[Legacy Report] 2013 Students Conference on Engineering and Systems, organised by SB MNNIT

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The IEEE Student Branch Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad has organized the 2nd Students’ Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES 2013) from April 12-14, 2013, at MNNIT Allahabad, India. The conference was a sequel of SCES 2012 organized successfully from March 16-18, 2012. The conference was technically sponsored by IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section and co-sponsored by IEEE Joint Societies Chapter of (IE/PEL/CS). The aim of the conference was to motivate the student scholars who are working in the area of Engineering and Systems. The conference was arranged to provide a platform for research students to present their original work done at a highly technical platform. The theme of the conference was “Inspiring Engineering and Systems for Sustainable Development”.

A total of 310 papers have been received from different countries under the technical tracks, Electrical and Power, Electronics and Communication, Computing Technology and Intelligent Systems, Mechanical Systems and Mechatronics, and Applied Sciences. After review and acceptance, total 101 papers were registered in the ORAL session and 38 papers in the DIALOUGE session of the conference. Total 128 papers were presented in the 22-technical sessions of the conference. The conference has acquired LOA from IEEE, USA, with the IEEE Conference Record # 30980 and has also been listed in the IEEE conference search.

The 3-day conference was inaugurated by Prof. N. Kumaravel, Head, ECE Dept., Anna University Chennai”. Prof. P. Chakrabarti, Director MNNIT Allahabad delivered the plenary talk of the conference on the theme “Journey of Electronics from Vacume Tubes to Carbon Nanotubes”. He addressed the conference participants for their distinctive quest to keep up to date with the cutting edge technology. Mr. Paulson Samuel, Conference Chair, delivered the welcome address and Prof. Vineeta Agrawal, Chairman Technical Committee, presented the technical report of the conference. Dr. Rajesh Gupta, Organizing Chairman, given the brief schedule of the conference and presented the vote-of-thanks.

Prof. N. Kumaravel, Anna University, Chennai, delivered first keynote speech of the conference on the topic, “Medical Image Reconstruction”.
Prof. R. K. Singh, Head EED, MNNIT Allahabad, delivered second keynote speech of the conference on the topic, “Electric Vehicle”.
Prof. S. N. Singh, IIT Kanpur, delivered the first keynote speech of the second day on the core theme of the conference entitled “Intelligent System Applications in Solving Engineering Problems”. He presented the recent trends of intelligent methods in Engineering and Systems.
Prof. Y. N. Singh, IIT Kanpur, delivered keynote speech on the topic “Peer to Peer Live Streaming Systems Issues”. His talk was made live through the live streaming approach. Section members attended the talk on-line from their institute itself.
Prof. S. Jit, IIT BHU Varanasi, delivered keynote talk of the third day on the topic, “Non- Classical CMOS Technology: An Overview”.
Prof. R. Tripathi, Head ECED, MNNIT Allahabad delivered last keynote talk of the conference on the topic “Advancements in Networks”,
A tutorial was presented in the Conference by Mr. Ankur Jain, M/S. National Instruments, on the topic, “Do Engineering using LabVIEW”.

Total 6 papers were honored with the Best Paper Award. Amongst these, 3 papers were -under UG category and 3-under PG category. The winning students belong to IIT Kanpur, BITS Pilani, NIT Rourkela, NIT Agartala and MNNIT Allahabad. Prof. R. K. Tripathi, Chairman Coordination committee coordinated the concluding session of the conference.

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