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Electrical Engineering

The Department of Electrical Engineering came into existence as a separate department from the year 1912. The B.E. degree course was introduced during the year 1935-36 with the first batch obtaining the degree from Calcutta University in 1936. The M.E. degree examination in Electrical Engineering was held in the year 1955 when the first batch of postgraduate Electrical Engineers came out. The department had a sisterhood plan with the University of Wisconsin, USA for exchange of teachers during 1952-62. It was a centre for Teachers' Training Scheme under the Ministry of Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs during 1959-70. From 1989, the Ministry of Human Resources Development declared this department as one of the QIP centres for postgraduate studies and research.

At present, the academic curricula involve 8-semester graduate B.E. degree course and 4-semester postgraduate M.E. degree course in Electrical Engineering in two fields of specialization. The department also offers research programmes leading to Ph.D. degree through scholarships from UGC, CSIR etc. This department possesses approximately 2200 sq.m. area and total sanctioned staff strength of 44 comprising 28 members of faculty and 16 supporting staff.

Research work in the following areas were undertaken during the last ten years on the following topics leading to M.E. / Ph.D. degrees:

  • Development of permanent magnet synchronous and brush less dc motor controllers
  • Performance, testing and control of induction motors
  • Microcomputer-controlled power system monitoring and protection
  • Power quality assessment and Improvement in Cycloconverter0fed systems with Frequency Selective Sub-harmonic Feedback. Software based transducer linearization
  • Electromagnetic Field Computation
  • Intelligent control strategies for electric drives
  • Application of artificial neural nets in interconnected power systems
  • Design of controllers for MIMO systems
  • Piecewise fast decoupled & Adjusted fast decoupled Load Flow Motors
  • Expert System to Power System Security Analysis
  • Condition Monitoring of Power Transformers and Induction Motors
  • Analysis and Design of Robust Voltage Stabilizers for Thermal Power Station
  • Development of concepts of global Voltage and Security Indicators in Longitudinal Power supply (LPS) System
  • Design of Adaptive Controllers for Implantable Drug Delivery Systems
  • Discrete even dynamical systems.

The Department of electrical Engineering is actively engaged in good number of collaborative and sponsored research projects. In the last years, more than 10 research works were undertaken for agencies other than the State or Central Government (such as the Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Ltd., Machinery Manufacturing Corporation Ltd., Guest Keen Williams Ltd., Electrical Manufacturing Co., DCPL etc.) and about 10 different research linkage including sponsored projects were established with State and Central Govt. organizations (such as WESEB; DVC; Metro Railways, Calcutta; Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics; CSIR; Electronics Commission of India). The following existing laboratories have been modernized and a few department projects have been undertaken through grants sanctioned by MHRD, AICTE, CSIR, and UGC during the last ten years:

  • Power System & Protective Relay Laboratory
  • Simulation Laboratory
  • Industrial Electronics Laboratory
  • Instrumentation Laboratory
  • Electrical Machines Laboratory
  • Control System Laboratory
  • Condition Monitoring of Electrical Equipment in Power Plants
  • Study on Efficient Voltage Control on Induction Motor Drive
  • Study on the Dynamics of Motor during System Disturbances & Development of a Flexible Auto Changeover Circuit
  • Low cost Sensorless Switched reluctance drive
  • Development of energy efficient battery charger and inverter
  • Energy audit and Conservation Programme in B. E. College campus and in local Government Housing Estates
  • Control and Performance Improvement of a Brush-less DC machine Drive (An Inverter fed Self-synchronous permanent Magnet AC Motor). Spectral Identification of potentised Homeopathic Medicines.
  • Tie Line Control and Voltage Instability of Power grids in power systems of developing countries

 

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