faculty Profile

• Ph.d (Electrical Engineering) Anna University, Chennai in October 2022.
• M.E (PED), from SVCE, Anna University in July 2012.
• B.E (EEE), from K.S.R. College of Technology, Namakkal, Periyar University in April – 2004.

• As Associate Professor in SVCE – March 2024 –Till date.
• As Assistant Professor in SVCE  – 13.8 years (June 2010 to February 2024).
• As Lecturer in SVCE – 4.5 yrs (Dec 2005 – June 2010).
• As Visiting Faculty in SVCE – 6 months (June 2005 – Nov 2005).
• As Lecturer in REC-6 months (Dec 2004 – May 2005).

UG:

Subjects Handled:

• • Microcontrollers and Programming
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Wind and Solar Energy Systems
  • Power Electronics
  • Control Systems
  • Digital Logic Circuits
  • Electronic Devices
  • Electronic Circuits
  • Protection and Switchgear
  • Electrical energy Utilization and Conservation
  • Flexible AC Transmission Systems
  • Special Electrical Machines
  • Solid State Drives
  • Basic Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  • Power System Protection and Switchgear
  • Measurements and Instrumentation
  • Electrical Drives and Control
  • High Voltage Engineering

Laboratory Handled:

• • Power Electronics Laboratory
  • Microprocessors and Microcontrollers Laboratory
  • Digital Logic Circuits: Theory and Practices
  • Control systems Laboratory
  • Power Electronics and Drives Laboratory
  • Electron Devices and Electrical Machines Laboratory
  • Control and Instrumentation Laboratory
  • Electrical Machines I Laboratory
  • Electrical Machines II Laboratory
  • Electrical Engineering Laboratory
  • Electrical Engineering and Control Systems Laboratory
  • Measurements and Instrumentation Laboratory
  • Electric Circuits Laboratory
  • Electronic Devices and Circuits Laboratory

PG: Subjects Handled:

• • Analysis and design of Inverters
  • Analysis of Power Converters
  • Analysis of Electrical Drives
  • Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Systems
  • Solar and Energy Storage Systems
  • Special Electrical Machines

Laboratory Handled:

• Power Electronics and Drives Laboratory
• Power Converter Laboratory
• Electrical Drives Laboratory

Research & Consultancy:

Journal Publications:

• Shanmugavadivu.N, “Efficient High Voltage Gain Simplified DC-DC Converter for Enhanced Solar Power Harvesting” Przegląd Elektrotechniczny,April 2024,ISSN 0033-2097, DOI:10.15199/48.2024.04.45.
• ShanmugaVadivu.N,Kannadasan.R, “Design of Novel Modified Double-Ended Forward Converter for Stepper Motor Drive” Machines2023,Volume:11,Issue:8,777; DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/machines11080777.
• Shanmugavadivu.N,Dr.KR.Santha, “High Gain Dual Input Multiple Output(DIMO)Boost converter for Low Power Grid Connected Micro-Inverter Applications”, WILEY online Library – International Transactions Electrical Energy Systems, August 2021, Volume:31,Issue 8, DOI: 10.1002/2050-7038.12981.
• Ganesh.P, Shanmugavadivu.N,Dr.KR.Santha, “Single Phase 63-Level Modular Multilevel Inverter fed Induction Motor Drive for Solar PV Applications” IEEE Xplore digital library, 978-1-5386-3695-4$31.00, 2018
• Sachin Jayanand, Shanmugavadivu, N & Santha, K.R 2015, “A Single phase Cascaded Multilevel Inverter with Reduced Number of Power Switches” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol.10 no.9 pp.8991-8996.
• Shanmugavadivu.N, “Modified Approach for Harmonic Reduction in Multilevel Inverter”, International Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology Research, Volume:1, Issue:5, November 2012.
• Shanmugavadivu.N and Annamalai.T (2012), “Single Phase Seven Level Stand Alone Inverter for Photovoltaic Systems”, BONFRING Transactions on Power Systems And Integrated Circuits,vol.2, Special Issue 1, Part I, pp.49-53.

