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2015 PART A - SECTION SUMMARY A.1 Executive Summary

Formation of new subsection: formation of Bhubaneswar Subsection has been approved.

Formation of new chapter: formation of Solid State Circuit Chapter has been approved.

ComSoc Kolkata Chapter is the winner of the 2015 Chapter Achievement Award, Asia Pacific Region

PES Kolkata Chapter got the High Performance Chapter Award for 2014.

Prof. Sanghamitra Bandopadhyay has been appointed as Director of ISI .

Prof. Debatosh Guha has been appointed as HAL Chair Professor of IIT, Kharagpur.

Prof. Sivaji Chakravorti has been appointed as Director of NIT Kalikat.

Prof. Sanghamitra Bandopadhyay, has been elevated to Fellow of IEEE

Ex chair of IEEE Kolkata Section Prof. Debatosh Guha has been elected as a Fellow of ‘The National

Academy of Sciences, India’.

IEEE member Prof. Rabindra Kishore Mishra has received INSA Teacher Award 2015

Prof. Amitava Chatterjee has been recognized as “Best Performing Associate Editor for 2015” by IEEE

Sensors Journal

IEEE Kolkata Section this year introduced “ Early Membership Renewal Award”

Convolution-2015 – a student programme was organized by the students of Electrical Engineering

Department, JU. The Programme was sponsored by IAS, PES, CSS-IMS & DEIS Chapters. IEEE India Strategic Iniitiative – Entrepreneurship Programme & Internship Programme , was

arranged in “Dr. Triguna Sen Memorial Auditorium “ of Jadavpur University, Kolkata on, 29th October

2015. 5-Day Workshop on Emerging Trends in Wireless Communications and Networking Organized by

IEEE Communication Society, Kolkata Section during 17-21 November, 2015 at the Department of

ETCE, Jadavpur University: "Technological Innovation Award for Students 2015" : To recognize B.E / B.Tech and M.E / M.Tech

/ MS student projects / theses which address an important social and technological problem or have the

potential to impact on national/ international need by advancing technology for humanity, IEEE Kolkata

Section introduced this award this year. (ReTIS-15) IEEE Computer Chapter, Kolkata Section jointly with IEEE Young Professional (formerly

GOLD) Affinity Group, Kolkata Section, CMATER and SRUVM Project, CSE Dept., Jadavpur University, and Computer Jagat, Kolkata has organized IEEE 2nd International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Systems (ReTIS-15) at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, during 9-11 July 2015.

(ICRCICN 2015) ‘International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks ‘ was organized by IEEE YP AG Kolkata Chapter, from November 20 - 22,

2015 Workshop on “Circuit Building” was organized by IEEE, WIE and EDS Calcutta chapter held

jointly on 31.03.2015 at CAS building, University of Calcutta, Raja Bazar Campus, for high/middle

school students of Brahmo Balika Shikshaloy, Kolkata.


“IEEE Authorship Workshop - 2015” : was organized on 15-Feb-2015 at New Guest House

Auditorium, NIT Silchar, INDIA

A.2 Financial Report

Opening Balance: Rs. 32,67,765.59

Income: Rs. 35,19,828.00 Expenses: Rs. 32,85,638.27

Closing Balance: Rs. 35,01,955.32

A.3 List of Section Officer and Executive Committee Members

Chandan K Sarkar Chairman Sujit K Biswas Chairman-Elect Bhaskar Gupta Vice-Chairman

Suparna Kar Chowdhury Secretary Sayan Chatterjee Treasurer Rana Dattagupta Member

Mita Nasipuri Member Iti Saha Misra Member

Sanjay Kar Chowdhury Member Amitava Chatterjee Member

Gargi Keeni Member Saibal Chatterjee Member

A. K. Sen Member Jamuna K Sing Member Debangshu Dey Member

Jawad Y. Siddique Member Rajarshi Gupta Member Poulomi Gupta Member

Immediate Past Chair Debatosh Guha AP-MTTS Chapter Elected

Official Jawad Y. Siddique

CAS Chapter Elected Official Salil K Sanyal CIS Chapter Elected Official Sanghamitra

Bandopadhyay Computer Chapter Elected

Official Mita Nasipuri

COMSOC Chapter Elected Official

Iti Saha Misra

DEIS Chapter Elected Official Sivaji Chakravorti EDS Chapter Elected Official Soumya Pandit

GRSS Chapter Elected Official Animesh Maitra IAS Chapter Elected Official Mainak Sengupta PES Chapter Elected Official Suparna Kar Chowdhury Photonics Chapter Elected

Official Nikhil Ranjan Das

YP Affinity Group Elected Official

Nibaran Das

WIE Affinity Group Elected Official

Manidipa Roy


CSS-IMS joint chapter Dipankar Sanyal

PART B - ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES

B.1 Membership Development Programs Total Member: 2508

Total Member: 2384

Effort in Membership Development:

Recognising efforts of members in rendering services as a dedicated volunteer,

recruiting new members as well as retention of existing members by awarding citations

& personalized plaques. This Year Kolkata Section has recognised the efforts made by

its members by awarding personalized plaque.

The best volunteer award was given to Nibaran Das

IEEE Kolkata Section felicitated Prof. Sanghamitra Bandopadhyay for being elected

Fellow of IEEE

IEEE Kolkata Section felicitated Prof. Debatosh Guha for being elected Fellow of “The

National Academy of Sciences, India”

Membership Drive was organised on September 21, 2015 at West Bengal University of

Technology, Salt Lake, West Bengal, India by IEEE Kolkata Section. SAC Dr.

Debangshu Dey gave lecture on “Benefits of IEEE Membership”

From 2015, awards are given to 3 general members and three student members who

renewed membership within 30th November. The awardees were selected through lucky

draw. The winner of “Early Membership Renewal Award of IEEE Kolkata Section” for

2015 are:

Category Sl. No.

Name Membership No.

Student member / Graduate Student

Member / Associate Member / Affiliate

1. Santosh Kumar Wupadrasta 93701295

2. Santosh Kumar Mahto 92896176

3. Subarni Pradhan 93646119

Member / Senior Member / Fellow / Life Member / Life

Senior Member / Life

1. Nirjhar Bar 91203540

2. Anjan K. Ghosh 07527666

3. Chiranjeev Kumar 85028332


Fellow

Evidence of retention of members:

Each default member is contacted through email / mobile phone and persuaded to

renew his / her membership.

B.2 Chapter Activities Total Active Chapters: 12

APMTT Seminar and Workshop:

“National Workshop on Microwave Engineering & Applications (MEA-2015) organized by IEEE

AP-MTT Chapter Kolkata Section in association with B C Roy Engineering College Durgapur

on 14th-15th March, 2015

National workshop on "Recent Advances in Microwave and Antenna Technology"(RAMAT-

2015) was organized by ECE department of Netaji Subash Engineering College (NSEC) in

association with IEEE AP/MTT Kolkata Chapter on April 9-11, 2015.

National Workshop titled “Generation of Antenna Research and GTLM (GARG)” organized by

IEEEAP-MTT Chapter, Kolkata Section at CRNN, CU on 7th – 8th May, 2015 to felicitate Prof.

Ramesh Garg. Prof. Garg delivered a tutorial on Characteristic Modes

National Workshop titled “DRA RESEARCH: An Experience Over the Last Decade” organized

by IEEEAP-MTT Chapter, Kolkata Section at CRNN, CU on 15th May, 2015.

National workshop titled “Innovation in Dielectric Resonator Antenna” was organized by KIIT

University Bhubaneswar, Odisha and IEEE AP-MTT Chapter, Kolkata Section on 4th – 5th

July, 2015.

