IEEE Student Branch
Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering (A)
Madhurawada, Visakhapatnam
27th March 2015
Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering, Madhurawada in association with IEEE is
conducting a Series of technical talks on (a) “Co-generation concepts as applicable to an wood
industry” by Dr. David B. Durocher (b) “Electric Car Technology in Reality” by Dr Peter Magyar
and (c) “An Integrated State of the art Electric Machines & Drives Laboratory” by Prof. Sastry V
Vedula on 13th April 2015 in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering seminar hall at
Madhurawada.
Interested academicians, researchers and participants willing to register are requested to contact
to Prof Sastry at sastryvv@gvpce.ac.in or 8885043373.
(Prof. K. Narasinha Rao)
Counselor
IEEE Student Branch
GVP College of Engineering
8885043415
(S. Sudarsan)
Chairman
IEEE Student Branch
GVP College of Engineering
David B. Durocher is Global Mining, Metals & Minerals Industry Manager for Eaton’s Electrical Business. He has
over 35 years of experience with Westinghouse and Eaton serving in a variety of product engineering, sales and
global marketing roles, authoring numerous technical papers that have been presented at conferences around the
world and published in IEEE Industry Applications, Plant Engineering and EC&M Magazine. Dave is a Senior
Member IEEE and presently serves as a member of the IEEE IAS Mining Industry Committee, Cement Industry
Committee, Pulp & Paper Industry Committee and as President of the IEEE Industry Applications Society.
Dr. Peter Magyar is a Fellow IEEE. He received Dipl. eng. and the Dr. Tech. degrees from the Budapest University
of Technology, Hungary During 1967 to 1991, He was with the Department of Automation of the same university as
an Assistant professor and a Research Associate. From 1982, he was Head of the Laboratory for Microprocessor
Controlled Drives in the same department. Dr. Magyar has been author and co-author for several technical papers
and books and filed more than 30 patents. His research interest focused on control and mathematical modelling of
electrical drives and power converters. . His areas of interest have been control of electrical drives, car steering
control and automatic car parking / manoeuvre systems. He was a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt
Fellowship, Germany. He was Head of development for power electronics and drives at Hanning-Works, as well as
D-Tech Ltd., Germany. He had retired in 2009 from Hella KGaA Hueck&Co., Germany, where he was with the
Advanced Development Department between 2004 and 2009. He is a consultant in the fields of electric cars and
electrical drives., His recent activities at IAS relate to Chapter and Membership development Activity, for ~12,000
members, 140 sections and 95 student branches
Prof Sastry V. Vedula received his M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. from IIT Khagapur, India and a Post Doctoral( Von
Humboldt) Fellow at Braunschweig, Germany. He worked at IIT Madras from 1968 to 1998, Iowa State University
1998-2002, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1992-93, F R Germany 1992 Technical University, Munich,
United Technologies Research Center, Hartford 2002-05, Hamilton Sundstrand 2005-2012. He also worked with
National University of Singapore from 1982 to 1984. He guided 10 Ph.D. Students; 15 M.S. (Research based) & 34
M.S.E.E (Course based) students, published 32 Internationally Repute Journal Publications, 42 International/ National
Conference Publications , 35 Patents (of which 6 are taken in India),6 Sponsored projects to a tune of Rs. 6 Million, 6
Sponsored research projects to the tune of $400,000. He is a Life Senior Member of IEEE, New York, Fellow of
Indian National Academy of Engineering, and Recipient of IETE Bimal Bose Award for Power Electronics
Contributions, New Delhi. 1987 VASVIK Award for Contributions to Electrical Sciences, Bombay and a recipient of
NRDC Invention Award, New Delhi in 1978, 1973 and 1970.