The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers IETE NNeewwss LLeetttteerr Vol. 18, No. 3, sep-dec 2016 From PresideNt’s desk CoNTENTs Dear Members, I would like to take this opportunity to recognize the dedication, From President’s Desk 1 commitment and hard work of the members that have markedly contributed to the success of IETE. I am sanguine that the present Governing Council Report on 59th ATC of IETE 2 and Executive Committees of Centres, in keeping with the momentum, will work in unison and ensure that IETE remains a viable organization for 63rd Foundation Day 5 our young professionals, in the overall interest of national growth. Celebrations During my first few months as President, I have visited some of the IETE Centres and 22nd sir J C Bose Memorial 6 Lecture interacted with their Executive Committees Corporate and Institutional Members. Everywhere I found an overwhelming enthusiasm and support for the role played by the Nominated IETE G C 6 Institution for promoting advancement in engineering. I am often asked by the members Members (2016-17) about the state of IETE. My response has been that the Institution continues to focus on IETE 9th Convocation Day 7 the founding principles- to promote electronics & telecommunication engineering as a profession and impart quality education to our students. However, IETE is in a state of News from Centres/ 9 change, not from the perspective of its founding principles but from the perspective of how sub-Centres the institution serves its fraternity better. IsFs News 20 We have had meetings with the Union HRD Minister shri Prakash Javadekar and Chairman AICTE, Prof Anil D sahasrabudhe and have apprised them of the difficulties faced by IETE org Members Activities 25 our students and the institution due to the unjustified action of the govt in withdrawing recognition to our certifications post May 2013. The Chairman AICTE intimated that a Awards and Achievements 26 Committee is being formed to give recommendations regarding Institutions such as ours. I shall keep you informed of further developments in this regard. Call for Nominations for IETE 28 Awards-2017 We need to enhance our membership & visibility. I hope that our Centres continue to provide the right services to meet the needs of existing members and to attract and engage new members across their region. You are aware of the Digital India initiative of our govt. We can contribute immensely to practically every pillar of this initiative. our Centres have a big role to play in this through their network of organizational Members and student Forums. I also encourage members, new as well as seasoned, to share their views, experience or expertise by submitting articles related to our profession in IETE Newsletter(short & informative with half a page length) and also persuade our members to send news related to their professional achievements, honours, awards, which enhances the image of IETE. on behalf of the Governing Council and IETE secretariat, I convey my good wishes to you in all your endeavours and let us all rededicate ourselves to the growth and prestige of our beloved Institution- IETE. Wishing a very Happy New Year to the entire IETE fraternity. IETE HQs, New Delhi Jai Hind! Lt Gen (dr) Aks Chandele Pvsm, Avsm (Retd) Vol. 18, No. 3, Sep-Dec 2016 News from Headquarters iete 59th Annual technical Convention (AtC) – 2016 the 59th AtC of the institution was held on 24-25 sep 2016 on the theme -‘Make in India-Product Design/IPR in ICTs.’ it dwelled on the challenges and pragmatic solutions for product designs, manufacturing of products under make in india, enabling business action on sustainable goals, systemic trends of data, technology and innovations and iPr issues including legal framework. The inaugural session was graced by Padma shri - shri away the awards to the recipients. Later the dignitaries released A s kiran kumar, Chairman space Commission, secretary, a souvenir on the occasion. Dept of space and Chairman IsRo as the Chief Guest and The inaugural session also featured the 48th Bhabha Padma Bhushan - shri kris Gopalakrishnan, Chairman, memorial Lecture on “india in space” by shri A s kiran Axilor Ventures & Co-Founder Infosys, as the Guest of kumar, Chairman space Commission, secretary, Dept of space Honour. The other dignitaries present on the