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Editor Rohit Vaidya rohitvvv@ieeehyd.org

Editor-Advisor S K Salankayana salankayana@ieee.org

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I. C HAIRMANS M ESSAGE Dear IEEE Hyderabad Section Members, I hope it must have come to your notice that IEEE Hyderabad Section has won the Distinguished Large Section Award of Region 10 for the year 2011. Also Hiroshima Section has being awarded with Distinguished Small Section for year 2011. The selection of these awards was based on the performances summarized in the 2011 Annual Report submitted by R10 Sections. Award certicates will be presented to these winning sections at the 2013 R10 Annual Meeting to be held early next year. Also a cash bonus of USD1000 will be sent to each of the sections after the meeting. This announcement was made by Takatoshi Miniami 2011-2012 IEEE R10 Awards and Recognition Committee Chair. I would like to congratulate all of you on this occasion especially the past Chair Mr. MGPL Narayana and the volunteer team of 2011. Not only has the Section won awards but also our chapters have performed really well. The IEEE Hyderabad Section PES/IAS/PLES Chapter has also won an award for its performance. IEEE-PES Height Performance Chapter Program, Hyderabad PES chapter was selected with an award of USD 500. Also we are happy that Mr. Akilan has won the IEEE PES Outstanding Engineer Award. Our newly formed Computational Intelligence Chapter has also won the 2013 IEEE Outstanding Chapter Award. This award recognizes annually one chapter that provided the greatest overall contribution and service to its members; the local scientic, professional, governmental, and educational communities; and the IEEE CIS. The prize includes USD2,000 given to the Chapter and certicate. Announcement was made by Marios M. Polycarpou, President IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. All IEEE Sections in India were facing an important nance issue related to FCRA. The foreign contribution regulation act of 2010 introduced by the Ministry of Home has caused a lot of nancial hardships to all IEEE Units in India. I would like to inform you that IEEE Hyderabad Section had taken the lead in bringing this issue to the notice of HQ. MGA from IEEE Headquarters had started working towards the resolution for this nancial hurdle in receiving funds. Recently we have received assurance from IEEE India Operations Center that the matter is being resolved. A special AGM was conducted on 8th July had a program to felicitate award winners in Hyderabad Section. The awardees were Past Section Chair Mr. NSS Prasad, R10

Outstanding Volunteer, Ms Madhumita for WIE Outstanding R10 AG, Prof. Deekshatulu for the Section Distinguished Volunteer Service award, and Shri Nookala Srinivas received the Signicant Volunteer Service Award. The last two awards were special awards instituted at the section level. There are several other interesting activities taken up by GOLD afnity group like TISP. We shall report more on this in the future. I would like to formally announce that we have a new CAS/CDS Chapter added to our section. My best wishes are with the chapter. Dr Atul Negi Dept. of CIS, University of Hyderabad. II. E DITORS M ESSAGE Greetings Members, From Astronomy (transit of Venus) to planting saplings to saving non-renewable energy resources, an energy saving alternative to google, blacke!!! Hyderabad section is conducting a lot of activites. Its often said, that if you are invested in stock markets you should have a well diversied portfolio, otherwise you risk losing all your assets. I see a very well diversied IEEE Hyderabad section with a new chapter CAS/EDS introduced. A word to describe this would be RESPLENDENT. Please keep up with the good work. Kudos to all the section, afnity groups and student chapters for showing great enthusiam in conducting activies. I would also like to know about your inputs on closer integration of our newsletter with the social networks. This way we could showcase the latest happenings in our section to IEEE member as well as non IEEE members. Please send your suggestions to rohitvvv@ieeehyd.org. However we will still retatin our pdf newsletter as it serves the purpose of archiving our activites. You can always refer to them years latter. While compiling Synapse I see all the activities coming together. They converge in unison. If you go by the word Synapse, it means a junction. I hope this newsletter acts a synapse between chapters, afnity groups, student branches. This synapse would surely help you pass on your experiences to others in the section. So please do send your articles, reports to the newsletter. I would like to thank Editor Advisor S.K Salankayan and Chairman IEEE Hyderabad Section Dr Atul Negi for their continued guidance from time to time. Wish you happy reading. Have fun. Rohit Vaidya Editor Synapse, Oracle India .

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III. CIS N EWS A. Tutorial on Scala by Dr Suresh Velagapudi IS, IEEE Hyderabad Section organized a tutorial on scala by Dr Suresh Velagapudi on 5th May 2012 at IIIT Hyderabad. Scala is a general purpose computer language available on Java Virtual Machine. Interoperability with Java coupled with functional programming features of Scala make it ideal for scalable software development. Syntactic and semantic differences from Java will be explained and illustrated with simple computer programs. Data structures available with standard library was introduced. After a brief introduction of recent developments in computational intelligence, details of implementation of an application to nance was discussed. Emphasis was given on how scala based thinking infuences decisions at various stages of design and implementation of the software. It was Concluded with explaining the strengths and weaknesses of Scala for real world implementation. Dr Suresh was a Senior Scientist at BHEL R&D. Now Settled in USA. He Completed Ph.D in 1996 from IISc. Dr Suresh is Consultant to nancial industries in USA from 1997 to present. His Research interests include AI, Prolog and other Programming languages. He is Currently involved in software development with Scala and Java.

in Healthcare Industry and Academics. The Work included Suite Designing, Application development for saving/loading the data les, Creation of User friendly Biological analysis packages, Web development and interconnecting different datasets and databases. C. Hands on workshop on R Package and Matlab Days workshop on R Package and Matlab was organized by IEEE CIS Hyderabad Chapter, CR Rao AIMSCS and BioAxis DNA Research Centre Pvt Ltd Hyderabad at CR Rao AIMSCS University of Hyderabad Campus Hyderabad. Dr Sailu Yellabonia and Dr Manimaran (Professors at AIMSCS) took the sessions on R Package and Matlab Bioinformatics Toolbox respectively. This two day workshop was aimed to create awareness and practical exposure on the importance of Statistical Analysis and Using MATLAB for the Biological data analysis. Department of Science and Technology, IRHPA Govt of India Sponsored this workshop.

