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2001 EDS Chapter of the Year Award
On December 3, 2001, at the IEDM held in Washington
DC, the AP/ED Bombay Chapter received the EDS Chapter of the Year
Award which included a certificate and check for $1,000. The IEEE AP/ED Bombay Chapter is a relatively new
Chapter, formed in late 1999, and formally inaugurated on February
14, 2000, with Dr. Hiroshi Iwai, Chairman of the EDS Regions/Chapters
Committee, and Dr. Renuka Jindal, Partner of the newly-formed
Chapter, in attendance. The major event during this period was the co-sponsorship
of the symposium “VLSI: Systems, Design and Technology”
organized in Bombay during December 9-11, 2001. This symposium
attracted over 300 delegates. One of the invited speakers was
Dr. Xing Zhou, who attended the symposium as a Distinguished Lecturer
with EDS support. The Chapter also conducted two workshops during
this period. These were a one-day workshop on “Microelectronics”
conducted on August 27, 2000 at a local engineering college to
acquaint the IEEE Bombay Section students with the recent advances
in Microelectronics; and a half-day workshop on “Micro-electro-mechanical
Systems (MEMS)” on March 21, 2001, conducted by Dr. Prakash
Apte, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Both workshops were
very successful, and were attended by about 150 persons. The Chapter also conducted a Panel Discussion on
“Careers in VLSI in India” on September 6, 2000. The
panelists included 4 persons from leading VLSI industries in India,
and 2 from academia. This event, which attracted about 150 people,
was also extremely successful, and helped create awareness about
exciting career opportunities in VLSI now available in India.
The Chapter arranged a screening of the 1999 IEDM Short Course videos on “Sub-100 nm CMOS” on August 29 and 30, 2000. This was attended by about 50 researchers and students working in the area of MOS devices. In addition to the above activities, the Chapter organized 12 technical talks and seminars on various aspects related to Electron Devices, which included two distinguished lectures. |