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And God said, Let there be light:

And there was light.

- Genesis 1:3

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POWER
2009 2010
Annual Magazine of Electrical Engineering Society Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Patron: Advisor: Advisor: Dr. A. K. Sinha Dr. N. K. Kishore Dr. Karabi Biswas

Executive Committee Members of Society

President: Vice President: Student Advisor: Editor: G.Sec (Soc-Cult): G.Sec(Tech): Treasurer: Associate-Editor: Rohit Jangid Souvik Das Kshitij Khurana Bhaskar Sharma Ekansh Agrawal Avneet Singh Megha Bajaj Shishir Modi

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And we have for you...
1. From the HODs Desk 2. A Message 3. From the Desk of The President 4. G.Sec Speaks 5. From the General Secretarys Desk 6. Editor Speak! 7. Experience At IIT Kharagpur 8. Love (And Networks) 9. Aloo Chaat 10. The One with a Thought 11. I Am Your Father Afterall 12. The Tempo-Guy? Really??? 13. A Re-Volt 14. The Odd Article 15. EE-Society at a Glance 16. Green Energy For Future Data Communications: An Overview 17. Viva La Vida 18. Telling a Story 19. Instrument(ation)Al Rhymes 20. And Thus Spake Gupta Ji 21. My Statement Of Purpose 22. And Your Bird Can Sing 23. It Has Never Been The Choice 24. What EE Did For Me? 25. MY EXPERIENCES AT KGP 26. Kgp In Retrospect 27. What We Learnt? 28. Honor Roll Dr. A.K. Sinha Dr. K. Biswas Rohit Jangid Ekansh Agarwal Avneet Singh Bhaskar Sharma C Sivakumar Kashyap Pulkit Anand Shruti Khatri Sneha Roy Akriti Swaroop Rahul Mehta Durga Prasad Kshitij Khurana Editorial Team Nallan C .S. Kumar Dr. N.K. Kishore Bhaskar Sharma Sanjiban Chowdhry Monika & Akriti Rahul Gupta Avneet Singh Anil Karaka Swapnil Sharma Aditya Garg Nikunj Bajaj Sananda Mishra Siddharth Dadhich

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From the HODs Desk
The EE society provides a forum where students can show their talent in co and extra-curricular activities. The goal of the EE society is to foster interaction among students and faculty and help shaping young minds into a well groomed personality for their all-round development. It is very sad to see that the enthusiasm in interactions and activities of the society is gradually declining. Although, reasons are attributed to very busy schedule for both students and faculty I feel it is something deeper. Time that was previously spent interacting socially is increasingly been displaced by the virtual variety. Students now spend more time alone in front of computer screens than doing anything else. Recently an article Well Connected?: The Biological Implications of Social Networking in Biologist (Volume 56 Number 1, February 2009) has reported a dramatic decline since 1987 in hours per day of face-to-face social interaction as the use of electronic media has dramatically increased. I was astonished with their findings that global alterations in human gene transcription, immune system cytokines and Natural Killer (NK) cells, narrowing of major arteries, incidence of stroke, early death, high blood pressure, dementia, Alzheimers, and even the common cold, can all be linked to changes in our social patterns. This clearly is a warning signal and all of us (faculty and students) must make sincere effort to ensure that we talk and interact with each other at least a couple of hours every day. It will not only create healthier atmosphere in the institute but will be good for our health also. I think EE society should take a pro-active role and help encourage social interactions among students and faculty by organizing games, talks on interesting topics, picnics etc. I would like to congratulate the faculty and students involved with the society for the commendable job they have done this year and would expect that they would do even better next year. As the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering it gives me immense pleasure to see that POWER magazine, a culmination of EE Societys year long effort is finally going to be in your hands. My best wishes to all the outgoing students. I am sure they will make us proud wherever they go. I will also like to tell them that this is your home and you are always welcome here.

Dr. A. K. Sinha Head of the Department Department of Electrical Engineering 8

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A person starts to live when he can live outside himself

Albert Einstein

Its indeed a happy occasion that the EE society magazine is going to be published this year again. At the beginning of the year we aimed at two goals. One was to enhance activities of the EE society and the second was to shorten the gap between the different sections of the students in the department. May be every thing could not be achieved up to the satisfaction level, but the progress is noteworthy and all credit goes to the EE society students team. I must say that the co-ordination among the team members was remarkable and hope that it will be continued in the future. Wishing every one best of luck
Dr. Karabi Biswas Advisor Electrical Engineering Society

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From the Desk of the President
I have been contemplating about writing this article as it would be the final brick in my tenure as the president of EE society. All accolades to Bhaskar, for pursuing such a gigantic task of bringing out the magazine after a gap of one year and Shihir Modi who brought us the sponsors; without their support Power 10 would only be a dream. As the President of the society I have tried to build bridges between its members to the best of my abilities. At times I might have fallen back, I do apologize for that. I thank all of my team members: Khurana, Bhaskar, Souvik Da, Ekansh , Avneet, Shishir and Megha for believing in me and sharing my dreams. Above all, I would like to thank Prof. N.K Kishore, Prof. Karabi Biswas and all the professors of our department for showing faith in us and guiding us. I take immense pleasure in walking you all through the societys activities throughout the year. The societys calendar started with our customary freshers welcome attended by all the first years and professors. It gave the freshers a stage to learn about the giant EE kinship of which they have become a part. Next in the line was An interactive session on Stress Management by Dr. T.K. Maiti, an initiative taken by Prof NK Kishore, which was appreciated by the students community for its learning experience. This was followed by the farewell to Professor TK Basu on behalf of the students, where Prof.Basu and students shared their interesting experiences on a common forum. Spring semester started with first of its kind Industrial trip to Kolaghat power plant accompanied by Prof Anirban Mukherjee. The trip gave students a chance to learn more about the working of a power plant, where they got a chance to see the application of the fundamentals that they have learned in theory. The Society feels proud to have helped the batch of 2010 establish Rohit Kumar Memorial Scholarship in the name of our beloved friend Rohit Kumar whom we lost last year. This scholarship will help students to cherish Rohit in the best of spirits, while appreciating budding young talents. On a personal note I would like to see this scholarship grow in the coming years and touch many more lives. We thank everyone who has bought the departmental T-shirt and supported the noble cause from the depths of our hearts. The Year ended with a hearty farewell with well wishes and blessing form professors, a splendid performance by instrumentation passing outs, a sumptuous dinner and a brain storming session for deciding the winners of Electrical Departmental Popular awards. My humble gratitude to the respected professors; like all passing outs its time for me to say, adieu. I wish all the very best to passing outs as well as to my juniors for success in their personal and professional lives. God Bless you all.
Rohit Jangid President Electrical Engineering Society

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G.Sec Speaks
Its been close to eight months since Vishal (last years G.Sec) passed me the baton and I took over the responsibility as the General Secretary (Soc. & Cult.) of the Electrical Engineering Society. Since then, it has been a great experience working under Prof. Kishore and Prof. Biswas, to breathe some life into the Society and the Department. The events that the society conducted this session mainly include the Dept. Trip to Kolaghat Power Plant for the 3rd year UG and M.Tech students, Dept. T-shirt (I hope that by now all of you have received your tshirts, phew!!! ), Dept. Footer Match (thank you Prof. Kishore and Prof. Bajpai), Group Photograph of the passing-out students along with the professors, and last but not the least the Farewell for the Batch of 2010, jam packed with excitement and fun, and a sumptuous dinner at the Vikramshila foyer to culminate it (sumptuous???? Well, thats you wholl decide). A very important thing which happened this year, was setting up of the Rohit Kumar Scholarship (a brainchild of Kshitij Khurana and Rohit Jangid) amounting to Rs. 12000/given to a 2nd year undergraduate student. In this regard, I would like to thank all those who bought the Dept. T-shirt, as the profit which we earned from that has been utilized to fund this scholarship. Thanks for your contribution and overwhelming support. I am obliged and grateful to work under Rohit (President EE society), Kshitij and Bhaskar and sincerely hope that the society grows and touches new heights in the years to come. Lastly, I am deeply thankful to my fellow office bearers of the society Avneet, Megha and Shishir for the wonderful work, and to 2nd year members (especially Garvit) for the immense help and support.
Ekansh Agrawal General Secretary Social and Cultural Electrical Engineering Society

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From the General Secretarys Desk
I look back at the year gone by as my tenure comes to an end, I cherish the role that the society has played to breathe life in the electrical department which in recent years has focused more on excelling academically. Printing of the department magazine coincides with the time when our seniors take their first plunge into the world full of responsibilities. They have achieved extraordinary feats in academic and extra academic pursuits so far and I wish them similar success in the future. The past year has been very eventful including trip to the Kolaghat power plant and the football match that was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone in the Undergraduate, Post graduate and Faculty groups. We have also successfully started a scholarship program in Rohits remembrance to ensure that Rohit continues to inspire us and our juniors. All these events and activities would never have been possible without the guidance and support of the faculty members, especially Prof. Kishore, Prof. Karabi and Prof Sinha (Head) who were very supportive and motivating. I thank them for their precious time and support. I feel that the society has a great scope to accommodate more and more events of rich diversity. I would love to see more social functions and a couple of competitions being organized by the society while of course keeping in mind the busy academic schedule of the department. Not consuming more ink, I will end by saying this it was an honor to be working for the departments society. My association with the society has left me with many good friends and many wonderful memories. I wish success to the society for the years to come. I thank everyone and bid farewell to the final year batch on behalf of the EE society. May you get the best in life!

