Jekyll2018-10-21T10:31:29+05:30/newsletter/edition02/Monthly newsletter published by IEEE Sri Lanka Section2018-10-06T13:30:01+05:302018-10-06T13:30:01+05:30/newsletter/edition02/congress<p><strong>IEEE Sri Lanka Section Students/Young Professionals/Women in Engineering Congress 2018 (IEEE SL SYWC’18)</strong></p> <p>With the vision of “Augmenting into Digital Dimension”, the seventh consecutive IEEE SL SYWC ‘18 is ready for another takeoff. This three day event, which will be held on 28th, 29th and 30th of December 2018 at SLTC (Sri Lanka Technology Campus),Padukka is your opportunity to collect remarkable memories for a astounding year end. Every year around 200 IEEE and non-IEEE young and creative minds broaden their network and build up new connections with each other; who will arise our globe up to the next level, sharing knowledge and information. Stay tuned with IEEE Sri Lanka Section Students/Young Professionals/Women in Engineering Congress 2018 (IEEE SL SYWC’18) : https://sywc.ieee.lk/</p>Admin

IEEE Sri Lanka Section Students/Young Professionals/Women in Engineering Congress 2018 (IEEE SL SYWC’18)

2018-10-05T13:30:01+05:302018-10-05T13:30:01+05:30/newsletter/edition02/dream<p><strong>Dream Venture (Day 2) - Startups for Women</strong></p> <p>Dream Venture (Day 2), Startups for Women, held at National Agriculture of Information and Communication Center,Gannoruwa,on 2nd ofJune 2018 brought together more than 150 participation from government organizations, universities, schools,entrepreneurs and private sector. Mrs.Shanaaz Preena,Director for Women Go-Beyond/ Women’s Advocacy of MAS Holdings (pvt) Ltd was the Chief Guest while Prof. Janaka Ekanayake was the Guest of Honor of the event. The main objective of the event was empowering women towards leading startups and entrepreneurship.</p> <p>The event resulted in a number of ambitious outcomes as many innovative startup ideas were brought forward at the BEST STARTUP IDEA competition held on that day. After the end of day 1, invitations were sent out to the universities, private sector, schools etc. to submit their startup idea proposals.Thus, Dream Venture received 30+ proposals in total. At the day of the event, all the teams who submitted their proposals presented their ideas. The best ideas was selected by a panel of judges comprising professionals from various fields.</p> <p>Prof.Janaka Ekanayake from Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Mr.Ahamed Nishadh, Mrs.Nevindaree Premarathne from Information Communication Technology Agency(ICTA) of Sri Lanka, Mr.Indula Senaratne from Ceylon Electricity Board,Mr.Jeremy Sandeep Carvalho from Sysco Labs, Mrs.Harshi Samarasekara from Twinkling Dreams Wedding and Event Planners,Tharindu Dassanayake, the founder of ShoutOUT, Ms.Kelsye Nelson, the founder of Gutsy Creatives comprised the judge panel.</p> <p>Further, Mr.Daya Hettiarachchi, Chairman/CEO at OpenArc Systems Management (Pvt) Ltd , Mr.Lasantha Wickramasinghe, Founder of Builtapps and Mrs.Harshi Samarasekara were speakers at the panel discussion moderated by Dr.Maheshi Dissanayake. Valuable prizes and certificates were awarded to the winners and participants at the award ceremony held after the presentations. The event beheld many appreciative remarks from professionals, guests and students who attended the event while many suggestions were also made for improvement.</p> <p>Hence, several follow up sessions will be held to mentor the women with startup ideas support them to have a startup career. Mentors from ICTA, University academia and professionals from the industry have already agreed to offer support in mentoring. Moreover, an online platform is under construction to create a platform for interested startup innovators to network with mentors, funding bodies and industry.</p> <p>Additionally, the support given by partners for the event cannot be forgotten. Amante Sri Lanka(Pvt) Ltd was the platinum sponsor of the event while OutSmart Hub (Pvt) Ltd was the bronze sponsor. Event sponsors were IEEE Central Region Sub Section, OpenArc Systems Management (Pvt) Ltd,Twinkling Dreams Wedding and Event Planners, Stone N String, People’s Bank,M.D.Gunasena, Bata Shoes.</p> <p>The knowledge partners were Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) and Sysco Labs.Media partnership was provided by Readme, Perabeats and Techseekers.</p>Admin

Dream Venture (Day 2) - Startups for Women

2018-10-04T13:30:01+05:302018-10-04T13:30:01+05:30/newsletter/edition02/inna<p><strong>IEEE Innovation Nation Sri Lanka 2018</strong></p> <p>Every great innovation starts off with a simple idea and each such idea needs guidance to improvise, finance to develop and an insight on the industry it addresses. This sums up the aims of IEEE Innovation Nation Sri Lanka (INSL) 2018 in providing the young entrepreneurs with essential training, mentorship and seed-funding in order to make way to successful entrepreneurs, hence, establishing the foundation for our nation’s prosperity.</p> <p>IEEE INSL 2018 was opened to the youth of Sri Lanka a few months back and currently, the competition is successfully halfway through its training sessions after the preliminary round. The ten selected teams are being trained on different aspects of entrepreneurship and thus far we have covered areas such as Design thinking, Market Analysis, Business Models and Soft Skill Development. If you’re an enthusiast of these workshops, keep an eye on our social media feeds to join the future workshops.</p> <p>IEEE Innovation Nation Sri Lanka 2018 will be unveiling its grand finale together with IEEE Sri Lanka Section Student/Young Professional/Women in Engineering Congress 2018. In the final round, the selected teams have to pitch and win their funding from the judges who may double as investors. Furthermore, this competition would be the opportunity for the investors to meet the true innovators of the current youth who have not only technical knowledge but the refined qualities of businesspersons that are needed in the industry.</p> <p>IEEE INSL 2018 has been successfully making its stride to create all-rounded entrepreneurs and we hope we acquire the utmost cooperation from everyone to accomplish our cause.</p>Admin

