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The Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru was established in 2004 under Amrita Vishwa Vidya Peetham. The Department offers a B.Tech degree program in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. The Department also runs an M.Tech. degree program in Power Electronics from the academic year 2010-11. It also offers Doctoral degree programs in different areas of Electrical & Electronics Engineering.
The Department has a combined faculty of experienced persons from industry and academia as well as a team of young teachers who contribute immensely to the establishment of necessary infrastructure and procedures for conducting an undergraduate program. The faculty profile comprises of personnel with doctorates, postgraduation in various fields and undergraduate qualifications to meet the curriculum requirements. Faculty members are encouraged to enhance their qualifications, by participation in higher studies and research activities.
The curriculum and course delivery are flexible, meeting industry requirements. This is reflected by the outstanding number of students who are selected at the end of their third year for employment in reputed companies.
The Department is housed in spacious blocks consisting of a Electrical Machines Laboratory, Power Electronics Laboratory, Measurement and Circuits Laboratory, Electrical Workshop and Simulation Laboratory, all sufficiently furnished with the latest equipment and software. Classrooms, seminar room, staff room and department library for reference reading provide areas for learning and study.
The Department assists weaker students by giving guidance and counseling, enabling them to enhance their learning abilities. During winter and summer vacations, students are motivated to do project work covering real life applications. This, in turn, builds potential and confidence to solve technical problems faced in industries.
The research at the department aims to take up projects meeting to the needs of the society. The department's research efforts are improved by collaborations with leading research universities and industries around the world.
Anjana Jain, Chintamanirao Tejaswini Vijay, Shravanthi S. Gokul S ( B.Tech 2016 passed out students) published a paper titled "Comparative Analysis of Direct Power Control (DPC) and Direct Voltage Control (DVC) for Control of Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) Connected to a Variable Speed Wind Turbine" in International Journal of Control Theory and Applications (IJCTA), Vol. 9, no. 18, pp.8961-8971, October 2016.
Athira S (M.Tech PE Student2014 pass out),Deepa K published a paper titled "Modified Bidirectional Converter with Current Fed Inverter" in an International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems” (IJPEDS), Vol 6, No 2, June 2015, pp.396 – 410(Scopus indexed Journal).
Deepa Kaliyaperumal, Hridya Merin Saju(MTech 2014 passed out student), M. Vijaya Kumar, published a paper titled “High Efficiency Single Output ZVS–ZCS Voltage Doubled Flyback Converter” in an international Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series B, published by Springer, DOI 10.1007/s40031-014-0161-5, PP.1-8.
G.Udhayakumar, Rashmi M R , K. Patel, G.P. Ramesh and Suresh A, published a paper titled “High-Frequency High-Voltage Power Supply for Ozone Generator System” in Research India Publications on December2014.
K Deepa published a technical paper titled “Analysis of a Quasi Resonant Switch Mode Power Supply for Low Voltage Applications” in ACEEE International Journal on Electrical and Power Engineering,Volume No:4, Issue No:2, Page(s):85 – 92, DOI:01.IJEPE.4.2.1235, August 2013.
​K.Deepa , AjithVijayan (M.Tech student), M.Vijaya Kumar, published a technical paper titled “Soft switching scheme for a post regulated current fed push-pull converter” in International Review on Modelling and Simulations(IREMOS), Praise Worthy Prize, ISSN-19749821, Volume 6,Issue 2, pp. 317 – 322, Indexed in Scopus, EBSCO Information Services, CSA/CIG, H Index: 6, Impact factor: 0.23, April 2013.
K.Deepa, Sanitha Mary Kurian (M.Tech student), M.Vijaya Kumar, published a technical paper titled “Active clamp zero voltage switching multi output flyback converter with voltage doubler” in International Review on Modelling and Simulations(IREMOS), Praise Worthy Prize, ISSN-19749821, Volume 6,Issue 2, pp.351 – 359, Indexed in Scopus, EBSCO Information Services, CSA/CIG, H Index: 6, Impact factor: 0.23, April 2013.
K.Deepa, T.Deepti (M.Techstudent), M.Vijaya Kumar, published a technical paper titled “Design and implementation of 30W DC-DC converter for Aerospace application” in International Review on Modelling and Simulations(IREMOS), Praise Worthy Prize, ISSN-19749821, Volume 6,Issue 2, pp. 323 – 328, Indexed in Scopus, EBSCO Information Services, CSA/CIG, H Index: 6, Impact factor: 0.23, April 2013.
Dr.Rashmi.M.R, Anu.B ( M.Tech (PE) student), published a technical paper titled “Cascading of Diode Clamped Multilevel Inverter Boosters for High Voltage Applications” in Applied Mechanics and Materials ,vols 313-314 (2013) pp. 876-881, Indexed in: ISI Thomson, Elsevier (Scopus), IEE, CSA, Reaxys, Impact Factor:0.12, March 2013.
Dr.M.R.Rashmi, Suresh A. (S.M.K. Fomra Institute of Technology, Chennai), Kamalakkannan S. (KarpagaVinayaga College of Engg. & Tech., Chennai), published a technical paper titled “A Four Port DC - DC Converter For Renewable Energy Systems” in Journal of Electrical Engineering: Volume 12/2012 Edition:4, pp. 62-66, Index: Accepted for inclusion in SCOPUS, Impact Factor-0.92, February 2013.
S. Priya, (St. Peter’s University, Chennai), Dr.M.R.Rashmi, Suresh A. (S.M.K. Fomra Institute of Technology, Chennai) , published a technical paper titled “A Novel Scheme for Reduction of Torque Ripple in Direct Torque Control of Three Phase Squirrel Cage Induction Motor Using Seven Level Neutral Point Clamped Inverter” in Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology ISSN: 2040-7459; e-ISSN: 2040-7467, Maxwell Scientific Organization, Volume 5, Issue 5, pp. 1769-1773, 2013, Indexed In: ISI Thomson, Elsevier (Scopus) EMBASE, Engineering Village Reaxys, Impact Factor: 0.24, February 2013.
Dr. M.R.Rashmi, Suresh A. (S.M.K. Fomra Institute of Technology, Chennai), T.NageswaraRao (SRR Engineering College, Chennai) published a technical paper titled “Shunt active filter with reduced harmonics for power quality improvement in distributed systems”in Wulfenia Journal, No.10, Volume 19,pp.164-176, Journal is Cited ISI indexed with Impact Factor of 0.267, October 2012.
R.Mahalakshmi, P.Usha (DSCE,Banaglore), published a technical paper titled “Simulation Of VSC Based HVDC Transmission System For The Integration Of Wind farm Into Grid “in International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.(Open Access)Vol 1, Issue 4, page no 9-12, September 2012.
A.Siva Prasad (M.Tech Student), K.Deepa and K.Mathew (IISc), published a technical paper titled “Power Factor Corrected Battery Charger For Electric Vehicle” in CIIT International Journal of Programmable Device Circuits and Systems, Volume 4, no.13, August 2012, pp. 713-717. The journal has an Impact Factor of 0.492.
Sreeja Kochuvila, Dr. ShikhaTripathi and Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B., published a technical paper titled “Control of a Compass Gait Biped Robot Based on Partial Feedback Linearization” in Advances in Autonomous Robotics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science(LNCS), Springer Link, Volume 7429/2012, pp.117-127, August 2012.
K.Deepa, Sharika.M (M.Tech Student), Mamatha.I, Dr.M.Vijaya Kumar published a technical paper titled “Digital Simulation of SISO-ZVS-Push pull Quasi Resonant Converter for Different Loads” in International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA), ISSN: 2248-9622, Vol. 2, Issue 4, July-August 2012, Page no:- pp. 896 to 901.
John Marshal.T.P (M.Tech Student, Power Electronics), K.Deepa published a technical paper titled “Single Input DC-DC Converter for Hybrid Distributed Energy Generators with Maximum Utilization using DSP Controller” in International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622, Vol. 2, Issue 4, July-August 2012. Page no:-pp 989 to 993.
T.N.P. Nambiar, Sindhu M. R., Dr.Manjula G. Nair, published a paper titled “An ANN based Digital Controller with Three-Phase Shunt Active Power Filter for Power Quality Improvement”in International Review of Electrical Engineering (IREE), special issue on Power Quality in Smart Grids in November 2011.
AbhayGopi, K. Deepa published a paper titled “Design of PI Controller for Multi Output Boost Converter “in International Journal –CIIT International Journal of Programmable Device Circuits and Systems, No. 9, Volume 3, pp: 461-465, August 2011.
Sindhu.S, Sindhu.M.R., Dr.Manula.G.Nair, Ginnes K. John published a paper titled “Implementation of Shunt Hybrid Filter using ICOSΦ Algorithm” in Asian Power Electronics Journal, Power Electronics Research Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, ISSN-1995-1052, Vol. 5 No.1, pp.7-12, August 2011.
P.Karthikeyan, TapioPahikkala, SeppoVirtanen, JouniIsoaho, Dr.K.Manickavasagam, Dr.K.V.V Murthy, published a paper titled “Fuzzy logic based control for parallel cascade control” ICGST_ACSE journal, December 2010.
K.Deepa, R.Jayanthi, K.S.Amithkumar published a paper titled “A comparative study of PI&Fuzzy based control for DC DC Converters” in CIIT International Journal in February 2010.
Ginnes K.John, Sindhu M R, Dr.Manjula G Nair published a paper titled “DSP Based Digital Controller for Shunt Active Power Filter to Improve Power Quality”in International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering, Academy publishers, Finland in November 2009.
Dr. Manjula G Nair, published a paper titled “An ANN Controlled Three Phase Auto-tuned Passive Filter for Harmonic and Reactive Power Compensation” in International Journal of Power Electronics , Korea, Vol.9, No.3, May 2009, pp403-409.
Deepa.K, Nandini, Harish, Antara presented a paper titled “Simulation of Photo Voltaic System For Irrigation Purpose” in Advanced Research in Electrical and Electronics Engineering-Online ISSN:2349-5812 Volume 1,Number 2(2014) pp.35 – 40.
Muhammad Ibrahim N , Venkata Gangadhar. J, Partho.M ( B.Tech 2016 passed out Students), Deepa K authored a conference paper titled "High Frequency SEPIC-WEIBERG Converter for Space Applications" for the IEEE International Conference on Inventive Computational Technologies (ICICT2016), Organized by RVS Technical Campus, Coimbatore, India held on 26th -27th August 2016.
Samith M.V ( M.tech 2016 passed out student), Rashmi M. R., authored a conference paper titled " Controller for Integrating Small Scale Power Generation to Hybrid AC/DC Grid" for the IEEE International Conference on Inventive Computational Technologies (ICICT2016), Organized by RVS Technical Campus, Coimbatore, India held on 26th -27th August 2016.
