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INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
DELHI INTERNATIONAL BRANCH
SECRETARY`S ANNUAL REPORT 2001-2002
Dated:4th August 2002
THE REPORT
1. The Report covers briefly the activities of the Delhi International Branch for the year 2001-2002
2. Meetings
Branch Committee meetings were held as below:
S.No.
Date
Venue
1.
3rd February 2002
India International Centre
2.
28th April 2002
India International Centre
3.
14th July 2002
India International Centre
4.
AGM – 4th August 2002
India International Centre
In line with the new IEE Branch Guidelines, the number of Branch Committee meetings has been reduced
and the Core Committee consisting of the Chairman,Hon.Secretary,Hon.Treasurer and two or three other
concerned members has been meeting more often to consider policy matters in respect of several issues
3. Technical Lectures/Seminars: Twelve Technical Lectures/Seminars were arranged during the year
The list is enclosed in Annexure “A”
4. Members in the News:
a) It is a matter of great pride that Mr.H.L.Bajaj,FIEE has taken over as Chairman CEA w.e.f 1 st July 2002.
b) Mr.N.Venkatesan was elected to represent India in the IEE Council for the year 2001-2002
c) With deep regret we wish to record the sad demise of our active member Mr.D.K.Abbi and Wng.Comdr.
K.N.Sinha during the year
5. Visit of Prof.John Midwinter,Past President IEE: Prof.John Midwinter is expected to visit Delhi from
the 4th to the 8th of September. He will attend the Seminar on Telecommunications on 6 th September and
give the keynote address.His specialisation is Optical Fibre Networks
6. Proposed Seminar on 6th September 2002
The Branch has planned a one day Seminar on Development of Telecommunication Infrastructure in India
on the 6th September 2002, in the Auditorium of the India International Centre.
Topics for discussion include:
Telecom Infrastructure and futuristic trends of Telecom Development in India-role of Public and
Private Sector.
Improving India`sTeledensity and Rural Connectivity
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Financing Telecom Development
Regulatory policy Framework
Commiunication Convergence:Role of associated Sectors like Gas,Power,Railways etc.
Panel Discussion
Sponsorship is expected from MTNL,GAIL,Indian Railways,Power Grid Corporation(PGCIL),Qualcom
and others..
Provisionally the Program is as below
9.30 AM-10.30 AM: INAUGURAL SESSION
10.30 – 11.00 TEA
11.00 –1.00 PM Technical Session I INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
1.00-2.00 PM LUNCH
2.00-4.00 PM Technical Session II: COMMUNICATION FOR THE MASSES
4.00-4.30 PM TEA
4.30-5.30 PM PANEL DISCUSSION
7. Membership Drive:
The membership of IEE Delhi International Branch is as follows as on 15 th May 2002:
Fellows:
37
Comparison with previous year(Sept.2001)
Members:
44
Fellows:
38
Associate Members: 12
Members:
50
Associates:
27
Associate Members:
12
Senior Associates:
5
Associates
19
Students:
911
Senior Associates
5
Total:
1036
Students
818
Total
942
There has been some loss of membership due to movement of members to other areas and death of some
members.About 60 applications of students from JSS Engineering College have been misplaced and
therefore their membership has not been shown in the above figures
This has been possible due to the untiring efforts of the IMA and the support given by Committee Members
However the growth in corporate membership is still not very encouraging and efforts are needed to
increase this membership. Help from Members is welcome.
8. Student Activities: The Delhi Branch has the following Student Centres at present:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
(xi)
(xii)
(xiii)
Delhi College of Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology,Delhi
Institute of Technology,BHU,Varanasi
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology,Pstiala
Regional Engineering College,Srinagar(J & K)
Regional Engineering College,Jullunder
Punjab Engineering College,Chandigarh
Birla Institute of Technology & Science,Pilani
Jamia Milia Islamia,Delhi
Regional Engineering College,Allahabad
Indian Institute of Technology,Roorkee
Mahila Institute of Technology,Delhi
Malaviya Regional Engineering College,Jaipur
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(xiv)
JSS Academy of Technical Education,C-20/1,Sector 62,Noida (UP)
New Student Centres were established at MREC,Jaipur and JSS Academy of Technical Education,Noida.
