Professional Services

9.1 Member and Reviewer, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Technical Committee (TC) on SmartGrids

Objectives

The Industrial Electronics Society (IES) encompasses a wide range of R&D areas that are fundamentally elated to Smart Grids, from Power and Energy to Communication and Information Technologies, and is well positioned to tackle large scale R&D issues in Smart Grids of cross-disciplinary nature that require an integrated multidiscilinary approach. Therefore, the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Smart Grid brings together expertise of IES members to address challenges from a system viewpoint for the advancement of Smart Grids Technology.

9.2 Corresponding Member & Active Participant, IEEE Power & Energy Society - Substations Committee, SCC0-Data Acquisition, Processing and Control Systems, WGc3-c37.1-Standard for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Automation Systems, USA

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Objectives

Treatment of all matters relating to data acquired within substations and its processing for monitoring, analysis, and local and/or remote control of substation apparatus and devices connected to the substation. Systems within the purview of this subcommittee include: interfaces to substation apparatus, use of transducers, and all types of communication media. These systems also use high-security communication protocols, computers with associated peripherals, video display units, printing and logging devices, software and/or firmware in order to perform their allocated functions. Also, responsible for the quality of data originating in the substation that is subsequently used for monitoring, analysis, and control of the power system. Sponsor and promote the use of new technologies (e.g., fiber optics, etc.) and new standards for integrating the functions of monitoring, analysis, control, protection, maintenance and operation of substation and feeder apparatus. Since responsibilities for standards applicable to stand-alone equipment (e.g., protective relays, automatic tap changers, etc.) reside with the respective equipment committee, close coordination shall be accomplished on all standards activities as defined in the applicable Project Authorization Request. Consideration of phenomena typical of substation environments that can adversely affect digital computer-based data acquisition, processing, and control systems; and prepare guidelines or standards as appropriate.

WGc3-c37.1 is responsible for standard C37.1 thatprovides the basis for the definition, specification, performance analysis, and application of SCADA and automation systems in electric substations, including those associated with generating stations and power utilization and conversion facilities

9.3 Information Member, The Standards Development Committee for "ISA100, Wireless Systems for Automation", ISA, USA

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Objectives

The ISA100 Committee will establish standards, recommended practices, technical reports, and related information that will define technologies and procedures for implementing wireless systems in the automation and control environment with a focus on the field level (Level 0). Guidance is directed towards those responsible for the complete life cycle including the designing, implementing, on-going maintenance, scalability or managing manufacturing and control systems, and shall apply to users, system integrators, practitioners, and control systems manufacturers and vendors.

The Committee’s focus is to improve the confidence, integrity, and availability of components or systems used for manufacturing or control, and provide criteria for procuring and implementing wireless technology in the control system environment. Compliance with the Committee’s guidance will improve manufacturing and control system deployment, and will help identify vulnerabilities and address them, thereby reducing the risk of compromising or causing manufacturing control systems degradation or failure.

9.4 Information Member, The Standards Development Committee for "ISA111, Unified Automation for Buildings", Building Automation Systems Division, ISA, USA

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Objectives

The focus of the BASTIG is based on how capitalize on ISA’s 66 years of automation knowledge and apply that to the building automation vertical. ISA openly acknowledges others have made significant contributions to the vertical application of automation within buildings, and that building automation does have different requirements. But that is the case with many different verticals; packaging automation is not the same as oil & gas automation. Yet our methodology allows us to pull the best from the many different verticals represented in order to assist all of them. It allows us to build a common base to improve productivity, training, certifications, and to advance the profession.

9.5 Member, International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Hongkong

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Objectives

The International Association of Engineers (IAENG) is a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists. IAENG was found by a group of engineers and computer scientists in 1968, originally as a private club network for its founding members. Later, with the efforts from its members, IAENG membership became open to all the members in the engineering and computer science community. Nowadays, the IAENG members include research center heads, faculty deans, department heads, professors, research scientists/engineers, experienced software development directors and engineers, and university postgraduate and undergraduate students etc., from over one hundred different countries.

IAENG's goals are to promote the co-operation between the professionals in various fields of the engineering and to cultivate an environment for the advance and development of the technology. IAENG's objective includes:

Promoting the interactions between the engineers;

Advancing the application of engineering techniques from the academics to the industry;

Facilitating the exchange of information and ideas among the engineers and scientists freely.

9.6 Member, Automatic Control & Dynamic Optimization Society (ACDOS), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India

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Objectives

The Automatic Control & Dynamic Optimization Society (ACDOS) was established in the year 2011 with a noble objective to promote automatic control and dynamic optimization discipline in academia and industry across India. The society aims to host international conferences and technical workshops regularly in order to promote close interaction between industry and academia. The society also participate in curriculum development for graduate and under-graduate studies in addition to facilitating productive research in this field. The society volunteers to honour eminent persons who excelled in this field in industry and academia circles. The society has Dr. M.S. Bhat (Former Chairman, Dept. of Aerospace Engg., IISc, Bangalore) and Dr. R. Padhi (Associate Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engg., IISc, Bangalore) as its Founder President and Vice President respectively.

Selected objectives of ACDOS includes:

To nurture and promote automatic control and dynamic optimization in academia and industry across India;

To host International Conference ACDOS bi-annually and workshops at regular intervals;

To serve for Curriculum Development for UG and PG courses and for Industry-Academia interaction;

To facilitate proactive means for research and to establish technical libraries, e-libraries, and similar other knowledge centers;

Collaboration at International level; Publication of books, journals, magazies; Support for faculty members and honoring eminent personalities;

9.7 Life Member, Indian Society for Technical Education, New Delhi, India

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