Department of Electrical Engineering

Jul

06

2021

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By Poulami Mondal

Appointment of our new Deputy Director- Prof Amit Patra

PeopleDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Deputy Director, IIT Kharagpur, Professor Amit Patra

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur welcomes its new Deputy Director, Professor Amit Patra from the Department of Electrical Engineering. Prof Patra has assumed the charge as Deputy Director from June 30, 2021. The IIT Kharagpur Director, Prof Virendra Kumar Tewari affirmed, “As a Deputy Director, Prof Patra will provide academic and administrative leadership to the Institute in our ambition to become a pioneering institution of higher education, setting new global standard and academic benchmarks thus revolutionizing the education landscape in the country. I am sure, he will take the institute activities to newer heights”. Prof Amit Patra is an alumnus…

Yeh Papa ka college hai…

Stories17th Annual Alumni Meet, Alumni Affairs, Annual Alumni Meet, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT KGP, IIT Kharagpur, memory, Toddlers

“Papa yahan khelta thha?” lisped a 3-year-old Ghrishneshvar, as he pointed out to the Tata Steel sports ground, just opposite to the Ramanujan Complex. He, along with his elder sister, Ujjavalaa, both toddlers, were at IIT Kharagpur campus for the first time with their parents and elder brother Aayush, who is in IIT-BHU. Their father, Mr Ajit Kumar Alok, a 1995 alumnus of the Electrical Engineering Department of the Institute, was here to attend the 17th Annual Alumni Meet held at the campus from 10th to 12th January 2020. It was a sunny Saturday afternoon when The KGP Chronicle caught…

Smart thinking

In-Depthcivil engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Ocean and Naval Architecture, drinkability, Fuzzy logic, IIT Kharagpur, RNN, S.K. Barai, smart water management, water treatment

Smart cities need smart water management and distribution system. In advanced countries, telecommunications, computing, computer-based modelling, AI, Machine Learning, Data analysis and processing have changed the way water resources are managed. In fact, they have given rise to what is called hydroinformatics systems. A similar change may happen in India as well. Two students of IIT Kharagpur, Stuti Modi and Aditi Kambli recently presented their paper on an intelligent water management and distribution system based on data-driven models at the Third International Conference on Machine Learning and Soft Computing (ICMLSC) in Da Lat, Vietnam. They won the Best Presentation Award…