Tuesday, April 3, 2012

IET Kolkata Updates



by Dr. Surajit Chattopadhyay, Chairman IET YPS Kolkata

IET Kolkata continues its various activities and maintains its membership growth.

Technotica – 2012

Technotica, a technical project competition was held in MCKV Institute of Engineering in collaboration with young professional section of the IET, Kolkata network on 08-12 January, 2012. Dr. Surajit Chattopadhyay, Chairman YPS Kolkata informed that initially around 40 projects were submitted wherefrom around 14 projects compete in the final level. After competitions all models were exhibited for next few days. Mr. A N Chowdhury, past chairman of Mumbai and Kolkata Network graced the event being in the judge-panel. During answering to the questions by the news channel, he pointed out the need expectation of the industry from our engineering students. Senior faculty members from Jadavpur University and IEM, Kolkata came and praised the students. Among different projects, oxygen saver, unmanned railway crossing, etc got good attention from the visitors. Top five projects latter were sent to another technical project competition of eastern India organized by BITM and achieved good name and attention. Two projects “oxycon” and “railway traffic collision avoidance system” own best prize award.

Sensors and Their Networking

One day national seminar on 'Sensors and Their Networking' was organized by department of applied physics, university of Calcutta in collaboration with IET-UK Kolkata Local Network, IEEE PES Kolkata Chapter and Electronica India on February 25, 2012 at CRNN auditorium, University of Calcutta Saltlake Campus. It was a grand success. Almost around hundred technologists and students from various parts of the eastern India participated in this seminar. The inauguration ceremony was graced by Professor Samarjit Sengupta, Chairman IET Kolkata

Invited Speech on “Transformer Losses”

Renowned professor Dr. Anish Dev delivered an invited speech by series of two lectures on “Losses in transformer” at MCKV Institute of Engineering on 14.03.2012 and 21.03.20012. It was attended by 70 students of Electrical Engineering Department.

New 100 Student members

Young Professional Section of IET Kolkata has gained 100 new students members. Dr. Surajit Chattopadhyay, Chairman of IET YPS Kolkata handed over the details to Ms. Chitra Robinson, office Staff of Bangalore Office in an executive committee meeting of IET Kolkata Network.

Factory Visit

Young Professional Section of IET Kolkata organized a factory visit program for its students members of Techno India Chapter. They visited a near by thermal power plant and got some practical experience. Ms. Sawan Sen from YPS and Ms. Priyanka Roy, student coordinator organized this visit; they informed that around 50 students participated in this program.

PATW 2012 Kolkata

PATW 2012 Kolkata has been a big success in this year. Dr. Surajit Chattopadhyay, Chairman of YPS, IET Kolkata, was organizing Secretary of PATW 2012 Kolkata this year. It was organized in three venues and there was four venue coordinators, Ms Tista Banerjee, Ms. Priyanka Roy, Ms. Barnaly Kundu Sarkar and Ms. Bidisa Jana. Around 150 students from various engineering colleges participated in the mega event. From the twelve were selected for final. Six were selected from first prefinal held at MCKV Institute of Engineering on 20.03.2012 and other six were selected from second prefinal held at Techno India on 21.03.2012. The final of PATW 2012 Kolkata was held in BP Poddar Institute of Management and Technology on 27.03.2003. This year panel of judges included various distinguished and successful personalities of the region. For example, it included Dr. Swapan Kumar Gowsamy, former Director, Netaji Shubhas Open University, Mr. A N Chowdhury, Past Chairman IET Kolkata and Mumbai, Mr. M Chakraborty, Senior Fellow and executive committee member of IET Kolkata, Prof. S S Thakur, Professor, MCKVIE, Prof. R Mukherjee, professor, Techno India, Mr. Debasish Mitra, Executive Engineer, Bhushan Steel, Mrs. M Gupta from GNIT.

In the inaugural ceremony, Dr. Surajit Chattopadhyay, chairman IET YPS Kolkata, briefed about the program and YPS activity, Mr. R Gupta, secretary, IET Kolkata, focused on Kolkata Network activities and Mr A N Chowdhury, Former Chairman, IET Kolkata, gave a presentation on IET, professional home for life. At the award distribution ceremony, Dr. S Chaitterjee thanked all participants, supporters and venue coordinators of the events

Participants were given certificate for presentation. Md Saddam from MCKVIE became the winner and Tunir Saha from BPPIMT became second in this competition. They were awarded by money, certificates and medal.

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