Talk: Benefits of being a member in IEEE RAS to build a better career
M.K.A. Ahamed Khan, Chair for IEEE RAS Malaysia chapter
IEEE is the world’s largest professional society dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE’s highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities. In this talk, held on 25th October 2021, students not only gain the complete spectrum of IEEE societies and the importance of being a professional IEEE member, they were also exposed to the essential and exclusive benefits offered to IEEE members, including technical information, networking opportunities, career development, and member discounts. The event was called 180 SRS and was organized by Mr. Ghulam E Mustafa from University Technology Petronas (UTP). Dr. Mohamed Khan was invited as one of the keynote speakers. Later Dr. Mohamed Khan briefed the audience of more than 40 students and 13 engineering staffs on the vision, mission and complete IEEE organization structure and its benefits.
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IEEE@SWITCH 2021
Prepared by: Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum; Randi Sumner, IEEE Entrepreneurship; Patrick Russoniello, IEEE Industry Engagement & Leo Hwa Chiang, IEEE Singapore Office
The Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) is one of the largest and most vibrant general-interest tech conferences in Asia. It is affiliated with the mammoth Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF), established in 2016, which draws some 60,000 attendees every year. Founded just three years ago, SWITCH brings together business leaders, entrepreneurs, engineers, scholars, and investors from the Global-Asia innovation ecosystem.
After a successful live event in its inaugural year, 2019, SWITCH went virtual in the first pandemic year of 2020 and pulled off a hybrid event this year, with both virtual sessions and some live ones at the JW Marriott Hotel in Singapore.
SWITCH 2021 was organized into three main channels, SWITCH Beyond, SWITCH Global, and Slingshot. Beyond covers advanced and emerging technologies; Global is the channel for topics in business, markets, and international commerce; and Slingshot is a competition that offers an opportunity for startups to pitch VCs and business leaders and win funding. Most of the IEEE-branded sessions were in the “Beyond” track, which focused this year on healthcare & biomedical sciences, smart cities & urban solutions, trade and connectivity, and emerging sustainable technologies.
IEEE has partnered with SWITCH’s organizers, Enterprise Singapore and Singapore’s National Research Foundation, from the very first event in 2019. That year, we hosted five sessions, including an exclusive and highly successful live Q&A with Tony Fadell, the inventor of the iPhone and cofounder of Nest Labs. The IEEE’s partnership with SWITCH is spearheaded by the IEEE Singapore Office, IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Entrepreneurship and IEEE Industry Engagement. This year, the organizing team curated seven sessions for SWITCH 2021, involving some 12 distinguished panelists and four moderators from IEEE. Although no official figures are yet available, informal tallies taken during the panels indicate that they were viewed by hundreds of attendees. Descriptions of the sessions can be found in the next section.
Microgrids, Hydrogen, and the Future of Electric-Power Delivery
https://community.switchsg.org/session/103179
Moderator: GLENN ZORPETTE
Panelists: Dr. Robert Hebner, IEEE Fellow and Director, University of Texas Center for Electromechanics,
Mr. Yuan-Sheng Yu, Lux Research
Overview: Utilities around the world are building and operating microgrids, in both remote and urban environments. These are creating fundamental change in longstanding utility practices, on technical, reliability, and regulatory fronts. Meanwhile, in a loosely linked development, massive investments are going into hydrogen-related technologies, for generation, storage, and also for transportation. Fuel cells and electrolysis systems are receiving lavish funding. Australia, for example, is conducting a large hydrogen-economy experiment on the island of Tasmania, with some of the hydrogen being shipped to Japan by sea. What are the important lessons learned so far? What practices have worked best? What will be the emphasis going forward?