Avneet Singh General Secretary Technology Electrical Engineering Society

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Editor Speak!
I know, I know its Editor Speaks. But I am the Editor. And the Editor Speak! I was always amazed by how Albert Einstein explained his theory of relativity. He said that it was all in the reference frame; you sit next to a beautiful girl, and time seems to fly away; sit next to a coal oven, and it just doesnt seem to pass at all. This magazine is a testimony to all those instances when the very same coal oven magically turned into the most fabulous of beauties and distorted the perception of space and time one has when he or she comes into this institution, a nave (well mostly) young aspirer. For once, I do not have much to say. But I do have to say what this magazine is not: This is not a platform where great scientific minds pour out their intrinsic knowledge of the workings of nature and the mysteries of space, time and matter. That can be found in the volumes of text available in the Libraries of the world. What this is is a collection of a few thoughts and memories some of the people in the department could spare. And to them I am grateful; grateful for the fact that they shared their memories and thoughts with the rest of us, and helped make this magazine possible. Some of you might be intrigued by the article Dr. Kishore has provided. Well, everything apart, it gives a sense of urgency to the need for green thinking. That apart, I would personally like to thank Mr. Nallan, the co-author for helping me, and quite a few others, in the High Voltage Lab. That was one spectacle I shall remember for quite a long time. Last but, well, far from the least, I would like to thank every single individual responsible for the publication of this magazine. Dr. Kishore, Dr. Biswas, Dr. Sinha, Rohit, Souvik, Kshitij, DebC, Ekansh, Avneet, Megha and Shishir, especially Shishr, THANK YOU ALL for your support and undying faith. Thank you EE Society, Thank you EE Department Thus spake the Editor
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Experience at IIT Kharagpur

There was a time . . . there was a time when all the flowers of the world bloomed together, the sound of sweet bassoons echoed pointing towards a profound change. Then . . . Then we came to IIT Kharagpur. Though unusual, is it not true that a new place speaks volumes about the older one you lived in? Home sickness! You miss your family. You find yourself in the company of totally new people, all of whom are staying in the hostels for the first time. And add to that the weather and the food, and you land up with nothing but nostalgia. But with the friends you make over here, its not a herculean task to come out of that very nostalgic feeling. Two parts of the three syllable KGP life are the classes and the hostel. Classes- I am not worthy of passing a comment upon them, but they are, as it appears to me, just fine. The classrooms, theyre really superb. I can still recall the time when I couldnt bend down my head as I just gazed at the awe of the Main building and the auditoriums of Vikramshila; then our old classrooms back home seeming like crooked cubicles. Cleared JEE, so came in with a bloated head- but the exams were really tough nuts to crack. I didnt really crack them; on the contrary, they cracked me. This was until mid-sem. Went back home to holiday induced alternations between eating and sleeping. Naturally, I put on some weight. Then arrived Illumination and with it working all night to hit the gold. Working was not all fun but when the final judgment day came and we lit the diyas, it was a sight that one could fall for. End-sems dropped in and again, naturally, I lost the extra weight I gained. I got enrolled in NCC, so I had to attend its annual training camp. I run a dry mouth out of good words when I try to explain how many fans the camps DTL gained. I ought to tell, its a never-to-come experience. I can understand how many of you returned with great zeal after the holidays just to find yourself waiting in a line that grows in the front and not at the rear. Anyway, thats over. The campus rocked with Spring Fest, not to mention the hardly rocking bands that came, and ended with brilliant performances by Kailash Kher and Pritham. Backing up the festival mood, Kshitij made the whole campus mad and run after robotics, nightshift . . . The sky here seems closer than in my hometown. Maybe, here the horizon has come closer or the times trumpets echoed much louder, lifting our ground to the horizon. Wishing everyone a healthy and happy semester, cheers!
-C Sivakumar Kashyap (First Year)

(Editor: Maybe a dash of nostalgia from a first years perspective to begin it all)

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Love (and Networks)

-----------Note: This is how (boring?) my life is, I am "writing about love" for a magazine! :| -----------Q: When do you know you are in love? A: You can never know, you can just feel it. Four years at IIT Kharagpur has ensured that I do not feel love as a 'human', but four years at 'Department of Electrical Engineering' has ensured that I feel for love as an 'engineer'. I know what I am about to write is not going to impress any of my professors (nor any girl reading this :D ), but, they are not impressed with our academic performance either. :D Here, let me illustrate how I can feel love as an engineer. Let us examine a simple resistive circuit.

Surely, this cannot be love. That is not how it is supposed to be! A straight line? There definitely must be something more to it. Let us try an inductive circuit.

Err...well this can never be love! True, this is often how some of the modern relationships are. Decreasing with time, exponentially, until it reaches a zero value! Oops... something's gone terribly wrong here. Surely, this cannot be true love. Let us try a capacitive circuit instead.

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This seems like a good plot. We can see that love is increasing progressively with time, and the rise is exponential. But there seem to be two problems. First, it reaches the maximum value only after infinite time (!!), and second, the rate of increase of the graph decreases exponentially, so, the relationship seems to get sluggish after sometime. Let me come straight to the point. An LC circuit. A resonant LC circuit. Here's what it looks like.

Perfect! A charged capacitor of the right rating, coupled to an inductor of the matching rating, and they fall in love. What follows is perfect resonance, in a beautiful sinusoidal wave, going on forever. True, there ARE ups and downs, but love lasts an eternity. One's weaknesses are complemented perfectly by the other. Everlasting support. Energy transferred between them constantly. Forever. In Harmony. Never dies. That's love. True love. And, if you look at that graph very carefully, and let your imagination flow a little, what you see is this...

Love is in the air.... And all you need is love! Love (and Networks)...
-Pulkit Anand (Final Year, Energy Engineering)

(Editors Note: The author is a regular blogger at http://pulkitanand.blogspot.com/ and a

dear friend who has a knack of being creative in ways that still baffle)

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Aloo Chaat
India is countries of unity in diversity. We have 5000 different mother tongues, 22 or so official languages and so many different cultures. India is a melting pot of civilizations yes I am ripping of that title from America. Cmon have you ever counted the number of societies and cults we have at kgp itself. I guess what I am driving at is the fact that we have so much diversity everywhere even in food a country with so much diversity that there is no vegetable that cant be grown here. But the only diversity of Indian gastronomy that the ammas like to exploit is the fact that we have 300 ways to cook a potato. On my first day at the institute I a typical vegetable hater was overjoyed to see that the meal that day was potato based, thought myself fortunate when that happened the next day, gave up on mess food when potato remained all that there was for a week, now I am trying to make my peace with it the fat bully by picking vegetables out of the potato preparation. Ironically aloo parantha is still my favorite dish for it is the only thing that doesnt contain aloo. Once one of the students made the carnal mistake of questioning the antique tradition of adding truckloads of potato- the answer was if not potato than what else to prevent us from gorging down more food, the mess has a limited budget -there were some solutions but none worked. In a test run they replaced the potato with excess spices so that people either did not eat any food or ate some and drank enough water to keep their stomachs full till the mess closed but then there are so many people here who love spices and the others just added sugar to it making the food edible enough. In another test run they dropped a massive readily available insect in the main preparation making sure a large number of people saw it that meant a lot of people eating outside and those with weak stomachs puking inside. However, this plan failed in the long run as the stomachs grew stronger and people became less finicky; few more insect flashers were added and then back again to potatoes. Probably I am just being paranoid the potato thing is no plot to make us look like potato, probably the recipe of paneer kofta does mentions the ingredients as 3 slabs of paneer and a truckload of potato or probably inedible food builds character and that is why people spend two years of their life slogging to come here and have it. Listen to me cribbing on and on what an optimist might say here is that keep picking out the vegetables and the pretentious little portions of food that are created is what the rich call delicacies so enjoy the delicacies of Kharagpur.
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one with a

thought

This part of my life this small part here is called graduating!!! So here we are, brains and legs all stretched out on the damp grass of the golchakkar staring with blank eyes at the insti top under the vast expanse of the universe. Its me and my fellow graduates yet trying to come in terms with the fact that day has come when we would throw our caps in the air (and hopefully miss the deans head ) . A delirious, yet flattering thought suddenly crosses our minds Friends, the world has discovered usWHAT NOW??? And here goes the DILEMMA But, do I know where I am going? Do I even know WHO I AM ??? Oh Nooooooo!!! Well friends I hope you do not know! Well yes we are graduating but then we always are. Newsflash: There is no such thing as Graduation friends, only a series of small graduations, continually. Sometimes we throw our caps and other times we dont. So lets just sit back with our theme song once again and celebrate the chapter KGP of our lives. After all the midsems, endsems,vivas, cheddis, tikka , nightouts and most of all the bhaatbaaji the kgp experience just isnt complete without the following activitiessome are serious, some are fun, and then those otherswell you can form your own opinions. So heres a list of the top ten things to do before you put on that gown. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) Lose your voice in a tempo shout. At least 3 back to back night-outs. A performance on the netaji stage. Climbing on the highest table to light up the diyas during illumination Watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S all of it. Spending a whole day at tikka chatting with friends (though CCD can be an alternative in this weather). 7) Visit to the insti top. 8) A high 2.2 9) Climbing a water tank 10) Go find a date in kgp.
-Sneha Roy (Final Year, Instrumentation Engineering) (Editors Note: This one is for all those Not passing out, and maybe a few who are, to take note of at least one homemade top-ten-things-to-do-before-you-pass-out list)

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I AM YOUR FATHER AFTERALL
Guddu was a small kid and much like his pals of the same age, he too loved to play football, cricket, basketball and other such playful games. He saw his friends playing and being mentored by their fathers, but unfortunately, his father could not play with him. Jatin, his father, had polio. For a stranger passing by, Guddu might be similar to any other boy of his age, but reality was far away from that. His mother was not living with him anymore. She had left home long back, as long as 5 years, when Guddu was at a tender age of 7. His father suffered from polio in his left leg. Now Guddu had grown big enough to be a bit too embarrassed while moving around with his father, whether it be parks, restaurants, or other public places. Probably this was the main reason why his mother shunned both of them, she had a choice and made one, but little Guddu had no choice but to live with his father. One fine morning, there was a knock at their door. Guddu was happily surprised to see a handsome, tall, stoutly built man standing in-front of him. He was so very astonished to see him that he just could not stop gazing at him. This young man was their new neighbour. How much Guddu wished that he would be his father. He got his new friend now and made all desperate attempts to find a father in him, a handsome one... He would now prefer going out with Ravi, his new neighbour than with his father. After school time, his father would be waiting for him to return, but Alas! would find him sitting and chit-chatting with his new friend. How much Jatin wished that he would spend the same quality time with Guddu. But soon realized that if Guddu was happy talking to Ravi and spending his weekends with him, he would do injustice to separate the duo. Days passed by and Guddu swayed further away from his father. One night, Jatin thought that he should make a move and tell his plight to Ravi. Ravi after all was a good guy, and he thought Ravi would surely understand his condition. They both went for a walk. Guddu was sleeping in his room. No sooner did they go about just a mile, than they heard screaming of help from within the house. Jatin knew it was Guddu. They both turned round to their amusement. Their house was on fire!!! Guddu was out in the balcony and cried his heart out for help. Impaired leg made Jatins condition very difficult to help Guddu out. So he begged Ravi to go and fetch out his son from the rising fires. But Ravi was too scared to go in and risk his life. Jatin had no choice now. He had to save his son. He loved him. Guddu was his only reason to live. Jatin could not see his son in that condition anymore. He quickly threw away his crutch and slithered his way into the house. He got hold of Guddu and wrapped him round in a blanket. He then slowly and cautiously brought him out in the open. Guddu had two protective layers, the blanket and his fathers embrace. In the meantime, Ravi called up the fire brigade and the nearest hospital for ambulance. Both Jatin and Guddu were admitted in

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it. There were minor burns which took just about a week to heal up, thereafter the two got discharged and were declared fit to go home. Guddu was silent all this while. He spoke to no one, not even his father or his favourite Ravi. Both reached home. They were both silent. Guddu suddenly broke the lull. He broke into tears and heart rending sobs. He went to his father, stared at him for sometime, and then hugged him tightly in his little arms. Jatin too could not restrain himself from crying. He too broke down. They didnt speak, but there was a question in Guddus eyes Father, why do you love me so much? Probably the answer to which even GOD knows not...
-Akriti Swaroop (Final Year, Instrumentation Engineering)

