Date- 16 Nov. 2016

Convener- Dr. Rajesh Singh

It gives me immense pleasure to share that the department of Electronics, Instrumentation and Control Engineering of University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, organized a national seminar on “Growth Driven New Capabilities in Electronic Design and Innovation in Industries and its Positive Impact on Job Opportunities” on 15^th Nov 2016 at

The Aim of the Seminar was to gather Industrialist and academicians from all over India and provide platform for students to interact with them and get aware about job opportunities and preparation for it, in the field of Electronics and Instrumentation.

I would like to thank our honorable chancellor Dr.S.J.Chopra, CEO & President Mr.Utpal Ghosh, Vice chancellor Dr. Shrihari Honwad, Mr. Sanjeev Zutshi- Senior Director-Operation& Institutional affairs, Mr. Arun Dhand, Director-government operations, Vice President-Academic Affairs Dr. S.R.Das, Dean CoES Dr. Kamal Bansal, Brig. S.S Dhillion, Director- Admin management, Brig. Anil Sharma , Director- DSA, Associate deans Dr. Suresh Kumar, Dr. Piyush Kuchhal, Dr. Manish Parteek, Dr. S.K. Banarjee, Prof. S.C Gupta, and HoD(EIC dept) Dr. Sushabhan Choudhury for providing us this platform to gather the academicians and industrialist, from all over the country.

Total four experts from industries and two experts from academics were invited for their expert lectures on the topic.

The event was started with the presence of Dr. kamal Bansal- Dean(CoES), Dr. Suresh Kumar- Assoc. Dean(CoES), Dr. Piyush Kuchhal- Assoc. Dean(CoES), Experts, Faculty members and students, followed by lighting of lamp, UPES Geet, welcome speech by Dr. Suresh Kumar. Dr. Sushabhan Choudhary addressed the gathering and motivated students towards innovation.

Guest of honor- Mr. P. Joshi from L&T encourages team building competency and skill enhancement in students.

Chief Guest- Mr. Pankaj Mishra, President, Uttrakhand Industrial Association, emphasized on creativity, Encourage entrepreneurship and suggested students to do complete and honest SWORT analysis of themselves and the work on it to improvise themselves.

The event included expert talks by all experts and then panel discussion was held which was chaired by Mr. P.Joshi Chief business development officer-L &T and Co-Chaired by Mr. S. Vijay Anand, Director-Aricent technologies.

Project Exhibition was inaugurated by Chief guest and the projects developed by students were appreciated by all the experts.

Expert 1- Mr. P. Joshi, Chief Business development officer- L&T, New Delhi.

Title- “Emerging prospects in Electronics Instrumentation and Control – The way forward for Youngsters”

He introduced students with latest ongoing and upcoming projects L&T is doing like Nuclear Submarine, Smart cities, IOT, Megacities, Thermal Power plant, Construction and Assembly of Nuclear Power Plant, over bridges, Desalination of water, Satellite Launching, Nuclear Submarine, etc. He provided mantras of success which include Domain Knowledge and its application, Observational Skills, Team Player, Good Communicator and Listener, able to ideate –out of box thinkers, willing to take risks and accountability for failure, better logical ability and better Emotional balance. End his speech by suggesting students to take part in group activity, documenting you achievements, increase awareness and take membership of IEEE. 

Expert 2- Prof. D.V. Gadre, Associate Professor & Director- Texas instruments analog design lab, NSIT, Delhi

Title- “Fifty Shades of Engineers, Blue Collar experience with White collar Engineers”

He began with the history of world manufacturing and then he gave the clear picture of different job opportunities method developed outside India. He encourages students to get hands on experience of work so that they can have masters in that and they will become company ready product. He get aware the students regarding “DIY”- “Do it yourself” Concept in America, “LAB- Lab aboard a Box”.

Expert 3- Mr. S. Vijay Anand, Director- Aricent Technologies, Chennai

Title- “Industry Transformation for the connected city/connected world”

He discussed the Internet Evolution which connects the different device with each other like machine to machine interaction, Internet of Things, Internet of Vehicles, Internet of Energy, etc.  He discussed different key trends on connected car, Connected Bike Ecosystem, connected flight ecosystem, etc. which introduce the huge job opportunities of electronics engineers in Automobile Industries.

Expert 4- Dr. R.K.Singh, Director- BTKIT, KEC dwarahat, Almora, Uttrakhand

Title-“Optical Fiber Communication System”

He gave a glance of optical fiber communication, optical amplifiers, etc. and Characteristics of optical amplifiers, how the reshaping of signal, Opto-electronic Conversion and Need of Optical fiber communication system is discussed in detail.

Expert 5- Mr. Abhishek Agarwal, Manager (Telecom), Power grid Corp. of India Ltd.

Title-“Growth Driven New Capabilities in Electronic Design and Innovation in Industries and its Positive Impact on Job Opportunities”

He introduced students to new job opportunities Government Sector like Broadband Highway, Universal Access of Phones, Public interest Access Program, Electronic Manufacturing program-“Target Net Zero Import”, etc. and make students aware regarding job of Electronics Engineers in “Power Grid” because of new technology of Mobile communication based on Power grid Network.