Awards for the Students Guided:
POSOCO Power System Award PPSA-2019 (under top ten category), received by Mr. Ram Shankar Yallamilli for his M.S. thesis on " Control and power management strategies for microgrid systems using instantaneous symmetrical component theory".
Teaching Assistant Recognition Award (TARA) for year 2018 at IIT Madras, India received by Mr Srikanth Kotra in recognition of the Quality and Quantity of the TA Work done during 2018.
T. S Vedagiri Memorial Award-2018 has been given to Mr. Manik Pradhan and Mr. Ram Shankar (joint winners), for the Best M.S. Thesis, that led to publication(s) in highly rated transaction or journal. The award consists of a merit certificate and a silver medal.
The Institute Research Award-2017 has been given to Mr. Sreekanth, Ph.D. Scholar on recognition of Quality and Quantity of the Research The award consists of a merit certificate and a cash award of Rs.20,000/- will be presented at 58th Institute Day to be held at 3.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 18th April, 2017.
Best Video Presentation Award in ICIT-2017 conference, on paper titled "A Grid Connected Single Stage High Gain Inverter System with Reactive Power Control" by Mr. Sreekanth, Ph.D. scholar under the supervision of Dr. N. Lakshmi and Dr. Mahesh Kumar, Department of Electrical Engineering, at 18th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology 2017 (ICIT-2017), Toronto, Canada held during March 22-25, 2017.
POSOCO Power System Award PPSA-2017 (under top ten category), received by Dr. Sijo Augstine, for his Ph.D. thesis on " Operation and Control of DC-DC Converters in Standalone DC Microgrid System".
POSOCO Power System Award PPSA-2017 (under top ten category), received by Mr. Korada Nikhil for his M. S. thesis on " Power Management Strategies with Power Quality Features for AC-DC Microgrid System".
POSOCO Power System Award PPSA-2016 (under top ten category), received by Dr. Narasa Reddy, a Ph.D. student for his Ph.D. thesis on "Control Strategies and Converter Topologies for Integrated Microgrid System".
POSOCO Power System Award PPSA-2016 (under top ten category), received by Dr. Chandan Kumar for his Ph.D. thesis on " Circuit Topologies and Control Algorithms for Enhanced Operation of DSTATCOM ".
Best Poster Presentation Award 2015 to MS student Mr. Nikhil Korada for the paper titled “Grid Adaptive Power Management Strategy for a Renewable Tied Grid Using Hybrid Storage”, at Students Research Meet 2015, National Conference on Recent Trends in Power Engineering, during 29th-30th Dec, 2015, at I.I.T. Madras, Chennai, India.
Best Poster Presentation Award 2015 to B. Tech. student Mr. Gopal Vennelaganti for the paper titled “A New Single Phase Adaptable Voltage Source Inverter”, at National Conference on Recent Trends in Power Engineering, during 29th-30th Dec, 2015, at Chennai, India.
Best Paper Award 2015 to Mr. Srikanth Kotra (EE13S045) for the paper titled, "Control Algorithm for a PV based Hybrid Microgrid", at IEEE 12th India International Conference, Dec. 17-20, 2015, New Delhi India.
Best Presentation Recognition 2015 to Mr. Srikanth Kotra (EE13S045) and NIkhil Korada (EE13S044), MS scholars with Prof. Mahesh Kumar, for the paper presentation titled “Control Algorithm for a PV Powered BLDC Drive for Air Conditioner Application”, at the IEEE International Conference of Industrial Electronics Society 2015 (IECON-2015) held during Nov. 9-12 at, Yokohama, Japan.
Keshav-Ranganath Excellence in Research Award-2015 in recognition for the best research work received by Mr. Narsa Reddy Tummuru (EE11D029) on his outstanding Ph.D. Thesis on "Control Strategies and Converter Topologies for Integrated Microgrid System”.
Valadi Krishna Sarma Balaji & Savithri Balaji Award 2015 in recognition for the best M. Tech project on research work received by Mr. Anvar Hussain VP (EE13M041) on "Power Quality Improvement in Distribution System Using Active Power Devices in a Custom Power Park.
Research Award at IIT Madras, India for year 2014 in recognition of quality and quantity of the research work received by Mr. Chandan Kumar (EE11D026) on his outstanding Ph.D. Thesis on "Circuit Topologies and Control Algorithms for Enhanced Operation of DSTATCOM”.
Teaching Assistant Recognition Award (TARA) for year 2014 at IIT Madras, India received by Mr. Chandan Kumar (EE11D026) in recognition of the Quality and Quantity of the TA Work done during Aug.-Nov. 2014.
Bhagyalakshmi and Krishna Ayengar Award-2014, received by Ms. J. Suma, M. S. student (EE11S061) on her outstanding M S Thesis on "Voltage Sag Characterization and Compensation in Power Distribution System".
POSOCO Power System Award PPSA-2014, received by Mr. Onkar Kulkarni, M. Tech. student (EE11M034) for his outstanding work on M. Tech. thesis on " Power Quality Improvement Using Zig-Zag Transformer and DSTATCOM in Three-Phase Power Distribution Systems" .
POSOCO Power System Award PPSA-2014, received by Mr. Lino Abraham, M. Tech. student (EE11M035) for his outstanding work on M. Tech. thesis on "Formulation of Control Algorithms for Grid Interactive Inverters in Power Quality Enhanced Microgrid System" .
Best Paper Award received Mr. Onkar Kulkarni M. Tech. student (EE11M034 on his paper on "Power Quality Improvement using Zig-Zag Transformer", in IEEE Conference INDICON 2013 organized by IIT IEEE Bombay Section and IIT Bombay, Dec. 13-15, 2013.
POSOCO Power System Award PPSA-2013, received by G. Siva Kumar, Ph.D student (EE07D007) for his outstanding work on Doctoral thesis "Mitigation of Voltage Sags with Phase-Jumps using UPQC in Distribution System".
POSOCO Power System Award PPSA-2013, received by Srinivas Bhaskar Karanki, Ph.D student (EE07D018) for his outstanding work on Doctoral thesis “Topologies and Design of State-feedback Controller for Custom Power Devices in Power Distribution System".
INAE Innovative Student Project Award-2010 received by Vincent G., Ph.D. student (EE05D021) on his innovative Ph.D research work on "High Power Voltage Source Inverter Topologies and Current Control Strategies for DSTATCOM Applications".
Bhagyalakshmi and Krishna Ayengar Award-2009, received by Vincent G., Ph.D. student (EE05D021) on his outstanding Ph.D. Thesis on "High Power Voltage Source Inverter Topologies and Current Control Strategies for DSTATCOM Applications".
Prof. Achim Bopp Hardware Project Award-2008, received by R. K. Veerabhadra Rao, M. Tech. student (EE06M040) for his project thesis on “Analysis, Design and Implementation of three-level Inverter for DSTATCOM”.
Prof. Achim Bopp Hardware Project Award-2006, received by Mr. Sudesh K. Soni, M. Tech. student (EE04M052) for his project thesis on “Design and Implementation of Dynamic Voltage Restorer”.
Prof. Achim Bopp Hardware Project Award-2005, received by Amareswar Reddy, M. Tech. student (EE03M032) for his project thesis on “Design and Implementation of Shunt Active Power Filter using TMS320F2812 processor”.