IEEE 125thAnniversary Celebration 13 – 14th November, 2009 IEEE HIT Student Branch, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia
Prepared by: Nitish Kumar Tiwari, Secretary – IEEE HIT Student Branch
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IEEE 125thAnniversary Celebration 13 – 14th November, 2009 IEEE HIT Student Branch, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia
IEEE 125th Anniversary Celebration was held at the Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, West Bengal during November 13-14, 2009. This event was organized by the IEEE HIT Student branch, HIT, Haldia in collaboration with the IEEE Kharagpur section, IIT Kharagpur. The event saw a large turnout of student participants from Engineering colleges in eastern India as well as a galaxy of dignitaries from IEEE, industry and academia. This was one of the most significant student celebrations for the 125th Anniversary of IEEE in the Eastern India. There were several competitions held during the 125th anniversary celebrations. The events were: Technical Paper Presentation Competition (Abhivyakti). Programming Contest in C (Code Combat). Model Presentation Contest (TechKraft). Robotics Contest (RoboForge). Circuit Design Contest (CircuitriX). Online Gaming Contest in Counter Strike & NFS (ParaKram).
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IEEE 125thAnniversary Celebration 13 – 14th November, 2009 IEEE HIT Student Branch, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia
The registration for the participants was closed on 14th Oct. The proceedings started on 13th Nov with the event CircuitriX where the participants had to bring an innovative circuit of their own, based on the innovation level of circuits and some other criteria some of the selected participants moved on to the next round where they were given a problem statement and circuit components and they had to complete the circuit. It was followed by TechKraft where the participants had to bring any working model with the description of the working principle of their model. On 13th evening the prelim of the programming contest was held which was an online test based on C concepts. Selected students from the prelims were then given a set of 5 questions out of which 3 had to be solved in 2.5 hrs. On 13th evening the online gaming contest was also held. The gaming event was an overnight event with many gaming enthusiasts participating. The games played in the event were Counter Strike 1.6 and NFS Most Wanted. On the morning of 14th Nov the Paper Presentation contest was held. The papers were divided in 4 categories depending on the subject matter. The finals of the Programming Contest and the Robotics contest were also held on 14th Nov. All the competitive events finished on 14th noon. Then it was time for speech by the chair IEEE Kharagpur section, Prof. D. Samanta and the lecture session from some of eminent speakers from IIT Kharagpur and IIM Kolkata. The lecture session was followed by the prize distribution and the member felicitation ceremony. This was followed by the closing ceremony and the vote of thanks by the IEEE HIT Student Branch Counselor Prof. Prithwiraj Purkait. The participants of the events included undergraduate engineering students from various fields e.g. computer science, electronics & communication, electrical engineering, biotechnology etc. The participants were from colleges from in and around eastern India. The total number of participants was around 450. The volunteers for the events were final and pre-final year students from Haldia Institute of Technology. The industries from in and around haldia also gave full support to the event in the form of sponsorships and participation. Some of the prominent names are Indian Oil Petronas Ltd., Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd., South Asian Petrochemicals Ltd., CMC Computers, etc. Our Student branch also had full support from the management of our college Haldia Institute of Technology and the IEEE Kharagpur Section. Now a closer look at the several competitive events held during the 125th anniversary celebration by IEEE HIT Student Branch.
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IEEE 125thAnniversary Celebration 13 – 14th November, 2009 IEEE HIT Student Branch, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia
1. Technical Paper Presentation Contest (Abhivyakti) Event coordinators: Nikhil Sinha, Naren. The papers were classified in 4 sections depending on the subject matter. The four sections were A. CSE/IT B. CHE/BT/FT C. EI/ECE/EE D. ME/PE/CE The last date for submission of papers was 26th October 2009. The papers were reviewed by faculty members from respective departments. The selected authors were then called to present their papers on 14th November 2009. The proceedings published for the occasion contained 40 papers that were finally selected for presentation.
Students presenting their papers
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IEEE 125thAnniversary Celebration 13 – 14th November, 2009 IEEE HIT Student Branch, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia
2. Programming Contest in C (Code Combat) Event Coordinators: Richa, Pooja Kumari. The Code Combat prelims were held on 13th November 2009. It was an online test with objective questions based on C concepts. The selected teams were then given a set of 5 questions out of which they had to solve 3 questions in 2.5 hours on the day of the finals on 14h November.
Code Combat in progress.
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IEEE 125thAnniversary Celebration 13 – 14th November, 2009 IEEE HIT Student Branch, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia
3. Model Presentation Contest (TechKraft) Event coordinators: Manish Kumar, Sayanti Sikder. The participants had to present a working model along with a synopsis of their model i.e. a description of the working principle of the model and the possible areas of use. The winners were chosen on the basis of their idea and proper working of the model.
TechKraft
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IEEE 125thAnniversary Celebration 13 – 14th November, 2009 IEEE HIT Student Branch, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia
4. Robotics Contest (RoboForge) Event coordinators: Manish Kumar, Sayanti Sikder. This event was for the robotics enthusiasts. There were two categories in this event; one was the Line Follower robot category where the participants had to make autonomous robots which had to follow black lines on white background. The robots had to be autonomous with no external control. The second category was of aqua ceptor robots which were supposed to be manually controlled. The task of these robots was to cut and collect balls placed in a water body while floating (rather swimming).
