A profile
Prof. SM Shashidhar is new Principal and has taken charge as the Principal on 1st Oct 2014.Dr. Yerriswamy was given a hearty farewell by the staff of PDIT.
Prof. Shashidhar is serving in Veerasaiva Vidyavardhaka Sangha’s Engineering Colleges for the past 25 years. He headed E&C Dept of PDIT from Sept 2007 to March 2014.
He served as the Member of the Karnataka state Managing Committee of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) during 1996-98 and 2009-2011. He was the Executive Committee Member of the Communications Society (COMSOC) of Institution of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Bangalore Chapter during 2008-10. He is also a Fellow Member of The Institution of Engineers (India). He has authored a book on ‘Saving Electricity’ published byVisvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum. He is also the Joint Secretary of ‘Karnataka Jnana Vijnana Samithi’ (KJVS), Bengaluru.
He has attended various conferences of state and national level and presented technical research papers. Currently, he is pursuing his research in the field of ‘Power Systems Protection by VLSI approaches.’