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FIG 2 Students attending the workshop on analysis of modern power system issues in the power engineering simulation laboratory at KITS, Coimbatore, India. (Source: K. Vinoth Kumar and P. Venkatesh Kumar; used with permission.)

On 19 September 2018, the SBC
conducted a national workshop on
LabVIEW tools for electrical applications. It was made possible with
the help from Dr. A. Immanuel Selvakumar, the head of the Department of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering, Dr. S. Paul Sathiyan,
the event coordinator, and Dr. K.
Vinoth Kumar, the IEEE PELS SBC
counselor. The morning session was
led by Dr. Sathiyan, who is also a faculty member of the Department of
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, KITS. He presented a hands-on
session on LabVIEW software and
trained the students on developing
code using graphical programming
techniques. Several practice exercises were provided to help enhance
t he pa r t icipa nt s' prog r a m m i ng
skills. In the afternoon session, Dr.
Kumar provided a hands-on session on compact data acquisition
(c-DAQ) hardware from National
Instruments. He demonstrated the
application, which was developed
to control a three-phase induction
motor (Figure 1). Approximately 20
undergraduate students and faculty
members participated in the workshop, which concluded with a vale-

dictory session and distribution of
and students to apply research-orientcertificates to the participants. This
ed applications in SRM drives.
workshop program created greater
On 8 March 2019, Dr. V. Boopathi,
awareness among the faculty, resenior technical engineer at Power
search scholars, and students of
Systems Pvt. Ltd. in Chennai, Inhow to apply LabVIEW tools for endia, conducted a one-day national
gineering applications.
workshop on the analysis of modern
On 23 February 2019, the KITS SBC
power system issues, which was held
organized a workshop on SRM drives.
at KITS' Power Engineering SimuProf. Jin-Woo Ahn of
lation Laborator y.
the Department of
The workshop was
This program created
Electrical and Mechaorga nized by the
tronics Engineering,
IEEE PELS SBC
greater awareness
Kyungsung Univerof the Department
among the faculty,
sity, Busan, South
of Electr ica l a nd
research scholars, and
Korea, was invited to
Elect ron ic s Engistudents
to
apply
neering, KITS. The
conduct this workresearch-oriented
aim of this workshop. Approximately
applications in
shop was to develop
150 students and facthe skills required
ulty members particiSRM drives.
t o m a n a ge power
pated. This workshop
systems and impart
also concluded with
knowledge on solving the issues faca valedictory session and the distriing power systems. In addition to
bution of certificates to participants.
covering several theoretical topics,
Prof. Ahn explained the starting
such as power system stability, fault
performance of SRM, which is very
analysis, and transient analysis, the
important to variable-speed drives,
workshop also addressed these isand discussed two starting methods
sues hands on using electromagnetic
and four terms used to describe the
transients program software simustarting performances of SRMs. This
lation. Approximately 32 students
program created greater awareness
attended this workshop (Figure 2).
among the faculty, research scholars,

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