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:

• V. Raizada, N. J. Singh, V. Chopra, J. Kaur, and R. Lamba, “Fractional order PID controller design using predator effect inspired artificial bee colony algorithm,” Journal of Engineering Research, 2026.
• T. Singh, T. Dora, R. Lamba, A. K. Bhullar, and S. Sondhi, “FOPID controller design for a perturbed PHWR system using enhanced crow search algorithm,” Progress in Nuclear Energy, vol. 151, Art. no. 104342, 2022.
• R. 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 Energy, vol. 125, pp. 1–19, 2020.
• R. 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.
• R. 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, nos. 11–12, pp. 998–1011, 2019.

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.