The Department is one of the first few major departments of the Institute started in 1951 and has been offering BTech (Hons) degree in Electrical Engineering all along. Besides, the department is coordinating two other BTech (Hons) courses in Instrumentation and Energy Engineering from 1982 and 1983 respectively. The first post-graduate program (MTech) to be started at the department was in “Electrical Machines” in the year 1955 followed by “Control Systems” in 1959. The specialization “Electrical Machines” was subsequently updated and redesigned as “Machine Drives and Power Electronics (MDPE) in 1981 with the establishment of a Power Electronics Laboratory in 1972. A third specialization in “Power Systems” was added in 1965 while MTech program in Instrumentation started from 1972. All the four MTech programmes continue to be offered since the time of their introduction. The Department offers the following areas of specialization: EE1    Machine Drives and Power Electronics (MDPE) EE2    Control System Engineering (CSE) EE3    Power System Engineering (PSE) EE4    Instrumentation (INST) Course Content EE1   The subjects presently offered are: Power Electronic Converters and Machine Drives, Machine Analysis, Advanced Machine Drives, Advanced Power Electronic Converters. The project work involves development of Power Electronic and DSP/microcontroller based motion control systems, Power line conditioners and Power supplies, Variable-Speed Constant-Frequency generators, Voltage regulators, etc. EE2   The subjects offered are: Control theory, estimation of signals and systems, optimal control, non-linear control. The course is supported with well-equipped laboratories and computational facilities. Advanced level research work carried out in this area regularly leads to PhD degrees, International standard publications and solution of critical industrial and aerospace problems. EE3   The subjects presently offered are: power transmission systems, power system analysis and operation, power systems transient and protection, power system dynamics and control. EE4   The subjects offered are: Industrial Instrumentation, Digital Signal Processing, Analog Signal Processing, Industrial Automation and Control. In addition to the "core" subjects mentioned against each specialization above students choose six "elective" subjects (one of which must be a HSS/management subject) in their special areas of interest in the first two semesters. Each specialization has a laboratory oriented practical course of six hours duration every week in each of the first two semesters. Three hours per week are earmarked for "seminar" in each of the first two semesters followed by a comprehensive viva-voce at the end of second semester. A project dissertation on a relevant problem under the supervision of a faculty member and persons from industry (optional) follows the course work of two semesters. The Department offers a large number of electives for specialization in various branches. Some of these electives are : Biomedical Instrumentation, Process Monitoring and Fault Diagnostics, Non-conventional Electrical Energy Systems, Intelligent Control, Optoelectronics, Electric Vehicles, Modelling and Simulation, Digital Image Processing, Programmable and Embedded Systems, Chaos Fractal and Dynamical Systems, Artificial Intelligences application to Power System, Special Electrical Machines, Advanced Digital Signal Processing. In addition, students can choose appropriate elective subjects from other departments i.e. Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Material Science.
Areas of Research The current research activities in the Department are mainly centred around the following areas: DSP/Microcontroller based controllers for induction and synchronous machines, parameter-adaptive controllers for indirect field-oriented AC motor drives and speed sensor less operation, direct field orientation of induction motors with rotor flux observers, modelling and implementation of cycloconverter fed drives, variable speed constant frequency generation systems using induction generators, superconducting coil based UPS systems, linear induction and synchronous machine based propulsion systems, electric vehicle propulsion systems, VLSI based design of DC-DC converters, control of chaos in power electronic converters. Transient stability analysis of power systems, Optimal load-flow, loads forecasting and contingency analysis of power system. Expert system-based analysis and synthesis of active circuits, super-conducting devices, HVDC transmission, condition monitoring of power system equipment, fibre optic and other optoelectronic CTs and RTs for Power systems, non-conventional energy sources, distributed power system, deregulation in power system and its effects, distance relays using travelling waves, estimation, control and optimization of linear systems, Application of neural network for controller design and system studies, Digital controller design, model-order reduction, non-linear dynamical systems, chaos and fractals, embedded system based intelligent controllers, application of bond graph techniques to system modelling, H-infinity and robust control, fuzzy control, sliding mode and variable structure controller design, large scale systems, discrete event systems, fault tolerant control, knowledge based selection of transducers, optical fibre based instrumentation and control system analysis and design, digital signal processing, speech processing, stereo imaging and image modelling using bi-spectrum, automation of steel mills, robotic sensing, testing and fault diagnosis of analogue and mixed signal circuits, biomedical instrumentation, instrumentation and control of bioprocess.
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