Past Events of 2018

IEEE RUET Student Branch has successfully organized the workshop on "Power Electronics and IoT Based Robotics" on 8th and 9th November, 2018 at ECE Seminar Room, ECE Building, RUET. The total number of participants was 85 including both IEEE members and non-members. The workshop was divided into two sessions. The first session was on "IOT based Robotics" which was held on 8th November, 2018. It started at 3 pm. The speaker Abul Al Arabi led the session with his excellent skills and shared his great experiences related to IoT. After delivering some basic knowledge over Arduino, python operations, Wi-Fi devices the speaker also showed an architectural assimilation of IoT. The participants were very charmed by the great presentation of the speaker. The session was concluded by presenting crest to the speaker and a photo session segment. After the session, there was some arrangement of refreshments for the participants.

The second session was on "Power Electronics" which was held on 9th November, 2018 at ECE Seminar room. The speaker Shuvangkar Chandra Das delivered a wonderful presentation on the importance of power electronics and it's revolution. He also presented basics of Inverter, design of a Pure Sine Wave inverter, inverter design topology, its challenges, hardware implementation, programs etc. The presentation was very helpful.

The IEEE Day 2018 was celebrated by IEEE RUET Student Branch on October 9, 2018, with day-long activities. A total number of 80 members joined this program. The celebration started at 1:30 pm with a rally from the premises of the EEE building. This phase ended with a photo session segment. A human IEEE chain was a noteworthy part of this segment. The 2nd phase of the program was held at the ECE Seminar room on ECE building, RUET. Our honorable counselor Dr. Md. Samiul Habib (Assistant Professor, Dept. of EEE, RUET) and Tasnim Binte Shawkat madam (Lecturer, Dept. of ECE, RUET) were present there. The second phase of the program started at 4:30 pm by cutting the IEEE Day Cake with all the guests and all the members. After that, our honorable guests gave some valuable speech regarding the IEEE Day and the importance of IEEE in the Career of an Engineering student. Next, the program consisted of a Rubik's cube solving competition conducted by Mim Naz Rahman, Section Ambassador of IEEE Day 2018, and IEEE Bangladesh Section. This competition was held in three segments. Samiul Islam from Dept. of ECE, RUET secured the first position with a stunning average of only 26.45 seconds. The second position was obtained by Md. Imam Hossain from Dept. of EEE RUET with an average time of 65.67 seconds.

IEEE RUET Student Branch celebrated its ninth anniversary on September 18, 2018, at the RUET cafeteria. Prof. Dr. S.M. Abdur Razzak Sir, the advisor of IEEE RUET Student Branch, dean, faculty of ECE, RUET was present there as an honorable guest. He inaugurated the ceremony by cutting the cake. After this ceremony, another part of the celebration, an interactive session had started.

There was a quiz contest that was mainly based on the journey of the IEEE RUET Student Branch. Then, the winning team was presented attractive prizes by Milton Kumar Kundu, former chair, IEEE RUET Student Branch. Three sessions were conducted after the interactive session. Injamam Ul Haque, Chair, IEEE RUET Student Branch took the session on IEEE Xtreme, Fazley Rabbi, Chair, IEEE RUET IAS Student Branch Chapter took the session on IEEEMadC and Mim Naz Rahman, Secretary, IEEE RUET Student Branch took the session on IEEE Day 2018. About 40 members participated in this program. With a photo session segment, the ceremony came to an end.

IEEE RUET Student Branch has hosted the contest "The Ultimate Innovator Hunt" on 13th July 2018 with 60 participants at the ECE seminar room, RUET. The program started at around 10 am. Prof. Dr. Md. Nazrul Islam Mondal sir, Prof. Dr. Ajay Krishno Sarkar sir, and Ms. Tasnim Binte Shawkat madam were the honorable judges of this contest. They examined the projects, talked with the participants and imparted further suggestions for the better modifications of their projects. After a lunch break, Prof. Dr. Md. Nazrul Islam Mondal sir took a session (technical talk) on "FPGA Applications in Education". Meanwhile Prof. Ramalatha Marimuthu, SS12 chair delivered her valuable speech for the contestants online. After the final speech of the judges, Prof. Dr. Ajay Krishno Sarkar sir presented both Tasnim Binte Shawkat madam and Prof. Dr. Md. Nazrul Islam Mondal sir token of appreciation. The name of the four selected teams was declared after this segment who are going to take part in the SS12 Innovation challenge and Maker Fair 2018's "Maker Fair" track which was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka in September 2018. The selected teams were as follows: Champion: Team X (RUET) First runner-up: Team Drogon (RUET) Second runner-up: Team Guard (RUET) Third runner-up: Team Detector (RUET) The champion and first runner-up team were given 15k and 5k BDT respectively for further encouragement. With a photo session segment, the program ended at around 3:30 pm.

