Academic background
Dr.E.Chandrasekaran is currently working as a Associate Professor (U.G. Course)in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Coimbatore Institute Technology, Coimbatore, India. Dr.Chandra Sekaran obtained his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from Anna University–Chennai in 2008. He completed his master’s degree in Applied Electronics in the year 1999 and bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1990. His areas of specialization are Power Electronics, Power Quality, Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Management. He holds two years of industrial experience as a design engineer of UPS and SMPS systems in a premier organization. He has 18 years of teaching experience. He has concurrent research and consultancy experience of 9 years and 7 years respectively. He lectures Power electronics, Electric Drives and Control, Power Quality and Industrial Automation and Control. He is also guiding researchers in different disciplines.
He has published 6 papers in national/international journal. He has published 34 technical papers in national/international conferences. He is Life Member in the Indian Society for Technical Education (India) and Institution of Engineers (India). He is the one Principal Investigator for the joint project of CIT-CDAC-TNEB entitled “Development of Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) based Voltage Source Stabilizers for Process Industry” funded by Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore, Ministry of Power, Government of India under National Perspective Plan of 11th Five Year Plan.
As a consultant he is involved in the Energy Audit and Power Quality Study of Industrial organizations and commercial establishments in and around Tamil Nadu. He is also involved actively in the testing and calibration of Electric Motors. He has actively involved in the setting up of Power Electronics and Drives Laboratory and developed many industry oriented projects.
He organized one Faculty Development Programme and seven workshops/seminars in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He delivered many expert lectures in various institutions and organizations. He attended 7 Faculty Development Programmes and 34 international conferences/national conferences/seminars/workshops. He is a member in Energy Conservation Council and Solar City Project for the Corporation of Coimbatore, Coimbatore.
He is one of the Expert Committee Member for the R&D project of Tamilnadu Energy Development Agency on the “Study on Power Quality Issues in Grid connected Wind Farms and Identification of Remedial Measures” funded by Centre for Wind Energy Technology (C-WET), Chennai.He is one of the Selection Committee Member for Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Thiruvananthapuram.
He is Doctoral Committee Member in Anna University, Coimbatore, SRM University, Chennai, and Periyar Maniammai University, Thanjavur. He is also the Ph.D Thesis examiner of ANNA University, Chennai.He is reviewer of Asian Power Asian
