Updated on: Friday, July 13, 2012
While on one hand, a number of institutions involved in technical educations are struggling to admit students in their engineering programmes, Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College, Fatehgarh Sahib continues to develop the skills and competencies of the faculty of its own as well as the faculty of other educational institutions of the region. The college is one of the few institutions of the region that are witnessing no fall in admissions to the engineering programmes.
One faculty development programments on 'Smart Grid Management and Power System Analysis using LABVOLT and LABVIEW' concluded in the Department of Electrical Engineering while another one on 'Network simulation using Qualnet' began in the Department of Computer Science Engineering. Candidates from GGSCMT Kharar, SUSCET Tangori, CGC Gharuan, IET Bhaddal, LGC Chauki Mann, CTIEMT Jalandhar, BHSBIET Lehragaga, RBIET Sahauran, Desh Bhagat Engg College Mandi Gobindgarh, ACET Barnala, Bhutta College of Engg, Ludhiana & GRDIET Lehrabega have been taking part in the FDPs.
Dr G S Brar, coordinator of the program on Smart Grid Management, informed that the programme is an endeavour to find solutions for emerging problems in power sector which has eclipsed the development of India. In this program, distinguished experts from academia and industry were invited to share their thoughts with participants. Dr Ashwani Kumar from NIT Kurukshetra deliberated his talks on Power system operation in new environment, congestion management and Distributed Generation. To enhance industry academia relationship, experts from industry in field of Virtual Instrumentation were invited and issues like Smart Grid , Phasor Measurement, Optimization using LabView platform were discussed.