PULLMAN, Wash. – Anurag Srivastava, assistant professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was selected to participate in the prestigious National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium.
He is one of 72 faculty members from throughout the U.S. who were chosen to participate.
The symposium, which will take place Oct. 14-17 in Irvine, Calif., brings together innovative engineering educators to share ideas and learn from research and best practice in education, according to a National Academy of Engineering press release.
A faculty member since 2010 and director of WSU’s Smart Grid Demonstration and Research Investigation Laboratory (SGDRIL), Srivastava is involved in a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) workforce training program for clean energy and smart grid engineers. One of 54 programs around the U.S., the $2.5 million DOE grant aims to train engineers in clean energy and the smart electric power grid.
Srivastava has taught courses on electric power systems and on power system economics and electricity markets. He also developed a new WSU course entitled, “Critical Infrastructure Security: The Emerging Smart Grid.’’
He is working on a DOE project, led by the University of Minnesota, for a nationwide consortium of universities to revitalize electric power engineering education through the development of state-of-the-art laboratories.
Srivastava also recently received a National Science Foundation grant to work with several other universities to develop curriculum in the area of smart power distribution systems. The proposed curriculum is designed to educate students in the operation and planning of smart electric power distribution systems.
He serves as a chair on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Power Engineering Committee on Workforce Development and Career Promotion and as vice-chair on IEEE’s Student Activities Committee, which develops student activities for power engineering conferences.
He has worked on a research project related to the influencing factors for recruitment and retention of quality international graduate students and authored several journal and conference papers based on this research. He regularly attends annual meetings of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).
Srivastava holds a Ph.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), a master’s of technology from India’s Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s of technology in electrical engineering from India’s Harcourt Butler Technological Institute.