Department of EEE, BUET

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image_size=130px
name=Department of EEE, BUET
head = Dr. Aminul Hoque
established=1962
University = Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
city=Dhaka
country=Bangladesh
students=800
faculty=51
address=Palashi,Dhaka-1000
telephone=880.2.966 5650-80
website= [http://www.buet.ac.bd/eee www.buet.ac.bd/eee]

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Bengali: তড়িৎ ও ইলেক্ট্রনিক্স কৌশল বিভাগ) of BUET is a Department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. It offers both Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses.

Location

The Department is currently located at the Electrical Wing of the EME Building. A TK. 32 Crore (approximately 5 million USD) project to build a new 12 storied building to house the department is on the way. After completion, the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering i.e. the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering will move to the new building. The construction of the new building is underway at West Polashi adjacent to the BUET main campus and is expected to be completed by 2008. Currently (July 2008 semester) Theory classes of students up to Level-3, Term-1 have been shifted to the new campus.

Head of the Department

Head of the department functions as the administrative top position of the department. Usually, a Professor of the Department is selected for a two years term. Current Head of the Department is Prof. Dr. Engr. Aminul Hoque.

Labortories

The Department has some well equipped Labs. The Labs are also used by Military Institute of Technology, Bangladesh, Ahsanullah University as well as other private universities. The Robert Noyce Simulation Lab was funded by the Intel Bangladesh Association (IBA)The list of the laboratories include:

1. Switchgear and Protection Laboratory
2. High Voltage Engineering Laboratory
3. Electronics Laboratory
4. Power Electronics Laboratory
5. Robert Noyce Simulation Laboratory
6. Electronic Circuits Simulation Laboratory
7. Digital Signal Processing Laboratory
8. Telecommunication Laboratory
9. Control Systems Laboratory
10. Microwave Engineering Laboratory
11. VLSI Laboratory
12. Digital Signal Processing Laboratory
13. Electrical Circuits Laboratory-I, II and II
14. Electrical Machines Laboratory
15. Advanced Machines Laboratory
16. Power System Laboratory

Project Works

*Conventional and renewable energy generation, transmission and utilization
*High voltage transients
*Power system planning, reliability, operation, control and protection
*Machine and drives design
*Microwave fading
*Microstrip antenna design
*Remote sensing
*Design and synthesis of VLSI and ULSI circuits
*Semiconductor device design and characterization
*Digital signals and image processing
*Neural networks
*Bio-medical signal conditioning and identification of processed signals
*Mobile telecommunication and optical fibers etc

Consultancy

Faculty members take part actively in consultancy, testing and collaborative research work administered by the Bureau of Research, Testing and Consultation of BUET on request from various government, semi-government bodies and private organizations. They are also helping in teaching, curricula and laboratory developments, and research activities of the newly emerging public and private universities in Bangladesh under MoU or BRTC programs (Like Ahsanullah University)

Alumni

Its alumni include many successful engineers and alumni includes Engineers at international organizations such as Intel and academic positions in many Bangladeshi and US Universities. Since the inception the Department of EEE, BUET has been drawing the attention of the top notch students of Bangladesh as their first choice of study. (BUET admission test itself is a very compititive exam). In the fields of power and the booming telecommunication industries, Bangladesh is experiencing steady growth due to the need. The current trend is that graduates join local cellular telecommunication (Grameen Phone Banglalink etc), power (State Owned Power Grid Company of Bangladesh, as well as private firms), and several IC design centers and software development companies.

Conferences

Department of EEE is one of the main organizers of the International Conference of Electrical and Communication Engineering (ICECE).

Extracurricular Works

Electrical Day

Every year, Electrical Day is celebrated by the students and the teachers of the Department. The Day's programs include cultural functions, quiz contests, etc.

IEEE BUET Student Branch

The Department is also the Umbrella Organizations to house and govern the IEEE BUET Student Branch

Financial Problems

As BUET is a state owned university of Bangladesh. The pay-scale of the teachers are fixed by the Government. The salary of the teachers are quite meagre compared to the salary of the private universities. University Education is free in state owned universities, and only a nominal exam fee and subsidized hall charge has to be borne by the Students. Due to the low salary of the teachers, many successful researchers and good teachers of the Department have left their jobs to join private universities and majority of the teachers, especially senior teachers do part-time teaching jobs in the private universities. This has started to cripple the educational quality of the department. The department tries to overcome the scarcity of teachers by recruiting fresh graduates as lecturer every year.

External links

*Official Website http://www.buet.ac.bd/eee/