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SPIE Chapter Report

2012-13

Govindpuri, Kalkaji

New Delhi-110019

http://andcollege.du.ac.in

Acharya Narendra Dev College

June 2013

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Description Page Number

President’s Word 3

Present Members 4

Chapter Council 8

Chapter Activities 9

Publications 30

Financial Information 31

Planned Activities for the Future 32

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President’s Word

It is a big honor for me as we collectively submit our third continuous annual report of SPIE

Chapter, University Of Delhi at Acharya Narendra Dev College for the academic year 2012-13.

It has been a very delightful journey so far as the president of the ANDC SPIE Chapter. This is

the 3rd

year of our SPIE Chapter and our family has now grown multifold with around 100 active

student members from three different colleges of University Of Delhi belonging to various

disciplines.

This year we went to fourteen different schools to promote optics and photonics under the Optics

Outreach Programme of SPIE for junior level students by conducting experiments in ray optics

and fiber optics for senior level students with the help of kits completely developed by our SPIE

Student members.

Each student member took remarkable interest in each activity of the outreach programme and

their enthusiasm was highly commendable. The whole outreach programme was chained with

the main event of this year ‘Optics Fair’ in which all these fourteen schools participated. Each

school came up with their junior and senior level working projects based on optics.

It was a real pleasure to see the innovation and the joy amongst the students as well as their

teachers.

It is always nice to see student’s enthusiasm about learning new things and that is what exactly

happened in our workshop on LabVIEW.

The Workshop on LabVIEW proved out to be a really fascinating and joyful experience for

every one of us and I really would like thank each and every student member for putting all sheer

efforts in spreading the light amongst the society.

This fast paced development that our chapter witnessed could not have been possible without the

tireless efforts by our faculty advisor Dr. Amit Garg. It was his sheer hard work whose fruits we

all are still savoring.

Pravin Kumar Jha

President (2012-13)