Future of Maritime Shipping
https://community.switchsg.org/session/103168
Moderator: MARIA GALLUCCI
Panelists: Diane Gilpin, CEO of the Smart Green Shipping Alliance in the UK, and
Quah Ley Hoon, CEO, MPA
Overview: The global maritime industry has run on diesel power for more than a century, with oil-burning engines driving explosive growth in trade; today, cargo ships haul more than 11 billion metric tons of cargo around the world every year. Yet these freighters also contribute a significant share — nearly 3 percent — of the world’s annual greenhouse gas emissions. Now the maritime industry is embarking on a profound energy transformation, with fleets of zero-carbon vessels on the horizon. “Green ” ammonia made from renewables is expected to drive the next generation of ocean-going cargo ships. Hydrogen-powered vessels are now under construction, and battery-powered ferries, barges, and tugboats already ply rivers and waterways in Europe and Asia. Wind is also making a comeback, in the form of devices like spinning rotor sails and high-flying towing kites. What will it take to make these alternative fuels go mainstream, and by when? What technology developments and policies are needed to accelerate this clean energy shift?
Panelists: Stephen Welby, Executive Director and COO, IEEE
Prof Low Teck Seng, CEO, NRF
Overview: From building resilience amid the pandemic to tackling climate change, technology has played a pivotal role in tackling various challenges that Singapore and countries around the world overcame over the years and will come to face in the future. Looking ahead, there are many fields of emerging technologies with promising developments that have the potential to improve our lives. Join our distinguished speakers on this panel to reimagine the possibilities in a world of technology.
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Future of Workforce
https://community.switchsg.org/session/103228
Moderator: Dr. Dejan Milojicic, IEEE Fellow
Panelists: Thomas Coughlin, President Coughlin Associates, Inc.
Nita Patel, Director, IEEE Foundation
Overview: This IEEE-sponsored panel will bring together industry experts to collectively explore potential technologies and long-term visions of the future workforce. We will discuss current and future-looking factors and technologies such as connectivity, security, human-computer interfaces (HCIs), transformation of and geographic distribution of the workforce, new types of industries/jobs, artificial intelligence (AI), and training. The plan is to take these ideas and discuss how they can be applied by industry, academia, government, and professional organizations towards future global workforce planning.
Restructuring The Global Semiconductor Industry
https://community.switchsg.org/session/103229
Moderator: SAM MOORE
Panelists:Meghan Biery, Director of Global Technology and Security Policy, Semiconductor Industry Association
Overview: They say data is the new oil. If so, advanced chip foundries are the new status symbol. Severe shortages of chips in 2020 and 2021 crippled major industries, notably automobile manufacture. Now, even as it recovers from these unprecedented shortages, the chip industry is at the start of a sweeping global reorganization. Global players see the ability to make semiconductors—specifically leading-edge logic—as key to their future security and prosperity. But today each holds a specialized place in a larger supply chain. What will the industry look like in 10 years? And what will it mean for consumers of chips?
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Back to the Moon: Cutting the Cost of Access to Space
https://community.switchsg.org/session/103230
Moderator: GLENN ZORPETTE
PANELISTS: Jonathan Lunine, David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences, Chair, Department of
Astronomy, Cornell University
Paul R. Gradl, Senior Propulsion Engineer, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
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Overview: Major national space agencies have all publicly pledged to send humans to the moon for exciting missions of exploration and habitation. But to achieve these goals will require very substantial reductions in the cost of access to space. Fortunately, two techniques—reusable launch systems and 3D printing—are already proving capable of dramatically reducing the cost of launch to space, and are in the process opening up intriguing new opportunities in the commercial space sector. Space-X is showing the way towards a sustainable, reusable launch infrastructure, while relative newcomer Relativity Space has unveiled its Terran 1 rocket, which was completely 3D printed. These two techniques are ushering in momentous and rapid change to the space sector, which will look quite different in just three years’ time. In this session, top experts on the front lines of this revolution will offer insider insights and chart a path forward.
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IEEE on the Innovation Insights Series @ SWITCH
Short video of Randi Sumner and Susan Hassler discussing innovation.
Mohammad Faizal received his bachelor degree from Imperial College London in 1999 and doctoral degree from the University of Southampton in 2004. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Malaysia. A very active IEEE volunteer since 2007, he served as the Chair for the IEEE Signal Processing Society Malaysia Chapter from 2008 to 2013, and the Chair for the IEEE Malaysia Section from 2017 to 2018. Under his stewardship, the chapter won the inaugural IEEE SPS Chapter of the Year Award in 2011. He also recently been awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Chapter/Regional Service Award. A member of the IEEE Region 10 Executive Committee since 2019, he currently serves as the chair for the newsletter committee.
