Suryaprakash Rao Mothiki is Professor and Head of the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Chaitanya Engineering College, Visakhapatnam. He was born in 1956 in the ancient town Rajahmundry on the banks of river Godavari, and had his early education in his native town. He received his B.Tech (1978) and M.Tech (1980) in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the JNTU College of Engineering, Kakinada.. He had a rare opportunity to work under the guidance of noted scientists like Mrs. L.C.Manoharan of National Aeronautical Laboratory, Bangalore, in partial fulfilment of his M.Tech program. His Research Notes appeared in 1980 in the International Journal of Electronics published from London.The theoretical and experimental training he received from his teachers like Prof. Nallamothu Lakshmi Narayana, Prof. V. Ranga Rao, and Mrs. L.C. Manoharan developed in him a keen interest in the design of electronic circuits with discrete components as well as linear and digital ICs. He began his career as lecturer in Rastriya Vidyalaya College of Engineering, Bangalore, in 1980. He joined Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Hyderabad as a Design Engineer in 1981, and worked there for one-and-half years. His love for teaching took him to Bapatla Engineering College towards the end of 1982. He has been associated with this college right from its inception and assumed positions of Assistant Professor (1985) and Professor (1992). He taught at Adam’s Engineering College, Paloncha (2000-2009), and joined Chaitanya Engineering College, Visakhapatnam in 2009.
He has authored two textbooks on Pulse and Digital Circuits and these two textbooks have been published by Tata McGraw-Hill Education in 2006. He has also revised the classic textbook Pulse, Digital and Switching Waveforms by Jacob Millman and Herbert Taub originally published in 1965 by McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. After a long gap of 42 years, Tata McGraw-Hill Education has brought out this updated second edition of Pulse, Digital and Switching Waveforms in 2007.
Suryaprakash does not really belong to the world of words by his formal education or by his present profession. He hails from Rajahmundry, and during his primary school and high school, he was exposed to some of the great works in literature by his language teachers. Some of his teachers were poets of great distinction in Telugu. Influenced by prominent literary critics like R.M.Challa of Indian Express (Vijayawada Edition) fame, Suryaprakash chose to write serious prose right from his early college days. The weekly column Let’s tune in R.M.Challa in the Indian Express has sustained his interest for decades. Suryaprakash used to contribute regularly to the Letters to the Editor columns of India Express, Deccan Herald, and The Hindu in 1980s.
Suryaprakash wrote several poems and short stories as literary exercises, and some of them were published in the Sunday editions of prominent newspapers. He has been suffering from the writer’s cramp from his college days, and he did most of his writing on his portable typewriter. He translated some of the great short stories in Telugu into English with the encouragement of some of the editors. He wrote a few film reviews and book reviews as well.He feels comfortable with philosophy, psychology and literature. While Suryaprakash cannot exhibit any academic credentials in literature, his vast reading kept him in good stead on this count. Being a reader of literature of several genres, he is well disposed to spend his spare time for the pursuit of his literary ambitions. He intends to translate a well-known Telugu classic novel Chivaraku Migileydi by Butchi Babu into English as one of his present projects.
Suryaprakash Rao Mothiki has been elected as a Senior Member of IEEE in January 2009. He has been a member of the Board of Studies, Acharya Nagarjuna University, for more than a decade. He has served the UPSC as an Advisor in Electronics. He is a life member of the Indian Society for Technical Education, Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, and Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. Prof. Prakash Rao has taught several subjects in Electronics and Communications Engineering in his teaching career spreading over more than two decades.
Suryaprakash loves the sun and sea of the beautiful piece of earth Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, India. He lives in Visakhapatnam with his wife Saraswathi and his sons—Vamsi Krishna and Sasikanth.
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