AC system in Life Senior Active 11 preference to 750 Volt third rail DC system. Also new Metro systems Member Active 1049 coming up in India in Cities of Senior Member Active 176 Mumbai, Jaipur, Chennai, Student Member Active 3137 Hyderabad etc are also based on 25 *Excluding Affiliates to Societies KV AC system of electric Traction.
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shared their views on the topic and vol 13 no 2 suggested the students various behavioural February 2013 and technical skills for better employability. Dr. Narendra Kumar, Director – KIET and From the desk of ECC Dr. Arun Sharma, HOD – CSE also shared their views. My dear esteemed Members,
With lots of informative news and Minutes of Section Annual General Meeting held on February 03, 2013 at India International Center, New Delhi, this edition of e- newsletter, I am trying to reach you. Please have a look.
With best regards,
(Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay) IEEE Delhi Section February 26, 2013 (Tuesday) E-mail: [email protected] Web-site: www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi
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In order to provide a more accessible technical activities were held during resource for Section/Chapter Distinguished 2012. He thanked the members who Lecturer program information, an IEEE received awards/recognitions from the Distinguished Lecturer Program web page IEEE during the last year. http://www.ieee.org/about/volunteers/tab/d istinguished_lecturer_program.html has 2. The Minutes of the last AGM held on been created to assist Sections/Chapters 19th Feb, 2012 were presented and looking for a Distinguished Lecturer. The approved (proposed by Prof. A. Q. web page includes a list of direct links to Ansari and seconded by Prof. M. N. Technical Society/Technical Council program Hoda). pages, replacing the former password- protected database that required a login. 3. Dr Sukumar Mishra Secretary of the This new web page allows Section read the Secretary’s report, Sections/Chapters to easily link to specific which was approved by AGM Section/Chapter Distinguished Lecturer (proposed by Prof. M. N. Hoda and program pages. seconded by Prof. A. Q. Ansari). The report is attached as Annexure-I. Webinars, User Guides, and Tutorials 4. The Treasurer of the Section, Dr. This page Prerna Gaur, presented the accounts http://www.ieee.org/go/volunteertraining for the year 2012. The financial report provides access to a range of resources for was approved by the AGM (proposed IEEE Technical Activities volunteers. by Prof. M.N. Hoda and Seconded by Resources include the agenda tool user Mr. R. K. Asthana). The report is guide and tutorials and an archive of videos attached as Annexure-II. She informed and webinars. Important information on that there is nil tax for 2011-2012 and IEEE Society member segmentation and there is approximately Rs.60,000/- for Open Access (OA) is included. the year 2010-2011. AGM approved the payment of tax to the income tax department. Minutes of AGM of IEEE Delhi Section
held on Feb 03, 2013 5. Prof. Sukumar Mishra was appointed Time: 09:30 am as the internal auditor for the IEEE Delhi Section. Venue: Seminar Hall 1, 2 & 3 after clubbed together in Kamla 6. The Chair Dr. Shiban K Koul, Devi Block, India congratulated the recently appointed International Centre (Lodhi Fellows Prof. Sreenivasa Murthy and Estate) Dr. Om Prakash Narayan Calla. Since, 1. Dr Shiban K Koul, Chair-IEEE Section they were not present during the AGM welcomed the members and the the memento will be sent to them in guests present and declared the due course of time. meeting open. He delivered chairperson's brief address and 7. The prizes and awards were highlighted the main achievements of distributed to student volunteers and the Section during 2012. He informed the members that Delhi section branch counsellors. membership has grown over 5157. He also informed the members that in all 8. Prof. Sukumar Mishra, of IIT Delhi was 201 conferences and seminars/ felicitated for receiving the 11
outstanding engineer award from PES- Prof. S. K. Koul, Chair, IAS Delhi chapter. Prof. R. K Shevgaonkar, Member Dr. S. Mukhopadhyay, Member
9. Prof. R. K Shevgaonkar, Fellow IEEE, 12. In all 116 members (Members=60, Director IIT Delhi, delivered the Guest Student Members=50 and Special lecture on “Learning from Nature”. He Invitees=6) attended the AGM. was then felicitated by both Dr S. K.
Koul, the outgoing and by Prof. Bhim 13. The past treasurer & newly-elected Singh, the incoming Chairman of the Secretary, Dr. Prerna Gaur, proposed a IEEE Delhi section. ‘vote of thanks’ and the meeting
ended with the thanks to the Chair. 10. Dr. V. R. Singh, Chair, Nomination
Committee (with Members, Prof. S. C. 14. Various Chapters and Affinity Groups Dutta Roy, Mr H. L. Bajaj, Prof. R. K held their AGMs after the section AGM. Shevgaonkar and Prof. R. K. mallik) Annexure-I announced the slate for Section
Executive Committee for the year 2013 Annexure-I as follows: ANNUAL REPORT IEEE DELHI SECTION Position Name Affiliation 2012 1. Chairperson Prof. Bhim Singh, IIT-D 2. Exec Vice Chairperson Prof. Mini S. IEEE Delhi Section was very dynamic in 2012 with Thomas, JMI 3. Vice Chairperson Dr. K. Subramanian, activities peaking to all time high of total 201 ex-NIC consisting of 134 Technical, 23 Professional, 39 4. Secretary Dr. Prerna Gaur, NSIT 5. Jt. Secretary Mr. Ravindra Joshi. Tata Administrative and 5 Non-Technical events. Many Power Delhi Distribution Ltd. personalities, namely a few Prof. P. K. Sen, DL of 6. Treasurer Dr. Rachana Garg, DTU 7. Past Chairperson Prof. Siban K. Koul, IAS, Prof. R. P. Jindal, Prof. V. K. Arora, Prof. V. IIT-D Ramgopal Rao DL of EDS, Dr. Saifur Rahman 8 Member Dr. Ajay Agarwal, CSIR 9. Member Dr. Deepak Garg, Thapar Univ., and Hermann Koch DL of PES, Prof P. Pillay Patiala and Prof. Dushan Boroyevich DL of PELS, have 10. Member Mr. Vijay Dutt, ex-Rlys. 11. Member Dr. Vipin Kakkar, ex-Philips delivered lectures at different chapters of Delhi 12 Member Prof. Abdul Q. Ansari, JMI Section. Besides, Prof Joy Laskar, Prof. Peter 13. Member Prof M N Hoda, BVICAM 14. Member Dr. Shabana Urooj, GBU-G.Noida Siegel, Prof Ulrich Rohde, had also visited IEEE 15. Member Mr. Rajendra K. Asthana, Delhi section MTT chapter for delivering expert ex-BHEL 16. Member (GOLD)Mr. Imran Ali, ex-JMI lectures.
11. The nomination committee for the This year the Section and the associated year 2012-2013 was constituted as Chapters received the following awards per the following:
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• Outstanding Small Chapter runner • Prof. Mini Thomas appointed as up award by PES-IAS chapter. 2013 IEEE MGA volunteer position. • High performing chapter award • Prof. S. S. Murthy of IIT Delhi and (HPCP) by PES- IAS chapter Prof. Om Prakash Narayan Calla of International centre for radio • IEEE Region 10 WIE support fund of science, Jodhpur have been $ 300.00. elevated to the level of Fellow IEEE. • R10 WIE Section Affinity Group of • Prof. Sukumar Mishra of IIT Delhi, the Year Award by WIE Delhi was selected to receive the IEEE Section. PES-IAS Delhi Chapter outstanding • Best membership growth ward of Engineer Award for 2012. $1000 by PES-IAS chapter Further, the following chapters were started • First Prize of Region 10 Website in this year.
Competition by student branch of • Geoscience and Remote Sensing Amity School of Engineering & Society
Technology. • Solid-State Circuits Society • Section Growth Incentive of $500. • Education Society • Senior member rebate of $100. In 2012, 7 new student branches, 5 student In addition, several members received branch chapters and 2 affinity groups were recognition and awards from the IEEE. formed. Petitions for 1 new student branch were forwarded to the IEEE HQ. • Dr. R. G. Gupta was conferred with • Shri Ravindra Joshi organized a the Academia-Industry Partnership Global Warming Awareness cum Award for the year 2012. Innovative Idea Generation program • Dr. Prerna Gaur of NSIT has in collaboration with the UN Information Centre (UNIC) in Select received the R10 Outstanding Citywalk, Saket in Delhi. Branch Counsellor Award. • Students of Delhi Section got • Ms Vimal Gaur, branch counselor financial assistance to attend the MSIT has received Global award of WIECON-2012 AND, AISC 2012 at Outstanding branch counselor. Hyderabad and Bangalore.
• Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, branch • Two-day Delhi Student Congress counselor of Amity Brijwasen and was started this year with the first students have received the Global award Best website. one held at NSIT in October 2012.
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IEEE Delhi Section has also extended System Design (ICCESD-2013), at support to the following conferences that MNIT Jaipur, during January 28-30. were held in 2012: • National Conference on • World Wide Security and Mobility Communications-2013 at IIT Delhi Conference, held on 12th April 2012 during Feb 15-17. at IIT Delhi.
• International Conference on Signal • 3rd International Conference on Processing, Computing and Control Advanced Computing, at Ajay (ISPCC) held at JUIT, Solan, during Kumar Garg Engineering College, th 15-17 March 2012. Ghaziabad during Feb 22-23. • Fifth India International Conference on Power Electronics held during 6- • International Conference on 8th Dec. 2012 at Delhi Technological Communication Systems and University (Co-sponsored by IEEE Network Technologies (CSNT-2013), PELS-IES Delhi Chapter, & IEEE at Gwalior, during April 5-8. PES-IAS Delhi Chapter). • 6thInternational Conference on • Fifth Power India Conference held Contemporary Computing (IC3- during 19-22th Dec. 2012 at 2013), at JIIT, Noida during Aug 8- Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University 10. of Science & Technology, Murthal
(Co-sponsored by IEEE PELS-IES • International Conference on Signal Delhi Chapter, & IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Processing, Computing, and Control Chapter). (ISPCC-2013), at JUIT, Solan, • Second International Conference on during Sep 26-28. Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing (PDGC-2012), held at • International Conference on Image JUIT, Solan, during 6-8 Dec. 2012. Information Processing (ICIIP- 2013), at JUIT, Solan, during Dec 9- IEEE Delhi Section has also in principle 11. committed to support technically to the following conferences that are to be held in 2013: Statistics of active members of the section during 2010 to 2012 are as follows
• International Conference on Communication and Electronics
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2010 2011 2012 The membership is steadily growing.
Affiliate 37 26 37 In short, IEEE Delhi Section had a very
Associate Member 70 61 77 fruitful year. I take this opportunity to thank one and all, who helped in running the Fellow 8 7 7 activities smoothly Graduate Student 301 351 470 Member Prof. Sukumar Mishra, Outgoing Secretary,
Honorary Member 3 3 3 IEEE Delhi Section 2012
Life Fellow 1 3 4
Life Member 4 5 5
Life Senior 12 15 17
Member 883 1109 1168 Senior Member 168 175 169 Student Member 2266 2894 3200 Annexure-II Total 5157 3753 4649
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IEEE DELHI SECTION MEMBERSHIP members to renew membership. STATISTICS AT A GLANCE (2013/01) With best regards, Total: 5208*
Associate Member Active 76 (Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay) Fellow Active 7 IEEE Delhi Section Graduate Student Member Active 411 March 31, 2013 (Sunday) E-mail: [email protected] Honorary Member Active 3 Web-site: www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi Life Fellow Active 4 Schedule of Lecture(s) Life Member Active 5 Life Senior Active 17 Surf IEEE vTools Meeting System (https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/main), Member Active 1053 then login with User Name and Password, Senior Member Active 171 and View Existing Meetings / View Published Meetings Student Member Active 3461 (https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_vi *Excluding Affiliates to Societies ew/list) for the Upcoming Meetings in respect of IEEE Delhi Section and its Society Chapters / Affinity Groups.
