NEWSLETTER
A House  Journal of
IEEE Kerala Section
Volume 12 Number 1
January - March 2003

Contents

Diary Of Events
Forthcoming Events
Re-entry-Rushworth M. Kidder
Gold Activities
Annual Report 2002
Nano Muscles - N.T. Nair
Editorial
Women in Aerospace
Advertisement

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Diary of Events

01-01-2003	“Rubber Dams”, R. Sreekumar, Dy. General Manager, Project Engg. & Experts Division, Steel Industries Kerala Ltd.
11-01-2003	“Fresh Water and Food Security”, C.D Thatte, Secretary General, International Commission for Irrigation and Drainage.
11-01-2003	Annual General Meeting of IEEE Kerala Section at 18.00 Hrs at Hotel Horizon, Thiruvananthapuram.
15-01-2003	“Re-Entry Mission – Challenges in Technology”, Rajeev. U.P, VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram.
22-01-2003	“Earthquake Prediction – A Reality ?”, Chelladurai, Head, EL/STL, VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram.
29-01-2003	“Quality Management in Services and Manufacture through IT Industries”, N.T. Nair, Vice President (R&D), CMS Computers Ltd, Thiruvananthapuram.
05-02-2003	Recent Changes in Specification and Construction Techniques for Road Works”, Kuncheria P Issac, Professor, College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram-16.
05-02-2003	“Minimal Resource Allocation Network – MRAN”, a seminar organized by IEEE Computer Society at TCS Conference Hall, Technopark.
09-02-2003	Life Skill Programme for Professional College Students – one day programme at TCS, Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram organized by GOLD, IEEE Kerala Section.
11-02-2003	“Clear Production Techniques - an Innovative Approach”, N.G. Nair, Former Director, Defense Production, GOI
15-02-2003	First Executive Committee meeting - 2003 of IEEE Kerala Section.
19-02-2003	“Cyber Terrorism and Security”, V.K. Bhadran, Joint Director, ER & DCI, Thiruvananthapuram
25-02-2003	Felicitations conferred to prestigious Padmashri Award winners.
26-02-2003	“Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)”, K.N. Sab, ER&DCI, Thiruvananthapuram.
28-02-2003	“Security in Ad-hoc Wireless Networks”, talk by Alsgar, Concordia University, Canada at Amphitheatre, ER & DCI, Thiruvananthapuram.
05-03-2003	“A Water Policy for Kerala”, R. Balakrishnan Nair, Former CE, Kerala State Electricity Board.
12-03-2003	Condolence meeting to pay homage to A.K. Poojari at IE Hall, Thiruvananthapuram.
12-03-2004	“Agile Process Methodologies”, Satish Babu, InApp, Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram.
19-03-2003	“Micro Kernel Operating System”, S. Hemachandran, S.F. IISU, ISRO, Thiruvananthapuram.
26-03-2003	“Hybrid Electric Vehicles”, Z.V Lakaparambil, Jt. Director, ER & DCI, Thiruvananthapuram.

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Forthcoming Events
02-04-2003	“Learning Structural Design from Nature”, V. Rajendra Babu, Dean of P.G. Studies, College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram.
3, 4-04-2003	Workshop on Transactional Analysis at IE Hall by IE (I).
09-04-2003	“CISCO Remote Access Networks”, Anish Philipose, Network Consultant, Time Technologies.net Pvt. Ltd, Thiruvananthapuram.
12-04-2003	Second Executive Committee meeting – 2003 of IEEE Kerala Section at ‘Harmonieee’, Thiruvananthapuram.
16-04-2003	“Principles of Nature Cure”, V. Rajendra Babu, Dean PG Studies, College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram.
23-04-2003	“From E-Commerce to E-Business – Contours of the New Technology”, Satish Babu, InApp Techno Park, Thiruvananthapuram.
24 to 28-05-2003	IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS- 2003) at Imperial Queens Park Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand.
10 to 12 09-2003	International Conference on Integrated Circuits, Devices and Systems, at Singapore organized by Nanyang Technological University in co-operation with IEEE Singapore Section.

