International Technological Conference-2014 January 2nd to 4th, 2014

This summary captures the one-day Pre-Conference and the two-day main conference program

held in Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute of Technology, Chembur, Mumbai, India

from 2nd Jan – 2014 to 4th Jan 2014. It was co-sponsored by INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

OF APPLICATIONS or INNOVATIONS IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT

(IJAIEM) with an ISSN No. 2319-4847. The selection of best papers from ITechCON-2014 has

been published in IJAIEM.

The main conference brought together nearly the 100 participants and experts from the industry

and eminent institutes all over the country. The primary goal of the conference was to promote

original research in the designed fields of technology, leading to innovative applications with

direct societal impact. The conference also aimed to promote scientific information exchange

between researchers, academicians, students and practitioners working in India and abroad.

The world of Technology is changing very fast. Society can benefit from new technology only if

researchers and developers work shoulder to shoulder with current state of art technology. The

main mission of the conference was to further the cause of Information Dissemination in all

areas.

The talks given by the experts invited from industries and research organizations and the pre-

conference visit to the research laboratory - Electron Beam Centre, Kharghar , Navi Mumbai ,

were the distinguished features of this conference.

Pre – Conference program: 2nd Jan – 2014

The Pre- Conference program was launched with welcoming remarks from principal Dr. (Mrs.)

J. M. Nair. In her talk she highlighted the importance of such conferences. Since changes occur

pretty fast in the areas of technology, interdisciplinary domains, teaching methodology,

communications, business process and banking system the traditional static methods of teaching

is not sufficient, so there is a constant need to bridge the gap between University syllabus and

actual industrial needs. To reduce this gap such type of conferences are needed.

Dr. S. Ganesan, Raja Ramanna Fellow of DAE & Professor HBNI, delivered a talk on

“Variance, Covariance , Uncertainty matrices in big data science with real life examples”. He

explained the importance of big data in industry and the problems related to it giving many real

time examples. The participants enthusiastically participated in the question – answer session

which followed the talk.

The next speaker was Dr. S. N. Suryanarayana from BARC, he delivered the talk on Nuclear

Physics. He explained the photo fission research work handled in Kharghar, Navi – Mumbai.

Another sparkling speaker of the session was Dr. Debanik Roy, Scientist (Robotics) & Program

Officer (BRNS). He delivered a talk on DAE BRNS Mechanisms for promoting interactions

between DAE and various academic institutes. The talk was very useful for all the researchers

eager to get funds for their research work.

In the afternoon session an industrial visit to Electronic Beam Center, BARC, DAE Research lab

Kharghar, was arranged. It provided a good opportunity for the participants to see the state of art

experiments.

Figure 1 Dr. S. Ganesan, Raja Ramanna Fellow of DAE & Professor HBNI, delivering a talk.

Figure 2 Dr. Debanik Roy, Scientist (Robotics) & Program Officer (BRNS), delivering a talk.

Conference Day 1: 3rd Jan 2014

The I- TechCON- 2014 was inaugurated with the welcome speech delivered by Dr. (Mrs.) J. M.

Nair, Principal , VESIT, Mumbai. In her speech she highlighted the importance of these kind of

conferences for the researchers, the academicians and the students. The key note address was

delivered by Dr. Hemant Abhaynkar , Vice –President VIT Pune. He emphasized on the

importance of research for the young teachers and the academicians. Dr. S. K. Ukarande, Dean

of the Faculty of Technology of Mumbai University, addressed the gathering pointing out the

quality of conferences conducted and research papers which are presented today.

Dr. K. C. Mittal from BARC, delivered an interesting talk on Electronics Beam and its

Applications. He gave number of live examples where Electronics Beam is used. The talk was

widely appreciated by young researchers.

Figure 3 Releasing of conference souvenir.

Conference Day 2: 4th Jan 2014

Dr. Archana Sharma, So/H, APPD, BTDG, BARC, winner of Homi Bhabha Science &

Technology Award, delivered a talk on “Pulse Power and its Industrial Strategies.” She

explained the technological development in the “Pulsed Power Electron Accelerator” program

and its utilization for compact high power microwave source for strategic applications. As a

special application of the same she explained 1.5 MV 25KJMarx generator using KALI-5000

accelerator, one kilo Joule Marx based repetitive High Power Microwave (HOM) generator, and

Linear Induction Accelerator.

Figure 4 Dr. Archana Sharma, So/H, APPD, BTDG, BARC, winner of Homi Bhabha Science &

Technology Award, delivered a talk

The paper presentation was conducted in three parallel sessions and review process at three

different venues.

The selected original and unpublished research papers from multidisciplinary areas of Computer

and Information Technology, Electronics and Electronics & Communication and Instrumentation

were presented. In the conference nearly 250 papers were received for the conference, all the

submitted papers were sent for peer review and the corresponding authors were notified about

the remarks, comments and status of the review process. Wherever reviewers recommended

further improvements in the paper, the paper was sent back to the corresponding author and the

revised version of papers was sought before the due date.

Figure 5 Group photo of the conference.