Dear all, You can now access the Feb 2013 issue of IEEE India Info, the newsletter of the IEEE India Council at http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/icnl/1302/icnl-iii-2013-02.pdf and also at the India Council website http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/india_council/newsletters/2013/feb13.pdf You are free to forward this mail to your contacts who may like the information presented in the mail. Pl. provide your feedback by email to ieeeindiainfo@gmail.com With regards HR Mohan Editor IEEE India Info Chairman, IEEE CS & PCS Madras http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/ Contents ======== http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/icnl/1302/index.html -- Message from Chairman -- Message from Editor -- The Art of Teaching -- Technical Education Needs Improvements -- IT in January 2013 -- News from Sections: Kolkata, Madras -- Forthcoming Events -- Information Resources -- Book: Signals and Systems(Wiley India) -- Book: Paths of Innovators (Volume 2) (Universities Press) -- TechQuiz 2013-02 -- Announcements TechQuiz – 2013-02 =============== (Two Prizes to win. Books reviewed in this issue will be presented to the winners) 1. Which one of these four countries has the dubious distinction of having 16 out of 20 most polluting cities? US, China, UK, India. 2. Mechatronics is a design process that includes a combination of Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Control engineering and Computer engineering. Who had coined the term "mechatronics"? 3. ------ is the new MPEG video compression standard introduced recently and this will be twice as efficient as the current standards. 4. What is the tagline/slogan of IEEE? 5. Who had devised or introduced the “Three Laws of Robotics”? Email your answers by 15th Mar 2013 to ieee.techquiz@gmail.com with subject “techquiz-2013-02”. Please provide your name, designation, company/institution, full postal address (to send the prize) and the contact phone nos. after the answers. There are TWO prizes to win. These prizes will be in the form of books which are briefly reviewed in this edition of the newsletter. They are being offered by Wiley India Pvt. Ltd (www.wileyindia.com) and Universities Press (www.universitiespress.com). Answers along with the winners’ info will be published in the next issue. Answers & Winners of TechQuiz-2013-01 ================================= Lithium-Ion Batteries, France, TCP/IP, IRE, Čapek, Karel “Electromagnetic Field Theory and Transmission Lines” from WileyIndia to Sumit Soman (Delhi) “Paths of Innovators (Volume I)” from Universities Press to Roshan U. Hamza, (Calicut) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.