New student Centres are being planned for AMU,Aligarh,REC,Hamirpur,& REC,Kurukshetra
Dr.Vimal Bhanot has moved to BITS,Pilani,Due to movement of some Student Counsellors,new
Counsellors are expected to take charge of activities in ,Mahila Institute of Techmology,TIET,Patiala and
MREC,Jaipur. A new centre at JSS Academy of Technical Education,Noida was also established as stated
above.
Some of the activities planned in the Student Centres are as follows:
8.1 Delhi College of Engineering- TROIKA 2002: 12th – 16th February 2002
Brainwave,Envision,Technovision,Panache,Bits`n` Bytes,Scintella,Synergy contests and
Demonstrations
8.2
Malaviya Regional Engineering College,Jaipur:Inauguration of IEE Student Centre: 10th
October 2001
TECHWIT: 2001:Paper presentation Contest was held on the same day
8.3
Institute of Technology,BHU,Varanasi: 22nd-24th February 2002
PRASTUTI-2002: A National Level Paper Presentation Contest with other activities like Software
Contests,Quizzes,and Workshops
9. Awards In line with the past tradition ,the Branch Committee recommends the following for the
awards for the year 2001:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Lifetime Achievement Award:
Dr.P.N.Choudhary
IEE Service Medal:
Mr.S.P.Sharma
Best Student Counsellor:
Prof.N.A.Laway of REC Srinagar
Best Student:
REC Srinagar:
Mr.Mubasir Nisar Shora
Inst.of Technology,BHU:
Mr.Anoop Gupta
Jamia Milia Islamia:
Mr.Puneet Gulati
MN REC,Allahabad
Mr.S,Kumar
An additional Award is being instituted this year for the Outstanding Engineer and for this year it has been
decided to award the same to Mr.H.L.Bajaj,Chairman,CEA.My congratulations to all the award winners.
It was also decided to honour the following at the time of the Telecommunications Workshop in September
2002:
i)
ii)
Mr.N.R.Narayana Murthy of Infosys,Bangalore (he will not be available for the same)
Mr.Rajendra Singh,former CMD,NTPC
10. Delhi Branch Website: We have been working on the Delhi Branch Website for some time now.
However it could not be hosted due to some technical difficulties. The Website created by Jamia Milia
Islamia has been recorded on a floppy and sent to London,through Mr.N.Venkatesan. I am now glad to
inform members that this has been uploaded on to the IEE Website and can be viewed on
http://local.iee.org/delhi/yms.
Many student branches have also websites including BHU,Varanasi,and MREC,Jaipur
The Website for Delhi Branch is under preparation and part of what has been created can be viewed at the
address: http://www.geocities.com/smathur80/index.htm
Mr.Saurab Mathur of Jamia Milia Islamia has been working on this project, and we are thankful to him.
I am proud to say that we are the first IEE Branch in India to host a Website as part of IEE Website.
11.The Branch continues to get the following publications regularly:
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IEE News
ii IEE Review
iii Power Engineering Journal
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iv Science and Education Journal
v Electronics and Communication Engineering Journal
vi Engineering Management Journal
vii Computing and Control Engineering Journal
viii Manufacturing Engineer Journal
These are kept with the Hony.Secretary and any member desirous in having a copy can get it on loan.
12. Points arising out of last AGM:
a) Copy of Accounts and Secretary`s Report have been posted in advance.All members are requested
to bring their copies
b) Members have still not advised their E-Mail addresses
c) The accounts have been prepared giving comparison to the last year`s figures
d) Recruitment show could not be arranged due lack of volunteers to help
e) Annual Seminar is being organised on the 6th September 2002.
13. Relations with other Institutions:
The IEE Delhi Branch has been maintaining an excellent relationship with IIT,Delhi, Institution of
Engineers(India),IETE,IEEE Delhi Section and BES. Efforts have been made to organise activities in
collaboration with these institutions as shown in the list of technical activities.
14. Acknowledgements:
I wish to acknowledge with thanks the support and encouragement given by the Chairman,Honorary
Treasurer,the IMA,the Branch Committee Members and Members of the IEE Delhi Branch in arranging the
various activities during the year.
With the approval by the AGM, Mr.I.S.Anand will take over the Honorary Secretaryship from 1 st October
2002-this will therefore be my last report to the AGM. I wish to thank the Chairman,Vice-Chairman,
Honorary Treasurer,IMA and all members for their cooperation in making my job a success through all
these years. I wish my successor a great and rewarding future in his work.Thank you very much.
