THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS IEEE BANGALORE SECTION SECTION REPORT 2007 SECTION SUMMARY: Executive Summary INDICON 2007 and 16th Annual Symposium INDICON 2007 International Conference and Exhibition was definitely the proud highlight of 2007 for the Section. The conference was organized by the Bangalore Section jointly with India Council. The Conference theme was Advances in Electrical, Electronics, Communication and Information Technology. The Conference including Tutorials and Exhibition was held during Sept. 6-8-2007 at Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore. The Sixteenth Annual Symposium of Bangalore Section was also clubbed with INDICON. The event was a great success. This Conference, campaigned for by the Section Executive Committee had undergone an elaborate planning and action for nearly one year and concluded successfully. The Conference took off well with excellent team work rendered by various Committee Chairs. The Inaugural Function of the Conference was held on September 6 th evening and was a well attended event, with dignitaries, senior IEEE persons including the press and TV media in attendance. The conference was presided over by Dr. P.C.S. Krishnayya, Life Fellow of IEEE, who also released the Souvenir of the Conference Proceedings. The inaugural key note address was delivered by Prof. S. Sadagopan, Director of IIIT, Bangalore.
Dr.S.Sadagopan, in his keynote address emphasized the need for software engineers to understand engineering and work for the growth of technology rather than getting caught in algorithms. He quoted instances of reputed IT companies doing excellent work in the field of energy and promoting innovative engineering work. Dr.P C S Krishnayya in his presidential address highlighted the need of indigenous R&D and urged that the country should spend more on R&D. He appreciated the contribution made by the youth of the country in promoting technology Student Paper Contest were also presented at the Conference and the certificates were given at the inaugural function.
Both Dr.Krishnayya and Dr.Sadagopan explained the noble role played by IEEE in promoting technical awareness. The Conference was well attended by over 175 delegates from all over India. With the wide spread theme of the Conference, INDICON brought in excellent response in terms of paper submissions and tutorial proposals. The Technical Committee led by Dr. M.H. Kori, Director, Alcatel-Lucent handled the onerous job of evaluating the 279 abstracts/papers submitted in the various disciplines within the limited time and selected 102 papers to be presented in three parallel technical sessions spread over 2 days and another 16 papers for poster presentation. Similarly, there were 3 tutorial sessions two of which were also co-sponsored by PES chapter chosen to be held on 6 th Sep 07. Two plenary talks and five invited talks were also arranged during the conference by eminent speakers. There were 6 stalls represented by POWERGRID, CPRI, L&T, PRDC, IETE and IEEE. The first three prize winning papers of M.V. Chauhan Student Paper Contest were also presented at the Conference and the certificates were given at the inaugural function. Financial Report INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 31-12-2007 Expenditure Amount Income Amount AGM Expenses 420,449 By Bank Interest 491608.82 Bank Charges 845.26 Amount received from 591970.0 HQ BRV Vardan 32,000.00 Annual 608487.50 Memorial Awards Symposium/INDICON Execom Meeting 26865.40 Amount received 500000.00 Expenses From ISM Payment to chapters 37771.00 Tutorial Delegate Fees 146516.50 Postage Internet and 34375.0 Amount Received 100000.00 Website Expenses from Computer Society(old) IEEE President/HQ 39872. 00 Officials Visit Expenses Annual 525356.74
Symposium/INDICON Printing and Stationary 2800.00 Professional Fees 20612.00 Student Branch 194140.00 Expenses Tutorial 79159.00 Travel 39346.00 Income Tax 301272.00 Excess of Income over 683718.92 Expenditure Total 2,438,582.82 Total 2,438,582.82 BALANCE SHEET AS ON 31-12-2007 Liabilities Amount(Rs) Assets Amount(Rs) Corpus 20,000.00 Current Assets 525,562.62 Fixed Deposit Canara Bank F.D Current Liabilities 301,272.00 Kalpataru 532,192.00 Provision for Deposit A/C No Taxation 1160 Amount Payable to 1429.00 Corporation R.K.Hegde Bank F.D Advance from 20,000 Karur Vyshya India Council Bank F.D CAPITAL Fund Currency Assets, Loans & Advances A.Ravikiran Opening Balance 6530339.79 Tax Deducted at Source Cash in Hand Add: Excess of 6,83,718.92 Cash at Bank Income over Bank of India Expenditure Canara Bank A/C No 10153 Canara Bank A/C No 3970 2,490,686.26 3,184,884.41 40,000.00 130.0 8,574.37 34,658.65 271,122.76