Indian Antenna Week (IAW 2015) held at Ajmer in Rajasthan, India during 30 May 2015 to 03

June 2015 organized by the Department of Electronics Instrumentation & Control Engineering,

Government Engineering College, Ajmer, Rajasthan

Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC 2015) held during December 18-21, 2015 at

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG),

Educational Activity:

lecture meeting on 18th March organized by AP-MTT Chapter along with Photonics Chapter,

IEEE Kolkata Section at Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, CU

lecture meeting was organized by the chapter on 24th March at Dept. of ETCE, JU

Lecture meeting was also organized by the AP-MTT Kolkata Chapterin association with

Department of ECE, Netaji Subhash Engineering College on 15th July, 2015

Lecture meeting was organized by the AP-MTT Chapter on Surface Integrated Waveguide at

the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta on 16th October.

DL Programme:


Distinguished Lecture Program was organized by IEEE AP-MTT Chapter, at Institute of Radio

Physics and Electronics, CU on 7th April, 2015. The speaker Prof. Sembiam R.

RengarajanProfessor, Department of ECE,California State University

IEEE APS Distinguished Lecture Program was organized by IEEE AP-MTT Chapter, Kolkata

Section in association with IEEE Kharagpur section at IIT, Kharagpur on 24th September at the

IIT Kharagpur premises. The lecture was delivered by the AP-S Distinguished Lecturer, Dr.

Sudhakar Rao from Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, USA.

Sight Project: AP/MTT Chapter was complemented by the AP Society with two special projects on SIGHT

(Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology).

The chapter organized a SIGHT Panel Discussion in conjunction with CODEC 2015 on

December 16, 2015,atSwissotel, Kolkata,

Another AP-S SIGHT event which included Amateur Radio Session, Demo & Training

Session was organized by IEEE AP/MTT Chapter in association with IEEE Student Branch

IIT Guwahati during December 18-21, 2015 at IIT Guwahati, Assam, India in conjunction

with AEMC 2015.

The Chapter was associated with DST sponsored faculty development program organized by the

National Institute of NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SILCHAR, Silchar, Assam on

“RECENT TRENDS IN MICROWAVE & ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY” from May 18-22, 2015.

Technology, Silchar.

CAS

Collaborative Activities: The CAS Chapter extended collaborative hands to

Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering of Pailan College of Management

& Technology in organizing the National Seminar on “Modern Trends in Electrical &

Electronics Engineering – Electro 2015” on August 28

Networking Activity: The most important activity carried out by the Chapter is the

organization of the Networking Meeting between the CAS Chapters of IEEE

Singapore Section and IEEE Kolkata Section. This type of meeting had been

organized in Kolkata for the first time and was very unique in nature. This meeting

was held on Thursday November 05, 2015 from 11AM onwards at the Department of

Electronics and Communication Engineering, Narula Institute of Technology (NIT),

Agarpara, Kolkata – 700109. Arranged Lecture meeting on 07 January 2015 at VECC, Salt Lake

Arranged Lecture meeting on 13 January 2015 at ETCE Dept J.U.

Arranged Lecture meeting on 10 February 2015 at ETCE Dept J.U.

Arranged Lecture meeting on 22 June 2015 at ETCE Dept J.U.

Arranged Lecture meeting on 28 August 2015 at EEE Dept. PCMT

Arranged Lecture meeting on 5th November 2015 at ECE Dept NIT

Arranged Lecture meeting on 9th November 2015 at VECC Salt Lake.

COMPUTER

(ReTIS-15) IEEE Computer Chapter, Kolkata Section jointly with IEEE Young

Professional (formerly GOLD) Affinity Group, Kolkata Section, CMATER and SRUVM


Project, CSE Dept., Jadavpur University, and Computer Jagat, Kolkata has organized

IEEE 2nd International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Systems (ReTIS-15) at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, during 9-11 July 2015.

Computer Chapter of IEEE Kolkata Section organized a workshop on "Big Data

Analytics" on 23rd November at CSE Department, Jadavpur University and eminent

speakers spoke on various issues on Big Data

Arranged Lecture meeting on 06 January 2015 at AmitavaDey Memorial Hall,

Computer Science and Engineering Department, Jadavpur University

Arranged Lecture meeting on 1 April 2015 at Departmental Committee Room, Dept.

of Computer Science &Engineering Department, Jadavpur University

Arranged Lecture meeting on 20 November 2015 at Amitava Dey Memorial Hall,

Computer Science and Engineering Department, Jadavpur University

COMSOC

Dr. Bhumip Khasnabish of ZTE (TX) Inc., delivered a distinguished lecture at Jadavpur

University, Kolkata, India on 28/04/2015. on Smart Body Sensor Object Networking.

Arranged technical Lecture meeting on 08 th July 2015 in ETCE Dept. J.U.

Arranged technical Lecture at the Broadband Wireless Laboratory of ETCE

Department, Jadavpur University on 19June 2015.

Arranged technical Lecture at the Broadband Wireless Laboratory of ETCE

Department, Jadavpur University on 04 Dec 2015.

A seminar program on the topics of Recent Researches on Wireless Communication

was organized by IEEE COMSOC Kolkata Chapter and Department of ECE, Narula

Institute of Technology on 25th July 2015 from 11am to 5 pm.

5-Day Workshop on Emerging Trends in Wireless Communications and Networking

Organized by IEEE Communication Society, Kolkata Section during 17-21 November,

2015 at the Department of ETCE, Jadavpur University. The 5-day workshop also

includes a Research Colloquium for the presentation of research ideas and work by the

young scholars and masters’ students.

There were special Industry participation programs for the post graduate and PhD

research scholars in the Broadband Wireless Communication Laboratory of ETCE

Department, Jadavpur University. The main purpose of the program was to involve

industry personnel for hand on training in the specific field of research interest and that

to handle the high end equipments needed for the research. This year there were two

programme:

one at Sep 21 and 22 where Mr. Ankur Tyagi of Eigen Technology participated

in a training program on Sensor Network.

Another was on October 5 and 10, 2015 where Scientech Technology

personnel were involved for the training of Software Defined Radio on wireless

system.

CSS-IMS

Seminar and Workshop:


o Workshop on “Instruments and Measurements _ the road Ahead” was organized on

21st April 2015 at Jadavpur University

Workshop on “ Recent Advances in Control and Instrumentation” was organized on

21 August 2015 at B.P Poddar Institute of Management and Technology.

Cosponsored National Seminar on “Integrated Power Transmission Systems”, organized by Dept. of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta, on 7th February 2015 at

Prof. N.K. Bose Memorial Hall Rasbehari Sikshaprangan, 92, APC Road, Kolkata

700009

Cosponsored seminar on “Recent Trends in Biomedical Instrumentation, Signal and

Image Processing”, on 7th February 2015, at Bengal Institute of Technology and

Management.

Educational Axctivity:

Arranged lecture meeting on 28th February 2015 at MCKV Institute of Technology

Arranged lecture meeting on 12th March 2015 at MCKV Institute of Technology

Arranged lecture meeting on 9th November 2015 in the seminar room of E. E. Dept. of

J.U.

Student Activity:

Sponsored an event called “THE IMINATION GAME” in Convolution 2015.

CIS


Sponsored “Second International Conference on Information Systems Design and Intelligent

Applications” (INDIA-2015) in University of Kalyani, West Bengal held on January 8-9, 2015:

Sponsored “Fourth International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and

Applications” (FICTA 2015) in National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

held on November 16-18, 2015:

Sponsored “International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and

Communication Networks “ (ICRCICN-2015) at RCC Institute of Information Technology,

Kolkata held on November 20-22, 2015:

Educational Activity: Lecture by Mr. Ayan Acharya, University of Texas, Austin, USA on "Augment and Conquer

Gamma-Poisson Factorization" in Jadavpur University, Kolkata on March 2, 2015.

