IETE HQs, New Delhi

The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers

FROM PRESIDENT’S DESK

Dear Members,

Greetings!

As IETEians across the country gather with family and friends, I want to wish everyone a happy and healthy NEW YEAR. This is always a hopeful time, as we celebrate the end of one year and the begining of another. It is also a good time to reflect on the past twelve months as we anticipate the challenges and opportunities before us.

IETE is entering 2015 with positive momentum after another year of accomplishments and challenges that it has gone through. We are living in the times that is constantly transforming and witnessing an increasingly dynamic and competitive marketplace. The challenges that we are facing would require bold and creative leaps. In order to remain vibrant, relevant and competitive, IETE will have to constantly evolve. Of late, IETE has evolved new strategies to move ahead. It would require fresh thinking and new ways of collaborating. I am happy to inform that new partnerships are flourishing between IETE and other proficient organizations like TSSC, ESSCI, NIELIT, Reliance Jio Info and IE(I), all aiming towards technical skill enhancement. On one hand we are organizing a variety of technical conferences, seminars as well as a plethora of successful activities through our 65 Centres, on the other hand IETE is expanding its scope to serve its members where they can express and expand their technical skills to help them further progress through their career.

I believe there is still scope for many new actions and improvements – with the goal to serve the members. The inclusion of new partners will strengthen and diversify the objectives of IETE. I welcome all the partners along with their new and unique initiatives and hope that together we will be able to enhance our contribution towards nation building.

Reflecting on many IETE activities and initiatives that we undertook, IETE has re-designed its website and made it more dynamic, as our students can now download their admit cards or see their semester-wise grade sheets from the website; concerted efforts are being made to favourably address the de-recognition issue of our study programmes; initiatives have also been taken to use NEFT/RTGS methods for electronic fund transfers to IETE Centres; electronic transmission of question papers to all IETE Centres including IETE Examination Centres at Abu Dhabi and Kathmandu and many other such policy reforms have been made to support better quality and lower costs. With a view to further augment internal capacities and employee's productivity, motivational lectures were organized. I believe, we have been able to further increase the value of IETE and provide all of us with an enhanced sense of community.

Our journals are doing well and I would like to thank the editorial team for their stupendous efforts. We will continue to improve 'Impact Factors' and all the other such quality parameters of our journals to further enhance their well-established reputation.

I would like to express my gratitude to the outgoing members of the IETE Governing Council for the wonderful job they did during their tenure, and I extend my heartiest welcome to the newly elected Governing Council Members. I am happy to report that IETE Technical Committees and various Centres are working hard to continuously align themselves with IETE vision. As we continue to improve our services, I invite you all to work in unison with us for the cohesive growth and development of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers in its quest to contribute meaningfully in nation building.

Finally, I wish you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2015!

Smriti Dagur

Vol. 16, No. 3, Sep-Dec 2014

From President’s Desk 1

News from Headquarters 2thReport on 57 Annual

Technical Conventionst61 Foundation Day on 5

Leveraging ICTsfor Building Smart Cities

th20 Sir J C Bose Memorial Lecture – 6'Emerging Applications ofMillimeter Wave Frequencies'

IETE Conferments 7

Nominated IETE Governing 8Council Members

News from Centres 8

ISFs Activities 19

Celebrating IETE Achievers 23

Book Review: Indian IT 23Saga - Growth to Glory

Forum - Importance of GIS 24

Awards and Honours 25

New Organizational Members 25

PAC 26

Calender of Events 26

thIETE organized its 57 Annual Technical Convention on "Skill Development – Indian Scenario" at Delton Hall, New Delhi during 27-28 Sep 2014. The event was graced by Dr Shailesh Nayak, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt of India, as the Chief Guest. The other notable personalities present during the event were: Shri Dilip Chenoy, MD&CEO, National Skill Development Corporation as the Guest of Honour; Dr Avinash Chander, Scientific Advisor to Raksha Mantri & Secretary, DRDO, Govt of India; Dr Baldev Raj, Dir, NIAS, Bangaluru & President, INAE; Dr S Pal, DF & President, IETE; Smt Smriti Dagur, President-Elect, IETE, Shri P S Sundaram, Chairman TP&RGC & Hony Treasurer, IETE; Wg Cdr H R Parthasarathy (Retd), Co-Chairman, TP&RGC, and Shri S R Aggarwal, Secretary General, IETE HQs.

Many senior members of IETE, awardees, special invitees, chairpersons and office bearers of various IETE Centres, registered delegates, authors also graced the function. The overview of the convention and the welcome address was presented by Shri P S Sundaram. Beside speaking on the theme, Dr S Pal in his address underlined the issues affecting the Institution in last two years. He said that IETE is concentrating on ways to reduce administrative costs without impeding the core missions of teaching and research.

News from Headquarters

Further, he relinquished his charge as the President of IETE and introduced Smt Smriti Dagur as the new President and wished her success.

Dr Avinash Chander, Scientific Adviser to Raksha Mantri & Secretary Defence R&D, & Dir Gen DRDO, was conferred the highest honour of IETE Honorary Fellowship this year, for his selfless contribution in the field of Science & Technology for the national development and societal transformation. IETE is proud to list Dr Avinash Chander to its Roll of Honour. IETE Life Time Achievement Award 2013-14 was conferred on Prof B L Deekshatulu, DF IETE & Former Director, NRSA, Hyderabad. Lt Gen (Dr) A K S Chandele, PVSM, AVSM (Retd), was the recipient of the IETE Distinguished Fellowship 2013-14. Long Term Retiring Governing Council Members, honoured this year were: Lt Gen Ashok Agarwal, PVSM (Retd), Immdt Past President, Wg Cdr D N Misra (Retd) and Shri M L Gupta, both Vice President of IETE. The IETE-Ram Lal Wadhwa Award was bagged by Dr Lalit Kumar, Microwave Tube Research and Development Centre, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Bangalore, for his outstanding contributions towards indigenous design, development and productionization of modern high-power microwave sources, microwave power-modules and transmitters for defence applications. On this occasion, he also delivered the

th37 IETE Ram Lal Wadhwa Lecture on the theme, "An Amazing World of Microwave – Terawave", which covered an overview of the Microwave to Terawave Vacuum-Electronics Technology as well as the contributions made by the speaker & his team over past few decades. The talk was widely appreciated and enjoyed by the audience.

The Best Centres/Sub-Centres of IETE declared on this stoccasion for the year 2013-14 were:IETE Hyderabad Centre (1

ndPrize), IETE Mankapur Centre (2 Prize), IETE Bangalore stCentre (Special Prize), IETE Dharwad Sub-Centre (1 Prize),

ndIETE Kozhikode Sub-Centre (2 Prize) and IETE Ambala Sub-Centre (Special Prize). The Chief Guest, Dr Shailesh Nayak, gave away the awards to the proud recipients of IETE Main Awards &

Skill Development – Indian Scenario

The National Policy on Skill Development aims to train 500 million people by 2022 by empowering all individuals through improved skills & knowledge to gain access to decent employment and to ensure India's competitiveness in global market. It also aims to generate workforce in organised and unorganised sectors especially among youth, women, disables and disadvantage sections. To give impetus to this programme, IETE this year, chose to deliberate on the problems and prospects of skill development initiative in India during its with its cross section of participants.

th57 Annual Technical Convention

Corporate Awards 2014. The Souvenir-cum-Proceedings of the Convention was released by the Chief Guest and other dignitaries on the occasion.

President Smt Smriti Dagur was installed by the Chief Guest Dr Shailesh Nayak for the year 2014-15. Thanking all the IETE Governing Council Members, she informed that IETE has voluntarily adopted socially relevant and progressive programmes for the society at large. She urged the industry to take advantage of the qualified, trained and experienced manpower of IETE. This was followed by an excellent presentation by the Guest of Honour, Shri Dilip Chenoy, MD&CEO, National Skill Development Corporation, who underlined four big challenges confronting skill development namely-making vocation skills aspirational, enabling environment, quality of training and student mobilization.

thThe 46 Bhabha Memorial Lecture was delivered by Dr Baldev Raj, Director, NIAS, Bangalore & President INAE, New Delhi, on the topic, "Perspective Energy Security & Sustainability for India". In his address he touched upon the increasing demands on clean and competitive energy, water agricultute and healthcare. He explicated the concepts of ageing assets and new high performing assets, increased competitions and increased social & work stresses etc. The distinguished speaker was introduced by Wg Cdr H R Parthasarathy (Retd), Co-Chairman, TP&RGC, to the audience.

The technical sessions for this Convention were divided into four sessions spread over two days. The Technical Session-I was on "Skill to Employment" chaired by Lt Gen (Dr) S P Kochhar, AVSM, SM, VSM (Retd), CEO, Telecom Sector Skill Council, New Delhi, an accomplished technocrat & business leader. The speakers in this session included: Shri Ajay Mohan Goel, Director, Skill Development, Wadhwant Foundation, New Delhi; Mr Shameem Khan, Jt Director (Systems), NIELIT, New Delhi; Shri N K Mohapatra, CEO, Electronics Sector Skill Council, New Delhi and Shri M Malhotra, Skill Development Centre, Bhopal. The Technical Session-II was on "Sectoral Needs and Opportunity: IECT, Broadcast Media & Entertainment" chaired by Shri Kuldeep Singh, Member-I, TDSAT, New Delhi.

He highlighted the challenges thrown up by a number of new opportunities and the new skill sets required to meet them through his talk on 'Sectoral-Needs: The Broadcast Media". The Invited Speakers in his session were: Shri Pankaj Gupta, CEO, GoBindas Entertainment, Noida; Shri Subrat Kumar Prusty, Director, Deptt of Telecommunications, MC&IT, New Delhi, whose presentation was on "ICT and Skill Development" with respect to policy level measures that could be taken up by the different ministries in synchronization to achieve 500 million trained work force by 2022; Dr R Sreedhar, Media expert and Community Radio Practitioner, Emeritus Professor, Apeejay Stya University, Sohna, talked on "Sectoral Needs and Opportunity: IECT, Broadcast Media and Entertainment, Food Processing" indicating lack of skills in educational media that was hindering the progress and Shri Raju Wadalkar, CTO (Telecom), Tech Mahindra, Noida, who highlighted the need of the industry and efforts that were being made to create a digitally aware India ready to take on the challenge of the industry growth. The contributed paper was presented by Cmde Shishir Shrotriya, Addl Director General, WESEE, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi. The Technical Session III was cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances and

stthe 1 day concluded with cultural programme in the evening. nd thOn the 2 day of the Technical Convention, i.e. on 28 Sep

2014, IETE conducted Technical Session-IV on "Sectoral Needs and Opportunity in Agriculture and Food Processing" chaired by Prof (Dr) Pawan Kapur, Director, PIT-PTU, Mohali and Member Governing Council, IETE. He chose to talk on "Information Technology Driven Skill Development in Re-Invigorating Food Sector". He emphasized on the need of human resource development at all levels so that modern technological advancements can be applied for reinvigorating this important sector of great social significance. Speakers included in this session were: Dr Bhalchandra Vishwanath Bisal, Agro Expert, RCF, Mumbai. He presented his paper on "Sectoral Needs & Opportunities in Agriculture"; Brig Lakshman Singh, VSM (Retd), Corps of Signal, Governing Council Member, spoke on "Rural, Vocational Training Project", giving detailed backgroud and plans on implementation strategy, training tools, target groups training course and content. Dr Sanjay Kumar Mishra, Advisor, DST, New Delhi, was also one of the speakers in the session . The final Session-V conducted on "Certification and Assessment" was chaired by Prof (Dr) K K Bhutani, Director, UPTECH Computer Consultancy Ltd., Allahabad, and the speakers who could make it for the session were:Shri Anurag Shah, Controller of Examinations, NIELIT, New Delhi and Shri S N Zindal, Chief R&D Officer, BITS, Pilani, who presented his paper on "Skill Development (Assessment and Certification)".

The convention which on the whole was a great success, ended with a panel discussion, presentation of mementos and vote of thanks.

thDistinguished Guests during celebration of 57 Annual Technical Convention at IETE HQs, New Delhi.

Dignitaries releasing the Souvenir-cum-Proceedings.

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thIETE organized its 57 Annual Technical Convention on "Skill Development – Indian Scenario" at Delton Hall, New Delhi during 27-28 Sep 2014. The event was graced by Dr Shailesh Nayak, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt of India, as the Chief Guest. The other notable personalities present during the event were: Shri Dilip Chenoy, MD&CEO, National Skill Development Corporation as the Guest of Honour; Dr Avinash Chander, Scientific Advisor to Raksha Mantri & Secretary, DRDO, Govt of India; Dr Baldev Raj, Dir, NIAS, Bangaluru & President, INAE; Dr S Pal, DF & President, IETE; Smt Smriti Dagur, President-Elect, IETE, Shri P S Sundaram, Chairman TP&RGC & Hony Treasurer, IETE; Wg Cdr H R Parthasarathy (Retd), Co-Chairman, TP&RGC, and Shri S R Aggarwal, Secretary General, IETE HQs.

Many senior members of IETE, awardees, special invitees, chairpersons and office bearers of various IETE Centres, registered delegates, authors also graced the function. The overview of the convention and the welcome address was presented by Shri P S Sundaram. Beside speaking on the theme, Dr S Pal in his address underlined the issues affecting the Institution in last two years. He said that IETE is concentrating on ways to reduce administrative costs without impeding the core missions of teaching and research.

News from Headquarters

Further, he relinquished his charge as the President of IETE and introduced Smt Smriti Dagur as the new President and wished her success.

Dr Avinash Chander, Scientific Adviser to Raksha Mantri & Secretary Defence R&D, & Dir Gen DRDO, was conferred the highest honour of IETE Honorary Fellowship this year, for his selfless contribution in the field of Science & Technology for the national development and societal transformation. IETE is proud to list Dr Avinash Chander to its Roll of Honour. IETE Life Time Achievement Award 2013-14 was conferred on Prof B L Deekshatulu, DF IETE & Former Director, NRSA, Hyderabad. Lt Gen (Dr) A K S Chandele, PVSM, AVSM (Retd), was the recipient of the IETE Distinguished Fellowship 2013-14. Long Term Retiring Governing Council Members, honoured this year were: Lt Gen Ashok Agarwal, PVSM (Retd), Immdt Past President, Wg Cdr D N Misra (Retd) and Shri M L Gupta, both Vice President of IETE. The IETE-Ram Lal Wadhwa Award was bagged by Dr Lalit Kumar, Microwave Tube Research and Development Centre, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Bangalore, for his outstanding contributions towards indigenous design, development and productionization of modern high-power microwave sources, microwave power-modules and transmitters for defence applications. On this occasion, he also delivered the

th37 IETE Ram Lal Wadhwa Lecture on the theme, "An Amazing World of Microwave – Terawave", which covered an overview of the Microwave to Terawave Vacuum-Electronics Technology as well as the contributions made by the speaker & his team over past few decades. The talk was widely appreciated and enjoyed by the audience.

The Best Centres/Sub-Centres of IETE declared on this stoccasion for the year 2013-14 were:IETE Hyderabad Centre (1

ndPrize), IETE Mankapur Centre (2 Prize), IETE Bangalore stCentre (Special Prize), IETE Dharwad Sub-Centre (1 Prize),

ndIETE Kozhikode Sub-Centre (2 Prize) and IETE Ambala Sub-Centre (Special Prize). The Chief Guest, Dr Shailesh Nayak, gave away the awards to the proud recipients of IETE Main Awards &

Skill Development – Indian Scenario

The National Policy on Skill Development aims to train 500 million people by 2022 by empowering all individuals through improved skills & knowledge to gain access to decent employment and to ensure India's competitiveness in global market. It also aims to generate workforce in organised and unorganised sectors especially among youth, women, disables and disadvantage sections. To give impetus to this programme, IETE this year, chose to deliberate on the problems and prospects of skill development initiative in India during its with its cross section of participants.

th57 Annual Technical Convention

Corporate Awards 2014. The Souvenir-cum-Proceedings of the Convention was released by the Chief Guest and other dignitaries on the occasion.

President Smt Smriti Dagur was installed by the Chief Guest Dr Shailesh Nayak for the year 2014-15. Thanking all the IETE Governing Council Members, she informed that IETE has voluntarily adopted socially relevant and progressive programmes for the society at large. She urged the industry to take advantage of the qualified, trained and experienced manpower of IETE. This was followed by an excellent presentation by the Guest of Honour, Shri Dilip Chenoy, MD&CEO, National Skill Development Corporation, who underlined four big challenges confronting skill development namely-making vocation skills aspirational, enabling environment, quality of training and student mobilization.

thThe 46 Bhabha Memorial Lecture was delivered by Dr Baldev Raj, Director, NIAS, Bangalore & President INAE, New Delhi, on the topic, "Perspective Energy Security & Sustainability for India". In his address he touched upon the increasing demands on clean and competitive energy, water agricultute and healthcare. He explicated the concepts of ageing assets and new high performing assets, increased competitions and increased social & work stresses etc. The distinguished speaker was introduced by Wg Cdr H R Parthasarathy (Retd), Co-Chairman, TP&RGC, to the audience.

The technical sessions for this Convention were divided into four sessions spread over two days. The Technical Session-I was on "Skill to Employment" chaired by Lt Gen (Dr) S P Kochhar, AVSM, SM, VSM (Retd), CEO, Telecom Sector Skill Council, New Delhi, an accomplished technocrat & business leader. The speakers in this session included: Shri Ajay Mohan Goel, Director, Skill Development, Wadhwant Foundation, New Delhi; Mr Shameem Khan, Jt Director (Systems), NIELIT, New Delhi; Shri N K Mohapatra, CEO, Electronics Sector Skill Council, New Delhi and Shri M Malhotra, Skill Development Centre, Bhopal. The Technical Session-II was on "Sectoral Needs and Opportunity: IECT, Broadcast Media & Entertainment" chaired by Shri Kuldeep Singh, Member-I, TDSAT, New Delhi.

He highlighted the challenges thrown up by a number of new opportunities and the new skill sets required to meet them through his talk on 'Sectoral-Needs: The Broadcast Media". The Invited Speakers in his session were: Shri Pankaj Gupta, CEO, GoBindas Entertainment, Noida; Shri Subrat Kumar Prusty, Director, Deptt of Telecommunications, MC&IT, New Delhi, whose presentation was on "ICT and Skill Development" with respect to policy level measures that could be taken up by the different ministries in synchronization to achieve 500 million trained work force by 2022; Dr R Sreedhar, Media expert and Community Radio Practitioner, Emeritus Professor, Apeejay Stya University, Sohna, talked on "Sectoral Needs and Opportunity: IECT, Broadcast Media and Entertainment, Food Processing" indicating lack of skills in educational media that was hindering the progress and Shri Raju Wadalkar, CTO (Telecom), Tech Mahindra, Noida, who highlighted the need of the industry and efforts that were being made to create a digitally aware India ready to take on the challenge of the industry growth. The contributed paper was presented by Cmde Shishir Shrotriya, Addl Director General, WESEE, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi. The Technical Session III was cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances and

stthe 1 day concluded with cultural programme in the evening. nd thOn the 2 day of the Technical Convention, i.e. on 28 Sep

2014, IETE conducted Technical Session-IV on "Sectoral Needs and Opportunity in Agriculture and Food Processing" chaired by Prof (Dr) Pawan Kapur, Director, PIT-PTU, Mohali and Member Governing Council, IETE. He chose to talk on "Information Technology Driven Skill Development in Re-Invigorating Food Sector". He emphasized on the need of human resource development at all levels so that modern technological advancements can be applied for reinvigorating this important sector of great social significance. Speakers included in this session were: Dr Bhalchandra Vishwanath Bisal, Agro Expert, RCF, Mumbai. He presented his paper on "Sectoral Needs & Opportunities in Agriculture"; Brig Lakshman Singh, VSM (Retd), Corps of Signal, Governing Council Member, spoke on "Rural, Vocational Training Project", giving detailed backgroud and plans on implementation strategy, training tools, target groups training course and content. Dr Sanjay Kumar Mishra, Advisor, DST, New Delhi, was also one of the speakers in the session . The final Session-V conducted on "Certification and Assessment" was chaired by Prof (Dr) K K Bhutani, Director, UPTECH Computer Consultancy Ltd., Allahabad, and the speakers who could make it for the session were:Shri Anurag Shah, Controller of Examinations, NIELIT, New Delhi and Shri S N Zindal, Chief R&D Officer, BITS, Pilani, who presented his paper on "Skill Development (Assessment and Certification)".

The convention which on the whole was a great success, ended with a panel discussion, presentation of mementos and vote of thanks.

thDistinguished Guests during celebration of 57 Annual Technical Convention at IETE HQs, New Delhi.

Dignitaries releasing the Souvenir-cum-Proceedings.

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ATC - Honours, Awards Calore!!ATC - Honours, Awards Calore!!

stIETE celebrated its 61 Foundation Day on 01 Nov 2014 and the theme was – "Leveraging ICTs for Building Smart Cities". Distinguished luminaries were present on the occasion. Shri Mangu Singh, Managing Director, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, Ltd was the Chief Guest. He spoke on the future Delhi Metro projects and DMRC's plans to make Delhi a city of world-class excellence. The Guest of Honour, Dr Deven Verma, Chairman, HSMC, Bangalore stated the key elements for 100 smart cities as envisioned by Hon’ble PM Shri Narendra Modi. He said the challenges which we are facing today need much more innovations. For development, India has to create 24 × 7 availability of high quality utility services like water & power; robust transport system, opportunities for job, safety & security of the people, health education facilities and minimizing of waste by increasing energy efficiency and improving water conservation and proper recycling of waste materials. The presidential address was delivered by Smt Smriti Dagur and the overview of the theme was presented by Prof (Dr) A K Saini, Co-Chairman Technical Programmes and Publicity Commtittee. The invited speakers included: Ms Tulika Pandey,

Scientist 'F', Deity, MC&IT, New Delhi; Shri Ravi P Gupta, Vice President, IT, DIMTS Ltd, New Delhi; Col Mahesh Khera (Retd), President Broadband India Forum and Founder, KTMT Consulting and My Saraswati and Wg Cdr T R Dua (Retd), ED, Tower & Infrastructure Provider Association India, New Delhi. The focus of their talks were various attributes for smart cities such as Open access "Fiber To The Premise (FTTP)" network for our enhanced needs; improved quality of governance, availability of information in public domains, e-education, e-shopping, e-home services, remotely managed homes, energy saving homes, digital empowerment of citizens, automated processes, which lead to urbanization and economic development. The speakers talked about the limited resources and increasing urban population which further necessitates the call for smarter cities. The concept was explained with the roles of ICTs, telecommunications, data management and few Govt policies that envisage a Digital India.

IETE gratefully acknowledges the contributions of the speakers listed above.

Making a city "smart" is emerging as a strategy to mitigate the problems generated by the urban population growth and rapid urbanization. To understand the concept of smart cities, IETE explored on wider areas , critical factors and possible initiatives for smart city during its Foundation Day observance. The talks centered arround the solutions and way outs for new operating paradigm that provide for the needs of urban residents in an economically viable, socially inclusive, and environmentally sustainable way.

st61 Foundation Day Celebrated

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ATC - Honours, Awards Calore!!ATC - Honours, Awards Calore!!

stIETE celebrated its 61 Foundation Day on 01 Nov 2014 and the theme was – "Leveraging ICTs for Building Smart Cities". Distinguished luminaries were present on the occasion. Shri Mangu Singh, Managing Director, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, Ltd was the Chief Guest. He spoke on the future Delhi Metro projects and DMRC's plans to make Delhi a city of world-class excellence. The Guest of Honour, Dr Deven Verma, Chairman, HSMC, Bangalore stated the key elements for 100 smart cities as envisioned by Hon’ble PM Shri Narendra Modi. He said the challenges which we are facing today need much more innovations. For development, India has to create 24 × 7 availability of high quality utility services like water & power; robust transport system, opportunities for job, safety & security of the people, health education facilities and minimizing of waste by increasing energy efficiency and improving water conservation and proper recycling of waste materials. The presidential address was delivered by Smt Smriti Dagur and the overview of the theme was presented by Prof (Dr) A K Saini, Co-Chairman Technical Programmes and Publicity Commtittee. The invited speakers included: Ms Tulika Pandey,

Scientist 'F', Deity, MC&IT, New Delhi; Shri Ravi P Gupta, Vice President, IT, DIMTS Ltd, New Delhi; Col Mahesh Khera (Retd), President Broadband India Forum and Founder, KTMT Consulting and My Saraswati and Wg Cdr T R Dua (Retd), ED, Tower & Infrastructure Provider Association India, New Delhi. The focus of their talks were various attributes for smart cities such as Open access "Fiber To The Premise (FTTP)" network for our enhanced needs; improved quality of governance, availability of information in public domains, e-education, e-shopping, e-home services, remotely managed homes, energy saving homes, digital empowerment of citizens, automated processes, which lead to urbanization and economic development. The speakers talked about the limited resources and increasing urban population which further necessitates the call for smarter cities. The concept was explained with the roles of ICTs, telecommunications, data management and few Govt policies that envisage a Digital India.

