The IEEE Gujarat Section Sensors Council Chapter hosted an all virtual-event “Winter School on Wearable Sensors and Devices” from 6 to 7 February 2021. It was a 2-day event that included 9 expert-led, 60-minute sessions. It was attended by 172 (including speakers) delegates from different academic institutions and industries from 9 countries including the USA, Canada, Scotland, the Netherlands, Iran, Pakistan, Australia, Italy, and India, and 22 states of India. This event has an excellent gender balance in terms of participation with 37% of the participants female and 63% male. Also, 51% of the delegates were students, 40% were faculty and 8% were from industry.
Talks Included:
Day 1 (February 6)
Day 2 (February 7)
Rudra Pratap, Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Jürgen Kosel, Ravinder Dahiya, and Veena Misra are Sensors Council Distinguished Lecturers.
For networking and engagement, an online interactive quiz was also organized on the topic of "Wearables and Sensors".
This news article was prepared by the ExCom of the Sensors Council Chapter of IEEE Gujarat Section for this Newsletter. This event was sponsored by IEEE Sensors Council.
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Rudra Pratap
Professor and Deputy Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Sensors Council DL
"Discovering Templates of Engineering Design Hidden in Nature’s Transducers"
Veena Misra
Director, NSF ASSIST Nanosystems Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Sensors Council DL
"Self-Powered Wearable Sensors for Health and Environmental Monitoring"
Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay
Professor of Mechanical/Electronics Engineering, Department of Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Sensors Council DL
"From Sensors to Computing, Trends for Wearable and Medical Devices"
Ravinder Dahiya
Electronic and Nanoscale Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
Sensors Council DL
"Tactile Skin in Robotics and Medical Applications"
Jürgen Kosel
Associate Professor, Computer Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Sensors Council DL
"Wearable Printed Graphene Sensors"
Behraad Bahreyni
Associate Professor, School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, Canada
"Smart Textile"
Indira Negi
Vice President, Product Management at AliveCor, USA
"Heartbeat Monitoring System and Healthcare"
The IEEE Sensors Council Young Professionals is a group of members and volunteers who have graduated from their first professional degree within the past 15 years. In Q3 and Q4 2020, the SC YP hosted several successful events. Read the event recaps below.
During the conference, YP organized virtual meetings included a welcome reception, technical sessions, and a coffee table with experts (held jointly with Sensors Council WiSe). The YP session co-chairs were Sten Vollebregt, Delft University of Technology and Saakshi Dhanekar, Indian Institute of Technology (Jodhpur), India.
The virtual YP reception allowed young professionals with technical and social networking opportunities. Attendees met many working colleagues in a variety of sensors fields and discussed future collaborations. The event was hosted by a professional MC and virtual games to engage the audience and build the attendees' networks. Excellent feedback was received from the participants. This was entirely financially supported by IEEE YP.
The Industry Academia Webinar Series was jointly organized by IEEE Sensors Council and IEEE Rajasthan Subsection was started in November 2020. The co-organizers for the webinar are Dr. Saakshi Dhanekar, IIT Jodhpur and Dr. Rana Mukherjee, ICFAI, Jaipur
This series is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of future technologists i.e. students and young faculty colleagues at a platform that would encourage the exchange and enhancement of ideas, perspectives, opportunities, and possibilities.
Aloknath De, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Samsung R&D India, Bangalore delivered a talk on “How does Deep-Tech Innovation bring Value to Society?”. Over 200 participants virtually attended. The event saw high engagement with discussions related to deep tech innovation, IoT systems, and current trends in the technology.
Anukram Mishra, Chief Technology Officer, Metering Solutions Division, Genus Power Infrastructure Ltd, Jaipur delivered a talk on “Emerging Possibilities in Smart Grid. The virtual webinar hosted ~60 participants. Collaborations between participants and the Institutes in Rajasthan were made possible due to this virtual event.
We look forward to more interactive webinars bringing in both Industry and Academia together in 2021!
If you or your Chapter are interested in hosting a YP event, please contact Dr. Saakshi Dhanekar, YP Chair, at saakshi@iitj.ac.in.
Report prepared by:
Dr. Saakshi Dhanekar
YP Chair, IEEE Sensors Council
IEEE Ambassador
IIT Jodhpur, India
The IEEE Gujarat Section Sensors Council Chapter in collaboration with the WIE Affinity Group of IEEE Gujarat Section hosted an all virtual-event “WiSe Week 2020” from 28 September to 02 October 2020.
The event was sponsored by the WiSe Initiative of IEEE Sensors Council.
Day 1
After the Welcome Address by the Chapter Chair Prof. Sanjay Srivastava, the VP Technical Operations of Sensors Council, Anil Roy, introduced the activities of the Sensors Council and the objective of the Women in Sensors initiative.
The first talk of WiSe Week was on “How to Write A Good Technical Paper” by Dr. Gaurav Sharma, Professor, Rochester University, USA. He described best practices for abstracts and conclusions, and important considerations for following established etiquette and ethics in scholarly publishing.
