Letter from the [Campus] Editor:

TechNews | Tuesday, April 29, 2014

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Vijai Baskar
COPY EDITOR

The IEEE PES Transmission and
Distribution (T 8r D) Conference and Exposi-
tion, was held at the McCormick place from
April 14 to 17. It is one of the biggest events
among industries within electrical engineer-
ing hosted by IEEE Power and Energy Society
(PBS) and attended by all the companies asso-
ciated in the field of power including bigwigs
such as Siemens, ABB, and ComEd. This event
is held once in two years and this time it was
held at Chicago.

The IEEE @ IIT student branch
sponsored a total of 40 students to attend
this event. There were more than 700 booths
at the conference. These booths had exhibits
by various electrical , companies showcasing
their new research, products and services that
they provide regarding to power systems and
its components like generation, transmission,
distribution, and protection equipment and
other modern software technologies employed
by various utilities in USA.

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. Utsav Gmdhi
CAMPUS EDlTOR

substatiOfis energy development, transmis—
sion, and distribution. There were also panel
sessions, which discussed about electrical
technologies and tech tours to various energy
centers at Exelon and ComEd.

As part of the collegiate programs
for the students, there were dinner and lun-
cheon sessions where students from various
universities got together and discussed about
their course work and research extending their
network Also, there were fun events like reli-
ability killers and scavenger hunts where par—
ticipants had a chance to wind out of the tight
sessionsTne overall conference was an extrav—
agant event. It helped the students a lot as they
learnt about the latest trends in the industry
and the products being developed by electrical
companies.

This event mainly enabled students
to connect with their peers and potential em-
ployers thus expanding a network where the
current engineers in the field are more aware
about new career perspectives. The ECE De—
partment Chair, Dr. Ashfaq Khokhar, mainly
encouraged the significant effort taken by the
student branch.

Photo by Vijai Baskar