uted Power generation to name a

few. Visit to Industrial units, Project

Competitions and Blood Donation

Camps also formed part of our Soci-

ety activities.

Our Student volunteers came out with

stunning programs including R-10

Student Congress (nearly 200 partici-pants) and Technology Dissemination

program (almost 350 participants)

this year.

The newly formed Education Society

and YP group did not fall behind. They conducted some innovative

events to stimulate the interest of

young generations.

In all, it was a very satisfying year. I

look forward for an equally exciting

2017 with rocking events. With best

wishes to all IEEE members of Pune

Section

Prof GS Mani

Chair, IEEE Pune Section

Dear IEEE members,

It gives me great pleasure to see that

the website of IEEE Pune Section is

getting revamped and that we are also getting ready with our Newsletter.

These activities add dynamics and

visibility to an organisation and

makes it more vibrant.

IEEE Pune Section has always been bubbling with activity. Last year we

had great events including many

notable conferences, thanks to our

volunteers.

Our WIE group has been very active,

organising WIE International Summit

during September 2016 with the

theme “Woman-A Born Leader”. Again in December, our WIE volun-

teers teamed up with Bangladesh

WIE team to bring out the best in both during WIECON conference.

Our Smart City team was invited to present a tutorial at the International

Smart City Conference at Trento,

Italy. More than 90 International audience coming from all parts of the

globe listened keenly to IEEE Pune

Section’s contributions to the making of Smart Pune.

As usual, the Computer, Communica-

tion and PES/ IAS Societies were

active in organising Conferences,

Seminars and Expert lectures on current topics such as IOT, DOS

Attacks, Broadband Access, Robots,

Microwaves, Energy Storage, Distrib-

Welcome to IEEE Pune Section.

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you be-

come."

Generally there are two kinds of

people: those who hunt (and are

constantly tracking down success), and those who fish (or let success and

leadership come to them). So with

this analogy. Fishing is about attrac-

tion. It is about magnetically having success and influence come to you.

When you are hunting, everything

just runs away !

Let us understand, fishing is all about

presenting great bait. So what is the bait? --- YOU YOURSELF !

That is why personal development is so important. The more we improve,

the more attractive we become to

others and to success !

You should make it an everyday goal

to develop yourselves better than yesterday. And as you do that, we

will begin to see success come our

way with less effort than if we just sat in the same old spot personally all the

time.

So stop Chasing success... Attract it. And become a fisherman of success

and influence.

This first quarterly newsletter of IEEE

Pune section is introduces as a new

era which has emerged, where re-

markable gains ineffectiveness and

efficiency has to be achieved through

uses of information and communica-

tion technologies.

Dr. Neha Sharma,

Publication Chair,

IEEE Pune Section

Chair, IEEE Pune Section’s Note

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

Workshop on “Use of

Circuit Simulator”

4

Workshop on “Digital

Transaction”

4

International Confer-

ence ICEI 2017

4

International Confer-

ence ICDMAI 2017

5

IEEE R10 Annual Gen-

eral Meeting

5

Workshop on MAT-

LAB

6

Computing with Fun 7

WIOT’ 2017 7

DL on IoE 7

COMSOC Meeting 7

State Level Project 7

Awareness Drive 8

Editor’s Note

IEEE Pune Section newsletter J A N - A P R 2 0 1 7 V O L U M E 6 , I S S U E 1

G L I M E S E S O F

L A S T Q U A R -

T E R O F 2 0 1 6 :

IEEE WIE Interna-

tional Summit……....2

Workshop at Agastya

Science Centre, Ban-

galuru………………....2

Workshop on “From

Shivneri to Silicon

Valley………………....3

IEEE WIECON ECE.3

IEEE Region 10 Stu-

dent Congress……….3

P A G E 2

Glimpses

of last

quarter

of 2016

Workshop at Agastya Science Centre, Bengaluru

IEEE Women In Engineering(WIE) International Summit IEEE Women In Engineering(WIE)

International Summit, Pune 2016, 23

- 24, September 2016 , was organ-

ized in association with IEEE

Women in Engineering global office

and IEEE WIE Affinity Group Pune

Section.The Summit sessions were

organized under various tracks like

Inspiration, Innovation and Entre-

preneurship, Executive leadership,

Empowerment, Smart City-Smart

Women a special track.

Title /Inspire level sponsor was

CISCO. Smart City-Smart

Women track was especially ap-

preciated and sponsored by Pune

Smart Pune Municipal Corpora-

tion (PMC) Pune, Technology

partner was Websvento, Woman

at work and Your story were our

media partners. Community sup-

port received by Pune Open Cof-

fee Club, Google Women Tech-

maker’s and Region 10 Women

in engineering group is com-

mendable.