Prashant R. Nair
Editor
Prashant R. Nair is currently an Associate Professor in Computer Science & Engineering and Chairman of Rankings & Accreditation cell at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (University), Coimbatore, India. He has been visiting faculty at University of California, San Diego and Sofia University, Bulgaria as an Erasmus Mundus fellow. His intellectual contributions include 6 books, 50+ research publications and editorial board memberships of IEEE MAS Link newsletter of IEEE Madras Section, Computer Society of India (CSI) Communications and CSI Transactions journal. He has held IEEE leadership positions such as Chair-Publications, IEEE Madras Section; Vice-chair, IEEE Education Society chapter of IEEE India Council and rendered service for premier conferences such as IEEE India Council International Conference (INDICON) 2018, IEEE R10 HTC 2014 and IEEE All India Student Congress (AISC) 2013. Awards won include IEEE Education Society global chapter achievement award, six CSI Academic Excellence awards and fellowship of IETE.
Redwan Ferdous
Editor
Redwan Ferdous is professionally a certified project manager and electrical engineer. Currently he is leading as Senior Manager of the Electro Mechanical Engineering department of one of the projects of the largest healthcare chain of Bangladesh, Labaid Group. He is a veteran in cellphone manufacturing industry of Bangladesh. He is a professional member of IEEE for the past 10 years. He has engaged with IEEE R10 Newsletter Committee as editorial board member from 2017. He has been serving the IEEE MGA Member Benefits Portfolio Advisory Committee since 2020. Also, he has served in different IEEE vTools position of IEEE Bangladesh Section, IEEE PES Bangladesh Chapter. Currently he is country representative for Bangladesh of ‘International Robot Olympiad’ and ‘World Robot Olympiad’. He is also international judge of Global Conrad Challenge and Conrad Challenge China. Also, he is Executive Committee member of one of the prominent volunteer organization of the country- ‘Bangladesh Open Source Network’. Moreover, he is engaged in different professional and volunteer organization and activities as well as policy maker related to Humanitarian activities, Robotics, IoT, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
Tridibesh Nag
Editor
Tridibesh Nag received his masters and doctoral degree from Jadavpur University Kolkata, India. He is the former HOD of Electrical Engineering Department and presently the Principal of Diploma Section and Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, India. A highly active IEEE volunteer since 2006, and senior member of IEEE since 2017. He has held IEEE leadership positions such as Executive Committee member of IEEE Kolkata Section, Newsletter Committee Chair of IEEE Kolkata Section, Membership Development Committee Chair, DEIS Chapter, IEEE, Kolkata section, Treasurer and presently the Secretary of PES Chapter Kolkata Section. He currently serves as one of the Editors for IEEE R10 newsletter committee. He has rendered service for several premier conferences such as, ASPCON, 2020 and 2018, CALCON 2020 and 2017, IEEE TENSYMP,2019, ATS 2019 and is the Publication Co-Chair of IEEE India Council International Conference (INDICON) 2021. He was awarded with Outstanding Volunteer Award, IEEE Kolkata Section,2018 His research interests include electrical machines, control and optimization of electrical drives, hybrid renewable power generation, power quality assessment, rural electrification, and energy conversion.
Lau Bee Theng
Editor
Lau is currently an associate professor in ICT and the Director School of Research, Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus. Her research interests are mainly on assistive and alternative technologies, artificial intelligence, impact studies, learning and assisting people with special needs. She is a Senior Member of IEEE and Association of Computing Machinery, Professional Technologist (Malaysia Board of Technologist) and Certified Tester (International Software Testing Qualifications Board). She also involves actively in committees and projects in IEEE Sarawak Subsection, IEEE Swinburne Sarawak Student Branch; IEEE Region 10 Newsletter Committee and IEEE Malaysia WIE Student Network Advisory 2016; general chair, IEEE Region 10 HTC, 2020; technical committee, IEEE (technical-sponsor) ENCON 2019; publication co-chair, IEEE (technical-sponsor) ICONDA 2019; project leader in IEEE US Engineering Project in Community Service (EPICS) 2013, IEEE US HAC Events Fund to Humanitarian Technology and Sustainable Development Project, 2020, IEEE Region 10 HTA Committee Humanitarian Challenges, 2020; IEEE Region 10 PG Paper Contest, 2020 and Outstanding Volunteer in IEEE Malaysia, 2019
W. M. W. Sharika Jayalath
Associate Editor
Graduated with B.Sc. (Honours) Eng. Degree specializing in Electrical & Electronic Engineering in 2018 from University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, she worked as a junior electrical engineer at E-Net Integrated solutions (Pvt) Ltd. Currently, she is pursuing her higher studies in electrical engineering field. She published various aspects of her undergraduate research project in IEEE 9th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAFS) 2018 and 2nd National Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019, Sri Lanka. She has been selected as a committee member for IEEE StudPro 3.0 Career Fair 2019. She started her volunteering career in IEEE from student branch level and recently, he extended it into international level. Currently, she is contributing towards the regular release of the IEEE Region 10 Newsletter.
