Faculty Profile

Ms. Surya Natarajan
Assistant Professor(Senior Grade)

Profile

Ms. Surya Natarajan received her BTech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and MTech in Electrical Engineering with Specialisation in Industrial Drives and Control from Govt.RIT Engineering College Kottayam . Currently she is a Research Scholar at Cochin University of Science and Technology(CUSAT) , Kalamassery.Her research interests include Multilevel Inverters, Switched Capacitor Dc-Dc Converters ,PV Grid Connected Systems.She is a lifetime member of ISTE. She started her career as Guest lecturer at Cochin University College of Engineering, Kuttanad in January 2005.Since July 2005 ,She is working as Assistant Professor at Federal Institute of Science & Technology. She has been teaching various subjects like Power Electronics, Electric drives and control,Basic electrical engineering, Analog electronics circuits, Microprocessor, Digital Signal Processing,Renewable Energy systems, Analysis of Power Electronic Systems for under graduate and post graduate students.She has guided a number of MTech Projects and BTech Projects.

Educational Qualification

Degree Specialisaion Institute University Year of completion
BTech Electrical and Electronics Engineering Govt.RIT Engineering
College,Kottayam
MG University 2004
MTech Industrial Drives and Control Govt.RIT Engineering
College,Kottayam
MG University 2009

Experience

Designation instituituion from(year) To(year)
Assistant Professor (Sr.Grade) FISAT 2019 Continuing
Assistant Professor (Spl.Grade) FISAT 2014 2019
Assistant Professor FISAT 2005 2014
Guest Lecturer Cochin University of Science
and Technology,
Pulinkunu
Jan 2005 June 2005

Awards and honours

Achievements

1.Successfully completed NPTEL Course on Electrical machines

2.Received Best paper Award in the National Conference on Technological Trends ,CET,Trivandrum AugustĀ  2008 , held at CET,Trivandrum .

Administrative & Institutional Support

Present Responsibilites
(i)Executive member of FISAT ISTE Chapter
(ii) NBA Department Co-ordinator
(iii)Cheif faculty editor of Department Newsletter
Past Responsibilites
(i)Students’s Council faculty-in-charge
from 2021-2023

Professional body memberships

ISTE (Lifetime member)

Research & Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Papers presented in journals:

  1. Efficiency Improvement in transformerless single stage single switch DC-DC Converter”, Nirma Peter, Surya Natarajan, International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, Volume 4, Issue 9,Sept 2013.
  2. “New Topology for High Voltage Boosting DC-DC Converter”,Anjaly Teresa, Surya Natarajan, International Journal of advanced and Innovative Research, Volume 3, Issue 3
    ISSN:2278-7844, March 2014.
  3. New Topology for Transformer less Single Stage -Single Switch AC/DC Converter”, Anjaly Teresa, Surya Natarajan, International Journal of Modern Engineering
    Research , Volume 4, Issue 3, March 2014.
  4. Overcurrent Protection high voltage gain Dc-Dc converter”,Haritha Viji, Surya Natarajan, International Journal of Science Technology & Engineering, Vol 2, Issue 1,Page No.[229-224], July 2015.
  5. Interleaved Flyback for High Power Applications”, Sheeja Raphel, Surya Natarajan , International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering , Vol. 5, Special Issue 2 ISSN (Print) : 2320 ā€“ 3765 , ISSN (Online): 2278 ā€“ 8875, March 2016.
  6. An Improved Dual Switch with Passive Lossless Clamping”, Priya Thottan, Surya Natarajan, International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Vol. 5, Special Issue 2 ISSN (Print) : 2320 ā€“ 3765 ISSN (Online): 2278 ā€“ 8875,March 2016.
  7. Multiport Converter for Micro Grid Applications”,Sheeja Raphel,Surya Natarajan, International Journal of Science and Research, Volume5,Issue 9 ISSN(Online):2319-7064, Sept 2016.
  8. Closed Loop Zeta Converter with High Voltage Gain for Photovoltaic Application”,Priya Thottan,Surya Natarajan, International Journal of Science and Research, Volume5,Issue 9
    ISSN(Online):2319-7064,Sept 2016.

Papers presented in conferences:

  1. “Single Phase Online UPS using Three Arms Rectifier Inverter with APFC”, Surya Natarajan, Dr.Dinesh Pai. , National conference on Technological Trends, CET, Trivandrum, August 2008.Ā 
  2. High Step-up Dc-Dc converter for Fuel Cell Powered Residential Power Generation System “,Anjaly Teresa, Surya Natarajan, International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical & Computer Engineering , July 2014.
  3. Efficiency Improvement in transformerless single stage single switch Ac/dc Converter Under Various Load”,Nirma Peter, Surya Natarajan, International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical & Computer Engineering,July 2014.
  4. Single Phase three level three leg converter using SiC MOSFETs for AC-AC applications”,Sneha Ravikumar, Surya Natarajan, National Conference On ‘Recent Advancements In Power Electronics And Power Systems’ ,May 2019.
  5. Comparitive Analysis of PWM Techniques in Single Phase Boost Switched Capacitor Based Nine- Level MLI
    “, Arya Aravind, Surya Natarajan, International Power and Energy Conference, PECon-2021, Conference Proceedings of International Power and Energy Conference, PECon-2021, ISBN: 978-93-5437-141-7.

 

FDPs/Trainings attended

1)Attended six day ATAL sponsored FDP on Electric Vehicles-Technologies and Challenges from 29th January 2024- 3rd February 2024 organized by Albertian Institute of Science and Technology, Kalamassery.
2)Attended three day KTU sponsored FDP on Hands-on Training on Design of Power Electronic Systems from 30th January 2023 -1st February 2023 organized by Federal Institute of Science and Technology
3)Attended 3-day KTU sponsored FDP on Relevance of Blockchain,IoT and cyber Security in Electrical Grids organised by Dept of EEE,TocH institute of Science and Technology on 27th,29th and 30th August 2022.
4)Attended five day Online FDP on Power Converters-An embedded system based approach conducted by Dept of EEE,FISAT from 22nd July to 28th July 2021
5)Attended KTU sponsored one week Online Faculty Development Programme onā€œ Power System Security & Internet of Things : A Future Energy Scenario ā€,
organised by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sree Buddha College of Engineering, Pattoor from 15t h to 19t h March 2021
6)Attended five day FDP on Modern Trends in Power Electronics organised by Dept of EEE,College of Engineering, Perumon sponsored by TEQIP-II from 8th March-12th March 2021.
7)Attended six days AICTE Sponsored Online Short-Term Training Programme (STTP) Series-III onā€œSOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS: TECHNOLOGIES, DESIGN AND
APPLICATIONSā€ from 15.02.2021 to 20.02.2021″
8)Successfully completed Industrial Oriented Online Training Program on Transmission SCADA organised by Department of EEE,FISAT for tendays during 23 July 2020-20th August 2020.
9)Attended National Online FDP on Real Time Applications of Power Electronics-Research Scope and Challenges organised by Dept.of EEE ASIET,Kalady from 27 July to 31 July 2020

Courses offered

Analog Electronics
Renewable Energy
Linear Control Systems
Illumination Technology
Basic Electrical Engineering
Electric Drives
Power Electronics
Utilization of Electric Power
Solar and Wind energy Conversion
Energy systems
Power Electronics for energy systems
Constitution of India