KNOWLEDGE SHARING -1Presentation by IEEE Hyderabad Section 2016 R10 Large Section Award Winner

on its Section Activities

LAKSHMINARAYANA MERUGUCHAIR, IEEE HYDERABAD SECTION

2017 IEEE R10 Annual General Meeting4-5th March 2017, Chiba, Tokyo, Japan

SECTION OFFICE BEARERS• Chairman• Vice-Chairman• Secretary• Treasurer• Member• Member• Member

SECTION SUB-COMMITTEES• Student Activities Committee • Conference Committee • Awards Committee • Membership Development• News Letter/SYNAPSE Editors • Web Master • Industry Relations Committee• Skill Development

• Vizag Sub-Section Committee• Guntur Sub-Section Committee• Ananthapuramu Sub-section

Committee

IEEE HYDERABAD SECTION

IEEE HYDERABAD SECTIONCHAPTERSMTT/AP/EMC Joint Chapter AP03/MTT17/EMC27PES/IAS/PELS Joint Chapter PE31/IA34/PEL35COMSOC/SP Joint Chapter COM19/SP01CIS/GRSS Joint Chapter CIS11/GRS29EDS/CAS Joint Chapter CAS04/ED15 Computer Society Chapter C16Photonics Society Chapter PHO36Education Society E25Technology Management TM14

AFFINITY GROUPS (AG)Young Professional (YP) Affinity Group Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group

EVENTS CONDUCTED IN 2016

EVENTS CONDUCTED IN 2016

MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Year F SM M GSM AMHigher grade

Sub-Total

StudentMember TOTAL

2016 8 191 1502 622 39 2362 4064 6426

2015 7 147 1496 460 84 2194 2935 5129

2014 7 139 1460 521 48 2175 3677 5852

• Initiatives taken to retain and improve membership.• We have appointed a Chair for Membership Development activities.• As part of every event, a slot given to specifically talk about membership.• STEP events held in different places across all zones in the Section.

Specific Chapter activities from all the chapters, WIE AG etc.• One hour was allocated for membership development in the Section

Students’ Congress. With this there was good increase in studentmembership.

• Dedicated membership development events were organized as part ofCIS and COMSOC Chapter activities.

STUDENT BRANCHES• Number of Student Branches: 135

• Fully active Student Branches: 105 in 2015; and 108 in 2016

• As part of re-vitalization, the SBs have been divided into four Zones and Zonal coordinators have been appointed. The number of active SBs in four zones is, Hyderabad - 51, Ananthapuram -18, Vizag -20, Warangal -16. Students’ Congress was held in all four zones. Students were encouraged to participate in Student Congress of all India and R10.

• Student Branches reported 300 programs in 2015, 283 in 2016.

• Free registrations were given to the students volunteering for International and National conferences. Student paper contests were held during the conferences.

• Students were involved in programs held by YP AG and WIE AG like 'Internship/ entrepreneurship Program', IEEE Xtreme, WIE Zonal Congress etc.

AFFINITY GROUP ACTIVITIES• WIE AG has organized 45 programs and YP AG organized 45

programs across the Section. • In addition to this, Society Chapters and subsections have

organized programs involving WIE, YP and Student Branches.• Complimentary registrations were given to WIE and YP volunteers

for International and National conferences organized / technically co-sponsored by the Section.

• Section has organized programs like 'Internship/ entrepreneurship Program', IEEE Xtreme, WIE Zonal Congress etc. for WIE and YP AG members.

• YPs and WIEs are specifically involved in the Sections annual Flagship events like Section Student Congress, Zonal congress in four zones of Hyderabad Section, Faraday Memorial Lecture, Sir JC Bose Memorial Lecture, Alexander Graham Bell Lecture, etc.

MEMBER ENGAGEMENT• Section works with Schools and pre-college students for development

of IEEE Exhibits @ BM Birla Science Centre. Coordinates with the BM Birla Science Centre for IEEE activities organized exhibits during R10 SYWL and 50 Year Celebrations at Bengaluru. This has projected positive visibility of IEEE and the Section.

• 'Skill Connect program’ has been initiated in 2015, and it is continued in 2016 and going ahead in 2017. A brief on this was published in R10 newsletter

• Symposium conducted on "Reduction Fatal Electrical Accidents". Global Electrical Safety Awareness program launched in Dec 2015, as part of SIGHT activity with support of IAS

• Organized International and National Conferences, which projected a huge visibility to the Section.

Community Service Projects

MEMBER ENGAGEMENT• Major technical programs conducted by the Section are:

- Alexander Graham Bell Lecture- Faraday Memorial Lecture, - Sir JC Bose Memorial Lecture

• Technical programs conducted by Chapters and AGs: MTT/AP/EMC Joint Chapter : 20PES/IAS/PELS Joint Chapter : 12 Computer Society Chapter : 9 Com-Soc/SP Joint Chapter : 12 CIS Chapter : 3 Photonics Society Chapter : 3EDS/CAS Joint Chapte : 10 Education Society Chapter : 9 Technology Management : 3 Young Professional AG : 8 WIE Affinity Group : 8 Vizag Bay Sub-section : 12

Technical Programs

Professional ProgramsMEMBER ENGAGEMENT

• Following Colloquiums were conducted at various locations multiple times:

- Computer Colloquium- Power Colloquium- Communication Colloquium

• International Women’s Day

• IEEE Entrepreneurship and Internship Program at Hyderabad, and Vizag

• Symposium on "Reduction Fatal Electrical Accidents"

• Lecture on “The Relevance of Yogic Wisdom to Business Organization”

