Annual Report

SPIE Student Chapter,

The NorthCap University(Formerly ITM University)

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Sector-23 A, Gurugram(ZIP Postal - 122017), Haryana, INDIA

2018-2019 Chapter Officers

Responsibility Name

Faculty Advisor Ms. Amanpreet Kaur

President Mr. Rahul Vashista

Vice President Ms. Gungun Saini

Secretary Mr. Akhil Arora

Treasurer Mr. Vinayak Gupta

2018 - 2019 Chapter Student Members

S.No. First Name Last Name

1 Rahul Vashista

2 Yashika Chauhan

3 Shivani Shehrawat

4 Akhil Arora

5 Gungun Saini

6 Mimansha Mishra

7 Shubham Kaushik

8 Lalit Bhatti

9 Pankaj Rakheja

10 Amanpreet Kaur

11 Sharda Vashisth

12 Chetan Yadav

13 Krishan Kumar

14 Vinayak Gupta

15 Varun kaushik

16 Tushar Thakur

17 Shweta Dixit

18 Arnav Jain

19 Muskan Rai

20 Amritansh Bakshi

21 Hemant Thakran

22 Ankit Ruhil

23 Aditya Yadav

24 Harshit Sharma

25 Himanshu Gulati

26 Sakshi Sharma

27 Aayush Jindal

28 Chinmayi Mongia

29 Saurabh Sharma

30 Tanish Uppal

32 Udbhav Sharma

33 Vivek Yadav

Chapter Activities 2017-2018

Workshop on AI(Artificial Intelligence)

EECE Department organized a one day Workshop on “Artificial Intelligence (AI)” in association with IIT Kanpur and TechieNest (under SPIE Society ) for B.Tech ECE and CSE Students on 6th March 2018 from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm in Seminar Hall. Mr. Kapil Gupta, Embedded Engineer at TechieNest took the sessions . They covered: Understanding of AI Market prospective,Future Aspects of AI, Real World AI design Constrains, Industrial automation and commercial building Automation in AI, Introduction to Functional Blocks of AI,Wide description about Software and Hardware Concerns of AI Introduction to various API, Working with API.AI Python, Cloud, API.AI, Facebook, ThingSpeak all in a Frame etc. Students got good exposure to work on very important and latest topic . Software & all study material and Certificates were provided by the Company in association with IIT Kanpur. Lifetime membership &Guidance for Minor and Major Projects with lifetime assistance will be provided by the company. This was coordinated by Ms. Amanpreet Kaur and Mr. Pankaj Rakheja.

Career Counselling Session

SPIE student chapter of The NorthCap University organized a Career counselling for school

students at Vidya Niketan Sr. Secondary School , Alipur with career guidance in Optical engineering

and photonics . Mr. Rahul Vashista (President) and Ms. Yashika Chauhan (Vice-President) took the

sessions and shared their thoughts on Optical Engineering and Photonics. The career counselling

started with asking students about their goals and career plans. They also give the brief idea to

students about the career opportunities in Optical Engineering and Photonics in future. The idea of

organizing session by Ms. Amanpreet Kaur (Advisory) ,Mr. Rahul Vashista (President) and Ms.

Yashika Chauhan (Vice-President) was proved to be commendable. SPIE student chapter proud to

organize such a successful event and would like to convey thanks to school management for their

time advice and cooperation in organizing the session successfully .

Quiz(Optical Engineering)

A Quiz on Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning was organized by SPIE Student Chapter NCU on 4 Oct 2018.

About 40 students participated in the quiz competition. It helped students to enhance their skills for better

placements. Yazur Garg (BSc) bagged the 1st Position and Aitereya Shreyas Jha (BSc) bagged the 2nd

Position. They were awarded prizes and certificates and Certificates of Participation were given to all

participants. The event was coordinated by Gungun Saini and Akhil Arora, SPIE student members, ECE; Ms

Amanpreet Kaur, SPIE Advisor and Mr Pankaj Rakheja, Faculty Coordinator, SPIE.

Practical Sessions on AR/VR

SPIE student chapter of The NorthCap University organized a practical session on AR/VR for SPIE

student members . Mr. Saurabh from TechieNest took the sessions and shared their insights, real

life scenarios, practical use cases and their solution on AR/VR. The session started with keynote

lecture on AR/VR and the future of the connected world and provided the insights of AR/VR

applications. Along with students gaining theoretical knowledge, students also had a hands on

session. Software and all study material and certificates were provided. The idea of organizing

practical session was proved to be commendable with a total of 15 participants.

Group Discussion

EECE Department organized a Group discussion under SPIE society for B.Tech First year ECE

students on 25 July, 2018. The objective of the session was to develop basic communication skills

and develop a sense of bonding among the students. Students enjoyed the session and put forward

their views on “Educational qualification for Politicians” and “Our Culture is decaying” topics in a

healthy manner. Students who were active and effectively represented their views where appreciated

and given small prices. The event was coordinated by Ms. Amanpreet Kaur and Mr. Pankaj Rakheja

under the guidance of honourable Head of the department Dr. Sharda Vashisth. Mr Akhil Arora, Ms.

Gunjan Saini and Mr. Rahul Vashisth were the student coordinators.

