Annual Report

JIS College of Engineering SPIE Student Chapter (November 2009 – October 2010)

Inauguration of the Student ChapterA SPIE Student Chapter at JIS College of Engineering

In the month of November 2009, a student chapter was approved by the reputed society namely, SPIE, which is an international society advancing light based research (http://spie.org/). The chapter is named as the JIS College of Engineering SPIE Student Chapter. The chapter has fifty one student members and three faculty members from our college at the time of initiation. A grand opening ceremony entitled – “Harnessing Light” was held on November 11, 2009 at the college campus. A number of invited guests were present. Professor Susanta Sen, Dean – Technology, and faculty of Department of Radiophysics and Electronics, University of Calcutta, was the Chief Guest of the function. Professor Asim Kar, Department of Electronics and TeleCommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University was the Guest of Honour, and Professor L. N. Hazra, Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta, and the General Secretary, Optical Society of India was the Keynote Speaker. The inauguration ceremony was graced by the MD, JIS Group – Mr. Taranjit Singh, and was presided by Professor Asit Guha, Director, JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani.

The function started with an inaugural song of Tagore. Professor Debesh Choudhury, the Faculty Adviser and the initiator of the SPIE Student Chapter welcomed the invited dignitaries, the faculties, the staffs and the students. He pointed out the needs and the backgrounds of formation of such a student chapter in the JIS College of Engineering. He mentioned that the chapter will provide the students with ample opportunities to grow with new ideas on courses, workshops, seminars, outreach activities etc. He also told that it will be a unique platform for the students to cultivate mini research projects around their educational curriculum. Then, a small ceremony was performed, which is known as the “Lighting of the Lamp”. All the dignitaries extended their hands to light the lamp.

Professor Susanta Sen delivered the inaugural speech. He pointed out the significance of optics and photonics in the engineering curriculum and wished that the students will be able to utilize the resources available from the international community, specially resources available from SPIE. Professor Asim Kar emphasized on the importance of optoelectronics and fibre optics for current educational and research programmes. Professor L. N. Hazra delivered the Keynote Adress Harnessing Light. He mesmerized with his unique lecturing style supported by well prepared multimedia presentations. The audience was spell bound with his lecture. Professor Hazra explained in detail about the wide horizon of applications of optics and photonics in various fields including electronics, communication, instrumentation, biomedical, computer science and information technology fields. After the lectures, Professor Asit Guha, Director presented the mementos to the invited guests. At the end, the vote of thank was given by Subhajit Roy, the President of the newly formed student chapter of SPIE.

The invited speakers had an extended periods of interactions and discussions with the students after the lectures. It seems the students were very excited. Their questions were almost never ending. The speakers had tea with the office bearers of the chapter. The function was attended by 92 students, 29 faculty and staff members of the college.

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Photographs of the inaugural ceremony showing the dignitaries at the podium, lighting of the lamp, Prof. S. Sen and Prof. A. Kar speaking on optics and photonics.

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Photographs showing Prof. L. N. Hazra delivering the keynote speech on the theme “Harnessing Light”, student Subhajit Roy (the first president of the chapter) giving the vote of thanks, parts of the audience, and the invited guests discussing with the students after the meeting.

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Workshop on Robotics

A Workshop on Robotics was also held on December 28, 2009. Presentations were made by Subhajit Roy and Somnath Chakraborty; both are fourth year B.Tech. (ECE) students. Demonstrations on robotics were given. The basics of micro-controller programing was explained briefly followed by demonstrations of control of wheels by commands on the command prompt of the computer. The lecture also included sensing light by a camera and guiding the assembled robotic circuit board following a “white” line. The lecture demonstrations were attended by 21 students. More activities will be organized in the future by the SPIE Student Chapter. The notice/advertisement of the event is shown below. Some photographs of students having hands on with the robotic circuit are also shown.

