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IEEE Bangalore Section Report For the Year 2013

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IEEE Bangalore Section Annual Report for the year 2013


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Contents PART A - SECTION SUMMARY ................................................................................................................ 4

A.1 Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................... 4

A.1.1. Section Executive Committee Member List: ..................................................................................... 4

A.1.2. Section Highlights .............................................................................................................................. 4

A.1.3. Major Events (International, National) .............................................................................................. 5

A.1.3.1. IEEE Admission & Advancement Panel meeting: ...................................................................... 5

A.1.3.2. IEEE India council meeting: ....................................................................................................... 5

A.1.3.3. IEEE CONECCT-2014: .............................................................................................................. 6

A.1.3.4. R10-Level AIYEHUM 2013 ....................................................................................................... 7

A.1.3.5. All India Computer Society Student Congress ........................................................................... 7

A.1.3.6. B.R. Vardan-2013 National Level Paper Presentation Contest .................................................. 8

A.1.4. Major Chapter Activities .................................................................................................................... 8

A.1.5. Major Student and Affinity Group Activities .................................................................................... 8

A.1.5.1. Major Student Activities ............................................................................................................. 8

A.1.5.2. Affinity Group Activities ............................................................................................................ 9

A.1.6 Awards ................................................................................................................................................ 9

A.2 Financial Report .................................................................................................................................. 11

PART B - ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES ..................................................................................... 17

B.1 Membership Development Activities ................................................................................................... 17

B.2 Chapter Activities ................................................................................................................................. 17

B.2.1 Number of Chapters ...................................................................................................................... 17

B.2.2 Summary of Activities of Different Chapters ............................................................................... 18

B.2.2.1 IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter .............................................................................. 18

B.2.2.2 IEEE Control Systems chapter ................................................................................................... 18

B.2.2.4 IEEE Communications Society Bangalore Chapter ................................................................... 21

B.2.2.5 IEEE Photonics Society Bangalore Chapter .............................................................................. 22

2.2.6 IEEE EMB BANGALORE CHAPTER ........................................................................................ 23

B.2.2.7 IEEE Signal Processing Chapter ................................................................................................ 24

B.2.2.10 EEE Consumer Electronics Bangalore Chapter ....................................................................... 29

B.3 Professional and Continuing Education Activities ............................................................................... 31

B.4 Students Activities ................................................................................................................................ 33

B.4.1 Number of Student Branches ............................................................................................................ 33

B.4.2 Section Level Student Activities ....................................................................................................... 33

B.5 Affinity Group Activities ......................................................................................................................... 37

B.5.1 GOLD Affinity Group ....................................................................................................................... 37

B.5.2 Women In Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group ................................................................................. 42

B.6 Awards & Recognition Activities ........................................................................................................ 46

B.6.1 Award constituted by the section ...................................................................................................... 46

B.6.2 Awards received from R10 ............................................................................................................... 46

B.6.2 Awards received from IEEE HQ ....................................................................................................... 46

B.7 Communication Activities (Newsletter, Home Page, E-mail etc.) ...................................................... 46

B.7.1 Newsletter .......................................................................................................................................... 46

B.7.2 Homepage .......................................................................................................................................... 46

B.7.3 Other Means of Communication ....................................................................................................... 46


3 B.8 Industry Relations .................................................................................................................................. 47

Industry Day 2014 ....................................................................................................................................... 47

B.9 Humanitarian Technology Activities .................................................................................................... 47

B.10 Community Activities .......................................................................................................................... 48

PART C - OTHERS .................................................................................................................................. 49

C.1 Relationship with National Societies ................................................................................................... 49

C. 2 Special Events ..................................................................................................................................... 49

C.3 Best Practices of the section ................................................................................................................. 49

PART D - GOALS AND PLANS ............................................................................................................ 49

D.1 Student Activities ................................................................................................................................. 49

D.2 Technical Activities ............................................................................................................................. 49

D.3 Professional Activities ......................................................................................................................... 50

D.4 Industrial Relations .............................................................................................................................. 50

D.5 Chapter Co-ordination .......................................................................................................................... 50

D.6 Educational Activities .......................................................................................................................... 50

D.7 Conferences .......................................................................................................................................... 50

D.8 Membership Development ................................................................................................................... 50

D.9 Other Important Goal ........................................................................................................................... 50


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IEEE Bangalore Section Report PART A - SECTION SUMMARY

A.1 Executive Summary A.1.1. Section Executive Committee Member List:

Chairman : Mr. Hitesh Mehta, Eagle Photonics Vice-Chair : Prof. K V S Hari, IIsc Mr. A Ravikiran, Teritree Technologies Private Limited Treasurer : Mr. Siva Reddy Secretary : Mr. Nitin Keshav, Nokia Siemens Networks Joint Secretary : Mr. Puneet Kumar Misra, ISRO

Committee Members: 1. Dr L Murali Krishna Reddy, NDRF 2. Dr T Srinivas, IISc 3. Mr Siva Reddy, REVA 4. Dr. Debabrata Das, IIITB 5. Mr. A. Durga Prasad, Mahindra Satyam 6. Dr. Siva Yellampalli, UTL Technologies 7. Mr. P Srikanta, IBM 8. Dr. Suersh Janghamshetti, BEC, Bagalkot 9. Mr. Gowtham Prasad, Microsoft 10. Mr. A Raja Rao 11. Dr. Kesav Bapat, Agilent Technologies 12. Mr. Dileep Parchuri, Intel 13. Dr. B. Pal, HCL 14. Dr. GVK Raju 15. Dr. Preeta Sharan, Oxford Engineering College

Immediate Past Chairs: Mr. V.V.Srinivasan Mr. K. Ramakrishna

A.1.2. Section Highlights

2013 was the year of many firsts. During AGM of 2012, Chairman of IEEE Bangalore section outlined initiatives, plans and goals for Bangalore Section. Combined with data from membership feedback coupled with active, dynamic and young volunteers, Section has been able to deliver on many of its plans.

Section bid for many events and successfully Hosted IEEE HQ Admission and Advancement panel and IEEE India Council meeting. Further, section successfully conducted All India Computer Society Student Congress, IEEE CONNECT and IEEE Industry day. These events were a true success for the relentless efforts of volunteers.


5 Continuous effort to make Mangalore as a subsection was fructified and IEEE MGA Board at its 23 November 2013 meeting has approved the petition to form Subsection. Heartiest congratulations to Mangalore Subsection.

Professional activities garnered speed with the newly formed collaboration (MoU) with Institute of Product Leadership (IPL), International Society of Automation (ISA) Bangalore Section, and Project Management Institute (PMI) Bangalore Chapter. These collaboration efforts are for member benefits as it opens up new horizons in the field of product leadership-automation-project management. Section commitment towards AIYEHUM and its commendable success has been well recognised. This year it was conducted at R10 level.

In order to recognize members and elevate their membership to senior members, Section organized 3 workshops called ‘SIMPLE’ which translated into huge success with 188 members elevating to senior member grade.

On technical front, IEEE CONNECT has attained a truly international level with paper submission from 20 countries and dignitaries like Prof. Thomas Kailath, and Prof. Arogyaswami Paulraj, of Stanford University, USA attending the conference and delivering Keynote addresses. Further, section provided technical sponsorship to 3 International conferences.

Industry day was organized giving industry and academia a unique platform to work together and know each other requirements and collaborate.

IEEE day was celebrated by organizing an online treasure hunt Cybertron at IEEE R10 level and arranging Industry visits to student members.

Student activities have been cherry on the cake for Section for long and this year, it was entrusted with hosting the All India Computer Society Student Congress where students from across the country participated.

With advancements to social media, Section has invested time and resources to keep its section website updated, Twitter chatter ongoing and Facebook feeds active. This has enabled many of our members to stay connected. Event registrations have been streamlined by using online payment gateways and pilot runs to record events and host it on our website were undertaken. A.1.3. Major Events (International, National)

A.1.3.1. IEEE Admission & Advancement Panel meeting:

Section hosted the IEEE Admission & Advancement Panel meeting held in the month of March. This is the panel which decides about elevation of membership grade to Senior Member. This meeting happens second time in India. First time also it was hosted by Bangalore section in the year 2006.

A.1.3.2. IEEE India council meeting:

Bangalore section hosted IEEE India council meeting in month of October.


6 A.1.3.3. IEEE CONECCT-2014:

IEEE Bangalore Section conducted its flagship conference 2014 IEEE International conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication (CONECCT) on 6th and 7th January 2014 at J.N. Tata Auditorium, IISc. This conference was second in series started in 2013 which replaced the annual symposium of Bangalore section. CONECCT received an overwhelming 402 papers for review. Papers were received from 20 different countries predominantly from India. 79 papers out of 402 papers were accepted for oral presentation. All these papers will be published in IEEE Xplore. A total of 4 TPC Co-chairs, 25 TPC members and more than 162 reviewers assisted us in the review process. Each paper had at least 2 reviewers per paper. With this we created opportunities for local researchers to publish and present papers at IEEE conference of international standards right here in India. Prof. K V S Hari of IISc was General Chair and Prof. Debabrata Das of IIIT-Bangalore was General Co Chair of the conference.

Inaugural Photo of IEEE CONECCT (Left to Right ) Prof. A. J Paulraj talk at CONECCT- 2014 conference Prof. Debabrata Das, Mr. Hitesh Mehta, Prof. Thomas Kailath & Prof. KVS Hari The technical program comprised of 1 Inaugural Address, 6 Distinguished Plenary Talks, 5 Invited Talks and 13 Technical sessions of peer-reviewed papers. We were very fortunate to have the following Distinguished Speakers:

1. Prof. Thomas Kailath, Stanford University, USA 2. Prof. Arogyaswami Paulraj, Stanford University, USA 3. Dr. Mahesh Mehendale, Texas Instruments, India 4. Prof. Gerald Schuller, Fraunhofer Institute (IDMT), Germany 5. Dr. Ramesh Hariharan, Strand Life Sciences, India 6. Dr. Kiran Gunnam, Violin Memory Inc., USA 7. Prof. Gurvinder S. Virk , Uni. of Gävle & KTH-Royal Institute of Technology,

Sweden 8. Prof. S.K. Nandy, CAD Lab, SERC, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 9. Prof. V. Umapathi Reddy, Honorary Professor, IIT Hyderabad 10. Prof. Prosenjit Sen, CeNSE, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 11. Dr. Murali Kota, IBM, Bangalore 12. Prof. T. K. Sarkar, Syracuse University, USA

Nearly 200 delegates from different R&D organizations/ Academic Institutes/ PSUs/Industry participated in the Conference. Conference was technically co-sponsored


7 by Bangalore chapters of Signal processing society, communication society and Computer society.

CONECCT is striving to become a world-class event with a strong academic and industrial participation. In order to bring industry perspectives, an industrial exhibition was also displayed on the sidelines of the conference. Total 5 companies financially sponsored the conference and 10 industry exhibitors participated in it. IEEE Bangalore Section’s Industry Day and Woman in Engineering were co-hosted with CONECCT-2014 on 7th Jan.