(Editors Note: When I asked the author what she felt while writing this piece, she said that it pained her to see the attitude of todays youth towards their parents; need I say more)

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The Tempo-Guy? Really???
I was surprised when I realized today that some people in the department perceive me as the tempo guy, and are even willing to club me with chams and ss. ;) I want to put all these allegations to rest, once and for all. :P Well, Bhaskar wants me to write this article on how I managed so many things at the same time; but lets just get real, did I? My CGPA has skydived ever since I entered EE, from 9.08 to 8.55 in a matter of 4 semesters. Lets not talk about DR, that's even more traumatizing. So, clearly, I haven't done my studies properly. I am not a core-team member, neither involved too much in the hall, or in the gymkhana. No bandi, not even a banda. Music, and ETMS, are probably the only things I care a little bit for. Nah, I don't think I managed anything at all. I think my lab partners know me best, and will testify to how peace-maroo I am. And Bhaskar, don't you remember the Basic EC lab? Don't you remember how many times you had to write the record while Diggi and I weren't doing a thing? And don't you remember how much you cared about all those resistors and their coloured bands while we didn't give a damn? How can you, of all the people, accuse me of such a heinous crime! Okay, granted, I ask too many questions in class, but come on guys, classes are boring as hell, and if we don't even find stupid excuses to stall the professor, won't we die of boredom? Do you like their monologue so much that you don't want someone like me to break it? And don't you like it when I ask the professor to slow down? And yes, you can accuse me of taking too many additional subjects, but trust me; it was not because of excessive tempo. It was, as I have told a few people, just because I was too lazy to go back to Azad during the breaks between lectures. So, its because of a lack of tempo, not because of tempo. Looking at the above evidence, I sincerely request the esteemed court of law to acquit me with all due respect! :D

-Rahul Mehta (Fourth Year, Electrical Engineering Dual)

(Editors Note: This piece was the result of a conversation between Rahul and me; after all he has taken at least one additional in every semester, right from the third sem)

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A RE-VOLT
Never has anyone seen it... Never has anyone heard it But made everyone feel it It made dead ones live... Born to the elements of natureHeavens, the water and terrene. Banished the thitherto existing melancholy in a lightening** pace. Revived the souls deprived of Life. Re'volt'ed the insular orthodox Confronted a sea of resistance Inducted the capacity to live

Albeit all the vitality, Down to earth it seeps.

-DP (Durga Prasad) (Editors Note: It was tough, deciding from the nine poems the poet had submitted; however this one had to be the winner, for obvious reasons) (** note: sic; lightning)

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The Odd Article
Society guy (junior): Sir, I have come from the Electrical Engineering Society. We had requested an artic (is interrupted) Batti guy (Core, Honors, frustrated with design lab): How many 9 pointers have given till now? Any finance guy? Aditya Garg dia? Society guy (junior): none sir. Batti guy Core, Honors, frustrated with design lab): then why the hell should I be interested in writing anything for the 'Electrical Engineering Society'?? I mean it doesn't sound that cool. I cannot even put it on my resume. Nor does it ensure a job in Coal India!! Society guy (junior): But si (Interrupted again) Batti guy Core, Honors, frustrated with design lab): I mean why?? is it related to the GV? Can I mention it in my BTPPPTPPTTP (slithers)? Really? No? ohh, then maybe it is going to be circulated among the faculty. Hmm... I get it. I am sure it'll get me more than one reco, right? Society guy (junior): *shakes his head-horizontally*, *eyes wide open* Batti guy (Core, Honors, frustrated with design lab): still no? Huh! You see my face, read it! READ IT!! [Society guy (junior) scared to death] what does it say? Does it say that m a big ##### #### ####?? Dude, have you ever read my CONCLUSIONS? Have u copied any of them before submissions? U know why? Coz I have never written them myself, coz m not a big #### #### ####...!! Society guy (junior) had escaped before completion of the above sentence . Energy guy: We are not the Britishers, nor are we the Taliban and the most important thing is that we have even studied Electric Machines by Nagrath & Kothari. Then why the hell is everybody trying to throw us out?? Society guy (junior): but sir, this is about the article for Eletrical Engineering Society. We had posted it on the EE group. And for sure we are not trying to throw you anywhere. Energy guy: What about the Energy group, did you post it there? Society guy (junior): No sir, it was supposed to be a notice for all EE passing out seniors. Energy guy: See, thats what. So you dont believe that I am an EE guy?? So you dont think I understand Control Systems?? Isnt it? I will talk to the T&P in charge, I will talk to your
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HOD, Ill even mail to the SUZLON Chairman Tulsi Tanti, and hell tell you what Energy people can do. After that well talk about your article. . Society guy (junior): Sir, you asked me to come today. Have you completed your article? Instrumentation department (1/20th part): Dekh Dost, we are 7 of us together now right here. That makes us 7/20. We people do not do anything alone (the other 6 Instrumentation departments straighten their collars). Wait kar, Hum likh denge. Society guy (junior): But sir, Maam said Instru people are really creative so I was expecting at least 4-5 articles. Instrumentation department (the other 1/20th part): Abe, 4-5 articles hi likhne hote to hum apne khud ke department kimagazine nahi nikal lete? Jaanta hai kisse baat kar raha hai? Instrumentation department ( 7/20th in unison): haan bhai, kabhi Electrical Lab suna hai?? Instrumentation Lab hota hai. Instrumentation department (1/20th part): Achha sun, hum sab ka group photo chapna chahiye, back cover. Tum batti wale kabhi saath mein Shankarpur gaye ho? (1/20 winks and 6/20 giggling) Society guy(junior): No sir. *looks down-curses JEE counselors* *FYI he is batti* *FYI NOWInstru is the way of life* Instrumentation department (7/20th part): :D Chal isi baat par humaari ek photo khinch de. Aur sun, ye pic Batti walo ke paas nahi jaani chahiye . Society guy (junior + dejected) goes to Nana Patekar, hoping to get an interview for the magazine knowing he speaks a lot. Nana, takes poor kid to the 3-idiots (Batti, Energy and Instru dep), breaks one tooth of each of them and proves it to him that theres no difference in their blood. Kid makes a fresh start, goes to Bhaskar Sharma. And the rest is history

-Kshitij Khurana (Final Year, Electrical Engineering)

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EE-Society at a Glance
In the few pages of introduction right at the beginning, much has been said about the society. As an editor, I really do not have much to add to that, save maybe give a brief overview of how the society fared in the past year. This is not in chronological order.

Soccer Extravaganza March 2010. Excerpts from an article written by Suvankar Biswas (07EE1039):
With an indifferent shake of my head, I also started practicing my favorite football stuff: free kicks. After 5 minutes, someone came to the field. It was none other than Prof. Kishore. All of us were looking at each other in sheer disbelief- it was

already 7.15 and only 3 of us were there; clear violation of rules!!!! However, Avneet arrived at 7.17 and saved the blushes of the society, followed shortly by Rohit Jangid. They had brought the refreshments and Avneet was in footballing attire, raring to go as soon as possible. However, it was a miserable turnout and Avneet and Rohit were soon calling every Batti guys no. they could find. But the professors had also disappointed. Only Prof. Bajpai and Kishore were

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there The maximum turnout was from the 4th years; there were only 3 3rd years, some 2nd years. As for 1st years, it was interesting: They had a CLASS TEST.on ELECTRICAL TECHNOLOGY!!!! God Bless Batti!!!! So finally, our little get-together ended in the best possible way as we posed for group photographs. The camaderie in the match was wonderful to see. Even the unforgiving sun could do little to dampen the occasion. The event would be a memory to cherish for all the 4 th years that played in that match. For us, 3rd years, we should organize more sporting events, and more importantly, our attendance should be higher. This particular event created a lukewarm impression among the passing out batch about us 3 rd years, as regards to dedication. Finally more professors should also come to such events, to increase celebrity appeal. Anyway, this should be a motivation to us to organize such events in good spirit in the future, so that BATTI ROCKS!!!! All hail Batti!!!!

(Note: The full article will be posted on the respective groups)

The Department Tour January 16th, 2010. An excursion to Kolaghat Power Plant An article written by Nivedita Patnaik, 3rd year, IE:
7:00 AM Excited as some of us were for the trip to Kolaghat, it was too early by Kgp standards to wake up and be ready by then. The bus was already standing in front of the gymkhana, as intimated. But, again too early! 7:50 AM More smiles as the GSecs, Avneet and Ekansh, who had organised this trip arrived with refreshments for the journey. 8:00 AM Finally, our journey began with Prof. Anirban Mukherjee, who had very kindly agreed to accompany us. Next, the guide for the day; the guide would remind one of a class teacher chiding students for their misdeeds. This comparison does not go without reason as someone from our group got too excited after looking at the long stretch of panels and touched an indicator to take a closer look.(:P) We had a quick tour of the power plant, starting from the power plant followed by the boiler and generator unit, and the control room in succession. The power plant generated a total of 1260 MW from six units. Three of these units were housed together. The tour concluded with a visit to the coal handling unit. 1:00 PM We bid adieu to our guides and got back on the bus. A peculiar sight at the coal plant was the blackened surface of the flora surrounding the site. That must be quite usual given the huge amount of dust produced. 1:30 PM Lunch time. All of us were exhausted after the day long outing and we all settled for lunch. With the tempo almost over, the return journey was a quiet one. While, Prof. Mukherjee collected the feedback about the trip, some others dozed off.

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4:30 PM Kgp again. The industrial trip which was the first trip to a power plant for some of us was not only an academically enriching experience, but also an amusing one. It was quite a commendable effort on the part of the members of the Society of Electrical Engineering for organizing the trip.

Farewell Prof. Basu Professor T K Basu was bid farewell early in the Autumn Semester. A small farewell was organized by the department society. A few pictures of the event and a few memorable lines from the event
On career choices by IITians: The majority of IIT students should go for research or (sic) by research I do not mean the PhD programs only but R&D or Design where theres a lot of intellectual activity, intellectual satisfaction after all, youve been given a very specialized training, why should you waste your energy? You may get a lot of money, but youll never get job satisfaction On the EE department in his student days Prof Basu recalled how once, during his college days, after the students came to (falsely) know that a viva had been cancelled, a lot of them decided to catch the train and go home. On knowing about this, the respective professor made sure that this situation was avoided when one student wasre-called from the kgp station after a phone call followed by an announcement in the station was made. And thats not the end of it. A boy who made it to his home in Delhi was delivered a special telegram which informed him of the impending viva to be undertaken. The chap took the very next train to Kgp. On being asked to describe Kgp and EE department My association with Kharagpur is for the last 46 years, so I just can not really think outside of Kharagpur. But of course, wherever I go, I make it my home Here in Kharagpur, every brick of this building, this department is(sic) I am a part of this whole building I want that our students should propagate the kind of culture we have developed here A few lasting words It has been a really, really nice experience I have learned a lot form the students Kharagpur should be your home away from home And of course, whoever can forget his golden words, imbibed in our minds for eternity: Make friends, take part in games and activities, have fun, help each other out, once in a while even

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bunk my class and if you still have some time after that, try to study.