occasion were: and Chairman, IsRo. Presenting the country’s achievements in smt smriti dagur, President IETE; Lt Gen (dr) Aks the space mission, he highlighted India’s launch of 81 satellites Chandele, PVsm, AVsm (retd), Distinguished Fellow & in the solar orbit and of having 55 numbers of launch vehicles President Elect; Prof (dr) ktV reddy, Chairman, Technical in its fleet. He further informed that India had so far helped Programmes & Publicity Committee (TPPC) and maj Gen P k launch 74 satellites of 21 different countries from its launch Jaggia, Vsm (retd), secretary General IETE, members of the vehicles. He showcased nation’s successful entry into Mars in Governing Council, Past Presidents, Distinguished Fellows of its first attempt itself. He also highlighted the future plan of his IETE, members from IETE organization for launching Centres, delegates, awardees, Chandrayan I & II in coming special invitees , students and two years and its exploring members from the media. the use of the space based The inaugural session technology to solve various included conferment of problems of society. The Honorary Fellowship inaugural session ended with (2015-16) of the Institution vote of thanks by maj Gen on shri A s kiran P k Jaggia, Vsm (retd), kumar and shri kris secretary General, IETE. Gopalakrishnan; iete The technical convention Life time Achievement held in four sessions was Award (2015-16) on Col B spread over two days. The k rai (retd), DFIETE & session-i was on “Legal Past President IETE as well President iete being installed by the Chief Guest issues related to iPr” as Prof (dr) r k Arora, chaired by dr Vipin tyagi, Former Prof, IIT Delhi, DFIETE & Past President IETE; and Exec Dir, C-DoT, who mentioned about the importance of distinguished Fellowship (2015-16) on dr Pawan kapur, Intellectual Property Right (IPR) in the present era where Former Director (CsIR-CsIo), Chandigarh and wg Cdr d N most of the research was being carried out in cut-copy-paste misra (retd), Past Vice-President, IETE. format and lack of awareness among the people about patents Lt Gen (dr) Aks Chandele, PVsm, AVsm (retd), and trade secrets. The invited speakers in the session were: dr DFIETE was formally installed as President, IETE by the Chief sudhir kamath, MTR&DC, DRDo, Bangalore, who spoke Guest. on “development of microwave Power modules for defence The Best Centre Awards for the year 2015-16 were Applications”. He suggested integration of solid state and tube presented to iete Amravati Centre (1st position) and iete based amplifiers for high efficiency for use of this technology Ahmedabad Centre (2nd position). IETE Annual Award in radar and datalink applications. However, he pointed out the Ceremony was also held on the occasion. The Chief Guest gave underlying challenges such as limited Indian campaigns, high 2 Vol. 18, No. 3, Sep-Dec 2016 competition due to strategic pricing, non availability of skilled for mobile communication, Beyond 4G-for IoT and highlighted manpower, limited export potential and dependency on raw potential areas for start-ups and some latest innovations. material & critical components. dr Laxmi, C-DoT, spoke on The session-iii was on “iPrs and Patents for make “Patent and iPr legal issues”, wherein she explained about in india”, chaired by Prof k k Aggarwal, Chancellor, K R what can and cannot be patented. she explained the procedure Mangalam University, DFIETE & Past President of IETE. He to file patent in India with the policies on copyright and trade stressed upon improving the quality of engineers produced to secrets. shri Abhinav Bhalla, Advocate and Registered make the mission of ‘Make in India’ a success in real sense. Indian Patent Agent, dwelt on “Legal issues related to iPr, This session dealt with the interesting talks like “Converting Patent and Copyright”, giving examples of building brand Unemployment into entrepreneurship through make in value, which promotes goodwill of the organization, and was india” by shri s N Gupta, Country MD, Bluetown; “trans- considered more important than the wealth to gain market value disciplinary technical education & research-transforming of its shares. He touched upon types of intellectual properties wisdom into wealth” by dr Pawan kapur, Former Director (IP). He also gave example of IP rights in mobile phone and (CsIR-CsIo), Chandigarh and “iPr and its importance in shared useful information about the commercialization of research organization” by shri F A rajendra N Gaikwad, intellectual property. sAC, IsRo, Ahmedabad. shri s N Gupta informed about his The session-ii - “make in india in start Ups and own Bluetown’s rural wi-fi innovations that was based on 5 Ls innovative Products and marketability”, was chaired i.e. Low cost, Low power, Low maintenance, Local content and by shri N k mohapatra, CEo, EssCI. In this session the Local control. He pointed out the need of having multi skilling speakers touched upon subjects like “realization of small abilities to ensure a secured job. dr Pawan kapur highlighted satellites with indian industry Collaboration; “research emerging technologies and directions in technical education trends & technology innovations in iCt-drivers for ‘make and research and also narrated the success story of Indian tele- in india’.” Enforcing the initiative of Digital India and Make medicine sector. shri F A rajendra N Gaikwad expressed his in India, dr J k kishore recommended industries to establish views on IPR and its importance in the research organizations. a dedicated small satellite manufacturing complex, for which The session iV was devoted to “massive online Courses, IsRo can provide consultancy/training & hand-holding in Bandwidth optimization and utilization Using modern the initial phase. dr m H kori talked about the “research iCt”, chaired by Prof (dr) r k Arora, Former Professor, trends and technology innovations in iCt- drivers for IIT, Delhi, DFIETE and Past President IETE. In this session make in india. He dwelt on Non orthogonal Multiple Access, the use of ICTs in areas like education for all, utilization of Massive MIMo, Probabilistic Constellation shaping, mmwave 3 Vol. 18, No. 3, Sep-Dec 2016 bandwidth was discussed and elaborated upon. The speakers The second day’s technical session commenced with 39th and their talks in the session were: Col sidharth shukla on ram Lal wadhwa Award lecture, which was delivered by “Bandwidth optimization in Lte Networks”; dr Narendra Prof (dr) debatosh Guha, Institute of Radio Physics and kohli on “telemedicine as a means of employment and Electronics, University of Calcutta. The subject of his talk skill development in Youth of rural india” and Col mahesh was “New techniques Leading to Next Generation Planar khera (retd) on “massive online Courses, Bandwidth Antennas”. During his address he pointed out some new optimization and Utilization Using modern iCt”. Col techniques, that have been developed in the recent years and sidharth shukla informed about how user base was increasing find potential applications in designing advanced antennas using in an exponential rate for cellular networks, and the existing printed circuit technology. These include both microstrip and 3G networks inability to handle data plus video centric user dielectric resonators as the antenna elements and the technique services whereas LTE networks were capable to handle such involves deliberately created defects on the ground plane, requirements and the users’ shift to LTE. He said priority based termed as Defected Ground structure or more popularly ‘DGs’. traffic scheduling algorithm was imminent to optimize network He said that this specifically implies a single or a limited number bandwidth and improve throughput of future LTE networks of defects on the ground plane as has been familiar to microwave during overloaded traffic scenarios. dr Narendra kohli talked community for a long time, although their application to antenna engineering is relatively new. about importance of telemedicine in rural areas, limitation of infrastructure, non-presence of large scale providers and funding The ATC 2016 concluded with valedictory session chaired agencies. He informed about Village Level Entrepreneurs by Prof (dr) m Jagadesh kumar, Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal (VLE’s) that are giving birth to new telemedicine clinics. Col Nehru University (JNU) & Member UGC. The other dignitaries mahesh khera (retd) gave a presentation on ICT based present in this session were: smt smriti Dagur, Lt Gen (Dr) online education system, mentioning India’s Gross Enrolment AKs Chandele, PVsM, AVsM (Retd), Prof (Dr) R K Arora, Rate (GER) of 12.6% which is lower than AsEAN countries, Prof (Dr) KTV Reddy, Prof (Dr) J W Bakal, and Maj Gen P K much below than the developed countries having GER of 50%. Jaggia, VsM (Retd). The concluding remarks and summing up He emphasized that online education system can do miracles was presented by the members. in improving the GER. He presented a system developed by In the evening an entertainment programme was organized him with details available on www.mysaraswati.com, which is which included a show by the sand artist Col ronnie Chhibber already in place. (retd) and a cultural programme by the students of kiit College of engg, Gurgaon. 