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DR. SURYANARAYANA DOOLLA
I would like to wish all the members a happy and prosperous new year 2021. The year 2020 has
taught us the importance of the survival of "Humanity" and the role of "Technology" in this, which
coincides with the vision of IEEE coincides with this i.e., "Advanced Technology for Humanity".
I am happy to see the second issue of "In-the-Loop" by IEEE Bombay Section which is the first issue
for the year 2021 is being released. The first issue released last quarter has received several
accolades from the members and the full credit goes to the excellent editorial team and I request
you to join me in congratulating and thanking them!!
The activities continued to be online with some in-person meetings. The section volunteers
through various committees are working hard during these difficult times by conducting various
events for the benefit of all the Section members. Our volunteers have received several awards in
the last quarter and some of them are captured in this edition of In-the-Loop.
We have successfully organized IEEE IBSSC'2020, the signature symposium of IEEE Bombay
Section, and the papers are now available on IEEEXplore. I am glad to inform you that IEEE Bombay
Section will be hosting IEEE TENSYMP 2022, a flagship symposium of region 10 of the IEEE. We
F R O M T H E D E S K O F
I E E E B O M B A Y S E C T I O N C H A I R
POD I UM
need your strong support to make this event
successful and we will be sending out a call for
volunteers for the same through e-notices.
I request all the members of the Section to participate
in various activities conducted by the Section
volunteers. If you think you would be able to spare
some time and work for the Bombay Section, please do
write to us ([email protected]). We will be happy
to have you on-board.
Looking forward to working with you all and meeting
you in online/virtual meetings if not in person.
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An academically bright, F.C. Kohli topped his
Matriculation from the NWFP and graduated
from Government College, Lahore in undivided
British India before India’s independence in
flying colors with a BA and a BSc (Hons) in
Physics. He went on to do a BS in Electrical
Engineering from Queens University, Kingston,
Canada, and Masters in System Engineering
from MIT, Cambridge.
He started his professional career in India with
the Tata Electric Companies, where he worked
very hard and learned everything about the
entire generation, transmission, and
distribution systems.
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FAQUIR CHAND KOHLI, A PIONEER AND AVISIONARY (1924-2020)
T R I B U T E T O
B Y D R . S A T Y A N A R A Y A N A B
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While Tata Electric was already tech-savvy in power transmission even before Kohli entered it, he
pioneered the use of mainframe computers for load dispatch and network management in the
company. Through a technical paper, he also recommended the formation of a national power
grid, which is what we see today as the Power Grid Corporation of India.
Following up on his pioneering adoption of digital computers in the power engineering sector, the
outstanding achievement of Kohli has been the building of TCS and taking it to unimaginable
heights and to the giant success that it is today. He ingeniously applied his knowledge of System
Engineering gained at MIT in solving the problem of scaling up business at TCS, which has come
out to be known later as software engineering. Thanks to his disruptive business innovations, in
the world of global business today, India is known for its dominance in IT services.
Another dimension of Kohli has been improving the standards of engineering education. He
advocated that a handful of IITs are insufficient and many existing engineering colleges in India
have the potential to reach the IIT standards if properly run.
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He engaged himself as the acting chairman of the board to raise the standard of the College of
Engineering, Pune.
Kohli has extensively worked for the development of a vibrant community of engineers to solve
both technical and societal problems. He worked tirelessly to expand the IEEE, Computer Society
of India (CSI) and NASSCOM activities in India. IEEE India Section was formed at Bombay in 1963
with him as its first Chairperson. Later, Bombay Section was formed in 1976, again Kohli as its first
Chairperson. He was the first Director of Region 10 from India. IEEE honoured him with its
prestigious Founders Medal in 2012, the first Indian to be thus honoured. He was also honoured
with Padma Bhushan third highest civilian award in India for his contributions to the Indian
software industry. F.C. Kohli was an IEEE member for 69 years, he first become an IEEE member in
1951. In the year 1976, he was elevated as an IEEE Fellow and in 1990 he became IEEE Life member.
F.C. Kohli is a true legend and the father of IT revolution is no more, but his legacy will be alive
forever and the IT industry will continue to flourish and affect day-to-day life of everyone on the
planet.
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IBSSC -2020 - IEEE BOMBAY SECTIONSIGNATURE CONFERENCE
The event was held in virtual mode. While the theme of this Conference was “Frontiers of Technologies:
Fuelling Prosperity of the Planet and People”, the tracks of the conference were as follows:
1. Industry 4.0
2. Blockchain
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3. Electronics Surveillance
4. Education Technology
Day 1 of the conference commenced with a
Keynote address by Mr. Ramanan Ramanathan
- Mission Director Atal Innovation Mission,
Additional Secretary at NITI Aayog.