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B. TECHNIEXCEL ECHNIEXCEL, a Summer Internship programme for Computer Science Students, was organized by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Chapter of Hyderabad Section in collaboration with BioAxis DNA Research Centre (P) Ltd Hyderabad from 1st-10th June 2012 at BioAxis DNA Research Centre LB Nagar Hyderabad.

. On the chairs- Dr Allam Appa Rao (Director- CR Rao AIMSCS), Dr HB Singh (DST-Govt of India), Dr Manimaran and Dr Sailu (Instructors of the workshop along with the Participants)

IV. S TUDENT B RANCH N EWS A. ASTRONOMICAL EVENT AT VBIT Date: 6th June 6, 2012 Timings: 9:30AM-10:30AM Venue: Vignana Bharathi Institute of Technology

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. Dr Amit Kumar with the attendees of the workshop

This programme was intended to provide a platform to expose the budding engineers towards the Life Science Software projects of current era. 10 participants were selected for this programme and were trained for 2 days regarding the happenings in a Life Science Industry and where the engineers t in. After the basic training all the selected participants submitted work on a project related to development of software utilized

the account of transit of Venus, IEEE-VBIT SB had organized an astronomical event of observing the transit in the college campus by making a telescope arrangement with lters. On June 6, a rare celestial event called a transit of Venus took place, and it wont be repeated in anyones lifetime. The event of Venus passing in front of the Sun is called the transit. This is equivalent to an eclipse with the Moon replaced by the planet Venus. During this transit, Venus has passed directly in front of the sun from Earths perspective, appearing as a small, slowly moving black dot. The transit events are very rare. In the eternal motion around the Sun, planet Venus overtakes the Earth once every twenty
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layer of aluminum, chromium or silver deposited on their surfaces that attenuates ultraviolet, visible, and infrared energy. Some lters available are 14 welders glass, aluminized mylar, completely exposed and fully developed black-and-white lm with silver emulsion, medical x-ray lms with images on them, smoked glass, photographic neutral density lters and polarizing lters. So the student branch members had made arrangement for lters too. B. Plantation Drive at MJCET Student Branch of IEEE MJCET conducted A Plantation Drive on 23rd June, 2012 as part of the World Environment Day (5th June) Celebration, in collaboration with the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Team of Accenture, and the NGO Centre for Environment Education. The dignitaries who graced this occasion were Dr. Kaleem Fatima (Branch Counselor IEEE MJCET) Mr. Arifuddin Sohel (Branch Mentor, IEEE MJCET) Mr. Arun Chandra (Director of Placement, MJCET) and Mr. Rajesh Anupoju (Associate Manager, Accenture)

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. Dr. Jayant Kulkarni, Vice Prinicpal, VBIT observing the transit

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two months. However at that time it need not be aligned with the Sun. As seen from the Earth, it may be above or below the Sun. The orbital planes of Venus and Earth are different. Hence the two planets will be in line with the Sun only when Venus is exactly on specied points which can be either in June or in December. The June events can recur in an interval of 243 years; so can the December events. Moreover, they occur in pairs separated by eight years. They occur in pairs separated by either 105.5 years or 122.5 years depending on the nodes (southern or northern). Thus the sequence is 1631 and 1639, 1761 and 1769, 1874 and 1882, 2004 and 2012. The above gure shows that after 2004 there are ve synodic cycles within 8 years bringing back Venus and Earth to the line of nodes in 2012. The gure formed by joining these conjunctions is called a pentacle.

Activity by Center for Enviornment Education

Students keenly witnessing the rare celestial event)

So to observe this rare transit we IEEE-VBIT SB made a telescope arrangement at our campus. As the Venus was casting its shadow on the Sun, it was considered as a partial solar eclipse. This partial eclipse was covering 0.1Eclipse shouldnt be viewed with naked eyes as they cause retinal damage. For safe viewing lters are required. Filters usually have a thin

In his welcome address, the IEEE Branch mentor, Mr. Arifuddin Sohel, enumerated IEEE MJCETs strong commitment towards environmental responsibility. Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology, located in the heart of the city has a lush green campus of around 20 acres. He acknowledged that this spacious campus full of greenery is one of the colleges biggest assets. Mr. Abhishek Ayyappa, of the CSR Team highlighted the obligation of Accenture towards the environment. He briefed about Accenture which is an IT and Consulting rm having presence across 49 countries. They are present in seven different locations across India, being Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata and Noida. They have formed a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team which takes up various initiatives, both short term and long term which caters to the needs of at least a handful. Latter Ms. Vasavya Chappidi of the Eco Watch Team, gave a presentation in which she highlighted the efforts made by the employees of Accenture towards conserving and

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protecting the environment. She expressed her concern on reducing the carbon footprint in our environment. The Value of a Tree A Presentation by CEE

