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The Department of Electrical Engineering is one of the first three engineering departments of the institute that started in 1951. The Department is running the B.Tech.(Hons.) program in Electrical Engineering since its inception. Later, B.Tech.(Hons.) in Instrumentation Engineering was introduced in 1982. Post graduate studies and research started at the very beginning in 1955 with the first M.Tech. program on Electrical Machines which was later restructured into a program on Machine Drives and Power Electronics. Subsequently, M.Tech. programs on Control System Engineering (in 1959), Power System Engineering (in 1965), and Instrumentation Engineering (in 1972) had been introduced. A dual degree program, B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering and M.Tech. in Instrumentation Engineering, started in 2002. This program was expanded to include M.Tech. in all the four disciplines subsequently. The department also runs one of the oldest and thriving Doctoral program in Electrical Engineering in the country. The Department continues to participate in numerous R&D projects funded by governmental organizations such as MHRD, DST, DIT, DBT, DRDO, ISRO, CPRI, CDAC, ICMR and industries such as TATA Steel, SAIL, BHEL, Powergrid, Indian Rail, Megatherm, POSOCO. The Department is also involved in collaborative research with leading multinationals such as TI, GM, GE, Maxim and Freescale, universities such as University of Washington, North Carolina State University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Pavis, McGill University, Imperial College London, University of Tokyo, Technical University of Munich, and foundations such as DAAD, SRC, DFG, Humboldt Foundation. Members of faculty have received academic laurels, such as the Fellow of IEEE, INAE, INSA. They also serve in honorary positions of reputed Institutions, such as Senates, Faculty Councils, Committee and as Editors/Associate Editors of IEEE Transactions, members of Editorial boards of reputed journals, and expert reviewers for organizations of national importance.
Prof. Chandan Chakraborty
Head of the
Department
Contact (Head)
Phone: +91-3222-282262
Fax: +91-3222-282262
Email : hod@ee.iitkgp.ac.in
Since its inception, the tradition of teaching with passion and dedication, research excellence and active participation in corporate developmental activities continues to shape the career of our alumni. Graduates and Postgraduates of the Department demonstrated pioneering role in professional fields as well as in academics and research, and holding positions of rare distinction in leading industries and academic institutions of the world. In my role as Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, I would like to welcome you very warmly to our website. If you have any questions or need information that is not covered by these pages, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Prof. Suman Maiti is the recipient of IEEE-IDC (Industrial Drives Committee) 2nd Best Transaction Paper Award for 2022.
Dr. Moupali Chakrabarty, advised by Prof. Karabi Biswas , received Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards (GYTI) for developing Milk adulteration detection system in her PhD work.
Prof. Amit Patra has been listed within the top 10 researchers in India in the engineering category by a survey carried out by DST based on research publications made within 2002 to 2014.
Prof. Chandan Chakraborty, Fellow IEEE, is the Founder Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Journal of Selected and Emerging Topics in Industrial Electronics.
Prof. Santanu Kapat is the recipient of INSA Medal for Young Scientists 2016.
Prof. Santanu Kapat is an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics in the year 2016-2017.
Prof. Anirban Mukherjee is an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement in the year 2017-2018.
Prof. Ashok K. Pradhan has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (NASI), Allahabad in the year 2016.
Mr. Soumendra Sarangi and Mr. Avirup Mallick have been awarded POSOCO Power System Awards 2017, for their Doctoral and Masters Theses respectively
Prof. Amit Patra has become the Director of IIT BHU.
Prof. B. M. Mohan is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems in 2024.
Prof. Dipankar Debnath received the G S Sanyal Award for Faculty Excellence, 2023 and Faculty Excellence Award, 2022 from IIT Kharagpur.
Prof. Karabi Biswas received Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from Alexander von Humboldt foundation, Germany.
Prof. Atreyee Kundu is the General Co-Chair of the Indian Control Conference, 2024.
Prof. Ashish Ranjan Hota is recognized as INAE Young Associate, 2023.
