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An IEEE Kerala GOLD Initiative

A detailed report of TISP Week 2012 – A week long pre university

teacher training program held across the state of Kerala, India at

eight locations organized by IEEE Kerala GOLD and IEEE Kerala

Educational Activities Committee from 23rd to 28th July 2012.

Supported by:

IEEE Educational Activities Board

IEEE Region 10 Educational Activities Committee

General Education Department, Government of Kerala

TISP Week 2012 Report | 2 ..

CONTENTS

IEEE 3

IEEE Kerala Section 3

Educational activities Committee (Kerala Section) 3

GOLD Affinity Group (Kerala Section) 3

TISP 4

TISP Week 2012 4

TISO Week Inauguration 5

TISP Week Day 1 6

TISP Week Day 2 7

TISP Week Day 2 8

TISP Week Day 3 9

TISP Week Day 4 10

TISP Week Day 4 11

TISP Week Day 5 12

TISP Week Day 6 13

TISP Week Valedictory 14

TISP Week Round Up Statistics 15

TISP Week Snapshot 16

Message from IEEE Stalwarts 17

TISP Week Kerala – Comments 19

Contributors 20


IEEE

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics

Engineers (IEEE, read I-Triple-E) is a non-profit

professional association headquartered in New

Jersey that is dedicated to advancing

technological innovation and excellence. IEEE is

the world’s largest professional association

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.

IEEE KERALA SECTION

IEEE activities in Kerala have reached its 37th

year. Initiated on 17 February 1975 as a

subsection under the then India section, Kerala

subsection became part of the Bangalore Section

in 1976 upon formation of India Council. Kerala

became a full Section in 1983. The section has

been very active since its formation. It has been

holding a national or international seminar every

year since 1984. The section has a Computer

Society Chapter, a Power and Energy Society

Chapter, a joint Chapter on Industry Applications

& Industrial Electronics Societies and a

Communication Society Chapter. Two affinity

groups called IEEE GOLD and IEEE Women in

Engineering are running under this section.

Student branches have been established in 60

Engineering Colleges.

EAC (Educational Activities Committee)

Kerala Section

IEEE offers a wide range of learning, career

enhancement, and employment opportunities

within the engineering sciences, research, and

other technology areas.

other technology areas. The goal of these

programs is to ensure the growth of skill and

knowledge among professionals and to foster

individual commitment to continuing education

among IEEE members, the engineering and

scientific community, and the general public.

IEEE is also committed to providing quality

education resources for educators, parents,

students, IEEE volunteers, and the public. The

EAC at Kerala Section is championing these

initiatives in Kerala, thanks to the support and

vision of the veterans at the helm of the

committee. The EAC of Kerala Section was one of

the first to initiate activities like the TISP and

Continuing Education Congress in India.

GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade)

Kerala Section

GOLD is the term used to refer to the group of

IEEE volunteers who are within 10 years of their

graduation. The GOLD group of Kerala Section

has been actively involving in several activities in

the last few years, and has had a major focus on

the Educational Activities in the state. Together

with the EAC, GOLD has been instrumental in

organizing several education initiatives at various

levels in the educational arena, ranging from

schools to professional colleges. The Kerala GOLD

team has made revolutionary contributions for

the growth of IEEE GOLD in Kerala and has

consistently strived to empower GOLD activities

in India. IEEE Kerala GOLD is one of the pioneer

GOLD AG’s in Region 10. Its members have won

many important awards like IEEE R10 GOLD

award, Best Branch Councilor award, etc.

Recently the AG has won the prestigious IEEE

MGA GOLD Hall of Fame award, an award

presented to three best GOLD affinity groups

globally.


TISP

TISP (Teacher In Service Program) is an IEEE

Education Activities Initiative to promote

engineering interest in the minds of school

children. The idea is simply to help students

learn the basics of engineering by building

models. The motivation for this model is that

children learn best by doing. Engineers have for

long played great roles in shaping the world.

With TISP, the IEEE community hopes to shape

the youth of tomorrow in becoming better

engineers, “advancing technology for

humanity.”The TISP initiative is a two pronged

process, wherein the Teachers are trained first in

a Teacher Training workshop. The next step is

where the real impact happens when these

trained teachers take the learnings back to the

school and organize follow-up workshops at

their schools.

