GAABESU
Dear Members,
This is the second report after a new GAABESU Executive Committee (EC) took over in late-August 2023. The first report was issued on 24th September 2023.
10th Alumni Day was very successfully completed on schedule, with a pre-cursor webinar on 23rd December ’23. A separate report on Alumni Day is also being sent separately and also be put on our website.
You can read the “Alumni Link” Puja edition by clicking the link given below:
https://www.gaabesu.in/mt-content/uploads/2023/10/alumni-link-puja-edition-1st-nov-2023.pdf
- GAABESU Scholarship, Alumni Fellowship for Excellence and Research Award programme is going on
GAABESU announced Scholarship, Alumni Fellowship for Excellence and Research Award for the Academic year 2023-24. There are 95 “Need Based” Scholarships of value Rs 14,12,000/-. Besides, 4 Special Scholarships for 1st Year Students of total Rs 1,00,000/-with 4 Book Grants of Rs. 12,000/- were also announced. Total committed amount for this year is Rs. 15,24,000/-. A list of available Scholarships has been displayed at the GAABESU Website and notice board and it will be updated from time to time.
- GAABESU Scholarship Programme Announcement for 2023-24
Link: https://www.gaabesu.in/mt-content/uploads/2023/12/gaabesu-scholarship-announcement_2023-24.pdf
In addition to Scholarships, “Alumni Fellowship for Excellence” (AFE) with at least 24 awards, of total value of Rs. 5,07,500/- will be awarded to IIEST students this year, from the corpus funds donated by alumni worldwide.
- GAABESU AFE Awards Announcement for 2023-24
Link : https://www.gaabesu.in/mt-content/uploads/2024/01/gaabesu-afe-awards-announcement-2023-24.pdf
“GAABESU Research Award” with 10 Awards, of total value 2,50,000/- will be awarded to IIEST UG and PG students this year.
- GAABESU Research Award details Link :
https://gaabesu.in/scholarships/alumni-research-awards/
Research Award online PPT presentation by the applicants is scheduled to be held on 3rd February 2024 at 8 pm (IST).
- A report on 10th Alumni Day;
A report on 10th Alumni Day put in our website ( https://www.gaabesu.in/blog/10th-alumni-day-report-2023/ )
Please send your feedback/suggestion by fill up the Google form clicking the link given here: https://forms.gle/AEhN4AxZwtqEFEjH7
- GAABESU Travel Grant Programme:
This program is solely intended for the present students of IIEST, Shibpur. Partial assistance is provided to students for attending national/international Conferences/Seminars of repute. These also include seminars, conferences, innovative design competitions, research paper presentation and receiving of awards of international repute (only if the work was done at IIEST, Shibpur or the awardee is the principal investigator of the work), international students’ summit etc, subject to certification by IIEST respective department head and acceptance by GAABESU.
In 2023 the Travel Grant Committee sanctioned Rs.40,000/- Travel Grant to Aman Gupta, a PhD scholar, Architecture & Planning, IIEST, Shibpur, working under the supervision of Dr. Bhaskar De. GAABESU funded his attendance at the IEREK Conference on Urban Planning and Architectural Design for Sustainable Development (UPADSD)- 8th Edition, scheduled from 24.10.2023 to 26.10. 2023 at the University of Florence, Italy.
Travel Grant committee sanctioned Rs.20,000.00 to Anuvab Sen (2020ETB047), a student of 4th year ETC Department, IIEST, Shibpur. He successfully participated and presented his paper titled "A Comparative Analysis on Metaheuristic Algorithms Based Vision Transformer Model for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease" at the 15th IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN), Bangkok, Thailand scheduled during 22-23rd Dec 2023.
Travel Grant committee sanctioned her Rs.14,000.00 to Satota Mandal, currently enrolled as third-year B.Tech student majoring in Information Technology at IIEST Shibpur. Her paper "A Photoplethysmography (PPG) Sensor based Stress Level Monitoring System for Undergraduate Students of Technical Education" under the guidance of Prof. Ruchira Naskar has been accepted in the IEEE INDICON 2023 Conference.
- Creation of new Asst. Secretary post (Ad Hoc);
Parnab Sinha (2012-CE) is appointed as Asst Secretary. Parnab was a recipient of GAABESU Scholarship and wanted to serve GAABESU and his alma mater in a more substantial way.
EC members expect him to take lead in all "Student-Connect" activities, being the youngest in the sub-committee, a representative of the present millennium, and also still being close to present students. This would generally include ensuring student-volunteer participation in Alumni Day preparation activities, student participation in all seminars (online or offline), regular interaction with student bodies (including student senate GS), helping students & GAABESU for Scholarships, AFE/Research awards, Travel Grants, etc. For any help, he can always ask the EC, GAABESU Office or any member, specifically.
- New membership September 2023 to January 2024
It was decided by the Executive Committee that no advance approval will be needed for new membership. 89 new members were added during the above period. After the new EC took over in end-Aug 2023, the new membership number is 120+.
- New Permanent Invitees (PI);
It was proposed and decided in the 117th EC meeting (held on 04/11/2023) to request Prof. Arun Deb, former President-GAABESU to join EC as a ‘Permanent Invitee’. He has kindly agreed. We are still continuing our search for a person of high industrial background and a Lady candidate for the PI position.
- Seminar Update:
Seminar committee, in collaboration with IIEST Civil Engineering Department, has arranged a Seminar on 'What an Employer Expects from Fresh Engineering Graduates' on 11th Oct 2023 in the campus. Also, as part of 10th Global Alumni Day, an online Seminar was arranged on 23rd December 2023, where we gave a warm welcome to our new Chairperson of the Board of Governors of IIEST, Ms. Tejaswini Anath Kumar. She participated in the seminar very gracefully and expressed her futuristic views for IIEST.
A new initiative has been taken by alumni supported by GAABESU, titled “IIEST Alumni Networking Project Team”, with a new team of volunteers. They have also arranged following webinars during this period.
- Sharing an amazing journey from Muchipara to MIT @ Sat Dec 2, 2023: https://gaabesu.in/blog/an-amazing-journey-from-muchipara-to-mit/
- Understanding Different Leadership Styles: Adapting Styles in Various Situations Sunday, January 28, 2024 - https://www.youtube.com/live/qY52u9z0IHM?
Some more such programs are in the pipeline:
- Research presentations by IIEST Students: Feb 3, 2024 08:00 PM
- Data Science - Future and How to Prepare @: Saturday, February 10 2024;
- Obituary: September 2023 -- January 24:
It is sad to mention here that during the period September 2023 to January 2024, we lost our following beloved Alumni:
GAABESU joins hands with the bereaved families in their prayers to grant the departed souls to rest in peace, and pray to God, the Almighty, to give strength and courage to bear with their irreparable losses.
With regards,
Prosenjit Chakraborty
Secretary, GAABESU
