The SCEECS’14, the biennial International Students’ Conference, organised by the IEEE Students’ Chapter MANIT concluded here on Sunday at Student Activity Centre (SAC).The proceedings began by the lamp lighting ceremony and Saraswati Vandana presided over by CP Ravi Kumar, Deepak Singh Tomar and Branch counselor Shailendra Jain.
This was followed by the guest lecture Series in which CP Ravi Kumar (Technical Director, Texas Instrument India), BA Sawale (Joint Director, CPRI) and Prafulla K Nilosey (Vice-President, larson and Toubro) enlightened the audience with their lectures.
Kumar talked about the TI (Texas Instrument) India University Program and how TI emerged as a leading semiconductor company. In his lecture he emphasized on the role of technology in various fields such as healthcare, alternate sources of energy, safety and security, embedded systems, smart grids, wireless connectivity.
He also informed the students about the Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge under which the students are provided with free samples of ICs and development boards for their projects. This was followed by an interactive session in which C P Ravi Kumar addressed the queries of the audience.
Sawale delivered his lecture over “Smart Grid and Indian scenario” in which he talked about the contribution of different techniques of energy generation in providing electricity in the country.
He compared the energy generation required to the peak demand and amount energy actually served and highlighted how far we lag behind compared to other countries in terms of power ability. Sawale then contrasted the traditional grid to the future grid and talked about the benefits of future smart grid.
Further, Prafulla K Nilosey an alumnus of MANIT talked about the education system starting from old to modern education system. “Too little great talent and too many not so good, he said.
He inspired the students to look for learning opportunities which will help in their growth instead of looking for high salaries. He motivated the students to develop high endurance to physical, mental and emotional stress.
later half of day included paper and poster presentation sessions .The delegates demonstrated their research over innovative subjects like intelligent interactive design based distance estimator robot, power factor corrected SNPS using Sheppord Taylor convertor, broadband microstrip yagi array.