ABOUT ROORKEE
Roorkee town (Longitude: E770 53' 52” and latitude : N290 52' 00”. Average
elevation: 268 meters above the mean sea level) is situated 30 Kms south of lower
Himalayan range and is in the district Haridwar of Uttarakhand State. It is
considered to be the gateway to pilgrimage centres of many renowned places like
Haridwar, Rishikesh and hill stations such as Mussoorie. Roorkee is well
connected by roads and trains falls on Dehradun-Saharnpur rail link. Roorkee is
located at 180 Kms northeast of New Delhi, the capital of India. There are frequent
and regular bus services, deluxe/ordinary, from Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT),
New Delhi. Road transport services between Delhi and Dehradun and between
Delhi and Haridwar run through Roorkee. It is also connected by rail from New
Delhi. A fully air-conditioned superfast train Shatabdi Express and another
superfast train Janshatabdi run between New Delhi and Dehradun with a halt at
Roorkee. The weather during October in Roorkee remains pleasant.
ABOUT THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee is the successor of the
University of Roorkee and is the oldest technical institution of the Indian sub-
continent. It was established as the Roorkee College in 1847 and rechristened as
the Thomson College of Civil Engineering in 1854. Recognizing its yeoman
contribution for the development of the country for over 100 years, this temple of
learning was elevated to the status of a University, the first technical university in
India in 1949. The University of Roorkee was converted to IIT Roorkee by the
Government of India on September 21, 2001, thereby further elevating it to an
institute of national importance. Over the years, it has built up and maintained an
excellent academic reputation. The outstanding achievements of its alumni
especially in the field of water related subjects are a testimony to this. The IIT
Roorkee has academic departments in the area of Engineering, Sciences,
Architecture and Planning, Management studies and Humanities and Social
Sciences besides many centres of higher education and research.
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT PREAMBLE OBJECTIVES
The Electrical Engineering Department was part of the Thomson College The application of computer has permeated in all aspects of electrical The impact of computers, particularly over last four decades, has
of Engineering from the year 1897, one of the earliest such specialization in the engineering practices and new avenues of such applications are being continually changed practices in electrical engineering beyond recognition even
world when the discipline itself was in its infancy. The first batch in Electrical though the process is not yet complete. CERA'13 aims to provide platform
explored. The scientific and engineering community is devoting efforts to harness
Engineering passed out of the college in the year 1900. The department was closed for bringing together teachers, researchers, professionals, managers and
down in the year 1923, following the recommendation of a special committee that the potential of computer assisted solutions to fascinating and challenging policy makers not only to discuss recent advances in off-line and on-line
the college may be converted to purely Civil Engineering Institution. This decision problems of electrical engineering. An element of artificial intelligence is defining computer application techniques including use of associated fields of
was not to be reversed until on the eve of being converted into a University. The optimization, modeling, simulation, expert systems, artificial intelligence,
new control strategies, unthinkable until recently, in all segments of this vital
Fortescu committee advised the resumption of instructions in Electrical neural network etc., but also to discuss the absorption of these areas in
Engineering and the present department of Electrical Engineering came into being branch of engineering enriching it with efficient, reliable, flexible and user friendly academic curriculum and industrial practices and to deliberate on directions
in 1946, and the first graduates of the new department were offered courses with solutions achievable with precision. needed to be taken up for future course of R&D and training in this vital
options in both Electrical & Telecommunication Engineering Subsequently, in areas.
1964, the department was bifurcated to form the two departments i.e. Electrical Besides research papers, CERA'13 welcomes application oriented
Engineering and Electronics & Communication Engineering. Starting from Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Utilization of papers particularly relating to industry as well as papers highlighting
The department had also started post graduate programme in 1954, one Electrical Engineering to different applications of the same, the use of computers, applied problems for which appropriate solutions are being currently
of the earliest programme in the country, offering nine month's diploma in searched. Some of the themes identified for the conference are as under:
both online and offline has become very popular. In order to keep pace with the
Electrical Machine Design. Another 3 month's dissertation work converted the 1. Smart Grid Technologies and its applications
diploma to ME Degree. In 1963-64, two ME Courses on advanced Electrical development of Computer Applications in Electrical Engineering, an International
2. Distribution System Automation and Reforms
Machines & Power System Engg. were added on the recommendation of Thacker Conference helps in bringing people engaged in teaching, research and industries 3. Digital Protection and SCADA
Committee and the earlier one was dropped. Later two more ME Course on System together to learn from each other and enhance their knowledge level as well. The 4. Design, Operation and Condition Monitoring of Power
Engg. & Operations Research and Measurement & Instrumentation were added. Apparatus
Department of Electrical Engineering of IIT Roorkee is more than hundred years old
The renamed and reorganised courses now are: 5. Intelligent and Virtual Instrumentation
1. Instrumentation & Signal Processing 2. Power System Engineering and it has its trained graduates in almost all corners of India and abroad. In 1997, it 6. Distributed Electronic Measurements
3. Electric Drives & Power Electronics 4. Systems & Control was thought to organize International Conference in the area of Computer 7. Digital Signal and Image Processing
Also in year 2007 a new Integrated Dual Degree programme known as B. 8. Digital Control, Automation and Robotics
Applications in Electrical Engineering every four years with an aim to update the
Tech. in Electrical Engineering and M. Tech. in Power Electronics has been started. 9. Flexible AC Transmission System
The department is recognized centre for Ph.D and M.Tech. programmes. It teaching and research fraternity about the newer developments. The present 10. Power Electronics
is offering Ph.D. programme since 1964 and more than 125 faculty members and conference is the fifth in this series. 11. Power Quality Issues
research scholars have been awarded Ph.D. degrees so far. The Department is very 12. Power System Restructuring and Deregulation
active in industry-institution interaction and is providing consultancy services to 13. Power Semiconductor Controlled Electric Drives
the industry over the last 45 years. Number of prestigious sponsored and 14. Renewable Energy Systems
consultancy projects for different organisation have also been completed by the 15. System Modeling and Simulation
Department. 16. Telemedicine and Bio-informations
17. Medical Instrumentation
18. Digital System Design
19. Medical Signal and Image Processing
 First Announcement
DATE,
International Conference
VENUE AND On
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The conference is scheduled to be COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN

held at the Department of Electrical Patron : Prof. Pradipta Banerji ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Engineering, Indian Institute of Director, I.I.T., Roorkee
TOURS & EXHIBITION
Technology, Roorkee, India during RECENT ADVANCES :
Oct. 3-5, 2013. The site seeing tours to nearby places such as Mussoorie, Haridwar, Chairman : Prof. Pramod Agarwal
Rishikesh etc. will be available for the participants and accompanying persons on Head, Elect. Engg. Dept. SMART GRID TECHNOLOGIES
Official language payment basis.
Convener : Prof. Vinod Kumar
of the conference will be The industries are invited to participate in the exhibition being
English. organized during the conference.
Organising Secretary : Prof. N P Padhy

Jt Organising Secretary : Dr. Vishal Kumar

The registration fee which covers the cost of conference registration kit,
CALL FOR PAPERS participation in all the activities of the conference, lunch, intersession tea and banquet is as Treasurer : Prof. S P Singh
follows:
For International Participants:
Prospective authors, intending to present their research papers, Delegate : USD 500
are requested to submit their full length paper in a standard format having Delegate from an Institution
having MOU with IIT Roorkee : USD 400
restricted length, which when accepted, can be limited to four pages of
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Student Delegate : USD 200
IEEE double column format. The author(s) should indicate the theme under Accompanying person : USD 200
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which article would be considered in the conference. The paper may be For Indian and SAARC Countries Participants:
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submitted on A-4 size. The research paper will be reviewed by a p a n e l Any delegate from:
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of experts from different fields. After (i) Teaching/Research Organisation : INR 7,000
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recommendation of the reviewers the (iii) Full time students/Research Scholars : INR 4,000 Prof. N.P. Padhy
acceptance of the paper will be sent along T E TO
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D A R CERA'13
with the instructions for preparing the final
manuscript. For paper to be published in MODE OF PAYMENT
Last date for receiving the paper : The payment of registration fee should be made by accounts payee
conference it will be obligatory for at least DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
May 15, 2013 demand draft drawn in favour of “Registrar IIT Roorkee” payable at Roorkee, India. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE
one of the authors to register and
Intimation about acceptance of paper: ROORKEE - 247667
present the paper in the conference. All SPONSORSHIP OF THE CONFERENCE
July 15, 2013 The conference is likely to be sponsored by many International and
(UTTARAKHAND), INDIA Oct. 3-5, 2013
the papers presented at CERA'13 will be
National agencies such as IEEE, IET, AICTE, DST, DOE, U-COST, CSIR etc.
included in conference proceeding CD Last date for receiving the final paper : The Indian Industry, Academia and Utilities are also invited to sponsor Fax : +91-1332-273560, +91-1332-285231
and efforts are being made to post on IEEE July 30, 2013 the conference by providing the financial support.
Explore and selected papers for E-mail:cera13@iitr.ernet.in, cera13@gmail.com DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
publication in International Journal. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE
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