Creating More Awareness About SPIE

SPIE Student Chapter have set up registration desk and shared the information to students of first

year about the Society of Photonics and Optics (SPIE), Two of the student coordinators Ms. Gungun

Saini and Mr. Akhil are on the registration desk to provide all the information, benefits and for

clearing doubts of the students from first year. Later that day, Ms. Yashika Chauhan(Vice president

SPIE Student Chapter The NorthCap University) and Mr. Aayush Jindal(Student Coordinator SPIE

Student Chapter The NorthCap University) with complete team of SPIE gave presentation on the

student chapter, discussing benefits of joining the society and growth of the chapter at The NorthCap

University. 17 students have already registered. The event results in more awareness about the

International societies at the University. Ms.Amanpreet Kaur is the faculty advisor for SPIE NCU

Chapter.

Treasure Hunt

EECE Department organized treasure hunt under SPIE society for B.Tech First year ECE students on

31 July, 2018. The objective of the event was to develop team spirit and develop a sense of bonding

among the students. Students enjoyed the session and worked together in decoding clues in positive

manner. The event was coordinated by Ms. Amanpreet Kaur and Mr. Pankaj Rakheja under the

guidance of honourable Head of the department Dr. Sharda Vashisth. Ms. Yashika Chauhan, Mr.

Akhil Arora, Ms. Gungun Saini, Ms. Akansha Paul, Ms. Monali Kar and Ms. Isha Chinmayi were the

student coordinators.

Finance Statement

Activity Name Specification Amount Spent(INR)

Workshop on Artificial Intelligence.

Instructor Fee. Refreshments Momento. Certificates.

20000

Career Counselling Session Travelling Expenses Refreshments

5000

Technical Quiz Refreshments Gifts(Stationary) Certificates

4500

Workshop on AR/VR Refreshment Instructor Fee

18000

Momento Certificates

Group Discussion Refreshment Prize Certificates

3500

Treasure Hunt Refreshment Prize Certificate

4000

Anonymous Posters Pamphlet

2573

Research and Publications:

1. ECE2017J010: Amanpreet Kaur*, Komal Narang, “An Adaptive Wavelet and Level

Dependent thresholding using median filter for Medical Image Compression” (International

journal & magazine of engineering technology management and research).

2. ECE2017J011 : Shubham Dawra*, Tushar Khatri, Charu Rana, Pankaj Rakheja, Design and

Simulation of I2C Master Core International Journal of Advanced Engineering

Research and Applications (IJA-ERA).

3. ECE2017J012 Srishty Chauhan* , Tanmay Madan , Vishruta Makhija , Pankaj Rakheja**,

Charu Rana, Simulation of Communication Network Using Cisco Packet Tracer

International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Applications (IJA-ERA).

4. ECE2017J013 : Deepti Jangra*, Amanpreet Kaur, Analysis of Channel Capacity for

Heterogeneous Network based on Femto Cells using Path Loss Models , International

Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Applications (IJA-ERA)

5. ECE2018J005: Nidhi Raman*, Amanpreet Kaur, Rohit Batra , Performance Enhancement

for Coexistence Adaptive Interference Draining using Rectangular Antenna’s for MUE’s

International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Applications (IJA –

ERA).

6. ECE2018J006 : Sonu Dabass*, Amanpreet Kaur EECE “Resource Allocation for Delay

Minimization for Cognitive Radio using M-QAM, AWGN Model” International Journal of

Advanced Engineering Research and Applications (IJA –ERA).

7. ECE2018J028: Parth Sharma, Lakshya Malhotra, Pranshul Agarwal, Amanpreet Kaur* and

Pankaj Rakheja , Home Assistant Robot International Journal of Computer Science

Engineering (IJCSE).

8. ECE2018J027 Rishika Jain, Puja Gupta, Amanpreet Kaur*, Pankaj Rakheja, Iot Based Smart

Lighting Intelligent and Weather Adaptive Lighting in Street Lights International Journal of

Computer Science Engineering (IJCSE).

9. ECE2018P017: Pallavi Asthana, Sharda Vashisth* Segmentation of brain tumor from MRI

images IEEE IC3TSN 2017.

10. ECE2018P015: Deepika*, Sharda Vashisth, Charu Rana, Traffic Sign recognition: A

comprehensive review IndiaCom.

11. ECE2018P008: Pallavi Asthana*, Sharda Vashisth, Comparison between Various Pre-

Processing Techniques on Brain MRI Images IndiaCom.

12. ECE2018P007: Manju Dabas, Rekha Vig*, Sharda Vashisth, Comparative Study of

Neural Network based Compression Techniques for Medical Images IndiaCom.

13. ECE2018P004:Preeti*, Kusum Grewal Dangi, Kumari Bharti Sangwan Wireless Body Area

Sensor Networks, IEEE International Conference on Computing and Communication

Technologies for Smart Nation 2017.

14. ECE2018P003: Anshul Vats*, Mona Aggarwal, Swaran Ahuja Outage Analysis of AF

Relayed Hybrid VLC-RF Communication System for E-Health Applications IEEE Computing,

Communication and Automation (ICCCA), 2017 International Conference on 2017.

15. ECE2017P014: Sakshi Juneja, Sharda Vashisth* Indoor positioning system using VLC

IEEE IC3TSN 2017.

16. ECE2017P015: Raman Yadav, Sharda Vashisth*, Ranjit Verma Computer based methods

to analyze carotid stenosis IEEE IC3TSN 2017.

17. ECE2018P001: Ram Sharma, A. Charan Kumari, Mona Aggarwal*, Swaran Ahuja

Performance Analysis of LED Based Indoor VLC System Under Receiver Mobility

IEEE ICCCA 2017.