Siva Kumar ( M.tech 2016 passed out batch), J Ramprabhakar, Shankar S authored a conference paper titled " Coordination of Wind-Hydro Energy Conversion System with Sliding Mode Control" and is presented by Mr. Siva Kumar at the First IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems (ICPEICES 2016), at Delhi Technological University, Delhi held on 4th-6th July 2016.
Manitha P.V, Manjula G Nair, presented a paper titled “Performance Analysis of Different Custom PowerDevices in Power Park” in PESTSE 2016-IEEE Biennial conference on Power and Energy Systems: Towards Sustainable Energy.
V.S.Kirthika Devi, S.G. Sriveni, presented a paper titled “Performance Assessment of PV Energy Conversion System with Buck-Boost and Cuk Converter for Cascaded H-Bridge Inverter” in PESTSE 2016-IEEE Biennial conference on Power and Energy Systems: Towards Sustainable Energy.
MeenuSoman (M.Tech student), Manitha P.V, Ilango K., presented a paper titled “Design and Control of a Soft Switching Grid Connecting Inverter Using PI Controller” in PESTSE 2016-IEEE Biennial conference on Power and Energy Systems: Towards Sustainable Energy.
Vishal. E. Puranik, Sabha Raj Arya,Anjana Jain, presented a paper titled "Comparative Study of Compensation Techniques of DVR with Composite Observer" in PESTSE 2016-IEEE Biennial conference on Power and Energy Systems: Towards Sustainable Energy.
Anaghakrishnan M (M.Tech student) R, Shankar S and Lekshmi S, presented a paper titled “A Novel AC-AC Converter Using Bridgeless Flyback Rectifier And Flyback CCM Inverter” in PESTSE 2016-IEEE Biennial conference on Power and Energy Systems: Towards Sustainable Energy.
Bhavya M (M.Tech student)Prabhakaran, Rambrabhakar J and Saialja V, presented a paper titled “Estimation and Controlling of State Charge of battery in a Photovolatic System” in PESTSE 2016-IEEE Biennial conference on Power and Energy Systems: Towards Sustainable Energy.
Krishna Gopinathan (M.Tech student),Mamatha I , presented a paper titled “Average Current Mode Controlled DC - DC Converter using Digital Controllers” in PESTSE 2016-IEEE Biennial conference on Power and Energy Systems: Towards Sustainable Energy.
T. Rohith V.S.Samhitha(B.Tech students ),Mamatha I , presented a paper titled “Wireless Transmission of Solar Power using Inductive Resonant Principle ” in PESTSE 2016-IEEE Biennial conference on Power and Energy Systems: Towards Sustainable Energy.
Kiran Vishnu (M.Tech Student),K.Sireesha, J Ramprabhakar , presented a paper titled “Comparative study of wind forecasting techniques” in PESTSE 2016-IEEE Biennial conference on Power and Energy Systems: Towards Sustainable Energy.
AVJS Praneeth, K.S.Sindhu, Nagendra Bhaskar, Kishore Naik Mude, presented a paper titled “Abberant Analysis Of Three Phase Induction Machine With Stator Interturn Faults On Windings” in PESTSE 2016-IEEE Biennial conference on Power and Energy Systems: Towards Sustainable Energy.
Vidhya Chandran,(M.Tech Student) Mamatha I, Shikha Tripathi, presented a paper titled “ NEDA Based Hybrid Architecture for DCT – HWT” in Second International Conference on VLSI SATA 2016.
Parvati Nair, K. Deepa, presented a paper titled “Feed Forward Control Algorithm for Hybrid Energy Systems ” in an International Conference on Smart Grid Technology (ICSGT 2015), held at ASE, Ettimadai, Coimbatore paper will be published in ELSEVIER, Science Direct, Procedia Technology held on 6th -8th August2015.
V. S. Kirthika Devi, Roland Henron Patrao Sreekanth P. S, Garima Ramole,Ashwin Sreekumar (B.Tech Students) presented a paper titled “ Implementation of staircase modulation on a five level Cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverter and interfacing with Photovoltaic modules” in an International Conference on Soft Computing in Applied Science and Engineering-ICSCASE-2015 on 24th July 2015.
V S Venkateshwara Rao, N Phani Krishna G Abhilash (B.Tech 2013 Pass out)and M.Nithya presented a paper titled “Improved Position Controlled Solar Photovoltaic System for a Single Phase RL Load ” in 9th IEEE sponsored International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISCO) Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. (to be published in IEEE Explore) conducted on 9th & 10th January 2015.
Anju Baby (M.Tech 2013 pass out)and M.Nithya presented a paper titled “Sliding Mode Controlled Forward Converter ” in 9th IEEE sponsored International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISCO) Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. (to be published in IEEE Explore) conducted on 9th & 10th January 2015.
John Marshal, K Deeepa presented a paper titled “Hybrid Renewable Energy System: Optimum Design, Control And Maximum Utilization With SIBB Converter Using DSP Controller” in an International Conference 2014 Power And Energy Systems: Towards Sustainable Energy (PESTSE 2014), Amrita school of engineering, Bangalore, on March 13-15th, 2014.
Ms Deepa K, Athira S presented a paper titled “ Solar Powered Ultrasonic Cleaner” in AICERA2014-IEEE International Conference on Magnetics, Machines &Drives ( iCMMD ), AmalJyothi College of Engineering, Kanjirappally, Kerala,India.
Ms Mini R, Anu K M, Dr M. N Dinesh ,RVCE,Bangalore presented a paper titled “ HFSI- A promising Solution to very low speed issues in DTC-SVM Induction Motor Drive” in AICERA2014-IEEE International Conference on Magnetics, Machines &Drives ( iCMMD ), AmalJyothi College of Engineering, Kanjirappally, Kerala,India.
Vijimol Vijayan,Mini Sujith,Dr H V Manjunath presented a paper titled “Analysis and Implementation of a High Boost DC-DC Converter for Renewable Energy Power Systems”in AICERA2014-IEEE International Conference on Magnetics, Machines &Drives ( iCMMD ), AmalJyothi College of Engineering, Kanjirappally, Kerala,India.
Mini R, Resna S.R, Dr M. N Dinesh RVCE,Bangalore presented a paper titled” LC Clamp Filter for Voltage Reflection due to Long Cable in Induction Motor Drives” in AICERA2014-IEEE International Conference on Magnetics, Machines &Drives ( iCMMD ), AmalJyothi College of Engineering, Kanjirappally, Kerala,India.
Rakhi. K, Ilango.K, Manjunath H.V and Manjula G Nair presented a paper titled " Space Vector Based PWM Strategies for VSI Fed Induction Motor Drives with Reduced Complexity " in 2014 International conference on Power and Energy Systems Towards Sustainable Energy(PESTSE 2014), on 14th-15th March, 2014 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore. Paper will be published in IEEE Digital Library.
Kurukunda Ishwarya, Rashmi M R presented a paper titled " Space Vector Based PWM Strategies for VSI Fed Induction Motor Drives with Reduced Complexity " in 2014 International conference on Power and Energy Systems Towards Sustainable Energy(PESTSE 2014), on 14th-15th March, 2014 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore. Paper will be published in IEEE Digital Library.
R. Mahalakshmi, Aravind Kumar N., Aswin Kumar A, Anujeevitha presented a paper titled " Design of Fuzzy Logic Based Maximum Power Point Tracking Controller for solar Array for cloudy weather conditions " in 2014 International conference on Power and Energy Systems Towards Sustainable Energy(PESTSE 2014), on 14th-15th March, 2014 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore. Paper will be published in IEEE Digital Library.
Roshan Prem,Sreekala Manmadhan,V.S.Kirthika Devi presented a paper titled " Wireless Control of DC-DC Converter " in 2014 International conference on Power and Energy Systems Towards Sustainable Energy(PESTSE 2014), on 14th-15th March, 2014 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore. Paper will be published in IEEE Digital Library.
Manitha P V, Anjana P, Manjula G Nair presented a paper titled " Simulation of Series Active Filter with a Newly Proposed Efficient Controller for Voltage Harmonic Compensation " in International Conference on “Standards for Smart Grid Ecosystem” organized by Central Power Research Institute(CPRI) Bangalore on 6th -7th March 2014, at CPRI Bangalore.
Manitha P V, Jishnu Shanker V C, Manjula G Nair presented a paper titled " Design and Simulation of a Mini Custom Power Park for Power Quality " in International Conference on “Standards for Smart Grid Ecosystem” organized by Central Power Research Institute(CPRI) Bangalore on 6th -7th March 2014, at CPRI Bangalore.
K.Deepa, Padmaja P J, Vijaya Kumar M presented a paper titled “Cascaded Multi output Push-Pull Converter” in International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE 2014), on January 9-11, 2014, at VIT University, Vellore. Paper will be published in IEEE Digital Library.
K.Deepa, R.Jeyanthi, Shwetha Mohan,, Vijaya Kumar M presented a paper titled “Fuzzy based Flyback converter” in International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE 2014), on January 9-11, 2014, at VIT University, Vellore. Paper will be published in IEEE Digital Library.
Mamtha I, Nikhita Raj J, ShikhaTripathi, Sudarshan TSB presented a paper titled "Reduced Complexity Architecture for Convolution Based Discrete Cosine Transform" in International Symposium on Electronic System Design (ISED 2013), on 12th -13th December 2013, at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Paper will bepublished in IEEE, CSDL, IEEE IEL Digital Libraries.
K.Deepa, presented a paper titled “PWM Closed Loop Controlled Multi-Output Push-Pull Converter” in IEEE International Conference on control, communication and computing (ICCC 2013), on 13th - 15th December 2013, at Government college of engineering, Trivandrum. Paper will bepublished in IEEE Digital Library.
K.Deepa, presented a paper titled “Soft Switched Flyback Converter for SMPS Applications” in IEEE International Conference on control, communication and computing (ICCC 2013), on 13th - 15th December 2013, at Government College of engineering, Trivandrum. Paper will be published in IEEE Digital Library.
K.Deepa, presented a paper titled “Closed Loop Controlled Solar Fed Post Regulated Push-Pull Converter”in IEEE International Conference on control, communication and computing (ICCC 2013), on 13th - 15th December 2013, at Government College of engineering, Trivandrum. Paper will be published in IEEE Digital Library.
K.Deepa, T.Deepti, M.Vijaya Kumar presented a paper titled “New Multi-output Switching converter with low drop out post regulator” in IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Communication, Control, Signal Processing and Computer Application (C2SPCA 2013), on October 10-11, 2013, at Oxford Engineering College, Bangalore.Paper is uploaded in IEEE Digital Library.
