THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC
IEEE STUDENT BRANCH
ANNUAL REPORT OF ACTIVITIES
2001-2002 ACADEMIC YEAR
SCHOOL NAME: Pune Institute of Computer Technology
ADDRESS
: Survey No. 27, Pune-Satara Road
Dhankavdi, Pune-411043, India
SCHOOL CODE: 18461
BRANCH E-MAIL ADDRESS: bsc@ieee.org
BRANCH ORGANISATION:
Office Bearers
Branch chairperson
Teleph
Vice Chairman
Secretary
Treasurer
Program Committee
Membership
Committee
P. R. O.
Year 2000
YEAR 2001
FROM JAN 2001 TO DEC
FROM JAN 2002 To DEC
2001
2002
Kaustav Ghose
Shruti Shruti Dalvi
+91 20 5675830
+91 20 6354211
Paritosh Ingole
Anshuman Nene
Parimal Puranik
Paritosh Ingole
Ashwin Jayaraman
Ravichandra Kshirsagar
Manasi Joshi
Narayan Pavgi
Abhinay Kampasi
Manu Gupta
Rahul Agarwal
Abhinay Kampasi
Student Branch Counselor: Dr. Bharat S. Chaudhari, Professor
Telephone
: (O) + 91 20 4371101/4378063
(
Fax No.
: (O) + 91 20 4372106
E-mail address: bsc@ieee.org, bharat_sc@hotmail.com
SCHOOL OFFICIALS:
Department Chairman:
Dr. C. V. K. Rao, Head of Computer Engg. Dept.
Dean
: Dr. C. S. Warnekar (Principal)
DISTRIBUTION: This report is to be submitted to IEEE Student services and to your Region and Student
Activities Committee chairman no later than May 1’st. Additional couples of the report shall be maintained
in Branch files as permanent record.
Date mailed: April ’ 2002
TRANSMITTAL:
We have examined this Report and to best of our knowledge believe it to be true complete and
correct.
Prepared by: Paritosh Ingole
Received and Approved by:
Branch Office Held: Secretary
Date: April ’ 2002
BRANCH ACTIVITIES REPORT:
Describe below activities sponsored by your Student Branch. Include such activities as technical meetings
special tours, portal discussions or speakers, S-PAC's and other professional activities, or even social
meetings and fund-raising events. The information you provide will enable both Headquarters and the
Regional Student Activities Committee Chairperson to gain valuable insight into your Student Branch and
its progress. This record of your activities will also be of use to succeeding officers in organizing their
programs. Please provide total number of meetings in each category in the space provided below. Describe
events Briefly (Use additional Sheet as necessary)
MEETINGS:
1) TECHNICAL (Including Speaker, Panel Discussions and Plant Tours):
->IEEE intra-collegiate technical paper presentation contest
->PLUG, web development
'Concepts', formerly known as 'Impetus and Concepts', is a nationwide inter-collegiate technical
extravaganza centered around an exhibition cum competition for project by final year students of
engineering. The event is being held on the PICT campus since 1990 under the banner of IEEE,
enjoys the status of a completely corporate sponsored event. The event was organized by the IEEE
student members from 13th to 18th March, 2002 under the guidance of Student Branch Counselor and
other staff members of the college. The event has consistently aimed to bridge the gap between the
student community and the corporate world.
The project competition ‘Impetus’ showcases the best of PICT followed by ‘Concepts’, a national
level exhibition and competition for final year students from the fields of Computer, Electronics and
Telecommunication, Instrumentation and Information Technology Engineering. The projects
exhibited, stand as a showcase of the crème de la crème of the student community of the country.
The judging process employs the best from the industry and helps students interact with industry and
understand the industry perspective of their project.
Taking a stride on an International Level, ‘Concepts 2002’ witnessed several eminent
personalities from abroad. Dr. Cor Claeys, founder Chairperson of the IEEE Electron Devices
Benelux Chapter, Belgium, who delivered a talk on "Semiconductors and downscaling" on the 17 th
March, 2002. Richard Stallman, President, Free Software Foundation and the inventor of the GNU C
compiler (gcc) delivered a seminar on ‘Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux System’ on the
15th March, 2002 as a part of the GNU/Linux Day. Moshe Bar, chief developer OpenMOSIX
software also visited ‘Concepts’ because of his interest in the projects showcased at Concepts.
