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We wholeheartedly invite all to the webinar "*Unmasking COVID - Leading the way from crisis to safety*" organized by Dept. of BBA(H), Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata   Topic: *Unmasking COVID - Leading the way from crisis to safety*   Speaker: *Dr. Arkajit Bhattacharya , MEDICAL OFFICER, MEDISKY HOSPITAL*   Date: 14/08/2020   Time: 06.00 PM   Webinar Link:   https://zoom.us/j/95397377996?pwd=S1hzT0NOdVhqQXVLRmYwVGZNTWd1Zz09   Meeting ID: 953 9737 7996   Pass code: 750438   **Please join five minutes before the session starts. **E- Certificates will be provided to participants after successful submission of feedback form. Feedback form will be shared in the chat box during session.   About the speaker:   • EX MEDICAL OFFICER, APOLLO GLENEAGLES HOSPITAL (KOLKATA), BINAYAK MULTISPECIALITY HOSPIAL & SRIJONI HEALING HOME • Certified By *World Health Organization* in “INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL (IPC) FOR NOVEL CORONA VIRUS(COVID 19) and COVID-19: OPERATIONAL PLANNING GUIDELINES AND COVID-19 PARTNERS PLATFORM TO SUPPORT COUNTRY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE. • Certified by *HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL* in “ The Impact of COVID-19 in Pediatrics” and *Stanford University School of Medicine* in PROJECT ECHO Diabetes in the TIME of COVID-19: Diabetes Disparities in the Time of COVID-19, medical Grand Rounds: COVID-19 Effects on the Mental Health of Healthcare Workers and strategies to Cope • Ardent researcher in the field of Medical science *PUBLICATIONS* 1. “LOSING THE QUANTUM STATE OF MICROTUBULES TO SOUL : POSSIBILITIES AND CHALLENGES” published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND BIO-SCIENCE (2012 , VOL 1(6)) 2. “POTENTIAL OF MALARIA TRANSMISSION WINDOWS IN AN URBAN AND RURAL AREA OF WEST BENGAL, INDIA” published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND BIO-SCIENCE (2012 , VOL 1(6)) 3. “SOCIOECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINANTS OF MALARIA” published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND BIO-SCIENCE (2013, VOL 2(1)) 4. “RISK FACTORS OF UPPER LIMB MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS OF COMPUTER USERS: A PRELIMINARY REPORT” published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (2013, VOL 4) 5. “DEGREE OF PROTECTION OF PEDESTRIAN ULTRAVIOLET LEVEL BY USING TREE CANOPIES” published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND BIO-SCIENCE (2013, VOL 2(5)) 6. “FUZZY EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR DISEASE DIAGNOSIS” published in IGI GLOBAL (JAN 15) 7. “ASSESSMENT OF HEAT STRESS ON OPEN FIELD WORKERS AT FOUR INDIAN COASTAL STATIONS” published in “ INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY” (MARCH,2016) 8. A REVIEW ON THE OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH OF SUGAR CANE WORKERS” published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH (2016) 9. “A REVIEW ON THE HEALTH STATUS OF TEXTILE DYEING WORKERS” published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (AUGUST,2016) 10. “OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH STATUS OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS : A REVIEW” published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC HEALTH (2017, VOL 6, ISSUE 4) 11. “WORK-RELATED MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS: A CASE STUDY AMONG MALE MOLASSES WORKERS IN NADIA DISTRICT OF WEST BENGAL, INDIA” published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC HEALTH (2017, VOL 6, ISSUE 12) 12. “A JOURNEY THROUGH HEAT STRESSES AND ITS IMPACT ON POPULATION” published in TECHNO INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH, ENGINEERING, MANAGEMENT & SCIENCE 13. “PREVALENCE OF MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS AMONG SHOE MANUFACTURING WORKERS: A CASE STUDY” published in JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, HEALTH AND MANAGEMENT

"It’s time that we start structuring our own products” Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM), Kolkata undergrads Develop an App to make our daily life easy! Ankita De Prajata Samanta Sourajit Basu just made life easy for people around them by coming up with #SnapLingo, an app that takes care of everything from document scanning and editing, creating password-protected PDFs to scanning and generating QR codes. SNAPLINGO got mentioned in ABP EDUCATION Please do support their effort https://www.abpeducation.com/news/kolkata-undergrads-develop-utility-app-snaplingo-to-make-daily-life-easy-1.1189329

IEMPHYIAD 2020 : 3RD ONLINE INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS OLYMPIAD   Organized by SMART Society USA & Sponsored by Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata in Collaboration with IEM - AIP Society of Physics Students (SPS) Chapter   Register at : https://forms.gle/2YDPs9YLZdfuNWLr6   Registration is free of cost   _Date: 05.09.2020_ _Time: 9AM to 9PM_   Google Classroom code : *ipgentj*   _Join the Google Classroom and fill up the Registration form for participating in the Olympiad_   *_Total Prize Money of $300 & e-Certificate for top 100 candidates_*   _Rules and Regulations may be found in the Registration Form_   Contact at : [email protected]_ #IEM #IEMPHYIAD2020 #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. Barbara Rossi, *The Oxford University*, UK   *Topic:* Introduction to Bridges & Dry Stone Bridges   *Date*: 13 th August, 2020   *Time*: 5:00 PM (IST)   *Link* : https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7871723010009084427   *Short* Bio* of Speaker: Professor Barbara Rossi was born in Liège. She joined the *University of Oxford* in March 2019 as Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Engineering Science. Prior to being appointed as a tenure-track associate professor at the University of Oxford, she was an associate professor in *Engineering Technology at KU Leuven in Belgium,* where she led a research group exploring the structural behaviour of metallic structures. Over the last ten years, she has also branched into the research area of life-cycle analysis and sustainability applied to steel construction.   *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.*

