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Seminar on power quality issues

Staff Reporter

KOZHIKODE: The student branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, USA) and National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C) will jointly organise an all-India seminar and student paper contest titled `INSIGHT 2005' at NIT-C campus on October 22.

G. Rama Chandra Reddy, director of NIT-C, will formally inaugurate the seminar at Chanakya Hall on the NIT-C campus at 9.30 a.m.

There will be two sessions, one on `Power quality issues' in the morning and another on `Recent trends in digital communication' in the afternoon. N.T. Nair, vice-president, CMS Computers, Thiruvananthapuram, and V. Sundar, general manager, Telecom, Calicut, will deliver the key-note addresses in the two sessions.

Lillykutty Jacob will give a lecture on `Internet protocol', while V. Babu will talk on `Wireless LAN'.

A large number of papers by students from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur; Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy (SHASTRA) and Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), both from Tamil Nadu; PES College, Aurangabad; Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal, and NIT-C have been received.

Out of this, 14 papers, including two from IIT, Kharagpur, will be presented, K.P. Mohandas, counsellor IEEE and Dean Academic, NIT-C, said at a press conference here on Thursday.

The seminar and the papers presented will focus on why the quality of electric power supplied is far from satisfactory even though there is a widespread use of inverters, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), Switched Mode Power Supplies (SMPS) in computers and Thyrustor converters in electrical industry. One of the papers discusses the harmful effects of mobile phones on health.

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