The event also included ‘Pratibha’, the technical paper presentation contest, 'Pradnya', the
programming contest and 'Prahelika', the technical quiz contest, open to the second and third year
students, as well as 'Medha', the seminar and workshop series.
Concepts had always received an encouraging support from the corporate world. 'Concepts
2002' had Persistent Systems Private Ltd.(PSPL) as title sponsors, along with CalSoft Pvt. Ltd and
Kuokoa Networks as co-sponsors. The event sponsors were Veritas for the GNU/Linux Day, BMC
Software for Medha and Tata Honeywell for Prahelika, the technical quiz competition started this
year as a part of the event, along with many other sponsors for prizes, banners and stalls.
Objectives
 To provide a platform for students to exhibit their skills in the fields of
hardware and software.
 To encourage interaction between IT professionals, academicians and
engineering students not only from urban but also from various rural areas of India from where
the participants come to participate in Concepts.
 To provide a stepping stone for the careers of the participants by projecting their talent in a
unique way to the Industry.
The competition
·The competition is open to final year students of engineering from the
branches of Computers, Electronics and Telecommunications. The categories are
specialized under specific titles, taking guidance from the IEEE transactions.
Prizes are sponsored by prominent corporate IT houses. Students, academicians
and professionals from industries attend impetus and concepts. This event is
extensively covered in all local newspapers, local news channels as well as
monthly and fortnightly IT publications.
The CEO-Meet, a unique event organized this year, enhanced the glow of the 'Aura’ associated with
Concepts. The meet invited five CEOs, namely, Dr. Anand Deshpande (PSPL), Dr. Anupam Bhide
(CalSoft Pvt. Ltd), Mr. Pankaj Dhume (BMC Software), Mr. Harshad Pathak (Codito) and Mr.
Tarun Malviya (Mithi.com) for an open debate on the current issues, hence concluding the event in
style.
To encourage the specific interest of students in common topics, our IEEE student branch also has
special interest groups on Networking, Web Applications, Optics, Wireless Communications, Java
and Linux. Students are free to join these according to their technical interests. These groups meet on
an average of once to three times a week to exchange information and plan their activities. All
necessary help and guidance are provided by Branch Conselor as well as from college authorities.
TOTAL: More than 100*
* As there are various sub events under which many meeting were called.
2) PROFESSIONAL (Including S-PACS):
‘Concepts’ forms the pinnacle of the IEEE-PICT Student Branch. Being an industry-sponsored event
it involved a lot of interaction with professionals for the same. Along with the purpose of seeking
sponsorship, we had corresponded and invited professionals with over 3 years experience in the
industry world as judges for the project competition held during the event. To understand the
professional’s perspective over issues like service industry verses product industry, role of research
and development, entrepreneur and the effect of recession, a CEO meet was arranged on the final
day of ‘Concepts 2002’. All the professionals who came in as judges, special invitees and guests as
well as visitors during the event helped students gain a deeper insight on how professionals think.
TOTAL: More than 100#
# As most of the members were involved in organizing the event, meetings with companies/others
were inevitable.
3) SOCIAL ACTIVITES (fund raising events ,pizza parties, dances etc):
The PICT IEEE branch donated a few computer systems to NMV Primary School at
Kasegaon, a rural area in North Maharashtra. Hon Vice-chancellor (PUNE University)
Dr. Ashok Kolaskar formally inaugurated the center on 1st Dec, 2001.
As a follow up and with a view to encourage PICT students to develop Education related
software, a competition was conducted. In all 8 teams participated in the competition and prizes were
given to the best three projects designed for the school children. The software was later donated to
the NMV Primary School for educational purposes.
4) ACTIVES HELD JOINTLY WITH LOCAL SECTION (mentor program, days with an
engineer, sponsored dinner, etc)
->lecture by German Professors
Dr ……. & Dr Joan Barros gave seminars on future engineering education in Germany.
