“A Report on PROJECT EXPO-2023"
Title of the Event: : “PROJECT EXPO-2023”
Held on:13th June 2023
Coordinators: Ms. G. Rajitha, Assistant Professor, Department of EEE | Ms. A. Sunantha, Assistant Professor, Department of EEE | Mr. M. Rajashekar, Associate Professor, Department of EEE
Project Expo -2023 was been organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ACE Engineering College, Ghatkesar, Hyderabad on 13th June 2023. A total 21 Projects of IV year has been exhibited in the Expo. The event was inaugurated and also a book of student paper publications was released by Dr. Ganti Krishna Sharma, Professor, Department of CSE and Controller of Examinations ACE Engineering College. The Expo was opened to the students of all branches and all years. The first, second, third, fourth and consolation awarded are chosen by the team of judges. The judges for the event were Mr. Y. V. S. Durga Prasad, Associate Professor, Department of ECE, Ms.M. Usha Rani, Associate Professor, Department of ECE, Dr. C.V.R. Krishna Mohan Professor, Department of H&BS, Mr. J. Bala Sekhar, Associate
Professor, HOD, H&BS Department of H&BS.
Awardees:
- First Prize was awarded to the Project Titled “Agribot for Smart Farming”
- Second Prize was awarded to the Project Titled “IoT Based Electric Vehicle by Employing V2G and G2V Technology
- Third Prize was awarded to the Project Titled “Solar Based E Uniform”
- Fourth Prize was awarded to the Project Titled “Smart Card Based Prepaid Electricity System Interfacing with cloud”
- Consolation Prize was awarded to the Project Titled “Multi Purpose Hybrid PV Inverter for Household Appliances”
A Report on Two - Day Workshop on “Renewable Energy Systems Design (RESD) – 2022”
with MATLAB 2022b, in association with Capricot Technologies
Title of the Event: Two - Day Workshop on “Renewable Energy Systems Design (RESD) – 2022 with MATLAB 2022b, in association with Capricot Technologies
Held on: 28th& 29th November, 2022
No. of Participants: 133
Resource Person: Mr. J. Prem Kumar, Product Manager, Capricot Technologies Pvt. Ltd | Mr. T. Uday Kumar, Business Manager – Education Solutions, Capricot Technologies Pvt. Ltd Coordinators: Ms. G. Rajitha, Asst. Professor | Ms. A. Sunantha, Asst. Professor | Mr. T. Bhaskar, Asst. Professor
Convener: Dr. S. Mani. Kuchibhatla, Assoc. Professor, HOD-EEE
A two day workshop was conducted by EEE department in association with Capricot Technologies, with an objective to introduce students to the knowledge of programming for Engineering Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks, Live Script & Hardware Interfacing, Control Systems & Simscape Electrical Systems, Modeling & Analysis and also activating the Mathworks online account for individual students with the support of campus wide License. A total of 133 students (IV EEE – 49, III EEE - 46, II EEE - 38 and 10 faculty members actively participated in the workshop.
Day 1: 28th November,2022 The program started with welcoming the guests by Ms. A. Sunantha, Assistant Professor Department of EEE, followed by welcome address by Dr. S. Mani Kuchibhatla, HOD, EEE. The program was inaugurated by Dr. B. L. Raju, Principal, along with an inaugural speech highlighting the importance of the topics for the students. Dr. B. L. Raju Principal, felicitated the Guest Mr. T. Uday Kumar with a shawl and memento. Mr. T. Uday Kumar explained the importance of MATLAB, and brought awareness about MATLAB Campus – Wide License Access and discussed new featuresinMATLAB2022b. He also explained LiveScript and its uses in detail. Mr. J. Prem Kumar introduced students to the basics of hardware interfacing with MATLAB Simulink. And illustrated the importance of algorithm development and on Engineering Applications of MATLAB .
Day 2: 29th November,2022 The main focus on day two was on modeling and analysis of systems using Simscape. Mr. J. Prem Kumar elucidated the concepts behind closed loop operation of a system with PID controlled in simulink and simscape environment, so that students able to appreciate the difference between two platform of modeling. He also introduced fundamentals of Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and their engineering applications.