March 9, 2015: Lecture by Prof. U. B. Desai, IIT Hyderabad on "Cyber Physical Systems and

Internet of Things" in Machine Intelligence Unit Seminar Hall of Indian Statistical Institute,

Kolkata on March 9, 2015:

Lecture by Prof. S. C. Satapathy of ANITS, Visakhapatnam, on "Swarm Intelligence and

Knowledge Discovery" and Dr. V. Bhateja of SRMGPC, Lucknow on "How to Write Research

Papers" in University of Kalyani, Kalyani on March 31, 2015

Lecture by Prof. José Carlos Tiago, University of Evora, Portugal on "The Five Fold Way from

Arts to Mathematics" in Machine Intelligence Unit Seminar Hall of Indian Statistical Institute,

Kolkata on April 6, 2015:


Lecture by Prof. Stephane Ploix, of Grenoble Institute of Technology, Grenoble, France, on

"New Issues in Smart-Homes Related to Computer Sciences" in Indian Statistical Institute,

Kolkata on October 19, 2015.

Lecture by Prof. Paramartha Dutta, Visva-Bharati University, Shantiniketan, India on Quantum

Dot Cellular Automata, in University of Kalyani on December 30, 2015.

Distinguished Lecture: IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Hisao Ishibuchi, FIEEE, Osaka Perfecture University,

Japan on "Evolutionary Many-objective Optimization" was organized in RCC Institute of

Information Technology, Kolkata on November 19, 2015.

DEIS Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bangalore, organized “The IEEE Second

International Conference on Condition Assessment Techniques in Electrical Systems” (IEEE CATCON 2015) on December 10 to 12, 2015, in the CPRI campus, Bangalore, in

collaboration with IEEE DEIS, Kolkata Section and IEEE Bangalore Section. The Conference was

technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS).


Arranged a seminar in the Seminar Hall, Murshidabad College of Engineering and Technology

Berhampore Murshidabad 742102 on 26th February 2015.

Educational Activity:

Arranged lecture meeting on 5th February 2015 in the seminar room of E. E. Dept. of

J.U.

Arranged lecture meeting on 14th March 2015 at Swami Vivekananda Auditorium, Supreme

Knowledge Foundation Group of Institutions, Mankundu, Chandannagar, West Bengal 712139

Student Activity:

Sponsored an event called “CIRCUISTIC” in Convolution 2015.

EDS

In association with IIEST Shibpur organized a technical talk on “Nanoscale Quantum Transport-

Beyond Charge based Nanoelectronics”, on February 12,2015

In association with IIEST Shibpur organized a One-day workshop on ”The Art of Compact

Modeling”, on February 19, 2015

HITK and IEEE EDS Kolkata Chapter jointly organized a technical talk on “VLSI and Embedded

Systems Technology”, at Heritage Institute of Technology on February 6th, 2015.

A lecturer on “Design Challenges for Low Power VLSI Circuits” at AV Hall of Heritage Institute of

Technology on April 17, 2015

Educational Activity: Student members of ED, University of Calcutta Student Branch Chapter

organized an EDC-ETC Program on 31st March 2015. The school named ‘Brahmo Balika

Shikshaloy’ was selected for this program. A total number of 16 projects have been carefully

selected and are demonstrated to the students with the help of the snap circuits. There were 30

participants and two teachers who attended the workshop.

Distinguished Lecture:


DL talks by Prof. Vijay Kumar Arora on "Overview: Trends of Nanotechnology journey" and "Equilibrium carrier statistics" on 6th April 2015, at Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, Kolkata

DL Talks on "Non equilibrium carrier statistics" and "Carbon-The soul of future Nano electronics" by Prof. Vijay Kumar Arora on 7th April 2015 at Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, Kolkata

Activity of EDS Student branch chapter: A Technical Talk on "Tunnel FET" was organized by IEEE EDS Calcutta Chapter in

association with IEEE Calcutta University EDS Student Branch Chapter, IEEE HITK EDS Student Branch Chapter, IEEE KGEC EDS Student Branch Chapter, IEEE MSIT EDS Student Branch Chapter and the Department of ECE, MSIT on August 7, 2015 at the Seminar Hall of MSIT.

A technical talk on "IC Fabrication"Prof. C K Sarkar, was organized by IEEE EDS Calcutta Chapter in association with IEEE MSIT Student Branch, IEEE MSIT EDS Student Branch Chapter and the Department of ECE, MSIT on September 16, 2015 at the Language Lab-II Hall of MSIT.

A technical lecture by Prof. C K Sarkar, Professor of ETCE Department of Jadavpur University, by the Department of ECE, Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, IEEE EDS Kolkata Chapter, IEEE EDS Student Branch Chapter and IEEE HITK EDS Student Branch Chapter on September 30, 2015 at the Seminar Hall of Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology.

A seminar on “Non-Volatile Memory” was organized by the IEEE EDS University of Calcutta Student Branch Chapter ,IEEE Kolkata Section, ED HIT-K, ED KGEC and ED-MSIT. on 28th October, 2015 at IC Design Laboratory, Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta.

A Lecture Session on on “ Non-volatile Memory” took place on 29th October, 2015 at Heritage Institute of Technology., by the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Heritage Institute of Technology in collaboration with IEEE Kolkata Section, IEEE HITK EDS Student Branch Chapter, IEEE EDS Kolkata Chapter, IEEE Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology EDS Student Branch Chapter, IEEE CU EDS Student Branch Chapter and IEEE KGEC EDS Student Branch Chapter

GRSS Organized a discussion on “Communication and Climate Variabilities” on 17 July 2015, at

Surendra Nath College

Organized a discussion on “Retrospect & Prospects of Radio Science and Microelectronics.” on

8 October 2015 at Govt. Engg. College, Kalyani, West Bengal

Arranged lecturer meeting on 30th January , 2015 at A.N.Daw Meeting Room Institute of Radio

Physics and Electronics,

Arranged lecturer meeting on 27th April, 2015 at B. R. Nag Auditorium, Institute of Radio Physics

and Electronics

Arranged lecturer meeting on 22nd May,2015 at A. N. Daw Meeting Room, Institute of Radio

Physics and Electronics.

Arranged lecturer meeting on 9th November 2015 at Seminar Hall, of Meghnad Saha Institute of

Technology

IA Received "Continued performance Outstanding Small Chapter " award.

Educational Activity: Arranged lecture meeting on 21st January, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of the E.E. Dept. of

IIEST

Arranged lecture meeting on 6th February, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of the E.E. Dept. of

IIEST


Arranged lecture meeting on 18th March, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of the E.E. Dept. of

IIEST

Arranged lecture meeting on 11th June, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of the E.E. Dept. of JU

Arranged lecture meeting on 8th July, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of the E.E. Dept. of IIEST

Arranged lecture meeting on 20th August, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of the E.E. Dept. of

IIEST

Arranged lecture meeting on 24th September, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of the E.E. Dept. of

IIEST

Arranged lecture meeting on 16th November, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of the E.E. Dept. of

IIEST Visit by Delegates from IEEE-IAS Head-Quarters: Mr. David B. Durocher (President – IEEE-

IAS) and Dr-Ing. Peter Magyar (Head- Chapter and Membership Development Committee),

visited the IEEE-IAS Kolkata Chapter during 10th and 11th April, 2015.

Distinguished lecture: One distinguished lecture was organized in IIEST, Shibpur on

16/11/2015 . The speaker was Dr. Sang Bin Lee, Professor of Electrical Engg., Korea

University, Seoul, Korea on the topic" Overview of Electrical Diagnostics Techniques for

Medium/High Voltage Industrial Induction Machines".

