News & Achievements

  Let us be proud of our heritage and what our honourable President & Director of IEM Kolkata achieved for IEM over the years. Nearly 32 years later we have to continue like before to inspire women at large to join Inner Wheel (part of Rotary Club Association) by being innovative in our efforts in this ever changing world. Let us prove that whatever be the size of our Club or wherever we are, together we can support each other in our projects, both among our own communities & communities abroad. Keeping this in mind yesterday i.e. on 30th June 2020, Inner Wheel Charter Presentation Ceremony took place at 2:00 PM in IEM, Management House & on Zoom platform. The event was both Online & Offline. Inner Wheel Club of IEM, Kolkata received its Charter from District Chairman Dr. Ruchi Gupta... Few glimpse of the event are given below.. #iem #innerwheelclub

IEM-IEDC Tech series- Project Story 2:   The hassle of conducting a fair election is one of the biggest issues that plague governments, and misconduct in such an important process poses a serious threat to the integrity and harmony of a country, state or council. Rigging the EVM (electronic voting machine) is one of the most common ways this crime is committed at the ground level. The EVM is usually a box with many labelled buttons with names of candidates of different political parties, and the vote is cast when the voter presses a certain button and the box records the vote. But being counter based, the button can be pressed by a single person multiple times, thus increasing the voting numbers. To challenge this unfair violation, Rakesh Seal and Sayanti Jana have come up with a unique solution which is up for a patent consideration.   Their concept is to implement a biometric fingerprint scanner and secure database into the EVM, making it possible to give one legal vote only for one person. The system encrypts the users' fingerprint data, and stores it in the local machine, rendering the machine unable to accept another vote for the same person. The machine has two states, unusable and usable. Only when a new fingerprint, ie, a new person, tries to cast their vote, does the machine go to the usable state. In case that same voter tries to vote again, an alarm is activated alerting officials of the fraudster, while the machine itself goes into idle state to prevent anyone from misusing it. The machine also reverts back to the unusable state immediately after a vote is cast, and does not take a vote until a finger is placed, thus effectively covering all bases to ensure a malpractice free voting process.   The security of this system is automated by verification with a local database before allowing a voter to vote, as well as allowing the votes to be counted and released only as a whole "result", thus also protecting the identity of the voter, and making the whole process more secure and efficient.   Rakesh and Sayanti targeted governmental agencies as the major potential client, and hence the security and optimisation of the process was of the utmost importance.   IEM-IEDC is proud of them for pioneering this brilliant project, and hopes to see more ingenious developments from them in future.   We got national news coverage for the same-   Zee News- https://zeenews.india.com/hindi/lok-sabha-elections/engineering-student-rakesh-sheel-made-modified-evm-in-kolkata/492115   News18 Bangla- https://bengali.news18.com/videos/kolkata/smart-evm-fingerprint-authentication-to-protect-against-duplicate-votes-264415.html   #IEM #INNOVATION #ENTREPRENEURSHIP #EVM #INCUBATION #RESEARCH #STUDENTS #STARTUPS #PIONEER Article courtesy: Avijit Bose [video width="640" height="352" mp4="https://media.iem.edu.in/uploads/2020/06/VID-20200630-WA0013.mp4"][/video]

Webinar on – 'Inspection & Testing in Welding’ Date : 2nd July 2020 Time: 2.00pm Speaker : Mr. Rituraj Bose, Hony. Secy General, IIW-India. Organiser: The Indian Institute of Welding (IIW-India), Kolkata Branch. Open for IIW-IEM Students' Chapter. #IEM #IIW #webinar #upcomingevent

Department of Management, IEM presents webinar on "HR Story Telling- From Database" by Prof. (Dr.) Kalyan Sengupta, Professor at IFIM Business School, Bangalore on 4th July 2020 from 3pm to 6pm. #iem #webinar #upcomingevent

Dr. Celia Shahnaz, Ph.D. SMIEEE, FIEB Professor, Department of EEE, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Chair, IEEE Bangladesh Section, Candidate for 2021-22 IEEE Region 10 Director-Elect/Delegate-Elect will give keynote speech on Topic: Deep Learning for Impactful Smart Technologies to support SDGsSDGs from 2nd to 4th July 2020 at IEMIS 2020. #iem_kolkata #IEMIS2020 #internationalconference

We are happy to share that Dr. Supavadee Aramvith, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand will be delivering Keynote speech in IEMIS 2020 on Topic: AI based video analytics on 2nd to 4th July 2020. Dr. Supavadee Aramvith is Candidate, 2021-2022 IEEE Region 10 Director-Elect. #iem #IEMIS2020 #keynotespeaker

70 students of IEM attended student customised Cold storage design basics webinar as executed by ISHRAE HQ. This is helping to get nation's best speaker for our student members with learning from Industry expert. [gallery ids="7360,7361,7362,7363,7364"]

