S.GopakumarStudents’ Activity Chair IEEE Kerala Section

Email: s.gopakumar@ieee.org

IEEE India Council and Kerala

Section

IEEE India Council Established in 1976 ( till then India

Section) 10 sections To co-ordinate all intersectional

relationships and activities Liaison between section and

government bodies, other organisations and IEEE HQ

Activities ACE News letter Student activities

AISC MV Chauhan Student paper Contest

Chapter activities Co-ordinate Distinguished lecture

program Web site

India council Sections Bombay Bangalore Calcutta Madras Delhi Kerala UP Gujarat Hyderabad Kharagpur

Membership > 16,000 members Of which students about 8,000 157 student branches

Awards Region 10 Students Website Contest

2001 First Prize : VESIT, Mumbai Also won Third Prize in world wide contest

IEEE Kerala Section Formed as a subsection of India

section on 17 February 1975 Became subsection of Bangalore

Section when India Section became India Council

Became full section in 1983 About 1200 members - 900

students

Kerala Section

Chapters Computer Society IA & IE Society Power Engineering

Affinity Groups GOLD: Graduates Of the Last

Decade WIE: Women In Engineering

Student branches

CET Trivandrum TKM Kollam REC Kozhikode NSS CE

Palakkad GEC Thrissur GEC Kannur MACE

Kothamangalam CUSAT, Kochi

MEC Kochi CEC Chengannur CEA Adoor SCT CE Trivandrum * CE Perumon* CoE Kalloppara* CoE Thodupuzha* NICE, Thuckalay **

Kerala Section Activities Conduct National and International

Seminars Arrange Technical talks Provide courses for Continuing

education Student activities Interaction with other professional

bodies

Recent Seminars 1993: Multimedia 93, Soften 93 1994: EPTRAN 94 1995: Intelligent Systems 1996: Infobahn 96 1998: Virtual Reality 98, ERP 98 1999: DISCOM 99, ACE 99 – Intelligent

Networking 2000: TECON 2000 2001: Embesy 2001 2002: K-Ware 2002 (25th July 2002)

Student Activities

IEEE Kerala Student Congress Tvm, Kothamangalam, Kollam,

Chengannur, Trichur, Chengannur Technical talks Distinguished lecture programs Concessional entry for seminars,

Tutorials and courses

Student Activities(continued)

The third All India Student Congress (AISC) 2002 to be hosted by IEEE Kerala Section 26th and 27th July 2002 at

Trivandrum

Contests Isaac Mukkadayil Student Paper

Contest IEEE Technopark Product Design

Competition

Region 10 Prizes IEEE Regional Exemplary Student

Branch award 2002 National Institiute of Engg. Mysore

(Bangalore Section) Larry K Wilson Award 2002

Mr. Rajat Garg, Delhi College of Eng., New Delhi Section

Commemorative plaque & 3 years free membership in the IEEE.

2002 Region 10 Student Paper Contest Post Graduate 3rd Prize

Mr. Chirag Shah, Gujarat, India“Automatic Organization of Text Documents in Categories Using Self-Organizing Map”USD150.00 (+ certificate)

Under Graduate 1st PrizeMr. C. Gupta, Kanpur, India“Dynamic Distance-Based Mobility Management For PCS Networks: A Profile-Based Approach”USD200.00 (+ certificate)

Thank you