Welcome to IETE

ANNUAL REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF
IETE PUNE FOR THE YEAR 2005-2006 BY HON.SECRETARY

1) General Remarks

I am pleased to present the report of activities conducted at this centre from 01.04.05 to 31.03.06 to the members of IETE Pune Centre.

The main thrust of our activities was on the growth of number of students joining IETE Diploma / Degree course, arrange for their training, arrange tutorials & actively pursue student activity. For corporate members lectures were arranged on topics of current interest & also a Seminar. These activities resulted in earning additional revenue, strengthening our financial position.

To have a well equipped laboratory, we are every year adding few experiments from the syllabus in Electronics as well as in Computer Science. The effect of enriching our laboratories was such that students from remote places are coming to our centre for practical training.

2) Infrastructure Accommodation – Owned, approximately 235 Sq Mtr

Newly acquired Nil

New Additions; Vacuum cleaner, 1 KVA UPS Systems (2), water purifier / pump, new furniture & curtains for Global Hall and Library.

For full details see Student pages a www.iete.org/academic.htm

Students forum :

3) Local Executive Committee.

In accordance with the rules as laid down by the HQ, the present LEC came into existence from 1st July 2004 to 30th June 2006
Shri.M.G.Kulkarni, Chairman Prof.S.K.Kshirsagar, Hon.Secretary
Shri.Madhukant Patel, Hon.Treasurer Shri.M.N.Shukla (IPC) Shri.M.Y.Thote, Vice Chairman Gr.Capt.V.R.Patwardhan, Vice Chairman

Members: Mrs.Leena Bokil Shri.Satish Hulyalkar Prof.P.W.Wani Shri.R.J.Solanki Shri.R.V.Datar

As Industry-Education Interaction is very important in today's fast progressing developments in Information Technology, members from Industries are welcome to support various programs by way of sending their representatives or by arranging Seminars, Lectures, Exhibits, Product shows, Informative demos at various levels, up to most sophisticated techniques in use or likely to be used in near future. A panel of expert members is available to give suitable guidance / advice to industries on their problems.

CooptedMembers

Gr.Capt.G.M.Apte Shri.G.K.Dawra Shri.R.K.Bharucha Shri.S.N.Joshi

Shri.A.C.Gangal Prof.S.B.Chougule

Special Invitees

Prof.S.V.Kharkar Dr.K.R.Phadke

Students Representatives

Miss.Tripti Dongre (AMIETE) Shri.Kashinath Gokarn (DIPIETE)

4) a) Membership ( as of 31-03-05)   IETE Pune Centre
Fellows   217   Members   225    Associate Members   193 Associates   15
Student Members AMIETE   1252   Student Members DIPIETE 889   Student Forum Members   747

b) Members added during the year
Fellows 2 Members 14 Associate Members 1 Associate nil Student Member AMIETE 52
Student Member DIPIETE 56 Student Forum Members 23

c) Dr.S.S.Agarwal, Council member and Vice President is Zonal Coordinator for Pune.
Gr.Capt.H.Kaushal, VSM (Retd) is Council member from Pune

d) President IETE, Lt.Gen.D.P.Sehgal, PVSM, AVSM, VSM(Retd) visited in August 05.
Dr.T.H.Choudhary, Ex-President visited on 02.07.05 and gave a talk on Infrastructure
for E-Governance and knowledge society. Brig.Lakshman Singh, Chairman e-learning
visited in Feb.2006

5) LEC Meetings; Twelve meetings were held. Minutes were circulated to all LEC members and
sent to IETE Head quarters.

6) Technical Lectures conducted monthly

14th July 05

Mr.Himanshu Sanghvi Tensilica USA gave a talk on “Engineering
Complex SoCs( System of Chips) using configurable micro-processor cores”.

29th Aug.05

Pro.Mrs.Radhika Joshi from Dept.of E/Tc of College of Engg. Pune gave a
talk on ‘ GPS receiver, a software approach’

29th Sep.05

Shri.T.Pradeep Kumar C.E.O.(Technical) Suzlon energy limited gave a talk
on ‘Non-Conventional energy sources’

12th Nov.05

Prof.S.V.C.Aiya Memorial Lecture by Dr.V.M.Gadre from I.I.T. Powai on
‘Signal & image processing in Magnetic resonance imaging – A collaborative
& interdisciplinary endeavor’.

19th Nov.05

Shri.R.J.Solanki, Technical Officer National Centre for Cell Science,
Pune, gave a talk on ‘Bio informatics & its applications.’

