MECHATRONICS, AS PER AICTE: INTEGRATED MECHANICAL ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

Dr.K.P.Ramachandran is currently working as Associate Dean (Academic), Caledonian College of Engineering, Sultanate of Oman -Muscat. He has been working more than 23 years in engineering institutions and as a consultant to many industries. He joined Caledonian College of Engineering (A University College) in 1997 where he has had variety of roles. He has been instrumental in designing, developing and validating many new academic programmes, setting up many laboratory facilities including Mechatronics lab at Caledonian College of Engineering G.K.Vijayaraghavan is working as a Senior lecturer in the department of mechanical engineering, Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman. He has obtained his M.Tech from IIT-Madras and currently doing PhD in the area of Thermography NDT. He has been in the teaching field for more than 11 years in various engineering colleges in India and abroad and has many research publications in his credit. He is a life member of Indian Society of Technical Education and Indian Society of Nondestructive Testing. M.S.Balasundaram, a post graduate in Electrical Engineering from the regional Engineering College, Tiruchirapalli, is presently teaching at the Caledonian College of Engineering, Muscat. Before joining the Caledonian college he was at the M. S. Engineering College in Bangalore as professor and head of the department of Electrical Engineering. He is a consultant to NEXANT Inc USA and has done consultation work for USAID projects in Power sector reforms in India. He has a long experience in industry mainly with Bharat Heavy Electricals, India for more than two decades in the fields of power engineering systems, power electronics and industrial drives.