 Hi, I am Professor S.V. Kulkarni working in the Electrical Engineering Department of IIT Bombay. Welcome to this introductory video on NPTEL MOOC course, Electrical Equipment and Machines Finite Element Analysis. The course is about theory and applications of finite element method to electrical equipment and machines. This course will be useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as to practicing professionals in industries and research organizations. Undergraduate students can expect to understand power and potential of finite element method in solving practical problems and issues faced by industries and so that they will be ready to join and contribute to industries dealing with electrical machines and equipment. Postgraduate students including research scholars will be able to develop their own course for solving practical research problems as well as they will be able to effectively use commercial FEM software for the purpose. By undergoing this course industry professionals will be more confident in using commercial FEM software so that they can effectively solve practical problems. The course is divided into 40 lectures each of 30 minutes duration approximately and to start with basics of electromagnetic as relevant to machines and equipment as well as finite element method are covered. Important concepts in electrostatics, magnetostatics, time varying fields are elaborated and use is made of virtual electromagnetic laboratory developed at E department IIT Bombay to help understand electromagnetic field distributions and to visualize them effectively. Practical applications are covered along with basics for example fundamentals and applications of electrostatic and electromagnetic shielding are covered. Here finite element method principles and procedures are covered elaborately in about 10 lectures. The finite element procedure is explained thoroughly by demonstrating course developed in three way like Sylab and Gmesh and these course are explained with reference to one simple magnetostatic problem. Further FEM based computation of performance parameters of transformers and rotating machines are demonstrated which involve solution of Laplace and Poisson's equation. Thereafter variations in FEM procedure for solving more complicated problems involving permanent magnets, eddy currents, couple circuit field computations, transients and non-linearities are explained. Also concepts like periodic boundary conditions in rotating machines, torque speed characteristics, tangential magnetic field excitations, force computations using Maxwell stress tensor and virtual work method are also elaborated in further lectures. In the course there are about 20 case studies and examples which effectively demonstrate power and potential of finite element method for applications to electrical machines and equipment. I hope and sincerely believe that this course will generate interest in students as well as practicing professionals about the electromagnetic field subject and help them in solving practical research and industrial problems. Thank you.