Sunday, January 1, 2012

Profile of HOD of E&C Dept
Prof. SM Shashidhar


Prof. SM Shashidhar, Head of the dept of Electronics & Communication Engg of Proudhadevaraya Institute of Technology, Hospet. Prof. Shashidhar is serving in Veerasaiva Vidyavardhaka Sangha’s Engineering Colleges for the past 25 years.

He studied his B.E. from BBT College of Engineering, Davangere and M.E. from PDA College of Engineering, Gulbarga.

He served as the Member of the Karnataka state Managing Committee of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) during 1996-98 and 2009-2011. He was the Executive Committee Member of the Communications Society (COMSOC) of Institution of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Bangalore Chapter during 2008-10. He is also a Member  of The Institution of Engineers (India). He has authored a book on ‘Saving Electricity’ published by Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum. He is also the Joint Secretary of ‘Karnataka Jnana Vijnana Samithi’ (KJVS), Bengaluru.

He is heading E&C Dept of PDIT since Sept 2007. He has attended various conferences of state and national level and presented technical papers. Currently, he is pursuing his research in the field of ‘Power Systems Protection using VLSI approaches.’