IETE gratefully acknowledges the contributions of the speakers listed above.

Making a city "smart" is emerging as a strategy to mitigate the problems generated by the urban population growth and rapid urbanization. To understand the concept of smart cities, IETE explored on wider areas , critical factors and possible initiatives for smart city during its Foundation Day observance. The talks centered arround the solutions and way outs for new operating paradigm that provide for the needs of urban residents in an economically viable, socially inclusive, and environmentally sustainable way.

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We are delighted to report that Prof Shiban Koul, Fellow IEEE, IETE , INAE; Dr R P Shenoy Chair Professor at the Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE) and Dy Director (Strategy & Planning) at IIT Delhi, the Chairman of Astra Microwave Products Ltd, Hyderabad, and Governing Board Member of ESSCI & Editor-

thin-Chief of IETE Journal of Research, delivered the 20 Sir J C Bose thMemorial Lecture at IETE Delton Hall on Saturday, 29 Nov 2014.

He spoke on the topic of 'Emerging Applications of Millimeter Wave Frequencies'.

Prof Shiban Koul gave an exhaustive presentation explaining the importance of Millimeter Waves and Technologies involved in building Millimeter Waves Circuits/Systems. He effectively

explained the role of Millimeter Wave Frequencies in various functional areas of security, medical, research and communication along with its great utility. The speaker also threw light on the ways in which four futuristic disruptive technologies (Millimeter Wave Wireless, Internet of Things, Fog Computing and Software Defined Networking) could be evolved with Millimeter Waves. While concluding, he said that the Millimeter Waves will expand the future of Wireless. He motivated the audience to learn Millimeter Wave techniques so that India could have its own 5G by 2020.

The lecture was interesting and gripping, and was delivered in a clear and flowing manner. The session was followed by an open house question answer round.

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'Emerging Applications of Millimeter Wave Frequencies'

Honorary Fellowship 2013-2014on

(SA to Raksha Mantri, Secretary DRDO)

Dr Avinash Chander, S A to Raksha Mantri, Secretary Department of Defence R& D, DG R & D has been the driving force for DRDO instituting a strong culture of R&D for design and development of advanced Defence technologies indigenously. His sustained efforts made India " A reckonable global force in Defence technologies".

thBorn on 6 November 1950, Dr Avinash Chander graduated in Electronics Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in the year 1972 and has received Master's Degree & Doctorate from JNTU, Hyderabad and is a Distinguished Scientist of International repute in missile technologies. From the humble beginning, he rose to the highest positions in DRDO during his illustrious career spanning over four decades and is presently the Director General of the premier national organization engaged in Defence research.

A visionary, revitalised DRDO by imbibing major changes in the organization culture and giving a new direction towards research in advanced technologies. He forethought establishing a dedicated wing for Futuristic Technology Management. He established System Analysis group to analyse/workout various new weaponry/arms requirements, study the feasibility and project for possible development. He established Centres of Excellence for focused research in specific areas at various prestigious Academic Institutes to carry out joint Research, also brought breakthroughs in many critical technologies to support the strategic and tactical requirements of the nation against embargoes through MTCR. His initiatives and drive have made India self reliant and placed the nation under the spotlight in the global arena.

He brought completely new dimension to the Defence R & D by intensifying research and spearheading the Medium and Long Range Surface to Air Missiles, Tanks, Guns, Aeronautical Systems, Air Defence, Laser Weapons, Armaments, Nuclear & Biological Sciences, Long Range Weapons and Cruise Missiles.

His accomplishments as a top Missile Technologist elevated him to many important positions like Director, Advanced Systems Laboratory, Programme Director Agni and Chief Controller R & D Missiles & Strategic Systems and to the present position of Scientific Adviser to the Raksha Mantri and Secretary - Department of Defence R & D and Director General, DRDO.

With his innovative contributions and hallmark achievements, Dr Avinash Chander "Brought India on to the global forefront in Missiles and Strategic Systems".

He designed the Novel idea of Energy Management Scheme based Guidance with solid propulsion for long range surface to surface missile which eventually turned to be the backbone for all the Long Range Missions of India. Under his leadership, India successfully designed and developed '5000 Km range AGNI 5 Strategic Weapon System' propelling the country to the elite club of five advanced nations having ICBM capability and brought quantum jump in technologies such as Composite Rocket Motors, high precision Navigation, advanced Avionics and world class Mass fractions. He pioneered the Design of Multiple Independently Targeted Re-Entry Vehicle( MIRV) and Maneuvering Re-entry Vehicle (MaRV).

The honours conferred on him and the laurels bequeathed on him are too many to be listed here. To cite a few, he was conferred with the prestigious Padma Shri Award, Dr Biren Roy Space Science & Design Award, Technology Leadership Award, Rocketry & related technologies award, Pathbreaking Research/Outstanding Technology Development Award. He is a Fellow of many leading Scientific/ Engineering bodies and has been conferred with the Honorary Doctorates from reputed Universities across the country.

IETE is proud to confer the Honorary Fellowship of the Institution on Dr Avinash Chander.

Dr Avinash Chander

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Life Time Achievement Award 2013-2014on

(Former Director, Distinguished Scientist, NRSA, Hyderabad)

Prof B L Deekshatulu, and educationist, researcher, administrator, academician of International Repute in the field of Control Systems, Remote sensing and Digital Image Processing , is an alumnus of Banaras Hindu University and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Prof Deekshatulu started his career as lecturer in 1970 at IISc and rose to the position of Professor in the same Institute.

Prof Deekshatulu's academic and research profile growth has been phenomenal, starting with academic research at IISc, IBM TJ Watson Research Centre, USA , Willow Run Laboratories, University of Michigan, USA and later at National Remote Sensing Agency(NRSA), Dept. of Space, Director of CSSTE, AP (Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the pacific, a UN affiliated centre), Dehradun, ISRO visiting Professor at Univ of Hyderabad and Chairman, Governing Council NIT Warangal, Presently Distinguished Fellow IDRBT(RBI) Hyderabad & Chairman Board of Governors College of Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad.

Prof Deekshatulu joined NRSA Hyderabad in 1976 as Head Technical Division and rose to the position of Director & retired as Distinguished Scientist (Secretary Grade) in 1996. For India's first remote sensing satellites IRSIA. Prof Deekshatulu established the ground segment and provided high quality of diverse satellite imagery products to various users. He was also Chairman of Indian Geosphere Biosphere (1994-97).

Prof Deekshatulu was responsible for the growth of Control Systems Research and Teaching in India and for establishing INCOIS and ADRIN, alongwith modernisation of IIRS, Dehradun. Prof Deekshatulu was also a UN/FAO consultant (1981) and UN/ESCAP(1996).

Prof Deekshatulu has over 160 research publications, guided 18 PhD scholars and over 80 M.Tech. student dissertations. He is fellow of 15 Scientific and Engineering Academics including Fellow IEEE(USA), Fellow THIRD WORLD ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (ITALY), Distinguished Fellow IETE and Distinguished Fellow of Astronautical Society of India, Hon. Member Asian Association for Remote Sensing etc. Current Science Journal of Indian academy of Sciences acknowledged him as a "Living Legend in Indian Science".

Prof Deekshatulu was bestowed with many prestigious National and International awards such as Bharat Ratna Sir M VISVESWARAYA AWARD for "Outstanding Engineer" in 1984, NRDC Invention Awards in Jan. 1986 and in Aug. 1993, Dr Biren Roy Space Science Award in 1988. "PADMASRI" medal in Jan. 1991 by the President of India, BRAHM PRAKASH MEDAL for significant contributions to Engineering Technology, OM PRAKASH BHASIN AWARD for Science and Technology for 1995, "Sivananda Eminent Citizen Award" from Vice-President of India in Dec. 1998., "Boon Indrambarya GOLD MEDAL" by Thailand Remote Sensing and GIS Assoc in Nov 1999 in Hong Kong for contributions to Remote Sensing, 2002, "Aryabhatta Award" by Astronautical Society of India for life time contributions to Remote Sensing, "DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD" from IISc, Bangalore in 2006, "Life time Contribution Award" from ACRS, Beijing in Oct 2009, "ASTHANA VIDWAN" award from Datta Poettam Mysore, in May 2010. "CHEN Shupeng Award" (CCNCRS & AARS) for 2011 in Taipei, "IEEE third Millennium Medal 2000", "2011 National Award for Ocean Science & Technology" from MoES, Govt of India.

His contribution to overall growth of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) as Governing Council Member, Chairman of various Committees and a mentor to IETE Hyderabad Centre are of great importance.

IETE is proud to bestow IETE Life Time Achievement Award of the Institution on Prof B L Deekshatulu.

Prof B L Deekshatulu

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Maj Gen P K Jaggia. VSM (Retd) (F209742L) stSecretary General IETE, w.e.f. 1 Dec 2014, is a

1974 batch EME Officer, who has had 37 years of distinguished service in the Indian Army. He is B.Sc Engg (Elect) from Punjab Engg College, Chandigarh; MTech (Comn Engg) from IIT Kanpur; Master of Management Studies from Osmania University and MPhil from University of

Madras. He is also an alumni of National Defence College, New Delhi; College of Defence Management, Secunderabad and Army War College, Mhow. He has vast experience in the field of Strategic Planning, Technology Management, Logistics, Training and Human Resource Management. He has an excellent record of achievements in implementing new operational strategies and facilitating transformational changes in the organization. The key positions held

by him were-Additional Director General EME; Commandant Military College of Electronics & Mechanical Engineering, Secunderabad; Maj Gen EME– HQ South Western Command; Directing Staff (Brigadier)– Army War College, Mhow; Commandant (Brigadier)– EME Training Centre-Bhopal; Chief Maintainability Engineer (Col)– Maintainability Advisory Group (DRDL, Hyderabad); Dir EME Electronics, Army HQ; Commanding Officer (Col)– ME Battalion; General Manager (Personnel & Administration) (Col)– Army Base Workshop; Instructor Class-A (Lt Col)– Military College of Electronics & Mechanical Engineering, Secunderabad.

We are pleased to welcome Maj Gen Jaggia as IETE's Secretary General. We are very confident that he will steer IETE towards greater accomplishments and bring success in all endeavours.

Maj Gen P K Jaggia, VSM (Retd) - New IETE Secretary General

We are delighted to report that Prof Shiban Koul, Fellow IEEE, IETE , INAE; Dr R P Shenoy Chair Professor at the Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE) and Dy Director (Strategy & Planning) at IIT Delhi, the Chairman of Astra Microwave Products Ltd, Hyderabad, and Governing Board Member of ESSCI & Editor-

thin-Chief of IETE Journal of Research, delivered the 20 Sir J C Bose thMemorial Lecture at IETE Delton Hall on Saturday, 29 Nov 2014.

He spoke on the topic of 'Emerging Applications of Millimeter Wave Frequencies'.

Prof Shiban Koul gave an exhaustive presentation explaining the importance of Millimeter Waves and Technologies involved in building Millimeter Waves Circuits/Systems. He effectively

explained the role of Millimeter Wave Frequencies in various functional areas of security, medical, research and communication along with its great utility. The speaker also threw light on the ways in which four futuristic disruptive technologies (Millimeter Wave Wireless, Internet of Things, Fog Computing and Software Defined Networking) could be evolved with Millimeter Waves. While concluding, he said that the Millimeter Waves will expand the future of Wireless. He motivated the audience to learn Millimeter Wave techniques so that India could have its own 5G by 2020.

The lecture was interesting and gripping, and was delivered in a clear and flowing manner. The session was followed by an open house question answer round.

th20 Sir J C Bose Memorial Lecture

'Emerging Applications of Millimeter Wave Frequencies'

Honorary Fellowship 2013-2014on

(SA to Raksha Mantri, Secretary DRDO)

Dr Avinash Chander, S A to Raksha Mantri, Secretary Department of Defence R& D, DG R & D has been the driving force for DRDO instituting a strong culture of R&D for design and development of advanced Defence technologies indigenously. His sustained efforts made India " A reckonable global force in Defence technologies".

thBorn on 6 November 1950, Dr Avinash Chander graduated in Electronics Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in the year 1972 and has received Master's Degree & Doctorate from JNTU, Hyderabad and is a Distinguished Scientist of International repute in missile technologies. From the humble beginning, he rose to the highest positions in DRDO during his illustrious career spanning over four decades and is presently the Director General of the premier national organization engaged in Defence research.

A visionary, revitalised DRDO by imbibing major changes in the organization culture and giving a new direction towards research in advanced technologies. He forethought establishing a dedicated wing for Futuristic Technology Management. He established System Analysis group to analyse/workout various new weaponry/arms requirements, study the feasibility and project for possible development. He established Centres of Excellence for focused research in specific areas at various prestigious Academic Institutes to carry out joint Research, also brought breakthroughs in many critical technologies to support the strategic and tactical requirements of the nation against embargoes through MTCR. His initiatives and drive have made India self reliant and placed the nation under the spotlight in the global arena.

He brought completely new dimension to the Defence R & D by intensifying research and spearheading the Medium and Long Range Surface to Air Missiles, Tanks, Guns, Aeronautical Systems, Air Defence, Laser Weapons, Armaments, Nuclear & Biological Sciences, Long Range Weapons and Cruise Missiles.

His accomplishments as a top Missile Technologist elevated him to many important positions like Director, Advanced Systems Laboratory, Programme Director Agni and Chief Controller R & D Missiles & Strategic Systems and to the present position of Scientific Adviser to the Raksha Mantri and Secretary - Department of Defence R & D and Director General, DRDO.

With his innovative contributions and hallmark achievements, Dr Avinash Chander "Brought India on to the global forefront in Missiles and Strategic Systems".

He designed the Novel idea of Energy Management Scheme based Guidance with solid propulsion for long range surface to surface missile which eventually turned to be the backbone for all the Long Range Missions of India. Under his leadership, India successfully designed and developed '5000 Km range AGNI 5 Strategic Weapon System' propelling the country to the elite club of five advanced nations having ICBM capability and brought quantum jump in technologies such as Composite Rocket Motors, high precision Navigation, advanced Avionics and world class Mass fractions. He pioneered the Design of Multiple Independently Targeted Re-Entry Vehicle( MIRV) and Maneuvering Re-entry Vehicle (MaRV).

The honours conferred on him and the laurels bequeathed on him are too many to be listed here. To cite a few, he was conferred with the prestigious Padma Shri Award, Dr Biren Roy Space Science & Design Award, Technology Leadership Award, Rocketry & related technologies award, Pathbreaking Research/Outstanding Technology Development Award. He is a Fellow of many leading Scientific/ Engineering bodies and has been conferred with the Honorary Doctorates from reputed Universities across the country.

IETE is proud to confer the Honorary Fellowship of the Institution on Dr Avinash Chander.

Dr Avinash Chander

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Life Time Achievement Award 2013-2014on

(Former Director, Distinguished Scientist, NRSA, Hyderabad)

Prof B L Deekshatulu, and educationist, researcher, administrator, academician of International Repute in the field of Control Systems, Remote sensing and Digital Image Processing , is an alumnus of Banaras Hindu University and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Prof Deekshatulu started his career as lecturer in 1970 at IISc and rose to the position of Professor in the same Institute.

Prof Deekshatulu's academic and research profile growth has been phenomenal, starting with academic research at IISc, IBM TJ Watson Research Centre, USA , Willow Run Laboratories, University of Michigan, USA and later at National Remote Sensing Agency(NRSA), Dept. of Space, Director of CSSTE, AP (Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the pacific, a UN affiliated centre), Dehradun, ISRO visiting Professor at Univ of Hyderabad and Chairman, Governing Council NIT Warangal, Presently Distinguished Fellow IDRBT(RBI) Hyderabad & Chairman Board of Governors College of Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad.

Prof Deekshatulu joined NRSA Hyderabad in 1976 as Head Technical Division and rose to the position of Director & retired as Distinguished Scientist (Secretary Grade) in 1996. For India's first remote sensing satellites IRSIA. Prof Deekshatulu established the ground segment and provided high quality of diverse satellite imagery products to various users. He was also Chairman of Indian Geosphere Biosphere (1994-97).

Prof Deekshatulu was responsible for the growth of Control Systems Research and Teaching in India and for establishing INCOIS and ADRIN, alongwith modernisation of IIRS, Dehradun. Prof Deekshatulu was also a UN/FAO consultant (1981) and UN/ESCAP(1996).

Prof Deekshatulu has over 160 research publications, guided 18 PhD scholars and over 80 M.Tech. student dissertations. He is fellow of 15 Scientific and Engineering Academics including Fellow IEEE(USA), Fellow THIRD WORLD ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (ITALY), Distinguished Fellow IETE and Distinguished Fellow of Astronautical Society of India, Hon. Member Asian Association for Remote Sensing etc. Current Science Journal of Indian academy of Sciences acknowledged him as a "Living Legend in Indian Science".

Prof Deekshatulu was bestowed with many prestigious National and International awards such as Bharat Ratna Sir M VISVESWARAYA AWARD for "Outstanding Engineer" in 1984, NRDC Invention Awards in Jan. 1986 and in Aug. 1993, Dr Biren Roy Space Science Award in 1988. "PADMASRI" medal in Jan. 1991 by the President of India, BRAHM PRAKASH MEDAL for significant contributions to Engineering Technology, OM PRAKASH BHASIN AWARD for Science and Technology for 1995, "Sivananda Eminent Citizen Award" from Vice-President of India in Dec. 1998., "Boon Indrambarya GOLD MEDAL" by Thailand Remote Sensing and GIS Assoc in Nov 1999 in Hong Kong for contributions to Remote Sensing, 2002, "Aryabhatta Award" by Astronautical Society of India for life time contributions to Remote Sensing, "DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD" from IISc, Bangalore in 2006, "Life time Contribution Award" from ACRS, Beijing in Oct 2009, "ASTHANA VIDWAN" award from Datta Poettam Mysore, in May 2010. "CHEN Shupeng Award" (CCNCRS & AARS) for 2011 in Taipei, "IEEE third Millennium Medal 2000", "2011 National Award for Ocean Science & Technology" from MoES, Govt of India.

His contribution to overall growth of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) as Governing Council Member, Chairman of various Committees and a mentor to IETE Hyderabad Centre are of great importance.

IETE is proud to bestow IETE Life Time Achievement Award of the Institution on Prof B L Deekshatulu.

Prof B L Deekshatulu

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Maj Gen P K Jaggia. VSM (Retd) (F209742L) stSecretary General IETE, w.e.f. 1 Dec 2014, is a

1974 batch EME Officer, who has had 37 years of distinguished service in the Indian Army. He is B.Sc Engg (Elect) from Punjab Engg College, Chandigarh; MTech (Comn Engg) from IIT Kanpur; Master of Management Studies from Osmania University and MPhil from University of

Madras. He is also an alumni of National Defence College, New Delhi; College of Defence Management, Secunderabad and Army War College, Mhow. He has vast experience in the field of Strategic Planning, Technology Management, Logistics, Training and Human Resource Management. He has an excellent record of achievements in implementing new operational strategies and facilitating transformational changes in the organization. The key positions held

by him were-Additional Director General EME; Commandant Military College of Electronics & Mechanical Engineering, Secunderabad; Maj Gen EME– HQ South Western Command; Directing Staff (Brigadier)– Army War College, Mhow; Commandant (Brigadier)– EME Training Centre-Bhopal; Chief Maintainability Engineer (Col)– Maintainability Advisory Group (DRDL, Hyderabad); Dir EME Electronics, Army HQ; Commanding Officer (Col)– ME Battalion; General Manager (Personnel & Administration) (Col)– Army Base Workshop; Instructor Class-A (Lt Col)– Military College of Electronics & Mechanical Engineering, Secunderabad.

We are pleased to welcome Maj Gen Jaggia as IETE's Secretary General. We are very confident that he will steer IETE towards greater accomplishments and bring success in all endeavours.

Maj Gen P K Jaggia, VSM (Retd) - New IETE Secretary General

News from Centres

The details of the activities undertaken by the IETE Centres are as follows:-

lIETE Ahmedabad Centre and Greenfield Knowledge Centre (GFKC), together thought of initiating an intensive training program in view of unemployment problem being faced by the country and huge requirement for skills across industries.

stUnder its 1 pilot internship programme, which was designed to train, test the technical, marketing and project management skills, more than 300 students were interviewed but only 24 were shortlisted. At the end GFKC's member companies interviewed all the interns, wherein most of them

AHMEDABAD

st1 pilot internship programme in progress

got job offers. The interviewing companies noticed the difference between the employees they directly recruited and the trained employees that came through the internship

stprogrammes. The duration of the programme was from 1 Aug ndto 2 Sept 2014 and was supported by GEZIA, Reve

Automation, Greencloud iSoft, Silcore Technology etc.nd

lA meeting was held on 2 Sep 2014 with Mr Brian Tan of Contact Singapore for purpose of arranging a workshop for the experienced IETE members who wanted employment opportunities at Singapore.

Mr Brian Tan (in Centre) with ExeCom members of the Centre.

lAn expert talk on "Plasma Technology: An Engineering perspective for Societal Benefits" by Dr Ing Suryakant B Gupta was organized at Sankalchand Patel College of

thEngineering (SPCE), Visnagar, on 13 Sep 2014 for the students th th rdof BE 5 , 7 semester and ME 3 semester EC students. They

were very happy to interact with Dr Ing and were also thankful to the Deptt for organizing such an informative talk.

thlOn 15 Sep 2014 the Centre in association with VGEC,

Chandkheda, celebrated the Engineer's Day in the memory of late Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya at VGEC, Chandkheda. An elocution competition was organized as a part of the event. Students gave their views on the topic "A role of an engineer in developing modern India". Prof Kehul A Shah and Prof Hetal Bhatt from S K Patel Engg College, Visnagar, judged the event. Dr Dhaval Pujara from Nirma University, delivered enthusiastic informative and interesting lecture on "Wonderland of RF and Microwave". Dr Kishore Maradia, Dr R A Thakkar and Dr M V Shah were also present on this occasion.

st l61 IETE Foundation Day was celebrated at Ahmedabad

ndManagement Association Hall on 2 Nov 2014 on the theme "Leveraging ICTs for Building Smart Cities". Dr Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad, was the Chief Guest for the function, while the key note speaker was Shri Pankaj Gupta, Sr Vice President, ICT,

IL&FS, Gandhinagar. The welcome address was delivered by the Centre Chairman, Dr K G Maradia.

IETE Ahmedabad Centre celebrating Foundation Day atAhmedabad Management Association Hall

lA Skill development programme for students of BTech/MCA and BCA on "Web Development" was organized for 25 hours duration spread over three consecutive weeks, during Nov 2014. The Resource faculty was from International Business Technology Solutions, Noida. Around 100 students from final & pre final year attended the seminar. The company gave practical exposure on live projects so that the students could gain confidence for developing their own website and start part time jobs while studying.

stlIETE's 61 Foundation Day was celebrated on the theme

"Leveraging ICT for Building Smart Cities" on 12 Nov 2014 at IETE Allahabad Centre situated in J K Institute of Applied Physics & Technology, Allahabad University. The function was graced by Brig V K Singh, Commandant, and MD, 508 Army Base workshop as the chief guest. A guest lecture by Prof C K Dwivedi, HOD, J K Institute of Applied Physics & Technology, Allahabad University, was also arranged.

lIETE Amity University, Noida, organized an IETE sponsored rd3 International Conference on 'Reliability, Infocom

Technologies and Optimization (Trends and Future Directions)' during 8–10 Oct 2014. It was inaugurated by the Chief Guest Prof S N Singh, Chairman, IEEE UP Section and Chair Professor, Dept of EE, IIT Kanpur; Prof (Dr) Balvinder Shukla, Honorable VC of AUUP, and Shri R K Chauhan, GM, Engineering (P&S), NTPC, as the Guests of Honour. The keynote addresses were by- Prof Hoang Pham, Rutgers University, USA; Prof Shigeru Yamada, Tottori University, Japan; Prof Abdennour El Rhalibi, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, UK; and Prof Paola Ciancarini, Univ di Bologna, Italy. Six panel discussions were held on contemporary thematic issues. It was attended by participants from India, USA, Japan, UK, Italy, Taiwan, Malaysia, Oman,

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Lt Gen Dr S P Kochhar, AVSM**, SM, VSM (Retd) (F107374L),

Dr Ravindra Kumar Tyagi (F103153L),

CEO, TSSC, is an accomplished technocrat & business leader. With an intensive experience of 39 years, Lt Gen Kochhar is an illustrious professional who carries technical acumen and management expertise in Telecom and ICT sector of the country. Leading

multiple roles including technological advancements in a prolific manner, in various environment to attain larger goal, is something he counts on. He drives his team & peers alike to bring out their best for the tasks assigned to them. As a technocrat, he is recognized for goal orientation and thoroughness.

