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IEEE -VESIT Student Branch

The IEEE - VESIT Student Branch conducts technical paper contests as part of its activities, to cultivate technical writing and research skills in student members. This year as well, we conducted two technical paper contests, in the months of September and October.

The first contest was conducted for junior and senior students, in August and the second contest was conducted in October, for sophomore students.

Paper Contest for Juniors and Seniors:

The student members responded to the contest enthusiastically. Over 40 student members participated (16 groups), from three departments of engineering, namely

1. Department of Electronic Engineering.
2. Department of Computer Engineering, and
3. Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering.

Student members were allowed to present a twenty - page technical paper on any technical subject of their choice. Papers presented, had varied technical subjects, right from core electronics and communication, to artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, and robotics. 10 groups were short-listed for the final presentation. The judges for the event were:

1. Prof. J A Gokhale (Dean, Department of Computer Engineering, also Branch Counselor of the IEEE - VESIT Student Branch at our college)
2. Dr. M P Sinha (Dean, Department of Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering, at our college)
3. Dr. Jayalakshmi Nair (Department of Instrumentation Engineering, at our college)
4. Prof. M K Sabnis (Department of Electronics at our college)

Out of the 10 groups, 3 groups were finally chosen as winners for their topics on

1. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (Winner 1) by Harjinder Singh and Tushar Rane, junior students at the Department of Electronic Engineering.
2. Reduced Instruction Set Computing (Joint Winners - 2) by Ganesh Pai, Milind Nagda, and Govind Subbarao, junior students at the Department of Electronic Engineering.
3. Mobile Communication (Joint Winners - 2) by Shubhankar Chatterjee, Yash Bajpai and Amit Gambhir, junior students at the Department of Electronic Engineering.

Paper Contest for Sophomore Students:

Here too, we were confronted with an overwhelming and an enthusiastic response from the newly recruited sophomore students. Over 30 student members participated, from all four departments in our college, namely:

1. Department of Electronic Engineering.
2. Department of Computer Engineering, and
3. Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering.
4. Department of Instrumentation Engineering.

Once again, the students were urged to write a 20 - page technical paper on any technical topic of their choice. The winners of this paper contest were judged without a final presentation. The papers were judged on the basis of originality of work, depth of coverage, overall layout of the paper, among other criteria. Three winning groups were selected out of eleven. Judges for the contest were:

1. Mr. H M L Srivastava (Computer Division, Bhaba Atomic Research Centre)
2. Prof. S Ramesh (Department of Computer Engineering, IIT - Bombay)

The winning papers were:

1. Smart Cards (Winner - 1) by Apurva Meher, Sonali Patkar, and Shweta Vengsarkar, sophomore students in the Department of Computer Engineering.
2. Positron Emission Tomography (Winner - 2) by Preeti Chandrashekar and P Himabindu, sophomore students in the department of Electronic Engineering.
3. Three Dimensional Rendering Techniques - Ray tracing (Winner - 3) by Abhijeet Srikhande, Anish Mehta, and Kedar, sophomore students in the Department of Computer Engineering.