OTHER ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED BY THE IEEE - VESIT STUDENT BRANCH

The IEEE – VESIT Student Branch, conducted a host of activities for the student members this year. A recapitulation of the activities conducted during the year yields:

• Article Writing Contests – March 1999.

• Two Technical Paper Presentation Contests - August and October 1999

• Programming Contest - September 1999

• Web Page Design contest – February 1999.

• Branch Project on "Collision Avoidance for an Autonomous Rover" – January 1999.

• Technical Quiz Contest, conducted as part of the IEEE Week ( Refer Annexure 2 – a)

• One of the more regular activities of the branch is getting student members to write technical articles for the Branch newsletter called "Innovation".

Of these activities, the reports on the two Technical Paper Presentation Contests (August and October 1999) and the Programming Contest (September 1999) have already been submitted along with the annual plan for 1998 – 99.

A REPORT ON THE WEB PAGE DESIGN CONTEST

A Web Page design contest was conducted and this contest was extended over the months of January and February 1999. The students were told to design web pages to host the IEEE - VESIT Student Branch Website, and the rules for the contest conformed to those set by Region 10 for their Web Page design contests. A total of 6 entries were received, of which the two winning entries were as follows:

1. Saumitra Mohan Das, Third Year, Dept. of Electronic Engineering.
2. Alok Agrawal, and Yash Bajpai, Third Year, Dept. of Electronic Engineering.

We plan to enter these two entries for the IEEE Region 10 WWW Web Page Contest.

A REPORT ON THE ARTICLE WRITING CONTEST