Vol. 2 ( 2009 )

April -June,2009
No.1
CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

Dear Corporate Members.

Happy Dasara and Deepavali to all of you and your family members from IETE Hyderabad Centre Executive and Council Members.

We are happy to inform that the response to the AGM (Annual General body Meeting) on 28th June 2009 was overwhelming. 82 corporate members attended along with their family members and children. Amusement and children sports activities were conducted for the corporate members families during the AGM event. This is the first time we witnessed large gathering of corporate members with their family in Hyderabad Centre premises after a long time. We once again express our sincere thanks and gratitude to all the corporate members

for their support.
For our EC team of 2 years term, one year gets completed (July 2008 June 2009). During this one year strong seeds were sowed for the growth of Hyderabad Centre by conducting various professional activities.
1. Every month one EC meeting was held by circulating the EC agenda well in advance and EC minutes posted to all members in time.
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In the Advisory Committee meeting held on 30.12.2008 at Sailing Club, Hyderabad, Senior Corporate members participated along with EC & Hyderabad Council members to provide suggestions for improving various technical activities of IETE Hyderabad Centre.
3. For the first time the ALCCS course 2 batches were formed due to the increase in demand for the course.
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Short-term courses were organized for the benefit of students and corporate members. We are planning for many more short-term courses this year due to the overwhelming response we have seen for the courses organized from technical Institutions, industries and R&D organizations. We thank IEEE and Vasavi College of Engineering for the joint short-term course with an Eminent Professor of great International repute Dr. Nannapaneni Narayana Rao, Edward C. Jordan Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), Urbana, Illinois, USA and Distinguished Amrita Professor of Engg., Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Tamilnadu. This has set a good example for the joint activities of Professional bodies and educational Institutions.
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During July 2008 to June 2009,7, ISFs (IETE Students' Forums) and Institutional/ Industrial Forums were added to IETE Hyderabad Centre which shows phenomenal growth in the number of IETE Students' and Institutional/Industrial Forums in one year. We have noticed many more colleges are showing keen interest to have ISFs in their colleges and we have an ambitious target of inaugurating 15 more ISFs during the next term of ourteam which will establish a record in ISFs growth in the IETE Hyderabad Centre.
6. The encouragement from members is very good for the Endowment lectures organized by ourcentre.
7. Ourteam is constantly focusing and striving on increasing the strength of corporate members and this mission is continuously spread in all centre and forum activities. We hope with the continued support of student and corporate members, there will be substantial increase in the corporate members' strength by the end of June 2010.
8. The IETE Hyderabad centre website (www.ietehyd.org) is continuously updated with one week interval and more data on all activities are provided. Elaborate information on ISFs are provided in the website for mutual interaction among ISF members.
9. 5 systems with Internetfacility were provided in the library forthe benefit of students.
We invite all student & corporate members to visit the IETE centre to notice its growth and to get associated with the centre, as it belongs to you all. Your visits and feedback will encourage and strengthen us to organize more activities and to make our IETE Hyderabad Centre as the BEST CENTRE among all centers of IETE in the country.
Dr.V.Gunasekhar Reddy
M.Sc, Ph.D., PG.DBA, FIETE, MIEEE
 Chairman, IETE Hyderabad center
   

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SECTION ACTIVITIES APRIL - June, 2009.
ADVANCED LEVEL COURSE IN
COMPUTER SCIENCE (ALCCS):		   WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION SOCIETY DAY
The IETE Hyderabad Centre in coordination with professional organizations: FAPCCI, IE(I), IEEE, CTMS organised one day Seminar on "Protecting Children in Cyberspace" in connection with 41st World Telecommunication and Information Society Day on 17th May, 2009 at K.L.N. Prasad Auditorium, FAPCCI, Hyderabad. In his welcome address Sri. Suraj Prasad Agarwal, President, FAPCCI emphasized that for protecting children in cyber space is very essential. He further indicated that despite India being called the IT capital of the world, its PC and Internet penetration (at 2.7% and 4.9% respectively) is among the lowest in the world. The Seminar was inaugurated by Sri Konijeti Rosaiah, Hon'ble Minister for Finance, Planning & Legislative Affairs, Govt, of AP. Hon'ble minister stated that the technologies and systems are for first time in the history of man kind, enabling information and knowledge wherever they are generated to be instantaneously available to any person, anywhere in the world, at any time; provided he is equipped with appropriate devices like telephone, PC and now; cell phone. Dr. T.H. Chowdary, Director, CTMS and former IT Adviser, Govt, of AP addressed the gathering on the above occasion. In his response he indicated that "haath haath mein telephone and gaon gaon mein Internet" concept has become true now. Still the telecommunication should penetrate more into the rural areas. He further stated that the city comprising of Hyderabad and Secunderabad used to be called Twin Cities. Now it has become a Tri-city. The new area is named as Cyberabad.
ALCCS Project Proposals for three students, Mid-Viva for one student and final Viva for one student were conducted on 23" May, 2009.
  