A workshop on ‘Computing with Fun ‘ was conducted by the Educa-

tion Society of IEEE Pune Section on 21, November, 2016 at Agastya

Science Centre, Bengaluru. About 30 students of Standard VI and VII,

Modern Public School, Bengaluru took

part in first session. Major theme of the

workshop was on cultivating curiosity in

children while teaching.

The workshop was conducted in two Ses-

sions:

a) Demonstration workshop on

‘Computing with Fun’

b) Workshop cum Discussion on

‘Cultivating Curiosity in Children through

fun and games’

Demonstra-

tion work-

shop on

‘Computing

with Fun’

I E E E P U N E S E C T I O N N E W S L E T T E R

Summit Audience

Registered Delegates Committee Members

Details Indus-

try

Acade-

mia

Stu-

dents

Total Indus-

try

Acade-

mia

Stu-

dents

Total

Non IEEE 46 3 4 53 0 2 16 20

IEEE 2 17 29 48 10 16 4 28

Total 48 20 33 101 10 18 20 48

The Summit Gathering on 23rd September 2016 14%

14%

52%

10%

5%

Founders …

Academician …

Industry …

Scientist

Community …

IEEE WIE IS Pune 2016 Speaker

Students of Agastya Science Centre, Bengaluru

Workshop on “From Shivneri to Silicon Valley”

P A G E 3 V O L U M E 6 , I S S U E 1

A workshop on Computing with Fun” was conducted on 29 No-

vember, 2016 for Students of Std IX of Cygnet Public School & Jr.

College, Hadapsar. Pune.

The workshop was based on a theme named

“From Shivneri to Silicon Valley” and involved

games, stories and fun activities; Students learnt

about measurement of length/ areas of regular

and irregular figures through fun games and

Google Maps.

The 2016 IEEE International

Women in Engineering (WIE) Con-

ference on Electrical and Computer

Engineering (WIECON-ECE 2016)

is organized for bringing together

individuals conducting research and

professional activities in the area of

ECE to share and present their lat-

est innovation and findings. The

conference will be held in All India

Shviaji Memorial Society’s Institute

of Information Technology,

(www.aissmsioit.org), Pune, Ma-

harashtra, India during December

19-21, 2016. The conference is

jointly organized by IEEE Pune

Section and IEEE Bangladesh Sec-

tion along with WIE Affinity Group

of IEEE Pune Section and WIE

Affinity Group of IEEE Bangladesh

Section. The theme of the confer-

ence is “Innovative research to

build and lead the smart world”.

IEEE WIECON-ECE 2015 was

organized by IEEE Bangladesh

Section and its WIE Affinity

Group. The conference received

overwhelming response from 22

countries (390 valid submis-

sions) and all presented papers are

now available in IEEE Xplore Digi-

tal Library. There were 6 world-

IEEE (WIECON-ECE 2016) Honorary Chair Takako Hashimoto, Ph.D., IEEE WIE Chair

’15-16, CUC, Japan

Nita Patel, IEEE WIE Chair ’13-14, L-3

Comm., USA

Ramalatha Marimuthu, Ph.D., IEEE WIE

Chair ’11-12, KCT, India

Honorary General Chairs Lijiljana Trajkovic, Ph.D., Fellow IEEE,

SFU, Canada

P. K. Sinha, Ph.D., Fellow IEEE, VC, IIIT-

NR, India

General Chairs

Celia Shahnaz, Ph.D., IEEE R10 WIEC

’16, BUET, Bangladesh

Rajesh Ingle, Ph.D., IEEE R10 SAC ’16,

PICT, India

Technical Program Committee

Chairs S. A. Fattah, Ph.D., BD Section Chair ’15-16,

BUET, Bangladesh

Rajashree Jain, Ph.D., Pune WIE AG Chair

2016, SICSR, India

Organizing Chair Pradeep B. Mane, Ph.D., IOIT, India

Surekha Deshmukh, Ph.D., PVG’s COET,

class keynote talks, four invited

talks, one industrial panel, 15 paral-

lel oral sessions, 2 poster sessions,

two special sessions, two tutorials,

one workshop, one WIE meeting,

and a pre-conference student com-

petition. Presidents of two IEEE

Societies, President Elect of one

IEEE Society, Chair of IEEE WIE,

IEEE R10 Director, IEEE R8 Di-

rector Elect, two coordinators of

IEEE R10, different section chairs

of R10, 6 IEEE Fellows were pre-

sent in the conference. With a view

to encourage more participation of

women in the conference, each

paper to be submitted should have

at least one female author. IEEE

WIECON-ECE 2016 will feature world-class keynote competitions,

live demonstration, project show,

which will be offered by research-

ers and professionals working in

academia, industry and research

organizations.

