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ABOUT ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT PREAMBLE OBJECTIVES

0 0 Roorkee town (Longitude: E77 53' 52” and latitude : N29 52' 00”. Average The Electrical Engineering Department was part of the Thomson College The application of computer has permeated in all aspects of electrical The impact of computers, particularly over last four decades, has elevation: 268 meters above the mean sea level) is situated 30 Kms south of lower of Engineering from the year 1897, one of the earliest such specialization in the engineering practices and new avenues of such applications are being continually changed practices in electrical engineering beyond recognition even Himalayan range and is in the district of State. It is world when the discipline itself was in its infancy. The first batch in Electrical though the process is not yet complete. CERA'13 aims to provide platform explored. The scientific and engineering community is devoting efforts to harness considered to be the gateway to centres of many renowned places like Engineering passed out of the college in the year 1900. The department was closed for bringing together teachers, researchers, professionals, managers and Haridwar, and hill stations such as . Roorkee is well down in the year 1923, following the recommendation of a special committee that the potential of computer assisted solutions to fascinating and challenging policy makers not only to discuss recent advances in off-line and on-line connected by roads and trains falls on -Saharnpur rail link. Roorkee is the college may be converted to purely Civil Engineering Institution. This decision problems of electrical engineering. An element of artificial intelligence is defining computer application techniques including use of associated fields of located at 180 Kms northeast of New , the capital of . There are frequent was not to be reversed until on the eve of being converted into a University. The optimization, modeling, simulation, expert systems, artificial intelligence, new control strategies, unthinkable until recently, in all segments of this vital and regular bus services, deluxe/ordinary, from Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT), Fortescu committee advised the resumption of instructions in Electrical neural network etc., but also to discuss the absorption of these areas in . Road transport services between Delhi and Dehradun and between Engineering and the present department of Electrical Engineering came into being branch of engineering enriching it with efficient, reliable, flexible and user friendly academic curriculum and industrial practices and to deliberate on directions Delhi and Haridwar run through Roorkee. It is also connected by rail from New in 1946, and the first graduates of the new department were offered courses with solutions achievable with precision. needed to be taken up for future course of R&D and training in this vital Delhi. A fully air-conditioned superfast train and another options in both Electrical & Telecommunication Engineering Subsequently, in areas. superfast train Janshatabdi run between New Delhi and Dehradun with a halt at 1964, the department was bifurcated to form the two departments i.e. Electrical Besides research papers, CERA'13 welcomes application oriented Roorkee. The weather during October in Roorkee remains pleasant. Engineering and Electronics & Communication Engineering. Starting from Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Utilization of papers particularly relating to industry as well as papers highlighting The department had also started post graduate programme in 1954, one Electrical Engineering to different applications of the same, the use of computers, applied problems for which appropriate solutions are being currently ABOUT THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE of the earliest programme in the country, offering nine month's diploma in both online and offline has become very popular. In order to keep pace with the searched. Some of the themes identified for the conference are as under: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee is the successor of the Electrical Machine Design. Another 3 month's dissertation work converted the 1. Smart Grid Technologies and its applications development of Computer Applications in Electrical Engineering, an International University of Roorkee and is the oldest technical institution of the Indian sub- diploma to ME Degree. In 1963-64, two ME Courses on advanced Electrical 2. Distribution System Automation and Reforms continent. It was established as the Roorkee College in 1847 and rechristened as Machines & Power System Engg. were added on the recommendation of Thacker Conference helps in bringing people engaged in teaching, research and industries 3. Digital Protection and SCADA the Thomson College of Civil Engineering in 1854. Recognizing its yeoman Committee and the earlier one was dropped. Later two more ME Course on System together to learn from each other and enhance their knowledge level as well. The 4. Design, Operation and Condition Monitoring of Power contribution for the development of the country for over 100 years, this temple of Engg. & Operations Research and Measurement & Instrumentation were added. Apparatus Department of Electrical Engineering of IIT Roorkee is more than hundred years old learning was elevated to the status of a University, the first technical university in The renamed and reorganised courses now are: 5. Intelligent and Virtual Instrumentation India in 1949. The University of Roorkee was converted to IIT Roorkee by the 1. Instrumentation & Signal Processing 2. Power System Engineering and it has its trained graduates in almost all corners of India and abroad. In 1997, it 6. Distributed Electronic Measurements on September 21, 2001, thereby further elevating it to an 3. Electric Drives & Power Electronics 4. Systems & Control was thought to organize International Conference in the area of Computer 7. Digital Signal and Image Processing institute of national importance. Over the years, it has built up and maintained an Also in year 2007 a new Integrated Dual Degree programme known as B. 8. Digital Control, Automation and Robotics Applications in Electrical Engineering every four years with an aim to update the excellent academic reputation. The outstanding achievements of its alumni Tech. in Electrical Engineering and M. Tech. in Power Electronics has been started. 