Dr.N.Kannan, Ph.D.,
Professor,
Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Sona College of Technology, Salem
– 636 005 India
Ph: +91 – 427 – 2443545, 4099999 Ext: 727
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND :
- B.E., Electrical Engg. 1970 PSG Tech, Coimbatore, University of Madras
- M.S., Electrical Engg. 1986, JNTU, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
- Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering
ACADEMIC & INDUSTRIAL CAREER :
Career at ISRO/VSSC/IISU, Trivandrum
- Tech. Asst – C 1971 to 1973
- ENGINEER – SC 1974 to 1978
- ENGINEER – SD 1979 to 1982
- ENGINEER – SE 1983 to 1986
- ENGINEER – SF 1987 to 1993
- ENGINEER – SG 1994 to 1999, DPD, IRS – P4
- ENGINEER – G 2000 to 2002, DPD, INSAT 3A/3C
- Former GROUP DIRECTOR, SPACECRAFT INERTIAL SYSTEMS GROUP.
TVPM in the Year 2000.
- Presently doing R & D Activities at Sona for ISRO Projects
Title of Thesis :
Design and Development of a Brushless DC motor for Space Applications
Papers Published :
- Drive Motor for Momentum Wheel for APPLE Spacecraft INSA Symposium –
Servo Systems, VSSC, Feb 1980 – author
- Momentum Wheel for APPLE Spacecraft Journal of Aeronautical Society of
India Vol.35, No.3-4 Aug – Nov 1983 – Co-author.
- Design and development of Brushless DC motor for Space applications.
Second European Space Mechanisms & Tribology Symposium, West Germany,
Oct 1985 – author
- An optimized module type Hybrid Stepper Motor for Spacecraft Solar Array
Drive, 1997 IEEE Symposium – Co-author
- Magnetically Suspended Reaction Wheel for Spacecraft Attitude Control,
INSA Symposium, VSSC 2001 Trivandrum. Co-author.