Category: 2017

Mentoring

Stem Picks Up Steam Via IBM & ASEI Silicon Valley

STEM is essential to Innovation and competitiveness and American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin is firmly committed to this objective. ASEI has been engaged in community giveback since its inception in 1983 and the Silicon Valley chapter was formed in 2015 to focus on skill building in STEM and innovation On Feb 2nd, 2016 driven by IBM On Demand Community Volunteers, ASEI helped organize a Job Shadowing Day at IBM North San Jose Campus. Around 50 High Schoolers from Alameda were invited to visit and interact with technical staff, researchers and executives from various parts of IBM. They presented a series of tech talks covering latest trends and accomplishments in cloud, data, mobile, Internet of Things, Cognitive as well as basic sciences like chemistry and physics and also hands on activities in design thinking for students as part of Job shadowing day activities sponsored by IBM site executives and local IBM Academy of Technology Affiliate. That day, ASEI Silicon valley also sponsored an essay contest for these attendee students and the best 3 reports were awarded certificates and prizes
 
Here is a summary video from the event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=194&v=kqT7H6-kab4
 
Feel free to share and be in touch if you would like to get involved in ASEI community giveback activities. Stay tuned for more!
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/community-giveback-stem-focus-asei-silicon-valley-asei-silicon-valley

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ASEI Orgnizes Successful 32nd Annual Convention

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ASEI ORGNIZES SUCCESSFUL 32nd ANNUAL CONVENTION

American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI) held its 32nd Annual Convention focusing on the theme of Emerging Technologies and Entrepreneurship (ETE 2017). This convention was held on December 9th at the Novi Civic Center in Novi, Michigan. The 32nd Annual Convention is hosted by the Michigan Chapter of ASEI. The objective ETE 2017 is to provide a forum to promote and share advancements related to emerging technologies and entrepreneurship. This convention was attended by scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and corporate leaders across USA. This convention will feature multiple interactive sessions with prominent business owners, technologists, media personalities, educators, policy makers, and investment bankers.
The convention had multiple interactive sessions led by various subject matter experts providing information and insight on many topics related to the convention theme. The attendees found these sessions very informative and comprehensive. The sessions were organized in two tracks with topics such as Autonomous Cars, Latest Trends in Automotive Transmissions Technology, Tax Considerations for Entrepreneurs, War on Cash, Cybersecurity and Healthcare, Innovations in Branding, and Intelligent Transport Systems. The speakers for these sessions were from Ford, GM, Harman, Prudential, SBD, Futurenet, Michigan Business Network, University of Michigan, TiE, and Jenesys Group. The attendees found these sessions very informative and helpful.
There were two keynote speakers at lunch time who provided motivational presentations about their professional achievements. Sanjay Dhal – CEO of Detroit Flying Cars talked about introducing new approaches, bridging diverse domains, small footprint thinking and seeking efficiencies while pursuing his lifelong passion for designing, building and flying models and full size aircraft. Mehul Desai – Founder and CEO of DeZai, LLC focused on has 25 years of experience in ICT and related applications worldwide, focusing on fostering innovation in the areas of Technology, New Media and Social Entrepreneurship and his pioneering work in the field of secure transactions for mobile phone users, evolving the Digital Wallet to Mobile Wallet to Lifestyle Container.
There was a Youth Technology Exhibition (YTE) for middle and high school students to demonstrate their work based on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. There were over 35 students from 11 teams who participated in this exhibition. All participants received a plaque and gift card from ASEI.

