[Legacy Report] R10 WIECON'12
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Sri Vishnu Engineering College for Women in Collaboration with IEEE Hyderabad Section and Region 10 Women in Engineering organized an IEEE region – 10 Women in Engineering Congress (WIECON 12) from March 5th – 7th 2012. The main theme of the congress was “Aptitudes, Attitudes and Altitudes: A call for changeâ€. Dr. P. Srinivasa Raju, Vice-principal of Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women is the General Chair of this Congress. Dr. Ramalatha Marimuttu, Dr. Takako Hashimoto and Dr. K. Pushpa acted as Organizing chairs. Prof. Vijaya Latha, Mrs Rashmi Ambale and Prof. P. Sri Hari are program committee members.
WIECON-12 has attracted participants from many states of India and two neighbouring countries: Srilanka and Bangladesh. 607 participants from various corners of our country cherished the event. In detail, 31 participants from Tamilnadu, 11 from Delhi, 6 from Punjab, 23 from Kerala, 15 from Karnataka, 160 from Andhra Pradesh and 358 participants from Shri Vishnu Educational Society. These 607 participants represented 87 affiliated engineering colleges.
On 5th March, 2012, pre-congress day was started with Ice breaking session with active involvement of students from different engineering colleges.
Takako Hashimoto- IEEE R10 WIE Coordinator, IEEE WIE, Dr. Atul Negi- Chairman, IEEE Hyderabad Section, Dr. V. R. Singh - IEEE India Council, Delhi, Mrs Keyana Tennant - Program Manager, IEEE WIE, Sri MGPL Narayana, Chair (2010-2011), IEEE Hyderabad Section, Prof. Y. Vijaya Latha – Chair, IEEE WIE, Hyderabad Section, Mr. Rayees Amar Nishad-South Asia Gold Coordinator, Dr. Deepa Shenoy – Chair, IEEE WIE Bangalore Section, Dr. Shanti- Chair, IEEE WIE, Kerala Section, Prof P. Sri Hari – Students Activities Chair, Vizag Bay Subsection, Mr. Ravi Babu – University of Hyderabad, Dr. Swarna Bai Arnikar – Scientist „E, RCI, Hyderabad and Mrs. Rashmi Ambale – Secretary, IEEE WIE, Hyderabad Section.
The talks were technical related issues and the advantages and opportunities as IEEE WIE member. The talks really impressed the audience and it is hopped this kind of awareness will certainly increase their career possibilities. In a video talk, Dr.Howard Michael-2012 IEEE Vice-President greeted Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women and talked about the possible opportunities with IEEE WIE membership.
In women congress 16 presentations, 2 panel discussions took place. Five major events in post presentation, painting, Paper-cut art competition, short-film making contest and one minute games were conducted and prizes were bagged by the participants. Each event was named with a special theme.
Going into the details of participants to these events, 40, 29, 20 & 11 teams in poster presentation, paper-cut competition, painting and short-film making respectively. In giving away prizes I, II & III, first the teams were shortlisted by the judges Prof. Y. Vijaya Latha, Dr. Deepa Shenoy and then the short listed teams were evaluated critically by Dr. Ramalatha Marimuttu, Dr. Takako Hashimoto, Mrs Keyana Tennant, Dr. Shanti KJ, Prof. P. Sri Hari and Dr. Celia Shehnaz.
Feedback analysis was done on 342 participants and it reveals that 95% participants are satisfied with WIECON.12 in all aspects.
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Dr.Swarna Bai Arniker of Scientist - E, Research Centre Imarat (RCI) DRDO
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Genomic Signal Processing & Artificial Neural Networks for DNA Sequence Analysis and Research opportunities for Women Engineers
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Address:Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Takako Hashimoto of Chiba University of Commerce
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WIE Regional and Global Activities
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Address:Suginami-ku, Tokyo, Japan