Garima Patel
Associate Editor
Currently, a Final-year Undergraduate Student in Electrical Engineering from Manipal University Jaipur, Garima is an upcoming Business Operations Associate at ZS Associates, a reputed management consulting firm. She has been an active volunteer in IEEE for the last 4 years, starting from the Chairperson of her Student Branch and currently holding the responsibility of Subsection Student Representative in IEEE Delhi Section. She has also been selected as the Networking and Connections Lead in the IEEE India Council Young Professionals Affinity Group and has been awarded the ‘Outstanding Student Volunteer Award’ by the IEEE Delhi Section for her exceptional spirit of volunteerism.
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Webmaster/ Social Media
Ms Naila Mukhtar is currently doing PhD from Macquarie University Australia. She has over five years’ experience in industry and her research interests include Embedded System Security, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptography and Information Security. Currently, she is serving as Webmaster and social media coordinator of IEEE Region 10 Newsletter, Chair IEEE New South Wales (NSW) Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group (AG), Vice-Chair IEEE Computer Society NSW Chapter and Treasurer IEEE NSW Young Professionals Affinity Group. She has actively participated in various technical and non-technical conferences and hosted/co-hosted the WIE track receptions, including Tensymp2018, ANZSCON 2017, IEEE WIE International Leadership Summit Brisbane, and Macquarie University Leadership Summit. She has collaboratively organized prolific events to support students and young professionals, promote gender diversity and inclusion, and professional development. She was the recipient of Macquarie University Best Student Services award (2018), and IEEE WIE Inspiring Student Member of the year award (2019).
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Vaishali S. is a student pursuing M.Tech Integrated Software Engineering in VIT, Vellore since 2018. Vaishali specializes in Software Engineering along with courses like Web development, JAVA, Big Data, Cloud Computing, DBMS, Information and System Security, Computer Networks, Agile, Optimization Techniques, and Operating System. She has also worked for the designing team in chapters present in her university and participated in design competitions. She uses her positive attitude and tireless energy to encourage others while working for the chapter. In free time she likes to cook, dance, sing and participate in sports.
2021 was no different than 2020. There were continued challenges with uncertainties, but we had lessons learnt from the 2020. IEEE and its members continued to be innovative and creative during this unprecedented challenging time. IEEE provides us lots of opportunities through its rich technical resources, events, and conferences but I found that our volunteers created many more opportunities of member engagement in a very innovative and creative way. We could expand our boundaries and most of the Region 10 events had global participation. That was a great learning from this pandemic, and we could organize many meaningful member-centric virtual events with significant value adds. I appreciate the efforts of all members and volunteers who were positive, thoughtful, and innovative in their approach and converted challenges into opportunities.
The performance of Region 10 Executive Committee was exemplary during 2021. It was very difficult to do all activities virtually, but all committee chairs showed great leadership, worked together as a team, followed collaborative approach, and created value for our members through new programs. Their efforts are applaudable, consequently we continue to grow. We are top among all regions on activities, member count, number of sections and sub sections.
Region 10 believes in setting up goals and direction to further mission and vision of IEEE so that we remain committed to fostering technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. We decided in following the thrust areas for 2021-2022 and shall continue to work in coming year with more rigor and passion, and let our programs create value to address member recruitment and member retention.