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Re-entry- Rushworth M. Kidder

When the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up during reentry over Texas and Louisiana on Saturday, it rained down more than debris. What fell out was a message, sad and spectacular. It was beamed to the soul of a nation engaged since 9/11 in a different kind of reentry -- a country slowly returning to its heritage of moral awareness. To read it carefully and learn its meaning may be the best way we can honor the seven astronauts who perished that day.

The tragedy didn't need to happen, of course. Without its lesson, Americans could still have fought their way back to an increasingly respectful and caring habit of mind and character. But the message of the Columbia, like that of 9/11, compelled this nation of pragmatists once again to ask profound moral and metaphysical questions: Why do such things happen? What is life for? What can you blame when it's nobody's fault?

In a sense, this national reentry -- this return to the root values of our collective experience -- has been impelled by the need to come to terms with such questions. For the past decade, there have been lots of small signs and faint signals of our reentry: more concern for character education in schools, more conversations about values in the military, more integrity training in corporations, more questions about the morality of political campaigning, more media focus on ethics.

But it's also been a decade with brutal headwinds. During the 1990s, a jet stream of materialism and self-congratulation gathered new force. Operating invisibly and at high altitudes, it changed the mental and moral climate of everything below. With its allure of immediate wealth, fame, and power, it tore into our settled convictions about modesty, continuity, and deferred gratification.

It's true, of course, that neither material down-drag nor ethical rekindling is a new phenomenon. What's different is the intensity of their interaction. Researchers at the American Council of Education, surveying entering university freshman since 1968, found in that first year that only 42 percent thought it important to "be very well off financially." By contrast, more than 80 percent said it was important to "develop a meaningful philosophy of life." Over the ensuing years, the curves have steadily flip-flopped: By 2000, more than 70 percent were clamoring for wealth, while only 42 percent wanted meaningfulness.

Then, in 2001, came the first major jolt of reentry: the attacks of 9/11. They were followed by Enron, Arthur Andersen, and other corporate scandals, and reinforced by revelations of failed leadership at the Catholic Church, the FBI, the SEC, the Red Cross, the United States Olympic Committee, and elsewhere. As the impact has sunk in and hard questions have arisen, individuals have begun to turn back in search of something lost: an ability to contemplate the meaning of existence, a reawakening to the importance of values, a recommitment to principles beyond the self and to rewards beyond the senses.

How does Columbia figure in all this? By reminding us that the hardest part of the journey is the reentry. Building a rocket to get you into space -- that's the comparatively easy part. What's hard is to design a vehicle that can stand the intensity of the return -- tremendous speed, white-hot heat -- and then to dare to fly it. That's not just true of space travel. Divers, too, find it less dangerous to go down than to come back up. And so it is in life. Getting into a relationship, building an investment, or even setting out on a vacation is nothing compared to the emotional intensity of backing out, selling off, or coming home.

No, the Columbia tragedy didn't need to happen. But the shock of its breakup reminds us of the dangers of reentry. It's been a long time since we've seen anything go seriously wrong with the space program, so we'd come to a kind of complacency about it -- not unlike our offhand inattention to national security before 9/11.

In the weeks ahead, there will be powerful and helpful commentary about the legacy of Columbia, the heroism of its astronauts, and the determination to carry forward with the space program lest those lives be lost in vain. Collectively, we need that. But we also something else: the reminder of the importance -- and the inherent dangers -- of our reentry into a sense of meaningfulness. The climate of materialism we're facing will be even less forgiving than earth's atmosphere. Our reengagement with the moral sense may be jarring, dramatic, even scorching. But in this, as in space travel, there's no turning back. Columbia, at least, has taught us that much.

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GOLD

IEEE Graduates of the Last Decade

PUSH
Personal Understanding and Self-Heightening Programme

IEEE – GOLD Kerala Section organized a programme – PUSH
on 09-02-2003 at TCS for students.

Detailed report in the next issue

Awards

The following members were nominated for IEEE GOLD Award for their outstanding organizational ability, leadership and service to IEEE Kerala Section, as a part of the activities in the year 2002.
S. Meera – TCS, Vargheese CHeriyan – NeST, A. K. Sheju – TCS, Koshy P. Vaidyan – TCS, Aju Thomas Abraham – TCS

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SECTION SUMMARY

The Kerala Section formally came into being in 1983 graduating from the status of sub section during 1975 to 1983. The Section has successfully conducted a number of events addressing the professional and educational needs of its members and the society at large. The annual conferences of the Section have drawn considerable attendance and enthusiasm and received excellent feed back.

