Applied physics, Instrumentation Engineering

History

Year of Establishment : 1925

History of the department :The Department of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta is a forerunner of India in the field of technological education and research. Founded in 1925 under the shroud of pre-independence era, the Department was truly the initiator of research and technological directions in the areas of Advanced Technology spanning over Measurements, Instruments Communication, and Standardization.

From 1925 to 1952, two year M. Sc. degree was offered from Applied Physics. In 1953, it was renamed as M.Sc. (Tech.) in Applied Physics with Specialization in – Measurement & Instrumentation and Electrical Machine & Power System. From 1959, Applied Physics started offering three year M. Tech. with same specializations as with M.Sc. (Tech.). Three year Post B. Sc. B. Tech. course in Applied Physics commenced from 1969 in Measurement & Instrumentation and Electrical Machine & Power System. From 1989, Applied Physics started offering three year B. Tech. in – Instrumentation Engineering and Electrical Engineering. Three year Post B. Sc. B. Tech. Tech. in Instrumentation Engineering was set off from 1994 and lastly from 2015 onwards, four year eight semester B. Tech. in Instrumentation Engineering has been initiated.

Vision of the Program of Instrumentation Engineering offered from the Department of Applied Physics:

To produce globally competitive and socially active engineering graduates suitable for the profession, higher studies and research in the frontier areas of Instrumentation Engineering so as to help the society achieve self sufficiency.
To provide excellent education and practical training to students so that they can have no difficulties in facing job interviews in various posts of instrumentation engineers conducted by different industries.
To help UG students in building up their careers in various industries where instrumentation plays a key role in running the industry with better efficiency, lower per unit cost of better quality product as well as with better safety of operation.
To provide the students with advanced research facilities in Instrumentation Engineering and allied subjects.
To promote the students in building up their career as very good engineer, technologist, academician, researcher and nation builder.

Mission of the Program of Instrumentation Engineering offered from Department of Applied Physics:

To provide quality and contemporary education through effective teaching – learning process in the domain of Instrumentation Engineering by best learner oriented laboratory facilities and practices.
To provide exposures to new technologies in Instrumentation Engineering and related cutting edge areas in order to serve the needs of the society, industry, government and scientific community.
To offer high quality graduate and post graduate programs in Instrumentation Engineering.
To prepare students for professional career or higher studies.
To promote excellence in teaching, research, collaborative activities and valuable/positive contributions to society.

Academic

Faculty Members :

Name	Designation	Area of Specialization	Email
Dr. Madhuchhanda Mitra [Profile]	Professor	Biomedical Signal Processing	[email protected]
Dr. Chanchal Dey [Profile]	Associate Professor	Intelligent Process Control	[email protected]
Dr. Saurabh Pal [Profile]	Associate Professor	Biomedical Instrumentation	[email protected]
Dr. Ujjwal Mondal [Profile]	Associate Professor	Control Systems	[email protected]

Courses :

Programme	Level of study	Eligibility	Intake capacity
4 Year B.Tech. in Instrumentation Engineering	Undergraduate	Based on ranking in WB Joint Entrance Examination for admission to Engineering courses	30
2 Year M.Tech. in Instrumentation and Control Engineering	Post Graduate	BE/B.Tech Degree in Instrumentation Engineering, Instrumentation & Control Engineering, Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Instrumentation & Electronics Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Electronics Engineering from any UGC approved University / AICTE recognized Institute	18
3 Year Part time M.Tech. in Instrumentation and Control Engineering	Post Graduate	Same as above. preference will be given for the candidates with working experience	18
Ph.D. (Tech.)			As per CU rule

Research

Registered Scholars :