D Mahalakshmi, K.Deepa, Yuvasri A K, M.Vijaya Kumar presented a paper titled “Bi-directional push pull converter fed four quadrant DC Drive” in IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Communication, Control, Signal Processing and Computer Application (C2SPCA 2013), on October 10-11, 2013, at Oxford Engineering College, Bangalore.Paper is uploaded in IEEE Digital Library.
SreejaKochuvila, Dr. ShikhaTripathi, Dr. T S B Sudarshan presented a paper titled “Stability of an Underactuated Passive Biped Robot using Partial Feedback Linearization Technique” in International Conference on Mechatronics, Applied Mechanics and Energy Engineering (MAMEE 2013), July 27-29, 2013, Singapore.
Dr.M.R.Rashmi, T.Premkoumar presented a paper titled “A novel Zero Voltage and Zero Current Switched Non-isolated Inverter fed from Renewable Energy Source for high frequency Applications “in International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Civil Engineering(ICEECE-2013),January 4-5,2013,Bali.
Ilango K, Ram S , Dr.Manjula G. Nair presented a paper titled “A Hybrid Photo Voltaic - Battery Powered DC-DC Converter with High Conversion ratio and reduced Switch Stress ”in IEEE-International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES 2012)on 16-19 December 2012,Indian Institute of Science (IISc)& CPRI Bangalore.
Ilango K, Bhargav.A, Trivikram.A, Kavya.P.S , Mounika.G, Dr.Manjula G. Nair presented a paper titled “Performance comparison of shunt active filter interfacing algorithm for renewable energy sources ” in IEEE-International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES 2012)on 16-19 December 2012,Indian Institute of Science (IISc)& CPRI Bangalore.
Ilango K, Bhargav.A, Trivikram.A, Kavya.P.S , Mounika.G, Dr.Manjula G. Nair presented a paper titled “Power Quality Improvement using STATCOM with Renewable Energy Sources” on IEEE- 5th Indian International Conference on Power Electronics (IIPCE 2012)on December 6-8, 2012, Delhi Technological University, Delhi.
Ilango K, Manitha P V, Dr. Manjula G Nair presented a paper titled “An Enhanced Controller for Shunt Active Filter Interfacing Renewable Energy Source and Grid “on IEEE- 5th Indian International Conference on Power Electronics (IIPCE 2012)on December 6-8, 2012, Delhi Technological University, Delhi.
K.Deepa, Dr. M.Vijayakumar presented a paper titled “An Improved Push-Pull Converter with ZVS-ZCS in Active and Passive Switches for Low Voltage Applications” on International conferences on Control System and Power Electronics – CSPE 2012”, Chennai, December 03-04,2012.
T. Deepti( M.Tech Student), K.Deepa, SatheeshChandran (ISRO) presented a paper titled “Implementation and comparison of a new moc with post regulators” IEEE Fifth India International Conference on Power Electronics (IICPE 2012), Delhi Technological University, Delhi, on December 6-8, 2012 and uploaded to IEEE Digital Library.
K.Deepa, Dr.M.Vijayakumar presented a paper titled “Performance analysis of a DC Motor Fed from ZCS-Quasi-resonant Converters” on IEEE Fifth India International Conference on Power Electronics (IICPE 2012), Delhi Technological University, Delhi, on December 6-8, 2012 and uploaded to IEEE Digital Library.
K.Deepa, Sharika.M (M.Tech Student), Dr.M.Vijaya Kumar presented a paper titled “Implementation of a SISO-ZVS Push-Pull Converter Fed DC Servo Motor “ on IEEE Fifth India International Conference on Power Electronics (IICPE 2012), Delhi Technological University, Delhi, and uploaded to IEEE Digital Library.
K.Deepa, R.Jeyanthi, Dr.M.Vijayakumar presented a paper titled “ Efficient and Compact Power Supply for Robotic Application” in “Advances in Recent Technologies in Communication and Computing - ARTCom 2012”,Bangalore. Proceedings is published by Springer Link as Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, LNEE p. 104-109 and is indexed in Scopus, MetaPress, EI Compendex and ISI Proceedings.
Ilango K, Manitha P.V, and Dr.Manjula G. Nair presented a paper titled "An Enhanced controller for shunt active filter interfacing renewable energy source and grid” in Third International conference on sustainable energy Technologies (ICSET-12) held in Kathmandu ,Nepal on 24th to 27th September 2012.
Ilango K, Manitha P.V, and Dr.Manjula G. Nair presented a paper titled "Modified ICosФ Controller for shunt active filter interfacing Renewable energy source and grid" in AASRI Conference on Power and Energy Systems (PES 2012) organized by Elsevier, American Applied Science Research Institute, Hong Kong Education Society at Hong Kong and published in AASRI Procedia 00 (2012) 000–000,on 2-5 September 2012.
Ilango K, Bhargav.A, Trivikram.A, Kavya.P.S , Mounika.G,Vivek.N and Dr.Manjula G. Nair presented a paper titled "STATCOM Interface for Renewable Energy Source with Power Quality improvement”,presented in AASRI Conference on Power and Energy Systems (PES 2012) organized by Elsevier, American Applied Science Research Institute, Hong Kong Education Society at Hong Kong and published in AASRI Procedia 00 (2012) 000–000, 2-5 September 2012.
Savitha.P., Vinothini.B, Deepa.K. presented a paper titled “Harmonic Analysis of a Modified Cascaded Multilevel Inverter” in International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems (ICEES’11)Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai., between 3rd-5th January 2011.
K.Manickavasagam, M.Nithya presented a paper titled “Control of Distributed Generator and Smart Grid Using Multi Agent System” in ICEES-2011 International Conference on Electric Energy Systems between 3rd–5th January 2011.
K. Ilango presented a paper titled “Eddy Current Modeling in Transformer Iron Losses Operated by PWM Inverter” in IEEE-PEDES 2010: Power India Conference on 21st December 2010.
P.Subbaraj and K.Manickavasagam presented a paper titled “AGC of Multi Area Power System Using Hybrid neuro fuzzy controller” in first International conference on Advances in Energy Conversion Technologies ICAECT-2010 at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka in 7-10 January 2010.
Sindhu.M.R, Dr.Manjula.G.Nair, Dr.T.N.P.Nambiar presented a paper titled “An ANN based digital Controller for a Three-phase Active Power Filter” in Power System Technology and IEEE Power India Conference,2008(POWERCON 2008) in 12-15 October 2008.
K.Deepa, Shwetha Mohan presented a paper titled “Challenges for Faculty of Technical Education” in 16TH state level ISTE Faculty convention on “Challenges for Faculty of Technical Education in competetive environment”, on October 11-12, 2013, at AMC Engineering College, Bangalore.
K.S.Amith Kumar and K.S. Janardhan , K.Manickavasagam, K.Ilango presented a paper titled “ A Novel Approach of Autonomous Power Generation Scheme Using Self Excited Induction Generator” on Ist International conference on Energy Engineering and Eco-Balance (ICEEE-2009) organized by Mulshi Institute of Technology and Research (MITR), Pune on 16-18, February 2009.
The Department has set up a few workshops in order to carry out research in the identified thrust areas. These have facilities to conduct research at all levels. Students are actively involved in this to do research. Also research scholars and faculty members guide these students to do research in these labs. A diverse and talented pool of faculty with enviable credentials and sound knowledge in the academic discipline mentor the students in their projects and help them to realize their innovative ideas.
The electrical workshop has got three components, which provides introductory practical knowledge about Electrical and Electronics Engineering for all the engineering disciplines.
First component is the Electrical workshop in which the students are given house wiring practice and familiarization of electrical protective devices and some of the commonly used home appliances.
Second component is Electronics workshop in which students are given familiarization of different types of electronic components, measuring instruments and microprocessor trainer kit.
Third component is PC hardware in which students study different parts of PC hardware.
The department has well equipped Electrical machines laboratory. This laboratory is established with the wide range of equipments for doing their regular laboratory experiments. The DC machines include generators and motors. The DC machines are of separately excited type, self excited type and compound. AC machines include three phase alternators, motors (Squirrel Cage and Slip Ring type), synchronous motor, synchronizing panel, single phase machines are available. Modernized distribution panels (both AC and DC) are used to provide supply power to the various machine work benches. Each machine work bench is provided with a well designed connecting panel board made from thick hylum sheet with attractive printing on it. The Laboratory serves the educational and research requirements in the field of electric machines, electric motor drive systems, power and industrial electronics.
The lab is basically meant for the conduction of the experiments related to Electric Circuit Theory Lab , Measurements and Digital Electronics Lab and Measurement and Analog Electronic Circuits lab. This lab is well equipped with the various kits such as Kelvins double Bridge for the measurement of low resistance , De Sautys Bridge for the measurement of unknown capacitance and loss factor and Maxwells LC Bridge for the measurement of unknown inductance and quality factor. In addition, to conduct the experiments on transducers , Thermocouple,RTD ,Thermistor ,LVDT and Strin Gauge kits are also available. The Lab is also having Phase Shifting transformers( three phase) ,Current transformers and Energy meters to conduct other experiments such as testing of CT , Ammeter Range extention using CT ,Calibration of Energy meter etc. The Linear IC trainer Kits , Digital IC triner Kits , Cathode Ray Oscilloscopes are available for the conduction of Analog and Digital experimens such as Diode clipping and Clamping circuits,BJT Amplifiers , Oscillators, A/D and D/A conversions ,Linear Voltage Regulator,Adder/Subtractor, MUX/DEMUX, Flip flops , Shift Register, Counter, etc.
The power system simulation laboratory is equipped with software packages like MATLAB/Simulink , Orcad , Multisim for simulation studies namely Power flow analysis , Short circuit , Electromagnetic transient and stability studies of power system. These software packages are also used for the design of Power Electronics and drives models which are used both in student projects and research.
V-I characteristics of SCR, MOSFET, IGBT ,Triac.
Triggering circuits, Full wave and Half wave Controlled and Uncontrolled Rectifiers, Semi Converter circuits.
Series and Parallel Inverter circuits, PWM Inverters to familiarize with different types of PWM technology.
IEEE Power Electronics Society student Branch chapter at Amrita School of Engineering had organized a seminar on “Energy Efficiency in Electrical System” by Mr. V Suresh Babu, Asst. Director, NPTI (PSTI), Ministry of Power, Govt. of India on 25th of November 2016 at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bangalore Campus.
