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The Department of Electrical Engineering came into existence as a separate department from the year 1912. The B.E. degree course was introduced during the year 1935-36 with the first batch obtaining the degree from Calcutta University in 1936. The M.E. degree examination in Electrical Engineering was held in the year 1955 when the first batch of postgraduate Electrical Engineers came out. The department had a sisterhood plan with the University of Wisconsin, USA for exchange of teachers during 1952-62. It was a centre for Teachers' Training Scheme under the Ministry of Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs during 1959-70. From 1989, the Ministry of Human Resources Development declared this department as one of the QIP centres for postgraduate studies and research.
The Department of electrical Engineering is actively engaged in good number of collaborative and sponsored research projects. In the last years, more than 10 research works were undertaken for agencies other than the State or Central Government (such as the Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Ltd., Machinery Manufacturing Corporation Ltd., Guest Keen Williams Ltd., Electrical Manufacturing Co., DCPL etc.) and about 10 different research linkage including sponsored projects were established with State and Central Govt. organizations (such as WESEB; DVC; Metro Railways, Calcutta; Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics; CSIR; Electronics Commission of India). The following existing laboratories have been modernized and a few department projects have been undertaken through grants sanctioned by MHRD, AICTE, CSIR, and UGC during the last ten years :
- Power System & Protective Relay Laboratory
- Simulation Laboratory
- Industrial Electronics Laboratory
- Instrumentation Laboratory
- Electrical Machines Laboratory
- Control System Laboratory
- Condition Monitoring of Electrical Equipment in Power Plants
- Study on Efficient Voltage Control on Induction Motor Drive
- Study on the Dynamics of Motor during System Disturbances & Development of a Flexible Auto Changeover Circuit
- Low cost Sensorless Switched reluctance drive
- Development of energy efficient battery charger and inverter
- Energy audit and Conservation Programme in B. E. College campus and in local Government Housing Estates
- Control and Performance Improvement of a Brush-less DC machine Drive (An Inverter fed Self-synchronous permanent Magnet AC Motor). Spectral Identification of potentised Homeopathic Medicines.
- Tie Line Control and Voltage Instability of Power grids in power systems of developing countries