Sl. No	Name	Designation/ Affiliation	Title of Thesis	Year of registration	Name(s) of Supervisor(s)
1	Samik Chakraborty (Thesis submitted)	Assistant Professor/ Heritage Institute of Technology	Studies on Multimodal Biometric Analysis for Personalized Authentication	2015	Dr. Saurabh Pal, Dr. Madhuchhanda Mitra
2	Sangita Das (Thesis submitted)	Research Scholar, University of Calcutta	Assistive technologies for automated cardiac abnormalities detection	2017	Prof. Madhuchhanda Mitra Dr. Saurabh Pal
3	Sandipan Dhar	Research Scholar, University of Calcutta	Bio-Signal Acquisition, Compression, Encryption And Classification	2018	Prof. Madhuchhanda Mitra Dr. Saurabh Pal
4	Avishek Paul	Assistant Professor Dept. of AEIE RCCIIT	Development of automated methodologies for the analysis of some biomedical signals	2021	Prof. Madhuchhanda Mitra Dr. Saurabh Pal
5	Abhishek Chakraborty	Research Scholar, CU	Studies on acquisition, processing and analysis of biomedical signals	2018	Prof. Madhuchhanda Mitra
6	Kausik Sen	Research Scholar Instrumentation Engineering Department ofApplied Physics University of Calcutta	Alternative Methodologies For Assessment Of Pain Using Autonomic Parameters	2021	Dr. Saurabh Pal
7	Somak Karan	Assistant Professor Department of Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, West Bengal, India.	Enhanced Modified Smith Predictor Based PID Controller Designing For Delay Dominated Processes	2021	Dr. Chanchal Dey
8	Santanu Mallick	Research Fellow Instrumentation Engineering, Department of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta	Design and Implementation of Advanced MRAC Techniques in Dynamical Systems	2021	Dr. Ujjwal Mondal
9	Abhinaba Dutta (Thesis submitted)	Assistant Professor& Course Coordinator, Electrical Engineering Department, Academy of Technology	Investigation OnThe Measurement Of Some Physical Quantities	2015	Prof. Satish Chandra Bera Dr. Chanchal Dey
10	Surita Sarkar	Senior Research Fellow, CSIR	Studies on Signal Based Alternative Methodologies for Characterization of Obstructive Lung Disease	2018	Dr. Saurabh Pal Dr. Madhuchhanda Mitra Dr. Parthasarathi Bhattacharyya
11	Pampa Debnath	Research Fellow Instrumentation Engineering, Department of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata - 700009	Modeling and Design of mm-Wave Devices for Communication System Applications	2021	Dr. Ujjwal Mondal
12	Naiwrita Dey	Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, RCCIIT	Advanced Robust Repetitive Controller Design: A Multiloop Adaptive Approach	2019	Dr. Ujjwal Mondal
13	Manas Sarkar	Assistant Professor Department of Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Haldia Institute of Technology,	Haze And Rain Removal For Computer Vision System	2021	Dr. Ujjwal Mondal Prof. Debashis Nandi
14	Moumita Sahoo	Assistant Professor Department of Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Haldia Institute of Technology,	Study of Optical Coherence Tomography Images for Analysis of Eye Conditions	2018	Dr. Saurabh Pal Dr. Madhuchhanda Mitra

PhD Degree recipients (2005 onwards) from Instrumentation Engineering Section:

