Teaching Experience & Contributions

(i) Duration

Member of Faculty at IITK since 1974.
(ii) Courses Developed

I have introduced and developed the following courses at IIT Kanpur, which are being offered regularly:

  1. EE 638 - A PG level course on “High Voltage Insulation Engineering, Behaviour of Dielectrics”.
  2. EE 437 - An undergraduate elective course involving six laboratory experiments on “Fundamentals of HV Engineering and Laboratory Techniques.”
  3. EE 432 - An open elective on the production of electrical power from conventional and renewable sources of energy, “Power Generation and Utilization”.
(iii) Other Courses taught
  1. EE 637 - HVAC Transmission (Steady State and Transient Over Voltages in HV Transmission).
  2. EE 630 – Power System Dynamics ( Stability and Synchronous Machine Modeling).
  3. EE 436 – Power System Engineering (Switchgear, Protection and Power Cables).
  4. EE 431 – Power System Analysis (a compulsory course introducing T&D)
  5. EE 380 & EE 381 – Electromechanical Energy Conversion I & II (Laboratory course on Electrical Machines).
  6. ESO 210- Introduction to Electrical Engineering.
  7. M 101 – Mathematics I (Tutor).
(iv) Courses taught at Al-Fateh University, Tripoli, Libya During my stay of six trimesters there from 1985 to 1987 (three semesters in an academic year), I taught seven different courses on power systems, electrical machines, high voltage engineering and electrical science.
(v) Ph.D. theses guided
  1. “Investigation of Insulating properties of Vacuum under High Voltage” by Md.Abdul Goffar Khan, December 1995, IIT Kanpur.
  2. “Classification of Partial Discharge patterns using Texture Analysis Algorithms” by Md. Kamal Abdul El-Rehman, June 1999.
(vi) M.Tech. theses guided
  1. Investigation of the breakdown characteristic of atmospheric air with varying degree of uniformity in extremely nonuniform fields with dc and ac voltages, by Daya Shanker Chaubey, Sept 2003, IIT Kanpur.
  2. Development of an Ozonator adopting surface discharge technique, by Pankaj Kumar Meena, June 2003, IIT Kanpur.
  3. Experimental investigation of the performance of 400 kV line insulators under pollution, by Manoj Rai, January 2003, IIT Kanpur.
  4. Effect of ultra – violet irradiation on XLPE cable insulation, by Vikas Tripathi, December 2002, IIT Kanpur.
  5. Study of lightning effects and protection of electronic equipments, by Ajay Jangid, April 2002, IIT Kanpur.
  6. Experimental investigations of electrically stressed droplets on insulating surfaces, by Balarko Chaudhuri, December 2001, IIT Kanpur and TU Darmstadt (Germany).
  7. Treatment of SO2 in flue gas using a new method of corona by surface discharge, by Mukul Agarwal, May 2001, IIT Kanpur.
  8. Investigation of the effect of laser on the breakdown strength of atmospheric air with lightning impulse voltage, by Sudhir Kumar Singh, May 2001, IIT Kanpur.
  9. An investigation of Partial Discharge inception voltage in air and SF6 gas by Partha Haldar, December 2000, IIT Kanpur.
  10. Experimental investigation of Electrical Properties of Ambient Plasma, by Banwari, April 2000, IIT Kanpur.
  11. Breakdown properties of atmospheric air for short gap distances in extremely nonuniform field with switching and lightning impulse voltages, by Jagdish Chaudhary, April 2000, IIT Kanpur.
  12. Breakdown properties of atmospheric air with Switching Overvoltages, by Surendra Singh, July 1998, IIT Kanpur.
  13. Investigation of lightning protection, by N. K. Verma, March 1996, IIT Kanpur.
  14. Digital computation of continuous current carrying capacity of cables, by Kishore, July 1994, IIT Kanpur.
  15. An investigation of the effect of Pre-Ionization on the lightning protection air Terminal, by Major Daver, April 1994, IIT Kanpur.
  16. An investigation of the Schwaiger Factor Limit in air , by Sunil Prem, April 1994, IIT Kanpur.
  17. Investigation of lightning strikes, by Rajiv Sawhney, April 1993, IIT Kanpur.
  18. Investigation of insulating properties of low vaccum in weakly non- uniform fields for ac power frequency and switching impulse voltages, by Shyam Sunder Gupta, October 1992, IIT Kanpur.
  19. Investigation of insulating properties of low vaccum in extremely nonuniform field configurations by ac power frequency voltage, by Manish Kumar Agarwal, September 1992, IIT Kanpur.
  20. An investigation of electromagnetic interference caused by different types of coronas in air, by R. K. Srivastava, May 1991, IIT Kanpur.
  21. Application of Charge Simulation Method (CSM ) for the estimation of High Voltage Fields, by Ajay Arora, 1990, IIT Kanpur.
  22. Measurement of HV by Chubb and Fortescue method, 1987, Al-Fateh University, Libya.
  23. Suitability of power cables for nuclear power plants, by MGQ Badshah, 1985, IIT Kanpur
  24. Study of switching overvoltages on transmission lines, by Prodip Kumar Chaudhary, 1984, IIT Kanpur.
  25. Analysis for design of EHV and UHV 3- phase and 6- phase lines based on Electrostatic field, Audible Noise and Radio Noise, by J. Senthil, 1984, IIT Kanpur.
  26. Development of a digital peak voltmeter for the measurement of power frequency high voltage, by Ashish Kumar Nandi, 1984, IIT Kanpur.
  27. Estimation of radio interference from corona discharge on EHV transmission lines, by Sachidanand, 1977, IIT Kanpur.
  28. Life tests on PE cables, 1972, TU Dresden, Germany.

 





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