Kharagpur Section Dr. Prabodh Bajpai Section Chair 2013

IEEE Kharagpur Section

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur

Uniqueness  The section is rooted at the IIT Kharagpur  Initially it was emerged as a small chapter with only 60 members under IEEE Kolkata Section in  In 13th May, 1985 it renunciated as the IEEE Kharagpur Section  Members comprise of faculty, staff and students from IIT Kharagpur and HIT Haldia.

Uniqueness  Organizes an industrial trip every year to enhance industry-academic relations.  Organize regular seminars by visiting experts, technically cosponsor International and National conferences held in the region  Financial (partial) travel support to student members for paper presentation in International conferences

Uniqueness  The IEEE Kharagpur Section organizes workshops, conferences, symposium, colloquium, lectures by renowned personalities frequently.  For the more than past 25 years, the IEEE Kharagpur Section has helped its members advances their careers and the field of computing and the development of mankind.

Member Counts by Grade  Section with 11 Executive Committee Members and total 357 members comprise of Associate Member 1 Life Fellow 1 Life Senior 3 Member 91 Senior Member 27 Graduate Student Member 113 Student Member 121

Structure  Section Executive committee  Control System Society Chapter  Two student branches IIT Kharagpur HIT Haldia  Affinity group Women in Engineering  EMB Student Club

Major Events  Technically co-sponsored IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conference on Point-of-Care Health Technologies during January 2013 held at Bangalore  Technically co-sponsored IEEE 8th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS) during 17 Dec - 20 Dec 2013 held at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka  Technically co-sponsored International Conference on VLSI and Signal Processing (ICVSP) during January 2014 held at Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India  Technically sponsored 2nd International Conference on Business and Information Management (ICBIM) during 09 Jan - 11 Jan 2014 held at City Residency Gandhi More, Durgapur, India

Major Student and Affinity Group Activities  "IEEE Workshop on MEMS & Microsystems With Hands-on training in Device Simulation and Microfabrication Process“ during 4 – 6 July,  Seminar on "Open Source Technologies“ on October 8,  Workshop on "LaTeX (Document Type setting for Paper / Thesis Writing)“ on October 8,  Jointly organized three Invited IEEE PEER Talks  IEEE Student Branch with IEEE EMB Student Club, Machine Learning reading group and WiE Affinity has organized two Invited Talks  Jointly organized Medical camp on March 30, 2013  Celebrated IEEE Day on October 8, 2013

Sl. No. Name of the EventsDateNumber of Participants Resource Persons 1Robotryst (Workshop on Robotics) 24 April, Robosaipens Technologies Pvt Ltd 2IEEE HIT SB- Fresher’s Welcome & Farewell Program 15 JULY, IEEE HIT SB & EE dept., HIT 4MATLAB Workshop27-28 JULY, Faculties of EE dept, HIT 5PSPICE Workshop 3-4 AUG, Faculties of EE dept, HIT 6Aeromodelling Workshop (Aerotrix) Aug, Aerotrix Group 7Robotics Workshop (Introbots) Sept Introbots, IIT Kharagpur group 8GATE Preparation test series weekend102GATE Academy

Control System Society Chapter SlActivitySpeaker NameTopicDate 1SeminarDr. Atanendu Sekhar Mandal Designing an ASIP for Hindi Text to Speech Synthesis 5th December, SeminarDr. Goutam Chattopadhyay Terahertz Technology: What Can We Do with It? 19th December, SeminarMr. Supratim Ghosh Teams and Games for Distributed Consensus 26 th July, SeminarMr. Mayank RajEnergy Adaptive Computing for Constrained Networks Nov. 18, SeminarMr. Sumit Kumar Chattopadhyay Multilevel Inverters with Level Doubling Network: A New Topological Variation 30 th December 2013

Membership Development Activities  To improve the value of membership, that leads to retention and growth of members Regular reminder to defaulters by alerts for renewal Organizing motivational talk about IEEE benefits

Goals and Future Plans  Increase in active membership count  Retaining the vibrant nature of the section by organizing the activities for advancement of humanity  Membership up gradation program  Encourage student membership by technical and financial support to their activities