TISP Week 2012

TISP is a flagship program of IEEE implemented

in various parts of the world. When it comes to

improvements in the Education system, our

nation is always found wanting. TISP Week 2012

was a bold step in this direction and is the

brainchild of many motivated volunteers here at

IEEE Kerala Section. TISP Week 2012 was an

ambitious project aiming to impact at least 160

teachers in just 6 days across the State of Kerala.

Through these teachers, we plan to reach out to

more than 10,000 students this year. Students at

schools will be helped by these teachers in

building basic models that involve basic

engineering concepts, and this will in turn help in

creating curiosity about the idea of engineering.

The success of this initiative will certainly help us

scale this to reach out to more school children in

the coming years.

Expected reach of TISP Week

We are looking to create a curious, enterprising

and socially committed generation of the future.

Highlights:

•8 Teacher Training Workshops in 8 venues

covering all the 14 districts.

•1 year long initiative of reaching out to the

school children of Kerala through their teachers.

•Starting with the TISP week, which involves

extensive Teacher Training Sessions.

•Expected impact is 10,000 school-children by

end of the project in May 2013.


TISP Week Inauguration

The Inauguration of TISP Week 2012 was held at

Vakkom Moulavi Foundation Trust Hall,

Trivandrum on 23rd July 2012. The event started

with IEEE Code of Ethics delivered by Mr Aravind

S Nair, Chairman, SIST SB. The event was

presided over by Mr R Srinivasan, Vice Chair,

IEEE Kerala Section. Mr S Gopakumar, Chair, IEEE

Kerala Educational Activities Committee

welcomed the gathering. The IEEE Education

Society President Dr Rob Reilly inaugurated the

event and emphasized on the need for

engineering training for pre university teachers.

Prof V K Damodaran, GOLD Advisor addressed

the gathering and explained about the role of

IEEE in mentoring Pre University Teachers. An

overview about the TISP Week was given by Mr

Namith Najeeb, Secretary, IEEE Kerala GOLD. Mr

Prasanna Venkatesan, Chair, IEEE TISP India

explained about various TISP training programs

happening in other section in India, the website

of TISP India Committee was inaugurated on the

day by Dr Rob Reilly. Dr M K Jana, Principal,

Sarabhai Institute of Science and Technology and

Mr A Suhair, Chairman, Vakkom Moulavi

Foundation Trust delivered the felicitations. The

inaugural session was wrapped up by the vote of

thanks by Ranjit R Nair, Chair, IEEE Kerala GOLD.

This was continued with the start of TISP

workshop and the TISP Champions explained

about the task, timing and deadline for teachers

to practice. There were two lesson plans

exercised and the event came to an end with the

brainstorming session by teachers on setting a

roadmap to further implement TISP Workshops

at their schools.


TISP WEEK

Day 1 (23-Jul-2012)

The First venue of TISP was at VMFT Hall ,

Trivandrum hosted by Sarabhai Institute of

Science & Technology, Trivandrum.

TISP Week 2012 was inaugurated by Dr. Rob

Reilly, President, IEEE Education Society.

TISP Champions :

Prof. V K Damodaran

Prof. Viswanath Rao

Er. Ranjit R Nair

Er. Namith Najeeb

Lesson Plans used :

* Wind Mill

* Electric Signals

No of Teachers trained : 24

No of Schools represented : 13

No of Volunteers trained : 15


TISP WEEK

Day 2 (24-Jul-2012)

The Second venue of TISP was at TKM Institute

of Technology, Kollam.

TISP Champions :

Prof. V K Damodaran

Dr. B Premlett

Er. Nitin Padmanabhan

Lesson Plans used :

* Wind Mill

* Catapult


No of Schools reached : 10



TISP WEEK

Day 2 (24-Jul-2012)

The Third venue of TISP was at St.Joseph’s

College of Engineering & Technology, Palai.

TISP Champion :

Er. Sabarinath Pillai

Er. Shahim Baker

Lesson Plans used :

* Wind Mill

* Electric Signals





TISP WEEK

Day 3 (25-Jul-2012)

The Fourth venue of TISP was at College of

Engineering, Munnar.

TISP Champion :

Er. Ranjit R Nair

Er. Ajin Baby

Lesson Plans used :

* Wind Mill

* Rubber Band Racers





TISP WEEK

Day 4 (26-Jul-2012)

The Fifth venue of TISP was at TocH Institute of

Science & Technology, Ernakulam.

TISP Champions :

Prof. V K Damodaran

Dr. G Santhosh

Er. Mini Ulanat

Lesson Plans used :

* Wind Mill

* Electric Signals





TISP WEEK

Day 4 (26-Jul-2012)

The Sixth venue of TISP was at MES College of

Engineering, Kuttipuram.