Conference Publications:

• Srinikesh.G, Ram Prakash.N,Shanmugavelan & Shanmugavadivu.N,” Design of Neural Network Controlled Shunt Power Compensation Based on D-Q Theory in Unbalanced Single-Phase Traction Distribution System” International Conference on Electrical Electronics and Communication Technology , ICEECT’25 at PERI Institute of Technology, ISBN Number: 978-93-342-9828-4, May 2025
• Anubharanidharan.M,Sathish.G,Vijay Anandhan.T & Shanmugavadivu.N,” Lead Acid Battery Monitoring System using ESP8266” International Conference on Smart Grid & Electric Vehicle (ICSGEV – April 2023) at Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science,Padur,Chennai.
• Shanmugavadivu.N,”Modified H Bridge Nine Level inverter with reduced switches for Electric Vehicles”,NCAEEE’22,SriVenkateswara College of Engineering,May2022
• Shanmugavadivu.N M.V.Ajayragavan, Annam Annapurna, ArunSivakumar” A 13- Level
  Multilevel Inverter (K-Type) for EV Applications” AICTE sponsored International E-Conference on “Smart Technologies in Electric Vehicles and Power Grid”(STEP 2021), SriVenkateswara College of Engineering,January 2021
• Shanmugavadivu.N,K.Devayazhini, G.Janani Mohanambiga, M.Murugappan” Novel Bidirectional A Multilevel Inverter (T-type) for EV applications” AICTE sponsored International E-Conference on “Smart Technologies in Electric Vehicles and Power Grid”(STEP 2021), SriVenkateswara College of Engineering,January 2021
• Ganesh.P, Shanmugavadivu.N,Dr.KR.Santha,”Single Phase 63-Level Modular Multilevel Inverter fed Induction Motor Drive for Solar PV Applications” IEEE Conference, at SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai, 978-1-5386-3695,pp.596-604,2018.
• Vignesh Kumar.S,Shanmugavadivu.N,”Comparison of seven-level and fifteen level single phase H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter for Electric Vehicle Application” ICEECE 2016, ISBN: 978-93- 81830-95- 6,Vivekanandha College of Engineering for Women,March 2016,pp:53-58
• Transformerless Solar PV Inverter Elimination of Common Mode Voltage and Earth Leakage Current”,International conference on Solar and Biomass Energy –ICSBE 2013 G.K.M College of Engineering & Technology,January 2013.
• Shanmugavadivu.N and Annamalai.T (2012),”Single Phase Seven Level Stand Alone Inverter for Photovoltaic Systems”, Proceedings of the National Conference on Communication Technology Interventions for Rural and Social Development(NCCTIRD-2012), pp.587-591.
• Shanmugavadivu.N “Hi-Tech Home Automation using PC”,Current Affairs 2004-Technical symposium,Kumaraguru College of Technology-Jan 23rd 2004. 
  