At the Annual General Meeting held on 5th January, 2002, following members were unanimously elected:

R Narayanan	:	Chairman
E Rajakumar	:	Vice-Chairman
Madhu Mangal	:	Secretary
Sasi P M	:	Treasurer

Other Office bearers were identified within a week’s time as follows:

Awards	:	K G Satheeshkumar
Membership Development	:	A K Unnikrishnan
Professional Activities	:	V J Jayakumar
Educational Activities	:	K Kesavasamy
Student Activity Chair	:	S Gopakumar
Co-Chair	:	C V Anilkumar
Student Representative	:	Kiran C
Newsletter Editor	:	K Gopalan Nair
Inter Society Relations	:	J Muraleemohanlal
IEEE and Govt’l Ineraction	:	G Vijayaraghavan
Conference Activities	:	Philip John
Web Support	:	T S Ajayaghosh
GOLD	:	Meera S

Computer Society Chapter

Chairman	:	S K Pillai
Secretary	:	Varghese Cherian

IE & IA Societies Joint Chapter

Chairman	:	C M Varughese
Secretary	:	Sudeep Kumar

Power Engineering Society Chapter

Chairman	:	P S Chandramohan Nair
Secretary	:	Simon P. Varughese
Women in Engineering	:	Jothi Ramaswamy - since June 2002

Highlights of Activities

ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Membership Development Programme

The membership position is as follows:

Member Category	As on 01/12/2001	As on 01/12/2002
Higher grade members	410	363*
Student members	600	847
Total	1010	1210

* The majority of the reduction is in the category of Associate Members

It may be noted that the Section could increase the student membership in spite of steep increase in the student membership fees.

GOLD Activity

The GOLD group has been very active during 2002. Some of the activities conducted are:

Professional and Continuing Education Activities

1. The National seminar ‘K-ware 2002’ was held on 25th July. More than 150 delegates participated. The seminar had the cream of talent on Knowledge Management (KM) dealing with the entire life cycle viz. KM Imperatives, KM Design, KM Implementation, KM case studies, KM tools, KM in the ancient Vedic times and implications of IPR regime on KM. The proceedings of the conference were uploaded on the Section’s web site. The conference received extensive sponsorship support and generated a surplus amount of Rs.115,941/-.

2. All India Students Congress (AISC 2002) was organized during 26-27 July. About 140 delegates attended the Congress including student counselors, student branch office bearers representing 40 student branches from across the country. Volunteers from all over India, cutting across section boundaries conducted student activities training. Professional inputs on how to structure a technical paper, technical talk on Digital Signal Processing and a management talk were included. A student paper contest was conducted and the three best papers were presented during the Congress. The student representative of the Section who attended the R10 student congress held at Singapore shared his experiences. A quiz program was organized and prizes were distributed. The delegates gave an extremely flattering feed back and returned with valuable takeaways.

Technical Events

Over fifty technical talks on topics of current interest were conducted in association with other sister professional bodies. Following gives a sample list:

Encryption and Internet Security: Philip John, M.D., Ushus Tech. – 02/01/2002

Capturing the main stream market: Scaling mission critical functions across the
chasm –K T Chandy, USA – 18/01/2002

Surveying using global positioning the system: Satish Gopi, Dept. of Ports,
Government. of Kerala - 03/04/2002

Radio frequency identification technology: N T Nair, Vice President, R & D, CMS
Computers – 10/04/2002

World Communication Day – Information and Communication Technologies for
empowering people and cross the digital divide: 17/05/2002

Guidance and Control of Satellite Launch Vehicles: a perspective from Indian
Space Research Organization: Dr. Das Gupta – 14/08/2002

Introduction to Neuro Fuzzy Systems: Mr. Koshy Vaidyan, TCS – 28/08/2002

Technology for enhancing the quality of life: Mr. Ramesh C Dutt, President &
CEO, Intsysx Technology Resource – 09/10/2002

Data Warehousing: Mr. K Parthasarathy, VSSC – 23/10/2002

Agile Software Process Methodologies: Satish Babu, Regional Vice
President, CSI – 20/11/2002

Emerging Internet Technologies – opportunities and issues: M C
Jayakrishnan, InApp Technologies – 18/12/2002

Recognized Educational Programs (REP)

Lot of backlog to bring the curriculum and syllabi of engineering colleges under the REP list was cleared. A scheme was evolved to automatically get REP for those institutions approved by the All India Council for Technical Education.