IEEE Power Electronics Society Student Branch chapter, Amrita School of Engineering had organized a three day FDP on “Application of Digital Controller TMS20F28027 in Power Electronics and Drives” by Mr. Arjun Yadav, Research Associate, IISC Bengaluru and Director, M/S Conwatts Technologies, Bengaluru” at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru Campus.The digital controller board provides a low cost solution to power electronics applications and digital motor control applications. The on-chip and on-board hardware modules makes it easier to implement advanced control techniques and their execution. This board support the implementation of application using C language which makes the development of controller faster and easier.FDP gave an insight to the architecture of digital control card (DCC), initialization of DCC, GPIO, interrupts and generation of PWM pulses. Configuration of ADC and DAC and generation of different types of voltage waveforms, generation of PWM pulses etc with hands on lab sessions. He explained about the selection of registers for various applications and how to write program in code composer studio for various applications.The sessions were very interesting and informative and faculty members of EEE department, ASE attended the workshop.
The IEEE student chapter of Amrita School of Engineering ,Bengaluru conducted TechWizz on 11th November,2016 as part of Aarohan'16 . This contest procured a tremendous number of students. The first qualifier was a pen and paper round which was called '4 pic 1 word' , where in the participants in teams of four were asked to crack the clues hidden in the displayed pictures, which led to the answer . Filtered based on 'most answers in minimum time’, over 14 teams qualified for the second round . This round was expertly designed to bemuse the young minds. Constructed based on the concept of ‘Sudoku with a twist', this round tested the students’ spontaneity and decrypting skills, 4 teams were qualified for the final round. The final level was more of a fun event with buzzer wires. The competition concluded with the students expressing their satisfaction.
IEEE Power Electronics Society Student Branch chapter at Amrita School of Engineering had organized “TRICTECH” on 26th of October 2016 at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru Campus.B. Tech 1st year and 2nd year students of all the branches has participated in the event. The event was conducted in three sessions which started with a video which shows new generation of the world (i.e.) how the world looks like in 2050 and what are the changes that are going to happen and how we have to be prepared.The event continued with the seminar on “Distribution of power in transmission line” by Mr. Ajit N, P.G Scholar- Power Electronics and Mr.Suresh, UG scholar(EEE), Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. They gave a brief introduction about transmission lines and types of transmission lines like long, short and medium transmission lines. They also gave a short overview of power generation and distribution of power in transmission lines.The 3rd session of the event is technical cross words which were conducted in batches of two from which four batches were selected to the next round based on time of completion of the crosswords with perfect answers. The 2nd round was technical quiz in which questions regarding basic electrical engineering, logos and scientists were asked. One team is elected as winners and one as runners from the four teams participated in the second round. The session was concluded with vote of thanks and prize distribution to the winners.
Following events were conducted under IEEE –PES & IAS Joint Chapter.
Seminar on "Synchrophasor For Smart Grid Applications."
A seminar titled "Synchrophasor For Smart Grid Applications" was arranged by IEEE-PES and IAS joint student branch chapter, Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore on 3rd September, 2016 from 9 am to 11 am in Rama Hall. The guest speaker was Mr. Kaliappa, Joint Director, CPRI, Bangalore, India. The event was attended by the students of B.Tech and M.Tech of the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Mr. Kaliappa started his speech by providing a brief introduction on Smart Grids and advantages of Smart Grid. The main focus was on the role of power electronics and Power systems in the evolution Synchrophasors, the types of PMU’s (Phasor measurement Units), various installation methods, various applications and advantages of Synchrophasors. Alongside Mr. Kaliappa also discussed about various modernized techniques used in CPRI and also briefed students about various trendy research areas. It was indeed a knowledgeable session to learn about the Synchrophasors for smart grid applications.
An event titled ‘Design of things’ was organized by IEEE-PES and IAS joint student branch chapter, Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore on 21st September, 2016 from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm in E-learning Hall. The event was attended by the students from all the departments of B.Tech. The event was primarily held to encourage innovative thinking and hone problem solving skills of the students. The students in a team of 3 presented their design for the given couple of problem. Participants were evaluated on the basis of creativity and feasibility of their ideas by Ms. Manitha P.V, Asst. Professor, Dept. of EEE and Ms. Anjana Jain, Asst. Professor, Dept. of EEE. Winners were announced on the basis of above mentioned criteria for their idea of generating electricity.
Seminar on "Energy Management and Audit"
IEEE-PES Bangalore chapter organized a seminar on ‘Energy Management and Audit’ on 30th September 2016, in Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore. The talk was delivered by Dr. Rajashekar P.Mandi, Director, School of Electrical & Electronics Engg, Reva Institute of Technology. He gave an insight on why we need to conserve energy and different ways of efficient utilization of energy. The seminar gave a glimpse on the increasing need for energy conservation in the present scenario where the global average temperature is increasing by one degree Celsius. He also stressed upon the increasing levels of Carbon Di Oxide in atmosphere and its devastating effect. Dr.Rajashekar holds 26 years of working experience at the research institute CPRI. He shared his on-site experiences and also briefed on the efficiency of agro pumps in fields. He spoke about the various light efficient techniques such as CFLs, LED lamps, different electronic ballasts which could reduce the load amount by a higher margin. He holds expertise as a member of Bureau of Energy standards and conservation India. He explained about the existing energy demand gap of 8-12% in the present scenarios and also about the forecast of reaching 425MW capacity in 2027 where in the generation must be able to cope up with the increasing demand. He also stressed upon the statistics observed when different energy efficient techniques were practiced. The interactive session went on for two hours from 10:30am to 12:30 pm in Rama Hall. As a token of gratitude a memento was presented by Dr. Ramprabhakar, Assistant Professor, Dept of Electricals and Electronics Bangalore to Dr. Rajashekar P.Mandi on behalf of ASE, Bangalore.
IEEE Power Electronics Society student Branch chapter of Amrita School of Engineering had organized a seminar on “IEEE POWER ELECTRONIC SOCIETY- AN INSIGHT” By Nipin K K, Sandra, Sripada, Students of Amrita School of Engineering on 11th August, 2016 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.M. Tech. Power Electronics, final year and pre final year students, B. Tech 1st year students along with faculty members of the Electrical and Electronics department attended the seminar.Mr. Sripada started his talk introducing IEEE, overview of the activities that will take place under IEEE, introducing IEEE Power Electronic Society (IEEE-PELS) student branch chapter and what it is for.
Seminar on "Overview of aircraft electrical systems" A seminar titled "Overview of aircraft electrical systems" was arranged on 22nd July, 2016. The guest speaker was Mr.PVR Saikiran, scientist in CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), India. Mr.Saikiran commenced by providing a brief introduction on the aerospace related disciplines and R&D at NAL. The main focus was on the role of power electronics in the evolution of electrical system in the aircrafts. Mr.Saikiran also talked about the standards used for an aircraft electrical power generation and distribution system. Alongside, a research work in power electronics carried at NAL was elaborated and he was kind enough to share with students some insightful information regarding internships and work opportunities at NAL. It was indeed a knowledgeable session to learn about the electrical system employed in aircrafts.
Seminar on "Propulsion Equipment for Indian Railway " A seminar titled "Propulsion Equipment for Indian Railway " was arranged on 28th July, 2016 from 3.30pm to 4.30pm. The guest speaker was Mr. Shekar R, DGM BHEL-EDN. He was accompanied by Mr, V. V. N. S. S. R. M. Krishna, Sr. Engineer BHEL-EDN. Mr. Shekar started the event with the evolution of Indian Railways i.e from steam to electric locomotives. His main focus was on the role of power electronics in the evolution of electric traction. He also highlighted the use and advantages of IGBTs for the traction purpose of locomotives. Mr. Shekar described briefly about the nomenclature of locos (eg.WAG9, WAP5, WAP7) and talked about the development, manufacture and supply of 3-Phase IGBT-based propulsion systems for Electric Locomotives and AC EMUs for Indian Railways. The session was really a great opportunity for the students to get equipped with the knowledge and ideas related to the advancement of power electronics in the field of traction.
IEEE WIE Symposium 2015 was organized by IEEE India Council WIE-AG in collaboration with IEEE Bangalore Section on the 7th and 8th of November 2015 at Amrita School of Engineering , Bangalore, with the theme ‘Build. Empower. Inspire.’.
IEEE Power Electronics Society Student Branch Chapter at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru organized a seminar on “Power Electronics Applications in Power Systems" on 3rd of November 2015.
Dr Krishnan C.M.C and Mr J Ramprabhakar organized a workshop on “Introduction to LATEX” on 7TH Feb, 2015 Krishna Hall, Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
Mr. A P Kalaichelvan(Commercial Pilot in Arik Air flying airbus A330) gave a talk on 'Stress, Time management communication and situational awareness' on 14th January 2015.
Nithya.M organized a workshop on “Texas Instruments C2000 microcontrollers” on 13-14 March 2012 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
Dr. K. Manickavasagam organized a two weeks ISTE workshop on “Solar Photovoltaic - Fundamentals, Technologies and Application” during 12th - 22nd December, 2011 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
Dr. K.Deepa and Ms. Manitha P.V attended a webinar on "Power system design and analysis using DIgSILENT" power factory software with DELLSOFT Technologies Pvt. Ltd conducted between 11th -13th July 2016.
Dr. J. Ramprabhakar attended a conference on “Challenges and Opportunities of Renewable Energy Conversion Technologies ” at ACS College of Engineering, Bangalore on 25th – 26th February 16 (Sponsored by MNRE).
Dr.S.Shankar and Mrs.V.S.Kirthika Devi attended a conference on “Micro Grids Challenges and Opportunities ” at IIT Chennai (ABB IITM sponsored one day workshop) on 26th February 16 .
Mrs. Mini Sujith ,Dr. M.R. Rashmi, Dr. Shankar.S ,Dr. K. Deepa, Mrs. Nithya M, Mrs. Mamata I,Mrs. V. S. Kirthika Devi,Mrs. Anjana Jain, Mrs. Sreekala.M, Mrs. Sailaja.V, Mrs. Lekshmi S, Mrs. Sudha Yadav, Mrs. K. Sireesha,Dr. J. Ramprabakar,,Dr. Kishore Naik Mude,Mrs. S. Syama,Mrs. D. Mahalakshmi,Mrs. P.V.Manitha attended “PESTSE 2016-IEEE Biennial conference on Power and Energy Systems: Towards Sustainable Energy” organized by EEE Dept, ASE Bengaluru held on 21st-23rd January 2016.
Dr. M. R. Rashmi, Mrs. Mini Sujith, Mrs. V. S. Kirthika Devi, Mrs. K. Deepa, Mrs Nithya M, Mrs. Mamtha I, Mrs. Sudha Yadav, Mrs. K. Sireesha, Mr. J. Ramprabakar, Dr. Shankar.S, Dr. Kishore Naik Mude, Mrs. S. Syama, Mrs. D. Mahalakshmi, Mrs. P. V. Manitha attended IEEE WIE Symposium 2015’ organized by IEEE Bangalore Section on 7th -8th November 2015 held at Amrita School of Engineering , Bengaluru.