IEEE RUET Student Branch celebrated 'IEEE PES Day 2018' on April 21, 2018. Power & Energy Society (PES) provides the world's largest forum for sharing the latest technological developments in the electric power industry, for developing standards that guide the development and construction of equipment and systems, and for educating members of the industry and the general public. PES Day's goal was to engage the PES volunteers with PES history and "5" PES pillars of the "More Power to the Future" vision. *Advancing global participation
*Educating the Future Workforce
*Industry Activity Trends
*Standards Leadership
*Participating in Regulatory Initiatives Our celebration of PES Day consisted of a series of interesting segments.
*Presentation on PES & PES DAY
*PES Membership Drive
*Cake Cutting
*PES DAY Human Chain

IEEE RUET WIE Student Branch Affinity Group celebrated its 2nd anniversary in association with the IEEE RUET student branch on 5 April 2018 at 09:30 am.
IEEE RUET WIE Student Branch Affinity Group started it's journey on 1st April, 2016. The ceremony consisted of a series of events. A workshop on "Basic Graphic Design" was also held following the event.
Event Details:

Schedule: Date: 05 April, 2018
Time: 09:30am to 10:30am
Venue: ECE Seminar Room, ECE Building, RUET.

EEE RUET Student Branch organized a free seminar on "Thesis Paper Writing Publication Using KSI Method " with around 110 participants on March 25, 2018, at ECE Seminar room, RUET.
The seminar was conducted by Md. Kamal Uddin, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Department of Land Management, Faculty of Agriculture University Putra Malaysia. At first, he described the importance and benefits of KSI (Keyword Sequence Importance) in writing a thesis paper. The participants learned the present and future activities of the thesis, citation collection from a journal, how to paraphrase citations properly, result in writing, and review paper and so on. The seminar was informative and helpful for participants. By the end of the seminar, an interactive session was arranged in which some questions were asked by the speaker and those who could give the correct answers were provided certificates from the honorable speaker. After this session, the seminar came to an end.
"Thesis and Publication" are two topmost matters of concern for the final year students. So it's a must for all of us to be an expert in this field to compete for the world. The goal of our seminar is to enlighten everyone with the knowledge of saving time, increasing the quality of thesis writing, fast publishing, review paper, and research finding and reducing mental stress.

IEEE RUET WIE Student Branch Affinity Group organized a daylong workshop entitled "Graphic Design Bootcamp & Directions for Pursuing Freelancing" with around 60 Participants on February 15, 2018, at ETE seminar room, RUET. The workshop was conducted by Shahida Afrin, Lead of Business Solution Team, Mogo Business Solution who obtained her BSC degree from RUET. She referred to "Graphic Design" as one of the top 25 jobs that young people want to have. Graphic design has variety of scopes including logo, t-shirt design, photo manipulation, calligraphy, typography etc.

She insisted that the user interface is the most important thing in the case of graphic design. The participants were taught the basic use of tools of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. For having a career in freelancing, the speaker suggested creating a portfolio at behance.com and mentioned some other sites like Upwork, Toptal, Elance, Freelancer, Craigslist, etc.

IEEE RUET Student Branch has successfully organized the Seminar on IEEE Membership Development on 8th February 2018 at ECE Seminar Room, RUET.

Prof. Dr. Celia Shahnaz, Chair, IEEE Bangladesh Section, Md Zakaria Haider, Secretary, IEEE Bangladesh Section and Md Romael Haque, Treasurer, IEEE Bangladesh Section were present as the honorable speakers of the event. The seminar started at 2:30 PM. Though it was the middle of the day and scorching sun was on top of the head to remind the last few days of winter, around 70 students including both IEEE members and non-members were present. Honorable Chair of the IEEE Bangladesh Section, Dr. Celia Shahnaz started her session by sharing her achievements and all the odds she faced along with other trailblazers in bringing the section in such a magnificent position. She put lights on the different tracks the section has worked on in the last few years for the professional and ethical development of the members. Then, in his session, MD. Romael Haque who is the Treasurer of the IEEE Bangladesh Section showed the membership growth of the section which is the highest in the entire world. He further showed all the awards the section or the maestros of the section have achieved.

The fourth international conference of RUET which is ICEEE 2017 has taken place on 27th, 28th, and 29th of the instant. In this momentous event Dr. Celia Shahnaz, Professor, Dept. of EEE, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) was present as one of the Keynote Speakers and also the Session Chair. It was a great honor to have her among us.

IEEE RUET Student Branch is glad to announce that the workshop on "HVDC POWER PLANT" was organized successfully on 2nd January 2018.

Around 50 participants were present there. A heartiest thanks to all the participants for joining the program. The workshop was conducted by Prof. Dr. Muhammad Abdul Goffar Khan, professor, Dept. of EEE, RUET. Along with the advantages of high voltage DC transmission over AC transmission, he showed the potentiality of HVDC. He also presented the challenges that the researchers of this field are facing to make HVDC favorable and efficient enough for Large-scale use. By giving a view of the worldwide working possibility of HVDC, he encouraged the participants to choose this as their research topic and work in this trending sector. After this beneficial presentation our beloved Prof. Dr. Md. Rabiul Islam, professor, Dept. of EEE, RUET rendered a short finishing speech and presented Prof. Dr. Muhammad Abdul Goffar Khan with a gift as a small token of appreciation. With this, the program came to an end.