Designation:
Assistant Professor
Specialization:
Microstrip Antennas for Wireless Communications
Email:
amanpreet.kaur@thapar.edu Research Areas: Microstrip Antennas, MIMO systems, Microwave Imaging, Fractal Antennas
Education
- Ph.D. (Microstrip antennas for Wireless Communication) from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala in 2016.
- M. E. (specialization in Wireless Communication) from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology , Patiala in 2006
- B.E.( ELECTROINCS & COMMUNICATIONS)From Jammu University, Jammu in 2004
Academic experience
- Presently working as Assistant Professor in Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology Patiala (Punjab) full time, teaching B.E. and M.E. students since July 2006 till date.
Service Activities (Within and Outside the Institution)
- Lab In charge: Microwave and Antenna Lab, Antenna Research Lab
- Coordinator of the Short Term course of one week on “Antenna Design: New trends techniques and Applications “attended by about 25 Faculty members and students of other institutes June 4-8 2012(one week STP)
- Coordinator of Two Day Hands-on Workshop on” Antenna Design” using Computer Simulation Technology’ 12Microwave Studio (June 17– June 18, 2013)
- Coordinator of One Day Hands on Workshop on “Microstrip and horn Antenna Design: Using CST Microwave studio 12” by industry professionals (December 5 , 2013)
- Coordinator of One Day Hands on Workshop on “Antenna Design: Using CST Microwave studio 12” by industry professionals (May 29th , 2014)
- Worked as NSS program officer for the ECED unit of Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology contributing to the society through social services performed by the students’ team from ECED from 2009 to 2012.
- Departmental representative of the Institute’s Central Library since 2007 to till date
- Remained warden of girls’ hostel from 2007 to 2009.
- Remained in the organizing team of hospitality and Discipline committee of institute’s Convocation from 2007 to 2009.
- Reviewer of papers at International Conference EDCAV 2014 organized by NIT Meghalaya.
- Member of the editorial team of “International Journal of Core Research In Communication Engineering”.
- Member or editorial team of STM journals Journal of Microwave Engineering & Technologies (JoMET)
- Member or editorial team of Journal of Telecommunication, Switching Systems and Networks (JoTSSN).
- Warden Girls Hostel G from 2016 onwards.
Most recent professional development activities
- M.E. Dissertations guided from July 2006 till date : 20
- Received a project grant of seven and half lac rupees from AICTE for the project entitled, “Development of Multiband Microstrip Antenna, RPS-AICTE, Rs 7.5 Lacs. Principal Investigator.
- Received a project grant of Fifteen Lac and Eighty Thousand Rupees from UGC for the project entitled, “Design and development of stacked patch Microstrip antennas for WLAN applications”.PI
- Attended 15 days UGC sponsored Refresher course organized by Thapar Institute of Engg and Tech Patiala on “Advanced Signal Processing In Wireless Communications”.2006
- Attended 5 days UGC sponsored Refresher course organized by NIT Kurukshetra on “Future Directions in Communication Systems”2007.
- Attended 15 days AICTE and MHRD sponsored Refresher course organized by NIT Kurukshetra on “Convergence of Networking Technologies”22nd Dec to 2 Jan 2009.
- Attended 15 days AICTE sponsored QIP Refresher course organized by IIT Kharagpur on “Optical Communication Networks “22ndJune to 3 July 2009
- Attended 3 days short course organized by IIT Kanpur on “3G AND BEYOND” from 26th to 28th December 2009.
- Attended 5 days short course organized by IIT Kanpur on “Recent Trends in Design and Measurement of RF and Microwave Circuits” from 12-16 July 2010.
- Delivered expert talk on “Microstrip antennas” at Gurukul Vidyapeeth Rajpura, June 2014.
- Published two books with Lampbert Publishing House Germany.
Papers published
- National Conferences: 4
- International conferences :14
- SCI Journals: 3
- NON SCI journals: 20