• • “Recent Advancements in Generation and Utilization of Renewable Energy”,K.S.R College of Engineering,Tiruchengode,15.5.13-28.5.13.
  • “National Workshop on Hardware Implementation of Power Electronics & Drives”,SRM University Kattankulathur,15.09.2011 & 16.09.2011.
  • “Soft Computing Techniques for Industrial Automation”, at Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai,15.02.2008 & 16.02.2008
  • “Matlab and its Applications”, NITTTR,Tharamani,Chennai,01.12.2007 & 02.12.2007
  • “Networks and Systems”,IIT Madras,28.04.2007 & 29.04.2007
  • Organized a Two days National Conference on ‘Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engineering NCAEEE-2014’ at SVCE during 17th – 18th Feb., 2014.
  • Organized a Two days Workshop on ‘Image processing Framework using FPGA’’ at SVCE during 3rd – 4th Feb., 2012.
  • Attended a Two days workshop on ‘Electrical and Electronic Circuits Engineering using NI Technology’ at NIELIT, National Instruments, Chennai on 28th & 29th Dec., 2012.
  • Attended a Two days workshop on ‘Model Based Design of Embedded System with Vis-Sim’ at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore during 20th and 21st June,2014
  • Attended a seven days FDTP programme on “IC6601-ADVANCED CONTROL SYSTEM” at SSN College of Engineering during 18th-25th January 2016.
  • Attended AICTE Sponsored Two Weeks Online Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on “Advances in Power Electronics for Smart Grid, Renewable Energy Systems and Electric Vehicle Technology” from 07.12.2020 to 19.12.2020.
  • Attended AICTE Sponsored One Week STTP on “Battery Management and Control Techniques in EV’s” Organized by Dept. of EEE, H.I.T Nidasoshi, Belagavi from 07.12.2020 to 12.12.2020.
  • Attended International Workshop on Energy Technology and Sensor systems (TENSYS 2020) organized by IIItd&M Kancheepuram and University of Malaysia in association with FICCI , India and MTeS Malaysia from 28thn July to 30th July 2020.
  • Attended three days online workshop on “Programming Enhanced mid range PIC Microcontrollers using MPLABX IDE and digital proteus” from 20.07.2020 to 22.07.2020.
  • Attended Five Days online seminar on E-shodh Sindhu Web of science certification organized by Clarivate,CISCO webex from 14.05.2020 to 15.06.2020.
  • Attended one day online seminar on “Recent Trends in Power Quality Improvement using AC/AC Converters” (01/06/2020) at SVCE.
  • Attended Online FDP on “LaTeX” organized by MIT COLLEGE OF RAILWAY ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH, BARSHI from 14.07.2020 to 17.07.2020.
  • Attended Online FDP on “MODERN RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY” organized by SIR M VISVESVARAYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,Bengaluru, from 27.05.2020 to 29.05.2020.
  • Attended Five days Short Term Course on “Power Electronic converters and Controllers for EV and Smartgrid” from 18/12/2019 to 22/12/2019,at IIITD&M,Kelambakkam,Chennai.
  • Attended one day Seminar on Data Analytics ,Automated Driving and System Level Simulation using MATLAB/SIMULINKon 4/12/2018 at Hilton,Chennai
  • Attended Two Days National Workshop on “Modern Power converters for Renewable Energy Interface “(January 24th & 25th 2019) at SSN College of Engineering,Kalavakkam,Chennai.
  • Attended Two days National workshop on “A Revolutionary Technology – IoT Applications in Electrical and Electronics Engineering”(3rd&4th January 2019) at SVCE.
  • Attended two days workshop on “Software packages for Dynamic Modeling and Distributed control system” during 16th &17th March 2018 at SVCE.
  • Attended one day hands on training on “Embedded system ARM-7” (23/06/2017) at PANTECH ProEd,Chennai.
  • Attended seven days FDTP on”IC6601-Advanced Control system” from 18/01/2016 to 25/01/2016 at SSN College of Engineering,Kalavakkam,Chennai.
  • Attended three days online course on “Developing a power electronic circuit with Labview” from 16/12/2015 to 18/12/2015.
  • Attended two days workshop on “Model Based Design for Embedded systems using VisSim” from 20.06.2014 t0 21.06.2014 at PSG College of Technology,Coimbatore

Workshop Organised:

• • Assisted in organizing online webinar series Pathways”BRIGHT CAREER IN ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING on 12-07-2022.
  • Assisted in organizing the event “Product Launch E-Ticketing & i-Transport Management System” on 13th May 2022 .
  • Organised the event “Women Achievers” from 27th to 29th October 2021 at SVCE.
  • Organised in conducting a Value Added Course “VD18603 – Modeling and Simulation of Electrical Systems” from 07/04/2021 to 12/04/2021.
  • Assisted in organizing “Internal Hackathon for Smart India Hackathon,2020” conducted by MHRD by contributing as jury.
  • Organized a Three days Online International Workshop on “Technology Development of E-Vehicles” from 28/05/2020 to 30/05/2020.
  • Organized Two days workshop on “Finite Element Analysis of Electrical Machines” at SVCE from 9.09.2016 to 10.09.2016
  • Organized Two days workshop on “Designing Power Electronic Circuits – A Complete Hands-On Training” at SVCE from 04.03.2016 to 05.03.2016
  • Organized a Two days Two days workshop on DSP based system design using TI processor and FPGA, Enixs Technology India pvt Ltd at SVCE from 19/10/12 to 20/10/12.
  • Organized a Two days Workshop on ‘Image processing Framework using FPGA”, Enixs Technology India pvt Ltd at SVCE from 03.02.2012 to 04.02.2012.
  • Assisted in organizing “Internal Hackathon for Smart India Hackathon,2020” conducted by MHRD by contributing as jury.
  • Organized a Three days Online International Workshop on “Technology Development of E-Vehicles” from 28/05/2020 to 30/05/2020.

Symposium Organised:

• • Organised a National Level Technical symposium – PULSE 2017 on 23rd September 2017 at SVCE.
  • Assisted in organizing PULSE 2019 by acting as Jury for the event “Project Display” .

