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About the Author
Dr S. K. Bhattacharya is currently the principal of SUS Women’s
Engineering College, Mohali. Formerly, he was the principal of Technical
Teachers’ Training Institute, Chandigarh; Director of National Institute of
Technical Teachers’ Training and Research (NITTTR), Kolkata; and Director
of Hindustan Institute of Technology, Greater Noida.
Dr Bhattacharya graduated in electrical engineering from Jadavpur
University, obtained his M.Tech. degree from Calcutta University and his
Ph.D. from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. As a senior
fellow of MHRD, Government of India, he attended the technical teacher’s
training programme at the Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur. On Dutch
Government’s fellowship programme, he attended a one-year teacher training
programme at the Netherlands and the UK, and six months’ fellowship
programme of British Council on educational technology at Sheffield, UK.
Dr Bhattacharya has visited many institutions in India and in countries like
the UK, the Netherlands, Australia, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Malaysia, etc.
He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers and the Institution of Electronics
and Telecommunication Engineers.
A large number of popular books, technical papers, non-print type teaching
and learning materials have been published by Dr Bhattacharya.