PES Received High Performance Chapter Award for 2014

Seminar Sponsored by PES:

National Seminar on “Integrated Power Transmission Systems”, organized by Dept. of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta, on 7th February 2015 at Prof. N.K. Bose Memorial Hall Rasbehari Sikshaprangan, 92, APC Road, Kolkata 700009

International Conference on Power, Dielectrics and Energy Management (ICPDEN 2015) was held on January 10-11, 2015 at NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh. The conference was technically sponsored by PES and DEIS chapter of IEEE Kolkata section. There were total 92 participants.

National seminar on “Power System Equipment: Basic Requirements, Protection and Condition Monitoring” on 26th February, 2015, at The Department of Electrical Engineering of MCKV Institute of Engineering

Student Activity:

Sponsored “ALGOMANIAC”, an event ‘Convolution 2015’ organized by Students of the

Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University

Educational Activity: Arranged Technical lecture on Thrusday, April 16, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of Dept. of

Electrical Engg, ,Jadavpur University , Raja S. C. Mallik Road ,Kolkata 700 032.

Arranged Technical Lecture on Monday, April 27, 2015 in the Seminar Hall, Dept. of Electrical Engg, Jadavpur University Raja S. C. Mallik Road ,Kolkata 700 032.

Distinguished Lecture Programme: Two DL programmes were arranged:

1st DL programme on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of Dept. of Electrical

Engg, Jadavpur University ,Raja S. C. Mallik Road ,Kolkata 700 032. 2nd DL Programme December 17, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of Dept. of Electrical Engg,

Jadavpur University Raja S. C. Mallik Road ,Kolkata 700 032.


Professional Activities :

“CARRIER PROSPECTS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS IN THE INDIAN POWER

SECTOR” by Mr. Ravi Chowdhury ,Managing Director , Haldia Energy Ltd. on Friday, July 24, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of Dept. of Electrical Engg, Jadavpur University Raja S. C. Mallik Road ,Kolkata 700 032.

Outreach Activities:

A Lecture Meeting was arranged at Asansol Engineering College on 18th April 2015. A

technical lecture titled "Power Distribution Network - Planning & Performance Measure".was delivered my Mr. Sanjay Kar Chowdhury, Manager, HR, CESC Ltd. Kolkata

PHOTONICS

Arranged lecture meeting on 18st March, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of Institute of Radio

Physics and Electronics

Arranged lecture meeting on 31st March, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of the Institute of Radio

Physics and Electronics

Arranged lecture meeting on 5th June, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of the E.E. Institute of

Radio Physics and Electronics

Arranged lecture meeting on 7th September, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of the Institute of


Arranged lecture meeting on 21st December, 2015 in the Seminar Hall of the Institute of


B.3 Professional and Continuing Education Activities

IEEE Kolkata Section has organized the following lecture meetings on various topics in the year 2014. The

lectures were well attended and organized at different locations with very high degree of interactions among

the members of industry and academia, including students.

a) Technical Lecture

SL. NO.

TITLE OF THE TALK SPEAKER VENUE & DATE

ATTNENDANCEORGANIZING UNIT

1 Benefits of IEEE Membership Dr. Debangshu Dey WBUT on 21/09/2015

36 Section

2 Advancement of Nano MOSFET

Prof. C. K. Sarkar

WBUT on 21/09/2015

36 Section

3 The Evolution of Cellular Mobile Communication'Prof Nabanita Das

WBUT on 21/09/2015

36 Section

4 Novel Multiple Radiating Modes based Null Steering and Beam Peak Steering Antennas

Prof. Satish K. Sharma

B. R. Nag Hall , Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics on 28/12/2015

20 Section

5

Modeling, Electromagnetic Analysis and Particle Accelerator Cavity

Mr. S. Som VECC, Salt Lake on 07 /01/2015

CAS

6. Efficient FPGA Implementation of Interleavers and De-interleavers

Mr. B.K.Upadhyay

ETCE Deptt. JU on 13/01/2015

CAS

7. Testing of Mobile Phone Charger Chip

Mr. S. Sen ETCE Deptt. JU on

CAS


10/02/2015 8. Design of Computational Circuits

using Booth Encoding Technique Ms. A. Mondal ETCE Deptt. JU

on 22/06/2015

CAS

SL. NO.



9. Implementation of some Phase Coded Radar Pulse Compression Waveforms using DSP

Mr. N. Sen ETCE Deptt. JU On 22/06/ 2015

CAS

10. Some aspects of CMOS Static Circuits for VLSI System Design

Dr. S.K.Sanyal EEE Deptt. PCMT on 28/08/2015

CAS

11. Design issues for Micro Electro Mechanical System

Dr. S. Sen EEE Deptt. PCMT on 28/08/2015

CAS

12. High Voltage Insulator Pollution Dr. N. Chatterjee EEE Deptt. PCMT on 28/08/2015

CAS

13 Recent scenario of Power failure in India

Dr. S. Goswami EEE Deptt. PCMT on 28/08/2015

CAS

14 Towards a Smarter World: Opportunities & Challenges

Dr. P. K. Meher ECE Deptt. NIT on 05/11/2015

CAS

15. Efficient Multiple Constant Multiplications

Mr. Lou Xin ECE Deptt. NIT on 05/11/2015

CAS

16. Development of an I/O Controller for Accelerator control

Ms. M. Chatterjee VECC, Salt Lake On 09/11/ 2015

CAS

17 "Augment and Conquer Gamma-Poisson Factorization"Mr. Ayan Acharya, jadavpur University on 02/03/2015

25 CIS

18 "Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things"

Prof. U. B. Desai ISI, Kolkata On 09/03/2015

35 CIS

19 "Swarm Intelligence and Knowledge Discovery"Prof. S. C. Satapathy University of Kalyani on 31/03/2015

75 CIS

20 "How to Write Research Papers" Dr. V. Bhateja University of Kalyani on 31/03/2015

75 CIS

21 "The Five Fold Way from Arts to Mathematics

Prof. José Carlos Tiago ISI, Kolkata On 06/04/2015

25 CIS

22 "New Issues in Smart-Homes Related to Computer Sciences"

Prof. Stephane Ploix ISI, Kolkata On 19/10/2015

25 CIS

23 Quantum Dot Cellular Automata Prof. Paramartha Dutta University of Kalyani on 30/12/2015

30 CIS

24 "Evolutionary Many-objective Optimization

Prof. Hisao Ishibuchi RCC Institute of Information Technolog29/11/2015

CIS

25 Recent Advances on Computational and Optimization Methods for Quadratic Inverse Eigenvalue Problems in Vibration: Iinking Mathematics to Industry

Prof. Biswa Nath Datta

09/11/2015 Seminar of E. E. Dept J.U

69 CSS-IMS

26 Vision Based Autonomus Path Following and Door Detecting Robot

Dr. Amitava Chatterjee

13/03/2015 MCKV Inst. of Techology

64 CSS-IMS

27 Electrical Measurement and Calibration Concept

Ns. Shaila S. Nadgir 21/04/2015 J.U.

117 CSS-IMS

28 Thermography Applications in Science and Engineering

Mr. Anirban Saha 21/04/2015 J.U.

117 CSS-IMS

29 Sliding Mode Control Theory and Experiment with Electro Hydraulic System

Prof. Dipankar Sanyal

21/08/2015 B.P. Poddar Inst. Of Management And Engineering

CSS-IMS

30 Fuzzy VQ Based Compression By Bacterial Foraging Optimization Method

Ms. Nandita Sanyal 21/08/2015 B.P. Poddar Inst. Of Management And Engineering

CSS-IMS

31 Smart Body Sensor Object Networking

Dr. Bhumip Khasnabish

28/04/2015, ETCE Dept.