Day 2 of the conference commenced with a
Keynote address by Dr. Tessy Thomas -DRDO,
India.
Keynote Speech: Each day of the conference
commenced with a keynote address:
Day 3 of the conference commenced with a Keynote address by Mr. Ramesh Menon -Chief Architect | US
Federal CTO at IBM
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Expert Talk on industrial 4.0 Standard by Dr. Mangesh Chansarkar - SiRF Technology, USA
Expert Talk on Educational Technology by Mr. Franxan Stanley - Aye Learning Labs, India
Panel discussion on Impact of Industry 4.0 Panelist, Mr. Abhay Phansikar, Dr. Bheesette Satyanarayana,
Mr. Anand Gharpure, and other invited speakers
Expert Talk on Blockchain by Prof. Vidy Potdar - Cutin University, Perth, Australia
Expert Talk on Blockchain by Ms. Debajani Mohanty- Consultant and Author, India
Expert Talk on Educational Technology by Prof. Shridhar Iyar - IIT Bombay
Expert Talk by Mr. Ajit B Chaudhary on Project Director Akash, DRDL Hyderabad by Tactical Missile
System
Expert Talk by Dr. Jagannath Nayak (Director, CHESS, DRDO) on Beam control technology for Laser
system
Promising Paper: Childhood Medulloblastoma Classification Using EfficientNets. Authors: Bhuma
Chandra Mohan and K. Ramanjaneyulu
Promising Work: Wearable Computing Enablement for Smart Health. Authors: Hannan Satopay and
Saurabh Mehta, VIT, Mumbai
Best Paper Award: Innovative Product for Premise Safety from Covid 19: Neel Kavach Kiosk. Authors:
Divya Khetan and Prafful Dattu Javare, KJSCE, Mumbai and Anita S. Diwakar, Designated partner AIEE
Edtech
Promising Paper Award: Low-Cost Compact Theft-Detection System Using MPU-6050 and Blynk IoT
Platform. Authors: Atharva Vinayak Karnik, Diksha Sanjay Adke and Pushkar Sathe, SIESGST, Nerul,
Mumbai
Expert Talks and Panel discussion:
Expert Talks and Panel discussions were organized by industry veterans on the date of the conference.
Following are the details of the expert speakers:
The Conference included Review Talks (invited talks by distinguished experts) and Contributory Talks (by
authors of selected papers on the chosen topics of the conference).
Awards Presented:
Track 1 – Industry 4.0
Track 3 -Electronics Surveillance
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Best Paper Award: The Paradigm Shift Towards e-Teaching: SWOT Analysis from the Perspective of
Indian Teachers. Authors: Sonali Borkar and Meenakshi Nadula, VIT, Mumbai
Promising Paper Award: Face Recognition Based Class Management and Attendance System. Authors:
Sanyukta Pawaskar and Ashwini Raorane, RAIT, Mumbai
Thepade's Sorted Block Truncation Coding Applied on Local Binary Patterns of Images for Splicing
Identification Using Machine Learning Classifiers
Covid19 Identification Using Machine Learning Classifiers with Histogram of Luminance Chroma
Features of Chest X-Ray Images
Performance Appraise of Machine Learning Classifiers in Image Splicing Detection Using Thepade's
Sorted Block Truncation Coding
Covid19 Identification from Chest X-Ray Images Using Local Binary Patterns with Assorted Machine
Learning Classifiers
Track 4 –Educational Technology
Best Research Group Award:
Sudeep D. Thepade, Tanvi Bhingurde, Shreepad Deshmankar, Divesh Bakshani, Shivaji Burghate, Piyush
Chaudhari, Shreepad Deshkumar, and Ketan Jadhav.
Papers:
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Workshop Phase 1: Hands-on Workshop on Circuit Designing using TinkerCAD
Date of the event: 12th November 2020
Hands-on workshop on circuit designing using TinkerCAD to help students participating in the competition
gain knowledge and experience of TinkerCAD. The workshop was led by Mr. Hannan Satopay, who is a
TinkerCAD Advisor at Autodesk and is also serving IEEE Bombay Section Technical Planning and Activity
Committee as Secretary. The session started with a brief introduction of all the simple elements in an
electric circuit such as Breadboard, LED, battery, registers, and circuits like mood lamps, police sirens,
smoke sensors, etc. Students were also trained to create flashing/blinking LED circuits along with a brief
introduction of IC555.
The speaker of this webinar was Dr. Avishek Pal who has over 15
years of Industry experience in the field of Data Science and
Machine Learning. During this webinar, he provided strategies on
how to prepare for a career in the field of AI and ML. 50+
participants were part of this webinar which was conducted on
Google Meet.