FDTP Resource person:

• • Resource person for “EE-6009- Power Electronics for Renewable Energy systems” From 26 th November to 10 th December 2018 at SVCE.

NPTEL Course:

• • Attended 12 weeks course (1.5 FDP) on “Power Electronics “(Sep – Dec 2020) Successfully completed the course and obtained ELITE certificate .
  • Attended 12 weeks course on “Industrial Automation & control” (Feb – Apr 2016) and Successfully completed the course
  • Attended 8 weeks course (Full FDP of one week) on “Advance Power Electronics and Control”(Jan – Mar 2019).Successfully completed the course.
  • Attended 12 weeks course (one and half FDP of one week) on “Power Electronics”(Jul-Dec 2019).
  • Attended 4 weeks course on “Electric Vehicles – Part I” (Jan- Apr 2020).

Coursera Course:

• • Attended Coursera course on “Introduction and Programming with IoT Boards” from April 2020 to May 2020.

Faculty Research Day:

• • Presented a paper titled “A Novel method of Power Quality Improvement of Modular Multilevel Inverter” during 26th April 2018 Faculty Research Day held at SVCE and got Third Prize.
  • Presented a paper titled “Design and Analysis H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter” during 26th April 2019 Faculty Research Day held at SVCE.

Proposal Submitted:

• • Submitted a proposal through EPIC cell SVCE to DST titled”Single Phase Modular MLI for Solar PV Applications with improved Power Quality”.
  • Submitted a proposal to SVCE PG intramural project funding for the academic year 2019-2020 titled”Modified Quasi Switch Cascaded H-Bridge Boost Inverter for Electric Vehicle Applications” and granted with an amount of Rs.10000.
  • Submitted a proposal to Tamilnadu State Council For Science And Technology titled “Modified Quasi Switch Cascaded H-Bridge Boost Inverter for Electric Vehicle Applications”
  • Submitted a proposal to AICTE for conducting International E-Conference on Smart Technologies in Electric Vehicles and Power Grid and granted with an amount of 1.66 lakhs.

Project Mentoring for Competitions:

• • Dr.KR.Santha and Ms.N.Shanmugavadivu Mentored students for participation in the National Science & Technology Fair 2019, 29th to 31st August 2019 at CODISSIA, Coimbatore organized by the Coimbatore District Small Industries Association (CODISSIA) from 29th to 31st August 2019 and demonstrated the project “Laser Audio Transmitter and Receiver”.

FDP Attended:

• • Attended online FDTP on “MATLAB applications to Electric Vehicle, Smart Grid and Battery Management Systems” organized by MathWorks,DesignTech Systems Pvt Limited at SVCE from 20.01.2022 to 25.01.2022.
  • Attended five days AICTE Training and Learning Academy sponsored online Elementary FDP on “Electric Vehicle Engineering” at National Institute Of Technical Teachers Training And Research,Taramani Chennai from 25.10.2021 to 29.10.2021
  • Attended AICTE Sponsored Two Weeks Online Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on “Advances in Power Electronics for Smart Grid, Renewable Energy Systems and Electric Vehicle Technology” from 07.12.2020 to 19.12.2020.
  • Attended Online FDP on “LaTeX” organized by MIT COLLEGE OF RAILWAY ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH, BARSHI from 14.07.2020 to 17.07.2020.
  • Attended Online FDP on “MODERN RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY” organized by SIR M VISVESVARAYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,Bengaluru, from 27.05.2020 to 29.05.2020.
  • Attended seven days FDTP on”IC6601-Advanced Control system” from 18.01.2016 to 25.01.2016 at SSN College of Engineering,Kalavakkam,Chennai
  • Attended AICTE sponsored two weeks FDP on “Recent Advancements in Generation and Utilization of Renewable Energy”,K.S.R College of Engineering,Tiruchengode from 15.5.2013 to 28.05.2013.