GUESTS

IEEE REGION 10 STUDENT CONGRESS 23rd July 2016

Students engrossed in the Workshop

IEEE Students Congress Region 10 Participants

P A G E 4

International Conference on Emerging Trends & Innovation in ICT (ICEI-2017)

ICEI-2017 is organized by PICT College and

technically supported by IEEE Pune Section

& IEEE Computer Society, Pune Chapter on

03-05 February 2017. This conference will

be addressed by National & International

speakers & will consist of very high quality

technical sessions and tutorials related and

not limited to Big Data & Data Mining,

Cloud & Smart Computing, Embedded Sys-

tems, Emerging trends in engineering, High

Performance Computing, Information &

Network Security, Internet of Everything,

Signal Processing, Wireless Communica-

tion.

I E E E P U N E S E C T I O N N E W S L E T T E R

Events –Jan –Apr 2017

been used to cash dealings most of

the time in their life are finding it

difficult to cope with the changing

situation. In order to help this

group, a Demo-Workshop was or-

ganized on 29th January 2017 to

show how smart mobile phones can

be used for financial transactions in

day to day life. The Demonstration

started with downloading of the

Mobile App BHIM (Bharat Inter-

face for Money) developed by Na-

A f t e r

demone-

t i za t io n

a n -

nounced

by our Prime Minister on 08 No-

vember, 2016, cash transactions are

declining. People are resorting to

digital transactions, but this is put-

ting certain sections of society at a

disadvantage. In particular, senior

citizens and housewives who have

tional Payments Corporation of

India (NPCI), based on the Unified

Payment Interface (UPI).

stitute of

Technology

B o m b a y ,

Powai, Mum-

bai. This

w o r k s h o p

was funded

by Savitribai

Phule Pune

U n i v e r s i t y

while technical co-sponsorship was

offered by IEEE Education Soci-

ety, Pune section. There were ap-

proximately 40 participants for this

workshop.

Department of Engineering & Ap-

plied Sciences of Vishwakarma

institute of Information Technology

Pune has organized a two days state

level workshop on “ Use of Circuit

Simulator in Teaching Basic Elec-

trical and Electronicd Courses” for

teaching faculty members from

various engineering institutes across

the state. This workshop was con-

ducted on 27th and 28th January

2017 in the PG laboratory of the

Computer department.

This workshop was conducted by

Prof. M. B. Patil from Indian In-

Workshop on “Use of Circuit Simulator in teaching Basic Electrical and Electronics courses

Workshop on “Digital Transaction”

The demonstration was

conducted by Mr. Harshal

Girish Narkhade and Mr.

Shreyans Sunil Gandhi,

IEEE student members from

MIT College of Engineering.

They were helped by

Mr.Rahul of MyFiscus.com.

The simulator,

SEQUEL, was

used as a teaching

aid for this

workshop.

SEQUEL is a

freely available

general-purpose

circuit simulation

package developed

at IIT Bombay.

Workshop—Use of Circuit Simulator

Workshop—Digital Transaction

Guests at ICEI-2017

First International Conference on Data Management, Analytics and Innovation (ICDMAI – 2017)

P A G E 5 V O L U M E 6 , I S S U E 1

23,566, out of which R-10 consti-

tuted 1, 25,060 (29.5%). He also

briefly touched upon the issues

related to membership Retention,

conference Quality and the IEEE

core values and Ethics.

Following are some of the high-

lights of the address from some of

the distinguished guests:

Karen Bartleson, IEEE President

and CEO emphasised the need for

openness, international collabora-

tion, and free flow of ideas and

talented individuals across the

Globe.

Mary Ellan Randall, MGA Vice

President spoke of the retention

problem of IEEE.

Marina Ruggieri, TAB Vice

President talked about the four new

technical multi-disciplinary topics

which have been introduced this

year through four TAB ad hoc com-

mittees

Margaretha Eriksson, R-8 Director

mentioned that about 135 countries

are part of Region-8. She talked

about the issues due to the General

Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

which comes into effect from 25,

May 2018 in the European Union.

Bernard Sander, R-4 Director gave

details of activities in his Region

consisting of about 20,000 members

in Chicago, Minneapolis and Detroit

areas.