Obituary
vol 13 no 3 March 2013
From the desk of ECC
My dear esteemed Members,
With profound grief and sorrow we have to share the news of sad demise of Prof. Pavaguda Venkata Indiresan, Chairman, Board of Governor, NSIT, New Delhi, ex- Director, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, etc. and Honorary Member of IEEE, on February 24, 2013 (Sunday). Please join Prof. Pavaguda Venkata Indiresan, former us to pray to the almighty for the departed Director of Indian Institute of Technology soul to rest in peace. An obituary with a (IIT) Madras, passed away in Pune, photograph is being placed elsewhere in this Maharashtra, India on February 24, 2013 edition of Section e-newsletter. (Sunday) morning. The end came for this In the rest of the issue you will find the endearing teacher of electronics and usual features including our strength, which electrical engineering in his hotel room, in fact has depleted drastically. Still with the hours before he was to chair the Indian addition of new members to the earlier list Election Commission’s technical committee release of this edition is being notified with meet on Electronic Voting Machines. He was an earnest request to the defaulted
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85, and is survived by his wife Jaya, two advice and respected his views even though daughters and a son. he had been critical of each one of them in his writing. Perhaps that was because there Indiresan was educated in Presidency was no rancour in his dissent. In fact it was College, Madras, Indian Institute of Science, amazing to witness his energy levels and Bangalore and at the University Of organizational capacity. He would regale Birmingham, UK. He began his teaching others with stories of his meetings with career at Roorkee University (now an IIT) politicians and bureaucrats in Delhi. and retired at the age of 65 from IIT Delhi after teaching for 40 years as detailed He was extremely close to Kalam, before, below. during and after his Presidency. Kalam was a passionate votary of Indiresan’s pet 1953-65 University of Roorkee (1957-60 program PURA (Providing Urban Amenities in Birmingham, UK, doing his Ph, D.) in Rural Areas), which he felt was the only 1965-79 IIT Delhi way to decongest our cities. With a lot of 1979-84 IIT Madras (as Director) passion he would tell how it was so easy to 1984-86 IIT Madras (as a faculty member) implement his scheme. 1987-93 IIT Delhi Prof. Indiresan was a prolific writer on A highly respected thinker, Indiresan was a societal, economic and development issues. member on countless Government of India He had also written a book “Managing (GOI) committees. He was given the Padma Development: Geographical Socialism, Bhushan in 2000 and twice awarded the Decentralization and Urban Replication”. In highest prize of the Inventions Promotion his later role, Indiresan who played as a Board by the GOI. He has been President of columnist for the newspapers, like, The the Institution of Electronics and Hindu, Business Line, and Indian Express, Telecommunication Engineers, and of the often provoked debate and discussion for Indian National Academy of Engineering. He his frankness that went against traditional has the rare honor of being made an wisdom. Many found his frankness often Honorary Member by the Institute of controversial except some who believed in Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), quality after he once bluntly said that USA “for contributions to the growth of majority of the teachers are inferior to the electrical engineering in India through his students. Similarly, Indiresan would go on to leadership in education, applied research write in his Curriculum Vitae that he was and professional engineering institutions'' for proud of having been reprimanded before 1998. The grade of Honorary Member is a Indian Parliament for his expression that the significant honor bestowed by IEEE and is proper way to get Scheduled Caste (SC) awarded for life to an individual. It was and Scheduled Tribe (ST) students into established through the Bylaws of the IEEE. higher education was not through quotas Honorary Members are elected by the Board but through quality education from primary of Directors from among those who have school itself. In consonance with this rendered meritorious service to humanity in perception quietly and using his own funds, the IEEE's designated fields of interest and he would organize teaching camps for SC who are not members of the IEEE. Other and ST Class XII students at the IIT two Indians to receive the same are Prof. campus, to prepare them for the IIT Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon, and entrance examinations. Such was the former President of India (2002-07), Dr. legendary personality Prof. Pavaguda Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam. Venkata Indiresan.
Every Prime Minister of India, from P. V. Excerpts from MGA SCOOP th Narasimha Rao onwards sought Indiresan’s (February 2013 as received on 27 ) 17
Additional IEEE news can be found at links Visit the MGA News web page for the latest on the right side of the page. news articles, including: - Visit MGA News at * New member orientation webinars http://www.ieee.org/societies_communities/ * Call for nominations: IEEE MGA geo_activities/mga_news.html> leadership positions: deadline 1 April * Reminder: 2012 annual reporting and rebate requirements: deadline 31 March Excerpts from IEEE Conference * IEEE-USA offers free e-books to Organizer’s Newsletter (as received on th members in February and March Feb 27 ) * Conference Organizers' Web Pages Conferences Benefit from MCE Updated Strategic Relationships * IEEE Computer Society now accepting Richard E. Merwin Student Scholarship Recently, Meetings, Conferences and Events applications (MCE) was able to leverage long term * Call for nominations: IEEE Medals and supplier relationships and the strength of Recognitions the IEEE brand to assist several conferences * Last call for nominations: IEEE Fellow facing very different hotel related issues. Class of 2014: deadline 1 March Both were utilizing the same property * Last call for nominations: 2014 IEEE months apart - one conference was short on leadership positions: deadline 15 March pick up and facing a potential of a significant attrition payment; while the other Additional IEEE news can be found at links needed to add sleeping rooms. on the right side of the page
Leveraging IEEE buying power, coupled with - Visit MGA News at the collaboration and support of across the
simultaneously. As a result, the conferences Excerpts from MGA SCOOP realized a savings of over USD $60,000 by (March 2013 as received on 25th) eliminating attrition in its entirety.
Visit the MGA News web page for the latest news articles, including: In 2012 alone, MCE had measured cost avoidance for conferences of over USD$2 * Reminder: 2012 annual reporting and million. A very tangible example of the rebate requirements: due 31 March power of One IEEE. * Last call for nominations: IEEE MGA leadership positions: deadline 1 April To learn more about how MCE can support * IEEE congratulates 547 new Senior your conference, contact our Customer members; submit a Senior member Relationship Management team at ieee- application [email protected]. * Call for nominations: IEEE Educational Activities Board Awards: deadline 15 May * Help attract computer and information technology students to IEEE * IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative now accepting applications * IEEE-USA offers free e-books to members in March and April
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Conference Audit 2. Accepted audit resources have been Policy Changes clarified to include Certified Public Accountant, Chartered Accountant, During the February orequivalent source approved by the 2013 IEEE Meeting IEEE Internal Audit Department. Series, several changes to the Alternatively, the Conference Chair may Conference Audit engage the IEEE Internal Audit Department Policy were approved to arrange for and/or perform the audit. The and effective immediately. selection of such auditors shall avoid any conflict of interest with members of the 1. The actual conference income or expense Conference Organizing Committee. threshold is now revised to USD 250,000 (up from USD 100,000). If you have any questions about conference audits, please contact IEEE Internal Audit. • Conferences where IEEE has greater than a 50% financial responsibility, including those that Correct are solely IEEE sponsored, and conference where the actual income or use of the expense is USD 250,000 or more IEEE Logo must be audited by a fully qualified, independent, Use of the IEEE logo in promoting a professional auditor. conference is a sometimes confusing and tricky subject. Following the simple steps • Conferences where IEEE has greater below should help committees preparing than 50% financial responsibility, conference call for papers, promotional including conferences that are materials, publications and websites: solely IEEE sponsored, and where the actual income or expense is Financial Sponsorship – less than USD 250,000 will be audited on a periodic basis. The • Sole IEEE OU sponsorship – Use of IEEE Internal Audit Department the IEEE logo is required, along will schedule and arrange for the with the organizational unit audits of these conferences. For logo(s). those conferences not scheduled for an Internal Audit review in a • Co-Sponsored conferences – When given year, an audit should be all entities are IEEE, use of the conducted by a committee IEEE logo is required, along with composed of individuals who the organizational unit logo(s). have no direct or indirect responsibility for the financial • Co-Sponsored conferences – When transactions of the conference. at least one entity is non-IEEE, use of the IEEE logo is • Co-sponsored conferences, where encouraged, along with the IEEE has a 50% or less financial organizational unit logo(s). responsibility (regardless of the actual income or expense level)
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2013 (Sunday) at 12.00 noon at Hall 1, 2, 3, Chapter category received the ‘High Kamladevi Block, India International Centre. Performing Chapter Award’ for the year It was attended by 18 members. 2011. The chapter received award for high membership growth. The report was The minutes of the meeting are as follows: approved as proposed by Prof. Bhim Singh and seconded by Mr. R K Asthana. 1. Address by the Chapter Chairperson 4. Presentation of Financial Report by In her address, Prof. Mini S. Thomas, Chair, the Treasurer IEEE PES-IAS Chapter, welcomed the members present in the AGM and informed Dr. V. K. Chandana, Treasurer of the that the year 2012 had been an eventful chapter, presented the financial report for year with as many as 46 activities (36 the year 2012. The statement of accounts Technical, 5 administrative, 5 Professional). was accepted as proposed by Dr. R. S. The membership of the PES chapter grew Saha and seconded by Mr R K Asthana. considerably and senior member elevations also happened in 2012. The chapter had 5. Election of Executive Committee for received a grant for Student Awareness the year 2013 Program (US$ 400). The chapter also received the High membership growth The Nomination Committee chair, Prof. Bhim award US$1000) and High performing Singh recommended the following slate of chapter award (US$980). She thanked the IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter Executive execom members for their support and Committee for the year 2013. cooperation. 1. Chairperson, Dr. Sukumar Mishra, IIT-D 2. Confirmation of minutes of the last 2. Secretary, Dr. Rachana Garg, DTU AGM held on February 5th 2012 3. Treasurer, Dr. Ashu Verma, IIT-D 4. Past-Chairperson, Prof. Mini S. Thomas, The minutes of the last AGM held on Feb. JMI 5th 2012 were approved as proposed by 5. Member, Dr. R. S. Saha Prof. S. Mukhopadhyay and seconded by Dr. 6. Member, Mr. Ravindra Joshi, NDPL Sukumar Mishra. 7. Member, Mr. Ravi Agrawal 8. Member, Dr. Bharat Singh Rajpurohit, 3. Presentation of Activity by the IIT-HP-Mandi Secretary 9. Member, (GOLD), Mr. Chinmay Jain, IIT- D Dr. Rachana Garg, Secretary, IEEE PES-IAS Delhi chapter presented the secretary’s The slate was accepted as proposed by Mr. report. She made a detailed presentation of H. L.Bajaj and seconded by Mr. R K the activities of the chapter during the year Asthana. It was also suggested that all the 2012. Dr. Sukumar Mishra was selected to past chairs should be the coopted members. receive the Outstanding Chapter Engineer In addition to that, the co opted members Award 2011. Thomas Alva Edison memorial are, Dr. G. Bhuvneshwari, Dr. Prerna Gaur, lecture was delivered on 22 Nov.2012 by Mr. Vivek Pandey, Mr. P. V. Ekande and the Prof. Ned Mohan. The IEEE PES-IAS Delhi past chairs Mr. M.M.S.Puri. Prof. B.P.Singh, Chapter had cosponsored two conferences – Prof. Bhim Singh, Prof. Subrata India International Conference on Power Mukhopadhyay Electronics, IICPE2012, 6th -8th Dec.2012 at DTU and POWER India Conference, 19th- It was also decided to postpone the India 22nd Dec.2012 at DCRUST. Both the International Conference on Power Systems, conferences were highly successful. The to be held at JMI in December 2013 till chapter was the Runner Up in the large further notice. 21
The new Chair, Dr, Sukumar Mishra took 3. Treasurer Dr. Ashu IIT-Delhi over and thanked the Nomination Committee for selecting the new Execom. 4. Past-Chair Dr. Bhuvaneswari He informed that about 30% of the Section’s Gurumoorthy IIT- Delhi activities are contributed by the chapter and assured that the chapter will keep pace with 5. Member Prof. Madhusudan Singh last year’s activities. DTU, Delhi
Meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the 6. Member Prof. Sukumar Mishra Chair. IIT- Delhi Prof. Mini Thomas Dr. Rachana Garg (Chair) (Secretary) 7. Member Dr. Vishal Verma DTU, Delhi Minutes of the IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapter Annual General Meeting 8. Member Dr. Radheshyam Saha CEA Delhi No. PELS-IES-Delhi-2013-002 February 5, 2013 9. Member (GOLD) Mr. Chinmay Jain IIT- Delhi 1. A warm welcome was extended to all the members of the PELS-IES This execom was proposed by Dr. Delhi Chapter by the Chapter Chair. Rachana Garg and seconded by Dr. 2. The minutes of the last AGM was P.V.Ekande. proposed by Prof. Mini Thomas and seconded by Dr.S.Mishra and it was 6. It was decided that the following confirmed. activities should be taken up: (a) 3. The activity report for the year 2012 Technical lectures by distinguished was presented by Dr.Prerna Gaur speakers should be arranged in IIT, and has been attached herewith. NSIT, DCE and JMI (b) Many This was proposed by Prof. Mini S industrial visits should be arranged Thomas and seconded by Dr. for students in these institutions. (c) Sukumar Mishra. GOLD activities should be 4. The Income-expenditure statement encouraged. for the year 2011 was presented by 7. Regarding increasing membership of Mr.J.B.V.Reddy This was proposed IEEE the following steps are to be by Dr. Rachana Garg and seconded taken: (a) Membership drive should by Prof. Mini S. Thomas. be taken up to increase the 5. Prof. Bhim Singh, Chair Nomination enrollment in IEEE at every institute committee declared the slate for the level. (b) All the eligible members in next year (2013) for the execom of PELS and IES are to be elevated to PELS-IES Delhi Chapter as under: Senior Member grade. This year also such efforts have been done. SNo. Position Name Organization (c) Student members should be encouraged to join IEEE. 1. Chairperson Dr.Prerna Gaur NSIT, 8. The following miscellaneous items Delhi were discussed: (i) IICPE 2012 in December will be conducted in DTU 2. Secretary Mr. J. B.V. Reddy DST, for which a seed money of Delhi Rs.20000/- is given. (ii) From 2012 onwards, for every lecture, a
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honorarium of Rs.2500/- will be Subrata Mukhopadhyay and seconded by Dr given (iii) The execom members Bhim Singh. will be given a conveyance allowance of Rs.1000/- for attending III. New Exec Com of the Affinity Group the execom meeting. for the year 2013 was constituted with the The meeting ended with vote of thanks following in position: to the Chair. 1. Mr. Ravi K Aggarwal (Doosan) – Dr. Prerna Gaur Chairperson Secretary, IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapter 2. Dr. V.K. Chandna (ITS, Noida) – Secretary-cum-Treasurer Distribution: To all the members of IEEE 3. Dr Subrata Mukhopadhyay PELS-IES Delhi Chapter (GTBIT) – Past Chair 4. Dr Bhim Singh (IITD) – Member Minutes of AGM of Consultants 5. Mr. Daman Dev Sood (Continuity & Network Affinity Group of IEEE Delhi Resilience) – Member Section 6. Dr. Sukumar Mishra ( IITD)-Member 7. Dr. K. Subramanian (Ex-IGNOU)- Feb 14, 2013 Member The Annual General Meeting (AGM) was 8. Mr. R.K. Asthana (Ex-BHEL)-Member held at IIC, New Delhi, at 1200 Hours on February 03, 2013 (Sunday), in presence of This slate was proposed by Mr. H.L. Bajaj the following members of IEEE Delhi and seconded by Mr. P.V. Ekande. Section: IV. For the calendar year 2013, it was 1. Dr Subrata Mukhopadhyay decided to carry out a number of round- 2. Dr Bhim Singh table discussions and a major Conference. 3. Mr Ravi K Aggarwal 4. Dr. G. Bhuvaneswari Tentative topics are as given below: 5. Dr Mini S. Thomas 6. Dr. Prerna Gaur 1. Patent Laws 7. Mr. P.V. Ekande 2. Accreditation Process 8. Dr. Sukumar Mishra 3. Engineering Education 9. Mr. H.L. Bajaj 4. Power Systems Operation 10. Dr. V.K.Chandna 5. Communication Protocols 11. Dr. Ashu Verma 12. Dr. R.Saha In this context suggestions came for: 13. Dr. Rachana Garg 14. Mr. R.K. Asthana - Legal challenges of Mobile communications 15. Dr. Shiban K. Koul - a Lecture and interactive session with Mr. Pawan Duggal on March 13, 2013. The following points were discussed / resolved: - One day seminar on Cyber Crisis, Cyber Fraud and Cyber Forensics: Corporate I. Chairperson Mr. Ravi K. Aggarwal Challenges of securing Cyber Space (in April welcomed the members present and 2013 or July 2013), preferably at IIC/IHC. initiated the meeting as per items on agenda ad seriatim. - Proposal for joint conference with IEEE Education Society and Technology II. Minutes of last AGM held on February Management Council Chapters: 19, 2012 were confirmed as proposed by Dr
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National conference on "Quality Education Chair. The Chapter will continue to for All-Technology and Management attempt this again, else the amount Challenges of this Century" in May-June lying in the Section account will be 2013 at IHC or IIC. utilized as and when required.
