The School of Engineering will host a Webinar on Role of Electrical Engineering in Innovation & Sustainable Development on June 18, 2020.
The webinar will be presented by Dr. S. Balamurugan, Chairperson, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.
Dr. Balamurugan S.has been awarded ‘National Innovative Teacher Award’ by the Honourable Minister of HRD, Shri. Prakash Javadekar, at a national awards ceremony conducted in New Delhi. The award included Rs. 75,000 cash prize and a silver medal with citation. The coveted prize came to Dr. Balamurugan in recognition of his distinguished accomplishment, the path-breaking pedagogical initiative of “Laboratory Model-Based Teaching of Power Systems”.
He is the President of Institution Innovation Council at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. The council is an initiative from Innovation Cell of MHRD. He also serves as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for the Smart India Hackathon -2019 at Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore.
He has started his teaching career in the year 2002. In his credit, he has 31 international journal and 55 international / national conference publications. He has delivered 70 Guest Lecture, Keynote Address and Seminar in various institutions in the area of Power System, Energy Management, Deregulated System, Smart Grid, Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithm, MATLAB, PSCAD and ETAP.
