• IEEE IIST AP-S and MTT-S student branch chapters in association with IEEE AP-S and MTT-S Kerala Chapter organized IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecture (AP-S DL) program in October 2022. Prof. Debatosh Guha, FIEEE,FNAE, FNASI, FIASc was the distinguished speaker of the event. 

• IEEE IIST AP-S and MTT-S student branch chapters in association with IEEE AP-S and MTT-S Kerala Chapter organized IEEE WiM (Women in Microwave) 1-Day workshop in July, 2022. Eminent Women engineers/scientists from academia and industry acted as the resource persons in the workshop. The workshop was attended by seventy scientists, research scholars and students from academia and industry.

• The First National Workshop on Electric Aircraft and Allied Technologies was organized by CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories in association with IIST and Aeronautical Society of India at Bangalore from 28-29 April 2022. IIST team lead the sessions on All-Electric Powertrain Technologies for Electric Aircraft.

• A five-day Faculty development programme was conducted between July 12-16, 2021, which had 136 participants including faculty members from AICTE approved institutions, research scholars, PG scholars, and Industry personnel. The programme started with a formal inauguration by the then Director, Dr. V K Dadhwal and presided over by Dr. Y V N Krishnamurthy, Registrar, IIST.

• Prof. Sarita Vig gave a lecture series as part of Astronomy Outreach. Called An Introduction to Stars, the 15-hour online lecture series was for students and public organised by Breakthrough Science Society in association with Astronomical Society of India – Public Outreach and Education Committee, between 19 Sept – 31 Oct 2021. Nearly 800 students have taken the course with exams. The lecture series is available on YouTube here.

• Prof. Sarita Vig represented India as a Team Leader at the XIV International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) online at Bogota, Colombia in 2021. The team of 5 students won 4 Gold medals and 1 Silver medal. In addition, India received the silver medal in the team event. This was the best performance of team India in IOAA.
   

• The SPIE /Optica student chapter conducted live demonstration of optical experiments to 90 students from various schools of Kanyakumari district on 5th December 2021, as part of NIRMAAN.

Department of Avionics organized a 4 days Online Faculty Development Programme on Control and Automation from 14th to 17th December 2021. Resource persons were drawn from different IITs, ISRO, DRDO, IIST etc. Altogether, there were 68 participants from different institutions across the country including faculty members, research scholars, scientists, Engineers etc

• Dr Ramiya, Dept of Earth and Space Sciences, received funding support of Rs 3 Lakhs for conducting Geo-Innovation Challenge as part of National Geospatial Capacity Building program from Department of Science and Technology (DST). The theme of the conference was “Geospatial Technology: Geo-enabled technological solutions for realizing smart cities”.

• As part of celebration of International day of light, on May 17, 2022, Applied and Adaptive Optics laboratory, Dept of Physics, organized lab visits and demonstrations for 60 students from various parts of Kerala.