Rohit Kumar Memorial Scholarship

Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk as if I were beside you there. - Isla Paschal Richardson

It has been more than a year since that fateful Sunday in the spring of 2009 when something very sad happened, so much so that its melancholy resonated with every single soul who called him or herself a Kgpian. It has been more than a year since a lot of us poured our hearts out, whether it was in the hushed settings of classrooms, or in the crying masses of solidarity. It has been more than a year since he left us, left a lot of us with fond memories, with broken hearts and tearful eyes. It has been a long year, for a lot of us Being one of our own, one of the members of our small EE family he must have had similar dreams like all of us, maybe much higher than some of us could ever imagine. He left with a lot of promises unfulfilled, promises made to his family and friends. This year, the Electrical Engineering Society established a scholarship in his memory, one that was to be awarded to a second year B.Tech student from our department on the basis of his/her overall performance in IIT Kharagpur over the last two years. The awardee was decided by Dr. Kishore and Dr. Biswas, and a certificate along with a cheque of Rs. 12,000 was awarded to him during the farewell ceremony. This Years recipient of the Rohit Kumar Memorial Scholarship is Mr. P Bala Kameshwar. It is hoped that in some small way we, the Society, can contribute towards making sure that Rohits memory lives on, that he inspires us now and in the future, that he inspires the ones who shall one day proudly call themselves students of EE Dep. or IIT Kgp, in the very same ways as he had once inspired us, his friends, and put a smile on our faces.

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Pictures from other events

Farewell 2010

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Nallan C Santhosh Kumar, N.K Kishore

AbstractThe dawn of industrialization has forced many to adopt techno economic feasibility studies on green energy. Rapid surge in both subscribers and digital data content is stressing the wireless infrastructures. As more data traffic demand is placed on limited amount of wireless spectrum and to reach the urban population, the mobile service providers are forced to use more Power Amplifiers (PAs) in Radio Base Stations (RBSs), which consume more power. Apart from increasing the total energy and operational costs, they account for large emission of Green House Gases (GHGs). This paper addresses the feasibility studies to use alternative energy sources for powering a Telecom tower for future data communication in order to reduce the green house gas emissions, a contributor to global warming. Index Terms Digital data, Industrialization, Power amplifier, Techno economic feasibility, Wireless spectrum.

INTRODUCTION

ENEWABLE energy sources are attracting major concerns for their availability in abundance, and being clean. Their popularity has skyrocketed over the last 5 yrs due to the diminishing supplies of the other conventional power sources like coal and natural gas. Conventional fuels emit GHGs and pose a threat to life on earth by steadily increasing the acid deposition over the earths surface. The need to act fast is due to the drastic increase in the number of mobile customers over the past years [1]. Among the most widely preferred systems of alternative power, Photo Voltaic (PV) systems have gained large popularity as nature has abundant fuel to power them. The present day scenario depicts the sparse usage of PV systems mainly due to its high

Nallan C Santhosh Kumar is a recent graduate of M.tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India; e-mail: nallan@iitkgp.ac.in). N.K Kishore is Professor of Electrical Engineering with Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India (phone: ++91-3222-28-3060 e-mail: kishore.n.k@ieee.org).

initial capital involved. Non conventional energy sources are most promising candidates for Research and Development which can trigger a revolution in future for low cost fabrication of these devices. PV systems find various applications ranging from powering house hold loads to aiding a soldier in remote fields. They can also be used to power vehicles like solar cars to light aircrafts, satellites and spacecrafts [2]-[6]. In order to cater to the needs of a variety of customers, including the ones in the rural sector, mobile operators are beginning to establish their networks in the rural sectors. It is obvious that, rural sector population is worst affected in terms of the reliability of power supply. Under no circumstance a telecom station can not be compromised for an interruption in service. The foremost concern of a telecom station is to provide reliable service for its customers for which reliable power is mandatory. The backup power supply equipment like the Diesel Generators (DGs) apart from being very costly also have detrimental effects on the environment. The answer to all these is readily available with Nature. Due to the high initial cost involved in establishing a PV system, it calls for optimization of power output at all times. The designer should be conscious to design a network keeping in mind a scheme for the future demands; else by the time the new network gets deployed, it becomes obsolete. A press release from a noted major wireless service provider ERICSSON in June 2008 states that, an average GSM subscriber is responsible for the emission of 25 kg CO2 [7]. In response to these annoying figures, and to realize an energy efficient radio for next generation mobiles communication, green power solution is a mandate for the Vodafone Essar project at the Indian Institute of technology Kharagpur, India. In the new generation systems, there is a good amount of decrement in the amount of CO2 emissions in comparison to their first generation counterparts which emitted over 180 kg of CO2 annually, but on a global scale, the effects are still not appreciable [8]. To get an idea of the extent of emission, an average automobile consuming 10.5 litres of gasoline, over 125 km

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emits 25 kg of CO2. A prelude from literature concludes that the greenhouse gas emission from the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) equipment is about 2% of the global figure. If this trend persists for another decade, it is sure to catapult the emissions of green house gases. Figure 1 shows the statistical breakup of the ICT equipment emissions as a fraction of global green house emissions [9]. power available. At most, it can be assumed that, the telecom base station has ample backup power to sustain itself for 3-4 days in case of weak or no recharging capability. A PV panel depends almost entirely on the primary source for its power output, i.e., solar insolation. Since the solar insolation varies with time and because the PV system itself has a non linear voltage-current characteristic [10] depending on external parameters like wind, rainfall, ambient temperature, dust, load etc, the PV panel if operated along with an efficient dc-dc converter (Buck/Boost/Buck-Boost), can ensure efficient operation by operating the PV panel near its maximum power point. Depending on the load, strings of panels are arranged in series of parallel sets or number of strings in parallel. When PV modules are integrated with other alternative sources, safety takes prime priority. A system is designed such that under no condition, the PV panel gets reverse current from the DC bus. This may happen when the battery is over charged due to the excess solar insolation or during light or no load conditions, when the energy obtained is not used by the load. Fuel Cells& Batteries Fuel cells are most suitable for applications with a power demand lower than 10 kW and energy demand larger than 10 kWh [11]. An overview of the fuel cell technology is described in [11]. Fuel cell power sources are maintenance-free and they are insensitive to both high and low temperatures and have long lifetime in standby mode [11]. Fuel cell systems are transparent and can be monitored remotely [11]. The stored energy can easily be measured from the pressure of the gas cylinders. The efficiency (hydrogen to electricity) is predictable. Due to this, the energy content can be expressed using units kWh or Ah. On the other hand, the status of batteries is significantly more difficult to measure. The uncertainties involved in predicting the capacity reduce reliability. In order to secure high reliability, the batteries are replaced long before the problems occur, which adds to the cost. Fuel cells can operate at high ambient temperatures, atleast upto 50C. No degradation occurs even till 75C. Batteries start to degrade at these high temperatures [11]. Fuel cells are capable of operating at extremely low temperatures. For example, Cellkrafts system can operate from -33C [11]. Moreover, there is no reduction in energy output of fuel cells even at subzero conditions. The capacity and available effect of batteries is significantly reduced at cold temperatures.

Fig.1 A comparison of global green house emissions and emissions from ICT [9]

With demands continuing to rise, it is foreseen that the future goal of throughputs over mobile network would be a prodigious 300 Mbps [7]. For this goal to be realized, the service provider should adopt alternate energy sources like the use of Fuel cells, Solar power, stand alone wind power systems etc, without which the power demands from the traditional coal based power plants will increase, which will lead to dangerous levels of global warming. Figure 2 shows the percentage of power consumed by various ICT equipments [9].

Fig.2 Breakup of the % of green house emissions by various ICT eqipments. The outward wedge shows the contribution by mobile telecom equipments[9].

STAND-ALONE SYSTEMS PV panels A solar-powered telecom station is projected to operate in a remote rural environment, where typically there is no or deceptive provision for grid

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Diesel Generators (DGs) To meet high load situations, running a DG is not a wise decision, because the cost increases with the capacity of the DG. When the equipment consumes less power, the use of DG is well augmented, because the cost of the DG is directly related to its capacity [11]. If the power supply model is to be designed completely green, then DG also should be compromised, because the fuel used to power the DG will perish with time, and the power from the DG is accompanied with a small amount of greenhouse emissions. DGs should be continuously heated by electrical heating to be ready for start-up in cold conditions [11]. Fuel stored in a DG can be measured, thereby reducing the uncertainty and increasing the reliability. DGs work well in high ambient temperatures, if the cooling system is properly designed [11].

Fig.3. Schematic of a Hybrid PV-Fuel cell system [13].

OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES From an operational view point, a PV panel experiences large variations in output power under variable weather conditions. This calls for a novel power control algorithm in order to supply maximum power all the time. Another important challenge is to model a Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPT), so that the PV module operates always near the peak power point. This facility enables the device to shift the angle of inclination in proportion to the angular distance travelled by the sun from dawn to dusk. Reference [14] addresses various different ways of tracking the Maximum Power Point. In comparison to all the conventional methods of tracking MPPT, Hill Climbing / P&O algorithm has gained a distinct advantage over the others as its very simple. The algorithm works on a basic philosophy of Perturb and Observe [14]. Figure 4 shows the characteristic power curve of a PV array. The MPPT Hill algorithm involves perturbation of the duty cycle of the power converter. Perturbation in the duty cycle perturbs the power drawn from the PV array, and consequently perturbs the PV array terminal voltage and PV array current. Figure 4 shows that incrementing/decrementing the voltage increases/decreases the power when operating on the left of the MPP curve and decreases/increases the power when operated along the right of the MPP. Therefore, if there is an increase in power, the subsequent perturbation should be kept the same to reach the MPP and if there is a decrease in power, the perturbation should be reversed [14].

HYBRID SYSTEMS As the name indicates, hybrid design is a combination of two or more alternate energy sources. Solar powered systems provide a modest but a costly solution for an energy crisis prone telecom sector and when it is used alongside other cheaper power sources, it becomes economically competitive. A hybrid power system can be designed depending on the deployment scenario. To meet high load situations, running a DG is not a wise decision, because the cost increases with the capacity of the DG [12]. For fluctuating loads, a hybrid system with a PV array or a fuel cell system can be configured so that the DG handles pre-calculated optimum load power, and the solar-powered system or the fuel cell system shares the balance. In this way, the hybrid system is optimized, and it improves the efficiency too. Figure 3 shows a typical scheme of a hybrid model consisting of a PV array and a Fuel cell [13]. The main motive of a hybrid model is to realize an uninterruptable supply for the telecom station independent of any external (weather) fluctuations. The module design is given for AC and DC loads. A suitably designed inverter can supply AC loads too. The charge control system operates the entire system close to the maximum power point. The switching instances are so fast that the load current can essentially be assumed constant. It essentially switches the circuit ON/OFF to track the peak power. The level of voltage can be bucked down or boosted up accordingly using a suitable converter/inverter. The scheme in Fig.3 boosts the voltage level. The optimized combination of the weather dependent solar PV modules and the weather independent Fuel cell modules delivers uninterruptable power supply.