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ELECTRIC CIRCUIT DESIGNING COMPETITIONIEEE Bombay Section SAC
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EVOLVING FUTURE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA SCIENCEIEEE Bombay Section Young Professionals Affinity Group
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Workshop Phase 2: Advanced level
Workshop on Circuit Designing using
TinkerCAD
Date of the event: 6th December 2020
The session started with a short
discussion on the practice questions
provided earlier to the students.
Our distinguished speaker, Mr. Hannan introduced circuits of moderate difficulty level such as half-wave
and full-wave rectifier, oscillators, etc. He further gave a hands-on demonstration of building a full-wave
bridge rectifier circuit with a filter circuit from scratch. He also helped students navigate through the
TinkerCAD interface and form complex circuits using various ICs, diodes, potentiometers, resistors, etc.
Moving ahead, the students were introduced to logic gates, their implementation as well as their
applications.
Circuit Designing Competition using TinkerCAD
Date of the event: 19th December 2020
Students had to recreate that electric circuit on TinkerCAD as a working model. All participants were
randomly asked to share their screens one by one. All participants were given a deadline of 60 minutes to
implement all three electric circuits and submit them to the organizing committee.
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Treasure Hunt was an activity planned as a part of the ‘IEEE Day
2020’ celebration. The treasure hunt had a total of 10 clues that the
participants had to solve. The 1st clue was put on the WhatsApp
group and the participants had to decode it. The answer to every
clue was the password of the pdf which comprised the next clue.
This would go on till the last clue. In the last step, the participants
had to fill in the Google form and upload their photos with the
provided “IEEE Day 2020” digital poster. The PDFs had clues, each
clue was different from the previous one. It had questions similar
to aptitude questions. The winner was Radnyi Jagtap. The 1st
runner-up was Tushar Dua followed by Karishma Jethani who was
the 2nd runner-up. The participants were enthusiastic enough and
we received a good response.
Round 1: 104 responses were recorded along out of which the top 50 were eligible for the next round.
Round 2: 11 responses were recorded out of which 9 were shortlisted for the next round.
Round 3: 9 responses were recorded. Thus, concluding the competition by selecting the top 3 winners.
The online quiz competition was organized by SAC, Bombay Section (MP Subsection). There were 3 rounds
in total consisting of 20 questions each or varied difficulty from easy, medium to hard. Time limiting was
used as a tool to enhance the difficulty of the quiz.
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IEEE STUDENT TRANSITION ELEVATION PARTNERSHIP (STEP)IEEE Bombay Section Young Professionals Affinity Group
Overview of YP, benefits of YP Membership, Student to YP
Transition were the topics covered by Mr Jeet Dagha and Ms
Anjali Mishra. Mr Chinmay Tompe explained the importance
of a Resume and LinkedIn Profile and reviewed a few profiles
of the attendees. 70+ participants were part of the IEEE STEP
which was conducted on Google Meet.
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IEEE DAY CELEBRATION - TREASURE HUNTIEEE Bombay Section
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ONLINE QUIZ CONTESTIEEE Bombay Section SAC
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The first day of the hackathon started with the inaugural
ceremony where the participants, judges, and mentors were
introduced to each other.
The speaker for a session was Ms. Apurva Somvanshi who cleared
the concept and doubts regarding BCM (Business Canvas Model).
The participants were made to take a Psychometric test and
upload the data obtained. Then a session was conducted where it
was discussed with individual teams where they lack and what
are their strong points so that participants could work on their
weak points and leverage their strong points.
For the final round, 10 teams got shortlisted who presented their
product and business model that they made with the help of their
respective mentors
“The code exorcist” was an online CTF event. Participants got an
opportunity to expose themselves to the dormant world of bugs where
they hunted for them and received a sweet bounty. Participants got to
learn the basics of debugging, different exploits, and existing
vulnerabilities in the initial “controlled environment” before stepping out
in the real world and capturing the flag to shut down the environment. All
the study resources will be provided to the participants.
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COVID REHABILITATION HACKATHONIEEE Bombay Section Young Professionals Affinity Group in collaboration with IEEE MadrasSection Young Professionals Affinity Group and IEEE Professional Communication Society YP
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THE CODE EXORCIST - DEBUGGING CONTEST IEEE Bombay Section SAC
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WEBINAR ON INSIGHTS ON G-SUITEIEEE Bombay Section with IEEE India Council
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This webinar was based on acquainting the features of
G-Suite. The topics covered were Google Meet, Google
Classroom, Google Form, Google Sheets, Google Drive,
Cloud, Gmail, and Calendar features.
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All the students were given Two weeks for Creating a simple IEEE APP. Two Webinars were Scheduled on
APPathon Day-1 for all participants. The Webinars were regarding Android APP Development, for which
the speakers were Mr. Prathamesh Sahasrabhojane, Mr. Suyog Jadhav, and Ms. Rupali Bhamare.