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List of Members 2012-13

S.No Name Position

1 Ajay Acharya Student

2 Mohd Aiman Ali Raza Student

3 Anuj Anand Student

4 Pratibha Arya Student

5 Md. Zafar Azam Student

6 Sandal Azhar Student

7 Hrishabh Bharadwaj Student

8 Harsh Bisen Student

9 Rakhi Bisht Student

10 Jatin Butta Student

11 Juhi Chandra Student

12 Amaresh Chaturvedi Student

13 Dashrath Chaudhary Student

14 Suraj Chaudhary Student

15 Manju Chauhan Student

16 Rohit Diwakar Student

17 Dhruv Dosad Student

18 Mayank Dubey Student

19 Subhajit Dutta Student

20 Johny Goyal Student

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21 Mona Grover Student

22 Hemraj Gupta Student

23 Priya Gupta Student

24 Dikshant Hans Student

25 Gaurav Jangir Student

26 Dhirender Jha Student

27 Ankit Joshi Student

28 Kapil Joshi Student

29 Priyanka Kachru Student

30 Sunil Kamboj Student

31 Kunal Karn Student

32 Priya Kashyap Student

33 Monica Kataria Student

34 Sajid Khan Student

35 Devendra Kheralia Student

36 Kamal Kishore Student

37 Bhavesh Kumar Student

38 Chandan Kumar Student

39 Deepak Kumar Student

40 Durgesh Kumar Student

41 Gaurav Kumar Student

42 Pradeep Kumar Student

43 Rahul Kumar Student

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44 Neha Kumari Student

45 Poornima Kumari Student

46 Ramesh Maithil Student

47 Rajkumar Mikado Student

48 Ankita Negi Student

49 Rakesh Negi Student

50 Anurag Pandey Student

51 Rishi Pandey Student

52 Ananya Paul Student

53 Yadav Pawan Student

54 Priyank Prasad Student

55 Mishra Prince Student

56 Naman Punetha Student

57 Prabhav Pushkar Student

58 Deepti Raghav Student

59 Lakshika Raheja Student

60 Arzoo Rathi Student

61 Srijan Sagar Student

62 Manish Sahni Student

63 Jitendra Saraswat Student

64 Pulkit Saxena Student

65 Abhilasha Sharma Student

66 Angad Sharma Student

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67 Bhawna Sharma Student

68 Deepak Sharma Student

69 Raj Sharma Student

70 Satpal Sharma Student

71 Sahil Shrivastava Student

72 Vijay Shriwastava Student

73 Mritaunjay Singh Student

74 Prithvi Singh Student

75 Ravinder Singh Student

76 Rohit Singh Student

77 Shagolsem Singh Student

78 Shatakshi Singh Student

79 Sonal Singh Student

80 Priyanka Srivastava Student

81 Vivek Trivedi Student

82 Divya Vasal Student

83 Karishma Vashishtha Student

84 Amit Verma Student

85 Inderjeet Verma Student

86 Saumya Verma Student

87 Krishna Yadav Student

88 Ranjeet Yadav Student

89 Sandeep Yadav Student

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Chapter Council

President – Pravin Kumar Vice president- Karishma Vashishtha

General Secretary – Mayank Dubey Treasurer- Rajender Kumar

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Amit Garg

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CHAPTER

ACTIVITIES

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PROMOTIONAL POSTER DURING ANTARDHWANI 2013- A

MULTIDIMENSIONAL CULTURAL FESTIVAL ORGANIZED BY

UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

University of Delhi organized a multi dimensional cultural festival from February 22-24, 2013.

As part of this festival, University had floated Awards for Good Practices for colleges. Acharya

Narendra Dev College competed for this award under Beyond the Classroom theme and put up

its exhibit during this mega affair. The event saw a Footing of around fifty thousand. The college

exhibit highlighted the SPIE Student Chapter under Opportunity For Research Category. Fiber

Optics Kit developed by SPIE Chapter students along with posters, annual reports and DVD of

Optics fair were showcased. The academic community came to know about the various activities

conducted by the chapter and appreciated the efforts in promotion of optics and photonics.

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WORKSHOP ON LabVIEW and Data Acquisition

05 and 06th

October 2012

University of Delhi at ANDC SPIE student chapter organized a two day workshop on

‘LabVIEW and Data Acquisition’ on 05th

and 06th

October, 2012. The workshop was attended

by 50 students (Physics, Electronics and Physical Science with Electronics Department).

Special Attention was paid to Virtual Instrumentation and LabVIEW environment. Students were

made aware of various elements of LabVIEW programs and advanced data flow. They were also

taught how to develop graphical interface in LabVIEW.

There were specific LabVIEW case studies through which students learnt large program

development and data acquisition with special emphasis on interfacing of Optics based

experiments.

Ms. Reena Sharma (Ex-teacher of Acharya Narendra Dev College and also a member of SPIE)

along with Dr. Amit Garg (SPIE faculty advisor) helped in smooth conduct of the workshop and

assisted the students at every place so that each and every topic becomes crystal clear in every

attendees mind.

SCHEDULE

Topics covered:

1. Virtual Instrumentation and LabVIEW

2. LabVIEW environment

3. Elements of LabVIEW Programs

4. Presenting Results in LabVIEW

5. Advanced Data Flow

6. Large Program Development

7. LabVIEW Case Studies

8. Data Acquisition with emphasis on interfacing of Optics based experiments

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The two day workshop was successfully completed with participation of the following students.

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

S.No Name

1 Saumya

2 Dhirendra

3 Pulkit

4 Neha

5 Ananya

6 Mayank

7 Ajay Acharya

8 Rakhi

9 Satpal

10 Prabhav

11 Dikshant

12 Phalguni

13 Zafar Azam

14 Amit Verma

15 Dhruv

16 Kamal Kishore

17 Sandeep Yadav

18 Amita

19 Ranbir

20 Sachin Kumar

21 Seema Vats

22 Srijan Sagar

23 Krishna

24 Chandan

25 Rohit

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S.No Name

26 Ravinder pal

27 Devender Dhawan

28 Kanika sandhu

29 Karishma Vashishtha

30 Mritunjay

31 Ankita

32 Divya

33 Monica

34 Deepak

35 Prithvi

36 Gaurav

37 Priya

38 Ranjeet

39 Dashrath Chaudhary

40 Sahil srivastava

41 Pravin Jha

42 Raj Kesri

43 Shah Alam

44 Manju chauhan

45 Devendre kheralia

46 Deepti raghav

47 Roshan

48 Raj kumar mikado

49 Rakesh negi

50 Rajesh kumar

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PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE WORKSHOP

DAY 1

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DAY 2

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ANDC CHAPTER AWARDED OPTICS EDUCATION

OUTREACH GRANT 2012

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OPTICS OUTREACH PROGRAMME

2012 Education Outreach Grant Recipient

Our student chapter has been selected to be one of the 25 organizations worldwide for SPIE

Education Outreach Grant to promote optics and photonics related education outreach projects.