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failure. A separate control mechanism for checking the battery voltage levels should be employed. Otherwise, the battery which is directly connected to the DC bus might over charge because of light load conditions. The voltage control mechanism is basically established by controlling the duty cycle of the PV panel output current [13]. On the other hand, when the voltage level of the battery is below a specified level, the control mechanism forces the MPPT to come into operation so that the PV panel is forced to operate at maximum power point. A very efficient algorithm based on state estimation is reviewed in [13]. When the systems are integrated, there is a hidden problem of insulating the various subsystems. Proper care should be given for protection of equipment too. There are chances of reverse currents flowing from the fuel cell stack to the PV panel, which may damage the PV panels. Therefore, diodes should be designed carefully, interrupting any reverse currents along the DC/AC bus. The use of high performance power converters to supply different types (AC&DC) of loads, and the appropriate usage of control techniques can supply high quality power. Control strategies for power conversion and power quality on single phase and 3 phase for PV applications are reviewed in [22][23]. CONCLUSIONS A properly designed Hybrid system, can give its designers a run for their money. Its worthwhile to design an integrated power system that combines the energy density of the Fuel cell or PV array and the power density of the storage batteries. Further, a low electrical time constant system must be integrated to supply sudden increase in load demand and a larger time constant system like the fuel cell system can supply a constant load. Integrated systems require high performance converters to control the charge flow through the DC bus, thus enabling reasonably good power quality. Proper provisions of safety also should be dealt with, failing which the costly equipments like PV array will be damaged. If a PV system is considered, the location of the site is of prime importance as the solar insolation depends on the actual site of deployment. With all these taken care, one can be assured of a nearly reliable power supply for the future telecom communication towers. ACKNOWLEDGMENT Nallan C Santhosh wholeheartedly thanks Professor N.K. Kishore for providing an

Fig.4. Characteristic PV array Power curve[14]

The next major challenge is to store the excess energy when there is surplus. The other option is to integrate PV panels with other alternative sources of energy like fuel cells [15]-[16], and diesel generators (DGs) [17]. PV panels can also be integrated with secondary energy storage systems like super conducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) systems [18], and battery energy storage systems [19]-[21]. Integrating PV panels with other energy storage equipments in the system demands appropriate power control. In case of standalone Fuel cell systems, a rapid increase in the load power would result in a significant decrease in the fuel cell output voltage [13], which would deteriorate the power quality or sometimes even render the fuel cell system useless. This happens because the fuel cell essentially operates on the synchronized control of number of valve openings and closings. Due to the slow dynamics of the valves, a sudden surge in power demand cannot be met by a fuel cell. This is basically because of a difference between the mechanical time constant (in seconds) and the electrical time constant (in milliseconds). The fuel cell system has to be oversized to meet the peak power demands. To increase the response speed and peak power capacity of the supply, auxiliary energy storage and corresponding power conditioning devices and control mechanisms are essential. This also negates the disadvantage of the fuel cell system which has slow dynamics. During transient power demands, a novel control mechanism should be adopted such that, the battery supplies the bulk of the power demand, as its time constant is less. After the system voltage characteristics recover, the fuel cell can start contributing its part. Although, batteries are used to store the excess energy when the load is low, or to power the system when there is no input power, the cost of the batteries themselves is expensive. So, proper care should be taken to design the secondary storage system in case of primary input power

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opportunity to compose a document on one of the most emerging trends in the field of Power Engineering. Nallan C Santhosh would also like to thank Dr. P. Bajpai, whose lectures were useful in understanding the basic concepts in the field of Non-conventional energy sources. Last, but not the least, Nallan C Santhosh would like to thank colleagues at laboratory for their support and the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur for the encouragement. REFERENCES
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Nallan C Santhosh Kumar obtained B.E. (Electrical and Electronics Engg.) from Anna University, Chennai in 2006, M.Tech.(Electrical Engg.) specializing in Power System Engg. from IIT Kharagpur in 2009. His areas of interest include Power Systems, High Voltage Engineering, and Wireless communications.

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N K Kishore (SM96) obtained B.E.(Electrical Engg.) from Osmania University, Hyderabad in 1983, M.E. ( Electrical Engg.) from IISc Bangalore in 1985 and Ph. D from IISc. Bangalore in 1991. He worked as a Scientific Officer with IISc Bangalore from 1987 to 1991. He joined on the faculty of Electrical Engg. at IIT Kharagpur from 1991. Currently, he is a Full Professor there. His areas of interest include High Voltage Engineering, Power Systems, Lightning, EMI/EMC, Condition Monitoring of Power Apparatus and Industrial Applications of High Voltages. Dr Kishore is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and a life member of System Society of India.

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If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-George Carlin

Viva La Vida
This was inevitable. It had to be. This article, this piece of my mind had to come. It has been said before. It has been whispered into the ears of the disciple and screamed in the nightmares of the terrorized. It has been the subject of fantastic parodies and fanatical studies. It has inspired the creativity of the eye of the mind in conjuring up visions of how one shall meet with it one day. And it is not so much about the meeting, but the walk and the preparations en route, one that spans nearly four years, beginning in the chambers of roaring mighty beasts, and ending in the hallowed corridors of a department that earns your respect, one way or the other. It is about the journey that starts between the whirring of machines and ends in one of the most legendary events of Academic Life in IIT Kharagpur.

Of Labs
There is too much, just too much to write here. One can write a book on the stories of laboratory experiences one hears, and even then, one will find a shelf filled with such books, every new one springing a surprise the previous one denied. And hence, I shall restrict myself to what Ive heard, experienced and remembered. If any professor per chance reads this, I have this to say: You are the stuff Myths are made of. And it all began in the first year, with that lab in the ground floor of the EE Dept. I distinctly remember the day; it was the first lab session in the Machines Lab in the Spring Semester of the academic session of 2006-07. Prof. A K Sinha, the current HOD took our attendance, sorted us into groups of four, briefed us on the purpose and maintenance of LAB records and PT sheets (I still do not know the right spelling) and the need for wearing shoes, and briefed us on the basic electrical measuring instruments to be used in the days to come. I was a keen listener back then and had no inkling that I was fated to be hurled into this department and that our destinies would be intertwined, me and that very laboratory, or that the briefing received just a few moments ago would be the Holy Grail of Lab Etiquettes. And then came the second lab session.

A view of the Machines Lab from the Ground Floor Foyer at the Entrance of the Department

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Of Vivas
I do not expect a lot of the freshmen to be as well versed in the concept of daily vivas as I was back then, owing mostly to my previous school. But boy, did I find myself unprepared. Though it would not happen to me till the second semester of the third year in that very laboratory, I was to view the spectacle of confused students being sent out of the lab for various reasons, whether it was the lack of shoes or the poor quality of drawings of circuit diagrams. But the one thing that stuck, a permanent vista, was the unnerving of even the most hard-boiled students at the sight of the professor approaching for a viva. Whether an instantaneous 200 V DC at the experiment site, or a prolonged 11 kV AC at the professors tables, the shocks never seemed to lose their charm, or the effect they had on us. And the terror of the first year, which I was pleasantly reminded of only a few days earlier in my GV, was the Tube-light Experiment.

Of Tube-lights and Folklore

The tube-light experiment was a part of first year folklore. It was what would become the stuff of nightmares for those giving a serious thought to the final ET lab viva preparation. I was pleasantly reminded of this fact when Prof. A Mukherjee asked me about the setup of a tube-lights circuit in my GV. Ironically, three years back it was him taking my First Year ET lab viva, and back then he had totally overlooked this question. For some reason, the tube-light experiment was an indicator of what was to come. People panicked, went around asking others and were all too flummoxed by the very nature of topics and vivas. There were plenty of stories that students were being told that they werent fit to clear JEE or that their lab files were being hurled hither-thither. It was then that I discovered the power of the Internet in general and Wikipedia in particular. They have been life savers on more than one occasion. And then, there was the folklore. The Department of Electrical Engineering, or, more popularly, Batti Dep , has been a source of innumerable myths and legends from the moment I set foot in this college. The very mention that I belonged to this department brought smirks and sighs alike, and created an image which was to become a part of my identity (and maybe of a few others). From Epic vivas to ruthless maintenance of PT files, they were to become a part of our daily routine for the next 30 odd months. While the whole issue of file maintenance assumed a whole dimension of its own, from penalties for late submission to whole night-outs of figuring out what to

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write in the first place (not to mention the emergence of human xerox machines), the labs themselves started becoming storytellers of epic proportions. And then came the SYNCHRONOUS MACHINE. Of Synchronous Machines and the General Problem of Synchronization If there is one experiment I personally can boast about performing even while taking a nap, its the Synchronization of the Synchronous machine experiment. Deriving solely from my personal experience, an experiment which was performed in at least two different lab sessions removed by a year, it has to be the one experiment which, in the past four years, has brought more students on the verge of Im definitely failing this lab test attitude if nothing else. Personally, it was nothing short of a miracle that my group (Debanjan Bhowmik and Amulya Srivastava) was able to complete it for the first time after 14 grueling hours (yes, I remember the number) of lab sessions and God knows how many sacrifices (of measuring equipment). But I believe that somehow the problem wasnt that experiments were too tough. I believe it had more to do with the general synchronization with the degree of attention demanded by the subject, or the lack of it thereof, which caught students off guard on most instances. There have always been the more careful ones (easily branded as the muggus) who have generally performed better. However, notwithstanding these facts, there have always been moments which have generated extremely opposite reactions in the students and faculty. Out of the many that I remember, the one that I find worth mentioning is that of Shobhit Singhal. The young man under consideration has single handedly achieved feats in the laboratory which most might decree as impossible. But the one I shall mention has captured the imagination of yours truly for ever. It was in that very machine lab when I and my group were working on the transformer, performing the open and short circuit tests, that all of a sudden the whole room came alive with a brilliant white flash. Prof. Dheeman Chatterjee rushed towards the site of the blast which, to my surprise, was Shobhits experimental setup. Later on, after the lab session, I found out, from word of mouth (that being mostly Shobhits) that in the experiment, a rheostat had to be connected to the voltage source as a potentiometer, and hence both its terminals needed to be attached to the primary voltage source. While one of his lab-mates started at one end of the circuit, the other started at the opposite one and Shobhit got busy with the rheostat. After all three were done with their parts (which included Shobhit connecting the rheostat to the rest of the circuit), our hero switched on the power which, by now that it is obvious, was connected only to the rheostat. The rest, I leave to the readers 43