Demonstration of participant’s applications was conducted on APPathon Day-2 and Day-3. Judges for the
same were Mr. Shubham Vishwambhar and Ms. Apurva Somvanshi. Out of the 8 teams who gave a
demonstration, 2 teams were selected as First Winner and Second Winner.
MVP’s KBTCOE IEEE Student Branch in
Association with IEEE Bombay Section
organized APPathon Competition -
Three Days Virtual APP Making
Competition. It was conducted on an
online Platform (Google Meet). Total 34
Students registered for this Contest.
IEEE Student Branch DKTE (STB17301) Team celebrated
Diwali 2020 with Solar Diya to promote the use of
Renewable Energy Resources (Solar Energy) in day-to-
day life.
Keeping in mind the rising level of pollution, the IEEE-
DKTE student members prepared more than 100 Solar
Diya and created a video to promote Green Diwali,
including guidelines on how to make Solar Diya at
home.
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INDIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL MEGASCIENCE PROJECTSIEEE Bombay Section with IEEE India Council
The talk introduced some of the world’s largest science projects in
operation or under construction and the contribution of Indian
technologies. It also emphasized the challenging opportunities
available for young engineers.
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SOLAR DIYAIEEE Student Branch DKTE
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APPATHON REPORTMVP’s KBTCOE IEEE Student Branch in association with IEEE Bombay Section
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IEEE WIE Affinity Group under the Bombay Section
conducted Fourteen events from August 2020 till 31st Dec.
2020. The events comprise of five days STTP, ISTE approved
one-week FDP, Webinars & Skill-Knowledge Enhancement
Programmes, etc. All the events received good response from
participants & were very interactive though conducted in
online mode.
The WIE AG has participated in SYWLC 2020 Student
Activities and WIE coordination Contest and was shortlisted
for phase 2, and in AISYWLC 2020 to present activities of the
Technical, Humanitarian & Outreach,
Women Empowerment, Newsletter,
and Social Media & Creative.
Each committee member is working
with a group of 4-5 student
volunteers. AG reached out to more
than 700 participants including all
events and with renowned speakers
from NASA, Australia, and India, and
also has organized collaborative
events with different SB’s and section
affinity groups.
INSPECT ELEMENT 1.0IEEE SIESGST SB and CSI SIESGST
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WIE AFFINITY GROUP BOMBAY SECTIONIEEE WIE Affinity Group under Bombay Section
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The theme of the competition was SubNautica which referred to the underwater theme, to be followed and
understood in the content and designing of the website. The event had the members participate in teams
of two at the most. Participants were allowed to only use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and Bootstrap
Popper.js, and jQuery, Google Fonts & Fontawesome for frameworks.
This competition saw an overwhelming response from the students of various departments. It gave
students an opportunity to showcase their technical skills based on Web-development. The participants
gained practical knowledge beyond academics.
group. It is a nine members committee guidance of Dr. Varsha Turkar, Chair WIE AG BS, Dr. Sangeeta
Chaudhari, Vice-Chair, Dr. Amoli Belsare, Secretary WIE AG BS with 25 student volunteers. This is the first
WIE AG in the Bombay Section Committee which commenced in August 2020 with five committees i.e.
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The 2021 International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT) is one of the premier
conferences of Asia Pacific, exchanging technical research in convergence in technology and providing
attendees with a unique opportunity to share, discuss, and witness research results in all areas of science
and technologies and their applications, including; Energy Harvesting, Artificial Intelligence, Machine
Learning, Internet of Things (IoT), Localization, Convergence in Technology, and Security to name a few.
The conference attendance boasts an outstanding mix of practitioners and researchers from industry and
academia. It is technically sponsored by IEEE Bombay Section.
Call for papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit a full paper with six-seven pages in double-
column IEEE conference format via the conference website, https://ieeepune.i2ct.in/call-for-papers/ The
conference proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore® digital library.
Website: https://ieeepune.i2ct.in/
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6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCEFOR CONVERGENCE IN TECHNOLOGYTechnically Sponsered by IEEE Bombay Section
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Q. What is the REM Scholarship and how can I apply for it?
A. IEEE Computer Society offers $1000 to active student volunteers in Student Branches and
Chapters, in honor of Richard E Merwin, past president of IEEE Computer Society. The aim of this
scholarship is to recognize and reward student volunteering and leadership.
This scholarship accepts applications till 30th of April and till 30th of September every year.
For more details:
https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/scholarships/merwin
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Blockchain
Machine Learning
App Development
Web Development
IEEE APSIT’s flagship 48-hour hackathon
contest, ApScript, is now accepting
registrations. It is to be held on the 6th
and 7th of February, 2021. Only teams of
2 to 5 participants each are allowed.
