The Institute of Electricals, Electronics and Engineers (IEEE), Institute of Engineering and Management (IEM) Student Branch, campus was buzzing with activity as the institute hosted its annual fest — Elevate 2020 — offline after two years.
The fest was held in hybrid mode from April 14 to 17.
Day 1: Inauguration, panel discussion, webinars
The online inauguration ceremony was attended by Satyajit Chakrabarti, director, IEM-UEM Group; K. J. Ray Liu, president IEEE; Nita Patel, chair-elect, IEEE Computer Society; Aravindhan Anbazhagan, chair IEEE, YP, Madras section; Sarbani Roy, chair, IEEE Computer Society; and Senjuti Khanra, IEEE IEM SB branch counsellor.
Next up was an online networking session by Anbazhagan and an online panel discussion on ‘Women's entrepreneurship in the wake of economic liberalisation and globalisation’. The panel included Sudeshna Choudhury, chair, WIE, IEEE Kolkata Section; Major Namrata Singh, AVP at JP Morgan Chase & Co. ex-military; Susraba Chatterjee, UGC research fellow; and Pavithra Nagaraj, co-founder Brand to Land.
The first day ended with two webinars on ‘Roadmap to DSA’ by Kriti Gera, a mentor from GeeksForGeeks, and on ‘Physical and Computational Modelling of Smart Homes’ by Damla Turgut, PhD student in Computer Science, University of Central Florida, USA.
“It is great to see students having fun on campus after such a long gap. They have organised all the events on their own. I am very happy to see how things have been planned,” and Senjuti Khanra. IEEE IEM SB branch counsellor.
Day 2: Webinars, workshops and debate
The second day kick-started with a webinar on IEEE, membership and what’s next? by Ramneek Karla, IEEE Impact Creator. Next was an online workshop on Coding Blocks that had the students hooked. A webinar on ‘Can photonics be the future playground to support the era of communication revolution?’ was held by Rangana Banerjee Chaudhuri, Marie Curie Sparkle Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dublin City University, Ireland.
Another webinar was conducted by Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay, faculty of Data Science, Webel Fujisoft Vara CoE, on Machine Learning. The day ended with a powerful debate on the topic — ‘Technology fuels war more than political needs,’ which was held in association with the Jadavpur University Debating Society.
Day 3: Seminars, Workshops, Quiz
The events on the third day were held in hybrid mode. The day began with an insightful seminar on Entrepreneurship by Abhijit Burman, founder and CEO of Merit Academy. Next was a workshop on Arduino by professionals from Ogma Tech Labs followed by a seminar on ‘Paving your Professional Career Path’ by Riddhi Dutta, software development engineer, Amazon. The last event was a quiz competition hosted by the IEM Quizzard Club.
Shrinjoy Chatterjee, a second-year Electronics and Communications Engineering student, and Souyash Dutta, a third-year Computer Science Engineering student, bagged the second position. “We had no preparation at all. We just participated for fun. Halfway through we started enjoying and thought there was a chance of winning,” said Shrinjoy.
Days 4: Seminars, workshops, industry interaction session and closing ceremony
The final day took off with a seminar-cum-workshop by Subodh Gajare, lead solution architect, Cisco, on ‘What is your Big Bold Bet?’. This was followed by an industry interaction session. A cultural programme wrapped up ELEVATE 2022.
“We have been planning for the past three to four months. It was a blissful moment for us to finally see it all fall in place and give a beautiful outcome. This is my last event before I pass out and it was successful. The whole team has worked very hard We were lucky to have many eminent speakers and it ended on a good note,” said Sumedha Ghosh, a fourth-year IT student who is a chair of IEEE IEM Students’ Branch.