A.1.3.4. R10-Level AIYEHUM 2013

After 4 successful years in India, this program is now being organized to reach participants from all the Asia-Pacific (IEEE Region 10) countries. Bangalore Section is sponsoring AIyeHum 2013. IEEE Bangalore Section in collaboration with IEEE EPICS (Engineering Projects for Community Service) announced annual Humanitarian Technology Challenge which invites students and graduates to apply science and technology for the benefit of mankind with focus on practical/on the ground / society implementations. Nearly 350 projects received from 7 countries and 21 projects were selected by 14 eminent jury members across Asia. Out of 21, 14 team took up the challenge. During the mentoring phase a database of 300+ Senior members & professionals were formed, who are willing to mentor the project team. Event concluded with evaluation of intermediate report and Final reports, results are as follows: 1. Development of low cost arterial pulse analyser on Aakash Tablet for rural PHCs: IIT

Bombay, India 2. Ultra-sonic spectacles and waist-belt for mobility of visually impaired: IIT Kharagpur,

India 3. Versatile personal navigation aid and information portal for visually impaired people

and elderly people in Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong A.1.3.5. All India Computer Society Student Congress The second edition of All India Computer Society Student Congress was organized at Bangalore section on 16th & 17th December 2014 at the PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore. The theme was “Enhancing Technical Competencies of Indian Students through IEEE Computer Society." The event starred IEEE Computer Society leaders like Dr. David Alan Grier, 2013 IEEE Computer Society President, Mrs. Angela Burgess, Executive Director, IEEE Computer Society who had arrived from the US specifically for the event. Events such as ‘Open Innovation Workshop’, conducted by Mrs. Pamela Kumar and team, networking activities organised by the IEEE PESIT Student Branch members. From coding to creation and innovation, the participants learnt how to tackle a given task effectively within a given time limit and how to work collaboratively as a team in order to produce the best results. Various talks on Ethical hacking, non conventional IT careers, IEEE CS, volunteering were given by eminent speakers.


8 A.1.3.6. B.R. Vardan-2013 National Level Paper Presentation Contest

Bangalore section successfully conducted BRV VARDHAN’13, a national level paper presentation contest in association with IEEE-REVA-ITM Student Branch on 31st October at REVA-ITM, Bangalore. 22 papers were presented out of 44 selected. NITK won the 1st prize, and UVCE 2nd prize respectively. Total 4 papers were received in Life Sciences. A consolation prize of INR 1000 was given in Life Sciences category. Following are the prize winners of B R V Vardhan UG student paper contest winners:

1st Prize: Aswin Kalyan V and Vinay S of NIT Suratkal, paper titled" Timber Modelling of a Pitched Musical Instrument from an Analysis Synthesis Perspective"

2nd Prize: Samhita M R and Shrythy S of UVCE Bangalore, paper titled " SPAM Detection using RePID -OK".

A.1.4. Major Chapter Activities

1. Total 53 events conducted in the form of Workshops, Technical Talks and DLs by different chapters of Bangalore section

2. Prof. Vijay Bhargava, President, IEEE Communication Society visited section and met Chapter and Section Execom members

3. R-10 PES Chapter Chairs Meet on 9th Nov, 2013 at Hotel, Sheraton Bangalore 4. ISGT Asia 2013 Tutorial & Conference from 10th to 13th Nov, 2013 at Hotel

Sheraton Bangalore 5. Different chapters provided technical sponsorships to 5 International conferences.

A.1.5. Major Student and Affinity Group Activities

A.1.5.1. Major Student Activities

Bangalore Section has been in the forefront for conducting various activities for benefit of its student members.

Over 100+ activities were conducted by the section with the help of various student branches. Branch Counselor’s Meet: The branch counsellors meet of IEEE Bangalore Section was organized on May 12th, 2013. SB Representative from 23 colleges participated. The programme was organized at Institute of engineers, Bangalore.

Student Activity snapshot by Categories


9 GOLD Interface 13’: A very successful event “GOLD INTERFACE 13’” was organized by IEEE Bangalore Section, IEEE GOLD Affinity Group and hosted by BEC-IEEE Student branch, which was steered to articulate the final and pre-final year student’s future life and prospectus after graduation, shedding light on higher education, careers in emerging technologies, networking and Industrial exposure culminated on a high note. The conference proved to be a platform to enlighten the students about what and how the life will be after graduation and how to confront it. Around 85 attendees were present.

Student Leadership Congress

The Student Leadership Congress (SLC) is an annual event held by IEEE Bangalore Section. It aims at benefiting the student members in managing innovative activities and improving their team building and leadership skills. It hopes to improve student branch operations and the networking amongst student branch members. This year, the Student Leadership Congress 2013 was hosted by Mysore hub on 14th and 15th December, 2013 in collaboration with the student branches of six colleges - IEEE-SJCE, IEEE-NIE, IEEE-VVCE, IEEE-PESCE, IEEE-VVIET and IEEE-MCE. The event was a greater success than expected with over 100 students from all over Karnataka. The theme of the 2-day event was, 'Leadership and Entrepreneurship'. The event had various speakers who gave talks on varied topics such as Leadership, patenting and IP filing etc. Engaging events such as Udaan which was held to understand start up dynamics, market trends, investor mind-set, basics of a balance sheet and 50-Rupee activity, a popular E-cell game were conducted. SLC was an event that managed to incorporate fun, knowledge and networking in just two days; it was a power-packed event.

A.1.5.2. Affinity Group Activities

IEEE GOLD Bangalore has been in the forefront in conceptualizing and organizing events for the benefit of young professional members since its inception. WIE Bangalore is also equally vibrant in conceptualizing events for the benefits of Women in Engineering affinity group members. Following the summary of activities: 1. 29 Events in the form of workshops, technical talks, paper presentations and

community service programs were conducted by WIE affinity Group 2. 6 workshops were conducted by GOLD affinity Group

A.1.6 Awards

• IEEE GOLD Achievement Award 2013

It was an honor for IEEE Bangalore section to have Manjunath Iyer B S, 2013 GOLD Bangalore Chair as a recipient of the prestigious 2013 IEEE GOLD Achievement Award. He has received his MS in Software Systems from BITS-Pilani. He has recived his B.E. degree from VTU in Electronics & Communication in the year 2010. He is IEEE Volunteer since 2010, and is primarily associated with TISP activities in Bangalore Section. Presently he is GOLD Chair for 2013. He has initiated the "Professional Workshop Series" in GOLD Bangalore in 2013 which was supported by the Section and Region-10 GOLD and gained huge traction from


10 the IEEE Community in India. He has also led the initiative to take STEP event outside Bangalore for the first ever time. In addition to this section/section members received following awards: • IEEE R10 Digital Connect Survey Winner-Section Category-IEEE Bangalore

section • IEEE Outstanding Branch Counsellor and Advisor Award recognition program:

Dr Suman David S. of NITK,Surathkal • IEEE HTA R-10 award for funded project: Dr. Preeta Sharan • IEEE R10 Blog Tweet and Win Contest: Runner up- Mr Abhilash M of MNIT

Bangalore, • IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch awards- Silver, to NITK Surathkal

IEEE student branch. • IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch awards-Bronze, to B M Sreenivasiah

College of Engineering, IEEE Student Branch • Best Paper/Best Student Paper Award for IEEE Data Storage of 2011/2012: K. V.

Rashmi, Nihar B. Shah and P. Vijay Kumar, “Optimal Exact-Regenerating Codes for Distributed Storage at the MSR and MBR Points via a Product-Matrix Construction”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57, No. 8, August 2011. (Announced in 2013)


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Schedule 31-Dec-13 31-Dec-12

I. SOURCES OF FUNDS1)Funds and Reserves

Corpus 20,000 20,000

Committed FundsANTS Conference - 6,94,960

EPICS Fund - 2,78,570 Distribution Generation-PES - 12,14,000

Uncommitted Funds General Reserve 1 76,08,597 92,34,295

Total 76,28,597 1,14,41,825

II.APPLICATION OF FUNDS

Current Assets, Loans and Advances(a) Fixed Deposits 2 40,87,401 68,84,926 (b) Cash and Banks Balances 3 33,44,040 47,55,992 (c) Advances and other receivables 4 1,80,946 2,48,160 (d) Prepaid Expenses- CONECCT 1,20,210 66,796

Less: Current Liabilities and provisions 5 (1,04,000) (5,14,049) Net Current Assets

Total 76,28,597 1,14,41,825

Summary of significant accounting policies 9The accompanying schedules are an integral part of the financial statements

For Usha and AssociatesFRN 013099SChartered Accountants

Usha.S.C Hitesh Mehta Nithin.K R V Siva ReddyProprietor Chairman Secretary TreasurerMembership No. : 224749

Place: BangaloreDate: 25.01.2014

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Balance Sheet as at 31st December 2013

( IEEE- Bangalore Section)


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Schedule 31-Dec-13 31-Dec-12

Rs. Rs.IncomeIEEE Headquarters Rebate and Support 5,85,539 13,41,408 CONECCT 2013 Conference Income 2,83,750 - AIYEHUM Sponsorship 1,00,000 - All India Student Congress Receipts - 2,10,416 Other Sponsorship and Event Income 1,89,165 1,05,887 Interest on SB accounts 24,140 28,154 Interest on Fixed Deposits( including accrued interest) 7,87,686 9,18,985 Excess provision for expenses written off 1,99,171 - Total (I ) 21,69,451 26,04,850

ExpensesSection Support 6 3,02,148 82,004 Student Activity Expenditure 3,75,545 5,77,704 Programme and Event Expenditure 7 6,17,942 3,97,895 AIYEHUM Project Assistance and Event 2,43,932 2,80,019 IEEE CONECCT 2013 12,68,382 - Annual General Meeting Expenditure 7,39,008 3,54,538 Other Adminstrative and General Expenditure 8 2,48,191 1,15,495 Total (II) 37,95,148 18,07,655

Excess of Income Over Expenditure (16,25,697) 7,97,196 transferred to General Fund

Summary of significant accounting policies 9The accompanying schedules are an integral part of the financial statements

Note :IEEE CONECCT 2014 was held in January 2014. Certain Expenses for CONECCT 2014 were paid during December 2013. Such expenses are accounted as prepaid expenses( current asset)as per the generally accepted accounting principles. It will be transferred to the expenditure in the next year i.e in 2014 when the CONECCT Conference is held.On the same prinicple CONECCT 2014 registration fee received in 2013 will be accounted as income received in advance included in current liability and will be transferred to income in 2014.

For Usha and Associates For IEEE Bangalore SectionFRN 013099SChartered Accountants



The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended 31st December 2013

( IEEE- Bangalore Section)


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Schedules to financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2013

4. Miscellaneous

ii) Fixed Deposits are disclosed including accrued interest net of Tax Deducted at Source.

iii) Previous years' figures have been regrouped, wherever necessary.

For Usha and Associates For IEEE Bangalore SectionFRN 013099SChartered Accountants



i) The Society has kept all the unutilised amounts in the form of bank balances and term deposits withscheduled banks, which are in conformity with section 11(5) of the Income Tax Act,1961

2.Recognition of Income

Sponsorship, registration fee for events and rebate are recognised on the basis of receipts and as per the bank advice available. CONECCT expensiture and Income will be recognised in Profit & Loss in the year in which the Conference is held.

3.Committed Funds

The registration fees and sponsorship received with a specific instruction and understanding that are to be paid to other Chapters/Society and earmarked Events/Conference/Projects are grouped as Committed Funds.

IEEE-Bangalore Section

IEEE Bangalore Section is society of Electrical and Electronics Engineers registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act,1960 with the registration number BLU-S707-2006-07

1. Basis of preparation

The financial statements are drawn up based on historical costs and mercantile basis of acounting has been followed.

9. Summary of significant accounting policies and notes to accounts


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1. General Reserve

31-Dec-13 31-Dec-12Rs. Rs.