Mr. J. Prem Kumar was felicitated and participation certificates were distributed to the student by Dr. S. Mani Kuchibhatla, HOD, EEE. Vote of thanks was proposed by Ms.A.Sunantha, AssistantProfessor and the event was concluded with a sense of achievement and motivation to conduct more industry oriented workshop in regular interval.
Report on
1st“National Conference on Applications of Soft Computing Techniques in Engineering NCASCTE-2022”
Title of the Event: 1st National Conference on Applications of Soft Computing Techniques in Engineering NCASCTE-2022
Held on: 09th&10thDecember,2022
No. of Participants: 120
Coordinators: Dr.M.Prasad, Associate Professor | Mr.M.Rajashekar , Associate Professor | Ms. G. Rajitha, Asst. Professor
Convener: Dr. S. Mani. Kuchibhatla, Assoc. Professor, HOD-EEE
The “1st National Conference on Applications of Soft Computing Techniques in Engineering NCASCTE-2022” was organized by EEE Department on 9th&10th December 2022.
Online and offline invitation for the event was sent for submission of Abstracts and Full length papers. Hundred abstracts were received out of which 54 were accepted based on the Novelty in the Topics, Soft Computing Techniques Implemented & Relevant to the Conference.The conference maintained a high-quality peer-review process for all the manuscripts received, starting with a primary evaluation that included a plagiarism check for the originality in the contents. Single-blind review process was employed, the reviewers remained anonymous to the authors throughout the process. After through review 53 papers were accepted for presentations. All Presented Papers are Published in Conference Proceedings further Selected research papers have been compiled , edited in the form of Conference Proceedings and published by IRJMETS (International Research Journal of Modernization in Engineering and Science) and IRPREMS (International Journal of Progressive Research in Engineering Management and Science) Publishers.
DAY-1 (09-12-2022) The first day of the NCASCTE-2022 conference started with an inaugural session with a welcome note and conference overview by Mrs. G. Rajitha, Assistant Professor, and Coordinator of NCASCTE 2022. She welcomed the dignitaries on dais. The dignitaries on the dais were then requested to light the lamp and the Chief Guest for the occasion Dr. Bala Sai Kiran, MCE Developer GE Digital, Hyderabad.Dr. Bala Sai Kiran was felicitated by the Dr. B.L Raju, Principal, ACE Engineering College.
Dr. S. Mani Kuchibhatla, HOD-EEE, ACE Engineering College, and Convener NCASCTE-2022, welcomed the delegates for the conference and gave a brief overview about the NCASCTE-2022 and enlightened the gathering about the NCASCTE-2022 and Scope for the Researchers. Dr. B.L Raju, Principal, ACE Engineering College, briefed the congregation about the importance of conference. Further, Dr. Bala Sai Kiran, gave a keynote lecture about optimization techniques on power systems. Soon after the Inaugural session, the first technical session on 1st National Conference on Applications of Soft Computing Techniques in Engineering NCASCTE-2022” began. During this session, eleven papers were presented.
DAY -2 (10-12-2022) The second day technical session on 1st National Conference on Applications of Soft Computing Techniques in Engineering NCASCTE-2022” began at 10 am. During this session, thirty two papers were presented.
The National Conference on Applications of Soft Computing Techniques in Engineering NCASCTE-2022 ended with a valedictory session. The welcome speech in the session was delivered by Dr. S. Mani Kuchibhatla, ACE Engineering College. This was followed by a valedictory address delivered by Dr. S. Srinivasa Rao, Professor, EEE Department NIT Warangal, and Mr. T. Muthu Kumaran Deputy Manager, NSIC, Hyderabad. A few delegates gave a valuable feedback about the Conference. The release of the conference proceedings were carried out by Dr. S. Srinivasa Rao, and Mr. T. Muthu Kumaran and followed by distribution of Participation certificates. Vote of thanks was proposed by Mrs. G.V Swathi, Assistant Professor.The session ended with Photo gathering with all the dignitaries along with the participants and organizing team followed by National Anthem.