TISP Champions :

Er. Shahim Baker

Er. Namith Najeeb

Lesson Plans used :

* Wind Mill

* Catapult





TISP WEEK

Day 5 (27-Jul-2012)

The Seventh venue of TISP was at Vimal Jyothi

Engineering College, Chemperi

TISP Champions :

Prof. V K Damodaran

Er. Ranjit R Nair

Er. Ajin Baby

Lesson Plans used :

* Wind Mill

* Rubber Band Racers





TISP WEEK

Day 6 (28-Jul-2012)

The Eighth venue of TISP was at National

Institute of Technology, Calicut.

TISP Champions :

Prof. V K Damodaran

Er. Ranjit R Nair

Er. Namith Najeeb

Lesson Plans used :

* Wind Mill

* Electric Signals





TISP Week Valedictory

The event series came to an historic end with a

Valedictory function on Day 6 at National

Institute of Technology, Calicut on 28th July 2012.

The gathering was welcomed by Mr Vijay S Paul,

Electronic Communication Coordinator, IEEE

Kerala GOLD. An introduction on TISP and TISP

Week was given by Ranjit R Nair, followed by the

Presidential Address by Dr. Abraham T. Mathew,

Professor, NIT Calicut. The GOLD Memebers, Mr

Rameez Mannil and Mr Bibin Parukoor Thomas

spoke about their experience in interacting with

teachers in the past days of the workshop. The

participation certificates were awarded to the

delegates. Prof V K Damodaran, GOLD Advisor

spoke in detail about the phenomenal success of

the TISP Workshop series and the impact it

created among the Science and Technology

teachers of the state. He also explained on the

roadmap on how to take this initiative further to

the school children. The event came to an end

with Vote of Thanks by Vishnuram Abhinav,

Chair, IEEE NITC SB.

The TISP Week Training Program set a footprint

about the need and necessity of engineering

education to pre university students in the state.

The event series that happened at 8 locations

were able to train 172 teachers from 104

schools. The initiative was well accepted at all

the locations and further follow up workshop

series were planned at all the schools

represented to create an impact in a minimum of

10,000 pre university students.




Message from IEEE Stalwarts:



TISP WEEK KERALA – Conclusion

The successful completion of eight Teacher In

Service Program (TISP) workshops within a week

in eight far flung locations by GOLD Affinity

Group of Kerala Section is found to have specific

gains attributable to its Campaign mode

implementation (TISP Week 2012).

1. With a focused activity for the benefit of

Society in the educational area, the

GOLD members across the State found a

worthy cause to work for and take it to

success, energizing the group.

2. By linking it with volunteers from the

student branches of IEEE in and around

the 8 Centres covering all the 14 districts

in the State, awareness and enthusiasm

spread to the vibrant student member

force of IEEE as well.

3. Winning the approval of Education

Department and Government gave

credibility to the event.

4. The Science teachers in the associated

high/higher secondary schools were

drawn in to a very meaningful activity to

arouse and guide scientific and

technological curiosity among students

who would later opt for successful

engineering courses at college level,

through the compulsory follow up

events, to be organized in the 104

schools (original target 80) which

participated in the TISP Week event, with

the final aim of impacting 10,000 high

school age children in 2012. The follow

up activity spontaneously started the

very next day of TISP Week and is

continuing now.

5. The event brought the HS Science

teachers who found it difficult to handle

some of the lessons related to S&T, to

come out and request to GOLD

volunteers to organize in-depth lectures

on such topics in the schools during

holidays or out of class hours, to assist

them update their knowledge on the

latest developments in S&T.

latest developments in S&T. Some such

classes, as also 5 out of 8 TISP events - in

which I also participated - proved beyond

doubt the benefit of giving such expert

lectures in schools as continuing frequent

programs using the services of GOLD

members (no generation gap between

the speakers and listeners).

6. After 3 to 4 years, the impact of TISP can

be seen in Kerala through the improved

quality of students entering engineering

studies and raising their performance

level.

7. While technology is expanding its horizon

at break-neck speed, TISP like society

interaction programs from the IEEE is apt

to act as a bridge and leveraging force to

leapfrog the widening gap between

engineering and technology information

on already accepted & known areas and

the newly emerging areas.

8. The lucidity to new information brought

in through such model making exercises

under TISP follow up – which can be seen

as Technology Clubs – will not only help

teachers and students, but also the

technicians in the society indirectly,

especially in the developing countries.

