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Project work is a vital component of UG engineering curriculum. Engineering students have to take up this activity during 7th and 8th semester. It is good if project work is initiated during 7th semester with literature survey. Doing a successful project is much more difficult than studying 40 theory courses and doing more than ten laboratories.
For projects, generally the batch size should be not more than three. Students of Electrical and Electronics Engineering should remember the following points while deciding the project.
BHEL R&D unit is one of the Navratnas in the country and has excellent R&D facilities in power electronic systems lab, power systems lab, control systems lab, electrical machines lab etc., where the students can work in control of induction motor drives, FACTS controllers, Fault analysis of power systems and on PLCs. They do have simulation packages which helps the student to learn design aspects with modelling and simulation.
ECIL also has project learning centre they offer very good projects in microprocessor and micro controller area. Micro controllers and digital signal processing courses are covered in theory, but practice on these controller based experiments is minimal. Hence choosing Microcontroller/DSP based projects for control drives or power system application will certainly influence when they go for interviews.
SCADA related projects, substation equipment maintenance, numerical relays testing, protection of various equipment used in 400KV substation, performance of Gas insulated substation, etc., can be better in APTRANSCO. Working in NTPC, KTPS, NFC and Hydel power plants will also give better exposure of the components they study in the theory. Working on PLCs used in the control of various parameters in the process of power generation, can add a good value to the project.
Hardware Oriented: Of late, renewable energy has emerged as one of the most preferred research topic for many researchers across the globe. Because of non-pollution, technical, economical and societal benefits, solar, wind, bio-mass based plants are gaining increasing popularity. Student’s job prospects also will imrove if he can do a considerable project in this area. Students can take up Solar-PV based projects. Unregulated DC is converted into regulated DC by means of DC-DC converter (Isolated/non-Isolated) or can be converted in to regulated AC by using DC-AC converter (inverter) with any of various PWM mechanisms available in the literature and run DC or AC motors.
These projects can be done in the college itself with the support of teachers of the department. They can think of Solar-PV green energy used for water sprinklers in the lawns of the college (without any battery back-up), or solar based LED display for electronic notice boards which can be used by the departments for circulars. Funding also can be expected from the college for doing such projects. PV panels are available with low rating to very high rating at different places in Hyderabad and major cities. They can even think about having portable wind mill on the college bus they travel and use PWM converter (because wind speed is not constant) and the power generated can be used for charging the cell phones and lighting in the bus.
For this kind of innovative and interesting projects they can check some websites like, www.howstuffworks.com , www.electronicsforu.com and IEEE projects website, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org too. Most of us are aware that, road accidents are taking place mainly when there are deep curves on the road. Especially during nights accidents rate is very high. Sensor-based Solar-PV curve indicators (Microcontroller/DSP based) can be given a thought by them to avoid accidents. When a head light of any automobile falls on solar based sensor, it should sense the light and makes the controller active and indicates there is danger curve ahead. The battery can be charged during day with Solar-PV panel and the same may be used during night.
Simulation Oriented: There are some softwares like MATLAB, PSCAD, Mi-Power, Power world available for carrying projects by EEE students. MATLAB is very powerful software and it has various tool boxes such as power system, DSP, NN, Fuzzy, Control systems tool boxes. They can do projects by developing code in MATLAB or they can develop systems with Simulink/tool boxes and execute. It is such a powerful tool even there are IEEE papers published with the work on this software. Graduate students can seek help from their teachers in the college and can do very impressive projects on MATLAB.
Making a Report: After the completion of project, documentation of theory behind the work, implementation procedures, calculations involved, conclusions along with the scope for future work must be put in the thesis in a systematic way. Never do copy and paste in the document. Better if figures are drawn using software like Microsoft-Visio, ECAD etc. References must be included at the end of the report.
Presentation of Work: Container should be better than contained. Presentation of their work to the committee constituted by external examiner, project coordinator and internal guide is the last but not least part of the project work. They have to prepare 15-20 slides on their work and present impressively. Do not put equations and excessive matter in the slide. Essence of one page should come in a single line in the slide. Never forget to acknowledge the support given by your teachers, friends, academic assistants in the presentation.
Plan well before work and work with the plan……success is yours ultimately.
Have a wonderful career ahead.