4 Vol. 18, No. 3, Sep-Dec 2016 iete celebrates its 63rd Foundation day on the theme “Cyber security – threats and imperatives” The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication to be the part of the solution by leveraging network embedded Engineers, whose foundation stone was laid by dr s and end-point securities solutions with innovative thinking. radhakrishnan, the then Vice-President of India on 2nd Nov shri devesh Chandra srivastava, IPs, Executive Director- 1953, celebrated its 63rd Foundation Day on Nov 02, 2016. Chief security, oNGC, deliberated on what, who, why of cyber IETE is one of the earliest institutions to be established in the attacks and how data breaches take place. The best practices country in the domain of electronics & telecommunications to be adopted according to him were-to exercise caution while and since then it has grown steadily to its present stature. visiting links on web pages; education awareness and user The theme chosen for the celebration was “Cyber security – training; installation of anti-virus; to up-date patches and threats and imperatives”. The Chief Guest of the event was signatures from time to time; use of genuine operating systems Lt Gen Aditya singh, PVsm, AVsm & Bar (retd), former and software; downloading applications from the trusted Army Commander. President iete, Lt Gen (dr) Aks sources; not to follow unsolicited web links or attachments Chandele, PVsm, AVsm (retd) initiated the proceedings in email messages; not to visit untrusted websites. Thus, by delivering an overview of the theme. He highlighted the awareness was the keyword according to him. The Chief Guest importance which the field of cyber security has assumed Lt Gen Aditya singh expounded on the threats and imperatives today and how IETE could play a vital role in educating the of cyber security. He talked about the phenomenal rate & pace students and young IT professionals in this area of national change in this domain in last two decades. He said country like importance. Lt Gen (dr) rajesh Pant, PVsm, AVsm, Vsm China has its own operating system, has biggest manpower (retd) delivered his thoughts on the topic “Cyber security– assets for cyber security but India is lagging behind. However, Need for Holistic Health” through a candid presentation. He we have to accept threats and find solutions. He cautioned that expressed his message while drawing an analogy between virus real cyber terror is yet to be faced by the country and warned of function in humans as well as the cyber world. He said even more cyber espionages cases in future and expressed his worries the anti-virus mechanism works similarly in both the cases but on the nexus of China and Pakistan. The 10 point action plan to still both fall prey to sicknesses/ productivity losses. According counter threats, according to him were : creation of awareness; to him solution was in holistic thinking and approach. Just as working in tandem with the stake holders; cyber-warriors for job our Indian wisdom teaches us to use mind, body and spirit for creations; cyber warfare and training; R&D for cyber security; the holistic health, same way trishakti in the cyber world, he financial security & support; security assessment and idea of says is - people, process and technology. He recommended vulnerabilities; protection of social network and international setting up cyber security metrics as one of answers for meeting cooperation. cyber challenges. dr Anup Giridhar, CEo-Founder, sedulity A few distinguished senior members of the Institution were solutions & Technologies, gave a powerful wakeup call to the thereafter honoured by the Chief Guest. These were: shri V P perils of the cyber world