Excess of Income over ExpenditureBalance as per last financial statements 92,34,295 84,37,099 Add: Surplus /(Deficit) for the period (16,25,697) 7,97,196

Surplus carried to Balance Sheet 76,08,597 92,34,295

2.Other current liabilities and Provisions

31-Dec-13 31-Dec-12Rs. Rs.

CONECCT 2014 Registration Fee: received in advance 1,03,750 - Rebate payable to chapters - 1,00,116 Creditors for expenses 250 89,411 TDS refundable to others - 23,250 Provision for Taxation( PY) - 3,01,272

1,04,000 5,14,049



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3.Fixed Deposits

31-Dec-13 31-Dec-12Rs. Rs.

Andhra Bank Kalpataru Deposit - 7,31,645 Corporation Bank KCC-106 23,84,317 21,92,820 Corporation Bank KCC-107 17,03,084 15,66,293 Karur Vysya Bank FD - 23,94,168 Total 40,87,401 68,84,926

The matured balance of Karur Bank FD was withdrawn in July 2013The matured balance of Andhra Bank Kalpataru Deposit was withdrawn in December 2013The process for opening New Fixed Deposits with Corporation Bank have been initiated.

4.Cash and Bank Balances

31-Dec-13 31-Dec-12Rs. Rs.

i Balances with banksOn savings bank accountsBank of India - 10,263 Canara Bank A/C No.10153 1,78,432 3,12,221 Canara Bank A/C No.3970 - 23,612 Corporation Bank A/C No.007286 - 5,09,311 Corporation Bank A/C No.008569 - 2,92,399 Corporation Bank A/C No.080007 31,65,609 36,08,056 ( including Rs.35,91,000 ( CY 2012) and Rs.31,46,000( CY 2013) in Sweep Account)

ii Cash on hand - 130 33,44,040 47,55,992

5 Advances and other receivables

31-Dec-13 31-Dec-12Rs. Rs.

TDS receivable:Previous years 89,437 1,58,723 Current year 91,509 89,437

Total 1,80,946 2,48,160



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6.Section Support

31-Dec-13 31-Dec-12Rs. Rs.

i IEEE Computers Society 17,950 8,986 ii IEEE Control System Society 20,000 20,000 iii IEEE Gold Affinity Group-Step Event 2,17,333 36,960 iv R10 Project 14,865 16,058 v IEEE EMBS Chapter 32,000 -

3,02,148 82,004

7. Programme and Event Expenditure

31-Dec-13 31-Dec-12Rs. Rs.

i Awards and Prizes- All Events 68,500 1,59,684 ii IEEE HQ rebate disbursement - 1,00,116 iii Tech Friday expenses - 6,739 iv SAC R10 GINI - 20,961 v Section Congress 2011 - 51,813 vi SIMPLE Event 1,05,656 47,753 vii A&A Meeting 16,630 - viii BRV Contest ( prizes inlcuded in sl (ii)) 10,000 - ix PM Session 21,604 - x R10 Congress Meet 75,650 - xi Student Leadership Congress 98,551 - xii TISP 2013 42,578 - xiii WIE Professional Event 80,000 - xiv Other Technical Lecture,Workshops & Meetings 79,206 10,829 xv North Karnataka Hub Event 6,000 - xvi IEEE India Council Meeting 13,567 -

6,17,942 3,97,895

8.Other Adminstrative and General Expenditure

31-Dec-13 31-Dec-12Rs. Rs.

i Execom Meeting Expenses 32,284 17,600 ii Audit and Professional Fee 89,500 25,000 iii Bank Charges 5,206 98 iv Honorarium - 10,000 v Communication & Conveyance 26,324 6,524 vi Rent - 50,000 vii Website renewal 6,294 6,273 viii Postage and Courier 1,117 - ix Balances not recoverable written off 29,729 - x Printing and Stationery 8,037 - xi Govt Fees and Expenses for Society Annual Returns 49,700 -

2,48,191 1,15,495



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PART B - ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES

B.1 Membership Development Activities

This year Main focus was there to elevate Members to Senior Member Grade. We are proud to inform that IEEE Bangalore Section has entered in the league of select few sections having more than 400 Senior Member. Kudos to our “SIMPLE” program due to which we were able to elevate 188 members to Senior Member Grade more than 74% rise in a single calendar year. Summary of Active members in the past 3 years is presented below:

IEEE Grade 2011 2012 2013 % Growth Life Fellow 1 3 4 25% Fellow 15 16 15 (6.25%) Honorary Member

1 100%

Life Senior 19 18 19 5.55% Life Member 4 3 3 0% Senior Member 211 254 442 74% Member 1894 2078 1940 (6.67%) Graduate Member 648 800 903 12.55% Student Member 3072 3760 4184 11.27% Associate Member 131 91 101 11% Affiliate 82 51 37 (27.50%)

Total 6077 7074 7649 8.12%

B.2 Chapter Activities

B.2.1 Number of Chapters Bangalore section has total 25 society chapters and affinity groups. Following 8 Chapters have been formed this year:

I. Robotics and Automation society Chapter II. Nanotechnology council chapter

III. Sensors council chapter IV. Society for social implication of technology + Educaiton society Joint

Chapter V. Computational Intelligence Society Chapter

VI. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Chapter VII. Computational Intelligence Society Chapter

VIII. Control Systems


18 B.2.2 Summary of Activities of Different Chapters

B.2.2.1 IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter

IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter is 3rd largest and a very vibrant chapter in IEEE Bangalore Section. IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter regularly conducts technical talks, seminars and workshops for students, academia and professional members. In 2013, the key focus domains were Information Security and Networking with additional emphasis on academic teachers/faculty members.

“Train The Trainer” workshop, conducted at PESIT, Bangalore was a 5 day event with participation from 13 colleges/universities. The sessions were taken by professionals from Siemens, ABB, Intel, GMR, HCL and PESIT faculty. The topics ranged from advances in computer architecture, Information (Cyber) Security, Networking to Software Engineering.

The workshop on “Cyber Security in IT and SCADA Systems (CSIS)”(conducted at CDAC) had participants from industry, government and academic institutions. The Faculty and Industry Development Program (FIDP): Workshop on IPv6 organizedby PESITfaculty received excellent participation and response from industry and academia.

The best tech talks were “Sensible and NonsenSQL Aspects of the NoSQL Hoopla”By C. Mohan, IBM Almaden Research Center and “Systems to System of Systems: Innovations & Challenges for the 21st Century”, “System of Systems Principles and Modeling – Case for “Big Data” Analytics in Smart Energy Grids”By Prof. Mo Jamshidi, Ph.D., DEgr. (h.c.), Lutcher Brown Endowed Chaired Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio”.

B.2.2.2 IEEE Control Systems chapter

Chapter had four major events conducted on various topics. The events spanned joint events with IEEE PES society, IEEE computers society and ACDOS.

In the first event, technical lectures on "Controls Design for Agile Aircrafts: Introduction, Design approach, success story and challenges ahead" by Dr. Amitabh Saraf from ADA and "Computational aspects of Multi-scale system modeling" by Prof.SoumenduRaha from IISc were conducted. The lectures were conducted at CMR Institute of Technology.


19 The second event we was a joint event by IEEE Control Systems Society & IEEE Power Engineering Society of Bangalore section, which had a technical lecture followed by a panel discussion on “Cyber Security for Critical Infrastructure” on 8th July 2013 at Golden Jubilee Seminar Hall of ECE department at IISc. The technical lecture was delivered by Prof.Govindarasu Manimaran from Lowa State university on “Cyber physical systems security for the Smart Grid”. The third event was a technical talk by one of most respected control engineering professors namely, Mo Jamshidi, Lutcher Brown Endowed Chaired Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio. This lecture was co-hosted by control systems chapter and Computers society chapter at ABB R&D centre on 3rd Dec 2013. This lecture was attended by more than 100 people and ABB has hosted a lunch also for the audience. The fourth was joint event was a one day workshop by IEEE Control systems society Bangalore Chapter and Automatic Control and Dynamic Optimization Society (ACDOS). There was six very informative and exciting lectures on "Information Enabled Adaptive and Optimal Control: Robust Decision Making under Uncertainty". The lectures were delivered by a team of experts:Dr. GirishChowdhary, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University, USA., Dr. Sreenatha G. Annavatti, School of Engineering and Information Technology, Univ. of New South Wales at ADFA, Canberra, Australia. Dr.RadhakantPadhi, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The event was well attended by 35 professionals from institutions like DRDO, Engineering colleges across the country and corporate R&D centres, apart from IEEE members B.2.2.3 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Chapter BS-IEEE-GRSSC was formally inaugurated on 26th March 2013 at Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore Centre, Bangalore, India. The first meeting of this new chapter was held on 9th February 2013 at the Systems Science and Informatics Unit (SSIU), Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore Centre. During 2013, this chapter organized following technical events:

Workshop on "Mathematical Morphology and Pattern Recognition: Theory and Applications" The conveners of this workshop Prof. Daya Sagar and Prof. Saroj Meher have delivered a series of 14 lectures on the topics related to mathematical morphology and pattern recognition. The two tracks in this three-day workshop include "Mathematical Morphology: Theory and Applications" and "Pattern Recognition: Theory and Applications". A host of algorithms developed based on the concepts of mathematical morphology were covered in a series of seven lectures by B. S. Daya Sagar. Applications of both classical and modern Pattern Recognition techniques were covered in a series of seven lectures by Saroj Meher. Conveners (Sagar and Saroj) have framed the sequence of lectures in such a way that there was an excellent coherence. These lectures were mainly intended for Postgraduate students, PhD scholars, Post-Docs and young faculty members and scientists. This workshop was attended by 60 participants drawn from academia, industry, and government organizations and labs. Further details about the three-day workshop are available at: http://www.isibang.ac.in/~mmprta. The details of this three-


20 day workshop were also featured in the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine (v. 1, no. 2, p. 72-73, June 2013, DOI: 10.1109/MGRS.2013.2260918).

Photographs: Inauguration of the IEEE Bangalore Section Chapter of the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society took place on 26 March 2013 at the Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore Centre. Prof. N. Viswanadham, FIEEE, delivering an inaugural talk on "GIS and Automation" is seen. Subsequent photographs show the resource persons (Raju, Sagar, and Saroj), and the participants of the workshop.

Workshop on "Image Pattern Analysis and Applications"

This chapter has also organized—jointly with Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore and Indian Statistical Institute—a workshop on "Image Pattern Analysis and Applications" during 9-10 November 2013. This event was taken place at the premises of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Bangalore. Several graduate level students and faculty members of the Amrita School of Engineering have attended this workshop. IEEE GRSS Distinguished Lecture (DL)

IEEE GRSS Distinguished Lecture (DL) talk on " Current Scenario and Challenges in the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images" by Professor Lorenzo Bruzzone, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University Trento, Italy is scheduled for 27 January 2014. This event would take place at the Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore Centre.


