IEEE PES DELHI CHAPTER:A Journey ahead

Rachana GargPast chair IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter

(2015&2016)

Brief about Delhi Section:• Delhi Section is one of the largest sections in IEEE. Delhi Section is one

of the 11 Sections in India and is under the Region 10 (Asia-Pacific) ofIEEE. Completed 40 yrs.

• It covers entire northern part of the country consisting of the NationalCapital Territory of Delhi, Union Territory of Chandigarh and thefive states of Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh andJammu & Kashmir.

• It has got two Subsection at Chandigarh andRajasthan Seventeen Society Chapters and Four Affinity Groups

• IEEE Delhi Section has as per latest (December 2016) statistics 4599active Members (excluding Society Affiliates), consisting of 4 LifeFellow, 7 Fellow, 26 Life Senior, 265 Senior Member, 4 Life Member,1203 Member, 35 Associate Member, 655 Graduate Student Member,2400 Student Member

• 90+ student branches

Brief Introduction of PES Delhi Chapter:• The joint Chapter of Power & Energy Society and Industry Applications

Society started in Delhi with Prof. B. Prasad Singh, SMIEEE of IndianInstitute of Technology Delhi as its interim Chairman on June 12, 1997.

• In the year 2000 Chapter received PES Outstanding Chapter Award(Small) and in 2003, 2006, and 2013 PES Outstanding Chapter Award(Large)

• In 2009, 2016 and 2017 Outstanding Large Joint Chapter Award fromIAS.

• In 2001 its Founder-Chairman Prof. B.P.Singh received the firstRegional Outstanding Engineer Award.

• In the year 2002 also this award was won by Dr. SubrataMukhopadhyay, from Delhi Chapter.

• Achievements in 2016:• 3 students from IIT Mandi received Myron Zucker Undergraduate Student

Design Contest Award.

• The Chapter organized membership drives and improved the membership as a result of which total membership has increased from 284 to 409.

• 06 members were elevated to Senior members.

• Two (2) members are elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2017 namely Prof. (Mrs.)Gurumoorthy Bhuvaneshwari, IIT Delhi and Shri Sushil Soonee, POSOCO,both from IEEE PES Delhi Section.

• Chapter has received $930 as PES HPCP award

• IEEE IAS Outstanding Large Joint Chapter Award 2016.

• The year 2016 began with an enthusiasm for the PES Chapter committed toprove its mettle and to provide maximum advantage to its members.

• In the first EXECOM meeting itself different committees were formed.o Industry Interactiono Membership Developmento Student Activitieso WIE Activitieso Young Professional Activitieso Continuing Educationo Outstation Activities

• Care was taken to include activities for the academia and industry alike andalso for students, YPs, GSMs and WIE members.

• We keep track of eminent personalities coming to India and invite them forguest lectures/workshops etc.

Planning and Preparation by the Chapter:

• The Chapter has more than 5 Student branch PES Chapters under its wings, forwhich help is provided every year.o Subscription of the students from 2nd year of membership onwards is

reimbursed by the chaptero INR 10,000 per annum is provided to each student PES chapter for

Industrial visit.o Outreach program to motivate school students into power engineering

• Membership Growth/Retention : o Conference organisers are requested to have a special drive during

conferences.o Whenever any execom member goes to conferences or course as guest, we

try to put in a few words about PES.o The awareness in students have also been created by giving presentations

about PES chapters in Student Congress held in section/Student Chapters.

• Fund Generation:o Surplus from the conferenceso By organising workshops etc.

Summary of 2016 Activities:The Chapter maintains a website (www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi/pe-ia.html),updated frequently through which the members get to know of all theactivities, report of the activities and other information about the Chapter.

• The Chapter organized around 70 activities in 2016 – 5 are administrative(4 execom meeting and 1 AGM), 19 professional and 46 technicalactivities.

• The technical activities include conferences, workshops, seminars andlectures on relevant and appropriate topics, which also enhanced themembership development.

• 20th Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Lecture was organized on Dec. 09,2016 at DTU Delhi and was delivered by Prof. AmbrishChandra, Universié du Québec, Montréal, Canada on the topic 'HybridRenewable Energy Standalone Systems'.

• This year 4 conferences wereorganized, namely, ICPS-2016 duringMarch 4-6, 2016 at IIT Delhi, IICPE2016 during Nov. 17-19, 2016 atPatiala Punjab, PICON 2016 duringNov. 25-27, 2016 at Bikaner Rajasthanand ICPEICES-2016 during July 4-6,2016 at DTU Delhi.

• A PES DL talk on 'Opportunities forenergy efficiency applications incommercial buildings in Indiadelivered by Prof. Saifur Rahman,Virginia Tech on 02-06-2016 atFaculty of Engg. JMI Delhi

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• Pre conference tutorial (ICPEICES2016) was delivered by Prof.Gopakumar, FIEEE on, ‘PWMTechniques for Inverter Controlfor Variable FrequencyOperation’ on 3rd July 2016.

• A one day interactive workshop‘Shine Rural India withRenewables’ on 13th December,2016 has been organized alongwith IEEE SIGHT, which sawparticipation from school childrento engineering professionals.

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• Generous support was given tostudents for industrialvisits/workshops.

• A workshop for Graduate studentmembers and for WIE memberson Real-time System, DataAcquisition and FPGA has beenconducted at IIT Mandi.

• A Design and paintingcompetition for School goingchildren with Theme on "EnergySaving and Innovations" wasorganised with trip toEngineering/Sciences lab. at IITMandi.

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• Under IEEE PES Member Driven Initiatives, four (4)proposals were funded with support of US$ 5000 andsuccessfully organized.

Student Design Contest for “DevelopingLow Cost and Efficient RenewableEnergy based Applications”

"Energy Saving and Innovation in the Usage of Renewable Energy” for school children

• Dr. Edvina, VP Education IEEEPES visited the chapter in Dec2016 and interacted with theexecom members of the chapter.

• A professional talk on ‘Role ofSmart Engineers in Future’ byProf. Francisco GonzallezLongatt, LoughboroughUniversity

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• The chapter also provided support in holding the ‘Women inPower’ Conference on March 11th and 12th, 2017 at IHC Delhi,attended by Dr Shay Bahramirad, Ms.Zainab Taiwo, Prof. CeliaShahnaz amongst others.

Future Vision:• Many more quality technical activities are planned for 2017 including DLs,

workshops, conferences etc.• 21st Thomas Elva Edison Memorial lecture will be organised• The Chapter is planning to have more activities with 'Women in Engineering'

and ‘Young Professionals’ affinity groups.• To encourage the participation of student members, Outstanding Student

Volunteer Award to be initiated and new student chapters to be formed.• Emphasis will be given to the elevation of members to higher grade.• Delhi Chapter execom always have a YP representative, but in the upcoming

execom, one student and one WIE representative will also be included.• ‘Outstanding chapter Engineer award’ to the deserving PES member.

Problems & Concerns:No specific problem is faced by the chapter. Getting dedicated volunteersoutside Delhi is becoming difficult. Also, although GSMs are involved in PESactivities, but involving YPs from Industries is tough.