For projects, generally the batch size should be not more than three. Students of Electrical and Electronics Engineering should remember the following points while deciding the project.
- Firstly they should decide whether they want to carry out hardware oriented project or a software/simulation oriented one.
- Secondly, whether to do it in the college or in industry/R&D organization.
- Thirdly, documentation part,
- Finally presentation of their project to the committee.
BHEL R&D unit is one of the Navratnas in the country and has excellent R&D facilities in power electronic systems lab, power systems lab, control systems lab, electrical machines lab etc., where the students can work in control of induction motor drives, FACTS controllers, Fault analysis of power systems and on PLCs. They do have simulation packages which helps the student to learn design aspects with modelling and simulation.
ECIL also has project learning centre they offer very good projects in microprocessor and micro controller area. Micro controllers and digital signal processing courses are covered in theory, but practice on these controller based experiments is minimal. Hence choosing Microcontroller/DSP based projects for control drives or power system application will certainly influence when they go for interviews.
SCADA related projects, substation equipment maintenance, numerical relays testing, protection of various equipment used in 400KV substation, performance of Gas insulated substation, etc., can be better in APTRANSCO. Working in NTPC, KTPS, NFC and Hydel power plants will also give better exposure of the components they study in the theory. Working on PLCs used in the control of various parameters in the process of power generation, can add a good value to the project.
Hardware Oriented: Of late, renewable energy has emerged as one of the most preferred research topic for many researchers across the globe. Because of non-pollution, technical, economical and societal benefits, solar, wind, bio-mass based plants are gaining increasing popularity. Student’s job prospects also will imrove if he can do a considerable project in this area. Students can take up Solar-PV based projects. Unregulated DC is converted into regulated DC by means of DC-DC converter (Isolated/non-Isolated) or can be converted in to regulated AC by using DC-AC converter (inverter) with any of various PWM mechanisms available in the literature and run DC or AC motors.
These projects can be done in the college itself with the support of teachers of the department. They can think of Solar-PV green energy used for water sprinklers in the lawns of the college (without any battery back-up), or solar based LED display for electronic notice boards which can be used by the departments for circulars. Funding also can be expected from the college for doing such projects. PV panels are available with low rating to very high rating at different places in Hyderabad and major cities. They can even think about having portable wind mill on the college bus they travel and use PWM converter (because wind speed is not constant) and the power generated can be used for charging the cell phones and lighting in the bus.
For this kind of innovative and interesting projects they can check some websites like, www.howstuffworks.com , www.electronicsforu.com and IEEE projects website, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org too. Most of us are aware that, road accidents are taking place mainly when there are deep curves on the road. Especially during nights accidents rate is very high. Sensor-based Solar-PV curve indicators (Microcontroller/DSP based) can be given a thought by them to avoid accidents. When a head light of any automobile falls on solar based sensor, it should sense the light and makes the controller active and indicates there is danger curve ahead. The battery can be charged during day with Solar-PV panel and the same may be used during night.
Simulation Oriented: There are some softwares like MATLAB, PSCAD, Mi-Power, Power world available for carrying projects by EEE students. MATLAB is very powerful software and it has various tool boxes such as power system, DSP, NN, Fuzzy, Control systems tool boxes. They can do projects by developing code in MATLAB or they can develop systems with Simulink/tool boxes and execute. It is such a powerful tool even there are IEEE papers published with the work on this software. Graduate students can seek help from their teachers in the college and can do very impressive projects on MATLAB.
Making a Report: After the completion of project, documentation of theory behind the work, implementation procedures, calculations involved, conclusions along with the scope for future work must be put in the thesis in a systematic way. Never do copy and paste in the document. Better if figures are drawn using software like Microsoft-Visio, ECAD etc. References must be included at the end of the report.
Presentation of Work: Container should be better than contained. Presentation of their work to the committee constituted by external examiner, project coordinator and internal guide is the last but not least part of the project work. They have to prepare 15-20 slides on their work and present impressively. Do not put equations and excessive matter in the slide. Essence of one page should come in a single line in the slide. Never forget to acknowledge the support given by your teachers, friends, academic assistants in the presentation.
Plan well before work and work with the plan……success is yours ultimately.
Have a wonderful career ahead.
Published date : 01 Jan 2014 06:41PM
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