The Department of EEE in association with IEEE had organized a guest lecture programme on POWER SYSTEM AUTOMATION by Dr Girish V, Executive Engineer, HESCOM Corporate Office, Hubballi. The lecture focused on the phenomenal growth in the area of power systems and also gave insight about the current scenario of SCADA and provided the opportunities and challenges in the power system automation. Resource person encouraged the students to take interest in developing solutions to the existing problems in HESCOM