-- COMSOC


ZTE (TX) Inc., USA J.U. 32 Software Defined Networking, delivered by Mr. Subhedu Bhadra, CISCO CISCO

Research India Head.

08/07/2015 ETCE Dept. J.U.

40 COMSOC

SL. NO.



33 Efficient Routing and Scheduling in Wireless Networks

Dr. Anand Sitaram, California State University, Monterey Bay, USA

08/07/2015 ETCE Dept. J.U.

50 COMSOC

34 HEALTH CARE SYSTEM DESIGN FOR REMOTE MONITORING

Debabrata Paul

19/06/2015 Broadband Wireless Laboratory of ETCE Dept., J. U.

-- COMSOC

35 “Studies of Some Call Admission Control and Packet Scheduling Algorithms for QoS support in Broadband WiMAX Networks”

Mr. PRASUN CHOWDHURY

04/12/2015 Broadband Wireless Laboratory of ETCE Dept., J. U.

-- COMSOC

36 SOME ASPECTS IN EAVLUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM: AN INFORMATION THEORETIC APPROACH.

Prof. Salil Kumar Sanyal, ETCE Department, Jadavpur University

25/07/ 2015, ECE Dept of Narula Institute of Technolog

100 COMSOC

37 Cognitive Radio Networks for VoIP Communication.

Prof. Iti Saha Misra, HoD of ETCE Dept., Jadavpur University


100 COMSOC

38 Low-cost unobtrusive healthcare using Smartphone and wearable sensors along with in house demonstration.

Mr. Anirban Dutta Chowdhury of TCS Innovation Lab


100 COMSOC

39 Analytics Transforming Business Decision

Mr. Prosun Gayen and MrDipojjalGhosh, Wipro

23/11/2015 Amitava Dey Memorial Hall, CSE Dept, JU

COMPUTER

40 Data Science and Analytical Issues in Solving Business Problems – a Conceptual Perspective

Dr. Prasun Das, ISI Kolkata


COMPUTER

41 Big Data in Healthcare Prof. Nandini Mukherjee, Dept. of CSE, JU


COMPUTER

42 Exploiting Wired Backbones for Faster Wireless Networks

Prasun Sinha, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University


COMPUTER

43 Structural Dichotomy Raising Itself in Revolution slowly extinguishing

Prof. Jose Carlos, University of Evora, Evora, Portugal

01/04/2015, Committee Room, CSE Dept, JU

COMPUTER

44 Computing Performance: The N3XT 1,000X

Prof. Subhasish Mitra, Stanford University, USA

20/11/2015, Amitava Dey Memorial Hall, CSE Dept, JU

COMPUTER

45 Grounding Design and Analysis

Dr. Tapan K Manna

05/02/2015 Seminar hall of E.E. Dept. of J.U.

69 DEIS

46 Circuit Breaker and Protection System

Mr. Debabrata Basu 26/02/2015 Seminar Hall, Murshidabad College of 47Engineering and Technology

98 DEIS

47 Energy Efficient Motor, New Standard for Efficiency

Mr. Prabir Chatterjee 26/02/2015 Seminar Hall, Murshidabad College of Engineering and Technology

98 DEIS


48 Smart Phone Based Instrumentation

Dr. Debangshu Dey 14/03/2015 Swami Vivekananda Auditorium, Supreme Knowledge Foundation

253 DEIS

SL. NO.



49 “Nanoscale Quantum Transport-Beyond Charge based Nanoelectronics”,

Prof. Bhaskaran Muralidharan, Dept, of E.E., IIT Bombay.

12/02,2015 IIEST

EDS

50 “The Art of Compact Modeling”,

Prof. Santanu Mahapatra, Dept. of Electronic Systems Engineering, IISc, Bangalore

19/02/2015 IIEST

45 EDS

51 VLSI and Embedded Systems

Dr. Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury, Assistant Professor, Centre for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology, IIIT Hyderabad, India

06/02/2015 Heritage Institute of Technology.

52 EDS

52 "Overview: Trends of Nanotechnology journey"

Prof. Vijay Kumar Arora

06/04/ 2015, at Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology,

35 EDS

53 "Equilibrium carrier statistics" Prof. Vijay Kumar Arora


35 EDS

54 "Non equilibrium carrier statistics" and



75 EDS

55 "Carbon-The soul of future Nano electronics"



75 EDS

56 “Design Challenges for Low Power VLSI Circuits”

Prof. Subir Kumar Sarkar, DL, IEEE EDS and Professor, Department of ETCE,JU

17/04/2015 At Heritage Institute of Technology

105 EDS

57 "Tunnel FET" Prof. Santanu Mahapatra, Associate Professor of Nano Scale Device Research Laboratory, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering (formerly CEDT)

07/08/2015 Seminar Hall of MSIT

66 EDS

58 "IC Fabrication" Prof. Chandan K Sarkar, Dept. of ETCE JU

17/09/2015 Language Lab-II Hall of MSIT.

67 EDS

59 "Nanotechnology" Prof. Chandan K Sarkar, Dept. of ETCE JU

17/09/2015 Language Lab-II Hall of MSIT.

47 EDS

60 “Non-Volatile Memory”. Dr. Writam Banerjee, Institute of Microelectronics of Chinese Academy of science

28/10/2015 IC Design Laboratory, Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, CU

30 EDS

61 “Non-Volatile Memory”. Dr. Writam Banerjee, Institute of Microelectronics of Chinese Academy of science

29/10/2015 Heritage Institute of Technology

77 EDS

62 “Three Switch Cell Soft-switching Resonant Buck Converter for Point-of-load Application”.

Mr. Anindya Ray IIEST 21/01/2015

36 IA

63 “HVDC Design Considerations – A Utility Perspective.”

Dr. Tapan K. Manna, IIEST 06/02/2015

35 IA

64 “DC Voltage Balancing in three- Dr. Sibaprasad IIEST 29 IA


level inverter.” Chakrabarti 18/03/2015 65 “Roles and achievements of the

Power Electronics group of the National Center for Photovoltaic Research and Education, IIT Bombay.”

Prof. Kishore Chatterjee

IIEST 11/06/2015

17 IA

SL. NO.



66 “Development of Earth-Abundant and Low-cost KesteriteCZTSSeThin Film Heterojunction Solar Cells.”

Dr. Sandip Das IIEST 08/07/2015

23 IA

67 “Industrial Automation and Trends.”

Mr. Abhijit Maitra IIEST 20/08/2015

62 IA

68 Power Electronics and Drives in Automobile Engineering.”

Mr. Saikat Subhra Ghosh

IIEST 24/09/2015

29 IA

69 “Overview of Electrical Diagnostics Techniques for Medium/High Voltage Industrial Induction Machines.”

Dr. Sang Bin Lee, IIEST 16/11/2015

42 IA

70 Our Nearest Star - The Dynamic Sun

Dr. Dipankar Banerjee

A N. Daw Meeting Room, Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics on 30/01/2015

35 GRSS

71 Weather and Weather Forecasting Dr. G. C. Debnath B. R. Nag Hall Radio Physics, Rajabazar Science College on 27/04/2015

25 GRSS

72 CDMA system – An IRNSS perspective, (

Dr. Tosicul Wara A N. Daw Meeting Room, Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics on 22/05/2015

25 GRSS

73 Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) Dr. Tosicul Wara A N. Daw Meeting Room, Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics on 22/05/2015

25 GRSS

74 J. C. Bose and Radio Science in India.”

. Prof. Animesh Maitra

Surendranath College on 17/07/2015

90 GRSS

75 “Climate Change: Past and Present.”

