🎓 IEEE Explorer Challenge – August - September 2025

🧠 Search. Learn. Lead.

📅 Duration: 1 Month | 🏆 Winner Title: IEEE Explorer + Certificate of Excellence
📚 Use IEEE Xplore – ASPP and CSDL access only

🔍 Objective:
Boost your research skills by finding answers through IEEE Xplore Digital Library using ASPP and CSDL packages.

📥 How to Participate:

• Submit your answers via Google Form (link provided by your faculty).

• Include title, authors, year, and link where possible.

• Responses evaluated on accuracy, insight & effort.

🥇 Top scorer wins: IEEE Explorer Certificate & recognition!

📍 Use only IEEE ASPP and CSDL content from ieeexplore.ieee.org

Week 1 – Trends in Tech

Week 2 – Deep Dive

Week 3 – Applications

Week 4 – Ethics & Emerging Areas

Buffalo Grid Project

 

Summary of Buffalo Grid Project 

Introduction 

In 2017, Buffalo Grid sought to adapt its mobile phone charging technology from rural India to urban audiences in New Delhi. This project involved user-led research to identify innovative opportunities for their services. 

Key Points 

• The project aimed to find strategies for making Buffalo Grid's technology suitable for urban users. 

• An ethnographic research mission was conducted in New Delhi, incorporating user interviews and field observations. 

• Interviews were held with a diverse group, including a chai shop owner, a job-seeking maid, a student with safety concerns, and a bank manager, capturing their technology usage and charging needs. 

• Visual tools helped overcome language barriers during conversations. 

• An aspiration workshop with design students generated ideas for a desirable technology service, focusing on safety, accessibility, and reliability. 

• The final deliverables included a strategic roadmap that outlined actionable steps and a future service strategy tailored for urban customers. 

• This work was part of the Innovate UK Design Foundations program to promote human-centered design. 

Conclusion 

The project successfully transformed Buffalo Grid’s product into a service that meets urban users' needs, highlighting the importance of user-centered research in developing effective technology solutions.

Source of Newspaper Clipping: Maharashtra Times dated 12th August 2025

Celebrate National Librarians Day with Us — Share Your Feedback with Leaves & Flowers!

 

Date: 12th August

Event: Feedback Activity at SFIT Library

National Librarians Day is just around the corner, and at SFIT Library, we want to celebrate by hearing directly from YOU — our amazing students, faculty, and staff!

On the eve of 12th August, we’re launching a special feedback initiative that’s simple, colorful, and meaningful. We invite you to share your thoughts with us using leaves and flowers:

• Leaves represent your suggestions and ideas on how we can improve the library services, resources, and initiatives.

• Flowers represent the things you like, appreciate, or want to cheer us on for — basically, a pat on our backs!

This creative and visual way of collecting feedback will help us grow and serve you better while celebrating the spirit of the day.

Why participate?
Your feedback is the heart of progress. Whether it’s a new book you want, more digital resources, comfortable study spaces, or praise for the recent project displays and AI book collections — every leaf and flower counts!

As Swami Vivekananda said:
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea."

Your suggestions can become the ideas that shape the future of the SFIT Library!

Where and when?
Look out for our feedback board at the library entrance on 11th and 12th August. Drop your leaves and flowers, and let’s celebrate together!

We’re excited to hear from you and continue making the library a vibrant hub of learning and innovation.