LIBRARY ACTIVITIES:  
The following Members have donated books to the Library for the use of students:
1 .Sri Maheep Singh Thapar, Director, Survey of India, Hyderabad - 36
2.Sri C. Sitapati Rao, FIETE, Hyd. Centre- 10
  

.AMIETE & DIPIETE:

  
AMIETE:  
15 days Intensive Coaching Classes for AMIETE REB II (ET Stream) were conducted from 18lh to 31st May, 2009.
AMIETE (ET/CS/IT Streams) examinations were conducted from 15lh to 22nd June, 2009.
  

DIPIETE:

  
DIPIETE (ET/CS Streams) examinations were conducted from 15th to 22nd June, 2009.
  
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES:
12th U.V. WARLU ENDOWMENT LECTURE:
The IETE Hyderabad Centre organized 12"' U.V. Warlu Endowment Lecture on "Network Centric Warfare" by Sri Rajat Pal, Scientist 'G', DRDL, Hyderabad on 11* April, 2009 at 6.30 P.M. in the Mekaster Auditorium of
IETE Hyderabad Centre. Prof. K. Babu Rao, Vice-President & Zonal Coordinator (South) given information about Sri U.V. Warlu Endowment Lecture. Prof. Alladi Prabhakar, former Principal, Engg. College,
 Dr. V. Gunasekhar Reddy, Chairman, IETE Hyderabad Centre
briefed on the over all scenario of telecommunications.
Dr. N. Jayaprakash Narayan, Loksatta in his valedictory address opined that a tremendous revolution occured in Telecommunications and in fact is changing the communication face of India to abrighterside
OU, Hyderabad, Prof. B.L.Deekshatulu, Distinguished  

Fellow, IETE, Sri U. Ramakrishna, S/o Late Sri U.V. Warlu addressed the gathering. Dr. V. Gunasekhar Reddy, Chairman, IETE, Hyderabad Centre

 

  
 
 
ANNUAL GENERAL BODY MEETING
presided over the programme.

The Annual General body Meeting of IETE Hyderabad Centre for the year 2009 was conducted on Sunday, the 28th June, 2009 at 10.00a.m in the Conference Hall of this Institution. A total of 82 Corporate Members attended the meeting. The Members were invited with families for the AGM. Competitions such as Musical Chairs, Memory Game, Lemon & Spoon etc. and Housie Game for all were conducted and prizes were distributed to the winners.
1st Prof. S. NARAYANA ENDOWMENT LECTURE

The IETE Hyderabad Centre organized 1st Prof. S. Narayana Endowment Lecture on "The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) An Indian Perspective" on 26lh June, 2009 at 6.30 P.M. in the  
Mekaster Auditorium of this Institution. The Endowment Lecture was delivered by Dr. Surendra Pal, Distinguished Scientist, Associate Director & Programme Director, Satellite Navigation Programme, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore. Prof. S. Narayana, Past-President, IETE was felicitated on the occasion.
4th Dr.T.H. CHOWDARY ENDOWMENT LECTURE:
4lh Dr. T.H. Chowdary CTMS Endowment Lecture was delivered by Dr. S.D. Saxena, former Director, BSNL Board of Directors, New Delhi on Transforming a Govt. Department to a PSU on 17th May, 2009. In his
lecture he indicated that Dr. Chowdary has revolutionized the Telecom Sector. Telecom Revolution helped to meet the Tsunami situations efficiently. Dr. T.H. Chowdary, Past-President & Distinguished Fellow, IETE and former ITAdvisor, Govt, of AP was felicitated on the occasion.
 
