Kerala Chapter Student Activities

  • Students Meet

Venue: IEEE Kerala Section Office

Date: 23-02-2020

Time: 2pm 

Members Present: Dr Koruth Varghese, Dr Sukesh Kumar A., Dr M. J. Jayashree, Mr Vivek George (Skype), Mr Madhu Krishnan A. P., Ms Febi Mariam Chandy, Ms KrishnaPriya, Ms Ajeena A. K., Mr Steve Itty George, Mr Abdullah Mohamed Buhari, Ms Aghna,

Ms Sree Lakshmi, Ms Deepthi G.A., Mr Abhinav Shekhar.

The meeting started with a prayer followed by IEEE code of Ethics, Self Introduction, Presidential address, Future activities of IEEE EMBS Kerala Chapter, Presentations of action plan of student activities, Formation of Student activities ExCom 2020, Suggestions by students and Vote of Thanks. Minutes is attached herewith.

  • BME Quiz

IEEE EMBS Kerala Chapter conducted a “BME Quiz 2020” in connection with National Science Day for EMBS student members. The competition focused on student’s knowledge in the field of Biology and its application in Engineering. A total of three teams participated for the quiz.

Date                        : 28th February 2020

Venue                     : Main Seminar Hall, LBS Institute of Technology for Women

Convenor               : Dr M J Jayashree (Professor and HoD, Dept. of ECE, MBCET)

Coordinators         : Deepthi A (MBCET)

                                   Abhinav Sekhar (MBCET) 

Winner                    : Madhu Krishnan A.P (JCET)

  • Essay Writing Competition

IEEE KERALA CHAPTER conducted an essay writing competition on the topic “Epidemics: A wake up call for all of us” for all the EMBS student members during the pandemic period. The competition aims to bring out the creativity and writing skills of student members along with the grammar, vocabulary and relevance of the topic. 19 EMBS student members participated.

Date                     : 27th April 2020

Coordinators      : Steve Itty George (TKMIT)

                               Madhu Krishnan A.P(JCET)

Platform             : Google form.

Evaluators          : Dr. A Sukesh Kumar(Vice Chairman)

                                Mr. Fasil O.K (Joint Secretary)

Winners              : First – Sania M S (MBCET)

                               Second -Febi Mariam Chandy (TKMIT)

                               Third- Reshma B (LBS)

  • A meeting of SAC with the IEEE EMBS Kerala Chapter student activities Excom 2020 was conducted on 15th  May 2020 via Zoom from 11 am to 12.30 pm. Minutes is Attached herewith.
  • SYNAPSIS ‘20

IEEE EMBS Kerala Chapter Student Activities and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, TKMIT jointly organised Synopsis ‘20 aimed at exploring the new Era of Pandemic with the tagline confer to infer. SYNAPSIS ’20 successfully cleared the objective to conduct a National Webinar Series for Biomedical Engineers across India in the COVID-19 scenario. It had about 670+ registrations from 15 states and 1 Union Territory across India including students, graduates and professionals. 478 participants were there for the session on day1. 442 participants were there for the session on day 2, 423 on the third day and 420 on the fourth day.

SYNAPSIS ’20 covered almost all aspects of awareness to the participants regarding the current scenario, pointing the need for a healthcare innovation transition in biomedical manufacturing industry in India.

Date                      : 5th -8th of June 2020

Speakers             : Day 1-   Dr. Sukesh Kumar A (Vice Chair, IEEE EMBS Kerala Chapter)

                               : Day 2- Prof V K Damodaran (Senior member of IEEE, Director of Centre of  

                                 Environment and Development,Kerala)

                               : Day 3- Dr Sreevas Sahasranamam (Lecturer, Hunter Centre for    

                                 Entrepreneurship, Strathclyde Business School Glasgow)

                               : Day 4- Mr K S Sabarinathan (Member of Kerala Legislative Assembly)