The one-day convention concluded with a Gala Dinner Celebration including Bollywood entertainment. There were three evening keynote speakers – Mamatha Chamarthi, CIO – ZF TRW, Sam Mahalingam – CTO, Altair, and Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence – US Congress. Mamatha Chamarthi talked about her life journey and factors attributed to her professional achievements. Sam Mahalingam provided insights into his successful career spanning multiple roles in increasing responsibilities. Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence spoke about the importance of STEM and commended ASEI for taking an initiative in organizing STEM based activities. She also reflected on the positive impact from all mentors who helped her through school and college.
The annual ASEI awards were presented to several individuals for following categories:
– ASEI Technology Leadership Award – Mamatha Chamarthi, CIO – ZF TRW
– ASEI Engineer/Scientist of Year – Dr. Rahul Mittal, Global Technical Specialist – GM
– ASEI Entreprenur of Year – Bhushan Kulkarni, CEO – GDI Infotech / Infoready Corp.
– ASEI Founder’s Award – Aaron Ghumman, President – ASEI Seattle Chapter
Harinder Bir Singh, Anjali Tiwari, and Santosh Tiwari from ASEI Michigan Chapter were recognized with an award for their dedicated service and commitment to ASEI for many years.

About ASEI

The American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI) is a not-for-profit organization that provides a platform for networking, career advancement, community service, mentoring and technology exchange for professionals, students and businesses in the United States and abroad. Members are guided by several objectives, including the creation of an open, inclusive, and transparent organization; providing positive role models, awarding scholarships, and remaining socially responsible. ASEI was founded in 1983 in Detroit, Michigan by a handful of visionaries. Today, the organization also has chapters in Michigan, Southern California, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC. For more information, visit: https://aseiusa.org/

Media inquiries, contact: Dr Thomas Abraham [email protected] 2033298010

Jwalant Lakhia Rakesh Patel
Chairman – ETE 2017 Convention President – ASEI
734-837-2756 248-894-6553
[email protected] [email protected]

The Annual ASEI Awards – 2017 National Convention

ASEI’s 32nd Annual Convention Focuses on Emerging Technologies & Entrepreneurship (ETE 2017)

Novi, Michigan – October 27, 2017 — Speakers from Detroit Metro area and around the country will highlight the latest industry research and ideas at the Emerging Technologies and Entrepreneurship (ETE 2017) convention on December 9th, 9 a.m., at the Novi Civic Center in Novi, Michigan. The 32nd Annual Convention is hosted by the American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI) – Michigan Chapter.

The objective ETE 2017 is to provide a forum to promote and share advancements related to emerging technologies and entrepreneurship. This convention is expected to be attended by scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and corporate leaders across USA. This convention will feature multiple interactive sessions with prominent business owners, technologists, media personalities, educators, policy makers, and investment bankers. There will be a Youth Technology Exhibition (YTE) for middle and high school students to demonstrate their work based on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.

The one-day convention concludes with a Gala Dinner Celebration including Bollywood entertainment. The annual ASEI awards will be presented for following categories:

  • ASEI Entrepreneur of the Year
  • ASEI Engineer/Scientist of Year
  • ASEI Service Excellence
  • ASEI Lifetime Achievement
  • ASEI Founder’s Award sponsored by ASEI Founder Hari Bindal
  • ASEI Chairman’s Award Student Leadership

ASEI is seeking nominations in these award categories. For more info, please visit
www.aseiusa.org/nc .

About ASEI
The American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI) is a not-for-profit organization that provides a platform for networking, career advancement, community service, mentoring and technology exchange for professionals, students and businesses in the United States and abroad. Members are guided by several objectives, including the creation of an open, inclusive, and transparent organization; providing positive role models, awarding scholarships, and remaining socially responsible. ASEI was founded in 1983 in Detroit, Michigan by a handful of visionaries. Today, the organization also has chapters in Michigan, Southern California, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC. For more information, visit: https://aseiusa.org/

Media inquiries, contact: Bhushan Modi, [email protected], 248-640-0465

Asei To Honor Eight At Its 33rd Annual Virtual Convention

32nd Annual Convention – December 9th At NOVI MI

ASEI – Michigan Chapter is hosting the 32nd Annual Convention focusing on Emerging Technologies and Entrepreneurship (ETE 2017).  This convention will be held on December 9th, 2017 at the Novi Civic Center, Novi , Michigan.