by citing some common cyber threats. Chandan (F-028073); shri P L rishi (F-025014); shri N k He was of the view that these challenges would affect how we mathur (F-057995) and shri satya Pal (F-000785). treat risk and security in the times to come. He suggested all 5 Vol. 18, No. 3, Sep-Dec 2016 22nd sir J C Bose memorial Lecture – at iete kolkata Centre This lecture is organized every year on 30th November Lt Gen (dr) Aks Chandele, PVsm, AVsm (retd), President to commemorate the birth anniversary of sir J C Bose. This IETE, shri s C rudra, Chairman Kolkata Centre, shri N mitra, memorial lecture is a fitting tribute to this Hony secretary and Prof Anirban Guha, EC illustrious and pioneering scientist of Member. Welcome remarks were given India. This year IETE Kolkata by shri s C Rudra, who also gave Centre organized 22nd sir a brief introduction on the life J C Bose memorial sketch of sir J C Bose and Lecture on 30th Nov 2016, his contribution in the arena delivered by shri Amitava of science, both nationally roy, Director, Variable and internationally. About Energy Cyclotron Centre 86 members including (VECC), Dept of Atomic scientists, engineers and Energy (DAE). He spoke on professionals attended the “Variable energy Cyclotron function. Vote of thanks was Centre”. The distinguished delivered by shri N Mitra, Hony dignitaries with him on the dais were: secretary of the Centre. President iete addressing the audience during 22nd sir J C Bose memorial Lecture at kolkata Nominated iete Governing Council members (2016-17) shri Vipin tyagi (F-120666L) is Executive Director & shri mahesh khera (F-084641L) has more than 38 years Chairman of the Board of Centre for Development of of experience in Telecom, Media and Technology (TMT) Telematics (C-DoT). C-DoT is a Telecom Technology and is India and sri Lanka Chief of strategy, Business and Centre of Govt of India and is engaged in development International sales for AVG Technologies, Avast software, of various projects at the frontier of Telecom technology Us. He is a founder member of Technology and Regulatory in the areas of optical Communications, Next Generation Advisory Committee, IETE, member FICCI ICT and Digital Networks and Wireless Technologies. C-DoT is also Economy sub Committee on Internet and social Media and playing important roles in ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital immediate Past President, Broadband India Forum (BIF). He India’ programs launched by Govt of India, Dept of is the founder of KTMT Consulting Private Limited, DINCU Telecommunications. shri Tyagi is an innovation and business leader from Innovations and My saraswati. His company KTMT has completed more than 110 information technology and telecommunication industry for over 35 years. He has telecom projects for global investment firms. KTMT has also done a test launch of My M Tech in Computer science & Engineering from IIT Delhi and a post graduate saraswati innovation in on-line, real time, live interactive class room teaching. In 1998, diploma in Management. C-DoT has won numerable awards under his leadership. Col Mahesh Khera founded Army Value Added Network (AVAN), later dedicated to His achievements include: Launch of broadband products developed by C-DoT nation in 2005 by Hon’ble President of India as Army Wide Area Network (AWAN). aimed to enable digital broadband connectivity, that was done by MC&IT at C-DoT, His clear vision of separating Army telecom from Defense telecom in 1998 paved the Delhi in July, 2015 during Digital India week; Launch of “Gyansetu” and MAX-NG, way for launch of Defense Communications Network, DCN, in Jun 2016. shri Khera is C-DoT’s Next Generation Network (NGN) technologies as part of Good Governance the iete Nominated Governing Council member for the year 2016-17. Day in Dec 2014 and Inauguration of C-DoT Terabit Router & Fiber to the Desk (FTTD) by MC&IT in october, 2014. He had founded and led a company for 12 ex-officio iete Governing Council member for the year (2016-18) years as Board Member and Global CEo. In 2009 he decided to promote National level R&D and joined C-DoT. He is the iete Nominated Governing Council shri s C rudra (F-123893L) is Electrical Engineering member for the year 2016-17. graduate and has passed Indian Engineering services (IEs). He retired as Director Engineering from