Professional Activities

Staff development Programme/Workshops & Courses Organized

 

Sl.No

Title of the Event

Category

Date of the Event

1

 Workshop on ""Recent Developments in Electrical Power Engineering"

TEQIP-II

29th Aug -

3rd Sep' 2016

2

 Workshop on “Implementation of Firefly Algorithm in SCILAB and µ- Controller”

Self-Financing Category

10 -11th

Oc' 2014

3

 Workshop on Communication and Soft Skills for Engineers and Architects

TEQIP-II

16 - 18th

June 2014

4

 Workshop on “Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Applications and Implementation on a Microcontroller” 

Self Financing Category

8th Mar' 2014

5

 Conclave on “Academic Enhancement in Electrical Engineering”

TEQIP-II

8 to 10th

Nov'  2013

6

 Workshop on “Fuzzy Systems and Applications”

Self-Financing Category

13 July 2013

7

 Workshop on “Application of Biologically Inspired   Algorithms for Power System and Power Electronics” 

Self-Financing Category

8 July 2012

8

 Staff development Programme on “ Recent Researches on Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks

AICTE-MHRD

21st June  –

3rd July 2010

9

 Staff development Programme on “Engineering Practices on Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Hybrid Systems"

AICTE-MHRD

15 - 27th 

June  2009

10

 Workshop on “Recent Trends in Modeling and Simulation in Power Systems and Power  Electronics” for Engineering College Teachers

TEQIP-I (Networking)

30 - 31st

Mar' 2007

11

 Intensive Course on “Wind Power Integration

Institute Sponsored

 20 - 27th Aug' 2007 

12

 Work shop on “Developing Team Work

TEQIP-I

 6th Oc' 2007


List of few Selected Invited Lectures (National level)

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Description

1

Guest lecture on “Swarm Intelligence” on 12/10/2007 at ECE Association function of EGS Pillay Engineering College, Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu.

2

Speech  on  “Neural Networks and Applications in Electrical Power” at Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering, Trichy Zone (Near BHEL)  on 2nd January 2008 at 5.00 PM.

3

Guest lecture on “Artificial Neural Network and Applications” at Sengunthar Engineering College on 21/08/2008.

4

Guest  lecture on “Swarm Intelligence and Deregulation of Power Industry” on 16/10/2008 at National Engineering College, Kovilpatti, Tamilnadu for a two days National Level seminar on “Emerging Research trends in Power Electronics and Power Systems-2008”.

5

Guest Lecture on “Intelligent Computational Techniques for Power Industry” on AICTE-ISTE sponsored short term training programme on “Computational Techniques for Power Electronics and Power Systems- CTPEPS-09” at Adhiparasakthi Engineering College, Melmaruvathrur-603319, Tamil nadu  on 20/03/2009.

6

Guest Lecture on “Matlab – Fuzzy & ANN Toolkit” at IRTT Erode on 16.04.2009.

7

Resource lecture  on “Ant Intelligence” at PEC, Pondicherry, for AICTE Sponsored National Seminar, Intelligent System Applications to Future Challenges in Power Engineering on 11/09/2009.

8

Guest Lecture on “Bio-Inspired Intelligent System for IIR Filter Design” in the  National  Level workshop  organized by Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering,  Hindustan college of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore ,India on 21/11/2009.

9

Guest Inaugural and key note address on “AI and its Applications” in the National Seminar organized by organized by Department of EEE and ECE, Nehru college of Engineering and Research Centre, Pampady, Thrissur District, Kerala, India on 10/02/2010.

10

Guest lecture on “ Computational Intelligence and Artificial Neural Networks in Power System” at Vicram college of Engineering, Madurai on 07/08/2010.

11

Special Lecture on “De-regulated Power Market” in the National level workshop on “ Virtual Instrumentation, Distributed Generation and Deregulated Market” during 7th and 8th January 2011 at Angel College of Engineering and Technology, Tirupur on 08/01/2011.

12

Guest Lecture on “Deregulation of Power System” in the two day workshop on  “Insight  into Smart grid and its Applications” at Kumara guru College of Technology, Coimbatore (05/02/2011).

13

Guest lecture on “ Application on Intelligent techniques in the Analysis and Design of Electrical Systems” at KSR college of Engineering, Tiruchengode, Tamilnadu on 29/04/2011.

14

Guest Lecture delivered on ‘Intelligent Controllers” at Sethu Institute of Technology, Virudhunagar, Tamilnadu on 06/08/2011.

15

Guest Lecture delivered on “Power Systems” at St. Joseph college of Engineering & Technology, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu on 19/08/2011.

16

 Guest Lecture on "Evolution of Smart Grids" on 26th August 2011, One Day Pre-Conference Tutorial on “Smart Grid Systems” as a part of “International Conference on Renewable Energy Utilization (ICREU)” –  2012 at Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore.

17

Guest Lecture delivered on “ Application of Ant Colony Optimization” for the two day National technical seminar of Application of Metaheuristics for Engineering Optimization” scheduled on 20.03.2012 at College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai.

18

Guest Lecture delivered on “Meta-Heuristic Algorithm & Ant Colony Technique with    Suitable Case Studies” on 8/12/2012 at R.M.K College of Engineering and technology, Chennai.

19

Guest lecture on “Smart Grids” on 9/2/2014 for the workshop on “Power Electronics in Distributed Generation” in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Suratkal, Karnataka.

20

Guest lecture on “Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques on Unit Commitment Problem” on 15th July, 2014 in the Department of Electrical Engineering at S.V. National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat.

21

Guest lecture on “Fire Fly Algorithm for Generation Scheduling” on 3rd Nov 2015 at Karunya University, Coimbatore.

 

Invited Chairs (International level)

 

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Description

1

Chaired the session “Electricity Market” at the Tenth IASTED International Conference on “Power and Energy System” held at Baltimore, USA April 16, 2008 –April 18, 2008.

2

Delivered the key note address and chaired a session at the International Conference on “VLSI, Communication, Computation and security (ICVCCS10)” from April 9th 2010 to April 10th 2010.

3

Chaired a session in the IEEE sponsored “2011 International Conference on Emerging trends in Electrical and Computer technology (ICETECT-2011)” from 23rd-24th March 2011.

4

Advisory committee member for the IEEE sponsored International Conference (ICCEET-2012) on “IEEE International Conference on Computing, Electronics and Electrical Technologies-2012”.