K Murugesh Kumar is currently, the Principal, Sri Krishna Engineering College, Chennai. Prior to this, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. He has over 22 years of teaching experience and has authored several books, some of which are, Basic Electrical Science and Technology, DC Machines and Transformers, Induction and Synchronous Machines. Dr Kumar has also worked as a consultant in the areas of Design and Testing of Electric Machines and in testing of Electrical Instruments for the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).