V. The meeting concluded with Vote of 5. With the changed rules/ guidelines Thanks proposed by Dr. V. K. Chandna, for conference sponsorship Secretary-cum-Treasurer. (approvals at Chapter, Section and HQ levels), the Chair, guessed a risk Dr. V.K. Chandna of reduced activities. To counter, it Secretary-cum-Treasurer, was suggested to do more with the Consultants Network Affinity Group institutes for which the Chapter may IEEE Delhi Section approve Rs 5000/- for each activity. Circulated to Members of Consultants Each such activity and expense will Network Affinity Group be approved separately. 6. New Execom was approved as CS CHAPTER AGM 2013 Chair : Mr. Daman Dev Sood Date: 8th March 2013 , 5:30 p.m. Immediate Past Chair: Dr. K. Venue: Committee Room, EE Deptt. IIT Subramanian Delhi Secretary: Ms. Sharbani Attendees: Bhattacharya 1. Daman Dev Sood (Chair)- Treasurer: Dr. R.G Asthana 403098027 Member: Dr. Deepak Garg 2. Dr. Anil Kumar - 90708488 Member: Mr. PV Ekande 3. Sanchit M. Bhatnagar-92568532 2 additional members may be selected in the next execom 4. Jery Althat-90577524 meeting. Two names for this are 5. Ramakrishnan S (Member) - available as Mr. Ramakrishma S and 90657506 Prof. Murli. 6. Sharbani Bhattacharya (Treasurer)- 7. Jerry Althat said there could be joint 80747739 event sponsorship of Computer 1. Chair gave brief introduction on Society IC and Delhi Chapter. slate of 2012. Past Chair K.S. 8. Dr. Anil of Manipal University was Subramanian is recovering from requested to explore CS Chapter surgery. Everyone wished him to activities at his university. get well soon. 9. Mr. Ramakrishnan would soon be 2. Financial statement of 2012 was delivering a talk at IEC Greater given by Sharbani Bhattacharya Noida. (Treasurer). The Chapter has Rs. 4,45,478 /= in the Section account. Minutes of AGM of IEEE Delhi Section held on Feb 03, 2013 3. Chair discussed about the expenses (Repeated) of each meeting and put forward that rest ExCom Meetings should be Time: 09:30 am emails or Skype – to the extent possible. Venue: Seminar Hall 1, 2 & 3 after 4. The issue of opening Account of CS clubbed together in Kamla Chapter was said cumbersome by Devi Block, India 24
International Centre (Lodhi Fellows Prof. Sreenivasa Murthy and Estate) Dr. Om Prakash Narayan Calla. Since,
they were not present during the AGM 15. Dr Shiban K Koul, Chair-IEEE Section welcomed the members and the the memento will be sent to them in guests present and declared the due course of time. meeting open. He delivered chairperson's brief address and 21. The prizes and awards were highlighted the main achievements of distributed to student volunteers and the Section during 2012. He informed branch counsellors. the members that Delhi section membership has grown over 5157. He 22. Prof. Sukumar Mishra, of IIT Delhi was also informed the members that in all 201 conferences and seminars/ felicitated for receiving the technical activities were held during outstanding engineer award from PES- 2012. He thanked the members who IAS Delhi chapter. received awards/recognitions from the IEEE during the last year. 23. Prof. R. K Shevgaonkar, Fellow IEEE, Director IIT Delhi, delivered the Guest 16. The Minutes of the last AGM held on lecture on “Learning from Nature”. He 19th Feb, 2012 were presented and was then felicitated by both Dr S. K. approved (proposed by Prof. A. Q. Ansari and seconded by Prof. M. N. Koul, the outgoing and by Prof. Bhim Hoda). Singh, the incoming Chairman of the IEEE Delhi section. 17. Dr Sukumar Mishra Secretary of the Section read the Secretary’s report, 24. Dr. V. R. Singh, Chair, Nomination which was approved by AGM Committee (with Members, Prof. S. C. (proposed by Prof. M. N. Hoda and Dutta Roy, Mr H. L. Bajaj, Prof. R. K seconded by Prof. A. Q. Ansari). The report is attached as Annexure-I. Shevgaonkar and Prof. R. K. mallik) announced the slate for Section 18. The Treasurer of the Section, Dr. Executive Committee for the year 2013 Prerna Gaur, presented the accounts as follows: for the year 2012. The financial report was approved by the AGM (proposed Position Name Affiliation by Prof. M.N. Hoda and Seconded by 1. Chairperson Prof. Bhim Singh, IIT-D Mr. R. K. Asthana). The report is 2. Exec Vice Chairperson Prof. Mini S. attached as Annexure-II. She informed Thomas, JMI that there is nil tax for 2011-2012 and 3. Vice Chairperson Dr. K. Subramanian, there is approximately Rs.60,000/- for ex-NIC the year 2010-2011. AGM approved 4. Secretary Dr. Prerna Gaur, NSIT the payment of tax to the income tax 5. Jt. Secretary Mr. Ravindra Joshi. Tata department. Power Delhi Distribution Ltd. 6. Treasurer Dr. Rachana Garg, DTU 19. Prof. Sukumar Mishra was appointed 7. Past Chairperson Prof. Siban K. Koul, as the internal auditor for the IEEE IIT-D Delhi Section. 8 Member Dr. Ajay Agarwal, CSIR 9. Member Dr. Deepak Garg, Thapar Univ., 20. The Chair Dr. Shiban K Koul, Patiala 10. Member Mr. Vijay Dutt, ex-Rlys. congratulated the recently appointed 25
11. Member Dr. Vipin Kakkar, ex-Philips Section. Besides, Prof Joy Laskar, Prof. Peter 12 Member Prof. Abdul Q. Ansari, JMI Siegel, Prof Ulrich Rohde, had also visited IEEE 13. Member Prof M N Hoda, BVICAM 14. Member Dr. Shabana Urooj, GBU-G.Noida Delhi section MTT chapter for delivering expert 15. Member Mr. Rajendra K. Asthana, lectures. ex-BHEL 16. Member (GOLD)Mr. Imran Ali, ex-JMI
This year the Section and the associated
25. The nomination committee for the Chapters received the following awards year 2012-2013 was constituted as per the following: • Outstanding Small Chapter runner
Prof. S. K. Koul, Chair, up award by PES-IAS chapter. Prof. R. K Shevgaonkar, Member • High performing chapter award Dr. S. Mukhopadhyay, Member (HPCP) by PES- IAS chapter 26. In all 116 members (Members=60, • IEEE Region 10 WIE support fund of Student Members=50 and Special $ 300.00. Invitees=6) attended the AGM. • R10 WIE Section Affinity Group of 27. The past treasurer & newly-elected the Year Award by WIE Delhi Secretary, Dr. Prerna Gaur, proposed a Section. ‘vote of thanks’ and the meeting ended with the thanks to the Chair. • Best membership growth ward of $1000 by PES-IAS chapter 28. Various Chapters and Affinity Groups • First Prize of Region 10 Website held their AGMs after the section AGM. Annexure-I Competition by student branch of Annexure-I Amity School of Engineering &
ANNUAL REPORT IEEE DELHI SECTION Technology. 2012 • Section Growth Incentive of $500.
IEEE Delhi Section was very dynamic in 2012 with • Senior member rebate of $100. activities peaking to all time high of total 201 consisting of 134 Technical, 23 Professional, 39 In addition, several members received Administrative and 5 Non-Technical events. Many recognition and awards from the IEEE. personalities, namely a few Prof. P. K. Sen, DL of IAS, Prof. R. P. Jindal, Prof. V. K. Arora, Prof. V. • Dr. R. G. Gupta was conferred with Ramgopal Rao DL of EDS, Dr. Saifur Rahman the Academia-Industry Partnership and Hermann Koch DL of PES, Prof P. Pillay Award for the year 2012. and Prof. Dushan Boroyevich DL of PELS, have delivered lectures at different chapters of Delhi
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• Dr. Prerna Gaur of NSIT has Information Centre (UNIC) in Select received the R10 Outstanding Citywalk, Saket in Delhi. Branch Counsellor Award. • Students of Delhi Section got • Ms Vimal Gaur, branch counselor financial assistance to attend the WIECON-2012 AND, AISC 2012 at MSIT has received Global award of Hyderabad and Bangalore. Outstanding branch counselor. • Two-day Delhi Student Congress • Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, branch counselor of Amity Brijwasen and was started this year with the first students have received the Global one held at NSIT in October 2012. award Best website.
• Prof. Mini Thomas appointed as 2013 IEEE MGA volunteer position. IEEE Delhi Section has also extended support to the following conferences that • Prof. S. S. Murthy of IIT Delhi and Prof. Om Prakash Narayan Calla of were held in 2012: International centre for radio science, Jodhpur have been • World Wide Security and Mobility elevated to the level of Fellow IEEE. Conference, held on 12th April 2012
• Prof. Sukumar Mishra of IIT Delhi, at IIT Delhi. was selected to receive the IEEE • International Conference on Signal PES-IAS Delhi Chapter outstanding Processing, Computing and Control Engineer Award for 2012. (ISPCC) held at JUIT, Solan, during Further, the following chapters were started 15-17th March 2012. in this year. • Fifth India International Conference • Geoscience and Remote Sensing on Power Electronics held during 6- Society 8th Dec. 2012 at Delhi Technological • Solid-State Circuits Society University (Co-sponsored by IEEE
• Education Society PELS-IES Delhi Chapter, & IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter). In 2012, 7 new student branches, 5 student • Fifth Power India Conference held branch chapters and 2 affinity groups were during 19-22th Dec. 2012 at formed. Petitions for 1 new student branch Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University were forwarded to the IEEE HQ. of Science & Technology, Murthal
• Shri Ravindra Joshi organized a (Co-sponsored by IEEE PELS-IES Global Warming Awareness cum Delhi Chapter, & IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Innovative Idea Generation program Chapter). in collaboration with the UN
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• Second International Conference on • International Conference on Image Parallel, Distributed and Grid Information Processing (ICIIP- Computing (PDGC-2012), held at 2013), at JUIT, Solan, during Dec 9- JUIT, Solan, during 6-8 Dec. 2012. 11.
IEEE Delhi Section has also in principle committed to support technically to the Statistics of active members of the section following conferences that are to be held in during 2010 to 2012 are as follows 2013:
• International Conference on 2010 2011 2012 Communication and Electronics Affiliate 37 26 37 System Design (ICCESD-2013), at Associate Member 70 61 77 MNIT Jaipur, during January 28-30. Fellow 8 7 7
Graduate Student 301 351 470 • National Conference on Member Communications-2013 at IIT Delhi Honorary Member 3 3 3 during Feb 15-17.
Life Fellow 1 3 4 • 3rd International Conference on Life Member 4 5 5 Advanced Computing, at Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College, Life Senior 12 15 17 Ghaziabad during Feb 22-23. Member 883 1109 1168 Senior Member 168 175 169 Student Member 2266 2894 3200 • International Conference on Total 5157 3753 4649 Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT-2013), The membership is steadily growing. at Gwalior, during April 5-8. • 6thInternational Conference on In short, IEEE Delhi Section had a very Contemporary Computing (IC3- fruitful year. I take this opportunity to thank 2013), at JIIT, Noida during Aug 8- one and all, who helped in running the 10. activities smoothly
• International Conference on Signal Prof. Sukumar Mishra, Outgoing Secretary, Processing, Computing, and Control IEEE Delhi Section 2012 (ISPCC-2013), at JUIT, Solan,
during Sep 26-28.