Corporation Bank A/C No 7286 Corporation Bank A/C No 8569 311,079.35 119,690.76 Total 7,556,759.71 Total 7,556,759.71 ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES Annual General Body Meeting The Annual General Body Meeting (AGM) of IEEE, Bangalore Section for the year 2006 was held on 18 th February 2007 at Hotel Taj West End, Race Course Road, Bangalore. There was an overwhelming response for the AGM with members, several of them attending with their spouse. The total attendance was about 300 which includes Student members also. A handout comprising the Agenda Notes of AGM 2007, Secretary s Report for the year 2007, Treasurer s Report for the year 2007, along with a compliment, were distributed to all the members who attended the meeting. Mr. K. Ramakrishna, Vice-Chair welcomed the participants of the AGM and informed that the Section under the guidance of Mr. A.K. Tripathy, Chair reached new heights during the year. He thanked the Past-Chairs and other senior members for their continued support and guidance. He concluded his talk by extending a warm welcome to the participants. A petition seeking amendment to some of the sections of the Bye- laws, signed by 25 members of the EXECOM was sent to the Secretary of the Section. The AGM went through point-by-point and various opinions were considered. After detailed discussions on these points, the AGM recommended changes to the Byelaws suitably. Election of the Executive Committee Dr. S.Pal, Chair of the Slate Nominations Committee presented the slate for 2007 to the AGM. The other committee members being Prof. Lawrence
Jenkins and Dr. P.V. Ananda Mohan. There were no other nominations by petition received from the members and the members nominated in the Slate were declared elected unanimously by the General Body to the Executive Committee for the year 2007. The EXECOM met for atleast once in a month and the minutes of the meeting were noted, approved in the next EXECOM and kept on record. Total Number of meetings: 16 Office Bearers: 1. Mr. A.K. Tripathy CPRI SM Chairman 2. Mr. K. Ramakrishna POWERGRID SM Vice-Chair 3. Wg. Cdr. H.R. Parthasarathy Ex-C-DOT SM Member 4. Mr. R.K. Hegde CPRI M Treasurer 5. Mr. V.V. Srinivasan ISRO SM Secretary Members: 6. Prof. Anurag Kumar IISc Fellow Member 7. Mr. Hitesh Mehta Eagle Photonics SM Member 8. Mr. A. Ravikiran SIEMENS SM Member 9. Mr. H. Ramakrishna Ex-CRL M Member 10. Dr. T. Srinivas IISc M Member 11. Dr. K.J. Vinoy IISc SM Member 12. Mr. M.M. Babunarayanan CPRI M Member 13. Prof. K. Jayaraman M Member 14. Mr. D. Rajagopal Ex-LRDE M Member
Execom 2007 Membership Statistics At the end of the year 2007, the Bangalore Section s Membership is as follows: Membership Grade Associate Member Affiliate Fellow Life Fellow Life Member Life Senior Member Student Senior Member Total Membership 2006 2007 % Growth 102 145 42 43 52 21 8 9 13 1 1 0 3 5 67 14 19 36 1196 1267 6 1785 2060 15 150 158 5 3300 3716 13 Newly Elected Fellow of IEEE Bangalore Section IEEE Bangalore Section is pleased to announce that Prof. Y. Narahari of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, was elected to the grade of fellow for
contributions to the design of manufacturing systems, supply chain networks, and electronic markets. Senior Member Elevation The following fifteen members were elected to the grade of Senior Member. 1. Pamela Kumar 2. Vinod V Thomas 3. Purnendu Sinha 4. Srinivasan Ramani 5. Lalit Kumar 6. Mahadevan Vaidyanathan 7. Raghu Anantharangachar 8. Vinod John 9. Biswadip Mitra 10. Shirish Shevade 11. Talabattula Srinivas 12. Sridhar Mitta 13. Sridhar Varadarajan 14. C P Jairam 15. Mrinal Das
Professional and Continuing Education Activities Technical Talks 1. Technical talk by Dr. Rajiv K Verma, University of Western Ontario on "FACTS Applications in Integration of Wind Farms with Electric Power Grid" This talk was organized by PES of IEEE Bangalore section in association with the Section and was conducted at CPRI premises on the 3rd January 2007. 2. Ron Brachman, Yahoo Research delivered a talk on 11 January 07 on "Defining the New Sciences of the Internet" at Cokshi Hall, IISc. 3.On the 4th of July 07 a technical talk was arranged on the topic "Wide Area Reliability Management and Visualization Applications" by Vikram S Bhudhraja, LLC. This talk was conducted in association with PES Chapter of IEEE Bangalore Section. 4. IEEE Gold in association with Bangalore Section conducted a talk on "How to bootstrap a startup?" by Mr. S.Karthikeyan, Open Computing Technologies. The event was arranged in the Golden Jubilee Hall at IISc campus. 5. A technical talk A Smarter Grid for Improving System Reliability: Power Quality and Asset Utilization by Dr. Deepak Divan, Georgia Institute of Technology was conducted on the 25 th July 2007. The event was arranged by PES Chapter in association with IEEE Bangalore Section. 6. Dr. Varun Raghunathan of UCLA delivered a technical lecture on Silicon Photonics on the 6 th August 2007 at the Golden Jubilee Hall at IISC Bangalore. 7. Electromagnetic Education and Research at the Rochester Institute of Technology A lecture on the above topic was given by Prof. Jayanthi Venkataraman, Rochester, on the 27 th of August 2007 at the Golden Jubilee Hall, IISc, Bangalore.
