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You are cordially invited to the 2014 Faraday Memorial Lecture (24th edition of the annual flagship event by the IEEE Hyderabad Section), We look forward to seeing you at the event.

 

Title: Smart Grid  - The Evolution of Faraday’s Vision and Passion for Electricity

Speaker: Dr. S. S. (Mani) Venkata

Date: 22nd September, 2014

Time: 5.30 PM (networking and Tea), Lecture starts at 6:15 PM.

Venue: PS Telugu University Auditorium, Next to Public Garden Namapally side gate, Hyderabad.

 

Abstract: In today’s world, electricity is truly the lifeline of mankind, fulfilling nearly all needs of the society that are increasing exponentially. In this context it is a real challenge for electrical engineers to keep up with these needs by maintaining utmost quality of power, its reliability and security, and all this at affordable cost to the consumers. While honoring Faraday’s invention of the Laws of Electromagnetic Induction in 1831 and keeping his vision and passion for electricity in mind, this presentation focuses on the evolution of the “Smart gird” during the past three centuries. The first part of the talk will focus on the critical developments from the 17th century until the present. The next part of the presentation will be devoted to the current status of the smart grid, its meaning and developments. In the third part, the direction of electricity growth to meet future societal needs will be explored. Finally the pressing issue of the global shortage of engineers will be addressed. In order to meet this need it is imperative that we excite and motivate young scientists and engineers to specialize in this field with proper educational training and mentoring programs.

 

Speaker Bio: DR. S.S. (Mani) Venkata, received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E degrees from India and his Ph.D. degree from the University of South Carolina, Columbia in 1971. Dr.Venkata has published and presented over 350 publications in various journals and conferences. He is also a co-author of the book “Introduction to Electric Energy Systems”, published by Prentice Hall in 1987. From 1996 to 2002, he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA, where he was also Palmer Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department during 2003. In 1996, he received the “Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award” from the IEEE Power Enginering Society and also received the Third Millennium award form the IEEE in 2000. He was a Member of the PES Executive Committee and Governing Board for 4 years as the Vice President of Publications, Member of the Finance Committee and Technical Activities Advisory Board during 2004 - 2007. He was Chairman, Vice Chairman and Secretary of Power Engineering Education Committee during 2000 - 2006. Dr. Venkata is a Life Fellow of the IEEE as also a Member of the IEEE Fellows Comittee since 2010. He joined Alstom Grid Inc. in January 2011 as a Principal Scientist and Director of DER R&D. At the PES level he is currently serving as Chair of the PES Smart Grid R&D Committee.