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Cover Story
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Vijay Vittal, Harpole Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The academy honored Vittal for his leadership and cutting-edge research in the area of improvements in real-time control and dynamic security assessment for electric power systems. Vittal is one of 76 new national members and 11 new foreign associates elected to the NAE. Election to NAE is the profession's highest honor. "With the election of Professor Vittal to the NAE right on the heels of Bruce  Thompson, Iowa State continues to claim its place as one of the top engineering programs in the nation," said James L. Melsa, engineering dean. "We're especially proud that, as an Iowa State Ph.D. alumnus, Vijay represents the caliber of person, scholar, and engineer the college both attracts and produces."Vittal was born in Bangalore, India, where he received his B.E. in electrical engineering from the B.M.S. College of Engineering. He earned an M.T. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, and in 1982 was awarded the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Iowa State University, where he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. As director of Iowa State's Electric Power Research Center, Vittal researches a broad range of areas, including power system dynamics, the dynamic security assessment of power systems, power system operation and control, and the application of robust control techniques to power systems. He is an internationally acclaimed scholar and the author of two textbooks on power system analysis. Vittal joins Bruce Thompson, distinguished professor of aerospace engineering and materials science engineering and director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, who was elected to the NAE in 2003. This summer, Dan Shechtman, who was elected to the Academy in 2000, joins the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Shechtman comes to Iowa State from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. | |
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