ApScript boasts of four tracks:
Thanks to the backing of 26 sponsors and
community partners, ApScript is giving
prizes total worth INR 10,00,000. These
include
- Cash Prizes
- Internship opportunities
- Discounts on online courses
- Free access to web hosting and cloud
platforms
- verifiable certificates
And so much more!
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For more information and to register at the earliest, visit
http://ieee.eventsapsit.org/Apscript In case of queries, write to us at [email protected]
APSCRIPTIEEE APSIT SB, Technically Sponsered by IEEE Bombay Section
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Q. Does IEEE WIE assist in higher education? If yes, how?
A. 1. The online Master of Public Health program from the Milken Institute School of Public
Health at George Washington University (MPH@GW) offers a $7,500 tuition benefit.
2. Online MBA by American University's Kogod School of Business (MBA@American) offers
$10,000 tuition benefits.
3. Online Master of Science in Analytics by American University's Kogod School of Business
(Analytics@American) offers $7,500 tuition benefits.
6. Washington University School of Law's online Master of Legal Studies (MLS), designed for
non-lawyers interested in exploring the U.S. legal system, offers a $5,000 scholarship.
7. Berkley School of Information's Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) program
(datascience@berkley) offers a $7,500 scholarship.
To verify your eligibility, you may reach out to [email protected] with the subject line "2U
Scholarship" or visit https://wie.ieee.org/2uscholarships/#1463393647912-03eeaea2-77d2
I E E E BU Z Z | H E L P D E S K
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Dr. Illes Zoltan, Department of Media and Educational Informatics, Faculty of Informatics, Eotvos
Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Bakonyi Viktoria, Department of Media and Educational Informatics, Faculty of Informatics,
Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Mani V, Scientist - F, Center for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET), Department of
Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, Hyderabad, India
Keynote speakers:
To register, visit: http://icaect.com/
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2021 FIRST IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
ADVANCES IN ELECTRICAL, COMPUTING,
COMMUNICATIONS, AND SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIESIEEE ICAECT
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Track 1: CHEE – Electrical, Electronics,
Instrumentation, Control Systems,
Hybrid Vehicles
Track 2: CHCS – Computer Science and
Engineering, Information Technology
Track 3: CHEC – Electronics &
Communication, Intelligent Systems,
Artificial Intelligence
CONFERENCE TRACKS:
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING TRENDS IN
INDUSTRY 4.0OP Jindal University, Raigarh, Technically Sponsered by IEEE Bombay Section
ETI 4.0 aims to be a premier conference in central India and will provide a platform for researchers,
academicians, working professionals, and students from various engineering fields and with cross-
disciplinary interests in Industrial 4.0, Intelligence System, Computer and Communication Technology,
Electronics and Electrical Engineering disciplines to interact and disseminate information on the latest
developments and future trends. Broad tracks of the conference include Technology 4.0, Business 4.0,
Smart Environment 4.0, Manufacturing 4.0, Education 4.0, etc. Distinguished speakers from top
universities of the world and Industries will deliver keynote sessions on the emergence and impact of 4.0.
There will be pre-conference workshops in associations with top industries gearing towards Industry 4.0
adoptions.
Last date for full paper submission: 15th February 2021
Conference Website: www.eticonf.com
Papers can also be mailed at: [email protected]
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JEET DAGAIEEE YP
IEEE INDIA COUNCILOUTSTANDING
VOLUNTEER AWARD
CHINMAY TOMPEIEEE YP
Our Marvels
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IEEE INDIA COUNCILOUTSTANDING
VOLUNTEER AWARD
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ALI MUSTAFA SHEIKH
LARRY K.WILSON
REGIONALSTUDENT
ACTIVITIESAWARD 2020
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STUDENT ACTIVITIES & WIECOORDINATION CONTEST
RUNNER UP
IEEE BOMBAYSECTION SAC
Our Marvels
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India possesses one of the highly mounting automobile markets in the world and perceived a yearly
increase of 16% vehicle usage in the last past decade. The rapid increase results in increased air pollution
in the nation. The transport sector contributes around 10% of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while
the share of only road transport is approximately 88% of transport GHG emissions. As per a Global
Carbon Project report, India stands fourth in the world in terms of carbon dioxide emission, which
accounts for 7% of GHG emissions in 2017. It is the need of the hour to shift to the emission-free
sustainable transportation system. The paradigm shift of the transportation sector from the internal
combustion engine (ICE) based vehicle towards electric vehicles (EVs) has been seen as a viable solution
to provide emission-free transportation system. The National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP)
initiated in 2013 has developed a mission plan and blueprint for endorsing the Indian automobile sector
with solutions for electric mobility. Further, NEMPP also drafts the incentives in four major areas related
to the development of EVs, namely, EV manufacturing, demand encouragements, development of
required charging infrastructure, and lastly, the research and development related to all the above. In
recent years, there has been the development of e-vehicles (two and three-wheelers). The two and three-
wheeler EVs available in the market are provided with a charger that enables to charge as simple as a
The GoI set a goal to achieve 100% EV mobilization in two, three, and four-wheelers and more than 50%
of the buses in India by 2030. However, the goals can be achieved only by facilitating proper charging
infrastructure and encouraging investors to build new charging stations especially, the fast-charging
stations for four-wheelers.