Vincenzo Piuri, and Jacek M Zurada, IEEE President

Elects for 2018 gave their views about the future expansion

of IEEE. During the Q&A Session, both of them promised

to pay special attention to R-10 region in view of its large

membership and value addition to the organization.

IEEE R-10 Annual General Meet-

ing was held at Makhuhari Messe

International Conference Hall,

Chibu Prefecture, Japan on 4-5th

March 2017. On invitation from R-

10 Director, following persons at-

tended the meeting

GS Mani, Chair, IEEE Pune Section

Rajesh Ingle, Member, R-10

The meeting was held from 0800

hrs to1735 Hrs on 4th March 2017

and from 0830 Hrs to 1300 Hrs on

5th March 2017. On both days Kuk-

jin Chun, R-10 Director chaired

various sessions. There were about

130 delegates for the meeting,

which included Section Chairs, R-

10 Execom members, Former R-10

Directors, and a few distinguished

guests. In his opening remarks,

Kukjin Chun, R-10 Director gave

brief statistics of the growth of the

Region. As on March, 1, 2017,

IEEE has a global membership of 4,

Padmabhushan Dr.Vijay

Bhatkar, Dr.P.K.Sinha, Vice

Chancellor and Director,

Dr.S.P. Mukharjee, Interna-

tional Institute of Informa-

tion Technology and Dr.

Neha Sharma, Director ZI-

BACAR, were the General

Chairs of the conference.

IEEE R-10 Annual General Meeting The Dstinguished

guests at R10 AGM

Karen Bartleson, IEEE

President and CEO

Mary Ellan Randall,

MGA Vice President

Marina Ruggieri,

TAB Vice President

Margaretha Eriksson,

R-8 Director Bernard Sander, R-4

Director

Vincenzo Piuri, IEEE

President Elect 2018

Jacek M Zurada, IEEE

President Elect 2018

Zeal Education Society’s, Zeal Institute of Business Administration, Computer Application & Re-

search (ZIBACAR), Pune organized the First International Conference on Data Management, Ana-

lytics and Innovation (ICDMAI – 2017) on 24-26 February 2017. The conference is technically sup-

ported by IEEE Pune Section and IEEE Computer Society. Reliance Jio is the digital partner, Creosis

and FIve Elements are our Technology Partner and other partners are Eternus Solutions, Union Bank

of India, Hartleys Technologies, Prabha Info Solutions and Capital Novus.

Over 450 Research papers have been submitted for this conference and out of them only 15% papers

are selected for oral presentation. Around 120 delegates have registered for this conference which is

from eight different countries like Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Romania, Nigeria, Yemen, US &

India. The other attractions of the conference pre conference tutorials mainly in two tracks (Academia

& Industry) on latest topics, Robotics show by DRDO, Innovation track and smart city discussion.

Eight Pre-Conference Tutorials were conducted by eminent acade-

micians and industrialist.

Guests and Delegates at ICDMAI-2017

P A G E 6

Topics Covered:

1. Introduction to

MATLAB / Simulink

2. Introduction to

Scripy / .m file

3. Hands-On Training

- Diode Bridge Rectifier

- Single Phase Inverter and

its FFT

- - Simulation of 3ph 3-

Level Inverter

- - Buck-Boost Converter

- Closed loop speed control

of 3-ph Induction Motor

using PI loop

MATLAB for Electrical Engineers

Glimpses of IEEE R-10 Annual General Meeting

T h e r e s o u r c e p e r s o n

Mr.Hrishikesh Mehta has wide

experience in automation and

control. He conducted theory

as well as practical sessions.

The practical sessions were

well appreciated by the dele-

gates as it consisted of

softawre and hardware coordi-

nationa and control. The dele-

gates were happy with the

content of course covering

basic scripts, functions, block-

sets s well as GUI etc.

Details of Attendees

Total = 35

IEEE Members: 12

Students (UG, PG, PhD): 15

Industry, Consultants: 08

Three days Profession Train-

ing Workshop was organized

by Young Professional Affinity

Group at PVG’s College of

Engineering and Technology,

Pune on 09-11 March 2017.

Total 35 engineers have given

training on the use of Simulink

and various block sets of

MATLAB as a professional

software. Few of them were

the start-up companies.

I E E E P U N E S E C T I O N N E W S L E T T E R

Workshop—MATLAB for Electrical Engineering

Computing with Fun

P A G E 7 V O L U M E 6 , I S S U E 1

A workshop on “Computing with

Fun” was conducted on 13th and

15th April, 2017 at Sungrace

School, Pune. It was a part of the

series of workshops under “Cultivating Creativity and Curi-

osity in Children (Quadra –C)”

program conceptual-

ized by the Educa-

tion Society of IEEE

Pune Section. Major

objective of this

workshop was to

introduce concepts

related to Algo-

rithmic thinking,

Reasoning, and Decision making in

relation to Computational Science. The students had no earlier expo-

sure to computers, except in the use

of Internet.