9. The Regional level Science Exhibitions in

the country is bound to get enriched by

bringing in well understood models to

compete, and educate the public on such

subjects.

10. GOLD should organize a 2 day workshop

covering 4-5 subjects for its volunteers

and senior SB members in the “gap

areas”, to make them competent for

invited lectures in schools

11. Bachelor Degree students may be

prompted to do their mandatory projects

on community problems thro’ school

linked projects.

Comments by :

Prof V.K. Damodaran

Adviser, IEEE Kerala GOLD

Life Senior Member, IEEE


CONTRIBUTORS

IEEE

1. Dr Moshe Kam , IEEE President and CEO, 2011

2. Prof Elizabeth Burd, Chair, IEEE PECC

3. Er. Jennifer Ng Ain Kin ,

IEEE MGA Pre University Coordinator

4. Mr. Prasanna Venkatesan, Chair,

IEEE TISP India Committee

5. Mr. Douglas Gorham, Managing Director,

IEEE Educational Activities

6. Ms. Yvonne Pelham , Manager,

Educational Outreach, IEEE EAB

7. Ms. Lynn E. Bowlby, Project Administrator ,

IEEE EAB

IEEE Kerala Section

1. Er. Satish Babu, Chair

2. Er. Srinivasan R, Vice-Chair

3. Er. K B Senthil Kumar, Secretary

4. Er. Sarada Jayakrishnan, Treasurer

5. Executives of IEEE Kerla Section

6. Executives of IEEE Kochi Sub Section

7. Executives of IEEE Malabar Sub Section

Educational Activities Committee

1. Er. S. Gopakumar, Chair

2. Er. V.C.Anil Kumar, Vice-Chair

3. Er. Sabarinath G , TISP Kerala Lead

TISP Champions

1. Prof. Vishwanath Rao

2. Er. Mini Ulanat

3. Dr. G Santhosh

4. Dr. B Premlett

IEEE Kerala GOLD Executive Committee

1. Prof. V K Damodaran, Adviser

2. Ranjit R Nair, Chair

3. Nitin Padmanabhan, Vice-Chair

4. Namith Najeeb, Secretary

5. Ajin Baby, Treasurer

6. Shahim Baker, Entrepreneurship WG Head

7. Nithin R S , Web-Master

8. Vijay S.Paul, Electronics Comm-Coordinator

9. Rayees Amar Nishad, Past Chair

GOLD Members

1. Bibin Parukoor Thomas

2. Alvin Alexander

3. Thomas Sabu

4. Paramaeshwaram S.

5. Rizwan Sulaiman

6. Shone Jose

7. Rameez Mannil

Student Branch Counselor’s

1. Er. K.Gopalan Nair, SIST

2. Er. Sharath Raj, TKMIT

3. Er. Sabarinath Pillai, SJCET

4. Er. Abdul Salam, CoEM

5. Er. Preethi Thekkath, TIST

6. Er. Edet Bejoy K , MESCE

7. Dr. Rijil Ramachand, NITC

8. Er. Sunil Paul, VJEC

Student Branch Chair’s

1. Aravind S.Nair, SIST

2. Swathy K.S., TKMIT

3. Soumya Thomas, SJCET

4. Sharath Krishnan, CoEM

5. Neethu V.Raju, TIST

6. Sarath K.S., MESCE

7. Vishnuram Abhinav, NITC

8. Joseph Sebastian, VJEC


TISP POC’s

1. Sriram S. Ayyar, SIST

2. Janus Jerome TKMIT

3. Rajeev Krishnan, SJCET

4. Sachin Warrier, CoEM

5. Sreejith R.Menon, TIST

6. Manu G.S, MESCE

7. Prajith Prasad, NITC

8. Dhanesh H. Pillai, VJEC

Partners

1. TISP India – Organizing Partner

2. Lionmarks – Design Partner

3. Ize Creative – Social Media Partner

4. Club FM – Radio Partner

Special Thanks

1. Mr Ramkamal Manoj, Director,

Chakshumathi, Trivandrum

2. Er Suhair A, Chairman, VMFT, Trivandrum

Report Design & Compilation

Bibin Parukoor Thomas

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Documents

An IEEE Kerala GOLD Initiative report.pdf& Industrial Electronics Societies and a Communication Society Chapter. Two affinity groups called IEEE GOLD and IEEE Women in Engineering