A talk on Electrical Safety by NPTI

A talk on Electrical Safety was organized by National Power Training Institute (NPTI), NE Region for the B.Tech students of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) department, School of Technology, Assam Don Bosco University on 30 March 2019 at the Azara campus of the university. Mr. Sambit Gantayat, Deputy Director of NPTI-NER, delivered the talk, which was attended by all the B.Tech 6th and 8th semesters students of the department. The primary objective of the programme was to make the students aware of electrical safety in both domestic and industrial applications. 

The talk started with the origin of electricity and various inventions related to electrical engineering. Mr. Gantayat discussed the Indian Electricity Act-2003, the different types of protections needed for transmitting electrical power through the overhead transmission lines and the different kinds of domestic wirings and earthing used for this. He mentioned about the safety measures and protections to be practised by the personnel working in an electrical engineering firm. Further, he discussed the different burn levels due to electricity and also Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), which is an is an emergency procedure that combines chest compressions often with artificial ventilation in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person who is in cardiac arrest. It is recommended to those who become unresponsive with no breathing or abnormal breathing, for example, agonal respirations. 

It is worth mentioning that the EEE department regularly organizes lectures and symposiums by Industry Experts in an attempt to bridge the industry-academia gap and make the students Industry-ready once they pass out. 

EEE department organizes ICEQC-2019: Inter College Electrical Quiz Competition

The third edition of the annual Inter College Electrical Quiz Competition (ICEQC-2019) was recently organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE), School of Technology, Assam Don Bosco University (ADBU) on 28 March 2019 at its Azara campus in Guwahati.

The main objective of the event was to popularize Electrical and Electronics Engineering among the students and to motivate them towards safe practices in this domain of engineering. Mr. Jesif Ahmed, Sr. Assistant Professor of the department was the quizmaster of the event. The prize money was sponsored by the Head of the Department Prof. Shakuntala Laskar. 

Twenty-two teams from different engineering colleges and universities across northeast India participated in the quiz, out of which six teams were selected for the final round, and were named after pioneers of electrical engineering, viz., Kirchhoff, Tesla, Faraday, Maxwell, Henry and Edison. 

Team KIRCHHOFF comprising of Kangkan Bhuyan and Gaurav Deb from Girijananda Chowdhury Institute of Management and Technology, Guwahati- the winners of last year, defended their title by winning the coveted first prize. Team EDISON comprising of Rishav Saha Choudhury and Sikder Arif Mohammad from ADBU, and team HENRY comprising of Ariston Shabong and Jerrymeo P L Nongkynrih from ADBU bagged the First runners-up and Second runners-up prizes respectively. All the winning teams were awarded with cash prizes, mementos and certificates. 

Quiz Master-Jesif Ahmed with all the winners

Champion Team of ICEQC-2019

First Runners-up team of ICEQC-2019

Second Runners-up team of ICEQC-2019

Industrial Visit of EEE department, ADBU to 400 kV Mirza Substation

As a part of the regular field visit, a group of 27 students from B.Tech. 8^th semester and 2 faculty members of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) department, School of Technology, Assam Bon Bosco university has visited the site of 400 KV Grid Sub-Station under AEGCL situated at Kukurmara, Mirza (Assam) on 28 February 2019 for educational purpose. 

Mr. Rakesh Shah from AEGCL guided the students’ visit in which they learned about various equipment and sections of the substation. Mirza substation has two incoming lines from Bongaigaon and Silchar. The substation has six transformers (to step down to a voltage of 200KV, 132KV, 33KV) and one auxiliary transformer of 80 KVA 33/0.415 kV to supply the loads in the substation. The students also visited the control room of the substation that consists of a computerized system, two surge panels (which are connected with various equipment using optical fiber cables), relay units, etc. In addition, the students were explained about the different parts of the substation, viz. lighting arresters and post insulators, CVTs with wave traps (for PLC purpose), earth switches, line reactor of 3 MVAR (used with the line incoming from Silchar to compensate for reactive power), CTs and PTs, Bus reactor, SF6 CBs etc. 

Two of the faculty members from EEE department- Mr. Sunil Deka and Mr. Papul Changmai accompanied the students. The purpose of such industrial field visit is mainly to give an idea to the students about the real world operations of electrical systems and related issues and it is expected to bridge the industry-academia gap.