Sl. No	Name	Designation/ Affiliation	Title of Thesis	Year of award	Name(s) of Supervisor(s)
1.	Jayanta Kr. Roy	Director, System Advance Technology Pvt Ltd.	Some investigation on instrumentation and sensing techniques in monitoring and control of process parameters.	2005	Prof. S. C. Bera
2.	Sucharita Sarkar (Mitra)	Assistant professor, Netaji Nagar Day College, Calcutta	Biomedical signal extraction and processing for digital time database generation and abnormality detection	2005	Dr. M. Mitra Prof. B. B. Chaudhuri (ISI, Kolkata)
3.	Subrata Chattopadhyay	Professor, Electrical Engineering Dept, NIIITR Kolkata	Investigation on some novel techniques of measurement and control instrumentation	2006	Prof. S. C. Bera
4.	Badal Chakraborty	Professor (Associate) Faculty of Agricultural Engineering Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidhyalay, Kalyani, WB	Investigation on some properties of ECG network along with their clinical applications and development of some transducers and control systems.	2009	Prof. S. C. Bera
5.	Sri Surajit Chattopadhyay	Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Dept, Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering and Technology	Electric Power Quality in Power System	2010	Prof. S. Sengupta Dr. M. Mitra
6.	Sri Madan Bhowmick	From Industry	Investigation on the improvement of steam generation plant through instrumentation and control System	2011	Prof. S.C Bera
7.	Sri Dhritinandan Kole	IIM Kolkata	Investigation on measurement and control of some electrical and process variables	2011	Prof. S.C Bera
8.	Smt Nirupama Mondal	Professor, Department of ECE, ISM Dhanbad, India	Investigation on development of some transducers and study of their applications in a process plant or any other equipment.	2012	Prof. S.C Bera
9.	Sri Rajan Sarkar	Associate Professor, AEIE, Asansol Engineering College, west Bengal	Studies on the development of some transducers..	2012	Prof. S.C Bera
10	Sri Rajarshi Gupta	Professor, Applied Physics, CU	An Approach to Develop A Method for Automated Remote Monitoring and Analysis of ECG Using A Smart Wireless Telecardiology System	2012	Dr. M.Mitra Dr. J.N.Bera
11.	Smt.Sarbani Chakraborty	Professor and Head, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BIT Mesra, Bihar, india	Investigation on some aspects of sensor design using vector nature of light	2012	Prof S.C.Bera
12.	Sri Saurabh Pal	Associate professor, Applied Physics, CU	Investigation on Classification of Electrocardiogram Signals using Time Frequency Model based Feature Extraction and Pattern Recognition by Artificial Intelligence Technique for Disease Identification and Biometric Analysis	2013	Dr. M.Mitra
13.	Ms Swati Banerjee	Research Engineer, Sorbonne University, Paris France	Application of soft computing techniques for analysis and classification of biomedical signals.	2015	Dr. M.Mitra
14.	Sri Sourav Kumar Mukhopadhyay	Biomedical Algorithm Developer, Data Science Department Myant Inc., www.myant.ca 100 Ronson Drive, Toronto, Ontario, M9W 1B6, Canada Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Ryerson University Canada	An Approach to Develop a Remote Tele-cardiology System for Compression, Transmission and Analysis of ECG Signal	2015	Dr. M.Mitra Dr. S. Mitra
15.	Sri Subrata Karmakar	Assistant Secretary, University of Calcutta	Motor Current Signature Analysis for Fault Diagnosis of Three Phase Induction Motor	2016	Prof. S. Sengupta Prof. M.Mitra DR. S. Chottopadhyay
16.	Harekrishna Chattopadhyay	Professor Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, India	ECG Feature Extraction and Signal Processing using Standalone Embedded Systems	2016	Dr. M. Mitra Dr. R.Gupta
17.	Syed Karauddin Ahamed	Associate Professor, Srirampore Govt. Textile College	Fault Diagnosis of Three Phase Induction Motor	2017	Prof. S. Sengupta Prof. M.Mitra Dr. Arghya Sarkar
18.	Uday Maji	Associte Professor Haldia Inst. Of Tech., WBUT	Characterization and Classification of Cardiac Episodes using Data Adaptive Techniques	2018	Dr. S. Pal Dr. M. Mitra
19.	Basudev Halder		Application of soft computing techniques for compression, analysis and classification of cardiac signals	2020	Dr. M. Mitra Dr. S. Mitra
20.	Debolina Sadhukhan	Post Doctoral Researcher Institut Langevin Université de Paris / CNRS UMR 7587 / ESPCI Paris / PSL University / Sorbonne Université 1 rue Jussieu - 75238 PARIS	Compression and Analysis of Cardiac Signals	2020	Dr. M.Mitra Dr.S.Pal
21	Haraprasad Mandal	Assistant Professor, Saroj Mohan Institute of Technology, Guptipara, Hooghly.	Design And Development Of Some Modified Transducers Of Process Variables	2022	Prof. Satish Chandra Bera; Prof. Madhuchhanda Mitra
22	Mr. Hiranmoy Mandal	Assistant Professor & HOD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Academy of Technology,	Some Modified Techniques Of Measurement In Process Industry	2022	Prof. Satish Chandra Bera Dr. Ujjwal Mondal
23	Sirshendu Saha	Assistant Professor & Course Coordinator, Department of Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Academy of Technology	Some Modified Techniques Of Measurement Of Electrical And Process Parameters	2022	Prof. Satish Chandra Bera Dr. Saurabh Pal
24	Pubali Mitra	Assistant Professor, Brainware University	Some studies on enhanced PID controllers with set point weighting	2022	Dr. Chanchal Dey Prof. Rajani Kanta Mudi
25	Pranati Ghoshal	Asst. Professor, AEIE Dept., Techno Main, Salt Lake	Improved ADC Designs And Investigations Of Non-Ideal Effects On Their Performance	2023	Prof. Sunit Kr. Sen & Dr. Chanchal Dey

Full time Scholars :

Name	Ph.D. Supervisor	Topic	Scholarship
Deboleena Sadhukhan [Profile]	Prof. Madhuchhanda Mitra, Dr. Saurabh Pal	Compression and Analysis of Cardiac Signals	DST INSPIRE
Surita Sarkar [Profile]	Dr. Saurabh Pal Prof. Madhuchhanda Mitra Dr. Parthasarathi Bhattacharyya	Studies on Signal Based Alternative Methodologies for Characterization of Obstructive Lung Diseases	CSIR SRF
Sangita Das [Profile]	Prof. Madhuchhanda Mitra Dr. Saurabh Pal	Assistive technologies for automated cardiac abnormalities detection	CSIR SRF
Sandipan Dhar [Profile]	Prof. Madhuchhanda Mitra Dr. Saurabh Pal	Bio-signal acquisition, compression, encryption and classification	TEQIP Phase III

Publications (last 10 years) :

International Journal : 99
International Conference : 110
h-index : 20
i-100 index : 8
i-10 index : 50

Contact

Campus : Rashbehary Siksha Prangan (Rajabazar Science College Campus)

Address for communication : Department of Applied Physics, University College of Science & Technology (UCST) University of Calcutta, 92 APC Road, Kolkata-700009