Report on “PARENT - TEACHER MEETING”
Title of the Event: Parent - Teacher MEETING
Held on: 21st Jan 2023
Parent Teacher Meeting in the academic year 2022-2023 for the First year students was conducted on Saturday, 21st January, 2023 in the EEE HOD Chamber, at 10.00 am. The main purpose of meet was to create a common platform, where teacher and parents come together to enrich the student’s educational experiences and discuss the performance of individual student and their all round development. The meeting was started at 10.00 am at HOD-EEE chamber. Two parents, Mr. K. Krishna Reddy, parent of K. Vijay vardhanReddy (22AG1A0213) and Mr. Yapala Shekar, parent of Y. Akshay Reddy (22AGA0227) were reported for the parent-teacher meeting. The parents were then allowed to meet the class In-charge Dr.M.Prasad & other teachers to know their wards attendance & performance in the MID-1Examinations. Dr S Mani Kuchibhatla, Associate Professor & HOD-EEE given the information about upcoming Aadhaar enabled Biometric attendance System for the students and its importance to the parents. The parent gave a very good feedback for the programme as well as about the motivation and efforts of faculty for organizing various events in all the academic as well as co-curricular and also appreciated teacher ward system.
A Three-day workshop On
“Integration of Advanced Switchgear Protection With PLC, SCADA & IoT In Association with ERRUN India ”
Title of the Event: A Three-day workshop Integration of Advanced Switchgear Protection With PLC, SCADA & IoT
Held on: 23.02.2023 to 25.02.2023
No. of Participants: 187
Coordinators: Ms. G.Rajitha, Asst.Prof | Ms.G.V.swathi, Asst.Prof | Ms.A.Sunantha, Asst.Prof | Mr.T.Bhaskar, Asst.Prof
Convener: Dr. S. Mani. Kuchibhatla, Assoc. Professor, HOD-EEE
A Three-Day workshop on “Integration of Advanced Switchgear Protection with PLC, SCADA & IoT in Association with ENRUN India”, was held at the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering of ACE Engineering College from 23rd February to 25th February 2023.The aim of the workshop was to provide opportunities to Electrical Engineering students to enhance their skill and get acquaintance with the automation of Power System Protection using PLC, SCADA & IoT.
The Workshop was attended by 187 students from II, III, IV EEE and II Year Students of IoT and Mechanical Departments of ACE Engineering College.
Inagural Session:
The program was inaugurated by Dr. B. L. Raju, Professor & Principal, ACE Engineering College, Dr.S. Mani Kuchibhatla, Associate Professor & HOD EEE, ACE Engineering College, Mr. NC Srinivas from ENRUN India, Syed Mohammed Zubair from ENRUN India, Syed Khaja Moin Uddin Omer from ENRUN India and the Faculty members of EEE Department.
Dr.S. Mani Kuchibhatla, Associate Professor & HOD EEE delivered inaugural speech highlighting the importance and scope of the workshop to the student participants. Dr. B. L. Raju, Professor & Principal, ACE Engineering College appreciated the program organized by EEE dept in his speech. Ms. G. Rajitha, Asst. Prof, EEE Dept introduced our Guest Mr.NC. Srinivas, Business Development Manager ENRUN India. Ms. A. Sunantha. Asst. Prof, EEE Dept introduced the Resource Person Mr. Syed Mohammed Zubair from ENRUN India. The inauguration programme ended with felicitation to the Guest and the resource persons.
TECHNICAL SESSIONS:
Day 1 (23/02/2023)
Mr. Syed Mohammed Zubair from ENRUN India has delivered his interactive lecture on Introduction to Switchgear & Substation and Concepts of Electricity Generation, Distribution & Transmission. In this session the participants learned about the concepts of switchgear protection and its different protecting devices like Relays, MCB’s etc and its applications. In the afternoon session students had a hands-on experience on protective relays.
Day 2 (24/02/2023) Session I:
Mr.Syed Khaja Moin Uddin Omer from ENRUN India delivered an informative lecture Concepts of PLC & SCADA. In this session student participants were learned step by step procedures of integraion and programing of PLC. Students were introduced to basics of Integration of PLC, SCADA & IOT with substation.
