Name: Dr. Rituparna Mitra

Designation: Head, Department of Electrical Engineering

Welcome to the Department of Electrical Engineering, Swami Vivekananda University. As a well-known fact, we cannot imagine the world without electricity, and nowadays, the electrical and electronic devices have become an essential and inevitable part of our daily lives. The Department focus is to train our students to get strong academic knowledge in the frontier areas of both electrical and electronics engineering and also to make the students ready to face real-world challenges. The Department has a rich blend of young and highly-experienced regular and visiting faculty members from reputed institutes. The faculty members display a high level of dedication and enthusiasm towards both teaching and state-of-the-art research.

The Department faculty have sound knowledge in emerging research areas like Adaptive & Robust control schemes for power electronic applications, High voltage pulse power system, Electrical machines and drives, Control of electric vehicle and energy management, Power system optimization and Active distribution networks, Home energy management and Smart grid technologies. Our faculty members are continuing their respective research projects and publishing their research articles in reputed national and international journals. The department is active in organizing the various workshops and seminars for the growth and development of faculty and students’ research knowledge further. Our department students are also highly encouraged to implement their innovative research ideas with the help of the expert faculty members and the available standard research lab facilities in the department. At present, the department offers a three year diploma course (Electrical Engineering),four-year undergraduate programme, B Tech (Electrical Engineering), two year post graduate program (Power System and Power Electronics) and PhD programme in core Electrical Engineering specializations. The focus of this curriculum is keeping in view with the current and upcoming industry requirements in future.

The Electrical Engineering graduate has a wide range of career opportunities in Power industries, Government PSUs, R&D Units, IT industries, Electricity Boards/Utility companies, Telecommunications industries, Manufacturing industries, Private industrial firms and Startup companies.