The nationwide project competition was inaugurated , on the 16th March 2002, by Mr. Raju Hira,
Treasurer, IEEE Bombay Section. On this occasion, he gave brief insight to how the studentindustry relationship can be improved.
Dr. Singhvi from the Aditya Birla Group of Companies delivered an interactive talk on ‘World
Class manufacturing’. The talk invoked the student attendants thinking over improving quality of
the product being manufactured.
A lecture on ‘Storage Management and Methods’, by Mr. Adityashankar Kini, CalSoft Pvt. Ltd
was held on 9th February 2002. The lecture exploited the history and development of storage
mechanisms and tools.
5) OTHER ACTIVITES (including project like Careers Day, Benox project, Students paper contest etc.)
The student members of the branch very well understand the importance of an active IEEE
branch counselor. Being a very understanding and encouraging counselor, the members felt him
to be a person who deserves to receive a token of appreciation of the efforts taken by him in last
3 years as an ‘The IEEE Branch Counselor’. The name of our respected branch counselor
Dr. B. S. Chaudhari, was nominated for the Best IEEE Branch Counselor Award.
Taking into consideration the quality and quantity of work done by all the active members of the
branch, the name of PICT-IEEE Student Branch was nominated for the Best Student Branch
Award.
An Inter collegiate Technical and general quiz was organized on 29th September, 2002. In all 108
teams from all over Pune participated in the quiz. All the participants were introduced to the
benefits of joining IEEE on this occasion.
An intra collegiate paper presentation contest was held in the month of August last year. The
idea behind its organization was to make the students in the second year of engineering aware
and to provide guidance and support about how a paper presentation should be done. The event
was indeed successful in boosting the confidence and encouraging students to participate in
paper presentation contests.
A Student Paper Presentation Contest was held as a part of ‘Concepts 2002’. Out of the ninetyseven entries that had been received from all over the country, 14 were selected for the final
presentation. These included 7 papers in the field of electronics and 7 from Computers. Our
branch provided all the necessary help and guidance for the paper writing and presentation.
i.
The following papers were presented during the intra-collegiate paper
presentation contest held in August last year.
Computer Students:
Sr. Name of student Title of Paper
Details
of Remark
No. Members
Competition
1.
Paritosh Ingole
Study od DOS and Intracollege,Pu Won First
Narayan Pavgi
DDOS
Attacks- ne Institute of Prize
Vulnerability
and Computer
proposed solutions
Technology
2.
Sweta Gupta
Firewall: A Mission
-doWon the
Sujata Yeldi
Accomplished
Second
Dhanashree
Prize
Bahirat
3.
Sapna Todwal
Object
Oriented
-doWon the
Amruta Joshi
Modelling
Third
Prize
4.
Sandeep Shelke
Structure of Firewall
-doAmit Parmar
5.
Abhinay Kampasi The
Structure
of
-doDevendra Desai
Firewalls
Sapna Bafna
6.
Nikhil Kadu
Structure of Firewalls
-doVishal Bomble
7.
Khusboo Sancheti Structure of Firewalls
-doAnkita Athawale
Anshuman Nene
8.
Shruti Dalvi
DDOS and DOS attack
-doSapna Bafna
Electronics and Telecommunication Students:
Sr. Name of student Title of Paper
No. Members
1.
Amit Malani
Micro
Electro
Ashish Medewar Mechanical Systems
Siddharth Mehta
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
ii.
Details
of Remark
Competition
Intracollege,Pu Won First
ne Institute of Prize
Computer
Technology
Ruchi Kachroo
Development
of
-doBluetooth technologies
and implementations.
Priyanka Jain
Basics
in
Bluetooth
-doPradnya Bal
Technologies
Anurag Agarwal
Review of the global
-doKumod Kawediya positioning systems
Siddartha Bellur
Trends
in
-doSwati Rane
Microelectronics
Rahul Ingle
Development
in
-doAditya Laud
Microelectronics
Ravichandra
Bandwidth Crisis and
-doKshirsagar
Dense
Wavelength
Vinod Kaundal
Division Multiplexing
The following students participated in the school children software contest.
