Dr. VIJAY H.

MAKWANA
(B.E. Electrical, SPU), (M.E. Electrical Power Systems, SPU)
(Ph.D. – Electrical Engineering, SPU)
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering,
G. H. Patel College of Engineering & Technology
Vallabh Vidyanagar 388 120
Gujarat, INDIA

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Permanent Address : B-2, Shilp Ganesh Tenament,
Opp. Akshar Farm,
Gopi V. V. Nagar Road,
Anand 388 001.
Telephone No : 091-98257 83644 (M)
E-mail Address : vijay911979@gmail.com, vijaymakwana@gcet.ac.in
Date of Birth : 9th January, 1979
Nationality : Indian
Languages Known : English, Gujarati, Hindi

PRESENT STATUS
 Presently working as Professor in Electrical Engineering Department, G. H. Patel College of
Engineering & Technology, Vallabh Vidyanagar since 1st March, 2014.

WORK EXPERIENCE
 Worked as Adhoc Lecturer in Electrical Engineering Department, SVNIT, Surat from 22nd July,
2002 to 13th October, 2002.
 Worked as Lecturer in Electrical Engineering Department, NIDS, Ahmedabad from 3rd Feb, 2003
to 30th June, 2003.
 Worked as Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering Department, G. H. Patel College of
Engineering & Technology, Vallabh Vidyanagar from 1st July 2003 to 30th June, 2008.
 Worked as Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering Department, G. H. Patel College of
Engineering & Technology, Vallabh Vidyanagar from 1st July 2008 to 28th February, 2014.

ACADAMIC DETAILS
 Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) in the year of 2013, from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh
Vidyanagar. (Ph.D. Research Work Topic: Transmission Line Protection Using Digital Technology)

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  M.E. (Electrical Power Systems) with Distinction in the year of 2002, from ISTAR, Sardar Patel
University, Vallabh Vidyanagar.
 B.E. (Electrical) with First class in the year of 1999, from Birla Vishwakarma Mahavidyalaya
(College of Engineering), Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar.

JOURNAL PAPERS
 Vijay H Makwana and Bhavesh Bhalja, “New adaptive digital distance relaying scheme for
double infeed parallel transmission line during inter-circuit faults”, IET Generation Transmission
& Distribution, June 2011, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 667 – 673, DOI: 10.1049/iet-gtd.2010.0707, Print
ISSN: 1751-8687, Online ISSN: 1751-8695, Impact Factor: 2.64.
 Vijay H Makwana and Bhavesh Bhalja, “A New Adaptive Distance Relaying Scheme for Mutually
Coupled Series-Compensated Parallel Transmission Lines During Intercircuit Faults”, IEEE
Transactions on Power Delivery, October 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 2726 – 2734, DOI:
10.1109/TPWRD.2011.2159248, Print ISSN: 0885-8977, Online ISSN: 1937-4208, Impact Factor:
1.353.
 Vijay H Makwana and Bhavesh Bhalja, “New digital distance relaying scheme for phase faults on
doubly fed transmission lines”, IET Generation Transmission & Distribution, March 2012, Vol. 6,
No. 3, pp. 265 – 273, DOI: 10.1049/iet-gtd.2011.0212, Print ISSN: 1751-8687, Online ISSN: 1751-
8695, Impact Factor: 2.64.
 Vijay H Makwana and Bhavesh Bhalja, “A New Digital Distance Relaying Scheme for Series-
Compensated Double-Circuit Line During Open Conductor and Ground Fault”, IEEE Transactions
on Power Delivery, April 2012, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 910 – 917, DOI:
10.1109/TPWRD.2011.2178438, Print ISSN: 0885-8977, Online ISSN: 1937-4208 , Impact Factor:
1.519.
 Vijay H Makwana and Bhavesh Bhalja, “A New Digital Distance Relaying Scheme for
Compensation of High-Resistance Faults on Transmission Line”, IEEE Transactions on Power
Delivery, October 2012, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 2133 – 2140, DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2012.2202922,
Print ISSN: 0885-8977, Online ISSN: 1937-4208, Impact Factor: 1.519.
 Vijay H Makwana and Bhavesh Bhalja, “Distance Relaying Algorithm for a Line-to-ground Fault
on Single Infeed Lines”, Taylor & Francis, Electric Power Components and Systems, July 2014,
Vol. 42, No. 12, pp. 1227 – 1238, Print ISSN: 1532-5008, Online ISSN: 1532-5016, DOI:
10.1080/15325008.2014.927025, Impact Factor: 2.36.
 Dhaval N Tailor, Bhavesh Bhalja and Vijay Makwana, “Roll of PSS and SVC for improving the
Transient Stability of Power System”, International Journal of Engineering and Advanced
Technology (IJEAT), ISSN: 2249 – 8958, Volume-1, Issue-3, February 2012, pp. 137-140, Impact
Factor: 0.423.
 Krishna Pipaliya and Vijay Makwana, “Modeling and Simulation of Digital Distance Protection
Scheme for Quadrilateral Characteristics using PSCAD”, International Journal of Advance
Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Scientific Journal of Impact Factor (SJIF):
3.134, Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2015, E-ISSN(O): 2348-4470, P-ISSN(P): 2348-6406, pp. 1238-
1246.
 Ankit Patel and Vijay Makwana, “Modelling and Simulation of Generator Protection Scheme
against Frequency Variations”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research
Development (IJAERD), Scientific Journal of Impact Factor (SJIF): 3.134, Volume 2, Issue 5, May
2015, E-ISSN(O): 2348-4470, P-ISSN(P): 2348-6406, pp. 650-656.
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  Chand Chauhan and Vijay Makwana, “Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitor: Simulation and
Analysis”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD),
Scientific Journal of Impact Factor (SJIF): 3.134, Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2015, E-ISSN(O): 2348-
4470, P-ISSN(P): 2348-6406, pp. 796-806.
 Ravi Patel and Vijay Makwana, “Detection of Frequency Deviation and Under/Over Frequency
Protection by Load Shedding Using MATLAB/SIMULINK”, International Journal of Advance
Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Scientific Journal of Impact Factor (SJIF):
3.134, Volume 2, Issue 12, December 2015, E-ISSN(O): 2348-4470, P-ISSN(P): 2348-6406, pp.
140-147.
 Ravi Patel and Vijay Makwana, “Protection of Distributed Generation Using Adaptive Frequency
Relay”, International Journal of Innovative Research in Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation
and Control Engineering (IJIREEICE), Scientific Journal of Impact Factor (SJIF): 4.855, Volume 4,
Issue 5, May 2016, E-ISSN(O): 2321-2004, P-ISSN(P): 2321-5526, pp. 119-123.

