UPES celebrates IEEE DAY, Institution of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) is an international organization having its presence in many geographies.

1. From the Desk of: ARUN DHAND
DIRECTOR –GOVERNMENT RELATIONS & MEDIA AFFAIRS
Oct 7, 2015
Press Note
UPES celebrates IEEE DAY
Institution of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) is an international organization having its presence in
many geographies. The Indian arm of this international organization comprises of many sections. UP
section of IEEE located in IIT – Kanpur is a prominent section in north India. Higher education institutes of
Uttarakhand including UPES and IIT – Roorkee are affiliated to this section. The IEEE day is celebrated
internationally on 6th
of October 2015.
Enthusiastic celebrations of IEEE Day were also held in UPES. An assembly of five events was organized for
the students which included a Quizzing event called Tech-A-Thon followed by an event called Game Level
Design, wherein the students were asked to make a theme based software. A competition was also held
on Technical Poster Presentation. Two competitions were held on Coding and Debugging of software’s.
About 250 students pursuing their B. Tech at UPES participated in these contests.
The celebrations were kicked off with a heartwarming speech by Dr. Manish Prateek (Associate Dean,
Centre of Information Technology at UPES) in which he encouraged the students to step forward and
contribute towards the nation and society through engineering. First Prize in “Tech A Thon
competition” went to the team from 2nd
year of B. Tech Computer Science Engineering (Specialization in
Cyber Security & Forensics) comprising of Mainual Hasan and Avi Sharma while the second prize was
claimed by Gautam Sharma & Adhayayan Negi pursuing their 1st
year in B. Tech CSE (specialization in
Cloud Computing & Virtualization Technology). First prize in Paper presentation was claimed by
Siddharth Talwar pursuing his final year in M. Tech(Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks) while the
second prize went to the team of Sakshi Singhal & Yash Shanker pursuing their 3rd
year B. Tech CSE(cloud
computing). Both the prizes in “Game Level Design” competition were claimed by students pursuing
their first year in B.Tech CSE (specialization in Graphics & Gaming), the team of Naman Jain and Vaibhav
Raj Singh were declared winners while the team comprising of Shubham Singh & Shubham Dhiman were
declared runners up. The competition of “Coding & De-Bugging” saw the team from 3rd
year of B. Tech
CSE(Cloud Computing) comprising Shubham Aggarwal & Ujagar Negi take the first prize while the team
from 2nd
year B. Tech CSE (Cyber Forensics) claimed the second Prize. In the Poster Competition the
team of Dweepayan Mishra from 1st
year B.Tech(Cloud Computing) & Gyanarajan Dash of 1st
year B.Tech
(Applied Petroleum Engineering) secured the first place while the team of Mainual Hasan and Avi Sharma
from 1st
year B.Tech (Cyber Forensics) took the second place.
The events were successfully organized with the combined efforts Miss Ruchika Saini and Miss Sheetal
Bisht under the esteemed guidance of Dr. Amit Agarwal (Advisor, UPES IEEE Computer Society Student
Chapter) and Mr. J. C. Patni (Chair, UPES IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter) along with help from
the entire CIT team of UPES.
All events were fairly judged by a panel of distinguished faculty of UPES including Dr. Neelu Ahuja, Dr.
Nilima, Dr. Rashmi Sharma, Dr. Ajay Prasad, Dr. Inder Singh, Mr. Ravi Tomar, Mr. Hitesh Sharma and Mr.
Ankur Dumka. IEEE – UP section were the technical and financial sponsors of celebrations held in UPES.
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