Dr. Atul Negi Admiring the ATROBOT Tracks

MJECT students planting saplings

Centre for Environment Education (CEE) was established in August 1984 as a Centre of Excellence supported by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. CEE, a national institution with its headquarters in Ahmedabad, has a mandate to promote environmental awareness nationwide. Ms. Indira Prakash of CEE enlightened the audience on the Value of a TrMee. She also organized an acitivity with a group of 30 students which made them understand the importance of ecological web. The event concluded with a signature campaign and a plantation drive by MJCET students and Accenture employees. Event endorsed by: Dr. Kaleem Fatima, Branch Counselor, IEEE MJCET Mr. Arifuddin Sohel , Branch Mentor, IEEE MJCE WIE (Women In Engineering) Afnity Group, IEEE Student Branch MJCET C. ATROBOT 2K12 in recent times has played a pivotal role in many elds. Fields varying from Astronomy, Industrial, Surgery and many others to name, take the help of Robotics to reach their targets more efciently and with greater accuracy. Once which were only meant for Industrial and surgery purposes have today found their way into each and every aspect of our lives and even our homes. Its one of the few elds of science that brings together people from different backgrounds of study. In view of the above theme the IEEE Student Branch of Auroras Technological And Research Institute in association with Auroras Automation and Robotics Team organized a robotics fest titled ATROBOT 2K12.The event was held during 27 and 28th of March 2012. The main aim of the event was to bring Robo Enthusiasts on to a single platform where they can compete in events which where specially designed to test the overall capabilities and skills of their bots.

The event saw a good response from students and enthusiasts from the Hyderabad zone. It comprised of nine main events which included ROBO Turf, ROBO Crane, ROBO Maze, ROBO Race, ROBO Trace, ROBO FIFA, ROBO Battle, ROBO Puzzle and a Project Expo. All the events were meticulously planned designed to push the bots to the extreme.

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The ATROBOT Team with the Director, ATRI and Mentors

The event has inspired students to start from scracth,work upon their ideas and take it to its full implemtation. D. Palaash VER wondered what if all the natural, non-renewable resources on this planet get exhausted. Today, natural resources are being exploited to an extent that they possess a direct threat of extinction. The use of fossil fuels has shown a tremendous increase in recent times, and thus has been the prime cause of atmospheric pollution. The time has come for the world to change.

In view of the above theme Auroras Technological And Research Institute hosted the one-of-its-kind event titled

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Mr.Chintan Raj demonstrating the working of a Fuel Cell

Welcome address by Dr Kaleem Fatima

Palaash, a two day workshop on Renewable Energy, Robotics and Automation in association with Auroras Automation and Robotics Team (A.A.R.T) and Green Add. The event was held during 9 and 10th of March, 2012. The main aim of the workshop was to give its participants a complete hand on experience on renewable energy generation, usage and a sneak-peek into robotics and how one can achieve greener forms of energy using it. Mr Chintan Raj delivered a keynote speech on the need to switch to renewable energy, its advantages, generation and usage. He also gave the participants a sneak peek into renewable and non-renewable sources and hybrid systems. The session mainly focused on Solar, wind energy and Hybrid systems. The next session focussed on various software and tools used in Renewable Energy Project. The MATLAB simulations of various renewable energy systems including the MATLAB simulation of Hybrid Car were presented. The nal ession of the day was on introduction to Hyderogen Fuel Cell with Solar Energy Feed-in, its anatomy, working and advantages, followed by a live practical session on teh Hydrogen Fuel Cell.

- Felicitation of the outgoing Executive Body - IEEE Vision 2012-2013 by the new Chairman Mr. Muzammil Mohammed Shareef. - Vote of Thanks by Mr. Arifuddin Sohel

Chief Guest Amit Kumar

E. IEEE Student Branch Annual Day Report long journey was celebrated on 27th April 2006 as part of the 10th Annual Day Celebration of IEEE Student Branch, MJCET. The Chief Guest of this signicant day was Dr. Amit Kumar, Secretary of Hyderabad Section. The dignitaries who graced this occasion were Dr. Kaleem Fatima, Branch Counselor IEEE MJCET Mr. Arifuddin Sohel, Branch Mentor IEEE MJCET; Mrs. Maniza Hijab, Chapter Advisor IEEE ICS MJCET; and Mrs. Ajaz Fatima, Chapter Advisor IEEE PES MJCET.

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Minutes of the Meeting - Welcome Address by Dr. Kaleem Fatima - Annual Report by the outgoing General Secretary Mr. Muqueeth Ather - Presentation by the Chief Guest Dr. Amit Kumar - Declaration of new Executive Body by the Chief Guest

Declaration of the new Executive Body The Chief Guest Dr. Amit Kumar declared the Executive Body for the year 2012-2013 Chairman Mr. Muzammil Mohammed Shareef Vice Chairman Mr. Waseem Akram General Secretary Miss. Hafsa Dawood Treasurer Mr. Hasan Kagalwala Outgoing Executive Body The outgoing executive body was presented with mementos for their hard work, dedication and perseverance as a part of the cabinet of IEEE Student Branch, MJCET Chairman Mr. Afsar Pasha Vice Chairman Mr. Talha Samiuddin General Secretary Mr. Muqueeth Ather Treasurer Mr. Nisar Ahmed

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F. Report on Formation of IEEE-VBIT SB Constitution 2012 Date: 3rd April 2012 Timings: 9:30AM-1:00PM Venue: Vignana Bharathi Institute of Technology IEEEVBIT Student Branch was inaugurated in December 2006 with a membership no of 42 students, two faculty advisors and a branch counselor. IEEE-VBIT Student Branch has an outstanding history. Since its inception the Student Branch has been setting its own milestone every year and has been performing to achieve it. There is a continuous growth in the number of new members joining with the slope of retention rate increasing each year. From 54 now the number is 204 mombers The new Executive committe of IEEE VBIT SB for the year 2012 was announced by Mr.Sarweshwar Reedy, PES student chapter adviosr of IEEE-VBIT SB.

