Senior Member IEEE Bangalore Section
Chair WIE IEEE Bangalore Section
Chair WIE Track IEEE CONECCT 2020
Treasurer IEEE Bangalore Section (2018 and 2019)
Finance Chair SmartTech, CONECCT(2018-2019)
WIE ILS AND WIECON 2019
Chair Educational Activities IEEE Bangalore Section (2016-2017)
Publicity Co-chair, IEEE WIE Global Summit 2016
Senior Curator & Head Electronics Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum Bangalore
Sadhana Attavar has over 33 years of experience in non formal education sector in popularising Science. Her major experience is in designing and developing of interactive science exhibits and in integrating the hardware and software to create user-friendly learning solutions. The most recent exhibition curated by her is the Space Technology gallery housed at Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bangalore. She has contributed to the development of science center network across the country and was instrumental in setting up a new Science Centre at Pilikula in Mangalore. Currently she is in the project head for setting up a new Science Centre at Rajamundry in the state of Andhra Pradesh. She has also played a pivotal role in establishing a nation-wide satellite communication link designed for organizing educational extension activities to rural areas across India. She has presented papers in national and international conferences and published articles related to science and technology in various journals and newspapers. At present she is senior curator and head of Electronics at Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum, Bangalore.
She is a senior member of IEEE and is currently Chair Women in Engineering of IEEE Bangalore Section. She is WIE Track Chair for IEEE CONECCT 2020 and was Treasurer of IEEE Bangalore Section for the years 2018 and 2019. She was Finance Co Chair for SmartTech(2018-19) CONECCT (2018-2019) and for WIE ILS and WIECON 2019. She was Educational activities Chair of Bangalore Section from 2016-2017.She was Publicity Co Chair of IEEE WIE(Women in Engineering) Global Summit 2016 and IEEE SmartTech 2017. She chaired the industry panel of R10 SYWL Congress 2016 during R10 50 years celebrations held at Bangalore .She also chaired the track on Women Empowerment for IEEE WIE Global Summit 2016.
