Cutting-Edge Electrical Engineering Program at Visvesvaraya College

1. DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY VISVESVARAYA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING K.R. CIRCLE, BENGALURU-560 001 Dr. V. SATYANAGAKUMAR PROFESSOR & CHAIRMAN

2. NUMBER OF COURSES OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (1) UG : ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING (2) PG : (i) POWER & ENERGY SYSTEMS (ii) POWER ELECTRONICS (iii) CONTROL & INSTRUMENTATION

3. STUDENTS INTAKE (1) UG : ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING - 80 (2) PG : (i) POWER & ENERGY SYSTEMS - 14 (ii) POWER ELECTRONICS - 18 (iii) CONTROL & INSTRUMENTATION - 18

4. NUMBER OF ONGOING SPONSORED R&D PROJECTS AND COMPLETED PROJECTS NIL

5. TEACHING STAFF

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7. NON-TEACHING STAFF

8. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS in NATIONAL CONFERENCES (2010 Onwards, Total : 10 )

11. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS in INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (2010 Onwards Total : 16)

15. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS in NATIONAL JOURNALS (2010 Onwards, Total : 05)

16. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS in INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS (2010 Onwards, Total : 41)

26. RESEARCH PAPERS TO BE PUBLISHED in 2016

27. WORKSHOP CONDUCTED Two days Workshop on “Recent Trends in Power Electronics”, 23rd & 24th August 2013 under TEQIP-II. Five days Workshop on “Real Time Simulation for Power Electronics, Power Systems, Control & Instrumentation using LabVIEW”, 28th March 2016 to 1st April 2016 under TEQIP-II.

28. BOOKS PUBLISHED NIL PATENTS FILED AND OBTAINED TILL DATE NIL

29. NUMBER OF Ph.D AWARDED & REGISTERED • Two Ph.D Degrees are awarded in 2012 • Mrs. B.G.Shivaleelavathy under the guidance • of Dr. E. G. Shivakumar. • Mr. K P Shivamurthy under the guidance of • Dr. V. Satyanagakumar and Dr. N. Rudraiah. • 07 STUDENTS HAVE REGISTERED FOR Ph.D

30. MOU SIGNED NIL

31. LABORATORIES UPGRADED IN TEQIP-II • POWER ELECTRONICS LABORATORY • CONTROL & INSTRUMENTATION LABORATORY • USB Based Data Acquisition platform • FPGA Based embedded system

32. BEST PRACTICE OF THE DEPARTMENT The Department has formed the Quality Assurance Cell to monitor the imparting of quality education to the students.

33. ME (POWER ELECTRONICS) THESIS • Three level Buck converter for Envelope Tracking Application • Quasi-Z-Source based insolated DC-DC converter for • distributed power generation • Single phase induction motor adjustable speed control using • PIC microcontroller • Non Inverting Synchronous Up-Down converter • Simulation and Implementation of single phase three level Boost converter • Harmonics elimination in Multilevel inverter with two unequal voltages batteries • BI – Frequency PWM Switching Technique for DC – DC converter

34. ME (POWER ELECTRONICS) THESIS • ZVS full bridge DC-DC converter • Four switch 3-phase inverter using PIC microcontroller • FPGA based control of Single phase Three level inverter • Three port Series Resonance DC – DC converter • Switched Capacitor / Inductor Structures for getting Transformerless Hybrid DC-DC converters • The innovative solutions to few critical problems of UPS system design • Comprehensive study of design for Reliability and Testing (EMI Filters) for UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) • Closed loop buck boost converter for LED driver circuit

35. ME (CONTROL & INSTRUMENTATION) THESIS • Remote Experimentation on Three Coupled Water Reservoirs • Fire alarm based on video processing and Automatic Extinguisher system • Cell Phone Based Liquid Inventory Management using Bluetooth • Speech Based Computer Interactive System to Monitor Industrial Voltage and Control System • Fertilizer plant control using Distributed Control System • Gesture Interpreter for Robotic Applications • Mass Flow Control System for Rotary Hearth Furnaces

36. ME (CONTROL & INSTRUMENTATION) THESIS • A LabVIEW Based Autonomous Vehicle Navigation using Robotic Vision • Application of distributed control system in deinking process of paper industries • Pick and Place Robot for Automated Visual Inspection System • Modeling and Simulation for Active Vibration Control • Intelligent Surveillance and Security Robot System using Face Recognition and GSM • Application and Evaluation of High Power Zigbee based wireless sensor network in Water irrigation control monitoring system

37. ME (POWER & ENERGY SYSTEMS) THESIS • Star / Hexagon Transformer Based Three-Phase Four-Wire DSTATCOM for Power Quality Improvement • Optimal Capacitor Placement and Sizing in Distribution Systems with Harmonics consideration using Particle Swarm Optimization • Congestion Management in a Deregulated Power system by Optimal Choice and Allocation of FACTS Controllers using Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm • A STATCOM control scheme for Power Quality Improvement in Wind Energy Connected Grid • Synchronous Detection and Digital Control of Shunt Active Power Filter for Power Quality Improvement

38. ME (POWER & ENERGY SYSTEMS) THESIS • Available Transfer Capability Determination for the AC/DC transmission systems using Modified continuation Power flow method • Congestion Management in Hybrid Electricity Markets with a Coordinated Constraint • Control of a Hybrid HVDC connection for Large doubly fed Induction generator based wind farms • Modeling of Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) and Power Quality Analysis • Grid Interconnection of Renewable Energy sources at the Distribution level with Power Quality Improvement • Wind Farm to Weak Grid connection using Unified Power Quality Compensator • Analysis of VSC-HVDC System when feeding a passive network

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