The objective of this convention is to provide a forum to promote and share advancements related to emerging technologies and entrepreneurship.  The convention is expected to be attended by over 400 professionals including scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and corporate leaders across USA. This convention will feature multiple interactive sessions with prominent business owners, technologists, media personalities, educators, policy makers, and investment bankers.

We are going to have an exhibition for middle and high school students to demonstrate their work based on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.  This event will be covered by the local and national media including leading social media outlets.

Please click National Convention for more detail and Registration.
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Recognize Mr. Hari Bindal – Founder Of ASEI – The PBS Award

This was no ordinary Friday. The ASEI Michigan Chapter (The American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin) was being graced by Mr. Hari Bindal. It was an honor and a great opportunity to meet the founder of ASEI, who has been awarded with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA), which is the highest honour conferred on overseas Indians. It is India’s highest Civilian Honor for NRIs.

The Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award PBSA is conferred by the Hon’ble President of India as a part of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Conventions organized annually since 2003 on Non-Resident Indians in recognition of their outstanding achievements both in India and abroad.

The 14th edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention was held in Bengaluru from 7-9 January, 2017. The Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards were conferred by the Hon’ble President, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, in an impressive ceremony held in the valedictory session of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas celebrations

A 11-member Jury-cum-Awards Committee, with Hon’ble Vice-President as Chairman and Hon’ble External Affairs as Vice-Chairman and nine other distinguished members from various walks of life, considered the nominations for the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards, 2017. The 30 recipients of the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards from among the 1800 NRIs in attendance from 72 countries include six Indian Americans: Dr. Sampat S. Shivangi, Dr. Bharat Haridas Barai, Nisha Desai Biswal, Dr. Mahesh Mehta, Ramesh Shah, and Hari Babu Bindal.

Mr. Hari Bindal was awarded in the field of Environmental Engineering. He made expert suggestion on cleaning of Ganga to Hon’ble Prime Minister and Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. Mr. Bindal’s leadership qualities and patriotism are shown through his film ‘Akanksha’, promoting Hindi language in USA, founding ASEI, and establishing scholarships in schools in India to encourage education in rural India.

Mr. Hari Bindal retired after serving the US Government (Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard) for 26 years. He is a PhD in Environmental Engineering Management, Masters in Environmental Engineering and another Masters in Public Health Engineering. Prior to coming to USA in 1974, he served UP Jal Nigam as an Assistant Engineer for 2 years and as Lecturer in Madhav Engineering College for 6 years. Mr. Bindal served many social, political, cultural, and religious organizations at local and national levels, including ILA, ICCC, IAFPE, IHA, VHP-A, HAF and UHJT.

It was undoubtedly an enriching evening. Mr. Bindal not only shared his experience of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas and the prestigious award that he was honored with, but he also went down the memory lane to talk about how he founded ASEI.

The American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI) was founded in Detroit, Michigan by Mr. Bindal with the objective of exchanging and collaborating technologies between India and USA. In 1983, Mr. Bindal contacted more than 50 engineers across the US to obtain their consent by conducting a signature campaign and received some 150 signatures of approval. He then organized a meeting and after much deliberation, a resolution was passed to form an organization of engineers from India. On 5th May 1983, the name ‘American Society of Engineers from India – ASEI’ (the name was changed to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, retaining the acronym as ASEI, in 1992) was selected from the various names proposed by floor members. Some seed money was collected and an ad-hoc committee was formed to plan an inaugural meeting. ASEI was formally inaugurated on 9th September 1983 by Mr. Bagla, Minister for Economics, India in Washington DC.

A very proud moment for ASEI…something that will continue to inspire and be cherished by the ASEIans for a very long time.

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ASEI Orgnizes Successful 31st Annual Convention

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ASEI ORGNIZES SUCCESSFUL 31ST ANNUAL CONVENTION
 
American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI) held its 31st Annual ASEI Convention focusing on the theme of Technology Driven Future. This convention was held on December 3rd at the California Polytechnic, Pomona, California.
 
