Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Part 1 - Softcover

The understanding of fundamental concepts of electrical engineering is necessary before moving on to more advanced concepts. This book is designed as a textbook for an introductory course in electrical engineering for undergraduate students from all branches of engineering. The text is organized into fourteen chapters, and provides a balance between theory and applications. Numerous circuit diagrams and explicit illustrations add to the readability of the text. The authors have covered some important topics such as electromagnetic field theory, electrostatics, electrical circuits, magnetostatics, network theorems, three-phase systems and electrical machines. A separate chapter on measurement and instrumentation covers important topics including errors in measurement, electro-mechanical indicating instruments, current transformers and potential transformers in detail. Pedagogical features are interspersed throughout the book for better understanding of concepts.

S. B. Lal Seksena is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India. He has more than 35 years of teaching and research experience. He received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology and has published more than 55 research papers in national and international journals. Seksana has been teaching courses on electrical machines, power system operations and control, instrumentation and measurement including process instrumentation and advanced instrumentation at undergraduate and postgraduate level. His areas of research include non-conventional energy sources, power system drives and energy auditing.

Kaustuv Dasgupta teaches at the West Bengal University of Technology, India. He has been teaching courses on electrical machines and fundamentals of electrical engineering at undergraduate and postgraduate level for several years. He has contributed to peer reviewed journals and his research areas include power systems, power grid computation and microcontroller based applications.