Kharagpur SectionDr. Prabodh BajpaiSection Chair 2013
IEEE Kharagpur Section
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur
Uniqueness The section is rooted at the IIT Kharagpur
Initially it was emerged as a small chapter with only 60 members under IEEE Kolkata Section in 1983.
In 13th May, 1985 it renunciated as the IEEE Kharagpur Section
Members comprise of faculty, staff and students from IIT Kharagpur and HIT Haldia.
Uniqueness Organizes an industrial trip every year to
enhance industry-academic relations.
Organize regular seminars by visiting experts , technically cosponsor International and National conferences held in the region
Financial (partial) travel support to student members for paper presentation in International conferences
Uniqueness
The IEEE Kharagpur Section organizes workshops, conferences, symposium, colloquium, lectures by renowned personalities frequently.
For the more than past 25 years, the IEEE Kharagpur Section has helped its members advances their careers and the field of computing and the development of mankind.
Member Counts by Grade Section with 11 Executive Committee Members
and total 357 members comprise of Associate Member 1Life Fellow 1Life Senior 3Member 91Senior Member 27Graduate Student Member 113Student Member 121
Structure
Section Executive committee Control System Society Chapter Two student branches
IIT KharagpurHIT Haldia
Affinity groupWomen in Engineering
EMB Student Club
Major Events Technically co-sponsored IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conference on
Point-of-Care Health Technologies during 16-18 January 2013 held at Bangalore
Technically co-sponsored IEEE 8th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS) during 17 Dec - 20 Dec 2013 held at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Technically co-sponsored International Conference on VLSI and Signal Processing (ICVSP) during 10-12 January 2014 held at Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India
Technically sponsored 2nd International Conference on Business and Information Management (ICBIM) during 09 Jan - 11 Jan 2014 held at City Residency Gandhi More, Durgapur, India
Major Student and Affinity Group Activities
"IEEE Workshop on MEMS & Microsystems With Hands-on training in Device Simulation and Microfabrication Process“ during 4 – 6 July, 2013.
Seminar on "Open Source Technologies“ on October 8, 2013.
Workshop on "LaTeX (Document Type setting for Paper / Thesis Writing)“ on October 8, 2013.
Jointly organized three Invited IEEE PEER Talks
IEEE Student Branch with IEEE EMB Student Club, Machine Learning reading group and WiE Affinity has organized two Invited Talks
Jointly organized Medical camp on March 30, 2013
Celebrated IEEE Day on October 8, 2013
Sl. No.
Name of the Events Date Number of Participants
Resource Persons
1 Robotryst (Workshop on Robotics)
24 April, 2013
65 Robosaipens Technologies Pvt
Ltd
2 IEEE HIT SB- Fresher’s Welcome & Farewell Program
15 JULY, 2013
100 IEEE HIT SB & EE dept., HIT
4 MATLAB Workshop 27-28 JULY, 2013
110 Faculties of EE dept, HIT
5 PSPICEWorkshop
3-4 AUG,2013
87 Faculties of EE dept, HIT
6 Aeromodelling Workshop (Aerotrix)
24-25 Aug, 2013
30 Aerotrix Group
7 Robotics Workshop (Introbots)
21-22 Sept. 2013
56 Introbots, IIT Kharagpur group
8 GATE Preparation test series
weekend 102 GATE Academy
Control System Society Chapter
Sl Activity Speaker Name Topic Date
1 Seminar Dr. Atanendu Sekhar Mandal
Designing an ASIP for Hindi Text to Speech Synthesis
5th December, 2013
2 Seminar Dr. Goutam Chattopadhyay
Terahertz Technology: What Can We Do with It?
19th December, 2013
3 Seminar Mr. Supratim Ghosh
Teams and Games for Distributed Consensus
26 th July, 2013
4 Seminar Mr. Mayank Raj Energy Adaptive Computing for Constrained Networks
Nov. 18, 2013
5 Seminar Mr. Sumit Kumar Chattopadhyay
Multilevel Inverters with Level Doubling Network: A New Topological Variation
30th December 2013
Membership Development Activities
To improve the value of membership, that leads to retention and growth of membersRegular reminder to defaulters by email alerts
for renewalOrganizing motivational talk about IEEE
benefits
Goals and Future Plans
Increase in active membership count
Retaining the vibrant nature of the section by organizing the activities for advancement of humanity
Membership up gradation program
Encourage student membership by technical and financial support to their activities