8. A technical talk by Prof.Jayanthi Venkataraman, Rochester Institute of Technology on Genetic Algorithm Optimization Applied to Planar and Wire Antennas was arranged on the 27 th August 2007 at Golden Jubilee Hall, IISc, Bangalore. 9. On the 5 th of September 2007 a technical talk Recrawl Scheduling based on Information Longevity was delivered by Prof. Chris Olston, Yahoo at the Golden Jubilee Hall of IISc. 10. At the CPRI premises a technical talk on Embedded Systems by Dr. Mukesh Chadha, Manager, Tata Elxsi was arranged on the 6 th of September 2007. This talk was arranged as part of the INDICON 2007. 11. Activities of Communication Society was delivered by Dr. Nim Cheung, The President of IEEE Com Soc at the Golden Jubilee Hall at IISc Bangalore on the 31 st of October 2007 12. A talk by Dr. Pallab Saha, National University of Singapore on Managing and Governing the IT Portfolio was arranged at the Golden Jubilee Hall of IISC on the 10 th December 2007. 13. Ram M. Narayanan,The Pennsylvania State University talked on Career Opportunities for Higher Studies in Science and Technology in India and Abroad 14. On the 10 th December 2007 at the IETE Hall (cosponsor: IETE, IRSI). 15. A technical talk by Dr. Vijay K Nair, Intel on "Heterogeneous Communication Devices was arranged in the Golden Jubilee Hall of IISC Campus, Bangalore on the 20 th December 2007. Section is actively working with prestigious Indian Institute of Science towards continuing Educational Program. The joint program of section with IISc Bangalore PROFICIENCE completed Silver Jubilee recently.
Recognized Educational Programs Tutorials 1. A one day tutorial on Recent Developments in FACTS Technology was conducted on the 2nd August 2007. The tutorial was given by Kalyan K Sen, Curtiss-Wright Electro Mechanical Corporation and the event was conducted in CPRI. 2. A full day workshop on Converged services and Next generation and Next generation networks: Implementation and Implications was delivered by Dr. Bhumip Khasnabish, DLT, Verizon. The tutorial was held on the 19 th December at Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore. 3 As part of INDICON 2007 the following half-day tutorials were conducted. Power Quality, by Mr. M. Arunachalam, AGM, BHEL, Bangalore. Variable Speed Wind Generators by Prof. V.T.Ranganathan, IISc, Bangalore Students Activities Student Branch Activities Under the Chairmanship of Mr. A. Ravikiran, the Student Activities were carried with regular vigor. Thanks to the good support from other EXECOM members, students and faculty of various colleges the following activities were carried. IEEE Bangalore section has 42 student branches spread around Karnataka state. More than half of these branches are active and conduct activities quite regularly. The target from section for this year was to enable student branches in the same region to come together and organize events. Also the idea is to conduct Bangalore section events where a cluster of student branches are located and not just limit to Bangalore. Both these goals have been achieved with conducting the flagship student activities of section in cities out of Bangalore and get it conducted by branches together.