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Career Development Lecture

A career development lecture was organized for the students on January 9, 2010. The purpose was to give the students an open forum to interact with the industry personnel and get an idea about the needs of the industry houses. Mr. Somen Ghosh, Senior Business Development Manager, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Kolkata was invited. Incidentally, Mr. Ghosh got a MS degree in Optics and Optoelectronics from the University of Calcutta, although Mr. Ghosh had worked widely in different positions in different companies. The title of the lecture was “Preparing for the future: Unleashing the power within you”. The lecture started with some movie clips about beginning of a career. It continued with a well delivered presentations, interactions, group activities, and at last personal conversations with the participants. The students liked the contents so much that they wanted a more longer version of the same. We decided to organize a one-day workshop in the future.

Photographs of Mr. Somen Ghosh lecturing, and parts of the audience interacting with Mr. Ghosh.

Electronic Circuit Workshop

On March 6, 2010 the members of SPIE JISCE Student chapter organized an Electronics Workshop. The aim of this workshop was to teach the students the basics of Practical Elementary Electronics so that engineering students can implement in practical whatever they learn in their classes.

The event was organized by SPIE and lead by Mr.Somnath Chakraborty (Former Joint Secretary), Mr.

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Anumpam Bose (Vice President Elect) and Mr. Somesh Mukherjee (President Elect). In the workshop the students were taught the basics of making an electronic circuit.

They were taught to 1) Design PCBs using Express PCB software.2) Trace the layout in the copper clad board.3) Drill PCB holes for mounting components4) Etch the board using FeCl3 solution.5) And solder components in PCBs.Nearly 60 students attended the workshop and received hands on training. They all were given

tools in groups of 5. The tools included 1) Soldering Iron 2) Copper Clad Board 3) Some resistors, LEDs , wires and other components. 3) PCB Drill 4) FeCl3 solution 5) Saw .

Somesh Mukherjee lecturing on OPAMP; Members getting hands on experience in soldering

Mr.Somesh Mukherjee taught the students about a basic circuitry of building a voltage amplifier using a simple Op-Amp. Mr. Somnath Chakraborty lectured on PCB designing, its art and implementation. Then they followed to train the students to practically design and make PCBs.

At the end of the training all the students who attended the training benefited a lot and carried with them practical hands on experience of building basic electronic circuitry from easily available materials which can all be procured locally.

Members making a PCB; The fabricated PCB

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Debate Competition “Enveavour”

In the spirit of promoting extracurricular activities, SPIE-JISCE organized a debate competition with on April 12, 2010. A total prizes of US$30 was distributed. Twelve Students participated in the debate in 6 teams and were given 5 minutes each (team) to make their presentations. The Competition was witnessed by 43 spectators and judged by Mr. Rajdeep Chowdhury (Student Welfare Officer of the college) and Mr. Subhayu Banerjee (Humanities faculty). The Winning team was that of Abhideep Bhattacharjee and Faisal Khan. Unfortunately the flash drive of the photographs was corrupted and no photograph could be retrieved. (It is now resolved that we should take photographs on more than one cameras and save the photographs on a computer immediately).

Seminar on Nanoelectronic and Photonic Device: May 4, 2010

A seminar was organized on May 4, 2010 on Nanoelectronic and Photonic Devices. The speakers were Prof. Swapan Chakrabarti, Department of Chemistry, University of Calcutta and Prof. Sanatan Chattopadhyay, Department of Electronic Sciences, University of Calcutta. Prof. Swapan Chakrabarti delivered a lecture on “Molecular Spintronics”. Prof. Chakrabarti described the results of theoretical studies on molecular devices where electron spin is used as information career. Prof. Sanatan Chattopadhyay delivered a lecture entitled “CMOS Photonic Devices”. Prof. Chattopadhyay pointed out the importance of optics in information and logic processing. He discussed the research works carried out in his group in designing a CMOS device. The description was very clear and attracted the students and the faculties very much. The lecture was attended by 55 students and 21 faculty and staff members of the college. A few persons also came from other colleges. Dr. Rajib Chakraborty from the University of Calcutta was also invited, but he could not come due to some urgent meeting in his university. Unfortunately the flash drive of the photographs was corrupted and no photograph could be retrieved. (It is now resolved that we should take photographs on more than one cameras and keep the photos immediately on computers).

