News & Achievements

*Day 2 of International Lecture Series on Language and Literature*:   *Dr. Lisa Hopkins, Professor,Sheffield Hallam University, UK* & *Mr. Scott Granville,Director and Co-Founder of Chasing Time English, New Zealand* delivered their mesmerizing talk.   Please find below the registration link and the YouTube Channel link for your reference:   *Registration link:* https://forms.gle/xyQvq4273dKthrKK9   *Youtube Channel Link:* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV3o5d8j03YcqQ8vPbTG-mA   All are welcome!!! [gallery ids="7921,7922,7923,7924"]  

*International FDP* Department of Basic Science and Humanities, IEM, Kolkata is organizing a Five Day Online "International Lecture Series on Language and Literature" from 8th-12th of September, where a plethora of speakers from all around the world will be sharing their perspectives on language and literature. This event will be held in association with *AI Council, SMART Society USA, HRDC IEM, Rotary Club of Salt Lake Silicon Valley, IEM Toastmasters Club, Innerwheel Club of IEM Kolkata and ELT@I Kolkata Chapter*   Around 1500 participants have registered across the globe.   Registration link: https://forms.gle/xyQvq4273dKthrKK9   Youtube Channel Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV3o5d8j03YcqQ8vPbTG-mA   All are welcome!!!

*IEM-UEM* in Association with *_SMART Society, USA_* invites all Alumni, Students, Faculty and Staff to register for and attend IEM/UEM *FOREIGN DISTINGUISHED LECTURE*.   **Speaker* : *Adriana Paluszny, *Imperial College London.*   *Topic:* “ Numerical modelling of fracture growth and permeability"   *Date*: 8 th September, 2020   *Time*: 5:00 PM (IST)   *Link* : https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7705621988279824399   **Short* Bio* of Speaker:*   Adriana Paluszny currently works at the *Imperial College London.* She is currently a Royal Society University Research Fellow.     *Career** : Royal Society Tata University Research Fellow (2018 – 2023)   BP International Centre for Advanced Materials - Researcher (2017-2020)   Visiting Scholar - *Oxford Dept of Materials (2018-2020)*   Research Fellow (2013 – present): Research in the field of fluid flow, fracture growth, interaction, and surface processes developing numerical models to simulate the deformation of rocks, the effect of fractures on flow and the effect of flow on fractures. Finite element based simulation of high-density fractured media, with thermal and poroelastic interactions.   Post-Doc Rio Tinto Centre for Advanced Mineral Recovery, *Imperial College* (2009 – 2013): Undertaking research in the field of rock mechanics, developing numerical models to simulate the deformation, fracture and fragmentation of rocks, using discrete and finite element-based numerical methods.   MCE Anlagenbau (now: Bilfinger Berger Industrial Services), *Vienna, Austria* (2003 – 2005)   *Technical University Vienna,* Vienna, Austria (2002-2003): Visiting Researcher     *Note* : After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. *All participants will receive a participation certificate after the webinar.*

IEMTRONICS 2020 (International IOT, Electronics and Mechatronics Conference) organized by IEM-UEM group in association with IEEE Vancouver section.( online mode) Date:9th-12th September, 2020 Inaugural address by Prof. Dr. Satyajit Chakrabarti, President, IEM-UEM group: 8:00 AM on 9th September, 2020( Vancouver local time)   Research papers submitted: 379 Research papers accepted for publication and registered: 128 Keynote Speakers across the different sessions: • Dr. William Lehr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA • Dr. Gideon Samid, CTO, BitMint, Case Western Reserve University, USA • Dr. Vincent Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA • Dr. Chuck Easttom, University of Dallas, USA & Georgetown University, USA • Dr. Phillip Bradford, University of-Connecticut-Stamford, USA • Dr. Ali Kanso, Senior SW Engineer at Microsoft, USA • Dr. Ayyapparaj Radhakrishnan Ganesan, Vice President, Machine Learning at Morgan Stanley, USA • Dr. Ronald F. DeMara, University of Central Florida, USA • Dr. Scott C. Smith, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA . Research papers from 34 countries ( like USA, Canada, Germany, France, UK, Japan,New Zealand, Russia, Iran, South Africa,UAE, Jordan, Indonesia, Belarus, China, Singapore, South Korea, Mexico, Netherlands and many more) have been received. 86% of the accepted papers are from abroad. The overall acceptance ratio of research papers is about 33%.   All accepted papers which will be presented during the parallel sessions of the Conference will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library (Scopus, DBLP, Ei Compendex, Web of Science and Google Scholar indexed).   To register for the conference, kindly register as attendee in the given link: https://edas.info/registerPerson.php?c=27671. Registration fee is CAD 50. #IEM #IEMTRONICS2020 #conference #upcomingevent