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THE FUTURE OF VEHICULAR ELECTRIFICATION IN INDIALalit Kumar Sahu, Allamsetty Hema Chander
mobile phone. However, the
development of four-wheeler is limited,
and the major reasons include the non-
availability of charging stations and
safety concerns, as shown in Fig.1. This
article briefly discusses charging station
infrastructure, present scenario and the
future challenges in line with the
Government of India's (GoI) vision 2030
for electric mobility.
The generalized infrastructure of the EV charging
station is given in Fig.2. In the case of a charging
station with multiple ports, each port is required to
be isolated from the other, and hence individual DC-
DC converters are adopted for each port. Based on
the type of power supply, there are two types of
charging AC charging and DC charging. The basic
difference between the AC and DC charging is
summarized in Fig.2.
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SOURCE
Issues related to voltage stability and harmonics due to EVs, as they are non-linear loads. This not
only affects the voltage profile but also has a severe impact on the life of the equipment.
Choosing an optimal location for the development of charging stations is the other major concern.
The GoI has a plan to install a charging station for every 5 km on highways. However, it is difficult to
choose a proper location in the city centers as it might result in voltage instability and also disturbs
the regular power flow.
GoI, the public charging station should have minimum requirements of an exclusive transformer with all
substation requirements, 33/11kV line cables associated, adequate space for entry and exit of vehicles,
current and international standards such as CCS and CHAdeMO. The different charger models are
detailed in Table 1. To accommodate the increasing demand for 2- and 3-wheeler electric vehicles, which
are the mainstream EVs on the road at present, India adopted two types of charger standards, namely
the Bharat EV Charger AC-001 and Bharat EV Charger DC-001. Both these types accommodate the
requirements of 2- wheelers and 3-wheelers, i.e. low voltage rating with less than 100V being the battery
voltage of the vehicle. Bharat Charger AC-001 is provided with the capability to charge three vehicles
simultaneously and provide 230 V, 15 A, single-phase AC at the output end. The individual limited charge
rate at each of the three connections is 3.3 kW. On the other hand, Bharat DC-001 gives an output of 15
kW with a voltage between 72-200 V and 200 A being the maximum current.
Following the guidelines and standards, only limited public charging stations are available in India. India
started launching public charging stations as a pilot project and are installed in various major cities like
Delhi, Nagpur, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, and Visakhapatnam. Most of them are
Bharat DC and AC charging stations while Mumbai and Delhi also have fast-charging stations. Besides
these, most of the industries have set up their own charging station and are limited to their employees
and customers only. India's first public EV charging plaza was set up by Energy Efficiency Services
Limited (EESL) and inaugurated in July 2020 at Chelmsford Club, New Delhi. The plaza hosts 5 EV
chargers of different specifications. Further, EESL has also set up the biggest public charging station
program in Delhi with 60 power charging stations. United States Agency for International Development
(USAID), through its Smart Power for Advancing Reliability and Connectivity (SPARC) program,
supported EESL in the rollout. However, these are not sufficient, and many more need to be built across
various cities of the country to promote and increase the usage of EVs.
The major issues/challenges associated with the development of charging stations include:
The AC chargers are the onboard chargers usually preferred for fewer power ratings and more charging
time whereas the DC charging is a board charger that offers a high power-rating with less charging time.
Similarly, on the basis of the rate of charging, the charging stations are classified as AC Level 1, AC Level
2 and DC fast charging (Level 3). The technical specification of the different charging levels is
summarized in Fig.3. As per the guidelines of Charging stations for EVs issued by the Ministry of Power,
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In the backdrop of the SolarWinds hack, it's clearer than ever that protecting your data online is of
utmost importance in this digitally connected world. With the rise in popularity of SingleSign-on
authentication methods like Otka and Sign in with Apple, a single account can mean every account linked
with your ID is at risk. However, there are ways to secure your accounts online that can if not stop, at
least dampen the impact.
Use a password manager: The old-age recommends using a long password with a combination of
alphabets, numbers, and special characters but the problem with this advice is that humans have
limitations to what they can remember. Lengthy and complicated password requirements incentivize
people to reuse passwords, a faux pas that sets up a stack of dominoes such that a single hack would
result in the hacker gaining access to every service using the same email and password combination. The
solution to this using a password manager. A password manager is a software solution that can generate
passwords for you and store them in a safe and encrypted format. These are superior to human-generated
passwords as they generate randomized passwords. Unlike a person who might use a password that is
easy to remember such as their name, birth dates, etc, they can create long passwords that have no
dictionary words.