Lt Gen Kochhar has served the Indian Army in distinguished capacities. As Signal Officer-in-Chief, he has successfully introduced Greenfield concepts. His academic pursuits include Doctorate, National Security and Strategic Studies Course, MPhil (Strategic Studies), MPhil (Defense Studies), Higher Command Course, Senior Command Course, Technical Staff Course, M Tech (Communication & Radar) from IITD and B Tech (Telecommunication).

Chairman of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd Bangalore, is an Engineering Graduate in Electronics and Telecommunication (1975) from University of Roorkee and also possesses a Masters Degree in Business Administration. He was conferred with PhD in Management Studies

by University of Agra in 2012. He joined ONGC as a graduate trainee in the year 1976 and through various assignments rose to the position of General Manager in the year 2003 and continued serving ONGC upto May 2007 (31 years). He was also responsible

for turning ONGC heli base at Juhu to an ultra modern departure/arrival terminal. On 12 Jan 07, RWSI felicitated him with a Safety Award for enhancing safety standards of offshore Helicopter Ops in Bombay High. Subsequently, he held the position of Chairman cum Managing Director at Pawan Hans Helicopter Ltd. (PHHL) from May 2007 to Feb 2012. Ever since he took charge about a year ago, Dr RK Tyagi has been working on his dream of making HAL one of the top 20 global aerospace and aviation companies in the world within next five years.

is PhD in IT Management; MBA from the BK School of Business Mgmt, Gujarat University; MSc– Electronics, Gujarat University and B Sc- Physics from St Xaviers College, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. At present she is Director (e-Governance), with Gujarat

Informatics Ltd, Gandhinagar. She was Deputy General Manager (Marketing) at Industrial Extension Bureau (iNDEXTb), where she has more than 15 years of experience at various capacities. Dr Shah has been conceptualizing, supporting, managing and coordinating e-Governance projects & related activities in Government of Gujarat. She is also the recipient of e-Governance Champion Award, listed in top 50 women in India; has been instrumental in getting more than 165 eGovernance awards for state of Gujarat; Co-ordinating and publishing egovernance newsletter monthly since last 10 years and has presented technical papers at national and international conferences. Under society activities, she has been associated with Women's wing of BAPS since last 35 years; working for sensitization and empowerment of women in all aspects including health, education, family harmony preserving Indian culture, values and social upliftment.

Dr Neeta Shah (F237238L)

Nominated IETE Governing Council Members

News from Centres

The details of the activities undertaken by the IETE Centres are as follows:-

lIETE Ahmedabad Centre and Greenfield Knowledge Centre (GFKC), together thought of initiating an intensive training program in view of unemployment problem being faced by the country and huge requirement for skills across industries.

stUnder its 1 pilot internship programme, which was designed to train, test the technical, marketing and project management skills, more than 300 students were interviewed but only 24 were shortlisted. At the end GFKC's member companies interviewed all the interns, wherein most of them

AHMEDABAD

st1 pilot internship programme in progress

got job offers. The interviewing companies noticed the difference between the employees they directly recruited and the trained employees that came through the internship

stprogrammes. The duration of the programme was from 1 Aug ndto 2 Sept 2014 and was supported by GEZIA, Reve

Automation, Greencloud iSoft, Silcore Technology etc.nd

lA meeting was held on 2 Sep 2014 with Mr Brian Tan of Contact Singapore for purpose of arranging a workshop for the experienced IETE members who wanted employment opportunities at Singapore.

Mr Brian Tan (in Centre) with ExeCom members of the Centre.

lAn expert talk on "Plasma Technology: An Engineering perspective for Societal Benefits" by Dr Ing Suryakant B Gupta was organized at Sankalchand Patel College of

thEngineering (SPCE), Visnagar, on 13 Sep 2014 for the students th th rdof BE 5 , 7 semester and ME 3 semester EC students. They

were very happy to interact with Dr Ing and were also thankful to the Deptt for organizing such an informative talk.

thlOn 15 Sep 2014 the Centre in association with VGEC,

Chandkheda, celebrated the Engineer's Day in the memory of late Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya at VGEC, Chandkheda. An elocution competition was organized as a part of the event. Students gave their views on the topic "A role of an engineer in developing modern India". Prof Kehul A Shah and Prof Hetal Bhatt from S K Patel Engg College, Visnagar, judged the event. Dr Dhaval Pujara from Nirma University, delivered enthusiastic informative and interesting lecture on "Wonderland of RF and Microwave". Dr Kishore Maradia, Dr R A Thakkar and Dr M V Shah were also present on this occasion.

st l61 IETE Foundation Day was celebrated at Ahmedabad

ndManagement Association Hall on 2 Nov 2014 on the theme "Leveraging ICTs for Building Smart Cities". Dr Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad, was the Chief Guest for the function, while the key note speaker was Shri Pankaj Gupta, Sr Vice President, ICT,

IL&FS, Gandhinagar. The welcome address was delivered by the Centre Chairman, Dr K G Maradia.

IETE Ahmedabad Centre celebrating Foundation Day atAhmedabad Management Association Hall

lA Skill development programme for students of BTech/MCA and BCA on "Web Development" was organized for 25 hours duration spread over three consecutive weeks, during Nov 2014. The Resource faculty was from International Business Technology Solutions, Noida. Around 100 students from final & pre final year attended the seminar. The company gave practical exposure on live projects so that the students could gain confidence for developing their own website and start part time jobs while studying.

stlIETE's 61 Foundation Day was celebrated on the theme

"Leveraging ICT for Building Smart Cities" on 12 Nov 2014 at IETE Allahabad Centre situated in J K Institute of Applied Physics & Technology, Allahabad University. The function was graced by Brig V K Singh, Commandant, and MD, 508 Army Base workshop as the chief guest. A guest lecture by Prof C K Dwivedi, HOD, J K Institute of Applied Physics & Technology, Allahabad University, was also arranged.

lIETE Amity University, Noida, organized an IETE sponsored rd3 International Conference on 'Reliability, Infocom

Technologies and Optimization (Trends and Future Directions)' during 8–10 Oct 2014. It was inaugurated by the Chief Guest Prof S N Singh, Chairman, IEEE UP Section and Chair Professor, Dept of EE, IIT Kanpur; Prof (Dr) Balvinder Shukla, Honorable VC of AUUP, and Shri R K Chauhan, GM, Engineering (P&S), NTPC, as the Guests of Honour. The keynote addresses were by- Prof Hoang Pham, Rutgers University, USA; Prof Shigeru Yamada, Tottori University, Japan; Prof Abdennour El Rhalibi, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, UK; and Prof Paola Ciancarini, Univ di Bologna, Italy. Six panel discussions were held on contemporary thematic issues. It was attended by participants from India, USA, Japan, UK, Italy, Taiwan, Malaysia, Oman,

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Lt Gen Dr S P Kochhar, AVSM**, SM, VSM (Retd) (F107374L),

Dr Ravindra Kumar Tyagi (F103153L),

CEO, TSSC, is an accomplished technocrat & business leader. With an intensive experience of 39 years, Lt Gen Kochhar is an illustrious professional who carries technical acumen and management expertise in Telecom and ICT sector of the country. Leading

multiple roles including technological advancements in a prolific manner, in various environment to attain larger goal, is something he counts on. He drives his team & peers alike to bring out their best for the tasks assigned to them. As a technocrat, he is recognized for goal orientation and thoroughness.

Lt Gen Kochhar has served the Indian Army in distinguished capacities. As Signal Officer-in-Chief, he has successfully introduced Greenfield concepts. His academic pursuits include Doctorate, National Security and Strategic Studies Course, MPhil (Strategic Studies), MPhil (Defense Studies), Higher Command Course, Senior Command Course, Technical Staff Course, M Tech (Communication & Radar) from IITD and B Tech (Telecommunication).

Chairman of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd Bangalore, is an Engineering Graduate in Electronics and Telecommunication (1975) from University of Roorkee and also possesses a Masters Degree in Business Administration. He was conferred with PhD in Management Studies

by University of Agra in 2012. He joined ONGC as a graduate trainee in the year 1976 and through various assignments rose to the position of General Manager in the year 2003 and continued serving ONGC upto May 2007 (31 years). He was also responsible

for turning ONGC heli base at Juhu to an ultra modern departure/arrival terminal. On 12 Jan 07, RWSI felicitated him with a Safety Award for enhancing safety standards of offshore Helicopter Ops in Bombay High. Subsequently, he held the position of Chairman cum Managing Director at Pawan Hans Helicopter Ltd. (PHHL) from May 2007 to Feb 2012. Ever since he took charge about a year ago, Dr RK Tyagi has been working on his dream of making HAL one of the top 20 global aerospace and aviation companies in the world within next five years.

is PhD in IT Management; MBA from the BK School of Business Mgmt, Gujarat University; MSc– Electronics, Gujarat University and B Sc- Physics from St Xaviers College, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. At present she is Director (e-Governance), with Gujarat

Informatics Ltd, Gandhinagar. She was Deputy General Manager (Marketing) at Industrial Extension Bureau (iNDEXTb), where she has more than 15 years of experience at various capacities. Dr Shah has been conceptualizing, supporting, managing and coordinating e-Governance projects & related activities in Government of Gujarat. She is also the recipient of e-Governance Champion Award, listed in top 50 women in India; has been instrumental in getting more than 165 eGovernance awards for state of Gujarat; Co-ordinating and publishing egovernance newsletter monthly since last 10 years and has presented technical papers at national and international conferences. Under society activities, she has been associated with Women's wing of BAPS since last 35 years; working for sensitization and empowerment of women in all aspects including health, education, family harmony preserving Indian culture, values and social upliftment.

Dr Neeta Shah (F237238L)

Nominated IETE Governing Council Members

Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia. Out of 573 papers submitted, 152 were accepted for the conference and included in the proceedings.

rdA guest speaker delivering his talk during 3 InternationalConference on 'Reliability, Infocom Technologies and Optimization

(Trends and Future Directions)' at IETE - Amity Noida

lA guest lecture was organised on the occasion of IETE Foundation Day on the theme "Leveraging ICTs for Building Smart Cities" on 30 Oct 2014 at IETE -Amity University, Noida campus. Shri Vivek Chandok, Vice President – Mobility VAS Product & Portfolio, Tech-Mahindra, the guest speaker, presenting the national and global scenario, discussed the issues & challenges in setting up of smart cities. The subject invoked considerable interest from the participants and there were lot of interaction between the speaker and the audience. Approximately 120 students of BTech/MTech (Telecom & IT), faculty members and a few IETE members attended the session.

The technical activities conducted in the last quarter of the year by the Centre were on:-

thl15 Aug 2014: Independence Day and Engineers’ Day

celebrations wherein Dr D C Pande, Outstanding Scientist, LRDE, DRDO Bangalore & Centre Chairman, delivered a technical talk on "Electromagnetic Environmental & Effects". Dr Surendra Pal, President IETE was also present and gave valuable tips to the participants.

st l21 Sep 2014: A one-day workshop on "DSP: Concepts,

Design and Applications" by Prof Ashok Rao, Former Head, Network project, CEDT, IISc Bangalore, was organised with good response from engineering colleges and industry. Shri D Rajagopal, Immdt Past Chairman of the Centre inaugurated the workshop. The certificates were distributed at the end of the workshop.

ndl2 Oct 2014: Ayudha Pooja was celebrated at the premises.

thl11 Oct 2014: ISF in the Dept ECE of Rajarajeswari College of

Engineering, Kumbalgodu, Bangalore, was inaugurated by

BANGALORE

the Chief Guest Dr M H Kori, (Retd) Tech Dir, Alcatel Lucent Technologies Ltd, Bangalore. Dr D C Pande, Centre Chairman, the key note speaker delivered a talk on "A Glimpse of RADAR by LRDE" followed by Dr Kori's talk on "Wireless Mobile Communication". Dr M S Bhagya-shekar, Principal; Prof M Prabhakar, Vice Principal and Prof V Sreepathi, HOD, ECE, presided over the function. There were around than 183 IETE students, HODs of various departments and staff members. The Principal highlighted the main purpose and scope of IETE- ISF Chapter to the student community. HODs narrated the basic aim that is of bringing forth the intellectual ideas and methods for current needs and thereby implementing them for the welfare of the society needs.

l19th Oct 2014: A one-day workshop on "Electromagnetic Field Theory & Applications" by Dr M V Chaitanya Kumar, Principal, KNSIT Bangalore, was organized aiming to explore the fascinating world of Electromagnetic Field Theory, starting from physical concepts to its innumerable applications. Prof H S Bhatia, Past Hony Secy and Shri Ranjeet Kumar, ExeCom Member coordinated the workshop, which was attended by large number of student community and teaching staff.

stl25th & 31 Oct 2014: Two technical talks by Prof Shashi

Kumar & Dr K N Shankara were conducted on the same topic of "Microwave and Radar" intended for different semesters of students of ECE Dept, SJCIT, Chickballapur.

lThe IETE Bhopal Center celebrated the Independence Day at thIETE premises on 15 Aug 2014. Prof Virendra Singh

Chaudhary, Hony Secretary of the Centre hoisted the flag in the presence of IETE Staff & Students ( DIPIETE and AMIETE) .

lA two–day workshop on "Embedded System" was conducted under the banner of IETE Bhopal Centre during

th th12 -13 Sep, 2014 at Dept of ECE, Sagar Institute of Research

BHOPAL

Participants during the workshop

& Technology Excellence, Bhopal. The eminent persons present on the occasion were: Shri Sanjeev Aggarwal, Dr Prashant Jain, Dr Rajiv Shrivastava with Dr Bharti Gupta, HOD EC Dept. It was organized under the guidance of faculty coordinator Prof Pramod Kumar, keeping in mind the basic concepts of embedded system. It enabled the students to write the programs in "C" for different glow patterns of LED and they made timer using the seven segment display. Overall the workshop proved to be very useful for the students.

lCommemorating the Foundation Day of the Institution, a technical lecture on the theme "Leveraging ICTs for Building Smart Cities" was delivered by Dr Mahesh Shukla, Sr GM

thBSNL, Bhopal, on 8 Nov 2014 at the Centre. The distinguished guests present on the occasion were: Shri Manish Kumar, Plant Manager, Parle Agro Ltd. Bhopal, the chief guest and Dr R P Singh, Ex- Dir & Prof EC Deptt MANIT, Bhopal & Dr T K Bandhopadhyay, Advisor Bansal Group of Institution, Bhopal, Ex- Director& Prof. EC Deptt. MANIT, Bhopal as Guests-of-Honour. The message from IETE President was read out by the Treasurer of IETE Bhopal Centre, Prof Subodh K Gond. A number of ExecCom Members were present during the occasion.

Foundation Day observed at IETE-Bhopal Centre

ndThe Centre celebrated the IETE Foundation Day on 2 Nov 2014 on the pronounced theme. On this occasion Shri S K Angra, Centre Chairman, welcomed the dignitaries and briefed them about the background of the Centre. He brought out the need for development of Smart Cities and leveraging ICT's to meet their requirement. of smart cities. Dr Neelesh Kumar, Hony Secretary, IETE Chandigarh read out the message of President, IETE. Dr Amod Kumar, Acting Director CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh & Guest of Honour, delivered the theme lecture. IETE 2014 Awardees, Dr Ram Sevak Singh, Asst Professor, NIT Kurukshetra, delivered a talk on "Novel Photo Detectors Based on Graphene Materials" and Dr Sanjeev Kumar, Scientist CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh, delivered a talk on "Depth of Anesthesia-Measurement and

CHANDIGARH

Control". Both the talks were well received & appreciated. IETE Senior member Dr Krishna Chandra Singhal, Shri Joginder Singh, Brig H C Malhotra, and Shri S D Suneja were honoured on this occasion.

st61 Foundation Day Celebration at IETE Chandigarh Centre

lIETE Foundation Day celebrations were graced by Shri G V Reddy, CGM, Tamil Nadu, Telecom Circle, BSNL, Chennai, as the Chief Guest and Shri Anbuthambi, VP, ICT Academy

ndof Tamil Nadu, Chennai, as the Guest of Honour on 2 Nov 2014 at the Centre premises. Dr Malavizhi, HoD, ECE Dept, SRM University, the awardee of IETE – Prof K Sreenivasan Award – 2014, gave a presentation on the work and was felicitated. Shri S Ramaswamy, Chairman Chennai Centre, delivered the welcome address and Prof D Narayana Rao, Governing Council Member read out the message from President IETE issued on the occasion. A few senior members of IETE were honoured with mementos.

\

lShri S Swarna Ravindra Babu, Head-GPS & Sensors Group Samsung Research India (P) Ltd, Bangalore, delivered a lecture on "LBS and Sensors for next generation

thsmartphones" on 18 Oct 2014 to a gathering of around 30 people at the Centre.

lIETE Nominated Council Member for the year 2014-15, Lt Gen Dr S P Kochhar, CEO, Telecom Sector Skill Council,

CHENNAI

IETE Chennai Centre celebrating Foundation Day

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Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia. Out of 573 papers submitted, 152 were accepted for the conference and included in the proceedings.

rdA guest speaker delivering his talk during 3 InternationalConference on 'Reliability, Infocom Technologies and Optimization

(Trends and Future Directions)' at IETE - Amity Noida

lA guest lecture was organised on the occasion of IETE Foundation Day on the theme "Leveraging ICTs for Building Smart Cities" on 30 Oct 2014 at IETE -Amity University, Noida campus. Shri Vivek Chandok, Vice President – Mobility VAS Product & Portfolio, Tech-Mahindra, the guest speaker, presenting the national and global scenario, discussed the issues & challenges in setting up of smart cities. The subject invoked considerable interest from the participants and there were lot of interaction between the speaker and the audience. Approximately 120 students of BTech/MTech (Telecom & IT), faculty members and a few IETE members attended the session.

The technical activities conducted in the last quarter of the year by the Centre were on:-

thl15 Aug 2014: Independence Day and Engineers’ Day

celebrations wherein Dr D C Pande, Outstanding Scientist, LRDE, DRDO Bangalore & Centre Chairman, delivered a technical talk on "Electromagnetic Environmental & Effects". Dr Surendra Pal, President IETE was also present and gave valuable tips to the participants.

st l21 Sep 2014: A one-day workshop on "DSP: Concepts,

Design and Applications" by Prof Ashok Rao, Former Head, Network project, CEDT, IISc Bangalore, was organised with good response from engineering colleges and industry. Shri D Rajagopal, Immdt Past Chairman of the Centre inaugurated the workshop. The certificates were distributed at the end of the workshop.

ndl2 Oct 2014: Ayudha Pooja was celebrated at the premises.

thl11 Oct 2014: ISF in the Dept ECE of Rajarajeswari College of

Engineering, Kumbalgodu, Bangalore, was inaugurated by

BANGALORE

the Chief Guest Dr M H Kori, (Retd) Tech Dir, Alcatel Lucent Technologies Ltd, Bangalore. Dr D C Pande, Centre Chairman, the key note speaker delivered a talk on "A Glimpse of RADAR by LRDE" followed by Dr Kori's talk on "Wireless Mobile Communication". Dr M S Bhagya-shekar, Principal; Prof M Prabhakar, Vice Principal and Prof V Sreepathi, HOD, ECE, presided over the function. There were around than 183 IETE students, HODs of various departments and staff members. The Principal highlighted the main purpose and scope of IETE- ISF Chapter to the student community. HODs narrated the basic aim that is of bringing forth the intellectual ideas and methods for current needs and thereby implementing them for the welfare of the society needs.

l19th Oct 2014: A one-day workshop on "Electromagnetic Field Theory & Applications" by Dr M V Chaitanya Kumar, Principal, KNSIT Bangalore, was organized aiming to explore the fascinating world of Electromagnetic Field Theory, starting from physical concepts to its innumerable applications. Prof H S Bhatia, Past Hony Secy and Shri Ranjeet Kumar, ExeCom Member coordinated the workshop, which was attended by large number of student community and teaching staff.

stl25th & 31 Oct 2014: Two technical talks by Prof Shashi

Kumar & Dr K N Shankara were conducted on the same topic of "Microwave and Radar" intended for different semesters of students of ECE Dept, SJCIT, Chickballapur.

lThe IETE Bhopal Center celebrated the Independence Day at thIETE premises on 15 Aug 2014. Prof Virendra Singh

Chaudhary, Hony Secretary of the Centre hoisted the flag in the presence of IETE Staff & Students ( DIPIETE and AMIETE) .

lA two–day workshop on "Embedded System" was conducted under the banner of IETE Bhopal Centre during

th th12 -13 Sep, 2014 at Dept of ECE, Sagar Institute of Research

BHOPAL

Participants during the workshop

& Technology Excellence, Bhopal. The eminent persons present on the occasion were: Shri Sanjeev Aggarwal, Dr Prashant Jain, Dr Rajiv Shrivastava with Dr Bharti Gupta, HOD EC Dept. It was organized under the guidance of faculty coordinator Prof Pramod Kumar, keeping in mind the basic concepts of embedded system. It enabled the students to write the programs in "C" for different glow patterns of LED and they made timer using the seven segment display. Overall the workshop proved to be very useful for the students.

lCommemorating the Foundation Day of the Institution, a technical lecture on the theme "Leveraging ICTs for Building Smart Cities" was delivered by Dr Mahesh Shukla, Sr GM

thBSNL, Bhopal, on 8 Nov 2014 at the Centre. The distinguished guests present on the occasion were: Shri Manish Kumar, Plant Manager, Parle Agro Ltd. Bhopal, the chief guest and Dr R P Singh, Ex- Dir & Prof EC Deptt MANIT, Bhopal & Dr T K Bandhopadhyay, Advisor Bansal Group of Institution, Bhopal, Ex- Director& Prof. EC Deptt. MANIT, Bhopal as Guests-of-Honour. The message from IETE President was read out by the Treasurer of IETE Bhopal Centre, Prof Subodh K Gond. A number of ExecCom Members were present during the occasion.

Foundation Day observed at IETE-Bhopal Centre

ndThe Centre celebrated the IETE Foundation Day on 2 Nov 2014 on the pronounced theme. On this occasion Shri S K Angra, Centre Chairman, welcomed the dignitaries and briefed them about the background of the Centre. He brought out the need for development of Smart Cities and leveraging ICT's to meet their requirement. of smart cities. Dr Neelesh Kumar, Hony Secretary, IETE Chandigarh read out the message of President, IETE. Dr Amod Kumar, Acting Director CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh & Guest of Honour, delivered the theme lecture. IETE 2014 Awardees, Dr Ram Sevak Singh, Asst Professor, NIT Kurukshetra, delivered a talk on "Novel Photo Detectors Based on Graphene Materials" and Dr Sanjeev Kumar, Scientist CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh, delivered a talk on "Depth of Anesthesia-Measurement and

CHANDIGARH

Control". Both the talks were well received & appreciated. IETE Senior member Dr Krishna Chandra Singhal, Shri Joginder Singh, Brig H C Malhotra, and Shri S D Suneja were honoured on this occasion.

st61 Foundation Day Celebration at IETE Chandigarh Centre

lIETE Foundation Day celebrations were graced by Shri G V Reddy, CGM, Tamil Nadu, Telecom Circle, BSNL, Chennai, as the Chief Guest and Shri Anbuthambi, VP, ICT Academy

ndof Tamil Nadu, Chennai, as the Guest of Honour on 2 Nov 2014 at the Centre premises. Dr Malavizhi, HoD, ECE Dept, SRM University, the awardee of IETE – Prof K Sreenivasan Award – 2014, gave a presentation on the work and was felicitated. Shri S Ramaswamy, Chairman Chennai Centre, delivered the welcome address and Prof D Narayana Rao, Governing Council Member read out the message from President IETE issued on the occasion. A few senior members of IETE were honoured with mementos.

