Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 27: One week long faculty development program on “Recent Research Advances in Electrical Engineering (RRAEE 2020) commenced today on digital platform.
The programme has been organized by Electrical Engineering Department of Government College of Engineering and Technology (GCET), Jammu in collaboration with Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department UIET, Punjab University Chandigarh under the twinning arrangement of TEQIP-III.
The event would facilitate the faculty and researchers both from academia as well as industry involved in research work in electrical engineering domain to have valuable discussions to make the outcomes more realistic. The focused areas of the programme are SCADA, electrical vehicles, renewable energy, smart grids, IOT applications and energy management.
Dr Sameru Sharma, Principal GCET, Jammu in her opening remarks gave an overview on the energy scenario of India and presented a brief about the latest technological happenings in the power sector. She said that renewable energy is the need of the hour which is going to come up in a big way to meet our future energy requirements and emphasized the participants to carry on their research on renewables and their integration with the grid.
Prof Ajat Shatru Arora, SLIET Longowal, Punjab in his key note address highlighted the potential areas emerging in the field of Electrical Engineering. He talked about, smart grid, impact of renewable in Power System Operation, IOT applications in Power System and stressed upon the need for developing efficient energy management system.
Prof Sarat Kumar Sahoo, Biju Patniak University Odisha explained the role of power electronics in PV integrated smart grid with real time hardware implementations while Prof Swastik Gupta, SMVDU Jammu delivered the talk on Enterprise Asset Management using IOT for Power companies.
The event started with welcome address by Course Coordinator Dr Y P Verma, UIET Chandigarh followed by the presentation on the theme of the FDP by Dr Vivek Pahwa, UIET Chandigarh. The vote of thanks was delivered by Rajiv Bali Head Electrical Engineering Department, GCET Jammu.
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