Membership Activities: Member Retention and Continuation of Students to Young Professionals
Technical Activities: Section-Chapter Collaborative Programs, Conference Quality, Industry Engagements.
Professional Activities: Entrepreneurship and Career Advancement Programs.
In 2022, while keeping the well-being of our members, we will try to be more innovative and creative to provide value added programs to our members. We have plans to roll out some very ambitious R10-wide technical projects and events to provide an opportunity of learning and showcasing technical knowledge and skills for our members. We shall also continue our focus on lifelong learning efforts, reaching local initiative and engaging local communities through our especially designed programs.
I’ll encourage you to be diversified and think beyond the boundaries of your own Student Branch, Chapter, Section, Region and collaborate, and that will give you real learning and great opportunities. Once again, I thank you all for your contributions in making IEEE better and stronger and look forward to working with to further mission and vision of IEEE.
Wish you and your family a very happy new year with lots of happiness, health, peace, and joy.
Hope it is not too late to wish Happy New Year 2022 to everyone, and Happy Chinese New Year to those celebrating. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the very first edition of IEEE Region 10 Connect for 2022. This edition features a special report on TENCON2021 and R10HTC2021, two flagship conferences hosted by IEEE New Zealand North Section and IEEE Bangalore Section, respectively. As part of our growing multimedia content, we also have video interviews with the TENCON2021 General Chairs, which can be viewed at our newsletter website (https://newsletter.ieeer10.org/home_jan2022/interviews/).
Besides the special reports and the updates from various R10 committee, we have five more volunteers and five more organizational units featured in the Know Your R10 Volunteers and Know Your R10 Organizational Units respectively in this edition for your reading pleasure. In particular, do not miss the column on Don Sinnott, Life Fellow from the South Australia Section whose journey with IEEE began all the way back in 1966! This edition also features a montage of IEEE Day celebrations from various Sections across Region 10. Thank you to those Sections who shared pictures of their IEEE Day celebrations, be it virtual or physical celebrations. Activities and events reporting from various Sections, Affinity Groups, Student Branches and other units and volunteers round up this newsletter issue.
To all our readers, be it from Region 10 or otherwise, I hope you enjoy this first newsletter edition of the year. My greatest appreciation to the newsletter team (Prashant, Tridibesh, Bee Theng, Redwan, Wathmini, Garima, Naila, Vaishali Nabeel) for their hard work in producing another excellent newsletter. As always, you can reach us at r10-ecn@ieee.org if you have any comments or suggestions to share with us regarding the newsletter. Do drop us a line as well if you are interested to be part of the team.
Thank you and kind regards,
Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi
Chair, IEEE R10 Newsletter Committee
R10 Student Branch – IEEE UCSC Student Branch
Prepared by: Thisari Gunawardena, Coordinator for IEEE UCSC Student Branch
Established in 2011 under the guidance of the IEEE Sri Lanka Section, the IEEE University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) Student Branch has been providing a platform for professional development for all undergraduates of UCSC. Going beyond technical exposure, interpersonal skills such as leadership, dedication, organization could also be developed and nurtured by engaging in the events organized by the Student Branch. Even during the global pandemic with new challenges and obstacles, the Student Branch was able to pull off another successful and eventful year.
MadHack 2021 was organized with the intention of giving undergraduates around the country an extensive introduction to the world of Mobile Application Development. It consisted of a workshop series that was designed to give all the participants a comprehensive introduction to mobile application development followed by the final hackathon. It was successfully concluded in July 2021 with the contribution of over 600 participants and three winning teams. RevolUX is a UI/UX designathon organized by the IEEE UCSC Student Branch in collaboration with AIESEC in University of Colombo. The major objective of this event was to unleash the creative and artistic minds of Sri Lankan undergraduates and schoolers while giving them indispensable exposure to different trends in User Interface and User Experience Design, and related fields. It consisted of two workshops conducted by industry experts followed by the 12-hour designathon. The event was a resounding success with over 1000 delegates and three winning teams.