\

lShri S Swarna Ravindra Babu, Head-GPS & Sensors Group Samsung Research India (P) Ltd, Bangalore, delivered a lecture on "LBS and Sensors for next generation

thsmartphones" on 18 Oct 2014 to a gathering of around 30 people at the Centre.

lIETE Nominated Council Member for the year 2014-15, Lt Gen Dr S P Kochhar, CEO, Telecom Sector Skill Council,

CHENNAI

IETE Chennai Centre celebrating Foundation Day

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New Delhi visited IETE Chennai Centre accompanied with thShri D P Nair, Head – Business Unit, TSSC on 20 Oct 2014.

Shri S Ramaswamy, Chairman, along with Shri A Sadagopan ExeCom Member, apprised them of the technical facilities & other infrastructure available at the Centre. Gen Kochhar inturn discussed the feasibility of conducting training courses on Telecom sector for different level of trainees at the Centre.

lA technical lecture on "Overview of Image Compression & Its Challenges" by Prof D Vijendra Babu, Vice Principal I/C & HOD ECE Dept, Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology (AVIT), Chennai, was organized by the ExeCom

thMembers of 2014-16 on 12 Aug 2014. Shri S Ramaswamy, Centre Chairman in his address, touched upon the necessity of video compression in today's digital world. Prof Babu gave an excellent presentation on various techniques adopted to achieve the image compression in a simpler way.

thl4 National Level Technical Symposium on "FUTROFEXT

2K14" was organized in association with ISF of Magna Engg College, Chennai, on Aug 28, 2014 with an objective to provide all supportive co-curricular training required by students to enhance their performance & for their update with recent trends in industry. It was inaugurated by Shri S Ramaswamy, Chairman, IETE Chennai Centre. Prof J Devadas Nayagam, Chairman, Magna College of Engg, presided over the function. A special address by Dr I S Stephan Thangaiah, Principal, was arranged on the occasion. About 200 students from 32 institutes participated and students took part in various activities of the symposium.

lThe Centre organized IETE Students' Forum interaction thduring the celebrations of the IETE Foundation Day on 11

Sep 2014. Dr K Jaya Sankar, Chairman, IETE Hyderabad Centre presided over the programme. Other notable speakers were: Shri Nuli Namassivaya, Hony Secretary, IETE Hyderabad Centre and Shri K Seetha Ram Babu, Chairman,

HYDERABAD

TPC, Dr M V Krishna Rao and Dr G Laxminarayana, Hony Treasurer.

thl15 Memorial Lecture on Shri M Madan Mohan was

delivered by Dr D Srinivasa Rao, Prof & Head, ECE Dept, JNTUP College of Engg, Hyderabad, on the topic "Quality of

thService in Data Communication Networks" on 15 Sep 2014. Dr K Jaya Sankar, Centre Chairman, presided over the function. Shri Nuli Namassivaya, Hony Secy, provided the background on memorial lecture.

lTwo short-term courses of two day duration each were

organized on "Control Systems" (25-26 Oct 2014) and on th th"Microwave Engineering" (25 and 8 Nov 2014).

Certificates were distributed to the participants after

completion of the courses and a quiz competition was also

conducted after the later course. st

lThe Cetre celebrated the 61 IETE Foundation Day on the ndpronounced theme on 2 Nov 2014 under the presence of

Chief Guest , Shri B Satyam, CEO, Neo Silica Technologies,

Hyderabad. The panelists in the panel discussion were: Dr L

Pratap Reddy, Prof ECE, JNTUH, Hyd; Shri K Vijay

Kumar Gupta, MD, Kwality Photonics (P) Ltd, Hyd and Shri

MAS Reddy, DDG(Publc Grievances), DOT, Hyd. The

Centre felicitated the Chief Guest & senior members of the

Centre Shri M B S Purushottam, Shri C Sitapati Rao, Dr E

V R Rao, Shri T Narayana and Shri P S R Krishna on this

occasion. The Foundation Day celebrations were followed by thProf S Narayana 6 Endowment Lecture by Shri T V

Parthasaradhi, Former Director, IT&C, Govt of AP,

Hyderabad on "ITIR in Hyderabad". Prof S Narayana,

Past-President and DFIETE was felicitated on this occasion.

The other speakers in the event included: Prof K

Laxminarayana, Vice President & Advisor; Dr K Jaya

Sankar, Centre, Chairman; Shri Nuli Namassivaya, Hony

Secretary; Shri K Seetha Ram Babu, Chairman, TPC; and Dr

G Laxminarayana, Hony Treasurer. The above programmes

were attended by scientists, professors, students and also

members of the Centre.

stlThe 61 Foundation Day celebration of IETE at Indore was

graced by Shri Ajay Kumar Roy (Postmaster General Indore) stas Chief Guest on 1 Nov 2014 at Oriental University campus.

In his address, he highlighted the importance & role of ICTs used in the building smart cities; technologies used in making the universal postal services faster and also discussed about the launching of the ATM services by Indian Post. Brig (Dr) V D Abraham, SM (Retd). Vice Chancellor, Oriental University, Indore & past IETE Governing Council Member undertook the issues of design, organization and sustainability of smart cities and highlighted the importance of IETE membership and the role of IETE corporate members. Prof H R Singh, Chairman IETE Indore Sub Centre, read out the message from President IETE, issued for the occasion. The function was attended by IETE members, students of IETE and teaching faculties of many technical institutions.

lThe Indore Sub-Centre in association with Oriental University, thIndore celebrated Engineer's Day on 15 Sep 2014. The

function was inaugurated by Dr K L Thakral, Chancellor Oriental University, Indore. Hon'ble Chancellor highlighted the importance and significant role of an Engineer and stressed on making the Indian Engineering of world class. Brig (Dr) V D Abraham, SM (Retd), IETE Governing Council Member & Vice Chancellor; Prof H R Singh, Chairman IETE Indore Sub Centre, addressed the audience. Apart from the Poster Making competition on "Engineer's are Nation Builders"; Movie making competition, the Day was also marked by felicitating the outstanding Engineers from Indore for their notable achievement and contribution to the society. The function was attended by IETE members, faculties & Students of Oriental University, Indore.

INDORE

JABALPUR

JALANDHAR

stThe Engineers' Day at the Sub-Centre was celebrated on 21 Sep 2014 with most of the office bearers, members, student members. Dr (Mrs) Shailja Shukla, Hony Treasurer & Dr Ashish Tiwari, Asst Prof in GGCT, Jabalpur, both highlighted the life of great Shri Viswasaraiya through their talks. Shri Sidharth Bhalerao, Asst Prof in GGCT, Jabalpur, gave the background history of development of Internet with name of scientists who worked in this field. Dr (Mrs) Mukta Bhatele, Hony Secretary, convened the function & proposed vote of thanks. Shri N Vishwakarma, Centre Chairman, focused on the importance of engineering degrees & its benefits in his speech.

IETE Foundation Day celebration was organised by the thJalandhar Sub-Centre on 30 Oct 2014 at Govt Polytechnic for

Girls, Jalandhar, Punjab. The function was graced by the Chief Guest Prof (Dr) R K Sarin, from NIT Jalandhar, as well as the Chairman IETE Jalandhar Sub-Centre & Dy Dir (Engineering) Doordarshan, Jalandhar. The other notables members present and who addressed the audience were: Shri Satish Bhatia, Secretary IETE also the Principal, Govt Polytechnic for Girls; Shri Narinder Singh; Prof Dr A K Khosla from NIT, Jalandhar; Prof Varun Uppal & Prof Gautam Kochar, CT Institute of Technology Jalandhar; and the student community. The technical lecture on "Leveraging ICTs for Building Smart Cities" was delivered by Prof Varun Uppal.

IETE Foundation Day gathering at IETE Jalandhar Sub-Centre

Engineers' Day celebration at IETE Jabalpur Centre

Lt Gen (Dr) S P Kochhar, CEO, TSSC, New Delhi and nominatedIETE Council Member with the team of IETE Chennai Centre

Felicitations to Dr D Srinivasa Rao duringth 15 Shri M Madan Mohan Memorial Lecture

Prof S Narayana, Past President and DF IETE (sitting) being felicitatedthduring 6 Endowment Lecture at Hyderabad

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New Delhi visited IETE Chennai Centre accompanied with thShri D P Nair, Head – Business Unit, TSSC on 20 Oct 2014.

Shri S Ramaswamy, Chairman, along with Shri A Sadagopan ExeCom Member, apprised them of the technical facilities & other infrastructure available at the Centre. Gen Kochhar inturn discussed the feasibility of conducting training courses on Telecom sector for different level of trainees at the Centre.

lA technical lecture on "Overview of Image Compression & Its Challenges" by Prof D Vijendra Babu, Vice Principal I/C & HOD ECE Dept, Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology (AVIT), Chennai, was organized by the ExeCom

thMembers of 2014-16 on 12 Aug 2014. Shri S Ramaswamy, Centre Chairman in his address, touched upon the necessity of video compression in today's digital world. Prof Babu gave an excellent presentation on various techniques adopted to achieve the image compression in a simpler way.

thl4 National Level Technical Symposium on "FUTROFEXT

2K14" was organized in association with ISF of Magna Engg College, Chennai, on Aug 28, 2014 with an objective to provide all supportive co-curricular training required by students to enhance their performance & for their update with recent trends in industry. It was inaugurated by Shri S Ramaswamy, Chairman, IETE Chennai Centre. Prof J Devadas Nayagam, Chairman, Magna College of Engg, presided over the function. A special address by Dr I S Stephan Thangaiah, Principal, was arranged on the occasion. About 200 students from 32 institutes participated and students took part in various activities of the symposium.

lThe Centre organized IETE Students' Forum interaction thduring the celebrations of the IETE Foundation Day on 11

Sep 2014. Dr K Jaya Sankar, Chairman, IETE Hyderabad Centre presided over the programme. Other notable speakers were: Shri Nuli Namassivaya, Hony Secretary, IETE Hyderabad Centre and Shri K Seetha Ram Babu, Chairman,

HYDERABAD

TPC, Dr M V Krishna Rao and Dr G Laxminarayana, Hony Treasurer.

thl15 Memorial Lecture on Shri M Madan Mohan was

delivered by Dr D Srinivasa Rao, Prof & Head, ECE Dept, JNTUP College of Engg, Hyderabad, on the topic "Quality of

thService in Data Communication Networks" on 15 Sep 2014. Dr K Jaya Sankar, Centre Chairman, presided over the function. Shri Nuli Namassivaya, Hony Secy, provided the background on memorial lecture.

lTwo short-term courses of two day duration each were

organized on "Control Systems" (25-26 Oct 2014) and on th th"Microwave Engineering" (25 and 8 Nov 2014).

Certificates were distributed to the participants after

completion of the courses and a quiz competition was also

conducted after the later course. st

lThe Cetre celebrated the 61 IETE Foundation Day on the ndpronounced theme on 2 Nov 2014 under the presence of

Chief Guest , Shri B Satyam, CEO, Neo Silica Technologies,

Hyderabad. The panelists in the panel discussion were: Dr L

Pratap Reddy, Prof ECE, JNTUH, Hyd; Shri K Vijay

Kumar Gupta, MD, Kwality Photonics (P) Ltd, Hyd and Shri

MAS Reddy, DDG(Publc Grievances), DOT, Hyd. The

Centre felicitated the Chief Guest & senior members of the

Centre Shri M B S Purushottam, Shri C Sitapati Rao, Dr E

V R Rao, Shri T Narayana and Shri P S R Krishna on this

occasion. The Foundation Day celebrations were followed by thProf S Narayana 6 Endowment Lecture by Shri T V

Parthasaradhi, Former Director, IT&C, Govt of AP,

Hyderabad on "ITIR in Hyderabad". Prof S Narayana,

Past-President and DFIETE was felicitated on this occasion.

The other speakers in the event included: Prof K

Laxminarayana, Vice President & Advisor; Dr K Jaya

Sankar, Centre, Chairman; Shri Nuli Namassivaya, Hony

Secretary; Shri K Seetha Ram Babu, Chairman, TPC; and Dr

G Laxminarayana, Hony Treasurer. The above programmes

were attended by scientists, professors, students and also

members of the Centre.

stlThe 61 Foundation Day celebration of IETE at Indore was

graced by Shri Ajay Kumar Roy (Postmaster General Indore) stas Chief Guest on 1 Nov 2014 at Oriental University campus.

In his address, he highlighted the importance & role of ICTs used in the building smart cities; technologies used in making the universal postal services faster and also discussed about the launching of the ATM services by Indian Post. Brig (Dr) V D Abraham, SM (Retd). Vice Chancellor, Oriental University, Indore & past IETE Governing Council Member undertook the issues of design, organization and sustainability of smart cities and highlighted the importance of IETE membership and the role of IETE corporate members. Prof H R Singh, Chairman IETE Indore Sub Centre, read out the message from President IETE, issued for the occasion. The function was attended by IETE members, students of IETE and teaching faculties of many technical institutions.

lThe Indore Sub-Centre in association with Oriental University, thIndore celebrated Engineer's Day on 15 Sep 2014. The

function was inaugurated by Dr K L Thakral, Chancellor Oriental University, Indore. Hon'ble Chancellor highlighted the importance and significant role of an Engineer and stressed on making the Indian Engineering of world class. Brig (Dr) V D Abraham, SM (Retd), IETE Governing Council Member & Vice Chancellor; Prof H R Singh, Chairman IETE Indore Sub Centre, addressed the audience. Apart from the Poster Making competition on "Engineer's are Nation Builders"; Movie making competition, the Day was also marked by felicitating the outstanding Engineers from Indore for their notable achievement and contribution to the society. The function was attended by IETE members, faculties & Students of Oriental University, Indore.

INDORE

JABALPUR

JALANDHAR

stThe Engineers' Day at the Sub-Centre was celebrated on 21 Sep 2014 with most of the office bearers, members, student members. Dr (Mrs) Shailja Shukla, Hony Treasurer & Dr Ashish Tiwari, Asst Prof in GGCT, Jabalpur, both highlighted the life of great Shri Viswasaraiya through their talks. Shri Sidharth Bhalerao, Asst Prof in GGCT, Jabalpur, gave the background history of development of Internet with name of scientists who worked in this field. Dr (Mrs) Mukta Bhatele, Hony Secretary, convened the function & proposed vote of thanks. Shri N Vishwakarma, Centre Chairman, focused on the importance of engineering degrees & its benefits in his speech.

IETE Foundation Day celebration was organised by the thJalandhar Sub-Centre on 30 Oct 2014 at Govt Polytechnic for

Girls, Jalandhar, Punjab. The function was graced by the Chief Guest Prof (Dr) R K Sarin, from NIT Jalandhar, as well as the Chairman IETE Jalandhar Sub-Centre & Dy Dir (Engineering) Doordarshan, Jalandhar. The other notables members present and who addressed the audience were: Shri Satish Bhatia, Secretary IETE also the Principal, Govt Polytechnic for Girls; Shri Narinder Singh; Prof Dr A K Khosla from NIT, Jalandhar; Prof Varun Uppal & Prof Gautam Kochar, CT Institute of Technology Jalandhar; and the student community. The technical lecture on "Leveraging ICTs for Building Smart Cities" was delivered by Prof Varun Uppal.

IETE Foundation Day gathering at IETE Jalandhar Sub-Centre

Engineers' Day celebration at IETE Jabalpur Centre

Lt Gen (Dr) S P Kochhar, CEO, TSSC, New Delhi and nominatedIETE Council Member with the team of IETE Chennai Centre

Felicitations to Dr D Srinivasa Rao duringth 15 Shri M Madan Mohan Memorial Lecture

Prof S Narayana, Past President and DF IETE (sitting) being felicitatedthduring 6 Endowment Lecture at Hyderabad

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JAMMU

KATHMANDU

IETE Jammu Centre invited Prof Rajnikant, Dept of Physics and Electronics, University of Jammu, as the Chief Guest on the occasion of IETE Foundation Day celebration on 02 Nov 2014. His talked on "X-Radiation in the Service of Humanity", with a focus on the theme "Leveraging ICTs for Building Smart Cities". The function was presided over by Maj Gen S K Sharma, AVSM (Retd), senior most fellow of the IETE Jammu Centre. Dr Rakesh Vaid, Chairman IETE Centre and Dr Parveen Lehana, Hony Secy of the Centre, also addressed the audience.

st thCommemorating 61 IETE Foundation Day on 07 Nov 2014, the Centre organized a National level seminar on the theme "Leveraging ICTs for building Smart Cities". The program was chaired by Shree Vishwa Nath Goel, Chairman, IETE Kathmandu Centre, who highlighted the Centre's contribution in ICT, electronics and telecommunications sectors. In his address, Shree Sushil Kumar Ojha, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Information and Comm, highlighted the latest development in ICTs that were instrumental in social prosperity. He assured to extend full support from the Ministry and encouraged Centre for more such programs that were beneficial for professional engineers. Mr Micheal McDonald, group CTO from Huawei Technologies, South East Asia, elucidated the applications of ICTs & its various aspects. Emphasizing on its importance he said that ICT being indivisible part of human civilization, it is necessary to make ICT education from school level itself. Engineer Locahn Lal Amatya, Chairman of SECEN, presented his paper based on Nepal's activities in building smart cities. He expressed his desire for more such policies that could make Nepal and its cities smarter in terms of education, governance, road and safety measures. Vice Chairman of IETE, Shree Keshava Gyawali, also expressed his views on the theme and it's rationale in present scenario. The senior fellow member of IETE Nepal Centre Shree Bhesh Raj Kanel was felicitated during the programme.

Foundation Day Celebration at IETE Kathmandu Centre

KANPUR

lIETE Kanpur Centre & IEEE, UP Section jointly celebrated th th47 Engineers Day on 15 Sep 2014 at IIT, Kanpur. Prof A K

Nagpal, Director, H B Technological Institute, Kanpur graced the event as the Chief Guest. Dr Uday S Racherla, Prof, Dept of Industrial Mgmt & Engg, IIT, Kanpur and Dr S S K Iyer, Prof Dept of EE, IIT, Kanpur, were the theme speakers. They delivered keynote lectures on the theme "Making Indian Engineering World-Class". Dr Racherla touched upon the country's manufacturing progress & position in comparision to the achievements of China. He was of the view that India should change its paradigm for GDP growth to investment in manufacturing and exports. He said that according to Mckinsey's & Company, India's manufacturing is expected to grow to US$ 1 trillion by 2015. In the process, it is assumed that India's manufacturing sector would create nearly 100 mllion new jobs and contribute 25-30% to GDP. To exploit opportunities in manufacturing – India's academia industry and Govt must work together. Dr Iyer hinted on the problems being faced in elevating the quality/class of India's engineering. Besides utility, emphasis on ethics and aesthetics is a must when defining engineering problems. He said that by choosing the parameters properly on which the engineering problems are framed and solved, there is a possibility of achieving all round world class quality in Indian Engineering. The Chief Guest, Prof A K Nagpal, in his address said that the Engineers are key figures in the material progress of the world. Regardless of the job he is engaged in, a world class engineer is always considered an asset to the nation and to the society. The celebration on the whole was a success and enjoyed. It was attended by a large number of corporate members, students of IIT & HBTI, Kanpur, technicians, members of the Institutions, invitees.

lThe celebration of IETE Foundation Day in association with the Dept of EE of Harcourt Butler Technological Institute,

nd Kanpur, was held at its Seminar Hall on 2 Nov, 2014. The Chief Guest, Prof A K Nagpal, Director, HBTI Kanpur, in his address emphasized the need to develop smart technologies leading to smart applications for all walks of life. Prof (Dr) Yaduvir Singh, Dean (Planning & Resource Generation), HBTI, Kanpur, delivering the keynote address said that the Smart city has been envisaged to encompass modern urban production factors in a common framework which predominantly highlights the growing importance of ICTs, social and environmental capital. He highlighted the important role of human capital and education and learning in urban development. Faculty members from HBTI Kanpur and IIT Kanpur; ExeCom Members of IETE Kanpur Centre, engineering students of UG, PG and PhD, staff and others guest attended the lecture.

Prof (Dr) Yaduvir Singh delivering the keynote address during IETE Foundation Day at Kanpur

IETE National Technical Paper Contest (NTPC-2014) was thorganized by the Centre on 26 July 2014 at KMEA Engg College,

Ernakulam and inaugurated by Dr A Unnikrishnan, Chairman, IETE Kochi Centre and Prof C I Abdul Rahiman, Dir, KMEA Engg College & EC Member, IETE. Other notables present for the event were -Dr T K Mani, Dean, Post Graduate Studies, KMEA Engg College Prof Manju Bhaskar, ISF Staff Co-ordinator, Dr M V Rajesh, Hony Secretary IETE and Principal, Illahia School of Science & Technology. The panel of judges for evaluation of the contest were:- Dr T K Mani; Smt Pradeepa R, Scientist "F"(NPOL, DRDO) and Prof Deepa Elizabeth Geroge, HOD, Dept of ECE, Toc H Institute of Sci & Tech. The winners of the contest have already been announced during ATC awards ceremony. This includes : Mr Mohammed Ismail for his paper on "Weed Removal Robot– A

stfire-bird V overview" (1 ); Ms M Preethi and Ms J Nivetha for their paper on "Quality Evaluation of Wheat using

ndMicrowaves" (2 ) and Shri P Sarath Kumar and Shri S Thalavai Shanmuga Balaji" for their paper on "Real Time Auditorium

rdPower Supply Control Using Image Processing" at (3 ) position. Ms Subhashree Anand won the consolation prize for her paper "FPGA based implementation for cascaded multilevel inverters to reduce harmonic distortions in solar PV applications".

IETE Mhow Sub-Centre celebrated IETE Foundation Day by organizing a lecture by the Guest Speaker, Brig (Dr) V D Abraham, SM (Retd) Vice Chancellor, Oriental University, Indore and Past IETE Governing Council Member on theme "Leveraging

thICTs for building Smart Cities" on 11 Nov 2014 at Batra Hall of FCE MCTE Mhow. The speaker brought out the challenges and opportunities in leveraging ICTs for building smart cities. The function was attended by IETE Members, faculty and students of MCTE. Lt Col Ranchit Mathur, Hony Secretary of IETE Mhow Sub Centre, delivered the welcome address. The Chief Guest and patron of IETE sub Centre, Mhow Lt General R S Panwar, SM,

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VSM, Commandant MCTE & Colonel Commandant Corp of Signals, highlighted the sterling progress made by the country in the field of ICTs. He also outlined the latest initiatives taken by the Armed Forces in aiding the growth of ICT. Brig VS Narang, Commander FCE and Chairman IETE Sub Centre, Mhow proposed the concluding remarks.

st The 61 IETE Foundation Day was jointly celebrated with stNavi Mumbai Centre, on 1 Nov 2014 at Fr C Rodrigues Institute

of Technology, Vashi, Navi Mumbai. The Chief Guest for the occasion was Shri Soma Vijaykumar, CGM (Transport & Airport) CIDCO, Navi Mumbai. The other eminent persons present and addressed the audience included: Prof Nilashree and Prof Smita Lonkar, Hony Secy; Dr J W Bakal, West Zone Coordinator; Dr K T V Reddy Ex-Council Member IETE; Prof Sushil S Thale, Chairman IETE-Mumbai Centre and Dr Milind Shah, Chairman IETE Navi Mumbai Centre. Some Senior Members felicitated on this day were: Dr M K Sinha, Shri VD Goutham (Navi Mumbai) and Shri Ramachandran (F- 102845) and Shri S P Sharma (F -005571) from Mumbai Centre. The Chief Guest shared his experience on all efforts being put by CIDCO to make Navi Mumbai a Smart City in terms of technology, planning and building. He talked of various projects such as nodal development, housing, bridges, railway stations, roads, transport and communication system for bringing in latest technologies in Navi Mumbai. He also narrated details of implementation of Surveillance Camera Network with OFC backbone connectivity, forthcoming Navi Mumbai International Airport. The lecture was well received by the audience and witnessed an interactive Q/A session.

l'Mobile Handset Awareness Program' for senior citizens was organized by the Centre, under the idea of Dr C G Dethe

ndon 2 Nov 2014. Sri K Narayanan, Centre Chairman, presided over the function. Senior citizens discussed their

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Brig (Dr) V D Abraham, SM (Retd) being felicitated by IETE MhowSub-Centre on the occasion of IETE Foundation Day

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IETE Jammu Centre invited Prof Rajnikant, Dept of Physics and Electronics, University of Jammu, as the Chief Guest on the occasion of IETE Foundation Day celebration on 02 Nov 2014. His talked on "X-Radiation in the Service of Humanity", with a focus on the theme "Leveraging ICTs for Building Smart Cities". The function was presided over by Maj Gen S K Sharma, AVSM (Retd), senior most fellow of the IETE Jammu Centre. Dr Rakesh Vaid, Chairman IETE Centre and Dr Parveen Lehana, Hony Secy of the Centre, also addressed the audience.

st thCommemorating 61 IETE Foundation Day on 07 Nov 2014, the Centre organized a National level seminar on the theme "Leveraging ICTs for building Smart Cities". The program was chaired by Shree Vishwa Nath Goel, Chairman, IETE Kathmandu Centre, who highlighted the Centre's contribution in ICT, electronics and telecommunications sectors. In his address, Shree Sushil Kumar Ojha, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Information and Comm, highlighted the latest development in ICTs that were instrumental in social prosperity. He assured to extend full support from the Ministry and encouraged Centre for more such programs that were beneficial for professional engineers. Mr Micheal McDonald, group CTO from Huawei Technologies, South East Asia, elucidated the applications of ICTs & its various aspects. Emphasizing on its importance he said that ICT being indivisible part of human civilization, it is necessary to make ICT education from school level itself. Engineer Locahn Lal Amatya, Chairman of SECEN, presented his paper based on Nepal's activities in building smart cities. He expressed his desire for more such policies that could make Nepal and its cities smarter in terms of education, governance, road and safety measures. Vice Chairman of IETE, Shree Keshava Gyawali, also expressed his views on the theme and it's rationale in present scenario. The senior fellow member of IETE Nepal Centre Shree Bhesh Raj Kanel was felicitated during the programme.