Prof. Subrata Kumar Midya

Surendranath College on 17/07/2015

90 GRSS

76 Radio Science in India: Some Early and Present Researches at Calcutta University.”

Prof. Animesh Maitra Language Laboratory, Kalyani Govt. Engg. College on 08/10/2015

50 GRSS

77 “Fundamentals of Short Channel Effects in MOSFET and their remedies.”

Dr. Swapnadip De Language Laboratory, Kalyani Govt. Engg. College on 08/10/2015

50 GRSS

78 “Multi-technique Remote Sensing Observations.”

Prof. Animesh Maitra Seminar Hall, Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology on 09/11/2015

75 GRSS

79 “ Risk Management in Power Projects”

Mr. Kingshuk Chakraborty

NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh, 10/01/2015

92 PES

80 “Smart Power Grid in the 21st Century: A Clloborative University-Industry Approach”

Prof. A Kalam NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh, 10/01/2015

92 PES

81 “EVOLUTION FROM MICROGRID TO SMART MICROGRID”

Prof. Arindam Ghosh

Seminar Room of E.E. Dept of J.U., 27/01/2015

33 PES

82 ELECTRICAL INSULATING SYSTEM DESIGN WITH SOLID

Mr. Arijit Basu Roy Seminar Room of E.E. Dept of J.U.,

27 PES


DIELECTRIC : THE BASICS ” 16/04/2015 83 SMART-GRID

COMMUNICATION: QUALITY OF SERVICE”

Prof. Bhumip Khasnabish


29 PES

84 CARRIER PROSPECTS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS IN THE INDIAN POWER SECTOR”

Mr. Ravi Chowdhury Seminar Room of E.E. Dept of J.U., 24/07/2015

54 PES

SL. NO.



85 "Power Distribution Network - Planning & Performance Measure"

Mr Sanjay Kar Chowdhury

Asansol Engineering College on 18/04/2015

45 PES

86 “IMPACT OF HIGH SOLAR PV PENETRATIONS ON DISTRIBUTION NETWORK AND SOLAR PV RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA”

Prof. Tapan Kumar Saha,


15 PES

87 Grand Challenges for Engineers”: Dr. S. K. Mitra,

18.03.2015 Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics

12 PS

88 “Mitigation Techbiques for High data rate Free Space Optical Communications in presence of atmospheric turbulence”

Arun Kr. Majumder, 31.03.2015 Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics

23 PS

89 Generation of High Power THz Pulse using LiNbO3 crystal and its applications”

Mukesh Jewaruya,


13 PS

90 Non linear mechanics of photonics crystal deformable mirrors actuated via electrostatic force

Avishek Choudhury, LPN Laboratory, Paris, France


16 PS

91 Convergence of science and Engineering for water, energy, food and Environment

Dr. S.K.Mitra Associate Vice-President Research Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation York University


29 PS

92 6. Optical fiber sensors and their application

Professor Kenneth Grattan City Universy London, UK


29 PS

93 Research, Publications, and Ph. D. Dr. Debotosh Bhattacharjee

Amitava Dey Memorial Hall, Dept. of CSE, JU 18/02/2015

43 YP

94 ‘Cloud Computing and Big Data’ Prof. (Dr.) Samiran Chattopadhyay, Prof. (Dr.) Jamuna Kanta Sing Mr. Abhishek Nandy

Neotia University Campus, Sarisha, DH Road, South 24 Parganas 42/04/2015

-- YP

95 ‘Computing, Communication and Control’ (NSC3-2015)

Dr. Hemant Kalita Dr. Kandarpa Kr. Sarma Mr. Vaqruddin Surki Mr. William Thangkiew

University of Technology and Management, Shillong 25/04/2015

-- YP

96 Markov Models for Offline Handwriting Recognition

Mr. Samir Malakar Room No-T-3-11, CSE Department, Jadavpur University, 05/10/2015

20 YP

97 Multiple instance learning and its application in bioinformatics

Mr. Dip Ghosh Room No-T-3-11, CSE Department, Jadavpur University, 07/12/2015

38 YP

98 Security Modelling of Software-Defined Networks

Mr. Subhendu Bhadra

Amitava Dey Memorial Hall (ADMH), Dept. of CSE, Jadavpur University, 22/12/2015

37 YP


99 Practitioner Perspective Towards Better Software Construction

Dr. Debasish Jana Amitava Dey Memorial Hall (ADMH), Dept. of CSE, Jadavpur University, 29/12/2015

32 YP

SL. NO.



100 “Grand Challenges for Engineers” Dr. Sanjit K Mitra, 18.03.2015 Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics

77 APMTT

101 , Smart Antennas and Prof. Ali Gharsallah 24/03/2015 ETCE Dept., J.U.

39 APMTT

102 Study and design of a reconfigurable antenna based on EBG structures.

Prof. Lofti Osman 24/03/2015 ETCE Dept., J.U.

39 APMTT

103 Design, Analysis, and Applications of Waveguide-Fed Slot Arrays.

Prof. Sembiam R. Rengarajan


62 APMTT

104 Communicating with Mars Orbiter Mission

B.Pavan Kumar, Sci/Eng ‘SE’, ISRO

15/07/2015 Dept. of ECE, Netaji Subhash Engineering College

- APMTT

105 Antenna Systems for 21st Century Satellite Communication Payloads

Dr. Sudhakar Rao 24/09/2015 at the IIT Kharagpur premises.

- APMTT

106 Surface Integrated Waveguide and its Application for Antennas and Circuits

Prof. Animesh Biswas

16/10/2015 Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics

- APMTT

b) Technical Co-Sponsorship

IEEE Kolkata Section extended technical Co-Sponsorships to the following conferences falling under the

jurisdiction of Kolkata Section.

Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bangalore, organized “The IEEE Second International Conference on Condition Assessment Techniques in Electrical Systems” (IEEE CATCON 2015) on December 10 to 12, 2015, in the CPRI campus, Bangalore, in collaboration with IEEE

DEIS, Kolkata Section and IEEE Bangalore Section. “2015 International Conference on Information Technology” (ICIT), organized by Xavier

Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, on December 21, 2015

“Indo-US International Workshop on Large Scale Complex Network Analysis”, organized by

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata from December 19-20, 2015

“5th Biennial IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference” (AEMC 2015), organized at

Guwahati, from December 18-21 2015

“International Conference on Man and Machine Interface” (MAMI 15) organized by C. V.

Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar from 17th - 19th December, 2015

“2015 3rd International Conference on Image Information Processing” organized by KIIT

University, Bhubaneshwar from November 2-4, 2015

“6th International Conference and Workshop on Computing and Communication” (IEMCON 2015) organized at University of British Columbia , Vancouver, Canada from October 15 -17, 2015

“2015 IEEE Power, Communication, and Information Technology Conference”, organized by

Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar in October 2015


“Future Challenges in Wireless Communication and Signal Processing” organized by Dept.

of & Electronics & Communication Engineering, NIT Meghalaya National Institute of Technology

Meghalaya from 7th to 8th August, 2015

“International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment : Towards Sustainable Growth” (ICEPE) organized by Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, NIT

Meghalaya, Shillong, Meghalaya, India from June 12-13, 2015

“International Symposium on Advanced Computing and Communications” (ISACC 2015) organized by Department of IT, Assam University (A Central University), Silchar in March/April

2015

“international Conference on Advancements of Medical Electronics and its Applications”

organized by Depts of Biomedical Engineering and Electronics & Communication Engineering JIS

College of Engineering, WB from January 29-30, 2015

“International Conference on Electronic Design, Computer Networks and Automated Verification” organized by NIT Mehgalaya, Sillong on January 29, 2015

“Role of Power Electronics & Drives in Modern Engineering Systems”, organized by Abacus

Institute of Engg. And Management from January 20, 2015

“International Conference on Power, Dielectrics and Energy Management ( ICPDEM) 2015

organized by NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh from January 10-11, 2015 “Information System Design and Intelligent Applicationa 2015” (INDIA 2015) organized by

University of Kalyani from January 8-9, 2015

C) Educational Activity

Workshop on “Circuit Building” was organized on 31st March 2015, at Institute Of Radio

Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta by WIE affinity group and EDS chapter. There

were 27 participants and two teachers from Brahmo Balika Shikshaloy, Kolkata who attended

the workshop.