Students Activities

Four new student branches were started during the year

(1) Sri Chitira Thirunal College of Engineering, Trivandrum
(2) Kallooppara College of Engineering
(3) Perumon Engineering College
(4) College of Engineering, Thodupuzha

There are currently 13 active student branches in the Section and a total of more than 100 educational programs were organized.

Some of the highlights of the programs are: Workshop on Linux at Chengannur Engineering College, Writing an effective resume at Noorul Islam College of Engineering, Career opportunities in Information and Technologies, Who is a software professional? and How to do educational projects? at NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, Why IEEE? at SCT College of Engineering.

All the student branches had conducted special programs such as SPAC during year.

Newsletter

Four quarterly issues of the IEEE Kerala Newsletter have been published in the year. The newsletter carried news about the activities of the section, chapters and student branches. Notifications about the forthcoming events were also published.

E-mail

The “ieeekerala@egroups.com”, e-group has been very effective in communicating with the members. All the important events and news were communicated to the members through this group email id. Discussions about important issues were also conducted through this media. This has emerged as an effective media for spreading the news of the section across the members. Efforts are on to enroll more members as and when their email ids are obtained.

The communications regarding the EXECOM meetings were made through emails to the EXECOM members. This has resulted in speedy and effective communication of meeting notices, minutes and resolutions. Communications with HQ, R10 HQ and India Council were made through e-mails.

Homepage

IEEE Kerala Homepage, http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r10.kerala has been maintained in an excellent manner. The WEB site is updated to include current news and events of the Section. Chapter activities are also published through the web site with separate pages. News about the Student Branch activities was also published in the section Homepage. There was on-line registration of the Annual Seminar K-Ware 2002. The proceedings of the seminar were made available for downloading from the web site.

Awards

Volunteers from GOLD affinity groups were nominated for awards. GOLD group has been nominated for the Region Outstanding GOLD program award. N T Nair, a veteran Senior Member was nominated for the outstanding volunteer award for R10.

Chapter Activities

Computer Society Chapter

The chapter organized the following programs:

Fast track to CMM Level-5 by Arun Narayanan, General Manager, U S Software on 17th May in association with the Trivandrum chapter on SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network).

New market for Indian software by Ganesh Natarajan, CEO, Sensor Technologies and Strategies for successful entrepreneurs in the new economy by Mrs. Uma Ganesh on 8th August 2002.

Half day seminar on Information Systems Securities – the Challenges and Solutions, targeted mainly for student members.

Power Engineering Society Chapter

The society conducted a half day tutorial on “High Reliability Power System Design” by Keene M. Matsuda under the Distinguished Lecture Program on 24/09/2002.

The other programs are as follows:

23/01/2002	“Statutes on Electricity”, S C Gupta
26/06/2002	“Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Smart Homes”, P S Chandramohan
04/12/2002	“Transmission and Distribution Management in Kerala”, P S Chandramohan, IA & IE Chapter

The chapter organized the following talks

06/02/2002	“Energy from Bio-mass”, Subhakar of ANERT
27/11/2002	“Prescribing an IT Grade Uninterruptible Power Supply”, CM Varghese

Women in Engineering (WIE)

The Women in Engineering affinity group was formally approved in June 2002. The following activities were conducted:

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NanoMuscles pose threat to MicroMotors
Compiled by: N.T.Nair, Editor, IEEE India Bulletin

Automakers are always on the lookout for ways to produce lower cost, lighter and quieter cars. Same is the case with the manufacturers of cameras, toys, disk drives etc. Currently, micromotors play key roles in all of them, but NanoMuscles emerge as a better alternative, with low cost, energy efficiency and such other advantages.

NanoMuscle applies a 35-year-old discovery known as Shape Memory Alloy (SMA). The term "nanotechnology" is new, having first been coined by Eric Drexler in his 1986 book "Engines of Creation", in which he popularized ideas derived from the seminal 1959 lecture by Richard Fenyman "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom".

