CONTENTS

I Chairmans Message 1

II Editors Message 1

III CIS News 2

IV Student Branch News 2

V Comm/SP Chapter News 6

VI WIE Affinity Group 6

VII GOLD Affinity Group 8

VIII CAS/EDS New Chapter 9

IX Special Report of TISP Symposium 11

Editor Editor-AdvisorRohit Vaidya S K Salankayanarohitvvv@ieeehyd.org salankayana@ieee.org

LATEX

I. CHAIRMANS MESSAGE

Dear IEEE Hyderabad SectionMembers, I hope it musthave come to your notice thatIEEE Hyderabad Section haswon the Distinguished LargeSection Award of Region10 for the year 2011. AlsoHiroshima Section has beingawarded with DistinguishedSmall Section for year2011.

The selection of these awards was based onthe performances summarized in the 2011 Annual Reportsubmitted by R10 Sections. Award certificates will bepresented to these winning sections at the 2013 R10 AnnualMeeting to be held early next year. Also a cash bonus ofUSD1000 will be sent to each of the sections after themeeting. This announcement was made by Takatoshi Miniami2011-2012 IEEE R10 Awards and Recognition CommitteeChair. I would like to congratulate all of you on this occasionespecially the past Chair Mr. MGPL Narayana and thevolunteer team of 2011.

Not only has the Section won awards but also ourchapters have performed really well. The IEEE HyderabadSection PES/IAS/PLES Chapter has also won an award forits performance. IEEE-PES Height Performance ChapterProgram, Hyderabad PES chapter was selected with an awardof USD 500. Also we are happy that Mr. Akilan has won theIEEE PES Outstanding Engineer Award.

Our newly formed Computational IntelligenceChapter has also won the 2013 IEEE Outstanding ChapterAward. This award recognizes annually one chapter thatprovided the greatest overall contribution and service to itsmembers; the local scientific, professional, governmental,and educational communities; and the IEEE CIS. Theprize includes USD2,000 given to the Chapter and certificate.Announcement was made by Marios M. Polycarpou, PresidentIEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

All IEEE Sections in India were facing animportant finance issue related to FCRA. The foreigncontribution regulation act of 2010 introduced by the Ministryof Home has caused a lot of financial hardships to allIEEE Units in India. I would like to inform you that IEEEHyderabad Section had taken the lead in bringing this issue tothe notice of HQ. MGA from IEEE Headquarters had startedworking towards the resolution for this financial hurdle inreceiving funds. Recently we have received assurance fromIEEE India Operations Center that the matter is being resolved.

A special AGM was conducted on 8th July hada program to felicitate award winners in Hyderabad Section.The awardees were Past Section Chair Mr. NSS Prasad, R10

Outstanding Volunteer, Ms Madhumita for WIE OutstandingR10 AG, Prof. Deekshatulu for the Section DistinguishedVolunteer Service award, and Shri Nookala Srinivas receivedthe Significant Volunteer Service Award. The last two awardswere special awards instituted at the section level. There areseveral other interesting activities taken up by GOLD affinitygroup like TISP. We shall report more on this in the future.

I would like to formally announce that we have anew CAS/CDS Chapter added to our section. My best wishesare with the chapter.

Dr Atul NegiDept. of CIS, University of Hyderabad.

II. EDITORS MESSAGE

Greetings Members,From Astronomy

(transit of Venus) to plantingsaplings to saving non-renewableenergy resources, an energysaving alternative to google,blacke!!! Hyderabad section isconducting a lot of activites.Its often said, that if you areinvested in stock markets youshould have a well diversifiedportfolio, otherwise you risklosing all your assets. I see a very well diversified IEEEHyderabad section with a new chapter CAS/EDS introduced.A word to describe this would be RESPLENDENT. Pleasekeep up with the good work. Kudos to all the section, affinitygroups and student chapters for showing great enthusiam inconducting activies.

I would also like to know about your inputs oncloser integration of our newsletter with the social networks.This way we could showcase the latest happenings in oursection to IEEE member as well as non IEEE members. Pleasesend your suggestions to rohitvvv@ieeehyd.org. However wewill still retatin our pdf newsletter as it serves the purpose ofarchiving our activites. You can always refer to them yearslatter.

While compiling Synapse I see all the activitiescoming together. They converge in unison. If you go by theword Synapse, it means a junction. I hope this newsletteracts a synapse between chapters, affinity groups, studentbranches. This synapse would surely help you pass on yourexperiences to others in the section. So please do send yourarticles, reports to the newsletter.

I would like to thank Editor Advisor S.K Salankayan andChairman IEEE Hyderabad Section Dr Atul Negi for theircontinued guidance from time to time.

Wish you happy reading. Have fun.

Rohit VaidyaEditor Synapse, Oracle India .

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III. CIS NEWS

A. Tutorial on Scala by Dr Suresh Velagapudi

CIS, IEEE Hyderabad Section organized a tutorial on scalaby Dr Suresh Velagapudi on 5th May 2012 at IIIT Hyder-

abad. Scala is a general purpose computer language availableon Java Virtual Machine. Interoperability with Java coupledwith functional programming features of Scala make it idealfor scalable software development. Syntactic and semanticdifferences from Java will be explained and illustrated withsimple computer programs. Data structures available withstandard library was introduced. After a brief introduction ofrecent developments in computational intelligence, details ofimplementation of an application to finance was discussed.Emphasis was given on how scala based thinking infuencesdecisions at various stages of design and implementation ofthe software. It was Concluded with explaining the strengthsand weaknesses of Scala for real world implementation. DrSuresh was a Senior Scientist at BHEL R&D. Now Settledin USA. He Completed Ph.D in 1996 from IISc. Dr Sureshis Consultant to financial industries in USA from 1997 topresent. His Research interests include AI, Prolog and otherProgramming languages. He is Currently involved in softwaredevelopment with Scala and Java.