Foundation Day Celebration at IETE Kathmandu Centre

KANPUR

lIETE Kanpur Centre & IEEE, UP Section jointly celebrated th th47 Engineers Day on 15 Sep 2014 at IIT, Kanpur. Prof A K

Nagpal, Director, H B Technological Institute, Kanpur graced the event as the Chief Guest. Dr Uday S Racherla, Prof, Dept of Industrial Mgmt & Engg, IIT, Kanpur and Dr S S K Iyer, Prof Dept of EE, IIT, Kanpur, were the theme speakers. They delivered keynote lectures on the theme "Making Indian Engineering World-Class". Dr Racherla touched upon the country's manufacturing progress & position in comparision to the achievements of China. He was of the view that India should change its paradigm for GDP growth to investment in manufacturing and exports. He said that according to Mckinsey's & Company, India's manufacturing is expected to grow to US$ 1 trillion by 2015. In the process, it is assumed that India's manufacturing sector would create nearly 100 mllion new jobs and contribute 25-30% to GDP. To exploit opportunities in manufacturing – India's academia industry and Govt must work together. Dr Iyer hinted on the problems being faced in elevating the quality/class of India's engineering. Besides utility, emphasis on ethics and aesthetics is a must when defining engineering problems. He said that by choosing the parameters properly on which the engineering problems are framed and solved, there is a possibility of achieving all round world class quality in Indian Engineering. The Chief Guest, Prof A K Nagpal, in his address said that the Engineers are key figures in the material progress of the world. Regardless of the job he is engaged in, a world class engineer is always considered an asset to the nation and to the society. The celebration on the whole was a success and enjoyed. It was attended by a large number of corporate members, students of IIT & HBTI, Kanpur, technicians, members of the Institutions, invitees.

lThe celebration of IETE Foundation Day in association with the Dept of EE of Harcourt Butler Technological Institute,

nd Kanpur, was held at its Seminar Hall on 2 Nov, 2014. The Chief Guest, Prof A K Nagpal, Director, HBTI Kanpur, in his address emphasized the need to develop smart technologies leading to smart applications for all walks of life. Prof (Dr) Yaduvir Singh, Dean (Planning & Resource Generation), HBTI, Kanpur, delivering the keynote address said that the Smart city has been envisaged to encompass modern urban production factors in a common framework which predominantly highlights the growing importance of ICTs, social and environmental capital. He highlighted the important role of human capital and education and learning in urban development. Faculty members from HBTI Kanpur and IIT Kanpur; ExeCom Members of IETE Kanpur Centre, engineering students of UG, PG and PhD, staff and others guest attended the lecture.

Prof (Dr) Yaduvir Singh delivering the keynote address during IETE Foundation Day at Kanpur

IETE National Technical Paper Contest (NTPC-2014) was thorganized by the Centre on 26 July 2014 at KMEA Engg College,

Ernakulam and inaugurated by Dr A Unnikrishnan, Chairman, IETE Kochi Centre and Prof C I Abdul Rahiman, Dir, KMEA Engg College & EC Member, IETE. Other notables present for the event were -Dr T K Mani, Dean, Post Graduate Studies, KMEA Engg College Prof Manju Bhaskar, ISF Staff Co-ordinator, Dr M V Rajesh, Hony Secretary IETE and Principal, Illahia School of Science & Technology. The panel of judges for evaluation of the contest were:- Dr T K Mani; Smt Pradeepa R, Scientist "F"(NPOL, DRDO) and Prof Deepa Elizabeth Geroge, HOD, Dept of ECE, Toc H Institute of Sci & Tech. The winners of the contest have already been announced during ATC awards ceremony. This includes : Mr Mohammed Ismail for his paper on "Weed Removal Robot– A

stfire-bird V overview" (1 ); Ms M Preethi and Ms J Nivetha for their paper on "Quality Evaluation of Wheat using

ndMicrowaves" (2 ) and Shri P Sarath Kumar and Shri S Thalavai Shanmuga Balaji" for their paper on "Real Time Auditorium

rdPower Supply Control Using Image Processing" at (3 ) position. Ms Subhashree Anand won the consolation prize for her paper "FPGA based implementation for cascaded multilevel inverters to reduce harmonic distortions in solar PV applications".

IETE Mhow Sub-Centre celebrated IETE Foundation Day by organizing a lecture by the Guest Speaker, Brig (Dr) V D Abraham, SM (Retd) Vice Chancellor, Oriental University, Indore and Past IETE Governing Council Member on theme "Leveraging

thICTs for building Smart Cities" on 11 Nov 2014 at Batra Hall of FCE MCTE Mhow. The speaker brought out the challenges and opportunities in leveraging ICTs for building smart cities. The function was attended by IETE Members, faculty and students of MCTE. Lt Col Ranchit Mathur, Hony Secretary of IETE Mhow Sub Centre, delivered the welcome address. The Chief Guest and patron of IETE sub Centre, Mhow Lt General R S Panwar, SM,

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VSM, Commandant MCTE & Colonel Commandant Corp of Signals, highlighted the sterling progress made by the country in the field of ICTs. He also outlined the latest initiatives taken by the Armed Forces in aiding the growth of ICT. Brig VS Narang, Commander FCE and Chairman IETE Sub Centre, Mhow proposed the concluding remarks.

st The 61 IETE Foundation Day was jointly celebrated with stNavi Mumbai Centre, on 1 Nov 2014 at Fr C Rodrigues Institute

of Technology, Vashi, Navi Mumbai. The Chief Guest for the occasion was Shri Soma Vijaykumar, CGM (Transport & Airport) CIDCO, Navi Mumbai. The other eminent persons present and addressed the audience included: Prof Nilashree and Prof Smita Lonkar, Hony Secy; Dr J W Bakal, West Zone Coordinator; Dr K T V Reddy Ex-Council Member IETE; Prof Sushil S Thale, Chairman IETE-Mumbai Centre and Dr Milind Shah, Chairman IETE Navi Mumbai Centre. Some Senior Members felicitated on this day were: Dr M K Sinha, Shri VD Goutham (Navi Mumbai) and Shri Ramachandran (F- 102845) and Shri S P Sharma (F -005571) from Mumbai Centre. The Chief Guest shared his experience on all efforts being put by CIDCO to make Navi Mumbai a Smart City in terms of technology, planning and building. He talked of various projects such as nodal development, housing, bridges, railway stations, roads, transport and communication system for bringing in latest technologies in Navi Mumbai. He also narrated details of implementation of Surveillance Camera Network with OFC backbone connectivity, forthcoming Navi Mumbai International Airport. The lecture was well received by the audience and witnessed an interactive Q/A session.

l'Mobile Handset Awareness Program' for senior citizens was organized by the Centre, under the idea of Dr C G Dethe

ndon 2 Nov 2014. Sri K Narayanan, Centre Chairman, presided over the function. Senior citizens discussed their

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Brig (Dr) V D Abraham, SM (Retd) being felicitated by IETE MhowSub-Centre on the occasion of IETE Foundation Day

problems in handling new technology handsets and told that some time it becomes embarrassing for them to handle internet connections, some apps and applications on mobile. Shri Sudarshan Chari, Shri Balmukund from BSNL and Prof Damle, guided audience and solved difficulties of senior citizens personally. Members of Dharampeth Jyeshta Nagrik Mandal, Ramnagar Adhyatma Mandal and other senior citizens were present for the program. Some prominent being– Retd Prof Bhausaheb Birewar, Madhukarrao Huddar, Mrs Priti Wadnerkar. Function was attended by large number of senior citizens.

ndlCelebrating IETE Foundation Day on 2 Nov 2014, the

Centre invited Shri Sandeep Shirkhedkar, Director, Imagis India Pvt.Ltd, as the Chief Guest and to share his views on the theme "Leveraging ICTs for building Smart Cities." Highlighting the critical role of ICTs in creation of smart cities, he informed that out of 100 smart cities to be developed in India, 6 cities would be from Maharashtra. He emphasised on five essential things for such development namely- deployment of broadband networks, use of smart devices, developing web-based applications and e-Services, opening up government data, developing smart urban spaces etc. He hinted at another big challenge of diminishing of future natural resources. Shri K Narayanan, Chairman IETE Nagpur Centre, presided over the function. Dr C G Dethe, Hony Secretary, read out the message from President IETE, for the occasion. Prizes were distributed for online quiz competition. The first two winners of the competition were: Swapnil R

stMange, J D College of Engg, Nagpur (1 ) and Kevin Teny Roy, ndfrom Shri RKNCE, Nagpur(2 ). College toppers were also

felicitated in the function. Dr M U Deshpande and AVM U A Deshpande were honoured on the occasion.

lA lecture by Shri B P Srivasatva on "FM Broadcasting from thPangs of Birth to Plenty" was organised on 7 Sep 2014. The

speaker, who has been associated with Akashwani for the past

NOIDA

59 years, informed the audience about initial hurdles in the FM network and its present rising demands. He mentioned that with the creation of demand for more channels, rising aspirations of society have made the Government to come up with various schemes thus resulting in multiplicity of type of broadcasters that has ended the monopoly of All India Radio. Thus today there exists four types of broadcasters, viz. Public Broadcaster, Private Broadcasters, Educational Broadcaster and Community Radios, each having its distinct objective and technical requirement. With increase in types of broadcasters, varying technical requirements and increase in the number of channels, he said that a number of other challenges/issues like frequency planning within the available spectrum, selection of technical parameters, categorization of cities and co-location have cropped up. These challenges have been successfully surmounted, is clear from the sizable growth of FM in the country and the interest, which it has created amongst the public in a short span of time. He informed that a survey is being carried out to decide the distance of separation between antennas in the same city where more than one FM Channel is allotted, mainly in the metros. The talk was informative and enjoyed by all.

lThe members of the Centre met on the occasion of IETE ndFoundation Day on 2 Nov 2014. The message for the day

from IETE President was read out for the gathering and was well received. There was a good discussion and exchange of views on the subject.

In connection with the IETE Foundation Day celebration, a meeting was convened and chaired by Prof C Pradip, Centre Chairman. Shri P Suresh, Member, delivered the welcome address. Shri K Venugopal Das, a senior fellow member read out the President's message. The keynote address was presended by Prof C Pradip on the theme topic, "Leveraging ICTs for Building Smart Cities ". The vote of thanks was proposed by Smt Manju K R, EC member.

The Centre observed the Foundation Day of IETE by organising a technical lecture on "Leveraging ICTs for Building

ndSmart Cities" on 2 Nov 2014 through proper publicity. The key note speech & presentation was made by Prof Mohit Parbat, EC, Dept, R K University & Prof Avlani Viral, Electrical Dept, Govt Polytechnic Rajkot. The talks were impressive and full of information leading to the theme and covered important aspects of smart cities and challenges involved. The others speakers on the occasion were: Er C M Devani , IBS (Retd) & Centre Chairman, Dr Atul Gonsai, Hony Treasurer, Shri Paresh Gosai, and Er S M Suchday, ExeCom Member of the IETE Rajkot Centre.

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lThe Sivakasi Centre organized the Third Techno Blaze for the

year 2014-2015 on 'Development of Iris Recognition System

using WEKA' and held group discussion on it at the Dept of

ECE, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College(MSEC), Sivakasi.

Dr D Selvathi, Chairperson, IETE Sivakasi Centre presided

over the function. Mr J Raja Sekar, Assoc Prof, Dept of

Computer Sci & Engg, MSEC, Sivakasi delivered the lecture.

The presentation started with the significance of Biometrics

and the Speaker illustrated the preprocessing techniques of Iris

biometric. He shared his experiences of designing a Iris

Recognition system with the participants right from acquisition

to recognition. He explained the Data Mining Tool WEKA, its

flexibility in supporting customized codes. In a nutshell, the

audience were introduced to WEKA software.

stlThe Centre celebrated the 61 IETE Foundation Day on 1st

Nov 2014. Dr S Arivazhagan, Governing Council Member&

Founder Chairman, IETE Sivakasi Centre, Principal, MSCE

presided over the function. In his address he motivated the

students & researchers to get involved in such technologies that

lead to smarter cities and overcome any challenge that comes in

between. Dr D Selvathi, Centre Chairperson, read the message

from the IETE President. The Chief Guest Smt C Gnanapriya,

AVP, Principal Architect, Head–Architecture Practice, ECS

(Energy, Communications & Services) Business Unit, Infosys

Ltd, delivered her talk on "Leveraging ICTs for building

Smart Cities", elaborating on the challenges, services and

growth in the development of Smart Cities in India. She

touched upon technologies like Big data, Cloud Computing,

IoT/M2M, NTV etc, their functions, job & research

opportunities offered by them. It was enjoyed by everyone. The

'Award of Achievement', to honour those ISFs who have more

student strength, were bagged by ISF of Kalasalingam stUniversity, Srivilliputhur, at 1 position and ISF of Mepco

ndSchlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi at 2 position.

The Centre celebrated IETE Foundation Day by arranging a

lecture on the theme topic "Leveraging IETE's for Building stSmart Cities" on 1 Nov 2014 with its students & corporate

members. Old passouts were also present during the function. The

theme lecture was delivered by Shri Raju Narayana Swami, IAS,

Principal Secretary Govt of Kerala, the Chief Guest. The President's

message was delivered by Shri R Pradeep, Hony Treasurer, IETE.

Shri Girish Kumar S, Vice Chairman IETE Trivandrum Centre,

offered the vote of thanks.

Dignitaries on the dais during IETE Foundation Dayat IETE Thiruvananthapuram Centre

lUnder the Centre's decision to start a bimonthly technical lecture series on the topic of contemporary issues, the first lecture in this series was organized on "ICT: The enabler for

th Smart City" on 20 Sep 2014 by Shri Dhaval V Shah from R&D section of M/s ABB Ltd, Vadodara. He talked on the growing need for smarter cities from Indian perspective and explained its basic architecture and building blocks. The audience participated through their views and thoughts on the concept. Dr Vijay Shah, VP, ABB Ltd; Shri Naresh Kumar Garg, Centre Chariman; Shri Tushar B Kher, Centre Hony Secretary ; Prof M M Pathan, Prof R C Desai, and Wg Cdr (Retd) Sanat Vasavada were also present during the event. PG/UG students, Research Scholars, IETE members and members from industry and EME School (Organization Member) gathered in large numbers. The topic evoked interest in the audience and resulted in a very good discussion at the end of the lecture.

A section of audience during the Lecture Series.

lThe Centre arranged for a lecture on "Leveraging ICT for SMART Cities" by Shri G V Kumar, DGM(E&T), In-charge Infocom of ONGC Vadodara, the Chief Guest on the occasion

thof IETE Foundation Day on 15 Nov 2014. The speaker gave very interesting information on different technologies that could leverage different building blocks of the smart cities and

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problems in handling new technology handsets and told that some time it becomes embarrassing for them to handle internet connections, some apps and applications on mobile. Shri Sudarshan Chari, Shri Balmukund from BSNL and Prof Damle, guided audience and solved difficulties of senior citizens personally. Members of Dharampeth Jyeshta Nagrik Mandal, Ramnagar Adhyatma Mandal and other senior citizens were present for the program. Some prominent being– Retd Prof Bhausaheb Birewar, Madhukarrao Huddar, Mrs Priti Wadnerkar. Function was attended by large number of senior citizens.

ndlCelebrating IETE Foundation Day on 2 Nov 2014, the

Centre invited Shri Sandeep Shirkhedkar, Director, Imagis India Pvt.Ltd, as the Chief Guest and to share his views on the theme "Leveraging ICTs for building Smart Cities." Highlighting the critical role of ICTs in creation of smart cities, he informed that out of 100 smart cities to be developed in India, 6 cities would be from Maharashtra. He emphasised on five essential things for such development namely- deployment of broadband networks, use of smart devices, developing web-based applications and e-Services, opening up government data, developing smart urban spaces etc. He hinted at another big challenge of diminishing of future natural resources. Shri K Narayanan, Chairman IETE Nagpur Centre, presided over the function. Dr C G Dethe, Hony Secretary, read out the message from President IETE, for the occasion. Prizes were distributed for online quiz competition. The first two winners of the competition were: Swapnil R

stMange, J D College of Engg, Nagpur (1 ) and Kevin Teny Roy, ndfrom Shri RKNCE, Nagpur(2 ). College toppers were also

felicitated in the function. Dr M U Deshpande and AVM U A Deshpande were honoured on the occasion.

lA lecture by Shri B P Srivasatva on "FM Broadcasting from thPangs of Birth to Plenty" was organised on 7 Sep 2014. The

speaker, who has been associated with Akashwani for the past

NOIDA

59 years, informed the audience about initial hurdles in the FM network and its present rising demands. He mentioned that with the creation of demand for more channels, rising aspirations of society have made the Government to come up with various schemes thus resulting in multiplicity of type of broadcasters that has ended the monopoly of All India Radio. Thus today there exists four types of broadcasters, viz. Public Broadcaster, Private Broadcasters, Educational Broadcaster and Community Radios, each having its distinct objective and technical requirement. With increase in types of broadcasters, varying technical requirements and increase in the number of channels, he said that a number of other challenges/issues like frequency planning within the available spectrum, selection of technical parameters, categorization of cities and co-location have cropped up. These challenges have been successfully surmounted, is clear from the sizable growth of FM in the country and the interest, which it has created amongst the public in a short span of time. He informed that a survey is being carried out to decide the distance of separation between antennas in the same city where more than one FM Channel is allotted, mainly in the metros. The talk was informative and enjoyed by all.

lThe members of the Centre met on the occasion of IETE ndFoundation Day on 2 Nov 2014. The message for the day

from IETE President was read out for the gathering and was well received. There was a good discussion and exchange of views on the subject.

In connection with the IETE Foundation Day celebration, a meeting was convened and chaired by Prof C Pradip, Centre Chairman. Shri P Suresh, Member, delivered the welcome address. Shri K Venugopal Das, a senior fellow member read out the President's message. The keynote address was presended by Prof C Pradip on the theme topic, "Leveraging ICTs for Building Smart Cities ". The vote of thanks was proposed by Smt Manju K R, EC member.

The Centre observed the Foundation Day of IETE by organising a technical lecture on "Leveraging ICTs for Building

ndSmart Cities" on 2 Nov 2014 through proper publicity. The key note speech & presentation was made by Prof Mohit Parbat, EC, Dept, R K University & Prof Avlani Viral, Electrical Dept, Govt Polytechnic Rajkot. The talks were impressive and full of information leading to the theme and covered important aspects of smart cities and challenges involved. The others speakers on the occasion were: Er C M Devani , IBS (Retd) & Centre Chairman, Dr Atul Gonsai, Hony Treasurer, Shri Paresh Gosai, and Er S M Suchday, ExeCom Member of the IETE Rajkot Centre.

PALAKAKD

RAJKOT

SIVAKASI

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

lThe Sivakasi Centre organized the Third Techno Blaze for the

year 2014-2015 on 'Development of Iris Recognition System

using WEKA' and held group discussion on it at the Dept of

ECE, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College(MSEC), Sivakasi.

Dr D Selvathi, Chairperson, IETE Sivakasi Centre presided

over the function. Mr J Raja Sekar, Assoc Prof, Dept of

Computer Sci & Engg, MSEC, Sivakasi delivered the lecture.

The presentation started with the significance of Biometrics

and the Speaker illustrated the preprocessing techniques of Iris

biometric. He shared his experiences of designing a Iris

Recognition system with the participants right from acquisition

to recognition. He explained the Data Mining Tool WEKA, its

flexibility in supporting customized codes. In a nutshell, the

audience were introduced to WEKA software.

stlThe Centre celebrated the 61 IETE Foundation Day on 1st

Nov 2014. Dr S Arivazhagan, Governing Council Member&

Founder Chairman, IETE Sivakasi Centre, Principal, MSCE

presided over the function. In his address he motivated the

students & researchers to get involved in such technologies that

lead to smarter cities and overcome any challenge that comes in

between. Dr D Selvathi, Centre Chairperson, read the message

from the IETE President. The Chief Guest Smt C Gnanapriya,

AVP, Principal Architect, Head–Architecture Practice, ECS

(Energy, Communications & Services) Business Unit, Infosys

Ltd, delivered her talk on "Leveraging ICTs for building

Smart Cities", elaborating on the challenges, services and

growth in the development of Smart Cities in India. She

touched upon technologies like Big data, Cloud Computing,

IoT/M2M, NTV etc, their functions, job & research

opportunities offered by them. It was enjoyed by everyone. The

'Award of Achievement', to honour those ISFs who have more

student strength, were bagged by ISF of Kalasalingam stUniversity, Srivilliputhur, at 1 position and ISF of Mepco

ndSchlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi at 2 position.

The Centre celebrated IETE Foundation Day by arranging a

lecture on the theme topic "Leveraging IETE's for Building stSmart Cities" on 1 Nov 2014 with its students & corporate

members. Old passouts were also present during the function. The

theme lecture was delivered by Shri Raju Narayana Swami, IAS,

Principal Secretary Govt of Kerala, the Chief Guest. The President's

message was delivered by Shri R Pradeep, Hony Treasurer, IETE.

Shri Girish Kumar S, Vice Chairman IETE Trivandrum Centre,

offered the vote of thanks.

Dignitaries on the dais during IETE Foundation Dayat IETE Thiruvananthapuram Centre

lUnder the Centre's decision to start a bimonthly technical lecture series on the topic of contemporary issues, the first lecture in this series was organized on "ICT: The enabler for

th Smart City" on 20 Sep 2014 by Shri Dhaval V Shah from R&D section of M/s ABB Ltd, Vadodara. He talked on the growing need for smarter cities from Indian perspective and explained its basic architecture and building blocks. The audience participated through their views and thoughts on the concept. Dr Vijay Shah, VP, ABB Ltd; Shri Naresh Kumar Garg, Centre Chariman; Shri Tushar B Kher, Centre Hony Secretary ; Prof M M Pathan, Prof R C Desai, and Wg Cdr (Retd) Sanat Vasavada were also present during the event. PG/UG students, Research Scholars, IETE members and members from industry and EME School (Organization Member) gathered in large numbers. The topic evoked interest in the audience and resulted in a very good discussion at the end of the lecture.

