Mr Franco Aldrin J Menezes

Assistant Professor

About

As an academician, I bring a wealth of knowledge and dedication to my role as an Assistant Professor. My research interests focus on advanced computational techniques and their applications in solving real-world problems. I am actively involved in organizing seminars and workshops to foster professional development among peers and students.

The objectives of my teaching are helping my students in experiencing the learning process to gain the necessary skills to motivate themselves into the self-learning environment. I believe that the knowledge which has been obtained through self-learning is very powerful for every individual during life time.

My role as a teacher is to ignite young minds for a creative thinking and help them to create innovative applications for the real time world. I want my students to understand the basic concepts of electrical engineering and apply these concepts in the diverse fields. 

I have always motivated my students to adhere to the need for rigorous analysis, Innovative brainstorming and high degree of dedication which would reap rich dividence in near future. I believe that teachers have duties towards their students and students have duties towards their teachers.

My theme for teaching which has stood the test of time is “Knowledge shared is knowledge multiplied; A student of technology forever.” 


Education Qualifications

Sl.No Qualification Level University Area of Specialization Year of Compeltion Awards
1 MTech VTU Power Electronics 2013
2 BE VTU Electrical & Electronics 2008

Responsibilities At SJEC

  • Admission Coordinator
  • Department Autonomy Coordinator
  • Member of BoS
  • Member of BoE
  • Class Advisor
  • Internal Test Cordinator
  • Project Cordinator
  • Department NBA Coordinator
  • Department NAAC Cordinator
  • Mini Project Cordinator
  • Internal Flying Squad Team 
  • Summer Internship Coordinator
  • Secretary SJECAA (2021 - 2023)


Work Experience

  • Currently Working as  Assistant Professor from 15 July 2013

  • Previously worked as Lecturer in SJEC from 15 July 2009 to 14 July 2013

  • Worked as Associate IT consultant in ITC Infotech Bangalore from July 2008 to June 2009.


Research Areas

Electric Vehicles, Battery Management, Power Electronics, Electric Machines, Analog and Digital Electronics


Journal Publications

"Impact of Collaborative Learning in Electrical Engineering Education", Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, Volume 34, Year 2021, Pages 116-120 

"Refined Assessment Technique in Engineering Education Based on Response from Stake-holders", Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, Volume 34, Year 2021, Pages 112-115 


Conference Proceedings

"Development of Study Model for Automation of Water Pump Using LabVIEW", International Journal of Internet of Things 2017;  6(2): 15-18 doi:10.5923/j.ijit.20170602.01

"Automatic Voltage and Frequency Control of a Diesel Generator using NI myRIO", Electrical and Electronic Engineering, p-ISSN: 2162-9455    e-ISSN: 2162-8459, 2017;  7(2): 48-51, doi:10.5923/j.eee.20170702.07


Membership in professional Bodies

  • IAENG International Association of Engineers
  • International Society for Development and Sustainability
  • International Statistical Engineering Association
  • IEEE


Workshop/FDPs Attended

  • Participated in FDP on “Design Thinking for Product Development” organized by Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru held during the period 15 – 20 April 2024.

  • Participated in FDP on “Aiming Towards 3Ds in Electrical Engineering” organized by Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Gandipet, Hyderabad held during the period 11 – 15 March 2024.

  • Participated in FDP on “Awareness on AICTE Examination Reforms” organized by St Joseph Engineering College, Mangaluru held during the period 27 – 29 April 2023.

  • Participated and completed FDP on “Cyber Physical Systems” organized by Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal held during the period 16 – 20 January 2023.

  • Participated and completed FDP on “Advanced Tools and Techniques for Best Research” organized by RV Institute of Technology, Bengaluru held during the period 26 – 30 September 2022.

  • Participated and completed the AICTE ATAL online elementary FDP on “Electric Charging station for vehicle” organized by Government Engineering College, Thrissur held during the period 21 – 25 Feburary 2022.

  • Participated and completed the AICTE ATAL online elementary FDP on “Recent Advancement in Power System with Renewable Energy Sources” organized by Government Engineering College, PATAN held during the period 17 – 21 January 2022.

  • Attended the workshop on “Strategic Leadership” organized by Internal Quality Assurance Cell, St Joseph Engineering College, Mangaluru held on 7, 14, 21 and 28 September 2021.

  • Attended Five Days FDP on “Implementation of NEP 2020 at Engineering Institutions” organized St Joseph Engineering College, Mangaluru held during the period 30 August – 6 September 2021.

  • Attended Two days Training on “Modelling of Electrical Systems using Simulink & Simscape using MATLAB” organized by Corel Technologies held during the period of 22 – 23 April 2021.

  • Attended the Online Short Term Course on "Recent Trends in Microgrid" organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur held during the period 27th to 31st October 2020.