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B.2.2.4 IEEE Communications Society Bangalore Chapter Talks SNo. Date/Venue Topic Speaker Supported By 1 2 July

2013 , IISc Backhauling in TV White Spaces

NarayanaMandyam, Rutgers Univ, comsoc DLT

50 participants, mostly non-members, Free for all. Supported by IEEE-IISc Student Branch

2 2 Aug 2013 OnModeling the Coexistence of WiFi and Wireless Sensor

Prof. Radu Stoleru, Texas A&M University

Supported by IEEE-IISc Student Branch

3 2 Aug 2013, IISc

Networking the Cloud: Enabling Enterprise computing and Storage

Prof. K KRamakrishnan: AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ

Supported by IEEE-IISc Student Branch

Workshops SNo. Date/Venue Topic Participants/Supported By 1 13-14

September 2014, IISc

LTE and Beyond 50 participants, Charges (Rs.2000 for non-members, Rs. 1500 for members) Organized under Monthly workshop series of IEEE Bangalore Section, and received part-financial support. Also supported by IEEE-IISc Student Branch

2 22-23 Nov 2013, MSRIT

Recent Advances in computer and communication networks (12 talks)

50 participants, Supported by IEEE-MSRIT Student Branch, TEQUIP

Talks by Members 29 April 2013: Inauguration of AcharyaInstitute of Technology Student Branch,Naveen Kumar, CMRIT, comsoc member,The evolution of cellular/mobile systems and networks: 4G and beyond Sponsorships/Supported 27-28 Dec 2013, RNSIT, International conference on circuits, controls and communications (CCUBE) Other Activity16 Oct 2013: Visit of Vijay Bhargava, ComSoc President, Meeting with IISc faculty & execom,


22 B.2.2.5 IEEE Photonics Society Bangalore Chapter Technical Talk: A Technical talk on Introduction to Quantum Computing and Quantum Information By Rohit Ramakrishnan, AryanetInst of Tech., Palakkad, was conducted on, 7 Dec 2013 (Sat) at CeNSEAuditiorium, IISc. 25 Members attended. Event was free for all. It was supported by IEEE-IISc NC/SC Joint chapter. Workshops SNo. Date/Venue Topic Participants/Supported By 1 19 Apr

2013,2013 (Fri), at MCE Hassan

Optical fiber splicing and optical measurements

About 100 members participated, mostly non-members. This was supported by BSNL Hassan

2 4-5 June 2013 at MCE Hassan

Optical Communication and Optical Engg by T. Srinivas

This was supported by IEEE-MCE Student Branch

3 19 Oct 2013 (Sat) at World Trade Center, Bangalore

Photonic Integrated Circuits Speakers: T Srinivas (IISc), Dinesh V Kumar (IIITDM, Jabalpur), J Nayak (RCI Hyderabad), James B Cole (Trukuba Univ, Japan), Gopal Hegde (IISc)

50 participants, They were charged – Rs.1000 for non-members, 500 for IEEE members and Free for Photonics members. This was held under Monthly Chapter Workshop Series and part-financed by the IEEE Bangalore section. Also supported by IISc Student chapters of IEEE photonics/EMB societies, OSA and SPIE

4 4 Jan 2014 at GJSH, IISc

Silicon Photonics Speaker: Amit Khanna, IMEC Belgium

25 Members, No charge Supported by IEEE-IISc Photonics/EMB joint student chapter

Technical Support 1. International Conference on Emerging Trends in Communication, Control, Signal Processing and Computing Applications (C2SPCA) organized by The Oxford College of Engg, Bangalore, during 10-12 Oct 2013 2.One-day workshop on Photonics and Lasers.Organized by IEEE Photonics Society, Hyderabad Chapter on 18 June, 2013 IIIT Auditorium, Gachibowli, Hyderabad. Talks Delivered by members 1. On 30 Mar 2013, Dr. P C Srikanth delivered a talk on Recent advances in WDM networks at KarnatakUnivDharwad 2. On 16-17 Aug 2013, T Srinivas, presented an invited talk on Photonic Bandgap Structure based devices for comm and sensor applications in the focussed discussion meeting on Metamaterials and Nanophotonics held at IIT Kanpur


23 2.2.6 IEEE EMB BANGALORE CHAPTER

Five Day Medical Imaging Workshop On “Medical Imaging Technology: Fundamentals to Advance The Department of Medical Electronics in association with IEEE EMB Bangalore Chapter organized a five day workshop on Medical Imaging technology- Fundamentals to Advanced” from 13-17th March 2013 at the M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore. Dr Bharathi V. Hiremath, Professor, Dept of General Surgery, M. S. Ramaiah Medical College Bangalore who was the Chief Guest gave a talk on the applications of Biomedical Engineering in surgery. Dr A.G Ramakrishna, Prof Dept of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore gave an insight into his current research on Biomedical Signal & Image Processing. Bridging the gap between Engineering and Medical Domains

In association with IEEE Bangalore section organized a one day symposium on “Bridging the gap between Engineering and Medical Domains” on 28th March 2013 at M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore. The Idea Contest organized at the Symposium saw active participation of students from various colleges. The main purpose of this contest was to provide a platform to ignite young minds with innovative ideas which can bring a radical change in the field of healthcare. Ideas included a 4-in-1 device consisting of a smart e-stethoscope, head mount camera, pulseoximeter and a urine analysis tool that won the first prize, an easy syringe that can be used to inject at fixed angles of 45 and 90 degrees which won the second place and many more ideas including a GSM based medicine vending machine, an emote sensor, wearable arrhythmia detector and a pain sensing device. Breast Cancer Awarness Orientation Programme

In association with the Department of Medical Electronics, MSRIT organized a “Breast cancer awareness orientation programme” on 27th April 2013. The main aim of this program was to provide women with the right understanding and approach to breast health with specific reference to the early detection of breast cancer by offering a zero-radiation approach for diagnosis at its earliest stages using technology that measures heat in body tissue. This orientation programme was attended by 100 participants. Dr.H.V Ramprakash gave a talk on this by providing important information on the risk factors, symptoms, treatments available and the different ways by which cancer can be diagnosed in the early stages and prevented. A screening camp was also organised from May 21 to May 31 2013. 100 women participant were screened under this programme.


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Summer School On Medical Device Design And Innovation Organized a 9 days summer school to inspire engineering and medical students to collaborate and come up with new products. The participants were taught basics of device design. Key topics like FDA regulations were discussed by Dr. Rajeswari Sundararajan of Purdue University. The last day of summer school started by an inspiring talk by Dr.Timothy Poston, chief scientist, Forus healthcare. Further, 2 Workshop on Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic & Pattern reconition for Engineering and Health care application and on non-linear biomedical signal processing was conducted. In addition to this Stanford India biodesign orientation seminar was also conducted.

B.2.2.7 IEEE Signal Processing Chapter

1. 131 members (student members included) 2. 14 Technical Talks 3. DL 4. 1 Tutorial 5. Conf. Travel Support: For 4 students @ Rs.25K (Globecom-1, ICASSP-2, ICIP-1)

Technical Talks under SP Chapter I. Title: Correlation Awareness and Fundamental Limits in Sparse Support Recovery

Speaker: Piya Pal, PhD candidate, DSP Lab, Caltech, USA Date: Friday, Jan. 3rd, 2013 Time: 4pm Venue: Golden Jubilee Hall, ECE Department, IISc Bangalore.

II. Title: Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radios Speaker: Dr. Sachin Chaudhari, Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland, Date: Jan. 22nd, 2013 Time: 4pm Venue: Golden Jubilee Hall, ECE Department, IISc Bangalore.

III. Title: Fun Research in Computer Vision: From Robots, Sports, Face to Medicine Speaker: Professor Takeo Kanade, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Time & Date: 3:00pm; Thursday February 21, 2013 Venue: Multimedia Classroom (PE 217), Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc.


25 IV. Title : "Distributed Beam and Nullforming for Distributed MIMO" Speaker : Prof.

Soura Dasgupta, University of Iowa, USA Venue : Golden Jubilee Seminar Hall, ECE Dept., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Time/Date : 4pm, Monday, Aug. 26, 2013

V. Title : "Optimal discrete probability estimation" Speaker : Ananda Theertha Suresh, University of California, San Diego Venue : Golden Jubilee Seminar Hall, ECE Dept., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Time/Date : 11 AM, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013

Technical Talks (Cont…) 1. Inclusive User Modelling and Applications by Dr Pradipta Biswas, Research

Fellow at Wolfson College and Engineering Design Centre of University of Cambridge [13 Jun 13]

2. Human Interface Design for Multimedia Applications by Dr. Miwako Doi, Chief Fellow and Industry-Academic Collaboration Senior Fellow, Corporate R&D Center and Technology Planning Division, Toshiba Corporation, Japan. [10 Jul 13]

3. Restoration of Motor Skills in Patients with Disorders of the Central Nervous System by Professor V John Mathews, University of Utah [DL] [19 Jul 13]

4. Behavioral Signal Processing: Possibilities and Opportunities for Informatics Prof. Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan, USC, Los Angeles, California. [23 Jul 13]

5. Some Recent Advances in Compressed Sensing by Professor Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, Cecil & Ida Green Chair in Systems Biology Science, University of Texas at Dallas, USA. [25 Jul 13]

6. An introduction to sparse representations and compressed sensing by Dr. Prasad Sudhakar, ICTEAM, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium [7 Sep 13]

7. Smartphone Driven Insurance Telematics by Professor Peter Händel, Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. [31 Oct 13]

8. Resource Allocation in HARQ Systems by Dr. T V K Chaitanya, Linkping University, Sweden, [4th Nov 13].

9. Mining Recurrent Activities from Long Term video Recordings using Topic models by Dr. Jagannadan Varadarajan, Advanced Digital Sciences Centre, Singapore. [11 Dec 13].

Editorial Activities 1. Chandra R. Murthy (IISc) and Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula (IISc) – Associate

Editors, IEEE Signal Processing Letters (CRM: 2011-2015; CSS: 2013-2014) 2. K. V. S. Hari – IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods

Technical\Committee Elected member (2014-2017) 3. Chandra R. Murthy – IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Technical

Committee Elected member (2014 – 2017)

Future Plans Organizing 2 Workshops in

a. Recent Trend in Signal/Speech Processing (Jul 2014) b. Advances in image processing and computer vision (Sep. 2014)

Conf. Travel Support for Students to attend SP Society Conferences


26 B.2.2.8 IEEE PES BANGALORE CHAPTER

The professional activities are reported below:

1. R-10 Chapter Chairs Meet: 9th Nov, 2013 @ Sheraton Bangalore

2. ISGT Asia 2013 – TUTORIALS : 10th Nov, 2013 @ Sheraton Bangalore

3. Women in Power Engineering: 10th Nov, 2013 @ Sheraton Bangalore

4. LVDC FORUM INAUGURAL Launch: 11th Nov, 2013 @ Sheraton Bangalore

5. ISGT Asia 2013 – Conference: 11th to 13th Nov, 2013 @ Sheraton Bangalore

6. IEEE PES Student Chapter Inaugural: 02nd Sep 2013 @ NMIT, Yelahanka,

Bangalore

7. Two days Workshop on “Current Trends In Transmission And Distribution Grid

Management”: 26th – 27th July @ VVIET, Mysore

8. One day workshop on Electrical Engineering Faculty Conclave :25th Mar 2013 @

REVA ITM, Bangalore

9. Three days Workshop on “ Modeling & Control of Power Electronics

Systems”:18th to 20th March2013, @ PESIT, Bangalore

10. Three days Workshop on “Power Quality & Mitigation” : 28th to 30th Jan 2013 @

CIT Gubbi

R-10 Chapter Chairs Meet: 9th Nov, 2013 @ Sheraton Bangalore

ISGT Asia 2013 – TUTORIALS: 10th Nov, 2013 @ Sheraton Bangalore


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Women in Power Engineering: 10th Nov, 2013 @ Sheraton Bangalore

LVDC Forum Launch: 11th Nov, 2013 @ Sheraton Bangalore

ISGT Asia 2013 – Conference: 11th to 13th Nov, 2013 @ Sheraton Bangalore

IEEE PES Student Chapter Inaugural: 02nd Sep 2013 @ NMIT, Yelahanka, Bangalore


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Current Trends in Transmission & Distribution Grid Management”:26th-27th July @VVIET, Mysore

Electrical Engineering Faculty Conclave :25th Mar 2013 @ REVA ITM, Bangalore

Modeling & Control of Power Electronics Systems: 18th to 20th March2013, @ PESIT, Bangalore

Power Quality & Mitigation: 28th to 30th Jan 2013, @ CIT Gubbi, Tumkur


29 B.2.2.9 IEEE MTT and AP-S Joint Chapter

A RF-Microwave Workshop was conducted on the 23rd March 2013 by IEEE MTT and AP-S Joint Chapter at the Golden Jubilee Hall of ECE Department, IISc, Bangalore. The workshop started with an invited talk by Dr. Surendra Pal. This was followed by five Invited talks by specialist in the area of Microwaves and Antennas was arranged.

