[Legacy Report] Panel Discussion on Career Opportunities in Power Sector
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The Panel discussion was organized by the PES Chapter in coordination with the GOLD Affinity Group and MJCET. The panel was chaired by the honourable Prof. V.G.K Murti, Rtd Professor, IIT Madras. The other panelists were Er. Krishna Kumar [Addl. General Manager, NTPS], Dr. M. Ramamoorthy [Former Director, ERDA] and Dr. Krishna V. Prasad [Head, TCS Power Initiatives].
Prof. Kaleem Fatima MJCET-IEEE Branch counselor [Head Dept of ECE], introduced the panelists and welcomed the gathering. The panelists were welcomed to the dais and introduced by Mr. Sreekumar, Prayas Energy [Vice Chair, IEEE PES Hyderabad]. He spoke on the challenges in development of the power sector in India supported by the statistics on generation in India.
Dr. Basheer Ahmed, Principal MJCET addressed the gathering and highlighted the achievements of MJCET and the IEEE branch.
Session 1
The first panelist and the panel chair was Prof. V. G. K. Murti, Retired Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Chennai. Prof. Murti gave an overview of the latest technology and organization structure in power engineering. He emphasized on the power sector and its perennial importance and how it is poised for vigorous growth. The availability of careers in organizations with diverse functions (Power systems, Industry, Academic and R&D Institutes, Regulatory and Planning bodies) were discussed. He mentioned the power industry can cater to different tastes and aptitudes, provide scope for using different skills (e.g. Software, optimization techniques, financial management) and specialization in different sub-areas (e.g. Drives and machinery, Control and instrumentation, Power System operation). He spoke on the recent developments in the power sector.
Prof. V. G. K. Murti has 40 years of teaching and research experience in Networks and Measurements. Prof. Murti received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Madras in 1953, the M. Eng. Degree form Yale University, New Haven in 1957 and the PhD degree form the University of Illinois, Urbana in 1960. He is the author of many books. His teaching experience and research experience in networks and measurements enriched the students and the faculty present in the gathering.
Session 2
Er. V. R. Krishnakumar is presently working as the Addl. General Manager (Operation Services) in NTPC Ltd at its Southern Region Head Quarters, Secunderabad. He spoke about the core electrical engineering sector, the power sector scenario in India and the emerging trends and technologies. He gave some important facts and figures about the national grid, the EHV transmission lines and gas insulated substations. The protective devices like numerical relays were discussed. He also spoke on the concepts of networked protection. Then information was decimated on the maxDNA System Architecture and the PADO (Performance Analysis, Diagnostic and Optimization). Participants gained knowledge about the smart monitoring system and monitoring and were able to get a view of the same through his presentation.
Er. V. R. Krishnakumar joined the NTPC Ltd., in 1982 and has served various Thermal and Gas Power stations of NTPC like Ramagundam, Anta, Gandhar, Kayamkulam in Operation, Commissioning and Maintenance areas. He graduated from CIT, Coimbatore in Mechanical Engineering [1972 ] and completed his M.Sc (Engg) from PSG Tech [1974].
Session 3
Dr. M Ramamoorty is a Fellow of IEEE. He enlightened the gathering on the status of research in academic institutions, research centers like CPRI and the actual meaning of R&D sector in the industry. He motivated the faculty and the participatns present to take up research and prove their worth.
Dr. M Ramamoorty is the former Director of ERDA (Vadodara) and the first Director General of Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore. He was the Chief of R&D at Hindustan Brown Boveri, Baroda, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the IIT-Kanpur, and visiting Professor at the University of Waterloo and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Ramamoorty obtained his BE (Hons) from Andhra University in 1957 and ME from IISc Bangalore in 1959. He obtained his MASc and PhD from Toronto University in 1965 and 1967 respectively.
Session 4
Dr. Krishna spoke on Indian power industry evolution, technologies in the power sector and what to look forward to. He highlighted the smart grid, application functions in the market era, the modern grid, power sector stake holders and the latest market trends. He also stressed on the technologies in the power sector like Information Technologies (IT), Operation Technologies (OT) and Energy Technologies (ET). He provided an overview of “As-Is†IT Landscape in an Indian RLDC. In the end he spoke about what the GenNext Power System would look like.
Dr. Krishna V Prasad heads Head - Power Initiatives, TCS Bangalore working on the application of IT in power. He has a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University, an M.E. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and his Master of Science and Doctor of Science from the Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Dr. Krishna has earlier worked with Control Data Corporation's Energy Management Systems Division, USA; Kema consulting (formerly ECC, Inc.), USA; Best & Crompton Engineering, Chennai, India; and CMC Limited, Hyderabad, India.
Closing Session
The panel the opened to discussions for the next half hour. This further benefited the gathering.
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