B. TECHNIEXCEL

TECHNIEXCEL, a Summer Internship programme forComputer Science Students, was organized by IEEE Com-

putational Intelligence Society Chapter of Hyderabad Sectionin collaboration with BioAxis DNA Research Centre (P) LtdHyderabad from 1st-10th June 2012 at BioAxis DNA ResearchCentre LB Nagar Hyderabad.

. Dr Amit Kumar with the attendees of the workshop

This programme was intended to provide a platform to ex-pose the budding engineers towards the Life Science Softwareprojects of current era. 10 participants were selected for thisprogramme and were trained for 2 days regarding the happen-ings in a Life Science Industry and where the engineers fit in.After the basic training all the selected participants submittedwork on a project related to development of software utilized

in Healthcare Industry and Academics. The Work includedSuite Designing, Application development for saving/loadingthe data files, Creation of User friendly Biological analy-sis packages, Web development and interconnecting differentdatasets and databases.

C. Hands on workshop on R Package and Matlab

TWO Days workshop on R Package and Matlab was orga-nized by IEEE CIS Hyderabad Chapter, CR Rao AIMSCS

and BioAxis DNA Research Centre Pvt Ltd Hyderabad atCR Rao AIMSCS University of Hyderabad Campus Hyder-abad. Dr Sailu Yellabonia and Dr Manimaran (Professorsat AIMSCS) took the sessions on R Package and MatlabBioinformatics Toolbox respectively. This two day workshopwas aimed to create awareness and practical exposure onthe importance of Statistical Analysis and Using MATLABfor the Biological data analysis. Department of Science andTechnology, IRHPA Govt of India Sponsored this workshop.

. On the chairs- Dr Allam Appa Rao (Director- CR Rao AIMSCS), Dr HBSingh (DST-Govt of India), Dr Manimaran and Dr Sailu (Instructors of theworkshop along with the Participants)

IV. STUDENT BRANCH NEWS

A. ASTRONOMICAL EVENT AT VBITDate: 6th June 6, 2012

Timings: 9:30AM-10:30AMVenue: Vignana Bharathi Institute of Technology

ON the account of transit of Venus, IEEE-VBIT SB hadorganized an astronomical event of observing the transit

in the college campus by making a telescope arrangement withfilters. On June 6, a rare celestial event called a transit of Venustook place, and it won’t be repeated in anyones lifetime. Theevent of Venus passing in front of the Sun is called the transit.This is equivalent to an eclipse with the Moon replaced by theplanet Venus. During this transit, Venus has passed directly infront of the sun from Earth’s perspective, appearing as a small,slowly moving black dot.

The transit events are very rare. In the eternal motion aroundthe Sun, planet Venus overtakes the Earth once every twenty

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. Dr. Jayant Kulkarni, Vice Prinicpal, VBIT observing the transit

two months. However at that time it need not be aligned withthe Sun. As seen from the Earth, it may be above or belowthe Sun. The orbital planes of Venus and Earth are different.Hence the two planets will be in line with the Sun only whenVenus is exactly on specified points which can be either inJune or in December. The June events can recur in an intervalof 243 years; so can the December events. Moreover, theyoccur in pairs separated by eight years. They occur in pairsseparated by either 105.5 years or 122.5 years depending onthe nodes (southern or northern). Thus the sequence is 1631and 1639, 1761 and 1769, 1874 and 1882, 2004 and 2012.The above figure shows that after 2004 there are five synodiccycles within 8 years bringing back Venus and Earth to theline of nodes in 2012. The figure formed by joining theseconjunctions is called a pentacle.

. Students keenly witnessing the rare celestial event)

So to observe this rare transit we IEEE-VBIT SB made atelescope arrangement at our campus. As the Venus was cast-ing its shadow on the Sun, it was considered as a partial solareclipse. This partial eclipse was covering 0.1Eclipse shouldntbe viewed with naked eyes as they cause retinal damage. Forsafe viewing filters are required. Filters usually have a thin

layer of aluminum, chromium or silver deposited on theirsurfaces that attenuates ultraviolet, visible, and infrared energy.Some filters available are 14 welder’s glass, aluminized mylar,completely exposed and fully developed black-and-white filmwith silver emulsion, medical x-ray films with images onthem, smoked glass, photographic neutral density filters andpolarizing filters. So the student branch members had madearrangement for filters too.

B. Plantation Drive at MJCET

THE Student Branch of IEEE MJCET conducted A Plan-tation Drive on 23rd June, 2012 as part of the World

Environment Day (5th June) Celebration, in collaboration withthe Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Team of Accenture,and the NGO Centre for Environment Education.

The dignitaries who graced this occasion were Dr. KaleemFatima (Branch Counselor IEEE MJCET) Mr. Arifuddin Sohel(Branch Mentor, IEEE MJCET) Mr. Arun Chandra (Directorof Placement, MJCET) and Mr. Rajesh Anupoju (AssociateManager, Accenture)

. Activity by Center for Enviornment Education

In his welcome address, the IEEE Branch mentor,Mr. Arifuddin Sohel, enumerated IEEE MJCETs strong com-mitment towards environmental responsibility. Muffakham JahCollege of Engineering and Technology, located in the heartof the city has a lush green campus of around 20 acres. Heacknowledged that this spacious campus full of greenery isone of the college’s biggest assets.

Mr. Abhishek Ayyappa, of the CSR Team high-lighted the obligation of Accenture towards the environment.He briefed about Accenture which is an IT and Consultingfirm having presence across 49 countries. They are presentin seven different locations across India, being Hyderabad,Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata and Noida. Theyhave formed a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) teamwhich takes up various initiatives, both short term and longterm which caters to the needs of at least a handful.

