Tuesday, August 18, 2009

News from the IAS CALCUTTA CHAPTER

In the second quarter of 2009, the IAS Calcutta Chapter organized a short term course on Power Electronics jointly with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Bengal Engineering & Science University (B.E.S.U), Shibpur, Howrah. The course included lecture sessions and sessions on ‘hands on laboratory experiments’. The lecture sessions were mostly lead by the teaching faculty of B.E.S.U, but also by a selection of invited professors of eminent engineering institutes such as IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur and Jadavpur University (JU), Kolkata. Below is a listing of the speakers and their areas of expertise:

  1. Dr. Ajit K. Chattopadhyay (B.E.S.U) - Keynote Address: Power Electronics Technology and Applications.
  2. Dr. Sujit K. Biswas (J.U) - Selection and Design of Passive Components for Power Electronics.
  3. Dr. M. B. Patil (IIT Bombay) - Techniques for Circuit Simulation and Circuit Simulation (Transient Analysis).
  4. Dr. Sabyasachi SenGupta (W.B.U.T) - Energy transport
  5. Dr. Mainak Sengupta (B.E.S.U) - Power Electronics pushing ahead the frontiers of electrical energy usage.
  6. Dr. Prasid Syam (B.E.S.U) - Matrix Converter
  7. Ms. Debjani Ganguly (B.E.S.U) - Power Semiconductor Devices and DC Motor Drives.
  8. Dr. Kaushik Mukherjee (B.E.S.U) - Issues related to Control Circuit Design & Implementation in Power Electronic Converters, and a decoupled linear control technique for controlling the performance of a Distribution STATCOM

Each session had between 26 and 38 participants, many of which were IEEE members, and feedback was very positive.

We would like to congratulate the local chapter for their great work in 2009!

Monday, August 10, 2009

Updates on Chapter Activities Globally: IAS in Region 10

Prof Ajit K Chattopadhyay (IEEE Fellow, past IAS Distinguished Lecturer) and Professor Emeritus of Bengal Engineering & Science University (IEEE Distinguished Lecturer under Regional Speaker program) recently delivered an Invited Lecture on 23 December, 2008 as organized by the IEEE Section and PES Chapter of Bangladesh on " High Power High Performance and Industrial Drives: A Technology Status Review" at Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Tejgaon Dhaka, Bangladesh. About 150 participants attended the lecture.

Professor Chattopadhyay also delivered an invited talk on "Power Electronics: Past, Present and Future" at the plenary session of the 5th International Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (IECECE 2008) held at Sheraton Hotel, Dhaka on 23 December. Earlier, Professor Chattopadhyay also delivered an invited talk as an IEEE-IAS Distinguished Lecturer on "High Power High Performance Industrial AC Drives" and chaired a session on "Power Electronics & Drives" during IEEE-TENCON-2008 at Hyderabad, India.

We congratulate the volunteers who're helped make these well-attended events happen!