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Sustainability & Engineering Education with Dr. Mohd Rehan ,Professor EE AMU Senior Member of IEEE and Vice Chairman of executive committee of IEEE UP Section: Dr. Rehan's enlightening talk shed light on the crucial role of engineering education in building a sustainable future. We explored sustainable practices and how engineers can be change-makers in environmental conservation.


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  • Date: 05 Oct 2023
  • Time: 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM
  • All times are (UTC+05:30) Chennai
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  • AKGEC, Ghaziabad
  • Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
  • India
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  • Co-sponsored by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  Speakers

Dr. Mohd. Rihan Dr. Mohd. Rihan of Aligarh Muslim University

Topic:

Sustainability & Engineering Education

Dr. Rehan's enlightening talk shed light on the crucial role of engineering education in building a sustainable future. We explored sustainable practices and how engineers can be change-makers in environmental conservation.

Biography:

Dr. Mohammad Rihan is a Professor of Electrical Engineering with experience of more than 21 years. He is Gold Medalist of B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) and has done significant research work in the areas of smart grid and Solar Energy; both areas under National missions.  He Is also the Founder Director and Coordinator of the centre for Grid Integrated Green and Renewable Energy in the campus to address the research challenges presented by high penetration of renewable energy in the grid. He is an elected Fellow of the IET(UK), IE(India), and IETE. He is Senior Member of IEEE and elected vice chair of executive committee of IEEE UP Section for 2021-2023. He is elected vice chair of executive committee of Delhi local network of IET(UK) for 2023.

 

He has led the integration of 6.5MWp solar PV plants in the AMU campus distribution grid; the largest such installation in any academic institution in the country. It includes a project of Rs. 20 Cr. for 3.3 MWp solar farm; a unique installation in any academic institute in the country. He has also worked as Visiting Scientist at National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE), MNRE. He has established a Centre for Training on Solar PV in collaboration with Skill Council, Green Jobs, Government of India  India. He has also completed a project on Green Campus funded by MNRE. Under this project energy conservation target has been defined for making AMU a Green Campus. 
Dr. Rihan is also heading the entire electricity setup; both conventional and renewable of the university since Dec 2015 as Member Incharge. The campus has a huge electricity network of 8.5MVA capacity and annual budget of about Rs. 30 Cr. He acts as the technical, financial, and administrative head of the department and report to the vice chancellor; the executive head of the university. He is leading a team of 122 employees including Assistant Engineers, Junior Engineers, Accounts staff and other technical staff. His responsibilities in this role requires ensuring that all related works and purchases in the department are done adhering to the technical and financial guidelines formed by the Government of India. He is a Member of the Building Committee; the committee which accords technical and financial approval to all construction/renovation works in the campus as per GFR and Central Public Works Department (CPWD) norms of the Government of India. He has to oversee the utilization of the funds as per norms and devise and implement energy conservation measures in the campus. 

Dr. Rihan is member secretary of Central Project Implementation and Monitoring Committee of the university which is responsible for allocation, evaluation and execution of consultancy work related to projects of national importance like smart city. 

Dr. Rihan has authored a book on Green Energy Transition in India-Including the success story of AMU and another book on Advanced Control Systems. He has contributed an invited chapter on Applications and Requirements of Smart Grid in a book published by Springer Nature.  He has established a new Virtual Instrumentation and Smart Systems lab in the department. 

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Address:Aligarh Muslim University, , Aligarh