Workshop on “MS Excel & Power Point Presentation” was organized on 15th May 2015, at

Institute Of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta by WIE affinity group. 14

participants attended the workshop.

Workshop on “Basics of Matlab” was organized on 24th July 2015, at Camellia Institute of

Technology, Madhyamgram, West Bengal, by WIE affinity group Workshop on “Fun of Mathematics” was organized on 3rd. October, 2015, at Priyanath H.S.

Girls’ School, Khardah, 24 Pgs. (N), Kolkata-700117, by WIE affinity group. for class VIII and IX

students. There were 67 participants attended the workshop. Sponsored “Workshop on MEMS & SENSORS” organized by NIT Silchar from May 6 - 7,

2015

Sponsored “International Workshop on Nanotechnology Journey from Quantum Physics to Nanoengineering” organized at Meghnad Saha Auditorium, Meghnad Saha Institute of

Technology from April 6-7, 2015

Sponsored Workshop on “Recent Trends in Microwave and Antenna Engineering” organized by Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Techno city, Kolkata from January 19 - 21,

2015

d) Outreach Activities “IEEE Authorship Workshop – 2015” was organized on 15 Feb 2015, at NIT Silchar to offer

background information on academic publishing, how to get published in high impact factor


journals like IEEE Transactions, importance of using proper scientific language in a manuscript,

and research and publishing ethics and plagiarism. A one day workshop on ‘Earthing Practices’ on 20th Nov 2015 was organized at Silicon

Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar

A Lecture Meeting was arranged at Asansol Engineering College on 18th April 2015

on "Power Distribution Network - Planning & Performance Measure", by PES

chapter.

e) Celebration of IEEE Day

This year IEEE Kolkata Section celebrated IEEE Day on 5th. October, 2015, at Men’s Bar Extension of

Calcutta Club. IEEE Day lecture was delivered by Prof. Bhargab Bhattacharyya of Advanced Computing

& Microprocessor Unit (ACMU), ISI Kolkata. Prof Bhattacharyya gave a lively lecture on “Integrated

Circuits: A Journey from Transistors to Intelligent Chips”. All enjoyed the celebration and

requested for similar activities in future also. The lecture was followed by dinner.

f ) Early Membership Renewal Award From 2015, awards are given to 3 general members and three student members who renewed

membership within 30th November. The awardees were selected through lucky draw. The winner of “Early

Membership Renewal Award of IEEE Kolkata Section” for 2015 are:

Category Sl. No. Name Membership No.

Student member /

Graduate Student

Member / Associate

Member / Affiliate

1. Santosh Kumar Wupadrasta 93701295

2. Santosh Kumar Mahto 92896176

3. Subarni Pradhan 93646119

Member / Senior

Member / Fellow / Life

Member / Life Senior

Member / Life Fellow

1. Nirjhar Bar 91203540

2. Anjan K. Ghosh 07527666

3. Chiranjeev Kumar 85028332

e) Technological Innovation Award for Student Members

To recognize B.E / B.Tech and M.E / M.Tech / MS student projects / theses which address an important social and technological problem or have the potential to impact on national/ international need by advancing technology for humanity, IEEE Kolkata Section introduced this award this year.

B.4 Student Activities Number of Active Student Branches: 38 Total Active Student Member: 448 Total Active Graduate Student Member: 563

Technological Innovation Award for Student Members


To recognize B.E / B.Tech and M.E / M.Tech / MS student projects / theses which address an important social

and technological problem or have the potential to impact on national/ international need by advancing

technology for humanity, IEEE Kolkata Section introduced this award this year. The winner were :

Category Discipline Name of Student

Institute

UG Computer Sc. No receipent -- PG Diptesh Majumdar IIT Guwahati UG Electronics &

Telecommunication Chandrayee Sarkar Inst. Of Radio Physics &

Electronics, University of Calcutta

PG Jahnavi Jha Nanascience & Technology, Jadavpur

University UG Electrical No receipent -- PG Utpal Manna IIEST, Sibpur

Active Student Branches activity NIT Silchar

IEEE student branch, NIT Silchar,has organized “IEEE Authorship Workshop – 2015” on 15

Feb 2015 to offer background information on academic publishing, how to get published in high

impact factor journals like IEEE Transactions, importance of using proper scientific language in a manuscript, and research and publishing ethics and plagiarism. Prof. Sivaji Chakravorti, Department of EE, Jadavpur University, West Bengal and Prof. Debatosh Guha, Institute of

Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, Prof. N. Sinha, Prof. B. K.

Roy, and Dr. A. K. Goswami addressed the students.

Jadvpur University

Convolution-2015 – a three day technical meet was organized by the student members of

Electrical Engineering Department, JU. The Programme was sponsored by PES, CSS-IMS &

DEIS Chapters. Students from different engineering colleges in and around Kolkata

participated in the programme.

Silicon Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar

Student branch IEEE of silicon Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar organized a one day

workshop on ‘Earthing Practices’ on 20th Nov 2015. Mr H. Jaykumar former Joint Director

CPRI Bangalore was invited to take two lectures and field demonstration of earth resistance

measurement. The lectures to the post graduate students and faculty members covered the

need for earthing, healthy and faulty practices, safety aspects and methods of improving

equipment earthing. A few measurements were taken in two transformer substations in the

campus and results were analyzed. The exposure was new to the students who took keen

interest

University of Calcutta


A course entitled “Course on Object Oriented Programming (C++ and JAVA)” was organized

by the IEEE Student Branch of University of Calcutta and sponsored by IEEE Kolkata Section.

There were 54 participants from University of Calcutta, including B.Tech. & M.Tech. students,

along with few research scholars, participated in this course. The venue of this course was B.

R. Nag Auditorium, Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta.

BIT Patna IEEE Student Branch BIT Patna successfully organised its 3-day annual technical fest

“ABHIVYAKTI'15” from 30th October to 1st November 2015. The students actively

participated with great zeal and grit in ten different events. Students from different engineering

colleges in and around Kolkata participated in the programme.

Recruitment of student members

Students from all branches have been recruited as Student Member all over the year. Present strength of

Student Member stands at 558 and Graduate Student member 448.

Formation of New Student Branch

Applications for three student branches were submitted this year.