#Story of Young Entrepreneurs series: #Story Number :2   #IEM #ALUMNI We sat down with the team of the highly successful Drivers4Me to map their trail from concept to launch, and to bring to you the extraordinary journeys of your alumnus. We applaud their dedication, expertise and devotion to solving one of the myriad problems that plague us in our everyday lives. Read a first hand account of how they got inspired to create this business model.   "The drive to create a reliable online platform for hiring professional drivers came early in our college days. We were familiar with the existing driver hiring system - through local "driver centres" and through occasional first hand experiences and those of friends, family and relatives, we knew that this was a highly limited and failing system that needed change. We realised that, with the rise in smartphone usage, and the significant growth of the Automobile industry, an online solution to driver hiring was the need of the hour.   We are a group of 5 Computer Science Engineers, all hailing from the Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM), Kolkata, who launched Drivers4Me, our dream project in 2018. My team members are Paramartha Saha, Prachatos Mitra, Ronit Ray and Rajarshi Basu.   We were studying the existing system of driver hiring in East India predominated by local driver centres. The system was severely flawed as it lacked reliability, professionalism, and a standard pricing model. The driver centres were not big on customer experience, could not be scaled and made little or no use of common-place technology (smartphones and the internet). Booking was a tedious process and you had to make several phone calls to get the best deals on service. In addition to owners of private cars, businesses where the movement of cars are involved, require these services. This includes key players in the Transportation industry.   Our work began with a PoC in 2017 by developing mobile apps for the customers and the drivers. Upon releasing them, we received an astounding response from the users and had already completed 300 trips by the end of the year. Back then we were in our makeshift "office" Ashram Campus - a gesture of motivation from our College Founder Director. As my team mate Ronit recalls, "One of the main reasons for our initial success and growth is because of our CS (Computer Science) background, and also because we handled everything (app & web development, operations, finances, driver hiring & training) ourselves, instead of using 3rd party service providers." Our ecstasy at the initial success almost scared the newly admitted candidates away! Emboldened by our progress, we continued to strive forward. By December 2018, with 5000+ trips and introduction of B2B services, Drivers4Me was official! From that point, there was no turning back. We had all secured campus placements, but we took the entrepreneurial plunge eventually. My other team mate Paramartha Saha mentions, "Creating a successful startup was always my dream and every day we are coming one step closer to make it come true. We need support from everyone to make it successful. We have seen demand for this service, all we need is more people to try it out. Leaving a job and starting a business is always a hard decision to make not knowing whether it will be successful or not, but I am happy that I made that choice."   The early phases of a startup are the real testing times, but, with the motivation and sticktoit-iveness of the team that we have overcome hurdle after hurdle. We had to work through problems such as what would make us attractive to users and what would be our unique features. We realised early on that, the best way to cater to a market of this magnitude was to go online! "We were inspired by other offline services that went online to use technology for improving customer experience in driver hiring. We have useful features such as driver tracking, online payment, custom trip types built into our app. Moreover, we are using AI models to match customers to drivers they prefer while keeping price competitive with other players", says my friend and co-partner Prachatos. We had to brainstorm to figure out what would make Drivers4Me a viable choice from the Driver's point of view as well. We understood that to build a system which can deliver, we needed to focus on both our stakeholders - the customer and the driver. One of our core members, Rajarshi Basu reiterates that at Drivers4Me, we provide insurance, perks, training, grooming and feedback support which go a long way in a driver's welfare and to strengthen the company's relationship with them. Besides the low commission rates, such options make us an appealing choice for them. These were some of the several key questions we had to answer to pave the way for growth. From rooftop meetings to expanding in a new city in October 2019 to the present user base of 20000+ and over 850 drivers, we have persevered together through thick and thin.   We have met and worked with several unique and talented individuals. We brought Hillol Barman - a highly talented and creative individual and a true wizard with the graphical elements, into our journey and he has been with us ever since. "I joined the team a few months after they had formed. As a newbie designer for a company, every single sector starting from promotional flyer to user interface was a challenge for me. Till this day, every time I face new challenges and motivate myself by acquiring those. To expand the learning curve, I am also learning the front end of app and web development from the team members. I can see my future career here with my team very promising and this has been all possible for the good teamwork and understanding among us.", Hillol says.   We have come a long way in our venture, but we still have much further to go. The interest our product has garnered among the masses especially with noteworthy articles in several esteemed newspapers (such as the Times of India, Anandabazar Patrika, The Telegraph and many others is quite remarkable. Apart from Kolkata we provide services to a few of our big business (B2B) clients namely Cars24, Zoomcar, Revv, JW Marriott - in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad & Pune, in near future we shall start app-based B2C (individual customer) services in these cities. We have also thought of integrating more services into our app in the future like shuttle, carpooling, cab service, car servicing, etc. It is our goal to make Drivers4Me the one-stop App solution to all your transportation and car-related problems."   -Rajarshi Nag Owner, Drivers4Me #Alumni, #IEM Kolkata   #IEM #INNOVATION #YOUNG #ENTREPRENEURS #TEAM   Article courtesy: Prof. Avijit Bose, IEM [gallery ids="7350,7351,7352,7353,7354,7355"]  

Presenting Weeklong Quiz by SAE IEM Collegiate Club. Browse your social media and when the clock strikes 6, see our status, where you will find the questions. You can answer by replying to it. 7 days quiz starts on 27th of June at 06:00 pm, so gear up and follow our pages to get the questions. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saeiem/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/saeiemclub?igshid=e0jujlpw4tz8