Sr.
No.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Name of student
Members
Vaibhav Kulkarni
Yogesh
Dingorkar
Pravin Shinde
Amey Shinde
Ashish Vaidya
Sourabh
Patwardhan
Sujay Godbole
Taral Joglekar
Vaibhav Nivargi
Sujata Yeldi
Sweta Gupta
Dhanashree
Bahirat
Tanmay
Ganacharya
Project title
Vividh
Details of
Competition
Intra-collegiate
contest
Remark
Won the
first prize
EduSmart
-do-
Won the
second
prize
Edutainment Pack
-do-
Won the
third Prize
Welcome to the world of
Knowledge and fun
-do-
Won the
third Prize
Math-O-Mania
-do-
-
6.
7.
8.
iii.
Shirish Doashi
Amit Chaudhary
Dhanashree
Bahirat
Amod Bam
Prasad Pujari
Nilesh Heda
Kunal Chigare
Anurag
Chakravarti
Name of student
Members
Ameya Gholap
Pavan Makhija
Sony Raghavan
2.
Sunil Ainlod
Nikhil Kadu
Vishal Bomble
Faraz Shaikh
Mithilesh Thukral
4.
iv.
-do-
-
-do-
-
Tangram Game
-do-
-
The following students participated in the intra-collegiate student branch web site
development contest.
Sr.
No.
1.
3.
Know your Computer
More
Geography of India
Sidharth
Adholekar
Siddhartha
Gandhi
Prakash Patel
Rohit Raut
Arun Mirpuri
Details of
Competition
Intra-collegiate
web site
development
contest, PICT
-do-
-do-
-do-
Remark
Won the
First
Prize
Won the
second
prize
Won the
Third
Prize
-
The following papers werew sent to IEEE Bombay Section for sscrutinity and further
forwarding for the IEEE Region 10 Paper Contest 2002 for Undergraduate students. Two
of the papers were forwarded for the contest.
Sr.
No.
1.
Name of student
Title
Members
Sapna Bafna
Abhinay Kampasi
Aditya Kulkarni
2.
Amrute Joshi
Title of the Paper
Details
of Remark
Competition
Design
of
a IEEE Region 10 Forward
Framework
for Paper Contest for ed for
CompressedUndergraduate
the
Encrypted-Stackable Students.
contest
File Systems
Object
Oriented
-do-do-
Sapna Todwal
3.
Nikhil Kadu
Sunil Ainlod
4.
Dhanashreee
Bahirat
5.
Sweta Gupta
Sujata Yeldi
6.
Ashish Gandam
Manu Gupta
Tushar Tarkas
Modelling applied to
Meterology Station
Leaping into the
Fourth Generation of
Wirelesss
Technology
Neuro-Zip:Image
Compression using
Neuro Fuzzy
Firewall:Defending
against
Evolving
Security stacks
Stepping into the
next generation of
computers:The
Quantum Computers
-do-
-
-do-
-
-do-
-
-do-
-
Two papers from the institute were presented in ‘Pratibha’, a national level paper
presentation contest organized by the PICT-IEEE Student Branch as an event in
‘Concepts 2002’. A panel of 7 professionals was invited to judge the same. Given below
is a list of all the prize winners at the contest
v.
TITLE
Design of a Framework for
Compressed-Encrypted-Stackable
File Systems
2nd in Computers* Sujata Yeldi
Firewall: One step ahead in
Sweta Gupta
Network Security
3rd in Computers
Ankur Jain
Artificial Neural Networks (Speech
Saurabh Gupta
Recognition in stop consonant
vowel utterances in Hindi)
st
1 in E&TC
Susmita P.
Artificial Silicon Retina-Creating
Sandeepa Behera Artificial Sight
2nd in E&TC
Parag Toley
Watermarking and SteganographyAnmol Madan
A Security Analysis
rd
3 in E&TC
Deepak Patil
Solutions: The Future of Optical
Neelakash M.
Communications
Overall Winner*
Devendra Desai
Design of a Framework for
Gangadhar H.
