News & Achievements

After organizing the IEEE IEMCON 2016 in Vancouver, Canada and IEEE UEMCON 2016 in New York, USA very successfully, IEM and UEM are organizing the IEEE CCWC on January 9-11, 2017 in Las Vegas, USA. Previous conferences saw participation from delegates of 40+ countries with more than 50 Canadian and 50 US Universities participating, including Ivy League US Universities. The IEEE CCWC 2017 conference is being held just after the Las Vegas CES - Consumer Electronics Show - the biggest show on Earth with more than 1,70,000 delegates participating from around the world. The CCWC conference delegates will get opportunity to attend the CES show which will be held over an area of more than 36 football fields and will have all major brands including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, TATA, Motorola, Sony etc participating. Faculty members, students and alumni researchers are invited to to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the conference. It is required that the manuscript follows the standard IEEE camera-ready format. Poster papers of research works in progress are also invited. All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. This is a tremendous opportunity provided by IEM and UEM to its faculty, student and alumni community to publish research works, network with foreign Professors and generate opportunities. http://ieee-ccwc.org/

The Roller Coaster Ride To XLRI – Suman Saha, XLRI https://insideiim.com/the-roller-coaster-ride-to-xlri/ I remember two years ago sitting there on the usual last bench of my classroom supposedly learning electronics and telecommunication engineering, having no idea what I was doing with my life or where it was actually headed. The placement season was about to begin and I lacked the motivation to actually prepare for an IT job. Our beloved Sanghamitra ma’am suddenly walked in. She looked angry and not her usual happy self. Then followed an hour-long verbal bashing for all of us and the crux of the matter was “Please buckle up! Do something about your lives. You all are better than this”. That somehow clicked. I’m sure most of us would have forgotten that one hour in the next minute or so but that stayed with me reverberating in my ears all day long. I was already taking classes for these MBA examinations at a renowned coaching center of the city. But it was more like a stroll in the evening every Sunday with my close bunch of friends. That changed immediately. The very thought of being a frustrated software developer for the rest of my life was enough to get me going. And hence the journey started. The Sunday stroll turned into serious four hours in class trying to improve every single moment. Those uncountable hours over Facebook and WhatsApp changed to online materials and mock tests. I was on a roll. I was improving in every single mock test I was giving. The feeling was ecstatic. More ecstatic than Manchester United scoring a goal. I knew I was on the right track. Sure, my engineering studies got a bit disrupted but I didn’t care. I had my goals set. I hadn’t felt this determined ever in my life. Finally, the time had arrived. The hard work and determination had actually paid off and I ended up with amazing scores in all the three exams I had appeared for. (98.48%ile in CAT, 98.68%ile in XAT and 99.54%ile in IIFT). But this was just the beginning. The roller coaster ride had just begun. It followed a staggering one month of numerous group discussions and personal interviews which drained me both physically and mentally to the core. I kind of realized the battle was more mental than physical. And only the strongest would survive. I kept pushing on. The season of results had arrived and I was freaking tensed. Would all this hard work ultimately give anything? The next month was the toughest. I was waitlisted in about 7 or 8 B-schools including IIM Shillong, SP Jain Mumbai, MDI Gurgaon, IIFT, IIT B and XLRI. The wait was very difficult. Every day felt like a week. But it was all worth it in the end. That mail from the B-school of your dreams is the most prized possession I had back then. It was XLRI. YES! I had to actually read the mail twice to believe this was actually happening. Being a general engineering fresher, my chances were as low as it could get but somehow the things just fell into place. The first thing that came to my mind was that one hour of being reprimanded that day in the classroom. Had that not happened who knows where I’d be now! Having completed the dreaded first term here in XLRI, I can safely say that this has been an experience of a lifetime. This shapes you as a person. This makes you so clear professionally and to some extent personally as well. You learn to think with a clear mind about what you want to do with your life. I ended up getting a coveted internship offer at JPMorgan Chase. Along with that, I kind of sorted out my personal life as well which was going through a huge storm before coming here. Cheers to XL! Cheers to the best B-school you can ever think of! And as they say, “Happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time.”

Date - 13th October 2016 David G. Michelson received the BASc, MASc, and PhD in electrical engineering from the UBC. From 1996 to 2001, he served as a member of a joint team from AT&T Wireless Services, Redmond, WA, and AT&T Labs-Research, Red Bank, NJ, where he was concerned with the development of propagation and channel models for next-generation and fixed wireless systems.

Date - 24th October, 2016 On 24th October, 2016, 24 B.Tech. students of University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Kolkata visited CSIR-CGCRI Optical Fibre Fabrication & Testing Lab to mark "World Day of Photonics" as suggested by European Commission of Industries followed by SPIE, OSA, DST & CSIR. UEM Kolkata is being currently sponsored one Overseas Student Project from OSA where UEM has collaborated with CSIR-CGCRI.