The term Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) is applied to that group of metallic materials that demonstrate the ability to return to some previously defined shape or size when subjected to the appropriate thermal procedure. Generally, these materials can be plastically deformed at some relatively low temperature, and upon exposure to some higher temperature will return to their shape prior to the deformation. Materials that exhibit shape memory only upon heating are referred to as having a one-way shape memory. Some materials also undergo a change in shape upon re-cooling. These materials have a two-way shape memory.

Although a relatively wide variety of alloys are known to exhibit the shape memory effect, only those that can recover substantial amounts of strain or that generate significant force upon changing shape, are of commercial interest. To date, this has been the nickel-titanium alloys and copper-base alloys such as CuZnAl and CuAlNi. Heat a wire made of this combination of metals past a critical temperature, and it contracts by as much as 40 percent, pulling in a linear direction--something motors, with their rotary motion, can do only with the help of bulky crankshafts. "They have about 1,000 times the energy density of muscle, and 4,000 times that of an electric motor," Mr. MacGregor, the man behind the NanoMuscle movement through his start-up company of the same name, says. In practice, it's only a 400-fold increase in the energy-to-weight ratio because the little wires are bound to a much heavier heat sink that cools them in preparation for their next contraction. Still, a 400-fold jump isn't half bad. It isn't good for Mabuchi Motor, the biggest maker of small motors, but NanoMuscle is targeting only a portion of the $12 billion world motor market -- just the tiny ones used for back-and-forth motion. MacGregor estimates this niche market has a value of $3.8 billion.

Cars are the real opportunity for NanoMuscle. But, because car-design cycles take many years, while fad-driven toy cycles take only months, the more immediate showcase for the technology will be toys like Luke the robot. Luke--part of MacGregor's traveling show--can move his head, eyes, and jaws, simultaneously or separately, and in any order, all without making the slightest sound. In contrast, his companion, a motor-driven Furby, just repeats the same, hardwired routine, whirring and clicking, all while consuming five times as much electricity. True, not many toys need NanoMuscle's motive force. But consider Luke as a proof of concept for a bigger target: the typical luxury car has 170 motors.

Auto majors Volkswagen (VW) and DaimlerChrystler have joined hands with NanoMuscle to take advantage of these mini devices which are smaller than micromotors and a lot less expensive. VW expects the nanomuscle’s size and efficiency to translate into savings of up to half the cost of buying and deploying micromotors for moving mirrors, door locks, air vents etc in cars. Further, at least a 20% cut in electricity use, which would free up juice for entertainment and computers. NanoMuscles are quieter, too, and in the higher-margin luxury car arena, silence is a virtue. And by stripping out motors that take up space behind vents and dials, dashboards can be made more stylish.

At the present level of technology, however, NanoMuscles aren’t strong enough yet for major tasks such as powering windows or making a seat glide back and forth, but it is only a question of time before these applications are also brought under the realm of this sunrise technology.

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Editorial

Indeed I am happy to report that IEEE Kerala Section is once again under the dynamic leadership of eminent team of dedicated professionals to fulfill the dreams of the entire professional community. I am thankful in reposing trust on me by giving a mandate to continue my service as the Newsletter editor. As you all know that our hearts desire is to witness a blooming and prosperous year filled with atypical activities for more and more services to our members and the mankind as a whole. Let the team plan to commemorate this auspicious occasion in a befitting manner for the implementation of analogous activities.

Recent report on the real story of a gutsy woman from a small town, Karnal in Haryana, died along with six astronauts on a seemingly routine space flight on February 1, 2003 is unfortunate and untoward. Forty one-year-old Kalpana Chawla’s life was the success of a middle class family. She is the second Indian after IAF officer Rakesh Sharma and the first Indian women to rocket into space. The present mission of the journey was experiments and fact-finding on micro-gravity. The mission completed an incredible 760 hours in space, traveling 10.4 million kilometers and made 252 orbits around the earth. The adventurers achieved immortality in a sudden death by the burst of the shuttle while reentering the atmosphere about 200,000 feet above the ground. Her perspective on the amazing ride was expressed once as ‘Listen to the sounds of nature; Take care of our fragile planet’ and these words are from her enriched journeys.

