Officers
Activities
Department of Electrical Engineering
in Association with NITC IEEE Student Branch and
IA, IE & PE Society Chapter, IEEE Kerala Section
Presents a Special Address by
CHAKRAVARTHINI SAAJ
(Faculty , Surrey University, UK )
on
“Changing the Economics of Space: Future Trends in Space Exploration”
Abstract
Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has global reputation for the design, build and operation of low cost, multipurpose small satellites. This talk would provide an overview of the innovative and low cost technologies for space, developed by SSC and SSTL. Opportunities for research in satellite engineering, space and planetary exploration and current research activities of the Space Robotics research group at University of Surrey will be presented.
Biography of the Speaker
Dr. Chakravarthini Saaj has a Ph.D. and M. Tech in ‘Control Engineering’ from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (2003) and University of Kerala, India (1999). She has been a research fellow (2005-07) and a Lecturer (since 2007) in the Surrey Space Centre where she now leads the Space Robotics research group. At Surrey, she has worked on a wide variety of space applications ranging from public outreach on Galileo-Europe’s GPS to planetary rovers and spacecraft swarms. Earlier, she worked as a Research Fellow at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany and as a Visiting Research Associate at King’s College London. Dr. Saaj is a Chartered Engineer and member of IET, IEEE, AIAA and BIS. At Surrey, Dr. Saaj specializes in traction control of planetary rovers, guidance, navigation and control of satellites, pin-point planetary landers and robotic on-orbit servicing of modular satellites.
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IA & IE Chapter
and Communication Society jointly organise talk on
Digital Filters & Digital Signal Processing with
MATLAB/MATCAD Applications
By S H Mousavinezhad, Professor, Idaho
State University, USA
04 August 2007 (4:30 PM) at Harmoieee, IEEE Kerala Section,
Trivandrum - 1
IA
& IE Chapter and C-DAC, Trivandrum jointly organise talk
on
A Smarter Grid for Improving System Reliability, Power
Quality & Asset Utilisation
By Deepak Divan, Georgia Institute of Technology,
USA
24 July 2007 (5:00 PM) at Amphitheatre, C-DAC, Trivandrum
Awards
The IA & IE joint chapter was conferred the 'Best IA & IE small chapter Award for 1997'
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