Specialization

Control System

Email

ruchika.mehta@thapar.edu

Biography

Ruchika Lamba is currently Lecturer in the Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering Department, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. Mrs. Lamba obtained her M.E. in 2009 with Gold Medal from Punjab University, Chandigarh. She is Completed her Ph.D. in the area of Control Systems from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology.Mrs Lamba has about nine years of teaching and research experience in the area of Instrumentation and Control . Her current areas of research interest include Control Systems

Education:

Academic Experience:

Current membership in professional organizations

• Life Member of Metrology Society of India

Honors and Awards

S P Luthra Memorial Award for distinction in M.E. in Panjab University 

Service activities (within and outside of the institution)

• ISO Coordinator for B.E. EIC & Souvenir Coordinator for B.E. EIC
• Lab Incharge for Instrumentation System Design Lab
• Lab Incharge for Virtual Instrumentation Lab & Ph.D. Entrance Exam Committee.
• Deputy Faculty Advisor URJA 2024(Jan 2024-Till date)
• Placement and Project Semester Coordinator for B.E. (EIC) (2020-Till date)

Publications:

• Lamba, S. K. Singla, and S. Sondhi, "Fractional order PID controller for power control in perturbed pressurized heavy water reactor," Nuclear Engineering and Design, vol. 323, pp. 84-94, 2017.
• Lamba, S. K. Singla, and S. Sondhi, "Design of fractional order PID controller for load frequency control in perturbed two areas interconnected system," Electric Power Components and Systems, vol. 47, no. 11-12, pp. 998-1011, 2019.
• Lamba, S. K. Singla, and S. Sondhi, "Reduced order model based FOPID controller design for power control in Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor with specific gain – phase margin," Progress in Nuclear Engineering, vol. 125, pp. 1-19, 2020.
• Singh, T. Dora, R. Lamba, A. K. Bhullar, S. Sondhi, "FOPID controller design for a perturbed PHWR system using enhanced crow search algorithm," Progress in Nuclear Energy, vol. 151, article 104342, 2022.

Sponsored Project

• “Investigation of nonlinear dynamics of electrostatically actuated bistable micro switches with applications to medical equipment”, Supervised by (CoPI), received a Grant amount of Rs 22.4 lacs, by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST from Jan. 2023 to Jan 2026.