Latter Ms. Vasavya Chappidi of the Eco WatchTeam, gave a presentation in which she highlighted the effortsmade by the employees of Accenture towards conserving and

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protecting the environment. She expressed her concern onreducing the carbon footprint in our environment.The Value of a Tree A Presentation by CEE

. MJECT students planting saplings

Centre for Environment Education (CEE) was established inAugust 1984 as a Centre of Excellence supported by the Min-istry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. CEE,a national institution with its headquarters in Ahmedabad, hasa mandate to promote environmental awareness nationwide.Ms. Indira Prakash of CEE enlightened the audience on theValue of a TrMee. She also organized an acitivity with a groupof 30 students which made them understand the importanceof ecological web.The event concluded with a signature campaign and a planta-tion drive by MJCET students and Accenture employees.

Event endorsed by:Dr. Kaleem Fatima, Branch Counselor, IEEE MJCET

Mr. Arifuddin Sohel , Branch Mentor, IEEE MJCEWIE (Women In Engineering) Affinity Group, IEEE StudentBranch MJCET

C. ATROBOT 2K12

ROBOTICS in recent times has played a pivotal role in manyfields. Fields varying from Astronomy, Industrial, Surgery

and many others to name, take the help of Robotics to reachtheir targets more efficiently and with greater accuracy. Oncewhich were only meant for Industrial and surgery purposeshave today found their way into each and every aspect ofour lives and even our homes. Its one of the few fields ofscience that brings together people from different backgroundsof study.

In view of the above theme the IEEE Student Branchof Auroras Technological And Research Institute in associa-tion with Auroras Automation and Robotics Team organized arobotics fest titled ATROBOT 2K12.The event was held during27 and 28th of March 2012. The main aim of the event wasto bring Robo Enthusiasts on to a single platform where theycan compete in events which where specially designed to testthe overall capabilities and skills of their bots.

. Dr. Atul Negi Admiring the ATROBOT Tracks

The event saw a good response from students and enthu-siasts from the Hyderabad zone. It comprised of nine mainevents which included ROBO Turf, ROBO Crane, ROBOMaze, ROBO Race, ROBO Trace, ROBO FIFA, ROBO Battle,ROBO Puzzle and a Project Expo. All the events weremeticulously planned designed to push the bots to the extreme.

. The ATROBOT Team with the Director, ATRI and Mentors

The event has inspired students to start from scracth,workupon their ideas and take it to its full implemtation.

D. Palaash

EVER wondered what if all the natural, non-renewableresources on this planet get exhausted. Today, natural

resources are being exploited to an extent that they possess adirect threat of extinction. The use of fossil fuels has showna tremendous increase in recent times, and thus has been theprime cause of atmospheric pollution. The time has come forthe world to change.

In view of the above theme Auroras Technological AndResearch Institute hosted the one-of-its-kind event titled

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. Mr.Chintan Raj demonstrating the working of a Fuel Cell

Palaash, a two day workshop on Renewable Energy, Roboticsand Automation in association with Auroras Automation andRobotics Team (A.A.R.T) and Green Add. The event washeld during 9 and 10th of March, 2012.

The main aim of the workshop was to give its participants acomplete hand on experience on renewable energy generation,usage and a sneak-peek into robotics and how one can achievegreener forms of energy using it. Mr Chintan Raj delivered akeynote speech on the need to switch to renewable energy, itsadvantages, generation and usage. He also gave the partici-pants a sneak peek into renewable and non-renewable sourcesand hybrid systems. The session mainly focused on Solar, windenergy and Hybrid systems.The next session focussed on various software and tools usedin Renewable Energy Project. The MATLAB simulations ofvarious renewable energy systems including the MATLABsimulation of Hybrid Car were presented. The final essionof the day was on introduction to Hyderogen Fuel Cell withSolar Energy Feed-in, its anatomy, working and advantages,followed by a live practical session on teh Hydrogen Fuel Cell.

E. IEEE Student Branch Annual Day Report

ADecade long journey was celebrated on 27th April 2006as part of the 10th Annual Day Celebration of IEEE

Student Branch, MJCET. The Chief Guest of this significantday was Dr. Amit Kumar, Secretary of Hyderabad Section. Thedignitaries who graced this occasion were Dr. Kaleem Fatima,Branch Counselor IEEE MJCET Mr. Arifuddin Sohel, BranchMentor IEEE MJCET; Mrs. Maniza Hijab, Chapter AdvisorIEEE ICS MJCET; and Mrs. Ajaz Fatima, Chapter AdvisorIEEE PES MJCET.

Minutes of the Meeting- Welcome Address by Dr. Kaleem Fatima- Annual Report by the outgoing General Secretary Mr.Muqueeth Ather- Presentation by the Chief Guest Dr. Amit Kumar- Declaration of new Executive Body by the Chief Guest

. Welcome address by Dr Kaleem Fatima

- Felicitation of the outgoing Executive Body- IEEE Vision 2012-2013 by the new Chairman Mr. MuzammilMohammed Shareef.- Vote of Thanks by Mr. Arifuddin Sohel

. Chief Guest Amit Kumar

Declaration of the new Executive Body The Chief GuestDr. Amit Kumar declared the Executive Body for the year2012-2013Chairman Mr. Muzammil Mohammed ShareefVice Chairman Mr. Waseem AkramGeneral Secretary Miss. Hafsa DawoodTreasurer Mr. Hasan KagalwalaOutgoing Executive Body The outgoing executive body waspresented with mementos for their hard work, dedication andperseverance as a part of the cabinet of IEEE Student Branch,MJCETChairman Mr. Afsar PashaVice Chairman Mr. Talha SamiuddinGeneral Secretary Mr. Muqueeth AtherTreasurer Mr. Nisar Ahmed

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F. Report on Formation of IEEE-VBIT SB Constitution2012

Date: 3rd April 2012Timings: 9:30AM-1:00PMVenue: Vignana Bharathi Institute of Technology

THE IEEEVBIT Student Branch was inaugurated in Decem-ber 2006 with a membership no of 42 students, two faculty

advisors and a branch counselor. IEEE-VBIT Student Branchhas an outstanding history. Since its inception the StudentBranch has been setting its own milestone every year and hasbeen performing to achieve it. There is a continuous growth inthe number of new members joining with the slope of retentionrate increasing each year. From 54 now the number is 204mombers The new Executive committe of IEEE VBIT SB forthe year 2012 was announced by Mr.Sarweshwar Reedy, PESstudent chapter adviosr of IEEE-VBIT SB.

