Department of Electrical Engineering

The Department of Electrical Engineering of NIT, Silchar is one of the finest and well-equipped Electrical departments of the north-east region. It boasts of having highly qualified faculties with an unparallel level of expertise in their field. Under the able Headship of Dr. Tanmoy Malakar and a strong faculty team, the Department offers an 8 Semester B.Tech. Programme in Electrical Engineering, four Semester M.Tech. Programmes in two different specializations, (i) Power Energy Systems Engineering, and (ii) Control and Industrial Automation, and also well-integrated Ph.D. programme in the frontier areas of Electrical Engineering. The department offers core courses in Power Systems, Control Systems, Electrical Machines, Power Electronics, Industrial Drives, Instrumentation, Switchgear and Industrial Protection, Microprocessors and Microcontrollers, Machine Learning, Embedded Systems, Signal and Image Processing etc. Apart from these, the final year students can choose from a wide array of electives in the form of Computer Aided Power Systems, Flexible AC Transmission, Optimization Techniques, Adaptive Signal Processing, Electric Vehicle etc. In coordination with the highly stimulating lectures and quality enhancing tutorials in these courses, various practical courses are also held in the state-of-the-art Lab facilities of the department like Electric Machines Lab, Measurement Lab, Circuit Theory Lab, Microprocessor Lab, Control System Lab, Power System Lab, Power Electronics and Electric Drives Lab, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control Lab, Energy Lab, Applied Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Lab, Power Electronics System Research Lab, Real-Time Simulation Lab, to name a few.