Mrs. V. S. Kirthika Devi, Mrs. Sreekala M, Mrs. K. Sireesha, Mrs. S. Syama attended a 3 day training programme on ‘NI Lab VIEW Hardware Interface conducted on 15th – 17th October 2015.
Dr. M. R. Rashmi, Mrs. Mini Sujith, Mrs. V. S. Kirthika Devi, Mrs. K. Deepa, Mrs. Anjana Jain, Mrs. Sreekala. M, Mrs. Sailaja. V, Mrs. Sudha Yadav, Mrs. K. Sireesha, Mr. J. Ramprabakar, Dr. Shankar. S, Dr. Kishore Naik Mude, Mrs. S. Syama, Mrs. D. Mahalakshmi, Mrs. P. V. Manitha attended “ Industrial Energy Audit” organized by the student branch chapters of IEEE POWER ENERGY SOCIETY (PES) in association with the IEEE POWER ELECTRONICS SOCIETY (PELS) on 19th September2015.
Mrs K.Sireesha attended “ Micro and smart system technologies” at Amrita School of Engineering Bengaluru in technical collaboration with IEEE Sensors Council, Bengaluru section on 10th and 11th , September, 2015.
Mrs Mamatha I attended a conference on “RC4Masses-Workshop on Reconfigurable Computing for the Masses, Really?” at Royal Institution, Imperial College, London, UK on 4th September 2015.
Mrs.K.Deepa and Dr.Kishore Nayak Mude attended a Course on “Overview of Intellectual Property Rights” at GE- John F. Welch Technology Centre (GE-JFWTC), Bangalore on 21st August 2015.
Mrs Mini Sujith, Dr Rashmi M R and Mrs Deepa K attended a Technical Talk on “Control of high dynamic medium voltage AC drives” by J.Holtz held in IISc, CEDT, Bangalore on 5th Jan2015.
Mr. J RamPrabhakar and Mrs Mahalakshmi.R attended a workshop on “Design and Analysis of Electrical Machines using ANSYS software” conducted on 16th-18th Feb2015 in ASE,Coimbatore.
Mrs Mini Suijith, Mrs K.Deepa, Mrs V.S.Kirthika Devi ,Mrs Anjana Jain and Mrs R.Mahalakshmi attended Young researchers meet conducted byIEEE PES, Bangalore Chapter in Hotel Royal orchid, Bangalore on 6th December 2014.
Mrs Mini Sujith and Mrs Deepa K attended a “IEEE PES Bangalore Chapter Workshop on Women in Engineering” in Hotel Royal Orchid, Bangalore on 22nd November 2014.
K Deepa, V S Kirthika Devi, Mamtha I, Nithya M, Sreekala M, V Sailaja, Anjana Jain, Lekshmi S, Sudha Yadav, K Sireesha, Lakshmi P, Manitha P V attended two week ISTE workshop on Signals & Systems organized by IIT Kharagpur from 2nd to 12th January, 2014. This workshop was held under the National Mission on Education through ICT(MHRD).
Mini Sujith, K Deepa, V S Kirthika Devi, Sreekala M, Lekshmi S, SudhaYadav, KSireesha, Lakshmi P, Mahalakshmi D, Manitha P V attended two week ISTE workshop on Analog Electronics organized by IIT Kharagpur from 4th to 14th June, 2013. This workshop was held under the National Mission on Education through ICT(MHRD).
Nithya.M attended TI India Educators Conference 2013 organized by Texas Instruments at NIMHANS convention Centre on 4 and 5 April 2013.
Mamatha.I, SreekalaM attended a workshop on Trends and Developments in Signal Processing and Applications organized by Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore on 27 & 28 April 2013.
Lakshmi.P attended a FDP on Low Power Embedded Systems Using MSP430 Micro Controller organized by JSS Academy of Technical Education, Bangalore on 4 &6 March 2013.
Mamatha.I attended a workshop on Computer Architecture & High Performance Computing organized by Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore on 15 &16 March 2013.
SreekalaM attended an International Symposium on Medical Electronics organized by BMSCE, Bangalore at BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore on 30th and 31th January 2013.
Sreekala M, Sireesha.K attended an ISTE workshop on “Aakash for education” on 10th and 11th November 2012 organised by IIT,Bombay at Amrita School of Engineering,Bengaluru.
Dr.Rashmi. M.R attended an FDP on HVDC Systems at PESIT, Bangalore on 06-07 Aug 2012.
Dr. Rashmi. M. R, K.Deepa, V.S.Kirthika Devi, V.Sailaja, K.Ilango, M.Nithya, Sreekala Manmadhan,and P.Lakshmi attended a workshop on “Texas Instruments C2000 microcontrollers” on 13-14 March 2012 at Amrita School of Engineering ,Bangalore.
Sreeja Kochuvila, Mamatha.I and Sreekala M attended a research seminar on “Computer vision for robotics” at Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore on 24-25 February 2012.
Mamatha. I attended a training on Designing with Xilinx 7 series at Xilinx Technical Knowledge Summit 2011-12 on 08 Feb 2012.
Sreekala Manmadhan, Mamatha. I and V.S. Kirthika Devi attended an ISTE Workshop organised by-IIT Bombay -National mission on education through ICT(MHRD) in Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore on 28 June-08 July 2011.
Nithya. M attended a workshop on C2000 Microcontrollers by Texas Instruments India on 01-02 July2011 at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.
K.Deepa attended a workshop on Hardware implementation of power electronics & drive at SRM University on 15-16 Sep 2011.
V.S. Kirthika Devi, Deepa. K,Nithya. M,K. Ilango and S. Syama attended an ISTE workshop on Solar photovoltaics:Fundamentals, Technologies & Applications organised by IIT Bombay -National mission on education through ICT(MHRD) & National centre for photovoltaics research and education(MNRE)-in Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore on 12-22 Dec 2011.
Mamatha. I attended a short term course on Advances in VLSI Signal Processing at IIT, Kharagpur on 21-25 Dec 2011.
Sailaja. V,Sreeja Kochuvila,Sudha Yadav and Dr. Rashmi. M.R attended a FDP on Basic Electronics at Amrita School of Engineering,Ettimadai on 23-25 Dec 2011.
Sreekala Manmadhan attended a National workshop on Sparse image & signal processing at Amrita School of Engineering, Ettimadai on 23-26 Dec 2011.
K. Ilango attended an FDP on Wind Energy at Amrita School of Engineering, Ettimadai on 27-30 June 2011.
K. Deepa, Sreekala M, Sudha Yadav attended a National Seminar on Trends & Development in sensors & Instrumentation at Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore on 08-09 April 2011.
Mamatha. I attended a workshop on Mission 10X- Teaching & learning at WIPRO on 21 Oct 2010.
K. Ilango attended an FDP on Power System management at Amrita School of Engineering , Ettimadai on 02 – 04 June 2010.
K. Deepa attended an ISTE Workshop on Effective teaching/learning of computer programming by -IIT Bombay -National mission on education through ICT on 14 – 24 Dec 2009.
Mini Sujith attended an International workshop on Advances in Electrical Electronics Engg at Amrita School of Engineering , Ettimadai, on 07 – 11 Dec 2009.
M. Nithya attended an FDP on Design & Development of Embedded Systems using ARM organized by Centre for Advance studies, Yeshwanthpur, Bangalore on 03 Sep 2009.
Mamatha. I attended a workshop on Mission 10X- Teaching & learning at WIPRO on Mission 10X- Learning approach practitioner on 27 – 28 Aug 2009.
Sreekala M attended a certificate course on Foundations of Image processing & pattern recognition organized by PESIT,Bangalore on 13 – 22 July 2009.
K. Ilango attended a FDP on Facts & Custom power controllers for Quality Enhancement of Deregulated Power Systems at NIT, Calicut on 18 – 29 May 2009.
Sudha Yadav attended a FDP on DELNET at Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore on 21 May 2009.
Mamatha.I attended a Workshop on Mission 10X at PES School of Engineering, Bangalore on 18 – 22 May 2009.
Mamatha.I attended a workshop on High Impact Teaching Skills at WIPRO on 18 – 19 May 2009.
Mini Sujith attended a Winter School on Application of power electronics to non-conventional power generation systems at NITK, Surathkal on 03 – 07 March 2009.
K. Ilango attended a workshop on Large scale integration of wind energy into the grid at CPRI, Bangalore on 02 – 04 Feb 2009.
Mamatha. Iattended a workshop on Analog & Mixed mode design using cadence tool at BNM Institute & Cadence Design Systems(I) Pvt. Ltd on 02 – 04 Feb 2009.
K. Ilango attended a AICTE/MHRD sponsored winter school on Renewable Energy Sources at NITTTR, Chandigarh on 02 – 06 Feb 2009.
Sudha Yadav attended a Workshop(TEQIP at UVCE, Bangalore on Recent trends in Power Electronics on 25 – 26 Sep 2008.
Mini Sujith attended an FDP on Recent trends in power transformers at R.V. College of Engineering on 11 -12 Aug 2008.
K. Ilango attended an Intensive Training on Fundamentals of Electromagnetics at Amrita School of Engineering , Ettimadai on 11 – 21 Aug 2008.
Sreekala Manmadhan attended a FDP on Embedded Systems & DSP at Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore on 30 June-04 July 2008.
Sudha Yadav, Nithya. M attended a FDP on Electric circuit theory at Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore on 20 -22 May 2008.
Nithya. M attended a FDP on Building Embedded Systems using RTOS at Centre for Advance studies, Yeshwanthpur, Bangalore on 20 Feb 2008.
Mini Sujith attended a FDP on PIC microcontroller design & its Applications at R.V. College of Engineering (Sponsored by AICTE) on 21 Jan-02 Feb 2008.
Sudha Yadav attended a FDP on Object oriented programming with C++ at Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore on 10 – 14 Dec 2007.
IEEE PELS organized a meeting to give a warm welcome to 2017 office bearers and for appreciating the selfless volunteering of 2016 IEEE PELS office bearers on 25th May at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore Campus.
Dr. Navin Kumar, IEEE Student Branch Counselor and Associate Professor(ECE), Amrita School of Engineering gave a talk about IEEE society history and structure , qualifications for IEEE membership, member grade elevation procedure, various societies in IEEE and various student branch chapters active in Amrita School of Engineering. He emphasized the IEEE’s mission to Enhance Technology for humanity and the profession. The membership offers a platform to access to the industry’s most essential technical information, networking opportunities and professional growth.
