Electronics Dept News 1994-95

1) General Departmental News :
The department has set up a new computer laboratory. Various facilities to cater to the needs of Digital Signal Processing, Digital Image Processing, Advanced Microprocessors and Digital communication are being set up.
A four months course on "Computer and Application Softwares" is conducted by the department for engineers of MSEB (Sangli area)
2) Paper published / conference attended :

Prof. Mrs. R. S. Patil attended a State level seminar on Electrical Power System on 18, 19 Nov 1994 organised by Govt. Engg. College Amaravati and MSEB Engineers Credit Co-opprative Society. She is co-authour of the paper entitled "Microprocessor based over current relay with autoreclosure facility" which was presented in this seminar.

Prof Mrs. R.S.Patil attended an international biomedical conference RC-IEEE EMBS, organised by I.I.T. Delhi, between 15 to 18 February 1995 held at New Delhi. She presented a paper "Computer Aid for Eye Surgeons" in this conference, Coauthers of this paper are Prof. -S.15. Patil Vice principal (P.W) and Shri. Harshal S. Patil (T.E.Electronics) student.

Dr. P.J.Kulkarni published a paper titled "A Multiprocessor Based Adaptive Image Vector Quantizer in the DCT Dommaln" in the proceedings of an "International Conferencs on Signal Processing. Applications and Technology" held in DALLAS (USA) in Sept 94.

Dr. P. J. Kulkarni pressnted and published a paper titled "A scheme of Image Vector Quantizer in the transform Domain using a network of transputers" at the conference of Indian Transputer user Group - 94, (ITUG-94) held in University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad in Dec, 94.

A paper of Mrs. S. D. Apte titled " Processing of Speech Signals using DSP" is selected for the National conference on "Emerging trends in Elected Product design & technology" to be held in April 95 at Mohali. The paper will be published in the conference proceedinge.

Following papers are prepared under guidance of Mrs. S. D. Apte.
i) "High Defination Television" by. Mr. S.D.Kamat. of B.E. (Ein) won a first prize at 'Search' in Vision 94 of WCE Sangli.
ii) "Optical information Processing" by Mr. Upadhye of B.E. (Eln) E7. Mr. Shukla S.A. won a first prize at IMPULSE-94 held in Ichalkarnji (DKT collage)
iii) "Video Distribution on Fiber" by Mr. Bokil Pravin of B.E. (Eln) won a third prize at IMPULSE 94 held in DKT Ichalakranji.
iv) "New Zero Voltage Zero Courrent Power Switching Technique" by Mrs. S.S.Durgale of B.E.(Eln). won second at IMPULSE-'94 held in DKT Ichalakranji.

3) Dr. P.J.Kulkarni obtained P.G. (Ph.b) teacher recongnition of Shivaji Uniyersity Kolhapur.
Dr. P.J. Kulkarni elected as a member of Executive Committes of Indian Tranmputer Unnr Group for year 1995.
4) Seminar / Summer / Winter School / attended :

i) Shri. B.V.Pawar and shri B.G.Patil attended a course on "TELEMATICS" in IIT Delhi during 12-24 Dec. 1994.
ii) Mrs. S.S.Deshpande attended a Winter School at Roorkes in Dec. 1994.

5) Testing & Consultancy Work : Facilities for programming of PROM were extended to near by Electronic industries.

6) M.E. Dissertation Guided :
1. V.M.Gogate Generalised algorithm for text string separation from mixed text graphics images. (Project sponsered by CDAC Prof. Mrs. R.S.Patil. Pune.)
2. R.S.Garge Transfer Function analysis in Inpulse testing HV Transformer (sponsered by Prof. Mrs. R.S.Patil Gromption Greaves, Bombay)
3. H.P.Kekade Mlerocontroller bassed data aqquisition system with F.M. link Prof. Mrs. R.S.Patil
4. - P.P. Watharkar Devnagari character recognition Prof. A.R.Yardi
5. A.A.Ali Partially occluded object Recognition Prof. A.R.Yardi
6. Kiran Vuppala Forms object library An alternative to Dr. P.J.Kulkarni. 4 GL
7. Atul G. Pawar Stereo IMAGE analysis Dr. P.J.Kulkarni.

7) Promotion / Appointments :
Shri. S. N. Kore is selected for his Ph.D. work under QIP Scheme at 1lSc Bangalore.

DIPLOMA WING :
Various laboratories in the Electronics Department are being modernized through the purchases of a variety of sopwishicated instruments under the world Bank Assistance Scheme. A large section of Diploma students will be benefitted by this. An educational tour of final year D.I.E students was arranged to `Sattelite Earth Station' Arvee, and a number of industries in and around pune. The project 'AM I FM Communication - Software Package' carried out by Miss Kore S.L., Miss Magum R.P., Miss Kulkarni V.G., Miss Gonjari S.R. & Miss Chavan S.D. all students of final year D.I.E., under the guidance of shri P.B. Patil received the consolation prize at the state level technical exhibition DIPEX - 95 held at Aurangabad. We congratulate these students for their achievement..
Prof. Mrs. R. S. Patil Head of Deptt.