Apart from the above, “Cloud Skill Challenge 2021”, a series of challenges aimed at enriching undergraduates with much sought out cloud computing skills; “7 Lines of Code”, a 7-day workshop series for the freshers to kickstart their academia; “UCSC IEEE Day 2021” a virtual celebration to celebrate the IEEE Day 2021; “ReidXtreme 2021”, a hackathon to build up the competitive programming skills of our undergraduates to successfully compete in IEEEXtreme 15.0, were also organized.
The silent giants behind all these success stories are a group of young, committed, dedicated, and enthusiastic individuals led by the Executive Committee of the IEEE UCSC Student Branch. Striving for excellence, the IEEE UCSC Student Branch has won several awards and accolades with the most recent being:
●IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award 2020
●The Darrel Chong Student Activity Bronze Award 2018 – CloudHack’17
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R10 Subsection – IEEE Kochi Subsection
Celebrating 10 Years of ‘Joy of Volunteering’
Prepared by: Dr. Santhosh Kumar G, Chair for IEEE Kochi Subsection
Kochi Subsection has traversed ten glorious years by advancing with one vision and a shared mission through persistent ideas, tireless efforts, and daily improvements. Looking back on this decade’s journey1 is quite enriching, rewarding, and gratifying. Thanks to the Section’s predecessors, the Subsection inherited a solid and sound foundation, which helped to achieve significant objectives. Kochi Subsection is the second Subsection of Kerala Section covering members from five districts of Kerala State, namely Ernakulam, Idukki, Kottayam, Alleppey, and Thrissur. The Subsection got its formation approval from the IEEE MGA in July 2011. Since its inception, the Kochi Subsection has grown as the most significant Subsection globally regarding membership and activities. More than 4700 members and volunteers in the Kochi Subsection have worked tirelessly to develop and promote IEEE activities. Ms. Susan Kathy Land, the IEEE President, and CEO had commended the Section’s participation and passion in engineering, technology, and IEEE during the decennial celebrations. Mr. Deepak Mathur, R10 Director, said, “IEEE Kochi Subsection is not only contributing to the Kerala Section, but it has great footprints all across IEEE through its remarkable activities and dedicated volunteers.”
The Section has vibrant volunteers lined up to undertake challenging activities, be it professional events, student activities, Women in Engineering events or humanitarian activities. The joy of volunteering is the wind behind the wings of the Kochi Subsection. The confidence gained through the successful conduct of 2012 INDICON, the IEEE India Council flagship event, boosted the activities in the Section. Kochi has always been a happening place. As Kerala’s commercial and technical capital, Kochi has the largest number of technical organizations and IT companies in Kerala, with thousands of engineers, researchers, and technical students. Subsection, joining hands with sister societies like Computer Society of India, IETE & ACM, has conducted numerous activities benefiting the members. During these years, the number of events reported by the Kerala Section to IEEE HQ occasionally reached 1000 per year with significant contributions from Kochi Subsection and Kochi HUB.
The Subsection has always been keen on reaching out to society with the technological benefits for the betterment. The sixth installation of the flagship IEEE E-Scientia exhibit has been a significant milestone of the Section, demonstrating the enthusiasm and dedication of IEEE volunteers of Kochi. In July 2014, Dr. Moshe Kam (IEEE President 2011) inaugurated the E-Scientia facility2 in Cochin University of Science and Technology. As of today, half a million school students visited and enjoyed the exhibit. The role played by the Kochi Subsection in the implementation of Techno Unnati, the IEEE HAC-funded project of IEEE Kerala Section, is remarkable. Since its inception, the Subsection has conducted its flagship program, ‘Roadmap to Success’, guiding and motivating the engineering aspirants.
The success of IEEE TENSYMP 2017 and IEEE TENCON 2019 exemplifies the technical prowess of the Kerala Section and the organizing strength of the Kochi Subsection. With these strengths, Kochi is ready to take up major challenging roles of IEEE.
The Section was able to tame the hardships of the pandemic through several online programs, including R10 sponsored Panel On Conference Organizers, technical workshops, and a specially designed program for school kids to build computational skills. The role played by the Subsection by teaming up the Photonic Society members to form a society chapter is also exemplifying the leadership roles of the volunteers in the Section.
Kochi Subsection is proud to be part of IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancingtechnology for the benefit of humanity. Looking forward to more opportunities to discover the ‘Joy of Volunteering’.