Day 2
An all-women panel discussed “Strategies to Create Supportive Academic and Workplace Experiences and Environments for Women Engineers”. Experts Panel included Dr. Sinead O’Keeffe (Ireland), Dr. Jill I. Gostin (USA), Dr. Helen Mulvana (United Kingdom), Dr. Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb (USA), and Dr. Zeynep Celik-Butler (USA). They shared their experiences as women engineers and how to improve inclusion as a matter of norm and policy in the workplace. During the session, the audience received suggestions about supportive environments and challenges.
Day 3
Dr. Anita Basalingappa, Professor, MICA, discussed marketing theory and critical marketing. She enlightened the audience to social media as brands and social media behavior, marketing decision-making, clothing as communication, and corporate social responsibility.
Ms. Sonali Dubey of Pernod Ricard discussed understanding how career paths work in organizations today. She showed how the half-life of skills has dropped from 30 years to 3 years in the last 25 years. There was quite an interesting and interactive STEM quiz also delivered in between these two talk sessions. The quiz master was Mr. Anshul Roy, an IIT Kanpur graduate.
Days 4-5
Mr. Tushar Gadhiya and Mr. Abhishek Jani, from DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, gave technical and educational sessions on sensors-based service. Tushar covered deep learning techniques in sensors applications and Abhishek took a hands-on workshop on some select sensors boards including MYOSA which was a Sensors Council’s educational kit.
All 131 attendees were given certificates of participation. The student volunteers were acknowledged for their contribution. The event was live-streamed through the IEEE Sensors Council YouTube Channel. During the period of this event, the channel witnessed 1,100 unique views, 98 hours of total view, and added 35 new subscribers too.
Join the Sensors Council, IEEE Rajasthan, and the Young Professionals for "Industry-Academia Webinar Series" on December 30 at 5:30PM (IST) featuring Dr. Anukram Mishra.
Emerging Possibilities in Smart Grid?
Industrial revolutions had been consistently giving impetus to the growth of our civilization. First revolution was reported in 1754 when the steam engine was invented and then electricity became the next catalyst in 1870. And now, something phenomenal is being felt in this series. The cyber physical system described as Industry 4.0 is being received with excitement for a new phase of exponential growth. The Internet of Things (IoT) is enabling creation of huge data from billions of sensors. Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms running on ultrafast multicore processors enable real time analytics for the cyber systems to keep abreast with the physical world.
Amid all this, the requirement of clean and green energy for our planet’s sustainability continues to be the key concern. Smart grid, enabled by Industry 4.0, opens up unprecedented opportunities and possibilities to address the said concern. The upcoming scenario replete with electric vehicles, micro generators, solar and wind parks enables interesting business options for all the stakeholders of the smart grid; some such interesting stories which might seem like science fiction are discussed here.
Registration: https://bit.ly/3nxv0GH
An online meeting link will be shared with the registered participants. An electronic certificate will be provided.
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Distinguished SpeakerDr. Anukram Mishra Dr. Mishra has over thirty three years of industrial experiences including Inertial Navigation and Attack Systems (Jaguar), HAL and Advanced Metering Infra (AMI) and Smart Grid Technologies at Landis+Gyr Global Development Centre and Genus Power Infra Ltd. Dr. Mishra is a PhD Constrained Bandwidth Advanced Metering Infrastructure, Dept of Computer Science and Engg, MNIT, Jaipur and holds MTech in Aircraft Production Engg., IIT Madras and BE Honours in Electronics and Communication, MBM Engg College, Jodhpur. |
For questions, contact IEEE Sensors Council Young Professionals Chair, Saakshi Dhanekar at saakshi@iitj.ac.in.
IEEE Array Cafe is a podcast (sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and the IEEE Sensors Council) about everything engineering - science, technology, and professional issues.
On our first episode, hear hosts Hadi Heidari, Hamida Hallil, Nicole Weckman, Bruce Hecht, and Aisha Yousuf interview Dr. Amara Amara, President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. In this episode, Dr. Amara discusses his career, the coronavirus, and much more.
You can listen to Episode One on Simplecast or on Spotify.
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The IEEE Sensors Council (SC) Nominations and Appointments Committee requests nominations for qualified individuals to fill the SC officer and member-at-large positions listed below for the 2022-2023 term. Self-nominations are allowed. The positions required by the SC rules for odd-year terms are as follows:
The job description for each position can be found here. For more information on eligibility, please refer to Article III, Sections 7 and 8 of the Sensors Council Bylaws.
The deadline for nominations is 1 March 2021. Additional details can be found on the Call for Nominations.
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Join the Sensors Council, IEEE Rajasthan, and the Young Professionals for "Industry-Academia Webinar Series" on November 19 at 5:30PM (IST) featuring Dr. Aloknath De.
Registration: https://bit.ly/3nxv0GH
An online meeting link will be shared with the registered participants. An electronic certificate will be provided.
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Distinguished SpeakerDr. Aloknath De |