IB(E)s after a long shri P s sundaram (F068730L) is a postgraduate & vast experience in the installation of Broadcast studio in Engineering from IIT, Madras with 39 years of and High Power transmitters both for radio & television in experience in the electronic media. He had also served different parts of the country. He selflessly contributed in the AIR & Doordarshan. He has served Broadcast Engineering administration & management works of AIR and DD. He also Consultants India Ltd. as the founder Director and the undertook number of trainings in the areas of management first CMD. As Director and CEo of Intelivision Limited, and technical including training in high power broadcast he conceptualized, evolved strategy, implemented and transmitter from UsA and studio and Acoustic Engineering training from West launched sPLAsH – the satellite Television Channel Germany. After retirement, he joined IETE and served the institution from its Kolkata exclusively for school going children. shri P s sundaram region. shri Rudra is a Member of IEI; IIPA, New Delhi & a senior Member of Indian is the Managing Director of Technomedia solutions Pvt Ltd, which undertakes Council of Arbitration; Member BAC of CDAC Kolkata Govt. He has also been re- Consultancy and turn-key jobs in the fields of convergent technologies and IT elected as the Council Member IE(I) for the term 2017-2020. He has formed a new 6 enabled solutions. shri sundaram is the iete Nominated Governing Council consultancy firm-M/s syntel Consultancy Pvt Ltd, Kolkata, which deals in installation member for the year 2016-17. work of Mobile transmitter, FM transmitter/Antenna installation and measurement etc. Vol. 18, No. 3, Sep-Dec 2016 iete Convocation – 2016 The 9th Convocation of the institution of electronics and gave away the degrees and awards. The other dignitaries present telecommunication engineers (iete) was held on 4th Dec on the dais during the occasion were: shri Ck Haridas, 2016 at Delton Hall, IETE HQ, New Delhi. This year, Chairman, student Affairs Committee; Prof C murali, five (5) ALCCs and one hundred eighty five (185) Co-Chairman, Academic Committee; Prof (dr) s AMIETE students participated in the convocation k Aggarwal, Chairman Board of Examination ceremony and received their degree. The and maj Gen P k Jaggia, Vsm (retd), Chief Guest Prof P B sharma, Vice- secretary General IETE. In his Chancellor, Amity University, address the Chief Guest talked Gurgaon, and President about the mind boggling IETE, Lt Gen (dr) Aks advancements that Chandele, PVsm, were taking AVsm (retd) place in the arena of science & Technology in electronics, telecommunication & IT domain. This advancement on the technological fronts are creating capabilities for mass entrepreneurship, generating productive employment on the capabilities of modern young generation rolling out from the universities/institutions. He said that the new knowledge age promises of abundance of prosperity alongside happiness in plenty provided man uses science and technology capabilities for the service of mankind and mother nature. He asked the students to continue to ignite their minds, fire their imagination and remain focused on the great opportunities created by ever expanding frontiers of s&T. He also said that the students must treat whole world as one family and practice peace, truthfulness and harmony as non-negotiables. Sister Society Agreement A ‘Sister Society Agreement’ between the Institution for conferences, subscription to publications, affiliate  of Electronics and Telecommunications membership, mutual promotion, provision of speakers  (IETE) and the Institute of Electrical and and web based instructional modules were some of Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) on behalf of the activities covered under the Agreement. From  its Microwave Theory and Techniques Society IETE side the  MoA was signed by Lt Gen (Dr) (MTT-S) was renewed during Asia Pacific Microwave  AKS Chandele, PVSM, AVSM (Retd), President Conference - 2016 on 7th December 2016 at Hotel IETE & Maj Gen P K Jaggia, VSM (Retd), Pullman, New Delhi. This is in recognition of the Secretary General, IETE and from IEEE MTT-S  similarity of their missions and goals and their long side it was signed by Prof Ke Wu, President IEEE standing record of service to the professional needs in  MTT-Society and Dr Dylan Williams, President 7 the fields of electrical, electronics and telecommunication  Elect. Prof Shiban K Koul, IIT Delhi, Organizing engineering. Exchange of conference papers, registration  Chair of 2016-APMC also graced the occasion. 