Summer Training on Solar Photovoltaics and Solar Thermal Systems A Summer Training on “Solar Photovoltaics and Solar Thermal Systems” was held at the Centre of Excellence for Green Energy and Sensor Systems, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur during June 22 – July 21, 2010. The event was sponsored by the Ministry of New and

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Renewable Energy, Government of India. The SPIE Student Chapter JIS College of Engineering was a collaborator of the event. A total 34 students were trained from different engineering colleges, out of which 15 students were from JIS College of Engineering.

The inaugural lecture was delivered by Mr S P Gon Chowdhury, Managing Director, West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation Limited. The course Director, Prof. H. Saha, emphasized the importance of photovoltaics and solar thermal systems. Prof. Saha briefed the course contents. The course was taught by eminent academicians and researchers from Jadavpur University and Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur. The details of the course topics and the faculties are given below:

Topic Faculty1. Solar Radiation :

(a) Fundamentals and Measurement Techniques Samir Saha

2. Solar Photovoltaics : (a) Fundamentals of Solar Cells S. Datta(b) Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells Utpal Gangopadhyay (c) Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells Partha Chaudhury (d) CdS/CdTe Thin Film Solar Cells Anup Mondal and and CuInSe solar cells D.P. Chakrabarty(e) Third Generation Solar Cells S. Minhaz Hossain(f) DSSC and PEC Solar Cells Nillohit mukherjee (g) Solar PV Modules and Array D.Mukherjee

3. Solar PV Systems :(a) Design of Specific PV Systems H.Saha(b) Grid Tied PV Systems N. Bhattacharya(c) Off-grid Solar PV Power Plants K.Mukhopadhyay(d) Solar Power Conditioning Unit Mainak Sengupta

4. Solar Thermal Systems :(a) Solar Thermal Collectors and Somenath Chakrabarty

Solar heating Systems and Aritra Ganguly(b) Solar Cooling Systems Dipankar Basu

5. Green Technology Concepts :(a) Green Technology Overview : Ajay K. Ray(b) Green Building and Green Architectur Madhumita Roy(c) Building Integrated PV ( BIPV ) D.Mukherjee

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Lab / Project Sessions : Each half session ( H) is of 3 hour duration and Each full session( F ) is of 6 hour duration

Experiment 1 : I-V characteristics of crystalline silicon and amorphous silicon solar cells

Experiment 2: Characterization of PV modules

Experiment 3: Assembly and Testing of sub-systems for solar domestic lighting systems

Experiment 4: Charge Controller , Inverter for solar domestic lighting system and Solar Storage Battery

Experiment 5: Solar Cell fabrication

Experiment 6: Solar Thermal Hot Water system

Experiment 7: Flat Plate Collector & Solar Cooker, Solar hybrid PV Hot Water system & Solar Distillation Unit

Experiment 8: Power Conditioning Unit

Experiment 9: Solar Radiation Lab

The course attendees were also taken on a visit to photovoltaic industries. After evaluations, the attendees were given certificates. Some photographs are attached.

The students with the course faculties; The students attending the Lab.

The students with some PV panels, Visiting a photovoltaic Industry.

The students learned how to design photovoltaic power plants. It was a very enlightening event.

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Fall Picnic and Welcome Party

The Fall Welcome Party was organized on September 18, 2010 for the freshers to ease their transition into college life and to introduce them to SPIE chapter and its mission. The Programme started with a short presentation by the President Elect Somesh Mukherjee. The new students were told about the activities of SPIE and details of the scopes for the engineering students. Descriptions on the past activities were presented. The new students asked questions to know more about SPIE, which were answered. The event ended with Lunch and Games. The Party was attended by 73 Students, both members and freshers. A photograph of the gathering is shown.

Outreach Activity - Springdale High School, Kalyani

Finally an outreach was organized in a local school, namely Spingdale High School, Kalyani on October 8, 2010. Various Optical Phenomenon were demonstrated to the Kids using kits made by members. The event was proposed for mainly 8th to 10th standard students. However, many students came from 6th, 7th and 8th standards at the end. So, the experiments were needed to be shown to them as well. The feedback of the students and the school was tremendous. They requested for more outreach to their school.