A section of audience during the Lecture Series.

lThe Centre arranged for a lecture on "Leveraging ICT for SMART Cities" by Shri G V Kumar, DGM(E&T), In-charge Infocom of ONGC Vadodara, the Chief Guest on the occasion

thof IETE Foundation Day on 15 Nov 2014. The speaker gave very interesting information on different technologies that could leverage different building blocks of the smart cities and

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help in their sustenance. A group discussion took place involving the audience, which was fruitful and focused on meeting the expectations of general public on the concept. Shri Naresh K Garg, Centre Chairman; Dr V K Shah, Vice President, ABB Ltd Vadodara and Hony Treasurer of IETE Vadodara Centre; Wg Cdr (Retd) Sanat Vasavada and Dr R C Desai, founder Chairman of IETE Vadodara, were present in the function.

lThe Centre in association with ISF, Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology, Nambur, Guntur (AP), jointly

thcelebrated the function of "Engineers' Day" on 15 Sep 2014. During the occasion a project expo, technical paper presentation, technical quiz were organized for student members of various engineering colleges. Dr G N Swamy, Centre Chairman, delivered the key note address on the occasion.

lShri V Sundar, ITS, CGM, BSNL, Vijayawada, was the Chief Guest & key speaker during the celebration of IETE

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ndFoundation Day on 2 Nov 2014 at the Centre. He highlighted SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis of ICT's for building smart cities. Dr A Sudhakar, Principal, RVR & JC College of Engg, Guntur, the Guest of Honour, outlined the utility of such cities that would help in sustainability of population growth and improvment in the services like security, healthcare, transportation and power supply etc. Members felicitated on the occasion were:Shri V Sundar, ITS and Dr A Sudhakar, FIETE for their outstanding contribution in their respective fields. Some of the other distinguished senior members gracing the occasion were: Dr AVN Tilak; Dr PV Subhaiah; Dr P Rajesh Kumar; Dr PVRL Narasimham; Dr T Venkateswara Rao and Dr T Ranga Babu.

IETE Warangal Centre is actively involved in organizing various IETE events at the Centre and outside the campus in association with IETE Student Forums of nearby institutes. A guest lecture on "Leveraging ICTs For Building Smart Cities" by Prof K Ashoka Reddy, Principal, KITSW was organised on the eve of

st nd61 Foundation Day on 2 Nov 2014.

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Chief Guest Shri V Sundar, ITS, CGM, BSNL, Vijayawada,being felicitated on the occasion

IETE Foundation Day programme in progress atWarangal Centre

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ISF at Narula Institute of Technology, JIS Group, Kolkata, organized a "Technical Paper Presentation Contest" on April 30, 2014 with the inaugural speech by Prof (Dr) M Ray Kanjilal, HoD, ECE; Other dignitaries who delivered their addresses were: Prof (Dr) D Mitra, Principal, NIT, Prof (Dr) B L Eshpuniyani, Dean Research, Prof (Dr) S Hati, CSE Deptt and about 11 papers were presented by 20 students.

The ISF at dept of ECE of Nandha Engg College (NEC), Erode, arranged for an academic guest lecture titled "Research Challenges in Digital Image Processing" by Dr P Arulmozhivarman, Prof & Assist Dean, School of Electronics Engg, VIT Univ, on July 25 2014. It also organized an Industrial Seminar on "FPGA Based System Design Using ALTERA" on Aug 09, 2014 with Dr R Sakthivel, Technical Adviser, Prime Electronics, Salem; a two day national level workshop on "Hands on Training in Network Simulator (NS2) for Wireless Network" with the help of Mrs Anjali Thirukumar, Mg Director, SAT Infosis, Coimbatore during Sep 19-20, 2014; one day seminar - "Choose to Dream Big". with the assistance of Mrs Prasanna Moses, Principal Consultant, PM-Power Consulting Pvt Ltd, Bangalore on Oct 10, 2014 and a short term course on "Embedded C" during Oct 10-15, 2014, with the aid of Shri A Prasath, NEC, Erode for around 50 student members.

ISF at Kongu Engineering College(KEC),Erode, organized a a very interesting programme on "Stress Management" by Dr ESM Saravanan, MBBS, DPM, DNB(Psychiatry), Chief Guest on Aug 02, 2014, who stressed on various aspects like patience, involvement, perseverance etc in his lecture. Another interaction programme on "Advanced Embedded System and its Applications" on Aug 01, 2014 with the assistance of Mr A Atif Shah , CMD, ABE Semiconductors Design.

ISF at ISF Sasi Institute of Technology & Engg, Tadepalligudem (AP), organized a two-day national level workshop in association with EASY ARM, Bangalore, during Aug 03-04, 2014, on "System Design using ARM Cortex M0". It was inaugurated by the Chief Guest, Shri P Gopala Krishna, Sr Tech Mgr, PHYTEC Embedded India (P) Ltd, Bangalore.

Subject experts from the concerned Depts conducted a one day workshop on "MAT LAB Programmeing" at ISF of AVS Engineering College, Salem, on Aug 7, 2014. Prof M Rojaramani, Asstt Prof, ECE, AVSEC, delivered lecture on the basics of MAT LAB programming. One day Workshop on "Aero Modelling", was organized on Aug 11, 2014 with the assistance of Shri C P Ajay, MD, Akshayantra Aerosports, Thrissur, who gave a practical demonstration to construct a Aeroplane. The ISF also organized "Yoga Training Programme for Girls" along with demo on physical exercises, meditation, kayakalpa etc. on Aug 11, 2014. An Inter-department Speech Competition (Tamil and English) on "India Vision 2024" & PowerPoint

thpresentation on "Youth Empowerment" was arranged in connection with 68 Independence Day Celebrations during Aug 12-13, 2014.

ISF at Lokmanya Tilak College of Engg, Koparkhairane, Navi Mumbai, a new ISF was inaugurated on Aug 12, 2014. The prominent persons present on the occasion were: Dr Ranjanbala Jain, Guest Speaker; Dr Chandrababu, I/C Principal; Dr Milind Shah- Chairman, & Prof B U Rindhe, Hony Secretary of IETE Navi Mumbai Centre; and Prof Rupali Sawant, HoD of EXTC and Prof Sunita Munde, IETE-ISF Co-ordinator, faculty and students. The Guest speaker's lecture on "Future wireless: Riding on the back of Millimeter Waves" was of immense knowledge to one and all.

ISF at Veltech Multitech Dr Rangarajan Dr Sakunthala Engg College, Chennai, conducted one day seminar for III year Students on "Wireless Communication" handled by Shri A Parthiban, Product Analyst & Promoter, EPR Labs on Aug 13, 2014.

ISF at Pankaj Laddhad Institute of Ttechnology & Management Studies(PLITMS), Buldhana, Maharashtra, organized a three-day workshop on "Robotics" under ISF on Aug 16- 18, 2014 . Another workshop on "Embedded System on ARM-7" was arranged from Sept 19-21, 2014 under the presence of Chief Guest, Dr Deepkaji Laddhad, President of PLITMS, Buldana.

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ISF at M P Nachimuthu M Jaganathan Engg College, Erode, conducted a number of programmes explicitly- a motivational programme on Aug 19, 2014 with Shri RBU Shyam Kumar, CEO, Puthiya Thalaimurai Group, Chennai; Teacher's Day Celebration( Gurucharitra 2K14) & Intra departmental Paper Presentation on Sept 5, 2014 under the presence of Shri P Thiruvalluvar, President Thirukural, Peravai, Chennimalai; a guest lecture on "Signals and Systems" on Sep 26, 2014 by Prof M Kalamani, Asstt Professor/Dept of ECE, Bannari Amman Institute of Tech, Sathyamangalam; and a national level technical symposium and open house project exhibition on "ELECTRO EXPO 2K14" by Prof N Viswanathan, Principal, Konghu Velalar Polytechnic College, Seenapuram, Perundurai, on Oct 10, 2014. The ISF also organized a plastic awareness camp on Sep 22, 2014 on account of

stFounder correspondent's 71 birthday celebrations.

ISF at ECE Dept of Nadha College of Technology(NCT), Erode, conducted number of interesting events and provided platforms for the dissemination of

thknowledge. The 5 National Level Technical Symposium "TECHSPURTZ '14" was organized on Aug 22, 2014 under the presence of Shri P R Srenivasan, MD, Mark Global Technologies Pvt Ltd, Erode the Chief Guest. On Aug 27, 2014, with IETE sub-Centre Salem, a seminar on "Recent Trends in Medical Fields and Career Development" by Prof K G Parthiban, ExeCom Member, IETE Salem Sub-Centre was arranged. Under the "Nandha's Environmental Friendly Club Activity " at Poondurai Semur Village, Erode, saplings were taken from forest officers and given to Panchayat Thalaivar & Village President during Sep 12-13, 2014. A two day Faculty Development Programme on "Recent Trends in Intellectual Property Rights and Professional Ethics in Engineering and Technology" was organized on Nov 6 and 7, 2014. The resource persons included: Dr A Amarkarthik, Assoc Prof/Mech Eng, BIT, Sathyamamngalam, Shri A K Sivasakthi, Business Development Engineer, AGIIT, Coimbatore and Prof N Devaraj, Assoc Prof & Head, Dept of Mgmt Studies, NEC, Erode.

ISF at Mepco Schlenk Engg College, Sivakasi, conducted workshops on "C, C++ & Data structures" for II Year Students and "Blackfin Processor(BF609) based DSP Programming & Applications" for III year Students on Aug 22 and Aug 25-26, 2014 respectively. The sessions were handled by the final year students of ECE Deptt. ISF members were benefitted and the workshops received positive feedback from students.

ISF of St Peter's College of Engg and Technology, (PCET) Avadi, Chennai, was inaugurated on Aug 22, 2014, wherein paper presentation and quiz programme were also conducted for the students.

ISF at VELS University, Chennai, organized a Seminar on "Recent Trends of Electronics in Medicine" on Aug 27, 2014 under the presence of Dr M Kalaivani, Professor & HoD, Dept of Bio Medical Engg, Jerusalem College of Engg, Chennai. On this occasion Shri Shalom gave an excellent demonstration on his project on "Automated Wheel Chair for Physically Disabled Person using Microcontroller and running on Solar Energy Source"- a project nominated for the Presidential Award.

ISF of Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering (SVUCE), Tirupati, was inaugurated on Aug 30, 2014 by the Chief Guests, Prof R V Raja Kumar, Vice Chancellor, RGUKT, Hyderabad, and Prof W Rajendra, VC, Sri Venkateswara Univ,Tirupati, in the presence of many luminaries present for the event.

ISF at PSIT College of Engineering,(PSITCOE) Kanpur, organised a two day Workshop on "Glider Design & RC Aircraft Design Fabrication & Flying" in association with Aerotrix, a division of Skyfi Labs, Bangalore during Aug 30-31, 2014. The event was graced by Dr R S Anand, Deptt of EE, IIT, Kanpur, as the Chief Guest. The past Chairman of IETE Kanpur Centre, delivered a demo on "C DOT". There were a total of 27 groups consisting of 5 members each in RC Aircraft and 33 groups consisting of 2 members in glider. Their hard work and talent was showcased on 31 Aug 2014, with successful attempts.

OBITUARY

IETE fraternity extends deepest sympathies and condolences to the bereaved families of the following members-

Prof (Dr) P J Joglekar (F-003609L): A senior Fellow member and Governing Council Member (1983-86) passed away on Nov 26, 2014. He was actively associated with IETE HQs and its Mumbai/Pune Centres and contributed to the growth and development of IETE in many ways. We all deeply condole the passing away of an illustrious fellow member and a humble soul who believed in human values.

Shri K S Prakash Rao (F-113444L) : With deep regret we inform you about the sudden death of Dr K Prakash Rao, sitting Governing Council Member & Zonal Coordinator (South) IETE on Dec 19, 2014 at Hyderabad. The Governing Council & IETE Secretariat would like to express its deepest condolences and will remember Shri K S Prakash Rao as a devoted member and Past Vice President, IETE. His sudden and unexpected passing away will be an irreparable loss to IETE.

th Shri P D Kanswal : IETE Staff, who worked with Hqs had passed away on 19 Nov 2014 after a long illness. He had worked in various sections of IETE Hqs and will be remembered for his contributions in various Depts of IETE HQs especially in ALCCS Section.

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help in their sustenance. A group discussion took place involving the audience, which was fruitful and focused on meeting the expectations of general public on the concept. Shri Naresh K Garg, Centre Chairman; Dr V K Shah, Vice President, ABB Ltd Vadodara and Hony Treasurer of IETE Vadodara Centre; Wg Cdr (Retd) Sanat Vasavada and Dr R C Desai, founder Chairman of IETE Vadodara, were present in the function.

lThe Centre in association with ISF, Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology, Nambur, Guntur (AP), jointly

thcelebrated the function of "Engineers' Day" on 15 Sep 2014. During the occasion a project expo, technical paper presentation, technical quiz were organized for student members of various engineering colleges. Dr G N Swamy, Centre Chairman, delivered the key note address on the occasion.

lShri V Sundar, ITS, CGM, BSNL, Vijayawada, was the Chief Guest & key speaker during the celebration of IETE

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ndFoundation Day on 2 Nov 2014 at the Centre. He highlighted SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis of ICT's for building smart cities. Dr A Sudhakar, Principal, RVR & JC College of Engg, Guntur, the Guest of Honour, outlined the utility of such cities that would help in sustainability of population growth and improvment in the services like security, healthcare, transportation and power supply etc. Members felicitated on the occasion were:Shri V Sundar, ITS and Dr A Sudhakar, FIETE for their outstanding contribution in their respective fields. Some of the other distinguished senior members gracing the occasion were: Dr AVN Tilak; Dr PV Subhaiah; Dr P Rajesh Kumar; Dr PVRL Narasimham; Dr T Venkateswara Rao and Dr T Ranga Babu.

IETE Warangal Centre is actively involved in organizing various IETE events at the Centre and outside the campus in association with IETE Student Forums of nearby institutes. A guest lecture on "Leveraging ICTs For Building Smart Cities" by Prof K Ashoka Reddy, Principal, KITSW was organised on the eve of

st nd61 Foundation Day on 2 Nov 2014.

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Chief Guest Shri V Sundar, ITS, CGM, BSNL, Vijayawada,being felicitated on the occasion

IETE Foundation Day programme in progress atWarangal Centre

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ISF at Narula Institute of Technology, JIS Group, Kolkata, organized a "Technical Paper Presentation Contest" on April 30, 2014 with the inaugural speech by Prof (Dr) M Ray Kanjilal, HoD, ECE; Other dignitaries who delivered their addresses were: Prof (Dr) D Mitra, Principal, NIT, Prof (Dr) B L Eshpuniyani, Dean Research, Prof (Dr) S Hati, CSE Deptt and about 11 papers were presented by 20 students.

The ISF at dept of ECE of Nandha Engg College (NEC), Erode, arranged for an academic guest lecture titled "Research Challenges in Digital Image Processing" by Dr P Arulmozhivarman, Prof & Assist Dean, School of Electronics Engg, VIT Univ, on July 25 2014. It also organized an Industrial Seminar on "FPGA Based System Design Using ALTERA" on Aug 09, 2014 with Dr R Sakthivel, Technical Adviser, Prime Electronics, Salem; a two day national level workshop on "Hands on Training in Network Simulator (NS2) for Wireless Network" with the help of Mrs Anjali Thirukumar, Mg Director, SAT Infosis, Coimbatore during Sep 19-20, 2014; one day seminar - "Choose to Dream Big". with the assistance of Mrs Prasanna Moses, Principal Consultant, PM-Power Consulting Pvt Ltd, Bangalore on Oct 10, 2014 and a short term course on "Embedded C" during Oct 10-15, 2014, with the aid of Shri A Prasath, NEC, Erode for around 50 student members.

ISF at Kongu Engineering College(KEC),Erode, organized a a very interesting programme on "Stress Management" by Dr ESM Saravanan, MBBS, DPM, DNB(Psychiatry), Chief Guest on Aug 02, 2014, who stressed on various aspects like patience, involvement, perseverance etc in his lecture. Another interaction programme on "Advanced Embedded System and its Applications" on Aug 01, 2014 with the assistance of Mr A Atif Shah , CMD, ABE Semiconductors Design.

ISF at ISF Sasi Institute of Technology & Engg, Tadepalligudem (AP), organized a two-day national level workshop in association with EASY ARM, Bangalore, during Aug 03-04, 2014, on "System Design using ARM Cortex M0". It was inaugurated by the Chief Guest, Shri P Gopala Krishna, Sr Tech Mgr, PHYTEC Embedded India (P) Ltd, Bangalore.

Subject experts from the concerned Depts conducted a one day workshop on "MAT LAB Programmeing" at ISF of AVS Engineering College, Salem, on Aug 7, 2014. Prof M Rojaramani, Asstt Prof, ECE, AVSEC, delivered lecture on the basics of MAT LAB programming. One day Workshop on "Aero Modelling", was organized on Aug 11, 2014 with the assistance of Shri C P Ajay, MD, Akshayantra Aerosports, Thrissur, who gave a practical demonstration to construct a Aeroplane. The ISF also organized "Yoga Training Programme for Girls" along with demo on physical exercises, meditation, kayakalpa etc. on Aug 11, 2014. An Inter-department Speech Competition (Tamil and English) on "India Vision 2024" & PowerPoint

thpresentation on "Youth Empowerment" was arranged in connection with 68 Independence Day Celebrations during Aug 12-13, 2014.

ISF at Lokmanya Tilak College of Engg, Koparkhairane, Navi Mumbai, a new ISF was inaugurated on Aug 12, 2014. The prominent persons present on the occasion were: Dr Ranjanbala Jain, Guest Speaker; Dr Chandrababu, I/C Principal; Dr Milind Shah- Chairman, & Prof B U Rindhe, Hony Secretary of IETE Navi Mumbai Centre; and Prof Rupali Sawant, HoD of EXTC and Prof Sunita Munde, IETE-ISF Co-ordinator, faculty and students. The Guest speaker's lecture on "Future wireless: Riding on the back of Millimeter Waves" was of immense knowledge to one and all.

ISF at Veltech Multitech Dr Rangarajan Dr Sakunthala Engg College, Chennai, conducted one day seminar for III year Students on "Wireless Communication" handled by Shri A Parthiban, Product Analyst & Promoter, EPR Labs on Aug 13, 2014.

ISF at Pankaj Laddhad Institute of Ttechnology & Management Studies(PLITMS), Buldhana, Maharashtra, organized a three-day workshop on "Robotics" under ISF on Aug 16- 18, 2014 . Another workshop on "Embedded System on ARM-7" was arranged from Sept 19-21, 2014 under the presence of Chief Guest, Dr Deepkaji Laddhad, President of PLITMS, Buldana.

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ISF at M P Nachimuthu M Jaganathan Engg College, Erode, conducted a number of programmes explicitly- a motivational programme on Aug 19, 2014 with Shri RBU Shyam Kumar, CEO, Puthiya Thalaimurai Group, Chennai; Teacher's Day Celebration( Gurucharitra 2K14) & Intra departmental Paper Presentation on Sept 5, 2014 under the presence of Shri P Thiruvalluvar, President Thirukural, Peravai, Chennimalai; a guest lecture on "Signals and Systems" on Sep 26, 2014 by Prof M Kalamani, Asstt Professor/Dept of ECE, Bannari Amman Institute of Tech, Sathyamangalam; and a national level technical symposium and open house project exhibition on "ELECTRO EXPO 2K14" by Prof N Viswanathan, Principal, Konghu Velalar Polytechnic College, Seenapuram, Perundurai, on Oct 10, 2014. The ISF also organized a plastic awareness camp on Sep 22, 2014 on account of

stFounder correspondent's 71 birthday celebrations.

ISF at ECE Dept of Nadha College of Technology(NCT), Erode, conducted number of interesting events and provided platforms for the dissemination of

thknowledge. The 5 National Level Technical Symposium "TECHSPURTZ '14" was organized on Aug 22, 2014 under the presence of Shri P R Srenivasan, MD, Mark Global Technologies Pvt Ltd, Erode the Chief Guest. On Aug 27, 2014, with IETE sub-Centre Salem, a seminar on "Recent Trends in Medical Fields and Career Development" by Prof K G Parthiban, ExeCom Member, IETE Salem Sub-Centre was arranged. Under the "Nandha's Environmental Friendly Club Activity " at Poondurai Semur Village, Erode, saplings were taken from forest officers and given to Panchayat Thalaivar & Village President during Sep 12-13, 2014. A two day Faculty Development Programme on "Recent Trends in Intellectual Property Rights and Professional Ethics in Engineering and Technology" was organized on Nov 6 and 7, 2014. The resource persons included: Dr A Amarkarthik, Assoc Prof/Mech Eng, BIT, Sathyamamngalam, Shri A K Sivasakthi, Business Development Engineer, AGIIT, Coimbatore and Prof N Devaraj, Assoc Prof & Head, Dept of Mgmt Studies, NEC, Erode.

ISF at Mepco Schlenk Engg College, Sivakasi, conducted workshops on "C, C++ & Data structures" for II Year Students and "Blackfin Processor(BF609) based DSP Programming & Applications" for III year Students on Aug 22 and Aug 25-26, 2014 respectively. The sessions were handled by the final year students of ECE Deptt. ISF members were benefitted and the workshops received positive feedback from students.

ISF of St Peter's College of Engg and Technology, (PCET) Avadi, Chennai, was inaugurated on Aug 22, 2014, wherein paper presentation and quiz programme were also conducted for the students.

ISF at VELS University, Chennai, organized a Seminar on "Recent Trends of Electronics in Medicine" on Aug 27, 2014 under the presence of Dr M Kalaivani, Professor & HoD, Dept of Bio Medical Engg, Jerusalem College of Engg, Chennai. On this occasion Shri Shalom gave an excellent demonstration on his project on "Automated Wheel Chair for Physically Disabled Person using Microcontroller and running on Solar Energy Source"- a project nominated for the Presidential Award.

ISF of Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering (SVUCE), Tirupati, was inaugurated on Aug 30, 2014 by the Chief Guests, Prof R V Raja Kumar, Vice Chancellor, RGUKT, Hyderabad, and Prof W Rajendra, VC, Sri Venkateswara Univ,Tirupati, in the presence of many luminaries present for the event.

ISF at PSIT College of Engineering,(PSITCOE) Kanpur, organised a two day Workshop on "Glider Design & RC Aircraft Design Fabrication & Flying" in association with Aerotrix, a division of Skyfi Labs, Bangalore during Aug 30-31, 2014. The event was graced by Dr R S Anand, Deptt of EE, IIT, Kanpur, as the Chief Guest. The past Chairman of IETE Kanpur Centre, delivered a demo on "C DOT". There were a total of 27 groups consisting of 5 members each in RC Aircraft and 33 groups consisting of 2 members in glider. Their hard work and talent was showcased on 31 Aug 2014, with successful attempts.

OBITUARY

IETE fraternity extends deepest sympathies and condolences to the bereaved families of the following members-

Prof (Dr) P J Joglekar (F-003609L): A senior Fellow member and Governing Council Member (1983-86) passed away on Nov 26, 2014. He was actively associated with IETE HQs and its Mumbai/Pune Centres and contributed to the growth and development of IETE in many ways. We all deeply condole the passing away of an illustrious fellow member and a humble soul who believed in human values.

Shri K S Prakash Rao (F-113444L) : With deep regret we inform you about the sudden death of Dr K Prakash Rao, sitting Governing Council Member & Zonal Coordinator (South) IETE on Dec 19, 2014 at Hyderabad. The Governing Council & IETE Secretariat would like to express its deepest condolences and will remember Shri K S Prakash Rao as a devoted member and Past Vice President, IETE. His sudden and unexpected passing away will be an irreparable loss to IETE.

th Shri P D Kanswal : IETE Staff, who worked with Hqs had passed away on 19 Nov 2014 after a long illness. He had worked in various sections of IETE Hqs and will be remembered for his contributions in various Depts of IETE HQs especially in ALCCS Section.

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ISF at Prasad V Potluri Siddhartha Institute of Technology (PVPSIT), Vijayawada, celebrated Teachers Day on Sep 5, 2014 and felicitated Dr J Rajendra Prasad, Prof & HoD, IT Deptt, PVPSIT, for his services as a teacher. A guest lecture on "Career Planning for Engineering Students" was organized with Shri A Satish, IRS, Sr Engineer, South Central Railway, Guntur Division on Sep 20, 2014 and a two day training programme on "PCB Design &

ndMaking" for 2 Year ECE students conducted in association with Efftronics Systems Pvt Ltd., Vijayawada during Nov 14-15, 2014.