19th Dec.05

Finolex Endowment Lecture was given by Prof.Arun Nigawekar, Advisor & Trustee Science & Technology Park, Ramana Fellow & Former Vice Chancellor of University of Pune, Former Chairman UGC, on ‘Why knowledge has gained importance in 21st Century.’ Prizes were given to the following three winner Engg. Colleges for their “ISF-Student Forum” activities at the hands of Chief Guest 1) Govt. Polytechnic Pune 2) Smt.Kashibai Navale College of Engg.Pune 3) Sou. Venutai Chavan Polytechnic Pune.

12th Jan.06

Dr.Mrs.S.K.Kulkarni MSc.Ph.D. from University of Pune gave a talk on ‘Nanotechnology’

11th Feb.06

Dr.Vishwas Mehendale former Director of EMRC University of Pune, gave a talk on ‘How the T.V. news is produced? ’

12th Mar.06

Shri.R.V.Datar Ex.CGM BSNL, West Bengal Circle Calcutta, gave a talk on ‘Access Technologies – an amazing Telecom Revolution’.

3rd Apr.06

Dr.S.G.Rathod, Lecturer in Computer Science. N.W.College Pune – Optical Integrated Waveguide Sensors

17th May.06

Shri.Deepak Shikarpur, Chairman IT application C.S.I. on ‘Promoting Global Cyber
Security’

16th Jun.06

Shri.U.V.Save, General Manager(R&D) Aplab Lab Thane on ‘Banking Automation’

7) Seminar and Tutorials
i) National Seminar on Broadband Communications in Indian Scenario was organized by IETE Pune Centre on 6th & 7th Aug.05 at Hotel Le-Meridian, Pune. Tutorial on this subject was organized at Firodia Hall of IE(I) on 31.07.05

Lt.Gen.D.P.Sehgal PVSM, AVSM, VSM(Retd.) President of IETE New Delhi was the Chief Guest. He emphasized the latest trends and development in the upcoming area of surveillance & communications. Keynote address was given by Shri.A.K.Sinha CMD BSNL New Delhi. Shri.K.Ramchandra CGM (IT) Pune Circle was the Convener of this Seminar.

Following were the sponsors for this Seminar.
i) ORACLE, ii) Hewlett Packard, iii) MBT, iv) Intel, v) Satyam, vi) HCL,
vii) BSNL Mah.Tele.Circle, viii) Telecom Consultant (I) Ltd.Delhi

A grant of Rs.10000/- was received from HQ IETE for this National Seminar.

The Final discussion Panel; Shri.Ganesh Natarajan Dy Chairman & Managing Director Zensar Technologies & Chairman of Nasscom was in the chair. Shri.G.K.Agarwal PGM BSNL. Shri.S.N.Gupta Advisor, TRAI, Shri.Subramanian Ivatury, Vice President, Satyam Computer Service Ltd, Shri.Krishnamohan Durbha, Head Application ASCE, Reliance Infocom Ltd. Recommendations were sent to the HQ. Were other panelists.

A Souvenir was brought out for the seminar and this included the papers / summery of 28 topics covered. 135 delegates attended the seminar.

Shri.R.K.Ramchand, Convener and Shri.Chatterjee, Shri.Biswas all from BSNL rendered great help in organizing the Seminar.

Tutorial for BE Students on Broadband Communications was conducted on 31.07.05 at Firodia Hall of Institution of Engineers (I) Pune. Dr.C.S.Varnekar Principal of Cummin’s College of Engg. was the Chief Guest. 148 students from various colleges attended this tutorial. Topics in the tutorial were Basics of Broadcast Communications, Switching / IP Switches, Broadband Technologies, Mobile Service Technologies for Broadband and Social Services on Broadband. A Souvenir covering the lectures was brought out and given to all participants. The Students found interaction very useful. Prof.S.B.Chogule was the Convener of the tutorial.

Prof.S.K.Khedkar, Principal of D.Y.Patil Institute and Technology of Engg, Prof.Jog of D.Y.Patil
College and Prof.Balasubramanium Chief of Balaji Education Society rendered great help in making
the tutorial a grand success.

ii) ONE DAY TUTORIAL ON BROADCAST TECHNOLOGIES HELD ON
5th FEBRUARY 2006 AT Firodia Hall of IE(I)

Keeping in view the objective of advanced technology, the following topics were selected for the Tutorial.
1 Television Broadcast Channels by Prof. S.R. Jog, HOD( e&tc),DYPIET
2 Digital TV by M.Y.Thote, Former Chief Engineer, Doordarshan
3 Video recording systems and storage by C.K. Jain, Dy. Director, Doordarshan, ND
4 Direct-to-home TV by D.P. Singh, Director, Doordarshan, New Delhi(ND)5 Worldspace satellite radio by Rahul Kumar, CTO, Worldspace Radio, Bangalore
6 Outside broadcasting and satellite news gathering by N.V. Ramanna, Station Engineer, Doordarshan,
Ahmedabad

The faculty for presentation of these topics was drawn from professional organizations like Doordarshan and Worldspace Radio to do full justice to these topics. Worldspace is an International organization and has recently started their operations in Pune. Everyone is acquainted with satellite TV, but satellite Radio is a new concept.

