Dr. N. Ammasai Gounden

 

 

Qualification

• B.E. (Electronics and Communication Engineering)
• M.E. (Control Systems)
• Ph.D. (Design and Control of Wind-driven Induction Generators)

Experience

• 1981-1982 : Lecturer - RV College of Engineering - Bangalore
• 1982-1992 : Lecturer -NIT-T
• 1992-1999 :Assistant Professor -NIT-T
• 1999 - 28.04.2019 : Professor -NIT-T
• 29.04.2019 - till date: Professor (HAG) - NIT-T

Papers Published

Get the list of papers published by Dr. N. Ammasai Gounden here.

Areas of Interest

• Power Electronic Controllers for Wind,Solar applications
• Microprocessor and Microcontroller based drives

Research Work:

• Wind driven self Excited and Grid connected Induction Generators.
• Development of power Electronic interfaces for Wind/Solar Energy Systems.
• DC-DC Converters.

 

Google Scholar Link: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=z81GF_AAAAAJ&hl=en

 

Research Guidance:

Number of Ph.Ds. guided as main guide and degree awarded

S.No	Name of the Scholar	Area of Research	Year of completion
1.	S.Arul Daniel	Power Electronic Interfaces and control strategies for PV and wind turbine generator schemes	2003
2.	S.Sudha	Differentiated services network	2009
3.	M.Alarmel Mangai	Image Retrieval Algorithms	2012
4.	N.Ramasubramanian	Multicore Architecture	2012
5.	V.Geetha	Memory Architecture	2013
6.	D.R. Binu Ben Jose	Power Electronic Controllers for Renewable Energy Systems	2015
7.	S. Krithiga	Power Electronic Controllers for Renewable Energy Systems	2015
8.	M. Brindha	Image Encryption Algorithms	2016
9.	Maria Jenisha C	Power Electronic Controllers for solar and wind energy applications	2019

 

Number of Ph.Ds. guided as co-guide and degree awarded :

S.No	Name of the Scholar	Area of Research	Year of Completion
1.	S. Mageswari	Roof-top PV systems in rural households of India	2018

Academic and Administrative Responsibilities held:

1)	Dean , IC&SR (2 years)	2008 - 2010
2)	QIP coordinator (7 months)	Feb 2008 - Aug 2008
3)	HOD, EEE dept. (3 years)	2003 - 2005
4)	Nodal officer TEQIP	6 months in 2005
5)	Coordinator TNEA counseling	2005
6)	Head, CSG (6 months)	Dec 2000 - May 2001
7)	Deputy Controller of Examinations (PG)	1990-1995
8)	Chairman, DPEC (M.Tech.)	June 2008- June 2019
9)	Senate nominee for other departments	2008 till date

Cocurricular and Professional Development Related Activities

• Convener-sports committee (2 years, 2000-2002)
• Convener-School committee (2 years, 2004-2006)
• Staff advisor-College Tamil Mandram (10 years, 1990-2000)
• Given Live program in AIR on “Marabu sar erisakthiyum ariviyal munnetramum”
• Given Live program in AIR on "AIEEE entrance examination "

Patent Obtained

 A New Four-Stage Power Controller for Improved Energy Efficiency and Saving in Reactive Power for Three-phase Induction Motors and Wind-Driven Grid-Connected Induction Generators - Patent Number : 234172

Projects supervised

• Thyristor controlled convertor fed DC drives.
• Thyristor/IGBT Controlled Chopper fed DC drives.
• UPS Inverter -micro processor based /DSP based
• Buck, Boost , Buck -Boost Switching regulators.
• Power electronic controllers for wind/solar systems.

Membership in Professional bodies

• Life member – ISTE
• Life member- IEI (Fellow of IEI)

Visits Abroad

• Visited the following universities in connection with university interaction programme in the year 2010 :

                  1)  University of TOLEDO , USA

                  2)  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , USA

                  3)  Worcester Polytechnic Institute , USA

• Visited University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in connection with presenting a paper in 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems in the year 2011.
• Visited University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia for making a presentation in UNSW-India Collaboration workshop in May 2019.

Contact Address

Dr. N Ammasai Gounden
Professor HAG
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Trichirapalli,
Tamil Nadu 620 015
Phone number 0431-2503253