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imagination. By the way, this very same champion of ours managed to blow up the power supply of the entire lab during a certain lab test. Moving away from lab tests and PT files, there were always the vivas. The thing about the not too illusive viva was that it was very professor dependent. If you were lucky, one panel of professors might let you live with your poor preparation. On the other hand, a certain other panel might not even spare the most seasoned of batti-geeks. And this brings us to the famous and dreaded Controls lab. Whoever has done any experiment there will surely remember the general commotion around the inverted-pendulum experiment. And then there were the Vivas of this lab. This was the very lab where I first got face to face with the famous why are you even studying in IIT statement. And now I know that it had a lot of reasons behind it being hurled at me, which included my preparation not being up to the mark. But then my Professors in-charge were Prof. J Pal and Prof. B M Mohan. Well, thats enough for a hint. But enough about all these labs and their vivas! Lets move on to the big fish. Of Grand Vivas For a change, we werent alone here. Every student in every department had the same expression on his or her face as the one I had been seeing in the mirror for the past 3 years. And then, there was the moment of reckoning. Four students in Energy had already received Re-s. After a day of staring at the books and realizing that it wasnt humanly possible to study all that in the short span of a day (which generally seems enough to dish out a whole BTP presentation worth a semester), I sought refuge in the infinite knowledge of R Vignesh and Anuj Gupta (who were also my saviors the past four years) and by my side was the trusty Shobhit Singhal. After a stormy session of numbers and figures, I rushed headlong into the viva, and before I knew it, it was over! After four years of unending, unnerving and unbelievable banter about the grandeur, the epic magnitude and the sheer exhaustion of GVs, it was over just like that. And to add to that, they served us Frooti and sweets during the viva! It was unbelievable. I managed to answer questions (albeit a few), and when asked my favourite subject, I did what I had waited to do for the last 3 years; I blurted out literature. And, guess what, I got away with it! (Although, as an after thought, I do believe it had more to do with the fact that the question was asked after the viva, but satisfactory, nonetheless.)

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Of Farewells No, no, no This part has nothing to with the department farewell. Thats another affair to be dealt with in another place. But it was a little sad, saying good bye to vivas. Though, at the time of writing this article, Ill still be left with one impending viva and the BTP presentation, but it was a different thing altogether, facing vivas. I remember the words of an ex-student: Attending the vivas in EE dept has made me immune to the questions of interviewers. And I guess it stands true for a lot of us. But then, I have written enough. For now, let this monster of mythology take a rest. Let it go back to sleep, for next year, it has to rise again, and plunder the sleep of quite a few. And oh! What a journey it has been

Prof. J Pal with a batch of first year students in the new E.T. Lab during the commencement of a viva session

-Bhaskar Sharma (Final Year, Electrical Engineering)

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Sanjiban.... you are someone who I think ... is capable of saying a lot ... but saves it up - Kshitij Khurana, drunk, Shankarpur Its funny how little you have to say when you are too busy thinking. Its even funnier how one has thought away four years. I guess its high time I got this out, because I really dont plan to think too much in my fifth year. The most random place to start would be by saying I love the sea; preferably in the crazysplashing-around-in-the-water way, not to offend hand-holding-sunrise-gazing couples. I guess specifically I love the water. Thats because the water remains the same ... freezing cold ... even when the people in the water changed over the years from the awesome ROBOTIX family, to the ex-girlfriend, to Singla banging Bhowmik with a beach ball. The water is always predictable. I believe in enjoying laziness and not over doing it, where laziness implies not getting up off ones bed and ensuring that one has enough seasons in his HD to last forever. Laziness does not include sleeping. It includes attending just enough classes so that you are bordering the danger zone, so the professors never knew you existed. The John Doe who got an Ex. When you overdo laziness, you get into trouble. I mean G.D.Ray kind of trouble. Then you become a nine point someone trying to save himself from getting kicked out of a course. Laziness should never kill the adventure junkie that we all are. Its not possible to scrape through the eternal boredom that enslaves you for four years without the adventure. With all the motors, machines, signals, wires and ... transformers.... things like that can permanently break the spirit of your soul unless you have a spark of adventure in your heart. It may be creating something new; it may be meeting that someone 150 km away or it may even be that week long road-trip where it was just you and your backpack. Its not the adventure that you cherish, its the times you thought about the adventure and how it saved you from learning how to change the poles of an induction motor. Laziness should never ever make you numb. If you become numb, then they won, you lost. Every viva you gave that made you feel bad, every pt sheet you bought that made you curse, every lunch you skipped to write that report and every coffee you had at 5 p.m. when your will to live has almost gone remember those times. That pain, that frustration, that little indomitable fire is ... us. That pain accumulates to this finite burden that we can always carry with us. I would never give up those memories for anything in the world maybe because those miseries brought about the best of friendship and the most precious of all memories. I will never forget Kranti. I think it because he was always did the most fascinating of all things. I remember there was this switch in an experiment where the bulb uses to glow even when the switch was off (due to some internal wiring). Kranti was convinced it was some trick, so when i asked him Kranti, is the main line disconnected?, he proudly lifts the switch, sees the bulb still glow, assures himself his eyes are playing tricks on him and says Yeeees. Now as soon as I touched the wires well not only did my ears jam shut, poor

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Vignesh who was touching my shoulders got a shock through me as well. Prof Poddar came with a sheepish grin and said Kranti...... I will never forget Vignesh. The picture of Garfield with the I hate Monday speaks volumes about this guy. However something about lab reports, vivas and semester exams would turn this guy on. If a professor asked Vignesh during a viva, Spell Arjun, Vignesh would recite the entire Mahabharata. Though, its sad to say that Vigneshs exotic charms did not work on one professor. After he laboriously explained how an inverted pendulum works, nodding his head and flipping his fingers, Prof S.K.D aptly concluded he was full of crap, and Ganesh and I were buffaloes in the crap. Abir was a buffalo outside it. I will never forget Abir. When united with Bhomik and myself, we became the three bongali idiots. I was mostly a silent observer on their myriad of conversations on closed loop feedback, professors, universities, girls (lack of girls), politics, Saurav Ganguly and occasionally their outlook on life. For the record, here are things you may have not known about them Abir had a girlfriend, wrote a poem, was and is still an awesome football player, fought his way through a life threatening problem, worships Scarlett Johansson and so on... Bhowmik is a self proclaimed narcissist, who cannot change a tube-light, loves Guinness, unsuccessfully attempts to build a body and calls himself the chosen one. I regret that we couldnt all know about each and every one of us. You breathe the same air for three years and all you are left with is a vague memory of a face and a horribly wrong stereotype to go along with. Many of us do not know about Shouviks compassion how he is enabling the dream of a school kid; many of us do not know about Gargs integrity how he always thinks about doing what is right; many of us do not know how Anuj got angry the one time when Bhowmik drove him insane with his 8052 project. Then again I hope its never too late to know one and another. For the record ... I love reading Stephen King books (not for the horror but the philosophy of horror), and Ayn Rand (not for the philosophy of the character, but the characters themselves), love writing poems (yes you can use my services), am a textbook Pisces, spent 3 years in UK and I love robots. Now, this last part, this is for Khurana. This is what I have been saving up. For a long time I didnt know it was that drove me to do what I have been doing for 4 years now. But then last summer when I went to CMU, I came to know about this fascinating man who was everything I wanted to be. He was the late Dr. Randy Pausch. For those who havent heard about him, please look him up. He passed away at the age of 47 in 2007 due to terminal cancer. His last lecture is available on YouTube which is called Childhood dreams and enabling the dreams of others. My childhood dream was to make something out of my own two hands. The day I learnt how to make a motor go forward and backward, my dream was complete. September 2006. From that day on, I wanted to enable the people who had the same dreams as mine. From then on the journey took me through hardships and running around and learning and teaching, from trying to teach my first year batch mates AI (an epic failure that was), to teaching first years to make robots, to giving lectures in Bhubaneshwar, Delhi, Pilani to finally January 2009 when you look out and you see 3000 people from all over India whose dreams we are enabling. And then ... when most people decide to quit, I wanted to go on enabling because four years down the line, there is a pride and an ego. I just hope no matter how much you may loathe the department or the institute; you have the pride of
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having made a visible dent in peoples lives and in their heart. I also hope you have an ego of surviving it, the labs the vivas, the professors - because everyone has had a time where we thought we just couldnt make it. Dont ever wonder why you were here, or whether you are meant to be here, or was it just one BIG mistake it wasnt. Whether you believe in God or not, it wasnt a coincidence. I missed my department change by 0.04. When I went to Prof Kishore to change my lab grade from B to an A (like it should have been done), he gave his signature smile and said You are in this department whether you like it or not. Accept it.

-Sanjiban Chowdhry (Fourth Year, Electrical Enginnering Dual)

(Editors Note: Now this is what I call an outpour and who would have thought Sanjiban, the grand-old-robotix-wiz enchants us with his words)

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Oh! I just heard a bone crack Champ Niraj sometimes hits himself with his own smack See theres going on a bizarre funda session DebC will now stumble into the class in groggily fashion I just saw a dancing jack, simple and swarthy The man with his biting remarks, instru is so fond of Rathi Every morning an alarm rings and he wakes up at six Romils the one with matched shirts and frames, has so many problems to fix Whenever someone makes plans for instru trips, hes always the Pappa Manish is the heart and soul of his hall without being the Happa Donned anytime from tip to toe with cheerful alacrity Forgotten how to ride a cycle, shes our little Akriti The mafias don runs after showy and branded stuffs Avinash, the talker, is now a a days seen with smoke puffs Be it classes or assignments, he cares for neither With a proud gait, struts Shubham, the action leader The master artist, the ever experimenting guy is really bright Vikas, can even argue with EE profs to prove himself right The fastest four-year transform from innocence to hedonism Mishra is always a fun guy at the other side of the prism Did anyone hear a noise? Did anyone just walk in? Yes, he responded to his roll call, theres Raghav sitting Little to say, so much to meditate, his thoughts so philosophy rich Tall, lanky and fair as a canvas, hes the supercool Dadhich Nonchalance personified, staring with a wicked grin Entranced in drunken revel and his new found love, is the sturdy Sachin Outlandish talks, entangled in his own cobweb Endowed with talents hard to find,Seriously Dude Shev The man born with a high IQ and a black side bag Bong dada, the chatterbox, Aritra will never lag
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Sensible and responsible, her career is ready to leap God only knows when did Sneha last sleep So helpful and cheerful, as sweet as a candy Headphones are her lifeline and life is a marathon for Sandy The girl with the beautiful nails, yes shes sincerity personified Mona, the epitome of knowledge, her sense of humour never dried Whatsoever colour he wears, howsoever he tries to be shy Krit gets noticed by every prof and within the 1st 5 minutes, is forced to say the class, a GOOD BYE When the hell did the title of Kgps best drummer he got Dare you forget our share in those 1.5 crores, Mr Rojot!!