He motivated the students to offer volunteering in student branch chapters and also to take part in as volunteers in IEEE Societies and communities. The talk was very inspiring and informative.
He appreciated the dedicated volunteering work offered by 2016 committee members and distributed a Certificate of appreciation to the volunteers.
The meeting concluded by vote of thanks by Mrs. Mini Sujith, IEEE PELS SBC adviser..
On the third day of Eco Week, a talk on Renewable Energy Technologies in Power Generation was held by Prakriti, in collaboration with IEEE PELS. The talk was hosted by Mr. B. SatyaSripada (Year III, EEE), Vice Chair, IEEE PELS and Mr. Thirumal Reddy (Year II, ECE), Executive Member, Prakriti. Mr. Sripada spoke of the limited life of non-renewable resources and the urgency of transitioning to renewable resources for power generation. He spoke in detail of different sources of renewable energy such as Solar Energy, Wind Energy and Hydro Energy. Mr. Reddy continued the talk and spoke of Bio Energy and the consequences to humanity and the planet if renewable energy sources are not integrated to international power production.
Interactive Session 'What’s GOING ON?'-Vidyuth (EEE Department Forum) and IEEE Student Branch (ASE-Bengaluru) jointly conducted an interesting, interactive session on 6th October 2016 on research topics having good future scope. It was a collaborated event with ECIF club in which Vidyuth concentrated on Hybrid vehicles and ECIF on Gadgets.It started with a small interesting video on hybrid vehicles construction and working to brief the students about Hybrid vehicles. Then the club executives Mr. Jayathertha and Ms. Gopika explained the present scenario in the practical world by putting forward the types of hybrid vehicles, advantages and dis-advantages, their manufacturing companies. This made the students more involved and understand the importance of hybrid vehicles.The session came to an end with discussion on the latest advancements and research going on in the field. The talk was attended by about 50 students. The session was a grand success which was visible from the students’ feedback about the session being more interactive and lively.
An interesting technical quiz titled 'Techathon' was held on 4th of October, 2016 jointly by IEEE- WIE (student affinity group) and IEEE-PES & IAS, Student Branch Joint chapter of Amrita school of engineering, Bengaluru at 3:30pm in Rama Hall. It was conducted under the guidance of Dr.K.Deepa, IEEE-WIE-ASE and IEEE-PES-ASE mentor and was flawlessly executed by the IEEE student members.
The event saw a good participation from students of B.tech 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of different branches. Teams of 3 each were formed and the quiz was composed of sections with ascending level of difficulty. A perfect ambience for testing the team work and exchanging knowledge was created and everyone thoroughly enjoyed. Post the quiz, the participants were given an opportunity to pitch in ideas for events and workshops to be conducted in the near future, which received an amazing response.
A one day workshop with hands-on session on "Solar 360 : Electrical" was conducted at Amrita School of Engineering (ASE) on 22nd October, 2016 from 10:00am to 5pm. The event was co-ordinated by Dr. K.Deepa, Convener, Assistant Professor, Dept. of EEE and was organized by IEEE Members.The workshop included a crowd of 40 IEEE members and 81 non-IEEE members. The workshop was conducted in 3 sessions.
The first session was taken up by Dr.Deepa, Assistant Professor, Dept. of EEE which included the introduction to solar energy and its utility in real life, also how the energy estimation is done.
The second session was taken by Mr.Ronaldo, alumni of ASE , Bengaluru and presently working in BOSCH as a hardware engineer. His session included the construction of solar panel and the parameters taken into consideration before its build-up.
The third session was the working on matlab and live demonstration of its interfacing with a solar panel. This also included the construction of buck-boost converter using matlab software.The sessions were really knowledgeable, authentic and useful. It helped in creating foresighted vision about the different aspects related to electrical field. It also enlightened the young minds to come up with unique ideas and implement it in real life.
Energy Conservation Week (ENERGON) : ENERGON is an energy conservation week organized by the chapter from 24th-28th October 2016.This was to enlighten students about the importance of energy and its preservation. Following are the various events conducted under this banner.
Circuitrix : Circuitrix is a basic electrical circuit analysis competition organized on 24th October 2016 from 3.30pm to 4.30pm in Rama hall. In this event students were given 10 circuits and were asked to debug or analyze them with in 1 hour. This event was to test the basic circuit knowledge of the students. Sixty students from all the departments attended this event.
M.U.S.T.(Make your Statement) : M.U.S.T is a panel discussion conducted on 25th October 2016 from 3.30pm to 4.30pm in Rama hall. In this event, Dr.Debjyothi Sahu (A.P, ME Department), Mr. Ullhas. K (A.P, ME Department), Dr. Praveen Kumar (A.P, Physics Department) were the panelists. Dr.Debjythi Sahu spoke about energy policies in India, Mr. Ullhas.K discussed the energy conservation in solar perspective. Dr. Praveen concluded the discussion by explaining the Batteries in R.E.S. About 50 students from all departments attended this event.
Pitch it up : Pitch it up is a student interactive event held on 26th October 2016 from 3.30pm to 4.30pm in Rama hall. In this event, students were given problems related to energy conservation faced in general life and were asked to come up with solutions. They were judged on the basis of effectiveness in presentation, analyzing the reasons for those problems and efficiency of their solutions. About 30 students from all the departments attended this event.
S.U.P.(Save your power) : S.U.P is a talk on energy auditing organized in collaboration with Vidyuth, the student forum on 27th October 2016 from 3.30pm to 4.30pm in Rama hall. Dr.Deepa.K (A.P, EEE Department) gave a lecture on energy auditing with the help of case study of energy consumption in Railway Bhavan and various ways of tapping natural resources. About 25 students from all departments attended this event.
Eco Spark: Eco Spark is a technical exhibition held on 28th October 2016 from 2.30pm to 4.00pm at the new block entrance. Two projects were exhibited and demonstrated by students, one of them was on the P.V characteristics and the other was on Automatic Room Lighting Technique.ENERGON is focused on applying the theoretical knowledge to practice. As the student feedback on the various events conducted was positive, it is planned to conduct the events under this banner every year to benefit the future generations and to bring awareness on importance of energy saving.
Technical Event "TECH-TAC-TOE" - Vidyuth, the departmental forum for Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru organized an event titled ‘Tech-Tac-Toe’ on 26th September 2016 in Rama Hall from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM. ‘Tech-Tac-Toe’ is a semi technical event that is designed to test the technical as well as spontaneous skills of the participants.The event had three rounds where questions become more sophisticated as the participating team hop from one round to another. Round one was a quiz based round with technical and general questions (total of 7 minutes was given to solve the questions) followed by tech- tac-toe game with some complications in it. Final round was a time bounded technical round which involved thought-provoking electrical questions.The event witnessed a turnout of 37 teams with 2 members in each team making it a grand success.
IEEE PES Student Branch Chapter of Amrita School of Engineering under the mentorship of Dr. K. Deepa, inaugurated on 10th August 2015, has been ranked 19th in the world ranking of “High performing Student Branch Chapter 2015” and 3rd in India, the chapter will receive $294 as award fund from IEEE Headquarters.
“BRAINSTORM”- An Introduction to PES and IAS chapter was arranged by IEEE-PES and IAS joint student branch chapter, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru on August 22nd, 2016 from 3.30pm to 4.30pm. The main aim of this session was to brief the importance of PES and IAS joint student chapter. The session was witnessed by the IEEE-PES and IAS joint student branch chapter members and all B.Tech and M.Tech students of Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
IEEE Power Electronics Society Student Branch chapter of Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru, with the support and guidance of Chairman and faculty of EEE department conducted a seminar on “IEEE Power Electronic Society(PELS)- An Insight" on 11th August, 2016 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The talk was given by Mr. Nipin K. K. (2nd year M.Tech., PE), Ms. Sandra Joji (7th Sem B.Tech., EEE) and Mr. Sripada (5th Sem B.Tech., EEE). The PELS introductory talk was mainly aimed at the 1st, 2nd year B.Tech.(EEE) and 1st year M.Tech.(PE) students.
Mr. Sripada started his talk introducing IEEE and IEEE Power Electronic Society (IEEE-PELS) student branch chapter. He gave overview of the activities that will take place under IEEE and briefed about the importance of the PELS chapter. He also mentioned the activities conducted in the past under the chapter and also gave an idea about various events that are going to be conducted at Amrita School of Engineering under IEEE and IEEE-PELS Student Branch Chapter. He gave a brief outline on how to join IEEE and how students will be benefited by joining IEEE and IEEE-PELS.
Ms. Sandra Joji gave a concise explanation of how the subjects that B. Tech students are studying can be related to power electronics with few examples like choppers and their applications. She also mentioned about the various power electronic switching devices such as power diode, MOSFET etc. and how they can be used in power converters.
Mr. Nipin K. K. started his discourse explaining what is power electronics and later he discussed about the courses that M. Tech in Power Electronics deals with. While explaining the application of theory to practice, he mentioned how soft computing techniques such as fuzzy logic controller can be used to generate gating pulses to switch the power electronic devices. He concluded his session mentioning a few applications and scope of power electronics. He also motivated students to join IEEE and IEEE-PELS for networking with experts and to get updated with the present technology.
Industrial visit provides students a practical exposure to product design and development that happen in an industry. Under VIDYUTH forum an “Industrial Visit to Schneider Electric” for VI semester EEE students was organized. Group of 60 students along with faculties Ms.Syama S. and Ms. V. Sailaja, visited Schneider Electric in Electronic city on 3rd March 2016. The students were explained about a Solar Inverter in the Galaxy Series of Inverters. This is an inverter which would work only if it senses that the grid voltage is as rated and that there is no fault in the transmitted power or when there is sufficient amount of sunlight to produce a DC voltage within its operating range, else it remains dormant. When it is operating, it synchronizes its output with the grid frequency and feeds it. Overall, this was a highly informative industrial visit. Students learnt about the company as a global leader in its various fields of specialization, various safety practices gave a visual and practical insight into the various power electronic devices used in the assembled products and their testing.
A technical seminar on "Excitation controls-automatic voltage regulators" by arvind gupta, agm, ots-electrical, adani power ltd,ahmedabad conducted by ieee pes student branch chapter, at amrita school of engineering, bangalore on 20-01-2016 from 8.30am to 10am.
IEEE-PELS distinguished lecture programme on “Hardware-in-the-loop systems with power electronics - a powerful simulation tool” by Dr. Ralph M Kennel, chair- electrical drives systems & power electronics, technical university, munich, germany at amrita school of engineering, amrita vishwa vidyapeetham, bengaluru campus on 20-01-2016.