The chapter received a grant of USD 5000 for this purpose. This grant was used to promote

optics through workshops and model making amongst the school students. The activities under

this grant that have been conducted were in two stages-

Stage-1: Workshops demonstrating various optics concepts and experiments on geometrical

optics, fiber optics, laser based experiments etc. were successfully conducted in the below listed

schools by our SPIE student chapter members in the month of October -December. During these

workshops, students handled the batches of students cumulating upto 140. The workshops were

very much cherished by the school students. Both teachers as well as students were in all praise

for the effort and requested to conduct more such programmes in future.

Stage-II: Optics based model competition was conducted at two levels- Junior (class VI-X) and

Senior Level (Class XI-XII) amongst the schools in which the workshops were organized. Each

school consenting for this programme was provided a grant of Rs. 2000/- to make one optics

based model in each category. 26 high quality models developed by 14 participating schools

were displayed in OPTICS FAIR, perhaps first of its kind in India, organized on 20th

December

2012 at Acharya Narendra Dev College. The models were evaluated by a separate jury of optics

experts for Junior and Senior category. Each participant and the teaching mentor were given

a telescope as a token of appreciation for their effort. Three prizes were awarded in each

category:

Junior Category: First: Rs. 1500/- + Fiber Optics Kit developed by our students

Second: Rs. 1000/- + Fiber Optics Kit developed by our students

Third: Rs. 500/-

Senior Category: First: Rs. 1500/- + Fiber Optics Kit developed by our students

Second: Rs. 1000/- + Fiber Optics Kit developed by our students

Third: Rs. 500/-

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The winners under each category were as under:

Junior Category

1. D.A.V.School,Kailash Hills, East Of Kailash, New Delhi-110065

2. Gyan Bharti School,Saket, New Delhi – 110017

3. Apeejay School ,Plot No. 10 Road No. 42 ,Sainik Vihar Pitampura, ,Delhi – 110034

Senior category

1. The Heritage School ,Sector – 23, Rohini,New Delhi-110085

2. Gyan Bharti School,Saket, New Delhi – 110017

3. K R Mangalam World School, Block S Part II, Greater Kailash ,Near Sanatan Dharma

Mandir ,New Delhi - 110048

List of participating Schools

1. Gyan Bharti School,Saket, New Delhi – 110017

2. Modern School, Barakhamba Road,New Delhi – 110001

3. Modern School ,Poorvi Marg, Vasant Vihar,New Delhi – 110057

4. Birla Vidya Niketan ,Pushpa Vihar, Sector -IV ,New Delhi-110017

5. Montfort School ,Phase I Ashok Vihar ,Delhi – 110052

6. The Heritage School ,Sector – 23, Rohini,New Delhi-110085

7. Apeejay School ,Plot No. 10 Road No. 42 ,Sainik Vihar Pitampura, ,Delhi – 110034

8. Chinmaya Vidyalaya,Vasant Vihar, New Delhi – 57

9. Mount Carmel School, A-21, Opp-Sec-8 R K Puram, Anand Niketan, Delhi - 110021

10. K R Mangalam World School, Block S Part II, Greater Kailash ,Near Sanatan Dharma

Mandir ,New Delhi - 110048

11. Venkateshwar International School, Sector 10, Dwarka,New Delhi – 110075

12. S.D. Public school, B U Block , Pitampura,Delhi

13. D.A.V.School,Kailash Hills, East Of Kailash,New Delhi-110065

14. Indraprastha Convent Senior Secondary School, Begumpur, Opposite Rohini Sector -22,

Delhi-110086

The mentor for the whole activity was Dr. Amit Garg, faculty Adviser, SPIE Student Chapter.

Our chapter members accomplished this mammoth task of demonstrating optics and related

experimental kits in fourteen different schools of Delhi. Since our chapter had around hundred

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active chapter members thus they all were divided in various teams with a group leader for each

group.

These groups conducted their separate meetings and designed a framework for presenting the

experiments in the most efficient manner.

In this way our chapter was able to make its presence felt across Delhi and was also able to

successfully promote optics at school level.

The way our members gave their presentations, created an everlasting effect on the young minds

and made them aware of research possibilities in the future. These presentations also gave

students an insight about SPIE, its functioning, mechanism and role in development optics and

photonics.