*IEM-UEM* in Association with *_SMART Society, USA_* invites all Alumni, Students, Faculty and Staff to register for and attend IEM/UEM *FOREIGN DISTINGUISHED LECTURE*.   **Speaker* : Prof. Alessandro Vinciarelli, *University of Glasgow, UK*   *Topic:* “ An Introduction to Social AI: Understanding Social Behaviour through Nonverbal Behaviour Analysis"   *Date*: 7 th September, 2020   *Time*: 5:00 PM (IST)   *Link* : https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8223753648729651983   **Short* Bio* of Speaker:*   Alessandro is Full Professor at the School of *Computing Science and Associate Academic* of the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology. Before joining the *University of Glasgow* in 2010, Alessandro has been PhD student and Senior Researcher at the *Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland* (1999-2009) and System Developer for Accenture. He has published more than *150 scientific works (see his Google Scholar profile) and he has been PI and co-PI of 15* national and international projects funded by the European Commission, the Swiss National Science Foundation, The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, The Data Lab, the UK Research and Innovation agency and the Swiss Commission for Innovation and Technology. Furthermore, Alessandro is the *co-founder of Klewel* , a knowledge management company recognised with several national and international awards, and scientific advisor of Neurodata Lab, a top Emotion AI company. Last, but not least, Alessandro has chaired and co-chaired over *25 international scientific events and, in particular, he has been General Chair of the IEEE* International Conference on Social Computing in 2012 and of the ACM International Conference on Multimoda Interaction in 2017. His main research interest is Social Signal Processing, the computing domain aimed at modelling, analysis and synthesis of nonverbal communication in human-human and human-machine interactions.   *Note* : After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. *All participants will receive a participation certificate after the webinar.*

Congratulations.. to Prof. Dr. Soumi Dutta, Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM), Kolkata for completing 12th Coursera Certification, exclusively sponsored by IEM. #IEM #certificationcourse #Python

Taapmaan 2020 Day 2 - Technical talk, CAD o trivia round 2, Energy conservation & Automation challenge - *Registration* *required* in this link .   Greetings of the day !! It gives us immense pleasure to share with you that Bureau of Energy Efficiency(BEE) assign Cell of West Bengal will conduct Technical talk on "Energy Conservation Building Code & Building project case study" in Day 2 of our Taapmaan 2020-Feel the Heat. Webinar can be joined by the Web-link provided below:   Date of Webinar: 3rd September, 2020 (Thursday) Timings: 16:00 to 17:00   All participant of CAD o trivia, Energy conservation and other members & non members request to Register in advance. for this Webinar and join through the link   https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlc-itpzkjGtyVrujkHr8rrlOtNJrSbRGE   After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.   We shall make make CAD o trivia 1st round result announcement on this link only and also Immediately after talk Energy conservation challenge will continue as they were judges in this event. [gallery ids="7889,7891,7892"]

*IEM-UEM* in Association with *_SMART Society, USA_* invites all Alumni, Students, Faculty and Staff to register for and attend IEM/UEM *FOREIGN DISTINGUISHED LECTURE*.   **Speaker* : Prof. Sunday Ekpo, *Manchester University*, U.K   *Topic:* “The Marriage between Radio *Communication and Industry 4.0.”*   *Date*: 1st September, 2020   *Time*: 5:00 PM (IST)   *Link* : https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8898950545208838924   **Short* Bio* of Speaker:*   Sunday Ekpo (M’08) received the M.Sc. degree in communication engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering with specialty in highly adaptive satellite system design; multiphysics design and modeling of radio frequency (RF), microwave, millimeter-wave, and optical transceivers; Internet of things *sensors characterization;* multiobjective system engineering; and complex systems optimization from the *University of Manchester,* Manchester, U.K., in 2008 and 2011, respectively.,He is a Lecturer of Electrical and Electronic Engineering with the *Manchester* Metropolitan University, Manchester, U.K. He is a *Chartered Engineer.,* Dr. Ekpo is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, U.K. He is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, U.K., and the *American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,* USA. (Based on document published on 11 June 2019.   *Note* : After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. *All participants will receive a participation certificate after the webinar.*

Congratulations to all IEM-UEM family members, students, alumni, parents, recruiters, collaborators and friends - IEM has secured All India Rank 49 in the Outlook Engineering College Survey and Rankings. [gallery ids="7866,7867"]