The Tutorial was backed by practical demonstration of Direct-To-Home Television programmes and musical programmes from Worldspace space satellite transmission. A Souvenir containing the articles on the above topics was brought out on this occasion and given to all participants.

A total of 145 students attended the tutorial.
Prof.M.Y.Thote was the Convener for this tutorial.

The Seminar and both tutorials were well covered in the press and on the Doordarshan.

8) Special Events
i) SVC Aiya Award for Excellence in Telecom Education
Prof.S.V.C.Aiya Memorial Award for 2005, of Rs.20000/- was awarded to Dr.V.M.Gadre Ph.D. IIT Powai on 12.11.05. This function was covered by Sahyadri channel on 20.11.05. Prof.Gadre gave a lecture on ‘Signal & image processing in Magnetic Resonance Imaging’ – A collaborative and interdisciplinary endeavour. Dr.Deepak Tilak Ph.D. Editor & Trustee Kesari Marhatta Trust & Vice Chancellor Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth ( Deemed University) presided over the function.

ii) 14th Finolex Lecture:
Dr.Arun Nigawekar M.Sc.Ph.D. Advisor & Trustee, Science and Technology Park, Former Vice Chancellor University of Pune & Former U.G.C. Chairman delivered the lecture on Monday 19th Dec.05 on ‘Why knowledge has gained importance in 21st Century?’ He said that an educated population creates and uses new knowledge to local needs, that grows the stock of Global knowledge.

iii) Competition for B.E. Students’ Projects for E/TC, Instrumentation & IT on 12th in April 2006.
Refer in Times of India dated 14.04.06

A total of 44 projects were received from 12 colleges in Pune area. Two first prizes worth Rs.5000/- and two second prizes worth Rs.2000/- were awarded in each group.
Professors from different colleges extended cooperation in judging the experiments.

iv) Foundation Day
Foundation day was celebrated on 27th Feb.06, Prof.S.V.Kharkar, Dr.K.R.Phadke, Prof.P.W.Wani, Gr.Capt.V.R.Patwardhan, Shri.R.V.Datar, Prof.S.K.Kshirsagar and Shri.Dawara expressed their views on how to attract more members and industries towards IETE by arranging Seminars, Symposiums, Tutorials and short term courses.

9) Student Activity

i) Poona College of Arts & Science invited Shri.M.G.Kulkarni Chairman IETE, Prof.Kharkar & Prof.S.K.Kshirsagar to give a talk on future prospects of Electronics to the students of M.Sc Electronics & B.Sc Electronics, on Saturday the 30th Sept.05. They discussed the role of IETE & its utility for the students. Dr.Khudartullah, Principal of the College gave the welcome speech. Prof.Kharkar told the students IETE’s role in creating the academic facility for the students who desire to be engineer. Prof.Kshirsagar told the students different vistas open to the students for which there are competitive examination.

At present 8 colleges in Poona have Students Forum. During the year Students Forum started in one more college.

ii) A student meet was organized on 26th June 2005 for counseling & guidance about AMIETE / DIPIETE Examination and knowing problems and difficulties faced by students & guardians.

Meeting was attended by Prof.S.V.Kharkar, Shri.M.G.Kulkarni, Prof.S.K.Kshirsagar, Shri.M.Y.Thote, Shri.G.K.Dawara IETE Pune & Dr.B.S.Sudhindran Regional Director

Meeting was attended by Prof.S.V.Kharkar , Shri.M.G.Kulkarni, Prof.S.K.Kshirsagar, Shri.M.Y.Thote, Shri.G.K.Dawara IETE Pune & Dr.B.S.Sudhindran Regional Director

Students and parents were asked to speak out their difficulties / doubts.

Parents expressed concern about the question papers not covering full portions and changing patterns, without proper notice.

Students told that the question papers are some time out of syllabus and some time proper weightage is not given to all topics.

Some students gave applications to Chairman requesting that weightage of marks be given to each topic in the syllabus so that question papers will be balanced and students will prepare accordingly.

