We at Sensors Council are happy to see that more than 50% of the trainees of the MEMS training programme are participating in the MEMS design submission to the SoI MPW run of Center for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. This activity is a collaborative activity between with IEEE Sensors Council sponsoring the cost for two masks fabrication, IEEE MEMS TC sponsoring cost for one mask fabrication and IEEE Electronic Packaging Society will sponsor the packaging of two best designs. Institute of Smart Structures and Systems (ISSS) are the technical support provider for the whole activity.
As part of this sponsorship, CeNSE IISc will
The devices will be fabricated by Dec 2025. Currently the devices are under review.
The training got an overwhelming response to this initiative. We had over 500 registrants from across the globe.
As part of the training, we have organised 5 webinars as follows
The webinar is now available on IEEE SC YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXvG2w3D8SU&t=542s
The following nodal centers with IEEE SC chapters have initiated the training programme to the assigned registrants from their region.
Kenya chapter for Africa:
Chair: Emmanuel Masundi
Nodal center: IISER Bhopal led by Santanu Talukder
Chapter and nodal center for south India: NMIT led by Nithya G.
Hyderabad chapter for Rest of India and Asia:
Chair : Sangeeta Singh
Nodal center: Anna University led by Sreeja B. S.
Spain chapter for Europe: Chair : Carlos Ruiz
Nodal center: BITS Pilani lead by Venkatesh K.P.
America Brazil chapter: Chair: Euclides Chuma
Nodal center: IISc led by Sudhanshu Shekar
Each chapter and nodal center will engage with the assigned registrants and give hands-on training. The registrants will be further divided into groups with each group having few registrants who have knowledge on MEMS and few who are new to the technology. The groups will be cross institutions, cross countries and cross continents!! From Jan 2025 to May 2025 the nodal centers and chapters will help these groups to submit designs for fabrication to “CeNSE IISc foundry” under their SOI MPW run process. There will also be a Best design contest where an independent committee will assess the designs and declare the winners. Each design submitted will truly be a global submission and the chip fabricated will have designs from across all regions!! IEEE SC would like to thank the registrants, the chapter chairs and the nodal center chairs for this activity.
IEEE Sensors Council is looking at initiating collaboration between Sensor’s domain experts, student, researchers and industry personnel. A cluster is a group of people working in a particular sensor’s domain.
Mission of a cluster:
To help different Sensor’s domain people to come together and collaborate. Create a platform to have inter chapter activities, resource sharing, efficient Sensors Council engagement with different regions and groups.
Proposed Cluster activities
The Sensors Council has started this activity with three clusters in the following domains
The effort is coordinated by the Chapter Engagement Committed chaired by Dr. Veda Sandeep. For information on the whole activity, you can contact veda at veda.sandeep@tyndall.ie
This effort will be funded by various committees within the Sensors Council depending on the kind of activity the Cluster wants to hold. You can look at the following webpages to know more about the different committees within the Sensors Council
