About the Book:

This book fully caters to the needs of students undergoing a course on “Basic Concepts of Electrical and Electronics Engineering” in all Electrical, Electronics, Computer Science and other allied branches.

An earnest attempt has been made in the book “Basic Concepts of Electrical and Electronics Engineering” to elucidate the principles and applications of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and its importance, as to evince interest on the topics so that the students gets motivated to study the subject with the interest. 

Salient Features

• For better understanding and grasp of the subject, a set of Comprehension Questions and Exercises have been provided at the end of first five chapters. 
• Objective Type Questions, Essay Type Questions and Conceptual Questions and answers for questions are given at the end of the last three chapters.

About the Authors:

Dr. Pisupati S. Subramanyam, is a holder of Doctorate in Engineering from IIT, Madras has a vast experience in industrial (Electrical Power Generation and Control), academic and administrative areas. He is a fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India), fellow of National Federation of Engineers, senior member of IEEE, member of Computer Society of India, member of Indian Society for Technical Education. He has guided a number of B.Tech, M.Tech and Ph.D. projects in Power Systems, published a number of papers in National and International Journals and authored several textbooks.  Basically from Electrical Engineering discipline, he cross migrated to the field of Computer Science and Engineering, working as Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Information Technology for 20 years. Being Principal of J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, he is instrumental in getting additional branches and additional intake sanctioned. He is also instrumental in getting accreditation by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for J.B.I.E.T. He also got several PG courses like M.Tech., MCA and MBA  sanctioned for J.B.I.E.T.  He also got the Jawahar Knowledge Centre sanctioned for J.B.I.E.T. and ran it successfully. He got In-campus and Off-campus Placements done by several M.N.Cs for J.B.I.E.T. and students of other colleges also. At present Dr. P. S. Subramanyam is Professor Emeritus in the Department of E.E.E. in Vignana Bharathi Institute of Telchnology, Aushapur, Ghatkesar Mandal at the outskirts of Hyderabad.

Dr. P.S. Subramanyam has been awarded the Best Student Branch Councellor Award twice by IEEE, Hyderabad section.

Professor Kondepudi Lal Kishore, is a distinguished academician and administrator with over 34 years of teaching experience. A post graduate and Ph.D. degree holder from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Prof. Kishore began his career in teaching at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH) in 1977. He is elevated as professor in 1990 in the same University and subsequently held many academic and administrative positions in the University. He has over 190 research publications to his credit till now. So far 24 research scholars obtained Ph.D under his guidance and some more are doing research under him. He wrote Six Text Books in the areas of Electronic Devices, Electronic Circuit Analysis, Linear I.C. Applications, Electronic Measurements and VLSI, which are popular and widely used by engineering students. He has many more distinctions to his credit from National and International organizations. He delivered many invited lectures and chaired Technical sessions.

He has received Best Teacher Award for the year 2004, Sir Mokshagundam Visweswaraya Award, first Bapu Seetharam Memorial Award, Eminent Electronics and Communications Engineer Award, elected fellow of A.P. Akademi of Sciences.