(T.S.M.Rao)
Honorary Secretary
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ANNEXURE “A”
S.No.
Speaker
Subject
1. Shri P.S.Saran,
Impact of Convergence Technologies
Former Secretary,Govt.
on Telecommunications
Seminar Hall,IIT,Delhi
(in collaboration with IIT Delhi
of India,Telecom.Services
Alumni Association)
& Former Member Technology,
Telecommunications Board
2. Prof.M.S.Sachdev
Sachdev Engineering
Associates(Canada) &
Professor,University of
Saskachevan,Canada
Date/Venue
8th November 2001
Seminar Hall,IIT Delhi
Power Systems Yesterday & Today
7 th December 2001
(in collaboration with IEEE Delhi Section, Committee Room.EE Dept,
Electrical Engineering Dept,&IEE Student
IIT Delhi
Chapter,IIT Delhi)
Co-Design Tools & Architectural
14 th December 2001
Adaptation for deep sub-micron VLSI
Seminar Room,Computer
Systems(in collaboratiin with IEEE Delhi Science & Eng`g Dept.
Section,CAS=CS Societies & Computer
IIT Delhi(Block 6,Room430)
Societies Chapters)
4. Prof.Raj Jain
Optical Networking with IP over DWDM:
17 th December 2001
Dept.of Computer &
Recent Advances,Trends & Issues
Committee Room,EE Dept,
Information Sciences,
(in collaboration with Computer Science
IIT Delhi
University of Ohio,USA Society,EE Society & EE Dept.
IIT Delhi0
3. Prof.Rajesh Gupta
Dept.of Computer
Science,University of
California,USA
5. Prof Amarjeet Singh
Enhancement of Efficiency of Gyratrons
Former Director,CEERI, for Fusion Energy Applications
Pilani
(in collaboration with Energy Forum,IIT
Delhi Energy Centre Siciety)
19 th December 2001
Committee Room,Centre for
Energy Studies,IIT Delhi
6. Seminar
Energy Efficient Equipment & Systems for
30th January 2002
Saving Electricity(in collaboration with
Committee Room,EE Dept,
Indian Electrical & Electronics Manufacturing
IIT Delhi(Full Day Seminar)
AssociationIEEMA,IEEE Delhi SectionIAS/PES Chapter)
7. Shri.R.Saha
CEA
New Technologies in Electrical Power
Transmission-Part I
(in collaboration with IEEE Delhi Section,
PES-IAS Chapter & EE Dept,IIT Delhi)
7th March 2002
Committee Room,EE Dept,
IIT Delhi
8. Shri K.K.Arya
CEA
New Technologies in Electrical Power
Transmission-Part II
(in collaboration with IEEE Delhi Section,
PES-IAS Chapter & EE Dept.IIT Delhi
22 nd March 2002
Committee Room,EE Dept,
IIT Delhi
9.
Shri.Ashis Sanyal
Director,Dept.of IT
Govt.of India
Electromagnetic Pollution-Causes & Concerns
26th April 2002
(in collaboration with IEEE Delhi Section)
India International Centre
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10. Seminar
(Full Day)
34 th World Telecom Day: ICT for all:
Empowering people to cross the Digital
Divide(in collaboration with IETE)
17 th May 2002
Delton Hall,IETE,Lodi Road
11. Dr.Shishir K.
Mukherjee
Electricity Industry Restructuring in
(in collaboration with IEEE Delhi Section)
12 th June 2002
India International Centre
12. Workshop (2 Days)
EMC Design for Electrical/Electronic
Products
(in collaboration with Delhi Chapter of
SEMCE(I)-Society of EMC Engineers(India),
Delhi Chapter)
9 th –10th August 2002
Delton Hall,Lodi Road
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Dated: 22nd July 2002
ALL MEMBERS OF IEE
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ON 4TH AUGUST
2002
THIS IS TO INFORM ALL MEMBERS THAT THE
VENUE FOR THE AGM ON THE 4TH AUGUST 2002
HAS BEEN SHIFTED TO:
CONFERENCE ROOM NO.IV(4)
BASEMENT OF “ANNEXE”,INDIA
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE.PLEASE NOTE
CAREFULLY.
(T.S.M.RAO)