Faculty and staffs:

The Department has experienced and energetic faculties with specialization in recent technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Electric vehicle and the core areas like Power Electronics, Electric drives, Generation, Protection, Distribution systems, Neural Networks, System Control, Modelling and Simulation, On-line control including load and switching control, impact of non-conventional systems, Embedded Systems and man-machine interfaces in both in academics & industry. 80% Faculty members are with Doctorate from various reputed institutes.

Class and Laboratories:

Department is equipped with latest hardware-software and teaching learning tools to make the students ready as per the need of the industry, higher education and research or for entrepreneurship. Some main features are:

• Smart class rooms & seminar halls for conducting workshops, STTP and guest lecture

• Advanced software (Lab view, Mi-Power, MATLAB, PSCAD,OPAL-RT) for R & D work

• Advanced infrastructure and state-of- the- art Twenty-Two Laboratories with analog as well as digital equipment

• Virtual laboratory infrastructure, which is an Initiative of Ministry of Education Under the National Mission on Education through ICT to have virtual laboratories exposure

• Every class room is equipped with projectors

• Wi-Fi/Port internet is accessible in every class room

Centre of Excellence

• Power Electronics and Drives based advance Centre of excellence is available to have industrial exposure as well as research work. The center serves as a platform for collaborative research and knowledge sharing activities among the different research groups scattered over several major departments facilitating faster developments, nurturing new ideas and supporting each other in coercive manner.

• Remote center for conducing courses under NMEICT

Department Library:

The Department library has a strong collection of textbooks with over two hundreds of titles on a variety of topics. Library also possesses journals, magazines, project and seminar reports, lab manuals and question banks and CDs of e-journals and e-books. The students are allotted special hours in a week wherein, they sit in the library and read the topics of their interest based on research projects, literature, competitive exams, etc.

Live Projects:

We provide various facilities to make live projects so that our students can excel in their respective fields and get practical exposures. There is a complete in- house set of facilities in the form of additional components, apparatus, training models and teachers’ assistance to achieve this task. These practices raise the confidence of the students’ and also help them to think for the higher qualification such as Gate exams and appearing boldly before society.

Industrial Exposure:

• Regular industrial visit of students

• Inviting industry experts at various platforms

• Interdepartmental internship facilities

• Strong industrial support for doing industrial training, problem and project base learning

• Paid internship of 5 months to all 7th semester students.

Various committees for Student development:

• Anti-raging

• Extracurricular activity

• Training and Placement

• Board of Study(BoS)

• Departmental Research Committee(DRC)

• Departmental Information & Archives

• Registered Alumni Association (OPJURAA)

• Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Development

• Departmental Library

Competition and Placement Assistance:

• National & state level competitive examination preparation

• Non-technical preparation

• Mock interview through industry HR & technical experts

• Lab facilities for extracurricular activities like E-bike competition, Technorollix etc.

• Workshops, webinar, India/State level competition

The Department’s Teaching Learning strategy is to engage students in creative activities and to improve their ability to apply learning in meaningful ways. This related learning strategy is known as Problem & Project Based Learning (PPBL) which provides learning in a way that is fundamentally different from traditional classroom practice.

Society / Chapter/ Club

• NPTEL Student Chapter

• ISTE Student Chapter

• IEEE student Chapter

Activities / Events

• Projects and Quiz Competitions

• Case Studies

• Students Seminars and Debates

• Interviews and Group Discussions

• In house Training Program

• Team-building Exercises

• Industrial Training Program

Department researchers are working extensively in some of the thrust areas like Power electronics, MATLAB, Simulation etc. Department has collaborated with leading Industries and renowned Institutes across the India. Faculty & students are together involved in case studies & projects to integrate knowledge, techniques, methods and experiences from many fields. They present/publish papers in conferences & national and international journals.

Key Research Area:

• Power Electronics

• Electrical Drives

• Embedded Systems

• Signal processing

• Power Systems

• IoT

• Soft computing

• VLSI

• Non-conventional Energy systems