-Monika & Akriti (Final Year, Instrumentation Engineering)

(Editor: Need I say more??)

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And Thus SpakE Gupta ji
My journey (say an average 9 pointer) 1st sem : I think I should study hard .. 2nd sem : Ummm I think 8.9 was not too good :( ... and should I join all those communities 3rd sem : Rats! Its Patel hall. They are going to take the only thing that I have (a decent CG) 4th sem : Phew! Saved myself last sem... and wow I think I have something more to mention on my CV 5th sem : Patel hall rocks !!! (I should prepare for CAT ... after all what if I dont get a job?? And umm CG ... :S) 6th sem (before FT) : FT FT FT ... or just a T anywhere ... (After FT): again I think I should study harder ... (After few more days): I think I should make my embedded circuit work (Still later): screw CG ... now on work the minimum I could 7th sem : GRE !!! (Screw CAT for now) (After GRE): Job (screw GRE) (After Job): GRE (screw Job) 8th sem : ummmm... (dont even bother to make my mind run ) .... Peace!!
-Rahul Gupta (Final Year, Electrical Engineering)

(Editors Note: And ThUs SpaKe GuPTa Ji)

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My Statement of Purpose

Dedicated to my parents and my brother

For some the life is a boon; a leisure, A no aim life lends beastly pleasure. Finishing school and an engineer to be, I am taking lessons at kgp. I am running upon my tips and toes, To serve alike, the friends and foes. In an engineers pose I will stand upright, And work to reduce my countrymens plight.

-Avneet Singh (Third Year, Electrical Engineering)

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AND YOUR BIRD CAN SING
Some of my experiences here in IIT are nothing short of being best entries in fmylife.com (its an awesome website, whenever you feel bad about yourself check this out, so that you can laugh at other peoples miserable lives). 1) Language barrier is one of the main problems for me, so it turned out to be pretty funny some times. It helped during OP, I used to stare at them innocently when they were shouting at me, once one of my seniors asked me "kya hall hai?", and without hesitating I answered AZAD. I think its funny. ** 2) When I was meeting my guide for my btp, he asked me what languages do I know, I said, English and Telugu, he then asked "programming languages" laughing at me. Quite an impression I made. also he asked me why I was interested in control system and my grades, I said hesitantly D, thinking that my grade can be P. but my actual grade is C. this encounter is a true fmylife moment and I hated myself.. But he did accept me to guide. I do like control systems. Ok now jokes apart, the best thing that happened to me in IIT is my seniors (T.Theja, Kumar Anubhav and Rajat Sethi specifically). Albeit I sucked at studies I think I learned a lot here, met some really interesting people. I would like to call my B.Tech as a 4 year sabbatical, so I am good to go for the next 20 years. To Profs: I feel really guilty seeing how dedicated some of you are, but I promise you that Im not going to let you people down. Ill try keeping those words on main building in my mind. To the 50 girls of 06 batch: thanks for being in IIT and acting as a glimmer of hope. You people seem really nice. So I would like to dedicate this song "hey soul sister" by train :P
-Anil Karaka (Final Year, Electrical Engineering)

(** Editors Note: In fact, he was asked kya HAAL hai? that is how are you and not what is your hall, just in case that wasnt clear)

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Electrical Engineering

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It has never been the choice of even the wisest
It happened, when in our second year, I was fated to be Khuranas lab partner. Giving the perfunctory glance at the lab manual unwillingly, and a cursory attention to the esoteric paraphernalia (to me at least) of the department, we ironed out to elope as soon as the professor lost sight of us and we succeeded. It would have been a home and dry coup, if the professor didnt have eyes for us, Khitiz and Sapnil, that very day. Alas! He called our names after coming back from Nescafe. After the momentary lull, he pranced towards Monikas table and askedThey are your friends, izz it not? The mademoiselle completely entranced by the odds and ends of the equipment, turned, uttered a YES and went along again. The poor 5th year of my hall, who helped us flee the two gloomy hours, got a sharp reproof, nonetheless. The day ended. The next lab, he announced a surprise VIVA, and the two of us were aware of the sequence of events to be followed. With a wicked grin, he called us and offered us seats. I, if nothing else, could remember the names of the experiments and the basics of each. Khurana, on the other hand, could simper really well at the professor. Now the session began and rapid questions were thrown, in so very the same fashion EE Profs follow, in order to seize every opportunity of khulle-aam censure. I managed to parry off a couple of the bursts and Khurana managed to maintain the same upward curving of the corners of the mouth. When the contorted facial muscles began aching, the fellow yielded to the Prof and saidYou know Sir! I was never made for this department. I had, like zero interest in EE. I had aspired to be in the field of finance and accounting. It is too difficult to manage the courses you have so little interest in. The problem with me is too difficult to explain. The slushy speech melted the petrified heart and the figure of bravado succumbedYou know, you nebher get what you want. I too nebher wished to enter in this field of laphtops and flaas-dribhes. I was also interested in some thing else. I understand how you feel and I am so sorry phor you. Try not to lose your heart. Look at me; you cannot say ki I was not made for this department, izz it not?

-Swapnil Sharma (Final Year, Electrical Engineering) (Editors Note: No spelling mistakes)

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What electrical department did for me?
I have faced numerous interviews in my fourth year and there has been one question often asked; how do your electrical engineering studies come in useful for this position? At such times, I often have given some really clichd answers like the analytical skills from engineering would be applied later on or I now analyze pros and cons of a situation just like the stability vs. the gain issues in control systems. I have never spoken the real truth in those interviews. The real thing is, now I can face interviews with much less anxiety. I would not be exaggerating when I say that I was more terrified of my machines viva than my Ahmedabad interview. Perhaps this is because ab to maraane ki aadat padh gayi hai! So farak hi nahi padhta :P. On a serious note, our notorious vivas really give a good feel of the so called stress interviews. I am writing this at a time when I am yet to appear for my GV. Lets see if I say the same thing after that. :P Then one new thing that I have learned is to sleep with my eyes open. I have applied this to good effect in my power system protection class . I hope this super-cool and useful learning would come handy later . Then there have been really wonderful people I have met in my department. One thing that I really like about our department vis--vis some other departments (read THOKA) is the lack of bong maggu culture in batti dep. But one thing that still scares me: PT sheets. I still am very very very very reluctant when it comes to writing those damned things. I am pretty sure, everyone would agree. Lets hope aane waali naslon ko wo na likhna padei. In case my juniors get a chance to read this, I would just like to give one advice. Have fun in labs, they are a very good learning opportunity, considering you get to deal with real stuff. And find a person jiske notes ko aankh band karke trust kar sako nd padh sako (just like we found Guptaji).

-Aditya Garg (Final Year, Electrical Engineering)

(Editors Note: I hope Aditya finds plenty to learn in the IIMs also; the man leaves quite a message for the aane waali generations)

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MY EXPERIENCES AT KGP
Starting from KGP station Reaching IIT for a week of orientation Rising early in the morning sleeping jaldi at night Thinking and planning to start a new life Roaming about the campus and knowing IIT Feeling proud of myself that I cleared JEE 23rd July, our class begin Getting disappointed finding no girl good looking Meeting talents coming from whole country I realized that acads are not the boundary Every evening I used to go out to play Thinking to become an Inter-IIT player someday Very soon after that our mid-sem began I realized that Ill have to study again Mid-sem ne mujhe badi problem mein dala Fir bhi maine khud ko kisi tarah sambhala Then ILLU season comes and our schedules change 3 or 4 in the night became a kids game ILLU mein to humne sabki watt lagai hai I came to know the meaning of RK ka tempo high hai All big dreams seemed to be in vain Getting a 9 became my only aim Luck was with me and everything went fine Thanks to God, I got a nine
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January was like a great festive season Celebrating always with or without reason Dancing on the tunes of DJ and Kailasa But my favorite event was workshop on salsa Working all night to prepare our bot Events of Kshitij were really hot But with all masti all load, all fun and pain Dont forget, whats our ultimate aim We miss our home our mom and dad Dont do anything that makes them sad Id like to spread one message through Your parents have got great trust on you They have sent you here to learn something Please dont indulge in smoking and drinking.

-Nikunj Bajaj (First Year, Instrumentation Engineering)

(Editors Note: Words from a first year Summing up quite a lot; and now, time for nostalgia)

