Department of
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Faculty & Staff

• Ph D:Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, INDIA, 2004
• M.Eng.: Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, INDIA, 1998
• B.Eng.: Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) Mangalore, INDIA, 1989

Dr. Abdul Rahiman Beig earned a B.Eng. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Suratkal, India, and, M.Tech., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. 

Dr. Beig has excellent industrial experience especially in the design of inverters; DSP/FPGA based embedded controllers and development of control algorithms for electric drives. From 1989 to 1992, he was with M/S Kirloskar Electric Company, Ltd, Mysore, India, as a R&D Engineer with the design team of BLDC drive, which received the best indigenous product design award by IEEMA, New Delhi, India. He later joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, NITK Suratkal.  His professional  activities at NITK include teaching, research, industrial consultancy work, modernization and restructuring of undergraduate laboratories, setting up of post graduate and research laboratories,  supervising the post graduate and PhD research theses. In addition to this he has actively participated in introducing new post graduate program and revising undergraduate curriculum. He was responsible for setting up of energy audit laboratory, electric drives laboratory, embedded controllers laboratory under the World Bank –Govt. of India funded project TEQIP. He was successful in obtaining the research grants from various sources including MHRD and DST, Govt. of INDIA. He has organized several short term courses for industries under continuing education program.

Dr Beig has been involved in teaching and research in power Electronics, electric drives, power quality and power electronic applications to power systems. His current research work is focused on multilevel inverters and its applications to VSI fed and CSI fed induction motor drives. He has several publications in this area.  He is Senior Member, IEEE and actively involved in IEEE activities. He is reviewer for IEEE-Industrial Electronics Transaction papers and also reviewed several IEEE international conference papers.

HONORS and AWARDS

• National award for the PhD thesis by Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) New Delhi, INDIA, 2005.
• Best presentation award at the international conference on Industrial Electronics, IEEE-IECON 03, Roanoke, Virginia USA, for the presentation of the paper entitled “Influence of Placement of Small Space Vectors on the Performance of PWM Techniques for Three Level Inverters" .
• Student award by the International Conference on Industrial Electronics, IEEE-IECON 03, Roanoke, Virginia USA, for the paper entitled “Influence of Placement of Small Space Vectors on the Performance of PWM Techniques for Three Level Inverters" .
• L&T-ISTE National award  for the best M.E. Thesis in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, 1998.
• QIP Scholarship -Govt. of India for  M.E. and Ph.D. studies.
• National Merit Award -Govt. of India for B. Eng. studies.

  
CURRENT/MAJOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Senior Member IEEE
• Life member ISTE
  
• Reviewer for IEEE-IE transactions

Research Interests:

• Power Electronics
• Electric drives
• Power quality
• Power Electronic applications to power systems

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS (A CRITICAL NUMBER THAT SHOWS AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST AND EXPERTISE) 

Transactions/Journals

• Abdul Rahiman Beig, G.Narayanan and V.T. Ranganathan., "  Modified SVPWM Algorithms for three level inverters with synchronization and output waveform symmetries"., Scheduled for publication by IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, vol.54, issue 1, Feb. 2007,  Pp 486-494.
• Abdul Rahiman Beig and V.T. Ranganathan., "A novel CSI drive", IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics. Vol. 21,  No. 4,  July 2006 Pp1073 - 1082

Conferences:

• A.R. Beig & V. T. Ranganathan, “An improved CSI fed induction motor drive for medium voltage applications,” in Proceedings of IEEE-IECON 2008, Orlando, Fl., USA, 2008, pp. 1118-1124.
• M. Poshtan & A. R. Beig, “A three phase active filter based on three level diode clamp inverter,” in Proceedings of IEEE Power Con International Conference, New Delhi, India, 2008, pp. 934-939.
• A. R. Beig, M. Poshtan & Rajesh Ramanand, “Electric Energy Forecasting by WEB-Based Method,” in Proceedings of the Second International Energy 2030 Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2008, pp. 322-329.
• S.S.Murthy, A.J.Pinto and A.R.Beig, Novel Integral Cycle Voltage Controller for Self Excited Induction Generators, proceedings of the international conference e on Power Electronics, drives and Energy Systems (PEDES) 2006, pp1-4
• Abdul Rahiman Beig and Majid Poshtan, "Improved CSI Fed Induction Motor Drive for Oil pumps in ADNOC", proceedings of the first international Energy 2030 conference , Nov. 1-2, 2006, Abu Dhabi, UAE, pp133-134.
• Abdul Rahiman Beig and Majid Poshtan, " An Improved Power Converter for ADNOC Solar Power Supply System, proceedings of the first international ENERGY 2030 conference , Nov. 1-2, 2006, Abu Dhabi, UAE, pp115-116.
• Abdul Rahiman Beig , Uday kumar Y and V.T. Ranganathan, "A novel fifteen level inverter for photovoltaic applications",  proceedings of the 39th IEEE-IAS annual committee meeting international conference, Oct 3-7, 2004, Seattle, Washington ,USA, pp1165-1171 ,
• Abdul Rahiman Beig and V.T. Ranganathan, "Influence of Placement of Small Space Vectors on the Performance of PWM Techniques for Three Level Inverters.", proceedings of  29th Annual Conference of the  IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON03 , vol.3, pp 2764 - 2770, Roanoke, Virginia, USA , Nov 2-6, 2003 .
• Abdul Rahiman Beig and V.T. Ranganathan,"Bus Clamped PWM Algorithms For Three Level VSI Fed High Power Induction Motor Drives", proceedings of  National Power Electronic Conference, NPEC 2003,  Oct.,16-17, 2003,IIT Bombay, India. .
• Abdul Rahiman Beig and V.T. Ranganathan., " Space Vector Based Bus Clamped PWM algorithm for Three Level Voltage Source Inverters:  Implementation, performance Analysis and Application Considerations", proceedings of the IEEE  International conference on Applied Power Electornics Conference and Exposition (IEEE -APEC 03), vol.1, pp 569-575 Miami Beach, Florida, Feb.9-13, 2003
• Abdul Rahiman Beig, G.Narayanan and V.T. Ranganathan., " Space Vector Based Synchronized PWM algorithm for Three Level Voltage Source Inverters: Principles and Applications to v/f drives," proceedings of the IEEE International conference on Industrial Electronics, IECON'02, pp 1249-1254, Sevilla,Spain, Nov. 9 - 14,'02
• Souvik Chattopadhyay, Abdul Rahiman Beig and V. Ramanarayanan, "An Input Voltage Sensorless Input Current Shaping Method for Three Phase Three Level High Power Factor Boost Rectifier, proceedings of  IEEE - IAS-2002, Pittsburgh, USA., vol. 3, pp 2110-2116 .
• Beig A.R. and V.T. Ranganathan ,"Implementation of Direct Torque Control of Induction Motor using Digital  Signal Processor", proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer, electronics and Electrical  Applications in Petroleum and Chemical Industry (CEEPCI-98) , ONGC Ahmadabad, India, Dec 13 -16, 1998

Research Projects:

• Mitigation of Power Quality Problems of the Variable Speed Drives for the National Drilling Company  (Jointly funded by NDC and PI).

• Improving the performance of high power drives to increase the plant capacity in ADNOC group of companies (Fudned by PI-RAGs).

• Study of power Quality Problems and design of active filters to improve the variabel speed drives (Funded by PI-RAGs).
  

Research Lab:

• Power Electronics Lab.