Head of Departments

HOD – Electrical Engineering Dr. Uday B. Mujumdar, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering has completed his graduation in 1992 from Visvesvarayya Regional College of Engineering (Presently VNIT), Nagpur and M.E from RSTMNU, Nagpur. He completed Ph.D from RSTMNU Nagpur in 2018 in the research area of Power Converters for Distributed Generation sources. He is Certified Energy Auditor accredited by Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Power, Government of India. His teaching and research areas of interest are Power Converters, Embedded Controller, Industrial automation, Photovoltaic and Energy storage systems. Dr. Mujumdar has published more than twenty research papers in reputed journals and conferences. He has developed several products under the consultancy work and has a granted patent for one of the technology based product. He has about 30 years of experience in teaching has taught several courses at UG/ PG level, established laboratories and contributed to curriculum development. Dr. Mujumdar is an active member of Solar Energy Society of India (SESI). Dr. Uday B. Mujumdar Email: hodelectrical@rknec.edu

HOD – Electronics and Communication Dr. Pallavi K. Parlewar, Head of Electronics and Communication Engineering Department has received her B. Eng. Degree from Government College of Engineering, India in 2000, received her M.Tech. and Ph. D. degrees from Nagpur University, in 2006 and 2013 respectively. With more than 25 years of academic experience in teaching, research, academic administration, and institutional development, Dr. Parlewar has significantly contributed to engineering education and research. She has held several key leadership positions, including Head of the Department, Dean – Research and Development, Professor in charge – Interdisciplinary Studies, NAAC Coordinator, Central NBA Coordinator, ISO Management Representative, and Nodal Officer for the Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Scheme of MeitY, Government of India. Her research interests include image processing, computer vision, transform based denoising techniques, and analog devices and circuits. She has numerous publications in reputed SCI, SCIE, Scopus, Web of Science, and peer-reviewed international journals and conferences.  Two patents have been granted and 6 patents are published Dr. Pallavi K. Parlewar Email: hodec@rknec.edu

HOD – Civil Engineering He has completed BE in Civil Engineering in 1999 from YCCE, Nagpur. He has completed M. E in Civil Engineering in 2001 Engineering from BITS, Pilani. He has also completed Ph. D in 2006 from BITS, Pilani in the field of Application of Parallel Computing in Finite Element Analysis. Dr.R.N Khapre Email: hodcivil@rknec.edu