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Further, the uncontrolled charging, especially in peak hours, might lead to increased peak load
demand and line losses along with transformer overloading and also increased system costs. This also
might result in increased cost of operation and degradation of the lifetime of the components used.
Moreover, in India EVs have not yet witnessed heavy penetrations and hence lack experience on the
probable influence on distribution networks.
Conversion of the energy from the AC grid to DC energy for the battery results in the generation of
harmonic currents. When these current harmonics and/or the grid impedance are too high, these
current harmonics have a significant impact on the grid voltage.
Overcoming these issues and developing public charging stations is the major challenge for the
Government to achieve the goals of electric mobility by 2030.
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Cloud-Based: Cloud-based password managers as the name suggests, store your passwords
on a centralized server. This may be offered in conjunction with your browser’s inbuilt
password manager such as Mozilla’s Firefox Sync or Google’s Password Manager or as a
dedicated service such as a Lasspass or Bitwarden. The advantage of these is that as
passwords are synced you can access your passwords from any device, even if you create an
account using your desktop you can have access to those on mobile. The problem as with
any cloud service is that this is a single point of failure, a breach in password manager’s
service would leak your passwords too.
Hardware-Based: These are dedicated devices that are required to authenticate the user
after they log in with their password. While these are more secure than software-based
tokens since they require physical possession of the device, losing your hardware key might
mean you also lose access to your account. If you have enabled MFA then it’s a good practice
to store the backup key provided by most services that support MFA, as these backup keys
can be used to regain access to your account if you lose the device you use for your second
factor. A side note would be, avoid using SMS based second factors as these are vulnerable to
sim swap attacks.
Furthermore, unlike storing passwords in text files which are easily accessible to an adversary if
the device is stolen or left unattended, password managers require the user to set-up a master
password, a single key that regulates access to the stored passwords. The caveat is however if
the user forgets their master password they may lose access to the stored passwords. There are
generally two key types of password managers.
Hopefully, if you read this article you will be able to secure your online presence and make them
resilient to malicious actors.
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Reality is often defined as a state of existence. Something we can feel or touch, which is visible.
But human imagination is far-fetched and with this soaring technology we did something that is
based on our Imagination. You’ve frequently come across the term “Virtual Reality” (VR) and
this fascinating invention dates long back before the 1980s. Simulated environments were used
for educational and entertainment purposes like a flight simulator, driving simulators, and 3D
movies. Everything we experience in reality comes through our five senses: touch, taste, smell,
vision, and hearing. So virtual reality is something presented from a perspective but is not
actually there. It feels really like every other object but is an illusion. Virtual reality focuses on
one sensory experience that is vision. Here you will come across the term “immersiveness”,
which means how much can a person involved in the simulation. The information provided
during this simulation is complex yet engaging, for example, the user gets so involved in the
game he is playing with his VR that he forgets about the real world interaction for the time
being. We live in a world where we can see our dreams using technology, another one is
Augmented Reality (AR). In augmented reality, we add enhancements in real-time situations
using a device like a camera or mobile phone. A popular example is Pokemon Go, remember
when you could see different pokemon on your screen when you pointed your camera at a
corner but in reality there was nothing. That’s the difference. Early mentions about AR was in
1968 when Harvard Computer Scientist Ivan Sutherland made an AR head-mounted display.
Then in 2008 BMW used this technology for their advertisement of BMW mini. This technology
is also described as a futuristic one. Both of these technologies, AR and VR, have use of
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importance and that does not remain with video games. There has been the introduction of this
technology into the educational, public healthcare, military, flight simulations, and sports.
Students in the medical sector can learn procedures and learn required skills. But the question
is are we done yet? Recent documentation has shown that two more concepts, Mixed Reality
(MR) and Extended Reality (XR) are into action. Mixed Reality is an amalgamation of AR and VR
which gives an all-around experience of virtual objects in real-time situations using a headset.
You can experience the best of both worlds this way. When you combine all THREE realities you
get Extended Reality. This is something like a fiction world. XR is therefore a superset
integrating the entire spectrum of the virtual-reality continuum, from the unaltered physical
environment to completely immersive virtual reality. XR technologies are becoming very
prevalent in our lives each day. Several factors will further bolster their prominence in the near
future, such as affordable hardware and the advancements of computer vision technology to
track physical environments. This diverse and intricate field is only going to become more
exciting and revolutionary as time goes on. 21st Century has been thriving with the growth of
technology. Something we have ever dreamed of, and with this, we crossed the boundaries of
human imagination. Achieving which was only in our notes and often called achievable. In the
end, concluding the XR, we can say that if properly used, XR may completely alter the
experience of business as well as day to day life. XR is a blessing in disguise for the physically
challenged people of the world. XR is the blending of phenomenal elements of all VR, AR, and
MR, which gives a new vision to the world. It mixes the virtual world with a real one, a futuristic
technology. XR can be an essential supplement to the various industries for improving business
capabilities. At the end of the day, the constant development of technology is the need of the
hour to strengthen the world economy. Let’s be blessed by such evolutions and focus on making
this place a better place by finding solutions to the problems using this human vision of
Technology.