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. Dr. Atul Negi (right), presenting a memento to Prof. Pierre Moulin (left) at O.U. Hyderabad

Dr. Pierre Moulin, IEEE SPS distinguished lecturer, Professor, University of Illinois, USA. The lecture was held from 4.30

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V. C OMM /SP C HAPTER N EWS A. .Distinguished lecture on Information Embedding: From Theory to Practice by Prof. Pierre Moulin HE comm./SP chapter has organized a Distinguished Lecturer Information Embedding: From Theory to Practice by Dr. Pierre Moulin, IEEE SPS distinguished lecturer, Professor, University of Illinois, USA,. The lecture was held from 10.00 a.m. to 11.30 am at E-class room in main building of O.U.Engg. College on 16 May 2012.. The audience for this lecture are 33(thirty three) including students, Research scholars, and faculty from colleges. During his lecture, Dr. Moulin has mentioned that Watermarking, ngerprinting, and steganography applications require secure embedding of information bits into a cover signals (audio, video, etc.) and gave an overview the of the fundamental concepts and outlined practical approaches to such problems

. Dr. Pierre Moulin with IEEE volunteers of the Hyderabad section after the lecture at TCS.

p.m. to 6.00pm at conference room of TCS , KLK building on 16 May 2012.. The audience for this lecture are 27( twenty seven) including students, Research scholars, participants from industry, and faculty from universities/colleges. During this lecture, Prof. Pierre Moulin has stressed the need to compress signals (audio, video, etc.) into short bitstrings for the purpose of reliable identication (instead of reconstruction) in many modern applications, including management of user-submitted content websites and gave an overview of the fundamental decision-theoretic and information-theoretic concepts and outlined practical approaches to such problems. VI. WIE A FFINITY G ROUP A. One Day Seminar on The Art and Science of Problem Solving

B. Distinguished lecture on Robust Hashing and its applications to Content Identication by Prof. Pierre Moulin HE comm./SP chapter has organized a Distinguished Lecturer Information Embedding: From Theory to Practice by

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and blueprint for engineers on 18-4-2012 at Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology. This was an initiative taken by IEEE - WIE (Women in Engineering) afnity group, Hyderabad Section. Students from various colleges and various branches actively participated in the lecture. The event began at 3:00PM, with the arrival of the chief

required by an engineer identifying the real problems, approximation, critical reasoning and setting up simple experiments etc. Dr. Murthy discussed few problem solving techniques involving many real world examples where great engineers used these skills to solve some complex technical and nontechnical problems. Towards the end of the session we had a memento presentation to the chief guest Dr. Murthy by Prof Y. Vijayalata, Chair IEEE WIE Afnity group, Hyderabad section. B. National Conference on Computer Networks and Information Security Venue: Department of IT, Vasavi College of Engineering Day 1 inaugural function started at 10 : 00 am with invocation Sri. M. Krishnamurthy garu, Vice President, VAE presided over the function. Mr C.S.R. Prabhu, Deputy Director General, Scientist G, NIC, Hyderabad was the chief guest. Dr.(Prof) Ramchandram, Vice Principal, UCE, OU, Hyderabad was the guest of Honour. Chief guest, guest of honour, Dr. I.V.Rao, Principal, VCE, Dr. N. Vasantha, Convener, Dr. Atul Negi IEEE chairman, Hyderabad section, Mr. Raju, Past Chairman, CSI Hyderabad chapter, Mr. I.L. Narasimha Rao, Chairman, CSI Hyderabad chapter, Mrs. Vijayalatha, Chairperson IEEE WIE, A.G spoke on the occasion.

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guest Dr. Murthy. Dr. Kaleem Fatima, Vice Chair - IEEE WIE Afnity group, Hyderabad section received the guest with great pleasure. The event progressed with the presentation of bouquets to the guest, Dr. Murthy, Prof. Y.Vijayalata, Chair - IEEE WIE Afnity group, Hyderabad section, Dr. Kaleem Fatima, Vice Chair - IEEE WIE Afnity group, Hyderabad section and to Mrs.Rashmi Ambale, Secretary and Treasurer - IEEE WIE Afnity group, Hyderabad Section. Dr. Murthy began his lecture saying It is not what engineers

. Release of the proceedings From right to left: Mrs. Vijayalatha, Chair person, IEEE WIE AG, Mr. ILN Rao, Chairman, CSI,Hyd, Mr. Raju, Past Chairman, CSI, Hyd, Dr. Atul Negi, Chairman, IEEE, Hyd, Dr. S. Ramachandram, Vice Principal, UCE, OU, Sri M. Krishnamurthy garu, Vice President, Vasavi Academy of Education (Presiding Ofcer), Mr. CSR Prabhu, DDG, Scientist-G, NIC, Hyd, Dr. I.V. Rao, Principal, VCE, Dr. N. Vasantha, Convener

Prof Y. Vijayalata presenting a momento to Dr. Murthy

do, but how they think about the problems that makes them different. This lecture highlighted the essential differences between an implementer and an engineer in problem solving. There was a deep discussion on the primary skills that are