CONFERENCE PAPERS
 Bhavesh Bhalja, R. P. Maheshwari and Vijay H. Makwana, “Real Time Implementation of
Numerical Relay for Induction Motor”, XXXII National Systems Conference, NSC 2008, IIT
Roorkee December, 2008.

BOOKS
 Bhuvanesh Oza and Vijay Makwana, “Modern Power Generation Practice”, Bharti Prakashan,
2007.
 Bhuvanesh A Oza, Nirmal C Nair, Rashesh P Mehta and Vijay H Makwana, “Power System
Protection and Switchgear”, Tata McGraw Hill Education Private Limited, New Delhi, 2010.

MONOGRAPH
 Vijay H. Makwana and Bhavesh R. Bhalja, “Transmission Line Protection Using Digital
Technology”, Energy Systems in Electrical Engineering, Springer Singapore, eBook ISBN: 978-
981-10-1572-4, Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1571-7, Series ISSN: 2199-8582, 2016.

ACADAMIC RESPONSIBILITIES
Guiding Projects of many final year students of B.E. (Electrical), as listed below:
Sr. ID. No. Name Project Title
No.
1 01EE714 Dinkar Deepak Gangaram Study and Simulation of Numerical Distance
Relay using ZFB Test Kit
2 02EE731 Hinal R Shah 3-phase Transformer Protection using
3 02EE734 Neha G Bhavsar Numerical Relay
4 02EE729 Pramit G Patel 3-phase Induction Motor Protection using
5 02EE739 Umesh K Charola Numerical Relay