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IEEE DELHI SECTION MEMBERSHIP With best regards, STATISTICS AT A GLANCE (2013/02) Total: 2934*
(Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay) Associate Member Active 17 IEEE Delhi Section April 29, 2013 (Sunday) Fellow Active 6 E-mail: [email protected] Graduate Student Member Active 325 Web-site: www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi
Honorary Member Active 3 Schedule of Lecture(s) Life Fellow Active 4 Surf IEEE vTools Meeting System Life Member Active 4 (https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/main), Life Senior Active 16 then login with User Name and Password, and View Existing Meetings / View Published Member Active 537 Meetings Senior Member Active 145 (https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_vi ew/list) for the Upcoming Meetings in Student Member Active 1877 respect of IEEE Delhi Section and its Society *Excluding Affiliates to Societies Chapters / Affinity Groups.
List of IEEE Conferences in the geographic area covered by the IEEE Delhi Section (including area under contiguous Section) to go in 2013 vol 13 no 4 2013 Sixth International Conference on April 2013 Contemporary Computing (IC3) (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ From the desk of ECC conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Conf_ID=31296) My dear esteemed Members, 2013 International Conference on
Advanced Electronic Systems (ICAES) Here goes the Section e-newsletter for April (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ 2013 with lots of news and views, besides conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? usual information on Section strength. Latter Conf_ID=31975) is obviously cause of concern and with the same membership list maintained and then 2013 IEEE International Conference on new members included, Section appeals Signal Processing, Computing and Control again to those members who haven’t (ISPCC) renewed to do the needful right now for (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ continuing to get benefits of being in the conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Conf_ID=30595) IEEE Fraternity. Last but not the least let us join hands to congratulate IEEE PES-IAS 2013 International Conference on Chapter which has won again the coveted Microelectronics & Reliability (ICMR) IEEE PES Outstanding Chapter Award under (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ Large Chapter category with the able conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? leadership of Prof. Mini S. Thomas. Details Conf_ID=31193) of the same you will find in this edition of e- newsletter. 2013 IEEE Second International Conference on Image Information 30
Processing (ICIIP) Chair, Technical Program Chair, Publication (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ Chair, Finance Chair/Treasurer, Contacts). conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Conf_ID=31034) 1. Whether the proposed conference is
2013 International Conference on Signal being organized for the first time or it has Processing and Communication (ICSC) been held earlier also. In case of latter, (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ please furnish brief about the same. conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Conf_ID=31522) 2. Theme and areas covered by the conference and if possible, to which 2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Society(ies) of IEEE the areas precisely and RF Conference (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ belong. conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Conf_ID=31198) 3. If there is provision for plenary session / state-of-the-art lecture(s), the name(s) of 2013 IEEE Conference on Information possible speaker(s). Management in the Knowledge Economy (IMKE 2013) 4. Time schedule with important dates – (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? such as for, Abstract / Extended Abstract / Conf_ID=21191) Full Paper Submission, Acceptance 2013 International Conference on Machine Notification, Camera Ready submission, Intelligence and Research Advancement Registration, etc. (as placed with adequate (ICMIRA) interval of time). (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? 5. Whether the accepted papers, after due Conf_ID=30610) presentation (oral or poster) only, are
2013 IEEE International Symposium on intended to be published through the IEEE Signal Processing and Information Xplore, besides local publication. If yes, then Technology (ISSPIT) specific information about the review (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/c process and estimated number of papers to onferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Co be submitted and possible acceptance (may nf_ID=31648) be going by the previous few such conferences projection can be made for this A submission as Chair of IEEE Delhi time). This is required in order to maintain Section Standing Committee on quality of papers going to IEEE Xplore. Technical & Professional Activities 6. How is IEEE Delhi Section to be In view of the large volume of requests associated in organizing the conference in coming from various corners to the Section terms of human and other resources? for the (Financial) Co-Sponsorship and / or Technical Co-sponsorship for ‘IEEE’ tagged International or otherwise Conference this 7. Preliminary budget with estimated income submission is being made to the IEEE and expenditure under various heads. Members belonging to the Delhi Section. While approaching through communication Note: Inter-alia the response has to include to IEEE Delhi Section
publication in the IEEE Xplore, if so, Besides the above-mentioned requirement otherwise limited up to local publication, that are of essential nature, depending upon going through the process of submission of financial involvement, as also required by papers, peer review, acceptance of abstract the IEEE, it may be necessary to submit / extended abstract / full-paper, final Principles of Business Conduct and Conflict submission of camera-ready papers, etc. of Interest (POBC/COI) form by the General Accordingly this information will have to be Chair and Finance Chair/Treasurer, reflected in the conference publicity media Contracts and Legal Documents to provide whether in e-form or hard copy, e.g., web- information on hotel and other contracts, site, brochure, etc. In fact there is a need to Insurance coverage for an IEEE Conference, know how the IEEE Delhi Section will be Conference Financial Information detailing directly and substantially involved in Revenue and Expense as forecasted, developing the Technical program which is a followed by time to time updating, etc. requirement of IEEE to technically co- sponsor and / or (financially) co-sponsor. Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay, Chair, STDCOM on T & P Activities, IEEE Delhi Section As the above facts and figures sought are of mandatory nature, these are to be furnished Excerpts from IEEE Conference quite explicitly based on local experience Organizer’s Newsletter (as received on and as projected, may be taking help of Mar 31) others too and as applicable at the time of submission of proposal for consideration by Enhanced Credit Card the IEEE Delhi Section Standing Committee Processing Service for on Technical & Professional Activities. IEEE Conferences
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“Green” and “sustainable” meetings have “IEEE PES Outstanding Chapter been industry catch phrases and emerging Award Winners trends for quite some time, yet without consistent evaluation or measurement We are pleased to announce the results of criteria. the IEEE PES Outstanding Chapter In February 2013 the Green Meeting Awards for Large and Small Chapters for Industry Council (GMIC), announced an the 2012 program year: agreement to develop a certification program for the event industry's Large Chapter (> 100 members): sustainability standard. iCompli, a global third-party assurance provider will manage Winner - Delhi [Chapter Chair - Mini S the assessment, audit and certification Thomas] process. Runners Up (in alphabetical order) The APEX/ASTM Environmentally * Madras [Chapter Chair - K. V. Sustainable Event Standards were released Rupchand] in 2012 to address environmental and social * Malaysia [Chapter Chair - Izham sustainability in the meeting and event Zainal Abidin] industry. The standards specify specific performance criteria for staff management, * Queensland [Chapter Chair - Mehdi communications, waste management, Eghbal] energy, air quality, water, procurement, and community partners. The standards were Small Chapter: created in partnership with ASTM International, an ANSI-accredited standards Winner - Kerala [Chapter Chair - development organization. The agreement, Muhammed Kasim S] calls for GMIC and iCompl to work together in promoting the adoption and certification Winning Chapters receive $1000, runners of the Standards. up $250. The winning chapter chairs (or designee) are also invited to the 2013 With attendees often looking for conference General Meeting in Vancouver, British options that support sustainability, these standards may help organizers distinguish Columbia, Canada to be honored at the Awards Dinner and the Chapter meetings. 34
Please be sure to congratulate these IEEE foundation has approved a fund of chapters if you attend the meeting. USD 897 (approximately 50000 Indian These chapters provided a wide range of Rupees) for the project "Facilitation of excellent programs and services to PES Medical Expertise in Cancer" to the Students members. Thanks to all the chapter Branch of the Krishna Institute of Engineering and Technology (KIET), volunteers who help serve our members Ghaziabad. and our industry. Though it is a belated news that reached us Thanks to all the chapters that submitted after it was originally communicated in OCA applications this year. I know there January 2013 or so, let us congratulate all are many other active chapters out there those IEEE Members involved at KIET that have programs that can compete for behind such success and hope that they the OCA. Please note there will be some would deliver the goods in time for such a modifications to the OCA program that noble cause for humanity for which we all at will be discussed at the Chapter meetings IEEE stand united. in San Diego, and details will be available IEEE DELHI SECTION MEMBERSHIP on the PES Chapters web site soon. STATISTICS AT A GLANCE (2013/03) Once again, congratulations to our winners Total: 3255* and runners up in the IEEE Power & Energy Society Outstanding Chapter Associate Member Active 21 Award contest.” Fellow Active 7 Members of IEEE Delhi Section salute to Graduate Student Member Active 370 all volunteers of IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter and the others who made it Honorary Member Active **2 possible directly or indirectly to win the Life Fellow Active 4 coveted award for the fourth time and Life Member Active 5 after a gap of 7 years. The Chapter has previously won this highest award from Life Senior Active 17 IEEE PES under the leadership of Dr. Member Active 626 Subrata Mukhopadhyay (2000 & 2003) Senior Member Active 155 Prof. Bhim Singh (2006) (http://www.ieee- pes.org/images/pdf/chapters/pes-oca- Student Member Active 2048 winners.pdf), and now under Prof. Mini S. *Excluding Affiliates to Societies Thomas (2013). Also, under Prof. Bhim ** with known loss of 1 HM Singh the Chapter received in 2009 Outstanding Large Joint Chapter Award from IAS, and PES 125th anniversary Recognition and Award for "Best Chapter Performance Last Decade" as one of the 3 Large Chapters. vol 13 no 5
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With summer setting in, exams started and / Signal Processing, Computing and Control or finishing by, thus leading to summer (ISPCC) vacation in the academic arena, our (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ activities too have come to almost a conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Conf_ID=30595) grinding halt. Amidst this situation, of course one or two activities are taking place at the 2013 International Conference on instance of various organizational units that Microelectronics & Reliability (ICMR) are definitely praiseworthy for the (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ exemplary spirit of continuity. So, as usual, conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? with some news and views and of course Conf_ID=31193) repeating some section this edition of e- newsletter is being brought out. 2013 IEEE Second International Conference on Image Information With best regards, Processing (ICIIP) (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Conf_ID=31034)
(Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay) 2013 International Conference on Signal IEEE Delhi Section Processing and Communication (ICSC) (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ May 29, 2013 (Wednesday) conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? E-mail: [email protected] Conf_ID=31522) Web-site: www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi 2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Schedule of Lecture(s) and RF Conference (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ Surf IEEE vTools Meeting System conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? (https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/main), Conf_ID=31198) then login with User Name and Password, and View Existing Meetings / View Published 2013 IEEE Conference on Information Management in the Knowledge Economy Meetings (IMKE 2013) (https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_vi (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ ew/list) for the Upcoming Meetings in conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? respect of IEEE Delhi Section and its Society Conf_ID=21191) Chapters / Affinity Groups. 2013 International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Research Advancement List of IEEE Conferences in the (ICMIRA) geographic area covered by the IEEE (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ Delhi Section (including area under conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Conf_ID=30610) contiguous Section) to go in 2013
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Call for Papers ICAES-2013 conference invites submission of high quality research papers describing original research work from prospective authors. Research scholars working in the CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, is a premier research following areas are encouraged to attend institute and a constituent laboratory of and present their work. The areas of CSIR, New Delhi. It was established in 1953 interest include but are not limited to the with a vision of developing advanced following: technologies in the field of Electronics. The institute is celebrating its Diamond Jubilee • Real Time Embedded Systems Year and it endeavours to be a leading • VLSI Architectures and source of knowledge and technologies in the Reconfigurable Systems frontier areas of electronics for the benefit • Intelligent Instrumentation and of society. Process Control Birla Institute of Technology & Science • Modern Power Electronic Systems (BITS), Pilani, is a well known institute for • Wireless Sensor Networks higher education. Over the years, BITS has • Signal and Image Processing provided quality technical education to students from all over India. The mission of The conference is included in the IEEE BITS is to advance knowledge and educate conference publication program. Accepted students in science, technology, and other and presented papers will be published in areas of scholarship that will best serve the the conference proceedings and will be nation and the world in the 21st century. available on IEEE Xplore®. About ICAES Paper Submission Procedure and During the last two decades exciting Guidelines developments have taken place in Prospective authors are invited to submit full Electronics Science and Engineering, and the papers including results, figures and technology has progressed utilizing references. Papers should be submitted enhanced power of computation and electronically through easychair using advancements in the design of electronic website systems based on Smart Sensors, ASICs, http://www.easychair.org/conference FPGAs, Digital Signal Processors and s/?conf=icaes2013 Embedded Micro-controllers with Real-time • The papers should be of original Operating Systems. These new generation work and must follow strict IEEE electronic systems are unfolding at rapid formatting instructions. rate in terms of their range of applications • Regular papers- A4 size of and impact. While significant advances are maximum 5 pages (Two-column, taking place in each of the technological single space, 10 pt.) including all areas, e.g. VLSI Architectures, Dynamically figures, tables and references. Reconfigurable Systems, Signal & Image • For more information, please visit Processing and Communications, the need official website and follow the paper for periodic review, cross fertilization of submission instructions. interdisciplinary concepts and ideas is Call for Workshop/Tutorial Proposals increasingly becoming apparent. The Proposals for tutorials on relevant conference aims to provide a forum for conference topics are invited from presentation of high quality research papers distinguished researchers by May 20th, describing original research work, new 2013. Duration for each topic is of 2 hours. research results, state-of-art design and Tutorials should provide participants with practical applications, identification of R&D the state-of-the-art information on well- trends and future directions. established or new cutting edge topics or