IEEE Innovation Nation Sri Lanka 2018

2018-10-03T13:30:01+05:302018-10-03T13:30:01+05:30/newsletter/edition02/flyeee<p><strong>FlyEEE 1.0 Drone Workshop</strong></p> <p>IEEE Student Branch of University of Moratuwa, organized FlyEEE 1.0 for the first time with the aim of providing and enhancing the enthusiasm on modeling of drones, which is currently the most far gone technological invention.</p> <p>FlyEEE 1.0 is a technical workshop which was organized with the utmost intention of enhancing and updating the technological knowledge of the undergraduates on this vastly improving field. Entire session was focused on three areas,</p> <ul> <li>Basic tips and tools to build a drone</li> <li>Mathematical modeling and development of drones</li> <li>Applications, trends and future developing areas of drones</li> </ul> <p>Moreover, it was an awareness session of the IEEE UoM student branch to magnetize the new members with pleasant attitudes towards the branch.</p> <p>The event, contained two basic sessions, which were conducted on 23rd and 24th of May, 2018 from 5.00p.m. to 7.30 p.m. at JG hall with a participation over 120 students from both faculty of engineering as well as faculty of IT.</p> <p>Day first was basically to provide the beginners with an idea about the application of drones and their basic construction. Mr. Aruna Jayasena, Mr. Akila Uyanwatte and Mr. Iresh Jayawardena was conducted sessions on the first day.</p> <p>Second day was all about the mathematical modeling of drones. Engineer Janith Kalpa explained the mathematical model of the drone in detail meanwhile Mr. Tharindu Suraj clarified on sensor fusion of drones.</p> <p>All the sessions were winded up with highly positive feedbacks and the main objective of FlyEEE 1.0, to make aware and motivate the undergraduates in the field of drones was accomplished. There were certain requests asking to conduct upcoming events as open events and also to conduct a drone competition. It is a great pleasure to mention that FlyEEE 1.0 became one of the most successful events conducted by IEEE student branch for the year 2018.</p>Admin

FlyEEE 1.0 Drone Workshop

2018-10-02T13:30:01+05:302018-10-02T13:30:01+05:30/newsletter/edition02/design<p><strong>Design Project Competition</strong></p> <p>IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Student Branch Chapter (SBC) of University of Moratuwa in collaboration with the Electrical Engineering Society (EESoc) of University of Moratuwa organized the EE Design Project Competition for the third consecutive year. The competition is organized with the purpose of rewarding and appreciating the students’ innovative skills and to inspire them in enhancing the design skills. This year, it was successfully held on July 17, 2018.</p> <p>Design Project Competition open the path for semester three electrical engineering students of University of Moratuwa to help develop teamwork, innovation, choice of materials, survey skills, pricing and marketing skills and manufacturing through a simple engineering design. Each group with 3 members, identifies a significant engineering problem, proposes a solution and then proceeds to demonstrate feasibility of their solution through construction of a prototype.</p> <p>Evaluation of the design project was done in two stages. In the first stage, best five projects were selected for the second round from 33 teams. In the second round, the selected teams had to do a presentation on survey results, specifications of the product and feasibility of introducing the product to the market. In this stage, three teams; winner, 1st Runner up, 2nd Runner up were chosen based on their performance, and they were awarded with certificates and cash prizes.</p>Admin

Design Project Competition

2018-10-01T13:30:01+05:302018-10-01T13:30:01+05:30/newsletter/edition02/htc<p><strong>IEEE R10 HTC 2018</strong></p> <p>IEEE R10 HTC 2018 organized and host by IEEE Sri Lanka Section, will be held in Colombo from December 6-8, 2018. The theme of this year’s conference “Sustainable Technology for Humanity” is to draw special attention to the societal expectation on humanitarian technologies’ ability to provide practical and lasting solutions.</p> <p>Topics of interest include, but not limited to,</p> <ul> <li>Robotics, control systems and automation</li> <li>Cloud computing, big data, architecture, mobile and wireless communications,</li> <li>Optical and photonic communications, optical networks</li> <li>Biomedical engineering</li> <li>Circuits, systems and signal processing,</li> <li>Power electronics, machines and drives, high voltage</li> <li>Telecommunication technologies</li> <li>Semiconductor, photonics and nanotechnology</li> <li>Energy and environment</li> <li>IoT and enabling technologies</li> <li>Information and communication technologies</li> </ul> <p>with the focus on,</p> <ul> <li>Health care</li> <li>Social welfare</li> <li>Poverty alleviation</li> <li>Education</li> <li>Disaster management</li> <li>Food and agriculture</li> <li>Women empowerment</li> <li>Sustainability and environment</li> <li>Other humanitarian aspects</li> </ul> <p>Paper submission website https://edas.info/N24634</p> <ul> <li>Conference proceedings will be published on IEEE Xplore Digital Library.</li> <li>Selected best papers presented at the conference have the opportunity for revision for publication in the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine.</li> <li>Number of Travel Grants/ Scholarships are available for deserving participants.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Important Dates</strong></p> <p><strong>Extended Submission Deadline</strong> - 31 August 2018</p> <p><strong>Notification of Acceptance</strong> - 15 October 2018</p> <p><strong>Camera Ready Paper Submission</strong> - 01 November 2018</p>Admin

IEEE R10 HTC 2018