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IEEE BANGALORE SECTION NEWSLETTER |
VOL 9, NUMBER 1, MARCH 2005 |
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EVENTS
DURING QUARTER 1, 2005
Student Activities
1.
A meeting
with all the Students’ Branches and Students’ Branch Counsellors under the
Bangalore Section was arranged with the IEEE President Dr. Cleon Anderson at
Hotel Taj West End over a luncheon on 15.1.2005. During the meeting, there was very good participation from the
Student Branches and lot of interaction was there with IEEE President who gave
lot of insight about the IEEE activities and opportunities for the students.
2.
During the
Annual General Meeting held on 5.2.2005 at Hotel Taj West End, Students Paper Contest
Prizes were given away for the BRV Memorial Students’ Paper Contest held in
November 2004.
3.
At the AGM
on 5.2.2005 the Outstanding student branch award consisting of cash prize of
Rs.10,000/- and a certificate were given away to SJCE Students Branch, Mysore
and MIT Students Branch, Manipal who shared the award.
4.
In the
meeting of all the Student Branch Chairs and their representatives held on 20th
March 2005 at Bangalore, the proposal for hosting 3rd Region 10
Students Congress by Bangalore Section was discussed and finalized. All the
Student Branches’ representatives actively participated, brain stormed and
finalized that the event would be held at MIT, Manipal for which the Chair
would be from UVCE, Bangalore and Secretary would be from SJCE, Mysore and
Executive Committee members comprising from various other Students Branches
under the Section. Accordingly, an
interim proposal was sent to Dr. Darren Chong of Region 10 for hosting 2006
Students Congress by Bangalore section from Dr. Surendra Pal. However, the Section was not successful in
getting their approval for the event by Region 10 as per the latest information
received.
5.
On 19th
March 2005, a Technical Colloquium was organized by the Section at the IEEE
Students Branch of BVP Engineering College, Hubli in which the following
faculties have delivered lectures to the Students drawn from the Engineering
Colleges in the neighbourhood of Hubli.
6.
Dr. T.
Srinivas from IISc, on “Optical Communication”.
7.
Mr. A.
Ravikiran from Siemens, on “Mobile communication”
8.
Mr K.
Jayaraman on “VLSI and Embedded Systems”
9.
Mr.
Charles Santhosam from Phillips on “Broad Band communication”.
10.
On
20.3.2005, a meeting of all the Students Branch Chairs and representatives were
arranged with the Chair and Student Activity Chair of Bangalore. During the meeting, all the participating
colleges gave a presentation on the activities of the Branch, which was well
received and organized by the Students themselves.
11.
On 29th
and 30th March 2005, IEEE Students Branch of UVCE, Bangalore has
conducted their annual Technical Fest “IMPETUS 2005”. The inaugural function was attended by the Students Activity
Chair, Mr. K.Ramakrishna. The Vice Chancellor of Bangalore University and IEEE
Fellow, Prof. L.M.Patnaik was among the dignitaries in the function. Wg.Cdr. H.R.Parthasarathy, Treasurer of
Section, attended the valedictory.
12.
Students
Branch of IEEE, UVCE, Bangalore has received the outstanding student branch
council award of Region 10 for the year 2004.
The section proposes to felicitate the Branch during the next Annual
General Meeting.
13.
A petition
for opening new Students Branch has been sent to Headquarters by Hira Sugar
Institute of Technology, Nidasoshi.