Research scholars form University of Hyderabad working in ADRIN, NRSC, Osmania University and other institutions in Tamil Nadu and AP presented their papers. The technical sessions were chaired by Dr. Bruhadeshwar, IIIT, Hyderabad and Dr. Vijayakumari, JNTU, Hyderabad. The proceeding was released during the inaugural session.This was followed by the keynote address on Cloud Computing by

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the Chief Guest Mr. C.S.R. Prabhu. Day 2 Dr. Vijayarajeswaran, Managing Director, Vi Microsystems, Chennai and Dr. Armuga Perumal, Head, CSE, Hindu college, Nagarkoil, Tamil Nadu were the speakers. Dr. Vijayarajeswaran spoke about the types of cloud, building blocks of Cloud Computing. Their new product based on Cloud Computing was demonstrated to all the participants. Dr. Arumuga Perumal spoke on Powering Green IT. He has given many tips on using the electronic media on reducing e-waste. He also spoke about the importance of using Blackle instead of Google for online search. After lunch NetSim, Network Simulator software was demonstrated by Mr. Vasudev from M/s Tetcos, Bangalore. Dr. Vijayakumari, JNTU, Hyderabad chaired the technical paper presentation session. Research papers on Cloud Computing, Intrusion Detection, Web Security, Remote Sensor Networks, QoS Asurance, Database backup for machine critical applications were presented. In the valedictory session certicates were distributed to the paper presenters and participants. The conference concluded with vote of thanks by the coordinator Mr. N. David Raju. VII. GOLD A FFINITY G ROUP A. STEP Event on Entrepreneurship as a Career Path Author: Karthik K V

member and the value it adds to ones professional career. The main theme of this event being Entrepreneurship as

GOLD Volunteers

IEEE Hyderabad Section conducted the STEP program at Warangal on the 7th of April, 2012 and was well attended by 50 students and young professionals. The objective of this program was to impart the GOLD activities outside the city and to introduce the opportunities and benets of IEEE during the onset of career to the student members turning young professionals. The program commenced with an introduction to the
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a Career Path was addressed by Arun Vydianathan, an Entrepreneur of Ostrya Labs. Arun, with a wide experience in the eld of IT, shared his experiences of working with various organizations and his career path towards entrepreneurship. He depicted about the benets of starting a company and challenges of the same and spoke about the ethics of the professional world. He also enlightened the audience on how to become an entrepreneur and by primarily encouraging the students to grow professionally. This discussion was followed by a High Tea and with a panel discussion lead by Sabyasachi ghosh, Arun Vydianathan, Professor Syed Musthak, Mithun Bhaskar. The panel cheered up the audience with discussion topics making it more interactive and answered the queries of the enthusiastic students regarding the resume writing skills, startups as career options and other areas of entrepreneurship. The discussion was also spread over qualities like communication skills, honesty and punctuality at workplace and essence of networking with professionals. In the end, the GOLD student volunteers shared their experience of working with IEEE and how it helped them grow in their career and about the various opportunities availed by being a GOLD member followed by recognizing the outstanding IEEE volunteers from the student branches of Warangal: The event took place in a very amicable ambiance and was surely an opportunity for students and young professionals to network and interact with the fellow members and professionals. The event was a success and was made possible with a support from the student branches of Warangal, NIT throughout the event. B. Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) and the Visit of Prof. William Oakes

Mr. Ghosh speaking about GOLD AG

Hyderabad GOLD afnity group by Sabyasachi Ghosh, Chairman GOLD. He enunciated about the transition from student life to professional life and provided awareness on the various aspects where IEEE can support them during this transition. He also spoke about the benets of being a GOLD

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Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) is an initiative started at Purdue University, Indiana,

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USA, in 1995 (https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS/About) to espouse the cause of community service in undergraduate students by having students work on useful and practical engineering projects that meet specic needs of a community. Most of the EPICS projects are humanitarian projects that help improve lives of rural and underprivileged sections of society. Prof. Bill Oakes, Director, EPICS and Professor at

institute showcased their Assistive Technologies Lab (ATL) which works on projects for underprivileged persons like physically handicapped, visually impaired, hearing impaired and speech impaired persons. Several live demonstrations of gadgets for impaired persons were shown along with a roadmap on enhancements to existing projects as well as new projects. Visit BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus After concluding the visit at BVRIT, Prof. Oakes and Padmaprabodh visited BITS-Pilani Hyderabad campus and met Prof. V S Rao, Director and Prof. M B Srinivas, Assistant Director and past-Chair of IEEE Hyderabad Section. In the brief interaction, Prof. Oakes outlined the EPICS core values and project outlook. Prof. V S Rao indicated that BITS has a plan to include community-oriented projects towards course credits and some projects are already underway. After the meeting, Prof. Oakes addressed a gathering of students and faculty highlighting the features of EPICS and how they can get involved. At the end of the presentation, there was a detailed Q and A session with the students where a number of ideas were exchanged on how community projects can be taken forward in India where the need for such projects is immense - Padmaprabodh Ambale VIII. CAS/EDS N EW C HAPTER

. Col. Dr. T S Surendra explaining the Indo-Norwegian collaboration Solar Panel based electrical systems to Prof. Bill Oakes and Mr. Padmaprabodh Ambale