. VBIT Constitution 2012

V. COMM/SP CHAPTER NEWS

A. .Distinguished lecture on Information Embedding:From Theory to Practice by Prof. Pierre Moulin

THE comm./SP chapter has organized a Distinguished Lec-turer Information Embedding: From Theory to Practice by

Dr. Pierre Moulin, IEEE SPS distinguished lecturer, Professor,University of Illinois, USA,. The lecture was held from10.00 a.m. to 11.30 am at E-class room in main buildingof O.U.Engg. College on 16 May 2012.. The audience forthis lecture are 33(thirty three) including students, Researchscholars, and faculty from colleges. During his lecture, Dr.Moulin has mentioned that Watermarking, fingerprinting, andsteganography applications require secure embedding of in-formation bits into a cover signals (audio, video, etc.) andgave an overview the of the fundamental concepts and outlinedpractical approaches to such problems

B. Distinguished lecture on Robust Hashing and its appli-cations to Content Identification by Prof. Pierre Moulin

THE comm./SP chapter has organized a Distinguished Lec-turer Information Embedding: From Theory to Practice by

. Dr. Atul Negi (right), presenting a memento to Prof. Pierre Moulin (left)at O.U. Hyderabad

Dr. Pierre Moulin, IEEE SPS distinguished lecturer, Professor,University of Illinois, USA. The lecture was held from 4.30

. Dr. Pierre Moulin with IEEE volunteers of the Hyderabad section afterthe lecture at TCS.

p.m. to 6.00pm at conference room of TCS , KLK buildingon 16 May 2012.. The audience for this lecture are 27( twentyseven) including students, Research scholars, participants fromindustry, and faculty from universities/colleges. During thislecture, Prof. Pierre Moulin has stressed the need to compresssignals (audio, video, etc.) into short bitstrings for the purposeof reliable identification (instead of reconstruction) in manymodern applications, including management of user-submittedcontent websites and gave an overview of the fundamentaldecision-theoretic and information-theoretic concepts and out-lined practical approaches to such problems.

VI. WIE AFFINITY GROUP

A. One Day Seminar on The Art and Science of ProblemSolving

DR. Dakshinamurthy gave a guest lecture on The Artand Science of Problem Solving - an essential tool kit

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and blueprint for engineers on 18-4-2012 at Muffakham JahCollege of Engineering and Technology. This was an initiativetaken by IEEE - WIE (Women in Engineering) affinity group,Hyderabad Section. Students from various colleges and variousbranches actively participated in the lecture.The event began at 3:00PM, with the arrival of the chief

. Dr. Murthy delivering the seminar

guest Dr. Murthy. Dr. Kaleem Fatima, Vice Chair - IEEEWIE Affinity group, Hyderabad section received the guest withgreat pleasure. The event progressed with the presentation ofbouquets to the guest, Dr. Murthy, Prof. Y.Vijayalata, Chair- IEEE WIE Affinity group, Hyderabad section, Dr. KaleemFatima, Vice Chair- IEEE WIE Affinity group, Hyderabad section and toMrs.Rashmi Ambale, Secretary and Treasurer- IEEE WIE Affinity group, Hyderabad Section.Dr. Murthy began his lecture saying It is not what engineers

. Prof Y. Vijayalata presenting a momento to Dr. Murthy

do, but how they think about the problems that makes themdifferent. This lecture highlighted the essential differencesbetween an implementer and an engineer in problem solving.There was a deep discussion on the primary skills that are

required by an engineer identifying the real problems, approx-imation, critical reasoning and setting up simple experimentsetc. Dr. Murthy discussed few problem solving techniquesinvolving many real world examples where great engineersused these skills to solve some complex technical and non-technical problems. Towards the end of the session we had amemento presentation to the chief guest Dr. Murthy by ProfY. Vijayalata, Chair IEEE WIE Affinity group, Hyderabadsection.

B. National Conference on Computer Networks andInformation Security

Venue: Department of IT, Vasavi College of EngineeringDay 1

THE inaugural function started at 10 : 00 am with invocationSri. M. Krishnamurthy garu, Vice President, VAE presided

over the function. Mr C.S.R. Prabhu, Deputy Director General,Scientist G, NIC, Hyderabad was the chief guest. Dr.(Prof)Ramchandram, Vice Principal, UCE, OU, Hyderabad was theguest of Honour. Chief guest, guest of honour, Dr. I.V.Rao,Principal, VCE, Dr. N. Vasantha, Convener, Dr. Atul NegiIEEE chairman, Hyderabad section, Mr. Raju, Past Chairman,CSI Hyderabad chapter, Mr. I.L. Narasimha Rao, Chairman,CSI Hyderabad chapter, Mrs. Vijayalatha, Chairperson IEEEWIE, A.G spoke on the occasion.