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AM = Associate Member F = Fellow M= Member ORG = Organizational Member CE = Chartered Engineer New Alumni Association members-2016 SL NO MEM NO NAME SL NO MEM NO NAME 1 AM 224480 Vikash Kumar Jha 7 AM 227561 Kulwinder Kumar 2 AM 229990 Debjen Potsangbam 8 AM 185479 Arvind Kumar Singh 3 AM 226580 Dongonglung Newmei 9 AM 225002 Raman Kumar 4 AM 221088 Krishna Chandra Tripathi 10 AM 202707 Kezia Merin IPE 5 AM 140938 Dinesh Kumar 11 AM 184856 Manoj Kumar Verma 6 AM 194179 Imteyaz Khan 8 Vol. 18, No. 3, Sep-Dec 2016 News from Centres/sub-Centres IETE Centres/sub-Centres organized various events during the past four months. 63rd Foundation day on the theme “Cyber security – threats and imperatives” was one such event covered mostly by all IETE Centres apart from its recurring and sporadic activities/ events. AHmedABAd m desai, spoke on “Practical Application and technology initiatives by sAC/ isro”. The sessions were conducted in • The Centre celebrated engineer’s day on 19th sep 2016 parallel on NavIC receiver usage, vehicle tracking with GsAT at L D College of Engg, Ahmedabad, on the theme “skill -6 RT and GsM and tablet based railway information system development for Young engineers to reform the core sector: using NavIC and WLL, by a team of scientists from sAC, Vision 2015”. smt smriti dagur, President IETE, gave Ahmedabad. an inspiring address to the students and told them to take up challenges in the field of ICT through IsF activities. dr G P • Centre’s Foundation day was celebrated on 9th oct 2016 Vadodaria, Principal of the College, spoke on the theme of the under the chairmanship of shri V k Jain. The Chief guest on day. Prof Usha Neelkanthan, HoD, EC, highlighted present the occasion was shri k s Parikh, DD, sNPA,sAC/IsRo while day challenges for engineers in today’s scenario. shri V k Jain, other eminent dignitaries on the dais with him were: Prof (dr) Centre Chairman, honoured the Immdt Past Centre Chairman, N P Gajjar, Nirma University and smt smriti dagur, Immdt dr kishor G maradia by presenting Tulsi saplings following Past President IETE. Dr Gajjar chose to speak on “Autonomous 2nd Best Centre Award prize won by the Centre for the year Vehicle technology” and gave details, requirements and need (2015-16). It was attended by about 300 students and faculty for automatic driving cars and acquainted on how these vehicles members along with IETE members. with techniques such as Radar, Lidar, GPs, and computer vision, were capable of updating their maps based on sensory • A workshop on “NaviC and GaGan Applications” was inputs to keep the vehicles track of their position even when organized on the same day jointly by sAC/IsRo & LD College conditions change or when they enter uncharted environments. of Engg. It was chaired by shri Nilesh m desai, Dy Dir, sNAA, The IETE members from INsAT 3DR team engineers of sAC/ sAC, Ahmedabad. The Chief Guest shri d k das, Assoc IsRo, felicitated were: shri k N mankad, shri V k Jain, shri Director, sAC, Ahmedabad, in his address reinforced the vision tVs ram, shri C N Lal, shri r m movalia, shri C N Joshi, of Dr Vikram sarabhai, the founder of space programme. He shri d r Gandhi, shri Parimal Govani, shri A B shukla, also apprised of IRNss project and its uses for common man. ms Neeta sheth, ms dipti r Patel and ms Pravina. shri K The speakers dr rajat Acharya, scientist and shri V k tank, N Mankand (Retd) scientist/Engineer‘H’, APD INsAT-3DR, scientist and Head sNTD, sAC, Ahmedabad, delivered lectures GD-sEDA of sAC/IsRo, presented a brief speech & video on on “GAGAN: systems and Applications” and “NaviC/ INsAT 3DR on the configuration, key features and status of irNss: systems and Applications” respectively. shri Nilesh Advanced Weather satellite INsAT 3DR. The Chief Guest shri Parikh and smt smriti Dagur, Immdt Past President IETE, also inspired everyone through their addresses. • L D College of Engineering, Ahmedabad, organized a one-week short term training programme (sTTP) on “recent Advances in rF and microwave