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This is Riddhi, a new member
of IEEE APSIT SB. So even
though, I’m quite a new
member, I had always heard a
lot about IEEE when I was a
freshman. It was my amazing
group of seniors who
convinced me to join. At the
time when I joined this
beautiful, supportive family,
our SB was busy prepping for
an event. I excitedly reached
out to the leads with a will to
volunteer and was soon a part
of two teams. Being an
introvert, talking to new
people wasn’t easy. I always
had this notion of being fairly
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RIDDHI NARKERIEEE APSIT
good when it came to soft-skills. You just need to know some etiquette and abide by it. Well, as it
turns out, I was so wrong. Being able to think about new ideas and to communicate them in an
efficient way needs a lot of work, and knowing just mere points won’t suffice. I began to
appreciate how events are organized and how the thought-process behind considering all trivial
things looks like. It opened up a totally new perspective by which I perceive events now. There is
still a long journey to go, nevertheless, I feel good that I’m learning to communicate my ideas
and instead of being a shy introvert, I think, IEEE would help me to become a confident
introvert.
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I’ve had the opportunities to contribute in my previous Student Branch IEEE TCET for 3 consecutive
years, in the IEEE Bombay Section in the roles of Divisional and Section Student Representatives, and in
IEEE India Council in the role of Lead of the Webinars Team.
Some of the volunteering instances that are close to me are the first IEEE Congress I volunteered in which
was IBSC 2019 in Nashik and the first 10 day Industrial Visit I organized for my student branch where I
learned the professional and interpersonal skills that go into organizing events and activities of a certain
scale. These skills eventually helped me in volunteering for national level and international events like
AISYWC 2019 and IMaRC 2019 respectively which actually made me realize that IEEE probably is one of
the only organizations which has networking at its heart and it enables students, professionals,
academicians, and researchers from different technical backgrounds to come together and share and
learn from each other’s experiences.
Even during the difficult times of the worldwide pandemic of Covid 19 IEEE helped us stay in touch with
each other and with technology.
The opportunity to be able to reach out to thousands of members in an event, interacting and having
intellectual discussions with people from a different corner of the world, and eventually discovering skills
and abilities within yourself that one never knew existed while integrating technology at every step are
somethings that bring me immense satisfaction and pride in being a part of this organization.
Now stepping into the professional world I realize the importance of being associated with a global
organization like IEEE and the three key things that I recommend every volunteer to keep in mind while
going forward are: collaboration, teamwork, and networking.
I speak on behalf of thousands of student members of IEEE Bombay Section that we are an organization
for and by the volunteers and members and only together can we build a network and an environment
that promotes growth, continuous learning, and technological advancement.
Happy Volunteering!
“Volunteering always has to be more about giving
than receiving” a speaker quoted in a webinar once
and that made me realise the true essence of
volunteering.
In various interactions I’ve been asked by students
about my volunteering journey from being a junior
volunteer to being the Student Representative of
IEEE Bombay section and I tell them that I’ve been
fortunate enough that I am always backed up by a
team of vibrant and enthusiastic volunteers and by
people who believed in me enough to give me the
opportunities to contribute and bring about a change.
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ANJALI MISHRAIEEE Bombay Section Student Section Represnetative
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DR. R.N. PATELChair
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our teamDR. ROHIT RAJA
Vice Chair
DR. AAKANSHASHARAFF
Secretary
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from the editorial teamDear Readers,
It has been an absolute pleasure putting together this issue for you. As always, we were floored by
the fascinating articles, delightful volunteering experiences, and promising future events that came
in. A big thank you to all our contributors.
2020 was a tough year, but all of us came out stronger. May we take lessons from the past year and
treat the people around us with kindness and respect. As tenacious IEEEians, it is our duty to strive
for the betterment of humankind, a sentiment that we hope is reflected in our newsletter.
As IEEE volunteers, it is always gratifying to hear from fellow members far and wide and know that
our work has an impact. So, do write us at [email protected] . We would certainly take
your reviews and suggestions under consideration.
And finally, a very happy and prosperous new year to you and yours!
Regards,
Team 'In The Loop'
contact us Website: https://ieeebombay.org/newsletter/Email: [email protected] Dr. Rohit Raja: +91-7000559696
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