Bangalore Section Student Leadership Congress ( NITK Surathkal ) BRV Varadan student paper contest ( SJCE Mysore, PESCE Mandya, NIE Mysore) Technical Colloquium ( GIT, Belgaum) Along with these events, Bangalore section supported student branches in regular tasks of 1. Opening student branches 2. Assisting in membership development 3. Providing financial assistance for one event in a year 4. Participation through Technical expert lectures 5. Dignitaries for Branch functions sharing IEEE learning 6. Financial support for Student Branches to attend the All India Student Congress 2007 New Student Branches Approved in 2007 The following Student Branches were started new this year, with few more in the pipeline pending approval. PES College of Engineering, Mandya ( Inaugurated) JSS Academy of Technical Education, Bangalore ( Inaugurated) Sree Sidhartha Institute of Technology (SSIT), Tumkur ( Pending Approval) New Horizon College of Engineering, Bangalore (Approved)
New Initiatives Online community for closer interactions: In order to bring student branches closer to each other, an initiative of online communities was introduced ( ieee_sa_googlegroups) and this has lead to very good results. The institutes are able to share their problems and issues along with best practices and events. This group is also used to broadcast all information from IEEE Bangalore Section to the institutes. Student Leadership workshop Student leadership congress was successfully and grandly conducted at NITK Surathkal on 12-13 October 2007. The congress had a record attendance of over 100 students participating from over 15studentbranches and we had participation from various regions of the state. Bangalore section was represented by Ravikiran A, Student Activities and R.K Hegde, Treasurer. Dr. Sumam David, Branch counselor from NITK Surathkal and Prof. Shanbogh from Canara Engineering College, Mangalore were present through out and actively participated in the congress. The congress was spread over 2 days with an agenda of: Leadership talks from Industry experts ( Infosys, Sun Microsystems, CPRI, Nokia Siemens Networks) Student Branch Tasks and responsibilities ( IEEE Bangalore SAC) Presentations from every Student branch (Successes and Issues) Leadership training on the beach Special thanks to the NITK Surathkal student branch volunteers for conducting the event in a professional way and to all other student branch volunteers who participated very enthusiastically.
Awards BRV Varadan Student Paper Contest This is the annual student paper contest of Bangalore section, this year this event was jointly organized by SJCE Mysore, PESCE Mandya and NIE Mysore on Nov 2 nd 2007 at the conference hall of SJCE Mysore. The event was formally inaugurated by Dr T Srinivas, Prof ECE, IISc Bangalore and IEEE Bangalore Section. He spoke about the need of such IEEE paper presentation competitions and the rules of the paper competition. The first prize was shared by two papers 1. Prasanna K & Preeti R of M S Engineering College, Bangalore Sub: Enhanced MPEG Compression on I Frames 2. Prashanth G Rao & Suhas N of UVCE, Bangalore Sub: An efficient prediction model of diabetes database using data mining techniques The second prize was also shared by two papers 1. Murali G K, Sriharsha G & Supreeth J of UVCE,Bangalore Sub: MANETS for tracking and monitoring coal miners 2. Rukmananda Mallya & Shankar Jadhav of SJCE, Mysore Sub: Implementing independent speaker recognition using Mel- frequency cepstral coefficients and vector quantization VISITS BY EXECOM MEMBERS Region 10 : Mr. A.K. Tripathy, Chair, attended R10 meeting at Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia on 24 th and 25 th March 2007 Mr. A. Ravikiran attended a GIMS meeting of COMSOC in connection with bidding for GLOBECOMM 2011. This meting was conducted in Glasgow, UK during June 24 th and 27 th 2007
E-mail and Newsletter Activities, Home Page Webpage and Electronic Mailing The URL for the section homepage is hyperlink http://www.ieee.org/bangalore and Dr.K.J. Vinoy handled the responsibility of the Webmaster and maintained the website. Major announcements during the conduct of INDICON 2007 was hosted in the website. Additionally announcements pertaining to Tutorials / Technical talks were also announced in the website. The section has been using the website in disseminating information to the members in an effective manner. As normal practice issues of the newsletter are posted on the website. OTHERS 1. Section is working actively with Institution of Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering (IETE India) to organize workshop and International Conferences. 2. Section is also planning to work closely with Institutes of Engineers (India). 3. Section is actively working with prestigious Indian Institute of Science (IISc) towards continuing Educational Program. GOALS AND PLANS 1. Reviving of GOLD activities. 2. To start Women in Engineering (WIE) affinity Groups. 3. To increase the membership from 3716 to 5000. 4. To open 10 new student branch and revive 10 inactive branches.