Pratap Chandra Pradhan

Dr. Pratap Chandra Pradhan is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, DRIEMS University, Cuttack, Odisha. He has completed his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Institution of Engineers (I) in 1999, M.E. in Power System Engineering from Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), University of Mumbai , India, in 2003, and Ph.D. from Sambalpur University, Burla, Odisha, India, in 2018. He has 20 years of teaching experience. His favourite teaching subjects include Electrical Power Transmission & Distribution, Power System Operation and Control, Power System Protection, Smart Grid, Network Theory, Control System Engineering. His area of research includes automatic generation control, application of soft computing techniques to power system engineering, distributed generation and development of renewable energy. He has published more than 27 research papers in national and international conferences and journals. He has published four Indian patents. He guides undergraduate, post graduate and Ph.D. students. He is involved in different academic activities, such as organizing committee member in national and international conferences. He has organized more than ten different programs such as, faculty development programs, seminars and workshops at the national and international level. He has attended more than fifty different programs such as, faculty development program, short term course/training, seminar and workshop at the national and international level. He has the best faculty award for good academic performance in 2013. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (FIE) India, Life member of Indian society for Technical Education (LMISTE), India and member of International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Hong Kong.