Reflection, Refraction, Lateral Displacement was demonstrated using lasers. Students were taught about Infrared LEDs and applications, and chromatography, applications of Lasers in Security and Photo Optical Sensors. They were shown a telescope. Around 350 students of various grades benefited from the event. Some photographs of the event are shown below.

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A Website of the Chapter

A website was created for the JISCE SPIE Student Chapter. A separate domain name and a dedicated hosting space are purchased for the purpose. The primary website was created by the earlier web administrator Somesh Mokherjee. The chapter can be accessed at http://spie-jisce.org/. Although sincere efforts are required to make a good website, the chapter could just start to put up a web presence. Now it depends on the efforts of the members. A screenshot of the website is shown below.

LaserFest Grant

The chapter applied for a LaserFest grant for organizing outreach activities around the high schools in the locality and received a grant of US$650. This will be reported separately as a LaserFest activity in January 2011.

Collaborative Conference Grant

We planned and proposed a collaborative conference in collaboration with the University of Calcutta Chapter. The purpose of the conference will be to give a common platform to the students and the young community to discuss and interact on current topics of optics, electronics, lasers, image processing etc. We already received a grant of US$2300 for the purpose. The theme of the conference will be Convergence of Optics and Electronics and would be held during February 24-26, 2011 at the Science City, Kolkata, West Bengal.

Election of New Office Bearers for 2010-2011

Elections of the office bearers was held in the month of September 2010. There were thirteen nominations for seven posts, i.e. President, Vice President, Joint Secretary-1, Joint Secretary-2, Treasurer, Web Administrator, Membership Coordinator. The following acted as the election officers:

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Prof. Debesh Choudhury (faculty adviser), Mr. Somnath Chakraborty (past Joint Secretary-1) and Mr. Surajt Lahiri (Staff of the Department of ECE). The following were elected for 2010-2011:

President Somesh MukherjeeVice President Anupam BoseJoint Secretary-1 Shoumik Ranjan MukherjeeJoint Secretary-2 Sayantan SenguptaTreasurer Ashutosh JaiswalWeb Administrator Subhajit ChakrabortyMembership Coordinator Arun Kumar Das

The Financial StatusA saving bank account was opened at the State Bank of India, Kalyani Industrial Growth Centre Branch, Kalyani: Account No.30988392013 during early December 2009 with an advance of Rs.1000 from the faculty adviser (the inaugural function was also held with advances from him during November 2009). The financial status is given in the table below:

S.No. Grant(s)/Event(s)/Purpose(s) Amount Received Amount Spent

1 Annual Grant of 2009 Rs.69,540.00(US$1500 @ Rs46.36)

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2 Inaugural Ceremony and One Keynote Lectures and two Invited Lectures ----

Rs.9,200.00

3 Microphones to be used for events/outreach----

Rs.2,400.00

4 Workshop on Robotics ---- Rs.2,000.00

5 Career Development Lecture ---- Rs.3,200.00

6 Electronic Circuit Workshop ---- Rs.2,350.00

7 Debate Competition ---- Rs.1,600.00

8 Seminar on Nanoelectronic and Photonic Devices (jointly with the college)

---- Rs.1,800.00

9 Summer Training on Photovoltaics and Solar Thermal Systems

---- Rs.15,000.00

10 Fall Picnic and Welcome Party ---- Rs.3,250.00

11 Outreach Activity – One High School ---- Rs.5,100.00

12 Website of the Chapter ---- Rs.1,647.50

13 LaserFest Grant (will be reported separately in Jan 2011)

Rs.30017(US$650 @Rs.46.18)

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14 Collaborative Conference Grant (jointly with University of Calcutta Chapter), conference to be held during Feb 2011

Rs.105498(US$2285 @Rs.46.17)

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15 Commissions of the bank (3 times) ---- Rs.150 x 3 = Rs.450

TOTAL Rs.2,05,055.00 Rs.47,097.50

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