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Thanking you, check for similarity score for which 30% is the usual limit, With Best Regards, - Acceptance ratio, to maintain standard of an IEEE Conference, may not go beyond Sachin 50% usually, but in no case it should cross Jasuja 60%, going by the precedence, Radhakrishna Rambola Convener ICACCT™-2013 On constituting various Conference Co-convener ICACCT™-2013 Committees: - Though IEEE Delhi Section would be constituting an Oversight Committee APIIT SD India (1st International consisting of IEEE Members depending upon Engineering College) areas covered by the event, Conference Organizers should try to include in the Faridpur Road, G.T. Karnal Road Side various Conference Committees IEEE Panipat [Haryana] 132103, India Members of discipline(s) in which the Web Site: www.icacct.apiit.edu.in Conference is there. They may be local or Email: [email protected], coconv from outside. [email protected] Contact:+91-180 – 6532444, 6532555, On the usage of IEEE logo and its name: +919896859985, +919541222518 Until and unless IEEE and / or its Tele Fax: +91-180-2577273 Organizational Units (OUs) have financial stake of 50% or more, neither IEEE logo nor Some updating for the Conference IEEE in the name of Conference should be Organizers used. (by Section Technical & Professional Activities STDCOM Chair) Main activities following consent of Section: Continuing further with what was published After obtaining consent of IEEE Delhi in the April 2013 issue of e-newsletter, due Section, Conference Organizers are to certain specific changes as per directives expected to follow the steps given below. and / or expectations of IEEE Conference - Submit a conference application at the Operations and also Section, following is following: http://www.ieee.org/conferences brought to notice of the organizers of IEEE _events/conferences/organizers/conf_app.ht Conferences by me as Chair of IEEE Delhi ml. Section Technical & Professional Activities Then based on the information provided, Standing Committee. IEEE system generates a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that is customized for On Conference Papers: that specific conference. Thereafter, IEEE - Though there is no hard and fast rule, but sends an email to the representatives of based on the practices in vogue and each sponsor (financial, technical) which statistics, there should be peer review with contains a unique URL. With that URL they best of 3 or more reviewers / experts with are able to review the MOU and submit their adequate time for review (say, about 3 decision. Their decision is then captured by months from the last date of submission of the IEEE system. Once approval is received paper to final notification of acceptance, not from all the sponsor representatives withstanding communication taking in (financial, technical), IEEE sends out a fully between), executed MOU which completes the MOU - In order to avoid plagiarism right at the requirement. beginning, before sending manuscript of paper to reviewers through proper software - After the execution of MOU, it is necessary (e.g., EDAS, etc.) there should be thorough to fill online conference publication form (http://ta.ieee.org/InfoSched/Pub/Search.as 45
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sharing surplus or deficit, be sure. For them Further, it is requested to insert at it is like giving counter-guarantee that appropriate place(s) the following instead of requires approval of Union Cabinet. For what appears commonly for the instance at the initial stage of privatization Conferences. in various sectors in India for FDI (Foreign "Organized and Sponsored by X / Co- Direct Investment) one may remember to sponsored by X, Y, etc., and Technically have seen such thing to happen. But it is Sponsored by … (one or more IEEE not expected to happen for conference sort Organizational Units, e.g., Section, Society of thing. So it is advised not to put DRDO or Chapter / Affinity Group, Region, Society), as a matter of fact Department of Science & with likely support of A, B, C, etc." Technology (DST), Department of Electronics & Information Technology Without the above-mentioned two issues (DeitY), etc. in an embarrassing situation explicitly shown with due care - one on by urging them to sign or endorse as possibility of publication through IEEE Xplore mentioned above. (if applicable), and the other correctly on (financial) sponsor/co-sponsors, technical Similarly there exists restriction too so far as sponsor/co-sponsors, & supporter(s), if any, IEEE Xplore publication is concerned. Conference may not get approval of IEEE Conference website cannot or rather should Conference Operations when proposed or not state something like "…. Conference is even if having approval earlier, may be null included in the IEEE's Conference and void due to violation of MOU. Publication Program. This means that the … Conference proceedings of accepted papers So please act now and confirm to that effect (for oral presentations) will be indexed and to Section ([email protected]) or IEEE published online on IEEE Xplore." In fact Conference Operations (conference- Conference proceedings that meet IEEE [email protected]) accordingly, of course if you quality review standards may only be agree. Otherwise, IEEE Delhi Section or any eligible for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore other IEEE Organizational Unit too may not Digital Library. Conference related be in a position to do anything to come out communications such as conference web- of the hurdle faced at any point of time site, email, direct mail solicitation, etc. may during the course of journey. not reference or guarantee inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Further, Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay, Chair, STDCOM conference communications may not on T & P Activities, IEEE Delhi Section reference or guarantee inclusion in any abstracting and indexing (A&I) databases, Welcome to GoogleApps@IEEE since inclusion in such databases is determined by independent A&I service Those IEEE Members having IEEE alias providers and cannot be guaranteed by ([email protected]), for them GoogleApps@IEEE IEEE. Misrepresentation of either is service has been set up and is now the considered a violation of IEEE brand backend engine for the mail forwarding of guidelines. their IEEE.org address. To access the GoogleApps@IEEE service, go to: Therefore, as suggested by the IEEE email.ieee.org. Sign in with your IEEE Conference Operations, Conference web-site Account Username and Password. may indicate something like, Learn more about GoogleApps@IEEE "………………. (Conference Name) has (http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/ applied for inclusion in the IEEE's membership/googleapps.html) Conference Publication Program. This means that the Conference proceedings of accepted papers (for oral presentations) will be submitted to IEEE Xplore." 47
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Attendees will benefit from participating in From the desk of ECC POCO in 2013, helping them to create and run effective, high quality conferences with My dear esteemed Members, greater ease. Please be sure to pass this on to those individuals interested in This issue too of Section e-newsletter is conferences who may not receive this being brought out from out-station. newsletter. Your support and Therefore, both pdf and word version are encouragement will go a long way in helping being posted and upon my return to Delhi them achieve their conference goals. only Section site would be updated. Please excuse me for the same.
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2013 International Conference on Signal components, circuits, systems, and Processing and Communication (ICSC) modeling methods. The conference will have (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ two parallel session tracks and a poster conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? session with a technology exhibit and Conf_ID=31522) workshops. The IMaRC invites papers on all areas of microwave and RF technology, 2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave including, but not limited to: and RF Conference • Passive components (filters, couplers, (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ transitions, etc.) conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? • Novel waveguides, and new phenomena in Conf_ID=31198) waveguides 2013 Fourth National Conference on • Hybrid and monolithic active components Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, (amplifiers, mixers, oscillators etc.) Image Processing and Graphics • RF packaging and package modeling (NCVPRIPG) • Semiconductor devices and component (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ modeling for RF applications conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? • RF MEMS and microsystems Conf_ID=31842) • Microwave and millimeter-wave systems • Radar, SAR and microwave imaging 2013 IEEE Conference on Information • Electronic warfare and other military Management in the Knowledge Economy (IMKE 2013) applications of RF/Microwaves (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ • High power transmitters conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? • Emerging areas (nanotechnology, Conf_ID=21191) biomedical applications etc.) 51
Papers describing technologies that enable WIE received a total number of 59 Radio and Wireless Systems are welcome proposals. including: • Wireless and cellular architectures, circuits, After careful consideration, R10 WIE and components committee has reached the final decision to • Cognitive and adaptive radio award 35 proposals from the following 35 • Transmitter Components affinity groups. • Receiver Components The decision is based on the quality/impact • Highly Integrated Packaging of the activities proposed, distribution of • Active antennas and Phased arrays Affinity Group and type of activities. • MIMO antennas • Signal Generation and Modulation Circuits * WIE Affinity Group, IEEE Bangladesh • Methods of Maintaining Signal Integrity Section • Optical/Fiber Techniques * IEEE Xi'an Section • EMI/EMC * PESIT-BSC IEEE Student Branch WIE Topics that are well-known to be covered by Affinity Group other IEEE societies, such as passive * IEEE DELHI SECTION AFFINITY GROUP antennas, antenna measurements like near- * IEEE WIE NSIT field & CATR, and DSP and coding aspects * Institute of Technology of MIMO and other communication systems, * GRIET SB will not be suitable for this conference. * Jayamukhi Institute of Technological Sciences Paper submission instructions will be found * wie k l university student branch at http://imarc-ieee.org/ . All submissions * IEEE WIE Affinity Group, Muffakham Jah must be properly formatted in the two- College of Engineering column IEEE format and be between three * College of Engineering, Chengannur and four pages with the figures included. * College of Engineering,Trivandrum Only electronic submissions in pdf format * Govt. Rajiv Gandhi Institute of will be accepted for review. Authors should Technology,Kottayam indicate their preference for oral or poster * IEEE SB TIST presentation, but the conference chairs may * IEEE Student Branch CEC(#60451) place the paper in the best place. All * Kerala Section WIE AG submissions must be received by August 1, * NSS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SB 2013. * WIE AG, IEEE KERALA SECTION * WIE SCT SB Submissions will be evaluated based on * Kharagpur section WIE Affinity group novelty, significance of the work, technical * WIE AG, Kolkata chapter content, interest to the audience, and * IEEE Madras Section presentation. Measured data should be * IEEE WIE Saveetha School Of Engineering provided to verify component and circuit * WIE Affinity Group, IEEE Madras Section designs. Student Network * WIE Affinity Group, IEEE Student Heartiest Congratulations!!!!!!!! Branch[64691], Jeppiaar Engineering to IEEE WIE NSIT College and IEEE WIE Affinity Group Delhi * WIE SMIT SB 61411 Section * Japan Council Women in Engineering ------Affinity Group Dear Section Chairs and WIE Affinity Group * Malaysia WIE Chairs, * IEEE WIE NSW * IEEE WIE Lahore Section Affinity Group Thank you for submitting the proposal to * Pakistan WIE Forum R10 WIE support fund 2013. This year, R10 * IEEE SG WIE AG 52
* WIE Student Branch Affinity Group of trend growing; being a member of Technical University of Peradeniya Activities provides opportunities for self- * WIE Student Branch Affinity Group, education, leadership development and, let's University of Moratuwa not forget, fun. The increase in society * Vietnam membership means we're telling our story better, and people want to join. As for details, please refer to the following: http://www.ieeer10.org/2013/07/02/r10- Finally, we're seeing the impact of our work wie-support-fund-2013-results/ around the globe as we see that technologies on which we focus are the Decision e-mails will be sent to the technologies that make cities smarter. Smart proposers stated in the proposal. cities are our wheelhouse; they require power, telecommunications, sensors, signal Congratulations to all the recipients and a processing, computers and software for big thanks to all the participants. modeling and simulation. Each of these is R10 WIE wishes for the fruitful activities core to the IEEE. We need to do what we your Affinity Group will organize. can to help develop these technologies for smarter cities, a smarter world, and smarter Sincerely Yours, people, to make life better fifty years from Takako Hashimoto now than it is today. R10 WIE Coordinator 2013-2014 You don't have a smart city that isn't Excerpts from IEEE TA Spotlight - June plugged in. We're trying to understand how 2013 IEEE can be plugged in to help develop a (as received on June 21, 2013) better future for everyone.
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categories: contributions within the last five Jamieson is the president of the IEEE years, or those older than five years. Each Foundation. "Compared to when I started category may have a maximum of three my career, I see much more activity at the inductees per year. Consider nominating a boundaries between research areas. These worthy colleague. are reflections of how not only Technical Activities in IEEE has changed, but how the The TAB Hall of Honor selection committee technical world has changed." will be accepting nominations until 9 August 2013 for IEEE members, living or deceased, Jamieson says there is a growing whose contributions have benefited more conversation about how those boundary than a single Society or Council during their areas should be navigated: in IEEE, in the membership. Recipients will be determined academia, and the technical community at at the November 2013 TAB meeting. large. "We grapple with how much we want students to have depth and how much we Nomination packets must include a want them to have breadth. In reality, you nomination form, references, description of need both, not in one person but the contribution, and a photo of the collectively. It's important to have strong nominee. For further information, contact pillars but they must be pillars and not silos Paula Dunne, Project Specialist, Volunteer so you can build bridges across them." Read Engagement and Governance. The IEEE the entire article here Technical Activities Objectives can be (http://sites.ieee.org/societies/2013/06/13/i viewed in Section 1.3 of the TAB Operations eees-past-president-envisions-the-future/). Manual. Current members of the IEEE TAB Hall of Honor selection committee and IEEE Excerpts from June 2013 IEEE staff are ineligible. Conference Organizer's Newsletter (as received on June 25, 2013) Read more about the TAB Hall of Honor here IEEE CRM Team Expands (http://www.ieee.org/about/volunteers/tab/t ab_hall_of_honor.html). To further increase the level of support Member Spotlight provided to IEEE Leah H. Jamieson conference organizers, the MCE Customer IEEE's Past President Envisions the Future Relationship Management team has When asked if Technical Activities has grown. Please welcome Caroline Johnson, changed since she became a member of the who recently joined the CRM team as the IEEE nearly forty years ago, IEEE Fellow and third Customer Relationship Manager. former President Leah Jamieson says both Technical Activities and her perspective have Caroline is a Meetings, Conferences and changed. Events veteran, previously working in roles including event registration to meeting "In my earliest interactions through Signal management. Most recently, Caroline was a Processing and Computer societies, my Traffic & Production Coordinator in the IEEE focus was on specific research," she recalls. Corporate Branding & Strategy providing "I went to Technical Activities conferences in end-to-end project management for over and publications because I had interest in 300 projects. particular research topics." Caroline can be reached at Five years after completing her term as [email protected] president and ten since her term as VP-TAB, 54
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2014. Each IEEE Region is encouraged to The 2013 Global submit nominations to help ensure that MGA Destination Cities is globally balanced. Self-nominations are Index prepared encouraged. The deadline to submit by MasterCard has predicted that Bangkok, nominations is 1 August 2013. the capital of Thailand will become the most popular destination, putting it ahead of London. Review the list of available 2014 MGA positions (http://www.ieee.org/societies_communities The index predicts visitor numbers based on /geo_activities/nominations_and_appointme scheduled flights and the estimated spend nts/mga_positions.html) by tourists for 132 different destinations around the world. Complete the online nomination form for yourself or someone else The top five destinations are Bangkok, (http://www.ieee.org/societies_communities London, Paris, Singapore and New York. /geo_activities/nominations_and_appointme Other cities predicted to do well include: nts/mga_nomination_form.html)
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E-mail MGA staff with questions (mga- Geographic Activities Board selected the [email protected]) following recipients of the 2013 MGA Outstanding Large and Small Section Call for nominations: MGA Wilson, Awards: Innovation, Leadership, Achievement, and GOLD Achievement Awards • 2013 MGA Outstanding Large (posted 23 July 2013) Section Award recipient is the IEEE North Jersey Section from Region 1; You can help recognize the efforts of • 2013 MGA Outstanding Small outstanding volunteers by nominating Section Award recipient is the IEEE individuals for one of the prestigious MGA Green Mountain Section from Awards. Each award has a unique mission Region 1. and criteria and offers the opportunity to honor distinguished colleagues, inspiring Congratulations to the North Jersey and teachers, and corporate leaders. Green Mountain Sections for being selected for these awards "For successful efforts in If you know someone who has made fulfilling the educational and scientific goals substantial regional contributions through of IEEE for the benefit of the public by innovative projects, exemplary leadership, maintaining, enhancing, and supporting the service, or by fulfilling the goals of Student Branches, Technical Chapters, and transnational activities, consider nominating Affinity Groups within their geographic them for one of the following awards: boundaries."
