Electronics Dept News 1997-98

In March 1997, the processing of two AICTE grants of Rs. 8 Lakhs was complete. Because of these grants a Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory was created by purchasing several instruments. In addtion the hardware and software support for satellite image processing is also procurred. The students will be benefited a lot because of these purchases.

In April 1997 the Electronics Department received following grants : 1 Modernisation of Instrumentation Laboratory 5 Lakhs 2 Expert System Development for EEG 5 Lakhs All the efforts are being made to utilise these grants effectively, so that the facilities for students are further enhanced.

1. Paper Published and Conferences Attended :
1. A paper entitle "Multispectral image compression using 3D DCT" authored by Prof. (Smt.) R. S. Patil and Shri. P. B. Patil was selected for presentation in the National Conference at Hamirpur (H.P.) held in February 1998.

2. A paper entitled "Channel assignment strategies in cellular mobile telephone systems" authored by Prof. (Smt.) R. S. Patil and Shri. V. V. Sulakhe was selected for presentation in the National Conference at Hamirpur (H.P.) held in February 1998.

3. A paper was presented entitled "A cellular mobile communication system for the twenty first century" in 10Q years of Electron, 28th Mid Term Symposis of IETE Chandigarh. It is authored by S. K.Bodhe. Symposium was held in May 1.997.

4. "Prediction of propation pathloss using 8 Ray model of Digital Microcellular Mobile Communication System operating in the frequency range of 35 to 70 GHZ" authored by S. K. Bodhe and Prof. N. R. Phadnis was selected in ISRAMT 97, 6th International Symposium on Recent advances in Microwave Technology at Beijing, China, held in August 97.

5. "A Monte Carlo approach for the incorporation of memory effect in switched Gate bias experiments3 authored by Mrs. S. Subbaraman, D. K. Sharma, A. Das, J. Vasi is selected for JAP in March 1998.

6. "HOT MOS - a 2D MOS device simulator f6r hot carrier effect" was presented at International workshop on physics of semiconducter devices (IWPSD) at Delhi in December 1997. Authors are Mrs. S. Subbaraman, D. K. Sharma, J. Vasi and A. Das.

7. "A Monte Carlo simulator for extracting MOS device characteristics" is submitted at Department of Atomic energy conference at Cochin. Authors are Mrs. S. Subbaraman, D. K. Sharma, A. Das.

8. "MOS device sumulator for radiation and hot carrier effects" authored by D.K. Sharma and Mrs. S. Subbaraman was presented at IWPSD at Delhi in December 1997.

9. A paper entitled "Speaker verification using entire power spectrum" is selected for presentation at INFOCOMTECH - 2000 to be held at Jodhapur in March 1998. The author is Mrs. S. D. Apte.

2. National Conference Organisation :
Electronics Department is arranging a National Conference on "Advances in Broadband Communication (N.C. - ABC 98). The conference is schedulded on 6th and 7th April, 1998. In the Organisation of this conference, cooperation from Sangli Telecom, Sangli and IETE, Pune centre is obtained.

3. Seminar / Summer / Winter Schools / Short Term Courses :
1. An AICTE / ISTE sponsored winter school on "Computer Vision" was held during 8 to 20 December 1997 in Electronics Department alongwith the Computer Science Department. The coordinator was Prof. A. R. Yardi. The number of participants attended the course was 33 who were from different parts of India. The guest faculty was from different reputed institutes like 1.I.T., Mumbai and also from industry. The local faculty included prof. A. R. Yardi, Prof. (Smt.) R. S. Patil, Prof. S. K. Bodhe, S. V. Kulkarni_