  • Attended one week AICTE sponsored online Short term Training programme on “Design of Drive Train & Charging Station for Electric Vehicle Applications” organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SAINTGITS college of Engineering, Kottayam held during the period 26th to 31st October 2020.

  • Attended the Online Faculty Development Program on "Recent Trends in Power Electronics Research Scope and challenges" organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka Surathkal held during the period 23rd to 27th September 2020.

  • Attended one week AICTE sponsored online Short term Training programme on “Grid Integration Techniques for Electric Vehicles; Opportunities and challenges, G2V and V2G Applications” organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SAINTGITS college of Engineering, Kottayam held during the period 14th to 19th September 2020.

  • Attended one week AICTE sponsored online Short term Training programme on “Grid Integration Techniques for Electric Vehicles; Opportunities and challenges, G2V and V2G Applications” organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SAINTGITS college of Engineering, Kottayam held during the period 14th to 19th September 2020.

  • Attended one week AICTE sponsored online Short term Training programme on “Introduction to Electric Vehicles; opportunities and challenges-case study” organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SAINTGITS college of Engineering, Kottayam held during the period 3rd to 8th August 2020.

  • Attended one week online Faculty Development programme on “Insights on Writing Research Proposals and Funding Opportunities” Organized by Research and Facilities Group St Joseph Engineering College from 20th  to 24th  July 2020.

  • Attended one week online Faculty Development programme on “Recent Trends in Power Systems” Organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Sharad Institute of Technology College of Engineering Yadrav (Ichalkaranji) from 22nd to 26th  June 2020.

  • Attended Faculty Development programme on “Design Thinking and Social Entrepreneurship” held at, SJEC between 22nd to 25th  January 2020.

  • Attended Faculty Development programme on “Teaching Students Design Experiments & Project Based Learning” held at, SJEC between 13th to 14th  January 2020.

  • Attended Faculty Development programme on “Recent Trends in EV Technology” Organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SJEC held between 12th to 14th December 2019.

  • Attended Faculty Development programme on “Energy Management and IOT” Organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SJEC held between 2nd to 4th January 2019.

  • Attended Faculty Development programme on “Power & Energy Systems” Organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SJEC held between 19th to 28th June 2018.

  • Attended Faculty Development programme on “Programmable Logic Controllers & SCADA” Organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SJEC held between 9th to 11th January 2017.

  • Attended Faculty Development programme on “New & Renewable energy Systems” Organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SJEC held on 14th and 15th June 2016.

  • Attended workshop on “OBE and New SAR”, Integra 2016 held on 22nd January 2016 at SJEC.

  • Attended 5 days “Hands on LabVIEW Workshop” conducted for SJEC faculty from January 11th to 15th 2016.

  • Attended 5 days “Hands on LabVIEW Workshop” conducted for SJEC faculty from July 20th to 25th 2015.

  • Attended workshop on “Mentoring & Counselling”, Cornea 2015 held on 23rd January 2015 at SJEC.

  • Attended workshop on “Google Apps”, Spoorthi 2015 held on 21st January 2015 at SJEC.

  • Attended workshop on “Course Plans and CO Attainment”, Integra 2015 held on 20th January 2015 at SJEC.

  • Attended 5 days “Hands on LabVIEW Workshop” conducted for SJEC faculty from January 12th to 16th 2015.

  • Attended the AICTE-BRNS Sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Recent trends in Process Control and systems” Organized by the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Manipal Institute of technology from 6-10, Jan 2014.

  • Completed Training on “PIC-16F Series Microcontroller” conducted by SWADESHEE, Udupi at St. Joseph Engineering College.

  • Completed the “Certified Automation Professional (CAP)” Training Conducted by Industrial String Automation, Pune at St. Joseph Engineering College.

  • Attended the Workshop on “Recent Trends in Power System Simulation” Organized by the Department of E&E Engineering, St. Joseph Engineering College on 5th November 2011.

  • Attended the Faculty Development Programme on “Facts and Smart Grids” Organized by the Department of E&E Engineering, Canara Engineering College from 27-29, Jan 2011.


Conferences attended

  • Participated in the Ninth International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education (ICTIEE 2022) organized by Indo- Universal collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) held during the period of 7 – 9 January 2022.

  • Participated in the International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education, “ICTIEE-2020” Organized by Anurag Group of Institutions, Hyderabad, Telangana held on 5th and 7th January 2020.

  • Participated and presented a paper titled “A Comparative Study On the Efficiency Evaluations of different Implementations of DC – DC flyback converters” in the TEQIP funded National Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (NCAEE-13) held during 12th & 13th April 2013 at N.M.A.M Institute of Technology, Nitte.


Contact Information


Mr Franco Aldrin J Menezes

Assistant Professor

B.E, M.Tech, (Ph.D)

francom@sjec.ac.in

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