Problem Statement

The world is moving towards fuel efficiency and optimization. Smart Grid (SG) along with battery electric vehicle (BEV) appear to have great future together. There are many issues to be addressed for the successful development of this technology since SG is still in developmental stage and attracting tremendous efforts from governments, electric utilities and researchers.

It is therefore desirable to develop a vehicle to smart grid test-bed that could analyze, and demonstrate various novel SG solutions, namely demand response, real-time pricing, and congestion management.

The department of Electrical Engineering at Bahria University is the home to multi-disciplinary research and academic unit addressing issues and recent advances in Electrical Engineering. Student enrolled at EE BU are taught by an expert faculty with national and international research experience in the fields of Telecommunication, Electronics and Power Systems. The mission of Electrical Engineering department is to provide quality education to the students to prepare them in playing a crucial role in shaping the future of high technology environment and to faster the process of learning.

The program is designed to enhance the student’s ability to compete in a challenging career and counsel them in the field of Industry, Academia, and Public Institution and to make a significant contribution to the field of Electrical Engineering.

Group Progress & Plan

• Literature review related to Smart Grids and Battery Electric Vehicles.
• Identification and formulation of problem statement
• Literature review related to problem statement.
• Identification of focus area.
• Further study related to focus area
• Designing and analyzing the required test bed.
• Publishing the research findings and research work in form of papers

The focus area is development of BEV to SG test bed. There are following aspects related to this:

• Cyber security network.
• Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging
• Telematics network for EV
• Smart Grid

Future Plan

Pakistan is a big market for the electronics products. It is aimed to minimize the import and maximize the Made-in-Pakistan products. Long term plan is to switch Pakistani Engineers from maintenance based engineering to research and design based engineering. Establishment of a Renewable Energy Research Lab (RERL) at BUKC. Future plan is to make a smart grid based charging system for electric vehicles. Designing and analysis of mm Wave communication system for electric vehicle and machine to machine industrial communication.

• Dr. Anzar Alam
  Online surface roughness characterization of paper and paperboard using a line of light triangulation technique
  Online surface characterization of paper and paperboards in a wide-range of the spatial wavelength spectrum
  Investigation of the surface topographical differences between the Cross Direction and the Machine Direction for newspaper and paperboard
  Real time surface measurement technique in a wide range of wavelengths spectrum
  Limitation of a line-of-light online paper surface measurement system

Group-1

Dr. Haroon Rasheed (PhD (Telecommunication Engineering), AIT Thailand)
Engr. Muhammad Khalid (ME (Electrical Engineering), NED University)
Dr. Mukesh Kumar Maheshwari (PhD,MS(Information & Communication Engineering),University of Leicester UK)
Dr. Taimoor Zafar (PhD,M.E (Industrial Control & Automation), Hamdard University)

Group-2

Dr. Aurangzeb Rashid Masud (PhD, ME (Electronics Engineering), NED)
Engr. Habib Zuberi (MS (Telecommunication Engineering), NED)

Group-3

Dr. Anzar Alam (PhD (Electronics Engineering) Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Engr. Faraz Humayun (MS (Telecom Engineering), NED)
Engr. Abdul Rafay(MS (Electronics Engineering), MUET)
Engr. Sahibzada Wajid Ali Khan (MS (Electronics Engineering), NED)

This laboratory is equipped with the latest hardware equipment and software. It also provides adequate opportunities to the students to undertake research projects. Lab is fully air conditioned and provides a serene and stimulating environment for learning. Following are some of its major lab equipment: