Bangalore Named SSCS Outstanding Chapter for 2003

Navakanta Bhat accepting the SSCS Outstanding Chapter Award for Bangalore from Steve Lewis, Society president.

The SSCS Outstanding Chapter Award is given to a chapter that has shown excellent leadership and initiative in organizing activities. Selection is based the quality and quantity of activities and programs, the benefits for local members, successful outreach to the professional community, and growth in chapter membership.
The recipient of this year’s award is the Bangalore, India, Chapter, which has excelled in each of the above criteria. Although the Bangalore Chapter is one of the newest chapters, it is also one of the most active ones in organizing educational activities and stimulating membership growth.
The Bangalore Chapter has organized two workshops, a Short Course, and an impressive list of Distinguished Lectures and seminars. “The officers under the leadership of Professor Navakanta Bhat deserve our warm congratulations in making the Bangalore Chapter one of the most dynamic and successful ones among the 48 SSCS chapters,” said Jan Vander Spiegel, the SSCS Chapters Coordinator.
Established in October 2001, the joint SSCS and EDS Bangalore Chapter is off to a fine start with quite a few educational activities in areas spanning both electron devices and solid-state circuits. Their events attract students and are well accepted by local professionals—as shown by the number of attendees. The Society maintains a Web site to publicize events and utilizes the Bangalore Section newsletter. This is the fourth chapter in the IEEE Bangalore Section.
The fact that this chapter is a joint SSCS and EDS activity is a reflection of the coupling between the device domain and circuit domain that has become extremely strong in state-of-the-art semiconductor technologies. These fields cannot be viewed in isolation—the future requires a broader perspective. In fact, device scaling towards atomic scale and the complexity of circuits in System On a Chip (SOC) will make this coupling stronger and also will encompass other domains such as mechanical, optical, and biological fields. The International Technology Roadap for Semiconductors (public.itrs.net/) is an authoritative reference for this perspective.