Valedictory Session:
In the Valedictory session Dr.S. Mani Kuchibhatla, Associate Professor & HOD EEE, ACE Engineering College summarized the program. After completion of this workshop students felt encouraged to explore these areas further. The program was ended with distribution of certificates to the students and vote of thanks by Ms. G.V. Swathi, Asst. Prof EEE Dept.
Day 3 (25/02/2023) Industrial Visit
On Day 3 students were taken to visit the substation equipment manufacturing Industry, Yateen Electrical & Electronics, Cherlapally to give a complete knowledge and exposure to the Automation of Switchgear Protection.
All the sessions were very much informative. The discussed areas are of great benefit for the participants as the topics match with the current subject domain. Participants were enlightened with the most widely used advance technologies for substation. This in turn will help in research activity and placement opportunity to the participants.
Induction Program for EEE First Year Students conducted on 3rd October 2022
“Induction Program for EEE First Year Students Report”
Title of the Event: Induction Program for EEE First Year Students
Held on: 3rd October 2022
Coordinators: Dr. M. Prasad, Assoc. Professor
The department EEE conducted an induction program on 03.10.2022 for 1st year students. The purpose of induction program was to introduce newly admitted students to the discipline of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Dr. S. Mani. Kuchibhatla, HOD EEE, welcomed the students and parents . . All faculty members were introduced to the students and Parents.
HOD-EEE Explained the necessity of deadline as prescribed in the Academic Calendar regarding Attendance and Minimum Credits. The HOD, also explained the course structure of B.Tech EEE program thoroughly, with particular focus on credit point system. The students were briefed about the department from its inception and how it has grown over last 15 years. Individual faculty gave various suggestions to excel in curricular, co- curricular and extracurricular activities. The students were informed about the approach to teaching and learning, role of internship and faculty assistance to the students interested in undertaking any projects.
Next, they were briefed about the mentoring, internships, projects, publication of papers, IEEE chapters, membership in various technical associations and further suggested to make best use of the lab and faculty to gain knowledge. The session was ended with the students visiting to their labs and also visited rooftop solar power plant installed with the contribution of EEE department.
Technical Quiz Contest conducted on 12th November 2022
Technical Quiz Contest Report”
Title of the Event: Technical Quiz Contest
Held on: 12th November 2022
No. of Participants: 36
Coordinators:
Ms. A. Sunantha, Asst. Professor
Mr. T. Bhaskar, Asst. Professor
Convener: Dr. S. Mani. Kuchibhatla, Assoc. Professor, HOD-EEE
A Technical Quiz Contest was organized by the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering on 12th November 2022 to encourage the II-year Lateral entry students and enhance their knowledge. It was a team event consisting of two members in a team. 8 teams names registered for the quiz. A written test was conducted as a screening round. Top 5 teams of screening round were selected for the finals and they were named as Ohm, Henry, Volt, Watt and Ampere team.
The final had four rounds which were general round, clue round, Visual round and Rapid fire round. These rounds covered questions from major areas of electrical engineering. The prizes were distributed by Dr. S. Mani Kuchibatla, Associate Professor and HOD- EEE. The first prize was bagged by S.Abhishek and K. Chakradar, second prize by R. Prasad and K. Vijaykumar, and third prize by M. Bharath and P. Narendar. The coordinators of the event were Ms. A. Sunantha, Asst. Professor, Dept of EEE and Mr. T. Bhaskar, Asst. Professor, Dept of EEE.
Electrical Clinch conducted on 14 November 2022
“Electrical Clinch Report”
Title of the Event: Electrical Clinch
Held on: 14 November 2022
No. of Participants: 25
Coordinators: Mr. T. Bhaskar, Asst. Professor
Convener: Dr. S. Mani. Kuchibhatla, Assoc. Professor, HOD-EEE
The department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering conducted “Electrical Clinch” technical event on 14.11.2022 for the first year EEE students. The main objective of this event was to familiarize first year students to various electrical components which they will encounter in theory, labs throughout their four year B.Tech course and beyond. All the students participated in the event with energy and gusto. Many of the students identified number of components within the given time slot. Prizes were distributed to the winners Mr. K. Mallesh, Mr. S. Ramu, Mr. V. Vamshi by Dr. S. Mani. Kuchibhatla, HOD-EEE.
