. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCEMENTS IN POWER ELECTRONICS AND POWER SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS (ICAPEPSA-2016) 21st & 22nd February, 2016 ABOUT VITS Vignan Institute of Technology and Science (VITS), an ISO 9001 : 2000 certified institution and established in the year 1999, is a fast growing technical Institution in Andhra Pradesh under the auspices of the well known VIGNAN Group of Educational Institutions. The Vignan Group is synonymous with quality engineering education having its institutions across the length and breadth of Andhra Pradesh. VITS is situated near the world renowned Ramoji Film City, in idyllic spot amidst a vast area of 350 acres with Sylvain surroundings. It now has full fledged laboratories for all six departments of Civil, CSE, EEE, ECE, EIE and Mech. Engg. The college apart from 6 undergraduate courses has also offering Post Graduate Programs like Design and Manufacturing (ME), VLSI (ECE) and PEED, EPS (EEE) under the JNTU. - Several projects in the department worth nearly Rs.20 Lakhs have been funded by various reputed institutions like AICTE etc., and have been in the limelight for solving various social issues. - The department is gifted with faculty members who did their post graduation from esteemed National & International institutions. They actively involved themselves in Research activities and their experience carves students to mould their technical knowledge in various fields. - The Placement record of the department is excelling every year which includes both core and software related jobs. - The department posses an excellent and progressive academic record. - The Department Library serves as a gateway to promote R&D activities by providing the recent journals and Magazines. EEE DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTS: Flexibility is the word that best summarizes Electrical Engineering. Electrical engineers apply the basic sciences to control and transform energy and transfer information in ways that are vital to the operation of modern society. The Department of EEE at VITS seeks to shape its under graduates into critical, original and independent thinkers sufficiently equipped with the necessary tools to venture out into the practical world with professional competency, who can add to the body of scientific knowledge. The department has highly qualified and highly dedicated senior faculty with good support from technical staff. The seniors faculty members are actively engaged in various research areas like Control Systems, Power Electronics, Industrial drives and Power Systems etc. Also the department has an excellent track record besides co-curricular and extracurricular activities in which our students have excelled in various IITs across the country. Department activities / achievements: - EEE Department secured a Gold Medal among all JNTUH affiliated colleges in 2012-2013. - EEE Students designed “Automatic Intelligent Pollution Control from Vehicles and alerting the authorities using GSM. - EEE students were trained in software courses which help them to perform well in campus selections. - EEE students bag prizes in many technical events and extracurricular activities held in various Institutions. About the Conference: Globalization today pervades almost every facet of human life, thanks to the emergence of new digital technologies. ICEAPEA-2016 is a comprehensive conference covering all the technologies of Power Electronics and Power Systems applications. The aim of Target Audience/participants with expected number:Academic experts, Practicing engineers, Researchers from government research organizations/ corporate research centers, PhD scholars, M.Tech/MS students of Electrical Engineering, from all over the world. the ICEAPEA-2016 is to gather scholars from all over India and abroad to present advances in the aforementioned fields and to foster an environment conducive to exchanging ideas and information. This CONFERENCE FEE : Registration Fee: conference will also provide a golden opportunity to develop new collaborations and meet experts on the Indian Delegates/Students : Rs.2,000 / $50 fundamentals and on its applications in emerging areas. Foreign Delegates/Students : Rs.6,000 / $100 as ICEAPEA-2016 can have significant impacts by *Author registration deadline : 17-02-2016 bringing together experts from the different and often At least one unique author for each accepted paper is required to register by 17-02-2016 in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings. We believe inclusive and wide-ranging conferences such separated fields of Electrical and Electronics creating unique opportunities for collaborations and shaping new ideas for experts and researchers. The major advancing trends happening in the area of Electrical Engineering covering all its major areas like Power Electronics and Power System applications in Renewable Energy sources, Reliability Engineering, and Energy Management Systems. The potential areas are not just limited to these and they are just a broad outline of the range of the areas that are targeted to be covered in the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline Various Events in the Conference Oral Presentation Poster Presentation Panel Discussion Invited Talks Product Exhibition : 01-01-2016 Notification of paper acceptance date : 01-02-2016 Final Submission deadline : 13-02-2016 Author registration : 17-02-2016 Conference dates : 21-02-2016 & Technical topics of the Conference include but are not limited to Advanced power semiconductor devices Modelling, simulation, analysis, design and implementation of the application of power circuit components. Control and implementation of low and medium power converters. Submission guidelines: DSP based applications. Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the conference. It is Control algorithms and intelligent techniques applied to power electronics Electromagnetic and thermal performance of electronic power converters and inverters Applications in motor drives, wind energy systems, solar, battery chargers, UPS and hybrid systems Application of power electronics in power systems such as FACTS, HVDC etc. Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Power Systems. 22-02-2016 required that the manuscript follows the standard IEEE camera-ready format (IEEE standard format, double column, 10-point font in A4 size paper) not exceeding six pages. Submissions shall include title, abstract, keywords, author and affiliation with email address. control of SMPS and Chief Patron : Dr. Lavu Rathaiah, Dr. Magda Janse van Vuuren, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of EEE, Tshwane University of Technology, Zambia. Chairman, Vignan Group. Dr. D.K.Mohanta, Ph.D. Patrons : Sri. B. Shravan, Professor, Dept. of EEE, CEO,Vignan Group of Engg., Colleges, Hyderabad. Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi. Dr. Sukumar Mishra, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of EEE, IIT Delhi Dr. M. Venkata Ramana, Principal, VITS, Deshmukhi Dr. M.K. Pathak, Ph.D., Co-Patrons : Prof. G.V. Rao, Professor, Dept. of EEE, IIT Roorkee Mech Dept, VITS, Deshmukhi International Technical Advisory Committee : Prof. Ing. Jiri Pinker, CSc. Professor Department of Applied Electronics and Telecommunications, University of West Bohemia, Czez Republic. Dr. Eng. Ntagwirumugara Etienne, Ph.D. Head of the Dept. of EEE, Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Rwanda. Dr. M. Veerachary, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor, Dept. of EEE, IIT Delhi Dr. Dharmasa Pawar, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of EEE, Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman. Dr. M. Ram Murthy, Ph.D., Advisor, ERDA Mumbai Dr. Sailesh Modi, Ph.D., Deputy Manager, ERDA Mumbai Dr. Nicu Bizon, Ph.D. Ministry of Education and Research, Romania Dr. Sanjeet Dwivedi, Ph.D.(IIT Delhi), SMIEEE R&D Control Engineer, Global Design Center Denmark. Dr. B. Murali Mohan, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of EEE, IIT Khargapur Dr. G. S. Raju, Ph.D., Former Director, IIT B.H.U., Varanasi Dr. Ramakrishna Gokaraju, B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Dr. V.T. Soma Sekhar, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of EEE, NIT, Warangal Dr. G. Keshava Rao, Ph.D., Retd. Professor, IIT B.H.U., Varanasi ORGANIZING COMMITEE Convener & Chief Coordinator Dr. T. Rama Subba Reddy, Head of Department, EEE, VITS, Deshmukhi Coordinators Dr. G. Durga Sukumar, Prof., durgasukumar@gmail.com Mr. D. Mohan Rao, Asst. Prof., Cell: +91-9701794740 mohan.rao254@gmail.com For further details contact us at : iceapea2016@gmail.com For further details visit us at: www.vignanits.ac.in