WorkShop Attended:

• • Attended two days Mentor-Mentee Training & Exposure visit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship organized by the Institution Innovation Council SVCE (sponsored by AICTE) from16-06-2022 to17-06-2022.
  • Attended AICTE Sponsored One Week STTP on “Battery Management and Control Techniques in EV’s” Organized by Dept. of EEE, H.I.T Nidasoshi, Belagavi from 07.12.2020 to 12.12.2020.
  • Attended International Workshop on Energy Technology and Sensor systems (TENSYS 2020) organized by IIItd&M Kancheepuram and University of Malaysia in association with FICCI , India and MTeS Malaysia from 28thn July to 30th July 2020.
  • Attended three days online workshop on “Programming Enhanced mid range PIC Microcontrollers using MPLABX IDE and digital PROTEUS” from 20.07.2020 to 22.07.2020.
  • Attended Five Days online seminar on E-shodh Sindhu Web of science certification organized by Clarivate,CISCO webex from 14.05.2020 to 15.06.2020.
  • Attended one day online seminar on “Recent Trends in Power Quality Improvement using AC/AC Converters” (01/06/2020) at SVCE.
  • Attended Five days Short Term Course on “Power Electronic converters and Controllers for EV and Smartgrid” from 18/12/2019 to 22/12/2019,at IIITD&M,Kelambakkam,Chennai.
  • Attended one day Seminar on Data Analytics ,Automated Driving and System Level Simulation using MATLAB/SIMULINKon 4/12/2018 at Hilton,Chennai
  • Attended Two Days National Workshop on “Modern Power converters for Renewable Energy Interface “(January 24th & 25th 2019) at SSN College of Engineering,Kalavakkam,Chennai.
  • Attended Two days National workshop on “A Revolutionary Technology – IoT Applications in Electrical and Electronics Engineering”(3rd&4th January 2019) at SVCE.
  • Attended two days workshop on “Software packages for Dynamic Modeling and Distributed control system” during 16th &17th March 2018 at SVCE.
  • Attended one day hands on training on “Embedded system ARM-7” (23/06/2017) at PANTECH ProEd,Chennai.
  • Attended three days online course on “Developing a power electronic circuit with Labview” from 16.12.2015 to 18.12.2015.
  • Attended two days workshop on “Model Based Design for Embedded systems using VisSim” from 20.06.2014 t0 21.06.2014 at PSG College of Technology,Coimbatore
  • Attended a Two days workshop on ‘Electrical and Electronic Circuits Engineering using NI Technology’ at NIELIT, National Instruments, Chennai on 28th & 29th December 2012.
  • “National Workshop on Hardware Implementation of Power Electronics & Drives”,SRM University Kattankulathur from15.09.2011 to 16.09.2011.
  • Attended two days workshop on “Soft Computing Techniques for Industrial Automation”, at Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai from 15.02.2008 to 16.02.2008.
  • Attended two days workshop on “Matlab and its Applications”, NITTTR,Tharamani,Chennai,from 01.12.2007 to 02.12.2007.
  • Attended two days workshop on “Networks and Systems”,IIT Madras from 28.04.2007 to 29.04.2007.

Conference Organised:

• • Assisted in organizing NCAEEE-2022 by acting as session chair for the event Paper Presentation(Session II, 27th May 2022) and registration of the participants.
  • Organized AICTE sponsored International E-conference on “SMART TECHNOLOGIES IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND POWER GRID – STEP 2021 AICTE sponsored International E-conference on “SMART TECHNOLOGIES IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND POWER GRID – STEP 2021 at SVCE from 27/01/2021 to29/01/2021
  • Organized National Conference on Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (NCAEEE-2014) from 17/02/14 & 18/02/14

Faculty Research Day:

• • Presented a seminar titled ” Design Of Dual Input Multiple Output (DIMO) Boost Converter For Low Power Grid Connected Micro-Inverter Applications” during Faculty Research Day held at SVCE on 15th June 2022.

Project Mentoring for Competitions:

• Ms.N.Shanmugavadivu mentored students for participation in the Student Research Day 2022 at SVCE on 8th April 2022 and demonstrated the project “Wide Range VOIP” and secured 1st prize.

• Faculty Advisor for (2018-2022) A2 Batch.
• ISO – Professional Development Objective Co-ordinator
• Staff – Development File Incharge
• Department Level Alumni Co-ordinator
• Department Level ERP Co-ordinator
• Faculty Advisor for (2018-2022) A2 Batch.
• ISO – Professional Development Objective Co-ordinator
• Staff – Development File Incharge
• Department Level Alumni Co-ordinator.

• “Wide Range VOIP” has been recognized as one of the most innovative and cost efficient idea by the co-ordinators and bagged third prize in the Project Exhibition,DAKSHAA T22. (National Level Technical symposium at K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology, Tiruchengode)