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SUB-CENTRES'ACTIVITIES 10th Meeting of the Executive Committee held on 13.05.2009:

WARANGAL SUB-CENTRE
It was decided to shift Library from Academic Block to Administration Block. The opinion of the Tax Consultant and the Auditor, Sri K. Srinivasa Rao will be obtained in writing and accordingly the Contractor will be informed to raise the bills covering VAT and TDS. The final meeting will be arranged with the Monitoring Committee Members with the Chairmanship of Dr. B.L.Deekshatulu to conclude the contract by end of this month. The Executive Committee decided to release one page colour advertisement of Rs.7,000/- for the special issue on the occasion of 41" World Telecom & Information Society Day.

41 st World Telecommunication & Information Society Day was organized on 17th May, 2009 on "Protecting Children in Cyberspace". Smt. Surya Samahtha, Asst. Professor, CS Dept., KITS, Warangal delivered lecture on this occasion.

GULBARGASUB-CENTRE
A One-day Workshop on "Communication Skills and Personality Development" was organized on 24* April, 2009 for the students of Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Bidar.
 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGS HELD:

 

9th Meeting of the Executive Committee held on 27.04.2009:

 11th Meeting of the Executive Committee held on 03.06.2009:
The renovation works of auditorium were completed by the Contractor and handed over to IETE Hyderabad Centre. The measurements were checked by OU Engineer as suggested by the Monitoring Committee.The Committee identified Class Room No.301 in 3rd floor of Admin. Block for installing the equipment and conducting EDUSAT Project.
The Executive Committee again complemented and placed iton records the services of the Senior Members, Prof.B.L. Deekshatulu, Prof. S. Narayana, Prof. K. Babu Rao and Prof. K. Laxminarayanafortheir immense support in getting HQrs funds Rs.50.00 Lakhs sanctioned which were long due for Hydeabad Centre and also continuously assisting the Executive Committee In various meetings in completing this major work successfully.
NTENSIVE COURSE FOR FACULTY IN 'ELECTROMAGNETICS' BY
Dr. NANNAPANENI NARAYANA RAO, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
The IETE HYDERABAD CENTRE jointly with IEEE HYDERABAD SECTION and VASAVI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, HYDERABAD organized an Intensive course on "Fundamentals of Electromagnetics" for training faculty in Electrical, Electronics, Communication and Computer related Engineering Departments from 3rd to 111 June, 2009 in the Conference Hall of IETE Hyderabad Centre.
Dr. Nannapaneni Narayana Rao, Edward C. Jordan Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), Urbana, Illinois, USA and Distinguished Amrita Professor of Engg., Amrita Vlshwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Tamilnadu has delivered the lectures on the topics on Vector algebra and field concepts; sinusoidally time-varying fields and polarization; electric and magnetic fields; Line and surface integrals; Maxwell's equations in integral form in free space; Maxwell's equations in differential form in free space; curl and divergence; Uniform place waves in free space; power and energy, Materials and uniform plane waves; boundary conditions; reflection and transmission; Static fields; quasistatic fields; development of transmission line; Transmission line analysis in time domain etc. The objective of the course is to re-visit, refresh and gain a better understanding of the fundamentals of electromagnetics. Around 40 participants from Engineering Colleges all over India, Government Departments etc. have attended the course.
SPONSORSHIP INVITED
The IETE Hyderabad Centre is bringing out quarterly News Letter and widely circulated to about 1500 Corporate Members of IETE, IETE Centres / Sub-Centres all over India, professional organizations, R&D Institutions, Software Companies, other industries, educational institutions, Universities and students. IETE News Letter invites sponsorship for one page advertisement in News Letter from Institutions and Industries in and around twin cities. Tariff for one page (A4) multi-colour advertisement is Rs.10,000/-. For further details, please contact Hony. Secretary, IETE Centre, O.U. Campus, Hyderabad. Phone Nos. 27098025; Telefax: 27097175; E-mail: infb@ietehyd.org.
APPEAL TO MEMBERS INVITED
Executive Committee had decided that correspondence with remembers regarding activities of IETE should be made by e-mail. Members who have not yet given their e-mail addresses are requested to mail to info@ietehyd.org
Techinical articles, new circuit designs, comments and suggestions are invited from Corporate Members and Student Members for publication in IETE News Letter.
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