NIST e-NEWS(Vol 62, Apr 15, 2009)

Papers Published• Dr. Sidhartha Panda, Faculty, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and R.N. Patel publisheda paper, “Optimal Location of Shunt FACTS Devices in Long Transmission Lines to ImproveTransient Stability”, in the International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, Vol. 46,Issue 2, pp. 150-163, 2009.• Dr. Sidhartha Panda, Faculty, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, J. S. Yadav, N. P. Patidarand C. Ardil published a paper, “Evolutionary Techniques for Model Order Reduction of LargeScale Linear Systems” in the International Journal of Applied Science, Engineering and Technology,Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 22-28, 2009.• Dr. Gayadhar Panda, Dr. Sidhartha Panda, Faculty, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineeringand C. Ardil published a paper, “Hybrid Neuro Fuzzy Approach for Automatic Generation Controlof Two–Area Interconnected Power System” in the International Journal of ComputationalIntelligence, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 80-84, 2009.• Mr. Trupti Ranjan Lenka, Faculty and Dr. Ajit Kumar Panda, Dean, Dept. of Electronics andCommunication Engineering published a paper, “Characteristics Study of GaAs Based PseudomorphicHEMT” in the GITAM Journal of Information Communication Technology, Vol. 2, No. 1, ISSN0974-4622, January-July 2009.• Mr. M. Suresh, Course Coordinator, M. Tech Program, Dr. Ajit Kumar Panda, Dean, Mr. MukeshSukla, Faculty, Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, along with Ms. Jayasri Acharya,and Ms. Lusita Sahu, B. Tech., Final year students, ECE branch, published a paper, “Power Analysisand Simulation of Low Power Gated-Clock Design of LFSR using 250nm Technology”, in theInternational Journal of Computational Intelligence Research and Applications, Vol. 3, No. 1,January – June 2009, pp. 157-161.Papers accepted for publication in International Journals:• Dr. Sidhartha Panda, Faculty, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, got his paper, “Multi-Objective Non-Dominated Shorting Genetic Algorithm-II for Excitation and TCSC-BasedController Design”, accepted for publication in Journal of Electrical Engineering.Invited Talks:• Dr. Sidhartha Panda, Faculty, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, delivered two talks on“Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) Controllers for Power System StabilityImprovement”, and “Modelling and Simulation of Power System with FACTS Controller forStability Studies”, in a 2-day Workshop on ‘Power System Dynamic Stability and Control - PSDSC-09’ held at Andhra University on 13 th and 14 th March 2009.• Dr. E. Raja Rao, Faculty, Dept. of English, delivered a talk on “Human Rights in Canada and theTwentieth Century Canadian Fiction: A Study from the Perspective of the ConstitutionalCommunitarianism” as a key-note address in the National Seminar on ‘Human Rights andMulticulturalism in Canada and India’, held at Berhampur University on the 17 th and 18 th March2009, under the joint collaboration of the CCSBU (Centre for Canadian Studies, Berhampur University)and the SICI (Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute), New Delhi.National Institute of Science & Technology, Berhampur, 761008 8 of 18