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6 03EE723 Patel Mayur P.
7 04EE791 Patel Amar G. Advanced Distance Protection Scheme
8 04EE792 Patel Jimmy R.
9 04EE751 Bhalala Kaushik S.
10 04EE752 Bhatt Kunal P. Control & Protection of Substation’s Feeder
11 04EE733 Arya Anshul A.
12 04EE702 Sindhavad Jimmy H.
Auto-tune PID Temperature Controller
13 04EE758 Shrotriya Aparna P.
14 04EE747 Tripathi Rakeshranjan B. Automatic Starter & 3-phase Mains to
15 04EE783 Sheladiya Chetan Standby Changeover System
16 05EE733 Bhavsar Anand Girish Simulation of the Factors Affecting Operation
17 05EE705 Harwani Chirag Jawahar of Transmission Line Relays
18 05EE734 Rathod Harpalsinh Takhatsinh Voltage Improvement in Transmission Line
19 05EE711 Desai Tapankumar M. with FACT Techniques
20 06EE747 Gaurav Patel Remote Control and Protection of Substation
21 06EE759 Jibranahmed Solanki Feeder through PLC
22 06EE728 Oza Kushal Himanshu MATLAB Model Simulation of Adaptive
23 06EE729 Tailor Dhaval Narendrakumar Distance Relaying Scheme
24 07EE725 Kansara Bhavik J. Directional/Non-directional Overcurrent
25 07EE797 Gandhi Manan V. Relay Design Based on Microcontroller
26 07EE714 Aliasgar S. Challawala Series Compensated Transmission Line
27 07EE718 Niket P. Chaudhari Protection
28 07EE758 Bhargavi S. Godkhini
Synchronous Machine Analysis Using
29 07EE743 Nidhi B. Shah
MATLAB/SIMULINK Software
30 07EE706 Shruti M. Khatri
31 080110109009 Desle Chetan Popatrao
Power System Stability and Performance of
32 080110109014 Gajera Vishal Vinubhai
Protective Relaying
33 080110109007 Desai Viral Mukeshbhai
34 080110109018 Jog Sidhdharth C.
35 080110109037 Patel Divyang Vijaykumar Substation Design and its Equipment
36 080110109054 Takolia Jigar Bhagwanbhai
37 080110109006 Desai Siddharth Shaileshbhai Panel Designing, Planning and Electrification
38 100110109024 Ariwala Kushal M.
39 100110109029 Patel Pratik P. Digital Differential Protection
40 100110109037 Vadher Jaydeep K.
41 100110109025 Dhyey Vachharajani
Numerical Induction Motor Protection
42 100110109020 Harpal Viral
Scheme
43 100110109021 Jasmin Baldha
44 100110109031 Sandeep R. Chavda Implementation of Various Busbar
45 100110109026 Dharmendra J. Chhaiya Arrangement Schemes
46 100110109032 Sandip Nakum Transmission Line Protection Using
Numerical Distance Relay
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 47 110110109001 Bhensdadiya Maulik
48 120113109006 Utsav raja Control and Protection of Transmission Line
49 120113109011 Shivam Patel
50 120110109027 Sisodiya Dharmendrasingh S.
51 120110109024 Joshi Parth Yogesh Protection Of Power Transformer
52 120110109028 Kamani Sawan Jayantilal
53 120110109035 Sathwara Ketan Ambavibhai
Radial Feeder Protection Using Numerical
54 120110109032 Patel Raj Kiritbhai
Relay
55 120114109002 Shah Shravan Omprakashbhai
56 120110109006 Boda Parth Dalsukhbhai
Substation Earthing: Analysis, Design &
57 120110109007 Shah Suraj Priteshkumar
Control
58 120110109021 Shah Chaitanya Vipulkumar
59 130110109009 Gohel Hitarth Hareshbhai
Simulation and Implementation of Induction
60 130110109020 Kamalia Tejal Khumanbhai
Motor Protection Scheme
61 130110109061 Valiya Lalji Mathurbhai
62 120110109020 Patel Abhishek Jayesh Design of a Novel Solar Tracking System to
Maximize Energy Extraction for PV Power
Plants
63 130110109049 Salvi Pratik Chimanlal
64 140113109009 Prajapati Krunal M. Design and Testing of Current Transformer
65 140113109005 Makdiya Rajesh Muljibhai

Guiding Projects of many final year students of M.E. (Electrical Power System), as listed below:
Sr. ID. No. Name
No.
1 130110737013 Pipaliya Krishna Girishbhai
2 130110737005 Chauhan Chand H.
3 130110737009 Patel Ankit D.
4 140110707007 Patel Ravi K.
5 150110707009 Param Maharshibhai Mehta
6 150110707017 Upadhyay Pooja
Project Title
Modeling and Testing of Digital Distance Relay
for Different types of Faults
Operation, Control and Protection of Flexible
AC Transmission Systems
Modeling and Simulation of Different
Generator Protection Schemes
Islanding Detection and Protection of
Distributed Generation Using Frequency
Relays
Transmission Line Protection Using Digital
Relays
Digital Differential Protection of Transformer