ELECSPIRE was an event organized by Vidyuth the departmental forum of EEE on 13th January 2016 at Rama hall from 3:30 PM to 4:20 PM. The event witnessed a crowd of about 50 participants. The event aimed at bringing the latest technology and the ideas from the field of Electrical Engineering to use and successfully deliver a taste of the real world examples to all the participants present.
IEEE Power Electronics Society student Branch chapter at Amrita School of Engineering organized a distinguished lecture program titled “is Chair and Professor for Electrical Drive Systems and Power Electronics at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Germany).
Dr. J. Ramprabhakar was promoted to Assistant Professor (SL Grade) from Assistant Professor (Sr.Gr) with effect from July 2016.
His Biography Included in Mariques Who’s who in world -34th edition.
Selected as Editorial Board Member for Cogent Journal-Engineering Section.
Acting as special session track chair on “Wireless Power Transfer for Industrial Electronics” in IEEE ICIT 2017 conference which will be held at Toronto, Canada.
Invited author for One chapter in Power Electronics Handbook, 4th edition, by Prof. M.H. Rashid which will be published by Elsevier book series.
Invited as a speaker on Battery Charging Infrastructure in Electric VEhicles in Nano-Science conference will be held at Germany on 19th-21st March 2016.
Joined as Post-Doctoral Fellow in Systec R&D–Porto, Portugal on September 27, 2016.
“A New adaptive state of charge control for hybrid energy conversion systems” for International Journal 'IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion'.
“Design and Experimental Validation of Photovoltaic-Thermal collector articles” for International Journal 'Energy and Conversion Management' by Elsevier .
“Optimization of Diversion Tunnel Diameter in Storage Dams for Minimum Construction Costs” for international journal 'Energy Journal' by Elsevier.
Following achievements are bagged by Dr. Kishore Naik Mude, Assistant Professor (Sr.G), EEE Department.
Selected as Post-Doctoral Fellow in Systec R&D –Porto, Portugal for a Period of One year starting from September 27, 2016.
Awarded as Da vinci Diamond from International Biographic Centre, Cambridge, England.
He reviewed three papers for IEEE transactions on Industrial Electronics and Five Papers for International Conference "IEEE PEDES-2016".
Dr. Kishore Naik Mude, Assistant Professor(Sr.Gr), EEE Dept. was Appointed as ambassador of the Asian Council of Science Editors for the year of 2016. His Biography included in Top 100 Professionals-2016, by International Biographic Centre, Cambridge, England.
Dr. Kishore Naik Mude, Assistant Professor(Sr.Gr), EEE Dept. was appointed as Editorial Board member of IJIDEAS - International Journal of Innovative Developments in Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Delivered an invited talk on ‘Wireless Charging Infrastructures’ in ‘EMN (Energy- Materials- Nanotechnology) Meeting on Batteries’, organized by University of Central Florida,USA from 21st -25th February 2016.
Participated in workshop and delivered a key-note speak on ‘Electrical Vehicle Battery Infrastructures’ on 26th February 2016 held at International Transport Innovation Centre, Greenville, South Carolina, USA.
Participated in panel discussion on ‘Electric Vehicle Scenario in global Market’ along with Manager, Toyota R&D, USA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA and Cisco systems, CA, USA.
Participated in ‘South Carolina Automotive Summit’ held at Greenville, USA and met the Governor of South Carolina Ms. Nikki R. Haley.
Delivered an expert talk on ‘Wireless Power Transfer for Future Transportation and Electrification’ in University Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Oshawa, Canada.
Dr. Kishore Naik Mude is invited as a speaker on the topic of “Wireless Battery charging by organizers of the EMN Meeting on Batteries” which will be held at Orlando, Florida, USA. He is granted a fund by Science and Engineering Research Board, DST, Govt.of India to attend the conference in Orlando, USA.
Mr. J. Ramaprabhakar, Assistant Professor (Sr.Gr), EEE Dept. successfully defended his PhD thesis constructs during his PhD defence on January 30th , 2016 in the faculty of Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. The title of thesis is "Coordination Controls for Moderating Generation-Demand Mismatch in Wind-Solar-Hydro Energy Conversion Systems”.
Ms. K. Deepa, Assistant Professor (Sr.Gr), EEE Dept. has successfully defended her Ph. D thesis titled “Design, Analysis and Control of DC to DC Quasi Resonant Converters” at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh.
Dr. Kishore Naik Mude appointed as editorial committee member of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY (Int. J. Sc. Res. Tech.), ISSN 2454 9800 (Print Edition).
Dr. M.R Rashmi reviewed the following papers for IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering, Technology and Science (ICETETS-2016) organized by Kings college, Tamilnadu.
1)Performance Analysis of Asymmetric Cascaded Nine Level Impedance Source Multilevel Inverter.
2)Doubly Fed Harmonic Mitigation In Induction Generator For Wind Conversion Systems By Using Integrated Active Filter Capabilities.
1)‘Natural protection of Lithium-Ion Batteries from overcharging by PV panels’ for IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion.
Mrs Deepa K reviewed one paper for IJEE.
Mrs Deepa K reviewed a paper for International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS), a scopus indexed journal.
Mrs Mamatha I has been invited to be a Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on "Signal Processing, Informatics, Communications and Energy Systems 2015 (IEEE SPICES 2015)‟ to be held at NIT, Calicut from 19th to 21st February, 2015. She has reviewed the following two papers for the same conference.
1. "Two Level 2-D DWT Convolution Structure Using Daub-6 Wavelet with Low Adder-Count".
2. "An Efficient VLSI Architecture for Fingerprint Recognition Using O2D-DWT Architecture and Modified CORDIC-FFT".
Mrs Deepa K, reviewed a paper for “IET POWER ELECTRONICS”,published by Institution of Engineering and Technology, United Kingdom.
Mr Ilango K was invited as an examiner to evaluate M.Tech Project in EEE Department, at, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham ,School of Engineering Amritapuri campus, Kollam, Kerala.
Mr. Ilango K reviewed the manuscript titled on “Unified Power Quality Conditioner Based on P-q Theory Control Strategy for Power Quality Enhancement” for the International Research Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, by Premier Publishers.
Dr Rashmi M R has reviewed the paper "Multi Input High Performance Z-Source Inverter for Hybrid Wind-Solar Power Systems" for the Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, Taylor’s University.
Mrs. K Deepa has reviewed the paper “Modular Design of a Dual Active Bridge DC-DC Multilevel Converter with Stepped Two-Level Output for Medium and High Voltage Applications” for the special issue on modeling and control for the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.
Mrs. K. Deepa chaired a technical session for MILAGRO-A 1-day National Level Technical Symposium for engineering students,organized by Department of EEE,ShirdiSai Engineering College, Anekal, Bangalore on 26th September' 2013.
Mrs. K. Deepa has reviewed five papers for IET Power Electronics Journal.
Mr. K. Ilango has reviewed a research paper titled “Power quality Improvement using Virtual Flux- based Direct Power Controlled Shunt Active Filter” for Elsevier - International journal of Electrical power and Energy systems.
Mr. K. Ilango has reviewed four research papers for the national conference, Technological Advancements in Power & Energy, TAP Energy National Conference 2013, July 4th - 6th held at Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri Campus, Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham,Kerala.
Mrs. K. Deepa has reviewed four papers for IET Power Electronics Journal.
Dr. M. R. Rashmi reviewed two research papers for the national conference, Technological Advancements in Power & Energy, TAP Energy National Conference 2013, July 4th - 6th held at Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri Campus, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kerala.
K. Deepa have reviewed a research paper titled "Extending the Utilization of DC Link Voltage in Multilevel Inverters Using a New Modulation Technique" for IET Power Electronics Journal.
Dr. Rashmi M. R. has reviewed five research papers for the IEEEINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIRCUIT, POWER AND COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES (ICCPCT 2013) to be held on 21ST & 22ND OF MARCH 2013.
Ms. K. Deepa reviewed the following five Papers for 2012 IEEE Fifth India International Conference On Power Electronics (IICPE 2012), DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, DELHI, INDIA .
Dr. Rashmi M. R. was invited as a speaker for one day workshop on "Soft Computing Techniques for Electrical Applications" on 25th August 2012 conducted at Karpaga Vinayaga College of Engineering and Technology, Kanchipuram, TamilNadu.
Dr. Manjula G.Nair, Professor and Chair of the Department has reviewed three research papers for ICSET-2012,3rd IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies(ICSET-12)to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal on 24th to 27th September, 2012.
Dr. Rashmi M. R. has reviewed a research paper titled ‘Uplink Transmit Power Control in a CDMA Network - A Fuzzy Modeling Approach’ for the Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Research.
Dr. Manjula G. Nair reviewed a paper for the International Journal IEEE Transactions on ‘Industrial Electronics’.
Dr. Rashmi M. R., Associate Professor in the Department, has been appointed as a ‘Reviewer’ for the National Journal - “Indian Journal of Science and Technology”.
Dr. Rashmi M. R. was invited to address the participants of a workshop on “Soft Computing Techniques” organized by Karrpaga Vinayaga College of Engineering and Technology,Chennai on 23rd September, 2011.
Chintamanirao Tejaswini Vijay (BL.EN.U4EEE12015) - 7th Rank.
Nidhis.A.D and P. Preetham Reddy of V Sem EEE demonstrated the working of " EOG Controlled Human Computer Interface for Differently Enabled", for the National Workshop "ETC Vision Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru between 19-21st August 2016.
The IEEE- WIE Student Branch Affinity Group of Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru organized talk on “Work Life Balance”. The theme of the talk involved the significance of prioritizing between work and personal life. The talk was delivered by Dr. D. N. Sujatha, chairperson of IEEE-WIE affinity group, Bangalore section on 29th July, 2016 from 2.30pm to 4.30 pm.The event was witnessed by B.Tech and M.Tech girl students of Amrita School of Engineering. Dr. D. N. Sujatha explained work-life balance and stressed on deliberate sharing of works, perks at work and the support systems. She briefed about the IEEE-WIE affinity group and the events planned for this year ahead. In accession, she added a closing note, mentioning the benefits of being a member of IEEE and suggested ideas to drive students to join the association.
A talk on ‘FUTURE BATTERY CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR TRANSPORTATION ELECTRIFICATION’ was hosted by the IEEE PES student chapter as part of its Tech talk series of events on 5/10/2015(3.30pm to 4.30pm)at Rama Hall. Dr. Kishore Naik Mude, Assistant Professor, Department of EEE, Amrita School of Engineering Bengaluru, delivered the talk.
The talk started with a brief outline about Battery Charging Infrastructure for Wired and Wireless charging. The speaker stressed on keynote that Electric vehicles (EVs) are a viable solution to the increasing problems arising from the environment pollution and also due to the shortage of fossil fuels. He also briefed about the various electric vehicles such as Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV), Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV), Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). The speaker concluded the talk with standards for EV and current market scenario.