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DEMONSTRATION OF RAY OPTICS KIT

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DEMONSTRATION OF FIBRE OPTICS KIT

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OPTICS FAIR INVITATION CARD

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OPTICS FAIR PROMOTIONAL BANNER

OPTICS FAIR PROMOTIONAL POSTER

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OPTICS FAIR

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PARTICIPATION IN SPIE OPTICS+PHOTONICS 2013

Mohd Aiman Ali Raza of B.Sc. Physical Sciences with Electronics Part II has been recommended

under the Officer’s travel grant to attend SPIE Optics + Photonics conference to be held from 24–29

August 2013 at San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA. He will be presenting a

demonstration in Optics Outreach Olympics to be held this year.

PUBLICATIONS

Paper Presentation by Student members

1. Changing students perspective towards Science using sensors and data acquisition

systems, Dhruv Dosad, Prabhav Pushkar, Amit Garg, Reena Sharma, Vishal Dhingra,

International Journal of Electronic and Electrical engineering, Volume 5, Number 2, Page

no. 111-114, 2012

2. Glucose Detection- a biosensing approach, Animesh Kar, Gunjan, Harsh Bishen, Raj

Keshri, Deepak Kumar, Rajender, Durgesh Kumar, Kapil Joshi, Dikshant hans, Rajesh

Choudhary, Arijit Chowdhuri, Amit Garg , National Conference On Redefining Science

Teaching: Future of Education, 7-9th March, 2013, University of Delhi, South Campus,

New Delhi – 110 021

3. Mobile Phone as a real time sensor based undergraduate laboratory, Amit Verma, Dhruv

Dosad, Hemant Adhikari, Rakhi Bisht, Prabhav Pushkar, Kamal Kishore, Sandeep

Yadav, Sachin Kumar, Rambir, Amita, Amit Garg, Vishal Dhingra , Pankaj Khanna,

National Conference On Redefining Science Teaching: Future of Education, 7-9th

March, 2013, University of Delhi, South Campus,New Delhi – 110 021

4. Automating Physical Chemistry Laboratory using sensors and data acquisition sytems,

Rambir, Sachin Kumar, Amita, Pankaj Khanna, Amit Garg , Vishal DhingraCRSSI, BHU

15th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (NSC-15), 1st -3rd February 2013,

Banaras Hindu University

5. Integrating Electronics in transforming Chemistry laboratory an enthralling experience

for students, Sachin Kumar, Rambir, Amita, Pankaj Khanna, Amit Garg, Vishal Dhingra,

Academic Congress: Enabling the Young: Redefining Education, September 6 - 7, 2012,

University of Delhi

6. Initiatives taken by undergraduates in promoting science at the school level, Phalguni

Mathur, Parveen Kumar Jha, Pratik Chakravarty, Kanika Sandhu, Amit Garg, Vishal

Dhingra,Academic Congress: Enabling the Young: Redefining Education, September 6 -

7, 2012, University of Delhi

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SPIE Optics + Photonics, Sandiego, USA

1. Phalguni Mathur of B.Sc(H) Physics Part III attended Optical Engineering + Applications

( SPIE Optics + Photonics) conference held from 12-16 August 2012 at San Diego

Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA. She presented a paper on Development

of low cost optical fiber kit to promote Fiber-Optics at the school level in the conference

and participated in Optics Outreach Olympiad.

Financial Statement (2012-13)

S.No Activity Withdrawn Deposited Balance

1. Opening Balance -2770/-

2. Grant received 66064/-

3. Optics Fair -14247

4. Fiber Optics Kit

Development(committed)

23000/-

5. Workshop on ZnO films

Characterization and its

optical applications

(committed)

30000/-

Closing Balance -3953/-

Council Meetings

We held Council meetings almost every month to discuss and plan various chapter activities for

optics promotion. Many full chapter meetings were held to make the students aware of the

activities of the chapter and to involve them in participation and organization of the activities.

During these meetings we charted out the various goals of the chapter.

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Proposed Activities with Financial Estimates for the year 2013-14

S.No Activity Estimates Remarks

1. Promotional Material for distribution

to other colleges and departments of

University of Delhi

Rs.3000/- Printing of A3 size

posters highlighting

SPIE, Student

member benefits,

proposed activities of

the Student Chapter,

postage and transport

2. Two Days Workshop on Photonics Rs.50000/- Remuneration to

speakers,

Refreshments, Travel,

Contingencies

3. Visit to industry/research labs

engaged with photonics

Rs.30000/- Travel Expenses+

Food

4. Promoting Photonics in Schools/

colleges through workshops

Rs.15000/- Travel+ refreshment

Total Rs. 98000/-