Purdue University visited Hyderabad between April 22-24 to educate key local educational centers of excellence on the benets of EPICS and how educational institutions can take up EPICS as part of their undergraduate course curriculum. The system followed at Purdue is that EPICS is considered a project course and students get course credits for working on an EPICS project. Many students start as early as in their rst year of under-graduation and submit their nal project in their fourth year. The EPICS projects teams mostly have students in different years thus lending continuity to the project and sustainability as seniors graduate and depart. Visit to NIT Warrangal Prof. Bill Oakes, accompanied by Prasanna Venkatesan, Member, IEEE Educational Activities Board, visited National Institute of Technology, Warrangal, on Monday, April 23, 2011 and held extensive discussions with the Director and Dean on EPICS projects, its benets and how the college can leverage the same. The college showed a lot of interest in incorporating EPICS as part of the course curriculum and several forward looking plans were made during the discussions with Prof. Oakes. Visit to Hyderabad Prof. Bill Oakes, accompanied by Padmaprabodh Ambale, Volunteer, IEEE Educational Activities, visited B V Raju Institute of Technology, Hyderabad on Tuesday, April 24, 2011. They were received by Col. Dr. T S Surendra, Principal, BVRIT and faculty and heads of the departments of engineering studies at BVRIT. The interaction started with a brief overview of EPICS by Prof. Oakes followed by updates from Col. Dr. T S Surendra and other faculty members on a number of EPICS-like projects being carried out at BVRIT. The

chapter namely Joint Chapter of IEEE CAS/EDS is formed in the IEEE Hyderabad Section. The chapter was formally approved on 18th June, 2012. There is a steady and growing interest in the local academia and industry in the eld of Analog and Digital VLSI Design and Embedded System design. The Joint chapter of IEEE CAS/EDS is established with an aim of providing technical expertise, networking and resource sharing opportunities to professionals, research scholars and students in these and related areas in Hyderabad Section. The petition for formation of the chapter was signed by 29 full members of IEEE who were also member of either CAS or EDS societies. Majority of the petitioners hold responsible positions in premier academic institutions like IIT Hyderabad, BITS Hyderabad, MJCET, Osmania University, NIT Warangal, GITAM University, Vasavi, MVSR, industries like Redpine Signals, VEDA IIT and from Research Labs (RCI and DRDO). The petition and Business Plan was endorsed by Section EXECOM and forwarded to IEEE Headquarters in March 2012, approval for the same was received in June 2012. Chair: Dr. M. B. Srinivas, Dean, Bits Pilani Hyderabad. Vice Chair: Dr.P. A. Govinda Charyulu, Professor, Vasavi College of Engg. Hyd. Secretary: Dr. Mrs. Kaleem Fatima, Professor and Head, Dept of ECE, MJCET, Hyderabad. Treasurer: Md. Arifuddin Sohel, Assoc Prof., MJCET, Members: Mr. N.Venkatesh, Vice President, Redpine Signals, Hyd. Dr. Ms N. Vasantha, Vasavi College of Engg, Hyd. Mr. M A Raheem, Asst. Prof, MJCET, Hyd.

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Address by Dr. M.B Srinivas In his address Mr. M. B. Srinivas, Dean, BITS Hyderabad who served as the Chairman of IEEE Hyderabad Section said that it was heartening to note the efforts made by IEEE Hyderabad Section in launching the Joint Chapter of Circuits and Systems/Electron Devices Society

. Dr. C.P. Ravikumar receiving memento from Dr. M.B. Srinivas, Chair IEEE CAS/EDSs

The chapter in accordance with the best practices for the formation of IEEE chapters, the members of chapter organized a tutorial session on Mixed Signal VLSI Design at MJCET on 24th December 2011. Dr. P.V. Ananda Mohan, Fellow IEEE and Chair, IEEE CAS, Bangalore Section was the speaker for this session. There were over 100 participants in the tutorial session. A panel meeting of prospective members was organized after the tutorial. This meeting was presided by Dr. Atul Negi, Chair, IEEE Hyderabad Section and during this meeting the process of chapter formation and sustenance was discussed. Two events were organized after the approval of the chapter. The rst event was a seminar on Power Efcient Signal Procession by Dr. C.P. Ravikumar, Technical Director, University Program, Texas Instruments Bangalore, held on 29th June 2012 at MJCET.

Dr. M. B. Srinivas, Dean, BITS Hyderabad

Address by Dr. Atul Negi Dr. Atul Negi, Chairman, IEEE Hyderabad Section in his address stated that IEEE Hyderabad Section has witnessed a tremendous growth with the addition of the Circuits and Sytems/Electron Devices Society Joint Chapter. He lauded the efforts of Dr. Kaleem Fatima and Mr. Arifuddin Sohel in putting together the CAS/EDS Joint Chapter.

A. Inaugural Technical Talk in CAS/EDS Chapter on Power Efcient Signal Processing EEE Hyderabad Section, Joint Chapter of Circuits and Systems/Electron Devices Society (CAS/EDS) had organized a seminar on Power Efcient Signal Processing on 29th July, 2012. The esteemed speaker for this event was Dr. C.P. Ravikumar, Technical Director, University Relations, Texas Instruments, India. The noted experts invited from the eld of academia and research were Dr. Atul Negi (Chairman, IEEE Hyderabad Section), Dr. M. B Srinivas (Dean, BITS Hyderabad), Dr. P.V.S Maruthi Rao (Treasurer, IEEE Hyderabad Section) and Dr. Kaleem Fatima (Secretary, IEEE Hyderabad CAS/EDS Joint Chapter) Welcome Address by Mr. Arifuddin Sohel In his address Mr. Arifuddin Sohel, Treasurer IEEE CAS/EDS Joint Chapter welcomed the dignitaries, the faculty and the students from various colleges across the city. He stated that it was indeed an honor for Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology to welcome Dr. C.P. Ravikumar as the key note speaker in the seminar on Power Efcient Signal Processing.