• IEEE Conference Organizers’' Workshop: 3rd Edition

• SAC Chairs and Branch Counselors’ meet

• IEEE Hyderabad Section Student Congress 2015

• Global Electrical Safety Awareness program launched

• 4 Zonal Students’ Congress: Warangal, Vizag, Guntur, Ananthapuramu

MEMBER ENGAGEMENTEducational Programs

• One-day workshop on Satellite Payload antennas• 6 Half-day workshop lectures on Microwaves in IMaRC 2015• 3-Day workshop on Antenna design • One day workshop on Circuits and Systems in collaboration with CAS Chapter Japan• One-day workshop on "Introduction to LaTex"• One-day workshop on "Carbon the soul of future nano electronics"• Technical Seminar on "Towards Internet of Everything: IOT, CPS and SNSS"• 4 Tutorial programs during Prime Asia 2015• 2 Tutorials in Fuzzy and Neural Computing in FANCCO 2015• Symposium on "Reduction Fatal Electrical Accidents"• Global Electrical Safety Awareness program launched• Workshop on "Predictive Analytics with Rapid Miner"• Tutorial on "Testing and Diagnostics of Induction Machines"• Tutorial on "Establishing an Effective Electrical Safety Program"• Half day tutorial on "Advanced and Adaptive Protection of Emerging Distribution"• One day Seminar on Photonics• Section worked towards hosting a number of workshops and tutorials in association

with conferences for member benefits.

PROGRAMS WITH OTHERSPrograms conducted in collaboration with other IEEE Sections• AISYC 2015 – 7-9 August 2015 with India Council and IEEE Kerala Section• IEEE India Internship/Entrepreneurship Program with IEEE Kolkata Section • WIE ILS – Chennai 10 – 12 Sept 2015 with R10• R10 SYW Congress at Srilanka in July 2015• R10 SYWL Congress at Bengaluru in Aug 2016• AICSC with Computer Society Dec 2016• Technology Entrepreneurship Summit 2016 with MGA• A large numbers of technical programs were conducted in association with

Defence, Space, Public and Private Sector Industries. • The Section organizes activities on specific technologies of interest to the

R&D laboratories and Govt. PSUs. One such program is a One Day Tutorial on “Representation, Discovery, Recognition and Segmentation of Objects and Activities” Prof. Narendra Ahuja, FIEEE at Research Center Imarat, DRDO.

AWARDSThe Section awards: Vibrant Student Branch Award Emerging Student Branch Award Best Young Volunteer of Section Award Distinguished Service Award

Section received Awards: R10 Outstanding Large Section Award-2016, (2012) R10 Outstanding Volunteer Award (7 Times) MTT Best Chapter Award to MTT/AP/EMC Joint Chapter IAS most Vibrant Chapter: IAS/PES/PELS Joint Chapter Darrel Chong Activity Awarded (Bronze) in 2015 Darrel Chong Award 2016 under Silver Category for SBs in 2016 IEEE Computer Society Richard Merwin Student Scholarship Young Professional Achievement Award from MGA

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IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC2015)

Some Glimpses of the IMaRC 2015 during 10-12 Dec 2015

HUMANITARIAN TECHNOLOGY ACTIVITIES• IAS/PES/PELS Joint Chapter took initiative in conducting ‘Awareness on

Power line safety’ across the Section with fund support by IA Society and the Section- A Video on this was created and released in YouTube- A special Lecture Session was conducted in Section Students’

Congress- WIE and YP volunteers were trained to spread awareness- Field trips conducted at Hyderabad, Janagaon and Pargi

• Education Society conducted awareness session on HAM radio for Student Members

• WIE AG conducted workshop on self-defence - Lift the Children program was conducted by Student Branch- Student Branch also visited Devnar School for blinds

• Vizag Sub-Section conducted programs for Tribal girls on ‘Imparting Enlightenment on Engineering Education’, at- AP Tribal Junior College, Araku- AP residential Tribal Junior College, Paderu.

INDUSTRY RELATIONS• IEEE Hyderabad Section has formed Industrial relations Committee (IRC)

in 2016 to bring synergy between Industry, academia, startups,Government and practicing professionals by bringing them together on to acommon platform.

• IRC conducted Technical talks, workshops with the help of IEEE Chapters.Government and Private organizations like NRSC, DRDO Labs, PSUs, M/sUurmi systems, Cyient, Tatas, etc., Following are some significantprograms:- Symposium on IoT and IEEE standards-18 Aug 2016 at TCS Deccan

Park, Hyderabad.- One day workshop on UAVs/DRONES-Technological Advances and

Innovations”- on 5th Nov 2016 at Hotel Marigold, Hyderabad.- Dr A.S. Rao Memorial seminar on “Make in India- Opportunities and

Challenges”.• IEEE Technology Entrepreneur's Summit in Dec, 2016 in Hyderabad. This

was supported by IEEE Power & Energy Society, IEEE StandardsAssociation, IEEE Hyderabad Young Professionals and IEEE MGA.

SOME PRACTICES THE SECTION ADAPTSFor the benefit of members, Section conducts: Face to face meetings of Section Executive Committee, involving

Chapter and AG Chairs every month. Constant support by Past Chairs of the Section / Chapters Encourages the Chapters/AG for organizing more than the

minimum mandated number of events. Sponsors active volunteers/ SEC members for Conference

Leadership programs within and outside of India. Funding (partial) for student members for presenting research

papers within and outside of India. IEEE Members encouraged to join AGM with their

families. A variety of programs are conducted for familymembers including quiz, soft technical awareness,cultural programs etc.

Constituted “FUTURE DIRECTIONS COMMITTEE” foradvice to the Section.

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