The story of Chawla - a lady with brave heart and indomitable will who really had gone the distance to fulfill her motto, is filled with adventures. Her father Banarsi Dass who had fled from Pakistan during partition without many possessions settled at Karnal. He was thriving to build up a tyre business and was unable to fathom their livelihood from that source. In her early days she was quiet and shy girl who was intimidated by her surroundings. Completing her basic studies from Tagore Baal Niketan School and Aeronautical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College Chawla moved to US. She earned her pilot’s license while living at San Francisco between 1988 and 1994. She married a French-American Flying Instructor Jean-Pierre Harrison who was an active personality in the Indian-American community. Later, she took up acrobatic flying and interested in giving her friends joy rides. By this time she was adapted well and shown a burning determination to be an astronaut. She got a call from NASA after a meticulous scrutiny of 2962 applicants for the space programme. Moreover, by then she completed her Ph.D from Colorado in 1994. She made America as her adopted home and in 1997 she had her first space flight.

Though Chawla’s sensible hair and the radiant smile had vanished from the physical world, her memory lasts long forever. Twenty million people of Indian origin now live in more than 110 countries stunned on hearing the tragedy of Columbia. As the severe shock and popular reaction sunk in, everyone vied with each other to honour Chawla. We witnessed the tearful memorial services, prayers and tributes from the mourners and crowds from different parts of the world through the media. In our country, ISRO meteorological satellite is dedicated to her, calling it Kalpana-1. Many awards, scholarships, medals, dedications, etc are being declared by the Government and other organizations. The global Indian woman who never forgotten her roots, is became a ‘resident of the Milky Way’. Let her legacy inspire other girls to take up mission to reach for stars.

Chawla’s extraordinarily courageous journey through the weightlessness of space and the mysterious burst of the shuttle resulting immortality will never fade away from our mind and will stay behind as the fragility of the space age technology.

K.Gopalan Nair

 

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Women in Aerospace - A report

IEEE – Women in Engineering (WIE) group of Kerala Section organized the talk “Women Engineers in Aerospace – A Snapshot of How they Manage their Dual Roles” on 12 December, 2002 at CSI Hall, Ambujavilasom Road, Trivandrum. The WIE Affinity group of IEEE Kerala Section is the first WIE Group of Asia Pacific Region (R10 of IEEE). The speakers Valsa B. and Jayanthi V. Senior Scientists in the Software Quality Assurance Division (SQAD) of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Trivandrum talked about the concerns of working women.

The talk began with a welcome speech by Jyothi Ramaswamy, (Chairperson, IEEE WIE Kerala Section). Jyothi talked about WIE and the activities that are being planned by the WIE Chapter for the Engineering Community of Kerala.

Valsa started the talk by mentioning about how a Woman Engineer has to balance the dual role of handling home front and also being productive in the career front. She highlighted the concerns women engineers will have while taking decisions on critical turning points. She elaborated on the opportunities women employees lose as they are too much immersed in their personal problems. Valsa gave a comparison of number of women employees and male employees in each department of VSSC to show that women’s presence in technical field is meagre.

Jayanthi drew examples from personal life where she had to undergo situations typical of a woman employee. She also talked about the technical work her department is doing in SQAD. She explained about the criticality in their decision-making criteria.

The audience constituted IEEE members, students, teachers and women engineers (working and retired) and people from different professions. The audience was interactive through out the seminar, and in the final discussion slot the audience and the speakers shared clarifications and concerns. The questions revolved around the reasons why women even if equally qualified and competent as their men counterparts, are not able to reach the heights of their career as compared to their counterparts. The seminar ended with a vote of thanks by Beena K T of ER & DCI (member, IEEE Kerala Section). R.Narayanan, Chairman, IEEE Kerala Section and Shyamala, Retired Dy Chief Engineer, Kerala State Electricity Board gave small tokens of appreciation to the speakers.

R 10

The IEEE Region 10, or sometimes referred to the Asia Pacific Region comprises 4 Councils, 64 Sections, 4 Sub-sections, 211 Chapters and 245 student branches. It covers a geographical area stretching from South Korea and Japan in the northeast to New Zealand in the south, and Pakistan in the west. With a membership in of about 60,000, it is one of the fastest growing regions in IEEE.

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