Dr. Atul Negi, Chairman, IEEE Hyderabad Section

Presentation by Dr. C.P Ravi Kumar The speaker of todays event, Dr. C.P Ravi Kumar gave a seminar on Power Efcient Signal Processing. In this seminar we delved into the world of embedded processing solutions and looked at recent innovations in signal processing applications that meet the demand for improved performance in world of embedded systems.

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Dr. C.P. Ravikumar, Technical Director, Texas Instruments, India.

. Lesson Plan Group (L to R) Rashmi Ambale, Prakash Sudhir, Padmaprabodh Ambale, Jennifer Ng and Lisa Felske

Later Mr. M. B Srinivas presented a memento to Dr. C. P. Ravikumar. followed by vote of thanks by Dr Kaleem Fatima. IX. S PECIAL R EPORT OF TISP S YMPOSIUM Rashmi Ambale Vice Chair, TISP Andhra Pradesh Secretary, WiE Afnity Group IEEE Hyderabad Section.

interesting to school students. Keynote Address: TISP in Developing and Developed Countries - Moshe Kam, 2011 IEEE Past President Moshe Kam started his keynote address with a quote from Reinhold Niebuhr give us the grace with serenity to accept

IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) organized a symposium on Teacher-in-Service-Program (TISP) to commemorate 10 successful years since the program started within IEEE. The Symposium was held between May 18th20th, 2012 at Tampa, Florida, USA and was well attended by over 35 TISP Champions and several pre-university educators (high school teachers) from 16 countries from around the world representing various Sections and geographies Symposium Agenda and Highlights Day 1 May 19th, 2012 Welcome - Serge Beauzile, Florida West Coast Section Chair and Freddie Wong, Symposium Chair/IEEE Houston Section Group Activity : Lesson Plan Development - Brad Snodgrass, IEEE Central Indiana Section This was a hands on group activity when the participants broke out into 6 groups with a geographic distribution, and worked on coming up with a brand new lesson plan outline. Each of the groups discussed several modern areas of technology like mobile computing, electronic circuitry and so on and how the same can be simplied into a 2 hour lesson plan that can be adopted in the classroom. The educators played an instrumental role in informing TISP volunteers about the subjects being covered in each grade and what topics would be most appropriate for inclusion into the training program. This was followed by a Panel Discussion on Strategies to Support a Teacher Professional Development Program.They spoke about the challenges they face in their school systems and how programs like TISP can go a long way in making learning of science and mathematics a lot more fund and
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Moshe Kam delivering the keynote address

the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other. He went on to describe how the TISP program has been a change in mindset within the IEEE and oriented a good amount of IEEE resources towards focusing on pre-university education system from an earlier focus on engineering students and professional member programs. The day concluded with a presentation by Yvonne Pelham, Manager IEEE Educational Outreach. Yvonne covered the mechanisms used to measure the TISP programs including metrics like number of teachers covered, extent to which the hands-on experiments are being used in classrooms, number of TISP programs in each country and so on. Day2 May 20th, 2012

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Presentation: Certied Provider Program/Aligning to Standards -Freddie Wong, Symposium Chair/IEEE Houston Section and Lisa Felske, Harris County, Texas Department of Education. In this session, TISP volunteer and educator from Texas described the evolution of TISP in their section and how the educators have taken a lead in aligning TISP lesson plans with the school curriculum. More details are present in the Best Practices section. Presentation: Florida West Coast Section TISP Activities - Sean Denny, IEEE Florida West Coast Section In this session, Sean Denny spoke about the lead taken by Florida West Coast Section in starting TISP and how it has matured to its current form. He shared a number of best practices followed by the Section which are described in more detail in the Best Practices section.

Prasanna Venkatesan presenting the TISP India report

Breakout groups to discuss implementation strategies and effective practices for programs that improve the teaching of STEM in the classroom This session involved the participants again breaking out into groups and discuss several topics such as challenges to start, sustain and grow TISP locally, attracting and retaining volunteers, successful approaches to introduce or promote TISP locally, recommendations for enhancing TISP volunteer training, certied provider program and aligning to educational standards, incentives for teachers to use TISP hands-on activities in the classroom, follow-on activities with teachers (i.e. evaluations) and so on. Each group subsequent presented a report of key strategies and recommendations for taking TISP to the next level. Closing Summary/Adjournment - Freddie Wong, Symposium Chair/IEEE Houston Section The Symposium was formally closed by Freddie Wong after thanking all the participants who came over to Florida to attend the program. TISP India Presentation Prasanna Venkatesan, Member - IEEE Educational Activities Board, Chair TISP India Committee, and Past Chair IEEE Hyderabad Section GOLD Afnity Group, who was instrumental in getting the TISP workshop to India in 2011, presented the TISP report from India. Prasanna talked about the TISP initiatives taken up in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka and the extent of high schools being reached by the TISP program in each of the states. TISP He also presented the structure of the TISP Committee for India which shall report directly into R10 and drive TISP activities throughout India, initially focusing on the southern states. Prasanna was supported by other TISP volunteers from India including Prakash Sudhir from Bangalore Section, Rashmi Ambale and Padmaprabodh Ambale from Hyderabad Section, and Ranjit Nair and Namith Najeeb from Kerala Section