. Release of the proceedings From right to left: Mrs. Vijayalatha,Chair person, IEEE WIE AG, Mr. ILN Rao, Chairman, CSI,Hyd, Mr. Raju,Past Chairman, CSI, Hyd, Dr. Atul Negi, Chairman, IEEE, Hyd, Dr. S.Ramachandram, Vice Principal, UCE, OU, Sri M. Krishnamurthy garu, VicePresident, Vasavi Academy of Education (Presiding Officer), Mr. CSR Prabhu,DDG, Scientist-G, NIC, Hyd, Dr. I.V. Rao, Principal, VCE, Dr. N. Vasantha,Convener

Research scholars form University of Hyderabad workingin ADRIN, NRSC, Osmania University and other institutionsin Tamil Nadu and AP presented their papers. The technicalsessions were chaired by Dr. Bruhadeshwar, IIIT, Hyderabadand Dr. Vijayakumari, JNTU, Hyderabad.The proceeding was released during the inaugural session.Thiswas followed by the keynote address on Cloud Computing by

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the Chief Guest Mr. C.S.R. Prabhu.Day 2Dr. Vijayarajeswaran, Managing Director, Vi Microsystems,Chennai and Dr. Armuga Perumal, Head, CSE, Hindu col-lege, Nagarkoil, Tamil Nadu were the speakers. Dr. Vijayara-jeswaran spoke about the types of cloud, building blocks ofCloud Computing. Their new product based on Cloud Com-puting was demonstrated to all the participants. Dr. ArumugaPerumal spoke on Powering Green IT. He has given manytips on using the electronic media on reducing e-waste. Healso spoke about the importance of using Blackle insteadof Google for online search. After lunch NetSim, NetworkSimulator software was demonstrated by Mr. Vasudev fromM/s Tetcos, Bangalore. Dr. Vijayakumari, JNTU, Hyderabadchaired the technical paper presentation session. Research pa-pers on Cloud Computing, Intrusion Detection, Web Security,Remote Sensor Networks, QoS Asurance, Database backup formachine critical applications were presented.

In the valedictory session certificates were distributed to thepaper presenters and participants. The conference concludedwith vote of thanks by the coordinator Mr. N. David Raju.

VII. GOLD AFFINITY GROUP

A. STEP Event on Entrepreneurship as a Career PathAuthor: Karthik K V

THE IEEE Hyderabad Section conducted the STEPprogram at Warangal on the 7th of April, 2012 and was

well attended by 50 students and young professionals. Theobjective of this program was to impart the GOLD activitiesoutside the city and to introduce the opportunities and benefitsof IEEE during the onset of career to the student membersturning young professionals.

The program commenced with an introduction to the

. Mr. Ghosh speaking about GOLD AG

Hyderabad GOLD affinity group by Sabyasachi Ghosh,Chairman GOLD. He enunciated about the transition fromstudent life to professional life and provided awareness onthe various aspects where IEEE can support them during thistransition. He also spoke about the benefits of being a GOLD

member and the value it adds to ones professional career.The main theme of this event being Entrepreneurship as

. GOLD Volunteers

a Career Path was addressed by Arun Vydianathan, anEntrepreneur of Ostrya Labs. Arun, with a wide experience inthe field of IT, shared his experiences of working with variousorganizations and his career path towards entrepreneurship.He depicted about the benefits of starting a company andchallenges of the same and spoke about the ethics of theprofessional world. He also enlightened the audience on howto become an entrepreneur and by primarily encouraging thestudents to grow professionally.

This discussion was followed by a High Tea and with apanel discussion lead by Sabyasachi ghosh, Arun Vydianathan,Professor Syed Musthak, Mithun Bhaskar. The panel cheeredup the audience with discussion topics making it moreinteractive and answered the queries of the enthusiasticstudents regarding the resume writing skills, startups ascareer options and other areas of entrepreneurship. Thediscussion was also spread over qualities like communicationskills, honesty and punctuality at workplace and essence ofnetworking with professionals.

In the end, the GOLD student volunteers shared their expe-rience of working with IEEE and how it helped them grow intheir career and about the various opportunities availed by be-ing a GOLD member followed by recognizing the outstandingIEEE volunteers from the student branches of Warangal: Theevent took place in a very amicable ambiance and was surelyan opportunity for students and young professionals to networkand interact with the fellow members and professionals. Theevent was a success and was made possible with a supportfrom the student branches of Warangal, NIT throughout theevent.

B. Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)and the Visit of Prof. William Oakes

THE Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)is an initiative started at Purdue University, Indiana,

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USA, in 1995 (https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS/About)to espouse the cause of community service in undergraduatestudents by having students work on useful and practicalengineering projects that meet specific needs of a community.Most of the EPICS projects are humanitarian projects thathelp improve lives of rural and underprivileged sections ofsociety. Prof. Bill Oakes, Director, EPICS and Professor at

. Col. Dr. T S Surendra explaining the Indo-Norwegian collaboration SolarPanel based electrical systems to Prof. Bill Oakes and Mr. PadmaprabodhAmbale

Purdue University visited Hyderabad between April 22-24 toeducate key local educational centers of excellence on thebenefits of EPICS and how educational institutions can takeup EPICS as part of their undergraduate course curriculum.The system followed at Purdue is that EPICS is considered aproject course and students get course credits for working onan EPICS project. Many students start as early as in their firstyear of under-graduation and submit their final project in theirfourth year. The EPICS projects teams mostly have studentsin different years thus lending continuity to the project andsustainability as seniors graduate and depart.Visit to NIT WarrangalProf. Bill Oakes, accompanied by Prasanna Venkatesan, Mem-ber, IEEE Educational Activities Board, visited National In-stitute of Technology, Warrangal, on Monday, April 23, 2011and held extensive discussions with the Director and Dean onEPICS projects, its benefits and how the college can leveragethe same. The college showed a lot of interest in incorporatingEPICS as part of the course curriculum and several forwardlooking plans were made during the discussions with Prof.Oakes.Visit to HyderabadProf. Bill Oakes, accompanied by Padmaprabodh Ambale,Volunteer, IEEE Educational Activities, visited B V RajuInstitute of Technology, Hyderabad on Tuesday, April 24,2011. They were received by Col. Dr. T S Surendra, Principal,BVRIT and faculty and heads of the departments of engi-neering studies at BVRIT. The interaction started with a briefoverview of EPICS by Prof. Oakes followed by updates fromCol. Dr. T S Surendra and other faculty members on a numberof EPICS-like projects being carried out at BVRIT. The