1. Evolution of microwave technology, By Shri. H Ramakrishna, Ex-CEO of Central Research Laboratory, Bangalore.

2. Dr. Arun Chandrasekhar delivered a talk on signal integrity, RF packaging Challenges: Multi-Disciplinary aspects, new technologies.

3. Prof. K. J. Vinoy talked in the area of RF MEMS covering “Metamaterials and applications in microwave and optical devices”

4. Dr. D.C. Pande is Director (Technologies) at LRDE addressed the current trends in Electromagnetic Interference and Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMI/EMC)

5. Prof. V. Mahadevan is a Professor at PES Institute of Technology delivered an invited talk on “Spacecraft Antennas”

Free registration was enabled and about 80 participants from Academy, Industry and Research institutes attended the full day event. Many participants found the workshop useful and suggested for more such events in future.

Prof. Vinoy delivering a talk on RF MEMS

The Chapter co-sponsored the International Radar Symposium India 2013 (IRSI-13) 10-14 Dec 2013 at NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore INDIA

B.2.2.10 EEE Consumer Electronics Bangalore Chapter

Activity Summary The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, Bangalore Chapter had a number of knowledge based activities filling up the calendar year 2013. A number of workshops were held and crucial relationships established between industry and academia. The


30 activities were conducted targeting the professional and student communities in and around Bangalore

• Conducted the first 2013 IEEE CE Distinguished Lecture by Joe Decuir, Chair, Bluetooth SIG standards group, on “Bluetooth Low Energy standard and its usage”, at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

• The 3rd Advanced graphic workshop (GFX2013) was held with active participation from industry and academia

• The second edition of Innovation workshop (IQ2013) was held for industry professionals with very good participation

• Careers in Compute, Graphics and Visual Engineering, CCGE 2013 – was held to enable dissemination of knowledge to the student community from the experienced professionals

• Best Student Project 2013 – focused activity resulted in participation from more than 20 colleges across India

• The best innovative project award was alse awarded for the second year by the chapter

• The execom of Consumer Electronics society met regularly to discuss, plan and manage the chapter activities

• The mentorship program started has been running in RITM and has been proved very effective both due to the mentor Mr Mitesh Khadgi’s contribution and the insititude and students’s commitment

• The chapter approved two technical sponsorship for internation IEEE conferences to be conducted at Reva Institute of Technology & Management and PES Insititute of Technology in 2014

Technical Activities Summary

Distinguished lecture Series: The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, in cooperation with DESE, IISc, conducted the first 2013 IEEE CE Distinguished Lecture, by Joe Decuir, Vice Chair, Bluetooth Architectural Review Board, and Standards Architect, CSR, on March 21st, 2013.

GFX2013 – IEEE CE organised the Third Advanced Graphics Workshop on May 25th, 2013 covering the theory behind the Khronos OpenGL ES2.0 specification, the OpenGL ES2.0 API, its application to modern frameworks like Android, and providing an opportunity to work with live, hands-on OpenGLES2.0 labs

Careers in Compute, Graphics and Visual Engineering, CCGE 2013 (REVA College of Engineering) : IEEE Consumer Electronics Society conducted a half-day workshop for Engineering students at REVA college of Engineering, Bangalore, with the participation from leading companies in the Compute, Graphics and Visual Engineering fields, and Association of Bangalore Animation Industry (ABAI).

iQ2013: The highly acclaimed second edition of one day workshop on Innovation was held at the Royal Orchid Hotel, Manipal Center, Bangalore on 20th of July, under IEEE Consumer Electronics Chapter. Sudeendra Koushik , Chairman of the Chapter conducted


31 the workshop . The workshop was attended by professionals representing diverse sectors, including a repeat participant from last year’s workshop

Best Student Project Award: IEEE CE conducted the second Best Student Project Award for the year 2013 in the month of July. We got an overwhelming response from all over India. We had awarded first , second and third prizes to winners. We are planning to make it an annual event.

2014 Roadmap

The IEEE Consumer Electronics society will further the areas of CE to reach out to more CE members, by conducting more technical events – by inviting Distinguished Lecturers in related fields, Specialists from Industry, and providing more avenues for IEEE CE members to share and increase their knowledge base. 1. Continue the valuable workshops on gfx and Innovation 2. Involve additional members and volunteers 3. A focused workshop together with international chapter participation (France) 4. Industry membership and involvement drive

B.3 Professional and Continuing Education Activities Various professional activities are reported below:

IEEE Bangalore section has signed following 3 MoUs in the year 2013.

1. With PMI Bangalore MoU is signed between IEEE BLR and PMI BLR, to bring value to IEEE professional members & PMI BLR members with the skills and competencies which are beneficial to both members. The collaboration will be in the following areas:

• IEEE and PMI BLR will act as out reach partners for respective talks/conferences/seminars/courses etc. Relevant information would be shared in advance and mutual member benefits will be provided in the events.

a. This includes special discounts for members as agreed before each specific event b. Stalls or speaker slots in the events will be mutually agreed

• IEEE and PMI BLR will conduct Project Management Certification training for IEEE senior members at subsidized rate.

a. PMI BLR will take responsibility of the course material and trainers b. IEEE and PMI BLR will equally share the costs of the event.

• IEEE Senior members would be offered a discount of 10% on the course fee of Project Management Practitioners Conference (PMPC) – conducted by PMI Bangalore Chapter.

a. IEEE will offer this course as a career enhancement for IEEE members • IEEE will provide PMI BLR student associates an opportunity to work with IEEE

Senior members for internship or for mentoring as per the situation.


32 2. With ISA Bangalore To bring value to IEEE professional members with the skills and competencies this MoU is signed with ISA, which works in the area of enhancing technical skills and co-operation. The collaboration will be in the following areas: • IEEE and ISA-B will act as outreach partners for respective talks/ conferences/

seminars/ courses etc. Relevant information would be shared in advance and mutual member benefits will be provided in the events.

a. This includes special discounts for members as agreed before the event b. Stalls or speaker slots in the events will be mutually agreed

• IEEE and ISA-B will work together to conduct seminars of mutual interest for both communities every year

a. Both teams will work together and agree on topics • IEEE will work together with ISA-B for enhancing skills of students in

engineering colleges for the affiliated student sections

3. With IPL Bangalore: To bring value to IEEE professional members with the skills and competencies this MoU is signed with IPL, which works in the area of enhancing Product management skills. The collaboration will be in the following areas:

• IEEE and IPL will act as outreach partners for respective talks/conferences/seminars/courses etc. Relevant information would be shared in advance and mutual member benefits will be provided in the events.

a. This includes special discounts for members as agreed before the event b. Stalls or speaker slots in the events will be mutually agreed

• IEEE and IPL will conduct one-day product management training for IEEE senior members at subsidized rate.

a. IPL will take responsibility of the course material and trainers b. IEEE and IPL will equally share the costs of the event.

• IEEE Senior members would be offered a discount of 10% on the course fee of International Certificate in Product Management and Marketing (ICPM) – conducted by IPL.

a. IEEE will offer this course as a career enhancement for IEEE members • IEEE will provide IPL students an opportunity to work with IEEE Senior

members for internship or for mentoring as per the situation.

I. A guidance camp was organized over couple of weekends with senior mentors to help discuss various issues of startup companies

II. A technical talk on Project management was organized to give an overview of PM roles and opportunities and also PMI Bangalore offerings

III. An Industry collaboration event was organized for industry professionals with TE Connectivity

IV. A focused professional activities development day was organized for the WiE members

V. IEEE was part of TiE start up festival and a talk was given at TiE start up festival


33 WIE Professional Activities Day PMI talk on Project Management

Industry collaboration with TE Connectivity TiE start up festival

B.4 Students Activities B.4.1 Number of Student Branches IEEE Bangalore section has 61 student branches. This year following 9 student branches has been formed.

1. Acharya Institute of Technology 2. BMS Institute of Technology 3. BNM Institute of Technology 4. Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology 5. P.E.S Institute of Technology South Campus 6. Vivekananda Institute of Technology 7. Vemana Institute of Technology 8. K S Institute of Technology 9. Maharaja Institute of Technology, Mysore

B.4.2 Section Level Student Activities Following are the major section level activities

1. Student Leadership Congress at Mysore on 14-15 Dec 2013 2. Industrial Visits 3. Gold Interface Meeting 4. Branch Councillors Meet 5. IEEE BRV Vardhan Paper Presentation Competetion

Summary of Individual Student Branch is presented below in Tabular form:


34 Name of The Student Branch

Name of the Activity Date No. of Participant

UVCE Robotics 101 31 Oct 2013 85 Science Quiz 12 Nov 2013 70

Workshop on Python 24 Aug 2013 65 HTML and CSS Workshop 17 Sept 2013 80

NCode Sept-Nov 2013 1400 Ad-Venture 12th Sept 2013 130

Creatrix 10 Oct 2013 40 Talk on Entrepreneurship for

the Risk-Averse 28 Sep 2013 80

SVIT Robotics Workshop 21-22 Sep 2013 30 Technical Seminar 17 Apr 2013 30

SVCE Design Workshop 30-31Aug 2013 80 Paper Presentation 19 Apr 2013 25 Project Exhibition 3 Aug 2013 60 C++ Programming

Workshop 10 Apr 2013 30

Modeling and Simulation Using Matlab and Simulink

13-15 Sep 2013 92

PESIT Arduino 11-13 Sep 2013 150 PROCEBO 22 -23 Sep 2013 150

Python sessions 25,28,30 Sep 2013

20

BUILD THE WEB 12 Sep 2013 20 Voltace 22- 23 Sep 2013 160

MSRIT Robot Race Competition

10, 12 & 13 Apr 2013

45

Mozilla Firefox OS App 19 Oct 2013 60 CODE(X) 24– 25 Oct 2013 200

Talk on Innovation in engineering

16 Mar 2013 50

SAP 13 Apr 2013 40 Manipal Institute of Technology

Basic Robotics Workshop 8 & 10 Oct 2013 30 How Stuff Works 25 Oct 2013 34

Talk On Paper Presentation And Research Methodology

30 Sep 2013 40

BMSCE Line Follower Robot Workshop And Competition

30-31 Mar 2013 45

Workshop On Simulation Of Electronic Circuits In GNU/Linux Platform

28th April 2013 28

ADOBE Photoshop Workshop

21 Sep &19 Nov 2013

21

Teacher In Service Program (TISP) Volunteer Training

20 Apr 2013

40


35 Awareness And Relevance Of Innovation

9 Mar 2013 60

VVCE Line tracing robot competition

4 May 2013 20

Technical paper presentation competition

4 May 2013 30

ConQuizTador- General quiz competition

4 May 2013 24

‘C’- C programming competition

3 May 2013 30

Soldering and Etching Workshop

14th and 21st September 2013

25

SJCE Amaze 17 Mar 2013 21 Web Designing 5-15 Jul 2013 18 Cryptography 8 Nov 2013 82