• MGA Larry K. Wilson Transnational This year’s recipients, as well as previous Award recipients, are listed on the MGA • MGA Innovation Award Outstanding Section Awards Web page. • MGA Leadership Award There is also a section of the page • MGA Achievement Award highlighting some of the 2012 calendar year • MGA GOLD (Graduates of the Last activities of the recipients and nominees. Decade) Achievement Award Announcing 2014 IEEE MGA Board Please visit the MGA Award Nomination Web members and committee chairs page (posted 23 July 2013) (http://www.ieee.org/societies_communities /geo_activities/awards/recipients/nomform_ The MGA Assembly met Thursday, 27 June award.html) to review the nominator 2013, and determined the slate of guidelines and eligibility requirements, candidates for the office of 2013 IEEE Vice reference the step-by-step submission President of Member and Geographic instructions, and link to the portal for Activities, to be sent to the IEEE Assembly nominations (https://mga- for selection in November 2013: awards.myreviewroom.com/). • Ralph Ford (R2) - Erie, PA, USA The deadline for nominations (completed • David Green (R3) - Birmingham, AL, nomination form and two endorsement USA letters) is 15 October 2013. The MGA Assembly also selected the 2014 MGA Outstanding Section Award MGA Treasurer and Vice Chairs, as follows: recipients announced (posted 23 July 2013) • MGA Treasurer: Don Bramlett (R4) -
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• MGA Vice Chair, Geographic Unit Help promote the IEEE Foundation Operations: Murty Polavarapu (R2) - with print and Web ads (posted 23 July Manassas, VA, USA 2013) • MGA Vice Chair, Information Management: S. Gopakumar (R10) - The IEEE Foundation is the philanthropic Trivandrum, India arm of IEEE. In an effort to best invest • MGA Vice Chair, Member donor dollars into programs, we ask for your Development: Ronald Jensen (R4) - help in increasing awareness of the IEEE Rochester, MN, USA Foundation. Please promote the IEEE • MGA Vice Chair, Strategic Foundation by using ads from the current Management and Analysis: Wai- campaign, Inspiring the Future, which Choong (Lawrence) Wong (R10) - highlights IEEE Foundation initiatives: Singapore Education, Innovation and Preservation. Some ads also feature the 40th anniversary. The MGA Board met Saturday, 29 June 2013, and approved the 2014 MGA Region, Section, and Membership editors Committee Chair appointments, are encouraged to visit the IEEE Promo recommended by the MGA Nominations and Library to find the ready-to-use Appointments Committee. Please visit the downloadable PDFs, in multiple dimensions 2014 MGA Volunteers Web page for more for print, and various popular Web ad sizes. information. The print ads are under “Member Benefits,” and the Web ads are in the section titled TAB Hall of Honor: recognize IEEE “Browse Web Ads by Size.” member contributions to Societies and Councils: deadline 9 August (posted 23 Your assistance will help increase awareness July 2013) of the IEEE Foundation and 40 years of Inspiring the Future with IEEE. Many IEEE members have made enormous contributions to the success of IEEE E-mail IEEE Foundation staff with questions Societies and Councils over the years. Now, regarding advertisements and placement the IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) is ([email protected]) giving you a chance to recognize such colleagues through the new IEEE TAB Hall IEEE Women in Engineering news: WIE of Honor Recognition meetups, online live discussions, and app (updated 23 July 2013) (http://www.ieee.org/about/volunteers/tab/t ab_hall_of_honor.html). IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Meetup held alongside IEEE Meeting The TAB Hall of Honor recognizes those Series persons, living or deceased, who have made contribution(s) to more than a single IEEE On Friday, 28 June 2013, IEEE hosted a Society or Council. Contributions include the meetup in San Diego, CA, USA, for women creation, development, or advancement of in technology in partnership with IEEE the technical objectives of IEEE. Women in Engineering and the GeekGirl Tech Conference. A meetup is a small The nomination deadline is 9 August 2013. networking event where people with a similar interest convene around a particular Learn more or nominate someone today topic. The event was designed to capitalize (http://www.ieee.org/about/volunteers/tab/t on IEEE leadership currently in town for the ab_hall_of_honor.html) IEEE Meeting Series and accomplished the goal of holding an event in conjunction with 58
a larger IEEE meeting that had direct impact With the annual IEEE election approaching, on the local community. Over 70 women do you know whom you will choose for 2014 attended, with representation from IEEE president-elect? Qualcomm, Scripps Research Institute, SAIC, Sally Ride Science, and many other To help you decide, The Institute asked the technology organizations. Additionally, candidates, IEEE Fellow Tariq S. Durrani and students and professors at the University of Senior Member Howard E. Michel, to weigh San Diego and University of California-San in on important IEEE issues. Diego, members of the Society of Women Engineers - San Diego chapter, start-up Read their interviews to learn where the companies, and independent women candidates stand on top IEEE issues entrepreneurs attended. Due to the success (http://theinstitute.ieee.org/briefings/electio of the event, other meetups are being n/where-durrani-and-michel-stand-on-top- considered for future locations. ieee-issues)
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E-mail the IEEEXtreme team for sponsorship As a special benefit to IEEE members for the packages ([email protected]) month of July, IEEE-USA is offering a free e- book, "The Best of Today’s Engineer: On IEEE congratulates 222 new Senior Consulting – Volume 2." This compilation of members; submit a Senior member articles is a convenient reference tool for application (updated 23 July 2013) those who want to build on and incorporate new ideas into their practice. It addresses The IEEE Admission and Advancement topics such as your reasons for becoming a (A&A) Senior Member Review Panel consultant, how to become a better meeting, held 29 June 2013 in San Diego, networker, and how to incorporate social CA, USA, welcomed 222 new Senior media into your practice. members. The next IEEE Senior Member Review Panel Meeting will be held 27 July Download now (PDF, 3.0 MB; free to IEEE 2013 in Chicago, IL, USA. members; US$5.99 for non-members) (http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/e View the list of members elevated to Senior books/files/i28asie2/Best-of-TE-On- member status Consulting-Vol2.pdf)
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IEEE DELHI SECTION MEMBERSHIP Lecture, Seminar, Tutorial, Workshop of one STATISTICS AT A GLANCE hour to half-day or daylong is quite low. (2013/06) Though we should not always judge our Total: 3896* performance by the quantity, saying very often quality is after all important, but at the end of the day both in fact matter. As the Associate Member Active 34 Chair of IEEE Delhi Section Technical & Fellow Active 7 Professional Activities (T&PA) Standing Committee (STDCOM) I am ably supported Graduate Student Member Active 435 in the Committee work by the Members, Dr. Honorary Member Active 2 Prerna Gaur (NSIT), Prof. M. N. Hoda (BVICAM), & Dr. Shabana Urooj (GBU). But Life Fellow Active 4 for our T&PA of short duration as mentioned Life Member Active 5 above, I am not thinking of inducting any more Member in the STDCOM. In fact I Life Senior Active 17 would expect Chairs of all Chapters, and Affinity Groups of the Section to help in Member Active 882 organizing the same. As observed, till now a Senior Member Active 178 number of Chapters / Affinity Groups are lagging in this regard. Please come forward Student Member Active 2332 and organize events of quality and in *Excluding Affiliates to Societies quantity too. Section will render all possible help.
With usual features appearing, I will urge members to go through this issue of monthly e-newsletter and may even vol 13 no 8 consider providing short news and views for sharing with each other in the upcoming August 2013 issues.
From the desk of ECC With best regards and wishes,
My dear esteemed Members,
Coming back from the vacation, as most of the academicians would like to say, we are (Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay) on the job. However, without marginalizing IEEE Delhi Section the equally important contributions coming August 17, 2013 (Saturday) from the practicing engineers, once again I New Delhi call one and all to come forward and E-mail: [email protected] participate in the technical and professional Web-site: www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi activities, for which your IEEE Delhi Section platform is ever ready. No doubt in the first Schedule of Lecture(s) half of 2013 we have perhaps put more than needed attention to streamline the Based upon available information and as Conferences to uphold the quality of the notified on Aug 15, 2013 (Thursday) - same under IEEE banner in the jurisdiction of Section or in the area under contiguous Title of Talk: New Direction in Energy & Section, but seeking our association. Now Power Research (17-th 'Thomas Alva Edison when I see the credit score, I am bit Memorial Lecture') reserved as number of activities under Talk, Speaker: IEEE PES DL Prof. Saifur Rahman, 61
Director, ARI, Virginia tech, National Capital COCOSDA/CASLRE) Region, Arlington, VA, USA (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ Venue: Committee Room, EE Department, conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Conf_ID=32229)
Khas, New Delhi 2013 IEEE Second International Time & Date: 05:30 pm, 19-August-2013 Conference on Image Information (Monday) Processing (ICIIP) (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ Title of Talk: Energy & Power Research conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Areas @ Virginia Tech - Advanced Research Conf_ID=31034) Institute Speaker: IEEE PES DL Prof. Saifur Rahman, 2013 International Conference on Signal Director, ARI, Virginia tech, National Capital Processing and Communication (ICSC) Region, Arlington, VA, USA (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Venue: Center for Information technology Conf_ID=31522) (CIT), Jamia MIllia Islamia, New Delhi Time & Date: 2.30 pm, 20-August-2013 2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave (Tuesday) and RF Conference (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ Besides above - conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Surf IEEE vTools Meeting System Conf_ID=31198) (https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/main), then login with User Name and Password, 2013 IEEE Conference on Information and View Existing Meetings / View Published Management in the Knowledge Economy (IMKE 2013) Meetings (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ (https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_vi conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? ew/list) for the Upcoming Meetings in Conf_ID=21191) respect of IEEE Delhi Section and its Society Chapters / Affinity Groups. 2013 Fourth National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, List of IEEE Conferences in the Image Processing and Graphics geographic area covered by the IEEE (NCVPRIPG) Delhi Section (including area under (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? contiguous Section) to go in 2013 Conf_ID=31842) (http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi/event.html)
2013 IEEE International Conference in 2013 International Conference on MOOC, Innovation and Technology in Advanced Electronic Systems (ICAES) Education (MITE) (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Conf_ID=31975) Conf_ID=32610)
2013 IEEE International Conference on 2013 International Conference on Machine Signal Processing, Computing and Control Intelligence and Research Advancement (ISPCC) (ICMIRA) (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Conf_ID=30595) Conf_ID=30610)
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2013 IEEE Second International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP) (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ vol 13 no 10 conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Conf_ID=31034) October 2013 2013 International Conference on Signal From the desk of ECC Processing and Communication (ICSC) (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ My dear esteemed Members, conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? E-newsletter of the IEEE Delhi Section for Conf_ID=31522) October 2013 follows with news and views for your perusal. 2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ With best regards and wishes, conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Conf_ID=31198)
2013 IEEE Conference on Information (Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay) Management in the Knowledge Economy (IMKE 2013) IEEE Delhi Section (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ October 31, 2013 (Thursday) conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? New Delhi Conf_ID=21191) E-mail: [email protected] Web-site: www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi 2013 Fourth National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Schedule of Lecture(s) Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG) Surf IEEE vTools Meeting System (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? (https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/main), Conf_ID=31842) then login with User Name and Password, and View Existing Meetings / View Published 2013 IEEE International Conference in Meetings MOOC, Innovation and Technology in (https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_vi Education (MITE) ew/list) for the Upcoming Meetings in (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ respect of IEEE Delhi Section and its Society conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Chapters / Affinity Groups. Conf_ID=32610)
List of IEEE Conferences in the 2013 International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Research Advancement geographic area covered by the IEEE (ICMIRA) Delhi Section (including area under (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ contiguous Section) to go in 2013 conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? (http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi/event.html) Conf_ID=30610)
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2014 International Conference on Issues Science and Engineering, Electrical and Challenges in Intelligent Computing Engineering & Electronics and Techniques (ICICT-2014) Communication Engineering, in general. This (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ has been a metamorphic version of Annual conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Convention and Exhibitions (ACE) which was Conf_ID=32494) the annual meeting of IEEE India Council. During ACE2003 it was decided to 2014 International Conference on completely restructure it in form of a Computing for Sustainable Global conference where India Council would Development (INDIACom) formally meet also. It was renamed as (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/c INDICON and the first INDICON was onferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Co organized by IEEE Kharagpur Section at IIT nf_ID=32558) Kharagpur during 20-22 Dec, 2004. Subsequent INDICON were organized by Other Conference of interest in 2013 – IEEE Madras Section (11-13 Dec, 2005),
IEEE Delhi Section (15-17 Sep, 2006), 9th International Conference on Microwaves, Bangalore Section (6-8 Sep, 2007), IEEE UP Antenna Propagation and Remote Sensing Section (11-13 Dec, 2008), IEEE Gujarat (ICMARS-2013), December 11 to 14, 2013 Section (18-20 Dec, 2009), IEEE Calcutta in Jodhpur, Rajasthan Section (17-19 Dec, 2010), IEEE Hyderabad (www.icmars2013.org) Section (16-18 Dec, 2011) and IEEE Kerala
Section (7-9 Dec, 2012).Over the past few In the pipeline are those slated in 2014 as years, INDICON emerged as a well per Section approval on submitted proposal, recognized and an eagerly anticipated event namely – in the country because of its high quality
technical sessions and for the networking 4th IEEE International Conference on opportunities it provides. INDICON 2013, Advanced Computing (IACC 2014) being which is being organized by the IEEE held at ITM University, Gurgaon, Haryana, Bombay Section in collaboration with IIT India from Feb 21 to 22, 2014 Bombay, is expected to attract over 500 (http://iacc2014.com/index.php) delegates from all over the country and
abroad and will consist of very high quality International Conference on Signal technical sessions and tutorials. See you all Propagation and Computer Technology 2014 in Mumbai at INDICON in December. - ICSPCT 2014 being held at Govt. Regards, Engineering College Ajmer, Rajasthan, Ashok Jagatia India from July 12 to 13, 2014 General Chair
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INDICON 2013 From Daman Dev Sood, FBCS, MBCI, (www.indicon2013.org) SMIEEE, MAIMA, ISO 22301 Expert
IEEE Ambassador Welcome to INDICON 2013 Oct 04, 2013 Greetings to You All!!!