institute showcased their Assistive Technologies Lab (ATL)which works on projects for underprivileged persons likephysically handicapped, visually impaired, hearing impairedand speech impaired persons. Several live demonstrationsof gadgets for impaired persons were shown along with aroadmap on enhancements to existing projects as well as newprojects.Visit BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad CampusAfter concluding the visit at BVRIT, Prof. Oakes andPadmaprabodh visited BITS-Pilani Hyderabad campus andmet Prof. V S Rao, Director and Prof. M B Srinivas, AssistantDirector and past-Chair of IEEE Hyderabad Section. In thebrief interaction, Prof. Oakes outlined the EPICS core valuesand project outlook. Prof. V S Rao indicated that BITS has aplan to include community-oriented projects towards coursecredits and some projects are already underway. After themeeting, Prof. Oakes addressed a gathering of students andfaculty highlighting the features of EPICS and how they canget involved. At the end of the presentation, there was adetailed Q and A session with the students where a numberof ideas were exchanged on how community projects can betaken forward in India where the need for such projects isimmense - Padmaprabodh Ambale

VIII. CAS/EDS NEW CHAPTER

ANew chapter namely Joint Chapter of IEEE CAS/EDS isformed in the IEEE Hyderabad Section. The chapter was

formally approved on 18th June, 2012. There is a steady andgrowing interest in the local academia and industry in the fieldof Analog and Digital VLSI Design and Embedded Systemdesign. The Joint chapter of IEEE CAS/EDS is establishedwith an aim of providing technical expertise, networkingand resource sharing opportunities to professionals, researchscholars and students in these and related areas in HyderabadSection.The petition for formation of the chapter was signed by29 full members of IEEE who were also member of eitherCAS or EDS societies. Majority of the petitioners holdresponsible positions in premier academic institutions like IITHyderabad, BITS Hyderabad, MJCET, Osmania University,NIT Warangal, GITAM University, Vasavi, MVSR, industrieslike Redpine Signals, VEDA IIT and from Research Labs (RCIand DRDO). The petition and Business Plan was endorsed bySection EXECOM and forwarded to IEEE Headquarters inMarch 2012, approval for the same was received in June 2012.

Chair: Dr. M. B. Srinivas, Dean, Bits Pilani Hyderabad.Vice Chair: Dr.P. A. Govinda Charyulu, Professor, VasaviCollege of Engg. Hyd.Secretary: Dr. Mrs. Kaleem Fatima, Professor and Head,Dept of ECE, MJCET, Hyderabad.Treasurer: Md. Arifuddin Sohel, Assoc Prof., MJCET,Members:Mr. N.Venkatesh, Vice President, Redpine Signals, Hyd.Dr. Ms N. Vasantha, Vasavi College of Engg, Hyd.Mr. M A Raheem, Asst. Prof, MJCET, Hyd.

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. Dr. C.P. Ravikumar receiving memento from Dr. M.B. Srinivas, ChairIEEE CAS/EDSs

The chapter in accordance with the best practices forthe formation of IEEE chapters, the members of chapterorganized a tutorial session on Mixed Signal VLSI Design atMJCET on 24th December 2011. Dr. P.V. Ananda Mohan,Fellow IEEE and Chair, IEEE CAS, Bangalore Section wasthe speaker for this session. There were over 100 participantsin the tutorial session. A panel meeting of prospectivemembers was organized after the tutorial. This meeting waspresided by Dr. Atul Negi, Chair, IEEE Hyderabad Sectionand during this meeting the process of chapter formation andsustenance was discussed.Two events were organized after the approval of the chapter.The first event was a seminar on Power Efficient SignalProcession by Dr. C.P. Ravikumar, Technical Director,University Program, Texas Instruments Bangalore, held on29th June 2012 at MJCET.

A. Inaugural Technical Talk in CAS/EDS Chapter onPower Efficient Signal Processing

IEEE Hyderabad Section, Joint Chapter of Circuits and Sys-tems/Electron Devices Society (CAS/EDS) had organized a

seminar on Power Efficient Signal Processing on 29th July,2012. The esteemed speaker for this event was Dr. C.P.Ravikumar, Technical Director, University Relations, TexasInstruments, India. The noted experts invited from the field ofacademia and research were Dr. Atul Negi (Chairman, IEEEHyderabad Section), Dr. M. B Srinivas (Dean, BITS Hyder-abad), Dr. P.V.S Maruthi Rao (Treasurer, IEEE HyderabadSection) and Dr. Kaleem Fatima (Secretary, IEEE HyderabadCAS/EDS Joint Chapter)

Welcome Address by Mr. Arifuddin SohelIn his address Mr. Arifuddin Sohel, Treasurer IEEE CAS/EDSJoint Chapter welcomed the dignitaries, the faculty and thestudents from various colleges across the city. He statedthat it was indeed an honor for Muffakham Jah College ofEngineering and Technology to welcome Dr. C.P. Ravikumaras the key note speaker in the seminar on Power EfficientSignal Processing.

Address by Dr. M.B SrinivasIn his address Mr. M. B. Srinivas, Dean, BITS Hyderabad

who served as the Chairman of IEEE Hyderabad Sectionsaid that it was heartening to note the efforts made by IEEEHyderabad Section in launching the Joint Chapter of Circuitsand Systems/Electron Devices Society

. Dr. M. B. Srinivas, Dean, BITS Hyderabad

Address by Dr. Atul Negi Dr. Atul Negi, Chairman, IEEEHyderabad Section in his address stated that IEEE HyderabadSection has witnessed a tremendous growth with the additionof the Circuits and Sytems/Electron Devices Society JointChapter. He lauded the efforts of Dr. Kaleem Fatima andMr. Arifuddin Sohel in putting together the CAS/EDS JointChapter.