Fedora Activity Day 10 Apr 2013 100 McAfee Security Quiz 23 Apr 2013 150

Tux Talk 7 Nov,2013 200 Mock Placements 19 Mar 2013 360

Student Panel Discussion 16 Mar 2013 80 E-nnovation 28 Feb 2013 50

NIE Arduino Workshop 19 Oct 2013 20 NISB-IBM Tech-Talk Marathon

27 Oct 2013 30

SIT, Tumkur Embedded Systems: Processors and Peripherals workshop

22-24 Feb 2013 50

Paper Presentation Workshop: Endeavour

19 Mar 2013

75

ROBOCORE 20-21 Apr 2013 100 IDEEAS 2 Mar 2013 100

BEC, Bagalkot Workshop on Electromagnetic

1-3 Mar 2013 20

Workshop on HTML-CSS Programming

9-10 Nov 2013 50

NOVUS ‘13 16-17 Nov 2013 100 Reva-ITM

Brv Vardhan Paper Contest 25 Oct 2013 50

NMIT Technical Poster Contest 9 Dec 2013 26 KSIT Quiz 26 Oct 2013 150 VVIET Megamind 50

Aptitide V2.0 8 Mar 2013 200 PESCE PATRIKA 19-20 Mar 2013 25

Quiz 27 Nov 2013 40 Ethical Hacking and Cyber forensics 2 Days Workshop- cum-Championship

25-26 Oct 2013 50


36 CODE QUEST 19-20 Mar 2013 100

MMEC, Belgaum

OJAS ‘13

2-13 Mar 2013 2500

SIET, Tumkur Workshop on Photoshop CS6 and Web Designing

1 May 2013 17

BVB, Hubli Microsoft App Development Workshop

24 Oct 2013 183

LIBRE OFFICE Workshop 8 Nov 2013 50 BVBCET LaTeX 9 Nov 2013 65 SSIT Tumkur Insight to Paper Presentation

And Publishing 21 Nov 2013 150

GIT, Belgaum IGREEN 24-25 Jul 2013 100 KLESCET ORATIO 15-16 Sep 2013 75

SAGA ‘ 13 and CONFLUENZE

14 Apr 2013 150

IEEE Xtreme Participation

Team Name Cillege / IEEE SB Worldwide Rank

All India Rank

THEARTNETWORK

National Institute of Technology Karnataka 33 3

BugAssassins National Institute of Technology Karnataka 39 4 ReturnNoError International Inst of Information Tech,

Bangalore 72 13

Trailblazers National Institute of Technology Karnataka 73 14 TheMinionModule International Inst of Information Tech,

Bangalore 77 15

CodeMasterZS B. M. Sreenivasalah College of Engineering 78 16 FellowshipOfThe0 University Visvesvaraya College of

Engineering 83 17

Intoxicated National Institute of Technology Karnataka 89 19 BMS1 B. M. Sreenivasalah College of Engineering 91 21 BMS11 B. M. Sreenivasalah College of Engineering 92 22 BMS2 B. M. Sreenivasalah College of Engineering 96 25 BMS21 B. M. Sreenivasalah College of Engineering 97 26 HardCode Gogte Inst Of Tech Karnataka. 111 36 BPT National Institute of Technology Karnataka 115 38 xecutioners Sri Jayachamarajendra College Of Eng 124 41 CSASAG Gogte Inst Of Tech Karnataka. 137 46 msritapp M S Ramaiah Inst Of Tech 140 48 Infomaniacs Nationall Inst of Engrg-Mysore 146 51


37 Conference Technical Sponsorship

The following International conferences have been affiliated as Technical Sponsorship from IEEE Bangalore Section. For Technical Sponsorship, for first time a standard form has been released from Bangalore Section. Whoever sends a request to IEEE BLR Section, they have to fill up the form properly. This form scrutinized by three members Technical activities Sub-committee of IEEE BLR Section. If the application upto mark, then IEEE Bangalore Section as well as the conference organizers is informed regarding the Technical sponsorship.

1. International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Security (ADCON-2013), December 15, 2013 - December 17, 2013, National Institute of Technology – Karnataka, Surathkal, Mangalore, Karnataka.

2. International Conference On Impact of E-Technology on US, IC-IMPETUS-2014, PES Institute of Technology – South Campus, January 10-11, 2014, Bangalore.

3. International Conference on “Advances in Electronics, Computers and Communications (ICAECC)” is proposed to be held at Reva Institute of Technology and Management, Bangalore.

B.5 Affinity Group Activities

B.5.1 GOLD Affinity Group

IEEE GOLD Bangalore has been in the forefront in conceptualizing and organizing events for the benefit of young professional members since its inception. In the present times, IEEE GOLD Bangalore felt the need for practical and do it yourself based workshops targeted towards the young technology professionals which would add and enhance their skill set in their professional career. The workshops held by IEEE Bangalore GOLD in the year 2013 are:

• TISP - Jnana Vijnana Vidyapeetha • Teacher in Service Program (TISP)-Volunteer Training • Teacher in Service Program (TISP) for IEE Members and Kids • TISP Follow Up Workshop at Jnana Vijnana Vidyapeeta School • Professional Workshop Series - Objective C & iOS App development • Professional Workshop Series – Windows 8 App Development

TISP -Jnana Vijnana Vidyapeetha IEEE GOLD Bangalore in association with Jnana Vijnana Vidyapeetha School, Bangalore organized the second TISP workshop in Bangalore for the year 2013 on 16th February, 2013. The GOLD Bangalore team represented by the chair Prakash Sudhir, and accompanied by Manjunath Iyer, Vandana M and Vijay K started the session with the introduction of IEEE, TISP, its mission and the team.

TISP Volunteers and Teachers The session which included the hands on activity for the lesson plan “Electronic Messages – Then and Now” was anchored by Manjunath after the introduction. The participants had the


38 required materials on the tables with the lesson plans. With a brief introduction to the history of communication, the goal and expected outcomes of the activity were explained to the participants. And yes, they were on their toes to start off with the activity trying new things and learning the already known concepts with practical applications. The feedback given by the participants were so effective that, the Principal of the school agreed upon allotting a special slot of 1hour duration for “TISP” activities in the school on the third Saturday every month starting from June 2013. The GOLD team also promised its presence with a volunteer in each of these activities.

Teacher in Service Program (TISP)-Volunteer Training BMS College of Engineering IEEE Student Chapter organized the volunteer training session for TISP initiative by IEEE. The event was held at Faculty Development Centre, BMSCE, on 20th of April, 2013 and attended by 40 participants (both student and faculty) from various institutions. The session was conducted by coordinators from TISP - Manjunath Iyer, Vishwas Jois and Vandana. The participants were divided into groups of 6 people each and were given a task of making a parachute. The activity saw many creative designs and the models made by the teams were competed against time. This activity taught the participants many technical aspects in a practical manner. Some light was shed on the process of induced thinking and practical learning.

Teacher in Service Program (TISP) for IEE Members and Kids

The first of its kind, Teacher in Service Program for IEEE Members and their kids was hosted in Bangalore Section on 11th May 2013 at the Institution of Engineers, Bangalore. This was an initiative to create awareness amongst the members about the TISP activities in the section. The event kick started at 10:00 AM by Manjunath Iyer who gave the participants a brief introduction to TISP and its ideologies. The Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) provides a forum for IEEE volunteers to demonstrate the application of engineering, science and mathematics concepts by sharing their real-world experiences. A brief report on the TISP activities conducted so far by IEEE GOLD was also shared with the participants.

IEEE Members and their kids

Participants


39 The activity chosen for the day was ‘Playing with parachute’. The main focus of the lesson was on parachute design. Teams construct parachutes from everyday materials. They then test their parachutes to determine whether they can transport a metal washer to a target on the ground with the slowest possible rate of descent. They were also familiarized with various technical aspects involved in designing the parachutes, like different types of parachutes, the mathematical relations controlling string length and diameter for efficient descent. Then the teams were given 60 minutes time to come up with their own design using everyday materials provided to them. These members, who are also the proud parents of the participating kids henceforth made a decision to make their kids work on such models during their vacation and free time and help them understand the concepts a lot better than just learning theory in the class room. The participating kids were also given a kit consisting of necessary materials and the lesson plan to carry out “Electric Messages. Then and Now” experiment under the supervision of their parents at home, as IEEE goodies. TISP Follow Up Workshop at Jnana Vijnana Vidyapeeta School

Continuing our association with Jnana Vignana Vidyapeetha (JVVP), IEEE GOLD Bangalore organized the third TISP session on the 20th of July. The topic to be covered for the day was Ohm’s law, series and parallel circuits. The classes targeted were the 9th and 10th grade. After a brief explanation of the statement of the law and the related formulae, we spoke about connections of components in circuits. Power sources, resistors, switches were covered as basic circuit components and the different modes of connections viz. series and parallel resistance concept was covered. Getting them to do things on their being was the main objective; we modeled the LED as a resistive load and provided them with the same. They used the batteries to light up the LED’s, learnt about the working. In the process of experimenting, the students managed to burn quite a number of LED’s and this led to another question ‘Why did the LED’s burn ?’.The session was filled with questions in situ that came from the hands on activity that was happening. The teachers too came up and leaned in on activities and asked questions.

Teaching Ohm’s Law to Students Fun with Ohm’s Law

On completing this activity, we moved on to measuring the voltages and currents of resistive circuits. The school had analog equipments in their labs like analog voltmeters, ammeters, which are not completely preferred for experiments. We had a digital multimeter with us and we showed them its uses by measuring the currents/voltages in different circuits. This was a three step process: Construct, Measure, Remove and Oversee construction. Initially, we construct a circuit, show them the voltages and currents across resistances, compare these


40 results with the theoretical ones obtained from the formula and teach them to debug the circuit in the process. Once this was done, we would remove the connections, and let the students make the connections. They would come back to us with their measurements for the particular resistive network. Of course we did use the analog voltmeters/ammeters in the circuits since the students would be using the same in their exams. By giving examples, we showed them the disadvantages of the analog components that are mainly limited by range.The Q&A session was the one that we had been waiting for and it was completely worth the wait. The doubts took the discussion one step ahead from series/parallel connections to star/delta connections and so on. Even though we had not extensively talked about parameters that change resistance, we had questions coming on the same asking about the effect of temperature and pressure on resistance. Questions about value of resistances through color codes and even materials that were used in the making of resistances came up as we tried to satisfy their enthusiasm with our answers. We had an interactive session with the principal of the school Mrs Lakshmi and gave her feedback on the day’s session and it was happy to know that this positivity was reciprocated to us from the feedback that the students had given her. It was good to know that our efforts had been appreciated.

Professional Workshop Series - Objective C & iOS App development

A model was worked upon through which the IEEE GOLD Bangalore would collaborate with the technology companies and impart workshops on latest technologies. As part of this series of workshop, a workshop on iOS and Objective C Application Development was organized in association with Exilant Technologies Pvt Ltd at Bangalore, India from August 24th to August 28th 2013. IEEE GOLD Bangalore was overwhelmed by the response and call for registrations. A total of 260+ members registered from across India Council. An online quiz was conducted to choose the best fit participant, after which 20 participants were given an opportunity to be a part of the workshop. Selected participants had come from varied background such as senior industry professionals, academicians, entrepreneurs and students.

