Annual General Body Meeting 2014

Atul Negi, Chair 2012-13Professor, UoH

atul.negi@ieee.org

Composition-ITechnical Society Chapters09/22/12*Recently approved Chapters Education Society (late in 2013) Photonics Society (approved late 2012) CAS/EDS Joint Chapter (2012)

Joins the other existing chapters1. Computational Intelligence Society Chapter (2011)2. Computer Society Chapter 3. PES/IAS/PELS Society Joint Chapter 4. MTT/AP/EMC Society Joint Chapter6. ComSoc/SP Joint Chapter 7. Technology Management Council Chapter (2011)

Composition-IIAffinity Groups/Subsections01/29/12*

Graduates of Last Decade (GOLD) AGWomen In Engineering (WIE) AGVizag-Bay (SubSection)

Guntur (Sub-Section)Consultants Network

Activities: Full Spectrum

01/29/12*Monthly administrative meeting of Execom with all Chapter Chairs (face 2 face!)Large no of events (Chapters + AGs > 100)Student Branches (one SB 136)- 2012 Distinguished LecturesTutorialsWorkshops Conferences Tech. CoSponsor Industry VisitsProfessional ActivitiesEducation Programs

Activities: Section Practice

01/29/12*1. Collecting feedback at the end of every program (met or exceeded expectation)2. Use of social media such as Twitter and Linkedin, Facebook- Several groups3. Students Member Representative invited to SEC meetings 4. Introduced Student Representative (SSR) beginning from 2010, Global Integrated Network IEEE: Student Representatives Network5. Volunteer Resource Development Committee maintaining a database of volunteers

Activities: Section Practices Recognition

01/29/12*Section OV Award Vibrant Student Branch AwardsSupport for Travel to events like: POCO, TISP, WIE/GOLD/Student Congress*Support for R10 WIE/Student CongressTravel support to present conference papersLarge No. Of SBs, Growth of SB Chapters

Annual Programs 01/29/12*Faraday Memorial Lecture ( Annual Public Lecture hosted by section)JC Bose Lecture (AP/MTT Chapter)Graham Bell Lecture (Comsoc/SP Chapter)Section Student's CongressIEEE Day

Annual General Body Meets (Jan July) with full audited financial reports

Recent Notable Activities

01/29/12*R10 WIE Congress Conluded July 2013, Leadership GOLD and WIE Hyderabad SectionTeacher in Service Workshop (TISP) for TeachersEFSWIN `121st Conference for

Recent Notable Activities

01/29/12*Large effort Science Museum (from IEEE EAB)Conference Organizers Workshop Two Editions already done(mini POCO model for Sections in India- R 10)1st Conference on Low Cost Museum Exhibits

Recent Notable Activities

01/29/12*Video Coverage of lectures, links from ieeehyd.orgOnline funds transfer for eventsConference Organizer's workshopTechnical Co Sponsorship support 2014 IEEE Conference Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century, June 26th BostonBlackouts workshopSmartgrids workshopPhotonics one day workshop

Many other activites please visit the posters from the Chapters AGs

Awards and Recognition01/29/12*

Distinguished Large Section Award from Region 10Outstanding Volunteer Awards Region 10 (5 years in a row, invited 4 times)MGA GOLD AwardChapter and AG AwardsRegion 10 WIE Award 2011CIS Chapter Award 2013PES Performance Awards

GIEEE AgreementDue to FCRA sections could not receive foreign fundsDiscussions at sidelines of IEEE R10 Meet Chiang Mai March 2013, India Council Meetings August, Dec 2013IEEE India office to fund sections through services agreement section first to sign, revised agreement also signed Financial Reporting to GIEEE on fund utilization. Underutilization may lead to cutting back of grants.

ChallengesTax issue- New committee must take upNewsletter- Lack of volunteers to take upWebsite- Improvement and maintenanceStudent-Chapter Support, more support for Sbs volunteers reaching more number of SBsMembership Development crossing 6K barrier, 3K professional members barriers need for committed membership development committeeBidding for Region 10 Events like TENSYMP or TENCON or IEEE IJCNN etc technical conferences

Thanks to the SEC teams

Past Chairs Dr NV Rao, MGPL Narayana

Thanks to Hyderabad Section Members and Volunteers