Robots in action
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IEEE 125thAnniversary Celebration 13 – 14th November, 2009 IEEE HIT Student Branch, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia
5. Circuit Design Contest (CircuitriX) Event coordinators: Arnab Dasgupta, Sanat Kumar. This event was held in two stages. In the first stage, the participants had to bring an electrical or electronic circuit of their own choice. The circuits had to be innovative. Chosen participants were then taken to next round where they were given a problem statement and they had to make a circuit on the spot with given circuit components within a stipulated period of time.
Judges evaluating the circuits
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6. Online Gaming Contest (ParaKram) Event coordinators: Nitish Kumar Tiwari, Kunal Ranjan. No college level Technical Festival is complete without online gaming events and ours was no exception. The online gaming event started on 13th evening and went overnight. The games played were Counter Strike 1.6 and Need For Speed: Most Wanted.
Gaming enthusiasts in full flow
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IEEE 125thAnniversary Celebration 13 – 14th November, 2009 IEEE HIT Student Branch, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia
The final session was of lectures from eminent speakers from IIT Kharagpur and IIM Kolkata. The proceedings started with Ex-Branch Chair of IEEE HIT Student Branch, Rishav Gaurav addressing the students about the IEEE and its glorious past. Then we had the chair of IEEE Kharagpur section Prof. D. Samanta addressing the students about benefits of joining IEEE. After that we had an expert lecture on "Introduction to Control Systems" by Prof. S. K. Das, IIT Kharagpur. Then we had a guest lecture on the topic “Life is a Challenge beyond Books- Accept it" by Mr. Ashoke Chaudhuri from IIM Kolkata. This lecture was followed by lecture on "MEMS and Microsystems" by Prof. T. K. Bhattacharya, IIT Kharagpur. Last in this session was lecture from Prof. D. Samanta on the topic “How to make the Internet accessible by common man”. Then the past and present members of the IEEE HIT Student Branch were awarded appreciation certificates commemorating their active support and valuable contributions for the growth of the Student Branch. The winners of the various events were awarded prizes after this session. The prizes were distributed by Prof. D. Samanta, Chair, IEEE Kharagpur Section and Prof P. Purkait, Branch Counselor, IEEE HIT Student Branch. This was followed by the closing ceremony and the vote of thanks by the IEEE HIT Student Branch Counselor Prof. Prithwiraj Purkait.
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IEEE 125thAnniversary Celebration 13 – 14th November, 2009 IEEE HIT Student Branch, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia
Winners of different events are as follows: 1. Abhivyakti :
Section Name Rank College CS/IT Arvind Kumar Nishant. 1st HIT Jyotirmoy Pan, Amit Das, & Ravi Prakash Sikriwal. 2nd HIT CHE/BT/FT Atanu Maity, Anupan Roy & Soumita Das. 1st HIT Adwiti Banerjee, Anuja Das & Samatri Das. 2nd HIT EI/ECE/EE Deepak Kumar Pandey. 1st HIT Adrija Moitra & Abhijit Dana. 2nd HIT ME/PE/CE Manish Sonal. 1st CEMK Yashlay Sinha & Rajni Singh. 2nd HIT
2. Code Combat :
Name Rank College Ankur Ghose & Rahul Ghosh. 1st GCECT Sourajyoti Dutta & Manab Chakraborty. 2nd HIT
3. Parakram :
Game Name Rank College Vikash Kumar Manoj Kumar Chhetri Counter Strike Parijat Banik 1st HIT Dipayan Sarkar Anupam Bhandari NFS: MW Siddhartha Mitra 1st
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4. CircuitriX:
Name Rank College Arnab Majee, 1st HIT Bama Charan Dutta, Dibyendu Mondal & Sudip Karmakar Maya Roy, 2nd HIT Moumita Majumder, Saroj Kumar Barman & Sandip Hembram. Mantosh Chakraborty, 3rd HIT Purnendu Patra, Joyanta Choudhury & Sovanlal Guchhait.
5. TechKraft: (Model Presentation)
Name Rank College Subhash Sudhakar, 1st HIT Kumar Avinash, & Gaurav Gunjan Ritesh Chandra Bangal 2nd HIT & Dibyendu Biswas Suddhasheel Ghosh 3rd HIT
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6. Roboforge (Acquaceptor)
Name Rank College Prashant Kumar, 1st HIT Prashant Vatsh, Vikram Kumar Singh, & Amit Kumar Singh Manob Chakraborty, 2nd HIT Vivek Kumar Rai, Anupam Trivedi, & Dhiraj Kumar Sinha Arnab Sen, 3rd HIT Mayukh Bose, Himadri Mondal, & Pradipta Ghosh
7. Roboforge (Line Follower)
Name Rank College Nitesh Ranjan 1st HIT Shrivastava, Atul Kumar Anand, & Sumit Kumar Rakesh Kumar, 2nd HIT Ritikesh Raj, Manish Chandra Kiran, & Pawan Kumar Saurav Kumar, 3rd HIT Saurabh Shekhar, Vipul Vinay, & S Rahul Prakash
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