Prashanna Dev Bhattarai Email & Phone Number

Ruston, La, Us

Ruston, Louisiana, United States

Research interests: Power system protection, traveling-wave and time-domain relays, electromagnetic transient studies, power system modeling, electric machines, power quality

Ruston, La

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

o Graded assignments and tests, provided office hours and tutoring sessions, and administered the course Moodle for several EE courses including: Electrical Circuits, Introduction to Power Systems, Harmonics in Power Systems, Power System Modelling, Power Systems Protection, Digital Logic, Electromagnetic Theory

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Responsible for setting up and teaching the lab, grading, designing the lab finals and administering the grades• Topics include Over current, Line, Differential and Transformer Protection using electromechanical and microprocessor relays • Students learn how to design and change relay settings, download and analyze event reports, test electromechanical and microprocessor relays, operate and use state simulators, use relay and state simulator software • Hardware used: GE and Westinghouse mechanical relays, SEL and Beckwith microprocessor Relays, OMICRON State Simulators • Software used : acSELerator, Test Set Universe • Course trains students in industry standard hardware and software

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Responsible for teaching the lab, designing the lab final and administering the grades• Students learn how to design and simulate electrical models in ETAP, perform load flow and fault analysis, design compensators, generate load flow and short circuit analysis reports etc. • Software used : ETAP and MATLAB • Course trains students in industry standard software

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Worked with another graduate student and designed the experiments and the syllabus for the lab portion of the senior level design course • Co- authored the lab manual for the course • Equipment used for the experiments include SEL and Beckwith Microprocessor Relays, GE and Westinghouse Electromechanical Relays and OMICRON state simulators, electromechanical test sets • Software used include acSELerator and Test Set Universe• Topics include Overcurrent, Differential, Line, and Transformer Protection• Course has been offered 4 times till date with average enrollment in excess of 35 students

Greater New Orleans Area

• Conducted Dynamic Stability Studies in PSS/E • Modeled Entergy’s Transmission System in PowerWorld• Conducted Transmission Planning Studies

Jackson, Mississippi Area

• Designed and updated relay settings • Designed reclosing guidelines based on DC Schematics • Automated reclosing guidelines documentation using VBA

Jackson, Mississippi Area

• Developed drawings of Entergy Standard Relay Lab test configurations with AutoCad• Wired relays in lab racks for standards testing

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Designed the experiments and the syllabus for the lab portion of the senior level design course • Wrote a lab manual for the course • Experiments designed using software ETAP and MATLAB• Course has been offered 4 times till date with average enrollment of 30 students

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Responsible for setting up and teaching the lab and administering the grades• Topics include harmonic analysis, filter design, harmonic resonance in distribution systems etc. • Software used: LabView

Phd, Electrical Engineering ( Power Systems ), 4.0

Dissertation Title : " Powers and compensation in three-phase systems with nonsinusoidal and asymmetrical voltages and currents"

Master Of Science (Ms), Electrical Engineering, 4.0

Thesis Title : " Study on effects of voltage asymmetry and distortion on induction machines"

Bsc, Electrical Engineering

Intermediate Of Science, Physics And Mathematics