ASME IEM Student Chapter & SAE-IEM Colligate Club in association with Imperial Society of Innovative Engineers is organizing a online workshop on architecture of Electric Vehicles with emphasis on Matlab Simulation by external industry experts from 12th – 14th August, 2020. #IEM #workshoponline www.iem.edu.in

*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* : Sebastian Kahlert, *ETH ZURICH, Switzerland*   *Topic:* Plastic Recycling in Circular Economy   *Date*: 12 th August, 2020   *Time*: 5:00 PM (IST)   *Link* : https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4456891682756588557   *Short Bio* of Speaker: Sebastian Joined Group for Sus­tain­ab­il­ity and Tech­no­logy in Janu­ary 2020. Previously he stud­ied Man­age­ment and Tech­no­logy at the *Tech­nical Uni­ver­sity of Mu­nich (Ger­many)* and the Shang­hai Jiao Tong Uni­ver­sity (China). Dur­ing his stud­ies, he fo­cussed on lo­gist­ics, re­new­able en­er­gies and elec­tric mo­bil­ity. In his mas­ter thesis, Se­bastian de­veloped an agent based model to sim­u­late the dif­fu­sion of elec­tric vehicles to­gether with the auto­mot­ive con­sult­ing com­pany FEV. Prior to join­ing SusTec, Se­bastian worked at *McKin­sey & Com­pany* as a man­age­ment con­sult­ant fo­cus­ing on di­git­iz­a­tion and re­source pro­ductiv­ity. Fur­ther­more, he foun­ded and cur­rently co-​leads the Ger­man Green Teams to im­prove the eco­lo­gical sus­tain­ab­il­ity at the com­pany.   *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 and UEM family members for ranking 1st and 3rd in West Bengal Private Engineering College Rankings by Times of India in today's newspaper. [gallery ids="7733,7734,7735"]

The global pandemic caused by the Covid 19 virus has brought the whole world to its knees, and as we flounder to get our bearings, technology comes to the rescue once again. Four of our brilliant, quick thinking members devised a solution crafted specially for India to help curb the spread in a scientifically proven manner.   They developed an application to track the possible transmission of the virus from an unaware infected person to other healthy people. This novel app collects travel history information from its users to create a dynamic database and correlates this database with the travel history of an infected person as soon as a fresh case is detected. This allows identification of unaware yet affected people to speed up manifold in the incubation period of the virus.   On one hand the app would collect travel and interaction information from individuals and subsequently compare those with information of COVID-19 affected persons uploaded by the Govt, and rapid identification of possible transmission with valid social markers would be possible. On the other hand there would be provisions in the app through which doctors/ concerned Govt. authorities would be able to keep track of the increasing number of people who are in enforced quarantine or home quarantine and those who are released from the hospitals after being cured.   One of our on campus startups, applex.in developed this app, and this went on to win the cash prize of 1000 USD as one of the top 10 applications out of 4338 teams, in the 72 hours hackathon- Code19 by Motwani Jadeja Foundation on 10th April, 2020.   IEM IEDC salutes these innovative young minds who are fighting and building strategies daily to make this uncertain situation manageable, and help out in any way possible. We wish them all the best for any future endeavours that are sure to leave an even bigger impact. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://media.iem.edu.in/uploads/2020/08/VID-20200808-WA0003.mp4"][/video]

Prof. Avijit Bose of Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM), Kolkata shared about the IEM-IEDC Project series no-7 Members of IEM-IEDC developed an application to track the possible transmission of the virus from an unaware infected person to other healthy people. This novel app collects travel history information from its users to create a dynamic database and correlates this database with the travel history of an infected person as soon as a fresh case is detected. This allows identification of unaware yet affected people to speed up manifold in the incubation period of the virus. On one hand the app would collect travel and interaction information from individuals and subsequently compare those with information of COVID-19 affected persons uploaded by the Govt, and rapid identification of possible transmission with valid social markers would be possible. On the other hand there would be provisions in the app through which doctors/ concerned Govt. authorities would be able to keep track of the increasing number of people who are in enforced quarantine or home quarantine and those who are released from the hospitals after being cured. One of our on campus startups, applex.in developed this app, and this went on to win the cash prize of 1000 USD as one of the top 10 applications out of 4338 teams, in the 72 hours hackathon- Code19 by Motwani Jadeja Foundation on 10th April, 2020. IEM-IEDC salutes these innovative young minds who are fighting and building strategies daily to make this uncertain situation manageable, and help out in any way possible. We wish them all the best for any future endeavours that are sure to leave an even bigger impact. #IEM #appdevelopment #innovation #makeindia #entrepreneurship #changemakers #socialgood #COVID19 #solutionprovider