Participants Breakup

Topics covered as part of the workshop

● Introduction to Mac OS X & iOS Architecture. ● Introduction to Frameworks & Cocoa, Xcode- Objective C ● Functions, Constructors & Memory Management ● Utilities & Collections & Data Structures ● Threading & Exception Handling ● Protocols, Categories, Properties, KVC ● Helper Objects: NSTableView, Delegates & DataSource ● Bindings, KVC, KVO ● NSTableView with NSArrayController, MVC ● Connections, Creating First iPhone application

Session by Vivek, IBM


41 ● Core Location, Map Kit and text Input ● Sub Classing and UI View ● View Controllers ● Notification and Rotation/Orientation ● Debugging Techniques ● Crash Analysis ● Use of Instruments ● App distribution process on App store

The closing day event was presided over by Mr. Ravikiran, CEO, Teritree and Vice-Chair of IEEE Bangalore Section and Mr. T G Srinath, Global Head - Sales and Marketing, Exilant Technologies Pvt Limited.While addressing the participants, Mr. TG Srinath mentioned that learning has four phases,

• Unconscious Incompetence • Conscious Incompetence • Conscious Competence • Unconscious Competence

He made the participants realise that each of us would start from the first phase of Unconscious Incompetence and reach a phase of Unconscious Competence where all the efforts in training would be fruitful. Participation certificates were distributed and feedback from the participants was elicited. Professional Workshop Series – Windows 8 App Development After a successful “Objective-C and iOS App development” workshop in June, 2013, this time it was Windows 8 App development in association with Microsoft. And to mark a difference, for the audience 300 km away from Bangalore in the twin city Hubli of the North Karnataka Hub on the 24th October 2013. Final year and pre-final year students from seven colleges in the North Karnataka Hub namely, BVBCET, KLECET, SDMCET, KLSGIT, BEC, KLEIT and MMFC registered in huge numbers which reached the marks of 300 and eventually 200 of these participants were selected to participate in the event. This time, the event was planned with an intention of not just making the participants get the necessary skills to build quality applications, but also to make sure that they build applications which go on to be published in the Windows Store there by giving the participants a perfect platform to showcase their talent to the global audience. The program is spread across 6 weeks which is initiated from the Boot camp. The bootcamp was initiated on the 24th of October 2013 at 9:30 AM with a packed audience by the Vice-Principal of BVBCET, Dr. B L Desai and was presided over by the branch councelor of BVBCET, Dr. Banakar and witnessed faculty of BVBCET and other partnering institutions. The Microsoft team of four members from the Developer Evangelism team, led by Deepthi Ananthram – Senior Developer Evangelist engaged the participants after the inauguration for the entire day with their interactive sessions on the basics of application development on Windows 8 which included but not restricted to the following topics,

• Understanding the benefits of building a Windows 8 App. • How to get started with building Apps in different languages. • Help available to build a “quality” App and how to levarage the same. • Execution model and engagement in the coming days.

IEEE GOLD team with participant


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• Submit App ideals and discuss technical feasibility and targeted end audience.

This was followed with the distribution of DreamSpark keys to the students which enable them to use all the developer tools and software from Microsoft for free. They are also entitled to receive technical assistance from the Microsoft team for building their applications. The event was led by Deepak Awari from the GOLD Bangalore team, who concluded the event with an introduction to GOLD activities motivating all the participants to actively involved in the GOLD initiatives from the section as well as at the regional level. B.5.2 Women In Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group

Here’s a list of events organized, conducted or volunteered by members of WIE:

• An event named ‘Belaku’ was organized by the student branch of SIT, Tumkur. This event was conducted throughout a month starting from 24th February up till 30th of March, 2013. The event took place in Shettihalli at the outskirts of Tumkur. Around 30 rural women actively participated in the event. This project mainly aimed at educating & empowering the women with skills & confidence necessary to get a job.

• BEC-WIE celebrated Women’s day on 8th March 2013 to motivate and inspire the budding women folk of the college. The celebration was followed by fun games. Also there was a formal meeting on the upcoming events. Around 25 students attended the event.

• On March 8th 2013, the WIE affinity group of IEEE-PESCE celebrated International Women’s day in the college in which more than 50 girls actively took part.

• To train the students to face campus interviews where aptitude is the main and primary criteria, Aptitude test was conducted by the WIE IEEE wing of BEC, Bagalkot on 15th March 2013. The main motto was to improve the mathematical and logical reasoning skills of BEC students. The test included the questions from mathematics, c- language, English vocabulary and puzzles. Around 35 students participated in the event.

• A social event was organized by BEC-IEEE SB at Akshardham- an orphanage at Neeralkeri, on 17th March 2013. The event aimed to provide a homely environment to the children and make them feel one amongst the students. The interaction helped them to be equipped for facing the future. Also they were shown inspiring videos of the great leaders of the nation and cartoons.

• A workshop named ‘Endeavor’ was organized by the WIE IEEE wing of SIT, Tumkur on 19th March 2013. The workshop mainly concentrated on the etiquettes of writing a technical paper and techniques to present the paper. Around 75 students attended the workshop.

• WIE IEEE UVCE organized Pyramid, an event that was based on the team building abilities of participants on 2nd April 2013, as a part of the technical extravaganza IMPETUS’13. 50 students from various colleges participated in the event.

• WIE IEEE UVCE organized a fun event on 16th April 2013, called Being ME (Multitasking Engineer) that aimed at bringing out the team building abilities in students. 30 students participated in it.

• Robocore’13 was a national level technical fest dedicated to Robotics organized by IEEE & WIE SIT, Tumkur. It consisted of various robotics competitions such as Robo


43 soccer, Line follower etc., providing an exclusive opportunity for robotic enthusiasts to showcase their skills in robotic designing. It was organized on 20th and 21st April 2013 and saw a participation of around 250 students.

• The WIE Chairperson of Bangalore Section and the Branch Counsellor of IEEE UVCE, Dr. P Deepa Shenoy attended the WIEC, an in-person meet at Atlanta on 4th and 5th May, 2013.

• BEC-WIE celebrated the farewell to its final year members by means of a stress relief event full of fun games, on 18th May 2013. This also encouraged the new members to actively participate in the upcoming events thus raising their interests through inspiring words of the seniors. Around 40 students were present for the same.

• I-Green- a hub level event of North Karnataka hub was hosted by Gogte college, Belgaum on 24th and 25th July 2013. It was conducted jointly by Gogte institute of technology Belgaum, KLECET Belgaum, Maratha Mandal college Belgaum, BVB Hubli, BEC Bagalkot. The main theme of the event was to promote the importance and create awareness among the students about the environment, ill effects of deforestation & importance of renewable sources. BEC IEEE-WIE conducted Environmental Quiz as part of I-Green. This event saw a participation of around 100 students.

• The WIE Inaugural function of the IEEE Student Brach of VVIET, Mysore was held on 24th August 2013. Smt. Vanaja B Pandith, Hon. Secretary, GSSSIETW, Mysore inaugurated the program and shared her views on why women need professional education and workspace. She also gave an insight on the vision and challenges encountered with setting up the only women engineering college, Mysore. Around 70 students were present for the same.

• ‘WIE Professional Activities Day’ was organized on 1st September 2013. This It was an event organized by IEEE Bangalore section and aimed at budding professional women engineers who were a part of IEEE. There was a Skills session, a talk on career aspects for women, a panel discussion, keynote addressing and much more. The event saw participation from UVCE, RVCE, PESIT, RNSIT, Reva, SKSJTI, BMSCE, SIT Tumkur, VVIET Mysore, GIT Belgaum etc. Over 100 students from the above mentioned colleges participated in this event.

• WIE IEEE wing of VVIET, Mysore organized a Debate competition on 26th September 2013. This was a college level debate competition on the topic “women in engineering - challenges and opportunities”. Over 100 students participated in the same.

• IEEE Student branch of RNSIT, Bangalore organized a Coding contest as a part of IEEE Day on 1st October 2013 with a separate award for girl students. The event saw participation from around 50 students.

• WIE STAR Program was organized by WIE IEEE Student branch of PESIT, South Bangalore Campus on 5th October 2013. The primary objective of this workshop was to explain the different career options open to the PUC (12th standard) students. This would help them choose the stream (Engineering, Medicine, Science, etc) after they finish their PUC. Around 25 students were present for the same.

• A college level sketching competition on topic “The role of Today’s women in society” was organized by the WIE IEEE Student Branch of VVIET, Mysore on 10th October 2013. The event saw a participation of over 50 students.


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• The WIE IEEE wing of UVCE Bangalore Organized ‘WIE Day’ on 22nd October 2013. This event was an orientation event for students of UVCE. The WIE Execom tried to answer questions like why WIE, how is the student benefited as a WIE member etc. 2 fun events, Face Blur and Innovative thinking were organized to entertain the attendees. Inspiring videos were shown and plans for the sem were discussed. Around 25 girl students were present for the same.

• Student development Programme on 'Career opportunities for Girls’ in Defence and Civil services was held on 22nd October 2013. With the aim to develop interest, motivate and help girl students to know about job opportunities and career environment, a Student development Programme on 'Career opportunities for Girls’ in Defence and Civil services' was organized by BEC-IEEE- WIE & Dept of EEE (under TEQIP-II Training Programme) at BEC Bagalkot. Major General (Rtd) K. N. Mirji (VSM), Shri. Shaivayogi Kalsad (Commissioner R&R, UKP), Captain Arti Rawat were invited as the guest speakers. The programme was conducted in two sessions. It aimed to bring about an exposure for various opportunities in the armed forces i.e., The Army, the Air Force and the Navy. Around 320 students attended the programme.

• A community service programme was organized on 5th November 2013, by WIE IEEE VVIET, Mysore. This was a program to help children of school. Children were guided to study hard and achieve their goal and serve the nation. They were taken around college campus and told what is engineering and its advantages and opportunities. A lot of activities like singing, dancing, pick and act and other fun activities were conducted. Around 40 students participated in the same.

• WIE Paper presentation was organized as a part of IEEE UVCE's 10th Annual Technical Paper Presentation Competition, Kagada' 13 on 8th November 2013. 15 students participated in the same.

• STAR Program was organized by WIE IEEE UVCE on 8th November 2013, as a part of IEEE UVCE's 10th Annual Technical Paper Presentation Competition, Kagada' 13. 30 girl students of 9th and 10th standard were invited for the same.

• A session on Web Designing was organized by WIE IEEE UVCE, Bangalore on 9th November 2013. An alumnus of UVCE from SAP Labs and a current student of UVCE were the speakers for the event. First the Basics of HTML required to build a website was taught, followed by CSS Basics. The session was hands- on at the end of it, tools and languages required to build a website was roughly covered.

• A meeting with WIE Chairperson of Madras Section, Dr. Ramalatha Marimuthu to discuss the various activities organized by IEEE UVCE on 12th November 2013 and also to discuss various future plans to be held in collaboration with other sections like Madras Section, Hyderabad Section etc.

• Adobe Photoshop Workshop was organized by WIE IEEE BMSCE on 19th and 21st November 2013. This Workshop was conducted to give the students an insight of the tools and techniques Adobe Photoshop has to offer and how it can be used to render images and create innovative raster designs. 21 students participated in the workshop.