B.5 Affinity Group Activities

Total Affinity Groups: 02

YOUNG PROFESSIONAL- AG

1st International Conference on Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Information

Technology (ICETCSIT 2015) was organized on 5th - 7th January, 2015 in association with The

Department of Information Technology, Kalyani Government Engineering College, Kalyani

IEEE 2nd International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Systems (ReTIS-15) was organized on

9-11 July 2015, jointly by IEEE Computer Chapter, Kolkata Section IEEE Young Professional (formerly

GOLD) Affinity Group, Kolkata Section CMATER and SRUVM Project, CSE Dept., Jadavpur University

and Computer Jagat, Kolkata

2015 IEEE International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and

Communication Networks (ICRCICN-2015) was organized in Indismart Hotel, Salt Lake,

Kolkata, India on November 20 - 22, 2015 Jointly by IEEE Young Professional (formerly GOLD)

Affinity Group, Kolkata Section & Department of Information Technology, RCC Institute of

Information Technology, Kolkata, India

Organized lecture meeting on 18th February, 2015 at Amitava Dey Memorial Hall, Dept. of CSE,

JU

Organized lecture meeting on 24th April, 2015 at Neotia University Campus, Sarisha, DH Road,

South 24 Parganas

Organized lecture meeting on 25th April, 2015 at University of Technology and Management,

Shillong

Organized lecture meeting on 9-11 July, 2015 at Jadavpur University, Kolkata


Organized lecture meeting on 5th October, 2015 at Room No-T-3-11, CSE Department, Jadavpur

University

Organized lecture meeting on 7th December, 2015 at Room No-T-3-11, CSE Department,

Jadavpur University

Organized lecture meeting on 22nd December, 2015 at Amitava Dey Memorial Hall (ADMH),

Dept. of CSE, Jadavpur University

Organized lecture meeting on 29th December, 2015 at Amitava Dey Memorial Hall (ADMH), Dept.

of CSE, Jadavpur University

. WIE-AG

Organized Workshop on “Circuit Building” on 31st March 2015, at Institute Of Radio Physics

and Electronics, University of Calcutta.

Organized Workshop on “MS Excel & Power Point Presentation” on 15th May 2015, at

Institute Of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta.

Organized Workshop on “Basics of Matlab” on 24th July 2015, at Camellia Institute of

Technology, Madhyamgram, West Bengal.

Organized Workshop on “Fun of Mathematics” on 3rd. October, 2015, at Priyanath H.S. Girls’

School, Khardah, 24 Pgs. (N), Kolkata-700117.

Spopnsored 6th International Conference on Computers and Devices for Communication

(CODEC-15), 16 to 17 December 2015, at Swissotel, Kolkata, India.

B.6 Awards & Accolades

PES Received High performance Chapter Award

ComSoc Kolkata Chapter is the winner of the 2015 Chapter Achievement Award, Asis Pacific

Region

Prof. Debatosh Guha, Hal Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, has

been conferred a Fellow of ‘The National Academy of Sciences, India’.

Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Director, Indian Statistical Institute, has been elected as

the Fellow of IEEE in 2015.

Prof. Rabindra Kishore Mishra has received INSA Teacher Award 2015,

B.7 Communication Activities (E-mail,Newsletter, Home Page)

Number of hard print Newsletter: Discontinued Number of electronic Newsletters:

Newsletter for 2015 is going to be published soon.

Section, Chapters and Student Branches Web Pages:

A new look website for IEEE KOLKATA SECTION is active with address -

www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/calcutta

Section and some of the Chapters have websites linked mutually.

All announcements / activities are uploaded in the website regularly.

B.8 Educational Activities


Workshop on “Circuit Building” was organized on 31st March 2015, at Institute Of Radio

Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta by WIE affinity group and EDS chapter. There

were 27 participants and two teachers from Brahmo Balika Shikshaloy, Kolkata who attended

the workshop.

Workshop on “MS Excel & Power Point Presentation” was organized on 15th May 2015, at

Institute Of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta by WIE affinity group. 14

participants attended the workshop.

Workshop on “Basics of Matlab” was organized on 24th July 2015, at Camellia Institute of

Technology, Madhyamgram, West Bengal, by WIE affinity group

Workshop on “Fun of Mathematics” was organized on 3rd. October, 2015, at Priyanath H.S.

Girls’ School, Khardah, 24 Pgs. (N), Kolkata-700117, by WIE affinity group. for class VIII and IX

students. There were 67 participants attended the workshop.

Sponsored “Workshop on MEMS & SENSORS” organized by NIT Silchar from May 6 - 7,

2015 Sponsored “International Workshop on Nanotechnology Journey from Quantum Physics

to Nano engineering” organized at Meghnad Saha Auditorium, Meghnad Saha Institute of

Technology from April 6-7, 2015

Sponsored Workshop on “Recent Trends in Microwave and Antenna Engineering” organized by Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Techno city, Kolkata from January 19 - 21,

2015

.

B.9 Industry Relations IEEE Kolkata Section has a Industry Relation Chair and organizes programmes in collaboration

with the local industries.

There were special Industry participation programs for the post graduate and PhD research

scholars in the Broadband Wireless Communication Laboratory of ETCE Department,

Jadavpur University. This year two programs were organized :

Sep 21 and 22 where Mr. Ankur Tyagi of Eigen Technology participated in a

training program on Sensor Network.

October 5 and 10 , 2015 where Scientech Technology personnel were involved

for the training of Software Defined Radio on wireless system.

B.10 Community Activities

This year IEEE Kolkata Section celebrated IEEE Day on 5th. October, 2015, at Men’s Bar

Extension of Calcutta Club. IEEE Day lecture was delivered by Prof. Bhargab Bhattacharyya of

Advanced Computing & Microprocessor Unit (ACMU), ISI Kolkata. Prof Bhattacharyya gave a

lively lecture on “Integrated Circuits: A Journey from Transistors to Intelligent Chips”.

All enjoyed the celebration and requested for similar activities in future also. The lecture was

followed by dinner.

IEEE Kolkata Section Executive Committee arranged a dinner meeting to felicitate Prof. Sivaji

Chakravorti and Prof. Debatosh Guha on 17th July 2015 at Dakshin Kalikata Sansad (DKS)

Tennis Complex to commemorate their professional achievements.

PART C - OTHERS C.1 Relationship with National Societies


The relationship with National Societies like The Institution of Engineers (India), The Institute of

Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers India, Computer Society of India is cordial. PE

Chapter arranged a lecture meeting with collaboration with The Institution of Engineers (India).

C.2 Special Events

IEEE India Strategic Iniitiative – Entrepreneurship Programme & Internship Programme , was

arranged in “Dr. Triguna Sen Memorial Auditorium “ of Jadavpur University, Kolkata on, 29th

October 2015.

"Technological Innovation Award for Students 2015" : To recognize B.E / B.Tech and M.E / M.Tech / MS student projects / theses which address an

important social and technological problem or have the potential to impact on national/

international need by advancing technology for humanity, IEEE Kolkata Section introduced this

award this year. The final presentation was arranged on 22nd. December 2015 in the seminar

room of Electrical Engineering Department of Jadavpur University.

C.3 Problems to be Anticipated

Non-renewing members – persuasion for timely renewal.

Number of members from industry is low

Student member retention is low and some student branches become inactive - explore

possibility of re-opening of student branch through incentive schemes . However new student

branches are formed and new members are added every year

Involvement of members in section activities not as per expectation

Increased participation of section volunteers in national and international committees

Nominating deserving volunteers of the section for IEEE awards and recognitions

C.4 Best Practices of your Section Active student branches

Active participation of local students in IEEE activities

PART D – GOALS AND PLANS D.1 Goals

Retention of existing members through membership development programs like elevation to Senior

Member grade, recognizing the efforts of active members by awarding them citations or

personalized plaques.

Increasing activities of section by arranging more lecture meetings, not necessarily technical but

also on public affairs, professional activities, educational trips for students to nearby industries.

To spread the message of IEEE within Kolkata Section jurisdiction.

D.2 Implementation Plans

To organize one day program involving all Branch Counsellors from all student branches.


To organize programme involving students and also Student Paper Contest. Student paper contest

was not arranged this year. But "Technological Innovation Award for Students 2015" was organized. Membership development programme was organized in different Institutions.

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