The dates of D.C.19 and D 19 examination are immediately after theory papers. Students find it difficult as they want to study and revise and some want to do experiments, which they missed during regular coaching session, which was held 2/3 months back; so the dates should be postponed by 10-15 days.

Some students doing DIPIETE requested that as the Diploma holders ( of State Boards of Tech. Exam.) are eligible for admission to 2nd year of Engg. Degree course, DIPIETE students should also be given same facility.

Some students who were working, asked for suitable time for lab practice on Sundays.

Majority of Students and parents liked the idea of Distance Education –to begin with Video Lectures.

Students were assured that these difficulties will be communicated to the Chairman S.I.C. IETE for favorable consideration.

iii) Second students meet
Students’ meet was arranged on 8th Feb.2006 at 6 p.m. Total number of students attending was 82, which included the students appearing for DIPIETE & AMIETE in various streams, Students were asked to fill the forms with all the details such as final examination passed, subjects, percentage, the stream of their choice & subjects they feel difficult etc. Shri.M.G.Kulkarni Chairman welcomed the Chief Guest Brigadier Lakshman Singh. ( Council member & Chairman e-learning project) Prof.S.K.Kshirsagar gave general information about AMIETE/ DIPIETE Examination & the facility provided by IETE. Prof.S.V.Kharkar spoke about the availability of Video lectures in Mathematics & Signal & Systems. Prof.Kshirsagar said that IETE has started lectures on various subjects of the course. It was effort of IETE to prepare VCDs of practicals for practice but they must perform the practical at least once in laboratory. Virtual Electronics Laboratory can be used as an additional help. IETE has good library at a reasonable rate. Brig.Lakshman Singh told how the e-learning project ( Distance Education) by H.Q. will soon help the students to study at their convenient time and place.

10) Quarterly News Bulletin and Website for Pune Centre
Quarterly News Bulletins are brought out by Pune Centre incorporating details of monthly lectures, Seminars and Tutorials, Students meet, activities during the quarter and certain other very useful information.

Prof.M.Y.Thote edits the News Bulletin

Website: Pune Centres website is www.ietepune.org. News and information from Quarterly News Bulletins, information about monthly lecture and special events, important information about examinations and IETE activities are posted and updated on the website.

The website is managed by Prof.M.G.Gokhale.

e-mail address- ietepune@rediffmail.com

11) Academic Activities:
Regular theory classes were started in the 1st half of 2005-06 for the following subjects
AMIETE Maths II
AMIETE Analog & Digital Electronics
AMIETE Signals & Systems

In month of August we conducted the project examination for

AMIETE	A-18	E/TC	17.08.05
AMIETE	C-18/ T-18	CS/IT	19.08.05
DIPIETE	D-13	E/TC	19.08.05
DIPIETE	DC-13	CS	20.08.05

Prof.S.V.Kharkar, Gr.Capt.G.M.Apte, Prof.S.K.Kshirsagar, Mrs.Leena Bokil conducted the project examination with external examiners in respective streams.

We have the following strength of students for various laboratory examinations.

D-19

DC-19

DIPIETE Viva E/TC

DIPIETE Viva CS

AMIETE REB I CS/IT

AMIETE REB II CS/IT

AMIETE REB I E/TC

AMIETE REB II E/TC

nil

In II term of 2005-06 about 9 students of DIPIETE / AMIETE appeared for project examination held in month of Feb.06.

We have done Video recording of lectures of portion of Signals and Systems. These lectures were delivered by Prof.Mrs.Bharti Narute of MESCOE & Prof.S.S.Joshi V.I.T.

12) We have done Video recording of lectures of portion of Signals and Systems. These lectures were delivered by Prof.Mrs.Bharti Narute of MESCOE & Prof.S.S.Joshi V.I.T.
Pune Centre is adding every year new subjects for lecture and increasing facility for laboratory training.

ii) Video Electronics Laboratory ( Distance Education)
Prof.S.V.Kharkar has taken the responsibility of preparing Virtual Electronics Laboratory for 10 experiments in 1st phase on CD’s. The need for Virtual Lab was felt because when the students come for practical examination, there is a gap of 2/3 months & they need revision when teachers are not available. Virtual Electronics Laboratory solves this problem. The students can come for laboratory practice at their convenient time & revise the experiments without a teacher. CD is a simulator & interactive, so that mistaken can be corrected. This will help remove impression of the industries that IETE students are week in laboratory practice. However one should note that this Virtual Electronics Laboratory is not a substitute for actual practical work under the guidance of a teacher. It is only a REVISION.