• A meeting with the WIE Chairperson of Orlando Section, Dr Parveen Wahid was organized by IEEE UVCE on 10th December 2013. Dr. Parveen addressed the Executive Committee of IEEE UVCE, spoke about the various opportunities a WIE member can get, the statistics of WIE memberships across various section etc.


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• A WIE session was held as part of the IEEE Industry Day celebration on 7th January 2014 at J N TATA Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Organized by IEEE Bangalore Section, the session had 3 distinguished speakers talk, which centered on the core theme of women safety and assistive technology. The first speaker of the day was Dr. Ramalatha Marimuthu, WIE Chairperson of Madras Section who delivered a talk on the “Significance of assistive technology in engineering education” and also spoke about the work she had done along with students like the development of unique solutions for various social problems like autism and dyslexia in young children. The second speaker was Dr Chitra Thyagarajan, Safety and Reliability Expert, Mahindra Satyam who presented a talk on “Technology Solutions for Safety of Women” and hence through her talk enlightened the women audience present, about the various technological solutions available for the safety of women. Following this was a talk on “Insight into Android applications for Safety of Human Beings” delivered by Ms. Sahana J, Research Scholar, WIE IEEE UVCE. She apprised the audience present about the innumerable android applications present in today’s market for safety and how they worked. The session saw 50 participants.

• Members of WIE IEEE RNSIT, Bangalore have taken a responsibility of translating the lecture notes from English to Kannada. The lecture notes are in the science subjects for high school students and the responsibility was given by IEEE GOLD. The task is under progress, as it involves lot of topics in the various subjects like Physics, Chemistry etc. WIE Professional Activities Day WIE STAR Program at Kagada’ 13 Meeting with Dr R. Marimuthu

Meeting with Dr Parveen Wahid WIE Session at CONECCT


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B.6 Awards & Recognition Activities B.6.1 Award constituted by the section Section has constituted following awards to encourage volunteers

1. Best Chapter 2. Best Student volunteers 3. Best Student Branch 4. Best Student Branch counsellor 5. Outstanding Section volunteer 6. Best Student Branch Website

B.6.2 Awards received from R10

1. IEEE R10 Digital Connect Survey Winner-Section Category-IEEE Bangalore section

2. IEEE Outstanding Branch Counsellor and Advisor Award recognition program: Dr Suman David S. of NITK,Surathkal

3. IEEE HTA R-10 award for funded project: Dr. Preeta Sharan 4. IEEE R10 Blog Tweet and Win Contest: Runner up- Mr Abhilash M of MNIT

Bangalore, 5. IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch awards- Silver, to NITK Surathkal

IEEE student branch. 6. IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch awards-Bronze, to B M

Sreenivasiah College of Engineering, IEEE Student Branch 7. R10 South Asia sub-region outstanding Award for member benefits : Bangalore

section for "Project SIMPLE to engage members at large for Senior Members Elevation".

B.6.2 Awards received from IEEE HQ

1. IEEE GOLD Achievement Award 2. Best Paper/Best Student Paper Award for IEEE Data Storage of 2011/2012

B.7 Communication Activities (Newsletter, Home Page, E-mail etc.) B.7.1 Newsletter Section Publishes quarterly News Letter namely IEEE Broadcast, which brings out information about major events held during the previous quarter. B.7.2 Homepage Section has its own webpage which is updated at every 10 days. You can reach section home page, http://bcp.ieeebangalore.org/ B.7.3 Other Means of Communication

With advancements to social media, Section has invested time and resources to keep its section website updated, Twitter (@ieeebangalore) chatter ongoing and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/IEEEBangaloreSection) feeds active. This has enabled


47 many of our members to stay connected. Event registrations have been streamlined by using online payment gateways and pilot runs to record events and host it on our website were undertaken. B.8 Industry Relations Industry Day 2014

On the side lines of CONNECT Conference, Bangalore section has also organized Industry Day on Jan 7th, 2014, with an aim to bridge the gap between Industry and Academia. It was attended by more than 100 professionals from various industry domains. Keynote address was delivered by Prof. S. Mohan, Visiting Professor- Centre for Nano Science and Engineering on “Commercialization of Innovation, emerging from academia-Industry collaboration”. Following Plenary/Invited Talks were given:

1. IBM Watson-The rise of Cognitive Computing, By Dr. AshishMungi, Executive Architect, IBM Watson-India Software Labs

2. VLSI Architectures for Communications and Signal Processing, By Dr. KiranGunnam, Violin Memory Inc , USA (Along with CONECCT)

3. The challenges of service robots, By Prof. Gurvinder S. Virk , Univ. of Gävle, & KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden(Along with CONECCT)

4. Internet of Things By Dr. MukeshTaneja / L.R. Bhat CISCO 5. Mobility: Energizing the next generation Digital Era : Speaker-Mr. Sandeep Alur,

Technical Evangelism Manager, Microsoft 6. Impact of Cloud based solutions and big data analytics on media streaming

industry by Mr. Mahesh Subramanian, CTO Touch Phone 7. Going Mobile by mr. Satyajeet Singh, Head Cleartrip Mobile Solutions 8. Product Management Process-Crtical for Launching New Product Innovation by

Prof. Pinkash Shah, Director Program, Institute of Product Leadership 9. Converged Infrastructure for future Telecom by Vipin Tyagi, Director, C-DoT

This initiative was well appreciated by all the participants and speakers. They felt that it is a very good platform to know industry and academia requirements. They have agreed to participate in future events also.

B.9 Humanitarian Technology Activities AIYEHUM 2013 All India Young Engineers Humanitarian Challenge 2013 (AIYEHUM 2013):

After 4 successful years in India, this program is now being organized to reach participants from all the Asia-Pacific (IEEE Region 10) countries. Bangalore Section is sponsoring AIyeHum 2013. IEEE Bangalore Section in collaboration with IEEE EPICS

Inaugural Session of Industry day (Left to Right) Mr. Hitesh Mehta, Prof S.Mohan, Mr. B.N.Pal, Dr Ashish Mungi


48 (Engineering Projects for Community Service) announced annual Humanitarian Technology Challenge which invites students and graduates to apply science and technology for the benefit of mankind with focus on practical/on the ground / society implementations. Nearly 350 projects received from 7 countries and 21 projects were selected by 14 eminent jury members across Asia. Out of 21, 14 team took up the challenge. During the mentoring phase a database of 300+ Senior members & professionals were formed, who are willing to mentor the project team. Event concluded with evaluation of intermediate report and Final reports, results are as follows: 4. Development of low cost arterial pulse analyser on Aakash Tablet for rural PHCs: IIT

Bombay, India 5. Ultra-sonic spectacles and waist-belt for mobility of visually impaired: IIT Kharagpur,

India 6. Versatile personal navigation aid and information portal for visually impaired people

and elderly people in Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong B.10 Community Activities

IEEE Day Celebrations

1. Cybertron – An Online Tech Mania: Cybertron was an IEEE R10 level online treasure hunt conducted on October 1st, 2013 on the occasion of IEEE Day. The Event was based on the e-quiz pattern. It was funded together by the IEEE Bangalore Section & IEEE Region 10 ECIM Team. A website was designed for this purpose and the event was hosted on a domain, http://ieeegit.org/cybertron. The Event was coordinated by IEEE Region 10 Volunteers and IEEE Bangalore Section Student Activities Committee with help from various Student Branches from the Section who helped framing the questions and designing the website. The event was effectively publicized on Collaboration Platforms of various sections and on Social Media such as Facebook and Twitter and had attracted a lot of participants. There were totally 4 sets of 10 questions each, one question leading to the next. 40 minutes was given to each participant to complete a set. Bonus points were awarded for the participant on the basis of time taken for the completion of a set. Participation certificates were awarded to Participants who managed to complete at least 1 set. The winners were decided based on the criteria of timings and on the number of questions answered as well. The event had 269 participants from various sections of India, Pakistan, Japan and other Region 10 Countries. The Winners were Suma Prasanth from MVGR college of Hyderabad section, India and Sachin Pandey from SVCE college of Bangalore section, India. Both have been awarded with merit certificates and were shortlisted to attend The All India computer society student congress 2013 to be held at Bangalore and got partial funding for their travel expenses and other prizes worth $250 have been distributed to them. The event saw Enormous success and encouraged the individuals to Think-beyond-the-Box.

2. Industry Visits: Following visits were arranged for Students members of section a. Nokia Solutions Networks b. Bharat Electronics Ltd c. Southern Region Load Dispatch Center (SRLDC)


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PART C - OTHERS C.1 Relationship with National Societies IEEE Bangalore section has strong collaboration with Institute of Engineers (IE) and Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE). Section co-sponsors and participate in their technical activities and invites them to participate in IEEE Bangalore section activities. Section conducts monthly ExeCom Meetings in IE premises. C. 2 Special Events Communication Society President Prof Vijay Bhargava visited section and met Execom Members at IEEE India office. He discussed the ComSoc future course of action and their relevance to India in general and Bangalore in particular. C.3 Best Practices of the section Section strength lies in Student Members. Section always involves and encourages Student Members to volunteer in all section activities. Section has made an ecosystem in which active student volunteers becomes part of GOLD and section activities. Further, these active members are encouraged to become integral part of all the section activities. PART D - GOALS AND PLANS 2014 IEEE Bangalore section has a vision to “Stay Relevant” to needs of IEEE members and the changing ecosystem in technology research and business. The three key focus areas or mission are:

1. Excellence: in Tecchnology and Professional work 2. Innovation: Leveraging power of Ideas 3. Ecosystem : Leveraging power of People

All activities in 2014 will be focused on achieving these three goals. D.1 Student Activities

1. 10 Section Sponsored workshops in student branches 2. Formation of IEEE Innovation cell in every student branch (Target: 50) 3. MoU with National Entrepreneur Network 4. Job/Internship Portal for Students

D.2 Technical Activities

1. 5 Bootcamps across 5 different topics speard across the year


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D.3 Professional Activities

1. 100 Ideas: Innovation Workshop, to capture 100 innovative ideas 2. Development of ‘Hobbypreuner’ platform for young professionals to showcase

ther innovation and give a simulated experience of starting a company. 3. 1 seminar on Product Management in collaboration with Institute of Product

Management 4. Joint program (Course) with PMI

D.4 Industrial Relations

1. Formation of Industry Academic Council to help academia in framing their syllabus to meet present Industry requirements (Target: 5 Disciplines)

2. Celebration of Industry day 3. Start of Industry Partnership Program (Target: Min. 3 Industry partnership)

D.5 Chapter Co-ordination

1. Organising 2 Technology Conclave (with the participation of all Bangalore section society chapters)

2. Formation of Cloud Technology Council

D.6 Educational Activities 1. 5 Tutorials 2. 3 Educational Alliances

D.7 Conferences

1. Only Technical Sponsorship 2. Celebration of Innovation Day 3. Organising Section Flagship Conference IEEE CONECCT

D.8 Membership Development

1. Start of Health Insurance Policy for Section Members and their Families 2. Start of Quarterly Networking meetings with Fellows and Senior Members 3. Start of Distinguished Speaker Series involving Fellows and Senior Members 4. Start of Mentor Program involving Fellows and Senior Members 5. 15% Growth in Membership

D.9 Other Important Goal

1. IEEE SIGHT : Funding 5 Humanitarian Project (each with Rs 25,000) 2. Starting Final Year B.Tech/M.Tech Humanitarian Project in collaboration with

Universities 3. Starting Innovation award in addition to existing section award 4. Archival of IEEE Bangalore section History 5. Automation of workflows and documentation 6. Start of On-line fund transfer for financial streamlining

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