. Dr. Atul Negi, Chairman, IEEE Hyderabad Section

Presentation by Dr. C.P Ravi Kumar The speaker oftodays event, Dr. C.P Ravi Kumar gave a seminar on PowerEfficient Signal Processing. In this seminar we delved intothe world of embedded processing solutions and looked atrecent innovations in signal processing applications that meetthe demand for improved performance in world of embeddedsystems.

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. Dr. C.P. Ravikumar, Technical Director, Texas Instruments, India.

Later Mr. M. B Srinivas presented a memento to Dr. C. P.Ravikumar. followed by vote of thanks by Dr Kaleem Fatima.

IX. SPECIAL REPORT OF TISP SYMPOSIUM

Rashmi AmbaleVice Chair, TISP Andhra PradeshSecretary, WiE Affinity GroupIEEE Hyderabad Section.

THE IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) organizeda symposium on Teacher-in-Service-Program (TISP) to

commemorate 10 successful years since the program startedwithin IEEE. The Symposium was held between May 18th-20th, 2012 at Tampa, Florida, USA and was well attended byover 35 TISP Champions and several pre-university educators(high school teachers) from 16 countries from around theworld representing various Sections and geographies

Symposium Agenda and HighlightsDay 1 May 19th, 2012Welcome- Serge Beauzile, Florida West Coast Section Chair andFreddie Wong, Symposium Chair/IEEE Houston Section

Group Activity : Lesson Plan Development - Brad Snod-grass, IEEE Central Indiana Section This was a hands on groupactivity when the participants broke out into 6 groups witha geographic distribution, and worked on coming up with abrand new lesson plan outline. Each of the groups discussedseveral modern areas of technology like mobile computing,electronic circuitry and so on and how the same can besimplified into a 2 hour lesson plan that can be adopted inthe classroom. The educators played an instrumental role ininforming TISP volunteers about the subjects being coveredin each grade and what topics would be most appropriate forinclusion into the training program.

This was followed by a Panel Discussion on Strategies toSupport a Teacher Professional Development Program.Theyspoke about the challenges they face in their school systemsand how programs like TISP can go a long way in makinglearning of science and mathematics a lot more fund and

. Lesson Plan Group (L to R) Rashmi Ambale, Prakash Sudhir,Padmaprabodh Ambale, Jennifer Ng and Lisa Felske

interesting to school students.Keynote Address: TISP in Developing and DevelopedCountries- Moshe Kam, 2011 IEEE Past PresidentMoshe Kam started his keynote address with a quote fromReinhold Niebuhr give us the grace with serenity to accept

. Moshe Kam delivering the keynote address

the things that cannot be changed, courage to change thethings which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguishone from the other. He went on to describe how the TISPprogram has been a change in mindset within the IEEE andoriented a good amount of IEEE resources towards focusingon pre-university education system from an earlier focus onengineering students and professional member programs.

The day concluded with a presentation by Yvonne Pelham,Manager IEEE Educational Outreach. Yvonne covered themechanisms used to measure the TISP programs includingmetrics like number of teachers covered, extent to which thehands-on experiments are being used in classrooms, numberof TISP programs in each country and so on.

Day2 May 20th, 2012

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Presentation: Certified Provider Program/Aligning toStandards-Freddie Wong, Symposium Chair/IEEE Houston Section andLisa Felske, Harris County, Texas Department of Education.In this session, TISP volunteer and educator from Texasdescribed the evolution of TISP in their section and how theeducators have taken a lead in aligning TISP lesson planswith the school curriculum. More details are present in theBest Practices section.

Presentation: Florida West Coast Section TISP Activities- Sean Denny, IEEE Florida West Coast SectionIn this session, Sean Denny spoke about the lead taken byFlorida West Coast Section in starting TISP and how it hasmatured to its current form. He shared a number of bestpractices followed by the Section which are described inmore detail in the Best Practices section.

Breakout groups to discuss implementation strategiesand effective practices for programs that improve theteaching of STEM in the classroomThis session involved the participants again breaking outinto groups and discuss several topics such as challenges tostart, sustain and grow TISP locally, attracting and retainingvolunteers, successful approaches to introduce or promoteTISP locally, recommendations for enhancing TISP volunteertraining, certified provider program and aligning to educationalstandards, incentives for teachers to use TISP hands-on activ-ities in the classroom, follow-on activities with teachers (i.e.evaluations) and so on. Each group subsequent presented areport of key strategies and recommendations for taking TISPto the next level.

Closing Summary/Adjournment- Freddie Wong, Symposium Chair/IEEE Houston SectionThe Symposium was formally closed by Freddie Wong afterthanking all the participants who came over to Florida toattend the program.

TISP India PresentationPrasanna Venkatesan, Member - IEEE Educational Activities

Board, Chair TISP India Committee, and Past ChairIEEE Hyderabad Section GOLD Affinity Group, who wasinstrumental in getting the TISP workshop to India in 2011,presented the TISP report from India.Prasanna talked about the TISP initiatives taken up in AndhraPradesh, Kerala and Karnataka and the extent of high schoolsbeing reached by the TISP program in each of the states.TISPHe also presented the structure of the TISP Committee for

India which shall report directly into R10 and drive TISPactivities throughout India, initially focusing on the southernstates. Prasanna was supported by other TISP volunteersfrom India including Prakash Sudhir from Bangalore Section,Rashmi Ambale and Padmaprabodh Ambale from HyderabadSection, and Ranjit Nair and Namith Najeeb from KeralaSection

. Prasanna Venkatesan presenting the TISP India report

. TISP India contingent at the conference reception (L to R) Dr. Bhatia,Dr. S. Ramesh, Padmaprabodh Ambale, Prakash Sudhir, Prasanna Venkatesan,Rashmi Ambale, Namith Najeeb and Ranjit Nair

TISP Best PracticesBrad Snodgrass from the Central Indiana Section (CIS) isone of the early pioneers of the TISP program and shareda number of best practices from his Section. In 2009,Central Indiana Section originated what they call the TeacherGrant Program. This program provides money for teachersto purchase materials for classroom presentation of TISPlessons. As of now, CIS remains the only section in IEEE toactively support such a program.

