Biography
Dr. Mangal Hemant Dhend
Dr. Mangal Hemant Dhend
AISSMS College of Engineering, SPP University, India
Biography: 
Mrs. Mangal Hemant Dhend is working as an engineering college teacher since last 25 years and contributed in various capacities for the development of All India Shri Shivaji memorial society’s (AISSMS) two engineering institutes of SPP University, Pune, MS, India. She has done ME in Power system from COEP, Pune and soon will pursue her Doctoral degree from SGGS, Nanded. She is a senior member of Industrial applications society, women in engineering, educational society, consultants network, SIGHT, Young professional of IEEE and a member of International association of engineers (IAENG), Life member of Indian Society of Technical Education, (ISTE) India and Life member of Institution of engineers, India IEI(India). Her research topic is “Distribution system monitoring and fault diagnosis in smart grid system”. She has received many awards. In March 2017 she received “Distinguished Women Engineer” award by Venus International. She also received “Sampark Mitra” award for her social contributions by National NGO and “Best teacher of Institute” award many times and “Best Head of the Department” for consecutive 3 years. She was also selected for most prestigious Zucker award and was invited to attend IEEE professional members meeting at Dallas Texas Tech. USA in year 2015 by sponsoring travel and all stay expenses. In December 2016 she received best paper award in Springer’s International conference at Sikkim. She has been invited by many countries like Singapore, Taiwan, China, UK to present her research work related to smart grid in international conferences. She was invited as a session chairman for IEEE 5th international conference at UK in November 2016 and also received appreciation award. She is an author of four books in High voltage engineering and Material science book of Pune, Nagpur and Gujarat Universities and one Marathi-English poem book. She has published more than 46 papers in International and national journals and conferences.