ISF at BITS Edu Campus, Varnama, Vadodara, organized a Wireless Robotics Workshop on "Quaestio-Auf-Robotique" during Sep 6-7, 2014. It was based on making a Wireless Robo-car using RF Module. Shri Udit Jeswani, ISF Chairman conducted the theory session, with around 184 participants. Carry away kits were given to the participants.

ISF at Chitkara University, Baddi organized a General Technical Quiz on Sept 08, 2014 having three rounds to check the knowledge of students. A total number of 127 students participated in the quiz with great enthusiasm.

ISF & Organisational Member of IETE, Muthayammal Engg College, Namakkal (TN), organized a seminar on "Java & Android Application" by the Guest speaker Shri P Saravanan, Tech Head, NIIT, Chennai, on Sep 10, 2014. Around 171 Students & 5 Staff members and coordinator were present for the lecture. Another seminar on ISO Standards was on Sep 15, 2014, with the key speaker Shri P Kannan, Manager, Trg & Consultant, TUV Rheinland, Chennai. A 3- day workshop on "Industrial Ready Engineering" was organized during Sep 18-20, 2014 with an objective train IETE Students in the core electronics field particularly PCB designing, circuit creation for their own application. There are 116 participants from II & III year students of ECE. A lecture by Shri S Sundaramoorthy on "Basics of Electronics components and the respective role and application in a circuit", was also organized Hands on Training Programme on "Webench Design Tool" was conducted on Sep 19, 2014, given by Shri V S Ramesh, Head-Customer Support, Steps Knowledge Services, Coimbatore and Shri Vijay Narayana, Associate Engineer, Steps Knowledge Services, Coimbatore. The programme was inaugurated by Prof T Kowsalya, HoD/ECE of Muthayammal Engg College. About 180 students of III and IV year of ECE students of MEC were participated.

ISF at BVRIT Hyderabad College of Engineering for Women, Bachupally, Hyderabad, organized two events to celebrate Engineers' Day :"Quiz Programme - Prashnothari-II" and "Who is the Techno Star?" on Sep 15, 2014. Mrs M Praveena, Asst Professor and Shri K Mahesh Babu, Asstt Prof, ECE were present as Convenor and Co-Convenor respectively. The winners were from- PDBVRIT, BVRIT, Hyderabad and VNR VJIET for quiz competition and the Techno Star award was won by Ms Sanjana, IIIYear, ECE, BVRIT, Hyderabad.

ISF at DADI Institute of Engineering & Technology, Anakapalle with DIET, IET(UK) Chapter, organized the Engineers Day-2014 celebrations on Sep 15, 2014 by organizing - paper presentation, poster presentation, quiz competition and Hardware Expo". The function was graced by Dr G C Kishore Kumar, Dy Collector & Secretary, VUDA, Visakhapatnam and Shri Abraham Varughese, Scientist-G, NSTL, Visakhapatnam.

ISF at Radharaman Group of Institution, Ratibad, Bhopal, celebrated Engineers Day on Sep 15, 2014under the presence of Dr P K Lahiri, Director, Radharaman Engg College, Bhopal,as the Chief Guest. Prof Virendra Singh Chaudhary delivered valuable speech on Importance of Engineers. Prof (Dr) R P Gupta, Director, RIRT & Immdt Past Chairman, IETE Bhopal Centre and Prof Jaipal Bist, HOD, EC Deptt, RIRT were also present on this occasion.

ISF at Shaheed Udham Singh College of Engg & Tech, Mohali, conducted a group discussion on the topics : Speed of Communication v/s Speed of

nd rdDecision Making for 12 students of BTech (ECE) 2 year and 3 Year and Educational Qualification v/s Professional Skill for 12 students of 4th year. This was on the occasion of Engineers' Day on Sept 15, 2014. Er Poonam Verma, Assistant Professor, and Er Jobanpreet Kaur, Asstt Professor regulated the first and the second discussion respectively and the participants were commended for their enthusiastic participation and effective presentation.

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A 2-day national workshop on "Network Security and Embedded Systems" thtogether with 47 Engineers Day was celebrated by ISF at RPIIT Technical

Campus, Karnal, during Sep 15-16, 2014, graced by Shri Bharat Signal, Secy, RP Educational Trust. Dr Sanjay Kumar Sharma, Chairman & Shri Manmohan Maini, Hony Secy of IETE Ambala Sub Centre, Dr Sorabh Gupta, Director, RPIIT Technical Campus, Dr G S Sharma, ED of the Campus, Shri Kapil Arora and Shri Manoj Verma were few eminent persons present on the occasion.

Over 200 students from ECE Dept of ISF Velammal Engg College, Chennai, stepped away from their classes to celebrate ÏETE Inauguration Ceremony on Sep 16, 2014. Shri S Ramaswamy, Chairman IETE Chennai Centre (Former Chief Engineer AIR & Doordarshan) graced the event as the Chief Guest. The event included Tamil Poem competitions from the poets of ECE Dept and presentation of five selected papers.

ISF at Hi-Tech Institute of Technology, Khurda, Bhubaneswar, was inaugurated on Sep 19, 2014 with a two-day National Level Seminar on "Computing, Communication & Information System" (NSCCI-2014). The eminent persons present on the occasion were: Prof (Dr) Anirban Basu, Chairman, Div-V (Education & Research) and Chairman, CSI Bangalore Chapter, as the Chief Guest; Prof (Dr) Niranjan Das, Emeritus Professor, BPUT, Odisha, as Special Guest; Shri Sanjay Mohapatra, Hony Secy, CSI & Shri R C Khuntia, Hony Secy, IETE Bhubaneswar Centre as Guests of Honour and Prof (Dr) R N Satpathy, Principal, HIT, Bhubaneswar.

ISF at Adhiyamaan Engineering College, Hosur, Tamil Nadu, organized a National Level Technical Symposium on "Computing, Control and Communication Systems (C3S)" during Sep 19-20, 2014. Dr M H Kori, Governing Council Member inaugurated the symposium and delivered a key note address.

ISF at Chitkara University, Rajpura organized a quiz activity on Sept 24, 2014 with the aid of Dr Shefali Gupta, Faculty Advisor. First round consisted

ndof MCQ based test paper ,out of which top 20 teams were selected for the 2 round. These teams were given a schematic of a circuit having some error. They had to find the error and simulate the circuit on multi Sim. Quickest 6

rdwere shortlisted for the 3 round. In this round the teams had to design the same circuit on PCB using the components and the output of the circuit was obtained using CRO. The winners were selected on the criteria of minimum timing, cleanliness of the circuit and the best output waveform circuit.

ISF at Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore, organized a two day national level workshop on PCB and Analog Circuit Design on Sep 25-26, 2014. The resource persons for this workshop were: Shri A K Kasturi, Sr Engineer and Shri S Navaneethan, Design Engr from Boffintech Technologies, Namakkal. About 50 students from various institutions across TamilNadu attended the workshop. The certificates were also distributed.

ISF at Mahakal Inst of Techology, Ujjain organized ESDM Workshop on Nov 19, 2014. The keynote speakers from Doordarshan Relay Center, Ujjain, apprising the students on the ESDM system were: Shri Pankaj Pandit, Sr Engg Assitt on "Antennas used in the DD Relay Centre, their setting and tracking to satellites";Shri R K Singh, Sr Engg Assitt, on "Maintenance and setting of equipments, transmitters, amplifiers, PC video audio switcher and setup"and Shri P S Sisodiya, Retd Assist Engr, on "Erection and installation of AIR, Doordarshan antennas and complete system for stationary and live transmission". A field visit of antennas and its setting as well as demonstration of for tracking of satellite was also a part of the workshop by the ISF, coordinated by IETE Mhow Centre.

ISF at Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Sadopur, Ambala, was inaugurated by Shri SK Angra, Chairman IETE Chandigarh Centre on Nov 20, 2014 in the presence of Dr Rajesh Khanna, Prof Garima Saini, NITTTR, Chandigarh, (delivered talk on "Latest Trends in Mobile Communication"); Prof P Prabhakar, Wg Cdr (Retd); Dr Neelesh Kumar; Shri SS Saini; Prof Praveen Bajaj HOD (ECE) & ISF Coordinator, MM University, along with faculty and students of MM University, Ambala.

Smt Geeta Varadan (F236858L) is an accomplished technocrat with a distinguished career of more than 38 years in the application of space technology to meet the specific requirements of various users in communications and remote sensing. She is a graduate in ECE from Osmania University with distinction and a Master of Engineering Degree in Controls and Computer Sciences from

the School of Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She has won a Gold Medal for having stood first among the Women candidates in Andhra Pradesh State in the Pre-University course.

She started her career in 1976 in LRDE, Bangalore and thereafter joined ISRO/DOS Bangalore in 1985. She was the leader of the team that established nine Remote Sensing Service Centres in the country and developed and operationalized a number of theme specific software packages for the Drought Mission, Landuse Landcover Mapping, CAPE Mission etc. and Natural Resources Information Systems (NRIS) data base for 30 districts spanning 17 stages as Dy Project Director. She is also, responsible for setting-up of the Remote Sensing Centre at Mauritius. As Programme Director (Special Projects), ISRO HQ, she is the single point interface at ISRO HQ responsible for implementation and operationalisation of all the projects for Special Users, which includes all projects in the area of Communications and Surveillance. She has been instrumental in building awareness among the User community on the efficacy of space technology in their areas of interest which has facilitated in operationalisation of a number of projects for the users. As a Director of ADRIN, since April 2008, she has set the record of being the first WOMEN in the history of ISRO to become a Director of an ISRO Centre. She has played an important role towards

development of tools and techniques for quick turnaround of data products using grid and high performance computing. She has pioneered the development of a real time satellite data processing system using the state-of-art GP/GPU technology. This is the first of its kind in the country and enables data readiness for analysis immediately after the satellite pass. She has now initiated activities in the area of Cyber Security and Cloud

Computing.

She has received several Awards and Honours , namely. Dr Y Nayudamma Memorial Award 2014; Distinguished Alumnus Award – 2014 from College of Engg, OU, Hyderabad – First recipient of the Award; IETE – Smt. Triveni Devi Gupta Memorial Award for 2014. – First recipient of the Award since instituted; Recipient of the "Millenium Plaque of Honour" from Hon'ble Prime Minister of India declared by

th99 Indian Science Congress in 2012; ISRO Performance Excellence Award – 2011; Featured in DNA Newspaper as one of the Top 50 India's Power Women on 08.03.2011 having been selected by the appointed jury; bestowed with the "Women In Science" Award for 2010 by India Today; ISRO Merit Award – 2008 from the Honourable Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh; ISRO Team Award in 2007 from the erstwhile President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam; Astronautical Society of India "Best Woman Scientist' award in 2006 from the then

Minister of State, Shri Prithviraj Chavan being the first recipient of the Award since instituted. She is having Membership in Professional Bodies such as Fellow Member of IETE; Life Member of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing; Life Member of the Alumini Association of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Life Member of OU-ECE Alumini Association, Hyderabad. She has authored and co-authored more than 35 publications.

Celebrating IETE Achievers

I feel that the fastest and sure way to change society is to mobilize the women of the

world, since she is uniquely equipped to do that. She has the power to create, nurture, transform and revolutionize. It is a marvel that female brain is endowed to perform

multi tasking and women have mastered the art of balancing work and home. It is

important that as women we need to "Speak out to be heard, Stand up to be counted and Proact to be identified". Women should be Assertive, Bold and Committed – The ABC formula for progress. If we are not ready

today, we will not be ready tomorrow either. I take this opportunity to greet each and

every woman engineer and wish that they reach greater heights in the years to come.

– Smt Geeta Varadan

Message

The book is published by Concept Publishing Company Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, pp 220, Price Rupees 700/- ISBN-13: 978-93-5125- 061-6. The author possesses vast experience in the area of information management and has been associated with IT in its earliest stage of introduction in the late sixties. With his stints in the Government as well as the Public and Private Undertakings, his forays in the field of IT Education and his frequent visits to the foreign countries as a sought after speaker to lecture on various aspects of IT, the author is highly qualified to pen his views on the saga of IT in India. Recognition of his significant contribution in the field of information management, he was conferred with the award of Padma Shri the President of India.

The book is written in lucid and story- telling style and would hook any reader, lay or IT professional. The Preface at the beginning of the book provides

a glimpse of the versatility and extensive scope for the large scale application of IT. The Overview at the end would also be of special interest as the author has explained many intricacies in simple language. It is divided into 12 Chapters, records the progress from the very inception up to the current stage of its successful application in almost all spheres of our activities. With a plethora of facts and figures, the historical perspective, it keeps both the lay readers and the IT professionals riveted to it. The book is dedicated to Brig S V S Chowdhry, Past President of the IETE, who in his own right has made immense contribution in the field of IT.

Reviewed byBrig Lakshman Singh, VSM, (Retd) (F-043034L)

Book Review : Indian IT Saga - Growth to Glory (Name of the Author : Dr Utpal K Banerjee)

Vol. 16, No. 3, Sep-Dec 2014

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ISF at Prasad V Potluri Siddhartha Institute of Technology (PVPSIT), Vijayawada, celebrated Teachers Day on Sep 5, 2014 and felicitated Dr J Rajendra Prasad, Prof & HoD, IT Deptt, PVPSIT, for his services as a teacher. A guest lecture on "Career Planning for Engineering Students" was organized with Shri A Satish, IRS, Sr Engineer, South Central Railway, Guntur Division on Sep 20, 2014 and a two day training programme on "PCB Design &

ndMaking" for 2 Year ECE students conducted in association with Efftronics Systems Pvt Ltd., Vijayawada during Nov 14-15, 2014.

ISF at BITS Edu Campus, Varnama, Vadodara, organized a Wireless Robotics Workshop on "Quaestio-Auf-Robotique" during Sep 6-7, 2014. It was based on making a Wireless Robo-car using RF Module. Shri Udit Jeswani, ISF Chairman conducted the theory session, with around 184 participants. Carry away kits were given to the participants.

ISF at Chitkara University, Baddi organized a General Technical Quiz on Sept 08, 2014 having three rounds to check the knowledge of students. A total number of 127 students participated in the quiz with great enthusiasm.

ISF & Organisational Member of IETE, Muthayammal Engg College, Namakkal (TN), organized a seminar on "Java & Android Application" by the Guest speaker Shri P Saravanan, Tech Head, NIIT, Chennai, on Sep 10, 2014. Around 171 Students & 5 Staff members and coordinator were present for the lecture. Another seminar on ISO Standards was on Sep 15, 2014, with the key speaker Shri P Kannan, Manager, Trg & Consultant, TUV Rheinland, Chennai. A 3- day workshop on "Industrial Ready Engineering" was organized during Sep 18-20, 2014 with an objective train IETE Students in the core electronics field particularly PCB designing, circuit creation for their own application. There are 116 participants from II & III year students of ECE. A lecture by Shri S Sundaramoorthy on "Basics of Electronics components and the respective role and application in a circuit", was also organized Hands on Training Programme on "Webench Design Tool" was conducted on Sep 19, 2014, given by Shri V S Ramesh, Head-Customer Support, Steps Knowledge Services, Coimbatore and Shri Vijay Narayana, Associate Engineer, Steps Knowledge Services, Coimbatore. The programme was inaugurated by Prof T Kowsalya, HoD/ECE of Muthayammal Engg College. About 180 students of III and IV year of ECE students of MEC were participated.

ISF at BVRIT Hyderabad College of Engineering for Women, Bachupally, Hyderabad, organized two events to celebrate Engineers' Day :"Quiz Programme - Prashnothari-II" and "Who is the Techno Star?" on Sep 15, 2014. Mrs M Praveena, Asst Professor and Shri K Mahesh Babu, Asstt Prof, ECE were present as Convenor and Co-Convenor respectively. The winners were from- PDBVRIT, BVRIT, Hyderabad and VNR VJIET for quiz competition and the Techno Star award was won by Ms Sanjana, IIIYear, ECE, BVRIT, Hyderabad.

ISF at DADI Institute of Engineering & Technology, Anakapalle with DIET, IET(UK) Chapter, organized the Engineers Day-2014 celebrations on Sep 15, 2014 by organizing - paper presentation, poster presentation, quiz competition and Hardware Expo". The function was graced by Dr G C Kishore Kumar, Dy Collector & Secretary, VUDA, Visakhapatnam and Shri Abraham Varughese, Scientist-G, NSTL, Visakhapatnam.

ISF at Radharaman Group of Institution, Ratibad, Bhopal, celebrated Engineers Day on Sep 15, 2014under the presence of Dr P K Lahiri, Director, Radharaman Engg College, Bhopal,as the Chief Guest. Prof Virendra Singh Chaudhary delivered valuable speech on Importance of Engineers. Prof (Dr) R P Gupta, Director, RIRT & Immdt Past Chairman, IETE Bhopal Centre and Prof Jaipal Bist, HOD, EC Deptt, RIRT were also present on this occasion.

ISF at Shaheed Udham Singh College of Engg & Tech, Mohali, conducted a group discussion on the topics : Speed of Communication v/s Speed of

nd rdDecision Making for 12 students of BTech (ECE) 2 year and 3 Year and Educational Qualification v/s Professional Skill for 12 students of 4th year. This was on the occasion of Engineers' Day on Sept 15, 2014. Er Poonam Verma, Assistant Professor, and Er Jobanpreet Kaur, Asstt Professor regulated the first and the second discussion respectively and the participants were commended for their enthusiastic participation and effective presentation.

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A 2-day national workshop on "Network Security and Embedded Systems" thtogether with 47 Engineers Day was celebrated by ISF at RPIIT Technical

Campus, Karnal, during Sep 15-16, 2014, graced by Shri Bharat Signal, Secy, RP Educational Trust. Dr Sanjay Kumar Sharma, Chairman & Shri Manmohan Maini, Hony Secy of IETE Ambala Sub Centre, Dr Sorabh Gupta, Director, RPIIT Technical Campus, Dr G S Sharma, ED of the Campus, Shri Kapil Arora and Shri Manoj Verma were few eminent persons present on the occasion.

Over 200 students from ECE Dept of ISF Velammal Engg College, Chennai, stepped away from their classes to celebrate ÏETE Inauguration Ceremony on Sep 16, 2014. Shri S Ramaswamy, Chairman IETE Chennai Centre (Former Chief Engineer AIR & Doordarshan) graced the event as the Chief Guest. The event included Tamil Poem competitions from the poets of ECE Dept and presentation of five selected papers.

ISF at Hi-Tech Institute of Technology, Khurda, Bhubaneswar, was inaugurated on Sep 19, 2014 with a two-day National Level Seminar on "Computing, Communication & Information System" (NSCCI-2014). The eminent persons present on the occasion were: Prof (Dr) Anirban Basu, Chairman, Div-V (Education & Research) and Chairman, CSI Bangalore Chapter, as the Chief Guest; Prof (Dr) Niranjan Das, Emeritus Professor, BPUT, Odisha, as Special Guest; Shri Sanjay Mohapatra, Hony Secy, CSI & Shri R C Khuntia, Hony Secy, IETE Bhubaneswar Centre as Guests of Honour and Prof (Dr) R N Satpathy, Principal, HIT, Bhubaneswar.

ISF at Adhiyamaan Engineering College, Hosur, Tamil Nadu, organized a National Level Technical Symposium on "Computing, Control and Communication Systems (C3S)" during Sep 19-20, 2014. Dr M H Kori, Governing Council Member inaugurated the symposium and delivered a key note address.

ISF at Chitkara University, Rajpura organized a quiz activity on Sept 24, 2014 with the aid of Dr Shefali Gupta, Faculty Advisor. First round consisted

ndof MCQ based test paper ,out of which top 20 teams were selected for the 2 round. These teams were given a schematic of a circuit having some error. They had to find the error and simulate the circuit on multi Sim. Quickest 6

rdwere shortlisted for the 3 round. In this round the teams had to design the same circuit on PCB using the components and the output of the circuit was obtained using CRO. The winners were selected on the criteria of minimum timing, cleanliness of the circuit and the best output waveform circuit.

ISF at Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore, organized a two day national level workshop on PCB and Analog Circuit Design on Sep 25-26, 2014. The resource persons for this workshop were: Shri A K Kasturi, Sr Engineer and Shri S Navaneethan, Design Engr from Boffintech Technologies, Namakkal. About 50 students from various institutions across TamilNadu attended the workshop. The certificates were also distributed.

ISF at Mahakal Inst of Techology, Ujjain organized ESDM Workshop on Nov 19, 2014. The keynote speakers from Doordarshan Relay Center, Ujjain, apprising the students on the ESDM system were: Shri Pankaj Pandit, Sr Engg Assitt on "Antennas used in the DD Relay Centre, their setting and tracking to satellites";Shri R K Singh, Sr Engg Assitt, on "Maintenance and setting of equipments, transmitters, amplifiers, PC video audio switcher and setup"and Shri P S Sisodiya, Retd Assist Engr, on "Erection and installation of AIR, Doordarshan antennas and complete system for stationary and live transmission". A field visit of antennas and its setting as well as demonstration of for tracking of satellite was also a part of the workshop by the ISF, coordinated by IETE Mhow Centre.

ISF at Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Sadopur, Ambala, was inaugurated by Shri SK Angra, Chairman IETE Chandigarh Centre on Nov 20, 2014 in the presence of Dr Rajesh Khanna, Prof Garima Saini, NITTTR, Chandigarh, (delivered talk on "Latest Trends in Mobile Communication"); Prof P Prabhakar, Wg Cdr (Retd); Dr Neelesh Kumar; Shri SS Saini; Prof Praveen Bajaj HOD (ECE) & ISF Coordinator, MM University, along with faculty and students of MM University, Ambala.

Smt Geeta Varadan (F236858L) is an accomplished technocrat with a distinguished career of more than 38 years in the application of space technology to meet the specific requirements of various users in communications and remote sensing. She is a graduate in ECE from Osmania University with distinction and a Master of Engineering Degree in Controls and Computer Sciences from

the School of Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She has won a Gold Medal for having stood first among the Women candidates in Andhra Pradesh State in the Pre-University course.

She started her career in 1976 in LRDE, Bangalore and thereafter joined ISRO/DOS Bangalore in 1985. She was the leader of the team that established nine Remote Sensing Service Centres in the country and developed and operationalized a number of theme specific software packages for the Drought Mission, Landuse Landcover Mapping, CAPE Mission etc. and Natural Resources Information Systems (NRIS) data base for 30 districts spanning 17 stages as Dy Project Director. She is also, responsible for setting-up of the Remote Sensing Centre at Mauritius. As Programme Director (Special Projects), ISRO HQ, she is the single point interface at ISRO HQ responsible for implementation and operationalisation of all the projects for Special Users, which includes all projects in the area of Communications and Surveillance. She has been instrumental in building awareness among the User community on the efficacy of space technology in their areas of interest which has facilitated in operationalisation of a number of projects for the users. As a Director of ADRIN, since April 2008, she has set the record of being the first WOMEN in the history of ISRO to become a Director of an ISRO Centre. She has played an important role towards

development of tools and techniques for quick turnaround of data products using grid and high performance computing. She has pioneered the development of a real time satellite data processing system using the state-of-art GP/GPU technology. This is the first of its kind in the country and enables data readiness for analysis immediately after the satellite pass. She has now initiated activities in the area of Cyber Security and Cloud

Computing.

She has received several Awards and Honours , namely. Dr Y Nayudamma Memorial Award 2014; Distinguished Alumnus Award – 2014 from College of Engg, OU, Hyderabad – First recipient of the Award; IETE – Smt. Triveni Devi Gupta Memorial Award for 2014. – First recipient of the Award since instituted; Recipient of the "Millenium Plaque of Honour" from Hon'ble Prime Minister of India declared by

th99 Indian Science Congress in 2012; ISRO Performance Excellence Award – 2011; Featured in DNA Newspaper as one of the Top 50 India's Power Women on 08.03.2011 having been selected by the appointed jury; bestowed with the "Women In Science" Award for 2010 by India Today; ISRO Merit Award – 2008 from the Honourable Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh; ISRO Team Award in 2007 from the erstwhile President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam; Astronautical Society of India "Best Woman Scientist' award in 2006 from the then

Minister of State, Shri Prithviraj Chavan being the first recipient of the Award since instituted. She is having Membership in Professional Bodies such as Fellow Member of IETE; Life Member of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing; Life Member of the Alumini Association of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Life Member of OU-ECE Alumini Association, Hyderabad. She has authored and co-authored more than 35 publications.