13) Library: The centre provides good library facilities for all students and most of the text books / reference books as prescribed for AMIETE/DIPIETE are available in the library. During the year books worth Rs.23917/- were added in the library. 50 Students used the book lending facility

14) Accounts- Audited accounts for the year have been sent to all members. We generated a total surplus of Rs. 6.10 Lacs approximately, from Seminar, Tutorials, and coaching classes / Laboratory training facility.

Staff:

Shri.B.V.Dharmadhikari

Office Superintendent.

Shri.Sachin Tapkir

DTP Operator

Miss Pooja Somavanshi

(Library)

Shri.Rajendra Nangare

(Attendant)

Prof.S.K.Kshirsagar
Hon.Secretary

Minutes of Annual General Meeting held on Friday the 30th June 2006 at 5.30 p.m.

The meeting started at 6.00 p.m. Since the quorum was not there the meeting was adjourned for half an hour. The members reassembled for transacting the business. Shri.M.G.Kulkarni the Chairman of the Centre was in the chair.

There were 20 members present. In his opening address, Chairman at the outset welcomed all the members and thanked them for their participation in the AGM, expressing that the members will come out with constructive suggestions for the improvement of the varied activities of the centre. He also highlighted major activities during his chairmanship (2004-06) period & thanked all members for giving him an opportunity to serve IETE Pune Centre.

Agenda No.1: To read and confirm the minutes of the AGM held on 27th June 2005.
Minutes were already circulated, minutes were read by the Hon.Secretary & confirmed as passed.
Proposed by – Shri.M.Y.Thote
Seconded by – Shri.Matapurkar K.G.

Agenda No.2: To receive and adopt the annual report of the activities of centre.
Annual report for 2005-06 was read by Prof.S.K.Kshirsagar Hon.Secretary

During the discussion on video recording of lectures & virtual laboratory, Shri.S.N.Joshi suggested to go slow for video recording considering the slow response of students. However Chairman stressed the need for distance education because whenever students want to listen the lecture or perform the practicals they can do so by observing lectures on T.V. or observing the complete procedure, connections, observations, calculations, graphs on T.V. This is the concept of virtual laboratory. However, they must perform the practicals in laboratory but for revision they can perform the experiments in virtual laboratory. Shri.M.Y.Thote, the senior member said that even in foreign countries video recording method is adopted. Chairman said that we have to ultimately achieve the goal of education to any registered student, anywhere, anytime has to be achieved & virtual classroom using VCD’ & DTH is required.
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Shri.S.N.Joshi asked about grant of Rs.2.5 Lac for computer. Chairman said it will be utilized for purchasing web camera etc under the expert supervision of computer expert as a part of E-lan project.

Agenda No.3 – To consider and adopt the audited Balance sheet and income & expenditure account for the year ended on 31st March 2006.

Shri.S.N.Joshi raised very apt question that there is no clause in the statement that IETE, Pune is free from TDS.

Chairman said that this question is under the active consideration of Head Quarter. At present TDS is deducted at source whenever interest exceeds fixed amount, unless we fill a particular form for the purpose.

Finally audit report was accepted as proposed by Prof.M.G.Gokhale and seconded by Dr.Mrs.M.A.Joshi.

Agenda No.4 – To appoint auditors for the next financial year 2005-06 and to fix their remuneration.

AGM gave consent to continue the same auditor on statutory audit fee of Rs.4000/- + service tax 12.2%, certified fee of Rs.750/- per certificate + conveyance expenses and data entry on tally from April 2006 upto March 2007 @ Rs.300/- per month.
Proposed by Shri.R.V.Datar
Seconded by Shri.M.G.Gokhale

Agenda No.5 – Any other point with the permission of the chair. Announcement of newly elected members of local executive committee.(2006-08)

Since observer Gr.Capt.H.Kaushal and the Returning Officer Shri.J.M.Paranjpay were absent, Shri.M.G.Kulkarni, Chairman requested Senior most member of IETE. Prof.S.V.Kharkar to read the names of elected members of new LEC for the year 2006-08.

List of elected members of LEC (2006-08)
1) Prof.S.K.Kshirsagar Chairman
2) Mr.A.H.Paranjpye Hon.Trasurer
3) Mr.R.V.Datar Member
4) Mr.K.G.Matapurkar Member
5) Mr.S.M.Joyade Member
6) Prof.Dhananjay Diwate Member
7) Dr.Mrs.M.A.Joshi Member
8) Prof.S.R.Jog Member
9) Prof.Madhuri Khambete Member

There were no nominations from the students.
Meeting ended with vote of thanks.

Yours Sincerely

Prof.S.K.Kshirsagar
Hon.Secretary