Overview

My vision is to build a safe, comfortable, disciplined, challenged, and engaged classroom environment for the students. I always think about innovative ideas to transfer the knowledge to the students by providing hands-on, and visual experience through our smart classrooms and labs. I personally believe students don’t learn what we (parents and teachers) say, but they always learn from what we do, so I always work to build the best attitude, skillset, knowledge, and values in my students.

Information

Academic Interests and Expertise

Education:

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Wichita State University, USA (2012)
  • M.S. in Electical Engineering, Wichita State University, USA (2006)
  • B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Acharya Nagarjuna University, India (2004)
Areas of Research Interest

Research Interests:

  • Power Systems
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy Storage
  • Impact of Inverters on Grid
  • Designed and connected a 7,200 VA Grid tie inverter system including storage system
  • Designed and installed a 5 KW solar system
  • Designed and worked with high voltage and low voltage lab equipment
Areas of Teaching Interest
  • Circuits-1
  • Circuits-2
  • Electronic circuits
  • Electrical machines
  • Physics-2
  • Renewable energy
  • Introduction to control system and Linear system
Publications
  • P. Tamtam and W. Jewell, “Commercially available energy storage technologies for electricity storage,” in Proc. 42nd Annual Frontiers of Power Conference, Stillwater, OK, October, 2009.
  •    P. Tamtam and W. Jewell, “Steady-state analysis of a renewable energy inverter,” in Proc.  43rd North American Power Symposium, Boston, MA, August, 2011.
  •   P. Tamtam and W. Jewell, “Steady-state analysis and transient analysis of a renewable energy inverter,” in Proc. IEEE PES General Meeting, San Diego, CA, July, 2012.
  • P. Tamtam, Corbin Taylor, and Trevor Hardy, “Flexible Emulation of Photovoltaic Configurations with Grid-Connection,” in Proc. 46th Annual Frontiers of Power Conference, Stillwater, OK, October, 2013
  • P.Tamtam, Vinod Namboodiri, Lawrence E. Whitman, Abu Asaduzzaman, Kiyun Han, Rajeev Nair “ How are faculty using technology in engineering education” in proc. 2014 ASEE Midwest section conference,  Fort Smith, AR, September 2014
  • P.Tamtam, Moniruzzaman Md, Asaduzzaman Abu “Efficient Management of Renewable Solar Energy for Vehicular Applications” in proc. 2015 ISERD International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Management, Bangkok, Thailand, May 2015
  • P. Tamtam and W. Jewell, “Transient-State Analysis and Modeling of Renewable Energy Inverter” IEEE PES General Meeting, Atlanta, GA August, 2019.
  • P. Tamtam  and J. Nichols “ Solar Powered Rickshaw” IEEE transportation and electrification conference and expo, Novi, MI June, 2019
Professional Experience
  • Associate Teaching Professor Wichita State University August 2018 to present
  • Engineering Educator Wichita State University August 2012 to May 2018
  • Graduate research assistant, Wichita State University January 2009 to May 2012
  • Teaching assistant, WICHITA state university August 2008 to August 2012
Grants
  • Midwest Industrial Assessment Center Award ($587,500) Nov. 2016 to Oct. 2021
  • NSF EPSCoR Education and Diversity Grant ($8,600) Nov. 2014 to Oct. 2015
  • ENGAGE project, funded by  NSF ($2,000) August 2013 to May 2014
  • KEEN Mini grant, Funded by University of New Haven ($2,000) June 2017 to May 2018
Areas of Service

Committees                                                                                                                                        

·        Faculty senator Aug.-17 to Present

·        Executive member of faculty senate  May-18 to May-19

·        Teaching faculty hiring committee member; served in 6 hiring committees

·        Non-Tenure Track faculty promotion college committee member Aug.-18 to Present

·        Non-Tenure Track faculty promotion university committee member Aug.-18 to Present

·        Admissions and exception committee member Aug.-18 to Present

·        Department ABET committee member (ENGT)  Aug.-14 to Present

·        Department curriculum committee member (ENGT) Aug.-14 to Present

·        PE cut score meeting participant June-2018

Other activities

·         Faculty adviser for Indian Student Association at WSU Aug.-18 to present

·         Faculty adviser for Srilankan Student Association at WSU Aug.-18 to Aug-20

·         President, Cultural Association of India, Wichita Jan. 2105 to Jan. 2016

·         President, Indian Student Association, WSU 2008 to 2009

·         Vice-President of Development,  International Student Union, WSU 2008 to 2009

·         President, Indian Student Association, WSU 2008 to 2009

·         Vice-President of Development,  International Student Union, WSU 2008 to 2009

·         Successfully completed applying Quality Matter (QM) November 2016

·         Published a lesion on “power in an AC circuit” in everyday examples in Engineering                             July 2014 

·         Adviser for undergraduate students Aug.-2014 to Present

·         Instructor for Mathematics in BRIDGE program May-2012, & 2013

·         Instructor for TRIO  program May-2017,18,20

 

Other Interests

Shocker MINDSTORMS coordinator:                                      

  • The annual Shocker MINDSTORMS Challenge provides young students (elementary to K-12) with the opportunity for practical applications and exhibition of math, science, programming, and engineering skills, as well as promoting teamwork, dedication and sportsmanship.

 

Summer Camp coordinator:

  • WSU is dedicated to support STEM activities to Wichita community, around 300+ middle and high school students participate in summer camps. I served as a camp director for few campus in the past few summers since summer-2015, and started working as a summer camp coordinator since summer-2020.

 

Additional Information

  • Professional Engineer (P.E.), Kansas State Board of Technical Professions Dec. 2015