Dear Authors, Delegates, Speakers, Invited A contribution from Computer Society Guests and Sponsors:INDICON 2013 is being organized by IEEE Bombay Section, at Learn about IBM Mobile Application Victor Menezes Convention Centre, IIT Development Solutions – a collection of Bombay from 13th to 15th December webcasts, videos and white papers is 2013.INDICON has been the most available at prestigious conference conceptualized by
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Delhi Section Celebrates IEEE Day! Piscataway, NJ (October 1, 2013) – The IEEE Photonics Society (IPS), a leading Delhi Section observed IEEE Day global network of scientists and engineers celebrations ahead of the time – by means representing the laser, optoelectronics and of two lectures on 21st Sep. The lectures photonics community, continues to grow as were jointly organised by the CS Chapter, a result of the launch of several new Technology Management Council, Education programs since the start of 2013. Society Chapter, and Consultants Network “This year the IEEE Photonics Society is Affinity Group. focusing on member engagement and Dr. K Subramanian spoke about industry relevance more than ever,” says “Digital/Information Economy-Trends in Richard Linke, Executive Director of the Technology, Workplace & Workforce For society. “We see our members as IEEE’s Growth and Sustainable Development Build eyes and ears out in the community, India Campaign” while Mr. Daman Dev Sood advocates who are representing our deliberated on “ISO 22301 – Societal organization and society around the world.” Security Business Continuity Management Systems – Requirements”. NATIONAL PHOTONICS INITIATIVE The IEEE Photonics Society is actively The event was attended by 12 members and participating in the National Photonics non-members. Initiative (NPI), a collaborative alliance of photonics associations seeking to unite A photograph on the occasion is shown industry, academia and government experts below. to identify and advance areas of photonics critical to maintaining US competitiveness and national security. A major focus of the initiative is the development of federal programs that encourage greater collaboration between US industry and academia. The alliance encourages an increase investment in education and job training programs for those interested in the photonics field.
For more information about the NPI, please visit: http://www.LightOurFuture.org.
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WIE plans to feature Novak in the December Photonics Daily. IPS followers and issue of IEEE WIE Magazine, which will subscribers on the web have immediate detail her industry accomplishments, access to quick updates and micro-blogs on leadership roles, and her vision for the photonics research and innovation, IPS Society after she becomes president in programs, educational opportunities, 2014. Novak, as well as Menoni, will publications, membership news and participate in WIE Live-Chats throughout the upcoming conference information. remainder of the year with the goal of spurring discussions that connect women “IEEE Photonics Society hopes to offer the engineers with the photonics community. photonics community a place to network with peers, keep up with evolving tech news To participate in the Dalma Novak, IPS and have a voice in the industry,” explained President-Elect, Live-Chat, visit Lauren Mecum, IPS Membership http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dalma- Development Specialist. novak at 10:30am EDT on October 11, 2013. Follow IPS on Twitter: @IEEEPhotonics
INDIA INITIATIVE Like IPS on Facebook: A new India-based chapter of IPS as well as http://Facebook.com/PhotonicsSociety the Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics will be located at the Indian Join the IPS LinkedIn Group: Institute of Technology in Delhi, India. The http://linkd.in/10MW07o biennial workshop, the first of which is planned for the 17th and 18th of December Subscribe to IEEE Photonics Daily: 2013, is intended to attract graduate http://bit.ly/IPSDaily students and other young researchers to the field of photonics – more specifically – Interested in becoming an IEEE advanced manufacturing, communications Photonics Society member? and information technology, defense and Visit http://bit.ly/Ulh0iE orhttp://bit.ly/14skA national security, health and medicine, and Nu for more information. energy. Designed to motivate photonics- based innovation and research, the About the IEEE Photonics Society workshop will consist of expert The IEEE Photonics Society is one of the presentations on the most recent advances world’s leading technical communities in the and emerging technology trends. field of optoelectronics and photonic materials, devices, and systems, with “We hope this biennial event will help members and activities engaged in research, significantly toward incorporating the spirit development, design, manufacture, and of innovation about photonics in young applications, as well as with the various Indian researchers,” Linke says. other activities necessary for the useful expansion of the field. As part of this For more information, please dynamic worldwide community, more than visit: http://physics.iitd.ac.in/wrap2013.html 100,000 photonics professionals actively organize, contribute to, and participate in GETTING THE WORD OUT Society technical conferences, journals and Due to the expanding global nature of IPS other activities covering all aspects of the and its need to stay connected with field. The IEEE Photonics Society has 75+ members, academia and industry worldwide chapters and is part of IEEE, the professionals, the Society recently increased world’s largest technical professional its online presence through social media association. The IEEE Photonics Society sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, (IPS) is the current name for the former and their new online newspaper, the IEEE IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 88
(LEOS). Learn more at Laura J. Riello, EDS Program Manager http://www.photonicssociety.org. IEEE Electron Devices Society Executive Office Chapter triumph 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ 08854 IEEE EDS Region 10 Chapter of the Tel: 732 562 3927 Year Award Fax: 732 235 1626 E-Mail: [email protected] Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:57:01 -0400 Web: ieee.org/eds From: Laura Riello
I am pleased to inform you that the ED • IEEE members select Howard Michel Delhi Chapter has been selected as the 2013 as 2014 IEEE President-Elect recipient of the IEEE Electron Devices • IEEE geographic unit officer term Society Region 10 Chapter of the Year limits Award. This award is intended to recognize • Call for nominations: IEEE Fellow the quality and quantity of the activities and Class of 2015: deadline 1 March programs implemented by the Region 10 • Register for upcoming Student chapters during the prior July 1st – June Webinars on SAMIEEE and 30th period. Educational Activities • IEEE Power & Energy Society As a token of our appreciation, a certificate Scholars announced and check for $500 will be presented at an • Last call for student project entries EDS conference or chapter meeting of your for 2013 Smarter Planet Challenge: choice. Please note that the EDS Board of Student Projects Changing the Governors meeting series will be held in World: deadline 1 November conjunction with the IEDM in Washington, • Order an IEEE membership DC in December. If you would like your development kit award recognized at this event, we will be • Call for nominations: MGA Student having the EDS BoG Awards Ceremony at Awards 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 8th, at the • Call for nominations: IEEE Technical Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC, Field Awards USA. I hope you or a representative from • Call for nominations: IEEE Eric Herz your chapter will be able to attend and Outstanding Staff Member Award accept the award in person. • IEEE launches new mentoring program Please inform Laura Riello of the EDS • New global insurance marketplace Executive Office at your earliest convenience for Regions 8, 9, and 10 whether or not you would prefer to have • Join a new member orientation your award presented at the EDS BoG webinar Awards Ceremony or another EDS • New video provides insights on conference or chapter meeting. Open Access Publishing • IEEE-USA offers free e-books to Sincerely, members in October and November Paul Yu • Featured news around IEEE: IEEE President, Electron Devices Society Spark
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(http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ Advanced Computing (IACC 2014) conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/confere Conf_ID=31522) nces/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=325 27) 2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference 2014 International Conference on (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ Computing for Sustainable Global conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Conf_ID=31198) Development (INDIACom) (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/c 2013 IEEE Conference on Information onferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Co Management in the Knowledge Economy nf_ID=32558) (IMKE 2013) (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ Other Conference of interest in 2013 – conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Conf_ID=21191) 9th International Conference on Microwaves, Antenna Propagation and Remote Sensing 2013 Fourth National Conference on (ICMARS-2013), December 11 to 14, 2013 Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, in Jodhpur, Rajasthan Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG) (www.icmars2013.org) (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? In the pipeline are those slated in 2014 as Conf_ID=31842) per Section approval on submitted proposal, namely – 2013 IEEE International Conference in MOOC, Innovation and Technology in International Conference on Signal Education (MITE) Propagation and Computer Technology 2014 (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ (ICSPCT 2014) being held at Govt. conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? Conf_ID=32610) Engineering College Ajmer, Rajasthan, India from July 12 to 13, 2014 2013 International Conference on Machine (http://www.icspct2014.in/) Intelligence and Research Advancement (ICMIRA) 3rd International Conference on Parallel, (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ Distributed and Grid Computing (PDGC- conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? 2014) being organized by Jaypee University Conf_ID=30610) of Information Technology, Waknaghat Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India from December 11 to 13, 2014 2014 International Conference on (http://juit.ac.in/pdgc-2014/index1.php) Optimization, Reliability, and Information Technology (ICROIT) (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/ On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 2:25 PM, conferences/conferencedetails/index.html? IEEEAPO - Fanny & Ewell Conf_ID=32243)
Mini Thomas (Delhi Section)- 2013 Muhammad Maroof Raza (Lahore Section) - MGA Larry K. Wilson Transnational 2013 MGA GOLD Achievement Award Award For outstanding dedication and contributions For outstanding innovation and to IEEE young professional activities in leadership in IEEE member and South Asia student member development and engagement, global dissemination of Josheel Pranlal (New Zealand North Section) the IEEE message, and collaboration – 2013 MGA GOLD Achievement Award across organizational units. For supporting IEEE young professional activities in the IEEE New Zealand North Darrel Chong (Singapore Section) - 2013 Section through effective engagement with MGA Leadership Award student branches and local professional For exemplary leadership and global organizations. contributions to IEEE, especially membership development and humanitarian On behalf of Region 10 Director, Toshio activities in Region 10. Fukuda Fanny Sateesh Babu (Kerala Section) - 2013 MGA ************************************ Achievement Award Fanny Su For continuous efforts in member IEEE Asia Pacific Ltd/ engagement and development by promoting Communications Society Office humanitarian technologies and fostering No. 1, Fusionopolis Walk, collaboration between the IEEE Computer #04-07, South Tower, Solaris Society and the Computer Society of India. Singapore 138628 Tel no: (65) 6778-2873 Eiichi Ohno (Tokyo Section) – 2013 MGA Fax no: (65) 6778-9723 Achievement Award Email: [email protected] For promoting IEEE Milestones and for the success of the IEEE Technical Tour of Japan, A green approach? through collaboration with geographic units, industry, and academia. Daman Dev Sood tells the Parliament Rayees Amar Nishad (Kerala Section) - 2013 Magazine how IT can MGA GOLD Achievement Award be used to boost For exceptional leadership and outstanding sustainability contributions to IEEE young professional programs in Region 10. “While I truly believe in a balanced approach involving all, this point is debatable and Manjunath Iyer (Bangalore Section) -2013 sensitive” MGA GOLD Achievement Award Parliament Magazine: Why do we need a For continuous support to the IEEE Teacher green approach to IT and what are the In-Service Program (TISP) and Student environmental problems caused by the Transition & Elevation Partnership (STEP) digital revolution? events. Daman Dev Sood: The world business council for sustainable development has Ajin Baby (Kerala Section) - 2013 MGA estimated that the number of people on GOLD Achievement Award Earth in 2050 will grow to 9 billion (from 7 For outstanding leadership in bringing billion in 2010). IT, which was otherwise students and young professionals together thought to be a ‘white collared’ job and a through innovative activities in IEEE Kerala neat and clean industry, has left a huge Section and Region 10. environmental footprint. It is a vicious circle too – we need more IT because we have 92
more people, and then IT grows and we understand this cycle, we can see that we need more people to manage more IT all have a role to play. equipment. The importance of green IT lies PM: Though ICT’s contribution towards in the fact that the IT can be greened, at climate change is relatively small, you have the same time IT can be used to green the highlighted the huge contribution it can rest of the world, that’s the power. The make in tackling the problem. Can you give digital revolution impacts the environment examples? visibly, heat generated, water used in DDS: All the automation that has happened chillers, electricity used, carbon footprint in the past 50 years or so due to the created, and invisibly, depletion of natural invention of IT – falls in this category. More resources like precious metals which are not importantly, the Smart 2020 report has good forever. estimates from smart grids, smart buildings, PM: In your presentation you use ‘the smart logistics, and smart motor systems. cradle to grave’ analogy, which looks very One of the easiest examples is from the holistic, can you please tell our readers what global giant Dell–switching off about 50,000 its main aspects are and why a holistic view machines across globe, when not in use, is needed? brought their electricity consumption down DDS: A holistic view is required to tackle by 40 per cent. This was achieved through a this challenge as only less than 50 per cent simple automation software tool to manage control is directly in the user’s hands – the the human dependencies. other 50 per cent is not easily visible to the PM: What are the main policy drivers user. This holistic approach has been named globally and within India to deal with e- as ‘cradle to grave’ where green aspects of waste, and from your experience how is IT equipment are focused at all six main India dealing with this problem? stages, i.e. sourcing-manufacturing- DDS: Globally many steps have been taken packaging-distribution-usage-disposal. This like RoHS (restriction of hazardous concept is also known as ‘womb to tomb’ or substances), WEEE (waste electrical and ‘design to disposal’. Expectation is that a electronic equipment), Energy Star, EPEAT material never goes to landfill, making this (electronic product environmental ‘cradle to cradle’ concept assessment tool) and so on. While such PM: In order to create “Green IT” you point labelled products are also available in India, out the need for a balanced approach, why the implementation needs great is it important that all stake holders are enhancement, for example, there are not involved? enough collection centres and recycling facilities in the country to actually claim products being compliant to WEEE. DDS: While I truly believe in a balanced The government of India has paid attention approach involving all, this point is to this challenge and ‘e-waste management debatable and sensitive. Mahatma Gandhi and handling rules’ were made applicable in once said “There is enough on this planet 2011. for everyone’s needs, but not for everyone’s Daman Dev Sood is ambassador of IEEE, greed.” If you keep feeding me more, I will Delhi keep needing more – I am talking about the manufacturers of the products. Then user is Report Delhi Student Congress 2013 equally responsible – the first action is to 19 – 20 October, 2013 reduce, control and manage our Jamia Millia Islamia requirements. Finally, the regulators must act for good governance. Someone designs, IEEE Jamia Millia Islamia organized and someone provides resources, someone hosted the second edition of the DSC (Delhi produces, someone packages, distributes Student Congress of IEEE) on 19 – 20 and sells, I (the user) use, someone else October, 2013 with an aim of promoting finally disposes off or recycles. Once we networking among the various student 93
branches of IEEE. The DSC aims at building Moving on, we had a talk on IEEE, MGA and a relationship between various student SAC by Prof. Mini S Thomas, Executive Vice branches student branches so that there is Chair, IEEE Delhi Section. Next, a short Ice more networking and collaboration and Breaker Session was organized where the every branch can prove to be mutually students from various different student beneficial to each other. branches got to know each other. Post lunch, Mr. Niteesh Vasishta briefed the audience about the Delhi Student Activities and WIE followed by Prof. Mini briefing one and all about PES and PELS. Next a small refreshing group activity in the form of a tug of war was conducted and the delegates participated in full swing and the meet was suspended till the next day.
The DSC was divided into two parts, the first being an insight into IEEE and the second being a discussion on DSC and its motive to promote networking among student branches in the form of a SSN (Section Student Network).
The meet started with the recitation of Day TWO started with Mr. Barnabas Muthu, Quran and a Welcome Address by Prof. Mini Chair, India SAC Team a conducted a Career S Thomas. Mr. Prateek Taneja, Chairperson, Development Session which proved to be of IEEE JMI who briefed the audience about great help to the audience present, where the event. Prof. Bhim Singh was felicitated he talked about the college to Professional by IEE JMI for his academic achievements transition. Next in line was a presentation on and excellence. Branch Leadership Training by Mr. Imran Ali This was followed by the inauguration of followed by a Panel Discussion session DSC 2013 by Prof. Bhim Singh, Chairperson, presided over by Prof. Mini, Mr. Barnabas, IEEE Delhi Section. A Keynote Address on Mr. Imran and Mr. Rahul Chahan. During power system, operation in India was this, problems being faced by various delivered by the esteemed guest for the student branches were put up and were meet, Mr. V. K. Agrawal, ED, NLDC, answered back with some superb and POSOCO. Mr. Barnabas Muthu, Chair, India intelligent remedies by the panel of experts. SAC Team, Mr. Imran Ali, Member, Delhi Moving on, Mr Barnabas took the stage Section and Mr. Rahul Chauhan, ex- explaining about the functions and Chairperson, IEEE JMI. A vote of thanks by operations of IEEE in India. With this, all the Mr. Rishabh Mishra, Vice Chaiperson, IEEE students were acquainted with some great JMI concluded the inaugural session. facts and functionalities of IEEE here. This Moving on, a highly interactive and was followed by a Brainstorming Session on informative session was conducted by Dr. Group formation and Future Action Plan for Daman Dev Sood on Industry – Institute the Delhi SAC assisted by Prof. Mini, Mr. Interaction where he talked about green Barnabas, Mr. Imran and other members energy and e-waste disposal. It was highly wherein the delegates were divided into a informative for the audience comprising group of five and were supposed to discuss mostly of third year students ready to move among themselves and to finally present into their Professional Life. 94
their collective ideas on as to what can be Some articles may have been compiled from done in the near future so as to promote internal IEEE communications, as well as networking activities at the Delhi Section Society newsletters. level. The major recommendations are ______1. Delhi section Student Representative selection (there should be a clear criteria In this month’s issue: set, should give a call for nominations/applications and then a New Items: selection committee at the section level to select the SSR) 2. Quarterly meet should be organised hub IEEE Geographic Unit Officer Term Limits wise, esp one in Delhi, the next outside Delhi, Strengthening Section and Student Branch 3. Common email id, where branch chairs Relationships can access and communicate Finally the event was called off with a vote Register for Upcoming Student Webinars on of thanks by Prof. Mini and a song STEP Programs and Student Services Year in performance by Maudood Ahmad and team. Review
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Speaker: Mr. N. Venkatesan, Former 2014 International Conference on Member (Electrical), Railway Board Optimization, Reliability, and Information Topic: “Electrification and Challenges in Technology (ICROIT) Indian Railways” (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/c Chief Guest: Mr. Kul Bhushan, Member onferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Co (Electrical), Railway Board and Ex-Officio nf_ID=32243) Secretary to the Government of India
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Advanced Computing (IACC 2014) The name of Er. Raj Kumar Vir has become (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/c synonymous with the evolution of Electric onferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Co Traction popularly known as Electric Trains nf_ID=32527) in India.
He was born in Rangpur (now in Pakistan) 2014 International Conference on and studied in various schools in Punjab Computing for Sustainable Global (now part of Pakistan). Development (INDIACom) He was a product of Government College, (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/c Lahore and Benares Hindu University (1949, onferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Co Electrical & Mechanical Engineering) like nf_ID=32558) many luminaries of his period.
He joined Indian Railway Service of International Conference on Signal Electrical Engineers (IRSEE) in the year Propagation and Computer Technology 2014 1952 and held various key positions such as (ICSPCT 2014) Deputy Railway Advisor (DRA) at Zurich, (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/co 97
Switzerland. It can be said that he played a lead to elimination of this problem. major part in transformation of Indian In all the self generating coaches that were Railways from Steam Days to Electric in use then, the power generator was driven Traction and hence he was the architect of from coach wheel axle by a flat rubber belt Modern Indian Railways. He was first ever that had a very short life leading to frequent Divisional Superintendent contributed by the loss of generation due to belt losses. He then nascent Electrical Department and one conceived the idea of mounting the of the first ever General Mangers. He was generator on bogie transom and driving it Divisional Superintendent of Chakradharpur with the help of a set of endless V-belts. It Division in South Eastern Railway, one of was his personal efforts that lead to the the key assignments in view of Iron Ore and instructions to ICF to produce 50 coaches Coal Loading and working in Arduous with this arrangement on trial basis. Today sections. He also worked as Chief Planning this drive is a standard for all self-generating officer and Chief Electrical Engineer of South coaches. Eastern Railway, which is one of the most What is more significant is that he has important Zones of Indian Railways in view chronicled the developments in his times in of contribution to Bulk Transport of Iron Ore most beautiful way in his writings. He has and Coal and difficult working conditions. written about involvement of Jawaharlal Lal He did a stint as Deputy and Joint Director Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi, Mr. Nouvion and in Research Design and Standards others in his works in Development of Organization (RDSO) of Indian Railways Electric Traction little realizing that he from 1966 to 1972. These were very critical himself was a luminary of his times. Among years for the 24 volt dc Parallel Block Double the large number of technical articles Battery System which had evolved on Indian written by him for National and International Railways during the last four decades. The technical journals, his works on ‘History of train lighting system was very sophisticated Electric Traction’ and on Chittaranjan and was designed to work automatically Locomotive Works stand out. He has in his except for the function of switching ON and writings given full credit to his wife Mrs. OFF of lights and fans as a group which only Chand Vir. required manual intervention. This system His reach was beyond Electrical Engineering. was primarily electromechanical in nature He was Fellow of Institute of Rail Transport and had used a large amount of copper, and Institute of Rolling Stock Engineers. He brass and lead in its various components. was Senior Member and Past Chair of Delhi During mid-sixties these non-ferrous Section of Institute of Electrical and components had become a target of thefts Electronic Engineers (IEEE) of USA and both leading to serious crippling of the train a Life Fellow and Chartered Engineer of lighting system on entire Indian Railway Institution of Engineers (India). He was also system. It was under his guidance and a lot member of Indian National Academy of of personal contribution that RDSO Engineering (INAE). produced a report on Evaluation of Train Note: It is proposed to hold an Annual event Lighting System which formed the basis on in his memory where in his immediate family which the simplified train lighting system members may be invited. The objective is to was evolved and is now being followed. motivate the young engineers to follow the profession with vision and strive to achieve Another very serious problem was the fires excellence in whatever they do. in metal body coaches that were being produced by Integral Coach Factory (ICF). Announcement of slate for the IEEE His report on fires in metal body coaches Delhi Section Executive Committee for was a very exhaustive work on the subject 2014 and his personal contribution in getting the No. IEEE/Delhi-13/66 changes in coach wiring practices December 30, 2013 (Monday) implemented in various coach building units 98
4. Secretary Dr. Prerna Gaur, NSIT The proposed slate for the IEEE Delhi 5. Jt. Secretary Mr. Ravindra Joshi. Tata Section Executive Committee for 2014 is Power Delhi Distribution Ltd. hereby notified officially (as appearing 6. Treasurer Dr. Rachana Garg, DTU subsequently through the following two 7. Past Chairperson Prof. Siban K. Koul, pages) drawing attention specifically to IIT-D Article-VI: Nomination and Election of 8 Member Dr Vishnu Srivatava, CSIR Section Executive Committee of IEEE - 9. Member Dr. Deepak Garg, Thapar Univ., DELHI SECTION BYLAWS (as amended Patiala with effect from January 31, 2010) 10. Member Mr. Vijay Dutt, ex-Rlys. (http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi/bylaw. 11. Member Dr. Alka Singh, DTU html) of which relevant clauses are as 12 Member Prof. Abdul Q. Ansari, JMI given below: 13. Member Prof M N Hoda, BVICAM 14. Member Dr. Shabana Urooj, GBU- 6.2 The nominations of the Nomination G.Noida Committee will be announced to the Section 15. Member Mr. Rajendra K. Asthana, Membership and, following this, a minimum ex-BHEL of 28 days allowed for additional 16. Member (GOLD)Mr. Imran Ali, ex-JMI nominations by petition. To be valid, the petition must be signed by 25 or more Sd/- Sd/- voting members. (Shiban K Koul) (R K Shevgaonkar) Chair Member Sd/- 6.3 If only one nomination is made for each (Subrata Mukhopadhyay) office, the election will be made at the Member Nomination Standing Committee Annual Meeting. If additional nominations are made, election will be made by ballot IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter Executive mailed to the voting membership and the Committee Slate for 2014 announced vote counted by a Committee appointed by the Section Chairperson. Members other 1. Dr. Sukumar Mishra (Chair) than Students shall be the voting members. 2. Dr. Rachana Garg (Secretary) 3. Dr. Ashu Verma (Treasurer) It is also intimated that the Section Annual 4. Prof. Mini S. Thomas (Past chair) General Meeting is likely to be at India 5. Prof. Ratna Dahiya, Member International Center, New Delhi on 01- 6. Mr. Ravindra Joshi, Member February-2014 (Saturday) for which 7. Dr. Bharat Joshi, Member confirmation with exact details would 8. Mr. Ravi K Aggarwal, Member be given later on. 9. Mr. Chinmay Jain (GOLD), Member
For and on behalf of IEEE Delhi Section 2013 PES Outstanding Chapter Engineer Award (OCEA) Winner Sd/- Announced Electronic Communications Coordinator Er. Vinod K. Agrawal, SMIEEE and Executive IEEE Delhi Section Executive Director, POSOCO, Power Grid Corporation Committee Slate for 2014 of India Ltd. has been nominated for the award for 2013 by the Delhi Joint Chapter of Position Name Affiliation PES and IAS. 1. Chairperson Prof. Bhim Singh, IIT-D
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