A presentation made on the occasion of Research Scholars' day. The day was also celebrated as the department day as part of the 60 year anniversary celebration of IIT Kharagpur.

1. Electrical Engineering Research Scholars’ Day
February, 2012
IIT Kharagpur
Slides prepared by Saptarshi Roy, Sudipta Mal and Avik Sadhu

2. Inventions
that changed the
world
(1600-2000)

3. Timeline (1600-1800)
Charles-Augustin
William Gilbert Alessandro Volta de Coulomb
(England) (Italy) (France)
1600 1762 1783
Versorium: Electrophorus: Coulomb's Law
Detection of static Production of
electric charge electrostatic charge

4. Timeline (1800-1850)
Hans Christian André-Marie
William Sturgeon Georg Simon
Orsted Ampère
(England) Ohm
(Denmark) (France)
(Germany)
1820 1820 1825 1827
Observed that Ampere’s Law First Electromagnet Ohm's Law
electric current
creates
magnetism

5. Timeline (1800-1850) cont..
Michael Faraday Joseph Henry Hippolyte Pixii Nicholas Joseph Samuel Finley
(England) (America) (France) Callan Breese Morse
(Ireland) (America)
1831 1831 1832 1836 1844
Laws of Prototype DC DC generator Transformer Morse Code
Induction motor

6. Timeline (1850-1900)
Floris Nollet James Clerk Alexander Thomas Alva
Sir Joseph Wilson
(Belgium) Maxwell Graham Bell Edison
Swan
(Scotland) (Scotland) (America)
(England)
1850 1861 1876 1878 1879
Long lasting
AC generator Maxwell’s Telephone Incandescent filament for
equations light bulb light bulb

7. Timeline (1850-1900) cont..
Alexander
Heinrich Rudolf Nikola Tesla Thomas Alva Karl Ferdinand
Stepanovich
Hertz (Serbia-America) Edison Braun
Popov
(Germany) (America) (Germany)
(Russia)
1888 1888 1890 1894 1897
Electro- AC motor Fuse Radio receiver Cathode Ray
magnetic Oscilloscope
wave

8. Timeline (1900-2000)
Sir Jagadish Guglielmo Sir John Ambrose Edwin Howard
Chandra Bose Marconi Fleming Lee de Forest Armstrong
(India) (Italy) (England) (America) (America)
1895 1901 1904 1906 1912
Wireless transatlantic Diode Triode Electronic
radio radio broadcast Oscillator
transmission

9. Timeline (1900-2000) cont..
William Shockley,
Russell and John Bardeen, Jack St. Clair
Sigurd Varian Konrad Zuse John Logie Baird Walter Brattain Kilby
(America) (Germany) (Scotland) (America) (America)
1939 1941 1944 1947 1958
klystron Programmable Color picture Triode Integrated
Computer Tube for circuit
television

10. The EE people
Around the globe

11. Brian Kernighan
Co developer of Unix
…is an Electrical Engineer

12. Hewlett and Packard
founders of HP
…are Electrical Engineers

13. Amar Gopal Bose
founder and chairman of Bose Corporation
…is an Electrical Engineer

14. Vinod Khosla
Cofounder, Sun microsystems
…is an Electrical Engineer

15. Arun N. Netravali
former president, Bell Laboratories
…is an Electrical Engineer

16. Vinod Dham
Father of the Pentium chip
…is an Electrical Engineer

17. N. R. Narayan Murthy
Co-founder Infosys
…is an Electrical Engineer

18. Sabeer Bhatia
co-founder, Hotmail email service and Jaxtr
…is an Electrical Engineer

19. Alfred Hitchcock
British film director and producer
…was an Electrical Engineer

20. Rowan Atkinson
portrayed Mr. Bean
…is an Electrical Engineer

21. Javagal Srinath
former Indian cricketer
…is an Instrumentation Engineer

22. Electrical Engineering
in action

23. Full-Rotation Electric Vehicle
Pivo 2, an electrical car
introduced by Nissan, can swivel
360 degrees to face in any
direction. So now there is never
any need to back the car up:
simply swivel the cab
180 degrees and drive what is
now forward.
The wheels can all turn 90
degrees. So now one can drive
sideways while facing
diagonally… if one really wants
to.

24. Largest Turbine
This is one of the world’s
largest turbine and was built
at Siemens’ Power
Generation plant in Berlin.
It measures 13 m in length,
5 m in height, and weighs
444 tonnes.
It generates an output of
340 MW and aims to achieve
an efficiency of around 60%.

25. Laser Tag painting
The 90-meter-high piece of
graffiti scrawled on the back of
this office building in
Rotterdam, Netherlands, was
the product not of hundreds of
aerosol cans but of Laser Tag, an
open-source painting program.
As an ordinary green laser
pointer’s beam was drawn
across the building, a sensitive
low-noise camera captured its
movements and relayed them
to a laptop running the
software. Then a movie
projector ”painted” the
squiggles onto the multi-storey
canvas in real time.

26. Earth racer
Earthrace is a 78-foot (24 m),
wave-piercing trimaran, originally
created as part of a project to
break the world record for
circumnavigating the globe in a
powerboat.
Its time of 61 days broke several
records, however failed to
supercede the fastest record by
Groupama 3 of 49 days.
The vessel uses biodiesel fuel as
power supply. It also uses other
eco-friendly materials, such as
vegetable oil lubricants, hemp
composites.

27. 3D Skull Modeling
Designers use databases of North
American and European body
measurements to create their
products but lack data to adapt the
designs to Asians.
Roger Ball, an industrial designer
at Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, has digitally
scanned the heads of 2000 people
from six regions of China and
created computer models of
average Chinese heads
He intends to sell the models to
companies that make helmets,
eyeglasses, and face
masks for Asians

28. Smallest Instrumentation Amplifier
The AD8235 is the smallest and lowest
power instrumentation amplifier in the
industry.
It measures 1.6 mm x 2.0 mm—one-
third the size of competing
instrumentation amplifiers.
The AD8235 draws a maximum
quiescent current of 40 μA. In addition, it
draws a maximum 500 nA of current
during shutdown mode, making it an
excellent instrumentation amplifier for
battery powered, portable applications.
It can operate on supply voltages as low
as 1.8 V.

29. Electrical Engineering
Department of IIT
Kharagpur

30. The Department of Electrical Engineering,
one of the first three engineering departments in IIT
Kharagpur, started in 1951.

31. In the research field, so far number of degrees awarded
are 140 in PhD and 44 in MS (by research)
EE produced the first MS scholar of the Institute in 1992.

32. In 1955
M. Tech. in Electrical
Machines
was started

33. in 1963 the M. Tech.
in ‘Power Systems’ was
started by
Dr S. P. Roychoudhury.

34. In 1959 M. Tech. in
Control System
Engineering
was introduced.

35. First B Tech pass out batch was in 1964 with 50 students

36. Dr. P. K. Rajagopalan
becoming
the first
Doctorate
of
the
department
in
1960

37. Present Head of the department of Electrical Engineering
Department is Prof. Jayanta Pal.

38. Number of PhD degree recipients from the Electrical
Engineering Department over the last 52 years
14
PhD
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1961
1983
2005
1959
1963
1965
1967
1969
1971
1973
1975
1977
1979
1981
1985
1987
1989
1991
1993
1995
1997
1999
2001
2003
2007
2009
2011

39. Number of MS degree recipients from the Electrical
Engineering Department over the last 18 years
6
MS
5
4
3
2
1
0
2002
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011