The speakers of the conference were:- 1) Prof. David G.Michelson of University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada (David G. Michelson received the BASc, MASc, and PhD in electrical engineering from the UBC. From 1996 to 2001, he served as a member of a joint team from AT&T Wireless Services, Redmond, WA, and AT&T Labs-Research, Red Bank, NJ, where he was concerned with the development of propagation and channel models for next-generation and fixed wireless systems) 2) Prof. Rodney Vaughan of Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada (Rodney Vaughan is the Sierra Wireless Chair in Communications at Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada. His university training was in New Zealand and Denmark. Most of his career has been as an electronics system designer, and he joined academia (SFU) in 2003) 3) Prof. Motoharu Fujigaki of University of Fukui, Japan (Motoharu Fujigaki is a Professor in the Department of Human and Artificial Intelligent Systems Division of Advanced Informatics and Machinery at University of Fukui, Japan. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering degrees from Faculty of Engineering Science, Osaka University and his Ph.D. from Osaka University in 2001) 4) Prof. James Cole of University of Tsukuba, Japan (James Cole is currently a professor at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. He graduated from the University of Maryland, PhD physics (high energy and particle physics), and after a post-doctorate at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics) he went to the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) , and then the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). At ARL he developed simulated annealing programs for pattern recognition, and at NRL he began his current research. Prof. Cole wrote parallel computer programs with advanced visualizations to model sound propagation in complicated ocean environments) 5) Prof. Raj Jain of Washington University in St. Louis (Raj Jain received his Ph.D. in 1978 from Harvard University and an M.E. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Dr. Jain is currently a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ACM, a Fellow of AAAS, a winner of ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time award,Center for Development of Advanced Computing – Advanced Computing and Communications Society (CDAC-ACCS) Foundation Award 2009, WiMAX Forum Individual Contribution Award 2008, 2014 Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Alumni Association, and ranks among the top 90 in CiteSeerX’s list of Most Cited Authors in Computer Science) 6) Prof. Axel Krings of University of Idaho, USA (Axel Krings received his doctorate (1993) and master’s (1991) degrees in computer science from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, a Dipl. Ing. (1982) in electrical engineering from the FH-Aachen, Germany, and joined the University of Idaho Computer Science faculty in 1995)

Date - 27th October, 2016 Newton Bhaba Fellow, Ms. Isabel Glover, Newcastle University, UK addressed & interacted with the students of the University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Kolkata on 27th October, 2016. Ms. Glover, addressed our students & faculty members on "How brainstem motor pathways can be targeted for recovery following Stroke or Spinal Cord Injury".

Date of the competition - 6th November 2016 IEMCO - the international coding competition of IEM-UEM group is back with November challenge, a step towards a better coding culture and DNA among UEM and IEM students. Date is 6th November, Sunday between 08:00 pm to 11:00 pm.

The speakers at UEMCON-2016 were:- 1) Prof Annie Liu, Professor of Computer Science at SUNY Stony Brook, USA (She received her Ph.D. and M.S. from Cornell University, M.Eng. from Tsinghua University, and B.S. from Peking University, all in Computer Science) 2) Dr John Morrison, Senior Director and Product Manager of Samsung Research, America (John Morrison is a Senior Director and Product Manager for Samsung Research America. He develops requirements for Knox-enabled mobile platforms, digital credentials, and context aware mobile security. He manages cooperative R&D relationships including NSA’s Commercial Solutions for Classified Program, the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Approved Products List, and a Cooperative R&D Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR)) 3) Prof. Vladimir Privman of Clarkson University, USA (Vladimir Privman received his Doctor of Science degree in Physics from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1982, and continued as a postdoc at Cornell University and at California Institute of Technology, before assuming a faculty position at Clarkson University in 1985, where he presently holds the Robert A. Plane Endowed Professorship in the Departments of Physics; Chemistry and Biomolecular Science; Electrical and Computer Engineering; and in New York State Center for Advanced Materials Processing) 4) Prof. Supriyo Bandyopadhyay a Commonwealth Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA (Supriyo Bandyopadhyay is Commonwealth Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University where he directs the Quantum Device Laboratory. Research in the laboratory has been frequently featured in national and international media (newspapers, internet blogs, magazines such as Business Week and EE Times, CBS, NPR, journal highlights such as Nature highlights, and internet news portals). Inventions made in this laboratory have been featured in the US Army Nanoscience Poster prepared for the Pentagon and have resulted in multiple patents) 5) Zhenliang Zhang a research scientist at Intel Labs, USA (Zhenliang Zhang is currently a research scientist at Intel Labs. He is also an adjunct professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University) 6) Dr. Goutam Chattopadhyay, currently a Senior Research Scientist (SRS) at the NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA (Goutam Chattopadhyay is currently a Senior Research Scientist (SRS) at the NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, and a Visiting Associate at the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology) 7) Prof. Takeo Sasaki from Tokyo University of Science, Japan (Takeo Sasaki is a graduate of the Tokyo University of Science. In 1994, he received his doctorate from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Since 2000, he has been at the Tokyo University of Science as a Professor. He received the SPSJ Wiley Award (2004) and JLCS Best Paper Award 2004)  

Date of the IEEE UEMCON 2016 Conference - 20th, 21st and 22nd October 2016 at Columbia University, New York, USA Prof. Supriyo Bandopadhyay of Virginia Commonwealth University delivering keynote address on "Straintronics: Ultra Energy Efficient Computing with Nano-Magnets".