engineering” during 21st-25th with the support of Commissionerate of Technical Education(CTE) & IETE, Ahmedabad. It was attended by 45 participants from Polytechnics, Govt Engg Colleges, self- financed institutes and industry persons all over Gujarat. Prof Usha Neelakantan, convener and HoD EC, LDCE, delivered iete Ahmedabad LeC, sAC/isro & LdCe team during the workshop 9 Vol. 18, No. 3, Sep-Dec 2016 the welcome remarks. shri V k Jain, Centre Chairman sciences, Univ House, Bangalore. Chairman, shri G ramesh motivated all the participants through his address. The Chief presided over the function. Guest, dr s B sharma, (Retd) Dy Dir IsRo & Dir R&D 15-09-2016: engineers’ day was celebrated in association Indus Univ, shared his profound knowledge on the antennas with IMPAs India Chapter & IsRs Bangalore Chapter. dr k and encouraged to inculcate the habit of reading. The other d Nayak, Former Dir Gen, DRDo (Microelectronic Devices, prominent speakers from reputed organizations, research and Computational systems and Cyber security) delivered a talk academic institutes such as IsRo, PRL, Reliance Jio, Entuple, on “strategic electronics manufacturing in india”. other DAIICT, NIRMA University, touched upon the latest topics on prominent personalities present were: Dr MH Kori, shri RF and Microwave Engineering. Prof JP Vaishnav and Prof H Ramakrishna, Prof Jayakumar, shri sA Kannan, shri G JV dave were the chief guests for the valedictory session. Ramesh, Centre Chairman and Prof Hs Bhatia. Certificates of participation were distributed to the participants along with a CD containing the study material. • shri r C Garg, Former Dir, ADRIN, Dos, IsRo graced the event of 63rd iete Foundation day of the Institution as Chief Guest on 19th Nov 2016. The message sent from IETE HQ for the day was read out by the Centre Chairman. The key speakers were: shri Vipul kumra, who spoke on “techniques engineers’ day being celebrated at the Centre for real-time detection and Blocking for the unknown cyber attacks”, and dr Haresh Bhatt, Head ITND, sAC/ 18-9-2016: one workshop on “insights into dsP: theory to IsRo, gave an extempore speech on cyber security from his Practice” was organized in association with Dept of EC, Ms working experience at sAC–IsRo, offered practical and simple Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore. It was attended tips for security measures to the participants. Thereafter, shri by shri G Ramesh, Centre Chairman; Dr Ashok Rao, Former r C Garg (F-027064), past office Bearers & EC members of Professor, IIsc, Bangalore; shri Dwivedi, EC Member; Brig the Centre were felicitated. More than 50 corporate members suhaas; M Kulkarni, Controller, CQAL and shri Raghavendra attended this event. CG, EC member of the Centre. BANGALore 21-24 Nov 2016: A 4-day short term course for Industry Engineers was organized on mechanical design for the following technical events were organized by the electronics Products-2016 (mdeP-16), held in 16 sessions for Centre: the delegates from various Industries like C-DoT, ADA, BEL, 13-08-2016: A technical talk by sri Vishwanathan, Former Alpha Design, Centrum Electronics and IsRo, Bangalore. Brig Dir IsRAD-IsRo, Bangalore, on Advances in weather suhag, Controller of CQAL, Bangalore, was the chief guest. radar technology for the benefits of student community and The course directors were sri H ramakrishna and dr mH members. dr k d Nayak, Former Distinguished scientist and kori while Prof Hs Bhatia was the course coordinator. DG MED, Cos & Cs, DRDo, also graced the event as Guest 04-10-2016: A guest lecture by dr d C Pande, Immdt Past of Honour. Chairman of the Centre, was organised on emi/emC at ECE 15-8-2016: Chairman, sri G ramesh hoisted the tricolor flag Dept. East West IT, Bangalore, for the benefit of IsF students. at the Centre during Independence Day celebration. 08-10-2016: A technical talk on “emergence of Additive 10-09-2016: A technical talk was organized on “internet of Layer manufacturing techniques for Global reach” by things (iot) - An overview” by Prof C murali, Zonal shri Girish murthy, CEo and shri Thukaram, Counsultant Coordinator(south) & Associate Academic Registrar in Faculty of Vimana Engineering, Bangalore, was organized. The Centre of Engineering Technology, Ms Ramaiah Univ of Applied Chairman presided over the function. 10