FundingA common theme from most volunteers was on how to createa sustainable model of funding for TISP programs. This topicwas brought to the fore by Dr. Moshe Kam in his keynoteaddress on May 19th where he outlined the key challengesthat the TISP program is facing, including the fact that mostof the funding is coming via NIC and Humanitarian ad hoccommittee. He stressed the need for TISP to be more self-reliant and raise funds locally.Concluding Remarks

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In summary, the TISP program was a highly successfulevent that allowed volunteers who has been working locallyto come together for the first time at an international leveland discuss and share their work, thoughts and recommenda-tions with each other. It allowed the participants to establisha global network on TISP and coordinate activities acrosssections within and outside geographical boundaries. Withthis exposure, we at Hyderabad, should be able to take upTISP in a big way and improve the quality of high schooleducation by bringing in more scientific and practical elementsto the regular classroom training. In this context, TISP shouldbe not only viewed as a simple training activity but also asocial contribution from engineers to the more underprivilegedsections of our population who lack teaching resources andfacilities.

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Executive CommitteeName Designation Compnay/Organization Email IDDr Atul Negi Chairman University of Hyderabad Atul.negi@ieee.orgV. Akilan Vice-Chairman Consultant akilan99@yahoo.comDr Amit Kumar Secretary CEO & Chief Scientific Officer Bio Axis DNA Research Lab dramit.kumaar@gmail.comRajagopalan Kannan Technology Management Chair Ex BHEL R & D kannan@ieeehyd.orgP V S Maruthi Rao Treasurer Vidcentum R & D Pvt. Ltd pvsmaruthi@ieee.orgJagadeesa Sarma Kalavendi Member RVR Engineering College, Patancheru kjsarma@ieee.orgHari Prasad Devarapalli Member Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) hari.devarapalli@tcs.comSyed Musthaq Ahmed Member S R College of Engineering syedmusthak gce@yahoo.comProf. Shatrunjay Rawat Member International Instt. of Information Tech Hyderabad shatrunjay.rawat@iiit.ac.inDr. Vijaysekhar C Member TCS vijay@atc.tcs.com

IEEE Computer Society ChapterKoduri Srinivas Chairman NRSA kodurisrinivas@gmail.comVenkataramanan Secretary/Treasurer Amazon venkat@ieeehyd.org

PES/IAS/PESL Society Joint chapterD Siva Sarma Chairman NIT-Warangal sivasarma@gmail.comAmit Jain Vice-Chairman IIIT-Hyderabad amit@iiit.ac.inMiithun Bhaskar Secretary/Treasurer Mahindra Satyam mithun.bm@ieee.org

COMSOC/SP Society Joint ChapterK.Dheerga Rao Chairman Osmania University Korraidrao@ieeehyd.orgT.S.N Murthy Vice-Chairman CBIT , Hyderabad surya thummala@yahoo.comT.RaviKishore Secretary/Treasurer DLRL ravikishore 1454@rediffmail.com

MTT/AP/EMC Society Joint ChapterDhananjay Jahagirdhar Chairman RCI, DRDO dr jahagirdar@hotmail.comYogesh Kumar Verma Vice-Chairman DRDL, DRDO ykverma@yahoo.comKottareddy Jaya Sankar Secretary/Treasurer Vasavi College of Engineering kottareddyjs@gmail.com

Computational Intelligence Society ChapterAmit Kumar Chairman BioAxis DNA Research Center Pvt. Ltd amit.kumar@dnares.inDr Suresh Satapathy Secretary Cum Treasurer sureshsatapathy@gmail.comMohan Krishna Member mohankrishnas@gmail.comSeetaramaiah Member CVR College of Engineering sitara r@cvr.ac.in

Technology Management CouncilRajagopalan. Kannan Chairman Ex BHEL R & D kannan@ieeehyd.orgGopalkrishna Kuppa Vice-Chairman Consultant gopalakrishna kuppa@hotmail.comJasti Srinivas Secretary/Treasurer TCS, Hyderabad sreenivas.Jasti@tatatel.co.in

WIE Affinity GroupY.Vijaya Lata Chairperson GRIET , HYD vijaya@ieee.orgKaleem Fatima Vice-Chairperson MJCET, HYD kaleemfatima@gmail.comRashmi Ambale Secretary/ Treasurer Napier Health Care Solutions, Hyderabad rashmi.ambale@ieee.orgG. Indira Priyadarshini Member Malla Reddy Engineering College indirapaul2020@gmail.comA.Swarna Bai Member RCI, HYD arniswarna@gmail.com

Student RepresentativeBharath Silagani Student Representative VBIT, HYD bharathsilagani@ieee.org

Gold Affinity GroupSabyasachi Ghosh Chairman Oracle sghosh@ieee.orgPrashant K V Vice-Chairman prashantkv@ieee.orgPreeti Kovali Secretary/ Treasurer Mahindra Satyam preeti.K@ieee.org

Vizag Bay Sub-SectionGopi Kumar Bulusu Chairman Sankhya Technologies Pvt.Ltd gopi@sankhya.comVatsavayi Valli Kumari Vice-Chairman Andhra University vallikumari@gmail.comLakshminarayana Secretary/ Treasurer National Institute of Oceanography slnvizag@gmail.comP.Ravi Kiran Varma Member MVGR Enigneering College ravikiranvarmap@gmail.com