The target audience (30 members) was B. Tech EEE Second and Third year, M.Tech Power Electronics students.
IEEE PES Student Branch Chapter, Amrita School of Engineering received a startup fund of $200 from IEEE Headquarters, towards the IEEE Student Branch Chapter activities.
(a) CONNECT IT - It’s a word connecting game in which one of the participants has to tell a technical word which starts with same letter ended by the previous participant of the same team. The team will be given marks according to the number of words they connect.
(b) PICK AND SPEAK - Participants need to pick a chit from the word box and need to speak about that technical word for 2 minutes. The marks will be given by judges according to their performance.
(c) KWIZ - Team should answer the given technical question. Each answer carries marks according to the question given.
(d) DUMCHARADS - One participant from a team should come to dais and should act the given technical word so that the other team members guess the word.
“What after B.Tech?” event was conducted by ‘Vidyuth’ mainly to focus on the various options available for the students after completion of their B.Tech. The target audience were the 1st, 2nd and 3rd year EEE,ECE and EIE students. Around 80 students attended the event which was held on 08/10/2015 at Rama hall from 3:30pm to 5:00pm.The speakers included the core committee members of Vidyuth who spoke on the various examinations and competitive tests to be taken up after B.Tech, the opportunities in the core companies. The speakers threw light on the public and private sector core companies and encouraged the students to take up jobs in the core companies. Speakers also spoke on the salary packages offered by the companies which acted as an incentive for the students to work harder. The students’ feedback was very good and they mentioned that this would help them to plan their career effectively.
VIDYUTH conducted a seminar on “Power Electronics Simulation” on 21st January 2015 in Rama hall. The seminar was delivered by Mrs Deepa K, Asst Professor, EEE Dept. The seminar was aimed at introducing the basics about MATLAB SIMULINK and PSIM software to the Pre final year EEE students. A simulation of basic power electronic circuits was also demonstrated to make students understand the concepts in the subject better.
A talk on “Evolution of Embedded Systems in Digital Control” was organized for M.Tech final year Power Electronics students to provide an overview about Embedded Systems in industrial applications.The talk was given by Dr Hariram Satheesh, Principal Scientist, ABB Ltd, Bangalore on 20th September 2014. The suitability of Embedded Controllers such as Microcontrollers , Digital signal processors and FPGA controllers for various applications like Automation, Consumer Electronics, Medical Electronics, Remote Automation, Industrial Controls, Automotive Electronics, Military or Aerospace, Telecom or Datacom were highlighted.
A seminar on “ Traction” was organized and was given by Mr.Saravanan.B, Senior R&D Engineer, ABB India Ltd, Bangalore on 20th September 2014. The talk was focused on the importance of all kinds of engineering, irrespective of branches for the traction application. The current trends in traction were also highlighted.
The seminar on ‘Space Vector based PWM Techniques For Voltage Source Converters’ was given by Mr. Amit Kumar, Associate scientist, ABB Ltd, Chennai, an alumni of Amrita school of engineering, a gold medalist in 2010 on 20th September 2014. His talk was on the different algorithms for the control of Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) techniques.
A “TECHNICAL EXTEMPORE” was conducted on 19th September 2014, for first and second year students. The idea behind conducting this event was to make the students think logically about the things happening around them. Students from first, second and third year came forward and took part actively. The topics given were basics and reasoning for daily life activities related to electricity.
A “Circuit debugging” event was conducted by Vidyuth members mainly for first and second year students on 22-09-2014 and the event was focused on how to analyze the circuits. It was conducted in 3 rounds with increase in level of difficulty.
EEE FORUM VIDYUTH had arranged for an Industrial visit to BHARAT HEAVY ELECTRICAL LIMITED, Electronics division, Mysore road, Bangalore – 560026, on 13/10/14 for second year EEE students. The students were accompanied by faculties , Ms.Sireesha K and Mr.S.Shankar.
Technical dumb charades and quiz was organized by the Vidyuth forum members on 21st of august 2014.Nearly 80 students took part in the event.
The event was an interactive session between 3rd and 4th year students of EEE to get know PIC16F778A and programming the same using MPLAB software. It was conducted on 12/8/14. The students Ms Sneha, Ms Srilekha , Ms Kavya, Mr Madan, Mr Praveen and Mr Balaji of final EEE explained Pre-final EEE students about the software and its applications.
An interactive session about "Demonstration on integrating contol algorithm with TMS320F28335 –Digital Signal Processor its usage", by Ms Ishwarya ,(second year M.Tech student) to M.Tech First year students was conducted on 25/7/14 . The objective of the workshop was to make the students to know how to link control algorithm in MATLAB to Digital signal processor.
The students of IVth and VIth sem - EEE were taken for an Industrial visit to Bharat heavy electrical limited (BHEL), Electronics division, Mysore road on 2nd and 4th of April 2014. They were introduced to the different power electronic controllers used for power systems. The students also got an opportunity to see the photovoltaic manufacturing unit in BHEL.
The B.Tech project titled “Grid connected photovoltaic system” by the final year B.Tech students Paladugu Nandini, Antara Bhattacharya and Siripothu Harish under the guidance of Mrs. K Deepa was sanctioned with rupees 4500 by the Karnataka state council for science and technology, Bangalore.
EEE forum conducted a seminar on “Embedded System Design using Soc MSP430” on February 5th, 2014. Mr. G.L. Karthik, Senior Field Application Engineer, GILL INSTRUMENTS discussed and shared his knowledge on the Embedded systems design using MSP430. He described about some of the real time applications such as digital thermometer, single phase electricity meter and many biometric applications that can be implemented using MSP430.
The speaker also encouraged the students to move into the Embedded system industry. The event was attended by around 70 students from the VIth semester EEE and M.Tech Power Electronics.
EEE forum organized a talk by Mr. R.Vinod Kumar, CEO, Mennekes India on “Spelling mistakes of being an engineer” on February 21st, 2014. The seminar mainly focused on different phases of life, rapid changes that occur from one phase to other, the social pressure etc. The speaker spoke about the importance of standing out ourselves among the crowd and achieving what we want. He also stressed on the fact that to achieve success one should have the qualities like Individuality, Self awareness, Confidence, Communication etc.
He also mentioned about the mistakes done by engineers while choosing their careers, the importance of decision making skills in students and the ways to make the students industry ready. The event was attended by 60 students of the VIth semester EEE.
The students of VIIIth semester EEE were taken for an Industrial visit to Power Grid Corporation of India, Bidadi, Bangalore on 26th February 2014. The students got an insight into the working of the substation. They were shown the different elements in the power distribution system like the surge arrestors, isolators, contactors, wave traps, circuit breakers, current and potential transformers etc. They also got an opportunity to see the distribution automation and control of the power system using SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition).
The students of Vthsem, EEE were taken for an Industrial visit to Lapp India Private Limited, Jigani Industrial Area, Phase II on 7th and 8th of November' 2013. They were introduced to the process of making of different types of cables. The different big machines to carry out the different processes were shown and the quality assurance techniques were also explained to the students.
EEE forum conducted a 2-day weekend workshop on “Embedded System Designs using Ultra Low Power TI MSP430” on 26th and 27th October, 2013. Mr. Mayank Ranjan the Marketing head of M/s Cranes Software International Limited,and his team members Mr.Dhilip and Mr. Hussain Ali enlightened the students about the advantages of MSP430 microcontroller over the other microcontrollers and gave an insight to some of the basic applications of the microcontroller.
This event was attended by 118 students from III year EEE, ECE, EIE, CSE and M.Tech. Theoretical and practical exposure was given to the students using MSP430 microcontroller kits and launch pads. This workshop proved to be the first step for those people who imagined their careers as technical developers. It also laid the foundation for the future projects.
EEE forum had invited Mr. Sai Krishna Mopuri, Senior Manager, Product & Test Engineering, Analog Devices to deliver a Seminar on, “Trends in VLSI-IC Development”, on 18th September, 2013.The speaker enlightened the students with his knowledge perceived throughout his 20 years of experience. He discussed the statistics about the growth of semiconductor industry, VLSI development flow which includes Market survey, Develop system, IC specification development, Select technology, Verification, Layout, IC fabrication, IC assembly, Production and finally releasing it in market. He also discussed the challenges in VLSI testing, its future trends which was a boost to the students who are looking out for a career in VLSI.
EEE forum organized a workshop on IC trainer kits on 31st August, 2013. This event imparted basic knowledge about the IC trainer kits to the 2nd year EEE students. To enlighten the students with more practical knowledge, the IC trainer kits were dismantled to show the internal working and the troubleshooting of the kit. This session was conducted by faculty member Mrs. K.Sireesha (Lecturer, EEE) and was supported by Mr. K.Suresh(Campus Electrical Engineer, EEE), Mrs. S.Shanthi (Lab Instructor, ECE) and V SaiPraveen (V Sem EEE).
EEE forum conducted an event named “Foundation”, to give a strong foundation on basics of electrical engineering for the first year students so that their interest in subject as well as their confidence level will increase. The two day event was conducted on 27th & 29th AUGUST, 2013. This event was carried out with videos, technical quizzes on the basics of Electrical Engineering, followed by discussions on the technical questions asked in interviews. The sessions were handled by V. Sai Praveen, SatyaSai Naidu, T Rohit (V sem EEE), SpoorthiK and Shubhadip Das (III sem EEE).
EEE forum Vidyuth conducted “TechX”, (technical quiz).144 students participated in Preliminary round which was conducted on 4th of March 2013. The top 6 teams selected in the preliminary round took part in the final round which was conducted on 5th and 6th of March 2013.
EEE forum arranged screening event called, “Entertainment Entertainment Entertainment (EEE)” on 13th, 14th and 15th of March 2013which involved screening of some of the famous science programs like "through the wormhole hosted by Morgan freeman" and "dark matter" in the e-learning hall. Around 40 to 50 students took part on all three days for which the videos were screened.
EEE forum,Vidyuth has arranged an Industrial visit to Diesel power plant in Yelahanka for students of EEE during 11th-13th September 2012.
The technical paper presented by Mr. Himanshu Sharma and Ms. Shreya Parmar, students of VI Semester EEE, was adjudged the ‘Second Best Paper’ at ‘Arghya 2012’, a National Level Technical Symposium. The symposium was organized by Mahatma Basaveshwar Education Society’s college of Engineering, Ambajogai, from 27th to 29th February, 2012.
A guest lecture on "Transformer Technology" was arranged as a part of EEE Forum activity on 16th November, 2011. The lecture was delivered by Mr. Ramaswamy, MD, Sara Consultants, Bengaluru .

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