. TISP India contingent at the conference reception (L to R) Dr. Bhatia, Dr. S. Ramesh, Padmaprabodh Ambale, Prakash Sudhir, Prasanna Venkatesan, Rashmi Ambale, Namith Najeeb and Ranjit Nair

TISP Best Practices Brad Snodgrass from the Central Indiana Section (CIS) is one of the early pioneers of the TISP program and shared a number of best practices from his Section. In 2009, Central Indiana Section originated what they call the Teacher Grant Program. This program provides money for teachers to purchase materials for classroom presentation of TISP lessons. As of now, CIS remains the only section in IEEE to actively support such a program. Funding A common theme from most volunteers was on how to create a sustainable model of funding for TISP programs. This topic was brought to the fore by Dr. Moshe Kam in his keynote address on May 19th where he outlined the key challenges that the TISP program is facing, including the fact that most of the funding is coming via NIC and Humanitarian ad hoc committee. He stressed the need for TISP to be more selfreliant and raise funds locally. Concluding Remarks

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In summary, the TISP program was a highly successful event that allowed volunteers who has been working locally to come together for the rst time at an international level and discuss and share their work, thoughts and recommendations with each other. It allowed the participants to establish a global network on TISP and coordinate activities across sections within and outside geographical boundaries. With this exposure, we at Hyderabad, should be able to take up TISP in a big way and improve the quality of high school education by bringing in more scientic and practical elements to the regular classroom training. In this context, TISP should be not only viewed as a simple training activity but also a social contribution from engineers to the more underprivileged sections of our population who lack teaching resources and facilities.

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Name Dr Atul Negi V. Akilan Dr Amit Kumar Rajagopalan Kannan P V S Maruthi Rao Jagadeesa Sarma Kalavendi Hari Prasad Devarapalli Syed Musthaq Ahmed Prof. Shatrunjay Rawat Dr. Vijaysekhar C Koduri Srinivas Venkataramanan D Siva Sarma Amit Jain Miithun Bhaskar K.Dheerga Rao T.S.N Murthy T.RaviKishore Dhananjay Jahagirdhar Yogesh Kumar Verma Kottareddy Jaya Sankar Amit Kumar Dr Suresh Satapathy Mohan Krishna Seetaramaiah Rajagopalan. Kannan Gopalkrishna Kuppa Jasti Srinivas Y.Vijaya Lata Kaleem Fatima Rashmi Ambale G. Indira Priyadarshini A.Swarna Bai Bharath Silagani Sabyasachi Ghosh Prashant K V Preeti Kovali Gopi Kumar Bulusu Vatsavayi Valli Kumari Lakshminarayana P.Ravi Kiran Varma

Designation Chairman Vice-Chairman Secretary Technology Management Chair Treasurer Member Member Member Member Member Chairman Secretary/Treasurer Chairman Vice-Chairman Secretary/Treasurer Chairman Vice-Chairman Secretary/Treasurer Chairman Vice-Chairman Secretary/Treasurer Chairman Secretary Cum Treasurer Member Member Chairman Vice-Chairman Secretary/Treasurer Chairperson Vice-Chairperson Secretary/ Treasurer Member Member Student Representative Chairman Vice-Chairman Secretary/ Treasurer Chairman Vice-Chairman Secretary/ Treasurer Member

Executive Committee Compnay/Organization University of Hyderabad Consultant CEO & Chief Scientic Ofcer Bio Axis DNA Research Lab Ex BHEL R & D Vidcentum R & D Pvt. Ltd RVR Engineering College, Patancheru Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) S R College of Engineering International Instt. of Information Tech Hyderabad TCS IEEE Computer Society Chapter NRSA Amazon PES/IAS/PESL Society Joint chapter NIT-Warangal IIIT-Hyderabad Mahindra Satyam COMSOC/SP Society Joint Chapter Osmania University CBIT , Hyderabad DLRL MTT/AP/EMC Society Joint Chapter RCI, DRDO DRDL, DRDO Vasavi College of Engineering Computational Intelligence Society Chapter BioAxis DNA Research Center Pvt. Ltd

Email ID Atul.negi@ieee.org akilan99@yahoo.com dramit.kumaar@gmail.com kannan@ieeehyd.org pvsmaruthi@ieee.org kjsarma@ieee.org hari.devarapalli@tcs.com syedmusthak gce@yahoo.com shatrunjay.rawat@iiit.ac.in vijay@atc.tcs.com kodurisrinivas@gmail.com venkat@ieeehyd.org sivasarma@gmail.com amit@iiit.ac.in mithun.bm@ieee.org Korraidrao@ieeehyd.org surya thummala@yahoo.com ravikishore 1454@rediffmail.com dr jahagirdar@hotmail.com ykverma@yahoo.com kottareddyjs@gmail.com amit.kumar@dnares.in sureshsatapathy@gmail.com mohankrishnas@gmail.com sitara r@cvr.ac.in kannan@ieeehyd.org gopalakrishna kuppa@hotmail.com sreenivas.Jasti@tatatel.co.in vijaya@ieee.org kaleemfatima@gmail.com rashmi.ambale@ieee.org indirapaul2020@gmail.com arniswarna@gmail.com bharathsilagani@ieee.org sghosh@ieee.org prashantkv@ieee.org preeti.K@ieee.org gopi@sankhya.com vallikumari@gmail.com slnvizag@gmail.com ravikiranvarmap@gmail.com

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