9. Flexible AC Transmission System especially in the field of water related subjects are a testimony to this. The IIT The department is recognized centre for Ph.D and M.Tech. programmes. It teaching and research fraternity about the newer developments. The present 10. Power Electronics Roorkee has academic departments in the area of Engineering, Sciences, is offering Ph.D. programme since 1964 and more than 125 faculty members and conference is the fifth in this series. 11. Power Quality Issues Architecture and Planning, Management studies and Humanities and Social research scholars have been awarded Ph.D. degrees so far. The Department is very 12. Power System Restructuring and Deregulation Sciences besides many centres of higher education and research. active in industry-institution interaction and is providing consultancy services to 13. Power Semiconductor Controlled Electric Drives the industry over the last 45 years. Number of prestigious sponsored and 14. Renewable Energy Systems consultancy projects for different organisation have also been completed by the 15. System Modeling and Simulation Department. 16. Telemedicine and Bio-informations 17. Medical Instrumentation 18. Digital System Design 19. Medical Signal and Image Processing International Conference First Announcement DATE, VENUE AND On OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The conference is scheduled to be COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN held at the Department of Electrical Patron : Prof. Pradipta Banerji ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Director, I.I.T., Roorkee Engineering, Indian Institute of TOURS & EXHIBITION Technology, Roorkee, India during RECENT ADVANCES : Oct. 3-5, 2013. The site seeing tours to nearby places such as Mussoorie, Haridwar, Chairman : Prof. Pramod Agarwal Rishikesh etc. will be available for the participants and accompanying persons on Head, Elect. Engg. Dept. SMARSMARTT GRIDGRID TECHNOLOGIESTECHNOLOGIES Official language payment basis. of the conference will be The industries are invited to participate in the exhibition being Convener : Prof. Vinod English. organized during the conference. Organising Secretary : Prof. N P Padhy

Jt Organising Secretary : Dr. Vishal Kumar The registration fee which covers the cost of conference registration kit, CALL FOR PAPERS participation in all the activities of the conference, lunch, intersession tea and banquet is as Treasurer : Prof. S P Singh follows: For International Participants: Prospective authors, intending to present their research papers, Delegate : USD 500 are requested to submit their full length paper in a standard format having Delegate from an Institution restricted length, which when accepted, can be limited to four pages of having MOU with IIT Roorkee : USD 400 Student Delegate : USD 200 IEEE double column format. The author(s) should indicate the theme under Accompanying person : USD 200 which article would be considered in the conference. The paper may be For Indian and SAARC Countries Participants: submitted on A-4 size. The research paper will be reviewed by a panel Any delegate from: CORRESPONDENCE .ernet.in/ of experts from different fields. After (i) Teaching/Research Organisation : INR 7,000 .iitr (ii) Corporate Sector/Others : INR 15,000 recommendation of the reviewers the (iii) Full time students/Research Scholars : INR 4,000 Prof. N.P. Padhy TO REMEM acceptance of the paper will be sent along TE B Accompanying person : INR 2,000 ORGANISING SECRETARY A ER http://www with the instructions for preparing the final D CERA'13 MODE OF PAYMENT manuscript. For paper to be published in Last date for receiving the paper : The payment of registration fee should be made by accounts payee conference it will be obligatory for at least May 15, 2013 DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING demand draft drawn in favour of “Registrar IIT Roorkee” payable at Roorkee, India. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE one of the authors to register and ROORKEE - 247667 present the paper in the conference. All Intimation about acceptance of paper: SPONSORSHIP OF THE CONFERENCE July 15, 2013 (UTTARAKHAND), INDIA the papers presented at CERA'13 will be The conference is likely to be sponsored by many International and Oct. 3-5, 2013 National agencies such as IEEE, IET, AICTE, DST, DOE, U-COST, CSIR etc. included in conference proceeding CD Last date for receiving the final paper : The Indian Industry, Academia and Utilities are also invited to sponsor Fax : +91-1332-273560, +91-1332-285231 and efforts are being made to post on IEEE July 30, 2013 the conference by providing the financial support. Explore and selected papers for E-mail:[email protected], [email protected] DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING publication in International Journal. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE Website: http://www.iitr.ac.in/cera13 ROORKEE - (Uttrakhand) INDIA