Celebrating IETE Achievers

I feel that the fastest and sure way to change society is to mobilize the women of the

world, since she is uniquely equipped to do that. She has the power to create, nurture, transform and revolutionize. It is a marvel that female brain is endowed to perform

multi tasking and women have mastered the art of balancing work and home. It is

important that as women we need to "Speak out to be heard, Stand up to be counted and Proact to be identified". Women should be Assertive, Bold and Committed – The ABC formula for progress. If we are not ready

today, we will not be ready tomorrow either. I take this opportunity to greet each and

every woman engineer and wish that they reach greater heights in the years to come.

– Smt Geeta Varadan

Message

The book is published by Concept Publishing Company Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, pp 220, Price Rupees 700/- ISBN-13: 978-93-5125- 061-6. The author possesses vast experience in the area of information management and has been associated with IT in its earliest stage of introduction in the late sixties. With his stints in the Government as well as the Public and Private Undertakings, his forays in the field of IT Education and his frequent visits to the foreign countries as a sought after speaker to lecture on various aspects of IT, the author is highly qualified to pen his views on the saga of IT in India. Recognition of his significant contribution in the field of information management, he was conferred with the award of Padma Shri the President of India.

The book is written in lucid and story- telling style and would hook any reader, lay or IT professional. The Preface at the beginning of the book provides

a glimpse of the versatility and extensive scope for the large scale application of IT. The Overview at the end would also be of special interest as the author has explained many intricacies in simple language. It is divided into 12 Chapters, records the progress from the very inception up to the current stage of its successful application in almost all spheres of our activities. With a plethora of facts and figures, the historical perspective, it keeps both the lay readers and the IT professionals riveted to it. The book is dedicated to Brig S V S Chowdhry, Past President of the IETE, who in his own right has made immense contribution in the field of IT.

Reviewed byBrig Lakshman Singh, VSM, (Retd) (F-043034L)

Book Review : Indian IT Saga - Growth to Glory (Name of the Author : Dr Utpal K Banerjee)

Vol. 16, No. 3, Sep-Dec 2014

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Recent initiatives for eGovernance by the Government of India are indeed laudable and have created new challenges for IETE, especially when the lines between IT and Telecom are also blurring. One such issue pertains to the use of Geospatial technologies, especially related to National Security.

National security implies protecting a nation's population, economy, critical infrastructure, borders and prosperity in general. In order to implement national security, there is therefore a need to coordinate action and exchange information between various agencies which include National Intelligence, Defence, Law enforcement, Disaster Management, First Responders and selected Private Sector Enterprises. In order to share this critical information, there is a requirement to create an enterprise wide Geographical Information System (GIS) with the necessary tools. While the Forest Survey of India has recently made a welcome announcement on the implementation of a GIS based Decision Support System, this important facility has to be extended across many other agencies at the earliest. The lack of a suitably digitised data base of maps for this purpose adds to our problems. Alas, while we rightfully dream of a Digital India, our efforts at the national and subordinate levels related to efficient utilisation of GIS for National Security are somewhat lacking in their implementation.

This is where modern technologies such as WebGIS are required to provide distributed geospatial services to all the stakeholders implementing the National Security mission. The available data with the collecting and analysing agencies is now shared and converted into actionable intelligence which is further utilised for planning and conduct of operations. Such applications have been robustly developed by various GIS firms like Esri and BAE Systems, and are being effectively used by many countries. India had made a good start by creating the National Spatial Data Infrastructure and the National GIS, but the process seems to have been mired in procedural tangles and got unduly delayed. A need to coordinate the development across various ministries is the need of the hour and any delay in this direction will be unfortunate.

Another emerging area is Big Data Analytics. The large number of smart device users in the internationally networked scenario have led to the so called information overload. This data, which largely comprises of unstructured data of dynamic nature, is often a warehouse of intelligence information. Big data analytics refers to firstly finding the dots and then connecting them to create a multisource fusion of intelligence. The data is sourced from various enterprises, social media, sensor networks and human geography inputs. The threat vector is now examined based on

geospatial, temporal, behavioural and pattern recognition techniques. The analytics now can be shared amongst users to create a shared situational awareness for undertaking preventive action.

In addition to the above, governments across the world are relying increasingly on Human Geography as a preventive strategy. Human Geography is the creation of the human footprint through the fusion of map locations and human related data, and differs from Physical Geography in that it takes into account about a dozen themes related to people and maps the same. This data is structured based on the core themes of Human Geography which include Demographics, Transportation, Communication, Economy, Education, Religion, Ethnicity, Health, Political Groupings, Language, Land and Water. This new subject has recently grown into prominence in view of the large amounts of data available from social media and other surveys and the need to provide actionable intelligence from the same.

We all admire the use of google maps and online services which assist us in our daily lives. However, while the tools are readily available, government processes in our country are still not taking advantage of this extremely potent technology which provides immense benefits for eGovernance and National Security. In order to establish the who-where-what-when of intelligence, the use of GIS is inescapable.

Co-Chairman Publications Committee(rajepant@gmail.com)

Lt Gen (Dr) Rajesh PantAVSM,VSM (Retd)

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Importance of GIS

he IETE Newsletter endeavours to provide Tinformation of the activities of the Institution, technology updates, announcements of technical events and related information for the benefit of the members. The Forum is a space open to the members to share their views and suggestions on matters of interest to fellow members.

To make the forum a dynamic space for members to express their opinions, brief write ups and letters-to-the editor are invited that would be of interest to the readers. The editorial department reserves the right for publishing items on the basis of available space and quality of information conveyed.

AWARDS AND HONOURS

Prof (Dr) Shiban K Koul (F-084580L)

IEEE MTT-S – Distinguished Educator Award for the year 2014.

Prof Koul of the 2012 VASVIK AWARD in the category of Information & Communications Technology,

Brigadier SVS Chowdhry, (DF017163L ) Past President of IETE, the Lifetime Achievement Award

Shri Chalasani Subba Rao (M-211884L) the Degree of Philosophy (PhD)

is the Dr R P Shenoy Chair Professor at the Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE) and Dy Director (Strategy & Planning) at IIT Delhi. He is also the Chairman of Astra Microwave Products Limited , Hyderabad, a major company involved in the development of RF and Microwave system in India, Governing Board Member of Electronics Sector Skills Council India(ESSCI) and Editor in Chief of IETE Journal of Research. His current research interests include: RF MEMS, Device Modeling, Microwave and Millimeter waves circuit and system design, Nonlinear effects and Reconfigurable Microwave Circuits including antennas.

Prof Koul is the recipient of This award recognizes a distinguished educator in the field of Microwave Engineering and Science who best exemplifies the

special human qualities of Fred Rosenbaum (whose untimely death has inspired this award and who considered teaching a high calling demonstrated his dedication to the society through tireless service).

is also the winner

which carries an amount of Rs 1 Lakh and a citation.

has been conferred during the Annual Convention

of the Computer Society of India, held at Hyderabad during 12-14 December 2014.

, has been awarded by Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTU-H), for his Research thesis on "Antenna Beam Shaping", under the guidance of Dr A Sudhakar, FIETE. He is presently working as an Assoc Prof of ECE at PVP Siddhartha Institute of Technology, Kanuru, Vijayawada.

❖Sriram Engineering College (G-00488), affiliated to Anna University Chennai, started in the year 1993, is a constituent college of Sriram Educational Trust established in the year 1983. The College offers seven UG programmes, namely B.E. in ECE, EEE, CSE, Mechanical Engg., & Automobile Engg., and B.Tech. in IT & Chemical Engg., and three PG programmes, namely M.E. in EST, Applied Electronics & CSE, in Engineering & Technology and has made great strides in achieving excellence in technical education via several University rankings and excellent placement record. All the seven UG programmes were accredited by the NBA, New Delhi for three years in the year, 2006. The institution also has 9001:2008 ISO certification for quality management. The laboratories have been well-established with the state-of-the-art equipments and software such as DELL & IBM High-end Servers & Desktops, Mathworks MATLAB, National

Instruments LABVIEW and MULTISIM, MentorGraphics MODELSIM, Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio & TINA Pro, KEIL Enbedded C, Tanner, IBM Rational Suite, ORACLE, PTC CREO, AUTOCAD, Microsoft Campus Agreement etc. Every department has made several successful MoUs with several leading industries to impart the state-of-the-art hands-on training experience to the students. The institution has institutional memberships in several leading Professional Societies such as IETE, IEEE, ISTE, IEI, IICHE, ICT ACT & SAE.

Apollo Engineering College (AEC) (G00492) is a private, self-financing, co-educational institution approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and is affiliated to the Anna University. AEC was established in 2007 and the college offers six undergraduate programmes and three postgraduate programmes. The institution endeavors to impart

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Recent initiatives for eGovernance by the Government of India are indeed laudable and have created new challenges for IETE, especially when the lines between IT and Telecom are also blurring. One such issue pertains to the use of Geospatial technologies, especially related to National Security.

National security implies protecting a nation's population, economy, critical infrastructure, borders and prosperity in general. In order to implement national security, there is therefore a need to coordinate action and exchange information between various agencies which include National Intelligence, Defence, Law enforcement, Disaster Management, First Responders and selected Private Sector Enterprises. In order to share this critical information, there is a requirement to create an enterprise wide Geographical Information System (GIS) with the necessary tools. While the Forest Survey of India has recently made a welcome announcement on the implementation of a GIS based Decision Support System, this important facility has to be extended across many other agencies at the earliest. The lack of a suitably digitised data base of maps for this purpose adds to our problems. Alas, while we rightfully dream of a Digital India, our efforts at the national and subordinate levels related to efficient utilisation of GIS for National Security are somewhat lacking in their implementation.

This is where modern technologies such as WebGIS are required to provide distributed geospatial services to all the stakeholders implementing the National Security mission. The available data with the collecting and analysing agencies is now shared and converted into actionable intelligence which is further utilised for planning and conduct of operations. Such applications have been robustly developed by various GIS firms like Esri and BAE Systems, and are being effectively used by many countries. India had made a good start by creating the National Spatial Data Infrastructure and the National GIS, but the process seems to have been mired in procedural tangles and got unduly delayed. A need to coordinate the development across various ministries is the need of the hour and any delay in this direction will be unfortunate.

Another emerging area is Big Data Analytics. The large number of smart device users in the internationally networked scenario have led to the so called information overload. This data, which largely comprises of unstructured data of dynamic nature, is often a warehouse of intelligence information. Big data analytics refers to firstly finding the dots and then connecting them to create a multisource fusion of intelligence. The data is sourced from various enterprises, social media, sensor networks and human geography inputs. The threat vector is now examined based on

geospatial, temporal, behavioural and pattern recognition techniques. The analytics now can be shared amongst users to create a shared situational awareness for undertaking preventive action.

In addition to the above, governments across the world are relying increasingly on Human Geography as a preventive strategy. Human Geography is the creation of the human footprint through the fusion of map locations and human related data, and differs from Physical Geography in that it takes into account about a dozen themes related to people and maps the same. This data is structured based on the core themes of Human Geography which include Demographics, Transportation, Communication, Economy, Education, Religion, Ethnicity, Health, Political Groupings, Language, Land and Water. This new subject has recently grown into prominence in view of the large amounts of data available from social media and other surveys and the need to provide actionable intelligence from the same.

We all admire the use of google maps and online services which assist us in our daily lives. However, while the tools are readily available, government processes in our country are still not taking advantage of this extremely potent technology which provides immense benefits for eGovernance and National Security. In order to establish the who-where-what-when of intelligence, the use of GIS is inescapable.

Co-Chairman Publications Committee(rajepant@gmail.com)

Lt Gen (Dr) Rajesh PantAVSM,VSM (Retd)

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he IETE Newsletter endeavours to provide Tinformation of the activities of the Institution, technology updates, announcements of technical events and related information for the benefit of the members. The Forum is a space open to the members to share their views and suggestions on matters of interest to fellow members.

To make the forum a dynamic space for members to express their opinions, brief write ups and letters-to-the editor are invited that would be of interest to the readers. The editorial department reserves the right for publishing items on the basis of available space and quality of information conveyed.

AWARDS AND HONOURS

Prof (Dr) Shiban K Koul (F-084580L)

IEEE MTT-S – Distinguished Educator Award for the year 2014.

Prof Koul of the 2012 VASVIK AWARD in the category of Information & Communications Technology,

Brigadier SVS Chowdhry, (DF017163L ) Past President of IETE, the Lifetime Achievement Award

Shri Chalasani Subba Rao (M-211884L) the Degree of Philosophy (PhD)

is the Dr R P Shenoy Chair Professor at the Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE) and Dy Director (Strategy & Planning) at IIT Delhi. He is also the Chairman of Astra Microwave Products Limited , Hyderabad, a major company involved in the development of RF and Microwave system in India, Governing Board Member of Electronics Sector Skills Council India(ESSCI) and Editor in Chief of IETE Journal of Research. His current research interests include: RF MEMS, Device Modeling, Microwave and Millimeter waves circuit and system design, Nonlinear effects and Reconfigurable Microwave Circuits including antennas.

Prof Koul is the recipient of This award recognizes a distinguished educator in the field of Microwave Engineering and Science who best exemplifies the

special human qualities of Fred Rosenbaum (whose untimely death has inspired this award and who considered teaching a high calling demonstrated his dedication to the society through tireless service).

is also the winner

which carries an amount of Rs 1 Lakh and a citation.

has been conferred during the Annual Convention

of the Computer Society of India, held at Hyderabad during 12-14 December 2014.

, has been awarded by Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTU-H), for his Research thesis on "Antenna Beam Shaping", under the guidance of Dr A Sudhakar, FIETE. He is presently working as an Assoc Prof of ECE at PVP Siddhartha Institute of Technology, Kanuru, Vijayawada.

❖Sriram Engineering College (G-00488), affiliated to Anna University Chennai, started in the year 1993, is a constituent college of Sriram Educational Trust established in the year 1983. The College offers seven UG programmes, namely B.E. in ECE, EEE, CSE, Mechanical Engg., & Automobile Engg., and B.Tech. in IT & Chemical Engg., and three PG programmes, namely M.E. in EST, Applied Electronics & CSE, in Engineering & Technology and has made great strides in achieving excellence in technical education via several University rankings and excellent placement record. All the seven UG programmes were accredited by the NBA, New Delhi for three years in the year, 2006. The institution also has 9001:2008 ISO certification for quality management. The laboratories have been well-established with the state-of-the-art equipments and software such as DELL & IBM High-end Servers & Desktops, Mathworks MATLAB, National

Instruments LABVIEW and MULTISIM, MentorGraphics MODELSIM, Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio & TINA Pro, KEIL Enbedded C, Tanner, IBM Rational Suite, ORACLE, PTC CREO, AUTOCAD, Microsoft Campus Agreement etc. Every department has made several successful MoUs with several leading industries to impart the state-of-the-art hands-on training experience to the students. The institution has institutional memberships in several leading Professional Societies such as IETE, IEEE, ISTE, IEI, IICHE, ICT ACT & SAE.

Apollo Engineering College (AEC) (G00492) is a private, self-financing, co-educational institution approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and is affiliated to the Anna University. AEC was established in 2007 and the college offers six undergraduate programmes and three postgraduate programmes. The institution endeavors to impart

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high quality, competency based technical education in Engineering and Technology to the younger generation with the required skills and abilities to face the challenging needs of the industry around the globe. The college has developed excellent facilities and resources such as spacious classrooms, smart rooms, seminar halls, well-equipped laboratories, well-

stocked libraries, dedicated high speed Wi-Fi connectivity and well-qualified faculty. Moreover, this institution is also striving hard to attain an unique status in the national and international level by means of infrastructure, state-of-the-art computer facilities and techniques.

A new Professional Activity Centre (PAC) of IETE & an IETE Student Forum(ISF) was inaugurated on Oct 18, 2014 at Sree Narayana Institute of Technology, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, in coordination with IETE Thiruvananthapuram Centre by Shri C K Haridas, Governing Council Member, Chairman Alumni Affairs and Co-Chairman BoE while the ISF was inaugurated by Dr V N

Rajasekharan Pillai, Executive Vice President & Principal Secretary, Science & Technology, Govt of Kerala and Former Chairman, UGC, former VC, IGNOU and DFIETE. During this function two Departmental Associations were inaugurated, one of ECE by Prof POJ Lebba, Gen Secy, Muslim Educational Society and Former Principal, TKM College of Engg, Kerala and the other of EEE by Dr M Jayaraju, Principal, MES Instt of Technology & Mgmt, Chathannor, Kerala. The key speakers on the occasion included: Dr Albert Sing, AGM, BSNL, on "5G" and Shri Sreekanta Kumar, Former Project Manager, Infosys and Technical & Process Consultant presented Seminar on "Cloud Computing Technology". The other notable members present were: Shri S Girish Kumar, VC, IETE, Trivandrum Centre; Shri R P Nair, Head,

PAC

Dignitaries inaugurating the PAC & ISF of IETE at Sree Narayana Institute of Technology, Pathanamthitta, Kerala

Comm Div, VSSC and Former Chairman and ExeCom Member, IETE Trivandrum, and Dr K Gopakumar, HoD ECE, TKM College of Engg and ExeCom Member. The function was conducted in a befitting manner. Faculties and students took a lot of effort for its successful conduct. It was given wide coverage in Kerala leading newspapers.

Subject Date Venue Contact

th19 Sir C V Raman Memorial Lecture andIRSI Award Ceremony Chairman, IETE Bangalore Centre, & Convenor, IRSI

Awards Committee , Bellary Road, Gandhinagar, Bangalore – 560 039(Mob) : 09449048858, Ph : 080-23331133E-mail: pande_dc@hotmail.com ; Bangalore@iete.org

th6 Royal Conferences for Knowledge 26-28 Mar 2015 Thrissur, Sreehari V K - 09946134452Sharing 2015 (ROCKS 2015) Kerala Arunvinodh C – 09746885517• International Conference on Instrumentation, E-mail: rocks@royalcet.in

Control and Automation• International Conference on Emerging Trends

in Scientific Computing & Security Systems• International Conference on Emerging Trends in

Communication, Signal Processing andMachine Vision

• International Conference on Power,Energy and Control Systems

28 Feb 2015 Bangalore Dr D C Pande

Calender of Events

Impact Factor (IF) journals. He together with Irving H Sher, proposed IF in 1955 to rank the journals according to the Journal citation.

- It is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article"in a journal has been cited in a particular year or period. - The impact factor of a journal is calculated by diving the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal

during the previous two years.- Let us assume that the total number of articles published in a journal in 2012 and 2013 are 50 (denominator) and in 2014, the citation to everything

published in 2012 and 2013 is 500 (Numerator). The IF of that journal will be 10 in 2015.- Impact Factor is calculated after 3 years of journal launch. New Journals should not be expected to have IF from day one. - Thomson Reuters, ISI releases Journal Citation reports every 2 years and publishes IF of every journal. - Impact Factor, once assigned by Thomson Reuters to a journal, will be eligible from the date of its birth. – Courtesy InternetWe are happy to share with our members the 2013 Impact Factors of IETE JournalsThe Impact Factor of IETE Journal of Research- 0.189The Impact Factor of IETE Technical Review - 0.925

Impact Factor was developed by Eugene Garfield as a quantitative method for comparing the

Comparison of IETE Journals with few IEEE Journals

Journals 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 1.948 1.667 1.374 1.031 1.3 1.312

IEEE Antennas And Propagation Magazine 1.152 1.18 0.968 0.855 1.193 1.312

0.189 - 0.2 0.076 0.132 -

0.925 0.705 0.724 0.37 0.075 -

IEEE Communications Magazine 4.46 3.661 3.785 2.837 2.446 2.799

IEEE Spectrum 0.936 1.322 1.139 0.858 1.176 1.164

IEEE Transaction of Education 1.221 0.95 1.021 1.157 0.822 1.4

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IETE Technical Review

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high quality, competency based technical education in Engineering and Technology to the younger generation with the required skills and abilities to face the challenging needs of the industry around the globe. The college has developed excellent facilities and resources such as spacious classrooms, smart rooms, seminar halls, well-equipped laboratories, well-

stocked libraries, dedicated high speed Wi-Fi connectivity and well-qualified faculty. Moreover, this institution is also striving hard to attain an unique status in the national and international level by means of infrastructure, state-of-the-art computer facilities and techniques.

A new Professional Activity Centre (PAC) of IETE & an IETE Student Forum(ISF) was inaugurated on Oct 18, 2014 at Sree Narayana Institute of Technology, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, in coordination with IETE Thiruvananthapuram Centre by Shri C K Haridas, Governing Council Member, Chairman Alumni Affairs and Co-Chairman BoE while the ISF was inaugurated by Dr V N

Rajasekharan Pillai, Executive Vice President & Principal Secretary, Science & Technology, Govt of Kerala and Former Chairman, UGC, former VC, IGNOU and DFIETE. During this function two Departmental Associations were inaugurated, one of ECE by Prof POJ Lebba, Gen Secy, Muslim Educational Society and Former Principal, TKM College of Engg, Kerala and the other of EEE by Dr M Jayaraju, Principal, MES Instt of Technology & Mgmt, Chathannor, Kerala. The key speakers on the occasion included: Dr Albert Sing, AGM, BSNL, on "5G" and Shri Sreekanta Kumar, Former Project Manager, Infosys and Technical & Process Consultant presented Seminar on "Cloud Computing Technology". The other notable members present were: Shri S Girish Kumar, VC, IETE, Trivandrum Centre; Shri R P Nair, Head,

PAC

Dignitaries inaugurating the PAC & ISF of IETE at Sree Narayana Institute of Technology, Pathanamthitta, Kerala

Comm Div, VSSC and Former Chairman and ExeCom Member, IETE Trivandrum, and Dr K Gopakumar, HoD ECE, TKM College of Engg and ExeCom Member. The function was conducted in a befitting manner. Faculties and students took a lot of effort for its successful conduct. It was given wide coverage in Kerala leading newspapers.

Subject Date Venue Contact

th19 Sir C V Raman Memorial Lecture andIRSI Award Ceremony Chairman, IETE Bangalore Centre, & Convenor, IRSI

Awards Committee , Bellary Road, Gandhinagar, Bangalore – 560 039(Mob) : 09449048858, Ph : 080-23331133E-mail: pande_dc@hotmail.com ; Bangalore@iete.org

th6 Royal Conferences for Knowledge 26-28 Mar 2015 Thrissur, Sreehari V K - 09946134452Sharing 2015 (ROCKS 2015) Kerala Arunvinodh C – 09746885517• International Conference on Instrumentation, E-mail: rocks@royalcet.in

Control and Automation• International Conference on Emerging Trends

in Scientific Computing & Security Systems• International Conference on Emerging Trends in

Communication, Signal Processing andMachine Vision

• International Conference on Power,Energy and Control Systems

28 Feb 2015 Bangalore Dr D C Pande

Calender of Events

Impact Factor (IF) journals. He together with Irving H Sher, proposed IF in 1955 to rank the journals according to the Journal citation.

- It is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article"in a journal has been cited in a particular year or period. - The impact factor of a journal is calculated by diving the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal

during the previous two years.- Let us assume that the total number of articles published in a journal in 2012 and 2013 are 50 (denominator) and in 2014, the citation to everything

published in 2012 and 2013 is 500 (Numerator). The IF of that journal will be 10 in 2015.- Impact Factor is calculated after 3 years of journal launch. New Journals should not be expected to have IF from day one. - Thomson Reuters, ISI releases Journal Citation reports every 2 years and publishes IF of every journal. - Impact Factor, once assigned by Thomson Reuters to a journal, will be eligible from the date of its birth. – Courtesy InternetWe are happy to share with our members the 2013 Impact Factors of IETE JournalsThe Impact Factor of IETE Journal of Research- 0.189The Impact Factor of IETE Technical Review - 0.925

Impact Factor was developed by Eugene Garfield as a quantitative method for comparing the

Comparison of IETE Journals with few IEEE Journals

Journals 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 1.948 1.667 1.374 1.031 1.3 1.312

IEEE Antennas And Propagation Magazine 1.152 1.18 0.968 0.855 1.193 1.312

0.189 - 0.2 0.076 0.132 -

0.925 0.705 0.724 0.37 0.075 -

IEEE Communications Magazine 4.46 3.661 3.785 2.837 2.446 2.799

IEEE Spectrum 0.936 1.322 1.139 0.858 1.176 1.164

IEEE Transaction of Education 1.221 0.95 1.021 1.157 0.822 1.4

IETE Journal of Research

IETE Technical Review

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