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KGP IN RETROSPECT
The pain of parting, yet the thrill of a new beginning, A dream accomplished, yet millions more to accomplish These were the thoughts as I entered the gates of one of the best technical institutes of the country as a young, immature 17year old. The view of the old Insti Building lit by the August moon, the Main Insti Building which has shaped some of the finest personalities of India, the 2.2 Km Scholars Avenue adorned by the various Halls of Residence on both sides were enough to make me proud of my accomplishment and look forward to my next four years stay at IIT Kharagpur. On my first day, as I walked through the hallowed corridors of S.N.Hall with hesitant steps, lost among a myriad of girls from different parts of the country, I met my batchmates and seniors, who would become my friend, philosopher and guide within a few days. The Unconventional welcome we received from our seniors, working day and night wiring diyas, being a part of each and every dramatics event-be it Hindi, English, Bengali or Choreography, campaigning for friends during elections were some of the highlights of my first year at S.N. Hall. Through all these, I met new people, made new friends, learnt new things and imbibed new qualities. Come second year, and suddenly I found myself addressed as a senior. SF, Inter IIT, Inter Halls, Elections, EE Department-priorities were redefined and timetables set haywire. The day I joined the SF Team as a member in my second year was one of the most defining moments of my stay here. 6 months of endless meetings, niteouts, treats, the calling queues at RK and KAT booths, the never ending calling lists and trips to different parts of the countryand then 4 days of revelry, of stars from home and abroad, of people from all over India, of a plethora of events and of a fest which Kgp has celebrated since its inception. Inter-IIT was another wonderful experience-going to Mumbai, playing for my insti and meeting new people. Although we couldnt manage a podium finish, the memories of this extravaganza will stay with me throughout my life. As with almost everybody in KGP, my stay here was shaped by my hall. Living away from home for the first time in my life, S.N.Hall became my second home. Surrounded by friends 24X7, discovering a new family in my wingies, being involved in a host of events throughout the year-my hall has given me some of the best moments of my life, taught me to believe in myself and explore new paths, and unravelled hitherto unknown talent in dramatics (never mind the language), fine (and allied) arts, basketball, tennis, diya wiring, rangoli.the list would never end. The euphoria of Inter Hall wins and the pain of losing, the tempo shouts, wiring diyas for an entire month and then the spectacular sight of thousands of diyas lighting up simultaneously, living in the suffocating common room for 7 days
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straight and watching the 400 square feet rangoli come to life.sweet memories unique to Kgp. The twin bronze in Illu and Rangoli in my final year is one of my best memories of Kgp. KGP has given me my best friend, awesome wingies , the coolest Bhaiyya and amazing depmates. This place is about a friend who would go all out to see me happy. KGP is about Akriti, Sneha, Sheetal and Heena.the best friends ever. Chandipur, Kolkata, VIBGYOR, 70s heroines, treats at TP, PD, Park, LS, Birthday Parties at Hall and VGSOM, JCB, Billoos, Sahara, Cheddis, Tikka, the summer months and the placement seasonmemories that will stay with us and make us smile forever. KGP is about cooking food in the room, 5 people eating from 1 plate, the entire wing living in one room, spending an entire afternoon searching for clothes to wear for a 3 hour treat, the entire wing sharing everything from clothes, accessories and cycles to buckets and brooms, gtalking each other although we live right next to each other, religiously visiting the Xerox shop before every exam, rakhi, friendship day n valentines day, boyfriends, niteouts for no reason, dance parties, movies, photo-sessions, 2.2, BigB and lately CCD. Kgp is also about Niraj, DebC, Rathi, Akriti, Manish, Romil, Avinash, Bhaiyya, Vikas, Mishra, Raghav, Dadhich, Somani, Sheva, Aritra, Sneha, Mona, Krit and Rajat. Blessed by mummy, papa and bhaiyya, this small but happy close-knitted Instru parivar is one of the most amazing branches in the insti-we set our own rules, and decided our own deadlines. Not even the fact that we belonged to the most dreaded department in the insti could make us attend classes or submit assignments or study even one day before an exam. Shankarpur, Birthday Treats, Hall Days.we enjoyed all these and many more during our four-year stay here. KGP is also about the seniors that were and the juniors that are. I have been lucky to have some great seniors and equally amazing juniors, with whom I have lived, worked and learnt. Today, as my four year stay at Kgp nears an end, I realise that I have been lucky to come and stay here, and experience these four years. There have been both happy and sad moments, easy-going and difficult times, but through all these episodes we stood together and leaned on each other, providing solace and support. My four year transform has equipped me to face the future, come what may, given me friends and memories to keep me going throughout my life. As I leave Kgp to explore new fields, I will miss my wingies, friends, juniors, dep mates, SF, Inter IIT, Illu, Rangoli, GC but above all, I will miss KGPthe place which has given me all these and much more..
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What we learnt?
Away from our homes, We came with some goals. Now, In the flashback of time I look back and see The transformation of me In the ups and the downs Of our life What we cherished Were The friends and the laughter and The memories thereafter In the silence of the day And loneliness of the night What we thought Were Of the rays of dawn that can Prevent us from feeling down At some lonely times and No work at times What we missed Was The company of our loved ones Parents, Elders and the Young Ones In this run of life To prove our points What we lost Was Someone unknown that Could have been known What we learnt? Is it done?
-Siddharth Dadhich (Final Year, Instrumentation Engineering)

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Honor Roll
M Tech (Dual Degree) Electrical Engineering SOUNABH MANDAL SOURAV SAHA EMMANUEL KERKETTA ASHISH KUMAR HAYARAN DAL CHAND CHOUDHARY MAYANK KOTWAL ANIRUDH CHOUDHARY CHALSANI VENKAT ROHAN PRABHAT SHANKAR PANKAJ KUMAR PAL RAJESH CHUNDURU YASWANTHKUMAR V S ABHISHEK GAURAV DEMTA SACHIN KALIA ARAVIND VENUGOPALAN B Tech Electrical Engineering
SANJAY SINGH SAURABH MEHRA PRAVEEN JUJJUVARAPU JAYADEVA MANI R B SANDEEP KUMAR REDDY P ADITYA ANUSHA CHEEKATLA ADITYA GARG CHAMARTI VENKATESH SANDEEP REDDY GUDIBANDLA RAVIKUMAR TANIKONDA MEDISHETTY BHAVYA RAJESH KUMAR SAHU DEEPAK PATNALA VISHAL SINGLA PAAWAN SINHA ANIL KARAKA SURINENI RAKESH Y N SUDHEER SOMYA SINHA RAHUL GUPTA sanjay2631@gmail.com smehra.iitkgp@gmail.com praveen.jujju@gmail.com vedayaj11@gmail.com bskr4s@gmail.com adi.is.coool@gmail.com anushacheekatla.iit@gmail.com adityagarg9@gmail.com venkateshiitkgp@gmail.com sandeepreddy.iit@gmail.com iamtrk@gmail.com bhavya.iitkgp@gmail.com rajeshsahu2007@gmail.com deepak.patnala@gmail.com vsingla.iit@gmail.com paawan.sinha@gmail.com anilkaraka@gmail.com suri.rak@gmail.com sudheer.in.iitkgp@gmail.com somya.iitkgp@gmail.com rahul.1987iit@gmail.com

sounabhkgp@gmail.com ee.sourav@gmail.com kerkettaonline@gmail.com ashish.hayaran@gmail.com dalchand@iitkgp.ac.in mayank.kotwal@gmail.com ani.iitkgp@gmail.com cvrohan.iitkgp@gmail.com prabhat4686@gmail.com pankajpal.iitkgp@gmail.com rajeshkgp@gmail.com yaswanthvs.iitkgp@gmail.com gauravdemta@gmail.com joubinkalia@gmail.com aravindv@gmail.com

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ANKIT KUMAR CHAUHAN VAIBHAV JHANWAR SHOBHIT SINGHAL THARUNACHALAM P NAKUL MOLASARIA JAI ANAND ROHIT JANGID SHUBHAM SHARMA DEBANJAN BHOWMIK AMULYA SRIVASTAV BHASKAR SHARMA KESHAV MODI MUDDAMSETTY CHANDAN SWAPNIL SHARMA KSHITIJ KHURANA ankitchauhan.iitkgp@gmail.com vaibhavj.iitkgp@gmail.com shobhitsinghal624@gmail.com tharun.c@gmail.com nmolasaria@gmail.com iit.kgp.jaianand@gmail.com rohitkgp86@gmail.com shubhamsharma.iitkgp@gmail.com debanjan.bhowmik88@gmail.com amulya.iitkgp@gmail.com bhaskar.sharma.1729@gmail.com keshav.512@gmail.com chan.kgp@gmail.com iitkgp.swapnil@gmail.com khurana.jitihsk@gmail.com

B Tech Energy Engineering

SRINATH HIMANSHU NEERAJ TULSYAN RACHANA VIDHI KULDEEP JAIN AMIT PARASHAR JAYANT KUMAR JHA RISHABHDHWAJ YASH KUMAR ADITYA PRIYANKAR SANYAL ABHISHEK KUMAR PULKIT ANAND BISWARANJAN DASH CHIRODEEP BAKLI ABINASH PANIGRAHI srinathhimasnhu@gmail.com neerajt.iitkgp@gmail.com rachana.iitkgp@gmail.com kuldeep.jain.iitkgp@gmail.com parashar.amit.iitkgp@gmail.com jayantjha.iitkgp@gmail.com dhwaj.iitkgp@gmail.com yashkumar88@gmail.com a.p.sanyal@gmail.com abk2cool@gmail.com pulkitanand@gmail.com biswaiitian@gmail.com cbakli@gmail.com contact.abinash@gmail.com

B Tech Instrumentation Engineering

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NIRAJ KUMAR SANGODE CHATTERJEE DEBANJAN ANJAN VARUN RATHI AKRITI SWAROOP MANISH KUMAR SINGH ROMIL VIJAYAVERGIA AVINASH SHUBHAM SHRIVASTAVA VIKAS KUMRAVAT ABHISHEK MISHRA ADEPU RAGHAV SIDDHARTH DADHICH SACHIN SOMANI SHASHANK KUMAR SINGH nirajs.iitkgp@gmail.com dac261188@gmail.com varunrathi.iitkgp@gmail.com akritiswaroop.iitkgp@gmail.com mks.kgpian@gmail.com vijayromil@gmail.com avinash5031@gmail.com shubham2711@gmail.com kumravat.vikas@gmail.com mishra.abhishek02@gmail.com araghav.iitkgp@gmail.com sid7973@gmail.com sachinsomani.iitkgp@gmail.com singhshashank.iitkgp@gmail.com

ARITRA CHATTERJEE SNEHA ROY SANANDA MISRA MONIKA SHUKLA KRIT SANKALP RAJAT SHUBHRA SHAW

yours.aritra@gmail.com sneha.r.23@gmail.com sananda.iitkgp@gmail.com monika.iitkgp@gmail.com krit.iitkgp@gmail.com rajatshaw.iitkgp@gmail.com

M Tech Electrical Engineering

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A V RAVI TEJA ADIVISHNU PINAPEDDA B HARI BHUSHAN J SATTIBABU PAMIDI RAMASIDDAIAH SAYAN ACHARYA SUBHAJYOTI MUKHERJEE T JAYANTH KUMAR JITENDRA SINGH KUSHWAH KAUSTAV KUMAR PAUL KESAVA BRAHMAJI KARUTURI MAHENDER REDDY JANGA PRASANTH THUMMALA SABYASACHI NAIK SATADRU DEY BARVE HIMANSHU BHALCHANDRA DHARMENDRA KUMAR DHEER KOTTE SOWJANKUMAR MOHAN LAL M NISHANTH POLUMAHANTHI PAWAN KUMAR KAPRI PRAKASAN N P SACHIN KUMAR V HARI PRASAD VENKATESH BAGGAM D MD TAUSIFF DANGE TUSHAR SHAM JAYACHANDIRAN J LAKSHMI SWATHI DHUPATI MAHENDER B PRASHANTH VOOKA PRATEEK NIGAM PRUDHIVI SIVAPRASAD SAI PREM KUMAR AYYAGARI SHIRAZ SOHAIL VIJAYABHASKERRAO KESARI YASHWANT A DESHMUKH ZADFIYA RAJESHBHAI LABHUBHAI raviteja009@yahoo.co.in adivishnu86@gmail.com hbushan931@gmail.com chinnababu555@gmail.com ramasiddaiah@gmail.com sayan.acharya786@gmail.com subho.kgp@gmail.com jayanth0524@gmail.com jitendra.kushwah@gmail.com kaustavpaul.iee@gmail.com brahmaji_84@yahoo.co.in mahenderreddyjanga@gmail.com prasanth.iitkgp@gmail.com sabya.346753@gmail.com sataabc@rediffmail.com himanshubarve@yahoo.com dheer.iitkgp@gmail.com sowji212@gmail.com mohanlal223@gmail.com nishanth1987.iitkgp@gmail.com pawankapri@gmail.com prakasan.np@gmail.com sackumaarc@gmail.com vuddemari082@gmail.com baggam15@gmail.com dmd.tausiff@gmail.com tushardange@gmail.com jaya008@gmail.com swathidhupati@gmail.com mahender.226@gmail.com shanath009@gmail.com er.nigam@ymail.com sivaiitkgp6410@gmail.com prem1610@gmail.com shiraz.iitkgp@gmail.com vijayabhaskerrao@gmail.com yash_2123@rediffmail.com rajesh.zadfiya@gmail.com

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