Conducting Lectures and Practical in various subjects at B.E. level as mentioned below:
 Elements of Electrical Engineering
 Electrical Machines

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  Electrical and Electronics Workshop
 Power System Protection
 Switchgear
 Power System Practice and Design
 Electrical Project

Conducting Lectures and Practical in the subject at M.E. level as mentioned below:
 Modern Power System Protection

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

Workshops/Seminars/STTPs Visited
 Attended workshop on “Utilization of Educational Standards”, organized by GCET-ISTE Chapter
in association with Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) – New Delhi, during 20th to 21st January
2005, at Electrical Engineering Department, GCET, Vallabh Vidyanagar.
 Attended seminar on “Intellectual Property Rights-Policy, Education and Public Outreach”,
Sponsored by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, New Delhi,
during 3rd to 4th September 2005, held at Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar.
 Attended workshop on “Research Methodology in Engineering Education”, on 22nd April 2006, at
GCET, Vallabh Vidyanagar.
 Attended seminar on “Impact of Mathematics on Live Industrial Problems”, on 19th August 2006,
at GCET, Vallabh Vidyanagar.
 Attended workshop on “Training Programme for MiPOWER Software – A Step to Quality
Education”, during 6th to 8th September 2007, at Electrical Engineering Department, ADIT,
Vallabh Vidyanagar.
 Attended short term traning programme on “Numerical Protection of Power Systems”,
approved by ISTE, New Delhi during 17th to 22nd December 2007, at Electrical Engineering
Department, BVM Engineering College, Vallabh Vidyanagar.
 Attended workshop on “Programming, Analysis & Simulation using MATLAB”, Sponsored by
GUJCOST, during 17th to 19th January 2008, at Electrical Engineering Department, GCET, Vallabh
Vidyanagar.
 Attended workshop on “Recent Advances in Power Systems”, jointly organized by IEEE Gujarat
Section Student Branch, ADIT & Department of Electrical Engineering, ADIT, on 4th April 2008, at
ADIT, Vallabh Vidyanagar.
 Attended one day colloquium on “India’s Power Sector Reforms and its Challenges”, on 21st
February 2009, held under the aegis of Department of Electrical Engineering and IEEE GCET
Student Branch at GCET, Vallabh Vidyanagar.
 Attended one day workshop on “Electrical Installation of Major Industrial Units”, on 7th March
2010 held by Electrical Engineering Department, M. S. University, Baroda, Gujarat, India.

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Expert Lectures Delivered
 Delivered an expert lecture on “Numerical Induction Motor Protection” dated 20th December,
2007, in the STTP on “Numerical Protection of Power Systems” at Electrical Engineering
Department, BVM College.
 Delivered an expert lecture on “Numerical Induction Motor Protection” dated 30th December,
2010, in the STTP on “Numerical Protection of Power Systems”, at Electrical Engineering
Department, BVM College.
 Delivered an expert lecture on “Numerical Induction Motor Protection” dated 23rd July, 2011, in
the STTP on “Numerical Protection of Power Systems”, at Electrical Engineering Department,
BVM College.
 Delivered an expert lecture on “Series Compensated Transmission Lines: Benefits, Problems and
Solutions” dated 25th October, 2012, to the students of M.Tech., at Electrical Engineering
Department, Chandubhai S. Patel Institute of Technology, Changa.
 Delivered an expert lecture on “Numerical Protection of Induction Motor” dated 5th December,
2012, in the STTP on “Recent Trends in Power System Protection”, at Electrical Engineering
Department, Sarvajanik College of Engineering & Technology, Surat.
 Delivered an expert lectures in two days Workshop on “Advances in Power System Protection”
dated on 24th and 25th August, 2015, to PG students, at Electrical Engineering Department, Parul
Institute of Engineering & Technology, Waghodia, Vadodara.
 Delivered an expert lecture on “Power System Protection” dated 9th September, 2016, to UG
Students, at Electrical Engineering Department, Dr. S. S. Ghandhy Government Engineering
College, Surat.
 Delivered an expert lecture on “Power System Protection” dated 17th September, 2016, to UG
Students, at Electrical Engineering Department, Parul Institute of Technology, Waghodia,
Vadodara.
 Delivered an expert lecture on “Transmission Line Protection” dated 24th September, 2016, to
UG Students, at Electrical Engineering Department, Parul Institute of Technology, Waghodia,
Vadodara.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP

 Life membership of ISTE: LM43386

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