EEE- IDEATHON-2022 conducted on 26 November 2022
“EEE- IDEATHON-2022 Report”
Title of the Event: EEE- IDEATHON-2022
Held on: 26 November 2022
No. of Participants: 14
Coordinators:
Mr. G. Rajitha, Asst. Professor,
Mr. S.V. Pramod, Asst. Professor
Ms. G. V. Swathi, Asst. Professor
Convener: Dr. S. Mani. Kuchibhatla, Assoc. Professor, HOD-EEE
On 26th of November 2022, the most event EEE-IDEATHON-2022 was organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ACE Engineering College. The event started at 10:30AM onwards with the students presenting their enthusiastically. After all presentations, result was declared, and the winners were awarded with certificates and prizes.
The students exhibited quality of inter-disciplinary approach to solve the various problems of different sectors. The students had come up with ideas in various domains like Automatic Sunshade, Dyson sphere, Navigation system, solar power in farming, bus tracking system, smart watch 2.0, implementation of automatic solar streetlight and agriculture pesticides etc. The jury were happy that such event was conducted in the campus for students. Moreover, the participation of students was really appreciated.
The jury members Mr. Y.V. Durga Prasad, Associate Professor, Electronics and Communication Engineering and Dr. C.V.R. Krishna Mohan, Professor in Physics, Department of H & BS had graced the event, evaluated the student’s ideas and had given their valuable suggestions.
Winners:
- The first prize is awarded to Automatic sunshade in bus stop and Energy storage in EV by K. Ramesh(20AG1A0217) of III EEE.
- The second prize is awarded to Bus tracking system by S. Abhishek(22AG5A0234) and K. Chakradhar(22AG5A0202) of II EEE.
- The third prize is awarded to App for Agriculture by V.Suman(20AG1A0239) of III EEE.
- The consolation prizes are awarded to Automatic Implementation of automatic street solarstreetlight by Abhinay Sriram(22AG1A0222) of I EEE and Agriculture Pesticides by V. Vamsi(22AG1A0226) of I EEE
“Report on Industrial Visit”
Visited Date: 29th September 2022
Visited Place: Electrical Loco-Shed, Lallaguda, Secundrabad.
Received Person: Mr. Gopinath, Senior Section Engineer (SSE-ELS, Secundrabad)
Co-Coordinators: Mr. Harikranth Budida, Mr. T. Bhaskar, Mrs. J. Malavika
Started Time from Campus: 10:30AM
Return Time: 4:50PM
Students of 1 st Year & 3 rd Year from Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering visited the Electrical Loco Shed, Lallaguda, Secundrabad on 29.09.2022 with total strengths of 43 members students and 3faculty members and One Sr. Lab Assistant of department [ Mr. Harikranth Budida,Mr.T. Bhaskar,Mrs.J. Malavika andMr. M. Ramesh Babu].We reached the Loco Shed at 12:30 PM and we met with the official of Loco-Shed, Sr. Section Engineer Mr. Gopinathand he given time slot. Initially Mr. Gopinath was explained about the overall information of the Loco Shed and Purpose of Loco Shed in Indian Railways for all the students.
After completion of overall explanation, from total strengths of 43 members, He divided into 4 batches for visiting Locomotive for explanation of all the devices using in locomotive engine.
He explained about the
- Pantograph,
- Over Head Lines,
- Circuit Breaker,
- Three Phase AC Motor,
- Main Inverter,
- Main Rectifier,
- DC Link,
- Main Transformer,
- Loco Cooling Fans,
- Axle Brush,
- Sudden Breaks,
- Complete internal Operation of Locomotive, etc. for all the 4 batches with more patience, after completion of explanation we went for photo session with Mr. Gopinath sir in front of Loco shed. Finally, all the students are very with the Electric Loco shed visit.
We Faculty and Students from EEE department convey our thanks to principal Dr. B.L Raju and Management for supporting us by providing transportation for industrial visit.