The Department of Electrical Engineering (EED) is one of the oldest departments of the National Institute of Technology, Warangal (NITW). Established in 1959 as one of the major departments of the Institute, the EED has been actively engaged in teaching and research in diverse fields of Electrical Engineering. With excellent faculty, the department offers Under Graduate (B.Tech) programme in “Electrical and Electronics Engineering” and “Electric Mobility”; Post Graduate (M.Tech) programmes in “Power Electronics & Drives”, “Power Systems Engineering”, “Smart Electric Grid”, “Electric Vehicles”, and “Control & Automation” being jointly offered with Chemical Engineering Department. The department is actively engaging in research and offers Ph.D. programme and Post-Doctoral Fellowship programmes in Electrical Engineering.

The department has well-equipped state-of-the-art laboratories to augment the coursework and enhance the research potentials. The department has a dynamic group of faculties with profound experience in academics, research and industry, dedicated in teaching-learning process and actively engaged in the cutting-edge R&D activities with broad areas of expertise like: Power Electronic & Drives, Application of Power Electronics to Energy Efficient Lighting Systems, DSP controlled Industrial Drives, Electric Vehicle & Wireless Power Transfer and Power Quality Improvement, State Estimation and Real Time Control of Power Systems, Applications of ANN and Fuzzy Logic in Power Systems, Power System Deregulation, Power System Transients, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Renewable energy integration, Microgrids, Distributed generation, Doubly-fed Induction Generation, Transactive energy markets, IoT devices, Industrial automation, blockchain, AI & ML, etc.,.

The department is strongly supported by external research projects and training programmes funded by Government of India through various prestigious schemes like; IMPRINT-India, SPARC, DST, SERB, CPRI, DRDO, MNRE, MeitY, GIAN, AICTE-ATAL, E&ICT, PMMMNMTT etc.,.

The department has strong Industry interaction and has been involved in constantly handling various consultancy projects for various Industries and Government of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. It has an MOU with Hitachi Energy India, Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), POWERGRID, Grid India, Bajaj Auto Limited, to carry out the collaborative projects.

Throughout the department’s history, its faculty, students, and alumni have made major contributions and advancement in the fields of academia, industry, research and development.