Design of Electrical Machines
A two day Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on “Design of Electrical Machines” was conducted by FDP team from 28/11/2016 and 29/11/2016 at Cute Hall, Paavai Engineering College. Dr.G.Balaji, Head of the Department and Prof.K.K.Poongodi of EEE of Paavai Engineering College were the resource persons. There were totally 15 teachers from Paavai Institutions who attended the programme. Dr.K.Selvi, Dean-Academics, of Paavai Engineering College welcomed the gathering and talked about the importance of subject enhancement.
The programme was organized in four sessions. It was based on Anna University syllabus for VI semester paper “Design of Electrical Machines”. Dr.G.Balaji, the resource person, dealt with the topic “Introduction of DC Machines and AC Machines” during the first session. From this session, the faculty members learnt the basic concepts and the problems related to that.
During the second session, the topic “Induction machines” was taken and tutorials were given by Mrs. K.K.Poongodi. These kinds of tutorial activities helped our faculty to be strong in their subject.
On the second day (29/11/2016), “Transformer and Synchronous Machines” was handled by the resource person, Mrs. K.K.Poongodi. Simultaneously tutorials were conducted on the respective topics. Dr.S.Sukumar, Dean Civil Engineering motivated the faculty and offered suggestions throughout the programme.
In the last session, feedback was given by our faculty which ensured the relevance of the programme and fulfilled the objective.