Compressed-Encrypted-Stackable
File Systems
* Members of the PICT-IEEE Student Branch.
RANK
1 in Computers*
st
AUTHORS
Devendra Desai
Gangadhar H.
vi.
Sr.
No.
1.
2.
3.
The following students were selected at the annual project competition, Techfest 2002,
organized by IIT Bombay.
Name of student
Members
Pooja Gupta
Ameya Inamdar
Aniruddha
Patwardhan
Amber Palekar
Kedar Sovani
Nitin Kumbhar
Jayesh Rane
Title of Paper
Details of Competition
Remark
Network RAM
Techfest
Bombay
Won
First
Prize,
Open
Softwa
re
Won the
third
prize
,Open
Soft\war
e
Got a
special
mention
Rivus
2002,
-do-
Sarita Bafna
Socket Migration
Amit Shah
in MOSIX
Rahul Trivedi
Aribijay Bhaumik
Nitin Agarwal
Keyboard for
Rahul Ingle
Blind
4.
-do-
-do-
IIT
Won the
second
prize,
hardwar
e overall
 Our branch subscribes complete magazine package of IEEE.
 We have encouraged and help the students of VVIT, Baramati; Shegaon, Amravati; INS Shivagi,
Lonavalaand over 60 students from DYPatil, Pune for IEEE membership and opening student
branch. We provided them necessary documents/forms etc. A lot of students understood the benefits
of being an IEEE Student member during Concepts 2002 as well and enquired about the same at the
reception desk.
 Our Branch had participated in IEEE web-site development contest held this year, in the month of
March. Although not getting any special prizes, the branch did succeed in coming up with a web
site. The feedback and comments provided by the judges form an encouragement and guidance for
the branch to improve.
SUMMARY: Please provide the total number of meeting in the following categories
1) Technical Meetings 2) Professional 3) Social 4) joint activities 5) other etc. sponsored by your
Branch. Do not include Department sponsored seminars or talks or business and planning meeting.
TOTAL 1) 100
2) 100
3) 01
4) 04
5) 17
Average number of student participants:
30
Total Branch Membership:
857
STUDENTS BRANCH ASSESSMENT:
The following were the objectives the branch set for the last year. The branch was
successful in carrying them out with an extra-ordinary performance.
 To start Computer and Communication Society Chapter.
Remark: Petition has been filed and waiting for approval.
 To expand the horizons of ‘Concept 2002’ to International Level (Asia Pacific)
Remark: We had the privilege of having Dr. Cor Claeys, founder Chairperson of the IEEE Electron
Devices Benelux Chapter, Belgium, Richard Stallman, President, Free Software Foundation and the
inventor of the GNU C compiler, Dr. Moshe Bar, chief developer OpenMOSIX Project and
Mr. Robert Smith from Kuokoa Networks (USA) during Concepts 2002.
 To organize Design Contest in Dec. 2001
Remark: Could not achieve because of lack of funding from the industry however remains on the
top of the priority list of the branch activities in future.
 To develop a web site for our branch
Remark: Please visit http://ieee.pictsctr.edu
 To promote the activities of IEEE in Pune Region as well as in other parts of Maharashtra.
Remark: We have encouraged and help the students of VVIT, Baramati; Shegaon, Amravati;
INS Shivagi, Lonavalaand over 60 students from DYPatil, Pune for IEEE membership and
opening student branch. We provided them necessary documents/forms etc. A lot of students
understood the benefits of being an IEEE Student member during Concepts 2002 as well and
enquired about the same at the IEEE Information Desk.
Future Plans –is your branch Planning technical or professional activities setting up a setting up
a Branch e-mail address sponsoring any section /Branch joint activities? Provide details:




To organize Design Contest for students.
To organize a visit to GMRT, Narayangaon.
To organize a visit Micro-electronics lab at IIT, Bombay.
To organize Industry sponsored workshops and seminars on topics like Networking and
Cluster Computing.
 To set up a Network & OS Research Lab for Students at the branch for exploring new
avenues in the ever expanding world of Networks & Operating Systems.