Emphasis during the workshop was

on evolving basic logic necessary

for development of Computer

Participants were also introduced to

concepts of ‘Looping’ and

‘Decision Trees’ and how they are

useful in writing efficient program-

ming.

The workshop was conducted in

coordination with Rotary Club of

Pune Horizon and was attended by

37 children of Std X. Cer-

tificates were distributed to

all participating children by

Shri Vijai Pillai, Director,

Sungrace School. All par-

ticipants were immensely

happy with the workshop

Co-

sponsored

by Rotary

Club of

Pune Hori-

zon

International Workshop on Internet of Things and TV White Spaces (WIOT’ 2017)

Details of Atten-

dees :

Total = 46

(IEEE: 3;

Teachers: 2;

Others: 4;

Students: 37)

Category of the Activity Workshop, DL

Day and Date 12 January 2017

Venue Hotel President

Organizer MIT Pune

IEEE Co-sponsor IEEE COMSOC and CS Pune

Chapter, IEEE Pune Section

Resource Person Dr. Rath Vannithamby INTEL,

USA; Dr. Bilab Sikdar, NUS,

Details of Attendees 135

Distinguished Lecture on Internet of Everything

Category of the Activity DL

Day and Date 13 January 2017

Venue Hotel President

Organizer IEEE COMSOC Pune Chapter

IEEE Co-sponsor IEEE COMSOC Pune Chapter

Resource Person Dr. Rath Vannithamby INTEL,

Details of Attendees 135

COMSOC Meeting

Category of the Activity Meeting for Project Competition

Day and Date 20 February 2017

Venue MIT Pune

Organizer IEEE COMSOC Pune Chapter

IEEE Co-sponsor IEEE COMSOC and CS Pune

Resource Person Dr. Kalyani Kulkarni,

Details of Attendees 3

State Level Project Exhibition for UG/PG Students on Power system, Renewable Energy and Energy Audit.

Category of the

Activity

DL

Day and Date 25 March 2017

Venue Electrical Department PES Modern College of Engi-

neering, Pune

Organizar Prof. Dr. Mrs. N.R. Kulkarni, Head Electrical Depart-

ment, PES MCOE, Pune

IEEE Co-sponsor PES/IAS Chapter IEEE Pune Section

Resource Person Dr.D.J.Doke, Chair, PES/IAS Chapter of Pune Section,Mrs. Medha Deshpande, Director and Business unit Head AMC

Yardi, Software Pvt Limited, Mr. N. S. Parandkar Emeritus Professor, Mr. Ganesh Shitole, Deputy Manager,MatherPlatt

Akurdi, Pune, Mr. Hemant Rhatwal, Assistant Manager,Thyssenkrupp Pimpri, Pune, Mr. Heramb Mayadeo,Electrical

EngineerBlack & Veatch, Pune, Mr. Devendra Vanarse, Project Manager,Cognizant, Pune

Details of Attendees 47 project groups at UG and PG level

Dr. Neha Sharma, Newsletter Editor

nvsharma@rediffmail.com

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Awareness Drives

A promotional lecture about IEEE was organized by IEEE

Pune Section at Vishwakarma Institute of Information

Technology, Pune on 20th January 2017. More than 100

Students attended which included 5 IEEE members. Dr.

Yogesh Dandavate, Head E&TC Department introduced

the guests and assured that many staff and students from

the college are keen to be part of IEEE.

Resource- Persons/speakers : Prof GS Mani;

Prof Mandar Khurjekar

Topics covered in short : ‘Why join IEEE?’

Details of Attendees : 100 IEEE Members : 5 Students (UG, PG, PhD) : 95

A campaign for IEEE Membership Awareness was conducted

by IEEE Pune Section on 28th December 2016 at MIT College

of Engineering, Pune . More than 85 Students attended which

included 8 IEEE members. Dr. Virendra Shete, Head E&TC

Department introduced the guests and assured that many staff

and students from the college are keen to be part of IEEE. Ac-

tive student members of IEEE MITCOE were felicitated on the

occasion.

Resource- Persons/speakers : Prof GS Mani;

Prof Mandar Khurjekar

Topics covered in short : ‘Why join IEEE?’

Details of Attendees : 85 IEEE Members : 8 Students (UG, PG, PhD) : 77