The objective of this convention was to promote and share advancements related to new generation technologies in various engineering disciplines. In addition to ASEI members from various chapters, the convention was attended by over 400 professionals including scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and corporate leaders across USA. This convention featured multiple interactive sessions with prominent business owners, technologists, media personalities, educators, and policy makers. It was a unique opportunity to celebrate success from positive contribution of engineers of Indian origin residing in US. 
 
Hosted by ASEI’s Southern California chapter, this event brought together who’s who of technology and engineering world sharing latest innovations and popular topics in four tracks to tackle the theme of Technology Driven Future. While the morning keynote by ICANN Senior VP Ashwin Rangan stood out with thought provoking technologies, talks like Dr Ravi Tilak’s speech on Ancient Eastern Philosophy and Engineering provided insight with new information. The day long sessions kept the audience stimulated with the latest in learning along four tracks viz. Life Sciences and Health Technologies, Emergent Information Technologies, Smart Infrastructure and Utilities and Emerging trends in small Businesses.
 
ASEI presented Lifetime Achievement Award to the architect of India’s Telecom revolution – Sam Pitroda who supercharged the audience with his life story and journey. Holder of nearly 100 patents and 20 honorary PhDs, Mr Pitroda emphasized to focus on solving problems of the poor rather than rich people’s problems and to “dream big”.
 
ASEI Engineering Entrepreneurship award went to B.V Jagadeesh – an Engineer turned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and now an active venture capitalist and prolific mentor to start-ups for co-leading the “Billion Dollar Babies” initiative under the TiE umbrella.  There were several other awards including a special award for long time engineer turned entrepreneur and “Marble King” Manu Shah.
 
ASEI also recognized Shrikant Agarwal with AS#EI Service Excellence award for his service to the organization over the past 10 years while Jwalant Lakhia was given ASEI Founder’s award for the services rendered last year..
 
Corporate Engineering Recognition Programme (CERP) awards were given to engineers on behalf of sponsors Siemens (Hiren Dedhia), GSR Technologies (Vamsi Krishna), Southern California Gas company (Vijai Atavane) and Smart Utilities Systems (Harman Sandhu, Manoj Singh and Rajiv Gupta).
 
The highlight of the evening celebratory gala dinner was the ASEI award ceremony and keynotes book ended by engineer-turned comedian Dan Ninan’s emceeing and dance performances by Karmagraphy.
 
Earlier in the day, three students (Sandhya Selvaraj, Raja Kalavacherla & Srinivas Gavini)
were awarded for leadership and service to ASEI. Six engineering students (two undergraduates -Mohith Buxani & Shreya Malik and four graduates – Himani Agrawal, Rajthilak Ganesan, Sandeep Gade & Prakruthi Hareesh,) won ASEI Scholarship awards. Since inception, over the past 30 years, ASEI has given out $200,000 worth of merit based scholarships to deserving graduate and undergraduate engineering students. This demonstrates ASEI’s long term commitment towards helping and supporting young engineering students.
 
American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI) is an organization devoted to the cause of promoting knowledge exchange and sense of community amongst its members who are scientists, professionals, technicians, academics and students in any of the engineering disciplines. Started 33 years ago in 1983 in Michigan, this organization has come a long way by establishing 8 chapters across the nation. After launching the Silicon Valley chapter in 2015 under leadership of Piyush Malik with a focus on STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) enrichment and preparing youth for the technology driven jobs of tomorrow, an announcement of Seattle chapter to be led by Aaron Ghumman was recently made as also the formation of a 501 c (3) Global ASEI Foundation under Chairmanship of Subba Gopavarapu to scale these programs. 
 
More details available at aseiusa.org

Further details, contact ASEI Award Committee Chairs and Board members:

Piyush Malik               [email protected] 5103049890
Dr Thomas Abraham  [email protected] 2033298010